Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 This memorable marriage was solemnized in the citie of Paris the foure and twentith daie of A|prill,The maria [...] of the queen [...] of Scots with the D [...]|phin. in the yéere of Christ 1558, with most magni|ficall pompe and triumph, and honored with the pre|sence of the most part of the princes, prelats, lords EEBO page image 1142 and barons of both the realmes, as it were for a con|firmation of this new aliance. Which as it was much to the aduantage and benefit of France: so nothing could be more preiudice & derogation to the crowne of Scotland, as a deuise tending to the perpetuall abolishing and extinguishment of the name & state of kings in that realme. In this meane time also the quéene Dowager of Scotland had doone what in hir laie,The quéene Dowager of Scotland [...]oo [...]h what she can to procure war against England. to procure the Scotish nobilitie to make warres against England: but they being not wil|ling thereto, monsieur Doisell coronell of certeine bands of Frenchmen came to Aimouth within six miles of Berwike, and fortified that place, making sundrie rodes and inuasions into England. In re|uenge whereof the Englishmen made the like in|rodes into Scotland, wherevpon the Scotishmen in their defense (as some pretend) were driuen to haue warres: and therevpon the earle of Huntleie was made lieutenant of the Scots borders, who remain|ing there by the helpe of the Frenchmen did manie displeasures to the Englishmen. This warre was begun in the yeere last past, and so continued: du|ring the which manie skirmishes and diuerse proper feats of armes were put in practise betwixt the par|ties (as in the historie of Scotland more at large it dooth appeeare) where we speake of the dooings in the yeares 1557 and 1558.

Abr. Fl. ex IS pag. 1106. A prest to the queene.¶A prest was granted to the quéene by the citizens of London, of twentie thousand pounds, which was leuied of the companies: for the which summe to be paied againe, the quéene bound certeine lands, & also allowed for interest of the monie twelue pounds of euerie hundred for a yeare. Also this yeare within a mile of Notingham, was a maruellous tempest of thunder,A woon|derfull tem|pest of thun|der woonder|full indéed. which as it came through two townes, beat downe all the houses and churches, the bels were cast to the out side of the churchyards, and some webs of lead foure hundred foot into the field, writhen like a paire of gloues. The riuer of Trent running be|twéene the two townes, the water with the mud in the botome was carried a quarter of a mile, and cast against the trées, the trées were pulled vp by the roots and cast twelue score off. Also a child was taken forth of a mans hands two speares length hie, and carried a hundred foot off, and then let fall, where|with his arme was broken, & so he died. Fiue or six men thereabout were slaine, and neither flesh nor skinne perished; there fell some hailestones that were fifteene inches about,A great death of old people through vehe|ment quar|ter [...] agues. &c. This yeare in haruest time the quartane agues continued in like maner, or more vebementlie, than they had doone the last yeare past, where through died manie old people, and speciallie priests, so that a great number of parishes were vnserued, and no curats to be gotten: and much corne was lost in the field for lacke of worke|men & laborers. Wherevpon insued a great scarsitie; so that in the beginning of sir Thomas Leighs ma|ioraltie, corne rose to fourtéene shillings the quarter, and wood waxed scant in London, and was sold for thirtéene and foureteene shillings the thousand of billets, and coles at ten pence the sacke, by reason of the great death and sicknesse the last summer for lacke of helpe and carriage.] ¶And here before we passe the yeare 1558, it were a fowle ouersight, not to make mention of a memorable discourse touching the ladie Katharine late dutchesse of Suffolke, [...] The old [...] of Stephan Gardiner [...] of [...]nchester against the [...] of [...]. a per|sonage of honor, and worthie of commemoration in chronicles for hir godlinesse to hir high praise: where manie a malefactor is recorded for their outragious wickednesse to their immortall shame. Concerning the said ladie therefore thus writeth master Fox.

Stephan Gardiner bishop of Winchester, sur|mising the ladie Katharine baronesse of Willough|bie and Cresbie, and duchesse Dowager of Suffolke, to be one of his ancient enimies, because he knew he had deserued no better of hir, deuised in the hol [...]e time of the first Lent in quéen Maries reigne, a holie practise of reuenge, first by touching hir in the per|son of hir husband maister Richard Bertie esquier, for whome he sent an attachment (hauing the great scale at his deuotion) to the shiriffe of Lincolnshire, with a speciall letter,Maister Richard Bertie hus|band to the dut|chesse, atta|ched by the bishop of Winchester. comanding most strictlie the same shiriffe to attach the said Richard immediatlie, and without baile to bring him vp to London to his great lordship. Maister Bertie hir husband being cleare in conscience, and frée from offense towards the quéene, could not coniecture anie cause of this strange processe, vnlesse it were some quarrell for religion, which he thought could not be so sore as the processe pretended.