<P_38>

Troweth the protector <paren> I pray god he may proue a protectour
</paren> troweth he that I parceiue not whereunto his painted processe
draweth ? (MORERIC-E1-P2,38.2)

It is not honorable that the duke bide here : (MORERIC-E1-P2,38.3)

it were comfortable for them both that he wer with his brother ,
because y=e= king lacketh a play felowye be ye sure .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,38.4)

I pray god send them both better play felowes then hym , that maketh so
high a matter vpon such a trifling pretext : as though there coulde
none be founden to playe with the kyng , but if his brother y=t= hath
no lust to play for sicknes , come oute of sanctuary out of hys
sauegarde , to play with him . As though princes as yonge as thei be ,
could not play but with their Peres , or children could not play but
w=t= their kyndred , with whom for the more part they agree much worse
then wyth straungers . (MORERIC-E1-P2,38.5)

But the childe $can $not {TEXT:cannot} require the priuelege ,
(MORERIC-E1-P2,38.6)

who tolde hym so ? (MORERIC-E1-P2,38.7)

he shal here him aske it (MORERIC-E1-P2,38.8)

and he will . (MORERIC-E1-P2,38.9)

Howbeit this is a gay matter : (MORERIC-E1-P2,38.10)

Suppose he could not aske it , (MORERIC-E1-P2,38.11)

suppose he woulde not aske it , (MORERIC-E1-P2,38.12)

suppose hee woulde aske to goe owte , (MORERIC-E1-P2,38.13)

if I saye hee shall not , if I aske the priuilege but for my selfe , I
say he that agaynst my wyll taketh out him , breaketh the sanctuary .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,38.14)

Serueth this liberty for my person onlye , or for my goodes to ?
(MORERIC-E1-P2,38.15)

ye maye not hence take my horsse fro me : (MORERIC-E1-P2,38.16)

and maye you take my childe fro me ? (MORERIC-E1-P2,38.17)

he is also my warde , (MORERIC-E1-P2,38.18)

for as my lerned counsell sheweth mee , syth he hath nothing by discent
holden by knightes seruice , the law maketh , his mother his gardaine .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,38.19)

Then may no man , I suppose take my warde fro me oute of <P_39>
sanctuarye , wythout the breche of the sanctuary .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,39.20)

And if my pryuelege could not serue hym , nor he aske it for hymselfe ,
yet sythe the lawe committeth to me the custody of him , I may require
it for hym , excepte the lawe giue a childe a gardayne onely for his
goodes & hys landes , discharging hym of the cure and saufe kepyng of
hys body , for whych only both landes & goodes serue .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,39.21)

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And if examples be sufficient to obtayne priueledge for my chylde , I
nede not farre to seeke . (MORERIC-E1-P2,39.23)

For in thys place in which we now be <paren> and whych is now in
questyon whyther my chylde may take benefyte of it </paren> myne other
sonne now kyng was born , and kept in hys cradle , and preserued to a
more prosperous fortune , which I pray god long to continu .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,39.24)

And as all you know , this is not y=e= first tyme that I haue taken
sanctuarye , (MORERIC-E1-P2,39.25)

for when my lord my husbande was banished & thrust out of his kingdom ,
I fled hither being great with child , (MORERIC-E1-P2,39.26)

and here I bare the prynce . (MORERIC-E1-P2,39.27)

And when my lorde my husbande retourned safe again and had the victorye
, than went I hence to welcome him home , (MORERIC-E1-P2,39.28)

and from hence I brought my babe the prynce vnto hys father , when he
fyrste toke hym in hys armes . (MORERIC-E1-P2,39.29)

And I praye God y=t= my sonnes palace may be as great sauegard to him
now rayning , as thys place was sometime to the kinges enemye . In
whych place I entend to kepe his brother sith &c .
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ODE Wherfore here intend I to kepe him sins mans law serueth y=e=
gardain to kepe the infant . (MORERIC-E1-P2,39.30)

The law of nature wyll the mother kepe her childe .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,39.31)

Gods law pryuelegeth the sanctuary , & the sanctuary my sonne , sith I
fere to put hym in the protectours handes that hath hys brother already
, and were if bothe fayled , inheritour to the crowne .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,39.32)

The cause of my fere hath no man to doe to examine .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,39.33)

And yet fere I no ferther then y=e= law fereth which as lerned men tell
me forbiddeth euery man the custody of them , by whose death he may
inherite lesse lande then a kingdome . (MORERIC-E1-P2,39.34)

<P_40>

I can no more , (MORERIC-E1-P2,40.36)

but whosoeuer he be that breketh this holy sanctuary : I pray god
shorttly sende him nede of sanctuary , when he may not come to it .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,40.37)

For taken out of sanctuary would I not my mortall enemy were .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,40.38)

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<P_42>

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him}

When y=e= protector had both y=e= children in his handes , he opened
himself more boldly , both to certaine other men , and also chiefely to
the duke of Buckingham . (MORERIC-E1-P2,42.42)

Although I know that many thought , that this duke was priuy to al the
protectours counsel , euen from the beginning . And some of the
protectours frendes said , that the duke was the first mouer of the
protectoure to this matter , sending a priuie messenger <P_43> vnto him
, streight after king Edwards death . But other again which knewe
better the suttle wit of the protectour , deny that he euer opened his
enterprise to the duke , vntill he had brought to passe the thinges
before rehersed . (MORERIC-E1-P2,43.43)

But when he had imprisoned the quenes kinsefolkes , & gotten bothe her
sonnes into his owne handes , than hee opened the rest of his purpose
with lesse fere to them whom he thought mete for the matter , and
specially to y=e= duke : who being wonne to his purpose , he thought
his strength more then halfe encreased . (MORERIC-E1-P2,43.44)

The matter was broken vnto the duke , by suttell folkes , and such as
were their crafte maisters in the handling of such wicked deuises : who
declared vnto him , y=t= the yong king was offended with him for his
kinsfolkes sakes , and that if he were euer able , he would reuenge
them . (MORERIC-E1-P2,43.45)

Who wold prick him forward therunto , if they escaped <paren> for they
would remembre their imprisonment </paren> . (MORERIC-E1-P2,43.46)

Or els if thei wer put to death , without doubte the yonge king wold be
careful for their deathes , whose imprisonment was greuous vnto him .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,43.47)

And that with repenting the duke should nothing auaile :
(MORERIC-E1-P2,43.48)

for there was no way left to redeme his offence by benefites :
(MORERIC-E1-P2,43.49)

but he should soner distroy himself than saue the king , who with his
brother & his kinsefolkes he saw in such places imprisoned , as the
protectour might w=t= a beck distroy them al : (MORERIC-E1-P2,43.50)

and that it were no doubte but he woulde do it in dede , if there wer
any new enterprise attempted . And that it was likely that as y=e=
protectour had prouided priuy garde for himself , so had he spialles
for the duke , and traines to catche hym , if he should be againste him
, & that paraduenture from them , whom he least suspected .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,43.51)

For the state of thinges & the disposicions of men wer than such , that
a man could not wel tell whom he might truste , or whom he might feare
. (MORERIC-E1-P2,43.52)

These thinges and such like , being beaten into the dukes minde ,
brought him to that pointe , y=t= where he had repented the way that he
had entred , yet wold he go forth in the same : (MORERIC-E1-P2,43.53)

& since he had ones begon , he would stoutly go through .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,43.54)

And therefore to thys wicked enterprise , which he beleued coulde not
bee voided , hee bent himselfe (MORERIC-E1-P2,43.55)

and went through : (MORERIC-E1-P2,43.56)

and determined , that since the comon mischief could not be amended ,
he wold tourne it as much as he might to hys owne commodite .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,43.57)

<P_44>

Than it was agreed , that the protectour should haue the dukes aide to
make him king , & that the protectours onely lawful sonne , should mary
y=e= dukes daughter , and that the protectour shold graunt him the
quiet possession of the Erledome of Hertford , which he claimed as his
enheritance , and could neuer obtain it in king Edwardes time .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,44.59)

Besides these requestes of y=e= duke , the protectour of hys owne minde
promised him a great quantite of the kinges tresure & of his howsehold
stuffe . (MORERIC-E1-P2,44.60)

And when they wer thus at a point betwene themselfes , they went about
to prepare for the coronacyon of y=e= yong king as they would haue it
seme . (MORERIC-E1-P2,44.61)

And that they might turne both the eies & mindes of men , from
perceiuing of their driftes other where the lordes being sent for from
al parties of the realme , came thick to that solemnite .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,44.62)

But the protectour & the duke , after y=t= , that they had set the lord
Cardinall , the Archebishoppe of Yorke than lorde Chauncellour , the
Bishoppe of Ely , the lord Stanley & the lord Hastinges than lord
chamberleine , w=t= many other noble men
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ODE to commune & deuise about the coronacion in one place : as fast
were they in an other place contryuyng the contrary , & to make the
protectour kyng . To which counsel , albeit there were adhibit very few
, & they very secret : yet began there here & there about , some maner
of muttering amonge the people , as though al should not long be wel ,
though they neither wist what thei feared nor wherfore : were it that
before such great thinges , mens hartes of a secret instinct of nature
misgiueth them . As y=e= sea w=t=out wind swelleth of himself somtime
before a tempest : or were it that some one man happely somwhat
perceiuing , filled mani men w=t= suspicion , though he shewed few men
what he knew . (MORERIC-E1-P2,44.63)

Howbeit somwhat the dealing self made men to muse on the mater , though
the counsell were close . (MORERIC-E1-P2,44.64)

For litle and little all folke withdrew from the Tower ,
(MORERIC-E1-P2,44.65)

and drew to Crosbies place in Bishops gates strete wher the protectour
kept his household . (MORERIC-E1-P2,44.66)

The protectour had the resort , (MORERIC-E1-P2,44.67)

the king in maner <P_45> dessolate . (MORERIC-E1-P2,45.68)

While some for their busines made sute to them that had the doing ,
some were by their frendes secretly warned , that it might happelye
tourne them to no good , to be to much attendaunt about the king
w=t=out the protectours appointment : which remoued also diuers of the
princes olde seruantes from him , & set newe aboute him .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,45.69)

Thus many thinges comming togither partly by chaunce , partly of
purpose , caused at length , not comen people only that waue with the
winde , but wise men also & some lordes , yeke to marke the mater and
muse theron : so ferforth that the lord Stanly , y=t= was after Erle of
Darbie , wisely mistrusted it , & saied vnto y=e= lord Hasting , y=t=
he much misliked these two seuerall counsels . (MORERIC-E1-P2,45.70)

For while we <paren> quod he </paren> talke of one matter in the tone
place , litle wote we wherof they talk in y=e= tother place .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,45.71)

My lord <paren> quod the lord Hastinges </paren> on my life neuer doute
you . (MORERIC-E1-P2,45.72)

For while one man is there which is neuer thence , neuer can there be
thinge ones minded that should sownde amisse toward me , but it should
be in mine eares ere it were well oute of their mouthes .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,45.73)

This ment he by Catesby , which was of his nere secret counsail , and
whome he veri familiarly vsed , (MORERIC-E1-P2,45.74)

and in his most weighty matters put no man in so special trust ,
rekening hymself to no man so liefe , sith he well wist there was no
man to him so much beholden as was thys Catesby , which was a man wel
lerned in the lawes of this lande , & by the special fauour of the
lorde chamberlen , in good aucthoritie & much rule bare in al the
county of Leceter where the Lorde Chamberlens power chiefly laye .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,45.75)

But surely great pity was it , that he had not had either more trouthe
or lesse wytte . (MORERIC-E1-P2,45.76)

For his dissimulacion onelye , kepte all that mischyefe vppe . In whome
if the lord Hastinges had not put so special trust , the lord Stanley
and he <P_46> had departed with diuerse other lordes , and broken all
the daunce , for many il signes that hee sawe , which he nowe construed
all to the beste . So suerly thoughte he that there could be none harme
toward him in that counsaile entended where Catesby was .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,46.77)

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<P_47>

Then the lord chamberlen , as he y=t= for the loue betwene them
thoughte he might be boldest w=t= him , aunswered and sayd , y=t= thei
wer worthye to bee punished as heighnous traitors whatsoeuer they were
. (MORERIC-E1-P2,47.80)

And al the other affirmed the same . (MORERIC-E1-P2,47.81)

That is <paren> quod he </paren> yonder sorceres my brothers wife &
other w=t= her meaning y=e= quene . (MORERIC-E1-P2,47.82)

At these wordes many of the other Lordes were gretly abashed y=t=
fauoured her . (MORERIC-E1-P2,47.83)

But the lord Hastinges was in his minde better content , that it was
moued by her , then by any other whom he loued better : Albeit hys
harte somewhat <P_48> grudged , that he was not afore made of counsell
in this mater as he was of y=e= taking of her kynred , and of their
putting to death , which were by his assent before , deuised to bee
byhedded at Pountfreit , this selfe same day , in which he was not ware
y=t= it was by other deuised , that himself should the same day be
behedded at London . (MORERIC-E1-P2,48.84)

Then said the protectour : ye shal al se in what wise that sorceres and
that other witch of her counsel shoris wife w=t= their affynite , haue
by their sorcery & witchcraft wasted my body . (MORERIC-E1-P2,48.85)

And therw=t= he plucked vp hys doublet sleue to his elbow vpon his left
arme , where he shewed a werish withered arme and small , as it was
neuer other . (MORERIC-E1-P2,48.86)

And thereupon euery mannes mind sore misgaue them , well perceiuing
that this matter was but a quarel . (MORERIC-E1-P2,48.87)

For wel thei wist , that y=e= quene was to wise to go aboute any such
folye . And also if she would , yet wold she of all folke leste make
Shoris wife of counsaile , whom of al women she most hated , as that
concubine whom the king her husband had most loued .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,48.88)

And also no man was there present , but wel knew that his harme was
euer such since his birth . (MORERIC-E1-P2,48.89)

Natheles the lorde Chamberlen <paren> which fro y=e= death of king
Edward kept Shoris wife , on whome he somwhat doted in the kinges life
, sauing as it is sayd he that while forbare her of reuerence towarde
hys king , or els of a certaine kinde of fidelite to hys frende
</paren> aunswered & sayd : certainly my lorde if they haue so
heinously done , thei be worthy heinouse punishement .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,48.90)

What quod the protectour thou seruest me I wene w=t= iffes & with andes
, (MORERIC-E1-P2,48.91)

I tel the thei haue so done , (MORERIC-E1-P2,48.92)

& that I will make good on thy body traitour . (MORERIC-E1-P2,48.93)

And therw=t= as in a great anger , he clapped his fist vpon y=e= borde
a great rappe . At which token giuen , one cried treason without the
cambre . (MORERIC-E1-P2,48.94)

Therwith a dore clapped , (MORERIC-E1-P2,48.95)

and in come there rushing men in harneys as many as y=e= chambre might
hold . (MORERIC-E1-P2,48.96)

And anon the protectour sayd to the lorde Hastinges : I arest the
traitour . (MORERIC-E1-P2,48.97)

What me my Lorde quod he . (MORERIC-E1-P2,48.98)

Yea the <P_49> traitour , quod the protectour . (MORERIC-E1-P2,49.99)

And a nother let flee at the Lorde Standley which shronke at the stroke
& fel under the table , (MORERIC-E1-P2,49.100)

or els his hed had ben clefte to the tethe : (MORERIC-E1-P2,49.101)

for as shortely as he shranke , yet ranne the blood aboute hys eares .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,49.102)

Then were they al quickly bestowed in diuerse chambres , except y=e=
lorde Chamberlen , whom the protectour bade spede & shryue hym a pace ,
(MORERIC-E1-P2,49.103)

for by saynt Poule <paren> quod he </paren> I wil not to dinner til I
se thy hed of . (MORERIC-E1-P2,49.104)

It boted him not to aske why (MORERIC-E1-P2,49.105)

but heuely he toke a priest at aduenture , (MORERIC-E1-P2,49.106)

& made a short shrift , (MORERIC-E1-P2,49.107)

for a longer would not be suffered , the protectour made so much hast
to dyner : which he might not go to til this wer done for sauing of his
othe . (MORERIC-E1-P2,49.108)

So was he brought forth into the grene beside the chappel w=t=in the
tower , & his head laid down vpon a long log of timbre , and there
striken of , and afterward his body with the hed entred at Windsore
beside the body of kinge Edward , whose both soules our lord pardon .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,49.109)

A merueilouse case is it to here , either the warninges of that he
shoulde haue voided , or the tokens of that he could not voide .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,49.110)

For the self night next before his death , y=e= lord Standley sent a
trustie secret messenger vnto him at midnight in al the hast ,
requiring hym to rise & ryde away with hym , (MORERIC-E1-P2,49.111)

for he was disposed vtterly no lenger to bide : (MORERIC-E1-P2,49.112)

<P_50>

he had so fereful a dreme , in which him thoughte that a bore with his
tuskes so raced them both bi the heddes , that the blood ranne aboute
both their shoulders . (MORERIC-E1-P2,50.114)

And forasmuch as the protectour gaue the bore for his cognisaunce ,
this dreme made so fereful an impression in his hart , y=t= he was
throughly determined no lenger to tary , but had his horse redy , if
y=e= lord Hastinges wold go w=t= him to ride so far yet y=e= same night
, that thei shold be out of danger ere dai . (MORERIC-E1-P2,50.115)

Ey good lord quod y=e= lord Hastinges to this messenger , leneth my
lord thi master so much to such trifles , & hath such faith in dremes ,
which either his own fere fantasieth or do rise in y=e= nightes rest by
reson of his daye thoughtes ? (MORERIC-E1-P2,50.116)

Tel him it is plaine witchcraft to beleue in suche dremes : which if
they wer tokens of thinges to come , why thinketh he not that we might
be as likely to make them true by our going if we were caught & brought
back <paren> as frendes fayle fleers </paren> for then had the bore a
cause likely to race vs w=t= his tuskes , as folke that fled for some
falshed , wherfore either is there no peryl , nor none there is in dede
: or if any be , it is rather in going then biding .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,50.117)

And if we should nedes cost fall in perill one way or other : yet had I
leuer y=t= men should se it wer by other mens falshed , then
{COM:I_would_want_that_they_should} thinke it were either our owne
faulte or faint hart . (MORERIC-E1-P2,50.118)

And therfore go to thy master man , (MORERIC-E1-P2,50.119)

& commende me to him , (MORERIC-E1-P2,50.120)

& pray him be mery & haue no fere : (MORERIC-E1-P2,50.121)

for I ensure hym I am as sure of the man y=t= he woteth of , as I am of
my own hand . (MORERIC-E1-P2,50.122)

God sende grace sir quod the messenger , (MORERIC-E1-P2,50.123)

and went his way . (MORERIC-E1-P2,50.124)

Certain is it also , y=t= in y=e= riding toward y=e= tower , y=e= same
morning in which he was behedded , his hors twise or thrise stumbled
w=t= him almost to y=e= falling , which thing albeit eche man wote wel
daily happeneth to them to whom no such mischaunce is toward : yet hath
it ben of an olde rite & custome , obserued as a token often times
notably foregoing some great misfortune . (MORERIC-E1-P2,50.125)

Now this y=t= foloweth was no warning , but an enemiouse scorne .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,50.126)

<P_51>

The same morning ere he were vp , came a knight vnto him , as it were
of curtesy to accompany hym to the counsaile , but of trouth sent by
the protector to hast him thitherward , wyth whom he was of secret
confederacy in that purpose , a meane man at that time , and now of
gret auctorite . (MORERIC-E1-P2,51.128)

This knight when it happed the lord Chamberlen by y=e= way to stay his
horse , and comen a while w=t= a priest whome he met in the tower
strete , brake his tale (MORERIC-E1-P2,51.129)

& said merely to him : what my lord I pray you come on ,
(MORERIC-E1-P2,51.130)

whereto talke you so long w=t= that priest , (MORERIC-E1-P2,51.131)

you haue no nede of a prist yet : (MORERIC-E1-P2,51.132)

& therw=t= he laughed vpon him , as though he would say , ye shal haue
sone . (MORERIC-E1-P2,51.133)

But so litle wist y=e= tother what he ment , & so little mistrusted ,
that he was neuer merier nor neuer so full of good hope in his life :
which self thing is often sene a signe of chaunge .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,51.134)

But I shall rather let anye thinge passe me , then the vain sureti of
mans mind so nere his deth . (MORERIC-E1-P2,51.135)

Vpon the very tower wharfe so nere the place where his hed was of so
sone after , there met he w=t= one Hastinges a purseuant of his own
name . (MORERIC-E1-P2,51.136)

And of their meting in y=t= place , he was put in remembraunce of an
other time , in which it had happened them before , to mete in like
maner togither in the same place . At which other tyme the lord
Chamberlein had ben accused vnto king Edward , by y=e= lord Riuers y=e=
quenes brother , in such wise y=t= he was for y=e= while <paren> but it
lasted not long </paren> farre fallen into y=e= kinges indignation , &
stode in gret fere of himselfe . (MORERIC-E1-P2,51.137)

And for asmuch as he nowe met this purseuant in the same place that
iubardy so wel passed : it gaue him great pleasure to talke w=t= him
therof w=t= whom he had before talked thereof , <P_52> in the same
place while he was therin . (MORERIC-E1-P2,52.138)

And therfore he said : Ah hastinges , art y=u= remembred when I met
thee here ones with an heuy hart ? (MORERIC-E1-P2,52.139)

Yea my lord <paren> quod he </paren> that remembre I wel :
(MORERIC-E1-P2,52.140)

& thanked be God they gate no good , nor ye none harme thereby .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,52.141)

Thou wouldest say so quod he , if thou knewest asmuch as I know , which
few know els as yet & moe shall shortly . (MORERIC-E1-P2,52.142)

That ment he by the lordes of the quenes kindred that were taken before
, and should that day be behedded at Poumfreit : which he wel wyst ,
(MORERIC-E1-P2,52.143)

but nothing ware that y=e= axe hang ouer his own hed .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,52.144)

In faith man quod he , I was neuer so sory , nor neuer stode in so
great dread in my life , as I did when thou and I met here .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,52.145)

And lo how y=e= world is turned , (MORERIC-E1-P2,52.146)

now stand mine enemies in y=e= daunger <paren> as thou maist hap to
here more hereafter </paren> & I neuer in my life so mery , nor neuer
in so great suerty . (MORERIC-E1-P2,52.147)

O good god , the blindnes of our mortall nature ,
(MORERIC-E1-P2,52.148)

when he most feared , he was in good suerty : (MORERIC-E1-P2,52.149)

when he rekened him self surest , he lost his life ,
(MORERIC-E1-P2,52.150)

& that w=t=in two howres after . (MORERIC-E1-P2,52.151)

Thus ended this honorable man , a good knight and a gentle , of gret
aucthorite w=t= his prince , of liuing somewhat dessolate , plaine &
open to his enemy , & secret to his frend : eth to begile , as he that
of good hart & corage forestudied no perilles . A louing man & passing
wel beloued . Very faithful , & trusty ynough , trusting to much .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,52.152)

<P_56>

I doubt not some shal think this woman to sleight a thing , to be
written of & set amonge the remembraunces of great matters : which thei
shal specially think , y=t= happely shal esteme her only by y=t= thei
now see her . (MORERIC-E1-P2,56.154)

But me semeth the chaunce so much the more worthy to be remembred , in
how much she is now in the more beggerly condicion , vnfrended & worne
out of acquaintance , after good substance , after as gret fauour w=t=
the prince , <P_57> after as gret sute & seking to w=t= al those y=t=
those days had busynes to spede , as many other men were in their times
, which be now famouse , only by y=e= infamy of their il dedes .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,57.155)

Her doinges were not much lesse , albeit thei be muche lesse remembred
, because thei were not so euil . (MORERIC-E1-P2,57.156)

For men vse if they haue an euil turne , to write it in marble :
(MORERIC-E1-P2,57.157)

& whoso doth vs a good tourne , we write it in duste which is not worst
proued by her : (MORERIC-E1-P2,57.158)

for at this daye shee beggeth of many at this daye liuing , y=t= at
this day had begged if she had not bene . (MORERIC-E1-P2,57.159)

Now was it so deuised by y=e= protectour & his counsel , y=t= the self
day in which the lord Chamberlen was behedded in the tower of London ,
& about the selfsame hower , was there not without his assent behedded
at Poontfraite , the fore remembred lordes & knightes y=t= were taken
from the king at Northampton & Stony Stratford . Which thinge was done
in the presence & by the order of syr Richard Ratclif knight , whose
seruice y=e= protector specially vsed in y=e= counsel and in
thexecucion of such lawles enterprises , as a man y=t= had ben long
secret w=t= him , hauing experience of y=e= world & a shrewde wit ,
short & rude in speche , rough & boustiouse of behauiour , bold in
mischief , as far from pitie as from al fere of god .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,57.160)

This knight bringing them out of y=e= prison to y=e= scafold , &
shewing to the people about y=t= thei were Traitors , not suffring them
to speke & declare their innocence lest their wordes might haue
inclined men to pity them , & to hate the protectour & his part :
caused them hastly without iugement , <P_58> processe , or maner of
order to be behedded , & w=t=out other earthly gilt , but only y=t=
thei were good men , to true to y=e= king & to nigh to the quene .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,58.161)

Now when the lord Chamberlen & these other lordes & knightes were thus
behedded & ridde out of the way : then thought the protectour , y=t=
while men mused what y=e= mater ment , while y=e= lordes of the realme
wer about him out of their owne strenghtis , while no man wist what to
thinke nor whome to trust , ere euer they should haue space to dispute
& disgest the mater & make parties : it wer best hastly to pursue his
purpose , & put himself in possession of y=e= crowne , ere men could
haue time to deuise ani wais to resist . (MORERIC-E1-P2,58.162)

But now was al the study , by what meane thys matter being of it self
so heinouse , might be first broken to the people , in such wise that
it might be wel taken . (MORERIC-E1-P2,58.163)

To this counsel they toke diuerse , such as they thought metely to be
trusted , likely to be indused to y=e= parte , & able to stand them in
stede , either-2 by power or policy . Among whom , they made of
Counsail Edmond Shaa knight then Maier of London , which vpon trust of
his own aduauncement , whereof he was of a proud hart highly desirouse
, shold frame the cite to their appetite . (MORERIC-E1-P2,58.164)

Of spiritual men thei toke such as had wit , & were in aucthoritie
among the peple for oppinion of ther lerning , & had no scrupilouse
consience . (MORERIC-E1-P2,58.165)

Among these had thei Iohn Shaa clerke brother to y=e= Maier , & freer
Penker prouincial of the Augustine freers both doctors of diuinite ,
both gret prechars , both of more learning then vertue , of more fame
then lerning . (MORERIC-E1-P2,58.166)

For thei were before gretly estemed among the peple : but after that
neuer . (MORERIC-E1-P2,58.167)

Of these two y=e= tone had a sermon in praise of the protectour before
the <P_59> coronacion , the tother after , both so ful of tediouse
flatery , that no mans eares could abide them . (MORERIC-E1-P2,59.168)

Penker in his sermon so lost his voice that he was faine to leaue of &
come downe in the middes . (MORERIC-E1-P2,59.169)

Doctor Shaa by his sermon lost his honestie , & sone after his life ,
for very shame of the worlde , into which he durst neuer after come
abrode . (MORERIC-E1-P2,59.170)

But the frere forced for no shame , (MORERIC-E1-P2,59.171)

& so it harmed him y=e= lesse . (MORERIC-E1-P2,59.172)

Howbeit some dout & many thinken , that Penker was not of counsel of
the mater before the coronacion , but after the comen maner fell to
flattery after : namely sith his sermon was not incontinent vpon it ,
but at S. Mary hospytall at the Ester after . (MORERIC-E1-P2,59.173)

But certaine is it , that Doctour Shaa was of counsel in the beginning
, so farre forth that they determined that he should first breke the
mater in a sermon at Poules Crosse , in whiche he shold by y=e=
aucthorite of his preaching , encline the peple to the protectours
ghostly purpose . (MORERIC-E1-P2,59.174)

But now was al the labour & study , in the deuis of some conuenient
pretext , for which the peple should be content , to depose the prince
& accept the protector for kinge . In which diuerse thinges they
deuised . (MORERIC-E1-P2,59.175)

But the chief thing & the weighty of al that inuencion , rested in this
y=t= they should allege bastardy , either in king Edward himself , or
in his children , or both . So that he should seme dishabled to
inherite the crowne by the duke of Yorke , and the prince by him .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,59.176)

To lay bastardy in kynge Edward , sowned openly to the rebuke of the
protectours owne mother , which was mother to them both :
(MORERIC-E1-P2,59.177)

for in y=t= point could be none other colour , but to pretend that his
own mother was one aduouteresse which not w=t=standing to farther this
purpose he letted not : (MORERIC-E1-P2,59.178)

but Natheles he would y=e= point should be lesse & more fauorably
handled , not euen fully plain & directly , but that y=e= matter should
be touched a slope craftely , as though men spared in y=t= point to
speke al the trouth for fere of his displeasure .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,59.179)

But y=e= other point concerning the bastardy that they deuised to
surmise in king Edwards children , y=t= wold he should be openly
declared & inforsed to the vttermost . The coloure & pretext wherof
$can $not {TEXT:cannot} be wel <P_60> perceiued , but if we first
repete you some thinges longe before done about king Edwardes mariage .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,60.180)

After y=t= king Edward y=e= fourthe had deposed kinge Henry the sixt ,
& was in peasyble possession of the realme , determining himself to
mary , as it was requisite bothe for himself & for the realme , he sent
ouer in embassiate , the Erle of warwike with other noble men in his
company vnto Spaine , to intreate & conclude a mariage betwene king
Edward & the kinges doughter of Spain . In which thing y=e= Erle of
Warwik founde the parties so toward & willing , y=t= he spedely
according to his instruccions , w=t=out any difficulty brought y=e=
matter to verye good conclusion . (MORERIC-E1-P2,60.181)

Now happed it that in the meane season , there came to make a sute by
peticion to the king , dame Elizabeth Gray which was after his quene ,
at that tyme a widow borne of noble blood , specyally by her mother ,
which was Duches of Bedford ere she maried the lord Wodefeld her father
. (MORERIC-E1-P2,60.182)

Howbeit this dame Elizabeth her self being in seruice w=t= quene
Margaret , wife vnto king Henry the .vi. was maried vnto one Iohn Gray
a squier whom king Henry made knight vpon the field y=t= he had on
Shroue Tuesday at Saint Albans against king Edward .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,60.183)

And litle while enioyed he y=t= knighthod , (MORERIC-E1-P2,60.184)

for he was at y=e= same field slaine . After which done , & the Erle of
Warwik being in his embassiate about $th $afore {TEXT:thafore}
remembred mariage , this pore Lady made humble sute vnto y=e= king ,
y=t= she might be restored vnto such smal landes as her late husband
had giuen her in iointure . <P_61> Whom when y=e= king beheld , & hard
her speke , as she was both faire , of a good fauor , moderate of
stature , wel made & very wise : he not only pitied her , but also
waxed ennamored on her . (MORERIC-E1-P2,61.185)

And taking her afterward secretly aside , began to entre in talking
more familiarly . Whose appetite when she perceiued , she verteousely
denyed him . (MORERIC-E1-P2,61.186)

But y=t= did she so wiseli , & with so good maner , & wordes so wel set
, that she rather kindled his desire then quenched it .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,61.187)

And fynally after many a meting , much woing & many great promises ,
she wel espied the kinges affeccion toward her so greatly encresed ,
y=t= she durst somwhat y=e= more boldly say her minde , as to hym whose
harte she perceiued more firmely set , then to fall of for a worde .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,61.188)

And in conclusion she shewed him plaine , y=t= as she wist herself to
simple to be his wife , so thought she her self to good to be his
concubine . (MORERIC-E1-P2,61.189)

The king much merueling of her constaunce , as he y=t= had not ben wont
els where to be so stiffely sayd naye , so muche estemed her contynence
and chastitie , y=t= he set her vertue in the stede of possession &
riches . (MORERIC-E1-P2,61.190)

And thus taking counsaile of his desyre , determined in al possible
hast to mary her . (MORERIC-E1-P2,61.191)

And after he was thus appointed , & hadde betwene them twain ensured
her : then asked he counsel of his other frendes ,
(MORERIC-E1-P2,61.192)

and y=t= in suche maner , as thei might ethe perceiue it boted not
greatly to say nay . (MORERIC-E1-P2,61.193)

Notwithstanding y=e= Duches of york his <P_62> mother was so sore moued
therewith , y=t= she diswaded y=e= mariage asmuch as she possible might
alleging y=t= it was his honor , profite , and surety also , to mary in
a noble progeny out of his realm , whereupon depended gret strength to
his estate by y=e= affinytie & great possibilitie of encrease of his
possessions . And y=t= he could not well otherwise do , standing that
y=e= Earle of warwik had so far moued already . Whiche wer not likely
to take it well , if al his viage were in suche wise frustrate , and
his appointmentes deluded . (MORERIC-E1-P2,62.194)

And she said also y=t= it was not princely to mary hys owne subiect ,
no gret occasion leading thervnto , no possessions , or other
commodityes , depending therupon , (MORERIC-E1-P2,62.195)

but onely as it were a rich man that would mary his mayde , onely for a
litle wanton dotage vppon her parson . In which mariage manye moe
commend y=e= maidens fortune , then y=e= maisters wisdom .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,62.196)

And yet therin she said was more honesty , then honor in this mariage .
Forasmuch as there is betwene no merchant & his own maid so gret
difference , as betwene y=e= king and this widowe . In whose parson
albeit ther was nothing to be misliked , yet was there she saide :
nothing so excellent , but y=t= it might be founden in diuers other ,
y=t= wer more metely <paren> quod she </paren> for your estate , &
maydens also , wheras y=e= only widowhed of Elizabeth Gray though she
wer in al other thinges conuenient for you , shold yet suffice as me
semeth to refrain you from her mariage , sith it is an vnfitting thing
, & a veri blemish , & highe disparagement , to the sacre magesty of a
prince , y=t= ought as nigh to approche priesthode in clenes as he doth
in dignitie , to be defouled w=t= bigamy in his first mariage .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,62.197)

<P_63>

The king when his mother had said , made her answer part in ernest part
in play merely , as he that wiste himself out of her rule .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,63.199)

And albeit he would gladly y=t= she shold take it wel , yet was at a
pointe in his owne mynde , toke she it wel or otherwise .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,63.200)

Howbeit somwhat to satisfy her he saide , y=t= albeit mariage being a
spiritual thing , ought rather to be made for y=e= respecte of God
where his grace enclineth y=e= parties to loue together as he trusted
it was in his then for y=e= regard of any temporal aduauntage : yet
natheles him semed y=t= this mariage euen worldly considred , was not
vnprofitable . (MORERIC-E1-P2,63.201)

For he reckened y=e= amitye of no earthly nacion so necessari for him ,
as y=e= frendship of his own . Which he thought likely to beare him so
muche y=e= more herty fauor in y=t= he disdayned not to marye w=t= one
of his own land . (MORERIC-E1-P2,63.202)

And yet yf outeward aliance wer thought so requisite , he wold find
y=e= meanes to enter therinto , much better bi other of his kin , wher
al y=e= parties could be contented , than to mary himself , whom hee
shoulde happelye neuer loue , and for y=e= possibility of more
possessions , lese y=e= fruit & pleasure of this y=t= he had alredy .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,63.203)

For smal pleasure taketh a man of al y=t= euer he hath beside , yf he
bee wiued against his appetite . (MORERIC-E1-P2,63.204)

And I dout not quod he but there be as ye saye other , y=t= be in euery
point comparable w=t= her . (MORERIC-E1-P2,63.205)

And therfore I let not them y=t= like them to wedde them .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,63.206)

No more is it reason y=t= it mislike any man , y=t= I mary where it
liketh me . (MORERIC-E1-P2,63.207)

And I am sure y=t= my cosein of warwik neither loueth me so litle , to
grudge at y=t= I loue , nor is so vnresonable to loke y=t= I shold in
choise of a wife , rather be ruled by hys eye , then by mine own : as
though I wer a ward y=t= wer bound to <P_64> mary by thapointment of a
gardain . (MORERIC-E1-P2,64.208)

I wold not be a kyng w=t= that condicion , to forbere mine own lyberty
in choise of my own mariage . (MORERIC-E1-P2,64.209)

As for possibilitie of more inheritaunce by new affinity in estraunge
landes , is ofte y=e= occasion of more trouble then profite .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,64.210)

And we haue alredy title by y=t= meanes , to so much as suffiseth to
get & kepe wel in one mans daies . (MORERIC-E1-P2,64.211)

That she is a widow & hath alredy children , by gods blessed Ladye I am
a batcheler (MORERIC-E1-P2,64.212)

& haue some to : (MORERIC-E1-P2,64.213)

& so eche of vs hath a profe y=t= neither of vs is lyke to be barain .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,64.214)

And therefore madam I pray you be content , (MORERIC-E1-P2,64.215)

I trust in god she shal bring furth a young prince , y=t= shal please
you . (MORERIC-E1-P2,64.216)

And as for y=e= bigamy , let y=e= bishop hardely lay it in my wai ,
when I come to take orders . (MORERIC-E1-P2,64.217)

For I vnderstand it is forbidden a prieste , (MORERIC-E1-P2,64.218)

but I neuer wiste it yet y=t= it was forbidden a prince .
(MORERIC-E1-P2,64.219)

The Duchesse w=t= these wordes nothyng appeased , and seing y=e= king
so set thereon that she coulde not pull him backe , so hyghelye she
dysdained it , y=t= under pretext of her duetye to Godwarde , shee
deuised to disturbe this mariage , and rather to help that he shold
mary one Elizabeth Lucy , whom y=e= king had also not long before
gotten w=t= child . Wherefore y=e= kinges mother obiected openly
against his mariage , as it were in discharge of her conscience , that
the kinge was sure to dame Elizabeth Lucy and her husband before god .
By reson of which wordes , such obstacle was made in the matter , that
either y=e= Bishoppes durst not , or the king would not , procede to
the solempnisacion of this weding , til these same wer clerely purged ,
& the trouth wel & openly testified . Wherupon dame Elysabeth Lucy was
sent for . (MORERIC-E1-P2,64.220)

And albeit y=t= she was by y=e= kinges mother & many other put in good
<P_65> comfort , to affirme that she was ensured vnto y=e= king : yet
when she was solempnely sworne to say the trouth , she confessed that
they were neuer ensured . (MORERIC-E1-P2,65.221)

Howbeit she sayed his grace spake so louing wordes vnto her , y=t= she
verely hopid he wold haue maried her . And y=t= if it had not ben for
such kind wordes , she would neuer haue shewed such kindenes to him ,
to let him so kindly get her w=t= childe . (MORERIC-E1-P2,65.222)

This examinacion solempnly taken , when it was clerely perceiued that
there was none impediment : the king w=t= gret feast & honorable
solempnite , maried dame Elisabeth Grai (MORERIC-E1-P2,65.223)

and her crowned quene y=t= was hys enemies wife , & many time had
praied full hartly for his losse . In which god loued her better , then
to graunt her her bone . (MORERIC-E1-P2,65.224)

