Search York

of al good learnyng, did anymate me : but also consydcryng

and expendyng with my self, how great a numbre of excel-

lent godly wyts and wryters, learned with the best, as the

tymes served, hath bene in this your region ; not only at

such tymes as the Roman emperors had recourse to it, but

also in those days that the Saxons prevayled of the Bry-

tayns, and the Normans of the Saxons ; I could not but

with a fervent zele and an honest courage commend them

to memory : els alas ! lyke to have bene perpetually ob-

scured, or to have bene lyghtly remembred, as uncerteyn

shaddows.
Wherfore I, knowing by infynite varyete of bokes, and

assyduous reading of them, who hath bene learned, and who

hath wrytten from tyme to tyme in this realm, have digested

into four bokes the names of them, Avith their lyvcs and

monuments of learnyng. And to theym added thys tytle,

De Viris illustiibiis : following the profy table example of

Hierome, Gennadie, Cassiodore, Severian, and Tritemie, a

late writer. But alway so handlyng the matter, that I have

more expatiated in thys camp, than they did, as in a thyng

that desyred to be sumwhat at large, and to have ornature.

The first boke, begynnyng at the Druides, is deducted unto

the tyme of the comyng of S. Augustyne into England.

The second is from the tyme of Augustyne unto the advent

of the Normans. The third from the Normans to the end

of the most honorable reygn of the myghty, famous, and

prudent Prynce Henry VII. your father. The fourth

begynneth with the name of your Majesty, whose glory in

learning is to the world so clearly known, that though emong

the lyves of other learned men, I have accurately celebrated

the names of Bladudus, IVIolmutius, Constantinus Magnus,

Sigebertus, Alfridus, Alfridus Magnus, Athelstanus, and

1 i 3

486 APPENDIX OF
Henry the First, kyngs, and your progenytours ; and also

Ethelward, second son to Alfride the Great; Humfryd,

Duke of Glocester ; and Tipetote, Earl of Worcester ; yet

conferred with your Grace, they seem as smal lyghts (yf I

may freely say my judgment, your hygh modesty not of-

fended) in respect of the day star.

Now farther to insinuate to your Grace, of what matters

the writers, whose lyves I have congested into four bokes,

hath treated of: I may ryghtly say, that besyde the cog-

nycyon of the four tongues, in the which part of them hath

excelled, that there is no kynd of lyberal scyence, or any

331 feat concernyng learnyng, in the which they have not

shewed certain arguments of great felycite of wyt. Yea,

and concernyng the interpretacyon of holy Scripture, both

after the auncyent form, and synce the scholastical trade,

they have reygned as in a certayn excellency. And as

touching historical knowledg, there hath bene to the nom-

bre of a ful hundreth or mo, that from tyme to tynie hath,

with great dylygence and no less fayth, wold to God with

lyke eloquence, prescribed the acts of your most noble pre-

decessors, and the fortunes of this your realm so incredybly

great, that he that hath not seen and throughly redd theyr

works, can lytle pronounce in thys part.
Wherfore, after that I had perpended the honest and

profytable studyes of these hystoryographers, I was totally

enflamed with a love to se throughly al those parts of thys

your opulent and ample realm, that I had redd of in the

aforesayd wryters. Insomuch that al my other occupacyons

intermytted, I have so travayled in your domynyons, both

by the sea coasts and the myddle parts, sparyng neyther

labour nor costs, by the space of these six years past, that

there is almost neyther cape nor bay, haven, creke or pere,

ryver or confluence of ryvers, breches, washes, lakes, meres,

fenny waters, mountaynes, valleys, mores, hethes, forests,

woods, cityes, burghs, castels, pryncypal manor-places, mo-

nasteries and colleges, but I have seen them ; and noted in

so doing a whole world of thyngs very memorable.

Thus instructed, I trust shortly to se the tyme, that hke

RECORDS AND ORIGINALS. 487

as Carolus Magnus had, among his tresures, thre large and

notable tables of silver rychly enamaled, one of the syte and

description of Constantynople, another of the syte and fi-

gure of the magnificent cyty of Rome, and the thyrd of the

descripcion of the world ; so shal your Majestic have tiiys

your world and impery of England so set fourth in a (jua-

drate table of sylver, yf God send me lyfe to accomplysh

my begynnyng, that your Grace shal have ready knowledg,

at the fyrst syght, of many right delectable, fruteful, and

necessary pleasures, by contemplacion therof, as often as

occasyon shal move you to the syght of it. And because

that it may be more permanent and farther known, than to

have it engraven in sylver or brass, I entend, by the leave

of God, within the space of twelve monthes following, such

a descripcion to make of your realm in wryting, that it shal

be no masteiy after, for the graver or painter to make the

lyke by a perfect example.
Yea, and to wade further in thys matter, wheras now al-

most no man can wel guesse at the shaddow of the auncyent

names of havens, ryvers, promontories, hills, woods, cyties,

townes, castels, and varyete of kynds of people, that Cesar,

Livy, Strabo, Diodorus, Fabius Pictor, Pomponius Mela,

Plinius, Cornelius Tacitus, Ptolomeus, Sextus Rufus, Am-

mianus Marcellinus, Solinus, Antoninus, and dyvers other

make mencyon of; I trust to open this wyndow, that the

lyght shal be seen, so long, that is to say, by the space of a

whole thousand years, stopped up, and the old glory of your

renoumed Britaine to reflorish through the v.ovld.
This don, I have matter at plenty already prepared to

this purpose, that is to say, to wryte an hystory ; to the

which I entend to adscribe this title, De AntiquHate Bri- 332

tarmica, or els, CiviUs Historia. And this work I entend to

divide into so many bokes, as there be sheres in England,

and shyres and great domynions in Wales. So that I

esteme that this volume wyl enclude a fyfty books. Wher-

of each one severally shal contayn the begynnyngs, en-

creases, and memorable acts of the chief townes ami castels

of the provynce allotted to it.

XI -I-

488 APPENDIX OF

Then I entend to dystrybute into syx bokes such matter

as I liave already collected, concernyng the isles adjacent

to your noble realm, and undre your subjection. Wherof

three shal be of these isles, Vecta, Mona, and Menavia,

sometime kingdoms.
And to superadd a work as an ornament, and a ryght

comely garland, to the entrepryses aforesayd, I have se-

lected stuff to be distributed into three bokes, the which I

purpose thus to entytle, De Nobilitate Britannica. The

fyrst shal declare the names of kings and queues, with

tJieyr chyldren, dukes, earles, lords, captaynes, and rulers

in this realm, to the comyng of the Saxons, and their con-

quest. The second shal be of the Saxons and Danes, to

the victory of Kyng Wylliam the Great. The thyrd from

the Normans to the reygn of your most noble Grace, de-

scendyng lyneally of the Brytayn, Saxon, and Norman

kings. So that al noblemen shal clerely perceyve theyr

lyneal parental.
Now yf it shal be the pleasure of Almyghty God, that I

may lyve to perfourm these thyngs that be already begon,

and in a great forwardness, I trust that thys your realm

shal so wel be known, ones paynted with hys natyve co-

lours, that the renoum therof shal geve place to the glory

of no other regyon. And my great labours and costs, pro-

cedyng from the most habundaunt fountayn of your infinite

goodness towards me, your pore scholar and most humble

servaunt, shal be evydently seen to have not onely pleased,

but also profyted the studyous, gentyl, and equal reders.

This is the brief declaration of my laborious journey, taken

by mocyon of your Hyghnes, so much studying at al hours

about the fruteful preferment of good letters and auncyent

vertues.

Christ contynue your most royal estate, and the prospe-

ryte, with succession in kingly dygnyte, of your dere and

worthyly beloved son Prynce Edward, grauntyng you a

numbre of pryncely sons by the most gracyous, benigne, and

modest lady, your Quene Katarync.

RECORDS AND ORIGINALS.

489

Number CXIX.
A benevolence granted to the King by the subjects^ iq)on

commission to all the counties. 36". Hen. VIII. ann.

1544.

333

Counties.
Cestr. cum civit.
Bedd. - -
Buck. - -
Bristol - -
Cant.
Hunt.
Cornub. -
Cumbr.
Devon
Essex
Hertf. - -
Glouc.
Hereff. - -
Kant
Lane.
Lincoln -
Midd. - -
Monmouth
Northt. - -
Nott. - -
Derb. - -
Norff. - -
SufF. - -
Oxon
Berk. - -
Rutland - -
Salop
Staff. - -
Somerset

Benevolence, jj

640 6

8

1100

1261 18

si

365 11

4

1788 14

10

650 13

8

643 2
57 15

8

4527 2

4

5251 18
680 18

2528 19

4

1155 12

8

6471 8
660 2

2

2176 15

8

2386 9
233 12

2108 16

4

432 2

438 9

4046 7

4512 6

1241 14

1407

136
875 14

464 4

4

4
1

2 10
4

2

Benevolence.
- 1418 3
- 2453 15
- 2379 6
- 1443
- 1641 16
- 629 14
- 1769 5
- 1573 12

- 6807 13 4

Counties

Dorset

Surr.

Sussex
Southt. - -

Warr. - -

Leic.
Wilts - -

Wigorn -

Civit. London

Ebor - -

Northumbr, -

Westmerland -

Dunolm -
WALLIA.

Angless. - 195

Brecon - - 161
Cardigan - 186
Carmarthen - 218
Carnarvon - 136
Denbigh - 332
Flint - - 163
Glamorgan - 316
Merioneth - 108
Mountgomery 114
Radnor - - 77
Pembr. - - 341
Haverfore West 91

4 MSS. D. G.

_ Hicks, Eq.

-^ Aur, et Bar.

2
4

4
8

13 10
10 8
1 4
12 4
13

9 11
19

13

16

Sum total, 70723 18 10

490 APPENDIX OF

334 "Number CXX.
Catalogus Tractatuum ac Foederum, cum Ferdinando His-

pano, cum Ccesare, et Rege Gallo, a Rege Henrico VIII.

i7iitorum, seriatim dispositus.
I. Cum Ferdinando Rege CastellcB.

Anno Reg. HENRICI VIII. ^^°. annoque Dom. 1510.

E Bibiioth. Tractatus pacis et ligae Ferdinand! Reg. et Joannae Re-

Ca"guia, gin. Castellag cum Henrico Rege Angliae. Westmonast.

^' !• Confirmatio tractatus ligae et pacis Reg. Ferdinandi et
Reginae Castellae. Westm.
Commissio Ferdinandi Reg. Castellae ad tractand. pacem

cum Reg. Hen. VIII. 6. Januarii. Westm.

II. Cum Ccesare.

Anno Reg. HENRICI VIII. 2^0. annoque Dom. 1510.

Confirmatio tractatus pacis fact, per Caesarem Maxinii-

lianum cum Henr. VIII. Rege Angliae. Dat. 12. Octobr.

Westmon.
Anno Reg. HENRICI VIII. 5'". annoque Dom. 1513.
Tractatus pacis et ligae inter oratores serenissimi Pon-

tificis, Imperatoris, Henr. VIII. Reg. Angliae, et Regis His-

paniae conclus. Dat 1513.
Quoddam foedus de matrimonio contrahendo inter Caro-

lum Principem Hispaniarum, et Mariam sororem Reg.

Henrici, incipiens Maximilianus^ &c. 15. Nov.
Confirmatio tractatus amicitiae inter Maximilianum Im-

peratorem et Henricum VIII.

Acquietantia Maximiliani Imperatoris de receptione

100,000 coronarum auri de Rege Hen. VIII.

• Confessio de receptione 3000 coronarum auri per An-
thonium Fauconbergh Dnum. de Ligne, 27. Maii.
Quidam tractatus habitus in oppid, insularum, dat. 16.

Octobr. incipiens Nos Majgareta, &c.

Confirmatio tractatus Maximiliani Imperatoris cum Hen.

VIII.

RECORDS AND ORIGINALS. 491
Ratiflcatio certorum articulorum conclusorum inter Maxi-335

mllianum Imperatorem Romanor. Henric. VIII. et Ferdi-

nand. Reg. Arragoniae. Dat. London, in castro Bernardi

18. April.

Confirmatio tractatus habiti in oppid. insularum die 17.

Octob. inter Maximilianvun Imperatorem et Regem Anglia?

et Regem Arragoniae. Dat. 17. Octobr.
Juramentum Ludovici Carroze pro parte Ferdinand.

Regis Arragoniae, et Regin. Castelliae, quod bene et fideli-

ter observabunt tractatvun amicitiae, et singula capitula in

eodem tractatu content, cum illustriss. Hen. VIII. Reg.

Angliae. Dat. Lond. in castro Bernardi, 18. Apr.
Anno Regis HENRICI VIII. IS", annoque Dom. 1521.
Requisitio Caroli Imperatoris Henrico VIII. Reg. An-

gliae fact, pro observatione foederis inter ipsos habit, contra

Franciscum Gallorum Regem.
Transumptum tractatus pacis init. et fact, inter Carolum

Imperatorem electum, et Francorum Regem, Calisiis 15!^1.

mediante Reverend'"''^ Dno. Cardinal! locumtenente Regis

Hen. VIII.

Carol us Quintus Imperator queritur de diversis injuriis

sibi illatis per Franciscum Francorum Reg. et rogat villain

Fontrabi sibi restitui ; alioquin bellum denunciet adversus

Gallos ; foedere in hoc jungens cum Hen, VIII. Reg. An-

gliae. Dat. 6. Dec.
Commissio pro contrahendis sponsalibus cum Dna. Prin-

cipissa. Dat. Brug. 15. Aug.

Ratiflcatio conventionis Dnae. Margaretae de dote Dnae.

Principissae. Dat. 14. Sept.

Instrumentum Caesaris super conventionem servand. per

Dnam. Margaretam factam.

Protestatio Reverend. Dni. Cardinalis de non rccedendo

a foedere Bruges fact.

Tractatus Calisias fact, per oratores Hen. VIII. et Caroli

electi contra Gallorum Regem, et alios, ipsorum dominia

detinentes.
Commissio facta Dno. Cardinali ad tractand. de pace et

492 APPENDIX OF

amicitla inter Imperatorem et Franciscum Reg. Franciag.

Dat. London. 9Q. Julii.

Procuratorium Caesareae Majestatis pro tractand. de ju-

diciis. Dat. 6. Decemb.

1^071 ultra procedunt negotiationes inter Regem Anglice

et Imperatorem in hoc MS.

III. Cum Galliarnm Regihus.

Anno Regis HENRICI VIII. \^^. annoque Dom. 1509.

Juramentum Regis Francorum super observationem pa-

cis et amicitiae.

Juramentum oratorum ejusdem Regis in Anglia super

observationem pacis et amicitiae eodem anno.

336 Anno Regis HENRICI VIII. 2d«. annoque Dom. 1510.

Instrumentum submissionis Ludovici Regis Francorum :

per quam recognovit se debere Hen. VIII. Reg. Angliae

quod restat insolutum de summa 120,000 coronarum auri de

arreragiis debitis Edwardo Reg. quondam Angliae.
Anno Reg. HENRICI VIII. So. annoque Dom. 1511.
Receptio 13,000 coronarum Franciae de Francisco [Lu-

dovico] Rege Francorum solut. Richardo Carewe locumte-

nent. Villae Calisiae, Decemb. 9.
Anno Reg. HENRICI VIII. 6'°. annoque Dom. 1514.
Juramentum matrimonii contracti per verba de presenti

inter Ludovicum Francorum Regem et Dominam Mariam,

filiam Hen. VII.
Tractatus matrimonii inter Lodovicum Francorum Re-

gem, et Dnam. Mariam, Hen. VII. filiam contrahend.

Verba matrimonialia signata manu Reg. Francorum inter

eum et Dnam. Mariam filiam Hen. VII.

Literae patentes dotis Reg. Franciae 8. Octobr.
Confirmatio tractatus matrimonii inter Lodovicum Fran-

corum Reg. et D. Mariam praedict.

Instrumentum juramenti Lodovici Francorum Reg. su-

per observationc tractatus pacis et amicitiae praestiti.

RECORDS AND ORIGINALS. 493

Tractatus pacis cum Lodovico Francorum Reg. 14.

Septembr.

Literae acquietantiales Lodovici Francorum Reg. super

deliberatione Dnae. Mariae una cum jocalibus, vasis argen-

teis, Sic. in villa Abbevillae.
Obligatio oratorum Lodovici Francorum Reg. 7. Aug.
Tractatus amicitia^ inter Lodovicum Francorum Reg. et

Hen. VIII. Anglia? Reg. 7. Aug.

Commissio Lodovici Franc. Reg. fact, oratoribus suis pro

obligatione fienda.

Juramentum Lodovici Francorum Reg. super observa-

tione tractatus pacis et amicitiae.

Commissio ad tractandum de pace, 29. Julii.
Commissio Lodovici Francorum Reg. ad contraliendum

matrimonium cum Maria sorore Hen. VIII. 19. Julii.

Commissio Lodovici Fran. Reg. ad tractandum et con-

cludend. cum Hen. VIII. super matrimonio contrahendo,

8. Aug.
Obligatio Lodovici Franc. Reg. facta Hen. VIII. pro so-

lutione summae unius millionis, sive decies centum millium

coronarum auri, 14. Sept.
Commissio ad tractandum super pacem fact, per Francis- 337

cum Francorum Reg. 13. Januarii.

Commissio ad tractandum pro obligatione facienda, 14.

Januarii.

Anno Reg. HENRICI VIII. 7'^«. annoque Dom. 1515.

Confirmatio pacis et amicitiae per Franciscum Franc.

Instrumentum publicum sui>er praestationem juramenti

Francorum.

Instrumentum submissionis fact, per Franciscum Reg.

Francorum pro una millione auri solvend. certis modis et

formis.
Obligatio Ludovici [Francisci] Reg. Franc, pro pecunia

solvenda, 8. Maii.

Juramentum Reg. Franc, manu sua signatum super ob-

servatione amicitiae.

494 APPENDIX OF

Intlmatlo de comprehensione Scotorum, 6. Junii.

Obligatio oratorum Reg. Franciae pro solutione unius

millionis auri.
Anno Reg. HENRICI VIII. 10^°. annoque Dom. 1518.
Tractatus matrimonii inter Delphinum et D. Mariam,

London. 4. Octob.

Commissio pro sponsalibus contrahend. inter Delphin. et

D. Mariam, Andegaven. 31. Julii.

Commissio Francisci Francor. Reg. ad perficiend. spon-

salia inter Delphinum et Mariam.

Instrumentum super pollicitatione sponsalium contrahen-

dorum inter Delphin. et Dnam. Mariam.

Confirmatio tractatus matrimonii inter Delphin. et Ma-

riam.
Instrumentum super juramentum matrimonii per Reg.

Francor. praestitum, una cum originali eidem annex, manu

dicti Franc. Reg. signat.

Commissio Francor. Regis Francisci pro sponsalibus, An-

giers.
Instrumentum sponsaliorum.

Ratificatio regis Francorum super tractatu habit, et con-

clus. cum suis oratoribus de mutuo coUoquio habendo int.

Reges Anglias et Franciae, 21. Dec.
Confirmatio tractatus pro depraedationibus int. Reges An-

gliae et Franciae cohercend.

Tractatus depraedationis, 4. Octobr.
Tractatus mutui interventus, et mutui coUoquii utrius-

que principis.

Juramentum pro observatione tractatus depragdationum

una cum originali per Dominum Reg. signatum.

Tractatus amicitiae et pacis Londini inchoat. cum ora-

torib. Reg. Angliae.

Commissio ad liberandum et tradendum certos nobiles

Franciae obsides, 13. Januarii.

Juramentum [instrumentum] super juramento pacis manu

Francorum Reg. signat. eidemque annex.

338 Commissio Reg. Francorum de et super mutuo conventu

RECORDS AND ORIGINALS. 495

et colloquio : ac de loco, tempore, modo et forma : et simi-

liter de numero et qualitate personarum.

Instrumentum super juramento per Reg. Francorum

praestito super materiis concernentib. Reg. et regnum

Scotiae.
Tractatus et confoedei'atio generalis pacis et concordia;

int. illustriss. Angliae et Franciae Reges, et Romanum Pon-

tificem, pro expeditione in Turcas, Londin.
Confirmatio tractatus pro redditione civitatis Torna-

censis cum suis appenden. 16. Dec.

Instrumentum super confessione receptionis civitatis Tor-

nacensis.

Instrumentum super jui'amento tractatus Tornacen. una

cum originali annex, manu Regis Franciae signat.

Commissio ad tractand. pro liberatione civitatis Torna-

cen. 31. Julii.

Tractatus Tornacensis.
Articulus comprehensionis Scotorum.
Obligatio facta per Franciscum Francor. Reg. Hen. VIII.

pro solutione 60,000 coronarum auri. Parisiis, 12. Ja-

nuarii.
Commissio Francisci Francor. Reg. ad tractand. de ami-

citia cum oratoribus Reg. Angliae, ult. Julii.

Articuli recessus manibus Francor. Reg. subscript. Pa-

risiis, 12. Januarii.

Commissio Francisci Francor. Reg. fact. Gasparo de Co_

ligny Marescliallo Franciae ad tractand. cum oratoribus Hen.

VIII. pro receptione villae sive civitat. Tornacen.
Commissio Gas])ari de Coligny facta Ludovico Proisy

Ballio de Tournay ad recipiend. villam civitat. ad castrum

de Tournay, Seynt Amande, et Morteigne.
Potestas data per Gasparum de Coligny au Mons. Hodyn,

pro deliberatione villas de Mortayne.

Protestatio facta tempore liberationis villae de Mortaigne.
Instructions given to the Bishop of Rocliester, the Earl

of Somerset, Captain of Calais, and otlicr ambassadors, on

the behalf of the King of England, to treat with the am-

bassadours of France.

496 APPENDIX OF

Anno Reg. HENR. VIII. 11. annoque Dom. 1519
Confirmatio tractatus mutui coUoquii Principum apud

Guynes.
Commissio et procuratio Francor. Reg. fact. Dno. Wolsey

Cardinali de mutuo colloquio et praesentia Dnorum. Regum

in campo juxta Guysnes, 10. Januarii.

Commissio Francor. Reg. fact. Dno. Cardinali Ebor. ad

tractand. et concludend. cum Hen. VIII. super modo et

forma et loco colloquii mutui. Dat. 23. Febr.
339 Anno Reg. HENR. VIII. 12. annoque Dom. 1520.
Articuli et capitul. tractatus inter Reges Angliae et

Francis una cum schedula annex, jurament. praestit. per

diet. Francor. Regem sua propria manu subscript. Dat. 6.

Junii.
Literae Christianiss. Regis Franciae ad Hen. VIII. de

permutatione obsidum, Febr. 4.
Confirmatio Reg. Gallorum fact, super quibusdam arti-

culis tractatus belli ofFensivi.

Anno Reg. HENR. VIII. 13. annoque Dom. 1521.
Commissio ad Dnum. Cardinalem existen. in villa Calis

ad arctiorem amicitiam et firmiorem treugam percutiendam