of Gods office How then doo you take in hand to reforme Be ye kings By what authoritie Or by what occasion Be ye the kings officers By what commission Be ye called of God By what tokens declare ye that Gods word teacheth vs that no man should take in hand anie office but he that is called of God like Aaron What Moses I praie you called you What Gods minister bad you rise Ye rise for religion What religion taught you that If ye were offered persecution for religion ye ought to flie so Christ teacheth you and yet you intend to fight If ye would stand in the truth ye ought to suffer like martyrs and you would sleie like tyrants Thus for religion you kéepe no religion and neither will follow the counsell of Christ nor the constancie of martyrs Why rise ye for religion Haue ye anie thing contrarie to Gods booke Yea haue ye not all things agréeable to Gods word But the new is different from the old and therefore ye will haue the old If ye measure the old by truth ye haue the oldest if ye measure the old by fansie then it is hard because mens fansies change to giue that is old Ye will haue the old still Will ye haue anie older than that as Christ left his apostles taught the first church after Christ did vse Ye will haue that the chanons doo establish Why that is a great deale yoonger than that ye haue of later time and newlier inuented Yet that is it that ye desire Why then ye desire not the oldest And doo you preferre the bishops of Rome afore Christ mens inuentions afore Gods law the newer sort of worship before the older Ye séeke no religion ye be deceiued ye séeke traditions They that teach you blind you that so instruct you deceiue you If ye séeke what the old doctors saie yet looke what Christ the oldest of all saith For he saith Before Abraham was made I am If ye seeke the truest way he is the verie truth if ye séeke the readiest waie he is the verie waie if ye séeke euerlasting life he is the verie life What religion would ye haue other now than his religion You would haue the bibles in againe It is no maruell your blind guides would leade you blind still Why be ye howlets and backs that ye cannot looke on the light Christ saith to euerie one Search ye the scriptures for they beare witnesse of Christ. You saie Pull in the scriptures for we will haue no knowledge of Christ. The apostles of Christ will vs to be so readie that we maie be able to giue euerie man an account of our faith Ye will vs not once to read the scriptures for feare of knowing of our faith Saint Paul praieth that euerie man may increase in knowledge ye desire that our knowledge might decaie againe A true religion ye séeke belike and worthie to be sought for For without the sword indéed nothing can helpe it neither Christ nor truth nor age can mainteine it But why should ye not like that which Gods word establisheth the primitiue church hath authorised the greatest learned men of this realme haue drawen the whole consent of the parlement hath confirmed the kings maiestie hath set foorth Is it not trulie set out Can ye deuise anie truer than Christes apostles vsed Ye thinke it is not learnedlie doone Dare ye commons take vpon you more learning than the chosen bishops and clearks of this realme haue Thinke ye follie in it Ye were woont to iudge your parlement wisest now will ye suddenlie excell them in wisdome Or can ye thinke it lacketh authoritie which the king the parlement the learned the wise haue iustlie approoued Learne learne to know this one point of religion that God will be worshipped as he hath prescribed and not as we haue deuised and that his will is wholie in his scriptures which be full of Gods spirit and profitable to teach the truth to reprooue lies to amend faults to bring one vp in righteousnesse that he that is a Gods man may be perfect readie to all good works What can be more required to serue God withall And thus much for religion line 10 rebels The other rable of Norffolke rebelles ye pretend a common-wealth How amend ye it By killing of gentlemen by spoiling of gentlemen by imprisoning of gentlemen A maruellous tanned common-wealth Whie should ye thus hate them For their riches or for their rule Rule they neuer tooke so much in hand as ye doo now They neuer resisted the king neuer withstood his councell be faithfull line 20 at this daie when ye be faithlesse not onelie to the king whose subiects ye be but also to your lords whose tenants ye be Is this your true duetie in some of homage in most of fealtie in all of allegiance to leaue your duties go backe from your promises fall from your faith and contrarie to law and truth to make vnlawfull assemblies vngodlie companies wicked and detestable campes to disobeie your betters and to obeie your tanners to change your obedience from a king to a Ket to submit your line 30 selues to traitors and breake your faith to your true king and lords They rule but by law if otherwise the law the councell the king taketh awaie their rule Ye haue orderlie sought no redresse but ye haue in time found it In countries some must rule some must obeie euerie man maie not beare like stroke for euerie man is not like wise And they that haue séene most and be best able to beare it and of iust dealing beside be most fit to rule It is an other matter to vnderstand a mans owne gréefe and to know the common-wealths sore and therfore not line 40 they that know their owne case as euerie man doth but they that vnderstand the common-welths state ought to haue in countries the preferment of ruling If ye felt the paine that is ioined with gouernance as ye see and like the honor ye would not hurt others to rule them but rather take great paine to be ruled of them If ye had rule of the kings maiestie committed vnto you it were well doone ye had ruled the gentlemen but now ye haue it not and cannot beare their rule it is to thinke the kings maiestie foolish line 50 and vniust that hath giuen certeine rule to them And séeing by the scripture ye ought not to speake euill of anie magistrate of the people why doo ye not onelie speake euill of them whome the kings maiestie hath put in office but also iudge euill of the king himselfe and thus seditiouslie in field stand with your swords drawen against him If riches offend you because yée wish the like then thinke that to be no common-wealth but enuie to the common-wealth Enuie it is to appaire an other line 60 mans estate without the amendment of your owne And to haue no gentlemen bicause ye be none
shew all obedience to heathen kings shall we not willinglie and trulie be subiect to christian kings If one ought to submit himselfe line 50 by humilitie to another ought we not all by dutie to be subiect to our king If the members of our naturall bodie all follow the head shall not the members of the politicall bodie all obeie the king If good maners be content to giue place the lower to the higher shall not religion teach vs alwaie to giue place to the highest If true subiects will die gladlie in the kings seruice should not all subiects thinke it dutie to obeie the king with iust seruice But you haue not onelie disobeied like ill subiects but also taken stoutlie line 60 rule vpon you like wicked magistrates Ye haue béene called to obedience by counsell of priuat men by the aduise of the kings maiesties councell by the kings maiesties frée pardon But what counsell taketh place where sturdinesse is law and churlish answers be counted wisdome Who can persuade where treason is aboue reason and might ruleth right and it is had for lawfull whatsoeuer is lustfull and commotioners are better than commissioners and common wo is named common-wealth Haue ye not broken his lawes disobeied his councell rebelled against him And what is the common-wealth worth when the law which is indifferent for all men shall be wilfullie and spitefullie broken of head-strong men that séeke against laws to order lawes that those may take place not what consent of wise men hath appointed but what the lust of rebels hath determined What vnthriftinesse is in ill seruants wickednes in vnnaturall children sturdinesse in vnrulie subiects crueltie in fierce enimies wildnes in beastlie minds pride in disdainfull harts that floweth now in you which haue fled from housed conspiracies to incamped robberies and are better contented to suffer famine cold trauell to glut your lusts than to liue in quietnesse to saue the common-wealth and thinke more libertie in wilfulnesse than wisedome in dutifulnesse and so run headlong not to the mischiefe of other but to the destruction of your selues and vndoo by follie that ye intend by mischiefe neither séeing how to remedie that ye iudge faultie nor willing to saue your selues from miserie which stifneckednesse cannot doo but honestie of obedience must frame If authoritie would serue vnder a king the councell haue greatest authoritie if wisedome and grauitie might take place they be of most experience if knowledge of the common-wealth could helpe they must by dailie conference of matters vnderstand it best yet neither the authoritie that the kings maiestie hath giuen them nor the grauitie which you know to be in them nor the knowledge which with great trauell they haue gotten can mooue you either to kéepe you in the dutie ye ought to doo or to auoid the great disorder wherin ye be For where disobedience is thought stoutnesse and sullennes is counted manhood and stomaching is courage and prating is iudged wisedome and the eluishest is most méet to rule how can other iust authoritie be obeied or sad counsell be followed or good knowledge of matters be heard or commandements of counsellors be considered And how is the king obeied whose wisest be withstanded the disobedientest obeied the high in authoritie not weied the vnskilfullest made chiefe capteins to the noblest most hurt intended the braggingest braller to be most safe And euen as the viler parts of the bodie would contend in knowledge gouernement with the fiue wits so doo the lower parts of the common-wealth enterprise as high a matter to striue against their dutie of obedience to the councell But what talke I of disobedience so quietlie Haue not such mad rages run in your heads that forsaking and bursting the quietnesse of the common peace ye haue heinouslie and traitorouslie incamped your selues in field and there like a bile in a bodie naie like a sinke in a towne haue gathered togither all the nastie vagabonds and idle loiterers to beare armour against him whome all godlie and good subiects will liue and die withall If it be a fault when two fight togither and the kings peace broken and punishment to be sought therefore can it be but an outragious and a detestable mischiefe when so manie rebels in number malicious in mind mischiefous in enterprise fight not among themselues but against all the kings true and obedient subiects and séeke to prooue whether rebellion may beat downe honestie and wickednesse may ouercome truth or no If it be treason to speake heinouslie of the kings maiestie who is not hurt thereby and the infamie returneth to the speaker againe what kind of outragious horrible treason is it to assemble in campe an armie against him and so not onelie intend an ouerthrow to him and also to his common-wealth but also to cast him into an infamie through all outward and strange nations and persuade them that he is hated of his people whome he can not rule and that they be no better than vilans which will not with good orders be ruled What death can be deuised cruell enough for those rebels who with trouble seeke death and can not quench the thirst of their rebellion but with the bloud of true subiects and hate the kings mercifull pardon when they miserablie haue transgressed and in such an outrage of mischiefe will not by stubbornesse acknowledge themselues to haue faulted but intend to broile the common-wealth with the flame of their treason and as much as lieth in them not one-to annoie themselues but to destroie all others He line 10 that is miscontented with things that happen and bicause he cannot beare the miserie of them renteth his heare and teareth his skin mangleth his face which easeth not his sorrow but increaseth his miserie maie he not be iustlie called mad and fantasticall and woorthie whose wisedome should be suspected And what shall we saie of them who being in the common-wealth feeling a sore greeuous vnto them and easie to haue béene amended sought not the remedie but haue increased the gréefe and like frantike beasts raging against their head doo teare line 20 and deface as much as lieth in them his whole authoritie in gouernement and violentlie take to themselues that rule vpon them which he by policie hath granted vnto other And who weieng well the heauinesse of the fault maie not iustlie saie and hold them to be worse herein than any kind of brute beasts For we sée that the sheepe will obeie the shepheard and the neat be ruled by the neatheard and the horsse will know his line 30 keeper and the dog will be in aw of his maister and euerie one of them féed there and of that as his kéeper and ruler dooth appoint him goeth from thence and that as he is forbidden by his ruler And yet we haue not heard of that anie heard or companie of these haue risen against their heardman or gouernour but be alwaies
ciuill dissention and warres that rose betwixt the house of Guise and other of that faction vpon the one side and the prince of Conde and other that tooke part with him on the contrarie side the quéenes maiestie informed how that the duke of Guise and his partakers hauing got into their possession the person of the yoong king vnder pretext of his authoritie sought the subuersion of manie noble men and good subiects of the crowne of line 30 France namelie such as were knowne or suspected to be zealous for a reformation to be had in matters of religion hir maiestie thervpon considering that if their purpose might be brought to effect it was to be doubted that they would not so rest but séeke to set things in broile also within this hir realme of England and other countries néere to them adioining first as one that had euer wished quietnesse rather than the troubles of warre sent ouer sir Henrie Sidneie at that present lord president of Wales line 40 a man of such estimation as his word ought to haue deserued credit to trie if he might doo anie good to bring the parties to some attonement But such wilfull headinesse séemed to rest in some that were chiefe of the one faction that their desire seemed altogither bent to enter into wars Hir maiestie yet hoping the best appointed to send another honourable ambassage which by their wisedoms and good aduise might persuade the parties vnto concord whereby all due line 50 authoritie honor dignitie might be restored to the king and euerie other degree keepe their roomes and places as to them apperteined but all in vaine For this motion of a pacification to be had could take no place neither might the will of the yoong king or of his timorous mother as it then seemed be regarded otherwise than as stood with the pleasure appointment of those that were knowne to be the chiefe authors and furtherers of all those troubles Whilest the quéenes maiestie therefore did thus line 60 trauell in respect of the suertie which hir grace bare to hir welbeloued brother the said king and to the commoditie and quietnesse of both the factions an open iniurie was offered to hir maiestie so as it might appeare what minds they bare towards hir that had thus excluded and refused all offers means to grow to some good and indifferent conclusion of peace For whereas manie merchants as well of London as of Excester and other the west parts of hir realme were soiourning for cause of traffike in diuerse ports and hauens of Britaine and hauing dispatched their businesse and got their lading aboord their ships were readie to hoise vp sailes and to returne each one towards the place from whence hée came they were suddenlie arested their goods seized vpon and they themselues cast in prison and some that in reuenge of such offered iniurie attempted to make resistance were cruellie slaine their ships conueied awaie their goods confiscat without other pretense but onelie that it was said to them that they were Huguenots Neither was this doone by priuat persons but by open violence of the gouernors magistrats of those places where the same disorder was executed so that it appeared from whence they had their commission to vse such wrongfull dealing and how farre the same would extend if they might once haue time and occasion to accomplish their purposed intentions Moreouer when complaint of such iniuries was made vnto the lawfull magistrats there they found no redres at all For what might the poore merchants profit by their plaints when the packets of the ambassadors leters directed to hir maiestie were taken from the bearer no punishment had against those that committed so vnciuill an outrage A thing that offended hir maiestie so much more for that as she tooke the matter there wanted no good will either in the king or his mother or in the king of Nauarre the kings generall lieutenant to sée such a presumptuous and vnrulie part punished of their people but rather that there lacked in them authoritie to haue it redressed Furthermore it greatlie gréeued hir that the yong French king hir déere brother was brought to such a streict that he was nether able to defend the libertie of his people nor the authoritie of his lawes nor to deale vprightlie with other princes and potentats accordinglie as by the bonds of leagues and of couenanted aliances had bene requisite Neither did such disorder in gouernement of the kingdome of France touch anie so much and particularlie as the queens maiestie of England She therefore lamenting that the king and quéene mother should be thus in the hands of them that procured all these troubles and led vp and downe at their pleasures and driuen to behold the spoile and sacking of diuerse his cities and miserable slaughter of his subiects and againe hir grace thinking it expedient to preuent that such as were knowne to beare no good will either to hir or hir realme should not get into their possessions such townes and hauens as laie against the sea coasts of hir said realme whereby they stuffing the same with garrisons and numbers of men of warre might easilie vpon occasions seeke to make inuasions into this hir said realme to the great annoiance of hir and hir louing subiects at the request of the French themselues thought it expedient to put in armor a certeine number of hir subiects to passe ouer into Normandie vnto such hauens as néere approched vnto this hir realme of England as well for the safegard of the same as also for the reliefe and preseruation of the inhabitants there and other that professed the gospell liuing in continuall danger to be murthered and oppressed and therefore crauing hir aid to saue and deliuer them out of the bloudie hands of their cruell aduersaries that sought their hastie destruction For the conduction therefore of such forces as she meant to send ouer at that present she ordeined the lord Ambrose Dudleie earle of Warwike to be hir principall lieutenant capteine generall chiefe leader and gouernor of hir said subiects that should in such wise passe ouer into Normandie Herevpon the said erle the seuenteenth of October in this fourth yeare of hir maiesties reigne tooke shipping at Portesmouth in the hauen there at one a clocke in the after noone being aboord himselfe in the quéens ship called the New barke and setting forward sailed all that after noone and the night following directlie towards Newhauen but in the morning about eight a clocke when his lordship was within twentie miles of the town of Newhauen the wind suddenlie changed cleane contrarie to his course so that being driuen to returne about the next midnight he arriued in the downes and there remained at anchor till about eight of the clocke in the next morning being mondaie and then was set on land by bote at Sandon castell besides Deale and the same daie at night
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
authorities of this kind the number being so great as that they would fill vp Erotostthenes siue and to saie somewhat of seueritie that by opposition of countrie to countrie in that respect we maie sée the great difference betwéene ours and theirs It is seueritie to flea men quicke to chaine them aliue to a stake in such sort as they maie run round line 60 thereabout the fier inuironing them on all sides it is seueritie to haue collops of flesh pluckt from the bodie with hot burning tongs it is seueritie to be cast downe from a stéepe place starke naked vpon sharpe stakes it is seueritie to be torne in péeces with wild horsses and to haue the bones broken vpon a whéele All these be extremities of torments awarded by law and at this daie practised in forren regions for treason and sometime for crimes of nothing so dangerous a nature Finallie if we confer the seueritie of this execution exercised vpon rebellious and traitorous subiects in a superlatiue degree of disloialtie with that of other nations commonlie vsed namelie in principall affaires which concerne peace and warre and matters of gouernment to accept theseruice of runnagate slaues to place them in authoritie to change or depose at pleasure anie whatsoeuer yea to strangle them vpon the least suspicion or dislike our seueritie is clemencie For in this is ripe reason and iudiciall processe in the other will without wit as commonlie they saie Omnia pro imperio nihil pro officio And therefore we conclude that ingratitude being counted vnnaturall and treason a vice vomited out of hell mouth linked togither with manie knots of other shamefull sinnes and all concurring in the hearts and liues of these outragious conspirators as in a centre whie should it be thought seueritie to haue iustice iustlie administred that traitors should be drawne vpon hurdels strangled in a halter cut downe aliue dismembred their bellies ripped their bowels taken out and burned their heads chopt from their shoulders their bodies clouen in foure quarters and set ouer the gates of London for the foules of the aire to féed vpon at full Unto which fowle end maie all such come as meane anie mischiefe against good quéene Elisabeth the lords of hir highnesse councell the bodie politike of the land the slander or innouation of true religion c wherein God make prince and people of one mind and plant in all subiects a reuerend regard of obedience and contentment of present estate supported with iustice and religion least longing after nouelties it fare with them as with the frogs who liuing at libertie in lakes and ponds would néeds as misliking their present intercommunitie of life with one consent sue to Iupiter for a king and so did Whereat he woondering granted their desires and cast them an huge trunke of a trée which besides that it made a great noise in the water as it fell to their terrifieng so it was cumbersome by taking vp their accustomed passage insomuch that discontented therewithall they assaulted Iupiter with a fresh petition complaining that besides diuerse mislikes otherwise the king whom he gaue them was but a senselesse stocke and vnworthie of obedience wherefore it would please him to appoint them another indued with life Wherevpon Iupiter sent the herne among them who entring into the water deuoured vp the frogs one after another insomuch that the residue séeing their new king so rauenouslie gobling vp their fellowes lamentablie wéeping besought Iupiter to deliuer them from the throte of that dragon and tyrant But he of purpose vnchangeable made them a flat answer that will they nill they the herne should rule ouer them Whereby we are taught to be content when we are well and to make much of good quéene Elisabeth by whom we enioie life and libertie with other blessings from aboue beséeching God we maie sée a consummation of the world before the scepter of the kingdome be translated to another For as the prouerbe saith seldome commeth the better But to the purpose this execution being dispatched and the testimonies thereof dispersed and visible in diuerse places about the citie as at London bridge where the traitors heads were ranged into their seuerall classes manie rimes ballads and pamphlets were set foorth by sundrie well affected people wherein bréefelie were comprised the plot of their conspiracie the names of the traitors and their successiue suffering which growing common and familiar both in citie and countrie were chanted with no lesse alacritie courage of the singer than willinglie and delightfullie listened vnto of the hearer So that what by one meane and what by another all England was made acquainted with this horrible conspiracie not so much admiring the maner of the mischéefes intended as comforted that hir highnesse had the holie hand of God ouershadowing hir the surest protection that prince or people can haue against perill So that England is replenished with faithfull and louing subiects though here and there like darnell among wheate lurke a viper or aspe waiting opportunitie to bite or sting Now to make a complet discourse of all these heauie tragicall accidents hauing thus far continued line 10 much important matter concerning the same the reader is with due regard to peruse the addition following wherein is argument of aggrauation touching these treasons which being aduisedlie read considered and conferred with the former narration will yéeld as sound pithie and effectuall information for the knowledge of the conspirators purposed plot as anie subiect would desire and more than without gréefe or teares anie true English heart can abide to read or heare Where by the waie is to be line 20 noted that Marie the Scotish Q. was a principall It is apparant by the iudiciall confessions of Iohn Ballard preest Anthonie Babington and their confederats that the said Iohn Ballard being a preest of the English seminarie at Rheims in Lent past after he and sundrie other Iesuits and preests of his sect had trauelled throughout all parts almost of this realme labored to their vttermost to bréed in hir maiesties subiects an inclination to rebell against hir he went into France and there treated line 30 and concluded with Barnardino de Mendoza the Spanish ambassador resiant at Paris with Charles Paget Thomas Morgan two English fugitiues and inexcusable traitors for an inuasion to be made by forren forces into this kingdome And because no assurance could then be made vnto Mendoza for the interteining assisting and good landing of those whome the king his maister the pope and the house of Guise should dispatch for that seruice he sent the said Ballard into England at Whitsuntide last line 40 with expresse charge to informe the catholikes that for sundrie important considerations the king his maister had vowed vpon his soule to reforme England or to loose Spaine and for that purpose had in readinesse such forces warlike preparations as the like was neuer séene in
Clift who had a paire of beads in hir hands and asked hir what she did with those beads And entring into further spéeches with hir concerning religion which was reformed as then by order of law to be put in execution he did persuade with hir that she should as a good christian woman and an obedient subiect yéeld therevnto saieng further that there was a punishment by law appointed against hir and all such as would not obeie and follow the same and which would be put in execution vpon them This woman nothing liking nor well digesting this matter went foorth to the parish church where all the parishioners were then at the seruice and being vnpatient and in an agonie with the spéeches before passed betwéene hir and the gentleman beginneth to vpbraid in the open church verie hard and vnséemelie spéeches concerning religion saieng that she was threatned by the gentleman that except she would leaue hir beads and giue ouer holie bread and holie water the gentlemen would burne them out of their houses and spoile them with manie other spéeches verie false and vntrue and whereof no talke at all had passed betwéene the gentleman and hir Notwithstanding she had not so soon spoken but that she was beléeued and in all hast like a sort of wasps they fling out of the church and get them to the towne which is not far from thense and there began to intrench and fortifie the towne sending abroad into the countrie round about the news aforesaid and of their dooings in hand flocking and procuring as manie as they could to come and to ioine with them And they fearing or mistrusting least the gentlemen which were then at Excester would come vpon them they first fortified the bridge which lieth at the end of the towne towards the citie and laid great trées ouerthwart the same as also planted certeine peeces of ordinance vpon the same which they had procured and fetched from Topsham a towne not far from thense But before they came into the towne they ouertooke the gentleman maister Raleigh aforesaid and were in such a choler and so fell in rages with him that if he had not shifted himselfe into the chappell there and had béene rescued by certeine mariners of Exmouth which came with him he had béene in great danger of his life and like to haue béene murdered And albeit he escaped for this time yet it was not long before he fell into their hands and by them imprisoned and kept in prison in the towre and church of faint Sidwelles without the east gate of the citie of Excester during the whole time of the commotion being manie times threatned to be executed to death But to the matter These the dooings of the commons being aduertised to sir Peter Carew who then was in Excester assembleth all the iustices the gentlemen conferreth with them what were best to be doone and in the end concluded agréed that he sir Gawen Carew sir Thomas Denis sir Hugh Pollard and sundrie others should ride to Clift and there to vse all the best meanes they might for the pacifieng and quieting of them And accordinglie in the next morning being sundaie they all rode thither and being come almost to the bridge they perceiued the same to be rampired no waie to be open for them to passe into the towne Whervpon sir Peter Carew alighted from his horsse and mistrusting nothing was going on foot toward the bridge But such was the rancor and malice conceiued against him partlie for religion and partlie for the burning of the barns at Crediton which was laid altogither to his fault that the gunner whose name was Iohn Hamon an alien and a smith and dwelling then at Woodburie not far from Clift by the procurement and abetting of some there hauing charged his peece of ordinance there lieng leuelled the same to haue shot and discharged it at him which he had doone if one Hugh Osborne seruant then to sergeant Prideox had not let him and staied his hand The gentlemen perceiuing they could not passe into the towne doo send in a messenger vnto the towne aduertising them that they were come to talke friendlie with them as also to satisfie them if they had anie cause of griefe or were by anie bodie misused They at this message and motion staggered line 10 a while and cast manie doubts but in the end they sent word that they were contented that if sir Thomas Denis sir Hugh Pollard and Thomas Yard esquier would come into the towne to them and leaue their men behind them as also would take order and giue their faith and promise that no hurt should be doone or offered to be doone vnto them whiles they were thus in conference togither that then vpon these conditions they would be contented to talke with them Upon which promise made and line 20 assured vnto them the foresaid thrée gentlemen went into the towne about ten of the clocke in the forenoone and there taried and spent the most part of the daie in much talke and to no purpose as in the end it fell out The other knights and gentlemen which in the meane while taried without and waited a long time euen vntill the daie did draw toward night began to mislike of the matter some speaking one line 30 thing and some an other yea and some of them in plaine spéeches said they would ride ouer the water and issue into the towne But the friends and seruingmen of the two knights respecting the promise made before their entrie into the towne but especiallie their masters safetie which by breach of promise might be put in perill did vtterlie mislike and were grieued with those spéeches and whereof began a little quarrelling among themselues but foorthwith pacified and quieted And yet some one or two of the companie rode to the waters side with their slaues line 40 searched the depth thereof for at that bridge the water at euerie tide by reason that the seas are so néere swelleth vp and reboundeth Which thing when they in the towne did sée foorthwith cried out alarum and made much a doo and some of them began and grew into such rages that the gentlemen within the towne began to distrust their safetie Neuerthelesse the conference and talke herewith ended and they came awaie who as soone as they were come to sir Peter Carew they were demanded line 50 what they had doone and how they had sped who answered Well inough giuing no other answer they rode all togither to Excester deferring the discouerie of their dooings vntill their comming thither The same night they supped all togither after supper ended and all the seruingmen auoided out of that roome sir Peter Carew demanded of them what they had doone and what agréement they had made who answered that the commons had promised and were contented to keepe themselues in good quiet line 60 order and to procéed no
Lords goodnesse through prudent circumspection of some interrupted the course of their furious beginning For first came the kings gratious and frée pardon discharging pardoning all them and the rest of the rebels of all treasons murthers felonies other offenses doone to his maiestie before the one twentith of August 1549. Which pardon although Ombler contemptuouslie reading persisted still in his wilfull obstinacie dissuaded also the rest from the humble accepting of the kings so louing liberall pardon yet notwithstanding with some it did good who of likelihood submitted themselues assuredlie belieuing if they perseuered in their enterprise there was no way with them but one namelie deserued death wherewith there was no dispensing after the contempt of the princes pardon and refusall of his mercie so that in this heauie case they might verie well complaine and saie Funditùs occidimus nec habet fortuna regressum To make short it was not long after this but Ombler as he was riding from towne to towne twelue miles from Hummanbie to charge all the conestables and inhabitans where he came in the kings name to resort to Hummanbie by the waie he was espied and by the circumspect diligence of Iohn Word the yoonger Iames Aslabeie Rafe Twinge and Thomas Conestable gentlemen hée was had in chase and at last by them apprehended and brought in the night in sure custodie vnto the citie of Yorke to answer vnto his demerits After whome within short time Thomas Dale Henrie Barton the first chiefteins and ringleaders of the former commotion with Iohn Dale Robert Wright William Pecocke Weatherell and Edmund Buttrie busie stirrers in this sedition as they trauelled from place to place to draw people to their faction were likewise apprehended committed to ward lawfullie conuicted and lastlie executed at Yorke the one and twentith of September in the yere of our Lord 1549. Exactis iudicij publici a registro exceptis notatis Whilest these wicked commotions and tumults through the rage of the vndiscréet commons were thus raised in sundrie parts of the realme to the great hinderance of the common-wealth losse and danger of euerie good and true subiect sundrie wholsome and godlie exhortations were published to aduertise them of their dutie and to laie before them their heinous offenses with the sequele of the mischiefs that necessarilie followed thereof the which if they should consider togither with the punishment that hanged ouer their heads they might easilie be brought to repent their lewd begun enterprises and submit themselues to the kings mercie Among other of those admonitions one was penned and set forth by sir Iohn Chéeke which I haue thought good here to insert as a necessarie discourse for euerie good English subiect Wherein to a reader of iudgement and capacitie such learning and wisedome with a true loiall subiects heart bewraieth it selfe to haue béene setled in that gentleman as the verie reading of this treatise is able to turne a rebellious mind to méekenesse if reason be not altogither led awaie captiue by lust ¶ The hurt of sedition how greeuous it is to a common-wealth set out by sir Iohn Cheeke knight in the yeare 1549. The true subiect to the rebell AMong so manie and notable benefits wherewith God hath alreadie and plentifullie indued vs there is nothing more beneficiall than that we haue by his line 10 grace kept vs quiet from rebellion at this time For we see such miseries hang ouer the whole state of the common-wealth through the great misorder of your sedition that it maketh vs much to reioise that we haue béene neither partners of your doings nor conspirers of your counsels For euen as the Lacedemonians for the auoiding of drunkennesse did cause their sons to behold their seruants when they were drunke that by beholding their beastlinesse they might auoid the like vice euen so hath God like a line 20 mercifull father staied vs from your wickednesse that by beholding the filth of your fault we might iustlie for offense abhorre you like rebels whome else by nature we loue like Englishmen And so for our selues we haue great cause to thanke God by whose religion and holie word dailie taught vs we learne not onelie to feare him trulie but also to obeie our king faithfullie and to serue in our owne vocation like subiects honestlie And as for you we haue surelie iust cause to lament you as brethren line 30 and yet iuster cause to rise against you as enimies and most iust cause to ouerthrow you as rebels For what hurt could be doone either to vs priuatlie or to the whole common-wealth generallie that is now with mischiefe so brought in by you that euen as we sée now the flame of your rage so shall we necessarilie be consumed hereafter with the miserie of the same Wherefore consider your selues with some light of vnderstanding and marke this gréeuous and horrible fault which ye haue thus vilelie line 40 committed how heinous it must néeds appeare to you if ye will reasonablie consider that which for my duties sake and my whole countries cause I will at this present declare vnto you Ye which be bound by Gods word not to obeie for feare like men-pleasers but for conscience sake like christians haue contrarie to Gods holie will whose offense is euerlasting death and contrarie to the godlie order of quietnesse set out to vs in the kings maiesties lawes the breach whereof is not vnknowne to you taken line 50 in hand vncalled of God vnsent by men vnfit by reason to cast awaie your bounden duties of obedience and to put on you against the magistrats Gods office committed to the magistrats for the reformation of your pretensed iniuries In the which dooing ye haue first faulted grieuouslie against God next offended vnnaturallie our souereigne lord thirdlie troubled miserablie the whole common-wealth vndoone cruellie manie an honest man and brought in an vtter miserie both to vs the kings subiects line 60 and to your selues being false rebels And yet ye pretend that partlie for Gods cause and partlie for the common-wealths sake ye doo arise when as your selues cannot denie but ye that seeke in word Gods cause doo breake in déed Gods commandements and ye that séeke the common-wealth haue destroied the common-wealth and so ye marre that ye would make breake that ye would amend because ye neither seeke anie thing rightlie nor would amend anie thing orderlie He that faulteth faulteth against Gods ordinance who hath forbidden all faults and therefore ought againe to be punished by Gods ordinance who is the reformer of faults For he saith Leaue the punishment to me and I will reuenge them But the magistrate is the ordinance of God appointed by him with the sword of punishment to looke streightlie to all euill dooers And therefore that that is doone by the magistrate is doone by the ordinance of God whome the scripture oftentimes dooth call God because he hath the execution
of men haue to deale with in this world This noble erle was of great wisedome deepe iudgement graue consideration and so blessed with vnderstanding experience and manifold vertues and gifts of God that he was right worthie to serue hir maiestie in princelie and weightie affaires both in warre and peace He was of such prudent and excellent discretion that he had a speciall grace to interteine all states of men superiour equall and inferiour with such comelinesse and decencie that for ciuilitie line 10 humanitie maners and honorable behauior he was a paterne and an example for nobilitie to imitate and to follow In his youth he bestowed not the time in vanitie idlenesse or voluptuousnesse but in atchiuing and winning of such sciences properties and vertues which might beautifie and increase his nobilitie and preuailed therin so effectuallie that be became excellent in all kinds of knowledge and qualities méet commendable or necessarie for a man of honour Concerning diuine matters I haue line 20 in my time conferred with his lordship and therefore can saie somewhat therein and amongst others one thing is notable which in conference I receiued at his mouth He affirmed this in effect that there was nothing in the world that could blemish and abase the heroicall nature of nobilitie so much as to haue the eies of vnderstanding so closed and shut vp that a man in honour should not be able to discerne betwixt true religion and the hypocriticall false religion betwixt the right worshipping of God idolatrie line 30 betwixt the traditions of men and Gods word but remaine subiect to lies and superstition and to call bad good and good bad and concluded that to be frée from this seruile state was a necessarie point of true nobilitie He therefore in his time had diligentlie trauelled in the scriptures and so furnished himselfe with principles of christian religion that he was able readilie to discerne sermons and disputations and to find out who had veritie on their side and also probablie line 40 to speake with authoritie of scripture in matters of controuersie His vnderstanding by the especiall worke of the holie ghost was so illumined that he claue drew to true christian religion as the adamant stone cleaueth and draweth to stéele His lordship therefore furthered and fauoured all preachers of Gods word so that whosoeuer will iudge of the successe of Christs religion by humane reason must confesse that the gospell hath lost a mightie protector and an earnest defender But God in setting out of his line 50 word vseth to worke beside the expectation of man and beyond the reach of reason I haue yet further to speake of his lordship that I beléeue there be verie few noble men in England more readie and expert in chronicles histories genealogies and pedegrées of noble men and noble houses not onlie within the realme but also in forren realmes than this noble earle was in his time He excelled in describing and blasing of armes and in all skill perteining thereto and to be short his vnderstanding and capacitie was line 60 so liuâ—lie and effectuall that it reached to all kind of matters that a perfect nobleman shall haue to deale withall in this world Fortitude is another founteine from whense nobilitie floweth of Cicero In Tusculanis quaestionibus thus defined Est affectio animi qua grauia patiendo legibus obteÌ„peratur It is an affection of the mind whereby to satisfie the lawes a man is content to suffer hardnesse he meaneth mans lawes and not Gods law It séemeth therefore that it may be thus more euidentlie and fullie defined Fortitude is an affection of the mind wherby a man is made hardie and couragious to suffer difficulties and dangers auoiding on the one side rashnesse expelling on the other side feare to performe that which Gods law and honestie prescribeth and commandeth Although by this definition we find that the effect of fortitude resteth much in banishing of feare of bodilie hurts yet dooth it agrée verie well with the feare of God Iethro therefore counselling Moses to choose men to gouerne vnder him saith Prospice viros fortes timentes Deum Séeke out men indued with fortitude fearing God c. Whereby we perceiue that fortitude and the feare of God varie not but are linked togither Déepe was the floud of nobilitie that this valiant earle had fetched out of this founteine For in this togither with the well of prudence he found that excellent knowledge of chiualrie the cunning to lead an armie to guide and to rule soldiors that experience of stratagems warlike policies that notable magnanimitie and inuincible courage whereby he indured and ouercame so manie dangers and perils for the which he is renowmed in England and Ireland and shall neuer be forgotten He was by nature the sonne of Mars and by practising feats of war and exercise aforehand he had made himselfe in manner a perfect warrior afore that euer he came to the wars and was for prowesse magnanimitie and high corage to be compared to the old Romane capteins that be so much in stories commended This fortitude is no lesse necessarie for nobilitie in time of peace than in time of war For it belongeth vnto them to minister iustice betwixt partie and partie without respect of persons which cannot be performed without the assistance of this vertue I haue good cause to thinke of this noble earle that there was no subiect in England that could feare or corrupt him from executing of iustice He was to the proud and arrogant a lion and to the méeke and humble a lambe neither is there anie contrarietie in this for true nobilitie discerneth a due and conuenient time and place to vse both the one and the other Iustice is the third well of nobilitie it is a constant and a perpetuall will to giue euerie man his owne This is a diuine vertue pretious and commendable in all men and especiallie in the nobilitie who by reason of authoritie may doo iniurie without remedie for the same We sée by experience that great is the number of them that would oppresse if they had authoritie we see also the iniuries that are doone dailie by them that haue colour of authoritie be it neuer so simple But examine the life of this earle who will and I beléeue there is no man liuing that can iustlie complaine of anie iniurie or wrong doone by him I once in my time heard him not a litle offended with one of his men that was complained vpon saieng that his seruant could doo him no greater dishonor than by pretense of his authoritie to doo anie poore man wrong Iob in the time of his authoritie wealth was commended to be a iust a righteous man And in the explication of part of that iustice Iob hath these words Fui oculus caeco vice pedum claudo c I was the eies to the blind and I
that if he liked not to write one thing he might write another or what he listed which to doo being charged in hir maiesties name was his dutie and to refuse was disloiall and vndutifull yet the man would by no meanes be induced to write anie thing at all Then was it commanded to his keeper to giue vnto him such meat drinke and other conuenient necessaries as he would write for and to forbeare to giue him anie thing for which he would not write But Briant being thereof aduertised and off mooued to write persisting so in his curst heart by almost two daies and two nights made choise rather to lacke food than to write for the sustenance which he might readilie haue had for writing which he had indeed readilie and plentifullie so soone as he wrote And as it is said of these two so is it to be said of other with this that there was a perpetuall care had the quéenes seruants the warders whose office and act it is to handle the racke were euer by those that attended the examinations speciallie charged to vse it in as charitable maner as such a thing might be Secondlie it is said and likewise offered to be iustified that neuer anie of these seminaries or such other pretended catholikes which at anie time in hir maiesties reigne haue béene put to the racke were vpon the racke or in other torture demanded anie line 10 question of their supposed conscience as what they beleeued in anie point of doctrine or faith as the masse transubstantiation or such like but onelie with what persons at home or abroad and touching what plats practises and conferences they had dealt about attempts against hir maiesties estate or person or to alter the lawes of the realme for matters of religion by treason or by force and how they were persuaded themselues and did persuade other touching the popes bull and pretense of authoritie to depose line 20 kings and princes and namelie for depriuation of hir maiestie and to discharge subiects from their allegiance expressing herein alwaie the kinglie powers and estates and the subiects allegiance ciuilie without mentioning or meaning therein anie right that the quéene as in right of the crowne hath ouer persons ecclesiasticall being hir subiects In all which cases Campion and the rest neuer answered plainelie but sophisticallie deceiptfullie and traitorouslie restraining their confession of allegiance line 30 onelie to the permissiue forme of the popes toleration As for example if they were asked whether they did acknowledge themselues the queenes subiects and would obeie hir they would saie Yea for so they had leaue for a time to doo But adding more to the question and they being asked if they would so acknowledge obeie hir anie longer than the pope would so permit them or notwithstanding such commandement as the pope would or might giue to the contrarie then they either refused so to obeie or denied line 40 to answer or said that they could not answer to those questions without danger Which verie answer without more saieng was a plaine answer to all reasonable vnderstanding that they would no longer be subiects nor persuade other to be subiects than the pope gaue licence And at their verie arreignement when they labored to leaue in the minds of the people and standers by an opinion that they were to die not for treason but for matter of faith and conscience in doctrine touching the seruice of line 50 God without anie attempt or purpose against hir maiestie they cried out that they were true subiects and did and would obeie and serue hir maiestie Immediatlie to prooue whether that hypocriticall and sophisticall speach extended to a perpetuitie of their obedience or to so long time as the pope so permitted or no they were openlie in place of iudgement asked by the queenes learned councell whether they would so obeie and be true subiects if the pope commanded the contrarie They plainlie disclosed themselues in answer saieng by the mouth of Campion line 60 This place meaning the court of hir maiesties Bench hath no power to inquire or iudge of the holie fathers authoritie and other answer they would not make Thirdlie that none of them haue béene put to the racke or torture no not for the matters of treason or partnership of treason or such like but where it was first knowen and euidentlie probable by former detections confessions and otherwise that the partie so racked or tortured was giltie and did know and could deliuer truth of the things wherewith he was charged so as it was first assured that no innocent was at anie time tormented and the racke was neuer vsed to wring out confessions at aduenture vpon vncertenties in which dooing it might be possible that an innocent in that case might haue bin racked Fourthlie that none of them hath beene racked or tortured vnlesse he had first said expreslie or amounting to asmuch that he will not tell the truth though the queene command him And if anie of them being examined did saie he could not tell or did not remember if he would so affirme in such maner as christians among christians are beléeued such his answer was accepted if there were not apparant euidence to prooue that he wilfullie said vntrulie But if he said that his answer in deliuering truth should hurt a catholike so be an offense against the charitie which they said to be sinne that the quéene could not command them to sin therfore how soeuer the quéene commanded they would not tell the truth which they were knowen to know or to such effect they were then put to the torture or else not Fiftlie that the procéeding to torture was alwaie so slowlie so vnwillinglie with so manie preparations of persuasions to spare themselues and so manie meanes to let them know that the truth was by them to be vttered both in dutie to hir maiestie and in wisedome for themselues as whosoeuer was present at those actions must néedes acknowledge in hir maiesties ministers a full purpose to follow the example of hir owne most gratious disposition whome God long preserue Thus it appéereth that albeit by the more generall lawes of nations torture hath béene and is lawfullie iudged to be vsed in lesser cases and in sharper maner for inquisition of truth in crimes not so néere extending to publike danger as these vngratious persons haue committed whose conspiracies and the particularities thereof it did so much import and behooue to haue disclosed yet euen in that necessarie vse of such procéeding inforced by the offendors notorious obstinacie is neuerthelesse to be acknowledged the swéet temperature of hir maiesties mild and gratious clemencie and their slanderous lewdnesse to be the more condemned that haue in fauour of hainous malefactors and stubborne traitors spred vntrue rumors and slanders to make hir mercifull gouernement disliked vnder false pretense and rumors of sharpenesse and crueltie to those against whom
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 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for the manifold testifications of their loue and loialtie which because they are materiall as no word nor title procéeding from so singular a souereigne is to fall to the ground vnrecorded we are in dutie bound trulie to annex them as we had them vnder publication And first a breefe oration of maister Iames Dalton one of the councellors of the citie of London in the absence of the recorder as followeth The oration of maister Iames Dalton c. RIght worshipfull my good countriemen and citizens of this most noble citie of London since the late brute and report of a most wicked traitorous conspiracie not onelie to take awaie the life of our most gratious souereigne whom God grant long to liue and reigne ouer vs but also to stir vp a generall rebellion throughout the whole realme the great and vniuersall ioie of you all of this citie vpon the apprehension of diuerse of that most wicked conspiracie of late declared and testified by manie outward acts and shewes hath wrought in the queenes most excellent maiestie such a gratious contentment that it hath mooued hir highnesse by hir letters signed with hir owne hand to signifie vnto my lord maior of this citie his brethren hir most noble and princelie acceptation thereof and that in such sort as thereby may appeare that hir highnesse hath not more no not so much reioised at the most happie escape of the wicked mischéefe intended against hir owne person as at the ioie which hir louing subiects namelie you of this citie of London tooke at the apprehension of the practisers of that intended treason By occasion whereof hir highnesse brought to a thankefull remembrance and acknowledging of Gods infinit blessings bestowed on hir comparable with anie prince or creature in the world no worldlie thing more or like accompteth of than of the heartie loue of hir louing and faithfull subiects manie waies and manie times before now but especiallie by this our great ioie in this sort at this time and vpon this occasion shewed And that hir excéeding great loue and acceptation of our reioising maie the more appeare vnto you it hath pleased hir highnesse in the same letters to declare that she desireth not longer to liue among vs than she shall mainteine continue nourish and increase the loue and goodwill of hir subiects towards hir And this hir highnesse hath willed to be made knowne vnto you all with this that she will not faile with all care and by all good means that apperteine to a christian prince to seeke the conseruation of you all so louing and dutifull affected subiects This hir maiesties pleasure in part now declared and more to be made knowne vnto you by hir owne letters which you shall heare read my lord maior and his brethren haue required me to declare vnto you all that they doo heartilie reioise thanke God for the happie daie of the good acceptation of this your great ioie my lord himselfe hath willed me to giue you all heartie thanks in his name for that in the time of his seruice your dutifull behauiours haue gotten to the citie so noble and woorthie a testimonie of dutie and loialtie of so noble and worthie a quéene Now for somuch as Gods blessings woonderfullie abound one ioie commeth vpon another let vs not be vnthankefull to God but acknowledge his goodnesse and attribute the line 10 same as in déed we ought to the sincere religion of almightie God most godlie established by the quéens most excellent maiestie which hath taught vs to know God aright our dutie to our souereigne and to loue our countrie and hath made vs dutifull and obedient subiects reioising at all good things happening to hir maiestie hir realme or to anie in hir noble seruice the true effects of a true and good religion whereas the contemners thereof and immoderat affectors of the Romish religion and superstitions line 20 being void of the true knowledge of God haue declined from God their allegiance to their prince their loue to their countrie and haue become inuenters of mischeefes bruters and spreaders abrode of false and seditious rumors such as ioie at no good thing but contrariwise reioise at euerie euill successe the badges and marks of their profession who haue before this in this realme and in other hir highnesse dominions stirred vp rebellion forren inuasion and manie times practised the verie line 30 death destruction of the quéene hir selfe the ruine subuersion of the whole realme the proper effects of their Romish religion We haue beheld all these things and seene in our daies the ruine and mischéefes inuented against others fall vpon the inuenters them selues and haue knowne the wicked and violent hands of diuerse of them diuerslie to kill and murther themselues when most traitorouslie they would and most happilie they could not slea the lords annointed line 40 As we haue knowne all these things so God bee thanked that by a better religion hauing béene better taught we haue béene no partakers of their wicked deuises but haue put to our helping hands as occasion hath serued and euer readie to ouerthrow the authors and deuisers thereof And I haue no doubt but we of this noble citie who hitherto haue béene alwaies readie dutifullie and faithfullie to serue hir maiestie vpon all occasions hir highnesse now so gratiouslie accepting onelie of our reioising line 50 at the apprehension of hir enimies euen the least part of the dutie of a good subiect to so good a quéene will be readie euerie one with all that we can make and with the vttermost aduenture of all our liues spéedilie to be reuenged vpon all such as shall villanouslie and traitorouslie attempt or put in vre anie mischéefe to hir noble person and in the meane time will haue a better eie and eare to all suspicious and miscontented persons to their saiengs and dooings to their false brutes and reports to the places and line 60 corners of their haunt and resort to their harborers companions aiders and mainteiners God vphold and continue his religion among vs and increase our zeale therein which hath made vs so louing and loiall and so beloued and acceptable subiects to so worthie a prince and root out that wicked and Romish religion that hath made so manie disloiall and traitorous subiects to whome is both odious irkesome the long life and prosperous reigne of our most noble queene Elisabeth God confound all such traitors and preserue hir highnesse long to liue and reigne oure vs. ¶ Hauing thus spoken the multitude all the while no lesse silent than attendant the speaker verie reuerentlie opened hir maiesties letters read the same with a verie distinct and audible voice as followeth To our right trustie and welbeloued the lord maior of our citie of London and his brethren the aldermen of the same RIght trustie and welbeloued we gréete you well Being giuen to vnderstand how greatlie our good and most louing
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
historie written of this prince he shall find that he hath beene little beholden to the writers of that time in which he liued for scarselie can they afoord him a good word except when the trueth inforceth them to come out with it as it were against their willes The occasion whereof as some thinke was for that he was no great freend to the clergie And yet vndoubtedlie his déeds shew he had a zeale to religion as it was then accompted for he founded the abbeie of Beauleau in the new forrest as it were in recompense line 30 of certeine parishchurches which to inlarge the same forrest he caused to be throwne downe and ruinated He builded the monasterie of Farendon and the abbeie of Hales in Shropshire he repaired Godstow where his fathers concubine Rosamund laie interred he was no small benefactor to the minster of Lichfield in Staffordshire to the abbeie of Crokesden in the same shire and to the chappell at Knatesburgh in Yorkshire So that to say what I thinke line 40 he was not so void of deuotion towards the church as diuers of his enimies haue reported who of meere malice conceale all his vertues and hide none of his vices but are plentifull inough in setting foorth the same to the vttermost and interpret all his dooings and saiengs to the woorst as may appeare to those that aduisedlie read the works of them that write the order of his life which may séeme rather an inuectiue than a true historie neuerthelesse sith we cannot come by the truth of things through the malice line 50 of writers we must content our selues with this vnfréendlie description of his time Certeinelie it should séeme the man had a princelie heart in him and wanted nothing but faithfull subiects to haue assisted him in reuenging such wrongs as were doone and offered by the French king and others Moreouer the pride and pretended authoritie of the cleargie he could not well abide when they went about to wrest out of his hands the prerogatiue of his princelie rule and gouernement True it is that to mainteine his warres which he was forced to take in hand as well in France as elsewhere he was constreined to make all the shift he could deuise to recouer monie and bicause he pinched their pursses they conceiued no small hatred against him which when he perceiued and wanted peraduenture discretion to passe it ouer he discouered now and then in his rage his immoderate displeasure as one not able to bridle his affections a thing verie hard in a stout stomach and thereby missed now and then to compasse that which otherwise he might verie well haue brought to passe It is written that he meant to haue become feudarie for maintenance sake against his owne disloiall subiects and other his aduersaries vnto Miramumeline the great king of the Saracens but for the truth of this report I haue little to saie and therefore I leaue the credit thereof to the authors It is reported likewise that in time when the realme stood interdicted as he was abroad to hunt one day it chanced that there was a great stag or hart killed which when he came to be broken vp prooued to be verie fat and thicke of flesh Oh saith he what a plesant life this déere hath led and yet in all his daies he neuer heard masse To conclude it may séeme that in some respects he was not greatlie superstitious and yet not void of a religious zeale towards the maintenance of the cleargie as by his bountifull liberalitie bestowed in building of abbeies and churches as before yée haue hard it may partlie appeare In his daies manie learned men liued as Geffrey Uinesaufe Simon Fraxinus alià s Ash Adamus Dorensis Gualter de Constantijs first bishop of Lincolne and after archbishop of Rouen Iohn de Oxford Colman surnamed Sapiens Richard Canonicus William Peregrine Alane Teâ—kesburie Simon Thurnaie who being an excellent philosopher but standing too much in his owne conceit vpon a sudden did so forget all his knowledge in learning that he became the most ignorant of all other a punishment as was thought appointed him of God for such blasphemies as he had wickedlie vttered both against Moses and Christ. Geruasius Dorobernensis Iohn Hanwill Nigell Woreker Gilbert de Hoiland Benet de Peterburgh William Parnus a moonke of Newburgh Roger Houeden Hubert Walter first bishop of Salisburie and after archbishop of Canturburie Alexander Theologus of whome yee haue heard before Geruasius Tilberiensis Syluester Giraldus Cambrensis who wrote manie treatises Ioseph Deuonius Walter Mapis Radulfus de Diceto Gilbert Legley Mauricius Morganius Walter Morganius Iohn de Fordeham William Leicester Ioceline Brakeland Roger of Crowland Hugh White alià s Candidus that wrote an historie intituled Historia Petroburgensis Iohn de saint Omer Adam Barking Iohn Gray an historiographer and bishop of Norwich Walter of Couentrie Radulphus Niger c. Sée Bale Scriptorum Britanniae centuria tertia Thus farre king Iohn Henrie the third the eldest sonne of king Iohn HEnrie the third of that name the eldest sonne of K. Iohn a child of the age of nine yeres began his reigne ouer the realme of England the ninetéenth day of October in the yeare of our Lord 1216 in the seuenth yeare of the emperour Frederike the second year 1216 and in the 36 yeare of the reigne of Philip line 10 the second king of France Immediatlie after the death of his father king Iohn William Marshall earle of Penbroke generall of his fathers armie brought this yoong prince with his brother and sisters vnto Glocester and there called a councell of all such lords as had taken part with king Iohn Anon after it was once openlie knowne that the sonnes and daughters of the late deceassed prince were brought into a place of safetie a great number of the lords and cheefe barons of the line 20 realme hasted thither I meane not onelie such as had holden with king Iohn but also diuerse other which vpon certeine knowledge had of his death were newlie reuolted from Lewes in purpose to aid yoong king Henrie to whome of right the crowne did apperteine Thither also came Uallo or Guallo the popes legat an earnest defender of the kings cause with Peter bishop of Winchester Iocelin bishop of Bath also Ranulph earle of Chester William Ferrers line 30 earle of Derbie Iohn Marshall and Philip de Albenie with diuerse other lords and peeres of the relme and a great number of abbats and priors who by and by fell to councell togither what waie should be best to take for the good order of things now in so doubtfull and perilous a time as this The péeres of the realme being thus assembled William earle of Penbroke bringing the yoong king into their presence and setting him before them spake these words following line 40 The earle of Penbroks short and sweet oration as it is borrowed out of maister Fox BEhold right honourable and welbeloued
Meinthorne Walter Holiburton Richard Hanganside Andrew Car Iames Dowglas of Cauers Iames Car of Mersington George Hoppringle William Ormeston of Enmerden Iohn Grimstow Manie more there were beside but ouerpassed by maister Patten for that they remained in the register with these as he saith The duke of Summerset tendred the furtherance of the worke so much that he forbare not to laie his owne hand to the spade and shouell thereby to incourage others so as there were but few lords knights and gentlemen in the field but with spade shouell or mattocke did therein their parts The fiue and twentith of September being sundaie the Scots began to bring vittels to the campe were so well intreated and paied for the same that during the time of the Englishmens abode there they wanted not of the commodities which their countrie could minister The eight and twentith of September a Scotish herald accompanied with certeine Frenchmen that were perchance more desirous to marke the armie than to wit of their welfare came and declared that within a seauen-night after their commissioners to whome safe conduct had béene granted should come and commune with our councell at Berwike whose comming the earle of Warwike and sir Rafe Sadler with other the commissioners appointed did so long while there abide But what the Scots ment by breaking promise I cannot saie howbeit come they did not therfore escaped not the iust note of dissimulation howsoeuer else they could colour the matter in their owne excuse The same daie after noone the duke of Summerset adorned with titles of dignitie diuerse lords knights and gentlemen the names and promotions of whom master Patten hath set downe out of the heralds booke as followeth Sir Rafe Sadler treasuror sir Francis Brian capteine of the light horssemen sir Rafe Uane lieutenant of all the horssemen these knights were made banerets a dignitie aboue a knight and next to a baron The lord Greie of Wilton high marshall the lord Edward Seimer the duke of Summersets son the lord Thomas Howard the lord Waldike a Cleuelander sir Thomas Dacres sir Edward Hastings sir Edmund Bridges sir Iohn Thin sir Miles Patridge sir Iohn Conweie sir Giles Poole sir Rafe Bagnoll sir Oliuer Laurence sir Henrie Gates sir Thomas Chaloner sir Francis Fleming master of the ordinance sir Iohn Gresham sir William Skipwith sir Iohn Buts sir George Blaag sir William Francis sir Francis Knolles sir William Thornburrow sir George Howard sir Iames Wilford sir Rafe Coppinger sir Thomas Wentworth sir Iohn Meruen sir Nicholas Strange sir Charles Sturton sir Hugh Askue sir Francis Salmin sir Richard Tounleie sir Marmaduke Conestable sir George Audleie sir Iohn Holcroft sir Iohn Southworth sir Thomas Danbie sir Iohn Talbot sir Rowland Clarke sir Iohn Horsleie sir Iohn Forster sir Christopher Dies sir Peter Negro sir Alanzo de Uile sir Henrie Husseie sir Iames Granado Brabander sir Walter Bonham sir Robert Brandling maior of Newcastell and made knight there at the duke of Summersets returne But now that Rockesburgh was sufficientlie made defensible the which to sée it séemed the duke of Summerset had vowed before he would thence depart his grace and the councell did first determine that my lord Greie should remaine vpon the borders there as the kings lieutenant and then tooke order for the forts that sir Andrew Dudleie capteine of Broughticrag had left with two hundred soldiers of harquebutters others and a sufficient number of pioners for his works sir Edward Dudleie capteine of Hume castell threescore harquebutters fortie horssemen and a hundred pioners sir Rafe Bulmer capteine of Rockesburgh thrée hundred soldiers of harquebutters and others and two hundred pioners As things were thus concluded and warning giuen ouer night on this wednesdaie being Michaelmasse euen on the next morrow being Michaelmasse daie euerie man fell to packing apase and got them homewards passing ouer the Twéed there with some trouble and danger also by reason of raine that latelie fell before had raised the streame line 10 which being swift of it selfe and the chanell vneuen in the bottome with great stones made the passage cumbersome so that manie as well horssemen as footmen were in no small perill as they passed thorough and one or two drowned and manie cariages ouerthrowne and in great hazzard of losing The duke of Summerset rode streight to Newcastell and thence homewards The earle of Warwike my lord Greie and sir Rafe Sadler with diuerse other rode to Berwike to abide the comming line 20 of the Scotish commissioners In the meane time of their tarieng there the earle of Warwike made sir knights sir Thomas Neuill the lord Neuils brother sir Andrew Corbet sir Anthonie Strelleie sir Arthur Manering sir Richard Uerneie sir Iohn Berteuille After that the earle of Warwike had taried for the comming of the Scots the full terme of the appointment which was vntill the fourth of October and perceiued they came not the next daie he departed homewards Here ye haue to vnderstand also that in part of line 30 the meane time whilest the duke of Summerset was in dooing of these exploits in Scotland as ye haue heard rehearsed the earle of Lenox and the lord Wharton warden of the west marches with an armie of fiue thousand men entred Scotland on that side and first passing two miles after a daie and a nights defense they wan the church of Annan tooke seuentie two prisoners kéepers of the same burnt the spoile for cumber of cariage and caused the church to be blowen vp with powder passing thence a sixtéene line 40 miles within the land they wan the castell of Milke the which they left furnished with munition and men and so returned But of this ye shall find more in the historie of Scotland by the sufferance of God where we intreat of the dooings there in this yeare Thus much haue I collected out of master Pattens booke or rather exemplified the same not much digressing from his owne words except where I haue line 50 bin forced to abridge his worke in some places wishing to haue inserted the whole if the purpose of this volume would haue so permitted as well for the full vnderstanding of euerie particular point by him remembred as also for his pleasant and apt maâ—er of penning the same Whilest the lord protector was abrode thus in wars against the Scots the lords of the councell that remained at home chiefelie by the good and diligent calling on and furtherance of the archbishop of Canturburie and others of the cleargie line 60 tooke order for the aduancement of religion causing the bookes of homilies and the paraphrase of Erasmus to be set foorth and had in churches At the comming backe of the lord protector from his iourneie into Scotland the citizens of London determined to haue receiued him with great triumph but he hearing thereof forbad them in anie wise so to doo for
further in their attempts so that the king and the councell would not alter the religion but suffer it to remaine and tarie in the same state as king Henrie the eight left it vntill the king himselfe came to his full age Sir Peter Carew and all the residue nothing liking this answer being farre from their expectation were for the time in a great dumpe or studie but in the end misliked and discommended both the matter and the maner of their dealings insomuch that sir Peter Carew and sir Péerce Courtneie then shiriffe of Deuon openlie sharpelie and in plaine termes inueied against them for their slender or rather sinister dealings in so weightie a cause wherein they all ought rather to haue vsed all meanes to haue suppressed their outrages than to haue mainteined their follies and therefore as there was a blame in them so was there a plaine rebellion in the other But though the two knights would haue excused the matter and haue purged their sinceritie herein yet on ech side words were so multiplied that they brake asunder without anie further dealings and euerie man shifted for himselfe some one waie some an other waie The commons vnderstanding hereof stop all the high waies casting great trenches and laieng great trées ouerthwart the same and doo watch ward the same and by that meanes sundrie gentlemen suspecting no such matter and making waie to their appointed places were intrapped taken and put in prison and manie of them kept in durance during the whole time of the commotion abode great hardnesse and were in perill of life and limme manie were taken bicause they would be taken found fauour manie forsaking their houses and home were driuen to sequester and hide themselues in woods secret places In the citie none or verie few remained or taried sauing six or seuen persons then knowne of for by conference had before with the maior it was knowne that the citie was vnprouided of sufficient vittels méet for such a companie as the foresaid gentlemen were The gentlemen which taried and remained in the citie namelie sir Roger Blewet knight Iohn Beauchampe Bartholomew Fortescute Iohn Courtneie Iohn Peter customer esquiers and others did verie good seruice as well in their persons as in their good aduises and counsels sauing such as secretlie kept themselues close in certeine houses then vnknowne Sir Peter Carew verie earlie in the next morning tooke his horsse and the high waies being then not stopped he escaped and rode vnto George Henton a place of sir Hugh Paulets in Summersetshire where was the lord Russell being then newlie come from London and vnto him he gaue to vnderstand how all things had passed who foorthwith dispatched and sent him awaie to the king and councell to aduertise them of the same The king at the first hearing of the matter was verie much grieued in great perplexitie in two respects the one bicause at this instant the like tumults and rebellions though for an other cause were now raised and begun in other places the other was bicause he was inforced to leaue and giue ouer the appointed attempt for the conquest of Scotland and to imploie now those soldiors and strangers whome he had reteined for that seruice for the quenching of this fire kindled at home Neuerthelesse minding to follow the first and to appease the last he sent verie courteous letters gratious proclamations and manie mercifull offers vnto all the commons of these parties to haue pacified and satisfied them if they had had so much grace so to haue accepted it The commons being now entered in their follies and hauing driuen the gentlemen to the flight doo openlie shew themselues traitors rebels and therefore assembling themselues doo appoint out capteins to direct order both themselues and all their procéedings and as the common prouerbe is Like lips like lettice as is their cause so are the rulers the one being not so bold and euill as they wicked or woorse The capteins then are these Underhill a tailor Maunder a shoomaker Seager a labourer and Aâ—sheredge a fishdriuer with sundrie other such like the woorst men and the reffuse of all others thought most méet in this seruice Howbeit it was not long before that certeine gentlemen and yeomen of good countenance and credit both in Deuon and Cornewall were contented not onelie to be associats of this rebellion but also to carrie the crosse before this procession and to be capteins and guiders of this wicked enterprise as namelie in Deuon sir Thomas Pomeroie knight Iohn Burie and one Coffin gentlemen in Cornewall Humfrie Arundell and Winneslade esquiers Holmes a yeoman with sundrie others who for the most part were in the end executed and put to death and their facts to the memoriall of their perpetuall infamie line 10 recorded in chronicles The principall chiefe capteins in Deuon being fullie resolued by their owne power and authoritie to mainteine continue the religion according to the Romish church vtterlie to impugne the reformatision therof established by act of parlement to support the authoritie of the idoll of Rome whome they neuer saw in contempt of their true and lawfull king whome they knew and ought to obeie these I saie sent their messengers vnto the maior of this citie line 20 whose name was Iohn Blackaller to mooue and praie him to ioine with them they thinking that they hauing by these meanes the libertie to haue frée accesse to and from the citie and the helpe of the citizens should not want monie or armor or anie thing else to serue their turne the maior foorthwith aduertised vnto his brethren this motion And albeit some and the chiefest of them did like were well affected to the Romish religion yet respecting their dutie to God their obedience to the king their fidelitie to their countrie and safetie of themselues gaue their line 30 full resolute and direct answer that they would not ioine nor deale with them at all This answer was nothing liked and therefore sent they their second messenger requiring and commanding them to mainteine the old catholike religion with them and to doo as they did or else they would besiege them and perforce compell them thervnto The maior and his brethren returned their former answer adding moreouer that they in their dooings line 40 were wicked bad men they did would repute them for enimies and rebels against God their king and countrie and so renounced them The one side therefore as they prepare to besiege the citie and to worke all the extremities they can by force to take that which by words they can not obteine so on the other side the maior and his brethren vpon good aduise garded and watched the citie with sufficient men armed both by daie and by night The rebels according to their determination relieng themselues line 50 vpon a vaine hope
and scope of libertie to talke and conferre with them euerie man at his pleasure there wanted no deuises vnder colour of freendlie conferences to deuise how to compasse their intents howbeit it pleased the eternall God so to carrie and rule the hearts of the magistrats that albeit being nuzled in the Romish religion they were affected therevnto yet they so much respected their dutie to their prince and the safetie to their common-wealth line 30 that they openlie professed they would neuer yéeld the citie so long as they liued and were able to kéepe and defend the same For the maior himselfe maister William Hurst maister Iohn Buller maister Iohn Britnall maister William Periam others of the ancientest of the citie were by sundrie means waies deuises and reasons persuaded to conioine themselues in this rebellion with the commoners They all with one mind and one voice gaue a flat answer that in the citie line 40 they had béene brought vp there they had gotten their liuings there they had sworne their fidelitie and allegiance to their king and prince there they had faithfullie hitherto serued him and there would so continue so long as they could to the vttermost of their powers all which their promises auowries the Lord be praised they performed But to the matter Sundrie other trecheries deuises were practised which particularlie to recite were verie tedious to no purpose The last but the line 50 most perillous practise was this When these male-contents saw themselues to be preuented in all their deuises which before they had but secretlie and priuatlie practised now they conioining themselues togither doo openlie shew and declare themselues being persuaded that bicause they were the greater number and that also the most part of the poore people were wearie and for want of vittels would not indure to be pinned in anie longer that therefore manie would ioine against a few and that the game line 60 would go on their side And so on a sundaie being but two dais before the deliuerie of the citie about eight of the clocke in the forenoone a companie of them in euerie quarter of the citie hauing their consorts in a readines to ioine serue with them if need so required get into the streets walking with their weapons and in their armour as to fight with their enimies and crie out Come out these heretikes and twopenie bookemen Where be they By Gods wounds bloud we will not be pinned in to serue their turne We will go out and haue in our neighbors they be honest good and godlie men Their pretense and meaning being then that if anie of the contrarie side had come out they would haue quarelled with them and haue taken occasion to set vpon him and so raise a new tumult But by the prouidence and goodnesse of God it so fell out that some being in their houses and some at their parish churches the maior and magistrates were first aduertised herof before the others heard anie thing of the matter and they according to their wisedoms pacified the matter and 〈◊〉 Iohn Uincent Iohn Sharke and others the belwedders of this flocke vnto their houses 〈◊〉 in the south gate stréet and at the south gate there was a little stur which being soone stopped there insued no hurt therof other than a broken pate or two for as it fell out the warders of that gate at that time were against them and of the greater companie These and manie other like practises were dailie and continuallie vsed on the one side which in the end came to no effect bicause the Lord kept the citie The others on the other side being altogither bent to honor God obeie the king and to serue in their commonwealth were fullie resolued to kéepe and defend the citie whose cause being iust and good was sufficient of it selfe to kéepe them in that mind and yet their courage was the more for that they saw the good bent of the maior and magistrates who howsoeuer they were affected otherwise in religion yet they were wholie bent and determined to kéepe and defend the citie and therefore they seeing the industrie carefulnesse seruice and painefulnesse of these men doo fauour incourage and countenance them and to saie the truth by the industrie and good seruice of them the citie was cheeflie kept and preserued For there was no seruice to be doone within nor exploit to be aduentured without vpon the enimie as manie times there were sallies giuen but these were the chiefest and commonlie the onelie dooers for which cause the contrarie side maruelouslie maligned at them and sought by all means how to impeach and indanger them Which thing being dailie perceiued more and more by sundrie arguments and as wise men séeking how to preuent the same did manie and sundrie times confer among themselues herein and in the end made a couenant and a faithfull promise among themselues being then about the number of one hundred persons that they would stand firmelie and faithfullie to the defense and kéeping of the citie to their vttermost powers And if it so fell out that the rebell and enimie should haue accesse and entrie into the citie that then they should all méet at the lord Russels now the earle of Bedfords house and there to issue out at the posterne of the garden and to giue the aduenture to passe and to escape awaie as also if they were resisted that then they to stand togither to their defense And for this purpose they had then named some one man to be their capteine for this enterprise And in the meane time to doo all things circumspectlie for the preseruation of the citie by a particular couenant among themselues did take order that during the whole beseeging of the citie and their aboad therein a certeine number by course and besides the ordinarie set watch should watch ward and walke about continuallie both by daie and night by which means no sleight nor treacherie could be practised but that they should haue an inkeling and vnderstanding thereof and which indéed stood and came to such effect that it was the chiefest if not the onelie cause of the preseruation of the citie for that time For there was no seruice no diligence no care nor anie thing wanting or left vndoone which by these men was not doone Howbeit the diuell the author of all diuision and strife who cannot abide anie vnitie concord and agréement in good causes did here also hurle in a bone among these men whereof had insued a great detriment to the common state and an ouerthrow to themselues had it not in due time beene preuented There were two gentlemen within this citie and both of this companie the one was borne of a honorable house and parentage named Iohn Courtneie a yoonger sonne to sir William Courtneie of Porederham knight and a man of verie good knowledge and experience in seruice The other also was
he gaue prisoners both bodies goods and lands On the other side he commanded forches and gallowes to be set vp in sundrie places as well within the citie as also in the countrie and did command and cause manie to be executed and put to death especiallie such as were noted to be chiefe and busie dooers ringleaders in this rebellion Among them all there was no one so exalted as was Welsh the vicar of saint Thomas neere the Exbridge at Excecester who was preferred and presented to that benefice by the lord Russell patrone thereof This man had manie good things in him he was of no great stature but well set and mightilie compact he was a verie good wrestler shot well both in the long bow as also in the crossebow he handled his handgun and péece verie well he was a verie good woodman and a hardie and such a one as would not giue his head for the polling nor his beard for the washing he was a companion in anie exercises of actiuitie of a courteous and gentle behauiour he descended of a good honest parentage being borne at Penuerin in Cornewall and yet in this rebellion an archcapteine and a principall dooer He was charged with thrée principall crimes The first was that he did not onelie persuade the people to the contemning of the reformed religion according to the kings procéedings and to keepe and obserue the Romish and popish religion but also did erect kéepe and vse the same in his parish church Secondarilie he was a capteine and a principall dealer in the cause of the rebellion which was chieflie directed by him his order aduise Thirdlie he caused one Kingwell a tinner of Chagford and seruant to master Iohn Charels of Tauestoke to be hanged bicause secretlie he had conueied letters betwéene my lord and his master and was earnest in the reformed religion which was then termed the kings procéedings an enimie to the popish state And being a sharpe inueier against the one and an earnest mainteiner of the other it procured vnto him great hatred and malice when the rebellion was begun he sought by all the meanes he could how to escape awaie but he was so narrowlie watched that he could neuer haue anie oportunitie so to doo They vsed all the deuises they could to recouer him to their opinions sometimes with faire words sometimes with threatenings and sometimes with imprisonments but still he inueied against them calling them rebels and traitors both against God and the king and foreprophesied vnto them that destruction and confusion would be the end reward of their dooings Thus when they could not reclame him to their disposition then by the order and iudgement of this vicar Welsh he was fetched out of the prison and foorthwith brought foorth before Caiphas and Pilat and condemned to be hanged which was executed vpon him foorthwith and he brought to an elme tree in Exilond without the west gate of the citie before the house of one Nicholas Caue and there hanged The like crueltie or rather tyrannie was doone at Sampford Courteneie where when a certeine Frankelin a gentleman named William Hellions who comming to Sampford to haue some communication with them for the staie of their rebellion line 10 and for the pacifieng of them in their due obedience was at the townes end taken prisoner caried to the churchhouse where he so earnestlie reprooued them for their rebellion so sharplie threatened them an euill successe that they all fell in a rage with him and not onlie with euill words reuiled him but also as he was going out of the churchhouse going downe the staires one of them named Githbridge with a bill strake him in the necke and immediatlie notwithstanding his pitifull requests and lamentations line 20 a number of the rest fell vpon him slue him and cut him into small péeces and though they counted him for an heretike yet they buried him in the church-yard there but contrarie to the common maner laieng his bodie north and south These things being called to remembrance and obiected against this vicar although some men in respect of his vertues and good gifts did pitie and lament his case and would haue gladlie beene sutors for his pardon yet the greatnesse of his lewdnesse line 30 and follies considered they left him vnto his deserts so was by order of the marshall law condemned to death And yet this one thing by the waie I must speake in his commendation There was among the rebels a stranger and an alien who was a verie skilfull gunner could handle his peece verie well and did much harme vnto the citie among others slue one Smith standing at a doore in northgate street with a great shot from saint Dauids hill This fellow tooke vpon him that he would set the whole citie on line 40 fire and it should be cleane burned within foure houres doo they what they could This his offer was so well liked that the daie and time was appointed when this should be doone The vicar hearing thereof assembleth vnto him as manie men as he could make and haue came to this companie when this fire should be kindled and was so hot and earnest against their attempts that he would in no wise suffer so lewd an act and wicked a thing to be doone For saith he doo you what line 50 you can by policie force or dint of sword to take the citie I will ioine with you and doo my best but to burne a citie which shall be hurtfull to all men and good to no man I will neuer consent therevnto but will here stand with all my power against you And so stout he was in this matter that he stopped them from their further enterprising of so wicked a fact But to the matter The execution of this man was committed to Barnard Duffeld who being nothing slacke to follow his commission caused a paire line 60 of gallowes to be made and to be set vp vpon the top of the tower of the said vicars parish church of S. Thomas and all things being readie and the stage perfected for this tragedie the vicar was brought to the place and by a rope about his middle drawne vp to the top of the tower and there in chains hanged in his popish apparell and had a holie water bucket and sprinkle a sacring bell a paire of beads such other like popish trash hanged about him and there he with the same about him remained a long time He made a verie small or no confession but verie patientlie tooke his death he had béene a good member in his common-wealth had not the weeds ouergrowne the good corne and his foule vices ouercommed his vertues The lord priuie seale remaining still in Excester was continuallie occupied in setting things in order he was verie seuere and sharpe against suth offendors as were chiefe and principall ringleders of this rebellion but to the common sort who
were led and carried and who did humble themselues he was pitifull and mercifull and did dailie pardon infinite numbers And his lordship thinking verelie that all things were now quieted the rebels pacified suddenlie newes were brought vnto him that there assembled at Sampford Courtneie both Deuonshiremen and Cornishmen and who were fullie bent to mainteine their quarrell and abide the battell These newes so troubled and tickled my lord that all businesse set apart he commandeth foorthwith the trumpet to be sounded and the drumme to be striken vp and all his armie to be foorthwith mustered which was then the greater by reason of the Welshmen and gentlemen of the countrie and of the commoners who vpon submission had obteined pardon and increased to the number of eight or ten thousand men and foorthwith he marcheth towards Sampford Courtneie where sir William Herbert requested to haue the fore-ward for that daie which was granted him And being come thither albeit the great companie of so manie good souldiers and well appointed might haue dismaied them being nothing nor in order nor in companie nor in experience to be compared vnto the others yet they were at a point they would not yéeld to no persuasions nor did but most manfullie did abide the fight and neuer gaue ouer vntill that both in the towne and in the field they were all for the most taken or slaine At which time one ap Owen a Welsh gentlman more boldie than aduisedlie giuing the aduenture to enter the rampier at the townes end was there slaine by the rebels and after carried backe to Exon where after the maner of wars he was honorablie buried in the bodie of saint Peters church few of the kings side besides him then slaine and so of a traitorous beginning they made a shamefull ending Neuerthelesse manie escaped and they fled towards Summersetshire after whom was sent sir Peter Carew and sir Hugh Paulet then knight marshall with a great companie attending vpon them and followed them as far as to King Weston in the countie of Summerset where they ouertooke them and ouerthrew them and also tooke one Coffin a gentleman their capteine prisoner and brought him vnto Excester The lord Russell himselfe minding to make all things sure taketh his iorneie and marcheth into Cornewall and following his former course causeth execution to be doone vpon a great manie and especiallie vpon the chéefe belwedders and ringleaders but the cheefe and principall capteins he kept as prisoners and brought them with him to Excester And when this lord had set all things in good order he returned to Excester remained there for a time but after departed towards London where he was receiued with great ioy and thanks and being come before the king he forgat not to commend vnto his maiestie the good seruice of this citie in this rebellion which as is before said was liberallie rewarded and considered After his departure and according to his order and appointment the chéefe capteins and principall heads of this rebellion whome he left in prison in the kings goale at Excester were caried to London and commanded to the tower and in their due time were afterwards executed to death namelie Humfreie Arundell esquier Wineslade esquier Iohn Berrie and Coffin gentlemen and Holmes yeoman which Coffin and Holmes were seruants to sir Iohn Arundell knight Of the number of them who were slaine there is no certeintie knowne but manie more be found lacke then numbred howbeit it was accounted by such as continued in the whole seruice of this commotion to be about foure thousand men But what number was of the contrarie side dispatched nothing is reported albeit it be well knowne that they escaped not scotfrée and especiallie the Burgonians who were abhorred of the one partie and nothing fauoured of the other Thus much line 10 concerning the description of the citie and of the sundrie inuasions and assaults against the same and especiallie of the last rebellion or commotion in the yeare of our Lord 1549 wherein much more might be spoken but this may suffice for this matter And for as much as the cathedrall church of this citie called by the name of S. Peters is a parcell of the citie and compassed within the wals of the same though in respect of certeine priuileges distinct from the iurisdiction thereof I thought it good to subnect herevnto line 20 the description of the said church and of the antiquitie of the same The antiquitie foundation and building of the cathedrall church of saint Peters in Excester AFter that corrupt religion and superstition was crept and receiued into the church and the people become deuout line 30 therein then began the erecting of religious houses and monasteries in euerie countrie And as this was vniuersall throughout all christendome vnder the gouernement of the Romane bishop so also was it generallie doone throughout all England in which generalitie this citie was of a particularitie for in this citie from time to time as opportunitie serued sundrie religious houses and monasteries were erected and builded of which there were thrée within the site circuit and line 40 place now called the close of S. Peters and which in time accrued and were vnited into one The first was a house for women called moniales or nuns which is now the deanes house or Kalendar haie The other was a house of moonks supposed to be builded by king Ethelred the third sonne to king Ethelwolph and these two were vnited by bishop Leofricus vnto the cathedrall church The third was a house for moonks of the order of S. Benet which was builded and founded by king Athelstane about the yeare of line 50 our Lord 932 and this is that part of the cathedrall church now called the ladie chappell For the said king hauing driuen out of this citie the Britons then dwelling therein and minding to make a full conquest both of them and of this their countrie which they then inhabited did so fiercelie follow and pursue them euen into Cornewall that in the end he conquered them and had the victorie After which he returned to this citie and here staieng and soiourning for a time did reedifie the citie incompassed it with line 60 a stone wall and founded the cathedrall church which he then appointed for a monasterie for moonks of S. Benets order For so is it written Hanc vrbem rex Adelstanus primus in potestatem Anglorum effugatis Britonibus redactam turribus muniuit muro ex quadratis lapidibus cinxit ac antiquitùs vocatam Munketon nunc Exester vocari voluit ac ibi sedens mansum quoddam dedit ad fundandum monasterium pro monachis Deo sancto Petro famulantibus Besides the charges which he was at the building of the said church he gaue also lands and reuenues vnto them sufficient for maintenance and liuelihoods whereof Morkeshull and Treasurors béere are parcell and which now are appendant
poore The poore by impotencie Poore by casualtie Thriftlesse poore 1 The poore by impotencie are also diuided into three kinds that is to saie 1 The fatherlesse poore mans line 60 child 2 The aged blind and lame 3 The diseased person by leprosie dropsie c. 2 The poore by casualtie are of thrée kinds that is to saie 4 The wounded souldier 5 The decaied housholder 6 The visited with gréeuous disease 3 The thriftles poore are three kinds in like wise that is to saie 7 The riotor that consumeth all 8 The vagabond that will abide in no place 9 The idle person as the strumpet and others For these sorts of poore were prouided thrée seuerall houses First for the innocent and fatherlesse which is the beggers child and is in déed the séed and breeder of beggerie they prouided the house that was late Graie friers in London and now is called Christes hospitall where the poore children are trained in the knowledge of God and some vertuous eâ—ercise to the ouerthrowe of beggerie For the second degrée is prouided the hospitall of saint Thomas in Southworke saint Bartholomew in west Smithfield where are continuallie at least two hundred diseased persons which are not onelie there lodged and cured but also fed and nourished For the third degrée they prouided Bridewell where the vagabond and idle strumpet is chastised and compelled to labour to the ouerthrow of the vicious life of idlenes They prouided also for the honest decaied housholder that he should be relieued at home at his house and in the parish where he dwelled by a wéekelie reliefe and pension And in like manner they prouided for the lazer to kéepe him out of the citie from clapping of dishes and ringing of bels to the great trouble of the citizens and also to the dangerous infection of manie that they should be relieued at home at their houses with seuerall pensions Now after this good order taken and the citizens by such meanes as were deuised willing to further the same the report therof was made vnto the kings maiestie and his grace for the aduancement hereof was not onelie willing to grant such as should be the ouerséers and gouernors of the said houses a corporation and authoritie for the gouernement thereof but also required that he might be accounted as the chiefe founder and patrone thereof And for the furtherance of the said worke and continuall maintenance of the same he of his méere mercie and goodnesse granted that where before certeine lands were giuen to the maintenance of the house of the Sauoie founded by king Henrie the seuenth for the lodging of pilgrims and strangers and that the same was now made but a lodging of loiterers vagabonds and strumpets that laie all daie in the fields and at night were harboured there the which was rather the maintenance of beggerie than the reliefe of the poore gaue the same lands being first surrendred into his hands by the maister and fellowes there which lands were of the yearelie value of six hundred pounds vnto the citie of London for the maintenance of the foundation aforesaid And for a further reliefe a petition being made to the kings maiestie for a licence to take in mortmaine or otherwise without licence lands to a certeine yearelie â—alue and a space left in the patent for his grace to put in what summe it would please him he looking on the void place called for pen and inke and with his owne hand wrote this summe in these words foure thousand marks by yeare and then said in the hearing of his councell Lord God I yeeld thée most hartie thanks that thou hast giuen mée life thus long to finish this worke to the glorie of thy name After which foundation established he liued not aboue two daies whose life would haue béene wished equall to the patriarchs if it might haue pleased God so to haue protracted the same But he was too good a prince for so bad a people and therefore God remooued him and translated him to his owne kingdome foreséeing the euent of something which in his secret counsell he had purposed against a nation that knew not the benefit of the acceptable time of grace wherein God by this péerelesse princes means ment all good to this land as might be gathered by the reformation of religion wherin the kings care was exceeding great as his desire to establish Gods glorie was zealous according to that notable allusion of Iohn Leland recorded in praise of this most excellent prince as followeth in this epigram Quisquis Eaduerdum Romano expresserat ore Custodem fidei dixerit esse sacrae Hoc ego crediderim puero feliciter orto A superis nomen coelitùs esse datum Est pater antiquae fidei defensor amicus Degener nullo tempore natus erit But to returne where we left By example of the charitable act of this vertuous yoong king sir William Chester knight and alderman of London and line 10 Iohn Calthrop citizen and draper of the said citie at their owne proper costs and charges made the bricke walles and way on the backeside that leadeth from the said new hospitall vnto the hospitall of saint Bartholomewes and also couered and vauted the towne dich from Aldersgate to Newgate which before was verie noisome and contagious to the said hospitall This hospitall being thus erected and put in good order there was one Richard Castell alià s Casteller line 20 shoomaker dwelling in Westminster a man of great trauell and labor in his facultie with his owne hands and such a one as was named the cocke of Westminster for that both winter and summer he was at his worke before foure of the clocke in the morning This man thus trulie and painfullie labouring for his liuing God blessed and increased his labours so abundantlie that he purchased lands and tenements in Westminster to the yearelie value of fortie and foure pounds And hauing no child with the line 30 consent of his wife who suruiued him was a vertuous good woman gaue the same lands wholie to Christs hospitall aforesaid to the reliefe of the innocent and fatherlesse children and for the succor of the miserable sore and sicke harbored in the other hospitals about London whose example God grant manie to follow ¶ The third of August at Midlenton eleuen miles from Oxford a woman brought foorth a child which had two perfect bodies from the nauill vpward and line 40 were so ioined togither at the nauill that when they were laid in length the one head bodie was eastward and the other west the legs for both the bodies grew out at the midst where the bodies ioined and had but one issue for the excrements of both bodies they liued eightéene daies and were women children The eight of August were taken at Quinborow thrée great fishes called dolphins the weeke following at Blackewall were six more taken and line
plainelie to subscribe to king Edwards will in the disheriting of his sister Marie and alledging manie reasons and arguments for the legitimation of both the kings sisters was in the Guildhall in London arreigned and attainted of treason namelie for aiding the duke of Northumberland with horsse and men against the line 30 queene as aforesaid At the same time also the ladie Iane of Suffolke who for a while was called queene Iane and the lord Gilford hir husband the lord Ambrose and lord Henrie Dudleie sonnes to the duke of Northumberland were likewise arreigned and attainted and thervpon led backe againe to the tower In the beginning of Ianuarie next following Charles the fift emperor sent into England an honorable ambassage amongest whome was the Conte de Aiguemont admerall of the low countries line 40 with Charles Conte de la Laing Iohn de Montmorancie lord of Curriers and the chancellor Nigre with full commission to conclude a mariage betwéene Philip prince of Spaine his sonne heire and queene Marie as you haue heard which ambassage tooke such place that shortlie after all things were finished accordinglie ¶ On the fouretéenth of Ianuarie doctor Stephan Gardiner bishop of Winchester lord chancellour of England in the chamber of presence at Westminster line 50 made to the lords nobilitie and gentlemen an oration verie eloquent wherein he declared that the queenes maiestie partlie for amitie and other weightie considerations had after much sute on the emperours and prince of Spaines behalfe made determined by the consent of the councell and nobilitie to match hir selfe with the said prince in most godlie and lawfull matrimonie and declared further that she should haue for hir iointer thirtie thousand ducats by the yeare with all the low countrie of Flanders line 60 and that the issue if there happened anie betwéene them two lawfullie begotten should be heire as well to the kingdome of Spaine as also to the said low countrie He said therefore that they were all bound to thanke God that so noble worthie and famous a prince would vouchsafe so to humble himselfe as in this marriage to take vpon him rather as a subiect than otherwise For the queene hir councell should rule all things as she did before and that there should be of the councell no stranger neither to haue custodie of any forts or castels c nor to beare anie rule or office in the quéenes house or else where in all England with diuerse other articles there by him rehearsed Wherefore he said the quéenes pleasure and request was that like good subiects for hir sake they would most louinglie receiue him with reuerence ioie and honour On the next daie the lord maior of London with his bretheren the aldermen were sent for to the court and to bring with them fortie of the head commoners of the citie vnto whome before the councell the lord chancellor made the like oration desiring them to behaue themselues like good subiects with all humblenesse and reioising But this marriage was not well thought of by the commons nor much better liked of manie of the nobilitie who for this and for the cause of religion conspired to raise war rather than to see such change of the state Of the which conspiracie though there were manie confederats yet the first that shewed force therein was one sir Thomas Wiat a knight in Kent who in verie deed was driuen to preuent the time of the purposed enterprise by this hap Diuerse of the partakers in this conspiracie being withdrawne from London where they had deuised their drift home into their countries amongst whome the said sir Thomas Wiat was one it fell out that whilest he was returned into Kent where his lands and liuings chieflie laie a gentleman of that shire one to the said sir Thomas Wiat most déere was by the councell for other matters committed to the Fléet Wherevpon he verelie suspecting his secrets were bewraied had no other shift as he tooke it but to put on armour and to begin the attempt before the time appointed with his complices And herevpon giuing intelligence of his determination to his associats as well at London as else-where on the thursdaie next following being the fiue and twentith of Ianuarie at Maidstone being accompanied with master Thomas Isleie and others published a proclamation against the quéenes marriage desiring all his neighbors fréends and Englishmen to ioine with him and others to defend the realme in danger to be brought in thraldome vnto strangers and herewith he gat him to Rochester and met with sir George Harper by the waie that was one appointed afore to ioine with him in that quarrell They brake vp the bridge at Rochester and fortified the east part of the towne staid there abiding the comming of more strength and in the meane while suffered all passengers to passe quietlie thorough the towne to London or to the sea taking nothing from them but onelie their weapons In the meane while sir Henrie Isleie Anthonie Kneuet esquier and his brother William Kneuet were busie in west Kent to raise the people there and likewise in east Kent there were other that were of the same confederacie which set forth the like proclamations at Milton Ashford and other towns there in that part of the shire and thus in each part of Kent in a maner was great stur But yet such was the diligence and warie circumspection of Iohn Twine at that present maior of Canturburie for that he misliked their disordered attempts that there was not any of that citie knowne to stur or go forth to ioine themselues with the said sir Thomas Wiat or with anie other of his confederats and yet verelie the more part of the people in all other parts of that shire were maruellouslie affected to the said sir Thomas Wiats quarrell doubting that which might follow of the quéenes matching hir selfe thus with a stranger At Milton when a gentleman of those parts named Christopher Roper went about to resist them that set forth this proclamation he was taken and conueied to Rochester vnto master Wiat. Likewise maister Tucke and maister Dorrell iustices of peace were fetched out of their owne houses likewise brought to Rochester where they with the said Roper were kept as prisoners Sir Thomas Wiat had written vnto sir Robert Southwell shiriffe of Kent to moue him in respect of the preseruation of the common-wealth now in danger to be ouerrun of strangers through the pretensed marriage if it should go forward to ioine with him and others in so necessarie a cause for the disappointing of the same marriage and to worke so with the lord of Aburgauennie with whom he might doo much that it might please him also to ioine with them But as well the said sir Robert Southwell as line 10 the said lord of Aburgauennie and one George Clerke assembled themselues with such power as they might make against the
seruant Marie our quéene with child conceiued and so visit hir in and with thy godlie gift of health that not onelie the child thy creature within line 50 hir conteined maie ioifullie come from hir into this world and receiue the blessed sacraments of baptisme and confirmation inioieng therewith dailie increase of all princelie and gratious gifts both of bodie and soule but that also she the mother through thy speciall grace and mercie maie in time of hir trauell auoid all excessiue dolour and paine and abide perfect and sure from all perill and danger of death with long and prosperous life thorough Christ line 60 our Lord Amen ¶ And thus much shall suffice touching this great adoo about quéene Marie and hir babe The second daie of December being sundaie cardinall Poole came to Pauls church in London with great pompe hauing before him a crosse two pillers and two pollaxes of siluer and was there solemnlie receiued by the bishop of Winchester chancellor of England who met him with procession And shortlie after king Philip came from Westminster by land being accompanied with a great number of his nobles And the same daie the bishop of Winchester preached at Pauls crosse in the which sermon he declared that the king and quéene had restored the pope to his right of primasie that the thrée estates assembled in parlement representing the whole bodie of the realme had submitted themselues to his holinesse and to his successors for euer And in the same also he greatlie praised the cardinall and set foorth the passing high authoritie that he had from the 〈◊〉 of Rome with much other glorious matter in the commendation of the church of Rome which he called the see apostolike This sermon being ended the king and the cardinall riding togither returned to White hall and the king had his sword borne before him and the cardinall had onelie his crosse and no more The seauen and twentith daie of the said moneth Emanuell Philibert earle of Sauoie and prince of Piemount came into England accompanied with diuerse other lords and gentlemen strangers who were receiued at Grauesend by the earle of Bedford lord priuie seale and conueied by water through London bridge to White hall where the king and queene then laie ¶ On the ninth of Ianuarie next following the prince of Orange was in like maner receiued at Grauesend and from thence conueied to the court being at White hall The twelfth of Ianuarie the said prince of Orange with other lords was conducted by the lord chamberlein to the tower of London where was shewed vnto him the ordinance artillerie munitions and armorie with the mint c and so was brought into the white tower from whence as he returned through the long gallerie all the prisoners saluted him vnto whome the prince said he was sorie for their captiuitie and trusted the king and quéene would be good vnto them At his departing from the tower he gaue the gunners ten péeces of Flemmish gold at fiue shillings the péece and the warders other ten péeces as a reward Upon wednesdaie the 12 of December fiue of the eight men which laie in the Fléet that had passed vpon sir Nicholas Throckmortons triall were discharged and set at libertie vpon their fines paid which was two hundred and twentie pounds a péece The other thrée put vp a supplication therein declaring their goods did not amount to the summe of that which they were appointed to paie and so vpon that declaration paieng thrée score pounds a péece they were deliuered out of prison on saint Thomas daie before Christmas being the one twentith of December The two and twentith of the same moneth the parlement which began the two and twentith of Nouember before was dissolued wherein among other acts passed there the statute Ex officio and other lawes made for punishment of heresies were reuiued But chiefelie the popes most liberall bull of dispensation of abbeie land was there confirmed much to the contentation of manie who not without cause suspected by this new vnion to lose some peece of their late purchase ¶ On new yeares daie at night was a great tumult betweene Spaniards and Englishmen at Westminster whereof was like to haue insued great mischiefe through a Spanish frier which got into the church and roong alarum The occasion was about two whores which were in the cloister of Westminster with a sort of Spaniards wherof whilest some plaied the knaues with them other some did kéepe the entrie of the cloister with dags and harnesse In the meane time certeine of the deanes men came into the cloister and the Spaniards discharged their dags at them and hurt some of them By and by the noise of this dooing came into the streets so that the whole towne was vp almost but neuer a stroke was stricken Notwithstanding the noise of this dooing with the deans men and also the ringing of the alarum made much adoo and a great number also to be sore afraid year 1555 Upon fridaie the eighteenth of Ianuarie all the councell by name the lord chancellor the bishop of Elie the lord treasuror the earle of Shrewesburie the comptrollor of the quéenes house secretarie Bourne and sir Richard Southwell master of the ordinance and armorie went to the tower and there the same daie discharged and set at libertie all the prisoners of the tower or the more part of them namelie the archbishop of Yorke the late duke of Northumberlands line 10 sonnes the lords Ambrose Robert and Henrie also sir Andrew Dudleie sir Iames Croftes sir Nicholas Throckmorton sir Iohn Rogers sir Nicholas Arnold sir George Harper sir Edward Warner sir William Sentlow sir Gawen Carew William Gibbes esquier Cutbert Uaughan and diuerse others Moreouer about this season diuerse learned men being apprehended and in prison for matters of religion were brought before the bishops of Winchester line 20 and London and other the bishops and commissioners appointed therefore who vpon the constant standing of the said learned men in their opinions which they had taken vpon them to mainteine as grounded vpon the true word of God as they protested procéeded in iudgement against them and so diuerse of them were burned at London in Smithfield and in diuerse other places Naie not onelie by fire but by other torments were the good christians persecuted whose zeale was hot in religion and defiance line 30 of the pope insomuch that then he was counted Gods enimie which tooke not the pope for the friend of Christ whome he hateth with hostilitie as C.O. noteth verie trulie in his Elisabetha saieng nam creditur hostis Esse Dei papa◠si quis pius asserit hostem Esse Dei veros Christi qui tollit honores In Februarie next following doctor Thirlebie bishop of Elie and Anthonie lord Montacute with a verie honorable traine of gentlemen and others line 40 rode foorth of the citie of
before expressed For the sight whereof hir grace caused hir chariot to be remooued backe and yet hardlie could she sée because the children were set somewhat with the furthest in But after that hir grace had vnderstood the meaning thereof she thanked the citie praised the fairenesse of the worke and promised that she would doo hir whole indeuor for the continuall preseruation of concord as the pageant did import The child appointed in the standing aboue named to open the meaning of the said pageant spake these words vnto hir grace The two princes that sit vnder one cloth of state The man in the red rose the woman in the white Henrie the seauenth and queene Elizabeth his mate By ring of marriage as man and wife vnite Both heires to both their blouds to Lancaster the king The queene to Yorke in one the two houses did knit Of whome as heire to both Henrie the eight did spring In whose seate his true heire thou queene Elizabeth doost sit Therefore as ciuill warre and shead of bloud did cease When these two houses were vnited into one So now that iarre shall stint and quietnesse increase We trust ô noble queene thou wilt be cause alone The which also were written in Latine verses and both drawen in two tables vpon the fore front of the foresaid pageant as hereafter orderlie followeth Hij quos iungit idem solium quos annulus idem Hac albente nitens ille rubente rosa Septimus Henricus rex regina Elizabetha Scilicet hâ—redes gentis vterque suae Haec Eboracensis Lancastrius ille dederunt line 10 Connubio è geminis quo foret vna domus Excipit hos haeres Henricus copula regum Octauus magni regis imago potens Regibus hinc succedis auis regÃque parenti Patris iusta haeres Elizabetha tui Sentences placed therein concerning vnitie Nullae concordes animos virer doniant Quâ— iuncti terreni deiuncti timent line 20 Discorde sinimi soâ—uubi concordes ligant Augentuâ— pâ—rua pace magna bello caâ—uâ—t Coniuncâ—◠〈◊〉 fortius tollunt â—â—us Regno pro â—â—â—â—nibus aeneis ciuium concordia Qui duc pugnant diutius lugent Dissidentes principes subdi toâ—um 〈◊〉 Princeps ad pacem natus non ad arma datus Filia concordiae copia neptis quies Dissentiens respublica hostibus patet Qui idem tenent duitius tenent line 30 Regnum diuisum facilè dissoluitur Ciuitas concors armis frustrà tentatur Omnium gèntium consensus firmat fidem c. These verses and other pretie sentences were drawen in void places of this pageant all tending to one end that quietnes might be mainteined and all dissention displaced and that by the quéenes maiestie heire to agreement and agreeing in name with hir which to fore had ioined those houses which had béene the occasion of much debate and ciuill war line 40 within this realme as maie appéere to such as will search chronicles but be not to be touched herein onelie declaring hir graces passage through the citie and what prouision the citie made therefore And yer the quéenes maiestie came within hearing of this pageant she sent certeine as also at all the other pageants to require the people to be silent For hir maiestie was disposed to heare all that should be said vnto hir line 50 When the quéenes maiestie had heard the childs oration and vnderstood the meaning of the pageant at large she marched forward toward Cornehill alwaie receiued with like reioising of the people And there as hir grace passed by the conduit which was curiouslie trimmed against that same time with rich banners adorned and a noise of lowd instruments vpon the top thereof she spied the second pageant And bicause she feared for the peoples noise that she shuld not heare the child which did expound the same line 60 she inquired what that pageant was yer that shé◠came to it and there vnderstood that there was a child representing hir maiesties person placed in a seat of gouernement supported by certeine vertues which suppressed their contrarie vices vnder their feet and so foorth as in the description of the said pageant shall hereafter appeere This pageant standing in the nether end of Cornhill was extended from the one side of the stréet to the other And in the same pageant was deuised thrée gates all open and ouer the middle part thereof was erected one chaire or seate roiall with a cloth of estate to the same apperteining wherein was placed a child representing the quéenes highnesse with consideration had for place conuenient for a table which conteined hir name and title and in a comelie wreath artificiallie well deuised with perfect sight and vnderstanding to the people In the front of the same pageant was written the name and title thereof which is The seat of worthie gouernance Which seat was made in such artificiall maner as to the appearance of the lookers on the fore part seemed to haue no staie therefore of force was staied by liuelie personages which personages were in number foure standing and staieng the forefront of the same seat roiall each hauing his face to the quéene and people whereof euerie one had a table to expresse their effects which are vertues namelie Pure religion Loue of subiects Wisedome and Iustice which did tread their contrarie vices vnder their feet that is to wit Pure religion did tread vpon Superstition and Ignorance Loue of subiects did tread vpon Rebellion and Insolencie Wisedome did tread vpon Follie and Uaine glorie Iustice did tread vpon Adulation and Briberie Ech of these personages according to their proper names and properties had not onelie their names in plaine and perfect writing set vpon their breasts easilie to be read of all but also euerie of them was aptlie anâ— properlie apparelled so that his apparell and name did agree to expresse the same person that in title he represented This part of the pageant was thus appointed anâ— furnished The two sides ouer the two side ports had in them placed a noise of instruments which immediatlie after the childs spéech gaue an heauenlie melodie Upon the top or vppermost part of the said pageant stood the armes of England roiallie purtraitured with the proper beasts to vphold the same One representing the quéenes highnesse sat in this seat crowned with an imperiall crowne and before hir seat was a conuenient place appointed for one child which did interpret and applie the said pageant as hereafter shall be declared Euerie void place was furnished with proper sentences commending the seat supported by vertues and defacing the vices to the vtter extirpation of rebellion and to euerlasting continuance of quietnesse and peace The queenes maiestie approching nigh vnto this pageant thus beautified and furnished in all points caused hir charriot to be drawne nigh therevnto that hir grace might heare the childs short oration which was this While that religion true shall ignorance suppresse
so mercifull vnto me as to spare me to behold this ioifull daie And I acknowledge that thou hast delt as woonderfullie and as mercifullie with me as thou diddest line 10 with thy true and faithfull seruant Daniell thy prophet whome thou deliueredst out of the den from the crueltie of the greedie and raging lions euen so was I ouerwhelmed and onlie by thee deliuered To thee therefore onlie be thankes honor and praise for euer Amen The second was the receiuing of the bible at the little conduit in Cheape For when hir grace had learned that the bible in English should there be offered she thanked the citie therefore promised the reading thereof most diligentlie and incontinent commanded that it should be brought At the receipt whereof how reuerendlie did she with both hir hands take it kisse it and laie it vpon hir brest to the great comfort of the lookers on God will vndoubtedlie preserue so woorthie a prince which at his honor so line 30 reuerendlie taketh hir beginning For this saieng is true and written in the booke of truth He that first séeketh the kingdome of God shall haue all other things cast vnto him Now therefore all English hearts and hir naturall people must néeds praise Gods mercie which hath sent them so woorthie a prince and praie for hir graces long continuance amongst vs. On sundaie the fiue and twentith of Ianuarie hir maiestie was with great solemnitie crowned at Westminster in the abbeie church there by doctor Oglethorpe bishop of Carleill She line 40 dined in Westminster hall which was richlie hoong and euerie thing ordered in such roiall maner as to such a regall and most solemne feast apperteined In the meane time whilest hir grace sat at dinner sir Edward Dimmocke knight hir champion by office came riding into the hall in faire complet armor mounted vpon a beautifull courser richlie trapped in cloth of gold entred the hall and in the midst thereof cast downe his gantlet with offer to fight line 50 with him in hir quarell that should denie hir to be the righteous and lawfull quéene of this realme The quéene taking a cup of gold full of wine dranke to him thereof and sent it to him for his fée togither with the couer Now after this at the seruing vp of the wafers the lord maior of London went to the cupboord and filling a cup of gold with ipocrasse bare it to the quéene and knéeling before hir tooke the assaie and she receiuing it of him and drinking of it gaue the line 60 cup with the couer vnto the said lord maior for his fée which cup and couer weied sixtéene ounces Troie weight Finallie this feast being celebrated with all roiall ceremonies and high solemnities due and in like cases accustomed tooke end with great ioy and contentation to all the beholders On wednesdaie the fiue and twentith of Ianuarie the parlement began the queenes maiestie riding in hir parlement robes from hir palace of Whitehall vnto the abbeie church of Westminster with the lords spirituall and temporall attending hir likewise in their parlement robes Doctor Cox sometime schoolemaister to king Edward the sixt and now latelie returned from the parties of beyond the seas where during the daies of quéene Marie he had liued as a banished man preached now before the estates there assembled in the beginning of the said parlement In this parlement the first fruits and tenths were restored to the crowne also the supreame gouernment ouer the state ecclesiasticall which queene Marie had giuen to the pope Likewise the booke of common praier and administration of the sacraments in our mother toong was restored ¶ But before this good woorke was agréed vpon there was much debating about matters touching religion and great studie on both parties imploied the one to reteine still the other to impugne the doctrine and faction which before in quéene Maries time had béene established But speciallie here is to be noted that though there lacked no industrie on the papists side to hold fast that which they most cruellie from time to time had studied and by all meanes practised to come by yet notwithstanding such was the prouidence of God at that time that for lacke of the other bishops whom the Lord had taken awaie by death a little before the residue that there were left could doo the lesse and in verie deed God be praised therefore did nothing at all in effect although yet notwithstanding there lacked in them neither will nor labor to doo what they could if their cruell abilitie there might haue serued But namelie amongst all others not onelie the industrious courage of doctor Storie but also his words in this parlement are woorthie to be knowne of posteritie who like a stout and furious champion of the popes side to declare himselfe how lustie he was and what he had and would doo in his maisters quarell shamed not openlie in the said parlement house to burst out into such impudent sort of words as was woonder to all good eares to heare and no lesse woorthie of historie The summe of which his shamelesse talke was vttered to this effect First beginning with himselfe he declared that whereas he was noted commonlie abroad and much complained of to haue béene a great dooer a setter foorth of such religion orders procéedings as of his late souereigne that dead is quéene Marie were set foorth in this relme he denied nothing the same protesting moreouer that he had doone nothing therein but that both his conscience did lead him therevnto and also his commission did as well then command him as now also dooth discharge him for the same being no lesse readie now also to doo the like and more in case he by this queene were authorised likewise and commanded therevnto Wherefore as I sée saith he nothing to be ashamed of so lesse I see to be sorie for but rather said that he was sorie for this because he had doone no more than he did and that in executing those lawes they had not béene more vehement seuere Wherein he said there was no default in him but in them whome he both oft and earnestlie had exhorted to the same being therefore not a little gréeued with them for that they labored onelie about the yoong and little sprigs and twigs while they should haue stroken at the root and cleane haue rooted it out c. And concerning his persecuting and burning them he denied not but that he was once at the burning of an earewig for so he termed it at Uxbridge where he tost a fagot at his face as he was singing psalmes and set a wine bush of thorns vnder his féet a little to pricke him with manie other words of like effect In the which words he named moreouer sir Philip Hobbie and an other knight of Kent with such other of the richer and higher degrée whome his counsell was to plucke
of maister Hunnings seruants that was also one of the takers of fresh fish for the prouision of the queenes house was set on the pillorie in Cheapside in the fish market ouer against the kings head hauing a bawdrike of smelts hanging about his necke with a paper on his forehead written For buieng smelts for twelue pence the hundred and selling them againe for ten pence the quarter He stood so likewise on the eightéenth and the twentith daie of the same moneth euerie one of those three daies from nine of the clocke till twelue The last daie he should haue had one of his eares slit if by great sute made to the councell by the lord maior of London he had not béene pardoned and released out of prison This penance was assigned to him by the quéenes owne appointment when to hir grace his trespasse was reuealed Whereby shée gaue a tast to the people of a zealous mind to haue iustice dulie ministred and faults accordinglie punished namelie of those which vnder pretense of hir graces authoritie should go about to wrong and oppresse hir louing subiects line 10 This yéere in the Easter holidaies on the mondaie preached at the Spittle doctor Bill on the tuesdaie doctor Cox on the wednesdaie doctor Horne the first was hir maiesties chapleine the other two had remained at Geneua and in other places beyond the seas all queene Maries time On low sundaie maister Samson made the rehearsall sermon but when the lord maior and aldermen came to their places in Paules churchyard the pulpit doore was locked the keie could not be heard of Whervpon line 20 the lord maior sent for a smith to open the locke which was doone and when the preacher should enter the place it was found verie filthie and vncleanlie Moreouer the verger that had the custodie of the keie which opened the doore of the place where the prelats and other vse to stand at the sermon time would not open the doore but the gentlemen with a foorme brake it open and so came in to heare the sermon This disorder chanced by reason that since Christmasse last past there was not a sermon preached line 30 at Paules crosse by meanes of an inhibition sent from the councell vnto the bishop of London that he should admit no preacher because of the controuersie betwixt the bishops and other of the clergie that were now returned into the realme from the parties of beyond the seas The last of March the parlement yet continuing was a conference begun at Westminster concerning certeine articles of religion betwixt the bishops and other of the clergie on the one part and certeine line 40 learned preachers of whome some had beene in dignitie in the church of England before that time on the other part The declaration of the procéeding wherin and the cause of the breaking vp of the same conference by default and contempt of certeine bishops parties of the said conference was published in a little treatise and imprinted by Richard Iug and Iohn Cawood printers to the quéenes maiestie as here followeth The quéenes most excellent maiestie hauing heard of diuersitie of opinions in certeine line 50 matters of religion amongst sundrie of hir louing subiects and being verie desirous to haue the same reduced to some godlie christian concord thought it best by the aduise of the lords and other of hir priuie councell as well for the satisfaction of persons doubtfull as also for the knowlege of the verie truth in certeine matter of difference to haue a cōuenient chosen number of the best learned of either part to confer togither their opinions and reasons and therby to come to some good and charitable agreement line 60 And herevpon by hir maiesties commandement certeine of hir priuie councell declared this purpose to the archbishop of Yorke being also one of the same priuie councell required him that he would impart the same to some of the bishops and to make choise of eight nine or ten of them and that there should be the like number named of the other part and further also declared to him as then was supposed what the matters should be And as for the time it was thought meet to be as soone as possible might be agreed vpon And then after certeine daies past it was signified by the said archbishop that there was appointed by such of the bishops to whome he had imparted this matter eight persons that is to saie foure bishops and foure doctors who were content at the quéenes maiesties commandement to shew their opinions and as he termed it render account of their faith in those matters which were mentioned and that speciallie in writing although he said they thought the same so determined as there was no cause to dispute vpon them It was herevpon fullie resolued by the quéenes maiestie with the aduise aforesaid that according to their desire it should be in writing on both parts for auoiding of much altercation in words and that the said bishops should bicause they were in authoritie and degree superiors first declare their minds and opinions in the matter with their reasons in writing and the other number being also eight men of good degrée in schooles and some hauing béene in dignitie in the church of England if they had anie thing to saie to the contrarie should the same daie declare their opinions in like manner And so ech of them should deliuer their writings to the other to be considered what were to be improoued therein and the same to declare againe in writing at some other conuenient daie and the like order to be kept in all the rest of the matters All this was fullie agreed vpon with the archbishop of Yorke and also signified to both parties And immediatlie herevpon diuerse of the nobilitie and states of the realme vnderstanding that such a meeting and conference should be and that in certeine matters wherevpon the court of parlement consequentlie following some lawes might be grounded they made earnest meanes to hir maiestie that the parties of this conference might put and read their assertions in the English toong and that in the presence of them of the nobilitie and others of the parlement house for the better satisfaction and inabling of their owne iudgements to treat and conclude of such lawes as might depend herevpon This also being thought verie reasonable was signified to both parties and so fullie agréed vpon and the daie appointed for the first méeting to be the fridaie in the forenoone being the last of March at Westminster church where both for good order and for honour of the conference by the quéenes maiesties commandement the lords and others of the priuie councell were present and a great part of the nobilitie also And notwithstanding the former order appointed and consented vnto by both parts yet the bishop of Winchester and his colleagues alleging that they had mistaken that their assertions and reasons
Now a word or two to shew who they be that die in the Lord and then an end They principallie are said to die in the Lord which suffer death vnder the beast for confession of Christs religion for they properlie die in the Lords cause Such are the martyrs as well of the primitiue church vnder the cruell emperours as the martyrs of all ages since vnder antichrist of Rome They also die in the Lord which though they die not by the crueltie of the beast yet they die in the faith of Iesus Christ and are therefore blessed Of this number was this godlie earle as I haue before declared Wherfore I will conclude and direct my spéech for two or thrée words to this good earle O noble earle of Essex in thy time the pearle of nobilitie the mirrour of vertue and worthie qualities the child of chiualrie the beautifull floure of England the pretious iewell and comfort of Wales the trustie staie of Ireland Thy life was most honourable thy worthinesse incomparable thy death pretious in the sight of God for thou diedst in the Lord a right inheritour of the euerlasting kingdome of heauen Wherefore by authoritie of the heauenlie oracle that saint Iohn was commanded to write thou art to be pronounced blessed for euer Our sins haue shortened thy life so that we could inioie the same no longer Thou hast notwithstanding bequeathed thy bodie to be buried amongst vs here in Wales Of verie dutie therefore O noble earle thy toome shall be with vs in reuerence estimation and honor the fame and name of thy nobilitie valiantnesse vertue and woorthinesse shall neuer be forgotten but shall liue and be kept with vs in memorie from generation to geration while the world standeth Thus far the words of the bishop vttered in a sermon preached in the ears of no meane audience either for reputation or number Now then brieflie considering wherein true and perfect noblenesse consisteth that the heroicall vertues with their naturall vse were most firmelie fixed in his heart and practised by his hand there is great reason to mooue euen his enimies if it were possible for so good a gentleman to haue anie to confesse in him most absolute nobilitie and that this epitaph alluding to his right honorable ensignes is deseruedlie to be recorded being an abstract of that notable line 10 epitaph intituled Epitapium genealogicum in obitum illustrissimi Gualteri comitis Essexiae Euiae comitis marischalli regni Hiberniae vicecomitis Hereford Bourghcher domini Ferrers de Chartleie Bourgcher Louein praenobilis ordinis garterij militis qui obijt Dublinij 21. Septemb. 1576. aetatis suae 36 sepulti apud Maridunum 26. Nouemb. c. Si quisquam claret veterum splendore parentum Aut famam meritus morum probitate perennem line 20 Profiteatur in hijs nomen Essexius heros Qui praeclara virûm gestat monumenta tot vnus Quot rarò licuit multis gestaminaferre Qui intrepidè ob patriam tot mille pericula passus Quot rarò poterint vlla aulica corporaferre Aureolus partus matris patriae decus ingens Quo non exultat moderante Herefordia sola Aut Trinobantum titulo probitatis honorem Plebs referens strenuum validúmue Britannia sola Sensit in aduersos Boreales dum benegessit line 30 Tota sed heroem cognouit marte feroci Eugeniae tellus Hibernica bella probantem Regia cum proprijs expendens bella per annos Dura gerit binos multa pericula tentans Vltoniae fines vultu dextrà que quieti Perficit hinc comitis donatur nomine belli Nec tamen is potuit gladio finire labores Mors nemini parcens Dublinia funera fletu Trans mare transuexit Maridunica sydera voluens Clotho colum tenuit post septem lustra per annum line 40 Quinque die◠Lachesis post haec sua fila trahebat Térque dies septem septeno mense videns heu Atropos eximij fulgentia lumina clausit Quatuor ast pueris illustria stamina spondent In tribus regnis titulos gestabat honoris Nam comitem Euensem cognouit Gallia fortem Aureus heroem demonstrat circulus Essex Ob bello vires comes est is martis Hibernus Nobilitas innata tibi probitatis honorem Armipotens Gualtere dedit probitásque laborem line 50 Perpetuámque labor vitam sic vita salutem This epitaph with the said earles whole genealogie or pedegree comprised in heroicall verse and ioined with the funerall sermon was presented to the right honourable lord Robert now earle of Essex and Ew vicount of Hereford and Bourchier lord Ferrers of Chartleie Bourchier Louaine at such time as he was the quéenes maiesties ward with an epistle of the presenter which bicause it is a veine of godlie deuise tending to a verie honorable purpose line 60 deserueth here to be placed answering the president heretofore set out in print as followeth The epistle of E. W. prefixed before the genealogicall epitaph and funerall sermon published at the interring of the right honourable the lord Walter earle of Essex c. MY lord your absence latelie from the funerals of my lord your father was lamented by such in Wales as would gladlie haue beheld the liuelie image of him in you and if the tendernesse of your yeares vnmeet for so tedious and so vnseasonable trauell had not by necessitie disappointed their hope then should the lamentable speech of the graue and reuerend father the bishop of saint Dauies expressed with abundance of dolour tears haue left in you a déepe impression of griefe for the intollerable losse of so honourable a parent But it maie be iudged that God hath turned your absence to your more benefit sith the importunacie of such as loue honour you and who couet to haue your fathers vertues descend with his inheritance hath obteined the publishing of that learned sermon wherin you maie at good leasure view in the iust report of his life death the paterne forme of true nobilitie The heroicall description that the bishop maketh of nobilitie comparing it vnto a mounteine from which foure famous riuers must issue the mounteine true religion the riuers prudence iustice fortitude and temperance is a rule to you first to follow your father in truth of religion then to be as he was wise iust valiant and temperat The naturall and vnforced courtesie affabilitie that was in your father and that excellent mixture of disposition and aptnesse both for warre and peace dooth promise to the world a singular perfection in you hereafter For as your grandfather who died in his yoong yeares did make shew of much more honour than was in the noble vicount his father and this our earle by famous actions did altogither eclipse the vertuous hope conceiued of your grandfather so considering that God in nature continueth as it were the race by outward shew of good parts in you and that you haue
obiecta mille iam mortibus territa in tutelam salutémque animi iuxta ac corporis recipere ac protegere Ob haec singularia tua in nos pietatis beneficia quòd sub tutore optimo magistratu in hac tua Nordouicensi vrbe quam maiestas tua nobis ob Christi religionem exulantibus domicilij loco clementer concessit viuimus line 60 adde quòd populi in nos animum fauorabilem experimur inprimis Deo patri Domino vnico seruatori nostro Iesu Christo deinde tibi serenissima regina immortales non quas debemus sed quas possimus agimus gratias Porrò humile quidem vnicum tamen nostrum est votum animi nostri gratitudinem maiestati tuae ostendere Ecce igitur nullum munus sed animum nostrum nullum regium splendorem sed pietatis posteritatÃsque monumentum serenissimae tuae maiestati consecratum Hoc autem eo gratius maiestati tuaefore confidimus quòd ex inculpatipijssimÃque Iosephi historia Dei erga maiestatem tuam bonitas ad viuum sit delineata quem nulla astutia nullum robur nulla denique regnandi libido sed fides constans christiani pectoris pietas coelestÃsque virtus singulari Dei fauore ex sanguinaria fratrum conspiratione mortÃsque metu ad summam dignitatem regnÃque decus euexeâ—unt In huius fratres non aliena videtur prouerbialâ—s illa apud Hebraeos sententia Inuidia malarum rerum appetitus studium vanae gloriae hominibus saepissimè occasio sunt sui interitus Tamen quòd Iosephi animum attinet ea fuit praeditus temperantia fortitudine vt nimis iniquus simul prauus censeri posset qui eum vel minimo vindicandi affectu accusare velit adeò Dei prouidentiae se omne vitae suae studium vitae inquam in alieno regno periclitantis commisit vt non aliunde quà m à solo Dei nutu pendêre visus sit Sed quorsum ista In te ne haec ipsa aliáque consimilia ô serenissima regina regni tui ratione omnium oculis conspicua sunt Haec inquam esse ecclesiae Christi foelicissimum gaudium spirituale diadema summum decus huius verò regni verè regium splendorem atque perennem gloriam quis nisimente captus inficias ire potest Pijssimè tu quidem singulari Dei bonitate animum Iosephi tum in regni tui conseruatione tum in regno Christi amplificando imitata es ô nutrix ecclesiae Dei fidelissima solius enim Dei est hunc per res prout hominum oculis sunt subiectae secundas disperdere illum autem per quaeuis teÌ„tationum genera rerúmque discrimina extollere Quos vt vasa suae misericordiae agnoscit ita etiam bonitate spiritus sui tum consolatione tum fortitudine ad aeternae vitae foelicitatem prosequitur Quod nostrum votum ratum esse maiestatem tuam regnÃque ordinem spirituali prudentia ac sapientia stabilire eámque in longam aetatem seruare tuae item maiestatis subditos vera sui cognitione magis ac magis imbuere dignetur bonus ille clemens Deus per meritafilij sui Domini nostri Iesu Christi Amen Regiae maiestati post orationem oblatum est monumentum aliquod in cuius superficie artificiosè sculpta erat historia Iosephi ex lib. Genesios In circumferentia verò hoc carmen Innocuum pietas ad regia sceptra Iosephum Ex manibus fratrum carnificÃsque rapit Carcere insidijs sic te regina tuorum Ereptam duxit culmina ad ista Deus Inscriptio erat in ipsius capacitate scripta in orbem hoc modo Serenissimae Angliae reginae Elisabethae ecclesiae Belgicae Nordouici ob religionem exulaÌ„tes hoc monumentum pietatis posteritatis ergô consecrabant Anno salutis humanae 1578. In interiore ipsius parte erat insigne serpentis in gyrum conuoluti cui media insidebat columba cum hoc Christi elogio Prudens vt serpens simplex vt columba The minister of the Dutch church his oration in English THe oratours most grations queene which liued in the age of them that woone greatest renowme were highlie commended for that they could transforme the iudges minds partlie by eloquence and partlie by setting downe before their eies the calamitie of the thing and person they spake of into what disposition them listed The first part declareth vnto vs no common felicitie of men in that they were so willing in following and attentiue in hearing as they would suffer themselues to be lead by eloquence The last obteined great fauour amongst all nations whose common weale was gouerned in good order and farre greater amongst the christians but greatest of all with thee ô most excellent queene the nursse of Christ his church whose mind obedient to Gods word the spirit of Christ and zeale of godlinesse and not this prophane kind of speech hath instructed The verie calamitie of godlie men and teares of the afflicted the teares I saie of faithfull christians haue thoroughlie mooued thee to defend and protect the miserable and dâ—â—persed members of Christ obiect to euerie kind of iniurie before beaten in peeces by a thousand deaths with the safetie and preseruation as well of mind as bodie For these thy singular benefits of godlinesse towards vs and that we liue vnder so good a tutor being magistrate in this thy citie of Norwich which thy maiestie hath of clemencie granted vnto vs for a mansion place which were banished for Christ his religion and moreouer that we find the minds of the people fauourable towards vs first wee giue immortall thanks not such as wee line 10 ought but such as we are able vnto God the father and the Lord our onelie sauiour Iesus Christ and then vnto thee most mercifull queene Moreouer it is our humble and yet our onelie petition to shew vnto your maiestie the thankefulnesse of our mind Behold therefore dedicated to your most excellent maiestie not anie gift but our mind no princelie iewell but a monument of godlinesse and posteritie The which we hope will be so much the more acceptable to your maiestie for bicause the goodnes line 20 of God towards your maiestie is liuelie drawne out of the historie of the innocent and most godlie Ioseph whom neither policie strength nor desire of bearing rule but constant faith godlinesse of a christian heat and heauenlie vertue by Gods singular mercie deliuered from the bloudie conspiracie of his brethren and feare of death and brought vnto high dignitie roiall kingdome To whose brethren that prouerbiall sentence of the Hebrewes is verie fitlie alluded Enuie being the desire of euill things and line 30 couetousnesse of transitorie renowme is oftentimes the occasion of mans destruction But touching the mind of Ioseph the same was indued with such temperance and fortitude that he might be thought no lesse vniust than wicked that
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
Marie And then the preaching of the gospell being againe receiued hauing a free passage he returned into England but would neuer returne to his bishoprike notwithstanding it was reserued for him sundrie times offered him but liued a priuat life continuing in London preaching teaching the gospell so long as the strength of his bodie would permit and at length being verie old and striken in yeares he died and was honorablie buried at saint Magnus church in London 44 Iohn Uoiseie after the depriuation of Miles Couerdale was restored to this church and for the better setling of the Romish religion did here state for a while but his mind was addicted to his owne countrie that he returned thither and made his onlie abode there practising there what he could to haue the making of kersies to come to some effect but the same being more chargeable than profitable came to small proofe This man being verie old died in his owne house with a pang and was buried in his parish church there in the yeare of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and fiue 45 Iames Troblefield succéeded bishop Uoiseie and was consecrated in the yeare of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred fiftie six he was a gentleman borne and of a good house verie gentle and courteous he professed diuinitie but most zelous in the Romish religion yet nothing cruell nor bloudie And yet that he might not séeme to doo nothing he was contented to prosecute and condemne a giltlesse poore séelie woman named Agnes Pirest for religion and heresie who was burned in Southingham for the same It was laied to hir charge as dooth appeare by an indictment taken at Lanceston Dit lunae in quarta septimana quadragesimae anno Philippi Mariae secundo tertio before William Stanford then iustice of the assise that she should denie the reall presence in the sacrament of the altar and that the same was but a signe and a figure of Christs bodie and that none dooth eat reallie the bodie of Christ but spirituallie He was verie carefull to recouer some part of the lands of his bishoprike which his predecessor wasted and did obteine of quéene Marie to him and to his successors the fee farme of the manor of Credition After that he had béene bishop about two yeares quéene Marie died and he was depriued and liued after a priuat life 46 William Alleie in the second yeare of quéene Elisabeth was chosen bishop and installed the sixt of August in the yeare of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred sixtie and one In all quéene Maries time which were called the Marian daies he trauelled from place to place in the north countrie where he was not knowne and sometimes by practising of physike and sometimes by teaching of scholars he picked out a poore liuing for himselfe and his wife and so continued being not knowne to haue béene a priest during all quéene Maries time after whose death he went to London and there did read diuinitie lecture in Paules verie learnedlie and to his line 10 great commendation and from whense he was taken and made bishop of this citie He was verie well learned vniuersallie but his chiefe studie and profession was in diuinitie and in the toongs And being bishop he debated no part of his former trauels but spent his time verie godlie and vertuouslie Upon euerie holie daie for the most part he preached and vpon the weeke daies he would and did read a lecture of diuinitie the residue of his time and free from his necessarie businesse he spent in his line 20 priuat studies and wrote sundrie books whereof his prelections or lectures which he did read in Paules and his poore mans librarie he caused to be imprinted the like he would haue doone with his Hebrue grammar and other his works if he had liued He was well stored and his librarie well replenished with all the best sort of writers which most gladlie he would impart and make open to euerie good scholar and student whose companie and conference he did most desire imbrace He séemed at the first appéerance line 30 to be a rough and an austere man but in verie truth a verie courteous gentle and an affable man at his table full of honest speeches ioined with learning and pleasantnesse according to the time place and companie All his exercises which for the most part was at bowles verie merrie and plesant void of all sadnesse which might abate the benefit of recreation loth to offend readie to forgiue void of malice full of loue bountifull in hospitalitie liberall to the poore and a succourer of the néedie faithfull to line 40 his friend and courteous to all men a hater of couetousnesse and an enimie to all euill and wicked men and liued an honest a godlie and vertuous life Finallie he was indued with manie notable good gifts and vertues onelie he was somewhat credulous of a hastie beléefe and light of credit which he did oftentimes mislike blame in himselfe In his latter time he waxed somewhat grosse and his bodie full of humors which did abate much of his line 50 woonted exercises and hauing béene bishop about eight yeares he died the first of Aprill one thousand fiue hundred and seauentie and was buried in his owne church 47 William Bradbridge deane of Sarisburie was the next bishop and consecrated at Lambeth by Matthew Parker archbishop of Canturburie the eightéenth of March one thousand fiue hundred and seauentie he was a professor of diuinitie but not taken to be so well grounded as he persuaded line 60 himselfe he was zelous in religion but not so forwards as he was wished to be In his latter daies he delighted to dwell in the countrie which was not so much to his liking as troublesome to his clergie to such as had anie sutes vnto him It was thought he died verie rich but after his death it proued otherwise he died suddenlie no bodie being about him at Newton Ferris the ninth yeare of his bishoprike vpon the nine and twentith of Iulie in the yeare of our Lord 1578 and was buried in his owne church Thus farre the collection of Iohn Hooker agréeing with the records The seuentéenth daie of Iulie the quéenes maiestie being on the riuer of Thames about nine of the clocke at night betwixt hir highnesse manour of Gréenewich Dartford in hir priuie barge accompanied with the French ambassador the earle of Lincolne and maister vicechamberlaine it chanced that one Thomas Appletrée a yoong man and seruant to maister Henrie Carie with two or thrée others being in a bote on the Thames rowing vp and downe betwixt the places aforenamed the foresaid Thomas had a caliuer or harquebus charged with bullet and shooting at randon by misfortune shot one of the watermen being the second man next vnto the bales of the said barge which sat within six foot of hir highnesse cleane
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
of religion but onelie of that which by their bloud and death in the fire they did as true martyrs testifie A matter of an other sort to be lamented in a christian charitie with simplicitie of words and not with puffed eloquence than the execution in this time of a verie few traitors who also in their time if they excéeded thirtie yeares of age had in their baptisme professed and in their youth had learned the same religion which they now so bitterlie oppugned And besides that in their opinions they differ much from the martyrs of quéene Maries time for though they which suffered in queene Maries time continued in the profession of the religion wherein they were christened and as they were perpetuallie taught yet they neuer at their death denied their lawfull quéene nor mainteined anie of hir open and forren enimies nor anie procured rebellion or ciuill warre nor did sow anie sedition in secret corners nor withdrew anie subiects from their obedience as these sworne seruants of the pope haue continuallie doone And therefore all these things well considered there is no doubt but all good subiects within the realme doo manifestlie sée and all wauering persons not being led cleane out of the waie by the seditious will hereafter perceiue how they haue béene abused to go astraie And all strangers but speciallie all christian potentats as emperours kings princes and such like hauing their souereigne estates either in succession hereditarie or by consent of their people being acquainted with the verie truth of these hir maiesties late iust and necessarie actions onelie for defense of hir selfe hir crowne and people against open inuadours and for eschewing of ciuill warres stirred vp by rebellion will allow in their owne like cases for a truth and rule as it is not to be doubted but they will that it belongeth not vnto a bishop of Rome as successour of saint Peter and therein a pastour spirituall or if he were the bishop of all christendome as by the name of pope he claimeth first by his bulles or excommunications in this sort at his will in fauour of traitors and rebels to depose anie souereigne princes being lawfullie inuested in their crownes by succession in bloud or by lawfull election and then to arme subiects against their naturall lords to make warres and to dispense with them for their oths in so dooing or to excommunicat faithfull subiects for obeieng of their naturall princes lastlie himselfe to make open warre with his owne souldiers against princes moouing no force against him For if these high tragicall powers should be permitted to him to exercise then should no empire no kingdome no countrie no citie or towne be possessed by anie lawfull title longer than one such onelie an earthlie man sitting as he saieth in saint Peters chaire at Rome should for his will and appetite without warrant from God or man thinke méet and determine an authoritie neuer chalenged by the Lord of lords the sonne of God Iesus Christ our onelie Lord and sauiour and the onelie head of his church whilest he was in his humanitie vpon the earth nor yet deliuered by anie writing or certeine tradition from saint Peter from whome the pope pretendeth to deriue all his authoritie nor yet from saint Paule the apostle of the gentils but contrariwise by all preachings precepts and writings conteined in the gospell and other scriptures of the apostles obedience is expresselie commanded vnto all earthlie princes yea euen vnto kings by especiall name and that so generallie as no person is excepted from such dutie of obedience as by the sentence of saint Paule euen to the Romans appeareth Omnis anima sublimioribus potestatibus sit subdiâ—a that is Let euerie soule be subiect to the higher powers within the compasse of which law or precept saint Chrysostome being bishop of Constantinople writeth that Euen apostles prophets euangelists and moonks are comprehended And for proofe of saint Peters mind herein from whome these popes claime their authoritie it can not be plainelier expressed than when he writeth line 10 thus Proinde subiecti estote cuiuiâ— huâ—ane ordinationi propter Dominum siue regi vt qui superâ—mâ—eâ—a siue praesidibus ab eo missis that is Therefore be you subiect to euerie humane ordinance or creature for the Lord whether it be to the king as to him that is supereminent or aboue the rest or to his presidents sent by him By which two principall apostles of Christ these popes the pretensed successors but chieflie by that which Christ the sonne of God the onelie maister of truth said to Peter and his fellow apostles Reges gentium line 20 dominantur vos autem non sic that is The kings of the gentils haue rule ouer them but you not so maie learne to forsake their arrogant and tyrannous authorities in earthlie and temporall causes ouer kings and princes and exercise their pastorall office as saint Peter was charged thrise at one time by his Lord and maister Pasce oues meas Féed my shéepe and peremptorilie forbidden to vse a sword in saieng to him Conuerte gladium tuum in locum suum or Mitte gladium tuum in vaginam that is Turne thy line 30 sword into his place or Put thy sword into the scabbard All which precepts of Christ and his apostles were dulie followed and obserued manie hundred yeares after their death by the faithfull and godlie bishops of Rome that dulie followed the doctrine and humilitie of the apostles and the doctrine of Christ and were holie martyrs and thereby dilated the limits of Christs church and the faith more in the compasse of an hundred yeares than the latter popes haue line 40 doone with their swords and cursses these fiue hundred yeares and so continued vntill the time of one pope Hildebrand otherwise called Gregorie the seuenth about the yeare of our Lord one thousand thrée score and fourtéene who first began to vsurpe that kind of tyrannie which of late the late pope called Pius Quintus and since that time Gregorie now the thirteenth hath followed for some example as it séemeth that is where Gregorie the seuenth in the yeare of our Lord one thousand thrée score and line 50 fourtéene or thereabout presumed to depose Henrie the fourth a noble emperor then being Gregorie the thirtéenth now at this time would attempt the like against king Henrie the eights daughter and heire quéene Elisabeth a souereigne and a maiden quéene holding hir crowne immediatlie of God And to the end it may appeare to princes or to their good councellors in one example what was the fortunat successe that God gaue to this good christian emperor Henrie against the proud pope Hildebrand line 60 it is to be noted that when the pope Gregorie attempted to depose this noble emperor Henrie there was one Rodulph a noble man by some named the count of Reenfield that by the popes procurement vsurped the name of the emperor who was ouercome by the
Thomas Throckemorton his brother made him priuie to his negotiation at his last being here in England and that therevpon Francis Throckemorton tooke vpon him to be a follower and meane for the effectuating thereof among the confederats in England with the helpe of the Spanish ambassadour whome he instructed how and with whome to deale for the preparing of a conuenient partie here within the realme for that himselfe would not be séene to be a sounder of men least he might be discouered and so indanger himselfe and the enterprise knowing that the ambassadour being a publike person might safelie deale therein without perill That the duke of Guise and other heads of the enterprise had refused some landing places and made speciall choise of Sussex and about Arundell in Sussex both for the néere cut from the parts of France where the duke did or best could assemble his force line 10 and for the oportunitie of assured persons to giue assistance c. That he taking vpon him the pursute of this course shewed the whole plot and deuise of the hauens for landing to the Spanish ambassadour who did incourage him therin he promising that if he might haue respit vntill the next spring the same should be doone more exactlie That at the time of Thomas Throckemortons being here least the negotiation of the enterprise by line 20 sâ—me casualtie might faile in the onelie hand of one man Thomas Throckemorton there was also from the confederats sent ouer into Sussex Charles Paget vnder the name of Mope alià s Spring and therof an aduertisement couertlie sent vnto Thomas Throckemorton both that Thomas might vnderstand it and not be offended that an other was ioined with him in his labour That the Spanish ambassador by aduertisements from the confederats was made priuie to this comming line 30 of Charles Paget vnder the name of Mope and yet knowne to him to be Charles Paget That the said ambassador did according to his said aduertisements know affirme that Charles Paget was come ouer to view the hauens and countrie for landing of such forren forces about Arundell and speciallie to sound and conferre with certeine principall persons for assistance The same ambassadour also knew and affirmed that Charles Paget had accordinglie doone his message line 40 and had spoken with some principall persons here according vnto his commission and was returned He moreouer confessed that there was a deuise betwéene the Spanish ambassadour and him how such principall recusants here within the realme as were in the commission of the peace in sundrie counties might vpon the first brute of the landing of forren forces vnder colour and pretext of their authoritie and the defense of hir maiestie leuie men whome they might after ioine to the forren forces and conuert line 50 them against hir maiestie In these few articles is brieflie comprised the whole effect of his confession made at large without anie interrogatorie particularlie ministred other than vpon the two papers before mentioned conteining the names of men and hauens And here you are to note that at the time of his apprehension there was no knowledge or doubt had of these treasons or of his priuitie vnto them but onelie an information and suspicion deliuered and conceiued of line 60 some practise betwéene him and the Scotish quéene as is before mentioned For the discouering whereof after he had béene sundrie times vpon his allegiance commanded to declare his dooings in conueieng and receiuing of letters to and from hir he did voluntarilie confesse that he had written diuerse letters vnto hir and had conueied manie to and fro betwéene hir and Thomas Morgan in France by whose meanes he was first made knowne to hir and that he had receiued as manie letters from hir He also declared the effect of his letters to hir of hirs to him which letters betwéene them were alwaies written in cipher and the cipher with the nullities and marks for names of princes and councellors he sent vnto the queenes maiestie written with his owne hand He also deliuered the names of some by whome he conueied his letters vnto the Scotish quéene as by one Godfrie Fulgeam who fled the realme immediatlie vpon Throckemortons apprehension and one other person whome he described by his stature shape and apparell and the man since apprehended and examined hath confessed the same the mans name is William Ardington The summe and effect of the most part of these confessions although they were at the time of his arreignement opened and dilated by hir maiesties sergeant atturneie and solicitor generall at the bar and therefore seeme not néedfull to be repeated here yet because the purpose of this discourse is to shew sufficient proofe that the matters conteined in his said confessions are neither false nor feigned as Francis Throckmorton most impudentlie affirmed at his triall alledging that they were méere inuentions of himselfe by policie to auoid the torture they haue béene here inserted to the end you may the better iudge of the proofes presumptions and circumstances following by comparing the matters with their accidents and consequentlie sée the falshood of the traitor the iust and honorable procéedings of hir maiestie and the honest and loiall indeuors of hir ministers imploied in the discouering of the treasons First it is true and not denied by himselfe that he was at Spaw about the time by him mentioned and had conference with Ienneie in that place and with sir Francis Englefield in Flanders and that he hath written letters to sir Francis and receiued letters from him for if he should denie the same he were to be conuinced by good proofe for it hath béene noted in him by manie of his countriemen English subiects that both in those parts and in France he did continuallie associat himselfe with English rebels and fugitiues If then you consider with whome he hath conuersed beyond the seas and compare his religion with theirs you will iudge of his conuersation accordinglie And it is to be supposed that those men knowne to be continuall practisers against the quéenes maiestie and this realme from whense for their treasons and vnnaturall demeanours they are woorthilie banished will not in their conuenticles and méetings forget to bethinke them of their banishment and how they might be restored to their countrie where vnto no desert in hir maiesties life time which God long continue can well without hir maiesties great mercie restore them Then I praie you what conferences might maister Throckemorton haue with sir Francis Englefield with Ienneie with Liggons with Owen and with such like who were his dailie companions in France and in the low countries He hath written letters to sir Francis Englefield To what purposes He haunted continuallie two ambassadors in London by whose meanes he sent and receiued letters to and from beyond the seas dailie To whome and from whome Euen to and from Thomas Morgan and Thomas Throckemorton at Paris men knowne to
Morgan assured me that shortlie after my departure the L. Fernehurst then in Paris should go into Scotland and be readie vpon the first newes of the queens fall to enter into England line 10 with 20 or 30000 men to defend the queene of Scotland whom and the king hir sonne I doo in my conscience acquit of anie priuitie liking or consent to this or anie other bad action for anie thing that euer I did know I shortlie departed for England and arriued at Rie in Ianuarie 1583 from whense I wrote to the court aduertised some that I had a speciall seruice to discouer to the quéens maiestie 8 Which I did more to prepare accesse and credit than for anie care I line 20 had of hir person though I were fullie resolued neuer to touch hir notwithstanding anie warrant if by anie deuise persuasion or policie she might be wrought to deale more gratiouslie with the catholikes than she dooth or by our maner of procéeding in parlement meaneth to doo for anie thing yet seene I came to the court then at Whitehall praied audience had it at large and verie priuatlie discouered to hir maiestie this conspiracie much to this effect though couered with all the skill I had she tooke line 30 it doubtfullie I departed with feare And amongst other things I cannot forget hir maiesties gratious speech then vttered touching the catholikes which of late after a sort I auowed in parlement she said to me that neuer a catholike should be troubled for religion or supremasie so long as they liued like good subiects Whereby I mistrusted that hir maiestie is borne in hand that none is troubled for the one or the other It may be trulie said that it is better than it hath béene though it be not yet as it should be line 40 In March last while I was at Gréenewich as I remember suing for saint Katharines came letters to me from cardinall Como dated at Rome the last of Ianuarie before whereby I found the enterprise commended and allowed and my selfe absolued in his holinesse name of all my sinnes and willed to go forward in the name of God That letter I shewed to some in court who imparted it to the quéene what it wrought or maie worke in hir maiestie God knoweth onelie this I know 9 That line 50 it confirmed my resolution to kill hir and made it cléere in my conscience that it was lawfull and meritorious And yet was I determined neuer to doo it if either policie practise persuasion or motion in parlement could preuaile I feared to be tempted and therefore alwaies when I came neere hir I left my dagger at home 10 When I looked vpon hir maiestie remembred hir manie excellencies I was greatlie troubled and yet I saw no remedie for my vowes were in heauen my letters and promises in earth and the case of the catholike recusants and others line 60 little bettered Sometimes I said to my selfe Why should I care for hir What hath she doone for me Haue I not spent ten thousand markes since I knew hir seruice and neuer had penie by hir It maie be said she gaue me my life But I saie as my case stood it had béene tyrannie to take it and I feare me it is little lesse yet If it please hir gratiouslie to looke into my discontentments would to Iesus Christ she had it for I am wearie of it And now to come to an end of this tragicall discourse In Iulie I left the court vtterlie reiected discontented and as hir maiestie might perceiue by my passionate letters carelesse of my selfe I came to London doctor Allens booke was sent me out of France 11 It redoubled my former conceipts euerie word in it was a warrant to a prepared mind It taught that kings maie be excommunicated depriued and violentlie handled It prooueth that all warres ciuill or forren vndertaken for religion is honourable Hir maiestie maie doo well to read it and to be out of doubt if things be not amended that it is a warning and a doctrine full dangerous This is the booke I shewed in some places read and lent to my cousine Neuill the accuser who came often to mine house put his finger in my dish his hand in my purse and the night wherein he accused me was wrapped in my gowne six moneths at least after we had entered into this conspiracie in which space hir maiestie and ten princes in seuerall prouinces might haue béene killed God blesse hir maiestie from him for before almightie God I ioie and am glad in my soule that it was his hap to discouer me in time though there were no danger neere And now to the matter of our méetings He came to me in the beginning of August and spake to me in this or the like sort Cousine let vs doo somewhat sith we can haue nothing I offered to ioine with him and gladlie heard him hoping bicause I knew him to be a catholike that he would hit vpon that I had in my head but it sell not out so He thought the deliuerie of the quéene of Scotland easie presuming vpon his credit and kinred in the North I thought it dangerous to hir and impossible to men of our fortunes He fell from that to the taking of Berwike I spake of Quinborough and the nauie rather to interteine him with discourse than that I cared for those motions my head being full of greater matter 12 I told him that I had an other maner of enterprise more honourable and profitable vnto vs and the catholikes commonwealth than all these if he would ioine in it with me as he presentlie vowed to doo He pressed to know it I willed him to sleepe vpon the motion he did so and belike ouertaken came vnto me the next morning to my lodging in London offered to ioine with me and tooke his oth vpon a bible to conceale and constantlie to pursue the enterprise for the aduancement of religion which I also did and meant to performe the killing of the quéene was the matter The maner and place to be on horssebacke with eight or ten horsses when she should ride abroad about saint Iames or some other like place It was once thought fit in a garden and that the escape would be easiest by water into Shepeie or some other part but we resolued vpon the first This continued as agréed vpon manie moneths till he heard of the death of Westmerland whose land and dignitie whereof he assured himselfe bred belike this conscience in him to discouer a treason in Februarie contriued and agreed vpon in August If it cost him not an ambitious head at last let him neuer trust me He brought a tall gentleman whome he commended for an excellent pistolier to me to Chanon Row to make one in the match but I refused to deale with him being loth to laie my head vpon so manie hands M. Neuill hath I thinke forgotten
awaie from his master and was often taken brought to him againe His master to correct his peruerse and froward conditions did manie times shut him as prisoner in some close place of his house and manie times caused him to be chained locked and clogged to staie his running awaie Yet all was in vaine for about the third yeare of hir maiesties reigne for his last farewell to his poore master he ran awaie from him and came to London to séeke his aduentures He was then constreined to seeke what trade he could to liue by and to get meat and drinke for his bellie and clothes for his backe His good hap in the end was to be interteined in place of seruice aboue his desert where he staied not long but shifted himselfe diuerse times from seruice to seruice and from one master to another Now he began to forget his old home his birth his education his parents his friends his owne name and what he was He aspired to greater matters he challenged the name and title of a great gentleman he vanted himselfe to be of kin and alied to noble and worshipfull he left his old name which he did beare and was commonlie called by in his childhood during all the time of his abode in the countrie which was William ap Harrie as the maner in Wales is And bicause he would séeme to be in déed the man which he pretended he tooke vpon him the name of Parrie being the sirname of diuerse gentlemen of great worship and hauiour And bicause his mothers name by hir father a simple priest was Conwaie he pretended kinred to the familie of sir Iohn Conwaie and so thereby made himselfe of kin to Edmund Neuill Being thus set foorth with his new name and new title of gentleman and commended by some of his good fauorers he matched himselfe in mariage with a widow in Southwales who brought him some reasonable portion of wealth She liued with him but a short time and the welth he had with hir lasted not long it was soone consumed with his dissolute 〈◊〉 wastfull maner of life He was then driuen to his woonted shifts his creditors were manie the debt which he owed great he had nothing wherewith to make paiment he was continuallie pursued by sergeants and officers to arrest him he did often by sleights and shifts escape from them In this his néedie and poore estate he sought to repare himselfe againe by a new match in mariage with another widow which before was the wife of one Richard Heiwood This matter was so earnestlie followed by himselfe and so effectuallie commended by his fréends and fauourers that the sillie woman yéelded to take him to husband a match in euerie respect verie vnequall and vnfit Hir wealth and yearelie liuelihood was verie great his poore and base estate worse than nothing he verie yoong she of such age as for yeares she might haue beene his mother When he had thus possessed himselfe of his new wiues wealth he omitted nothing that might serue for a prodigall dissolute and most vngodlie course of life His riot and excesse was vnmeasurable he did most wickedlie defloure his wiues owne daughter and sundrie waies pitifullie abuse the old mother he caried himselfe for his outward port and countenance so long as his old wiues bags lasted in such sort as might well haue sufficed for a man of verie good hauiour and degrée But this lasted not long his proud hart wastfull hand had soone powred out old Heiwoods wealth line 10 He then fell againe to his woonted shifts borowed where he could find anie to lend and ingaged his credit so far as anie would trust him Amongst others he became greatlie indebted to Hugh Hare the gentleman before named Who after long forbearing of his monie sought to recouer it by law For this cause Parrie conceiued great displeasure against him which he pursued with all malice euen to the seeking of his life In this murtherous intent he came in the night time to M. Hares chamber in line 20 the Temple broke open the doore assaulted him and wounded him grieuouslie and so left him in great danger of life For this offense he was apprehended committed to Newgate indicted of burgularie arreigned and found guiltie by a verie substantiall iurie and condemned to be hanged as the law in that case requireth He standing thus conuicted hir maiestie of hir most gratious clemencie and pitifull disposition line 30 tooke compassion vpon him pardoned his offense gaue him his life which by the law due course of iustice he ought then to haue lost After this he taried not long but pretending some causes of discontentment departed the realme and trauelled beyond the seas How he demeaned himselfe there from time to time and with whome he conuersed is partlie in his owne confession touched before This is the man this is his race which he feared should be spotted if he miscaried in the execution of his traitorous enterprise this hath béene the course of his life these are line 40 the great causes of his discontentment And whereas at his arreignement and execution he pretended great care of the disobedient popish subiects of this realme whom he called catholikes and in verie insolent sort séemed to glorie greatlie in the profession of his pretensed catholike religion the whole course and action of his life sheweth plainelie how prophanelie irreligiouslie he did alwaies beare himselfe He vaunted that for these two and twentie yeares past he had béene a catholike and during all line 50 that time neuer receiued the communion yet before he trauelled beyond the seas at three seuerall times within the compasse of these two and twentie years he did voluntarilie take the oth of obedience to the queenes maiestie set downe in the statute made in the first yeare of hir highnesse reigne by which amongst other things he did testifie and declare in his conscience that no forreine prince person prelat state or potentat hath or ought to haue anie iurisdiction power preeminence or authoritie ecclesiasticall line 60 or spirituall within this realme and therfore did vtterlie renounce forsake all forren iurisdictions powers and authorities and did promise to beare faith and true allegiance to the quéenes highnesse hir heires and lawfull successours With what conscience or religion he tooke that oth so often if so be he were then a papist in deed as since the discouerie of his treasons he pretended let his best freends the papists themselues iudge But perhaps it may be said that he repented those his offenses past that since those thrée oths so taken by him he was twise reconciled to the pope and so his conscience cleared and he become a new man and which is more that in the time of his last trauell he cast awaie all his former lewd maners that he changed his degrée and habit and bought or begged the graue title of
three monthes it were a notable line 60 world for traitors and murtherers thus to haue all procéedings set loose as well of our common lawes which condemne vpon all euidences as of the ciuill lawes which giue capitall sentence vpon confession onelie yea Moses wisedome is ouerreached and Christes equitie in his euangelicall parable against the lewd seruant not vsing his talent is eluded All this is also ratified by voluntarie letters of his to hir maiestie apart and to hir honorable councell And if anie Italianat papist neuerthelesse will néeds beleeue this â—epugnancie of his last speaches let him yet take this one note of him whereby to consider how credible a man he crediteth Either Parrie meant this monstrous murther according to his vowes in heauen and sworne promises in earth and so died a desperat traitor protesting the contrarie in his last words vpon his soule and damnation or else was he periured to the foule abuse of pope all poperie most execrablie prophaning Gods name by promising swearing vowing c that which he meant not Necessarilie therefore must he perish vpon periured treason or wreckâ— vpon desperat deieration Nothing auoideth this dilemma but a popish bull of dispensation which if he had I know not how princes may not as safelie suffer woolues and beares come to their presence as such papists And verie like it is that Parrie had a speciall bull either else was it comprehended in his indulgence that he might take othes contrarie to his catholike conscience as he did the oth of supremasie in the beginning of the last parlement Which if his coniuratours had not béene priuie with what intention he did sweare he neuer durst haue taken it least they should haue now bewraied him as a man sworne against the pope therefore not to be trusted But the truth is this papist Parrie was both a traitor and a manifold periured traitor whome with all other of the like stampe we leaue to the finall iudgement of God at the last and dreadfull doome registring in the meane time a proper epigram and of no lesse fit than true deuise in memorie of the said capitall traitor requiting that propheticall posie concerning Daruell Gatheren and frier Forrest of whome you shall read in the thirtéenth yeare of king Henrie the eight this of Parrie being as followeth William Parrie Was ap Harrie By his name From the alehouse To the gallows Grew his fame Gotten westward On a bastard â—s is thought Wherefore one waie Kin to Conwaie Hath he sought Like a beast With inceast He begon Mother maried Daughter caried Him a sonne Much he borrowed Which he sorrowed To repaie Hare his good Bought with blood As they saie Yet for paiment Had arrainment Of his detter Shee that gaue him Life to saue him Hangd a better Parrie his pardon Thought no guardon For his woorth Wherefore sought That he mought Trauell foorth Which obtained He remained As before And with rashnes Shewd his bashnes More and more He did enter To aduentuer Euen hir death By whose fauor He did euer Draw his breath It was pittie One so wittie Malcontent Leauing â—eason Should to treason So be bent But his gifts Were but shifts Void of grace And his brauerie Was but knauerie Vile and base Wales did beare him France did sweare him To the pope Venice wrought him London brought him To the rope Wherewith strangled And then mangled Being dead Poles supporters Of his quarters And his head In this yeare one thousand fiue hundred eightie foure sir Walter Mildmaie knight one of hir maiesties most honorable priuie councell founded a college in the vniuersitie of Cambridge and named it Emmanuell college ¶ The same was sometimes a house of friers and came to king Henrie the eight by dissolution as appeareth by the sequeale being an extract out of a substantiall and large booke written in parchment which I haue seene and whense I had this transcript conteining the entrie or inrolment of certeine letters patents writings and euidences line 10 touching the said college First the premisses came vnto king Henrie the eight by act of parlement touching the dissolution of monasteries afterwards the said king by letters patents vnder the great seale of England dated Decimo sexto Aprilis anno tricesimo quinto regni sui did grant the same to Edward Elrington and Humfreie Metcalfe and to the heires of the said Edward for euer After that the said Edward Elrington and Humfreie Metcalfe by their déed pold dated Quarto Martij anno tricesimo sexto Henrici line 20 octaui did grant the premisses to William Sherwood gentleman his heires for euer Then George Sherewood gentleman sonne and heire to William Sherwood by déed pold dated Vicesimo nono Septembris anno vicesimo tertio Elisabethae reginae did grant the premisses to Robert Tailor esquier and to his heires for euer And afterwards the said Robert Tailor by déed pold dated Duodecimo Iunij anno vicesimo quinto Elisabethae reginae did grant the premisses to Richard Culuerwell line 30 citizen mercer of London and Laurence Chaderton of Cambridge bachelor of diuinitie and their heires for euer And after that the premisses were conueied to sir Walter Mildmaie who hath conuerted the same into a séedplot of learning for the benefit of the church common-wealth so that the students maie verie trulie saie this and more too of so good so honoorable and vertuous a founder fluuijs dum cruerit aequor Dúmque vagas stellas pascet vterque polus line 40 Dum steriles altis lustrabunt montibus vmbrae Virtutis stabit fama decúsque tuae year 1585 On the nine and twentith daie of March which was in the yeare of Christ 1585 the parlement was dissolued at the breaking vp whereof the quéenes maiestie in the parlement house made an oration to such effect as followeth The queenes maiesties oration line 50 in the parlement house MY Lords and ye of the lower house my silence must not iniurie the owner so much as to suppose a substitute sufficient to render you the thanks that my heart yéeldeth you not so much for the safe keeping of my life for which your care appeareth so manifest as for line 60 the neglecting your priuat future perill not regarding other waie than my present state No prince herein I confesse can be surer tied or faster bound than I am with the linke of your good will and can for that but yeeld a hart hand to séeke for euer all your best Yet one matter toucheth me so neere as I may not ouerskip religion the ground on which all other matters ought to take roote and being corrupted may marre all the trée and that there be some faultfinders with the order of the cleargie which so may make a slander to my selfe the church whose ouer ruler God hath made me whose negligence can not be excused if anie schismes or errors hereticall were suffered Thus much
indeuour by proffering of sundrie skirmishes to inforced him to retire to his ship but he nothing appalled with their brags kept his ground Twelue daies after his arriuall there after Thomas Candish arriued at the same place where sir Richard Gréenfield was ensconsing of himselfe to the great reioising both of themselues their companies The Spaniards finding it too hard for them notwithstanding their multitudes to remooue these few resolute Englishmen by violence came to a parlée and in the same concluded an amitie that the one nation might in safetie traffike with the other Now line 10 when sir Richard Gréenefield had taried in that Iland almost a moneth and had built his bote reuittelled himselfe and laden his ships with horsses mares kine sheep swine c to transport with him to Uirginia bicause these sorts of cattell heretofore were not to be found in that countrie he departed thense and in his waie he made discouerie of manie Ilands and hauens vpon the continent adioining and arriued safelie in the new discouered countrie where he met with the rest of his fléet that attended line 20 his comming thither about the middest of Iulie next insuing not without great danger of shipwracke For at the verie entrance into the harborough his ship strake on the ground and did beat so manie strokes vpon the sands that if God had not miraculouslie deliuered him there had beene no waie to auoid present death In this danger his ship was so brused that the saltwater came so aboundantlie into hir that the most part of his corne salt meale rice bisket other prouisions that he should line 30 haue left with them that remained behind him in the countrie was spoiled After he had remained there certeine daies according to his commission from sir Walter Raleigh he began to establish a colonie appointing maister Rafe Lane a gentleman of good account generall of those English which were to remaine there being in all to the number of an hundred and seauen persons amongst whom diuerse gentlemen remained line 40 namelie Philip Amadis Edward Stafford Meruin Kendall Prideaux Acton Heriot and others When he had taken sufficient order for the establishing of master Lane and his companie aforesaid leauing with them as much of all prouisions as his plentie would giue him leaue he weighed anchor for England But in his returne not hauing sailed manie leagues from the coast of Uirginia he descried a tall ship of foure hundred tuns or thereabouts making the same course that he did vnto whom he gaue line 50 chase and in few houres by goodnesse of saile ouertooke and by violence wan richlie laden with sugar hides spices and some quantitie of gold siluer and pearle she was the viceadmerall of the fleet of Sancto Domingo that yere for Spaine After this good fortune hauing a merie gale not manie daies after he arriued at Plimmouth in October next insuing where sir Walter Raleigh méeting with him did presentlie resolue vpon another voiage to supplie Rafe Lane and his companie that were left with line 60 him in Uirginia the next spring following which accordinglie was performed with all expedition In Aprill about the fourtéenth daie by commandement of hir maiesties most honorable priuie councell the citizens of London appointed out of the companies of the same citie to the number of foure thousand men with armour ensignes drums fifes and other furniture for the warres the greater part whereof or almost all of them were shot the other were pikes and halberds in faire corslets all those to be trained vp vnder expert capteins with sergeants of the bands wiflers and other necessarie officers mustered and skirmished dailie at the Miles end and in saint Georges field and on the eightéenth daie of Maie hauing ouernight set forward out of saint Georges field mustered in the parke at Gréenwich and skirmished before the quéenes maiestie who gaue to them great thankes for their actiuenesse and paines sith hir maiestie might perceiue the appliablenesse of those hir people euen in pastime not void of perill to delight hir eies and reioise hir hart estéeming nothing too déere to part withall so it might anie waies concerne dutie to hir highnesse In discharge whereof as she hath no forwarder subiects in hir land so to discouer inquire and persecute the disloiall none readier euen to the hazzard of their liues for the safetie of hir life which is the life of the whole land and the prop of true religion in respect whereof we saie and praie with the well wishing subiect that vpon seeing hearing of hir highnesse fell into such an admiration of hir excellencie that he left these verses among manie after his godlie death Inclyte da longum dici Deus Elisabetha Est Elisabetha tua Est relligióque tua Est Da Deus haud vnquam dici Fuit Elisabetha Elisabetha Fuit relligióque Fuit ¶ On the ninetéenth of Maie being Ascension eeue Edward Wootton esquier descended of a woorthie parentage was ambassador into Scotland to establish a league of amitie betwéene the two nations of England and Scotland whome I will now leaue in that countrie executing his commission and turne my pen to some persons of that surname who for their singularitie of wit lerning for their honour and gouernement in and of the realme about the prince and elsewhere at home and abroad deserue such commendations that they merit Niueo signari lapillo In treating of whome I will neither make mention of the antiquitie of that worshipfull familie from the first originall nor yet treat of Richard Wootton liuing in the time of Edward the first the father of Iohn Wootton coroner of Dunstable an officer of great account in those daies and father to an other Iohn Wootton c nor of Richard Wootton or Woocton an officer of the excheker in the time of Edward the second nor of sir Nicholas Wootton knight liuing about the daies of Richard the second nor of anie other Woottons wherof this Edward Wootton is descended but onelie of such Woottons his ancestors who of late time liued within the compasse of my memorie and were the sonnes of sir Robert Wootton of Bocton Malherbe in Kent knight deseruing not to be forgotten in that he was father to two such worthie sonnes as I doo not remember that euer England nourished at one time for like honour disposition of mind fauour and seruice to their countrie The sonnes of this sir Robert Wootton whereof we intend to intreat were sir Edward Wootton knight the eldest and Nicholas Wootton doctor of both lawes the yoonger sonne Whereof the first being a man of great estimation in the countrie for his orderlie and wise managing of the priuat affaires of his countrie of Kent was for his fidelitie and good carriage in small things made lord and ruler of great things For king Henrie the eight vnderstanding the grauitie of the man his
the eleuenth yeare of hir maiesties reigne then called by the title of Henrie Persie knight had vndertaken the conueieng awaie of the Scotish quéene for the which as appeareth by a record of the fourtéenth yeare of hir maiesties reigne in the court of hir maiesties bench he was indicted he confessed the offense and put himselfe to hir maiesties mercies At which time vpon his said confession submission and faithfull promise of his dutie and allegiance to hir highnesse from thenseforth the quéenes maiestie of hir mercifull nature was pleased not to looke into his offense with the extremitie of hir lawes but dealt therein as by waie of contempt onelie as may appeare by the record the effect whereof was then shewed in the court vnder the hand of one of the clerkes of hir maiesties said bench In haec verba An extract of the said record conteining the said earles indictment MEmorandum that Henrie Persie late of Tinmouth in the countie of Northumberland knight was indicted in the terme of Easter in the fourtéenth yéere of hir maiesties reigne for that hée with diuers others did conspire for the deliuering of the quéene of Scots out of the custodie of the erle of Shrewsburie Upon which indictment the same Henrie Persie did confesse the offense and did put himselfe to the quéenes mercie and therevpon iudgement was after giuen by the court that the said Henrie should paie to the queene for a fine for his said offense fiue thousand marks as appeareth by the record thereof in court Per Micha 14. 15. Elisabethae reginae rotulo quinto inter placista reginae Concordat cum recordo Per Io. Iue By this record it maie appeare that the earle had his hand in that rebellion But for a further proofe thereof it is most manifestlie discouered in a certeine tract written by the bishop of Rosse wherein he sheweth how faithfullie he behaued himselfe in the managing of those treasons at and about the time of that rebellion that the said earle was in effect as farre plunged into the same as the late earle his brother howsoeuer he woond himselfe out of the danger thereof at that time Notwithstanding these traitorous practises the queenes maiestie was contented to remit all within a short time and then accepted most gratiouslie of him both in honor and fauor though vnworthilie bestowed vpon him for that he vtterlie forgetting those graces and fauors receiued at hir maiesties mercifull hands with a gracelesse resolution was contented to enter into a new plot now latelie contriued not onelie for the deliuering of the Scotish queene but for the inuading of the whole realme the ouerthrow of the gouernment aswell concerning the state of religion as otherwise the danger of hir maiesties sacred person and aduancing of the said Scotish quéene to the line 10 regall crowne and scepter of this realme wherevnto hir maiestie is lineallie and lawfullie borne and descended and wherein God of his mercie continue hir long in happie state of gouernement to the increase of hir owne glorie and the comfort of hir louing and obedient subiects Then did maister Atturneie enter into the particularities of the treasons leauing manie parts thereof vntouched because the case stood so as it was not then conuenient to reueale them as he said in line 20 respect that they touched some other persons vndealt withall at that time shewing that Throckemortons treasons were not old but fresh in euerie mans memorie and how far foorth they reached vnto the earle he declared And for that the treasons of Throckemorton tended especiallie to the inuading of the realme with forren forces the purpose of that inuasion long before intended is prooued by sundrie examinations and confessions taken héere within the realme aswell of hir maiestes owne subiects as line 30 others by letters intercepted written from and to the conspirators abroad and at home and by other good aduertisements and intelligences had from forren parts discouering the same He declared that in a letter written from doctor Sanders to doctor Allen out of Spaine in the yeare 1577 it is set downe among other things that the state of Christendome stood vpon the stout assailing of England That in a letter sent to the said Allen from Rome touching audience giuen by the pope to the ambassadors line 40 of certeine forren princes betwéene the pope whom a league was agréed on against the quéenes maiestie there were inclosed certeine articles conteining in effect that the realme should be inuaded with twentie thousand men at the charge of the said pope and princes that hir maiestie should be deposed and some English catholike elected king That it was confessed that the comming ouer of so manie priests into the realme was to win great numbers line 50 to the catholike partie to ioine if opportunitie serued either with forren inuasion or with tumult at home That at Narbonne in Prouince there was met an Englishman being the head preacher there who gaue intelligence to one of hir maiesties subiects that the realme should shortlie be inuaded by a forren king and the popish religion restored and said further that priests came into England and dispersed themselues in countries to make their partie strong A message was sent in Nouember line 60 1581 to doctor Allen from a subiect of this realme by a seminarie priest then returning beyond the seas that whereas he had receiued word from Allen at Alhallontide before that men and all things were in a readinesse if the place of landing might be knowne that Allen should forthwith send word whether things were in such readinesse or not and if they were he would then send him such perfect instructions as he could One Paine executed for treason confessed that this realme could not continue in the state wherein it was for that the pope had a speciall care thereof and would in short time either by forren princes or by some other meanes worke a change of things here From hense maister Atturneie fell into the treasons confessed by Francis Throckemorton shewing that the state of this realme had béene often presented to the consideration of a forren prince who after long hearkening to the motion had resolued to yéeld what furtherance he might and to giue all aids necessarie for the reforming of religion so they might be backed by such as were well affected within this countrie That the duke of Guise had solicited for two yeares together the pope and other princes to supplie him with forces but being crossed by the death of a great personage it was now growne to this passe if there could be a partie found in England to ioine in that action and conuenient places and meanes for landing and other things necessarie there should be a supplie for Guise of forren strength Francis Throckemorton was recommended from beyond the sea to Don Barnardino de Mendoza ambassador resident for the Spanish king here in England who acquainted Throckemorton what
vouldra veoir perir au gre de leurs ennemys qui leur font ceste lōgue cruelle guerre a toute oultrance laquelle les estats desdits pais bas ensuiuant leur deuoir obligation quels on t a leurs bourgois ycitogens ont estes contraincts de soustenir repoulser destourner pour la tyranné seruitude manifest qu'on taschat d'introduire imposer au pouure peuple pour conseruer leur liberté droits priuileges franchises auec l'exercise de la vray religion chrestienné dont vostre maiesté porte a bon droit le tiltre de protectrice defenderesse contre laquelle lesdits ennemys leurs associes on t faict tant de ligues dresse tant de cauteleuzes embushes trahisons ne cessent encore tout les iours de praticquer machiner contre la personne de vostre maiesté au preiudice du reque transquillite de ses royaulmes estats laquelle le bon Dieu a preserue iusques a present pour le bien de la chrestienté sustentation de ses eglises Sy est ce Madame que pour ces causes raisons aultres bonnes considerations lesdits estats on t prins par ensemble vne bonné fermé resolution de prendre leurs recours a vostre maiesté veu que cest vne chose ordinaire a tous peuples nations oppressées de recourir en leurs calamites oppressions pour support faueur contre leurs ennemys aulx roys princes voisme singulierement a ceulx qui sont douez a magnanimité pieté iustice aultres vertus royalles a cest effect nous ont lesdits estats depute vers vostre maiesté pour presenter a icelle la principaulté souuerainté iuste dominatiō desdits prouinces soubs certaines bonnes equitables condicions concernantes principallement la conseruation de l'exercise de la religion reformée de leurs ancienne priuileges libertes franchises vsances l'administration du faict de la guerre police iustice esdits pais Et combien que lesdits pais ayent beaucoup souffert par ces longues continuelles guerres que l'ennemy se soit empare de plusieurs villes places fortes esdits pais toutes fois oultre ce qu'es pais de Brabant Gueldre Flandre Malins Ouerissel se mainteinent encores maintes bonnes villes places contre l'effort de l'ennemy sy est ce que les pais d'Holland Zeeland Vtrecht Frise sont encores graces a Dieu en leur entier ou il y a beaucoup de grandes fortes villes places belles riuieres profondes ports haures de mer desquelles vostre maiesté ses successeurs pourront tirer plusieurs bons seruices fruicts commodites dont il n'est de faire yci plus long recit Seulement que ceste cy entre aultres merite bien vne consideration speciale line 10 que la coniunction desdits pais d'Holland Zeeland Frise des villes de l'Escluze Osteynd en Flādres auec les royaulmes de vostre maiesté emporte quant soy l'empire absolut de la grand mer occeane par consequence vne asseurance felicité perpetuelle pour les subiects de vostre serenissime maiesté La quelle nous supplions treshūblemēt que son bon plaisir soit de nous accorder lesdits points ou conditions ce en suiuant vouloir accepter pour soy line 20 ses successeurs legittimes en la couronne d'Angleterre protecteurs de la religion reformée la iustice principaute seigneurie souueraine desdits pais consequemment du recepuoir les peuples desdits pais comme vous treshumbles tresobeissants subiects soubs la protection sauuegarde perpetuelle de vostre maiesté peuples certeinement autant fidelles aymant leurs princes seigneurs a parler sans iactance que nul aultre de la chrestienté Ce faisant Madame vous conserueres tant de belles eglises qu'il a pleu a Dieu en ce dernier temps line 30 assembler esdits pais a present en beaucoup de lieux fort affliges esbranles deliureres lesdits pais peuples nagueres auant l'inique maison des Espaignols tant riches florissans pour la grande commodité de la mer ports haures riuieres traffiqs manifactures dont ils sont doues de nature Vous les deliureres dis ie Madame de ruine perpetuelle seruitude de corps ame qui sera vng oeuure vrayement roial tresexcellent agreable a Dieu profitable a toute chrestienté digne de louange immortelle line 40 corespondant a la magnanimité vertus heroicques de vostre maiesté conioinct auec l'asseurance prosperites des royalmes subiects d'icelle Et surce presentons a vostre maiesté lesdits articles ou conditions en reuerence prians le grand Roy des roys de preseruer vostre maiesté de ses ennemys l'accroistre en gloire felicité l'auoir en sa seinte garde à perpetuité Faict par Iosse de Menin concelier pensionaire de Derdreght An. 1585. 29 de Iune A Greenwich The foresaid oration in English MAdam the states of the vnited prouinces of the low countries most humblie thanke your maiestie for the good affection fauor which it pleased you to shew to the said countries in their necessitie to confirme the same with so manie euident testimonies that line 60 lastlie after the execrable assault committed vpon the person of the late prince of Orange at what time it pleased your maiestie to let the said states vnderstand by your ambassador maister Dauison what care you had of our defense and preseruation and also by segneur de Crist the great displeasure which your maiestie conceiued to sée the states frustrated of the hope which they had founded vpon the treatie of France But since the care which your maiestie hath alwaies had ouer our good and conseruation is not thereby anie whit diminished but hath more plentifullie increased according as the necessitie of our affaires required for which the said countrie in generall and euerie of vs in particular remaine perpetuallie bound to your maiestie and acknowledge the same with all fidelitie and obeisance And as the said states Madam doo consider that since the decease of the prince of Orange they haue susteined the losse of diuerse of their holds and good townes and that for the preseruation of the said countrie it is néedfull for them to haue a prince and souereigne ruler which may warrant and defend them against the tyrannie and vniust oppression of the Spaniards and their adherents which dailie more and more inforce themselues by their sinister power and all other meanes to destroie and ouerthrow the said countries and reduce this poore people in perpetuall seruitude worse than that of the Indians vnder the importable yoke of the detestable inquisition of Spaine Considering also that
which doo reach to a faire chamber at the vpper end whereof on high was placâ—d a cloth of estate in the middest of which were the armes of England and against them my lord was seated on each side of him two steps descending line 40 sat twelue of the principall states below them sat the residue to the number of twentie right before my lord but foure or fiue steps descending On the right hand of my lord did stand the prince of Portugall next him the lord Morleie next master Norris gouernor of Munster next sir William Russell and sir Robert Germin with diuerse men of great account On the left hand of my lord did stand the Graue Morris next the earle of Essex sir William Stanleie sir Robert Stapleton and sir Thomas line 50 Parrat with diuers others of great account Thus being placed a Dutchman made a large oration in Dutch declaring the causes of the matter in hand with thanks to the quéenes maiestie and the lord lieutenant Then was read in Latine the couenants betwéene the states the queene and my lord this doone the couenants were deliuered to my lord which he deliuered to the states and the states deliuered an other to him then was my lord demanded to vow line 60 the same by oth who holding his hand to heauen did sweare to the couenants The like did the states holding vp their hands vow to performe Then againe were the states sworne to the queene and my lord hir lieutenant in those affaires This doone my lord gaue to them seuerall thanks and they seuerallie did giue to him the like which being doone my lord passed through to his chamber the trumpets all sounding before him And héere as matter of conueniencie requireth we purpose to touch the peremptorie authoritie committed to the said lord lieutenant by common consent of the states being as followeth in the placard A placard conteining the authoritie giuen by the states of the low countries vnto the mightie prince Robert earle of Leicester baron of Denbigh c for the gouernment of the said low countries translated out of Dutch into English as followeth THe generall states of the vnited prouinces of the low countries to all those which shall sée or heare these present writings health and dilection Euen as it hath pleased hir maiestie of England mercifullie to send ouer into these countries the high and mightie prince and lord lord Robert earle of Leicester baron of Denbigh and one of the priuie councell knight of the noble order of the garter and not onlie to admit and institute his excellencie as chéefe head aboue all militarie souldiers on horse or foot which hir maiestie hath sent or shall send ouer hereafter into these countries to the end to assist vs with counsell aid aduise according to his great experience policie and wisedome in the direction of publike affaires of the land as well touching the feates of warre as other waies in conseruation of all that which most tendeth to the profit of the foresaid land to bring backe and reduce the same into such good order and rule as it hath béene in times past to the end that so much the better and orderlie he maie resist the force and tyrannie of our enimies and to frustrate all his practises but also besides this to honour and inrich his foresaid excellencie with greater authoritie might and commandement aboue all hir maiesties admerals and viceadmerals and ships of war to command them all to emploie them to the seruice of these countries and in such order as his excellencie shall find néedfull for the same countrie and that his excellencie following hir maiesties commandement desirous to shew the effect of the good will and affection which he beareth to these affaires and to the preseruation of the same and also of the true christian religion and hath imploied himselfe so willinglie in the foresaid matters that his excellencie for that onlie cause hath left and abandoned his natiue countrie and goods and transported himselfe hitherward amongst vs so that hir maiestie and his excellencie could neuer haue doone or shewed vnto vs a greater benefit than this Therefore are we resolued with good and ripe deliberation to certifie all men by these presents that we haue desired accepted and authorised the foresaid mightie and honorable prince lord Robert earle of Leicester c to be our gouernor and generall captaine ouer all the vnited prouinces and associat cities and members of the same And we giue vnto his excellencie besides the authoritie of hir maiestie giuen vnto him the highest and supreme commandement and absolute authoritie aboue and in all matters of warfare by sea and by land to execute administrat the same to the resistance of the enimie euen as his excellencie shall thinke most commodious to the preseruation of these countries and so further to doo all such things as apperteine to the office of a generall capteine And furthermore we commit the administration vse of policie and iustice ouer the foresaid vnited prouinces and associat cities and members of the same into his hands to execute and administrat the same with such power and authoritie as haue had in times past all the other gouernors of these low countries before him and especiallie as haue béene exercised and lawfullie administred in the time of Charles the fift reserued onelie the lawes and priuileges of the foresaid countries also with especiall power to collect profits and receiue and administrat all the contributions which are agreed and condescended or shall hereafter be consented or agréed to the maintenance of the warres and also that which is or shall be deliuered hereafter into his excellencies hands and this all according to the vertue of other letters and missâ—ues written more at large touching the same agreement All which former charge and commission his excellencie through our earnest desire hath accepted and hath deliuered solemne oth and assurance into our hands first of all for the preseruation line 10 of the true christian religion and maintenance of the priuileges and rights of these lands and prouinces members and cities of the same We therefore ordeine and command all gouernors of prouinces and cities all admerals and viceadmerals all officers coroners capteins their officers and souldiors by sea and land and furthermore all other councellors officers treasurors receiuers bailiffs burgomaisters marshals magistrats gentlemen burgers other inhabitants subiects of line 20 these lâ—nds of what qualitie or condition soeuer that they euerie of them doo acknowledge his foresaid excellencie in the qualitie of gouernement and capteine generall ouer the foresaid vnited prouinces to honor respect and obeie him as they ought to doo without making anie difficultie in dooing the same vpon paine of falling in the displeasure and anger of his excellencie and to be punished according to the heauines of the fault and as reason shall require And to the end
bridge well repared His deuised remedie tending to so good a purpose was impugned The yearelie reuenues of the said bridge amount vnto more in value by triple than they were before A further remedie deuised An act of parlement obteined for the behoofe of the said bridge Maister Thomas Wooten of Kent esquire a father and fauourer of his countrie * Sir Roger Manwood and maister William Lambard esquier wardens of the said bridge Elisabeth daughter of Iohn Copinger esquier second wife to sir Roger Manwood hir modestie c. The earle of Lincolne deceassed * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 siue Elisabethâ— C. O. Iesuits seminaries and massing priests set ouer the seas and banished out of this realme of England for euer The quéenes maiesties mercies notable The names of such Iâ—busites Iesuits I should say as by vertue of the queenes commission were banished out of the queéenes dominions A further charge vpon the said seminaries touching transportation A certificat to the lords of the councell c concerning the foresaid maiter A certificat worthie to hang vpon perpetuall record wherein the Iesuits doo acknowledge the excéeding courteous and bountifull vsage shewed vnto them at and in their banishment c. Note good reader note Ouid. lib. 1. de Pons Earle of Derbie ambassador into France Attendants vpon the said ambassador The lord ambassadour passeth from LoÌ„don to Grauesend and so to Douer and arriueth at Calis Monsieur de Gourdon gouernour of Calis interteineth the ambassadour Monsieur Creuicure lieutenant of Picardie méeteth the lord ambassadour c. Sir Edward Stafford the quéenes ambassador resident with the French king c. The lord ambassadors interteinement and vsage The statelie the honorable receiuing at the lord ambassadour before he came in presence ¶ audience of the French king The chamber roiall manner of receiuing and conducting of the lord ambassadour therevnto and other notable obseruations The earle of Darbie sir Edward Stafford c are courteouslie receiued of the king The lord ambassador sâ—luted the quéene mother The lord ambassadour conueied to the quéene Regents chamber The French king inuested into the order of the garter Gifts of roâ—all magnificence bestowed and receiued William Parrie hanged and quartered at Westminster A description of William Parrie William Parrie reconciled to the pope and of hiâ— treason In superlatiuo gradu O papisticall dissimulation Thomas Morgan a fugitiue and furtherer of Parries purpose Edmund Neuill not ignorant of this attempt O gratious quéene and too too fauourable euen to thine enimies The malice of Parrie groweth to an extremitie of mischiefe against the quéene Neuill discouereth the intended treason against hir maiestie Did euer anie man read or heare of the like magnanimitie in a woman Parrie is committed to the custodie examination of sir Francis Walsingham Parrie denieth with protestations whatsoeuer is demanded of him Parrie is desirous to haue some spéech with maisteâ— secretarie Parrie is examined before certeine lords of the councell c. Neuill chargeth Parrie so preciselie that he is committed to the Tower Note the malicious humor of Parrie because he might not obteine preferment to his liking A triple reason that moued Parrie to his pretended treason Parrie counted it an act meritorious to murther hir maiestie O villanous persuasion or inducement to be accessarie to the treason Note Parries pestilent humor of malice against hir maiestie These doubts were of aduantage to Neuill but meanes of reprochfull ruine to Parriâ— Note the traitorous pâ—octise of Parrie laid downe in order as it should haue béene come Marke the resolutenes of Parrie to accomplish his treason by oft frequenting the action Neuill iâ— resolued at no hand to be partaker with Parrie in his treason Parries voluntarie confession in the hearing of certein lords c. Alacke good and gratious ladie whose hard hap it was to interteine so bad gracelesse a seruant Parrie sueth â—or licence to trauell beyond sea and obteineth it Parrie iustifieth himselfe in religion before the inquisitor of Millaine Parrie is resolued in the plot of his treacherous deuise Note with what felows enimiâ—s to God and his church Parrie linketh himselfe Note the diuelish confereÌ„ce betwéene Morgan and Parrie Parrie boweth to vndertake the killing of the quéene * O Lord what a lameÌ„table hearing is this Parrie is now become altogither past grace and growne resolute with Iudas to kill the Lords annointed A prouiso for a Scotish inuasioÌ„ after the deuise of Parrie executed Note the villans ill mind to hir maiestie Note hir maiesties vndeserued gratiousnes to pretended catholikes Note Parries resolution by letters from cardinall Como Parrie is in a mammering what to doo as maie be noted by these spéeches interrogatorie Parrie desperat How long the conspiracie was in handling yeâ— it was detected Note the actions that should haue béene commensed and finished in this conspiracie This oth and all of the like qualitie and nature are violable Saâ—uâ— interiâ— anima The death of Westmerland reported Parrrie chargeth Neuill with grieuous spéeches of curssed disloialtie God no doubt will preserue good quéene Elisabeth though a thousand such traitors as Parrie conspire hir death to their owne destruction Parries purpose conceiued in Uenice continued in Lions resolued in Paris to be executed in England Neuill charged by Parrie to be accessarie to the treason Compare these warnings with the euents in Anno 1585 1586 speciallie about August Parries guiltie conscience exonerateth it selfe by voluntarie confession A traitor of singular note by his owne confession was Parrie An offense sufficient to hang 1000 traitors without drop of mercie Parrie had more glosing rhetorike than faithfull obedience Good Lord with what heart might Parrie hope after anie thing but death hauing béene so capitall a traitor Creitchton apprehended with diuerse plots for inuasions of this realme Note Creitchtons report of Parries craft and malice Creitchtons reasons to repell Parries traitorous allegations Deum magis amare aduerbia quà m nomina Creitchton holdeth Parries attempt vnlawfull note Parrie saith and vnsaith like a traitor to shift off the heauie charge of treason Cardinall de Como his animating letter to Parrie to perseuere in his diuelish deuise But as God would Parries enterprise wanted that wished Buâ—no seâ—â—câ— successo A good cleargie in the meane time that allow treasons in this sort * Good spirit naie malignaÌ„t spirit more than diabolicall * Naie curssed and abhominable purposes with destruction to the vndertaker Parrie coâ—uented and arreigned aâ— Westminster hall the 22 of Februarie The names of such personages of 〈…〉 The lieutenant of the tower returneth his prâ—câ—pt The indictment against Parrie wherin his â—â—inous â—reason appeereth Parrie sent letters to Gregorie the â—â— bishop of Rome and whaâ— was the scoâ—â— of them Parrie moouâ—â— Neuill to assiâ—â— him in his treasons Parries ansâ—er to the indictment wherein he câ—nfesseth 〈◊〉 Parrie confesseth that he is guiltie of all things coÌ„teined in the indictment Sir Christopher Hattons
collection out of Parries indictment Certeine speciall matters vnder writing read in open audience of the multitude for their satisfaction Parries confession was not Coacta but Voluntaria ergo more credible Parries confession of his treasons was read by his owne assent A letter of cardinall di Como vnto Parrie also read Parries letter of the eightéenth of Februarie to the lord treasuror and the earle of Leicester read The quéenes atturnie requireth iudgement Parrie had for his credit aâ—ore time said verie secretlie that he had béene solicited beyond the â—â—as to commit the fact but he would not doo it â— wherewith he crastâ—â—iâ— abused both the quéenes maiestie those two counâ—â—llors wâ—erof he now would helpe himselfe with these speeches against most manifest proofs Maister vicechamberleins spéeches proouing manifestlie Parries traitorous intentiâ—ons Notâ— all this charge of maister vicechamberleine to be a recapitulatioÌ„ of all or most the treasons of Parrie Parrie chargeâ—h the lords of the councell with vnâ—ruth Parrie râ—prooued of false spéeches and so by himselfe also confessed The magnanimitie of the quéenes maiestie notified by sir Christopher Hatton The lord of Hunsdons spéeches conuincing Parrie manifestlie of hie treason Parries exclamation of outrage and vnpatientnesse Parrie abuseth the honorable and woorshipfull of the bench with termes vncouth and darke spéeches More libertie of speech giuen to Parrie than by law was allowable Parries treaâ—ons recapitulated by the lord chiefe iustice both for maner and matter The occasions and meanes that induced Parrie to these treasons The danger damnablenessâ— of popish bookes either read or listened vnto of papists c. The forme of iudgement against the traitor pronounced by the lord cheefe iustice Parrie rageth at the iustice bar without all reuerence William Parrie the traitor executed Parrie euen at the time of his death séeketh to cleare and purge himselfe as innocent of the treasons for the which he was condemned A description of Parrie both by linage person education and qualitie c. Parrie baselie borne and baselie brought vp Parrie a verie runnaâ—â—te and vagâ—rant rakehell in his yoong yeares Note Parries ambitioÌ„ and how the priest forgetteth that euer he was parish clerkâ— Parrie matcheth himselfe in marriage with a widow in Southwales Parrie a shiâ—ter in debt danger he marrieth a rich widow c. Parrie defloureth his wiues owne daughter and sundrie waies abuseth the old mother Parrie condemned for burgularie is pardoned of the quéene Parrie pretended a conscience of religion being vtterlie prophane and of as religion Parries voluntarie oth thrise taken in 22 yeares of obedience to hir maiestie And this is most like for what will not 〈◊〉 pope dispense withall Parries twâ— beaupéers the cardinals of Uand oâ— me Narbone What a notable dissembler was this Parrie peâ—iured towards hir maiestie perfidious to the pope c. No trust nor certeine dealing vsed by Parrie to or fro Buch. in psalm 58. Benedicto Palmio a Iesuit mentioned before pag. 1385. Thomas Morgan and Wats the one termed a catholike gentleman pag. 1385. They cannot be found in loialtie that are vnfound in religion Ergo how caâ— they giue Caesar his right that denie God his due and true seruice Aniball a Iesuit in Paris of whome before pag. 1385. Ragazzoni the Nuntio sée before pag. 1385. Sée before pag. 1386. Sée beforâ— pag. 1386. Cardinall di Como of whom sée bâ—fore pag. 1385. and his letter to Parrie pag. 1388. Sâ—â— beforâ— pag. 1386 Sâ—â— beforâ— pag. 1386. part of Parries voluntarie confession Note the pâ—â—nicious dealing of Parrie euerie waie hurtfull Taâ— principi quà m populo deiâ—ceps sibimeâ— oâ— proditori sumâ—â— pag. 1386. All these circumstances prooue that Parrie was resolute and by prepared both in hart and by hand to put in practise his conceiued vnnaturall treason How could this heihound die an innocent for intent the premisses considered A dilemmâ— or reason of aduantage concluding that Parrie died a periured traitor Abr. Fl. ex lib. manuscripto Situs nuper domus fratrum praedicatoruÌ„ vocata le Blacke-friers in villa Cantabrigiae The parlement dissolued The quéenes maiesties oration in the parlement house O the care that hir maiestie hath of true religion the lord of life lengthen hir graces life Hir maiesties reuerend estimation of Gods word and sacred scriptures O most princelie resolution and persuasion * The God of vengeance and iustice roote them out that the Lords annointed maie be frée from all feare of hurt What subiect would thinke life and lands too déere to lose if néed were for so gratious a quéene C. O. in sua Elisabetha Abr. Flem. The death of pope Gregorie the thirtéenth read of this popes practises against England in Parries treasons pag. 1382 c. The pope is verie busie by his owne presumptuous proud enterprises to impeach christian libertie This hath beene doone in such sort by a mathematician stranger that he is bold to chalenge anie holding the contrarie opinion to a reproofe of his examination Vide M. Michaelem Maestlinum Gaeppingensem in Tibuigensâ— academia Mathematicum c. A good and plausible beginning if the procéeding were agreeable Popish diuines doo rather imitate anie duns than the prophet Dauid who setteth downe the age of man to consist of 70 yeares A further examination of mans age by popish learning Happie newes to the true church when the membes of antichrist decrease This is no adulation to a dead carrion what did this fellow thinke you to the beast when he was aliue A comparison abused to the commendation of lewd pope Gregorie Childish reasons and worse diuinitie How did this fellow flatter Gregorie aliue whom he so magnified being dead A fit child and scholer for so bad a father and maister No spouse but a strumpet spotted with spirituall fornication Beastlie and blasphemous diuinitie fit for so lewd a bishop and so vnlearned a chapleine Noblie borne no doubt was this Gregorie otherwise called Hugh the good fellow A similitude of a pretious stone set in gold and verâ—tues in personages noblie descended Gregorie perceiued all things but it would be knowen how A long similitude most foÌ„dlie and most ridiculouslie applied Marke this principallie that Gregorie was mortified if the text lie not Iesu what a woonder is this and well woorthie to be placed in Legenda aurea The head which sought to ouerthrow the true church to dissuadâ— subiects from their allegiance to their prince and to mainteine his owne pompe and glorie For all that is hitherto spoken is méere ridiculous idle and méere lip-labour Notes that he would in time prooue a strong piller of idolatrie The continencie and virginitie of the popish clergie dooth consist in kéeping of concubines Note how Gregorie is extolled by waie of comparison A great studeÌ„t was Gregorie but in no good facultie Better had that liberalitie bene exhibited to théeues than to sacrilegious beasts c. Gregorie a good companion to traitors but an ill companion to the godlie It is
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
your selues is to bring downe an estate and to mend none Would ye haue all alike rich That is the ouerthrow of labour and vtter decay of worke in this realme For who will labour more if when he hath gotten more the idle shall by lust without right take what him lust from him vnder pretense of equalitie with him This is the bringing in of idlenesse which destroieth the common-wealth and not the amendment of labour that mainteineth the common-wealth If there should be such equalitie then ye take awaie all hope from yours to come to anie better estate than you now leaue them And as manie meane mens children doo come honestlie vp and are great succour to all their stocke so should none be hereafter holpen by you but bicause ye seeke equalitie whereby all can not be rich Ye would that belike whereby euerie man should be poore and thinke beside that riches and inheritance be Gods prouidence and giuen to whome of his wisdome he thinketh good to the honest for the increase of their godlinesse to the wicked for the heaping vp of their damnation to the simple for a recompense of other lackes to the wise for the greater setting out of Gods goodnesse Whie will your wisdome now stop Gods wisdome and prouide by your lawes that God shall not inrich them whome he hath by prouidence appointed as him liketh God hath made the poore hath made them to be poore that he might shew his might and set them aloft when he listeth for such cause as to him seemeth plucke downe the rich to this state of pouertie by his power as he disposeth to order them Whie doo not we then being poore beare it wiselie rather than by lust seeke riches vniustlie and shew our selues content with Gods ordinance which we must either willinglie obeie and then we be wise or else we must vnprofitablie striue withall and then we be mad But what meane yee by this equalitie in the common-wealth If one be wiser than an other will ye banish him because yée intend an equalitie of all things If one be stronger than another will yee slaie him bicause ye séeke an equalitie of all things If one be well fauourder than an other will yée punish him because yée looke for an equalitie of all things If one haue better vtterance than another will ye pull out his toong to saue your equalitie And if one be richer than an other will ye spoile him to mainteine an equalitie If one be elder than an other will ye kill him for this equalities sake How iniurious are ye to God himselfe who intendeth to bestow his gifts as he himselfe listeth and ye seeke by wicked insurrections to make him giue them commonlie alike to all men as your vaine fansie liketh Whie would ye haue an equalitie in riches in other gifts of God There is no meane sought Either by ambition ye séeke lordlinesse much vnfit for you or by couetousnesse ye be vnsatiable a thing likelie inough in ye or else by follie ye be not content with your estate a fansie to be plucked out of you But if we being wearie of pouertie would séeke to inrich our selues we should go a farre other waie to worke than this and so should we rightlie come to our desire Dooth not S. Peter teath vs afore God a right waie to honour to riches to all necessarie and profitable things for vs He saith Humble your selues that God might exalt you and cast all your care on him for he careth for you He teacheth the waie to all good things at Gods hand is to be humble and you exalt your selues Ye séeke things after such a sort as if the seruant should anger his master when he seeketh to haue a good turne of him Ye would haue riches I thinke at Gods hand who giueth all riches and yet ye take the waie cleane contrarie to riches Know ye not that he that exalteth himselfe God will throw him downe How can ye get it then by thus setting out your selues Ye shuld submit ye by humilitie one to another and ye set vp your selues by arrogancie aboue the magistrates See herein how much ye offend God Remember ye not that if ye come nigh to God he will come nigh vnto you If then ye go from God he will go from you Dooth not the psalme saie He is holie with the holie and with the wicked man he is froward Euen as he is ordered of men he will order them againe If ye would follow his will and obeie his commandements ye should eat the fruits of the earth saith the prophet if not the sword shall deuour you Ye might haue eaten the fruits of this seasonable yéere if ye had not by disobedience rebelled against God Now not onelie ye can not eat that which your selues did first sowe by labour and now destroie by sedition but also if the kings maiesties sword came not against you as iust policie requireth yet the iust vengeance of God would light among line 10 you as his word promiseth and your cruell wickednesse deserueth For whatsoeuer the causes be that haue mooued your wild affections herin as they be vniust causes increase your faults much the thing it selfe the rising I meane must néeds be wicked and horrible before God and the vsurping of authoritie and taking in hand of rule which is the sitting in Gods seat of iustice and a proud climing vp into Gods high throne must néeds be not onelie cursed newlie by line 20 him but also hath beene often punished afore of him And that which is doone to Gods officer God accounteth it doone to him For they despise not the minister as he saith himselfe but they despise him and that presumption of chalenging Gods seat dooth shew you to haue bin Lucifers and sheweth vs that God will punish you like Lucifers Wherfore rightlie looke as ye dulie haue deserued either for great vengeance for your abhominable transgression or else earnestlie repent with vnfeined minds your line 30 wicked dooings and either with example of death be content to dehort other or else by faithfulnesse of obedience declare how great a seruice it is to God to obeie your magistrats faithfullie and to serue in subiection trulie Well if ye had not thus grieuouslie offended God whome ye ought to worship what can ye reasonablie thinke it to be no fault against the king whom ye ought to reuerence Ye be bound by Gods word to obeie your king and is it no breach of dutie line 40 to withstand your king If the seruant be bound to obeie his maister in the familie is not the subiect bound to serue the king in his realme The child is bound to the priuat father and be we not all bound to the common-wealths father If we ought to be subiect to the king for Gods cause ought we not then I praie you to be faithfullie subiect to the king If we ought dutifullie to
And with hir weightie foot breake superstitions head While loue of subiects shall rebellion distresse And with zeale to the prince insolencie downe tread While iustice flattering toongs and briberie can deface While follie and vaine glorie to wisedome yeeld their hands So long shall gouernement not swarue from hir right race But wrong decaieth still and rightwisenesse vp stands Now all thy subiects hearts ô prince of peerelesse fame Do trust these vertues shall mainteine vp thy throne And vice be kept downe still the wicked put to shame That good with good may ioy and naught with naught may mone Which verses were painted vpon the right side of the same pageant and the Latine thereof on the left side in another table which were these héere following Quae subnixa altè folio regina superbo est Effigiem sanctae principis alma refert Quam ciuilis amor fulcit sapientia firmat Iustitia illustrat relligióque beat Vana superstitio crassa ignorantia frontis Pressae sub pura relligione iacent Regis amor domat effraenos animósque rebelles Iustus adulantes doniuorósque terret Cùm regit imperium sapiens sine luce sedebunt line 10 Stultitia atque huius numen inanis honor Beside these verses there were placed in euerie void roome of the pagent both in English Latine such sentences as aduanced the seat of gouernance vpholden by vertue The ground of this pageant was that like as by vertues which doo abundantlie appeare in hir grace the quéenes maiestie was established in the seat of gouernment so she shuld sit faâ—t in the same so long as she imbrased vertue and held vice vnder foot For if vice once got vp the head it line 20 would put the seat of gouernement in perill of falling The queenes maiestie when she had heard the child and vnderstood the pageant at full gaue the citie also thanks therefore most gratiouslie promised hir good indeuor for the maintenance of the said vertues and suppression of vices and so marched on till she came against the great conduit in Cheape which was beautified with pictures and sentences accordinglie against hir graces comming thither Against Soper lane end was extended from the one line 30 side of the stréet to the other a pageant which had three gates all open ouer the middlemost whereof were erected thrée seuerall stages whereon sat eight children as hereafter followeth On the vppermost one child on the middle three on the lowest foure each hauing the proper name of the blessing that they did represent written in a table placed aboue their head In the forefront of this pageant before the children which did represent the blessings was a conuenient standing cast out for a child to stand which did line 40 expound the said pageant vnto the quéenes maiestie as was doone in the other before Euerie of these children were appointed and apparelled according vnto the blessing which he did represent And on the forepart of the said pageant was written in faire letters the name of the foresaid pageant in this manner The eight beatitudes expressed in the fift chapter of the gospell of saint Matthew applied to our line 50 souereigne ladie queene Elisabeth Ouer the two side ports was placed a noise of instruments And all the void places in the pageant were furnished with prettie saiengs commending touching the meaning of the said pageant which was the promises blessings of almightie God made to his people Before that the queenes highnesse came vnto this pageant she required the matter somwhat to be opened vnto hir that hir grace might the better vnderstand what should afterward by the child be line 60 said vnto hir Which so was that the citie had there erected the pageant with eight children representing the eight blessings touched in the fift chapter of saint Matthew Whereof euerie one vpon iust considerations was applied vnto hir highnesse and that the people thereby put hir grace in mind that as hir good dooings before had giuen iust occasion why that these blessings might fall vpon hir that so if hir grace did continue in hir goodnesse as she had entered she should hope for the fruit of these promises due vnto them that doo exercise themselues in the blessings which hir grace heard maruellous gratiouslie and required that the charriot might be remooued towards the pageant that she might better perceiue the childs words which were these the quéenes maiestie giuing most attentiue eare and requiring that the peoples noise might be staid The verses were as follow Thou hast beene eight times blest ô queene of worthie fame By meekenesse of thy spirit when care did thee beset By mourning in thy griefe by mildnesse in thy blame By hunger and by thirst and iustice couldst none get By mercie shewd not felt by cleannesse of thine heart By seeking peace alwaies by persecution wrong Therefore trust thou in God sith he hath helpt thy smart That as his promise is so he will make thee strong When these words were spoken all the people wished that as the child had vttered so God would strengthen hir grace against all hir aduersaries whome the queenes maiestie did most gentlie thanke for their so louing wish These verses were painted on the left side of the said pageant and other in Latine on the other side which were these héere insuing Qui lugent hilares sient qui mitia gestant Pectora multa soli iugera culta metent Iustitiam esuriens fitiénsue replebitur ipsum Fas homini puro corde videre Deum Quem alterius miseret Dominus miserebitur huius Pacificus quisquis filius ille Dei est Propter iustiti am quisquis patietur habétque Demissam mentem coelica regna capit Huit hominum generi terram mare fidera vouit Oâ—mipotens horum quisque beatus erit Besides these euerie void place in the pageant was furnished with sentences touching the matter and ground of the said pageant When all that was to be said in this pageant was ended the queenes maiestie passed on forwards in Cheapside At the standard in Cheape which was dressed faire against the time was placed a noise of trumpets with banners and other furniture The crosse likewise was also made faire and well trimmed And néere vnto the same vpon the porch of saint Peters church doore stood the waits of the citie which did giue a pleasant noise with their instruments as the quéenes maiestie did passe by which on euerie side cast hir countenance and wished well to all hir most louing people Soone after that hir grace passed the crosse she had espied the pageant erected at the little conduit in Cheape and incontinent required to know what it might signifie And it was told hir grace that there was placed Time Time quoth she And time hath brought me hither And so foorth the whole matter was opened to hir grace as hereafter shall â—e declared in the description of the
was the féet to the lame I was a father to the poore and when I knew not the cause I sought it out diligentlie I brake the chawes of the vnrighteous man and plucked the preie out of his téeth Here we find that who soeuer will doo iustice must not onelie doo no wrong but must also with all his might succour and comfort the helplesse and oppressed In this part of iustice there was neuer noble man more forward than this good earle He was the comfortable refuge of all such as were in aduersitie or oppressed by power Of Titus Uespasianus emperor of Rome we read that he answered one of his freends admonishing him to hold his hands and not to make his liberalitie and gentlenesse common to all men saieng that it becommeth not a prince to let anie man part from him with a heauie hart This worthie erle was of like mind for he was so full of humanitie and compassion that he would be loth to let anie distressed part from him without some comfort and ease In so much that in him if euer in anie man this adage Homo homini Deus A man a god to man was as truelie performed as in tyrants the contrarie adage that is Homo homini lupus A man a woolfe to man Wee read in chronicles of emperors kings noble men which for their bountifulnesse gentlenesse affabilitie line 10 and goodnesse deserued some honorable addition to their names as amongst the emperors Antoninus pius Anthonie the vertuous amongst the British kings Elidorus pius Elidor the godlie and amongst noble men in the time of king Richard the second sir Thomas Montacute the good earle of Salisburie and in the time of king Henrie the sixt sir Thomas Beuchampe the good earle of Warwike This noble earle for the verie like qualities hath trulie deserued to be called the good earle the vertuous earle line 20 and the valiant earle of Essex Temperance is the founteine of nobilitie it is a vertue whereby a man obserueth a moderation a reasonable meane in the vse of all things perteining to bodie mind it is the mother of all other vertues without which the rest are blemished and disgraced In the Dutch chronicles that tell of the liues of emperors the first qualitie that is noted is temperat or not temperat as an argument of the rest of his life and dooings for he is thought vnworthie to rule line 30 others that can not rule himselfe This noble earle had a speciall grace and an excellent gift of God in obseruation of this vertue whether you respect diet or the suppression of all vicious affections I haue diuerse times noted in him when vnderstanding was brought vnto him of some Thrasonicall contumelious word spoken by some glorious inferior aduersarie against him he would neuer be stirred to anie perturbation of mind thereby but with graue wisedome and magnanimitie contemne it and smile deriding line 40 the vanitie and waiwardnesse of that cankered stomach that vomited such sowre rotten infection for he did effectuallie consider that it became no better a noble hart to take in receiue wranglings brallings chafings and anger than it is conuenient to dawbe a golden piller with mire and claie Salomon was of that mind and therefore saith Be not thou hastie to be angrie for anger resteth in the bosome of fooles I haue had occasion by that I noted in his lordship to call to remembrance this saieng of line 50 Christ A good man out of the good tresure of his hart bringeth foorth good things the euill man out of the euill treasure of his hart bringeth foorth euill things For though occasion were ministred yet should you neuer heare him vtter anie opprobrious words no not against his aduersarie so pure immaculate did he studie to preserue the nobilitie of his mind There be some that count themselues worthie honor estimation when they teare God in péeces with chafing and horrible oths which this noble earle detested and line 60 abhorred as a matter not onelie vndecent but also repugnant to the nature of true nobilitie attributing due reuerence to the name of the Lord thereby proouing the founteins of his nobilitie to spring out of the hill of the feare of God But what was his religion what faith God had blessed him withall what godlie disposition he was of and how abundantlie God had inriched him with his holie spirit the confession of his faith his spéeches naie rather his sermons in his sickenesse afore his death shall testifie for euer For I receiued by the relation of such as are woorthie credit and were present about him although not all yet manie of his learned godlie saiengs at that time Concerning his saluation he reposed his affiance and sure trust in the bloud of Iesus Christ. He forgaue all the world and by inuincible faith apprehended laied hold and imbrased remission of his sinnes in the merits of the sacrifice of Christs bodie offered vpon the crosse for the sinnes of the world Trentals masses diriges pardons and such other papisticall trifles he vtterlie contemned as wicked and blasphemous against the death and passion of Christ. He fared like the children of Israell in the wildernesse which when they were stinged with serpents euen to death yet when they lookt vp to the brasen serpent they were made whole safe and sound So this noble earle grieued with the remembrance of his former vnthankefull life as he iudged immediatlie directed the eies of his mind to the passion of Christ and foorthwith felt such health of soule that he was filled with ioie in the holie Ghost and all his delight was in meditation of the ioie of the world to come and the fruition of the presence of God for euer insomuch that fiue or six daies before he died he shewed himselfe more like an angell from heauen than a man compassed with flesh and bloud My lord the archbishop of Dublin as I was informed could mooue him in no question or article perteining to saluation that he was not readie in and learnedlie and godlie resolued yea and made such answers in all things that my lord of Dublin had them in great admiration and affirmed that his spéeches at that time should serue him for sermons as long as he liued How trulie he relinquished the vanities of this world and how effectuallie he thirsted after the ioies of the life to come his godlie admonitions ministred vnto such as visited him and his heauenlie lessons exhortations to his seruants shall testifie for euer for they were such that his seruants report they shall neuer forget and such as they shall be the better for whilest they liue Thus haue I brieflie and partlie declared vnto you both the life and death of this worthie magistrate to the end we should consider how seriouslie God dooth call vs to a reckoning by the losse of such a good magistrat