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. tain trai-
sons following: Christopher Ashton the elder, and Christo- tors>

pher Ashton the younger, Francis Horsey and Edward

Horsey, Edward Cornwal, alias Corewel, Richard and

Nicolas Tremain, Richard ' Rith, and Roger Reynolds,

John Dale, John Caltham, Hammond, Meverel, and divers

others.
April 15, at Greenwich, was a nomination of certain new New bi-

bishops : as Dr. White, bishop of Lincoln, to succeed at
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CHAP. Winchester; Dr. Weston, dean of Westminster, to be bi-

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J shop of Lincoln ; (for now there was, or was to be, an abbot
Anno 1556. there, instead of a dean ; and so the dean was to be provided

for otherwise ;) and the dean of Durham to be bishop of

Carlisle. But Oglethorp, the dean of Windsor, was at last

put into the see ; and the said deanery of Windsor fell unto

Dr. Weston ; and the dean of Durham, Dr. Thomas Wat-

son, was preferred to Lincoln, but not before August the

next year, the temporalities of that see being bestowed, as it

seems, upon Pole.

Two cast April 21, were Throe;morton and Woodall, or Udal, cap-
for treason. * ' © t ' .
tain of the Isle of Wight, arraigned at the sessions-house in

Southwark for a conspiracy against the Queen, and other

matters, and cast to be drawn and quartered. The accusers

were, Rosse, Bedyl, and Dethick, who were of the party.

And on the 28th day they were executed. The accusation

was a purpose of robbing the Exchequer, and making a re-

bellion.

Twelve per- The 24th, six persons were carried, betimes in the morn-

burnt° e m &> to Smithfield to be burnt ; all Essex men ; and two of

them, Drakes and Tims, ministers. And six more into the

country, to be burnt there: most of these of Colchester,

where they were burnt.

Lord Cham- On the 25th day, Sir John Gage, lord chamberlain to the
berlain bu- ^. 1 • i
ried. Queen, was buried.
On the 29th, were brought to the Tower several gentle-

men of the west, for treason ; viz. Sir William Courtnay,

Sir John Perrot, Sir John Pollard, Sir Nic. Arnold, (who

was in Wyat's plot, and pardoned,) Sir John Chichester,

and divers others.
Abusive In this month of April also came a letter from the Privy
Council, dated the 30th day, to the Lord President of the

north, to forbid interludes, played in those parts, exposing

the King and Queen, and Roman religion. Some of these

players were the servants of Sir Francis Leke, and wore his

badge : who was therefore required to seek for them, and

298 send them unto the Council in the north. And all justices in

those quarters were required to take up such persons, and

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to punish them as vagabonds. The Council's letter may be CHAP.
i • i ^ . i XXXVIII.

read in the Catalogue.

May the 7th, Harry Peckham, a son of Sir Edm. Peck- Anno 1556.

ham, and John Daniel, were arraigned at Guildhall, and °*
. . May.
cast, and sentenced to die the death of traitors, by hanging, Tw0

men

drawing, and quartering: but not executed till July the executed.

7th, when they were hanged on a gallows on Tower-hill,

then cut down and headed, and their heads carried to Lon-

don-bridge, and set up there, and their bodies buried at

Allhallows Barkin.
May the 9th, one Leyke, an auditor of the Queen's, wore A servant of

a paper round about Westminster-hall ; and after, was set set on the

on the pillory. His crime was for deceiving the Queen of pillory.

her receipts : for this man had received certain sums of mo-

' ney from the Queen's tenants, (for which the tenants had

their acquittances under his hand,) and afterwards he avow-

ed he had received none.-
May the 11th, the Lord Paget having been sent to the Lord Paget.

King, had his passport signed by him to return into Eng-

land.
On the 12th day was Captain William Staunton arraigned Captain

at Guildhall, cast, and sentenced to be drawn from the executed.

Tower unto Tyburn, and there hanged and quartered, for

a conspiracy against the King and Queen, and for other

matters. And, accordingly, on the 19th day, execution

passed upon him, and his head was set on London-bridge

the morrow after.
On the 13th, Sir Richard Dobbs, skinner, late lord mayor Sir Richard

and alderman of London, died, between four and five in the ried#

morning: and, on the 18th day following, was buried very

magnificently, after the old popish fashion, with dirge, and

the morrow-mass of requiem, and a great dinner.
On the 15th dav, two tall men were carried in a cart Twoburnt
at Bow •
from Newgate unto Stratford Bow to be burnt: the one

blind, and the other lame : the one named Hugh Leveroke,

a painter, dwelling in St. SwithinVlane ; and the other, that

is, the blind man, dwelling in St. Thomas Apostle. And

On the 16th, between nine and ten of the clock afore- And three at
Smithfield.

490 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

CHAP, noon, were three women, who were of Essex, carried unto
[ Smithfield, to end their lives by fire.
Anno 1556. On the 25th of this month of May, West, esquire,
Dacre's'sons w * tn s ' x or e ig nt men m ms company, was met beside Rede-

commit a gund, in Yorkshire, by the Lord Dacre's sons, and forty

men with them, and by them slain : a barbarous practice,

too common in those days.

Now to look a little into the affairs of these northern

parts, as they stood about this time.

Captain About ploughing time in April and May, the State were
raises forces raising men for service, either against the Scots, or upon

north! fears at home : and one Captain Drury had commission to

raise certain numbers of men in Yorkshire, to serve under

him. But the Court procured hereby many enemies in those

parts, by granting this commission to one that was a stranger,

and withal proceeded in this work so roughly and unjustly.

When as, if the Queen had but sent an order to the Council

in the north, for the raising such a number of men, accord-

299 m g» as *t seems, was wont to be done, all would have passed

Avith more ease and quiet to the country. But this man

took men away from the market and the plough, and pressed

them for his soldiers ; and charged many wealthy mer-

chants, and divers good freeholders, and other husbandmen,

to serve him to their undoing. And hereby it came to

pass, that men refrained the markets, and neglected their

tillage ; and the whole country was disquieted.

Concerning This tne ca reful and prudent Earl of Shrewsbury, the

buses the lord president, signified privately with his own hand to the

Lord Presi- Archbishop of York, lord chancellor, advertising him,

to the " that this Captain Drury had more troubled the country

ExQffic " f° r those few men he was to raise, than it had been for

Armor. « the whole former service against Scotland. Adding, how

" he had no respect for the town of Hull, being the sea-

" coast, but took men thence, that ought to have been re-

" served for the strength and safety of that important place,

'' and for the supply of the shipping there. But that beside

" twenty men taken from that town, he had also taken good

" merchants and others : that he had also pressed in the

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c * shire above three or four hundred men more than his CHAP.

" number : and that whereas, if he would have made the '

" justices and officers privy to his doings, he might assuredly Anno 1556 -

" been well furnished of his number. He sent forth light
" men into every part of the shire, who much abused the
" inhabitants. And that by bills, which he took upon him
" to write, he commanded constables and officers to send
" forth such men as he named in his bill. And that he had
" oppressed three or four poor men in a village, Avho before
" had been much charged to the furniture of the present
" service, with soldiers and carriages, as their abilities would
" serve. And lastly, that by other bills of his own hand,
" he licensed men to depart after he had pressed them, and
" taken of some, twenty shillings, and of others, fifteen shil-
" lings the man."
These northern people, especially the most northern of The disor-

them, were at this time too barbarous and rude, and wanted nort i, e rn

the discipline of good laws : for the marches on both the P e0 P le »

realms, as the Lord Wharton wrote to the Lord President

of the north, were much given to do evil. And the gentle-

men in Northumberland addicted themselves to the making

parties one against another, and appeared in great bands :

which created the said Lord Wharton much pains to make an

accord between them. There were many coiners here ; who

found friends and receivers in these quarters. Such were

the family of the Pottes of Riddesdale ; who therefore were

under sureties, taken of them by Sir Tho. Darcy : but they

soon after fled into Scotland.
The harbouring of these and the like malefactors, and Apprehen-
i it l tj S10ns from
the being furnished with Irench soldiers that were at Jed- the scots,

burgh, a place upon the very borders, made the English

now very jealous of the Scots; especially considering the

French were in open hostility with the Spaniard, so nearly

allied to England. The Scotch Queen, on the 6th of May,

(for what intent was not known,) sent for these soldiers ;

and so they departed for a time from Jedburgh. This the

Lord Wharton thought fit to impart to the Lord President,

who acquainted the Court therewith; and soon after, by

492 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

CHAP, letters from the King and Queen, the Council in the north
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had command to order watch of beacons for the sea. The
Anno 1556. Council speedily sent these letters to the Lord Wharton,
300 warden of those marches; who accordingly sent for the
The order i us tices of the peace of the county of Northumberland to
for watch- * . , • •-• m i • i i i ¦• *
ingthebea-him at the castle of Alnwic, and gave them order m that
cons in the behalf.

north.
A meeting May the 12th, being Thursday, was a meeting of the

of Scots and g co t s anc [ English at Redingburn, for the making; satisfac-
Entdish
upon the tion of either side, for wrongs done on the borders. For the

borders. g cotS) was tne Earl Bothwel ; and for the English, the Lord

Wharton : who sent his deputy with instructions signed

with his hand for their order that day, which they shewed

to the Scots. Whereupon they continued together for two

days, until they had filed for the subjects of either realm

one and twenty attentates. Then the deputies appointed

to meet at the same place, and to make deliverance, the

Thursday in Whitsun-week next approaching, and so to

continue, until the one and twenty attentates were deli-

vered for on either side. It was there also appointed and

agreed, upon the Lord Wharton's said instructions, that a

day of march should also be kept at Heppeth-Gait-Head on

the second of June. This conclusion that meeting had,

though at the beginning things looked angry. The Scots

laboured to send more men than the English : for which

purpose the Queen sent from her the Lord Cesforth and

other gentlemen, to furnish their power. Yet they that

attended the Lord Wharton's deputy made a greater power

than they. And so they met, with some ceremonies ; and

the Scots had strange talk in their beginning, but after, they

proceeded to the premises.

Friendly And on the 14th of this May, the Lord Wharton received
trfeLord " 1 ^ et t ers from the Lord Hume, tending to the good execution

Hume. of the treaty with the wardenry. And Monday the 18th,

the Lord Wharton's deputies were appointed to meet him

or his deputies at Coldstream ; shewing themselves now more

inclinable to a good understanding than they had shewn two

months before, notwithstanding their late brags, wherein

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they had been somewhat met withal. But now to come CHAP,

nearer home, and to look into the transactions and events XXXVIIL

of the month of June. Anno 1 556.

June the 2d was Sir Richard Morgan, a judge, and one June -

of the Privy Council to Queen Mary, buried at St. Magnus JStaET

at Bridge-foot, with an herald at arms bearing his coat ar-

mour, and other funeral decencies. And Mr. Chancellor of

London, Dr. Darbishire, preached.
The same day were arraigned at Westminster-hall three Three trai-

gentlemen, Mr. Rosey, Mr. Bedyl, and Mr. Dethick, for Smnedlnd

conspiring the King and Queen's death : and were all three exe ™ted.

cast, and sentenced to be drawn, hanged, and quartered.

And on the 9th day they were drawn from the Tower unto

Tyburn, and there hanged and quartered. Their members

buried, but their heads exalted ; Rosey's on London-bridge,

Bedyl's over Ludgate, and Dethick's over Aldersgate.

On the 8th was a goodly procession at Whitehall by the A proces-

Spaniards : the hall being hung with rich cloth. And at Spaniards.

the skreen there was an altar made, richly hanged with a

canopy, adorned with great basins and candlesticks, clean

gilt. In the court, at the four corners, were also set up as

many goodly altars, hanged with cloth of gold, and each 301

had a canopy embroidered. There was in the court also a

procession-way made, with an hundred young oaks set in

the ground, and on every side set hard by the wall with

green boughs, (resembling, methinks, the groves where the

ancient idolatry used to be committed.) Then came the

procession out of the chapel, singing and playing with the

regals ; and after, the sacrament borne, and over it the rich-

est canopy the Queen had, with six staves, silver, borne by

six goodly men. And about the sacrament, an hundred

torches burning, some whereof of white wax. And at every

altar was singing and censing with sweet odours ; all the

King's guard carrying partizans, gilt : and after to mass in

the chapel, sung by Spaniards.
On the 14th, Father Sydnam, a grey friar of Greenwich, A friar of

preached at Trinity church ; and after, dined with Sir Ro- preac i, es .

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CHAP, bert Oxenbridge, knt. now, or soon after, lieutenant of the

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lower.
Anno 1556. Q n the 15th, Mr. Leckner, or Lewknor, groom porter

condemned unto King Edward VI. and Queen Mary, was arraigned

for treason. a t Guildhall for a new conspiracy against the King and

Queen, and cast to suffer death. He died a prisoner within

the Tower of London, and was buried there the 7th of Sep-

tember.

Lord Sands' On the 18th day was a son of the Lord Sands hanged at

son exe- g t> Thomas f Watering, for robbing of a cart, in which

were great riches, to the value of some thousands, coming

from a fair at Beverlay.

Two more The same day was Mr. Francis Wray, together with

treason. Captain Turner, arraigned at Guildhall, for the same con-

spiracy as was mentioned before, and cast, and sentenced to

be hanged, drawn, and quartered.

Thirteen The 27th of this June, eleven men and two women, thir-
bumt. j een m a ]i^ mos t f them of Essex, rode from Newgate unto

Stratford Bow, in three carts, and there, at four posts, were

all burnt for heresy. There were present near twenty thou-

sand people, as was thought, to see the execution : whose

ends generally in coming there, and to such like execu-

tions, were to strengthen themselves in the profession of

the gospel, and to exhort and comfort those that were to

die.

A meeting June 28, being Sunday, was a notable meeting of com-

° f d E tC h h m i ss i° ners > both f° r England and Scotland, at Rydding-

commis- burn, a place accustomed. The English practised as much

as they could to have the Scots come to a town within the

English pale, but it would not be. A great company ap-

peared on both sides, but the English were the greater

number, being above two thousand persons. The commis-

sions of both realms were read. Then it was agreed to

meet at Norham church the morrow after ; and so they did.

The result of which meeting was, that to Beck with, one of

the chief commissioners on the English side, the Scots of-

fered, that they were fully minded to make redress of all

sioners.

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attentates done by any Scotchman to England ; and they c H A P.

required the same of the English, and said, that they had xxxvm

such commandment of their Queen. This was like to prove Anno 1556'.

a long work ; for there were above a thousand bills of at-

tentates within one of the marches of England, done by

the Scots : so that if the proceeding should have been as the

Scots proposed to do, it would have taken up till Michael- 302

mas before all were ended. But all this seemed but subtile

play to amuse the English. They agreed to meet one day

at Norham church in England, and another day at the

Lady church in Scotland, half a mile from Norham.
The last day of June, William West, esquire, otherwise Lord De la

called the Lord De la Ware, was led from the Tower unto demne d,

Guildhall, and there cast for treason, and sentenced to be

drawn and quartered. But he was pardoned, and was after-

wards in the royal expedition against St. Quintans.
This last of June had been set as the utmost date of ex- King Philip

pecting King Philip here in England, since he came not coming

with the Lord Privy Seal, who returned from him some over<

time before. But one Mr. Kemp came from him about

the 19th or 20th of this month of June, with the news

that he had deferred his coming for two months longer:

whereat the Queen was much cast down, and for several

days after Kemp's coming, she was not in case to hear any

suitors. And this put her upon writing more that day, as

it was thought, than she had done since she was Queen.

The substance of which writing, it is likely, was to acquaint

the King with the more private state of matters in England,

and to give him content : whose delay arose from some dis-

satisfaction, though it was pretended to be the cares of the

Low Countries, having been resigned now to him by the

Emperor his father some time since, and now the said Em-

peror being about to resign his kingdom of Spain.
But the Queen being very desirous of the company of The Empe-

King Philip her husband, who had tarried in the Low tothe

Countries a deal longer than was expected, the Emperor, Qneen, «.
. i i • j cusingKing
to satisfy her impatience in some measure, wrote her a kind Philip's ah-

Ietter with his own pen, beginning, // y a bien long temps £™ e g - B

496 MEMORIALS ECCLESIASTICAL

CHAP, que Vestat des affaires eut requis que moy et le Roy monjils,

xxxvm. &c „ That it wag a long time that the gtate of affairs ha( j

Anno 1556." required the presence of him and the King his son; so
" that neither could yet be spared. That he desired to
" hasten his coming over as much as possible ; but that the
" whole was in such terms, that without their affairs should
" fall into notable inconvenience, his coming was necessarily
" thus deferred for some longer time. He prayed her Ma-
" jesty therefore, most affectionately, that the cause of the
" King's tarrying might be agreeable to her, and that she
" would believe that he would hasten her enjoyment of her
" husband's company ; and the rather since he saw the con-
" tentment which she took in it. But he hoped that in the
" mean time she would satisfy herself, since this should be,
' ; if it please God, but for a little time, and all for the best :
" for all things otherwise were like to be left in disorder.
" And so concluded, assuring her, that he desired her con-
" tentment more than his own, as he zvJio was, and woidd
" be ever, her good father, brother, cousin, and ally."
Falsifying One Will. Tesmond, servant to Dockwray, proctor, for
pum-s e . razm g anc [ falsifying of certain dispensations made by the
Cardinal, was this month adjudged by the Star-chamber to
have a dozen stripes at the standard in Chepe.
Earl of In this month of June a commission was granted to the
made gene- Earl of Pembroke ; whereby he was made lieutenant and
ral - captain general of an army beyond the sea for the defence
of Calais, which seemed now to be in danger.
A skirmish There were certain outlawed Scots, called the Arm-

between the ,, , ,. , .,, , .,.

Earl of strongs, and others, who lived upon pillaging and spoiling
Bo * h ^' el upon the borders, with whom the Grimes upon the English
outlaw border were secret confederates. It was resolved in Scotland
to destroy these outlaws and rebels, in pursuit perhaps of
J" 1 )'- the treaty now going on foot with England. So, July the
7th, the Earl of Bothwel, lieutenant of Scotland, and Dun-
lanrick, warden of the west marches of the same, with a
great power, did ride upon the rebels of the said west
marches ; and beginning at Sandy Armstrong's houses,
set the same, with all other the rebels' houses thereabouts,

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on fire. But the rebels being together to wait on their CHAP.
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doings, procured the Lieutenant's and Warden's company

to a charge; and thereby trained them the space of three Anno 1556 -

quarters of a mile, and upon the advantage espied, returned

upon them. In the which was slain one Christopher Urwen,

of Bonshaw, a principal of the rebels, and his two sons ; with

divers others in peril of death. And yet, nevertheless, the

thing so chanced in the end, that the rebels had the better :

for in the same encounter they killed fourteen, and took

thirty prisoners. Among whom were taken the Lairds of

Lowgheuver and Hempsfield, the tutor of Pencurer, and

the captain of Dunbar, the Warden himself being in much