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THE EPISTLE 
 
 DIRECTORY, 
 
 TO 
 
 M. G. M. In Gratious 
 Street in London. 
 
 Tare and lovingfriend, 1 recei - 
 jp|j ip&Yfj- vedabout tenne dates agon your 
 Iby y&mM letter of the 9 . of this prefent: 
 
 1 'wherein you demand andfoli- 
 cite againe the thing, that Ifo fatly denied 
 you , at my late being in your chamber : I 
 meane to put in writing the relation which 
 then I made unto you y of the Jpeceh had this 
 loft Chrifimas m my prefence, betweene my 
 ripht worJUpfuU good friend and patron , 
 and his guefl the old Lawyer,of fame matters 
 in our fate and country. And for that you 
 prejfe foe very ferioufy at. this infant, both 
 by recjuefl and many reafons,toyeeld to your 
 defre herein , and not only thks, but alfo to 
 give my confent for the publifhing of the 
 famefy fuch fecret meanes as you ajjure me 
 A 2 you 
 
*The Epiftle Dedicatory. 
 you can there find out: / have thought good 
 to confer the whole matter with the parties 
 themfelves, whom principally it concerned 
 (who at the receipt of your letter were not 
 far from me: ) And albeit at the firfl [ 
 found them averfe and nothing inclined to 
 grant your demand: yet after upon confide- 
 ration of your reafons, and affurance offe- 
 crejie (especially for that there is nothing in 
 the fame contained , repugnant to charity or 
 to our bounden duty towards our mofl gyrati¬ 
 ons Princes or Countrey, but r either for the 
 fpecia/l good of them both „ and for the fore¬ 
 warning of fame dangers imminent to the 
 fame) they have referred over the matter to 
 wee, yet with this Provifo , that they will 
 know nothing,noryetyieldconfent to thepub- 
 lifoing hereof, for feare off ome future fou¬ 
 r's f of the ragged Stajfe to come hereafter a- 
 bout their eares,if their names Jhouldbreake 
 forth : which (.1 trufi) you will provide JhaH 
 neuer happen, both for their fecurity,and for 
 your own. And with this I will end, affuriny 
 you that within thefe five or fix dayes , you 
 Ihad receive the whole in writing by .mother 
 way and fecret meanes , neither fall the 
 bearer fujpeU what he carrieth: wherofalfo 
 I thought good to premonifbyou. And this 
 fhallfuffice for this time. 
 
 THE 
 
THE 
 
 PREFACE OF THE 
 
 CONFERENCE. 
 
 Ot long before the laft Scholar . 
 Chriftmaffe , I was 
 requefted by a letter 
 from a very worfhipful 
 and grave Gentleman , 
 whofe fonne was then 
 my pupill in Cambridge, to repaire with 
 my faid Scholar to a certaine h.oule of 
 his neare London, and there to paffe over 
 the Holy-dayes in his company : for The occifioa 
 that it was determined that in Biliary of iHjs confc- 
 tearme following, his faid fonne (bould u '" ce an .d 
 be placed in fome Inne ofChancery, tp ' J:C Cins ' 
 follow the {Indy of the Common-law, 
 andfo to leave the Vniveriity. This r.e- 
 queft was gratefullunto mee in refpetT 
 of the time, as alfo of the matter, byt 
 efpesially of the company. Tor that, as 
 I love much the yong Gcntelma n , my 
 pupill, for his towardUnes in religion, 
 learning, and vertue : fo much more I 
 doe reverence his Father, for the riper 
 A 3 polfeflion 
 
The Preface. 
 
 poffeflion of the fame ornaments,and for 
 his great wifedome, experience, and 
 grave judgement in affaires of the world 
 that do occurre : but namely touching 
 our own Country ,wherin truly I do not 
 remember to have heard any man in my 
 life, difeourfe more fubftantially, indif¬ 
 ferently, and with leffe paffion, more 
 love and fidelity,then I have heard him. 
 Which was the caufe that Itooke lin¬ 
 gular delight to be in his company, and 
 refufed no occalion to enj*®y the fame. 
 Which alfo he perceiving,dealt more o- 
 penly and confidently with me, then 
 with many other of his friends,as by the 
 relation following may well appeare. 
 The pcr'ons and When I came to the forefaid Houfe 
 icrcnce. by London , 1 found there among other 
 friends, an ancient man that profelfed 
 the law, and was come from London to 
 keepe his Chnftmas in that place, with 
 whom at divers former times I had been 
 well acquainted, for that he haunted 
 much the company ofthefaid Gentle¬ 
 man my friend, and was much trufted 
 and ufed by him in matters of hfs pro- 
 feiTion, and not a little beloved alfo for 
 his good convention,notwithftanding 
 fome difference in religion between us. 
 For albeit, this Lawyer was inclined to 
 be- 
 
The Preface. 
 
 be a Papift, yet was it with (itch mode¬ 
 ration and refervation of his duty to¬ 
 wards his Prince and Countrey and pro¬ 
 ceedings of the fame : as he feemed al- 
 waies to give full fatisfaftion in this 
 point to us that were of contrary o- 
 pinion. 
 
 Neither did he let to proteft oftentimes ^ te .^P cr * tc 
 with great affe<5lion,that as he had many ‘ 
 friends & kinsfolk of contrary religion 
 to himfelfe : fo did he love them never- 
 theleffe for their different confcience, 
 but leaving that to God,was defirous to 
 doe them any friendfhip or fervice that 
 he could, with all affection, zeale, and 
 fidelity. Neither was he wilfull or ob- 
 ftinate in his opinion, and much leffe re- 
 preachfull in fpeech ( as many of them 
 be ) but was content to heare whatfo- 
 ever we fhould fay to the contrary ( as 
 often we did : ) and to read any bopke 
 alfo that we delivered him, for his in- 
 flrudion. 
 
 Which temperate behaviour.induced 
 this Gentleman and me, to affeft the 
 more.his company, and to difcourfe as 
 freely with him in all occurrents, as if 
 he had been of our own religion, 
 
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 THE ENTRANCE 
 
 TO THE MATTER. 
 
 Ne day then of the ChriRmaflc , 
 we three retiring our felves after 
 dinner, into a large Gallery , for 
 our recreation, (as often wee 
 were accuftomed to doe, when o- 
 ther went to cards v & others paG- 
 
 times: ) this Lawyer by chance had in his hand 
 a little booke,then newly fet forth , containing 
 A defence of the pubhque lufhee done tf late in Erg 
 'lata , w on divot Ptujh and other Papiflafor trea> 
 for: : Which book, the Lawyer had read to hrni- 
 felfe ii little before, and was now putting it up in¬ 
 to his pocket; But the Gentleman my friend , 
 who had read over the fame once or twice in my 
 company before, would needs take the fame into 
 his hand againf,md asked the Lawyer his judge¬ 
 ment upon the bocke. 
 
 The Lawyer anfwtrcd: That it was evil! pen¬ 
 ned in lvs opinion to prove the guilcines of fome 
 pet funs thet in named in particular,as alfo to per- 
 fvv.idcin gcnerall, that ihe P 'piRes both abroad 
 and at-home, who meddle fo earnefily wiih 
 defence end increafe of their religion (forthde 
 are notali, faid he ) doe corf .qaently wifla and 
 labour fome change in the Rate : but yet whe- 
 th r fo farre forth, and in fo deepe a degree 
 of proper treafon, as here in this bccke bo'h in 
 gene- 
 
 The bookeof 
 Iufticc. 
 
 t-awtff. 
 
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 Gtntltmn. 
 
 The Papifts 
 practices agjinft 
 the date. 
 
 t L«wytr. 
 
 Two forts of 
 dealing againft 
 the iiate. 
 
 Direftly. 
 
 , Indirectly. 
 
 generall and particular i:. prefumed and mforced, 
 that (quoth he) is fome what hard (I vveene)for 
 you or me (in refpeft of fome other difference be. 
 tween us) to judge or difeerne with indifferency. 
 
 Nay truly faid the Gentleman, for my parti 
 thinfee wot fo, for that reafon is reafon in whit 
 religion fotver And for my felfe, I may profit, 
 that! beare the honed Papift (if there bt ny)no 
 malice for his deceived conlcitnce,whe!of among 
 others,your felte C3n be a witnestmary h s Praftj. 
 ees againft the date, I cannot in any wife digefti 
 and much It fie naay the Common-wealth heart 
 the fame ( wherof we all depend, ) being a fume 
 of all other, the mod hainous, and lead pardona- 
 ble. And therfore feeing in this, you gram the 
 Papift both in generall abroad,and at home, and 
 in particular filch as 3rc condemned, executed and 
 named in this book?: to be guilty : how can you 
 infinuatc ( aj you doe ) that there is more prefu¬ 
 med or enforced upon them.by this booke , then 
 there is jod caufe fo to doe ? 
 
 Gftod Sir,faid the other,! {Und net here to ex¬ 
 amine the doings of my fuperiours, or to defend 
 the guilty,but wifh hartily rather their puniflioKm 
 that have deferved the fame. Only this I fay, for 
 explication of my former fpeech : tint men of a 
 different religion from the date whertn they live, 
 may be faid to deale againd the fame date in two 
 forts: the one, by dealing for the increafe of their 
 faid different religion, which is alwaiescither 
 direftly, or indirectly againd the date, (Dre&Iyj 
 when the faid religion containeth any point or 
 article direftly impugning the faid date, (as 
 perhaps you will fay that the Roman Religion 
 doth againd the prefent date of England in the 
 point of Supremacy: ) and ( Indirectly ) for 
 that every different religion divideth in a fort and 
 dr«w« 
 
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 'draweth from the ft ate, in that there is no man 
 " who in his heart would not wilh to have the chief 
 1 Governour and ftate to be of his relig on , if he 
 " cou ld:and confeq lently mtfliketh the other in re- 
 "ipedof that : and in this kind, not only thofe 
 whom you call bulie Papifts in England, but 
 " alfo thofe whom we call hot Puritans among you, 
 
 ’ (whofe difference from the ft ate efpecially in mat- 
 
 I ters of governement is very well known ) may be 
 & called all traytors,in mine opinion: for that every 
 
 II one of thefe indeed,do labour indircftly, C if not 
 more ) againft the ftate,in how much foever each 
 
 :ri oneendeavourethtoincreafe his part or faftiort 
 
 I that diGrcth a Governour of hi* own religion. 
 
 ik Andin this cafe alfo, are the Proteftantsin The ftate of all 
 
 II France and Flanders under Catholike Princes : Subieaswaftate 
 n the Calvinifts ( as they are called ; ) under the °[ ot J CtCm:iC * 
 
 Duke of Saxony,who is a Lutheramthe Lutherans & 
 
 J under Caftmne ,that favoureth Calviniftstthe Gre¬ 
 cians and other Chriftians under the Emperor of 
 Conftantinople,under the Sophy, Under the great 
 ! Chame of Tartary, and under other Princes that 
 • agree not with them in religion. All which Sub- 
 jfdsdoewifh (no doubt) in their hearts, that 
 0 they had a Prince and ftate of their owne religi- 
 on, inftead of that which now governeth them : 
 f andconftquently in this firft fenfe , they may be 
 : called all tr ytors, and eveiy ad they doe for ad- 
 i vancement of their faid different religion (di- 
 !I viding between the ftate and them ) tendeth to 
 y trafon ^ which their Princes fuppofing, do fome- 
 times make divers of their ads treasonable or 
 - punifhable for treafon. But yet fo long as they The fecondkind 
 hi eake rot forth unto the fecond kind of treafon of treafon. 
 which containcth fome aftuall attempt or treaty 
 againft the life of the Prince,or ftate,by rebellion 
 or otherwife : Wee doe nor property condemne 
 Vv- them 
 
The application 
 of the former 
 example* 
 
 GentUmin, 
 
 Two degrees of 
 treafon. 
 
 them for tray tors , though chey doe fame ads of 
 their religion made treafon by the Prince his 
 lawes, who j$ of a different faith* 
 
 And fo to apply this to my purpofe : I thinjep 
 Sir, in good fooch, that in thefirft kindofrrea- 
 fon, as well the z.ealous Papift, as alfo the Puri¬ 
 tans in England, may well be called and proved 
 traytors; but in the fecond fort (whereof wee 
 fpeake properly at this time ) it cannot be fo pre- 
 cifely anfwered, for that there may be both guil. 
 ty aod gailties in each religion. And as I cannot 
 excufe all Puritans in this point, fo you cannot 
 condcmne all Papifts, as long as you take me and 
 fomeother to be as we are. 
 
 I grant your diftindion of treafans to b» true, 
 (faid the Gentleman,) as alfo your application 
 thereofto the Papifts and Puritans ( as you cal! 
 them,) not to want rcafon, if there be any of 
 them that miflike the prefent ftate ( as perhaps 
 there be:) albeit for my part, I thinke theft 
 two kinds oftreafons,which you have put down, 
 be rather divers degrees then divers kinds : wher- 
 in I will refer mee to the judgement of @ur 
 Cambridge friend here prefent, whofe skill« 
 more in iogicall diftindions. But yetmyreafoj 
 >s this, that indeed the one is but a ftep or degree 
 to the other, not differing in nature, but rather in 
 time, ability or oportunisy. For if (as in your 
 former examples you have fhc wed) the Grecian! 
 underthe Turke, and other Chriftians under o* 
 ther Princes of a different religion, and as alfo 
 the Papifts and Puritans f as you tearme them) 
 in England .( for now this word (hall paffe be- 
 nveene us for diftindion fake,) have fuch aliena¬ 
 tion of mind from their prefent regiment,and doe 
 covet fo much a govffrnour and ftate of their 
 ownc religion: then no doubt but they are alfo 
 
,ejft (5) 
 
 rinc! rtfolveJ to imply their forces for ctccomplifliing 
 r .1 and bringing to pafle their defircs , if they had o- 
 | '• jpc-rciJnity: and (o being now in the fieft degree or 
 ‘"kind of treafon, doe want bat occaficin or ability, 
 
 .' 1 to breake into the fecond. ■ 
 
 f ^ True Sir, faid the Lawyer , if chcre be no o- 
 1 ther caufe or circumftance that may withhold 
 '•l .hem. „ , 
 
 S'* And what caufe or circumfiance may flay them GentUtIWt. 
 <u I pray you (faid the Gentleman) when they ihall 
 have ability and oportunity to doc a thing which 
 mt ‘ they fo much defire ? 
 
 Divers caufes ( quoth the Lawyer ) butefpcci* I 
 ,itfi ally and above all other ( if it be at home in their 
 ‘ a owne Countiy ) the fear of fervitude under for- 
 0Uf rainc nations , may reilraine them from fuch at* 
 
 J °! tempts: as we fee in Germany that both Catho- 
 “ liques and I’roteftants would joyne together, a- 
 gamft any ftranger that fhould offer danger to 
 1/1 their liber, y And fo they did againft the 
 
 ' fifth. And in France not long agqe,albeit the Pro- 
 ' ‘ tefUnts were up in armes againft their King, and 
 ! ‘ could have been content, by the help of us in Eng- 
 e3 ‘ land, to have put him down , and placed another 
 c ? of their own religion : yet when they faw us once 
 ,fI feazsd of New haven, and to like to proceed to France. 
 
 ' the recovery of fome part of our If ares on that fide 
 CI1 the Sea : they q iickly joyned with their owne 
 Cf , Catholiques againe to cxpdl us. 
 
 1 In Flanders l kcwife , though Monfieur were Flanders* 
 called cliither by the Proteftai ts,tfpecia{Iy for de- 
 fence of their religion, againft the Spaniard : yet 
 ; ; we fee how dainty divers chief proteftants of Ant- 
 ; werp, Gaunr, and Bruges were,in admitting him, 
 and how quick in expelling,fo foon ashe put them 
 in the lead feare of fubjedion to the French, 
 
 And as for Portugal), 1 h ave heard fome of the Portugal. 
 
 chiefeft 
 
The old hatred 
 of Eaft Grecians 
 towards the 
 Weft Latins. 
 
 Scholar. 
 
 Not all Papifts 
 property tray- 
 tor*. 
 
 chiefeft Catholiques among them fay, in this late 
 contention about their Kingdome : that rather 
 then they would fufFer the Caftilian to come in 
 upon them,they would be content to admit what- 
 foever aids of a contrary religion to themfelvts, 
 and to adventure whatioever alteration in religi¬ 
 on or other inconvenience might befall them by 
 that means rather then endanger their fubjc&ion 
 to their ambitious neighbour. 
 
 The like is reported in divers hiftories of the 
 Grecians at this day. who doc hate fo much the 
 name and dominion of the Latmes: as they had 
 rather to endure all the naileries which cayly they 
 fufFer under the Turke for their religion and 
 otherwife; then by calling for aid from die Well 
 to hazard the fubjeftion to the faid L nines. So 
 that by thefe examples you fee , that teare and 
 horrour of externall fubje&ion may ftay men in 
 ftates,and confequently alfo both Papifts and Pu. 
 ritans in the ftace of England , from pr.fling to 
 the fecond kind or degree of treafon , albeit Lhey 
 were never fo deepc in the firft , and had both 
 ability, time, will, and oportunity for the o- 
 ther. 
 
 Here I prefumed to interrupt their Speech, and 
 (aid : that this feemed to mee irmft cleare , and 
 that now I underfb od what th< Lawyer meant 
 before, when he affirmed, that albeit the moll 
 part of Papifts in generall migfrt be faid to deale 
 againft the ftate of England at this day, in that 
 they deal fo carneftly for the maintenance and in. 
 create of their religion, and fo to incurre fome 
 kind of treafon : yet ( perhaps ) not fofai-forth 
 nor in fo deepc a degree of proper treafon as in 
 this booke is prefumed or inforccd : though fo r 
 my part (Laid I)-I do not fee that the hook prefu. 
 meth or inforceth all Papifts in generall to be pro. 
 
ftv\y traytors, but o. . ly fuch as in particular are 
 therein named, or that ate by law attainted,con¬ 
 demned or executed r and what will you fay 
 ('quoth I ) to thofc in particular > 
 
 Surely ( quoth he ) I muft fay of thefe,tnuch 
 after the manner which I fpake before s that 
 fome here named in this book are openly knowne 
 to have beene in the ftcond degree or kind of 
 trtafon : as Weftmrmd , Hjtricn , Senders, and 
 the like. But divers others C namely thePrtcfts 
 and Seminaries that of late have fufteted , ) by 
 fo much as I could fc? delivered and pleaded at 
 their arraignements, drbtard proteftedby them 
 at their deaths, or gathered by reafon anddif- 
 cottrfeof my ftlfe, ( for that no forrame Prince 
 or wife councillor would ever commit fo great 
 mattets of Bate to fuefi inflruments : } I can¬ 
 not ("I fay} butthirke, that to the wife of our 
 Bate, that had the doing of this bufines, the 
 flrfl degree of treafon ("wherein no doubt they 
 were } was fufficient to difpatch and make them 
 away : tfpeciafy in fucli fufpitious times as thefe 
 are : to the end that being hanged for the firft, 
 they fhottld never bee in danger to fall into the 
 fecond, nor yet to draw Other men to the 
 fame : which perhaps was moft of all mif- 
 doubted. 
 
 After the Lawyer had fpeken this, I held nty 
 peace, to he;re what the Gentle man wouldan- 
 fwer: who walked up and down two whole titrnes 
 in thepallety without yeeldingany word again: 
 and then ftaying upon the fudden , cafthis eyes 
 fadly upon us both, and faid : 
 
 My matters,he wfoever this be which indeed ap- 
 perrames not to us to judge or difeus,but rather to 
 petftVadeourfelvts , that the Bate hath reafon to 
 do as it doth, and that it muft oftentimes as well 
 prevent 
 
 Ui¥)tr> 
 
 The Pricfts and 
 Seminariei that 
 were executed. 
 
 GentUmtn* 
 
The eonfidcra* 
 dons. 
 
 Mifefy moveth 
 mercy. 
 
 A good with. 
 
 ( 8 ) 
 
 prevent inconveniences,.*# remedy the fame when 
 they arc happened : yet for my owne part I muft 
 conftffe unto you, that upon feme confidetat oas 
 which ufe to come unto my mind,I take no f nail 
 griefc vof thefe differences among us (which you 
 terme of divers and different religions) for which 
 we are driven of oecefiity to ufe difciplme toward 
 divers,who poffibly otherwife would be no great* 
 malefaftors-1 know the caufe ef this difference is 
 grounded upon a principle not cafie tocure,which 
 is the judgement and confcience of a man, where* 
 unto obeyeth at length his will and aftodios, 
 whatfoever for a time he may otherwife difl'em 
 bfe outwardly. I remember your fpcech before of 
 the doubtfull and dangerous inclination of focjjg 
 as live difeontented in a State of a different reli¬ 
 gion, efpecialiy, wlaen either in deed, or m their 
 owne conceipt, they are hardly dealt withall, and 
 where every mans particular punifhmenc is taken 
 to reach to the caufe of the whole. 
 
 I am not ignorant how that mifery procure^ 
 amity, and the opinion of calamity moveth afte- 
 ftion of mercy and companion, even towards the 
 wicked: the betcer fortune alway is fubjed to en- 
 vie, and he that fuffereth, is thought to have the 
 better caufe; my experience of the divers reignei 
 and proceedings of King Edward, Queene A4arj, 
 and of this our moft gracious Sovcraigne hath 
 taught me not a little , touching the fcquell of 
 thefe affairs. And final!y(my good friends) I mud 
 tell you plaine (quoth he, and thishefpake with 
 great affeveration) that I could wifh with all my 
 heart, that either thefe difference's were not a- 
 mong us at all,or elle that they were fo temperate 
 ly on al parts purfued,as the common ff ate of our 
 country,the blefi’cd reigne of her Majeiiy, and the 
 common caufe of true religion were not endan. 
 
'! gered thereby. But nuw ; and there he brake off’, 
 and turned afide. 
 
 7 The Lawyer feeing him hold his peace and de» Lfayw, 
 p 3 rr, he Hepped after him, ana taking him by the 
 “ gowne,faid merrily j Sir, all men are not of your 
 ' complexion, (ome are of quicker and more ibr- 
 ring Spirits, and doe loVc to fiih id water rhatis 
 troubled,for that th y doe participate the Black- 
 moores humour, tlv.c dwell m Guinea (whereof The nature and 
 J I fuppoft yoahive heard andfeene alfofome in praQixc of the 
 tht Land) whofe exercife at home is (as fome Gw:aeanSi 
 write ) th« one to hunt, catch, and fell the other, 
 lU> and alwayes he fironger to make money of the 
 5 ." weaker for the titne. But now if ia England we 
 lj fhould live in peace and unity of the Hate, ajthey 
 "'“doc in Germany, norwithftanding their dif- 
 I ferences of Rebgioo, and that the one fhould. no: 
 
 prey upon the other : thenfli- uld che great Faul- 
 U:I com for the Field (I meanc the favourites of the 
 time) fade whereon to feed, which were an in- 
 u: ; convenience as you know. 
 
 Truly Sir, fajd the Gentleman, I thinke you Gintlman. 
 
 !sa rove neerer the marke then you weene : for if I be 
 oc: not deceived; the very ground of much of thefe 
 1 broiles whereof we talke, is but a very prey : not 
 in the minds of the Prince or Statc(whofe inten- 
 [ : tionsno doubt be mefl jufl and holy) but in the 
 , greedy imagination and fubtile conceit of him, 
 
 ‘ who at thisprcfentinrefpc& of our finnes,is per- 
 ® mitted by God, to tyrannise both Prince and 
 ” State : at*rt being himfelfe of no religion, feedeth 
 ■ notwithftanding upon our differences in religion, 
 to th? fatting of bimfelfe and ruine of theRealm. TheTyrant of 
 ,! Forwhereis by the common diftin&ion now re- Enghfh date. 
 
 1 ccived in fpeech, there are three notable diffe. 
 
 : rencesof religion in the Land,the twoexrreams, 
 i whereof are the Papift and the Puritan, and the j n England ° n 
 B religi- 
 
Scholar. 
 
 The Earle of 
 teiceftejr. 
 
 Gtntltmn. 
 
 ( 10 ) 
 
 fdigiousProtcftantobtaining the meane : thit 
 fellow being neither,maketh his gaine of all: and 
 ashefeckctha Kingdome by the one extreame, 
 and fpoilc by the other : fo he ufeth the authority 
 of the third, to compafle the firft two, and the 
 counter-mine of each one,to the overthrow of all 
 three. 
 
 To this I anfwered: In good footh Sir, I fee 
 now where you are : you are fallen into the com. 
 mon place of all our ordinary talke and confe- 
 rence in the Univerfiry : for I know that you 
 meane my Lord of Leictflir, who is the fubje&of 
 all pleafant difeourfes at this day throughout the 
 Realme. 
 
 Not fo pleafant as pittifull,anfwered the Gen. 
 tleman,if all matters and circumftances were wet 
 confidercdjcxcept any man take pleafure to jeft at 
 our ©wne miferies, which are like to be greater 
 by his iniquityOf God avert it not) then by al the 
 wickednefle of England befides: he bemgtie 
 man that by all probability, is like to be the bane 
 and fatall deftiny of our State, with the everfio* 
 of true religion, whereof by indirect mcanes, he 
 is the greateft enemy that the Land doth nourift, 
 Now verily (quorh the Lawyer) if you fay 
 thus much for rhe proteftants opinion of him, 
 what fhall I fay for his merits towards the Pi- 
 pifts? who for as much as I can perceive, doe 
 take then- felvcs little beholding unto him, albe¬ 
 it for his gaine he was feme yceres their fccret 
 friend againft you: untill by his friends he wai 
 TheLordNotths perfwaded,a;id chiefly by the Lord T^pnb by way 
 policy. of policy, as the (aid Lord bofleth. in hoped 
 
 greater gaine, to ftepover to the Puritans, a- 
 gain!! us both,whomnotwithftanding it is pro¬ 
 bable, thatheloveih as much, as he doth the 
 refi. 
 
 .. ’ Yoa 
 
 Uwytr. 
 
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 You know the Beares love,kid the Gentleman, . 
 
 which is all for his own panch, and Co this Bear- ** ltm * n ' 
 whelp turneth all to his owneommoduy, and for 
 greedincfle thereof, will overturn all if he be not 
 flopped or mulled in time. . 
 
 Andfurely uuto me it is a ftrange fpcculation, 
 
 whereof lcannotpick out the reafpn (but onely 
 
 that I do attribute it to Gods pumftiment for our A fl ra „g e / 
 finnes)that in fo wife and vigilant a State as ours eolation, 
 is,and in a Countrey fo well acquainted and bea¬ 
 ten with fuch dangers J a man of fuch a Spirit 
 as he is knowne t® be, of fo extreme ambition, 
 pride, falfliood and trechery; fo borne, fo bred 
 up,fo nozled in treafon from his infancy,defeen- 
 dedofa tribe of traytours, andflefhed in con- 
 fpiracy agamfl cheRoyall blood of King Htnriti 
 children In his tender yeercs, and excrciftd ever 
 fince in drifts againft the lame, by the blood and 
 mine of divers others : a man fo well knowne 
 to beare fecret malice agair.Q her Majefiy, for 
 caufesirreconcilable, and moft dradly rancour 
 againft the beft and wifeft Courcellours of her 
 Highncfle : that fuch a one (I fay fo hatefull ) 
 to God and man, and fo markeable to thefim- 
 pleftSubjcft of this Land, by thepublique en- 
 lignes of his tyrannous purpofe, fhould befuffe- 
 redfomany yeercs without cheik’, toafpire to 
 tyranny by moft manifeft waycSj afid to pnffeffe 
 himfelfe (as now he hath done) of Court, Coun¬ 
 cell and Gountrey, without controlemenc : fo 
 that noting wanttth to him but onely his plea- 
 fure, and the day already conceived in his vninde 
 to difpofe as he lift,both of Prince,Crown, Realm 
 and Religion. . 
 
 It is much truly (quoth I) that you fay, and ir s , j y ,/ ir> 
 miniflreth not a little mervaile unto many, wher- " 
 
 ofyourWorfliipis not the firft, nor yet the tenth 
 £ z perfon 
 
Th t Q S «n.Ma-P er / 0nof , i, " 0m P. t H* I h ” c I h ' M ( difc0 “' f ' 
 
 jeftiesmoftex- andcomplaine, But what fhall I fay hereunto? 
 cellcntgood oa- there is no man that afcribeth not this unto the 
 ture. fingular benignity and moll bountifull good na- 
 
 ture of her Ma jelly, who meafuring other men 
 by her owne Heroicall and Princely fincemyj 
 cannoteafily fuipeft a nun fo much bounden to 
 her grace, as he is, nor remove her confidence 
 from the place, where (he hath heaped fo infinite 
 benefits. 
 
 Gtniktnin . No doubt (Taid the Gentleman) but this gra¬ 
 
 cious and fweet difpofition of her Majefiy is the 
 true ©riginall caufe thereof: which Princely dif* 
 pofition,asin herhighnefl'e it deferveth all rare 
 commendation, fo lyeth the fame open to many 
 dangers oftentimes, when fo benigne a nature 
 mceteth with ingrate and ambitious perfons : 
 which obfervatior. perhaps, caufed her M -jellies 
 moll noble Grandfather and Father(two renow¬ 
 ned wife Princes) to withdraw fometime upon 
 the fudden,their great favour from certaine Sub¬ 
 jects of high eftate„ And her Majefly my ealily 
 ufe her owne excellent wifdome and memory, til 
 recall to mindc the manifold examples of peri¬ 
 lous haps fallen to divers Princes, by too much 
 confidence in obliged proditours : with whom 
 the name of a Kingdome, and one houres reigne, 
 weyeth more,then all the dury,ohlfgation, hone- 
 Fears that fob- fiy, or nature in the world. Would God her Ma- 
 jeds have of my jefty could fee the continuall feares that be in her 
 LordofLeieeftcr faithfull Subjects hearts,whiles that mip is about 
 her noble perfon, fo well able and likely (if the 
 Lord avert it not)to be the calamity of her Price- 
 ly blood and name. 
 
 Sir Francis Wal- The talke will never out of many mouthes anl 
 fingham- minds, that divers ancient men of this Real™, 
 and once a wife Gentleman now a Counccllour, 
 
 had 
 
• had with a certaine friend of his, concerning the 
 it prelage and deep imp. eflion,which her Majefties 
 5 Father had of the hotife of Sir lobn Dudley , to be 
 x the rainc in time of his Majefties royall houfe 
 : and blood,which thing was like to hare been ful- 
 i; filledfoon after (as all the world knoweeh) upon 
 i( the death of Kmg£d*w</,by the faid Du:iley> this 
 i:; mans Father: whp at one blow, procured to dif- 
 i- p itch from a pofieflion from the Grown,all three 
 children of the faid noble Ki g. A-.d yet in the 
 ,i tnjddell of thofe bloody pra&tc. s againft her Ma¬ 
 li jelly that now is and her lifter (wherein alfo this 
 t | fellowcshand was fo far, as fot his age he could 
 I, ihruft the fame)withm fixccen dayes before King 
 )1S Fawrdi death (he knowing belike that the King 
 F fliould dye) wrote moft flattering letters to the 
 Lady as I have heard by them who then 
 
 ; were wnh her) prormfiog all loyalty and true fer- 
 r |. vice to her,after the deceafeef her brother, with 
 , n® lefle painted words, then this man now doth 
 lt ; ufe to Qoeene Eh^brrb. 
 
 So dealt he then with the moft deare children 
 of his good King and Mailer, by whom he had 
 bane no lefle exalted and trailed, then this man 
 is by her Majefty. And fo deeply diflembled he 
 ; thenwhen he had in hand the plot to deftroychem 
 both. And wh it then (alas) m;y not we fcare and 
 doubt of tins his fon,who tn etitragious ambition 
 j” and defire of rei°ne,is not inferieurtohis Father 
 ” or to any o her afpiring fpirit in the world, bus 
 ' far more infolent,cruell, vindicative, expert, po- 
 tent,fubPile.fire,and fox I ke then ever he was ? I 
 ; like wt 11 the good motion propounded by the 
 ' forefaidGentleman,tohisfrtend at the fame time, 
 and doe aflfure my felfc it would bemoft plcafar.c 
 t! to the Realme, and profitable to her Msjt fty, to 
 : wit, that this snaa* actions might be sailed pub 
 
 b r nmf 
 
 Decpediffimula 
 
 tion* 
 
 Sir Francis tfil 
 (inghara. 
 
Robert Dudley* 
 
 La&jtr. 
 
 liquely to tr jail,and liberty given to good fubje&s 
 to lay what they knew againft the fame, as it was 
 permitted in the full yeer o f King Htnry the eight 
 againft his Grandfather,and in the firft of Queen 
 Sslmund Dudley againft his Father: and then I would not 
 
 doubt,but if thefe two his Anceftors were found 
 worthy to lofe their heads for treafon; this man 
 would not be found unworthy to make the third 
 in kindred, whofe treacheries doe farre furpaffe 
 them both. 
 
 After the Gentleman had faid this,the Lawyer 
 flood ftill,fomewhat fmiling to himfelfe,Strok¬ 
 ing round about him, as though he had bin hnlfc 
 afraid, and then faid; My matters, doe you read 
 over or ftudy the Statutes that come forth ? have 
 you not heard of the provift made in the laft Par¬ 
 liament for punifhment of thofe who fpeake fo 
 broad of fuch men as my Lord of Leictttif is ? 
 Gentlettify'' Yes,faid the Gentleman,I have heard how that 
 
 my Lord of Liicrfter was very carefull and dili¬ 
 gent at that time to have fuch a Law to paffear 
 TheLaw againft gainll talkers : hoping (belikeJ that his L. under 
 talking. that generall reftraint might lye fhc more quietly 
 
 in harbor from the tempeft of mens tongus,which 
 tatled'bufily at that time,of divers his Lordftupi 
 aflions and aftair$,which perhaps himfelf would 
 have willied to pafle with more fecrcfie. As of his 
 difeontentment and preparation to rebellion, up¬ 
 on Monfzeun firft coming into the Land ; of his 
 difgrace and checks received inCourtjofthe frefli 
 death of the noble Earle of Effix j & of this mans 
 lufiy fnatthingupof the widow,whom he fentup 
 and downe the Countrcy from houfe to houfe by 
 privie wayes,therehy to avoid the fight & know¬ 
 ledge of the Quecnes Majefty. And albeit he had 
 not onely ufed her at his good 1 king before, for 
 fatisfying of hisowne lull, but alfo married and 
 remarried 
 
 Aft'ons of Lei- 
 eefter whereof 
 he would have 
 ko fpcccla. 
 
remarried hcrforconteoutton of her friends : ye* 
 denied he the fame,by folemne oath to her Maje- 
 fly and received the holy Communion thereupon 
 (i'o good a confcicnce he hath) and confeqiiently 
 threatned molt ftiarprevenge towards allfubjetfs 
 which Ihould dare to fpeakc thereof: and fo for 
 the concealing both of this and other his doings, 
 which he defired not to have publike,no marvaile 
 though his Lord% were fo diligent a procurer 
 of that law for filence. 
 
 Indeed(faid I)it is very probable that hisLord- 
 fhip was in great dxftreffe about that time, when 
 Moafnu'S matters were in hand, and that he did 
 many things and purposed more, whereof he dc- 
 fired Icffe ipeech among the people 3 efpecially af¬ 
 terwards, when his faid deugnements tooke not 
 piace.l was my felfe that yeernot far from War¬ 
 wick when he came thither from the Court a full 
 Mile-content,and when it was thought moft cer¬ 
 tainly throughout the Realm,that he would have 
 taken armes foon after,if the marriage of hcrMa- 
 jefty with Monfieur hid gone forward. The thing 
 in Cambridge and in all the Countrey as I rode, 
 was in every mans mouth: and it was 3 wonder to 
 fee not onely the countenances,but alfo the beha¬ 
 viour,and to heare the bold fpeeches of all fuch as 
 were of his faftion. 
 
 MyLord himfelfe had given out a little before 
 at Killingworthjthat thematter would coft many 
 broken heads before Michaelmafie day nextjand 
 my Lord of had faid openly at his table 
 
 inGreegvvich, SirTbomas Hevnige bcingby (if I 
 be not deceived) that it was not to be fuffered (I 
 meane the marriage) which words of his once 
 coming abroad (albeit milliked by his own Lady 
 then alfo prefent) every Serving man and com¬ 
 mon companion, tooke then up in defence of his 
 B 4 Lord- 
 
 Sholar. 
 
 Leiceflcrs prepa¬ 
 rative* to rebel- 
 on upon Momfi- 
 eurs marriage. 
 
 * 
 
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 LorcSfhips part agamft thv Queenes Majefly.Such 
 running theie was, fuch fe ding and pitting a- 
 bcuc the Realme, fuch amplification of the pow- 
 eis and forces of Caftmm and other Princes, ready 
 (as was affirmed) toprefent themfeIves unto his 
 aid, for defence ofthe Realme and Religion a- 
 gamft ftrangers: ( for that was holden to be his 
 caule) fuch numbring of parties and complices 
 within the Re4me, (whereof himfelfe Ihewcd 
 to Sir Thomas the Catalogue to fome of his friends for their 
 layton. Comfort)fuch debating of them that favoured the 
 
 marriage (elpecially iwo or three Councellouri 
 L.frcafurer. by name,who were fai i to be the caufe of all,and 
 
 L. Chambcrhine for that were appointed out to be/harplypumflied 
 
 M. Controlcr. lcrro ur of all others s) fuch letter's were 
 
 written and intercepted of purpofe. importing 
 great powers to be ready,and fo many other things 
 done and defigned, tending all to manifelt and 
 openwarre: as I began haruly io be afraid, and 
 vvilhed myfelfe batke at Cambridge againe, ho¬ 
 ping that being there,my Scholars gowne fhould 
 cxcufe me from ncccffity of fighting, or if not, I 
 was refolved(by rr.y Lords good ie vc-)ro follow 
 /iriftotU) who preferreth alw. yfehe Lyon berore 
 the^eare-,. ffuringmy fdfe wuhall,th .t hi Lord- 
 fhip fhould have no better fuccefle in this (if it 
 came to triall) then his Faiher had in as bad a 
 caufe, and fo much the more tor that 1 was pri* 
 vie to the mindes of fome of his friends, who 
 ment to have deceived him,if the matter had bro- 
 Sit ThomasHib- ken out. And amongft other, there was a certa n 
 hot. j Vice-prefident in the World, who bein| left in 
 
 the roome and abfenee of another , to procure 
 friends ;faid in a place fecretly not far from Lud¬ 
 low,that if the matter came to blewes, he would 
 follow his Miilrefle, and leave his Matter in the 
 briars. 
 
 Marry 
 
w) 
 
 Marry fir (qd the Gt.«ci man) and I trow mi- Gentltmn. 
 l r.)' more would have followed that example For 
 "'albeit I know, that the P pflb were molt nan-ed 
 ! «and nnfdoubred of his pa t,in tfutc ufe, for their 
 ^open inclination towardsA2 coufequent- 
 
 ‘ily.i-r greater diferedit of the thing it lelfe,u was 
 given out every where by this Champion of reh- 
 IwgioiijthatherMajefties caufe was thePapiftscaufe 
 v - (even as his Father hid done in the like enter- LeieeftersFather 
 - prile before hiro.,thougb all upjpn difli3aulation,as atraitcrousPapift 
 appeared at his death,where he profeffed himfelf 
 i'-' an earned Papift : Jyet was there no manfo fim- 
 iii. pie in thtReafm,whidi deferied not this vizard at 
 the firft : neither yet any good fubjeft (as I fup- 
 wt pofe) tvho Axing her M j fly on the one part, 
 nf would not have taken agninft the other part,what 
 !«. fo ever he had beene. And much more the th ng 
 * itlclfe in controverfie (J mtane the marriage of 
 i: htr voyall M ijefty with ihe brother and heire ap- 
 •j ptrantof France) bi in? taken and judged by the The honour and 
 bid, wifeft and faithfullt fi Protcftanrs of die com i odide’ by 
 
 Bealmt,to be both h'noiirahle,convenient,profi- l ^- e 
 
 . ... (t'L.u.. .... i.._i__ n. Wlt “ t 
 
 table and i.eedfull Wlufcby ontly,as by a tnoft 
 foveraignc,and prefentremedy, all ourmaladies 
 Lr both abroad and at home,had at once been cured: 
 'it all forraign enemies,and domedicalconfpirators, 
 )ai all differences, all dangers, all feares hid ceafed 
 ip together.* France had lice ne ours meft affured ; 
 
 « Spaire would not a little have trembled ; Scot- 
 lb land hid been quiet our'eompetitors in England 
 tin would li3vc quaked ; and for the Pope he might 
 if; have ptft up his pipes. Qjr differences in religion 
 o;. at home,hid been either Idle, or no greater then 
 L: now they are,for that Acfo pen* being but a modc- 
 ra rate Pyp iff,and nothing vehement in his opinions 
 hi was content with very reafonable conditions, for_ 
 himfelfc and his firangers onely in ufe of their 
 Hi i confci- 
 
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 confcience not unlikely (truly)but that in timehe 
 might by Gods grace, and by the great wifdom< 
 and vertue of her Majefty have been brought alfo 
 ItMbtftKing to embrace the GofpelI,as King E tbtlbtrt an hej. 
 
 C I~ then was by noble Queen Bertha his wife,the firf 
 *tdAfrP«m.tfo 3 ChriftiaQ 0 ' four Engll{h Princcs . 
 
 Unto all which felicity, if the Lord in merq 
 fhould have added alfo fome iflue of their royall 
 bodiesfas was not impoflible,when fiift this no. 
 ble match was moved,) we then fdoubtlefle)!iad 
 been the moft fortunate people under heaven,and 
 might have been (perhaps) the meane to have re- 
 ftorcd the Gofpell throughout all Europe befidei 
 as our Brethren of France well considered and 
 hoped. 
 
 Of all whichfingular benefits both prefent and 
 to come,both in-Re and 5p',this tyrant for his own 
 private lucre (fearing left hereby his ambition 
 might be reftrained, and his treachery revealed) 
 hath bereaved the Realme,and done what in him 
 lyeth befides, to alienate for ever and make our 
 mortall enemy this great Prince, who fought the 
 love of her M’jefty witjj fo much honour & con* 
 fidence as never Prince the like,putting twice hii 
 owne perfon in jeopardy of the Sea, and to the 
 perillof his maliciousenvtors here in England, 
 for her Ma jefties fake. 
 
 tJfryw* When you fpeak of Mertfieny(faid the Lawyer) 
 
 I cannot but greatly be moved,bothfor thefc con¬ 
 siderations well touched by you, as alfo for fome 
 other j efpecially one wherein (perhaps} you will 
 thiiike me partiall,but truly I am not; for that I 
 fpcake it onely in refped of the quiet and good of 
 my Coantrey,and that is,that by Monfieurs march 
 with our noble Princefle,hefide$ the hope of ifliie 
 (which was the principall) there wanted not alfo 
 probability, that fome union or little toleration- 
 
f n religion, between you and us,might have been 
 procured in this flare,as we fee that in fome other 
 ‘ Countries is admitted to their great good. Which 
 ;hmg(no doubt) would have cut off quite all dan- 
 '• gers and dealings fromforraine Princes,&would union 5n defenc* 
 nve flopped inane devifes and plots within the of oor Country* 
 ^Realme: wheras now by this breach with Prance, 
 
 11 we ftand alone as me feemeth without any great 
 .'unitionor friendfltip abroad, and our differences 
 Vat home grow more, vehement and fliarp then e- 
 n >Ver before. Upon which two heads, as alfo upon 
 lvt infinit other caufes,purpofes,drifts and pretences, 
 
 “ there doc enfue daily more deepe, dangerous and 
 - defperate pra&ifes, every man ufing either the 
 commodity or neceffity of the time and flare for 
 K: hisowne purpofe, efpecially now when all men 
 ic, prefume that her Majefty (by the continuall 
 i: thwartings which have been ufed againft all her 
 marriage) is not like to leave unto theRealme, 
 that precious jcwcllfo much and long defired of 
 : all fi.nglifh hearts, I meanc the Royall heiresof 
 to* her owne body. 
 
 Thwartings call you tbe defeating of all her retfthm^ 
 c;: Majefties moil honourable offers of marriage ? 
 
 J (faid the other) truly in my opinion you fliould 
 3! have ufed another word to espreffs the nature of 
 fo wicked a faft : wherby alone,if there were no 
 T other,this unfortunate man, hath done more hurt 
 C01 t© this Common wealth, ihen if he had murdered 
 ‘ c ' many thoufands of.her fubjeds,or betrayd whole 
 armies to the profefled enemy. I can remember 
 to* well my fdfe, foure treatifes to this purpofe, un- Divers marriage* 
 ^ dermmed by his meanes: the firft with chcSwe- °f herMa.dclca« 
 then King, the fecond with the Archduke of Au- tc 
 !i ‘ : Aria, the third with HtVri King of France that 
 ' now reigneth,and the fourth with the brother and 
 *'* heire of the faid Kingdome, For I let pafTe many 
 other 
 
Leicefters devi¬ 
 ces to drive away 
 all Sutors from 
 her Maiclty. 
 
 LeiceRer con¬ 
 vinced hirafelfe 
 ofimpudcncy. 
 
 (20 K „ 
 
 other fecret motions made by great Potentate} 
 to her Majeftyfor the fame purpofe, but theft 
 foure are openly known, and therefore I nan*; 
 them. Which foure are as wJl knewne toha»: 
 been all dilturbed by this Dawer } as they wet! 
 earncftly purfued by the other. 
 
 And for the firlt three Suters,he drove them* 
 way,by proteftingandfw • ring that himfdfe wh 
 comrafted unto herMajefty,wherof her highneflt 
 wasfufiiciently aavertifed by Cardinall Cbatiha 
 in the firft treaty for France, and the Cardinal 
 foone after punifhed (as is thought} by this man 
 with poyfon. Butyet thisfpeech he gave out then, 
 every where am®ng his friends both flrangen 
 and others,that he, forfooth, W3s affured to her ' 
 Majefty, andconfequently that all other Princes 
 muft give over their fuits, for him, Whereunft 
 notwuhftanding, when the Sweden would hard¬ 
 ly give care,this man conferred wi'h his Pnvado 
 to make a moft unfeemlyand diflotal proof ther- 
 of, for the others fatisfa&ion, which thing I 
 am enforced by duty to pafl'e over with filence, 
 for honour to the partift who are touched there¬ 
 in : as alfo I am to conceale his faid filthy Pri- 
 vado, though worthy other wife for his di (hone- 
 fly to be difplayed to ihe world: but my Lord 
 himfelfe, I am fure, doth well remember both 
 the man and the matter. And albeit there was 
 no wife man at that time who knowing my Lord 
 fufpe&ed not the falf-hood, and his arrogant a{. 
 formation touching this contrail with her Maje- 
 fly, yetfome both abtoad and at home mighi 
 doubt thereof perhaps: but now of late, by hij 
 knowne marriage with his Minion Dame Ltttiu 
 cfEffex, he hath declared manifeltly his owne 
 molt impudent and difloyall dealing with his fo- 
 veraigne in this report. 
 
 Far 
 
, For that report (quoth the Lawyer)I know that igpjer, 
 it was common,and maintained by many for di- 
 y vers yecres; yet did the vvifer fort make no ac¬ 
 count thereof, feeing it came onely from himftlf, 
 and in his ownbehalfe. Neither was it credible, 
 that her Majelly who refufed fo noble Knights The bafeneffeof 
 and Princes,as Europe hath not the like, would j£‘® cftcrs ancc " 
 l lr , make choice of fo meane a peere as Rohm Dudley ° IS ’ 
 ( ’is,nobleonelyintwodefcents, and both of them 
 V ftained with the block, from which alfo himfelfe 
 ' was pardoned but the other day, being codemntd 
 |'i therunto by law for his defenses appearethyetin Anno j.R. Mary. 
 lr publick records. And for the widow of Effex, I 
 , marvaile fir (quoth he)how you call her his wife, 
 a feeing tbeCanon-law ftandeth yet in force touch- 
 ei ‘ ing matters of marriage within the Rcalme. 
 
 ^ Oh (faid the Gentleman laughing) you meane G&Ulcm*n> 
 
 ", for that he procured the poifonmg of her husband 
 . in his journey from Ireland. You muft think that 
 
 Dodor Vale will difpence in that matter* as he DoSorDalc. 
 did (at his Lordfliips appointment.) with his Ita- 
 ^ lianphyfi lanDodor Z«/i«, to have two wives at Dodorlulio. 
 oncej at the leaftwife the matter was permitted, 
 and born out by them both publiquely (as all the 
 ^ world knoweth) and that againft no lefleperlons 
 then the Archbilhop of Canterbury himfelfe, 
 whofe overthrew was principally wrought by TheArchbiftop* 
 , this tyrant for contrarying his will,in fo beaftly a ovcr ^ ro 7 for 
 n! . demand. But for this controverfie whether the wives toLe^e*° 
 M marriage be goodortoj leave it to be tried here- fterhis Phyiitian 
 after, between my yong Lord of Denbighe, arid 
 ,/ Mailer philipSidmy,whom the fame molt concer- 
 j(! neth: for that it rs like to deprive him of a good- 
 m . ly inheritaace, if it take place (as fome w'lll fay 
 1 that in no reafon it can) not only in refpeft of the 
 precedent adultery and murder betweene the pir- 
 f ties ) but alfo for that my Lord was contracted 
 
ThetadySheL 
 fgcld now Em- 
 baiTadrcffe in 
 
 same. 
 
 The death of 
 L«teeftcrs firft 
 
 Lady and wife. 
 
 »t» Richard var- 
 my* 
 
 Mtluttferi 
 
 atleaft, to another Lady before, that yet lived, 
 whereof Mailer Sdmrd Diar and Mailer Edmni 
 Txinvfy both Courtiers, can be witneflcs,andcon 
 fumated the fame contratt by generation of chi! 
 dren. But this (as I faid) muft be left to be trie 
 Hereafter by them who (hall have mod intercflii 
 the cafe. Oncly for the prefent I muft advertift 
 you, that you may not take hold fo exa&ly o f all 
 my L. doings in womens affaires, neither touch 
 ing their marriages,neither yet their husbands, 
 For firft his Lordfhip hatha fpeciall fortunt; 
 that when he defireth any womans favour, thet 
 what perfonfo ever ftandeth in his way, haththi 
 luck to dye quickly for eh e finiflaing of his defirt i 
 As for example, when his Lordfhip was infu3 I 
 hope to marry her Majefty, and his owne wife 
 flood in his light, as he fuppofed j he did but fenf 
 herafidetothe houfe of his fervant Furfitr «f 
 Cumner by Oxford, where fhortty after (he had 
 the chance to fall from apaire of ftaires, andfo 
 to breake her neck,but yet without hurting of her 
 hood that flood upon her head. But Sir RkbtH 
 Varnejy who by commandement remained witl 
 her that day alone,with one man onely, and hid 1 
 fent away perforce all her Servants from her, toi 
 Market two miles of,he fl fay) with his man cat 
 tell how fhe died, which man being taken after¬ 
 ward for a fellony in the marches of Wales, and i 
 offering to publifh the manner of the faid murder, 
 was made away privily in the prifon : and Sir 
 /?irb*rdhimfelf dying about the fame time inLon- l 
 don,cried picioufly and blafphemedGod,and faid 
 to a Gentleman of worfhipof mine acquain- 
 tanee,not long before h'S death,that all the divelt 
 in hell did teare him in pieces. The wife alfoof ; 
 Bald Buttlet kinfman to my Lord , gave out the 
 whole £»6t a little before her death,B ut to return < 
 unto 
 
 
unto my purpofe,this was my Lords good forttm 
 ii t0 h av e his wife dye, at that time when it W3S like 
 ; to turne moil to his profit. 
 
 Long after this he fell in love with the Lady 
 r Sheffield, whom I fignified before, and then alfo 
 . had he the fame fortune to have her husband dye 
 quickly,with anextreame rheume in his head (as 
 1! lt was given out) but as others fay,of anartifici- 
 r: all Clime that flopped his breath. The like good 
 , chance had he in the death of my Lord of Effex , 
 
 :it (as I have faid before) and that at a time moll 
 : fortunate for his purpoie j for when he was co- 
 it: minghome from Ireland, with intent to revenge 
 lei himfelfe upon my Lord of Ltycefler, for begetting 
 n: his wife with childe in his abfence(the childe was 
 :v a daughter,and brought up by the Lady Sbandoics, 
 t f: jr.Ksoo/Mhis wife:) my Lord of Ley hearing ther- 
 !(r of, wanted not a friend or two to accompany the 
 Deputy, as among other, a couple of the Earles 
 
 i ownefervants,Cr 0 Wipr 077 (if I mifl'e not his name) The poi*d 4 *g 
 oil yeoman ofhisbottles,and Llsid his Secretary,en- of ihcEarltif 
 
 ii tertained afterward by my Lord of Lckefler: and E “ cx * 
 v, fo he dyed in the way of an extreame flux,caufed 
 
 id:, by an Italian Recipe, as all his friends are well af- 
 r ( ; fured 5 the maker whereof was a Chyrurgeon (as 
 in: is beleeved) that then was newly come ro my 
 aft: Lord from Italy: a cunning man,and Cure in ope- ^ flvfttogrf* 
 v ration.wtth whomif the good Lady had beene * ElW . e 
 uti fooner acquainted and ufed hisbelpe, fhc fhould Lctucc 
 id i not have needed to fitten fo penfive at home and 
 iLc fearefullbf her husbands former returne out of 
 idli the fame Countrey, but might have fpared the 
 rjuii yong childe in her belly, which flie was enforced 
 k to make away (cruelly and unnaturally) for clea- 
 lift ring the houfe againft the good mans arrivall. 
 niii: Neither mull you marvaile though all thefe di¬ 
 rer: fcd in divers manners of outward ddcafes, for this 
 
(**) 
 
 is the excellency of the Italian art,for which this 
 The divers ope- Chyrurgian and Doiftor thlio were entertained 
 Mtjono oy or cate f u Hy } who C3n m .ike a man dye, an whit 
 manner or ihew >f (icknefTe you Will: by whofe 
 inftrudions no doubt but h;s Lordfh'p is noty 
 cunning, efpecially adding alfo to theft the coun. 
 DoflorBiyly the fell of his Dodor Bay 1 ), a man alfo no: a little 
 yongcr. fiudie i Cas h™ feemethj in his art: for I heard 
 
 him once ray iclfe in publique Ad in Oxford, 
 and that in prefence of my Lord of Leicefta, 
 (if I be not deceived jtmintam,that poyfon might 
 fo be tempered and given ns it fhould not appeart 
 pt'efcntly, and yet fhould ktil the party afterward 
 at what time fhould be appointed. Which arga- 
 ment behke pleafed well hisLordfhip,and there* 
 fore was chofen to bedifculfed in his audience, 
 if I be not deceived of his being that dry pre- 
 fent. So, though one dye of a flux, , and another 
 of a cararre, yet this import eth little to the mat¬ 
 ter,but fhc weth rather the great cunning and skill 
 of the Artificer. 
 
 So Cardmall Cbatilitn ('as I have faid beforel 
 having accufed my Lord of Uictfttr to theQjeeni 
 M t jelly, and after that, p ffi ig from London to¬ 
 wards France about the marri3ge,died by the waj 
 at Canterbury of a burning fever : and fo proved 
 Dutftor Bay.tei alfertion true, that poyfon may bt 
 given to kill at a day. 
 
 At this the Lawyer caft up his eyes to heave! 
 and I flood fomewhat mufing, and thinking of 
 that which had beene fpoken of the Eade of £/• 
 {ex, who r e cafe indeed moved me more then all 
 the reft, for that he was a very noble Gentleman, 
 a great advancer of true Religion, a Patron 
 to many Preachers and Students, and to ward! 
 me and fome of my friends in particular, he 
 had b:cne in fome thing* very beneficiall : and 
 there- 
 
 Death of Cardi¬ 
 nal! chatilian. 
 
 SchiUr. 
 
therefore I faid that n>grieved me mreamly to 
 : heare or thinks of fo unworthy a death contrived 
 by fuchmeanes tofo worthy a Feere. And fo 
 much the morc,for that it was my chance,to come 
 '. l0 the underftandingof divers particulars concer • 
 c jii na that thing, both from one lea anlrifh-man, 
 
 , Robin flonws, and others, that were prefent at 
 l <p en i t v t U the Merchants houfe in Dublin upon the 
 r Key, where the murder was committed, 1 he 
 .. matter was wrought efpecially by Crompton yeo- 
 ~ man of the bottels, by the procurement of Lloyd 
 as you haue noted before, and there was poyfo- 
 ' ned at the lanu time, and with.the fame cup (3$ 
 given of curttfie by the Earle) one Miftrefle Ales 
 .DrayiiOt, a goodly Gentlewoman,whorn the Earle 
 ^.afttftioned much, who departing thence towards 
 her owne houfe, (which was 18. miles oft', the 
 forefaid Lea accompanying her,and waiting upon 
 her) fhe began to fall lick very grievoufly upon 
 the way, and continued wich iucreafe of Raines 
 J and exceftwe torments, by vomiting, untill fire 
 • died, which was the Sunday before the Earles 
 ! ! death,'enfuingthe Friday after; and when lire 
 'Wisdcad, h r body was fwolne unto amon- 
 0 ftrous bignefie and deformity, whereof the good 
 Earle hearing the day following, lamented the 
 cafe greatly, and fatd in the prefence of his Ser- ' 
 3 yarns, Ah poore Alice, the cup w as not prepared 
 for thee, albeit it were thy hud dettiny to tafte 
 ^thereof. 
 
 Yong Honniet alHo, whofe father is Mafterof 
 0 the ejh ldrcnof hurM jellies chappell, being zx 
 :r thac time Pag; to the faid Earle, and accuftomed 
 1 to take the taite of his drink; (though fince enter- 
 rained alfo among other by my Lord of Leiuflcr^ 
 far better covering of matter) by his tafte that he 
 •then rooke of tbe^ompo\md cup,(though in very. 
 
 fmaff 
 
 Lea. 
 
 Honnici- 
 
 Miftris Draykoe 
 poifoned with 
 thc.Eailof Mss 
 
(i6) 
 
 ftnall quantity, as you know the fafhion is:) yet 
 waihe like to hate lofthis life,buc efcaped in the 
 end(being yong)witb the lofl'c onely of his hairej 
 which the Earle perceiving, and taking compaffi. 
 on of the youth, called for a cup of drinkc a little 
 The Earle of before his death,and drunke to ttontlits, faying,! 
 Bflcx fpeech to drinkc to thee my R«bi»,and be not afraid,for this 
 hi* Page Robin j s a better cup of drmke then that whereof thou 
 Honnie*. tookeft the tafte when we were both poyfoned, 
 and whereby thou haft loft thy haire and I mull 
 lafe my life. This hath yong Hmnies reported o- 
 penly in divers places, and before divers Gentle¬ 
 men of worfhip fiihence his coming intoEngland; 
 and the fotefaid Leu Irilhman, at his paffage thii 
 way towards France, after he had been prefentat 
 the forenamed Miftris Drty^aty death, with fomt 
 other of the Earles fervants, have and doe mod 
 conftantly report the fame, where they may do u 
 without the terrour of my Lord of Le'tceliert re* 
 venge. Wherefore in this matter there is no 
 doubt at all, though moft extroame vile and 
 intollerable indignity, that fuch a man fhould be 
 fo openly murdered without punifhment. What 
 Noble-man within the Realme maybe fafe, if 
 this befuffered? or what worthy perfonage will 
 adventure his life in her Majefties fervice, if thu 
 fhall be bis reward ? But, Sir, I pray you par¬ 
 don me, for I am fomewhat perhaps too vehe¬ 
 ment in the cafe of this my Patton and nobl< 
 Peereof our Realme. And therefore I befeetl 
 you to goe forward in your talke whereas yo: 
 left. c 
 
 GentleMn. I was recounting unto you others (faid tlieGeo- 
 tleman) made away by my Lord of Lticifia will 
 Death of SitNi- art » aD< ^ ‘he nexc in order I think was Sir Ni¬ 
 cholas Throg- cola* TbiQgmrton ,who was a man whom myLoni 
 martoa. of Lehtfcar ufed a great while (as all the World 
 
 know 
 
knowcth) to overthwarc and crofle the doings of 
 my Lord Trcaforer then Sir miam CtciB, a man sir William ci- 
 fpccially mifl'kcd alwayes of Ltkeflir , both in re- cill now Lord 
 fp e a of his old Mailer 1 he Duke of Somerfst, as al- Trcaiurcr. 
 
 I't f Q f or that his great wifdome, ieale and fmgular 
 ms fidelity co the Realme, was like to hinder much 
 t: this nuns defignments;wfurefore undei {landing 
 tt a f cer a certaine time that thefe two Knights were 
 bh fccretiy made friends, and that Sir 2 yjchotas wa* 
 
 01 l k; to detedt his doings (as he imagined ) which 
 •W mi°ht turnc to fome prejudice of h;s purpofes: 
 
 :n: (having conceived alfo a fecret grudge andgriefe 
 |1« againtt him,for that he had written to het Maje- 
 ,«c fty at his being Embafl'adcur in Fiance, that he 
 heard reported at Duke Wmratfcti table, that 
 fa rfae Qaeene of England had a meaning to marry 
 ni her horftkeeper) he invited the faid Sir Tyjcha- 
 /i las to a {upper at his houfe in London, and at 
 m fupper time departed to the Court, being called 
 11 for, as he fud, upon the fudden by her M jelly, 
 
 ' and fo perforce would needs have Sir ISljcbulat to 
 fit and ocenpie his Lordfhips place , and therc- 
 \y in to be fi-rvcd a»he was : and foone afcer by 
 iff, a forfeit there taken, he died of a firange and 
 • incurable vomit. Butt c day before his death, 
 t he declared to a deare friend of his, all the cir- Thepodonirgof 
 nf cumftance and caufe of his dtfeafe, whuh he SirNichohuiaa 
 v. affirmed plainly t© be ®f podon, given him in 
 a Salet at fupper, iiwying moll earneflly a- 
 :i> gainlt the Earles cruelty and bloody difpofiti- 
 i on, affirming him to be the wickedefl, moll 
 perilous,*and peifidious man under heaven. But 
 G what availed this, when he had now received the 
 bait ? 
 
 1 his then is to fliew the mans good fortune,in 
 l feeing them dead, whom for caufes he would not 
 1 have to livc.And for bis arc of poifomng,tt is fuch 
 C 2. BOW 
 
new,and reacheth fo tai,3s he holdeth all his foes 
 in England and elfewhere,as alfo a good many of 
 his friends in fear therof, and if it were knownc 
 how many he hath difpatched or afTaulccd that 
 way,it would be marvailous to the pofterity.The 
 TheLordCham- lace Eale of Su([ex wanted not a fcruple for many 
 berlin. yeer* before his death,of feme dram received,that 
 
 made him incurable. And unto that noble Gca- 
 MonSeurSimicrs tlemanMonfieur Simitrs,k wasdifeovered bygreat 
 providence of Gad,that his life was to be attemp¬ 
 ted by that art,and that not taking place (as it did 
 not through his owne good circumlpedien,) it 
 was concluded that the fame fhould be alLultcd 
 by violence, whereof I fhall haveoccafionto fay 
 more hereafter. 
 
 11 hath beene told me alfo by feme of the fet* 
 The poifonngof v>Ms oflhe late L.iy Umx, who was alf. of the 
 the Lady Lenox, blood Royall by Scotland, as all men know, and 
 confequently little liked by Lticefttr ; that a little 
 before her death or {kknefle, my Lord tot.ke the 
 paines to come and vifit her with extraordinary 
 kindaefle, at her houfe at Hackney, beftowin® 
 long difeourfes with her in private: but as foonc 
 as he was departed, the good Lady fell into fuck 
 a flux, asbynomeanes could be flayed fo long 
 as flie had life in her hody j whereupon both flic 
 herfelfe, and all fuch aswereneere about her, 
 fawherdifeafe and ending day,were fully of opi¬ 
 nion, that my Lord had procured her difpatchat 
 his being there. Whereof let the women that 
 % ferved her be examined, as alfo Vm&ltr that then 
 had the chiefe doings in heraffi-es, ’and finct 
 hath beene entertained by my Lord of Leiit- 
 fler. Mallet alfo, a {hanger borne, tbac then 
 was about her „ a fober and zealeus man in 
 religion, and otherwife well qualified, can fay 
 fomewbat in this'point (as I thjnkc) if he were 
 deman- 
 
demanded. So that this art and exercife of poi- 
 foning, is much more perfefi with my Lord then 
 praying, and he feemeth to take more pleafure 
 therein, y 
 
 Now'Tor the fecond point, which I named, 
 touching marriages and contra&s with Women: 
 y.eu mutt not marvailc through his Lordfliip be 
 (omewhat divers, variable and inconftanc with 
 himfelfe, f©r that according to his profit or plea¬ 
 fure, and as his luft and 1 king fhalllvary (where¬ 
 in by the judgement of all men, he furpafleth, 
 not onely Snrdmupi'm and Nero, hut even Htlio- 
 gtbtltu himlclfe :) fo his I.ordfhip alfo changeth 
 Wives and Minions, by killing the one, deny¬ 
 ing the other, ufing the third for a time, and he 
 fawning upon the fourth. And for this caufe he 
 hath his tearmes and pretences (I warrant you) 
 of Contrads, Precontrads, Poftcontra&$, Pro- 
 trads and Retrads; as for example : after he 
 had killed his firft wife, and fo broken that con- 
 trad, then forfooth would he needs make him¬ 
 felfe Husband to the Qaeenes Majefly, and fo 
 defeae all oth?r Princes by vertue of his prccon- 
 trad. But after tins, his luft compelling to ano¬ 
 ther place, he would needs make a pottcontraft 
 with the Lady Sbiffitld, and fo he did, begetting 
 two children upon her,the one a boy called Ro¬ 
 bin Sbeffl Id now living, fome time bi ought up at 
 Newington; and the other a daughter, borne 
 (as is knowne) at Dudley Cattle, But yet after, 
 his cor|(upifcence changed againe(as it never 
 flayeth) he refolved to make a retrad of ihis 
 poftcontr id, (ih> ugh it were as furely done (as I 
 have laid)as bed and Bible could make the fame) 
 andtomakea certaine new protrad, (which is 
 a continuation of ufing her for a time) with the 
 widow of Eff'ex : but yet to flop the mouthes of 
 C i out- 
 
 Lekeflerstnoft 
 variable dealing 
 with women in 
 con trads and 
 marriages. 
 
 Contrads. 
 
 Precontrads. 
 
 Poftcontrads, 
 
 Ret; sd. 
 
 Protrad. 
 
Ictcefters two 
 telhmcnr*. 
 
 Scholar. 
 
 Variut Hclioga- 
 foaki*, and his 
 moft infamous 
 death. 
 
 An Epitaph. 
 
 A pittifiill per- 
 | mtffi&u. 
 
 J Ji«) 1 
 
 out-criars, and to bury the Synagogue with fome 
 honour, (for thefe two wives of Leicefter were 
 merrily and wittily called his old and newTe« 
 flaments,by a perfon of great excellency within 
 the Realms) he was content to affigne to the 
 former a thoufand pounds in money with other 
 petty confident o v>, (the pittifulleft abufed that 
 ever was poore Lady^ and fo betake his liras to 
 the latter, which latter notwithftandmg, he fo 
 ufeth (as we,£e) now cenfefling, now forfwea* 
 ring, now difiemblmg the marriage j as he 
 willalwayes yet ketpo a void place for a new 
 furcontrad with any other, when occafion fhall 
 require. 
 
 f -■ Now by my truth fir (quoth I) I never heard 
 nor read the Ike to this in my lifcjyet have I read 
 much in my time,of the carnality and licenciouf- 
 nefl'eofdiversoutragtous perfons, in this kinde 
 of fin, as namely thefe whom you have mentio¬ 
 ned before ; efpecial.'y the Emperour Helkgsbib) 
 who paffed all other, and was called ParM, of 
 the varity of filth which he ufed in this kinde »f 
 carnality or carnall beaftlinefle : whofe death 
 was, that being at length odious t® all men, and 
 fo (lain by his own Souidiers,was drawn through 
 the City upon the ground 1 ke a dog, and call in¬ 
 to the common privy,with this Epitaph ; Hie pro- 
 jefliu eft vutomit* & >abide libidims atulm. Here is 
 thrown in the Whelpe of unrury and raging lull: 
 which Epitaph may alfo one day chance to ferve 
 my Lord of Ltictfler (whom you call the Beare- 
 whclp) ifhe go forward as he hath begun, and 
 dye as he delerveth. 
 
 But,good fir,what a compaflion is this,thata- 
 mong us Chnftians,&namely in fo wel governed 
 and ieligiousa Common-wealth as ours is,filth 
 a riot permitted upon mens wives, in a 
 
 m fubjed? 
 
fubjeft ? whereas we read that among the very 
 Heathens,leffe offences then thefe, in the fame 
 kmde,wcre extreamly pumlhed in Princes them- 
 feives, and that sot onely in the perfon delin¬ 
 quent alone,but alfo by extirpation of the whole 
 family for his fake, as appeareth m the example 
 of the Tarqumvu anaong the Romans. And ans 
 here alfo in our owne Realme, we have regi- AnaoDom.jij*. 
 fired in Chronicle, how that one #ing Edmn 
 above fix hundred yeercs prft , wflwicpnved of 
 his Ktngdome, for much leffe fiSpalous fads 
 then thefe. 
 
 I remember well the fteryfquoth the Gentle- Gentleman. 
 manj & thereby doe eafily make conjcdure,what 
 difference there is betwixt thofe times of old,and 
 
 eurdayesnow: feeing then, a crowned Prince 
 
 could not paffe unpumfhed with one or two out- 
 
 ragious ads, whereas now a fubjed raifed up but 
 
 yelferday from the meaner fort, rangeth at his The intolIeraWe 
 
 pleafure in all licencioufnefie, and that with fecu- !' ccnc ' ou f" c * 
 
 rity, void of fear both of God and man.No mans j f ^ e Cf5Carna * 
 
 wife can be free from him, whom his fiery lull 
 
 Lketh to abufe,nor their husbands able to refill 
 
 nor fave from his violence,tf they Ihcw difl:ke,or 
 
 will uotyecld their confent to his doings. And if 
 
 I fhould difeover in particular how many good 
 
 husbandshc had plagued in this nature, and for 
 
 fuch dehghtSjit were intolerable ; for his concu- 
 
 pifcencc and violence do run joyntly together, as 
 
 in furious ber.fis we fee they are accuftomed.Nei- 
 
 therhojdethhe any rule in his lull befides onely 
 
 the motion and fuggeftion of his own fcnfualityj 
 
 kindred, affinity or any other b n.l of cor.fangui- 
 
 nity 5 religion,honour or honeflytaketh no place 
 
 in his outragious appetite •. what he belt liketh, 
 
 thathetaketh as lawful! for the time. So that 
 
 kinfwoman, allie, friends wife or daughter, 
 
 € 4 or 
 
or whatfoever female Tort bcfides doth pleafe his I] 
 eye: (I leave out of purpofe,and for honour fake, | v 
 tearmes of kinred more ncere} that muft yeeld to I s 
 his defire. 
 
 I The keeping of the Mother with two or three- I, 
 of her daughters at once or fuccefHvely,isno more 
 v with him,then the eating of anHen & herchicken 
 
 together. There are not (by report) two noble 
 women abouther Majefly(I fpeake upon fome 
 i accompt ofjtl^m that know much) whom he hath 
 ' not folicitetPhy potent wayes: neither concen-J 
 ted with this place of honour, he hath defeended 
 to feeke pafture among the waiting Gentlewo¬ 
 men of her Majefties great chamber, offering 
 Monywellfpent mare f° r t ^ eir allurement, then I thinke Lais did 
 commonly take in Corinth, if three hundreth- 
 pounds for a night,will make up the fttm ; or if. 
 not, yet will he make it up otherwife : having re¬ 
 ported himfelfe (fo little fhame he hath ) that he 
 offered to another of higher place,an ioo pound I 
 lands by the yeere, with as many jewels asmoft 
 Anne Vauifour. women under her Majcfly ufedinEnglandjwhich 
 was no mean bait to one that ufed traffick infuclj 
 merchandise fhe being but the leavings of ano¬ 
 ther man before him,wherof my Lord is nothing 
 fquemifh,forfatjsfying of hisluft,butcan be con¬ 
 tends they f.y) to gather up crums when he is:^ 
 hungry,eves in the very Landry it felfe, or other 
 place ofbaferquality. 
 
 | The puniftments And albeit the Lord of his great mercy,to doe > 
 ji of GoJuponLci- him good, no doubt, if he were revokeable, hath 
 ccfler to dohimj laid his hand upon him, in fome chafthemenc 
 I good. in this world, by giving him a broken belly on | 
 
 both fidcs of his bowels, whereby mifery and ' 
 putrifaftion is threatned to him daily : and to 
 his yong Sonne, by the widow of E[fex (being 
 Filius picut'i) fuch a firange calamity of the fal- 
 
Hing fickncffe in his infancy, # as well may be a * The children of 
 ;t witneffe of the Parents finne and wickedneffe, adulterer* fh 11 
 t« in d of both their wafted natures in iniquity ; yet be confumed.and 
 is this man n@thing amended thereby, but accor- g® b'dftauS 
 [tt dmg to thecuflome of all old adulterers,is more roo tcd outda.th 
 libidinous atthisday then ever before, more gi- God,Sap.j. 
 
 ; ren to procure love in others by conjuring, force- 
 
 bli r y # an d other fuch m'eanes. And albeit tor him- 
 
 nufclfe, both age, and nature fpent, doe fomewhac 
 
 Baltic him from the aft, yet wanteth hyiot will, 
 
 c “'as appeareth by thelcalian ointment, procured 
 
 Hot many yeers p.ift by his Chyrui gisn or Moun- 
 
 vo ;ibanke of that Countrey, whereby (as they fay) Leicefters oyat* 
 
 '"ihe is able to move his flefti at all times, for kee ment. 
 
 Hing of his credit, howfoever hts inability be o- 
 Hhcrwifefor performance; as alfo one of his Phy- 
 : (mans reported, to an Earle of this Land, that 
 re his Lordfhiphad a bottle for his bed bead, of Lcicefter* bottle 
 'ben pounds the Pint to the fame effeft. But my 
 u Matters whether are wc fallen, unadvdedly? I 
 " am afhamed to have made mention of fo bafc fil- 
 Iwt tbineffe. 
 
 ‘ ‘: Not without good caufe (quoth I) but that we Scholar. 
 
 ® are here alone,and no man heareth us.Wherefore 
 li'jI pray you let us returne whereas we left : aqd 
 ■oil- when you named my Lord of Leiceften Daughter 
 it i borne of the Lady Sheffield in Dudley Callle, there 
 tht: came into my head a prety ftory concerning that 
 affaire : which now 1 will recount (though foine- 
 d« what out of order) thereby to draw you from the 
 utii further flirring of this rafavory puddle and 
 aere foule dunghill, whereunto wc are fl pped, by 
 )h following myLord fomewhat too far in his paths 
 ant and a&ions. 
 
 t: Wherefore to tell you the tale as it fell out : I 
 
 tit: grew acquainted three months paft with a certain 
 i Minifter,tbat now is dead,and was the fame man 
 In? ; ‘ that 
 
(W „ 
 
 that was ufed in Dudlt jOitle, for cemplemem 
 of fome facred ceremonies at thei birth of m 
 Lord of Leicefters daughtc r in thac place : and tt; 
 
 A pretty device. mattcr was fo ordained, by the wily wit of him 
 that had fowed the feed, that for the better co. 
 veriagofthe harveft and fecret delivery of tht 
 Lady S htffiild, the good wife of the Caftle a|f 9 
 (whereby LticeSen appointed g flips might yritli. 
 out other fufpition have accefie to the plan) . 
 ihould fiifc her felfe to be with childe, andaf- |, 
 ter long and fore travell, Sod wot, to be deW 
 red of a cufhion (.is (he was indeed) and a littli 
 after a faire coffin was buried with a bundellof 
 clouts, in ffiew of achddej and the Minifo [ 
 caufed to ufe all accuftsmed prayers and «. 
 
 Ana&ofatbcifin remonies for the folemne interring then 
 of : for which thing afterward, before in 
 death, he had great griefe and remorfe of con 
 feience, with no fmall deteftation of the moS 
 irreligious device of nay Lord of Liictfitt infuct 
 a cafe. 
 
 Here the Lawyer began to laugh a pace both 
 at the device and at the Miniftcr ; and faid, now j 
 truly if my Lords contrafts hold no better, bit 
 hath fo many infirmities,with lubtilties, and by¬ 
 places befides: I would be loth that he were mat 
 ried to my daughter,as mean as (he is. 1 
 
 But yet (quoth the Gentleman) I had ratherol j, 
 the two be his wife, for the time, then his guefl; 
 especially if the Italian Chyrurgian or Phyfitiat 
 be at hand. „ 
 
 True it is (faid the Lawyer) for he doth 
 poifon his wives,whereof I fomewhat mervaile, 
 efpecially his firft wife ;I mufc why he chofe ra 
 ther to make her awiy by open violence, then by 
 fome Italian confortive. 
 
 Hereof (faid the Gentleman) may be divert 
 reafora 
 
 Latytr. 
 
 Gentium. 
 
 lawjtr. 
 
 Gmtkma- 
 
batons alleaged. Firlt, that he was not at that Thefirftreafos 
 Imefo skilfiill in tltofe Italian wares, not had why tclccftcr 
 : bout him fofit Phyfitians andChyrurgions for 
 he purpofe: nor yet in truth doe I thtnke that t h en by poyfon» 
 ns iTiiude was fofetled then jin mifchiefe, as it 
 iath beene fithence. For you know,that men are 
 Not defperate the firft day, but doc enter into 
 'vickednefle by degrees, and with fome doubt er 
 daggering ofconfcience at the beginning.Andfo 
 ie st that time might be defirous to have his wife 
 rude away, for that fhe letted him in his de- 
 i«nemems, but yet not fo tlony harted as to 
 Appoint out the particular manner of her death, 
 l: jut rather to leave that to the dtfcretion of the 
 !r,: murderer. 
 
 Secondly,it is not alfo unlike that he preferibed Thefecond rea¬ 
 rm to Sir Richard Fame) at his going thither, that fon ‘ 
 
 1 he fliould firll attempt to kill her by poyfon, and 
 
 that tooke not place, then by any other way to 
 n ’difpatchherhowfoever. This I prove bythere- 
 port of old Doftor Bajij, who then lived in Ox- D 0 Q 0 rBayIy 
 ” ford (another manner of man then he who now the cider, 
 liveth about my Lord of the fame name) and 
 was Profeflour of the Phyficke Le&ure in the 
 
 fame llniverfity. This learned grave man re- 
 sported far moft certaine, that there was a pra¬ 
 ctice in Cumner among the confpiratours, to 
 1 hive poyfoned the poorc Lady a little before 
 “5 fhe was killed, which was attempted in this 
 •: ode r. , * 
 
 They feeing the good Lady fad and heavy (as 
 ' one that wel knew by her other handling that her 
 wdeath was not far off) began to perfwde her,that 
 ’’ her difeafe was abundance of mclancholly and o- 
 [ ther humors,and therefore would needs coanfaile 
 her to take fome potion, which fhe abfolutcly re- 
 fufiog to do,as fufpeding (fill the worfl $chey lent 
 tt£ one 
 
A pfa&ice for 
 poifoning the 
 La dj Dudley. 
 
 DoA.BabinKton 
 
 A ^ird rtaioB. 
 
 day,(unwares to her) for Doctor Bijl), 'and dcC 
 red him to perfwade her to take fome little porj 
 on at his hands, and they would fend to fete! 
 the fame at Oxford uponhis prefeription, mci 
 ning to have added alfo fomewhat of their owe 
 for her comfort, as theDoftor upon juft cauft : 
 fufpe&ed, feeing their great importunity, and rfc 1 
 fmall need which the good Lady had of Phyfict 
 and therefore he flatly denied their requeft, B: 
 doubting fas he after reported) left if theyhii a 
 poifonedher under the name of his Potion,} 1 
 might after have beene hanged for a colour t 1 
 their finne. Marry the faid Dcftor remaint 
 well affured that this w a y taking no place, A ! 
 Ibould not long efcape violence, as after enfutf 1 
 And the thing'was fo beaten into the heads c i 
 the principal! men of the Univerfity ef Oxfori ' 
 by thefe and other meanes: as for that fhe wi 
 found murdered ("as all men faid_) by the Crov 
 nersisqueft, and for that fhe being haftily an ; 
 obfcurely buried at Cumnerfwhich was condem ’ 
 ned above,as not advifeoly done) my good Loro 
 to na..ke plain to the world the great Joue he bar 
 to her in her Iife,and what a griefe the lolfe of ft 
 vertuous a Lady was to his tender heart, woult ' 
 needs have her taken up agame and reburied is ' 
 the Univerfity Church atOxford,with gneat pom: 
 and folemnity: that Doftor Babington my Lords ' 
 Chaplain,making'he publike funeral 1 Sermons ; 
 her fccond buriall,triptonce or twice in hisfpeedi 
 by recommending to their memories fhat vertt [ 
 ous Lady fo pitifully murdered,inftead of fo piti 
 fully flame. 
 
 A third caufe of this manner of the Ladici 
 death, maybe the difpoficion of my Lords na¬ 
 ture ; which is bold and violent where it fearedi 
 no refiftance(as all cowardly nature* arc by 
 kinde) 
 
mikinde) and where any difficulty or danger appear - 
 lit eth, there, more ready to attempt all by art, fub- 
 totilty,rreafon and treachery. And fo for that he 
 n, doubted no great refiftance in the poore Lady to 
 iti'Withftand the hand* of them which fliould offer 
 ft :to break her neck: he durtt the bolder attempt the 
 i irfarae openly. 
 
 Pt But in the men whom he poifoned,for that they 
 tftjwerc fuch valiant Knights,the mod part of them, 
 thtjis he durft as foon have eaten his fcabard,as draw 
 :iciihi* fword in publik. agamft them: he was tnfor- 
 olo.ccd(as all wretched irefull and daftardly creaLures 
 cir;arc)to fupplant them by fraud,and by other mens 
 laahanJs. As alfo at other times, he hath fought to 
 rerdoe unto divers other noble and valiant perfona- 
 io:ges,whe» he was afraid to meet them in the field, 
 
 Oias a Knight fhould have done. 
 
 His treacheries towards the noble late E arl of 
 c { Suffix in their many breaches,is notorious t« all 
 Hi! England, As alfo the bloody pra&ifes againft di¬ 
 ce;. Vers others. 
 
 3 d], •; But asamong many, none were more odious and 
 ; hc;i»iflikedof all men, then thofe againft Monfieur 
 ,jfc Simten, a flranger and Embafladour j whom firft 
 5 he pradtifed to have poifoned(as hath bin touched 
 „,i ( .bcfore) and when that device tooke not place, . , , 
 
 3tf: then he appointed thattfofta Tider his man)as af- Mon- 
 
 lyl-tet upon his Ale-bench he confefled) fhould have fieur Sinner* by 
 , m( .flaine him atihe Blackfriars at Greenwich as he fundty meaner 
 iifo went forth at the garden gate; but miffing alfo 
 lt;; .thatpu r pofe, for that he found the Gentleman 
 better proWd and guarded then he expeded, he 
 dealt withcertaine Fluihiaers and other Pirates 
 It to finite him at Sea,- with the Englifh Gentle- 
 ut j, men his favourers, that accompanied him at 
 f ;i , his returne into France. And though they mif- 
 jd ^ ^praSuce alfo, (as not daring to fet upon 
 ik. him 
 
him for feare of dome of her Ma jetties fhipSjWho 
 to breakeoffthisdefignment attended by fpeciall 
 commandemenc,- to wafehim over infafety)y<- 
 the forefaid Enghfh Gentlemen were holder 
 foure houres inch ace at their coming backe, jj 
 M atter Hartley well knoweth, being then prefent, 
 and two of the chafers, nam-:dCY«r^ and Ham, 
 confeficd afterward the whole defignmenr. 
 
 The intended The Earl of Otmond :n iikewif Joath cften|d(, 
 -*. rdc r thc , clared, and will avouch it to my Lord of Ltictfk 
 Ktrlc of Ormond ^ whcnfoeycr hc be called to the iaJ 
 
 that at fuch time as this man had aqmrell will 
 him, and thereby was likely to be enforced to tht 
 field (which he trembled to thinke of) he fit!) 
 fought by all meanes to get him made away t; 
 fecret murder, offering five hundred pounds for 
 the doing thereof. And fecondly, when that de¬ 
 vice tooke no place, he appointed with him th; 
 field, but fecretly fuboraing his fervant WiBm 
 WilliamKillegre Killigre to lye in the way where Ormond fhould 
 paffe, and fo to muflacre him with a cahver, be 
 fore he came to the place appointed. Whit! 
 murder, though it tooke no effed, for that the 
 matter was taken up, before the day of meeting: 
 yet was KiUigre placed afterward in her Majefliti 
 privy Chamber by Leicefler, for fhewing hu rea¬ 
 dy mindc to dee for his Matter fo faithfull a fer. 
 vice. 
 
 SchiUr. So faithfull a fervicc (quoth I) truly, in my 
 
 opinion, it was but an unfit preferment, for fo 
 facinorous a fad. And as I would be loth thai 
 many of his Italians, or other of that arr,(h ould 
 come nigh about her Majefties kitchen j fo, 
 much Idle would I, that many fuch his bloody 
 Champions, fhould be placed by him in her 
 , Highneffe chamber. Albeit for this Gentleman 
 in particular, it may be, that with change of his 
 
s place infer vice, he hath changed alfohis mlnde 
 ft. and aftV&ton, and received better inftru&ion in 
 the feare of the Lord. 
 
 hi But yet in general,! tnuft needs fay,that it can- 
 I; not be but prejudiciall and exceeding dangerou* 
 
 'unco our noble Prince and Readme, that anyone 
 
 Hunan whatfoevcrfefpeciallyfuch a one as the world 
 
 t, takeththis man to be) ihould grow to foabfo- 
 
 blute authority and coramaadry in the Court, as 
 
 uto place about the Princes perfon (the head, the p rcoccupat ; on 
 
 t heart, the life of the land) whatfoever people 0 fherMaiefties 
 
 ill, liketh him beft, and that now upon their defercs perfon. 
 
 dm towards the Prince, but towards himfelfe; whefe 
 
 he fidelity being more obliged to their advancer, 
 
 ,w; then to their foveraigne, doe ferve for watchmen 
 indt about the fame, for the profit of him, by whofe 
 ilu; appointment they were placed. Who by their 
 mi meants calling indeed but nets and chaines, and 
 !,"J inyifible bands about that perfon, whom moll <sf 
 fts all he pretendeth to ferve, he fliutteth up hi* 
 u : Prince in a prifon moil fure, though fweet and 
 ft fenideffc. 
 
 thu Neither is this art of afpiring new or ftrange A * ordinity way 
 ,etri unxo any man that is experienced in affaires of °f af P irin gpy 
 [ip former timejfor that it hath been from the begin - f^fpriiiccj per" 
 hut niugof all government a troden path of all afpi- f on . 
 
 Hi rers Inthcftories both facred and prophane, 
 foraine anddomeflicall of all Nations, King- 
 , in domes,Countries and States,you (hall read, that 
 , fj| fuch as ment to mount above others, and to go- 
 ith i verne all at their ovvne diCcreti«nj did lay this 
 Tjfln for the fifil ground and principle of their purpofe; A comp*rifoa. 
 nj topoflefie themftlvcs of all fuch as were in place 
 i bl# *tl'out the principal!; even as he who intending to 
 i in hold a great City at his owne difpofition, dareth 
 nils* f°tmakopen war agamUthc famejgettethfecrct* 
 
 ?enfi v imo his hands or at his devotion,al theTow ns, 
 
 ' p Vil- 
 
Villages,CaflleSjFoicrtiicSjbalwarksjRampire^ 
 Waters, WayeS, Ports and Paffages, about t| 
 fame, and fo without drawing any fword againfi 
 the faid City,he bringeth the fame into bondag: 
 to abide his will and pleafurc. 
 
 This did all thele in the Roman Empire, win 
 rofefrom lubjeds to be great Princes, and o pu- 
 downe Emperours, This did allthofein Franct 
 and other Kingdomes, who at fundry times have 
 tyrannized their Princes. And in our own; 
 Countrey the examples are manifelt of porli- 
 ger, H^old, Ht 'iy of Lznczfttr > Richard of War. 
 wicke, Richard of Gloeefttr, lobn of Northum : 
 berland, and divers others, who by this meant 
 fpecially, have pulled downe their lawfull So- 
 veraignes. 
 
 And to Ipeake onely a word or two of the lafl, 
 for that he was this mans Father; doth not all 
 The wiyof >rpi- England know, tharhe firfl overthrew the good 
 Dudle ° U ^ C Samtrftti by drawing to his dtvorion 
 
 the very fervants and friends of the faid Dakt? 
 And afterward did not he poffelTe himfelfc of 
 the Kings owne perfon, and brought him to 
 the end which is knewne , and before that, to 
 the mod fhamefull difhcriting of his ewne 
 royall Sifters : and all this, bypoffeflfing firft 
 the principall men, that were in authority aboui 
 him ? 
 
 Wherefore fir, if my Lord of Lcicefttr have the 
 fame plot in his head (as moll men thinke)and 
 that he nteaneth one day to give the fame poll 
 at the Crowne by the Houfe of Huntington , a- 
 gainft all the race and line of King Henry theft- 
 venth in generall, which his Father «ave before 
 him, by pretence of the Houfe of 
 the Ch ldrenof King Henry the eight in parti¬ 
 cular ;he wanteth nocreafon to follow the fame 
 meaner 
 
’au : meanes and platform of planting fpeciali perfons 
 3bo ; for his pnrpofe about the Prince, for furejy his fa- 
 dthers plot lacked no witty device or preparation, 
 i but onely tint God overthrew it at the inftant: 
 
 (a*happely he may doe this mans) alfo notwith¬ 
 standing any diligence that humane wifedome 
 n Canute to the contrary. 
 
 ; jo this taid the Gentleman: that my Lord 
 Leycefterhath a purpofe to fhoot one day at the 
 Diadem by the title of Huntington,is not a thing 
 ; joWcure in it felfe, and it (hall bee more plainly 
 proved hereafter. But now will Iftiew unto you 
 For your inftruftion, how well this man hath foU 
 s lowed his fathers platforme (or ra thcr palled the 
 Full'fnme) in poflelfing himfelfe of allherMajefties 
 ictvint-s,friends, and forces, tofervehis turne at 
 Li thu time for execution, and in the meane fpace 
 fior preparation. 
 
 i Firft, in the privy Chamber,next unto her Ma- Leyceflers pa. 
 
 < jellies perfon,the mod part are his own creatures w « in the privy 
 r (as he calleth them^ that is, fuch as acknowledge Chamber. 
 
 "■! their being in that place, from him; and tbe reft 
 h : he ft) over-ruleth, either by fl ittery or feare, as 
 hj.none m.iydarfe but to ferve his turne. As his reign 
 isfoabfolute in this place, (as alfo in all other 
 parts of the Court) as nothing can pafi'e but by 
 his admidion, nothing cm be (aid,done,or figni- 
 fi.d, whereof hee is not particularly advertiled : 
 no bill, no fupplication, no complain:, nofute, 
 
 : nofpeech, can piffe from any man to the Prin- 
 : cede (except it be from one of the C6uncell)but 
 ;i by his good liking t or if there doe, he being ad- 
 monilhed thereof (as prefently he (hall,)the party 
 delinquent is fure after to abide the. fmart there¬ 
 of. Whereby he holdwh as it were a locke upon 
 the cares of his Prince, and tbe tongues of all her 
 Majeftes fervauts,fo ft rely chained to his girdle, 
 
 D as 
 
I cyceftcr marri- 
 Waen 
 
 ( 4 ^) 
 
 as no man dareth ro fptak any one thing that mjj 
 t ft'- nd him, though it be never fo true or behove, 
 full tor her Mujcfty to know. 
 
 As well appeared in the late marriage with 
 Dame E(Jex , which albeit it was celebrated twit: 
 Head: when her firii at Killmgworth, and fecondly at Waenfteai 
 m tiefty was at ^ mthe pttfence of the Earle of Warwick, Lori 
 f TSjutb , Sir fravtu Knee its, and others) and thu 
 i'hy<hiooMird- CC ex a£tly known to the whole Court,with the very 
 Her. day, the place , the witntfles, and the Mmifter 
 
 that married them together: yet no man durft o- 
 penhismouih to make her Mjefty privy therun. 
 to, untill Monfieur Simiers difdofed the fame, 
 (and therby incurred his high difpleafure) nbr y« 
 in many dayes after for feare of Lyctfter. Whidi 
 is a iubjeftion moll difhonorable and dangerouj 
 to any Prince living , to ftand at the devotion of 
 bis fivhjt ft,what to heare or not to heare of things 
 that pafie within his own Realme. 
 
 Nofutecan raffe And herof it followtth that nofute can prevail* 
 butby Ltyceiicr. in Court, be it never lo meant-, except he fit ft be 
 made acquainted there with, and receive nor only 
 the thankes,but alfo be admitted unto a great part 
 Read Polidore in of the game and commodity therof Which,as it it 
 the 7. yeare of a great injury to the futer : fo is it a tar moie grea- 
 Kingftichard t. ter to t be bounty, honour and fecurity of the 
 fintUhis pro Printe,!jy whofe liberality this man feedetb onlyy 
 
 cccdingofcer- and forufieth himfilfe, depriving his foveraigne 
 nine about that of all grace, thanks and good wul for the fame, 
 K. to be put as a For which taufe alfo he giveth out ordinarily, to 
 
 SI CK, y f, “- t * , « her '‘sjs 1 ; md 
 
 nious of her ielfe , and very difficile ro grant any 
 fute „ were it not only upon his inceflant folicita. 
 cion. Whereby he fillcth his own purfe the more, 
 and emptieth the hearts of fuch as receive benefir, 
 from due thankes to their Princes for the fute 
 obtained* 
 
 Hereof 
 
Hereof alfo enfueth, that no man may be pre- 
 , fared inCoure (bcheotherw-fc never(owell 
 , adefervingfervanttoher M>j. ily} except he be 
 one of Lejctfleri fadion or followers:none can be 
 i advanced, except he be liked and preferred by 
 ; him : none receive grace, except he ft Mid in his ^LeSer 
 good favour, no one may live in couwtenance^or to Lcyccfhiaj^. 
 quiet of life, except he take it, ufeit, acknow- 
 r ; ledge it from him, fo as all the favours, graces, 
 j dignities, riches and rewards, which her Mi- 
 . jelly beftoweth , or the Realme can yeeld, tnuft 
 fctve to purchafe this man private friends , and 
 i. favourers, onely to advance his party , and to 
 „ fortific his fadion. Which fadion if by thefe 
 meanes it be great, (fo as indeed it is: ) you may 
 t notm irvile , lecing the riches and wealth, offo 
 Worthy a Common vveale, doe ferve him but for 
 f. a price to buy the fame. 
 
 Which thing himfelfe well knowing, frametfi 
 . hisfpint of proceeding accordingly. And ftrft , te v ccl ‘ srs an " cr 
 upon confidence thereof, is become fo infolenc * sa 0 eHC y* 
 arid impotent of his Ire that no man may beare 
 . thefame, How juftly or injuftly foever it bee 
 f conceived : for albeit he begin to hate a man 
 upon bare furmifes onely ( as commonly it fil¬ 
 let!) Out, ambition being alwiyes the mother 
 r offufpiuon ) yet he prefecuteth the fame with 
 I, fuJi implacable cruelty , as there is no long abi- 
 ding for the party in ih.it place. As might bee 
 flawed by the examples of many whom hec hath 
 j ehafed from the Court, upon his only difpleafure. 
 
 Without other caufe, being known to be other- 
 ,, wife, zealous Proteftanc. As Sir lerom Bmts , 
 
 . Mr. Gtorgt Seal, and others tbit wc could name. 
 
 To thisinfolency isalfo joyned (as by nature Leycefterspa. 
 
 |,. it followeth) moft absolute and peremprery de.i- remptory d«a5» 
 
 " Utfg in all things whereof it plealeth him to dif- ia &' 
 
 D s. pofig 
 
Breaking of or 
 dcr in her M»ie- 
 fties houlhold. 
 
 Leycefters vio¬ 
 lating of all or¬ 
 der in the Coun¬ 
 try abroad. 
 
 pofc, without refpeft cither of rcafon, order,<Jqe, 
 right, fuKorJination,cuHome,conveniency,itt the 
 like: whereof notwithftanding Princes them- 
 fdyes are wont to have regard in difpofition of 
 their matters: a* for example,among thefervantj 
 efth. Quee ies M jetties houfliold,it is an anci. 
 ent and mod commendable order and cuftome, 
 thar when a place of h gher roomefalleth voyd, 
 he that by ftitceffion is nt xt,and hath made proof 
 cfhis wdrthiutfl'e in an i firmur place, fhould 
 rife and potTcffc the fame, (except nbe for fome 
 extra' rdn uy caufi ) to the end tint no man un¬ 
 experienced >r untry^d, fhculd be placed in the 
 higher roomes the fit ft day, to the prejudice of o- 
 thers, and diflefvicc of the Prince. 
 
 Which mod re Tonable cuftome this man con- 
 temning and breaking at his pleafure, thruftetli 
 into higher roomes any perfon whatfoever, fo he 
 Ike his inclination, or feele his reward: albeit 
 he neither be fit for the piirpofe, nor have beene 
 fo much as Clatke tn a» y inferiour office before. 
 
 The like hee ufeth out of the Court, in all 
 ther places where matters flioutd pafle by ord^ 
 eletfhon, or degree : as in the Vnivcrfities,in e!e. 
 ftion of Scholars, and Heads of houfes, in Fcde. 
 fiaft'dll perfons/or dignities in Church,m Offi- 
 cerSjMagiffrateSjStewTrdsoflandsjSheriftes and 
 knights of Shires,tn Burgefles of the Parliament, 
 in Comm iffioners, Judges, Juft ices of the pe ace, 
 (whereof many in every {hire muft we^re his li- 
 very)and alt other the like- where this mans will 
 mull {land for reafon, and his letters for abfolnrc 
 lawes, neither is there any man, mngifirate, or 
 communer in the Realme.who darcth not fboner 
 deny their petition of her M jellies letters, upon 
 juft caufes (for that her lug nefle is content after 
 W be fatisfied with reafonjthcn to refill the com- 
 mandemtqt 
 
mandement of this man;, letters, who wHI ad¬ 
 mit no txcnfc or fansfaftion, but oneJy the exe¬ 
 cution of his faid eoramandcmenr, b« it right or 
 wrong 
 
 this ar.fwered the Lawyer,Now venly,fir, LiWjtr. 
 youpjint unto me a ftrange pactctne of a perfe ct 
 Potentate in the Court; belike that ftrangvr,w-ho 
 callech our State in his printed bookc L>ju$rtn AUyceihian 
 fem Rtmpitblicm , aLcyccftriao Commonwealth, Commonwealth 
 or the Commonwealth of my Loid uf Ltycefter, 
 knoweth much of thefe matt. rs. But to hold,fi , 
 ft.11 Wiibin the Court: I allure you that by cpn- 
 iiderations, which you haye laid dowoe, 1 doe 
 begin now to perceive that his par:y mtift need* 
 be very great and ftrong within the faid Court, 
 feeing that hee huh fo many wayes and meancs 
 to encreafe, enrich, and encourage the fame, and 
 fo lliong abilities to tread down e Ins enemies. 
 
 The common fpeech of many wanteth riot rea- 
 fon, I perceive, which callcth him the heart and 
 life of the Court. 
 
 They which cal him the heart(faid the Gentle- GwtJmm. 
 man) upon a little occafiun more, would call Leycrfler called! 
 him alfo the head : and then I oiarveli what the heart and lift 
 IhoulJ bee left for her Majchy, when ,tht;y take ol til « outt, 
 from her both life, heart, and headfhip in her own 
 Re ..line ? But the truth is, that l*e huh the.Court 
 at this day inalmpll the lame cafe as ho father 
 had It in King Eixomh d y"S, by the fame d,c vi. c, 
 
 (the Lord forbid that ever it co ne fully to the 
 fame Rate, for then we know what enfued to ihe 
 principall:) and if you will hive an evident de- 
 monilration nf this mans power and faV< ur in 
 thafplace, call you but to mi nde the tin es when 
 her M ijefly upon moil juR and urgent occ fi* 
 or s, did withdraw but a lirile her wonted fj- 
 vour and countenance towards him : did nor all 
 D $ the 
 
Ademonftrjltion ^ ^ ourt as it were, mutiny presently 5 did note, 
 of Lcyeeften 
 tyranny in the 
 Court. 
 
 deth ncver P to OV1 r ea ^ on he hath not been negligent, feeing that m 
 come in the policy the firft point of good fortification is, to 
 Qjecne* danger make that fort impregnable,which once hath been 
 againc. jn danger to be lolt.Wherof you h^ve an example 
 
 in Rubarrt Dnke of Y ’rk, in the time of K.fJew) 
 the fixt whr being once in the Kings hands by hit 
 own fubnvffion, 3"d difmifiVd againe (when for 
 his difevts, he fhouldbave fuffered ) provided af. 
 ter , the King fhould never be able to over-reach 
 h;m the fecond time, or have him in his power to 
 do him hurt,but made himfelfc ttvong enough to 
 Anno Regni ji. P 0 ^ £ *°wne the other with extirpation of his 
 D family. 
 
 And this of the Court, houfhold and Clumber 
 of her Majefty. But now if wefhillpiflV from 
 Court to Councell,we (hall find him nolcfie for- 
 Lrycffter? puif- tified but rather more : for albeit the providence 
 Ijpuce rhe privy n fGod harh bin fuch that in this mod honoura- 
 j j ^°^ nCc H* Me aflVmblie, there hath nor wanted fome two or 
 three of the wifeft, graved, and mod experienced 
 
 very man nang tnc nppe t except a rtvv , wno at- 
 terward paid (wfcetly for their mirth ; were there 
 not every day new devices fought out, that fome 
 fhould be on their knees to her M jetty, fome 
 ftiould weepe and pm finger in their eyes: o*hef 
 fhould find out cercaine covert manner of threat- 
 ning : other reafons and perfwafions of love : o- 
 ther of profit : other of honour : other of 
 neceffity : and all to get him recalled back ro fa. 
 vour againe ? And had her Majefty any red per* 
 mitted unto her, untill {he had yeelded and gran- 
 ted to the fame? 
 
 Confidcr then (I pray you)*hat if ar that time, 
 in hisdifgrace , he had his faftion (o faft afl’urel 
 tohimfelf : what h<uh he now in his profperity. 
 nfrer fo m.inv veares of forrifir , ation>wherin bv all 
 
2 in ourftate, that have I'cui md marked this mans 
 ^perillous proceedings from the beginning^ whero f 
 i notwithftaflding two are now deceafed, and their L.Keeper. 
 l : places fupplied to Leyceflttrs good liking:) yet L Chamberlain. 
 K ('afas)the wifdotn of thefe worthy men, hath dif- 
 , i; covered alwayes more, then their authorities were 
 1 able to redrtfle : fthe others great power and vio- 
 “ knee confidered) and for the refidue of that bench 
 “ and table, though I doubt not but there be divers, 
 
 ■ who do in heart detert his doings ( as there were 
 • tj alfo,nodoubt amongthe Councellours of King 
 Edward,who m fl keth this mans fathers attempts, 
 
 ^though not fo hardy as to contrary the fame' ) yet 
 1 formoft part of the Councell prefent, they are 
 known to be fo affeded in p.irticu! ar , the one for 
 that he is to him a Brother,the other a Father,the 
 ' other a Kmfman,the other an allie,the other a fall 
 1 obliged friend , the other a fellow or follower in 
 f.idion, as none will Hand in the breach .igainft 
 " him : none dare refill or encounter hisdefig.oe- 
 1 most; but every man yielding rather to the force 
 1 of his flow, permitteth him to pierce^nd p iflc at 
 his pleafure in whatfoever his will is once fetled 
 ‘ to obtaine. 
 
 3r And hcreoffwerc I not (laied for refpeft of fome 
 111 whom I m,>y not namc)I could alledge ftrang ex- 
 1 amples,not fo much in iffiires belonging ro fub- 
 l! jeds and to privat men,as(wcre the caufe of Sim*- ^cZ^cUa^e 
 denforrd^DeiibigbofKi ofhisfairc P:f infmeed to wink 
 
 ; tures fo.ily procured by S o*ibira> of :hs Arcbbdii. at Lcyccitcr. 
 
 1 of Canterbury , of the L, Bvl\lg> ) of Sir lob* Tbreg- 
 marton,of \i.Rub-vjo9 and the like^) vyhenn thole 
 i:i ofthe Councell that ddliked his doings, leaft da¬ 
 red to oppofe themfclycs to che fame , but alfo in 
 : things that apperuine dircdly to the Crown and 
 dignity,to the State and Common weal,and toihe 
 • fafety and continuance therof. It is not fecure for 
 ^.4 any 
 
I eycefters intel¬ 
 ligence with the 
 rebellion in Ire¬ 
 land. 
 
 A&eons cafe 
 now come in 
 England. 
 
 Salvatour flaine 
 in his bed. 
 
 W 
 
 any one Councellor, or other of authority,to take 
 notice of my Lords errours or mifdeeds,but with 
 extreame perili of their owne mine. 
 
 As for example : in the beginning of the re. 
 bcllion in Ireland, when my Lord of LeycelUr 
 was in fomc difgrace, and confequently, as hee 
 imagined, but in fraile ftate at home, he thought 
 it not unexpedient, for his better allurance, to 
 hold fome intelligence alfo that way, for alle- 
 vents, and fo he dwi: whereof there was fo good 
 evidence and teftimony found, upon one of the 
 hrft of accompr, that was the ye flaine, (as ho. 
 nourable perfonages of their knowledge hive 
 affured me) as would have beene fufficient , to 
 touch the life of any fubjt d in the land* or in anj 
 ftate Chriftian, hut @nely my Lord of Leycefter, 
 who is a fubjeft without fubjrdion. 
 
 For whatthinke you ? durft any man take no¬ 
 tice hereof,or avouch that he had feen thus much* 
 durft he rhac tooke it in Ireland, deliver the fame 
 where efpecially hecfhould have done ? or they 
 who received it in England, for it came to great 
 hands, ufe it to the bcnefic of their Princefle and 
 Countrey ? Nofurefy ; for if it had beene but 
 onely fufpe&ed that they had feene fuch a thin®, 
 it would have beene as dangerous unto them a* it 
 was to Atteon to have feene Diana and her mai. 
 dens naked : whofe cafe is fo common nowin 
 England as nothing more, and fo doe the exam 
 pies of divers well declare: whofe unfortunate 
 knowledge of too many fecrets brought them 
 quickly to unfortunate ends. c 
 
 For we heare of one Salvatour a ftranger, long 
 ufed in great myfteries of bale affaires and dillio- 
 neft a&ions, who afterward (upon what dement 
 I know not) Curtained a hard fortune, for being 
 late with rny Lord in his ftudy, well neare until! 
 
 mid* 
 
[Midnight, (if I be rightly informed) went home 
 1 #1( to his chamber, and the next morning was found 
 
 flaine in bis bed. Wee heare alfo of one Dough y, Doughty hanged 
 ; f 'k Ranged in hafte by Capcaine Dral(e upon the Sea, by Drake. 
 
 ■■K and mat by order , as is thought, before bis de- 
 h «; p 3C£Urc out of England, for that he was over pri- 
 :,llG vy to the fecrets of this good Earle. 
 
 . antt i There was alfo this laft Summer paft, one Thefloryof 
 '' i Gaiei lunged at Tiborne,umong others, for rob- 
 bing of Carriers, which Gam had beene lately 5 
 Ie c Clarke of my Lords kitchmg, and had layd out 
 (■4 much money of his owne,as he faid,for my Lords 
 ■fi c provifion, being alfo otherwife in fo great favour 
 ien: and grace with nay Lord, as no man living was 
 r: thought to bee more privy of his fecrets then this 
 !»! roan, whereupon alfo it is to be thought, that faee 
 prefumed the rather to commit this robbery, (for 
 ::l to fuch things doth my Lords good favour moll 
 E extend,) and being apprehended, and in danger 
 it: for the fame, he made his recourfe to his Honour 
 oi for prote&ion, as the fafhionis, and that hec 
 !0 ; might hce borne out, as divers of lefie merit hid 
 tilt beene by his Lordfhip, in more haynous caufes 
 tnf before him- 
 
 nk The good Earle anfwered his fervant and 
 it; deatePtivado courteoufly , and afiured him for 
 ’ liislife, bowfoever for outer fliew and comple- 
 5' mentihc forme of Law mighc pafl'e again# him. 
 ft But Gates feeing himfclfe condemned, and no 
 thing now betweenc his head and the halter, but 
 ; the word of the Magiftrate which might come m 
 an inftiht, when it would bee too late to fend to 
 his Lord; remembring alfo the fmall alfurance 
 of his Laid Lords word by his former dealir.oj 
 - towards other men, whereof this man was too 
 : much privy, he thought good to follicite his cafe • 
 alfo by Tome other of his friends, though nor fo 
 
jsaiffant as His Lord and M ifter, wHo dealing «. r 
 deed,both dilig■? uly and effedually in his affaire, l; 
 found the mttcer more d fficulc a great deale then f. 
 «ither he or they had imagined: for that my Loti ; 
 ofLeyceftcr was not onely not his favourer, but I 
 a great haftener of his death under handjand that t 
 withfuch care,di!igence, vehemency, and irrefi- 
 liable meanes, (h tving the Law alfo on his fide) 
 that there was no hope at all of efoping: which 
 thing when Giles heard of, he eafily bdeevedfot 
 the experience he had of his mafters good nature, t 
 and faid,that he alwayes miftrufted the fame,con- 
 fidering how much his Lordlhtp was in debt to 
 him, and hee made privy to his Lordfhips foule 
 iecrets, which fecrets hee would there prefently 
 have uttered in the face of all the world, but that 
 he feared torments or fpeedy death,with fome ex. 
 traordinary cruelty, if hee Ihould fo have done, 
 and therefore hee difclofed the fame onely to a 
 Gentleman of worihip, whom hee trufted fpeci- 
 ally,whofe name I may not utter for fome caufci, 
 (but it beginneth with H.) and I am in hope ere 
 it be long, by meanes of a friend of mine,to have 
 a fight of that difcourle and report of Gate i, 
 which hitherto I have not feene nor ever fp ike 
 I with the Gentleman that keepeth it, though I! 
 be well allured that the whole matter puffed in 
 fubftance as I have here recounted it. 
 
 Se&dar. Whereunto I anfwered, that in good faith it < 
 
 Yhi» relation ®f were pitty that this relation fhould be loft, for 
 G«e* may (core that it is very like, that many rare things bee de. 
 hereafter for an dared therein, feeing it is done by a man fo pri- I 
 fecondeJirion vie to lhe aftaires themfelves, wherein alfphee 
 •f ihiibooks, bad beene ufed an infttument. I will have it | 
 (quoth the Gentleman) or elfe my friends Aatt > 
 fade me, howbeit not fo foone at I would, for 
 tl|3t he is in the Weft Countrey that Ihould pro- 
 
■ure it for met and will notreturnc forcertaiae 
 ’iiontbs, but after I Jhall ftchim againe, I will 
 ^ot leave himuntill he procure it for me, as hee 
 'Wtpromifcd: well ^quoth I) but what is be¬ 
 come of that evidence found in Ireland under my 
 i t 0 rds hand, which no man dare purfue,avouch,or 
 behold. 
 
 t,( Truly (Taid Gentleman) I am informed 
 filfcat it lyeth fafely referved in good cuflody,to be 
 ^brought forth and avouched wheufoever it fhall 
 eiiileafe God fo to difpofe of her Mijefiies heart,as 
 atitio lend an indifferent eare,as well to his accufers, 
 !jC#j to hiinfelfe,in judgement. 
 
 ?bi: Neither muftyou thinke that this is ftrangc, 
 fouior that the things are few which are in fuch fort 
 ftfeferved in decke for the time to come, even a- 
 
 tr long great perfonages, and of high calling, 
 i:qfo feeing the prefent flatc of his power to bee 
 do uch, and the tempeft of his tyranny to be fo 
 H'lron^and boyfterous, as no man may ftandin 
 fpii-hc rage thereof, without perill, for that even 
 atifomher Majefly her fclfe, in the lenity of her 
 princely nature, hee extorteth what hee defigti- 
 ihisth, eitht j: by fraud, flattery, falfe information, 
 kiequeft, pretence, cr violent importunity, to 
 fpidne over-bearing of all, whom he© meaneth 
 ugh .0 opprefle: No marvaiJe then though many 
 ciirven of the beft and faithfullefl Subjects 
 >f the Land, doe yeeld to the prefent time, 
 litkind doe keepe lilence in fome matters, 
 
 , that Qtherwifc they would take it for dutie 
 :edto utter. 
 
 o d And in fhis kind it is not long fithence a wor- 
 obhipfull ^nd wife friend of mint told mee a te- 
 limoi.v in f'ceret, from ihe mouth of as noble 
 
 . Wnd grave a Comcelloor as England hath cn- 
 oyed thelc many hund.td ycares: i meant- the 
 
 Qtntkmw. 
 
 The deck refer- 
 ved for Lcycc- 
 fter. 
 
 Leycefterspuif. 
 fant violence 
 with the Prince 
 her felfc. 
 
Tbe^Earleof late Lord Chamberhi it, with whom myf a |, 
 Sufic* hi*fpec<& fr.cnd being alone at his houfl in London, nc; 
 ofthc Earle of twenty dayes before his death, conferred fom s , 
 eyccficr. what famili arly about thefe and like matters, j, 1 
 with a true father ©f his Countrey and Comm«n r 
 wealth: and after many complaints in the be|i| 
 of divers,who had opened their griefs unto Cobb, ! 
 celiours, and faw that no notice would be tan f 
 thereof, the Cud Nobleman, turning himfclj'' 
 fomewhat about from the water, (for heefin 
 neare his pond fide, where hoe beheld the cakioj : 
 ofaPikeor Carpe) fatd to my friend, It isr< ” 
 marvel], fir, for who dareth intermeddle himfelf, 1 
 in my Lords affaires ? I will tel! you (quothl 1 
 inconfidence betweeneyou and me, there jl 3 
 wife a man and as grave,and as faiehfull a Cobs 
 TheLordBurgh cellour as England breedeth, (meaning thercbr ! 
 ! «y* the Lord Treafurer) who hath as much ofli 
 
 keeoingof Lcyceficrs owne hand writing, fl 
 fufficient to hang him, if either he durft prefen . 
 the fame to her Maj.fty, or her Majefty doe ja 
 fiicewhenit flnuld be prefented. But indec 
 (quoth he) the time permitceth neither of H 
 both, and therefore it is in vaine for any mani: 
 firuggle with him. 
 
 Thefe were that Noblemans words, wheret; 
 you may confider whether my Lord of Leyceflu 1 
 be ftrongihis day in C^unrellor no : and ■ 
 ther his fortification be fuffi jent in that place. ‘ 
 Leyeefters po- But now if out of ihe Councell, we will tare 
 
 wtrin the eoun-but our eye in the Countrey abroad, we fhil h 
 trey abroad. fiade as good fortification alfo there, as wc hit 
 perufed already in Court and Councell: and fhii ’ 
 well perceive that this mans plot is nofsndc: 1 
 indifereet plot, but excellent well grounded, an; 
 fuch as in all proportions hath his due eorrefyon- 1 
 dence, 
 
 Coifi 
 
rrcj] Conner then the chute and principal! parts 
 nit, jf this land for martiall affaire^ for life and «otn- 
 CoOiodity of armnur, for ftrength, for opportunity, 
 the Vor liberty of the people, as dwelling fartheft off 
 Ho rcom the prefence and afped of their Prince/och 
 jjjl-irts (1 fay) as are fitti;ft for fuduen-enterprifcs, 
 
 , Without danger of interception: as are the North, 
 
 ; r |J e Weft, the Countries of Wales, the Iflinds 
 ^'round about the land, and fundiy other places 
 j.within the fame : are they not all at this day at 
 *j 1: iiis difpolition ? are they not all (by his pro¬ 
 curement) in the onely hands of his friends 
 j tr ,‘apd allyes? or of fuch, as by other matches 
 l( -have the fame complot and purpofe With 
 . ( him ? 
 
 \ In Yorke is prefidentthe man that of all other Yorke Baric of 
 is Etteftfor that place, that is, his neareft in affi- Huntington. 
 
 , nity, his dtareft in friendfhip, the head of his ft- 
 fhon,and open competitor of the Sccpcer.In Bar Barwick 
 wicke is a Captaine,his wives uncle,moft a flu red The Lord Huaf- 
 tohimfclfe and Huntington, as one who at con- dc “* 
 
 ' venient time may as much advance their defigne- 
 ments,as any one man in England. 
 
 In Wales the ch efe authority from the Prince Wales, 
 isinhisowne brother in law: but among the Thc^arlcof"^ 
 people, of natural! affetfhon, is in the Earle of p cm brooke. 
 Pembrookc, who both by marriage of his fillers 
 daughter is made his ally, and by dependance is 
 knowne to be wholly at his difpolition. 
 
 The Weft part of Enghnd i$ under Bedford, The Weft, 
 a man wholly devoted to his and the Puritans fa- Ear,c Bcd ' 
 ftion.. {ord - 
 
 In)rehnd wasgovernour of late the principal The Lord Grey, 
 inflruryient appointed |"or their purpofes : both in 
 refpeft of his heat and afii ftion toward their de- 
 %nements,as alfooffcwie fecret difcontentmenc 
 which heluth towards her M a jefty andtheft4te 
 prefent. 
 
XS 4 ; 
 
 4Her%fa;efly prefent for certainehard f fpeeches and ingtj t( 
 ( i be faith; for recompences, as he pretcndeth: but indeedf 0: 
 itwbmg of M»- that he ts knowne to bee of nature fyrie, and im, 
 eSinghfmSJme P 3t,ent of fta y> from feeing that Commonweal* 
 wretch that on foot, which the next competitours for theii 
 £rie»e<A him fo, gaine have painted out to him and fuch others, 
 (for that he was more plcafant then the Terreftriali Paradifeit 
 
 feurttn her ter- p e jp f 
 
 he C fa”,hewiuId This then is the Ht^w.this is the Ajax appbio. 
 live to be reven- ted for the enteiprife, when the nme ffiall cotne, 
 
 gcii* 
 
 This mud be(fotfooth) another R chard of War. 
 vvicke , to gaine the Crowne for tien<j the ninth 
 ofthe Houfeof Yorke: astheorher Rtc-ard did 
 put downe Hemy the fixt of the Houfe of Lana, 
 fter, and placed Edward the fourth , from whom 
 Huntington deriveth hts tide therefore this man 
 is necefl'ariij to be entertained from time to time 
 (as we fee now he is) in fome charge and maj. 
 tiall aftion, to the end his experience,powered 
 credit may grow the more, and he be able atthe 
 time to have fouldiers at his commandment. And 
 for the former charge which held of late in Ire¬ 
 land, as this man had not beene called away, bu? 
 • In Scotland,or for execution of fome other fecret purpofe, # for 
 eltwbcrc, againft advancement of their defignements *. fo bee well 
 afl’ured that for the time to come, it is to bee fur. 
 nifhed againe with a fare and faft friend to Ley. 
 cefter and to that faft ion. 
 
 In the lie of Wight I grant that Leycefterhath 
 loft a great friend and 3 trufty fervan^ y the 
 death of Capcaine but ye: the m nrer u 
 
 fupplied by the fucceffion of another, no ltfl'c a( 
 fured unto him then the former, of rather mnore, 
 through the band of affinity by his wife.The two 
 Sir AmiasPaulet Hands of Gerfey andGeru.ey are in ihe pdffef. 
 Sir Thomas fionof two friends and moft obliged dependents; 
 ayroa. TWe one > by reafon he is exceedingly addtfted to 
 
 the 
 
 the nextinheri- 
 tors.or prefenc 
 pofleffor. 
 
 Sir Iohn Paroct. 
 
 Sir Ed ward 
 Horfey. 
 
 Sir George Ca¬ 
 rer*. 
 
the Puritan proceeding*: ‘he other as now Umg 
 L*d unto hro by the manage of nultr,, S.tfe, 
 filler, both daughters to Str Fr«««, or 
 f.rltah) tony h>dy *.«••*>• > n ‘j <® b «®ine * 
 a rivail rorapjnion and brother, who was before 
 
 I^^^Wcrtre^ 
 
 Bulwarkesjwithin.wnhour and about the Realm, 
 
 ivhith n y Lord of Lcycefter pcffcffing, (as hee 
 -doth) heemay be allured of the body within: 
 whcxe netwithftandtng (as hath beenc (hewed; 
 hewantethnodue preparation forfirength: ha- 
 , m o at his difpofition (befides all aydes and o- 
 - ther helpes fpecified before) her Majefties horfe, 
 andftables, byintereftof hisownc office: her 
 , Armour,Artiilery,and Munition, by the office of 
 vhisbrother the Earle ofWarwicke. The Tower 
 ■! of London and treafure therein, by the depen¬ 
 dence of Sir Qmn Hofton his fworne fervanr, as 
 
 : ready to refeue andfurmlh him with thewhole > if 
 
 ■ eccafion ferved, as one of his predeceff urs was, 
 nt,. to receive his Father in King Et wards dayes, for 
 i the like efted, againfl her Majcily and her Si- 
 
 ■ Her. 
 
 And in the City of London it felfe, what this 
 * .manat a pindi could doe,by the helpe of feme of 
 y,' the princi pall men,and chic ft Leaders, and (as it 
 • 0 i were) Commanders of the Commons there,and 
 by the beftirring of flteivpteei hi?-maddc Recor- 
 h-der, and otherfuchhts mftruments; as alio in 
 all other Townts, Ports, and Cities of impor- 
 i tanre, by fuch ef his owne fettirg up, as hee 
 y t haih placed there tofetve his difignements, and 
 t Jufttcc^ of peace, with other, that in moll Shires 
 it doe wear?his livery, and are at his appointments 
 thelunplcli man within the Realme dothcou- 
 lider. 
 
 HetMaiefties 
 ftah!e,let ar¬ 
 mour, niuptticn, 
 and artillery 
 The Tcwcr. 
 
 London. 
 
 Sir Rowland 
 Heyward,Sec. 
 Mad Fleetwood, 
 
 Gentkma*. 
 
 Where. 
 
ScMsr. 
 
 My Lord or 
 Huntingtons 
 preparation at 
 Afhby. 
 
 Xillingworth 
 
 Caftlc. 
 
 Ralph Lane. 
 
 Whereunto if you atide now his owneforctj 
 and furniture which hee bath in Killingwotth 
 Cafflc,and other places,as alfo the forces of Hun¬ 
 tington in particular,with their friends,followers, 
 allies and comparten^rs, you {hall finde that they 
 are not behinde in their preparations. 
 
 For my Lord of Huntingtons forwardneffe in 
 the caufe ({aid I) there is no man,I thinke, whiff 
 maketh doubt: marry for his private forces,albeit 
 they may be very good, for any thing I doe know 
 to the contrary, (dpeciailyat his houfe within 
 five and twenty miles of Kiliingworth,where om 
 told mee fome yeares pift, that he had furniture 
 ready for fivethoufand men:.) yet do l not think 
 but they are farre inferiour to my Lord of Leycp 
 Her, who is taken to have exec {five {lore,and that 
 in divers places. Andasfor the Caftle lad men 
 tioned by you,there arc menof good intelligence, 
 and of no ftnall judgement,who reporc that in the 
 fame he hath to furnifh ten thousand good foul- 
 diers, of all things neceffary both for horfeand 
 man, befides all other mxinkton,armour, and ar¬ 
 tillery, (whereof great {lore was brought thither 
 under pretence of triumph,when her Majeffy wai 
 there, and never as yet carried backe agatr.e) aid 
 befides the great abundance of ready coyne there 
 (as is faid_) fufficient for any great exploit to b« 
 done within theRealme. 
 
 And I know that the eftimatkan of this place 
 wasfuch, among divers , many yeares agoe: as 
 when at %ttme her M tjs.fty lay dangcroufly fick, 
 and like to dye, at Hampton Court, a cettaine 
 Gentleman of the Court' came unto my I,ordof 
 Huntington, and told him,that for fo muGja asht 
 tnoke his Lord to be next in fucceflion afff;r her 
 Mijcfly , hee would offer him a meane of gt«t 
 hdpe tor comparing of his purpofe, after the 
 ■; ’ difeeafe 
 
deceafe of herMajdty which was, thepoffeffion The offer and 
 
 * of Killing worth Cattle (for at tnat time thefe *“‘ ptacion , of 
 
 TWO Earley were sot yet very friends, nor con fe- otth 
 
 * derate together) and that being haa ; he fhewed to 
 the Earle the great furniture an*l wealth which 
 ,hereby he fliould poffcflc for purfuit of his pur- 
 
 : pofe. 
 
 The propefi ion was well liked, and the mat¬ 
 ter - deemed if great importance,andcon ft quent- 
 Iy received with many thankes Bur yet'.forward 
 her Majefty by the good providence oi God,reco- 
 : : venng agair.c. letted the execution of the bargains 
 and my Lord of Huntir.gton having occafivi^ to 
 i j >yne amity with Leyedter, had inbye refpeft to 
 i ln> ownc commodity, then to his friends fecurity, 
 
 (as commonly in fuch peifoas and cafes it falleth 
 out)and fo difcovered the whole device unto him, 
 who forgat not after,from time to time,to plague 
 the devifer by fecret means,untill he had brought 
 him to that poore eftate, as all the world feeth : 
 
 ,ii though many men be not acquainted with the true 
 caufe of this his difgrace and bad fortune. 
 
 To this anlwered the Lawyer: In good faith Larvjtr, 
 (GentJcmen) you open great myftcries unto me, 
 
 * which either I knew not,or confidered not fo par- 
 ticularly before ; and no matvell,for that my pro- 
 
 i feflion sud exercife of Law, rcftraineth me from 
 much company keeping : and when I happen to 
 he among feme th.t could tell mee much herein, 
 rf I dare no: either askc, or heare if any of himfelfe 
 ■ beginne to talk:, left afterward the fpeech com- 
 niiitg to rtght, 1 be fetched over the coales(as the 
 i ( prover^ is) for the fame, under pretence of an«- 
 ,t ther thing. But you (who are not fufpe&edfor 
 .religij/n) have much greater priviledge in fuch 
 ( ,jnarfers, both to heare and fpeake gaine, which 
 ...men of mine eftate dare not tjoe: OnclythusI 
 £ £ knew 
 
The prerogative knew before, that thr ushout all England my | 
 ®f «y Lord of Lord of Lcycefter is taken tor Tiomnus foe totum : ' 
 
 Leycefler. whofe excellency above others is infinite , whole 
 authority is ab'olutc,whole coinandment is dread* * 
 full,whole difl ke is dangerous,and whole favout 
 is omnipotent. 
 
 And for his will, though it be feldome Law, 
 yetalwayes is his power above law : and there- 
 fore wee Lawyers in all calcs brought untow, 
 have as gre ?t regard ro his inclination, as Aftro. 
 nomer hav <« th Planet dominant, or as Set* 
 men haveto th North Pole. 
 
 Leycefter the For as they that fail, doe direft hiir courfe 
 Star dnedoty to ^ccerdingto th fituation and Jircdhoo of that 
 L:wyers>n th«r {} arre which goideth them at the Pole . andai 
 s *encs aires. ^ft ronon . er! ; w ho make Prognoftications. dot 
 foretell th mgs to come, according to the afped 
 of the Plane: lonainant, or bearing rule lor the 
 time : fo we u«>> guid • our Clients ba!ke,anado 
 prognoftuatc what is like to eufue of h<s cau(r,i>J 
 the afpc& an; inclination of my Lord of I.tyce- 
 (ler. And for that reafon, as foone as ever wet 
 hearea cafe propofed,ourculiome ;s to a-k,whit 
 part my Lord of Leycefter is like to fivour in tht 
 matter, (for in all matters 1 ghtly of any 1 pot- 
 tance he hath a part} or what may be gathered 
 his inclination therein : and accord'ng to tb 
 we give a gueffc ,more or ltffe, what end will en* , 
 fue. But his(»’y Mailers) is from the purpefti 
 and therefore r. turning t your former fpeech * , 
 gaine, I do fay, that albeit I was not privy befori j 
 to the particular provifions of my Lord andhil , 
 friends, in fuch and fuch places : yet feeing lira i 
 acrotnpted Lord Generali overall thei<wholi , 
 Realmc, and to have at h s commandcmCnt >!! 
 thefe feverall commodities and forces pertairi^g 0 
 to her Majefty which you have mentioned be 
 
fore and fo many more as be in the Realme, and 
 not mentioned by you (for in fine he hath al:) I 
 could nor but account him (asheeis.) a potent 
 Trince of our State, for all furniture noedfullto 
 defence or offence, or rather the oneiy Monarch 
 of our Nobility, who hath fufficient necdfullto 
 plunge his Piince, if he fhould bee difeontemed, 
 eipemlly for his abundance of money, (which, ,. . 
 
 by the wife, is tcarmed the Sinewes of Marciall Wr 5 inmone - “ 
 aftions) wherein by all mens judgements, hce is 
 ■ better futmfhed at this day, then ever any fub- 
 jeiff of our land, either hath bcene heretofore, or 
 lightly may be hereafter, both for hankes with- 
 1 out the Realme, and Huffed coffers within, lnfo- 
 1 much that being my ftlfe in the laft Parliament, 
 
 : when the matter was moved for the grant of a 
 Subfidie, after that, one for her Majefly had gi-' 
 
 ' ven veiy good reafons,why her Highnelle was in 
 want of money,andconfequently needed thoolfi- 
 itance of her faithfull fubje&s therein, another 
 that fate next me, of good account, faid in mine 
 earefecretly, thefereafons I doe well allow, and Theftyingofa 
 1 am contented to give my part in money: but yet sEoucWng 
 forherMajefties need, I could make anfwer as Leyeelkrs mony 
 1 one anfwered once the Emperour Tibtriu* in the 
 " like cafe and caufe, Abundi ei pecuniam fore, (i % li¬ 
 ber tofuo in focietatem redpietur ; that her Majefly 
 "' fhould have Money enough, if one of her fervants 
 ’"-would vouchfafe to make her Highnelle partaker 
 pwith him ; meaning thereby my Lord of Lcycc- 
 : Her, vvhr/e treafure mult needs in one refpe& be 
 1 "greater then that of her Majefly ; for that he lay- 
 ‘"ttthuptfhatfoever.he getteth, and his expenceshs 
 ei'caftetMipon thepurfeof his Prmcefle. 
 
 h>t that (faid the Gentleman)whethcr he doe G£Mlm&h 
 flWno. it importeth little to the matter : feeing 
 mtboth that which hee fpendeth, and that he hord- 
 E a etfy 
 
eth, is truly andpropn;} his Princes Treafurej 
 and feeing hee hath fo many and divers wayesof 
 The iwfinit wales gaining,what fhnuld be make account of his own 
 of gaming that p ri7atc expence:, ? if hee lay out one for a thou- 
 
 Leysefter at • w har can t j iat nuke him thr poorer ? hee 
 
 shat hath fo goody land , puffiffions, Scgmo* 
 ne$, and rich offices of his cwdi,;s he is knawne 
 to have: hee that bach fo (peciail favour and aa- 
 thority with the Prince, as he can obtaine what¬ 
 soever he lifteth to demand : he that hath his part 
 Sutet. and portion in all futes bcfides,that pafle by grace, 
 
 or elfe (for the tnoft part) are ended by Law : he 
 Lands. that may chop and change what lanes hee lifteth 
 
 with her Majefly,difpoile them of al their woods 
 and other commodities,and rack them afterward 
 to the uttermoft penny,and then retorne the fame 
 fo tenter-firetched,and bare-fhorne, into her Ma- 
 jefties hands agame, by frefh exchange, tent for 
 rent, for other lands never enhanfed before • hee 
 licence*. that poffefl'eth fo many gainfull Licences to him- 
 felfe alone, of Wine, Cyhs, Currants, C7 loath. 
 Velvets, with his new office for Licence of alie¬ 
 nation, moft pernicious unto the CommonweaUi 
 as hee ufeih the fame, with many other the like, 
 which were fufficicnt to enrich whole Tovvnti, 
 Corporations, Countries and Commonwealths: 
 heth th ththe art, to make gainfull to himfelft 
 Falling out with every offence, difpleafurc, and falling out of her 
 feci- Maicfly. Majeffy with him, andevety angry countenanct 
 Offices- caft upon him : he that hath his fhare in all offi¬ 
 
 ces of great profit,and holdeth an abfclrte Mono- 
 p- ly ofthefame : he that difpofeth at his will tht 
 Ecclefiafticall livings of the Realme, makethBi- 
 fhops, nrnc. butfuch as will doe reafon,d”ofhii 
 ^^ cr S7’ Chaplains whom he lifteth,andrctaineih tVljim- 
 
 felfe fomuch of the livingas liketh him btfl: hee 
 that fwcepeth away the glebe from fo many Be 
 ntfiits 
 
-3 #- 
 
 neficc* throughout the Land., and cejBpmmdetfe * cne fi C i«, 
 with the pcrion For the reft. He that fo fcouretb 
 H theUmrerfity and Colledga* where he i t Chan- Vnivetrfstjr. 
 
 cellour, and lelleth both Headftaips and Scholars 
 ' places, and all other oftaecs, roomes and digni¬ 
 ties, that by art or violence may yeeldmoney -.he 1 
 n “ that mi krth title to what land or other thing he 
 J pleafe, and driveth the parties to compound For Opprjffious. 
 
 ' the Fime Fame: he thattaketh in whole Foreifs, 
 
 * Commons, Woods, and ■ Failures to himfclfe, 
 compelling the Tenants io make him pay new 
 rent,and what he ccfleth : he that vexeth and op- 
 ,!• prefleth whomfoever hee lift, taketh from any Rapine*, 
 what hee lift, and maketh his owne claime, fuir, 
 and end as he lift : he that felleth his Favour with Princes favour, 
 
 1 the Prince,bo h abroad in forraine countrics,and 
 n at home, and fetteih the price thereoF what him- 
 W Felfe will demand : he that hath and doth ail this, 
 
 and hcfides this, hath infinite prefems daily F,eileau » 
 c r brought unto him of great value, both in Jewell, 
 
 - Plate, all kinde of Furnirure, and ready Come ? 
 this man (1 Fay) may eafily beare his owne ex- 
 pences, and yet layup ft fficiently alfo to weary 
 h s Prince when need fhall require. 
 
 You have laid much, fir, (q noth the Lawyer) Lartyirl 
 c and fudi matter as toucheth nearly both her M r 
 1 jelly and the Commonwealth: and yet in my 
 llf confcience if I were to plead at the barte For my 
 Lord,I could not tell which oF all thefe members 
 to deny. But For that which you mention in the 
 'l laft part, of Ins gaining by her M tjefties Favour, 
 both at Borne and abroad: Touching his home Leyco n ers home 
 gaine,.it is evident, Feeing all that he hath is got- K ainc b Y her Ma- 
 ten oijely by the opinion oF her Majefties Favour lt ^‘ Cs k vour * 
 
 ; towards him, and many men doe repaire unto 
 hjm with Fat preFents,rather For that they fuppofe 
 ..he may by his Favour do them hurt,iF he Feele not 
 
Aprctty ftory. 
 
 kcyceflers for* 
 ramegaincby 
 her Maiefties 
 favour. 
 
 (6i) 
 
 their reward, then tor that they hope he will la. 
 hour any thing in their affaires. 
 
 You remember (I doubt not,) the ftory of him 
 that offered his Pnnce a great yearly rent, to have 
 bat this favour onely, that hce might come every 
 day in open audience, and fay in his ease, God 
 fave yoar Majefiy, alluring himfelfe, that by the 
 opinion of confidence and fccret favour, which 
 hereby the people would conceive to be in the 
 Prince towards him, he fhould eafilyget up his 
 rent againc double told. Wherefore my Lord of 
 Leyceiter receiving daily from her Majeffy grea¬ 
 ter tokens of *race and favour then this, and 
 himfelfe bring no evill Merchant, to make 
 his owne bargaine for the beft of his com¬ 
 modities, cannot but gainc exceedingly at home 
 by his favour. 
 
 And for his lucre abroad upon the fame caufe, 
 I leave to other men to conceive what it may be, 
 fithence the beginning of her Mijefties rtiene, 
 the times whereof and condition of all Chriften- 
 dome hath beene fuch,as all the Princes and Po- 
 tencates round about us, have beene conftrained 
 at one time or other, to fue to h r Hiehneflcfot 
 aid,grace, or favour : in all which futes, men life 
 not to forget (as you know)the parties moll able 
 by their credit,to further or let the fame. 
 
 In particular onely this I can fay, that I Have 
 heard of fundry Frenchmen, that at fuch time 11 
 the treaty was betweene France and England/or 
 the re-delivery ofCallis unto us againe, in the 
 firfi yeare of her Majcffies rcigne that'now is, 
 when the Frenchmen were in great diftr.effe and 
 mifery.and King 'Philip refufed abfolutely t.o make 
 peace with them, except Calliswere reftojedto 
 England (whither for that purpofe he had nqw 
 delivered the French hofhges:) the Frenchmer 
 
: doe report (Ify) tha« n.yLord of Leycefler Leycefier. br| u , 
 ft QK j themm fe <citfteao at :hat necrflLy, tor his betraying 
 n« reward, (which. y « may well imagine was not of CaIli »- 
 ,/ K . f, n dl,for a thing of fuch tmporrance)and became 
 a loiter, that peace might be com luded,wnh the 
 ik[ releale ofCallts to the French* which was 
 one ■ f he nioft impious fads (to fay the truth,) 
 
 , that ever could be dcvife.d againit his Common- 
 
 it wcaitn. 
 
 A imal! matter inhim (faid the Gentleman) Gtnthmn, 
 
 [ for in this h did no m -re, but as Chrift faid of 
 it,, the J W' : bit they filled up the mcafureof .heir 
 Fa hersfinnes. And fo if you rc.ide the Itory^f 
 :• K\ .:E*W'»tim-, yoafia (1 finde it moft e vi^ 
 
 ; de t, hit tins mans father before him, fold Bui- Lcyccfterj fa- 
 v leg o the French by lik-ireachery. For it thetfcidBu]. 
 w-s delivered up upon con pofir-oo, w thout ne-' lo S RC - 
 ceili yorreafoh, th five an j twentieth of April,* 
 inth. fourth year of KngSaward the fixt, when 
 he (I meant Duke Duiitcj) had now put in the EarletofAran- 
 Towcr the Lord Protertox, and thruftout of’he dclandsourb- 
 C uncell whom he lilted, as namely, iheEarivS h? nptooputout 
 of Arundel and Southampton, and fo invaded the bv ^Dudley 
 / whole government himfe f ,to fell, fpoiic, or dif- ' 
 pofe at his pleafure. Wherefore this is buenatu- 
 • rail to my Lord of Leycefter by d-feenc, ro 
 make merchindife of the State, for his Grand¬ 
 father Jaffiftsdalfowas fuch a kmdc of Copef- 
 . man. 
 
 An evill race of Merchants for the Common- laivyer 
 wealth (quoth the Lawyer) but yet, Sir, I pray 
 you (faid he) expound unto me fomewhn more 
 at iargCjthe nature of ihcle licences which you na¬ 
 med,)* alfo the changing of lands with her M "je¬ 
 lly,ifyou can fet it downe any plainer: for they 
 f^eise to be things ©f exceffivc gaine ; efpecially 
 /htswayof gaining by offending her Majefly, or 
 E 4 by 
 
( 6 \) 
 
 By her Highaeffe oftcntc towards him, for it fee. 
 meth to be a device above ah skill or reafon. 
 leyeeflers Jtaine Not fo (quoth the Genth mar) for you know 
 
 **?!?"!?% ^ atc very falling out muft have an attonement 
 wuh her Maieity agfjnCj whereof hee being fure by the many , 1](j 
 
 puiilant meanesof his friends in Court, as 1 hive 
 {hewed before, who (hall not give her Majefty 
 reft untill it be done : then for this acronernent, 
 and in perfect reconciliation on her Mijtfticjp^tt 
 fhe muft grant my Lord fome fute or other,which 
 he will have alwayes ready provided for that put* 
 pofe, and this fute fhall bee well able to reward 
 his friends, that laboured for his reconcilement, 
 and leave alfo a good remainder for himfclfc, 
 And th-s is now fo ordinary a practice with him, 
 as all the Realme obfei veth the lame.anddifdain- 
 eth that her Majetiy fhould bee fo unworthily a- 
 bafed. For it her Highaeffe fall not out with 
 him as often as he defimh to gaine this way,then 
 he pickethfomcquarrell or ocher, to Ihcw hira- 
 felfe difeontented w’th her, fo that one way ot 
 other, this gainful! reconciliation muft be made, 
 and that often for his commod.ty. The like art 
 he exercifeth in inviting her Majefty to his ban¬ 
 quets, and to his houfes, where if thee come, Ike 
 muft grant him in Cutes , tenne times fo mu;h at 
 the charges of all amount unto : fo that Robin 
 playeththe Broker in all his aff’ires,and maketh 
 the uttermoft penny of her Majefty every way. 
 Gtntlcmn. Now for his change of lands, I .hmkel 
 
 have beene reafonable plaine before : ( jet for 
 your fuller fatisfa&ion, you fhall underftand hit 
 further dealing therein, to be in this fort. Be- 
 fldes the good lands, and of ancient poffdlion 
 so the Crowne, procured at her Majeftics hand, 
 and ufed as before was declared: hee ufcU 
 the fame tricke for his worft lands, that he pof- 
 feffeth 
 
m 
 
 ftfleth any way,whether they come to him,by ex¬ 
 tort me.tnes and plaine oppreflion, or through 
 "maintenance and broken titles,or by coufenage of 
 ; ■ Cmple Gentlemen,to make him their heire, or by L eyceflcrs frau- 
 ;vfi t hard title or unhoneft meanes fo ever, ( for dulenc change of 
 l! heepr-ftifceth (lore of fuch and thinketh little of lands withher 
 -'i the reckoning :) after he had tried them likcwifc Matefty whereby 
 " totheuttcrm'oft touch, and letten them ootto ^ 
 f -i fuch as fhall gaine but little by the bargaine; then th g Crow * c , 
 goeth he and changeth the fame with her Majefly 
 1 f for the befl lands he can pick out of the Crowne, 
 
 ^to the end that hereby he may both enforce her 
 • Mtjefty to the defence of his bad titles, and him- 
 5 ‘ : felft fill his coffers with the fines and uttermoft 
 commodity of bath the lands. 
 
 ® His licences do ftand thus firft he got licence Leycellcrsliccn- 
 !| forccrtaine great numbers of cloaths.tobe tranf- fes, 
 
 ' ported out of this land , which might have beene 
 an undoing to the Merchant tubjeft , if they had 
 
 ■ not redeemed the fame with great furnmes of me- 
 ; ny: fo that it redounded to great dammage of all 
 
 occupied about that kind of commodity- After 
 that he had the grant for carrying over of barrel I 
 1 ftavesandoffome other fuch like wares. Then 
 I procured hee a Monopolie , for bringing in of 
 fweet wines , oyles, currants and the like : the 
 if gaine wherof is ineftimable.He had alfo the for- 
 
 ■ frit of all wine that was to be drawn above the 
 old ordinary price , with licence to give autho¬ 
 rity to fell above that price : wherin Captaine 
 Horfej jj/as his inftrument, by winch meanes 
 it is incredible what treafure and yearely rent 
 was gathered of the Vintners throughout the 
 land. 
 
 To this adde now his licence of filkes and vel 
 vets, which only were enough to enrich rhe Major * ,kesan d 
 and Aldermen of London,ifthey were all decaied clvctlJ 
 
 C » 
 
The Tyrannical! 
 licence of alieiia- 
 won. 
 
 GtmUmtn. 
 
 Edmund Dudley. 
 
 Edmund Dudleis 
 b®oke written in 
 the Tower. 
 
 ( 66 ) 
 
 (as often I have heard o.m• s Merchants affirmt,' 
 And his licence of alienation of lands, which(* t) | 
 in part I have opt ned before) ferveth- him |g 
 onely to exceffive g-iine , but alfo (or an ft (j, 
 treame fcourge . wherewith to plague whomlii 
 pleafeth in the Realm, For feeing that wnium (, 
 this licence, na man can buy, fell, pafle, or 4 k- 
 natc , any land that any wai< s may be drawn>f(| t l 
 that tenure , as holden in chiefe of the Princt, 
 
 ( as commonly now mofl land m \y ) he callttl f 
 into^ueftion whet foe ver Iik. thhim bcft,bcitn{. 
 verfodearer and under thu colour, not oniy a 
 richeth himfelie without all me dure , but revert- , 
 geth hitnfelfe alfo, where he will, without all t 
 order. * { 
 
 Here the Lawyer flood ftill a pretty while, bi. t 
 ting his lip, as he were aftonifhed, and thenfai'• 
 Verily I have noc heard fo many and fo apparam 
 things, or fo odious > of any man that ever lived 
 in our Common wealth. And I marvaile much 
 ofmyLordof 1 ocefttr , that his Grandfather! 
 fortune doth not move him much , who lofthu 
 head in the beginning of King Hfwrythe eights 
 dayes, for much lefie and fewer offences , in the 
 fame kind , committed in the time of K g Hfurj 
 the feventh : for he was thought to be the uiven- 
 tour of thefe poolings and moleftations , where- 
 wirh the p- ople were burthened,iu the latter dayt 
 of the faid King. And yet had he great pretence 
 of reafon to alledged for himfelfc : in that theft 
 exaftions were made to the Kings ufe,and not to 
 his, (albeit no doubt) but his own gaine was al¬ 
 fo there. Mifter Sr«*r v/riteth in his Cronide, 
 that inthe time of h s imprifonment in the ;Tow- 
 er he wrot a not 'b e book, intituled The treeof 
 Common wealth,which b- ok the faid Suw faith, 
 that hee hath delivered to my Lord of Ltjct(ln\ 
 
!i many years agone. And it the faid book be fo no¬ 
 table as Matter Slow affirmeth : Imarvilfc that 
 his Lord in fo many yeares, doth not publifh the 
 fame, for the glory of his anceftors ? 
 
 ’ It may be (faid the Gentleman) that the fecrets 
 therein contained, be fuch, as it feemedr good to 
 ' ’ my Lord, to ufe them onely himfelfc, and to ga- 
 ia th-r the fruit of the tree into his ewne houfe 
 F alone. Forifthe tree of the Common-wealth in 
 [ Edmund Wudlu book, be the Prince and his race : 
 
 and the fruits to be gathered from that tree, bee 
 C,J riches, honours, dignities, and preferments: then 
 j ;: no doubt, but as the writer Edmund was cunning 
 therein: fo hare his two followers, John and Ro¬ 
 bert , well ftudied and pra&ized the fame, or ra- 
 
 ■ ther have , exceeded and farre p iffed the amhour 
 fr himfelfe. The one of them gathering fo eagerly, 
 
 and with fuch vehemency, as he was like to have 
 broken down the mainc boughes for greedinefle: 
 the other yet plucking and heaping fo fail to him- 
 fdfc and his friends, as it is and may be, moll 
 juflly doubted , that when they have cropped all 
 they can, from the tree Jeft them by their father 
 Edmund (I mcane the race of King Henry the fe- 
 
 ■ venth ) then will they pluck up the Stemme it felf 
 bytherootes, as unprofitable : and pitch in his 
 
 ' place another Trunke that is the line of Hmitin- 
 gt««) that may begin to feed a new , withfrefh 
 truitsagaine , and fo fora time content their ap¬ 
 petites,untill of gatherers,they may become trees, 
 (which is their fin \ 11 purpofe) to feed themfelves 
 : at theirWn difcrerion. 
 
 Andhowfoever this be,it cannot be denied,but 
 thar idm. Dudlts brood,have learned by this book, 
 and by other meancs to be more c inning gathe- 
 rers,then ever their firft progenitor was.that made 
 the book .Full for that he made profdfion to ga¬ 
 ther 
 
 GevtUmin, 
 
 The flipplanting 
 of the race of 
 Henry the 7. 
 
 The infertingof 
 Huntington. 
 
 Edmund Di d- 
 loses brood more 
 cunning then 
 himfcUc, 
 
(6S) 
 
 ther to his Prince ( though wickedly ) and the[ { 
 men make demon ({ration, that they kavegi. 
 thered for themfelves : and that with mud 
 more iniquity. Secondly, for that Emuvd Dd 
 ley though hee got himfelfe neare about ifo |j ( 
 tree , y. t was he content to itand on the ground, .. 
 and co ferve himfelfe from the tree , as commo. , 
 dity was offered : but his children not dice, 
 rising that fafe gathering, will needs mount aloft 
 upon the tree, to pall, croppe, and rifle at 
 If&rthiimberland their pleafure. And as in the fccofl^l point the 
 saw! Leyceftcr Sonne l$hn r Dnd!e y was more fubtile, then U 
 wnhtheir Prince munc ( t |, c Father : fo in a thrd pointthe Nc- 
 will aoc be ruled. pj^y R a o et t Dudltj is more crafty then 'hey both, „ 
 For that, hee feeing the etdl fuccclleot thoft 
 two thar went before him , hee hath provided 
 together fo much in cGnvei-ient time, and tc , 
 make himfelfe therewith fo fat and ftrong, 
 
 ( wherein the other two failed ) as he will never 
 be in danger more , to be called to any accotnpt 
 for the fame. 
 
 Tup **?t In good faith Sir Cquoth the Lawyer) T thanke 
 
 you heartily, for thispleafant difeomfe »pon£<(. 
 mind Dudltu tree of Common wealth. And bv 
 your opinion , my Lord ofLeycefter isthemon 
 learned of all his kindred , and a very cunning 
 Logttioncr indeed, that can draw for himfelfe fo 
 commodious conclu(5om,out of the perillous pre- 
 miffes of his progenitors. 
 
 No marvail (quoth the GentIeman)for tha? hit 
 < StntUntM . L. is Mafter of Art in Oxford, and Chanrelout 
 
 befides of the fame Vnivertny,where he K’ath ftore 
 
 _ ,, (asyouknow)ofmanyfinewitsandpoodLogi- 
 
 ofAtcfanVacun- tionersathis commandement: and where hi' lear- 
 afeg Logitioncr* neth not only the rules and art of cunning gathe- 
 * ring: but for the very praftize (as 1 have touched 
 before) feeing there is no one Colledge, or other 
 thing 
 
(* 9 ) 
 
 Vang of commodity w thin that place, where 
 
 t-ncche hath not pulled,whatfoever was poffibly 
 ' :0 be gnhered, either hy art or violence. 
 
 ’ *r. ...UirtA ( laid T ^ 
 
 stbitoo 
 
 Touching Oxford (laid I) for that I am an a 
 Jniverhty man my fclfe,and have both experience 
 jt Cambridge , and good acquaintance with di¬ 
 vers ftudems of the other untverfity : I can tell 
 you enough,ta in fine all tende.h tn .his conclu- l (tt[! lb|( . 
 fion, that by his Chancellorihip, is cancelled al- fi ngand fpoiliqg 
 molt all hope of good in that Umverfity : and by of Oxford, 
 “hisprotedhon, it is very like foone to come to 
 deftruftion. And fately if there were no other 
 thing,to declare the oddes and difference betwixt xbc Lord 
 him and our Chanceilour, C whom he cannot Trcafutcr. 
 
 ‘ beam for that every way he feech him,to p .fle him 
 J in all honour and vertue) it were fuffieient to be- 
 " hold the prefent ftate of the two llniverfitics , 
 whereof they are heads and governours. 
 
 For our own, I will not fay much, left I might Cambridge, 
 prih.’psfeemtpa trail: but let the thing fpeak for 
 itfelfe. Confider the fruit of the Garden, and 
 thetiy you may judge f.fth' Gardiners diligence. 
 
 Lonke upon the Bifhopraks, Paftorilvps , and 
 Pulpits of England, and fee whence principally 
 they have rec ived their furniture for advance- 
 mentof the Gofpell. And on the contrary fide 9 
 looke upon the Seminaries of Papiftry at Rome 
 and Rhems, upon the Colledges of Jefuifts , 
 and other companies of Papifts beyond the 
 feas, and fee where-hence th> y are , e:p ecially, 
 fraught. 
 
 The Pricftsand Jefuifts here executed within 
 the lyid,and other that remaine cither in prifon, 
 or abroad in corners: are they not all fin a man- 
 ner)of that Univeifny? I fpeak not to the difgrace 
 of any good that remaine there, or that have iflu- 
 ed out I hi nee into the Lords Vineyard: but for 
 the 
 
( 7 °) 
 
 the mofi part there, of this our time, have they 
 not either gone bey md the feas, or left their pU*. 
 ccs for difcontemmem in Religion, ordfcbe. 
 come Servingmcn, or followed the bare name of 
 Law or Phyfick, without greatly profiting theft, 
 in, or furthering thcfervice of Gods Church,# 
 their Commonwealth ? 
 
 And wherehence (I pray you)enfueth allthii, 
 butbyreafon that the chiefe Goyernour theicof 
 Thedifor^crs of is an Atheift himfelfe, andufeth the place ondy 
 ° X l° r j b y hC c ^ or g a,ne an d fpoile ? for hcrehcnce it commeili, 
 their Chancetlor l ^ ac good order and drfcipline is difl'olvediit 
 that plaee, the fervour of fludy extinguifhed i Klit 
 publique Lc&ures abandoned ("I meane of the 
 more pari:) the Tavernes and Ordinary tafeiej 
 frequented : the apparell of Students grownt 
 monftruous: and the ftatutes and good ordinanct 
 both of the Univet ficy and of every Colledge and 
 Hall in private,Hroken and infringed at my Lords 
 good pleafure, without refpedeither of oaih,cu- 
 flome, or reafon c® the contrary. The headsand 
 Officers are put in and out at hi* oncly diferetionj 
 and the Scholars places either (old, or difpofed 
 by his letters, or by thefe of his fervants and fol¬ 
 lowers r nothing can be had there, now, with* 
 out prefent money: it is as commen buying 
 and felling of places in that Umverfity, as of 
 horfes in Smithficld : whereby the good and ver- 
 tuous are kept out, and companions thruft in, (it 
 to ferve his Lord afterward, in all affaires that 
 fliall occurre. % 
 
 Leafes. And as for 1 cafes of Farmes, Woods, Pafiureti 
 
 Perfonages,Benefices, or the like, which belong 
 any way to any part of the Univerficy,to let or be- 
 ffow,thefe,his Lord and his Sewants have fo flee* 
 ced, ftiorne,and feraped already, that there remai- 
 neth little to feed upon hereafter: albeit hee 
 want 
 
( 70 
 
 - want not dill his fpie, and intelligences in the 
 ‘place, to advertife him from time to time, when 
 .'any new little morfell U off. red. And the princi¬ 
 pal! mftruments which far this purpofe he haih 
 hsd there before his, have been two Phyfitians, 
 Bey 1 } and 'ulprpn, both knewne Papifts a little 
 while agoe, but now juft of Gekni religion, and 
 fc much 'he fitter tor my Lords humour • for his 
 ii Lordflnp doth alw ies covet,to be furoiflied with 
 i;:;certaine ch'Ten men about h m,for divers affairs: 
 >iinas theft tw& G ilerofts \n the Univerfity: Det and 
 A tn ("two Atheifts) for figuring and conjuring : 
 :e Julio the Italian,and Lo/a* th r Jew,for po; foiling, 
 rand for the art of deflroying children in womens 
 ytrbtllie* : yttntis for mindiring: Digbiet for 
 Bauds : and the like in occupations which his 
 iriLoicfhip exercifeth. 
 
 Whetetore to rerurne to the fpeech where we 
 : beg in : moft deare it is, that my Lord of Lt y:e 
 fter hath meanes to gaine and gather alfo by the 
 Univcrfity,as wdai by the country abroad.Wher 
 it in( is I am told)he bearech himfelfe fo abfolute a 
 ; Lord,as ll he were their King,and nottheirChan- 
 
 i cellour. Nay far more then if he were the gene- 
 , rail and particular founderof all the Colledges 
 
 andothfrhoufes of the Univerfityjno m3n daring 
 
 ii to contrary or interrupt the leaf} word or figmft- 
 j c'tion of his will, but with h:s extreame danger : 
 3, which is a proceeding more fit for PhatarU the ty- 
 
 rant, or Oune Governour in T.irtary, then for a 
 Chancellourof a learned Univerfity, 
 
 To tfiis anfwcrtd the Lawyer, for my Lords 
 wrath towards Cuch as will not Hand to his judg¬ 
 ment ind opinion, 1 can mv felfe be a fuffieieru 
 witneffe, who having had often necafion to dealc 
 forccmpofitionofmJtcers betwixt his Lordfliip 
 and others, have feene by experience, that al- 
 wayes 
 
 Lcycefters fc* 
 ftruments. 
 
 * At Digbfea 
 h oiifc in War- 
 wicklhire dame 
 Lettice lay, ami 
 fome other fuefe 
 pieces of pica- 
 lure. 
 
 Lawyer, 
 
in 
 
 ( 7*; 
 
 wayes they have fped belt,who flood Ieaft in con 
 tencion with him, whatfoever their coafe wetc, 
 For as a great and violent river, the morc«n 
 .flopped or contraried,the more it rifeth andfwtl. , 
 lethbiggc, and in the end, dejedethwith mp;t ! 
 force the ching that made refiftance : fo his L<4 ‘ 
 'The pen’ll of ^'P betng £ ^ c § tcac a **4 mighty Potentate of(||| j, 
 
 ftanding with Realmc, and accuftomcd now to have his v 
 
 Leyccller in any in all things, cannot beare to bee crofled or rd 
 thing. fled by any man, though it were in his owne«. 
 
 ceffary defence. 
 
 Hereof I have feene examples in the ca«fenj j 
 Snowden foreil in Wales, oi Denbighe, ofjjij, 
 lingworth, of ©rayton, and others : where d ' 
 parties that had intereft, or thought themfelm h 
 wronged, had beene happy if they had yeeldedai a 
 the fitft to his Lordlhips pkafure,without furth# h 
 queftiomfor then had they cfcaped much troublt, „ 
 charges, difpleafure, and vexation, when byrefi- 
 ftance they incurred, to their great rume, (and ,, 
 * Pooremenre- * Ioffe oflife to fome) and in the end were faint 
 fiftin* Waiwick* to fubmit tbemfelves unto his will, with far word 
 inclofure at conditions then in the beginning were nffetej , 
 hanged for his unto them : which thing waspiadall indeed! h 
 pleafure by Ley- behold, but yet Curb is my Lords difpofinop. w b 
 cefters authority A noble difpofiuon (quoth the Gentleman,) tl 
 Gentlt&an. that I muft give him my coat, if hee demandth h 
 Great Tyranny, fame, and that quickly alfo,for feare lefl if I ihf 0 
 ger or make doubt thereof, hee compell me 19 L 
 yeeld both coat and doublet, in penance of mj 
 flay. I have read of fome luch Tyrants abroad 11 
 the worldmaarry their end was alwayes according h 
 to their life, as it is very like that it will be alfoin 
 this man,for that there is fmal hope of his jf.Tiend- 
 ment, and God pafleth not over commonly fudi It 
 matters unpumfhed in this life, as well as in th| it 
 life to come. n 
 
 Bu: 
 
But I priyyon fir,feeing mention is now trade 
 of the former oppieffions, fo much talked of 
 throughoutthe realm,that you will take the pains 
 ! to explain the fubftance cherof unto me; for albeit 
 ia gcnerall, every man doth know the fame, and 
 ; in heart doc deceit the tyranny thereof 3 yet we a- 
 1 broad in the Ouiitrey, doe dot underftand it fo 
 well and diftinaly as you that be Lawyers, who 
 ' have feene and underltood the whole proccffe of 
 the fame. 
 
 The cafe of Killingvrorth and Denbigh(faid the 
 c i|wyer)arc much alike in matter and manner of • 
 
 ' proceeding, though different in time, place and 
 ! mponance.For that the Lordflvp in Denbigh in The Lordfliip of 
 Norihw lies,being given anto him by herM ijefiy 
 :t!: t great while agoe,at the beginning of His rifing, p r effi on C "fed" 
 'which i* aLordfhip of lingular great importance therein., 
 
 ,n that Countrey, having (as I have heard) well 
 neere 100. worflupfull Gentlemen freeholders 
 ts theftme:) the tenants cf the place, conlider- 
 ing the prefent ftate of things,and having learned 
 the Hungry dilpoficion of their new Lord j made a 
 'common purfeof atlioufand pounds, to prefent 
 mm tvichall, at his firlt entrance : which though 
 aerecetved(ashe rtfuftth nothing 3) yet accoun¬ 
 ted he the fum of [mall effect for fatisfi&ion of 
 ' his appetite 3 and therefore applied bimfelfc,noe 
 Jlonelyto make the uttermolf that he could by 
 1 "Leafes,and fuch like wayesof comrnoditie ; but 
 alfohe would need* enforce the Freeholders to 
 raife their old rent of the Lordilup, from two 
 ' hundreth*and fifty pounds a yeere, or therea¬ 
 bouts (at whiih rate he had received the fana« 
 in gift 1 from her Mijefty,) unto eight or nine 
 hundreth pounds by the yeere, For that he had 
 • found out (farfooth) an old record, (as he fiid^) 
 whereby he could prove, that in ancient time 
 F tariff 
 
TheManar of 
 Killingworth.and 
 Lejrccftcrs ap- 
 prcflion there. 
 
 Thecaufe of 
 Snowden foreft 
 moft pitifull.t 
 
 ( 74 ) 
 
 long paft,that Lordftuphad ycelded lo much lid 
 rent: and therefore he would now enforce fo 
 prefent tenants, to make up fo much againe upon 
 their lands, which they thought was again# jjj 
 reafon for them to doe : but my Lord perfor« ( 
 would have it fo, and in the end compelled then 
 to yeeld to his will,to the impoveriihing of allfo 
 whole Countrey about. 
 
 The like proceeding he ufed with the tent^ 
 about Killingworth, where he received the fuj 
 Lore'fh'p and Cattle from the Prince, in gift 4 
 twenty fouie pounds yeerely rent or thereabaL 
 hath made it now better then five hundrethJBJ, 
 yeere : by an old record alfo,found by great fa.L 
 tune in the hole of a wall, asis given out (fotW|, ( 
 haih finguhr guod luck alwayes in finding out $ f 2 
 cords f )t his purpofe) by vertue whereof, he hie ,, 
 taken from the tenants round about,their Lanfy j, 
 Woods,Paft ures and Commons,to make himfcli ( /j 
 Patkes,Chaces,and other commodities thenv/d| 
 to the fubverfion of many a good family, whie 1 
 was maintained there, before this devourttij w 
 foot in that Countrey. i. 
 
 But the matter of Snowden Foreft, doth 
 all the reft, both for cunning and cruelty m 
 tragedy whereof was this, he had learned b)fo w , 
 intelligencers abroad (whereof he bad great ftef 
 in every p3rt of the Realme)ihat there was, w , 
 goodly ancient Foreft in Nor h wales, wbii 
 hath almoft infinite borderers about the faiw 4,, 
 for it lyethin the middeft of the Coujtrcy, I* c . 
 ginning at the hils of Snowden (whereof iths ( CI 
 his name) in Carnarvanlhire, and rea.hethnf L 
 ry way towards divers other (hires. Whenii 
 Lord heard of th>s, he entered prefently into ik 
 conceit of a Angular great prey: going to berili 
 jefty, fignified that herhigbneffe was often tin 
 abufci 
 
 ml 
 
abufed by the incroachi. g of fuch as dwelt upon 
 hfrFoKfil,which wasncccflary ro be re Grained; 
 
 : and therefore befeechcd her M jefty to beftovv 
 : upon him the mrrochments only,which he fhould 
 be able to finde out upon the Foreit of bnowden, 
 which was granted- 
 
 - And thereupon he chofe«ut Commiflioners fit 
 
 Tor the pnrpofe, and fent them into Wiles, with 
 ■he like Comrai/fion as acertaine Empirour was 
 voncto give feisM^j-toes, when they departed 
 tom him tog" verne, as Suet^m writeth, Scitu AnoMtyrannE- 
 wi velim & fuw* epu* hiteo. You know what I call Commiffioa 
 vould h.ive,3 d wh 11 have need of. Which re- 
 •ommrndation, th.f Commiflhmers taking to 
 teirij, ominedno diligence in execution of the 
 : jme; and (b going into W iles,by fuch meanes as 
 c Vfeey ufed,of felting one man toaccufe another; 
 
 ;:i: n»ugh' qmckly all the Countrcy round about in 
 iirefc ox foure flaxes, within the compafle ®f Fo- 
 5 reft ground; and fo emred upon the fame,for my 
 Lota of Liutllm. Whereupon, when the people 
 -were sm.Kd, and expe&ed what order my Lord 
 umielfe would take (herein s his Lord was fo far 
 A'from refufiog any part of that,which hisCom- 
 mflioners had prefeated and offered him: as he 
 *o«ld yet further flretch the Forefi beyond the 
 Jea,into the I He of Anglefcy, and make that aKb A rediculont d<- 
 1 ’ yithin his compafle and bounder. n.onllraiion of 
 
 Which when the Commonalty faw, and that exccfl * vc * vafie ® 
 hey profited nothing by their complaining and 
 S : -Tying out of this tyranny : they appointed to 
 end lome certaine number of themfelves, to 
 London, to make fupplication to the PriQce * 
 sod fo they did ; choofing out for tint purpofe a 
 v fo®** Gentlemen, and many more of the Com- 
 i Bioni of the Couiitrey of Llin, to deale fer the 
 1 whole, Who coming to London, aod exhibiting 
 
 F * * 
 
A fingular ©p- 
 frreSloa. 
 
 Leyeeftcr ex- 
 
 ( 7 s ) 
 
 a moft humble fuppiuauon to her Mijeftyfo, 
 rtdrefle of their oppreflion : received an anfwcr, 
 by the procurement of my Lord of lejeejlfr, that 
 they fhould have juftice , if the common® 
 yvouid returne home to their houfes, and tit 
 Gentlemen remaine there, to foliate the catift. 
 Which as foone as they had yeelded unto, tlx 
 Gentlemen were all taken and caft into prifon. 
 and there kept for a great fpace, and afterwatii 
 were Cent downe to Ludlow, (as the plate moil 
 eminent of all thefe Countries} there togwciit 
 papers of perjury, and receive other puniftiroena 
 of infamy ; for their complaining : which pun£ 
 roents not withftanding,afterward upon great faj 
 of the parties and their friends, were turned® 
 great fines of money, which they were confln. 
 ned to pay, and yet befiies to agree alfo vii 
 my Lord of LeyceSer for their owne lands, * 
 knowledginp the fame to be his, and fo to buy 
 of him againe. 
 
 Wherby not onely thefe privateGentlcmen,bi 
 all the whole Countrey thereabout,was andii(, 
 a manna) utterly undone. And the participant 
 ofthis ii)jury 3 reacheth fo far and wide, and iia 
 generall in thefe parts, as you/hall fcarce findc; 
 man that cometh from thatcoaft,who feelethu 
 the fm: ' thereof; being either impoverifbti 
 beggertd orrumated thereby. 
 
 Whereby I aflure you that the hatred of all tin 
 
 Wales. 
 
 >ij hateditt Countrey, is lo univerfall and vehement agiii 
 
 my Lord ; as I think never thing created by G 
 w 1*0 odious to that Nation,as the very name', 
 my Lord of L»r is. Which h>s Lordfhipm 
 k wing, I doubt not, bur that he will take hi; 
 h w he go thither to dwell, or fend thither l 
 pottenty. 
 
 For his pofterity(quoth the Gentleman) Ifu 
 
pofehe hath little cauie to be folicitour; for that 
 ' God himfclfc takethcar: commonly, char goods 
 [ and honoursfo gotten and maintained.;.s his be* 
 nevertroublc the third heire.Mar- j -i®- 
 , ielfcyl confffle (the matter handing as you i. ") 
 that h<r h^rh reafon toforbeare that Country,a.id 
 to leave offhis building begun at Denbigh, as I The end oftyf 
 ® : htarr fay he hath done : for that the uni vci fall ha- ranci. 
 
 'tred or 3 people,is a perilous matter,and if I were 
 in his Lordfhips cafe.I fhould often thinke of the 
 end of liero ; who after 3ll h:s glory,* upon fury Nero, 
 of the people wai adjudged to hare his head thruit 
 into a Piloiy, and fo to be beaten to death with 
 rods and thongs. 
 
 Or rather I ihould feare the fuccefle of PittU'm Vitclliut. 
 ll the third Emperor after 7 ^»'ro, who for his wick- 
 ^edneffe 2nd oppreffion of the people,wast ken by 
 : them at length, when fortune began to fade h m, 
 and led out of his Palace naked, with hooks of I* 
 
 01 ronfaftned in his flefti, andfo drawn through the 
 City with infamy,where,loden in the ftreets with 
 : filth and ordure caft upon him, and a prick put 
 under his chin, to the end he fhould not looke 
 downeorhidehis f:ce, was brought to ihe banfte 
 ofTybcr, and there,after many hundred wounds 
 received,was caft into the river. So implacable a 
 ' thing is thefurourofa multitude,when it is once 
 ftirred, and hath place of revenge. And fo hecivy 
 is the hand of God upon tyrants in this world, 
 
 ( when it pleafeth his divine M '/cfty to take re- 
 r ; vengeofthefame. 
 
 I hav^read in Letnderjn his defeription of Iti- 
 F ly,how that in Spoleto (if I be not deceived) the 
 ch.efe City of the Country of Umbria, there was 
 a ftrange tyrantjwho in the time of his profperity, 
 contemned all men,and forbare to injury no m n 
 tkatcimewithin his clawsjeftceming himfclffore 
 C; 1 - F 3 enough 
 
 A mod terrible 
 tevenge taken 
 upon a tytant. 
 
\7*J 
 
 enough for ever being called to render accounts 
 this life,and for the sexc he cared little. But God 
 upon the fudden turned upfide-downe the wheelc 
 ofhisfelicity,andcaft him into the peoples handjj 
 who tooke him, and bound his naked bodyupo;, 
 aplanke, in the Mtrket-place, with afire and 
 iron-tongues by him: and then made proclaim- 
 tion,ehac feeing this man was not otherwife ablt 
 to make fatisfadion, for the publicjue ir.jutitt 
 th 3 t he had done j every private perfon annoyed 
 by him, fhould come in order, and with the hot- 
 burning tongues there ready, fhould take ofhu 
 flefh fo much, 3S was correfpondenc to the injit 
 ry received,as indeed they did untill the nuferabit 
 man g ive up the ghoft, and after too : as this an- 
 thor writeth. 
 
 But to the purpofe : feeing my Lord Gareth lit 
 tie for fuch examples, and is become fo hard, 
 now, as he make:h no account to injury and op- 
 £S»fpmi P« fft wh °'f,C°“ Mri '” nd Commonalnatoj,. 
 csilar men. «her j it mall be bootleffe to fpeake of hit pro, 
 ceedings towards particular men, who have no: 
 fo great ftrength to r< fift, as a multitude bath. 
 And yet I can aflure you, that there are fo mati 
 and fo pitifull things publifhed daily of his tj- 
 ranny in this kinde j as doe move grea*; coaipii 
 fion towards the party that doe fuffer, and her- 
 rour agunft him who fhimeth not daily toofic 
 fuch injuiy. 
 
 As for example ; whofe heart would not bletc 
 to he are the cafe before mentioned of Malic 
 Mafter Robinfon Rtbinfon of Staffordfhire ; a proper yong Gentk- 
 man, and well given both in religion andotbt: 
 vertues; whofe Father died at Newhaven, in 
 her Mayflies fervice,under this mans brothertk 
 Earle of Warwickjand recommended at his deith 
 this his eldeftSon,to the fpecial protc&ionoflii- 
 
lefilr artd his Brother, whole fervant alf© this /?«- 
 h fafinhtth bin,from his youth upward, and fpeni 
 ,J the inoft of his living in his fervice. Yet notwith- 
 <-■ Handing all this, when Robinfm Lands were in* 
 
 <l|l tangled with a certaine Londoner, upon intereft 
 k for his former maintenance in their fervice,whofc 
 «. htle my Lord of LticeHer (though craftily, yet not 
 'ifi covertly) underFerrw his cloak,had gotten to him- 
 1 felfc ; he ccafed not to purfue the poorc Gentle- 
 1 man even to imprifonment,arraignment,and fen- 
 il- fence of deathTor greedineffe of the faid living ; 
 e ' together with the vexation of hit brother m law 
 It Matter Uarcturt, and all other his friends, upon Mailer Hareourc. 
 ^pretence,forfaoth, that there was a man fliine by 
 it, RibinftHS party, in defence of his owne pofleilion 
 againft Leueflm intruders,that would by violence 
 lit} breake into the fame. 
 
 of-: Whatiluill fpeakc of others, whereof there 
 jj would be no end > as of his dealing withMifler 
 f! Richard Zie, for his Manor of Hooknorton (if l M.Rxherd Lee. 
 h: faile notin the name:) with Mailer ludmh\ Ludowi-kGrivel 
 si Gr.veH, by feeking to bereave him of all his living 
 t ot once, if the drift had taken place ? with George George Witney, 
 lot the bchalfe ot Sir Henry Lt'gb, for infor¬ 
 
 cing him to forgoe the Controlerihip at Wood- 
 ; ilock, which he holdeth by Patent from King 
 Hemy thefevemh? with my Lord Barlthy,whom 1 ord Barkley, 
 he enforced to yeeld uphis lands to Ivs broiher 
 Warwick, which his anceftors had held quietly for 
 ot; almott two hundreih yeeres together ? 
 
 }\ What flnll I fay of his intollerable tyranr y 
 
 G; upon th* laft Arrhbilhop of Canterbury.fr D > caotciW^ ° f 
 
 i ttar lulh his Like, and that in fo fouie a matter ? " * " ry ‘ 
 
 > Vpon Sir (aba Tbrozmtrtev, whom he brought -Sii lohn Throg- 
 it pitifully to his grave before his time, by contmn- marton - 
 i all vexations, for a peece of fiihfull fervice 
 i. do:ie by him to his Countrey, and to all the line 
 F 4 of 
 
l*ae. 
 
 Gifford. 
 
 SirDrcwDrcvviy 
 
 Theptefencftate 
 ofmy Lord of 
 Lcyccftcr. 
 
 Lcicefters wealth 
 
 Leyceft.flicngth 
 I-eyceft- cunning 
 
 m 
 
 ©f King ffcw^againit this naans Father, in King 
 Edward and Queen Maries dayes ? Upon divers 
 of the Last ;, for one mans fake of th n name be, 
 fore mentioned,that offered to takeKillingwonh. 
 Caftle ? upon fotne of the Giffords, and o.her for 
 7 'brtgmartom fake ? (for thac is alfo his Lords dif- ! 
 polition, for one mans caufe whom he brooketk 
 not, to plague a whole generation, that any way 
 pertaincth, or is allied to the fame: ) his endieffe 
 perfet uting of Sir Drew DreW y, and many other 
 Courtiers, both men and women ? All theff(J 
 fay) and many others, who daily fufftr injuries 
 rapir^s and opprefflons at his hands, throughout 
 the Rcalme, wbatfhouid it availe co name them 
 in th s place ? feeing neither his Lord careth-any 
 thing foe the fame,neither the parties agrieved srt 
 like to attain any leaft releafe of affliction there 
 by, hut rather double oppreffion for their coin- 
 plaining. 
 
 Wherefore to return again wheras we began ; 
 you fee by this little, who,and how grea t,& whit 
 manner of man,my Lord a(Leycf(ier is this day, 
 in the ftate of England. You fee,and may gather, 
 in fome part, by that which hath bin fpoken, ha 
 wealth,his ftrength, his cunning, hisdifpofition, 
 His wealth is exccffive in all kinde cf riches for 
 a private man,and mud needs be much more,then 
 any body lightly can imagine, for the inHnite 
 wayes he hath had of gaine,fo many yeorcs toge¬ 
 ther. His ftrength and power is abfolutc and irre- 
 fiftable, as hath beene £h. wed both in Chamber, 
 Court, Councell and Country. His canning in 
 plotting and forcifying the fame,both by foice anil 
 fraud,by Mines and countermines, by trenches, 
 bulwarkes,flankers and rampiersrby friends,ene¬ 
 mies, allies, fervants, creatures, and dependent!, 
 or any other that taay ferve his turnej is very rare 
 
and fingular. Hi* difpofuion to cruelty, murder, Leyceft er« dlf* 
 treafon and tyranny : and by all thefe to fupream portion. 
 
 » Sovereignty over other, is molt evidenc and 
 clean-. And then judge you whether her Maje- 
 ' fly that now raignech (whole life and profperity, 
 
 : the Lord in mercy long preferve,) have not juft 
 caufc to fear;,in rtfp .tt ot thefe things onely j if 
 there were no other particulars to prove his afpi- 
 ring intent btfides ? 
 
 No doubt (quoth the Lawyer} but thefe are 
 «>reat matters, in the gueftion of luch a caufe as is 
 a Crown And we have feen by example, that the 
 lcaftot thefe four,which you have here named,or c% ufcsof 
 • rather fome little branch contained in any of f ea!C for ii« 
 them,hath bin ftiffi.lent to found juft fufpittdh, Maicfty, 
 dtflruftor jealoulie, in the heads of molt wife 
 Princes,towaids the proceedings of more allured 
 fubjr&s,then my Lord of L<ycetUr> in reafon may 
 be prefuincd to be. For that the fafttyof a ftatc 
 i; and Prince, ftandeth not onely in the readmefle 
 .■ and habilityof relifting open attempts,when they 
 ' Dull fall out ; but alfo (and that much more as 
 Statifts write) in a certaine provident watchful* 
 
 - nefle, of preventing all polfibilities and likeli¬ 
 hoods of danger of iuppreflion,fer that no Prince 
 commonly, will put himfelfe to the cprtdie of 
 annrher man) be be netjfr fo obliged) whether 
 he fhill rctaine his Crowne or no : feeing 
 n the caufe of a Kmgdome, acknowledged nei* 
 
 : thcr kindred, duty, faith, friendflup, nor fo- 
 cirty. 
 
 1 knowr not whether I doe expound or declare 
 nayfelf well ornojbut my meaning is,that vvher- 
 :: as every Prince hath two pointsof sflurancefrom 
 his fubjett ; the one, in that he isfaiihfuli, and 
 lacketh will toaanoy his Soveraigne j the other, 
 t ; ’ ■ I far 
 
A point of meet 
 fary policy for a 
 Pitots- 
 
 ScMtr, 
 
 A ptulofophicall 
 argument to 
 prove LeyrCefters 
 
 intent of fove- 
 saigaty. 
 
 (81) 
 
 for that he isweake and wanceth ability, to doth* 
 fame: the full is alwayes of more important 
 then thefecond,and conlcquently more to beey, 
 ed andobferved in policy: for that our will may 
 be'changed at our pleafure,butnot our ability,* 
 Coulidering then upon that which hath bee* 
 faid and fpecified before, how that my Lord of i 
 Letctfttr hath po&fled bimfelf of all the ttrengeb, ! 
 powers and finewes of the Realme, hath drawitt 
 all to his own direction, and hath made his party > 
 fo ftrong,as it feemethnot refiftable : you haw i 
 great reafon to Cay, thrt her Majefty may ju(l|| 
 conceive fome doubt, for that if his willwereac- ! 
 cording to his power, moft aflured it is, that her i 
 Majefty were not in fafety. 
 
 Say not fo,good fir,(quoth I) for in fuch a call 
 truly,I would repofe little upon his will,w!iidiit < 
 fo many wayes apparant,to be moft infatiableol < 
 ambition. Rather would I thinkc that as yet hit 
 ability ferveth not,either for time, place,force,ot I 
 fome other circumftance : then that any part of j 
 good will fhould want in him • feeing th at not i 
 onely his defire of foveraignty, but alfo his intent 
 and attempt to afpire to the fame, is fufficieotly 
 declared fin my conceit^ by the very particulars f 
 of his power and plots already fet downe. Whits t 
 if you pleafe to have the patience, to hearea i 
 Scholars argument, I will prove by a principle of 
 our Philofophy. | t 
 
 For if it be true which AriflotU faith, there it 1 
 no agent fo fimple in the world, which worketfe i 
 not for fome final lend, (as the bird b.iitdeth not t 
 her neft but to dwell and hatch her yong one t 
 therein :) and not onciy this, but alfo that the < 
 fame agent, doth alwayes frame his worke at- ! 
 cording to the proportion of his intended end: ; 
 fas when the Fox ot Badger maketh ? wide eirth , 
 01 
 
 
or den, it is a figne that he meaneth to draw thi¬ 
 ther great ftore of prey:) then nauft we alfo ia 
 
 reafon thinke. that fo wife and politick an agent, 
 
 JS is my Lord of Leittfter for bimfelfe, wanteth 
 not his end in theft plottings and preparations of 
 his; I meane an end proportionable in greac- 
 neffe to hi* preparations. Which end can be no 
 1 ltfl'e hoc meaner then fuprcame Soveraignty, 
 feeinghisprov fionand farniiure doc t*nd that 
 way, and are in every point fully correfpondenc 
 totbefarae. 
 
 What meaneth his fo diligent beficging of the The preparation! 
 Princes perfon ? his taking up the wayes and paf- ofLeycefterde- 
 i (ages about her ?his infolency in Court ? his fin- ,utea * 
 
 gularity in the Councell ? his violent preparation * 
 
 Pi of ftrength abroad ? his enriching of his cotnpli- 
 * ces? the banding of his faction, with the abun- 
 >danetof friends every where? what doe thef« 
 i« things fignifie (I fay) and fo many other, as you 
 f* have well noted and mentioned before; but one- 
 > ly his intent and purpofe of Supremacy ? What did 
 i the fame things portend in times pal} in his Fa • 
 
 (her, but even that which now they portend in the 
 So.-me? Or how fhould we thinke, that the Son 
 bath another meaning in the very fame aflions, 
 then had his Father before him, whofe fteps hs 
 is fdloweih. 
 
 I remember I have heard oftentimes of divers How the Dote 
 aacient and grave men inCambridge,how that in Northumbeit- 
 King fdwardidayfs the Duke of Northumberland 
 this mans Father,was generally fufpefted of all “ ueu * 
 aen,to<nean indeed as afterward he fla wed, ef- 
 : pecially when he had once joynedwith the houfc 
 of.Suffi!b and made hiaafelfc a principal! of that 
 faftion by marriage. Bat yet for that he was po¬ 
 tent,and protefted every where, and by all occafl- 
 on$ his great l«vt } duey,and fpcciall care,abov» all 
 
Gtnthmw, 
 
 TheboldaelTc gf 
 the utters of 
 Clarence. 
 
 
 Stniltmn. 
 The abufe of rhe 
 Statute forfilence 
 In the true fuc- 
 ceffiots. 
 
 UV9)W. 
 
 (« 4 ) 
 
 others, that he bare towards His Prince & Coun- 
 try $ no man durft accufc him openly,untill it 
 too late to withftand hispower,Cas commonly it 
 falleth out in fuch affair c$) and tht like is evident 
 in my Lord of Leycefiert aftions nowfalbeittohtt 
 doubt not, but that be will pretend and 
 pi oteft,as hit Father did to her Brother) efpeciaj. 
 ly now after his open affbeiation with the r dion 
 of Huntington ; which no lefle impugneth under 
 this mans protection. the whole line of Hint) tht 
 feventh for right of the Crowne, then the hoitfc 
 of Xufttike did under his Father the particular 
 prog y of King Hmj the eight. 
 
 Nay rather much moreCquoththcGentlemaa) 
 for that I doe not read in King Edvnrdt raigne, 
 (when the matter was in plotting norwithftand- 
 ing) that the houfeof Stiffs durft ever mate 
 open claime to the next fuccefli in But now tht 
 houfe of Hnfiings is become (o confident,upon tht 
 ftrengrh& favor of their fautors,as they dare both 
 plotjptp&icc &pretend,all at once,andfearnotro 
 fet out their title, in every place where they come, 
 
 And do they not fear the ftatute((aid the Law¬ 
 yer) fo rigorous in this point, as it maketh the 
 matter treafon to determine of titles ? 
 
 No : they need not (quoth the Gentleman)fet 
 ing their party is fo ftrong and terrible,as no nun 
 dare accufe them : feeing alfo they well know, 
 that the procurement of that Stature, was onclj 
 to endanger or ftop the mouthes of the true Sue 
 ceffors,whiles themfelvesin the meanefpaco went 
 about under hand, to eftablifh their oWne am- 
 bufhment. 
 
 Well: (’quoth theLawyer) for the prctenceof 
 my Lord of Huntington to the Crowne. I will not 
 ftand with you for that it is a matter fufficie»tlj 
 known andfecn throughout tbeRealme. As alfo 
 that 
 
i; that my Lord of Ltjceflci is at thisday a principall 
 t, favourer and patron of that came, albeit fome 
 yecrs paft,he were an earneft adversary and ene- 
 ( mytothefame-Butyctl have heard fome friend* 
 i, of his,in reafoning of thefc matters, deny ftoutly 
 (; apointortwo,which you have touched here, and 
 doe ftemc to beleere the fame. 
 
 And that is,firft, that howfoever wy Lord of Two egcufei ai- 
 ,, Ukefttr do meane to helpe his friend, when time learfged by Ley- 
 ihallfcrvc, yet pretendeth he nothing to the «fter»triend*. 
 
 , Crowne himfelfe.The fecond ls.that whatfoever 
 may be meant for the title, or compafling the 
 Crowne after her M ijefties death, yet nothing is 
 ti intended during her raigRe. And of both thefc 
 points they alledg* reafons. 
 
 As for the firft,that my Lord of Ujctfter is ve- 
 , rywellknovvnetohaveno title to the Crowne 
 ; himfelfe, cither by difeent in blood, alliance or 
 , otherwayes. For the fecond,that his Lord.hath no 
 raufe to be a Milecontent in the prefent govern¬ 
 ment, nor Hope for more preferment, if my Lord 
 j of Huntingtok were King to morrow next, then 
 hereceivethnowatherMajellieshandsj having 
 all the Realme (as hath bin fhewedj at his owne 
 difpofition. 
 
 For the firft Cquoth he Gentleman) whether g . 
 he meane the Crowne for himfclf., or for his *****' 
 friend, it importeth not much* feeing both Whether Ley- 
 wayes it is evident, that he meaneih to have all ceftcrmeanc ihe 
 at his owne difpofition. And albeit now forrhe f r ™"<incerd f 
 avoydijpg of cn»y, h.gi.o uoa., a. a <raf 7 
 roXjthat hemeaneth not but to run with other 
 men, and to hunt wth Huntington and other 
 hounds in the fame chafe; yet is it not unlike, 
 but that he will play the Beare, when he cometh 
 to dividing of the pray, and will fnatch the 
 heft part to himfelfe.Yea,and thefe felf fame pcc- 
 iens 
 
The words of the 
 Lord North, co£ 
 Mafter Pooly. 
 
 Pooly told this 
 to Sir Robert 
 Iermine. 
 
 The words of Sir 
 Thomas Layton 
 brother in law to 
 my Lord* 
 
 (if) 
 
 fonsofhrs trainc and taction, whom you call hii 
 friend, though in pubLque, tocxcuft hts doings 
 and to cover the whole plot, they will and muft 
 deny the matters to be To meant: yet otherwise 
 they both thinke, hope and know the contrary, 
 and will not flick inlecretto fpc k ir,and among 
 thcmfelves, it is their talke of conlolauoa. 
 
 The words of hi* fpeciall Councelloar the 
 Lord 2{prtb, are known, which he uttered go hit 
 trufly pooly , upon the receit of a letter fro« 
 Court, of her Majefties difpleafure towardi him, 
 for his being a witneffe at Leycefters fecond mar¬ 
 riage with Dame Lettice (although I know hr 
 was not ignorant of the firft } at Wanftead : of 
 which difpleafure, this Lord making far kfltfat. 
 compt then, in reafon he fhould , of the juft of- 
 fence of his foveraigne , faid : th3t for his owoc 
 part he was refolvcd to linke or Iwimme with my 
 Lord of Lcvcefier, who (faid he} if once the Cards 
 may corae to fhuffling ( T w.ll ufe but his very 
 own words ) I make no doubt but he alone fhaU 
 beare away the Bucklers, 
 
 T he words alfo of Sir Tbemai LajtoVjta Sir Hai¬ 
 ry 2yevilt, walking upon the Taircfle at Windfot 
 are known , who told him, after long difeourft 
 of their happy conceived Kmgdome , th3t hee 
 doubted not, but to fee him one day , hold the 
 fame office in Windfor, of my Lord of L'ycefitr, 
 which bow my Lord did hold of the Queeiw, 
 Meaning thereby the goodly office of Conftable* 
 (hip, with all Royalties and and honoars<i>eIong- 
 itig to the fame, which now the faid Sir Hemj 
 txercifeth ondy as Deputy to the Earle. Which 
 was plaincly t* fignifie, that, he doubted not but 
 to fee my Lord of Ltycefier one day King,or els hn 
 other hope could never poffibly take efted ot 
 come to pafle. 
 
 To 
 
To the fame point tended the words of Mi- 
 flreffc Mne Weft, Dame Ltttia filler, unto the 
 . Lady Mne Mktrr, in the great Chamber, upon 
 a day when her brother Robert Kntwlei haddan- 
 ' red difgratioufly and fcornfully before the Queen 
 in prefence of the French. Which thing for that 
 , Her Majcfly tooke to proceed of will in him, as 
 >s for diflke of the grangers in prefence,and for the 
 quarrell ef his After E(fex- } it pleafed her Majefty 
 to check him for the fame, with addition of a re- 
 i prtachfull word or two (full well deferred) as 
 though done for defpite of the forced abfence 
 from that place of honour, of the good old Gen- 
 ; tlcwoman (I mitigate the words) his filler. 
 Which words, the other young twig receiving in 
 pi! deepedudgen, brake forth in great choler to her 
 aforenamed companion, andfaid, That file no- 
 i thing doubted, but that one day Ihee ftiould fee 
 
 i her After, upon whom the Queene railed now fo 
 much (for fo it pleafed her to tearme her Majc- 
 
 ii hies fliarpe fpeech) to fit in her place and throne, 
 being much worthier of the fame , for her 
 
 ■ qualities and rare vertues, then was the o- 
 : »her. Which undutifull fpeech, albeit it were 
 , over-heard and condemned of divers that fate 
 about them, yet none durft ever report the 
 li f^tne to her Ma jefiy,as I h ive heard fundry Cour- 
 i tiers affirme, iu reiped of the revenge which the 
 reporters ftiould abide at my Lord of Leycefters 
 hands, whenfoever the matter ftiould come to 
 fight. , 
 
 F; And this is row concerning the opinion and 
 ! iecret (peeches of my Lords ownc friends, who 
 cannot but utter their conceit and judgement in 
 t«me and place convenient, whatfoever they are 
 willed to give out publikely to the contrary, for 
 deceiving of fuchas wdl belecve faire painted 
 words, 
 
 The words of 
 Miftri* Anne 
 Weft filter unto 
 this holy Cornu 
 cede. 
 
•fLeyeefter* 
 meaning for 
 kimfclfe before 
 Huntington. 
 
 The firR arga- 
 
 (S8) 
 
 Tkeeargwaent* words,againfi evident ana mstnifeft demonflrati- 
 on of reafon. 
 
 I fay reafon,for that if none of thefe fignej and 
 tokens were, none of thefe preparations nor any 
 of thefe fpeeches and dete&ions, by his friends 
 that know his heart 5 yet m force of plain reafon,I 
 could alleadge unto you three arguments onely, 
 which to any man of intelligence, would eafily 
 perfwade and give fatisfa&ion, that my Lordof 
 Xeycf/Se/'meaneth beft and firft for himfelfe in this 
 fuit. Which three arguments, for that you feeme 
 to be attent j I will not ftick to run over in all 
 brevity. 
 
 And the firft, is the very nature and quality of 
 wcntvthe Nature ambition it felf,which is fuch,(as you know) that 
 of ambition. it never ftayethjbut pafieth from degree to degree ! 
 
 and the more it obtaineth, the more it covered^ 
 and the more efteemeth it fclfe, both worthy and 
 able to obtaine. And in our matter that now we 
 handle; even as in wooing,he that futth to a La¬ 
 dy for another, and obtaineth her good will,cn- 
 tereth eafily into conceit of his owne worthincffe 
 thereby, and fo commonly into hope offpee ‘ 
 himfelfe, while he fpeaketh for his friend 
 much more in Kingdomcs : he that feeth himfelf 
 of power ro put the Crownc of another mam 
 head, will quickly ftep to the next degree, wind 
 is, to fet it of his owne, feeing that aUvaycstht 
 charity of fut-h good men,is wont to be fo order¬ 
 ly,as (according to the precept) it beg inneth wak 
 it felfe full. 
 
 Adde to this,that ambition is jealous,ftifpitiow 
 and fearfull of itfelfc,efpecially when it is joyned 
 withaconfcicnce loden with the guilt of many 
 crimes, whereof he would be loth to be called to 
 account, or be fubjeft to any man that mightby 
 authority take renew of his life 5c aitions,wheni[ 
 ftouli 
 
fhould pleafe him. In which kinde,feeing my Lord 
 iV ‘1 of LeyctHer hath fo much to encrcafe his feare,as be- 
 li,, fore hath beene iliewed by his wicked dealings: it is 
 ,snot like, that ever hee will put himfelfc to another 
 unmans courtefie, for palling his audift in particular 
 • reckonings, which he can no way anfwer or fatisiie: 
 
 ,iy .but rather will ftand upon the grofle Sum, and gc- 
 t. ncrall QuietUi eft, by making himfelfe chiefe Au- 
 ]j c 'ditour, and Mailer of all accompts for his owne 
 part in this life,howfocver he do in the next: where- 
 . ofluch humours have little regard. And this is for 
 the nature ol ambition in it felfe. 
 
 The fecond argument may bee taken from my The fceoni 
 y Lords particular difpolition : which is fuch, as may argument, 
 give much light alfo to the matter in aueftion: be- Le ) ce fi ers 
 ing a difpolition fo well liking and inclined to a difpofi^on. 
 'Kingdome, as it hath bcenc tampering about the 
 ‘ fame, from the firft day that hee came in favour. Liyceflen 
 'f Firfljby feeking openly to marry with the Quecnes d|1 'p°fo'°n to 
 1! Majcftie her felfe,and lb to draw the Crowne upon K^domc. 3 ' 
 w his owne head, and to his pollerity. Secondly,when * 
 
 that attempt tooke not place, then hee gave it out* 
 r-as hath beene fhewed before, how that he was pri- 
 ‘ rily contracted to her Majefty, (wherein as I told 
 you his dealing before for fatisfa&ion of a ftranger, 
 
 ' fo let him with lhame and dithonour remember now l mcane 
 : alfo, the fpedade hee fecretlymade for the per- n obie ©Id 
 ^folding of a fubjeft,andCounlelloiir of great ho- Earle of 
 nour in the fame caufe) to the end that ifher High- Pimbtttf- 
 nolle fhouid by any way have mifearried , then he 
 might have entituled any one of his owne brood, 
 
 ' ’ (whcreoflie hath ftore in many places as is knovvne) 
 to the Iawfull fueceffion of the Crowne, under co¬ 
 lour of that privy and fecret marriage, pretending 
 the fame to bee by her Majeftie i wherein hee 
 will want no wirndTes w depofe what hee wilL 
 G Thirdly 
 
(82) 
 
 The undutN Thirdly, when he faw alfo that this devife was fub. 
 toll devife j e <ft to danger, for that his privy contraft nriA 
 of Naturall be denied more eafily, then he able juftly to pro,. 
 Statute" of* t ^ le iame, after her Majefties deceafe: he had a % 
 fucceffion. ^tch to ftrcngthen the matter , and that waste 
 caufe thefe words of (?(atUraU iffue) to be put it- 
 to the Statute of fucceflion for the Crowne, again! 
 all order and cuftome of our Realme, and again! 
 the knowne common ftile ot Law, accuflorid 
 to bee ufed in Statutes of fuch matter : whercb? 
 hee might be able after the death of her Majeliy, 
 to make ligitimate to the Crowne any one 'baftard 
 of his owne, by any of fo many hacknies as he kec- 
 petft, affimiing it to bee the Natural! ijjue of her 
 Majefty by himfelte. For no other reafon can be 
 imagined why the ancient ufuall words of Ltt 
 fuU ffue fhould fo cunningly bee changed inn 
 T^atw'all iffue > thereby not onely to indanger out 
 whole Realme with new quarrels of fucceflion,but 
 alfo to touch ("as farre as in him lyethj the Rbyali 
 honour of his Soveraigne, who hath beene to him 
 but too bountifull a Princeffe. 
 
 Fourthly, when after a time thefe fetches and4 
 vices began to be difeovered, he changed ftraijk 
 his courfc, and turned to the Papifts and Scottilk 
 faftion, pretending the marriage of the Queeneia 
 prifon. But yet after this againe, finding therein 
 not fuch fuccede as contented him throughly, and 
 having in the mcanc fpace a new occafion offend 
 of baite ; he betooke himfelfe fiftly to the party of 
 Huntington: having therein (no doubt) as good 
 meaning to himfelfe , as his Father had by joyning 
 with Suffolk?* Marry yet of late, he hath call anew 
 about, once againe, for himfelfe in fecret, by trea- 
 Tke marriage ting the marriage of young Arbella with hi* Son, 
 *4 tie fa . intitlcd the Lord Denbigh, 
 
- So that by this we Tec the difpofition or this maa 
 jbcnt wholly to a fcepter. And albeit in right title, 
 
 1 and difcent of bloud (as you fay) hee can juftiy 
 claime neither Kingdomc nor Cottage (confide- 
 ring either the bafenefie or difioyalty of his Ance- 
 flours:) it in rcfpeft ofliis prefent ftate and power, 
 and of his naturall pride’, ambition,and crafty con- 
 ; teyance, received from his Father, hee hath lear¬ 
 ned how to put himfelfe fir ft in pofleflion of chiefe 
 rule, undei other pretences, and after to devife 
 upon the title at his leafure. 
 
 But now to come to the third argument: I fay The third 
 more, and above all this, that tne nature and argument, 
 ftate of the matter it felfe, permitteth not, that my The nature 
 Lord of Uycefttr fhould meane fincerely the ofthecaufc 
 Crowne for Huntington^ efpecially feeing there lt "* el * e * 
 hath pafled betweene them fo many yeares of dif- 
 l like and enmity; which albeit, for the time and 
 prelent commodity , bee covered and prefled 
 downc; yet by reafon and experience we know, 
 that afterward when they fhall deale together 
 againe in matters of importance , and when jea- 
 iou/ie fhall bee joyned to other circumftances of 
 their a&ions, it is impoflible that the former mif- 
 like Ihould not breake out in farre higher degree* 
 then ever before. 
 
 As wee faw in the examples of the reconciliation. The nature of 
 made betwixt this mans Father, and Edward, Duke old rcconci- 
 otSorficrfet} bearing rule under King Edward the led enmity, 
 fixt; and betweene Richard of , and Edmund 
 Duke obSmerfet, bearing rule in the time of King 
 8:nr} the fixt. Both which Dukes of Souterfet-y af¬ 
 ter reconciliation with their old, crafty, and ambi¬ 
 tious enemies , were brought by the fame to their 
 deftru&ion foorie after. Whereof 1 doubt not, bur 
 my Lord of UjctJier will take good heed, in joy- 
 G % ning 
 
(* 4 ) 
 
 ning by reconciliation with Huntington , after fo 
 long a breach : and will not be fo improvident, as 
 to make him his foveraigne, who now is but his de¬ 
 pendent. He remembrerh too well thefuccefleof 
 the Lord St entity , who helped King Henry the fea- 
 venth to the Crowne : of the Duke of Buckingham, 
 who did the fame for Richard the third: of the Earle 
 of trartvicke, who fet up King Edward the fourth: 
 and of the three Perciesy who advanced to the Seep, 
 ter King Henry the fourth. All which Noblemen 
 upon occafions that after fell out, were rewarded 
 with death by tire felfe fame Princes, whom they 
 , had preferred. 
 
 rfl « reafon And that not without reafon, as Seignior Matin* 
 cf MachtvtU. yeU; m y Lord$ Counrellour affirmeth. For that 
 fuch Princes, afterward can never givefufficicnr 
 fatisfattion to fuch friends, for fo great a benefit 
 received. And confequently, leaf! upon difeontent* 
 ment, they may chance to doe as much for otheri 
 again ft them, as they have done for.them agiinft 
 others: the fureft way is, to recompence them with 
 fuch a reward, as they fhall never after be able to 
 complaine of. 
 
 Wherefore I can never thinfcc that my Lord of 
 Lcycefter will put himfelfe in danger of the like fuc- 
 cefle at Huntingtons hands: but rather will follow 
 The meaning the plot of his ownc Father, with the Duke of Sitf 
 0 rt :I : U ^ /"%’s whom no doubt, but hee meant onely to ufe 
 inland with ^ or 3 P retext and helpe, whereby to place himfelfe 
 Suffolk'* m fupreame dignity,and afterward whatfoeverhad 
 befallen of the ftate, the others head coudd never 
 have come to other end , then it enjoyed. For if 
 Q^eene Mary had not cut it eft^ K'mgjohnofhor 
 thumberland would have done the lame in time, 
 and fo all men doe well know, that we^e privy to 
 any of his cunning dealings. 
 
( 85 )'’ 
 
 And what Huntingtons fecrct opinion of LeyeeRer 
 if: Is, (notwichllanding this outward Ihew of depen- 
 it dance) it was my chance to learne/rom the mouth Soutb-koufe. 
 in 0 f a fpeciall man of that hafty King, who was his 
 : Ledger or Agent in London) and at a time falling 
 m talkc of his Mailers title, declared that he had 
 ;i; heard him divers times in fecret, complainc to his 
 Ei Lady, (Ltjcefters filler) as greatly fearing that in 
 the end, he would offer him wrong, and pretend 
 fomc title for himfelfe. 
 
 c: \v e ll (quoth the Lawyer) it feemeth by this laft Lawyer. 
 i:: point, that thefe two Lords are cunning pra&itio- 
 ners in the art of diflimulation : but for the 'former 
 whereof you fpeake, in truth, I have heard men of 
 ; good difeourfe affirme, that the Duke of Northum- The meaning 
 i«r/tf»dhad llrange devifes in his head, for decei- theD.ot 
 
 ■ vine of Sufol{e , (who was nothing fo fine as him- 
 
 " felfe,) and for bringing the Crowne to his owne t h; D. of 
 i Family. A»d among other devifes it is thought, Suffolk*. 
 
 ■ that hee had moll certaine intention to marry 
 ! the L#dy 31 ary himfclfe, after once hee had 
 • brought her into his owne hands) and to have be¬ 
 llowed her Majeftic that now is, upon fomc one 
 of his children (if it ftiould have beene thought 
 
 : bell to give her life, (and fo confequently to liavc 
 fhaken off Suffolk and his pedegree, with con- 
 digne punifhment, for his bold behaviour in that 
 behake, * 
 
 Verily (quoth I) tills had beene an excellent Scholar 
 Stratageme, if it had taken place. But I pray you 
 (Sir) how could himfelfe have taken- the Lady Ma¬ 
 ry to wife, feeing hee was at that time married co- 
 another? 
 
 0 (quoth the Gentleman) you quellion like a Gentleman. 
 Schollar. As though my Lord ofLeycefter had not 
 a wife alive, when hee lu ll began to pretend mar- 
 G 3 riage 
 
The praftife 
 of King T[icb. 
 «H for dif- 
 jjatching his 
 
 A new Ttium- 
 vwtt between 
 Lejcefier,Tal¬ 
 bot , ?nd the 
 CounteflTe of 
 Sbrtvctsbur). 
 
 lawyer. 
 
 
 sriage to the Quecnes Majefty.Do not you remem¬ 
 ber the ftory ot King 7{ictiard the third,whoat fuch 
 time as he thought heft for the eftablifhing of hi s , 
 title > to marry his owne Neece, that afterward was 
 married to King Henry the feventh, how he caufed ] 
 fecretiy to be given abroad that his owne wife was • 
 dead, whom all the World knew to bee then.alive 1 
 and in good health,but yet foone afterwatd fhe was , 
 feene dead indeed Thel'e great perfonages in mat- • 
 ters of fuch weight, as is a Kingdoitie, have priyi- , 
 ledges to difpoie of Womens bodies, marriages, j 
 lives and deaths, as fhall be thought for the time : 
 moft convenient, % | 
 
 And what doe you thinke (I pray you) of this ( 
 new Triumvir at fo lately concluded about ArbelU} [ 
 (for fo I mud call the fame , though one of the 
 three perfons bee no Kir, but Virago,) I means ( 
 of the marriage betweene young Denbigh and the 
 little Daughter of Lenox , whereby the Fathcr-in- j 
 law, the Grand-mother, and the llrtcle of the new 
 defigned Queene, have conceived to theinfelnes a 
 Angular triumphant raigne. But what doe you 
 think may enfue hereof > is there nothing of the old 
 plot of Duke John of ’Northumberland in this ? 
 
 Marry Sir, (quoth the Lawyer) if this be fo. I 
 dare allure you there is fequell enough pretended 
 hereby. And firft, no doubt but there goeth a deep 
 ^rift, by the wife and fonne ^ againft old /tbvabtm 
 (the Husband and Father) with the well-lined 
 large pouch. And fecondly , a farre deeper,by 
 trufty Robert againll: his beft Miftrefle : but dee- 
 peft of all by the whole Crew, againft the ddigne- 
 ments of the hafty Earle; who thirfteth a King- 
 dome with great intcmperance,andfcemeth(if there 
 were plaine dealing) to hope by thefe good people 
 to quench ftiortly his drought. 
 
 But 
 
But either part,in truth,feeketh to deceive other: 
 
 ; and therefore it is hard to fay where the game in 
 fine will reft. 
 
 Well, howfoever that be (quoth the Gentleman) Gentleman , 
 ! I am of opinion, that my Lord of Leycefter will ule 
 both this pra&ife and many more, for bringing the 
 1 Scepter finally to his owne head : and that he will The Heights 
 : not onely imploy Huntington to defeate Scotland , 
 n and ArbeUa to defeate Huntington: but alio would 
 F ufe the marriage of the Qucene imprifoned, to de- 
 IJ 'feat them both,if (he were in his hand: and any one 
 1 of all three to difpoflefle her Majefty that now is: as 
 tlfo the authority of all foure to bring it to him- 
 
 ■ fclfe : with many other fetches, flings and frifeoes 
 F'-befides,which limple men as yet doe not conceive. 
 
 1 And howfoever thefe two conjoyned Earles, doe Scambling 
 feeme for the time to draw together, and to play between L*y. 
 ]i: booty : yet am I of opinion , that the one will be- ee fl erSc 
 c guile the other at the upfhot And Haftings , 
 
 - ought I fee, when hee commeth to the Icambling, 
 
 ' is like to have no better luck by the Beare , then 
 • his Anceftour had once by the Boarc. Who uling 
 !! his helpe firft in murdering the Sonne and Heire 
 ' of King Henry the fixe, and after in deftroying the - ., . c 
 faichfull Friends and Kinfmen of King * dwardaUicefter^M » 
 the Hft, for his ealier way to ufurpation : made an i. Edw.$, 
 
 ■ end of him alfo in the Tower, at the the very fame 
 i day and houre, that the other were by his toun- 
 
 fell deftroyed in Pont fret Cajllc. So that where 
 the Goale and price of the game is a Kingdome, 
 i there is neitlier faith, neither good fellowfhip, nor 
 faire play among the Gatnefiers. And this {hall be 
 enough for the firft point: (vi \-) what good my 
 Lord of Lejcefier meaneth to himfelfe in refpeft of 
 Huntington. 
 
 Touching the fecond, whether the attempt be 
 
 G 4 purpo- 
 
%. That the 
 conlpirators 
 meane in her 
 Majeftici 
 
 Foui e eonfl- 
 derations 
 
 4 thing wor¬ 
 thy to be no- 
 gedinambiti- 
 ous men. 
 
 ( 88 ) 
 
 purpofed in her Majefties dayes or no,the matter « 
 much lefle doubtfull, to him that knoweth or can 
 imagine what a torment the delay of a Kingdom- 
 is, to fuch a one as fuffere'th hunger thereof, aad 
 feareth that every houre may breed fome altera 
 lion, to the prejudice ot hi$ conceived hope. Wcc 
 fee oftentimes that thechilde is impatient, in this 
 matter, to expect the naturall end of his parent) 
 life. Whom, notwithftanding, by nature he is en¬ 
 forced to love : and who alfo by nature,is like lone 
 to leave this World before him ; and after wjioic 
 dcceafe, hee is allured to obtaine his delire: but 
 molt certaine of dangerous event, if he attempt 
 get it, while yec his parent liveth. Which fourc 
 confiderations are (no doubt) of great force to con- 
 taine a child in duty, and bridle his defire : albeit 
 fometimes not fufficicnc to withftand tire greedy 
 appetite of raigning. 
 
 But what fhall wee thinke, where none of theft 
 fourq confiderations do reftrainc?where the prefent 
 Polleflbr is no parent ? where Ihe is like by nature, 
 to out-live the expe ft or? whofe death mull needs 
 bring infinite difficulties to the enterprife ? and in 
 whole life-time the matter is moll eafie to be atchit- 
 ved, under colour and authority of the prefent Pot- , 
 feflor ? fhall we thinke that in Inch a cafe the ambi¬ 
 tious man will over-rule his ownc pafiion,and led 
 jiis commodity. 
 
 As for that which is alleadged before,for my Lord 
 in the rcafon qfhis Defenders:that his prefent ftate 
 is fo profperqus, as hee cannot expe& better in the 
 next change whatfoever fhould be : is of feiall mo¬ 
 ment , in the conceipt of an ambitious head, whofe 
 eye and heart is alwayes upon that, which he ho- 
 pethfor, and enjoyerh not: and not upon that 
 which already hee pofieHeth, be it never fo gopd. 
 
 Efpecially 
 
(Sf) 
 
 f- Efpecially in matters of honour and authority, it is 
 a n infallible rule, that one degree deiired and not 
 ;r obtained, afflifteth more then five degrees already 
 :5: poflclled, can give confolation t the ftory of Duke 
 f Hmtn confirmeth this evidently, who being th* 
 
 greateft fubjeft in the World under King Ajfuerut, Hiftor.y, 
 
 ■ after he had reckoned up all his pompe,riches } glo- 
 j ry, and felicity to his friends, yet hee faid, that all 
 ' ! this was nothing unto him, untill he could obtainc 
 ‘ ; the revenge which hec defired , upon Mardichaus 
 ! his enemy : and hereby it commeth ordinarily to 
 ;r pafle, that among higheft in authority are found 
 ^ die greateft ftore of Male-contents, that moft doe 
 Cli endanger their Prince and Countrey. 
 
 :c K: -i When the Percies took part with Hemy of Baling- T j, e p ttc i et . 
 
 bw\c-j againft King T(ichard the fecond their law- 
 •: full Soveraigne: it was not for lack of preferment, 
 for they were exceedingly advanced by the faid 
 - King, and poflefled the three Earlcdomes of 7{jr- 
 *?. tbmberland, worefler, and Stafford together, bc~ 
 fid.es many other offices and dignities of honour. 
 
 ■ill In like fort, when the two Hevilcs tooke upon ^ 
 
 ■ them to joyne with Richard of Tor^e, to put downe 
 their moft benigne Prince,King Henry the fixt: and 
 
 • after again in the other fide,to put downe King Ed¬ 
 ward the fourth; it was not upon want of advance- 
 rnli ament: they being Earles both of Salisbury and war- 
 wiclf, and Lords of many notable places befides.But 
 it was upon a vaine imagination of future fortune, 
 whereby fuch men are commonly led: and yet tiad 
 ■ i; nor they any fmctl in theiv noftrils of getting the 
 K ingdame for themfelves, as this man hath to prick 
 him forward. 
 
 h If you fay that thefe men hated their Soveraigne, LiytjUu ha- 
 
 ® and that thereby they were led to procure his dc- tred to her 
 ftrudtionuhc fame I may anfwer of my Lord living, Majcfty • 
 though 
 
( 9 °) 
 
 though of all men he hath icaft caufe lo to do. B ut 
 yet fuch is the nature of wicked ingratitude, that ^ 
 Th 'if where it owethmoft, and difdaineth to be bound, x 
 tureoTingra- c ^ erc u P° n ever y ^ ct ^ e discontentment, it turned] 
 «itude. * double obligation into triple hatred. 
 
 This he (hewed evidently in the time of his little 
 difgrace, wherein hee not onely did diminish, vili- • 
 pend, and debafe among his friends , the ineftiraa. 
 ble benefits hee hath received from her Majeftie, 
 but alfo ufed to exprobrate his owne good fervices 
 and merits, and to touch her highnefte with in¬ 
 grace consideration and recompense of the fame; 
 which behaviour, together wich his hafty prepara* j 
 tion to rebellion, and alfault of her Majesties Roy. 
 all perfon and dignity, upon So Small a caufe gi. 
 ven , did well (hew what minde inwardly he be* ; 
 Lfjcttten reth’ to his Soveraignc, and what her Maj efty may 
 herM?eftv ex P e< ^ » if by offending him, thee Should once fall 1 thi 
 inthetitneof within the compaife of his furious pawes : feeing ; o 
 hit disgrace- fuch a fmokeof difdainc could not proceed, but 
 
 from a fieric fornace of hatred within. V m 
 
 And finely it is a wonder full matter to conlider 
 what a little check, or rather the bare imagination i il 
 of a Small overthwart, may worke in a proud and I 
 difdainfull ftomacke. The remembrance of hi» , m 
 Tbe eaufesof marr ^ a ? e milled, that hee fo much pretended and lie 
 hatred in Ley- defired with her Majeftie, doth fticke deeply in hit hi 
 lifter towards bread, and ftirreth Him daily to revenge. As alfo 
 fecrMajefty- doth the difdaine of certaine checks anddifgraca :h< 
 received at fometimes, efpecially that of his laft m 
 marriage : which irketh him (o much the moreifl fm 
 by how much greater feare and danger it brought 
 him into at that time , and did put his Widow in 
 fuch open phrenfie , as Shee raged many moneths : 
 after againft her Majeftie, and is not cold yet# ft 
 but remaincth as it were a fworne enemy for that 
 injury, 
 
^injury, and ftandeth like a fiend or fury at the 
 id: ;e |bow of her Amdis , to ftirre him forward when 
 : occaiion (hall fcrve. And what efteft fuch female The force of 
 : tiiDfuggeftions may worke, when they finde an hu- female fug* 
 ,nour proud and pliable to their purpofe , you may 8 cftIon *- 
 his remember by the example of theDuchefle of So- 
 who inforced her Husband to cut off the 
 ncftjhead of his onelydeare Brother, to hisowne evi- 
 I nieni deftru&ion,fbr her contentation. 
 fen Wherefore, to conclude this matter without An evidenc 
 ^further difpute or rcafon : faying, there is fo much 
 itfidifeovered in the dafe as there is : fo great defire of c 
 preJaigne, fo great impatience of delay, lo great hope roe , 1nt i n rime 
 ^ and liability of fuccefl’e, if it be attempted under of her Ma» 
 Hithe good fortune and prefent authority of the com- J c %* 
 iiijpecitours: feeing the plots be lb well laid, the 
 eft,preparation lb forward, the favourers fo furnifhed, 
 rat: ;thc time fo propitious, andfo many other caufes 
 : conviting together: feeing that by differing, all 
 ed may be hazarded, and by naftening, little can be 
 indangered ; the ftate and condition of things well 
 coavveyea: finding alfothe bands of duty fo broken 
 giniialready in the confpiratours , the caufes of miflike 
 oudafld hatred lb manifeft, and the folicitours to cxe- 
 c of rution, fo potent and diligent, as women., raa- 
 deiilice, and ambition, are wont to bee : it is more 
 ly 5 then probable, that they will not leefe their prefent 
 A-commodity,efpecially feeing they have learned by 
 - ‘their Archi-tipe or Proto-plot which they follow, (I 
 to mieane the confpiracy of Harihumbtrland and Suf- An errour *f 
 1 n \ folfc in King Edwards dayes_) that herein there thc father 
 l- was fom* errour committed at that time, which 
 id«overthrew the whole; and that was, the deferring thcSonne, J 
 no:.:of fome things uncill after the Kings death, which 
 Id 5 Ihould have beene put in execution before, 
 ibi s For if in the time of their plotting, when as yet 
 •if their 
 
(?*) 
 
 their defignements were not publifhed to the world, 
 they had under the countenance of the King ( 8 
 well they might have done) gotten into their hand) 
 the two Sifters , and difpatched fome other few af¬ 
 faires, before they had caufed the young Prince to 
 die : no dobut, but in mans reafon the whole dc- 
 fignement had taken place : and confequently it» 
 to be prefuppofed, that thefe men (being no fools 
 in their owne affaires) will take heed of falling in¬ 
 to the like errour by delay : but rather will male 
 all fure , by.ftriking while the iron is hot, asow 
 proverbe warneth them. 
 
 LdVfjtr- It cannot bee denied in reafon (quoth the Law- : 
 yer) but that they have many helpes of doing whit 
 they lift now, under the prefent a favour, countt- 
 nance, and authority of her Majefty , which they < 
 fhould not have after her Highnefle deceafe: when 
 each man fhall remaine more at liberty for his 4 J 
 preame obedience,by reafon of the ftatute provided 
 tor the uncertainty of the next fucceflor: and there¬ 
 fore I for my part, would rather counfell them to ■ 
 make much of her Majefties life; for after that, 1 
 they little know what may enfue,or befall their de- 
 fjgnements. * j 
 
 Gtntltmxn. They will make the mod thereof (quoth theGtn- 
 tleman) for their owne advantage , but after tk, 
 what is like to follow, the examples of Edward and 
 "Richard the fecond,as alfo of Henry and edwardtk 
 fixt, doe fufficiently fore-warne us : whole lives 
 were prolonged , untill their deaths were thought ■ 
 more profitable to the confpiratours, and not Ion- 1 
 H«r Maj*. eer. And for the ftatute you fpeak of, procured by 1 
 ftiej life aid themfelves, for eftablifhing the incertainty of the 
 ferrethecoo- nexc true I' ucce H' our J (whereas all our former fta- i 
 fpiratours tutes were wont to be made for the declaration and 
 
 wine. certainty of the fame) it is with Proi/ifo , (as you 
 
 know) 
 
the* 
 
 K'^know) that it (hall not endure longer then the life 
 leir 'of her Majcfty, that now raigneth: that is, indeed, 
 ei %> longer then untill themfelves be ready to place 
 Fti. : vno clier. For then, no doubt , but wee fliall fee a 
 w(iof a j rc proclamation, that my Lord of Huntington is 
 tntbfc onely next heire: with a bundle of halters to 
 no ia ng all fuch, as (hall dare onee open their mouth 
 illitjbr denial! of the fame. 
 
 'ilia, Atthcfe words the old Lawyer ftepped back, as 
 somewhat aftonied, and began to make Crofles in 
 he ayre after their fafhion, whereat wc laughed; 
 the and then he Laid , truly my Mafters I had thought 
 ", hat no man had conceived fo evill imagination of 
 . i his ftatute as my felfe : but now I perceive that I 
 lididone am not malitious. For my owne part,I mu ft 
 lc oonfcffe unto you, that as often as I rcade over this 
 >r 1 ftatute, or thinkc of the fame (as by divers occafi- 
 pjc ons many times I doe) 1 feele my felfe much gree- 
 id'ved and alHiftedin minde, upon feares which I 
 tio conceive what may be the end of this ftatute to our 
 fee; Countrey, and what privy meaning the chiefe pno- 
 hcicurers thereof might have for their owne drifts, a- 
 gainft the Realme and life of her Majeftie that 
 hemow raigneth. 
 
 ten ,j And fo much more it maketh mee to doubt, for 
 mthat in all our records of law,you fhall not find (to 
 «;iny rcmembrance)any one example of fuch a devife 
 ift for concealing of the true inheritour: but rather in 
 Vail ages,ftates,and times, (efpecially from Richard 
 v the firft downeward) you fhall finde ftatutes, ordi¬ 
 nances, |nd provilions, for declaration and mani- 
 feftation of the farae,as you hare well obferved and 
 it: touched before. And therefbreithis ftrange and new 
 I devife mu ft needs have fomc ftrange and unaccu- 
 ; ftomed meaning: and God of his mercy grant,that 
 i k have net fome ftrange and unexpected event. 
 
 A Proclama¬ 
 tion with 
 halter*. 
 
 Lawyer. 
 
 Papifticall 
 
 bldfing. 
 
 The ftatute 
 of concea¬ 
 ling tke heire 
 apparaijt. 
 
 Trichord go. 
 ing towards 
 fiicrufalem „ 
 began the 
 cuifome by 
 Parliament, 
 as Tohdore 
 noteth,-4»jj5 
 xo.of T^ubard 
 thciccond.t® 
 declare the 
 next heire. 
 
The danger In fight of all men,this is already evident,that ne< 
 of our Coun- ver Countrey in the world was brought into more 
 eealin^thc* a PP arent danger of utter ruine, then ours is at this 
 ntxc heire. day, by pretence of this Statute. For whereas there 
 is no Gentleman fo meane in the Realme,thatcan I 
 not give a guefle more or lefl'e, who fliall bee his 
 next heire, and his Tenants {bone conjc&ure, what 1 
 manner of perfon (hall be their next Lord: in then- 
 tie of our noble Crown, whereof all the reft depen¬ 
 ded! 5 neither is her Majefty permitted to know or 
 fay,who fhall be her next fucceflbr,nor her fubjeft; 
 allowed to underftand or imagine, who in right 
 may be their future Soverajgne: An intollerablc 
 injury in a matter of fo Angular importance. 
 
 For (alas) what ftiould become of this our native 
 Counrrey, if God fhould take from us her moftex, 
 (great inccn- cellent Majefty (as once he will) and fo leave in 
 venienceso deftitute upon the fudden, what fhould become o! 
 
 our lives, of our ftates, and of our whole Rcairne 
 or goveroement ? can any man promife himfelfe 
 one day longer, of reft, peace, pofleffion, life or li¬ 
 berty within the land, then God fhall lend usher 
 Majefty to raigne over us > Which albeit, wee fo 
 and are bound to wifh that it may bee long: 
 reafon telleth us, that by courfe of nature, it can¬ 
 not bee of any great continuance, and by a thou- 
 fand accidents it may be much fhorter. And fhall 
 then our moft noble Common-wealth and King- 
 dome , which is of perpetuity , and muft continue 
 to our felves and our pofterity, hang onely upon 
 the life of her Highneflc alone , well ftnjcken in 
 yeares, and of no great good health, or robuftioui 
 and ftrong complexion? 
 
 thfifltpher I was within hearing fome fix or feaven yearei : 
 tiittm Ora. agoe, when Sir Cbriftopher Hatton, in a very great j 
 tic*. aflembly, made an eloquent Qration (which after I 
 
 wejc 
 
vftnc was put in prim) at the pardoning and deli- 
 l ver y of him from the gallowcs, that by errour (as 
 was thought) had difcharged his peece upon her 
 Majeftie: Barge, and hurt certaine perfons in her 
 a Highuefle pretence. And in that Oration he decla¬ 
 im red and deferibed very effectually, what ineftima- 
 ble dammage had enfued to the Kealme,if her Ma- 
 ir j’efty by that or any other means thould have beene 
 taken from us. He fet forth moft lively before the 
 eyes of all men, what divifion,what diflenfion, what 
 | bloudthed had enfued, & what fatall dangers were 
 moft certaine to fall upon us, whenfoever that dole- 
 full day thould happen: wherein no man fhould be 
 . fure of his life, of his goods, of his wife, of his chil¬ 
 dren: no man certain whether to flic, whom to fol¬ 
 low, or where to feeke repofe or prote&ion. 
 
 , And as all the hearers there prefent did eatily grant 
 . that he therein faid truth,and farre Iefle then might 
 ! have beene faid in that behalfe, things Handing as 
 they doe: f® many one (I trow) hath heard rnefe 
 words proceed from a Councellour, that had good 
 i. caufe to know the flare of his own Countrey,entted 
 K into this cogitation, what punifhment they might 
 , deferve then, at the whole State and Common- Intollerabie 
 wealths hands,who firft by letting hei Majefty from Treafons. 
 marriage, and then by procuring this Statute of 
 ' dilTembling the next iRheritour, had brought their 
 j"i Realme intofo evident and inevitable dangers? for 
 every one well confidered and weighed with him- 
 , Iclfc, that the thing which yet only-letted thefe dan- 
 gers and miferies fet downc by Sir Cbrijlopker^utt 
 necefl'arfly one day faile us all,that is,the life of her 
 Majefty now prefent: and then (fay we) how fal- 
 leth it our,that fo generull a calamity as mull needs 
 overtake us ere it be long (and may, for any thing 
 we know tomorrow nexfis not provided tor,afweU 
 ' » forc-feenc, Is 
 
The roHeries 
 to follow ep- 
 oa her Maj<- 
 HieidCith. 
 
 The danger 
 to her Majc- 
 &y by this 
 ftaqitc* 
 
 Is there no remedy, bur that wee muft willing | 
 and wittingly runne into our owne ruine ? and for ' 
 the favour or fcarcof lome few afpirours, betray 
 our Countrey, and the bloud of fo many thoufand 
 innocents as live within plie land ? 
 
 For tell mee (good Sirs} I pray you, if her Ma* 
 jeftie fhould die to morrow next (whole life God 
 long preferve and bleffe,} but ifihe flrould beta¬ 
 ken from us, (as by condition of nature and hu- j 
 mane frailty Are may} what would you doe ? which i 
 way would you looke t or what head or part knew i 
 any good fubjeft in die Realmc to follow* 1 fpcake 
 not of the confpiratours, for I know they will fee ) 
 ready and refolved whom to follow: but I fpeake 
 of the plaine, fitriple, and well-meaning fubjcS, ‘ 
 who following now the utter letter of this fraudu¬ 
 lent ftatute, (fraudulent I meane in the fecrct 
 conceipt of the cunning alpirours i) {hall bee ta¬ 
 ken at that day upon the hidden, and being putin 
 a maze by the unexpected contention about the 
 Crov/ne, /hall be brought into a thoufand dangers, 
 both of body and goods, which now are not thought 
 upon by them who are moll in danger of the fame, 
 And this is for the Common-wealth and Conn- 
 trey. 
 
 But unto her Majefty, for whofe good and fafety 
 the ftatute is oncly pretended to be made,no doubt 
 but that it bringeth farre greater dangers then any 
 devifethat they have ufed befides. For hereby un¬ 
 der colour of reftraining the claimes and titles of : 
 true fucceflburs, (whole endeavours notwithftan- 
 ding,are commonly more ealme and modefttte then 
 of ufurpers,} they make unto tbemlclves,a meant 
 to forftcr and fee forward their owne confpiracy , 
 without controlemcnt : feeing no man of might 
 neayoppofe himfelfc again ft them, but with fufpiti- 
 
(* 7 > 
 
 { an &X he meaneth to clairae for himfdfe. And fo 
 c rhe ’ being armed on the one fidt, with their autho- 
 > r ] t J a ,id force of prefent fortune, and defended oh 
 t he other fide, by the pretence of the ftatute : they 
 nia y fecurely worke and plot at their pleafurc, as 
 it!you have well proved before that they doe. And 
 \rhentoever their grounds and foundations iha-il be 
 i\ r cady, it cannot be denied, buc that her Majefties 
 
 • hfe Iyeth much at their diferetion, to takeit, or ufe 
 it, to their beft commodity : C an d there is no doubt 
 but they will,) as fuch men are wont to doe in fuch 
 affaires. Marry one thing ftandeth not in their 
 powers fo abfoluteJy , and that is , to prolong her 
 
 • Majefties da/es, or favour towards themfelves^ at 
 ' their pleafures: whereof it is not unlike but they 
 will have duecon{!deration,leaft perhaps upon any, 
 hidden accident, they might be found unready. 
 
 te They have good care thereof lean allure you j Gentleman, 
 l f quoth the Gentleman) and ineane noc to bee 
 prevented by any accident , or other milhap what- 
 : foever: they will bee ready for all events : and 
 k for that caule, they haften fo much their prepa- Tfie haft> 
 ci rations at this day , more then ever before : by ning D f t j, e 
 G finding out their fpies and follicitours every- Corifpirss- 
 where , to prove and confirme their friends, by tours, 
 k delivering their common w arch-word : by com-. 
 
 ' plaining on all hands of our Proreftants Bifhops 
 ; and Clergy, and of all the prefent ftate of our ir- 
 rcformediteligion, (as they call it:) by amplifying 
 : onely the danger of Papifts and Scctiifh fad ion: 
 
 ■ by giving out openly that now her Majefty is paft 
 : hope of Child-birth; and confequently,feeing God 
 
 • hath given no, better fuccefle that way in two Wo¬ 
 men one after the other ; it were not convenient(fay 
 they) that another of that fexe fhould enfue, with 
 high commendation df the Law Salie^ in France, 
 
 H where-; 
 
Schollar. 
 
 The Watch¬ 
 word of the 
 Confpir*- 
 «ours. 
 
 Lawyer. 
 
 Seholtar. 
 *Att pitfelled. 
 
 whereby women are forbidden to fuccced. Which 
 fpeech, though in fhew it be delivered againftche 
 Queen of Scott,and other of King Henry the feventb 
 his line,that difeend of Sifters: yet all men fee that 
 it toucheth as well the difabling of her Ma jelly,that 
 is prefent, as others to come : and lo tendeth dired¬ 
 ly to Maturation of the principall purpofe, which I 
 have declared before. 
 
 Here faid I, for the reft which you fpeakc of, be. 
 fides the Watch-word, it is common and every 
 where treated in talkc among them: but yet for the 
 Watch-word it fclfe (for that you name it) I thinke 
 (Sir) many know it not, if I were the firft that told 
 you the ftory, as perchance I was. For in truth I 
 came to it by a rare hap (as then I told youj the 
 thing being uttered and expounded by a Baron of j 
 their owne faftion, to another Noble man of the 
 fame decree and religion, though not of the faint 
 opinion in thefc affaires. And for that I am rebe¬ 
 lled not to utter the fecond, who told it me in fecret, 
 
 I muft alfo fparcthe name of the firft, which •dvet- 
 wife I would not; nor the time and place where he 
 uttered the fame. 
 
 To this (faid the Lawyer) you doe well in that; 
 but yet I befeech you,let me know this Watch-vwd 
 (if there bee any fuch) for mine inftru&ion and 
 helpc when need fhall require. For I allure you 
 that this Gentlemans former fpeech of halters hath 
 fo terrified mee, as if any fhould come and aske,ot 
 feele my inclination in thefe matters, I would an- 
 fwer them fully to their good'contentment,ifI knew 
 the Watchword whereby to know them. Fftr of all 
 things, I love not to bee hanged for quarrel*ot 
 Kingdomes. 
 
 This Watch-word is, ([faid I) whether you be fil¬ 
 led or no f and if you anfvver yea, and feemc to un- 
 derftand 
 
(99) 
 
 * Jerftand thtf meaning thereof: then are you fcnownc 
 
 - t 0 be of their feftion, and fo to bee accompred and 
 a: '' dealt withali for things to come. But it you ftagger 
 
 • or doubt in anfwering, as if you knew not perfectly 
 ii: themiftery, (as the Nobleman my good Lord did, 
 
 imagining that it had beene meant of his religion, 
 
 V which was very well knowne to be good, and fetled 
 in the Gofpell) then are you diferied thereby, ei^ 
 
 ’ • ther not to be of their fide, or elfe to be but a Punic A great m 
 
 - no t well inftmfted; and confequently, he that mo- ft er y, 
 v veth you the queftion, will prefcntly break off that 
 
 i fpeech, and turne to fome other taike, untill after¬ 
 ward occafion be given to perfwade you, or elfc in- 
 11 flruft you better in that affaire, 
 i Marry the Noble man, whereof I fpake before, 
 perceiving by the demanding, that chere was fome 
 miftcry in covert, under the queftion: coofce hold 
 ' ofthe words, and would not fufferthe propounder 
 il: to flip away (as he endeavoured) but with much 
 1 intreaty brought him at length to expound the full 
 meaning and purpofc of the riddle. And this was 
 the firft occafion (as I thinkc) whereby this fecrec 
 came abroad. Albeit afterwards at the publique 
 ' Communions, which were made throughout fo ma- 
 " many Shires, the matter became more common: 
 cfpecially among the ftrangers that inhabitc (as 
 yon know) in great numbers with us at this day* 
 
 All which (as they fay) are made moft aftured to 
 this faftion, and ready to aflift the fame with great 
 forces at all occafions. 
 
 Good Lord (quoth the Lawyer) how many mi fte- LxtvySff, 
 ries antflTecrcts be there abroad in the world,where¬ 
 of we fimple men know nothing, and fufpeft Idle* 
 
 This Watch-word fhould 1 never have imagined ... 
 and for the great & often aflemblies,under pretence vComin** 
 of Communions, though of themfelyes, and of their nfom, 
 
 H a own? 
 
Strangers 
 within the 
 Land. 
 
 The perill of 
 ©ur Countrey 
 if Huntingtons 
 claime take 
 place. 
 
 Gentleman. 
 
 ThfRedRofe 
 & the White. 
 
 ©wne nature, they were unaccuftomedi, land conk 
 quently fubjeft to fufpition , yet i did never con- i 
 ceive fo farre forth as now I doe : as neither ofth* 
 lodging and entertaining of fo many ftr angers in 
 the Kealme, whereof our Artizans doe complaint r 
 every where. But now I fee the reafon thereof,'; 
 which ("no doubt) is founded upon great policy for > 
 the purpofe. And by this alfo I fee thdtche houfeof' 
 Huntington prefleth tarre forward for the game, 
 and ihouldreth neare the goale to lay hands upon ; 
 the fame. Which to tell you plainly, liketh me out 
 a little : both in relpeft of che good will I bearc to 
 the whole Line of King Henry, which hereby is like 
 to be difpolfdled 5 as alio for the mifery which I doe 
 fore-feCjinuft neccflarily enfue upon our Countrev, pi 
 if once the challenge o f Huntington take place in 
 our Realms.: Which challenge being derived from 
 die title of c larence onely in the Houle of Tor {e, be¬ 
 fore the union of the two great Houfes: raifeth up j ■ 
 a game the old contention betweene the Families of » 
 Tor^e and Lancafler ,wherein fo much Englifa blond 
 was.fpilt in times paft, and much more like to bee 
 powred out now, if the fame contention fhoulditj 
 fet on foot againe. Seeing that to the controverts 
 of Titles, would bee added alfo the controverted 
 Religion, which of all other differences is moll 
 dangerous. rir c; 
 
 Sir Cquoth the Gentleman) now you touch* 
 matter of confequence indeed, and fuch as the very ; 
 naming thereof maketh my heart to fliake and trem¬ 
 ble. I remember well what Philip Cominus fettetii 
 downe in his Hiftory of our Countries calai«ity,by . 
 that contention of thofe two Houfes, diftinguilhed ' 
 by the Red Role and the White : but yet both in 1 
 their Armes might juftly have borne the colour of 
 Red, with a ficrie fword in a black field j to fignifis 
 
(lol) 
 
 '■ -he abundance of bloud and mortality which enfued 
 cvt^Qur Countrey, by that moll wofuli and cruell 
 
 !!: contention. 
 
 )% j w iii not (land here to let downfi the particulars, 
 '■'Weired & gathered by the forefaid author, though 
 H Granger, which for the moll part he faw himfelfe, 
 ,oi vhile hee lived about the Duke of Burgundy , and 
 king of France, of that time: namely the pit- 
 
 e defeription of divers right Noble men of our 
 " J Realme,who befides all ocher miferies, were driven 
 ’■^abegge openly in forraine Countries,and the like. 
 
 : > Vline owne obfervation in reading over our Coun¬ 
 ty^ jftaires,is fufficient to make me abhorre the me- 
 idij^y ofthat time,and to dread all occafion that may 
 cad us to the like in time to comerfeeing that in my 
 J udgement,neither the Civillwarres of Marius and 
 - or of Vmpey and C re far among the Romanes, 
 
 ar/fiior yetth zGuelpbians and Gibilinet among the/^- 
 'mw, did ever worke fo much woe, as this did to our 
 yoore Countrey. Wherein by reafon of the conten- 
 litionoffWJfce and Lancafler , were toughten fixteene 
 -or feventeen pitched fields,in lefie then an hundred 
 : -yeares, That is, from the eleventh or twelfth ycare 
 WjfKing Richard the fecond his raigne, (when this 
 encontroverlie firft began to bud up) unto the thir¬ 
 teenth yeare of K. Henry the feventh. At what time 
 by cutting off the chiefe titler of Huntingtons houfe, 
 -to vvit,yong Edward Plantaginct Earle or Warwick 
 Is Son and Heire toGcffrge,Duke of clarence --,the con- 
 t:tention mod happily was quenched and ended, 
 wherein fo many fields (as I have fa id) were fough- 
 ten betwfen Brethren and Inhabitants of our owne 
 Nation. And therein,and otherwife onely about the 
 fame quarrel,were flain,murdered,and made away, 
 about nine or ten Kings,and Kings Sonnes y befides 
 i, above fortyEarles*MarqueH'es,and Dukes of name: 
 
 H 3 but 
 
 The roifery of 
 England by 
 the contenti¬ 
 on betweene 
 Toike and 
 Lmajler « 
 
 Guclphms 
 and Gibilim • 
 
 Edward Plan- 
 taeinet Earle 
 of Warwick- 
 
(toi) 
 
 but many more Lords, Knights, and great Gefttk- 
 men and Captaincs: and of the Common peopl 
 without number,and by particular conjecture ycr? 
 ihe Battell neare two hundred thoufand. For that in one Bn- 
 b? T adeafter te j^ f^ght by King Edward the fourth, there ar; 
 Sunday™ Ua- recorded to be flaine on both parts, five and thirty i 
 1460!' thoufand feven hundred and eleven perfom, be 
 fides others wounded and taken prifoners, to be pm 
 to death afterward, at the pleafure of the Conqut- 
 tour: at divers Battels after, ten thoufand llaine:• 
 a Battell. And in thofe of Barnet and Tufesfarj 
 fougftt both in one yeare. 
 
 The danger Thisfuffered our afflifted Country in thofe dayet, I 
 elahwTjcoithe by 1 ^ 1S ur d°rtunate and deadly contention, whid- 
 Realme, and could never be ended,but by the happy con junffe 
 to het Ma- of thoi^ two Hoirfes together,in Henry the leventr. 
 jefty. neither yet fofas appeareth by Chronicle} undll ft 
 
 I have faidj the ftate had cut off the iflue mileoi 
 the Duke of Clarence, who was caufc of divfcrs peril; 
 to King Henry the feyenth,though he were in prifon. 
 By whofe Sifter the faClion of Huntington at this 
 day, doth feeke to raife up the fame contention ; 
 gaine,with farre greater danger both to theRcalir? 
 and to her Majefty that now raigneth, then ever be¬ 
 fore. 
 
 And for the Realme it is evident, by that it giver 
 roome to ftrangers, Competitours of the Houle <r 
 Lancaster: better able to maintaine their ownetitk 
 by fword, then ever was any of that linage befor 
 them. And for her Majefties perill prefent,itisnc ’ 
 thing hard to conje&urc: feeing the fame title intlit 
 fore-faid Earle of Warwick, was fo dangerous and 
 troublefome ro her Grandfather (by whom five ho!-1 
 deth) as hee was faine twice to take armesind 
 fence of his right,againft the faid title, which w: 
 in. thofe dayes preferred and advanced by the friends 
 
r «itC off/*«#« ^before that of Henry : as alfo this of Hun' 
 
 “ft!: t i n£ton is at this day,by his faftion, before that of 
 ft her Maiefty though never fo unjuftly. 
 
 Touching Huntingtons title, before her Majefty, lawyer, 
 
 ^ ("quoth the Lawyer) I will fay nothing : becaufc in 
 ean; rea f 0 n, I fee not by what pretence in the World, he 
 erfea may thruft himfclfe fo farre forth: feeing her Ma- 
 •Sjto) jefty ii defeended, not onely of the Houfe of Lan- 
 lc( cattery but alfo before him moft apparently from How Hunting 
 noili the Houfe of Terfe it felfe , as from the el deft 
 Ai Daughter of King Edward the fourth, being the f ore her Ma- 
 eldeft Brother of that Houfe. Whereas Hunting- jefty. 
 ton daimeth onely by the Daughter of George 
 ion. Duke o( Clarence,the younger Brother. Marry yet 
 M].i I muft confefTe, that if the Earle of lvarreiths title 
 . were better then that of King Henry the leventh, 
 
 (which is moft falfc, though many attempted to dc- 
 ; fend the fame by fword:) then hath Huntington * The moft of 
 : fomc wrong at this day by her Majefty, Albeit in Huntvmnt 
 ’ very truth, the * attaints of fo many of his Ancc- A " ccftc £* by 
 it flours by whom he claimeth, would anfwer him al- 
 te: fo fufficiently in that behalfe, if his tide were other- attainted 0 f 
 lif; wife allowable. Treafon. 
 
 D6 But I know befides this, they have another fetch The infimous 
 of King Richard the third, whereby he would needs device of king 
 prove his elder Brother King Edward to bee a Ba- R tchard the * 
 r/ ftard: and confequently his whole Iine,afwell male jh‘j^> a ft ovv cd 
 as female to be void. Which devife though it be ri- by 
 diculous, and was at that time when it was firft in¬ 
 vented : yet,as Richard found at that time a Doftor 
 Sbavr, that fhamed not to publifh and defend the 
 fame,a tfauls Crofle in a Sermon: an ijohn of Nor- * w 
 tbumberland my Lord of Ley utters Father found out fl **° *' *" 
 divers Preachers in his timc,to fet up the title of Suf- 
 folfak to debafe the right of K. Henries daughter, 
 both in L9ndon,Cambridge> Oxford, and other places, 
 
 H 4 moft 
 
(?*♦; 
 
 moft apparently againft aU Law and reafon: fo \ 
 doubt not but theie men would finde out aifohothl 
 Shades, Sands, and others,to fetout the title of efc. 
 
 . rente > before the whole intereft of King Henry the 
 fcocedlbv her°^ evem ^ an< *bis pofterity,ifoccafionferved. Which 
 Majcfty^ 1S a P 0 ^ Q f importance to bee confidered by her 
 Maiefty > albeit for my part, I meane not not now 
 to ftand thereupon,but oncly upon that other of the 
 Houfe of Lancafier, as I have faid. 
 
 For as that raoft honourable, lawfull, and happy 
 conjunftion of the two adverfary Houfes, in Kin? 
 u Htnr J [ b e f event b and his Wife, made an end of' 
 
 f«. h h0U_t ^ e ihedding of Engljh bloud within ir felfe, and 
 brought us that mo ft defired peace, which ever 
 fince wee have enjoyed, by the raigne of their ewe 
 moft noble ifiue : fo the plot that now is in hand, 
 for the cutting off the refidue of that ifliie, and for 
 recalling bncke of the whole Title to the Houfe of 
 X^k e againe j is like to plung us deeper then cm j 
 in civile difeord, and to make us the Bait ot all for- ! 
 raine Princes : feeing there be among them at this j 
 The Line of day, fome of no fmall power C as 1 have faid) 
 ‘TottitgaH. w h 0 pretend to bee the next heires by the Houfe 
 of Lancafter : and confoquently, are not like it 
 give over or abandon the'ir owne right, if once th 
 ^ doore bee opened to contention for the fame , by 
 difanulling the Line of King tyenry the feventh: ; 
 whereinonelythe keyesofallconcord remaineknit 
 together. 
 
 And albeit I know well that fuch as be of my Lord ! 
 of Huntingtons party , will make finall accomptof j 
 the ■J'itle of Lane after , as lefle rightfull a gre«f deale 
 then that of Yo,'l(e , (and I for my part meane not 
 greatly to avow the fame, as now it is placed, being 
 my felfe no favourer of forraine Titlesyet indif¬ 
 ferent men have to confider how it Was taken in 
 
( I0 1) 
 
 times paft, and how it may againe in time to come, 
 
 ! if contention fhould arife : how many Noble perfo- The oldefti. 
 
 naees of our Reahne did offer themfelves to die in rracion of th« 
 i) cilice thereof : how many Oaths and Lawes were Hrvifc ofles* 
 given and received throughout the Realme for €i ft er > 
 t, maintenance of the fame,againft the other Houfe of 
 ' i 'trie for ever: how maty worthyKings were crow- 
 
 ■ ned,and raignedof that Houfe and Race; to wit,the 
 foure moft Noble Henries, one after another; the 
 fourth, the fitt, the lixt, and the feventh: who both 
 
 v in number,government, fanftity,courage, and teats 
 " of armes, were'nothing inferiour (if not fuperiour) 
 
 V to thofe of the other Houfe and Line of Tor{e, after 
 the divifion betweene the Families, 
 f;:: It is to bee conlidered alfo as a fpeciall figne of 
 : the favour and affe&ion of our whole Nation unto 
 r>! that Family: that Henry Earle of Richmond, though He„rv Earle 
 '4 dilccnding but of the laft Sonne, and third Wife of of Richmond. 
 
 > John of Giant, Duke of Lancaster , was fo refpe- 
 k fted for that onely by the umverfall Realme : as 
 
 ■ they inclined wholly to call him from banifhtrtent, 
 
 . and to make him King with fhe depofition of 7 (ich~ 
 r ard, which then ruled of the Houfe of Torke , upon 
 list condition onely, that the faid Henry fhould take to 
 DC Wifca Daughter of the contrary Family: fo great 
 ie. was in thofe dayes the afteftion of Exglijb hearts to* 
 ves wards the Line of l.ancafter , for the great worthi- 
 fit; nefle of fuch Kings as had raigned of that Race , 
 
 how good or bad loever their Title were : which I 
 Hand not here at this time to difeufle , but onely to 
 inlinuate what party the fame found in our Realme 
 i in time^paft; and confequently,how extreame dan- 
 gerous the contention for the fame may be hereaf- The Line e£ 
 ter : efpecially,feeing that at this day the remainder T*»rtu&all. 
 f of that Title is pretended to reft wholly in a ftran- 
 ger, whofe power is very great. Which wc Lawyers 
 are 
 
( 10 *) 
 
 arc wont to efteeme as a point of no fmall impor¬ 
 tance , for juftifying of any mans title to a Kin? 
 dome. 
 
 Scholar- You Lawyers want not reafon in that Sir (quodj i 
 Ij howfoever you want right: for if you will exa- i 
 mine the fucceffion of governements, from the be- i 
 ginning of the World untill this day, either amoig i 
 The fword of Gentile, Jew, or Chriftian people , you Hull findt ; 
 grear force to chat the fword hath beene alwayes better then halfc s 
 ll^ofaki Clt * e > to S et > c ^ a ^hlTi, or maintaine a King, 
 dome. lf> ^' < * ome * w ^ich maketh me the more apalled to heart : 
 
 you difeourfe in fuch fort of new contentions, and t 
 forraine titles, accompanied with fuch power and i 
 ftrength of the titlers, which cannot bee but infi- ; 
 nicely dangerous and fatall to our Realme, if one: < 
 it come to a&ion ; both for the divifion that u lilce \ 
 to be at home, and the variety of parties fromi- 
 broad. For as the Prince whom you fignifie, will 
 not faile ("by all likelyhood} to purfue his tide mh 
 all forces that hec can make, if occafion were o/Fc 
 red : fo reafon of ft ate and policy will enforce o- i 
 Great dan- ther Princes adjoyning, to let and hinder him i 
 gCrs * therein what they can : and fo by this meanes fluli , 
 
 we become Jtida and lfrael among our feIves,on? ! 
 killing and vexing the other with the fword: and - 
 to forraine Princes we fhall be, as the Hand of Si 
 lamina was in old time to the Athenians and Men- 
 tians : and as the Hand of Cicilia was afterward to i 
 the Grecians , Carthaginians , and Romans : and as in I ] 
 our dayes,che Kingdome o£ Naples hath beene tothe : 
 Spaniards , French-men , Germans , and F'enetwn t 
 That is, a bait to feed upon , and a gam&tfo fight i 
 for. j i 
 
 Wherefore, I befeech the Lord,to avert from us ; 
 all occasions of fuch miferies. And I pray you Sir, 
 for that wee are fallen into the mention of thelc 
 matters, 
 
( 107 ) 
 
 matters, to take fo much paines as to open unto me 
 the ground of thefe controverfies,fo long now quiec 
 betweene Torke and Lancafter : feeing they are now 
 like to bee raifed againe. For albeit in generall I 
 have heard much tnereof } 'yet in particular,I either 
 conceive not,or remember not the foundation of the 
 fame; and much lefle the ftate of their feverall titles 
 at this day, for that it is a ftudy not properly pertai¬ 
 ning unto my profeflion. 
 
 The controverfir betweene the Houfes of Tor{e Lamer* 
 and Lmafter (quoth the Lawyer) took his aftuall J 
 beginning in the iflue of King Edward the third, The begin- 
 who died fomewhat more then two hundred yeares nin g °f 
 agone: but the occafion, pretence, or caufe of that betwTt^ 
 quarrell, began in the children of King Henry ^TLsnJfUi, 
 the third, who died an hundred yeares before that, 
 and left two Sonnes ; Edward, who was King af¬ 
 ter him, by the name of Edward the firft, and was 
 Grandfather to Edward the third : and Edmond 
 (for his deformity called Crookebacke) Earle of 
 Laiuafttr, and beginner of that Houfe, whole in¬ 
 heritance afterward in the fourth difeent, fell upon 
 a Daughter named Blanch, who was married to the 
 fourth Son of King Edward the third, named J obit 
 of Gaunt, for that he was borne in the City of Gaunt 
 in ¥landers, and fo by this his firft wife, hee became 
 Duke of Lancafter t and heirc of that Houfe. And for e , , r 
 
 that his Son Henry of Bolingbrook (afterward cal- beginner 
 led King Henry the fourth) pretended among other of the Houfe 
 things,that Edmond Crooleebacli, great Grandfather °f Lncajier. u 
 to Blanch his mother, was the elder Sonne of King 'Blanch. 
 Hcnrjfhc third, and uniuftly pur by the inheri¬ 
 tance of the Crowne, for that he was Crook-backed hhn of Gaunt, 
 and deformed ; hee tooke by force the Kingdome 
 from Kickard the fecond, Nephew to King Edward 
 the third, by his firft Sonne; and placed the fame 
 
 in 
 
(io8) 
 
 How theKing in the Houfe of Lancaster, where it remained for 
 K°nh wa l three whole difcents, untill afterward , Edward 
 eothcHoufc DuIt e of Terke defcendcd of lob ft of G aunts yonger 
 sf LMtafler. brother , making claime to the Crowne by title of 
 his Grandmother, that was heire to Lionel, Duke < 
 of clarence, lebrt of G aunts elder Brother, tooke 
 the fame by force from Henry the fixt, of the Houfc ! 
 of Lancaier, and brought it backe againe to the 
 Houfe of forty: where it continued with much I 
 trouble in two Kings onely, untill both Houfei ! 
 were joyned together in King Henry the fcvench, ; 
 and his noble iflue. '* 
 
 Hereby wee fee how the iflUe of lohn of Gaunt, 
 Duke of Lane after, fourth Son to King Edward the 
 third , pretended right to the Crowne by Edmond 
 Crootybacty , before the iflue of all the other three 
 Sonnes of Edward the third, albeit they were the el« 
 der Brothers , whereof wee will fpeake more here* 
 iKe iflue of a f ter> Now lohn of Gaunt though hee had man» 
 iebn oi am. y et [ iac { { ie fo ure onely, of whom iflue re- 
 
 maine, two Sonnes and two Daughters. The krft 
 Son was Henry of Bolinybrooty, Duke of Lancafltr, 
 who tooke the Crowne from King Richard the fe- 
 cond,his llnkles Sonne,as hath beenc fa id; and ftrf 
 of all planted the fame in the Houfe of Lancafltr 
 where it remained in two difcents after him, that is, 
 in his Son Henry the fift, and in his Nephew Henri 
 the fixt, who was afterward deftroyed,together with 
 Henry Prince of wales, his onely Sonne and Heire, , 
 and confequendy all that Line of Henry 
 brooty extinguifhed, by Edward the fourth of the •; 
 Houfe of forty. " |i 
 
 The other Son of lohn of Gaunt , was John, Duke 
 The pedegree of Somerfet, by Catherine Sfins ford , his third wife : j 
 ©f king Henry which lohn had iflue another Iohn& nd he,Margaret 
 she feyenth. his Daughter and Heire, who being married to Ed¬ 
 mond 
 
( 10 ?) 
 
 ; mnd Tyder, Earle of Richmond, had iffue Henry 
 Earle of Richmond, vho after was named King Hen- 
 r . the feventh, whole Line yet endureth. 
 ltif J The two Daughters of John of Gaunt were mar- Thc W0 
 D ried to Portugal! and Caftile : that is ,Pbitip borne of Daughters 
 ; Hanch, Heirc to Edmond crookback, ashathbeene mamed to 
 : f a id,was married to tohn King of Portugal!,oh whom Pcrta*alh>n& 
 : is defended the King that now poffefleth Portugal!, 
 and the other Princes which have or may make title 
 1 to the fame: and Ratherin borne of Conftante,, Heire 
 £ ' of Caftile, was married back againe to Henry King 
 of Caftile in Spainc , of whom King 'Philip is alfo 
 defended. So that by this, wee fee where the re¬ 
 mainder of the Houfe oh Lane after refteth,if the Line 
 “ of King Henry the feventh were extinguifhed : and 
 whit pretext fotraine Princes may have to fubdue Foiraine ti- 
 usdf my Lord of Huntington either now,or after her ties. 
 
 ■ v Majefties dayes, will open, to-them the doore , by 
 ; (hurting out the refPefKing Henries Line, and by 
 drawing backe the title to the onely Houfe of Tor{e 
 againe: which he pretendeth to doe,upon this that 
 " I will now declare. 
 
 King Edward the third, albeit he had many chil- The iffue of 
 ! dren, yet five onely will we fpeakc of at this time: king Edward 
 Jl Whereof three were elder then J u bn of Gaunt, and thc J " 
 
 !i: one yonger. The firft of the elder was named nd- 
 ■ ward the blacke Prince , who died before his Fa¬ 
 ther, leaving one onely Sonne named Richard, who 
 ‘ afterward being King, and named Richard thc le- 
 lf cond, was depofed without iffue, and put to death 
 by his Colin germain, named Henry Eolingbroo\e , 
 
 Duke of Uncover, Son to] John of Gaunt , as hath 
 beene faid 5 and fo there ended the Line of KJno- 
 Sdwards firft Sonne, 
 
 King Edwards fecond Sonne, was vyiUiam of Hat- 
 fitld 3 that died without iffue. 
 
 His 
 
Two Edmonds 
 ehe two be¬ 
 ginners of the 
 two Houfe? 
 of Lmeaflcr 
 and Turk.'' 
 
 The elaime 
 and title of 
 Tarkt. 
 
 Tke iffne of 
 king Sdmri 
 else fourth. 
 
 His third Son^e was Leonell Duke of cUrenct, 
 whofc onely Daughter andHeire called Philip, was : 
 married to Edmond Mortimer Earle of March: and 
 after that, Anne the Daughter and Heire of 
 timer y was married to Richard PUntaginet, Dub e 
 of Torl(e, Son and Heire to Edmond of Langley, the 
 firft Duke of Tor^e : which Sdmond was the Hft Son 
 of King "Edward the third, and younger Brotherto , 
 John of Gaunt. And this EdmondotLangley may ; 
 bee called the firft beginner of the Houfe of Ytrl{ti 
 even as Edmond croo^bac^y the beginner of the ? 
 Houfe of Lancafter. 
 
 This Edmond Langley, then having a Sonne na- ! 
 mod Richard, that married ^Anne Mortimer, foie 
 Heire to Leonell Duke of cUreuce,joyncd two Line? 
 and two Titles in one: I meanc che Line of 
 nelly and of Edmond Langley , who were (as hath bin - 
 fardj die third and the fife Sonnes to King Eivnri 
 the third. And for’this caufc, the childe that was ‘ 
 borne of this marriage,namcd after his Father Huk- 
 ard Plantaginety Duke of Torlgc , feeing hirafelte 
 ftrong,and the firft Line of King Edward the third? 
 eldeft Son to be extinguifhed in the death of King 
 Richard the fecond: and feeing william of Hatfid 
 the fecond Sonne dead likewife without ifl'uc: made 
 demand of the Crowne for the Houfe of Yorl^e, by I 
 the title of Leonell the third Sonne of King edmrl 
 And albeit hee could not obtaine the fame in his •: 
 dayes, for that hee was flaine in a Battell again!! b; 
 King Henry the fixe at wa^efield t yet his Sonne t 
 Edward got the fame, and was called by the name !l 
 of King Edward the fourth. * 
 
 This King at his death left divers children, a? 
 namely two Sonnes, Edward the-fift and his Bre- ” 
 ther, who after were both murdered in the Tower, 
 as fhall be {hewed; and alfo fire Daughters; to wit, 
 tliqtittb, 
 
(Ill) 
 
 ; -inn', Mbtrine , mitriM. 
 
 ‘ Whereof, the firft was married to Henry the feventh. 
 
 The laft became a Nunne,and the other three were 
 i; beftowed upon divers other husbands. 
 
 t ; . g ee had alfo two Brothers: the firft was called The Duke »f 
 ') Gtmt Duke of clarence , who afterward upon his C^rcnce at- 
 “ defens (as is to be fuppofed,) was put to death in Patliam J, 
 catfjstby commandement of the King, and his at- 
 !j: binder allowed by Parliament. And this man left 
 I'd, behinde him a Sonne, named Edward Earle of 
 ’‘‘Warwick ■> P ut t0 death afterward without ifluc, by 
 King Henry the feventh, and a Daughter named 
 i: Aftfrg*rcf>Counteffe 0 f Salisbury , who was married 
 rr, to a meane Gentleman named 7 \icbard Toole , by 
 I : whom fhe had iffuc Cardinall Poole , that died with- 
 it oat marriage; and Henry Poole that was attainted Humhtgun* 
 j! and executed in King Henry the eight his time; JjJ* 1 aCCU 
 ;o(as alfo her felfe was) and this h enry Poole left a xmet% 
 
 !: Daughter married afterward to the Earle of Hun- 
 \tiniton ) b'f whom this Earle that now is maketh title 
 to me Crowne. And this is the effect of my Lord of 
 
 :ts Huntingtons title. 
 
 all ? The fccond Brother of King Edward the fourth, 
 limy* Richard Duke of Glocejler, who after the Kings 
 ideathjcaufcd his two Sonnes to be murdered in the toc c ir • 
 Tower, and tooke the Kingdome to himfe-lfe. And 
 ^.afterward he being flaine by King Henry the feventh 
 : at Re fmrth-field i left no ifl’ue behind him. Where- 
 lEifore King Henry the feventh defeending as hath bin xhe happy 
 i: fliewed of the Houfe of Lancafler t by John of G aunts conjon&ion 
 c daft Sonne and third Wife,and taking to Wife Lady of die tw« 
 Eliifbeti), eldeft daughter of King Edward the I * ourcs * 
 :nfe«rth,of the Houfe of Tor be • joyned mod happily 
 is: the two Families together, and made an end of all 
 F eontroverfies about the title. 
 
 Now King Henry the feventh had ilfue three Chii- 
 \» dren : 
 
(Ill) 
 
 The iflTue of dr en: of whom remaincth pofterity. Firft, Mint) 
 K'ng Henry the eighth, of whom is defeended our Soveraign^ 
 the ievemh. h er Majefty that now happily raigneth, and is | ( 
 The Line snd ^ ^at remaineth alive of that firft Line. Secoitf. 
 Tule of Siot- ly, he had two Daughters: whereof the firft named 
 (and. by Margaret ,'was married twice; firft to j fames Kinj 
 
 , eloeft Q p Scotland , from whom are dire&ly difeendedthe 
 Kw QH eene of Scotland that now liveth,and her Sonde: 
 she 7. a»d King James being dead, Margaret was mar- 
 ried againe to Archibald Douglas Earle of An&uifi; 
 by whom ihee had a Daughter named Alarum, 
 which was married afterward to Mathew Stewtr^ 
 Earle of Lewx, whofe Sonne Charles Steward was 
 married to Elizabeth Candifh, Daughter to the pte 
 fent Countefle of Shrewsbury, and by her hath left 
 sArUU* onely Heire , a little Daughter named Arbtlt, 
 of whom you have heard fome fpeech before. M 
 this is touching the Line of Scotland, defcendu| 
 from .the firft and eldeft Daughter of King tint) 
 the feventh. 
 
 The Line and The fecond Daughter of King Henry the feventh 
 Title of Syf- called Mary, was twice married alfo: firft to the King 
 a 1 ** 1 ' France, by whom (he had no iffue : and after his 
 ter°to Kin^ " death to Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolkfoy wfum 
 Menrj ire 7. (he had two Daughters; that is, Francis , of whicu 
 the Children of my Lord of Hartford do make their 
 claime: and Elenor, by whom the ifllte of the Earle 
 of Darby pretendeth right,as (hall be declared. For 
 that Francis the firft Daughter of Charles by anion 
 by the Queene of France, was married to the Mar-1 
 quefte of Dorfet, who after Charles Brandons death, 
 The uTtie of was made Duke of Safolke in right of his .W.te,an 4 
 francii, cldcft W as beheaded in Queene Maries time, fir hiicon- 
 rfe^ U f hl fi r r ° f P irac y my Lordof Leyceflers Father. Andlte 
 ^^Dukeof had by this man three Daughters: that is^i»e,tb» 
 Sttfilk' was married to my Lord of Leysejiers B rother, and 
 
 proclaimed 
 
(tn) 
 
 4 proclaimed Queene aftu King E Jrwdi death,for Theifflic of 
 
 r; which both fee and her husband were executed : Francis cldeft 
 
 i Kumrint the fecond Daughter, who had two da..«-bt<rto 
 
 * Sonnes,yet living by the Earle of : and 
 
 n, jiwMhe third Dtugter, whi< h left no Children. 
 
 k,I The other Daughter of (km In Brandon by the 
 
 Ida Oucene of France called Elinor, was married to The ifi*ue ofEle- 
 
 si &»{• clifit Eark of Cumbtiland , who left a 
 
 11 Ojuehitr by her mined ««>£'«', married to ihc Cha ; ict BtJn . 
 
 % £arle of Darby, which yet lmth, and hruhiflue. dou. 
 rj And this it the title of the H ufc of SvffcUft, def- 
 m fended from the fecond Daughter of K. Htnty. the 
 jrj fjvemh,married (as h 3 th been fhewed) ^Charles 
 of buffo ike. And by this, you may 
 lai’hit aifohow many there be, who do thmke their 
 optics to he far before that of my Lord of Hunting- 
 tun'^i either right,Dw,reafon,or cor.fideration of 
 xihome affaires may take place in our Realm : or 
 gStf not, yet you cannot but imagine how many 
 great I'riBces and Potentates abroad , are like to 
 fet joyne and buckle with Hunting ons Line for the 
 iii preeminence : if once the matter fall agatnc to 
 a t ronrention by excluding the Line of King Henry 
 'y'tliefevemhjwhuh G od forbid. 
 
 >fi Truly Sir ( quota I) I well perceive that my Scholar. 
 ft Lords turne is not fo nigh as 1 had thought,whe- Huntington be- 
 wlfer he exclude the Line of King Henry , or not behind many 
 'dforif he cXdude that, then m i it he enter the oth crtiifcs, 
 
 ,rl Combat with forraine titlers of the Houfe of 
 
 ■ : LmaQcr: and if he exclude it nor, then ua all ap- 
 parince of reafon and in Law to(as yon have laid) 
 '-the fuccctfion of the two D : tighter* of King Henry 
 i: the feventh ( whiihyou diJtmgU £h by the two 
 ■' names of Scotland add $«$*•%) mud needs 
 ^bce as cleartly before him and his Line , 
 that decended only from Zdxvara die fourth his 
 Brother, as the Queenes tide that new reigneth 
 I i* 
 
(ii 4 ) 
 
 is before him. For th.., *<tnh Scotland, Suffolk? 
 and her Majcftydohold all by one foundation, 
 which u the union of both Houfes and Titles 
 togethet, in King Htnry the feyenth her Majefties 
 Grandfather. 
 
 GtntllWtH. That is true £quoth the Gentleman) and evi- 
 dent enough in every mans eye j and therefore no 
 doubt: but as that much tsmeant againft her Ma- 
 jetty,tf occsfion ferve,as 3 gamft the relt that hold 
 •fey the fame title. Albeit her Majeftits ftatc (the 
 Lord be praifed) be furh at this time, as it i* not 
 fafiy to pretend fo ttouch againft her,as againft the 
 reftjwhatloeyer be meant. And that in truth,more 
 fhouh; be ment againft her highnes, then againft 
 all th? relt: there is this reaConjfor thatherMaje. 
 flyby her prefeint pofl'tflion letteth more their 
 defircs,then all the reft together with their future 
 The policy of the pretences. But as I have (aid, it is not fafetyfor 
 eonfpiraeoun for them, nor yet good policy to declare opsnly,wh« 
 the deceiving of they meant againft her M ’jefly. It is the beft 
 her Maiefty. way f or t j ie p rc f cnt to hew downe the reft , 
 and to leave her Majefty for the laft 1 low and 
 upfhot to their game. For which caufe, they 
 will feeme to make great difference at this day, 
 betweene het Majefties title and the reft, that 
 defeend in likewise from King Hevrt the fc- 
 venth : avowiigihc* one, and difillowng the 
 other. Albeit, my Lord of Leictftert Father, 
 preferred that of Suffolk* * when time was, before 
 this of her M’j^fty, and compelled the whole 
 Realme to fweare thereunto. Such is the varia¬ 
 ble policy of men, that ferve the time, flrrather 
 that lerve themfelves, of all times, fortheirpur- 
 pofes. 
 
 I remember (quoth I) that time of the Duke, 
 and was prefent my felfe, atfome of his Procla¬ 
 mations for thatpurpofe; wherein my Lord his 
 Sonne 
 
 icbskr'. 
 
Sonne that now liveih : ocmg then a doer, (as l 
 can tell he was :) I marvile how he can deale fo 
 contrary now {preferring not onely her Majefhcs, _ _ 
 
 ““ before rharof (»Weof I wonto 
 
 leflfe becaufe it is more gainfull to him,) but al¬ 
 io another much further of. But you have figm • 
 ged the caufe, in that the time^ ate changed, and 
 other bargaines arc in hand of mere importance 
 for him. Wherefore leaving this to be confide¬ 
 nt! by others whom it concerncth , I befeech 
 you, Sir, (for that I know, your worfhip hath 
 bceenemuch converfant among their friendsand 
 favourers) to tell me what are the barres and 
 lets which they doe alledge, why the houfe of 
 Scotland and Suffolk descended of king Hearj 
 the leventh his daughters , fhould not fucceed in 
 the Crowne of England after her Majefty , who 
 ended the lin^of the fame king by his fon ; for 
 in my light the matter appearcth very plain©. 
 
 They want not pretences of barres and lets a- r .» 
 gainft them all ( quoth the Gentleman) which I ^ " 
 
 will liydowne in order , as I have heard them 
 aliedged. Firft, in the line of Scotland there are Earres pretended 
 three perfonsasyou know, that may pretend againft the claim 
 tight, that is the Queen and her fon by the firft °tscocIandana 
 marriage of AUrguret, and ^itbella by the fecond. Su 0 c * 
 
 And againft the firft marriage , I heare nothing 
 affirmed; but againft the two perfons proceeding 
 thereof,I heare them alledge three flops, one for 
 that they are ftangers born out of the land,& c@n- the 
 
 fiqiently incapable of inheritance within the Queen ot Sect* 
 fame ;• another for that by a fpecj ,1 teftament of land andhes 
 king H.8.author i fed by s.fcverall parlism.thtyare *° nnc * 
 excluded;?, for that they are enemies to rhe reli¬ 
 gion now arpong us & tbetefore.to’be debarred. 
 
 Againft the fecond marriage of ret with 
 MbibildDiui'ai whe&eof Srhujh defended, 
 
 I A t&ey 
 
Againft Darby. 
 
 Agjsmft 'be chil 
 d e»ol Hart 
 ford. 
 
 Scholar. 
 
 they alledge, that the lard Archibald had a former 
 Wife at the time ©f that marriage, which lived 
 long after : and fo neither that marriage lawfnll 
 nor the iffue therof legitimate. 
 
 The fame bnrre they have againft all thehoufe 
 and Line of Suffolke, for firft they fay, that Chills 
 Brandon Duke of Suffolke, hid a knowen wife a- 
 live when he married Mary Queen of France,and 
 confequently, that neither the Lady Francism 
 Elinor , borne of that marriage, esn be lawfully 
 borne. And this is all,l can hearc them fay againft 
 the fucceflion of the CounrcfTeof Darby defeended 
 of Slemr. But againft my Lord of Hart fords ch il- 
 dren,that came from Frances the eldell daughter,I 
 heare them alledge two or three baftardies more 
 bf heiesthts of the firft marriage. For firft, they 
 affirme that Hear; Marqaeffe Dorfel , wlieuhee 
 m rned the Lady Fra«c,«,had to v/Jtk the old Earl 
 of Amnatls lifter who lived both then and many 
 yeares after, and had a prqvifion out of his living 
 to her dying day • wherby that m irriage could no 
 way be good. Secondly that the lady Kathtnm, 
 daughter to the faid Lady Frances , by the M "ques 
 ( by whom the Earl ofHarsford had hischildieri) 
 was lawfully married to the Earle of Pembroke 
 that now liveth,and confequently, ceuldhaveno 
 lawfull iffue by any other during his life, jly- that 
 the faid hi tint w a. never lawfully marriedto 
 the faid Earl Hartfordybvt bare him thofe children 
 as his Concubine,which(:>s they fay)is defined and 
 regiftred in the Archb.of Canterburies court,up >n 
 due examination taken by order of her Majefly 
 that new reigneth , and this is in effeft fo milch 
 as I have heard them all aledge,abouttheir affars. 
 
 It is much (quoth I)that you have faid,if it may 
 be nil proved. Marry yet by the w ay,! cannot but 
 fmile to hearc my Lord of Ltyttfler allow of fo 
 many baftardies now upon the iffue of Lady 
 
FrttfttVvbom in time pait, when l*ne her eldeft L eycc ft erJJ 3 ea . 
 daughter was married to his brother, he advanced jj„g w j t h the 
 in legitimation before both the daughters of king houfc of Swifolk, 
 Hm) ‘he eight. But to ihe purpol'e : 1 would 
 gladly know what grounds of venty ihefe allega¬ 
 tions have, and how farintruth th y may itoppe 
 l from inheritance : for in deed I never heard them 
 fo c! ftinftly alltdged befote. 
 
 1 Whereto anfwered the Gentleman, that our Gsxthman. 
 friend the Lawyer could befi tefo ve that, if it 
 pleated h m to fpeake without his fee : though in 
 fome points ailed gen t-vefy ©.her mai ("quoth he) 
 thatknoweih rhe Hate and common government 
 of£ngl,ind, may calily give his judgement 3 lfo. 
 
 A id i i the cafe of ball vrdy, it the matter may be Eaflatdy. 
 proved,there is no d fH . uLy, but that no right to 
 inheritance can juftly bee pretended: as alfo Forraincbirth, 
 (perhaps) in the cafe cfforraine binfe, though in 
 this l am noc focunnmg: butyctlfec by expe¬ 
 rience, that forrainers borne in other lands, can 
 hardly conae and claime inheritance in England, 
 albeit, to the contrary, I have heard great and 
 long difp ites, but fuch as indeed pafled n y capa. 
 city. And if it might pleafe our friend here pre- 
 fent to expound the i hi rig unto us more clearly, I 
 for my part would gladly beftow the hearing,and 
 that wiih attention. 
 
 To this anfwered the Lawyer, I will gladly, Lawyer. 
 lir, tell you rrymindc many thing that it fla.aH 
 pleafe you dem nd: and much mere in this mat¬ 
 ter, wherein by occafion of often conference lam 
 fomewhat petfe&.The impediments which thefc 
 men alledge againil the fucccfllon of king Henry 
 the 8.his fi(lers,are of two kinds,3s you fee : The 
 oneknowne and allowed in our law, 3jyou have Bafetdieslav.-fJ 
 wellfaid,if it may be provedjand that is baftardy: Hops, 
 whereby they feck to difablp all the whole Line 
 
The impedi¬ 
 ments againft 
 Scotland three 
 in number. 
 
 A protection. 
 
 Touching the 
 fitll impediment 
 of fonaine birth. 
 
 and race of Suffcl^e : as aifo AibtUn sfthe fccond 
 and laterhoufe of Scotland.Whereof it is tofnull I 
 purpofe to fpeak any thing here; feeing the whole 
 controverfie ftandeth upon a matter of faft onely 
 to be proved or improved by records and witnef- 
 fes.Onely this I will fay, that fome of ihefe ba- 
 jftardies, before named, are rife in many mens 
 mouthes, and avowed by divers that yet live: but 
 let other men looke to this,who have moft inter- 
 eft therein, and may be moft damnified by them, 
 if they fall out true. The other impediments, 
 which are alledged onely againft the Qneeneof 
 Scots and her fon,are in number three, as you’re- 
 cite them : that is forraine birth, king Htnrutie- 
 ftnment,and Religion • whereof 1 am content to 
 fayfomewhatjfeeingyou defire it: albeitthtrebc 
 fo much publifhed already in bookes of divers 
 languages beyond the fea,as I am informed,con 
 cerning this matter, as more cannot be faid. But 
 yet fo much as I have heard pafle among Law¬ 
 yers my betters,in conference of thefe affaires: I 
 will not let to recite unto you , with this provifo 
 and proteftation alwayes, that wh:tl fpeake, I 
 fpeak by way of recitall of other mens opinions: 
 not meaning my felfe to incurre the ftatute of af¬ 
 firming or avowing any petfons title to the crown 
 whatfoever. 
 
 Firft then touching forraine binh, there bee 
 fome men in the world that will fay , that it is a 
 common and generali rule ef our bw, thatno 
 ft ranger at al may inherit any thing by any means 
 within the Land : which in truth I t.-ske tobefpo- 
 ken without ground,in that generali fenfe. For I 
 could never yet come to the fight of any fuch 
 common or univerfall rule: and I know, thatdi- 
 vers examples may be alledged in fundry cafes to 
 the contrary: and by that which is exprefly let 
 down 
 
downc in the fcvench anti ninth years' of king 
 
 Id. the 4. and in the ele venth and fourteenth 
 
 •f «»"• k appeare.h pla.niy >h« a tongcr A1; 
 
 nuy purchafe lands in England, as alfo 1 hem by ^hafe, 
 
 his wife , i f he marry an inheritrix. Wherefore 
 
 this common rule is to bee reftrained from that 
 
 generality,unto proper inheritance onlyjin which The true MaxI- 
 
 fenfe I do eafily grant, that our common Law maagainii Alt- 
 
 hath beenof ancient, and is a r ibis day , that no enk ‘ 
 
 pcrfon born out of tire allegiance rf the king of 
 
 England whofe father & moth r were not of the 
 
 fame allegiance at the time of his bin: Hull be 
 
 able to have or demand any heritage within the 
 
 fame allegiance, as heire to any perfon. And this The ftatutc 0/ 
 
 rule of our common Law is gathered in thefe King Edward 
 
 fclf fame words of a ftatutc made in,he zf. year whence the 
 
 of king Ed. the third , which indeed is the oncly 
 
 place of eHeft,that can be alledged out of our law 
 
 againft die inheritance of ftrangers in fuch fenfe 
 
 and cafes as we are now to treat of. 
 
 And albeit now the ommoB Law of our Rejfon| ^ ^ 
 Country do runne thus m generall , yet will scottifli titiei* 
 the frieuds of the Srottilh clairne affirme , not letted by the 
 rliatherebythat trtle is nothing let orhmdredat Maxima againft 
 all towards the Crowne; and that far divers Aljcng * 
 manifeft and weighty reafons, whereof the pnn- 
 cipill are thefc which enfue. 
 
 Firft , it is common and a generall rule of our T he fiift rearon. 
 Englifh lawes, that no rule, Axiome. or Mixima 
 oflaw (be it i»ever fo generall)can touch or bind 
 theCrowB, except expreffe mention bee made 
 thereofin the fameifor that the king and crowne 
 have great priviledge and prerogative above the 
 ftate ami affaires of fubjeds, and great dift’cien- 
 ces alloweddn points of law. 
 
 As for exa™ple,it is a generall & common rule The rule of 
 oflaw,that the wife after the deceafe of her huf thirds. 
 
 I 4 band. 
 
band, fhall enjoy the third of his lands: but 
 yet the Qaeene Chill not enjoy the third ptrcuf 
 the Crowne, after the Kings death: as well ap- 
 peace th by experience, and is to be feene by law, 
 ‘Tenant by cour- •Anno 5. and ai. olRawtrd the third ; and^MM 
 tefie, p.and 28. of Htnrj the fixt Alfo it is a common 
 
 rule, that the husband fhall hold his wives lands 
 after her death, as tenant by courtefie during his 
 hfe,but yet it holdeth not in a Kingdome. 
 
 In like manner, it is a generall and ce ntrum 
 rule, that if a man dye feafedof Laud inFte- 
 fiirple,havingdaughters and nofonne, Ins binds 
 D'vifion among fhall be divided by equal! portions among his 
 daughters. daughters, which holderh not in the Crowne: 
 
 but rather the eldcft Daughter inherited the 
 whole, as if fhe were the ifiue.male. So alfo it is 
 Executors. a common rule of our law,ihat the executor fhall 
 have ail the goods and chattels of the TtlUtor, 
 but not in the Crowne. And fo in many other 
 cafes which might bee recited, it is evident that 
 the Crowne hath priviledge above others, 
 and cannot be fulajed to rule, he it never fo ge¬ 
 nerall, except exprefle mention be made thereof 
 in the fame law : as it is in the former place 
 and a ftattite aliedged : but rather to the contrary 
 ("as after fhall be fhewedj there is exprelfeex¬ 
 ception, for the prerogative of fuch as defeend of 
 Royal 1 blond. 
 
 a 1 Their fecondreafon is, for that the demand «r 
 
 The ^Crowne no title °f a Crowne camsot in true fenfe beecotn- 
 fuchinhcr tar.ee prehended under the words of the former (Urate, 
 as is meant in the forbidding aliens to demand heritage wijhinthe 
 flatutc. allegiance of England: and that for two refpefb. 
 
 The one, for that the Crowne it fclfe cannot be 
 called an heritage of allegiance, or within alle¬ 
 giance, for that it isholdenof no foperionr up¬ 
 on earth, but immediately from God himfelfe 
 the 
 
(m) 
 
 the fceond,for that this ftatute trcateth onely and 
 mtirteth of inheritance by defeent, as heyre to 
 ihefame, (for Ihavefhewed before that Aliens 
 may held l ands by purchale within our Domini¬ 
 on) and then fay they, the Crowne is a thing in- The Crowne « 
 corporate, and defeendeth not according to the 
 common courfe of other private inheritances: but 
 j»oeth by fuectffion, as other incorporations doe. 
 
 ]n figne whereof it is evident, that albeit the 
 Kin* he more favoured in all his doings, then a- 
 py common perfonfh til be,yet cannoc hee avoyd 
 bylaw hi^ grants and letters patents by reafon of 
 his non.tge (as other infants and common heires 
 under age m y d«>e) but alwayes be faid to be of 
 full age m refpeft of his Crown - even as a Prior, 
 
 Parfon,Vicar,Deane, or other perfon incorporate 
 (hall be, which cannot by any meanes in law bee 
 faid to be within age,in rtfpeft of their incorpo¬ 
 rations. 
 
 Which thing maketh an evident difference in 
 our cafe, from the meaning of he former ftatute: 
 for that a Prior, Deane, or Parfon, being Aliens 
 andnb Denizens, might alwayes in rime of peace 
 rlfrtnnd labels in England, in refpeft of their cor¬ 
 porations, notwithstanding the faid ftatute, or 
 common law sgiinft Aliens, as appearcth by ma¬ 
 ny booke cafes yet extant: as slfo by the ftatute 
 made in the time of King Richard the fecond, 
 which was after t!-ae forefaid ftatute of King Ei- 
 •antd the third. 
 
 The third reafon is, for that in the former fta- The s.reafon. 
 tine ij felfc of King Eoward, there are excepted The Kings lflue 
 exprefly from this generall rule, Jnftnttislu Roy, 
 that is, the Kings off fpringorifl’uc, as the word 
 hfavt doth fignifie, both m France, Portugal], 
 
 Spaine, and other Countries: and as the Lacine 
 word Libtri (which anfwereth the fame) is taken 
 com - 
 
(Hi) 
 
 commonly in the civill Jaw. Neither may we re- 
 Itbercrom. F.de ftraine the french word* of that Sature lafw.KlH 
 Roy, to the kings children onely of the firrt degree 
 £as fome doe, for chat the barrcnneffe of our bn- 
 guage doth yeeld us no othei word for rh- fame) 
 but rather, that therby are und rfi od,a$ will the 
 ncphewes and other difcendants of the king or 
 blood Royall, at h * immediate children. Font 
 were both unreafouable and ridiculous to imagin 
 that kin : Eiwwl by this ftatute, would go about 
 to difinheru his own nephews, if he fhould hive 
 ary borne oat of his own allegiance (as aliiyhe 
 might atth’t time) his fons being math ’broad 
 from E:ipland ; and the black Prince, hi* eldeik 
 fon having two children borne beyond thefeasi 
 and eonfequently,it is apparent, thu this rule or 
 maxime let down againtt Aliens is no way to be 
 flre'ched againft the defendants of the king or 
 of the blood Royall. 
 
 ‘Shcfoorthreafon Their fourth reafon is,that the meaning offcing 
 The Kings mea Edward and his children (living at fuch time as 
 this flatuce was made) coyid not be, that any of 
 their Image or iflfue might be excluded in law, 
 from inheritance of their righr to the Crowne,by 
 their foraine birh wh refoever.For otherwife, it 
 isnoc credible thac they would fo nvich have diu 
 perfed their own blood in otherCountries,asthey 
 did,by givingthrir daughters to tltangers,8c other 
 ‘ftenstekesof meanes :as Imjm* thekmgs thirdfon was married 
 in Millm, and lobn of Gaunt the fourth fon,gate 
 5C *^ nCrS> his two daughters, Pbiltp and Kathmnc to Portu¬ 
 gal! and Caihle; and his neece Jtan to the king 
 of Scots ; as Tnomas of Woodfto^ke alio the yon= 
 geft brother, marr ed his two daughter*, theone 
 tothe king of Spaine, and the other t® Djke of 
 Briraine.Which no d oubt (they being wife Pria- 
 ces,and fo neer of the blood Royal) would never 
 
I [,jvf doncjif they had imagined that hereby their 
 I jfl’ue fhottld have loft all claimeand title to the 
 ! Crown of England : and therefore it is moil evi- 
 ! dent,that no fuch bar wasthen extant or imagin’d 
 
 The fiftreafon is,that divers perfons bom out ™enifire; tloa. 
 of all Engliflfi dominion and allegiance, both ^“^rsadmicci 
 before the Conqueft and fince,havc bin admitted 
 to the fucc< ffion of our Crown, as lawfull inhe- 
 ntours, without any exception againft them for 
 iheir foraine birth As before the Conqueft is evi. 
 dent in yong Edg*r Etbtlit g borne in Hungarie, 
 and ihcnce called home to inherit the Ctovvne, 
 by his great unckle king Sdwtrd the Conftfi'or, Floreshift.Ann© 
 With full confent of the whole Realm ; the B. of 1G 
 Worcefter being fent as Ambaffador to fetch him 
 home,with his father named Edward the out-law. 
 
 And fince the Conqueft,it appeared plainly in 
 king Stephen and king Hefltythe fecond, both of 
 them borne outofEnglifh dominions,anti of Pa¬ 
 rents, that at their birth, were not of the English 
 allegiance; and yet were they both admitted to 
 the Crowne. Yong Arthur alfo Duke of Britain 
 j by his mother Ctvflme that matched with Gtffray 
 1 king Hwj the fecondsfonne, was declared by 
 king Rnb«rd his unckle, at his departure towards Pol.lib.15.Flor. 
 Jerufalem, and by the whole Realme, for law- luft.iso8. 
 full heire apparent to the Crowne of England, 
 though he were borne in Briuineoat of Englifh 
 allegiance ; and fohe was taken and judged by all 
 the world at that day: albeir, after king Riihtfdf 
 death, his other unde John, moft tyrannoufly took K *Iohn a tyrant 
 both his kingdome and his life from him. For 
 which notable injuftice, he was detefted of all 
 men both abroad and at home; & moft apparent¬ 
 ly fcourged by G®d, with grievous and manifold 
 plagues, both upon himfelf and the Realm, which 
 yceldcd cohisufurpation.Sodac by this alfo it ap¬ 
 peared, 
 
The* reafon. 
 The nnfgemeat 
 a ad fcncence of 
 X-Henry the 
 fcvcnth. 
 
 pearcfh, what the practice of our Counrreyhatk 
 beenc from time to time in this cafe of forraine 
 birth: which practice is the belt interpreter of our 
 common Enghfhlaw : which dept ndeth efpccial- 
 ly^nd mod of all,upon cuftomc : nor can rhe ad- 
 verfary alledge any one example to the contrary. 
 
 Their fixt,is of the judgement and feutence of 
 King H.nrj the fevenrh, and of his Councell: who 
 bang together in confultation, at a certaine time 
 about the marri sge of Margaret his elded daugh¬ 
 ter into Scotland : Come of his Councell moved 
 this doubr, what fhould enfue, if by chance rhe 
 kings ifl.iC male ftiould fade, and fo the fuccefli- 
 on devolve to rhe heyres of th? faid Margaret, as 
 now it doth ? Wh re'.mto that wife and tnoll pru, 
 dent Prince made anfwer: that if any fuefaefeut 
 fhould be,it c auld not be prejudicial 5 t® England, 
 being the bigger part, but rather beneficial) s for 
 that tt fhould draw Scotland to England: that is, 
 the lefferto the more: even as in times pad it 
 happened in Normandy, Aquitaine, and (omc o- 
 ther Provinces.Which anfwer appealed all doubts 
 and gave lingular content to thofe of his Ceun- 
 cell, as Pohd^ra writeth, that lived at that time, 
 and wrote the fpeciall matters of thac reigne, by 
 the kings owne inftru&ion. So that hereby wee 
 fee noqueftionmade of king rttnryav hisCoan- 
 cellors touching forraine birth, to let the fuccefli' 
 on of Lady Margarett iffue : which no doubt 
 would never have bcene omitted in that learned 
 affembly, if any law at that time had beetle eftce- 
 med or imagined to beare the fame. « 
 
 Andthefeatc fix of their principallcftreafons 
 to prove, that neither by the words nor meaning 
 of oar common lawes, nor yet by cuftome ot pra- 
 £fice ofeurRealme, an Alien may bee debarred 
 from claim of his intereft to the Crowne, when 
 it 
 

 it fjlleth te him by nghtuL Jefcent in blood and The ^.reafon. 
 f.tcceffion.But in the particular cafe of the Queen The Queeneof 
 of Scot* and her fon, they doe adde another rea- Scot * her 
 fotrot twotthereby to prove them in very deed to 1<VBO mSs 
 be no Aliens t Not only in refped of their often 
 and continuall mixture with Englifh blood from 
 thcbeginning(andefpecially of late,the Queens 
 Grandmother and husband being Englifh,and fo 
 herfonne begotten of an Englifh fnher^but alfo 
 fgr two other caufes and reafons, which fee me in 
 truth of very good importance. The firft is, for 
 that Scotland by all Englishmen (howfoever the 
 Scott deny the fame) is taken and holJen as fub- 
 jeft to England byway of Hom,?ge;which many 
 of their kings at divers times have acknowledged: 
 and confequertly theQueene and her fon being 
 borne in Scotland are not borne out of the alle¬ 
 giance of England, and lo no forrainers. The Se¬ 
 cond cnufe or reafon is,for that the fore named fta- 
 tute of forrainers mihe yeare of KingEiswwrf 
 the third, is mtitled, eftbije that are bornt btyoni 
 tltefea*. And in the body of the faid flatutc, the 
 doubt is moved of children borne out of Englifh 
 allegiance beyond the feas: whereby cannot bee 
 undtrftood Scotland, for that it is a piece of the 
 comment land within the feas. And all our old 
 Records in England, that talke of fervice to bee 
 ddne within thefe two countries, have ufualiy 
 thefe Latin wards, hfraqituur m in French 
 dfitfj Ityjuatrt W'jj'hat is,within the foure Seas $ 
 
 ! whereby muft reeds be underftood as well Scot¬ 
 land al England, and that pe, haps for rhe reafon 
 before mentioned, of the fubjedion of Scotland 
 by way of Homage to the Crowne of England* 
 
 Inrefped whereof it may be, that it was accoun¬ 
 ted of old but one dominion or allegiance. And 
 confequcntly, no man borne therein can bee ac¬ 
 counted 
 
The fccond im¬ 
 pediment againft 
 the <i_of Scots, 
 & her fon,which 
 is K.Henrythe 
 t- his teftament. 
 
 Forain birth no 
 impediment i n 
 the iudgementof 
 K Henry the 2. 
 
 Tbefueceffion of 
 Scotlaud next by 
 the lodgement of 
 the competitors. 
 
 (116) 
 
 counted an alieato England,And this flial fuffi cc 
 for the full point,touching foragine Nativity. 
 
 For the fecond impediment obje&cd, which is 
 the teftament of King Hemj the eight,authorized 
 by Parliament, wherby they affiim the fucctflion 
 of Scotland to be excluded: it is not precifely true 
 that they are excluded, but onely that they are put 
 back behmde the fucceffion of the houfot Sgftty. 
 For in that pretended Teftament (which • fter 
 fhill be proved to be none indeed)King Henry lo 
 difpofeth,that after his own children( f they Ch ild 
 chance to dye without iffue) the Crcwne (hall 
 pa fie to the hcires of Frames & of EUaof, his net- 
 ccs by his yonger fitter Quecne of France { 
 and after them (deceafi.jg alfo without ifl’ue) the 
 fucceflton to rettirne co the next heire againe. 
 Wherby it is evident, that the fucccflionof Mtr- 
 garet Qnecnc of Scotland, h.seldeft (tiler, is not 
 excluded j but thruft back onely from their due 
 place and order, to expeft the remainder, which 
 may in time be left by the yonger. Whereof in 
 mine opinion, doecnfuefomeconfulerations a 
 gainft the prefent pretenders themfclves. 
 
 Firllj'Wat inKmgfiewrici judgement, the for¬ 
 mer pretended rule of foraine birth, was no luffi. 
 cient impediment againft Scotland ; for if it had 
 bin, ne doubt but that he would have named the 
 fame in his alleaged teftament, and thereby have 
 utterly excluded th3t fucceflio But there is no fuch 
 thing in the teftament. Secondly, if they admit 
 this teftament,which alotteth the Crown roScot- 
 land,next after Suffolk ; then, feeing thatwll the 
 houfe of Suffolk (by thefe mens afl'ertions) is ex¬ 
 cluded by baftardyjicmuft needs follow, thatScot- 
 land by their own judgement is ncxr,& fo this te¬ 
 ftament wil make againft them,as indeed it doth 
 in all points moll apparantly ,buc only that it pre- 
 fttreth 
 
! fcrreth the houfe of Suffolk* before that of Scot- 
 lind.And therefore (l think fir) that you miftake 
 fotnewhat bout their opinion in alleaging this 
 tfftament.For I fuppofe,that no man of my Lord 
 ciHuMngtou faftion,will alle3georurge the te- 
 ftimony oi this ceftament; but rather (ome friend 
 of the houfe ot ia whofe favour,I take it f 
 
 that it was fir ft of all forged. 
 
 It may be (quoth the Gentleman) nor will I wSMHW*. 
 Hand obftinarly in the contrary*,for that it is hard 
 fometime to jnogf of what fa&ion each one is, 
 whodifeourfeth of thefe aftaires.But yet I marvel 
 (if it were as you lay) why Ltjct fieri Father after 
 K.tdttwdi death,made no mention therof in the 
 fivorof$«jfwjj(,m the other tcftamenc which then 
 heproclaimed,as made by K..E drvurd decea£ed,foc 
 preferment of Saff '-.before his own fitters. 
 
 The caufeof this is * vident(quoth theLawyer) La'#yt*‘„ 
 for that it made nor fi ffi nently for his purpofe-: The Me«f 
 which wasto difinhei it :hc rwod ughtets of King Noithiimbe*. 
 Hc&jhimfelfc, and advance the houfe of Suj]ol% lin 1 ni£ " 
 btfoie thtm both. 
 
 A notable change (quoth the Gentleman) that 
 a title fo much exalted of late by the Father, a- 
 bove ali order, right, ranke and degree; fhould 
 now befo much debated by the Son, as though it 
 were not worthy to hold any degre e,but rather to 
 be troden under-foot for pl ain baftardy. And you 
 fee by this,how true it is which I told you before; dealing ol doc; 
 that the race of Dudlies are mod cunning mer- houfe 
 chants,to make their gaine of all th ngs,menand 
 tirnes>And as we have feene now two ceftaments 
 alleaged, the one of the Kings father, and the o- 
 ther of the kings fonne,and both of them in pre ju* 
 dice of the teftators true fuccefibrs: fo many good 
 fubjefts begin greatly to (car, that we may chance 
 
to fee fhortly a third 1 elUment of her Mijefiy 
 for the tituhng of Huntington , and ixtnpstmn 
 of King fj mitt blood, & that before her Majdly 
 can think of ficknefl'e: wherein I befceihihe tors) 
 I be no Prophet. But now, fir, to the forthid 
 Will and Teftament of King Htmy, I hare often 
 heard in umb,that the thing was countrrfeit,ot at 
 the leaft not able to be proved : a >d that it was 
 difcovered,rejefted,and defaced in Queen AUtia 
 time : but I would gladly underfhnd whatyua 
 Lawyers efteeme or judge thereof. 
 latptjet. Touching this matter (quoth the Lawyer) it 
 
 cannot be dented,but that in the 18. and 36 years 
 The authority of King Htnriet reign,upon coafideration of fom« 
 
 and occafion of doubt and irtefolutton, which the King himlrlft 
 teftfment"** had & €wcd > to have about the order of fucccffioii 
 in his owne children, as alfo for taking away all 
 occafions of controverfies in rhofeof the next 
 blood ; the whole Parliament gave authority un¬ 
 to the (aid King, to debate and determine ihofe 
 matters himfelfe,together with his learned coun¬ 
 cell,who bed knew the lawesof the Rcalme, and 
 titles that any man might h .ve thereby ; and that 
 whatfoever fucceffion hisMajefly fhould declare 
 as mod right and lawfull under his letters patents 
 fealed, or by his laft Will and Teftament right¬ 
 fully made and figned with his owne hind; that 
 the fame fliould bee received for good anil 
 lawfall. Upon pretence whereof/oon after King 
 Henries death, there was {hewed a Will with 
 the kings {lamp at the fame, and the names of 
 divers witnelfes, wherein (as hath beene^faid) 
 the fucceffion of the Crownc, after the kings 
 owne children, is sfligned to the lieyrcs of 
 Frances and Elinore , Neeces to the king, by 
 his younger Sifter. Which aflignation of the 
 Crown, being as it were a meer gift in prejudice 
 
efthe elder lifters right ( as alfo of the right of 
 France* d Elcnor themfelves wh© were omitted 
 in the fame aftignation, and their heires intituled 
 onelyjwas eftetmed to beagainft aIlreafon,law, 
 and nature, and confequently not thought to pro¬ 
 ceed from fo wife and Cage a Prince as K. Henrie 
 was knowne to be : but rather, either the whole 
 forged, or at lcail wife that claufe inferted by o- 
 ther, and the Kings ftamp fet unto it, after his 
 death, cf when his Majefty lay now part under¬ 
 loading. And hereof there wanteth not divers 
 moft evident rcafons and proofes. 
 
 For firftj't is not probable nor cred ible,that King 
 Henrie would ever go about, againftlaw and rea- 
 fon,to diiinherit the line of his eideft fifter,with- 
 out any profit or intereft to hirafelfe: and there¬ 
 by, give moft evident occafion of Civill war and 
 difeotd within thcRealm,feeing,that in fuch a cafe 
 of aianifeft and apparent wrong, in fo great, a 
 matter, the authonueof Parlament, taketh little 
 el?e&, againft the true and lawfull inheritor ; as 
 well appeared in the former times and contenti¬ 
 ons of //Wiethe fixth, Edvard the fourth , and 
 Kichard the third: inwhofe reignes, the divers 
 and contrarie Parliaments made and holden, x- 
 gainft the next inheritor,held no longer with any 
 irtan, then uncill die other was able to make hi$ 
 owne partie good. 
 
 So hkewife, in the cafe of Krug Edward the 
 third his fueceffion to fiance , in the right of his 
 mother, though he were excluded by the gcnerall 
 affcmbly and confent of their Parliaments j yex 
 I heefte?mtd nochis right exunguifhed thereby; 
 as neither did other Kings of our Countrie thac 
 tnfued after him. And for our prefentcafe, if 
 nothing dfe (hould have retrained King Hemic, 
 & (toss. 
 
 The KJttgs 
 Teftameni 
 forged. 
 
 The frft 
 reafon* 
 
 Itijuftict 
 and impior 
 probability 
 
 The ex¬ 
 ample of 
 fronts* 
 
from fuch open injuftice toward* his eldcft fiflcr: 
 yet this cogitation, at lead, would have flayed 
 him : that byj giving example of fupplanting his 
 elder fitters Line,by veitueof a teftameniorpre- 
 tenceof Parliament 5 fome other might take or. 
 cation to dilplace his children by like pretence: as 
 we fee that Duke ‘Dudley did foone after by a for- 
 ged teft ament of King Edward the fixt. So ready 
 Schollars there are to be found, which eafily will 
 learne fuch leffons of iniquity. 
 
 » * , Secondly, there be too many incongruities and 
 
 e/eco»a i nc jig n j t i es lnt he faid pretended Will to proceed 
 reajo • in- p rom f uc p, a p rince an j learned councell as King 
 congnnttes Hew i es was p or what can be more ridicti- 
 an triatg- j ous ^ t h an to gj ve t ^ e c rovvne to t }, e h c i rc $ 0 f 
 nttiet. ptancts and Elcnor, and not to any o{ themfelves? 
 
 or what had they offended that their heires thould 
 enjoy the Crowne in their right, and not they 
 themielves } What if King Henries Children 
 (hould have dyed, whiles Lady trams had been 
 yet alive 5 who (hould have poflefled the King- 
 dome before her, feeing her Line was next 1 aad 
 yet by this teftament (hee could not pretend her 
 felfe to obtaine it. But rather having marryed A- 
 Adrian drian Stores her horfe-kceper, (he mull have fuffe- 
 Stokes. red her fonneby him (if(he had any ) to enjoy 
 the Crown : and fo Hdiian of a Serving man and 
 Mailer of Horfes , (hould have become thegreat 
 Mafter and Prote&er of England. Of like 3bfur- 
 ditie is that other daufe alfo, wherein the King 
 bindethhis owne daughters to marry by confent 
 and direftion of his counfell,or otherwife to leefe 
 the benefit of their fucceflion: yet bindethTiot his 
 Neices daughters,to wit,the daughters of fronds 
 & Elenor (if they had any) to any fuch condition. 
 
 Thirdly, there may bee divers caufe* and ar¬ 
 guments 
 
guments alledged in law, why this pretended wili j-fo third 
 is not authenncall : if otherwife, it were certaine rea/on. 
 that King Htnrfa had meant it: full, for that it T \ )t p, e „ 
 it not agreeable to the mind and meaning of th ^ fuppofed 
 Parliament, which intended onely to give autho- tyjf/iinot 
 ritie for declaration and explicuidn of the true authenti- 
 title: and not for donation, or indicating of the 
 fame, to the rumc of the ile-dme. Secondly, for 
 that there is no lawfulland authenticall Copie 
 txt.nu thereof.but onely a bare inrolement in che 
 Chapcene, which is not fufficient in fo weighty 
 an affaire: no witnclfe of theprivie Counceff or 
 of Nobihc.ero the lame : whuhhad been conve¬ 
 nient in Ibgreat a cafe (for the beft of the witnef- 
 frs therein named, is Sir /obn Gates, whofemife- 
 rablcdeath is well knowne ;) no publike Notary, 
 no probation of the will before any Biihop.or any 
 lawfull t ourt for that puipoffe : no examination 
 of the witnelhsjor otherthing orderly done,for 
 lawfull authorizing of the matter. 
 
 But of all other things this is moft of impor¬ 
 tance: that the Kang never fet his ownc hand to The dif- 
 the forefaid Will, but his ftampe was put there- proving of 
 unto by others, either after h:s death, or when he the IVil by 
 was pail remembrance: as the late Lord paget in rvtinejjes. 
 the beginning of Queen TA&rtes dayes , being of The Loud 
 the Privie Councel!, fitfl of all other difeovered Paget, 
 the fame of hisowne accord, and upon meere 
 motion of conlcicnce,confefli'ig before the whole 
 Councell, and afterward alio before the whole 
 Pailament, how that himfelfe was privy thereun¬ 
 to,an| partly alfo culpable,(being drawn thetun- 
 to,by the mitigation and forcible authority of o« 
 thers:) but yet afterward upon other more godly 
 motions detefied the device : and fo of his owne 
 free-will) very honourably went and offered the 
 K t difeo- 
 
Sir Edw. difcoveric thcteof to the Councell. A* alfo did Si: 
 Montague Edward Montague , Lord chicfe luftjee that had 
 been puYy and prefent at the fatd doings, and ors 
 W illiam Witticim Clarke , that was the mpn who put the 
 Clirkc. Itard'pe unto the paper, and is aferibed among rhe 
 otter prctenlcd wttnefles , confelfed the whole 
 premrfles to be true,and purchafed his pardon for 
 his offence therein. Whereupon Queen < 5 Maric and 
 her Councell, caufed prefently the faid Inrole- 
 ment, ly ii ig in the Chancerie to be cancelled, de¬ 
 faced and abolifhed. 
 
 And fithence that time in her Majefties dayts 
 that now liveth, about the n.orn. yeare of her 
 rcigne, (if I count not amiffe) by Qccafioa of a 
 cmaine little booke fpread abroad at that time 
 very (ecretly,fot; advancing of the houfe oiSuf- 
 A meeting foll{e 3 by pretence of this Teftament : Iremcm- 
 togetber a- ber well the place where the late Duke of Nor- 
 lout this jfo%, the M3rqut ffe of f^inebefitr ( which then 
 matter of was TreafurcrJ the old Earles of AtundtU ini 
 the. Hobi~ penbroo!;e that now are dead, with my Lord of 
 litj, ptnbnok that yet liveth, (as alfo my Lord of Lt; 
 
 himfelfe, if I bee notdeceivej) with divers 
 other$,met together upon this matter: and aft; i 
 long conference about the forefaid pretenfed will, 
 and many pyoofes and reafons laid downe, why 
 it could not be true or authenticall: the old Earle 
 of Penbr00l{ proteflittg that he w as with the King 
 in his chamber from the frrft day of his fickntflc 
 unto his laft houre, and thereby could well aflure 
 the f alfification thereof; at length it was moved, 
 that from that place they fhould goe, w^ththe 
 reft of the Nobility, and prodaime the Queen of 
 M- Lord of Scotlandhe'ue apparent in Cbeap-jide. Wherein my 
 Leutfi. a~ Lord of Leyceper (as I take it was then as for- 
 garne p/ay- ward cs any man elfe : how bee it, now for his 
 tb double. profit 
 
profit, he be turned afide, and would turne back 
 again to morrow next for a greater commodity. 
 
 And albeit, for fomecaufesto themfelves belt 
 known,they proceeded not in the open publiflring 
 of their determination at that time : yet my Lord 
 of Penbrook_ now living can beare witneffe that 
 thus much is true : and tharhis father, the old 
 Earle, at that time told him openly before the o- ' r ” e ( 
 ther Noblemen, that he had brought him to that Ear ’c °J 
 affembly and place to mftruft him in that truth, Penbrrcks 
 ind to charge him to witnefi'e the fame , ?nd to Admonition 
 defend it alfo with his fword ( if need required^ to the Earl 
 after his death. And I know that his Lordlhip is hit [on 3 yet 
 of that honour and Nobility, as he cannot leave living- 
 off eafily the remembrance or due regard of 
 fo worthy an admonition. And this fhall fuf- 
 ficc for the fecond impediment, imagined to pro¬ 
 ceed of this fuppofed Tcftament of King Hemrie 
 the eighth. 
 
 As for the third impediment, of religion , it is The third 
 not generall to all: for that only one perfon (if I impedi- 
 be not deceived ) of all the Competitors in K. me ntofre- 
 Henries Line can bee touched with fufpition of hpj on . 
 different Religion, from the prefent ftateof Eng- 
 Itnd. Which perfon notwithftanding (as is well 
 kaowne ) while (hee was in government in her 
 owne Realme of Scotland , permitted all liberty of 
 Confcience, and free exercife of Religion to thofe 
 of the contrary profeffion and opinion, without 
 reftramt. And if fiiehadnot, yet doe I not fee, 
 either by prefeript of law, or praftife of thefc our 
 times, that diverfity of Religion,may ftay juft In¬ 
 heritors from enjoying their due pofTdfions,in a- 
 ny (fate or degree of private men : and much leffe 
 inthedaime of a Kingdome : which alwayes in 
 this behalfe as hath been laid before)is preferred 
 inpiiyilcdge, K 3 This 
 
Frinces of T * lis we ^ ec e 3 C P Lrie ^ ce > in ^‘ ver * Countries 
 Germany, an< ^ P ; ' rts t ^ e vvor ^ at ^ 1lS ^ a y : as in Germ 
 ny, where among fo many Prtnces,and io divided 
 in re!igion as they be : yet every one fncceiduh 
 to the ftate whereto he h ith right, wirhnut refi- 
 ftance for his religion. The ex unplt s alio of h , 
 Majefty that now if, and of her lifter before, 
 evident-who being known to be of two ci chert rtt 
 Qa. Mary inclinations in religion, and the whole Realms 
 Queen E- divided in opinion for the lame cauls : ytt both of 
 liz ibeth. them at their fevetall times with gcnerallconieut 
 of all,were admitted to their lawful! inheritance: 
 ^r&eDud- exce phngoneIy afeo * tr. i ors agajntt the f. r» 
 Icis cvloH- rr.er, who withftood her right, as alf<> in her the 
 feur. right of her Maiellie that is piefcnt, and that not 
 for Religion,(as appeared bv their owns confcf- 
 fion after) but for ambition and defile of rcigne, 
 Monfieur, the Kings brorherand hetre ot France, 
 as all the world knoweth, is well accepted,favou¬ 
 red, and admitted for fuccdlor of that Crowne, 
 by all the Proteftancs at this d iy of that Country, 
 notwithftanding his opinion in religion knowne 
 f to be different .And 1 doubt nut, but thi King of 
 of Navarre or Prince of Cvndh in the contrary pai f 
 * a .' rarre , would thinke themfelvts greatly injured by the 
 prince of trance, which is ddfeient from ihem in 
 
 Conuy. religion at this d >y, if after the death of the Ki g 
 that now is, and his brother without iflue , (it 
 God lo difpofc) they ihould be bamd from inhe¬ 
 riting the Crowne,under pretence ontly of their 
 Religion My Lord of Huntington himfclfe alio, 
 is he not knowne to b e of a different region 
 Od\> Lord from ihc prtfent ftate of £ngl nd i and rh u,if he 
 
 fl.fHtin* weie King to morrow next , he would rdrer the 
 esngtons vyho!egovernmcnt,order, condition, and ftate of 
 religion, religion , now ufed and eftabhfhed within the 
 JUafae ? 
 
(* 43 ) 
 
 But «I faid inthebcginning,if oneof a whole 
 family, or of divers families be culpable, or to tttle of 
 be touched herein; what have the reft offended *^at 
 thereby? will you exclude alJ,for themiflike of f ^ e 
 one?And to defeend in order; if thefirftinK. Q“ eene °f 
 Henries line, after her Majefty may be touched ^ cots * 
 in this point,yet whylhould the reft be damnifi¬ 
 ed therebyPThe K of Scot land her fon,that next 
 enfueth to fpeak in equity J why ffiould he bee 
 ihutout for his religion? And arc not all the o- 
 therin like manner Protcftants, whofe difeent 
 uconfequent by nature,order,and degree. 
 
 Fortheyong of Scotland (quothl) the truth Schollar 
 is,th*t alwayesfor mine own part J have had great j^ e * 
 hope tend expedition of btm, not onely for the con - * Jc 
 
 ctipt which commonly wen have of fucb Orient Scotland 
 )ouths,borne to l(ingdomes j but efpecially for that 
 J under/loodfrom time to time , that bis education 
 trash alllearning, princely exercifeSy and infiru - 
 Sion of true religion, under rare and vertuous 
 men for that purpofe. thereby l conceived hope, 
 that be might not onely become in time an honou¬ 
 rable and profitable neighbour unto us , for ajfu» 
 me of the Gcfpell in thefe parts of the world; 
 iut alfo (if God fhould deprive us of her Maiefty 
 without ifftie ) mlghtbeamcaneby his fucccffion 
 to unite in (foncord and Government the two 
 Realmes together , which heretofore bath beene 
 fought by the price of many a thoufand mens 
 l/loud, and not obtained. 
 
 Marry yet now of late ( I know not by what 
 means,) there is begun in mens hearts a certaine 
 miflike or grudge againft him/or that it is given 
 out every where that he is inclined to be a Pa- 
 pift,and an enemy to her Majefties proceedings, 
 which argueth him verily of lingular ingratitude 
 K 4 if 
 
(» 44 ) 
 
 it it be true,confidering the great helpes and p v n- 
 tedion which he hath received from her Highnes 
 ever fithens he was borne. 
 
 Gent!, And are you fo fimplc (quoth the Gentleman) i 
 
 as to beleeve everie report that you fieare of this i 
 matter? know you not, that it is expedient ior 
 my Lord of Leycefter and his fadion , that this : 
 youth,above all other, bee held in perpetual dtl- 1 
 grace with her Majefty, and with this Rcaltne i 
 You know, that Richard of G loucefier had never 
 The device been able to have ufurped as he dtd . if hee had 
 ts fet out not firft perfwadcd K Edward the fourth, to hate 
 her uMaje- hts owne brother the Duke of Clarence, which 
 (iy with Duke {food in the w 7 between Richard and the 
 the young thing, which he moil of all things coveted : that 
 of is, the poffibihtie to the Crowne, and fo in this i 
 Scotland, cafe is there the like device to be obferved. 
 
 Foe truly, for the yong King of Scotlandi reli ■ 
 gion,it is evident to as many as have ieafon,that 
 it can bee no other of it felfc 6ut inclined to the 1 
 beftjboth in refped of his educacion,inftruftion , 1 
 andconvcrfation wiihthofeof true religion: as ' 
 alfo by his former adions, Edids, Government, 1 
 and private behaviour he hath declared. Marne 
 thefe men whofe profit is nothing lefle, than that s 
 he or any other of that race fhoulddoc well: i 
 doe not ceafe dayly by all fecret wayes,drifts, and n 
 moleftations poflible, to drive him either to mu ! 
 like of our religion, or elfe to incurre the fufpiu 
 on thereof, with fuch of our Realme, as otherwise 
 would be his beft friends * or if not this , yet for 
 very need and feare of his owne life, to n*ike re- t 
 courfeto fuch other Princes abroad, as tnaymoft < 
 ofFsnd ormifi.ke this ft ate. 
 
 And for this caufe, they fubornc ccrtaine bufie 
 fellcwcs of their owne crew and faction, per¬ 
 taining 
 
taming to the minifterie of Scotland , (but unwor- The intol - 
 thy of fo worthy a calling ) to ufe fuch inlo- lerable pro - 
 lencie towards their King and Prince , as is not ceedings of 
 onely undccent,but intolerable. For he may doe certaiaMi - 
 nothing, but they will examine and difeufle th Snifters in 
 fame in Pulpit. If hee goe but on hunting, when Scotland 
 itpieafeth them to call him to their preaching : if again fl 
 he make but a dinner or iupper, when, or where, t y e j r 
 or with whom they like not: if he receive but a yy f u y or T 
 couple of horfes,or other prefent from his friends nation of 
 or kmfemen beyond the Teas; if hee falutc orufc CS£> 
 courtcoufly any man, or meffenger which com, j n 
 methfrom them ( as you know Princes of their England 
 nob lity and courtefie are accuttomed , though 
 they come from rheir enemies , as very often 
 bath beene feene, and highly commended in her 
 Mafeftie of England : ) If hee 'leale familiarly 
 with any Ambaffador which hketh not them: or 
 finally , if hee doe fay or fignifie any one thing 
 whatfoeyer thatpleafeth not their humour, they 
 wil prefently as feditious Tribunes of the people, 
 exclaime inpublicke } and ftepping to the Pulpit 
 where the Word of the Lord onely ought to be 
 preachedjWill excite the Communally to difeon- 
 tentation, inveying againft their Soveraigne with 
 fuch bitternes of fpeech, unrererend tearmes,and 
 infolent controlements, as is not to be fpoken : 
 
 Now imagine what her Majefty and hergrave 
 councell would do in England, if fuch proceedings 
 fliould be ufed by the Clergy againft them. 
 
 >No doubt(quoth I)but that fuch unquiet fpirits Schollar, 
 fho.’dd be pumfhed ia our Realme. And fo I faid 
 of late to their moft reverend and worthy Prelate Sir Patrick 
 and Primate the Arch-bilhopofSt. ^»<bewf,with Adamlom 
 whom it was my luck to come acquainted in a irchhijh. 
 London-, whither he was come by his Kings ap- of St. An- 
 poyntment drswes„ 
 
pointment(as he faidjtotreatcertain affair* with 
 our Q. and Councell. And talking with him of 
 this diford r of his minifterie, he confefled the 
 fame with much gritfc of mind, and fold me, 
 that he had preached theteof before the K.him- 
 fclfe,detefting and accufing divers heads therof, 
 for which caufe he was become very odious to 
 them and other of their fadion,both in Scotland 
 and England. But he Paid, that as he had given 
 the rcaions of his doings unto our Qu. lo mca- 
 neth he ftiortly to do the fame unto Monfieur Be 
 ^andtothe whole Church of Geneva t by fen¬ 
 ding thither the Articles ofhis and their do ngs, 
 i proteif mg unto me that the proceedings and at 
 tempts ot thofe fadious and corrupt men was 
 mofi fcandalous.feditious and perilous, both to 
 the K. per(on,and to the realm; being fuflicient 
 indeed, to alienate wholy the yong Prince from 
 all affedion to our religion, when he fiiall fee 
 thechiefe Profcflors thereof to behave them- 
 fdvesfo undutifully towards him. 
 
 Gentl. That is the thing which thefe men,his cotnpe- 
 Treafons titors,moft defire (quotb the gentleman) hoping 
 plotted a- thereby to procure him mofi cvill will and din¬ 
 ghy# the ger,both at home and from £vgland. For which 
 King of caufe alfo,they have pradifed fo many plots and 
 Scots. treacheries with his owne fubjedsagamft him ; 
 
 hoping by that mcanes to bring the one in di- 
 ftruft and hatred of the other, and confequently 
 the K. in danger of defirudionby his own And 
 in this machination, they have behaved them- 
 felves fo dexterouily, fo covertly ufed the wan- 
 nage and contriving hereof, and fo cunningly 
 convey:d the execution of many things ; as it 
 might,indeed,feem apparent to the yong K.that 
 the whole plot of treafons againft Ins Bealme, 
 
047 ) 
 
 and Perfon, doth come from England, thereby 
 todrivehim into jealoufie of our ftate, and out 
 ftatc of himtand all this for their owne profit. 
 
 Neither is this any new device of my Lord of 
 Uueff to draw men for his own gain into dan¬ 
 ger and hatred with the ftate, under other pre¬ 
 tences. For I could tell you divers ftories and 
 ftratagems of his cunning in this kind, and the 
 one farre different from the other in devicerbut 
 yet all to one end.T have a friend yet livings hat 
 ms towards the old Earle of Arundel in good 
 mdit 3 and by that means had occafionto deal with 
 the late T>u\e of Norfolk in his chiefefi affaires 
 Itfore his troubles . This man ts wont to report 
 grange things from the Ttuliesowve mouth , of my 
 Lof Leicefters mofi treacherous dealing towards Leyccfter* 
 him,for gaining of his bloud 3 as after appeared 3 al- cunning 
 beitthe when he rep rted the fame , mi/lru- device for 
 fed not fo much my Lords malice therein. But the overthrow 
 fum of all,is this in effeft : that Leiceffer having the C D. 
 afccret defire to pull down the faid Duke,to the °f Norf. 
 end that he might have no man above himfelfc, 
 tohinde^him in that whrch he moft defirethjby 
 athoufand cunning devices drew in the Duke to 
 the cogitation of that marriage with the Queen 
 olScotlandy which afterward was the caul'e or 
 occal:on of his ruine. And hee behaved him- 
 felfe fo dexteroufly in this drift, by fetting on 
 the Duke > n the one fide , and alfo by in- . 
 trapping him on the other: a $ Iudas himfelfe , f 
 never plaid his part more cunningly when hee , ^ 
 flipped with his Mafter, andfethimfelf foneer, 
 as he ?ipt his fpoon in the fame difh,& durtt be- 
 itire others, aske who fhould betray him ? mea¬ 
 ning that night to doe it himfelfc, as he fliewed 
 foon after (upper, when he came as a Captaine 
 with 
 
(148) 
 
 with a band of Confph tors,and with a courte- 1 
 ous kifl’j delivered his perfon into ihe hands of ' 
 them, whom hee well knew to thirft after his 
 bloud. 
 
 The very like did the Earle of Lejctfter with ;;! 
 thejDuke of Nor jo ^ for the a t of treafoitl *f 
 though in the parties betrayed tberewere great 
 « difference of innoccncy. Namely, at onetime, 
 
 when her M ijefty was at Bafing in Hampjbire, i 
 and the Duke attended there ro have audience, 
 with gre t indifferency in himfclfe to follow, or ; 
 leave off his fint for marriage : (for that now he 1 
 began to fufpeft, her Majefty liked not greatly ! 
 thereof:) my Lord of Leyctfttr came to him ami 
 counfelled him in any cafe to perAvere, and not :1 
 The free- to relent, alluring him with m any oathes and ;i: 
 sbesofLey proteftations, th.it her MijcHy muil and fhould ; 
 seller to be brought to aliovv thereof, whetherlhe would ' 
 the Du^e or no,and that himtehc would feale th«r nurpofe 
 of Norf. with his blood.Nd;her w-s ii to he luffcrtd tit r ‘ 
 herM..iiedy ihould have her will herein; with ! 
 many other like fpeeches to this purpolc : which Ji 
 the Dake repeated againe then prefently to try 1 
 faid friend ; with often laying his hand upon hit t( 
 bofome and faying j I have here which affureth £c 
 Leveed me ^ u ^ c ‘ ent ^y °f ^ ie fidelity of my Lord of Ley - M 
 t t * cefier ; meaning not onely the forefaid fpeeches,- 
 cou/emge bur alfo divers letters which he had written to i 
 % e the Duke of that effeft, as likewife he had done Jl 
 xueene* tQ p ome ot b er perfon of more importance in the ■ 
 Reaime; which mattercomming afterward ros 
 l. t h j he coufened mod hotably her Majfdy, by j 
 
 (hewing her a reformed copie of the faid Letter, 1 
 for theLetteritfelfe. 
 
 But now how well he performed his promife,in ■ 
 dealing with herM 3 jcfty for theDskc or againft W 
 the 
 
the Duke in k his matter, her Highnefi’ecan beft 
 
 tell, and the event it felfe (hewed. For the Duke 
 
 being admitted foon after to her Majefties fpeech 
 
 at another place, and receiving a farre other an- 
 
 I'wcr than he had in hop* conceived upon Leyce - The T)u\t 
 
 iferrpromifcs, retyred himfelfe to London, where of Norf. 
 
 the fame mght following he* received Letters fill gtnto 
 
 both from Leyce/*er, and Sir Nicholas Throgmor - Norfolke 
 
 to»,upon Leyeefiers indication (for they were at 
 
 that time both triends and of a fr&ion ) that he 
 
 (hould prefently flye into Norfol^zs hedid,which 
 
 was the laft and finall complement of all L yceft. 
 
 former devices, whereby to plunge his friend o- 
 
 ter the eares in fufpition and difgrace, in fuch fort 
 
 is he fhould never be able to draw himfelfe out of 
 
 the ditch agame, as indeed he was not, but dyed 
 
 in the fame. 
 
 And herein you fee alfo the fame fubtile and tMacbivi- 
 Machivilian fl.ght, which I mentioned before, of ItanJligbtS 
 driving men to attempt fomewhac, whereby they 
 miy incurre danger, or remaine in perpetuall fuf- 
 fition or difgrace. And this prafticc h: hath long 
 tifed, and doth dayly, againft fuch as he hath will 
 tldeftroy. As for example,what fay you to the 
 device he had of late, to intrap his well deferving Leyceftcrs 
 biend, Sir Chrifiopher Hatton , in the matter of d ev jcesfor 
 Hull his Prieft , whom hee would have had Sir t ^ e wer- 
 Cbriflopber to fend away and hidc,bcing touched t jj r0w 0 f 
 and detefted in the cafe of Ardent, thereby to^ r chri- 
 havedrawne in Sir Chriflopbei himfelfe, as Sir ft G pher 
 Charles Candijh can well declare, if it pleafe him, pj a£t0Ili 
 being aceeflary to this plot, for the overthrow of 
 Sir Chrifiopher: To which intent, and moft de- 
 'rtlifh drift, pertained^ I doubt not) if the matter 
 were dudy examined, the late interception of let¬ 
 ters in Paris from ©ns Mdvtd of Lyons, then in 
 Romo, 
 
Rome,to fienr.VmptonfftmattQ Sfr c Jmfiobher, 
 in which letters, Sir Chri/tophcr is repotted to* 
 be of fucb credit and fpeciall favour in Romeos 
 if he were thegreateft PapiftiaE^/awd 
 r evcefters What meanet * 1 a ^° theie pernitious late dea- \ 
 devices a- * in § s a gainft the Earle of Shrew sburte,i nun of n 
 o bid the mo “ anc * cnt an d worthiell Nobihtie of our 
 He of ® ea * m ? w ^ at meane the praftifes with hisnea- 
 Sh^ewf- re ^ ^oth in ^ ami ^loud a £ airilt him ? what ,’j 
 , r * meane thofe mod falfc and flanderous rumours 
 ur '* caff abroad of late of his difloyali demeanours . 
 
 towards her Maieft and hiscountrey, with the ^ 
 great prifoner committed to his charge?^ all this 
 to any other end,but onely to drive him to fome 
 impatiencc,and thereby to commit or fay fome , 
 thing which may open the gate unto his ruinc? • 
 Div?rs other things could l recite of his beha- 
 viour towards other noble men of the Realm, , 
 who live abroad in their countries much injured , 
 Leyceftcs and malccontented by his infolency : albeit in , 
 contimpt re fp c & his prefent power they dare not cam- ... { 
 of the an- plaine. And furely,it is fhangc to fee how little ,,, 
 dent No- ac c° u nt hemaketh of all the ancient nobiline 
 hditj of °f our R- ca l me •* how he contemncth, derideth ‘J 
 £noland, 3nc * debafeththem 5 which isthefafliion of all ,j ( 
 0 fuch as mean to ufuip,to the end they may have i 
 nenewho fliall not acknowledge their firft be¬ 
 ginning and advancement from ti emfelvcs. 
 Lawyer. Not on 'y ufurpers(^»»ri the Lawyer ) but all ‘ 
 
 others who rife and mount aloft from bafe ly, 
 nage,be ordinarily moft Lontcmptims,corJtumul \ 
 tuottSj and iw/o/ewr agamlt others of moseanti- ‘ 
 quity And this was evident in this mansfather, , 
 Netv men who being a Buck of the 6rft hezd^asyou tyiow) , 
 moft con- was intolerable in contempt of others : as ap- 
 temptuous pcareth by thofe whom hce'trod downe of the 
 
 Nobili- 
 
(i5i) 
 
 Nobilitic in his time ; as alfoby his otdinarie 
 jefts againft the Duke of SomcrJet and others. 
 
 But among other times, fitting one day at his 
 
 I owne tablets aCounfellor told meethatwas 
 prefent)he tookoccafion to talkeof the Earl of ©.Dudlies 
 Arundel ,whom he had then not onely removed at the 
 from the Counfell, butalfo put into the Tower &&U of 
 of London, being (as is wel known) the full and Arundell. 
 chiefeft Earle of theRealme. And for that the 
 laid Earle Ihcwed himielfc fomewhat fad and 
 affli&ed with his prefent ftate (as I marvel not, 
 feing himfelf in prifon,and within the compafle 
 offo fierce a Beares paws) it pleafed this good¬ 
 ly Duke to vaunt upon this Earles mifery,ac his 
 owne Table(as I have faid)and a>ked the noble 
 men and gentlemen there prefent, what Creit 
 orCognizancc my L. of ArundelA id give ? and 
 when every one anfwered , that hce gave the 
 white horfe;I thought f (quoth the buke)and 
 not without great caufe ; for as the white Paul- 
 freywhenheftandeth in the liable, and is well 
 wovendred, is proud and fierce, and ready to 
 'tape on every other horfes back, Hill neying, 
 md prauncing, and troubling all that liand a- 
 bouthim : butwhenhc is once out of his hoc 
 liable, and deprived a little of his cafe andfat 
 feeding,every boy may ride and mailer him at 
 hispleafure; fo is it (quoth he) with my Lord 
 of AtundeH- Whereat many marvelled that 
 were prefent, to heare fo infolent fpecch pafle 
 from a man of judgement, againlt a Peere of 
 the Realme call into calamity. 
 
 Biit^ou would more have marvelled ( quoth Genti, 
 
 ’ >ib* Gentleman) if you had feenethat which I 
 idafrerwardjwhich was the moll bafe and ab- 
 jeftbehaviour of the fame Duke to the fame 
 e ' Earle 
 
The oft Ear * e drutidel&t Cambridge ,and opon the way 
 
 abiett be- “ wards London t when this Earle was fent to 
 haxiom of apprehend and bring him up, asprifoner. If I 
 2 »«AfDuJ- ftou^ teH you how he fell down on his bare*, 
 ley ad - how wept,how he befought the faid Earle to 
 
 verfe fur - ke a § 00c * ^ or< ^ unt0 him,whom a little before 
 tunes. he had fo much contemned and reproached.you 
 would have faid that himfelfe might as well be 
 compared to this his white Paulfrey, as the ci¬ 
 ther: Albeit in this I will excufe neither ofthem 
 both , neither almoft any of thefe great men 
 who are fo proud and infolent in their profpc* 
 rous fortune, as they are eafily led to contemne 
 any man, albeit themfelves bee moftcontemp- 
 tible of all Gthers,whenfoever their fortune be- 
 ginneth to change :and fo will my L. of Lei 
 cefter be,alfo no doubt at that day,thobgh now 
 ' in his wealth he triumph over all,and careth not 
 SuholLir. whom,or how many he offend and m/urc. 
 
 Sir,thereinl belecve you quoth I) for wee 
 JLeycefters have had fufficient tryall already of my Lords ! 
 life bcb&- fortitude in adverfity. His bafe andabjeftbe* : 
 •vtourin ad- haviour in his laft difgracc about his marriage, : 
 vwfitie, well declared what hee would doe in a matter ; 
 of more importance His fawning and flatte¬ 
 ring of them,whom he hated rnoft : his fervilc t 
 r - .. /I.... fpeeches, his feigned anddiffembledteares, are . 
 deceivin '? vcr y we ^ hnowne : Then Sir Chr\flofhtr 
 
 fffsirChri- Hatton n,u ^ neec * s e uf° rce< l t0 receive at 
 ifopher f his hands the honourable and great office of 
 Hatton Chamberlainfhip of CbefitTy for that he would 
 
 by any meanesre; gne the fame umohin^ whe¬ 
 ther he would or no : and made him provide 
 /not without his charge) to receive the fam?,' 
 though his Lor dihip never meant it, as after wel £ 
 appeared. For that the prefent pange being paft* ■ 
 
 it 
 
it liked my Lord to fulfill the Italian Proverbe* 
 of fuch as in dangers make vowes to Saints : 
 Scampato Hpericolo, gabbato ilfanto, the danger 
 efcaped,thc Saint is deceived. 
 
 Then, and ;n that neceflity , no men of the 
 Realm were fo much honoured commended. Sc 
 ferved by him as the noble Chamberlaine de- 
 ceafed,and the good Lord Treafurer yet living: 
 to whom, at a certains rime, he wrote a letter 
 in all fraud and bafe diflimulation, and caufed 
 the fame to be delivered with great cunning in 
 the fight of her Majefty $ and yet fo,as to {hew 
 a purpofe thaedt Ihould not be feen . to the end, 
 her Highnefie might tather take occa(:on to call 
 for the fame and read it, as ihe did. For Mi- 
 ftris Francis Harvard ( to whom the ftratagem 
 was committed^ playing her part dexteroufly, 
 offered to deliver the fame to the Lord Trea- 
 furcr, neare thj doore of the withdrawing 
 Chamber, he then comming from her Majefty : 
 And to draw the eye and attention of her H i gh- 
 nelfc the more unto i, fhee let fall the paper, 
 before it touched the treafurers hand, and by 
 that occafion brought her Majefty to call for the 
 fame : Which after {he had read and confidered 
 the ftile,together with the metall and conftitu- 
 tion of him that wrote it, and to whom it was 
 lent, her Highnefie could notbutbreake forth 
 in laughter,with deteftation of fuch abfurd and 
 abjed diftimulation : fay ng unto my Lord 
 Treafurer there prefent: my Lord believe him 
 not, for if he had you inlikecafe,he would play 
 ^the Iteare with you, though at this prefent hee 
 iimic upon you never to faft. 
 
 But now Sir, [ pray you goe forward in your 
 fpcech of Scotland , tor there 1 remember you 
 L left 
 
 A pretie 
 (bift of m-j 
 Lord of 
 Ley cede r» 
 
 HerSMah- 
 (Iks fpetcb 
 of Leyce- 
 ftfr to the 
 Tiesfurer. 
 
Cl 54) 
 
 left off, when by occafion we fell into thele di- 
 greflions* 
 
 Gentl. Well then(quoth the Gentleman) to retunie 
 againe to Scotland, (as you move) from whence 
 wee have digrefled : moil certain* and evi¬ 
 dent it is to all the world . that all the Lroylrv 
 troubles, and dangers procured to the Prince in 
 that countrey, as alfo the vexations of tketn 3 
 , who any way are thought to favour that title in 
 Ti)C our ownc Realme , doe proceed from the drift 
 
 AT '& an ^complotof thcfcconfpiratots. Which be* 
 z laje/ty by £ j ie g rcat dangers mentioned before , both 
 oppression domeHicall ant j f orra ine, temporall, and of re- 1 
 of the fa~ i,gj on>mu ft needs inferre grt at jeopardy alfo to 
 voums °7 herMaiciliesperfon and prefent reign,that now ' 
 rfce Scot- g OVernet h a through the hope and heat of the 
 tilti tittf, a ppj rtrs am bition, inflamed and increafed fo ;l 
 
 much the more by the nearenefle of their deli- ■ 
 red prt7. 
 
 For as foul iiers entred into the hope of a rick 
 and weil humified Citie,arc more fierce and fu¬ 
 rious, when they have gotten and beaten downc 
 A Similie the Bullwaiks round ab ut; and as the greedy 
 true. Burglarer that hath pierced and broken downe »i> 
 man wa’ls to come 10 a ueaiuie,islclle patient 
 of flay, flop, and delav, when he commeth in C 
 fight of that which he delireth , or perceiveth td 
 onlylome partition of wane skotor the like be— |rc 
 twin his fingers,and the cofcrs or monic bags: to 
 fo thele men when they lliall lee the fucctflion aj 
 of Scotland extinguished , together with all | 
 friends and favour*.is thereof, (which now are i 
 to her Majefly as Bullwarks and wals,am^great iij 
 obltacles rothe afpirors)and when rheylhaiift" it 
 onely her Mai Hies life and petfen, to Hand be*^ 
 twixt them and their ficrie dcfircs ( for tkeyw 
 
(w) 
 
 make little account ufall other Competitors by 
 King H.pries line:) no doubt but it will bee to 
 them a great prick and fpurre to difpatch Her 
 Majeftie alfo: the nature of both Earles being 
 well conhdered,whereof the one killed his own ^arle of 
 wife,(a$ hath been IhewecJ before) onely upon Lcycefter. 
 a little vaine hope of marriage with a Queene, 
 and the other being fo (arre blinded and borne £ . - 
 
 away with the fame furious fum?, & molt im- ,,‘ 5r C °' 
 potent itching humor of ambition,as his owne t UQnn 2~ 
 mother, when Ihe was alive, feemed greatly to ton * 
 fearc his lingers,if once the matter ihould come 
 fo ncare, aS her life had onely Hood in his way. 
 
 For which caul'e, the good old Countefle was 
 Wont to pray God ('as I have heard divers fay ) 
 that Ihe might dye before hcrMajefty (which 
 happily was granted unto here to the end that The old 
 by Handing in her fonnes way (who Ihe faw Countejfe 
 toiler grief, furioufly bent to weare a Crown:) of Hun- 
 thcre might not fome dangerous extremity tingtons 
 grow to her by that nearenefle: And if his owne fpcecb of 
 mother feared this mifchance, whsc may her her fome. 
 Majefty doubt at his, & his companions hands, 
 when Ihe onely fhall be the obftacle of all their 
 unbridled and impatient de: res ? 
 
 Cleare it is(quoth the Lawyer)thac the neare- Lawyer, 
 nefleof afpirors to the C rownc, endangereth Meaienejfe 
 greatly the prefent poflefiors,as you have well U compc- 
 proved by rcafon,and I couldIhew by divers ex. titors doth 
 amples, if it were need. For when HenricTdul- incitethem > 
 littgbrooliey Duke of lanca/terf aw not onely Ri. {0 a J vin . 
 thard the fecond to be without iiiue, but alfo ture. 
 i Rozidr Mortimer , Earle of March , thatfliould Henr.BuI- 
 tfve fucceded in the Crownc, to bee flaine in linobrook 
 Ireland: though before (as is thoughtjhe meant after I\txg 
 ■otto ufurpe, yet feeing the poffibility and H. the 4. 
 
 L z near 
 
neare cut that he had, was inuited therewith to 
 Richard \ 3y hands of his Sovcraignes blorid and dignity 
 u v e of as he did. The like is thought of Richardjjukr 
 Oloucetter c f Q beefier, that he irver meant the murthcroi 
 hisnephewes, untill he faw their father dead, 
 Richard andthemielves in his owne hands j his brother 
 the third. a jf 0 Duke of Clarence difpatched,and his onely 
 fonneandlieire Earle of IVaiwicli within his 
 owne power. 
 
 Wherefore feeing that it hath not pleafed A 1 
 mighty God,for caufes to himfeJfe belt known, 
 ro leave unto this noble Realm, any ifliie by her 
 The great mo ^ excellent Maidiie,it hath been a poynt of 
 fnibdome g rcac wifedome in mine opinion, and of great 
 of her Orta- Safety to her Highnes pcrion,tiat«-, & dignity,to 
 jefiyincon- prefers hitherto the line ofihenext Inheritors 
 ferving the by the houfc of Scotland, ( I meane both the 
 next heircs mother and the fonnej whofe deaths hath been 
 of Scot- diligently fought by the other Competitors, 
 land. and had betne long cte this atchieved , if her 
 Majefties owne wiledome, and royall c.cmency 
 (as is thought) had not placed fpeciall eye upon 
 the conservation thereof, from time to time. 
 Which Princely providence , fo long as itfhaii - 
 endure,muft needs be agreatfafety and fortrefs ■ 
 to her Majefty, not oncly againft the claimes, , 
 aides, or annoyance of forraine Princes, who 
 wi! not be fo forward to advance ttrange titles, : 
 while fo manifelt heires remain at homc,noryct 1 
 fo willing (in refped of policy ) to lelpe that 
 line to poll, ffion of the whole Ifland: hut alfo 
 agamft practices of dcmefticall afpirers fas you 
 have fhewcd)in whofeaflairs bo doubt bur^hele 
 two branches of Sc tland are great b ocks, v* 
 alfo fpeciall bulwarks to her Majeities life and :: 
 perlon: feemg(as you fay)thcfc copartners make : 
 
fo little account of the other of that line, who 
 fliould eo ue by order of fucccflion. 
 
 Marry yet of the two, I thinke the youth of The /(,• of 
 Scotland be of much more importance for their Scotlands 
 purpofe , to bee made away, both for that hec diftrufticn 
 may have iffue, and is like in time to be of more °] morem- 
 ability, for defence of his owne inheritance; as Torrance to 
 alfo for that he being once difpatched, his mo- the con/pi- 
 ther (hould fooneenfue by one flight or other, ratorSithen 
 which they would devife unwitting to her Ma- bis mothers 
 jefiy;albeit, I muft ncedes confefle that her 
 Highncfle hath ufed molt Angular prudence for 
 prevention thereof,inplacing her reftraint with 
 fo noble, ftrong, and worthy a Peereof our The Earle 
 Rcalme, as the Earle of Shrewsbune is, whofc o/Salisbu- 
 kdelity and conftancy being nothing plyablc to r y difgra - 
 the others faftion, giveth them little contenta- cedhy the 
 tion. And for that caufc the world feeth how competi- 
 many fundry and divers devices they have ufed, tort. 
 and do ufe dayly to Hander and difgrace him,and 
 thereby to pull from him his charge committed 
 To this the Gentleman avfivered nothing at all, GentJ. 
 but flood ft ll rnufivg with himfclfe , as though hec 
 had conceived feme deep matter in his head t and 
 after a little paufe be began to fay asfolioweth 
 
 I cannot truly but much marvaile,whenl do The vigi- 
 compare fomethings of this time and govern- lant eye j 
 ment, with the doings of forma 1 Princes, Pro- that her 
 genitors to her Majefly. Namely of Hcnr'te the CM iiefltes 
 7.and Henrie the 8. who had fo vigilant an eye ance/iors 
 to the laterall line of King Edward the 4. by had to the 
 his hi-other of Clarence , as they thought it ne- coUterall 
 ,-wdfary, not only to prevent all evident dangers line. 
 that might cnfuc that way,but even the poffibi- 
 lities of all perill: as may well appear by the 
 execution of £i.Earl of fTarwicft before named 
 L 3 Son 
 
per forts 
 executed 
 ofthe h* ufe 
 o/Claiece 
 
 The exam¬ 
 ple of Juli¬ 
 us Caefars 
 deflruclm. 
 
 Son and herretp the fitd Duke of Cltrevce^ nd 
 of Margaret Hli filter Counteffe of Salisbury , 
 with the Lord Hrhry Montague her fonne, by 
 whofc Daughter the Earle ef Huntington now 
 daimetb. All which were executed for avoyding 
 of inconveni^ncies, and that at fuch times,wbtn 
 no imminent danger could be much doubted by 
 that Line,efpecially by the latter. And yec now 
 when one of the fame houfe and Line, of more 
 ability ‘and ambition, than ever any of his 
 Anccltors were , malrcth open title and clairnc 
 to the Crowne, with plots, packs, and prepara¬ 
 tions to moft manifeft u(urpation,againft all or¬ 
 der,all law, and all rightful; lucccflion » and 3 - 
 gamft a fpecial ftatute provided in that behalfc: 
 yet is he permitted, borne out, favoured, and 
 friended therein : and no man fo hardy , as in 
 defence of her Majcftie and the Realme to con 
 tr Je him for the fame. 
 
 It may be that her Majeftic is brought into the 
 fame opinion of my Lord of Huntington- fide¬ 
 lity, as lulitis Ctefir was of Marcus Brutus , his 
 deareft obliged friend ; of whole ambitious pra- 
 <Sifes,and alpiring, when Cafir was advertiled 
 by biscarefull friends j he an:wered , that hee 
 well knew ‘Brutus to be ambitious, but I am 
 furc ( quoth he that my BrutUt will never at¬ 
 tempt any thing for the Empire while c<gfar\\~ 
 veth : and after my death let him fhift for the 
 fame among others,a; he can. But what enfued? 
 Surely 1 am loath to tell the event lor ominati - 
 ons fake , but yet all the world knoweth *^ar 
 ere many moneths pafle-d, this moll noble aflif* 
 C lement Empctour was pityfully murthereJ 
 y the fame Brutus and his partners in the pub- 
 Ikpe Senate , when lcaft of all he expected 
 
fuch tteafon. So dangerous a thing it is to be fe- 
 curein a matter of fo great fequell , ortotruft 
 them with a mans life , who may pretend prefer¬ 
 ment or intereft by his death. 
 
 Wherefore, would God her Majeftie in this cafe 
 might be induced to have fuch due care and regard 
 of her own ettate and royal! perfon,as the weigh¬ 
 ty moment of the matter requireth; which con¬ 
 tained the blifle and calamity of fo noble and 
 worthy a kingdome as this. 
 
 I know right well, that moft excellent natures 
 are alwayes furtheft off from diffidence in fuch 
 people as proves love , and are moft bounden by 
 dude : and fo it is evident in her Maieftic. But yet 
 furely, this confidence fo commendable in other 
 men,is fcarce allowable oftentimes in the perfon 
 of a Prince : for that it goeth accompanyed with 
 fogreat perilfas is inevitable to him that will not 
 fufpeft principally when dangers are foretold or 
 prefaged, ( as commonly by Gods appoyntment 
 they are , fet thfe fpcciall hand he holdcth over 
 Princes affaires ) or when there is probable con¬ 
 jecture, or juft furmifeof the fame. 
 
 We know that the forenamed Emperor Cafar, 
 had not onely the warning given him of the in¬ 
 clination and intent of Brutus to ufurpation, but 
 even the very day when hee was going towards 
 the place of his appoynted deftiny, there was gi¬ 
 ven up into his hands a deteftion of the whole 
 tteafon, with requeft to read the fame prefently, 
 which he upon confidence omitted to doe. Wee 
 read alfo of Alexander the great, how hee was 
 aft onely forbidden by a learned man to enter 
 mto Babylon (whither he was then going)for that 
 there was treafon meant againft him in the place, 
 but alfo that he was foretold of Antipaters mif- 
 L]4 chievous 
 
 Too much 
 confidence 
 vetie peril- 
 tous in a 
 F since. 
 
 The exam- 
 ?/^/Alex¬ 
 ander the 
 frear, 
 hee 'was 
 foretold 
 his danger. 
 
. Schollar* 
 
 Lite ext* 
 cutions. 
 
 GentI, 
 
 (160) 
 
 chievoos meaning againll him in particular. But 
 the yong Prince h wing fo well deferred of An- 
 tipatcry could not be brought to mill all the man 
 that was fo deare unto him : ami hv tliac meanes 
 waspoytoned in i banqu t by three fonsof An- 
 //p4/er,whtch were of moll credit and confidence 
 in the Kings Chamber. 
 
 Here,troly 5 my heaitiin! form-what tremble with 
 feare,honor, md defoliation offuch events. And 
 I faid unto the Gentleman: I befeech you Sir > to 
 talke no more of thefe matters 5 for I cannot well 
 abide to heare them named : hoping in the Lord 
 that there is no caufe, nor ever (hall be, to doubt 
 the like in England : efpecially from thefe men, 
 who are fo much bound to her Ma jelly , and fo 
 forward infeeking out, and purfmng ailfuch as 
 may be thought to be dangerous to her M.ijefttes 
 perfon, as by the fundty late executions wee have 
 have feen, and by the punilhments every way of 
 Papifts we may perceive. 
 
 Truth it is (quoth the ( )t juilicc 
 
 hath bin done upon divers of late, which conten« 
 teth me greatly,for the terrain and vellramt of o- 
 thers,of what fed or religion foever they be: And 
 it is moll neceflary ( doubtles.) for the compref- 
 fing of partitS,thar great vigilance be ufed in that 
 behalfe. But when I confider, that only one kind 
 of men are touched herein: and that all fpcech,re¬ 
 gard,doubt,diftruil, md watch is of them alone } 
 without refledion of eye upon other mens doings 
 ordefignements: when l fee the double diligence 
 and vehemency of cerraine inllruments, which, I 
 like not,bent wholly to raife wonder and ademp¬ 
 tion of the people,feare, terrour,and attention tQ^ 
 the doings,fayings, 3nd meanings of one part or 
 fadion alone 3 and of that namely and only which 
 thefe 
 
thefe cOnfpirators efteem for ffloft dangerous arjd Fraud to 
 oppofite to themfclves : I am (belecyc me) often be feared 
 tempted to fufped fraud and falfemeafure : and inpurfuivg 
 that thefe men deale,as wolves by nature in other one part or 
 Countries are wont to do : Which going together faSion on » 
 in great numbers to aflaile a flocke of flaeep by ly. 
 night, doe fet fome one or two of their company The cm - 
 upon the wind fide of the fold a far off, who par- parifon oj 
 ly by their fent and other bruteling,which of pur- Wolves 
 pefe they make, may draw the dogs and (hep- andRebels, 
 heards to purfue them alone,whiles the other doe 
 enter and flay the whole flock. Or as rebels that 
 meaning to furprize a Town,to turne away the 
 Inhabitants from conGdering of the danger, and 
 from defence of that place, where they intend to 
 enter, doe fet on fire fome other parts of the 
 Towne further off, and doe found a falfe alarme 
 at fome gate,where is meant leaft danger. 
 
 Which art was ufed cunningly by 'Richard D. Richard 
 of rorlg in the time of King Henrie the fixt, dh^c of 
 when he to cover his owne intent, brought all the Torfe. 
 Realmc in doubt of the doings of Edmond Duke 
 of Somerfet t his enemy. But John of Nortbtmber- Q. Dudly. 
 land, father to my Lord of Leycefter , ufed the 
 fame art much more skilfully , when hee put all 
 England in amaze and mufingof the Protedor, 
 and of his friends: as though nothing could be 
 fafe about the yong King, untill they were fup- 
 preffed : and confequently, all brought into his 
 owne authority, without obftacle. i fpeake not ~j»°° rtti 
 this to excufc Papifls, or to wifli them any way OjpOltCy* 
 fpared wherein they offend : but onely to fignifie 
 that*ft a Countrey, where fo potent faftions bee, 
 iJls^not fafe, to fuffer the one to make it felfe fo 
 puiffant by purfuit of the other: as afterwards 
 the Prince mull remaine at the devotion of the 
 ftronget: 
 
Sronger ; but rather as in a body tnolefted and 
 troubled with contrarie humours, if all cannor be 
 purged, the beftPhvlick is without all doubt to 
 reduce and hold them at fuch an equality, as de 
 firudion may not be feared of the predominant, 
 
 To this faid the Lawyer laughing,yea marry Sir, 
 
 I would to God your opinion might prevails in 
 this matter j for then firould wee bee in other 
 tearmes then now we are. I was, not long fince, 
 in company of a cetaine honourable Lady of the 
 Court, who, after fome (peeeh palled by Gentle - 
 men that were prefent, of fome apprehended, anti 
 fomc executed, and fuch like affaires , brake into j 1 
 a great complaint of the prefent time, and theie- 
 wrth (I allure you)moved all the hearers to griefc ; 
 (as .women you know are potent in Itirring ot 
 affeftions ) and caufed them all to wifh that her 
 Majefty had beene nigh to have heard her words 
 The fpeech I doe well remember (quoth fhe) the fitft do- . 
 of a certain fen yeares of her Highneffe reigne, how happy, 
 Lady of the pleafant and quiet they were,with all manna of ! ; 
 Court. comfort and confolation. There was no mention ' 
 then of faftions in religion, neither was any man 
 much noted or rejeded for that caufe: Co other- 
 wife liisconverfation were civil! and courteous.; 
 No fufpition of treafon, no talfceof bloudlhcd, ‘j 
 no complaint of troubles, miferies, or vexations, 1 
 All was peace, all was love, all was joy, all was ’; 
 delight. Her M’jeftie (I am furc^) took more Rc- jl 
 creation at that time in one day, than Iheeaioth ^ 
 now in a whole week : and wee that ferved her ‘ 
 Highncffe,enjoyed more contentation in a^feeka - 
 than we can now in divers yeares.For nowHjjtfre f 
 are fo many fufpitions every where,for this thm|, ‘ 
 and for that, as we cannot tell whom to truft. Sa • 
 many melancholickin the Court ,that feem male-™ 
 conten- u - 
 
Contented,fo many compiayning or ftiing for thvir 
 friends that are in trouble: others flip over the 
 Sea, or retire themfelves upon the fuddaine : fo 
 many tales brought us of this or that danger j of 
 this man fufpe&ed, of that manfent for up, and 
 fuch like unplcafanr,and unfavorie ftuffe j as wc 
 can never almoft bee merry one whole day toge* 
 ther. 
 
 Wherefore fquoth this Lady) wee that are of 
 her M a jellies traine and fpeciall fervice, and doe 
 aot onely feele thefe things in our felves, but 
 much more in the grief of her raoft excellent Ma- 
 jefty whom we fee dayly molefted herewith (be¬ 
 ing one of the bed natures,I am fure, that ever 
 noble Prince fie was indued withall:) wee cannot 
 but mone,to behold contentions advanced fo far More mo- 
 forth as they are: and we could wifh moll hearti- j*. 
 
 ly that for the time to come thefe matters might wt J" e tn 
 paffe with fuch peace,friendfhip, and tranquillity, ^J. ers 
 as they doe in other Countryes, where difference • tGn ’ 
 in religionbreaketh not the band of good fellow- 
 fhip,oj fidelity. And with this in a (nailing man¬ 
 ner file brake off, asking pardon of the company, 
 if fhe had fpoken heropinion over boldly, like a 
 woman. 
 
 To whom anfwered a Courtier that fate next The fpeeeh 
 her: Madame, your Ladifnip hath faid nothing in of* Com * 
 this behalfe, that is not dayly debated amongft tier • 
 us, in our common fpeeeh in Court as you know. 
 
 Yodr defire alfo herein is a publick defire, if it 
 might be brought to paffe : for there is no man 
 fo ff,?/ple, that feeth not how perilous thefe con- 
 ^ffifionsand divifions among us may bee in the 
 end. And I have heard divers Gentlemen that be 
 learned, difeourfe at large upon this argument: 
 alleaging old examples of the Siberians, Lace¬ 
 demonians, 
 
TbeperiS demon inns, Carthigentans, and Romm, who re* 
 pfdivifions ceived notable dammages, and deftrufhon alfo in 
 & fafliunt < he end, by their divifions and fa&ions among 
 tnaCom themfeJves,and fpccially from them of their own 
 mmwealib Cities and Countries, who upon faftions lived a- 
 broad with Forrainers; and thereby wete always 
 as fire-brands, to carry home the fl amc of Wan e 
 upon their Countrey. 
 
 The like they alfo {hewed by ill. long experi¬ 
 ence of all the great Cities and States of Italy - 
 which by their faftions and forucites, were in 
 continuall gar boyle, bloud-fiied and miftrie. 
 Whereof oar ownecountrey hath alfo tailed her 
 part, by the odious contention between the hou- 
 fes ©f Lancafter and Tor^e : wherein it is marvai 
 lous joconfider, what trouble a few men often¬ 
 times, departing out of the Realme, were able to 
 workeby the part of their fi&ion remaining at 
 home { which commonly encreafeth toward 
 them that are abfent).& by the readines of fr r nn 
 Princes, to receive ulwayes, and comfort fuch as 
 are difeontented in another ftate: to the end, that 
 by their meanes, they might hold an Ore in their 
 neighbours boat : Which Princes that are nigh 
 borderers , doe slwaycs above all other things 
 moft covet and defire. 
 
 . This was that Courtiers fpcech and icafon, 
 
 e y- 5 T whereby I perceived, that afwdl among them in 
 Court, as among us in the Rcalmc and Country 
 ~ abroad, the prefent inconvenience and dangerpus 
 a/ 0W ’ fequell of this our home diffention, is efpytd.and 
 eaime, i confequently moll Englifli hearts inclined t^vUh 
 the remedy or prevention thereof , by fomeS*^ 
 fonable moderation , or re-union among our 
 ielves. For that the profecution of thefc differen¬ 
 ces to excremitie, cannot but after many wounds 
 and 
 
(l*j) 
 
 and exulcerations bring matters finally to rage, 
 fury,and moft deadly dcfperation. 
 
 Whereas on thc 4 othcr fide, if any fweef qualifi¬ 
 cation, or fmall tolleracion among us were ad¬ 
 mitted : there is no doubt, but that affaires would 
 pafi’e in our Realme with more quietneffc, (afety 
 and pubhke weale of the fame , then it is like ic 
 will doe long : and men would eafily be brought, 
 that have Engliih bowells, to joyne in the pre- 
 lervation 'of their Countrcy from ruinc, bloud- 
 (hed»and forraine oppreffion, which defparatton 
 of fadions is wont to procure. 
 
 I am of your opinion (quoth the Gentleman) Q em j 
 in that, fori have feene the experience thereof, 
 and all the world beholdeth the fame at this day, 
 in all the Countries of Germanky Polonia, B&m- Examples ■ 
 land\ and Hungarie ■' where a little bearing of oftollera- 
 the one with the other, hath wrought them much tioninmat 
 eafe,and continued them a peace,whereof all Eu tersofreli - 
 ropebefides hath admiration and envie. The firft gion. 
 iz years alfo of her Majefties reign, whereof your n 
 Lady of the Court difeourfed of before, can well t,crman ) r » 
 bee a witneffe of the fame: wherein the comtni- 
 feration and lenity that was ufed towards thofe 
 ef the weaker fort, with a certaine fweet dili¬ 
 gence for their gaining, by good means was the 
 caufe of much peace, contentacion,and other be¬ 
 nefit to the whole body. 
 
 Wee fee in Francc t that by over much preflmg , 
 
 of one parr onely , afire was inklndled not tT 
 mcffiy yeares fince, like to have confumed and * 
 
 .f deftroyed the whole : had not a neceff.iry mol- 
 i lifiq^fion been thought upon by the wifelt of that tranCC ’ 
 
 < JSuftgs Councell full contrary to the will and in¬ 
 clination of fome great pcrlonages , who meant 
 perhaps to have gained more by the ether: 
 
 and 
 
flcmdeti. 
 
 (i 66 ) 
 
 and fince that time we fee what peace,wealcli,and 
 reunion hath enfued in that Country that was 
 fo broken 3 diffevcred,and wafted before. And all 
 this, by ycelding a litt'c in that thing, which no 
 force can matter, but exulceratc rather,and make 
 worle: I meane the confcience and judgement of 
 men in matters of Religion. 
 
 The like alfo I could name you in Hindi; s 2 
 where after all thefe broylesand mifcries of fo 
 many yeares warres (caufed principally by too 
 much ftreyning in fuch affaires at the beginning) 
 albeit the King bee never fo ftrid- laced, m yccl- 
 ding to publike libeity, and frecexercife on both 
 parts : yet is be defeended to this at length ( and 
 that upon force of reafon) toabftaine horn the 
 purfuit and fearch of mens confciences, not only 
 in the townes, which upon compohtion hee recei¬ 
 ved,but alfo where he hath recovered by force, as 
 in Torsey.and other places-.where I am informed 
 that no man isfearched, demanded, or moletted 
 for his opinion or confcience,nor any aft of Papt- 
 ftry or contrary religion required at their hands, 
 but are permitted to live quietly to God and 
 themfelves,at home in their owne houfes: fo they 
 performe otherwife their outward obedience and 
 duties to their Prince and Countrey. Which only 
 qualification, tollerance, and moderation in our 
 Realme f if I bee not deceived, with many moia 
 that be of my opinion) would content all divik- 
 ons, fadions, and parties among us , for their 
 continuance in peace: bee they Papifts, Puri&ns, 
 Familians: or of whatfoever nice difference ot 
 fedion befides, and would be fufticient to m^aine 
 all parties within a temperate obedience totfet 
 Magiftrate and government, for confervauon of 
 their Countrey: which were of nofmall impoi 
 tance 
 
tance to the contentation of her Majefty, and the 
 vveale publick of the whole kingdome. 
 
 But what Ihould I talke of this thing which is Moder&tU 
 fo contrary to the defires and defignements of our on impugn 
 puiflant Confpirators ? What fhoald Cicero the ned by the 
 Senator ufe perfwafions to Captaine C/tteline, and confpirn. 
 his crew, that quietneffe and order were better Cicero, 
 than hurliburlies ? Is it pofllble that our afpirors Catcline. 
 will ever permit any fuch thing, caufe, or matter, 
 to be treated in our ftate, as may tend to the lia¬ 
 bility of her Majefties prefent government ? No 
 furely, it ftandeth nothing with their wifedome 
 or policy, efpecially at this inftant, when they 
 have fuch opportunity of following their owne 
 aftions in Her Majefties name, under the vizard 
 and pretext of her defence and fafety : having 
 fowed in every mans head fo many imaginati¬ 
 ons of the dangers prefent both abroad and at 
 home : from Scotland , Flanders, Spaine, and Ire¬ 
 land : fo man confpiracies, fo many intended T ” e CQs ~ 
 murthers, aiad others fo many contrived or con-JP* rators m 
 reived mifchiefes : as my Lord of Leicefter a ilia- °P?ortunt- 
 retli himfelfe that the troubled water cannot be ** e * 
 cleared agatne in fhortfpace, nor his baits and 
 lines laid therein,eafily efpyed : but rather, that 
 hereby, ere long, he will catch the fifla he gapeth 
 16 greedily after: and in the meane time , for the 
 purfuit of thefe crimes, and other chat he dayly 
 will finde out, himfelfe mull remaine perpetuall 
 Dictator. 
 
 i5ut what meaneththis fo much inculcating of 
 ^troublesjtreafons, murthers,and invafions ? I like 
 not purely thefe ominous fpeeches. And as I 
 aifout of doubr, that Leicefer the caller of thefe 
 lhadowes, doth look to play his part firft in thelc 
 troublcfome affaires: fo doe I heartily feare, that 
 unleffe 
 
unlefle the tyranny of this Leicefirian fury bee 
 ipeedily flopped , that fuch miferie to Prince 
 and people (which the Lord for his mercies 
 fake turnc from us) as never greater fell before to 
 our miserable Countrey, is far nearer hand than 
 is expefted or fufpefted. 
 
 And therefore for the prevention of thefe cala- 
 Leyceftcr to tell you plainly mine opinion (g©ud 
 
 to be caUid 2I *d therewith to draw to an end of this our 
 to account. con f e r encc (for it waxeth late; ) I would thinke 
 it the mod neceffarie poynt of all for her Majefly 
 to call his Lordfhip to account among other, and 
 to fee what other men could fay againft him , at 
 length, after fo m any ycares of his foie accufing, 
 and purfuing of others. 1 know,and am very well 
 allured, that no one aft which her Majellie hath 
 done finre her comming to the Crowne ( as fliee 
 hath done right many mod highly to be commen¬ 
 ded) nor any that lightly her Mtjefty may doe 
 hereafter, can be of more utility to Her felfe, and 
 ^to the Rcalme,or, more gratefull to her faithfull 
 «nd zealous fubjefts than :his noble aft of lattice 
 would be, for tryallof this mans deferts towards 
 his Countrey. 
 
 I fay it would be profitable to her Majefly, and 
 to the Realme , not onely in refpeft of the ma¬ 
 ny dangers before mentioned, hereby to be avoy- : 
 ded,wnich are like to enfue mod certainly , if his * 
 courfes bee drill permitted : but alfo for that her 1 
 Ma jeftyftiall by this, deliver Her felfe from that *■ 
 generall grudge and griefe of mind,with great cr*'f~ 11 
 like, which many fubiefts, otherwife mod faith-’ 
 full, have conceived againft the exccfsive fatour 
 Ihewed to this man fo many yeares , without de* 
 fert or reafon. Which favour lie haring ufed to the 
 hurt, annoyance, and ©pprcllion both of infinite : 
 
 fcverall 
 
(t 69 ) 
 
 feverall perfons,and the whole common-wealth 
 ( as hath bin faid: ) the griefe and refentmenc. 
 thereof,doth redound commonly infuch cafes 
 not only upon the perfon delinquent alone, but 
 alfo upon the Sovcraigne,by whofe favour & au¬ 
 thority he offers fuch iniuries, though neverfo 
 muchagainft the others intet,d,fire or meaning. 
 
 And hereof we have examples of fundry Prin¬ 
 ces,in all ages and Countries, whofe exorbitant 
 favour to fome wicked fubicd that abufed the 
 famejhath bin the caufe of great dinger and ru- 
 ine$ the fins of eke favourite being returned and 
 revenged upon the favourer. As in the Hiftorie 
 of the Grecians is declared , by occafion of the 
 pittifull murcherof that wile and victorious p. 
 
 Fhilip of Macedonj , who albcir, that he were The death 
 well afiured to have given no offence of himfelf 7^ Phi, 1 ip 
 to any of his lubic^&confequenrly feared no- of <!M&ce- 
 thing, but converted openly and confidently a- donie,and 
 mongthem : yet, for thathec had favoured too caufe there 
 much one nuke dttaLus } a proud and infolcnt of 
 Courtier^nd had born him out in certain of his 
 wickcdnes,or at lcaftnot pumflied the fame af¬ 
 ter it was detected and complained upon: the 
 parties grieved accounting the crime more pro¬ 
 per! and heinous on the part of him, who by 
 office fhould do iuftice,3c proteff other,than of 
 the perpetrator,who followeth his own pafti- 
 on and fcnfuality,lct pafs Attalus,$c made their 
 revenge upon the bloud & life of the K. himfelf 
 by ^ne Fij»ya»wf,fuborned for that purpofc, in Paufanias. 
 &£marriage day of the Kings owne daughter. 
 
 Great ftore of like examples may be repeated, 
 op, t of the ftories of other countries,nothing be¬ 
 ing more ufuall or frequent among all nations, 
 than the affli&ions of realms and kingdoms,and 
 M the 
 
K»gs 0 / 
 
 England o- 
 vertbnten 
 by too much 
 favouring 
 of fume 
 particular 
 men . 
 
 ^\Edw.2 
 
 CRich.z. 
 
 K-Henr.6. 
 
 the overthrow of Princes and great Potentates 
 themfelveSj by then too much aflfeftion towards I 
 fome unworthy particular perfons ? a thing in ■ 
 deed lo common and ordinary, as it nay well 1 
 feem to be the fpeciall Rock of a’l otherwhere- l 
 at Kings & Princes doe make their fliipwi acks, * 
 For if we look into the ftates and Monarchies 11 
 all Chtiftcndon e, and confidcr the rurncsthat } | 
 have bin of any Princes or Ruler within the h 
 fame : we fhall find this poynt to have bin a 18 
 great and principall part of the caufe thereof: !t 
 and in our owns Hate and countrey, the mattes 
 is too evident For whereas lince the Conqueft ll! 
 we number principally , three juft and lawfuli °l 
 Kings, to have come to toniufion,by alienation a 
 of their fubjefts : that is, Edward the fecond, w 
 iCcfc.the fecond, and Henric the fixt 1 this only 
 point of too much favour towards wicked per- w 
 ions, was the chiefcft caufe ofdellruftion in all 111 
 three. As, in the firft, theexceflive favour to* Wl 
 wards Peter Gavcftov ,and twoof theSpente>i. %i 
 Jn the fecond, the like extraordinaric,and indiMtl 
 creet afleflion towards Iiobert Vete 3 Lurie of 5 " 
 Oxford , and Marqueffe of ^Dublin, and Thomas :; ' :l 
 Mowbraj/y two moll turbulent and wicked mcn,#'^ 
 t iat let the K. againft his ownVncles & the nc-iW 
 bility "In the third ( being a fimple andholylsi 
 man) albeit no great exorbitant affe&ion was on 
 fecne towards nriy, yet his wife Queen Marga-tol 
 rets too much favour and credit (byhim nets 
 controled , towards the Marquefle of Suffclke, m 
 that after was made Duke, bywhofe indn.ff ii 
 and wicked Counfell, fhe made away firft theci^j 
 noble Duke of Glouccfior t and afterward coyi-ii) 
 mitted other things in great prejudice of them 
 P ealme, and fuffered the faid moft impious and in 
 finfulitll 
 
finfull Duke to range and make havock of all 
 fore of fubjefts at his pleafure ('much after the 
 famion of the Earle of Ltkefier now , though 
 yet not in fo high an.i extreame a degree; (this I 
 lay was the principal! and original! caufc, both 
 before Gou and man,( as PoUdore well noteth) PoUib. 13 
 of all the calamity and extreme dctolarion, hift.AngU 
 which afierenfued both to the King, Queerie, 
 and their oncly child, with the utter extirpation 
 of their family* 
 
 And lo liktwtfe now to fpeak in our particu¬ 
 lar cafe, if there be any grudge or gnefc at this 
 day, any mjlike, repining, complaint or raur- 
 murc agaudt her Majeilie* government, m the 
 hearts of her true and faithfull fubjeds, who 
 wilh amendment of that which is amifle, and 
 not the overthrow of that which is well; ( as I 
 trow it were no wifedomc to imagine there 
 were none at all :) I dare avouch upon Confci- 
 ence, that either all, or the greatett part there¬ 
 of, proceedcthfrom this man; who by the fa- 
 vor of her Majelly fo affli^eth her peo,le as ne- 
 verdid before him,either <javeftoViSpcvcer 3 l'cre r 
 wtMoivbray or any other mifchievous iirant,thac 
 abufed moil his Princes favour withm our 
 Rcalmeof bvglavd Whereby it is evident how 
 profitable a thing it fhonlu bee to the whole 
 Real r e , how honourable to her M.<jc ry , and 
 how grarefull to all her fubjeds, if this man at 
 length might be called to his account. 
 ypr Sii(quoththe Lawyer iyou alleage great rea^ Lawyer, 
 fon, and verily i am of opinion, that if her Ma- 
 Jcfiy knew bur thetemh part of this, which you 
 have here fpo en, as alfo her good fubjeds de¬ 
 fires and complaint m this behalfe : Ihe would 
 well (hew , that her Highntffe feareth not to 
 M a per* 
 
pewnit iuftice to pafleupon Leicefier , or any o 
 ther within her Realme, for fatisfa^ion of her 
 people,whatfoever fame men may think and re¬ 
 port to the contrary, or howlocver otherwise of 
 her owne milde difpofuion towards the per* 
 fon, (he have borne with him hitherto. For fo 
 we fee that wife Princes can doe at time* con- 
 venientjfor peace and tranquillity, sndpublike 
 weale : though contrary tn their owne particu¬ 
 lar and peculiar inclination. 
 
 As to goc no furtherthen to the laft example 
 named and allcaged by your felfe beforetthough 
 The pu- Q“ een Margaret the wife of K Henrie the fixt, 
 if had favoured moll unfortunately many yeares 
 William ' together,#'(/ am Duke of Suffolk ( as hath bin 
 T>uhe of faid)whereby he committed manifold outrages,. 
 Sn Solk. an( * the Realme by fundry meaner: yet 
 
 lhe being a woman of great prudence,when (he 
 faw the whole Comnmnalty demand juftice up¬ 
 on him for his demerits, albeit lhe liked and lo¬ 
 ved the mao ftill : yet for fatisfaftion of the 
 people, upon fo gencrall a complaint, dice was 
 content firft to commit him to prifon , and af¬ 
 terward to bamfli him the Realme : but the pro 
 vidence of God would not permit him foto e«- 
 feape: for that he being incountied and taken 
 upon the fea in his pafiage, he was beheaded in 
 the (hip , and fo received fomc partof condigne 
 punilhment for his moil wicked,loofc, and li¬ 
 centious life. 
 
 And to feeke no more examples in this ctfa 
 it we know into what favour and fpccia 1 grace 
 Sir Edmond ’Dudley ,my Lord of Lcyceftert good 
 Grandfather wascrepr, with King Hen) tfie 
 feventh, in the latter end of his reigne;and 
 what intolerable wickcdnefle and mifehiefe he 
 wroughJ 
 
wrought againft the whole Realme, and again# 
 infinite particular perfonsof the fame, by the 
 polings and oppreflions which hee praftifed: 
 wherby though the King received great tempo- 
 rail commodity at that time, ('as her Majefty Tbepunijh 
 doth nothing at all by the prefent extortions of merit of 
 his Nephew:) yet for jufticc fake,and for meerc Edmond 
 compaflion towards his affli&cd fubie&s, that Dudley, 
 complained grievoufly of this iniquity ; that 
 moft vertuous and wife Prince King Henrie was 
 content to put from him this lewd inflrument, 
 and devillilh fuggeftor of new exa&ions: whom 
 hisfonne Henrie that enfued in the Crown, cau- 
 fed prefently before all other bufines, to be cal¬ 
 led publickly to account , and for his deferts to 
 leefe his head : So as where the interefl: of a 
 whole Realme, or common caufe of many, ta- 
 keth place : the private favour of any one cannot 
 flay a wife & godly Prince,(fuch as al the world 
 knoweth her Maieliy to be)from permitting i la¬ 
 ttice to have her free paflage. 
 
 Truely it fhould not (quoth the Gentleman) Gent!, 
 for to that end were Princes firftcle&ed, and The caufes 
 upon that confidcration doe fubieds both pay ^y 
 them tribute and obedience j to bee defended tef veche* 
 by them from iniunes and oppreflions, and to fen,<tnddo 
 fee lawes executed, and iuftice exercifed, upon rec( j vc a . 
 and towards all men with indiflerency .And bidmet. 
 as for our particular cafe of my Lord of Lcy- 
 cefleTjl doe not fee in right and equity how her 
 ^aiefty may deny this lawfull deiirc and peti- 
 fx ion of her people. For if hcrhighnelfe doe perr 
 mit and command the Lawes dayly to pafl'e up - 
 •on thieves and murderers without exception, 
 and that for one faft onely, as by experience we 
 fee j how then can it be dctiyed in this man. 
 
who in both kinds hath committed nsarecnor- 
 mous a&s, then may be well recounted, 
 Leyceftcrs As m r * ie theft, not onely by fpoyhng 
 Thefts. aQ d opprefling almoft infinite private men : but 
 alfo whole 1 owns,Villages, C orptration^ and 
 Countries, by robbing theRealwie with moidi- 
 nate licences,by deceiving the Crown with rac¬ 
 king,changing and wnb^ieling thu Lands,by a 
 bufing his Prince aid Soveraignc m (tiling Jus 
 favour both at home and a oroad t with taking 
 bribes fop matter of juftice, grace, rcqueft,!up 
 plication,ov wbatfoever fute el fir may depend up¬ 
 on the Court,or of the Princes authority: with 
 fe ting atfale,and making open market of what- 
 fnever her Majefly can give,doe,or procure,b:--it 
 fpintuali or teinp rail, n which lorr of traflick 
 he committ' th more theft oftc ntimcs m one day 
 than all the way-keepers,cut-purfcs, coufcners, 
 pirate,burglares,or other of that art in a whole 
 yeare, within the Realme 
 
 Leyctfttrs And as for the fecond, which is murther,you 
 v.urlktts. ^ave ^card before fotnewhat (aid andpruvedr 
 but yet nothing to that which is thought to have 
 bin infecrct committed upon diveis occaiions 
 at divers times, in fundry perfons, of different 
 calling in both fexes, by tnoft variable means of 
 killing, poyfoning, charming, inchanting,con¬ 
 juring, and the like, according to the diverfity 
 of then, places, opportunities, and inftruments 
 for the tame. By all which meanes, T think he 
 hath more bloud tying upon his head at this d*v s 
 crying vengeance againft him at Gods hands,& v 
 her Majefty, than ever had private man in our 
 Country t efore/were he never fo wicked. * 
 IV hereto rcre, if tee adde b:s other good beha¬ 
 viour , 4 - his IntbUctabk licentioufm Jjfe in til pithy 
 \ivdt 
 
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 kind and manner of carnality , with all fort of a heap of 
 Wives,FriendsAnd 'c^infewomcn : if wee add hit Leycefters 
 iniuries aod difhonours, done hereby to infinite: if enormities 
 we addehis treafons, treacheries,andconfpiracies that would 
 about the Crowne j his difloyall behaviour,and ha - be re,uly at 
 tred againfi her Majefly, his ordinarie lying, and the d.iy of 
 common perjuring himfelfe in all matters for his his triad, 
 gain,both great and fmal j his rapes and moft vio¬ 
 lent extortions upon the poore ; his abufing of the 
 Parliament and other places of qufticc , wtth the 
 Nobility avdwhole Commmalty oefideSitfwc add 
 alfo his open injuries which bee offereth dryly to 
 Religion, and the Minifies thereof , by tithing 
 them, and turning all to his ownegaine j together 
 with his manifeft and known tyranny prafttfed to¬ 
 wards all efiates abroad, throu bout all Shires of 
 the kivgdome j his difpoyting of both the Vniver * 
 fiticSy anddfcouraging of infinite notab\c wits 
 there,from feefing perfection of fnowleagc and 
 learning, ( which o herwife were life to become 
 notable) efpectaUy in (jodsword(vbicb giveth life 
 unto the foule,) by defrauding them of the price' 
 andyewardpropofedfor their travail in that Iftnd, 
 through bis infatiable Simoniacall contracts : if I 
 fay,we fhould lay together all tbefe enormities be¬ 
 fore her Ma'jcfiy, and thoufards more in particu¬ 
 lar,which might and would be gathered, if his dry 
 of bis triall were but in hope to be gran ted.I do not 
 fee in equity and. reafon , bow her Htgbncjf -fn t rg 
 in throne, and at theroy all feme, as fixe doth, 
 
 ^eould deme her Subiefts this mo ft lawfult reqvefl 5 j 
 
 '"confidering, that every one of thfc crimes apart, 
 requiretbjujlce of h s owne nature ; and much 
 *moreall together ourbt to obtain e the fame, at the 
 hands of any good and godly Magi/lrate in the 
 World, 
 
 M 4 No 
 
Scholar. No doubt (quoth I hut that thefeconfidera* 
 H r Ml'a- t ‘ ons mu ^ nee ds weigh much with any fcealou 8 
 iefiies ten- Prince and much more with her moil excellent 
 dcr heart wliafe tender heart towards her Reaim 
 
 Htvirdi 3ft d Subjc&s^is very well kno sn or all me*-. It 
 ihe iea'mc i sn otto be thought alfo but that her HighnelL 
 ' hath intelligence of divers of hefe matte's al- 
 leaged, though not perhaps of all. But what 
 would you have her Majefty to doe?perbap$ the 
 confultationof this affaire, isnor, what were 
 convenient, but what is expedient: not, what 
 ought to bee done in jufttce, bur what may be* 
 done in lafety. You have dtftribed my Lord be¬ 
 fore to be a great man, llrongly furmfhed and 
 fortified for a 1 events.What if it be not fccure to 
 bark at the Bear that is fo wcl britchcd? I fpeak 
 untoy< u,but that which I hearc in Cunbt dgc 
 and other places where I have pafled : where e 
 very mans opinion is, that her yvjijefiy ilandetli 
 nor in free choyfe to doe what her lelfc beft li- 
 keth in that cafe, at this day. 
 
 Gentl. i know faid the Gentleman ) that l.eicefters 
 
 JLeyceibrs friends give it out ever; where that her Mstefiy 
 dtfire that uow 3 is their good Lords prifoner, and that Ihee 
 men Jbouid either will or muff be directed by him for the 
 thrAke her time to come,except ffie will dp worfe ; VVhich 
 Maieftyl thing his Lordflup is well contented lhould bee 
 to jtrndin fpread abroad,and believed (or twocaufcs : the 
 feme of one to hold the people thereby more in awe ut 
 him. himfelf,than of their overaign : and fecondly to 
 
 draw her Majelly indeed by degrees to fear hin^ 
 For confidering with hmafelfe what hee hath ' 
 done : andthat it is imp fliblc in truth that ever 
 her Majefty Ihouldlovc him again, or trull him* 
 inter fomany treacheiies as he well knoweth arc 
 come to her Highnesunderltandjngjhe thinketh 
 that 
 
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 that he hath no way of fure (landing,but by terror 
 and opinion of hispuifl' nc greatnefiej wheiby he 
 would hold her Majedy and the Realme in thral- 
 dome,as his father did in hi* time befo e him. And 
 then,for that he wel remembreth the t;ue faying, 
 
 Oddut cuflot diuturnitatisymeturht mui provide Cicero ii 
 (hortly,that thofe which feare him,benot able to Officio. 
 hurt him: and confequently you know what mud 
 follow, by the example o(K,Edt»ard,who feared 
 Duke "Dudley extreamly for that he had cut off hi* rule of 
 two Vndes heads , and the Duke took order Macbivell 
 that he (hould never live to revenge the fame For obferved6y 
 it is a fetled rule of Macbiavtly which the Dudliet f AeDudlies 
 doe obferve : That.tvheryou haveoxce done a great 
 injury, there muftyou never forgive. 
 
 Buc I will tell you ( my friends) and I will tell Lcyceter 
 you no u :ruth,for that I know what I fpeak here- firong ontly 
 in, and am privie to the (fate of my Lord in this by her Ma~ 
 behalfc, and of mens opinions and affe&ions to- ieftksfa* 
 wards him within the Realme.Mod certaine it is, xo'it. 
 that hee is drong by the prefent favour of the 
 Prince(a$ hath bin (hewed before)inrefpe& wher- 
 of.he is admitted aifo as chief patron of the //»?- 
 .tington fa^ion, though neither ioved, nor greatly 
 trutted of the fame : but let her Majelty once turn 
 her countenance afide from him in good earned, 
 and fpeak but the word only, that iufiicefhall tafie 
 place a^ainfi him ; md I will undcitake with ga¬ 
 ging of both my life and little lands thacGod hath 
 given me,that without dur or t> oublr,or any dan¬ 
 ger in the world, the Beare (hall be taken to her 
 Majedies hand,and fad chained to a dake, with 
 mouzeIl,coid,collar,and Png,and all other things made for 
 necdTary :fo thather Majedy (hal b' : t him at her taking and 
 
 ! »lcafuie, without all danger of bynng, breaking tying the 
 oofe,or any other inconvenience w hatfoever. Heart. 
 
 For 
 
Leicefter 
 
 yub&t bet 
 retervetb 
 fnmhii 
 cmefiors. 
 
 The cm- 
 perifo of 
 Lcyccfter 
 with his 
 jciber. 
 
 F©r (Sirs )y *is mail not think,that tht' man hoi* 
 derh any thing abroad in the Realms but by vio¬ 
 lence , and that onely upon her Majefties favoui 
 and countenance towards him. He hath not eny 
 thing of his owne, either from hi* inccfi m 
 ©f himfelfe, to ftay upon,in mens hearts or con¬ 
 ceits ; he hath not ancient Nobility, as other of 
 ourredm have,whcrby meas attritions are great 
 ly moved. His father John Dudley was the tu ft : 
 noble of his line j who railed and made himfelfe 1 
 big by fupplantingofother, and by fettingdcbarc ; 
 among the Nobilme; as alfo his grandfather Ed- 1 
 mood, a molt wicked Promotersnd wretched IV - 
 tifogger, enriched himfelfe by other mens mines ; 
 both of them condemned Traitors, though diffe¬ 
 rent m quality, the one being a coufener, and the r 
 other a tyrant, and both of their vices car. j-yned, 1 
 collected, and comprifed ( with many mere addi 
 tions) in this man (or bead rather ) which is 
 hert 3 the third of their kin and kind. So that from 
 his anceftors, this Lord receiveth neither honour 
 nor honefty , but onely fucteftion of ti e Ton and 
 infamy. 
 
 And yet in himfelfe hath he much leffe of gf j, 1 
 wherewith to procure himfelfe love or credit 
 mong men, thanthefe anceftors of his bad t he. 
 being a man wholy abandoned of humane venue 
 and devoted to wickednes, which maketh men r - 'J 
 dible both to God and man. In his father (no f 
 doubt)therc were to befeen many excellent good *] 
 parts, if they had been joyned with faith.honefty, 
 moderation and loyalty. For all the world know- » 
 that he was very wife,valiant,magnanimous,libt» * 
 rail,and allured friendly where he once promiled. i] 
 of all which vtrtues my Lord his fon hath nei- ? ; i 
 ther (Slew nor fliadow, but onely a certaine falk 
 repre. 
 
representation of the firif, being craftie and fub- 
 tile to deceive,and ingenious to wickednefle.Foc 
 as for valour,ht hath as much-as hath a moufe.his 
 magnanimity is bafe fordidity : his liberality ra¬ 
 pine : his friendfh p plaine fraud, holding onely 
 for his gaine,and no otherwise , though it were 
 bound with a thouland oathes j of which he ma- 
 keth as great account, as hens doe ofcackhng,but 
 onely for his commodity : ufing them fpecially 
 and m gryateft number, vrhen mod he meaneth 
 to deceive. Namely ,if he l we are folemnly by his 
 George ,or by the cternall God, then be fure it is 
 a falfc lyeifor thefe are obferrations in the Court: 
 and fomerimes in his owne lodging ; in like cafe 
 his manner is to take up and fweare by the Bible, 
 whereby a Gentleman of good account, and oae 
 that feemeth to follow him,(as many do that like 
 him but a litcle)protefted to me of his knowledge, 
 that in a very fhort fpace, bee obferved him wit¬ 
 tingly and willingly to be forfworn (ixteen times. 
 
 This man therefore lo contemptible by his an- fhe weaK 
 ceftors , fo o^ible of himlelfe, fo plunged, over- ne ^ 0 f 1 
 whelmed and defamed in all vice,fo envyed in the Lcyccftcr 
 Court, fo detefted in the Coantry,and not trufted tffa 
 of feus owne and deareft friends $ nay (which I j ( a turns 
 am privie to) fo mifliked and bated of his owne fa ^ 
 fervams about him, for his beaftly life, nigardy, countena.ee. 
 and Aiheifme (being never fecne yet co fay one f r0m 
 private prayer within his chamber in his life ) as ' 
 they defire nothing in this world fomuchashiS 
 ruine, and that they may be the firft, to lay hands 
 upon him for revenge. 1 his man (I fay)fo broken 
 both within & without, is itpofiible that her Ma- 
 jefty end her wife Councell flaould feare ? I can 
 never believe it,or if it be fo^it is Gods permiflion 
 without all eaufc,for punifhment of our fins : for 
 
(i8o) 
 
 that this ana, if he once perceive indeed that they 
 feare him, will handle them accordingly,and play 
 the Beare indeed: which inconvenience I hope 
 they will have care to prevent, and Co I l a ve a to 
 God,and them , craving pardon of tny Lord of 
 Leuefiet for my boIdnes,if I have b:en too plain 
 with him. And Co I pray yeu let us goe to fupper, 
 for I fee my feruant expe&mg yonder at the Gal¬ 
 lery doore to call us downe- 
 
 Lawyer. To that, faid the Lawyer, I am content with d) 
 The end m y heart j and I would it had beene io mer , fur 
 and defat- that I am afraid , left any by chance h <vt 
 tureftom heard ui here fince night. For my uwnc p..rr, I 
 the GaJle- mu ft f a y,that I have not been ai fuch a conference 
 this feven years, nor meane to bee hereafter, if I 
 may efcape well with this j whereof I am Cure I 
 Ihalldreame this fortnight, and thinfce oftner of 
 my Lord of Leice/ler , than ever I hud intended : 
 God amend him and me both. But if ever I he are 
 at other hands of thefe matters hereafter, I fhall 
 furely be quake britch , and thinke every bufl, 
 theefe. And with that, came up the Mu'in-'uf rU 
 houfe to fetch us down to fupper, and fo all vv.is 
 hufht, faving that at fupper a gentleman or two 
 began again to fpeak of my Lord,and thufo con¬ 
 formable to fome of our former fpeech fas indeed 
 it is the common talke at tables every wiiete) that 
 the old Lawyer began to fhrinfc and be appalcd, 
 ^ndtocaft dry looks upon the Gentleman om 
 friend, doubting left fomething h id beendifeove- 
 red of our conference. But indeed it was not fo 
 
 Pa 
 
Pia ct utilis Mcditatio, defumpta 
 cx libro Iobi, Cap, 20. 
 
 TIT Oc fcio aprincipio, ex quo pofitus eft homo fuper 
 ter ram,quod laus impiorum brevis fit, et gaudi- 
 um hypocrite ad inflar punfti. Si a/cenderitufyad 
 scelum fuperbia ejus, et caput ejus vubes tetigerit: 
 quafi fterquilinium in fine perdetur, et qui eum vide- 
 rant Jicent ubi eftlvetut [omnium avoltms non inve- 
 nietarjranfietficut vifono&urna.O cuius qui eum vi- 
 derat,non videbit ,neq-, ultra intuelitur eum lo cut fu¬ 
 ns.Tilii eius atterentur egeflute,& manus illius red- 
 dent et labonmfuum.ojf,* eius implebuntur vitiis a- 
 dolefcentis ejus,(3* cum eo in pulvcre domient. Pa¬ 
 nts eius in utero illius vertetur in ft l afpidum intrin- 
 fecus. Divitias quas devoravit,evomet,et de ventre 
 illius extrehet tas Titus. Caput ajpidum furget, (3* 
 occidet turn lingua viprx. Luet qu* fecit omnia,nec 
 tamen confumttm. luxtanultitudmm adinventio- 
 num fuarum.fic et fuftincbit.Quonid cofringens a»- 
 dabitpauperes: domum rapuit&non tedificavit eam 3 
 nec eft fatiatas venter eius , < 3 * cum habuerit qu<e 
 concupierit pofsidere non potettt. Non remanfitde rf- 
 , ho eius,& propterea non permanebit de bonis eius.Cu 
 /atiatus juetit, arflabttur, <tftuabit,( 3 ‘ omnh dctor 
 trruet fuper eum. Vtinam impieatur venter eius, ut 
 immit tat in (u[’Dcus)h a futoris fui, (3* pluat fuper 
 iflurn helium fuum . tugict arma ferrea.( 3 ‘ trruet in 
 arcum eereum, GiadiuseJuflus (3 1 egrediens de va¬ 
 gina fua,& fulgurant in amarttudine fua • Omnes te~ 
 ' nebr<eabfccndite futitinoccultiseius. Devorabite- 
 urn ignis qui non /ttccendiiur,afftigcturreliilus in ta• 
 'bemaculofuo. J per turn cnt gemin domus illius ,de- 
 traheturin d e furoris dei Htec*ft pars hominisim- 
 pit deOjis 1 h xr edit as verborum ejus * domino . 
 
(»**) 
 
 A Godly and profitable Meditation * 
 taken out of the 20. Chapter of 
 the Booke of Job. 
 
 The wi c- 'T'His I know from the firft, that man w is pi j. 
 k?d maos * ced upon earth, that the praifc ( or applaud) 
 pomp. given to wicked men , endureth but a bale, and 
 the joy of an hypocrite is but for fc M 
 Hit joy. Though his pride were fo great Bf 
 
 Bis pride, heaven, and his head ihould touch the s! v y r t 
 Hu fag. in the end fhall heecome to perdition as a dung- ^ 
 hill, and they who beheld him (m glory before) ^ 
 fhail fay, where is he i he (ball be found as a fly- 
 iag dreamc, and as a phatitafie by p.igfirthail fade 
 away. The eve that beheld him before, ihallao 
 more fee him, not yet (hall his plact (ofhonour) 
 Hu cbil- Cver morc bold hmi.H'S childien (ha! be worn 
 out with beggtiie, and h:s owne h-mds (hall 
 His oU age wmeupon him hisforrov. His (old)bones (ha 1 
 be replemfhed with the vices of his youth . and 
 His head, they fhall deep with him in his grave. His bread 
 in his belly (hal be turned inw ardly into the gaule 
 Bitrefli- of Serpents. The riches which hee hath devouicd 
 tution. he (hall vomit forth againe, and God (h->ll pull 
 them forth of his belly. He (hall fuck the head of 
 , Cocatrices, and the(vcnemous) tongues of adders 
 
 Hispmijb - (ball flay him He (hall fuftame due punifl.menc 
 meat. for all the wickednes that he hath committed,nor 
 
 yet (hall he have end or confummanon thereof. — 
 Hce (hall fuffer according to th^ multitude of all 
 Hit wit - his wicked inventions. For that by violence hee 
 f^edneffc. hath fpoyled the poore,made havock of his houfe, 
 
 and 
 
<i*j) 
 
 and not buildcd the fame. His womb’is never fa- 
 . tisfied,& yet when he hath that which he defined, 
 he (hail not bee able to pofleffe the fame. There 
 remaineth no part of his meat ( fort he poorer,) 
 and therefore there (hall remaine nothing of his 
 goods. When his belly is full then (hall he begin Hugrkfu 
 to be ftraitned.then (hall he fwcat, and all kinde 
 of forrow (hall ruih upon him. I would his belly 
 were once full, that God might fend out upon /ti g* , 
 him the rage of his fury, and raine upon him his 
 war. He (hall flye away from Iron weapons,and 
 1 run upon a bow of braife. A drawnc fword com- 
 f tn;ng out of his skabardlhall fla(h as lightning 
 in his bitternefle. All darkneife lye hidden for H'u dm- 
 him in fecrct: the fire that needeth no kindling nation. 
 fli.ill devoure him, and hee (hall be tormented a- 
 lone in his tabernacle. The otf-fpring of his His poflt* 
 houfe (hall be made open,and pulled down, rity. 
 
 ia theday of Gods fury. This is the 
 portion of a wicked man from 
 God, and this is the inheri¬ 
 tance of his fubftance 
 from the Lord. 
 
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