By saint Marie (quoth the bishop, smiling) you gesse shrewdlie. Well, procéed in your sute vnto the quéene, and it shall not lacke my helping hand. Ma|ster Bertie found so good successe, that he in few daies obteined the quéenes licence, not onlie to passe the seas, but to passe and repasse them so often as to him séemed good,Master Ber|tie licenced by the quéene to passe the seas. till he had finished all his businesse and causes beyond the seas. So he passed the seas at Douer about the beginning of Iune in the first yeare of hir reigne, leauing the duchesse behind, who by agréement and consent betwixt hir and hir hus|band, followed, taking barge at Lion keie,Preparation made how to conueie the duchesse ouer the seas. verie ear|lie in the morning, on the first daie of Ianuarie next insuing, not without some perill. There was none of those that went with hir, made priuie to hir going till the instant, but an old gentleman called master Robert Cranwell, whome master Bertie had speci|allie prouided for that purpose. She tooke with hir hir daughter an infant of one yeare,M. Cranwell a trusty frien [...] to master Bertie. and the meanest of hir seruants: for she doubted the best would not ad|uenture that fortune with hir. They were in number foure men, one a Gréeke borne, which was a rider of horsses, an other a ioiner, the third a brewer, the fourth a foole one of the kitchin, one gentlewoman, and a landresse.

As she departed hir house called the Barbican, betwixt foure and fiue of the clocke in the morning, with hir companie and baggage, one Atkinson an herald, kéeper of hir house,The duches [...] with hir com|panie depar|ted the realme. hearing noise about the house, rose and came foorth with a torch in his hand as she was yet issuing out of the gate: wherewith being amazed, she was forced to leaue a male with necessaries for hir yoong daughter, & a milkepot with milke in the same gatehouse, commanding all hir seruants to spéed them before awaie to Lion keie: and taking with hir onelie the two women and hir child, so soone as she was out of hir owne house,The maner o [...] the duchesse flieng out of hir house. per|ceiuing the herald to follow, she slept in at Garter|house hard by. The herald comming out of the du|chesse house, and séeing no bodie stirring, not assured (though by the male suspecting) that she was depar|ted, returned in: and while he staied ransacking par|cels left in the male, the duchesse issued into the stréet, and proceeded in hir iournie, he knowing the place onelie by name where she should take hir boat, but not the waie thither, nor none with hir. Likewise hir seruants hauing diuided themselues, none but one knew the waie to the said keie.

So she apparelled like a meane merchants wife, and the rest like meane seruants, walking in the stréets vnknown, she tooke the way that led to Fins|burie EEBO page image 1144 field, and the others walked the citie stréets as they laie open before them, till by chance more than discretion, they met all suddenlie together a lit|tle within Moore gate, from whence they passed di|rectlie to Lion keie,The duchesse with hir com|panie taketh [...]rge. and there tooke barge in a mor|ning so mistie, that the stearesman was loth to lanch out, but that they vrged him. So soone as the daie permitted, the councell was informed of hir depar|ture, and some of them came foorthwith to hir house to inquire of the maner thereof,Persute after the duchesse. and tooke an inuen|tarie of hir goods, besides further order deuised for search and watch to apprehend and staie hir. The same of hir departure reached to Leigh, a towne at the lands end, before hir approching thither. By Leigh dwelt one Gosling a merchant of London, an old ac|quaintance of Cranwels, whither the said Cranwell brought the duchesse, naming hir mistresse White, the daughter of master Gosling,The duchesse [...] in M. Goslings house by Leigh, vnder the name of h [...]s daughter. for such a daughter he had which neuer was in that countrie. There she reposed hir, and made new garments for hir daugh|ter, hauing lost hir owne in the male at Barbican.