Chapter 84

[630]With earles, with lordes. N.[631]To driue the treacherous dolphin out of France. N.[632]T’Aniow. N.[633]Flee. 1563.[634]As might or help. N.[635]The boldest Frenchmen. N.[636]‘Will’ in all the editions except that of 1587.[637]Being fortie thousand well arm’d in field,Fiue hundred men enforced them to yeeld. N.[638]Did assault them. 1559. Fresh assaulted. N.[639]Soone. N.[640]Where in good hope to. N.[641]Forth. N.[642]Forward. 1559, 63, 71, 78.[643]But would hope sure. 1559.[644]It so chaunced that the lix. daie after the siege laied before the cytie, therle of Salisbury, sir Thomas Gargraue, and Wyllyam Glasdale, and diuerse other, went into the said toure and so into the highe chambre, and loked out at the grate, and within a shorte space, the sonne of the maister gonner, perceiued men loking out at the wyndowe, tooke his matche, as his father had taughte hym whiche was gone doune to dinner, and fired the gonne, whiche brake and sheuered the yron barres of the grate, wherof one strake therle so strongly on the hed, that it stroke away one of his iyes and the side of hys cheke. Sir Thomas Gargraue was lykewyse striken, so that he died within two daies. Therle was conueyed to Meum vpon Loyre, where he laie beyng wounded viii. dayes, duryng whiche tyme he receiued deuoutly the holy sacramentes, and so commended his soule to almighty God, whose body was conueyed into Englande with all funerall and pompe, and buried at Bissam, by his progenitors.Hall.[645]Of glory. 1559, 63, 71, 75. The most vncertaine glorie. N.[646]Sure be, misprint. 1587. Then mortall fooles. N.[647]W. Baldwine. N.[648]Quoth. 1559, 63.[649]Nor the last. 1559, 63, 71, 75.[650]The heire (sir Stephen de Veignolles) perceiuynge the hartes, corage, and defence of the Englishe people, caused thre culuerynes to be shot emongest theim, whereof one strake the erle (of Arundel) on the ancle, and so brake hys legge that for pain he fell from hys horsse, then the Frenche men entered emongest the Englishe army, and tooke the erle beyng on the grounde, prisoner.... The erle was caried to Beauoys, where of this hurte he shortly died, and was buried in the frier’s minors. He was a man of a singuler vertue, constancie and grauitie, whose death in so troubelous a worlde, did sore appall the hartes of his nacion.Hall.[651]Anno 1437, added. 1571.[652]Write. 1559, 63, 71.[653]For fault of foode. 1559, 63, 71, 75, 78.[654]A trusted brother ’stroy hys brother’s blood. 1559, 63. Trusted brother distroy. 1571.[655]Hys deth. 1559, 63.[656]To auoyd. 1559, 63, 71, 75, 78.[657]Me prysoner. 1559, 63, 71.[658]An, misprint. 1587.[659]This young prince and Henry Percie, sonne to the lorde Percie slaine before at Shrewesbury, by rigor of tempest were driuen on the cost of Holdeines, called Flamborough hed, the xxx daie of Marche, where the yonge prince for to refreshe hymselfe toke lande. He wrought not so preuely, but he was knowen and taken with all his company, and conueighed to the kyng beynge at Winsore.Hall.[660]I were. 1559, 63, 71.[661]Before that tyme the people of Scotland were rude, rusticall, without any vrbanitie, hauyng litle lernyng, and lesse good maners, and good qualities least of all. This prince beeyngXVIII.yeres prisoner within this realme, was so instructed and taught by hys schoolmaster, and pedagoges apointed to hym by the onely clemencie of the kynge, that he not onely florished in good learnynge and freshe litterature (as the tyme then serued) but also excelled in all poynctes of marciall feates, musicall instrumentes, poeticall artes and liberall sciences. In so muche that at hys returne from captiuitee, he furnished hys realme bothe with good learnynge and cyuill policye, whiche before was barbarous, seuage, rude, and without all good nurtur.Hall.[662]The protector of the realme of Englande, by the consent of the whole baronage of the same gaue to him in maryage the lady Jane doughter to Jhon earle of Sommerset, desceased, not onely syster to Iohn then duke of Sommerset, but also cosyn germayne remoued to the kynge and nece to the cardynall of Winchester and the duke of Exceter.Hall.[663]The heyre. 1559, 63, 71, 75, 78.[664]Mardo, in ed. 1587; all the others support the above correction.[665]Neither regarding his othe, nor estemynge the great abundaunce of plate and riche clothes of Arras, to hym by the mother and vncles of his wife liberally geuen and frendly deliuered, (of whiche sorte of riches fewe or none before that daie wer euer seen in the countrey of Scotlande) like a dogge whiche hath cast vp his stomacke and retourneth to his vomet, or like a snake whiche after his engenderyng with a lampray taketh again his old poyson, after he had once taken the ayre and smelled the sent of the Scottishe soyle became like his false fraudulent forefathers, an vntrue prince, &c.Hall.[666]The. 1559, 63.[667]He (Walter Steward, erle of Atholl) perswaded Robert Steward, hys nephew, and Robert Grame, hys cosyn, and dyuerse other, to murther and sleye the kynge theyre souereigne lorde, whiche therto by diuelyshe instigacyon incenced and procured, came to the toune of Pertho (commonly called S. Ihon’s towne) and there entered into the kinge’s priuy chambre, and slewe first diuerse of hys seruauntes, whiche made resistance and after kylled the kyng with many mortall strokes, and hurt the quene, whiche, in defence of her husband, felled one of the traytors.Hall.[668]Or. 1559, 63, 71, 78.[669]Such as. 1559.[670]Without signature in every edition, and therefore attributed to Baldwin.[671]The legends of dame Elinour Cobham, and of Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, were only first printed 1578. That they were written, and probably printed, in 1559, (if not for the edition in folio,) appears certain as well by the table of contents, where they are enumerated, as by the interlocutory connection being nearly the same with the above, and which in the succeeding editions of 1563, 1571, and 1575, is varied according to the notes upon the prefixture of the legend of the duke of Suffolk, given p. 146.[672]Quod. 1559.[673](Q. M. Fer.) and as. 1559.[674]Haue here ready penned ii. 1559.[675]The. 1559.[676]Is fyrst to be placed in. 1559.[677]Was cause of ouerthrow to both. 1559.[678]Blith. N.[679]Form. N.[680]Dames. N.[681]For to diuine. N.[682]There was taken also Margerie Gurdemaine, a witch of Eye, besides Westminster, whose sorcerie and witchcraft the said Elianor had long time vsed, and by hir medicines and drinkes enforced the duke of Glocester to loue hir, and after to wed hir.Stowe.[683]Furies and feends her. N.[684]Corps. N.[685]Roger Bolinbrooke, a great astronomer, with Thomas Southwell, a chanon of S. Stephen’s chappell at Westminster, were taken as conspiratours of the king’s death, for it was said that the same Roger should labour to consume the king’s by waie of negromancie, and the said Thomas should say masses in the lodge of Harnesey parke, beside London, vpon certaine instruments, with the which the said Roger should vse his crafte of negromancie, against the faith, and was assenting to the said Roger in all his workes. And the fiue and twentith day of Julie, being Sondaie, Roger Bolingbroke, with all his instruments of negromancie, that is to say, a chayre painted wherein he was woont to sit; vppon the foure corners of which chayre stoode foure swordes, and vpon euery sworde an image of copper hanging, with many other instrumentes: he stoode on a high scaffolde in Paule’s churchyarde, before the crosse, holding a sword in his right hand, and a scepter in his left, arrayed in a maruellous attire, and after the sermon was ended by master Low, bishop of Rochester, he abiured all articles longing to the crafte of negromancie, or missowning to the faith.Stowe.[686]The king’s true constellation. N.[687]Deepest. N.[688]Nerethelesse. N.[689]This yere (1442-3) dame Elyanour Cobham, wyfe to the sayd duke, was accused of treason, for that she, by sorcery and enchaunment, entended to destroy the kyng to thentent to aduaunce and promote her husbande to the croune: vpon thys she was examined in sainct Stephen’s chapell, before the bishop of Canterbury, and there by examinacion conuict and iudged to do open penaunce, in iii. open places, within the cytie of London, and after that adiudged to perpetuall prisone, in the Isle of Man, vnder the kepyng of Sir Ihon Stanley, knyght. At the same season wer arrested as ayders and counsailers to the said duchesse, Thomas Southwell, prieste and chanon of saincte Stephens in Westmynster, Ihon Hum, prieste, Roger Bolyngbroke, a conyng nycromancier, and Margerie Jourdayne, surnamed the witche of Eye, to whose charge it was laied, that thei, at the request of the duchesse had deuised an image of waxe, representyng the kyng whiche by their sorcery, a litle and litle consumed, entending therby in conclusion to waist, and destroy the kynge’s person, and so to bryng him to deathe, for the whiche treison, thei wer adiudged to dye, and so Margery Jordayne was brent in Smithfelde, and Roger Bolyngbroke was drawen and quartered at Tiborne, takyng vpon his deathe that there was neuer no suche thyng by theim ymagined, Jhon Hum had his pardon, and Southwell died in the toure before execution: the duke of Gloucester toke all these thynges paciently, and saied litle.Hall.[690]The 9 of Nouember dame Elianor appeered before the archbishop and other in the sayde chappell (of S. Stephen’s), and receiued her penance which she performed. On Monday the 13 of Nouember, she came from Westminster, by water, and landed at the Temple bridge, from whence with a taper of waxe of two pound in hir hande, she went through Fletestreete, hoodlesse (saue a kerchefe) to Paul’s, where she offered hir taper at the high altar. On the Wednesday next shee landed at the swan in Thamis streete, and then went through Bridgestreete, Gracechurchstreete, straight to Leaden Hall, and so to Christ church by Aldegate. On fryday she landed at Queene hiue, and so went through Cheape to S. Michael’s in Cornehill, in forme aforesaid: at all which times the maior, sherifes, and crafts of London, receiued her and accompanied hir. This being done she was committed to the ward of Sir Thomas Stanley, wherein she remained during hir life in the castle of Chester, hauing yeerely 100 markes assigned for hir finding, in the 22 of Henry the sixt she was remooued to Kenilwoorth, there to be safely kept, whose pride, false couetise, and lecherie, were cause of hir confusion.Stowe.[691]A ballad, that has been modernized, entitled “the lamentable fall of the dutchess of Gloucester, wife to good duke Humphry, with the manner of her doing penance in London streets, and of her exile in the Isle of Man, where she ended her days,” may be found in Evans’sOld Ballads, historical and narrative, ed. 1784, Vol. I. p. 317.[692]The house. 1578.[693]I shall see you. 1578.[694]Good peace. 1578.[695]G. Ferrers. The peculiarity of the above signature in the addition ofquodis noticeable, though, probably, it originated with the printer.[696]Knyt vp the ende of her. 1578.[697]Behold me Humfrey hight by name. N.[698]Who in the sixt king Henrie’s rule, with fameTwice ten yeares kept the troubled state in frame;Note well the cause of my vnhappie case,And ’mongst thy mirrours let the same haue place. N.[699]Weale, let men beware mishap. N.[700]With blind securitie. N.[701]To trust their state. N.[702]Most smiles to haue in memorie. N.[703]Who in most certaintie. N.[704]Men. N.[705]Same approue. N.[706]To bite on fawning flatterie’s bait did loue. N.[707]Had I to high degree,And yet in fine they all beguiled mee. N.[708]Of Henry fourth by name. N.[709]Henry fift of that same name. N.[710]To the sixt Henrie vncle. N.[711]To build vpon. N.[712]To aduance my. N.[713]When the fift Henry by his valiancie. N.[714]T’haue. N.[715]Which all states do spill. N.[716]From a feend. N.[717]Do verefy. 1578.[718]For euermore. N.[719]Histories. N.[720]Neretheless. N.[721]Bitter. N.[722]In this season (i of Hen. VI.) Homfrey duke of Gloucester, either blynded with ambicion or dotyng for loue, maried the lady Jaquet or Jacomin doughter and sole heire to William of Bauier duke of Holland, whiche was lawfull wife to Ihon duke of Brabant then liuyng. Which mariage was not onely woundered at of the common people but also detested of the nobilitie, and abhorred of the clergie. But suerly the swete tast, of this plasant mariage, brought after a sower sauce, bothe to the amorous housbande and to the wanton wife.Hall.[723]Feends. N.[724]So in editions 1578, 87, and Niccols, but appears a misprint for convicted.[725]With. N.[726]Was. N.[727]Could wake. N.[728]Of my false foes. N.[729]A parliament was somoned to be kept at Bery, whether resorted all the peres of the realme, and emongest them the duke of Gloucester, whiche on the second daie of the session was by the lord Beamonde, then highe constable of Englande, accompanied with the duke of Buckyngham, and other, arrested, apprehended, and put in warde, and all his seruauntes sequestred from hym, and xxxii. of the chiefe of his retinue, were sente to diuerse prisons, to the greate admiracion of the common people. The duke the night after hys emprisonement, was found dedde in his bed, and his body shewed to the lordes and commons, as thoughe he had died of a palsey or empostome: but all indifferent persons well knewe that he died of no natural death, but of some violent force.Hall.[730]The vnsure. 1578.[731]They lyue in. 1578.[732]G. Ferrers. N.[733]Both the realmes. 1578.[734]Were the chiefe workers. 1578.[735]Whan thys was sayd: “Let kyng Jamy go,” quod mayster Ferrers, “and retourn we to our owne story, and se what broyles wer among the nobylyty in the kynge’s mynorytye. How that cardinall Bewford malygneth the estate of good duke Humfrey the kynge’s vncle and protector of the realme, and by what driftes he first banisheth his wife from him. And lastly howe the good duke is murderously made away through conspiracy of queene Margaret and other: both whose tragedyes I entend at leysure to declare, for they be notable.” “Do so, I pray you,” quod another, “but take hede ye demurre not vpon them. And I to be occupyed the meane tyme, wyll shew what I haue noted in the duke of Suffolke’s doynges, one of the chefest of duke Humfrey’s destroyers, who, &c.” 1563, 71. See p. 111, note 1.[736]Notable death, which he may lament after thys maner. 1559, 63.[737]And sayling. 1571, 75.[738]Lord, omitted. 1578.[739]And procuringe the death of Duke Humfrey of Glocester, protector of England. 1578.[740]Anno 1450. added 1571. Anno Dom. N.[741]Banysht, headed so, and drowned. 1559, 63.[742]Wherfore good Baldwin. 1578.[743]And therfore, Baldwyn, fro thy grave of gryefeReiect me not, of wretched prynces chief. 1559, 63.[744]Or. 1559, 63.[745]Good hap wyth vyces cannot long agree. 1559, 63.[746]I am the prynce duke Wyllyam. 1559, 63.[747]That was so famous in. 1559, 63.[748]Whose vertuous paynes. 1559, 63.[749]The. 1559.[750]Luckly. N.[751]Though Burgoyne duke had then the praise of all. N.[752]Ere. N.[753]Of. 1578.[754]Help need to sue. N.[755]And a princely. N.[756]Heire. N.[757]And of. 1578.[758]Hated it. N.[759]Gaine. N.[760]Whom. 1559, 63, 71, 78.[761]Should. 1578.[762]Deeds. N.[763]To have. 1559, 63, 71, 75, 78.[764]The queene, whiche entierly loued the duke, fearynge that some commocion and trouble might ryse, if he were let goo vnpuneshed, caused hym to be committed to the towre, where he was kepte with as muche pleasure as he that was at large, and oute of all captiuitie. But after that a monethe was expyred, she ymagenynge the people to bee pacifyed with this open emprysonment, caused hym both to be deliuered, and also to be restored to the kynge’s fauour and grace, as muche as euer he was before that tyme. But this doynge incensed the furye of the mutable commons, muche more then before: openly demounsynge and saiyng, that it was a shame to all the realme, to se such a persone, infected with so many mysdedes, either to rule about a prince or be had in honor. Of these wordes sprang dedes, and of this talkyng rose displeasure, whiche had growen to greate mischiefe, if politique prouision had not, with all celeritye, resisted the first fury: for the commons in sundry places of the realme assembled together, gathered great companies, and elected a capytayn, whom they called blew berde: but or they had attempted any enterprise, their headdes were apprehended and so the members sodainly were dispersed, without any hurte committed, or perpetrated.Hall.[765]To adiourne. 1559, 63, 71, 75, 78.[766]As I was saylyng toward the coast of Fraunce,The earle of Deuonshyre’s barke, of lytle pryce. 1559, 63.[767]Whose captayne toke me by hys valyaunce. 1559, 63.[768]But led me with hym into. 1559, 63.[769]Where whan he had recounted me my. 1559, 63.[770]In causyng. 1559, 63.[771]On the edge wherof my. 1559, 63.

[630]With earles, with lordes. N.

[631]To driue the treacherous dolphin out of France. N.

[632]T’Aniow. N.

[633]Flee. 1563.

[634]As might or help. N.

[635]The boldest Frenchmen. N.

[636]‘Will’ in all the editions except that of 1587.

[637]Being fortie thousand well arm’d in field,Fiue hundred men enforced them to yeeld. N.

[637]

Being fortie thousand well arm’d in field,Fiue hundred men enforced them to yeeld. N.

Being fortie thousand well arm’d in field,

Fiue hundred men enforced them to yeeld. N.

[638]Did assault them. 1559. Fresh assaulted. N.

[639]Soone. N.

[640]Where in good hope to. N.

[641]Forth. N.

[642]Forward. 1559, 63, 71, 78.

[643]But would hope sure. 1559.

[644]It so chaunced that the lix. daie after the siege laied before the cytie, therle of Salisbury, sir Thomas Gargraue, and Wyllyam Glasdale, and diuerse other, went into the said toure and so into the highe chambre, and loked out at the grate, and within a shorte space, the sonne of the maister gonner, perceiued men loking out at the wyndowe, tooke his matche, as his father had taughte hym whiche was gone doune to dinner, and fired the gonne, whiche brake and sheuered the yron barres of the grate, wherof one strake therle so strongly on the hed, that it stroke away one of his iyes and the side of hys cheke. Sir Thomas Gargraue was lykewyse striken, so that he died within two daies. Therle was conueyed to Meum vpon Loyre, where he laie beyng wounded viii. dayes, duryng whiche tyme he receiued deuoutly the holy sacramentes, and so commended his soule to almighty God, whose body was conueyed into Englande with all funerall and pompe, and buried at Bissam, by his progenitors.Hall.

[645]Of glory. 1559, 63, 71, 75. The most vncertaine glorie. N.

[646]Sure be, misprint. 1587. Then mortall fooles. N.

[647]W. Baldwine. N.

[648]Quoth. 1559, 63.

[649]Nor the last. 1559, 63, 71, 75.

[650]The heire (sir Stephen de Veignolles) perceiuynge the hartes, corage, and defence of the Englishe people, caused thre culuerynes to be shot emongest theim, whereof one strake the erle (of Arundel) on the ancle, and so brake hys legge that for pain he fell from hys horsse, then the Frenche men entered emongest the Englishe army, and tooke the erle beyng on the grounde, prisoner.... The erle was caried to Beauoys, where of this hurte he shortly died, and was buried in the frier’s minors. He was a man of a singuler vertue, constancie and grauitie, whose death in so troubelous a worlde, did sore appall the hartes of his nacion.Hall.

[651]Anno 1437, added. 1571.

[652]Write. 1559, 63, 71.

[653]For fault of foode. 1559, 63, 71, 75, 78.

[654]A trusted brother ’stroy hys brother’s blood. 1559, 63. Trusted brother distroy. 1571.

[655]Hys deth. 1559, 63.

[656]To auoyd. 1559, 63, 71, 75, 78.

[657]Me prysoner. 1559, 63, 71.

[658]An, misprint. 1587.

[659]This young prince and Henry Percie, sonne to the lorde Percie slaine before at Shrewesbury, by rigor of tempest were driuen on the cost of Holdeines, called Flamborough hed, the xxx daie of Marche, where the yonge prince for to refreshe hymselfe toke lande. He wrought not so preuely, but he was knowen and taken with all his company, and conueighed to the kyng beynge at Winsore.Hall.

[660]I were. 1559, 63, 71.

[661]Before that tyme the people of Scotland were rude, rusticall, without any vrbanitie, hauyng litle lernyng, and lesse good maners, and good qualities least of all. This prince beeyngXVIII.yeres prisoner within this realme, was so instructed and taught by hys schoolmaster, and pedagoges apointed to hym by the onely clemencie of the kynge, that he not onely florished in good learnynge and freshe litterature (as the tyme then serued) but also excelled in all poynctes of marciall feates, musicall instrumentes, poeticall artes and liberall sciences. In so muche that at hys returne from captiuitee, he furnished hys realme bothe with good learnynge and cyuill policye, whiche before was barbarous, seuage, rude, and without all good nurtur.Hall.

[662]The protector of the realme of Englande, by the consent of the whole baronage of the same gaue to him in maryage the lady Jane doughter to Jhon earle of Sommerset, desceased, not onely syster to Iohn then duke of Sommerset, but also cosyn germayne remoued to the kynge and nece to the cardynall of Winchester and the duke of Exceter.Hall.

[663]The heyre. 1559, 63, 71, 75, 78.

[664]Mardo, in ed. 1587; all the others support the above correction.

[665]Neither regarding his othe, nor estemynge the great abundaunce of plate and riche clothes of Arras, to hym by the mother and vncles of his wife liberally geuen and frendly deliuered, (of whiche sorte of riches fewe or none before that daie wer euer seen in the countrey of Scotlande) like a dogge whiche hath cast vp his stomacke and retourneth to his vomet, or like a snake whiche after his engenderyng with a lampray taketh again his old poyson, after he had once taken the ayre and smelled the sent of the Scottishe soyle became like his false fraudulent forefathers, an vntrue prince, &c.Hall.

[666]The. 1559, 63.

[667]He (Walter Steward, erle of Atholl) perswaded Robert Steward, hys nephew, and Robert Grame, hys cosyn, and dyuerse other, to murther and sleye the kynge theyre souereigne lorde, whiche therto by diuelyshe instigacyon incenced and procured, came to the toune of Pertho (commonly called S. Ihon’s towne) and there entered into the kinge’s priuy chambre, and slewe first diuerse of hys seruauntes, whiche made resistance and after kylled the kyng with many mortall strokes, and hurt the quene, whiche, in defence of her husband, felled one of the traytors.Hall.

[668]Or. 1559, 63, 71, 78.

[669]Such as. 1559.

[670]Without signature in every edition, and therefore attributed to Baldwin.

[671]The legends of dame Elinour Cobham, and of Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, were only first printed 1578. That they were written, and probably printed, in 1559, (if not for the edition in folio,) appears certain as well by the table of contents, where they are enumerated, as by the interlocutory connection being nearly the same with the above, and which in the succeeding editions of 1563, 1571, and 1575, is varied according to the notes upon the prefixture of the legend of the duke of Suffolk, given p. 146.

[672]Quod. 1559.

[673](Q. M. Fer.) and as. 1559.

[674]Haue here ready penned ii. 1559.

[675]The. 1559.

[676]Is fyrst to be placed in. 1559.

[677]Was cause of ouerthrow to both. 1559.

[678]Blith. N.

[679]Form. N.

[680]Dames. N.

[681]For to diuine. N.

[682]There was taken also Margerie Gurdemaine, a witch of Eye, besides Westminster, whose sorcerie and witchcraft the said Elianor had long time vsed, and by hir medicines and drinkes enforced the duke of Glocester to loue hir, and after to wed hir.Stowe.

[683]Furies and feends her. N.

[684]Corps. N.

[685]Roger Bolinbrooke, a great astronomer, with Thomas Southwell, a chanon of S. Stephen’s chappell at Westminster, were taken as conspiratours of the king’s death, for it was said that the same Roger should labour to consume the king’s by waie of negromancie, and the said Thomas should say masses in the lodge of Harnesey parke, beside London, vpon certaine instruments, with the which the said Roger should vse his crafte of negromancie, against the faith, and was assenting to the said Roger in all his workes. And the fiue and twentith day of Julie, being Sondaie, Roger Bolingbroke, with all his instruments of negromancie, that is to say, a chayre painted wherein he was woont to sit; vppon the foure corners of which chayre stoode foure swordes, and vpon euery sworde an image of copper hanging, with many other instrumentes: he stoode on a high scaffolde in Paule’s churchyarde, before the crosse, holding a sword in his right hand, and a scepter in his left, arrayed in a maruellous attire, and after the sermon was ended by master Low, bishop of Rochester, he abiured all articles longing to the crafte of negromancie, or missowning to the faith.Stowe.

[686]The king’s true constellation. N.

[687]Deepest. N.

[688]Nerethelesse. N.

[689]This yere (1442-3) dame Elyanour Cobham, wyfe to the sayd duke, was accused of treason, for that she, by sorcery and enchaunment, entended to destroy the kyng to thentent to aduaunce and promote her husbande to the croune: vpon thys she was examined in sainct Stephen’s chapell, before the bishop of Canterbury, and there by examinacion conuict and iudged to do open penaunce, in iii. open places, within the cytie of London, and after that adiudged to perpetuall prisone, in the Isle of Man, vnder the kepyng of Sir Ihon Stanley, knyght. At the same season wer arrested as ayders and counsailers to the said duchesse, Thomas Southwell, prieste and chanon of saincte Stephens in Westmynster, Ihon Hum, prieste, Roger Bolyngbroke, a conyng nycromancier, and Margerie Jourdayne, surnamed the witche of Eye, to whose charge it was laied, that thei, at the request of the duchesse had deuised an image of waxe, representyng the kyng whiche by their sorcery, a litle and litle consumed, entending therby in conclusion to waist, and destroy the kynge’s person, and so to bryng him to deathe, for the whiche treison, thei wer adiudged to dye, and so Margery Jordayne was brent in Smithfelde, and Roger Bolyngbroke was drawen and quartered at Tiborne, takyng vpon his deathe that there was neuer no suche thyng by theim ymagined, Jhon Hum had his pardon, and Southwell died in the toure before execution: the duke of Gloucester toke all these thynges paciently, and saied litle.Hall.

[690]The 9 of Nouember dame Elianor appeered before the archbishop and other in the sayde chappell (of S. Stephen’s), and receiued her penance which she performed. On Monday the 13 of Nouember, she came from Westminster, by water, and landed at the Temple bridge, from whence with a taper of waxe of two pound in hir hande, she went through Fletestreete, hoodlesse (saue a kerchefe) to Paul’s, where she offered hir taper at the high altar. On the Wednesday next shee landed at the swan in Thamis streete, and then went through Bridgestreete, Gracechurchstreete, straight to Leaden Hall, and so to Christ church by Aldegate. On fryday she landed at Queene hiue, and so went through Cheape to S. Michael’s in Cornehill, in forme aforesaid: at all which times the maior, sherifes, and crafts of London, receiued her and accompanied hir. This being done she was committed to the ward of Sir Thomas Stanley, wherein she remained during hir life in the castle of Chester, hauing yeerely 100 markes assigned for hir finding, in the 22 of Henry the sixt she was remooued to Kenilwoorth, there to be safely kept, whose pride, false couetise, and lecherie, were cause of hir confusion.Stowe.

[691]A ballad, that has been modernized, entitled “the lamentable fall of the dutchess of Gloucester, wife to good duke Humphry, with the manner of her doing penance in London streets, and of her exile in the Isle of Man, where she ended her days,” may be found in Evans’sOld Ballads, historical and narrative, ed. 1784, Vol. I. p. 317.

[692]The house. 1578.

[693]I shall see you. 1578.

[694]Good peace. 1578.

[695]G. Ferrers. The peculiarity of the above signature in the addition ofquodis noticeable, though, probably, it originated with the printer.

[696]Knyt vp the ende of her. 1578.

[697]Behold me Humfrey hight by name. N.

[698]Who in the sixt king Henrie’s rule, with fameTwice ten yeares kept the troubled state in frame;Note well the cause of my vnhappie case,And ’mongst thy mirrours let the same haue place. N.

[698]

Who in the sixt king Henrie’s rule, with fameTwice ten yeares kept the troubled state in frame;Note well the cause of my vnhappie case,And ’mongst thy mirrours let the same haue place. N.

Who in the sixt king Henrie’s rule, with fame

Twice ten yeares kept the troubled state in frame;

Note well the cause of my vnhappie case,

And ’mongst thy mirrours let the same haue place. N.

[699]Weale, let men beware mishap. N.

[700]With blind securitie. N.

[701]To trust their state. N.

[702]Most smiles to haue in memorie. N.

[703]Who in most certaintie. N.

[704]Men. N.

[705]Same approue. N.

[706]To bite on fawning flatterie’s bait did loue. N.

[707]Had I to high degree,And yet in fine they all beguiled mee. N.

[707]

Had I to high degree,And yet in fine they all beguiled mee. N.

Had I to high degree,

And yet in fine they all beguiled mee. N.

[708]Of Henry fourth by name. N.

[709]Henry fift of that same name. N.

[710]To the sixt Henrie vncle. N.

[711]To build vpon. N.

[712]To aduance my. N.

[713]When the fift Henry by his valiancie. N.

[714]T’haue. N.

[715]Which all states do spill. N.

[716]From a feend. N.

[717]Do verefy. 1578.

[718]For euermore. N.

[719]Histories. N.

[720]Neretheless. N.

[721]Bitter. N.

[722]In this season (i of Hen. VI.) Homfrey duke of Gloucester, either blynded with ambicion or dotyng for loue, maried the lady Jaquet or Jacomin doughter and sole heire to William of Bauier duke of Holland, whiche was lawfull wife to Ihon duke of Brabant then liuyng. Which mariage was not onely woundered at of the common people but also detested of the nobilitie, and abhorred of the clergie. But suerly the swete tast, of this plasant mariage, brought after a sower sauce, bothe to the amorous housbande and to the wanton wife.Hall.

[723]Feends. N.

[724]So in editions 1578, 87, and Niccols, but appears a misprint for convicted.

[725]With. N.

[726]Was. N.

[727]Could wake. N.

[728]Of my false foes. N.

[729]A parliament was somoned to be kept at Bery, whether resorted all the peres of the realme, and emongest them the duke of Gloucester, whiche on the second daie of the session was by the lord Beamonde, then highe constable of Englande, accompanied with the duke of Buckyngham, and other, arrested, apprehended, and put in warde, and all his seruauntes sequestred from hym, and xxxii. of the chiefe of his retinue, were sente to diuerse prisons, to the greate admiracion of the common people. The duke the night after hys emprisonement, was found dedde in his bed, and his body shewed to the lordes and commons, as thoughe he had died of a palsey or empostome: but all indifferent persons well knewe that he died of no natural death, but of some violent force.Hall.

[730]The vnsure. 1578.

[731]They lyue in. 1578.

[732]G. Ferrers. N.

[733]Both the realmes. 1578.

[734]Were the chiefe workers. 1578.

[735]Whan thys was sayd: “Let kyng Jamy go,” quod mayster Ferrers, “and retourn we to our owne story, and se what broyles wer among the nobylyty in the kynge’s mynorytye. How that cardinall Bewford malygneth the estate of good duke Humfrey the kynge’s vncle and protector of the realme, and by what driftes he first banisheth his wife from him. And lastly howe the good duke is murderously made away through conspiracy of queene Margaret and other: both whose tragedyes I entend at leysure to declare, for they be notable.” “Do so, I pray you,” quod another, “but take hede ye demurre not vpon them. And I to be occupyed the meane tyme, wyll shew what I haue noted in the duke of Suffolke’s doynges, one of the chefest of duke Humfrey’s destroyers, who, &c.” 1563, 71. See p. 111, note 1.

[736]Notable death, which he may lament after thys maner. 1559, 63.

[737]And sayling. 1571, 75.

[738]Lord, omitted. 1578.

[739]And procuringe the death of Duke Humfrey of Glocester, protector of England. 1578.

[740]Anno 1450. added 1571. Anno Dom. N.

[741]Banysht, headed so, and drowned. 1559, 63.

[742]Wherfore good Baldwin. 1578.

[743]And therfore, Baldwyn, fro thy grave of gryefeReiect me not, of wretched prynces chief. 1559, 63.

[743]

And therfore, Baldwyn, fro thy grave of gryefeReiect me not, of wretched prynces chief. 1559, 63.

And therfore, Baldwyn, fro thy grave of gryefe

Reiect me not, of wretched prynces chief. 1559, 63.

[744]Or. 1559, 63.

[745]Good hap wyth vyces cannot long agree. 1559, 63.

[746]I am the prynce duke Wyllyam. 1559, 63.

[747]That was so famous in. 1559, 63.

[748]Whose vertuous paynes. 1559, 63.

[749]The. 1559.

[750]Luckly. N.

[751]Though Burgoyne duke had then the praise of all. N.

[752]Ere. N.

[753]Of. 1578.

[754]Help need to sue. N.

[755]And a princely. N.

[756]Heire. N.

[757]And of. 1578.

[758]Hated it. N.

[759]Gaine. N.

[760]Whom. 1559, 63, 71, 78.

[761]Should. 1578.

[762]Deeds. N.

[763]To have. 1559, 63, 71, 75, 78.

[764]The queene, whiche entierly loued the duke, fearynge that some commocion and trouble might ryse, if he were let goo vnpuneshed, caused hym to be committed to the towre, where he was kepte with as muche pleasure as he that was at large, and oute of all captiuitie. But after that a monethe was expyred, she ymagenynge the people to bee pacifyed with this open emprysonment, caused hym both to be deliuered, and also to be restored to the kynge’s fauour and grace, as muche as euer he was before that tyme. But this doynge incensed the furye of the mutable commons, muche more then before: openly demounsynge and saiyng, that it was a shame to all the realme, to se such a persone, infected with so many mysdedes, either to rule about a prince or be had in honor. Of these wordes sprang dedes, and of this talkyng rose displeasure, whiche had growen to greate mischiefe, if politique prouision had not, with all celeritye, resisted the first fury: for the commons in sundry places of the realme assembled together, gathered great companies, and elected a capytayn, whom they called blew berde: but or they had attempted any enterprise, their headdes were apprehended and so the members sodainly were dispersed, without any hurte committed, or perpetrated.Hall.

[765]To adiourne. 1559, 63, 71, 75, 78.

[766]As I was saylyng toward the coast of Fraunce,The earle of Deuonshyre’s barke, of lytle pryce. 1559, 63.

[766]

As I was saylyng toward the coast of Fraunce,The earle of Deuonshyre’s barke, of lytle pryce. 1559, 63.

As I was saylyng toward the coast of Fraunce,

The earle of Deuonshyre’s barke, of lytle pryce. 1559, 63.

[767]Whose captayne toke me by hys valyaunce. 1559, 63.

[768]But led me with hym into. 1559, 63.

[769]Where whan he had recounted me my. 1559, 63.

[770]In causyng. 1559, 63.

[771]On the edge wherof my. 1559, 63.

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