THE
Rustick
Rampant
,
OR
RURAL
ANARCHY
.
THe
Reign
of
King
Richard
the
Second
was
but
a
Throw
of
State
for
so
many
Years
,
a
Feaver
to
whose
Distempers
all
pieces
of
the
home
Dominions
contributed
by
Fits
(
[
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*
Guien
.
the
forraign
part
only
continuing
faithful
.
)
In
the
fourth
Year
of
his
Reign
,
and
Fifteenth
of
his
Age
the
Dregs
and
Off-scum
of
the
Commons
unite
into
Bodies
in
several
parts
of
the
Kingdom
,
and
form
a
Rebellion
(
called
the
Rebellion
of
the
Clowns
)
which
lead
the
rest
,
and
shewed
the
Way
of
Disobedience
first
.
Of
which
may
truly
be
said
(
though
amongst
other
Causes
,
we
may
attribute
it
to
the
Indisposition
and
Unseasonableness
of
the
Age
,
that
the
Fruits
of
it
did
not
take
)
it
was
strongly
begun
,
and
had
not
Providence
held
back
the
Hand
,
the
Blow
had
fallen
,
the
Government
had
broke
into
Shivers
then
.
The
young
King
at
this
time
had
few
besides
Thomas
of
Woodstock
his
Uncle
,
Earl
of
Buckingham
,
and
after
Duke
of
Glocester
,
but
the
Servants
of
his
House
in
Ordinary
about
him
,
the
Lord
Edmund
of
Langley
Earl
of
Cambridge
,
after
Duke
of
York
,
with
the
Lords
Beauchamp
,
Botereaux
,
Sir
Matthew
Gourney
,
with
others
of
the
Nobility
and
Gentry
,
had
set
sail
for
Portugal
,
the
Duke
Iohn
of
Lancaster
,
another
of
his
Uncles
,
was
in
Scotland
treating
a
Peace
,
when
this
Commotion
brake
out
.
Though
no
Cause
can
be
given
for
Seditions
,
those
,
who
design
publick
Troubles
,
can
never
want
Pretences
;
Polidore
(
as
much
out
in
this
Story
as
any
)
gives
this
Reason
for
this
;
the
Poll-mony
,
says
he
(
imposed
by
Parliament
)
a
Groat
Sterling
upon
every
Head
was
intolerable
.
It
was
justly
imposed
,
and
so
by
some
,
to
whom
Law
and
Custom
of
England
were
intolerable
not
to
be
endured
;
but
we
shall
find
in
the
Tyranny
breaking
in
,
not
only
fifth
and
twentieth
Parts
and
Loans
forced
,
out
of
Fear
of
Plunder
and
Death
;
but
Subsidies
in
Troop
and
Regiments
,
by
Fifties
,
(
more
than
Sequestrations
and
Compositions
)
not
under
Foot
,
low
Sales
;
for
what
had
these
Rascals
to
give
,
but
down-right
Robbery
and
Violent
Usurpations
of
Estates
.
Thus
would
Polidore
have
it
in
Defence
of
his
Priests
,
who
blew
the
Fire
,
and
thrust
the
silly
Rout
into
the
midst
of
it
.
He
takes
it
ill
that
Baal
(
Valle
he
calls
him
)
should
be
supposed
,
by
I
know
not
what
Flatterers
of
the
Nobles
,
to
have
filled
these
Sails
,
to
have
let
these
Winds
out
of
their
Caverns
.
In
the
fourth
Year
of
this
King
(
says
the
Monk
)
there
was
a
grievous
Tax
exacted
in
Parliament
;
after
Cause
of
great
Trouble
,
every
Religious
paid
half
a
Mark
,
every
secular
Priest
as
much
,
every
Lay-Man
or
Woman
12d
.
This
might
discontent
the
People
,
but
who
prepared
the
Mutineers
for
such
dangerous
Impressions
?
Who
fell
in
with
them
after
,
and
pushed
them
forward
,
will
be
soon
found
.
Froissart
complains
of
the
Servitude
of
the
Villains
or
Bond-men
(
now
Names
worn
out
)
a
miserable
sort
of
Drudges
,
frequently
known
here
in
the
Saxon
times
;
excluded
from
any
Right
of
Propriety
,
sold
,
and
passed
away
with
the
Mannor
or
Lands
to
which
they
belonged
,
bound
to
till
the
Lords
Ground
,
cut
down
,
and
carry
in
his
Corn
,
cleanse
his
Ditches
,
cover
his
Hall
,
&c.
These
Froissart
make
the
first
Stirrers
in
the
Insurrection
,
these
he
makes
look
back
to
the
Beginning
of
Men
and
things
to
talk
of
the
Primitive
Freedom
,
of
the
Liberties
of
the
Creature
,
above
Ordinances
;
that
only
Treason
against
the
Lords
could
forfeit
Liberty
,
which
was
the
Case
of
Lucifer
,
and
could
not
be
made
theirs
,
who
were
neither
Angels
nor
Spirits
,
but
Men
of
the
same
Shape
,
Extraction
,
and
Souls
with
those
who
proudly
would
be
thought
their
Lords
;
which
(
say
they
)
was
an
height
too
much
,
and
deserved
Levelling
,
must
not
be
endured
hereafter
.
Equality
was
the
Way
of
Peace
and
Love
.
But
can
Clouds
fire
in
Thunder
and
Lightning
,
can
Earth-quakes
tear
the
Entrails
of
Expiring
Kingdoms
,
without
a
Muncer
,
or
a
Wiggington
,
a
Garnet
,
or
an
Hall
in
the
Mine
?
If
the
Church
and
Government
must
be
blown
up
,
it
is
fit
a
sanctified
Hand
should
(
cast
the
Balls
)
a
Man
(
according
to
the
pure
Dialect
)
of
immediate
Calling
,
who
has
had
the
Seal
of
it
,
of
wonderful
Zeal
,
of
resolute
Dealings
,
the
Lords
Messenger
extraordinarily
gifted
and
exercised
,
is
only
fit
to
advance
Gods
Matters
,
the
Holy
Cause
,
and
Action
:
And
a
Renegado
from
his
Orders
,
an
Apostate
Church-man
will
best
become
this
Person
,
a
Man
with
whom
nothing
else
is
Sacred
but
his
own
Ambition
,
his
Innovation
,
and
the
Propagation
of
his
Schism
.
One
Baal
the
most
sottish
and
most
unworthy
,
but
most
factious
of
the
Clergy
,
is
stirred
up
by
the
Devil
(
who
,
if
Rebellion
be
as
the
Sin
of
Witchcraft
,
is
the
Father
of
both
)
to
be
the
Antichrist
of
this
Reign
,
to
blaspheme
and
cry
down
God
and
Caesar
his
Anointed
,
the
Rights
of
God
and
Caesar
;
and
who
,
if
he
knew
any
thing
,
was
certainly
the
very
Atheist
of
that
Age
:
Of
these
Imaginations
(
so
Froissert
of
those
before
)
was
a
foolish
Priest
in
the
County
of
Kent
,
called
John
Wall
(
for
Baal
)
and
to
make
it
plain
that
he
was
the
Father
of
the
Uproar
,
he
had
been
(
says
this
Knight
)
three
times
in
the
Archbishops
Prison
(
a
persecuted
Saint
)
for
these
Opinions
,
but
delivered
by
him
,
his
Conscience
was
scrupulous
of
proceeding
farther
,
which
this
Historian
condemns
him
for
:
We
shall
hereafter
see
the
Archbishop
in
Iohn's
Hands
,
who
shall
come
short
of
this
Mercy
.
Iohn
had
preached
(
if
it
be
not
Impious
to
Use
the
Word
here
)
twenty
Years
,
and
more
,
ever
babling
those
things
which
he
fancied
would
be
Gracious
to
the
Multitude
;
he
haunted
By-places
,
the
Cloysters
of
the
Cathedral
;
when
the
Church
was
shut
against
him
,
the
Streets
and
Fields
were
Holy
Ground
;
there
this
excommunicated
Apostate
laid
his
Nets
.
His
Discourses
to
the
People
were
partly
Invectives
against
Tithes
(
which
he
allowed
not
where
the●…
Parishioner
was
of
better
Life
and
smaller
Estate
than
the
Parson
,
whose
Estate
at
this
rate
must
be
small
enough
)
against
Bishops
,
and
the
Clergy
,
Nobility
and
Gentry
;
Then
he
had
his
Quarrels
to
the
Government
,
his
Doctrine
struck
at
Propriety
,
and
Order
,
the
World
was
impaired
with
Diseases
,
which
must
be
the
more
for
their
Age
,
the
Crisis
would
be
dangerous
,
and
there
could
be
no
Health
,
no
Soundness
hoped
for
,
till
Names
,
Estates
and
Things
were
common
.
His
Advise
was
to
let
the
King
know
the
Resolutions
of
the
new
Common-weaths-men
,
to
tell
him
where
the
Supreme
Power
lies
,
whose
Trustee
he
was
,
that
another
Course
must
be
taken
,
and
if
he
would
not
joyn
with
them
,
other
Remedies
thought
of
:
The
third
time
he
was
Imprisoned
,
he
had
his
Revelations
,
his
Enlightnings
,
was
full
of
Divine
Raptures
,
He
tells
them
they
were
pious
and
necessary
Excesses
,
and
that
the
Law
of
Nature
,
which
allows
all
Acts
for
our
own
Preservation
,
would
justifie
them
:
That
a
mad
Father
,
who
seeks
to
rob
and
destroy
his
Off-spring
,
might
be
resisted
,
his
Thrusts
might
be
put
by
,
the
Son
might
bind
his
Hands
,
and
if
there
were
no
other
way
to
escape
his
furious
Violence
,
kill
him
in
his
own
Defence
.
The
Safety
of
the
People
is
the
Supreme
Law
.
If
the
Prince
persisting
(
after
fair
Warning
)
to
make
himself
a
Shield
and
Defence
to
wicked
Instruments
of
Mischiefs
,
Malignants
and
Enemies
of
the
Commons
,
securing
them
from
the
Iustice
of
the
Commons
,
endanger
himself
and
his
Kingdom
,
he
may
thank
himself
;
We
(
says
he
)
are
willing
to
hazard
our selves
(
good
Men
)
to
preserve
both
;
we
will
never
give
any
Impediment
,
or
neglect
any
proper
Means
of
curing
the
Distempers
of
the
Kingdom
,
and
of
closing
the
dangerous
Breaches
(
made
by
themselves
)
according
to
the
Trust
which
lies
upon
us
.
At
Black-heath
,
where
an
Assembly
of
200000
Men
made
their
Rendezvonz
,
after
some
time
spent
in
seeking
God
,
he
baits
in
Rhime
,
When
Adam
dalf
and
Ebe
span
,
Who
was
then
a
Gentleman
?
Was
his
levelling
lewd
Text
:
Hence
it
was
to
be
consequent
,
that
as
Nature
,
and
the
Creation
made
no
Distinction
,
no
more
ought
Laws
to
make
or
suffer
any
;
that
Servitude
is
the
▪
Daughter
of
unjust
Oppression
,
introduced
by
wicked
Men
against
Gods
Will
.
That
if
it
had
pleased
him
to
have
created
Slaves
,
in
the
Beginning
he
would
have
chosen
,
and
marked
out
who
should
have
been
the
Lord
,
who
the
Vassal
;
he
asks
where
the
Word
allows
these
sweet
things
called
Lords
,
verily
Knaves
in
Purple
,
Sons
of
Cain
,
of
Nimrod
,
of
Esau
,
of
Ishmael
,
fat
by
the
Blood
and
Sweat
of
the
poor
innocent
Plebeians
,
Honourable
in
nothing
but
the
Outside
,
and
Noble
only
in
Riots
and
Adulteries
,
as
cruel
,
as
ravenous
,
as
killing
(
and
as
barbarously
)
as
the
Bears
,
the
Lyons
,
the
Tigers
of
their
Escutch●…ons
,
the
Dragons
of
their
Bearing
;
he
asks
why
the
limber
Knights
,
and
Franklins
,
who
are
only
better
combed
,
can
kiss
the
Hand
and
lowt
with
more
Grace
,
must
eat
the
Capons
,
which
the
sturdy
brave
Commons
must
starve
themselves
to
cram
:
Nothing
could
be
good
which
was
great
,
nothing
but
Independency
was
Divine
.
He
bids
them
consider
,
now
was
the
time
appointed
them
by
God
to
cast
off
the
Yoak
,
that
if
they
would
not
be
wanting
to
themselves
,
they
should
assert
their
long-looked
for
Liberty
,
and
like
good
Husbandmen
,
who
love
their
Field
,
pluck
up
the
Weeds
which
over-run
it
(
which
signified
rooting
out
the
Wicked
,
and
those
who
carried
the
Mark
of
the
Beast
(
He
points
them
out
the
Heads
devoted
,
destined
for
Slaughter
.
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*
Regni
Majores
.
The
House
of
Lords
,
the
Peers
(
as
yet
they
speak
no
higher
)
whom
he
would
have
brought
to
Repentance
.
Then
the
Lawyers
,
Justices
,
Judges
,
Jury-men
,
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†
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†
Quoscunque
nocivos
communitatis
de
terra
sua
tollerent
.
all
the
Enemies
of
the
Commonalty
were
to
be
swept
from
the
Earth
,
there
could
not
else
(
so
he
concludes
)
be
any
Peace
or
Security
for
the
Future
,
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*
](A33421-e129380-b)
*
Si
sublatis
Majoribus
oequa
libertas
,
&c.
lopping
off
the
Heads
of
those
,
which
were
too
tall
,
which
over-topped
too
much
,
equal
Nobility
,
equal
Liberty
,
Dignity
and
Power
(
this
was
his
old
Doctrine
)
were
the
only
Antidotes
,
without
which
the
poysoned
Common-wealth
must
perish
.
Whosoever
loved
not
the
Cause
was
a
Reprobate
,
hateful
to
God
,
and
damned
Body
and
Soul
.
Iohn
concludes
with
an
Exhortation
,
that
in
Order
to
the
Security
and
Preservation
of
Religion
and
Liberty
of
the
Subject
,
they
will
never
consent
to
the
laying
down
of
Arms
,
so
long
as
the
evil
Counsellors
and
Prelates
arming
,
or
in
open
War
,
shall
by
Force
of
Arms
be
protected
against
the
Iustice
of
the
Commons
.
John
adds
,
of
long
time
there
hath
been
,
and
now
is
a
Traiterous
Plot
for
the
Subversion
of
us
and
the
Liberty
of
the
Subject
.
No
Wonder
,
when
Peter
the
Hermits
Goose
was
believed
to
be
The
base
Crew
prick
up
their
Ears
,
and
wonder
at
the
new
Truths
,
which
their
Pastor
held
forth
,
they
applaud
him
,
he
is
[
†
](A33421-e129510-b)
†
Ut
acclamarent
eum
Archiepiscopum
.
Archbishop
elect
,
and
Chancellor
,
the
true
Arch-bishop
must
be
called
a
Traitor
,
[
*
](A33421-e129520-b)
*
Communium
&
regni
proditorem
.
a
Traitor
of
the
Commons
and
the
Realm
,
to
make
him
Room
,
is
voted
so
,
to
be
apprehended
wheresoever
he
could
be
found
in
England
,
and
his
Head
to
be
cut
off
.
Here
was
a
new
Treason
,
and
a
new
Way
of
Tryal
and
Sentence
.
But
though
Baal
had
more
of
the
Spirit
,
there
were
other
Adventurers
not
to
be
robbed
of
their
Honours
,
other
Worthies
,
precious
Men
,
called
to
do
the
Work
of
the
Lord
;
who
put
to
their
Hands
,
and
brought
Trowels
and
Mortar
toward
the
raising
this
Babel
.
Iack
Straw
,
another
Priest
full
of
Life
and
Vigour
,
the
Confessor
,
and
Bosom-chaplain
of
Tyler
,
more
inward
with
him
,
his
special
Councellor
,
acquainted
with
all
his
Plots
,
in
the
Contrivance
of
which
he
had
a
great
part
,
bestowed
his
Pains
upon
the
Cause
,
and
for
Action
next
Tyler
the
Idol
carried
the
Name
;
which
may
be
one
Cause
why
Polydore
kills
him
in
Tylers
stead
,
with
the
Mayors
Sword
,
the
most
Eminent
Sticklers
of
the
Laity
,
of
the
profane
Stie
,
where
Wat
the
Tyler
,
a
Tyler
by
Trade
,
not
by
Name
,
his
Name
was
Helier
,
an
ungracious
Patron
,
as
Froissart
)
was
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Wals.
Rex
ribald●…rum
,
Idolum
rusticorum
.
King
of
the
Ribaulds
,
The
Idol
of
the
Kentish
Clowns
.
Iohn
Kirkby
,
Alan
Treder
,
Thomas
Scot
,
and
Ralph
Rugg
,
a
Magnifico
,
who
gave
freely
away
amongst
his
Fellow
Scoundrels
the
Spoils
of
his
Conquests
,
were
Princes
of
the
Separation
of
the
Tribes
in
Kent
and
Essex
.
Robert
Westbrome
(
Wraw
his
Chaplain
refusing
to
set
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Wals.
Crown
upon
Crown
,
and
contented
to
be
the
Arch-priest
of
the
Province
)
was
King
of
Suffolk
,
and
the
Parts
adjacent
.
St.
Edmunds-bury
,
once
the
Palace
of
the
East-Angle
Kings
,
and
Milden-hall
,
were
the
Seats
of
his
Soveraignty
.
Iohn
Litstar
a
Tanner
usurps
the
Name
and
Power
of
a
King
at
Northwalsham
in
Norfolk
;
I
may
say
the
Power
and
more
,
never
was
any
English
King
so
Absolute
,
nor
can
any
just
and
legal
Principality
be
so
large
,
and
Arbitrary
;
Law
of
the
Land
,
with
which
the
old
Englishman
was
free
enough
,
and
contented
,
was
here
to
be
thrown
out
of
Doors
.
The
Heptarchy
of
the
Saxons
seemed
to
revive
again
,
but
prodigiously
;
the
Blaze
of
these
Comets
must
have
been
fatal
to
the
Nation
.
To
keep
an
Order
in
the
History
of
these
Ruffians
,
who
abhorred
it
,
I
will
give
the
Van
to
the
Idol
of
the
Clowns
,
it
is
due
to
him
,
he
is
the
first
who
lists
up
his
Head
in
the
Confusion
among
the
Brethren
,
and
deserves
the
first
Chair
.
He
was
the
Dragon
,
and
no
question
in
the
Conclusion
,
had
swallowed
up
or
clipped
the
rest
;
Litster
Westbrome
,
and
the
others
merited
highly
,
but
they
must
have
been
taken
down
some
Pins
.
Tyler
must
have
Elbow-room
,
he
must
have
been
Lord
Paramount
,
and
one
such
Come●…
would
have
been
more
than
enough
for
one
Horizon
.
Besides
,
Kent
and
Essex
were
the
Puddle
,
the
Lerna
which
bred
this
Hydra
with
the
many
Heads
,
which
poysoned
most
of
the
Counties
,
and
in
the
Conjunction
of
these
two
Provinces
,
Tyler
the
Idol
swayed
all
.
And
here
I
must
observe
this
,
that
however
Walsingham
hatches
the
Cause
in
Essex
,
yet
his
own
Relations
of
Baal
,
and
the
Letters
and
Sermons
of
this
seducing
Prophet
,
bring
this
into
question
,
and
by
him
if
Kent
be
not
the
Mother
,
yet
are
the
Treasons
of
her
and
Essex
,
Sister-twins
of
the
same
Birth
,
Essex
only
started
first
.
The
Fire
kindled
from
a
small
Spark
.
The
Clowns
of
two
Villages
not
named
in
the
Chronicles
contrive
the
Conspiracy
there
:
They
send
Warrants
to
the
smaller
Towns
about
,
and
rather
command
than
intreat
,
all
Men
of
what
Age
soever
,
without
any
Stay
or
Deliberation
,
to
repair
to
a
Rendezvouz
set
down
.
The
Conclusion
was
terrible
;
It
threatning
plundering
of
Goods
,
Burning
,
plucking
down
Houses
,
and
cutting
off
the
Heads
of
those
who
disobey
the
present
Power
.
The
summoned
Villages
are
frighted
into
Obedience
,
which
is
to
rebel
;
They
leave
their
Ploughs
,
their
Fields
,
their
Wives
and
Farms
,
and
in
their
first
Rising
no
less
than
5000
of
the
sink
of
the
People
meet
ill
armed
,
some
with
Staves
,
some
with
rusty
Swords
,
some
with
Bows
and
featherless
Arrows
,
few
knowing
any
Cause
of
their
assembling
,
gazing
upon
one
another
,
and
of
not
finding
any
Enemies
of
their
own
Peace
and
Good
but
John
Schep
,
sometimes
St.
Mary
Priest
in
Yorkn
and
now
of
Colchester
greeteth
well
John
Nameless
,
and
John
the
Miller
,
and
John
Carter
,
and
biddeth
them
that
they
beware
of
Guile
in
Borough
(
which
Stow
by
a
notable
Mistake
calls
Gillinborough
)
and
stand
together
in
Gods
Name
,
and
biddeth
Pierse
Plowman
go
to
his
Work
,
and
chastise
Hob
the
Robber
,
and
take
with
you
John
Trewman
,
and
all
his
Fellows
and
no
moe
,
John
the
Miller
that
yground
smal
,
smal
,
smal
,
The
King's
Sonne
of
Heaven
shall
pay
for
all
.
Beware
or
ye
be
woe
;
Know
your
Friend
from
your
Foe
.
Have
ynough
,
and
say
hoe
.
And
do
well
and
better
,
and
flee
Sinne
and
seek
Peace
,
and
hold
therein
;
And
so
biddeth
John
Trewman
and
all
his
Fellows
.
A
List
of
Sanctity
does
well
in
these
Cases
,
but
his
seeking
of
Peace
,
chastising
the
Robber
,
and
fleeing
of
Sinne
,
I
must
leave
as
mystical
.
This
shews
the
Industry
,
Carefulness
,
and
Vigilancy
of
the
Prophet
in
his
Preparations
,
and
his
Willingness
to
hurt
.
He
disperseth
other
Letters
of
this
kind
,
in
one
,
he
chargeth
all
Men
in
the
Name
of
the
Trinity
,
&c.
to
stand
Manlike
together
,
and
help
Truth
(
now
we
have
Truth
to
our
Peace
)
and
Truth
shall
help
them
,
in
his
Rags
of
Verses
(
for
a
Rhimer
he
would
be
)
he
is
as
earnest
for
Truth
.
They
begin
,
Iack
Trewman
doth
you
to
understand
That
Falsness
,
and
Guile
hath
reigned
too
long
.
And
Truth
hath
been
set
under
a
Lock
,
And
Falsness
reigneth
in
every
Flock
;
No
Man
may
come
truth
to
But
he
must
sing
si
dedero
.
Many
Remonstrances
and
Declarations
flew
abroad
from
him
.
The
Kentishmen
,
seasoned
by
this
Priest
or
Prophet
of
the
Idol
,
are
easily
tempted
by
the
Essexians
to
associate
in
the
Undertakings
,
and
share
in
the
Honour
of
gaining
Liberty
,
precious
Liberty
for
the
People
,
and
taking
away
the
evil
Customs
of
the
Kingdom
;
which
is
the
Glorious
Title
of
the
Tumult
.
This
was
no
more
(
says
the
Monk
)
than
the
Kentishmen
had
long
wished
for
.
They
are
quickly
ready
,
and
by
the
Arts
used
by
those
of
Essex
put
all
the
Country
into
a
Combustion
.
That
they
may
not
appear
with
too
much
Horror
they
account
(
so
they
tell
the
Kingdom
and
the
World
)
the
professing
of
any
thing
in
the
sight
of
God
,
the
strongest
Obligation
that
any
Christian
,
and
the
most
solemn
publick
Faith
,
that
any
such
State
,
as
a
Common-wealth
can
give
.
In
all
Humility
and
Reverence
they
contrive
a
Sacred
Vow
and
Covenant
.
They
fasten
the
knot
of
their
Holy
League
with
National
Covenants
and
Oaths
,
which
themselves
will
first
break
(
than
which
there
can
be
no
stronger
tie
;
Religion
consists
in
Faith
,
he
who
loses
his
Faith
hath
lost
himself
)
Oaths
contrary
to
their
sworn
Allegiance
,
and
former
Oaths
,
which
is
a
most
absurd
Impiety
;
here
God
must
be
called
upon
to
help
,
and
witness
the
Perfidiousness
.
Oaths
use
to
end
—
so
help
me
God
—
He
who
performs
not
his
Oath
,
directly
and
plainly
,
renounces
God
,
and
all
that
is
Sacred
and
Divine
:
To
swear
to
Day
against
what
we
were
sworn
to
yesterday
,
must
be
strange
amongst
Christians
;
these
Impieties
being
once
allowed
,
there
can
be
neither
Peace
,
Society
,
nor
Government
amongst
Men
safe
and
unindangered
.
The
Ways
leading
to
Canterbury
are
beset
,
the
Pilgrims
swarming
thither
(
according
to
the
Superstition
of
those
Ages
)
are
seized
,
and
forced
to
swear
with
these
extraordinary
Workers
.
To
keep
Faith
to
King
Richard
(
whose
most
faithful
Servants
,
most
humble
and
Loyal
Subjects
,
they
profess
themselves
to
be
)
and
the
Commons
according
to
their
Power
and
Vocation
.
To
accept
no
King
called
Iohn
(
a
Vanity
thrown
in
for
Duke
Iohn
of
Lancasters
Sake
the
Kings
Uncle
,
and
neglected
by
the
Norfolk
Reformers
,
who
advanced
King
Iohn
Litstere
to
the
Soveraignty
)
To
be
ready
upon
Summons
to
assist
the
Commons
(
the
great
Wheel
of
the
New
State
,
for
whom
this
Oath
was
given
,
and
to
be
principally
respected
by
it
.
)
To
induce
their
Friends
and
Allies
to
hold
with
them
,
and
to
allow
no
Tax
but
the
Fifteenth
(
which
say
they
falsly
was
the
only
Tax
their
Forefathers
ever
heard
of
,
or
submitted
to
.
)
How
Sacred
in
all
the
Parts
this
●…th
will
be
with
them
(
which
never
was
to
be
intended
more
than
temporary
)
will
soon
be
discovered
:
Diversity
of
Words
cannot
change
the
Nature
of
things
.
Their
first
March
is
to
Canterbury
,
where
they
visit
deserved
Death
and
Damnation
for
this
Contumacy
against
his
King
,
the
Minister
of
God
,
a
fit
Saint
for
such
Votaries
;
their
Kindness
was
not
much
,
they
spoil
his
Church
,
break
up
the
Bishops
Chamber
,
and
make
a
Prey
of
all
they
find
,
protest
the
Bishop
shall
give
them
an
Account
of
the
Profits
of
his
Chancery
;
and
here
they
begin
their
Audit
.
Thus
we
see
our
New
Reformers
are
entred
,
but
Sacriledge
ushers
them
in
,
they
break
open
the
Prisons
,
and
free
the
Saint
in
Bonds
,
Baal
;
when
they
had
done
what
they
came
for
,
the
Citizens
,
who
had
entertain'd
them
,
willingly
leave
their
Houses
to
keep
them
Company
;
a
Council
is
called
to
resolve
upon
what
Ground
the
next
Storm
should
pour
down
.
London
ever
false
to
the
Prince
.
The
Wood
,
which
no
doubt
would
lodge
the
Wolves
,
is
set
by
their
Orders
.
Tyler
the
Idol
who
knew
his
Reign
would
last
no
longer
,
than
while
these
Men
continued
mad
,
thought
this
the
only
place
likely
to
keep
them
so
;
London
too
was
the
fairest
Mark
;
and
besides
,
the
Clowns
were
assured
of
a
Welcome
upon
a
private
Invitation
from
some
of
the
Citizens
,
whose
Ancestors
and
Predecessors
in
all
Ages
,
in
the
Tumults
of
the
Confessor
S.
Edwards
Reign
,
in
all
the
Barons
Wars
since
,
have
gained
the
Renown
to
be
Lovers
of
Reformation
otherwise
pure
Rebellion
,
Enemies
to
Courtiers
and
Malignants
,
Enemies
to
the
Enemies
of
their
dear
Liberties
,
which
yet
sometimes
they
pursue
with
too
much
Heat
and
blind
Zeal
,
sometimes
to
their
Cost
and
Repentance
,
mistaking
every
where
both
Notions
and
Things
;
the
Bridles
which
they
without
Fear
or
Wit
,
provide
for
their
Kings
being
often
thrust
into
their
own
Mouths
by
the
New
Riders
,
which
themselves
lift
into
the
Saddle
,
while
they
grown
sober
Mules
,
dare
neither
kick
nor
fling
.
Behold
the
common
People
(
says
the
Knight
)
when
they
be
up
against
their
Prince
,
and
especially
in
England
,
among
them
there
is
no
Remedy
for
they
are
the
perillousest
People
of
the
World
,
and
most
outrageous
if
they
be
up
,
and
specially
the
Londoners
;
says
the
Monk
,
the
Londoners
never
want
Fury
if
they
be
not
kept
in
,
if
License
or
Infolence
be
permitted
them
.
The
Princess
Dowager
of
the
incomparable
Edward
the
black
Prince
,
Mother
of
the
young
King
,
then
at
Canterbury
,
hardly
escapes
these
Savages
,
who
rudely
assault
her
Chair
,
and
put
her
and
her
Ladies
in
no
small
Fear
of
●…lany
to
be
done
to
their
Persons
.
This
Princess
was
so
willing
to
be
out
of
their
reach
,
that
notwithstanding
she
was
very
fat
and
unwieldy
,
she
got
to
London
in
a
Day
.
Tyler
,
who
had
insinuated
himself
into
the
good
Grace
of
these
Churls
,
by
appearing
the
most
stirring
and
active
of
the
Kennel
,
who
began
and
ruled
the
Cry
,
and
was
by
I
know
not
what
Ceremony
,
perhaps
like
that
Irish
Election
by
casting
an
old
Shoe
over
his
Head
,
declared
Prince
of
the
Rabble
,
leads
them
to
Rochester
,
which
will
not
come
behind
Canterbury
in
Kindness
.
The
People
of
the
Town
(
says
the
Knight
)
were
of
the
same
Sect
,
it
seems
the
Castle
(
once
one
of
the
strongest
in
the
Kingdom
,
)
was
now
neither
fortified
nor
manned
,
the
Governour
Sir
Iohn
Moton
yields
himself
into
their
Hands
;
he
was
one
of
the
Kings
Family
,
of
his
Houshold
,
and
must
be
thought
awed
,
as
he
was
into
the
Engagement
.
Here
the
Commons
might
be
thought
ashamed
of
their
own
Choice
,
they
offer
Sir
Iohn
the
General
's
Staff
▪
which
had
he
accepted
,
he
must
have
commanded
according
to
the
Motions
of
Lieutenant
General
Tylers
Spirit
,
and
when
this
turn
had
been
over
,
at
the
least
stamp
of
his
Foot
have
vanished
,
sneaked
off
the
Stage
.
They
tell
him
,
Sir
Iohn
you
must
be
our
Captain
,
and
(
which
shews
the
Power
of
Captain
General
is
forgotten
;
we
shall
see
hereafter
what
Use
they
make
of
him
,
and
in
what
manner
he
must
be
employed
.
This
Example
is
followed
in
the
other
Countrys
.
The
Gentry
did
not
only
lose
their
Estates
,
and
Honour
,
but
their
Courage
and
Gallantry
,
their
Bloods
were
frozen
,
Fear
had
stifled
their
Spirits
.
The
Clowns
(
as
the
Knight
)
had
brought
them
into
such
Obeysance
,
that
they
caused
them
to
go
with
them
,
whether
they
would
or
not
,
they
fawned
on
them
,
humbled
themselves
to
them
,
like
Dogs
groveling
at
their
Feet
.
The
Lord
Molines
,
Sir
Stephen
Hales
,
Sir
Thomas
Guysighen
,
this
Sir
Iohn
Moton
,
and
others
were
Attendants
and
Vassals
to
the
Idol
.
Every
Day
new
resent
the
dangerous
and
distracted
State
of
the
Kingdom
alike
;
and
will
no
doubt
hammer
out
an
Excellent
Reformation
,
they
will
mend
their
own
Condition
,
which
will
be
enough
,
we
must
expect
no
more
;
and
now
the
Confidence
in
their
Strength
made
them
bold
enough
to
throw
off
their
Mask
of
Hypocrisie
,
they
began
to
open
the
Inside
.
They
departed
from
Rochester
(
says
Froissart
)
and
passed
the
River
(
he
says
the
Thames
at
Kingstone
)
and
came
to
Brentford
,
(
where
I
think
he
leads
them
out
of
their
Way
)
beating
down
before
them
,
and
round
about
,
the
Places
and
Houses
of
Advocates
,
and
Procurers
,
and
striking
off
the
Heads
of
diverse
Persons
.
Walsingham
tells
us
,
who
those
Advocates
and
Procurers
were
;
All
Men
(
says
he
)
were
amused
,
some
looked
for
good
from
the
new
Masters
,
others
feared
this
Insurrection
would
prove
the
Destruction
of
the
Realm
.
The
last
were
not
deceived
.
All
the
Lawyers
of
the
Land
(
so
he
goes
on
)
as
well
the
Apprentices
,
Counsellors
,
as
old
Justices
,
all
the
Jury-men
of
the
Country
,
(
this
was
Priest
Baal's
Charge
)
they
could
gripe
in
their
Clutches
had
their
Heads
chopped
off
.
It
was
a
Maxim
of
the
Cabal
,
That
there
could
be
no
Liberty
,
while
any
of
these
Men
were
suffered
to
breath
.
From
little
to
great
they
fell
upon
things
which
they
never
thought
of
in
their
first
Overflow
,
which
Guicciardine
observes
(
in
civil
Discords
,
where
the
Rebellion
is
Fortunate
and
Mens
Minds
are
puft
up
with
Success
)
to
be
Ordinary
.
The
Statue
of
Cumaean
Apollo
weeps
for
the
Destruction
of
Cumae
,
we
shall
here
read
of
Men
without
Sense
or
Apprehensions
;
both
the
Stories
will
seem
as
Incredible
.
The
stupid
Nobility
and
Gentry
sleep
in
their
Houses
,
till
they
are
roused
by
these
Blood-hounds
,
that
they
might
seem
to
deserve
the
Calamity
tumbling
upon
their
Heads
.
They
were
becoming
Tenants
at
Will
,
in
Villeinage
,
to
their
Vassals
,
under
their
Distress
,
their
Task
,
and
Taxes
,
more
by
the
sottish
Baseness
of
themselves
,
than
any
Vertue
in
these
Rascals
,
scorned
and
sleighted
by
every
tatter'd
Clunch
;
Their
Lands
continually
upon
any
Vote
or
Information
to
be
sold
,
or
given
away
upon
any
Information
of
Loyalty
,
or
Faithfulness
:
The
ancient
Vertues
of
the
Gentleman
,
not
to
be
found
in
that
Age
,
and
serving
only
for
a
Pretence
to
Ruin
,
no
one
could
form
an
Expectation
of
more
than
this
,
to
be
the
last
Man
born
,
(
what
was
Polyphemus
his
Kindness
to
Ulysses
)
to
be
devoured
last
;
all
which
they
were
contented
to
hazard
,
and
indure
to
preserve
a
Shred
,
or
jagg
of
an
incertain
ragged
Estate
(
for
the
Health
or
Mistresses
Sake
)
subject
ever
to
the
Violence
of
the
same
lawless
spoiling
Force
,
which
maimed
and
rent
it
before
.
Next
(
to
return
to
this
Riffraff
)
their
Cruelty
reaches
to
Parchment
Deeds
,
Charters
,
Rolls
of
Courts
;
Evidences
are
cast
by
them
into
the
Fire
,
as
if
they
meant
to
abolish
all
Remembrance
of
things
;
this
was
to
defeat
their
Lords
in
the
Claims
of
any
ancient
Rights
;
and
to
leave
no
Man
more
Title
than
themselves
had
to
their
Sword
and
Power
.
The
Kentish
and
Essexian
Rout
,
were
joyned
(
says
the
Monk
,
but
Thither
came
two
Knights
sent
by
the
King
to
them
,
to
inquire
The
Archbishop
of
Canterbury
,
Simon
Theobald
of
Sudbury
,
Lord
[
*
](A33421-e131510-b)
*
Discaligatos
ribauldos
.
hoseless
Ribaulds
,
but
rather
dispose
things
so
as
to
curb
their
Insolence
:
Sir
,
(
says
he
)
Your
Sacred
Majesty
in
this
Storm
ought
to
shew
how
much
of
a
King
you
can
play
;
what
you
will
go
for
hereafter
;
by
your
present
Carriage
,
you
will
either
be
feared
for
the
Future
,
or
contemned
;
if
you
seriously
consider
the
Nature
of
these
rough
hewn
Savages
,
you
will
find
the
gentle
Ways
pernicious
,
your
Tameness
will
undoe
you
,
Mercy
will
ever
be
in
your
Power
,
but
it
is
not
to
be
named
without
the
Sword
drawn
;
God
and
your
Right
hath
placed
you
in
your
Throne
,
but
your
Courage
and
Resolution
must
keep
you
there
;
your
Indignation
will
be
Iustice
;
good
Men
will
think
it
so
,
and
if
they
love
you
,
you
have
enough
,
you
cannot
capitulate
,
not
treat
with
your
Rebels
,
without
hazarding
your
Honour
,
and
perhaps
your
Royal
Faith
;
if
you
yield
to
the
Force
of
one
Sedition
,
your
whole
Life
and
Reign
will
be
nothing
but
a
Continuation
of
Broils
,
and
Tumults
;
if
you
assert
your
Soveraign
Authority
betimes
,
not
only
these
Doults
,
these
Sots
,
but
all
Men
else
will
reverence
you
.
Remember
Sir
,
God
,
by
whom
Lawful
Princes
Reign
,
whose
Vicegerent
you
are
,
would
not
forgive
Rebellion
in
Angels
;
you
must
not
trust
the
Face
.
Petitions
delivered
you
upon
Swords
Points
are
fatal
;
if
you
allow
this
Custom
you
are
ruined
;
as
yet
Sir
,
you
may
be
obeyed
as
much
as
you
please
.
Of
this
Opinion
was
Sir
Robert
Hales
,
Lord
Prior
of
Saint
Iohn
of
Ierusalem
,
newly
Lord
Treasurer
of
England
,
a
Magnanimous
and
stout
Knight
,
but
not
liked
by
the
Commons
.
When
this
Resolution
was
known
to
the
Clowns
,
they
grow
stark
mad
,
they
bluster
,
they
swear
to
seek
out
the
Kings
Traitors
,
(
for
such
they
must
now
go
for
;
no
Man
was
either
good
or
honest
,
but
he
who
pleased
them
)
the
Arch-bishop
and
Lord
Prior
;
and
to
chop
off
their
Heads
;
here
they
might
be
trusted
,
they
were
likely
to
keep
their
Words
.
Hereupon
,
without
more
Consideration
they
advance
towards
London
,
not
forgetting
to
burn
,
and
raze
the
Lawyers
and
Courtiers
Houses
in
the
Way
,
to
the
Kings
Honour
no
doubt
,
which
they
will
be
thought
to
arm
for
.
Sir
Iohn
Froissart
,
and
others
report
this
part
thus
,
which
probably
might
follow
after
this
Refusal
.
The
Rebels
,
say
they
,
sent
their
Knight
(
[
*
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*
Grafton
.
so
they
called
him
,
yet
was
he
the
Kings
Knight
,
for
Tyler
came
not
up
to
Dubbing
,
we
find
no
Sir
Iohn
,
nor
Sir
Thomas
of
his
making
,
)
Sir
Iohn
Moton
to
the
King
,
who
was
then
in
the
Tower
with
his
Mother
,
his
half
Brothers
Thomas
Holland
Earl
of
Kent
,
after
Duke
of
Surrey
,
and
the
Lord
Holland
,
the
Earls
of
Salisbury
,
Warwick
,
and
Oxford
,
the
Arch-bishop
,
Lord
Prior
and
others
.
The
Knight
casts
himself
down
at
the
Kings
Feet
,
beseeches
him
,
not
to
look
upon
him
the
worse
as
in
this
Quality
and
Imployment
,
to
consider
he
is
forced
to
do
what
he
does
:
He
goes
on
;
Sir
,
the
Commons
of
this
Realm
(
those
few
in
Arms
comparatively
to
the
rest
would
be
taken
for
the
whole
)
desire
you
by
me
to
speak
with
them
.
Your
Person
will
be
safe
,
they
repute
you
still
their
King
(
this
deserved
Thanks
)
but
how
long
the
Kindness
will
hold
we
shall
soon
find
,
they
profess
that
all
they
had
done
or
would
do
was
for
your
Honour
.
For
your
Glory
(
your
Honour
and
Security
are
their
great
Care
)
they
will
make
you
a
Glorious
King
,
fearful
to
your
Enemies
,
and
beloved
of
your
Subjects
;
they
promise
you
a
plentiful
and
unparalell'd
Revenue
.
They
will
maintain
your
Power
and
Authority
in
Relation
to
the
Laws
,
with
your
Royal
Person
,
according
to
the
Duty
of
their
Allegiance
,
their
Protestation
,
their
Vow
,
their
solemn
League
and
Covenant
,
without
diminishing
your
just
Power
and
Greatness
,
and
that
they
will
all
the
Days
of
their
Lives
continue
in
this
Covenant
against
all
Opposition
.
They
assure
you
Sir
,
That
they
intend
faithfully
the
Good
of
your
Majesty
,
and
of
the
Kingdom
,
and
that
they
will
not
be
diverted
from
this
end
by
any
private
or
Self-respects
whatsoever
.
But
the
Kingdom
has
been
a
long
time
ill
governed
by
your
Uncles
,
and
the
Clergy
;
especially
by
the
Arch-bishop
of
Canterbury
,
of
whom
they
would
have
an
Account
.
They
have
found
out
necessary
Counsels
for
you
;
they
would
warn
you
of
many
things
,
which
hitherto
you
have
wanted
good
Advice
in
.
The
Conclusion
was
sad
on
the
Knights
part
.
His
Children
were
Pledges
for
his
Return
,
and
if
he
fail
in
that
,
their
Lives
were
to
answer
it
.
Which
moved
with
the
King
;
he
allows
the
Excuse
,
sends
him
back
with
this
Answer
,
that
he
will
speak
with
the
Commons
the
next
Morning
;
which
it
should
seem
the
report
of
the
Outrages
done
by
the
Clowns
upon
his
Refusal
,
and
this
Message
made
him
consent
to
.
At
the
time
appointed
he
takes
his
Barge
,
and
is
rowed
down
to
Redriffe
,
the
place
nearest
the
Rebels
;
Ten
thousand
of
them
descend
from
the
Hill
to
see
,
and
treat
with
him
,
(
with
a
Resolution
to
yield
to
nothing
,
to
overcome
by
the
Treaty
;
as
they
must
have
done
,
had
not
the
Kings
Fear
preserved
him
.
)
When
the
Barge
drew
nigh
,
the
new
Council
of
State
(
says
our
Knight
)
Iohn
Moton
was
brought
toward
the
River
guarded
,
they
being
determined
to
have
cut
him
in
peices
,
if
the
King
had
broke
his
Promise
.
All
the
Desires
of
these
good
and
faithful
Counsellors
contracted
suddenly
into
a
narrow
Room
,
they
had
now
but
one
Demand
.
The
King
asks
them
,
What
is
the
matter
which
made
them
so
earnestly
sollicite
his
Presence
?
They
have
no
more
to
say
,
but
to
intreat
him
to
land
;
which
was
to
betray
himself
to
them
,
to
give
his
Life
and
Soveraignty
up
to
those
fickle
Beasts
,
to
be
held
of
them
during
their
good
Pleasures
;
which
the
Lords
will
not
agree
to
.
The
Earl
of
Salisbury
,
of
the
ancient
Nobility
,
and
Illustrious
House
of
Montacute
,
tells
them
their
Equipage
and
Order
were
not
comely
,
and
that
the
King
ought
not
to
adventure
amongst
their
Troops
.
They
are
now
more
unsatisfied
,
and
London
how
true
soever
to
the
Cause
,
and
faithless
to
the
Prince
,
shall
feel
the
Effects
of
their
Fury
.
Southwark
a
friendly
Borough
,
is
taken
up
for
their
first
Quarters
.
Here
again
they
throw
down
the
Malignants
Houses
,
and
as
a
Grace
of
their
Entrance
,
break
up
the
Kings
Prisons
,
and
let
out
all
those
they
find
under
Restraint
in
them
;
not
forgetting
to
ransack
the
Arch-bishops
House
at
Lambeth
,
and
spoil
all
things
there
—
plucking
down
the
Stews
standing
upon
the
Thames
Bank
,
and
allowed
in
the
former
Ages
.
It
cannot
be
thought
but
that
the
Idol
loved
Adultery
well
enough
,
but
perhaps
these
publick
Bawdy-houses
were
too
unclean
,
and
might
stink
in
his
Nostrils
;
we
cannot
find
him
any
where
quarrelling
with
the
Bears
,
those
were
no
Malignants
.
They
knocked
not
long
at
the
City-Gates
,
which
(
some
say
)
William
Waleworth
,
whose
Memory
(
while
Truth
and
Loyalty
shall
be
thought
Vertues
)
must
be
Honourable
,
and
nine
of
the
Aldermen
held
for
King
Richard
,
in
vain
;
a
prosperous
wicked
Chief
shall
never
want
wicked
Instruments
;
three
Aldermen
,
and
the
greatest
part
of
the
People
for
the
King
of
the
Commons
,
the
Idol
,
and
his
Priests
.
Those
,
the
Considers
,
and
well-affected
to
Tyler
,
forbid
their
Mayor
to
keep
him
out
,
own
his
Actions
,
as
done
for
the
Good
of
the
faithful
People
of
the
Land
,
and
the
Common-wealth
,
and
his
Followers
for
their
Brethren
and
Companions
of
the
Holy
Cause
.
They
vow
to
live
and
dye
with
Tyler
.
Many
of
those
who
had
no
thoughts
of
doing
Mischief
(
yet
being
none
of
the
wisest
)
were
cheated
into
a
good
Belief
of
them
,
because
of
their
Protestation
(
which
in
their
first
Entrance
they
made
solemnly
)
that
they
had
no
Intent
,
but
this
only
,
to
search
and
hunt
out
the
Traitors
of
the
Kingdom
,
the
Subverters
of
the
fundamental
Laws
,
evil
Counsellors
and
Malignants
,
and
that
this
done
they
would
give
over
,
they
would
disband
,
and
return
home
the
same
Men
they
were
,
to
their
Farms
and
Cottages
,
without
enriching
themselves
,
without
any
other
Harvest
of
their
Labour
;
not
doubting
but
that
in
the
end
,
it
should
appear
to
all
the
World
,
that
their
Endeavours
have
been
most
hearty
and
sincere
,
for
the
Maintenance
of
Religion
,
the
Kings
just
Prerogatives
,
the
Laws
and
Liberties
of
the
Land
;
in
which
Endeavours
,
by
the
Grace
of
God
,
they
would
persist
,
though
they
should
perish
in
the
Work
.
Which
was
believed
.
What
confirmed
this
Faith
was
,
they
made
Theft
Capital
(
which
yet
was
confined
,
all
without
the
Fold
of
the
Godly
were
Aegyptians
,
and
could
not
be
robbed
)
and
paid
justly
for
what
they
had
,
but
they
paid
not
often
,
nor
could
their
Reckonings
be
great
.
The
Citizens
were
their
Purveyors
,
and
made
Provision
for
them
;
every
House
was
open
to
them
,
and
Tables
continually
furnished
.
Their
Entry
was
on
the
14th
.
of
Iune
,
1385.
on
Wednesday
(
a
little
before
Midsummer
)
the
Eve
of
Corpus
Christi
Day
;
they
spend
the
Morning
of
the
next
Day
,
being
the
Festival
,
in
Ringes
,
discoursing
of
the
Piety
,
Honesty
,
and
Fairness
of
their
Cause
,
of
Liberty
and
the
Courses
to
gain
it
,
Of
seizing
Traitors
,
Of
bringing
Incendiaries
,
Malignants
,
and
evil
Instruments
to
condign
Punishment
,
Of
the
Duke
Iohn
of
Lancaster
,
who
was
above
all
Men
hated
by
them
,
but
too
far
off
for
the
Scratches
of
their
Claws
,
being
imployed
in
Scotland
to
treat
a
Peace
there
,
whence
these
report
him
turned
a
Traytor
to
the
King
,
and
become
Scottish
:
About
Noon
,
being
warmed
more
by
their
Cups
,
than
with
the
Sun
,
for
the
richest
Wines
were
drawn
for
them
,
and
swallowed
with
that
Greediness
,
that
they
were
got
to
the
height
of
Drunkenness
and
raved
like
Mad-men
,
they
are
for
Execution
;
the
Savoy
of
the
Duke
of
Lancaster
,
a
Princely
Building
,
the
most
stately
Fabrick
of
the
Kingdom
was
fired
by
them
,
his
Servants
there
murthered
,
his
Plate
and
Jewels
broke
in
pieces
,
a
Coat
of
his
of
great
Value
(
called
in
that
Age
a
Jack
)
in
Contempt
and
Scorn
to
this
Prince
,
was
stuck
on
the
top
of
a
Launce
,
made
a
Mark
for
their
Arrows
,
then
cut
and
gashed
to
Jaggs
with
their
Hatchets
;
one
of
them
who
had
hid
a
piece
of
Plate
,
was
thrown
by
the
rest
into
the
Fire
with
it
,
crying
out
,
We
be
zealous
of
Truth
and
Iustice
,
and
not
Thieves
and
Robbers
.
The
next
fiery
Shower
is
discharged
upon
the
Temple
and
Inns
▪
of
Iohn
of
Ierusalem
,
to
whom
the
Possessions
of
the
Knights
Templers
were
given
by
this
Kings
Grandfather
.
Many
Men
lost
there
the
Evidences
of
their
Estates
,
many
their
Lives
.
From
hence
in
Malice
to
the
Lord
Prior
,
they
hasten
to
Clerkenwel
,
where
they
leave
nothing
of
that
Noble
Palace
of
the
Knights
of
S.
Iohn
of
Ierusalem
,
but
Rubbish
,
and
Ashes
,
their
Church
too
was
consumed
in
the
same
wicked
Flames
.
This
House
was
seven
days
burning
down
.
They
break
open
the
Exchequer
and
rifle
Westminster
the
same
day
.
The
Flemmings
or
Dutch
Strangers
,
who
since
the
Iews
were
banished
,
suffer
their
part
in
every
Sedition
,
are
sought
for
all
the
Streets
through
,
all
of
them
massacred
,
no
Sanctuary
could
save
them
;
thirteen
Flemmings
were
drawn
out
of
the
Church
of
the
Friers
Hermits
of
Saint
Augustine
,
and
beheaded
in
the
Streets
,
and
seventeen
others
pulled
out
of
another
parochial
Church
dye
in
the
same
manner
.
They
had
a
Shibboleth
to
discover
them
,
he
who
pronounced
Brot
and
Cawse
,
for
Bread
and
Cheese
had
his
Head
lopt
off
;
it
was
their
Sport
if
they
could
catch
any
Man
,
who
had
not
sworn
their
Oath
,
was
not
of
the
side
,
or
was
hated
by
any
of
the
Commons
,
to
snatch
off
his
Hood
or
Capuch
(
which
was
a
part
of
the
Cloak
,
or
outward
Garment
worn
then
,
and
served
to
cover
the
Head
)
with
the
accustomed
Cry
,
or
yelling
which
they
used
in
beheading
and
overthrowing
Houses
;
then
to
rush
into
the
Streets
,
and
hack
with
their
Fellow
Jobernolls
,
at
his
Neck
in
Crowds
,
till
the
Head
dropped
down
.
Our
most
Famous
Chaucer
flourishing
then
,
in
his
Description
of
the
terrible
Fright
and
Noise
,
at
the
carrying
away
of
Chanticlere
the
Cock
by
Reinold
the
Fox
,
reflects
upon
these
Crys
,
but
in
an
Hyperbole
of
his
Poetical
feigned
ones
,
and
much
undervaluing
the
Horror
of
the
Kentish
Throats
,
as
he
will
have
it
.
They
yellen
as
Fiends
do
in
Hell
,
At.
So
hideous
was
the
Noise
,
Ah
benedicite
!
Certes
Iack-Straw
ne
his
meney
Ne
made
Shouts
half
so
●…rill
,
When
they
would
any
Fiemming
kill
.
The
Lombards
scaped
better
,
they
were
only
robbed
of
what
they
had
,
their
Skins
were
left
them
whole
.
Wat
the
Idol
had
long
agone
in
France
served
Richard
Lyon
a
Merchant
,
and
Lapidary
,
formerly
Sheriff
of
London
,
one
of
the
wealthiest
of
the
City
,
who
had
given
him
Blows
;
it
was
not
fit
this
Injury
should
be
forgotten
,
nor
was
it
;
it
was
a
Score
now
,
or
never
to
be
paid
;
he
strikes
off
his
old
Masters
Head
,
which
in
Triumph
is
carried
before
him
on
a
Spear
.
This
Night
the
King
was
counselled
to
fall
upon
these
Beasts
,
for
the
most
part
drunk
,
and
cut
their
Throats
,
easie
to
be
destroyed
,
if
any
Man
had
had
but
the
Courage
to
overcome
.
It
was
the
Gallant
Mayors
Advice
,
they
lay
on
Heaps
without
Sense
or
Motion
,
tired
with
the
Mischiefs
of
the
Day
,
drunk
and
asleep
,
without
Guards
or
Watch
;
the
Earl
of
Salisbury
and
the
Nobility
,
against
whose
Lives
,
Honours
and
Fortunes
these
Beasts
had
conspired
,
desire
the
King
to
try
all
fair
and
gentle
Ways
of
appeasing
them
,
which
Counsel
he
approves
.
They
were
not
so
kind
to
themselves
,
many
lost
their
Lives
by
the
Hands
and
Swords
of
their
Companions
;
every
petty
discontent
,
or
grudging
,
being
enough
to
provoke
them
.
Thirty
two
of
them
being
drunk
in
a
Cellar
of
the
Savoy
,
were
immured
there
,
finding
in
the
same
place
Death
and
the
Grave
together
.
Some
of
them
threw
Barrels
of
Gunpowder
(
which
was
little
known
then
)
into
the
Fire
,
and
are
blown
up
with
part
of
the
Palace
.
Proclamations
were
formerly
made
in
Tylers
Name
,
not
in
Straws
,
(
as
Polydore
would
have
it
.
)
Straw
was
this
while
busied
elsewhere
.
The
Country
about
was
by
these
Proclamations
summoned
to
repair
to
London
with
all
speed
,
to
spoil
this
Babylon
;
the
close
Menaces
(
lest
they
provoke
Gods
Iudgments
)
pluck
them
down
upon
their
Heads
;
which
themselves
explain
,
if
ye
fail
,
if
ye
and
your
Officers
give
not
Obedience
freely
to
the
Protector
,
we
will
send
out
20000
Men
(
20000
of
our
Locusts
)
who
shall
burn
the
Towns
of
the
Children
of
Disobedience
.
Those
of
S.
Albans
and
Barnet
(
whose
Famous
Deeds
challenge
a
place
in
this
Story
by
themselves
)
struck
with
the
Thunder
of
this
Edict
,
haste
to
London
;
in
their
Journey
thither
,
at
Heibury
,
a
Iack
Straw
Captain
of
this
Herd
,
calls
these
new
Comers
to
We
shall
see
too
what
is
lost
by
this
new
Union
of
King
and
Commons
,
by
the
new
Fellowship
to
observe
the
horrible
Irreligious
Hypocrisie
of
these
Clowns
,
who
only
would
be
thought
the
Protectors
of
his
Crown
and
Person
.
They
alone
had
decreed
his
Ruin
,
who
swear
thus
often
to
prevent
it
,
to
guard
him
from
it
;
A
Treason
not
to
be
believed
by
some
then
,
till
it
had
taken
.
The
Commons
were
then
divided
into
three
Bodies
,
this
with
Iack
Straw
,
the
second
at
Mile-end
under
the
Essexian
Princes
,
Kirkby
,
Treder
,
Scot
,
and
Rugge
,
the
third
on
Tower-hill
,
where
the
Idol
,
and
Priest
Baal
were
in
Chief
.
This
last
Crue
grew
horribly
rude
,
and
haughty
;
the
Commons
there
were
not
contented
to
be
the
Kings
Tasters
and
no
more
,
they
snatch
the
Kings
Provision
violently
from
the
Purveyors
,
he
is
to
be
starved
for
his
own
Good
,
and
after
Harpies
or
Vultures
,
chuse
you
whether
,
strike
high
,
like
brave
Birds
of
Prey
they
will
kill
no
more
Flies
;
this
was
the
Way
to
secure
their
smaller
Mischiefs
.
Polydores
conceit
that
the
Arch-bishop
and
Lord
Prior
of
S.
Iohn
,
were
sent
out
by
the
King
to
allay
their
Heat
,
is
not
probable
.
Walsingham
relates
it
thus
,
that
they
demanded
these
two
(
with
full
Crys
no
doubt
of
Iustice
,
Iustice
)
with
some
others
Traitors
by
their
Law
,
(
a
Fundamental
,
never
to
be
found
or
heard
of
before
)
to
be
given
up
to
them
by
the
King
with
all
the
Earnestness
,
and
Violence
imaginable
.
They
give
him
his
Choice
,
bid
him
consider
of
it
,
they
will
either
have
the
Blood
of
these
their
Traitors
or
Delinquents
who
attended
on
him
,
or
executed
his
lawful
Commands
;
whom
say
they
,
the
King
with
a
high
and
forcible
Hand
protects
,
will
not
be
appeased
unless
they
be
delivered
up
;
conjuring
him
to
be
wise
in
time
,
and
dismiss
his
extraordinary
Guards
,
his
Cavaliers
,
and
others
of
that
Quality
,
who
seem
to
have
little
Interest
,
or
Affection
to
the
publick
Good
.
Whether
the
Tower
Doors
flew
open
at
this
Fright
,
or
the
Man-wolfs
crowded
in
,
at
the
Kings
going
out
to
appease
the
Party
at
Mile-end
,
as
Sir
Iohn
Froissart
tells
it
,
Wat
the
Idol
with
Priest
Baal
are
now
Masters
of
the
Tower
,
into
which
on
Fryday
the
16th
.
of
Iune
they
entred
,
not
many
more
than
400
of
their
Company
guarding
them
,
where
then
were
commanded
six
hundred
of
the
Kings
Men
of
Arms
,
and
six
hundred
Archers
,
a
Guard
not
so
extraordinary
as
was
necessary
then
,
all
so
faint-hearted
,
so
unmanned
at
the
Apparition
,
at
the
sight
of
these
Goblins
,
they
stood
like
the
Stones
of
Medusa
,
remembred
not
themselves
,
their
Honour
,
nor
what
they
had
been
.
The
Clowns
the
most
Abject
of
them
singly
with
their
Clubs
,
or
Cudgels
in
their
Hands
,
venture
into
all
the
Rooms
,
into
the
Kings
Bedchamber
,
(
which
perhaps
had
been
his
Scaffold
had
he
been
there
)
sit
,
lie
,
and
tumble
upon
his
Bed
,
they
press
into
his
Mothers
Chamber
,
where
some
of
the
merry
wanton
Devils
offer
to
kiss
her
,
others
give
her
Blows
,
break
her
Head
.
She
swoons
,
and
is
carried
privately
to
the
Wardrobe
by
her
Servants
.
Some
revile
and
threaten
the
Noblest
Knights
of
the
Houshold
,
some
stroke
their
Beards
with
their
unclean
Hands
(
which
beyond
the
Roman
Patience
in
the
same
Rudeness
from
the
Gauls
is
endured
)
and
this
to
claw
,
and
sweeten
(
they
meant
it
so
)
they
gloss
,
with
smooth
Words
,
and
bespeak
a
lasting
Friendship
for
the
time
to
come
;
they
must
maintain
the
Injuries
done
to
themselves
;
must
not
disturb
the
Usurpers
of
their
Estates
and
Rights
;
must
not
shew
any
Sense
of
Generosity
,
of
Faith
,
of
Honour
,
(
it
concerned
Tyler
that
they
should
be
the
veriest
Fools
and
Cowards
breathing
)
if
they
stir
,
make
any
Claims
,
they
shall
be
reputed
Seditious
,
Turbulent
,
and
Breakers
of
the
Publick
(
otherwise
and
plainly
)
Tylers
Peace
.
It
was
never
heard
(
says
the
Emperor
Charles
in
Sleydan
)
that
it
should
be
lawful
to
despoil
any
Man
of
his
Estates
and
Rights
,
and
unlawful
to
restore
him
▪
Our
Tyler
and
his
Anabaptists
thought
otherwise
.
As
Walsingham
,
they
went
in
and
out
like
Lords
,
who
were
Varlets
of
the
lowest
Rank
,
and
those
who
were
not
Cowherds
to
Knights
,
but
to
Bores
,
value
themselves
beyond
Knights
.
Here
was
a
Hotchpotch
of
the
Rabble
,
a
mechanick
sordid
State
,
composed
as
those
under
Kettes
Oak
of
Reformation
,
after
,
Of
Country
gnooffes
,
Hob
,
Dick
,
and
Hick
,
with
Clubs
,
and
clouted
woon
.
A
medley
or
huddle
of
Botchers
,
Coblers
,
Tinkers
,
Draymen
,
of
Apron-men
and
Plough-joggers
,
domineering
in
the
Kings
Palace
,
and
rooting
up
the
Plants
and
wholesome
Flowers
of
his
Kingdom
in
it
.
This
place
was
now
a
vile
and
nasty
Stye
,
no
more
a
Kings
Palace
,
who
will
value
a
stately
Pile
of
Building
,
of
Honourable
Title
,
or
Antique
Memory
,
since
Constantine
,
when
it
is
infected
with
the
Plague
,
haunted
by
Goblins
,
or
possessed
by
Thieves
.
The
Knights
of
the
Court
,
were
but
Knights
of
the
Carpet
or
Hangings
.
No
Man
seemed
discontented
,
all
was
husht
and
still
.
White-hall
was
then
a
Bishops
Palace
.
The
Tower
was
to
be
prepared
for
Tylers
Highness
,
and
his
Officers
but
the
Cement
of
the
Stratocracy
of
the
Government
by
Sword
,
and
Club
Law
,
could
not
be
well
tempered
with
vulgar
Blood
;
a
Servant
of
the
Arch-Bishops
(
who
had
trusted
himself
to
these
Guards
and
Walls
)
is
forced
to
betray
his
Lord
.
He
brings
them
into
the
Chappel
,
where
the
Holy
Prelate
was
at
his
Prayers
,
where
he
had
celebrated
Mass
that
Morning
before
the
King
,
and
taken
the
Sacred
Communion
;
where
he
had
spent
the
He
was
a
Valiant
Man
and
Pious
,
and
expected
these
Blood-hounds
with
great
Security
and
Calmness
of
Mind
;
when
their
bellowing
first
struck
his
Ears
,
he
tells
his
Servants
that
Death
came
now
as
a
more
particular
Blessing
;
where
the
Comforts
of
Life
were
taken
away
,
that
Life
was
irksome
to
him
,
(
perhaps
his
pious
Fears
for
the
Church
and
Monarchy
,
both
alike
indangered
,
and
fatally
tied
to
the
same
Chain
,
might
make
him
weary
of
the
World
)
and
that
he
could
now
dye
with
more
quiet
of
Conscience
than
ever
;
a
Quiet
which
these
Parricides
will
not
find
,
when
they
shall
pay
the
Score
of
this
and
their
other
Crimes
.
However
the
Flattery
of
Success
may
abuse
,
our
Death-bed
represents
things
in
their
own
Shape
,
and
as
they
are
:
After
this
the
Rout
of
Wolves
enter
prophanely
roaring
,
where
is
the
Traitor
,
where
is
the
Robber
of
the
Common
People
?
He
answers
,
not
troubled
at
what
he
saw
or
heard
,
Ye
are
welcome
,
my
Sons
.
I
am
the
Arch-Bishop
whom
you
seek
,
neither
Traitor
nor
Robber
.
Presently
these
Limbs
of
the
Devil
griping
him
with
their
wicked
Clutches
,
tear
him
out
of
the
Chappel
,
neither
reverencing
the
Altar
,
nor
Crucifix
figured
on
the
top
of
his
Crosier
,
nor
the
Host
,
(
these
are
the
Monks
Observations
,
for
which
he
condemns
them
in
the
highest
Impiety
,
and
makes
them
worse
than
Devils
,
and
as
Religion
went
then
,
well
he
might
condemn
them
so
.
)
They
drag
him
by
the
Arms
and
Hood
to
Tower
Hill
without
the
Gates
,
there
they
howl
hideously
,
which
was
the
Sign
of
a
Mischief
to
follow
.
He
asks
them
what
it
is
they
purpose
?
what
is
his
Offence
?
tells
them
he
is
their
Arch-Bishop
(
this
makes
him
guilty
,
all
his
Eloquence
,
his
Wisdom
are
now
of
no
Use
)
he
adds
the
Murder
of
their
Soveraign
Pastor
will
be
severely
punished
,
some
notorious
Vengeance
After
the
first
hit
,
he
touches
the
Wound
with
his
Hand
and
speaks
thus
,
It
is
the
Hand
of
the
Lord
.
The
next
The
Arch-bishop
dyed
a
Martyr
of
Loyalty
to
his
King
,
and
has
his
[
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*
Wals.
Miracles
recorded
,
an
Honour
often
bestowed
by
Monks
(
Friends
of
Regicide
,
and
Regicides
,
)
on
Traitors
,
seldom
given
to
honest
Men.
In
his
Epitaph
(
his
riming
Epitaph
,
where
is
shewn
the
pittiful
ignorant
Rudeness
of
those
times
)
he
goes
for
no
less
,
he
speaks
thus
:
Sudburiae
natus
Simon
jacet
hic
tumulatus
,
Martyrizatus
nece
pro
republica
stratus
.
Sudburies
Simon
here
intombed
lies
,
Who
for
the
Common-wealth
a
Martyr
dies
.
It
is
fit
(
says
Plato
)
that
he
who
would
appear
a
just
Man
,
become
Naked
,
that
his
Vertue
be
dispoiled
of
all
Ornament
,
that
be
he
taken
for
a
wicked
Man
by
others
(
wicked
indeed
)
that
he
be
mocked
,
and
hanged
.
The
wisest
of
Men
tell
us
,
[
†
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†
Eccles
7.
15.
There
is
a
Just
Man
that
perisheth
in
his
Righteousness
,
and
there
is
a
wicked
Man
that
prolongeth
his
Life
in
his
Wickedness
.
The
Seas
are
often
calm
to
Pirates
,
and
the
Scourges
of
God
,
the
Executioners
of
his
Fury
,
the
Goths
,
Hunns
and
Vandals
heretofore
,
Tartars
and
Turks
now
,
how
happy
are
their
Robberies
,
how
do
all
things
succeed
with
them
beyond
their
Wishes
!
Our
Saviours
Passion
,
the
great
Mystery
of
his
Incarnation
lost
him
to
the
Iews
his
Murtherers
.
Whereupon
Grotius
notes
,
it
is
often
permitted
by
God
,
that
pious
Men
Abel
,
Isaiah
,
and
others
;
the
MESSIAH
dyed
for
the
Sins
of
the
World
,
Ethelbert
and
Saint
Edmund
the
East-Angles
,
Saint
Oswald
the
Northumbrian
,
Edward
the
Monarch
,
&c.
Saxon
Kings
,
are
Examples
at
Home
.
Thucidides
in
his
Narration
of
the
Defeat
and
Death
of
Nician
the
Athenian
in
Sicily
,
speaks
thus
:
Being
the
Man
of
all
the
Grecians
of
my
Time
,
had
least
deserved
to
be
brought
to
so
great
a
Degree
of
Misery
.
It
is
too
frequent
to
proclaim
Gods
Judgments
in
the
Misfortunes
of
others
,
as
if
we
were
of
the
Celestial
Council
,
had
seen
all
the
Wheels
,
or
Orbs
,
upon
which
Providence
turns
,
and
knew
all
the
Reasons
and
Ends
which
direct
and
govern
its
Motions
:
Men
love
by
a
strange
Abstraction
to
seperate
Facts
from
their
Crimes
;
where
the
Fact
is
Beneficial
,
the
Advantage
must
canonize
it
,
it
must
be
of
Heavenly
Off-spring
,
a
Way
to
justifie
Cain
,
Abimelech
,
Phocas
,
our
Third
Richard
,
Ravilliac
,
every
lucky
Parricide
whatsoever
.
Alexander
Severus
that
most
excellent
Emperor
,
assassinated
by
the
Militia
or
Souldiery
,
by
an
ill
Fate
of
the
Common-wealth
(
for
Maximinus
a
Thracian
or
Goth
,
Lieutenant
General
of
the
Army
,
a
cruel
Savage
Tyrant
,
by
Force
usurped
the
Empire
after
him
)
replyed
,
to
one
who
pretended
to
foretell
his
End
;
That
it
troubled
aim
not
,
the
most
Renowned
Persons
in
all
Ages
dye
violently
.
This
Gallant
Prince
condemned
no
Death
,
but
a
dishonest
fearful
one
.
Heaven
it self
declared
on
the
Arch-bishops
side
,
and
cleared
his
Inocency
.
Starling
of
Essex
,
who
challenged
to
himself
the
Glory
of
being
Headsman
,
fell
mad
suddenly
after
,
ran
through
the
Villages
with
his
Sword
hanging
naked
upon
his
Breast
,
and
his
Dagger
naked
behind
him
,
came
up
to
London
,
confest
freely
the
Fact
and
lost
his
Head
there
;
As
most
of
those
did
,
who
had
laid
their
Hands
upon
this
Arch-bishop
,
coming
up
severally
out
of
their
Countrys
to
that
City
,
and
constantly
accusing
themselves
for
the
Parricide
of
their
spiritual
Father
.
Nothing
was
now
unlawful
,
there
could
be
no
Wickedness
after
this
;
they
make
more
Examples
of
barbarous
Cruelty
under
the
Name
of
Justice
.
Robert
Lord
Prior
of
St.
Iohn
,
and
Lord
Treasurer
of
England
,
Iohn
Leg
,
or
Laige
one
of
the
Kings
Sergeants
at
Arms
,
a
Franciscan
,
a
Physician
belonging
to
the
Duke
of
Lancaster
(
whom
perhaps
they
hated
,
because
they
had
wronged
his
Master
)
a
Friar
Carmelite
,
the
Kings
Confesso●…
were
murdered
there
in
this
Fury
.
Whose
Heads
with
the
Arch-bishops
,
were
born
before
them
through
London
Streets
,
and
advanced
over
the
Bridge
.
This
while
the
King
was
softning
the
Rebel●…
of
Essex
at
Mile-end
,
with
the
Earls
of
Salisbury
,
Warwick
,
and
Oxford
,
and
other
Lords
.
Thither
by
Proclamation
he
had
summoned
them
,
as
presu●…ing
the
Essexians
to
be
more
civilized
,
and
by
much
the
fairer
Enemies
,
as
indeed
they
were
.
There
he
promises
to
grant
them
their
Desires
.
Liberty
,
precious
Liberty
,
is
the
thing
they
ask
,
this
is
given
them
by
the
King
,
but
on
Condition
o●…
good
Behaviour
.
They
are
to
cease
their
Burning
,
and
Destruction
of
Houses
,
to
return
quietly
to
their
Homes
,
and
offend
no
Man
in
their
Way
.
Two
of
every
Village
were
to
stay
as
Agents
behind
for
the
Kings
Charters
,
which
could
not
be
got
ready
in
time
.
Farther
the
King
offer●…
them
his
Banners
.
Some
of
them
were
simple
,
honest
People
,
of
no
ill
Meaning
,
sceleribus
fuit
ferox
atque
praeclarus
,
famous
for
his
Villainies
and
haughty
,
would
not
put
up
so
,
he
and
his
Kentish
Rabble
tarry
.
The
next
day
being
Saturday
the
17th
.
of
Iune
,
was
spent
as
the
other
Days
of
their
Tyranny
,
in
Burning
,
ruining
Houses
,
Murthers
,
and
Depopulations
.
The
Night
of
this
Day
the
Idol
and
his
Priest
upon
a
new
Resolution
,
intended
to
have
struck
at
the
Neck
of
the
Nation
,
to
have
murthered
the
King
(
the
Achan
of
the
Tribes
)
probably
by
Beheading
,
the
Death
these
Parricides
had
used
hitherto
,
the
Lords
,
Gentlemen
,
the
wealthiest
and
honestest
part
of
the
Citizens
;
then
to
have
pillaged
their
Houses
,
and
fired
the
City
in
four
parts
;
they
intended
this
haste
to
avoid
odious
Partnership
in
the
Exploit
,
and
that
those
of
Norfolk
,
Suffolk
,
and
other
parts
might
not
share
in
the
Spoil
.
This
Counsel
of
Destruction
was
against
all
Policy
,
more
Profit
might
have
been
made
of
this
City
by
Excise
,
Assessment
,
and
Taxes
upon
the
Trade
;
Tyler
might
sooner
have
enriched
himself
,
and
have
been
as
secure
.
Estates
make
Men
lofty
;
Fear
and
Poverty
,
if
we
may
trust
Machiavel
,
bend
and
supple
;
every
Man
had
been
in
Danger
,
and
obnoxious
to
him
,
one
Clown
had
awed
a
Street
.
Near
the
Abby-Church
at
Westminster
,
was
a
Chappel
with
an
Image
of
the
Virgin
Mary
:
this
Chappel
was
called
the
Chappel
of
our
Lady
,
in
the
●…iew
it
stood
,
near
the
Chappel
of
S.
Stephen
;
since
turned
from
a
Chappel
to
the
Parliament
House
,
here
our
Lady
then
(
who
would
not
believe
it
)
did
great
Miracles
.
Richards
Preservation
at
this
time
was
no
small
one
,
being
in
the
Hands
of
the
Multitude
,
let
loose
,
and
enraged
.
There
he
makes
his
Vows
of
Safety
;
after
which
he
rides
towards
these
Sons
of
Perdition
under
the
Idol
Tyler
.
Tyler
,
who
meant
to
consume
the
Day
in
Cavils
,
protests
to
those
who
were
sent
by
the
King
,
to
offer
those
of
Kent
the
same
Peace
,
which
the
Essex
Clowns
had
accepted
,
that
he
would
willingly
embrace
a
good
and
honest
Peace
,
but
the
Propositions
or
Articles
of
it
were
only
to
be
dictated
by
himself
.
He
is
not
satisfied
with
the
Kings
Charters
.
Three
Draughts
are
presented
to
him
,
no
Substance
,
no
Form
would
please
;
he
desires
an
Accommodation
,
but
he
will
have
Peace
,
and
Truth
together
.
He
exclaims
that
the
Liberty
there
is
deceitful
,
but
an
empty
Name
;
that
while
the
King
talks
of
Liberty
,
he
is
actually
levying
War
,
setting
up
his
Standard
against
his
Commons
;
that
the
good
Commons
are
abused
to
their
own
Ruin
,
and
to
the
Miscarriage
of
the
great
Undertaking
;
that
they
have
with
infinite
Pains
and
Labour
acquainted
the
King
with
their
humble
Desires
,
who
refuses
to
joyn
with
them
,
misled
and
carried
away
by
a
few
evil
and
rotten-hearted
Lords
and
Delinquents
,
contrary
to
his
Coronation
Oath
;
by
which
he
is
obliged
to
pass
all
Laws
offered
him
by
the
Commons
(
whose
the
Legislative
Power
is
)
which
Denyal
of
his
,
if
it
be
not
a
Forfeiture
of
his
Trust
and
Office
(
both
which
are
now
useless
)
it
comes
near
it
,
and
he
is
fairly
dealt
with
,
if
he
be
not
deposed
,
which
too
might
be
done
without
any
Want
of
Modesty
or
Duty
,
and
with
the
Good
of
the
Common-wealth
,
the
Happiness
of
the
Nation
not
depending
on
him
,
or
any
of
the
Regal
Branches
I
will
deliver
the
Nation
from
the
Norman
Slavery
,
and
the
World
(
says
he
)
of
an
old
silly
Superstition
,
That
Kings
are
only
the
Tenants
of
Heaven
,
obnoxious
to
God
alone
,
cannot
be
condemned
and
punished
by
any
Power
else
.
I
will
make
(
here
he
lyed
not
)
an
wholesome
President
to
the
World
,
formidable
to
all
Tyrannies
.
I
declare
,
That
Richard
Plantagenet
,
or
Richard
of
Bourdeaux
,
at
this
time
is
not
in
a
Condition
to
govern
,
I
will
make
no
Addresses
no
Application
to
him
,
nor
receive
any
from
him
;
though
I
am
but
a
dry
Bone
,
too
unworthy
for
this
great
Calling
,
yet
I
will
finish
the
Work
,
I
will
settle
the
Government
without
the
King
,
and
against
him
,
and
against
all
that
take
part
with
him
,
which
sufficiently
justifies
our
Arms
,
God
with
Us
,
says
he
,
owns
them
,
Success
manifests
the
Righteousness
of
our
Cause
,
this
is
(
says
he
)
the
Voice
of
the
People
,
by
us
their
Representative
,
and
our
Counsel
.
After
the
Vote
of
no
more
Addresses
,
which
with
all
their
other
Votes
of
Treason
were
to
be
styled
the
Resolution
of
the
whole
Realm
;
and
while
he
swells
in
this
Ruffle
,
Sir
Iohn
Newton
a
Knight
of
the
Court
,
is
sent
to
intreat
rather
than
to
invite
him
to
come
to
the
King
,
then
in
Smithfield
;
where
the
Idols
Regiments
were
drawn
up
,
and
treat
with
him
,
concerning
the
additional
Provisions
he
desired
to
be
inserted
into
the
Charter
.
No
Observance
was
omitted
which
might
be
thought
pleasing
to
his
Pride
(
which
Pride
was
infinitely
puffing
.
)
Flattery
was
sweet
to
him
,
and
he
had
enough
of
it
,
that
made
him
bow
a
little
,
when
nothing
else
could
do
it
.
We
may
judge
at
the
Unreasonableness
of
his
Demands
,
and
Supplys
of
new
Articles
out
of
his
Instrument
,
by
one
:
He
required
of
the
King
a
Commission
to
impower
himself
,
and
a
Committee
Team
of
his
own
choosing
,
to
cut
off
the
Heads
of
Lawyers
and
Escheators
,
and
of
all
those
,
who
by
Reason
of
their
Knowledge
and
Place
,
were
any
way
imployed
in
the
Law
.
He
fancied
if
those
who
were
learned
in
the
Law
,
were
knocked
i'th'Head
,
all
things
would
be
ordered
by
the
Common
People
;
either
there
would
be
no
Law
,
or
that
which
was
should
be
declared
by
him
and
his
,
subject
to
their
Will
,
with
which
his
Expression
the
day
before
did
well
agree
.
Then
,
attributing
all
things
to
God
(
the
God
of
War
)
and
his
conquering
Arms
,
and
striking
his
Sword
(
which
shewed
the
present
Power
)
on
London-stone
,
The
Cyclops
,
or
Centaur
of
Kent
spoke
these
Words
:
From
Wat
Tylers
Mouth
▪
The
Kings
indeed
had
bound
themselves
,
and
were
bound
by
the
Laws
.
They
were
named
in
them
.
Tyler
was
more
than
a
King
,
he
was
an
Emperor
,
he
was
above
the
Laws
;
nor
was
it
fit
the
old
over-worn
Magna
Charta
should
hold
him
.
The
Supreme
Authority
and
Legislative
Power
(
no
one
knows
how
derived
)
were
to
be
,
and
reside
in
him
,
according
to
the
new
Establishment
.
Tyler
like
Homers
Mars
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
was
a
Whirl
wind●…
he
was
[
*
](A33421-e135120-b)
*
Potius
gladiator
quam
senator
.
Egnatius
in
Paterculus
rather
a
Fencer
,
a
Swash-Buckler
that
a
Senator
;
his
right
Arm
,
his
brutish
Force
,
not
Justice
,
not
Reason
must
sway
all
things
.
Tyler
will
not
rule
in
Fetters
,
his
Will
,
his
Violence
shall
be
called
Law
,
and
grievous
Slavery
under
that
Will
,
falsly
Peace
.
Had
those
,
whom
no
Government
never
so
sweet
,
and
gracious
will
please
,
unless
the
Supreme
Power
be
given
the
People
,
seen
the
Confusion
and
Dangers
,
the
Cruelty
and
Tyranny
of
these
few
days
,
they
would
quickly
have
changed
this
Opinion
.
The
Knight
performs
his
Embassy
,
he
urges
the
Idol
with
great
Earnestness
to
see
the
King
,
and
speedily
.
He
answers
,
if
thou
must
be
so
much
for
Haste
,
get
thee
back
to
the
King
thy
Master
I
will
come
when
I
list
,
yet
he
follows
the
Knight
on
Horse-back
,
but
slowly
.
In
the
Way
,
he
is
met
by
a
Citizen
,
who
had
brought
sixty
Doublets
for
the
Commons
,
upon
the
publick
Faith
.
This
Citizen
asks
him
for
his
Money
;
he
promises
Payment
before
Night
,
and
presses
on
so
near
the
King
that
his
Horse
touched
the
Croup
of
the
Kings
Horse
.
Froissart
reports
his
Discourse
to
the
King
:
Sir
King
(
says
the
Idol
)
seest
thou
yonder
People
?
The
King
answers
,
Yes
,
and
asks
him
what
he
means
by
the
Question
?
He
replys
they
are
all
at
my
Command
,
have
sworn
to
me
Faith
,
and
Truth
,
to
do
what
I
will
have
them
.
He
and
they
had
broke
their
Faith
and
Truth
to
their
Prince
,
and
he
thinks
these
Men
will
be
true
to
him
.
Here
though
it
be
a
Digression
too
much
,
I
cannot
omit
a
passage
of
the
late
Civil
Wars
of
France
,
begun
and
continued
by
the
Iesuiced
Party
to
extirpate
the
Royal
Family
Villers
Governour
of
Roüen
for
the
Holy
League
,
tells
the
Duke
of
Mayen
,
Captain
General
of
the
Rebellion
,
That
he
would
not
obey
him
;
they
were
both
Companions
and
Spoilers
of
the
State
together
:
The
King
being
levelled
,
all
Men
else
ought
to
be
equal
.
The
Idol
,
as
he
that
demanded
(
so
the
Knight
)
nothing
but
Riot
,
continues
his
Discourse
(
thus
:
)
Believest
thou
King
,
that
these
People
will
depart
without
thy
Letters
?
The
King
tells
him
,
He
means
fairly
,
that
he
will
make
good
his
Word
,
his
Letters
are
near
finished
,
and
they
shall
have
them
.
But
the
Glory
of
the
Idol
(
which
was
meerly
the
Benefit
of
Fortune
)
began
to
fade
,
his
Principality
was
too
cruel
,
too
violent
to
be
lasting
.
Vengeance
here
hovered
over
his
Head
,
and
he
who
had
been
the
Destruction
of
Multitudes
hastens
,
nay
precipitates
his
own
Fate
,
and
ruins
himself
by
his
own
Fury
;
he
puts
himself
into
the
Kings
Power
,
who
should
in
his
first
towring
,
had
he
been
wisely
wicked
,
like
a
Vulture
of
the
Game
,
have
flown
at
his
Throat
.
[
*
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*
In
magnis
principium
injuriis
non
incipitur
ut
desistatur
.
The
judicious
Politick
will
not
begin
to
give
over
;
However
will
never
venture
himself
in
the
Princes
Hands
,
whom
he
has
justly
offended
by
Treasons
against
his
Government
.
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†
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†
Grand
folie
Com.
Charles
of
Burgundy
confesses
this
to
be
a
great
Folly
;
his
Grandfather
Philip
lost
his
Life
at
Montereau
upon
the
Yonne
by
it
,
and
our
Idol
shall
not
escape
better
.
Sir
Iohn
Newton
,
the
Knight
imployed
to
fetch
him
,
delivered
his
Message
on
Horseback
,
which
is
now
remembred
,
and
taken
for
an
high
Neglect
;
besides
it
seemeth
the
Carriage
and
Words
of
the
Knight
were
not
very
pleasing
.
Every
Trifle
in
Omission
was
Treason
to
the
Idols
Person
,
and
new
State
.
He
rails
foully
,
draws
his
Dagger
,
and
bellowing
out
,
Traitor
,
menaces
to
strike
the
Knight
,
who
returns
him
in
Exchange
the
Lye
;
and
not
to
be
behind
in
Blows
,
draws
his
:
This
the
Idol
takes
for
an
intolerable
Affront
,
but
the
King
fearful
of
his
Servant
,
cools
and
asswages
the
Heat
;
he
commands
the
Knight
to
dismount
,
and
offer
up
his
Dagger
to
the
Idol
,
which
(
though
unwillingly
)
was
done
.
This
would
not
take
off
his
Edge
:
The
Prince
who
yields
once
to
a
Rebel
,
shall
find
Heaps
of
Requests
,
and
must
deny
nothing
.
The
King
had
given
away
his
Knights
Dagger
:
Now
nothing
will
content
Tyler
but
the
Kings
Sword
,
with
which
the
Militia
or
Power
of
Arms
impliedly
was
sought
.
This
he
asks
,
then
again
rushes
upon
the
Knight
,
vowing
never
to
eat
till
he
have
his
Head
.
When
the
Nobility
and
Gentry
of
the
Kingdom
,
whom
neither
Necessity
nor
Misery
could
animate
,
lye
down
trampled
on
by
these
Villaines
without
Soul
,
or
Motion
;
in
comes
the
Mayor
of
London
,
Sir
William
Walworth
,
the
everlasting
Honour
of
the
Nation
,
a
Man
who
over
did
Ages
of
the
Roman
Scaevolae
,
or
Curtii
in
an
Hours
Action
and
snatches
the
King
and
Kingdom
out
of
these
Flames
.
He
tells
the
King
,
it
would
be
a
Shame
to
all
Posterity
,
to
suffer
more
Insolences
from
this
Hangman
,
this
Lump
of
Blood
.
This
the
rest
of
the
Courtiers
now
wakened
by
their
own
Danger
,
(
for
he
who
destroys
one
Man
contrary
to
Law
or
Justice
,
gives
all
Men
else
Reason
to
fear
themselves
and
take
heed
)
are
Ecchoes
to
.
This
puts
Daring
into
the
young
King
;
he
resolves
to
hazard
all
upon
this
Chance
:
This
Way
he
could
not
but
dye
Kingly
,
at
least
,
like
a
Gentleman
,
with
the
Sword
,
which
God
(
of
whose
great
Majesty
he
was
a
Beam
)
gave
him
in
his
Hand
.
The
only
Way
left
to
avoid
a
shameful
Death
,
was
to
run
the
Danger
of
a
brave
One
,
and
a
wise
Coward
(
I
will
not
say
an
Honourable
One
)
considering
the
Incertainty
of
things
under
that
Iron
Socage
Tenure
,
would
think
so
.
The
King
commands
the
Mayor
to
arrest
the
Butcher
:
This
was
Charge
enough
,
and
rightly
understood
;
indeed
there
was
then
no
time
for
Form
nor
Tryal
,
the
Suspension
of
the
Courts
was
Tylers
Act
,
his
The
generous
Lord
Mayor
obeys
the
Sentence
,
which
was
given
by
the
same
Power
,
by
which
the
Judges
of
Courts
sat
and
acted
,
when
Justice
flowed
down
from
the
Fountain
in
the
ordinary
Channel
,
and
which
the
Damm
Head
being
thus
troubled
by
this
Wolf
,
could
flow
no
otherwise
,
which
was
Authority
sufficient
;
by
this
Power
Richards
Captains
must
fight
when
he
has
them
,
and
kill
those
whom
the
Courts
of
Justice
cannot
deal
with
:
Tyler
faints
and
shrinks
to
what
he
had
been
,
he
was
as
cowardly
as
cruel
,
and
could
not
seem
a
Man
in
any
thing
but
that
he
was
a
Thief
,
and
a
Rebel
:
He
asks
the
brave
Mayor
in
what
he
was
offendedly
him
?
This
was
a
strange
Question
to
an
honest
Man
;
he
finds
it
so
.
The
Mayor
(
says
Froissart
)
calls
him
false
stinking
Knave
,
and
tells
him
he
shall
not
speak
such
Words
in
the
Presence
of
his
natural
Lord
the
King
.
The
Mayor
answers
in
full
upon
the
accursed
Sacrilegious
Head
of
the
Idol
with
his
Sword
.
He
struck
heartily
,
and
like
a
faithful
zealous
Subject
.
Dagon
of
the
Clowns
sinks
at
his
Feet
.
The
Kings
Followers
inviron
him
round
,
Iohn
Standish
an
Esquire
of
the
Court
,
alights
,
and
runs
him
into
the
Belly
,
which
thrust
sent
him
into
another
World
,
to
accompany
him
who
taught
Rebellion
,
and
Murder
first
.
Event
was
then
no
Sign
of
a
good
Cause
.
All
History
now
brands
him
for
a
Traitor
,
which
by
some
will
be
attributed
to
his
Miscarriage
:
without
Doubt
had
he
prospered
in
the
Work
,
he
had
had
all
the
Honours
which
goe
along
with
Prosperity
.
The
King
had
been
the
wrong
Doer
,
and
his
Now
I
come
to
an
Act
of
Richards
the
most
glorious
of
his
History
,
which
the
Annals
past
can
no
where
parallel
;
here
his
Infancy
excells
his
after
Man-hood
.
Here
,
and
in
the
Gallantry
of
his
Death
,
he
appears
a
full
Prince
,
and
perhaps
vies
with
all
the
Bays
of
his
Usurpers
Triumphs
.
Alexander
the
Monarch
of
the
World
,
(
not
more
wondered
at
for
his
Victories
,
than
for
that
suppressing
the
Sedition
of
his
Macedons
in
Asia
,
tired
,
and
unable
to
march
,
whither
his
Ambition
carried
him
on
Wings
)
leaps
from
his
Throne
of
State
,
into
the
Battels
of
his
Phalanges
enraged
,
seizes
Thirteen
of
the
Chief
Malecontents
,
and
delivers
them
to
the
Custody
of
his
Guards
.
Innocent
Blood
,
a
Tyrant
,
a
Traitor
,
an
Homicide
,
the
publick
Enemy
of
the
Common-wealth
Richard
Plantagenet
is
indicted
in
the
Name
of
the
People
of
England
of
Treason
;
and
other
heinous
Crimes
.
He
is
now
become
less
than
Tylers
Ghost
,
a
Traitor
to
the
Free-born
People
.
His
Treason
was
,
he
would
not
destroy
himself
,
he
would
not
open
his
Body
to
Tylers
full
Blow
.
They
roar
out
,
our
Captain
General
is
slain
treacherously
,
let
us
He
tells
them
,
If
Liberty
be
their
only
Aim
,
as
hitherto
they
have
pretended
,
they
may
assure
themselves
of
it
,
and
that
it
is
an
extreme
Folly
to
seek
to
make
that
our
own
with
the
Breach
of
Faith
,
of
Laws
,
with
Impieties
,
violating
God
and
Man
,
which
we
may
come
by
fairly
.
But
they
trod
not
the
Path
to
Liberty
;
that
where
every
Man
commands
,
no
Man
can
be
free
;
the
Liberty
too
they
fancy
cannot
be
had
,
the
World
cannot
subsist
without
Order
and
Subjection
,
Men
cannot
be
freed
from
Laws
:
If
they
were
,
there
could
be
no
Society
,
no
Civility
any
where
;
Men
must
be
shunned
as
much
as
Wolves
or
Bears
,
Rapine
and
Blood-shed
would
over-run
the
World
;
the
Spoyler
must
fear
the
next
Comer
,
like
savage
Beasts
,
who
hurt
others
,
and
know
not
it
is
ill
to
hurt
them
.
Men
would
devour
Men
,
the
stronger
Thief
would
swallow
up
the
rest
;
No
Relations
would
be
Sacred
,
where
every
Man
has
the
Power
of
the
Sword
;
the
aged
Sire
(
could
there
be
any
such
)
must
defend
his
silver
Hairs
from
the
unnatural
Violence
of
his
own
Sons
.
He
adds
,
if
there
can
be
any
just
Cause
of
Sedition
,
yet
is
the
Sedition
unjust
which
outlasts
it
,
which
continues
,
when
the
Cause
is
yielded
to
,
and
taken
away
;
that
if
his
Prerogative
has
been
sometimes
grievous
,
his
Taxes
heavy
,
and
any
of
those
they
call
evil
Counsellors
faulty
,
they
ought
to
remember
,
in
their
first
Risings
,
and
all
along
in
all
their
Oaths
,
and
Covenants
,
they
swore
continually
not
to
invade
the
Monarchy
,
nor
touch
the
Rights
of
his
free
Crown
.
You
ought
to
remember
your
own
Remonstrances
;
you
once
declared
,
that
you
acknowlegded
the
Maxim
of
the
Law
,
The
King
can
doe
no
wrong
;
if
any
ill
be
committed
in
Matters
of
State
,
the
Counsellors
;
if
in
Matters
of
Law
,
the
Iudges
must
answer
for
it
—
My
Person
was
not
to
be
violated
.
He
expects
they
should
deal
with
him
,
as
the
honest
Husbandman
does
in
Overflows
of
Waters
,
who
clears
and
drains
his
Ground
,
repairs
the
Banks
,
but
does
not
usurp
upon
the
Stream
,
does
not
inhance
within
the
Channel
;
and
farther
,
that
quarrels
to
his
Government
and
Laws
are
unreasonable
from
those
,
who
out
of
Ambition
arm
to
overthrow
both
;
that
Reformation
is
not
the
Work
of
Sedition
,
which
ever
disorders
what
is
well
setled
.
He
conjures
them
to
forsake
these
Furies
,
who
,
says
he
,
abuse
their
Lightness
meerly
for
their
own
Ends
,
whose
Companions
and
Masters
they
were
lately
,
now
are
they
but
their
Guards
;
and
that
if
they
refuse
a
Subjection
according
to
all
Laws
Divine
and
Humane
to
his
Scepter
,
they
must
become
Slaves
and
Tributaries
to
their
Iron
,
to
the
Flails
and
Pitch-forks
of
some
Mushroom
of
their
own
Dirt
,
and
that
advancing
their
Mushroom
,
thus
upon
his
Power
by
the
Ways
of
Force
,
gives
an
Example
to
the
next
Tumults
against
themselves
.
There
can
be
no
Safety
for
any
new
Power
raised
upon
this
Force
;
He
bids
them
not
trouble
themselves
for
Tyler
,
a
base
Fellow
who
thrust
them
into
Dangers
,
and
blew
them
into
a
Storm
,
to
raise
himself
upon
the
Billows
,
upon
the
Ruins
of
his
Country
.
He
promises
to
lead
them
,
he
will
be
their
Captain
if
they
will
follow
him
,
he
will
please
them
in
all
their
Desires
.
This
he
spake
to
draw
them
off
farther
into
Smithfield
,
fearing
they
would
again
fall
to
burning
of
Houses
.
They
now
wanted
their
Devil
,
who
possessed
them
,
and
being
in
Doubt
whether
they
should
kill
the
King
,
or
return
Home
with
his
Charters
,
there
being
no
Incendiary
to
command
,
follow
the
King
in
Suspence
;
Baal
and
Straw
about
this
time
amazed
at
the
Idol's
Fall
,
lose
Courage
and
slip
away
.
In
the
mean
time
the
stout
Mayor
spurs
to
the
City
with
one
Servant
,
where
in
a
few
Words
he
acquaints
the
Citizens
with
the
Kings
Peril
and
his
own
,
and
requests
their
sudden
Assistance
,
if
not
for
himself
,
for
the
King
,
who
(
says
he
)
is
in
Danger
now
to
be
murthered
.
Some
Loyal
Hearts
,
some
good
Men
of
the
Kings
Party
arm
,
and
joyn
to
the
Number
of
one
Thousand
,
and
range
themselves
in
the
Street
,
expecting
some
of
the
Cavaliers
of
the
Kings
Knights
to
conduct
them
,
resolved
either
to
overcome
,
or
not
to
fear
the
Conquerors
.
Sir
Robert
Knowles
,
a
renowned
Commander
in
the
French
Wars
of
the
King's
Grandfather
(
called
falsly
Canol
by
Polydore
,
and
others
)
undertakes
this
Charge
.
Sir
Perducas
D'Albret
(
called
D'Albreth
)
a
Noble
Gascoign
and
a
Commander
too
in
those
Wars
,
Nicholas
Brembre
the
Kings
Draper
,
and
other
Aldermen
,
come
in
with
their
Levies
,
and
march
to
the
King
in
sight
of
the
Rebels
.
There
the
King
knights
the
brave
Wil:
Walworth
,
Iohn
Standish
,
one
of
his
Esquires
,
Nicholas
Brembre
,
Iohn
Philpot
,
'a
most
generous
Citizen
,
(
famous
for
his
faithful
Service
to
his
Prince
in
the
times
succeeding
)
and
others
.
The
Nobility
about
the
King
desire
him
to
strike
off
an
hundred
or
two
of
the
Clowns
Heads
,
in
Revenge
of
the
Injuries
and
Infamy
they
had
received
from
them
.
Sir
Robert
Knowls
would
have
him
fall
on
,
and
cut
them
all
to
pieces
.
The
King
dislikes
both
these
Counsels
;
He
says
many
of
these
unhappy
Men
were
awed
to
side
,
without
either
Malice
to
his
Person
or
Power
;
and
that
if
the
first
Advice
were
taken
,
the
most
Innocent
might
be
punished
,
and
the
Guilty
scape
:
If
the
Second
,
the
very
Rebel
and
the
Counterfeit
(
the
forced
one
)
must
be
swallowed
up
together
,
which
was
high
Injustice
.
Yet
were
there
many
of
these
Rebels
called
to
an
Account
,
and
their
Acts
of
Blood
,
Rapine
and
Burning
cost
them
dear
;
but
these
Acts
of
theirs
done
against
Law
,
were
punished
Legally
,
upon
the
finding
of
Juries
,
when
the
Tumults
were
composed
:
Which
was
fair
and
handsome
,
and
shew
the
Honourable
Justice
of
our
King
.
All
that
was
done
against
them
that
Night
,
was
,
to
forbid
the
Citizens
by
Proclamation
to
entertain
any
of
these
Men
in
the
City
,
or
communicate
with
them
;
and
to
command
all
Men
,
who
had
not
dwelt
there
for
one
Year
before
,
to
depart
.
So
far
was
the
young
King
from
approving
the
Cruelty
of
the
late
Counsels
,
that
in
the
next
Place
,
he
causes
the
Charters
,
which
he
had
promised
them
,
to
be
delivered
:
Yet
some
may
suppose
this
but
a
Pardon
of
Shew
,
and
the
Pardon-piece
of
the
Charters
,
as
well
as
the
other
part
,
rather
a
Piece
of
Policy
than
any
thing
else
;
the
Countrys
being
yet
Tumultuons
,
the
Clowns
were
upon
their
good
Behaviour
,
that
was
a
Condition
of
their
Pardon
,
which
they
would
not
observe
;
they
commit
new
Outrages
,
break
the
Kings
Laws
,
and
pluck
down
the
Vengeance
of
Justice
upon
their
Heads
afresh
,
they
did
not
give
over
their
Mischiefs
after
their
Return
,
says
Wals.
By
the
King
and
his
Counsel
,
the
Charters
at
extorted
out
of
Force
,
and
Necessity
were
recalled
;
and
though
the
Meynie
generally
were
pardoned
,
the
King
(
again
provoked
)
staid
but
for
a
fit
time
to
take
Vengeance
on
the
Ring-leaders
,
and
punish
particular
Offenders
who
could
not
be
forgiven
:
It
being
necessary
in
so
desperate
a
Revolt
,
for
the
Terror
of
others
,
to
make
Examples
of
some
such
malicious
Disturbers
of
the
Peace
,
as
would
never
have
been
reclaimed
.
The
King
's
Charters
contained
a
Manumission
of
the
Villains
,
and
Abolition
of
the
Memory
of
what
was
past
for
the
rest
.
The
Tenor
,
says
Walsingham
,
of
the
Charters
extorted
from
the
King
by
Force
,
was
this
,
(
he
gives
us
only
that
of
Hartfordshire
the
Province
of
his
Monastery
.
)
RIchard
,
by
the
Grace
of
God
,
King
of
England
and
of
France
,
Lord
of
Ireland
,
To
all
his
Bayliffs
and
others
his
Trusty
,
to
whom
these
Letters
shall
come
,
greeting
:
Know
ye
that
we
of
our
special
Grace
have
made
free
all
our
Lieges
,
and
every
of
our
Subjects
of
Hartfordshire
,
and
we
free
those
,
and
every
of
them
from
all
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Ab
omn
bondagio
.
Bondage
,
and
quit
them
by
these
Presents
;
and
also
we
pardon
the
same
our
Lieges
,
and
Subjects
,
for
all
Fellonies
,
Treasons
,
Trespasses
,
and
Extortions
by
them
,
or
any
of
them
,
in
any
wise
done
,
or
committed
,
and
also
every
Outlary
,
or
Outlaries
,
if
any
against
them
,
or
any
of
them
,
are
or
shall
be
published
,
and
our
full
Peace
to
them
,
or
any
of
them
,
therefore
we
grant
.
In
witness
whereof
these
our
Letters
we
have
caused
to
be
made
Patents
.
Witness
our self
at
London
the
15th
.
day
of
June
,
the
4th
.
Year
of
our
Reign
.
This
Charter
was
granted
about
the
time
the
Clowns
of
Essex
disbanded
,
and
received
theirs
,
it
was
brought
into
Harfordshire
to
Saint
Albans
by
Wallingford
one
of
the
Town
.
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Illucescente
die
Veneris
.
Friday
says
Walsingham
the
day
of
Tribulation
,
&c.
(
which
was
the
16th
.
of
Iune
)
the
Townsmen
of
Saint
Albans
being
at
the
time
of
Mattins
acquainted
by
those
of
Barnet
with
the
Command
of
the
Ordinance
,
or
Act
,
for
repairing
to
London
presently
with
the
Esquires
of
the
Abbot
,
set
forth
;
So
that
I
conceive
the
Day
of
this
Charter
is
mistaken
in
it
by
the
Monk
.
The
Clowns
throw
down
their
Arms
at
the
Kings
Feet
,
sue
for
Mercy
,
and
deliver
up
their
Chiefs
;
the
Principal
of
which
,
Priest
Straw
was
after
drawn
from
his
hiding
Holes
,
and
laid
hold
of
by
the
Kings
Officers
.
What
became
of
them
we
shall
see
below
,
in
the
Visitation
made
by
the
King
,
and
his
Ministers
,
through
the
Provinces
in
Uproar
.
The
Commons
of
Kent
now
scatter
and
dissolve
,
the
Heads
of
the
Arch-bishop
,
Lord
Prior
,
and
the
rest
,
are
taken
down
from
the
Bridge
,
and
the
Idols
advanced
there
.
That
Baal
should
now
be
taken
in
an
old
House
is
an
Error
of
the
Knights
;
Baal
must
take
William
Walworth
as
an
Addition
to
the
City
Arms
is
Fabulous
;
this
Dagger
is
the
Sword
of
St.
Paul
,
and
was
born
by
the
City
when
Tyler
was
living
.
The
King
now
rides
to
Westminster
,
where
he
gives
God
Thanks
for
his
Deliverance
,
and
presents
his
Offering
to
the
Virgin
Mary
,
in
her
Chappel
of
the
Piew
;
next
he
visits
the
Princess
Mother
in
the
Tower
Royal
,
called
the
Queens
Wardrobe
,
and
bids
her
rejoyce
,
for
(
says
he
)
this
Day
I
have
recovered
mine
Heritage
,
the
Realm
of
England
near
I
have
before
spoken
of
the
Summons
of
the
Idol
to
fetch
the
Line
of
Communication
,
who
were
to
serve
as
Auxiliaries
only
,
to
strengthen
Tyler
,
rather
than
to
enrich
themselves
,
and
likely
to
be
cashiered
,
and
cast
off
when
he
had
perfected
his
Works
:
amongst
these
Rake-hells
were
the
Townsmen
of
Saint
Albans
with
the
Abbots
Servants
,
shuffled
in
the
Throng
of
purpose
to
oversee
and
awe
the
Clowns
,
from
the
new
Fangles
of
our
Phanaticks
.
These
,
as
is
related
,
were
sworn
to
the
Ingagement
at
Heibury
;
whence
they
come
to
London
;
whither
they
are
no
sooner
got
,
but
the
Townsmen
separate
from
the
Servants
of
the
Monastery
,
and
in
St.
Mary-bow-Church
does
their
profane
Conventicle
consult
how
to
make
Advantage
of
the
Tumult
.
And
what
Pretences
of
Revolt
from
their
Lord
Abbot
would
seem
most
fair
,
and
taking
.
Here
they
make
not
the
Causes
of
their
Disobedience
,
they
were
hatched
secretly
amongst
themselves
;
they
deliberate
how
to
perfect
things
,
how
to
come
to
Effects
.
The
enlarging
the
Bounds
of
their
Common
,
free
Fishing
,
Hunting
in
certain
places
,
when
they
pleased
,
and
Hand-mills
,
that
the
Bayliff
of
the
Liberty
shall
no
more
meddle
within
the
Precincts
of
the
Town
;
the
Revocation
of
Charters
prejudicial
to
the
Free-born
Burgesses
,
cancelling
the
Bonds
of
their
Fore-fathers
made
to
Abbot
Richard
,
are
the
Propositions
first
voted
.
One
,
who
would
be
wiser
than
the
rest
,
perswades
them
not
to
attempt
things
rashly
,
and
giddily
,
without
Authority
:
He
tells
them
,
that
Wat
Tyler
,
Protector
and
Captain
General
of
the
Clowns
was
near
;
that
the
Protector
,
was
a
Righter
of
Wrongs
raised
,
and
inspired
by
Providence
to
redeem
the
faithful
Commons
from
the
Thraldom
of
the
Wicked
.
At
the
Suit
of
the
Godly
Party
(
says
he
)
Tyler
has
accepted
the
Government
,
he
is
to
govern
the
two
Nations
;
The
Supreme
executive
Power
resides
in
him
;
from
him
(
says
he
)
and
from
the
Keepers
of
the
Liberties
let
us
seek
for
Remedy
.
Let
us
make
our
Addresses
to
him
,
let
us
seek
to
his
Highness
for
Power
,
and
Commission
.
This
he
said
(
as
Walsingham
writes
)
supposing
a
greater
than
Tyler
should
not
be
seen
in
the
Kingdom
,
that
Tylers
Greatness
for
the
time
to
come
would
only
be
eminent
;
That
the
Laws
of
the
Land
(
the
most
ancient
To
keep
our
Way
:
Both
these
Counsels
are
approved
;
William
Greyndcob
an
Hind
,
who
had
eaten
the
Bread
Tyler
meant
not
to
leave
London
,
yet
he
promises
,
if
need
be
,
to
send
Twenty
Thousand
of
the
Saints
,
who
shall
not
fail
to
shave
the
Beards
of
the
Abbot
and
the
rest
,
which
signified
(
in
plain
English
)
cutting
off
their
Heads
.
The
gracious
Captain
General
was
yet
more
kind
;
he
vows
,
if
it
be
convenient
,
to
assist
them
in
his
own
Person
.
He
gives
them
Directions
and
Orders
to
govern
themselves
by
,
and
makes
their
Obedience
here
,
a
Condition
of
his
Love
.
These
Orders
were
generally
enjoyned
by
our
English
Mahomet
,
through
all
the
Provinces
of
his
Conquest
,
and
were
framed
according
to
the
Law
of
his
bloody
Alchoran
.
He
swears
them
to
omit
nothing
either
in
his
Commands
or
Doctrine
.
A
Servant
of
the
Abbot
,
one
of
the
Spies
upon
the
Townsmen
,
rides
in
full
Career
to
S.
Albans
and
gives
Intelligence
to
the
Abby
of
the
Exploits
of
the
new
Masters
at
London
.
He
tells
them
in
what
manner
that
Dirt
of
a
Captain
(
Tyler
)
fullyed
and
polluted
with
the
Blood
of
the
Nobless
,
had
butchered
the
English
Patriarch
,
and
the
Lord
Treasurer
.
That
London
,
the
Den
of
these
ravenous
Beasts
,
falsly
called
the
Chamber
of
her
Kings
,
was
likely
now
to
become
the
Charnel-house
of
Richard
,
and
his
Loyal
Vassals
:
That
these
Fiends
,
who
would
goe
for
Saints
,
and
the
only
good
Patriots
commit
the
Acts
of
Thieves
,
and
Murtherers
,
neither
reverencing
Religion
nor
Laws
:
And
that
the
Conquering
French
,
who
makes
fair
War
,
nay
the
barbarous
Scot
,
broke
out
of
the
Fastness
of
his
own
Desart
,
mortal
Enemies
of
the
Nation
,
could
not
spoil
nor
ruin
with
more
Cruelty
and
Villany
.
No
Mercy
,
says
he
,
(
yield
who
will
upon
Mercy
)
no
Favour
,
no
Goodness
can
be
expected
from
this
Rout
of
Wolves
.
He
bids
those
pointed
at
,
and
named
by
Greyndcob
to
Tyler
,
shift
for
themselves
,
which
they
are
not
long
in
resolving
of
.
The
Prior
,
four
Monks
,
and
some
of
their
Servants
,
one
part
horsed
,
another
on
Foot
,
fly
for
their
Lives
,
not
assuring
themselves
till
they
got
to
Tynmouth
,
a
Priory
of
this
Monastery
of
Saint
Albans
in
Northumberland
.
William
Greyndcob
,
and
William
Cadindon
a
Baker
,
on
Fryday
had
hastened
to
S.
Albans
,
that
they
might
make
the
Honour
of
the
Atchievement
theirs
,
by
first
appearing
in
the
Action
.
These
brag
aloud
of
the
Prosperity
of
Affairs
,
that
they
were
no
more
Drudges
and
Slaves
,
but
Lords
for
the
time
to
come
;
that
they
had
brought
about
great
and
wonderful
Feats
against
the
Abby
;
they
propose
,
first
to
defie
the
Abbot
,
Fauconwood
,
Eywood
,
and
This
Night
the
first
Scene
of
the
Tragedy
is
acted
;
the
next
day
,
being
Saturday
,
fatal
to
the
Hangman
Tyler
,
the
Upstart
Nobility
of
Churls
assemble
and
make
Proclamation
,
That
no
Man
able
to
serve
his
Country
,
presume
to
slight
the
Lieutenants
of
the
Idol
,
but
that
every
Man
furnish
himself
with
such
Arms
as
he
can
provide
,
to
attend
them
the
Lieutenants
in
his
own
Defence
.
The
Crew
summoned
are
commanded
to
press
the
Gentry
for
the
Service
,
and
to
cut
off
the
Heads
of
those
who
would
not
joyn
with
them
,
and
swear
to
be
faithful
to
them
;
beheading
,
burning
Houses
,
Forfeiture
of
Goods
were
menaced
to
all
that
would
not
assist
the
Forces
raised
by
Tyler
,
and
fight
the
Lords
Battels
,
that
is
,
for
the
Cause
.
This
,
says
our
Monk
,
was
the
Charge
of
their
Lord
and
Master
Wat
,
this
was
his
Rubrick
of
Blood
.
Next
,
with
great
Pomp
they
march
to
Fauconwood
;
to
level
Root
and
Branch
were
pared
and
torn
up
,
they
retire
.
The
other
Growtnolls
of
the
Neighbourhood
,
subject
to
the
Distress
,
or
Seigniory
of
Saint
Albans
,
wait
for
them
;
these
were
cited
upon
the
same
Threats
to
meet
,
and
promised
Belly-fulls
,
Cart
Loads
of
Liberties
.
Now
or
never
for
the
Liberty
of
the
Subject
,
and
the
Power
of
Godliness
.
This
Supply
swells
them
into
huge
Hopes
,
it
puffs
them
up
.
Greyndcob
and
Cadindon
more
haughty
now
than
ever
;
lead
their
Battalias
,
blustering
with
surly
Pride
and
Disdain
,
to
the
Gates
of
the
Monastery
,
which
with
the
same
Loftiness
they
command
the
Porter
to
set
open
.
Some
of
the
Company
,
Friends
of
the
House
,
had
given
private
Intelligence
to
the
Abbot
of
the
Contrivances
against
him
,
who
had
instructed
his
Servants
how
to
carry
themselves
toward
this
Tag
and
Rag
of
Swains
;
they
observe
them
punctually
.
That
they
may
seem
pious
in
their
Entrance
,
they
free
the
publick
Malefactors
out
of
the
Abbots
Prison
;
but
so
that
they
should
owe
Faith
hereafter
,
and
Grace
of
the
Benefit
to
the
Commons
(
a
Name
the
most
Honourable
,
and
which
must
swallow
up
all
things
else
)
and
inseparably
stick
to
them
.
One
of
the
Offenders
,
whom
they
suppose
unworthy
of
Liberty
or
Life
(
grown
Judges
and
Executioners
by
the
same
Inspiration
and
Spirit
)
they
behead
on
the
Ground
before
the
Gates
,
then
fix
his
Head
upon
the
Pillory
,
roaring
with
that
devilish
Cry
they
had
learnt
at
London
.
This
was
plain
Murther
by
the
Law
,
whatsoever
this
Mans
Crime
was
,
these
Rogues
were
guilty
in
a
most
high
Nature
,
so
that
besides
the
Baseness
of
their
Condition
,
they
were
incapable
of
any
Jurisdiction
by
the
ancient
fundamental
Laws
of
England
,
as
being
Traitors
,
and
out
of
the
Kings
Faith
:
But
to
wave
all
this
by
these
ancient
Laws
,
every
Prisoner
From
the
Idols
first
Entrance
no
Act
of
Confirmation
or
Grant
was
done
(
could
any
such
Act
be
done
and
valid
)
to
establish
or
make
a
Right
,
by
the
Power
which
had
that
Right
to
bestow
;
he
asked
for
a
Commission
of
Life
and
Death
,
but
was
refused
,
and
his
Arbitrary
Acts
were
only
a
Continuance
of
his
Intrusion
,
and
of
the
Violence
upon
which
he
began
.
To
fill
up
their
tattered
Regiments
,
their
Fellow
Leaguers
or
Covenanters
of
Barnet
,
Luton
,
Watford
,
and
the
Towns
round
enter
St.
Albans
of
the
same
Sacrilegious
Affection
to
the
Abby
.
In
all
these
Conspiracies
the
Church
was
the
main
Mark
aimed
at
,
about
the
Carcases
of
the
Cathedrals
and
Abbys
(
they
were
now
nothing
else
)
did
these
Vultures
gather
.
In
the
same
Conjuncture
of
times
enters
Richard
Wallingford
,
Head-borough
or
Constable
of
the
place
,
who
tarried
at
London
for
the
Kings
Letter
of
Manumission
and
Pardon
,
(
which
Greyndcob
had
been
so
earnest
for
)
bearing
the
Kings
Banner
or
Pennon
of
the
Arms
of
St.
George
,
being
the
red
Cross
before
him
,
according
to
the
Fashion
of
the
Clowns
of
London
.
The
Commons
hearing
of
his
coming
,
pour
themselves
out
in
Heaps
to
meet
him
.
He
alights
,
strikes
the
Penon
into
the
Earth
,
and
bids
them
keep
close
and
encircle
it
like
a
Standard
.
He
intreats
them
to
continue
about
it
,
and
expect
his
Return
,
and
the
Lieutenants
,
who
were
resolved
with
all
Speed
to
treat
with
the
Abbot
,
and
would
suddenly
bring
them
an
Answer
to
their
Propositions
.
Which
said
,
he
and
they
enter
the
Church
,
and
send
for
the
Abbot
to
appear
before
them
,
and
answer
the
Commons
(
only
Sacred
then
,
and
to
whom
all
Knees
were
to
bow
.
)
The
Abbot
was
at
first
resolute
to
dye
for
the
Liberty
of
his
Church
;
(
a
pious
Gallantry
which
will
be
admirable
)
but
overcome
with
the
Prayers
of
his
Monks
;
who
told
him
,
as
things
stood
,
his
Death
could
advantage
nothing
;
that
these
stinking
Knaves
,
these
Hell-hounds
were
determined
to
murder
the
Monks
,
and
burn
the
Monastery
,
if
they
had
the
Repulse
;
and
that
there
was
no
Way
of
Safety
but
to
fall
down
before
these
Baals
,
he
yields
.
After
he
was
come
to
the
Church
,
and
a
short
Salutation
past
;
Wallingford
reaches
out
to
him
the
Kings
Letter
or
Writ
(
as
Walsi●…gham
calls
it
)
in
these
Words
,
as
I
have
rendred
them
out
of
the
barbarous
French
of
that
Age.
BEloved
in
God
,
At
the
Petition
of
our
loved
Lieges
of
the
Town
of
St.
Albans
we
will
and
command
you
,
That
certain
Charters
being
in
your
Custody
made
by
our
Progenitor
King
Henry
to
the
Burgesses
and
good
People
of
the
said
Town
,
of
Commune
of
Pasture
and
Fishing
,
and
of
certain
other
Commodities
expressed
in
the
said
Charters
,
in
what
they
say
,
you
doe
as
Law
and
Reason
requires
;
So
that
they
may
not
have
have
any
Matter
to
complain
to
us
for
that
Cause
Given
under
our
Signet
at
London
the
15th
.
Day
of
June
,
the
fourth
year
of
our
Reign
.
Here
certainly
again
is
a
Mistake
of
the
Day
,
for
till
Friday
the
16th
.
of
Iune
,
the
Clowns
of
Saint
Albans
(
as
is
observed
)
stirred
not
.
Thus
is
the
King
forced
to
be
the
Author
of
other
Mens
Injustice
,
to
consent
to
those
Insolences
(
and
Wrongs
)
which
must
undoe
all
those
who
are
Faithful
to
him
,
to
please
a
base
Rabble
,
engaged
to
turn
in
the
end
their
destroying
Hands
upon
himself
and
his
Royal
Family
;
the
Abbot
receives
the
Letter
with
due
Reverence
,
and
reads
it
:
Then
thinking
to
work
upon
the
Consciences
of
these
Hell-hounds
,
he
begins
a
Discourse
of
Law
,
Reason
,
Equity
,
and
Justice
;
Law
and
Reason
were
the
Princely
Bounds
betwixt
which
the
Kings
Commands
ran
.
He
tells
them
,
whatsoever
was
demanded
by
them
,
had
been
long
agoe
determined
in
the
Courts
of
Justice
,
by
the
publick
Judges
,
Persons
knowing
and
honourable
,
sworn
to
do
equal
Right
.
That
the
Records
were
kept
amongst
the
Kings
Rolls
at
Westminster
,
whence
he
inferred
,
That
according
to
the
Laws
anciently
in
Use
,
they
had
neither
Right
nor
Claim
left
:
He
adds
,
the
Usurpation
upon
anothers
Propriety
is
Tyranny
in
the
Abstract
;
it
is
the
greatest
Injustice
:
The
very
Heathens
will
have
it
unnatural
to
enrich
our selves
to
make
our
Advantage
from
Spoil
and
Robbery
,
but
Force
is
odious
to
God
and
Man
,
that
aggravates
the
Sin
;
Violence
is
a
more
heinous
Crime
than
Theft
.
This
was
ridiculous
Wisdom
,
considering
who
they
were
the
good
Abbot
spake
to
;
he
had
forgot
perhaps
how
Antigonus
armed
to
invade
and
seize
the
Cities
,
and
Countries
of
other
Princes
,
laughed
at
the
serious
grave
Folly
of
one
who
presented
him
with
a
Tractate
of
Justice
.
Wallingford
with
his
Hand
upon
his
Sword
takes
him
off
pertinently
,
as
reflecting
upon
the
Manners
of
Men
,
whose
Treasons
prosper
,
and
Practise
of
the
times
;
in
which
now
Men
did
not
advance
themselves
by
Vertue
,
by
Learning
,
by
Justice
,
or
Valour
,
but
by
Murder
and
Robbery
.
My
Lord
(
says
he
)
every
Story
is
not
true
,
because
it
is
eloquently
told
;
you
endeavour
here
to
inveigle
and
deceive
us
in
a
long
Discourse
of
Equity
,
of
Law
,
and
Justice
;
we
come
not
hither
for
Words
but
Things
;
we
pretend
not
to
refute
your
Reasons
,
(
which
are
but
unjust
Defences
of
your
Oppression
)
,
but
cunning
Subtilties
,
but
Colours
to
paint
o'er
the
Wrongs
you
do
us
,
nor
can
we
;
the
Rudeness
of
our
Education
must
disable
us
for
this
part
,
we
have
been
born
and
bred
under
your
Dominion
,
Slaves
,
and
Villains
to
you
under
a
Dominion
so
unmanly
cruel
;
you
have
always
kept
us
deprived
,
not
only
of
all
Means
of
Learning
or
Knowledge
,
but
would
willingly
have
taken
away
our
very
Reason
and
common
Understanding
,
that
we
might
groan
under
our
Miseries
with
the
feeling
of
Beasts
,
but
be
Masters
neither
of
Sense
nor
Language
for
a
Complaint
.
It
is
time
now
that
we
of
the
Commonalty
,
as
you
call
and
range
us
,
should
take
our
Turn
of
Command
,
however
of
Liberty
.
Nor
is
this
to
be
wondered
,
at
if
you
consider
our
Strength
,
and
the
Happiness
of
the
new
Model
;
the
Eminency
of
the
Commons
is
visible
to
every
Eye
,
theirs
is
the
present
,
theirs
is
the
Supreme
Power
.
We
are
armed
,
and
we
will
not
think
of
the
Laws
,
nor
regard
them
,
they
only
submit
to
Laws
who
want
Power
to
help
themselves
.
Besides
these
Laws
you
tell
us
of
,
are
but
the
Will
of
our
Enemies
in
Form
and
Rule
,
they
were
made
by
them
,
they
favour
them
;
and
our
Captain
General
Tyler
,
who
has
conquered
(
a
sad
unhappy
Word
,
where
it
is
used
of
one
part
of
a
your
King
could
protect
you
,
before
our
Success
might
have
served
well
enough
;
now
we
expect
them
not
,
nor
will
we
accept
them
.
He
concludes
in
Perswasion
not
to
exasperate
the
Godly
Party
,
the
Righteous
Commons
,
who
,
says
he
,
will
not
be
appeased
,
will
not
give
over
,
nor
lay
down
Arms
,
till
they
be
Masters
of
their
Desires
.
The
Abbot
,
entring
into
a
new
Speech
,
is
again
stopped
and
told
,
the
Thousand
before
the
Doors
of
his
Monastery
sent
for
him
not
to
parly
,
but
consent
,
which
they
look
he
should
be
sudden
in
;
if
not
,
we
(
says
Wallingford
)
the
Lieutenants
,
chosen
by
the
Captain
Representatives
of
the
People
,
will
deliver
up
and
resign
the
Powers
to
him
,
which
we
received
of
him
.
We
have
voted
,
if
you
comply
not
,
to
send
for
the
Captain
General
Tyler
,
and
Twenty
thousand
of
his
Militia
,
to
the
Danger
of
this
Place
,
and
of
the
Monks
Heads
.
The
Abbot
here
recites
his
good
Deeds
,
how
often
in
their
Necessities
he
had
relieved
them
,
he
had
been
(
he
says
)
their
spiritual
Father
thirty
two
Years
;
in
all
which
time
,
no
Man
had
been
grieved
,
or
oppressed
by
him
:
this
giving
implyedly
the
Lye
to
Wallingford
,
they
grant
but
will
not
be
denyed
.
The
Obligations
and
Charters
which
they
require
,
are
delivered
them
,
which
they
burn
in
the
Market-place
,
near
the
Cross.
This
did
not
content
them
,
they
ask
for
an
ancient
Charter
concerning
the
Town
Liberties
,
the
Capital
Letters
of
which
(
say
they
)
were
one
of
Gold
,
another
of
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De
azorio
.
Azure
:
The
Abbot
prays
them
to
be
satisfied
for
that
time
,
he
protests
,
they
have
all
he
has
to
give
them
,
he
knew
of
no
more
,
yet
he
would
make
a
search
,
and
if
any
such
Deed
could
be
found
,
it
should
faithfully
be
delivered
to
them
.
This
too
was
the
answer
of
the
Covent
,
it
was
agreed
that
the
Abbot
should
after
Dinner
disclaim
under
his
Hand
and
Seal
in
all
Things
prejudicial
to
their
Liberty
.
In
Memory
of
an
old
Suit
betwixt
Abbot
Richard
the
First
,
and
the
Townsmen
in
the
Reigns
of
William
the
Second
,
and
Henry
the
First
,
wherein
the
Townsmen
were
overthrown
,
were
laid
Milstones
before
the
Door
of
the
Parlor
.
These
Iohn
Who
could
forbear
Tears
(
says
Walsingham
)
heavily
bewailing
After
Dinner
,
a
sad
Dinner
to
the
Monks
,
this
Merdaille
,
these
Stinkards
,
throng
before
the
Gates
,
and
demand
the
Charter
of
Liberties
,
which
the
Abbot
had
promised
them
to
seal
,
which
was
sent
,
and
read
to
them
in
the
thickest
of
the
Rout
:
If
they
please
to
accept
it
,
(
this
was
the
Abbots
Complement
)
he
is
ready
to
seal
.
They
(
resolved
never
to
be
pleased
)
with
much
Scorn
and
Pride
answer
by
an
Esquire
of
the
Abbot
,
That
the
Abbot
must
appoint
some
Clerk
of
his
to
attend
them
with
●…nk
and
Parchment
,
themselves
would
dictate
,
and
after
the
Abbot
and
Covent
should
confirm
what
was
done
;
when
this
Humour
,
was
satisfied
,
the
Safety
and
Peace
of
the
Monastery
and
Monks
were
as
desperate
as
ever
.
The
old
Charter
,
which
they
will
everlastingly
believe
concealed
,
must
be
produced
,
else
they
will
bury
the
Covent
in
the
Ruins
of
the
Cloysters
.
This
Charter
did
certainly
(
as
they
will
have
it
)
contain
all
their
ancient
Liberties
and
Priviledges
;
and
if
this
was
true
,
there
was
no
great
Reason
it
should
be
in
the
Abbots
keeping
.
Here
the
Abbot
imploys
the
most
Honourable
Esquires
of
the
Country
,
as
Mediators
to
soften
them
,
and
offers
(
if
they
desire
it
)
to
say
Mass
before
them
next
Morning
,
and
to
swear
upon
the
Sacrament
he
Make
Choice
(
says
he
)
of
what
Liberties
you
can
,
you
shall
have
my
Charters
drawn
,
they
shall
be
granted
you
by
it
;
I
will
seal
you
a
real
Charter
instead
of
a
fantastical
one
,
never
seen
by
you
,
no
where
to
be
had
.
The
Abbot
struggles
in
vain
against
these
Waves
,
this
Charter
of
their
Fancies
they
will
have
:
Nor
shall
any
other
Price
redeem
the
Monastery
,
they
intended
the
Subversion
of
the
House
,
and
wrangle
thus
crossly
,
that
they
might
seem
to
have
some
Pretences
to
do
it
;
but
because
they
had
much
Business
to
go
about
,
and
could
not
be
here
and
there
too
,
a
Truce
was
taken
for
that
Day
,
and
many
of
these
pure
Brethren
betake
themselves
to
other
parts
;
some
of
them
would
not
be
prevailed
with
,
the
Bread
and
Ale
of
the
Monastery
brought
forth
to
them
in
huge
Fats
,
would
not
work
upon
them
to
lay
their
Fury
,
they
staid
only
for
a
leading
Hand
.
Here
an
honest
Burgess
interposes
,
Ribaulds
(
says
he
)
what
is
it
you
present
Power
:
Which
was
no
sooner
done
,
but
there
appears
a
Farmer
of
the
Mannor
of
Kingsbury
belonging
to
this
Abby
,
arme
I
with
his
Sword
and
Buckler
;
this
Man
was
much
in
Arrears
for
his
Farm
,
and
durst
not
peep
abroad
from
his
lurking
Holes
before
these
Broils
;
which
hiding
of
himself
he
imputes
now
to
the
Injustice
,
and
Cruelty
of
the
Prior
:
This
Chuff
demands
one
hundred
Marks
Damages
for
the
Losses
he
had
sustained
in
his
Absence
,
and
threatens
to
burn
the
Grange
of
Saint
Peter
,
and
Mannor-house
of
Kingsbury
near
the
Abby
,
if
he
be
not
repaired
;
Twenty
pounds
he
receives
upon
this
Demand
,
and
goes
away
,
swearing
,
he
would
freely
give
it
back
again
for
the
Priors
Head
.
Saturday
Night
passed
with
much
Perplexity
to
the
Monks
,
who
were
at
their
Wits
Ends
,
and
Lives
too
(
they
could
not
hope
better
things
)
about
the
Charter
,
which
was
no
where
extant
but
in
the
Noddles
of
these
Cluster-fists
.
But
Day
and
Comfort
broke
out
together
upon
them
;
suddenly
this
Overflow
of
Pride
,
and
Arrogancy
abated
,
their
Loftiness
fell
,
and
their
Bristles
were
somewhat
laid
,
very
unpleasing
Rumours
concerning
the
Army
were
spread
,
and
the
Death
of
the
Idol
Tyrant
Wat
,
of
stinking
Memory
,
was
certainly
known
and
just
Rights
and
Liberties
of
his
People
,
which
they
saw
like
to
perish
The
King
now
grown
a
Protector
again
of
his
Subjects
,
sends
his
Letters
Protectory
to
the
Abbot
in
these
Words
.
RIchard
,
&c.
To
all
our
Lieges
,
and
Commons
of
Hartford
,
&c.
We
pray
,
charge
,
command
,
straightly
as
we
may
,
&c.
by
the
Faith
and
Liegances
which
to
us
ye
owe
,
that
to
our
Beloved
in
God
,
the
Abbot
of
St.
Albans
,
nor
to
our
House
and
Monastery
of
the
said
Place
,
of
our
Patronage
,
nor
to
none
of
the
People
,
Monks
,
nor
others
,
nor
to
none
of
the
Goods
of
the
said
Monastery
,
&c.
Ye
suffer
to
be
done
,
as
much
as
in
you
lies
,
any
Grievance
,
Dammage
,
&c.
Given
under
our
Great
Seal
at
our
City
of
London
,
&c.
Though
now
these
Carles
were
well
cooled
,
yet
e'er
the
Zeal
was
quite
slackened
,
and
the
Clouds
dispelled
,
which
hovered
weakly
,
and
were
likely
to
scatter
with
the
next
Breath
of
Wind
,
they
conclude
to
perfect
their
Building
,
which
to
the
great
Nuisance
of
this
Monastery
they
had
raised
.
Besides
,
the
Lieutenants
,
or
Major
Generals
of
Tyler
,
thought
it
a
much
unworthiness
to
droop
too
soon
,
before
those
whom
they
had
summoned
in
to
piece
up
their
deformed
Insurrection
with
so
much
Bravery
,
and
Insolence
.
They
continue
and
pursue
their
Requests
to
the
Abbot
,
but
with
less
Noise
than
formerly
;
the
Abbot
was
advised
by
Letters
from
Sir
Hugh
Segrave
,
Lord
Steward
of
the
Houshold
,
and
Sir
Thomas
Percy
created
after
Earl
of
Worcester
,
to
grant
all
things
,
assuring
him
these
Grants
being
thus
forced
from
him
would
be
void
in
Law
,
and
could
not
hurt
his
Monastery
.
The
Abbots
Chamber
,
the
Chappel
,
all
Places
are
full
of
them
,
they
give
Directions
to
the
Abbot's
Clerk
for
their
Charter
of
Liberties
,
which
now
they
were
contented
to
accept
,
but
will
have
a
Bond
of
One
thousand
pounds
Sterling
for
the
delivering
The
Abbot
agrees
,
he
and
the
Covent
Seal
;
but
oh
!
the
Miracle
(
not
to
be
believed
,
nor
understood
without
another
upon
our
Faith
,
and
Understanding
)
the
seal
,
in
which
the
Glorious
Protomartyr
was
figured
,
From
Villains
these
now
conceive
themselves
Gentlemen
of
Welsh
Pedegree
,
descended
of
Princes
,
nay
,
as
our
Monk
,
noble
beyond
the
Line
and
Race
of
Kings
;
they
are
meer
Free-holders
,
hold
only
of
God
and
the
Son
,
rather
of
the
Sun
,
and
Club
,
and
will
neither
perform
their
Customs
,
and
Services
,
nor
pay
Rent
.
The
common
People
,
who
are
neither
swayed
by
Religion
or
Honesty
,
stop
and
check
themselves
,
not
that
they
were
contented
,
The
Plague
of
this
Distemper
was
not
only
epidemical
,
but
kept
its
Days
;
on
the
fatal
Saturday
,
fifty
thousand
Clowns
,
out
of
Suffolk
,
Essex
,
Cambridgeshire
,
the
Isle
of
Ely
(
places
miserably
harrassed
according
to
the
former
Presidents
)
were
incorporated
by
the
jugling
Tricks
of
the
Essexian
Impostors
,
sent
out
by
the
Fathers
of
Disobedience
,
in
the
first
Conception
of
the
Ruffle
,
to
inveigle
Proselites
to
the
Holy
League
.
This
was
but
an
indigested
Mass
,
without
Shape
or
Form
,
Wraw
not
Straw
(
as
sometimes
he
is
called
)
a●…most
lewd
Presbyter
,
as
Walsingham
,
or
Priest
,
who
came
from
his
own
Establishment
had
the
executive
Power
)
was
imployed
into
those
parts
to
lick
and
fashion
the
Monster
.
He
with
Robert
Westbrome
King
of
this
Congregation
,
lead
the
tatter'd
Reformers
from
Mildenhall
to
St.
Edmunds-bury
,
where
then
stood
a
most
Glorious
Monastery
,
and
where
their
Fellow
Scoundrels
expected
them
.
Wraw
finds
these
Choperloches
good
Disciples
,
willing
to
learn
,
and
quick
of
Apprehension
,
so
capable
they
understood
his
least
Signs
.
The
same
Frenzies
are
again
acted
by
other
Lunaticks
,
the
Lawyers
or
Apprentices
of
the
Law
(
as
the
Monk
)
and
their
Houses
are
the
first
Objects
of
their
spight
,
they
do
not
only
cut
off
them
,
but
fire
their
Nests
.
Sir
Iohn
Cavendish
Chief
Justice
of
the
Kings
Bench
,
who
had
been
one
of
the
most
able
Serjeants
of
this
Kings
Grand-fathers
Reign
,
and
was
made
Chief
Justice
by
him
,
they
intercept
,
and
behead
.
Orpheus
Tracie
,
Nero
the
Roman
,
Belgabred
the
Brittain
,
excellent
in
the
Sweetness
of
a
Voice
and
Skill
of
Song
,
with
Iohn
of
Cambridge
.
Prior
of
Saint
Edmunds
,
lose
their
Lives
in
the
same
manner
,
as
they
unluckily
fell
into
their
Hands
.
The
Cause
of
the
Priors
Death
is
made
this
:
He
was
discreet
and
managed
the
Affairs
of
his
Monastery
faithfully
,
and
diligently
;
he
was
taken
near
Mildenhall
,
a
Town
then
belonging
to
Saint
Edmund
of
the
Demain
of
the
Abby
,
the
Vassals
,
Hinds
,
Villains
,
and
Bond-men
of
the
House
,
sentenced
him
,
murthered
him
by
Vote
;
His
Body
lay
five
Days
Naked
in
the
Field
unburied
.
In
Saint
Edmunds-bury
,
these
Cut-throats
compass
the
Priors
Head
round
as
in
a
Procession
,
after
they
carry
it
upon
a
Lance
to
the
Pillory
,
where
that
and
the
Chief
Justices
Head
are
advanced
.
The
next
Work
was
the
levelling
a
new
House
of
the
Priors
.
After
they
enter
the
Monastery
,
which
they
threaten
to
fire
,
unless
Iohn
Lakinhethe
Guardian
of
the
Temporalities
of
the
Barony
in
the
Vacancy
then
were
delivered
to
them
,
which
the
Towns-men
mingled
in
the
Throng
,
put
them
upon
:
The
Guardian
stood
amidst
the
Crowd
unknown
.
This
Man
out
of
Piety
to
preserve
the
Monastery
(
it
was
Piety
then
,
though
it
may
be
thought
Impiety
now
)
discovers
himself
,
he
tells
them
he
is
the
Man
they
seek
,
and
asks
what
it
is
the
Commons
would
have
with
him
.
They
call
him
Traitor
(
it
was
Capital
to
be
called
so
,
not
to
be
so
)
drag
him
to
the
Market-place
,
and
cut
off
his
Head
,
which
is
set
upon
the
Pillory
to
keep
Company
with
the
Priors
and
Chief
Justices
.
Walter
of
Todington
a
Monk
was
sought
for
,
they
wanted
his
Head
,
but
he
hid
himself
,
and
escaped
.
Our
Hacksters
Errant
,
of
the
Round
Table
,
Knights
of
Industry
,
would
be
thought
General
Redeemers
,
to
take
Care
of
all
men
in
Distress
;
for
the
Burgesses
Sake
,
they
command
the
Monks
,
(
threatning
them
and
their
Walls
,
if
they
obey
not
)
to
deliver
up
the
Obligations
of
the
Townsmen
for
their
good
Behaviour
,
all
the
ancient
Charters
from
the
time
of
King
Knute
the
Founder
any
way
concerning
the
Liberties
of
the
Town
;
besides
they
must
grant
and
confirm
by
Charter
the
Liberties
of
the
Town
,
which
could
not
be
done
in
the
Vacancy
(
for
so
it
was
)
Edmund
of
Brumfield
Abbot
in
Name
,
by
Provision
of
the
Pope
was
a
Prisoner
at
Nottingham
,
nor
had
any
Election
been
since
the
Death
of
Abbot
Iohn
Brivole
,
and
therefore
the
Jewels
of
the
House
are
pawned
to
the
Townsmen
,
as
a
Gage
that
Edmund
of
Brumfield
(
whom
they
would
suppose
Abbot
,
and
whom
they
intended
to
set
free
)
should
seal
;
which
Jewels
were
a
Cross
and
Chalice
of
Gold
,
with
other
things
,
exceeding
in
value
One
thousand
Pounds
,
these
were
restored
again
in
time
of
Peace
,
but
with
much
Unwillingness
.
Upon
the
Bruit
of
the
Idols
Mishap
,
and
the
Suppression
of
his
Legions
at
London
,
these
Caterpillers
dissolve
of
themselves
.
Wraw
the
Priest
,
Westbrome
,
and
the
rest
of
the
Capital
Villains
in
the
General
Audit
,
or
Doomesday
for
these
Hurliburlies
,
shall
be
called
to
a
Reckoning
for
their
Outrages
.
Cambridge
suffered
not
a
little
in
these
Uproars
,
the
Towns-men
with
the
Country
Peasants
about
confederated
together
,
break
up
the
Treasury
of
the
University
,
tear
and
burns
its
Charters
;
they
compel
the
Chancellor
and
Scholars
under
their
common
Seals
,
to
release
to
the
Mayor
and
Townsmen
all
Rights
and
Liberties
,
all
Actions
,
and
to
be
bound
in
3000l
,
not
to
molest
the
Burgesses
by
Suits
of
Law
concerning
these
things
for
the
time
to
come
.
The
Mayor
and
Bayliffs
were
fetched
up
by
Writ
to
the
next
Parliament
,
where
the
Deeds
were
delivered
up
and
cancelled
,
the
Liberties
of
the
Town
seized
into
the
Kings
Hand
as
forfeited
;
new
ones
granted
by
him
to
the
University
,
all
which
they
owe
yet
to
the
Piety
of
this
King
,
and
his
Parliament
,
a
Court
which
the
Idol
never
names
:
Had
he
set
up
one
of
his
own
begetting
,
it
must
have
had
nothing
else
but
the
Name
,
it
would
have
been
as
destroying
as
the
Field
.
Norfolk
the
Mother
of
the
Kets
would
not
loyter
this
while
,
nor
sit
lazily
,
and
sluggishly
looking
on
.
Iohn
Litster
a
Dyer
of
Norwich
,
King
of
the
Commons
there
,
infuses
Zeal
,
and
Daring
into
his
Country-men
;
he
had
composed
out
of
his
own
Empire
,
and
the
Borders
,
an
Army
of
fifty
thousand
Men.
This
Upstart
Kingling
would
not
wholly
move
by
Example
,
he
makes
Presidents
of
his
own
,
and
tramples
not
like
a
dull
Beast
the
Road
beaten
by
others
.
He
had
heard
what
was
done
by
the
London
Congregations
;
he
had
a
Stock
of
Traditions
from
the
Elders
there
,
which
he
was
able
to
improve
:
and
although
I
know
not
how
he
could
exceed
the
Idol
with
his
Council
,
yet
(
so
the
Monk
)
exceed
them
he
did
,
he
presumed
greater
things
.
Tyler
lost
his
Life
before
things
were
ripe
,
was
watched
and
undermined
by
the
King
and
Nobility
,
he
could
not
spread
his
full
Sails
,
else
for
his
Presumption
he
far
out-goes
Litster
.
Litster
the
Norfolk
Devil
begins
with
Plunder
and
Rapine
(
the
only
Way
to
flesh
a
young
Rebellion
.
)
The
Malignants
of
the
Kings
Party
(
the
rich
and
peaceable
go
under
that
Notion
)
are
made
a
Prey
,
no
place
was
safe
,
or
priviledged
.
Plots
were
laid
to
get
the
Lord
William
of
Ufford
Earl
of
Suffolk
,
at
his
Mannor
of
Ufford
near
Debenham
in
Suffolk
,
into
the
Company
,
out
of
Policy
;
that
if
the
Cause
succeeded
not
,
then
the
Rebels
might
cover
themselves
under
the
Shadow
of
that
Peer
.
The
Earl
warned
of
their
Intention
,
rises
from
Supper
,
and
disguised
as
a
Groom
[
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*
Garcion
.
of
Sir
Roger
of
Bois
,
with
a
Portmantue
behind
him
,
riding
By-ways
,
and
about
,
ever
avoiding
the
Routs
,
comes
to
St.
Albanes
,
and
from
thence
to
the
King
.
The
Commons
failing
here
,
possess
themselves
of
the
places
,
and
Houses
of
the
Knights
near
,
and
compell
the
Owners
to
swear
what
they
list
,
and
for
greater
Wariness
to
ride
the
Country
over
with
them
,
which
they
durst
not
deny
:
Among
those
enthralled
by
this
Compulsion
were
the
Lords
Scales
,
and
Morley
,
Sir
Iohn
Brews
,
Sir
Stephen
of
Hales
,
and
Sir
Robert
of
Salle
,
which
last
was
no
Gentleman
born
,
but
as
full
of
Honour
and
Loyalty
as
any
Man
,
Knighted
by
the
Kings
Grand-father
for
his
Valour
;
he
was
(
says
Froissart
)
one
of
the
biggest
Knights
in
England
,
a
Man
not
supple
enough
,
who
could
not
bend
before
the
new
Lords
;
he
had
not
the
Solidity
of
Judgment
(
as
some
more
subtle
than
honest
call
it
)
to
accomodate
himself
to
the
times
.
Like
Messala
he
would
be
of
the
justest
side
,
let
the
Fortune
be
what
it
would
;
he
would
not
forsake
Justice
under
Colour
of
following
Prudence
;
he
thought
it
not
in
vain
to
prop
up
the
falling
Government
:
perhaps
his
Judgment
may
be
blamed
he
stayed
not
for
a
sit
time
,
had
he
not
failed
here
,
he
had
not
fought
against
Heaven
,
against
Providence
,
whose
Councils
and
Decrees
are
hid
from
us
,
are
in
the
Clouds
,
not
to
be
pierced
;
our
Understanding
is
as
weak
as
foolish
,
as
Providence
is
certain
and
wise
.
Our
Hopes
and
Fears
deceive
us
alike
,
we
cannot
resolve
our selves
upon
any
Assurance
,
to
forsake
our
Duty
for
the
time
to
come
,
Gods
Designs
are
known
only
to
himself
;
it
is
Despair
,
not
Piety
(
Despair
too
far
from
that
)
to
leave
our
Country
in
her
dangerous
Diseases
,
in
her
publick
Calamities
;
the
Insolency
of
injust
Men
is
a
Prodigy
of
their
Ruin
,
and
the
Incertainty
of
things
Humane
may
teach
us
,
That
those
we
esteem
most
established
,
most
assured
,
are
not
seldom
soonest
overthrown
.
Plato
would
not
have
them
refer
all
things
to
Fate
,
there
is
somewhat
in
our selves
(
says
he
)
not
a
little
in
Fortune
.
Ours
are
but
Cockfights
,
the
least
Remainder
of
Force
and
Life
may
strike
a
necking
Blow
,
and
by
an
unlooked
for
Victory
raise
what
is
fallen
;
if
Death
cannot
be
kept
off
,
if
our
Country
cannot
he
saved
by
our
Attempts
,
there
is
a
Comliness
in
dying
handsomly
,
nor
can
any
Man
be
unhappy
but
he
who
out-lives
it
.
We
have
heard
of
Women
who
cast
themselves
into
the
fiery
Pits
,
where
their
dead
Husbands
are
consumed
;
of
Vassals
who
stab
themselves
to
follow
their
Prince
into
the
next
World
;
of
Otho's
Praetorians
,
of
the
Saguntines
burning
in
their
Cities
Flames
.
What
can
be
so
honourable
as
to
dye
for
or
with
our
Country
or
Faith
,
our
Religion
or
Honesty
,
to
dye
with
that
which
gave
us
Life
,
and
Liberty
,
and
Sense
of
these
?
Litsters
Hog-herds
vow
to
burn
Norwich
,
unless
this
Knight
will
come
out
to
them
,
which
he
does
well
mounted
,
and
forsakes
his
Horse
to
please
them
.
They
seem
to
honour
him
highly
,
and
offer
him
a
fair
Canton
of
the
new
Common-wealth
,
if
he
will
command
their
Forces
.
The
faithful
Cavalier
abhorred
the
proposition
,
and
could
not
dissemble
his
Dislike
:
He
tells
them
,
he
will
not
to
his
eternal
dishonour
renounce
his
Soveraign
,
whom
all
good
Men
obeyed
,
to
engage
with
the
veryest
perfidious
Traitors
living
,
in
their
Villanies
.
He
attempts
to
horse
himself
again
,
but
fails
;
it
was
Treason
to
speak
against
the
Government
.
The
Commons
grow
furious
,
they
cry
out
Treason
,
against
Treason
and
Rebellion
:
Thousands
of
Hands
are
lifted
up
against
him
,
as
if
they
all
moved
by
the
same
Nerves
and
Sinews
;
they
hew
him
down
,
but
he
crushes
some
of
them
with
his
Ruin
;
whosoever
stood
within
his
Reach
,
lost
either
Head
,
Legs
or
Arms
;
he
kills
twelve
of
them
;
at
length
a
Villain
of
his
own
beats
out
his
Brains
.
Then
do
the
Infernal
Curs
rush
in
with
full
Mouths
and
mangles
him
to
bits
,
who
(
says
Walsingham
)
would
have
driven
a
Thousand
of
them
before
him
,
had
he
had
fair
Play
.
This
amazes
the
rest
of
the
Gentry
,
they
strive
for
Vassalage
,
with
the
same
Emulation
others
do
for
Liberty
;
they
observe
Litster
,
they
receive
his
Commands
upon
their
Knees
,
who
in
all
things
imitates
the
State
and
Pomp
of
Kings
.
Sir
Stephen
of
Hales
a
Knight
of
Honour
carves
before
him
and
tasts
his
Meats
,
and
Drinks
;
the
rest
of
the
miserable
Courtiers
are
imployed
in
their
several
Offices
.
But
when
the
Fame
of
the
Kings
good
Fortune
began
to
go
strong
,
and
of
his
Preparations
to
assert
his
Right
and
Authority
,
Litster
sends
on
Embassy
(
from
North-Walsham
,
the
Throne
of
his
Tyranny
)
to
London
,
the
Lord
Morley
,
and
Sir
Iohn
Brews
,
with
three
of
the
confiding
Commons
,
to
obtain
Charters
of
Manumission
,
and
Pardon
,
with
great
Summs
of
Mony
,
(
squeezed
out
of
the
Citizens
of
Norwich
,
under
Pretence
of
preserving
the
City
from
Slaughter
,
Fire
and
Spoil
,
or
as
others
raised
by
an
ordinary
Tribute
to
Litster
.
)
Which
Monyes
were
sent
for
Presents
to
the
King
,
to
win
him
to
grant
them
Charters
more
ample
and
beneficial
,
than
had
been
given
to
any
others
.
These
Messengers
are
met
at
Ichlingham
near
New-Market
by
Henry
le
Spencer
Lord
Bishop
of
Norwich
,
of
a
noble
Family
,
stout
and
well-armed
;
He
had
been
at
his
Mannor
of
Burleigh
near
Okeham
,
and
there
heard
of
the
Tumults
in
Norfolk
,
and
was
now
hasting
thither
to
see
how
things
were
carryed
,
with
eight
Lances
only
in
his
Company
,
and
a
few
Archers
.
He
charged
the
Lord
Morley
,
and
Sir
Iohn
upon
their
Allegiance
to
tell
him
,
whether
any
of
the
Commons
(
the
Kings
Traitors
)
were
with
them
.
They
look
upon
the
Bishop
as
a
young
rash
Man
,
and
the
Awe
of
their
Masters
was
so
prevalent
,
he
could
hardly
wrest
the
Secret
from
them
.
After
many
Words
they
discover
it
;
and
the
Bishop
causes
the
Heads
of
the
Clowns
to
be
struck
off
,
and
fixed
on
a
publick
place
at
New-Market
Then
taking
with
him
that
Lord
and
Knight
,
he
posts
for
North-walsham
.
The
Gentry
hearing
of
the
Bishops
Arrival
in
his
Coat
of
Male
,
with
his
Helmet
upon
his
Head
,
his
Sword
by
his
side
,
and
his
Lance
upon
his
Thigh
croud
in
to
him
;
the
Bishop
quickly
found
himself
in
a
Gallant
Equipage
,
and
as
quickly
reaches
North-walsham
,
the
sink
of
the
Rebellion
.
Litster
was
intrenched
,
he
had
fortified
his
Ditch
with
Pales
,
Stakes
,
and
Doors
,
and
shut
himself
in
behind
with
his
Carts
,
and
Carriages
.
The
Heroick
Bishop
,
like
another
Maccabeus
,
charges
bravely
through
the
Ditch
,
into
the
midst
of
the
Rebels
(
when
all
the
Barons
of
England
hid
themselves
,
)
so
suddenly
,
that
the
Archers
could
not
let
an
Arrow
fly
at
him
,
and
came
to
handy
Blows
.
As
the
French
Historian
de
Serres
observes
;
in
Affairs
of
the
World
Otho
tells
his
Souldiers
,
often
times
where
the
Causes
of
things
are
good
,
yet
if
Judgment
be
wanting
(
I
may
put
in
)
where
the
Counsels
are
unsound
,
the
Agents
faithless
,
where
Money
,
Arms
,
and
Men
are
wanting
,
the
Issue
must
be
pernicious
.
The
Goods
and
Honours
of
this
World
which
follow
the
Triumphers
Chariots
are
common
to
the
good
and
bad
;
Grace
,
Charity
and
Love
,
are
the
Marks
of
a
pious
Man
,
not
Success
,
to
brag
of
which
becomes
rather
a
Spartacus
or
Mahomet
,
(
who
carry
Faith
and
Law
upon
the
Swords
point
)
than
a
Christian
:
The
God
of
the
Christians
is
not
the
God
of
Robbery
,
and
Blood
.
But
things
here
fell
out
as
could
be
wished
,
the
Innocency
of
the
side
prevailed
,
and
the
righteous
weak
side
overcame
the
strong
unjust
.
Litster
touched
with
the
Conscience
of
his
Mischiefs
,
struggles
to
the
utmost
to
avert
his
Danger
,
at
length
gives
Ground
,
and
attempts
to
shift
for
himself
by
leaping
over
his
Carriages
in
the
Rere
.
The
Bishop
pressed
forward
so
fiercely
,
that
this
Course
proved
in
vain
;
most
of
the
unhappy
Clowns
are
laid
along
upon
the
place
.
Litster
and
the
Captains
of
the
Conspiracy
are
taken
and
condemned
to
be
drawn
,
hanged
and
beheaded
,
which
was
done
.
Others
of
the
chief
Conspirators
dispersed
over
the
Country
,
are
searched
out
and
executed
.
The
Monk
here
tells
us
,
It
Our
Monk
attributes
these
Calamities
to
the
remisness
of
the
Bishops
,
to
the
Conceits
and
Fangles
of
Presbyter
Wycliff
,
which
if
they
be
truly
registred
by
the
Monks
,
his
mortal
Enemies
,
were
pestilential
and
damnable
.
Indeed
Presbyter
Wycliff
was
then
living
,
but
is
not
named
in
these
Commotions
,
as
one
busie
in
them
,
by
the
Monk
,
(
though
busie
he
might
be
,
we
shall
find
Sir
Iohn
Old-Castle
,
Lord
Cobham
and
others
of
Wycliffs
Disciples
,
Rebels
,
and
Traitors
too
too
busie
in
Henry
the
Fifths
Beginning
)
Baal
,
and
Straw
,
and
Wraw
were
Priests
of
the
Idol
,
and
his
Lieutenants
,
and
might
serve
the
turn
to
imbroil
without
fetching
more
Aid
in
:
He
attributes
too
these
Mischiefs
to
the
licentious
Invectives
of
the
Clowns
against
their
Lords
,
generally
to
the
Sins
of
the
Nation
,
inclusively
taking
in
the
Orders
of
Mendicants
,
or
Begging
Fryers
,
(
like
factious
Lecturers
)
w●…
had
nothing
of
their
own
,
and
were
obliged
〈◊〉
flatter
the
People
,
and
make
themselves
popular
;
who
,
says
he
,
forgetful
of
their
Profession
and
Vows
,
greedy
and
covetous
of
Mony
,
foster
the
People
in
their
Errors
,
call
good
Evil
,
and
Evil
good
,
seducing
the
Great
Men
with
Fawning
,
and
the
Rabble
with
Lyes
.
So
that
in
those
Days
(
thus
he
proceeds
)
the
Argument
held
in
every
Mans
Mouth
,
This
is
a
Fryer
,
therefore
a
Lyer
,
as
strong
as
this
,
This
is
white
,
therefore
coloured
.
Here
again
is
Walsingham
at
a
Stand
;
he
complains
,
that
it
is
impossible
to
relate
the
Villanies
of
the
Rustick
Devils
,
done
in
all
parts
.
We
will
now
return
to
see
what
the
King
does
next
,
who
was
not
asleep
this
while
.
After
he
had
cleared
the
City
(
lately
Tylers
good
Town
)
of
the
Kentish
Fry
;
he
commands
the
Nobility
and
Gentry
(
who
durst
now
peep
abroad
)
all
the
Kingdom
over
to
repair
to
him
at
London
well
armed
,
and
well
horsed
,
as
they
loved
him
,
and
his
Royal
Honour
.
Their
own
Danger
,
and
late
Fears
,
add
Wings
to
their
Haste
.
Within
a
few
Days
,
forty
thousand
Horse
meet
at
a
Rendevouz
upon
Blackheath
,
whither
the
young
King
who
had
taken
his
Sequestration
off
,
and
restored
himself
to
his
Blood
and
Majesty
,
rides
daily
upon
a
Royal
Courser
,
to
view
their
Order
,
with
his
Imperial
Banner
born
before
him
.
He
delighted
to
be
seen
and
acknowledged
for
what
he
was
amongst
his
own
Homagers
.
Here
he
is
informed
,
that
the
Kentishmen
(
a
stirring
People
,
but
with
what
generous
Resolution
will
soon
be
found
)
are
again
in
Mutiny
,
(
a
Mutiny
however
else
contemptible
)
not
to
be
sleighted
at
that
time
.
The
King
commands
his
Cavalry
(
on
Fire
,
as
much
as
himself
)
to
march
,
and
root
out
this
perfidious
Race
of
Miscreants
.
Here
the
Nobility
and
Gentry
of
the
County
interpose
,
and
become
Pledges
for
the
Commons
,
which
appeases
the
King
;
who
now
disbands
his
Army
,
and
resolves
to
take
no
other
Course
of
Justice
,
but
such
as
was
ordinary
and
usual
,
by
Judgments
upon
the
known
Laws
of
the
Land
,
and
by
Juries
of
twelve
Men
;
the
Ancient
Birth-right
of
the
Englishmen
.
Laws
which
could
not
have
fitted
Tylers
Courts
,
nor
Tryals
,
but
which
have
been
ever
the
Rule
in
all
just
and
legal
Tryals
,
in
all
calm
and
pious
Ages
.
The
Law
Martial
being
proper
to
an
Army
marching
,
to
be
exercised
in
it
.
If
otherwise
,
all
Sentences
by
Colour
of
it
,
are
against
the
Magna
Charta
,
&c.
and
to
Upon
this
fair
,
and
Kingly
Conclusion
of
Richard
,
Commissions
were
given
,
and
Justices
of
Oyer
and
Terminer
,
to
hear
and
determine
the
Treasons
and
Fellonies
committed
in
the
late
Insurrections
;
and
principally
to
enquire
,
who
were
the
chief
Authors
,
Fomenters
,
and
Incendiaries
of
the
Broils
,
are
sent
into
Kent
,
Essex
,
and
the
rest
of
the
Provinces
in
Rebellion
.
The
most
Honourable
Mayor
of
London
,
with
others
in
Commission
with
him
,
sate
upon
those
of
Kent
,
Essex
,
Norfolk
,
and
Suffolk
,
&c.
who
were
apprehended
in
London
.
Straw
taken
in
an
old
rotten
House
about
London
,
Kirkby
,
Treder
,
Sterling
are
condemned
,
and
beheaded
,
Straws
Head
being
set
upon
London-bridge
with
Tylers
;
but
Iack
Straw
,
who
was
privy
to
all
the
Contrivances
,
and
Plots
of
the
Confederacy
,
could
give
Light
into
the
Mid-night
Darkness
of
Tylers
Steps
,
through
all
the
close
Windings
of
his
Labyrinths
of
Treasons
;
is
urged
(
the
Mayor
promising
with
some
honest
Citizens
to
be
at
the
Charge
of
Masses
for
his
Soul
,
the
Good
of
which
they
desire
him
to
consider
)
to
declare
his
full
Knowledge
of
the
Counsels
,
and
Votes
passed
,
and
to
what
end
they
had
conjured
up
the
wicked
Spirits
of
those
Garboyles
.
Iohn
was
obstinate
at
the
first
,
and
would
confess
nothing
,
but
gained
by
these
Promises
,
and
a
little
penitent
(
which
was
much
to
be
believed
of
one
possessed
with
Legions
)
he
tells
them
,
Because
I
have
hopes
of
Help
from
your
Suffrages
after
my
Death
,
and
because
this
Discovery
may
be
advantageous
to
the
Common
wealth
,
I
will
confess
truly
to
you
,
what
we
intended
:
When
we
met
at
Black-heath
,
and
sent
for
the
King
by
our
Captain-Generals
Order
,
we
purposed
to
have
massacred
all
the
Nobility
and
Gentry
with
him
,
then
to
have
lead
the
King
with
us
respected
,
and
treated
Kingly
from
place
to
place
,
to
bait
the
vulgar
by
the
Authority
of
his
Presence
into
our
League
,
whom
they
might
so
have
taken
for
the
Head
of
our
Commotion
,
he
being
by
these
Means
likely
to
have
been
supposed
by
his
own
Party
too
to
have
trusted
us
,
when
by
the
Confluence
of
all
the
Counties
our
Companies
had
been
full
,
and
the
Supreme
Executive
Power
wholly
ours
,
we
meant
to
have
purged
the
Nation
,
to
have
destroyed
the
Gentry
,
and
first
the
Knights
of
Saint
John
of
Jerusalem
,
with
all
the
Rags
of
Royalty
,
which
by
this
time
had
been
but
a
Rag
it self
.
Afterwards
to
have
killed
the
King
,
whose
Name
could
then
have
been
of
no
Use
to
us
.
Their
Oath
to
preserve
him
could
not
last
longer
than
their
Conveniency
and
Opinions
,
which
had
then
changed
.
We
meant
so
once
,
but
we
mean
otherwise
now
,
had
been
a
satisfactory
Excuse
.
They
had
often
sworn
and
covenanted
,
that
they
neither
meant
nor
had
Power
to
hurt
the
Kings
Prerogative
;
that
they
intended
to
maintain
the
Kings
Authority
in
his
Royal
Dignity
,
the
free
Course
of
Iustice
,
and
the
Laws
of
the
Land
;
with
infinite
Expressions
and
Protestations
of
this
kind
.
They
might
answer
,
the
Time
was
when
all
this
was
real
,
when
they
would
not
have
subverted
the
Government
,
nor
have
destroyed
the
ancient
Family
;
to
which
,
says
a
Statute
(
which
we
hope
it
can
be
no
Treason
to
Tylers
Ghost
to
recite
)
the
Dominions
,
and
Rights
of
the
&c.
See
25
H.
8.
1
Eliz.
1
Jac.
Realm
of
England
,
&c.
Ought
by
inherent
Birth-right
,
and
lawful
and
undoubted
Succession
,
descend
and
come
.
This
we
being
bounden
(
thus
speak
the
Members
heretofore
)
thereunto
by
the
Laws
of
God
and
Man
do
recognise
,
&c.
The
Answer
we
say
might
have
been
easie
,
they
would
not
have
done
it
some
time
agone
,
they
swore
and
covenanted
,
and
covenanted
again
they
would
,
not
now
they
will
;
Tyler
is
still
Tyler
,
but
his
Liberty
(
false
cheating
Liberty
)
is
every
where
free
,
both
to
Will
and
Dislike
,
as
the
Safety
of
the
Common-wealth
shall
require
and
carry
him
on
.
This
was
the
Faith
and
Honesty
of
that
Age
,
by
which
we
may
guess
at
the
Cause
and
Men
who
acted
for
it
.
Who
were
the
Undertakers
,
what
Trust
is
to
be
given
to
such
perfidious
Knaves
,
whose
Protestations
,
and
Covenants
of
one
Day
,
are
wiped
out
by
an
Inspiration
of
the
next
:
We
may
say
by
an
Inspiration
,
it
was
wondrous
fit
for
these
Changes
.
Our
Proteus
should
bring
Inspiration
in
.
All
those
of
Estates
and
Possessions
,
Bishops
,
Canons
,
Persons
of
Churches
,
Monks
,
we
would
have
rooted
out
of
the
Earth
:
Only
the
begging
Fryars
should
have
been
preserved
,
who
would
have
served
(
such
Sheep
such
Shepherds
)
well
enough
for
Church-duties
;
which
we
may
wonder
after
all
these
Pranks
that
they
should
think
of
;
here
would
have
been
a
very
plain
Church
.
Questionless
after
all
these
Actions
,
the
Devotion
of
these
Reformers
could
not
have
been
much
;
by
that
time
our
publick
Thieves
had
cast
Lots
for
the
Kings
,
Churches
,
Nobilities
,
and
Gentrys
Revenues
,
what
Boars
of
other
Countrys
could
have
compared
with
the
Riches
of
our
Peasants
and
their
Captain
Tyler
.
When
there
should
have
been
(
so
Straw
goes
on
,
)
none
left
more
great
,
more
strong
,
or
more
wise
than
our selves
,
then
we
had
set
up
a
Law
of
our
own
forging
,
at
our
Pleasure
,
by
which
our
Subjects
should
have
been
regulated
.
Necessary
it
was
the
old
Law
should
be
voted
down
;
it
condemned
them
in
every
Line
.
Then
had
we
created
us
Kings
,
Tyler
for
Kent
(
a
part
too
small
for
the
Arch-tyrant
)
and
others
for
other
Shires
:
Here
was
to
be
Monarchy
still
,
not
Evil
in
it self
,
but
where
it
ought
to
be
of
Right
;
only
the
Family
was
to
be
changed
,
the
ancient
Saxon
Norman
Stemm
,
for
an
upstart
Dunghil
Brood
of
Vipers
:
Tyler
to
be
advanced
upon
the
Ruins
of
Richard
,
the
Cedar
to
be
torn
up
,
to
make
the
Bramble
Room
enough
,
while
any
of
the
Royal
Off-spring
had
been
in
being
to
claim
the
Right
,
to
have
involved
the
Miserable
,
Perjured
,
Foolish
People
in
an
Everlasting
Civil
War
;
never
to
have
ceased
,
while
there
had
been
a
Vein
of
Blood
to
run
.
The
Maintenance
of
Tylers
Wrong
,
his
Usurpation
(
not
to
look
farther
then
the
present
World
)
would
have
been
more
fatal
than
ten
Plagues
.
Iohn
adds
,
no
Man
thwarted
these
Ends
of
ours
more
than
the
Arch-bishop
,
therefore
we
hated
him
to
Death
,
and
made
all
the
Haste
possible
to
bring
him
to
it
.
In
the
Evening
of
that
Saturday
in
which
Wat
perished
,
because
the
poorer
sort
of
the
Londoners
favoured
us
,
we
intended
to
have
fired
the
City
in
four
Places
,
and
to
have
divided
the
Spoils
(
So
the
faithful
Citizens
,
as
forward
as
they
were
,
had
at
last
paid
for
their
Love
)
he
calls
God
to
witness
these
Truths
.
The
Confessions
of
many
others
of
the
Ingagement
agreed
with
this
of
Straw
.
The
Lawyers
,
and
those
(
as
one
)
who
fled
from
the
Tyranny
What
then
can
be
thought
or
said
of
those
Monsters
,
who
,
against
all
ties
of
Nature
and
Piety
,
shall
raise
a
desperate
Civil
War
,
meerly
with
the
Intent
to
overthrow
Religion
,
the
Church
,
the
Government
,
Laws
,
and
Humanity
,
out
of
a
cursed
divelish
Ambition
to
advance
themselves
(
Tylers
and
Sons
of
the
Earth
before
)
to
an
Height
which
God
(
as
some
love
to
speak
)
never
called
them
to
.
For
though
Power
is
of
God
,
it
is
only
so
when
the
coming
to
it
is
by
lawful
Means
.
He
that
ordains
the
Power
,
allows
not
the
Usurpation
of
it
.
Tyler
had
the
Power
to
do
Mischief
,
the
Power
of
Rebellion
,
the
Power
which
must
have
ruined
the
Church
and
Common-wealth
;
but
whether
this
be
the
Power
which
Christians
are
to
submit
to
,
let
the
next
Casuists
judge
.
The
Septuagint
Translation
of
the
Bible
says
of
Abimelech
,
who
slew
his
Seventy
Brethren
(
Murder
ushers
Usurpation
in
)
He
made
himself
King
,
by
Tyranny
.
The
Monk
,
who
writes
the
Lives
of
the
Offa's
,
speaking
of
Beormred
the
Mercian
Usurper
has
these
Words
:
In
the
same
Region
of
the
Mercians
,
a
certain
Tyranny
rather
destroying
and
dissipating
the
Nobility
of
the
Realm
,
then
ruling
&c.
persecuting
,
banishing
,
&c.
Lest
any
one
,
especially
of
the
Royal
Blood
▪
should
be
advanced
in
his
Place
,
he
vehemently
〈◊〉
.
The
thirty
Usurpers
in
the
time
of
Gallie●…
are
every
where
called
Tyrants
.
Paulus
Diac●…nus
,
writing
of
Valentine
in
the
time
of
Valentinian
,
says
,
He
was
crushed
in
Brittany
,
before
he
could
invade
the
Tyranny
▪
and
of
Maximus
,
that
he
was
Sto●…
and
Valia●…
,
and
worthy
of
the
Empire
,
●…ad
he
not
against
the
Faith
of
his
Oath
,
raised
himself
,
per
tyrannidem
,
by
Tyranny
.
In
other
places
Enge●…
,
Gratian
,
Constance
,
Sebastian
,
created
Tyrannis
.
The
Words
Tyranny
,
and
Tyranne
,
and
Tyra●…ous
Party
,
being
used
often
by
him
,
are
ever
opposed
to
just
and
Regal
Power
,
never
used
in
any
other
Sense
▪
Widdrington
,
to
the
Example
of
Athalia
urged
by
Bellarmine
against
Kings
,
says
she
was
no
lawful
Tyranny
▪
the
Kingdom
belonged
to
Ioash
,
in
whose
Right
,
and
by
whose
Power
she
was
justly
●…lain
—
Our
most
learned
Prelate
Bishop
Abbot
of
S●…lisbury
tells
the
Cubs
of
Loyola●…
,
Athalia
had
snatched
,
had
grasped
,
and
held
the
Kingdom
with
no
Right
,
no
Title
,
but
by
Butchery
,
Robbery
,
Rapine
,
and
forcible
Entry
—
and
that
she
was
thrown
down
and
killed
by
the
common
bounden
Duty
and
Faith
of
Subjects
to
their
Prince
.
Baronius
a
Cardinal
,
that
the
Maccabees
of
Levi
or
House
of
the
Assamoneans
,
may
not
be
made
Usurpers
,
matches
them
with
the
Royal
Line
of
David
,
else
says
he
,
absque
labe
Tyrannidis
,
without
the
Stain
of
Tyranny
,
they
could
not
meddle
King
Henry
the
8th
.
against
the
Papal
Authority
,
calls
it
an
usurped
Tyranny
,
and
the
Exercise
of
it
a
Robbery
,
and
spoyling
of
the
King
,
and
his
People
.
The
Statute
31
Henry
the
6th
.
adjudging
Iohn
Cade
,
another
Imp
of
Hell
,
and
Successor
of
Wat
,
to
be
a
Traitor
,
which
are
the
Words
of
the
Title
,
and
all
his
Indictments
and
Acts
to
be
void
,
speaks
thus
;
The
most
abominable
Tyranny
,
horrible
,
odious
,
and
arrant
false
Traitor
,
Iohn
Cade
,
naming
himself
sometime
Mortimer
(
he
and
Tyler
had
two
Names
)
taking
upon
him
Royal
Power
,
&c.
by
false
,
subtile
and
imagined
Language
,
&c.
Robbing
,
stealing
,
and
spoiling
,
&c.
And
that
all
his
Tyranny
,
Acts
,
Feats
,
and
false
Opinions
,
shall
be
voided
,
and
that
all
things
depending
thereof
,
&c.
under
the
Power
of
Tyranny
,
shall
be
likewise
void
,
&c.
And
that
all
Indictments
in
times
coming
in
like
Case
under
Power
of
Tyranny
,
Rebellion
,
&c.
shall
be
void
in
Law
;
and
that
all
Petitions
delivered
to
the
King
in
his
last
Parliament
,
&c.
against
his
Mind
,
by
him
not
agreed
,
shall
be
put
in
Oblivion
&c.
as
against
God
,
and
Conscience
,
&c.
To
proceed
;
The
King
,
because
all
these
Risings
were
by
the
Ringleaders
protested
to
be
made
for
him
and
his
Rights
,
and
that
the
Forces
then
raised
,
were
raised
by
his
Authority
,
and
all
their
Actions
owned
by
him
,
issues
out
a
Proclamation
from
London
,
to
this
Effect
.
RIchard
&c.
To
all
and
singular
Sheriffs
,
Mayors
,
Bayliffs
,
&c.
of
our
County
of
N.
&c.
Because
we
are
given
to
understand
;
that
divers
of
our
Subjects
,
who
against
our
Peace
,
&c.
have
raised
and
in
divers
Conventicles
and
Assemblys
,
&c.
Do
affirm
,
that
they
the
said
Assemblys
,
and
Levies
have
made
and
do
make
by
Our
Will
and
Authority
,
&c.
We
make
known
to
all
Men
,
That
such
Levies
,
Assemblys
,
and
Mischiefs
,
from
Our
Will
and
Authority
have
not
proceeded
.
(
He
adds
)
They
were
begun
,
and
continued
much
to
his
Displeasure
and
Disgrace
,
to
the
Prejudice
of
His
Crown
,
and
Damage
of
the
Realm
.
Wherefore
he
injoyns
and
commands
,
&c.
To
take
the
best
Care
for
the
keeping
of
his
Peace
,
and
opposing
of
all
such
Levies
with
a
strong
Hand
:
Further
,
he
commands
every
Man
to
leave
such
Assemblys
,
and
return
Home
to
his
own
House
under
Penalty
of
Forfeiture
of
Life
,
and
Member
,
and
all
things
forfeitable
to
the
King
,
&c.
These
Clowns
charge
not
the
King
to
be
transsported
furiously
,
and
hostily
,
to
the
Destruction
of
the
whole
People
,
which
can
never
happen
,
where
the
King
is
in
his
Wits
;
but
what
is
fully
as
mad
,
they
will
suppose
him
to
arm
against
his
own
Life
and
Power
,
against
his
own
Peace
,
and
the
Peace
of
all
that
love
him
.
This
Proclamation
put
Life
into
the
Royalists
,
into
all
honest
Hearts
,
and
dismays
as
much
the
Rebels
;
yet
after
this
the
Essex
Traitors
,
gather
again
at
Byllericay
near
Hatfield
Peverel
,
and
send
to
the
King
,
now
at
Waltham
,
to
know
whether
he
intends
to
make
good
his
Grants
of
Liberties
,
and
require
to
be
made
equal
with
their
Lords
,
without
being
bound
to
any
Suits
of
Court
,
View
of
Frank-pledge
only
excepted
twice
the
Year
.
The
King
and
his
Council
are
startled
at
this
Impudence
.
The
King
answers
the
Agents
,
That
if
he
did
not
look
upon
them
as
Messengers
,
he
would
hang
them
up
:
Return
to
your
Fellow
Rebels
,
and
tell
them
,
Clowns
they
were
,
and
are
,
and
shall
continue
in
their
Bondage
,
not
as
hitherto
but
far
more
basely
trampled
on
.
While
we
live
,
and
rule
this
Kingdom
,
by
Gods
Will
we
will
imploy
all
our
Means
and
Power
to
keep
you
under
:
So
that
your
Misery
shall
frighten
all
Villains
hereafter
:
And
your
Posterity
shall
curse
your
Memory
.
At
the
Heels
of
the
Messenger
,
the
King
sends
his
Unkle
Thomas
of
Woodstock
Earl
of
Buckingham
,
and
Sir
Thomas
Piercy
with
a
Body
of
Horse
to
quell
them
.
The
Rebels
were
intrenched
according
to
the
manner
of
Li●…sters
Camp
,
in
the
midst
of
Woods
;
ten
Lances
of
the
Avant
Currors
rout
them
;
the
Lords
,
when
they
were
come
up
,
inclose
the
Woods
round
,
five
hundred
are
killed
,
eight
hundred
Horses
for
Carriage
taken
,
the
broken
Remainders
of
the
Defeat
escape
to
Colchester
,
a
Town
ever
honest
,
Iohn
Harlestone
rush
suddenly
upon
them
,
kill
and
take
them
:
the
King
meaning
to
visit
Essex
in
his
own
Person
,
comes
to
Havering
at
the
Boure
,
a
Mannor
of
his
own
Demain
,
of
the
Sacred
Patrimony
,
and
from
thence
to
Chelmsford
,
where
he
appoints
Sir
Robert
Tresilian
,
Chief
Justice
of
his
Bench
of
Pleas
of
the
Crown
,
to
sit
and
inquire
of
the
Malefactors
,
and
Troublers
of
the
Country
,
and
to
punish
the
Offendors
according
to
the
Customs
of
the
Realm
,
known
,
and
visible
.
Five
Hundred
of
these
wretched
Peasants
,
who
had
no
Mercy
Essex
,
Kent
,
and
London
,
because
of
the
Numbers
of
the
Guilty
,
which
was
now
thought
a
Death
short
of
the
Demerits
of
the
most
foul
and
heinous
Offenders
;
wherefore
according
to
the
Custom
of
the
Realm
,
it
was
decreed
(
says
the
Monk
)
that
the
Captains
should
be
hanged
.
The
like
was
done
in
other
Countrys
by
the
Justices
in
Commission
,
where
the
King
was
in
Person
.
Here
the
King
with
the
Advice
of
his
Council
,
revokes
his
Letters
Patents
,
the
Charters
granted
to
the
Clowns
:
Although
(
so
he
speaks
)
we
have
in
the
late
detestable
Troubles
,
&c.
manumised
all
the
Commons
,
our
Liege
Subjects
of
our
Shires
,
and
them
,
&c.
have
freed
from
all
Bondage
and
Service
,
&c.
And
also
have
pardoned
the
same
our
Liege
Men
and
Subjects
all
Insurrections
by
riding
,
going
,
&c.
And
also
all
manner
of
Treasons
,
Felonies
,
Trespasses
,
and
Extortions
,
&c.
Notwithstanding
for
that
the
said
Charters
,
were
without
mature
Deliberation
,
and
unduly
procured
,
&c.
To
the
prejudice
of
us
,
and
our
Crown
,
of
the
Prelates
,
and
great
Men
of
our
Realm
;
as
also
to
the
disherison
of
Holy
English
Church
,
and
to
the
Hurt
and
Damage
of
the
Common-wealth
,
the
said
Letters
we
revoke
,
make
void
,
and
annul
;
&c.
Yet
our
Intention
is
such
Grace
upon
every
of
our
said
Subjects
to
confer
,
though
enormously
their
Allegiance
they
have
forfeited
,
&c.
As
shall
be
useful
to
us
,
and
our
Realm
.
The
Close
commands
to
bring
in
to
the
King
and
his
Council
all
Charters
of
Manumission
and
Pardon
,
to
be
cancelled
upon
their
Faith
and
Allegiance
,
and
under
Forfeiture
of
all
things
forfeitable
,
&c.
Witness
our self
at
Chelmsford
the
2.
of
July
,
and
5th
.
Year
of
our
Reign
.
False
for
the
4th
.
In
the
Case
of
a
Subject
(
and
no
reason
Kings
shall
be
more
bound
)
every
Act
extorted
by
Violence
,
and
Awe
upon
the
Agent
,
is
void
.
In
the
Time
of
Edward
the
Third
,
two
Thieves
(
which
was
the
Case
here
)
force
a
Traveller
to
swear
that
he
will
at
a
day
appointed
bring
them
a
thousand
Pound
;
and
threaten
to
kill
him
if
he
refuse
their
Oath
;
he
swears
and
performs
what
he
had
sworn
:
By
Advice
Bishop
Andrews
,
that
most
learned
Prelate
,
answers
to
the
Widdrington
,
the
most
Loyal
of
all
Roman-Catholick
Priests
,
A
Charter
of
King
Henry
the
Third
imprisoned
and
forced
,
is
said
by
Aldenham
to
be
void
upon
this
Reason
,
and
I
judge
the
Justice
of
this
Revocation
by
the
Law
of
England
,
by
which
,
as
our
old
Parliaments
,
such
Force
is
Treason
.
The
Fruits
of
which
At
Chelmsford
the
King
is
informed
of
the
whole
History
of
Mischiefs
done
at
St.
Albanes
,
and
resolved
in
Person
with
all
his
Guards
and
Cavalry
to
ride
thither
,
and
sentence
the
Malefactors
with
his
own
Mouth
;
but
Sir
Walter
Ley
of
Hartfordshire
,
fearing
the
much
impoverishing
the
Country
,
if
the
King
should
make
any
long
Stay
there
,
with
such
Numbers
as
then
attended
him
,
beseeches
him
to
make
a
Tryal
,
whether
things
might
not
be
composed
without
him
,
and
offers
to
reconcile
the
Abbot
and
Townsmen
,
if
the
King
would
;
which
was
consented
to
:
The
King
grants
him
a
Commission
,
and
joyns
with
him
Edward
Benstude
,
Geofry
Stukely
,
and
others
of
the
Gentry
of
that
County
.
The
coming
of
these
Commissioners
was
noised
at
St.
Albans
:
The
fiercest
of
the
Clowns
knowing
what
they
had
done
was
condemned
by
the
Law
,
and
not
to
be
defended
,
but
by
Force
,
which
now
they
had
not
,
began
to
shake
and
take
Fright
,
are
plotting
to
get
out
of
the
Way
.
Greyndcob
,
Lieutenant
of
the
late
Idol
,
comforts
them
,
he
perswades
to
go
to
Horse
;
let
us
meet
the
Knight
(
says
he
)
and
see
whether
his
Looks
promise
Peace
or
not
;
if
not
,
the
Towns
about
us
have
engaged
,
they
have
associated
,
and
are
of
our
League
;
we
are
rich
,
and
cannot
want
good
Fellows
,
who
will
assist
us
while
our
Monys
last
.
On
St.
Peters
Day
this
ill-advised
Crue
meets
the
Knight
upon
the
Road
,
who
was
ignorant
of
their
Resolutions
,
and
conduct
him
Honourably
,
according
to
their
Fashion
,
to
the
Town
:
Sir
Walter
had
with
him
fifty
Lances
,
and
some
Companies
of
Archers
,
listed
at
random
,
many
of
them
being
of
the
Churls
,
and
Confederates
with
them
:
The
Knight
cites
the
Townsmen
and
their
Neighbours
to
appear
before
him
in
Derfold
,
to
hear
the
Pleasure
and
Commands
of
the
King
;
they
fail
not
,
There
he
tells
them
what
Forces
the
King
had
assembled
;
how
rigorously
those
of
Essex
were
sentenced
:
That
the
King
was
highly
incensed
at
the
Troubles
and
Seditions
of
this
place
,
of
which
he
was
the
Patron
and
Defender
:
That
with
Great
Difficulty
he
had
procured
of
the
King
a
Commission
,
by
which
himself
,
and
others
,
not
Strangers
,
or
Enemies
,
but
their
Friends
and
Neighbours
were
authorized
to
do
Iustice
in
the
KingsStead
;
he
concludes
if
they
will
appease
the
King
,
they
must
find
out
,
and
deliver
up
the
Beginners
of
these
Broils
,
and
make
Satisfaction
to
the
Lord
Abbot
,
an
holy
and
a
just
Man
,
for
the
Wrong
they
had
done
him
.
This
many
of
the
Hearers
approve
,
and
promise
to
obey
.
The
Knight
charges
a
Jury
to
be
made
ready
the
next
Morning
,
and
make
what
Discovery
they
can
,
and
gives
the
People
Leave
to
depart
.
Towards
Night
he
sends
for
the
Jury
to
his
Chamber
,
intending
to
have
apprehended
the
Lieutenants
,
by
the
Assistance
of
the
Jury
,
without
any
Noise
.
These
good
Men
and
true
know
nothing
;
it
was
the
Case
of
their
Fellows
in
Mischief
,
and
might
be
their
own
.
They
answer
in
a
plain
Ignoramus
,
they
can
indict
no
Man
,
accuse
no
Man
.
Amongst
all
the
sounder
of
these
Swine
,
there
was
not
one
who
had
been
Faithless
and
Disloyal
to
his
Natural
Liege
Lord
,
not
one
Breaker
of
his
Peace
,
not
one
who
could
appear
so
to
them
.
The
Knight
seems
not
to
understand
the
Falsness
and
Cunning
of
these
Hob-nail
perjured
Juglers
:
He
takes
another
Way
,
and
next
requires
them
within
a
peremptory
time
,
to
bring
him
the
Charters
which
they
had
forced
from
the
Monastery
;
they
return
after
a
short
Consultation
,
and
in
the
Abbots
Chamber
,
where
the
Knight
then
was
,
tell
him
,
They
dare
not
obey
out
of
Fear
of
the
Commons
;
what
was
more
,
they
knew
not
in
whose
Custody
the
Charters
were
.
The
Knight
grows
angry
,
and
swears
,
they
shall
not
go
out
of
the
Chamber
till
he
have
them
,
which
they
call
imprisoning
their
Persons
.
Here
the
Abbot
intercedes
,
and
though
he
knew
them
as
very
Knaves
and
Lyers
as
any
Tyler
had
set
on
work
,
yet
he
will
not
(
he
says
)
distruct
their
Honesty
;
he
will
leave
things
to
their
Consciences
,
upon
which
they
are
freed
.
Another
Assembly
is
appointed
at
Barnet
Wood
,
whither
the
Villagers
about
throng
in
Multitudes
.
Three
hundred
Bow-men
of
Barnet
and
Berkhamsted
,
make
here
so
terrible
a
Show
,
nothing
is
done
.
The
Commissioners
privately
charge
the
Gentry
,
Constables
,
and
Bayliffs
to
seize
in
the
Night
Greyndcob
,
Cadindon
,
Iohn
the
Barber
,
with
some
others
,
and
to
bring
them
to
Hartford
,
whither
themselves
went
in
all
Haste
;
which
was
performed
:
The
Esquires
and
Servants
of
the
Abby
,
were
sent
with
them
to
strengthen
the
Company
.
This
enrages
the
Townsmen
afresh
,
they
gather
into
Conventicles
in
the
Woods
and
Fields
,
so
much
frightful
to
the
Monastery
,
that
the
Abbot
,
recalls
his
Esquires
,
le
ts
the
Prosecution
fall
,
and
fearfully
summons
in
his
Friends
to
guard
him
.
Greyndcobs
Friends
take
Advantage
of
this
Change
,
and
bail
him
for
three
Days
,
within
which
time
they
were
either
tyed
to
agree
with
the
Abby
,
or
render
up
Greyndcob
to
the
Justices
again
.
The
Townsmen
fierce
enough
still
,
yet
earnest
to
preserve
their
Worthy
,
are
content
to
part
with
the
Charters
;
but
this
Greyndcob
(
more
Fool-hardy
than
wise
)
would
not
consent
to
.
Nor
does
he
,
as
knowing
the
Stifness
of
his
Clowns
whine
in
a
Religious
Tone
,
never
used
by
him
.
He
prays
them
to
consider
how
Beautiful
Liberty
is
,
how
sweet
,
how
Honourable
:
Dangerous
Liberty
,
(
says
he
)
is
more
valuable
than
safe
and
quiet
Slavery
;
let
us
live
,
or
dye
with
Liberty
,
in
so
generous
,
so
honest
a
Contention
,
it
will
be
Glorious
to
be
overcome
;
whatsoever
our
Fears
are
,
worse
we
cannot
be
,
then
now
we
are
about
to
make
our Selves
.
Success
too
doth
not
so
often
fail
Men
,
as
their
own
Industry
and
Boldness
:
Fear
not
for
me
,
nor
trouble
your selves
at
my
Dangers
,
I
shall
think
my self
more
happy
than
our
Lords
,
if
they
prosper
,
or
their
King
,
to
dye
a
Martyr
of
the
Cause
,
with
the
Reputation
of
such
a
Gallantry
.
Let
dreaming
Monks
and
Priests
tremble
at
the
airy
Sounds
of
God
,
and
Saints
;
he
who
fears
Thunder-bolts
,
is
a
Religious
heartless
Coxcomb
,
and
shall
never
climb
a
Molehill
.
Thus
our
buskin'd
Martyr
swaggers
,
after
the
Raptures
put
upon
him
by
Walsingham
;
Greyndcob's
Stubbornness
hardens
on
the
Clowns
,
they
now
accuse
themselves
of
Baseness
,
that
they
did
not
cut
off
the
Knights
Head
,
and
nail
it
on
the
Pillory
,
to
the
Terror
(
say
they
)
of
all
Judges
,
and
false
Justices
.
Greyndcob
had
raised
Spirits
,
which
he
could
not
lay
when
he
would
.
Three
days
being
expired
,
he
is
again
sent
to
Hartford
Goal
,
where
he
hears
News
from
his
Brother
,
who
mediated
for
him
in
the
Court
,
not
very
pleasing
,
which
he
communicates
to
his
Townsmen
.
His
Intelligence
was
to
this
Effect
;
That
Richard
of
Beauchamp
Earl
of
Warwick
,
and
Sir
Thomas
Piercie
with
a
thousand
armed
Men
were
appointed
to
visit
S.
Albans
.
At
this
Report
the
Rebels
startle
,
they
fall
to
new
Treaties
,
offer
the
Charters
and
Book
,
in
which
the
old
Pleas
betwixt
the
Abby
and
the
Town
were
recorded
,
with
200
l.
for
amends
.
The
Book
is
received
;
the
rest
put
off
till
the
next
Day
.
The
Earl
of
Warwick
sends
only
Excuses
,
he
heard
his
own
House
was
on
Fire
,
that
the
Clowns
of
his
own
Lordships
were
up
,
and
he
leaves
all
things
else
to
quell
them
.
This
raises
the
fallen
Courages
of
those
of
Saint
Albans
,
they
now
laugh
at
their
late
Fears
,
If
the
Commons
,
say
they
,
must
quit
their
Right
of
Conquest
,
and
surrender
their
Charters
,
yet
will
not
we
the
(
Renowned
Mechanicks
)
of
St.
Albans
be
their
President
.
And
as
in
all
Tumults
(
which
can
never
be
observed
too
often
)
Lying
is
necessary
,
and
must
not
be
useless
,
whatsoever
else
is
;
they
lay
the
Blame
of
their
Obstinacy
upon
the
Inhabitants
of
Barnet
and
Watford
,
who
threaten
(
so
they
would
have
it
believed
)
to
burn
their
Town
if
they
deliver
up
their
Liberties
.
Which
Inhabitants
of
Barnet
and
Watford
had
humbly
surrendred
theirs
before
,
and
submitted
to
the
Kings
Mercy
:
Thus
we
find
these
Rebels
of
St.
Albans
again
swaggering
in
their
old
Rhodomontadoes
.
An
Esquire
of
the
Abbots
acquaints
the
King
with
these
Turnings
,
who
vows
to
sit
personally
in
Judgment
upon
these
Everlasting
Malecontents
.
The
Abbot
full
of
Pity
and
Charity
,
who
had
saved
some
of
these
Enemies
of
his
House
from
the
Axe
by
Intercession
at
London
,
continues
his
Goodness
still
.
He
sollicites
Sir
Hugh
Segrave
,
Steward
of
the
Houshold
,
and
others
of
his
Friends
,
to
mitigate
the
King's
Displeasure
,
and
hinder
his
Journey
thither
,
which
was
not
in
their
Power
.
Now
again
are
the
Townsmen
dejected
,
and
seek
by
all
means
to
keep
off
the
Tempest
,
which
threatned
them
:
They
fee
Sir
William
Croyser
a
Lawyer
to
make
their
Defence
,
and
mediate
with
the
Abbot
,
wherethere
was
no
Danger
:
An
Agreement
is
concluded
the
Day
of
the
Kings
Entry
,
by
which
they
would
bind
the
Abbot
,
not
to
disclose
them
,
or
inform
against
them
.
He
promises
(
if
they
fail
not
in
Performance
on
their
Part
)
not
to
make
any
Complaints
to
the
King
of
them
;
that
he
would
be
a
Suiter
for
their
Peace
,
if
his
Prayers
may
be
heard
,
but
that
here
he
cannot
assure
them
:
Pardons
were
Acts
flowing
meerly
from
No
Man
had
any
Power
or
Authority
to
pardon
or
remit
Treasons
,
&c.
but
the
King
;
and
whether
he
could
prevail
for
them
,
he
knew
not
.
This
Doubtfulness
troubles
them
,
it
seems
to
call
their
Innocency
too
much
into
Question
:
They
tell
him
,
his
good
Will
was
sufficient
,
and
that
as
to
what
belonged
to
the
Royal
Dignity
they
should
satisfie
the
King
.
After
Vespers
the
King
made
his
Entry
into
the
Town
,
being
met
by
the
Abbot
and
Covent
;
the
Bells
rang
aloud
,
and
the
Monks
sang
merrily
his
Welcome
:
He
was
followed
by
some
thousands
of
Bowmen
and
Cavaliers
.
In
this
Train
was
Sir
Robert
Tresilian
,
Chief
Justice
of
the
Kings
Bench
,
who
the
next
Day
,
being
Saturday
the
13.
of
Iuly
,
and
first
of
the
Dog-days
,
sat
in
Judgment
at
the
Moot-hall
(
says
Walsingham
)
at
the
Town-house
.
Greyndcob
,
Cadindon
,
and
Iohn
the
Barber
,
are
fetched
from
Hartford
,
and
laid
fast
till
Munday
,
against
which
time
new
Jury-men
are
chosen
,
and
charged
to
be
ready
with
their
Verdicts
:
Prophet
Baal
,
the
Sergius
of
the
new
Alcoran
,
the
Priest
of
the
Idol
and
his
Calves
,
the
Martin
of
the
Yoak
,
of
pure
Discipline
,
of
the
Eldership
,
was
taken
by
the
Townsmen
of
Coventry
,
brought
to
St.
Albans
the
Day
before
,
and
this
Saturday
condemned
by
the
Chief
Justice
to
be
Drawn
,
Hanged
,
Beheaded
,
Imbowelled
,
and
Quartered
,
which
was
done
on
the
Munday
following
.
He
confessed
to
the
Bishop
of
London
(
to
whose
Christian
Piety
he
ought
the
two
last
Days
of
his
Life
,
which
were
begged
for
his
Repentance
)
that
certain
hot
and
powerful
Pastors
of
the
Separation
,
Brethren
of
simple
Hearts
,
called
by
the
Spirit
(
he
named
six
or
seven
)
had
covenanted
and
engaged
to
compass
England
and
Wales
round
,
as
Itinerant
Apostles
to
propagate
the
Gospel
,
beat
down
all
Abomination
of
the
outward
Man
,
Antichristian
Hierarchy
,
and
Tyranny
of
the
Nimrods
of
the
Earth
,
to
cry
up
the
great
and
Holy
Cause
,
and
to
spread
the
Law
,
Principles
,
and
Heresies
of
Baal
;
which
Disciples
(
says
this
Rabbi
)
unless
they
be
prevented
,
and
taken
off
will
destroy
the
Realm
in
two
Years
:
He
might
have
said
two
Months
,
and
been
believed
,
as
to
the
Civility
,
Humanity
,
Order
and
Honour
(
never
intermitted
but
in
the
Confusion
of
a
barbarous
,
impious
Age
)
which
made
England
Glorious
,
they
had
been
destroyed
,
and
torn
up
in
a
less
time
.
A
few
licentious
ill
Acts
easily
beget
a
Custom
,
and
an
hundred
ill
Customs
quicklier
grow
and
prevail
than
one
single
good
one
.
There
is
a
Proneness
in
unruly
Man
to
run
into
Debauchments
,
and
no
wonder
that
the
arrogant
,
misled
,
silly
Multitude
,
capable
of
any
ill
Impressions
,
should
deprave
and
disorder
things
,
where
all
Ties
of
Restraint
are
loofened
;
nay
,
where
Disorders
are
not
only
defended
by
the
corrupt
Wits
of
Hirelings
,
but
bidden
,
strengthened
by
a
Law
,
and
Villanies
made
legal
Acts.
Had
the
Idol
King
Tyler
,
with
his
Council
,
not
gone
on
too
far
in
the
Way
of
Extermination
,
but
endeavoured
to
repair
the
Breaches
of
his
Entrance
;
it
would
have
been
no
small
Labour
to
have
restored
things
to
any
mean
and
tolerable
Condition
;
if
Presbyter
Wickliff
,
and
his
Classes
,
by
their
pernicious
Doctrines
(
as
they
are
charged
to
this
Day
)
did
first
pervert
and
corrupt
the
People
,
and
broach
that
Vessel
with
which
Father
Baal
and
Straw
poysoned
them
,
they
must
have
ruined
themselves
by
the
Change
;
sure
enough
they
had
been
no
more
comprehended
in
any
of
Tylers
Toleration
,
than
the
Prelatical
or
Papistical
Party
.
In
the
Turmoils
and
Outrages
of
this
Tyranny
,
had
it
taken
,
Innocence
,
Virtue
,
Ingenuity
,
Honesty
,
Faith
,
Learning
,
and
Goodness
had
been
odious
,
and
dangerous
.
The
Profit
,
and
Advantage
of
the
new
Usurpers
,
had
been
the
Measure
of
Justice
and
Right
:
The
Noble
and
Ignoble
had
died
Streets
and
Scaffolds
with
their
Blood
,
not
by
Laws
and
Judgment
,
but
out
of
Malice
to
their
Height
and
Worth
,
out
of
Fury
and
Covetousness
to
enrich
publich
Thieves
and
Murtherers
.
The
Jealousies
too
and
Fears
of
Tyler
,
had
made
all
Men
unsafe
.
Yet
the
Repute
,
the
Renown
of
the
Founders
could
not
have
been
much
.
The
Glory
of
Success
cannot
be
greater
than
the
Honesty
of
the
Enterprise
;
there
must
be
Justice
in
the
Quarrel
,
else
there
can
be
no
true
Honour
in
the
Prosperity
.
Cato
will
love
the
conquered
Common-wealth
:
Iugurtha's
Fame
,
who
is
said
to
be
Illustrious
for
his
Parricides
and
Rapines
,
will
not
make
all
Men
fall
down
and
worship
.
On
Munday
the
Fifteenth
of
Iuly
(
not
of
October
,
as
Walsingham
is
mis-printed
)
the
Chief
Justice
Tresilian
calls
before
him
the
Jury
for
Inquiry
,
who
faulter
and
shamelesly
protest
they
cannot
make
any
such
Discovery
as
is
desired
.
The
Chief
Justice
puts
them
in
Mind
of
the
Kings
Words
to
them
upon
the
Way
,
promising
Pardon
if
they
will
find
out
the
Offenders
;
else
threatning
them
with
the
Punishment
they
should
have
suffered
,
who
through
such
Silence
cannot
be
apprehended
.
Out
they
go
again
,
and
the
Chief
Justice
follows
them
:
He
shews
them
a
Roll
of
the
principal
Offenders
Names
,
tells
them
they
must
not
think
to
delude
and
blind
the
Court
with
this
Impudence
,
and
advises
them
out
of
a
Care
to
preserve
wicked
Mens
Lives
,
not
to
hazard
their
own
.
Hereupon
they
indict
many
of
the
Town
and
Country
,
which
Indictments
are
allowed
by
a
second
Inquest
,
appointed
to
bring
in
the
Verdict
,
and
again
affirmed
by
a
third
Jury
of
Twelve
,
charged
only
for
the
Fairness
of
the
Tryal
:
So
no
Man
was
pronounced
guilty
,
but
upon
the
finding
of
thirty
six
Jurors
.
Then
were
the
Lieutenants
Greyndcob
,
Cadindon
,
and
Barber
,
and
twelve
more
condemned
,
Drawn
,
and
Hanged
.
Wallingford
,
Iohn
Garleck
,
William
Berewill
,
Thomas
Putor
,
and
many
more
;
with
Eighty
of
the
Country
,
were
Indicted
by
their
Neighbours
,
and
Imprisoned
,
but
forgiven
by
the
King's
Mercy
,
and
discharged
.
They
were
forgiven
most
by
the
Kings
Mercy
;
for
he
had
forbidden
by
Proclamation
,
all
Men
to
sue
or
beg
for
them
,
a
Command
which
the
good
Abbot
sometimes
disobeyed
,
and
he
shall
be
well
thanked
for
it
.
No
Benefits
can
oblige
some
Men
:
A
true
rugged
Churl
can
never
be
made
fast
,
never
be
tyed
by
any
Merit
whatsoever
:
Nothing
can
soften
him
:
See
an
unheard
of
Shamelesness
till
then
.
These
lazie
,
tender-hearted
Clowns
,
who
could
hardly
be
got
to
discover
the
Guilty
,
now
run
with
full
Speed
to
betray
the
Innocent
:
They
indict
the
Abbot
as
the
principal
Raiser
,
and
Contriver
of
these
Tumults
,
which
struck
at
his
own
Life
,
and
the
Being
and
Safety
of
his
Monastery
.
The
Abbot
,
as
it
is
said
,
sent
to
Tyler
,
upon
his
Ordinances
,
some
of
the
Town
and
Monastery
,
but
to
temporize
,
and
secure
himself
.
This
is
now
supposed
by
the
very
Traitors
indeed
,
Treason
by
Common
Law
and
Statute
against
the
King
his
Natural
Liege
Lord
.
This
having
not
the
Fear
of
God
in
his
Heart
,
&c.
but
being
seduced
by
the
Instigation
of
the
Devil
,
is
compassing
the
Death
,
&c.
the
Deprivation
and
deposing
of
his
Soveraign
Lord
from
his
Royal
State
,
&c.
(
as
such
Indictments
use
to
run
)
This
must
goe
for
levying
War
against
the
Lord
the
King
,
adhering
to
,
comforting
,
and
aiding
his
Enemies
by
open
Fact
;
Which
are
the
Words
of
the
Statute
of
Treason
,
The
Chief
Justice
,
abominating
and
cursing
the
treacherous
Malice
,
and
Perfidiousness
of
these
Brutes
,
makes
them
tear
the
Indictment
which
themselves
,
though
urged
,
are
not
wicked
enough
to
swear
to
;
nay
,
which
publickly
they
confess
to
be
false
in
the
Face
of
the
Court.
Villeinage
was
not
now
abolished
,
though
some
think
otherwise
,
but
by
Degrees
extinguished
since
this
Reign
.
Besides
,
the
Letters
of
Revocation
before
,
restoring
all
things
to
their
old
Course
,
a
Commission
,
which
the
Abbot
procured
from
the
King
out
of
the
Chancery
,
then
kept
in
the
Chapter-house
of
this
Monastery
,
makes
this
manifest
;
which
speaks
to
this
Effect
.
RIchard
,
by
the
Grace
of
God
,
King
of
England
,
and
of
France
,
and
Lord
of
Ireland
,
&c.
To
his
Beloved
John
Lodowick
,
John
Westwycomb
,
&c.
We
command
you
,
and
every
of
you
,
upon
Sight
of
these
Presents
,
&c.
That
on
our
Part
,
forthwith
ye
cause
to
be
proclaimed
,
That
all
and
singular
the
Tenants
of
our
Beloved
in
Christ
,
the
Abbot
of
S.
Albans
,
as
well
free
as
bond
;
the
Works
,
Customs
and
Services
,
which
they
to
the
foresaid
Abbot
ought
to
do
,
and
of
ancient
Time
have
been
accustomed
to
perform
;
without
any
Contradiction
,
murmur
,
&c.
Do
as
before
they
have
been
accustomed
.
The
Disobedient
are
commanded
to
be
taken
,
and
Imprisoned
as
Rebels
In
the
Time
of
King
Henry
the
Seventh
there
were
Villains
.
This
just
legal
Power
by
which
the
Kings
acted
,
an
Arbitrary
,
boundless
,
unlimited
Power
must
have
been
set
up
;
instead
of
a
Fatherly
Royal
Monarchy
,
a
Tyranny
after
the
Turkish
Mode
,
a
Monarchy
Seignioral
;
and
had
he
brought
in
upon
the
Fall
of
the
Christian
Faith
and
Worship
,
which
must
have
followed
his
Establishment
,
Circumcision
,
and
the
Creed
of
Mahomet
,
as
the
Spirits
of
Men
were
than
debased
,
he
must
have
been
obeyed
.
All
the
Kings
Right
(
and
more
)
must
have
been
his
;
Sultan
Tyler's
Prerogative
would
have
been
found
more
grievous
,
more
heavy
,
more
killing
than
all
the
Yokes
and
Scorpions
of
our
Kings
;
no
Man
when
he
went
to
Sleep
,
could
assure
himself
that
one
Law
would
be
left
next
Morning
;
the
Ordinances
of
Tyler
and
his
Council
flew
about
in
Swarms
,
killing
and
rooting
up
the
Laws
:
One
Proclamation
of
this
Tyrant's
was
of
Force
to
blow
up
the
ancient
Foundation
;
enough
to
have
made
Men
mad
,
if
ever
they
could
wake
,
and
understand
.
When
the
French
had
conquered
Naples
,
the
People
looked
for
a
golden
World
,
they
thought
their
new
Master
would
(
as
the
King
of
Mexico's
Oath
used
to
say
)
do
Justice
to
all
Men
,
make
the
Sun
to
shine
,
the
Clouds
to
rain
,
the
Earth
to
be
fruitful
:
They
promise
themselves
Liberty
,
and
that
the
accustomed
Imposts
of
their
former
Kings
of
the
House
of
Arragon
,
should
not
only
be
taken
off
,
but
the
very
Word
Gabelle
driven
out
of
the
Kingdom
,
there
should
be
no
such
thing
in
Nature
left
;
but
foolish
Dolts
as
they
were
,
they
found
an
Alteration
quickly
,
instead
of
a
Court
Cavalry
before
(
the
new
Masters
ill
established
and
assured
,
not
daring
to
trust
any
thing
)
standing
Armies
were
continually
to
be
kept
on
Foot
;
instead
of
one
Tax
,
intolerable
of
late
,
they
are
oppressed
with
ten
,
their
Backs
and
Shoulders
crack
under
the
Load
.
Upon
this
Fancy
of
these
abused
Italians
,
says
the
Historian
,
This
is
the
Custom
,
for
the
most
part
of
all
People
,
weary
ever
of
the
present
Condition
,
and
inconsiderately
gaping
after
a
Change
,
but
they
receive
such
Wages
of
their
fond
and
disorderly
Lightness
.
The
War
undertaken
against
Lewis
the
11th
.
of
France
,
by
the
House
of
Burgundy
,
Dukes
of
Berry
,
Brittain
,
and
Bourbon
,
called
the
Weal
Publick
,
was
not
made
against
the
King
(
says
the
Allies
)
but
against
evil
Order
,
Injustice
in
the
Government
,
and
for
the
Publick
Good
of
the
Realm
.
In
the
Treaty
for
Peace
these
fine
things
are
forgotten
,
the
wretched
.
Peasants
torn
,
and
ground
with
Taxes
,
left
to
shift
for
themselves
.
The
Prince
of
the
Burgundies
demands
the
Towns
upon
the
Some
for
himself
:
Normandy
for
the
Duke
of
Berry
,
and
other
places
;
Offices
,
and
Pensions
for
the
rest
;
some
Overtures
were
made
for
the
Weal
Publick
(
says
the
History
)
that
is
all
,
the
Weal
Weal
Publick
was
turned
to
Weal
Particular
;
Self-seeking
was
the
Sum
of
the
Business
.
This
has
been
the
Fashion
of
all
Rebels
hitherto
,
and
will
be
to
the
Worlds
End
.
After
these
Proceedings
the
Hartfordshire
Men
betwixt
the
Ages
of
15
and
60
present
themselves
according
to
Command
,
and
take
the
Oath
of
Allegiance
;
they
are
sworn
too
to
unkennel
and
apprehend
the
late
Incendiaries
.
The
King
having
now
quieted
the
Commotions
removes
to
Berkhamsted
,
eight
Miles
from
St.
Albans
;
a
Royal
Castle
then
,
and
at
Easthamsted
where
he
hunts
,
is
informed
,
that
the
Bodies
of
the
Traytors
executed
were
taken
down
from
the
Gallows
;
hereupon
he
directs
his
Writ
or
Letter
to
the
Bayliffs
of
St.
Albans
,
commanding
them
under
Penalty
of
forfeiting
all
things
forfeitable
,
to
hang
up
again
the
said
Bodies
now
rotten
,
and
stinking
in
Iron
Chains
,
which
the
Townsmen
are
forced
to
do
with
their
own
Hands
.
A
Parliament
sitting
in
May
the
Fifth
Year
of
this
Kings
Reign
,
Iohn
Wraw
Priest
of
the
Reformation
at
Mildenhall
,
and
St.
Edmunds-bury
was
taken
;
and
upon
the
Petition
of
the
House
of
Commons
to
the
King
,
judged
to
be
drawn
,
and
hanged
.
In
the
same
Parliament
too
it
was
enacted
,
That
wheresoever
any
Clowns
by
six
or
seven
in
a
Company
kept
suspicious
Conventicles
,
the
Kings
good
and
faithful
Subjects
should
lay
hold
of
them
,
and
commit
them
to
the
next
Gaol
without
staying
for
the
Kings
Writ
.
In
the
same
Parliament
of
the
King
it
was
made
Treason
to
begin
a
Riot
,
Rout
,
or
Rumour
;
by
this
Parliament
,
and
that
of
the
6.
Provisions
are
made
for
those
whose
Deeds
were
burnt
or
destroyed
in
the
late
Insurrection
,
and
in
the
6.
of
Richard
,
the
King
pardons
the
Multitudes
for
their
Misdemeanours
in
the
Tumults
.
The
Clowns
now
every
where
return'd
to
their
old
Obedience
,
and
the
Winds
were
laid
in
all
their
Quarter
.
Richard
,
a
Prince
born
for
Troubles
,
shall
be
turmoyled
with
the
Rebellions
of
his
Peers
and
Parliaments
,
deposed
and
murthered
by
them
,
yet
his
Memory
shall
be
Sacred
,
his
Peers
and
Clowns
shall
dig
for
him
in
his
Grave
;
Posterity
too
shall
owe
all
things
to
his
Person
.
After
the
Death
of
Maximinius
a
wicked
bloody
Claudius
Iulianus
a
Consul
to
the
Emperors
Maximus
and
Balbinus
,
whom
he
calls
Preservers
and
Redeemers
of
the
Common-Wealth
,
there
the
Council
tells
them
they
had
restored
to
the
Senate
(
the
House
of
Lords
)
their
ancient
Dignity
,
to
the
Romans
their
Laws
,
Equity
,
and
Clemency
established
,
their
Lives
,
their
Manners
,
their
Liberty
,
the
Hopes
of
Succession
to
their
Heirs
.
He
adds
,
they
had
freed
the
Provinces
from
the
insatiable
Covetousness
of
Tyrannies
;
no
Voice
,
Language
,
nor
Wit
can
express
(
says
he
)
the
publick
Happiness
.
King
Richard
restored
to
the
Church
and
Universities
their
Rights
and
Possessions
,
to
the
Nobility
their
Honour
,
to
the
Gentry
their
Respect
,
to
the
Cities
their
free
Trade
;
the
Plenty
of
his
Harvest
to
the
industrious
Countryman
,
Security
,
Peace
,
and
Liberty
to
all
Orders
;
what
Prince
could
bestow
greater
Benefits
upon
a
People
?
He
was
the
Stator
,
the
Saviour
of
the
Nation
,
a
Nation
not
worthy
of
him
,
whose
Ingratefulness
to
his
Sacred
Head
,
whose
Perfidiousness
and
Impiety
in
advancing
an
Usurper
upon
his
Ruins
,
were
punished
with
a
fatal
Civil
War
,
which
lasted
Ages
,
with
an
Issue
of
Blood
,
which
could
not
be
stopped
till
the
true
and
lawful
Heir
of
this
Prince
was
seated
in
the
Imperial
Throne
,
according
to
the
Faith
and
Oaths
of
this
People
(
which
whatsoever
may
be
pretended
,
no
Power
on
Earth
can
dispence
with
)
and
according
to
the
fundamental
Laws
of
England
.
FINIS
.