Within few daies after, by master Perusels means, they hired a verie faire house in the towne, and did not let to shew themselues what they were, in such good sort as their present condition permitted. It was by this time through the whole towne what discourtesie the inholders had shewed vnto them at their entrie, in so much as on the sundaie following,The citizens of Wesell ad|monished by their preacher of their hard|nesse toward strangers. a preacher in the pulpit openlie in sharpe termes re|buked that great inciuilitie towards strangers; by allegation of sundrie places out of holie scriptures, discoursing how not onelie princes sometime are re|ceiued in the image of priuat persons, but angels in the shape of men, and that God of his iustice would make the strangers one day in an other land, to haue more sense of the afflicted heart of a stranger. The time was passing foorth,A fréendlie part of sir Iohn Mason towards the duchesse. as they thought themselues thus happilie setled, suddenlie a watchword came from sir Iohn Mason, then quéene Maries ambassa|dour in Netherland, that my lord Paget had fained EEBO page image 1145 an errant to the baths that waies:A traine laid for ye dutches by the lord Paget and the duke of Brunswicke. and whereas the duke of Brunswicke was shortlie with ten ensignes to passe by Wesell for the seruice of the house of Au|stricke against the French king, the said duchesse, and hir husband should be with the same charge and com|panie intercepted. Wherefore to preuent the crueltie of these enimies, master Bertie with his wife and child departed to a place called Winheim in high Dutchland vnder the Palsgraues dominion,M Bertie & the dutchesse remooue to Winheim vnder the Palsgraue. where vnder his protection they continued till their necessa|ries began to faile them, and they almost fainting vnder so heauie a burthen, began to faile of hope.
At what time,
in the middest of their despaire, there came suddenlie letters to them from the Palatine of Uilua and the
king of Pole,
The helping hand of the Lord againe in their neces|sitie.
Ioan. Alasco a meanes to the king of Pole for the duchesse of Suffolke.
The Palatine of Uilua a great friend of the dutchesThat sute by the forwardnes of the Palatine was as soone granted as vttered. Upon which assurance the said dutchesse and hir husband, with their familie, entred the iournie in Aprill 1557, from the castell of Winheim,The dutches taketh hir iournie to|ward Pole. where they before laie, towards Franc|ford. In the which their iournie, it were long here to describe what dangers fell by the waie vpon them, & their whole companie, by reason of the Lantgraues capteines,The troubles happening to the du [...]ches in hir iournie to Poleland. who vnder a quarrell pretensed for a spa|niell of maister Berties, set vpon them in the high waie, with his horssemen, thrusting their borespears through the wagon where the children and women were, maister Bertie hauing but foure horssemen with him. In the which brabble it happened the cap|teins horsse to be slaine vnder him.