Albani fanum, Blorum, borealis & Ampton,
Banbrecum campis, Barnettum collibus hærens,
[25]Experrectorum pagus, fanúmq; secundò
Albani, propior Scoticis confinibus Exam,
Contiguóq; istis habitantes rure coloni,
Moerentes hodie, quoties proscindit arator
Arua propinqua locis dentale reuellere terra
Semisepulta virûm sulcis Cerealibus ossa:
Moesta execrantur planctu ciuile duellum,
Quo periere hominum plus centum millia cæsa,
Nobile Todcastrum clades accepta coegit
Millibus enectis ter denis nomen habere.
Vltima postremæ locus est Teuxburia pugnæ,
Oppidulis his accedens certissima testis,
Bello intestino fluuios fluxisse cruoris
[25] _Wakefield._
But now before we procéed anie further, sith the reigne of king Henrie
maie séeme here to take end, we will specifie some such learned men as
liued in his time. Iohn Leland, surnamed the elder (in respect of the
other Iohn Leland, that painefull antiquarie of our time) wrote diuerse
treatises, for the instruction of grammarians; Iohn Hainton, a Carmelit
or white frier (as they called them) of Lincolne; Robert Colman, a
Franciscane frier of Norwich, and chancellor of the vniuersitie of
Oxenford; William White a priest of Kent, professing the doctrine of
Wickliffe, and forsaking the order of the Romane church, married a
wife, but continued his office of preaching, till at length, in the
yeare 1428, he was apprehended, and by William bishop of Norwich, and
the doctors of the friers mendicants, charged with thirtie articles,
which he mainteined, contrarie to the doctrine of the Romane church,
and in September the same yeare suffered death by fire.
[Sidenote: Peter Basset wrote king Henrie the fift his life.]
Alexander Carpentar, a learned man, set foorth a booke called
Destructorium vitiorum, wherein he inueieth against the prelats of the
church of that time, for their crueltie vsed, in persecuting the poore
and godlie christians; Richard Kendall, an excellent grammarian; Iohn
Bate, warden of the white friers in Yorke, but borne in the borders of
Wales, an excellent philosopher, and a diuine, he was also séene in the
Gréeke toong, a thing rare in those daies; Peter Basset, esquier of
the priuie chamber to king Henrie the fift, whose life he wrote; Iohn
Pole a priest, that wrote the life of saint Walburgh, daughter to one
Richard, a noble man of this realme of England, which Walburgh (as he
affirmeth) builded our ladie church in Antwerpe; Thomas Ismaelit, a
monke of Sion; Walter Hilton, a Chartreaux monke also of Shiene, either
of those wrote certeine treatises full of superstition, as Iohn Bale
noteth.
[Sidenote: _Fabian and Caxton._]
Thomas Walden so called of the towne where he was borne, but his
fathers surname was Netter, a white frier of London, and the thrée
and twentith prouinciall gouernour of his order, a man vndoubtedlie
learned, and thoroughlie furnished with cunning of the schooles, but a
sore enimie to them that professed the doctrine of Wickliffe, writing
sundrie great volumes and treatises against them, he died at Rone in
Normandie, the second of Nouember, in the yeare one thousand foure
hundred and thirtie; Richard Ullerston, borne in Lancashire, wrote
diuerse treatises of diuinitie; Peter Clearke, a student in Oxenford,
and a defendor of Wickliffes doctrine, wherevpon when he feared
persecution here in England, he fled into Boheme, but yet at length he
was apprehended by the imperialists, and died for it, as some write,
but in what order, is not expressed.
Robert Hounslow, a religious man of an house in Hounslow beside London,
whereof he tooke his surname; Thomas Walsingham, borne in Norffolke,
in a towne there of the same name, but professed a monke in the abbeie
of saint Albons, a diligent historiographer; Iohn Tilneie, a white
frier of Yermouth, but a student in Cambridge, and prooued an excellent
diuine; Richard Fleming, a doctor of diuinitie in Oxenford, of whome
more at large before, pag. 169. Iohn Low borne in Worcestershire, an
Augustine frier, a doctor of diuinitie, and prouinciall in England of
his order, and by king Henrie the sixt, made first bishop of saint
Asaph, and after remooued from thense to Rochester; Thomas Ringsted the
yoonger, not the same that was bishop, but a doctor of the law, and
vicar of Mildenhall in Suffolke, a notable preacher, and wrote diuerse
treatises.
Iohn Felton, a doctor of diuinitie of Magdalen college in Oxenford;
Nicholas Botlesham, a Carmelit frier borne in Cambridgeshire, and
student first in the vniuersitie of Cambridge, and after in Paris,
where he procéeded doctor of diuinitie; Thomas Rudburne, a monke of
Winchester, and an historiographer; Iohn Holbrooke, borne in Surrie, a
great philosopher, and well séene in the mathematiks; Peter Paine, an
earnest professor of Wickliffes doctrine, and fearing persecution here
in England, fled into Boheme, where he remained in great estimation for
his great learning & no lesse wisedome; Nicholas Upton, a ciuilian,
wrote of heraldrie, of colours in armorie, and of the dutie of
chiualrie; William Beckeleie, a Carmelit frier of Sandwich, & warden
of the house there, a diuine, and professed degrée of schoole in
Cambridge; Iohn Torpe, a Carmelit frier of Norwich.
Iohn Capgraue borne in Kent, an Augustine frier, procéeded doctor of
diuinitie in Oxenford, was admitted prouinciall of his order, and
prooued (without controuersie) the best learned of anie of that order
of friers here in England, as Iohn Bale affirmeth, he wrote manie
notable volumes, and finallie departed this life at Lin in Norffolke,
the twelfth of August, in the yere 1464, which was in the fourth
yeare of king Edward the fourth; Humfrie duke of Glocester, earle of
Penbroke, and lord chamberlaine of England, also protector of the
realme, during the minoritie of his nephue king Henrie the sixt, was
both a great fauourer of learned men, and also verie well learned
himselfe, namelie in astrologie, whereof (beside other things) he wrote
a speciall treatise intituled, Tabula directionum.
Iohn Wethamsted, otherwise called Frumentarius, was abbat of saint
Albons, and highlie in fauor with the good duke of Glocester last
remembred, he wrote diuerse treatises, and among others, a booke as it
were of the records of things, chancing whilest he was abbat, which
booke I haue séene, and partlie in some parcell of this kings time
haue also followed; Roger Onleie, borne in the west countrie (as Bale
thinketh) was accused of treason, for practising with the ladie Eleanor
Cobham, by sorcerie to make the king awaie, and was thereof condemned,
and died for it, though he were innocent thereof, as some haue
thought, he wrote a treatise intituled, Contra vulgi superstitiones,
also another De sua innocentia; Nicholas Cantlow, a Welshman borne,
descended of an ancient familie in Southwales, as by Bale it should
appeare, he became a frier Carmelit in Bristow; Henrie Wichingham, a
Carmelit frier of Norwich, a notable diuine, a great preacher, and
wrote also sundrie treatises of diuinitie.
Iohn Lidgate, a monke of Burie, an excellent poet, and chiefe in
his time in that facultie, of all other that practised the same
within this land, he trauelled thorough France and Italie to learne
the languages and sciences, how greatlie he profited in atteining
to knowlege, the workes which he wrote doo sufficientlie testifie;
Nicholas Hostresham, an excellent physician; Iohn Blackeneie, a
religious man, of the order of the Trinitie intituled, De redemptione
captiuorum, and prior of an house of the same order, at Ingham in
Norffolke, he was surnamed Blackeneie, of the towne where he was borne;
Thomas Beckington, bishop of Bath, wrote against the law Salique, by
which law the Frenchmen would seclude the princes of this realme from
their title vnto the crowne of France; Iohn Baringham, a Carmelite
frier of Gippeswich in Suffolke; Dauid Bois, borne in Wales, and a
frier Carmelit, professed in Glocester, a doctor of diuinitie.
Iohn Brome, an Augustine frier; Michaell Trigurie, a Cornishman borne,
whome for his excellencie and learning, king Henrie the fift appointed
to be gouernour of that schoole or vniuersitie, which he instituted
in the citie of Caen in Normandie, after he had brought it vnder his
subiection; Iohn Amundisham, a moonke of saint Albons; Oswald Anglicus,
a moonke of the Chartreux order; Iohn Keningale, a Carmelit frier of
Norwich; Peter De sancta fide, a Carmelit also of Norwich; Reginald
Pecocke, bishop of Chichester, of whome ye haue heard before, he was
borne in Wales, and student in Oriall college in Oxenford, where he
procéeded doctor of diuinitie, he wrote manie treatises touching the
christian religion; Iohn surnamed Burie of the towne where he was
borne, an Augustine frier in the towne of Clare in Suffolke.
Robert Fleming, a man perfect in the Gréeke and Latine toong [among
whose works some haue béene séene vnder these titles: namelie,
Lucubrationum Tiburtinarm lib. 1. a dictionarie in Gréeke and Latine,
and a worke in verse of sundrie kinds, this man was of most fame in
the yeare of our Lord 1470, which was in the tenth yeare of Edward the
fourth, though he were not obscure also in the daies of this Henrie
the sixt;] Thomas Gascoigne, borne at Hunfléete in Yorkeshire, of that
worshipfull familie of the Gascoignes there, a doctor of diuinitie, and
chancellor of the vniuersitie of Oxenford; William Stapilhart, borne in
Kent, but by profession a white frier in London; Robert Fimingham borne
in Norffolke a Franciscan frier in Norwich; Nicholas Montacute, an
historiographer; Iohn Chandler, chancellor of Welles; William Botoner,
descended of a good house, a knight by degrée, and borne in Bristow,
verie studious in antiquities, and other sciences.
Iohn Stow, a monke of Norwich, but student in Oxenford, where he
procéeded doctor of diuinitie; Thomas Langleie, a monke of Hulme;
Nicholas Bungeie, borne in a towne of Norffolke of that name, wrote
an historie, called Adunationes chronicorum; Henrie Beauford bishop
of Winchester, base sonne to Iohn duke of Lancaster, of whome before
we haue made sufficient mention, made cardinall by pope Martine the
fourth, in the yeare 1426; Adam Homlington, a Carmelit frier; William
Coppinger, maister of the vniuersitie of Oxenford; Thomas Stacie,
an expert mathematician, and no lesse skilfull in astronomie; Iohn
Talaugerne, a moonke of Worcester; William Sutton, an astrologian;
Robert Balsacke, wrote a booke intituled De re militari, that is to
saie, of warre or chiualrie, so that (as is thought) he was both a good
souldier, and a painefull student of good letters.
Thomas Dando, a Carmelit frier of Marleburgh, he wrote the life of
Alphred king of west Saxons; William Graie, borne of the noble house
of the Graies of Codnor, he went to atteine to some excellencie
of learning in Italie, where he heard that noble clearke Guarinus
Veronensis read in Ferrara, he was preferred to the bishoprike of Elie,
in the yéere 1454, by pope Nicholas the fift, when Thomas Bourchier
was translated from thense to Canturburie; Iohn Kempe, archbishop of
Yorke, and after remooued from thense to Canturburie (as before ye haue
heard) he was made cardinall of S. Albin, by pope Eugenie the fourth;
Adam Molins (as Bale calleth him) kéeper of the kings priuie seale,
excellentlie learned, in time of the ciuill warre betwixt king Henrie,
and the duke of Yorke, in which he lost his head.
Thomas Chillenden, a doctor both of the law ciuill and canon, became
at length a moonke in Canturburie; Robert Bale, surnamed the elder,
excellentlie learned in the lawes of the realme, recorder of London,
gathered as it were a chronicle of the customes, lawes, foundations,
changes, restoring magistrats, offices, orders, and publike assemblies
of the citie of London, with other matters, touching the perfect
description of the same citie; he wrote other works also touching
the state of the same citie, and the acts of king Edward the third;
he departed this life in the yeare of our Lord 1461, euen about the
beginning of the reigne of king Edward the fourth, vnto whome we will
now againe returne.
Thus farre the tragicall historie of Henrie the sixt
depriued of his roialtie.
Transcriber's Notes:
Simple spelling, grammar, and typographical errors were
corrected.
Punctuation normalized.
Anachronistic and non-standard spellings retained as printed.
The author's usage of accents was inconsistent. Specifically
accented "ée" is far more prevalent than "ee" even for the same
word. Changed all instances of "ee" to "ée"
Italics markup is enclosed in _underscores_.
Page 271 Sidenote references the obviously incorrect year 1916.
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