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CHRONICLE    OF    CALAIS, 


REIGNS  OF  HENRY  VII.  AND  HENRY  VIII. 


TO  THE  YEAR  1540. 


EDITED 

FROM  MSS.  IN  THE  BRITISH  MUSEUM,  BY 

JOHN   GOUGH   NICHOLS,   RS.A. 


LONDON: 

PRINTED  FOR  THE  CAMDEN  SOCIETY, 
BY  J.  B.  NICHOLS  AND  SON,  25,  PARLIAMENT  STREET. 


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COUNCIL 

OF 

THE    CAMDEN    SOCIETY 

FOR    THE    YEAR    1845. 


President, 
THE  RIGHT  HON.  LORD  BRAYBROOKE,  F.S.A. 

THOMAS  AMYOT,  ESQ.  F.R.S.,  Treas.  S.A.  Director. 

JOHN  PAYNE  COLLIER,  ESQ.  F.S.A.  Treasurer. 

C.  PURTON  COOPER,  ESQ.  Q.C.,  D.C.L.,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 

BOLTON  CORNEY,  ESQ. 

T.  CROFTON  CROKER,  ESQ.  F.S.A.,  M.R.I.A. 

SIR  HENRY  ELLIS,  K.H.,  F.R.S.,  Sec.  S.A. 

THE  REV.  JOSEPH  HUNTER,  F.S.A. 

PETER  LEVESQUE,  ESQ.  F.S.A. 

SIR  FREDERIC  MADDEN,  K.H.,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 

THOMAS  JOSEPH  PETTIGREW,  ESQ.  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 

THOMAS  STAPLETON,  ESQ.  F.S.A. 

AVILLIAM  J.  THOMS,  ESQ.  F.S.A.,  Secretary. 

SIR  HARRY  VERNEY,  BART. 

ALBERT  WAY,  ESQ.  M.A.,  DIR.  S.A. 

THOMAS  WRIGHT,  ESQ.  M.A.,  F.S.A. 


The  Council  of  the  Camden  Society  desire  it  to  be  under- 
stood that  they  are  not  answerable  for  any  opinions  or  observa- 
tions that  may  appear  in  the  Society's  publications ;  the  Editors 
of  the  several  Works  being  alone  responsible  for  the  same. 


CONTENTS. 


PAGE 

Preface            .......  ix 

Biographical  notices  of  Richard  Turpyn  the  chronicler,  and  his  son 

Richard  Turpyn  the  herald,  victualler  of  Calais              .               .  xiii 

Historical  notices  of  Calais  in  the  hands  of  the  English                     .  xxiii 

Description  of  the  Cottonian  view  of  Calais            .               .               .  xxvi 

Description  of  the  Cottonian  map  of  Calais           .               .               .  xxviii 

Catalogue  of  Captains,  Lieutenants,  and  Deputies  of  Calais              .  xxxii 

Other  officers  of  Calais              .....  xxxix 

Historical  Commission  founded  at  Calais  in  1845               .               .  xli 
1485-1340.  The  Chronicle  of  Calais,  compiled  or  possessed 

by  Richard  Turpyn                .....  1 

1492.   Expenses  of  Henry  VII.  when  visiting  France         .               .  49 
1500.  The  Meeting  of  Henry  VII.  and  the    archduke  Philip,   at 

St.  Peter's  near  Calais                 ....  ib. 
1508.  Imprisonment  at  Calais  of  the  marquess  of  Dorset  and  lord 

William  of  Devonshire  .  .  .  .51 

Letter   of  Henry   VII.  to  sir  John  Wiltshire,  regarding  a 

proposed  visit  to  Calais  .  .  .  .52 

Preparations  for  the  proposed  marriage  of  the  princess  Mary 

to  Charles  prince  of  Castille      .  .  .  .54 

1511.  Lord  Darcy's  expedition  to  Portugal  .  .  .66 

Expedition  of  lord  Ponynges  to  Guelderland  .  .  ib. 

1512.  Commission  of  sir  Edward  Howard  as  lord  admiral  .  67 

1513.  The  campaign  of  Henry  VIII.  in  France  .  .  ib. 

Secret  history  of  Margaret  duchess  of  Savoy  and  Charles 

Brandon  duke  of  Suffolk  .  .  .  .68 

1515.    Marriage  of  the  princess  Mary  to  Louis  XII.  .  .  76 


CONTENTS. 


1520.  The  Field  of  Cloth  of  Gold 

Entertainment  of  three  French  gentlemen  in  London 

1521.  The  expenses  of  cardinal  Wolsey's  embassy 

1523.  Order   in   council  for  the  advance  of  2000/.  for  the   repa 
rations  of  Calais,  upon  credit  of  the  wools  there 

Bill  of  Browne  the  painter  for  Banners,  &c.  furnished  to  the 

duke  of  Suffolk  .... 

Knights  made  by  the  duke  of  Suffolk  in  France 

1.522.   Proclamation  for  the  victualling  of  Calais 

1527. for  the  encouragement  of  merchants 

1520  (?).   Letter   on  a  variance  between  the  two  jurisdictions  in 

Calais,  and  on  the  decay  of  the  town 
1527.  Proclamation  for  the  reparation  of  Calais 

Letter  of  Cardinal   Wolsey  to  the  ambassadors  in  France 

signifying  his  coming  on  a  special  ambassage 
1532.   Interview  of  Henry  VIII.  and  Francis  I. 

Expenses  of  the  king  when  at  Calais 

Knights  made  by  the  king  at  Calais 

1530  or  31.  Survey  of  dilapidations  at  Calais 

1532.  Device  for  the  fortification  of  Calais 

1535.  Letter  of  sir  William  Fitzwilliam  and  other  commissioner 
on  the  reformation  of  the  government  of  Calais    . 

Inquest  on  the  state  of  Calais 

1533.  Muster-roll  of  the  garrison  of  Calais 

Ordenances  for  watch  and  ward  * 

15 — .  Memorial  of  lord  Berners,  &c.   on  the   scarcity  of  fuel,  in 

consequence  of  the  French  cruisers 
1533.   Notice  of  the  will  of  lord  Berners,  deputy  of  Calais 


PAGE 

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90 
94 

98 

99 
100 
101 
102 

109 
1J2 

113 
116 
118 
122 
123 
125 

130 
133 
136 
140 

162 

164 


*  It  seems  not  improbable  that  this  was  the  book  "  Of  the  duties  of  the  inhabitants  of 
Calais,"  which  Bale  has  placed  in  his  list  of  works  of  John  Bourshier  lord  Berners,  but 
which  is  not  known  to  have  been  issued  in  a  printed  form  at  that  time.  There  is  also 
mentioned  in  the  same  list  "a  comedy  called  Ite  in  vineam,^''  of  whicli  Anthony  a 
Wood  says  (it  does  not  appear  from  what  source,)  that  it  was  "  usually  acted  in  the  great 
oliurch  of  Calais  after  vespers."     This  has  not  been  seen  by  any  recent  author. 


CONTENTS. 


1533. 

1535. 
1.536. 


15—. 
1540. 


1541. 
1.5—. 
1 5—. 

1.543. 


Kfturn  of  tlie  duke   of  Riclmiond  and  viwl  of  Surrey  froui 

France  .... 

Letter  of  bishop  Gardiner  to  lord  Lisle 
Election  of  burgesses  from  Calais  to  parliament 
Reception  of  the  lady  Anna  of  Cleves 
Imprisonment  of  sir  John  Butler,  pinest 
Letter  of  lord  Lisle   and   the  council  of  Calais  to  the  king 

respecting  victuals 
The  recall  of  lord  Lisle  from  Calais 
Visit  of  the  prince  of  Salerno  to  England 
Visit   of  the   marquess  of  Padula,  brother  to  the  duke   of 

Ferrara  .... 

Administration  of  lord  Maltravers  as  deputy 
Arrangements  made  for  the  demolition  of  Cowbridge,  at  th 
limits  of  the  English  pale 
Works  in  progress  at  Calais  and  Guisnes 
Documents  relating  to  the  castle  of  Guisnes 
Commission  of  sir  Robert  Jerningham  as  captain  of  Newn 

hambridge       .... 
Foray    into     the    French    country,    conducted  by  sir  John 

Wallop  .... 

Addenda  et  Corrigenda 


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165 
166 
167 
180 

181 
183 

188 

189 
190 

191 
197 
203 

208 

211 
214 


PREFACE. 


The  present  Volume  owes  its  existence  to  the  casual 
discovery,  among  the  transcripts  by  Stowe  in  the  British 
Museum,*  of  the  Chronicle  of  Calais,  formed,  or  at  least 
once  possessed,  by  Richard  Turpyn,  a  "  burgess  there." 
This  appeared  to  be  a  fragment  which,  in  a  brief  compass, 
contained  so  much  historical  information  previously 
unpublished,  that  I  was  desirous  to  recommend  it  to  the 
patronage  of  the  Camden  Society,  a  suggestion  which  at 
once  received  the  approval  of  the  Council. 

As  it  was  found,  on  a  further  search,  that  the  manu- 
script stores  of  the  British  Museum  contained  many 
other  papers  illustrative  of  the  events  commemorated  in 
Turpyn's  chronicle,  equally  unpublished,  it  was  then 
determined  to  extend  its  somewhat  scanty  dimensions  by 
appending  such  documents  as  might  contribute  to  eluci- 
date the  history  of  the  town  and  marches  of  Calais, 
during  the  same  period. 

Much  less  has  been  hitherto  published  on  the  history 
of  our  continental  Borders  than   on  the  history  of  our 

*   MS.  Harl.  542. 
CAMD.  SOC.  b 


PREFACE. 


Borders  next  Scotland  ;  although  the  latter  retained  their 
frontier  state  not  quite  half  a  century  later  than  the 
former.  Indeed,  with  the  exception  of  a  brief  memoir  in 
the  second  series  of  Sir  Henry  Ellis's  Original  Letters, 
the  present  Editor  is  not  aware  of  any  historical  notice  of 
Calais  whilst  in  the  possession  of  the  English.  It  is, 
therefore,  with  some  confidence  as  well  in  the  importance 
as  in  the  novelty  of  the  subject,  that  he  presents  this 
volume  to  the  members  of  the  Camden  Society. 

At  the  same  time  he  is  fully  conscious  that  a  collection 
of  this  extent  can  comprise  but  a  small  portion  of  what 
should  constitute  a  complete  History  of  the  English 
Border  towards  France :  a  work  more  suited  to  occupy 
several  future  volumes  of  the  Royal  publication  of  State 
Papers, — the  continuation  of  which,  in  the  substantial  and 
accurate  form  so  well  commenced  (with  reference  to  the 
affairs  of  Cardinal  Wolsey's  administration,  those  of  Scot- 
land, and  those  of  Ireland),  must  be  desired  by  every 
student  of  English  History. 

In  forming  the  present  series  of  papers,  the  Editor  soon 
found  that  it  was  necessary  to  assign  several  boundary- 
marks  within  which  it  should  be  confined.  It  w^ould  have 
been  easy  to  have  filled  several  such  volumes  with  the 
contemporary  letters  of  ambassadors  and  other  persons 
employed  either  in  a  diplomatic  or  military  capacity  in 
France.     The  documents  which  have  been  admitted  will 


PREFACE.  XI 


be  found  to  apply  either  to  the  same  occurrences  which 
are  noticed  in  Turpyn's  Chronicle,  or  immediately  to  the 
history  of  Calais,  and  both,  with  a  few  supplementary 
papers  of  the  latter  kind,  within  the  period  to  which  the 
chronicle  itself  belongs. 

It  is  remarkable  that  Turpyn's  Chronicle  extends  to  the 
same  year,  in  which  the  existing  register  of  the  Privy 
Council  for  the  reign  of  Henry  VIII.  commences,*  and 
from  that  source  the  subsequent  administration  of  Calais 
may  be  traced  with  some  minuteness,  and  dates  assigned 
to  other  existing  documents  with  far  less  difficulty  than 
the  Editor  has  experienced  in  the  present  work. 

In  like  manner,  considerable  materials  for  the  earlier 
history  of  Calais  may  be  gleaned  from  the  Rolls  of  Parlia- 
ment,'|~  which  terminate  in  the  year  1503.  Thus  the 
collection  made  in  these  pages  furnishes  the  memorials  of 
a  period  hitherto  less  provided  than  others. 

During  the  seventeen  years  which  elapsed  between 
the  year  1540  and  the  final  loss  of  Calais  by  the  English, 
there  are  large  materials  for  its  history  in  the  papers  of 
George  lord  Cobham,  who  was  deputy  of  the  town  and 
marches  from  1544  to  1550,  and  which  exist  among  the 
Harleian  MSS.  J  The  papers  of  one  of  his  predecessors,  lord 
Lisle,  which  were  seized  in  1540,  form  nineteen  volumes, 

*  See  Proceedings,  &c.  of  the  Privy  Council,  edited  by  Sir  N.  H.  Nicolas, 
vol.  vii.  p.  ii.  f  See  the  Index,  fol.  1832,  pp.  111—115. 

X  Nos.  283  and  284. 


PREFACE. 


which  are  preserved  in  the  State  Paper  Office,*  whilst  a  few 
of  them  are  scattered  in  the  volumes  of  Cottonian  MSS. 

There  is  one  year  of  the  period  included  in  the  present 
collection^  namely  that  of  King  Henry's  campaign  to  The- 
rouenne  and  Tournay,  the  documents  respecting  which 
have  been  altogether  reserved.  This  course  was  adopted,  at 
once  to  keep  the  volume  within  its  proposed  limits,  and  also 
in  consequence  of  the  existence  of  two  contemporary  jour- 
nals of  the  events  of  that  campaign,  which  it  was  thought 
might  hereafter  be  available  for  a  volume  correspondent 
to  the  present. 

A  single  exception  has  been  made,  in  favour  of  a  docu- 
ment of  a  very  remarkable  character,  belonging  indeed 
rather  to  private  than  public  history,  but  the  private  his- 
tory of  some  of  the  most  important  personages  of  their 
day.  To  this  has  been  applied  the  title  of  "  secret  history 
of  Margaret,  duchess  of  Savoy,  and  Charles  Brandon, 
duke  of  Suffolk ;"  for  secret  it  was  at  the  time,  and  secret 
it  has  remained,  until  its  present  development.-f- 

*  Some  interesting  extracts  from  the  Lisle  correspondence  have  been  re- 
cently made  by  Miss  M.  A.  E.  Wood,  now  Mrs.  Green,  in  her  valuable  collec- 
tion of  "  Letters  of  Royal  and  Illustrious  Ladies."  It  is  to  the  same  lady 
that  the  Editor  has  acknowledged  his  obligations  in  his  note  on  the  queen  of 
France's  marriage  to  the  duke  of  Suffolk,  in  p.  17. 

t  This  discovery  appeared  to  the  Editor  sufficiently  important  to  be 
brought  before  the  Historical  section  of  the  British  Archaeological  Institute 
on  its  congress  at  Winchester  in  the  year  1845  ;  and  he  had  then  the 
honour  of  reading  a  paper  on  the  subject  at  one  of  the  general  meetings 
held  in  St.  John's  rooms. 


^  PREFACE.  XIU 

My  attention  was  first  directed  to  the  mysterious 
and  enigmatical  nature  of  this  document  by  Mr.  E.  G. 
Ballard,  and  to  the  same  gentleman  I  have  to  acknow- 
ledge my  obligations  for  searching  out,  as  well  as  tran- 
scribing, most  of  the  other  materials  of  this  volume. 

I  shall  only  add,  in  this  place,  a  few  biographical 
notices  of  Richard  Turpyn,  the  supposed  author  of 
the  Chronicle  of  Calais. 

He  was  the  grandson  of  John  Turpyn,  whose  father 
Nicholas  was  of  Whitchester,  in  Northumberland ;  which 
John  by  marriage  with  Elizabeth  Kinnesman,  heiress  of 
the  Paynells  and  Gobions  of  Knaptoft  in  Leicestershire, 
became  possessed  of  that  manor,  and  left  issue  his  son 
and  heir  William  Turpyn  esquire,  who  died  Sept.  1,  1523. 
Richard  Turpyn,  of  Calais,  was  the  fifth  and  youngest 
son  of  William.* 

I  httle  suspected,  until  some  time  after  this  volume  had 
been  in  the  press,  that  Turpyn's  Chronicle  had  already 
placed  his  name  in  the  memorials  of  Bale,-)-  and  all  the 

*  Pedigree  in  Nichols's  Leicestershire,  iv.  225,  as  corrected  by  Mr. 
Townsend  (see  note  in  p.  xvi.  hereafter). 

t  "  Ricardus  Tui'pyn,  ex  honesta  quadam  Anglorum  familia  natus,  et 
Caleti  sub  rege  Henrico  octavo  miUtiam  exercens,  Anglice  congessit  Sui 
temporis  Chronicon,  Lib.  i.  obiitque  Caleti  circa  annum  a  Christi  nativitate 
1541,  in  D.  Nicolai  templo  illic  sepultus."  Balaei  Scriptores,  fol.  Basil. 
1359,  part  ii.  p.  103.  (In  the  Hist,  of  Leicestershire,  iv.  217,  the  hke 
reference  is  erroneously  made  to  Pitsaeus,  who  does  not  notice  Turpyn.) 


xiv  PREFACE 

sequel  of  literary  biographers.*  Such,  however,  proves  to 
be  the  case ;  though  we  collect  but  Httle  from  them  all. 
Anthony  a  Wood  claims  him  as  a  scholar  of  Oxford,  but 
adds  that  he  was  taken  thence  before  he  was  honoured 
with  a  degree. 

In  the  line  written  at  the  head  of  his  chronicle,  (p.  1,) 
Turpyn  is  styled  a  burgess  of  Calais.  In  the  list  of  the 
garrison  made  in  1533,  his  name  appears  as  one  of  the 
constabulary,  whose  duties  in  the  watch  and  ward  of  the 
town  are  detailed  in  one  of  the  documents  in  the  Appendix. 

*  Fuller's  account  of  Turpyn,  in  his  "  Worthies  of  England,"  under 
Leicestershire,  is  as  follows :  "  Richard  Turpin  was  born  at  Knaptoft  in 
this  county,  very  lately  (if  not  still)  in  the  possession  of  that  antient  fa- 
mily, and  was  one  of  the  gentlemen  of  the  English  garrison  of  Calis  in 
France  in  the  reign  of  king  Henry  the  Eighth.  Such  soldiers  generally  in 
time  of  war  had  too  much,  in  time  of  peace  too  little  work,  to  employ 
themselves  therein.  Commendable  therefore  the  industry  of  this  Richard, 
who  spent  his  spare  hours  in  writing  of  a  Chronicle  of  his  Time.  He  dyed 
anno  Domini  1541,  in  the  thirty-fifth  year  of  the  aforesaid  king's  reign. 
(Weever's  Funerall  Monuments,  p.  682.)  This  I  observe  the  rather,  that 
the  reader  may  not  run  with  me  on  the  rock  of  the  same  mistake,  who  in 
my  apprehension  confounded  him  with  Richard  Turpin  the  herauld,  first 
Blewmantle  and  then  created  Windsor,  in  the  beginning  of  Queen  Eliza- 
beth." The  reference  to  Weever  is  misplaced,  as  it  did  not  belong  (as  was 
not  unnaturally  imagined  by  the  printer)  to  the  record  of  Turpyn's  death, 
but  to  the  catalogue  of  the  Heralds  which  Weever  has  given  in  his  work. 
The  error  of  the  "  thirty^^A  year "  was  made  by  miscopying  Burton 
(History  of  Leicestershire),  who  has  it  consistently,  if  not  correctly, 
"  1541.  33  Hen.  VHL" 


PREFACE.  XV 

His  pay  in  this  capacity  was  eightpence  a  day.  His 
death  is  generally  stated  to  have  occurred  in  or  about 
1541,*  when  his  body  was  interred  in  the  church  of  St. 
Nicholas  at  Calais ;  but  another  authority  places  it  in 
1545.f 

According  to  that  statement,  Richard  Turpyn  the 
chronicler  was  born  in  1506,  and  died  in  1545.  In  such 
case  he  was  only  thirty-nine  years  of  age  at  the  time  of 
his  death,  and  not  more  than  thirty-four  at  the  period 
when  his  chronicle  ceases.  These  dates  would  tend  to 
invalidate  his  claim  to  be  considered  as  the  author  of  the 
Chronicle  ;  for  it  will  be  remarked  that  within  a  very  few 
years  of  the  time  thus  determined  for  his  birth,  its  me- 
morials are  very  minute  and  particular,  and  must  have 
been  made  by  some  person  of  competent  age  and  know- 
ledge. If  Richard  Turpyn  was  both  born  in  1506,  and 
was  really  the  compiler  of  the  chronicle,  he  must  have 
been  indebted  for  its  early  portions,  at  least,  to  the 
memoranda  of  a  former  writer,  or  possibly  he  may  have 
derived  his  information  from  some  of  the  official  records 
of  the  town. 

*  This  date  is  not  to  be  depended  upon  :  for  Bale  (as  quoted  in  a  pre- 
vious note)  says  only  "  circa  annum  1341,"  which  may  have  been  merely  a 
guess  formed  from  the  period  at  which  the  chronicle  terminates.  I  have 
searched  the  register  of  the  prerogative  court  of  Canterbury  for  Turpyn's 
will  in  vain. 

f    Pedigree,  ut  supra. 


XVl  PKEFACK. 

He  introduced  into  employment  at  Calais  a  second 
Richard  Turpyn,  who  was  afterwards  a  member  of  the 
College  of  Arms.  In  the  family  pedigree  the  herald  has 
been  placed  as  nephew  of  the  chronicler,  and  as  a  younger 
son  of  John  Turpyn  of  Knaptoft  ;*  but  another  authority^- 

*  In  the  copy  of  Nichols's  Leicestershire  in  the  College  of  Arms,  the 
late  Francis  Townsend,  esq.  Windsor  herald,  has  drawn  his  pen  through 
the  name  of  Richard  Turpyn  the  herald,  thus  apparently  adopting  the  state- 
ment of  Le  Neve  mentioned  in  the  next  page.  Mr.  Townsend  has  also  in 
the  same  place  made  the  following  corrections  :  £or  sir  William  Turpin,  died 
1525,  read  William  Turpyn  esquire,  died  1523;  the  death  of  John,  for  "June 
18,  1530,"  in  1528-9  (without  altering  the  month) ;  his  son  William,  born 
Sept.  30,  1527,  not  Sept.  1,  1529  ;  the  effects  of  George  were  administered  to 
by  his  widow,  Frances,  17  Aug.  1583.  To  these  memoranda  it  may  be  added 
that  the  will  of  William  Turpyn,  1584,  is  recorded  in  the  Prerogative  Court 
of  Canterbury,  in  8  Wathan,  and  that  of  John,  1582,  in  29  Rawe.  The 
main  authority  for  the  Turpyn  pedigree  is  not  the  Leicestershire  Visitation 
of  1619,  but  Vincent's  Leicester,  217.  In  2  H.  5  (Coll.  Arm.)  f.  94  b.  is 
the  following  record  of  a  crest  granted  to  the  family :  "The  armes  and 
crest  of  George  Turpyn  of  Knaptoft,  in  the  countye  of  Leycester, 
esquyer  :  he  bereth  geules,  on  a  bende  silver  thre  lyon's  heddes  rasy  sable, 
langued  and  oreilled  geules  ;  upon  his  helme  on  a  torse  asure  and  golde,  A 
grype  standyng  ung  pie  levant  golde,  the  forparte  dropped  geules,  beked 
and  armed  sable,  manteled  geules,  dobled  silver :  yeven  the  said  crest  by 
me,  Thomas  Hawley,  alias  Clarencieulx,  the  first  daye  of  Aprill,  in  the 
vjth  yere  of  the  reigne  of  owr  soverayne  lorde  kyng  Edward  the  syxte." 
There  were  two  marriages  between  the  family  of  Turpyn  and  that  of 
Docwra,  the  lord  prior  of  St.  John's  (often  mentioned  in  the  present  volume), 
the  particulars  of  which  will  be  found  in  Collectanea  Topogr.  et  Genea- 
logica,  1840,  vol.  vi.  p.  90. 

-j-  Memorandum  in  Anstis's  MS.  Lives  of  the  Heralds,  in  the  College  of 
Arms,  vol.  ii.  p.  628.  verso. 


PREFACE. 


declares  him  to  have  been  still  more  nearly  related  to  the 
former.  "  He  was  son  of  Richard  Turpyn,  burgess  of 
Calis,  gent,  by  Margaret,  daughter  of  John  de  Mount,  de 
Guisnes.     (MS.  penes  P.  le  Neve,  Norroy.)" 

The  second  Richard  Turpyn  was,  at  the  time  of  the  sur- 
render of  Calais  in  1558,  clerk  of  the  victuals  there,  at  the 
salary  of  40/.  per  ann.;  together  with  which  office  he  lost 
lands  worth  100  marks  a-year,  and  goods  estimated  at 
more  than  2000/.  He  was  also  a  pursuivant  by  the  name 
of  Hampnes.* 

After  his  return  to  England,  he  was  created  Bluemantle 
pursuivant  Dec.  21,  1560,  and  his  patent  was  dated  on 
the  22d  of  the  following  month.'f-  In  1562  he  went  with 
Ambrose  earl  of  Warwick  to  Newhaven  (now  Havre)  in 
Normandy,  then  lately  occupied  by  the  English,  with 
the  consent  of  the  chiefs  of  the  Huguenots.  The  earl 
landed  there  on  the  29th  of  October,  and  on  the  last 
day  of  that  month  Bluemantle  proclaimed  in  that  town 
the  earl's  commission,  in  Latin,  English,  and  French. 
After  a  protracted  siege,  the  place  was  evacuated  by 
the  English  in  the  following  July,  chiefly  in  consequence 
of  the  fatality  produced  by  the  plague ;  and  a  narrative 
of  the  expedition  was  written  by  the  pursuivant,  which 

*  Mark  Noble  (History  of  the  College  of  Arms)  says  he  was  so  created 
"  at  his  return,"  adding,  with  his  usual  blundering,  that  "  he  continued  in 
that  office  during  the  reigns  of  Edward  VI.  and  Mary." 

t  It  is  printed  in  Rymer,  xv.  566. 
CAMD.  SOC.  C 


XVm  PREFACE. 

was  in  the  possession  of  Garter  Anstis.  This  was  not  the 
only  occasion  on  which  Turpyn  was  employed  upon  the 
continent,  for  a  few  years  after  we  find  him  representing 
that  there  had  scarcely  been  any  service  beyond  the  seas 
for  twenty-four  years  in  which  he  had  not  borne  a  part. 

By  patent  dated  the  25th  Jan.  1565,  he  was  promoted 
to  be  Windsor  herald,  and  so  created  on  Maundy  Thursday 
the  19th  of  April  following.  Some  years  after,  being  in 
pecuniary  difficulties,  he  was  suspended  from  receiving 
the  profits  of  his  office  because  he  owed  certain  sums  to 
his  successor  Bluemantle  and  to  York  herald,  but  he  was 
restored  by  the  Earl  Marshal  on  the  19th  July,  1570, 
having  previously  presented  the  following  petition  to  his 
grace, — how  long  before  does  not  appear,  for  it  is  un- 
dated : 

To  the  right  honorable  the  duke  of  Norffolkes  grace. 

Shevveth  unto  your  good  grace  your  poor  oratour  Richard 
Turpyn,  alias  Wyndsor  heraulde  of  arms,  so  it  is,  gracious 
honorable  lord.  That,  whereas  your  saide  oratour  was  a  pursuyvant 
of  armes  in  Caleys,  at  the  losse  therof,  and  there  dwelled  and 
inhabyted,  his  wages  beinge  ther  above  xU'.  by  the  yere,  and 
his  londes  above  c.  markes  by  the  yere,  as  also  his  goods,  plate, 
and  moveables,  and  others  esteemed  above  and  better  than  uhi^li. 
so  that  by  mysfortune  of  the  saide  losse  of  Caleys  [he]  was  spoyled 
of  londes,  goodes,  and  wages,  as  also  havinge  ther  another  ofFyce  of 
the  Queues  Majestie  called  by  the  name  of  Clarke  of  the  Victuals, 
and  their  havinge   the  victuallinge,  lodginge  of  all  the  workemen 


PREFACE.  X4X 

and  laborers,  and  also  for  alle  other  such  necessaries  as  to  them 
belongeth,  your  saide  supplyaiint  upon  his  credyt  the  bakers, 
brewers,  bowchers,  victuallers,  drapers,  shoemakers,  with  all  others 
the  said  victuallers  before  specifyed,  at  all  tymes  did  delyver  all 
such  kyndes  as  was  neadefull  for  them  to  be  had  upon  your  saide 
oratour  his  warraunt,  payenge  to  the  sayd  victuallers  from  paie  to 
paie  that  was  made  ther  by  the  quenes  majestic  their  saide  sommes 
of  money  as  was  growenge  to  them  by  the  saide  workmen  and 
laborers,  as  the  right  worshippfull  sir  Thomas  Cornwaleys  knight, 
then  being  threasourer  in  Caleys,  can  testifye  unto  your  good 
grace,  as  also  of  my  honestye  and  good  behavour;  wherupon, 
most  gratious  lord,  the  saide  victuallers  before  specified  did  delyver 
upon  your  saide  oratour  his  warrants  and  bylls  to  the  somme  of 
iiij  c.  L..li.  or  thereabouts.  So  now,  most  honourable  lord,  by 
reason  of  the  saide  towne  of  Caleys  was  lost  and  taken  by  th'enne- 
mie,  and  ther  I  being  spoyled  and  dystressed  of  all  my  goodes, 
londes,  and  wages,  at  my  retorne  into  Englande  shortely  after,  the 
said  bakers,  brewers,  bouchers,  drapers,  with  others,  dyd  vexe  and 
troble  your  sayde  poor  supplyaunt  for  the  paymenttes  of  the  saide 
some  before  specifyed  :  wherupon  your  oratour  was  dryven  to  make 
shyft  and  borrow  of  dyvers  and  sondrie  persons,  of  some  of  them 
vli.,  and  of  other  xli.,^T\d  some  more  and  some  les,  for  the  pay- 
ment of  the  saide  sommes  of  money  before  wrytten ;  all  which 
sommes  of  money  was  dew  to  the  saide  victuallers  by  the  quenes 
majestic,  howbeit  untyll  this  daie  the  poor  souldyours,  victuallers, 
workmen,  nor  laborers  are  nothing  paide  of  their  wages  and  dewties, 
so  that  by  that  meanes  your  saide  poore  oratour  was  dryven  from 
tyme  to  tyme  here  in  London  to  make  shyft  to  paie  and  satisfie 
the  saide  sommes  above  specifyed ;  so  that,  most  honorable  lord. 


XX  PREFACE. 

by  that  meanes  now  at  this  present  1  am  greatly  indebted,  to  ray 
utter  undoyenge,  oneles  that  your  honorable  lordshipp  wyll  and 
comaunde  my  company  the  kings  andheraulds  of  amies  that  I  may 
enjoie  all  such  larges,  comodities,  and  proffyts  as  shall  growe  to  me 
by  vertue  of  my  saide  offyce,  I  beinge  an  herauld  of  armes,  seinge 
that  I  have  not  offended  the  prince,  nor  no  part  of  your  grace's 
comandements  and  decrees  set  forth  by  your  grace,  nor  being  no 
droncard,  dycer,  nor  carder,  no  ruffyan,  nor  no  spot  of  vylonny. 
I  trust  none  of  my  companye  can  stayne  me.  Howbeit  certain  of 
my  company  hath  dysbarred  me  of  all  my  droytes  and  comodytees 
dew  to  me  by  my  sayde  servyce,  which  I  have  served  by  the  space 
of  this  xx^i  yeres  in  my  saide  call,  and  hath  not  received  one  penny 
out  of  the  saide  ofFyce  syns  the  first  of  Aprill  last  past,  so  that, 
most  honorable  Lord,  I  have  ben  fayne  to  laye  to  gage  all  my 
rayment  and  my  wyffes,  with  all  suche  poore  stuff  as  I  had. 
Furthermore  I  have  served  as  paynfuUy  and  as  daungerously  as 
ony  in  the  sayde  offyce  hath  done,  for  ther  hath  ben  no  service  thes 
xxiiijt'  yeres  past  done  beyonde  the  seas  but  lyghtly  I  have 
been  at  them,  and  I  trust  I  am  as  well  able  to  serve  as  any 
other  are  in  the  sayde  offyce,  and  that  wyll  I  stande  to  their 
judgementts,  as  also  my  good  lord  of  Warwycke  wyll  testifie, 
with  others,  of  my  honest  and  paynfull  service  lately  done  with 
the  sayde  lord  of  Warwyck  in  Newhaven  in  Normandye,  when 
ther  I  served  under  his  lordship.  Therefore,  honorable  lord,  for 
so  moche  as  I  have  loste  all  my  londes  and  goodes  which  I  was 
well  able  to  lyve  in  Caleys  before  the  losse  thereof,  and  now  a 
poore  man,  and  not  able  to  lyve  oneless  your  good  lordship  do 
comaunde  the  saide  companye  the  kings  and  heraulds  of  arms  that 
I  may  receive  all  suche  dewties  and  droicts  as  shall  growe,  with 


PREFACE.  XXI 

all  other  comodities,  as  all  other  the  heraulds  hathe,  and  so  by 
that  means  I  trust  in  God,  with  your  good  lordship's  favour, 
shortely  to  come  to  some  end  with  my  credytors,  that  I  am 
indebted  unto,  and  to  be  at  lyberty,  and  so  yerely  to  paye  unto 
them  a  portition  of  my  saide  proffitts,  as  shall  growe  unto  me. 
And  your  saide  poore  oratour,  accordinge  to  his  bounden  dewtie, 
shall  dayly  praye  to  God  for  your  noble  grace  in  moche  felicitie, 
with  th'increase  of  the  same,  long  to  contenewe. 

Richard  Turpyn,  Windsor  herald,  died  on  the  1 7th  of 
October,  1581.  He  was,  says  Anstis,  "an  officer  of  great 
industry,  as  will  appear  from  his  MSS.  relating  mostly  to 
armory,  now  in  the  collector's  keeping."  * 

In  conclusion,  I  would  remind  the  members  of  the 
Camden  Society  that  this  is  the  second  time  that  we 
have  been  indebted  for  the  preservation  and  use  of 
historical  works  to  the  zeal  and  industry  of  "honest 
John  Stowe."  In  the  present  instance,  as  in  that  of 
"The  Historic  of  the  Arrivall  and  Restoration  of  King 
Edward  IV.,"  with  which  the  series  of  this  Society 
was  commenced,  his  transcripts  have  at  last,  after  the 
lapse  of  more  than  two  centuries,  conducted  works  to  the 
press,  of  which  the  original  manuscripts  are  now  lost  or 
unknown. 

*  The  above  document  I  have  been  allowed  to  ti-anscribe  from  Anstis's 
collections  for  the  history  of  the  officers  of  arms,  lately  belonging  to  Sir 
George  Nayler,  and  now  in  the  library  of  the  College  of  Arms.  Anstis's 
manuscripts  were  dispersed  after  his  death,  and  I  am  not  aware  where  those 

of  Turpyn  above  mentioned  are  now  preserved. 


XXll  PREFACE. 

To  have  obtained  Richard  Turpyn's  own  copy  of  the 
Chronicle  of  Calais  would  certainly  have  been  more  satis- 
factory, inasmuch  as  Stowe  with  all  his  merits  was  no 
great  scholar,  nor,  whether  from  want  of  care  on  his 
own  part,  or  on  that  of  his  printers,  do  we  find  that  he 
edited  with  perfect  accuracy.  Passages  from  Turj^yn's 
chronicle  are  to  be  found  interweaved  in  that  of  Stowe, 
and  in  three  places  "  Richard  Turpin  "  is  quoted  in  his 
margin,  aIz.  in  May  1514,  July  1520,  and  in  152/  for 
Wolsey's  embassy.  Under  the  year  1532  he  has  given 
the  same  list  of  names  as  in  this  volume,  p.  42,  but  with 
several  errors.  The  name  of  Donne  is  misprinted  Deane, 
Semer  is  misprinted  Femer,  and  Markam  misprinted 
Marleant.  I  suspect  further  that,  in  the  same  place, 
Stowe  transcribed  "  Sir  John  Page  "  for  Sir  John  Gage, 
K.G.  and  "  Sir  Edward  Santener  "  for  Santmer  or  Sey- 
mour, afterwards  the  Duke  of  Somerset  and  protector.* 
Such  instances  of  inaccuracy  in  our  standard  works  con- 
tribute to  justify  that  recurrence  to  original  authorities 
which  it  is  the  practice  of  the  Camden  Society  to  adopt 
and  recommend. 

*   So  in  p.  8  Dicky   for  Digby  :  and  in  p.  48  he  has  written  "  his  "  for 
"her;"  see  note,  p.  187. 


CALAIS  IN  THE  HANDS  OF  THE  ENGLISH. 

From  the  time  that  the  town  of  Calais  was  surrendered  to  King  Edward 
the  Third  in  1347,  in  the  manner  so  picturesquely  described  by  Froissart, 
it  remained  for  two  hundred  and  eleven  years  in  most  respects  an  English 
colony.  The  poorer  inhabitants,  to  the  number  of  more  than  seventeen 
hundred,  had  been  sent  away  during  the  siege,  *  and  never  returned,  finding 
refuge  chiefly  at  St.  Omer's. 

When  the  conqueror  commissioned  sir  Walter  de  Manny  and  his  two 
marshals,  the  earl  of  Warwick  and  the  earl  of  Stafford,  to  take  possession 
of  the  town,  he  said,  "  Sirs,  take  here  the  kayes  of  the  towne  and  castell  of 
Calys ;  go  and  take  possessyon  there,  and  putte  in  prison  all  the  knyhts 
that  be  there  ;  and  all  other  soudyours  that  came  thyder  symply  to  wynne 
their  ly veng,  cause  theym  to  avoyde  the  towne,  and  also  all  other  men , 
women,  and  chyldren  ;  for  I  wolde  re-people  agayne  the  towne  with  pure 
Englysshemen.f "  This  plan  Froissart  says  was  fulfilled.  "  They  made  all 
maner  of  people  to  voyde,  and  kept  there  no  mo  persons  but  a  preest  and 
two  other  auncyent  personages,  such  as  knewe  the  customes,  lawes,  and  ordy- 
naunces  of  the  towne,  and  to  signe  out  the  herytages  howe  they  were  de- 
vyded."  "  The  kynge  sent  from  London  xxxvj  burgesses  to  Calays,  who  were 
ryche  and  sage,  and  their  wyves  and  chyldren,  and  dayly  encreased  the 
nombre,  for  the  kynge  graunted  them  such  liberties  and  franchysses  that  men 
were  gladde  to  go  and  dwell  there." 

*  The  names  of  the  commanders  and  knights  in  the  army  of  Edward  the  Third,  at  the 
time  of  his  winning  of  Calais,  with  the  amount  of  their  respective  retinues,  and  their  ar- 
morial bearings,  form  the  second  part  of  the  volume  entitled,  "  Nomina  et  Insignia  Gen- 
tilitia  Nobilium  Equitumque  sub  Edwardo  primo  rege  militantium.  Accedunt  classes 
exercitus  Edwardi  tertii  regis  Caletem  obsidentis.  Edidit  Edwardus  Rowe  Mores,  1748." 
The  same  roll  occurs  in  manuscript  in  MS.  Harl.  246,  MS.  Harl.  782,  and  MS.  Cotton. 
Titus,  F.  HI.  p.  262. 

In  the  Gentleman's  Magazine  for  Oct.  1837,  is  "  A  brief  memoir  of  the  Campaigns  of 
Edward  the  Third,  in  the  years  1315,  1316,  and  1347,  ending  with  the  surrender  of 
Calais  ;  with  a  Defence  or  Apology  of  Edward,  as  to  his  conduct  to  Eustace  de  St.  Pierre 
and  the  other  Burgesses  on  the  Surrender  of  that  Fortress  :"  by  Christopher  Godmond,  Esq. 
the  author  of  a  drama  entitled   "  The  Campaign  of  1346,"  8vo.  1836. 

f  Froissart,  in  liovd  Berners'  translation. 


/ 


XXIV  CALAIS   IN  THE  HANDS   OF   THE  ENGLISH. 

It  was  not,  however,  until  the  last  year  of  his  reign  that  the  style  of  the 
governing  body  was  altered  to  the  London  type  of  a  mayor  and  aldermen. 
By  an  old  charter  of  Maud  countess  of  Artois  the  community  consisted  of 
a  bailiff,  eskivyns  or  echevins,  and  cornemans  ;  the  new  municipality  of  a 
mayor  and  twelve  aldermen  was  settled  by  act  of  parliament  passed  in  the 
50  Edw.  III.  1377.*  The  staple  of  wool,  which  was  also  a  corporation 
presided  over  by  a  mayor,  was  fixed  at  Calais  in  1362.  The  mayor  of  the 
staple,  when  the  captain  made  any  expedition,  kept  watch  in  the  town  with 
one  hundred  billmen  (gleyves )  and  two  hundred  archers,  of  the  merchants 
y    and  their  servants,  taking  no  wages  of  the  king,  f 

No  attempt  will  be  here  made  to  trace  the  history  of  Calais  \  during  the 
first  century  and  a  half  of  the  English  occupation,  for  such  an  undertaking 
(as  already  remarked  in  the  Preface)  is  beyond  the  design  of  this  volume. 
Without  entering  into  particulars,  it  is  obvious  that  the  possession  of  a  town 
and  port  on  the  continent,  situated  at  its  nearest  point  to  the  English  coast, 
and  which  afforded  undisputed  facilities  for  the  debarcation  and  marshalling 
of  troops,  was  of  the  first  importance  in  military  affairs ;  and  that  no 
charges  would  be  spared  that  could  tend  to  its  defence  and  preservation. 
In  2  Ric.  II.  the  annual  expenditure  of  the  crown  for  this  purpose  ex- 
ceeded 24,000/,§  It  was  not  less  regarded  in  subsequent  reigns ;  and 
though  several  documents  in  the  present  volume  speak  of  disorder  and 
decay,  yet  there  are  others  which  shew  the  vigorous  efforts  which  were 
made  for  the  reformation  of  abuses  and  the  repair  of  all  deficiencies.  The 
report  of  the  Venetian  ambassador  Michele,  made  to  the  senate  of  Venice 


*  Rot.  Pari.  vol.  ii.  pp.  358,  359, 

t  Ibid.  p.  358. 

X  There  are  two  French  works  on  the  history  of  the  town,  viz.  "  Les  Annales  de  la 
Ville  de  Calais  et  du  pays  reconquis,  par  P.  Bernard.  Saint  Omer,  1715,"  4to.  ;  and 
"  Histoire  de  la  Ville  de  Calais  et  du  Calaisis,  par  le  Febvre.  Paris,  1768."  2  vols.  4to.  ;  — 
neither  of  which,  strange  to  say,  has  the  Editor  been  able  to  find  in  the  public  libraries  of 
London.  The  extent  of  the  disadvantages  under  which  he  may  thus  labour  in  writing 
these  preliminary  observations  he  is  of  course  unable  to  estimate  ;  but  it  is  most  probable 
that  little,  if  any,  of  the  subsequent  contents  of  this  volume  have  been  anticipated.  The 
works  of  Bernard  and  Le  Febvre  are  not  mentioned  in  M.  Legros-Devofs  recent  report 
on  the  historical  records  of  the  town  (hereafter  noticed). 

§  Speech  of  sir  Richard  PEscrope  on  opening  the  parliament.    Rot.  Pari.  vol.  iii.  p.  346. 


y 


CALAIS  IN  THE  HANDS  OF  THE  ENGLISH.  XXV 

on  his  return  from  England,  only  one  year  before  the  loss  of  Calais,  proves 
that  it  was  then  esteemed  as  highly  as  ever : 

"  Another  frontier  (he  says)  besides  that  of  Scotland,  and  of  no  less  import- 
ance for  the  security  of  the  kingdom,  though  it  be  separated,  is  that  which  the 
Enghsh  occupy  on  the  other  side  of  the  sea,  by  means  of  two  fortresses, 
Calais  and  Guisnes,  guarded  by  them  (and  justly)  with  jealousy,  especially 
Calais,  for  this  is  the  key  and  principal  entrance  to  their  dominions,  without 
which  the  Enghsh  would  have  no  outlet  from  their  own,  nor  access  to  other 
countries,  at  least  none  so  easy,  so  short,  and  so  secure ;  so  much  so,  that  if 
they  were  deprived  of  it,  they  would  not  only  be  shut  out  from  the  continent, 
but  also  from  the  commerce  and  intercourse  of  the  world.  They  would  con- 
sequently lose  what  is  essentially  necessary  for  the  existence  of  a  country, 
and  become  dependent  upon  the  will  and  pleasure  of  other  sovereigns,  in 
availing  themselves  of  their  ports,  besides  having  to  encounter  a  more  dis- 
tant, more  hazardous,  and  more  expensive  passage ;  whereas,  by  way  of 
Calais,  which  is  directly  opposite  to  the  harbour  of  Dover,  distant  only 
about  thirty  miles,  they  can,  at  any  time,  without  hindrance,  even  in 
spite  of  contrary  winds,  at  their  pleasure,  enter  or  leave  the  harbour  (such 
is  the  experience  and  boldness  of  their  sailors),  and  carry  over  either  troops 
or  anything  else  for  warfare,  offensive  and  defensive,  without  giving  rise  to 
jealousy  and  suspicion  ;  and  thus  they  ai*e  enabled,  as  Calais  is  not  more 
than  ten  miles  from  Ardres,  the  frontier  of  the  French,  nor  further  from 
Gravelines,  the  frontier  of  the  Imperialists,  to  join  either  the  one  or  the 
other,  as  they  please,  and  to  add  their  strength  to  him  with  whom  they  are 
at  amity,  in  prejudice  of  an  enemy.  For  these  reasons,  therefore,  it  is  not 
to  be  wondered  at,  that,  besides  the  inhabitants  of  the  place,  who  are 
esteemed  men  of  most  unshaken  fidelity,  being  the  descendants  of  an  English 
colony  settled  there  shortly  after  the  first  conquest,  it  should  also  be  guarded 
by  one  of  the  most  trusty  barons  which  the  king  has,  bearing  the  title  of 
deputy,  with  a  force  of  five  hundred  of  the  best  soldiers,  besides  a  troop  of 
fifty  horsemen. 

"  It  is  considered  by  every  one  as  an  impregnable  fortress,  on  account  of 
the  inundation  with  which  it  may  be  surrounded,  although  there  are  persons 
skilled  in  the  art  of  fortification,  who  doubt  that  it  would  prove  so  if  put  to 
the  test.  For  the  same  reason,  Guisnes  is  also  reckoned  impregnable,  situated 
about  three  miles  more  inland,  on  the  French  frontier,  and  guarded  with  the 

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XXV'l  CALAIS   IN   THE  HANDS  OF   THE  ENGLISH. 

same  degree  of  care,  though,  being  a  smaller  place,  only  by  a  hundred  and 
fifty  men,  under  a  chief  governor.  The  same  is  done  with  regard  to  a  third 
place,  called  Hammes,  situated  between  the  two  former,  and  thought  to  be 
of  equal  importance,  the  waters  which  inundate  the  country  being  collected 
around."* 

When  Henry  the  Eighth  came  to  Calais  in  1532,  it  was  calculated  that 
the  town  furnished  in  lodging  2,400  beds,  and  stabling  for  2,000  horses.f 

The  circumstances  attendant  upon  the  recovery  of  the  town  by  the  French 
in  the  year  1538,  were  described  the  same  year  in  a  Latin  treatise  written 
by  Guillaume  Paradin,  dean  of  Baieux.+ 

In  1596  Calais  was  destined  to  submit  a  second  time  to  a  conqueror, 
being  taken  by  the  Spaniards  after  a  destructive  siege.  Paul  Hentzner,  who 
visited  the  place  in  1598,  just  after  it  had  been  restored  to  the  French, 
describes  the  castle  of  Rysebank  ("  Richehan")  as  then  destroyed,  having 
been  seized  by  the  Spaniards  in  their  first  attack,  and  made  the  means 
of  assaulting  the  town.  The  town  walls  were  still  partly  in  ruins,  but 
Henri  IV.  was  then  sedulously  engaged  in  repairing  them.§ 

The  external  appearance  of  Calais  at  the  period  to  which  this  volume 
relates  is  admirably  illustrated  by  the  contemporary  view  represented  in  the 
annexed  lithographic  fac-simile,||  which  exhibits  the  whole  extent  of  the  quay, 
and  the  line  of  walls  from  Beauchamp's  bulwark  to  the  castle ;  and,  in  front, 
"  Rys  bank,"  with  its  fort  and  tower.^  The  principal  buildings  which  erect 
their  heads  above  the  houses,  are  St.  Mary's  church,  the  halls  of  the  town 
and  the  staple,  and  the  church  of  St.  Nicholas. 

*  Report  of  signer  Giovanni  Michele  to  the  doge  and  senate  of  Venice,  as  translated  in 
Ellis's  Original  Letters,  Second  Series,  vol.  ii.  p.  226. 

•t"  "  The  towne  of  Calais  had  at  this  season  24  C.  beds,  and  stabling  for  2,000  horses, 
besides  the  villages  about." — Stowe's  Chronicle. 

+  "  De  Motibus  Galliaj,  et  expugnato  receptoque  Itio  Caletorum,  anno  M.D.  LVIII. 
Per  Gulielmum  Paradinum  Bellijoci  Deeanum.     Lugduni,  m.d.lviii."  4to,  pp.  45. 

§  P.  Hentzneri  Itinerarium,  Noribergse,  1629,  p.  241. 

II  From  the  MS.  Cotton.  Aug.  I.  ii.  70.  The  lithograph  is  of  the  scale  of  the  original, 
which  comprises,  however,  a  more  extended  view,  reaching  from  Ow  church  and 
castle  to  Newnhambridge,  A  reduced  copy  of  the  same  view  was  engraved  in  1827, 
for  Sir  Henry  Ellis's  Original  Letters,  and  has  been  since  republished  in  the  volume 
entitled  "  Chronicles  of  the  White  Rose." 

•j  The  castle  of  Rysebank  is  drawn  on  a  large  scale,  and  with  great  apparent  care,  in 
the  view  of  the  harbour  of  Calais,  MS.  Cotton.  Aug.  L  ii.  57  c. 


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CALAIS  IN  THE  HANDS  OF  THE  ENGLISH.  XXVH 

St,  Mary's  church  is  still  standing.*  The  other  church  gave  place  to  the 
new  citadel  formed  by  cai'dinal  Richelieu. 

The  hotel-de-ville,  situated  in  the  market-place,  has  still  a  belfry,  the 
chimes  of  which  are  celebrated.  The  guildhall  of  the  staple,  in  which  the 
prince  of  Castillo's  lodgings  were  prepared  in  1508  (p.  60),  and  those  of 
Henry  VIII.  in  1532,t  is  likewise  in  existence,  and,  in  the  words  of  Sir 
Henry  Ellis,  "  exhibits  a  curious  mixture  of  the  well-known  Tudor  style 
with  the  forms  of  Flemish  architecture."  After  the  capture  of  the  town, 
in  1558,  the  Staple  inn  was  appropriated  for  the  residence  of  the  conqueror, 
and  from  him  it  has  since  borne  the  name  of  the  hotel  de  Guise. 

The  names  of  all  the  principal  towers  on  the  walls  may  be  gathered  from 
the  documents  in  the  Appendix  to  this  volume.  In  looking  at  the  prints 
and  proceeding  from  the  right  hand  towards  the  left,  we  accompany  "  the 
ordre  of  the  wardes"  described  in  p.  159.  The  first  remarkable  feature  is 
the  Watergate,  near  which  many  ships  are  waiting  ;  we  may  suppose  them 
fishing-boats  in  the  "  herring -time,"  of  which  busy  season,  and  its  attendant 
cares,  some  curious  particulars  will  be  found  at  p.  152.  Directly  in  front 
of  this  are  buildings  which  on  one  side  terminated  the  quay  in  front  of  the 
town,  and  which  connected  the  town  wall  with  a  round  tower,  built  imme- 
diately upon  the  water,  and  guarding  the  entrance  to  the  inner  harbour. 
This  is  believed  to  have  been  the  Search  or  Searcher's  tower  mentioned  in 
p.  123  and  p.  161. 

The  next  and  principal  gate  of  the  town  is  the  Lantern  gate.  In  advance 
of  this  now  stands  the  gate  which  is  well  known  from  a  print  by  Hogarth, 
and  which  was  built  in  1685,  when  the  modern  fortifications  were  formed 
by  cardinal  Richelieu.  In  the  same  situation,  in  our  ancient  view,  are  seen 
"  the  hedd  bytwene  both  stayres  byfore  the  Lanterne  gate,  and  also  the  pere 
that  standeth  in  the  Fishers'  gap,"  all  which  required  repair  in  1530  (see 
p.  123).  On  the  quay  without  the  Lantern  gate  was  a  spot  called  Para- 
dise, no  doubt  originally  a  garden,  and  here  it  was  that  the  games  of  kevles 

*  The  discovery,  in  1840,  of  some  paintings  in  St.  Mary's  church,  which  were  accom- 
panied by  an  inscription  commemorative  of  Thomas  Wodehouse,  and  various  shields  of 
arms  (different  from  those  borne  by  the  present  Wodehouse  family),  will  be  found 
noticed  in  the  Gentleman's  Magazine,  N.  S.  vol.  xx.  p.  77. 

+  In  1520  the  King  was  lodged  at  the  exchequer.  (Holinshed.)  In  1532,  the  ex- 
chequer was  prepared  for  the  French  king,  (see  p.  117.) 


XXVlll  CALAIS   IN  THE  HANDS  OF   THE  ENGLISH. 

and  haud-out  were  played  in  the  days  of  Henry  the  Eighth.*  The  name 
of  Paradise  occurs  as  early  as  the  reign  of  Richard  the  Second,-]-  and  it  is 
still  retained  in  the  nomenclature  of  the  town,  though  now  but  little  appro- 
priate to  the  purlieus  of  a  sea-port. 

The  great  tower  terminating  the  line  of  wall  in  the  view  was  the  Beau- 
champ  tower,  and  in  advance  thereof  we  see  the  Beauchamp  bulwark,  the 
services  assigned  to  which,  in  event  of  an  enemy's  approach,  are  described 
in  p.  125.  In  proceeding,  from  this  point,  round  the  walls  in  the  rear  of 
the  town  (and  the  reader  may  now  turn  to  the  annexed  Map,)  we  arrive 
at  the  Milk  gate,  no  doubt  so  called  from  its  affording  the  readiest  access  to 
the  adjoining  pastures.  There  was  a  new  bulwark  before  this,  in  the  reign 
of  Henry  VHI.,  and  another  before  the  next  principal  tower,  called  Dewlyn, 
Dyvelin,  or  Dublin  tower. |  Soon  after  the  Staple  Inn  abutted  upon  the 
town  wall ;  then  came  the  Prince's  tower  and  bulwarks  ;  and  not  far  distant 
was  one  called  the  Northumberland  tower  (named  in  p.  160)  ;  after  which 
succeeded  the  Boulogne  gate,  and  from  thence  there  was  one  principal  ward 
of  the  walls  to  the  Castle. 

Sir  Henry  Ellis,  writing  in  1827,  remarked  that,  "  The  southern  bulwarks 
are  yet  defended  by  the  identical  bastions  erected  according  to  the  orders 
given  by  Henry  VIII.,  and  which  continue  unaltered  within  the  rampart 
which  forms  the  modern  fortification ;"  but  from  a  subsequent  writer  it 
appears  that,  more  recently,  "  the  inner  ramparts  have  been  removed  to 
make  way  for  bastions." § 

In  order  to  illustrate  the  situation  of  the  several  places  in  the  vicinity  of 
Calais  that  are  mentioned  in  the  course  of  the  volume,  a  reduced  copy  has 
been  made  of  a  contemporary  map,  which  is  preserved  in  the  Cottonian 
collection,  Aug.  I.  ii.  71.  There  can  be  little  doubt  that  this  is  the  "platt 
of  the  marches"  which  was  made  by  Stephen  the  Almayne,  in  the  year  1540.  || 

*  See  p.  xli. 

■|"  Act  for  the  repair  of  the  haven  of  Caleys,  21  Ric.  II.  Rot.  Pari.  vol.  iii.  p.  371. 
There  was  a  spot  bearing  the  same  name  near  the  palace  of  Westminster. 

X  See  note  at  j).  126. 

§  Murray's  Handbook  for  France,  1843. 

II  See  the  extract  in  p.  197,  from  the  Proceedings,  &c.  of  the  Privy  Council,  vol.  vii. 
In  the  Index  to  that  volume,  p.  360,  this  person  has  been  identified  with  "  Mr.  Steven," 
who  was  in  1512  master  of  the  works  at  Carlisle.  There  is,  in  the  same  collection,  No. 
57  b,  another  "  Platt  of  the  Lowe  country  at  Calais,"  made  in  37  Hen.  VIII.  "  by  me 


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CALAIS   IN   THE  HANDS  OF   THE  ENGLISH.  XXIX 

The  language  of  the  names  upon  it  is  English,  but  they  are  all  spelt  after  a 
German  fashion.  The  surveyor  has  written  ve  for  way :  as,  to  the  left  of 
the  town,  after  passing  the  tvaterhos,  or  "  water-house,"  is  the  medel  ve, 
that  is,  the  middle  way  ;  and  to  the  extreme  right  of  the  map  is  Bolen  ve, 
the  way  to  Boulogne.  Near  this  is  the  laser  hos,  the  lazar-house,  or 
hospital  for  lepers.  Master  Stephen  has  written  od  for  wood,  as  Caleve  od 
and  Sanddyngfelde  od  ;  and  mel  for  mill,  asjines  mel.  Churches,  fields, 
and  dykes,  are  described  by  kerck,  feld,  and  dyck,  and  every  bulwark  is 
marked  bolvork,  though  the  latter  word  has  in  some  places  been  altered  to 
holwork  by  the  lithographer.  The  several  pools  of  water  called  plashes  by 
the  English  are  written  plays.  "  Wetel's  plays,"  near  Guisnes,  was  so 
named  after  the  family  of  Whetehyll,  noticed  in  p.  xli. :  there  was  also 
Whetehill's  bulwark  at  Guisnes,  mentioned  in  p.  199.  Towards  the  centre 
of  the  map  is  the  tornpick,  i.e.  the  turnpike. 

Passing  out  of  the  town  of  Calais,  towards  Boulogne,  the  traveller  saw  on 
his  left  the  gallows  and  wheel,  seldom,  if  ever,  unfurnished  with  the 
mouldering  remains  of  the  traitor,  the  spy,  or  the  robber.  He  then  went 
past  the  fortress  of  Newnham  bridge,  marked  ne  non  hruge  in  the  map,* 
and  proceeded  by  a  few  houses  at  the  causey,  (written  case,)  which 
houses  were  burnt  by  the  French  in  1513,  (see  p.  13  of  our  chronicle),  to 
the  village  of  Pepeling.  Of  this  parish  the  antiquary  Leland  was  some  time 
the  rector.f     On  the  right,  after   passing  Pepeling,   is    Boninges,  beyond 

Thomas  Pettyt,"  as  marked  on  its  back.  No.  75  is  a  map  roughly  drawn  of  all  tho 
country  of  Guynes  and  Bolenois.     No.  69  is  a  map  of  the  fields  near  Guisnes. 

In  "  Les  Plans  et  Profiles  de  toutes  les  principales  Villas  de  France,  par  le  Sieur 
Tassin,"  an  oblong  quarto,  1638,  are — 1.  Carte  particuliere  des  environs  de  Calais  ;  2.  A 
plan  of  Calais  ;  3.  A  view  of  Calais  ;  4.  A  plan  of  Le  fort  de  Nieulet  (Newnhambridge). 

A  view  of  Calais,  drawn  by  Johan  Peeters,  is  in  the  "  Topographia  Galliso,  Franeof, 
1656,"  vol.  ii.  and  also  a  plan  of  the  town. 

*  The  name  Newnhambridge  seems  to  have  been  an  alteration  from  Newlandbridge, 
under  which  title  it  occurs  in  lord  Berners'  translation  of  Froissart,  and  in  Holinshed, 
reign  of  Edward  III.  ;  and  the  latter  was  apparently  corrupted  from  Nieullet,  which  is 
the  orthography  of  Mr.  Johnes's  Froissart,  and  of  most  of  the  French  writers,  ancient  and 
modern:  in  a  map  by  L.  Denis,  1776,  it  is  "Fort  Nieulay."  In  the  old  edition  of 
Froissart,  Paris,  1530,  it  is  printed  "  le  pont  de  Millaij,"  a  form  evidently  partaking  of 
clerical  error. 

+  Leiand's  license  for  his  perpetual  non-residence  from  his  "  pai-sonage  of  Peppcling," 
was  dated  12  July,  1536,  (Pat.  28  Hen.  VIII.  pars  1,  n.  19,)  and  is  appended  to  his 
Life,  Oxf.  1772,  p.  83. 


XXX  CALAIS  IN  THE  HANDS  OF  THE  ENGLISH. 

which  is  "  Pettem,"  called  Pytham  in  a  record  of  the  time  of  Henry  VIII.* 
Besides  Calais,  and  its  contiguous  fortresses  of  Risebank  and  Newnham- 
bridge,  the  principal  places  in  the  map  are  the  Flemish  town  of  Graveling, 
at  the  extreme  left ;  the  French  castle  of  Ardres,  near  the  upper  margin  ; 
the  English  town  and  castle  of  Guysnes ;  and  the  castle  of  Hammes. 
Between  Calais  and  Graveling  will  be  seen  Marck  and  Owe,  or  Oye  ; 
places  which  gave  name  to  the  royal  manors  into  which  the  adjacent 
country  was  divided,  and  the  bailiwicks  of  which  formed  places  for  the 
English  office-hunters.  A  little  above  Marck  is  "  Colaem,"  or  Colume, 
where  was  one  of  the  principal  fortalices  in  the  reign  of  Edward  III. 
(see  p.  xxxiii)  :  it  is  written  Coulogne  in  a  map  by  Louis  Denis,  Oct.  1776. 
As  showing,  in  some  degree,  the  manner  in  which  the  country  was 
inhabited,  the  following  document  may  be  here  introduced.  It  was  written 
early  in  the  reign  of  Elizabeth,  at  the  time  when  calculations  were  made  as 
to  the  probability  of  recovering  Calais,  t 

Indorsed, — A  certyffycate   of  suche  persones   dwelling  in   Callyce  and 
Hames,  as  he  well  affected  to  the  English  Natyon. 

(MS.  Harl.  283.  f.  154.) 

In  Calis,  John  Masters,  at  the  salmander,  a  Calisian  born.  There  is 
another  .John  de  Master  there,  but  he  is  a  Frenchman. 

In  Calis,  mistris  Burton,  at  the  three  headdes. 

In  Calis,  at  the  balance,  the  wjrfe  is  sure. 

In  Calis,  seargeant  Marian,  the  seargeant  of  the  haven,  that  gives  and 
takes  the  passeportes  ;  a  sure  and  trustie  freind. 

Without  the  landgate,  along  the  dyke,  is  John  Harvye  ;  he  is  a  boate- 
man  ;   sure  also. 

At  Waldam  \  the  brewer  is  a  Calisian,  called  Thomas  Haines  ;  there  is 
another  that  keepes  lodging,  whose  name  is  forgotten. 

*  Nicholas  Hall  clerk  was  presented  to  the  church  of  the  blessed  Mary  at  Pytham, 
in  the  county  of  Guysnes,  within  the  marches  of  Calais,  and  diocese  of  Canterbury,  the 
26th  March,  1530,  which  was  then  vacant  by  death.  Pat.  21  Hen.  VIII.  p.  1,  m.  2,  in 
Rymer,  xiv.  387. 

t  See  Ellis's  Original  Letters,  Second  Series,  vol.  ii.  p.  2, 

X  Wael  dam  in  the  map,  on  the  road  to  Gravelines. 


CALAIS   IN   THE   HANDS   OF   THE  ENGLISH,  XXxi 

Att  Oey,  along  the  downes,*  ar  three  Calisians, fishermen  ;  sure  also;  butt 
there  names  ar  forgotten. 

Beyond  Oey,  in  the  waie  to  Graveling,  next  to  Graveling,  in  the  two 
greate  farmes,  dwelleth  Harrie  Grenewood ;  the  other  I  have  forgotten. 

At  Mark,  are  two  northern  wemen,  that  kepe  vittaileng ;  bothe  sure. 

At  Cowkerkjf  is  John  Slainey. 

At  Newkerk,  certaine  whose  names  ar  forgotten, 

Downe  in  the  marrishe,  toward  Hammes,  I  thenk  there  be  vj  Calisian 
soldiours,  sure. 

At  Hammes  Castell,  the  brewer  is  a  Calisian,  sure,  John  HawU. 

At  Hammes  there  is  one  Haines,  that  hath  in  farme  all  the  fisheng  in 
the  pooles  from  Hammes  to  Ard. 

In  Gysnes  there  are  two  bi'etheren,  called  Vincentes,  the  one  a  cowper, 
the  other  a  farmer. 

Half  a  myle  out  of  Gysnes,  a  rich  man  ;  his  name  is  Peter  John  [son  .  . 
....    (the  paper  cut  off.) 

The  farmer  of  mounser  de  Vinion  is  a  Calisian,  but  hated  of  the  Inglishe. 

At  Whitesand,  John  Browne,  a  fisherman  ;  sui*e. 

At  Graveling,  at  the  George,  dwelleth  Rickborne. 

Att  Mount  de  Ore,:}:  dwelleth  a  fouterer,  called  Archer,  an  Irishman ; 
sure. 

Att  Tourneyham,  next  howse  to  the  further  gate,  dwelleth  a  widow 
Calisian  ;  a  sure  freind. 

In  the  high  waie  to  St.  Omer's  from  thence  dwelleth  John  King ;  the 
village  forgotten. 

In  St,  Omer's,  William  Smith,  by  St.  Bartaines  ;  and  diverse  others, 
both  within  and  without. 

At  Ark  there  is  an  odd  fellow,  called  mouns""  de  Prye  ;  sure. 

By  St.  Augustine's  cloisture  there  is  one  sure  freind ;  butt  he  muste  not 
be  named,  for  good  respect. 

All  thereabout  dwell  Calisians ;  and  yf  there  be  anie  hollow-harted 
amongst  them,  they  all  will  hate  him  lyke  a  toade. 

*  The  sand  hills  on  the  sea  coast. 

+  Probably  the  "  Hof  kerek"  of  our  map,  and  "  Offekerqiie  "  in  the  map  by  L.  Denis, 
1776. 

+  "  Mountoi'e"  will  be  found  at  the  upper  corner  of  the  map. 


XXXii  CAPTAINS,   LIEUTENANTS,  AND  DEPUTIES  OF  CALAIS. 

There  be  Fleminges  a  nombre,  that  in  anie  action  will  be  readie  to  helpe 
where  gaine  may  arise. 

Lawrence  Minter,  an  Inglishe  soldiour,  dwelling  between  Graveling  and 
Mark-dyke. 

Other  Englishe  soldiours  there  be  that  do  serve  within  Graveling,  who 
be  ti-ustie  and  assured ;  and  so  there  be  dispersed  throughout  the  contrie 
a  number  of  others  well  affected,  and  readie  to  service  for  England. 


CAPTAINS,  LIEUTENANTS,  AND  DEPUTIES  OF  CALAIS. 

Froissart  states  that  the  first  captain  of  Calais  appointed  by  Edward  III.  was  Sir  Amery 
of  Pavia,  "  a  Lumbard  borne,  whom  the  kyng  had  greatly  avauneed,"  and  that  before  the 
expiration  of  eighteen  months  this  Lombard  plotted  to  sell  the  town  to  the  French,  but 
having  been  discovered  was  pardoned,  on  condition  of  his  continuing  the  negociation, 
and  entrapping  the  captain  of  St.  Omer's,  with  whom  he  treated.  Of  the  consummation  of 
this  plot,  and  the  repulse  of  the  Frenchmen,  in  which  the  king  was  personally  engaged,  a 
long  and  interesting  account  is  given  by  Froissart.  That  historian,  however,  seems  to 
have  mistaken  the  post  occupied  by  the  Italian,  who  was  appointed  commander  of  the 
King's  galleys  by  patent  dated  Westminster,  24  April,  1348,  (Rymer,  v.  619,)  but  by  a 
previous  patent,  dated  at  Calais,  8th  Oct.  1347,  and  therefore  a  few  weeks  only  after  its 
surrender,  John  de  Montgomery  was  appointed  captain  of  the  town  of  Calais,  and  at  the 
same  date  John  de  Gatesden  was  appointed  Marshal  of  the  town.     (Rymer,  v.  293.) 

The  following  list  of  the  captains  and  other  chief  commanders  of  Calais  was  probably 
extracted  from  the  records  cited,  whilst  the  town  was  still  in  the  possession  of  England. 
The  editor  has  not  attempted  to  make  such  additions  to  it  as  a  careful  research  would 
doubtless  produce,  except  a  few  names  towards  the  latter  end,  in  connection  with  the 
period  of  the  present  volume.  The  index  to  the  Rolls  of  Parliament,  p.  112,  refers  to 
some  other  names,  as  well  as  to  several  particulars  connected  with  the  administration  of 
those  who  are  here  mentioned.  The  high  rank  of  many  of  them  corresponds  with  the 
statement  of  Comines,  that  the  captainship  of  Calais  was  one  of  the  best  places  in 
Christendom. 

Capitanei  Calisite. 

[MS.  Cotton.  Faustina,  E.  vii.  f.  16.] 

Johannes  de  Chivereston  constituitur  capitaneus  et  custos  villae  Calisiae 
quamdiu  regi  placuerit.  Teste  rege  apud  Westm.  1  Dec.  a°  21.  (2  pars 
Franc.  21  Edw.  III.  m.  4.) 


CAPTAINS,  LIEUTENANTS,   AND  DEPUTIES  OF  CALAIS.  XXxiii 

Henricus  comes  Lancastriae  locum  tenens  regis  tam  in  partibus  Flandriae 
et  Calesiae  quam  alibi  in  regno  Franciae,  25  Sept.  a°  22  E.  3.  (Franc,  m.  2.) 

Johannes  de  Chevereton  capitaneus  villse  Calesiae,  1  Oct.  a"  22  E.  3. 
m.  10.) 

Johannes  de  Bellocampo  capitaneus  castri  Calesiae,  2  Aug.  a"  22.  (m.  12.) 

Johannes  de  Bellocampo  constituitur  capitaneus  et  custos  villae  Calesiae 
quamdiu  regi  placuerit.    Teste  I'ege  apud  Westm.  1  Jan.  a"  22  E.  3.  (m.  1.) 

Johannes  de  Bellocampo  constituitur  capitaneus  et  custos  villae  Calesiae 
quamdiu  regi  placuerit.  Teste  rege  apud  Clai-endon  12  Julii,  a°  23  E.  3. 
(Franc,  m.  6.)  » 

Robertus  de  Herle  miles,  locum-tenens  capitanei  villae  Calesiae,  26  die 
Septembris.  (m.  3.) 

Johannes  de  Bellocampo  capitaneus  castri  Calesiae,  27  Decembris,  et  capi- 
taneus villae  Calesiae,  18  Octobris.  (m.  1.  3.) 

Robertus  de  Herle  constituitur  capitaneus  et  custos  villae  Calesiae  a  primo 
die  Aprilis  proximo  futuro,  quamdiu  regi  placuerit.  Teste  rege  apud  Westm. 
9  Martii,  anno  24  E.  3.  (Franc,  m.  11.) 

Johannes  de  Bellocampo  constituitur  capitaneus  et  custos  villae  Calesiae 
a  primo  die  Aprilis  proximo  futuro,  quamdiu  regi  placuerit.  Teste  rege 
apud  Westm.  30  Martii,  anno  25  E.  3.  (Franc,  m.  11.) 

Robertus  de  Herle  constituitur  capitaneus  et  custos  villae  Calesiae  a  festo 
Nativitatis  Sancti  Johannis  Baptistae  proximo  preterito,  quamdiu  regi  pla- 
cuerit.    Teste  rege  apud  Westm.  30  Junii,  25  E.  3.  (m.  8.) 

Robertus  de  Herle  chr.  capitaneus  villae  Calesiae,  30  Septembris,  anno 
26  E.  3.  (Franc,  m.  2.) 

Reginaldus  de  Cobham  constituitur  capitaneus  et  custos  castri  et  villae 
Calesiae  in  regno  Franciae,  necnon  castri  de  Gynes  et  fortaliciorum  de 
Merke,  Colume,  Oye,  et  Sandegafce,  quamdiu  regi  placuerit.  Teste  rege 
apud  Westm.  29  Junii,  anno  27  E.  3.  (Franc,  m.  4.) 

Thomas  de  Hoggeshaue  constabularius  castri  Calesiae,  15  Octobr.  anno 
27.  (Franc,  m.  3.) 

Rogerus  de  Bellocampo  constituitur  capitaneus  et  custos  castri  ac  villce 
Calesiae  in  regno  Franciae,  necnon  castri  de  Gynes,  et  fortaliciorum  de 
Merke,  Colume,  Oye,  et  Sandegate,  a  30  die  Feb.  proximo  futuro,  quam- 
diu regi  placuerit.     Teste  rege  apud  Westm.  23  Jan. anno  28.  (Franc,  m.  1.) 

Johannes   de   Bellocampo  de  Warwic  constituitur  capitaneus   et  custos 

CAMD.  soc.  e 


XXxiv  CAPTAINS,   LIEUTENANTS,  AND  DEPUTIES  OF  CALAIS. 

castri  et  villse  Calesise  in  regno  Franciae,  necnon  castri  de  Guines,  et  forta- 
liciorum  de  Merke,  Colume,  Oye,  et  Sandegate,  a  10  die  Februarii  proximo 
futuro,  quamdiu  regi  placuerit.  Teste  rege  apud  Novum  Castrum  super 
Tinam,  14  die  Januarii,  anno  29  E.  3.  Et  mandatum  est  Rogero  de  Bello- 
campo  capitaneo  villse  Calesiae  quod,  &c.  (Franc.  a°  29  E.  3,  m.  1.) 

Johannes  de  Bellocampo  capitaneus  villse   Calesiae,  3°  Novembris,  anno 

30  E.  3.  (Franc,  a".  30  E.  3.  m.  3.) 

Johannes  de  Bellocampo  de  Warwic  constituitur  capitaneus  et  custos 
castri  ac  villse  Calesise,  necnon  castri  de  Guisnes,  ac  fortaliciorum  de  Marke, 
Colume,  Oye,  et  Sandegate,  ab  undecimo  die  Februarii  proximo  futuro,  quam- 
diu  regise  placuerit  voluntati.     Teste  rege  apud  Westm.  10  Februarii,  anno 

31  E.  3.  (Franc.  a°  31  E.  3,  m.  16.) 

Radulphus  de  Ferrariis  constituitur  capitaneus  et  custos  castri  ac  villas 
Calesiae,  necnon  castri  de  Guisnes,  et  fortaliciorum  de  Marke,  Colume,  Oye, 
et  Sandegate,  a  primo  die  Mali  proximo  futuro,  quamdiu  regiae  placuerit 
voluntati.  Teste  rege  apud  Westm.  16  Martii,  anno  32  E.  3.  Et  manda- 
tum est  Johannes  de  Bellocampo  nuper  capitaneo  villse  Calesise,  etc.  (Franc. 
a°.  32  E.  3,  m.  14.) 

[The  next  are  from  MS.  Cotton.  Calig.  E.  i.  f.  152.] 

[Anno       Edw.]  3. 

Kingeston  nuper  custos  castri  Caleis. 

Henricus  le  Scrop  gubernator  dominii  de  Caleis,  constitutus  custos  cas- 
trorum  de  Caleis  et  de  Guynes.     Teste  rege  apud  Westm.  20  Febr. 

Anno  39.  Henricus  le  Scrop  gubernator  dominiorum  de  Caleis  et  de 
Guynes,  28  Julij,  constituitur  gubernator  et  supervisor  castrorum,  villarum, 
dominiorum  et  comitatuum  de  Caleis,  etc.  per  unum  annum  regem  (sic) 
duraturum.     Teste  rege  apud  W.  28  Julij. 

Anno  40.  Henricus  le  Scrop  constituitur  gubernator  villse  et  castri  Calleis, 
per  unum  annum  duraturum.     Teste  rege  apud  W.  28  Junii. 

Anno  41.  Henricus  le  Scrop  idem.     Teste  rege  apud  W.  28  Junii. 

Anno  42.  Idem  Henricus  eodem  modo.     Teste  ut  supra. 

Anno  43.  Idem  Henricus,  19  Octobr. 

Anno  44.  Idem  Henricus,  20  Febr. 

Anno  44.  Nicolaus  de  Tanworth   constituitur  capitaneus  villae  et  castri 
Caleis  per  unum  annum  duraturum.     Teste  rege  apud  Westm.  1  Maii. 


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Anno  45.  Idem  Nicolaus  eodem  niodo 

Anno  48.  Johannes  de  Burley  capitaneus  villae  Caleis,  &c.  . 
Anno  49.  Hugo  de  Calvirlye  capitaneus  villae  Caleis,  8  Decemb.  con- 
stitutus  18  Octobr.  apud  Westm. 

RiCARDUS  II. 

[MS.  Cotton.  Faustina,  E.  vii.  f.  17,  resumed.] 

Anno  1.  Hugo  de  Calvile  constituitur  capitaneus  et  custos  villae  Calesise 
quamdiu  regi  placuerit.  Teste  rege  apud  Westm.  22  Junii.  (Franc.  1  pars, 
m.  30.) 

Thomas  Fogg  chevalier  constituitur  capitaneus  et  custos  castri 

Caleis   quamdiu,   &c.     Teste   rege  apud  Westm.  22  Junii.  (1  pars  Franc. 
m.  29.) 

Bernardus  Brocas  chevalier  constituitur  capitaneus  castri  per  unum 
annum. 

Anno  2.  Willelmus  de  INIonte  acuto  comes  Sarisburie  constituitur  capi- 
taneus et  custos  villae  Calesiae,  quamdiu  regi  placuerit.  Teste  rege  apud 
Westm.  2  die  Feb.  (Franc,  m.  9.) 

Bernardus  Brocas  capitaneus  castri  Caleis. 

Anno  3.  Johannes  Devereux  constituitur  capitaneus  villae  Caleis,  quam- 
diu, &c.     Teste  rege  apud  Westm.  17  Januarii.  (Franc,  m.  16.) 

Willelmus  Trussell  chevalier  capitaneus  et  custos  castri  Caleis,  a 

die  Omnium  Sanctorum  proximo  futuro,  per  annum  tunc  proxime  sequentem. 
Teste  rege  apud  Westm.  26  Octobris.  (Franc,  m.  19.) 

Anno  4.  Johannes  Devereux  capitaneus  villae  Caleis. 

Anno  3.  Johannes  Burley  le  fitz  habet  custodiam  castri  Caleis  a  festo 
Sancti  Michaelis  proximo  futuro  in  unum  annum  proxime  sequentem.  Teste 
rege  apud  Westm.  10  Septembris.  (Franc,  m.  12.) 

■ Johannes  Devereux  capitaneus  villae  Caleis. 

Anno  6.  Johannes  Devereux  capitaneus  villae  Caleis. 

Johannes  Burley  le  fitz  capitaneus  castri  Caleis. 

Anno  7.  Willelmus  de  Bellocampo  constituitur  capitaneus  villae  Caleis 
ab  octavo  die  Januarii  proximo  futuro,  eodem  die  computato,  usque  ad  finem 
duorum  annorum  proxime  sequentium.  Teste  rege  apud  Westm.  15  Sept. 
(Franc,  m.  20.) 


XXXVl  CAPTAINS,  LIEUTENANTS,   AND  DEPUTIES  OF  CALAIS. 

Edmundus   de   la  Pole  constituitur  custos  castri  Caleis  pro  uno   anno. 
Teste  rege  apud  Westm.  23  Jan.  (Franc,  m.  10.) 


Henricus  IV. 

Anno  11.  Johannes  comes  Somerset.     (Claus.  m.  29.) 

Anno  12.  Henricus  princeps  Wallisp  capitaneus  villse  Caleis.  (Pat.  m.45.) 

— Thomas  Beaufort  frater  regis,  castri.  (Pat.  m.  25.) 

Anno  13.  Henricus  princeps,  capitaneus  villae  Caleis.  (2  pars  Pat.  m.  18.) 
Anno  14.  Henricus  princeps  Walliae,  capitaneus  villse  Caleis.  (Pat.  m.  2.) 


Henricus  V. 

Anno  I.  Willelmus  dominus  la  Zouch  miles,  locum  tenens  villse,  1  Maii. 

(m.  36,  37.) 

Ricardus   comes   Warwic.  villge  (Franc,   m.   4.)   constitutus   3 

Februarii  in  trienniura  (m.  12.) 

Thomas  comes  Dorset,  avunculus  regis,  castri,  constitutus  1  die 

Aprilis,  in  triennium.  (Franc,  m.  1.) 

Anno  2.  Ricardus  comes  Warwic.  (Franc,  m.  23.) 

Anno  3.  Ricardus  comes  Warwic*     (Claus.  in  dorso.) 

Anno  4.  Ricardus  Beauchamp,  comes  Warwic.  (Claus.  in  dorso,  m.  16.) 

Constitutus  a  3  die  Februarii  in  duos  annos.   (Franc,  m.  3.) 

Anno  6.  Ricardus  Beauchamp,  comes  Warwic.  dominus  de  Insula.  (2  pars 

Norm,  m,  2.) 

Anno  8.  Willelmus  Bardolf,  locimi  tenens.  (2  pars  Norm,  in  dorso.) 
Ricardus  de  Beauchamp  comes  Warwic.  capitaneus  villge  Caleis, 

26  die  Februarii.  (Franc,  m.  1.) 

*  Dugdale  (Baronage,  i.  244)  has  quoted  an  indenture,  dated  19th  June,  1415,  by 
which  the  earl  of  Warwick  was  retained  to  serve  as  captain  of  Calais  until  the  3d  Feb. 
following.  An  account  of  the  garrisons  kept  at  this  period  at  Calais,  Risebanke,  Guysnes, 
and  Hammes,  is  printed  in  Excerpta  Historica,  8vo.  1831,  p.  25. 


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Henricus  VI. 


Anno  2.  Ricardiis  Beauchamp  comes  Warwic,  (1  pars  Pat.  m.  22.) 

Anno  11.  Johannes  dux  Bedford.  (1  pars  Pat.  m.  9.) 

Anno  14.  Humfredus  dux  Gloucestrie.  (Claus.  in  dorso,  m.  4.) 

Anno  15.  Humfredus  dux  Gloucestrie.  (Pat.  m.  33.) 

Anno  16.  Humfredus   dux    Gloucestrie    capitaneus    castri    et    villae    ac 

raarchiarum  ibidem,  12  Octobris.  (1  pars  Pat.  m.  32.) 

Thomas  Rempston,  locum  tenens  regis  villae    Caleis,  2  Martii. 

(Ibidem,  m.  5.) 

Anno  18.   Thomas  Kiriel  miles,  locum  tenens  villse.  (3  pars  Pat.  m.  16.) 
Anno  19.  Thomas  Kiriel  locum  tenens  villae.   (1  pars  Pat.  m.  27.) 
Anno  20.  Thomas  Kiriel  locum  tenens  villae.  (Franciae  m.) 
Anno  21.  Humfredus  comes  Stafford,  constitutus  capitaneus  villae  Caleis, 

a  data  presentium  usque  ad  finem  10  annorum  proxime  sequentium.     Teste 

rege  apud  Westm.  3  die  Septembris  anno  21  Henry  VI.  (Franc,  m.  31.) 
Anno  23.  Humphredus   comes    Stafford   et   dux    Buckingham,  castri  et 

villae.  (1  pars  Pat.  m.  29.) 

Annis  24 — 28.  Humphredus  dux  Buckingham.  (Franc,  m.  9.) 

Anno  29.  Jacobus  comes  Wilteshire,  Henricus  vicecomes  de  Bourghchier, 

Radulfus  dominus  de    Sudeley,  Johannes  de    Stourton,    Thomas   Stanleye, 

milites,  et  Thomas  Rempston  miles,  habent  custodiam  villae  et  castri  a  2  die 

Aprilis  in  quinquennium.  (Franc,  m.  8.) 

Anno  37.  Ricardus  Nevill  comes  Warwic.  (1  pars  Pat.  m.  16.) 


Edwardus  IV. 

Annis  1 — 10.  Ricardus  comes  Warwic.  villae  et  castri.  (Franc,  m.  24, 
and  other  records.) 

Annis  11 — 23.  Willelmus  dominus  Hastinges,  miles,  locum  tenens  gene- 
ralis  villae,  castri  et  marchiarum  Caleis.  Constitutus  1 7  July,  1 1  Edw.  IV. 
(Various  Letters  Patent,  and  Pardon,  23  Edw.  IV.  m.  2.) 


XXXVlil         CAPTAINS,  LIEUTENANTS,  AND  DEPUTIES  OF  CALAIS. 

Henricus  VII. 
Anno  4.  Egidius  dominus  Dawbeney.* 

Henricus  VIII. 

Anno  1.  Gilbertus  Talbot,  miles,  constitutus  26  die  Septembris. 

Anno  5.  Gilbertus  Talbot  et  Ricardus  Wingfield,  milites,  constituti  6  die 
Augusti. 

Anno  [Sir  Richard  Wingfield. 
Sir  John  Peche. 
Sir  Robert  Wingfield.t] 

Anno  12.  Johannes    Bourchier    dominus    Berners,    constitutus    28    die 
Novembris. 

Anno  24.  Arthurus  Plantagenet,  vicecomes  Insulae,  constitutus  24  Martii.;}: 

[Anno  32.  Henry  Arundel  lord  Maltravers. 

Anno       .  George  Lord  Cobham.§] 


*  Giles  lord  Daubeney  was  fined  in  the  Starchamber  200/.  for  his  pardon  for  receipts  of 
money  at  Calais.     Archseologia,  vol.  xxv.  p.  392. 

•f-  These  three  deputies  are  named,  with  John  Lord  Berners,  in  the  patent  constituting 
lord  Lisle. 

X  The  patent  for  the  appointment  of  lord  Lisle  is  printed  in  Rymer,  vol.  xiv.  p.  452. 
It  describes  the  office  conferred  as  "  deputatiam  nostram  sive  officium  deputatise  nostrae 
villse  nostrae  Calisioe  et  marchiarum  ibidem."  He  was  to  receive  in  support  of  his  office  an 
annual  rent  of  100/.  sterling,  payable  from  the  royal  lordships  or  manors  of  Marc  and  Oye  ; 
also  an  annual  sum  of  104/.  sterling  for  "  spyall  money,"  to  be  received  from  the  same 
manors  ;  he  was  allowed  a  retinue  of  thirty-one  "  souldiours,"  namely,  one  horseman 
called  "  a  spere,"  two  horsemen  called  "  archers,"  and  twenty-eight  others  called 
"  souldeours  ; "  also,  because  no  other  lieutenant  of  the  town  and  marches  was  appointed, 
a  further  retinue  of  ten  ' '  souldeours."  By  the  two  next  clauses  the  election  and  removal 
of  the  said  souldeours  was  granted  to  him  ;  and  by  the  following  the  power  of  granting 
safe  conducts  to  aliens,  and  certain  other  privileges  necessary  to  the  due  administration  of 
his  government. 

§  Lord  Cobham  was  deputy  of  Calais  for  a  period  extending  from  1544  to  1550,  (as 
appears  from  his  papers,)  but  I  have  not  found  the  date  of  his  appointment. 


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Edwardus  VI. 

Anno  4.  Willelmus  dominus  Willoughby,  miles,  constitulus  13  Augt. 
Anno  6.  Willelmus  dominus  Howard,  constitutus  31  Octobris. 

Maria  regina. 
Anno  1.  Thomas  dominus  Wentworth,*  constitutus  13  die  Decembris. 


In  1511,  (May  1,)  the  officers  of  the  town  of  Calais  were  as  follow  :f 

Sir  Gilbert  Talbot,  deputy  of  the  town. 

Sir  Richard  Carew,  lieutenant  of  the  castle. 

Sir  William  Meryng,  marshall. 

Sir  Hugh  Conway,  treasurer,  j; 

Sir  John  Wiltshire,  controller. 

Robert  W^otton,  porter. 

Walter  Culpeper  esquire,  vice-marshall.§ 

John  Brettowlte,  secretary  of  the  king  there. 

In  1323,  sir  Maurice  Berkeley  was  lieutenant  of  the  castle  (see  p.  32)  ; 
in  1533  sir  John  Wallop  (see  p.  138).  In  1489  sir  Humphrey  Talbot  was 
marshal  (see  note  in  p.  2)  ;  sir  Edward  Guilford  at  the  time  of  the  Field 
of  Cloth  of  Gold,  and  still  in  1523  (Hohnshed,  p.  1526);  sir  Richard 
Grenville  in  1533  (see  p.  138)  ;  and  subsequently,  sir  John  Wallop. 

As  one  of  the  treasurers  of  Calais,  a  few  words  may  be  said  respecting 

*  Lord  Wentworth  was  the  deputy  at  the  time  of  the  loss  of  Calais  in  1558.  Sir 
John  Hayward  (Hist,  of  Edward  VI.  p.  162,)  states  that  lord  Grey  of  Wilton  was 
made  deputy  of  Calais,  and  that  statement  is  adopted  by  Dugdale  (Baronage,  i.  715). 
But  lord  Grey  was  only  captain  of  Guisnes  when  Calais  was  taken,  and  his  subsequent 
defence  of  the  former  fortress  is  described  by  his  son,  in  a  paper  which  was  used  by 
Holinshed,  and  which  is  about  to  be  printed  by  the  Camden  Society,  from  the  original 
in  the  possession  of  Sir  Philip  Grey  Egerton,  Bart. 

t  Rymer,  xiii.  298. 

X  In  MS.  Cotton.  Vesp.  F.  xiii.  p.  78,  is  a  royal  warrant,  dated  Greenwich,  March  12, 
1511,  to  sir  Hugh  Conway,  treasurer  of  Calais,  to  pay  200^  to  Thomas  Deacon,  to  be 
expended  in  the  repairs  of  Rysebank. 

§  He  held  this  office  of  "  under  marshall"  in  1508  (see  p.  6). 


xl  TREASURERS  AND  COMPTROLLERS  OF  CALAIS. 

sir  Richard  Nanfant,  who  held  that  office  under  king  Henry  VII.  and 
whose  name  occurs  in  the  present  volume,  p.  50.  He  is  best  known  to 
history  as  the  early  patron  of  Wolsey,  but  under  another  christian  name, 
the  cardinal's  biographer  having  incorrectly  called  him  sir  John.  "  He  fell," 
says  Cavendish,  "  in  acquaintance  with  one  sir  John  Nanphant,  a  very 
grave  and  ancient  knight,  who  had  a  great  room  in  Calais  under  king  Henry 
the  Seventh.  This  knight  he  served,  and  behaved  him  so  discreatly  and 
justly,  that  he  obtained  the  especial  favour  of  his  said  master  ;  insomuch 
that  for  his  wit,  gravity,  and  just  behaviour,  he  committed  all  the  charge  of 
his  office  unto  his  chaplain.  And,  as  I  understand,  the  office  was  the 
treasui-ership  of  Calais.  *  Who  was,  in  consideration  of  his  great  age, 
discharged  of  his  chargeable  room,  and  returned  again  into  England,  in- 
tending to  live  more  at  quiet.  And  through  his  instant  labour  and  especial 
favour  his  chaplain  was  promoted  to  the  king's  service,  and  made  his 
chaplain."     (Cavendish's  Life  of  Wolsey.) 

Of  subsequent  treasurers  of  Calais,  we  find  the  names  of  sir  John 
Turbrevyle  (mentioned  in  the  letter  of  bishop  Fox  printed  in  Ellis's 
Original  Letters,  Second  series,  ii.  7)  ;  of  sir  Hugh  Conway  (already  named,) 
in  1511  ;  of  William  lord  Sandes,  in  July,  1523  (Holinshed,  p.  1526)  ;  of 
sir  Richard  Weston  (see  p.  209  of  this  volume)  ;  and  sir  Thomas  Corn- 
waleys  was  the  last  treasurer,  as  appears  by  the  document  printed  in  the 
preface,  p.  xix. 

Richard  Whetehill  esquire  and  Adrian  his  son  were  comptrollers  of 
Calais  in  the  time  of  Edward  IV.  The  former  had  an  annuity  of  40/. 
from  the  custom  of  wools  at  Calais  ;  and  both  together  had  a  grant,  by 
letters  patent  under  the  great  seal,  "  of  two  wynde  milles,  with  the  appur- 
tenaunce3,  upon  the  castell-hill,  within  the  said  towne  of  Calls,  and  soile 
called  Mille-hill,  besides  the  said  milles  toward  the  south  ; "  also  of  two 
warrens  of  conies,  one  in  the  lordship  of  Marke,  and  the  other  in  the  lord- 
ship of  Oye  ;  both  which  grants  were  exempted  in  the  act  of  resumption, 


*  In  Nash's  History  of  Worcestershire,  vol.  i.  p.  85,  where  a  pedigree  of  the  family  of 
Nanfant  or  Nanfan  will  be  found,  sir  Rich.  Nanfan  is  styled  "  captain  of  Calais  "  (i.  85), 
and  in  the  next  page  "treasurer  of  Calais,  and  deputy  lieutenant  of  the  castle,"  in  18 
Hen.  VII.  1503  ;  but  this  is  only  Dr.  Nash's  want  of  precision  ;  and  Cavendish  was  pro- 
bably right  in  the  office,  though  not  in  the  christian  name. 


IIISTOUICAL  COMMISSION   AT  CALAIS.  xH 

7  and  8  Edw.  IV.  (Rot.  Pari.  v.  602,  1)  ;  as  was  the  office  of  comptroller 
itself  to  Adrian  Whetehill  esquire,  in  the  later  act  of  3  Hen.  VIII.  (Ibid, 
vi.  406).  Sir  Richard  Whetehill,  living'  in  Calais  during  the  period  of  the 
present  volume  (see  p.  118),  was  probably  son  of  Adrian  ;  and  the  act  of 
parliament,  27  Hen.  VIII.  cap.  10,  shews  in  its  last  clause  that  Robert 
Whethyll  esquire  was  the  son  and  heir  of  sir  Richard  Whethyll.  (Statutes 
of  the  Realm,  vol.  iii.) 

Sir  John  Wiltshire  was  comptroller  of  Calais  in  ]  505-6,  and  in  1508 
(see  p.  6  of  this  volume).  In  1533,  sir  Edward  Ringley  held  this  oflfice 
(see  p.  138),  and  he  still  retained  it  in  1540.     (Rymer,  xiv.  707). 

In  MS.  Cotton.  Calig.  D.  vi.  p.  91,  is  a  patent,  dated  21  M(ay  ?) 
4  Hen.  VIII.  appointing  John  Cokeson  water-bailiff  of  Calais,  officium 
aqueballivi  ville  et  portus  nostri  Caleis,  et  collectoris  ancoragii,  lastagii, 
hede-silver,  et  aliarum  monetarum  custumarium  tam  in  portu  ville  nostra 
predicte  quam  in  portu  nostro  juxta  eandem  vocato  le  newe  haven. 

In  Rymer,  vol.  xiv.  p.  707,  is  printed  a  patent,  remarkable  not  only  in 
reference  to  Calais,  but  as  referring  to  the  history  of  ancient  sports.  It 
grants  "  unto  our  welbiloved  servants  Gilbert  Clerc,  one  of  oure  governours* 
in  our  retynue  of  our  seid  town  of  Calais,  and  Nicholas  Damporte,  one  of  the 
retynue  in  our  eschequier  there,  th'  office  and  rowme  of  keper,  as  well  of 
the  playes  of  hande-oute  and  at  kei/Ies,  without  the  Lantern-gate  of  our  seid 
towne,  during  the  tyme  accustomed,  as  also  of  dice,  tables,  and  cardes,  in  the 
Market-place  of  the  same  our  said  towne  of  Calais,  which  office  and  rowme 
Robert  Donyngton,  deceased,  lately  had."  The  office  was  granted  to  Clerke 
and  Damporte  and  their  assigns  (ov  their  lives,  and  to  the  longer  Uver. 
This  gi-ant  was  dated  28  Nov.  1540. 

With  these  unimportant  collections  I  jnust  now  take  leave  of  this  subject, 
but  before  so  doing  I  have  the  pleasure  to  welcome  a  recent  manifestation 
of  the  historical  spirit  which  has  appeared  within  the  walls  of  our  ancient 
town  itself. 

Whilst  this  volume  has  been  passing  through  the  press  an  historical 
commission  has  been  formed  at  Calais,  by  an  arrete  of  M.  Legros-Devot, 
the  mayor,  dated  the  23d  October,  1845.  This  commission  is  "  charged 
with  the  research,  classification,  preservation,  analysis,  and  publication, 
either  entire  or  by  extracts,  of  the  manuscripts,  charters,   and  diplomas, 

*  Possibly  this  word  may  be  a  misprint  for  "  souldeours." 
CAMD.    SOC,  f 


xlii  AKCIIIVES  OF  CALAIS. 

ancient  calendars,  charts,  and  plans,  and  all  other  documents  calculated  to 
establish  or  elucidate  the  history  of  Calais."  It  is  also  directed  to  watch 
that,  day  by  day,  the  events  and  transactions  worthy  of  being  recorded  shall 
be  enreg-istered,  a  duty  which  is  to  be  performed  by  the  chief  secretary  of 
the  mairie.  The  documents  collected  are  to  belong  to  the  town,  and  will 
be  carefully  classed  and  deposited  at  the  public  library,  where  they  will  form 
a  distinct  section  in  the  catalogue  of  the  establishment. 

At  a  sitting  of  the  commission,  held  on  the  19th  December,  M.  Legros- 
Devot  made  a  report  on  the  state  of  the  archives,  in  which  it  was  stated 
that  the  town  possessed  few  materials  relative  to  the  times  which  preceded 
the  taking  of  Calais  by  the  English  ;  and  those  which  belong  to  the  period 
of  the  foreign  occupations  of  the  town  are  not  more  numerous.  The  com- 
munal archives  date  only  from  the  early  years  of  the  seventeenth  century, 
and  are  even  then  deficient  in  many  respects. 

It  is  evident  that  for  the  chief  materials  of  its  early  history  Calais  must 
be  indebted  to  the  archives  of  this  country ;  first,  to  the  Rotuli  Franciae, 
then  to  the  Patent  Rolls,  the  Rolls  of  Parliament,  the  Proceedings  of  the 
Privy  Comicil,  and,  lastly,  to  the  voluminous  papers  of  the  Lords  Deputy, 
particularly  those  of  Lord  Lisle  and  Lord  Cobham,  preserved  in  the  State 
Paper  Office  and  the  British  Museum. 


THE 


CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS. 


THE  CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS. 


(Richard  Turpijn,  of  Caleys,  and  Boiorges  there.) 

Kynge  Henry  the  Seventh  enterid  the  realme  of  England,  and 
landyd  at  Mylford  haven  with  his  army  out  of  Britayne,  in  the 
monethe  of  August,  in  the  yere  of  our  Lord  1485.  On  seint  Bar- 
tilmew's  even  he  went  to  the  filde  at  Bosworthe  hethe,  and  there 
was  kynge  Richarde  slayne  and  the  duke  of  Norfolke  slayne,  and 
the  erle  of  Surrey  the  duke  of  Norfolkes  sone  taken  prisoner, 
and  the  erle  of  Northumbarland  taken  prisoner,  the  lorde  Sowche 
taken  prisoner,  and  there  was  slayne  Ratclife,  Catesby,  and  gentle 
Brakenbery,  and  the  erle  of  Shrowsbery  was  taken  prisoner,  and 
the  lorde  Lovell  escaped  and  fled ;  and  there  was  slayne  of 
kynge  Henry's  party  ser  William  Brandon,  who  bare  kynge 
Henry's  standard  that  day. 

1487.  Battayle  at  Stooke,  anno  1487. — Ther  was  slayne  the 
erle  of  Lyncoln,  syr  Martyn  Swarte,  a  Fleminge  that  came  into 
England  with  the  forsayde  erle  out  of  Flaunders  from  the  dutches 
of  Burgoyne  kyng  Edward  the  fourth's  systar,  for  she  was  the 
carles  aunte,  and  she  would  have  made  hym  kynge  of  England, 
but  the  erle  was  slayne  and  many  other  that  bare  amies  that  day, 
and  the  lorde  Lovell  was  nevar  sene  aftar. 

CAMD.  SOC.  B 


2  THE  CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS.  [1489. 

1489.  The  battayle  of  Dicky smewe^  was  on  the  xiij.  day  of 
June,  that  day  beyng  satterday,  and  the  4.  yere  of  Henry  the 
Seventh,  anno  1489,  where  the  YngUshe  men  had  great  vyctorye, 
for  there  was  taken  and  slayne  a  greate  nombar,  and  there  was 
slayne  the  lorde  Morley  an  EngUshe  man. 

1492.  Kyng  Henry  the  Seventh  landyd  at  Caleys  toward  Bo- 
leyne  ^  the  2.  of  Octobar  in  the  8.  yere  of  his  raigne,  and  in  anno 
1492.  And  the  19.  of  Octobar  he  departyd  from  Caleis  toward 
Boleyne  with  his  army,  and  lay  the  first  night  at  Sandynfelde, 
the  next  night  at  Margyson,  and  ther  met  with  hym  therle  of 
of  Oxenforde,  chefe  capitayne  of  the  forwarde,  then  comynge  from 
the  betinge  downe  of  the  towne  of  Arde,  and  with  the  erle  of 
Oxenforde  cam  the  erle  of  Shrowesbery,  the  erle  of  Devonshire, 
the  erle  of  SufFolke,  the  erle  of  Essex,  the  lorde  Gray  [of]  Cod- 
nor,  the  lorde  Straunge,  the  lorde  Powise,  the  lorde  Hastings, 
the  lorde  Awdley,  the  lorde  Latimere,  the  baron  of  Dudley,  and 
dyvers  knyghts  and  esquiers,  and  laye  the  same  night  at  Margy- 
son before  the  kinge,  and  the  next  night  bothe  wards  laye  at  Wy- 
melle,  and  the  next  night  bothe  ostes  cam  before  Boleyne,  and 
there  at  the  seige  still  unto  viij.  day  of  Novembar  nexte  folowynge. 
Than  the  Frenche  kynge  sente  unto  oure  sovereigne  lorde  kynge 
of  Englande  be  the  lorde  Cordes,c  chefe  capitayne  under  the 
Frenche  kynge,  besechinge  the  kynge  of  England  of  his  pease, 
whiche  the  kynge  of  England  graunted  upon  a  condition  that  the 
Frenche  kynge  shuld  paye  every  yere  lii  thowsand  crownes  to  tlie 

'^  Dixmew  in  Flanders.  A  full  account  of  this  action  will  be  found  in  Hall  and  Ho- 
linshed.  The  Englishmen  engaged  were  "  the  lord  Daubeney  chieftaine  of  the  army,  the 
lorde  Morley,  sir  James  Tirrell  capitaine  of  Guysnes,  sir  Henry  Willougliby,  sir  Gilbert 
Talbot,  and  sir  Humfrey  Talbot  marshall  of  Calais,  wyth  divers  other  knyghtes  and 
esquires,  and  others,  of  the  garrisons  of  Hammes,  Guysnes,  and  Callais,  to  the  number  of 
twoo  thowsand  men,  or  thereaboutes."  Sir  Humphrey  Talbot  was  left  with  six  score 
archers  at  the  water  of  Gravelyng,  "  for  a  stale,"  and  to  keep  the  passage.  Lord  Morley, 
who  "being  on  horseback  in  a  riche  coate,  was  slayne  wyth  a  gunne,"  was  buried  at  Calais. 

''  i.  e.  on  his  route  to  Boulogne. 

<=  Philippe  de  Creveceur  seigneur  des  Querdes  et  de  Lannoy,  marshal  of  France 
lieutenant  and  captain  general  in  Artois  and  Picardy.     Rymer,  xii.  497- 


1492.]  THE  CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS.  3 

kynge  of  England  during  bothe  theyr  lyves ;  the  Frenche  graunted 
thereunto,  and  the  kynge  of  England  brake  up  his  sege  and  cam 
agayne  to  Galleys,  the  xij.  of  November,  and  the  xvij.  day  he  toke 
his  shipe  and  sayled  to  Dovar. 

1500.  Kynge  Henry  the  Seventh  and  quene  Elizabeth  his 
wyfFe,  corny nge  out  of  England,  landed  at  Caleis  on  the  8.  day  of 
May,  being  friday  at  night,  in  anno  1500,  and  in  the  15.  of  his 
raigne.  With  hym  came  the  duke  of  Buckyngham,  the  erle  of  Sur- 
rey, the  erle  of  Essex,  the  lorde  Dawbeney,  being  then  lorde  lyve- 
tenaunt  of  the  towne  and  marches  of  Caleis,  and  lord  chamberlayn 
of  the  kyng's  bowse,  the  bysshope  of  London,^  the  lorde  of  Burga- 
veny,  the  lorde  Dakers  of  the  Northe,  the  lorde  William  of  Suf- 
folke,^  and  the  lorde  Souche. 

The  X  of  May  landed  the  lorde  of  Saint  John's,*^  ser  John  Pechy, 
ser  John  Shawe,  ser  Robert  Constable,  and  other  esquiers  and 
gentlemen. 

The  xiij  of  May  landyd  ser  Edmond  a  Poole  earle  of  SufFolke? 
and  dyvars  esquiers  and  gentlemen  and  yemen. 

The  XV  day  of  May  landyd  ser  John  Foskew,'^  ser  John  Savyll, 
ser  William  Skott,  ser  RafFe  Verney,  and  dyvars  esquiers  and 
gentlemen. 

The  xxiij  day  of  May  landyd  the  lord  Harington,  ser  Edmond 
Arundell,  ser  Walter  Hungarforde,  ser  Nicholas  Vausse,  ser 
John  Dicby,  ser  Thomas  Dicby,  ser  John  Husy,  ser  Edward  De- 
relle,  and  dyvers  esquires  and  gentlemen. 

The  4.  of  June  1500  landyd  the  lorde  Richard  of  SufFolke,  ser 
John  Derell,  and  other  gentlemen  and  theyr  servaunts. 

The  5.  of  June  landyd  the  bysshope  of  Derham°  lorde  j^revy 
scale,  the  erle  of  Urmond,  and  ser  John  Reseley.^ 

*  Thomas  Savage.  ''  Lord  William  de  la  Pole. 

■=  Sir  Thomas  Docwra,  lord  prior  of  St.  John's.  ■*  Forteseue.  "^  Richard  Fox. 

'  This  Sir  John  Risley  narrowly  escaped  being  slain  or  captured  at  the  siege  of 
Boulogne  in  1492,  when  riding  round  the  town  with  Sir  John  Savage,  who  was  killed 
by  a  sudden  assault  of  the  enemy. — Polydoro  Vergil. 


4  THE  CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS.  [1500. 

The  G.  of  June  landyd  lord  William  of  Devonshere,  ser  John 
Both,  and  dyvers  esquiers  and  gentlemen. 

The  7.  of  June  landyd  the  earle  of  Northumbarland,  with  many 
esquiers  and  gentlemen. 

The  9.  of  June  landyd  the  lorde  Mongoyja  and  ser  John  Wyng- 
fylde,  and  other  esquiers  and  gentlemen. 

The  same  day  kynge  Henry  the  Seventh  and  qwene  Elisabethe  his 
wyfe,  with  many  lords,  ladyes,  knights,  esquiers,  gentlemen  and 
yemen,  met  M'ith  the  duke  of  Burgoyne  ^  at  owr  lady  of  Saint 
Petar's  without  Calays.  Saint  Petar's  churche  was  richely  hanged 
with  arras,  and  ther  they  all  dyned,  for  the  churche  was  partyd 
with  hangings  into  dyvers  offices,  and  when  they  had  dyned  and 
comunyd  ther  was  a  rich  banqAvete,  and  after  the  duke  of  Burgoyne 
dauncyd  with  the  ladyes  of  England,  and  then  toke  leave  of  the 
kynge  and  qwene,  and  rode  that  nyght  to  Gravenynge,  for  he  would 
not  come  within  the  tov.me  of  Caleys. 

The  16.  day  of  June  the  kynge,  the  qwene,  and  all  the  lords  and 
ladyes,  landyd  at  Dover  from  Galleys. 

Speres  of  Caleys,  18.  vyntoners  of  Caleys,  12. 

archars  on  horsbake,  18.  sowldiars  at  Sd.  the  day,  73. 

scowrars  in  the  morninge,  4.         sowldiars  at  vjc?.  the  day,  138. 

sergeaunts  with  typstaves,  6.         day  watche  men,  4. 

constables  of  Calleis,  18.  portars,  12. 

The  whole  yer's  wages  of  the  sowldiars  of  Caleys  and  of  the 
castle  of  the  same,  the  towre  of  Rysbancke,  the  castles  of  Hames 
and  Gwysnes,  and  the  wages  of  the  tresorar  of  the  towne  of  Caleys 
for  his  whole  companye, — 

First  the  lorde  lyvetenaunt  of  the  towne  and  marches  of  Caleys, 
for  his  retinue  the  whole  yere  5635  li.  iij  s.  iiij  d.  starlinge  table. 

The  hevetenaunt  of  the  castle  of  Caleys  for  his  retinew  the 
whole  yere  591  pound,  xvj  s.  viij  d. 

The  lievetenaunt  of  the  towre  of  Ruysbancke  for  his  company 
the  hole  yere  come  [to]  206  pound,  x  s. 

==  Mouiitjoy.  •>  The  aiclKlukc  Philip.     See  the  Appendix. 


1500.]  THE  CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS.  5 

The  tresorar  of  Caleys  towne  for  his  company  the  whole  yere 
comithe  to  1912  pound  starlyng  tabJe. 

The  Uevetenaunt  of  the  castle  of  Guysnes  for  his  retinew  the 
whole  yere  xj  hundred  xlviij  pound,  xviij  s.  iiij  d. 

The  lievetenaunt  of  the  castle  of  Haraes  his  retinew  the  whole 
yere  426  pound  v  s. 

The  some  of  the  \vhole  yeres  wages  of  all  these  places  and 
parcels  before  writen  come  to  9920  pound,  xiij  s.  iiij  d.  starlyn^e 
table. 

1505.  The  16.  of  January  the  xxj.  of  Henry  the  Seventh,  the 
kynge  of  Castle  and  duke  of  Burgoyne,  with  his  wyfe  the  kyno-e 
of  Spayn's  dowghtar,''  landyd  at  Falmowthe  in  England  agaynst 
theyr  wills,  beinge  wethar-dryven.  He  had  kepte  ser  Edmond  a 
Poole  erle  of  SufFolke  in  his  land,  but  before  he  departyd  from  hens 
he  was  fayne  to  send  for  hym,  and  cawse  hyme  here  to  be  dely- 
vered.^ 

Edmond  a  Poole  late  erle  of  SufFolke  was  browght  owt  of  the 

a  Philip  and  Jane,  the  heiress  of  Castille.  The  port  at  which  they  landed  was  Wey- 
mouth, not  Falmouth.  They  were  entertained  by  sir  Thomas  Trenchard,  at  his  mansion 
of  Wolveton  in  Dorsetshire;  and  he  is  traditionally  said  to  have  summoned  to  assist  in 
their  entertainment  his  kinsman  John  Russell,  who  had  been  in  Spain,  and  was  qualified 
to  act  as  an  interpreter.  This  was  the  means  of  Eussell's  introduction  at  Court,  where  he 
became  lord  privy  seal,  earl  of  Bedford,  and  the  founder  of  the  fortunes  of  that  family, 
(See  Wiffen's  Memoirs  of  the  Russells,  vol.  i.  p.  ]  81 .)  Portraits  of  the  king  and  queen  of 
Castille,  which  have  been  preserved  in  the  Trenchard  family,  are  engraved  in  Hutchins's 
Dorsetshire,  1813,  vol.  iii.  p.  22.  A  white  china  bowl,  on  a  foot  bound  with  silver 
still  at  Wolveton,  is  also  said  to  have  been  left  by  them.  Their  subsequent  entertain- 
ment at  court  will  be  seen  in  Hall,  and  the  other  Chronicles. 

^  This  was  in  pursuance  of  a  treaty  made  between  Henry  and  Philip  at  Windsor  9 
Feb.  1505-6,  and  to  be  seen  in  Rymer  ;  one  of  the  articles  of  which  was  that  neither 
sovereign  should  harbour  any  rebel  sulyects  of  the  other.  It  has  been  suggested  that 
the  surrender  of  Edmund  de  la  Pole  was  effected  by  some  threat  or  dread  of  detention 
intimated  to  the  king  of  Castille  when  in  England.  See  the  conversation  stated  by 
Hall  to  have  taken  place  between  the  two  kings  on  the  subject.  The  duke  (not  earl)  of 
Suffolk  was  nephew  to  king  Edward  the  Fourth,  being  the  son  of  the  princess  Elizabeth  of 
York  and  John  duke  of  Suffolk. 


6  THE  CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS.  [1506. 

duke  of  Burgoyn^s  lande  to  Galleys  the  xvj.  of  Marche  [1505-6], 
and  was  convayd  over  to  Dovar  on  the  xxiiij.  day  of  Marche  by 
ser  Henry  Wiette  knight  and  ser  John  Wilshere  knight  and 
comptrowler  of  the  towne  and  marches  of  Galleys,  and  Ix  sowldiars 
of  Galleys  all  in  barneys  ;  where  he  was  receyved  by  ser  Thomas 
Lovell  and  othar,  and  conveyed  to  the  towre  of  London.^ 

1508.  Ser  Richard  Garow  knight,  lievetenaunt  of  the  castle  of 
Galeys,  browght  owt  of  England,  by  the  kyng's  comaundement,  the 
lord  marques  Dorset  and  the  lord  William  of  Devonshire  the  erle 
of  Devonshire's  sone  and  heyre,  whiche  were  bothe  of  kynne  to 
the  late  qwene  Elizabethe  and  of  hir  blode.^  They  had  bene  in  the 
towre  of  London  a  greate  season.  They  were  kepte  prisoners  in  the 
castle  of  Galeys  as  longe  as  kynge  Henry  the  Seventhe  lyved,  and 
shulde  have  bene  put  to  deathe,  yf  he  had  lyved  longar.  They 
wer  browght  in  to  the  castle  of  Galeys  the  xviij.  of  Octobar  the 
xxiij.  of  Henry  the  Seventhe  [1508]. 

The  xxvij.  of  October  there  came  out  of  England  the  byss- 
hope  of  Wynchestar*^  lorde  prevye  scale,  the  erle  of  Surrey 
lorde  treasurar,  and  the  lord  of  Saint  John's,  with  doctor  Weston, 
all  ambassadors  ;  they  landyd  at  Temperlto  in  Pecardye,  and  the  ij 
of  November,  there  came  to  Galeys  out  of  Flaunders  from  the 
duke  of  Burgoyne  the  erle  of  Fynes,  the  lorde  of  Barowe,  and  the 
presydent  of  Flaunders,  with  dyvers  othar  of  the  contrye,  and  with 
them  met  ser  Richard  Garew,  livetenaunt  of  the  castle  of  Galleys, 
and  syr  John  Wilshere  comptrowlar  of  Galeis,  and  Waltar  Cul- 
pepar  undar-marshall  of  Galeys,  and  all  the  speres  and  archars  on 
horsbacke  and  dyvars  sowldiars  all  in  harnes,  for  thes  strangars 
feared  the  Frenche  men ;  but  beinge  browght  in  savetie  to  Galeys, 
there  the  lords  on  bothe  partyes  concludyd  the  mariage  betwixt 
the  duke  of  Burgoyne  and  the  lady   Mary  dowghtar  to  kynge 

'^  "  And  in  the  end  of  the  moneth  of  March  syr  Edmond  de  la  Pool  was  conveyed 
through  the  citie  unto  the  Towre,  and  there  left  as  prysoner,"  (Fahyan.)  He  was  be- 
headed in  April  1513. 

''  See  a  note  in  the  Appendix.  "^  Richard  Fox. 


1507.]  THE  CHRONICLE  OP  CALAIS.  7 

Henry  the  Seventhe/  where  on  seynt  Thomas  day  the  Apostle 
was  great  triumphe  made  in  Calles. 

[1508,]  The  23,  of  Henry  the  Seventh,  the  9.  of  July,  bemge 
relyke  sonday,  there  was  sene  at  Galleys  an  innumerable  swarme 
of  whit  buttarflyes  cominge  out  of  the  north-este  and  flyenge 
south-estewarde,  so  thicke  as  flakes  of  snowe,  that  men  beinge  a 
shutynge  in  Saint  Petar's  filde  without  the  towne  of  Galleys  cowld 
not  se  the  towne  at  fowre  of  the  cloke  in  the  aftarnone,  they  flewe 
so  highe  and  so  thicke. 

1509,  the  24.of  Awgust,  the  1.  of  Henry  the  Eighth,  ther  came 
a  grete  swarme  of  bees,  and  light  on  the  bole  undar  the  wethar- 
coke  of  S.  Nicholas  steple  in  Galeys,  at  xi.  of  the  cloke,  and 
sat  tyll  iij.  in  the  aftarnone. 

[1510.]  In  the  2.  yere  of  Henry  the  Eighth,  the  lorde  Da[r]cie 
went  out  of  England  by  the  kyng's  apoyntment  into  Portingall,'^ 
with  1500  men  of  warre,  and  landyd  at  Skalis  malis  %  but  he  gate 
litle  worshipe  there,  and  therefore  dyvars  of  his  men  lefte  hym 
there,  aud  went  othar  wayes  into  other  contries,  and  some  came 
home  ragged  and  torne. 

"  The  documents  relating  to  this  treaty  will  be  found  in  Rymer,  vol.  xiii.  pp.  171,  175 
— 189.  "The  duke  of  Burgoyne"  is  elsewhere  called  the  Prince  of  Castille,  and  was 
afterwards  the  emperor  Charles  V.  The  Ambassadors  of  Maximilian  his  grandfather  pro- 
ceeded from  Calais  to  England  ;  and  "  The  Solempnities  and  Triumphes  "  performed  on 
the  ratification  of  the  treaty  were  described  in  a  tract  printed  by  Richard  Pynson,  the  sub- 
stance of  which  was  communicated  by  Sir  Henry  Ellis  in  1814  to  the  Society  of  Antiqua- 
ries, and  printed  in  the  Archseologia,  vol.  xviii.  pp.  33 — 39  ;  and  the  tract  itself,  though 
imperfect,  was  reprinted  for  the  Roxburghe  club  at  the  expense  of  John  Dent,  esq.  in 
1818.  See  further  notices  respecting  the  failure  of  this  alliance  in  Ellis's  Original  Let- 
ters, 1st  Series,  vol.  i.  p.  113. 

•^  "This  yere  was  the  lord  Darey  sent  into  Spaine  to  aide  the  kynge  of  Spayne  agaynst 
the  Mores,  but  peace  was  made  before  his  aryvj'nge,  and  so  returned."  Fabyan,  under 
3  Hen,  VIII.     See  also  in  Hall  a  fuller  narrative  than  the  above, 

'^  i.  e.  Cadiz.     See  Dyce's  Skelton,  vol.  i.  p.  135  ;  vol.  ii.  196. 


8  THE  CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS.  [1511. 

1511.  The  3.  yere  of  Henry  the  Eighth;,  in  the  monethe  of  JuHj 
lorde  Ponyngs^  went  out  of  England  into  Geldarland  with  1500 
men  of  warre.  He  toke  shipinge  at  Sandwiche;  and  in  Gilder- 
land  he  conquered  a  little  towne  or  twayne,  and  a  castle  or  twayne, 
and  then  he  went  to  the  siege  of  Fenlawe^*'  for  ther  lay  a  siege 
or  he  cam ;  he  continuyd  with  his  company  till  aftar  all-halewen 
tyde,  and  there  they  were  almoste  betrayed  by  the  lorde  amerall 
of  all  the  easte,*^  for  he  went  ofte  into  the  towne  of  Fenlawe,  and 
had  promysed  the  capitayne  to  deseyve  them  all,  but  the  kyng  of 
England  sent  for  them  to  come  home  into  England;  and  then 
lady  Margaret  duches  of  Savoye,  aunte  to  the  yonge  duke  of  Bur- 
goyne,*!  gaffe  to  all  Englishe  men  coates  of  whit  and  grene,  red 
and  yelowe ;  the  white  and  grene  for  the  kynge  of  England's 
liverye,  the  red  and  yelowe  for  the  duke  of  Burgoyne's  lyvery,  and 
thes  iiij  colours  were  medeled  togethar.  And  [at]  ser  Edward  Poyn- 
ings'  departure,  the  yonge  duke  made  dyvars  gentlemen  of  Eng- 
land knights,  as  ser  John  Skott,  ser  John  Norton,  ser  John  Fogge, 
and  ser  James  Derelle  f  for  our  kynge  sent  the  lorde  Poynings, 
chefe  capitayne,  withe  thes  xv  hundred  men,  for  to  helpe  the 
duke  of  Burgoyne  agayne  the  duke  of  Gilder.  They  all  came 
backe  to  Galleys,  and  so  ovar  to  England,  the  xxv.  of  November. 
Ser  Frauncis  Cheny,  ser  John  Dicky,^  ser  John  Norton,  ser 
John  Scott,  ser  John  Fogge,  and  ser  James  Darell  were  the  chefe 
of  that  army.s 

1512.  The  4.  of  Henry  the  Eighth,  the  2.  of  June,  the  lorde 
marques  Dorset,  as  chefe  capitayne,  and  the  lords  John,  Edward, 

»  Sir  Edward  Poynings,  K.Gr.  For  a  fuller  account  of  this  expedition,  the  reader 
may  again  be  referred  to  Hall.  b  Venloo. 

•=  So  in  MS.  but  qu.  coste. 

^  Charles,  afterwards  the  emperor  Charles  V. 

<^  Instead  of  Darell,  Hall  gives  the  name  of  Thomas  Lind.  '  Read  Digby, 

%  Hall  mentions  beside,  the  lord  Clinton  son-in-law  to  lord  Poynings,  sir  Matthew 
Browne,  John  Warton  (a«  error  for  Norton),  Richard  Whethrill,  (read  Whetehill) 
and Sherley,  esquires. 


1512.]  THE  CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS.  9 

and  Leonard  his  britherne,  with  the  lorde  Howard,  the  lorde 
Brooke,  the  lorde  Ferreyrs,  the  lorde  Willowby,  with  vij.  knights 
and  xi.  esquiers,  with  divars  gentlemen  and  vij  c.  men  of  warre, 
departed  out  of  England  from  Sowthampton,  with  a  great  navy  of 
shipps  to  set  that  company  aland  in  Spayne,  for  to  helpe  the 
kynge  of  Spayne  agaynste  the  Frenche  kynge;^  and  ser  Edward 
Howard  was  lord  adrayrall  of  the  kyng's  flete,  for  to  kepe  the  se 
before  theyr  syttynge  forwarde  ;  but  thes  lords  made  but  a  smal 
jorney  there  at  that  season. 

1512.  The  4.  of  Henry  the  Eighth,  the  kyng's  greate  shippe 
called  the  Sovereigne  was  brente  upon  the  see,^  with  the  greate 
carecke  of  Brest ;  and  in  the  Sovereigne  ser  Thomas  Knevett  was 
one  of  the  capitaynes,  and  ser  John  Carewe  the  tother,  and  they 
were  bothe  brent  in  the  great  caricke  of  Breste,  for  they  were 
entered  in  hir,  and  she  was  almoste  yolden  c  •  and  then  the 
Frenche  men  set  fire  in  hir,  and  brent  bothe  the  shippes,  for  they 
were  faste  crapelyd  together,  and  almost  brent  all  the  men  in 
bothe  shipps. 

*  The  king  of  Spain  had  invaded  Navarre,  and  England  supported  him  in  the  hope  of 
recovering  Guienne.  The  English  army,  however,  effected  nothing,  after  having  lost  800 
men  by  sickness.  See  Stowe's  Chronicle  ;  and  Letters  of  Dr.  William  Knight  to  Wolsey, 
in  Ellis's  Original  Letters,  Second  Series. 

^  A  more  correct  account  of  this  catastrophe  will  be  found  in  Hall.  The  English  ship 
burnt  was  the  Regent,  not  the  Sovei-eign.  The  action  was  commenced  by  the  latter,  in 
which  were  sir  Henry  Guilford  and  sir  Charles  Brandon,  "  but  by  negligence  of  the 
maistre,  or  else  by  smoke  of  the  ordinance,  or  otherwise,  the  Soveraigne  was  caste  at  the 
stem  of  the  carrike."  The  Regent,  commanded  by  Sir  Thomas  Knevet,  who  had  been 
preparing  to  board  another  vessel  called  "  the  great  shippe  of  Deepe,"  then  suddenly 
made  for  the  carrick,  and  was  able  "  to  craple  with  her  along-boorde  ;  "  and  after  a  cruel 
fight  the  explosion  took  place,  and  both  ships  were  burnt.  With  sir  Thomas  Knevet  and 
sir  John  Carew  were  seven  hundred  men,  who  were  all  drowned  or  burnt  ;  in  the  car- 
rick were  nine  hundred  Frenchmen,  a  few  of  whom  were  saved  by  the  James  of  Hull. 
The  carrick  is  said  to  have  appertained  to  the  queen  of  France,  and  was  called  Cordelier  ; 
her  commander  sir  Piers  Morgan,  which  name  perhaps  is  Anglicised.  A  letter  of  Wolsey, 
describing  the  loss  of  the  Regent,  is  in  MS.  Cotton.  Vitell.  B.  ii.  f.  180,  and  printed  by 
Fiddes,  Collections,  No.  9. 

^'  i.  e.  surrendered. 
CAMD.  SOC.  C 


10  THE  CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS.  [1513. 

1513.  The  5.  of  Henry  the  Eighth^  Edward  Howard,  lorde 
amerall,  was  slayne  with  the  Frenche  men  before  the  towne  of 
Brest,  on  the  coaste  of  Britaigne,  in  the  monithe  of  May.» 

The  vi.  of  June,  the  erle  of  Shrewsbery  landyd  at  Caleys,  beinge 
chefe  capitaine  of  the  forwarde  goinge  into  France;  with  hym  landyd 
the  erle  of  Darby,  the  lord  Hasty ngs,  the  lorde  Fitzwaltar,  and 
ser  Rafe  ap  Thomas  knight  baneret,  ser  Randill  of  Brewton,  ser 
John  Crofts,  ser  John  of  Assheton,  ser  John  Dicby  knight  mar- 
shall  of  the  forwarde,  ser  John  Hogan,  ser  Alisander  Baynham, 
ser  Edward  Belknappe,  ser  Sampson  Norton  master  of  the  orde- 
nance  of  the  forward,  and  ser  [Richard]  Cheverall^  tresorar  of 
the  warrs  of  the  forward,  with  dyvars  knights  and  esquiers,  with 
ther  retynewe  of  xv.  thowsand  men  of  warr,  besyde  all  othar  fol- 
lowers. 

The  7-  of  June  landyd  the  lord  of  St.  John's  c  with  dyvars  gen- 
tlemen and  men  of  warre  to  goo  in  the  forward. 

The  viij.  of  June  landyd  the  lord  Cobham  with  dyvers  othars. 

The  viiij.  of  June  landyd  the  baron  of  Dudley  with  his  retinew. 

The  X.  of  June  landed  the  erle  of  Wilshere  the  duke  of  Bok- 
ingham's  brothar,  and  the  lorde  Herberd,  *^  than  beinge  lord 
chamberlayn  of  the  kyng's  howse,  the  baron  of  Burforth,^  and  the 

"  This  did  not  happen  in  May,  but  on  the  25tli  April  1513,  in  an  attempt  to  cut  out 
some  French  gallies  in  the  harbour  of  Conquet.  In  a  letter  written  by  king  James  IV. 
(probably  his  last)  to  king  Henry,  dated  Edinburgh,  the  24:th  May,  the  event  is  thus 
alluded  to,  as  an  argument  for  peace  between  Christian  princes :  "And  surlie,  derrest 
brothir,  we  think  mair  lose  is  to  you  of  joure  lait  admirall,  quha  decessit  to  his  grete 
honour  and  laude,  than  the  avantage  micht  have  bene  of  the  vynnyng  of  all  the  Franche 
galeis  and  tliair  equippage.  The  saidis  unquhile  vai^eant  knichtis  service,  and  utheris 
noble  men  that  mon  on  baith  the  sides  apparently  be  perist,  geve  weir  (if  war)  continew, 
war  bettir  applyt  aponn  the  innemyis  of  Crist,  quhairintill  all  cristen  men  war  well 
warit."  It  is  melancholy  to  remark  that,  in  less  than  four  months  after  penning  these 
lines,  king  James  fell  in  battle  fighting  against  an  army  of  the  "  dearest  brother "  he 
thus  addressed,  and  which  was  commanded  by  the  father  of  the  man  of  whom  he  here 
speaks  in  such  handsome  terms.  Sir  Edward  Howard,  K.G.  was  the  third  son  of  the 
e;irl  of  Surrey,  soon  after  restored  to  the  dukedom  of  Norfolk. 

''  Sacheverall.  <=  Thomas  Docwra,  the  lord  prior  of  St.  John's. 

•^  Sir  Charles  Somerset,  lord  Herbert. 

*  Sir  Thomas  Cornwall,  baron  of  Burford. 


1513.]  THE  CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS.  11 

barone  of  Carewe/  with  dyvars  knights  and  esquiers,  gentlemen, 
and  men  of  warre,  to  goo  in  the  seconde  warde. 

The  xij.  day  of  June  landyd  the  erle  of  Kent,  the  lord  Awdeley, 
the  baron  Curson,  and  dyvars  othar  for  the  seconde  warde. 

Ther  landyd  also  in  thes  dayes,  ser  Richard  Wentworthe,  ser 
Arthur  HoptoUj  ser  Thomas  Grene,  ser  John  Raynforthe,  ser  John 
Awdley,  ser  Thomas  Leighton,  ser  Robart  Demmocke,  ser  John 
Husse,  ser  Davie  Owen,  with  othar  gentlemen. 

The  xiij.  of  June  landyd  the  lord  Dakers  and  the  lord  Suche, 
with  dyvars  gentlemen  and  men  of  warr  for  to  serve  the  kynge. 
On  the  sayde  xiij.  day  the  erle  of  Shrewsbery,  the  erle  of  Derby, 
the  lord  Hastyngs,  the  lord  Fitzwatar,  the  lorde  of  Seint  John's, 
the  lorde  Cobham,  the  lord  Awdley,  ser  Rys  ap  Thomas,  with 
dyvars  knights  and  squiers  with  their  retinewe  set  toward  Fraunce, 
and  lay  the  first  night  betwixt  Newname  brydge  and  the  cawsey, 
with  ther  retinewe  to  the  nombar  of  xvj.  thowsand,  and  the  next 
night  betwixt  Sandingfilde  and  Margysen,  and  the  next  night 
almost  at  Margysen,  iij.  miles  without  the  Englyshe  pale,  where 
they  lay  tyll  the  forwarde  cam  to  them. 

The  xvj.  of  June  the  lorde  Herberd,  lord  chamberleyne  of  the 
kyngs  howse  and  chefe  capitayne  of  the  second  warde,  the  erle  of 
Wilshere,  the  erle  of  Kent,  the  baron  of  Burforthe,  the  baron  of 
Carewe,  the  baron  Cursen,  with  dyvars  knights  and  esquiers  and 
men  of  warre,  to  the  nombar  of  x.  thowsand  men  of  warre,  set 
fro  Caleys  and  lay  the  first  night  betwixt  Newnara  bridge  and  the 
cawsey,  the  next  night  betwyxt  Sandyngfild  and  Margison,  and  so 
to  the  forwarde,  where  they  lay  ij.  or  iij.  nights,  and  no  Frenche- 
men  came  to  them,  and  they  wente  almoste  to  Boloyne,  and  then 
returned  and  went  to  Terwen,''  and  beseged  it. 

The  xvij.  day  of  June  landyd  at  Caleys  ser  Moris  Barkeley,  ser 
William  Sands,  ser  John  Seemer,  and  vij  c.  Almayns  that  cam  out 
of  England. 

*  Sir  Edmund  Carew.  ''  Theroueniip. 


12  THE  CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS.  [1513. 

The  xviij.  of  June  came  v  c.  Almayns  out  of  Flandars  into  the 
Englyshe  pale,  and  there  taried  the  kyng's  coraynge. 

The  xxj.  of  June  landyd  the  lord  marques  of  Dorset,  ser  Adrian 
Forteskewe,  ser  Thomas  Luce,  ser  Richard  Caundishe,  ser  John 
Woderofe,  and  many  esquiers  and  gentlemen. 

The  xxij.  of  June  landyd  the  lorde  Roose,  the  lorde  Dacy,^  and 
ser  Robert  Brandon,  and  othar  esquiers  and  gentlemen. 

The  XXV.  of  June  landyd  the  duke  of  Bukingham,  with  divars 
knights,  esquiers,  and  gentlemen. 

The  xxvij.  of  June  landyd  the  erle  of  North umbarland,  ser  John 
Pechy,'^  ser  John  Arundell,  and  ij.  of  the  lorde  marques  Dorset^ s 
bretherne,  with  othar  knights,  esquiers,  and  gentlemen. 
Thexxviij.of  June  landyd  the  lorde  Barnes  withdyvars  gentlemen. 

When  the  erle  of  Shrewsbury  with  his  hoste,  and  the  lord  Her- 
bert with  his  oste,  were  before  the  towne  of  Turwen  lyinge  at  the 
siege,  ser  Edmond  Carowe,  baron,  was  slayne  with  a  gonne,  in  the 
lord  Herberd's  pavilion  ;  his  body  was  buryed  at  Caleys. 

Shortly  aftar  that  this  army  was  before  Terwyne,  there  was 
dayly  sent  carts  out  of  Caleys  laden  with  brede  and  beare  and 
victuales  to  the  oste  that  lay  before  Terwyne,  whereof  when  the 
Frenche  men  knewe,  they  lay  in  awayte,  set  on  them,  bett  them, 
and  slewe  a  iij  c.  Engiishe  men,  toke  many  prisonars,  [and]  put  the 
rest  to  flight.  Ser  Nicholas  Vasse,^  lyve-tenaunt  of  Gwisnes 
castle,  and  ser  Edward  Belknape,  and  othar  divars  capitaynes 
that  went  to  conduct  the  carts,  fled  to  Arde  for  socowre,  or  els  they 
had  been  slayne  or  taken .<i 

The  last  day  of  June  kynge  Henry  landyd  at  Caleys  ;  with  hym 
landed  thebj-sshope  of  Wynchestar  lord  prevye  seale,^  the  byshope 
of  Durham,^  the  earle  of  Essex,?  the  vicount  Lile,'^  the  lorde  Wil- 

*  Darcy. 

^  Sir  John  Pechy  was  "  vice-governor  of  all  the  horsemen"  in  this  campaign. — Hall. 

'^^  Vaux.  ''  This  occurred  on  the  27th  of  June. — Hall.  "=  Richard  Fox. 

'  Thomas  Ruthall.  «  The  earl  of  Essex  was  "  lieutenant-generall  of  the  spears." — Hall. 

*•  Charles  Brandon.  He  was  "  marshal  of  the  host  and  captaine  of  the  forewarde."  He 
had  heen  created  viscount  Lisle  on  the  15th  May  preceding. 


1513.]  THE  CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS^ 


lowbye,  the  lord  Broke,  the  lord  Fitzwaren,  and  the  lord  of  Bur- 
genye,  ser  Edward  Poynyngs,  ser  Henry  Marney,  ser  William 
Sydney,  ser  John  Foskew,^  ser  Edward  Cobham,  ser  Adrian 
Wyndsore  tresurar  of  the  warris  of  the  kyng's  oste,  ser  William 
Vaumpage,  ser  Griffithe  Doon,  ser  Antony  Outtred,  with  many 
othar  knights,  esquiers,  and  othar. 

The  viij.  of  July  there  cam  to  the  kynge  at  Caleis  embassadors 
from  Maximilian,  then  emperowre ;  ther  came  also  dyvars  great 
men  from  the  lady  Margaret  duchesse  of  Savoy,  the  emperowr's 
doughter. 

The  xiiij.  of  July  ther  came  to  Caleis  ambassadors  from  the 
kynge  of  Spayne ;  they  spake  there  withe  kynge  Henry  of 
England,  and  returnyd. 

The  xxj.  of  July  the  kynge  departed  from  Caleys,  forwarde, 
and  he  lay  the  first  nyght  betwixt  Calkewell  and  Freydon,  the  next 
night  before  the  castle  of  Gwisnes  at  Bocarde  ;  the  next  night 
he  lay  besyde  Arde  a  good  way  without  the  Englyshe  pale,  and 
when  he  was  a  lytle  beyond  Dornome  there  came  a  great  oste  of 
Frenchemen  that  wer  purposed  to  have  set  upon  hym  to  have 
taken  or  slayn  hym,  but  the  kynge  with  his  ost  kept  theyr  grownd, 
and  shot  theyr  greate  ordinance,  and  barke^  the  array  of  the 
Frenche  men.  In  this  busynes  there  was  a  greate  gonne  of  brasse 
callyd  one  of  the  xij  Apostles,c  with  dyvars  othar  ordinaunce 
that  cam  not  redelye  aftar  the  kynge,  where  of  the  Frenche  men 
heringe  cam  and  kyllyd  many  cartars  and  laborars ;  amonge  the 
whiche  they  kyllyd  Gorge  Buckemer  the  kyng's  mastar  carpentar  of 
the  towne  of  Caleys  ;  they  toke  many  prisonars. 

The  first  day  of  August  a  bushement  of  Frenchemen  came  to 
the  cawsey  but  a  myle  and  halfe  out  of  Caleys,  where  they 
brenned  howses,  toke   many  men  prisonars,  drofFe  away  horses, 

»  Forteseue.  ''  brake. 

■^  Termed  by  Hall  "  a  great  curtail  called  the  John  Evangelist."     It  was  overthrown  in 
a  deep  pond  of  water. 


14  THE  CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS.  [1513. 

mares,  kyne,  shepe,  l^oggs,  and  all   othar  things  that  they  might 
carry  away  with  them  at  theyr  pleasure  to  the  towne  of  Boleyne. 

The  iiij.  of  August  the  Frenchemen  cam  to  the  vyllage  called 
Bonyngs  within  the  English  pale  in  the  morninge,  and  there  toke 
dyvars  prisonars,  with  all  the  cattayll,  and  othar  pilferye. 

The  X.  of  Awgust  Maximilian  emperowr  of  Almayne  came  to 
kynge  Henry  of  England  besyde  Terwyn,  and  there  the  empe- 
rowre  had  wages  of  the  kynge. 

The  xvi.  of  Awgust,  there  came  a  greate  oste  of  Frenche  men  to 
dryve  kynge  Henry  from  the  sige  of  Turwyne,  hut  the  kynge  met 
with  them  a  litle  besyde  Terwyne,  and  kylled  many  of  them,  put 
the  othar  to  flight,  and  toke  many  great  men  prisoners,  as  the 
prince  of  Naverne,  the  duke  of  Longevile,  mounsure  Clermonde 
amerall  of  Fraunce,  monsur  Delefer. 

The  xviij.  of  Awgust  there  cam  x  m'.  Scotts  into  England,  for  to 
distroy  the  northe  partes,  but  mayny  of  them  were  slayne,  and 
theyr  grete  men  taken  prisonars. 

The  xxiij.  day  of  Awguste  the  towne  of  Terwen  was  gyven  ovar 
unto  the  kynge  of  England,  with  condition  that  all  the  men  of 
were  that  kept  the  towne  shuld  safely  passe  with  horse  and  harnyes, 
but  nothinge  els;  and  so  on  the  xxiiij.  day  of  Awgust  there  came 
out  of  the  towne  iiij  m'.  men  of  warre  and  more,  well  apoynted, 
whereof  about  vi  c.  were  well  horsed ;  ther  standards  were  borne 
before  them. 

When  James  kynge  of  Scotts  hard  that  his  Scotts  and  lords 
were  taken,  and  many  of  them  kylled  in  England,  he  prepared  and 
cam  with  a  greate  nombar  of  Scotts  and  many  wyld  Yreshemen.  He 
made  his  vowe  that  he  would  distroy  all  the  northe  parte  of  Eng- 
land, becaws  kynge  Henry  warryd  agaynst  the  French  kynge  his 
greate  cosyn;  and  so  he  cam  into  England  and  bet  downe  Norham 
castle,  and  came  on  still  to  a  more  callyd  Bramston  more,  and  on 
the  vij  of  September,  the  erle  of  Surrey  being  lord  protector  of  the 
realme,  the  lord  Dakers  of  the  Northe,  the  lord  Howard  then  lord 
admarall  and  sone  to  the  earle  of  Surrey,  the  lord  Ferrers,  the 


1513.]  THE  CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS.  15 

lorde  Coniers,  and  ser  William  Percye  the  erle  of  Northumber- 
land's brothar,  with  dyvers  other  knights  and  esquiers  with  theyr 
retinue,  met  with  James  kynge  of  Scotts  and  there  kylled  hym,  &c. 

The  xxj.  day  of  Septembar,  when  kynge  Henry  had  don  his 
pleasure  in  the  towne  of  Terwyne,  he  cam  before  the  citie  of  Tur- 
ney  with  his  hoste ;  he  bet  downe  towrs  and  gates,  and  the  walles 
in  dyvars  places,  wherefore  on  the  same  xxj.  day  of  Septembar  the 
citizens  besowght  hym  of  pitye,  and  he  grauntyd  them  his  peace, 
and  had  the  citie  at  his  pleasure  with  all  the  comodities  belong- 
ynge  thereto,  to  do  withe  men  and  goods  what  it  pleased  hym. 
And  when  the  kynge  had  bene  a  certayne  days  and  sene  the  citie 
abowte,  he  made  ser  Edward  Ponyngs  his  lyvetenaunt  of  that  citie, 
and  then  he  made  a  marshall,  a  comptrowlar,  a  master  portar,  with 
other  officers,  and  with  them  he  lefte  iiij  thowsand  good  men,  and 
made  many  yonge  knights,  &c.  When  he  had  taken  order  for  the 
citie  of  Turney,  and  the  Frenche  men  fled  out  and  gone,  then  he 
returned  Avith  his  armye  and  enteryd  the  towne  of  Galleys  on  the 
xix.  of  October,  and  the  xxj.  day  he  sayled  ovar  to  Dovar. 

Charles  Brandon,  sone  to  ser  William  Brandon  that  bare 
kynge  Henry's  standard  at  Bosworthe  filde,  and  was  ther  slayn, 
was  made  duke  of  Suffolke.  » 

1514.  The  xiij.  May  the  6.  of  Henry  the  Eighth,  ser  Thomas 
Lovell  landyd  at  Caleys  with  c.  men  of  ware,  and  ther  cam  to  hym 
iij  c.  aftarward. 

The  XV.  of  May  landyd  ser  John  Pechye  with  c.  men. 

The  xix.  of  May  landyd  ser  Wyllyam  Sands  with  c.  men. 

The  xxij.  of  May  landyd  the  lorde  Burgaveny,  the  lord  Daw- 
beny,  lord  Clinton,  lord  Cobham,  syr  Richard  LcM'es,  ser  John 
RaynfForthe,  ser  William  Scott,  ser  John  Scott  his  sonne,  ser  Ed- 
warde  Gilforthe,  ser  Henry  Gilforthe,  ser  John  Norton,  ser  John 
Fogge,  ser  Mathew  Browne,  and  ser  James  Derellcj  with  dyvars 
esquiers  and  gentlemen,  and  men  of  warre  to  the  nombar  of  v  m. 
The  lord  Burgayny  was  chefe  capitayne  of  all. 

a  On  the  1st  Feb,  1514. 


16  THE  CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS.  [1314. 

The  xiij.  of  Awguste  peace  was  proclaymed  betwyxt  the  kyngs  of 
England  and  Fraunce. 

The  XXX.  of  Septembar  kynge  Henries  greate  shipe  with  iiij. 
toppes  called  the  Lubicke,  was  broken  and  loste,  a  litle  from  San- 
gate,  weste  of  Caleys  ;  there  was  in  hir  at  that  tyme  almoaste  v  c. 
men,  sowldiars  and  mariners,  that  ware  apoyntyd  for  to  conducte 
the  lady  Mary  the  kyng's  sistar,  for  to  brynge  her  to  Boloyne  to  be 
wedded  to  the  Frenche  kynge ;  and  she  was  maried  before  by 
attorney  the  lord  Rever  to  the  yonge  duke  of  Burgoyne,  by  his 
father's  apoyntment :  there  was  not  one  hundred  of  the  v  c.  men 
saved. 

The  2.  of  Octobar  the  lady  Mary  dowghter  to  Henry  the 
Seventh  arrived  at  [Boulogne] ;  they  set  out  of  Dover  xiiij.  gret 
shipps,  but  landyd  at  Boleyn  with  iiij,  for  the  othar  [were]  driven 
by  tempest,  some  to  one  place  some  to  an  other,  with  great 
jepartye. 

The  Frenche  kyng  Lewes  maried  lady  Mary  the  kyng's  systar 
of  England  at  Abafilde  *  in  Picardy,  the  9.  of  October. 

The  XX.  of  Octobar  ser  Charles  Brandon,  late  made  duke  of  Suf- 
folke,  landyd  at  Galleys,  with  ser  Edward  Nevile  lord  Burgevenies 
brothar,  [and]  ser  William  Sydney,  all  in  grey  coates  and  whodes, 
becaws  they  would  not  be  knowne ;  they  rode  to  Paris  to  the  just- 
inge  at  the  coronation.'' 

The  xxvj.  of  Octobar  ser  Henry  Gilford  landyd  at  Caleis,  with 
two  sergeants  at  armes  and  xx.  yemen  of  the  crowne  and  kyngs 
garde,  to  goo  to  the  citi  of  Paris  with  x.  or  xij.  goodly  horses,  to  be 
at  the  justs  at  the  coronation  of  lady  Mary  qwene  of  Fraunce.<= 

*  Abbeville.  Two  despatches  written  by  the  Earl  of  Worcester  to  Cardinal  Wolsey  and 
the  King,  dated  respectively  from  Abbeville  on  the  3d  and  13th  of  October,  which  are 
printed  in  Ellis's  Original  Letters,  Second  Series,  give  an  interesting  account  of  King 
Louis's  reception  of  his  bride  ;  and  two  letters  of  Mary  herself  to  her  brother  and  Wolsey, 
dated  Abbeville,  12  Oct.  are  in  the  First  Series  of  the  same  Collection,  See  also  the 
Rutland  Papers,  p.  26. 

''  Several  despatches  of  these  ambassadors  are  preserved  in  the  MS.  Cotton.  Calig.  D. 
VI.  and  some  of  them  are  printed  in  Ellis's  Original  Letters,  Second  Series. 

«  The  coronation  took  place  at  St.  Denis  on  the  5th  of  November. 


1514.]  THE  CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS.  17 

The  last  of  Decembar,  Lewes  kynge  of  Fraunce  deceased. 

1515.  Mary  the  Frenche  qwene  cam  to  Caleys  out  of  Fraunce 
the  XXV.  of  Aprell,  with  Charles  Brandon,  who  had  been  with  her 
in  Fraunce  sence  the  xix.  of  January.'*"^ 

The  2.  of  May,  Mary  qwene  of  Fraunce  toke  shippe  at  Caleys 
with  the  duke  of  Suflfolke  and  other,  and  landyd  the  same  nyght 
at  Dovar. 

The  13.  of  May  Mary  the  Frenche  qwene  was  maried  at  Grene- 
wiche  to  Charles  Brandon  duke  of  Suffolke.^ 

1518.  The  x.  of  Henry  the  Eighth,  landyd  at  Caleis  the  xiiij. 
of  November  the  bysshope  of  Ely,c  the  erle  of  Worcestar  lord 
chambarlen  of  England,  and  the  lord  of  Saint  John's,  thes  iij.  beinge 
chefe  ambassadors  into  Fraunce  to  finishe  the  mariage  betwyxt 
the  dolfyn  of  Fraunce'^  and  the  princes  of  England,  the  kyng's 

*  The  duke  of  Suffolk,  sir  Richard  Wingfield,  and  doctor  West,  "  with  a  goodly  bande 
of  yomen,  all  in  black,"  (Hall)  had  been  sent  in  embassy  to  Paris  to  negociate  the  settle- 
ment of  the  Queen's  dower. 

''  It  was  rumoured  at  the  time  (says  Hall)  that  the  queen  and  duke  had  been  married 
secretly  whilst  at  Paris,  and  it  is  now  ascertained  that  such  was  the  fact,  and  that  the 
event  took  place  about  the  latter  end  of  February.  In  letters  (unfortunately  half  burnt) 
in  the  MS.  Cotton.  Caligula,  D.  vi.  this  is  stated  by  Suffolk  himself,  and  alluded  to  by 
Wolsey  :  also  in  the  miscellaneous  Exchequer  documents  at  the  Rolls  House  (as  I  am 
kindly  informed  by  Mrs.  Green,  who  is  engaged  on  the  biography  of  the  Princesses  of 
England,)  there  is  a  draught  in  Wolsey's  hand  of  a  reproving  letter  from  him  to  the 
duke  of  Suffolk  on  the  subject,  and  a  letter  of  exculpation  from  Mary  to  Henry  VIII. 
The  hotel  de  Clugny  in  Paris  (which  has  recently  been  converted  into  a  most  interesting 
mediaeval  museum)  was  the  residence  of  la  llanche  reine  (as  it  was  customary  to  term 
the  royal  widows),  and  was  certainly  the  scene  of  this  secret  marriage.  Some  of  our  his- 
torical writers,  as  Sir  Henry  Ellis  (Orig.  Letters,  1st  Series,  i.  123),  Sharon  Turner,  and 
the  author  of  the  Pictorial  History  of  England,  have  stated  that  the  public  solemnity  of 
the  marriage  took  place  at  Calais  ;  but  for  this  there  appears  no  foundation.  The  mar- 
riage at  Greenwich  on  the  13th  of  May  is  confirmed  by  several  authorities :  but  it  would 
have  been  unnecessary  if  any  such  solemnization  had  taken  place  at  Calais. 
Nicholas  West. 

**  i.  e.  Francis,  afterwards  Francis  II.,  and  Mai-y,  afterwards  queen  of  England.  See 
various  documents  on  this  projected  alliance  in  Rymer. 

CAMD.  SOC.  D 


18  THE  CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS.  [1519. 

tlowghter,  and  to  delyvar  agaj^n  the  citie  of  Turney,^  that  Henry 
the  Eighth  had  conqwered,  and  sens  buylded  a  new  castle,  the 
whiche  cost  hym  many  a  thowsand  pounds. 

The  citie  of  Turney  was  delyvered  on  the  x.  of  February  by 
ser  Charles  Beawforde,  earle  of  Worcester,  lord  chamberlayne  of 
England,  and  the  lord  of  Seynt  John's.^ 

1519.  The  xvij.  of  Marche  the  11.  of  Henry  the  Eighth  Ian dyd 
at  Caleys  ser  Nicholas  Vauxe,  ser  Edward  Bellknape,  ser  William 
Sands  knight  of  the  gartar,  commissioners  to  ovar-se  the  makynge 
of  a  palace  before  the  castle  gate  of  Gwines,  wherefore  there  was 
sent  the  kyng's  mastar  mason,  mastar  carpentar,  and  iii  c.  masons 
and  V  c.  carpentars,  one  c.  joynars,  many  payntars,  glaysers,  tay- 
lors,  smythes,  and  other  artificers  bothe  out  of  England  and 
Flaundars  to  the  nombar  in  all  ij  m.  and  more.  The  sayd  palays 
was  begone  the  xix.  of  Marche,  for  the  whiche  miche  tymbar  was 
bowght  in  Hoiand,  whiche  tymbar  was  so  longe  that  the  same  was 
bownden  togethar,  and  browght  to  Caleys  without  any  shype,  for 
no  shype  mowght  receyve  it,  all  the  tymbar  borde  that  cowld 
be  browght  out  of  England,  whiche  palays  was  framed  in  many 
places,  all  the  roves  whereof  was  paynted  canvas,  and  all  the 
walls  from  the  second  plate  downward.  It  was  allso  glased  with  the 
best  glass  that  cowld  be  gotten,  from  the  over  plate,  the  second 
plate  of  the  stone  wall  downward ;  and  undar  the  lofte  of  the 
palays  round  abowt  were  bowses  of  office,  as  pantrye,  botrye, 
sellar,  and  dyvars  othar.  And  at  the  campe  betwixt  Gwysnes  and 
Arde  was  cut  a  greate  dyke,  a  greate  compas  abowte,  and  within 
the  sayd  dyke  was  made  a  tilte  for  men  to  juste  at,  and  a  goodly 
bowse  and  galerie  for  the  kynges  and  qwenes  and  lords  and  ladyes 

*  The  Treaty  for  this  measure  was  made  at  London  on  the  4th  Oct.  1516  (Rymer, 
xiii.  642)  ;  and  four  days  after  a  further  Treaty  was  made  for  an  interview  to  take  place 
between  Henry  and  Francis  (ibid.  695).     This,  however,  was  deferred  until  1520. 

.  *•  See  the  instrument  bearing  this  date  in  RjTner,  xiii.  694,  and  others  relating  to  the 
sum  of  600,000  crowns  paid  by  the  French  king  for  the  surrender,  ibid.  697,  et  seq. 


1520.]  THE  CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS.  19 

for  to  stond  in  for  to  se  the  justes  and  turncys  and  other  masteryes 
ther  done  of  the  lords  and  othar.  This  triumphe  continyed  xx. 
dayes  space  with  the  days  of  the  metynge  of  the  ij.  kyngs. 

1520.  The  xiij.  of  Aprell  the  xj.  of  Henry  the  Eighth,  the  erle  of 
Worcestar,  lorde  chamberlayne  of  Englande,  landyd  at  Caleys  for 
to  goo  to  Gwynes  and  the  campe  of  the  kyng's  counsell  of  Caleys, 
for  to  mete  with  dyvars  lords  of  Fraunce  for  to  aj^oynte  the  grownd 
at  the  campe,  where  the  justs  and  turnements  shuld  be  kepte 
moaste  convenient  for  suche  a  triumphe  for  so  noble  kyngs  and 
qwenes. 

The  apoyntment  for  the  kynge  a  to  atend  upon  hym  over  the  sea 
to  Caleys  in  the  xij.  yere  of  his  reigne,  1520 : 

Spirituall. 

First    the     archbysshope    of  the  bysshope  of  Ely.^ 

Yorke,  cardinall.*^  the  bysshope  of  Chestar.' 

tharchbysshopeof  Cantorbery.c  the  bysshope  of  Excetar.? 

the  bysshope  of  Durham/^  tharchbysshopeof  Armachane.'' 

*  The  list  of  names  which  now  follows  is  to  be  compared  with  another  formed  on  t''e 
same  occasion  which  was  inserted  in  the  Rutland  Papers,  pp.  29 — 38.  Of  the  latter 
document  there  is  a  duplicate  copy  in  the  Harleian  MSS.  No  2210,  art.  1.  bearing  this 
title  :  "  The  appointment  for  the  King  and  the  Queen  to  Cantei-bury,  and  soe  to  Callais  and 
Guisnes,  to  the  meeting  of  the  French  king.  ■"  It  supplies  the  following  corrections  or  varia- 
tions :  Rutland  Papers,  p.  30,  Bishops'  servants,  xxxiij.  not  xxxiiij  ;  the  name  mentioned 
in  p.  32,  note  (  "^  )  occurs,  it  is  Sir  Nicholas  Carew,  not  Carver  ;  p.  33,  the  Emperor's  Am- 
bassadors' horses,  for  xxiij  read  xviij  ;  the  Venetian  Ambassadors'  servants,  for  xxiij  read 
xviij.  Among  the  Heralds,  p.  34,  is  inserted  Somerset,  and  among  the  Pursuivants  Rise- 
bank.  Among  the  Knights,  p.  36,  occurs  the  name  of  Sir  William  Reade,  and  Sir  Thomas 
Trenchard  is  omitted.  Both  the  countesses  of  Oxford  are  omitted,  and  the  countess  of 
Dorset  inserted.  P.  37,  Every  knight's  wife  that  had  no  husband  to  have  a  gentlernan, 
not  a.  woman  ;  sed  qu  ?    P.  38, /or  Aphard  reac?  Apleyard. 

"  Thomas  Wolsey.  '^  William  Warham.  "^  Thomas  Ruthall. 

^  Nicholas  West.  '  Geoffrey  Blyth.  s  John  Voysey,  alias  Ilarman. 

''  Octavian  de  Palatio. 


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THE  CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS. 


[1520. 


Temporall  lords. 


the  duke  of  Buckyngham. 

the  duke  of  SufFolke. 

the  marqwes  Dorsset. 

the  erle  of  Shrewesbery. 

the  erle  of  Essex. 

the  erle  of  Devonshere. 

the  erle  of  Westmerland. 

the  erle  of  Stafford. 

the  erle  of  Kent. 

the  erle  of  Wilshere. 

the  erle  of  Worcestar. 

the  erle  of  Northumbarland. 

the  erle  of  Oxenforde. 

the  erle  of  Keldare. 

the  lord  of  Sent  John's. 

the  lord  Fitzwatar. 

the  lorde  of  Burgaveny. 

the  lord  Hastings. 


the  lorde  Roos. 

the  lorde  Mountagewe. 

the  lord  Ferris. 

the  lord  Darsse. 

the  lord  Dawbeney. 

the  lord  Barnes. 

the  lord  Edmond  Howard. 

the  lord  Herberd. 

the  lorde  John  Grey. 

the  lorde  Leonard  Grey. 

the  lord  Richard  Grey. 

the  lorde  Broke. 

the  lorde  Lonaeley. 

the  lorde  Materface.  ( ?  ) 

the  lorde  Delaware. 

the  lorde  Dakers  of  the 

Sowthe. 
the  lorde  Cobham. 


Chapleytis  for  the  Kynge. 


the  mastar  of  the  roles.^ 
the  mastar  secretary, 
the  dene  of  the  chaple. 
the  kyng's  almoner, 
the  deane  of  Salisbury, 
tharchedeacon  of  Richemond. 
doctar  Taylor. 


doctar  Denton. 

doctar  Fell. 

doctar  Knight. 

doctar  Stokesley. 

doctar  Higgans. 

mastar  Magnus. 

the  clerke  of  the  closet. 


Cutbbert  Tunstall. 


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THE  CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS. 


21 


Knights 


of  Barkshire. 
ser  John  Dauncy. 
ser  William  Essex, 
ser  Richard  Morreis. 
ser  John  Cheny. 
ser  Edward  Chambarleyn. 
ser  William  Bretayne. 

Hamshere. 
ser  William  Sands, 
ser  Richard  Weston, 
ser  William  Fitzwilliam. 
ser  Nicholas  Wadham. 
ser  Arthure  Plantaginet. 

Northamtonshire. 
ser  Nicholas  Vauxe. 
ser  William  Aparie. 

Kent. 
ser  Edward  Ponyngs. 
ser  Edward  Gilforthe. 
ser  Henry  Gilforthe. 
ser  Thomas  Boleyn. 
ser  John  Pechye. 
ser  Thomas  Chauncye. 
ser  Thomas  Nevile. 
ser  Edmond  Walsyngham. 

Devonshire. 
ser  Pierce  Edgecombe. 


ser  William  Corteney. 
ser  Edward  Pomery. 

Worse  tars  hire. 
ser  Gilbert  Talbot, 
ser  Richard  Uptoins. 
ser  GrifFen  Aprise. 
ser  William  Compton. 
ser  William  Morgayne. 
ser  John  Ragland. 

Hertfordshire. 
ser  Thomas  Cornewalle. 
ser  Richard  Cornewalle. 
ser  Raufe  Egarton. 

Glocestarshire. 
ser  Mawris  Barkley. 
ser  John  Hungerforde. 
ser  William  Kyngstone. 
ser  Antony  Poynes. 
ser  Edward  Wadeham. 

Lyncolneshire. 
syr  John  Hussie. 
ser  Thomas  Newporte. 
ser  Myles  Busshey. 
ser  William  Master, 
ser  William  Hussie. 
ser  Christopher  Willeby. 
ser  Thomas  Burgis  junior, 
ser  William  Halforde. 


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THE  CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS. 


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Yorkeshire. 
«er  Robert  Constable, 
ser  William  Bilmar. 
ser  Richard  Tempest. 

Sowthsex, 
ser  Thomas  West, 
ser  Davy  Owen . 
ser  Henry  Owen, 
ser  John  Fynche. 

Wilshere. 
ser  Edward  Hungerforde. 
ser  John  Seemer. 
ser  Henry  Longe. 

Snffolke. 
ser  Robert  Curson. 
ser  Richard  Wentford. 
ser  Anthony  Wingfeld. 
ser  Robert  Drewry. 
ser  Arthure  Hopton. 
ser  Phylype  Tilney. 
ser  Edward  Boleyn. 

Northfolke. 
ser  Thomas  Wyndam. 
ser  John  Awdeley. 
ser  John  Haydon. 
ser  William  Paston. 
ser  Robart  Brandon. 

Essex. 
ser  Henry  Marney. 


ser  John  Vere. 
syr  John  Raynford. 
ser  John  Marney. 
ser  Weston  Browne, 
ser  Thomas  Teye. 
ser  John  Cutte. 

Somersetshyre  and  Dorsetshyre. 
ser  Giles  Strangwise. 

Leystershyre. 
syr  Richard  Sewgeverelle. 
syr  William  Skevyngton. 

Sotherey. 
ser  Richard  Carrowe. 
ser  Henry  Wiette. 
ser  Edmond  Braye. 
ser  John  Gaynford. 
ser  Nicolas  Carrowe. 

Bedfordshere. 
ser  George  Hervie. 
ser  William  Gaston. 

Mydlesex. 
ser  Andrew  Windsor, 
syr  John  Heeron. 
ser  John  Nevell. 
syr  Giles  Capelle. 
syr  John  Gilforde. 
mastar  Thomas  Moore. 


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23 


Derbyshere. 
syr  Godfrey  Fulgeham. 

Warwikeshire. 
ser  Edward  Belknappe. 
ser  Edward  Ferres. 
ser  Henry  Willeby. 
ser  Thomas  Lucye. 
ser  Gerard  Dannyt. 
ser  Gylbard  Talbot, 
ser  Gorge  Fi'ogmerton. 
ser  Edward  Graye. 
ser  John  Bordett. 


ser  William  Smythe. 

Bokynghumshcre. 
ser  Rauffe  Varney. 
ser  Fraunces  Brian, 
ser  John  Cheny. 

Notinghamshere. 
ser  William  Purpoynt. 
ser  Rowland  Velvelle. 
ser  Griffith  Donne, 
ser  William  CofFen  and  his 
wiffe. 


Officers. 

Officers  of  amies  of  almaner 
Serjeants  of  armes 
Pursivaunts     . 
Trumpets  and  Clarions 
Minstrels  of  all  maner. 


xij. 

xij. 

xij. 
xxiiij . 


PERSONS  ATTENDAUNT  ON  THE   QWENE. 

the  erle  of  Derby.  the  lord  Willowbye. 

the  bysshope  of  Rochestar.^  the  lord  Morley. 

the  bysshope  of  Hareforde.*"  the  lord  chamberleyn. 

Chapleynes  to  wayte  on  the  qwene  viij. 

Knights. 
ser  Robert  Ponythz.  ser  George  Fostar. 

^  John  Fisher.  ^  Charles  Booth. 


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THE  CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS. 


[J520. 


ser  Thomas  Fetiplace. 

ser  John  Litille.^ 

ser  Adrian  Foscu. 

ser  Water  Stoner. 

ser  Edward  Grevell. 

ser  Symond  Harcorte. 

ser  John  Hampden  of  the  Hill. 

ser  George  Selengcr. 

ser  John  Kercam. 

ser  Mylles  Busshey. 

ser  Marmaduke  Truby.^ 

ser  Edward  Darelle,  vice- 

cliamberleyn  to  the  qwene. 
ser  RafFe  Chamberleyne. 
ser  John  Shelton. 
ser  Robart  Clere. 
ser  Philype  Calthorpe. 


ser  John  Henyngham. 
ser  William  Walgrave. 
ser  Thomas  Terell,  master  of 

the  qwenes  horsses. 
ser  Rogar  Wentworthe. 
ser  Thomas  Trynchart. 
ser  Thomas  Lynd. 
ser  John  Vellurs. 
ser  John  Hasden.^ 
ser  Mathew  Browne, 
ser  John  Mordant, 
ser  Henry  Saugevelill. 
ser  Henry  Willowbye. 
ser  RafFe  Verny  junior, 
ser  William  Rede, 
ser  Robart  Johnes. 
mastar  Paris  of  Cambridgshire. 


Noble 

wymen. 

the  dutches  of  Buckyngham. 

the  lady  Boleyne. 

the  countys  of  Stafforde. 

the  lady  Mowntagwe. 

the  countis  of  Oxford. 

the  lady  Willowby. 

the  countis  of  Oxford  senior. 

the  lady  Dawbeny. 

the  countis  of  Shrewsbery. 

the  lady  Mountjoye. 

the  countis  of  Devonshere. 

the  lady  Cobham. 

the  countis  of  Derby. 

the  lady  Grey.d 

the  lady  Fitzwater. 

the  lady  Elesabeth  Gray, 

the  lady  Hastings. 

the  lady  Anne  Gray.^ 

■  Lyle  in  the  Rutland  Papers. 

''  In  the  Eutland  Papers  occurs  Sir  Marmaduke  Constable,  in  this   list,  but  not  Sir 
Marmaduke  Truby.  <=  Ashton  in  the  Rutland  Papers, 

''  "  Lord  John's  wife."     Rutl.  Papers.  "^  "  widowe."     Ibid. 


1520.J 


THE  CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS. 


25 


the  lady  Broke. 

the  lady  Morley. 

the  lady  Gilforth  junior. 

the  lady  Scroppe. 

the  lady  Fitzwilliams. 

the  lady  Gilforth  senior. 

the  lady  Fetiplace. 

the  lady  Yauxe. 

the  lady  Selinger. 

the  lady  Parre  widow. 

the  lady  Parre  wyfe. 

the  lady  Griffithe  Rise. 

the  lady  Compton. 

the  lady  Darell. 

the  lady  Finche. 

the  lady  Hopton. 

the  lady  Wingfilde,  ser  Anto- 
ny's wyfe. 

the  lady  Tilney. 

the  lady  Wingfild,  ser  Richard's 
wyfe. 

the  lady  Clei'e. 

the  lady  Owen  junior. 

the  ladye  Nevell,  ser  John  Ne- 
vell's  wyfe. 

the  lady  Bolen  junior. 

the  lady  Carrewe. 

mistres  Cheney. 


mistres  Carie. 

mistres  CotFen. 

mistres  Morris. 

mistres  Parker. 

mistres  Fitzwaren. 

mistres  AVotten. 

mistres  Brewis. 

mistres  Dannet. 

mistres  Browne. 

mistres  Gernyngham  widow. 

mistres  Finche. 

mistres  Cooke. 

mistres  Kateryn  Mentoria. 

mystres  Lawrance. 

mistres  Victoria. 

mistres  Kempe. 

mistres  Margaret. 

mistres    Margery,    lord    Fitz- 

waren's  dowghter. 
Antony  Poyns'  dowghter. 
mistres  Appleyarde. 
Anne  Wentworthe. 
John  Wentworth's  wyfe. 
mistres  Hugayne. 
mistres  Cornewaleys. 
mistres    Paris    of   Cambridg- 

shere. 


Chalengars  agaynst  all  gentlemen  on  horsebake  and  on  foot  for  all 
feats  of  armesfor  xxx.  days. 


the  kynge  of  England. 

CAMD.  SOC. 


the  duke  of  Suffolke. 

E 


26  THE  CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS.  [1520. 

the  lord  marqwes.  ser  Gylls  Capell. 

ser  Richard  Gerningham.  ser  Nicholas  Carrowe. 

ser  William  Kyngston.  mastar  Anthony  Knevet. 


The  Frenche  kynge  and  vij.  gentlemen  chalengars  of  Fraunce. 

For  to  furnishe  the  days  of  justs,  there  were  bonds,  and  to  every 
bond  a  captayn. 

The  erle  of  Devonshere  capitayne  of  thes  lords  : — 

the  lorde  Herberd.  mastar  Nicholas  Hervye. 

the  lorde  Edmond  Howard.  ser  John  Awdley. 

the  lord  Leonard  Grey.  mastar  John  Parkar. 

ser  Edward  Nevell.  mastar  William  Palmer, 

mastar  Frauncys  Brian.  Robert  Gernyngham. 

mastar  Henry  Norreys.  ser  John  Nevell. 
mastar  Antony  Browne. 

The  second  capitayne  of  the  bonds,  the  lorde  Montagwe  of  thes 
lords : — 

the  lord  Richard  Greye.  ser  Geffrey  Gate. 

the  lord  John  Graye.  ser  Rowland  Velvell. 

ser  Thomas  Chenye.  mastar  Arthur  Poole. 

ser  William  Aparre.  mastar  Francis  Poynes. 

ser  WyUiam  Sydney.  mastar  John  Coffen. 

ser  Griffithe  Donne.  mastar  Hansard,  with  othar. 

ser  Rauffe  Aldereare. 

The  some  of  thes  ij.  bonds  a  c.  xxviij.  for  the  Englyshe.  The 
kynge  gave  to  thes  ij.  bonds  a  m.  marks,  that  is,  1.  marks  apece. 

An  archbysshope  was  alowed  to  have  1.  servants,  wherof  x.  gen- 
tlemen and  XX.  horses. 


1520.]  THE  CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS.  27 

A  byshoppe  xxx.  servaunts,  whereof  vi.  gentlemeiij  and  x. 
horses. 

A  duke  1.  servants,  wherof  x.  gentlemen,  and  xx.  horses. 

A  marqwes  xl.  servants,  wherof  viij.  gentlemen,  and  xij.  horses. 

An  erle  xxx.  servants,  whereof  vj.  gentlemen,  and  x.  horses. 

A  baron  xvj.  servants,  wherof  ij.  gentlemen,  and  vj,  horses. 

A  knyght  of  the  gartar  lykewyse. 

A  banaret  or  a  bachelar  knight,  x.  servants  and  iij.  horses. 

A  chaplayn  and  a  counsellor  for  the  kynge,  x.  servants,  v.  horses. 

A  chapleyu  for  the  kynge,  vj.  servants  and  iij.  horses. 

A  sargeant  at  armes  one  servant  and  ij.  horses. 

The  officers  of  the  kyng's  chambar,  amonge  them  cl.  servants  and 
a  c.  horses. 

The  sergeaunts  of  the  hosholde,  amonge  them  all  ij  c.  xvj.  ser- 
vants and  Ixx.  horses. 

The  poyntment  for  the  Qwene,  to  wayt  on  her. 

A  duches  iiij.  women  servants,  and  vj.  men  servants,  and  vj. 
horses. 

A  countes  iij.  wimen,  iiij.  men,  and  iij.  horses. 

A  barones  ij.  wimen,  iij.  men,  and  ij.  horses. 

A  lady  one  woman,  ij.  men,  and  ij.  horses. 

A  gentlewoman  on  woman,  ij.  men,  and  ij.  horses. 

A  chamberar  one  servant  and  one  horse. 

An  erle  xxx.  servants,  &c. 

XX 

Some  of  the  persons  on  the  kyng^s  syde,  iij  m.  ijc.  iiij  xvij. 

The  horses,  i  m.  ij  c.  vij. 

The  some  of  the  persons  on  the  qwenes  syde,  m.  xxxvij. 

The  horses  iiij  c.  xxx. 

The   some   of   the  persons  on  the  kynge  and  qwenes   syds, 

m      c 

iiij  iij  xxxiiij. 

Some  of  the  horses,  M.vi  c. xxxvij. 


28  THE  CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS.  [1520. 

Besyde  the  persons  on  the  Frenche  qwenes  and  duke  of  Suf- 
folkes  sydes,  [and]  ray  lord  Cardenall. 

The  xxvj.  of  May,  the  kynge  of  Romayns,  of  Spayne,  and  of 
Castle/  landyd  in  England  at  Dovar.  Henry  the  Eighth  came 
rydynge  from  Canterbury  to  Dovar  the  sanae  night ;  and  the  next 
day  bothe  kyngs  rode  to  Canterbury  agayne ;  and  from  thence  to 
Sandwytche,  and  then  the  kynge  of  the  Romayns  toke  shype  agayne 
at  the  Dele. 

The  last  day  of  Maye,  the  kynge  and  qwene  of  England 
landyd  at  Caleys,  with  many  great  estats  as  are  before  named. 

The  V.  of  June,  they  departyd  and  rod  to  Gwisnes  to  mete  with 
the  Frenche  kynge  and  qwene. 

The  vij.  of  June,  the  kyngs  of  England  and  France  mete  at  the 
campe  betwixt  Gwisnes  and  Arde,  with  bothe  theyr  swerds  drawne 
and  borne  before  them. 

The  x.  of  June,  the  kyng  of  England  dyned  with  the  Frenche 
qwene  in  the  towne  of  Arde,  and  the  Frenche  kynge  dyned  the 
same  day  with  the  qwene  of  England  in  the  new  palace  made  be- 
fore the  castle  of  Gwysnes ;  the  whole  was  a  costly  howse  of 
riches  as  evar  was  sene,  and  so  thes  ij.  kings  met  every  day 
aftar  at  campe  with  dyvars  lords,  and  ther  justed  and  turneyed 
xiiij.  days ;  and  the  ij.  qwenes  met  at  Gwysnes  and  at  Arde  dyvars 
tymes. 

The  xxiiij.  of  June,  these  kyngs  and  qwenes,  with  ther  reti- 
nues, met  at  campe,  wher  the  justes  were  kepte,  and  ther  they 
banqweted  and  daunsed,  with  momynge  and  dysgysynge  tyll 
it  was  late  in  the  eveninge,  and  then  toke  theyr  leave  and  de- 
partyd. 

The  iiij.  of  July,  ther  cam  a  greate  embassad  from  the  kynge  of 
Romayne,  Spayne,  and  Castle,  to  the  towne  of  Caleis  to  owr  kynge. 

The  X.  of  July,  the  kynge  rod  to  Gravelen,  and  there  mete  withe 
Charles  the  kynge  of  Romaynes,  Spaigne,  and  of    Castle  afore - 

^  Afterwards  the  Emperor  Charles  the  Fifth.  His  letter  to  the  King  announcing  his 
coming,  dated  Corunna,  29  April,  is  in  the  MS.  Cotton.  Vesp.  C.  vii.  f.  34. 


1520.]  THE    CHRONICLE    OF    CAU 


named,  that  was  then  to  be  emperowre  of  Almayne ; »  and  on  the 
next  day  the  kyng  of  England,  and  the  said  kynge  of  llomaynes, 
&c.  and  lady  Margaret  duches  of  Savoy,  aunt  to  the  seyde  kynge 
of  Romayns,  and  dawghtar  to  Maximilian  late  emperowr,  whome 
the  Frenche  kynge  ^  shewlde  have  maried  afore  he  maried  the 
duches  of  Britayne ;  with  them  cam  a  cardinall  and  many  great 
lords  and  ladyes,  wherefor  all  the  lords  and  states  of  England 
were  sent  from  theyr  lodgings ;  and  [at]  theyre  comynge  ther  was 
made  a  banqwetynge  hows  with  in  the  town  of  Cales,  with  xvj. 
principals  made  of  greate  mastes,  betwixt  every  maste  xxiiij.  fote, 
and  all  the  oute  syds  closed  with  horde  and  canvas  ovar  it,  and 
with  in  rownde  abowt  by  the  syds  were  made  thre  loftes  one  above 
anothar  for  men  and  women  for  to  stond  upon,  and  they  that 
stode  behynd  myght  see  over  the  hedes  that  stode  before,  it  was 
made  so  highe  behynd  and  low  before ;  and  in  the  mydste  of  the 
same  banqwetynge  house  was  setupe  a  great  pece  of  tymbar  made 
of  viij.  greate  mastes,  and  bownde  togethar  with  great  ropes  and 
yron  bonds  for  to  hold  the  mastes  to  gethar,  for  it  was  an  hun- 
dred and  xxxiiij.  fote  of  lengthe,  and  coste  vj  li.  xiij  s.  iiij  d.  to  set 
it  up  right ;  and  the  banqwetynge  howse  was  coveryd  ovar  with 
canvas  and  fastenyd  with  ropes ;  and  within  the  sayd  howse  was 
payntyd  the  element  of  starres,  sonne,  and  mone,  and  clowdes, 
with  dyvars  othar  things  made  above  ovar  men's  beds,  and  there 
was  greate  images  of  white  wykers,  like  grete  men,  and  they  were 
set  hyghe  above  on  the  highest  lofts  and  stages,  and  dyvars  rea- 
sons writen  by  them  of  the  contries  that  they  were  made  lyke 
unto,  and  the  names  of  the  same  contries  hanging  by  them, 
and  many  shipps  under  sayles,  and  wyndmylls  goynge  j  andundar 
that  was  set  many  armes  of  dyvars  londs,  and  theyr  reasons  writen 
by  them ;  and  abowght  the  highe  pece  of  tymbar  that  stode  up 
right  in  the  mydste  was  made  stages  of  tymbar  for  organs,  and 
othar  instruments  for  to  stand  in,  and  men  for  to  play  upon  them, 

*  See  a  full  programme  of  this  interview  in  the  Rutland  Papers,  pp.  50,  et  seq. 
**  Charles  VIII.     See  the  memoir  of  INIargaret  duchess  of  Savoy  in  the  Appendix. 


30  THE    CHRONICLE    OF    CALAIS.  [1520. 

and  for  clarks  syngenge,  and  othar  pagents  for  to  be  playde  when 
the  kyngs  of  England  and  of  Romayns  shuld  be  at  theyre  banqwete ; 
but  on  the  same  morninge  the  wynd  began  to  ryse,  and  at  nyght 
blewe  of  all  the  canvas,  and  all  the  elements  with  the  sterrs, 
sonn,  and  mone,  and  clowds,  and  the  same  reyne  blewe  out  above 
a  thowsand  torches  and  tapers  that  wer  ordayned  for  the  same  ; 
and  all  the  kyngs  sects  that  was  made  with  great  ryches  that 
cowlde  be  ordaynyd,  besyds  all  othar  things,  was  all  dashed  and  lost. 

The  xiiij.  of  July  the  kynge  of  Romayns  departyd  from  Galleys 
towards  Gravelen. 

The  xviij.  of  July  the  kynge  of  England  departyd  from  Galleys 
and  arrived  at  Dovar. 

1521.  The  2.  of  August  the  13.  of  Henry  the  Eighth,  Thomas 
archbysshope  of  Yorke,  cardinall,^  landed  at  Galeis,  with  the 
bishop  of  Ely,*^  the  bishop  of  Durham,*^  &c.  The  same  day 
came  to  Galeis  ambassadors  from  the  emperowr  ^  to  mete  the 
cardinall  and  othar  lords  of  England. 

The  iiij.  of  August  cam  to  Galeis  the  highe  chaunselar  of  Fraunce, 
with  mayny  othar,^  with  the  nombar  of  400  horse.  These  lords 
of  England,  Burgoyne,  Spayne,  Flaundars  and  Fraunce,  with  the 
pope's  orator,  cam  to  Galleys  to  make  a  pece  betwixt  the  empe- 
rowr and  the  Frenche  kynge,  but  they  could  not  agree,  for  the  em- 
perowr wold  have  no  peace,  and  the  Frenche  wold  have  had  peace 
for  a  tyme  ;  wherfore  on  the  xij.  of  Awgust  the  cardinall  of  Eng- 

"  In  the  correspondence  of  Wolsey,  published  in  the  State  Papers  under  the  authority 
of  the  Royal  Commission,  vol.  i.  will  be  found  many  letters  relating  to  this  embassy, 
commencing  with  No.  xi.  and  extending  to  No.  Hi. 

^  Nicholas  West. 

«  Thomas  Ruthall. 

^  The  emperor's  ambassadors  were,  the  count  of  Gattinara,  his  chancellor,  monsieur  de 
Berghes,  and  others.     Ibid.  p.  27. 

^  The  French  ambassadors  were,  Antoine  du  Prat  chancellor  of  France,  Jean  de 
Selve  president  of  the  Parliament  of  Paris,  and  Jaques  de  Chabannes  marquis  de  la 
Palisse,  marshal  of  France.  State  Papers,  I.  i.  29.  Voluminous  manuscript  records  of 
this  conference  remain  in  the  Royal  Library  of  Paris,  reference  to  which  will  be  found 
in  the  Bibliotheque  Hist,  de  la  France,  fol.  1771,  torn.  iii.  p.  42. 


1521.]  THE    CHRONICLE    OF    CALAIS.  31 

land  with  the  othar  lords  rod  to  Bruges  to  the  emperowr,  and  the 
Frenche  men  taried  in  Caleis  tyll  they  cam  bake  agayne,  with 
answer  from  the  emperowr. 

The  xxix.  of  August  the  cardinall  returned  from  themperowr 
to  Galleys. 

The  first  of  Septembar  the  cardinall  chancelar  of  England,  the 
chancelar  of  Fraunce,  and  the  chancelar  of  Burgayne  rode  to- 
gether from  Staple  inn  to  our  lady  churche  in  Galleys. 

The  iiij.  of  September  the  regent  of  Naples  ^  cam  to  Caleis  to 
speke  with  the  great  counsell  there. 

The  xxvij.  day  of  Septembar,  the  chauncellor  of  Hungarye 
cam  to  the  town  of  Galeys  to  speke  to  the  great  counsell  there. 

The  xxij.  of  Novembar  the  chauncellar  of  Fraunce  departyd 
from  Galleys  into  Fraunce. 

The  chauncellar  of  Burgon  departyd  from  Gales  the  xxv.  of 
Novembar. 

The  xxvij.  of  Novembar  the  cardinall  and  lords  of  England 
departyd  toward  England. 

1522.  The  1.  of  July  in  the  xiiij.  of  Henry  the  Eighth,  the 
erle  of  Surrey  lord  amyrall  of  England,  lord  Edmond  Howard  his 
brother,  lord  Fitzwater,  the  baron  Gurson,  with  many  othar,  landyd 
in  Britayne  on  the  west  syde  of  Morleys,  and  cam  before  the  sayd 
towne,  wan  it,  toke  what  they  wold,  and  set  fire  on  the  rest, 
and  there  the  erle  of  Surrey  made  dyvars  knights,  whose  names 
folow :  ser  Richard  Gornewaill,  ser  Frauncis  Brien,  ser  Anthony 
Browne,  ser  Frauncis  Browne,  ser  Gilles  Hussey,  ser  Thomas 
More,  ser  John  Cobham,  ser  Edward  Rengeley,  ser  John  Russell, 
ser  John  Raynforth ;  and  then  went  to  the  se  agayne. 

The  XXX.  of  August  Thomas  Howard  erle  of  Surrey  lorde 
admyrall  of  England,  ser  Edmond  Howard  his  brother,  the  lord 
Fitzwater,  lord  Leonard  Grey,  the  baron  Gurson  master  of  the 
kyng^s  ordinaunce,   ser  Richard  Wyngfilde,   ser  Anthony  Wyng- 

"  Charles  de  Lannov. 


32  THE    CHRONICLE    OF    CALAIS.  [1522. 

filde,  ser  Richard  Gerningham,  ser  Nicholas  Carrewe,  ser  Francis 
Bryan,  ser  George  Cobham,  ser  Edward  Rengeley,  ser  Adrian 
Foscwe,  ser  William  Pirton,  ser  Edmond  Braye,  ser  Henry  Owen, 
ser  Giles  Hussie,  ser  Edward  Braye,  ser  Thomas  More,  ser  Richard 
Cornevvaill,  ser  John  Wyseraan,  ser  John  Cornewalle,  ser  Edward 
Deen,  ser  Thomas  Lovell,  ser  John  Raynforthe,  ser  Anthony 
Poynes,  ser  Jasper  Owen,  ser  Edward  Chambarleyne,  ser  John 
Wallope,  ser  Henry  Shereborne,  ser  Wilham  Barington,  ser  John 
Vellers,  ser  Wylliam  Poundar,  ser  Giles  Strangwise,  ser  John 
Russell,  ser  Anthony  Browne,  ser  William  Fitzwilliam,  ser 
John  Sutton,  ser  Morreys  Barkeley,  ser  William  Sands,  ser 
Edward  Gilforthe,  ser  Richard  Whetell,  ser  Gye  Dohell,  and 
dyvars  othar  knyghts,  esquiers,  gentlemen,  and  ij.  c.  yemen  of  the 
kyngs  garde,  and  othar  sowldiars  to  the  nombar  of  xiiij.  m.  besydes 
adventurars  iij.  or  iiij.  c. ;  all  thes  departyd  from  Calleis  and 
went  into  Picardye,  brenynge  many  townes,  castles,  and  villages, 
as  Longyngham,  Coolis,  Brewnbridge,  Burneville,  Hamever, 
Caakis,  Daverne,  Wast,  Samerde,  Boys,  Huckelers,  Prewere, 
Campaigne,  Mounterelle,  and  many  othar  townes,  castles  and 
villages  tyll  they  cam  to  Hedyng,  and  that  towne  they  brenyd  and 
leyd  sege  to  the  castle,  but  wan  it  not ;  from  thens  they  went  to 
the  watar  of  Sum,  brennynge  and  destroyenge,  for  to  seke  Frenche- 
men,  but  they  durst  not  abyde  them  ;  and  then  our  Englyshemen 
turned  homewarde,  and  brenyd  Duras  and  the  castle,  from 
thens  they  cam  to  Durlamis,  a  fayre  towne,  and  brenyd  it  and  the 
castle,  and  brenninge  and  distroyinge  homewarde  that  hild^  of 
the  Frenche  kynge,  and  they  cam  homewarde  by  S.  Omers,  and 
so  to  the  towne  of  Calleis  the  xiiij.  of  Octobar  in  anno  1522.  The 
amyrall  and  other  landyd  at  Dovar  on  the  xxiiij.  of  October. 

1523.  In  the  monith  of  Aprell  a  parliament  beinge  holden  at 
Westmynstar,  ser  Arthur  Plantagenet  was  made  vicounte  Lile, 
and  ser  Morreis  Barkley,  lyvetenaunte  of  Calleis,  was  made  lorde 

«  L  e.  all  that  held. 


1523.]  THE    CHRONICLE    OF    CALAIS.  .33 

Barkley,  ser  William  Sands  was  made  Lorde  Sands,  ser  Nicholas 
Vauxe  was  made  lorde  Vauxe. 

The  xxij.  of  Auguste  landyd  at  Caleis  i  c.  men  to  go  into 
Fraunce  with  the  lorde  Sands. 

The  xxiiij.  of  August  landyd  ser  Charles  Brandon,  duke  of  Suf- 
folke,  to  be  generall  into  Fraunce.'^ 

The  xxvij.  of  August  landyd  at  Calleis  ser  Richard  Weston,  ser 
John  Wyllowby  the  lorde  Willowby's  brother,  ser  John  Veere, 
and  ser  Anthony  Wyngfilde,  &c. 

The  xxviij.  of  Awgust  landyd  at  Caleis  i  c.  soldiars,  sent  to  the 
lord  Barkley. 

The  xxix.  of  August  landyd  ser  Richard  Wyngfild,  chauncelar 
of  the  duchye  of  Lancaster,  ser  Robart  his  brother,  ser  William 
Sydney,  with  many  othar. 

The  XXX.  of  Awgust  landyd  ser  William  Kyngston,  ser  Griffithe 
Don,  with  othar. 

The  1.  of  Septembar  ther  landyd  at  Caleis  lord  Leonard  Grey 
the  lord  marqwes  Grey's  brother,  and  ser  Richard  Cornewall,  &c. 

The  2.  of  Septembar  ther  landyd  the  lord  Ferrers  and  othar,  &c. 

The  xix.  of  Septembar,  the  duke  of  Suffolke,  chefe  generall  of 
the  kyng's  army,  with  the  lord  Leonard  Grey,  the  lord  Ferres, 
the  lord  Herbert,  the  lord  Sands,  the  lord  Curson,  ser  Richard 
Wingfild,  sir  Robart  Wingfild,  ser  Anthony  Wingfild,  ser  John 
Willowby,  ser  John  Vere,  ser  Richard  Weston,  ser  William  Sid- 
ney, ser  William  Kingston,  ser  Griffithe  Don,  ser  Edward  Nevelb 
ser  Richard  Cornewalle,  ser  William  Fitzwilliam,  ser  Andrew 
Wyndsore,  ser  Thomas  Cheny,  ser  Jasper  Owen,  ser  Giles  Strang- 
wishe,  ser  William  Corteney,  ser  Edward  Gilforthe,  ser  John  Wal- 
loppe,  and  othar  knights  and  sowldiars  xv  m.  set  forward  into 
Fraunce,  and  shortly  after  they  bet  downe  Bell  Castle,  and  sent 
them  that  remayned  there  alyve  prisoners  to  Caleys. 

The  xiiij.  of  Decembar  the  duke  of  SufFolke  with  the  othar 
returnyd  to  Calleis ;  they  had  lost  their  ordinaunce  at  a  towne 

*  See  Wolsey  Correspondence,  State  Papers,  i.  123. 
CAMD.  SOC.  F 


34  THE  CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS.  [1523. 

called  Valenstian,^  in  the  duke  of  Burgoyn's  land ;  it  was  but  an 
ill  jurney  for  the  Englyshemen.""  The  xxx.  of  Decembar  the  duke 
of  SufFolke  departyd  from  Caleys  toward  England. 

1524.  The  XV.  of  January  in  the  16.  of  Henry  the  Eighth  ther 
cam  ambassadors  owt  of  Fraunce  to  the  towne  of  Galleys,  and 
aftar  into  England,  to  make  peace  yf  it  might  be. 

The  xxiij.  of  February,  the  lord  Rever  beinge  chamberlayne  of 
Flaunders  and  amerall  of  Flaunders,  and  erle  of  Chaunfeer,  cam 
to  Caleis  from  ladye  Margaret  duches  of  Savoye  and  the  empe- 
rowr's  aunte,  and  from  the  emperowr's  councell  as  an  embassett, 
with  dyverse  othar  grete  men  well  apoyntyd,  were  sent  from  the 
sayde  councelle  for  to  goo  into  England  to  owr  kynge  to  heipe 
the  Frenche  kynge  than  beinge  before  Pavie. 

The  xxiiij.  of  February  Frauncis  the  Frenche  kynge  was  taken 
prisoner  in  the  filde  before  the  city  of  Pavy  in  Lombardye :  he 
was  taken  by  the  vice-roy  of  Naples,  and  especially  by  the  helpe 
of  the  duke  of  Burboyn's  men,  for  the  sayd  duke  and  x  M.  of  his 
men  were  payde  theyr  wages  by  the  kynge  of  England.  Ther  was 
taken  the  kynge  of  Navern,  the  erle  of  Seynt  Powle,  monser 
Desalewis,  leys*^  monseyr  de  Nevars,  monseier  le  jirince  de  Talmett, 
mounser  Graunt  Mastar,  mounser  le  marshall  Defois,  mounswre 
le  marschall  Memorancye  and  his  brothar,  mounseir  Rogepott, 
monser  le  Brion,  monseir  le  Videsme  de  Charters,  monser 
Bonevale  and  his  brothar,  monser  le  Buflfelett  and  his  brothar, 
monser  le  Pemerchall,  monser  le  Baile  de  Paris,  monser  de  Ra- 
nant,  monser  de  Mountpesitt,  monseure  Devy,  monser  Galeas 
Viscount,  le  baron  de  Buseysake,  monser  Mansilevesne,  monser 

*  Valenciennes. 

^  "  His  highnes  (the  king)  is  very  sory  of  the  plage,  and  the  ferfent  agues  fallen  in  his 
amiy,  to  so  great  minishing  of  the  same."  (Letter  of  More  to  Wolsey,  26  Sept,  Wolsey 
Correspondence,  p.  142.)  A  letter  of  Wolsey  to  the  king,  7th  Dec.  reports  the  recovery 
by  the  French  of  the  castles  of  Bohain  and  Beaurevoir,  which  were  situate  near  the 
sources  of  the  Scheldt  and  the  Salle.     (Ibid.  p.  148.) 

'  So  in  MS. 


1524.]  THE  CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS.  35 

Melsalte,  raonser  de  Sterangi  le  Viscountvaultj  monser  le  Bas- 
tew,  le  baron  Burcanses  the  sonne  of  the  chauncelar  of  Fraunce, 
monsure  Mentigny,  monser  de  Nansi,  monsur  de  Seint  Nauncy,  le 
governeure  Deleymonsyn,  monsere  de  Lerges,  monser  de  Mesney, 
monser  de  Chaunlege,  monser  de  Ducere,  monser  de  Querxe, 
monser  de  Lafert,  monser  de  Mount  Graunt,  monser  de  Rieux, 
monser  de  Bretayne,  monser  de  Sergeant  son  of  monser  de  Vallen, 
monser  de  Mount  Salley,  monser  de  viscount  Delanedy,  mounser 
de  Claret,  monser  de  Clereraount,  mounser  de  Bewters,  le  tresurer 
Willandey,  le  tresurer  de  Milane,  monser  le  Chaite,  Clement 
mastar  of  the  hospitall  of  Basaney,  monser  Wallary,  monser 
Barbasieulx,  le  contye  Varnfett,  le  compte  de  Navers,  le  tresorer 
Poncet,  the  tresorer  Baben,  le  tresurar  of  Fraunce,  Obyny 
Saunagy  ;  all  thes  were  taken  with  the  Frenche  kynge. 

Slayne  in  the  same  filde,  mounser  Francois  Lorayn,  monser  de 
Battremele,  monser  le  admirall  marchall  de  Chamdemer,  monser 
de  Brutes  Daunt  Bois,  monser  de  Chament  de  Boys,  capitayn 
Fredrige  le  grant  esquiere  de  Fraunce,  Richard  de  la  Pole,» 
monsier  Mallafine,  le  bayle  de  Digon,  le  comite  de  Tonnoyre,  with 
many  prelates,  with  many  othar.'' 

1525.  In  the  monithe  of  Januarye,  the  xvij.  of  Henry  the 
Eighth,  the  apoyntment  was  made  betwixt  Charles  emperowr  on 
that  partie,  and  Francis  the  Frenche  kynge  on  the  othar  party, 
first  that  the  Frenche  kynge  to  have  peace  with  themperowre,  and 
to  have  his  deliverance  he  wholy  renownced  for  evar  the  realme 
of  Naples,  the  duchy  of  Myllayne,  the  lordshipe  of  Genys,  the 

'^  Fifth  and  youngest  brother  of  Edmund  duke  of  Suffolk,  who  had  been  beheaded  in 
1513  (as  before  noticed,  p.  6)  for  the  crime  of  consanguinity  to  tlie  Crown. 

^  It  will  be  obvious  to  the  reader  that  this  list  of  names  is  full  of  gross  errors  :  for  in- 
stance, "  de  Battremele  "  is  apparently  placed  for  la  Tremouille  ;  but  as  the  event  recorded 
is  foreign  to  the  main  subject  of  this  volume,  it  may  be  left  with  the  remark  that  the  MS. 
has  been  literally  followed. 


36  THE  CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS.  [1525. 

citie  of  Turney,  the  citie  of  Arras,  with  all  the  apurtenaunce  to 
them  belongyng  for  evar  more,  without  frawde.  Also  the  Frenche 
kynge  to  aquite  all  sufFraunce  or  homages  of  Flaundars  and 
Artoys,  and  all  the  countris  that  the  sayde  emperowre  hathe  or  shall 
have  now  belongynge  to  Fraunce  or  before,  and  the  seyd  kynge 
gyvethe  frome  hym  the  duchie  of  Burgoyne,  and  all  the  senioritie 
or  lordshipes  as  duke  Charles  had  in  tymes  past,  with  the  county  of 
Charles  andotharseignories  or  lordships  of  the  quartars  of  Burgoyne, 
and  he  gyvethe  agayne  from  hym  the  towne  and  castle  of  Hedinge. 
Also  the  duke  of  Burbone  shall  have  his  duchye  and  seniories  and 
lordships  agayne  as  he  had  before,  and  the  kynge  shall  gyve  to 
the  duke  all  his  rerages  and  customes  that  is  growne  or  rune  unto 
hym,  unto  the  day  of  his  appoyntement ;  also  the  sayde  kyng 
sliall  delyvar  out  of  prison  the  prince  of  Orenge,  to  go  at  his  liber- 
tie,  and  all  the  prisoners  that  themperowre  hathe  on  his  partie, 
and  all  the  prisoners  that  the  Frenche  kynge  hathe  on  his  parte 
shall  be  delyvered  francke  and  quite  of  all  confiscations  reles- 
ment  of  bothe  the  parties  aforesayde,  and  every  of  them  of  bothe 
parties  for  to  have  agayne  as  they  had  before  with  out  Italye. 
And  the  sayde  kynge  abandons  or  banishethe  the  duke  of  Withen- 
berde  ;a  and  he  set  in  ordar  or  in  preson  Robart  Delamarche ; 
and  the  duke  of  Gilders  shall  be  kepte  his  dukedome  and  signio- 
ritie  duringe  his  naturall  lyfe.  And  the  sayd  kynge  shall  lend  unto 
the  sayde  emperowre  all  his  army  or  navy  of  shipps  of  werre  by 
the  sea,  and  shall  finde  themperowre  vj  c.  launcis  and  vj  c.  fotmen, 
and  all  them  there  wages  for  vj.  months,  for  the  emperowres  viage  or 
jurney  in  to  Italic  for  to  be  crowned  emperowre  of  Almayne;  and 
the  sayde  kynge  shall  wedde  or  marye  qwene  Elianore  the  sayd  em- 
perowrs  suster  the  x.  day  of  Marche  next  comynge,  and  the  seyde 
kynge  renounces  all  successions  of  londs  that  he  shulde  have  withe 
hir,  and  the  seyde  kynge  shall  have  with  the  seyde  qwene  ij  cm'. 
crownes  of  golde,  with  the  cowntye  of  Masiens,  and  Ansures,  and 

"  Ulric  I.  Duke  of  Wurteniburg. 


1525.]  THE  CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS.  3/ 

Barre.  I  beleve  veryly  that  the  Frenche  kynge  shulde  nevar  a  be 
taken  presoner  of  the  emperowr,  yf  the  kynge  of  England  had  not 
gyven  wages  to  the  duke  of  Burbone  and  to  x  m.  men. 

1527.  The  churche  of  the  Masendwe  in  the  towne  of  Caleis  was 
taken  downe  to  the  grownde,  and  on  the  xiiij.  of  May  in  the  19. 
yere  of  Henry  the  Eighth  was  the  first  stone  of  the  new  worke 
layde.  Kyng  Edwarde  the  Third  conqweringe  the  towne,  in  all 
chartars  and  patents  that  he  gave  eny  howsynge  or  londs  within  the 
seyde  towne,  he  gave  owt  of  the  same  a  quit-rent  to  the  Masen- 
dewe,  and  kynge  Richard  the  Second  dyd  the  lyke,  &c. 

In  the  monethe  of  Maye  1527,  and  xix.  of  Henry  the  Eighth, 
the  citie  of  Rome  was  taken  and  wonne  and  destroyed  by  the  duke 
of  Burbon  and  the  duke  of  Ferrer,  ^  and  the  vice-roy  of  Naples ; 
but  when  thes  men  enteryd  into  Rome,  the  duke  of  Burbon  was 
slayne,  and  then  his  bond  and  company  kylled  man,  woman,  and 
childe  that  they  might  get  that  day  and  night,  and  the  pope  fledd 
into  the  castell  Angell,  and  aftar-ward  was  taken  and  caried  into 
Spaigne  to  themperowr,  for  the  pope  toke  the  Frenche  kyngs  parte 
agaynst  themperowr,  and  the  duke  of  Burbone  was  buried  in  seint 
Petar's  churche  in  Rome. 

The  xj.  of  July  cardinall  Wolsey  landyd  at  Caleis  ;b  accompa- 
nyed  with  lords  spirituall  and  temporall  as  foUowethe — 

»  Ferrara. 

**  On  this  embassy  see  the  Wolsey  Correspondence,  State  Papers,  vol.  i.  No.  cviii. 
which  contains  the  instructions  for  his  mission,  and  the  subsequent  papers,  to  No,  cxxxvii. 
The  following  is  the  account  given  by  him  to  the  king  of  his  arrival  and  reception  in 
Calais,  "This  daye  (11  July)  I  entred  in-to  my  ship,  in  Dover  rode,  bitwen  thre  and 
fowre  of  the  clok  in  the  mornyng  ;  and,  our  Lord  be  thanked,  had  soo  good  and  pleasaunt 
passage,  that  I  arryved  here  at  your  Graces  towne  of  Calays,  with  the  ambassadours,  and  a 
right  good  parte  of  my  trayne,  by  nyne  of  the  clok.  At  which  myne  arryval,  I  was  lovingly 
and  honnorably  receyved  by  your  Graces  deputie,  tresaurer,  and  other  your  officers  and 
counsailours  here  ;  with  whom,  after  dyner,  having  a  long  discourse  of  the  state  of  your 
said  towne,  I  founde  the  same  in  noo  litel  disordre,  and,  for  lak  of  reparations,  in  marve- 
lous decaye,  clerely  unfurnished  of  tymbre,  ston,  borde,  and  of  every  other  thing  requisite 
for  the  same,  gretly  unprovyded  of  vitayl,  and  the  poore  souldgiers  far  behinde  and  un- 


38  THE  CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS.  [1527. 

The  erle  of  Derbye. 

The  bysshope  of  Londoi^/  lord  privie  seale. 

Ser  Henry  Gilforthe,  knight  of  the  gartar,  and  comptrolar  of 
the  kyng's  howsholde. 

Doctor  Taylor,  master  of  the  roles. 

Ser  Thomas  More  knight,  and  chauncelar  of  the  duchy  of  Lan- 
castar. 

The  bysshope  of  Develyn.^ 

Barons. 
the  lord  Mountegle.  the  lord  Harrewden. 

Vicounts^  and  barons'  sonns  and  eyrs. 
ser  John  Dudley  knight.  mastar  Parker, 

mastar  Ratclyfe.  mastar  Stowrton. 

mastar  Willowby. 

Knights. 
ser  Fraunces  Brian.  ser  Robart  Gernygham. 

ser  Edward  Semar. 

Secretoris, 
doctar  Stephen  Gardinar.  doctar  Petar  Vannes. 

Gentlemen  of  the  privy  chambar. 
mastar  Hennage.  mastar  Knevet. 

mastar  Areundell.  mastar  Alford. 

Phesi\ci'\ons. 
doctour  Fraunces.  doctar  Smithe. 

payde  of  ther  wages  ;  al  which  fautes,   errours,  and  lakkes,  I  trust  to  redubbe,  afore  my 
retourne  unto  your  highnes  out  of  theire  parties."     (p.  212.)     Tlie  account  of  the  ex- 
penses of  this  Embassy  will  be  found  abstracted  in  the  Appendix  to  the  present  volume. 
*  Cuthbert  Tunstall.  ''  Hugh  Inge,  bishop  of  Dublin, 


1527.]  THE  CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS.  39 

Gentlemen  husshers  of  the  privi  chambar, 
mastar  Walgrave.  mastar  Ellis. 

ser  Thomas  Denys  knight,  highe  chamberleyne. 
mastar  Sentclere,  vice-chamberleyne. 

Gentlemen  husshers. 
mastar  Wentforthe.  mastar  Constable, 

mastar  Hansarde.  mastar  Waren. 

mastar  Pemerey. 

Officers  of  howseholde. 
mastar  Cade,  steward.  mastar  Gosticke,  comptroller, 

ser  William  Gascoigne,  knight     mastar  Browghton,  mastar  of 
and  treaswrar.  the  horse. 

Awdiences. 

doctar  Alleyn.  doctour  Bennet. 
doctor  Ducke  deane  of  the  chapell. 
doctar  Capen,  elemosiner. 

the  archdeacon  of  Caunterbery.  the  archdeacon  of  Carlile. 

ser  John  Seint  John  knight.  ser  Richard  Sands  knight, 

mastar  Strangwyshe.  mastar  Bulkeley. 

mastar  Rice.  mastar  Tempest, 

mastar  Savelle.  mastar  Redman, 

mastar  Luterell.  mastar  Dauncy. 

mastar  Wyndam.  mastar  Lighe. 

mastar  Browghton.  mastar  Haselwode. 

mastar  Biffotte,  mastar  Wentwrthe. 

mastar  Cutte.  mastar  Cattisby. 

mastar  Reskemer.  mastar  Medleton. 

mastar  Fayrefaxe.  mastar  Luterell  the  yongar. 

mastar  Throckmorton.  mastar  Turney. 

mastar  Dennes.  mastar  Caundishe. 


40  THE  CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS.  [1527- 

mastar  Newton.  mastar  Creke. 

mastar  Egerton.  mastar  Lyndesey. 

mastar  Brwerton.  mastar  Judde. 
mastar  Pexsall. 

Gentlemen  herbergers. 
mastar  Wegan.  mastar  Beurghe.         mastar  Ichyngham. 

mastar  Norrey  kynge  at  armes.       mastar  sergeant  at  armes. 

Gentlemen  of  the  chapell. 
mastar  Phelippe.  mastar  Berepe. 

mastar  Avery.  mastar  Burban. 

John  Clifton.  Roger  Eton. 

Rowland  Renkyn.  Nicholas  Ruston. 

Henry  Stephenson.  David  Valens. 

The  hole  nombre  of  seide  lorde  Legats  traine  ix  c.  horsy s. 

There  landyd  also  at  the  towne  of  Calays  that  cam  out  of  Eng- 
land withe  the  cardinall  of  Yorke,  the  pope's  ambassadors,  and  the 
Frenche  kyng's  ambassadors. 

The  xvj.  of  July  there  came  to  Calais,  mounser  Bee  the  capi- 
tayne  of  Boleyne/  and  the  capitayne  of  Morterell,  with  a  goodly 
company,  to  speke  with  the  cardinall. 

The  xxj.  of  July  the  bysshope  of  Bathe  ^  cam  out  of  Fraunce 
to  Calais,  and  a  bysshope  and  an  abbot  of  France  cam  with  hym 
to  speke  the  cardinall  Wolse. 

The  xxij.  of  July  the  cardinall  rode  to  Boleyne  with  a  great 
companye  toward  the  Frenche  kynge.*^ 

^  Mons.  de  Bayes,  capitayne  of  Boulogne.  He  really  arrived  on  the  17th,  as  appears  by 
two  letters  in  the  Wolsey  Correspondence,  p.  218, 

•>  John  Clerk. 

'  "Wolsey  was  met  at  Sandingfield  by  the  Cardinal  of  Lorraine,  the  lieutenant  of  Picar- 
dy  (de  Brion),  and  a  retinue  of  1000  horsemen,  who  congratulated  him.  See  W^olsey 
Correspondence,  p.  222,  where  also  may  be  found  some  account  of  the  compliments,  pre- 
sents, and  pageantry,  that  awaited  him  at  Boulogne  and  Montnieil. 


1527.]  THE   CHROXICI>E   OF   CALAIS.  41 

The  xxiiij.  of  September  cardiiKill  Wolsey  loke  shipynge  at 
Calleis  and  landyd  at  Dovar. 

1529.  The  xxj.  day  of  May,  the  21.  yere  of  king  Henry  the 
Eighth,  Charles  Brandon  duke  of  Suffolke  landyd  at  Caleis,  and 
ser  William  Fitzwilliam  tresurar  of  the  kyng's  howse  and  lyvete- 
naunt  of  the  castle  of  Caleis,  for  to  goo  im])assadors  to  the  Frenche 
kynge.  The  duke  of  SufFolke  cam  to  Caleis  out  of  Fraunce  the 
xxix.  of  June,  and  shiped  toward  England  the  same  daye. 

The  iiij.  of  July  the  bysshopeof  London  lorde  prevy  scale, a  with 
ser  Thomas  More  chancelar  of  the  duchye  of  Lancastar,  landyd 
at  Caleis,  for  to  goo  to  the  towne  of  Camerike''  for  to  speke  withe 
the  Frenche  kyng's  mothar,  regent  of  Fraunce,  and  withe  the  lady 
Margaret  duches  of  Savoy  and  the  emperowr's  awnte  and  rular  of 
Flandars,  Braban,  Holand,  and  Zeland,  and  of  all  the  emperowr's 
contryes  in  the  este  parties  on  this  syde  the  mowntayns  :  these  ij. 
ladyes  with  theyr  cownsell  thinke  to  make  peace  betwixt  the  em- 
perowre  and  the  kynge  of  England,  and  the  Frenche  kynge. 

The  XXX.  of  Awgust  the  peace  was  proclaymed  in  Calleis  be- 
twixt the  kynge  of  England  and  Charles  the  emperowr,  and  the 
Frenche  kynge,  which  peace  was  made  by  the  ij.  wymen  before 
namyd. 

1532.  The  xj.  day  of  Octobar  Henry  the  Eighth  kynge  of 
England  landyd  at  Caleis,  with  the  duke, of  Richemond  his  bastard 
Sonne,  the  duke  of  Norfoike  lord  tresorar  of  England,  the  duke  of 
SufFolke,  the  bysshope  of  Wynchestar,^  the  bysshope  of  London,d 
the  bysshope  of  Lyncolne,^  the  bysshope  of  Bathe,''  the  marques  of 
Exceter,  the  erle  of  Dcrbye,  the  erle  of  Arundell,  the  erle  of  Oxen- 
forde,  the  erle  of  Surrey,  the  erle  of  Rutland,  the  vicount  Lisle 
kynge  Edward  the  Fowrthes  bastard  sone,  the  lorde  Matrevers,  the 

*  Cuthbert  Tunstall.  ^  Cambray.  •=  Stephen  Gardiner, 

''  John  Stokesley.  ^  John  Longland.  '  John  Clerk. 

CAMD.  SOC.  G 


42  THE   CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS.  [1532. 

lord  Sands  lord  chambarlen  of  the  kyng's  howse,  the  lord  William 
Howard,  the  lorde  Braye,  the  lorde  Montague,  the  lord  Cobham, 
tlie  lord  Mordante,  the  lord  Dawbney,  the  lorde  Greye,  the  lorde 
Clinton,  the  lorde  Vauxe,  the  lorde  Mountegle,  the  lorde  Roche- 
forde,  with  dyvars  other  lords,  ser  William  Fitzwilliam  tresurar 
of  the  kyng's  howse,  ser  William  Pallett  comptrowlar  of  the 
kyng's  howse,  ser  William  Kyngston  capitayne  of  the  garde,  ser 
John  Page,  ser  James  Boleyne,  ser  Anthony  Bi-OAvne,  ser  Edward 
Nevell  knight  herberjur,  ser  Thomas  Cheny,  ser  John  Russell,  ser 
Richard  Page,  ser  Raffe  Eldercare,  ser  Edward  Baynton,  ser  Ed- 
ward Santener,  ser  Griffethe  Doon,  ser  John  Dudley,  ser  John 
Semer,  ser  Henry  Longe,  ser  Anthony  Hungarford,  ser  John 
Bruges,  ser  Arthur  Hopton,  ser  Anthony  Wyngfilde,  ser  W^illiam 
Paston,  ser  Edmond  Bedingfeld,  ser  Thomas  Strange,  ser  W^il- 
liam  Hawte.,  ser  Edward  Wotton,  ser  W^illiam  Askughe,  ser  John 
Markam,  ser  William  Baryngton,  ser  William  Essex,  ser  Gyles 
Strangweis,  ser  Edward  Chamberleyne,  ser  Giles  Caple,  ser  John 
Seint  John,  ser  Waltar  Hungarford,  ser  William  Gascoyne,  ser 
Lionell  Norreis,  ser  Edward  Boleyne,  ser  Thomas  Lisle,  ser  John 
Assheton,  ser  Thomas  Palmar,  ser  William  Boleyne,  ser  William 
Finche,  ser  William  Pellam,  ser  Thomas  Rotherham,  ser  John 
Norton,  ser  Richard  Sands,  ser  John  Nevell,  and  xsx.  esquyers 
de  quyrry  and  many  gentlemen;  every  duke  had  xl.  men,  every  mar- 
ques XXXV.  men,  every  erle  xxiiij.,  every  vicount  xx.,  every  byss- 
hope  xxiiij.,  every  baron  and  lorde  xij.,  every  knight  x.,  the  tresw- 
rar  of  the  kyng's  hows,  xx.,  the  comptrowlar  of  the  kyng's  howse 
hathe  xx.  men,  every  counselar  x.  men,  the  clarke  of  the  citchen 
X.  men,  every  doctor  viij.  men,  every  esquier  for  the  body  viij. 
men,  every  sewar  to  the  kynge  vj.  men,  every  gentleman  usshar 
iiij.  men,  the  clerke  of  the  grene  clothe  xij.  men,  the  clerke  comp- 
trowlar hathe  vj.  men,  the  cofferer  viij.  men,  the  clerke  of  the  citchen 
j.,.the  clerke  of  the  spicery  vj.,  the  clerke  of  the  ewrye  iiij.,  the  se- 
cond clerke  iij.,  every  sargiant  at  armes  on  man,  and  every  sargiant 
of  every  office  in   the  kyng's  howse  one  man,  the  yeman  of   the 


15.32,]  THE   CHRONICLE   OK  CALAIS.  4^ 

comptinghovvs  hath  one  grome,  and  every  one  of  the  iiij.  officers  of 
the  bake  howse  iiij.  men,  the  officers  of  the  pantrye,  Ijuttrye,  and 
sellar  have  xxxiij.  men,  the  officers  of  the  pitcherhowse  hathe  xij. 
men,  the  officers  of  the  wafFers  and  condutis  v.  men,  the  officers  of 
the  chandry  x.  men,  officer  of  tlie  confectionary  have  vij.  men,  the 
officers  of  the  lawndrye  have  viij.  men,  the  officers  of  the  kechen 
have  XX,  men  and  xv.  servants,  the  officers  of  the  lardar  have  xvj. 
men,  officers  of  tlie  boyhnge  hows  have  v.  men,  officers  of  the 
pultrye  have  xiij.  men,  officers  of  the  sqwllerye  have  xx.  men, 
officers  of  the  scaklynghows  viij.  men,  officers  of  the  pasterye  are 
xiiij.,  the  officers  of  the  woodyarde  are  xx.  men,  officers  of  the  halle 
are  ix.  men,  the  officers  of  the  herbengers  are  x.  men,  besyds 
othar  officers. 

The  xxj.  of  Octobar  kynge  Henry  rode  from  his  towne  of 
Galleys  to  Boleyne  with  all  his  trayne,  and  the  xxx.  of  the  same 
monethe  returnyd  agayne  to  Callais  and  the  Frenche  kvnge  with 
him,  and  the  kynge  of  Naverne,  and  the  cardinall  of  Loren,  and 
many  othar  duks,  bysshops,  and  great  lords  of  Fraunce,  Gas- 
coigne,  Bretaigne  and  Normandy  ;  and  the  xxviij.  of  Octobar  kynge 
Henry  made  the  kynge  of  Naverne  knight  of  the  gartar,^  and  the 
next  day  the  Frenche  kynge  with  the  kynge  of  Naverne  and  all 
the  greate  lords  of  Fraunce  rode  agayne  to  Boleyne,  and  kynge 
Henry  of  England  rode  with  them  to  Sandyngfilde,  where  the 
kynge  of  England  had  made  a  costly  banqwete,  and  there  tlie  iij. 
kyngs  departyd  lyke  lovynge  bretherne  in  greate  amytie.  The 
Frenche  kynge  payde  for  all  the  costes  of  the  kynge  of  England, 
and  them  that  cam  with  hyra  to  Boleyne ;   and  the  kynge  of  Eng- 

»  This  is  a  mistake.  The  king  of  Navarre  was  not  elected  of  the  Garter  ;  but  two 
Frenchmen  were  elected  on  this  occasion,  namely,  Anne  de  Montmorency  count  de 
Beaumont  (afterwards  duke  de  Montmorency),  grand  master,  and  Philip  de  Chabot  count 
de  Neublanche,  admiral  of  France.  "  This  honour  was  conferred  upon  those  illustrious 
subjects  of  Francis  I.  in  return  for  the  investiture  of  the  dukes  of  Norfolk  and  Suffolk 
with  the  order  of  St.  Michael  at  Boulogne  three  days  previously." — Beltz's  Memorials  of 
the  Order  of  the  Garter,  p.  xcii  ;  Anstis,  Register  of  the  Garter,  vol.  ii.  p.  391. 


•li  THE   CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS.  [1532. 

land  payde  for  the  Frenche  men's  coste,  and  all  that  cam  with 
them  to  Galleys,  and  gave  the  ij.  kyngs  ryche  gyftes.  The  first  of 
Novembar  kynge  Henry  made  dyvars  knights »  and  officers,  and  the 
xiij.  of  Novembar  toke  shipe  with  lady  Anne  Boleyne  marchiones 
of  Pembroke,"^  who  bare  a  greate  rome  with  liym,  and  what  she 
wolde  have  done  was  shortly  finished  ;  he  made  hir  marchiones  of 
Pembroke,  and  hir  fathar  ser  Thomas  Bolen  erle  of  Wilshere  : 
they  landyd  at  Dovar  the  same  daye. 

1533.  The  XXX.  of  May,  and  in  the  25.  of  Henry  the  Eighth, 
ser  Thomas  Howard  duke  of  Norfolke  and  lorde  treswrar  of 
England  landyd  at  Caleis  for  to  goo  to  the  pope  or  to  the  Frenche 
kynge,  or  to  bothe,  as  his  servants  sayde ;  with  hym  came  ser 
Gorge  Boleyne  lorde  Rocheforde,  sone  and  heyre  to  Thomas 
Boleyne  erle  of  Wilshere,  ser  Anthony  Browne,  ser  Francis 
Bryan,  ser  William  Pallet  knight,  comptrowlar  of  the  kyng*s  howse, 
iij.  doctars,  and  dyvars  esquiers  and  gentlemen.  The  ij.  day  of 
June  they  set  forward,  and  lay  the  same  night  at  Boleyne. 

The  ij.  of  June  Arthur  Plantaginete  vicount  Lile,  knight  of 
the  gartar,  landyd  at  Caleis  with  the  lady  his  wife,  and  the  next 
daye  he  toke  his  othe  to  be  deputye  generall  of  the  towne  and 
marches,  aftar  the  late  decease  of  the  lord  Barnes."^ 

The  xxix.  of  Awgust  Thomas  Howard  duke  of  Northfolke  cam 
hake  to  Calleis  owt  of  Fraunce,  and  with  hym  the  othar  lord  and 
knights  above  named,  and  they  tuke  shipe  and  returnyd  toward 
England  the  same  nyght :  they  made  suche  haste,  for  the  pope 
wowlcie  not  speke  with  the  duke  or  his  companye. 

The  XXV.  of  ISeptembar  the  duke  of  Richemond,  bastard  sone  to 
king  Henry  the  Eighth,  and  the  erle  of  Surrey,  cam  to  Caleys 
owt  of  Fraunce,  where  they  hade  bene  almoste  xij.  monthes. 

*  See  the  Appendix. 

**  So  created  on  the  1st  Sept.  preceding  ;  she  was  married  to  the  king  in  January  fol- 
lowing. 

•^  John  Buurchier,  lord  Berners  ;  see  note  in  the  Appendix. 


1534.]  THE  CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS. 


1534.  Ser  Philipe  de  Shabott,^  highe  admirall  of  Fraunce, 
cam  to  Calais  on  the  viij,  of  November,  the  xxvj.  of  Henry  the 
Eighth  ;  with  hym  cam  other  ij.  great  men  of  Fraunce  that  wer  in 
comyssyon  or  ambassadors  with  hym,  and  othar,  they  about  iij.  c. 
horses ;  he  was  shiped  in  [the]  Lyon,  and  sayled  into  England. 

The  ix.  of  Decembar  the  sayd  Philipe  Shabott,  highe  inarshall  ^ 
of  Fraunce,  comynge  out  of  England,  landyd  at  Caleis;  the  next 
day  he  rode  towards  Boleyne. 

1535.  The  xixc  of  May,  the  xxvij.  of  Henry  the  Eighth,  tliere 
landyd  at  Caleis  Thomas  Howard  duke  of  Norfolke,  Thomas 
Goodricke  bysshope  of  Ely,  and  doctar  Rede  the  kyng's  almoner, 
and  dyvars  othar  doctars. 

The  XX.  of  May  landyd  at  Caleis  ser  Gorge  Boleyne  lord  Roche- 
forde,  lord  of  the  v.  ports. 

The  xxij.  of  May  there  cam  to  Caleis  from  the  Frenche  kynge 
Philipe  de  Shabott,  highe  amerall  of  Fraunce,  and  dyvars  great 
men  and  doctors  of  Fraunce. 

The  xxvj.  of  May  landyd  at  Caleis  ser  William  Fitzwilliam, 
tresurar  of  the  kyng's  howse  and  chaunselar  of  the  duchy  of 
Lancaster.  Item,  when  the  duke  of  Norfolke  and  the  bysshope 
of  Elye  came  to  the  towne  of  Caleis,  all  the  townsmen  and  sowl- 
diars  of  Calleis  powled  theyr  heads,  becaws  ^1  the  ambassadors' 
men  wer  powled. 

The  xiiij.  of  June  ser  Philipe  de  Shabott,  amerall  of  Fraunce, 
with  the  othar  Frenche  men,  departyd  out  of  Caleis  toward 
Fraunce.  The  same  day  at  night  the  duke  of  Norfolke,  the 
bysshope  of  Elly,  the  lord  William  Howard  the  duk's  brother, 
the  lorde  Rocheforde  the  qwen's  brother,  and  ser  William  Fitz- 
william  toke  theyr  shipps  and  seyled  into  England  in  all  haste, 
whan  they  had  had  longe  comvinication  with  the  Frenchemen,  and 
made  an  ende  of  they  re  counsell.  Whereof  theyr  counsell  was 
God  knowethe,  for  ther  was  none  of  the  counsell  of  the  kynge  in 
Caleis  that  were  privie  there  unto. 

*  Chabot.     See  the  note  in  p.  43.  ''  So  in  MS. 


46  THE  CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS.  [1535. 

The  xxiiij.  of  Octobar  ther  landyd  at  Caleis  the  bysshope  of 
Winchestar  "  to  goo  to  the  Frenche  kynge,  and  the  bysshope  [of] 
Hereforde  ^  to  goo  into  Germany,  and  from  thens  into  Lubecke 
and  othar  places  for  the  kyng's  bysenes. 

1536.  The  words'^  of  ser  Gorge  Boleyne,  brothar  to  qwene 
Anne,  M^arden  of  the  v.  portes,  on  the  xvij.  of  May,  when  he  toke 
his  deathe  at  the  Towre  Hill  at  London,  he  sayde  thre  tymes, 
"  Christen  men,  I  am  borne  undar  the  lawe,  and  judged  undar 
the  lawe,  and  dye  undar  the  lawe,  and  the  lawe  bathe  con- 
demned me.  Mastars  all,  I  am  not  come  hether  for  to  preche, 
but  for  to  dye,  for  I  have  deserved  for  to  dye  yf  I  had  xx.  lyves, 
more  shamefully  than  can  be  devysed,  for  I  am  a  wreched  synnar, 
and  I  have  synned  shamefully,  I  have  knowne  no  man  so  evell,  and 
to  reherse  my  synnes  openly  it  were  no  pleas wre  to  you  to  here 
them,  nor  yet  for  me  to  reherse  them,  for  God  knowethe  all; 
therefore,  mastars  all,  I  pray  yow  take  hede  by  me,  and  especially 
my  lords  and  gentlemen  of  the  cowrte,  the  whiche  I  have  bene 
amonge,  take  hede  by  me,  and  beware  of  suche  a  fall,  and  I  pray 
to  God  the  Fathar,  the  Sonne,  and  the  Holy  Ghoste,  thre  persons 
and  one  God,  that  my  deathe  may  be  an  example  unto  yow  all, 
and  beware,  trust  not  in  the  vanitie  of  the  worlde,  and  especially 
in  the  flateringe  of  the  cowrte.  And  I  cry  God  mercy,  and  aske 
all  the  worlde  forgevenes,  as  willingly  as  I  wowld  have  forgevenes 
of  God ;  and  yf  I  have  offendyd  any  man  that  is  not  here  now, 
eythar  in  thowght,  worde,  or  dede,  and  yf  ye  here  any  suche,  I 
pray  yow  hertely  in  my  behalfe,  pray  them  to  forgyve  me  for 
God's  sake.  And  yet,  my  mastars  all,  I  have  one  thinge  for  to 
say  to  yow,  men  do  comon  and  saye  that  I  have  bene  a  settar 
forthe    of  the  worde   of   God,    and    one  that   have   favored   the 

*  Stephen  Gardiner.  ''  Edward  Fox. 

■=  In  the  Excerpta  Historica,  1831,  is  printed  a  contemporary  account  by  a  Portuguese 
gentleman  of  the  executions  of  queen  Anne,  lord  Rochford,  &c.  containing  the  speech  of 
lord  Rochford,  at  somewhat  greater  length  than  here  given,  but  entirely  to  the  same 
purport,  a  very  remarkable  confirmation  of  its  accuracy. 


1536.]  THE  CHRONICLE  OP  CALAIS.  47 

Ghospell  of  Christ ;  and  bycawse  I  would  not  that  God's  word 
shuld  be  slaundered  by  me,  I  say  unto  yow  all,  that  yf  I  had  fol- 
lowed God's  worde  in  dede  as  I  dyd  rede  it  and  set  it  forthe  to 
my  power,  I  had  not  come  to  this.  I  dyd  red  the  Ghospell  of 
Christe,  but  I  dyd  not  follow  it ;  yf  I  had,  I  had  bene  a  lyves  man 
anionge  yow :  therefore  I  pray  yow,  raastars  all,  for  God's  sake  sticke 
to  the  trwthe  and  folowe  it,  for  one  good  followere  is  worthe  tlire 
redars,  as  God  knowethe." 

The  xix.  of  May  qwene  Ann  Boleyn  was  behedyd  in  the 
Towre  of  London,  by  the  hands  of  the  hangman  of  Caleis,  withe 
the  swerde  of  Caleis. 

The  bysshope  of  Hereforde,'"*  returnynge  owt  of  the  easte  con- 
tryes,  cam  to  Caleis  on  the  xxv.  of  June,  the  xxviij.  of  Henry  the 
Eighth. 

1538.  The  xij.  of  June,  in  the  fore-none,  ther  cam  a  great 
swarme  of  beene,''  and  lyghted  upon  the  north  syde  of  the  pilorye 
in  the  market  place  at  Caleis,  whiche  was  a  strange  syght  to  all 
men  that  wer  present. 

1539.  The  x.  of  Awgust,  the  xxxj.  of  Henry  the  Eighth,  ser 
John  Butlar  priste,  comyssary  of  Caleis  and  marches  there,  and 
Thomas  Broke  chefe  clerke  of  the  excheqwere,  and  customar  of 
the  tovvne  of  Calles,  wer  sent  to  the  flete. 

1 1  1540.  The  x.  of  Apryll  ther  was  set  up  a  payre  of  gallows  in 
the  market  place  of  Caleys,  and  theron  was  hanged  ser  William 
Peterson  prist,  late  comissary  of  Caleis  and  the  marches,  and  ser 
William  Richardson,  late  the  maior's  preste;c  thes  ij.  were 
browght  owt  of  England  to  Caleis,  and  ther  they  wer  judged  to 
be  hanged,   drawne,  and  qwartered ;   they  were   drawne  from  the 

°-  Edward  Fox.  *"  i.  e.  bees. 

*=  Note  ill  margin. — The  xij.  of  Marche  thes  ij.  pristes  wer  araigned  in  the  Gwihl  liall 
at  London,  and  condemned  for  the  pope's  suppremacy. 


48  THE  CHRONICLE  OF  CALAIS.  [1540. 

Watargate  strete,  and  then  to  tlie  Castle  strete,  and  so  rownd 
abowght  to  the  market  to  tlie  gallows.  The  maior's  prest  Avas 
hanged,  and  shortly  cut  down,  and  his  clothes  pulled  of,  and  his 
belly  cut,  his  bowels  and  niembars  cut  and  cast  in  the  fire,  he 
lokynge  on  ;  then  his  heade  was  smiten  of.  Ser  William  Peter- 
son was  hanged  and  served  as  the  othar  ;  then  they  M-er  qwar- 
tered,  and  theyr  heads  and  qwartars  set  on  the  towres  about  the 
towne. 

In  the  monithe  of  June,  and  the  32.  yere  of  Henry  the  Eighth, 
Arthur  Plantaginet  vicounte  Lisle,  the  kyng's  deputie  of  the 
towne  and  marches  of  Caleis,  was  put  in  the  Towre  of  London, 
his  goods  seased,  his  wyfFe  kepte  in  one  place,  his  dowghtar  in  an 
othar,  and  his  dowghtars  in  an  othar  place,  that  none  of  them 
myght  speke  with  othar,  and  all  his  servaunts  dyscharged. 

The  last  of  June  ther  landyd  at  Calais  doctor  Clement  ^  Clarke, 
bysshope  of  Bathe,  and  the  next  morninge  he  toke  his  jurneye 
toward  the  emperowr. 

The  ij.  day  of  July  the  prince  of  Salerne '^  cam  to  Caleis  from 
themperowr  as  some  sayde,  othar  some  sayde  he  came  for  his  own 
pleasure  for  to  se  the  kynge  of  England ;  he  had  about  xl.  men  all 
in  blake  clothe  coates  ;  the  next  day  he  toke  shippinge  and  seyled 
to  Dovar. 

The  XV.  of  July  the  prince  of  Salerne  landed  at  Calleys, 
cominge  owt  t)f  England,  and  the  same  day  he  toke  his  jurney 
homewarde,  for  he  caried  no  horse  into  England  with  hym. 

The  xvij.  of  July  cam  to  the  towne  of  Callais  the  duke  of 
Ferrer's  brothar ;  ^  he  and  all  his  companye  cam  in  blake ;  the 
next  day  he  toke  shippinge  and  sayled  into  England. 

The  xxx.  day  of  July  the  duke  of  Ferrer's  brothar  landyd  at  the 
towne  of  Calais  out  of  England,  and  the  next  day  he  departyd 
owt  of  Calais  homeward. 

»  Head  John. 

•>  Ferdinando  de  San  Severino,  prince  of  Salerno  :  see  the  Appendix. 

•=   A  brother  of  the  duke  of  Ferrara. 


APPENDIX  OF  DOCUxAIENTS. 


[Page  2.]   Expenses  of  the  visit  of  king  Henry  VII,  to 
France,  1492. 

(Extracts  by  Mr.  Craven  Ord  from  the  Privy-purse  Accounts  of  king  Henry  VH. 
MS.  Addit.  Brit.  Mus.  7099,  printed  in  the  Excerpta  Historica,  p.  91.) 

2.  Oct.     At  Calais  by  1 1  o'clock. 

To  the  shipp  botes  that  brought  the  kinges  grace  to  and  fro  the  ship  the 
Swan,  40*. 

To  the  maryners  of  the  same  Swan,  6/.  13*.  4d. 

To  the  mynystrels  that  pleyed  in  the  Swan,  13*.  4d. 

To  Dego  the  Spanish  fole  in  reward,  6s.  8d. 

14.  Saundeford. — 15.  Margeson. — 17.  Brytenvyle. — 18.  At  a  village, 
Wikersdenne,  half  a  mile  from  Boillongne. 

Nov.  4.  Sunday  the  peax  cried. 

7.  Calais.— 10.  Genes.— 11.  Calais. 

Dec.  10.  For  hiring  the  chapel  stuff  at  Calais,  10*. 

To  one  that  hadd  corn  trodden  down,  6*.  8d. 

[P.  4.]   Meeting  of  king  Henry  VII.  and  the  archduke  Philip, 
AT  St.  Peter's,  near  Calais,  June  9,  1500. 

(MS.  Arundel  26,  f.  xxxiiijb.) 

The  yere  of  our  Lord  God  M'.v"^.  and  the  reigne  of  Kyng  Henry 
the  VII"'  the  xv*^,  was  the  provision  made  at  seynt  Peturs  churche  by 
Kales  for  the  meetyng  of  the  kyng  and  the  archeduc,  in  maner  as  ensueth. 

Furst  the  churche  was  devyded  by  riche  clothes  of  arras  into  dyvers 
chambers,  Furste  oure  Lady  chappelle  was  richely  beseen  with  riche  clothe 

CAMD.    SOC-  H 


oO  MEETING  OF  HENRY  VII.  AND  THE  ARCHDUKE  PHILIP.         [1500. 

of  arras  of  the  story  of  Assuerus  and  Esther,*  for  the  dukes  chamber, 
and  behynde  the  aulter  well  beseen  with  scarlet,  embrawdered  with  the 
kynges  armes  and  crest,  for  a  secret  place.  And  the  upper  part  of  the 
dukes  chamber  leid  with  carpettes  strewid  with  roses  and  lavandre  and 
oder  suet  herbis  ;  and  the  neder  part  of  that  yle  hanged  with  riche  clothe  of 
arras  of  the  Sege  of  Troy,  for  the  dukes  gret  chamber  ;  and  the  qwere 
hanged  with  blew  clothe  of  arras  with  floredeluce  perssis,  and  written  in 
trolde  3[aniai)3-  And  ther  was  on  the  lefte  syde  of  the  highe  aulter  a  travers 
of  red  sarcenet,  the  upper  part  of  the  flore  empareled  as  the  other.  In 
maner  or  richer  was  the  sowthe  syde  empareled  for  the  qwenes  chambers  ; 
and  the  vestary  most  richely  beseen,  for  the  conseil  chamber  ;  and  the 
other  littelle  vestary  for  the  qwenes  secret  chamber.  And  the  belfrey  was 
ordeyned  for  the  offices  of  the  celer,  the  pantry,  and  the  confectionary,  and 
other  offices,  with  the  helpe  of  the  littelle  house  besidis  the  stepulle.  Ther 
were  ordeyned  vij.  horselode  of  cherys  ;  ther  lakked  noo  creme,  strawberys, 
nor  sugar,  bake  venyson,  spice  kakes,  nor  wafers  ;  ther  were  couched  gret 
plentie  of  wyne  and  byer  in  houseyng  therby  for  them  that  wil  drynke ; 
and  in  that  belfrey  dy verse  sortes  of  wyne,  and  ij.  hoshedys  of  ypocras, 
besides  pypyns,  grengenger,  and  other  sugadys.  Alsoo  there  were  spente 
at  that  banket  the  gretest  nowmber  of  yonge  kyddes  that  ever  I  saw  ; 
an  Engleshe  fatt  ox  poudred  and  lesed,  veneson  bakyn  into  cold  pastries  ; 
and  a  suger  case  of  vafours.  The  plente  was  so  moche  that  the  peple 
cowde  not  spende  hit  that  day,  wherefore  the  kyng  command  [ed]  hit  to  be 
spent  on  the  morue  amonge  the  peisaunce  b  ther. 

The  k\Tig  had  ordeyned  that  they  shold  no  man  nor  woman  passe  owt  of 
the  gate  of  Cales,  but  iff  their  names  were  written  in  a  bille,  oon  for  the 
kyng,  another  for  the  qwene,  as  shalle  appere  in  the  boke  followyng.  And 
sir  Richart  Nanfant  and  sir  Sampson  Norton,  and  other  of  the  kynges 
conseil  of  Cales,  had  those  billes  at  the  gates,  and  vj.  sergeantes  of  armes 
kept  the  brigge  beyonde  the  gate.  And  when  that  the  kyng,  accompanyed 
accordyng  to  his  bille  and  soo  richely  a  beseen  a  compagnye,  in  especyalle 
the  due  of  Buckyngham,  in  soo  large  and  so  riche  a  gowne  of  clothe   of 

'■  After  in  MS.,  in  error  for  Aster.  The  volume  from  which  this  document  is  derived 
is  of  a  miscellaneous  character,  and  has  the  appearance  of  having  been  WTitten  for  exercise 
in  penmanship  by  a  scribe  or  notary,  not  always  very  conversant  with  the  subjects  of  his 
papers.  In  the  present  article  are  several  other  clerical  errors,  which  have  been  silently 
corrected.  ''  Peasants. 


1500.J        MEETING  OF  HENRY   VII,  AND  THE  ARCHDUKE  PHILII*.  51 

goldc,  his  courser  richly  trapped,  and  the  trapper  enramplished  a  with 
littel  prety  belles  of  silver  and  gilt,  of  a  very  goodly  fascyon ;  the  erlle  of 
Northumberlond  also  in  a  large  and  a  riche  gowne  of  clothe  of  golde  ;  the 
erlle  of  SutFolke  in  an  other  garment  of  clothe  of  golde,  and  an  hatte  of 
silke  garnysshed  with  a  cheyne  of  gold,  and  the  goodliest  plumashes  of 
whit  austriche  feders  that  ever  I  saw,  his  hors  harneys  of  lethcr  of  the 
fascyon  of,  &c. 

Nota  quod  lord  MonJoye  and  sir  John  Wynkefeld  came  the  said  day 
that  the  due  was  with  the  kyng,  and  sir  Richard  Nanfant,  sir  Sampson 
Norton,  and  sir  Richard  Loveles  kept  the  towne  of  Cales. 

Henry  Roper  \  Christopher  Broune. 


Victor  Courtney  f  The  counstable  of  the  staple. 

Elis  Hilton       "  .i^agys-  RauflFe  Lathum. 


Willyam  Paston  /  Parton. 

Nicholas  Shirbroke  \  Thomas  Drisis. 

Robert  Sturmyn       /For  the  pro-  jyi,-.  Henry  Haulte,  chapelayn. 

Robert  Cokke  L^fb^nktt.  ^""'>^  Bekeryng. 

Christopher  Pricok  )  '  Thomas  Crulle. 

The  qwenes  iij  mynstrelles.  William  Semer. 

Robert  Johnson.  Thomas  Semer. 

The  tresorier  of  Fraunce.  John  BlakbuUe. 

Mr.  Maunselle.  Thomas  Clufelde. 

Thomas  Neville,  brother  of  the  Willyam  Bowyn. 

lord  Latymer.  John  Aleyn. 

The  abbot  of  Wooborne.  Pakenham,  towne-clerk  of  London. 

Broke,  lieutenaunt  of  the  staple.  John  More. 

Sir  Richard  Hadden,  knyghte.  William  Agier. 

[Of  the  king's  expenses  on  this  occasion  Mr.  Ord  has  extracted  only  the  following  sum 
total  : — "  1500,  May.  Paymentes  in  the  kinges  journey  from  Grenewiche  to  Calais,  and 
frome  Calais  to  Grenewiche  agen,  by  the  space  of  9  weeks,  1589^*'.  126'.  lOc?.  oi."  MS. 
Addl.  7099,  f.  64.] 

[Page  6.]     Imprisonment  at  Calais  of  the  marquess  of  Dorset 

AND   THE  lord  WiLLIAM  OF  DEVONSHIRE. 

The  death  of  the  queen  in  1502-3  had  renewed  her  husband's  natural 
jealousy  of  the  blood  of  the  house  of  York.     The  fate  of  her  cousin  the 

"  So  MS.  jxr/uqif/or  encompassed. 


52  LETTER  OF   KING  HENRY  VII.  [1508. 

earl  of  Suffolk  has  been  noticed  in  pp.  5,  6.  Her  nephew  Thomas  Grey, 
marquess  of  Dorset,  who  had  succeeded  to  that  dignity  on  the  death  of  his 
father  in  1501,  was  afterwards  in  favour  during  the  reign  of  Henry  VIII. 
and  died  in  peace  in  1530.  William  lord  Courtenay,  the  nephew  of  king 
Edward  IV.  by  his  sister  Katharine,  succeeded  to  the  earldom  of  Devonshire 
on  his  father's  death  in  1509,  and  was  released  from  confinement  after  the 
accession  of  Henry  VIII.  In  less  than  a  year  after,  he  died  young,  in 
1511:  but  the  royal  jealousy  descended  to  his  son  Henry  marquess  of 
Exeter,  who  was  beheaded  on  Tower-hill  in  1538-9 — as  was  Henry  duke 
of  Suffolk,  the  son  of  the  marquess  of  Dorset  above  mentioned,  and  father 
of  lady  Jane  Grey,  in  1554. 


[Page  6.]  Letter  of  king  Henry  VII.  to  sir  John  Wilteshire, 
comptroller  of  Calais  ;  ordering  him  to  communicate  with  the  Lady  Mar- 
garet of  Savoy  concerning  a  meeting  at  Calais ;  dated  May  24,  [1508. 3 

(MS.  Cotton.  Vesp.  C.  vi.  p.  309.) 

H.  R. 
(the  Kings  sign  manual.)  By  the  King. 

Trusty  and  welbeloved,  we  grete  you  wele,  and  have  receyved  your  lettre 
by  the  handes  of  our  servaunt  Rysbanke,  dated  at  Arras  the  xx.  day  of  this 
present  moneth  of  May,  wherin  ye  furst  write,  how  that  ye  have  not  oonly 
delyvered  our  lettres  directed  to  our  Cousine  the  Duchesse  of  Savoye,  but 
also  according  to  the  tenour  and  pourport  of  the  same,  and  of  our  other  lettres 
to  you  addressed,  have  declared  suche  credence  as  we  willed  you  to  disclose  to 
the  said  Duchesse.  Shewinge  that  with  the  consideracions  conteigned  in 
our  said  lettres,  whiche  were  thoughte  to  hir  right  good  and  reasonable,  she 
was  right  wele  contented,  and  hath  sent  the  same  our  lettres,  with  other  her 
writinges  of  hir  owne  hand,  in  poost  to  the  King  of  Romayns  hir  fader, 
abydino-  aunswer  of  the  same  within  xv.  dayes,  and  therfore  at  this  tyme 
she  writeth  not  unto  us  in  that  behalfe.  Nevertheles  of  other  devises  and 
matiers  concernyng  hir  commyng  to  our  towne  of  Calays  there  to  mete  with  us, 
(yf  we  wold  take  the  payne  to  comme  thyder,)  and,  according  to  the  mynde  of 
hir  fader  to  commune  and  treate  with  us,  as  well  upon  the  aliaunce  and 
mariage  betwixt  the  Prince  of  Castile  and  our  doughter  the  Lady  Mary,  as 
of  other  grete  matiers,  she   willed  you  to  write  unto  us.    Shewing  f-mally 


1508.]  REGARDING  A   VISIT  TO  CALAIS. 


53 


that  if  the  Kyiig  hir  fader  eontynue  and  persevere  in  the  same  opinion,  she 
is  fully  determyned  soo  to  doo,"  desiring  to  be  ascertayned  of  our  mynde 
and  pleasure  in  that  behalfe  with  diligence. 

As  unto  that  matier  we  wol  that,  after  al  due  and  affectuous  recommenda- 
cions  to  the  said  Duchesse,  ye  on  our  behalf,  with  as  good  and  amyable 
words  as  ye  can  use,  yeve  unto  hir  our  righte  herty  thankes  for  that  hir  kynde 
and  lovyng  mynde,  in  that  she  wold  take  the  payne  and  labour  to  travaile  so 
farre  to  see  and  visite  us  at  our  said  towne.  Wherin  we  counte  ourself 
moche  bownde  unto  hir,  and  in  semblable  maner  we  for  our  part,  herino-  the 
famous  and  honorable  reapports  that  dailly  been  spoken  and  publisshed  of 
her  manyfold  vertuous  and  other  singlier  merits,  bee  as  desirous  to  see  and 
commune  with  hir ;  howbeit  the  cont\Tiuaunce  of  our  disease  and  siknesse 
hath  been  suche  almoost  this  foure  monethes,  (wlierof  we  bee  not  as  yet 
clierly  delyvered,)  that  it  shuld  bee  daungerous  for  us  to  labour  and  passe  the 
see  as  yet ;  whiche  thing  is  now  the  more  displeasaunt  and  grevous  to  us, 
bicause  the  same  is  the  occasion  of  stoppe  and  lette  that  we  may  not  conve- 
niently at  this  tyme  reasort  unto  our  said  towne  of  Calays  to  visite  the  said 
Lady,  and  to  treate  with  her  uppon  such  honourable  matiers  as  been  con- 
teigned  in  your  said  writing  ;  whefunto  we  bee  right  gretely  mynded  and 
enclyned.  Neverthelesse  ye  may  saye  that,  for  thadvancement  and  further- 
aunce  of  the  said  matiers,  it  is  thought  to  us  and  our  Counsail  right  expe- 
dient and  necessary  that  some  descrete  and  hable  personnages  shuld  be  de- 
puted and  auctorised  aswell  by  us  as  the  said  Lady  to  treate,  commune, 
and  to  reduce  the  said  matiers  to  a  fynal  and  perfit  conclusion  before  our 
metyng  togeders  ;  soo  that  when  we  booth  shal  mete  at  our  said  towne,  we 
may  de\ase  of  and  uppon  other  pleasaunt  and  comfortable  matiers,  and 
alsuche  weighty  causes  to  bee  in  maner  concluded  before  our  said  metyng, 
for  if  we  shuld  there  mete,  and  noon  effectuel  conclusion  shuld  ensue,  uppon 
such  greate  causes  to  be  treated  betwext  us,  evyll  brutes  and  reapports  to  the 
reioysing  of  suche  as  wold  bee  gladd  to  here  of  the  lette  and  breche  therof, 
mought  followe  uppon  the  same.  Where  as  and  the  said  matiers  bee  ripely 
debated  before  our  said  meting,  it  shalbe  verray  honourable  to  booth  parties, 
and  righte  displeasaunt  to  suche  as  desire  the  contrary.  Whiche  tyme  de- 
pending, we  trust  in  Almighty  God,  not  oonly  to  bee  better  releved  of  our 
said  disease  and  siknesse,  so  that  we  shalbe  hable  and  stronge  to  take  our 
journey  to  our  said  towne  for  thentent  above  specified,  but  also  in  the  meane 

»  That  is,  to  accept  king  Henry's  offer  of  marriage  to  herself :  see  hereafter,  p.  68. 


54  PREPARATIONS  AT  CALAIS  [1508. 

season  we  truste  also  to  here  of  the  commjiig'  dowTie  of  the  said  King  of 
Romayns.  Soo  that  al  our  metynges  may  be  toguyders  to  our  more  singher 
reioysing  and  comfortes.  Howbeit,  the  said  matiers  wele  debated  and  dryven 
to  a  nere  conclusion,  we  woulde  be  right  gladde  (God  sending  us  helthe)  to 
reasorte  to  our  said  towne  to  visite  the  said  Duchesse,  though  the  King  hir 
fader  cam  nat  downe  to  those  lowe  parties.  Shewing  furthermore,  that 
though  ther  were  noon  other  matiers  to  bee  treated  betwixt  us  and  her,  wee 
coude  bee  righte  wele  contented  to  reasort  to  our  said  towne  oonly  to  see  her, 
for  the  honourable  reapports  that  wee  daily  here  of  hir.  The  premisses 
therfor  considered,  we  wol  that  ye  endevour  yourself  for  the  knowlege  of  hir 
mynde  in  the  deputing  of  Ambassadours  to  commune  uppon  those  matiers, 
and  to  understande  in  what  place  the  same  shal  mete,  whether  within  this 
our  reame  or  at  our  towne  of  Calays.  Whiche  knowen,  we  shal  auctorise 
ours  with  sufficient  instrucions  there  to  assemble  with  theym  to  treate  and 
conclude  uppon  the  said  matiers  as  the  caas  shal  require.  And  for  your 
certificat  made  unto  us  of  suche  newes  as  bee  conteigned  in  your  said 
writing  concerning  the  principall  rulers  abowte  the  said  Duchesse,  we 
can  you  good  thanke,  willing  you  in  semblable  maner  to  ascertaigne  us  of 
suche  other  newes  as  shalbe  occurraunt  there  from  tyme  to  tjTue.  AMiereby 
ye  shall  deserve  our  further  thankes.  Yeven  under  our  signet  at  our  manor 
of  Grenwiche,  the  xxiiij.  day  of  May. 

To  our  trusty  and  welbeloved  servaunt  John 
Wilteshire,  Comptroller  of  our  towne  and  marches  of  Calays. 

[P.  7.]   Preparatioxs  for  the  marriage  of  the  princess  Mary 
TO  Charles  prince  of  Castille,  1308. 

[The  following  documents  (from  the  MS.  Cotton.  Vitell.  C.  xi.  p.  145)  relate  to  the  outfit 
provided  for  the  Princess  Mary,  in  contemplation  of  her  intended  marriage  with  the 
Prince  of  Castille  (respecting  which  see  the  note  in  p.  7),  the  preparations  to  be  made  in 
Calais  on  that  occasion  for  her  reception,  and  for  the  Emperor,  the  Archduchess  Margaret, 
the  King,  and  the  Bridegroom.  The  alterations  in  the  first  paper  (which  are  printed 
in  Italics)  appear  to  be  in  the  handwriting  of  Henry  the  Seventh  himself,  and  the  date 
of  the  documents  is  probably  during  the  last  year  of  that  monarch  (1508).  In  1514, 
according  to  Hall,  Henry  YIII.  renewed  the  preparations  for  his  sister's  "  transporting," 
but,  being  again  put  off,  he  hastily  consummated  her  alliance  with  the  French  king.] 

f  Title  in  a  later  hand,  J    "  For  the  transporting  of  my  lady  the  Princess 

of  Castill,  1507." 

Hereaftur  ensuyth  suche  stuff  as  is  nedef[ull  to]  be  provided  for  my  ladie 


1508.] 


FOR  THE  PRINCESS  OF  CASTII.LE. 


55 


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tlie  pi-ineesso  of  [Castille],  and  aswolle  for  her  wardrope  of  beddes   as  [for] 
her  stable,  against  the  solempnization  of  her  Mariage. 

Firste,  her  bedde  chambur  to  be  hanged  with  clothe  of 
golde,  loiih  a  hordre  emhrodred  with  hir  hages,  or 
som  other  devise.^ 

Item,  for  the  said  chambur  a  large  trussing  bedde, 
with  celor,  tester,  and  counterpoint  of  the  same  clothe  of 
golde,  with  curteyns  of  damaske. 

Item,  a  chayar  of  clothe  of  golde. 

Item,''  iiij.  longe  and  large  carpettes  to  cover  the  floure 
of  the  same  chambur. 

Item,  V.  cessions  of  fyne  clothe  of  golde,  i.  rycher  then 
the  other,  iij.  longe  and  ij.  shorte. 

Item,  smale  carpettes  for  windowes  horde  and  cobordes, 
V,  at  the  lest,  of  velet  of  cramosyne,^  and  as  many 
carpettes  of  woUe  for  every  day. 

Item,  a  fethirbed  of  fyne  downe,  with  a  bolster,  ij. 
pillowes,  and  v.  small  pillowes,  for  to  take  the  say,  and 
for  every  of  them  iij.  pilowe-beers  oif  fyne  holland  clothe. 

Item,  iiij.  peir  of  fyne  shetes,  and  ij.  peir  of  fustians 
for  the  said  trussing  bedde. 

Item,  a  palet  bed  of  feddurs  with  bolster,  furnisshed 
with  shetes  iij.  payr,  fustians  oon  payre,  and  counterpoint 
oon,  for  the  gentilwomen  that  shall  lie  in  the  said 
-  chambur. 

For  the  second  chambour. 

First,  a  riche  story  of  Aras  golde  and  silke  ofiiijyerdes 

depe,  with  a  border  of  her  annys  and  bagies  for  a  remem- 

Theis  miiste  be  pro-  braunce,  of  ij.  feet  di.  depe,  price  the  Flemmyshe  elne 

vided  in  Flaundres.      ^^s^  ^^^^   fj^^f  fjig  game  storye  conteigne  in  toto  .... 

Flemish  elnes  .  ...  the  hordor. 

Item,  a  large  sparver  of  clothe  of  golde  and  cramosyn 

'■  This  insertion  is  made  in  lie^t  of  the  following  words  erased,  orels  clothe  of  golde  and 
velvet  purpall,  the  velvet  to  be  imbrodred  with  her  bagies  or  some  other  devise. 
^  Erased,  iij .  or.  *  Erased,  of  cloth  of  golde  or  velvet. 


56  PREPARATIONS   AT  CALAIS  [1508. 

vellet  per  pale  the  vellette  onhrodred  ivith  her  bage.s 
and  other  devise,  with  a  counterpoint  of  the  same,  the 
curteyns  of  the  same  sparver  to  be  of  dowhle  sarcenet  ^ 
perpaled  with  the  colours  that  the  cloth  of  golde  and 
vellet  shalhe. 

Item,  a  chaiar  of  clothe  of  golde  for  the  same  chambour, 
with  V.  cessions  of  clothe  of  golde,  iij.  longe  and  ij.  shorte. 

Item,  a  fetherbedde  of  fyne  downe,  with  a  bolster  and 
ij.  pilowes  with  shetes,  fustians,  and  pillowe  beers  as  is 
appointed  for  the  trussing  bedde. 

Item,  a  longe  large  carpet  for  the  horde  ^  under  the 
fote,  and  iiij.for  windowes  and  cuphord.'^ 

Item,  a  traverse  of  cramosyn  sarcenet. 

For  the  iijde  chambour. 

First,  a  hangynge  of  fyne  tapessherye,^  withe  bagies 
and  armys  in  the  bordour  of  vj  c.  Flemmysshe  elnes  in 
toto. 

Item,  a  bedde  of  astate  with  a  counterpoint  e  of  clothe 
of  velvet  and  clothe  of  golde  of  her  colours  purpale.*^ 

Item,  a  chaiar  of  clothe  of  cramosyn  vellet  emhrodred,^ 
and  V.  cossions  of  the  same.** 

Item,  a  large  fedderbed,  with  a  bolster  for  the  said 
bedde  of  astate. 

Item,  a  large  and  a  longe  carpett,  and  iiij .  smale  car- 
pettes  for  the  said  chambur. 

*  Erased,  damaske. 

b  It  may  be  noted  that  the  term  hoard  answered  to  our  modern  table  (but  was  usually 
moveable,  and  placed  on  trestles)  ;  that  the  cihj}board  was  an  open  sideboard  ;  and  that 
the  covers  of  both  were  carpets. 

■=  Erased,  cobborde  and  windowes  of  velvet. 

d  Erased,  Aras,  not  so  fyne  as  is  the  seconde  chambur. 

*=  Erased,  of  cloth  of  golde,  orels. 
Here  these  words  are  erased,  the  velvet  imbrodered  with  some  bagies  and  other  devise. 

8  Erased,  golde. 

''  or  els  the  said  chaiar  to  be  kevered  withe  crymsyne  felvet  and  cossions  of  the  same, 
erased. 


1508.]  FOR  THE   HKINCESS  OF  CASTILLE.  57 

Item,  ij.  clothes  of  astate,  the  oone  richer  then  the 
other,  of  clothe  of  golde. 

The  iiijth  chambour. 

First,  a  story  of  good  and  fyne  tapicery,  for  to  hange 
the  same  chambur,  with  a  bordour  of  her  ai-mys  and  bagies, 
ofvj.  elnes  with  the  bordour,  price  every  iiif.  st'. 

Item,  viij.  paillat  feeler  beddes,  every  of  them  stuifed, 
with  bolster,  fustians,  and  counterpoint,  and  iij .  peir  of 
shetes  for  every  paillat. 

Item,  a  stole  covered  with  crymsyne  velvet  naylled 
with  gilt  nailles,  and  a  smale  canape  with  curteyns  of 
crymsyne  double  sarcenet  to  hange  aboute  the  same 
stole. 

Item,  a  basyn  for  the  said  stole,  of  silver. 

Item,  ij.  or  iij.  longe  carpettes  and  xij.  smale  carpettes 
in  store,  to  serve  alwaies  when  nede  is. 

Item,  as  many  peces  of  fyne  verdour  or  tapicerie  werke 
as  will  serve  for  hangyng  of  ij.  or  iij  chambours  when  she 
rides  by  the  waye,  or  elli/s  the  same  that  she  hathe,  if 
it  he  thoughte  holle  and  welle  colored  and  honest.^ 

Item,  a  trussinge  bedde  to  cary  with  her  by  the  way, 
with  celour,  testour,  and  counterpoint  of  velvet  or  damaske 
perpale  of  her  colours,  with  bedd,  bolster,  pillowes,  fus- 
tians, shetes,  and  other  necessaries  therfor. 

Item,  ij.  cofres  for  her  juels. 

Item,  iiij.  cofres  for  her  plate. 

Item,  iij.  large  cofres  for  the  warderobe  for  beddes, 
shetes,  and  fustians. 

Item,  iiij.  clothe  sackes  at  the  lest,  and  casis  for  the 
trussinge  bedde. 

For  the  stable. 
First,  a  riche  litter  of  clothe  of  golde,  lyned  with  satan 
or  damaske,  with  iiij.  cessions  of  the  same  clothe  of  golde, 
with  horse  harneis  of  the  same. 
•■  This  passage  may  be  thought  characteristic  of  the  parsimony  of  the  royal  writer. 
CAMD.  SOC.  1 


58  PREPARATIONS   AT  CALAIS  [1308. 

Item,  a  charriet  for  herre  or  her  principalle  ladies, 
covered  with  clothe  of  golde,  with  iiij.  cossions  of  the 
same,  and  the  horse  harneis  in  likewise. 

Item,  ij.  other  charrietts  for  ladies  or  gentilwomen, 
covered  with  crymsyne  velvet,  and  for  every  chariot  iiij. 
cossions  of  the  same,  and  the  horse  harneis  in  likewise. 

Item,  a  large  and  a  goodhe  palfray  to  be  ledde  in 
hande,  with  a  sadill  and  pillion,  covered  with  riche  clothe 
of  golde,  the  bordres  richelie  imbrodred,  orels  of  gold- 
smithe  worke,  and  harnes  of  the  same. 

Item,  another  goodlie  palfray,  with  a  like  riche  side- 
sadille,  for  the  said  ladie  princesse  to  ride  alone  ;  the 
harneis  like. 

Item,  viij.  other  palfrais  to  folowe  her  with  side-sadils 
richelie  covered  with  clothe  of  gold,  orels  imbrodi'ed  upon 
velvet,  with  harnes  of  the  same. 

Item,  iij,  or  iiij.  fotemen  with  riche  cotes  of  goldsmyth 
worke  to  goo  aboute  her  litter,  or  about  her  palfray. 

Item,  a  pase  to  lifte  her  upon  her  palfray,  covered 
with  silver  plates  gilte,  as  the  qwene  is  grace  is. 

Item,  a  chaunge  for  ^  the  said  palfrays,  that  is  to  say, 
as  w^ell  pilions,  sadils,  and  harneis,  and  also  coveringes 
for  the  said  litter  and  charlottes,  to  cover  them  when  it  is 
foule  wedder,  and  a  chaunge  of  harneis  for  every  of  the 
horsis  of  the  said  litter  and  ladies  charlottes. 

Item,  a  closed  carre  for  her  warderobe  of  the  robes, 
and  ij  charlottes  for  the  warderobe  of  the  robes,  ij.  large 
cannavas  and  ij  berehides  for  the  said  charlottes  to  save 
the  stuf  drie. 

Item,  a  bottell  horse  and  sadell  for  her  flagons. 

Item,  a  sompter  horse  for  her  trussinge  bedde. 

Item,  another  for  her  cofers. 

Item,  a  male  horse. 

Item,  another  horse  for  the  grome  of  the  sta[bles.] 

Item,  the  said  palfrais  to  be  provided  for  betymes,  and 
in  likewise  horses  for  the  litter,  the  ladies'  charriottes, 
and  for  all  other  cariages  befor  specified. 

"  every  day  of  erased. 


1508.]  FOR  THE  PRINCESS  OF  CASTILLE.  59 

For  th'emperours  logienge, 

Firste,  his  bed-chambur  to  be  hanged  with  clothe  off 
golde,  and  a  trussinge  bedde  with  testour  and  celour,  and 
counterpointe  of  riche  clothe  of  golde,  the  curteynes  with 
damaske,  withe  all  other  necessaries  therto  belongeng. 

Item,  a  chaier  of  clothe  of  golde,  and  v.  cussions  of 
the  same  for  the  said  chambur. 

Item,  for  the  horde,  cubbourd,  and  windowes,  carpettes 
of  the  same,  or  of  velvet. 

Item,  iij.  fyne  carpettes  to  ley  in  the  flowre  aboute  his 
bedde. 

Item,  a  pallet  bedde  furnished  for  theym  that  be  in  his 
chambur. 

The  secounde  chambur. 

Firste,  the  secounde  chambour  to  be  hanged  with  riche 
aras  of  golde  and  silke. 

Item,  a  bedde  with  a  sparver  and  counterpoint  of  clothe 
[of]  golde,  the  courteyns  of  double  sarcenet. 

Item,  a  chaier  of  clothe  of  golde,  and  cussions  of  the 
same,  for  the  said  chambour  and  windowes,  a  greate  carpet 
for  the  floure,  and  smale  carpettes  for  the  bourde,  cub- 
borde,  and  windows  of  velvet  or  of  wolle,  and  a  clothe  of 
astate  of  clothe  of  gold. 

The  iii*^^  chambour. 

The  iiii'e  chambour  to  be  hanged  with  fyne  tapestry, 
with  carpetes  upon  the  cubbord  and  windowes,  and 
cussions  of  velvet,  if  nede  be. 

Item,  a  chambour  hanged  and  well  dressed  for  his 
chamber  layn. 

The  prince  of  Castille. 

For  the  prince  of  Castille  in  like  fourme  as  the  em- 
perour,  excepte  the  prince  to  have  the  halle  well  hanged 
and  appointed,  and  also  the  chapelle. 


60  PREPARATIONS  AT  CALAIS  [1508. 

For  my  lady  Margarete,  archduches  of  Austriche. 

Firste,  her  bedde  chambour  to  be  hanged  with  riche 
aras.  The  secounde  chambour  also.  The  iij"^*^  of  fyne 
tapestry,  a  longe  trussinge  bedde  of  clothe  of  gold,  the 
courteyns  of  damaske,  a  chaier  of  clothe  off  golde,  and 
iij.  cussions  of  the  same.  Carpettes  aboute  her  bedde  of 
wolle,  and  upon  the  cubbourd  and  windowes  of  velvet. 

The  seconde  chambour. 

In  the  seconde  chambur,  a  bedde  with  a  sparver  and 
counterpoint  of  clothe  of  golde  and  velvet  perpale, 
courteynes  of  double  sarcenet,  with  all  that  belongeth 
therto.  A  clothe  of  astate  of  clothe  of  goulde.  A  longe 
carpet  on  the  floure.  A  chaier  covered  with  crymsyn 
velvett,  and  cussions  of  the  same  for  the  saied  chaiar  and 
windowes,  carpettes  for  the  bourde  and  windows  of  velvet 
or  of  wolle. 

Item,  a  chambour  to  be  hanged  and  dressed  for  her 
chamberlayn. 

Item,  to  have  in  store  paillet  beddes  furnished  for 
every  chambour  where  beddes  be,  and  v.  or  vj.  besides 
them,  for  every  of  the  said  logienges  for  th'emperour, 
prince,  and  archduchesse. 

The  kinges  logieng. 

Item,  for  the  kinges  lodegeinge  iiij.  chambours  at  the 
lest  to  be  hanged  and  welle  appointed,  and  a  chapell  if 
nede  bee. 

Th'emperour  to  be  lodgied  wher  the  late  deputie  dwelled 

in  Calais. 
The  prince  in  the  staple-house. 

My  ladie  Margaret  archduches  in  the  tresourer's  house. 
The  kinges  grace  in  the  castelle. 


1508.]  FOR  THE  PRINCESS  OF  CASTILLE.  Gl 

For  the  transportyng  of  my  lady  Mary,  princess  of  Castille. 

[The  name  Firste,  that  it  may   please  the  kinges   grace  to   name 

some  honorable  aged  personne  to  be  her  chamberlayne  for 
the  tyme,  &c.     And  he  to  devise  for  the  apparelle  of  her 
chambour,  and  for  officers  of  the  same. 
,  Item,  to  appointe  some  sadde  personne  to  be  tresourer 

of  her  chambour  for  the  tyme,  &c.     And  that  he  devise 
plate  for  her  chambour,  coubbord,  and  ewry. 

M  Edmunde  Item,  to  appointe  an  almosyner  and  confessour  both  in 

one   persone,    certayne  chaplayns,  and  a   clerke   of  the 

closet,  and  the  same  clerke  to  devise  the  ornamentes  and 

other  stuffe  necessarie  for  her  chapelle. 

„.     T  1,  Item,  to  appointe  a  maister  of  her  horse,  and  he  to 

Ric.  Jernyngham,  ^  rr  ' 

provyde  palfrais,  litters,  sadils,  and  apparelle  for  the  said 
palfrais. 
MvLadv  of  Oxford         Item,  that  it  may  please  the  qwenis  grace  to  name 
somme  honourable  personage  to  be  her  lady  maistres. 

Item,  to  appoint  certayn  other  ladies,  the  whiche 
with  thear  attendaunce  gevyng  uppon  the  said  ladie 
maistres,  and  by  her  advise,  have  the  charge  to  devise 
for  thapparelle  of  her  person. 

Item,  to  appoint  other  ladies  and  gentilwomen,  wherof 
somme  to  attende  and  somme  to  serve  in  the  chambour  of 
the  said  princes,  and  somme  to  contynue  in  her  service 
in  Flaundours. 

My  Lady  the  Princesse  of  Castille. 

Furste,  a  cronelle  for  her  hedde,  of  golde  and  stone,  in 
the  day  of  her  mariage. 

Item,  a  goodlie  devise  for  her  necke,  set  with  stone 
and  perle. 

Item,  a  goodlie  gurdille  of  goolde,  of  as  goodly  facion 
as  may  be  devised. 

Item,  ij.  braselettes  of  golde,  set  with  stone  and  perle. 

Item,  on  the  nexte  day  for  her  change  a  riche  juelle  of 
golde,  with  a  cheyne  of  golde  for  her  nekke. 

Item,  a  goodlie  gurdille  of  golde. 


62  PREPARATIONS  AT  CALAIS  [1508. 

To  be  proN^dyd  in  Item,  a  ffoodlie  crosse  dlte,  poisaunt  iiij^  unces. 

Flandres,  ,  •    •  -i  •  i 

Item,  vj.  images  gilte,  poisaunt  Ix  oz. 

Item,  ij.  chalises   gilte,   poisaunt  both  ")    ••••xx  ^z 
to  geddres  J 

Item,  ij.  goodlie  candilstikes  gilte,  poi-  7    p 
saunt  J 

Item,  iiij.  cruettes  gilte,  poisaunt  all  1    , 
to  geddres  J 

Item,  ij.  basens  of  her  awne,  poisaunt  ")    p, 
to  geddres  J 

[Of  her]  awne,  to  be        Item,    a  haliwater   stok    gilte,     poi-  ")  , 

newly  made  here.  f   1  unces. 

saunt  J 

To  be  newe  made  here.       Item,  a  belle  of  silver  and  gilte,  poi-  T      .. 

saunt  J 

Item,  ij.  goodlie  cuppes  of  golde  of  her 

owne,  the  {_one~\  gamy  shy  d  with  whyte 

hertes,  the  other  with  rosys.^ 

Item.,    one   other  cup  of  gold,  with 

perculles,  and  a  rose  in  the  tope,  grene 

glasse  gamy  shed  with  golde  ^ 

.  ...  of  Ays.  Item,  ij.   faire  large  pottes  gilt,  well  ")    jjjjc  u^ces. 

wroughte,  either  weying  cc.  [oz.]  J 

Item,    ij.     goodlie    flagons    gilt,   well  )   ....^ 

wroughte,  either  of  them  weying  cc.  oz.     5 

Her  owne.  Item,  ij.  lesse  pottes  gilte,  poisaunte  iij'^  unces. 

Her  owne  stuff.  Item,  ij.  pottes  of  a  lesse  sort,  poisaunt       Cxx  oz. 

Item,  xii.   bollis  with  ii.  covers    well  >   ....„ 

*'   _  "'  S  iiij*^  oz. 

wroughte,  poisaunt  3 

This  to  be  newe  made        y,  •        a    a  ji"    tp  l  ^ 

tothreofherowne,and       I^™'  ^  P^"'  oi   Aagons  of  Frenche  I  ^^^^^^^ 

oone  with  the  cover  to  plate. '^  3 

bemadetothekyng's.       j^^^^    --^    ^^^^^^^^    ^^^^^^    ^il,^    p„i.  ^         ^  ^^^^^^ 

Of  the  kynges  owne.     gaunt  ^ 

"  Erased,  on  garnysshed,  either  of  theym  of  the  valew  of  c.  marc. 

'•  Erased,  A  leyr  of  golde  of  the  same  facion  and  garnyshyng,  poisaunt  xxx  oz. 

■^  Erased,  or  botells  gilte  pois. 


1508.] 

To  be  newe  made. 

Of  hyr  owne. 

To  be  made  of  newe. 

Of  her  owne. 
Of  hyr  owne. 

To  be  provydyd. 
To  be  provydyd. 

One  of  her  owne,  two 
to  be  provydyd. 

Of  the  kynges  own. 

Of  the  kynges  owne 
stuff  of  the  Frenche 
plate. 

To  be  made. 


To  be  bowght  of 
A  ys  plate. 


FOR  THE  PRINCESS  OF  CASTILLE. 


1  unces. 
iiij''''  unccs. 
Cxx  oz. 


j  iij' 


To  be  provydyd. 


Of  her  owne  thre,  and 
ij  newe  to  be  pro- 
vyded. 


To  be  provyded. 


Item,  iij.  cuppes  of  assey  gilte,  poisaunt 

Item,  a  white  potte  for  bere,  poisaunt 

Item,  a  greate  water  potte,  poisaunt 

Item,  a  spone  of  golde,  poisaunt  ij  unces 

Item,  ij.  goodlie  saltes  of  golde  garn-  ^  , 

nyshed,  with  one  cover,  poisaunt  5 

Item,  xij.  spones  gilte,  poisaunt  xviij  oz, 

Item,  a  peir  of  kerving  knyves,  gilt — 

Item,  iii.   saltes  without  kevers,'^  poi-  f   ....  ^ 
'    •>  '^        ^  nij"-^  oz. 

saunt  3 

Item,  a  peir  of  goodlie  basins  gilte,  of 
a  goodlie  facion,  poisaunt 

Item,  iij.  basins  and  iij.  ewers:  poi- 
saunt a  basin  iiij^   oz.,  poisaunt  a  ewer  >    ij*^  xl  oz. 
xl  oz.,  poisaunt  togeder  J 

Item,  a  greate  ewer  for  to  warme  water,  7  r  q„ 
poisaunt  3 

Item,   V.  spice  plates,  with  ij   covers 
gilt,  poisamit 

Item  xij.  peces  of  spice  plates,  parcell 
gilte. 

For  powder,  sokettes  and  peirs,  poisaunt      ij*^  x 

Item,  a  ginger  potte  and  a  forke,  poi-  ^ 
saunt  > 

Item,  V.  candilstikes  gilte,  of  a  goodlie  \  r^p  ^ 
facion,  poisaunt  ^ 

Item,    V.    candilstikes    parcelle   gilte,  1 


v*^  oz. 


vnj''^  oz. 


poisaunt 

Item,  a  weyving  stole,  to  be  plated 
with  silver. 

Item,  a  little  pirling  while. 

Item,  a  peir  of  billettes,  with  a  porta- 
pynne  and  ij.  mortues  to  the  same. 

Item,  a  faire  coffer  of  iverye  ^  to  lay 
in  her  juellis. 

Item,  a  merour  or  glasse,  golde,  poisaunte    vj  oz. 


Erased,  white. 


''  Erased,  to  be  plated  with  silver. 


64 


PREPARATIONS  AT  CALAIS 


[1508. 


Of  the  kynges  owne 
plate. 

To  be  provydyd. 

Of  the  kynges  owne.  < 


To  be  provyded. 
To  be  provyded. 

Of  the  kynges  owne. 
Of  the  Frenche  plate. 


Item,  a  leyer  for  lie,  poisaunt  Ix  oz. 

Item,  a  lee  casse  gilte,  poisaunt  xx  oz. 

Item,  vj.  pottes,  parcell  gilt,  poisaunt  ^   CCC 

apece  1  oz.  3 

Item,  xij.  bollis,  parcell  gilt,  poisaunt        CCC  oz. 

Item,  an  almess  disshe,  poisaunt  CC  oz. 

Item,  a  rownde  basynfor  the  chambour,  T      , 

poisaunt  ^ 

Item,  ij.  garnysshe  of  silver  vesselle,  1    ^i  ^y., 

poisaunt  J 

Item,  a  chaffing  disshe,  poisaunt  Ix  oz. 


Gentylwoomen 
Chamberers 

Chapeleyns 

Carvar 
Sewarr 
Gent.  Usher 
Sewar  of  Chamber 

Gent.  Wayters 


Yeoman  Usher 


Yeoman  Usher 


y 


The  nombre  of  parsons  that  gevith  th[eir  attendance]  uppon  I,ady 
Pryncesse,  with  the  nombre  of  ser[ vaunts  of  her]  house  at  the  kynges 
charge,  as  foUowith  : — 

Maistres  Baker  )..  Servauntes. 

Maistress  Knevett 

Maistres  Parker 

Maistres  Gynes 

Syr  William  Atkynson 

Syr  John  Parker  , 

Syr  Richard  Baldewyn  ) 

John  Morgan 

Anthony  Coton 

Henry  Dylcok 

Thomas  Moreton 

William  Haryott  '\ 

Hugh  Penyngton 

Thomas  Preston 

William  Lambarde,  and  hath 
the  charge  of  the  warthop, 
and  therfor  he  ys  allowyd 
hys  servant 

Robert  Lee 

Minstrelle 
I  Joh'es  Kene 
\   John  Baker 


"J 

J 

J 
J 


"J 

j 
j 
j 
j 

"j 


Yeomen  of  Chamber 


William  Blakney 
John  Parker 
Thomas  Donstalle 


J/d  that  two  yeomen 
he  appoynted  hy  the 
kyng  to  furnyshe 
the  messe,  8fc. 


1509.] 


FOR  THE  PRINCESS  OF  CASTILLE. 


65 


Servaunt 

Grome  Porter 

Richard  Wood                         j 

j 

Grome  of  Wardrobe 

John  Belle                                j 
{   Davyd  Aprice                      )  .. 
[  Thomas  Bedalle                  j  ^^ 

[Gromes  o]f  Chamber 

.  Gentilwomen                          ij 

[    Chamberers                             j 

\   Chapeleynes                             j 

Lady  Gubemesse 

j   Gentilmen 

ij 

f    Yeomen 

ij 

Gromys 

ij 

Lady  Katheryn  Gray  and  hu-  woman 

ij 

Mr.  Chamberleyne                 j 

iij 

Mr.  Tresowrer                         j 

iij 

Mr.  Lenakre 

ij 

Mr.  Hone,  scolemaister 

ij 

Clerk  of  Kechjm 

Syr  Hie  Parker 

j 

Sellar 

John  Rokes 

j 

Panatry 

Edmonde  Parker 

j 

Buttry 

Hugh  Thomas 

1            j 

Ewry 

Porter  at  yate 

Robert  Fawcon 

Christofer  Pykkeryng 

i            j 

Wodeyarde 

Palmer 
John  Buttill,  yeoman          \  . 
William  Sponer,  grome  j  ^ 

Pultry 

Acatry 

Thomas  Medilton 

j            j 

Bakehouse 

Yeoman  with  one  Grome 

j           ij 

Chaundry 

Grome 

Pastry  and  Sawcery 

Grome 

Scaldynghouse 

John  Warde 
/                        Yeoman  coke  v 
i    Olyver  Hunt,  grome           i 

Kechyn 

J                            chylde            > 
/   Robyn  and  W^illiam,  porters  \ 
V     and  scowrers                      / 

V 

ij.  turne  brochis 

ij 

CAMD.  soc. 

K 

66 


EXPEDITIONS  OF  LORDS  DARCY  AND  PONYNGES. 


[1311. 


Larder 
Amnery 
Squolery 
Lyttre 


Ladyes 

Gentylwomen 

Chamberers 

Gentilmen 

Chapeleyns 

Yeomen 

Gromys 

Childerne 

Servantes 


V 

XV 
XX 


Mychell  Wales  j 

A  good  tall sJitampole  made\    . 
to  fumy  she  that  service  ^  j 
Thomas  Hues,  grome  j 

John  Bely,  yeoman 
John  Estffild,  grome 


1'^ 


XXXVJ 

Summa  personum,  Cj. 
Indorsed,  The  nowmbre  of  persones  that  attend  upon  the  lady  princes. 


[P.  7.]     Lord  Darcy's  expedition  to  Portugal,  1511. 

The  commission  given  to  sir  Thomas  Darcy,  lord  Darcy,  captain  of  the 
town  and  castles  of  Berwick,  to  assist  Ferdinand  king  of  Arragon  against 
the  Moors,  dated  at  Canterbury,  8  March,  1510-11,  is  printed  in  Rymer's 
Foedera,  vol.  xiii.  p.  294 ;  and  at  p.  296  is  a  document,  dated  Canterbury 
the  29th  March,  appointing  sir  Robert  Willoughhy  de  Broke,  sir  John 
Arundell,  sir  Peter  Edgcombe,  and  sir  Richard  Carewe,  surveyors  of  the 
musters  made  for  the  expedition, — which,  in  fact,  took  place  in  1511, 
though  first  "  set  forward"  in  the  "  2d  year"  of  the  king's  reign. 

[P.  8.]     Expedition  of  lord  Ponynges  to  Guelderland,  1511. 

The  commission  directed  to  sir  Edward  Ponynges  dated  at  Knoll,  22 
June,  (1511,)  to  assist  Charles  prince  of  Castille,  duke  of  Burgundy, 
against  his  rebel  Charles  Egmunde  of  Geldres,  will  be  found  in  Rymer's 
Fcfidera,  vol.  xiii.  p.  302. 

*  i.  e.  to  drive  away  the  beggars.     This  appears  inserted  in  jest. 


1512.]  THE  ENGLISH   NAVY.  67 

[P.  9.]     Appointment  of  sir  Edward  Howard  as 

LORD  admiral. 

The  commission  of  sir  Edward  Howard  as  Admiral,  in  consequence  of 
the  wars  threatening  the  holy  Roman  church,  was  dated  at  Knoll  the  7th 
April,  1312,  and  will  be  found  in  Rymer,  xiii.  326  :  followed  by  the  inden- 
ture of  service  executed  by  sir  Edward  on  the  following  day.  By  the  latter 
instrument  it  was  ordained  that  sir  Edward  should  have  under  him  three 
thousand  men  (including  himself),  besides  seven  hundred  soldiers,  mariners, 
and  gunners  in  the  King's  ship  called  the  Regent.  Of  the  former  number 
were  to  be  eighteen  captains,  1750  soldiers,  1233  marines  and  gunners. 
The  admiral's  daily  wages  were  ten  shillings,  and  the  captains'  eighteen- 
pence  ;  the  men  were  to  have  five  shillings  a  lunar  month  for  wages,  and  five 
shillings  for  victuals.     The  ships  and  their  tonnage  were  as  follow  : 

tons. 

Lyon 120 

Barbara 140 

George  of  Falmouth  .  140 

Peter  of  Fowey     .     .  120 

Nicholas  of  Hampton  200 

Martenet     ....  180 

Genet 70 

Christopher  Davy      .  160 

Sabyen 120 

For  the  victualling  of  which  were  also  furnished  two  crayers,  one  of  the 
portage  of  110  tons,  bearing  a  master,  twelve  mariners,  and  one  boy  ;  and  the 
other  of  55  tons,  with  a  master,  ten  mariners,  and  one  boy. 

[P.  10.]      The  campaign  of  1513. 

Various  original  documents  relating  to  this  campaign  might  have  been 
here  introduced ;  but,  as  it  was  found  that  they  would  have  very  considerably 
extended  the  present  volume,  they  are  reserved,  in  the  anticipation  that  they 
may  form  a  separate  collection,  illustrating  in  particular  the  siege  and  cap- 
ture of  Therouenne,  and  the  subsequent  occupation  of  that  city  and 
Tournay. 


tons. 

Regent      .... 

1000 

Mary  Rose    .     .     . 

500 

Peter  Pomegranet  . 

400 

John  Hopton's    . 

400 

Nicholas  Reede  .     . 

400 

Mary  John    .     .     . 

240 

Anne  of  Greenwich 

160 

Mary  George      .     . 

300 

Dragon      .... 

100 

68  secret  history  of  margaret  duchess  of  savoy,    [1513. 

Letters  of  Margaret  duchess  of  Savoy,  1513. 

The  I'eader  will  now  be  introduced  to  some  remarkable  pictures  of  the 
court  of  Henry  the  Eighth,  during  his  sojourn  on  the  continent,  drawn  by 
the  hand  of  his  illustrious  visitor,  Margaret  duchess  of  Savoy,  regent  of 
the  Netherlands ;  and  which  disclose  the  particulars  of  a  very  romantic 
incident  in  her  life,  in  relation  to  the  favourite  of  the  English  monarch, 
Charles  Brandon,  duke  of  Suffolk.  A  few  notices  of  the  history  of 
this  sovereign  princess  may  be  acceptable  by  way  of  introduction. 

Margaret  of  Austria  was  the  only  daughter  of  the  archduke  Maximilian,  afterwards 
emperor,  by  Mary  of  Burgundy,  only  daughter  and  heiress  of  Charles  duke  of  Burgundy. 
She  was  born  on  the  10th  of  January,  1479,  The  matrimonial  alliances  in  which  she  was 
concerned,  were  both  numerous  and,  as  she  remarks  in  one  of  the  following  letters,  uni- 
formly unfoi'tunate. 

In  accordance  with  the  terms  of  a  treaty  of  peace  made  between  Louis  XI.  and  the 
archduke  Maximilian,  in  the  year  1482,  Margaret  was  affianced  to  the  dauphin  Charles, 
afterwards  Charles  the  Eighth  ;  but  by  the  treaty  of  Senlis,  in  1493,  king  Charles 
relinquished  this  alliance,  and  Margaret  was,  by  his  ambassadors,  brought  to  St.  Quentin, 
from  thence  to  Cambray,  and  Valenciennes,  and  finally  to  Malines,  where  she  was  received 
by  her  brother  Philip,  and  by  Margaret  of  York  the  widow  of  her  grandfather  Charles 
the  Bold.»  Thus  terminated  Margaret's  first  matrimonial  adventure,  the  failure  of  which 
was  remembered  by  our  Calais  chronicler  in  1520.'' 

In  1495  she  was  married  to  John  prince  of  Spain,  at  the  same  time  as  her  brother 
Philip  was  married  to  Joanna  infanta  of  Spain.''     Don  John  died  without  issue  in  1497. 

Margaret's  next  marriage  was  in  December  1501  to  Philibert  duke  of  Savoy,  who  had 
previously  married  Louisa- J olenta,  daughter  of  Amadeus  VIII.  duke  of  Savoy  ;  but  he 
died  without  issue  by  either  marriage  in  1504. 

She  was  then  courted  by  king  Henry  the  Seventh  of  England. ''  To  this  proposal  his 
letter  already  inserted  in  p.  52  chiefly  refers  ;  and  in  one  of  the  volumes  of  the  Cottonian 
MSS.e  remain  not  only  a  letter  of  that  monarch  on  the  subject  addressed  "  To  our  trusty 
and  well-beloved  clerc  and  chapelein  maister  Thomas  Wolsey,"  and  the  Latin  instruc- 
tions to  that  ambassador,  but  also  the  fragment  of  a  French  letter  to  a  lady,  supposed 
to  be  in  the  handwriting  of  the  king,  and  addressed  to  the  duchess. 

It  seems,  however,  that  she  was  again  fated  to  be  deserted  ;  for,  after  the  death  of  her 
brother  Philip,  in  Aug.  1506,  the  views  of  the  English  monarch  are  said  to  have  been 
transferred  to  his  widow  Joanna,  the  queen  of  Castille,  and  the  sister  of  his  own  daughter- 


*  Les  Sceux  des  Comtes  de  Flandre,  &e.  par  Olivier  de  Wree,  1G41,  p.  96. 
''  See  p.  29,  antea.  <^  De  Wree,  p.  99. 

^  Several  documents  connected  with  this  treaty  of  marriage   are  given  in  Rymer.      It 
appears  that  the  original  treaty,  which  is  not  among  them,  bore  date  20  March,  1505[-6.] 
^  Galba,  B.  n. 


1513.]  AND  CHARLES  BRANDON,  DUKE  OF  SUFFOLK.  69 

in-law,  Katharine  princess  of  Wales."  At  length  this  period  of  uncertainty  was  closed  by 
the  death  of  king  Henry  in  1509. 

In  the  meantime  the  duchess  Margaret  had  been  appointed  by  her  father,  in  the  year 
1507,  to  be  Regent  of  the  Netherlands.  In  1508  she  was  sent  by  Maximilian  to  Cambray, 
where  she  met  the  cardinal  George  d'Amboise,  sent  on  the  part  of  France,  and  negociated 
with  him  a  treaty  of  peace.  The  circumstance  of  her  performing  the  like  gracious  part  in 
the  year  1529  has  occurred  in  the  present  volume,  p.  41. 

A  brief  review  may  now  be  taken  of  the  history  of  the  other  party  concerned  in  the  fol- 
lowing letters. 

Sir  Charles  Brandon,  who  up  to  that  period  had  been  distinguished  only  as  one  of  the 
esquires  of  the  king's  body,  was  in  May  1513  created  viscount  Lisle,  in  connexion  with 
his  obtaining  the  prospective  marriage  of  the  lady  Elizabeth  Grey,  then  styled  viscountess 
Lisle,  the  sole  daughter  and  heiress  of  John  Grey,  viscount  and  baron  Lisle,  but  who  was 
then  not  nine  years  of  age.'' 

In  July  following,  the  new  lord  Lisle  went  with  the  king  to  the  war  in  France,  being 
marshal  of  the  host,  and  captain  of  the  fore-ward,  with  3,000  men  under  him.'=  After 
the  successes  of  this  campaign,  the  battle  of  Spours,  and  the  reduction  of  Tournay  and 
Therouenne,  king  Heni-y  met  the  emperor  Maximilian  at  Lille.  Maximilian  was  at- 
tended by  the  duchess  Margaret. 

The  following  passage  of  Hall's  Chronicle,  where  he  notices  the  royal  meeting  at 
Tournay,  is  important  ;  for  it  proves  at  once  that  these  letters  are  now  assigned  to  their 
right  author,  and  also  that  the  duchess  did  not  entertain  imaginary  fears  respecting  the 
public  reports. 

"  Mondaye  the  xi.  daye  of  October  the  kyng  without  the  towne  receyved  the  prynce  of 
Castel,  the  lady  Margarete,  and  dy verse  other  nobles  of  their  countreys,  and  them  brought 
into  Tornay  with  greate  triumphe.  The  noys  went  that  the  lord  Lysle  made  request  of 
miariage  to  the  ladye  Margarete  duches  of  Savoy,  and  doughter  to  theniperour  Maximilian, 
whiche  before  that  tyme  was  departed  from  the  kyng  with  manye  riche  giftes  and  money 
borowed  ;  lui,  whether  heprofered  manage  or  not,  she  favored  him  highly.  There  the  pi"ynce 
and  duches  sojorned  with  great  solace  by  the  space  of  x  dayes.  Duryng  whiche  tyme,  the 
xviij.  daye  of  October,  began  the  justes  ;  the  kyng  and  the  lorde  Lysle  aunswered  all 
commers  ;  uppon  the  kyng  attended  xxiiij.  knyghtes  on  foote,  in  coates  of  purple  velvet 
and  cloth  of  gold.  A  tent  of  cloth  of  gold  was  sett  in  the  place  for  the  armoree  and 
releve;  the  kyng  had  a  base  and  a  trapper  of  purple  velvet  both  sett  full  of  S.S.  of  fyne 
bullion,  and  the  lord  Lisle  in  the  same  suyte.  Ther  were  many  speres  broken,  and  many  a 
good  buffet  geven ;  the  strangers,  as  the  lord  Walon  and  lorde  Emeiy,  and  other,  dyd 
right  well.  When  the  justes  were  done,  the  kyng  and  al  the  other  unhelmed  them,  and 
rode  about  the  tylt  and  dyd  great  reverence  to  the  ladies,  and  then  the  herauldes  cryed, 
To  lodgyng. 

»  Letters  of  Royal  and  Illustrious  Ladies,  edited  by  M.  A.  E.  Wood,  1846,  i.  143. 
*  She  was  only  eight  weeks  old   at  the  death  of  her  father,  6th  Sept.  20  Hen.  VII. 
(1504.)     See  the  Lisle  Peerage  Case,  by  Sir  N.  H.  Nicolas. 
=  Hall. 


70  SECRET  HISTORY  OF  MARGARET  DUCHESS  OF  SAVOY,      [1513. 

"  This  night  the  king  made  a  sumpteous  banket  of  a  c.  dishes  to  the  prince  of  Castell 
and  the  lady  Margarete,  and  to  all  other  lordes  and  ladies,  and  after  the  banket  the  ladies 
daunsed ;  and  then  came  in  the  kyng  and  a  xi.  in  a  maske,  all  richely  appareled  with 
bonettes  of  gold,  and  when  they  had  passed  the  time  at  their  pleasure,  the  garmentes  of 
the  maske  were  cast  of  amongest  the  ladies,  take  who  could  take. 

"  The  XX.  daye  of  October  the  prynce  of  Castell  and  the  lady  Margarete,  with  many  great 
giftes  to  them  geven,  returned  to  Lyle  with  all  their  trayne." 

A  few  months  after  this  meeting  the  lord  Lisle  was  advanced  to  the  dignity  of  duke  of 
Suffolk  :  and  it  appears  not  improbable  that  the  circumstances  now  disclosed  bore  some 
relation  to  that  advancement.  It  is  difficult,  from  our  present  biographies  of  Charles 
Brandon,  to  assign  an  adequate  reason  for  his  great  and  sudden  elevation.  It  is  true  that 
he  appears  as  the  personal  favourite  of  his  royal  master,  but  that  partiality  was  not  so 
extravagant  as  in  many  other  examples  of  favouritism,  and  might  have  been  sufficiently 
gratified  (at  least  for  a  time)  by  his  promotion  to  the  rank  of  an  earl.  The  dignity  of  a 
duke  was  conferred  upon  him  on  the  1st  Feb.  1514,  the  same  day  that  the  dukedom  of 
Norfolk  was  restored  to  the  Howards,  and  when  there  was  only  one  other  peerage  of  that 
grade,  namely,  Buckingham,  existing  in  England.  It  had  clearly  no  designed  connection 
with  his  subsequent  alliance  to  the  blood  royal  ;  but  may  we  not  suppose  that  it  was  con- 
ferred in  order  to  further  his  suit  with  the  duchess  of  Savoy  ?  and  that  king  Henry,  as 
well  by  this  act  as  by  his  other  exertions  of  his  personal  influence  in  this  extraordinary 
affair,  unwittingly  paved  the  way  to  the  duke's  subsequent  alliance  with  his  sister,  the 
dowager  of  France  ;  since  he  could  not  object  that  the  same  man  was  an  unfit  husband  for 
a  king's  daughter  whom  he  had  himself  endeavoured  to  promote  to  an  alliance  with  the 
daughter  of  an  emperor. 

In  the  month  of  May  following  (when  at  home),  "  the  kynge  and  the  newe  duke  of  Suffolk 
were  defenders  at  the  tilt  against  all  commers,"  attired  as  white  and  black  hermits.  On 
their  black  staves  was  written  with  white  letters.  Who  can  hold  that  viyl  away  :  "  this  poyse 
was  judged  to  be  made  for  the  duke  of  Suffolke  and  the  duches  of  Savoy."* 

The  rumour  affecting  the  duchess  and  lord  Lisle  is  repeated  by  lord  Herbert  in  his 
History  of  the  reign  of  Henry  VIII.  and  is  also  briefly  noticed  by  Mr.  Lodge  in  his 
memoir  of  the  Duke  of  Suffolk  ;  but  the  particulars  contained  in  the  following  letters  have 
remained  entirely  unknown  until  the  present  time.  The  papers  containing  them,  though 
indorsed  "  Secret  Matters  of  the  Duke  of  Suffolk,"  were  mysterious  with  respect  to  all  the 
other  parties  mentioned  ;  and  the  compiler  of  the  Catalogue  of  the  Cottonian  MSS.  could 
only  conjecture,   "  The  personage  appears  to  have  been  Margaret  Nevile  his  first  wife." 

The  papers  are  certainly  in  the  hand-writing  of  Sir  Richard  Wingfield,''  who  was  pro- 
bably the  English  ambassador  to  whom  the  duchess  addressed  herself.  They  were  evi- 
dently translated  from  the  French,  in  which  the  originals  were  written  :  and  were  there- 

»  Hall. 

''  Compare  MS.  Cotton.  Calig.  E.  iii.  p.  28.  Miss  Wood,  in  her  recent  collection  of 
"  Letters  of  Royal  and  Illustrious  Ladies,"  has  pointed  out  the  same  fact  ;  and  it  should 
be  acknowledged  that  to  that  lady  belongs  the  credit  of  discovering  the  passage  in  Hall, 
after  the  mystery  of  the  letters  had  foiled  the  penetration  of  several  able  historical  critics. 


1513.]  AND  CHARLES  BRANDON,  DUKE  OF  SUFFOLK.  71 

fore  either  translated  by  Sir  Richard,  or  he  transcribed  the  version,  the  matter  being  so 
secret,  for  his  despatches  home. 

After  any  dreams  that  the  duchess  Margaret  may  have  indulged  of  a  third  and  hand- 
some husband  in  the  person  of  the  English  favourite,  had  been  finally  dissipated  Ijy  his 
marriage  with  the  dowager  of  France,"  she  remained  a  widow  for  the  residue  of  her  days. 
She  continued  to  administer  the  affairs  of  the  Netherlands  for  many  years,  and  the 
manuscripts  in  the  British  Museum  abound  with  her  letters  to  king  Henry  the  Eighth, 
to  Wolsey,*"  and  to  others,  on  grave  political  affairs  ;  but  they  probably  comprise  no 
more  that  have  so  direct  a  reference  to  the  affairs  of  her  heart. 

She  was  present  with  her  nephew,  then  emperor  elect,  at  the  interview  he  had  with  king 
Henry  VIII.  at  Calais  in  1520,  as  related  in  p.  29  of  the  present  volume.  She  died  in 
the  year  1530. 

Several  of  her  seals,  exhibiting  her  armorial  insignia,  as  well  during  her  marriages  as 
in  her  widowhood,  are  engraved  by  Olivier  de  Wr^e,  plates  130,  131. 

MS.  Cotton.  Titus,  B.  i.  (Sheet  marked  A.) 
My  ladye  began  thys  wrytyng-  before  the  komyng  of  Morroton,"^  who 
kame  to  Lovayne  on  sondaye  last. 
My  lorde  the  anbassadoure — 
Sythe  that  I  see  that  I  may  not  have  tydynges  fro  the  themperour  so  soon, 
yt  semethe  me  that  I  schulde  do  welle  no  longar  for  to  tarye  to  depeche 
thys  jentyllman.     And  for  that  by  my  lettres  addressynge  on  to  the  kynge 
and  to  the   dewke,  off  that  I   dare  not  aventure  me  to  wryt  on  to  them 
so  at  lengthe   of  thys  besynes  be  cawse  that  I  fear  my  lettres  to  be  evelle 
keptt,  I  me  determyne  to  wryt  to  yow  at  lengthe   to   thend  that  off  alle  ye 
may  the  better  theme  advertyse  of  myn  entent. 

Ye  may  know,  my  lorde  the  anbassadour,  that  after  sume  dayes  havynge 
been  at  Tomay,  knowynge  fro  daye  to  daye  the  greatt  love  and  trust  that 
the  kynge  baare  and  hadd  to  the  personage  wyche  ys  no  neede  to  name  ; 
also  with  the  vertwe  and  grace  of  his  person,  the  wyche  me  semyde  that 
I  have  not  myche  seen  jentyllman  to  aproche  yt ;  also  consyderynge  the 
desyre  the  wyche  allwaye  he  schewed  me  that  he  hadde  to  do  me  servyce  ; 
all  thes  thynges  consydered  by  me,  I  have  allwayes  forced  me  to  do  unto 
hym  alle  honneur  and  plesure,  the  wyche  to  me  semede  to  be  welle  agreable 

*  Mary  Tudor  was  born  in  1498,  nearly  twenty  years  after  Margaret  of  Austria.  This 
may  have  been  one  motive  of  Charles  Brandon's  preference. 

''  She  was  accustomed  to  address  cardinal  Wolsey  as  "  votre  bonne  mere  Marguerite," 
and  even  wrote  in  the  superscriptions  of  her  letters,  "  a  Mons'.  le  Legat  d'Angleterre,  mon 
bonfils."     Ellis's  Orig.  Lettei-s,  2d  Ser.  ii.  16. 

*=  Lewis  Moreton  :  a  letter  to  him  from  Th.  Spinelly,  dated  Malines,  Jan.  9,  1512-13 
is  the  first  article  in  MS.  Cotton,  Galb.  B.  iii. 


72  SECRET   HISTORY  OF  MARGARET  DUCHESS  OF  SAVOY,      [1513. 

unto  the  kynge  hys  good  mastyr  ;  who,  as  I  may  imagyne,  seyinge  the  good 
cheere  and  wylle  the  wyche  I  baare  hym,  wythe  the  love  wyche  he  berethe 
unto  hyme,  by  many  times  spake  unto  me,  for  to  knowe  yfF  thys  good 
wyll  whyche  I  baare  on  to  the  sayd  personage  yt  mytt  streche  on  to  sume 
elFecte  of  promisse  of  maryage,  seying  that  yt  was  the  facion  of  the  ladys  off 
Ynglande,  and  thatt  yt  was  not  ther  nollden  for  hevylle  ;  whereunto  many 
tymes  I  answered  the  most  grasyoslye  that  was  to  me  possyble,  knowynge 
thys  thynge  not  to  proceed  but  off  love  wyche  he  baare  hym,  the  severalle  of 
raysons  wherfor  it  was  not  to  me  possyble,  onles  I  schulde  fawlle  in  the 
evylle  grace  of  my  father  and  of  alle  thys  contre.  Also  that  yt  was  not 
beer  the  custome,  and  that  I  schuld  be  dyshonowi'ed,  and  hollden  for  a  foolle 
and  lyett.''  But  alle  my  resons  mytt  not  hellpe  me,  that  withowt  reste  he 
spake  theroff  to  me.  That  seyinge,  and  that  he  hadde  yt  so  mych  att  the 
hartt,  for  hym  not  to  angre,  I  fownd  to  hym  oone  other  reson,  to  hym  sayinge, 
that  yff  now  I  hadde  welle  the  wylle  so  for  to  do,  that  jytt  I  ne  wolde 
nor  durst  thynke,  seynge  hys  retorne  to  be  so  nye,  and  that  yt  schulld  be  to 
me  to  myche  grett  dysplesure  to  loose  so  good  compagnye  ;  of  the  wyche  he 
contented  hym  sumewhatt  better,  and  passed  the  thynge  unto  hys  departyng, 
and  thane  begane  to  saye  me  that  the  departynge  drewe  nye,  and  that  he  knew 
welle  that  the  ladyes  schulld  forgett  them  ;  and  that  he  knew  welle  I  schulld 
be  pressyde  for  to  marye  me,  and  that  I  was  3yt  to  yonge  for  to  abyde 
thws  ;  and  that  the  ladyes  of  hys  contre  dyd  remarye  at  fyftye  and  thre- 
score  yeeres. 

(Second  Sheet.)  Wherupon  I  answered  that  I  hadd  never  hadde  w^ylle 
so  to  do,  and  that  I  was  to  mych  unhappye  in  hosbondes  ;  but  he  wolde  nott 
beleve  me.  And  after,  by  two  thanes,  in  presence  of  the  personnage  that  36 
know,  he  retornyd  to  say  the  same  wordes,  saying  mor,  "  I  knowe  welle, 
madame,  and  am  sewre  that  my  fellawe  schalbe  to  you  a  trew  servant,  and 
that  he  ys  alltogeder  yowres,  but  whe  feare  that  ye  schalle  not  do  in 
lyk  wysse,  for  oon  schalle  force  you  to  be  agayne  maryed  ;  and  that  3e  schalle 
not  be  fownd  owt  of  thys  contre  ^  at  my  returne."  That  wyche  I  promysed 
to  hym  I  schulde  not  do  ;  and  for  that  he  desyred  gi'etly  thereof  to  be  more 
assured,  he  maad  me  to  promyse  in  hys  hand  that  howsoever  I  schulde  be 
pressyde  of  my  father,  or  otherwysse,  I  schulld  not  make  alyance  of  maryage 
[with]  prynce  off  the  worlde,  at  the  lest  unto  hys  returne,  or  the  end  of  the 
yeer.  The  wyche  I  dydde  wyllynglye,  for  I  thynk  not  to  agayne  never  to  putt 
me  where  I  have  hadde  so  myche  of  onhappe  and  infortune.  And  afterwards 
"  i.  e.  light.  ^  i.  €.  found  in  tlie  country. 


1512.]  AND  CHARLES  BRANDON,   DUKF:  OF   SUFFOLK.  73 

made  his  fellawe  to  do  the  semblable,  who,  as  I  beleve  and  semeth  me, 
sayd  of  avanture,  as  hys  mastyr  me  schewed  agayne,  that  he  schuld  never 
do  thynge,  were  yt  of  maryage,  or  to  take  ladye  nor  mastresse,  withowt  my 
commandment,  but  wollde  contynew  all  hys  lyffmy  rygthe  humble  servant; 
and  that  yt  was  to  hyme  I  nowt  '"^  honour,  so  myche  honestlye,  and  off 
so  good  soortt,  as  was  possyble.  And  thees  wordes  wher  sayd  at  Tornaye 
in  my  chambre  oon  nytt  after  souper,  welle  laatt.  The  other  tyme  was  at 
Lylle,  the  day  befor  that  they  schuUde  depart,  that  he  spake  to  nie  longe  at 
the  head  of  a  koppboorde,  he  and  his  fellawe,  of  the  departyng,  wyche  was 
not  withowt  dysplesure  welle  greatt  of  all  persones.  And  agayne,  affter  many 
devyses  and  regrettes,  he  maad  me  to  reconferme  in  hys  hand,  and  the  same 
of  hys  fellawe,  the  lyke  promesse  aforsayde.  And  the  sayd  personnage  in  my 
hande,  withowtt  that  I  reqwyred  hym,  maad  me  the  semblable,  and  that 
for  allwayes  he  schuUde  be  to  me  trewe  and  humble  servant ;  and  I  to  hyme 
promysedto  be  to  hyme  syche  mastresse  alle  my  lyff  as  to  hym  who  me  semed 
desyred  to  do  me  most  of  servyce.  And  opon  thys  ther  was  no  mo  woordes  of 
thys  affayre,  nor  hathe  not  been  sythe,  yff  not  sume  gracyewsse  lettres,  the 
wyche  have  been  I  nowb  evelle  keppt. 

Ferther  as  to  the  woordes. 

(  Third  Sheet.)  And  I  promesse  you,  my  lord  the  anbassadoure,  that 
thys  ys  the  trowthe,  and  I  knowe  not  other  thynge.  I  kannot  telle  yff  the 
kynge,  wyche  was  trwcheman,c  by  cawse  off  the  love  wyche  he  berethe  hym, 
mytt  have  taken  yt  mor  forwarde  for  to  enterprett  mor  hys  desyre,  but  the 
thynge  ys  suche,  and  trowthe. 

My  lorde  the  anbassadowre^  for  that  yt  hathe  been  sayd  unto  me  that 
he  mytt  have  schewed  oon  rjTige  wher  thear  ys  oo  dyamant  of  myne,  that 
wyche  I  kannot  beleve,  for  I  estyme  hym  myche  a  man  of  vertw  and  wysse, 
but  allwayes  I  wylle  welle  schewe  you  the  trowthe,  to  the  ende  to  answei'e 
to  alle.  I  tak  non  in  thys  affayr  to  wyttnesse  but  the  kynge  and  hym ;  and 
hymself  fyrst :  yt  ys  that  oo  nytt  at  Tournaye,  beyng  at  the  bankett,  after 
the  bankett  he  put  hymselfe  opon  hys  knees  befor  me,  and  in  spekyng  and 
hyme  playng,  he  drew  fro  my  fynger  the  rynge,  and  put  yt  upon  hys,  and 
sythe  schewde  yt  me,  and  I  tooke  to  lawhe,  and  to  hym  sayd  that  he  was  a 
theefe,  and  that  I  thowthe  not  that  the  kynge  hadde  with  hym  ledde  theves 
owt  of  hys  contre.    Thys  word  laron  he  kowlde  not  understonde  ;  wherfor  I 

'  ?  enough.  >>  I  know,  or  enough.  '  i.  e.  interpreter. 

CAMD.  soc.  l 


74  SECRET   HISTORY  OF   MARGARET  DUCHESS   OF   SAVOY,       [1512. 

was  constrayned  for  to  aske  how  oo  sayde  in  Flamysche  laron.  And 
afterwardes  I  sayd  to  hym  in  Flamysche  dipffh,  and  I  preyde  him  many 
tymes  to  gyfF  yt  me  ao^ayne,  for  that  yt  was  to  myche  knowen.  Butt  he 
miderstood  me  not  weelle,  and  kept  yt  on  to  the  next  daye  that  I  spake  to  the 
kynge,  hym  reqwyrynge  to  make  hym  to  gyff  yt  me,  becawse  yt  was  to 
myche  knowen.  I  promysyng  hym  oon  off  my  bracellettes  the  wyche  I  waare, 
the  wyche  I  gave  hym.  And  than  he  gaffe  me  the  sayd  rynge,  the  wyche 
oon  other  tjTne  at  Lylle,  beyng  sett  nye  to  my  lady  of  Homes,  and  he 
befor  upon  his  knees,  yt  tooke  agayne  fro  my  fyngar.  I  spake  to  the 
kynge  to  have  yt  agayne,  but  yt  was  not  possyble,  for  he  sayd  unto  me  that 
he  wolde  gyfFe  me  others  better,  and  that  I  schwlde  leve  hyme  thatt.  I 
sayd  unto  hym  that  yt  was  not  for  the  valewe,  but  for  that  yt  was  to  myche 
knowen.     He  wold  not  wnderstand  yt,  and  departyde  fro  me. 

The  morow  after  he  browte  me  oone  fayr  poynt  of  dyamant,  and  oon 
table  of  rwbye,  and  schewed  me  that  yt  was  for  the  other  rynge  ;  wherfor  I 
durst  no  more  speke  of  yt,  yff  not  to  beseche  hym  that  yt  schwlde  not  be 
schewed  to  ony  person  ;  the  wyche  hath  not  alle  bene  to  me  doon.  (Thus,  my 
lord  the  anbassadour,  see  alle  of  thys  afi'ayr,  and  for  to  knowe  myn  advysse 
opon  alle,  I  schalle  gyfF  yt  yow  mor  at  lengthe,  wyche  ys  thys.) 

C  Sheet  D.J  Thatt  yff  the  thynges  hadd  not  been  so  pwblysched,  the 
wyche  I  find  the  most  strange  of  the  worllde,  knowyng  that  creatur  of 
the  worlde,  at  the  lest  on  my  partye,  kowlde  thereof  never  speke,  for  thatt 
wych  I  hadd  sayde  and  doon  was  for  not  to  annoye  the  kynge,  for  I  knewe 
welle  that  yt  kam  to  hym  of  gret  love  for  to  speke  so  far  forthe  as  off 
maryage.  And  of  oon  other  prynce  I  hadd  not  so  welle  taken  yt  as  of  hym, 
for  I  holde  hym  alle  goode,  and  that  he  thynketh  none  evelle,  werffor  I  have 
not  wylled  to  dysplesse  hym.  And  in  thys  besynesse  I  have  fownd  mysellf 
morempeched  for  to  know  that  wyche  mesemed  towched  to  the  kynge  then 
that  wyche  me  towchede. 

By  oone  bylle  I  shall  put  you  in  wrytynge  all  the  inconvenyences  wyche 
may  happen  of  thys  thynge.  Also  that  wyche  semeth  to  me  for  the 
remedye  owt  to  be  doon  ;  but,  for  that  I  have  no  laysure,  I  shall  make  an 
hende,  prayng  yow  to  do  with  thys  that  wych  the  berare  shall  saye  yow,  and 
no  mor.     I  trow  that  ye  know  thys  hand. 

(thus  sygnede,  M.) 

The  second  wrytynge. 

My  lorde  the  anbassadoure,  ye  may  have  seene  how  the  thynges  have  been. 


1512.]  AND  CHARLES   BRANDON,   DUKE  OF  SUFFOLK.  75 

and  ye  know  the  unhappy  brwytt  wyche  thereof  hathe  ron  not  onlye  hcer 
but  on  alle  partyes,  as  welle  yn  AUmayne  as  yn  alle  contrecs.  Whcroff  I 
have  fownd  mysellfe  so  myche  abasschede  that  I  kannot  ymagyne  wherfor  thys 
thynge  ys  sayed  so  opcnlye  as  yn  the  handes  of  marchant3  strangers.  And 
for  to  saye  you  the  trowthe,  I  have  been  constrayned  as  well  by  the  cowncelle  of 
my  servantes  as  of  the  lord  Berques  and  others,  to  make  enqwyre  whereoff 
yt  kame,  and  as  welle  by  informacion  as  wrytynges  allwey  I  have  fownde 
that  yt  procedyde  fro  Ynglonde.  Wheroff  I  have  hadde  on  marvelowse  sorowe. 
And  I  have  lettres  of  the  sellf  hande  of  an  Ynglysche  marchant,  the  wyche 
hathe  been  the  fyrst  that  hath  maade  the  wagers,  as  Bresylle  knowthe  weelle. 

Now,  my  lorde  the  anbassadoure,  the  kynge,  at  the  reqwest  of  the  sayd 
Bresylle,  and  the  personage  allso,  have  doon  many  thynges  for  to  remedye 
to  thys  fortune,  whereyn  I  am  hoUdyn  on  to  tham,  but  3yt  I  see  that  the 
brewtt  is  so  enprynted  in  the  fantasy es  of  pepulle,  and  fear  if  that  yt  contynew 
longe,  that  alle  thatt  wyche  ys  done  ys  not  inowe,  for  I  contynew  alleweye  in 
feare.  And  alsoe  I  know  that  I  maye  not  schewe  towardes  the  personage 
the  weelle  and  honowre  wyche  I  desyr  to  do  as  byfor. 

(Sheet  E.J  For  jytt  I  dar  not  wryt  unto  hym  whan  I  have  any  thynge 
to  do  towardes  the  kynge,  nor  I  dar  not  onlye  spek  of  hym.  And  I  am 
constraynede  to  entreat  hym  in  alle  thynge  lyke  a  stranger,  at  the  lest  befor 
folkes,  the  wyche  doth  me  so  myche  dyspleasure  that  I  kannot  wryt  yt, 
seyng  that  I  take  hym  so  myche  for  my  good  frend  and  servant ;  and  that 
I  am  constraynede  so  to  do,  and  also  I  see  that  to  thys  jentyllmanne  onlye 
wyche  ys  heer  I  dar  not  spek  or  loke  to  hyme.  Wherof  I  am  so  myche 
dysplesant  that  nothyng  mor.  He  himsellf  aperceyvethe  welle  that  evere 
oone  beholldethe  hyme  of  the  othere  syede. 

And  as  to  the  dessent  ^  of  the  kynge  yt  sclialle  behove  me  to  speke  so 
soberlye  as  I  may  me  constrayne,  for  yt  ys  the  thyng  that  I  desyr  as  myche 
as  hys  comyng.  And  the  same  of  my  lady  Marye,  as  God  knowthe.  The 
hart  me  brekethe  wan  yt  behoveth  me  to  dyssymble,  not  yn  thys  but  in 
many  others.  And  yt  semeth  to  me  that  I  may  not  soe  welle  serve  the  kynge, 
beyng  in  thys  fear,  as  befor  ;  so  when  the  kynge  schalle  dessende  that  I  schalbe 
allwayes  in  thys  payne,  and  I  fealle  me  I  schalle  not  daar  speke  nor  schcw 
good  semblant  to  the  sayde  personnage ;  wheras  I  wolld  make  to  hym  myche 
honnowr  and  good  cheer,  I  schalle  not  dare  behoUd  hym  with  a  good  hye, 

*  Ajp'pari.ntly  his  landing  on  the  continent. 


76  MARRIAGE  OF   THE  PRINCESS   MARY.  [1515. 

what  dysplesure  schalbe  the  same  to  hym  and  to  me.  And  I  know  no 
remedye  ^  but  the  same  that  Bresylle  schalle  schew  you  for  to  put  remedye 
to  alle.  I  wolld  not  constrapie  hym  to  yt  agaynst  hys  wylle,  but,  and  he 
desyr  ever  that  I  do  hym  honowr  or  plesure,  yt  ys  force  that  yt  be  so,  not 
for  that  I  have  not  the  good  wylle  towardes  hym,  syche  as  ever  I  have 
hadde,  but  for  that  I  am  for  myne  honnowr  constrayned  so  to  do. 

I  praye  you  weelle  myche  to  take  payne  for  to  make  welle  to  understand 
to  the  kynge  and  to  the  personage  thys  thynge,  to  thende  that  I  may  do  to 
hym  better  servyce,  and  to  hys  fellaw^e  plesure.  I  pi*aye  you  to  do  of  thys 
as  of  the  other. 

(lyke  wysse  assygned,  M.) 

{Indorsed,  Secrete  matiers  of  the  duke  of  Southfolke.) 

[P.  17.]  Marriage  of  the  Princess  Mary  to  Louis  XII.  1515. 

"  The  names  of  tlie  Lords  and  Gentlemen  of  England  being  at  the  Marriage  of  the  right 
exeellente  prineesse  the  lady  Mary,  sister  to  the  king  our  soveraigne  lord  king  Henry 
the  Eight,  and  the  which  aecompaigned  her  out  of  Englond,"  will  be  found  appended 
to  the  2d  volumo  of  Leland's  Collectanea,  1770,  vol.  ii.  p.  701.  A  list  of  those  who 
were  assigned  to  remain  with  the  Queen  in  France,  signed  by  king  Louis,  is  preserved 
in  the  British  Museum,  and  is  as  follows  : 

(MS.  Cotton.  Vitell.  C.  xi.  f.  155.) 
Sensuyvent  les  noms  des  hommes   et   femmes  Re  .  .  .    par  le  Roy  pour 
Le  service  de  la  Royne  au  bon  pl[aisir]  dudit  seigneur. 
Prem  ierement — 
Monsr  Le  Conte  de  uoushere  (  Worcester). 
Maistre  docteur  Denton,  aumosnier. 
Mess'e  Richard  Blounte,  escuyer  descuierie. 
Le  fil3  de  mons""  Roos  \ 

Le  filj  de  mons""  Cobham     \    enifans  donneur. 
Le  filj  de  mes&e  Seymo''       ) 
Eurardjb  frere  du  marquis  ) 

Arthus  Polle,  frere  de  mons''  de  Montagu  \  '  ' 

T  1  I        et  valeti  trenchans. 

Le  poulayn  )  ■' 

*  In  the  margin  is  written,  "  Bresylle  sayde  ther  was  no  waye  to  avoyd  the  brewt  but 
that  my  lord  schulld  marye  the  ladye  Lylle.  as  more  at  length  I  have  wreten  on  to  my 
sayd  lord." 

*•  Rtad  Leonard  (lord  Leonai-d  Grey.) 


1520.]  THE  FIELD  OF  CLOTH  OF  GOLD.  77 

Francoys  Buddis,  huissier  de  chambre. 
Maistre  Guill  e,  medicin. 
Henry  Calays,  varlet  des  Robes. 
Robert  Wast. 

Madamoyselle  Grey,  seur  de  marquis. 
Madamoyselle  Marie  Finis,  fille  de  monsi"  Dacres. 
Madamoyselle  Elizabet,  seur  de  monsf  Grey. 
Madamoyselle  Boleyne.^ 

Maistres  Anne  Jenyngham,  femme  de  chambre. 
Jehanne  Barnesse,  chamberiere.'^ 
(^signed  by  the  King^ 
Leys. 

[P.  18.]     The  Field  of  Cloth  of  Gold,  1520. 

Although  many  documents  have  been  already  published  on  this  subject,'^  particularly  some 
of  great  interest  in  the  Society's  volume  entitled  "  Rutland  Papers,"  yet  the  stores  of 
the  British  Museum  furnish  some  others  that  have  hitherto  escaped  notice,  but  will  yet 
be  found  worthy  of  attention. 

It  is  stated  in  p.  18  of  the  present  volume  that  the  royal  commissioners  appointed  to  super- 
intend the  erection  of  the  temporary  palace  at  Guisnes,  were  sir  Nicholas  Vaux,  sir 

*  Anne  Boleyne,  afterwards  Queen. 

^  In  the  list  in  Leland's  Collectanea  above  referred  to,  the  names  of  the  "  Gentilwomen 
which  were  appointed  to  have  abidden  in  France  with  the  French  qwene  "  are  thus 
given  : — 

Dame  ....  Guylford,  lady  of  honor.  M.  Boleyne. 

Lady  Elizabeth  Grey.  M.  Wotton. 

M.  Eliz.  Ferrys. 

M.  Ann  Devereux. 

Grey  of  Wilton.       Alice  Denys  .     x       •     ,,      ,  i  Chamberers. 

Anne  Fernmgham  {an  error  for  Jernmgham)  ) 

•^  In  the  Archa;ologia,  vol.  xxi.  will  be  found  two  papers  bearing  the  following  titles, 

communicated  by  Mr.  Caley,  from  the  Chapter  House  at  Westminster. 

1.  "  A  memoriale  of  such  thengs  as  be  requisite  and  necessarie  for  the  honorable  trans- 
portyng  of  the  Kyng's  highnes  to  mete  with  the  Frenche  Kyng,  for  an  interview  to  be  had 
betwixt  both  the  said  Kyngs,  thear  Qwenys,  the  Quene  Mary  Douagier  of  Fraunce,  and 
the  moder  of  the  said  Frenche  Kyng." 

2.  "  A  memoriale  of  such  things  as  be  requisit  and  necessary  for  the  honorable  trans- 
portyng  and  appoyntyng  of  the  Kyngs  Hyghnesse  to  mete  with  the  Frenche  Kyng,  for  an 
intervew  to  be  had  betwyxt  the  said  Kyngs,  thayr  Qwenys,  and  the  moder  of  the  said 
Frenche  Kyng." 


78  THE  FIELD  OF  CLOTH  OF  GOLD.  [1520. 

Edward  Belknap,  and  sir  William  Sands,  K.G.    In  the  Cottonian  volume  Calig.  D.  vii. 
are  preserved  the  following  letters"  from  those  parties  (somewhat injured  from  fire): 

Letter  of  the  King  to  Sir  Adrian  FoyHescue,  directing  him  to  prepare  to 

attend  upon  the  Queen. 

[MS.  Cotton.  Calig.  D.  vii,  f.  227.1 


By  the  king. 

Trusty  and  welbiloved,  we  grete  you  wele.  And  where  as  this  yere  last 
passed,  after  conclusion  taken  betwixt  us  and  our  right  dere  broder,  cousin, 
confederate,  and  alie  the  Frenshe  king,  aswell  for  firmer  peax,  love,  and 
ami  tie  as  of  aliance  by  way  of  mariage,  God  willing,  to  bee  had  and  made 
betwixt  our  deerest  doughter  the  Princesse  and  the  Dolphin  of  Fraunce,  a 
personall  meting  and  entrevieu  was  also  then  concluded  to  bee  had  betwixt 
us  and  the  said  Frenshe  king,  which,  upon  urgent  consideracions  and  great 
respect,  was  by  mutuell  consent  for  that  yere  put  over  and  difFerred,  So  it 
is  nowe  that  the  said  Frenshe  king,  being  moch  desirous  to  see  and  per- 
sonally to  speke  with  us,  hath  sundry  tymes  by  his  ambassadours  and 
writinges  instantly  desired  us  to  condescende  to  the  said  entrevieu,  oifering 
to  mete  with  us  within  our  dominion,  pale,  and  marches  of  Calays,  wheras 
heretofore  semblable  honour  of  preheminence  hath  not  been  yeven  by  any  of 
the  Frenshe  kinges  to  our  progenitours  or  auncestres ;  We  therfor,  remembring 
the  manyfold  good  effectes  that  bee  in  apparaunce  to  ensue  of  this  personall 
meting,  aswell  for  corroboracion  and  assured  establisshement  of  the  peax 
and  aliaunce  concluded  betwixt  us,  as  for  the  universall  weale,  tranquillitie, 
and  restfulnesse  of  all  Christendome ;  taking  also  consideracion  to  our 
former  convencions,  and  the  greate  honour  offred  unto  us  by  the  Frenshe 
king  for  the  said  meting  within  our  dominion,  have  condescended  therunto  ac- 
cordingly, the  same  to  bee,  God  willing,  in  the  moneth  of  Maye  next  commyng. 

'  The  same  volume  contains  many  letters  of  Sir  Thomas  Boleyneand  Sir  Richard  Wyng- 
feld,  ambassadors  in  France,  in  which  the  arrangements  preliminary  to  the  interview  are 
discussed.  The  most  important  of  these  have  been  printed  by  Sir  Henry  Ellis,  in  the  first 
series  of  his  "  Original  Letters."  The  papers  now  selected  are,  for  the  most  part,  of  a 
descriptive  character,  and  not  merely  upon  questions  of  time  and  convenience. 


1520.]  THE   FIELD  OF  CLOTH  OF  GOLD.  79 

And  inasmoche  as  to  our  honour  and  dignitie  royall  it  apperteigneth 
to  bee  fournyshed  with  honourable  personages,  aswell  spirituall  as  temporall, 
to  geve  thair  attendaunce  upon  us  at  so  solempne  an  act  as  a  this  shalbe, 
for  the  honour  of  us  and  this  our  reame,  wee  therfor  have  appointed  you 
amonges  others  to  attends  upon  our  deerest  wife  the  Queue  in  this  voiage, 
wiUing  therfor  and  desiring  you,  not  oonly  to  put  your  self  in  arredinesse 
with  the  nombre  of  ten  tall  personnages  well  and  conveniently  apparailled 
for  this  pourpose,  to  passe  with  you  over  the  see,  but  also  in  such  wise  to 
appointe  your  self  in  apparaill  as  to  your  degree,  the  honour  of  us,  and  this 
our  reame  it  apperteigneth.  So  that  ye  repairing  unto  our  said  deerest 
wife  the  Queue  by  the  furst  day  of  Maye  next  commyog,  may  then  geve 
your  attendaunce  in  her  transporting  over  the  see  accordingly ;  ascertaio-n- 
yng  you  that,  albeit  ye  bee  appointed  to  the  nombre  of  ten  servauntes  to 
passe  with  you  as  is  abovesaid,  that  neverthelesse,  inasmoche  as  at  your 
arryvall  at  Calays  ye  shall  have  no  greate  journey  requisite  to  occupie  many 
horses,  ye  shall  therfor  conveye  with  you  over  the  see,  for  your  owne 
using  and  otherwise,  not  above  the  nombre  of  thre  horses  ;  howbeit  our 
mynde  is  not  to  [de  J  parte  and  restrayne  you  to  the  saide  precise  nombre  of 
servauntes  and  horses  for  your  commyng  unto  our  said  deerest  wife,  and 
accompanyng  her  [to]  the  see-side,  which  thing  wee  [leave]  to  your  ar- 
bitrement,  but  oonly  to  ascertaigne  [you  w]hat  nombre  of  servantes  and 
horses  [be  appoin]ted  to  you  to  passe  over  the  see.  L[astly  it  is]  ordered 
all  other  lordes,  [knights,  and  others,]  shall  attend  upon  [our  deerest  wife 
the  Queue]  according  to  thair  (the  rest  burnt  away.) 

Sir  Edward  JBelknaji  or  Sir  Nicholas  Vaiix  ^  to  Cardinal  Wulsey. 

(MS.  Cotton.  Calig.  D.  vii.  f.  186.) 

TJie  3IS.  is  burnt  round  the  edges,  but  tvhen  legible  it  begins : — 

[Gu]ysnes  whiche  we  have  contrived  asw[ell instruccions 

as  wer  gyven  to  us,  and  yt  is  thought  .  •  .  .  ste  conuenientlye  on  the 
grene  before  the  castell  gate  .  .  .  .  yt  is  ordred  that  the  king  shal 
have  iij.  large  chambres ;  there  ys  not  such  iij.  in  noo    one  howse  in  Eng- 

»  at  in  MS. 

^  The  manuscript  is  in  the  hand  of  a  secretary  and  the  signature  broken  off.  The  Cot- 
tonian  Catalogue  suggests  the  name  of  "  Sir  Edward  Belknap  ?"  but  the  other  letters 
which  follow,  written  by  the  same  hand,  appear  to  have  been  sent  by  Sir  Nicholas  Vaux. 


80  THE  FIELD  OF  CLOTH  OF  GOLD.  [1520. 

land,  for  the  greatest  chambre  shalbe  vi"'  iiij.  fote  in  lengeth,  xlijti  fote  in 
bredeth,  and  xxx  •  fote  highe,  whiche  ys  bothe  longer  and  wyder  than  the 
White  halie.a  The  second  chambre,  to  dyne  in,  to  be  in  lengeth  iiij^  fote, 
in  widnes  xxxiiijti,  and  in  high  xxvijti  fote,  whiche  ys  larger  than  the 
greatest  chambre  in  Bridewell.''  And  the  iijde  chambre,  to  withdraw  his 
highnes  in,  shalbe  in  lengeth  Ix.  fote,  in  widnes  xxxiiijti,  and  in  highe  xxvij*' 
fote.     And  the  queenes  grace  shalhave  iij.  chambres  as  large  or  larger. 

There  shalbe  a  galerye  going  owte  of  the  kinges  lodging  (undre  the 
flore  for  lake  of  stuffe)  to  convey  the  kyng  to  the  queenes  secrete  chambre. 

There  shalbe  a  hault  plase  of  xl.  fote  square,  sett  betwene  the  kinges 
lodging  and  the  queenes,  and  out  of  that  hault  plase  a  galery  of  Ix.  fote 
longe,  xxij.  fote  wide,  and  xxjti  fote  highe,  goyng  to  a  chapell  of  c.  fote 
longe,  xlij.  fote  brode,  and  xxx.  fote  highe,  wherein  shalbe  ij.  closettes,  one 
for  the  king  and  the  other  for  the  queene.  Your  grace  shalhave  iij.  other 
large  chambres  adjoynyng  to  the  kinges  lodging,  and  the  Fre.iche  queene 
shalhave  iij.  large  chambres,  adjojTiyng  to  the  queenes  lodging;  and 
bitwene  your  lodging  and  the  Frenche  queenes  shalbe  a  large  yate- 
howse  of  brvke  of  xxxviij.  fote  in  lengeth  and  xxxiiijti  in  bredeth  ;  and 
al  this  buylding,  except  the  chapell  and  oone  galerye,  shalbe  caste  aftyr 
a  square  courte.  There  shalbe  an  other  galerye  made  owte  of  the 
queenes  loging  to  bring  the  kynge,  the  queene,  and  you  to  the  brige  of 
the  castell,  in  the  whiche  castell  your  grace  shall  lye  (we  truste  surely), 
but  not  plaisantly.  There  shalbe  also  a  bankett-howse  of  ccxxti  fote 
longe,  Ixx.  fote  wyde,  and  to  be  so  highe  as  tymbre  well  serve  us,  to  be  sett 
without  the  castell  wall,  and  withyn  the  new  made  brayes  of  the  castell ; 
for  that  howse  cannot  be  conveniently  made  without  the  helpe  of  highe 
walles.  We  truste  the  buyldinges  woll  please  the  kinges  highnes  and  you, 
so  that  yt  might  be  finisshed  by  the  day  appointed.  Al  the  whiche  buyldmges 
be  estemed  to  be  more  than  Bridwell,  Grenewiche,  or  Eltham;  whiche 
causeth  us  to  be  in  mervelous  greate  doubte  and  feare  leste  it  cannot  be 
finisshed  by  the  laste  day  of  Maij,  for  in  thies  parties  ys  litill  tymbre  to  be 
gotten,  and  there  is  not  sufficient  tymbre  fallen  nor  hordes  sawen  in 
London,  nor  in  no  part  of  England  at  this  daye,  lieng  nigh  to  the  see 
towardes  this  coste,  to  serve  the  buyldinges  whiche  the  kinges  highnes  and 

»  The  White  hall  in  the  palace  of  Westminster,  lately  used  for  the  House  of  Lords,  and 
now  (1845)  for  the  House  of  Commons. 

^  The  royal  palace  near  Blackfriars,  London. 


1520.]  THE  FIELD  OF  CLOTH  OF  GOLD.  81 

his  counsaill  have  proposed  to  us.  Wherefoi*  we  have  sent  oon  Wilh'm 
Lylgrave  into  Holand  xviijten  dayes  paste  for  provisions  of  tymbre  and 
dyvers  other  necessarie  thinges  whiche  muste  nedes  be  shortly  hadd,  or 
ellis  it  shalnot  be  possible  to  make  thies  buyldinges  by  the  day  appointed. 
And  at  the  writing  of  this  lettre  we  [have]  bird  nothing  of  hym,  and 
and  albe  yt  that  he  may  now  spede  of  soche  stufFe  there,  yet  it  woU  aske  a 
greate  tyme  to  provyde  ships  and  to  lode  them,  tarieng  the  wynde,  to  un- 
lode  at  Calais,  and  to  carry  it  to  Guysnes,  whiche  is  ix.  Englisshe  myles  by 
lande,  than  .  .  .  to  be  hewed,  sawed,  framed,  arered,  with  the  garnisshing 
of  the  rofes,  [&c.  must  a]ske  a  greate  tyme.  And  caringe  ys  very 
yvell  now  to  be  hadd  ....  very  bare,  and  haye  ys  mervelous  escarse. 
There  is  not  s  [ufficient  for  the]  catalles  of  the  countrie.  And  the  kyng 
cannot    be  s  .     .     .     .  that    yt  may  please  his  highnes  to  tary  tiU  new 

.     .     .  The  mast]ers  carpenters  have  acertened   us  that 

this  busines  m'  m'  v*^  tonnes  .     .     .  And  the  masons 

to  take  the  waiges  whiche  .  .  .  and  say  they  cannot  lyve  on  yt  .  .  . 
.     greater  waiges  of  sir  Thomas  Lovell.     .     .     .     And  also  now 

of  late  at  Toui-naye  we  dare gyve  them  more  til  we  shal 

know  your  further  pleasure  [therein,  which]  hyndreth  greatlye  the  warkes. 

And  the  maisters  masons  acertein  us  further  that  cc,  masons  and  brik- 
layers  cannot  make  their  partes  of  the  new  warkes  and  amend  the  walles 
and  towers  of  the  castell,  that  of  necessite  muste  be  done,  bifore  the  kynges 
commyng,  or  ellis  they  woll  fawle  down,  so  that  no  fasyng  can  serve.  And 
medle  not  with  the  kepe,  whiche  is  utterlye  decaied  and  cannot  be  holpen 
now.  And  we  cannot  yet  gete  the  iiij'^  parte  of  the  tymbre,  stuffe,  nor 
sufficientj  artificers  to  serve  us ;  wherefor  we  have  writen  to  the  king, 
beseching  his  highnes  to  command  Henry  Comptroroller  and  Thomas 
Foster,  to  [send]  over  ccl.  carpenters,  c.  joynars,xxxt'.  couple  sawoers,  xl. 
plasterers,  and  m'.  of  wainscot,  for  here  is  none  to  bye.  Furthermore  that 
yt  [may]  please  his  highnes  to  send  over  Vertue  the  kinges  maister 
mason,  and  he  to  bringe  cl.  briklayers  with  hym,  and  that  they  al  cum 
hither  with  diligence. 

And  we  humblye  beseche  your  grace  that  we  know  the  kinges  further 
pleasure  and  yours  in  this  behalfe.  And  [we]  shalbe  gladd  and  redye 
t'accomplisshe  yt  as  farre  as  our  witte  and  powers  may  atteingne,  as  knoweth 

CAMD.  soc.  M 


82  THE  FIELD  OF  CLOTH  OF  GOLD.  [1520. 

Godd  oure  myndes,  who  preserve  your  goode  grace.  Writon  the  xxvj.  daye 
of  Ma[rch.] 

We  have  no  double  but  your  grace  dothe  well  consider  the  busynes,  w^ith 
the  circumstances  that  do  belong  to  this  buyld[yng,]  and  that  the  stuffe  ys 
farre  from  us.  And  no  certeynte  of  [the]  cummyng  therof.  And  the  tyme 
approcheth.  Wherfor  we  [pray]  your  grace  yf  it  may  stonde  with  your 
pleasure  to  be  [suitor]  to  the  kinges  highnes  to  take  longer  day  yf  it  may 
be  pos[sible.] 

Sh^  Nicholas  Vaux  *  to  Cardinal  Wolsey. 
[MS.  Cotton.  Calig.  D.  vii.  p.  202.] 

have    received  latelye 

lettres  bering  date  the  laste 

daye  of  Marche of  the  same,  and  shal  endevor  us  with 

effect  to  perfourme  [the  king's]  pleasure  and  yours  committed  to  our  charge 
asmoche  as  shal  lye  in  our  power ;  how  be  yt  at  this  daye  we  be  destitute  of 
all  provisions  that  shuld  be  provided  by  William  Lilgrave  in  Holland,  and 
sent  unto  us,  whiche  is  the  substance  of  tymbre,  borde,  and  other  necessaries 
that  we  shuld  occupie  here.  And  also  there  is  provided  v*^  tonnes  of 
tymbre  in  Sussex,  and  in  the  edge  of  Kent,  and  at  this  daye  none  therof 
commen  to  Calays.  And  welacke  xl.  cowple  of  saweors,  al  the  whiche  thinges 
hyndre  greatlye  the  warkes.  And  except  the  sayd  provision  cumme  verye 
shortlye  yt  cannot  be  possible  to  finisshe  the  said  warkes  by  the  laste  daye 
of  Maye.  There  ys  set  up  at  Guy  sues  in  bryke  warke  viij.  fote  above  the 
grownde,  the  kinges  lodging,  the  queues  lodghig,  and  bothe  your  lodging 
and  the  Frenche  qwenes  dowagers.  And  if  there  be  no  lacke  of  stuffe, 
we  truste  to  make  the  forsaid  lodginges  perfaite  by  the  daye.  And  al  be 
yt  that  it  was  ordred  by  your  grace  that  there  shuld  be  made  a  large 
chapell  with  ij  closettes  and  a  fayre  galerye  to  goo  to  the  chapell,  and  also 
a  fayre  bankett  howse ;  and  forasmoche  as  we  be  not  yet  furnisshed  of 
tymbre,  bryke  and  other  necessaries  appointed  for  the  furnisshing  of  the 
same,  and  be  in  greate  doubte  of  the  havyng  of  yt  in  convenient  tyme,  we 
respite  them  bothe  unto  soche  tyme  as  we  knowe  your  further  pleasure, 

»  The  Catalogue  states  this  letter  to  be  from  "  the  Bishop  of  Ely  and  others."  What 
remains  of  the  signature  resembles  the  Ni  of  sir  Nicholas  Vaux's  signature  to  the  Letter 
of  May  IS, 


1520.]  THE  FIELD  OF  CLOTH   OF  GOLD.  83 

whether  the  chapell  with  the  circumstances  or  the  bankett  howse  maye 
beste  be  spared.  And  that  yt  maye  lyke  your  grace  to  advertise  us  in  the 
premisses  in  brief  tyme.  And  if  sufficient  stuffe  cumme  shortlye  we  shall 
endevour  us  to  the  beste  of  our  powers  to  accomplisshe  your  pleasure.  And 
Richarde  Gybson  who  shuld  cover  the  rofes  with  seared  canvas  ys  not  yet 
commen,  and  yt  is  highe  tyme  hys  warkes  wer  in  hande,  for  yt  muste  be 
paynted  on  the  owte  syde,  and  aftir  curiouslye  be  garnisshed  under  with 
knottis  and  batons  guyltt  and  other  devises,  whiche  busynes  is  committed 
to  John  Rastell,  Clement  Urmeston  and  other.  Thies  warkes  be  of  greate 
and  importunate  charges,  and  we  be  in  doubte  how  they  shall  overcumme  the 
same  by  the  daye  appointed.  Wherfor  yf  it  woll  please  your  grace  to  call 
them  before  you,  and  cause  them  to  make  trew  reporte  howe  farfurthe  thier 
warke  ys,  and  whether  thei  shalbe  hable  to  finisshe  thier  warkes  by  the 
forsaid  day  or  not,  to  thentent  that  if  they  make  defaulte,  yf  we  maye 
have  knowlege  by  tyme,  we  shall  purvew  the  beste  remedye  here  that  ys 
in  us  possible.  And  further  that  yt  woll  please  your  grace  to  send  hither 
maister  Mayuu,  who  dwelleth  with  the  busshope  of  Excester,^  and  maistre 
Barkleye*^  the  blacke  monke  and  poete,  to  devise  histoires  and  convenient 
raisons  to  florisshe  the  buildinges  and  bankett-howse  withall.  And  to  gyve 
your  commandement  to  Gartyr  the  king  of  heraudes,  that  he  by  th'advise 
of  all  other  the  kinges  heraudes,  do  make  a  boke  in  picture  of  all  the  armes, 
.  bestes,  fowles,  devises,  badges  and  congnisances  [of  the]  kinges 
highnes,  the  quenes  grace,  the  Frenche  king     ....     the  dolphin  and 

the  princes  dothe  here  or  maye grace  in  a  bill  here 

their  doughters  into  Fravmce 

valiant  kynges,  as  they  shall  thinke  [may  conduce  to  the]  kynges  honour. 
The  Frenche  kyng  maketh  but  lityll  prepa  [ration]  at  Arde.  And  we 
can  sende  your  grace  no  newes  worthe  the  [writing.]  We  pray  daily  to 
Godd  to  sende  this  busynes  well  to  be  accomp[lished  ;]  who  ever  preserve 
your  grace.     Writon  the  x^^"^  daye  of  Aprylle, 

By 

Ni 

*  John  Voysey,  alias  Harman,  was  bishop  of  Exeter  at  this  time. 

''  Alexander  Barclay,  author  of  "  The  Ship    of  Fools."     Who  his  fellow  labourer  was 
ha3  not  been  ascertained. 


84  THE  FIELD  OF  CLOTH  OF  GOLD.  [1520. 

Sir  Nicholas  Vaux  to  Cardinal  Wolsey,  May  18,  1520. 

[MS.  Cotton.  Calig.  D.  vii.  fol.  218.] 

(  Tlie  upper  part  is  injured  hy  fire.) 

and  borde  owte  of  Holand  by  the 

putteth  us  in  comfort  bi  his  writing  that  we  [shall  receive  in]  brief  tyme 
soche  tymbre,  borde,  and  glasse,  as  was  committed  to  hys  charge.  And 
that  done,  we  shall  doo  the  beste  we  can  to  fynisshe  al  the  buyldyng  that 
shal  stonde  withjn  the  square  courte  at  Gwysnes  by  the  laste  day  of  May, 
so  that  John  Rastell,  Clement  Urmeston,  and  John  Browne,  the  kynges 
paynters,  do  make  and  garnisshe  all  the  rofes  sufficientlye  by  the  same 
daye,  whiche  ys  a  mervelous  greate  charge  and  busynes,  for  the  rofes  be 
large  and  statelye.  We  be  certifyed  by  the  said  Rastell,  Urmeston, 
Browne,  and  also  by  Hery  Sadeler,  their  purveuour,  that  alsoche  monye  as 
was  delevered  unto  them  in  preste  with  more  ys  emploied  abowte  the  said 
busines,  and  that  they  cannot  fynisshe  the  said  rofes  except  they  have 
more  mony  shortlye,  for  lakke  wherof  their  busynes  is  greatlye  hyndred. 
And  hei*e  ys  no  monye  but  crownes,  and  they  be  not  valued  at  somoche  in 
London  as  they  goo  for  here ;  and  so  it  shuldbe  bothe  losse,  daungier,  and 
charge  to  convey  corones  to  London  ;  wherfor  we  beseche  your  grace  to 
gyve  in  commandement  to  sir  John  Heron,  that  he  with  all  diligence  take 
a  declaracion  of  them  how  that  they  have  emploied  soche  summes  of  mony 
as  was  delyverd  unto  them  in  prest,  that  is  to  say,  to  John  Browne  the 
kynges  paynter  c.  markes,  to  Clement  Urmeston  xx^'.,  and  to  Henry  Sadeler 
their  purveuour  cccc.  marks.  The  sayde  Urmeston  hathe  sent  to  us  an 
estimate  bill  what  charges  the  sayd  rofes  woU  amount  unto,  whiche  ys  a 
mervelous  greate  summe  of  monye,  as  shall  particularlye  appere  to  your 
grace  by  the  said  Urmeston's  bill,  whiche  we  have  sent  to  you  by  this 
berer,  with  thier  further  demaundes  contented  in  the  same ;  humblye  be- 
secheng  your  grace  to  call  the  sayd  Urmeston,  Rastell,  and  Browne  before 
you,  and  to  take  a  direction  with  them  further,  and  to  cause  to  be  delyverd 
unto  them  other  stuffe  or  monye  soch  as  shalbe  thought  by  your  grace 
mooste  expedient  for  the  furtheraunce  of  the  warkes,  so  that  they  fayle  not 
to  fynisshe  theire  warkes  by  the  laste  daye  of  Maye,  so  that  the  king  be  not 
disapointed  of  his  rofes. 

And  further  we  be  enformed,  that  the  duke  of  Suffolke  hathe   manye 
batons  of   Urmeston's  making,  and  also  divers  of  the  kinges  armes  and 


1520.]  THE  FIELD   OF  CLOTH   OF  GOLP^;aa=:>^-r-     ^^1^^       85 


bestes  caste  in  moldes,  whiche  wold  doo  greate  ease  and  furtheraunce  to  the 
kinges  busynes.  And  if  yt  may  stonde  with  your  pleasure  to  move  hym  to 
lende  to  the  king  al  soche  batons,  armes,  and  bestes  as  he  now  hathe,  he 
shal  surelve  have  them  delyverd  agayne,  and  no  charge  to  hym. 

And  if  the  kinges  pleasure  be  determined  to  have  the  bankett-howse,  then 
his  grace  mooste  be  contented  that  yt  shal  be  after  the  xxxti  dayes  lymeted 
for  his  justes  to  be  expired.  And  elles  it  sh[all  not]  be  in  our  powers  to 
make  it  redye.  And  also  we  beseche  your  grace  to  send  commandement  to 
Hopton  that  he  delyver  to  Henry  Comptroller  by  b[ill  ind]ented  alsoche 
cables,  ropes,  and  cordes  as  he  hathe  in  ke[pyng  of]  the  kinges,  and  may 
be  now  convenientlye  spared  to  serve  the  k  [inges  present]  busynes.  It  woll 
save  the  king  moche  monye.     And  m[ost  humbly  we  beseeche]  your  grace 

to  send  us  answer  of  our  laste  lettre knowlege  of  your 

further  pleasur  doth 

Forther 

laste  the  Frenche  kinge 

artificers  in  worke  to  begynn 

this  Triumphe  at  Arde,  and  hathe  taken 

iiij.  howses  of  the  towne  and  a  greate  peace  of  the  abbaye  there  called 
Andei'ne.  And  entendeth  to  make  greate  [buildings,]  wherin  moche  of 
his  pastymes  shalbe  showed,  as  the  maistre  [of  the]  workes  there  didd 
report.  And  that  there  ys  provided  and  redy  at  Rouen  certein  tymbre 
redye  framed  for  the  same  buyldinges.  .  .  .  the  same  tylt,  counter- 
listes,  stages,  and  bariers  that  were  set  upp  in  Parys.  And  so  by  soche 
meanes  they  be  in  a  greate  forwardnes  of  thier  provisions.  And  as  touch- 
ing the  meting  of  my  lord  chamberlayne  with  monsr  Chastillon,  oone  of  the 
marishalles  of  [France,]  for  the  viewyng  of  the  grounde  where  the  metuell^ 
metyng  of  the  kinges  highenes  and  the  Frenche  kinge  shalbe,  and  also  of  the 
[tilt,]  this  beyrer  can  certifye  your  grace  of  everye  thinge,  and  of  soche 
[other]  thinges  as  we  thinke  necessarj-e  for  the  fortheraunce  of  the  [king's] 
buyldinges  here,  which  to  be  accomplisshed  to  the  kinges  honour  and  plea- 
sur, we  daily  pray  to  Godd,  who  ever  preserve  your  [grace]  in  prosperous 
estate.  Writen  at  Gwysnes  the  xviij^^  daye  [of  May].  In  haste,  as  ap- 
pereth. 

(Signed)     Nicholas  Vaus. 

*  ('.  e.  mutual. 


86  THE  FIELD  OF  CLOTH   OF  GOLD.  [1320. 

The  Earl  of  Worcester  to  Henry  VIII.  respecting  the  preparations  for 

the  Tilt,  dated  Calais,  May  19. 

[MS.  Cotton.  Calig.  D.  vii.  p.  219.] 

Pleas  it  your  excellent  highnes  to  be  advertised  that  the  marshalle  Chas- 

tillon  and  I,  with  dyverse  of  your  carpenters  and  of  the  king  his  maister's, 

have  caste  the  gronde  in  brede  and  lenght  of  the  campe  in  the  furst  place 

chosyn  by  the  said  Chastillon  and  me,  as  by  our  wrytyng  your  grace  vi^as 

advertised  therof,  and  aftre   the  platt  that  your  grace   delyvered  nne,  and 

of  that  that  your  grace  sende  me  by  Clarenceux  (wiche  be  lyke)  and  the 

said  grounde  agreable  to  yt  as  is  aforesaid. 

Albeyt  we  finde  by  the  said  platt  that  the  tylt  shalbe  two  hondred  and 
eight  foot  from  the  scaffold  wher  the  quenys  and  ladies  shalle  stonde,  and 
the  said  tyllte  shall  be  but  iiij'"^  and  viij.  foot  from  the  scaffold  that  shalbe 
made  at  the  further  syde  of  the  feld  ayenst  the  quenys  scaffold,  wiche  the 
said  lorde  Chastillon  and  I  with  other  here  thynk  yt  not  requisite  nor  reson- 
able,  becaus  the  said  quenys  and  ladies  can  have  noo  good  sighte  nor 
knowleges  of  theym  that  shalle  rynne  at  the  tilte,  forsomoche  as  yt  stondeth 
ij'^  and  viij  foott  from  the  place  wher  they  shalle  stonde.  Wherfore  we 
propose  and  have  concluded,  your  grace  soo  contented,  to  sett  the  said  tylte 
nyghe  in  the  myddelle  of  the  said  campe.  And  nevertheles  the  place  to 
fighte  on  fote  to  stonde  wher  your  grace  have  appointed,  wherewith  we  trust, 
and  soo  dothe  all  your  artificers  and  other  that  can  sky  lie,  that  yt  shalbe 
moost  to  your  honour  and  plesure,  and  also  to  the  contentacion  of  the  quenys 
and  ladies,  and  all  your  particions  and  railles  to  be  in  better  order  and 
sight  [over]  the  feld  than  yt  shalbe  yf  it  were  made  as  is  in  your  [said 
platt.]  In  lykewyse  the  said  marashalle  and  every  man  that  loketh  [at  the] 
said  platt,  thinketh  the  ly telle  diche  wich  youi-  grace  have  made  within  the 
campe alonge  by  the  scaffoldes[ shall]  rather  doo  hurte  than  gode,  for  I  assure 
your  grace  if  it  r[ain]  yt  wolle  hurte  the  fowndacion  of  the  scaffoldes  on 
both  [sides,]  and  cause  the  grounde  to  falle  in  yt.  Also  itwolbe  [a  great] 
cherge  to  cary  the  yerthe  out  of  the  campe,  and  a  [long]  seasson  to  do  yt ; 
and  also  the  yerthe  may  not  be  ca[rried  over]  the  campe,  for  it  woll  marr 
all  the  gronde,  that  [n]one  shalle  galop  nor  i-enne  surely  upon  yt.  It  is 
thought  [that]  a  rayle  made  of  viij  foot  from  the  said  scaffold  to  k[eep 
the]  people  that  they  shalle  not  come  nygh  the  same,  w[ill  serve]  as 
well,  for  a  diche  of  iiij  fote  depe  and  viij  fote  [wide]  is   noo  strenght  yf 


1520.]  THE  FIELD  OF  CLOTH  OF  GOLD.  87 

eville  disposed  personnes  wille  enterprise  any  evill  mater,  as  I  trust  to  God 
there  shall  be  noon  soche.  Also  the  maryshall  Chastillon  sent  me  word 
that  [his  J  mynde  was  that  the  tylte  shuld  be  better  and  up  [on]  surer 
gronde  set  in  the  ende  of  the  campe  towardes  Ardes  than  wher  I  had  ap- 
pointed, towardes  Guy  [snes,]  for  the  gronde  ther  was  not  sure  nor  cowde  be 
[made]  with  a  thousand  men  in  a  monethe.  Upon  this  [I  was]  longe  with 
hym,  and  at  the  last  conclude  hym  [in  the]  mater,  for  I  shewed  hym  a 
shorte  remedye,  [to  make]  the  campe  1.  foot  in  lenght  more  towardes 
[  Ardres],  then  the  gronde  shuld  be  gode  and  sure,  [and  he  was]  contented. 
Then  he  desired  that  the  barr[yer  for  the]  feattes  of  armes  a-fote  might  be 
made  in  the  campe  towardes  Ardes,  wher  your  grace  hathe  appointed  the 
tourney  to  be  for  the  tylte,  and  that  place  shuld  be  to  nighe  togeder,  and  he 
wold  undertake  that  the  said  baryer  shuld  be  taken  up  in  a  nighte  and  set 
ageyn  at  altymes  that  any  tourney  shuld  be  in  the  morneng.  I  aunswerd 
hym  ageyn  that  I  wold  not  change  the  place  wher  yt  was  appointed,  for  I 
sawe  noo  cause  why  to  remove  yt  from  the  place  wher  your  grace  had  ap- 
pointed, and  that  the  tylte  and  the  said  place  of  baryers  shuld  stande  welle 
inough  yf  your  grace  w^old  be  contented  the  tylte  be  removed  in  the  myd- 
delle  as  is  aforesaid,  and  as  they  desire.  He  said  that  alle  the  campe  was 
made  upon  your  graces  gronde,  and  therfor  yt  made  no  matter  wher  yt  was 
appointed,  and  yf  I  wold  wryte  to  your  grace  therof,  his  maister  thought  ye 
wold  be  content  wathalle.  I  answerd  hym  that  I  wold  not  wryte  theryn,  for 
I  knew  alle  redy  your  plesur,  but  touching  the  lytelle  diche  and  the  making 
of  the  tylte  in  the  medell  of  the  campe  between  bothe  scaffoldes,  as  is  afore- 
said, I  wold  wryte  to  your  grace  to  knowe  your  plesure ;  and  with  this 
aunswer  he  was  content  and  so  departed  ;  and  j-f  your  grace  be  soo  plesed,  I 
doubte  not  but  yt  shalle  be  doon,  and  the  said  lord  Chastillon  welle  contented 
therwith.  Therfor  in  my  most  humble  wyse  I  beseche  your  grace  that  I  may 
knowe  your  gracioux  mjTideand  plesure,  what  ye  wille  I  sh[old  do  in  these] 
maters,  for  tille  I  have  answer  ayen  of  your  grace,  I  wille  respyte  the  mak- 
ing therof.  Alle  other  thinges  [are]  and  shalbe  made  in  alle  diligens  pos- 
sible of  bothe  parties,  for  the  lord  Chastillon  and  I  be  agreyd  in  [all] 
savyng  the  said  two  maters,  and  in  lykemanerare  [the]  said  artificers.  But 
I  fere  greatly  that  yt  shall  not  be  possible  alle  the  scafiFoldes  to  be  fenysshed 
by  [the]  day  appoynted ;  but  I  assure   your  grace  ther  shall  not  lacke  any 


88  THE  FIELD  OF  CLOTH  OF  GOLD.  [1520. 

diligens  possible  to  be  doon  to  the  uttermoste  of  my  lytelle  power,  with  the 
helpe  of  God,  to  whome  I  pray  to  sende  your  most  excellent  highnes  [a] 
victorious  and  longe  lyfe,  with  the  fuUe  accomplyshment  of  your  moost  noble 
desires.     From  your  towne  of  Caleys  the  xixt^  day  of  May. 

Your  most  (the  rest  of  the  signature  burnt  off.) 

Two    letters   of   the    marshall    Chastillon    to    the    earl    of    Worcester, 

relating  to  the  preparation  of  the  field  for  the  tilt,  and  dressing  of 

the  tree  of  chivalry,  dated  the  23d  and  2Ath  May. 

(MS.  Cotton.  CaUgula  D.  vii.  pp.  221,  222.) 

soir  sont  venus  quelques  gentil3hommes  qui  venoient  pour 

toucher  aux  escuj  de  Lentreprise.     Je  leur  ay  fait  responce  que  les  perons 

n'estoient  encores  dressej  ne  les  escu}  pendu3.     II3  m'ont  dit  quil  en  vient 

plusieurs  aultres,  parquoy  sera  besoing  faire  dresser  lesdits  perons  le  plustost 

quil  sera  possible ;  et  pour  ce  que  me  distes  hier  que   ne  seriej  de  retour 

jusques  a  mardi  que  ne  fera  lesdits  perons  entre  cy  et  la,  ce  sera  bien  tard, 

et  aussi  mardi  sera  le  derrenier  jour  de  ce  mois,  et  croy  que  le   Roy  mon 

maistre  sera  icy  lundi  au  soir  ainsi  qu'il  a  promis,  et  dira  que  nous  n'auvons 

point  fait  de  dilligence,  vous  m'en   mandere}  s'il  vous  plaist  par  ce  porteur 

votre  advi3 ;  qui   sera  la  fin,   mons"",  apres  me  estre  recommander  a  votre 

bonne  grace,  priant  Dieu  qu'  il  vous    donne  ce  que  desire3.     a  Ardre   le 

xxiiimti  jour  de   May.    Signe  L'entierement  votre,  Chastillon.    Et  au 

dessus  de    la  lettre,   A  Mons*"  le   conte  de  Worcestre,  grant  chambellan 

d'Angleterre. 

mons^  de  Chastillon,  .         .         .         envoye 

a  nwns''  le  chambellan. 

Mons"",  J'ay  presentement  receu  V03  lettres  par  ce  porteur  secretaire  de 
Calais,  et  par  luy  entendu  ce  que  dictes  que  est  le  plaisir  du  Roy  votre 
maistre  touchant  de  faire  le  petit  fousse  et  une  pallice  dessus,  on  je  ne  trouve 
wrant  propos,  et  suffiroit  bien  si  nous  povons  faire  dedans  le  temps  que  avons 
ce  qui  est  necessaire  pour  accomplir,  ce  qui  est  traicte  et  accorde  entre  no3 
deux  maistres,  etcomme  au  jour  d'huy  vous  ay  escript  par  ung  gentilhomme 
que  vous  ay  envoye. 

II  est  beaucoup  plus  necessaire  de  dresser  le  peron  et  arbre  et  y  pendre 


1520.]  THE  FIELD  OF  CLOTH  OF  GOLD,  89 

les  escuj  pour  recevoir  ceulx  qui  y  viennent  a  toute  hcure,  qui  tie  trouvcnt 
a  qui  parler  ;  et  touchant  le  camp  et  noj  lysses  qui  ny  fera  aultre  dilligence, 
je  ne  voy  pas  quilj  puissent  estre  prestj  au  temps  assigne  par  ceulx  qui  out 
este  cryer  et  publyer  le  tournay.  J'en  ay  dit  plusamplenient  ce  quil  m'en 
semble  acedit  porteur  ;  qui  sera  la  fin,  Mons%  apres  me  estre  recommandcr 
a  vot'-e  bonne  grace,  priant  Dieu  vous  donner  bonne  vye  et  longue.  A 
Ai-dre  le  xxiiij™'=  de  May.  Ainsi  signe,  L'entieremeut  votre,  CnASTtLLON. 
£Jt  audessus,  A  Monsr.  le  conte  de  Worcestre,  grant  cliambellan  d'Angle- 
terre. 

The  justs  at  Guisnes. 
(MS.  Cotton.  Titus,  B.  i.  p.  127.) 
(This  paper  is  to  be  compared  witli  that  in  the  Rutland  Papers,  p.  44.) 
Juges  deputed  for  the  felde. 
For  the  hinges  parte  : — 
The  duke  of  Buckingham. 
The  erle  of  Northumberlonde. 
The  erle  of  Worcester. 
Ser  Edward  Ponynges. 

Item,  for  the  ordering  of  the  felde: — 
The  two  marshals  ;  that  is  to  say,  for  the  kinges  parte, 
The  Erie  of  Essex,  with  certein  noble  men  whose  names  foloweth,  to  bo 
assistant  unto  them,  that  is  to  say : — 
My  lorde  of  Bergeveny. 
Sir  Nicholas  Vaux. 
Sir  William  Sandes. 
Sir  John  Huse. 
Sir  Richard  Sacheverel  and  xxti  of  the  kinges  garde. 

Item,  the  undermarshal  and  the  marshal's  company  to  kepe  the  onto  side 
of  the  felde,  to  th'intcnt  that  strangers  and  vagabundes  shal  not  approche 
unto  the  same,  nor  passe  over  the  diches. 

Item,  sir  Henry  Marny  is  appointed  to  kepe  the  kinges  loging. 

Item,  my  lorde  stuarde  and  master  comptroller  to  take  hede  to  the  pro- 
vision of  frute  and  drinke  for  the  king. 

CAMD.  soc.  N 


90  THE  FIELD  OF  CLOTH  OF  GOLD.  [1520. 

Item,  for  keping  of  the  entres  in  to  the  felde  x  of  the  kinges  garde  be 
appointed  and  x  of  the  Frenche  garde. 

Item,  it  is  devised  that  the  ij  marshals  shal  ordre  the  people  on  bothe 
sides,  to  the  intent  that  the  oon  shal  not  intremedle  with  the  other,  for 
avoiding  of  debate. 

Indorsed.  Juges  deputed.  At  the  Justes  in  the  campe  betwene  Guysnes 
Ardre,  in  the  tyme  of  metyng  betwene  the  kinges  grace  and  the  French  king. 

Letters  from  the  Lords  of  the  Council  in  London  to  Henry  VIII.  and 
to  Wolsey,  during  their  absence  at  the  interview  with  Francis  I. 
(MS,  Cotton.  Calig.  D.  vii.  p.  231.) 
These  are  very  interesting  letters,  particularly  in  those  parts  where  the  Princess  Mai-y's 
Court  at  Richmond  is  described.     It  is  believed  that  they  are  now  published  for  the  first 
time.     In  Sir  H.  Ellis's  first  series,  vol.  i.  174,  a  previous  letter  of  the  Lords  to  the  King 
will  be  found,  dated  the  13th  June  ;  and  all  were  evidently  indited  by  the  same  person, 
probably  Eichard  Fox,  bishop  of  Winchester. 

To  the  King. 
Sir, — Pleas  it  your  grace,  Albeit  that  heretofore  we  had  in  party  som 
knowlege  and  notice  to  oure  singuler  comforte  of  your  good  spede  in  this 
your  prosperous  and  fortunate  journaie,  and  of  the  mooste  honourable 
successes  of  the  same,  yet  nowe,  lovinges  be  to  almighty  God,  we  by  your 
mooste  honourable  letters  bering  date  at  your  castell  of  Guysnes,  the  xxij 
daye  of  this  instaunte  monethe,  have  sure  and  perfaite  knowlege  to  our 
further  mooste  singular  joie,  comforte,  and  consolacion,  not  oonly  of  the 
joieous  meting  and  entrevieu  of  your  grace  and  the  Frenshe  king,  and  of  the 
pleasaunt  pastymes  which  have  preceded  betwene  youe,  to  youre  great  and 
inestimable  honour,  and  of  suche  confederacions,  treaties,  and  convencions 
with  sonderie  contractes  and  determinacions,  as  be '  mencioned  in  your  saide 
mooste  honorable  lettres,  the  like  wherof  heretofore  have  not  been  brought 
to  suche  eifecte  and  purpoos  by  any  other  your  noble  progenitours,  but  also 
of  the  speciall  truste  and  confidence  that  the  said  Frenshe  king  haith  in  your 
highnes  manifestly  declared  by  his  subdain  repaire  and  commyng  unto  your 
grace  into  your  said  castell  of  Guysnes,  and  putting  hymselfe  hooly  into 
your  handesj  which  approveth  his  desirous  and  affectuous  mynde  to  attaine 
your  favour  and  amitie,  and  the  moor  specially  because  he  canne  not  be 
satisfied  till  he  have  visited  and  seen  your  grace  within  this  your  realme. 
Mooste  glad  and  joieous  also  we  be,  and  right  soe  all  your  subjectes  have 


1520.]  THE  FIELD  OF  CLOTH   OF   GOLD.  91 

cause  to  be,  to  wete  and  see  the  greateste  princes  of  Christendome,  not  oonly 
to  pursue  for  the  attayning  of  your  favours,  and  to  be  directed  and  ordoured 
after  your  highnes  wisedome  and  prudent  policy,  but  also  content  and  mooste 
desirous  to  visit  your  said  grace,  and  to  sue  unto  the  same  within  this  your 
realme,  to  youre  perpetuall  praise  and  fame  for  ever,  the  advancement  and 
encreace  of  honour  and  proufit  to  your  said  realme,  for  the  quiete,  rests  and 
tranquilite  of  all  Christendome,  and  finally  to  the  greate  laude  and  pleasure 
of  Almighty  God  :  [and]  considering  that  for  a  speciall  remembraunce  and 
confirmacion  [of]  the  premisses,  it  hath  liked  your  highnes,  to  the  praise  of 
.     .     .     .     to  have  your  causes  and  matiers  at  this  season  concluded     . 

plenary  remission,  and  with  fulle  mynde  and  purpoos      .     . 

edifie  a  chapell  in  the  name  of  oure  blessed  Lady a  thing 

for  your  perpetuelle  and  ymmortall  memorie,  [in  the  most]  humble  and  low- 
lieste  maner  we  thanke  your  grace  that  it  hath  [pleased]  the  same  to 
advertise  us  of  the  premises,  whereby  to  our  moste  .  .  .  rejoyesing  we 
be  made  as  participant  thereof  in  maner  as  though  we  had  been  present  at 
the  same.  And  where  as  in  many  thynges  heretofore,  not  of  soo  high 
importaunce  as  this  excellent  and  notable  act  of  your  moost  circumspect 
and  provident  wisedome  broughte  by  the  help  of  God  to  youre  intended 
purpoos,  Te  Deum  laudamus  hath  been  solempnely  songen  in  the  laude 
and  praise  of  God,  and  for  these  good  and  fortunate  successes  we  wolde 
likewise,  youre  pleasure  knowen  in  this  behalf,  semblably  geve  [laude] 
and  praise  to  almighty  God,  to  whoom  we  doe  and  shall  daily  praye  as 
welle  for  the  fortunate  and  good  contynuance  of  your  further  noble  purpooses 
and  affaires,  as  also  for  your  sauf  [and]  soone  commyng  hoom. 

And  sethen  our  last  writing  unto  your  highnes  we  have  sondery  tymes 
visited  and  seen  your  derrest  doughter  the  princes,  whoe,  God  be  thanked,  is 
in  prosperous  healthe  and  convalescence,  and  like  as  she  encreaseth  in  dales 
and  yeres  soe  she  doothe  in  grace,  witte,  and  vertue,  to  the  [great]  counfort 
of  alle  suche  as  repaire  mito  her  presence. 

And  as  touching  any  other  causes  to  be  signified  unto  your  highnes  con- 
cernyng  this  your  realme,  we  knowe  noon,  but  that  the  same  is  in  good 
tranquilitie,  and  your  subjectes  in  goode  and  quiete  restefulnes.  We  geve 
our  attendaunce  con[tinually]  in  your  counseill,  and  ordour  such  causes  as 
conune  before  us  accoording  to  your  lawes.  And  as  yet  we  have  noe  n[ews] 
naither  from  youre  lande  of  Irelande   nor  from  Sco[tland]e.     Assoone  as 


92  VISIT  OF  THREE  FRENCH  GENTLEMEN  TO  LONDON.         [1520. 

any  slialle  comme  unto  us,  we  shall  fort[hwitli]  geve  advertisement  to 
youre  highnes  of  the  same. 

Ymmedlately  and  forthwithe  aftei*  the  writing  of  the  pre[mises,]  the 
xxviij"  of  June,  and  saint  Peter's  even,  came  to  [us  the]  gentilmen  of 
Fraunce,  of  whoos  commjTig  and  ent  .  .  .we  had  advertisement  by  my 
lorde  cardinalle.  A[nd  on]  Saturdaie  at  after  diner,  according  as  tide 
[served]  for  thaym,  they,  being  well  accompanied  by  [the  lord  Barnes,] 
>/  lorde  Darcy  and  other,   repaired  to  your   dereste   doughter  then  at  Rich- 

mounte,  where  thay  founde  her  grace  right  honorablei  accompanied  with 
your  counseill,  and  other  lordes,  both  spirituall  and  temporall ;  and  her 
house  and  chambers  right  welle  appointed  and  furnisshed  with  a  goodly  com- 
pany of  gentilmen  and  tall  yomen  ;  and  as  unto  ladies  ther  were  in  the 
chamber  of  presence,  attending  on  her  grace,  besides  the  lady  governes  and 
other  her  gentilwomen,  the  duches  of  Norfolk,  with  her  iij  doughters,  the 
lady  (hlanh*-)  wiff  to  the  lorde  Herbei't,  the  countesse  of  Worcester,  the 
ladies  Gray  and  Nevelle,  the  lorde  John's  wiff,t  with  sondery  other  ladies 
and  gentilwomen  ;  and  in  the  great  chamber  were  many  goodly  gentilwomen 
well  apparailled.  And  at  the  commyng  of  the  said  gentilmen  of  Fraunce 
to  the  princes'  presence,  her  grace  in  suche  wise  shewed  herself  unto  thaym, 
furst  in  welcomming  and  enterteynnyng  of  thaym  with  moost  goodly  counte- 
naunce,  propur  communycacion,  and  pleasaunt  passetyme  in  playing  at  the 
virginalles,  that  thay  greately  marveled  and  rejoyesed  the  same,  her  yong 
and  tendre  age  conscidered.  And  soe  after  thay  departed  ageine  to  London, 
and  at  this  present  tyme  be  upon  thair  depeching  from  hennes.  Sethen 
thaire  hider  commyng  thay  have  bene  well  accompenied  with  the  said 
lordes  Barnes  and  Darcy,  and  other  gentilmen,  and  goodly  chere  doon 
unto  thayme,  furst  by  the  maire  and  sheriffes  of  London,  th'abbot  of 
Westmynster,  and  thenne  after  mooste  specially  by  the  duke  of  Norfolke. 

The  Lords  of  the  Council  in  London  to  Wolsey. 
(MS.  Cotton.  Calig.  D.  vii.  p.  233.) 
(Directed,)     To  my  Lorde  Cardjmalles  grace. 
After  our  right  humble  recommendacion  to  your  grace,  Pleaseth  the  same 

*  See  p.  93. 

+  The  wife  of  lord  John  Grey. 


1520.]        VISIT  OF  THREE  FRENCH  GENTLEMEN  TO  LONDON.  93 

to  wete  your  right  honourable  lettres  bering  date  at  Calais,  the  xxvj'i  day 
of  June,  conteignyng  your  advertisementes  concerning  the  commyng  hider  of 
the  thre  gentilmen  of  Fraunce,  so  licenced  to  do  by  the  king  our  souverain 
lord,  were  delyvered  unto  us  on  Thursday  in  the  mornyng  last  passed, 
being  saint  Pctres  eve,  The  whiche  daye,  a  litle  before  night,  the  same  gen- 
tilmen cam  suddainly  to  London.  And  albeit  wee  had  litle  and  short 
warnyng  before  thayr  commyng,  yet  convenient  preparacions  were  made  for 
theym  according  to  your  pleasure  and  advertisementes.  The  maire  of  London 
havyng  knowlege  of  thair  said  commyng,  made  unto  theym,  being  wele  ac- 
companyed  with  gentilmen  of  England,  a  goodly  bankett  at  night  in  Chepe 
syde,  and  there  they  sawe  the  watche,  which  was  right  wele  ordered,  and 
by  theym  excellently  commended,  as  we  understande  by  reapport  of  the  gentil- 
men that  were  in  thair  company.  The  next  day  after,  being  saint  Petres 
day,  we  sent  tlie  lord  Barnes  to  gave  welcommynges  to  the  said  gentilmen, 
and  to  accompany  theym.  And  the  same  day  the  said  mayre  had  theym 
to  dynner,  and  in  the  afternoone,  inasmoche  as  they  desired  amonges  other 
thinges  to  see  th'ospitall  of  Savoye,  and  the  kinges  chapel  at  the  monas- 
terie  of  Westminster,  they  were  conveyed  thider,  wele  accompanyed  on  hors- 
bak,  and  demonstracions  made  unto  theym  of  notable  thinges  in  the  said 
hospitalle,  the  kinges  chapelle,  and  the  sayd  [monastery,]  th'abbot  of  the 
same  accompanyeng  theym,  [and  after]  enterteigned  theym  with  right  goodly 
chere  [as  the]  usage  requercd  upon  a  Fryday.  And  on  S[aturday]  folowing 
oon  of  the  shiriffes  of  London  made  [the  said]  gentilmen  a  goodly  dyner,  and 
for  that  the  tyde  was  commodious  for  theym  to  Richemount  aboute  noone, 
they  being  wele  accompanyed  by  the  lord  Barnes,  the  lord  Darcy,  and 
other,  were  then  after  conveyed  thider  in  a  barge,  where  they  repayred  to 
the  princesse  and  fownde  her  righte  honourably  accompanyed  with  noble 
personages,  aswel  speritualle  as  teraporalle,  and  her  house  and  chambers 
wele  appointed  and  fournysshed  with  right  good  nombre  of  goodly  gentilmen 
and  tall  yeomen  ;  and  as  unto  ladyes,  there  were  in  the  chamber  of  pre- 
sence attending  on  her  grace  (besides  the  lady  governesse  and  other  her 
gentilwomen)  the  duchesse  of  Norfolk,  with  her  thre  doughters,  the  lady- 
Margaret  wif  to  the  lord  Herbert,  the  countesse  of  Worcester,  the  ladyes 
Graye  and  Nevell,  and  the  lord  John's  wif,  with  sundry  other  ladyes  and 
gentilwomen  ;  and  in  the  greate  chamber  were  dyvers  goodly  gentilwomen 
wele  apparailled.  And  at  the  commyng  of  the  said  gentilmen  of  Fraunce  to 
the  princesse  presence,  her  grace  in  suche  wise  shewed  her  self  unto  theym, 


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94  THE  EXPENSES  OF  WOLSEV'S  EMBASSY.  [1521. 

[first]  in  welcommyng  and  enterteignyng  of  theym  with  moost  goodly  coun- 
tenaunce,  proper  communicacion,  and  pleasaunt  passetyme  in  playing  at  the 
virginalles,  that  they  greatly  marvailed  and  rejoysed  the  same,  her  young 
and  tender  age  considered.     Communicacion  had,  and  licence  taken  by  the 

said  gentilmen  of  the goodly   chere  was  made  unto   theym  of 

strawberes,  wafers,  wyne,  and  ypocras  in  plenty.  The  same  nighte  th'oder 
shirif  of  London  made  unto  thejTn  a  goodly  soper.  Yesterday  (Sonday) 
my  lord  of  Norfolk  had  the  said  gentilmen  with  hym  at  dyner,  and  used 
and  enter[tainedj  theym  all  the  day  with  moche  goodly  chere  and  passe- 
tjTne.  This  present  daye  they  entende  to  see  the  Towre,  and  so  to  depeche 
themselves  from  hens.  We  have  at  this  tyme  written  unto  the  kinges 
highnes,  and  geven  unto  his  grace  our  moost  humble  thankes  for  his  gracious 
advertisement  lately  geven  unto  us,  by  his  moost  honourable  lettres,  concern- 
ing his  moost  excellent  and  goodly  actes,  passetymes,  and  pleasures  had  in 
those  parties,  like  as  your  grace  shall  conceyve  by  the  copye  of  our  lettre 
whiche    we    sende  unto  you  herin closed.     And  almighty  God  have  your 

grace  in  his  preservacion.     At the  second  day  of  July. 

(Signed,)      Alle  youres, 

T.  Norfolk. 
Ri.  Wynton.  W.  Lincoln.      Joh'n  Abbot  [of  Westminster.] 

Joh'n  Berners.  Joh'n  Fynnex.  Thom 

Rob't.  Brudenell'.  T.  Wyndam 

Other  signatures  are  burnt  off.  The  lords  who  signed  on  the  13th  June  may  be  seen  in 
Ellis,  Orig.  Letters,  I.  i.  176. 

[P.  30].     The  expenses  of  Wolsey's  embassy,  1521. 

(Abstracted  from  MS.  Harl.  620.) 

The  booke  of  Soluc'.  In  my  lordes  graces  Jorneye  to  Cales,  Bruges, 
and  other  places.  Master  Roberte  Carter  occupyinge  the  office  of  stewarde- 
shipe. — Anno  xiij".  e  q^  '^^ 

f.  2.     "  Ale  and  beare,"  extending  three  pages.     Total  cciiij^i.  ix*.  iijc?.    1'^^^ 

f.  3b.     "  Wyn."     Total  Ixix?*.  xiij*.  xc?.  o&.  '^.10   ^ 

f.  4.  "  Buttry."  The  account  for  "  mapylle  bollys,  lether  pottes,  ashen 
cuppys,"  &c.     Total  cxiij*.  iiijc?.  oh. 

f.  5.  "  Pantre."  Expenses  of  washing  "  clothys"  and  "  covyr-payns." 
Total  xvij*.  xc?. 


1521.]  THE  EXPENSES  OF  WOLSEy's  EMBASSY.  95 

f.  6.     "  Ewrye."     Three  pages.     Total  lxxiij7«.  xij.?,  vf^. 

f.  8.     "  Sault  and  sawcys."     Total  xj/t.  ixs.  i\d. 

f.  9.     "  The  pultrye."     Total  yjli.  yjs.  jd.  ob. 

f.  10.  "  Lynges,  coddes,  and  other  salt-fyschys,  bought  of  Basdeyn  and 
of  other  fyschmongars."     Total  xijli.  viij*. 

f.  11.     "  Beffes  and  muttuns."     Total  cclxvj/t.  iij^.  ijc?. 

f.  12.  "  Foreyn  chargys ;"  that  is,  miscellaneous  expenses,  amounting  to 
cxliiij/«.  xvij*.  viijc?.  Some  of  them  are  curious,  as  this  for  the  scocheons 
which  ambassadors  were  accustomed  to  leave  on  their  route : — 

"  Item,  payd  to  Joh'n  Browyn,  paynter  of  Lundun,  for  dyvers  scochyns 
bought  of  hym  and  receyved  be  the  syght  of  the  said  officers,  as  apperyth 
be  b^'lle, — xli.  xvij*." 

The  following  items  of  expenses  incurred  on  the  cardinal's  attendance  at 
the  two  churches  in  Calais  may  also  be  considered  worth  extracting : — 

"  Item,  payd  to  Wylliam  Elton,  for  a  carpynter  and  tymber,  in  seynt 
Mary's  chyrche  of  Caleys,  for  hangyng  of  [the]  hye  auter,  the  iijtli  day  of 
August,  vj  d. 

"  Item,  for  the  hyer  of  a  cart  for  carrying  of  the  vestry  staff  from  the 
stapylle  to  seynt  Mary's  chyrche,  iiij  d. 

"  Item,  paid  to  the  sexton  of  seynt  Peter's,  for  the  hyer  of  a  carpenter, 
and  for  iiij  ledges  for  the  hye  auter,  and  for  my  lordes  traves,  xvj  d. 

"  Item,  paid  for  a  wagon  carrying  of  the  gret  standerd  of  the  vestry  to 
seynt  Peter's  chyrch,  xvj  d." 

f.  18.     "  Weet  "  (wheat).     Total  cxliij^i.  vj*.  \ijd.  ob. 

f.  19,  20.     "  Burdwages."     Lists  of  gentlemen.     (See  hereafter.) 

f.  21b,  22.     "  Burdwagys  for  yomen." 

f.  22b.     "  Burdwagys  for  gromes." 

These  accounts  continue  to  f.  29,  where  is  the  "  Summa  totalis  denar' 
solut'  pro  commensalibus  forensecis  ccxxviij^*'.  vij.9.  ij<^.  q." 

f.  30.     "  Veelys  and  lambys."     Total  iiij"ij/<.  xij*.  vijc?. 

f.  33.     "  Caryages."     Eight  pages.     Total  iiij'^'ij  IL  vij*.  xd. 

f.  37.     "  Woode  and  coole."     Total  cxj^«.  xij*.  jd. 

f.  38.     "  Rusches."     Total  iujli.  xvs.  viijr/.  ob. 

f.  39.  "  Rewardes."  These  are  curious  as  enumerating  the  presents 
Wolsey  received,  and  the  senders  of  them ;  but  they  were  in  England,  on 
his  route  to  the  coast.     Total,  vij  li.  vj*.  viij  d. 


96  THE  EXPENSES  OF  WOLSEY's  ENfBASSY.  [1521. 

f.  40.  This  commences  another  account,  on  a  smaller  quire  of  paper, 
entitled  "The  Queyre  of  Velwettes,  Skarlettes,  Redde  Clothes,  and  of 
Milleyn  Bonettes." 

f.  41.  "  Blacke  velvett  gevyn  to  my  lordes  graces  gentlemen  agayn  hys 
journe  to  Cales,  in  July  an°  xilj°  Regis  H.  viij™'."  To  fifty  gentlemen,  each 
ten  yards  of  black  velvet  at  ix*.  the  yard,  and  a  bonett,  price  iiij*.  iuyl. 

f.  43.  "  Skerllettes  geven  to  my  lordes  yomen."  To  a  hundred  men 
three  yards  of  black  velvet  at  viJ5.  viijc?.  the  yard,  and  iij  yards  of  scarlet 
at  viij*.  vjd.  the  yard,  and  each  a  bonett. 

f.  45b.  The  totals  here  given  distinguish  the  allowance  made  to  the 
various  recipients,  as  follows — 

"  Velwette. — Somme  totalle  of  velwette  dely vered  to  1.  gentylmen  aftyr  the 
rate  of  x.  yardes  to  every  of  theym,  v*^.  yards  at  ix*.  the  yarde,  ccxxv/«.  to 
iiij'^''  xvi  of  my  lordes  yomen,  clerkes  of  his  chapelle,  and  clerkes  of  his  kychyn, 
aftyr  the  rate  of  every  one  of  theym  iij.  yardes,  cc^^iiij'^  di.  yardes.  To  the 
iiij.  fotemen  aftyr  vj.  yardes  di.  for  every  of  theym  xxvj.  yardes.  To  Mr. 
Stiward  (iiij.  di.).  Mr.  Tresorer  (vj.)  &  Mr.  Comptroller  (vj.)  xvi.  yardes  di. 
And  to  X.  childyr  of  the  chapelle  xviij.  yardes.  In  all  ecc^xIvUj yardes  di. 
at  vij*.  viijf^.  the  yarde,  cxxxiij/?.  xj*.  xr?.  In  alle  in  black  velwett  viij*^"* 
xlviij.  yardes  di.  and  in  all  in  moneye,  ccclviij^j.  xis.  xd. 

"  Skarlette. — Somme  totalle  of  money  paid  for  skarlette  dely  vered  unto  c"* 
of  my  lordes  yomen,  clerkes  of  his  chapelle  and  clerkes  of  his  kichyn,  with  the 
iiij.  footemen,  at  iij.  yardes  for  every  of  theym,  ccc'^  yardes  ;  to  x.  prestes  of 
his  seid  chapelle,  and  to  his  ij.  secretaries,  to  every  of  theym  iij.  yardes,  xlij. 
yardes.  And  to  the  seid  x.  childyr  of  his  seid  chapelle  for  x.  cootes  xxiiij. 
yardes  di.  In  alle  in  skarlette  ccc^lxvj.  yards  di.  whereof  ixxviij.  yardes  at 
viij*.  v']d.  xxsciijli.  iijs.;  xlij.  yardes  at  viij*.  xvili.  xvjs.;  xlij.  yardes  at 
vijs.  viijf?.  xvili.  ij s. ;  c™ij.  yardes  at  vij*.  \]d,  xxxviijU.  vs.;  and  c'"Ij. 
yardes  di.  at  vij*.  ocxxv  li.  xvij's.  vjd.;  in  alle  in  moneye,  cxl^«.  iij.?.  \']d. 

"  Reddes. — Somme  totalle  of  money  paid  for  redde  cloth  delyvered  unto 
iiij''^.  vj.  of  my  lords  gromys  with  the  gromys  of  the  stabulle,  that  is  to  saye, 
to  every  of  theym  iij.  yardes,  and  to  the  ij.  charlotte  menne  and  to  Alan 
Spaynyard  the  mule  manne,  to  every  of  theym  iij  quarters  of  a  yarde,  and  to 
the  suropter  manne  di.  a  yarde,  to  make  theym  jerkyns  besides  theyr  cootes, 
cclx. yards  iij.  quarters.  And  to  xxvij.  abbey  menne,  to  every  of  theym  iij. 
yardes  iiij''''j.  yards.     In  alle  of  redde  cloth,   ccc^xlj.  yardes  iij.  quarters. 


1521.]  THE   EXPENSES   OF   WOLSEY's   EMBASSY.  97 

Whorof  c'lilxxj.  yardes  at  iiij*.  the  yard,  xjcxiiij  IL  iiijs.  and  c™lxx.  yardes 
iij.  quarters,  at  iij*.  viijtZ.  the  yard,  xxxj/«.  vj.y.  jrf. ;  in  alle  in  moneye,  lxv/«. 
xs.  jd. 

"  Somme  totalle  of  moneye  paid  for  blakke  velwette  delyvered  to  xvj.  of 
the  seid  gromys,  that  is  to  saye,  to  v.  of  theym  xv.  yardes,  to  x.  of  theym 
XV.  yardes,  and  to  one  of  theym  ij.  yardes,  in  alle  in  blakke  velvette  xxxij. 
yardes,  at  vij  s.  viijd.  the  yarde,  xij/«.  v*.  iiijf/. 

"  Sorafme  totalle  of  money  paid  for  cciiij^^.x.  Millen  bonnettes.  Wherof 
delyveryd  unto  xlvj.  of  my  lordes  gentille  menne,  to  c™.  yomen,  clerkes,  and 
odyr,  to  iiij'^v.  gromys,  xxvj.  abbejTnenne,  to  x.  chylder  of  the  chapelle,  to 
every  of  theym  i.  bonette.  And  M.  Styward  (iiij),  M.  Tresourer  (iiij), 
and  M.  Comptroller  (iiij ),  xij  bonettes,  in  alle  in  bonettes  delyvered  cc"ilxxix, 
of  the  whiche  cciiij'^x.  x.  bonettes  ccmlxiiij.  coste  iiifs.  iiijd.  the  pece,  and 
xxvj.  cost  V*.  the  pece  ;  in  alle  in  moneye,  Ixiij/j.  xiij*. 

"  And  there  rcmayneth  yette  in  bonettes  notte  yette  delyvered,  xl.  Millen 
bonettes. 

"  Somme  totalle  of  moneye  paid  for  blakke  velwette,  skarlette,  redde  cloth, 
and  for  Myllenne  bonettes,  as  it  dothe  appere  before  in  this  booke,  Ccxli/i. 
iiij*.  ixc?.,  over  and  besides  xl.  markes  delyvered  to  master  Tresourer  and 
master  Comptroller  for  theyr  lyvereys." 

f.  50.  Here  commences  a  fresh  account,  in  which  certain  expenses, 
chiefly  for  provisions,  are  recorded  day  by  day  as  they  occur,  from  the  29th 
of  July  to  the  4th  of  December.  Mr.  Sharon  Turner,  in  his  History  of  the 
Reign  of  Henry  VUI.  vol.  i.  pp.  211 — 213,  has  extracted  some  portions  of 
this.  It  continues  to  the  end  of  the  volume.  At  the  last  page  are  these 
totals  — 

"  Summa  totalis  denar'  solut'  per  dictum  dominum  Itinerando  per  viam 
in  isto  itinere,  prout  particula  patent  antea,  clxv^z.  viij.y.  \'u]d. 

"  Summa  totalis  omnium  soluc'  predict'  in  hoc  libro  cont'  M'M'ccciiij^^vj  li. 
xnijs.  yjd.  q." 

That  is,  2,386/.  14*.  6}d.,  not,  as  Turner  has  it,  2,34G/.  13*.  6c?. 

A  complete  list  of  the  fifty  gentlemen  who  attended  Wolsey  on  this 
occasion  is  supplied  at  f.  41,  as  follows  — 

Richard  Page  M.  Fraunces  Richard  Pomerey 

Thomas  Henage  Edward  Steynynges  John  Synclere 

CAMD.  soc.  o 


98 


REPARATIONS  AT  CALAIS. 


[1523. 


John  Dudley 
Thomas  Dudley 
Cristofer  Conyers 
Jarays  Butteler 
Thomas  Arnedell 
John  Rescumer 
Andrew  Luttrell 
Robert  Owtrede 
Roger  Tempest 
William  Drewry 
Arthur  Newton 
Water  Denys 
John  Penyngton 
Thomas  Tempest 
Raff  Metford 


Richard  Crake 
William  Yeo 
George  W'illoughby 
John  Wentworthe 
Cristofer  Coo 
Robert  Fraunces 
John  Sent  John 
Edward  Aston 
Edmond  Wyndham 
Thomas  Alford 
Raffe  Pexall 
Edward  Stanley 
Richard  Redman 
Antony  Hansard 
William  Dauncy 


Thomas  Yorke 
John  Yerdeley 
Richard  Crooke 
Lewis  Powys 
William  Ogan 
John  Eston 
John  Gostewyk 
Richard  Candyshe 
Miles  Forrest 
John  Torrell 
William  Fayrfax 
Watyr  Stryklond 
Henry  Savelle 
Cristofer  Slyngesby 


[P.  33.]     Order    in  council   for   the   advance   of   2000/?.   for 

THE  REPARATION  OF  CaLAIS,  UPON  CREDIT    OF    THE  WOOLS  THERE: 

July  17,  1523. 

(MS.  Cotton.  Faust.  E.  vii.  f.  41.     On  parchment.) 

The  xvijth  day  of  Juylle  the  xve.  yere,  &c.     The  kyng  by  th'avis  of  the 

lordes  of  his  counsail  and  by  th 'assent  of  the  maire  and  marchant3  of  the  staple 

of  Caleys,  consideryng  the  greet  reparacions  that  most  of  necessitee  in  alle 

haste  be  maad  at  Caleys  and  in  the  marches  there,  bathe  appointed  therfore 

that  of  the  woUes  that  nowe  be  at  Caleys,  wherof  the  king  be  agreement  of 

the  said  maire  and  marchantj  shal   take  one  peny,   and  the  marchant}  an 

other  ;  that  is  to  say,  after  that  xx™''.  marc"  be  receyved  to  the  kynges  use 

of  the  woUes  that  be  nowe  there,  and  other   xx'"".  marc*  to  be  received  to 

the  use  and  disposicion  of  the  said  maire  and  marchantj  of  the  same  wolles 

there,  there  shal  be  delivered  nowe  anoon  without  delay  or  tarryeng  by  the 

same  maire  and  marchant}  to  William  Cantelowe  vitailler  of  Caleys,  wolle, 

suche  as  he  wol  agree  him  to  receive,  to  the  value  of  ij""*./i.  after  the  price 

of  wolle  that  goothe  at  the  said  staple.    The  said  ij  "^''.  li.  to  be  employed  for 

and  aboute  the  necessarie  reparacions  of  Caleys  asfer  as  it  shal  mowe  reche. 

For   the  whiche   ij  ™'.Zi.   worthe  wolle    soo    to  be    received   by  the    said 

William  Cantelowe  the  said  maire  and  marchant}  shal  haue  repaiement  and 


1523.]  BANNERS,  &C.   MADE  FOR  THE   DUKE  OF   SUFFOLK.  99 

assignement  of  v^.  of  every  xxs.  assigned  for  every  sak  of  wolle  for  the 
paiement  of  Caleys  in  the  laste  parlement  holden  at  Westmynstre ;  that  is 
to  say,  V*.  of  everyche  of  the  said  xx*.  to  be  receyved  for  every  sak  of  wolle 
that  shal  be  shipped  oute  of  Englande  from  Martynmasse  nexte  commyng 
forthewarde  tille  the  said  somine  of  ij  '""./i.  be  fully  repaied.  And  that  for 
the  deliverance  of  the  said  ij  '"''./«.  worthe  wolle  in  the  maiiier  and  fourme 
aforesaide  there  shal  be  niaad  letres  under  the  kynges  prive  seal  to  the  said 
maire  or  his  lieutenant,  conestables,  and  felowship,  &c.  Benet. 

[P.  33.]     The  painter's  bill  for  banners,  &c.  furnished  to 
THE  duke  of  Suffolk. 

(MS.  Lansd.  858,  f.  12b.) 

Parcellis  of  stuff  made  by  John  Browne,  the  kyngis  paynter,  for  the 
hygh  and  myghtty  prynce  Charlis  duke  of  Suffolke,  then  beyng  apoyntted 
to  be  lyffetennaunt-generall  of  [the]  Kyngis  Ryall  Armye  in  to  the  pai'tves 
of  Fraunce  in  the  yere  of  our  lord  God  1523,  and  the  xx.  yere  of  the  rayne 
of  Kyng  H.  viijth. 

Item,  a  standart  wrowght  with  fyne  golde  and  sylver,  apon  dowble 
sarsnet,  and  frynged  with  sylke,  iij/. 

Item,  ij.  banners  of  your  armys  wroght  with  gold  and  sylver  apone  dowble 
sarsnet  and  fryngyd  with  sylke,  \L  \js.  viijf?. 

Item,  X.  gyttons  of  dowble  sarsnet  wroght  with  gold  and  sylver,  and 
fryngyd  with  sylke,  at  viij*.  iiijc?.  the  pece,  vjl.  xnjs.  iiijcl. 

Item,  a  cote  of  arrays  wroght  with  fyne  gold  and  sylver  and  in  oyle  upon 
dowbyll  sarsnet,  fryngyd  with  sylke,  and  lynyed  with  bokerame,  for  your 
herauld,  xxvj.?.  viijf/. 

Item,  It'  skochjTis  in  mettall  on  paper  ryall  with  your  armys,  at  xxjcL  the 
pece,  iiij/.  vjs.  viijc?. 

Item,  1''  scochyns  in  coler  on  paper  ryall  with  your  armys,  at  xd.  the 
pece,  xlj*.  viijf?. 

Item,  ij.  doseyne  scochyns  wroght  with  gold  and  sylver  in  oyle  with  your 
armys  apone  bokerame,  at  ij.^.  the  pece,  xlviij.y. 

Item,  ij.  doseyne  and  iiij.  flaggis  and  pencellis  for  your  gracis  caryage  at 
xijrf.  the  pece,  xl*. 

Summa  xxxjli.  ujs. 
Payd  24/j. 
Brohrne  t^e  C^agnter. 


100  KNIGHTS  MADE  IN  FRANCE.  [1523. 

[P.  33.]     Knights  mabe  by  the  duke  of  Suffolk  in  France. 

1-523. 

(MS.  Cotton.  Claud.  C.  ill.  f.  99b.) 
Knightes  made  by  my  lorde  of  SufiFolke  in   Fraunce  at  a  towne  called 
Roye  in  the  tyme  of  warre,  he  beinge  the  kinges  lieutenant,   anno  d'ni 
1523,  on  Alhallowen  day,  in  the  15.  yere  of  the  kinges  reigne. 

Lord  Herbert,  sonne  and  heire  to  th'  Erie  of  Worcester. 

Lord  Powes. 

Sir  Arthur  Poole,  brother  to  the  lorde  Montagu.* 

Sir  Olyver  Maners,  brother  to  the  lorde  lloos. 

Sir  Thomas  Wentworthe. 

Sir  Richard  Corbett. 

Sir  William  Stourton. 

Sir  Richard  Sandes. 
-)-Sir  Edmonde  Beningfielde. 
fSir  Edward  SejTnour. 
-J- Sir  George  Warham. 
t  Sir  Walter  Mantell. 

Sir  Robert  Jerningham. 

Item,  the  sayd  lorde  of  Suffolke  at  the  same  tyme  made  these  two  knightes 
on  the  Ryver  of  Some. 

Sir  John  Dudley. 
f  Sir  Robert  Utreight. 

Item,  at  Valenciennes  the  sayde  lord  of  Suffolke  made  these  two  knightes 
the  3  day  of  December  at  the  same  tyme. 

Sir  William  Penyngton. 
Sir  Bartholomew  Tate. 


*  Sir  Geoffrey  Poole  was  knighted  by  the  King  "  at  Yorke  jjlace,  now  called  "White- 
hall, in  the  parlement  tyme,  Anno  D'ni  1529."     Ibid.  p.  104. 

f  The  names  markeil  f  are  accompanied  in  the  MS.  (one  of  GloYcr's)  with  trickings  of 
their  arms. 


lo22.]  proclamations  relating  to  calais.  101 

Proclamations  relating  to  the  government  of  Calais. 

Anno  xiiij  Henrici  OctavL  A  Proclamation  comaunding  all  such  per- 
sons as  have  the  kinges  protection  for  victualling  of  the  towne  of 
Caleys,  speedily  to  send  victualls  thither,  upon  payne  to  forfeite 
their  protection. 

(MS.  Harl,  442,  f.  41.) 
Henricus  Octavus  Dei  gratia,  ^c.  (to  he  proclaimed  in  London.) 
Forasmuch  as  the  king  oiir  soveraigne  lord  hath  no  we  at  Caleys  a  puissant 
army  lying,  for  the  victualling  whereof  necessarie  yt  is  that  provision  from 
time  to  time  be  made,  the  kinges  pleasure  therefore  is,  that  all  such  persons  as 
have  protections,  by  reason  whereof  they  ought  to  provide  vittailes  for  his 
said  towne,  shall  ymediatlie  provide  bread,  beere,  and  other  vittailes  for  the 
same,  and  send  them  thither,  upon  paine  of  forfeiture  of  their  said  protec- 
tions. And  all  other  the  kinges  subjects  whiche  will  send  thither  anie 
manner  of  like  provision  of  bread,  beere,  and  other  vittailes,  shall  for  the 
time  of  the  abode  of  the  kinges  army  there  be  discharged  from  payment  of 
any  manner  of  custome  of  all  the  said  vittailes  thither  by  them  to  be  sent 
or  brought.  And  allso  the  kinges  counsell  there  being  shall  see  all  such 
vittailes  well  entreated,  without  exaction  of  any  toll  or  custome  there  to  be 
taken  or  exacted  for  the  same.  And  that  they  shall  have  for  theire  vittailes 
such  price  given  unto  them  as  they  may  have  reasonable  gaine. 

Et  hoc  sub  periculo,  ^c.    (Letters  patent,  dated  xxiiij  Aug.  anno 
regni  xiv.) 

A  Proclamation  concerning  such  persons  as  have  the  kinges  protection 

for  vittailling  of  the  towne  of  Caleys.* 

(MS.  Harl.  442,  f.  43.) 

Henricus  Octavus,  Sfc.  (to  he  proclaimed  in  London.) 

Forasmuch  as  the  king  our  soveraigne  lord  doth  at  this  time  send  to 

Caleys  a  puysaunt  army,  for  the  victualling  whereof  necessarie  yt  is  that 

provision  from  tyme  to  tyme  be  made,  the  kinges  pleasure  therefore  is  that 

*  This  Proclamation,  though  slightly  varied  in  its  terms,  is  in  fact  another  copy  of  the 
preceding.     See  also  Rymer's  Foedera,  vol.  xiii.  p.  773. 


J 


102         PROCLAMATION   IN  FAVOUR  OF  IVIERCHANTS  AT  CALAIS.   [1527. 

all  such  persons  as  have  protections  by  reason  whereof  they  ought  to  pro- 
vide vittailes  for  the  said  tovvne,  shall  ymmediately  provide  bread,  beer,  and 
other  vittailes  for  the  same,  and  send  them  thither,  upon  paine  of  forfeiture 
of  their  protections.  And  all  other  the  kinges  subjects,  which  will  send 
thither  anie  manner  of  like  provision  of  bread,  beere,  or  other  victuall,  shall 
for  the  tATne  of  their  abode  there,  and  in  those  parties  of  beyond  the  seas,  be 
discharged  for  payment  of  anie  manner  of  custome  of  all  the  said  vittailes 
thither  by  them  to  be  sent  or  brought.  And  also  the  kinges  counsell  there 
being  shall  see  all  such  vittailes  well  entreated,  without  exaction  of  any  toll 
or  custome  thereto  to  be  taken  or  exacted  for  the  same.  And  that  they 
shall  have  for  their  said  vittailes  such  price  given  unto  them  as  they  may 
have  reasonable  gain,  &c. 

Et  hoc  sub  periculo,  ^-c.  f  Letters  patent,  dated  xjcj°  Aug.) 

A  Proclamation  for  establishing  of  trade  and  merchandizing  and  traf- 
Jique  ivithin  the  toivne  and  marches  of  Callice,  with  divers   immu- 
nities and  freedoms  concerning  the  same.     (July  13,  1527.) 
(MS.  Harl.  4i2,  f.  77.) 

Rex  3Iaiori  ville  sue  Gales',  ^'c. 

The  king  our  soveraigne  lord,  myiiding  and  entending  the  welth,  encrease, 
and  enriching  of  his  realme  of  England,  and  of  this  his  towne  of  Callis  and 
the  marches  of  the  same  ;  and  that  not  only  his  own  subjects,  but  also  other 
strangers  of  what  nation  soever  they  be,  might  have  the  more  desire  and 
currage  to  repaire  to  this  his  saide  towne  and  marches,  and  for  other  great 
respects  and  consideracions,  wilh  the  advise  of  his  counsell,  by  theis  his  let- 
tres  patentes  of  proclamacion,  freely  geveth  and  granteth  full  Ubertie  and 
licence,  and  also  ordeyneth  and  determineth,  that  as  well  all  and  singuler  his 
subjects,  merchauntes,  and  occupiers  of  all  manner  of  wares  and  mer- 
chandizes, as  also  all  other  merchauntes  straungers,  of  what  nation  or  country 
soever  they  be,  that  they  and  every  of  them  from  henceforth  shall  mowe 
resort  and  repaire  from  time  to  time  wdth  their  goods,  wares,  and  mer- 
chandizes unto  this  his  towne  of  Callis  and  marches  of  the  same,  and  there 
to  buy  and  sell,  change  and  rechange,  with  as  large  and  ample  freedomes, 
liberties,  and  immunyties  as  they  have  had  and  enjoyed  att  or  in  any  mart 
or  marts  holden  and  kept  at  Andwerp,  Bruges,  or  Barowe,  or  within  anie 


1527.]    PROCLAMATION  IN  FAVOUR  OF  MERCHANTS   AT   CALAIS.  103 

other  citie,  burgh,  or  towne  within  the  emperor's  low  countries  of  Flaunders, 
Holland,  Zeland,  or  Bi'abant,  or  anie  of  them ;  provided  alwaies  and  fore- 
seene  (inasmuch  as  the  same  towne  of  Callis  is  a  towne  of  warre)  that  no 
straunger  enter  the  same  towne  with  anie  harneys  or  weapons,  ne  doe  nor 
attempt  anie  thing  contrary  the  statutes  and  ordinaunces  made  and  esta- 
blished for  the  sure  keeping  thereof ;  and  further,  the  kinges  highnes  willeth 
and  yeveth  libertie  as  is  aforesaid  to  all  manner  of  merchauntes,  aswell  his 
subjects  as  other  merchauntes  straungers,  resorting  and  repayring  unto  his 
said  towne  of  Callis  and  marches  thereof,  duringe  their  abode  there  to  be 
and  abide  under  his  gracious  proteccion,  defence,  suerty,  and  safeguard  in 
their  bodies,  goods,  and  merchandizes,  and  thether  to  resort,  come  and  goe, 
passe  and  repasse,  marchantly  at  all  times  att  their  liberties,  by  land,  see, 
and  freshwaters,  and  on  horse  or  on  foote,  by  chai-iott,  wagon,  cart,  or  with 
anie  maner  of  other  cariage,  with  their  factors,  attorneys,  familiers,  or  ser- 
vauntes ;  and  in  the  same  towne  of  Callis  and  marches  to  be  conversaunt, 
remaine,  sojorne,  and  abide  there,  to  occupy  and  exercise  the  feats  of  mer- 
chandize, in  buying,  selling,  bartering,  chaunging,  rechaunging,  or  distri- 
buting their  goods  and  merchandizes  att  all  times,  att  their  free  wills  and 
liberties,  without  lett,  disturbance,  arrest,  vexacion,  impediment,  or  contradicion 
of  the  captaine,  deputie,  leifetenant,  thresaurer,  marshall,  and  comptroller 
of  the  same  towne  of  Callis,  or  of  the  raaior  there  for  the  time  being,  or 
anie  customer,  comptroller,  sercher,  bailiffe,  waterbailiffe,  toller,  wardens  of 
the  passage,  or  of  anie  other  officer  or  officers  whatsoever  they  be  for  the  time 
being,  or  of  the  leifetenant  or  keeper  of  the  castell  of  Callis,  or  of  the 
keeper  or  constable  of  the  tower  of  Rysbanke,  or  of  the  keeper  of  Newnam- 
brigge  for  the  time  being,  or  of  any  other  person  or  persons,  for  them,  or 
for  anie  of  them ;  and  without  paying  anie  hedmoney,  halfe  passage  money, 
traversmoney,  sandgelt,  wharfgelt,  the  Flemishe  toll  otherwise  named  bro- 
cage of  the  haven,  or  anie  other  toll  whatsoever  they  be,  except  only  suche 
customes  and  tolles  as  the  kinges  merchantes  and  subjects  have  paid  and 
be  accustomed  to  pay  att  the  aforesaid  marts  holden  att  Andwerpe  and  else- 
where within  the  emperor's  said  lowe  countries,  and  that  it  be  leifull  as  well 
to  the  kinges  merchaunt  adventurers,  as  also  to  all  other  merchant  straun- 
gers, to  shipp  their  goods  and  merchandizes  from  the  said  towne  and  port 
of  Callis,  in  all  shipp  or  shipps  of  what  nacion  soever  they  be,  att  their 
choyce  and  liberty,  without  paying  therefore  anie  half-passage  or  anie  other 


104         PROCLAMATION  IN  FAVOUR  OF  MERCHANTS  AT  CALAIS.    [1527. 

exaccion  to  be  taken  of  them  for  their  shippes,  goods,  or  merchandizes,  upon 
paine  to  every  person  and  persons  offending  in  this  behalf  to  be  forthwith 
putt  in  warde  and  prison,  there  to  remaine  without  baile  or  mainprise,  and 
furthermore  to  pay  and  make  fine  at  the  kinges  pleasure  ;  and  that  all 
the  kinges  subjects  merchaunts  may  peaceably  and  quietly  resort,  repayre, 
and  come  unto  the  same  towne  of  Callis  and  marches  from  time  to  time 
with  their  goods  and  merchandizes,  and  from  thence  to  passe  and  goe  att 
their  liberties,  and  not  to  be  vexed,  troubled,  grieved,  or  arrested  in  person 
or  goods  for  anie  manner  debt  or  duety  growing  or  rising  uppon  or  for 
anie  manner  contracte  or  bargaine  made  out  of  the  said  towne  and  marches, 
(yf  the  partie  grieved  will  require  this  freedome,)  except  only  for  contracts 
and  bargaines  made  within  the  said  towne  of  Callis  and  marches  there  ;  and 
that  all  marchaunts  straungers  be  as  free  in  bodies  and  goods  within  the 
said  towT;ie,  port,  and  marches  of  Callis,  as  the  kinges  subjects  marchaunts 
be,  or  owe  or  pretend  to  be,  within  the  emperor's  lowe  countries  during  the 
freedome  of  any  marte  holden  or  kepte  there  :  the  provision  before  specified, 
made  for  garding  and  surety  of  the  towne  of  Callis  foresaid,  alwaies  saved ; 
And,  albeit  that  the  marchaunts  straungers  exercising  the  feates  of  mer- 
chandizes att  the  said  marts  heretofore  holden  in  the  said  emperor's  lowe 
countries  have  byn  accustomed  to  pay  divers  and  many  moo  tolls,  customes, 
and  impositions,  and  more  larges  for  their  goods  and  merchandizes  thether 
brought  then  the  kinges  subjects  marchaunts  repairing  to  the  same  marts, 
yet  the  kinges  highnes,  of  his  grace  especiall  and  bountuouxnes,  willing  the 
marchaunts  straungers  which  hereafter  shall  resort  for  cause  of  mer- 
chandizes unto  the  said  towne  and  marches  of  Callis  favorably  and 
lovingly  to  be  entreteyned  and  used  within  the  same,  so  that  by  meane 
thereof  they  may  be  encouraged  to  repaire  to  the  same  towne  and  marches 
from  time  to  time  hereafter,  hath  therefore  of  his  singuler  good  grace  and 
favors  ordeyned  and  determined  that  all  and  every  such  marchaunt  and  mar- 
chaunts straungers  pay  for  their  goods  and  merchandizes  within  the  said  towne, 
port,  and  marches  of  Callis  coming  and  going  to  and  from  the  same  towne,  port, 
and  marches  of  Callis,  for  the  said  cause  of  merchandizes,  none  other  tolls, 
gables,  exaccions,imposicions,or  customs,  then  the  kinges  subjects  marchaunts 
have  paid  or  owe  to  pay  within  the  emperor's  said  lowe  countries  att  the  marts 
holden  there ;  and  in  likewise  all  marchaunts  the  kinges  subjects  to  pay 
for  their  goods  and  marchandizes   to  b(}  by  them  brought  unto  the  said 


1527.]    PROCLAMATION-   IS   FAVOUR   OF   MERCHANTS   AT  CALAIS.       10.) 

to\vne,port,  and  marches  of  Callis,  such  customes,gablos,  and  toles  as  the  same 
marchaunts  the  kinges  subjects  have  paid,  owe  to  pay,  or  have  been  accus- 
tomed to  pay  for  the  same  in  the  said  emperor's  lowe  countryes  and  none 
other,  nor  in  none  other  wise.  And  that  no  marchaunt  straunger  repayring 
to  the  saide  towne  and  marches  of  Callis,  or  from  thence  goeing,  be  con- 
strajTied  within  the  said  towne,  port,  or  marches,  to  pay  anie  other  toll, 
custome,  gables,  or  exaccions  for  their  goods  or  merchandizes,  or  anie  for 
them,  then  be  rated  and  extended  upon  the  kinges  subjects  marchaunts  in  the 
privileges  of  duke  Philipp  of  Burgoine,  confirmed  by  the  townes  of 
Andw^erpe  and  Barowe,  according  to  certaine  tables  thereupon  to  be  made, 
whereof  one  table  to  be  sett  in  the  open  markett  place  of  Callis,  the  seconde 
in  the  custome  house  there,  and  the  third  in  the  kinges  exchequer  of  Callis. 
And  j{  anie  officer  of  the  saide  towne,  port,  and  marches,  exact  or  leavy 
anie  toll  or  custome  above  the  rate  expressed  in  the  said  tables,  and  thereof 
found  culpable,  every  such  officer  to  be  punished  by  emprisonment  and 
fines,  at  the  kinges  pleasure,  as  is  above  expressed.  And  in  case  the  said 
marchaunt  straungers  or  anie  of  them  by  covert  concealing  or  not  entering 
their  goods  and  merchandizes  in  the  customer's  bookes  there  to  be  appointed, 
bring  in  or  convey  out  of  the  said  towne  of  Callis  or  marches,  in  defrauding 
the  kinges  highnes  of  his  said  customes,  then  they  to  be  imerced  and 
punished  with  Hke  paines  and  forfeitures  as  the  kinges  subjects  for  like 
offence  and  concealment  have  and  owe  to  sustaine  and  beare  within  the  em- 
peror's said  low  countries.  And  as  touching  the  kinges  subjects,  yf  they 
or  anie  of  them  by  concealing  or  not  entring  their  goods  and  merchandizes 
in  the  customer's  bookes  thereto  to  be  appointed  bring  in  or  convey  out  of  the 
said  towne  or  port  of  Callis  or  marches  of  the  same,  in  defrauding  the 
kinges  highnes  of  his  said  customes,  then  they  and  every  of  them  from  time 
to  time,  and  as  often  as  they  shall  so  offend,  to  pay  unto  the  kinges  highnes 
the  said  toll,  and  for  their  punishment  of  concealment  tenn  times  so 
much  over  and  besides  the  said  toll.  And  also  that  the  governor  or  go- 
vernors of  the  said  marchaunts  adventurers,  or  such  person  as  they  shall 
chose  to  be  their  ruler  for  the  time  being,  may  have  and  use  like  authority, 
power,  and  jurisdiccion  in  the  rule  and  governaunce  of  the  said  marchaunts 
att  the  time  of  their  abode  att  Callis  and  marches  aforesaid,  as  the  gover- 
nor or  governors  of  the  same  marchaunts  have  had,  used,  or  ought  to  have  in 
the  said  emperor's  lowe  countries.  And  that  all  accions  of  debt,  trespasse, 
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106        PROCLAMATION   IN  FAVOUR  OF  MERCHANTS   AT  CALAIS.   [1527. 

or  other  variance  to  be  moved    or  attained  within  the   said  towne   and 
marches  by  any  the  said  marchaunt  or  marchaunts  adventurers  against  anie 
of  the  said  marchaunt  adventurers,  staplers,  and   others,  for  anie  cause  or 
matter  concerning  the  feate  of  marchaunts  adventurers,  or  by  anie  person  or 
persons  against  anie  of  the  said  marchaunts  adventurers  for  causes  concern- 
ing their  said  feate,  be  commenced  afore  the  governor  or  govei'nors  and 
fellow shipp  of  the  same  marchaunts,  there  examined,  pursued,  and  finally 
determined  by  sentence  definitive,  without  any   further  appeale,  according 
and  in  like  manner  as  the  graunts  be  made  unto  them  in  the  said  emperor's 
lowe  countries.     And  in  like  wise  all  accions  of  debt,  trespasse,  or  other 
variance  to  be  moved  and  attained  within  the   said  towne  and  marches  by 
anie  marchaunt  or  marchaunts  of  the  Staple  against  any  of  the  marchaunts' 
fellowship,  or  servaunt  of  the  same  staple,  marchaunts  adventurers  or  others, 
for  anie  cause  or  matter  concerning  the  feate  of  marchaunts  of  the  staple,  or 
by  any  other  person  or  persons  against  anie  of  the  said  marchaimts  of  the 
staple  for  cause  or  matter  concerning  their  said  feate,  be  commenced  before 
the  maior  of  the  said  staple,  there  examined,  pursued,  and  finally  determined 
by   sentence  diffinitive  without  anie   further  appeale.      The   statutes  and 
ordinances  of  the  said  towne  of  Callis  provided  for  punycion  of  malefactors 
and  trespassers  in  criminall  causes,  violators  and  breakers  of  the    kinges 
peace,  or  anie  of  the  ordinances  within   the  same,  allwaies  standing  in  their 
full  strength,  vigor,  and  effect.     And  that  also  all  and  every  marchaunt  of 
the  staple  using  and  exercising  the  said   feate  of  marchaunts  adventurers, 
buying  or  bartring  anie  of  the  merchandizes  belonging  to  the  same  feate, 
not  only  observe  and  keepe  the  statvites  and  ordinances  made  or  to  be  made 
and  ordayned  from  time  to  time  by  the  said  marchaunt  adventurers,  but  also 
be  contributaries  unto  them  for  the  same,  like  as   other  marchaunt  adven- 
turers   doo  or   hereafter  owe    to    doo.     And  also  that   evex'y  marchaunt 
adventurer  using  or  exercising  the  said  feate  of  marchaunts  of  the  staple, 
buying  or  bartring  anie  of  the  merchandizes  belonging  to  the  same  feate  of 
the  staple,  not  only  observe  and  keepe  the  statutes  and  ordinances  made  or 
to  be  made  and  ordeyned  from  time  to  time  by  the  said  marchaunts  of  the 
staple,  but  also  be  contributaries   unto  them  for  the  same,  like  as   other 
marchaunts  of  the  staple  doo  or  hereafter  owe  to  doo.     And  yf  anie  officer 
or  officers  within  the  said  towne,  marches,  and  port  of  Callis  constrayne  or 
compell  the  kinges  marchaunts  adventurers  or  straungers  to  pay  anie  toll, 


1527.]    PROCLAMATION  IN  FAVOUR  OF  MERCHANTS  AT  CALAIS.        107 

custome,  gabells,  or  exaccions  foi-  their  goods  and  marchandizes  at  the  saide 
towne,  marches,  and  port  of  Callis,  mward  or   outward,  or  compell   anie 
marchaunts  straungers  to  pay  anie  toll,  customes,  or  exaccions,  other  then 
by  the  effect  of  the  said  articles  and  the  said  tables  shalbe  rated  and  extendyd, 
that  then  the  kinges  treasaui-er  and  comptroller  of  the  towne  for  the  time 
being,  and  the  said  governor  or  governors  and  ruler  jointly,  or  two  of  them 
att  the  least,  whereof  the  governor  to  be  one,  have  power  and  authority  to 
examine  the  causes  and  complaints  of  the  marchaunts  grieved  in  this  partie, 
and  to  leavy  of  the  officer  or  officers  so  offending  six  times  the  value  of  such 
exaccion  or  exaccions,  besides  imprisonment  and  other  punishment  of  his  body 
att  the  kinges  pleasure,  whereof  half  to  the  kinge,  and  the  other  half  to  be 
paid  to  the  party  grieved.     Also  that  the  said  Marchaunts  Adventurers  may 
be  corporate  within  the  said  towne  and  marches  as  they  be  in  the  said  em- 
peror's lowe  countries  ;   and  that  they  may  keepe  thier  courts   and   assem- 
blies,  and  make  ordinances,  and   ordaine  and  leavy  fines,  forfeitures,  and 
impositions,  and  especially  weights  and  measures  ;  and  also  admitt  meaters, 
mesurers,  ployers,  and  packers,  and  order  and  extent  peisage,  cranage,  car- 
tars,  and  rollewaynes  in  like  manner  and  forme  as  the  said  marchaunts  have 
made,  ordeyned,  established  and  used  in  the  emperor's  said  lowe  countries. 
And  this  without  interrupcion,  lett,  impediment,  or  challenge  of  the  maior, 
waterbailiff,  or  anie  other  officer  or  officers  within   the  said  towne,  port,  or 
marches,  uppon   paine  of  imprisonment  and  fine  to  be  cessed  by  the  kinges 
treasourer,  comptroller,  and  governor  of  the  said  marchaunts  or  his  deputy, 
as  is  aforesaid,  whereof  half  to  be  apployed  to  the  kinge,  and  the  other  half 
to  the  party  greived.     Also  ail  persons  having  shewehouses  or  packhouses 
within  the  same  towne  or  marches  shall  lett  to  ferm  the  same  houses  to  the 
marchaunts  adventurers  for  reasonable   prices ;    and  yf  the  owners  of  such 
houses  be  unreasonable  in  that  party  that  then  the  rulers  or  governors  of 
the    said   fellowshipp,    and  the   kinges   deputy  and  treasurer  there,   have 
power  to  chose  foure  marchaunts  adventurers  and  foure  persons  indifferent, 
inhabitants  of  the  said  towne  of  Callis,  the  same  persons  or  the  more  part 
of  them  to  rate,  cess,  and  extent  the  ferme  of  every  suche  shewehouse  or 
packehouse  after  a  reasonable  price,   so  as  the  marchaunts,  and  also   the 
owners,  may  both  have  reasonable  cause  to  be  contented.     And  also  yt  is 
ordeyned  and  established  by  the  kinges  highnes  that  the  marchauiits  of  the 
Hanze,  Fraunce,  Spaine,  Portugale,  and  all  other  marchaunts  comprised  in 


108  PROCLAMATION   IN   FAVOUR  OF  MERCHANTS  AT  CALAIS.  [1527. 

league  and  amity  made  by  their  princes  and  heads  with  the  kinges  grace, 
and   also    Florentines,   Jannais,  Venecians,  Lucays,  Bononiens,  Millanoys, 
Italions,  with  all  other  marchaunts  which  nowe  be  in  the  towne  or  marches 
of  Callis   or  hereafter  shalbe  under  the  kinges  safe  conduct,  shall  not  con- 
vey nor  doe  to  be  conveyed  by  themselves  nor  by  anie  other  for  them,  by 
fraud,  colour,  or  male  engine,  into  the  pai-tes  or  anie  place  within  the  said 
emperor's  lowe  countries,  anie  woollen  clothes  or  other  of  the  kinges  com- 
modities, uppon  paine  of  forfeiture  of  all  such  goods  and  merchandizes,  or 
the  value  of  the  same  goods   and  merchandizes  ;  two  parts  of  the  said  for- 
feiture to  belong  to  the  kinges  highnes,  and  the  third  part  to  the  finder. 
Nevertheles,  if  the  said  marchaunts  of  the  Hanze,  Italions,  or  other,  intend 
to  convey  clothes  or  other  merchandizes  of  the  commodities  of  the  kinges 
realrae  of  England  into  their  owaie  countries,  through  the  said  emperor's 
lowe  countries   and  donadnions,  the  kinges  highnes  is  contented  that  they  so 
doo,  and  bring  the  commodities  of  their  owne  countries  thorough  the  said 
emperor's   lowe   countries  and  dominions  into  his  said  realme  of  England  or 
to  his  said  towne  and  marches  of  Callis,  provided  alwaies  that  before  they 
shipp  the  said  commodities  of  his   said  realme   of  England,  to  be  conveyed 
into  their  owne  countries  as  above,  they  make  sufficient  suerties  and  bonds 
before  the  kinges  comptroller  and  customers  of  such  towne  and  port  where 
the   said  goods   and  merchandizes  shalbe  shipped,  in  the  custome  house 
there,  that  they  shall  not  breake  no  bulk,  open  no  pack,  for  making  sale,  bart- 
ring,  commutacion,  or  dressing  of  anie  part  of  the  said  merchandizes  within  the 
obeysaunce  of  the  said  emperor's  lowe  countries  and  dominions,  but  only  to  be 
dried,  if  necessity  so  require.     Also  in  likewise,  that  none  of  the  same  mar- 
chaunts of  the  Hanze,  or  anie  other  for  them,  bring  or  doo  to  be  brought 
into  his  said  realme  of  England,  or  into  anie  other  place  under  his  obeysaunce, 
anie  goods,  wares  or  merchandizes,  unles  they  buy  the  same  att  the  said 
towne  of  Callis  or  the  marches  of  the  same.      And  furthermore  and  in  like 
manner   his  highnes   giveth    and  graunteth   free  liberty  and  licence  to   all 
manner  persons  victuallers   and  other  folkes  bringing  victualls  from  anie 
part  on  this  side  the  sea,  that  they  shall  mowe  in  likewise  att  all  times  att 
their  liberties  and  without  lett,  interupcion,  or  impediment  of  anie  person  or 
persons,  bring  victualls  of  all  manner  kindes  unto  his  said  towne  and  port  of 
Callis  and  marches   of  the  same  for   victualling    thereof,    and   there    to 
abide,  sojorne,  passe  and  repasse,  with  thier  shipps,  boats,  horses,  carriages, 


1527.]     THE  JURISDICTIONS  OF  THE  TWO   MAYSmS  ©^  CALAIS.  109 


and  other  bagages,  and  as  favoi-ably  to  be  used  and  intertayned  as  any 
victuallers  be  within  the  dominions  of  anie  other  prince  or  princes  what- 
soever they  be,  without  paying  anie  manner  imposicion,  toll,  exaccion  or  other 
demaund  for  the  same  as  is  above  said,  either  within  this  his  said  towne  and 
port  of  Callis,  or  within  anie  part  of  the  marches  of  the  same.  And  all 
and  singuler  these  premisses  the  king's  highnes  commaundeth  duely  and 
effectually  from  this  day  forward  to  be  executed,  upon  the  avoyding  of  his 
high  indignacion  and  displeasure.  And  over  and  besides,  that  the  offender 
or  offenders  in  the  premisses  be  committed  to  warde,  there  to  remaine 
without  baile  or  maineprise,  as  is  above  specified.  And  therefore  his  high- 
nes straightly  chargcth  and  commaundeth  his  deputy,  with  all  and  singuler 
his  counsellors  and  captaines  of  the  said  towne  and  marches  of  Callis,  and 
also  the  maior  and  burgesses,  bailiffs  and  constables  of  his  said  towne,  and 
all  other  his  faithful!  officers,  servaunts,  and  subjects,  that  they  and  every 
of  them  be  ayding,  helping,  counselling,  furthering  and  assisting  the  due 
plaine  and  effectuall  execucion  of  this  the  kinges  high  pleasure  and  com- 
maundement,  as  they  will  answere  unto  his  grace  att  their  uttermost  perills. 
And  to  the  intent  that  all  marchaunts  aswell  straungers  as  others  may  have 
perfitt  knowledge  and  notice  of  every  point  and  article  comprised  in  this 
proclamacion,  the  king  our  soveraigne  lord  therefore  hath  ordeyned  that  the 
same  shall  with  all  diligence  and  speede  be  putt  in  print,  so  that  no  man 
shall  or  may  pretend  anie  ignoraunce. 

Et  hoc  sub  periculo,  S)-c.  Teitte  Rege  apud  Calls,  jciij°  die  Julii  anno 
regni  decimo  none. 

THE  JURISDICTIONS  OF  THE  TWO  MAYORS   IN  CALAIS,  AND  DECAY 
OF   THE   TOWN. 

(MS.  Cotton.  Faustina,  E.  vii.  p.  23.) 

The  insertion  of  the  following  letter  has  been  deferred  beyond  its  proper  order,  it 
having  no  date  of  the  year  ;  but  it  must  have  been  written  within  the  years  1516 — 1520, 
as  Wolsey,  to  whom  it  is  addressed,  was  not  made  chancellor  until  the  7th  Dec.  1515, 
and  the  duke  of  Buckingham,  mentioned  in  the  schedule,  was  beheaded  on  the  17th 
May,  1521. 

The  two  mayors  were  the  mayor  of  the  town  and  the  mayor  of  the  staple. 

The  decay  of  the  town  of  Calais,  which  is  set  forth,  continued  unremedied  in  the  year 
1527,  as  appears  from  Wolsey's  own  letter  to  the  king,  already  quoted  in  p.  37  ;  but 
an   attempt  to  arrest   it    was  then  made,    not  only   by    the  proclamation  in  favour   of 


110  THE  JURISDICTIONS  OF  THE  TWO  MA\ORS  OF  CALAIS,    [1327. 

merchants,  which  has  been  already  inserted  ;  but  by  another  proclamation,  directly  com- 
manding the  reparation  of  decayed  houses,  &c.  a  copy  of  which  will  be  found  following 
the  document  to  which  these  few  remarks  form  the  introduction. 

Pleasithe  it  your  grace,  where  as  of  long  contynuance  there  hathe  hene, 
and  yet  is  dependinge,  within  this  towne  of  Calais  an  old  variaunce  betwene 
bothe  the  jurisdicions,  and  whiche  of  the  maiors  shuld  have  the  pre- 
emynence,  wherof  the  maior  of  this  towne  claymethe  to  have  the  same,  as 
a  thinge  first  graunted  and  confermed  by  the  kinges  graunt  royall,  and  so 
contynewed  tyme  out  of  mynde.  And  on  the  other  partye  they  clayme  to 
enjoye  it  by  vertue  of  the  kinges  graunt  and  confirmacion  undre  his  brode 
scale ;  the  whiche  controversye  thus  enduringe  without  eny  fynall  determy- 
nacion,  hathe  caused  within  this  towne  intranquylite  and  disease.  And 
also  greate  hynderaunce  hathe  incressed  unyversally  to  the  commons  of 
inhabitants  by  reason  of  the  same.  And  moche  more  hereafter  is  like  to 
be,  unto  ther  greatter  enpoverishinge,  oneles  that  sum  fynall  and  clere 
determynacion  be  shortly  had  therein. 

For  the  remedy  wherof  assuredly  to  be  had,  we  knowing  not  how  so  well 
to  do  as  by  meanys  of  our  right  humble  supplycacion,  mekely  to  make 
intercession  unto  your  grace  for  the  same  ;  consydering  that  this  yere  the 
maior  of  the  one  jurisdiccion,  sir  William  Fitz- Williams,  knyght,  is  your 
graces  servant  and  treasurer  of  your  most  honorable  houshold,  and  also  as 
we  truste  that  both  the  saide  jurisdicions  woU  be  right  glad  and  fayn  to  be 
ordered  and  ruled  by  suche  direccion  as  it  may  please  your  grace  to  take 
therein ;  We  therfore  most  humbly  beseche  your  grace  not  onely  to  be 
gracyous  meane  unto  the  kinges  highnes  in  the  same ;  but  also  that  your 
pleasure  may  be  of  your  mere  goodnes  to  putt  to  your  most  gracious  favor- 
able hands  for  the  reformacyon  of  the  premysses,  in  avoyding  all  old  mur- 
muracyons,  and  other  inconvenyencys  whiche  of  long  tyme  hathe  here 
contynewed,  to  the  greate  dissease  and  hyndraunce  of  all  the  inhabitantes 
here  within  this  towne ;  wherby  here  shalle  encrease  and  contynew  among 
us  perfight  cherite,  welthe,  and  prosperite ;  so  that  for  the  same  the  unyver- 
sall  prayer  of  all  people  shall  be  dayly  unto  God  for  the  good  preser- 
vacyon  of  your  most  gracious  prosperous  estate.  In  a  litille  scedule  here 
within  closed  ben  comprised  all  the  names  of  the  noblemen  of  Ingland 
havyng  possessions  and  landys  within  this  towne,  whiche  be  fallen  in 
rwyne  and  decay,  wherby  not  onely  the  kinges  highnes  is  defeted  of  his 


1527.]  AXD   THE  DECAY  OF  THE  TOWN.  Ill 

rentes,  but  also  the  sure  tuycione  of  this  towne  on  their  behalfes  is  greatly 
mynyshed.  In  consideracion  wherof,  and  in  doing  our  duties  as  apper- 
taynyth,  we  do  at  this  tyrae  advertise  your  grace  therin,  that  at  your  graces 
pleasure  the  seid  noblemen  may  have  monycyon  and  warnynge  for  to 
reedifye  and  repay  re  thair  seid  landis,  as  of  necessity  is  verily  requysite. 

And  in  this  our  advertisinge  your  grace  of  the  same,  we  most  humbly 
beseche  your  grace  that  your  pleasure  may  be  to  accept  it  as  a  thing  by  us 
done  onely  for  the  performance  of  a  dutye,  wherby  our  especyall  trust  is 
that  we  may  hereafter  be  excused  from  all  negligens  and  foly  whiche  other- 
wyse  myght  fortune  to  be  madent*  unto  us,  iff  that  we  shuld  not  have 
endevoured  our  selfes  about  the  same. 

And  iff  there  be  any  other  thinge  that  it  may  please  your  grace  to  com- 
maund  us,  we  woUe  be  at  alle  tymes  redy  to  the  same,  to  the  best  of  our 
powers  duringe  our  lives,  as  knoweth  the  blessed  Trynyte,  who  preserve  your 
grace  in  his  eternalle  proteccion.     At  Calais  the  viij^*^  day  of  December. 

Your  assured  servauntes. 

Directed,     To    my  [lord    cardinal's]  Joh'n  PecchE. 

grace  le[gate  de  latere]  Wyll'm  Sandys. 

and  chamicelar  of  [Ingland]f       Richard  Carew. 

Christoffer  Garneys. 

(^Schedule,  inclosed,^     The  names  of  alle  the  noble  men  in  Ingland  havynge 
landes  in  Calais  that  ben  fallen  in  decay. 

The  duke  of  Buckyngam 

The  lord  marques 

The  erle  of  North  umbreland 

The  erle  of  Kent 

The  erle  of  Arundelle 

The  lord  Darcy 

Syr  Edward  a  Borowgh. 

*  So  the  MS.  qu.  made. 

t  Part  of  the  direction  is  lost,  having  been  \\Titten  on  the  slip  of  paper  with  which  the 
letter  was  fastened. 


112  PROCLAMATION  FOR  REPAIRS  OF  CALAIS.  [1527. 


A  Proclamation  Jhr  reparacion  of  the  decayed  houses  and  hu'ddinges  in 
the  toivne  of  Cali/s.     (Oct.  12,  1527,) 

(MS.  Harl.  442,  p.  85.) 

Henricus  Octavus,  S^c. 

The  king  our  soveraigne  lord,  calling  to  his  remembraunce  and  by 
experience  perfectlie  knowing  the  great  deformities  and  many  other  incon- 
veniencies  evidently  appearing  and  daily  ensueing  within  his  towne  of  Caleys, 
by  meane  of  the  decaies  of  houses  and  mansions  and  inhabitacions  to  sundry 
lords  and  others  apperteyning  within  the  said  towne,  suffering  the  same  by 
thier  negligence  for  lack  of  reparacion  to  fall  in  extreame  ruyne,  decaye, 
and  desolacion,  Therefore  straightly  chargeth  and  commaundeth  that  all  and 
singuler  the  said  lords  and  others  haveing  such  lands,  houses,  mansyons, 
and  inhabitacions  in  ruyne,  desolacion,  and  decaie,  within  the  space  of 
(blank  J  at  the  furthest  after  the  daieof  this  present  proclamacion  sufficientlie 
to  repaire,  builde,  and  re-edifie  the  same.  So  that  by  meane  thereof  not 
onlie  the  deformities  of  the  said  towne  may  be  holpen  and  amended,  but 
also  the  habitacion  of  the  same  continued,  advaunced,  and  encreased.  Not 
fayling  so  to  doo  upon  paine  of  such  forfeitures  and  other  damages  as  be 
conteyned  aswell  in  the  acts  and  statutes  made  and  ordeyned  in  that  case 
by  authoritie  of  parliament,  as  also  by  other  provisions  and  ordinances 
poUitiquely  devised,  provided  and  made  for  the  reformacion  of  ruynes  and 
decaies,  and  the  maintenaunce  of  the  kinges  said  towne,  which  the  kinges 
grace  purposeth  to  put  in  effectuall  execucion,  without  anie  further  delaie, 
respite,  or  favour.  Charging  also  and  straightlie  commaunding  all  and 
singuler  his  good  officers  of  this  his  said  towne,  not  onlie  to  register  this 
the  kinges  proclamacion  in  the  booke  of  acts  and  ordinaunces,  but  also  to  be 
put  in  due  and  effectuall  execucion  and  accomplishment  thereof  according  to 
the  tenor  of  the  said  statutes  and  ordinaunces,  and  the  purport  of  this  the 
kinges  proclamacion,  as  they  and  every  of  them  will  answer  to  the  king  at 
their  perilles. 

Et  hoc  sub  periculo,  ^c.     Dated  at  Westminster  xii.  Oct.  A"  Reg.  1 9. 


1527.]  AMBASSAGE  OF  CARDINAL  WOLSEY  TO  FRANCE.  113 


[P.  37.]     Letter  of   Cardinal   Wolsey,  coming   on    a    special 

AMBASSAGE,  TO  THE  AMBASSADORS  IN  FrANCE,   1527. 

(MS.  Harl.  283,  p,  66.) 

The  following  letter  of  Wolsey,  not  having  been  included  in  the  collection  of  his  cor- 
respondence published  by  the  Royal  Commission  in  1830,  appears  worthy  of  being  brought 
forward . 

Cardinall  Wolsey  to  the  Bushope  of  Bathe*  and  Sir  Anthony  Broune, 
Imbassadores  in  Fraunce,  sygnefyeng  of  his  comyng  of  a  spessyall  Ambas- 
sage  to  the  Frenche  Kynge  in  An°.  1527.     (A  transcript) 

My  Lord  of  Bathe  and  Mr.  Broune,  1  comend  me  unto  you  in  my  moste 
harty  manor,  advertysynge  the  same  that  takying  my  jurney  towardes  the 
Frenche  kyng  I  arryved  heare  at  Canterbury  f  upon  satordaye  last  paste, 
intendynge  to  morowe  to  take  my  jurneye  towardes  Dovere,  and  so  uppon 
we[dne]sdaye,  yf  the  wind  will  serve,  and  be  good  and  prosperos,  to  passe 
to  Callys,  whear,  forasmuch  as  my  trayne  extendeth  me  to  the  nombere  of ' 
one  thousand  horses,  which  cannote  in  shorte  tyme  be  transported,  I  intend 
to  tarry  by  the  space  of  7  or  8  [days]  and  so  take  my  jurney  towardes 
Amyanse,  wheare  as  ye  write  in  your  last  leters,  dated  at  Parris  the  2.  daye 
of  this  monthe,  J  which  yesterday  aryved  heare  at  Canterbury,  the  Frenche 
kynge  intendeth  to  meete  with  me ;  purposynge  to  order  and  dispos  my 
jurney  aftere  suche  a  fashion  as  I  maye  be  theare  by  the  xxvj.  daye  of  this 
monthe ;  praying  you  therfor  that,  repayring  unto  the  Frenche  kynge,  and 
raakyng  unto  him  my  most  homble  and  harty  comendaciones,  with  like  con- 
gratulatyones  of  his  good  recoverye,  whearof  ye  may  saye  I  am  as  glad  as 
of  any  thing  that  coidd  otherwise  chaunce,  supposyng  verely  that  this  letle 
febere  unto  him  being  shalbe  to  him  a  goode  purgasyone  to  the  contynuaunce 
of  his  healthe  hearafter,  and  howe  that  it  is  muche  to  my  comfort  to  un- 
derstand that  he  regardethe  so  muche  my  labores  and  travelles  in  this 
jurneye,  myndyng  for  shortening  and  abridging  thearof  to  meete  with  me  at 
Amyans,  albeit  rather  then  his  grace  shold  take  any  hurte  in  his  body,  or 

*  John  Clerk. 

•|-  The  letter  must  have  been  written  on  Monday  the  8th  of  July. 

X  This  despatch  of  the  Ambassadors  is  printed  by  Strype,  Memorials,  Vol.  i,  App. 
p.  31,  No.  XIV. 

CAMD.  SOC  Q 


114  LETTER  OF  CARDINAL  WOLSEY,  [1527. 

doe  any  thinge  to  the  hindraiise  of  his  affayeres,  I  could  have  byne  contented 
to  have  traveled  further,  nevertheles,  since  his  grace  is  so  pleased,  I  am  vei*y 
glad  thearof,  and  shall  so  order  my  jurney  as  afore.  And  forasmuche  as 
in  your  said  lettres  ye  make  mention  of  an  overture  made  by  my  lady  the 
,  Frenche  kynges  mother,  of  the  meetyng  of  cardinalles  beinge  at  liberty e  to 
^  consulte  and  determyne  what  shalbe  done  for  ordering  of  the  churche,  the 
pope  thus  beinge  in  captyvety  and  detayned  in  the  emperores  hands, 
wherof  mention  is  made  in  your  said  letteres  ;  and  wheare  mention  is  made 
in  your  said  letteres  that  my  lady  the  French  kynges  mother,  with  very 
ardente  and  vehemente  wordes,  sayd  that  christyane  princes  could  not  of 
their  honores  suffere  the  head  of  Christes  chorche  to  be  kepte  in  servitude 
and  captyvetye,  and  that  theare  could  be  no  cause  whearfor  any  prince  of  his 
owne  authorytye  could  put  the  pope  to  his  ransome,  or  keepe  him  in  durance, 
but  that  all  christyane  princes  for  the  tyme  of  the  said  captyvety  ought  to 
declyne  from  the  jurisdiction  of  the  same,  aslonge  as  he  was  so  detayned, 
and  not  put  to  lyberty  ;  whearby  every  christyayne  manne  myght  have  to 
him  free  accese  as  to  their  comone  father  of  Christes  chorche ;  I  am  very 
glad  that  this  overture  proceedethe  of  her ;  and  had  not  she  have  made  the 
same  overture  undoubtedly  the  kynge  and  I  wold  have  made  it,  whearfore 
ye  shall  in  conversyng  with  my  lady,  not  only  comend  the  sayd  overture, 
alledging  that  I  muche  approve  and  thinke  the  same  necesary  to  be  followed, 
but  also  that  it  shalbe  very  expedyente  that  she  by  her  greate  wisdom  and 
dexterytye  do  cause  the  kyng  her  sonne  to  write  to  suche  cardynalles  as  be 
at  lybertye  out  of  Rome,  as  welle  of  Fraunce  as  Itally,  to  take  the  payne  to 
com  into  Fraunce  with  all  celerytye  and  possyble  dillygence  unto  some 
place  nye  unto  the  kyng  and  me,  wheare  his  grace,  she,  and  I  may  conferre 
with  them,  and  take  order  not  onely  for  the  government  of  the  cliurche 
duringe  the  captyvetye  of  the  pope,  but  also  what  is  further  to  be  done  in 
case  the  emperor  will  not  condescend  to  resonable  condisyones  of  peace — 
Propterea,  ne  cjidcl  tempoi'is  per  moram  inutiliter  ejfluat,  urgete  atque 
instate  ut  cardinales  ad  loca  nobis  quam  ma.rime  vicina  conveniant 
et  congregantur,  ne  nos  in  ulteriores  partes  GalUce  protrahant,  ilUcque 
nimium  remorentur ;  and  for  this  purpose  the  pope's  ambassador,  who 
passethe  with  me  in  this  jurneye,  directethe  his  letteres  as  well  to  the  legate 
de  Salmates  theare  as  also  to  the  sayd  cardinalles,  being  absent,  and  so 
shortely  shall  also  the  kynges  highnes,  and  I  will  write  to  the  cardinalles 


1527.]  RESPECTING   HIS   EMBASSY    I'O   FUANCE.  115 

according  to  siiche  a  minute  as  ye  shall  receave  hearwithe,  which  ye  maye 
comunycate  with  the  Frenche  kyng  and  his  counselle. 

Ye  maye  also  saye  unto  the  sayde  Frenche  kyng  and  my  ladye,  in  as- 
muche  as  my  passage  towards  him  is  div[u]lged  in  Flaunderes,  and  come 
to  my  ladye  Margaretes  eare,  and  that  they,  perceavinge  it  to  be  adverse 
to  ther  purpos,  wold  be  glad  to  lette  and  interupte  the  same,  which  as  it 
is  sayd  they  might  easily  doe  in  certayne  passages  between  Amyence 
and  Galleys,  unlese  the  same  weare  foreseene  and  provided  for  by  the 
garrysones  of  his  frontyeres,  I  doubt  not  but  for  his  honore  and  my  suertye 
he  wold  provide  and  forsee  that  no  suche  enterprise  shalbe  attempted  uppon  me 
and  my  trayne.  Prayeng  him  therefore  that  some  folkes  may  be  deputed  to 
come  to  me  to  Callys  before  my  departynge  from  the  same,  with  v/home  I  maye 
confere  and  be  ascerteyned  accordingly  in  what  place  I  and  my  trayne  from 
j our neye  to  journey e  shalbe  lodged  and  ordered  for  ray  suertye.  This  done, 
I  wold  gladly  that  ye  my  lorde  of  Bathe,  with  as  convenyent  speed  as  myght 
be,  tooke  your  jurneye  towardes  me,  leavinge  behinde  you  sir  Anthony 
Broune,  so  as  I  might,  after  mye  meeting  with  the  Frenche  kyng,  comuny- 
cate suche  secret  matteres  and  of  highe  importance  as  I  have  to  be  disclosed 
to  you  on  the  kynges  behalfe,  wherin  I  wold  gladly  have  conference  with 
you  2  or  3  dayes  ;  whearfor,  as  maye  stand  with  your  comodytye,  I  wold 
gladly  ye  so  ordered  your  meetynge  with  me  as  I  myghte,  iff  it  weare 
possyble,  speake  with  you  at  Montrell,  or  at  the  furthest  [at]  Abaville. 

What  my  nomber  is,  and  what  personages  I  bringe  with  me,  I  shall 
more  specyally  wa*ite  unto  sir  Anthony  Broune  before  my  departynge  out 
of  Callys,  to  shewe  the  same  unto  the  Frenche  kyng,  whom  I  praye  you  to 
desyre  that  he  take  order  for  directyone  of  suche  the  kynges  letteres  as  I 
shall  from  Callys  send  unto  him  to  be  convayed  unto  Spayne,  Itally,  and 
other  partes,  trustyng  that  uppon  my  corainge  to  the  Frenche  kynges  pre- 
sence such  wayes  shalbe  taken  as  shalbe  to  the  honore  of  bothe  princes, 
and  to  the  welthe  and  tranquillytye  of  all  Christendome. — finis. 

Indorsed. — Cardenall  Wolse's  lettere  of  his  purposed  jurneye 
as  Ambassador  to  the  Frenche  kynge.  1527. 


116  ROYAL  MEETING  AT  CALAIS.  [1532. 

[P.  41.]     The  Interview  of  Henry  VIII.  and  Francis  I.  in  1532. 

A  warrant  to  [  Garter  and^  the  queers  ofarmes  to  attend  the  Kynge  at 

the  Entervlewe   appoynted  hetiveene    King   Henry  the    8th  and   the 

French  Kinge  at  Callais. 

(MS.  Harl.  69,  p.  57  b.) 

By  the  Kynge. 

Trustie  and  welbeloved,  we  greete  you  well.  And  whereas  motyon  and 
vertue  is  made  as  a  mutuall  desire  of  us  and  our  good  brother  the  French 
kynge  for  an  enterviewe  and  meetynge  to  be  made  and  had  betweene  us  at 
our  towne  of  Callais  in  the  begininge  of  the  month  of  October  next  ensuing, 
the  same  proceedinge  of  our  sinceire  love  and  amitie  firmUe  estabUshed 
upon  indissoluble  grounds  and  causes  for  the  benefite  and  welthe  of  us  both, 
our  realmes  and  subjectes,  and  the  welthe  of  all  Christendom,  is  not 
unlikelie  to  take  certayne  efFecte,  in  which  case  it  weare  necessary  for  us  to 
be  soe  furnished  with  our  nobles  and  servauntes  as  our  dignitie  and  estate 
represented  with  our  honor  doth  require.  We  therefore,  knowinge  your 
towardness  to  serve  us  at  all  tymes  as  appertayneth,  desire  and  praye  you 
and  neverthelesse  command  the  same,  not  onlie  to  put  yourselfe  in  a 
readines  with  foure  servauntes  to  waite  on  you,  well  and  comely  horsed,  to 
attend  upon  you  at  Canterbury  the  xxvij"".  day  of  September  next  ensuing, 
but  also  to  give  monicion  and  warning  in  our  name  to  Clarencieux  and 
Norrey,  eich  of  them  to  have  three  servauntes,  to  Carliell,  Richmond,  Lan- 
caster, and  Windesore,  with  eiche  of  them  two  servauntes,  and  to  Rougcroix, 
Porteculles,  Blewmantle,  Rougedragon  and  Barwicke,  with  eiche  of  them 
one  servaunt,  every  one  to  be  well  and  comely  horsed,  and  in  like  manner  to 
attend  upon  us  at  Canterbury  the  day  aforesaid  :  Signefyinge  unto  you 
that  the  most  parte  of  such  parsonages  as  shall  attend  upon  us  being  ap- 
pointed to  apparell  there  servauntes  in  coates  of  lyght  tawny  with  their  devise 
upon  the  sleeve,  and  red  Myllen  bonnetes,  which  garmentes  mustereth  well 
and  setteth  forth  the  nombers,  it  should  be  acceptable  to  us  if  you  and  the 
rest  of  our  servauntes  before  expressed  every  man  for  parte  did  the 
semblable.  Given  under  our  signet,  at  our  manner  of  Langley,  the  xviij"'.  day 
of  August,  &c. 

To  our  trustie  and  welbeloved  Thomas  Wrothesley  alias    Garter 
knight,  princepall  Kinge  of  Armes. 


1532.] 


INTEKVIEW  OF   HENRY  VIII.  AND  FRANCIS   I. 


117 


Lodginges  appointed  for  the  Kinges  highnes  ivithin  hys  toivne 

of  Calays. 

(MS.  Harl.  283,  p.  91.) 


The  Staple  Inne 

Sir  John  Wallopes 

My  Lady  Banastr' 

The  Freres 

Richard  Brownes 

Mr.  Talbot 

Thomas  Dewys 

Marshalles  house,  otherwise  Whit- 

waies 
Richard  Patrike 
Botfisshe  house 
Richarde  Chafer 
Randall  Mynshalle 
Thomas  Hawarde 
Henry  Plankeney 
Raymond  Cuttewes 
John  Porter 
Mr.  Secretory 
Wylliam  Snowdon 
Thomas  Tutt 
William  Stevyns 
Richard  Lemsters 


Christofer  Tempest 
Thomas  Lewes 
John  Adison 
Thomas  Skryvyn 
Robert  Garneys 
Robert  Bayneham 
John  Grynstede 
Richard  Judson 
Antony  Strayle 
William  Burdon 
James  Thaccher 
Edmonde  Prestwiche 
John  Kele 
Walter  Baker 
Hugh  Smythes  widowe 
Wylliam  Staples 
Wylliam  Gardyner 
Mrs.  Hubbard 
The  Noble 
Henry  Kele 
Thorntons  widowe 
Edwarde  Goston 


Lodginges  appointed  for  the  Frenche  Kinge,  ^c. 

Thexchekker 
Henry  Lacy 


Thomas  Barton 
Rauf  Brooke 
Arthur  Beawford 
John  Sakfeld 


Sampson  Norton 
John  Stoble 
Richard  Wodehous 
Frauncis  Ychingham 
Gregory  Van 
John  Massingberd 


118  EXPENSES  OF  THE  KING  AT  CALAIS.  [1532.. 

Bryan  Vavasour  Richarde  Sextons 

George  Gaynesford  The  redde  Crosse 

Robert  Mathewe  Adryan  Dyer 

Edward  Pye  John  Myller 

Edward  Jenkyns  Henry  Smalebery 

John  Henbery  William  Bayneham 

John  Middelton  Newtons  house  at  the  gate,  other. 

Mr.  Mason  wise  Mynshall 

Henry  Lacy  Adrian  Dogan 

Robert  Halle  John  Atwell 

Richarde  Long  Cristofer  Conwaye 

Symon  Jenyns  Rycharde  Rutter 

Sir  Richarde  Whetehyll  Lucas  widowe. 


Expenses  of  the  King  when  at  Calais,  Oct.  1532. 
(From  the  Book  of  his  Privy  Purse.*) 

Item,  the  xij.  day  paied  to  one  Renolles,  in  rewarde  for  bringing  billes 
assigned  to  Dover  by  the  kinges  commaunderaent,  xxiij*.  m^d. 

Item,  the  same  day  paied  to  a  servaunt  of  my  lord  wardeyns,  in  rewarde 
for  bringing  of  a  purpesse  and  carpes  to  Caleys,  x*. 

Item,  the  xiij.  day  paied  to  a  servaunt  of  sir  John  Nevelles,  in  rewarde  for 
bringing  of  pastes  of  red  dere  to  the  king  to  Calays,  vij*.  Vyl. 

Item,  the  same  day  paied  to  Jacson  the  hardewareman,  for  a  dousin  and 
a  halfe  of  Spanysshe  gloves,  iij*.  vj(Z. 

Item,  the  xiiij.  daye  paied  to  maister  Cromewelle,  by  the  kinges  com- 
maundement,  for  bowe-staves  for  bis  grace's  use,  \li. 

Item,  the  same  daye  paied  to  a  servaunt  of  the  great  maister,f  in  rewarde 
in  bringing  grapes  and  peres  to  my  lady  marques,  j;  to  Calys,  xlvj*.  viijc?. 

Item,  the  xvij.  daye  paied  to  Cornelys,§  by  the  kinges  commaundement, 

*  Edited  by  Sir  Harris  Nicolas,  1827,  8vo. 

t  Anne  de  Montmorency,  great  master    of  France,   who  was  made  a  knight   of  the 
garter  at  this  meeting.     (See  the  note  in  p.  43.) 
J  Anne  Boleyne,  marchioness  of  Pembroke. 
§  Cornelius  Hays,  the  king's  goldsmith. 


1332.]  EXPENSES   OF   THE  KING  AT  CALAIS.  119 

and  maister  Cromwell  knowing  to  what  use  it  should  be  employed  unto, 
xlvjli.  xiij*.  iiijc?. 

Item,  the  xvij.  daye  paied  unto  the  kinges  owne  handes,  which  his  grace 
loste  at  dyce  with  my  lorde  of  Norfolke,  Palmer,*  and  Domyngo,-|-  at  Calays, 
iiij.c.  corons,  iiij^'^'xiij/i.  \-j*.  viijc?. 

Item,  the  xix.  daye  paied  to  maister  Cromewell  by  the  kinges  commande- 
ment,  xxiij/«.  vJ5.  viijrZ. 

Item,  the  same  daye,  paied  to  a  servant  of  Pages,  in  rewarde  for  bringing 
of  a  nag  to  the  King  to  Calys,  xx^. 

Item,  the  xx.  day  paied  to  a  Frenche  man,  for  a  cheyne  made  for  a 
gyrdle  of  golde,  weing  iij.  unces,  at  xj.  corons  the  unce,  whiche  amountes  to 
xxxiij.  corons,  yijli.  xiujs. 

Item,  the  xxij.  daye  of  Octobre  paied  to  the  cardynall  de  Larenno  I  and 
mouns''  le  Guyse,  for  so  moche  money  by  the  kinges  grace  loste  unto  them 
at  tennes  in  Boleyne,  xlvjli.  xiij*.  iiijc^. 

Item,  the  same  day  paied  to  the  kinges  owne  handes,  which  his  grace  loste 
at  dyce  in  Boleyne,  to  the  said  cardynalle,  my  lorde  of  Norfolke,  my  lord 
of  Suffolke,  and  the  great  maister,  Cxvjli.  xiij*.  iiijrf. 

Item,  the  xxiij.  day  paied  for  ahatte  and  a  plume  for  the  king  in  Boleyne, 

XV.?. 

Item,  the  same  day  paid  for  the  garnishing  of  ij.  bonettes,  and  for  the 
said  hatte,  xxiij^y.  iiijrf. 

Item,  the  xxiiij.daye  paied,  by  the  kinges  commaundment,  to  maister  Crom- 
well at  Boleyne,  iij.  m^  corons,  vij.  c  li. 

Item,  the  xxv.  daye  paied  to  maister  Ratclif  for  vj.  forfet  horses,  and  for 
the  children's  expenses,  xiij^y.  mjd. 

Item,  the  xxvj.  daye  paied  to  the  syngers  of  the  Frenche  kinges  pryvay 
chambre,  in  rewarde,  iiij/j.  xiij^y.  myl. 

*  Sir  Thomas  Palmer,  knighted  as  the  captain  of  Newnhambridge  on  the  lOtli  Nov. 
this  year  (see  p.  123),  and  afterwards  knight-porter  of  Calais  (see  p.  138).  He  was  be- 
headed with  the  duke  of  Northumberland  in  1553. 

•[*  "  Domyngo  Lomelyn,  that  was  wont  to  wyn  much  money  of  the  kynge  at  the  cardes 
and  hasardynge." — Skelton's  "  Why  come  ye  not  to  Court,"  He  won  of  his  royal  play- 
mate, in  less  than  three  years,  more  than  620?.  See  the  notes  to  Nicolas's  Privy  Purse 
Expenses,  p.  316,  and  Dyce's  Works  of  Skelton,  p.  374. 

1  Loraine. 


120  EXPENSES  OF   THE  KING  AT  CALAIS.  [1532. 

Item,  the  same  daye  delivered  to  the  kinges  graces  owne  haiides,  whiche 
he  toke  oute  of  one  of  the  bagges,  one  hondrethe  corons,  xxiij^i.  vj*. 
viijc?. 

Item,  the  xxvij.  day  paied  to  Parker,  yoman  of  the  robes,  for  doubelettes 
for  the  garde  to  wrestle  in  bifore  the  king  and  the  Frenche  king  at  Calys, 
xliiij*.  viijc?. 

Item,  the  xxviij.  daye  paied  to  the  Frenche  kinges  jester  in  rewarde  by 
the  kinges  commaunderaent,  xl.  corons,  ixli.  vj*.  viijfZ. 

Item,  the  same  day  paied  in  rewarde  to  the  singers  of  the  cardpiall  de 
Larena,  xx. corons,  mjli.  xujs.  iujd. 

Item,  the  xxix.  daye  paied  to  William  Osbarne,  skynner,  for  certen  furres, 
whiche  he  solde  unto  the  kynges  grace  at  Calays,  iiij^''xvij/^.  xiij*.  iiijc?. 

Item,  the  same  daye  paied  to  Forde  at  Calys  by  the  kinges  commaunde- 
ment,  xvij  li.   x  d. 

Item,  the  last  daye  paied  to  Philip  for  Thomas  Smythe  by  the  kinges 
commaundement,  vli.  ixs. 

Item,  the  same  daye  paied  to  Michelle,  one  of  the  garde,  for  carying  the 
kinges  stirf  from  Dovar  to  Calys,  iij*.  xd. 

Item,  the  seconde  daye  [of  November]  paied  to  Richard  Gibson  for 
masking  gere  when  the  king  was  at  Calys,  xjli.  njs.  jd. 

Item,  the  iij''^  daye  paied  to  a  servaunt  of  the  Frenche  kinges,  in  rewarde 
for  bringing  hawkes  to  the  kinges  grace  to  Calys,  c.  corons,  xxiij^t.  vj*. 
viij^. 

Item,  the  iiij.  daye  paied  to  a  servant  of  the  Frenche  kinges,  in  rewarde 
for  bringing  a  to  the  kinges  grace  to  Calys,  1.  corons,  xjlL  xujs.  iiijrf. 

Item,  the  same  daye  paied  to  John  Carter,  in  rewarde,  by  the  kinges 
commaundement,  xx^. 

Item,  the  same  daye  paied,  by  the  kinges  commaundement,  to  Boworthe, 
in  rewarde,  at  Calys,  xx.  corons,  iiij  A',  xiij*.  uijd. 

Item,  the  same  daye  paied  to  Alart  Plumer,  the  jeweller,  for  suche 
jewelles  as  the  kinges  grace  bought  of  him  at  Calys,  vij.  m.  iiij.  c.  xvj. 
corons,  with  iij*.  iiijc?.  in  money,  M^  vij.  c.xlix^i.  iiij^.  \i\jd. 

Item,  the  same  daye  paied  to  the  kinges  owne  hande,  whiche  his  grace 
lost  at  dyce  in  Calys,  to  Domyngo  and  Palmer,  c.  corons,  xxiij/?.  vj*.  vujd. 

Item,  the  v.  day  paied  to  Latronet,  jeweller,  for  such  jewelles  as  the  kynges 
grace  bought  of  him  at  Calys,  M^  corons,  ccxxxiij/j.  \js.  viijr/. 


1532.]  EXPEXSES  OF   THE   KING   AT  CALAIS.  121 

Item,  the  same  day  paied  to  Symon  Quanden,  jewellci',  for  suche  thinges 
as  the  kinges  grace  bought  of  him  at  Calys,  m^  v.c.  xxx.  corons,  iij.c.  Ivij^i. 

Item,  the  v'^i.  daye  paied  to  Jenyns,  the  jeweller,  for  suche  thinges  as  the 
kinges  grace  bought  of  him  at  Calayes,  v.m^  corons,  m^  c.  lxvj/'«.  xiij*. 
iiijf/. 

Item,  the  same  daye  paied  to  John  de  Grane,  jeweller,  for  such  thinges 
as  the  kinges  grace  bought  of  him  at  Calayes,  iij.  cl.  corons,  in  sterling, 
iiij^'^j^j.  xiij*.  iiijc?. 

Item,  the  xj.daye  paied  to  a  servaunt  of  sir  Edward  Guldeford,  in  rewards 
for  bringing  of  fesauntes  to  the  kinges  grace  to  Calays,  x^. 

Item,  the  same  daye  paied  to  Skynner  for  the  foles  lodging  and  expenses 
at  Calays,  vij*.  \jd. 

Item,  the  same  daye  paied  to  a  servaunt  of  my  lorde  Lisle,  in  reward  for 
bringing  of  a to  the  king,  x^. 

Item,  the  vij.  daye  of  November  paied  to  maister  Weston,  for  that  he 
dud  Wynne  of  the  king  at  dyce  at  Calys,  xlvj^/.  xiij.v.  iiijr?. 

Item,  the  same  day  paied  to  the  smythe  in  rewarde  for  carying  lockes 
with  the  king  to  Calays,  vij*.  vjrf. 

Item,  the  ix.  daye  paied  to  the  kinges  owne  handes  at  Calays,  iij.c.  corons, 
\xxli. 

Item,  the  same  daye  paied  to  Parker  of  the  Robes  for  so  moche  money 
by  him  layed  oute  for  the  king,  xxxj*.  iuyl. 

Item,  the  x.  daye  paied  to  Phillip  of  the  Pryvay  Chambre,  in  rewarde  by 
the  kinges  commaundement,  iiij/^.  xiij*.  iiijc?. 

Item,  the  xj.  daye  paied  to  my  lade  marques  of  Pembroke,  for  that  the 
kinges  grace  loste  to  hir  in  Calays  at  cardes,  xv*. 

Item,  the  same  daye  paied  to  a  chielde  that  the  king  heled  of  his  sikenes 
at  Calays,  vij*.  vjf?. 

Item,  the  same  daye  paied  to  the  cutler  for  dressing  of  the  kinges  swerdes 
at  Calays,  xxxj*.  jr/. 

Item,  the  same  daye  paied  by  the  kinges  commaundement  in  rewarde  to 
sir  Edward  Nevelle,  xxiij/«.  vj*.  viijc?. 

Item,  the  xij.  daye  paied  to  maister  treasorer,  for  that  he  layd  oute  in 
almes  to  a  pouer  woman  upon  the  walles  at  Calays,  iiij*.  viijrf. 

Item,  the  same  daye  paied  to  my  lorde  chamberlayne,  for  the  kinges 
offering  at  our  lady  of  Boleyne,  xj*.  iijrf. 

CAMD.  soc,  R 


122  KNIGHTS   MADE  AT  CALAIS.  [1532. 

Item,  the  same   daye  paied   to   my  lorde  chamberlayne,  for  the  kinges 
offering  at  our  lady  in  the  walle  at  Calays,  v^. 

Item,  the  same  daye  paied  for  a  bote,  to  bringe   the  kinge  a'bourde  and 
than  a'lande  at  Calays,  v*. 

Item,  the  xiij.  daye  paied  for  bringing  of  the  kinges  stuf  to  the  water  side, 
and  than  for  a  bote,  v*. 

Item,  the  same  daye  at  night  delivered  to  the  kinges  grace,  to  playe  with 
maister  Weston  at  tabuUes,  iiij/t.  xiiJ5.  iiijc?. 

Item,  the  forsaied  xiij.  daye  paied  for  bringing  more  of  the  kinges  stuffe 
to  the  water  side,  and  than  for  a  bote,  iiijs.  viijrf. 

Item,  the  same  daye  paied  for  a  bote  to  bringe  the  king  a'bourde  the 
ship  at  Calays,  iiijs.  viijc?. 

Item,  the  xiiij.  daye  paied  to  the  kinges  owne  handes,  for  his  offering  to 
our  lady  in  the  Rocke  at  Dover,  iiij*.  viijc?. 

Item,  the  xv.  daye  paied  to  Stephan  Lile  for  commyng  over  from  Calays 
to  Dover,  in  rewarde,  ix*.  iiijfZ.  (p.  273.) 

Item,  the  [xxv.]  daye  paied  to  maister  Longe  for  th' expenses  of  the  faw- 
coners  and  the  hawkes  that  the  Frenche  king  sent  to  the  king  at  Calays, 
xiij*.  x'uyl.  (p.  275.) 


An  original  commission  under  the  king's  sign  manual,  dated  Calais, 
4  Nov.,  for  the  officers  of  the  Jewelhouse  to  impress  cartes  or  waynes,  and 
carte-horses  or  oxen,  to  convey,  either  from  Dover  or  Sandwich,  to  the  Tower 
of  London,  "  all  suche  our  jewels  and  plate  as  we  send  now  at  this  present 
time  from  our  towne  of  Cales,  beying  ther  lately  occupied  for  the  affaires  of 
us  and  of  our  derest  cousin  the  Frenche  king," — is  preserved  in  MS.  Cotton. 
Titus,  B.  I.  p.  57. 

Knightes  made  at  Callais  on  AUhallowen  day,  Anno  D'ni  1532,  in  the 
X xiiij  y  ere  oftlie  r eigne  of  the  hinge. 
(MS.  Cotton.  Claud.  C.  iii.  p.  115.) 
Sir  Thomas  Darcy  of  Essex. 
Sir  Humfrey  Forster  of  Barkshire. 
Sir  John  Ackett  of  Waterton,  in  Irelande. 
Sir  George  Somersett  of  Northampton. 


1531.]  SURVEY  OF   DILAPIDATIONS   AT  CALAIS.  l'2-i 

Sir  George  Gryifith  of  Staffordshire. 
Sir  William  Neweman  of  Northampton. 
Sir  Edward  Aston  of  Staffordshire. 


Sir  Thomas  Palmer,  Capitayne  of  Newenham  bridge,  dubbed  by  the 
kinge  the  10.  of  Novembre. 

Survey  of  Dilapidations  at  Calais,  in  1530  or  1531. 

(MS.  Cotton.  Calig.  E.  in.  pp.  77b  and  78.) 

The  date  of  this  document  is  nearly  determined  by  the  mention  it  contains  of  accounts 
of  22  Hen.  VIII.  It  shows  that  the  public  buildings  and  fortifications  of  Calais,  as  well 
as  the  private  property  within  the  town,  were  now  in  considerable  decay,  and  that  even 
the  sum  of  40001.  was  required  for  this  object,  notwithstanding  the  2000/.  ordered,  and 
we  may  suppose  expended,  for  the  like  purpose  in  the  year  1523  (as  shown  in  p.  98). 
When  the  king  visited  Calais  in  person  in  1532,  he  authorised  very  extensive  repairs,  of 
which  the  particulars  are  stated  in  the  document  which  will  follow  the  present.) 

(^Burnt  at  the  head)  of  the  com ch,  right  in  the  mydway 

[betwixt]  that  and  Becham  tower,  conteyni[ng  .  .  .  .  ]  foote  wherof  ys 
fallyii  downe  [into  the]  holow,  that  which  must  be  takyn  dow[n  at]  the 
leest  by  estemacion  that  ys  alle  re[ady ] 

Item,  another  warde  of  the  southe  syde  of  .  .  .  which  ys  the  vth  warde 
from  Devylyn  to[wer,  is]  fallyn  down,  and  must  be  takyn  downe  from  .  .  . 
tower,  conteyning  in  length  clxxxix.  foot. 

Item,  the  wharffe  from  Sercher'a  tower  to  the  s  .  .  .  .  the  sluse  in  Pai-a- 
dise,  conteynyng  in  length  c  .  .  .  .  foote,  whiche  ys  fallyn  and  fallyng 
down,  w[hich  to]  remedy  must  be  new  made. 

Item,  the  wharffe  before  Lanterne  gate,  co[nteyning]  in  length  cclxxxvj. 
foote,  ys  downe  and  redy  [to  fall]  down,  and  must  also  be  new  made,  or 
ellis  th[e  tide]  wyll  aproche  Lanterne  gate. 

Item,  the  hedd  bytwene  bothe  stayres  byfore  the  Lanterne  gate,  and  also 
the  pere  that  standeth  in  the  Fishers  gapp,  must  be  new  made  also. 

Item,  the  hole  charges  of  bothe  the  wardes  of  the  wallis  fallyn  down, 
and  to  be  takyn  down  and  newe  made,  by  estimacion  wolle  coste  above 
cc/«.    sterling,    besydes    stone,    brykkes,    and    the    kinges    owne    masons. 

[ the  greate the   tide]    commyth   sodenly  and 

oftyn,  so  that  the   [remedy]    cannot  be  welle  had  now.      The  carpenter 


124  SURVEY  OF  DILAPIDATIONS  AT  CALAIS.  [1531. 

estemyth  it  woU  spende  vj.  or  vlj.  c  tonnys  of  ty[mber,]  every  ton  vj.?.  viije?. 
sterling-,  with  the  fraught  and  caryage.  Siimma,  ccxxxiij^i.  vj*.  viijc?. 
sterling. 

Item,  the  ireon  workes  wolbe  above  ccli.  sterling. 

Item,  the  see  chiy,  which  must  be  diggide  at  the  flow  marke  without 
Newham  brydge,  and  to  be  caride  to  the  towne  by  wagons,  wolbe  above  cli. 
sterling. 

Item,  where  that  opon  the  last  warrant  delyverde  unto  [the]  surveiour, 
William  Lambert,  directide  to  ^Nlr.  Robert  Fouler,  [vice]  treasourer  of 
Calais,  bering  date  at  Ampthill  the  xjth  day  of  September,  to  delyver  unto 
the  saide  William  Lambert,  then  employede  on  the  kinges  workes,  of  suche 
money  as  were  than  in  the  hands  of  the  saide  Mr.  Fouler,  opon  his  [account] 
for  the  yere  ending  at  Myghelmas  in  An°.  xxij°'°  H.  viij.  alle  which  moneye 
so  delyverde  ys  nowe  clerely  spent  and  gone  opon  the  same,  so  nowe 
must  be  new  warrant  unto  the  saide  Mr.  Fouler  for  other  money  for  these 
f[oresaid]  workes  now  knowen  of  grete  importaunce  over  and  b[eyond]  other 
works  yet  in  hande,  and  not  alle  fynyshed,  [as]  the  sluce  without  the  Water- 
gate, the  utter  [ward]  at  Rysebancke,  and  within  the  towne  at  Mylkgate, 
[and  at]  Devylyn  tower  with  the  ij.  wards  joynyng  to  him  [at  the]  syde, 
with  ther  mownte  and  platforme,  as  hyt  is  .  .  .  with  also  sewing  and  mend- 
ing the  bray,  callyde  Mr.  L.  .  .  .  bray,  with  harde  stone,  and  amending  of 
the  see  [wall]  with  see  turff  and  hurras. 

st  with  one  round of  the  platforme  in  the  topp. 

Item,  the  seconde  brydge  of  the  ....  the  drawe  brydge  and  the  horse 
to  ...  .  from  the  grounde. 

Item,  the  brydge  betwene  the  donge[on  and  the]  castoll  to  be  new 
made  or  emendide  a  .  .  . 

Item,  the  dyke  of  the  dongeon  and  the  ....  to  be  clensvde  and  new 
cast,  and  to  be  am[endid]  where  as  appereth  to  be  nede  ;  and  also  the  .  .  . 
to  be  amendide  rounde  about  in  all  places  where  nede  is. 

Item,  the  walle  of  the  base  courte  roun[d  about]  to  be  reparvdc  as 
nedith. 

Item,  the  walle  betwene  the  watche  tow[er.s]  ys  fallyng  downe,  muste 
Dedes  be  amendyde  [with]  deligence,  or  ellys  it  wolle  fall  downe  into  the 
[dyke,]  whiche  wolbe  moche  more  chargeable. 

Item,  the   Shaking  tower  on  the  north-est  corner  of  the  saide  castelle  to 


1532.]  DEVICE  FOR  THE  FORTIFICATION  OF  CALAIS.  125 

be  takvn  downe  and  brought  up  agayne,  with  bothe  the  ij.  wardes  on  the 
no[rth]    of  the  same  castelle  to  be  amendide  where  as  nedith. 

Item,  casting-  of  the  dyke  of  the  saide  castelle  woll  coste  cU.  sterling. 

Item,  the  estimat  of  these  other  works  of  the  same  castelle  wolle  amounte 
above  cccc[//.] 

DEVICE  FOR  THE  FORTIFICATION   OF  CALAIS,   1532. 

(JIS.  Cotton.  Faustina,  E.  vii.  pp.  33 — 38.     A  second  copy  is  in  the  same  volume, 

pp.  103—105.) 

For  Mr.  Amner,*  toivchinge  the  Fortyfycacion  of  Coles. 

A  Devyse  made  by  the  kinges  highenes  at  his  graces  being  at  the  towne 
of  Calls,  in  the  xxiiij'^  yere  of  his  reigne,  for  the  fortificacion  of  the 
said  tcwne,  as  hereaffter  foUoweth  : 

First,  to  make  Becham's  bulwerke  so  massy  that  it  be  not  well  bateable. 
And  from  the  said  bulwerke  north-est  into  the  see,  to  the  full  see-marke,  to 
make  a  strong  bulwerke  with  an  arche  for  carriage  to  pass  under ;  and  gates 
to  the  same,  to  be  opened  and  shitt  as  shalbe  thought  good.  And  the  said 
arche  to  be  made  so  as  a  platforme  may  be  made  thereupon.  And  the  said 
bulwerke  from  the  arche  to  the  sea-wardes  to  be  rownde,  and  to  be  made 
that  the  same  may  beate  as  well  into  the  see  to  the  mouth  of  the  haven, 
as  alonges  the  greve  to  Flaunders  wardes,  and  the  way  to  Lantern  gate. 

Item,  to  make  a  travers  from  Becham's  tower  to  Becham's  bulwerke,  with 
an  arche  for  the  water  to  passe  under :  the  said  travers  to  be  made  as  well 
for  the  defense  of  the  bi'ais  as  for  the  covering  of  the  sighte  of  the  same, 
soo  as  no  man  shall  loke  nor  see  alonges  the  said  brais. 

Item,  from  the  est  point  of  Becham's  bulwerke  to  another  point  that  is 
betwene  that  and  the  drawe-b ridge  of  the  said  bulwerke,  to  be  made  rownde. 
And  the  doweve  f  at  the  ende  of  the  said  brais  ther  to  be  kytt  and  avoyded 
away,  soo  as  the  said  bulwerke  may  beate  alonges  the  flankes  to  Mylke 
gate.  And  the  crosse  wall  nowe  bevng  for  the  olde  saylyj  to  be  voyded 
and  taken  away. 

Item,  Becham's  tower  to  be  taken  downe  to  the  too  wyndose  at  the  nether 
end  of  the  iveys  groyng  on  the  same  ;  and  the  said  tower  to  be  massied   up 

*  Tlie  king's  almoner  at  tliis  date  was  Edward  Lea,  Wolsey's  successor  as  arcbbisliop 
of  York.  f  dove  in  the  second  enpi/,  atfol.  103. 

X   i-.  e.  sally-port,     la  the  seroiid  rop^i,  at  fol.  103,  it  is  written  saylewe. 


126  DEVICE  FOR  THE  FORTIFICATION  OF  CALAIS.  [1532. 

with  lynie  and  sand,  stone,  rubishe,  and  chalke,  and  on  the  topp  thereof  to 
be  a  platfourme. 

Item,  the  bulwarke  betwene  Becham's  bulwerk  and  Milkegate  to  be  made 
so  highe,  and  the  canoners  therof  raysed,  that  the  same  may  beate  as  well 
the  parke  as  the  downes,  and  that  there  may  be  made  upon  the  highte  of 
the  said  bulwerke  a  platfourme,  if  nede  be,  with  a  vaund  mure.* 

Item,  betwene  Becham's  tower  and  Dewlin's  tower  is  vj.  towers,  ac- 
compting  the  said  Becham's  tower  for  one,  wherof  iij.  to  be  made  massy, 
and  iij.  open,  to  beate  the  flankes  of  the  diche. 

Item,  half  way  betwene  Becham's  tower  and  Dewlyn's  tower,  within  the 
towne,  a  mounte  to  be  made  of  (blank J  foote  square,  for  the  beating  of 
the  parke,  the  pawne,  the  downes,  and  the  contreth-j-  all  aboutes  the  same. 

Item,  a  lighte  bridge  to  be  made  besides  the  said  mounte  out  of  the 
towne,  as  well  to  geve  socours  to  the  brais,  as  to  retire  oute  of  the  same 
into  the  towne,  as  the  case  shall  require. 

Item,  the  cannoners  of  the  newe  bulwerk  at  IMylkegate  to  be  raised,  and 
the  splaies  thereof  to  be  made  as  the  kinges  grace  hath  devised,  so  as  the 
same  may  beate  both  the  flankes  ;  and  the  inner  wall  of  the  said  bulwerke 
to  be  taken  downe,  so  as  the  said  bulwerke  may  be  open  to  the  bulwerke 
before  the  gate. 

Item,  the  said  bulwerke  before  the  said  Milkegate  to  be  made  so  massy 
that  it  be  not  bateable,  and  also  so  highe,  in  maner  of  a  platfourme,  that 
the  same  may  not  onely  cover  and  defend  the  gate,  and  discover  and  beate 
into  and  over  the  newe  bulwerke  and  brais  into  the  parke,  the  downes,  the 
pawne,  and  the  contreth  ther  abouts,  but  also  to  beate  alonges  the  flankes  of 
the  said  brais  for  the  defense  of  the  inner  wall  and  diche. 

Item,  the  newe  bulwerke  at  Dewlyn:]:  tower  to  be  rased  viij.  foote  higher, 
and  the  splaies  of  the  same  to  be  made  as  the  kinges  grace  hath  devised  ;  and 
the  said  bulwerk  to  be  made  further  into  the  bankes  of  the  brais  on  eyther 
side,  as  the  ground  ther  well  serveth  for  the  same  ;  and  on  eyther  of  the 
said  sides  a  newe  cannoner  to  be  made,  the  one  to  beate  alonges  the  flankes 

*  An  avant-mur.  +  i.  e.  country. 

%  In  the  second  copy  this  is  called  DyveljTi  tower,  and  in  the  Proceedings  of  the  Pri\'y 
Council  in  1541,  when  its  repairs  were  proceeding,  Duvelyn  and  Dublyn  bulwerk.  (Vol. 
vii.  pp.  213,  232.)  There  were  a  Beauchamp  tower  and  a  Develyn  tower  at  the  tower  of 
London  as  well  as  at  Calais  (bird's  eye  view,  1597),  but  the  latter  in  23  Hen,  VIII.  is 
called  Robyn  the  Dcvyll's  tower.     (Bayley's  Hist.  Ajipx.  p.  ix.) 


1532.]  DEVICE  FOR   THE   FORTIFIC ATIOX  OF  CALAIS.  127 

of  the  brais  to  Milkegate,  and  the  other  to  Prince's  bulwerke  ;  and  to  amend 
the  cannoners  along,  so  as  the  same  may  in  likewise  beate  the  said  flankes. 

Item,  Dewlyn's  tower  to  be  taken  downe,  as  moche  as  nede  shalbe,  and 
the  same  to  be  lyned,  made  broder,  and  massied  up  with  lyme  and  stone, 
and  thereupon  a  platfourme  to  be  made  to  here  a  grete  pece  of  ordinaunce, 
as  well  to  beate  over  the  bulwerke  ther,  as  to  scoure  the  contreth  there- 
aboutes. 

Item,  the  tower  next  unto  Dewlyn's  tower  towardes  Prince's  bulwerke  to 
be  open,  and  the  tower  next  the  same  to  be  massied  up  for  a  platfourme ; 
and  so  every  tower  from  thence  to  the  said  Prince's  bulwerke,  one  to  be 
open,  and  another  to  be  massied  up ;  and  every  tower  that  shalbe  made 
open,  to  be  of  the  heigthe  of  the  vaund  mure  of  the  towne  wall ;  and  every 
tower  that  shalbe  massied  up,  to  be  of  one  highte. 

Item,  betwene  the  bulwerke  at  Dewlyn  tower  and  Prince's  bulwerke,  suche 
a  bulwerke  to  be  made  as  is  betwene  Milkegate  and  Becham's  bulwerke, 
with  cannoners  in  the  same,  as  well  to  scoure  and  beate  the  flankes  of  the 
brais,  as  the  contreth  ther  aboutes. 

Item,  at  the  said  Prince's  bulwerke  a  gate  to  be  made,  and  the  tower 
nowe  standing  in  the  wall  of  the  towne  to  be  made  on  the  one  side  of  the 
said  gate,  and  another  like  to  be  made  on  the  other  side  of  the  said  gate ; 
and  over  the  said  gate,  betwene  the  said  too  towers,  a  platfourme  to  beate 
over  the  bulwerke  and  brais  there. 

Item,  the  said  Prince's  bulwerke  to  be  made  rounde  with  canoners,  for  the 
beating  of  the  said  flankes  of  the  brais,  as  well  to  Bollen  gate  as  to  the 
bulwerk  towards  Dewlyn  tower  ;  and  the  gate  out  of  the  same  not  to  be 
made  directly  before  the  gate  out  of  the  towne,  but  on  the  side  of  the  said 
bulwerke  to  the  estwardes. 

Item,  that  the  counter  mure  of  the  inner  diche  do  go  furthe  as  the  same 
is  begonne. 

Item,  that  such  a  light  bridge  be  made  betwene  the  said  Prince's  bulwerke 
and  Dewlyn  toure,  as  is  devised  to  be  made  betwene  Becham's  bulwerke 
and  Mylkegate,  as  well  for  men  to  issue  out  of  the  towne  for  the  defense  of 
the  bulwerkes  and  brais,  as  to  recoile  into  the  towne,  as  the  case  shall  require. 

Item,  suche  a  bulwerke  to  be  made  betwene  Prince's  bulwerke  and  Bolen 
gate,  as  is  devised  to  be  made  betwene  Prince's  bulwerke  and  Dewlyn's 
bulwerke. 


128  DEVICE  FOR  THE  FORTIFICATION  OF  CALAIS.  [1532. 

Item,  that  the  biilwerke  bcfor  Bolen  gate  be  made  so  that  the  same  may 
responde  and  beate  the  flankes,  as  well  to  the  newe  bulwerke  devised  to 
be  made  betvvene  that  and  Prince's  gate,  as  to  the  bulwerke  at  the  corner  of 
the  newe  bray. 

Item,  that  suche  a  lighte  bridge  be  made  betwene  Prince's  bulwerke  and 
Bolengate,  as  is  devised  to  be  made  betwene  Dewlyn  tower  and  Prince's 
bulwerke,  and  another  like  bridge  betwene  Bolen  gate  and  the  newe  bray. 

Item,  that  rounde  aboutes  the  towne  where  the  wall  standeth  upon  arches, 
the  same  arches  to  be  filled  with  brick,  and  too  foote  of  the  vaund  mur  to 
be  taken  downe  ;  and  all  the  loopes  to  be  made  mayne  wall,  and  the  wall 
that  men  goo  on  nowe  to  be  made  as  highe  as  the  vaund  mure,  when  the 
said  too  foote  shalbe  taken  downe  ;  and  then  alonges  the  walle  splaies  to  be 
made  after  the  kinges  devise,  in  stede  of  lowpes ;  and  such  a  rampeir  of 
erthe  to  be  laed  to  the  wall  as  too  cartes  may  goo  afront  thereupon,  and  to 
be  of  the  same  highte  that  the  wall  (which  men  goo  upon  nowe)  is,  or  some 
thing  lower. 

A  Devise  for  the  Haven. 

First,  at  the  end  of  the  est  juttye,  a  strong  tower  to  be  made,  with  a  plat- 
fourme  upon  the  toppe  therof,  and  cannoners  out  of  the  said  tower,  with 
ventes  for  the  same  ;  as  well  to  beate  the  mouth  of  the  haven  hard  by  the 
water,  as  along  the  greve  to  Gravelingwardes. 

Item,  the  jutty  from  the  said  tower  to  the  mayne  land  to  be  made  brode 
beneth  and  narowe  upward,  affter  suche  facion  and  proporcion  as  by  the 
overseers  of  the  woi-kes,  and  the  workmen  of  the  same,  shalbe  thought 
requisite  ;  foreseyng  always,  that  the  tymberwerke  of  the  said  juttye  be  sett 
soo  nyghe  togethers,  and  also  to  be  made  close  on  the  topp  thereof,  that  the 
see  shall  have  no  power  to  wesh  ne  cast  out  the  chalke,  nor  such  other  stuflF 
as  the  same  shalbe  filled  withall. 

Item,  a  travers  to  be  made  over  the  haven  with  iij.  floodgates,  for  the 
receyvyng  of  the  water  that  commeth  in  with  the  floode,  and  the  keping 
thereof  till  the  water  shalbe  ebbed  out  of  the  said  haven,  and  then  to  open 
the  said  floodgats  and  lett  the  water  passe ;  the  said  travers  to  be  made  from 
the  bulwerke  in  the  bray  wher  the  king  did  appoint,  streighte  over  the 
downes,  and  at  the  end  therof  a  tower  to  be  made,  as  well  for  the  defens  of 
the  same  floodgates  as  to  beate  over  alonges  the  said  downes. 


1532.]  DKVICE   I'Olt   THE   FOHTIFICATIOX   OF  CALAIS.  129 

Item,  a  wharf  of  stone  to  be  made  alonges  the  downes  on  the  side  therof 
towards  the  haven,  from  Risebanke  almost  to  Dikeland,  to  th 'intent  that  the 
see  (which  shalbe  stopped  within  the  haven  by  reason  of  the  travers)  were 
not  throgh  the  said  downes  in  processe  of  tjTue,  and  specially  when  the 
wynde  shalbe  betwixt  the  est  and  the  south -south  west. 

Item,  a  strong  and  a  substanciall  wall  to  be  made  from  th'ende  of  the 
bray  behinde  the  castelle  alonges  the  full  see-marke  till  ye  come  as  ferr  as 
the  newe  bulwerk,  and  then  the  said  wall  to  kitt  over,  and  joyne  with  the 
said  newe  bulwerke  at  the  end  of  the  newe  bray  next  the  castell  ;  and  the 
same  to  be  soo  made,  that  the  sluse  that  is  nowe  in  the  wall  which  gooth 
towardes  Newnhara  bridge  may  both  lett  in  and  out  the  w^ater  within  the 
said  wall.  The  said  wall  to  be  made  with  a  vaund  mure  for  defens,  and 
also  a  gate  to  be  made  out  thereof  into  the  filde  for  a  sayly,  as  the  case  shall 
require. 

Item,  a  wharf  of  stone  to  be  made  from  the  ende  of  the  said  bray  almost 
as  ferr  as  the  rounde  bulwerke  of  erth,  for  the  defens  of  the  see  from  the 
north  and  westerly  wynd,  like  as  the  wharf  on  the  other  side  of  the  haven  is 
devised  to  be  made  for  the  south  and  esterly  wynde. 

Item,  a  sluse  to  be  made  at  Dikeland  for  the  I'eceyving  of  the  see  at  the 
floode,  and  the  keping  therof  tyll  the  last  quarter  ebbe,  that  the  water 
beneth  the  same  in  the  haven  be  gon ;  and  then  the  said  sluse  to  be  opened, 
and  the  water  kept  lett  passe. 

Item,  a  wall  of  erthe  to  be  made  from  the  said  sluse  at  Dikeland  streight 
up  to  the  highe  land  of  the  countrie,  the  same  to  goo  betwene  Frowickes 
house  and  Lambertes  house,  in  suche  place  there  as  it  shalbe  thought  most 
convenient ;  which  wall  shall  serve  to  kepe  and  defende  the  see  from  over- 
rennyng  of  the  cause,  and  the  low  countreth  thereaboutes. 

Item,  a  wall  of  erthe  to  be  made  on  either  side  of  the  plashe*  at  Newnham 
bridge ;  to  th'intent  that,  when  the  see  shalbe  stopped  tyll  the  half  ebbe,  the 
fresh  water  doo  not  overren  the  countreth  thereaboutes. 

Item,  that  all  the  erth  which  shall  serve  for  the  making  of  the  said  too 
walles  be  digged  but  onely  in  too  places,  where  by  reason  therof  too  grete 
pondes  to  be  made,  wherein  so  moche  the  more  water  shalbe  receyved. 

Indorsed.  A  devyce  for  the  fortificacion  of  Ca[l]is. 

*  This  was  a  marshy  spot,  or  pool :  see  the  Map. 
CAMD.  SOC,  8 


/ 


130  LETTER  OF   SIR   WILLIAM   FITZWILLIAM,  &'C.  [1535. 


REFORMATION  OF  THE  GOVERNMENT  OF  CALAIS. 

From  the  unfavourable  picture  of  the  material  condition  of  the  king's  town  of  Calais, 
given  by  the  preceding  documents,  we  turn  to  the  still  more  essential  requisites  of  its  disci- 
pline and  government,  which  the  following  paper  assures  us  to  have  been  "  far  out  of 
order."  It  is  a  report  addressed  to  Cromwell,  by  sir  William  Fitzwilliam*  and  other  com- 
missioners, who  were  specially  sent  to  make  inquiry  into  abuses,  and  arrived  on  the  18th 
of  August,  1535.t 

(MS.  Cotton.  Caligula,  E.  ii.  p.  98.) 

Sir,  The  cause  for  whie  we  have  [not  written  unto]  you  sythens  our 
comyng  into  these  parties,  soo  as  the  kinges  [highness]  might  bee  adver- 
tised of  our  procedinges  and  doinges  in  his  graces  affaires  here,  is  this  : — We 
assure  you  that  we  have  fownde  this  towne  and  marches  farre  out  of  ordre, 
and  soe  farre,  that  it  wold  greve  and  pitie  the  hart  of  any  good  and  true 
Englissheman  to  here  or  see  the  same.  It  maye  please  you  therfor  to 
understonde  we  have  had  before  us  as  well  my  lord  deputie,  the  mayre,  and 
all  the  counsaill  of  the  said  towne,  as  also  diverse  others  of  the  kinges  true 
servauntes  of  the  same,  and  examyned  every  of  theym  apart,  what  the 
cause  is  that  the  good,  olde,  and  holsome  lawes,  ordenances,  and  constitu- 
tiones  of  the  said  towne  and  marches,  made  by  the  kinges  highnes  and  his 
noble  progenitours,  have  not  been  followed  and  put  in  due  execution  (which 
surely  is  a  greate  cause  of  the   decaye   of  the  said  towne  and  marches). 

*  At  an  earlier  period,  in  the  year  1525,  sir  William  Fitzwilliam  had  been  one  of 
a  commission,  of  which  lord  Sandes,  sir  William  Fitzwilliam  treasurer  of  the  household, 
John  Hales  one  of  the  barons  of  the  exchequer,  Christopher  Hales  solicitor-general,  and 
William  Breswoode,  met  at  Guisnes  on  the  29th  Aug.  17  Hen.  VIII.  and  there  promul- 
gated "  The  booke  of  newe  Ordenaunces  and  decreis  for  the  Countye  of  Guisnes,  made, 
devised,  and  ordeyned  by  the  Kinges  Justices  and  Comissioners  appoynted  for  that  same, 
which  were  delivered  to  the  Baylye  and  Lawe  at  Guisnes  aforesaid  in  the  Kinges  open 
court,  holden  there  the  first  daye  of  February,  anno  regni  regis  Henrici  octavi  xx""." 
These  ordinances,  which  are  of  considerable  length,  will  be  found  in  the  MS.  Cotton. 
Faustina,  E.  vii.  fl'.  40  et  seq.  They  refer  chiefly  to  the  tenure  of  lands  within  the  county. 
They  were  testified  by  the  affixing  of  the  great  seal  of  the  king's  exchequer  of  Calais,  the 
seal  of  the  king's  comptroller,  the  usual  seal  of  the  mayor  and  aldermen  of  Calais,  and  the 
common  seal  of  the  staple  thereof,  (fol.  65.) 

"I"  This  date  is  derived  from  documents  in  the  State  Paper  Office,  to  which  Miss  Wood 
refers  in  her  Letters  of  Royal  and  Illustrious  Ladies,  vol.  ii.  p.  226,  Turpyn's  chronicle 
(ante,  p.  45)  records  that  sir  William  had  made  an  earlier  visit  to  the  town,  on  the  26th 
May  in  the  same  year,  to  attend  a  conference  with  the  French  ambassador  Chabot, 


1535.]  ON  THE  DECAY  OF  CALAIS.  131 

Wherunto  they  made  answere,  that  they  wold  not  let  to  shewe  the  said 
causes  and  remedye  for  the  same,  as  farre  furthe  as  they  coulde,  and  that 
they  were  moche  bownde  unto  the  kinges  said  highnes  that  it  pleaseth  his 
grace  to  have  the  said  towne  and  marches  and  theym  soo  graciously  in  his 
remembrance,  sayeng  that  [there]  was  never  more  nede  nor  better  tyme 
soo  to  have  doon  [than]  now.  And  upon  that  we  required  theym  to  make 
[unto]  us  bookes,  particulary  of  the  causes  of  the  said  decayes,  and  the 
remedies  therof ;  and  also  of  all  extorcions  and  oppressions  doon  by  any 
manner  of  person  within  the  said  towne  and  marches,  which  they  not 
omitted  willingly  to  doe  [and]  accomplisshe ;  and  upon  that  we  have 
gadered  as  well  oute  of  the  olde  ordenaunces  of  this  towne,  as  [information] 
of  the  kinges  good  and  true  servauntes  of  the  said  towne,  [and  have]  ther- 
upon  devised  a  charge,  the  breviat  whereof  [we  have]  unto  you  herin  en- 
closed, which  we  yesterday  delivered  [unto]  inquestes  and  juries  by  us 
charged  and  sworn,  to  every  [of  the]  premisses,  that  is  to  saye,  oon  inquest 
of  speres,  an  [other  of]  tipstaves  with  the  clerk  of  the  counsaille,  a  quest 

and  an  other  of  constables  ;  all  the  which  persons  [receive]  the 

kinges  wages,  and  bee  his  sworne  servauntes  ;  and  of  [the  town  a]  quest  of 
aldermen,  a  quest  of  bourgesses  and  [another  of]  commoners,  by  whom  we 
trust  and  doubt  not  but  [that  the]  kinges  highnes  shalbe  enformed  of  every 
thyng  at  length.  [But]  to  bee  playen  with  you,  we  doo  not  moche  doubt  but 
that  [the]  moost  parte  of  the  articles  conteigned  in  the  said  charge  [will  be] 
fownde  and  presented,  and  it  bee  not  the  article  for  trea[son],  wherin  we 
here  of  noon  as  yet  soo  ungracious  as  to  off  [end].  But  as  to  the  moost 
part  of  the  rest,  they  be  confessed  alredy.  And  we  assure  you,  and  it  bee 
not  a  very  [few]  which  set  more  by  their  singlier  advaille  then  they  doo 
[by  the]  common  weale,  on  erth  we  never  sawe  people  rejoyse  more 
[than  they]  doo  thorough  oute  of  the  towne,  saying,  "  How  moche  ar  [we 
bound]  unto  our  gracioux  souverain  lord,  that  it  pleaseth  his  ma[jesty]  to 
loke  upon  us  !"  And  as  now  we  goo  aboutes  to  tr[y  the]  musters  as  well 
of  this  towne  as  of  Guysnes,  Ha[mmes,]  Newenhambridge,  Risebank, 
and  of  all  other  men  of  war  [in]  these  parties,  and  have  gyven  such 
ordre  in  that  behalf,  that  [we]  undertake  and  adwarrant  you  the  kinges 
highnes  shall  not  bee  [displeased]  therin  ;  and  we  had  thought  to  have 
mustred  every  other  man  [of  the]  towne  and  marches  ;  nevertheles,  by 
reason  that  we  see  th[erein]  such  a  greate  norabre  of  straungiers,   and  soo 


132  LETTER   OF   SIR  WILLIAM   FITZWILLIAM,  &C.  [1535. 

fewe   Englishemen  within  the   said  towne  and  marches,   we  thin[k     .     . 

.  .  .  .  not  appere  nei*  bee  knowen  to  straungiers,  [we  shall]  make 
bookes  of  theym  and  their  names,  and  what  nombre  [there  is]  in  every 
pai'isshe;  soo  as  the  certaintie  thereof  sha]beas[well]  knowen  as  though  we 
mustred  theym.  And  finally,  please  it  you  to  understande  that  we  cannot  at 
this  present  tyme  refourme  all  thinges  which  is  out  of  ordre  here,  for  sum 
thinges  there  is  that  cannot  be  perfaicted  without  an  Acte  of  Parliament  ;* 
and  sum  other  thinges  there  is  that  the  kinges  highnes  must  put  his  gra- 
cioux  hande  unto  the  refourmacion  of.  But  loke  how  many  thinges  may 
conveniently  be  refourmed  before  our  departure  from  hence,  and  we  shalle 
not  faille  not  oonly  to  see  the  same  ordred  accordingly,  but  also  all  other 
thinges  that  is  to  bee  doon  shalbe  in  such  wise  framed  by  us  before  our 
said  departure,  that  yf  the  kinges  highnes,  when  he  shal  have  seen  theym,  or 
suche  of  his  counsaille  as  his  grace  shall  appointe  therin,  doo  like  theym, 
there  shall  not  nede  moch  busynesse  to  put  them  in  ure  ;  and  yf  his  highnes 
shall  not  like  alle  part  therof  as  we  have  and  shal  have  devised  theym,  the 
same  to  bee  refourmed  as  shall  stande  with  his  moost  gracioux  pleasure. 
For  we  thinke  the  towne  and  marches  is  so  farre  oute  of  ordre,  and  no  lawe 
ner  ordenaunces  therin  perfaicte  to  shewe  and  instructe  theym  there  how 
they  shulde  amende,  that  we  wold  no  man  shold  have  the  honour  of 
making  of  those  lawes  perfaict  but  oonly  the  kinges  highnes  ;  not 
doubting  but  that,  by  his  greate  wysdome  and  [your]  good  advise  and  such 
other  of  his  counsaill  as  it  shall  please  his  highnes  to  calle  therunto,  such 
lawes  and  ordenaunces  shalbe  made  and  ordoned  for  the  suretie  and  weale 

of  this  towne  and  marches  as  was  never  seen  ner  made 

of   the 

said  towne  and  marches  doe  not  followe  and  [keep]  the  said  lawes  and 
ordenaiuices,  he  or  they  shall  not  excuse  theym  by  ignorance,  but  shall  by 
reason  therof  renne  soo  farre  into  his  grace's  daungier,  that   [it  will  be]  to 

*  Such  an  act  was  passed  in  the  following  year,  27  Hen.  VIII.  cap.  63,  and  will  be 
found  in  the  Statutes  of  the  Realm,  vol.  iii.  pp.  632—650.  By  another  act,  the  32  Hen. 
VIII.  cap.  27,  divers  grants  of  offices  within  the  towns  of  Calais,  Guynes,  Hammes, 
Ruysbanck,  and  the  marches  of  the  same,  and  in  the  town  of  Barwicke,  such  being 
"  extraordinai-y  and  not  the  ordinary  offices,"  &c.  as  also  sheriffwicks  in  Wales,  all  which 
were  alleged  to  have  been  obtained  of  the  crown  by  sinister  means,  were  resumed,  and 
made  void.      (Ibid.  p.  784.) 


1535.]  INQUEST   INTO   THE  STATE  Ol'  CALAIS.  133 

hevie  for  theym  to  bey  re,  and  yet  easye  in[ough  to  be]  kept  yf  they  will 
endevour  them  selfes  to  doo  their  [duties]  ;  and  for  our  partes,  we  assure  you, 
our  ententes  with  [our]  endevours  shalbe  good  to  doo  unto  the  kinges  highnes 
[good  service]  in  these  matiers,  without  having  respect  to  any  pers[on]. 

As  concerning  sundry  your  lettres  to  ntie,  sir  Willyara  Fitzwilliam,  lately 
addressed,  which  I  have  receyved  [since]  my  comyng  to  this  towne,  I  have 
not  as  yet  examyn[ed  all]  such  matiers  as  therein  be  conteigned,  for  I  and 
my  [company]  entende  and  purpose  furst  and  before  all  thinges  to  loke 
[unto]  those  things  which  touche  the  kinges  highnes  and  suer[ty  of]  this 
his  towne  and  marches;  and  that  doon,  we  [shall  not]  omitte  to  doo  and 
ordre  our  selfes  according  to  these  said  lettres  soo  to  me  the  said  sir  Wil- 
liam written,  [and  to]  loke  upon  as  many  other  matiers  as  the  tyme 
[shall]  serve  us  to  doo,  without  taking  of  any  passety[me  or]  pleasur,  by 
all  the  tyme  of  our  being  here.  As  [knoweth]  the  blessed  Trinitie,  who 
have  you  in  his  moost  [holy]  tuycion.  At  Calays,  the  xxvijth  daye  of 
Augusta. 

Your  houne*  aseured, 

Wylla  Fitz-Wylla. 
Thomas  Walssh, 
John  Baker. 
George  Poulet. 
Antony  Sentleger. 

Inquest  into  the  state  of  Calais, 

(MS.  Cotton.  Caligula,  E.  ii.  p.  160a.) 
This  document,  from  another  part  of  the  same  volume,  appears  to  be  the  charge  to  the 
jurors,  referred  to  in  the  preceding  despatch  of  the  commissioners. 

[Ye]  shalle  enquere  and  truly  present  unto  us  yf  any  personne  or  per- 
sonnes,  whatsoever  he  or  they  be,  contrary  to  the  dutie  of  his  or  their 
[alleg]eaunce,  have  imagenyd,  conspired,  concelyd,  spoken,  committed,  or 
doon  any  treason  agaynst  our  souverain  lord  king  Henry  the  viijte,  [or] 
agaynst  the  suertie,  weale,  and  good  ordre  of  this  his  towne  of  Calays  and 
marches  of  the  same. 

Also  j{  the  deputie   of  this   towne  of  Calays,  the  mayre,    captayn  of 

*  The  line  is  %oritten  hy  Sir  William  Fitzioilliam  himself,  together  with  his  signature ; 
and  this  ivord  ap^iears  to  he  hovne,/or  own. 


134  INQUEST  INTO  THE  STATE  OF  CALAIS.  [1535. 

Guysnes,  the  higlie  marshalle,  lieutenant  of  the  castell  of  Calays,  vice- 
treasorer,  comptroller,  capitayns  of  Risebank,  Hampnes,  and  Newenham- 
bridge,  maister  porter,  undermarshalle,  surveyour  of  the  kinges  workes, 
gentilman  porter,  bailiffes  of  Gpies,  Marke,  Oye,  Sandegate  and  Colume, 
waterbaillif,  custumer,  sercheour,  and  all  other  officers  of  this  towne  and 
marches  of  the  same,  and  every  other  souldiour,  burgles,  marchaunt,  and 
inhabitaunt  within  the  said  towne  and  marches,  whatsoever  he  or  they  bee, 
have  doon  and  observed  thier  duetie  and  dueties  in  all  thinges,  as  unto  thier 
offices  and  rowmes  apperteigneth ;  and  of  the  defaultes,  negligences,  extor- 
cions,  conceilmentes,  oppressions,  and  exaccions  committed  or  doon  by 
theym  or  any  of  theym,  within  the  said  town  and  marches. 

Also  yf  the  nombre  of  the  retinue  bee  replenysshed. 

Yf  the)'  bee  hable  men. 

Yf  the  officers,  speyres,  and  souldvours  been  resiant  within  the  towne  of 
Calays,  and  whether  they  and  every  of  theym  at  all  t\Tnes  have  been  four- 
nysshed  with  horse  and  barneys  accordingly. 

Yf  the  watches  and  wardes  bee  kept  at  howres  and  ty^mes  accustomed, 
and  \yith.  such  nombre  of  hable  men  as  oweth  to  bee. 

Yf  there  be  any  allyauntes*  dwelling  within  the  said  to\\*ne  and  marches 
[contra] ry  to  the  custume  [of  the  said  towne  and  march] es,  and  by  whom. 

Yf  there  bee  vesselles  of  water  set  at  every  man's  dore,  and  within  their 
houses,  for  casualties  of  fyre  and  clensing  the  stretes. 

Yf  any  excesse  tolles  bee  taken  by  any  manner  of  personne  or  personnes 
whatsoever. 

Yf  there  bee  any  forstalling  or  regrating  of  grayne,  or  any  other  vitailles. 

Yf  any  habitant  of  the  said  towne  and  marches  sell  any  grayne,  breyd, 
bere,  or  any  other  vitaille  to  any  personne  dwelling  without  the  said  towne 
and  marches. 

Yf  any  souldyour  bee  baker,  brewar,  or  other  vitailler  or 

whose  default 

bee  landes  or  tenementes,  goodes  or 

what  cause  they  did  soe   [exchange  the  said]  forfaites,  also  to 

whose  handes  they  did  come,  and  in  whose  custodie  they  now  bee.  And  of 
the  yerely  extent  of  the  said  landes,  and  the  value  of  the  said  goods. 

*  aliens. 


1535.]  INQUEST   INTO  THE  STATE  OF  CALAIS.  135 

Also  what  rentes,  services,  and  custumes  belonging  to  the  king  in  this 
towne  and  marches  been  withdrawen  and  conceded  from  the  king,  and  by 
whom,  and  by  what  tyme  they  have  been  soe  withdrawen,  and  of  almanner 
of  intrusions  had  or  made  by  any  personne  or  personnes  upon  any  of  his 
possessions,  whatsoever  they  bee,  within  the  said  towne  and  marches,  by 
whom  and  how  long. 

Yf  any  tenant  or  fermour  of  any  of  the  kinges  messuages,  landes,  or 
tenements  within  the  towne  of  Calays,  the  countie  of  Guysnes,  or  elles 
within  the  marches  of  Calays,  hath  taken  to  wiff  any  allyon  born,  or  any 
woman  taken  to  husband  any  allyon  born,  without  the  kinges  speciall  licence, 
under  his  greate  scale  of  England,  or  his  scale  of  the  exchequer  of  Calays, 
to  be  had  upon  a  bill  signed  by  the  king  in  that  behalf. 

Also  yf  all  personnes  having  benefices,  or  other  whatsoever  spirituall 
promocions,  bee  resident  upon  the  same  benefices  or  spirituall  promocions, 
as  hee  oweth  to  bee.  And  such  as  been  absent,  you  shall  present  their 
names  and  the  yerely  value  of  their  benefices,  as  nighe  as  you  can. 

Where  this  havon  of  Calays  is  a  greate  treasore,  comforte,  and  comoditie, 
as  well  unto  the  realme  of  England  as  unto  this  towne  of  Calays  and  the 
marches  of  the  same  ;  and  for  the  amendement  and  mayntenaunce  thereof, 
the  king  of  his  great  grace  and  goodnes  commaunded  and  caused  a  certain 
grounde  of  his,  called  Dikeland,  to  bee  cut  up,  whereby  his  grace  did  lose 
the  profittes  of  the  same,  by  occasion  wherof  the  same  havon  was  greatly 
amended,  which  begynneth  now  to  decaye  as  it  is  said,  ye  shall  therfore 
inquire  the  occasion  therof,  whether  it  bee  by  making  of  bankes  and 
draynyng  of  the  watercourse,  or  otherwise  ;  and  yf  any  such  thing  bee,  by 
whom  it  is  doon,  and  how  many  acres  lande  every  personne  that  soo  hath 
doon  hath  incroched  and  wonne  thereby,  and  what  rentes  and  fermes  they 
paye  unto  the  kinges  highnes  for  the  same. 

And  finallye,  ye  shall  enquere  of  all  and  every  thing  whatsoever  it  bee 
touching  and  in  any  wise  concerning  the  prouffit,  weale,  sui'etie,  ordenaunce, 
and  good  governaunce  of  this  towne  and  marches  of  the  same  not  true- 
lye  observed,  perfourmed,  executed,  and  kept,  as  though  the  same  thing 
and  thinges  are  specially  and  [particu]larly  rehersed  from  pointe  to  pointe 
to  you  by  name. 


136  the  garrison-  of  calais.  [1533. 

Muster-roll  of  the  Garrison  of  Calais,  1333. 

The  important  document  which  now  follows,  is  dated  on  its  first  leaf,  which  is  fol.  74 
of  MS.  Cotton.  Faustina,  E.  vii.  in  a  more  recent  hand :  thus,  "  Calais,  25  Hen.  8."  That 
date  is  in  some  measure  confirmed  by  the  name  of  lord  Lisle  occurring  as  deputy,  who 
was  so  appointed  in  24  Hen.  VIII.  Its  early  pages  contain  a  muster-roll  of  the  whole 
garrison,  of  which  an  abstract  ^^^ll  be  sufficient: — 

[f.  75.]  "  Le  Vynteyne."  The  men  received  at  the  rate  of  vjcl.  a  day, 
from  which  one-eighteenth  part  was  deducted  for  victual  money,  and  one 
day  for  the  king-  xijc?.,  so  there  remained  (per  annum)  viij/.  xj*.  xjfZ.  a  man. 

[f.  78.]  "  Summa  totalis  of  the  hole  vinteyne,*  being  in  theyr  owne  wages, 
with  ij.  persons  under  the  survey  our,  and  oon  under  John  Sheparde, — Clxiiij. 
persons,  argent  M'  iiijf  viij/j.  v*.  viijrf.  st.  t. 

[f.  78  b.]  "  Le  Constablerie."  These  were  paid  in  like  manner,  but 
at  the  rate  of  viijrf.  a  day. 

[f.  80  b.]  "  Summa  totalis  of  the  hole  constablerie,  with  ij.  in  \jd.  in 
theyr  owne  wages,  and  ij.  viijc?.  under  the  surveyour,  with  iiij.  or  vjd. 
in  petie  wages,  as  within  the  partyclers  apperythe — iiij^^ix  persons,  argent 
Mij/«.  xij*.  iiijrf.  St. 

[f.  81.]  "  Baxner  Watche."  Summa  vj.  persons,  argent  \\li.  iij.y. 
iijrf.  St. 

[f.  81  b.]  Porters.  Summa  xij.  persons,  at  viij/«.  xjs.  xjc?.  per  annum, 
argente  ciij/«.  iijrf.  st. 

Sergeauntes.     Summa  vj.   persons,  at  xj/«.  ix*.  ijrf.  per  annum, 

argent  Ixviij/i.  xxs.  st. 

[f.  82.]  Daywatchis.  Summa  iiij.  persons,  at  \ijli.  iiJA\  vd.  per  annum, 
argent  xxviij^i.  xiiij*.  st. 

Skewrers  [scourers].     Summa  iiij.  persons,  at  xj/j.  ix.y.  ijd.  per 

annum,  argente  xlv/j.  xvjs.  viijf/.  st.  t. 

[f.  82  b.]  Archers.  Summa  xvj.  persons,  at  the  same  pay,  argent 
cxiij^^iij7i.  vj.?.  viijrf.  st.  t. 

[f.  83.]  Speres.  The  names  of  these  will  be  given,  as  being  persons 
of  good  family,  and  many  of  whom  attained  afterwards  a  higher  rank.f 

*  The  Vintayne  was  a  regiment  divided  into  companies,  each  of  twenty  men,  and  each 
commanded  by  a  Yintener.  In  the  present  case,  the  companies  were  not  complete,  as 
each  had  only  from  twelve  to  sixteen  men. 

"t"  Even  among  the  "  vinteners"  there  are  several   names  that  look   like  men  of  good 


1533.]  THE  GARKI.SON   OF  CALAIS.  137 

George  Browne,  at  xv'iijd.,  with  iij.  in  viijc?.  and  one  in  vjd.,  vyctail 
money  and  a  day  for  the  king  deducted,  IxviijA'.  xv.y. 

Frauncis  Hall,  at  xviijrf.,  and  his  man  in  \jd.,  and  one  in  viijrZ., 
xxxiiijV/.  vij*.  \jd. 

Richarde  Cokeson,  with  his  ij.  men,  one  in  v^d.  and  one  in  vu]d., 
xlv/i,  xvj.y.  viijrf. 

Rauffe  Broke,  at  x\jd.  per  diem,  and  xx.  markes  in  rewarde  per  annum,  with 
one  in  vjrf.  and  one  in  viijr^.,  xVixli.  xvjs.  viijrf. 

John  Medleton,  with  his  man  in  \jd.,  xxxiiij/'j.  vij*.  \jd. 

Richarde  Bhuit,  with  his  ij.  men  in  vjrf.,  xHj/t.  xix*.  vjr^. 

John  Browne,  with  his  two  men,  one  in  vjrf,  and  one  in  viijrf.  xUli.  xvj.9.  viiir^. 

Robert  ap  Reynolde,  with  his  man  in  vjrf.,  xxxiiij^j.  vijs.  vjrf. 

Thomas,  with  two  men,  one  in  vyl.  and  one  in  viijf/.,  xlvli.  xvjs.  viij</. 

Henrie  Paulmer,  with  two  men  in  vjc?.,  xlij/^■.  xix*.  vjd. 

James  Bourger,  with  his  man  in  vjd.,  xxxiiijli.  vij*.  \jd. 

Frauncis  Hastinges,  at  xviijc?.  onhe  withoute  any  man,  xxvli.  xvs.  vij</. 

Leonarde  Hollande,  with  his  man  in  vj(i?.,  xxxiiij^i.  vij*.  vjd. 

Richarde  Wynebanck,  with  his  man  in  vjc?.,  xxxiiij/j.  vij^.  vjf/. 

GefFraye  Lovedaye,  at  xijrf.  per  diem,  and  xx.  markes  in  rewarde  per 
annum,  with  one  in  vnjd.  and  ij.  in  vjc/.,  Iviiij/^'.  viij*.  vijf^. 

John  Ruckewood,  at  viijrf.,  with  his  iij.  men  in  vj(^.,  I'llL  xjs.  inyl. 

George  Gainsford,  with  his  man  in  vjd.,  xxxiiij/*.  vij.?.  vjd. 

Thomas  Tate,  at  xijr^.  per  diem,  and  xx.  markes  in  rewarde  per  annum, 
with  one  man  in  viijf?.  and  one  in  yjd.,  xhx/«.  xvj.^.  viijf/. 

Richarde  Long,  at  xijd.  per  diem,  and  xx.  markes  in  rewarde  per  annum, 
with  one  man  in  viijc?.  and  one  in  vjc/.,  x]j^«.  iiij*.  yuyl. 

John  Rawlyns,  at  xijc?.  per  diem,  and  xx.  markes  in  rewarde  per  annum, 
with  one  man  in  vjc?.,  xxxviij^i.  viji'.  vjd. 

Edwarde  Poynynges,  at  xijrf.  per  diem,  and  xx.  markes  in  rewarde  per 
annum,  with  one  man  in  vjd.  and  one  in  viije?.,  xMxli.  xvjs.  viijd. 

Summa  of  the  xxij.  speres,  xxxvij.  men  under  them  at  viijc?.  and  vjd., 
argent  ixcxlvij?*.  xs.  ixd.  sterling. 

birth,  as  Thomas  Willoughhie,  Thomas  Howard,  Rowland  StatTorde,  Sampson  Norton, 
John  Calverley,  and  others.  Among  the  constablerie  are  Richard  Pelham,  Thomas  Chay- 
ney,  Philip  Tylney,  and  "  Richarde  Turpyn,"  whom  we  have  to  thank  for  the  Chronicle 
which  forms  the  early  part  of  the  present  volume, 

CAiMD.  SOC.  T 


138  THE  GARRISON   OF   CALAIS.  [1533. 


LE    COVNSAILL. 


My  lorde  Vicecounte  Lyslie,  deputie,  at  ij.?.  per  diem  and  xx.  markes  in 
rewarde  per  annum  for  hym  selfe,  with  one  spere  at  xviijrf.,  ij.  archers, 
every  of  them  at  viijc?.,  and  other  xix.  every  of  them  at  vjc?.  Summa, 
cvjli.  xxd.  Inde,  one  daye  for  the  kinge  of  every  man's  wages,  xxvij*. 
Item,  for  vyctaill  money,  xviij?«.  xc?.,  whiche  ys  the  xviijti^.  parte  of  every 
man's  wages.     And  so  rest  clerelie,  cccclxxvj/i.  xiij*.  xc?.  st. 

Sir  Kicharde  Graynfylde,  high  marshall,  at  ijv.  per  diem  and  xx.  markes 
in  rewarde  per  annum,  with  v.  souldyors  at  \ujd.,  and  xj.  at  vjrf.  Summa, 
ccxi/;".  xr^.  Inde,  one  daye  for  the  king,  xs.  xd.  Item,  vyctaill  money, 
x\lL  xiij.?.  xd.    And  so  rest  clerelie,  ciiij^'^xviij/i.  xvj*.  ijf^. 

Sir  Edwarde  Ringlej,  comptroller,  at  xviijc?.  per  diem,  with  iij.  in  viije?. 
and  iiij.  in  vjc?.  Summa,  cli.  vij*.  vjd.  Inde,  one  daye  for  the  king,  v*.  xyl. 
Item,  victaill  money,  \Ii.  xj*.  ijr^.     And  so  rest  clere,  iiij'^xiiij^i.  x*.  xd. 

Sir  Thomas  Paulmer,  knight  porter,  at  xijrf.  per  diem  and  xx.  markes  in 
reward  per  annum,  with  vj.  souldyors  in  \ujd.  and  vij.  at  vjd.,  and  for  the 
advauntage  of  the  xij.  porters'  wages  per  diem.  Summa,  cciiij?«.  xix*.  ijd. 
Inde,  one  daye  for  the  king,  x*.  vjd.  Item,  victaill  money,  xjli.  vij*.  jd. 
And  reste  clere,  ciiij'^^xiij/t.  xixd. 

William  Sympson,  vice-marshall,  at  xviijf^.  for  hym  self,  one  man  in  viijf?., 
and  iij.  men  in  vjc?.,  althinges  deductyd,  Ixiij/t.  vjrf. 

Sir  John  Wallop,  leutenaunte  of  the  castell,  at  ij*.  per  diem,  and  for  his 
rewarde  at  xxll.  per  annum  for  hymself,  with  xxix.  souldyors,  every  of 
them  viijf?.,  and  xx^i-  every  of  them  at  xjd.  Summa,  ciiij^'^^xj/?.  xvj*.  vWjd. 
Inde,  vyctaill  money  onely  deducted,  xxxijli.  xvij*.  vijrf.  So  rest  clerlie, 
clviij/2.  xix*.  jd.  st.  t. 

Sir  George  Caro,  leutenaunte  of  Ryshank,  at  xljc?.  per  diem  for  hymself, 
and  xijd.  for  a  man  under  hym,  and  for  rewarde  of  eyther  of  them  at  xx. 
markes  per  annum,  with  xvj.  souldyors,  eyther  of  them  at  viijf?.  per  diem, 
andijc?.  in  rewarde  to  every  of  them.  Sum,  cccvj^/.  x*.  st.  t.  Inde,  vyctaill 
money,  xvij^i.  vyl.     So  reste  clere,  cciiij'^^ixZ/.  ix*.  vjrf. 

Mr.  leutenaunte  of  Newnham  bridge,  with  iiij°''.  dede  pay3e  at  vjrf.  per 
diem  every  of  them,  with  one  constable  at  vujd.  and  xj.  souldyors,  every  of 
them  at  vj(/.  per  diem.  Summa,  cxlix^«.  xd.  Inde,  victaill  money, 
viij//.  V*.  vijf/.     So  rest,  cxl/t.  xv*.  njd. 


1533.]  THE  (iARKISON   OF  CALAIS.  139 

My  lorde  Graye,  leuteuaunt  of  Hampnes,  at  xijrf.  per  diem  and  xx.  markes 
in  rewarde  per  annum,  with  xvij.  souldyors  at  viijrf.  every  of  them,  and 
vij.  in  vjrf.  Summa,  cccij^/.  v^.  Xf?.  Inde,  victaill  money,  xvj//.  xv*.  And 
so  rest  clere,  cciiij^'^v^i.  xs. 

My  lord  chamberlayne*,  leutenaunte  of  Guysnes,  at  lis.  per  diem,  and  xl. 
markes  per  annum  for  his  rewarde,  and  for  spiall  money  xxxiij/i,  vjs.  viijrf., 
with  xlix.  souldyors  at  viijrf.  and  !'••  at  vyl.  Summa,  Mlcxlviij/«.  xviij.v. 
iiijf/.  Inde,  victaill  money,  Ixiij^/.  xvj^y.  vj(/.  So  rest  clere  to  be  paid, 
M^iij^^vi/i.  xxd.  st.  t. 

Surama  of  the  hole  counsaill,  as  well  within  the  towne  as  withoute,  with 
theyr  companyes  fees  and  rewardes  ordynarie,  as  before  dothe  appere, 
M^M'M'ccciiij^^v/i.  xviij*.  vd.  st.  t. 

[f.  85b.]    Summa  of  the  gi-eate  retynue,  viJM'.ccxxxiiij^^'.  iiij^y.  ix(/.  st.  t. 

[f.  86.]     Retinentia  Thesaurarii. 

Speres,  Richarde  Lee,  Richarde  Carie,  Richarde  Cole,  and  Thomas  Mas- 
singberde,  at  wli.  per  ann. 

[f.  86  b.]  Summa  of  the  Thi-esorer's  companye  aforesaide,  li.  persons, 
argent  iiij'^.  lxix^«.  ij*.  ijr/. 

[f.  87.]  Masons.  William  Baker,  master  mason,  at  xijrf.  a  day,  and 
fifteen  others  at  viijrf. — Summa,  clxijVj.  xiij.y.  iiijrf.  st.  t. 

[f.  87b.]  Carpenters.  John  Burde,  master  carpenter,  at  xijf/. 
and  twenty  others  at  viijd. — Summa,  ccviij^.  xj*.  viijc?.  st.  t. 

[f.  88.]  John  Dossen,  master  smythe,  at  xijc?.  a  day,  and  Robert 
Robynson,  plummer,  at  viijf?. — xxxij^.  iij.*.  xd.  st.  t. 

Jhsus  and  saint  George,  in  bothe  churchis,  for  the  exchequer  companye, 
which  be  in  the  kinges  petie  wages,  iiij^i.  ij^.  viijrf. 

The  annuite  or  pension  some  tyme  paide  to  the  Fryars  Carmelites,  and 
now  graunted  to  my  lorde  Lisle,  deputie,  vj^.  xiijc?.  iiijrf. 

[f.  88  b.]  Summa  TOTALIS  of  the  hole  booke  for  a  hole  yere,  viiji^i^. 
cxvjjli.  xjs.  ixd.  St. 

That  is,  ^8117  lis.  9d.  On  a  piece  of  paper  stuck  upon  fol.  80  of  the  same  document, 
is  another  Sum  Total,  .£674  I6s.  SfcZ.  apparently  stating  the  annual  charge  for  victualling 
the  garrison : — 

Summa  totalis  paid  for  the  ordinary  kepe  rachons  of  the  towne  and 
squeynage  of  Calais  by  the  space  of  an  hole  yere,  as  by  the  particulars  of 

*  William  lord  Sandys. 


140  ORDENANCES   FOR  WATCH  AND   WARD   OF  CALAIS.  [1533. 

the  same  may  apeir,  endyng  the  xxiiijth  (jaye  of  Septembre  in  anno  xvij"'° 
Regis  H.  viij™.,  [1525,]  the  some  of  vj'^lxxiiijZi.  xvj*.  iijc?.  oh.  q. 

OrDENANCES  FOR  WATCH  AND  WARD  OF  CaLAIS. 

(MS.  Cotton.  Faust.  E.  vii.  pp.  89— 102b.) 
These  Ordenances  are  written  on  the  same  quire  of  paper  with  the  muster-roll  of  which 
the  preceding  abstract  has  been  given.  It  may,  therefore,  be  concluded  that  this  copy  was 
made  about  the  same  time,  though  the  original  date  of  the  ordenances  is  probably  con- 
siderably earlier,  if  they  may  be  considered  as  part  of  "  the  good,  olde,  and  holsome  lawes, 
ordenances,  and  constitutiones "  which  the  commissioners  found  neglected  in  1535  (see 
before,  p.  130). 

Calis.  What  gates  shalhe  opened  every  day,  and  Jiowe  often. 
First,  where  there  be  fower  gates  to  the  saide  towne,  that  is  to  saye,  the 
Lanterne  gate,  the  Milke  gate,  the  Bulloigne  gate,  and  the  Water  gate,  it  is 
ordeyned,  that  the  Lanterne  gate  shalbe  opened  every  daye  in  the  yere, 
except  for  any  greate  cause  by  the  commaundement  of  the  king's  deputie 
there  be  thre  gates  open.  Then  shall  at  the  Lanterne  gate  be  opened  but 
only  to  two  wyckets,  till  the  thirde  gate  soo  opened  by  commaundement  be 
shitt  againe.  And  from  Mondaye  next  after  Candlemas  daye  unto  the 
feast  of  Seint  Michill  the  seid  gate  shalbe  opened  two  tymes  every  daye 
before  none ;  and  every  Sondaye,  Cristmas  daye,  Candlemas  daye,  Good- 
friday,  Seint  George's  daye,  Assension  daye,  Corpus  Christi  daye,  the 
Assumption  of  our  Ladie,  the  saide  gate  shalbe  opened  thre  tymes  bifore 
none,  that  is  to  sale,  in  the  sommer  tyme  the  first  opening  is  at  v.  of  the 
clock  ;  and  in  the  winter  tyme  immediately  after  the  first  stricking  downe  of 
the  watche  bell,  which  is  when  he  may  see  his  marke  to  releave  the  gate  of 
suche  as  will  go  oute.  And  then  it  is  shitt  ageyne  till  vj.  of  the  clock,  in 
whiche  tyme  they  here  masse,  and  then  open  againe,  and  soo  remayne  open 
till  ix.  of  the  clock ;  and  then  the  saide  gate  is  shut  againe  till  after  the 
sakerino-  of  high  masse ;  and  then  ys  opened  againe  for  suche  as  wil  pas 
oute,  and  immediately  shut  againe,  and  so  reraayneth  till  the  watche  bell 
ring  to  the  shutting  of  the  same,  and  be  seassed.  And  during  the  herring 
tyme,  which  contynueth  from  Michaelmas  till  Seint  Andrewes  tide,  the 
seide  gate  is  opened  every  Sondaye  but  two  tymes  before  none  ;  and  every 
Mondaye  and  Fridaye,  if  they  be  not  principall  holly  daies,  the  Mylke  gate 
ys  opened ;  and  every  Tewesdaye  and  Thursdaye,  yf  they  be  not  principall 


lo:33.]  ORDENANCES   FOU  WATCH  AND   WARD   OF  CALAIS. 


141 


holly  daies,  the  Watergate  ys  opened ;  and  VVednesdaye  and  Saturdaye,  yf 
they  be  not  principall  holly  daies,  the  Bulloigne  gate  shalbe  opened  ;  pro- 
vided alwaies,  that  during  the  herring  tyme  no  gate  shalbe  opened  but  only 
the  Lanterne  gate,  withoute  the  speciall  commaundement  of  the  kinges 
deputie. 

The  Opening  of  the  Gates. 

First,  when  the  watche  bell  in  the  morning  hathe  stricken  thre  tymes, 
which  ys  called  the  striking  downe,  then  shall  tenne  porters  resorte  to  the 
Merket,  and  shall  take  with  them  the  phipher  and  the  drome,  and  the  hole 
warde  appointed  for  that  daye,  which  be  fortie  in  nombre,  and  from  thens 
shall  goo  to  the  deputies  lodging,  and  then  two  of  the  saide  porters  ap- 
pointed to  be  keye-berers  for  that  daye  receyve  of  the  kinges  deputie  the 
keys  of  as  many  gates  as  the  saide  deputie  shall  appoint  for  that  day  to  be 
opened ;  and  with  the  saide  keys  they  shall  goo  to  the  Market,  where  shall 
mete  with  them  either  the  master  porter,  or  the  gentleman  porter,  or  bothe, 
and  go  forthe  with  them  to  the  Lanterne  gate  ;  and  when  thei  be  ther  assem- 
bled, oon  of  the  porters  that  berithe  the  keys  that  daye  shall  put  the  kei 
in  the  lock  of  the  innere  grete  gate,  but  he  shall  not  unlok  yt  till  he  be 
commaunded  by  the  deputie,  if  he  be  ther,  or,  in  his  absence,  by  the  master 
porter,  marshall,  or  undermarshall,  if  any  of  them  be  there ;  and,  in  their 
absence,  the  gentleman  porter,  when  he  seithe  the  hole  warde  ther  present, 
shall  commaunde  the  saide  porter  soo  haveing  the  kei  in  the  lock  to  unlock 
the  saide  gate,  and  yet  he  shall  not  open  the  saide  gate,  but  shall  open  the 
wicket,  at  which  wicket  shall  first  goo  oute  eight  porters  ;  and  two  porters 
with  the  master  porter,  or  gentleman  porter  in  his  absence,  shall  still  re- 
mayne  within  the  greate  gate  of  the  towne,  till  the  mydle  gate  and  drawe 
bridge  be  by  two  of  the  saide  viij.  porters  letten  downe  ;  and  than  the  whole 
warde  shall  entre,  and  one  of  the  porters  shall  open  the  wicket  of  the  uther 
gate,  whereat  shall  goo  forthe  tenne  or  twelve  of  the  saide  warde  to  see  and 
albe  cleare,  and  ther  shall  remayne,  and  all  persons  beinge  without  the  saide 
gate,  untyll  all  suche  persons  and  carriages  then  beinge  at  the  inner  gate  be 
come  forthe,  and  thenne  the  master  porter  shall  commaunde  the  great  gates 
to  be  opened,  and  shall  see  that  the  two  skowrers  shall  first  goo  oute  of  the 
saide  gates ;  and  thenne  the  saide  master  porter,  or  the  gentleman  porter  in 
his  absence,  shall  goo  to  his  place  accustomed,  and  all  suche  as  well  goo 


142  ORDENAXCES   FOR  WATCH   AND  WARD  OF   CALAIS.         [1533. 

forthe  of  the  towiie  shall  followe  h^in.  And  betwene  our  Ladye  daye  in 
Lent  and  Saint  Michell  the  Archangell  the  saide  gate,  after  the  firste  open- 
ing and  clearing  as  before  is  saide,  shall  againe  be  shutt  immediatelj',  except 
only  they  shall  not  drawe  up  the  drawbridge  ;  and,  assone  as  yt  ys  shut, 
the  keys  with  the  said  warde  shall  reasort  to  the  Frj'ers,  wher  is  a  masse 
ordeyned  by  the  king  for  them  to  here  masse,  and  assone  as  the  saide 
masse  ys  done,  they  shall  againe  retorne  to  open  the  saide  gate  with  lyke 
seremonies  as  before.  Aad  it  is  ordeyned  that  at  all  suche  tynies  as  the 
Lanterne  gate  shalbe  opened  two  tymes  in  the  fornone,  which  ys  from  the 
Mondaye  after  Candelmas  daye  to  the  Mondaye  after  Michilmas  daye,  yf 
in  any  daye  during  the  saide  tyme  ther  shalbe  two  gates  opened,  the  saide 
other  gate  that  shalbe  for  that  daye  opened  shall  not  be  opened  till  the 
seconde  openvng  of  the  saide  Lanterne  gate,  and  then  shall  the  porters 
devyde  themselves  at  the  Friers'  gate,  soo  that  fyve  of  the  porters  with  the 
master  porter,  if  he  be  ther,  and  haulfe  the  warde,  shall  goo  to  the  Lanterne 
gate,  and  the  other  fyve  with  the  gentleman  porter,  and  the  other  haulfe  of 
the  warde,  shall  goo  to  the  other  gate  that  shalbe  opened  for  that  daye,  and 
soo  shall  open  them  with  lyke  circumstaunces  as  before  ys  saide,  and  bring 
the  keis  and  laye  them  in  a  confer  in  the  porter's  lodge,  and  ther  locked  to 
remayne  till  the  gates  shall  againe  be  shut.  And  betwene  Saint  Androwes 
daye  and  the  Mondaye  next  after  Candelmas  daye,  at  suche  daies  as  too 
gates  shalbe  opened,  when  the  Lanterne  gate  is  first  opened  with  the  hole 
warde,  as  before  is  saide,  than  fyve  of  the  porters,  taking  with  them  haulfe 
the  warde,  goo  immediately  too  the  other  gate  which  shalbe  opened  at  that 
daye,  and  shall  open  the  same  with  like  circumstaunces  as  bifore  ys  saide, 
and  shut  the  same  with  like  circumstances  ;  and  from  Lammas  to  our  Lady 
daye  in  Lente,  the  saide  oute  gate,  if  it  be  againe  opened  at  oon  of  the 
clocke  at  afternone,  shall  alwaies  be  shut  at  thre  of  the  clock  at  afternone, 
and  from  our  Lady  daye  in  Lent  to  Lammas  at  fower  of  the  clock ; 
provided  alwaies,  that  during  the  herring  tj-me  and  mystie  wether  no  oute 
gate  shalbe  opened  but  hit  be  by  the  speciall  commaundment  of  the  king's 
deputie  for  the  tyme  being.  And  at  elleven  of  the  clock  the  saide  gates 
shalbe  shut,  with  lyke  seremonies  afforsaide,  and  the  keis  accompanied  as 
bifore  is  saide  to  the  deputie,  wher  so  evere  he  be  in  the  saide  towne  ;  and, 
in  his  absence,  to  suche  one  as  by  hym  shalbe  appointed  to  have  the  custodie 
of  the  same  keis ;  and  theise  keis,  soo  being  in  the  custodie  of  the  kinges 


1533.]  ORDENANCES   FOR   WATCH    AND   WARD   OF  CALAIS.  143 

deputie,  or  his  deputie,  shalbe  coverid  with  a  quishyn  or  some  other  thing, 
so  that  no  man  shall  see  the  secrets  of  them;  and  thence,  atone  of  the  clock 
at  afternone  the  saide  porters,  with  the  aforesaide  warde,  shall  fetche  again 
the  keis  from  the  deputie,  and  open  the  saide  gates  with  like  seremonies  as 
bifore  ys  saide  in  the  morning,  saving  the  scowrers  shall  not  goo  out  but  in 
the  morning'. 

Tlie  Shitting  of  the  Gates. 

First,  when  the  watch  bell  hath  rong  haulf  an  ower  to  the  shitting  of  the 
gates,  and  is  cessed,  the  hole  warde  then  being  at  the  gate,  one  of  the  porters 
shall  knok  with  his  staffe  upon  the  outter  gate  to  gyve  warning,  and  than 
immediately  shall  shut  the  utter  gate,  and  shall  open  the  wicket  of  the  same 
gate,  and  two  of  the  porters  shall  shut  the  inner  gate,  leving  the  wicket  open 
of  the  same.  And  all  the  saide  porters,  with  the  hole  warde,  shall 
stande  betwene  the  saide  two  gates,  and  soo  kepe  the  wickettes  open  till 
such  tyme  as  the  mersshall  or  his  deputies  hathe  sett  the  skoutwatche 
withoute  as  is  retorned  within  the  gate  ;  then  the  maister  porter,  or  the 
gentleman  porter  in  his  absence,  shall  commande  one  of  the  other  porters  to 
shit  the  outer*  wicket,  and  he  hymself  shall  serche  and  see  that  the  saide 
gate  and  wicket  be  surely  locked  and  barred ;  and  thenne  he  shall  com- 
maunde  the  warde  to  goo  intof  the  towne  bifore  the  saide  inner  gate,  ther 
to  remayne.  And  then  the  two  porters  which  have  the  charge  of  the  keis 
that  da  ye  shall  drawe  upp  the  drawbridge,  and  after  shut  the  inner  wicket, 
and  see  that  the  same  gate  and  wicket  be  also  surely  locked  and  barred ; 
and  then  the  master  porter,  the  jentleman  porter,  with  tenne  porters  and 
the  hole  warde  afforesaide,  shall  accompany  the  keis  to  the  Market ;  and 
thenne  the  master  porter  may  depart,  but  the  jentleman  porter  and  the 
other  porters,  with  the  hole  warde,  shall  bring  the  saide  kayes  to  the  kinges 
deputies  lodging,  and  ther  the  saide  keyes  shall  remayne  in  the  keping  of 
the  saide  deputie,  and  shalbe  locked  in  a  coffer,  which  coffer  alwaies  standith 
by  the  deputies  bedsyde.  And  it  is  ordeyned  that  the  comptroller's  clarke 
of  the  chekk  shalbe  alwaies  at  the  opening  and  shitting  of  the  gate,  and 
shall  call  as  well  the  names  of  them  that  shall  waite  ther  for  that  daye,  as 
to  marke  the  defaults  of  suchc  of  them  as  shalbe  absent,  and  chekk  them. 

*  other  in  MS.  *  in  two  in  MS. 


144  ORDENANCES  FOR  WATCH   AND   WARD  OF  CALAIS.  [1533. 

The  ordre  liowe  Reportes  shalbe  made  for  Straungers'  Lodginges  in  the 

town. 

It  is  ordeyned  that  all  suche  as  kepe  free  lodginges,  which  ought  to  he 
burgeces  and  none  other,  and  they  being  sworne  the  ordinairie  othe,  for  they 
every  night  at  the  shitting  of  the  gate  shall  come  to  the  place  where  the 
clarke  of  the  reaports  usythe  to  sit,  and  ther  shall  declare  unto  hym  howe 
manye  straungers  be  comen  that  night  to  lodge  in  ther  howses,  and  of  what 
towne  and  countrey  they  and  every  of  them  be,  and  also  how  many  strangers 
they  have  remayning  with  them  of  the  daie  before,  which  nombre  the  saide 
clarke  of  the  reaports  shall  make  fower  billes  being  lyke  at  all  points  one  to 
another ;  and  shall  delyver  one  of  the  same  billes  to  the  tipstaff  which  that 
night  charged  the  skoute  watche,  whose  name  shall  be  written  in  every  of 
billes ;  and  if  the  tipstaff  of  the  wall  come  to  the  saide  dark  while  he  ys  in 
the  saide  house,  the  dark  shall  delyver  unto  hym  two  other  of  the  saide 
billes ;  and  if  the  dark  be  gone  or  he  come,  thenne  the  dark  shall  leve  the 
saide  bille  at  a  place  appointed  betwene  them,  wher  he  shall  have  the  same. 
Of  the  which  two  billes  the  saide  tipstaff  of  the  waule  shall  delyver  out  one 
of  them  to  the  heigh  marshall  and  kepe  the  other  for  himselfe ;  and  the 
dark  hymselfe  shall  here  them  forthe  to  the  kinges  deputie ;  and  the  saide 
tipstaff  which  hathe  the  saide  two  billes  shall  hymselfe,  and  assone  as  the 
straungers'  bell  ys  ceased,  goo  and  serche  the  saide  free  lodgings,  and  as 
many  mo  as  he  listeth  that  kepith  lodgings  ;  and  if  he  shall  finde  any  moo 
straungers  lodged  in  any  of  the  saide  free  lodgings  thenne  be  namyd  in  the 
saide  bille  he  shall  make  reapport  therof  to  the  kinges  deputie  ;  and  the  saide 
house  soo  offending  shall  paye  to  the  king  for  a  fyne  ;  and  if  he  find  anye 

straunger  lodged  in  any  other  house  then  the  saide  free  lodgings,  he  shall 
take  the  saide  straunger  or  straungers  and  have  hym  or  them  to  his  prison, 
ther  to  remayne  till  the  deputie  and  highe  marshall  have  examined  the 
matter  and  discharged  hym.  And  the  oste  that  soo  lodged  hym  shall  for- 
faite  to  the  kinge  in  the  name  of  a  fyne  ,  and  otherwise  to  be  punisshed  at 
the  discrecion  of  the  deputie  and  other  of  the  councell.  And  if  the  saide  tip- 
staffs doo  finde  any  straunger  in  his  saide  serche  abrode  oute  of  his  lodging 
after  the  saide  belle  ceassed,  whether  he  be  reported  or  not,  but  if  he  have 
his  oste  with  hym,  he  shall  have  hym  to  prison  ther  to  be  punished  as  before 
is  saide. 


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The  ordre  of  the  Watches  within  the  towne  and  withoute. 

First,  whereas  there  he  xij.  viuteners  and  the  companies  being  twelve 
skore  in  nombre,  and  xviij.  constables  with  ther  companies,  being  ix.  skore  in 
nombre,  it  is  ordered  that  of  the  saide  xij.  vinteners  viijth  with  ther  com- 
pany shall  kepe  the  standewatche  uppon  the  waull,  that  is  to  saye,  every 
night  one  vintener  with  his  company ;  and  fower  vinteners  shall  kepe  the 
skoutewatche  withoute  the  gate,  that  is  to  saie,  every  night  tenne  persons 
of  them,  wherof  the  vintener  hym  self  shall  watche  the  firste  night,  and  the 
xviij.  constables  shall  kepe  serchewatche  in  the  est  and  west  bowses  uppon 
the  walle,  that  ys  to  saye,  every  night  one  constable  with  his  company 
shalbe  in  the  est  bowse,  and  one  constable  with  his  companye  shalbe  in 
the  west  bowse,  and  the  seconde  daye  after  ther  saide  watche  night  they 
shall  come  to  the  INTarket  to  kepe  ther  warde  daye,  in  the  morning  after  the 
watche  bell  bathe  stricken  downe. 

The  ordre  of  the  Scoute  Watche. 

First,  before  the  gate  be  shitt,  the  highe  mershall  or  his  deputie  shall  see 
that  oon  vintener  and  ix.  of  his  fellowes  be  ther  present  for  to  kepe  the 
skoutwatche  for  that  night,  who  shall  take  with  theme,  by  delyveraye  of 
one  of  the  porters,  the  kaies  of  the  braye  and  tornepyke ;  and  also  he  shall 
se  one  tipstaff  be  ther,  whose  course  shalbe  to  charge  the  scoutwatche  for 
that  night,  which  tipstaffe,  in  presens  of  the  marshall,  if  he  be  ther,  shall 
call  the  saide  vintener  and  his  fellowes  that  be  appointed  to  watche  for 
that  night,  and  shall  gyve  to  the  saide  vintener  or  his  deputie  the  watche 
word ;  and  yf  any  of  the  saide  vinteny  be  absent,  and  have  no  licence  of 
deputie  or  highe  marshall,  then  he  or  they  so  lacking,  though  he  have  a 
sufficient  man  for  hym,  shall  the  nexte  day  be  commytted  to  the  walles  by 
the  deputie.  And  if  any  of  the  saide  vintenye  doo  lak,  and  no  sufficient 
man  in  his  rome  admytted  by  the  highe  marshall  or  tipstaff,  the  tipstaff  shall 
appoint  another  sufficient  man  in  his  rome,  and  for  the  same  default  the 
souldior  so  lacking  shall  paye  to  the  under-marshall  xviij  d.  sterling  ;  and 
the  saide  under-marshall  shall  paye  the  saide  watcheman  so  set  in  the 
rome  of  the  soldier  for  his  night's  watche  ;  and  that  done,  the  saide  tipstaff 
shall  make  reaport  to  the  high  marshall,  yf  he  be  not  present  at  the  order- 
ing of  the  saide  watche,  howe  the  saide  ys  fumyshed  ;  and  the  scout  watche 
so  charged,  they  shall  goo  to  the  watchhouse  near  to  the  west  gate,  and  at  viij. 
or  ix.  of  the  clok  the  vintener  shall  sende  forthe  fower  of  his  saide  vintenye, 

CAMD.  soc.  u 


146  ORDENANCES   FOR   WATCH   AND   WARD   OF  CALAIS.  [1533. 

two  of  them  towardes  the  est,  and  two  of  them  towardes   the  west,   wherof 
one  of  eyther  of  the  vj.  shall  have  the  watch worde,  and  the  other  not ;  and 
they  shall  go    abowt  the  towne,  and  whan  they  come  to  the  west  house 
on  the  wall  they  shall  ring  a  bell  whiche  hangethe  in  the  saide  howse,  and 
hathe  a  corde  over  the  dyke,  and  than  they   within   the  saide  west  howse 
shall   look  out  and  aske  and  if  all  be  well,  and  they  shall   saye  as  the  case 
ys,  and  so  shall  go  forwards  rownde  abowte  the  towne,  till  they  coom  againe 
to  the  saide  watche  house ;  and  then   shall  goo  forthe  other   fewer  of  the 
saide  watche,  [and]  they  shall  behave  themselves  as  bifore  is  sayde.      And 
bicause    the    saide    scoutwatche    soo   going   aboute   the  towne   must   passe 
throughe  the    brayes    and   the   turne    pyke,   the  one   of  those   ij.  shall  go 
southward  shall  take  the  kaies  of  the   saide  brayes  with   hym,    and  one    of 
the  other    ij.   that    goethe    estwarde    shall    take    the   kaeis   of  the    turne- 
pike,   and    shall   surely   see   the    gates  of  the    saide    brayes  and  turnpike 
lockked  after  them.      And  when  they  shall  mete   in  ther  course  they  shall 
chaunge  ther  kaies.     And  yf  it  shall  [chance]  at  any  tyme  that  any  of  the 
saide  scoutwatches  so  having  the  kayes  to  meate  with  any  of  ther  ennymies,  he 
or  they  that  soo  shall  have  the  kayes  shall  incontinently  throw  the  kayes  of 
the  saide  brayes  and  turnpike  into  the  dytches  of  the  towne   yf  he  cannot 
save  them  otherwise,  and   shall   as   much  as   in  hym   ys  gyve  warning  to 
those  upon  the  waules.    And  so  shall  continue  ther  courses  about  the  towne, 
if  no  suche  daunger  be,  till  the  watch  bell  hathe  stricken  downe.     And  then 
they   shall  reassort   to   the  gate,  and  ther   remayne  till  it  be  opened  and 
clered ;  and  then  they  shall   entre,   and  the   vintener   shall   deliver  to   the 
porters  the  kaies  of  the  west  gate,  and  of  the  turnpike  and  brayes,  in  man- 
ner and  forme  as  he  bifore  receyved   them.      And  if  it   fortune   that  any 
fraye  be  done  or  commytted  bi  any  of  the  saide  watche  after  in  ther  watche- 
house,  or  in  ther  courses,  the  partie  soo   offending  shall  lese  his  lief.     And 
if  they  see,  finde,  or  here  any  thing,  or  that  any  kaies  be  broken,   or  other 
fault  nedefuU  to  be  amendyd  that  may  be  prejudiciall  to  the  non  suertie  of 
the  towne,  the  saide  vintener  or  his  companye  shall  present  the  same  to  the 
deputie  or  any  one  of  the  counsaill  that  he  shall  finde  at  the  gate. 

The  ordre  of  the  Stande  Watche  at  the  Waulle. 

First,  when  the  watche  bell  begynnethe  to  ringe  to  the  shitting  of  the 
gates,  then  the  uuder-m.ershall,  yf  he  have  no  lawfuU  excuse,  and  his  clerke, 


1533.]  ORDENANCES   FOR  WATCH   AND   WARD  OF  CALAIS.  147 

shall  goo  to  the  Castell  hill,  and  ther  shall  see  that  the  tipstaflfe,  called 
oiRcer  of  the  hill,  and  the  vyntener  with  his  xix.  fellowes  be  ther  in  proper 
persons,  onles  they  have  a  lawfull  excuse,  orels  ther  watchemen  assigned 
and  sworne  at  the  hill  bifore  the  under-mershall  to  watche  for  the  saide 
vyntenie  ;  and  yf  the  saide  vinteiner  be  not  ther  in  proper  person,  having 
no  reasonable  cause,  [he]  shall  lease  his  dayes  wages  for  the  firste  default, 
and  for  the  seconde  default  to  lose  ij.  daies  wages,  and  for  the  thirde  defaulte 
to  be  punished  at  the  discrecion  of  the  deputie.  And  then  the  under- 
marshall  shall  command  the  vintener  to  call  the  saide  watchmen  to  the 
walle,  and  thenne  the  under-marsshall  dark  shall  call  the  vinteners'  bill ; 
and  if  any  of  the  saide  watchmen  be  lacking  and  the  souldier  ther  present 
for  whome  the  saide  watchmen  shulde  watche,  it  shal  be  lawfull  to  the  saide 
souldier  to  get  another  sworne  watchman  to  furnishe  his  owne  rome,  soo  it 
be  done  bifore  the  charge  be  gyven  by  the  saide  marshall,  or  in  his 
absence  by  the  officer  of  the  hill.  And  if  the  souldiers  of  the  vynteyne  be 
not  ther  present  for  whome  the  watchman  lakkithe,  then  the  saide  mar- 
shall,  or  his  officer  of  the  hill  only,  shall  assigne  another  watchman  to 
furnyshe  the  same  watche ;  and  the  souldier  to  paye  to  the  saide  under- 
marshall,  upon  presentment  therof  made  in  the  escheker,  xviijc?.  sterling  for 
every  suche  defaulte ;  and  thenne  the  saide  marshall,  or  the  officer  of  the 
hill  in  his  absence,  shall  gyve  to  the  saide  vintener  the  watchwarde  ;  and 
when  the  castell  bell  begynneth  to  ring,  then  the  saide  vintener  shall  take 
with  hym  his  companion,  who  shall  not  have  with  hym  the  watche  warde, 
and  soo  goo  to  the  syde  of  the  towne  that  is  appointed  unto  [him]  for  the  night 
by  the  said  under-marshall,  or  in  his  absence  by  the  saide  officer  of  the  hill ; 
and  none  of  the  saide  watchmen  shall  goo  bifore  hym  ;  and  soo  shall  set  the 
saide  watchmen  uppon  the  walles,  one  in  every  warde  accustomed ;  and 
shall  gyve  to  every  of  them  as  he  sittethe  them  the  watche  worde.  And  if 
it  happen  any  of  the  saide  watchmen  to  be  stolen  awaye  or  lack,  the  saide 
vintener  shall  not  depart  from  the  saide  warde  wher  the  watcheman  so 
lacking  shall  be,  but  shall  sende  downe  his  companion  to  advertise  the 
under-marshall,  whiche  shall  yet  be  upon  the  hill  till  the  saide  watche  be 
sett,  to  take  the  reaport  therof,  or  in  his  absence  the  tipstaff,  whose  office 
is  immediately  too  sende  for  another  watcheman  to  furnyshe  the  saide 
warde  soo  lacking,  and  then  the  under-marshall  shall  reasort  too  the 
Market-place ;  and  the  saide  vintener  shall  not  depart  from  the  saide  warde 


148  ORDENANCES   FOR   WATCH   AND  WARD   OF  CALAIS.  [1533. 

till  the  saide  watcheman,  soo  appointed  by  the  under-marshall  or  tipstaff,  be 
brought  to  hym  by  his  saide  companion  ;  and  [then]  the  saide  vintener  and 
his  companion  maye  depart ;  and  the  saide  watcheman  soo  stolen  awaie  or 
lacking  ys  to  be  punyshed  by  the  saide  under-marshall  the  nexte  daye ; 
and  that  furnyshed,  the  tipstaff  shall  make  reaport  therof  immediately. 
And  if  the  saide  tipstaff,  called  officer  of  the  hill,  be  sicke  or  have  licence 
of  ihe  saide  deputie  to  be  absent,  he  shall  cause  another  tipstaff  to  furnyshe 
the  saide  rome  in  his  absence ;  and  the  saide  under-marshall  shall  make 
reaport  to  the  kinges  deputie. 

For  the  Burges  Watche  upon  the  Castell  Hill. 

It  is  also  ordeyned,  that  the  m.eane  while  that  the  saide  imder-marshall 
or  his  clarke  hathe  charge [d]  the  said  vinteyne,  the  saide  tipstaff  called  the 
officer  of  the  hill,  with  the  mayor's  sergeant,  who  shall  alsoo  be  ther  pre- 
sent, shall  cause  the  saide  mayor's  sergeant  to  call  the  boke  of  the  burges 
watches,  whiche  be  xxiij.  in  nombre.  And  if  any  of  them  be  lacking,  then 
the  saide  serjeant  shall  furnyshe  the  romes  of  lacking  with  one  other 
watcheman  ;  and  the  saide  tipstaff' to  have  for  every  suche  default  of  the  partie 
soo  lacking  xiyL  gr.  to  be  paide  to  hym  within  thre  nights  nexte  ensuing  ; 
and  for  nonpayment,  to  reasort  to  the  ground  being  charged  with  the  saide 
watche,  and  distraine  for  the  same  as  often  as  any  suche  default  shalbe. 
And  the  saide  watche  so  called  and  furnyshed,  the  tipstaff  shall  present  the 
same  to  the  under-marshall,  and  gyve  to  hym  the  watch  worde,  who  shall 
gyve  the  same  to  the  mayor's  sergeant;  and  if  the  saide  under-marshall  be 
absent,  than  the  saide  tipstaff  shall  delyver  the  saide  watche  worde  to  the 
saide  sergeant ;  and  then  the  saide  sergeant  shall  appoint  a  setter,  being  oon 
of  the  saide  watche,  and  with  his  saide  watchemen  shall  goo  to  the  walles, 
and  furnysshe  the  wardes  accustomed,  and  shall  gyve  to  the  watchemen  as 
he  sittethe  them  the  watche  worde.  And  if  any  of  the  saide  watch 
stele  awaie,  or  be  lacking,  then  the  sergeant  shall  goo  to  the  saide  tipstaff 
for  another  watcheman  or  watchemen,  to  furnyshe  the  saide  rome  or. romes, 
and  shall  see  the  same  furnyshed  ;  and  the  saide  wardes  soo  furnyshed,  the 
sergeant  shall  depart  and  goo  to  the  mayor,  and  make  reaport  that  the  saide 
watche  ys  furnyshed,  and  delyver  the  saide  watche  worde  to  the  mayor ; 
and   the  next  daye  the  sergeant  shall  make  reaport  to  the  under-marshall 


1533.]  OROENANCES    KOR   WATCH   AND   WAKD   OF 

of  suche  dofaultes,  that  they  maye  be  punyshed  accordinglie.  And  if  any 
person  or  persons  doo  com  uppon  the  walles  after  the  standwatche  ys  sett 
and  charged,  not  having  the  watcheworde,  the  said  watchmen  shall  in 
no  wise  suffer  any  suche  person  or  persons  to  passe,  but  to  his  power  shall  let 
hym ;  and  if  the  saide  person  or  persons  soo  commyng  on  the  wall,  and 
have  not  the  watcheworde,  make  any  resystaunce,  if  the  watchman  doo  sle 
him  he  is  in  no  defaulte. 


The  Ordre  of  the  Serche  Wache  in  the  Ext  \_and~\   West  Howse\^s']. 

First,  the  two  tipstaves  appointed  for  that  weike  to  charge  the  constable 
watche  in  the  est  and  west  bowses  shall  receyve  the  watcheworde  in  the  coun- 
saill  chamber  of  the  clarke  of  the  counsaill,  whiche  com[m()n]ely  ys  geven 
in  the  saide  chamber  at  iij.  of  the  clok  at  afternone.  And  then  at  the  latter 
ringing  of  the  Flemmyshe  bell,  which  hangethe  under  the  great  hall,  one  of 
the  saide  tipstaves  shall  goo  to  the  est  house,  and  the  other  to  the  west 
house,  at  which  tyme  shalbe  at  every  of  the  saide  houses  one  constable  vvith 
his  companie,  which  with  hymselfe  be  x.  in  nombre.  And  then  the  saide 
tipstaff  shall  cause  the  bill  of  the  same  nombre  to  be  called  ;  and  then 
the  saide  tipstaff  shall  gyve  the  watcheworde  ;  and  in  his  absence,  he  bavin o- 
lawfull  excuse,  his  deputie,  and  shall  charge  them  to  kepe  good  rule  for 
that  night ;  and  then  shall  depart,  and  shall  goo  to  the  INIarkett,  and  when 
he  commyth  ther,  he  shall  knok  with  his  staff  upon  the  stones,  and  the 
under- marshall  hering  that,  shall  in  like  case  do  the  same,  soo  that  the  one 
maye  finde  the  other.  And  then  the  saide  tipstaff  shall  make  reaport  to  the 
saide  marshall,  that  the  saide  watche  ys  furnyshed  sufficiently  ;  and  yf  it  be 
not,  shall  showe  hym  in  whose  defaulte  it  ys  unfurnyshed ;  and  the 
saide  marshall  shall  see  the  same  furnyshed  incontynent ;  and  the  saide 
partie  soo  offending  shall  pay  to  the  saide  marshall  for  the  saide 
defaulte  xviijc^.  sterling.  Alsoo  the  saide  tipstaff  shall  shewe  to  the 
saide  marshall  who  lackethe  ther  of  the  saide  constablerie  in  proper 
person  ;  and  the  saide  marshall  shall  make  reaport  therof  to  the  kinges 
deputie  that  night,  to  the  intent  that  if  he  ys  absent  have  not  licence 
of  the  saide  deputie  shalbe  punyshed  for  the  same  accordinglie.  And 
the  saide  constables  and  ther  companie  soo  beinge  in  the  est  and  west 
howses  at  ix.  of  the  clok  shall  goo  oute  of  eyther  of  the  sayde  bowses  two 


150  ORDENANCES   FOR  WATCH  AND  WARD  OF  CALAIS.  [1533. 

persons  of  the  constableries,  wherof  two  shall  go  southe  and  [two]  northe, 
wherof  one  of  the  two  to  have  the  watcheworde  of  the  constable,  and  the 
other  not ;  and  soo  serche  the  standwatche  uppon  the  walles,  and  shall  loke 
oute  twoo  tymes  in  every  warde  of  the  walle.  And  when  they  come  besyde 
the  Water-gate,  at  the  lope  m  the  walle  right  over  against  the  scoutwatche 
house,  they  shall  call  over  to  the  scoutwatche  and  saye,  "  Rownde,  rownde," 
and  the  scoutwatche  shall  answer,  "  Ye,  ye,"  or  "  Well,  well."  And  soo 
they  of  the  est  howse  shall  goo  tyl  they  come  to  the  est  house,  and  shall 
not  tarrie  bi  the  waie,  but  hast  to  ther  owne  house,  without  plaing  at  dyse 
or  other  game,  soo  that  they  maye  bee  at  their  owne  house  by  a  xj.  of  the 
clok.  And  then  shall  goo  forthe  other  two  oute  of  the  saide  howses,  which 
shall  ordre  themselves  as  the  other  dyd  bifore ;  soo  that  they  maye  goo 
rownd  abowte  the  towne,  and  be  at  the  saide  howses  againe  by  one  of  the 
clok.  And  then  other  ij.  owte  of  eyther  of  the  saide  howses  shall  make 
the  saide  serche  in  manner  and  foraie  as  bifore  is  saide.  Soo  that  every  of 
the  two  howses  make  fyve  courses  abowte  the  towne  every  night,  bothe 
winter  and  sommer.  And  after  the  saide  fyve  courses  soo  in  manner  and 
forme  as  bifore  ys  expressed  done,  they  shall  remayne  in  the  saide  howses 
till  the  watche  bell  strike  downe  in  the  morninge,  and  then  the  saide  ij. 
constables  with  ther  saide  companies  maye  depart,  and  doo  what  they  woll, 
soo  that  they  be  at  the  firste  opening  of  the  Lanterne  gate,  and  ther  to 
remayne  till  the  saide  gate  be  opened  and  cleare,  upon  payne  of  inprison- 
ment.  And  it  is  ordeyned  that  the  constables  and  ther  whole  fellowshipps 
shall  watche  in  the  saide  houses  in  ther  proper  persons,  except  they  or  any 
of  them  be  lycensed  by  the  kinges  deputie,  or  marshal!  in  his  absence,  or 
els  that  he  or  they  be  syk  or  deseased,  upon  payne,  he  that  dothe  the  con- 
trarye,  to  have  for  the  firste  defaulte  viij.  dayes  inprisonment,  and  for  the 
seconde  defaulte  xxti  dayes  inprisonment,  and  for  the  thirde  defaulte  to  be 
put  out  of  wages,  and  soo  to  remayne  at  the  discrecion  of  the  deputie  and 
counsaill.  And  if  any  of  the  saide  serche  watche  finde  any  of  the  saide  stand 
watche  not  having  the  watche  worde  perfit,  he  shall  instruct  hym  in  the  same  ; 
and  if  he  shall  finde  any  of  the  saide  stande  watches  oute  of  his  warde,  or 
gyve  any  ill  langage  to  the  saide  serche  watche,  he  shall  present  the  same  de- 
faultes  to  the  under-marshall,  and  he  shall  see  punyshment  according  to  the 
demeritt.  And  if  any  of  the  saide  serche  watche  [find  any  of  the  stand  watch] 
iij.  tymes  sleping  in  one  night,  and  so  take  hym  by  the  nose,  he  or  they  that 


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shall  take  any  of  the  saide  stande  watche  sloping  iij,  tymes,  shall  present  the 
same  the  daye  following  to  the  kinges  deputie,  marshall,  or  other  of  the  coun- 
saill  ther  ;  and  they  shall  commande  the  under-marshall  that  he  shall  the  next 
market  daye  cause  hjTii  or  them  soo  offending  to  be  hanged  in  a  basket 
over  the  walle,  x.  or  xij.  foote  from  the  water ;  and  he  shall  have  with  hym, 
in  his  basket,  one  lofe  of  brede  and  a  pott  of  di-inke  ;  also  a  knyff  to  cut  the 
rope  when  he  will.  And  the  saide  under-marshall  shall  commande  the 
dyke  kepers  to  be  present  with  ther  bote,  to  take  hym  upp  when  he  fal- 
lithe.  And  when  he  is  taken  upp  he  shall  be  kept  in  the  mayor's  pryson 
till  the  nexte  market  daye,  and  then  he  shall  be  banyshed  the  towne  for  one 
yere  and  a  daye.  And  none  of  the  saide  watchemen  on  the  walle  shall 
suffre  man,  woman,  or  childe  to  passe  by  them  withoute  he  have  the 
watche  worde,  except  suche  persons  as  have  lodging  in  the  towers,  and 
they  to  come  up  at  the  nexte  stayer  directly  leding  to  the  tower,  and  none 
otherwise;  and  that  he,  nor  none  of  them,  so  having  the  watche  worde, 
shall  depart  downe  from  the  walle  till  the  realif  in  the  morning,  nor  tell 
nor  gyve  the  saide  watcheword  to  none  other  persone,  uppon  paine  that 
ye  or  they  soo  offending  in  any  of  the  premises  to  lose  their  lyves.  And 
yf  any  of  the  standewatche  shall  see,  here,  or  percyve  any  thing  withoute 
the  towne  or  within  which  he  or  they  shall  thinke  prejudicial!  or  hurtfull  to 
the  towne,  he  or  they  that  soo  percyvethe  shall  shewe  the  same  incon- 
tinently as  they  com  abowte.  And  he  or  they  of  the  saide  serche  watche 
that  hath  the  watche  worde  shall  incontinentlie  sende  hys  companion  to  the 
kinges  deputie,  or  in  his  absence  to  the  next  of  the  counsaill  that  he  can 
come  to  gyve  warning  therof ;  and  the  saide  watchman  that  soo  shall  sende 
his  companion  shall  not  depart  from  the  saide  place  till  hys  companion  be 
returned  to  hym  agayne,  and  than  to  goo  furthe  his  course.  And  if  the 
cause  [be]  veraye  perellouse,  as  by  occasion  of  ennymies  or  fier,  or  other 
daungerous  case,  the  saide  companion  shall,  in  his  going  as  aforesaide,  make 
an  outecry,  to  the  entent  that  redresse  therof  may  be  hadd.  And  if  any  of 
the  serche  watche  or  stand  watche  ether  in  the  saide  houses  or  upon  the 
walle  do  make  any  fraye  one  with  another,  the  partie  soo  offending  shall 
lose  his  lief. 


152  ORDENANCES    FOR   WATCH   AND   WARD  OF  CALAIS.  [1533. 

Ovdre  of  the  Banner  Watche,  and  ivhen  it  shal  hegynne. 

It  is  ordeyned,  that  assone  as  herring  marte  is  proclaymed  by  the  mayor, 
that  the  shercher  of  the  herring  botes  or  his  clarke  shall  dailie  viewe  and 
serche  how  many  herring  botes  of  straungers  be  within  the  haven,  what 
nombre  of  persons,  what  gonnes  or  weapons  be  with  them,  and  all  ther 
saide  hemes*  and  artillery  the  saide  sercher  or  his  clerke  shall  take  oute  of 
the  saide  shepps  and  botes  and  laye  upp  the  [same]  savelie.  And  when 
the  same  ships  or  botes  or  any  of  them  will  depart,  and  no  more  return  for 
that  herring  t3'me,  then  the  saide  sercher  or  clarke  shall  delyver  to  every 
suche  shipp  or  bote  soo  departing,  his  or  ther  armore,  weapons,  and 
artillerie.  And  every  night  during  the  saide  herring  tyme,  bifore  the 
shutting  of  the  gates,  the  saide  sercher  or  his  clerk  shall  make  a  bill 
reaporting  the  nombre  of  the  saide  herring  botes,  and  what  nombre  of 
persons  be  in  them,  and  delyver  the  same  bill  to  the  kinges  deputie  or  to 
his  deputie  in  his  absence.  And  when  the  saide  deputie  shall  perceave  by 
the  saide  reaporte  that  ther  be  xv.  herring  botes  of  straungers  in  the  haven, 
then  the  saide  deputie  shall  gyve  knowledge  therof  to  the  treasurer,  and 
then  the  treasurer  immediately  shall  direct  vj.  mandates  unto  vj.  counsailors 
appointed  to  kepe  the  banner  watche  nightly  duering  the  saide  herring  tyme  ; 
and  also  appoint  the  names  of  the  speres,  archers  on  horsback,  and  souldiers 
as  shall  attend  uppon  the  saide  counsaill  nightlye  duering  the  watche, 
in  manner  and  forme  following ;  that  is  to  saye,  the  comptroller  shall  firste 
begynne  for  the  kinge,  and  shall  have  with  hym  iiij.  speres,  iiij.  archers  on 
horsback,  and  iiij.  souldiers,  all  which  persons  shall  attende  upon  hym  the 
night  of  his  watche.  The  seconde  night  the  kinges  deputie  shall  order  the 
watche,  and  shall  have  with  hym  ix.  speres  and  ij.  archers  on  horsback. 
The  high  marshall  shall  order  the  watche  the  thirde  night,  and  shall  have 
with  hym  iiij.  speres  and  oon  archer  on  horsback.  The  treasurer  shall 
order  the  watche  the  iiij.  night,  and  shall  have  with  hym  vij.  speres,  vj. 
archers  on  horsback,  the  constable  of  the  escheker  with  his  companie, 
and  vj  archers  being  under  his  retynue.  The  maister  porter  shall  order  the 
watche  the  v*^^*  night,  and  with  hym  ij.  speres  andiij.  archers  on  horsback. 
The  under-marshall  shall  order  the  vj.  watche,  and  shall  have  with  hym 
ij.  speres  and  vj.  archers  on  horsback.  And  of  the  vj.  tipstaves  shall 
every  night  one,  with  the  trumpet  and  phipher,  and  the  dromslade,  gyve 

*  harness,  i.e.  armour. 


lo33.]  ORDENANCES   FOR   WATCH   AND   WARD  OF   CALAIS.  153 

ther  attendaunce  upon  the  saido  counsailors  as  long  as  they  shall  contynew 
the  saide  watches. 


The  Comptroller  s  Watche. 

It  is  ordeyned,  that  when  the  comptroller  have  receyved  his  mandate,  he 
shall  command  the  tipstaff  to  warne  all  his  companie  appointed  to  be  at 
his  lodging  before  viij.  of  the  clok  in  the  night  with  ther  weapons,  and  shall 
commaunde  them  to  sende  ther  hemes  to  the  chamber  wher  the  watche 
shalbe  kept.  And  when  the  clok  hathe  stricken  viij.  the  trompet  shall 
blow  at  the  iiij.  corners  of  the  Market,  to  gyve  warning  that  the  Banner 
watche  begynneth.  And  the  saide  trumpet,  with  the  phipher  and  the 
drome,  shall  goo  to  the  comptroller's  lodging ;  and  then  shall  the  comp- 
troller goo  with  his  companye  to  the  Market,  and  from  thens  to  the  chamber 
on  the  Lanterae  gate,  wher  the  Banner  shalbe  charged.  And  from  thens 
he  and  his  speres  shall  goo  upp  into  the  ledes  upon  the  gate,  and  shall  see 
that  ther  bee  sufficient  light  set  in  the  lanterne,  and  commaunde  the  trompet 
ther  to  blowe,  and  shall  come  downe  into  the  chamber  againe  ;  and  thenne  the 
comptroller  shall  cause  the  tipstaff  to  call  the  bill  of  those  names  that  shall 
watche  ther  that  night.  And  if  ther  be  any  lacking,  the  comptroller  shall 
furnyshe  the  rome  with  another  man,  at  the  coste  of  hym  that  so  lackethe  ; 
and  then  the  comptroller  shall  gyve  the  watche  worde,  with  the  bill  of  names 
of  those  that  watche,  to  one  of  the  speres,  and  commaunde  hym  that  he 
shall  see  the  watche  bell  kept  for  that  night,  and  that  due  serche  be  made 
aboute  the  walles  in  the  accustomed  manner,  and  too  see  good  rule  kept 
amonge  his  company.  And  then  the  comptroller  maye  depart,  and  at  ix. 
of  the  clok  the  saide  spere,  so  having  the  watch  worde,  or  one  of  the  saide 
watche  for  hym,  to  whome  he  shall  gyve  the  watchworde,  shall  take  one  of 
the  saide  watche  with  hym,  not  having  the  watchw^ord,  and  shall  [goo] 
towarde  the  est  rownde  abowte  the  walle  of  the  towne  ;  and  in  the  going, 
shall  speke  to  every  of  the  standwatche,  and  loke  oute  at  one  lope  of  the 
walle  betweene  every  tower.  And  when  they  come  to  the  est  house,  they 
shall  salute  the  constable  and  the  companye  that  kepeth  the  watche  there. 
And  from  thens  they  shall  goo  to  the  west  house,  using  like  manner  as 
before.  And  if  any  of  the  said  standwatche,  or  any  other  watche,  may  be 
founde  fawte,  they  shall  make  reaport  therof  to  the  deputie  accordinglie, 

CAMD.  soc.  X 


154  ORDENANCES  FOR  WATCH  AND  WARD  OF  CALAIS.  [1533. 

at  the  realiff.  And  when  they  come  agayne  to  ther  owne  watche,  then  two 
other,  whcrof  one  to  have  the  watchworde  and  the  other  not,  shall  goo 
forthe  in  manner  and  forme  as  before  is  saide.  And  soo  continually 
duering  that  night  till  the  releeff  in  the  morning,  and  shall  not  depai't  the 
walles  till  the  kayes  of  the  Lanterne  gate  with  the  warde  be  come  to  the  gate  ; 
and  then  they  to  come  downe,  and  tarry  till  the  warde  be  come  to  the  gate. 


The  residue  of  the  Counsailors'  Banner  Watches  in  the  herring  tyme. 

The  kinges  deputie  shall,  the  seconde  night,  kepe  the  saide  watche  in  man- 
ner and  forme  as  is  bifore  saide  of  the  comptroller,  and  with  the  nombre  of 
speres  and  souldiers  to  attend  upon  hym  as  bifore  rehersid,  and  the  same  to 
be  named  by  the  treasurer  or  vice-treasurer  in  his  absence  ;  and  soo  every 
of  the  counsaillors  shall  kepe  nightlie  ther  watches  as  ther  courses  shall 
come  aboute,  with  the  nomber  of  persons  to  attend  upon  them  as  bifore  ex- 
pressed, and  to  be  named  by  the  treasurer  as  aforesaid. 


The  ordre  of  the  Mayor  and  Aldermen  s  Watche  in  herring  tyme. 

Wheras  within  our  towne  of  Callice  ys  one  mayor  and  certayne  alder- 
men, it  is  ordpyned  that  ij.  of  them  by  curse  shall  nightlie  during  the  saide 
tyme  kepe  watche  in  ther  counsaill  chamber  upon  the  Mai'ket,  with  a  sufficient 
company  of  commenars  to  furnyshe  the  same  watche  in  manner  and  forme 
following;  that  is  to  saye,  that  ij.  aldermen  appointed  shall  have  the  watch- 
worde for  that  night,  and  at  viij.  of  the  clock  in  the  night  shalbe  in  the 
counsaill  chamber  with  ther  company,  and  shall  cause  one  cresset  to  be 
hanged  forthe  out  of  ther  chamber  into  the  Market  with  sufficient  light  to  be 
mayntened  thei-in  for  that  night ;  and  at  ix.  of  the  clok  the  saide  alderaien 
shall  call  iiij.  of  the  watchmen,  and  shall  gyve  ij.  of  them  the  watchworde, 
and  the  other  ij.  shall  not  have  it;  and  then  the  saide  watchmen  shall 
devide  themselves,  and  goo  forlhe,  ij.  one  waie,  and  ij.  the  other  waie,  to 
serche  the  stretes  rounde  aboute  the  towne  to  see  that  good  rule  be  kept ; 
and  if  they  finde  any  mysdemeanours,  suspect  persons  or  straungers  stirring 
in  the  strets,  they  shall  bring  them  to  i\\e  aldermen  of  the  watche,  or  els  to 
the  marshalles  pry  son,  as  the  case  requireth  ;  and  when  they  have  made  due 
.serche  by  the  space  of  one  howre,  then  they  shall  retorne  againe  and  make 


1533.]  ORDENANCES   FOR  WATCH   AND   WARD  OF  CALAIS.  155 

reaport  to  the  aldermen  what  they  have  herd  and  seen ;  and  that  done, 
shall  goo  forthe  iiij.  moo  of  the  saide  watche,  which  shall  use  themselves  in 
lyke  manner,  and  soo  they  shall  doo  from  tyme  to  tyme  all  [th]at  night,  till 
they  be  realived  in  the  morning  by  the  daye  watche. 


The  ordve  of  the  vj,  CounsaiUors'   Wutches  in  the  Crlstmas  season. 

It  is  ordeyned  that  the  vj.  counsaillors  bifore  named  in  the  Banner  watche 
shall,  by  lyke  order,  kepo  severall  watches  in  ther  houses,  with  like  nonibre 
of  officers,  spores,  and  souldiers,  as  to  them  assigned  bifoi'e  in  the 
Banner  watche  in  manner  and  forme  following,  that  is  to  saye  :  the  comp- 
troller for  t\Tne  being  shall  commaunde  the  tipstaff  appointed  to  gyve  hym 
attendaunce  upon  Christmas  daye,  to  warne  all  his  companie  appointed  to 
watche  with  hym  that  night,  to  be  at  his  lodging  at  viij.  of  the  clok ;  at 
which  hower,  when  they  be  assembled,  the  said  tipstaff  shall  call  the  bill  of 
ther  names,  and  if  any  of  them  make  defaulte,  the  comptroller  shall  furnyshe 
the  saide  rome  at  the  coste  of  hym  that  lackethe,  and  of  the  said  defaultes 
the  tipstaff  shall  make  reaport  the  nexte  daye  to  the  kinges  deputie,  that 
he  or  they  soo  lacking  may  be  punyshed  accordingly  ;  and  when  the  rowmes 
be  furnyshed,  the  saide  comptroller  shall  give  the  watchworde  with  the  bill 
of  the  names  that  watchithe  that  night,  to  one  of  the  speres  that  attendithe 
that  night  for  the  king,  commaunding  hym  to  see  that  good  watche  be  kept, 
and  that  due  serche  be  made  in  the  stretes  that  night ;  and  that  done  the 
comptroller  may  take  his  rest ;  and  then  the  spere  having  the  watchworde, 
shall  send  forthe  ij.  of  the  saide  watche  to  the  Castell  strete,  geving  one  of 
them  the  castell  to  our  Lady  in  the  walle,  and  shall  serche  the  bak  stretes  on 
bothe  sydes  of  the  saide  Castell  strete  ;  and  he  shall  sende  other  ij.  of  the 
watche,  geving  one  of  them  the  watchworde,  to  the  Westhouse ;  and  they 
shall  serche  the  saide  strete  till  they  come  to  the  Mylkgate,  and  shall  serch 
the  crosse  stretes  on  bothe  the  sydes  of  the  Mylkgate  street ;  and  if  any 
of  the  said  serchers  mete  with  any  person  or  persons  in  the  stretes  mys- 
ordering  themselves,  they  shall  bring  them  to  hym  that  bathe  the  charge  of 
the  watche  for  that  night,  or  else  to  the  marshalles  prison,  as  the  case 
requireth  ;  and  when  the  iiij .  serclie  watche  bathe  so  ordered  themselves  by 
the  space  of  one  howre,  then  they  shall  retorne  againe  to  the  comptroller's 
lodging,  and  ther  shall  make  reaport  what   they  have  herd,  sene,  and  done 


156  ORDENANCES   FOR  WATCH   AND   WARD  OF  CALAIS.  [1533. 

unto  hym  that  hathe  the  charge  of  the  watche  for  that  night ;  and  thenne 
he  that  soo  hathe  the  charge  of  the  serche  watche  shall  sende  furthe  other 
iiij,  which  shall  order  themselves  as  bifore  ys  saide,  and  soo  shall  use  them- 
selves from  hower  to  hower  during  the  hole  night,  till  the  watche  be  releived 
in  the  morning  by  the  daye  watche.  And  in  like  manner  and  forme  every 
of  the  saide  vj.  counsaillors,  with  ther  companions  assigned  to  them  by  the 
treasurer  as  ys  abovesaid  in  the  Banner  watche,  shall  kepe  ther  watche  by 
lyke  ordering  in  ther  houses,  with  lyk  seremonies  as  the  comptroller  bifore 
hathe  done  during  the  saide  xij.  nightes. 

The  ordre  of  the  Mayur  and  Aldermen  s  Watches  in  the  Christmas 

Season. 

The  mayor  and  aldermen,  during  the  said  Cristmas  season,  shall  kepe 
ther  watches  in  ther  couusell  chamber  upon  the  Market,  in  lyke  manner 
and  forme  with  like  seremonies  as  before  expressed  in  ther  watche  made  in 
herring  tjone. 

The  Warde  at  the  Gate. 

First,  whereas  it  ys  before  ordered,  that  one  vintener  with  his  hole  vin- 
teney  shall  kepe  the  stand  watche,  and  two  constables  with  the  constableries 
shall  kepe  the  serche  watches  upon  the  est  and  west  bowses  upon  the  walle, 
it  is  ordeyned,  that  the  saide  vintener  and  constables  shall  kepe  ther  wardes 
in  ther  owne  persons,  except  they  or  any  of  them  have  a  lawful!  excuse. 
And  he  or  they  that  so  shall  have  lawfull  excuse,  shall  put  in  his  or  ther 
places  suche  able  person  or  other  persons  as  shalbe  thought  mete  by  the 
kinges  deputie  marshall,  or  under-marshall,  or  some  other  of  the  counsaill 
in  ther  absence,  in  manner  and  forme  following  ;  that  is  to  saye,  the  seconde 
next  after  the  night  watche,  as  soone  as  the  daye  watche  shall  strike  doune, 
the  saide  vintener  and  constables,  with  ther  saide  companies,  shall  come  to 
the  Market,  and  remayne  till  the  porters  of  the  gate  shall  come  to  the 
Market,  and  from  thens  they  shall  accompany  the  saide  porters  to  the 
kinges  deputies  lodging,  wher  the  saide  porters  shall  receyve  the  kayes  of 
the  gates ;  and  from  thens  they  shall  accompany  the  saide  kayes  unto  the  gates 
that  for  that  daye  shalbe  opened.     And  the  saide  vintener  and  constables, 


1533.]  ORDENANCES  FOR  WATCH  AND  WARD  OF  CALAIS.  157 

with  ther  hole  folowship,  after  the  firstc  opening  of  the  saide  gate  and  gates, 
during  the  tyme  they  shalbe  opened,  shall  not  depart  more  than  fyve  of  the 
vinteney  and  iij.  of  the  constables  at  one  tjine,  and  that  by  licence  of  the 
saide  vintener  and  constables;  and  they  that  so  shall  have  licence,  shall  not 
tarry  but  reasonable  tyme,  so  that  other  of  ther  fellowship  maye  have 
reasonable  libertie,  and  the  warde  at  all  tymes  sufficiently  furnyshed.  And 
so  they  shall  use  them  contynually  till  the  saide  gate  or  gates  be  shit  at 
night,  upon  peyne,  every  one  offending  contrarie  to  the  premisses  shall  lose 
his  dayes  wages  for  the  first  default,  and  for  the  seconde  defaulte  xijf/.  to 
our  sovereign  lord  the  king,  and  for  the  thirde  defaulte  to  be  punished  at 
the  discrecion  of  the  kinges  deputie,  or  of  his  deputie  in  his  absence.  And 
if  the  saide  vintener  or  constables  do  licence  any  moo  of  ther  saide  companies 
otherwise  then  before  ys  rehersed,  they  and  eyther  of  them  that  soo  offend- 
ithe  shall  runne  in  peyne  and  penaltes  bifore  specified.  And  the  saide  vin- 
tener and  constables,  with  ther  hole  companies,  shall  accompany  the  saide 
kayes  to  and  from  all  places  whersoever  they  shall  be  come  for  that  daye 
apon  [pain]  of  inprysonment  and  further  punyshment  at  the  discrecion  of 
the  deputie,  marshall,  and  under-marshall,  or  other  of  the  counsaill  in  ther 
absence.  And  if  any  of  the  saide  counsaill  disdayne  and  will  not  followe 
the  saide  ordynaunces,  they  and  every  of  them  soo  offending  shall  runne  in 
the  saide  paynes  bifore  rehersed.  And  that  no  man  make  any  affraye,  de- 
bate, or  take  any  parte  within  the  saide  warde  howses  one  with  another,  or 
within  any  of  the  towne  gates,  upon  payne  of  losing  his  lief;  and  that  no 
man  rebell  against  his  vintener  or  constable  upon  payne  of  xl.  daies  imprisone- 
ment.  Also,  it  is  ordeyned,  that  in  the  hering  tyme  the  saide  hole  warde 
shall  in  ther  hemes  *  kepe  ther  wardes  during  daylye  the  saide  herring  tyme. 
And  also,  every  of  the  vj.  counsailors,  as  ther  courses  commyth  abowte,  the 
seconde  daye  nexte  after  this  Banner  watche,  shalbe  ther  in  his  and  ther 
proper  persons,  at  the  firste  opening  of  the  gates,  with  suche  nombre  of 
speres,  archers  on  horsback,  and  souldiers  as  were  appointed  to  watche  with 
them  in  the  saide  Banner  watche.  And  he  and.  they  to  have  in  like  case 
ther  t  and  ther  hemes  and  axes  by  them  within  the  saide  warde,  and  they  to 
accompany  the  kayes  for  that  daye  with  the  warde  aforesaid. 

*   harness.  +   So  ni  Ike  MS. 


158  ORDENANCES    FOR  WATCH  AND  WARD  OF  CALAIS.  [1533. 

The  ordre  of  the  JVarde  in  the  Market  Place  every  daye. 

First,  the  vintener  and  his  companie,  as  courses  shall  come  aboute,  the 
seconde  daye  next  after  they  have  made  the  scoutwatche  without  the  gate, 
shall,  at  the  stryking-  downe  of  the  watche  bell,  be  in  the  Market  with  his 
ix.  companions,  and  ther  to  remayne  in  the  somer  tyme  till  vij.  of  the  clok, 
and  in  winter  till  ix.  of  the  clock.  And  if  any  of  the  saide  companie  be  not 
ther,  the  marshall  or  under-marshall  finding  the  saide  defaulte  shall  com- 
maunde  a  tipstaff  to  bring  hym  or  them  soo  being  absent  to  prison.  And 
if  he  that  kepethe  the  daye  watche  come  downe  and  shewe  to  the  marshall 
or  under-marshall  that  the  myste  ys  soo  grete  that  he  cannot  see  his  mark, 
the  saide  marshall  or  under-marshall  [shall]  commaunde  the  saide  vintener, 
with  his  saide  companions  that  is  soo  in  the  Market,  incontinent  to  repaier  to 
the  walles,  and  ther  to  walke  aboute  the  saide  walles  till  it  be  a  xj.  of  the 
clok,  and  then  they  to  be  relevied  with  the  ij.  dales  watches  of  the  walles, 
that  is  to  saye,  the  kepers  of  the  west  and  est  houses  of  the  walles,  and 
they  to  remayne  and  walke  aboute  the  saide  walles  till  the  opening  of  the 
gates,  at  which  tyme  if  the  daye  prove  not  cleare,  then  the  saide  vintener, 
with  his  ix.  companions,  shall  repaire  agayne  to  the  walles,  and  ther  to 
remayne  till  the  daye  be  cleare,  or  els  to  the  shitting  of  the  gates ;  and  if 
the  saide  vintener,  or  any  of  his  companions,  make  any  defaulte,  and  be  not 
presented  to  the  marshall  or  under-marshall,  the  saide  marshall  or  under- 
marshall  shall  commaunde  a  tipstaff  to  bring  hym  or  them  soo  being  absent 
to  warde.  And  upon  the  market  daye,  all  the  constables  and  vinteners, 
with  ther  companions,  except  those  that  warde  the  gates,  shalbe  in  the 
Market  at  viij.  of  the  clok  ;  and  the  speres,  with  ther  pages  after  them,  with 
ther  axes,  and  archers  on  horsback,  at  ix.  of  the  clok,  to  furnysh  the  market, 
till  the  gates  be  shutt  at  xj.  of  the  clok. 

The  Warde  of  the  Councell  in  the  Passion  Wieke. 

It  is  ordeyned,  that  apon  the  Maunde  thursdaye  the  kinges  deputie,  with 
his  speres,  archers  on  horsback,  and  souldiers  that  be  to  hym  assigned  for 
the  Banner  watche,  and  themaister  porter,  with  his  companie  of  the  Banner 
watche,  shalbe  in  the  Market  place  at  the  first  opening  of  the  gates,  and 
ther  shall  contynue  with  their  saide  companie  till  the  shitting  of  the  gate 


1533. J  ORDENANCES   FOR  WATCH  AND   WARD  OF  CALAIS.  159 

at  none;  and  lykewise  at  the  reopening  of  the  gate  agayne  to  be  ther, 
and  ther  to  contynue  till  the  gate  be  shut  for  that  night.  And  upon  Good 
Frydaie  the  heigh  marshall  and  under-marshall,  with  the  companies  appointed 
to  tlicm  in  the  Banner  watche,  shall  kepe  the  wardc  in  the  Market  in  manner 
and  forme  as  bifore  is  said  of  the  deputie ;  and  upon  Easter  even  the 
treasurer  and  his  companie  shall  kepe  the  warde  in  the  Market  in  manner 
and  forme  as  bifore  ;  and  upon  Easter  daye  the  comptroller,  with  his 
companie,  shall  kepe  his  warde  in  the  saide  M.  rkot-place,  from  the  first 
opening  of  the  gate  till  the  saide  gate  be  shuttc  at  none,  and  then  maye 
depart  for  that  daye. 

The  ordre  of  the  Wardes  ahore   the  Wall,  how  many  be  of  them,  and 
howe  they  shalhe  furnished  in  Skries  and  Laroms. 

Wher  ther  be  xl^'ij. wardes  assigned  for  the  stande  watche abowte  thewalles, 
it  is  ordeyned  that  the  saide  xlij.  wardes  shalbe  at  skries  and  laroms  devided 
intoo  xvij.  wardes,  in  manner  and  forme  following,  that  is  to  saye,  the  firste 
warde  shalbegyne  at  the  tower  in  the  Castell  corner  in  the  north  side  of  the 
towne,  and  soo  goo  furthe  estwarde  to  the  crosse  of  stone  in  the  waule. 
And  the  seconde  warde  shall  goo  from  the  saide  crosse  in  the  waule  est- 
warde to  the  steire  hede  at  the  Water  gate  ;  and  that  the  thirde  warde  shall 
goo  from  the  saide  third  steire  hed  at  the  Water  gate  estwarde  to  the  crosse 
on  the  waule.  The  iiij^'i  warde  shall  goo  from  the  saide  crosse  estwarde  to 
the  crosse  in  the  myddle  of  the  Lanterne  gate.  The  v'h  warde  shall  goo 
from  the  saide  crosse  in  the  Lanterne  gate  estwarde  to  the  crosse  in  the 
waule.  The  vj''^  warde  shall  goo  from  the  saide  crosse  in  the  waule  est- 
warde to  the  crosse  in  the  mydds  of  the  Beachame  tower.  The  saide  vij"' 
warde  shall  goo  from  the  saide  crosse  in  the  myddle  of  the  Beachame  tower 
south  warde  to  the  crosse  in  the  waule.  The  viij*''  warde  shall  goo  from  the 
saide  crosse  southwarde  to  another  crosse  in  the  waule.  The  ixt'^  warde 
shall  goo  from  the  saide  crosse  south  and  west  unto  another  crosse  in  the 
waule.  The  x'^  warde  shall  goo  from  the  saide  crosse  in  the  wale  westwarde 
to  another  crosse  in  the  waule.  The  xj^''  warde  shall  goo  from  the  saide  crosse 
on  the  waule  westwarde  to  the  crosse  in  the  wauUe  in  the  est  ende  of  the 
Staple  Inne.  The  xij'''  warde  shall  goo  from  the  saide  crosse  of  the 
est  ende  of  the  Staple  Inne  unto  the  nexte  crosse  on  the  waulle  westwarde. 


160  ORDENANCES   FOR  WATCH   AND  WARD  OF  CALAIS.  [1533. 

The  xiijth  warde  shall  goo  from  the  saide  crosse  on  the  wauUe  westwarde 
unto  the  crosse  upon  the  dravvght  house,  on  the  est  side  of  the  Northumber- 
land tower.  The  xiiij^^i  warde  shall  goo  from  the  saide  cross  westwarde  to 
the  crosse  in  the  wauUe  against  Cowe  lane.  The  xv^'^  warde  from  the 
saide  crosse  westwarde  to  the  crosse  on  the  walle  against  the  BuUen  well. 
The  xvjth  warde  shall  goo  from  the  saide  crosse  west  and  north  to  the 
crosse  in  the  waule  betwixt  the  drawght  house  and  the  under-marshall's 
tower.  The  xvij''^  warde  shall  goo  north  warde  to  the  crosse  on  the  waulle 
on  the  southe  side  of  the  Castell  by  the  west  watche  house. 

It  is  ordeyned  that  the  wardes  aforesaid  shalbe  furnyshed  in  manner  and 
forme  following,  that  is  to  sale,  ij.  constables  with  ther  companions  shall 
begynne  the  firste  warde  ;  and  then  one  vintener  shall  furnyshe  the  next, 
and  soo  successyvely  throughe  the  saide  wardes.  And  it  is  ordeyned,  that 
in  lyke  manner  and  forme  as  the  saide  wardes  be  devided  to  the  constables 
and  vinteners,  and  ther  companies,  so  the  same  wardes  shalbe  devided  into 
vj.  parties,  whereof  the  first  begynneth  at  Beacham's  tower  unto  the  Mylke- 
gate  tower,  whiche  ys  assigned  to  the  kinges  deputie.  And  the  seconde  of 
the  vj.  wardes  from  Mylkgate  tower  to  the  Prince's  tower,  and  that  shalbe  in 
the  high  marshall's  charge.  The  thirde  warde  from  the  Prince's  tower  to  the 
Bullen  gate,  whiche  shalbe  in  the  comptroller's  charge.  The  iiij^li  warde 
from  Bullen  gate  to  the  Castell,  shalbe  in  the  treasurer's  charge.  The 
v^^  from  the  Castell  to  the  Lanterne  gate,  shalbe  in  the  under-marshall's 
charge.  The  vj*^''  from  the  Lanterne  gate  to  the  Beacham  tower,  shalbe  in 
the  maister  porter's  charge,  with  suche  constables,  vinteners,  and  gonners  as 
be  with  the  saide  wardes,  as  above  is  assigned. 

Til  ovdr"  for  the  Escries  hi  night  or  hy  daije. 

If  anny  escriebemade  by  night  by  reaport  of  any  of  the  saide  watchemen, 
as  bifore  is  saide,  or  by  any  other  meane,  the  counsell,  with  all  the  speres, 
archers  on  horsback,  iiij  vinteners  with  ther  companies,  with  all  diligens 
shall  resort  to  the  Market-place  armed  and  weaponed  accordinglie.  And 
vj.  tipstaves,  in  ther  hemes  and  weapons,  shall  gyve  attendaunce  upon  the 
kinges  deputie  and  counsell  ther.  And  all  ther  constables,  and  the  residue 
of  the  vinteners  not  assigned  to  the  Market-place  aforesaide,  and  all  other 
souldiers  of  the  retynue,  as  well  in  the  retynue  of  the  deputie  as  in  the 


1533.]  ORDENANCES   FOR  WATCH   AND   WARD  OK  CALAIS.  161 

retynue  of  all  other  of  the  counsell  and  officers,  shall  reasort  to  the  walles, 
every  one  to  his  warde,  in  hemes.  And  the  kinges  deputie  and  counsaill, 
being  in  the  Market-place  armed,  shall  not  have  with  them  none  other  of  the 
rytenue ;  but  the  speres,  archers  on  horsback,  tipstaves,  vinteners,  and 
other  companies  shall  ther  attende  upon  the  kinges  deputie  and  counsaill  for 
safe  keping  of  the  saide  Market-place.  And  then  the  saide  deputie  shall 
sende  one  of  the  tipstaves  with  the  comptroller's  dark  of  the  chek  to  the  est 
and  west  howses,  and  se  how  they  be  furnyshed  with  ther  watche,  as  well 
with  the  standwatche  as  with  the  saide  companie  of  constables  and  vinteners 
with  ther  fellowshipps ;  and  if  any  defaulte  be  in  any  of  them,  to  note  the 
same,  and  then  retorne  to  the  Market  to  the  kinges  deputie  and  counsaill, 
and  ther  make  reaport  of  all  suche  defaultes.  And  as  many  as  so  shall 
make  defaulte,  and  have  no  lawfuU  excuse,  to  have  punishment  of  xl.  dales 
punishment  and  a  quarter's  wages,  and  therfor  the  dark  of  the  chek  maye  not 
be  withoute  his  boke  of  chek,  nor  the  vyntener  nor  constables  withoute  the 
billes  of  the  names  of  ther  companies;  and  lyke  order  to  be  used  for  escries 
or  larome  made  by  daye. 

For  Watche  in  the  neive  Brais  and  Serche  toiver  in  the  tyme  of  warre, 
and  in  the  heri'ing  tyme,  in  the  saide  towei . 

First,  it  is  ordeyned  that  ij.  gonners  that  be  appointed  to  the  brais  in  the 
tyme  of  warre  shall  kepe  the  Serche  tower  the  herring  tyme ;  and  every 
night  when  the  bridge  ys  drawen  at  the  Lanterne  gate,  and  every  morning 
when  the  bridge  is  let  downe,  one  of  the  gonners  shall  shote  one  gunne,  to 
the  entent  that  every  night,  at  the  shoting  of  the  saide  gunne,  every  stranger 
of  the  herring  men  shall  reasort  to  ther  shipps,  upon  payne  to  be  punyshed. 
And  after  the  saide  gone  be  shot  in  the  morning,  the  saide  strangers  maye 
come  out  of  ther  shipps  and  tende  the[ir]  busynes,  and  not  bifore,  upon  lyke 
payne. 

For  ij.  gonnes  to  be  laied  in  the  Lanterne  gate  the  herring  tyme. 

It  is  also  ordeyned  that  ij.  gunnes,  with  sufficient  powder  and  shot,  shalbe 
laied  in  the  Lanterne  gate  ever  apon  Michaelmas  even,  and  ther  lie  till  seint 
Andrewes   tide  then   next  following  ;    and  one   gonner  daylie   shalbe   ap- 

CAMD.  SOC.  Y 


1(52  MEMORIAL   RESPECTING  FUEL.  [1522. 

pointed  by  the  kinges  deputie  to  waite  uppon  the  saide  gonnes,  that  if  nede 
require  they  may  be  shot  for  the  defence  of  the  same  ;  and  that  the  saide 
gonner  soo  appointed  shall  not  faile  to  kepe  his  saide  warde,  upon  lyke  paynes 
as  bifore  expressed  upon  those  that  make  defaulte  of  ther  warde  dayes  in 
the  saide  herring  tyme. 

[Here  follows,  in  the  same  manuscript,  the  second  copy  of  the  king's  device  for  the  forti- 
fication of  the  town,  already  mentioned  in  p.  125.] 

Memorial  of  lord  Berners   when  deputy  of  Calais,  and  the 
other   officers   of    the    town,   to   the   king,  respecting  the 

SCARCITY  OF   FUEL,  &C,  IN  CONSEQUENCE  OF    THE  FrENCH  CRUISERS. 

The  date  of  this  document  wants  the  year,  but  it  was  written  whilst  lord  Berners  was 
deputy  of  Calais,  and  probably  belongs  to  1522,  when  hostilities  broke  out  with  France. 
The  "  three  jurisdictions"  represented  in  the  signatures  were  those  of  the  council,  the 
town,  and  the  staple. 

(MS.  Cotton.  Calig.  E.  i.  p.  28.     The  original.) 

Pleaseth  your  highnes  that  all  we  your  most  lowly  sei-vauntes  and  sub- 
ge[ctes  of  the  th]re  jurisdiccions  of  this  your  highnes  toune  of  Caleys,  in 
our  moste  humble  wyse  do  shew  and  ascerteyne  your  [highness]  that  here 
is  an  unyversal  great  lack  and  default  of  wode  and  fiewel  within  your  saide 
toune,  by  reason  [that  of]  late  dyvers  and  sundry  hoyes,  playtes,  and  other 
ships  freghted  and  repeyring  toward  this  toune  with  [wood]  and  cole  have 
been  taken  on  the  see  by  Frenchmen,  as  well  before  the  opening  of  the 
warres  as  syns,  so  that  by  a  serche  lately  made  within  this  toune  there  is 
not  fiewel  suflBcient  to  serve  the  same  [for]  xv.  days  ;  the  lack  wherof  be- 
gynneth  a  great  rumour  amonges  the  generaltie  of  this  toune  ;  and  it  is 
thought  by  us,  if  remedye  be  not  shortly'  provyded  for  relief  and  helpe  of 
the  same  by  your  highnes,  greater  inconvenyence  and  daunger  is  lyke  to 
follow  and  come  to  this  toune,  which  God  defend,  for  we  [have]  done  as- 
moche  for  our  partes  as  in  our  possibilite  is,  as  wel  in  wrytyng  and  sending 
over  into  Englonde  w[here]  wode  lyeth  to  such  persons  as  have  ships  there, 
as  also  in  causing  the  hoyes,  playtes,  and  other  ships  which  lie  here  in  the 
haven,  with  the  masters  and  maryners  of  the  same,  to  fetche,  bryng,  and 
convey  out  [of  En]glande  wode  to  this  toune  ;  and  have  offered  unto  them 
moche  more   largely   for   their  freghtes   than    [they   ha]ve  bene  wont  and 


1522.]  MKMOHIAI,    RESPECTING   EUEL.  163 

accustomed  to  take  or  demande ;  but  they  utterly  do  refuse  to  adventure 
th[emselves]  or  ships  on  the  see  onlesse  they  mighte  have  EngUshe  ships 
of  warre  to  conduyct  [them]  bothe  to  and  fro.  And,  bycause  they  daily  see 
byfore  their  faces  ships  taken  by  Frenshmen  here  [about]  e  without  any 
maner  of  rescuyng  of  the  same,  they  be  in  so  great  drede  and  fere  that  they 

had  rather to  jeobarde  themselfes  on  the   see  without  conduyct. 

And,  inasmoch  as  we  canfynde  no  fu[rther  help]  or  remedye  herein  of  our 
selfes,  we  can  no  lesse  of  our  dueties  but  to  advertise  yourhighnes  in  [what] 
estate  we  stonde  in  that  behalf;  wherfor  all  we  of  the  forsaid  thre  juris- 
diccions  w[ould]  beseche  your  highnes  to  have  tendre  consideracion  and  pitie 
apon  this  your  grace's  toune  and  servauntes  [inhabitants]  within  the  same, 
to  se  some  provysion  that  wode  and  fiewel  may  be  shortly  conveyed  over 
hiddre,  and  [to  be]  brought  unto  us,  if  it  may  pleas  your  highnes  to  appoint 
and  commaunde  six  ships  of  werre  to  a[ct  in]  arredines  for  the  releif  of  this 
your  said  toune,  wherof  thre  ships  to  have  their  most  abode  co[mmor]aunte 
about  the  Camber,  and  other  thre  about  the  haven  and  rode  of  this  toune,  orels 
atte  le[ast  two  shi]ps  about  the  Camber,  and  other  two  about  the  said 
haven  and  rode  of  this  toune,  that  than  they  [safely  ma]y  conduyct  and 
convey  over  hiddre  not  oonly  such  ships  as  wold  repeyre  hiddre  with 
wode,  fiewel  [and  cole],  but  also  the  passages  that  from  tyme  to  tyme 
shall  passe  to  and  fro  betwext  this  toune  and  the  [coast]  of  Englond. 
And  otherwyse  we  see  not  how  any  thing  necessarye  for  us  can  be  po3- 
sib[ly  brought]  over  to  this  toune  in  suretie  ;  for,  if  any  ships  shuld 
be  appoincted  by  your  highnes  for  the  sa[iling]  about  the  downes,  we 
see  such  daily  experyence  in  theym  that  they  nothing  shalhelpe  for  [the] 
convey  of  any  ships  which  shall  resorte  with  wode,  fiewel,  and  victail  to 
this  your  said  to[une].  Written  at  the  same  your  toune  of  Caleys,  the 
xxti.  day  of  June. 

Your  humble  servauntes, 
Joh'n  Berners.  Raymond  Cutturvs,  m[ayor.]  George 

Wyll'm  Sandys.  Medley,  levetenant  of  the  staple. 

Robert  Wotton.  Edward  Guldeford.        Berkeley. 

Crystoffer  Garneys. 
[Ba]rtylmew  Tate. 
(  The  signatures  are  autograph.^ 
Directed,  To  the  klnges  highenes. 


164  THE  WILL  OF  LOUD  BERNKRS.  [153:2. 

[P.  44.]  Will  of  lord  Berners,  deputy  of  Calais,  1532. 

John  Bourehier  lord  Berners,  now  better  known  as  the  translator  of  Froissart,  had  been 
appointed  deputy  of  Calais  in  1520.  Here  he  amused  his  leisure  with  his  literary  em- 
ployments ;*  and  his  translation  of  Marcus  Aurelius,  made  "  at  the  instant  desire  of  his 
nevewe  sir  Francis  Bryan  knight,"  was  not  completed  until  a  few  days  before  his  death, 
and  one  week  later  than  his  will :  it  was  "  ended  at  Caleis  the  tenth  dale  of  Marche,  in 
the  yere  of  the  reigne  of  our  soveraygne  lorde  kyng  Henry  the  viij.  the  xxiiij."  Lord 
Berners  died  on  the  19th  March,  1532.  (Life  by  Mr.  Utterson,  prefixed  to  the  edition  of 
Lord  Berners'  Froissart,  4to.  1812,  p.  21). 

His  will  was  made  at  Calais  on  the  3d  of  March  1532,  and  commences 
in  the  following  terms  :  "  I,  John  Bourehier  knight,  lord  Barnes,  the  king's 
deputy-general  of  the  town  and  marches  of  Caleys,  &c.  make  this  my  pre- 
sent testament  and  last  will,  in  manner  and  form  following.  First,  I  be- 
queath my  soul  to  Almighty  God,  &c.  and  my  body  to  be  buried  in  the 
parish  church  of  our  lady  St.  Mary  the  Virgin  of  the  said  town  of  Caleys, 
within  the  chauncell  of  the  same  church,"  &c.  He  gave  to  "  Francis  Hast- 
ings esq.  and  Jane  his  wife,  &c.  my  great  tenement  I  dwell  in  in  Caleys," 
He  appoints  "  Francis  Hastings  and  Robert  Rolf,  recorder  of  Calais,  execu- 
tors ;  to  Robert  ten  marks  sterling  ;  I  make  my  lord  Edmund  Howard  my 
brother  f  overseer  of  the  same  my  present  testament,  to  whom  my  brother 
I  give  a  standing  cup  of  silver  and  gilted,  weighing  22  ounces,  &c.  In  wit- 
ness whereof,  to  this  my  present  testament  and  last  will  I  have  set  my  seal 
of  arms,  and  subscribed  my  name,  the  day  and  year  first  above  writ,  in 
the  presence  of  the  said  lord  Edmund  my  brother,  and  sir  Edward  Ringesley 
knio-ht,  high  marshal  of  Calais,  sir  Edward  Brindelyolyn,  paroche  preste  of 
the  abovesaid  church  of  our  Lady,  our  ghostly  father  sir  William  Petous 
my  chaplain,  &c."  This  will  was  proved  by  Francis  Hastings,  4  Feb.  1533. 
—(Collins s  Baronies  hy  Writ,fol.  1734,  jo.  337.) 

[P.  44.]  Return  of  the  duke  of  Richmond  and  earl  of  Surrey 

FROM  France. 
The  passage  of  our  chronicler,  which  states  that  these  young  noblemen 
"cam  to  Caleys  out  of  Fraunce,  where  they  had  bene  almost  xij.  monthes," 
is  remarkable  as  being  in  contradiction  to  the  view  taken  by  Dr.  Nott  in 

*  On  this  subject  see  another  note  appended  to  the  Table  of  Contents,  p.  vi. 

f  Lord  Berners  married  lady  Katharine  Howard,  daughter  of  Jolm  duke  of  Norfolk, 


1533.]  EARL  OF   SUKKEy's   STAY  IN   FRANCE.  165 

his  Life  of  the  Earl  of  Surrey.  It  was  supposed  by  previous  writers,  from 
the  statements  of  lord  Herbert  the  historian,  that  Surrey  had  accompanied 
the  duke  of  Richmond  during  his  stay  in  France ;  but  Dr.  Nott  (p.  xxvi.) 
considers  it  uncertain  whether  Surrey  went  to  Paris  ;  and  in  p.  xxvii.  he 
states  that  lord  Surrey  bore  the  fourth  sword  at  the  coronation  of  queen 
Anne  Boleyne  in  May  1533.  In  p.  xxviii.  he  says  that  the  duke  of  Rich- 
mond arrived  in  London  on  the  7th  Sept.  just  in  time  to  be  present  at  the 
christening  of  the  princess  Elizabeth  :  whereas  our  chronicler  states  that 
the  duke  and  earl  were  only  come  so  far  as  Calais  on  the  2oth  of  that 
month.  The  explanation  of  the  latter  of  these  discrepancies  is  furnished 
by  the  fact  that  the  duke  of  Richmond  did  not  actually  accompany  the  duke 
of  Norfolk  (who  really  came  in  time  for  the  christening),  but  followed 
shortly  after  him.  The  former  may  be  attributed  to  the  circumstance,  that 
the  names  mentioned  in  ceremonials  are  often  those  who  were  considered 
by  the  heralds  as  entitled  to  be  present,  rather  than  such  as  actually  at- 
tended. The  earl  of  Surrey,  then,  may  have  passed  these  twelve  months  in 
France,  the  companion  of  "  a  king's  son,"  as  he  styles  himself  in  one  of  his 
sonnets,  even  though  his  name  was  set  down  as  destined  to  take  part  in  the 
ceremonial  of  the  queen's  coronation. 

[P.  46.]   Letter  of  Stephen  Gardiner,  bishop  of  Winchester. 

After  the  visit  of  the  bishop  of  Winchester  to  Calais,  mentioned  in  p.  46,  he  addressed 
the  following  letter  of  civility  to  lord  Lisle,  acknowledging  the  hospitality  he  had  received 
from  the  lord  deputy  and  his  lady. 

(MS.  Harl.  283,  f.  214.) 

My  lord,  after  my  right  harty  commendations,  I  thanke  yowe  for  your 
sondry  gentyl  lettres,  and  partly  to  recompense  them,  I  have  spoken  dili- 
gently to  the  emperor's  counsayl  that  such  pullery  and  wylde-foule  raaye 
passe  by  Graveling  as  ye  require,  without  interruption,  whiche  I  have  had 
promyse  shalbe  doon  without  faulte,  I  have  noo  newes  to  wryte  of  that  ye 
wold  knowe ;  ye  be  nerer  the  market  of  [them]  thenne  I  am.  God  send 
them  to  be  in  the  conclusion  such  as  al  good  men  desire. 

Herewith  I  send  two  lettres,  oon  to  my  lord  of  Duresme,*  and  an  other 
to  mastre  Wallop,!  which  I  praye  youe  cause  to  be  sent  unto  them. 

*  Cuthbcrt  Tunstall.  f    Sir  .John  Wallop. 


166  ELECTION  OF  BURGESSES  TO  TAKLIAMENT.  [1536. 

I  praye  youe  I  maye  be  commended  to  my  good  lady,  with  thankes  for 
my  good  cliere  to  youe  both  ;  and  soo  I  pray  God  send  youe  hartely  wel  to 
fare.     At  Antwerp  the  last  of  Novembre. 

Your  good  lordshippes  assuredly, 

Ste.  Winton. 
Directed,  To  my  very  goode  lorde  my  Lorde  Deputie  of  Calais. 

Election  of  burgesses  from  Calais  to  parliament,  1536. 

In  the  following  letter  from  lord  chancellor  Audley  to  viscount  Lisle  the  lord  deputy 
of  Calais,  the  writer  reminds  his  lordship  that  it  had  been  provided  by  an  Act  of  the  last 
Parliament,*  that  is,  in  the  last  session  of  the  parliament  then  assembled,  that  Calais  should 
always  send  two  burgesses,  one  to  be  chosen  by  the  deputy  and  council,  and  the  other  by 
the  mayor  and  commonalty  :  directing  him  now  to  see  such  order  fulfilled.  He  forwards 
also  a  writ  to  lord  Lisle  himself,  but  intimates  that  his  attendance  will  be  dispensed  with. 

(MS.  Cotton.  Titus,  B.  i.  f.  144. ) 

After  my  righte  herty  commendacions,  it  may  like  your  lordshipp  to 
understond  that  the  kinges  highnes  hath  somonyd  hys  parlament  to  be 
holden  at  Westminster  the  thursday  in  Wyttsonweke  f  next  comyng ; 
wherfor  I  send  your  lordshipp  oone  wrytt  for  your  somonj  to  be  there. 
Neverthelesse  ye  shal  not  nede  to  com,  oonlej  ye  have  further  knowleyge 
of  the  kinges  plesure  that  his  grace  ys  content  that  ye  shalbe  absent  from 
your  charge  at  Calys ;  but  I  send  you  the  wrytt,  bycause  it  ys  the  order 
that  every  nobilleman  shuld  have  his  wrytt  of  somon5  of  a  parlament. 

I  also  send  by  this  brynger  ij.  other  wryttes,  oone  to  the  counselle  for 
eleccion  of  oone  burge3,  another  to  the  mayer  and  comonalte  for  eleccion  of 
another  burgej,^  praying  you  and  the  counselle  so  to  execute  the  wrytt 
dyrectyd  to  you  that  ye  may  chose  and  name  a  man  that  bothe  for  gravyte, 
honesty,  reputacion,  and  wytt,  may  be  abyll  to  serve  the  kynge  for  oone 
burge}  in  his  parlament,  for  his  towae  and  marches  of  Calys  ;  and  likewyse 
desire  you  to  move  the  mayer,  that  he  and  his  bretherne  take  suche  respect 
in  the  eleccion  of  another  burges  as  shalbe  of  like  gravyte,  honeste,  repu- 
tacion and  wytt  as  ys  aforesayd.  Signyfying  to  you  that  ther  ys  an  act 
passid  at  the  last  parlament,  that  Calys  shal  alweyes  at  every  Parliament 

*  See  Statutes  of  the  Realm,  vol.  iii.  p.  649. 
t  The  parliament  met  on  the  8th  June  1536. 

X  See  these  writs  printed  in  Rymer,  xiv.  567  ;  and  the  like,  dated  23  Nov.  33  Hen. 
Vin.  1541,  ibid.  p.  740. 


1539.]  RECEPTION   OF   THE   LADY   ANNA   OI'  CLEVES.  167 

in  Englond  have  ij.  burgesse},  oon  to  be  chosen  by  the  deputie  and  the 
counsel!,  and  the  other  to  be  chosen  by  the  mayer  and  comonalte.  And 
thus  hertely  fare  ye  well,  with  as  good  helthe  and  longe  lyff  as  I  wold  my- 
self.    Wryten  at  London,  the  xiiij.  day  of  Maye. 

Your  lovjTig  frend  Thomas  Audeley,  k'.  chanceler. 

Directed,  To  his  loving  frend  the  lorde  Lysley,  deputie  of  Cales,  be  this 
yoven,  w'  spede. 

(It  was  usual  at  this  period  for  knights  to  add  k.  to  their  signatures.) 


Reception  of  the  lady  Anna  of  Cleves  at  Calais,  1539. 

Miss  Strickland,  "  Lives  of  the  Queens  of  England,"  1842,  vol.  iv.  p.  330,  has  given  a 
brief  abstract  of  a  narrative  remaining  in  the  State  Paper  office,  describing  the  journey  of  the 
lady  Anna  of  Cleves  from  Dusseldorf  to  Calais  ;  and  has  also  quoted  at  full  Hall's  ample 
recital  of  the  ceremonies  and  festivities  upon  her  reception  in  England.  That  popular 
authoress  was  not,  however,  aw'are  of  the  existence  of  the  papers  which  are  here  inserted. 

The  treaty  made  on  this  occasion  was  not  inserted  in  Rymer's  collection,  but  a  copy 
may  be  seen  in  MS.  Cotton.  Vitellius,  C.  xi.  p.  213.  The  commissioners  on  the  king's 
side  were  Thomas  archbishop  of  Canterbury,  Thomas  lord  Audley,  lord  chancellor,  Charles 
duke  of  Suffolk,  Thomas  Lord  Cromwell,  keeper  of  the  privy  seal,  William  earl  of  South- 
ampton, lord  admiral,  and  Cuthbert  bishop  of  Durham  ;  on  the  part  of  John  Frederick 
duke  of  Saxony,*  sir  John  a  Doltzike  knight,  and  Francis  Burgart,  his  vice-chancellor  ; 
and  on  the  part  of  William  duke  of  Juliers,  Gelders,  Cleve,  &c.  William  ab  Harff,  "  aule 
prefeetus,"  elsewhere  called  "the  steward  Hoghsteyn,"  (see  p.  172),  and  Henry  Olysleger. 
The  English  part  of  the  treaty  was  executed  at  Windsor  Castle,  Sept.  24,  1539. 

A  letter  of  Gregorj'  Cromwell,  son  of  the  lord  privy  seal,  to  his  wife,  dated  Calais,  the 
9th  of  December,  and  briefly  describing  the  arrangements  made  for  the  lady  Anna's 
reception,  is  printed  in  Miss  Wood's  Letters  of  Royal  and  Illustrious  Ladies,  ii.  357. 

TTie  orders  takene  for  the  receavinge  of  the  moste  noble  Princesse  the 
Ladye  Anne  of  Cleves,  Julyers,  8)-c.  repayringe  into  England  for 
a  mariage,  by  the  grace  of  God  to  be  solempnysed  betweene  Mr  and 
the  Kinges  Majestic,  our  most  gracyous  and  dread  soveraigne  Lord. 

(MS.  Karl.  295,  f.  152  b.     Another  copy  in  MS.  Cotton,  Vitellius,  C.  xi.  f.  221  b.    They 
vary  in  their  orthography  ;  and  neither  of  them  are  contemporary.) 

Fyrste,  it  is  appoyntcd  that  the  lord  deputye  and  counselle  of  Callyse, 
with  the  menne  of  armes,  and  suche  nomber  of  the  retynewe  of  that  towne 

*  The  duke  of  Saxony  had  married  Sibilla  sister  of  Anna  of  Cleves.  William  duke  of 
Juliers,  &c.  was  her  brother. 


168  RECEPTION   OF   THE  LADY   ANNA   OF  CLEVES.  [1539. 

as  to  them  and  the  lord  admjM-all,  beinge  nowe  sent  thither  to  see  hir  trans- 
ported, shalbe  thought  meele,  shall  in  their  best  arraye  raeete  and  receave 
hir  grace,  at  hir  enterie  into  the  EngUshe  pale  ;  and  after  their  due  reverence 
and  salutacions  made  unto  the  same,  they  shall  conduct  her  and  her  traine 
to  the  said  towne,  makeinge  unto  the  strangers  comeinge  with  her,  as  their 
degrees  require,  all  honest  and  frendly  semblance  and  entertainement, 
whereby  they  may  perceive  themselves  most  hartely  welcome. 

Item,  it  is  appointed  that  aboute  St.  Peter's,  without  the  said  towne  of 
Calls,  the  said  lord  admirall,  with  all  the  lords  and  other  gentlemen  assigned 
to  keepe  him  company  and  to  attende  upon  him  in  this  voyage,  shall  meete 
her,*  and  make  like  reverence  and  salutacions,  [and]  shall  in  like  maner 

*  The  mode  in  which  this  programme  was  fulfilled  is  thus  described  by  Hall  :  "  The 
xi.  day  of  Decembi-e,  at  the  turnepyke  on  thys  syde  Gravelyng,  was  the  lady  Anne  of 
Cleve  receyved  by  the  lorde  Lysle,  deputie  of  the  town  of  Calice,  and  with  the  speres  and 
horsemen  belongyng  to  the  retynue  there,  all  beyng  fresh  and  warlyke  apparelled,  and  so 
marching  toward  Calice,  a  myle  and  more  from  the  towne,  met  her  grace  the  erle  of 
Southampton  gret  admirall  of  England,  and  apparelled  in  a  coate  of  purple  velvet  cut  on 
cloth  of  golde,  and  tyed  with  great  aglettesand  treifoilesof  golde,  tothe  nombre  of  iiij.  C.,and 
baudrick-wise  he  ware  a  ehayne,  at  the  whych  dyd  hang  a  whystle  of  golde  set  with  ryche 
stones  of  a  great  value.  And  in  his  company  xxx.  gentlemen  of  the  kynges  housholde, 
very  rychly  apparelled  with  gret  and  massy  chaynes,  and  in  especial  syr  Frauncis  Bryan 
and  syr  Thomas  Seymer's  chaynes  were  of  great  valure  and  straunge  fassyon.  Besyde  this, 
the  lorde  admirall  had  a  great  nombre  of  gentlemen  in  blew  velvet  and  crymosyn  sattyn, 
and  his  vomen  in  damask  of  the  same  colours,  and  the  maryners  of  his  ship  in  sattyn  of 
Bridges,  both  coates  and  sloppes  of  the  same  colours  ;  whych  lorde  admirall  with  low 
obeysaunce  welcomed  her,  and  so  brought  her  into  Calyee  by  the  Lanterne  gate,  where  the 
shippes  laye  in  the  haven  garnyshed  with  their  banners,  pencelles,  and  flagges,  pleasauntly 
to  beholde.  And  at  her  entry  was  shot  such  a  peale  of  gonnes,  that  all  the  retynew  much 
merveiled  at  it.  And  at  her  entei-y  into  the  towne,  the  mayer  of  the  towne  presented  her 
with  an  C.  marke  in  golde.  And  before  the  Staple-hall  stoode  the  merchauntes  of  the 
staple,  well  apparelled,  which  lykewise  presented  her  with  a  C.  sovereyns  of  golde  inarj'che 
pursse,  which  hertely  thanked  them,  and  so  she  rode  to  the  kinges  place  called  the 
Checker,  and  there  she  laye  xv.  dayes  for  lacke  of  prosperous  wynde.  Duryng  whyche 
tyme  goodly  justes  and  costly  bankettes  wer  made  to  her  for  her  solace  and  recreation. 
And  on  S.  Jhon's  day  in  Christmas,  she  with  1.  sayle  toke  passage  about  noone,  and 
landed  at  Deele,  in  the  downes,  about  v.  of  the  clocke." 

The  entertainment  of  the  royal  bride  in  Calais  is  further  thus  described  in  the  narrative 
in  the  State  Paper  Office  :  "  When  she  entered  the  Lantern  gate  she  staid  to  view  the  king's 
ships,  called  the  Lyon  and  the  Sweep-stakes,  which  were  decked  with  one  hundred 
banners  of  silk   and   gold,  wherein  were  two  master-gunners,  mariners,  and  thirty-one 


1539.]  RECEPTION   OF   THE  l.ADY  ANNA   OF  CLEVES.  1G9 

waite  upon  her  into  the  towne,  and  so  to  her  lodginge,  gevinge  their  daylie 
attendance  there  till  time  shall  serve  for  her  transportacion,  the  same  to  be 
taken  with  the  first  proper  season  that  by  the  said  lord  admirall  shalbe 
thought  meete  and  convenient. 

Item,  it  is  ordeined  that  at  her  grace's  arrival  at  Dover,  the  duke  of 
Suffolke,  and  lord  warden  of  the  cinque  ports,  with  such  other  lords  as 
be  appointed  to  waite  upon  them,  and  the  duches  of  Suffolke,  with  such 
other  ladies  as  be  appointed  to  wait  upon  her,  shall  receive  her  at  her  land- 
inge,  and  soe  convay  her  to  the  castle,  where  her  lodginge  shalbe  prepared ; 
and,  gevinge  their  continuall  attendance  upon  her  duringe  her  grace's  aboode 
there,  shall,  at  her  grace's  departure  from  thence,  conducte  her  to  Canter- 
bury, and  soe  further  till  her  meatinge  with  the  kinges  highnes. 

Item,  it  is  appoynted  that  beyond  Canterbury,  in  such  place  as  shalbe  con- 
venient, the  archbishop  of  Canterbury,  certeine  other  bishops  and  gen- 
tlemen assigned  to  keepe  her  company,  shall  meete  her  grace,  and  so  with 
the  reste  convay  her  to  her  lodginge  in  Canterbury,  and  in  like  maner  to 
attend  upon  her  untill  her  meetinge  with  the  kinges  highnes. 

Item,  it  is  appoynted  that  she  shalbe  eftsones  mett  on  the  downes  beyond 
Rochester  by  the  duke  of  Norfolk  and  certeine  other  lords  and  gentlemen 
appoynted  to  keepe  him  company,  who,  after  due  reverence  and  salutacions 
made,  shall  in  semblable  maner  waite  upon  her  untill  she  shall  come  to  the 
king's  majesties  presence. 

Item,  it  is  ordeined  that  on  this  side  Derteford,  the  earle  of  Rutland, 
appoynted  to  be  her  grace's  lord  chamberlain,  sir  Thomas  Dennys,  chaun- 
cellor,  sir  Edward  Bainton,  vice-chamberlain,  sir  John  Dudley,  master  of 

trumpets,  and  a  double-drum  that  was  never  seen  in  England  before  ;  and  so  her  grace 
entered  into  Calais,  at  whose  entering  there  was  150  rounds  of  ordnance  let  out  of  the  said 
ships,  which  made  such  a  smoke  that  not  one  of  her  train  could  see  the  other.  The 
soldiers  in  the  kinges  lively,  of  the  retinue  of  Calais,  the  mayor  of  Calais,  with  his  brethren, 
with  the  commons  of  Calais,  the  merchants  of  the  king's  staple,  stood  in  order,  forming 
a  line  through  which  she  passed  to  her  lodging  ;  and  so  the  mayor  and  his  brethren  came 
to  her  lodging,  and  gave  her  fifty  sovereigns  of  gold,  and  the  mayor  of  the  staple  gave  her 
sixty  sovereigns  of  gold  ;  and  on  the  morrow  after  she  had  a  cannon  shot,  jousting,  and 
all  other  royalty  that  could  be  devised  in  the  king's  garrison  royal,  and  kept  open  house- 
hold there,  during  the  time  that  she  did  there  remain,  which  was  twenty  days,  and  had 
daily  the  best  pastimes  that  could  be  devised." — Miss  StricliaruVs  Queens  of  England, 
vol.  iv.  p.  332. 

CAMD.  SOC.  Z 


170  RECEPTION  OF  THE  LADY  ANNA  OF  CLEVES.     [1539. 

her  horse,  and  all  others  appoynted  to  be  of  her  gi-ace's  counsell,  with  all 
the  reste  of  the  gentlemen,  yomen,  and  gromes  which  shalbe  her  ordinary 
servants,  and  also  the  lady  Margaret  Douglas,  the  duches  of  Richmond, 
and  other  noble  women,  ladies  and  gentlewomen,  which  shalbe  her  graces 
ordinary  waiters,  to  the  number,  in  all,  of  ladies  and  gentlewomen  30*'^, 
shal  eftsones  meete  her,  and,  doeinge  her  due  reverence,  shalbe  presented 
by  the  archbishop  of  Canterbury,  and  the  dukes  of  Norfolk  and  Suffolk, 
and  other  the  most  noble  personages  beinge  in  company  with  her,  and  her 
owne  traine  and  household,  and  soe  in  good  order  waite  upon  her  till  she 
shall  approach  towards  the  king's  majesties  presence ;  at  which  time  all  the 
yomen  and  meane  sorte  shall  avoide,  and  the  counsell,  ladies,  and  gentle- 
women only  remaine  in  traine  with  her. 

Item,  it  is  determined  that  on  the  hill  (blank)  there  shall  be  pitched  the 
king's  majesties  rich  pavilion,  and  certain  others  for  other  noble  personages, 
to  retire  themselves  into  after  they  shalbe  presented  to  his  highnes  ;  and, 
also,  that  there  shall>e  prepared  wine,  fruite,  and  spice,  in  maner  of  a  banket, 
to  be  redie  sett  upon  the  tables  in  the  said  pavilion.  And,  byfore  such  time 
as  the  king's  majestie  shall  meete  with  her,  it  is  appoynted  that  all  the 
servinge  men  shall  departe  from  the  traine,  and  on  ether  side  range  them- 
selves aloofe  in  the  field,  none  remaining  neere  her  but  only  such  as  shalbe 
thought  meete  and  appointed  to  waite  on  her  person  ;  and  all  the  reste  of  the 
gentlemen  to  ride  also  in  two  wide  ranges  on  either  side,  that  his  majestie  may 
only  have  such  afore  and  after  him  as  shalbe  so  assigned ;  and,  to  th'intente 
every  man  may  the  better  knowe  how  to  ensue  this  order,  and  to  use  him- 
selfe  at  this  time,  it  is  appointed  that  certeine  gentlemen  shalbe  assigned 
to  ride  about  and  cause  all  men  of  all  sorts  to  foUowe  such  directions  as 
shalbe  prescribed  unto  them. 

And  it  is  in  like  maner  ordeined,  that  the  duke  of  Norfolk,  being  earle 
marshall  of  England,  shall  cause  a  good  nomber  of  persons,  with  tipped 
staves,  to  be  put  in  order  to  keepe  the  streets  and  waies  betweene  the  townes 
ende  and  the  gate  at  Greenwiche ;  the  way  whereunto  shalbe  to  passe  aboute 
the  park,  and  so  through  the  towne  to  the  doore  directly  against  the  west 
ende  and  the  late  Friers  church,  and  so  to  the  greate  gate  on  the  water  side 
at  Greenewich  aforesaid.  And,  therefore  it  is  to  be  remembered  that  the 
said  doore  leadinge  out  of  the  lane  where  the  stables  be,  into  the  church  of 
the  late  Friers,  and  all  other  straite  places,  be  enlarged,  and  that  the  streete 


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be  graveled,  paved,  made  cleane,  and  put  in  as  good  order  as  may  be.  And 
likewise,  that  there  be  stronge  barres  made  alonge  the  Thames  side,  that  by 
presse  of  people  noe  man  be  put  in  danger  of  drowninge ;  the  chai-dge  of 
which  things  to  be  done  at  Greenewich  be  committed  to  Needham,  the  king's 
master  carpenter :  provided  that  every  lord  and  gentleman  alight  out  of 
the  waye  without  the  said  gate  leadinge  to  the  Friers,  and  so  goe  on  foote 
to  the  court,  and  only  the  king's  majestic,  the  queene,  and  the  ladies  to  ride 
into  the  court. 

Item,  it  is  appointed  that  when  the  king's  majestic  shalbe  in  his  pavilion, 
the  vice-chamberlein,  taking  with  him  the  guarde,  shall  repaire  to  Greene- 
wich, and  bestow  the  said  guard  in  such  place  of  the  house  as  shalbe  meete 
for  the  keepeinge  of  good  order,  and  the  avoidinge  of  all  servingmen  and 
others,  which  pressinge  in  and  havinge  no  necessary  business  to  doe  in  the 
household  should  be  great  anoyance  in  the  same. 

Item,  it  is  appointed  that  when  the  king's  majestie  shall  departe  from  his 
pavillion  towards  Greenewich,  all  the  gentlemen  not  beinge  specially  and  by 
name,  in  a  booke  to  be  made  for  that  purpose,  assigned  to  ride  before  his 
grace,  shall  stande  on  the  heathe  in  two  ranges,  sufferinge  his  grace  and  all 
the  traine  to  passe  wholly,  or  any  of  them  or  any  of  their  bandes  move 
from  thence ;  and  then  at  the  sounde  of  a  trumpett,  or  some  other  warninge 
given,  every  man  to  departe  to  his  lodginge. 

Item,  it  is  appointed  that  the  maior  of  London,  with  all  the  aldermen 
and  crafts,  shall  (be)  upon  the  Thames  in  barges  well  apparelled,  and  fur- 
nished with  as  manye  kinds  of  musicke  as  they  cann  gett,  to  congratulate  to 
this  her  grace's  arrival ;  but  non  of  them  shall  in  anywise  sett  forthe  on 
lande.  And  it  is  thought  meete  that  the  king's  mar  shall,  or  some  other, 
appointe  to  every  bardge  the  place  where  they  shall  lye,  for  the  better  shewe 
and  order  thereof  accordingly. 

Item,  that  the  chiefe  officers  of  the  household  furnishe  the  halle,  the 
porters  in  good  arraye  to  be  at  the  gates,  and  all  others  that  shall  be  in  the 
house  to  be  putt  in  honest  apparell  and  order. 


172  RECEPTION  OF  THE  LADY  ANNA  OF  CLEVES.  [1539. 

The  names  of  the  Noblemen   and  others  of   the   Queenes  trat/ne  that 
attendid  uppon  her  Grace  to  Calays. 

(MS.  Harl.  296,  f.  169,  contemporary  ;  copy  in  MS.  Cotton,  Vitell.  C.  xi.  f.  220  b.) 

The  erle  of  Oversteyn,  and  vij .  persons. 

The  yong  erle  of  Nueuare  and  Roussenbergh,  with  xiij.  persons. 

Sir  John  Dulzike,  the  electour  of  Saxes  marshall,  with  x.  persons. 

The  stewarde  Hoghsteyn,  with  v.  persons. 

OsUger,  the  chauncelour,  with  vj.  persons. 

Two  brethren  called  Palant,  with  x.  persons. 

Tennagel,  the  maistre  d'hostell,  with  vij.  persons. 

Sir  John  Buren,  with  vj.  persons. 

Hantzeler,  capteyn  of  My  lien,  with  vij.  persons. 

xxvij.  gentilmen  besides,  every  of  them  iij.  or  iiij.  servants-. 

viij.  pages,  whereof  one  is  an  erles  sone. 

Divers  officers  besides. 


Maistress  Gilmyn,  with  v.  persons. 

The  ladie  Keteler,  with  vj.  persons. 

The  wydowe  of  the  lord  of  Wyssem,  with  vj.  persons. 

The  wyfe  of  the  elder  Palant,  lorde  of  Bredebent,  with  vj.  persons. 

Five  yong  gentilwomen,  of  the  whiche  one  is  a  baron's  daughter. 

Three  other  gentilwomen  as  servauntes. 


The  number  of  gentilmen,  whereof  two  erles  .     .  xxxviij.   "\ 

Pages,  whereof  one  is  an  erles  sone        ....  viij.  \  CCxxviij. 

Officers  and  servauntes Ciiij^xij.  } 

The  nomber  of  the  ladyes  and  gentilwomen     .     .  xij. 

The  nomber  of  their  servauntes xxiij. 

The  hole  nomber CClxiij. 


>  XXXV. 


A  list  of  the  "  rewardes,"  or  presents  of  plate,  given  on  this  occasion  to  the  ambassadors 
of  Saxony  and  Juliers,  and  the  several  members  of  their  suites,  is  p^eser^ed  in  MS.  Cotton. 
App.  XXVIII.  ff.  104—108. 


1539.] 


RECEPTION  OF   THE  LADY   ANNA 


173 


A  buuJce  containing  the  names  of  them  which  should  receive  the  Ladie 

Anne  Cleave,  and  waite  on  the  Kinge  Henry  VIII. 

(MS.  Harl.  296,  f.  171;  also  in  MS.  Cotton,  Vitellius,  C.  xi.  f.  222.) 

For  my  Lord  Admirall  to  attend  upon  him  these  were 
appointed,  vizt. : 


My  lord  William  Howard. 

The  lord  Hastynges. 

The  lord  Talboyse. 

Sir  Thomas  Semor. 

Sir  Francis  Bryane. 

Sir  Henry  Knevette. 

Sir  Thomas  Sperte. 

William  Gonson. 

Sir  Christopher  Morres. 

George  CrombwelL* 

William  Herberte. 

Mr.  Hastynges. 

Mr.  Breame. 

EUarton. 

Banester. 

John  Wingfield. 


Blunte. 

Knolles. 

Henry  Jerningham.f 

Sampson. 

Gawen  Carewe. 

Peter  Carewe. 

Zouche  the  eldere. 

Freston. 

Hugh  Willoughby. 

Mantell. 

Asheley  the  younger. 

Younge  Stafford,  that  maryed  the 

lady  Cary. 
Dramer. 

Thomas  Holcroft. 
Yonge  Gresham. 


To  attend  my  Lord  of  Suffblke  for  the  mettynge  the  Lady  Anne  at 

Dovere, 


The  duke  of  Suflfolke. 
My  lord  Cobham. 
The  bishop  of  Chechester.ij: 
The  master  of  the  rolles.^ 
The  kinges  attorney.  |1 
Sir  William  Finche. 


Sir  Thomas  Willoughby. 
Sir  Edward  Wotton. 
Sir  Edward  Boughton. 
Sir  Henry  Isle. 
Sir  Thomas  Neville. 
William  Roper. 


*  Perhaps  an  error  for  Gregory  Cromwell,  the  writer  of  the  letternoticed  in  p.  167. 

"f-  In  Miss  Wood's  Collection  of  Letters,  iii.  142,  is  one  from  Mary  lady  Kingston, 
to  lady  Lisle,  thewife  of  the  deputy  of  Calais,  desiring  her  "  to  be  good  lady  unto  my  poor 
son,  Harry  Jerningham,  the  bearer,"  on  this  occasion,  and  particularly  to  helpe  him  to 
procure  a  horse,  if  he  met  with  any  difficulty, 

X  Richard  Sampson.  §  Thomas  Cromwell.  ||  Christopher  Hales. 


174 


RECEPTION  OF   THE  LADY   ANNA   OF  CLEVES. 


[1539. 


Edward  Thwaytes. 
Edward  Meninges. 
Thomas  Digges. 
Thomas  Roydon 
Walter  Moylle. 
Thomas  Moylle. 
Reginald  Scott. 
Thomas  Wilford. 
Thomas  Robartes. 
James  Hales. 
John  Boyse. 
John  Norton. 
John  Many  the  eldere. 
John  Crayford. 
Nicholas  Sybell. 
Thomas  Kempe. 
Richard  Ingham. 
Richard  Vane. 
William  Whetenall. 


Nicholas  Clifford,  of  Sutton. 

Ralfe  Symons. 

Henry  Cutt. 

Henry  Crispe. 

Thomas  Wingfield. 

William  Boyse. 

John  Gilford. 

Thomas  Greene,  of  Bobbinge. 

John  Norton,  of  Horshame. 


To  attend  the  Duches  of  Suffolk e. 

The  duches  of  Suffolke. 
The  ladie  Cobham. 
The  ladie  Hart. 
The  ladie  Haulte. 
The  ladie  Finche. 
The  ladie  Hales. 


Item,  the  Ladie  Anne  of  Cleve's  owne  trayne,  every  knight  and  squior 
to  have  a  cote  and  a  gowne  of  velvet,  or  other  good  silke,  and  a  chaine  of 
golde. 

To  attende  the  Duke  of  Norfolk  e. 


The  duke  of  Norfolke. 

The  archbishop  of  Canterbury.* 

The  lord  Mountjoy. 

The  lord  Dacres  of  the  South. 

Sir  William  Paston. 

Sir  Roger     ownsende. 

Sir  Edmund  Bedingfield. 

Sir  Thomas  Lestrange. 

Sir  Edmimd  Knevete. 

Sir  John  Jermye. 


Sir  Francis  Lovell. 
Sir  James  Bolleyne. 
Philip  Calthorpe. 
Sir  Edmund  Windham. 
Richard  Southwell. 
Henry  Hubbert. 
Thomas  Thursby. 
William  Coningesby. 
Robert  Townsend. 
Erasmus  Paston. 


*  Thomas  Cranmer. 


1539.] 


RECEPTION  OF  THE  LADY  ANNA  OF  CLEVES. 


175 


Thomas  Tyndall. 
Sir  John  Cleere. 
Edmund  Lomun. 
Thomas  Gibon. 


TTie  Duke  of  Norfolkes  owne 
Trayne. 

Sir  Thomas  Germyn. 
Ralfe  Simones. 


The  Kinges  owne  Traine, 

Tlie  lord  chauncelore.|| 

The  marquess  Dorsett. 

The  lord  privie  seale.^ 

The  earle  of  Surrey. 

The  earle  of  Oxforde. 

The  earle  of  Arundell. 

The  earle  of  Essexe. 

The  earle  of  Rutland. 

The  earle  of  Sussexe. 

The  earle  of  Herteford. 

The  earle  of  Derbye. 

The  lord  Bulbecke. 

The  lord  Ferrares. 

The  lord  Sturton. 

The  lord  Clynton. 

The  lord  Sandes,  lord  chamberleine. 

The  lord  Laware. 

The  lord  Wentworthe. 

The  lord  Windsore. 

The  yonge  lord  Braye. 


The  lord  Mordante. 

The  lord  Borough, 

The  lord  Morley. 

The  lord  Mountjoy. 

The  lord  Saint  John. 

The   lord  Hungerford  of  Hetes- 

bury. 
The  lord  Russell. 
The  lord  Neville. 
The  lord  Parre. 
The  bushope  of  Duresme.* 
The  bushope  of  Heroford.f 
The  bushope  of  Lincolne.  J 
The  bushope  of  St.  Assaphe.§ 


Gentlemen  of  the  Kinges  Privy 
Chamber. 

Sir  Thomas  Henage. 

Sir   Anthony  Browne,  master  of 

the  horse. 
Sir  Richard  Longe. 
Sir  Anthony  Selenger. 
Anthony  Denny. 
John  Wellesburn. 
Richard  Cromwell. 
Peeter  Mewtas. 
Anthony  Knevite. 
Ralfe  Sadlere. 
Richard  Morison. 
Thomas  Culpeper. 
Thomas  Paston. 
Maurice  Barkeley. 
Phillippe  Hobby. 


*  Cuthbert  Tunstall.  f  John  Harley.  J  John  Longland. 

§  Robert  Warton  or  Parfew.  ||   Thomas  Goodrick,  bishop  of  Ely. 

IT  Thomas  Boleyne,  earl  of  Wiltshire. 


176 


RECEPTION  OF  THE  LADY  ANNA   OF  CLEVES. 


[1539. 


The  Groomes  of  the  Privey 

Sir  John  Rainsford. 

Chamber. 

Sir  Thomas  Darcy. 

Sir  Clement  Harleston. 

Knightes. 

Sir  John  St.  Clere. 

Sir  Richard  Riche. 

Mr,  treasurore.* 

Sir  Thomas  Teye. 

Mr.  comptrolere.f 

Sir  John  Mordante. 

Mr.  vice-chamberlen.j; 

Sir  John  Abridges. 

Sir  Homfrey  Fostere. 

Sir  John  Welshe. 

Sir  John  Gage. 

Sir  John  Hurleston, 

Sir  John  Dudleye. 

Sir  Edmund  Tame. 

Sir  Edward  Baynton. 

Sir  Walter  Denys. 

Sir  Thomas  Dennis. 

Sir  Henry  Parker. 

Sir  Giles  Stranguishe. 

Sir  Gruffyth  Donn. 

Sir  John  Horsey. 

Sir  Phillipe  Butler. 

Sir  Thomas  Speake. 

Sir  John  Markham. 

Sir  Hugh  Paulet. 

Sir  Nicholas  Stirley. 

Sir  Heniy  Longe. 

Sir  WilUam  Apparre. 

Sir  John  Saint  John. 

Sir  Thomas  Tresham. 

Sir  Thomas  Rotheram. 

Sir  John  Villeres. 

Sir  John  Damiceye. 

Sir  William  Barentyne. 

Sir  William  Windsour. 

Sir  Walter  Stoner. 

Sir  Robert  Dormer. 

Sir  Thomas  Griffyn,  of  Northamp 

Sir  Ralf  Verneye. 

tonshire. 

Sir  Thomas  Longvill. 

Sir  Robert  Kyrkham. 

Sir  Anthony  Lee. 

Sir  John  Byron. 

Sir  William  Essexe. 

Sir  John  Harecourt. 

Sir  John  Norris. 

Sir  George  Darcye. 

Sir  Thomas  Arundell. 

Sir  John  Williames. 

Sir  Edward  Willoughby. 

Sir  Richard  Weston. 

Sir  Nicholas  Poyntes. 

Sir  Richard  Page. 

Sir  Anthony  Hungerford. 

Sir  John  Dannett. 

Sir  Thomas  Poyninges. 

Sir  Richard  Shurley. 

Sir  Brian  Tuke. 

Sir  William  Goringe. 

Sir  Giles  Capell. 

Sir  Arthur  Hopton. 

Sir  William  Newnham. 

Sir  Humfrey  Wingfield, 

*  Sir  William  Fitzwilliam.                  f 

Sir  Edward  Poyninges.              %  Qn.  ? 

1539.] 


RECEPTION    OF   THE   LADY   ANNA    OF  CLEVES. 


177 


Sir  William  Walgravc. 
Sir  Thomas  Banneston. 
Sir  John  Willoughby. 
Sir  George  Somersett. 
Sir  John  Jerningham. 
Sir  Thomas  Lysley. 
Sir  William  Barkeley. 
Sir  Peter  Philpott. 
Sir  William  Gyfford. 
Sir  Michael  Lyster. 
Sir  Anthony  Windesor. 
Sir  Edward  Gorge. 
Sir  John  St.  Lowe. 
Sir  Henry  Capell. 
Sir  John  Newton. 
Sir  John  Fulford. 
Sir  Walter  Smythe. 
Sir  Humfrey  Ferrares. 
Sir  John  Russell. 
Sir  William  Pickeringe. 
Sir  Edward  Walsingham. 
Sir  Edward  Braye. 
Sir  Percevall  Harte. 
Sir  Richard  Manneres. 
Sir  Thomas  Trencharde. 
Sir  Giles  Allington. 
Sir  Robert  Pay  ton. 
Sir  William   Gascoigne,   of   Bed- 
fordshire. 
Sir  William  Fitzwilliames. 
Sir  William  Drurye. 
Sir  Thomas  Germyne. 
Sir  Thomas  Ellyote. 
Sir  John  Browne. 
Sir  John  Hampden. 
Sir  John  Neville. 
Sir  John  Rogeres. 
CAMD.  see. 


Sir  William  Weste. 
Sir  Roger  Chomley. 
Sir  John  Rogeres. 
Sir  Francis  Dawtrye. 
Sir  William  Feldinge. 
Sir  George  Throgmorton. 
Sir  Humfrey  Browne. 


Esquiers^ 

Anthony  Kingston. 
George  Harper. 
Robert  Turwhitt. 
Leonard  Rede. 
Robert  Drury. 
Thomas  GyfFord. 
Ralfe  Lane. 
Edward  Knightley. 
George  Gyfford. 
Thomas  Edgare. 
Francis  Pigote. 
Robert  Chenye. 
Edward  Fettyplace. 
Thomas  Essexe. 
William  Hyde. 
Richard  Bridges. 
Alexander  Umpton. 
Reginald  Williams. 
Edward  Fabyan. 
Thomas  Vachell. 
Christopher  Asheton. 
John  Yate. 
John  Winchcombe. 
Roger  Sturton. 
John  Souche. 
Henry  Strangwaves. 
2    A 


178 


RECEPTION  OF  THE  LADY  ANNA  OF  CLEVES. 


[1539. 


Robert  Coker. 

Robert  Bingham. 

George  Troublefeild. 

Thomas  Wrothesleye. 

John  Wentworth. 

John  Tyrrell. 

John  Browne. 

Edward  Greene. 

Robert  Mordante. 

John  Christmas. 

Thomas  Cooke. 

John  Kekewich. 

Francis  Clovell. 

Edward  Tyrrell. 

Heni'y  Apelton. 

William  Ailife. 

Humphrey  Terrell,  of  Shenfeld. 

Guye  Craiford. 

Richard  Higham. 

John  Poyntes,  of  South  Ukkington. 

John  Poyntes. 

Michael  Weekes. 

Thomas  Thame. 

Robert  Wetney. 

Thomas  WTiitington. 

James  Clyfforde. 

George  Baynham. 

Arthur  Porter. 

Richard  Tracy e. 

Ralfe  Norwood. 

Edmund  Bridges. 

John  Palmer. 

John  Conesby. 

John  Peryent. 

John  Broket. 

Thomas  Nevill,  of  Holte. 

Robert  Cheseman. 


John  Newdigate. 
Anthony  Catesby. 
Richard  Catesby. 
Anthony  Cope. 
Thomas  Brudnell. 
Thomas  Cave. 
Leonard  Chamberlen. 
Thomas  Carter. 
John  More. 
John  Denton. 
Thomas  Wayneman. 
Humfrey  Ashfeild. 
Edward  Sapcote. 
Anthony  Colley. 
John  Harington. 
Thomas  Poppe. 
John  Danester. 
Henry  Browne. 
Christopher  More. 
John  SkjTiner. 
John  Morres. 
Thomas  Heron. 
John  Shelley. 
Oliver  St.  John. 
John  Sakevile. 
Nicholas  Gainsford, 
Richard  Bellingham. 
Robert  Oxenbridge. 
John  Palmer. 
John  Coverte. 
Thomas  Ashburn. 
Thomas  Darrell. 
Anthony  Pelham. 
John  Thecher. 
John  Parker. 
Anthony  Rouse. 
John  Springe. 


1539] 


RECEPTION  OF  THE  LADY  ANNA  OF  CLEVES. 


170 


Robert  Crane. 

Lyonell  Talma  ch. 

Robert  Garnishe. 

John  Harman. 

Richard  Candishe. 

John  Wingfield,  of  Letheringham. 

Charles  Wingfield. 

John  Poulet. 

John  Kingesmell. 

Nicholas  Tychborne  the  younger. 

Nicholas  Upton. 

Robert  Puttenham. 

Thomas  Welles. 

Richard  Pexall. 

John  Stowell. 

John  Rodney. 

William  Wroughton. 

Thomas  Yorke. 

Edmund  Mountperson.* 

John  Hungerford. 

John  Erneley. 

Robert  Longe. 

John  Bonham. 

John  Choke. 

Thomas  Aprice. 

John  Pye. 

Barthelmew  Husseye. 

William  Lucy. 

John  Gascoigne. 

John  Gostycke. 

William  Willington. 

Foulke  Grevell. 


John  Grevill. 
Edward  Conwaye. 
Reginald  Digby. 
John  Sandes. 
Robert  Acton. 
Thomas  Acton. 

Yong  Audley,   the   heir  of  the 
lord  Audley. 

—  Chamberlen. 

—  Chawmond. 
William  Skipwith. 
Yonge  Dudley. 
Yonge  W'igston. 
Homfrey  Stafford. 
Edward  Skipwith. 
Anthony  Southwell. 
Candishe  the  younger. 
Henry  Wingfield. 
George  Morgan. 
Yong  Ferrares. 

—  Home. 

—  Pelham. 
Yonge  Sellenger, 
Gyles  Poole. 
Henry  Markham. 
Robarte  Markham. 

—  Bassett. 
Andrew  Flammoke. 
Williame  Kellwaye. 

—  Johnson. 
Robarte  Throgmorton, 


*  Mompesson,  of  Wiltshire. 

Note. — These  names  evidently  constitute  the  "  book"  mentioned  in  p.  171.  It  does  not 
follow  that  all  were  present  on  this  occasion,  but  only  that  they  were  those  who,  from 
their  rank  and  family,  were  entitled  and  expected  to  increase  the  state  of  such  a  court 
ceremonial,  if  they  were  able  to  attend.     Edit. 


ISO  IMPRISONMENT  OF  SIR  JOHN  BUTLER.  [1540. 

[P.  47.]   Imprisonment  of  sir  John  Butler,  1540. 

The  crime  of  this  person  was,  it  appears,  of  a  religious  complexion.  At 
a  privy  council  held  at  Windsor,  7th  Nov.  1540,  "  lettres  were  browght  from 
the  depute  and  counsail  of  Calais,  declaring  that  sir  [John]  Butler  prist, 
sone  and  heyre  imto  the  late  lady  Banestre  decessed,  was  audited  for  a  sacra- 
mentary,  and  that  upon  that  respect  they  had  seised  the  bowse  and  goodes 
to  the  late  lady  Banestre ;  and  with  the  said  lettre  was  sent  a  copy  of  the 
sayde  indictment ;  which  lettre  remayneth  in  the  handes  of  master  Wryo- 
thesley,  secretary."  Letters  were  the  same  day  addressed  "  to  the  treasurer 
and  comptroller  of  Callais,  requyring  them  to  deliver  unto  master  Banastre, 
without  takyng  suretyes  of  him,  such  gooddes  as  were  founde  in  the  lady 
Banastre  his  \_sicj  bowse  decessed  to  be  his,  and  to  delyver  the  rest  belong- 
ing to  sir  John  Butler  prist,  who  was  endited  for  a  sacramentary,  upon 
sureties.*"  The  subject  of  the  death  of  lady  Banastre  had  been  first 
announced  by  a  letter  received  on  the  11th  Oct.;  and  it  had  been  then 
ordered  f  that  her  goods  should  be  delivered  to  Banestre  her  "  sonne  in 
law,"  i.  e.  step-son.  This  person  is  again  mentioned  in  Feb.  1541,  as  having 
violently  quarreled  with  the  deputy  "  for  the  bargayne  of  a  certain  horse," 
and  having  been  guilty  of  "  intemperat  languge  and  mysbehaviour  towardes 
the  sayde  depute,"  j:  On  this  occasion  he  is  styled  "  one  of  the  gentlemen 
pencioners."  And  subsequently,  on  the  23d  March,  John  Bannester  was 
brought  before  the  council  at  Rochester,  and  examined  "  of  his  misdemean- 
our used  by  him  towards  the  deputy  of  Calais  at  his  being  there ;  which  he 
denying  constantly  to  be  true,  was  referred  untill  another  tyme  to  be  fur- 
ther examined."§ 

There  was  a  William  Butler,  one  of  the  principal  merchants  of  the 
staple  in  1540.  || 


*  Proceedings,  &c.  of  the  Privy  Council,  vol.  vii.  p.  79. 

+  Ibid.  p.  58.  X  I'>id.  p.  132. 

§  Ibid.  p.  162.  I!  Ibid.  p.  32. 


15 .]  LETTEK   OF   LORD   LISLE   AND   THE  COUNCIL.  181 


Letter  of  lord  Lisle  and  the  council  of  Calais  to  the  kino. 


In  this  letter,  lord  Lisle  and  the  council  of  Calais  represent  to  the  king  the  precarious 
state  of  the  town  and  of  the  marches,  in  respect  of  victuals.  Its  year  has  not  been 
ascertained. 

(MS.  Harl.  283,  f.  5  b.) 


Mooste  royall  magestie,  after  our  moost  humble  recommendacions,  thies 
shalbe  to  advertise  your  highnes,  we  receyved  your  moost  gracious  lettres 
written  at  Westmynster,  the  xiij.  day  of  this  moneth,  by  which  it  hathe 
pleased  your  magestie  that  we  shuld  do  many  and  divers  thinges  of  grete 
importaunce  for  the  weale  and  suretie  of  this  your  towne  and  marches. 
Amongest  whiche  your  highnes  commaunded,  that  the  proclamacion  shuld 
be  made  with  all  dilligence  concernyng  the  resorte  of  all  officers  and  sol- 
deours  that  belong  unto  this  towne,  whiche  we  have  cawsed  to  be  made,  so 
that  in  that  mater  we  trust  every  man  will  save  his  owne  indempnitie.  And 
as  touching  all  other  things  whiche  be  conteyned  in  your  said  moost  gracious 
lettres,  with  the  grace  of  our  Lord  we  shall  do  all  that  is  possible  for  us  to 
do ;  and  the  rest  is  to  be  considered  by  your  highnes  and  councell,  howe 
that  whiche  we  cannot  do  may  be  brought  abowte,  according  to  your  mynde 
and  pleasour.  And  to  the  intent  that  your  magestie  shall  knowe  what  we 
may  do,  v/ee  shall  declare  our  possibeletie  in  thies  lettres  following.  So  it 
is,  moste  gracious  magestie,  as  touching  all  suche  provesions  of  victaile  as 
be  nowe  redye  in  this  towne,  and  maye  be  founde  in  thies  marches,  we 
doubte  not  but  we  shall  certifie  your  highnes  duely  of  the  same,  to  the 
intent,  that  when  your  magestie  and  councell  shall  have  taken  a  view  of 
the  same  our  reapporte,  we  doubte  not  but  all  thinges  shalbe  considered  by 
your  magestie,  as  shalbe  consonant  to  perfourme  your  high  pleasour.  And 
specially  it  is  to  be  noted  by  your  highnes  and  councell,  that  almaner  of 
vitailes  whiche  be  in  poer  men's  handes,  with  that  they  pi'ovide  all  their 
necesseties  ;  for  all  the  substance  of  thies  marches  is  conteyned  in  corne 


182  LETTER   OF   LORD   LISLE  AND  THE  COUNCIL.  [15 . 

and  cattell ;  wherfor,  when  your  magestie  and  councell  hathe  seen  the  con- 
tentes  that  we  shall  send  unto  you,  and  knowe  that  those  thinges  cannot  be 
had  without  redy  money,  provesion  must  be  made  howe  it  shalbe  opteyned  ; 
for  in  this  towne  ther  is  not  money  inowe  for  men  to  provide  necessarie  vic- 
tailes  for  theymselves  ;  and  the  poer  men,  whiche  be  owners,  may  not  kepe 
it  in  their  handes,  for  it  liethe  not  in  their  powers.  Also  another  hard 
poyncte  ther  is,  that  thoughe  a  grete  quantetie  of  victailes  may  be  founde 
within  your  marches  here,  of  whiche  we  shalnot  fayle,  God  willing,  to  cer- 
tiiBe  your  magestie,  yet  if  ther  shuld  fortune  a  sodeyne  rode  to  be  made 
upon  your  said  marches,  moche  of  those  things  that  we  shall  certiffie  your 
highnes  of  shuld  faile;  wherfor  it  serayth  unto  us,  that  if  any  urgent 
chaunce  shall  fortune  to  fall  by  forse  of  enemys,  it  were  right  meitt  that 
this  towne  shuld  be  pourveyed  assuredly,  and  not  to  trust  in  thinges  that 
hanges  in  suspence ;  for  the  moost  that  we  can  do  is,  to  certiffie  your 
magestie  in  what  case  this  your  towne  and  marches  of  the  same  stonde  in, 
of  whiche,  nowe  that  we  have  shewed  our  myndes  in  the  premisses,  under 
correction,  we  shall  beseche  your  magestie  to  take  this  our  certificate  in 
good  parte,  for  more  than  we  can  bringe  abowte  is  not  meyt  for  us  to 
enterprise.  Also  your  magestie  shall  knowe  by  our  certificate,  what  lack 
is  in  this  towne  of  fortificacions  and  munycions  ;  for  suerly  ther  wantes 
many  thinges  in  this  towne,  if  it  shuld  fortune  to  be  put  in  besynes,  of 
whiche  I  your  deputie  have  certified  dyvers  tymes,  whiche  is  also  to  be 
considered  and  provided  for  ;  for  as  touching  timbre  and  all  suche  thinges 
as  must  serve  for  reparacions  and  fortificacions,  your  highnes  is  cleerly 
voyded  of  in  this  towne  ;  wherfor  of  those  things  provesion  is  to  be  made 
with  all  celeritie,  according  as  your  magestie  and  councell  shall  thincke 
meytt.  And  because  that  your  highnes  hathe  gyven  straicte  commamide- 
ment  by  your  before  mencioned  lettres ;  yet,  because  that  tyme  must  passe 
or  we  can  certiffie  your  magestie  of  all  suche  thinges  as  may  be  founde 
necessarie,  therfor  we  do  take  upon  us  to  certiffie  your  highnes,  under  cor- 
rection, of  suche  thinges  as  we  have  expressed  in  thies  our  letti-es  in  moost 
breeff  maner.  And  as  touching  the  rest  that  may  be  doen  by  us,  shall 
not  faile  to  be  doen,  to  the  beste  of  our  powers  and  witt,  with  the  grace  of 
our  Redymer,  whome  we  beseche  to  grante  unto  your  moost  worthie  mages- 
tie good  spied  in  all  your  entrepricis,  with  prosperous  helthe,  long  lieff,  and 


1539.]  RECALL   OF   LORD   LISLE.  183 

joye  for   ever,    to  the  utter  confusion   of  all  your  ennemys.     Written  at 
Callis  the  xvj  day  of  Feveryer. 

*Your  most  bownden  and  umbylle  subject  and  servaunt, 

(Autographs,)  Artiivr  Lyssle,  B.  k'. 
Rye'  Graynffeld. 
Robert  Fouler. 
Edmund  Howard. 
Thomas  Palmer. 
Wyngfeld,  R.  # 
William  Sympson. 
John  Rolckwood. 

Directed,  To  the  kinges  moost  gracious  magestie. 


[P.  48.]      The  recall  of  lord  Lisle  from  Calais. 


The  disgrace  of  lord  Lisle  appears  to  have  resulted  from  the  king's  suspicions  that  he 
favoured  the  Poles  and  the  Roman  Catholic  party.  Some  particulars  of  the  attendant 
circumstances  will  be  found  in  a  subsequent  page.  The  following  letter  is  that  by  which 
the  king  signified  to  the  deputy  his  wish  to  see  him  in  England.  It  is  much  burnt,  from 
the  fire  of  the  Cottonian  library  ;  and  in  the  introductory  lines  supplied  it  has  been  sup- 
posed that  the  lord  deputy's  summons  was  in  pursuance  to  his  own  request,  which  had 
been  conveyed  through  his  late  visitor  the  duke  of  Norfolk,  in  order  to  expose  to  the 
king  the  insubordination  of  some  of  his  fellow  officers, —  for  such  appears  to  be  the  bearing 
of  the  context.  It  is  evident  that  divisions  had  existed  in  the  counsels  of  the  town,  which 
had  arrived  at  a  height  pregnant  with  danger  to  so  exposed  and  hazardous  a  possession. 


*  This  line  is  written  by  lord  Lisle's  own  hand,  and  he  certainly  added  1-.  to  his  name 
for  knight,  before  which  is  a  flourish  that  may  have  been  intended  as  B.  for  Baron,  See 
his  signature,  engraved  in  Autographs  of  Remarkable  Personages  in  English  History,  1829, 
plate  15. 


184  RECALL   OF   LORD   LISLE.  1539.] 

Letter  of  the  king  to  viscount  Lisle,  April  17,  1539. 
(MS.  Cotton.  Calig.  E.  iv.  f.  34.) 

[Right  trusty  and  riglit  welbeloved  cousin  and  councillor,] 
[Whereas  by  our  r]  ight  entirely  belove[d  cousin  and  councillor]  the  duke 
of  Norfolk,  as  by  [your  lettres  you  have]  desired  to  repayre  hether,  as  w  [ell 

]  as  for  certain  other  causes,  and  sp[ecially  concerning]   the 

ordre  of  that  oure  towne  and  [marches,  to  make]  declaration  of  the  beha- 
viour of  su[ch  of  our  officers]  and  subgietes  there,  who  as  it  a[ppeareth 
have]  in  suche  wise  forgotten  themselfes  [and  also]  their  dieutes  towardes  us 
as  they  se[em  to  pay]  no  regarde  towardes  you,  being  there  [as  our]  prin- 
cipal! ministre,  wee  be  nowe  [ready  to]  here  your  advise  therein  and  to 
c[onsider  and]  declare  oure  mynde  and  pleasure  un[to  you  in]  that  behalf. 
Whereuppon,  consider [ing  that  we]  shall  have  a  muche  bettre  oportunytye 
[therein]   to  satisfye  bothe   oure  and  your  des[ire,  tarrying]  there  oure 

cousin    of    Sussex    (the Arde    remembered)    thenne    you 

shu[ld  have]  of  a  long  season  after  his  departure,  [we  have]  therefore 
thought  mete  to  desire  and  [authorise  you]  and  nevertheles  to  commaunde 
you  d[irectly]  uppon  the  sight  hereof  to  repayre  [unto]  us,  leaving  the  keyes 
and  charge  [of  that]  towne  till  your  return  in  the  handes  of  [our  said  cousin,] 
to  whom  we  have  also  written  to  [tarry  and]  demoore  there  for  that  purpose. 
Re  [quiring]  you  to  communicate  these  our  lettres  with  the  rest  [of  our] 
commissioners  and  the  rest  of  oure  ordi[narie]  counseill  there,  and  to  declare 
to  every  of  [our  said]  ordinary  counsaill  that  oure  pleasure  is  [that  they 
be]  in  your  absence  as  obedient  to  our  said  c[ousin  in]  all  cases  as  they 
be  bovmde  to  be  to  oure  de[puty]   or  chieftain  for  the  tyme  being,  under 

they  well  aunswere  to  the  contrarye  a[t  their]   perilles  ;  and  these 

oure  lettres  shalbe  as  good 

[Given  at]  oure  palayse  of  [Westminster  (?)  the  xvij"^  day]  of  Aprill, 
the  xxxjt^  yere  of  [our  reign]. 

Directed,   To   oure  right  trusty  and  right  welbeloved  cousin  and  coun- 
sailour  the  viscomite  Lisle,  deputie  of  our  towne  and  marches  of  Calays. 


1539.]  LETTER  OF  THE  COMMISSIONERS   AT  CALAIS.  185 


After  the  receipt  of  the  preceding  letter  from  tlie  king,  the  commissioners  replied  in 
the  following  despatch,  which,  though  imperfect,  is  sufficient  to  show  the  state  of  affaii-s 
at  lord  Lisle's  departure  from  Calais. 

(MS.  Harl.  283,  p.  89.) 

Your  highnes'  lettres  of  answere  to  us  addressed,  of  the  xvij"^  of  Aprell, 
we  receyved  this  Mondaie  mornyng,  six  of  clocke.  By  the  contynew  wherof 
wee  doo  not  oonly  perceyve  your  grace's  pleasure  touching  the  repaire  of 
my  lord  deputie  to  your  highnes,  the  tarying  of  me  the  erle  of  Sussex  to 
take  the  charge  of  your  grace's  saide  towne  for  the  tyme  of  his  absence,  and 
me  sir  John  Gage  to  tarye  with  the  seide  erle  as  your  highnes'  corny ssioner, 
counsellor,  and  assistaunt  with  hym,  to  supplye  and  helpe  to  ease  hym  in 
the  charge  to  hym  commytted  ;  the  repaire  of  us  the  reste  of  your  highnes' 
commyssioners  to  your  grace  ;  but  also  the  devyse  of  lettres  to  be  wrytten 
by  Phylpot  to  sir  Grigory,*  which  wee  intende  (as  wee  doo  all  other  thinges 
conteyned  in  your  grace's  seide  lettres)  to  accomplisshe  with  all  dyligence, 
according  to  our  moost  bownden  diewties. 

And  it  fully  appereth  unto  us  by  the  examynacion  of  oone  William  Stevins, 
of  whome  we  have  before  written  unto  your  highnes,  that  Adam  Damplip 
mencioned  in  our  former  lettres  sent  to  your  highnes,  whose  name  (as  we 
credebly  bee  informed)  is  George  Bowker,  and  not  Adam  Damplip,  oone  of 
the  principall  sowers  of  the  dyvysion  in  your  grace's  towne  of  Calys  (as 
we  have  by  our  former  lettres  certified  unto  your  highnes),  at  his  first 
comyng  unto  your  grace's  said  towne  of  Calys,  which  was  aboute  the  xxvij*'' 
dale  of  Aprell  the  xxx*^.  yere  of  your  moost  noble  reigne,  without  Lanterne 
gate  there,  upon  conversation  had  betwene  the  seide  Adam  Damplip  and 
the  seide  Stevins,  the  seide  Adam  Damplip  shewed  unto  the  seide  William 
Stevins  that  he  came  frome  Roome,  and  that  if  he  wold  have  taried  in  the 
parties  that  he  came  frome,  he  mought  have  had  a  good  lyvyng,  for  cardy- 
nall  Pole  wold  have  had  hym  there  to  have  been  a  reader,  and  sent  monye 
after  hym  to  bringe  hym  home  withe.  And  the  seide  Willyam  Stevins, 
knowyng  the  seid  Adam  Damplip  to  have  shewed  hym  as  before,  than  and 
there  gave  hym  xij''.  in  moneye,  supposing  (as  he  saide)  the  same  Damplip 

*     So  the  MS. 
CAMD.  SOC.  2  B 


186  RECALL   OF  LORD   LLSLE.  [1539. 

wolde  have  taken  passage  into  Englande.  And  after  perceyvyng  he  tooke  no 
passage,  badde  the  same  Damplip  goo  hoome  to  his  house  ;  and  soo  he  there 
lodged  alnjfghte  ;  which  niatere  the  same  Stevins  hathe  confessed  before  us. 
And  it  is  also  deposed  bifore  us  that  the  seide  Stevins  saide  that  at  the  first 
meetyng  with  the  seide  Damplip  he  fownde  hym  popysshe.  And  sithen  the 
writing  of  our  last  lettres  unto  your  highnes,  being  togiders,  and  mv  lorde 
deputie  with  us  as  oone  of  your  grace's  commyssioners,  conferring  your 
highnes'  cause  among  ourselvj^s,  Willyam  Ste\'ins  was  brought  to  us  at  owre 
appointement  by  your  comptroller,  who  delyvered  us  a  bylle  written  and 
subscribed  wathe  the  handes  of  the  seide  Stevins,  whiche  bylle  we  imme- 
diately red ;  w  hereunto  my  seide  lorde  deputie,  whan  he  percyved  that  parte 
of  the  matier  therein  comprised  and  redde  touched  hym,  made  ansvvere 
(the  rest  is  deficient.) 

I  am  indebted  to  Miss  Wood's  recent  work  for  the  following  additional  information  re- 
lative to  the  causes  which  led  to  the  disgrace  of  viscount  Lisle,*  collected  from  documents 
in  the  State  Paper  Office,  where  nineteen  volumes  of  his  papers  are  still  preserved. 

The  previous  disgrace  and  capital  punishment  of  some  of  the  inferior  officers  of  the 
town  is  mentioned  by  Turpyn  (ante,  p.  47).  Three  of  these  were  priests  ;  and  religious 
differences  still  continued  to  disturb  the  peace  of  the  community.  Besides  the  person 
named  Adam  Damplip,  or  George  Bowker  (named  in  the  preceding  document),  a  priest 
called  Ralph  Haras,  and  sir  William  Smith,  were  active  in  dissuading  the  people  against 
yielding  credence  to  the  new  doctrines  propagated  by  the  king;  and  so  much  influence  did 
they  acquire,  that  mass,  matins,  and  evensong  were  almost  forsaken,  and  of  the  1,700  per- 
sons who  were  parishioners  of  St.  Mary's,  Calais,  not  more  than  ten  or  twelve  frequented 
the  church.  (Deputy  and  council  to  the  bishops  of  Bath,  Chichester,  and  Norwich,  July 
27,1539.  Calais  commissioners  to  the  king,  April  5,  1540.)  Though  lord  Lisle  officially 
professed  himself  an  opponent  of  the  Romish  doctrines,  he  and  his  lady  were  suspected  of 
really  favouring  them.  Lord  Lisle  was  also  accused  of  want  of  management  in  his  affairs, 
so  that,  for  the  sake  of  obtaining  money,  he  was  often  compelled  to  put  offices,  &c.  to  sale, 


*  Holinshed  does  not  appear  to  have  had  any  better  foundation  for  his  account  of  "  the 
occasion  of  lord  Lisle's  trouble,"  than  a  popular  rumour  (natural  enough  under  the  cir- 
cumstances), "  that  he  should  be  privie  to  a  faction  which  some  of  his  men  had  consented 
unto  for  the  betraying  of  Calais  to  the  French."  On  the  4th  of  August,  1540,  shortly 
after  lord  Lisle's  first  committal  to  the  Towre,  were  hanged  at  Tybourn  (with  four  other 
persons  who  had  been  attainted  by  the  Parliament),  Clement  Philpot  gentleman,  late  of 
Calais,  and  servant  to  the  lord  Lisle,  and  Edmund  Brindholme  priest,  chapleyne  to  the 
saide  lorde  Lisle. 


1539.]  IIECALL  OF    LOKD    LISLE.  187 

which  should  have  been  bestowed  upon  merit,  and  whicli  thus  often  fell  into  the  hands  of 
improper  persons.     (Cromwell  to  lord  Lisle  ;  Cromwell  Corresp.  bundle  i,  art.  20.) 

In  March  15i0the  commission  already  mentioned,  consisting  of  the  earl  of  Sussex,  sir 
John  Gage,  and  others,  amongst  whom,  as  a  matter  of  courtesy,  lord  Lisle's  name  was  in- 
serted, was  sent  over  to  examine  into  the  state  of  laws  and  religion  in  Calais.  (Instructions 
to  Commissioners,  ibid.  art.  25  B.)  They  arrived  on  the  16th  of  March,  and  the  result  of 
their  inquiries  was  that  Calais  had  been  very  carelessly  kept,  that  200  of  the  garrison  were 
mere  boys,  that  strangers  were  permitted  free  access  to  the  town,  and  were  not  restrained 
from  walking  on  the  walls  and  examining  the  fortifications  ;  that  lord  Lisle  had  communi- 
cated with  the  pope  and  cardinal  Pole,  and  that  he  had  presented  Damplip  with  5^.  to  whom 
lady  Lisle  had  also  given  15s.  (Depositions  on  the  examination  of  lord  Lisle,  ibid.  art.  32.) 
On  the  pretext  that  the  presence  of  the  commissioners  in  Calais  afforded  lord  Lisle  a  proper 
opportunity  for  a  visit  to  the  king,  which  he  had  long  desired,  he  was  re-called  from  his 
deputyship  to  England,  by  the  royal  letter  given  in  p.  184,  and  on  his  arrival  immediately 
sent  prisoner  to  the  Tower. 

Having  remained  there  nearly  two  years,  his  career  had  the  melancholy  termination  thus 
described  by  Holinshed  : — "  After  that  by  due  triall  it  was  knowen  that  liee  was  nothing 
giltie  to  the  matter,  the  kyng  appointed  sir  Thomas  Wriotlisley,  his  majesties  secretarie,  to 
goe  unto  hym,  and  to  deliver  to  hym  a  ring,  with  a  riche  diamond,  for  a  token  from  him, 
and  to  tell  hym  to  be  of  good  cheere,  for  although  in  that  so  weiglitie  a  matter  hee  woulde 
not  have  done  lesse  to  hym  if  hee  hadde  bene  his  owne  sonne,  yet  nowe  upon  thorough 
triall*  had,  sith  it  was  manifestly  proved  that  hee  was  voyde  of  all  offence,  hee  was  sory 
that  hee  hadde  bene  occasioned  so  farre  to  trie  his  truth,  and,  therefore,  willed  hym  to  bee 
of  good  cheere  and  comforte,  for  he  should  find  that  he  woulde  make  accompt  of  him  as 
of  hys  most  true  and  faithfuU  kinsman,  and  not  onely  restore  hym  to  his  former  libertie, 
but  otherwise  further  be  ready  to  pleasure  hym  in  what  he  could.  Master  secretary  set 
forth  thys  message  with  such  effectuall  words,  as  he  was  an  eloquent  and  well  spoken  man, 
that  the  lord  Lisle  tooke  suche  immoderate  joy  thereof,  that,  his  heart  beeing  oppressed 
therewith,  hee  dyed  the  night  following  through  too  much  rejoycing." 

After  the  deputy's  departure  from  Calais,  the  chronicler  tells  us  (ante,  p.  48)  that  "  his 
goods  were  seized,  his  wife  kept  in  one  place,  his  daughter  in  another,  and  his  [read  her] 
daughters  in  another  place,  that  none  of  them  might  speak  with  other,  and  all  his  servants 
discharged."  Miss  Wood  (iii.  pp.  140,  141)  has  given  several  particulars  of  these  trans- 
actions, including  some  curious  extracts  from  the  inventory  of  the  goods  seized.  The 
ladies  were  detained  in  confinement  at  Calais,  lady  Lisle  herself  under  the  custody  of 
Francis  Hall,  "  a  sad  man,"^ — whose  name  has  occurred  at  p.  137,  nearly  at  the  head  of  the 
list  of  "  speres."  She  was  allowed  the  attendance  of  a  gentlewoman,  a  chamberer,  and  a 
groom  ;  the  rest  of  her  lord's  household,  consisting  of  fifty  men,  a  lackey,  two  kitchen 
boys,  two  women  servants,  and  a  laundress,  being  summarily  dissolved. 

*  There  was  no  public  trial,  or  the  surprise  could  not  have  been  so  great  to  lord  Lisle. 
All  the  trial  that  took   place  must  have  been  before  the  privy  council,  or  royal  commis- 


188  VISIT  OF  THE  PRINCE  OF  SALERNO.  [1540, 

There  were  no  children  of  the  man-iage  of  lord  and  lady  Lisle,  but  both  had  daughters 
of  their  former  marriages,  to  whom  thei-e  is  no  doubt  that  the  passage  of  Turpyn's 
chronicle,  as  above  amended,  refers,  Miss  Wood  having,  in  her  interesting  volumes,  fully 
developed  the  history  of  the  family.  It  appears  that  Arthur  Plantagenet  viscount  Lisle 
had  by  his  first  wife  Elizabeth  lady  Grey,  widow  of  Edmond  Dudley,  three  daughters, 
I'rances,  Elizabeth,  and  Bridget,  besides  a  step-son,  sir  John  Dudley,  afterwards  the  cele- 
brated duke  of  Northumberland.  Honor  lady  Lisle,  who  was  the  third  daughter  of  sir 
Thomas  Grenville  by  his  first  wife  Isabella  daughter  of  Gates  Gilbert  esquire,  had  been  the 
third  wife  of  sir  John  Basset  of  Umberleigh,  and  (besides  acquiring  step-children  by  that 
alliance)  she  was  by  him  the  mother  of  four  daughters,  Philippa,  Catharine,  Anne,  and 
Mary,  and  of  three  sons,  John,  George,  and  James,  of  whom  the  eldest,  John,  married  the 
lady  Frances  Plantagenet,  lord  Lisle's  eldest  daughter. 

Philippa  and  Mary  Basset,  together  with  their  mother,  underwent  a  strict  examination  : 
lady  Lisle  was  supposed  to  have  destroyed  some  papers  which  it  was  thought  might  have 
been  prejudicial  to  her  husband  ;  and  JMary  Basset  was  cruelly  required  to  recollect  what 
had  been  their  contents.  It  can  scarcely  be  supposed,  however,  that  among  the  vast  mass 
of  papers  which  were  seized,  the  materials  necessary  for  the  deputy's  crimination  would  not 
have  been  discovered,  had  the  disorders  of  Calais  been  found  to  have  really  resulted  from 
the  individual  faults  of  the  deputy,  rather  than  from  the  defects  pervading  the  several 
departments  of  its  government. 

Sir  John  Dudley  (afterwards  duke  of  Northumberland),  as  son  and  heir  of  lord  Lisle's 
former  wife,  was  created  viscount  Lisle  on  the  12th  March  1542-3,  a  few  days  after  his 
step-father's  death. 


[P.  48.]     Visit  of  the  prince  of  Salerno  to  England,  1540. 

Ferdinand  de  San  Severino,  prince  of  Salerno,  was  the  son  and  heir  of 
Robert  prince  of  Salerno,  who  died  in  1508.  He  died  himself  without 
issue  in  1572. 

TJie  first  intimation  of  the  visit  of  this  noble  personage  was  given  by 
sir  Thomas  Wyatt,  in  a  letter  to  lord  Cromwell,  dated  from  Ghent, 
5  April,  1540. 

"  Moreover  yesternyght,  the  prince  of  Salerne  sent  to  me  to  shew  me 
that  he  had  leve  of  th'emperor  to  come  see  the  kynges  highnes,  wich  he  had 
long  desird,  and  that  he  entcnded  to  go  within  these  xiiij.  or  xv.  days,  and 
desird  to  know  off  me  what  ordre  he  myght  best  take.  He  is  a  man  of  xxx. 
or  xl.  thowsand  dukets  rent,  and  byside  that,  grettly  estemed  in  all  Italy, 
and  one  of  the  grettest  men  of  Naples.  I  suppose  he  wold  tary  there  to  se 
huntyng  and  such  pastyme  for  a  month.     I  besech  your  lordship  that  I  may 


1540.]  VISIT  OF  THE  MARQUIS  OF  PADULA.  189 

know  what  I  shall  do  herein.  1  intend  to  gyve  hym  one  of  my  servants 
for  guide ;  and  wold  God  I  wei*e  then  redy  !  If  it  were  to  the  kinges  plcsure, 
I  wold  make  hym  such  companie  as  shold  not  be  unhonorable  to  the  kyng," 
&'c. — {3IS.  Harl.  282,  f.  243,  and  printed  in  the  Appendix  to  Nott's 
Life  of  Wyatt.) 

By  a  letter  to  Cromwell,  written  on  the  7th  April,  sir  Ralph  Sadler 
signified  the  king's  wishes  respecting  this  visitor ;  see  this,  with  Cromwell's 
reply,  in  State  Papers,  vol.  i.  pp.  624,  625. 

Again,  on  the  12th,  sir  T.  Wyatt  says : — "  Off  the  prince  of  Salerne  I 
shall  advise  tyme  inough  by  the  next ;  he  is  now  gone  to  Bruges,  and  wolde 
here  to  morrow  or  to  nyght ;  and  if  Mr,  Pate  made  eni  hast,  I  myght  bring 
hym  yet  afore  May  day.  It  may  plese  your  lordshipp  that  ther  be  com- 
andement  at  Caleis  to  prepare  an  honest  shipp  and  loging  upon  ainy  adver- 
tisement, and  not  with  much  noyse  and  Industrie,  to  th'end  it  may  seme 
hym  well  without  grete  care,  and  I  shall  wryte  to  them  in  tyme."  &c. — 
(3IS.  Harl.  282,  f.  245.) 


[P.  48.]     Visit  of  the  duke  of  Ferrara's  brother. 

We  learn  who  this  person  was  from  the  following  passage  in  Holinshed's 
Chronicle  : — "  In  July  the  prince  of  Salerne  and  the  lord  Lois  Davola  came 
into  England  to  see  the  king ;  and  after  they  were  departed,  don  Frederike 
marques  of  Padula,  brother  to  the  duke  of  Ferrara,  the  prince  of  Macedonie, 
the  marques  of  Terra  Nova,  and  monsieur  de  Flagy,  with  other,  came 
from  the  emperor's  court  into  England  to  see  the  king ;  the  which,  on  Mary 
Magdalen's  daye,  came  to  the  courte  at  Westminster ;  and  after  they  had 
been  highly  feasted  and  nobly  entertained,  they  were  highly  rewarded  as 
the  other,  and  so  departed." 

This  Italian  prince  is,  in  Anderson's  Genealogies,  styled  (not  Frederick, 
but)  Don  Francesco  of  Este,  marquis  of  Massa  and  Padula,  and  count  of 
Avellino  :  he  died  in  1575. 


190     GOVERNMENT  OF  LORD  MALTRAVERS  AS  DEPUTY.      [1540. 


Henry  lord  Maltravers  as  deputy  of  Calais. 

The  government  of  Calais  by  Henry  lord  Maltravers  (afterwards  the 
last  Fitz-Alan  earl  of  Arundel),  when  appointed  successor  to  lord  Lisle,  is 
thus  noticed  in  the  life  of  that  nobleman,  written  shortly  after  his  decease  :* 
"  Comminge  to  the  age  of  23  [29]  yeares,  he  was  by  the  king's  owne  choice 
assigned  to  the  chardge  of  Callis,  a  matter  much  to  be  noted,  weaghing  the 
state  howe  that  towne  then  stoode,  partly  in  sects,  and  otherwise  hardly 
governed  to  the  king's  good  likinge,  by  the  governour  theare,  beinge  the 
lord  Lilee,  who  at  that  tyme  was  newly  withdrawen  thence  in  hevye  dis- 
pleasure, and  comitted  to  the  tower  of  London,  from  whence  he  never  alive 
departed,  thoughe  not  convicted  of  any  treason,  but  died  theare  of  mere 
sicknes. 

"  Touchinge  this  noble  man's  [lord  Maltravers']  goverment  in  that 
towne  of  Callis,  I  would  it  weare  written  by  some  of  that  crewe  who  then 
felt  the  benefitt  thereof.  Such  it  was,  that  nether  in  many  yeares  before 
him,  nor  since  his  tyme,  theare  ever  was  the  like  perfection  that  then  was 
mynistred  in  that  goverment.  The  king's  care  towards  this  lord  was  such 
as  he  greatlye  increased  his  fee,  towards  his  better  maintenance,  whereby  all 
the  deputies  that  since  followed  have  fared  the  better.  He  used  the  matter 
so,  as  in  place  of  artificer,  or  lame  and  decrepid  person,  then  possessing  the 
roome  of  soldiers,  he  furnished  the  places  with  strong  and  valiant  per- 
sonages. And,  where  the  speres  and  men-at-arms  of  Callis  were  then 
nakedly  furnished,  he  furnished  them  of  horse  and  supplye,  for  exersice  of 
feates  of  armes ;  he  replennished  the  same  full  amply,  partly  with  liberall 
bestowing  necessaries  amonge  them,  partly  with  iucouraging  them  by  his 
owne  example  to  looke  to  the  matter,  and  not  to  the  braveryf  till  t}Tne  for 
that  should  serve ;  and  so  he  contented  himselfe  to  accompanye  them  to 
theare  exercises  with  watering  headstales,  in  stede  of  I'iche  showe,  which 
noe  doubte  allured  them  more  to  use  that  exercise  then  otherwise  they 
easely  might  have  borne,  for  so  nether  had  they  excuse  for  theare  deputees 
curious  expectation,  nor  of  any  want  of  habilitye ;  and  thearby  in  reason 

*  Printed  in  the  Gentleman's  Magazine  for  1833,  from  MS.  Reg,  17  A.  IX. 
'f  i.  c.  handsome  equipment. 


1540.]  THE  DEMOLITION  OF  COWBUIDGE.  191 

might  not  omit  thearo  sei'vice  theare.  Ho  did  not  spare  to  make  them  ban- 
quets, to  provoke  them  to  exercise.  He  was  glad  when  they  amongc  them- 
selves would  (unlooked  for)  breake  downe  his  garden  walls,  thearby  to 
enter  and  set  up  and  use  the  tilt,  and  fighte  at  the  turney,  as  a  thinge  which 
they  thought  best  contented  him.  Then  was  his  horse  and  furniture 
liberally  by  guifte  bestowed  amonge  them,  as  unto  those  who  did  deserve 
such  requitall, 

"  He  allso  was  not  unliberall  to  winne  intelligence  out  of  the  well-heade 
of  his  adversaries,  even  from  the  French  king's  counsell,  in  soundry  waighty 
matters  pertinent  to  his  realme  and  kinge  his  maister ;  yea  and  that  many 
tymes  before  the  kinge  his  maister' s  embassadoures  (to  whom  such  affaires 
especially  appertained)  could  thereof  advertise  his  majestye. 

"  While  this  noble  man  thus  lived  there,  the  earle  his  father  died  [Jan. 
23,  1543]  ;  whereuppon  he,  with  good  contentment  and  favour  of  the  kinge, 
returned  into  England,  and,  after  dewty  donne  to  his  majestie,  withdrewe 
to  his  owne  home,  his  castle  at  Arundell,  where  he  so  intertained  his  neigh- 
boures  that  Christmas  then  followinge,  as  to  this  day  it  beareth  the  name  of 
the  Greate  Christmas." 


The  DEMOLITION  OF  COWBRIDGE,    AT    THE  LIMITS  OF  THE  ENGLISH 

AND  French  pales. 

(MS.  Cotton,  Faustina,  E.  vii.  p,  109.) 

"In  the  ende  of  this  yere  (1540)  the  Frenehe  kyng  made  a  strong  castel  at  Arde,  and 
also  a  bridge  over  into  the  Englishe  pale,  whiche  bridge  the  crewe  of  Calico  did  beate 
downe,  and  the  Frenchemen  reedified  the  same,  and  the  Englishemen  bet  it  downe 
again.  An<l  after  the  kyng  of  England  sent  fifteene  hundred  workemen  to  wall  and  fortefie 
Guysnes,  and  sent  with  them  five  hundred  men  of  warre,  with  capitaines  to  defend  them." 
Hall.  The  present  document  appears  to  describe  the  initiatory  step  in  this  quarrel,  and 
some  of  the  subsequent  proceedings  will  be  found  detailed  in  the  note  appended  at  its 
close. 

An  order  taken  the  xxviij*^  day  of  August,  in  the  xxxijt^  yere  of  the 
reigne  of  our  souveraign  lord  king  Henry  VIH,  by  the  right  honourable 
Henry  lord  Mautravers,  deputie  general  to  the  kinges  majestie  of  his 
towne  and  marches  of  Calais;  and  the  right '  honourable  lord  Sandes, 
lord  chamberlavn   to  the  kinges   said  majestie,   and  lieutcnaunt  of   his 


192  THE  DEMOLITION  OF  COWBRIDGE.  [1540, 

caste]  of  Gwysnes,  and  others  the  kinges  highnes'  counsailours  in  Calays 
aforsaid,  concei-ning  a  comnion  waye  or  passage  for  man,  horse,  and 
cariage,  of  late  yeres  past  usurped,  as  well  by  Frenchemen  as  by  Flem- 
mynges,  over  and  from  a  bridge  called  Cowbridge,*  standing  over  the 
ryver  departyng  the  lymytes  and  boundes  of  the  English  and  French 
pales,  unto  the  said  towne  of  Calais,  or  unto  any  parte  of  the  lowe 
countrey  of  Marke  and  Oye. 

First,  it  is  fully  agreed  and  condiscended  by  the  said  lord  deputie,  lord 
chamberlaine,  and  others  the  kinges  said  counsailours  of  Calais,  as  wel 
upon  a  personal  viewe  made  by  them  of  a  ryver  brydge  and  common  waye 
aforesaid,  as  also  by  knowledge  and  informacion  given  to  them  by  dyverse 
of  the  honest  and  most  auncient  of  the  kinges  majesties  subjects,  inhabitantes 
within  the  lordshipps  of  Marke  and  Oye,  that  the  said  ryver  wheron  now 
standeth  the  said  brydge,  called  Cowbridge,  is  the  very  trew  division  and 
lymit  of  the  said  twoo  pales,  so  that  the  one  half  of  the  said  ryver  apper- 
taneth  intirely  to  the  kinges  majestic  our  maister. 

Also,  it  is  agreed  and  condiscended  that  the  said  common  way  or  passage 
from  the  said  Cowbridge  to  Calais,  is  made  and  used  directly  and  hooly 
upon  the  propre  grounde  (without  contencion)  of  the  kinges  majestic  our 
maister. 

Also,  it  is  further  agreid  and  condiscended,  in  consideracion  as  wel  of  the 
losses  dayly  susteyned  both  by  the  subjectes  of  the  kinges  majestic  and  of 
the  French  king  by  reason  of  dyverse  evel-disposed  persons,  inhabitantes 
upon  the  bordres  of  both  the  said  pales,  (the  saide  waye  being  only  the 
occasion  therof,)  as  also  that  if  the  said  waye  or  passage  shuld  be  suffered 
to  be  contynually  thus  usurped  and  used,  not  only  the  kinges  highnes  poore 
subjectes  inhabitantes  in  the  saide  lowe  countrey  (in  all  tymes  of  warres 
had  with  France)  shuld  be  in  grete  danger  to  be  robbed  of  their  catall  and 
all  other  gooddes,  but  also  the  Frenchmen  may  easely  convey  from  thens  to 
Calays  any  artillery  or  ordenance  at  their  pleasures. 

In  eschewing  of  all  which  inconveniences,  it  is  thought  mete,  and  fully 
agreed  by  all  and  every  the  kinges  highnes'  forsaid  counsailors  of  Calays, 
in  the  accomplishment  of  the  kinges  majesties  pleasure  in  that  behalf  lately 
signified  to  the  said  lord  deputie  and  counsailors  of  Calays,  by  the  right 

*  This  bridge  will  be  seen  marked  "  the  Cobroges  "  in  the  Map. 


1540.]  THE  DEMOLITION  OF  COWBRIDGE.  193 

honorable  lordes  of  the  kinges  highnes'  couusail  attending  about  his  majesties 
person,  in  their  lettres  dated  at  Hampton  Courte  the  x^h  of  August,  utterly 
to  fordoo  and  destroye  the  said  usurped  waye  or  passage  in  manner  and 
forme  as  herafter  ensuyth. 

First,  it  is  agrcid  and  condescended  that  a  greate  dyche  shalbe  made 
thwart  the  said  usurped  waye,  the  one  hedd  of  the  same  dyche  to  beginn  in 
the  myddes  of  the  dyche  buttinge  upon  the  kinges  majesties  grounde  called 
the  Mayne  brooke,  and  the  other  hedd  of  the  same  grete  dyche  to  extend  to 
the  myddes  of  the  dyche  abuttinge  upon  the  grounde  called  the  Cowswade. 
And  the  one  side  of  the  said  grete  dyche  to  begynne  cloose  to  the  said  bridge 
called  Cowbridge,  The  said  grete  dyche  to  be  in  bredth  in  the  height  or 
toppe  therof  from  side  to  side  xxvj*'  foote  of  lawfull  assise ;  and  the  depth 
of  the  said  dyche  to  be  nyne  or  ten  foote  deepe  (if  mater  will  so  sutfer  it,) 
and  viij.  foote  in  the  botom.  And  all  the  erth  taken  and  digged  out  of  the 
said  dyche,  to  be  conveid  by  the  labourers  over,  eyther  into  the  Cowswade  or 
elles  into  the  Maign  brooke,  and  ther  to  be  cast  and  laide  abrode,  and  not  to 
lye  in  lumps  or  like  a  banke,  so  that  no  stuff  or  erth  (meete  to  fill  up  again 
the  same  dyche)  shall  lye  nigh  therunto. 

Also,  it  is  further  agreid  and  condescended,  that  the  lord  Graye  of  Wyl- 
ton,  sir  Richard  Greenfeld  knight  high-marshal,  and  John  Rokwood 
esquier  bailive  of  Marke  and  Oye,  and  others  herafter  appointed  to  be 
-overseers  of  the  making  of  the  saide  dyche,  shal  cause  to  be  made  twoo 
other  dyches  like  in  all  points  to  the  said  dyche,  to  be  digged,  cut^  and 
made  in  such  places  of  the  common  waye  most  meete  for  the  stopping  of 
the  same,  as  to  their  discrecion  shalbe  thought  meete. 

Also,  in  eschewing  of  such  inconvenences  as  mought  percace  growe  if 
the  making  of  the  said  three  grete  dyches  shuld  be  doon  by  a  small  nom- 
bre  of  persons,  and  so  a  long  tyme  required  for  the  dooing  therof,  it  is  agreed 
and  condescended  that  all  the  said  iij.  grete  dyches  shalbe  begoon,  made, 
and  fynyshed  all  in  one  daye.  And  that  for  the  good  and  speddy  dispatch 
of  the  same  shalbe  appointed  the  nombre  of  ix'"''.  persons  :  wherof  the 
lord  Graye  of  Wylton  shal  have  in  his  leading  and  conducting  xx" .  dykers, 
besides  ten  of  his  howsehold  servauntes  ;  sir  Richard  Greenfeld  knight,  high 
marshal,  shal  have  in  his  conducting  Richard  Lee,  surveiour  of  the  kinges 
highnes'  woorkes,  with  Ix.  laborers,  and  workmen  of  the  kinges  said  woorkes 
in  Calays,  besides  ten  of  his  howsehold  servauntes ;  and  John  Rookewcod 

CAMD.  see.  2  C 


194  THE  DEMOLITIOX  OF  COWBRIDGE.  [1540. 

esquier,  bailif  of  the  lordshipps  of  3Iark  and  Oye,  shal  haA'e  the  conducting- 
of  xl.  persons  at  the  least,  dykers,  inhabitantes  in  the  said  lordshipps  of 
Mark  and  Oye,  besides  ten  of  his  howsehold  servaantes  and  officers ;  and 
the  residewe  of  the  said  nombre  to  be  furnished  with  xx''  archers  of  the 
kinges  retynewe  of  the  towne  of  Calays. 

And  forasmuch  as  the  soodain  assemblie  of  the  said  xl.  persons,  inhabi- 
tants in  dyverse  partes  and  parishes  of  the  said  lordships  of  Marke  and  Oye, 
mought  happily  be  an  occasion  of  some  inconvenent  brute  noyse  and  sus- 
picion, it  is  further  agreid  and  condescended  in  avoiding  the  same,  and  for 
the  more  quyet  and  peaxible  compassing  of  the  said  purposes,  that  the 
Monday  being  the  sixt  of  September,  the  said  John  Rookwood  esquier  shal 
bring  the  said  xl.  persons  which  he  shal  have  in  his  leading,  to  be  set  in 
worke  that  daye  in  the  kinges  river  called  the  Leade,  lying  between  Mydle 
way  and  Footmannys  inne,  without  Bollein  gate  ;  and,  that  day's  worke  upon 
the  said  ryver  finished,  the  said  John  Rookewood  to  lye  all  the  next  night 
following,  wnth  his  said  nombre  of  xl.  dykers,  and  the  others  his  howsehold 
servauntes  and  officers,  at  St.  Peter's  or  therabouts. 

Also,  it  is  further  agreid  and  condescended,  that  for  prevencions  of  all 
espyes  and  significacions  to  be  given  to  any  owtward  parties,  aswel  the 
passage  of  Newneham  bridge  to  be  stopped  that  Monday  at  night,  as  also 
the  same  night  all  other  passages  of  the  high  and  lowe  countreys  within  the 
kinges  marches  of  Calays  meete  for  that  purpos,  to  be  stopped  by  the  for- 
said  lord  chamberlain,  lord  Graye,  and  John  Rookewood. 

And  wheras  ther  hath  ben  hertofore,  and  nowe  is,  nightly  watche  kepte, 
as  wel  on  the  behalf  of  the  kinges  highnes  our  maister,  as  the  French  partie, 
of  eyther  side  of  the  said  ryver  of  Cowbridge,  it  is  agreid  and  condescended, 
for  avoiding  of  all  suspicion  which  mought  arise  by  the  soodain  encrease  of 
the  nombre  of  the  watchmen  of  our  partie,  that  twoo  honest  and  discreete  men 
(that  is  to  say),  John  Foorde  and  Richarde  Leonard,  the  kinges  majesties 
servauntes,  shal,  the  said  Monday  at  night,  watche  the  saide  Cowbridge  at  the 
place  and  with  the  onely  nombi*e  accustomed. 

Also,  it  is  further  agreid  and  condescended  that  the  next  morning  after, 
which  shalbe  on  Tuysday  the  vij*^^  of  September,  the  said  lord  Graye,  sir 
Richard  Grenfeld,  and  John  Rookwood  esquier,  with  all  their  nombre  and 
company  aforsaid,  shal  assemble  and  meet  together  at  the  howse  of  Boyte- 
haikes,  nigh  to  Cowbridge,  before  the  howre  of  three  in  the  mornyng,  and 


1540.3  THE  DEMOLITION   OF   COWBIUDGE.  195 

there  rest  quietly,  without  noise,  til  such  tyme  as  the  said  watches  on  both 
parties  be  dissolved,  and  then  to  sett  in  worke  the  said  dikers  and  labourers 
about  the  making  and  dyching  of  all  the  said  iij.  dyches  in  manner  and 
forme  as  is  beforsaid. 

And  to  the  intent  the  said  iij.  grete  dyches  shal  incontinently  after  the 
making  of  them  be  filled  with  water,  to  the  more  annoyance  of  the  same 
waye,  it  is  agreid  and  condescended,  that  the  bank  of  the  ryver  called 
HoUehed  shalbe  cutt  by  the  said  dykers  in  such  places  meete  for  the  lettin 
in  of  water  into  the  said  dikes  as  to  the  overseers  of  the  woorkes  herafter 
appointed  shalbe  thought  meete. 

Also,  it  is  further  condescended  and  agreid,  that  the  next  night  next 
after  ensuing,  that  is  to  say,  on  Tuysday  at  night,  the  said  our  watche  nigh 
Cowbridge  shalbe  advaunced  and  encreased  to  the  nombre  of  xl.  watchmen, 
to  watche  nightly  after  by  the  space  of  xilij.  nightes.  And  the  said  xiiij. 
nightes  so  expired,  to  deducte  of  the  saide  nombre  of  xl.  watchmen  every 
night  (one  next  following  after  another)  five  watchmen  nightly,  till  (by  such 
deduccion)  they  be  reduced  and  brought  to  the  nombre  of  x.  according  to 
the  former  stynt  of  watchmen  accustomed. 

Also,  forasmuch  as  to  such  nombre  of  indiscrete  persons  (that  is  to  saye) 
ix^x.  labourers,  dykers,  and  others,  are  requisite  and  needefull  good,  substan- 
tial, and  discrete  governours,  it  is  agreid  and  condescended,  that  the  said  lord 
Graye  of  Wilton,  sir  Richard  Grenfeld  knight,  John  Rookwood  esquier, 
Frauncis  Hall  man  at  armes,  Richard  Lee  survey  our,  William  London, 
William  Smyth,  Geff"rey  Boocher,  Hugh  Filcok,  and  John  Gavell,  souldeours, 
Morant  Haynes,  Richard  Leonard,  George  Caninges,  John  Foorde,  Myddle- 
ton  Dicker,  inhabitantes  within  the  lordships  of  Mark  and  Oye  aforsaid, 
shalbe  the  overseers  and  governours  of  the  said  workemen  ;  and  Calais 
pursevant,  Hugh  Giles  and  Thomas  Prowde,  archers  on  horseback,  to  give 
their  attendaunce  there. 

Also,  it  is  further  condescended  and  agreed  that  for  the  necessarie  provi- 
sion as  wel  of  victualles  as  also  tooles  and  instrumentes  for  the  said  pur- 
pose, sbalbe  the  said  vjti^  day  of  September  carryed  in  the  companye  of  the 
said  sir  Richard  Grenfeld  and  John  Rookwood,  in  waagens  to  the  howse  of 
the  said  Boyte  haikes,  ther  to  be  kept  in  moste  secret  wise,  these  parcelles  of 
provision  folowing  : 


196  THE  DEMOLITION  OF  COWBRIDGE.  [1540. 

In  beere,  v.  barelles. 

In  bred,  vj.  doosen. 

In  Essex  cheeses,  vj.  doosen. 

In  onyons,  vj.  boonches. 

In  drynking  bolles,  xxiiij**- 

In  maundes,  *  to  convey  away  the  erth,  iiij'"^. 

In  shooveles,  xxx*i. 

In  billes,  to  be  redy  if  resistance  were  made,  vj"". 

In  bardies,  to  make  ways  over  the  dyche  of  Maign  brook  for  conveyance 
of  the  erthe,  xij. 

In  witness  of  all  which  agreements  the  said  lord  deputie,  lord  chamberlain, 
and  all  and  every  other  of  the  kinges  majesties  said  counsailours  of  Calais, 
to  this  book  have  severally  subscribed  their  names.  Dated  the  said  xxviijtt* 
daye  of  August,  in  the  xxxij***  yere  of  the  reign  of  our  said  souveraigne 
Lord,  &c, 

H.  Mautravers.  William  Sandes.  William  Graye. 
Edward WoTTO^f.  Richard  Grenefeld.  Edward  Ryngely- 
Thomas  Palmer.     William  Sympson. 

Several  stages  of  the  subsequent  progress  of  this  affair  are  to  be  traced  in  the  acts  of  the 
privy  council.  On  the  14th  Oct.  1540,  letters  were  received  from  sir  John  Wallop  "  de- 
claring his  jornay  to  St.  Peer  to  speke  with  the  Frenche  king,  and  of  the  communicacion 
which  a  frende  of  his  had  with  hym  by  the  way  toching  the  broking  of  the  passage  at 
Cowbridge,  saying  that  he  had  herde  say  it  shulde  be  new  made,  and  if  the  Calesians 
woolde  let  {i.  e.  hinder)  it,  that  it  shulde  cost  broken  heddes."-)-  The  next  day  the  French 
ambassador  had  audience  of  the  king,  and  one  of  the  subjects  he  proposed  was  "  the 
passage  broken  at  Cowbridge  ;"  to  which  the  king  replied  that  "  he  toched  not  his  master's 
grownde,  but  upon  his  owne  made  trenches  and  ditches,  which  he  myght  lawfully  do, 
and  woolde  defende  the  same  if  the  French  king  woolde  go  about  to  fill  them,  with  no  lesse 
force  than  they  wolde  defende  theyrs,  for  all  their  high  bragges.":}:  On  the  I7th  of  the 
same  month,  "  the  king  was  advertised  from  the  depute  of  Calais  how  that  the  Frenche 
men  of  Arde  had  made  agayn  the  passage  at  Cowbridge,  which  before  was  by  the  sayde 


*  3faunds,  baskets.     In  allusion  to  the  king's  gifts  distributed  to  the  poor  on  Maundy 
Thursday  from  the  maunds  or  baskets  in  which  the  gifts  were  contained. — Spelman. 
+  Proceedings,  &c.  of  the  Privy  Council,  edited  by  Sir  N.  H.  Nicolas,  vol.  vii.  p.  63. 
X  Ibid.  p.  64. 


1541.]  WORKS  AT  CALAIS.  197 

depute  at  the  kinges  conimaundement  defeated,  and  that  the  xiijtU  of  this  present  the 
sayde  depute  caused  the  sayde  passage  eftsoones  to  be  broken.  The  sayde  depute  also  sent 
liither  the  copye  of  his  message  sent  by  Gysnes  pursyvant  to  the  capitayne  of  Arde,  and 
his  answer  therupon,  and  after  that  the  capitayn's  lettre  to  the  depute  and  his  answer  to 
the  same,  which  were  somewhat  poygnant  and  pickyng  upon  both  sydes."*  The  next  day 
a  letter  was  addressed  to  the  deputy  of  Calais,  "  willing  him  to  defeate  from  tyme  to  tyme 
that  which  the  Frenchmen  shulde  do  for  the  passage  at  Cowbridge,  having  allwayes  an 
eye  that  by  any  entreprise  he  woolde  make  he  did  not  put  in  any  hazarde  or  daungier  the 
towne  or  any  other  of  the  fortresses. "-f  On  the  30th  Oct.  copies  were  received  of  further 
letters  that  had  passed  between  the  deputy  and  the  capitain  of  Arde  on  this  subject  ;  J 
which  were  acknowledged  by  a  letter  written  to  him  on  the  1st  Nov.  directing  him  to 
follow  the  order  before  prescribed  ;  and  on  the  same  day  a  letter  was  written  to  Stephen 
the  Almayne,  directing  him  to  repair  to  the  court. §  On  the  7th  Nov.  letters  were  sent  to 
the  deputy  "  to  receyve  Steven  the  Almayne  at  Calais,  and  to  cause  the  surveiour  to  joyne 
with  him  in  the  view  of  the  marches,  for  the  devising  of  a  platt  of  the  same,  and  specially 
of  the  passage  at  Cowbridge  and  the  ryvers  nere  unto  the  same,  but  that  in  no  wise  they 
shulde  suffre  hym  to  view  the  towne  of  Calais,  or  to  se  the  secretes  of  the  same,"  ||  On 
the  16th  another  letter  was  addressed  to  the  deputy,  "to  appoint  Frauncis  Hall,  in  the 
absence  of  the  surveiour,  to  joyne  with  Stephen  th'  Almain  for  the  making  of  the 
platt  of  the  marches  and  passage  about  Cowbridge,  until  such  tyme  as  the  surveyour 
were  sent  home  again. "^  On  the  28th  Dec.  letters  were  brought  from  sir  John  Wallop, 
which  declared  "  the  Frenche  kinges  appoyntment  of  mens'',  de  Bees  capitayn  of  Boloygne, 
and  (hlanh)  a  master  of  requestes  dwelling  at  Amyens,  to  mete  in  commission  with  like 
personages  to  be  sent  from  the  kinges  majestie,  the  ij'^'^.  of  February,  for  the  determinacion 
of  the  matters  of  Cowbridge."** 

This  is  the  last  we  find  on  the  matter.  It  appears  that  we  owe  to  this  controversy  the 
map  of  the  vicinity  of  Calais,  of  which  a  fac-simile  is  given  in  the  introduction  to  this 
volume. 

Works  in  progress  at  Calais  and  Guisnes,  1541. 

(MS.  Cotton,  MS.  Titus,  B.  i.  p.  208''.  a  transcript.) 

A  Declaration  of  the  nomber  of  Workmen  and  Labourers,  with  their 
Wages,  working  beyond  the  Sea,  on  the  Kings  Majesties  Fortifica- 
tions, anno  Henrici  8.  regni  33. 

At  Calais. 
First,  133  workmen  on  Dyvelyn  bulwarke,  everie  of  them  at  8rf.  sterling 

*  Proceedings,  &c.  of  the  Privy  Council,  edited  by  Sir  N.  H,  Nicolas,  vol.  vii,  p.  66. 
+  Ibid.  p.  67.  t  P.  73,  §  Pp.  74,  75, 

II  P.  79,  1  P.  83,  **  P,  100. 


198  WORKS  AT  CALAIS.  [1541. 

the  daye,  with  their  howers,  amounteth  in  the  moneth,  containing  28  daies, 
summa   .......         124?.  2s.  8d. 

Item,  526  labourers  working  on  the  same  bulworke,  everie  of  them  at 
6d.  sterling  by  the  daye,  with  their  howers,  summa  .  385?.  6*. 

Ai  Ryshanke. 

Item,  70  workmen,  everie  of  them  at  Qd.  sterling  the  daye,  with  their 
houres,  summa   .  .  .  •  .  .  64?.  8*. 

Item,  211  labourers  working  on  the  said  workes,  everie  of  them  at  6c?. 
sterling  the  daye,  with  their  howres,  summa         .  .  147Z.  14*. 

The  nomber  of  workmen  and  labourers  amounteth  to  939,  the  somme  of 
their  wages  for  one  whole  moneth  to  the  somme  of  .       731/.  10*.  Qd. 

An  Estimate  of  all  manner  of  provisions,  emptions,  and  cartages,  for 

the  foresaid  WorJces  at  Calais  and  Ryshanke,   by  the  space  of  one 

moneth,  conteining  28  dayes. 

First,  in  coles  5  chaldron  and  a  halfe  a  daye,  spent  at  5  lyme  kyeles, 
amounteth  in  the  moneth  to  154  chaldron,  at  8*.  sterling  the  chaldron, 
summa  ......  53?.  18*. 

Item,  200  ton  of  chalk,  spent  by  the  daye  at  the  said  kyeles,  and  for 
filling  of  the  welles,  amounteth  to  2,800  ton,  at  8£?.  sterling  the  ton, 
summa  ......  93/.  6*.  8f?. 

Item,  spent  in  brikkes  monethly  600,000,  at  5*.  sterling  the  1000, 
summa  .......         150?. 

Item,  in  tymber,  60  ton,*  at  3*.  A.d.  sterling  the  ton,  summa  30?. 

Item,  in  yron  worke,  monethly  .  .  .  13?.  6*.  8c?. 

Item,  in  boordes,  nayles,  herdelles,  mastes,  spares,  bastes,  terras,  and 
diverse  other  necessaries  .....  30/. 

Item,  in  freight  of  stone  from  Feversham  and  St.  Augustine  f  at  Canter- 
bury      ........  20/. 

Item,  in  hard  stone  and  freight  of  the  same  from  Maidstone  to 
Calais     ........         60/. 

*  The  miscalculations  in  this  and  some  other  places  belong  to  the  manuscript. 
+  The  buildings  of  the  late  monastery  at  Canterbury,  as  at  various  other  places,  were 
made  to  serve  the  office  of  a  quarry. 


1541.]  WORKS  AT  GUISNES.^Ni;;^^/FORNl^:,^^    199 


Item,  in  all  manner  of  carriage  monethly  from  the  haven  to  the  workes, 
and  carrying-  of  brikkes  from  the  kyeles  to  the  same  workes,  summa      100/. 

Summa  totalis,  emptions  and  carriages  by  the  space  of  one  moneth 
amounteth  to  the  summe  of  .  .  .  .       530/.  11^.  4d. 

At  Guysnes. 

First,  94  workmen  working  on  Porton's  bulwarke,  everie  of  them  at  8rf. 
sterling  the  daye,  amounteth  in  the  moneth,  containing  28  dales,  surama, 

87/.  \^s.  M.  ster. 

Item,  200  labourers  serving  the  said  working  with  brick,  chalke,  and 
morter,  at  6d.  sterling  by  the  daye  .  .  .  140/. 

Item,  50  labourers  bearing  forth  out  of  the  digg  of  the  bulworke,  into 
the  same  bulwarke,  at  6d.  by  the  daye      ...  35/. 

Item,  30  labourers  quenching  of  lyme  and  making  of  mortar  for  the  said 
bulwarke  at  Qd.  sterling  by  the  dale         .  .  .  31/. 

At  the  Newe  Bulwork. 

Item,  52  workmen  working  on  the  said  newe  bulworke,  at  everie  of  them 
8c?.  sterling,  by  the  daye,  with  their  howres,  summa  .  48/.  10*.  Qd. 

Item,  180  labourers  serving  the  foresaid  workemen  with  stufFe  and  mor- 
ter, everie  of  them  at  6c/.  sterhng  by  the  daye,  summa      .  126/. 

Item,  80  labourers  bearing  of  earth  out  of  the  same  bulworke  to  the 
wall,  and  making  betweene  that  and  Whettells  bulworke  the  contermine  of 
earth,  at  6c/.  sterling  the  daye,  summa     .  .  .  56/. 

Item,  18  labourers  quenching  the  lyme,  and  making  of  morter  for  the 
said  workes,  at  6c/.  sterling  by  the  daye,  summa  .  .  12/.  12*. 

At  Whettell  Bulworke. 

Item,  20  workemen  working  on  the  travers  walles  there,  at  8c/.  the  daye, 
with  their  howres,  summa  ....  18/.  13*.  4c/. 

Item,  58  labourers  serving  those  workemen  with  stuffe  and  morter,  at  6c/. 
sterling  by  the  daye,  summa         ....  40/.  12*. 

Item,  20  labourers  bearing  earth,  which  was  cast  out  of  the  keye  into  the 
said  bulworke,  at  Qd.  sterling  the  daye     .  .  .  14/. 

Item,  5  labourers  making  of  morter  for  the  said  workmen,  at  Qd.  sterling 
the  daye,  summa  .  .  .  .  .  3/.  10*. 


200  WORKS   AT   GUISNES.  [1541. 

At  the  31111  Tower. 

Item,  24  workmen  working  uppon  the  said  tower,  at  Qd.  sterling  the  daye, 
with  their  howi'es,  summa  ....  22/.  8*. 

Item,  48  labourers  serving  the  said  workmen  with  bricke  and  morter,  at 
Qd.  sterling  the  daye,  summa         ....  33/.  \2s. 

Item,  3  labourers  making  morter  and  quenching  lyme  for  the  said  workes, 
at  6d.  sterling  the  daye,  sum        ....  3/.  lO*. 

At  the  Carpentry. 

Item,  28  carpenters  working  there  nowe  for  the  first  flower  of  the  newe 
bulworke,  by  Whetelles  bulworke,  at  8f/.  sterhng  by  the  daye,  withe  their 
houres,  summa    ......  26/.  2s.  8d. 

Item,  60  labourers  which  wrought  at  the  castle  gate  driving  pyles  with 
gynes,  which  labourers  nowe  shall  worke  uppon  the  brayes  there,  which  the 
kinges  highnes  had  devised,  at  6d.  sterling  the  daie,  summa  42/. 

At  the  Dyke  next  the  Plash. 
Item,  73  labourers  casting  the  said  dick,  at  6d.  sterling  the  daie,  summa 

51/.  2^. 

At  the  Bryhery  and  Sandpitte. 

Item,  20  labourers  digging  of  sand  and  ladmg  carts  at  the  brykery,  at 
vjt/.  sterhng  the  daie,  sum  ....  14/. 

At  the  Towne  Dyke  and  Rampere. 

Item,  280  labourers  working  in  the  towne  dyke  filhng  of  tumbrells,  and 
uppon  the  rampere  of  the  towne,  at  Qtd.  sterling  the  daye,  summa  126/. 

At  the  Quarrey  besides  the  Chappell. 

Item,  40  labourers  working  in  the  said  quarrey  digging  of  chalke  only 
for  the  lyme  kylles,  at  Qd.  sterling  the  daye,  summa         .  .  'ISl. 

At  the  Quarrey  of  Fynes  Hill. 

Item,  14  roghlyers  hewing  of  chalk  for  bleckes  and  quarrelles  for  the 
workes  at  Guisnes,  at  M.  sterling  the  daye,  summa  .  286/. 


1''>-11.]  WORKS   AT  GUISNES.  201 

Item,  120  labourers  digging  and  breaking  of  chalk  and  carrying  it  out 
of  the  quarrey  to  the  hill,  at  Gd.  sterling  the  daye,  summa  .  84^. 


At  the  Woodd. 

Item,  20  labourers  cutting  great  woodd  and  making  fagotts  at  the  forest 
and  cohhin  (qu  ?)  for  the  brykery,  at  Qd.  the  dale  .  \Al. 

Item,  iiij.  smiths  making  such  necessaries  as  appertaineth  to  the  workes, 
at  \']d.  the  daie,  sum       .....  51^. 

Item,  27  clarkes  of  the  workmen  and  labourers,  at  \]d.  sterling  the  daie, 
sum        ......  .       17/.  15^.  14^. 

Summa  totalis  of  the  wages  of  one  whole  moneth, 

containing  28  daies,  sum  .  .  1082/.  14<^. 

Summa  totalis  of  the  workemen  and  the  labourers,        1492. 


An  estimate  of  all  manner  of  provisions,  emptions,  carriages,  and 
freights  for  the  foresaid  workes  at  Guisnes,  hy  the  space  of  one 
moneth,  containing  28  daies. 

First  in  coles,  8  chaldron  a  day,  spent  at  6  kyles,  amounteth  in  the 
moneth  to  196  chaldron,  at  8*.  sterling  the  chaldron,  summa  68 A  \2s. 

Item,  140  ton  of  chalk,  spent  everie  daie  at  the  said  lyme-kylles  for 
making  of  lyme,  amounteth  in  the  moneth  to  3920  ton,  at  2rf.  sterling  the 
ton,  summa         .  .  .  .  .  .  23/.  6*.  8c?. 

Item,  160  tons  of  chalk,  spent  everie  daie  for  filling  in  the  walles,  amount- 
eth in  the  moneth  to  4480  ton,  at  bd.  sterling  the  ton,  summa  83^.  5*.  Qd. 

Item,  inbryke  spent  monethly  800,000,  at  5*.  sterling  the  1000  200Z. 

Item,  in  tymber,  40  ton  monethly,  at  3*.  4c?.  sterling  the 
ton,  summa        .  .  .  .  .  .  6/.  13*.  4d. 

Item,  in  hordes,  nayles,  and  mastes,  spares,  hardelles,  bastes,  terras,  and 
yron,  with  diverse  other  necessaries,  summa         .  .  60/f. 

Item,  in  carriages  from  Calais  to  St.  Peter's  with  short  carts,  and  freights 
of  bottes  from  thence  to  Guisnes  .  .  .  40/. 

CAMD.  soc.  2  D 


202 


WORKS   AT  GUISNES. 


[1541. 


Item,  in  hardstone  and  freights  of  the  same  from  Maydstone 
monethly  ......  421. 

Item,  at  this  present  daie,  205  tumbrelles,  wherof  there  worketh  on  the 
rampere  of  the  towne  64,  and  the  rest  carrying  of  brikkes,  coles,  lyme,  and 
diverse  other  necessaries  from  the  haven  to  the  workes,  at  lOd.  sterling  the 
piece  a  daie,  amounteth  in  the  moneth,  containing  28  daies,  to       122^.  10*. 

Summa  totalis  for  emptions  and  carriages,  by  the  space  of  one  hole 
moneth,  at  Guisnes         .....  516^.  8*. 


The  hole  charges  for  wages,  emptions,  and  carriages  of  all  the  kinges 
highnes  fortifications  beyond  the  sea,  for  the  space  of  one  moneth,  to  the 
summe  of  .....  .       2850/.  5*.  2d. 


The  houndredth  horsemen  under  the  retinue  of  sir  John  Wallop,  of  the 
which  the  Monthly  Wages  of 

Twoo  peticapitaines,  at  2s.  the  piece  by  the  daie 

Twoo  gyttorne-bearers,  at  12^.  a  piece  by  the  daie 

The  rest  of  the  said  horsemen,  being  in  nomber  96,  at 
piece  by  the  daie  .... 

Four  captaines,  at  45'.  a  piece  by  the  daie 

Six  souldiers,  one  trumme,  and  one  fyfe,  to  everie  of 
fact.  32  men  at  6c?.  the  day 

Four  peticapitaines,  at  2*.  the  piece  by  the  daie 

Twoo  souldiers,  to  everie  of  them,  fac*.  8  persons  at  6d. 

Foure  standard-bearers,  at  12c?.  the  piece  by  the  daie 

One  souldier  to  everie  of  them,  at  Qd.  the  daie 

The  surveyour,  at  4*.  the  daie 

Anthony  Rous,  at  4*.  by  the  daie 

Six  persons  appointed  to  Anthony  Rous,  at  6d.  by  the 
daie  a  piece         .  . 

Summa  totalis 


51. 

12s. 
56s. 

9(/.  a 

100?. 

12s 

22/ 

'.  8s. 

them 

22/.  8* 

11/.  4* 

.the 

daie  5/. 

12s. 

51. 

12s 
56s. 

51. 

12s 

41. 

12s. 

41.  4s. 


1961. 


203 
THE  CASTLE  OF  GUISNES. 

The  castle  of  Guisnes  was  a  post  of  the  greatest  importance,  situated  immediately  on  the 
French  frontier  ;  and  its  custody  was  conferred  on  persons  of  the  first  distinction.  The 
title  they  bore  was  that  of  (the  king's)  lieutenant,  but  they  were  also  sometimes  styled 
captain . 

Sir  James  Tyrrell  was  "  capitaine  "  of  Guisnes  in  1489  (see  note  in  p.  2). 

Sir  Nicholas  Vaux  was  lieutenant  of  Guisnes  in  the  year  1513  (see  p.  12).  The  docu- 
ment which  now  follows  contains  the  conditions  upon  which  the  office  was  conferred  upon 
him. 

Sir  William  Fitzwilliam  was  lieutenant  of  Guisnes  in  1524. 

William  lord  Sandys  was  "  captain  "  of  Guisnes  in  1527. 

Sir  John  Wallop,  K.G.  held  this  office  in  1541  (see  the  preceding  page),  and  he  died 
possessed  of  it  in  1551  (see  p.  211). 

Sir  Andrew  Dudley,  K.G.  was  his  successor. 

The  last  captain  of  Guisnes  was,  it  is  believed,  William  lord  Grey  de  Wilton,  K.G. 
His  funeral,  Dec.  20,  1562,  will  be  found  in  Machyn's  Diary,  p.  297. 

A  pursuivant  took  his  name  from  this  fortress,  as  others  did  from  those  of  Ryse- 
bank  and  Hammes.  Thomas  Wall,  alias  Guysnes,  was  made  Lancaster  herald  the  30th 
April,  1  Hen.  VIII.  William  Jennings,  his  successor,  was  also  promoted  to  be  Lancaster 
the  2d  May,  8  Hen.  VIII.  ;  and  there  were  others  during  this  reign  whose  names  will  be 
found  in  Anstis's  Officers  of  Arms  (MS.  in  Coll.  Arm.)  vol.  iii.  p.  73. 

A  plan  of  the  town  and  castle  of  Guisnes,  is  preserved  in  the  Cottonian  collection, 
Augustus  I.  II.  23,  and  a  drawing  of  the  castle  on  a  very  large  scale,  ibid.  No.  52.  (The 
drawing  No.  51,  also  ascribed  in  the  catalogue  to  Guisnes,  is  an  unfinished  outline,  and 
apparently  intended  for  another  place.) 

A  document  in  MS.  Cotton.  Calig.  E.  ii.  f.  161,  written  after  the  winning  of  Boulogne, 
in  1544,  states,  that  lord  Sandes  had  always  a  crew  of  three  hundred  men  in  the  castle  of 
Guisnes  during  a  time  of  peace  ;  sir  John  Wallop,  during  war  between  the  emperor  and 
the  French,  five  hundred  men  ;  and  even  to  his  last  day,  a  garrison  of  two  hundred  foot- 
men and  fifty  horsemen. 

Articles  of  agreement  between  the  king  and  sir  Nicholas  Vaux  for  the 
custody  of  the  castle  of  Guisnes. 
(MS.  Cotton.  Caligula,  E.  i.  f.  55.) 
Agreementes  bytwene  the  kinges  grace  and  [sir  Nicholas  Vaux  upon] 
the  office  of  the  keping  of  the  castelle  of  Guynes. 

[Imprimis,  it  is]  agreed  that  the  seid  sir  Nicholas  shalle  gef  towardes 
the  repa[ration  of  the  sa]me  castelle  a  uHL  whereof  [v'^.  marc'  in]  hand, 
and  that  tyme  twelmoneth  v^.  marc',  and  within  the  ye  [re  next  ense]wing 
that  other  v'^.  marc. 


204  THE  CASTLE  OF  GUISNES.  [15—. 

[Item]  that  in  the  tyme  of  peas  bytwene  the  kinges  grace  and  his 
cousyn  [the  French]  king  the  seid  castelle  [shall]  be  furnyssh  but  with  Ix. 
souldears,  wherof  the  king  shal  apoynt  [xx.]  of  the  same,  and  the  [said] 
sir  Nicholas  xl.  persones,  provided  alwey  that  such  persones  as  the  [said 
sir  Ni]cholas  shalle  do  name  and  apointe  to  the  same  keping  shall  have  the 
kinges  warant  un[to  them]  afore  their  entre,  orelles  not  to  be  there. 

Item,  that  aslonge  as  the  said  paas  shalle  contyniue,  so  that  the  [re  shall 
not]  be  requisite  to  have  more  nombre  of  solders  then  Ix.,  that  every  yere 
duringe  the  sa[me  th]e  said  sir  Nicholas  shall  content  and  pay  unto  the 
kinges  grace,  out  of  the  wages  [the  sum  of  v.*^]  markes  sterling  current 
within  the  realme  of  England,  towardes  the  said  reparacion. 

Item,  the  said  sir  Nicholas  shalle  serve  the  king  in  his  persone  with  the 
nombre  .  .  .  .  es  at  al  tymes  of  werre,  within  this  realme  of  England, 
when  nede,  and  asofte  as  the  caas  [require,]  apon  reasonable  warnyng  unto 
hym  geven  by  the  kinges  lettres  under  any  of  his  seales  or  signet,  lev[ing 
that]  place  sufficiently  furnysshed  for  the  defence  of  the  same  in  the  meane 
tyme. 

Item,  when  it  shall  fortune  warre  to  be  betwene  the  kinges  grace  [and 
the  king]  of  Fraunce,  that  during  the  tynne  of  the  same  warre  the  said 
sir  Nicholas  shall  furnysh  [the  said  c]astelle  with  the  old  holl  nombre  of 
soldeours  aforetyme  oldely  accustumed  in  the  same,  and  duringe  the  [time 
of  the]  said  warr  to  be  dischargid  of  the  said  yerely  paiement  of  the  said 
v*^.  markes,  and  no  lenger. 

Item,  if  in  the  said  tyme  of  warre  nede  require  of  a  crue  of  a  more  .  .  . 
soldeours  to  be  had  for  the  defence  and  suer  keping  of  the  said  castelle,  then 
the  said  nom[bre  shall  befurn]ysshed  and  provided  by  the  said  sir  Nicholas 
atte  kinges  costes  and  charges. 

Item,  the  said  sir  Nicholas  to  receave  by  bille  endented  of  (blank)  alle 
the  abilymentes  of  warre  and  other  stoff'  now  being  in  the  said  castelle,  and 
t[hem  to]  kepe  andredelyver  ageyne  unto  such  persones  as  the  king  there- 
unto shall  appoint  any  tyme  [when  his]  grace  shalle  commaund,  reasonable 
use,  were,  and  expenses  of  the  same  to  be  deducted  and  alowed. 

Item,  he  shalle  saufly  and  suerly  kepe  the  said  castelle  to  the  kinges  [use, 
and  redeliver  the]  same  at  alle  tymes,  when  he  shalle  be  coramaunded ;  and 
therto  find  sufficient  suerty. 

Endorsed,    .    .    .  syr  Nycholas  ^'aux,  upon  the  keping  of  Guynes. 


1527.]  THE  CASTLE  OF   GUISNES.  205 

Letters  imder  the  king's  signet  to  sir  Adryan  Fortescue,  directing  him 
to  contribute  ten  men  towards  the  defence  of  the  castle  of  Guisnes. 
Bated  April  1,  1527. 

(MS.  Cotton.  Faustina,  E.  vn.  p.  113.) 


m 


fj  ^^  By  the  King. 

(^Stamp  of  the  royal  signature.) 

Trusty  and  welbiloved,  we  grete  you  well,  and  forasmoche  as  the  warres 
wyche  long  have  contynued  betwene  th'  Emperour  and  the  Frenshe  king- 
bee  now  so  quykened  and  with  effect  poursued  on  either  partie,  that  dailly 
excourses  bee  made  upon  their  frontiers,  and  the  garrisons  on  booth  sides 
largely  fournyshed  and  encreased,  in  suche  wise  as  rodes  and  other  entre- 
prises  bee  dailly  made  by  the  oon  and  the  other  in  greate  nombres  al  alonges 
and  foranempst  the  frontier  of  our  towne  and  marches  of  Calays,  and 
right  nere  unto  our  castell  of  Guysnes,  wherby  no  small  daunger  might 
ensue  unto  the  same  our  castell,  and  semblably  unto  our  said  towne  and 
marches  ;  and  in  caas  there  be  not  speciall  regarde  had  to  the  furniture, 
suertie,  and  defense  thereof.  We  therfor,  by  deliberat  advise  of  our  counsaill, 
have  ordeyned  and  determined  to  send  a  certaine  crewe  of  men,  well  elect 
and  chosen,  unto  our  said  towne,  castell,  and  marches,  the  same  to  be  under 
the  leading  of  our  right  trusty  and  welbiloved  counsaillour  the  lord  Sandes 
our  chamberlain,  and  captain  of  our  said  castell  of  Guysnes,  there  to 
remaigne  for  a  season  upon  the  tuicion  and  defense  of  the  same.  To  which 
crewe  we  have  appointed  you  to  sende  the  nombre  of  x*  personnes,  fotemen, 
archers,  and  other,  to  be  wele  elect  and  tryed  as  is  aforesaid.  Wherfore  we 
woll  and  commaunde  you  that  with  all  spede  and  celeritie,  upon  the  recept 
herof,  ye  prepare  and  put  in  arredynes  your  said  nombre,  sufficiently 
harnessed  and  apointed  for  the  warre,  in  suche  perfite  wise  as  they  maye  be 
at  Guldeford  the  iijt^*  f  daye  of  the  next  moneth,  there  to  bee  viewed  by  the 

*  The  number  filled  up  suhsequently  to  the  firaL  writing. 

t  The  date  filled  in,  and  "  next  "  substituted  for  "  present." 


206 


THE  CASTLE  OF  GUISNES. 


[1527. 


said  lord  Sandes,  oonles  ye  shall  before  that  tyme  have  from  him  knowlege 
to  the  contrary,  where  also  money  shalbe  delyvered  to  suche  a  personne 
as  ye  shall  appointe,  for  ther  cootes  and  conduyte  money,  So  to  passe  forthe, 
under  suche  captaynes  to  whom  they  shalbe  lotted,  to  our  said  towne  and 
marches  for  the  pourpose  beforesaid.  Faile  ye  not  therfor  to  use  diligence 
herein,  as  our  trust  is  in  you,  advertising  the  said  lord  Sandes  incontinently 
by  this  berer  of  your  conformable  mynde  herein.  And  these  our  letres 
shalbe  as  well  unto  you  for  levyeng,  raising,  gathering,  mustring,  viewing, 
arraying  and  sending  of  the  said  nombre  as  to  them  so  by  you  levied,  raised, 
gathered,  mustred,  viewed,  arrayed  and  sent,  as  sufficient  warrant  and 
discharge  as  though  the  same  were  passed  under  our 
greate  seale,  any  act,  statute,  proclamacion,  ordenance  or 
commandement  passed  to  the  contrary  notwithstanding. 
Yeven  under  our  Signet  at  our  manour  of  Richemount 
the  first  day  of  Aprill,  the  xixth  yere  of  our  reigne. 

Directed,   To  our  trusty  and  welbeloved  sir  Adiyan 
Fortescue,  and  sealed  ivith  the  king's  signet. 


Letter  of  John  Cheyny  to  lord  Sandes,  lieutenant  of  Guisnes, 
Nov.  1527. 


The  following  letter  is  dated  from  Guisnes,  and  is  evidently  addressed  to  the  nobleman 
who  was  at  the  time  lieutenant  of  the  castle.  Though  the  fire  in  the  Cottonian  library 
has  deprived  it  of  its  address,  and  also  of  the  precise  date,  it  is  pretty  clear  that  it  belongs 
to  the  year  1527,  at  the  close  of  which  a  war  with  the  emperor  appeared  imminent,  as  the 
writer  states.  It  was  vvritten  at  the  close  of  November :  and  the  writer  had  despatched 
on  the  22d  of  the  same  month  a  previous  letter,  which  had  failed  of  passage  from  Calais 
on  the  Sunday  following.  The  24th  November  1527  fell  on  a  Sunday.  An  amusing 
account  is  given  of  the  adventures  of  a  spy  sent  into  Flanders. 

(MS.  Cotton.  Calig.  E.  ii.  p.  144.     Much  hurnt  round.) 

Pleasith  it  youre  lordshypp  [I  did  write]  unto  your  lordshypp  the  xxij. 
day  of  [this  month,]  whuche  letter  I  dyd  send  unto  master  water  [-bailiff, 
desiring]  hym  to  se  it  conveyed  unto  you  with  delyg[ence,  the  which] 
letter  went  nott  at  that  passaige,  whyche  was  [upon]  Sonday  last,  and  sens 
ther  hath  gone  no  passaige. 

Syr  Frances  Bryan  hath  leyne  at   Calleis   this dayes.     It 


1527.]  THE  CASTLE  OF   GUISNES.  207 

may  plese  your  lordshypp  to  wytt  I  have  [sent]  foi-th  youre  espyalle  into 
Flaunders,  and  at  Dunkyrk  [he]  dyd  se  wrytyng  sett  uppon  the  churche 
dore,  [and]  he  harde  say  it  was  so  all  Flanders  thorow ;  and  [so]  re- 
tournyng  agayne  he  came  to  Graveling,  and  by  fort[une]  met  with  a  soll- 
dyour  of  the  castell  ther,  who  is  a  Spay[niard]  and  hath  maryed  Gyles 
Kevalles  wyves  syster  ;  [for]  acquayntans  he  dranke  with  hym  ;  and  incon- 
tynent  t[he]  cappiteyne  sent  for  them  both  into  the  c[astle],  and  when 
Gyles  your  servaunt  came  before  the  cappit[eyne,]  he  demaunded  of  hym 
what  he  made  in  those  [parts]  ;  Gyles  seyde  he  had  bene  at  a  pylgremaig 
of  our  [Lady]  a  myle  out  of  Dunkyrke ;  the  cappiteine  swo[re]  and  he 
shoulde  do  hym  ryght  he  shoulde  hang  [hym]  by  the  necke,  and  send  his 
cappiteine  worde  th[at  he]  had  done  hym  tru  justice;  and  then  he  com- 
mand[ed  him]  to  avoyde  owte  of  the  towne.  Other  newis  he  [hath]  none 
butt  that  the  wrytyng  be  sett  uppon  chy[rch]  dorris  in  Flanders,  wherof 
I  do  send  unto  your  lordshypp  the  coppye.* 

Also,  it  may  please  your  lordshypp  to  be  advertysed  [that  on  Wednes]day 
the  xxvij.  daye  of  this  present  moneth,  my  lord  [deputy]  of  Calleis  sent 
for  me  and  for  the  bailly,  and  at  our  comyng  to  hym  he  askid  us  for 
newis,  and  bad  us  take  heede  to  our  chargis  ;  he  said  it  was  no  other  butt 
to  be  warr  betwene  the  emperoure  and  the  [king]  oure  master  ;  and  fur- 
ther he  shewed  us  he  ha[rd]  ther  was  comyng  downe  xxx.  thowsand  Al- 
m[aynes].  Also  he  saide  that  maister  Bryan  shoulde  say  the  Fr[ench] 
king  wolde  take  parte  with  the  kinge  our  maister. 

[Also  it]  may  please  your  lordshipp  to  be  advertised  [that  I  have  this] 
day  sent  owte  into  every  pajyshe  of  this  [county  to  inquire]  what 
store  of  grayne,  and  also  of  all  maner  [of  provisions]  ther  is  within 
the  said  countie,  and  have  gy[ven  order]  that  uppon  a  dayes  warnyng 
they  to  be  [ready  to  bring]  into  this  castell  suche  grayne  and  su[ch  provi- 
sions as]  they  shalbe  commanded. 

Also,  it  may  please  your  lordshypp  to  wytt here  is  sore  in 

dekey,  as  wheelles  and  stockes and  the  brydge  that  goth  owte 

of  the Pyrton's  bulwarke,  is  so  feebell  that  men  [cannot  pass] 

over  hit.     I  have  spoken  to  Thomas  Fowller for  the  same 

brydge,  who  hathe  promysed he  can,  who  is  delygent  to  do  for 

*  This  inclosure  is  not  preserved  with  the  letter. 


208  NEWNHAMBRIDGE.  [15 . 

your  lord[shypp  any]  thinge  that  in  hym  lyes  ;  and  further  he  says  [it  is] 
requesyt  that  your  lordshypp  shoulde  shortly  [send]  a  warrant  for  more 
money  for  reparacions,  [and]  specially  for  a  new  bruhowse,  for  the  olde  ys 
[too  decayed]  to  stande  longe  :  beseching  your  lordshypp  to  [give]  thanks  to 
the  said  Thomas  Fowller  for  his  goo[d  heed].  And  further,  my  lord,  yf  I 
do  here  more  of  [this]  besynes  owte  of  Flanders,  whiche  spekes  [of] 
warr,  I  shall  advertise  your  lordshypp  thereof  [with]  the  shortest  speede 
that  may  be.  And  as  [for]  your  compane  here,  every  man  ys  in  goode 
ord[er  and]  well  wyllyng  to  do  theyre  duties.  Humbly  [beseching]  your 
lordshypp  that  I  may  be  recommended  [to  your]  synguler  goode  lady, 
and  also  to  sir  Richard And  thus  the  blessed  Trynete  pre- 
serve your  lordshypp  in  honour.     At  Guysnes,  the   ...   of  Novembre. 

Also,  it  may  please  your  lordshypp  to  consydder  [we  have]  butt  fyve 
gonners  in  this  howse,  what  chanse  sh[all  happen]  ;  and  also  here  is  no 
salt,  whiche  is  nedefull  to  be  provided. 

By  your  lowly  servaunte, 

John  Cheyny. 


NEWNHAMBRIDGE. 

The  fortress  of  New-nhambridge,  situated  a  short  distance  from  Calais  on  the  road  to 
Boulogne,  has  formed  the  subject  of  a  few  remarks,  in  the  prefatory  description  of  the 
Map.  The  term  "  newly  made"  used  in  the  present  document  must  be  understood  as 
implying  only  an  extensive  repair  or  re-edification.  The  date  is  imperfect,  but  it  was  of 
course  subsequent  to  the  knighting  of  Sir  Robert  Jerningham  by  the  duke  of  Suffolk,  in 
1523  (see  p.  100). 

Appointment  of  sir  Robert  Jerningham  to  the  custody  of  the  fortress 
of  Newnhamhridge. 

(MS.  Cotton.  Calig.  E.  ii.  f.  162.) 

Henry  the  viij.,  by  the  g[race  of  God  king  of  England  and]  France,  de- 
fensour  of  the  faith,  and  .  .  .  [unto  our]  right  trusty  and  welbiloved  coun- 

seillor our  deputie  of  our  toune  and  marches  of  Calais,   [the 

lord]  Sandes,  capitain  of  our  castell  of  Guysnes,  [our  right]  trusty  and  right 


MEWNMAMBRIDGE.  209 

welbiloved  counsaillour  sir  [Ricliard]  Weston  knight,  treasorour  of  onr  saide 
tonne  and  [marches],  greting,  Forasmoche  as  wee  have  determy[ncd  and] 
appoincted  that  our  fortresse  newly  made  at  N[ewnham] bridge,  besydesour 
saide  towne  of  Calais,  shalbe  [furnished]  of  a  sufficient  keper,  haveing  under 
him  a  com[petent]  nomber  of  men  for  the  suretie  and  defense  th[erof.] 
Wherupon  wee,  trusting  in  the  fidelitie  and  circ[umspecti]on  of  our 
trusty  servaunt  syr  Robert  Jerningham  kni[ght,]  have  committed  unto 
hym  the  custodye  of  th[e  same]  during  our  pleasour.  To  whom  wee  have 
appo[inted]  entertaynement,  and  the  nombre  of  persones  to  be  [chosen 
and]  taken  in  maner  and  fourme  as  followeth  : — FurSt,  that  he  shall  have 
for  hymself  the  wa[ges  and]  rome  of  a  spere  on  horsbak  in  our  retynue 
[of  our]  towne  of  Calais  as  he  now  hathe,  and  also  [shall  have]  the 
nombre  of  soldeours  hereafter  mencioned  .  .  .  foure  dede  pays,*  that  is  to 
saye,  the  wages  of  [four]  of  the  fotemen,  every  of  theym  in  vjd.  stei'lingby 
[the  daye],  whiche  wages  he  shall  retayne  to  his  owne  [use  and]  profyte 
during  our  saide  pleasour,  having  n[o  man]  in  those  iiij.  romes.  And  over 
and  above  the  [said]  wages  for  four  fotemen,  there  shalbe  contyn[ually] 
resident  under  the  saide  sir  Robert  Jerning[ham  in]  the  saide  fortresse  the 
nombre  of  xx"  perso[ns,+  and  the]  same  xxti,  and  also  the  saide  iiij.  fotemen 
for  [dead]  pais,  to  be  taken  of  the  soldeours  and  romes  [within  our]  saide 
towne  and  castell  of  Calais,  that  is  [to  saye,]  of  our  deputie  of  the  same  our 
toune  ij.  fotemen  ••...... 

horsbacke  in    viijd  by  ....  the  [daye ]    vj(/.  by  day,  of  our 

lieutenaunt  of  our  [said  castle  of  ...  ]  fotemen  in  vjd.  by  the  day,  of  .  .  . 

fotemen  in  vjd.  by  the  day,  of  Rauf  Br vjf^.  by  day,  of  John 

Rawlyns  oone by  day,  of  Fisher's  men  ij.  fotemen  [in  viijrf.]  and 

one  in  v^d.  by  day,  of  Richard  G man  in  vjd.   by  day,  of  John 

Highef  ....  [one  man]  in  vjd.  by  day,  oute  of  the  retynewe  ....  twoo 
archers  on  horsbak  and  iiij.  fotemen  in  \ujd.  by  day,  and  iiij.  fotemen  in  vjrf. 
by  day.  [We]  therforo,  willing  this  our  ordre  to  be  put  [in  due]  execution, 
have  by  these  presents  auctorysed  ....  of  you,  wherof  our  saide  deputie 

*  The  pay  of  four  dead  men. 

t  When  the  account  previously  printed  (p.  138)  was  drawn  up,  in  1533,  the  lieutenant 
of  Newnhambridge  had  a  garrison  of  only  twelve  persons. 

CAMD.  SOC.  2  E 


210  NEWNHAMBRIDGE. 

to  be  one,  [to]  electe  and  assign  unto  the  saide  sir  Robert  Jerningham 
the  nombre  of  soldeours  and  romes  in  maner  before  specified.  And  the 
same  to  delyver  unto  hym,  discharging  them  from  their  attendance  [in]  our 
saide  towne,  and  appointing  those  of  our  said  .  .  .  and  the  other  saide  romes 
unto  hyni  as  is  aforesaid,  semblably  to  delyver  to  hym  the  saide  fo[rtress] 
with  all  artillery,  ordenaunce,  and  abillementes  of  [war]  therunto  belonging 
by  indenters  to  be  made  therof  betwene  you  and  hym.  So  as  the  same 
fortresse,  whiche  we  woll  shall  alwaies  [be]  as  a  membre  of  that  our  towne 
of  Calais,  and  under  the  jurisdiction  of  our  deputie  of  our  [said  town]  and 
marches,  as  other  offices  belonging  to  the  [said]  towne  be,  may  be 
lykewise  ordered  in  w[atch  and]  warde,  checkes,  vacacions,  and  com- 
trolleni[ent,  as  the]  offices  in  our  said  towne  be  by  the  compt[roller  or] 
other  officers  of  the  same  our  towne  for  the  tyme  [being.]  And  the  wages 
to  be  paied  by  you  our  saide  [treasurer]  at  the  termes  of  payment  in  our 
saide  towne  [accusto]myd,  the  same  to  be  delivered  unto  the  handes  [of 
the]  saide  keper,  and  to  be  by  hyiu  paide  into  the  sold[eours]      .... 

commaunde  you  to  see  the  p [remises  performed]  accordingly.  And  that 
you  our  saide  [de))uty  take]  the  othe  of  the  saide  syr  Robert  Jerning[ham 
swearing]  hym  to  be  oon  of  our  counseillours  in  our  sa[id  town].  Wherein 
and  in  all  and  singular  the  premisses  [these]  letters  shalbe  unto  every  of 
you  sufficiant  [warrant]  and  discharge.  Geven  undre  our  signet  at  our 
[palace  of]  Grenewich  the  xij.  day  of  Aprill,  in  the  x  .  .  .  of  our  reign. 
Endorsed, — To  the  kingis  most  gracious  highnes. 

When  the  king  was  in  France  in  1532,  Thomas  Palmer  was  captain  of  Newnhani- 
bridge,  and  was  knighted  on  the  10th  of  November  (as  before  mentioned  in  p.  122). 

In  the  will  of  sir  John  Wallop,  K.G.,  lieutenant  of  Guisnes,  made  May  22, 1551,  is  this 
"  Item,  To  Nicholas  Alexander,  captayne  of  Newnam-bridge,  my  late  secretary,  an 
annuitie  of  vj?.  xiij5.  iiijc/.  to  be  paid,"  &c. 

On  the  name  of  Newnhambridge  some  remarks  have  been  made  in  the  introductory 
description  of  the  Map,  p.  xxix. 


211 


Foray  into  tul  French  Country. 

The  following  narrative  describes  sucli  a  foray  as  that  recorded  in  p.  32  of  Turpyn's 
Chronicle.  Though  somewhat  subsequent  in  date  to  the  other  contents  of  this  volume, 
it  is  inserted  as  affording  a  more  vivid  and  graphic  picture  of  the  mode  of  aggression 
usual  upon  the  French  borders  in  times  of  war  than  it  has  been  our  fortune  to  find  in  any 
other  paper. 

Sir  John  Wallop,  the  chief  commander  on  the  occasion  here  described,  was  one  who 
for  a  long  succession  of  years  was  highly  distinguished  in  his  military  capacity  ;  and 
particularly  in  France.  (See  the  memoir  of  him  in  Collins's  Peerage,  art.  Portsmouth.) 
Having  previously  (as  it  seems)  been  marshal  of  Calais,  he  was  constituted  lieutenant  of 
the  castle  there  June  23,  1533  (Bill.  Sign.  22  Hen.  VIH.),  and  subsequently  he  became 
lieutenant  of  the  castle  and  county  of  Guisnes,  which  office  he  filled  in  1543,  when  he 
was  appointed  captain-general  and  leader  of  the  forces  appointed  to  be  employed,  pur- 
suant to  a  treaty  with  the  emperor  (Pat.  35  Hen.  VIII.  p.  16,  m.  24),  and  which  resulted 
in  the  expedition  here  commemorated.*  After  his  return,  as  a  special  mark  of  the  king's 
approbation,  he  was  elected  a  knight  of  the  garter  on  Christmas  eve  1543.  He  at  last 
died  at  Guisnes,  July  13,  1551,  having  made  his  will  on  the  ■22nd  of  May  preceding,  in 
which  he  styles  himself  "  lieutenante  of  the  castill  and  countye  of  Guisnes."  "  He  was  a 
nobuU  captayne  as  ever  was."     (Machyn's  Diary,  p.  8. 

(MS.  Harl.  283,  f.  3.) 

The  names  of  the  Capiiaynes  that  he  at  the  Kinges  Majesties  hoste, 

Firste,  sir  John  Wallope  knight,  cappitayne  generall  of  the  hoste  ;  sir 
Thomas  Semer,  highe  marshall  of  the  same  ;  sir  Robert  Bowes,  treasorer ; 
sir  Richard  Cromwell,  cappitayne  of  the  horsmen ;  sir  George  Carowe,  sir 
John  Rayensford,  sir  Thomas  Pallmer,  sir  John  Sant  John,  and  sir  John 
Gaskin,  cappitaynes  of  the  fotemen. 

The  Jorneyes   and    Viogies   of  the    Kinges  Majesties   army,   and  the 
feates  hy  the  sam,e  achieved  and  done. 

The  hole  oste  departed  owte  of  Callyes  upon  Sonday  the  xxij  day  of 
Julye,  at  iiij  of  the  clok  at  afternone,  and  campid  the  same  night  without 
the  walles  of  the  towne  in  the  feldes.  Uppon  the  Monday  the  xxiij  day  of 
Jully,  in  the  morninge,  they  wente  towardes  sir  John  Wallope  metinge  them, 

*  A  later  hand  has  indorsed  upon  the  manuscript,  "about  1513, "-i— just  thirty  years 
too  soon. 


212  FORAY  INTO  THE  FRENCH  COUNTRY.  [1543. 

and  so  marched  to  Lanerton,  beinge  within  the  French  palle ;  and  there 
mete  with  the  lord  Greay,  capitayne  of  Hames  castill,  and  ther  birnt 
Lanerton,  with  the  nomber  of  iij  c.  howses,  and  Campfer  with  Finies 
mylle,  otherwise  called  a  castill ;  and  after  the  abbey  of  Bewliew,  and  so 
went  to  Finies  towne  that  night,  and  ther  camped.  And  upon  Tewisday, 
the  marshall  the  same  morninge  went  with  sertayne  gentillemen  and  other 
soldeardes  unto  iij  pilles  *  called  Ratton,  Abrilton,  and  Rensam,  and  the 
same  birnt  also,  and  birnt  dyvers  vilages,  and  certayne  howses  in  Mergison, 
and  within  iij  milles  compase  of  Bolloigne.  The  said  army  marchid  for- 
ward unto  the  abbey  of  Lyquies,  six  mylles  from  Fynies,  spoylinge  and 
birning  all  the  way  they  wente,  untill  they  came  unto  the  abbey  aforesaid,  to 
the  which  they  came  at  ij  of  the  cloke  at  afternone ;  and  the  said  abbey 
was  imediately  delyvered  up  unto  them,  wherein  was  xij  Frenchmen,  and 
a  monke  called  doctor  Driw,  which  afterwardes  folowid  the  clarkes,  being 
bond  with  bondes.  And  upon  Wediiisday  the  xxv  day  of  Julye,  they 
campid  that  night,  to  the  intent  that  the  cheyfteayne  before  his  departure 
wolde  se  the  said  abbey  as  well  bernte,  as  also  the  walles  razed  downe  to 
the  hard  grownde  with  gonpowder,  which  was  donne.  And  upon  the  same 
daye  ther  came  to  us  two  thowsande  fotemen  of  Burgonyones  and  ij  thow- 
sande  of  horsmen. 

And  upon  Thursday,  the  xxvj  day  of  Jully,  the  said  army  departed  from 
Lysquies  and  marchid  unto  the  vilage  and  castill  of  Awlkinges,  and  ther 
campid,  and  ther  lay  all  night,  and  ther  were  two  laromes. 

And  upon  Friday,  the  xxvij  of  July,  departinge  from  thence,  bernte  the 
towne  and  the  castill,  and  the  castill  was  razed  downe  at  Whitsontide  laste 
paste  by  the  Burgonyones  ;  and  so  departinge  razed  downe  the  great  tower 
that  was  standing  with  gonpowder,  and  all  the  reaste  burnt  to  peeces. 
And  so  marchid  the  said  day  from  thence  to  Hawlinge,  two  mylles  from 
Sante  Homers,  and  ther  lay  Saturday  the  xxviij  day  of  Jully. 

Upon  Sonday,  the  xxix  day,  from  Hawlinge  to  Otingall,  ij  mylles  from 
Twrwin,  and  ther  did  the  northern  men,  with  other  of  the  kinges  men, 
ridde  vmder  the  walles  of  Twrwin,  and  skirmyshed  with  the  Frenchmen, 
and  one  Dasser  killed  one  of  the  Frenchmen's  horse  with  his  bowe,  and 
hurte   was   donne   on   bothe    parties.       And   after   our  comynge   into   the 

*  piles  or  fortified  towers. 


1543.]  FORAY  INTO  THE  FRENCH  COUNTRY.  213 

campe,  om*  cheiftayne  seat  up  to  the  capteayiie  of  Torwin  a  letter,  requir- 
inge  him  that  vj  men  of  armes,  beinge  gentillmen,  might  runne  with  six 
gentillmen  of  our  army  for  life  and  dethe  ;  to  the  which  answere  was  made 
in  the  morninge,  that  he  wolde  sende  vj  gentillmen  of  armes  to  runne,  and 
X  gentillmen  armid  to  keepe  them  compayney,  at  ix  of  the  cloke.  Upon 
that  ther  was  sertayne  appoynted  to  furnishe  them  to  do  that  enterprise, 
which  wher  of  ower  partie  master  Charrlles  Hawward,  master  Peter  Carew, 
master  Henry  Markham,  master  Shelley  of  Calleyes,  master  Callverley, 
and  master  Hall.  And  of  ther  parte  was  like  nomber  of  gentilmen,  which 
ech  other  met  \\'ithout  the  towne  at  the  hower  appoynted,  and  ther  ranne 
one  with  another  two  coursies  and  brake  ther  staves  valiantly.  And  ther 
was  hurte  on  ower  partie  master  Calverley,  and  he  brake  ij  speres  on  him 
that  hurt  him  in  the  hed  to  the  deathe.  and  master  Markham  did  hurt  one 
of  the  gentillmen  also.  And  the  same  tyme  ther  wher  iij  browght  from 
Boloigne  by  a  trumpet  to  the  campe,  and  ther  delyvered.  After  this  donne 
the  army  marchid  forward  toward  an  olde  castill  called  Lyvters,  beinge 
distroyed  by  the  Frenchmen,  which  is  within  two  legies  of  Turwin,  wher 
the  army  camped  Monday  the  xxx'"  July,  all  the  day,  and  upon  Tewsday 
the  xxxj''  of  July  the  said  army  marchid  from  the  said  campe  of  Livters  to 
the  cam[p]e  of  Alwines,  one  myle  from  Ayre,  and  ther  we  had  ij  laromes, 
and  lay  ther  all  that  night ;  and  upon  Wedinsday,  the  first  of  Auguste,  the 
said  army  marchid  from  thence  to  the  campe  adjoyninge  unto  the  castill  of 
Erewyn  next  unto  Rusher,  and  ther  laye  alle  night.  And  upon  Thursday 
the  seconde  day  of  August  the  said  army  marchid  from  thence  unto  the 
campe  of  Varkingnowghe  a  niylle  from  EtwajTie,  and  ther  lay  Friday  and 
Saturdaye  all  daye.     And  upon  the  same   Saturday   afternoone   came  into 

the  campe  the  countes  of  Pavoy,  basse  dowghter 

{Here  the  MS.  abruptly  breaks  off.) 


214 


ADDENDA  ET  CORRIGENDA, 


1509.  In  Rymer's  collection,  vol.  xiii.  p.  265,  are  printed  two  commissions,  both  dated 
at  Knoll,  24  Sept.  1509,  one  addressed  to  Sir  Gilbert  Talbot,  deputy  of  the  town  and 
marches  of  Calais,  Sir  John  Digby,  and  Sir  John  Wiltshire  comptroller  there,  knights  of 
the  king's  body,  to  take  the  musters  within  the  town  and  castle  of  Calais,  and  the  castles 
of  Guysnes  and  Hammes  (Rot.  Franc.  1  Hen.  VIII.  m.  17)  ;  the  other  directed  to  Sir 
William  Scot  and  James  Dyggys,  directing  them  to  take  the  musters  at  Dover  of  le  crewe 
of  one  hundred  persons,  about  to  be  sent  to  Calais  under  the  conduct  of  Sir  John  Pecche, 
knight  of  the  king's  body.     (Pat.  1  Hen.  VIII.  p.  1,  m,  18  dor.) 

P.  10. — Full  particulars  of  the  sea  fight,  in  which  Sir  Edward  Howard  lost  his  life, 
will  be  found  in  Mr.  Howard  of  Corby's  Memorials  of  the  Howard  family,  particularly  the 
narrative  of  Sir  Edward  Echyngham,  one  of  the  captains  present. 

P.  30,  note  ^. — The  emperor's  second  ambassador  here  mentioned  is  styled  in  a  docu- 
ment in  Rymer,  xiii.  227,  lord  of  Berg  op  Zoom  and  of  Walham,  chamberlain  of  the 
emperor,  and  a  knight  of  the  golden  fleece.  On  the  19th  May,  1516,  King  Henry  VIII. 
commissioned  him  to  be  his  representative  at  a  chapter  of  that  order,  under  the  title  of 
"  nostre  trescher  et  tresame  cousin  et  confrere  du  dit  ordre  Jehan  seigneur  de  Berghes." 
(Ibid.  p.  568) 

P.  38  note. — Erase  the  reference  to  "  the  account  of  the  expenses  of  this  Embassy,"  as 
the  account  belongs  to  Wolsey's  previous  Embassy  in  1521. 

P.  45. — The  change  of  fashion  at  Calais  with  regard  to  "  polling  of  heads"  had,  accord- 
ing to  Stowe,  been  preceded  by  the  like  change  in  England  about  a  twelvemonth  before  : 
"The  8  of  May,  1534,  the  king  commanded  all  about  his  court  to  poll  their  heads,  and, 
to  give  them  example,  he  caused  his  own  head  to  be  polled,  and  from  thenceforth  his 
beard  to  be  notted  and  no  more  shaven."  It  seems  most  probable,  however,  that  on  both 
sides  of  the  channel  this  important  revolution  was  effected  during  the  same  month  of 
May,  and  only  eleven  days  later  at  Calais  than  at  court  ;  and  apparently  our  chronicler, 
by  his  association  of  it  with  the  duke  of  Norfolk's  embassy,  fixes  it  to  the  year  1535. 

P.  51  note. — The  word  "  enramplished  "  is  proved  to  be  correct  by  a  document  recently 
printed  in  the  31st  volume  of  the  Archaeologia,  being  a  contemporary  narrative  of  the 
Marriage  of  the  duke  of  Burgundy  to  the  princess  Margaret  of  York  in  the  year  1468. 
It  is  there  applied  to  various  things,  apparently  in  the  sense  of  fully  furnished  and 
garnished  :  thus,  the  turrets  of  the  gate  were  "  enramplysshid  "  with  minstrelsy,  the  cup- 
board with  cups,  the  hangers  of  the  duke's  horse-harness  with  great  ballas,  and  the 
coursers  at  the  justs  "  were  of  a  sute  in  cremesyn  velvet,  enrampleshid  with  great  cam- 
paynes  of  fyne  gold."  (pp.  331,  334,  335,  338.) 

Pp.  73,  74,  75. — At  the  head  of  these  pages,/or  1512,  read  1513. 

P.  120,  line  14. — The  figures  fallen  out  are,  x\\s.  ijrf. 


INDEX. 


Abbeville,  16 
Abergavenny,    xee    Berga- 

venny 
Abridges,  sir  J.  42,  176 
Abrilton,  212 
Ackett,  sir  J.  122 
Acton,  R.  179;  T.  179 
Adison,  J.  117 
Agier,  William,  51 
Aldercare,  sir  Ra.  26,  42 
Alexander,  N.  210 
Aleyn,  John,  51 

Alford,  mr.  38  ;  T.  98 

Alleyn,  dr.  39 

Allington,  sir  G,  177 

Alwines,  213 

Amiens,  113,  115,  197 

Anderne  abbey,  85 

Antwerp,  102,  103,  166 

Aparre,  sir  W.  21,  26,  176, 
see  Parre 

Appleyard,  mrs.  25 

Aprice,   D.   65  ;    sir  Gr.  21  ; 
T.  179 

Arde  or  Ardres,  2,  12,  13,18, 
28,  85,  87,  191,  197 

Amedell,  T.  98 

Arras,  36 

Arundel, earl  of,  41,  111,  17'>; 
see  Maltravers 


Arundell,  sir  T.  176  ;    sir  E. 

3  ;  sir  J.  12,  66  ;  mr.  38 
Ascough,  sir  W.  42 
Asbeley  the  younger,  173 
Asheton,  Chr.  177 
Assheton,  sir  J.  10,  24,  42 
Aston,  E.  98  ;  sir  E.  123 
Atkynson,  sir  W.  64 
Atwater,W.  bp.  of  Lincoln,94 
Atwell,  J.  118 
Audley,  lord,  2,  11,  166,  167, 

179;  sir  J.  11,  22,  26 
Audley,  lord  chancellor,  167 
Avery,  mr.  40 
Awlkinges,  212 


Baker,  J.  64,  133;  W.   117, 

139;  maistress,  64 
Baldewyn,  sir  R.  64 
Banastre,173  ;  lady,  117,180  ; 

John,  180 
Banner  Watch,  152 
Barban,  mr.  40 
Barclay,  Alex.  83 
Barentyne,  sir  W.  176 
Barmeston,  sir  T.  177 
Barnes,  see  Bemers 


Barnesse,  Jehanne,  77 
Barowe,  102,  105 ;  seeBerghes 
Barrington,  sir  W.  32,  42 
Barton,  T.  117 
Basset,    Mary  and    Philippa, 

188;  J.  ib. 
Bassett,  179 

de  Bayes,  mons.  40,  197 
Bayneham,  R.  117;   W.  118 
Baynham,  sir  A.  10 
Baynton,  sir  E.  42,  169,  176 
Beauford,  A.  117 
Beaulieu  abbey,  212 
Bedalle,  T,  65 

Bedingfield,sirE.42,100,174 
Bekeryng,  H.  51 
Belknap,  sir   E.  10,   12,   18, 

23,  78,  79 
Bell  castle,  33 
Belle,  John,  65 
Bely,  John,  66 
Bennet,  dr.  39 
Benton,  mrs.  xxx 
Berepe,  mr.  40 
Bergavenny,  lord,  3,   13,  15 

bis,  20,  89 
Berghes,  or  Barow,   lord,  6, 

30,75,  214 
Berkeley,   sir  M.   II,  21,. 32; 

made   lord   Berkeley,    ib.  ,■ 


SJ16 


INDEX. 


lord  33,  1G3;   M.  175  ;  gir 

W.  177 
Berners,  lord,  vi.  xxxviii.  12, 

20,  44,    92,   93,    94,    163, 

164 ;  lady,  92 
Beurghe,  mr.  40 
Bigotte,  mr.  39 
Blakney,  W.  64 
Bleikbulle,  J.  51 
Blounte,  Richard,  76 
Blunt,  R.  137 
Blunte,  173 
Blyth,  bp.  G.  19 
Bocarde,  13 
Boleyne,    queen    Anne,    77, 

165  ;   see  Pembroke.     Be- 
headed by  the  hangman  of 

Calais,  47 
sir  E.  22,  42  ;  sir 

J.  42,  174  ;    sirT.  21,78; 

sir  W.  42  ;  lady,  24  ;  lady, 

jun.  25 
Bonham,  J.  179 
Boninges,  14 
Boocker,  G.  195 
Booth,  bp.  C.  23;  sir  J.  4 
a  Borowgh,  sir  E.  Ill 
Borough,  lord,  175 
Bosworthe  liethe,  1 
Botfisshe  house,  117 
Boughton,  sir  E.  173 
Boulogne,  14,  40,  43,  121 
Bourbon,  duke  of,  34,  36,  37 
Bourger,  J.  137 
Bowes,  sir  R.  211 
Bowker,  G.  185 
Boworth,  120 
Bowyn,  W.  51 
Boys,  32 


Boyse,  J.  174;  W.  174 
Boyte  Haikes,  194,  195 
Brakenbery,  1 
Brandon,  sir  C.  9  ;  sir  R.  12, 

22  ;  sir  W.  1 
Bramston  moor,  14 
Bray,   sir  Edm.  22,  32  ;    sir 

Edw.  32,177;  lord,  42,175 
Breame,  173 
Brest,  10 

Breswoode,  W.  130 
Bresylle,  75,  76 
Bretayne,  sir  W.  21 
Brettowlte,  J.  xxxix 
Brewis,  mistress,  25 
Brewnbridge,  32 
Brewton,  sir  R.  10 
Bridewell,  palace  of,  80 
Bridges,  sir  J. 42,  176;  R.177 
Brindelyolyn  or   Brindholme, 

sir  E.  164,  186 
de  Brion,  40 
Britayne,  1 

Broke,  51  ;  lady  25  ;  T.  47 
Brooke,  lord,  9,  12,  20  ;  R. 

117, 137 
Broughton,  mr.  (two)  39 
Browne,  sir  A.  26,  31,  32,  42, 

44,   113,   115,   175  ;    Chr. 

51;  sir  F.  31;  G.  137;  sir 

H.  177;  J.  84,94,  99, 137; 

sir  J.  177  ;    sir  M.  8,  15, 

24  ;  R.  117;    sir    Weston, 

22 ;  mistress,  25 
Brudenell,  Robert,  94 
Bruges,  102, 189 
Brwerton,  mr.  40 
Bryan,   sir  F.  23,  26,  31,  38, 

44,  168,173,  206 


Buckemer,  George,  13 
Buckingham,  duke  of,  3,  12, 

20,  50,89,109, 1 U ;  duchess 

of,  24 
Buddis,  Francis,  77 
Bulbecke,  lord,  175 
Bulkeley,  mr.  39 
Bulmer,  sir  W.  22 
Burde,  J.  139 
Burdett,  sir  J.  23 
Burdon,  W.  117 
Buren,  sir  J.  172 
Burford,  baron  of,  10,  11 
Burgis,  sir  T.  21 
Burgoyne,  Margaret  (of  York) 

duchess  of,  1 ;  Philip   duke 

of,  4,  5,  47  ;   Charles   duke 

of,  6,  7 
Burneville,  32 
Busshey,  sir  M.  21,  24 
Butler,  sir  J.    47,   180;   Jas. 

98  ;  sir  P.  176  ;  W.  180 
Buttill,  J.  65 


Cade,  mr.  39 

Cadiz,  7 

Calais,  garrison  and  wages  of 
in  1500,  4;  in  1533,  136; 
Beauchamp  tower,  xxviii. 
123,  125,  126,  159;  Bou- 
logne gate,  127,  128,  140  ; 
Boulogne  well,  160  ;  Castle 
corner,  159 ;  Castle  hill, 
147,    148;     Castle    street, 


217 


155;  the  Churches,  139; 
our  Lady  in  the  wall,  122, 
155 ;  St.  Mary's  church, 
xxvii.  95,  164;  the  Mai- 
son  Dieu,  37;  St.  Nicholas, 
xxvii.  7;  Co  we  lane,  160; 
the  red  Crosse,  118;  De- 
vylyn  tower,  123, 126  note, 
197;  Dikeland,  129,  135; 
East  and  West  houses,  149 ; 
Exchequer,  the,  xxvii.  117  ; 
Fishers'  gap,  123  ;  the 
Flemish  bell,  149  ;  Friars, 
the,  117,  142;  the  Haven, 
device  for  repairing,  128  ; 
the  New  Haven,  xli ;  Lan- 
tern gate,  xli.  123, 125,140, 
153,159,161, 168;  Market, 
xli,  141,143,154,  156,158; 
Milkgate,  124,  125,  126, 
140;  the  Noble,  117; 
Northumberland  tower, 
160 ;  Paradise,  xxvii ; 
Prince's  bulwark,  127; 
Prince's  tower,  160 ;  Serch- 
er's  tower,  xxvii.  123, 161 ; 
Shaking  tower,  124;  Staple 
house  or  inn,  xxvii.  60, 
117,159,168;  Watergate, 
124,  140,  150,  159 

Calays,  Henry,  77 

Calkewell,  13 

Calthorp,  sir  P.  24  ;   P.  174 

Calverley,  J.  137;  mr.  213 

Camber,  the,  163 

Cambray,  41 

Campaigne,  32 

Campfer,  212 

Candyshe,  R.  98,    179;    the 
younger,  179 
CAMD.  SOC, 


Caninges,  G.  195 

Cantelowe,  W.  98 

Canterbury,  28,  113,  116, 
169;  archdeacon  of,  39; 
St.  Augustine's,  193 

Capel,  sir  G.  22,  26,  42, 176  ; 
sir  H.  177 

Capon,  dr.  39 

Carew,  sir  Edmond,  baron  of, 
11  ;  slain,  12;  sir  G.  138, 
211;  G.  173;  sir  J.  9;  sir 
N.  19,22,26,32;  P.  173, 
212;  sir  Ri.  xxxix.  6  bis, 
22,  66  ;  lady,  25 

Carie,  mistress,  25  ;  R.  139 

Caakis,  32 

Carlisle,  archdeacon  of,  89 

Carter,  John,  120 ;  R.  94 

Cary,  lady,  173 

Castille,  king  and  queen  of, 
5  ;  Charles  prince  of,  53  ; 
54,  69,  70 

Catesby,  1  ;  mr.  39 

Cavendish,  sir  R.  12  ;  mr.  39, 
see  Candyshe 

Causey,  the,  xxix.  11,  113 

Chabannes,  Jaques  de,  30 

Chabot,  43,  45, 130 

Chamberlain,  sir  E.  21,  32, 
42  ;  sir  Ra.  24 

Chamberlen,  179 

Chaunfeer,  earl  of,  34 

Charles  V.  his  visit  to  Eng- 
land in  1520,  28 ;  inter- 
view with  king  Henry  at 
Gravelines,  29  ;  his  peace 
with  Francis  I.  35 

Chastillon,  marshal,  85,  86  ; 
letters  of,  88 

Chafer,  R.  117 


Chauncy,  sir  T.  21 

Chawmond,  179 

Chayney,  T.  137 

Cheney,  sir  F.  8 ;  J.  206  ;  sir 

J.    21,    23;    R.    177;    sir 

T.    26,   33,   42;    mistress, 

25 
Choke,  J.  179 
Chomley,  sir  R.  177 
Clere,  sir  J.  175  ;  sir  Ro.  24; 

lady,  25 
Clerk,  bp.  John,  40,  41,  48, 

113,  115;  G.  xli. 
Clermont,  mons.  14 
Cleves,   queen  Anna  of,  167 

et  seg. 
Clifford,  N.  1 74 
Clifton,  John,  40 
Clinton,  lord,  8,  15,  42,  175 
Cloth  of  Gold,  meeting  of,  18 

et  seq. 
Clufelde,  T.51 
Cobham,  lord,  xxxviii.  10,  11, 

15,  20,42,   173;  lady,  24, 

174;  sir  G.  13,  32;  sir  J. 

31  ;  child  of  honour,  76 
Coffen,    mistress,  25;    John, 

26  ;  sir  W.  23 
Cokeson,  J.  R.  xli.  137 
Cokke,  R.  51 
Cole,  R.  139 
Colume,  XXX.  xxxiii.  134 
Compton,  sir  W.  21  ;   lady, 

25,  67 
Coningesby,  W.  174 
Constable,  sir  R.  3,  22  ;  rar. 

39 
Conwaye,  Chr.  118;  E.  179; 

sir  Hugh,  xxxix. 
Conyers,  lord,  14  ;  Chr.  98 
2  F 


218 


INDEX. 


Coo,  Chr.  98 
Cooke,  mistress,  25 
Coolis,  32 
Corbett,  sir  R.  100 
Cornwall,    sir  J.  32 ;  sir  R. 

21,  31,  32,  33;  sir  T.  21  ; 

see  Burford 
Comwallis,  mistress,  25  ;    sir 

T.  xix 
Coton,  Anth.  64 
Courtenay,   sir  W.  21,  33; 

see  Devonshire 
Courtney,  Victor,  50 
Cowbridge,  191  et  seq. 
Cowkerk,  xxxi. 
Cowswade,  the,  193 
Crake,  R.  98 
Crane,  R.  179 
Cranmer,  archbp.   167,  170, 

174 
Crayford,  J.  174 
Creke,  mr.  40 
Crispe,  H.  174 
Crofts,  sir  J.  10 
Cromwell,  mr.  118,  119,  130, 

167,  188;    G.   167,   173  ; 

R.  175  ;  sir  R.  211 
Crooke,  R.  98 
Crulle,  T.  51 
Culpeper,T.  175  ;  Wa.  xxxix. 

6 
Curzon,  lord,  11  bis,  31,  33  ; 

sir  R.  22 
Cutt,  H.  174 

Cutte,  sir  John,  22  ;  mr.  39 
Cuttewes,    or   Cutturus,    R. 

117,  163 


Dacre,  lord,  3,  11,  14 


Dacre  of  the  South,  lord,  20, 

174 
Damplip,  A.  185 
Damporte,  N.  xli 
Dannett,  sir  J.  176 ;  mistress, 

25 
Dannyt,  sir  G,  23 
Darcy,  lord,  7,12,  20, 66,  92, 

93,  111  ;  sir  T.  122,  176; 

sir  G.  176;  lady,  92 
Darell,  sir  E.  3,  24;  sir  Ja. 

3,  8,  15  ;  lady,  25 
Dartford,  169 
Dasser,  212 
Daubeney,  lord,  xxxviii.  2,  3, 

15,  20,  42  ;  lady,  24 
Dauncy,  mr.   39;  sir  J.   21, 

176;  W.  98 
Dauphin,  the,  17,  78 
Daverne,  32 
Davola,  lord  Lois,  189 
Dawtrye,  Sir  F.  177 
Deal,  28,  168 
Deen,  sir  E.  32 
Delafer,  mons.  14 
Delamarche,  Robert,  36 
Delaware,  lord,  20 
Dennes,  Mr.  39 
Dennis,  sir  T.  176 
Denny,  A.  175 
Denys,    Alice,    77 ;     sir    T. 

39,  169 ;  W.  98  ;    sir  W. 

176 
Denton,  dr.  20,  76 
Derby,  earl   of  10,   11,    23, 

38,41,175;  countess  of,  24 
Devereux,  Anne,  77 
Devonshire,  earl  of,  2,  20,  26, 

52  ;  countess  of,  24  ;   lord 

W.  of,  4 


Dewys,  T.  117 

Dicher,  M.  195 

Digby,   sir  J.  3,  8,  10,214; 

R.  179 
Digges,  T.  174 
Dimock,  sir  Ro.  11 
Docwra,  sir  T.  xvi.  3,  6,  10, 

11,  17,  18,  20 
Dogans,  A.  118 
Dohell,  sir  Guy,  32 
a  Doltzike,  sir  J.  167,  172 
Donne,  sir  Gr.  13, 23, 26, 33, 

42,  176 
Donstable,  T.  60 
Donyngton,  R.  xli 
Dormer,  sir  R.  176 
Dornome,  13 
Dorset,  marquess  of,  6,  8, 12, 

20,  26,  51,  111,  175 
Dossen,  J.  139 
Douglas,     lady    Margaret, 

170 
Dover,  113,  122,  169,  etc. 
Dramer,  173 
Driw,  dr.  212 
Drisis,  T.  51 
Drury,  sir  R.  22 ;  R.   177  ; 

W.  98  ;  sir  W.  177 
Ducke,  dr.  39 
Dudley,  baron  of,  2,  10;  sir 

A.  203  ;  Edm.    188  ;    sir 

J.  38,   42,    98,   100,    169, 

176,   188  ;  T.  98  ;   yonge, 

179 
Dunkirk,  207 
Duras,  32 
Durlamis,  32 
Dyer,  A.  118 
Dygges,  James,  214 
Dylcok,  H.  64 


INDEX. 


219 


Echyngham,  sir,  E.  214  ;    mr. 

40;  F.  117 
Edgare,  T.  177 
Edgecombe,  sir  P.  21,  66 
Edmunde,  M.  61 
Egerton,  sir  R.  21  ;  mr.  40 
Egmont,  C.  66 
Elderker,  see  Aldercare 
Elizabeth,    queen,     wife     of 

Henry  VII.  3,  4 
EUarton,  173 
Ellis,  mr.  39 
EUyote,  sir  T.  177 
Elton,  William,  94 
Erewyn,  213 
Erneley,  J.  179 
Essex,  earl  of  2,  3,  12,  20, 

89,  175  ;    sir  W.  21,  42, 

176;  T. 177 
Estffild,  J.  66 
Eston,  J.  98 
Eton,  Roger,  40 
Exeter,  marquess  of,  41 


Fabyan,  E,  177 

Fairfax,  mr.  39  ;  W.  98 

Fawcon,  Rob.  65 

Feldinge,  sir  W.  177 

Fell,  dr.  20 

Ferrara,  duke  of,  37  ;  visit  of 

his  brothers    to   England, 

48 
Ferrars,  lord,  9,  14,  20,  33, 

175;    sir   E.    23;    sir   H. 

177  ;  yong,  179 
Ferrys,  Eliz.  77 


Fettyplace,   E.   177 ;    sir  T. 

24 ;  lady,  25 
Feversham,  198 
Filcott,  H.  195 
Finch,  sir  J.  22  ;    sir  W.  42, 
173  ;  lady,  25,  174  ;   mis- 
tress, 25 
Fines  hill,  200 
Fines  mill  alias  castle,  212 
Finnes,  Mary,  77 
Fisher,  bp.  J.  23 
Fitzwalter,  lord,  10,  11,  31  ; 

lady,  24 
Fitzwarren,   lord,  13 ;    Mar- 
gery, dau.  of  lord,  25 
Fitzwilliam,  sir   W.  21,  32, 
33,  41,  42,  45,    111,   130, 
133,   177,  203;  lady,  25; 
see  Southampton 
de  Flagy,  mons.  189 
Flammoke,  A.  179 
Fogge,  sir  J.  8,  15 
Foljambe,  sir  G.  23 
Foorde,  J.  194,  195 
Forrest,  M.  98 
Forster,    sir  G.  23  ;    sir    H. 

122, 176 
Fortescue,   sir  A.  12,  24,  32, 

205  ;  sir  J.  3,  13 
Foster,  T.  81 
Fowler,  R.  124,  153  ;  T.  207, 

208 
Fox,  bp.  R.  3,  6,  12,  90,  94  ; 

bp.  E.  46,  47 
Francis  I.  17,  43,113—120; 
taken  prisoner  at  Paris,  34  ; 
his  peace  with  the  emperor, 
35 
Francis  11.,  see  Dauphin 


Fraunces,  M.  97  ;  R.  98  ;  dr. 

38 
Freydon,  13 
Frowick's  house,  129 
Fulford,  sir  J.  177 
Fynes,  erle  of,  6 
Fynnex,  John,  94 


Gage,  sir  J.  176,  185,  187 
Gainsford,  G.  118,  137 
Gardiner,  bp.  38,  41,  46,  165 
Gardyner,  W.  117 
Garneys,  Chr.  Ill,  163;  R. 

117,  179 
Gascoigne,  J.    179 ;    sir  W. 

39,  42, 177 
Gaskin,  sir  J.  211 
Gaston,  sir  W.  22 
Gate,  sir  Geoff.  26 
Gattinara,  count  of,  30 
GaveU,  J.  195 
Gaynford,  sir  J.  22 
Gaynesford,  G.  118,  137 
Germyn,  sir  T.  175,  177 
Ghent,  188 
Gibon,  T.  175 
Gibson,  Richard,  120 
Gilbert,  Gates,  188 
Giles,  Hugh,  195 
GUford,  J.  174 
Gilmyn,  mrs.  172 
Gonson,  W.  173 
Goodrick,  bp.  T.  45 
Gorge,  sir  C.  177 
Goringe,  sir  W.  176 
Goston,  E.  117 


220 


INDEX. 


Gostwick,  mr.  39  ;  J.  98,  1 79 

de  Grave,  J.  121 

Graveling,  xxx.  xxxi,  2, 4,  28, 

165,  168,  207 
Gray,  lord,  xxxix.  2,  42,  139, 

193,   195,   196,  203,  212  ; 

lady,  92,  93  ;   lady  Anne, 

widow,  24 
Green,  sir  T.  11 
Greene,  T.  174 
Greenfield,  sir  R.   138,  183, 

193,  195,  196 
Greenwich,  170 
Greenwood,  H.  xxxi. 
Grenville,    sir   T.    188;    tee 

Greenfield 
Gresham,  yonge,  173 
Greville,  sir  E,  24  ;   F.  1 79 

J.  179 
Grey,  lord  E.  8;  sir   E.  23 

lady  Eliz.   24,  77;  lord  J 

8,  20,  26;  his  lady,  24,  92 

93;  lordL.  9,  20,  26,  31 

33,  76;  lordR.  20,  26 

of  Wilton,  see  Gray 

Griffyn,  sir  T.  176 
Gryffith,  sir  G.  123 
Grynstede,  J.  117 
Guelderland,  expedition  to,  8 
Guelders,  duke  of,  36;  Chas. 

Egmont  of,  66 
Guilford,  sir  E.  xxxix.  15,  21, 

32,33,121,  163;  sir  J.  22; 

sir  H.  9,  15,  21,  38;  lady, 

sen.  and  jun.  25,  77,  205 
Guille,  mr.  77 
Guisnes,  xxv.  xxxi.  2,  4,  5, 

13,  18,  28,  90,  131,   132, 

134,  139,  191,  199  et  seq. 


211  ;  laws  for  the  county 
of,  130  ;  buildings  for  the 
royal  meeting  there,  80  et 
seq. ;  pursevant,  197 

le  Guyse,  mons.  119 

Gybson,  R.  83 

Gyfi"ord,G.  177;  T.  177  ;  sir 
W.  177 

Gynes,  maistres,  64 


Hadden,  sir  R.  51 
Haines,  T.  xxx.  xxxi. 
Hales,    Chr.    130 ;    J.     130, 

174  ;  lady,  174 
Hall,  F.  137,187,  195,  197; 

mr.  213  ;  J.  xxxi.  ;  N.  xxx. 

R.  118 
Halford,  sir  W.  21 
Hamever,  32 
Hammes,  xxv.  xxxi.  2,  4,  5, 

131,  132,  134,  139,212 
Hampden,  sir  John,  24,  177 
Hansard,  mr.  26,  39 ;  A.  98 
Hantzeler,  172 
Harcourt,  sir  J.  24,  1 76 
Hares,  Ralph,  186 
ab  Harff,  W.  167 
Harleston,  sir  CI.  176 
Harman,  bp.  19;  J.  179 
Harper,  G.  177 
Harrington,  lord,  3 
Harrowden,    lord,     38;    see 

Vaux 
Hart,  lady,  174 
Harte,  SirP.  177 
HaiTye,  J.  xxx. 
Haryott,  W.  64 


Hasden  (?),  sir  J.  24 

Haselwode,  mr.  39 

Hastings,  lord,  2,  10,  11,  20, 
173;  lady, 14  ;  F.  137, 164  ; 
Jane,  164  ;  mr.  173 

Haster,  sir  W.  21 

Haulte,  Henry,  51  ;  lady,  174 

Hawarde,  see  Howard 

Hawlinge,  212 

Hawte,  sir  W.  42 

Haydon,  sir  J.  22 

Haynes,  M.  195 

Hays,  Cornelius,  118 

Hedinge,  32,  36 

Henbery,  J.  118 

Heneage,  mr.  38 ;  T.  97  ;  sir 
T.  175 

Henry  VII.  king,  1,  2,  4, 
49 ;  his  letter  to  sir  John 
Wiltshire,  52 ;  his  pro- 
jected marriages,  68. 

Henry  YIII.  at  Calais,  12, 
41,  42,  118  et  seq.;  his 
signet,  206 

Hubbard,  mrs.  117 

Hubbert,  H.  174 

Herbert,  lord,  10,  11,  12,  20, 
26,  33,  100  ;  Margaret 
lady,  92,  93  ;  W.  173 

Heron,  sir  J.  22,  84 

Hertford,  earl  of,  175 

Hervey,  sir  G.  22 

Hervye,  Nich.  26 

Heveningham,  sir  J.  24 

Higgans,  dr.  20 

HQton,  EUs,  50 

Hobby,  P.  175 

Hogan,  sir  J.  10 

Hoghstein,  167,  172 


Holcroft,  T.  173 

Hollaade,  L.  137 

HoUehed,  195 

Hone,  mr.  65 

Hopton,   sir   A.    11,    22,  42, 

1 76  ;  lady,  25 
Home,  179 

Homes,  the  lady  of,  74 
Horsey,  sir  J.  176 
Howard,  lord,  xxxix.  9,  14  ; 

lord  Edm.  20,  26,  31,  164, 

183  ;  C.  212  ;  sir  Edw.  9, 

10,  214  ;  his  commission  as 

admiral,  67  ;  lady  K.  164  ; 

T.    117,    137  ;    lord  Wil- 

liam,  42,  45,  173 
Huckelers,  32 
Hues,  T.  16 
Hugayne,  mistress,  25 
Hungerford,  lord,  1 75  ;  sir  A. 

42,176;  sir  E.  22;  J.  179; 

sir  J.  21;  sirW.  3,  42 
Hunt,  O.  65 
Hurleston,  sir  J.  176 
Hussey,  B.  179;  sir  Gi.  31, 

32;  sir  T.  3,   11,  21,  89; 

sir  W.  21 
Hyde,  W.  177 


Ichyngham,  see  Echingham 
Inge,  archbp.  38 
Ingham,  R.  174 
Isle,  sir  H.  173 


James  IV.  10;  death  of,  15 
Jenkyns,  E.  118 


Jenyns,  121  ;  S.  118 
Jennings,  William,  203 
Jermye,  sir  J.  174 
Jermyn,  sir  T.  175,  177 
Jerningham,  Anne,  77  ;    H. 

173  ;  sir  J.  177  :  Ro.  26  ; 

sir  R.  26,  32,  38,  61,  100, 

208  ;  mistress  25 
Johnes,  sir  R.  24 
Johnson,  179  ;  R.  51 
Judde,  mr.  40 
Judson,  R.  117 
Juliers,  William  duke  of,  167 


Katharine,  queen,  23,  27,  28 
Kele,  H.  117;  J.  117 
Kellwaye,  W.  179 
Kempe,  T.  174  ;  mistress,  25 
Kene,  John,  64 
Kent,  earl  of,  11  bis,  20,  111 
Kevell,  GUes,  207 
Kildare,  earl  of,  20 
Kingesmell,  J.  179 
Kingston,  A.  177;  sir  W.  21, 

26,  33,  42 
Kirkham,  sir  J.  24  ;   sir  R. 

176 
Knevett,  A.  26,  175  ;  sir  E. 

174;  sir  H.  173;  sir  T.  9  ; 

mr.  38  ;  maistress,  64 
Knight,  dr.  20 
Knightley,  E.  177 
KnoUes,  173 


Lacy,  H.  117,118 
Lambarde,  W.  64 
Lambert,  W.  124 


Lambert's  housed" 

Lane,  R.  177 

Lanerton,  211 

de  Lannoy,  C.  31 

Lathum,  Rauf,  51 

Latimer,  lord  2 

Latronet,  120 

Laware,  lord,  175 

Lawrence,  mistress,  25 

Lea,  archbp.  125 

Lee,  Sir  A.  176  ;  Rob.  64  ; 
Ric.  139,  195 

Leighton,  sir  T.  11 

Leland,  xxix. 

Lemster,  R.  117 

Leonard,  R.  194,  195 

Lestrange,  sir  T.  174 

Lewis,  sir  R.  15  ;  T.  117 

Lighe,  mr.  39 

Linacre,  mr.  65 

Lind,  T.  8 

Lincoln,  earl  of,  1 

Lisle,  C.  Brandon  viscoimt, 
12  ;  A.  Plantagenet  visct. 
xxxviii.  21,  32,  41  ;  made 
lord  deputy  of  Calais,  44. 
121,  138,  139,  165, 
166,  168,  181,  190;  auto- 
graph, 183  ;  letter  sum- 
moning his  return,  184  ; 
put  into  the  Tower,  48  ; 
Elizabeth  lady,  188  ;  Ho- 
nourlady,  187,  188 

Lisle,  sir  T.  42,  73,  74;  Ste- 
phen, 122 

Litille,  sir  J.  24 

Liveries  of  England  and  of 
Burgundy,  8 

Lomelyn,  Domyngo,  119 


222 


Lomun,  E,  175 

London,  W.  195 

Long,   sir   H.  22,  42,   179; 

R.  118,  137, 179 
Longe,  sir  R.  175  ;  mr.  122 
Longingham,  32 
Longland,  bp.  John,  41 
Longueville,  duke  of,  14 
Longvill,  sir  T.  176 
Lorraine,  cardinal  of,  40,  43, 

119, 120 
Louis  XII.,  marriage  of,  16  ; 

death,  17 
Lovedayes,  G.  137 
Loveles,  sir  R.  50 
Lovell,  lord,  1  bis  ;  sir  F.  1 74 ; 

sirT.  6,  15,32,  81 
Lubeck,  46  ;  loss  of  the  ship, 

15 
Lucas,  widow,  118 
Lucy,  sirT.  12,23;  W.  179 
Lumley,  lord,  20 
LuttreU,    A.    98  ;    mr.   39 ; 

jun.  lb. 
Lyquies,  212 
Lylgrave,  81,  82 
Lyndesey,  mr.  40 
Lysley,  sir  T.  177 
Lyster,  sir  M.  177 
Lysters,  213 

Macedonia,  prince  of,  189 
Magnus,  dr.  20 
Maidstone,  202 
Main  brook,  the,  193 
Maltravers,  lord,  xxxviii.  41, 

190,  191,  196 
Manners,  sir  O.  100  ;  sir  R. 

177 


ManteU,  173;  sir  W.  100 

Many,  J,  174 

Margaret,   mistress,   25  ;  see 

Savoy 
Margison,  2,  11,  212 
Marian,  serg.  xxx. 
Marck,  xxx.  xxxi.  xxxviii.  xl. 

134, 192 
Markham,   H.  179,  213  ;  sir 

J.  42,  176;  R.  179 
Mamey,  sir  H.  13,  89 ;    sir 

J.  22 
Marshall's  house,  117 
Mary,  dau.  of  Henry  VII.  6, 
7,  53  ;  marriage  to  Louis 
XII.  16,  75,  76  ;  marriage 
to  duke  of  Suffolk,  17 

dau.  of  Henry  VIII.  17 

Mason,  mr.  118 
Massingberd,  J.  117;  T.  139 
Masters,  J.  xxx. 
Materface  (?)  lord,  20 
Matthews,  R.  118 
Maunselle,  mr.  51 
Maximilian,  emperor,  13, 14, 

52 
Mayuu,  maister,  83 
Medley,  G.  163 
Medleton,  J.  137 
Medilton,  T.  65 
Mentoria,  mrs.  Kath.  25 
Meryng,  sir  W.  xxxix 
Metford,  R.  98 
Mewtas,  P.  1 75 
Michelle,  120 
Middleton,  mr.  39 
Middelton,  J.  118 
Milford  haven,  1 
Miuter,  L.  xxxii. 


Meninges,  E.  173 
Mompesson,  E.  179 
Montagu,  lord, 20, 42  ;  lady  24 
Montmorency,    Anne,    118  ; 

duke  of,  43 
Montreuil,  32,  40 
Mordaunt,  lord,  42,  175  ;  sir 

J,  24,  176 
More,  John,  51 ;    mr.  T.  22  ; 

sir  T.  knighted,  31,  22,38, 

41 
Moreton,  T.  64  ;  Lewis,  71 
Morgan,  G.  179;  John,  64  ; 

sir  P.  9  ;  sir  W.  21 
Morley,    lord,    2,    23,    175 ; 

lady,  26 
Morleys,  31 
Morison,  R.  175 
Morres,  sir  Cha.  173 
Morris,  sir  R.  21  ;  mistress, 

25 
Mounteagle,  lord,  38,  42 
Mountjoy,  lord,  4,  50,  174, 

175;  lady,  24 
Mountore,  xxxi. 
Mountperson,  E.  179 
Moylle,  T.  174  ;  W,  174 
Myller,  J.  118 
MynshaUe,  R.  117,  118 


Nanfant,  sir  R.  xxxix.  50 

Naveme,  prince  of,  14 

Navarre,  king  of,  43 

Needham,  171 

Neville,  sir  E.  16,  26,33,42, 
26,  121;  sir  J.  22,  26,  42, 
118,177;sirT.21, 51,173; 


INDEX. 


223 


lord,  175;  lady,  wife  of  sir 

J.  25 ;  lady,  92,  93 
Neweman,  sir  W.  123 
Newkerk,  xxxi 
Newnham,  sir  W.  176 
Newnham    bridge,    xxix.    11, 

103,  124,    129,   131,    134, 

138,  208  et  seq. 
Newport,  sir  T.  21 
Newton,  A.  98;   sir  J.  177; 

mr.  40,  118 
Norfolk,  duke  of,   1,  41,  43, 

44,  45,  92,  93,   119,  120, 

165,  169,  170,   174,   183, 

184;  duchess  of,  92,  93 
Norham  castle,  14 
Norris,  Henry,  26 ;  sir  J.  176 ; 

sir  L.  42 
Northumberland,  earl  of,   1, 

4,  12,  20,  50,  89,  111 
Norton,  sir  J.  8,  15,  42;  J. 

IHbis;  sirS.  10,  50;   S. 

117, 137 
Nueuare,  earl  of,  172 


Ogan,  W.  98 

Olysleger,  H.  167,  172 

Orange,  prince  of,  36 

Ormond,  earl  of,  3 

Osborne,  William,  120 

Otingal,  212 

Outred,  sir  A.  13  ;  R.  98  ?  see 

Utreight 
Overstein,  earl  of,  172 
Owen,  sir  D.  11,  22;  sir  H. 

22,  32  ;  sir  Jasper,  32,  33  ; 

lady,  jun.  25 
Oxford,   earl    of,  2,   20,  41, 


175  ;  countess   of,   19,   24, 
61  ;  countess  of,  jun.  24 
Oye,  XXX.  xxxi.  xxxviii,   xl. 
134,  192 


Padula,  marquis  of,  189 
Page  (Gage?)  sir  J.  42 ;  sir  R. 

42,  97,  176 
Pakenham,  51 
Palant,  172 
de  Palatio,  bp.  19 
Palmer,  65;  H.  137;  sir  T. 

42,119,120,  123,  138,183, 

196,211;  Wm.  26 
Parker,  120,  121  ;  Edm.  65 ; 

sir  H.  176;  J.  26,  64;  sir 

J.  64 ;  master,  38;  mistress, 

25,  64 
Parre,  lord,  175;  lady,widow, 

25 ;  wife,  ib.  see  Aparre 
Paris,   master,  24 ;   mistress, 

25 
Paston,  51;  Er.  174  ;T.  175; 

sir  W.  22,42,  174  ;  W.  50 
Pate,  mr.  1 89 
Patrike,  R.  117 
Paulet,  sir  H.  176;  sir  W.42, 

44,  see  Poulet 
Pavia,  battle  of,  34  ;  countess 

of,  213 
Payton,  sir  R.  177 
Pechy,  sir  J.  xxxviii.  3,  12, 

15,  21,  111,  214 
Pelham,  179;  R.  137;  sir  W. 

42, 179 
Pembroke,     Anne     Boleyne, 

marchioness   of,    44,    118, 

121 


Pemerey,  mr.  39 
Penyngton,  H.    64  ;    J.    98  ; 

sir  W.  100 
Pepeling,  xxix. 
Percy,  sir  W.  15 
Peterson,  sir  W.  47 
Petous,  sir  W.  164 
Pexsall,  mr.  40 
Pexall,  R.  98,  179 
Phelippe,  mr.  40 
Philip,  archduke,  4,  5,  49 
Philpott,  sir  P.  177 
Phylpot,  Clement,  185,  186 
Pickering,   Chr.    65 ;    sir  W. 

177 
Pigote,  F.  177 
Pierrepoint,  sir  W.  23 
Pirton,  sir  W.  32 
Plankeney,  H.  117 
Plantagenet,  sir  A.  21  ;  made 

viscount  Lisle,  32 ;  Frances, 

Elizabeth,     and     Bridget, 

188  ;  see  Lisle 
Plumer,  Alart,  120 
de  la   Pole,    see  Suffolk,  R. 

slain  at  Pavia,  35 
Pole,  Arthur,  26,  76 ;  sir  A, 

100 ;   sir   G.    100  ;    Giles, 

179;  cardinal,  185,  187 
Polling  of  heads,  45,  214 
Pomeray,  sir  E,  21 
Pomerey,  R.  97 
Porter,  J.  117 
Portugal,  expedition  to,  7 
Poulet,    J.    113,    179;    see 

Paulet 
Poundar,  sir  W.  32 
Powis,  lord,  2, 100 
Powys,  L.  98 


224 


INDEX. 


Poynes,  sir  A.  21 

Poynings,  sir  E.  66,  89  ;  lord, 

8,    13,    15,    21,    66,    89, 

137  ;  sir  T.  176 
Poyntz,    sir  A.   32 ;   dau.  of 

Anthony,  25;   Fr.  26;   sir 

N.  176;  sirRo.  23 
de  Prat,  Anthoine,  30 
Preston,  T.  64 
Prestwiche,  E.  117 
Pre  were,  32 
Pricok,  Chr.  51 
Prowde,  T.  195 
Puttenham,  R.  179 
Pye,  E.  118;  J.  179 
Pyrton's  or  Porton's  bulwark, 

199,  207 
Pytham,  xxx. 


Quanden,  Symon,  121 


Ragland,  sir  J.  21 

Rainford,  sir  J.   11,  15,  22, 

31,32,  176,211 
Rastell,  J.  83,  84 
RatclifiFe,  1;  master,  38,119 
Ratton,  212 
Rawlyns,J.  137,209 
Rede,  dr.  45;  L.  177 
Reade,  sir  W.  19 
Redman,  mr.  39,  98 
Regent,  burnt,  9 
Renkyn,  Richard,  40 
Renolles,  118 
Rensom,  212 
Rescumer,  J.  98 
Reskemer,  mr.  39 


Rever,  lord,  16,  34 

ap  Reynold,  R.  137 

Rice,  mr.  39 

Rich,  sir  R.  176 

Richmond,   duke  of  41,   44, 

164;  duchess  of  170 
Ringley,  sir  E.  xli.  31,  32, 

138,  164,  196 
Rise,  lady  Griffith,  25 
Risley,  sir  J.  3 
Robartes,  T.  174 
Robynson,  R.  139 
Rochester,  169,  180 
Rochford,  lord,  42,  44,  45  ; 
his  speech  on  the  scaffold, 
46 
Rodney,  J.  179 
Rogers,  sir  J.  177  bis 
Rokewood,  J.  137,  183,  193, 

194,  195 
Rolf,  R.  164 
Rome,  185 
Roos,  lord,   12,  20;  child  of 

honour,  76 
Roper,  H.  50  ;  W.  173 
Rotherham,  sir  T.  42,  176 
Rous,  Anthony,  202 
Roydon,  T.  174 
Roye,  100 
Russell,  J.  5  ;  sir  J.  31,  32, 

42,  177  ;  lord,  175 
Ruston,  Nicholas,  40 
Ruthall,  bp.  T.  12,  19,  30 
Rutland,    earl    of,    41,  169, 

175 
Rutter,  R.  118 

Rysebank,  xxvi.  4,  103,  124, 
129,  131,  132,  134,  138, 
198 


Rysebank,  pursevant,  52 


Sacheverall,  sir  H.  21 ;  sir  R. 

10,  22,  89 
Sadler,  H.  84  ;  sir  R.    189  ; 

R.  175 
St.  Clere,  sir  J.  176  ;  mr.  39 
St.  John,  sir  John,  39,  42,  98, 

176,211 
St.     John's,     lord     of,      see 

Docwra 
St.   Leger,   A.    138  ;    sir  A. 
175  ;  sir  G.  24  ;  lady,  25  ; 
young,  175 
St.  Lowe,  sir  J.  177 
St.  Omer's,  xxxi.  32,  212 
St.   Peter's  without  Calais,  4, 

49,  94,  168,  194,  201 
St.  Peter's  field,  7 
St.  Pierre,  196 
Sakfeld,  J.  117 
Salerno,  prince  of,  48,  188 
Samerde,  32 
Sampson,  173 

Sandes,  J.   179  ;    sir  R.  39, 
42,  100;  sirW.  11,  15,  18, 
21,  32;  made  lord  Sandes, 
33  ;  42,  78,  89,  HI,   130, 
139,    163,    175,   191,   196, 
203,  205,  206,  208,  xl 
Sandgate,  xxxiii.  15,  134 
Sandingfeld,  xxLx.  2,  11,  43 
Sandwich,  8,  28,  122 
Santener  (Seymour  ?)  sir  E. 

42 
Savage,  sir  J.  3  ;  bp.  Thos.  3 
Saville,  mr.  39  ;  H.  98  ;  sir 
J.  3 


225 


Savoy,  Margaret  duchess  of, 
8,  13,  29,  34,  41,  52,  60  ; 
biographical  notice  of,  68  ; 
115 

Saxony,  John  Frederick  duke 
of,  167 

Scott,  sir  J.  8,  15  ;  R.  174  ; 
sir  W.  3,  15,  214 

Scrope,  lady,  25 

Selve,  Jean  de,  30 

Semer,  T.  and  W.  51 

Servants,  allowed  at  the  meet- 
ing of  Cloth  of  Gold,  26 

Sexton,  R.  118 

Seymour,  sir  E.  38,  100,  see 
Santener  ;  sir  F.  211  ;  sir 
J.  11,22,42  ;  sir  T.  168, 
173  ;  child  of  honour,  76 

Shawe,  sir  J.  3 

Shelley,  mr.  213 

Shelton,  sir  J.  24 

Sheparde,  John,  136 

Sherborne,  sir  H.  32 

Shirbroke,  N.  51 

Shirley,  8 

Shrewsbury,  earl  of,  1,  2,  10, 
11,  12,  20  ;  countess  of, 
24 

Shurley,  sir  R.  1 76 

Signet  of  Henry  VIII.  206 

Simones,  R.  1 75 

Skeffington,  sir  W.  22 

Skipwith,E.  179  ;  W.  179 

Skryvyn,T.  117 

Skynner,  121 

SUngsby,  Chr.  98 

Smithe,  dr.  38 

Smythe,  Thomas,  120  ;  sir  W. 
23,  177,  1B6,  195 
CAMD.  SOC. 


Smythes,  H.  117 
Snowdon,W.  117 
Somerset,  sir  C.   10  ;  sir  G. 

122,  177 
Souch,  lord,  1,  3,  11 
Souche,  J,  177,  see  Zouch 
Southampton,  9, 167,  168,  see 

Fitzwilliam 
Southwell,  A.  179  ;  R.  174 
Speake,  sir  T.  176 
Sperte,  sir  T.  173 
Sponer,  W.  65 
Stable,  J.  117 
Stafford,  earl  of,  20  ;  countess 

of,  24  ;   R.  137,  173  ;  H. 

173, 179 
Stanley,  E.  98 

Staple,  privileges  of  the  mer- 
chants  of,   xxiv.    106,   see 

Calais 
Staples,  W.  117 
Stephenson,  Henry,  40 
Steven  the  Almayne,  xxviii. 

197 
Stevyns,  W.  117,  185 
Steynynges,  E.  97 
Stirley,  sir  N.  176 
Stoke,  battle  at,  1 
Stokesley,  bp.  John,  20,  41 
Stoner,  sir  Wa.  24,  176 
Stourton,  master,  38  ;  sir  W. 

100;  lord,  175  ;  R.  177 
Stowell,  J.  179 
Strange,  lord,  2  ;  sir  T.  42 
Strangways,  sirG.  22,  32,  33, 

42,  176  ;  H.  177  ;  mr.  39 
Strayle,  A.   117 
Stricklond,  W.  98 
Sturmyn,  R.  51 


Suffolk,  C.  Brandon,  duke  of 
(see  Lisle),  12,  15,  16  ;  his 
early  history,  69  ;  marriage 
to  the  Queen  of  France,  17  ; 
20,  25,  28,  33,  41,  43,  ?4, 
99,  100,  119,167,169,170, 
173;  duchess  of,  169,  174; 
earl  of,  2,  3,  50;  lord 
Richard  of,  3  ;  lord  Wil- 
liam of,  3 

Surrey,  earl  of,  1,  3  14,  31, 
41,  44,  164,  175 

Sussex,  earl  of,  175,  184, 
185 

Sutton,  sir  J.  32 

Smalebery,  H.  118 

Swarte,  sir  Martyn,  1 

Sybell,  N.  1 74 

Sydney,  sir  W.  13,  16,  26, 
33 

Symons,  R.  174 

Sympson,  W.  138,  183,  196 

Synclere,  J.  97 


Talbot,  sir  Gilbert,  xxxviii,  2, 

21,23,214.     SirHumfrey, 

2  ;  mr.  117 
Talboyse,  lord,  173 
Talmach,  L.  179 
Tame,  sir  E.  176 
Tate,  sir  B.  100;  B.  167  ;  T. 

137 
Taylor,  dr.  20,  58 
Temperlto,  6 
Tempest,   Chr.  117  ;    sir  R, 

22,  98  ;  T.  98  ;  mr.  39 
Tennagel,  172 

Terra  Nuova,  marquis  of,  1 89 
2   G 


226 


INDEXi 


Teye,  sir  T.  22,  176 
Thaccher,  J.  117 
Tlierouenne,  11,  12,  14,  sur- 
render of,  f&.;  67,  212,  213 
ap  Thomas,  sir  R.  10,  11 
Thomas,  Hugh,  65 
Thornton's  wido^\-,  117 
Throclimorton,  mr.  3.0 
Throgmorton,    G.    23,    177; 

R.  179 
Thursby,  T.  174 
Thwaytes,  E.  173 
Tilney,   sir   P.  22  ;  lady,  9.5, 

137 
Torrell,  J.  98 
Townsend,  Rob.  174  ;  sirRog. 

ib. 
Tourney,    surrender   of,    15  ; 
restored,  18,36,67,71,73 
Tourueyham,  xxxi 
Trenchard.  sir  T.  h,  19,  22- 

17 
Tresliam,  sir  T.  176 
Trilby,  sir  M.  24 
Tuke,  sir  B.  176 
Tunstall,  bp.  C.   20,   38,  41. 

165,  177 
Turbrevyle,  sir  J.  xl 
Turney,  mr.  39 
TuRPYX,  Richard,  1,  137  ;  his 
history,     preface,     p.  xiii; 
Richard,  the  Herald,  xvi  ; 
family  pedigree,  ib. 
TurwLitt,  R.  177 
Tutt,  T.  117 
Tychbo-.ne,  N.  179 
Tylney,  see  Tilney 
Tyndall,  T.  175 
Tyrrell,  sir  J.  2;  sir  T.  24 


Umpton,  A.  177 
Upton,  N.  179 
Uptoins,  sir  R.  21 
Urmeston,  C.  83,  84 
Utreight,  sir  R.  100,  see  Ou- 
tred 


Vachell,  T.  177 

Valenciennes,  34, 100 

Valens,  David,  40 

Van,  G.  117 

Vane,  R.  174 

Vannes,  dr.  Peter,  38 

Varkingnowglie,  213 

Vaumpage,  sir  W.  1 3 

Vaux,  sirN.  3,  12,  18,21,77, 
79,  82,  84,  89,  203  ;  made 
lord  Vaux,  33  ;  his  son  the 
second  lord,  38  ;  lady,  25 

Vavasour,  B.  118 

Velvelle,  sir  R.  23,  26 

Venloo,  8 

Vere,  sir  J.  22,  33 

Verney,  sir  Ralph,  3,  23, 1 76  ; 
sir  Ra.  jun.  24 

Victoria,  mistress,  25 

Villiers,  J.  24,  32,  176 

Vincent,  xxxi 

Voysey,  bp.  19,  83 


Wadhara,  sir  E.  21  ;  sir  W, 

21 
Waldani,  xxx 
Wales,  M.  66 
Walgrave,    sir   \V.    2).   177 

mr.  39 


Wall,  Thomp.s,  203     " 
Wallop,   sir  J.   32,  33,   117, 
138,    165,    196,    197;    his 
retinue,  202;  209,210,211 
Walsingham,  sir  E.  21,  177 
Walssh,  T.  133 
Walton,  mistress,  25 
Warde,  J.  65 

Warham,  abp.  19  ;  sirG.  100 
Warren,  mr.  39 
Warwick,  earl  of,  xx 
Wast,  32 
Wast,  R.  77 
Watch  and  Ward,  ordinances 

for,  140  et  seq. 
Wegan,  mr.  40 
Welles,  T.  179 
Wellesburn,  J.  175 
Welshe,  sir  J.  176 
Wentworth,    Anne,    25 ;    the 
wife  of  John,  ih.  ;  G.  98-; 
sir   Ri.    11,    22;    sir    Ro. 
24;  sirT.  100;  lord,  xxxix. 
175  ;  mr.  39 
West,  sir  F.  22;  bp.  N.  17. 

19,  30;  sir  W.  177 
Westmerland,  earl  of,  20 
Westminster,  John  abbot  of, 

92,  94 
Weston,  dr.  6;  sir  R.  21,  33, 
176,209;  maister,  121, 122 
Weymouth,  5 
Whetehyll,  Adrian,  xl ;  sir  R. 

xli.  8,  32,  118  ;  Rob.  xli. 
Whetehiirs  bulwark,  199 
Whetenall,  W.  174 
Whitehall  at  Westminster,  80 
Whitwaies,  117 
Wigston,  yonge,  179 


227 


Wnford,T.  174 
Williames,  sir  J.  176;  R.  177 
M^illington,  W.  179 
Willoughby,   lord,    xxxix.    9, 

12,  23  ;  lady,  24  ;  sir  Chr. 
21  ;  sir  E.  176  ;  G.  98  ;  sir 
H.  2,  23,  24;  II.  173  ;  sir 
J.  33,  177  ;  sir  R.  66;  T. 
137;  sir  T.  173;  master, 
38 

Wiltshire,  earl  of,  10,  11,  20, 
44  ;  sir  J.  xixix.  6  bis,  52, 
214 

Winchcombe,  J.  177 

Windsor,   lord,  175  ;    sir  A. 

13,  22,  33,  177  ;  sir  W. 
176 

Wingfield,  sir  A.  22,  31,  33, 
42  ;  C.  179  ;  sir  H.  176, 
H.179  ;  sirJ.4,50  ;  J.  173, 


179  ;  sir   Ric.    xxxviii.  17, 

31,33,70,78,183  ;  sir  Rob. 

xxxviii.  33  ;  T.  174  ;  lady, 

wife   of  sir  A.   25  ;    lady, 

wife  of  sir  Ric.  ib. 
Wiseman,  sir  J.  32 
Wodehouse,  R.  117  ;  T.  xxvii 
Woderove,  Sir  J.  12 
Wolsey,  cardinal,  chaplain  to 

sir  R.  Nanfant,  xxxix  ;  19, 

28,  30  ;  embassy  to  France 

in  1521,  94  ;  in  1527,  37  ; 

92,  94,  97,  109,  113 
Wood,  Ric.  65 
Worcester,  earl  of  17,  18,  19, 

20,  76  ;  letter  of,  86,  89  ; 

countess  of  92,  93 
Wotton,  sir  E.  42,  173,  163, 

196  ;     mistress,     77  ;     R. 

xxxix. 


Wriothesley,  T.  116  ;  mr.  180 
Wroughton,  W.  179 
W^urtemburg,  duke  of  34 
Wyatt,sirH.6,22  ;sirT.  188 
Wymelle,  2 

Wyndham,  Edra.  98  ;   sir  E. 
174;  sir  T.  22,94  ;  mr.  39 
Wynebanck,  R.  137 
Wyssen,  lord  of,  172 


Yate,  J.  177 

Ychingham,  xee  Echyngham 
Yeo,  W.  98 
Yerdeley,  J.  98 
Yorke,  T.  98,  179 


Zouche  the  eldere;  173; 
see  Souch 


FINIS. 


Lomioji :  Printed  by  J.  B.  Nichols  ai:d  gon^,  25,  rarliament  Street. 


WORKS    OF   THE    CAMDEN    SOCIETY 


AND  ORDER  OF  THEIR  PUBLICATION. 


1.  Restoration  of  King  Edward  IV. 

2.  Kyng  Johan,  by  Bishop  Bale 

3.  Deposition  of  Richard  II. 

4.  Plumpton  Correspondence 

5.  Anecdotes  and  Traditions 

6.  Political  Songs 

7.  Hayward's  Annals  of  Elizabeth 

8.  Ecclesiastical  Documents 

9.  Norden's  Description  of  Essex 

10.  Warkworth's  Chronicle 

11.  Kemp's  Nine  Dales  Wonder 

12.  The  Egerton  Papers 

13.  Chronica  Jocelini  de  Brakelonda 

14.  Irish  Narratives,  1641  and  1690 

15.  Rishanger's  Chronicle 

16.  Poems  of  Walter  Mapes 

17.  Travels  of  Nicander  Nucius 

18.  Three  Metrical  Romances 

19.  Diary  of  Dr.  John  Dee 

20.  Apology  for  the  Lollards 

21.  Rutland  Papers 

22.  Diary  of  Bishop  Cartwright 

23.  Letters  of  Eminent  Literary  Men 

24.  Proceedings  against  Dame  Alice  Kyteler 

25.  Promptorium  Parvulorum:  Tom.  I. 

26.  Suppression  of  the  Monasteries 

27.  Leycester  Correspondence 

28.  French  Chronicle  of  London 

29.  Polydore  Vergil 

30.  The  Thornton  Romances 

31.  Verney's  Notes  of  the  Long  Parliament 

32.  Autobiography  of  Sir  John  Bramston 

33.  Correspondence  of  James  Duke  of  Perth 

34.  Liber  de  Antiquis  Legibus 

35.  The  Chronicle  of  Calais 


For  the  year 
^      1838-9. 


V  For  1839-40. 


For  1840-41. 


For  1841-42. 


For  1842-43. 


For  1843-44. 


VFor  1844-45. 


\' 


For  1843-46. 


CAMDEN 


S  0  C  I  E  T  Y, 


FOR    THF,    PUBLICATIOX    OF 


EARLY  HISTORICAL  AND  LITERARY  REMAINS. 


At  a  General  Meeting  of  the    Camden   Society  held  at  the  Freemasons' 

Tavern,  Great  Queen  Street,  Lincoln's  Inn   Fields,  on   Saturday  the 

2nd  of  May,  1 846, 

The  Right  Hon.  Lord  BRAYBROOKE  in  the  chair, 

His  Lordship  having  opened  the  business  of  the  Meeting, 

The  Secretary  read  the  Report  of  the  Council  agreed  upon  at  their 
meeting  of  the  15th  April  last,  whereupon  it  was 

Resolved,  That  the  said  Report  be  received  and  adopted,  and  that 
the  Thanks  of  the  Society  be  given  to  the  Director  and  Council  for  their 
services. 

The  Thanks  of  the  Society  were  also  voted  to  the  Editors  of  the 
Society's  publications  for  the  past  year;  to  the  Local  Secretaries;  to  the 
Rt.  Hon.  Lord  Langdale;  Sir  Francis  Palgrave ;  and  tlie  Rt.  Hon.  The 
Lord  Mayor,  the  Court  of  Aldermen,  and  Common  Council  of  the  city  oi" 
London,  for  the  manner  in  which  they  had  severally  assisted  in  the  publi- 
cation of  the  Liber  de  A^itiquis  Legibus ;  to  Thomas  W.  Bramston,  Esq. 
for  the  loan  of  the  Manuscript  of  Sir  John  Bramston's  Autobiography  ;  and 
to  the  Lady  Willoughby  D'Eresby,  for  the  loan  of  the  Letters  of  the 
Duke  of  Perth. 

The  Secretary  then  read  the  Report  of  the  Auditors  agreed  upon  at 
their  Meeting  of  the  29th  April  last,  whereupon  it  was 

Resolved,  that  the  said  Report  be  received  and  adopted,  and  tliat  the 
Tiianks  of  the  Society  be  given  to  them  for  their  trou])!e. 


2  ANNIVERSARY    MEETING    OF    1846. 

The  Thanks  of  the  Society  having  then  been  voted  to  the  Treasurer, 
The  Meeting  proceeded  to  the  election  of  Officers,  when 
The  Right  Hon.  Lord  Braybrooke,  F.S.A. 
Avas  elected  President  of  the  Society;  and 

Thomas  Amyot,  Esq.  F.R.S.,  Treas.  S.A. 

Beriah  Botfield,  Esq.  M.P.,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 

John  Payne  Collier,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Charles  Purton  Cooper,  Esq.  Q.C.,  D.C.L.,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 

William  Durrant  Cooper,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Bolton  Corney,  Esq. 

Sir  Henry  Ellis,  K.H.,  F.R.S.,  Sec.  S.A. 

The  Rev.  Joseph  Hunter,  F.S.A. 

Peter  Levesque,  Esq.,  F.S.A. 

Sir  Francis  Palgrave,  K.H.,  F.R.S. 

Thomas  Joseph  Pettigrew,  Esq.  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 

Thomas  Stapleton,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

William  John  Thoms,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Albert  Way,  Esq.  M.A.,  Dir.  S.A.,  and 

Thomas  Wright,  Esq.  M.A.,  F.S.A. 
were  elected  as  the  Council;  and 

John  Brodribb  Bergne,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

John  Bruce,  Esq.  F.S.A.,  and 

The  Rev.  John  Joseph  Ellis,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 
were  elected  Auditors  of  the  Society  for  the  ensuing  year. 

Thanks  were  then  voted  to  the  Secretary ;  and  to  Lord  Braybrooke, 
for  the  interest  he  had  always  taken  in  the  welfare  of  the  Society,  and  for 
his  able  conduct  in  the  Chair. 


ELECTION  OF  OFFICERS,  1846. 
At  a  Meeting  of  the  Council  of  the  Camden  Society  held  at  No.  25, 
Parliament  Street,  Westminster,  on  Wednesday  the  6th  May,  1846, 
The  Rt.  Hon.  Lord  Braybrooke,  the  President,  in  the  Chair; 
Thomas  Amyot,  Esq.  was  elected  Director  ;  John  Payne  Collier, 
Esq.  Treasurer ;    and  William  J.  Thoms,  Esq.  Secretary,  for  the  Year 


REPORT   OF   THE    COUNCIL, 

ELECTED  2nd  MAY,  1845. 


The  Council  of  the  Camden  Society,  elected  on  the  2nd  of  May, 
1845,  have  great  pleasure  in  repeating  the  assurance  so  uniformly  made  by 
former  Councils  of  the  continued  welfare  of  the  Society,  and  of  establish- 
ing that  gratifying  fact,  by  pointing  out,  in  confirmation  of  it,  that  the  in- 
vestments standing  in  the  name  of  the  Trustees  of  the  Society  have  during 
the  past  year  been  increased  from  £77^  15s.  Id.  to  £831  18s.  lid.  Three 
per  Cent.  Consols. 

The  Council  have  added  the  following  gentlemen  to  the  List  of 
Local  Secretaries : — 

John  Bruce,  Esq.  F.S.A.,  for  Gloucestershire ; 

Rev.  James  Raine,  F.S.A.  Newc,  for  Durham ; 

and  Henry  Annesley  Woodham,  Esq.   M.A.  of  Jesus   College, 

Cambridge,  who  has  been  appointed  Local  Secretary  for  Cambridge, 

in  the  place  of  the  Rev.  John  Lodge,  M.A. 

And  it  would  be  very  gratifying  to  the  Council  if  other  gentlemen 
possessed  of  local  influence  would  kindly  render  assistance  to  the  Society 
by  undertaking  the  comparatively  easy  duties  annexed  to  the  office  of 
Local  Secretary.  There  is  nothing  which  can  more  surely  contribute  to 
the  permanent  well-being  of  the  Camden  Society  than  such  co-operation 
on  the  part  of  members  resident  in  the  country. 


4  REPORT    OF    THE    COUNC'II.,  1846% 

The  publications  of  the  past  year  have  been — = 

Autobiography  of  Sir  John  Bramston,  Knight,  &c.  Edited  by  the  Kt.  Hon. 
LoKD  Braybrooke,  President  of  the  Society,  from  the  Original,  in  the  possession 
of  Thomas  William  Bramston,  Esq.  one  of  the  knights  of  the  shire  for  South  Essex. 

Inedited  Letters  of  the  Duke  of  Perth,  from  the  Originals,  in  the  possession  of 
Lady  Willoughby  de  Eresby.     Edited  by  William  Jerdan,  Esq.  M.R.S.L. 

De  Antiquis  Legibus  Liber,  a  Chronicle  of  the  Mayors  and  Sheriffs  of  London, 
from  1178  to  1274.  Edited  by  Thomas  Stapleton,  Esq.  F.S.A.  from  the  Tran- 
script made  for  the  late  Record  Commission  (for  the  use  of  which  the  Camden  Society 
is  indebted  to  the  Right  Honourable  Lord  Langdale,  Her  Majesty's  Keeper  of  Re- 
cords), collated  with  the  Original  MS.  in  the  Archives  of  the  City  of  London. 

The  latter  M^ork  is  now  only  just  ready  for  delivery,  owing  to  the  great  care 
and  attention  bestowed  upon  it  by  Mr.  Stapleton,  to  whose  able  hands 
the  editorship  was  entrusted  by  the  Council.  The  gratifying  circumstances 
under  which  this  volume  was  placed  at  their  disposal  for  the  purposes  of 
publication  were  fully  announced  in  the  Report  of  the  last  year.  The 
Meeting  will  probably  feel  it  due  to  the  Right  Honourable  Lord  Langdale, 
Sir  Francis  Palgrave,  and  to  the  Right  Honourable  the  Lord  Mayor,  the 
Court  of  Aldermen,  and  the  Common  Council,  of  the  City  of  London,  to 
express  by  a  general  vote  their  sense  of  the  obligations  which  they  have 
conferred  on  the  Society  by  the  considerate  manner  in  which  they  have 
on  this  occasion  promoted  its  objects ;  nor  will  the  Society,  it  is  pre- 
sumed, feel  less  disposed  to  give  similar  public  expression  of  its  thanks 
to  T.  W.  Bramston,  Esq.,  for  the  loan  of  the  original  MS.  of  Sir  John 
Bramston's  Autobiography ;  and  to  the  Lady  Willoughby  de  Eresby  for 
the  use  of  the  Letters  of  the  Duke  of  Perth. 

The  fact  that  the  two  last  mentioned  Volumes,  like  many  of  the  pre- 
ceding Camden  Publications,  have  been  derived  from  materials  in  the  pos- 
session of  private  individuals,  consequently  from  sources  inaccessible  to 
the  general  reader,  furnishes  a  very  striking  proof  of  the  advantages  which 
the  establishment  of  the  Camden  Society  is  destined  to  secure  for  future 
inquirers  into  the  history  of  this  country. 

The  fourth  publication  for  the  past  year  will  be  the  "  Chronicle  of 
Calais,"  edited  by  John  Gough  Nichols,  Esq.,  and  to  which,  if  the  Meeting 
think  proper,  this  Report,  with  the  Report  of  the  Auditors,  and  the  List 
of  Members  for  the  past  year,  may  be  appended. 


RErOllT    OK    THE    COUNCIL,     1 8  If).  *> 

The  first  volume  for  the  next  year — being  a  further  portion  of  the 
translation  of  Polydore  Vergil's  History  of  England — is  completed  at  press  ; 
and  will  very  shortly  be  ready  for  delivery  to  the  members. 

The  Volumes  which  have  been  added  to  the  List  of  suggested  Pub- 
lications during  the  past  year,  are — 

A  Selection  from  the  Wills  preserved  in  the  Will  Office  at  Bury  St.  Edmund's. 
To  be  edited  by  Samuel  Tymms,  Esq. 

The  Ancient  English  and  French  Romances  of  Havelok  the  Dane.  To  be 
edited  by  Sir  Frederic  Madden,  K.H.,  F.R.S. 

The  Autobiography  of  Anne  Clifford,  Countess  of  Pembroke,  Dorset,  and  Mont- 
gomery, and  other  Records  preserved  in  Skipton  Castle.  To  be  edited  by  Edward 
Hailstone,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Regulse  Inclusarum :  The  Ancren  Rewle.  A  Treatise  on  the  Rules  and  Duties 
of  Monastic  Life,  in  the  Anglo-Saxon  Dialect  of  the  xiij.  century,  addressed  to  a 
society  of  Anchorites,  being  a  translation  from  the  Latin  Work  of  Simon  de  Ghent, 
Bishop  of  Salisbury.  To  be  edited  from  MSS.  in  the  Cottonian  Library,  British 
Museum,  with  an  Introduction,  Glossarial  Notes,  &c.  by  the  Reverend  James 
Morton,  B.D.  Prebendary  of  Lincoln. 

The  Council  have  to  regret  the  deaths,  during  the  past  year,  of — 

John  Adolphus,  Esq.,  F.S.A. 

Rev.  Richard  H.  Barham,  B.A. 

Right  Rev.  the  Lord  Bishop  of  Bath  and  Wells,  F.R.S.  and  S.A. 

William  Fuller  Boteler,  Esq.  M.A.,  Q.C. 

Joseph  Hoare  Bradshaw,  Esq. 

Mr.  Emerson  Charnley. 

Barron  Field,  Esq. 

Richard  Halliwell,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

William  F.  Harrison,  Esq.,  Local  Secretary  at  Rochester. 

Rev.  John  Hodgson,  M.R.S.L.,  V.P.  Soc.  Ant.  Newc. 

Lady  Holland. 

Thomas  Moore,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Mr.  Setchel. 

The  Ven.  Archdeacon  Todd,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 

Thomas  George  Waller,  Esq. 

Henry  Walter,  Esq. 

The  Rev.  Christopher  Wordsworth,  D.D, 


6  REPORT    OF    THE    COUNCIL^    1846. 

In  concluding  this  Report  the  Council  feel  gratified  in  calling  the 
attention  of  the  Society  to  the  fact  that  among  the  new  Subscriptions  re- 
ceived during  the  past  year  is  one  from  the  Library  of  Congress  at 
Washington.  At  a  moment  of  so  much  anxiety  in  reference  to  the  public 
relations  between  Great  Britain  and  the  United  States,  it  is  delightful  to 
notice  this  honourable  proof  of  the  interest  felt  by  America  in  the  progress 
of  our  historical  studies.  English  history  is,  indeed,  a  branch  of  litera- 
ture in  which  both  countries  have  a  peculiar  and  a  common  interest. 
Descended  from  common  ancestors,  Great  Britain  and  America  ought  ever 
to  unite  to  keep  alive  the  memory  of  the  great  and  good  deeds  of  fore- 
fathers in  whose  glories  they  both  participate. 

Signed  by  order  of  the  Council, 

'  Thomas  Amyot,  Director. 
William  J.  Thoms,  Secretary. 


REPORT   OF   THE   AUDITORS, 

Dated  29th  April,  1846. 

We,  the  Auditors  appointed  to  audit  the  Accounts  of  the  Camden 
Society,  report  to  the  Society,  that  the  Treasurer  has  exhibited  to  us  an 
account  of  the  Receipts  and  Expenditure  of  the  Society,  from  the  30th 
April,  1845,  to  the  29th  April,  1846,  and  that  we  have  examined  the  said 
accounts,  with  the  vouchers  thereto  relating,  and  find  the  same  to  be 
correct  and  satisfactory. 

And  we  further  report  that  the  following  is  an  accurate  Abstract  of 
the  Receipts  and  Expenditure  of  the  Society  during  the  period  we  have 
mentioned. 


REPORT  OF  THE   AUDITORS,   184G. 


An  ABSTRACT  of  the  RECEIPTS  and  EXPENDITURE  of  THE  CAMDEN  SOCIETY, 
from  the  30th  April,  1845,  to  the  29th  April,  1846, 


£.     s.  d. 

Balance  of  last  year's  account  .. ..    211     8     6 

Received  on  account  of  members 
whose  Subscriptions  were  in  ar- 
rear  at  the  last  Audit 98     0     0 

The  like  on  account  of  Subscrip- 
tions due  1st  May,  1845    887     0     0 

One  year's  dividendon  ^779 15s.  Id. 
3  per  Cent.  Consols,  invested  in 
the  names  of  the  Trustees  of  the 
Society,   deducting  property-tax     22   14     2 

Compositions    received    from    five 

Members     50     0     0 


Total  receipts  for  the  year  £1,2G9     2     8 


£.     s.  d. 
Paid  for  the   purchase  of  i^51  18«. 
10c?.  3  per  Cent.  Consols,  invested 
for  the  benefit  of  the  Society  ...      50     0     0 

Paid  for  printing  and  paper  of  1 ,250 
copies  of  "Verney's  Notes  of 
Long  Parliament"      143   11     C 

The  like  of  1,250  copies  of  "  Bram- 

ston's  Autobiography" 288   10'     C 

The  like  of  1,250  copies  of  "  Perth 

Correspondence''    93   18     G 

Paid  for  binding  1200  copies  of 
"  Verney's  Notes  of  Long  Parlia- 
ment"       48     0     0 

The  like  for  1,200  copies  of  "  Bram- 

ston's  Autobiography'' 57    12     0 

Paid  for  delivery  and  transmission 
of  1,200  copies  of  the  three  above 
mentioned  books,  atS^Z.  per  book, 
with  paper  for  wrappers,  book- 
ing, &c.  and  for  Advertisements  .     43   10     G' 

Paid    for    Miscellaneous    Printing, 

Lists  of  Members,  &c 36     1     3 

Paid  for  Transcripts,  &c.  connected 
with  works  published  and  in  pro- 
gress        17     1     6 

One  year's  payment  for  keeping 
Accounts  and  General  Corre- 
spondence of  the  Society 52  10     0 

Paid  expenses  of  last  General  Meet- 
ing         2     7     0 

Paid  for  postage,  carriage  of  par- 
cels, and  otherpetty  cash  expenses     16  14     5 

Casli  balance,  viz.  Sum 
in  hand  for  Composi- 
tion   £10     0     0 

The  like  from  .Subscrip- 
tions and  other  re- 
ceipts      408   19     6 

418   19     6 


i:i,269     2     8 


And  we,  the  AuditorSj  further  state,  that  the  Treasurer  has  reported 
to  us  that,  over  and  above  the  present  balance  of  £418  19^.  Gd.  there  are 
outstanding  various  subscriptions  of  Foreign  Members,  of  Members  resi- 
dent in  places  distant  from  London,  and  of  Members  recently  elected, 
which  the  Treasurer  sees  no  reason  to  doubt  will  be  shortly  received. 

Given  under  our  hands  this  29th  day  of  April,  1846, 

S.  R.  Maitland.     W.  D.  Cooper.     Geo.  R.  Corner. 


MEMBERS  OF  THE  CAMDEN  SOCIETY, 


EIGHTH  YEAR,  ENDING   IST  MAY,   1846. 


Those  Members  to  whose  names  (c.)  is  itrefixed  have  compounded  for  their  Annual  Subscriptions. 
The  Members  whose  names  are  printed  in  Small  Co.pitals  were  on  the  Council  of  the  year. 

THE  RIGHT  HONOURABLE  LORD  BRAYBROOKE,  F.S.A.,   President. 
(c.)  H.  R.  H.  Prince  Albert  of  Saxk-Coburg  Gotha,  K.G.,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 
The  Most  Rev.  and  Right  Hon.  the  Lord  Archbishop  of  Canterbury. 
The  Right  Hon.  Lord  Lyndhurst,  LL.D.,  F.R.S.,  Lord  High  Chancellor. 
The  Most  Hon.  the  Marquess  of  Northampton,  D.C.L.,  Pres.R.S.,  F.S.A. 
The  Right  Hon.  the  Earl  of  Aberdeen,  Pres.S.A.,  F.R  S. 


J.  White  Abbott,  Esq.  Exeter. 
Abraham  Abell,  Esq.  Cork. 
Joseph  Ablett,  Esq.  Llanbedr  Hall. 
Rt.    Hon.    Lord   Viscount     Adieson, 

M.P. 
(c.)  Sir  Robert  Shafto  Adair. 
H.  G.  Adams,  Esq.  Cliatham. 
John  Adamson,  Esq.  Sec.  S.  A.  Newc. 

Local  Secretary  ut  Neivcastle. 
(c.)  Rev.  James  Adcock,  M.A. 
John    Adolphus,    Esq.   F.S.A.    [Died 

July  16,  1845.] 
Professor  Dr.  Adrian,  Hesse  Darmstadt. 
Wm.  Harrison  Ainsworlh,  Esq. 
Ralph  Ainsworth,  Esq.  M  D. 
John  Yonge  Akerman,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
William  Aldam,  Esq.  M.P. 
(c.)    Edward   Nelson  Alexander,  E.sq. 

F..S.  A.  Local  Secretary  at  Halifax. 
Robert  Henry  Allan,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
George  Edward  Allen,  Esq.  Bath. 
Mr.  William  Allen. 
Franklin  Allport,  Esq. 
Richard  Almack,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Rev.  Edward  Constable  Alston,  M.A. 
George  Henry  Ames,  Esq.  Cote  House, 
Samuel  Amory,  Esq. 
Thomas  Amyot,  Esq.  F.R.S.  Treas. 

S.A.  Director. 
Alexander  Annand,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Thomas  Chisholme  Anstey,  Esq, 
Samuel  Appleby,  Esq. 
George  Appleyard,  Esq. 
M     le  Chevalier  Artaud,  Membra  de 

rinstitut  de  France. 
Robert  John  Asbton,  Esq.  F.L.S. 
Sydney  Aspland,  Esq. 
The  Athenreuni  Club. 


Fenton  Robinson  Atkinson,  Esq. 

Rev.  William  Atthill,  M.A.  Deanery, 
Middleham,  Yorkshire.  Local  Se- 
cretary at  Middleham. 

Benjamin  Austen,  Esq. 

Australasian  Public  Library. 

W.  Scrope  Ayrton,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

James  Bacon,  Esq. 

Thomas  Bacon, Esq. Redlands, Reading. 

Edward  Badeley,  Esq.  F  S.A. 

Thomas  Smith  Badger,  Esq. 

Rt.  Hon.  Lord  Bagot,  LL.D.,  F.S.A. 

James  Evan  Baillie,  Esq. 

George  Baker,  Esq.  Local  Secretary 
at  Northampton. 

Rev.  John  Baldwin,  M.A    Dalton. 

Rev.  Bulkeley  Bandinel,  D.D.  Bod- 
ley's  Librarian,  Oxford. 

Harwood  W.  Banner,  Esq.  Liverpool. 

Rev.  Richard  H.  Barham,  B.A.  [Died 
June  17,  1845.] 

W.  G.  L  Barker,  Esq.  Middleham. 

(c.)  George  Barlow,  Esq.  Oldham. 

Benjamin  Barnard,  Esq. 

John  Barnard,  Esq. 

Keith  Barnes,  Esq. 

Ralph  Barnes,  Esq.  Exeter. 

Charles  Frederick  Barnwell,  Esq. 
M.A.,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 

Rev.  John  Bartholomew,  Morchard. 

Arthur  Barr,  Esq. 

Rev.  Henry  Barry,  Draycot. 

Mr.  J.  Bartlett,  Blandford. 

J.  R.  Bartlett,  Esq.  New  York. 

William  Bateman,  Esq.  R.N. 

Rt.  Rev.  the  Lord  Bishop  of  Bath  and 
Wells  [Died  Sept.  22,  I84r).] 

R.  R.  Bayley,  Esq. 


Richard  Bayley,  Esq.  Castle  Dike. 

Henry  Ridley  Beal,  Esq. 

Mr.  Heury  Mitchison  Bealby. 

John  Beardmore,  Esq.  Uplands. 

His  Grace  the  Duke  of  Bedford. 

John  Thomas  Bedford,  Esq. 

The  Bedford  Permanent  Library. 

James  Bell,  Esq. 

Robert  Bell,  Esq.  Chiswick. 

Thomas  Bell,  Esq    F.R.S. 

Charles  Bellamy,  Esq.  D.C.L. 

Samuel  Beltz,  Esq. 

John  Benet,  jun.  Esq. 

George  Bennet,  Esq.  Himley. 

Revd.  S.  Benson. 

Francis  Benthall,  Esq.  F.S  A. 

Henry  Bentley,  Esq. 

John  Bentley,  Esq.  Birch  House. 

Michael  Bentley,  Esq. 

Richard  Bentley,  E^q. 

Peter  S.  Benwell,  Esq.  Henley. 

John  Brodribb  Bergne,  E?q.  F.S.A. 

The  Royal  Library,  Berlin. 

Charles  William  de  Bernardy,  Esq. 

Samuel  Berridge,  Esq.  Leicester. 

(c.)  The  Rev.  John  Besly,  D.C  L. 
Vicar  of  Benton,  Northumberland. 

Sir  William  Betham,  Ulster  King  of 
Arms,  F.S.A.,  U.V..\.h..  Local  Se- 
cretary at  Dublin. 

Richard  Bethell,  Esq.  M.P.  Rise,  ne^r 
Beverley. 

Edward  Be  van,  Esq. 

La  Bibliotheque  du  Roi,  Paris. 

Robert  Bickersteth,  Esq.  Liverpool. 

John  Bidwell,  Esq.  F.S.A 

Leonard     Shelford    Bidwell,     Esq. 
F.S.A. 


MEMBERS   OF  THE   CAMDEN   SOCIETY,   ]S45-fl. 


Rev.   George    Augustus    Biedermann, 

Rector  of  Dauntsev,  Wilts. 
Arthur  Bigt;';,  Esq.  Bristol, 
(c.)  John  Billing,  Esq.  Reading. 
Mr.  R.  W.  Billings. 
Samuel  H.  Bindon,    Esq. 
William  Bird,  Esq.  Rock  Park. 
Thomas  Birkbeck,  Esq. 
John  Birkbeck,  Esq.  Anley  House. 
The  Birmingham  Public  Librar)'. 
W.  H.  Bhumw,  Esq.   Beechland. 
John  Blachford,  Esq. 
William  Black,  Esq. 
John  Burgoyne  Blackett,  Esq. 
Rev.  Joseph  William  Blakesley,  M.A. 

Fellow  of  Trin.  Coll.  C;unb. 
Michael  Bland,  Esq.  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 
Venble.   George  Bland,  M.A.,   Arch- 
deacon of  Lindistiirne. 
Charles  Blandy,  Esq.  Reading. 
(c.)  John  Jackson  Blandy,  Esq.  Local 

Secretary  at  Readinr/. 
William  Blandy,  Esq.  Reading. 
Robert  Willis    Blencowe,   Esq.   M.A. 

The  Hooke,  near  Lewes. 
Octavian   Blewitt,    Esq.   Secretary    to 

the  Literary  Fund  Society, 
(c.)  Rev.  Philip  Bliss,  D.C.L.,  F.S.A., 

Registrar  of  the   Univ.  of  Oxford. 

Local  Secretary  at  Oxford. 
Bindon  Blood,  Esq.  F.R.S.E.,  F.S.A. 

Scot.,  M.R.LA.  Ennis,  Ireland. 
Edward  Blore,  Esq.  D.CL.,  F.S.A. 
B.  Blundtrll,  Esq.  Temple. 
John  Blunt,  Esq. 
Rev.  Wm.  Blunt,  B.A.  Under  Master 

of  Merchant-Taylors'  School. 
Miss  Bockett,  Southcote  Lodge,  Berks. 
Henry  J.  Boddy,  Esq.  Admiralty. 
Henry  G.  Bohn,  Esq. 
Rev.  J.  A.  Bolster,  M.A.,  M.R.LA. 

Local  Secretary  at  Cork. 
Edward  A.  Bond,  Esq. 
Mr.  William  Boone. 
B.  W.  Booth,  Esq.  Manchester. 
John  Booth,  Esq.  Barton  on  Irwell. 
Mr.  Lionel  Booth. 
Rev.  INIiles  Galloway  Booty. 
Rt.   Hon.  Sir   John    Bernard    Bosan- 

quet,  Knt.  M.A. 
Rev.  Joseph  Bosworth,  LL.D.,  F.R.S., 

F  S.A.     Local  Secretary  at  Derby. 
William    Fuller   Boteler,   Esq.  M.A., 

Q.C.      [Died  23  Oct.  1815.] 
(c.)  Beriah  Botfield,  Esq.M.P.,  F.R.S., 

F.S.A. 
Ijieut.  Bowden,  22nd  Foot. 
Miss  Bower,  Doncaster. 
Rev.  Thomas  Frere  Bowerbank,  M.A. 

Vicar  of  Chiswidc. 
George  Bowyer,  Esq.  D.C.L.,  F.S.A. 


Mark  Boyd,  Esq. 

David  Bradberry,  Esq. 

The    Subscription   Library,  Bradford, 

Yorkshire. 
Robert  Greene  Bradley,  Esq.  Bencher 

of  Gray's  Inn.     Local  Secretary  at 

Lancaster. 
Joseph  Hoare  Bradshaw,  Esq.      [Died 

May  24,  1845.] 
George     Weare     Braikenridge,     Esq. 

F.S.A.  Brislingtou  House,  Som. 
Thomas  W.  Bramston,  Esq.  M.P. 
Edward  Wedlake  Brayley,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
George  Brice,  Esq.  Queen's  Coll.  Oxf. 
John  Bright,  Esq.  M.D. 
John  Ruggles  Brise,  Esq.  Spains  Hall. 
Charles  Bristed,  Esq.  Trin. Coll. Camb. 
Thomas  Broadwood,  Esq. 
William  Brockedon,  Esq.  F.R.S. 
William  Broniet,  M.D.,  F.S.A. 
(c.)  Right  Hon.  the  Lord  Brooke. 
Francis  Capper  Brooke,  Esq.    Ufford 

Place,  Sufifolk. 
Charles  Bros,  Esq. 
The  Right  Hon.  Lord  Brougham  and 

Vaux,  F.R.S. 
Rev.  John  Brown,  M.A.  Vice-Master 

of  Trinity  College,  Cambridge. 
Robert  Brown,  Esq.  Bishopwearmouth, 
Samuel  Cowper   Brown,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Shillingford  Cross,  near  Exeter. 
Samuel  Wm.  Browne,  Esq.  Levvisham. 
William  Henry  Brown,  Esq.  Lewisham. 
Rt.  Hon.  Sir  James  L.  Knight  Bruce, 

Vice  Chancellor,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 
(c.)  John  Bruce,  Esq.   F.S.A.   Hyde 

House,     Minchinhampton.       Local 

Secretary. 
Mr.  Leonard  Bruton,  Bristol. 
Rev.   Guy  Bryan,  M.A.,  F.S.A.  Rec- 
tor   of    Woodham    Walter,    Essex. 

Local  Secreta7-y  at  Maldon, 
Mr.  John  Bryant. 
Walter  Buchanan,  Esq. 
Henry  T.  Buckle,  Esq. 
George  Biickton,  Esq.  Oakfield. 
Lieut. -Gen.     Sir      Henry     Bunbury, 

K.C.B.,  F.S.A. 
John  Burder,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
WiUiamBurge, Esq. Q.C. ,M.A., D.CL. 
John  William  Burgon,  Esq. 
James  Burn,  Esq.  W.S.  Edinburgh. 
Ven.  Chas.  Parr  Burney,  D.D.  F.R  S., 

F.S.A.  Archdeacon  of  St.,  Alban's. 
John  Burrell,  Esq.  Durham. 
Robert  Burrell,  E.-q.  Durham. 
Edmund  Burrow,  Esq. 
Decimus  Burton,  Esq.  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 
John    Hill    Burton,    Esq.  Advocate. 
John  M.  Burton,  Esq.  Greenwich. 
Rev.  C.  J.  Burton,  Lydd,  Kent. 


Johnson  Atkinson  Busfield,  Esq.  Brad- 
ford, Yorkshire. 
Rev.    Thomas   Byrth,    D.D.,    F.S.A., 

Rector  of  Wallasey,  Cheshire. 
Benjamin  Bond  Cabbell,  Esq.  F.R.S,, 

F.S.A. 
Frederick  Caldwell,  Esq. 
Ven.  Henry  Calthrop,  B.D.  Archdea- 
con of  Rochester. 
Rt.  Hon.  Lord  Campbell. 
Union  Society,  Cambridge. 
J.  S.  Cardale,  Esq.  Leicester. 
The  Cardiff  Institution, 
(c.)  The  Rev.  Edward  Cardwell,  D.D. 

Camden's    Professor    of    Ancient 

History,  Oxford. 
W.  Henry  Pole  Carew,  Esq.  Anthony. 
(c.)  Peter  StafTord  Carey,  Esq.,  M.A. 
Rt.  Hon.  the  Earl  of  CarUsle,  F.R.S. 
Edward  John  Carlos,  Esq. 
Rev.  John  Carr,  M.A.  Fellow  of  Bal- 

liol  college,  Oxford. 
William  Thomas  Carr,  Esq. 
John  Carter,  Esq.  Coventry. 
George    Alfred     Carthew,    Esq.    East 

Dereham,  Norfolk, 
(c.)  Cornelius Cartwright,  Esq.  Dudley. 
W.  C.  Cartwright,  Esq. 
Rev.  W.  Carus,  M.A.  Fellow  of  Trin. 

Coll.  Camb. 
The  Rt.  Hon.  Earl  Cawdor,  F.R.S. 
Edward  P.  Cearns,  Esq.  Liverpool. 
Mr.  James  Chaflin,   Islington. 
Thomas  Chapman,  Esq.  F.R.S.  F.S.A. 
William    Chapman,    Esq.    Richmond, 
(c.)  William  Chappell,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Mr.    Emerson    Charuley,    Newcastle. 

[Died  Aug.  13,  1845.] 
Sir  William  Ciiatterton,  Bart. 
J.  M.  G.  Cheek,  Esq.  Evesham.    Local 

Secretary  at  Eveshaiu. 
Rt.  Rev.  the  Lord  Bishop  of  Chichester. 
(c.)  JohnWalbankeChilders,  Esq.M.P. 
Francis  Cholmeley,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Rev.  Henry  Christmas,  M.A.,  F.R.S., 

F.S.A.   Sec.  N.S.,  Librarian  of  Sion 

College,  &c.  SiC. 
Henry  Christy,  Esq. 
Charles  Clark,  Esq.  Middle  Temple. 
Rev.    Francis    Foreman  Clark,     B.A. 

Towutield  House,  Staffordshire. 
George  Thomas  Clark,  Esq. 
William     Clark,     M.D.    Professor    of 

Anatomy,  Cambridge. 
Joseph  Clarke,  Esq. 
Thomas  J.  Clarke,  Esq. 
Thomas  Clarke,  Esq.  Knedlington. 
Thomas  Clarke,  Esq.  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 
Rev.  Patrick  Clason,  D.D.  Edinb.    For 

the  Library  of  the  Free  Church  of 

Scotland. 

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MEMBERS   OF  THE   CAMDEN    SOCIETY,   1845-G. 


Rev.  Jacob  Clements,  M.A.  Upton  St.  • 

Leonard's,  near  Gloucester.  1 

(c.)  Rev.  Alfred  Butler  Clough,  B.D., 

F.S.A.  Jesus  College,  Oxford. 
Charles    Thornton      Coathupe,    Esq.  I 

Wraxhall,  near  Bristol.  ' 

James  Cobb,  Esq.  Yarmouth.  ! 

J.  Ingram  Cobbin,  Esq.  ! 

Sir  \Vm.  S.  R.  Cockburn,  Bart.  M.A. 
William  Colbourne,  Esq.  Chippenham. 
Rev.  Edward  Coleridge,  M.A. 
Francis  George  Coleridge,  Esq.  Ottery 

St.  jNIary,  Devon. 
The  Hon.  Sir  John  Taylor  Coleridge, 

one  of  the  Judges  of  the  Queen's 

Bench,  M.A. 
John  Payne  Collier,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Director  of  the  Shakespeare  Society. 

Treasurer. 
Mr.  Ed.vin  ColUngs,  Bath. 
Edward  Collins,  Esq. 
Thomas  Combe.  Esq.  Oxford 
Rev.  C.  Comberbach,  Stonor. 
John  Comport,  Esq,  F.S.A.  Strood. 
The  Library  of  Congress,  Washington. 
(c.)  Rev.  John  Connop,  M.A.   Brad- 
field  Hall,  Berkshire. 
Edward  Conroy,  Esq.  M.A.,  ]\LR.I.A. 
William  Conway,  Esq.  Rathmines. 
Lord  Albert  Conyngham,  F.S.A. 
William  Henry  Cooke,  Esq.  Barrister- 

at-Law,  Temple. 
Charles  Henry  Cooper,  Esq.  Coroner 

for  Cambridge. 
Charles     Purtox     Cooper,     Esq. 

Q.C.,  D.C  L.,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 
Rev.  James  Cooper,  M.A.    St.    Paul's 

School. 
Thomas  Henry  Cooper,  Esq. 
William  Durrant  Cooper,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Auditor. 
The  Royal  Library  of  Copenhagen. 
The   Lord   Bishop    of   Cork,    Cloyne, 

and  Ross. 
George  Richard  Corner,   Esq.   F.S.A. 

Auditor. 
(c.)  Bolton  Corney,  Esq.  Barnes. 
Rev.  Tho.  Corser,  Stand,  jNIanchester. 
Rev.   G.    E.   Corrie,   B.D.   Fellow    of 

Cath.   Hall,  and  Norrisian  Prof,  of 

Divin.  in  the  Univ.  of  Cambridge. 
The  Right  Hon.  Lord  Cottenham. 
The  Right  Hon.  Lord  Courtenaj'. 
Andrew  Coventry,  Esq.  Advocate. 
Rev.  M.  Cowie,  M.A.  St.  John's  Coll. 

Camb. 
W^illiam  Crafter,  Esq.  Gravesend. 
(c.)  James  T.  Gibson  Craig,  Esq. 
George  L.  Craik,  Esq. 
Vei-j'  Rev.  John  Antony  Cramer,  D.D. 

Dean  of  Carlisle. 


Rev.  Richard  Crawley,  M.A.    Steeple 
Ashton,  Wiltshire.  I 

Sir  Archer  Denman  Croft,  Bart. 
Rev.    Richard  Croft,   Vicar  of  Hart-  ^ 

burn,  Northumberland. 
Anthony  Crofton,  Esq.  Barrister.  : 

John  Crofts,  Esq.  Bradford,  York.         ! 
The  Rt.    Hon.  John  Wilson    Croker, 

LL.D.,  F.R.S.  I 

Thomas   Crofton    Croker,     Esq. 

F.S.A.,  ]\LR.LA. 
Crosby   Hall   Literary    and    Scientific 

Institution. 
John  Cross,  Esq.  Barrister-at-Law. 
James    Crossley,    Esq.    Local    Secre- 
tary at  Manchester. 
James  Dodsley  Cuff,  Esq. 
Rev.    vSamuel    Camming,     B.A.    Old 

Romney. 
George  Godfrey  Cunningham,  Esq. 
Peter  Cunningham,  Esq.  Treasurer  of 

the  Shakespeare  Society. 
Miss  Richardson  Currer,  Eshton  Hall. 
Henry     Curwen,      Esq.     Workington 

Hall,  Cumberland. 
The  Rev.   Henry   Curwen,   Rector  of 

Workington. 
The  Hon.  Edward  Cecil  Curzon. 
Edward  Dalton,   Esq.    LL.D.,  F.S.A. 
Thomas  Dalton,  Esq.  Cardiff. 
George  Daniel,  Esq. 
Rev  JohnWareyn Darby, Framlingham. 
George  Webb  Dasent,  Esq.  M.A. 
William  Davie,   Esq.    Town  Clerk   of 

Glasgow. 
James  Edward  Davies,  Esq. 
Robert    Davies,    Esq.    F.S.A.    Town 

Clerk  of  York. 
^  Richard  Davies,  jun.   Esq.  Llangefni. 
'  Thomas  Stephens  Davies,  Esq.  F.R.S. , 

L.  and  Ed.  F.S.A. 
David  Elisha  Davy,  Esq.  UflFord,  Suf- 
folk.    Local  Secretary. 
1  Matthew  Dawes,  Esq.,  F.G.S. 
Vesey  Thomas  Dawson,  Esq. 
Rev.  Arthur  Dayman,  M.A.  Shilling- 
stone  Rectory,  Blandford. 
Charles  Deane,  Esq. 
Rev.  J.  Bathurst  Deane,  M. A.,  F.S.A. 
James  Dearden,  Esq.  Rochdale. 
Norris  Deck,  Esq.  Cambridge. 
Right  Hon.  Earl  de  Grey,  Pres.  of  R. 
■      Inst.  Br.  Architects,  F.S.A. 
Rev.  D.  C.  Delafosse,  M.A. 
Philip  Cliilwell  De  la  Garde,  Esq. 
George  Dempster,  Esq.  of  Skibo,  Ad- 
vocate. 
Mons.   Jules    Desnoyers,    Sec.    de  la. 

Soc.  de  I'Histoire  de  France. 
His  Grace  the  Duke  of  Devonshire, 
K.G.,  D.C.L. 


Hugh  Welch  Diamond,  Esq.,  F.S.A. 
F.  H.  Dickenson,  Esq.  M.P. 
William  Dickson,  Esq.  Edinburgh. 
Count   Maurice   Dietrichstein,  Prefect 

of  the  Imp.  Library  at  Vienna. 
Charles  Wentworth  Dilke,  Esq.  LL.B. 
Joseph  C.  Dimsdale,  Esq. 
(^c.)    John   Disney,    Esq.    The   Hyde, 

Ingatestone. 
(c.)  George  Dodd,  Esq.  M.P.,  F.S.A 
Charles  Cooper  Doggett,  Esq. 
Mr.  Dolman,  Bo7id  street. 
John  Edward  Dowdt-swellj  Esq.   Pull 

Court,  Worcestershire, 
(c.)  Charles  Downes,  Esq. 
Thomas    D'Oyly,  Esq.    D.C.L.    Ser- 
jeant at-Law. 
Samuel  Duckworth,  Esq.,  M.A.  Mas- 
ter in  Chancery. 
George  Duke,  Esq.   Barrister-at-Law, 

St.  Leonard's,  Sussex. 
Thomas  Farmer    Dukes,   Esq.    F.S.A. 
Andrew    Dun,     Esq.,     W.S.,    M.A., 

F.A.S.  Scot.  Edinburgh. 
Philip    Bury      Duncan,     Esq.    IM.A. 
Keeper  of  the  Ashnr.olean  ^luseum. 
David  Dundas,  Esq.  M.A.,  Temple. 
William    Pitt   Dundas,    Esq.    Deputy 

Clerk  Register  of  Scotland. 
John  Dunn,  Esq.  Paisley. 
Enoch  Durant,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Right  Rev.  the   Lord  Bishop  of  Dur- 
ham, F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 
Rev.  Alexander  Dyce,  B..^. 
William  Dyce,  Esq.  School  of  Design, 

Somerset-house. 
Rev.    Thomas     Dyer,    M.A.    Abbot's 

Roding,  Ongar,  Essex. 
J.  Compton  Dyke,  Esq.  Rochester. 
Mr.  Thomas  Eaton,  Worcester. 
Thomas  Edgworth,  E-^q. 
Rt.  Hon.  Lord  Francis  Egerton,M.P. 
Sir  Philip   de   Malpas   Grey   Egerton, 

Bart,  M.P. 
Benjamin  Elam,  Esq. 
Rev.  H.  T.  Ellacombe,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 

Bitton,  near  Bristol. 
J.  Bardoe  EUiott,  Esq. 
Sir   Henry   Ellis,     K.H.,     LL.B., 
F.R.S.,   Sec.    S.   A.,   Principal   Li- 
brarian of  the  British  Museum. 
(c.)   G.  Stevenson  Eilis,  Esq. 
Rev.  John  Joseph  Ellis,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 
Joseph  Ellis,  jun.  Esq.  Richmond. 
John  Fullerton  Elphinstoue,   F^sq. 
Charles    Norton    Elvin,     Esq.,    East 

Dereham,  Norfolk. 
Hastings  Elwin,  Esq. 
William  Empson,  Esq.  M.A. 
Dr.  Endlicher,  Vienna. 
C.  Engledow,  Esq.  Haddington,  N.B. 


MEMBERS   OF  TIIK   CAMDEN   SOCIETY,    1  S  15-G. 


The  Erechtheium  Club. 

The  Rt.  Hon.  Thomas  Erskine. 

George  Essell,  Es^q.  Rochester. 

Thomas  Grimston  Buckiiall  Estconrt, 
Esq.  M.P.  tor  the  Univ.  of  Oxford. 

Rev.  Jlenry  Herbert  Evans,  M.A. 

Herbert  Norman  Evans,  Esq. 

Thomas  Evans,  Esq.   Carditt'. 

(c.)  John  Leman  Ewen,  Esq.  Vale- 
wood,  Haslemere,  Sussex. 

(c.)  Joseph  Walter  King  Eyton,  Esq. 
F.S.A.  Lond.  &  Scot.,  Leamington. 

Geoige  Lockton  Faithfull,  Esq.  Tring. 

James  Falconar,  Esq.  F.S.A.  Local 
Secretary  at  Doncaster. 

The  Right  Hon.  Lord  Farnham. 

(c.)  Sir  Walter  Farquhar.  Bart. 

James  William  Farrer,  Esq.  Master  in 
Chancery. 

Mr.  Thomas  Faulkner,  Chelsea. 

Tarver  R.  Fearnside,  Esq. 

Dr.  Feder,  Head  Librarian  to  the  Court 
of  Hesse  Darmstadt. 

Rev.  George  O.  Fenwicke,  F.S.A. 

Barron  Field,  Esq.  Torquay.  [Died 
April  11,  184G.] 

Copley  Fielding,  Esq.  Brighton. 

Rev.  Henry  Fielding,  M.A.  Salmonby 
Rectory,  near  Horncastle. 

William  Figg,  Esq.  Lewes. 

Charles  Filica,  Esq. 

John  Joseph  Ashby  Fillinham,  Esq. 

(c.)  Sir  Edmund  Filmer,  Bart.  M.P. 
East  Sutton  Place,  Kent. 

John  Goate  Fisher,  Esq.  Yarmouth. 

Paul  Hawkins  Fisher,  Esq.  The  Cas- 
tle, Stroud. 

Wm.  Stevenson  Fitch,  Esq.  Local 
Secretary  at  Ipswich. 

Robert  Fitch,  Esq.  Norwich. 

The  Rijiht  Hon.  Earl  FitzWilliam. 

Lieut. -Colonel  Flemming. 

Rev.  Henry  Fletcher,  Ulceby,  Line. 

John  W.  Fletcher,  Esq.  Brazenose 
College,  Oxford. 

(c.)  Thomas  W.  Fletcher,  Esq.  F.R.S., 
F.S.A.    Local  Secretary  at  Dudley. 

(c.)  Rev.  William  Fletcher,  M.A.  Lo- 
cal Secretary  at  Southwell. 

Sir  William  J.  H.  Browne  Folkes, 
Bart.  F.R.S. ,  F.S.A. 

(c.)  George  FoUiott,  Esq. 

Rev.  Josiah  Forshall,  M.A.,  F.R.S., 
F.S.A.   Sec.  to  the  British  Museum. 

John  Forster,  Esq. 

John  Forster,  Esq.  Newton-in-the 
Willows. 

Matthew  Forster,  Esq.  Belsize. 

W.  E.  Forster,  Esq. ,  Bradford,  York- 
shire. 

Hon.  George  M.  Fortescue. 


Edward  Foss,  Ivq.  F.S.A. 

Lieut. -Colonel  ('harles  Richard  Fox. 

Charles  B.  Fox,  Esq. 

Charles  Larkin  Francis,  Esq. 

Henry  Ralph  Francis,  Esq.  RLA.  late 
Fellow  of  St.  John's  Coll.  Camb. 

Miss  Francis,  Hampstead. 

Richard  Fraukum,   Esq. 

William  Frtncli,  Esq. 

Thomas  Frewen,  Esq.  Brickwall  House. 

Charles  Frost,  Esq.  F.S.A.  Pres.  of 
the  Lit.  and  Philos.  Soc.  of  Hull. 
Local  Secretary. 

The  Ven,  R.  Hurrell  Froude,  M.A. 
Archdeacon  of  Totness. 

Baldwin  Fulford,  Esq.   Great  Fulford. 

Right  Hon.  Sir  Herbert  Jemier  Fust, 
LL.D.  Dean  of  the  Arches. 

(c.)  John  Lewis  Ffytche,  Esq.  Line. 
Coll.  Oxf.,  Thorpe  Hall,  Louth. 

Charles  Gambier,  Esq.  Harley-street. 

Rev.  Richard  Garnet,  F.S.A.  British 
Museum. 

Thomas  Garrard,  Esq.  F.S.A.  Bristol. 

Thomas  Gaspey,  Esq. 

Herr  Von  Gevay,  Vienna. 

Professor  Aug.  Fred.  Gfroerer,  Direc- 
tor of  the  Royal  Library,  .Stuttgardt. 

Humphrey  Gibbs,  Esq. 

John  Gidley,  Esq.  Exeter. 

Edward  Gifford,  Esq.  Admiralty. 

Richard  James  Gilman,  Esq. 

William  Anthony  Gilman,  Esq. 

Thomas  Ward  Gleadow,   Esq.  Hull. 

The  Literary  and  Scientific  Associa- 
tion of  Gloucester. 

John  Hulbert  Glover,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Librarian  to  Her  Majesty. 

Sir  Stephen  R.  Glynne,  Bart.  F.S.A. 

George  Godwin,  jun.  Esq.  F.R.S., 
F.S.A.  Hon.  Sec.  Art  Union. 

Henry  Godwin,  Efq.  Newbury. 

Gabriel  Goldney,  Esq. 

Aaron  Asher  Goldsmid,  Esq. 

Sir  Isaac  Lyon  Goldsmid,  Bart.  F.R.S., 
F.S.A. 

Rev.  William  Goode,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 
Rector  of  St.  Antholine,  London. 

James  Gooden,  Esq.  F.S  A. 

Jonathan  Gooding,  Esq.  Local  Se- 
cretary at  Southwold. 

Alexander  Gordon, jun.  Esq. 

W.  Ormesby  Gore,  Esq.,  M.P. 

Richard  Gosling,  Esq. 

The  Gottingen  University  Library. 

James  Robert  Gowen,  Esq.  F.G.S. 

John  Black  Gracie,  Esq.  F.S.A.  So. 

Charles  Graham,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

The  Rev.  James  Graves,  Borris  in 
Ossory. 

Francis  Graves,  Esq. 


The   Library  of   the  Hon.   Society  of 

Gray's  Inn. 
Charles  Green,  Esq. 
John  Green,  Esq. 
John  Greenall,  Esq,  Wairington. 
Benjamin  Wyatt  Greenfield,  Esq.  Bar- 

rister-at-Law,  Shirley. 
Greenwich  Society  for  the  Diffusion  of 

Useful  Knowledge. 
Hon.  and  Very  Rev.   George   Neville 

Grenville,  M.A.  Dean  of  Windsor. 
Right  Hon.  Thomas  Grenville,  F.S.A. 
Charles  Cavendish  Greville,  Esq. 
Charles  Griffin,  Esq.  Glasgow. 
Philip  Griffith,  Esq. 
Rev.  Robert  H.  Groome,  M.A. 
(c.)  The  Right  Hon.  Earl  Grosvenor. 
John   Grundy,   Esq.    Hampton   Court 

Palace. 
The  Lady  Charlotte  E.  Guest. 
Edwin  Guest,    Esq.  M.A.    Fellow    of 

Caius  Coll.  Camb. 
Sir  John     Guise,     Bart.    Rendcomb. 
Daniel  Gurney,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
(c.)  Hudson  Gurney,   Esq.  V.P.  S.A., 

F.R.S. 
Rev.  John  Hampden  Gurney,  M.A. 
John   Matthew    Gutch,    Esq.    F.S.A. 

Local  Secretary  at  Worcester . 
Frederick  Gwatkin,  Esq. 
Mr.  Henry  Gwyn. 
Miss  Hackett,  Claphara,  Surrey. 
William    D.     Haggard,    Esq.    F.S.A., 

F.R.A.S.,  M.N.S. 
Mr.  David  Haig,  Advocates'  Library, 

Edinburgh. 
Edward  Hailstone,  Esq.    F.S.A.  Hor- 

tou  Hall.  Local  Secretary  at  Brad- 

Jord,  Yorkshire. 
Mr.  Charles  Hall,  Blandford. 
Mrs.  Hall. 

Giles  Hall,  Esq.  Gloucester. 
John  Hall,  Esq. 

(c.)  Thomas  Henry  Hall,  F.R.S. 
Henry    Hallara,    Esq.   M.A.,  F.R.S., 

V.P.S.A. 
Charles  William  Hallett,  Esq. 
James  Orchard  Halliwell,  Esq.  F.R.S., 

F.S.A. 
Richard  Halliwell,  Esq.  F.S.A.    [Died 

Sept.  7,  184.5.] 
William     Richard      Hamilton,      Esq. 

F.R.S.,  V.P.S.A. 
John  Hampden,  Esq.  Leamington. 
Robert    Handyside,     Esq.     Advocate, 

Sheriff  of  Stirlingshire. 
Philip  Augustus  Hanrott,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
(c.)  J.  A.  Hardcastle,   Esq.    Hatchaui 

House,  New  Cross. 
John   Stockdale    Hardy,   Esq,    F.S.A. 

Local  Secretani  at  Leicester. 


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MEMBERS  OF  THE  CAMDEX   SOCIETY^   1845-G. 


(c.)  Ven.  Julius  Charles  Hare,  M.A. 

Archdeacon  of  Lewes. 
James  Hargraves,  Esq.  Manchester. 
Edwaid  Harnian,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Rev.  William  Harness,  M.A. 
Robert  Harris,  Esq.  Reading. 
Edward  M.  Harrison,  Esq.  j 

William  F.  Harrison,  Esq.  Local  | 
Secretary  at  Rochester.  [Died  , 
Dec.  12,  18^5.]  j 

William  Henry  Harrison,  Esq. 
Rt.  Hon.  the  Earl  of  Harrowby,F.S.A.  '• 
Solomon  Alexander  Hart,  Esq.  R.A. 
Leonard  L.  Hartley,  Esq.   Middleton 

Lodge,  Darlington. 
Henry  Paul  Harwood,  Esq.  M.D. 
Rev.  Edward  Hawkins,  D.D.  Provost 

of  Oriel  College,  Oxford. 
Edward  Hawkins,  Esq.  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 
Rev.   Etlward  Craven  Hawtrey,  D.D., 

F.S.A.,  Head  Master  of  Eton. 
Rev.  J.   M.  Health,  M.A.   Fellow  of 

Trinity  Coll.  Camb. 
Henry  Heffill,  Esq.  Diss,  Norfolk. 
Frederick  Heisch,  Esq. 
Alexander  Henderson,  M.D.,  F.S.A. 
E.  T.  Henry,  Esq.  Cains  Coll.  Camb. 
James  Henwood,  Esq.  Hull. 
Hon.  Algernon  Herbert,  M.A. 
Samuel  R.  Heselton,  Esq. 
R.  W.  Heslop,  Esq.  Local  Secretary 

at  R/pon. 
Thomas  Hewitt,  Esq.  M.A.  Cork. 
Henry  William  Hewlett,  Esq. 
James  Hey  wood,  Esq.  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 
Thomas  Heywood,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
T.  Heywood,  Esq.  Manchester. 
George  Hickman,  Esq.  Marlow. 
Rev.  W.  Hildyard,  Market  Deeping. 
Henry  Hill,  Esq.  Barrister-at-Law. 
(c.)   Rev.   Herbert  Hill,  M.A.    Local 

Secretary  at  Warwick. 
Jere  Hill,  Esq.  Bristol. 
Matthew  D.  Hill,  Esq.  Q.C. 
John  Hill,  Esq.  M.A. 
John  Hodgson  Hinde,  Esq.  M.P. 
Charles  H.  Hingeston,  Esq. 
J    H.  Hippisley,  Esq. 
Langford  Lovel  Hodge,  Esq. 
Sampson  Hodgkinson,  Esq. 
Rev.  John  Hodgson,   M.R.S.L.,  V.P. 
S.  A.  Newc.    [Died  June  12,  1845.] 
W.  B.  Hodgson,  Esq.  Liverpool. 
William     Hodgson,     Esq.     Kingston 

Lodge,  Sanderstead,  Surrey. 
James  Maitland   Hog,  Esq.   of  Ncvi- 

liston. 
Thomas  Holden,  Esq. 
(c.)  James  Holding,  Esq.  Basingstoke. 
Rt.  Hon.  the  Dowager  Lady  Holland. 
[Died  Nov.  Ifa",  1845.] 


(c.)  Robert  Hollond,  Esq.  M.P.,  M.A. 

Richard  HoUier,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Bryan  Holme,  Esq.  New  Inn. 

Edward  Holme,  M.D.  Manchester. 

John  Holmes,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Robert  Home,  Esq. 

Mr.  William  Hood. 

John  Hooper,  Esq.  Reading. 

A.  J.Beresford  Hope.  Esq.M.A.,M.P. 

James  R.  Hope,  Esq. 

The   Right    Hon.   John    Hope,    Lord 

Justice  Clerk,  Edinburgh. 
Charles  Hopkinson,  Esq.  M.A. 
Edmund  Hopkinson,   Esq.  Edgeworth 

House,  Cirencester. 
William    Hopkinson,   Esq.  Local  Se- 
cretary at  Stam/ord. 
The   Rev.   A.    M.    Hopper,    Starston 

Rectory,  Norfolk. 
Alfred  John  Horwood,  Esq. 
Abraham  Howard,  Esq. 
W.  Waters  Howard,  Esq. 
Edward  Howes,  Esq.  M.A. 
John  Hubback,  Esq.  Barrister-at-Law. 
William  H.  Hutfam,  Esq.  Hull. 
Rev.  John  William  Hughes,  M.A. 
William  Hughes  Hughes,  Esq.  M.P., 

F.S.A.  Barrister-at-Law. 
The  Hull  Subscription  Library. 
William  Powell  Hunt,  Esq.  Ipswich. 
John  Hunter,  Esq.  jun.  W.S.  Edinb. 
Rev.  Joseph  Hunter,  F.S.A. 
(c.)    Richard    Charles    Hussey,    Esq. 

F.S.A.  Birminghim. 
(c.)    .Rev.  Robert  Hussey,  B.D.   Stu- 
dent of  Christ  Church,  Oxford. 
William  Hutchison,  Esq. 
Sir  Robert  Harry  Inglis,  Bart.  LL.D. 
F.R.S.,  F.S.A.,  M.P.  for  the  Uni- 
versity of  Oxford. 
(c.)  Rev.  James  Ingram,  D.D., F.S.A., 

President  of  Trin.  Coll.  Oxford. 
(c.)    Cosmo    Lines,     Esq.    Advocate, 

Sheriff  of  Morayshire,  Edinburgh. 
The  Royal  Irish  Academy. 
David  Irving,  Esq.  LL  D.  Edinburgh. 
Library    of   King  William's    College, 

Isle  of  Man. 
Tlie  Islington  Literary  and  Scientific 

Society. 
The    Hon.   Jiuncs   Ivory,    one   of  the 

Lords  of  Session  in  Scotland. 
Henry  Jackson,  Esq.  Local  Secretary 

at  Sheffield. 
Rev.  Stephen  Jackson,  M.A.  Ipswich. 
Rev.  Thomas  Jackson,  M.A.  Incum- 
bent of  St.  Peter's,  Mile  End. 
B.  Jacob,  Esq.  Dorchester. 
Rev.  Dr.  Jacob,  New  Hillingdon. 
Rev.   W^iiliam   Jacobson,  M.A.  Vice- 
Principal  of  Magdalen  Hall,  Oxford. 


John  Richmond  Jaffray,  Esq. 
G.  P.  R.  James,  Esq.  Walmer. 
(c.)  Rev.  L.  W.  JeflVay,  Preston. 
Rev.  Richard  Jenkyns,  D.D.    Master 

of  Balliol  Coll.  Oxford. 
William  Jerdan,  Esq.  M.R.S.L. 
Rt.  Hon,  the  Earl  Jermyn. 
James  Jermyn,  Esq.  Reydon,  Suffolk. 
Mrs.  Samuel  Clarke  Jervoise. 
Edward  Jesse,  Esq.  Windsor. 
Mr.  George  James  Johnson,  Reading. 
Theophilus  Fairfax  Johnson,  Es(p 

George  Jones,  Esq.  R.A. 

(c.)  Joseph  Jones,  jun.  Esq.  Local 
Secretary  at  Oldham. 

Rev.  H.  Lougueville  Jones,  M.A. 

Pitman  Jones,  Esq.  Local  Secretary 
at  Exeter. 

Richard  Jones,  Esq. 

William  Samuel  Jones,  Esq. 

Dr.  Keller,  Chief  Librarian  of  the 
University  Li^jrary,  Tubingen. 

Sir  Fitzroy  Kelly,  M.P.,  Q.C  Soli- 
citor-General. 

John  M.  Kemble,  Esq.  M.A. 

Robert  Palmer  Kemp.  Esq.  Yarmouth. 

Alfred  John  Kempe,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Rev.  George  Kennard. 

The  Kensington  Book  Society. 

John  Kenyon,  Esq. 

James  Kerr,  Esq.  Coventry. 

Philip  Kernan,  Esq. 

James  Kerr,  Esq.  Local  Secretary  at 
Glasgow. 

Edward  Key,  Esq.  Holbeach. 

Richard  T.  Kindersley,  Esq.  Q.C. 

Frederick  King,  Esq.  Fulham. 

Richard  John  King,  Esq.  Plymouth. 

Thomas  King,  Esq. 

Thomas  W.  King,  Esq.  F.S.A.  Rouge 
Dragon  Pursuivant  of  Arms. 

George  Ritchie  Kinloch,  Esq.  Ediab. 

Charles  Knight,  Esq. 

William  Knight,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Charles  Kiinig,  Esq.  K.H.,  F.R.S. 

Rt.  Hon.  Henry  Labouchere,  M.P. 

David  Laing,   Esq.  F.S.A.  L.  and  Sc. 

Rev.  John  Lamb,  D.D.  Master  of 
Corpus  Christi  Coll.  Camb. 

Henry  Eyres  Landor,  Esq.  Warwick 

John  Newton  Lane,  Esq.  King's 
Bromley  Manor,  Lichfield. 

William  Lang,  Esq.  Bristol. 

Right  Hon.  Lord  Langdale,  Master  of 
the  Rolls. 

Rev.  Lambert  B.  Larking,  M.A. 

(c.)  Dr.  J.  M.  Lappenberg,  For.Memb. 
^oc.  Ant.  Local  Secretary  at  Ham- 
bur  yh. 

Rev.  John  Latham,  Derby. 

Mr.  W.  Law. 


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Andrew  Lawson,  Esq.  Boroughbridge.  | 
Sir  William  Lawson,  Bart.  F.S.A. 
Robert  Leadbitter,  Esq.  Newcastle. 
Mechanics'   Institution    and    Literary 

Society,  Leeds. 
Rev.  John  E.  Leefe. 
Henry  Leigh,  Esq.  Moorfield  Cottage, 

Swinton,  Manchester. 
T.  Pemberton  Leigh,  Esq.  Q.C.,  M.P. 
Robert  Lemon,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
—  Lethbridge,  Esq.  Greenwich  Hospl. 
Charles  Lever,  Esq. 
Peter  Levesque,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Rev.    T.    T.    Lewis,   M.A.   Bridstow, 

near  Ross.     Local  Secretary. 
Mr.  Lewis  A.  Lewis. 
William  Wrixon  Leycester,  Esq. 
Rt.  Rev.  Lord  Bishop  of  Lichfield. 
Henry  Liddell,  Esq.  Bombay. 
William  Liddiard,  Esq. 
Alfred  Lillingston,  Esq.  Southwold. 
The  Lincoln  Permanent  Library. 
Mons.  De  Rous  de  Lincy.     Local  Se- 
cretary at  Paris. 
John  Lindsay,  Esq.  Barrister-at-Law, 

Maryville,  Cork. 
Rev.  Jn.  Lingard,  D.D.  Hornby,  Lane. 
The  Hon.  Society  of  Lincoln's  Inn. 
Right  Rev.  the  Lord  Bishop  of  Llan- 

daff.  Dean  of  St.  Paul's,  F.S.A. 
William  Horton  Lloyd,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Henry  F.  Lockwood,  Esq.  F.S.A.  Hull. 
Rev.  John  Lodge,  M.A. 
The    Right    Hon.    and    Rt.    Rev.  the 

Lord  Bishop  of  London. 
City  of  London  Library,  Guildhall. 
The  London  Library. 
The  London  Institution. 
The    City  of    London    Literary    and 

Scientific  Institution. 
Gwalter  B.  Lonsdale,  Esq. 
C.  W.  Loscombe,  Esq.  Clifton. 
Henry  Albert  Loscomb,  Esq.  Andover 
Very  Rev.  Thomas  Hill  Lowe,   M.A. 

Dean  of  Exeter. 
Mark  Antony  Lower,  Esq.  Lewes, 
(c.)  James  Lucas,  Esq.  Stirling. 
Ebenezer    Ludlow,    Esq.    M.A.    Ser- 
jeant-at-law. 
Robert  Wheatley  Lumley,  Esq. 
J.  Maberley,  Esq. 
Colin  Campbell  Macaulay,  Esq. 
John  David  Macbride,    Esq.   D.C.L. 

Principal  of  Magdalen  Hall,  Oxf. 
Le  Conseilleur  Commandeur  de  Ma- 
cedo.     Secretary    General    of    the 
Royal  Society  of  Sciences,  Madrid. 
William  M'Clure,  Esq.  Eccles. 
.—  M'Glashan,  Esq.  Dublin. 
Rev.  Charles  Mackenzie,  St.  Olave's, 
South  wark. 


J.  Whitefoord  Mackenzie,  Esq.  W.S. 

James  Macknight,  Esq.  W.S., 

John  M'Kutchin,  Esq.  Castleton,  Isle 

of  Man. 
Miss  Macleod. 
William  M'Mahon,  Esq. 
Alexander      Maconochie,      Esq.       of 

Meadowbank,  Edinburgh. 
Allen  A.  Maconochie,   Esq.  Professor 

of  Civil  Law,  Glasgow,  Advocate. 
James  Allan  Maconochie,  Esq.  Advo- 
cate, Sheriff  of  Orkney. 
Robert  Maconochie,  Esq. 
John  MacPhail,  Esq.  Edinburgh. 
(c.)  Sir  Frederick  Madden,  K.H., 
F.R.S.,  F.S.A.  Keeper  of  the  MSS. 
in  the  British  Museum. 
James  Maidment,  Esq.  F.S.A.  Scot. 
Rev.  Samuel  Roffy  Maitland,  F.R.S., 
F.S.A.  Librarian  to  the  Archbishop 
of  Canterbury.     Auditor. 
Thomas  John  Manchee,  Esq.  Bristol. 
The  Manchester  Athenaeum. 
The  Portico  Library,  Manchester. 
Exchange  Street  Library,  Manchester. 
W.S.  Mare,  Esq.  Magdalen  Coll.  Camb. 
James     Heywood      Markland,      Esq. 
F.RS.,    F.SA.    Treasurer    of   the 
Roxburghe  Club.     Local  Secretary 
at  Bath. 
Hon.  George  P.  Marsh,  M.C.  Wash- 
ington, U.  S. 
Rev.   Herbert   C.    Marsh,   M.A.    Pre- 
bendary of  Peterborough. 
Rev.  B.  R.  Marsham,   D.C.L.,  War- 
den of  Merton  College,  Oxford. 
George  Martin,  Esq.  M.A.  Cork. 
James  Martin,  Esq.  Bristol. 
Rev.    Robert    Martin,    M.A.    Anstey 

Pastures,  near  Leicester. 
Studley  Martin,  Esq.  Liverpool. 
Theodore  Martin,  Esq.  Edinburgh. 
Philip  Martineau,  Esq. 
John  H.  Mason,  LL.D.  Librarian  of 

the  King's  Inns  Library,  Dublin. 
Thomas    Mason,    Esq.    F.S.A.    Copt 

Hewick,  near  Ripon. 
William  Matchett,  Esq.  Bracondale. 
John  Mee  Mathew,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
W.   D.  Matthews,   Esq.  The   Parson- 
age, Newtown  Barry,  Wexford. 
Daniel  Charles  Jleadows,  Esq.   Great 

Bealing,  Suffolk, 
(c.)  David  Melville,  Esq.  B.A. 
The    Very    Rev.     John    JMerewether, 

D.D.  Dean  of  Hereford,  F.S.A. 
Samuel  Merriman,  M.D. 
W.  H.  R.  Merriman,  Esq. 
Francis  Mewburn,  Esq.  Darlington. 
A.  G.  F.  Meyer,  Counsellor  of  Justice, 
Hanover. 


J^Sam,  Rush  Meyrick,  K.H.,  F.S.A. 
Mons.   Michelet,   Memb.  de  I'lnstitut, 
Professeur    d'Hisloire    au     College 
Royal  de  France. 
John  Miland,  Esq. 
Andrew  Miller,  Esq.  Cardiff. 
(c).  Wra.  Henry  Miller,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Samuel  Mills,  jun.  Esq. 
Rev.  Thomas  Mills,  Rector  of  Stulton. 
Rev.  William  Mills,  D.D.  Exeter. 
Rev.      Henry    Hart     Milman,    M.A. 

Prebendary  of  Westminster. 
James  Milner,  Esq. 
Thomas  Mist,  Esq.  Fulham. 
Rev.  John  Mitt'ord,    M.A.,   Rector  of 

Benhall,  Suffolk. 
Nathaniel  Cranch  Moginie,  Esq. 
Cyril  John  Monkhouse,  Esq. 
Mons.    Monmerque,   Membre  de  I'ln- 
stitut de  France. 
Mr.  John  ]\Ioore,  Tewkesbury. 
Maurice  Peter  Moore,  Esq.  Sleaford. 
Thomas  Moore,  Esq.  Sloperton  Cot- 
tage, Devizes. 
Thomas   Moore,   Esq.   F.S.A.     [Died 

184G.] 
Rev.  W.  Moore,  D.D.  Spalding. 
Edward  Raleigh  Moran,  Esq. 
John  Shank  More,   Esq.,   Piofessor  of 

the  Law  of  Scotland,  Edinburgh. 
W'illiam  Bowyer  Morgan,  Esq. 
Mr.  John  Morris,  Bath. 
Rev.  A.  Morrison,  Eton  College. 
Rev.    James    JNIorton,    B.D.   Pieb.  of 
Lincoln.     Local  Secretary  at  Hol- 
beach. 
Joseph  Morton,  Esq. 
Joseph  Moule,   Esq.  President  of  the 

General  Post  Office,  Edinburgh. 
Thomas  Moule,  Esq. 
J.  D.  Moxon,  Esq.  Bristol. 
James  Patrick  Muirhead,  Esq.  M.A. 
Baron    Eligius   von     jMunch-Belling- 
hausen,  Kb.  Hof-Secretar,  Vienna. 
Rev.  Jerom  Murch,  Bath. 
Charles  Robert  Scott  Murray,  Esq. 
Rt.  Hon.  Sir  John  Archibald  Murray, 

one  of  the  Lords  of  Session. 
Thomas  Murray,  Esq.  LL.D.  Edinb. 
(c.)  Sir    Francis   W.  Myers,     K.C.S. 
Pentlow  Hall,  near  Sudbury,  Suffolk 
Peter  Rickards  Mynors,  Esq. 
T.  H.  Naylor,  Esq.  M.A. 
(c.)  T.  C.  Neale,  Esq.  Chelmsford, 
Richard  Neave,  jun.  Esq. 
John  Nedham,  Esq.  Leicester. 
Joseph  Neeld,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
John  Newman,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Charles   Thomas   Newton,   Esq.  B.A. 

British  Museum. 
Iltid  Nicholl,  Esq.  Usk. 


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MEMBERS  OF  THE  CAMDEN   SOCIETY,    1845-6. 


J.  Bowyer  Nichols,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
John    Gough   Nichols,   Esq.    F.S.A., 

Treasurer  of  the  Surtees  Society, 
(c.)  Rev.  William  L.  Nichols,  M.A. 
John  Noble,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
George  Stewart  Nicholson,  Esq. 
James  Nightingale,  Esq.  Wilton. 
Rev.    George  Barons    Northcote,    So- 
merset Court,  Bridgwater. 
George  Offor,  Esq. 
The  Public  Library,  Oldenburg. 
Rev.  George  Oliver,  Exeter. 
George  Ormerod,  Esq.  D.C.L.,F.R.S., 

F.S.A.  Local  Secretary  at  Chepstovj. 
Sir  Frederick  A.  Gore  Ouseley,  Bart. 
Frederick  Ouvry,  Esq. 
The  Oxford  and  Cambridge  Club. 
Samuel  Alexander  Pagan,  M.D., 
Peter  Page,  Esq.  Sheen. 
"William  Dunklty  Paine,  Esq. 
Sir   Francis  Palgrave,  K.H.,    F.R.S., 

Deputy  Keeper  of  Records. 
Alfred  Zouch  Palmer,  Esq.  Sonning. 
Arthur  Palmer,  Esq.  Bristol. 
Arthur  Hare  Palmer,  Esq.  Bristol. 
Charles    John    Palmer,    Esq.     F.S.A. 

Local  Secretary  at  Yarmouth. 
Henry  Andrewes  Palmer,  Esq.  Bristol. 
John  Palmer,  Esq.  Dorney  Court. 
George  Panton,  Esq.  Edinburgh. 
The  Hon.  Sir  James  Parke,  Knt.  one  j 

of  the  Barons  of  the  Exchequer. 
William  Parke,  Esq.  Wolverhampton. 
Charles  Parker,  Esq. 
James  Parker,  Esq.  Chelmsford. 
John  W.  Parker,  Esq.  West  Strand. 
Kenyon  S.  Parker,  Esq. 
Joseph  Parkes,  Esq. 
Anthony  Parkin,  Esq.  Cheltenham. 
Charles    Frederick     Parkinson,    Esq. 

Capt.  H.M.  73d  Foot. 
Rev.    Richard    Parkinson,    Fellow    of 

Christ  Church,  Manchester. 
Thomas  Parry,  Esq. 
John  Parsons,  Esq.  Oxford. 
The  Hon.   Sir  John   Patteson,  one  of 

the  Judges  of  the  Court  of  Queen's 

Bench,  M.A. 
Jacob   Howell  Pattisson,  Esq.  LL.B. 

Witham,  Essex. 
Henry  Payne,  Esq.  Leicester. 
Mr.  J.  G.  Payne,  Wallingford. 
John  Thomas  Payne,  Esq. 
Anthony  Peacock,  Esq. 
Reginald    Peacock,     Esq.     Downhill 

House,  near  Sunderland. 
Rev.  James  R.  Pears,  Bath. 
George  Peel,   Esq.  Brookfield  House, 

Cheadle,  Cheshire. 
Rt.    Hon.    Sir    Robert   Peel,    M.P., 

F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 


Rev.  William  Pennefather,  Armagh. 

Capt.  the  Hon.  Henry  Percy. 

Henry  Pei^kms,  Esq. 

Very  Rev.  the  Dean  of  Peterborough. 

Mr.  John  Petherham. 

Louis    Hayes     Petit,    Esq.    F.R.S., 

F.S.A. 
Thomas    Joseph    Pettigrew,  Esq. 

F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 
William  Vesalius  Pettigrew,  Esq.  M.D. 
Mr.  William  Pickering. 
Rev.  John  Piccope,  Manchester. 
Henry  Clark  Pidgeon,  Esq. 
Simon  Eraser  Piggot,  Esq. 
Rev.  John  Hearne  Pinckney,  D.D. 
John  Pitcdirn,  Esq. 
(c.)  Robert  Pitcairn,  Esq.  F.S.A.  Sc. 
Thomas  Josima  Piatt,  Esq.  Q.C. 
Charles  Innes  Pocock,  Esq.  Bristol. 
Lewis  Pocock,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
(c.)  John  Innes  Pococke,  Esq. 
The  Rev.  Nicholas  Pococke,  Si. A. 
James  Prince  Pollard,  Esq. 
Thomas  Ponton,  Esq.  M.A.,  F.S.A. 
Rev.  Thomas  B.  Pooley,  IM.  A.  Vicar  of 

Thornton  in  Lonsdale,  Yorksh. 
Heniy  Pope,  Esq. 
Robert  Porrett,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Rev.  Edw.  A.  Powell,  M.A.  Ampthill. 
John  Powell  Powell,  Esq.  Quex  Park. 
Right  Hon.   the   Earl  of  Powis,   Pre- 
sident of  the  Roxburghe  Club. 
Rev.  Richard  Cowley  Powles,   Fellow 

of  Exeter  College,  Oxford. 
Charles  Poynder,  Esq.  Henley. 
Samuel  Pratt,  Esq. 
Samuel  P.  Pratt,  Esq.  Bath. 
Rev.  Jermyn  Pratt,   Rector  of  Camp- 

sey  Ash,  Suffolk, 
(c.)  Osmond  de  Beauvoir  Priaulx,  Esq. 
Rev.  Thomas  Price,  D.D.  Hackney. 
Richard  Price,  Esq.  M.P. 
Rev.  George  Proctor,  D.D. 
Robert  Proctor,  Esq. 
Thomas  Prothero,  jun.  Esq. 
Edward  Protheroe,  Esq.  M.P.,  F.S.A. 
Marlborough  Pryor,  Esq.  Hampstead. 
James  Brook  Pulham,  Esq. 
G.  P.  Putnam,  Esq.  New  York. 
Hamilton  Pyper,  Esq.  Advocate. 
Madame   la  Mar^chale    Duchesse    de 

Raguse. 
Henry  Raikes,  Esq.  Chester. 
J.  M.  Rainbow,  Esq. 
Rev.    James    Raine,     M.A.,     F.S.A. 

Newc,     Secretary    of  the     Surtees 

Society.  Local  Secretary  at  Durham. 
Chas.  Ranken,  Esq.  B.A.,  Gray's  Inn. 
Christopher    Rawson,     Esq.    F.G.S. 

President    of  the   Halifax    Literary 

and  Philosophical  Society. 


T.     W.      Rawson,     Esq.     Belvedere, 

Bradford,  Yorkshire. 
Wm.  Rayner,  Esq.  M.D.  Stockport. 
John  Read,  Esq.  Derwent  Hall. 
Rev.   Joseph   Bancroft   Reade,  M.A., 

F.R.  S.  Stone  vicarage,  Bucks. 
Mr.  William  Reader. 
Richard    Reece,    Esq.    F.S.A.     Local 

Secretary  at  Cardiff. 
James  Reed,  Esq.  Bps.  Wearmouth. 
Rev.  Thomas  Rees,  LL.D.,  F.S.A. 
Henry    Reeve,    Esq.     Office    of    Her 

Majesty's  Privy  Council. 
S.  H.  Remson,  Esq.  New  York. 
Thomas  Charles  Renshaw,  Esq. 
John  Adey  Repton,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Francis  Riddell  Reynolds,  Esq. 
The  Hon.  S.  E.  Spring  Rice. 
(c.)  Edward  Priest  Richards,  Esq. 
John  Richards,  Esq.  Reading. 
Thomas  Richards,  Esq. 
(c.)  Charles  G.  Richardson,  Esq. 
Cha.  Jas.  Richardson,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
George  Gibson  Richardson,  Esq. 
Lawford  Richardson,  Esq.  Rlackheath. 
(c.)    Ralph    Richardson,     Esq.     M.D. 

Greenfield  Hall,  Holywell. 
Richard    Richardson,     Esq.     Capen- 

hurst,  Chester. 
Charles  Rickards,  Esq. 
Samuel  Rickards,  Esq. 
Edward  W^jddrington  Riddell,  Esq. 
Edw.  F.  Rimbault,  Esq.  Ph.  D., F.S.A. 
Charles  Julius  Roberts,  Esq.  M.D. 
Richard  Robert  Roberts,  Esq. 
J.  E.  P.  Robertson,  D.C.L. 
John  Robertson,  Esq.  W.S.  Edinb. 
Henry  Crabb  Robinson,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Wm.  Robinson,  Esq.  LL.D.,  F.S.A. 
Henry  Robinson,  Esq. 
John  Roby,  Esq   M.R.S.L. 
Rev.  Daniel  Rock,  D.D. 
Mr.  Rodwell. 

Rev.  Henry  Rogers,  Birmingham. 
Rev.   John    Rogers,    M.A.  Canon    of 

Exeter. 
The   Hon.   Sir  Robert  Mousey  Rolfe, 

one  of  the  Barons  of  the  Excheq. 
Wm.  Henry  Rolfe,  Esq.  Sandwich. 
John  Romilly,  Esq.  M.A. 
Sir  George  Rose,  F.R.S. 
Rev.  Henry  John  Rose,  B.D.   Rector 

of  Houghton  Conquest,  Beds. 
Robert  P.  Roupell,  Esq.  Q.C,  M.A. 
Rev.    Martin    Joseph    Routh,     D.D. 

President  of  Magdalen  Coll.  Oxf. 
James  Yeeles  Row,  Esq. 
Daniel  Rowland,  Esq. 
Richard  Roy,  Esq. 
Edward  Rudge,  Esq.  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 
Charles  Edmund  Rumbold,  Esq.  M.P. 


MEMBERS   OF  THE   CAMDEX   SOCIETY,   1  S4 5-G. 


15 


The  Russell  Institution. 
Rev.  F.  Russell,  M.A.  Halifax. 
James  Russell,  Esq.  Barrister-at-Law. 
Rev.  John  Fuller  Russell,  B.C.L. 

Minister  of  St.  James's,  Eofield. 
Rev.  Thomas  Russell,  Walworth. 
Andrew  Rutherfurd,  Esq.  M.P. 
His  Grace  the  Duke  of  Rutland,  K.G., 

D.C.L..,  V.P.R.S.L. 
Rev.  Richard  J.  St.  Aubyn,  M.A. 
Richard  Sainthill,  Esq.  Cork. 
The  Most  Hon.  the  Marquess  of  Salis- 
bury, D.C.L. 
Rt.  Rev.  the  Lord  Bishop  of  Salisbury, 

D.D.,F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 
Frederick  Salmon,  Esq. 
Thomas  Deere  Salmon,  Esq.  M.A. 
Charles  Sanderson,  Esq.  Sheffield. 
William  Salt,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Anthony  Salvin,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Thomas  Sanders,    Esq.   M.A.  Fellow 

of  King's  College,  Cambridge. 
William  Sandys,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Wm.  Devonshire  Saull,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Mrs.  Daniel  E.  Saunders,  Gloucester. 
Thomis  Bush  Saunders,  Esq.  M.A. 
Thomas  Saunders,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Rev.    Bourchier    W.  Savile,   Vicar  of 

Okehampton. 
Thomas  Field  Savory,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Edward  Scholfield,  M.D.  Doncaster. 
Rev.^  Thomas    H.    Scott,    Rector   of 

Whitfield,  Northumberland. 
David  Gawan  Scott,  Esq.  Ipswich. 
James  John  Scott,  Esq.  Barrister, 
(c.)  Rev.  Robert  Scott,   M.A.  Fellow 

of  Balliol  Coll.  Oxford. 
B.  C.  Peirce  Seaman,  Esq. 
Edward  Cator  Seaton,  M.D. 
William  Selwyn,  Esq.  Q.C. 
Mr.  Setchel.       [Died  April  12,  1846.] 
Rev.  William   Sewell,  M.A.  Professor 

of  Moral  Philosophy,  Oxford. 
William  Shackell,  Esq.  M.R.S.L. 
(c.)  Rt.  Hon.  Sir  Lancelot  Shadwell, 

Vice-Chancellor  of  England,  M.A. 
Sir  Cuthbert  Sharp,  Knt. 
Rev.    Lancelot    Sharpe,    M.A.    Perp. 

Curate  of  Allhallows,  Staining. 
George  Shaw,  Esq.  M.D.  Leicester. 
Daniel  Shears,  Esq.  jun. 
Robert  Shelley,  Esq. 
Samuel  Shepperd.  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Evelyn     Philip     Shirley,    Esq.     M.P. 

M.A.  Lough  Fea,  co.  Monaghan. 
The    Ven.  Walter  Augustus    Shirley, 

M.A.  Archdeacon  of  Derby. 
Rev.  Robert  Sc.  John  Shirreff. 
Rev.  Thomas   Short,  B.D.   Fellow  of 

Trinity  Coll.  Oxford. 
Rt.  Hon.  Earl  of  Shrewsbury,  F.S.A. 


G.  Nicholls  Simmons,  Esq.  Truro. 
Sir  John  Augustus  Francis  Simpkin- 

son,  M.A.,  Q.C,  F.S.A. 
Rev.  John  D.  Simpson,  Worcester. 
J.  B.  Simpson,  Esq.  Derby. 
Jeremiah  Simpson,  Esq.  Temple. 
Samuel  Weller  Singer,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Edward  Skegg,  Esq. 
Alex.  A.  Smets,  Esq.  Savanna, Georgia. 
Edward  Smirke,  Esq.  M.A. 
Sir  Robert  Smirke,   R.A.,  F.S.A. 
Sydney  Smirke,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Benwell  Smith,  Esq. 
Charles  Roach  Smith,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Mr.  George  Smith. 
George  Frederick  Smith,  Esq. 
George  Spencer  Smith,  Esq. 
H.  Porter  Smith,  Esq. 
Henry  Stone  Smith,  Esq. 
John  Abel  Smith,  Esq.  M.P. 
Rev.  J.  J.    Smith,    M.A.    Fellow    of 

Caius  Coll.  Camb. 
Mr.  John  Russell  Smith. 
Newman  Smith,  Esq.  Croydon  Lodge. 
Richai-d  John  Smith,  Esq. 
William   Smyth,   Esq.   M.A.   Prof,  of 

Modern  History,  Cambridge. 
Clement  Taylor  Smythe,  Esq. 
William  Smythe,  Esq.  Advocate. 
Frederick  Snaith,  M.D.  Holbeach. 
Mr.  John  Snare,  Reading. 
Rev.  W.  Sneyd.  M.A-  Ch.  Ch.  O.xf. 
The   Most    Noble    Edward    Duke    of 

Somerset,  K.G.,  D.C.L.,  F.R.S. 
S.  Leigh  Sotheby,  Esq.  M.N.S. 
J.  W.  Southgate,  Esq.  Camberwell. 
Henry  Southgate,  Esq. 
Rev.  George  Southwell,  B.A.  Bristol. 
William  Spalding,  Esq.  Advocate,  Pro- 
fessor of  Rhetoric,  Edinburgh. 
Charles  Spence,  Esq.  Admiralty.  Local 

Secretary  at  Plymouth. 
Andrew  Spottiswoode,  Esq. 
Stephen  Spranger,  Esq. 
Thomas  Henry  Spurrier.  Esq. Douglas. 
George  James  Squibb,  Esq. 
Rev.  Thomas  Stacey,  M.A.  Cardiff. 
Thomas  Stapleton,  Esq.  V.P.S.A. 
Sir   George   Thomas    Staunton,   Bart. 

D.C.L.,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 
(c.)  Rev.  William  Staunton,  M.A. 
G.  Steinman  Steinman,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Archibald  John  Stephens,  Esq.  M.A. 

F.R.S.  Barrister-at  Law. 
Mr.  Thomas  G.  Stevenson,  Edinburgh. 
Seth  William   Stevenson,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Local  Secretary  at  Nonvich. 
John  Stirling,  Esq.  Edinburgh, 
(c.)    Rev.    Charles    William    Stocker, 

D.D,  St.  John's  Coll.  Oxford. 
The  Royal  Library,  Stockholm. 


George  Stokes,  Esq.  Local  Secretary, 

Cheltenham. 
Henry     Sewell    Stokes,     Esq.    Local 

Secretary  at  Truro. 
Rev.  Thomas  Streaifeild,  F.S.A. 
Miss  Agnes  Strickland,  Reydon  Hall. 
(c.)  Rev.  Joseph   Stroud,  M.A. 
John  Stuart,  Esq.  Q.C. 
John    Stuart,  Esq.    Secretary    to    the 

Spalding  Club,  Aberdeen. 
Lord  P.  James  Crichton  Stuart. 
John  J.  J.  Sudlow,  Esq. 
Rev.  Charles  Sutton,  D.D.  Norwich. 
Edward  Swaine,  Esq.  F.S.S. 
Clement  Tudway  Swanston,  Esq.  Q.C, 

F.S.A. 
(c.)  Sir  John   Edw.  Swinburne,  Bart. 

F.R.S.,  F.S.A.,  Pr.  S.  Ant.  Newc. 
Mr.  John  Sydenham,  Greenwich. 
Rev.  Edward  Tagart,  F.S.A. 
Thomas  Noon  Talfourd,  Esq.  Serjeant- 

at-Law. 
Rev.  Thomas  Tattershall,  D.D,  Local 

Secretary  at  Liverpool. 
Arthur  Taylor,  Esq.  F.S.A, 
Edward  Taylor,   Esq.   Gresham  Pro- 
fessor of  Music. 
Richard  Taylor,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Mr.  John  Taylor,  Gower-street. 
John   Godfrey  Teed,  Esq.   Bencher  of 

Gray's  Inn. 
Joseph  Francis  Tempest,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Christoiiher  Temple,  Esq.  Q.C. 
Robert     Temple,    Esq.    The    Lache, 

Chester. 
The  Hon.  Society  of  the  Inner  Temple. 
Mons.  Alexandre  Teulet,  Employ^  aux 

Archives,  Paris. 
Robert  Tewart,  Esq. 
Robert  Thackthwaite,  Esq. 
Sir  Fred.Thesiger,M.P.  Attorney-Gen. 
Mr.  Benj.  Thomas,  Cheltenham. 
William    J.    Thoms,    Esq.    F.S.A. 

Corresponding  Member  of  the   Soc. 

of  Antiq.  of  Scotland.     Secretary. 
Jonathan    Thompson,  Esq.    Stubbing 

Court. 
Rev,  W.  H.  Thompson,  M.A.  Fellow 

of  Trinity  College,  Cambridge. 
Mark  B.  Thornhill,  Esq.  Patna,  E.I. 
Mrs.  Thornhill,  Ryde,  Isle  of  Wight. 
Ven.  Thomas  Thorp,  D.D.  Archdeacon 

of  Bristol. 
Benjamin  Thorpe,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Joseph  Win  Thrupp,  Esq. 
Rev.  Mark  Aloysius  Tierney,  F.R.S., 

F.S.A.  Arundel. 
Rev.  Wm.  T.  P.  Timperley,  Shiffnall. 
Right  Hon.  Sir  Nicholas  C.Tmdal,  Ch. 

Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas,  M.A. 
(c.)  William  Tite,  Esq.  F.R.S  ,  F.S.A. 


16 


MEMBERS  OF  THE  CAMDEN  SOCIETY,  1845-6. 


The  Ven.  Henry   John   Todd,   M.A. 

Archdeacon    of    Cleveland,    F.S.A. 

[Died  Dec.  24,  1845.] 
(c.)  Rev.  James  Henthorn  Todd,  D.D., 

M.R.I. A.,  Fellow   of   Trinity   Coll. 

Dublin,  Sec.  Irish  Archseol.  Soc. 
William  Tooke,Esq.F.R.S.,M.R.S.L., 

V.-P.  Soc.    of  Arts,  Treas.  of  Roy. 

Soc.  Lit.  and  the  Lit.  Fund  Soc. 
Charles  Towneley,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
John  Townley,  Esq. 
R.  E.  A.  Townsend,  Esq. 
(c.)    Rev.   J.   Montgomery  Traherne, 

M.A.,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 
Wm.  Travis,  Esq.  M.D.  Scarboroue;h. 
Walter     Calverley     Trevelyan,    Esq. 

F.S.A.  Nevirc,  Wallington. 
Rev.  H.  B.  Tristram,  Exeter. 
W.  J.  A.  Tucker,  Esq. 
Charles  A.  Tulk,  Esq. 
Gladwin  Turbutt,   Esq.  Ogston  Hall. 
William    B.    D.    D.    TurnbuU,     Esq. 

F.S.A.      Sc.    Local     Secretary    at 

Edinburgh. 
Alfred  Turner,  Esq. 
Dawson  Turner,  Esq.  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 
Francis     Turner,     Esq.    Barrister-at- 

Law. 
Robert  S.  Turner,  Esq. 
Rev.     Samuel    Blois    Turner,     M.A., 

F.S.A.  Halesworth,  Suffolk. 
Rev.   Charles  Turnor,   B.A.,  F.S.A., 

F.R.A.S. 
John  Tyas,  Esq. 

Mr.  Sam.  Tymms,  Bury  St.  Edmund's, 
(c.)    Edward   Tyrrell,   Esq.  City   Re- 
membrancer, Guildhall. 
William  Tyson,  Esq.  F.S.A.  Bristol. 
(c.)  J.  R.  D.  Tyssen,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
William  E.  Underwood,  Esq. 
Adam  Urquhart,  Esq.  Sheriff  of  Wig- 

tonshire,  Advocate. 
George  Vacher,  Esq. 
Frederick  Valle,  Esq. 
A.  A  Vansittart,  Esq.  Bisham  Abbey. 
Edward  Vernon  Utterson,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
M.  Aart  Veder,  Rotterdam, 
(c.)  Sir  Harry  Verney,  Bart.  Clay- 
don  House,  Bucks. 
The  Right  Hon.  Lord  Vernon. 
William  Vines,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Gabriel  Vrignon,  Esq. 
Daniel  Wakefield,  Esq.  Q.C. 
Francis  Pearson  Walesby,  Esq. 
Arthur  Walford,  Esq. 
Thomas  Walford,  Esq. 
D.  M.  Walker,  Esq.  Gloucester. 


John  Walker,  Esq.  Prestwich  Lodge. 

Lionel  A.  B,  Waller,  Esq. 

Thomas  George  Waller,  Esq.      [Died 

Feb.  13,  1846.] 
William  Elyard  Walmisley,  Esq. 
James  Walsh,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Henry    Walter,    Esq.    The    Willows, 

Windsor.      [Died  Sept.  28,  1845.] 
Charles  Walton,  Esq. 
William  Wansey,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
John  Ward,  Esq.  Durham. 
Mr.  Charles  Warne,  Blandford. 
Patrick  Warner,  Esq   Ardeer,  N  B. 
Albert  Way,  Esq.  M.A.  Dir.  S.A. 
Rev.  Thomas  William  Weare,  ISLA. 
Rev.    John     Webb,     M.A.,     F.S.A., 

M.R.S.L.,  Tretire,  Herefordshire. 
Rev.   Montagu   Webster,  Bridgenorth. 
Mr.  Richard  Welch,  Reading. 
John  Weld,  Esq. 
Charles  Welford,  Esq.  New  York. 
Rev.     Charles    Wellbeloved.       Local 

Secretary  at  York. 
Sir  Richard  Westmacott,  R. A.,  F.S.A. 
His   Excellency    M.    Van    de   Weyer, 

Belgian  ^linister. 
John  VVelchman  Whateley,  Esq. 
William  Whateley,  Esq.  Q.C. 
James  Whatman,  Esq.  M.A.,  F.R.S., 

F.S.A.  Vinters,  near  Maidstone. 
Rev.  William  Whewell,  D.D.,  F.R.S., 

F.S.A.  Master  of  Trinity  Coll,  Cam. 
Gordon  Whitbread,  Esq.  M.A. 
Anthony    White,    Esq.    Pres.     Royal 

Coll.  of  Surgeons. 
Rev.   Robert    Meadows   White,    B.D. 

Professor  of  Anglo-Saxon,  Oxf. 
Wm.    Archibald    Armstrong    White, 

Esq.  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 
Mr.  H.  A.  Whitehead,  Gloucester. 
Charles  .Shapland  Whitmore,  Esq. 
Mr.  Henry  Whitmore,  Manchester. 
W.  Lechmere  Whitmore,  Esq.  F.S.A. 

Prior's  Bank,  Fulham. 
Rev.    Sidney   H.   Widdrington,  M.A. 

Rector  of  Walcot,  Bath. 
Right  Hon.  Sir  James  Wigram,  Vice- 

Chancellor,  M.A.,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A. 
Thomas  Willement,  Esq.  F.S.A. 
Sir  J.  Bickerton  Williams,  Knt.LL.D., 

F.S.A.,  Wem,  near  Shrewsbury. 
Charles  M.  WiUich,  Esq. 
Horace   Hayman  Wilson,   Esq.  M.A. 

Professor  of  Sanscrit,  Oxf.  and  Di- 
rector of  the  Asiatic  Soc. 
(c.)  Rev.   John  Wilson,   B.D.  Fellow 

of  Trin.  Coll.  Oxford. 


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St.  John's  College,  Oxford. 
David  Williams  Wire,  Esq. 
Mr.  John  Wodderspoon,  Ipswich. 
Herr    Ferdinand    Wolf,   For.    Memb. 

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The  Ducal  Library,  Wolfenbuttel. 
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Frederick  Woodward,  Esq.  Brazenose 

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Edward  Woolley;  Esq. 
Rev.  Christopher  Wordsworth,   D.D. 

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