Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Thus were all those of the one part lodged within the citie, and those of the other without, in Holborne towards Westminster, and in other places of the suburbs, all vpon wise consideration: for that the Yorke faction and the Lancastrians could not well haue béene mingled without danger of discord. After that these lords were thus come vnto London, the king and the quéene shortlie followed, comming thi|ther the seuentéenth daie of March, and lodged in the bishops palace. Bicause no riotous attempt or bic|kering should be begun betwéene anie of the parties or their retinues,The proui|dence of the citie for safe|gard of peace. the maior and aldermen of the citie kept great watch, as well by daie as by night, riding about the citie by Holborne, and Fléetstréet, with fiue thousand men well armed and arraied, to sée good or|der and peace on all sides kept.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 The lords which lodged within the citie held a dailie councell at blacke friers: the other part soiourning without the walles, assembled likewise in the chapi|ter house at Westminster. At length by the diligent trauell and good exhortation of the archbishop of Canturburie, and other prelats; both parties were persuaded to come to communication, and so did. Where,The lords are brought to a|gree. after long debating of grieuances on both sides, they promising to forget all old rancors, and to be freends each to other, & both obedient to the king, were accorded by award, wherof writings were sea|led, signed, and deliuered to effect as followeth.
15.1. The award made at Westminster on the three and twentith of March, Anno regni regis 36.
The award made at Westminster on the three and twentith of March, Anno regni regis 36.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 _FIrst, that at the costs, charges, and ex|penses of the duke of Yorke,The clergie were sure in those daies to loose nothing by these con|tentions how soeuer the world went. the earles of Warwike, and Salisburie, fourtie & fiue pounds of yearelie rent should be assured by waie of a mortisement for euer, vnto the monasterie of S. Albons, for suffrages and obits to be kept, and almes to be imploied for the soules of Edmund late duke of Summerset, Henrie late erle of Northumberland, and Thomas late lord Clifford late slaine in the battell of saint Albons, and buried in the abbeie church, and also for the soules of all other slaine in the same battell. The said duke of Summer|set, the earle of Northumberland, and lord Clifford, by vertue of the same award, were declared for true and faithfull liegemen to the king, and so to be hol|den and reputed in the daie of their deaths, aswell as the said duke of Yorke, the earles of Warwike and Salisburie.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Moreouer it was decreed, that the duke of Yorke should giue to Elenor duchesse of Summerset, and to Henrie duke of Summerset hir sonne, the summe of fiue thousand markes of good assignements of debts, which the king owght him for his wages, due during the time of his seruice in Ireland, to be diui|ded as the king should thinke conuenient, betwixt the brethren & sisters of the said duke of Summerset. Also that the earle of Warwike should giue vnto the lord Clifford, the summe of a thousand markes, in good and sufficient assignements of debts, which the king owght him, to be distributed betwixt the said lord Clifford his brethren and sisters.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 Also where Thomas Persie knight, lord Egre|mond, and Richard Persie his brother,The lord Egremon [...] sonnes of the ladie Elenor countesse of Northumberland, had béen in a sessions holden within the countie of Yorke before Richard Bingham, and Rafe Pole the kings iustices and other commissioners, condemned vnto the earle of Salisburie in the summe of eight thou|sand markes; and to the same earle, and to his wife Alice in the summe of fiue thousand marks; and to Thomas Neuill knight, son to the said earle of Sa|lisburie, in the summe of a thousand marks; and to the said Thomas and Mawd his wife, in the summe of two thousand marks; and to Iohn Neuill knight, sonne to the said earle of Salisburie, in the summe of eight hundred marks: for transgressions and tres|passes there found to be doone by the said lord Egre|mond, and Richard his brother, vnto the said earle of Salisburie, Alice, Thomas Neuill, Mawd and Iohn Neuill, as by the record appéered.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 It was ordeined, that the said earle and his sonnes should release all the said summes of monie, and the executions thereof, and likewise release vnto Rafe Uerneie,They were shiriffes, an, 1456. and Iohn Steward late shiriffes of Lon|don, vnto whose custodie the said lord Egremond had beene for the same condemnations committed, and from them escaped, all actions which they or anie of them might haue against the said Uerneie and Ste|ward for the same escape. Yet it was decreed by this award, that the said lord Egremond should be bound by recognisance in the Chancerie, to kéepe the peace toward the said erle and his wife, children, seruants, and tenants.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 Also where diuerse knights, esquiers, and other ser|uants and tenants to the said earle of Northumber|land, and to the said lord Egremond, were by their seuerall obligations bound, by occasion of the said debates, vnto the said duke of Yorke, earle of Salis|burie, or anie of their children, to stand to their order and gouernement; it was ordeined that the same ob|ligations should be deliuered to them that so stood bound, before the feast of saint Peter ad vincula next insuing at the citie of Yorke; or else that the par|ties so bound, should haue sufficient acquitances in discharge of the same obligations.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 It was further awarded, that all variances, dis|cords, debates, controuersies, appeales, and actions personals, that were or had béene betwixt any of EEBO page image 648 the said persons, or any of their seruants, or tenants, should be for euer determined & ended, sauing to eue|rie one his title, action and right, which he had by any euidence of arrerages of rents or seruices, accounts, detinues, or debts due by reason of anie lawfull con|tract or deed, had and made for anie reasonable consi|derations, other than the variance before said.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 And for the more assurance of both parties, it was ordeined that either should release to other all maner of actions, that were méere personals and appeales, which anie of them might haue against the other, by reason of the variances and discords before men|tioned.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 Also it was decreed, that if anie action, sute or qua|rell chanced betwixt anie of the seruants or tenants of anie of the parties, for matter or title supposed to be had, occasioned or mooued before this time; that from thenceforth, none of the said parties should mainteine, support, or aid any of them that will so sue and mooue strife and debate: but should rather so deale, as the matter may be brought to peace and quietnesse.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 It was further awarded, that if anie man com|plained, pretended, or surmised, that this award was not kept, but in some point broken by anie of the par|ties, for the which breach he would haue a Scire facias, or some other action prosecuted in the kings name vpon anie recognisance made to the king for the per|formance of this award: yet should not the same Scire facias or action be prosecuted, till the kings councell might be throughlie certified of the matter by the complainant, and vpon consideration sée iust cause whie the same Scire facias, or action ought to be had and prosecuted in the kings name.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 And if anie variance rose betwixt the councell of both the parties in making of the recognisances, releases, acquittances, or other writings; the same variance should be determined by the two lords cheefe iustices, that should be fullie instructed of the kings intention in this behalfe.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 And besides this, it was notified and declared by the same award, that the parties being seuerallie bound in the Chancerie in great sums to obeie and performe this award, ordinance & iudgement made by the king; it was the kings will and pleasure, that the same recognisances should stand in force, and no parcels of the summes therein conteined to be par|doned in anie wise, without the agréement and con|sent of the partie, for whose assurance the same recog|nisance was taken.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 And if anie of the said summes, or anie parcell thereof should be recouered by action or execution ta|ken and prosecuted in the kings name, vpon anie of the said recognisances; the partie to whose hinderance the award was broken, should haue the one halfe of the monie so recouered; and the other moitie should be assigned to the treasuror of the kings house. ¶This ordinance, award and agréement, was giuen vp vn|der the kings great scale, at the kings palace of Westminster, the foure and twentith daie of March in the six and thirtith yeare of his reigne.