Compare 1577 edition: 1 ¶Touching the manner of the dukes comming to the tower from Windsore, Abr. Fl. ex I. Stow. 1044. I find that it was on the fouretéenth of October in the after noone, at which time he was brought on horssebacke through Hol|burne, in at Newgate, and so to the tower of Lon|don, accompanied with diuerse lords and gentlemen with thrée hundred horsse: the lord maior,The lord pro|tectour com|mitted to the tower. sir Rafe Warren, sir Iohn Gresham, maister recorder, sir William Locke, and both the shiriffes, and other knights, sitting on their horsses against Soper lane, with all the officers with halberds, and from Hol|burne bridge to the tower, certeine aldermen or their deputies on horssebacke in euerie street, with a number of housholders standing with billes as he passed.] Shortlie after the lords resorted to the tower, and there charged the protector with sundrie articles, as followeth.
Compare 1577 edition: 121.1. Articles obiected against the lord protector.
Articles obiected against the lord protector.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 _IN primis, you tooke vpon you the office of a protector and gouernour, vpon condi|tion, expresselie and speciallie, that you would doo nothing in the kings affaires publikelie or priuatlie, but by the assent of the late kings executors.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 Also you, contrarie to the said condition, of your owne authoritie, did staie and let iustice, and subuerted the lawes, as well by your letters as by your commandements.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 3 Also you caused diuerse persons, being arested and imprisoned for treason, murther, manslaughter and felonie, to be discharged and set at large, against the kings lawes and statutes of this realme.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 4 Also you haue made and ordeined lieutenants for the kings armies, and other weightie affaires vn|der your owne writing and seale.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 5 Also you haue communed with the ambassa|dors of other realmes, discoursing alone with them in the weightie causes of this realme.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 6 Also you haue sometime rebuked, checked and tawnted, as well priuatlie as openlie, diuerse of the kings most honorable councellors, for shewing and declaring their aduises and opinions against your purposes in the kings weightie affaires, saieng som|times to them, that you néed not to open matters vnto them, and would therefore be otherwise adui|sed: and that you would, if they were not agréeable to your opinion, put them out, and take other at your pleasure.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 7 Also you had and held against the law in your owne house, a court of requests, and thereby did in|force diuerse the kings subiects to answer for their free holds and goods, and determined the same to the EEBO page image 1060 subuersion of the same lawes.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 8 Also you being no officer, without the aduise of the councell, or the more part of them, did dispose of the offices of the kings gift for monie, and granted leases and wards of the kings, and gaue presenta|tions to the kings benefices and bishopriks, hauing no authoritie so to doo. And further, you did meddle with the selling of the kings lands.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 9 Also you commanded multiplication and alcu|mistrie to be practised to abuse the kings coine.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 10 Also you caused a proclamation to be made concerning inclosures, whereby the common people haue made diuerse insurrections, and leuied open war, and distreined and spoiled diuerse of the kings subiects, which proclamation went foorth against the will of the whole councell.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 11 Also you haue caused a commission with cer|teine articles therevnto annexed, to be made out concerning inclosures of commons, high waies, de|caieng of cottages, and diuerse other things, giuing the commissioners authoritie to heare and deter|mine the same causes, to the subuersion of the laws and statutes of this realme: whereby much sedition, insurrection, and rebellion haue risen and growne a|mong the kings subiects.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 12 Also you haue suffered the rebels and traitors to assemble and to lie in campe and armor against the king, his nobles, and gentlemen, without anie spéedie subduing or repressing of them.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 13 Also you did comfort and incourage diuerse of the said rebels, by giuing of them diuerse sums of your owne monie, and by promising to diuerse of them, fées, rewards, and seruices.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 14 Also you in fauor of the said rebels did against the lawes cause a proclamation to be made, that none of the said rebels and traitors should be sued or vexed by anie person, for anie their offenses in the said rebellion, to the cleare subuersion of the same lawes.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 15 Also you haue said in time of the rebellion, that you liked well the dooings and proceedings of the said rebels and traitors, and said that the coue|tousnesse of the gentlemen gaue occasion to the common people to rise: saieng also, that better it is for the commons to die, than perish for lacke of li|uing.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 16 Also you said that the lords of the parlement were loth to incline themselues to reformation of in|closures and other things: therefore the people had good cause to reforme the things themselues.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 17 Also you after the report and declaration of the defaults and lacks reported to you by such as did sur|ueie Bullongne and the péeces there, would neuer amend the same defaults.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 18 Also you would not suffer the péeces beyond the seas, called Newhauen and Blacknesse, to be furnished with men and vittels; although you were aduertised of the defaults therein by the capteins of the same péeces and others, and were thereto aduer|tised by the kings councell: wherby the French king being the kings open enimie, was incouraged and comforted to win the said péeces, to the kings great losse, and dishonour of his realme.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 19 Also you declared and published vntrulie, as well to the kings maiestie, as other the yoong lords attendant vpon his graces person, that the lords of the councell at London minded to destroie the king, and you required the king neuer to forget it, but to reuenge it: and likewise you required the yoong lords to put the king in remembrance thereof, to the intent to make sedition & discord betwéene the king and his lords.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 20 Also where the kings maiesties priuie councell, of their loue and zeale that they did beare vnto the king and his realme, did consult at London to haue communed with you, to the intent to moue you chari|tablie to amend your dooings and misgouernement: you hearing of the said assemblie, did cause to be de|clared by letters in diuerse places the said lords to be high traitors to the king, to the great disturbance of the realme.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 And thus much for these troubles of the lord pro|tector, and articles against him obiected; to the end (as was doubted) that the same should haue cost him his life. But such was the pleasure of almightie God, disposing mens hearts as séemeth to him best, that at length, to wit, the sixt of Februarie next, he was de|liuered; and that night he supped at sir Iohn Yorks one of the shiriffes of London, also the proclamation before set foorth against him was reuoked & called in. And thus being againe restored, though not to his former office, yet vnto libertie, he continued therein for the space of two yeares and two daies, till new troubles (as after shall appeare) chanced to him, which as they were too heauie for him either to cast off, or carrie awaie; so were his loders more readie to ag|grauate his burthen, than willing to ease him anie waie of the weight. So that this his exaltation & rai|sing to dignitie, in respect of the short continuance thereof, as also for the enuie wherewith it was assai|led, had béene better not to haue happened, than with such infelicitie in so short a time to haue ended. But this fall from honor & aduancement with losse of life (than the which nothing more pretious, nothing more delicious) gréeued him the lesse: bicause he might perceiue (as some suspected) that rather of enuie than otherwise (reseruing the course of Gods iudgement and vengeance to the secrecie of his owne counsels) the same was deuised, prosecuted, & finallie practised:
Nam quo quisque magis pius est, studiosior aequi,Charior & regi, & quo quisque potentior extat,Sentiet à prauis se tanto odiosius iriDente Theonino rosum, quod fortè latenterFiet & occultè, linguae ne sentiatictumLaethalem, donec stamen trux Atropos occet,Et vi Parcarum coenum voluatur in imum.]