Prognostica|tions of the cardinals ru|ine or fall.And now haue I occasion to declare what hap|pened about the same time, which peraduenture sig|nified the troubles following to the cardinall. The cardinall sitting at dinner vpon Alhallowes daie, hauing at his boords end diuerse chapleins sitting at dinner, yée shall vnderstand that the cardinals great crosse stood in a corner at the tables end, leaning a|gainst the hanging, and when the boords end was ta|ken vp, and a conuenient time for the chapleins to arise, one doctor Augustine a Uenecian, and physici|an to the cardinall, rising from the table with the o|ther, hauing vpon him a great gowne of boisterous veluet, ouerthrew the crosse, which trailing downe a|long the tappet, with the point of one of the crosses, brake doctor Bonars head that the bloud ran downe,Doctor Bo|nars head broken. the companie there standing greatlie astonied with the chance.

The cardinall perceiuing the same, demanded what the matter meant of their sudden amaze? And they shewed him of the fall of his crosse vpon doctor Bonars head. Hath it (quoth he) drawne anie bloud? Yea forsooth my lord (quoth they.) With that he cast his eies aside, & shaking his head, said Malum omen, & therewith saieng grace, rose from the table, & went to his chamber. Now marke the signification how the cardinall expounded this matter at Pomfret af|ter his fall. First, yée shall vnderstand,How the car|dinall expoun|ded the fall of his crosse. that the crosse which he bare as archbishop of Yorke, signified him|selfe; and Augustine the physician who ouerthrew the crosse, was onelie he that accused the cardinall, whereby his enimies caught an occasion to ouer|throw him: it fell vpon doctor Bonars head, who was maister of the cardinals faculties and spirituall iu|risdictions, and was then damnified by the ouerthrow of the crosse: yea, and more ouer, drawing bloud of him, betokened death, which shortlie after did insue.

About the time of this mischance, the same verie daie and season, maister Walsh tooke his horsse at the court as nigh as could be iudged. Now the appoin|ted time drew neere of his installation, and sitting at dinner vpon the fridaie next before the mondaie on the which daie he intended to be installed at Yorke, the earle of Northumberland and maister Walsh, with a great companie of gentlemen of the earles house, & of the countrie,The earle of Northumber|land aresteth the cardinall. whome he had gathered togi|ther in the kings name, came to the hall at Cawood, the officers being at dinner, and the cardinall not fullie dined, being then in his fruits. The first thing that the earle did after he had set order in the hall, he commanded the porter at the gates to deliuer him the keies thereof. Who would in no wise obeie his commandement, though he were roughlie threate|ned, and streictlie commanded in the kings name to make deliuerie of them to one of the earles ser|uants.