Marginalia1549.struction lyke a fatherly Prince, who of Iustice might haue sent you your destruction lyke a kyng to rebelles, and now let you now, that as you see our mercy aboūdant, so if ye prouoke vs further, we sweare to you by the liuyng God by whom we reigne, ye shall feele the power of the same God in our sword: which how mightie it is, no subiect knoweth, how puissant it is, no priuat man can iudge, how mortall it is, no Englishe hart dare thinke. But surely surely, as your Lorde & Prince, your onely Kyng and Maister, we say to you, repent your selues and take our mercy without delay, or els we will forthwith extend our princely power and execute our sharpe sword agaynst you, as agaynst very Infidels and Turkes, and rather aduenture our owne royall person, state, and power, then the same shall not be executed.

And if you wil proue the example of our mercy, learne of certaine which lately did arise, pretendyng some griefes, and yet acknowledgyng their offences, haue not onely receiued most humbly their pardon, but feele also by our order, to whom all publicke order onely perteineth, redresse deuised for their griefes. In the end, we admonish you of your dueties to God whom ye shall aunswere in the day of the Lord, & of your dueties towardes vs whom ye shall aunswere by our order, and take our mercye whilest God so enclineth vs, lest when ye shall bee constrained to aske, we shall bee to much hardened in hart to graunt it you: and where ye shall now here of mercy, mercy and lyfe, ye shall then here of Iustice, Iustice and death.

Geuen at Richmond the viij. day of Iuly, the
thyrd yeare of our reigne.

MarginaliaA supplication of the rebelles to the kyng, with the kinges aūswere to the same.Besides the Articles of these Deuonshyre mē aboue mētioned, the sayd rebels sent vp also not long after a supplication to the kyng, wherunto aunswere agayne was made by the kynges learned Counsaile, which here, to make short, laysure serueth not to rehearse.

MarginaliaFalse brutes and rumours by popishe Priestes sturred vp agaynst the kyng.Ouer and besides, to behold the malicious workyng of those Popishe Priestes, to kindle more the sparke of sedition in the peoples hartes, what brutes and rumours dyd they raise vp agaynst the kyng & his Counsaile, makyng the vulgare multitude to beleue, that they should be made to pay first for their shepe, then for their geese and pygges also, and such other thynges like: and what soeuer they had in store, or should put in their mouthes, they must fine therfore to the kyng? Of all which matter neuer a worde was either thought or ment. But this semed matter fitte for such priests wherby to set þ^e Prince & his subiectes together by the eares.

Agaynst this seditious company of rebelles was appointed and sent by the kyng and the Counsaile, MarginaliaSyr Iohn Rußell Lord priuie Seale Lieuetenant generall of the kinges armye in the West.Syr Iohn Russell knight, Lord priuye Seale, as Lieutenāt generall of the kynges armie, of whom chiefly depended the charge & achiuaunce of that viage in the West partes. To hym also were adioyned as in part of ordinarie Counsaile in those affaires vnder hym, Syr W. Harbert, Syr Iohn Pawlet, Syr Hugh Pawlet, Syr Tho. Specke, with the Lord Gray, and other besides.

MarginaliaThe rebels of Deuonshyre discomfited.
1549.Thus the sayd Lord priuye Seale accōpanyed with the Lord Gray, aduauncyng his power agaynst the rebels, although in number of Souldiours not equally furnished like to the other, yet through the gratious assistance of the Lordes helpe fightyng his cause, and giuyng the aduenture agaynst the enemy, about the later ende of Iuly, an. 1549. gaue them the repulse. Who notwithstandyng recoueryng them selues agayn with such stomakes as they had, encountered the secōd tyme with the foresayd Lord priuye Seale, about the begynnyng of August folowyng, of whom, through the Lordes mighty power, they with their whole cause of false Religiō were vtterly vanquished & ouerthrowen.

In the which victorye a great worke of Gods mightye power vndoubtedly did appeare. For although the number of the rebelles did surmount in great quantitie, the power and strength of the Lord priuye Seale, & their stomackes were so fiercely set vpō al desperate aduentures, and through the power of Syr W. Harbert (beyng þ^e same time at Bristow) was not yet presently come, whiche shoulde haue ioyned with the Lord priuie Seale: yet all this notwithstandyng, the goodnes of theMarginaliaThe great goodnes of God in the victory against the rebelles.Lord so wrought on the kynges behalfe, more then any industrie of man (which in all respectes in handlyng that matter was very raw and farre behynd) that the victorie fell to the kynges part, vnder the valiant guidyng of the foresayd Lord priuy Seale: MarginaliaThe laudable seruice of the Lord priuie Seale.so that the Popishe rebels not onely lost the field, but a great part of them also lost their lyues, lying there slayne miserably in the chase, to þ^e cōpasse of ij. myles space. Where also were taken and apprehended the chieftaines and ringleaders of that mischieuous daunse: wherof the principall were Humfrey Arundell, Berry, Tho. Vnderhill. Iohn Soleman, W. Segar, Tempson and Barret two Priestes, Henry Bray and Henry Lee ij. Maiors, with diuers other mo aboue specified: all which accordyngly afterward were executed.

MarginaliaFalse trust of the. Deuonshyre men in their Popishe Idols disappointed.These rebelles to make their part more sure by the helpe and presence of their cōsecrated God and maker, brought with them into the battaile the pyxe vnder his canaby, and in stead of an altar where he was hāgyng before, set him now rydyng in a carte. MarginaliaThe Sacramēt in the pixe brought to the battaill in a carte.Neither was there lackyng masses, crosses, banners, candlestickes, with holy bread also & holy water plenty to defend thē from deuils and all aduersarye power, which in the end neither could helpe their frendes, not yet could saue them selues from the handes of their enemies, but eftsoones both the consecrated God and all þ^e trompery about him, was taken in the carte and there lay all in the duste, leauyng to them a notable lesson of better experience how to put their cōfidence hereafter in no such vayne Idols, but only in the true liuing God, & immortall maker to be serued accordyng to hys prescribed worde, and that onely in the faith of hys sonne, and not after their own dreaming phantasies.

MarginaliaMuseleborough field in Scotland.The storie wherof putteth me also in remembraūce of an other like Popishe field (called Muscleborough field) fought in Scotland the yeare before this, where the Scottes lykewise encampyng them selues agaynst the Lord Protectour, and the kynges power sent into Scotland, did in semblable wise bryng with them to the battaile the consecrated Gods of their aultars, with masses, crosses, banners, and all their Popishe stuffe of Idolatrie, hauyng great affiance, by vertue therof to haue a great day agaynst the Englishe army, as in dede to mans iudgement might seme not vnlyke. MarginaliaGods mightie arme fightyng with Kyng Edward in Scotland.For the number of the Scottes army so farre exceded ours, & they were so appoynted with their pykes in the first fronte agaynst our horsemē (which gaue the first onset) that our mē were fayne to recule, not without the losse of diuers Gentlemen. Notwithstandyng the mighty arme of the Lord so turned the victory, MarginaliaThe vaine trust of the Scottes in their Masses and Sacrament of the Altar.that the Scottes in the end with all their Masses, pixes, and Idolatrous trinkets, were put to the worse. MarginaliaA ntoable victorye through the Lordes power of K. Edward in Scotland.Of whō in that field were slaine betwen xiij. and xiiij. thousand, and not passing an hundreth Englishe men. The cause of this was the promise of the Scottes made before to kyng Henry, for the Mariage of the younge Scottishe Queene to Kyng Edward, which promise the sayd Scottes afterward brake, and payd therafter.

In the which victory this is also to be noted, that the same day and houre when the Images were burned openly in London, the Scottes were put to flight in Muscleborough, as is credibly noted in recordes.

During thys hurley burley amongest the popish rebels in Cornwall and Deuonshire, the like commotion at the same tyme, by such like popish priestes, as Homes and his felowes, MarginaliaA sturre in Oxfordshyre and Buckinghamshyre.began to gender in the parties of Oxforde and Buckingham, but that was soone appeased by the L. Gray, who cōming down that way into Deuonshiere, chased the Rebels to theyr houses. Of whō ij. hundred were taken, & a dosen of the ringleaders deliuered vnto hym, wherof certayn were after executed.

MarginaliaRebellion in Northfolke.In Northfolke, and parties there about, albeit the originall of their tumultuous sturring was not for the like cause: yet the obstinate hartes of that vnruly multitude semed no lesse bent vpon mischiefe, to disturbe