The Holinshed Texts (1587, Volume 6, p. 1145)

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.

being instructed of their hard estate by a baron named Ioannes Alasco, that was somtime in England, offring them large curte|sie. This puruison vnlooked for greatlie reuiued their heauie spirits. Yet considering they should remooue from manie their countriemen and acquaintance, to a place so farre distant, a countrie not haunted with the English, and perhaps vpon their arriuall not fin|ding as they looked for, the end of their iornie should be worse than the beginning:The dutchesse inuited into Poleland by the kings letters. they deuised therevpon with one maister Barlow, late bishop of Chichester, that if he would vouchsafe to take some paines ther|in, they would make him a fellow of that iournie. So finding him prone, they sent with him letters of great thanks to the king & Palatine,M. Barlow a messenger from the dut|chesse to the king of Pole. and also with a few principall iewels (which onlie they had left of manie) to solicit for them, that the king would vouchsafe vnder his seale, to assure them of the thing which he so honourablie by letters offered.

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.

Wherevpon a rumor was sparsed immediatlie through townes and villages about, that the Lant|graues capteine should be slaine by some Wallons, which incensed the ire of the countriemen there more fiercelie against maister Bertie, as afterwards it prooued. For as he was motioned by his wife to saue himselfe by the swiftnes of his horsse, and to recouer some towne thereby for his rescue, he so dooing was in worse case than before: for the townesmen and the capteines brother supposing no lesse but that the cap|teine had béene slaine,M. Bertie in great danger of his life. pressed so egerlie vpon him, that he had beene there taken and murthered among them, had not he (as God would) spieng a ladder lea|ning to a window, by the same got vp into the house, and so gone vp in to a garret in the top of the house, where he with his dag and rapier defended himselfe for a space: but at length the Burghmaister com|ming thither with another magistrate, which could speake Latine, he was counselled to submit himselfe vnto the order of the law. Maister Bertie knowing himselfe cléere, and the capteine to be aliue, was the more bolder to submit himselfe to the iudgement of the law, vpon condition that the magistrate would receiue him vnder safe conduct, and defend him from the rage of the multitude. Which being promised, maister Bertie putteth himselfe and his weapon in the magistrates hand, and so was committed to safe custodie, while the truth of his cause should be tried. Then master Bertie writing his letters to the Lant|graue and to the earle of Erbagh, the next daie erlie in the morning the earle of Erbagh dwelling within eight miles, came to the towne whither the dutchesse was brought with hir wagon, maister Bertie also being in the same towne vnder custodie.