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Desiring al men to continue in obedience and duty, with

many other godly exhortations very notably set forth, and

with great learning.

And after the sermon don, the mass proceded to the

end : and at Verhum caro factum est^ the Lord Windsor of-

fered the standard of the Lion ; the Lord Talbot offered the

banner embroidered ; and next to that were the four ban-

ners of saints, by the bearers thereof, to the bishops.
Then came the Dean of Windsor and chaplains, and re-

ceived the palls from the feet of the representation, and con-

veyed them forthwith to the vestry.
Then came six knights and received the representation ;

which was delivered to them by the gentlemen ushers ; and

so with reverence brought into the vestry. Then was thel7

rich pall removed, and conveyed in like manner.

Then the three bishops that did execute came down to

the herse : after whom followed the Archbishop of Canter-

bury, and stood a little behind the bishops with his crosses.

Then the quire with one voice did sing Circumdedej-tinf me^

with the rest of the canticle funeral ; and the bishops cens-

ing the corps, with other ceremonies therunto appertan-

ing.
Then was the vault uncovered under the said corps;

and the corps let down therin by the vice, with help of six-

teen tal yeomen of the guard, appointed to the same.
Then proceded the Bishop of Winton in the service of

the burial, standing at the head of the said vault, and about

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tlie same al the officers of household : that is to say, the

Lord St. John, lord great master; the Earl of Arundel,

lord chambei'lain ; Sir Thomas Cheync, treasurer ; Sir

John Gage, comptroller ; William Knevet, sergeant porter ;

and the four gentlemen ushers ordinary, standing about the

corps, with their staves and rods. Then, when the mold was

brought, and cast in the grave by the prelate executing, at

the word Pulverem pulveri et cinerem crneri, first the Lord

Great Master, and after the Lord Chamberlain, and al

others aforesaid in order, with heavy and dolorous lamen-

tation, brake their staves in shivers upon their heads, and

cast them after the corps within the pit. And then the gen-

tlemen ushers in like maner brake their rods, and threw

them into the vault with exceeding sorrow and heavines, not

without grievous sighs and tears, not only of them, but of

many others, as wel of the meaner sort as of the nobility,

very piteous and sorrowful to behold.
Then, after this finished, sind De prqfundis said, and the

grave covered again with the planks, Garter stood in the

midst of the quire, accompanied with al them of his office,

in their coats of amies, and with a lowd voice proclaimed

the Kings Majesty stil now living in this form : " Al-

" mighty God of his infinite goodnes give good life and

*' long to the most high and mighty Prince, our sovereign

" Lord King Edward VL by the grace of God King of

" England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and

" in earth, under God, of the Church of England and Ire-

" land the supreme Head and Sovereign, of the most noble

" order of the Garter."" And with that he cryed, Vive le

noble Roy Edzvard. And the rest of the officers of armes

cryed the same three several times after him.

Then the trumpets sounded with great melody and cou-

rage, to the comfort of al them that were there present.

And al these things were don afore six of the clock of the

same day. And then every man departed to his place ap-

pointed into the castle. Where they went to their dinners.

And after dinner the lords dissevered themselves, and tak-

ing their horses hasted tliem al to London that night. And

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thus were the funeral duties of interment of this most

mighty and redoubted Prince fully accomplished and ended.

On whose soul Jesu have mercy. Amen. J. S.

B. 18
The Lord Protector'' s prayer for God's assistance in the

high office of Protector and Governor, nezv committed to

him.
LORD God of hosts ! in whose only hand is life and E mss.

death, victory and confusion, rule and subjection; receive qj^i^.
me thv humble creature into thy mercy, and direct me in Episc.
Eliensis.

my requests, that I offend not thy high Majesty. O my

Lord and my God, I am the work of thy hands: thy

goodnes cannot reject me. I am the price of thy Sons

death Jesu Christ ; for thy Sons sake thou wilt not lese me.

I am a vessel for thy mercy ; thy justice will not condemn

me. I [am recorded in] the book of life : I am written with

the very bloud of Jesus ; thy inestimable love wil not can-

cell then my name. For this cause, Lord God, I am bold to

speak to thy Majesty. Thou, Lord, by thy providence hast

called me to rule ; make me therfore able to follow thy call-

ing. Thou, Lord, by thine order hast committed an anointed

King to my governance : direct me therfore with thy hand,

that I erre not from thy good plesure. Finish in me, Lord,

thy beginning, and begin in me that thou wilt finish. By

thee do kings reign ; and from thee al power is derived.

Govern me, Lord, as I shal govern : rule me, as I shal rule.

I am ready for thy governance ; make thy people ready for

mine. I seek thy only honour in my vocation : amplify it,

Lord, Avith thy might. If it be thy will I shal rule, make

thy congregation subject to my rule. Give me power, Lord,

to suppress whom thou wilt have obey.

I am by appointment thy minister for thy King, a shep-

herd for thy people, a sword-bearer for thy justice : prosper

the King, save thy people, direct thy justice. I am ready,

Lord, to do that thou commandest ; command that thou

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wilt. Remember, O God, thine old mercies : remember thy

benefits shewed heretofore. Remember, Lord, me thy ser-

vant, and make me worthy to ask. Teach me what to ask,

and then give me that I ask. None other I seek to. Lord,

but thee; because none other can give it me. And that I

seek is thine honour and glory. I ask victory, but to shew

thy power upon the wicked. I ask prosperity, but for to

rule in peace thy congregation. I ask wisdom, but by my

counsil to set forth thy cause. And as I ask for my self, so.

Lord, pour thy knowledg upon al them which shal counsil

me. And forgive them, that in their offence I suffer not

the reward of their evil. If I have erred. Lord, forgive me :

for so thou hast promised me. If I shal not err, direct me :

for that only is thy property. Great things, O my God,

hast thou begun in my hand ; let me then. Lord, be thy

minister to defend them. Thus I conclude. Lord, by the

name of thy Son Jesus Christ. Faithfully I commit al my

cause to thy high providence : and so rest to advance al

humane strength under the standard of thy omnipotency.

19 C.
The Lord Protector and the other Governors of the King's

person, to the justices of peace in the county of Norfolk;

when a new commission of the peace was sent them.

To our very good Lord, the Earl of Sussex, and to our

loving friends. Sir Roger Totonsend and Sir William

Paston, knights ; and to other Justices of peace within

the county of Norfolk.

CottoQ AFTER our right harty commendations: Where the
Tu.'^ii! 2. niost noble King of famous memory, our late sovereign Lord

and Master K. Henry VIII. (whom God pardon) upon the

great trust which his Majesty had in your vcrtuous wis-

doms and good dispositions to the commonwealth of this

realm, did especially name and appoint you among others,

by his commission under his great seal of England, to be

consei-\ators and justices of his peace within this his county

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of Norfolk : forasmuch as the said commissions were dis-

solved by his decease, it hath pleased the Kings Majesty

our sovereign Lord that now is, by the advice and consent

of us, the Lord Protector, and others, executors of our said

late sovereign Lord, whose names be underwritten, to

whom, with others, the government of his most royal person

and the order of his afFeyres is by his last wil and testa-

ment committed, til he should be of the ful age of eighteen

years, to cause new commissions ageyn to be made, for the

conservation of his peace throughout this realm ; wherof

you shal by this bearer receive one for that county : and

for that the good and diligent execution of the charge com-

mitted to you and others by the same, shal be a notable

surety to the King our sovereign Lords person that now is,

(to whom God give encrease of vertue, honor, and many

years,) as a most certain stay to the commonwealth, which

must needs prosper where justice hath place, and reigneth ;

we shal desire you, and in his Majesties name charge and

command you, upon the recepte hereof, with al diligence to

assemble your selves together ; and calling unto you al such

others as be named in the said commission, you shal first

cry and cal to God, to give you grace to execute the charge

committed unto you with al truth and uprightnes according

to your oaths, which you shal endeavoiu' your selves to do

in al things appertaining to your office accordingly, in such

sort as, al private malice, sloth, negligence, displesure, dis-

dain, corruption, and sinister affections set apart, it may

appear that you have God, and the preservation of your

sovereign Lord and natural country, before your eyes ; and

that you forget not, that by the same your selves, your

wives, and your children shal surely prosper, and be also

preserved.

For the better doing wherof you shal at this your first 20

assembly make a division of your selves into hundreds or

wepentakes ; that is to say, two at the least to have a spe-

cial ey and regard to the good and order of that or those

hundreds, to se the peace duly kept, to se vagabonds and

perlurbers of the peace ponyshed ; and that every man ap-

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ply himself to do as his calling doth require; and in al

things to keep good order, without alteration, innovation, or

contempt of any thing, that by the laws of our seid late sove-

reign Lord is prescribed and set forth unto us, for the better

direction and framing of our selves towards God and honest

policy. And if any person or persons, whom you shal think

you cannot rule and order without trouble to the country,

shal presume to do the contrary, upon your information to

us therof, we shal so aid and assist you in the execution of

justice and punishment of al such contemptuous offenders,

as the same shall be example to others.
And further, his Majesties plesure, by the advice and

consent aforesaid, is, that you shal take such order among

you, as you fail not once in every six weeks, til you shal be

otherwise commanded, to write unto us, the Lord Protec-

tor, and others of the Privy Council, in what state that shire

standeth ; and whether any notable things have happened,

or were like to happen in those parts, that you cannot re-

dress, which Avould be speedily met withal and looked unto,

or wherein you shal need any advice or counsil. To the

intent we may put our hands to the stay and reformation of

it in the beginning, as appertaineth : preying you al to

take order, that every commissioner in that shire may have a

double or copy of this lettre, both for his owne better in-

struction, and to shew to the jentylmen and such others as

inhabit in the hundreds especially appointed to them. That

every man may the better conform himself to do trouthe,

and help to the advauncement of justice, according to their

most bounden duties, and as they wil answer for the con-

trary. Thus fare you hartily wel. From the Tower of Lon-

don the xii. February.

Your loving friends,
E. Hertford,

T. Cantuarien. Tho. Wryothesly, Can- W. Seint John,

cell. Joh. Russcl, Cuth. Durysme, Edw. North.
Anthon. Browne, Will. Paget, An-

tony Denny, Will. Herbert.

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D. 21
Common places of state : draicn up hy Will. Thomas, esq.

dark of the Council. For King Edward's use.

I. A necessary order which a prince in hattayl must ob-

serve and keep, if he intend to subdue or pass through

his enemies lands.
FYRST, he must examin, whether hys cause be lawful e Bibiioth.

and just : for in a just cause God shal assyst hym. hann.Episc.

Item, He must provyde, that he have a sufficient nom- Eiiens.

ber of men, and money ready for them.

Item, He must counsail wyth the most wyse and expert

men of hys realm, of the weyght and daungers that may

fal : so that, as far as reason may lead hym, he be not ig-

noraunt what frute shal follow of hys battail.

Item, He must provyde that hys host lack no vyttayles.
Item, He must se that he lack no engine and other thyng

requyred to defend hymself, or invade his enemy.

Item, That he have capytayns expert in warrs, the which

shal execute hys commaundement.

Item, Let hym be assuryd of his own cuntry or he invade

hys enemy ; and yf case require, set that quyet, or ells de-

part not.
Item, Let hym leve behynd hym sum noble and trusted

man, to order, and, yf nede be, to subdew hys enemyes in

hys absence, and order them.
Item, That the most strongest fortresse be commytted to

his most trusty freyndes.

Item, That he oftentymes consult and counsail with hys

wyse and expert counsail : that he may know what is most

expedient to do, and let hym use theyr counsail.
Item, When he entreth his enemies lands, he shal cal hys

host before hym, that he may know the number, and yf he

fynde any unable to battail, to put hym away.
Item, That he have no superfluous carriage: for therof

groweth great dyspleasure; specially when a prynce in-

tendeth short victory. And then let hys vyttayles be hys

moost carry age. Wherin must be taken a good order; so

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that he have them wyth hym, or pass by such places wher

it may be had ; or els he washeth a stone, that is to say, he

laboureth in vayne.
II. How only hy customable usage of dedes of armes, the

Romayns had the victory of al other nations.

The old custome to chose knights at sixteen yere of age

was to be perfect in theyr age, and to the custom of warr.

Also a prynce must dyligently consyder which be most

princypal and most expert ; and over that, what every man

in hys host is most apt imto.

22 For it is very peryllous to set an unexpert man in auc-

thoryte. For dy vers men have dy vers wytts ; and as they

be, they must be used. Some be able to rewle an host ;

some an hundred fotemen ; other an hundred horsemen :

some be good on horse, some be good on fote, other be

good in felde, or battail, other to invade a castel, other to

defend it, other sodeynly on horse to invade an host, other

swyfte on horseback to espy news, other in ryding to com-

pass a felde and to note theyr number, other apt to chose a

mete or apt place for a felde, other be expert in [tlie theory

of] battaile, and naught when they be at it, whose counsail is

not to be refused : other have no experience, howbeit they

be valyaunt when they be put therto, other be both expert

and victorious, other be able neyther to counsail, defend,

nor invade, they be good at home. Qike secta inutilis :

other be good in ingynes, other to make bridges and pas-

sages, other to espy theyr enemies secrets in dyssimulated

habyts, other to gyve counsel and dyscuss ambassades,

other mete for execution of justice, other mete to kepe a

princes treasure, and other thyngs of charge.
Itern^ The foreward of the battail must be strong, as wel

with horsemen as with footmen : and let there be put hys

capitains of the valyauntest.
Itern^ He must consyder that liys felde be set to an ad-

vauntage, and accordyng therto the host must be ordered.

Item, That he provyde wher hys host shal commody-

ously rest, or he depart from whence he is ; and diligently

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let hym note the cuntry, whether it be plain, hilly, moun-

taynes, or ful of waters, and what straytes be therin.

Item, Yf he may, let hym have it trewly painted or he

enter ; so that the daungiers may be known, and the horse-

men may healpe the footmen in tyme of war.
Item, Let hym provyde that hys carriage trouble not hys

host, yf they be invaded : wherfore let them be conveyed

by the one syde, provyded that they be surely garded.
Item, There must be provysion that al artillery may be

surely carryed. For the loss of that is the peryl of the host.

Item, That the explorators be sent to espy the journeys

of the adversary es, and what vyttails they have, with al other

thyngs by them intended.
Item, That he take deliberation, yf he may get the friend-

ship of any great man of hys enemyes counsail, by corrup-

tion of money or otherwyse, by whom he may know the

purpose of hys said enemies.

Item, That every day there be sent light horsemen to

the adversaries host to perceyve theyr purpose, lest they be

sodeynly invaded: and also to the intent he may invade

them unprovyded, yf the case so requyred. Requiruntur

mult'i sea-eti etjideles.
Item, Yf he can perceyve that hys adversary intend hasty

battayl, let him take hymself in a wayte, that he may pro-

vyde hym in takyng of hys felde to his advauntage, and

put hymself shortly in order.

Item, Yf he knows any daungerous way betwene him 23

and hys enemyes, he shal by wysdom and dilygence pro-

cede toward that, until he come within three or four bow-

shotes, and ther put hymself in order to invade hys host.

Item, He must espy what artillery hys enemies use, and

what order they take.

Item, Every country hath hys maner of fyghting to

theyr advauntage, and theyr enemies confusion.

Item, He must beware of every hard and dowteful pas-

sage, except he have leasure to convaye hys host, or except

necessite compel hym.

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Item, It is better to abyde the comyng to a battayl, then

to invade : for the fyrst commers commonly lack order.

Item, Yf the enemyes ride out of order, and wander, in-

vade them ; for lack of order shal destroy them.

Item, Yf thyne enemies draw to hostry of no strength,

and disperse themselfe, then they be easylyer taken.

Item, When the host draweth neer to the enemies, let

the wards come nygh together for their better surcottes.

Item, That footmen be on the one syde not myxt with

horsemen, quod generaretur coirfusio.

Item, In every ward must be some with hand gunns,

crosbowes, and other manual ingins; and likewise in the

latter ward, to put asyde the light horsemen.
Item, Yf he may, let hym provyde that the sun and

wynd be for hym, specially for dust, yf there be any.

Item, Yf he be horsed, and stronger than hys enemy, let

hym provoke hym to open battayle in the playne felde ; and

yf his footmen be myghtier than hys enemies horsemen, let

hym take the advauntage of a streyght place.

Item, When he invadeth hys enemy, let hys caryage be

put in the one syde, and surely garded.

Item, He shal put hys ingyns of battayl betwene him

and his enemyes, and wel defend them.

Item, Yf he be compelled to follow hys enemy, and for

default of vittayl to invade therin ; or yf he dread lest hys

host fortify his company, so that he cannot escape, except

he overcome his host, let hym study to break hys felde, that

is to say, let hym vex them with gonnes, and other poynts of

warr; so that they may dysorder themselves.

Item, A prynce must note the tyme, and use as it serv-

eth hym.

Item, When he is actually entred battayl, hys host shal

stand styl in a cluster, and in no wyse remove from the

place, whatsoever he se ; though he se his company partly

flee, and partly slayne ; and also though he se hys enemyes

flee. For order maketh and marreth al.
Item, When thou hast invaded thyne enemies with the

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fore and hynder ward, let the myddle stand styfF and close

to help both, as nede shal requyre. And when both wards

have wel fought, let the myddle ward fyght ; but for al that,

let them not dysorder themselfe, except compulsyon.

Item, He must have provysion for passages of waters. 24
Item, Before the battayle, a prynce must se the order of

his host, and reform al thyngs mysordered : and thys may

not be forgotten.
Item, He shal shew them, that he wyl lyve and dy with

them that day : and that, besydes theyr perpetual honour,

he wyl never forget to honour and reward them. And for

this, let him se couragyous prynces orations, as Alexander,

Catalyne, with other infinite, &c.
Item, He shal neyther magnify his enemy, nor despise

hym, but encourage hys capytains to kepe theyr order;

and if that they so do, the vyctory wyl follow.
Item, He shal practyse, that both hys enemy and hys

host may alway thynk that more strength is commyng to

hym.
Item, That he se no robbyng, and" that he commaund

hys captayns to se that observed upon payne of death.

Item, That he execute indifferently justice, and punish

them that cause debates.

Item, When hys enemies do treat of peace, then let hym-

self lefte awayt. Pro'pter 'pericula in hoc casu experta.

Item, Let no man pass his cuntry, and invade another,

without nede requyre ; except he se how he may return

with honour, or how he may surely abyde there. It is but

symplenes to go up and down in a cuntry, and to ryde far

in it. And hard it is to be long sure in a cuntry straunge,

and to return with honour. For in the time of Talbot,

xl knyghts of England layd sege to the town of Roane ;

and when they lacked that was necessary for theyr defence,

therfore they lost it. And lyke thynges were done at Bri-