[“By SainctMary,” sayd[816]one, “ifIackewere as wel learned, as you haue made his oration, what so euer hee was by birth, I warrant him a gentleman by his learning. How notably and philosopher like hath he described fortune, and the causes of worldly cumbraunce? how like[817]a deuine hath hee determined the states both of officers and rebells. For in deede officers[818]be God’s deputies, and it is God’s office which they beare: and it is hee which ordaineth thereto such as himself listeth, good whan he fauoureth the people, and euil when he will punish them. And therefore whosoeuer rebelleth against any ruler, either good or bad, rebelleth against God and shalbee sure of a shamefull ende:[819]for God cannot but mayntaine his deputy. Yet this I note by the way concerning rebels and rebellions. Although the deuill raise them, yet God alwayes vseth them to his glory, as a part of his iustice. For whan kinges and chiefe rulers suffer their vnder officers to misuse their subiectes, and will not heare nor remedy their people’s wronges whan they complaine, then suffereth God the rebell to rage, and to execute that part of his iustice, which the partiall prince would not. For the lordSaye, a very corrupt officer, and one whom notwithstanding the king alwayes mayntayned, was destroyed by thisIacke, as was also the bishop ofSalisbury, (a proude and couetous prelate) by other of the rebells. And therefore whatsoeuer prince desireth to liue quietly without rebellion, must doe his subiectes right in all thinges, and punishe such officers as greeue or oppresse them: thus shall they bee sure from all rebellion. And for the clerer opening hereof it were well done to set forth this lordSaye’stragedy.” “What neede that,” sayd[820]another, “seeing the likeexample is seene in the duke ofSuffolke, whose doings are declared sufficiently already. Nay let[821]vs goe forward, for we haue a great many behind that may not bee omitted, and the time as you see passeth away. As for this lordSaye, whomCadeso cruelly killed and spitefully vsed after his death, (I dare say) shalbe knowen therby what hee was to all that read or heare this story. For God would neuer haue suffered him to haue beene so vsed, except hee had first deserued it. Therefore let him goe and with him the bishop, and all other slaine in that rebellion which was raised as it may be thought through some drift of the duke ofYorke, who shortly after began to endeuour himselfe by all meanes to attayne the crowne, and therefore gathered an army inWalles, and marched towardesLondon:[822]but the king with his power taried and met himat SainctAlbans, where while the king and hee were about a treaty,Richarde Neuileearle ofWarwicke, chiefe of the faction of the house ofYorke, set vpon the kinge’s army, gate the victory, and slueEdmund Beaufordduke ofSomerset. Where also the same day were slaine in the quarell of kingHenrythe sixt,Henry Percythe second[823]of that surname, earle ofNorthumberland,Humfreyeearle ofStafford, sonne and heire toHumfrey Stafford,[824]duke ofBuckingham,IohnlordClifford,Babthorpethe kinge’s attorney and his sonne and heire, besides many moe of the nobility. But[825]because the duke ofSomerset[826]was the chiefe of that part, passing ouer the rest, let vs onely heare him speake for all.”]
[“By SainctMary,” sayd[816]one, “ifIackewere as wel learned, as you haue made his oration, what so euer hee was by birth, I warrant him a gentleman by his learning. How notably and philosopher like hath he described fortune, and the causes of worldly cumbraunce? how like[817]a deuine hath hee determined the states both of officers and rebells. For in deede officers[818]be God’s deputies, and it is God’s office which they beare: and it is hee which ordaineth thereto such as himself listeth, good whan he fauoureth the people, and euil when he will punish them. And therefore whosoeuer rebelleth against any ruler, either good or bad, rebelleth against God and shalbee sure of a shamefull ende:[819]for God cannot but mayntaine his deputy. Yet this I note by the way concerning rebels and rebellions. Although the deuill raise them, yet God alwayes vseth them to his glory, as a part of his iustice. For whan kinges and chiefe rulers suffer their vnder officers to misuse their subiectes, and will not heare nor remedy their people’s wronges whan they complaine, then suffereth God the rebell to rage, and to execute that part of his iustice, which the partiall prince would not. For the lordSaye, a very corrupt officer, and one whom notwithstanding the king alwayes mayntayned, was destroyed by thisIacke, as was also the bishop ofSalisbury, (a proude and couetous prelate) by other of the rebells. And therefore whatsoeuer prince desireth to liue quietly without rebellion, must doe his subiectes right in all thinges, and punishe such officers as greeue or oppresse them: thus shall they bee sure from all rebellion. And for the clerer opening hereof it were well done to set forth this lordSaye’stragedy.” “What neede that,” sayd[820]another, “seeing the likeexample is seene in the duke ofSuffolke, whose doings are declared sufficiently already. Nay let[821]vs goe forward, for we haue a great many behind that may not bee omitted, and the time as you see passeth away. As for this lordSaye, whomCadeso cruelly killed and spitefully vsed after his death, (I dare say) shalbe knowen therby what hee was to all that read or heare this story. For God would neuer haue suffered him to haue beene so vsed, except hee had first deserued it. Therefore let him goe and with him the bishop, and all other slaine in that rebellion which was raised as it may be thought through some drift of the duke ofYorke, who shortly after began to endeuour himselfe by all meanes to attayne the crowne, and therefore gathered an army inWalles, and marched towardesLondon:[822]but the king with his power taried and met himat SainctAlbans, where while the king and hee were about a treaty,Richarde Neuileearle ofWarwicke, chiefe of the faction of the house ofYorke, set vpon the kinge’s army, gate the victory, and slueEdmund Beaufordduke ofSomerset. Where also the same day were slaine in the quarell of kingHenrythe sixt,Henry Percythe second[823]of that surname, earle ofNorthumberland,Humfreyeearle ofStafford, sonne and heire toHumfrey Stafford,[824]duke ofBuckingham,IohnlordClifford,Babthorpethe kinge’s attorney and his sonne and heire, besides many moe of the nobility. But[825]because the duke ofSomerset[826]was the chiefe of that part, passing ouer the rest, let vs onely heare him speake for all.”]