MarginaliaAn. 1549.publike peace, whych was also in the moneth of Iuly, the yeare abouesayd. MarginaliaInstructions geuen to the L. Marques.For repression of whych rebellion, fyrst was sent þ^e L. Marques of Northāpton, wyth speciall instruction to auoyde the fight, and so by order was appoynted wyth a number of horse to keepe the field and passages, whereby they being stopped from vittaile, might the sooner be brought to acknowledge their folly, and to seeke their pardon. Who then following other policie, then by order was geuen, came and pinned hym selfe wythin the Citie of Norwych, which afterward they were fayne to abandon, the rebels pressing vpon the Citie so on euerye syde, that at length they obtayned the same. MarginaliaThe Lord Shefielde slaine at Norwich.Neuerthelesse in all that conflict there, was but a hundreth on both sides slaine, and otherwyse no great losse, but onely the losse of the Lorde Shefield. Then was sent downe agaynst them the Earle of Warwicke wyth sufficient force & nūber of souldiours, besides þ^e conuey of 2000. Almaines, MarginaliaThe rebelles of Northfolke suppressed.by whom the rude and confused rable was there ouerthrowen & slayne, to the nūber, as is supposed, at least of. 4000. And in fine, both the Kettes, chief sturrers and authors of that commotion were taken & put to execution, & one of them hanged vp in chaines.

MarginaliaAn other rebellion or tumult begon in Yorkshyre.Moreouer, besides these inordinate vprores and insurrections aboue mencioned, about the latter ende of the sayd moneth of Iulye, the same yeare, whych was 1549. an other like sturre or commotion beganne at Semer, in the Northriding of Yorkshiere, and continued in the Eastriding of the same, and there ended. MarginaliaThe chiefe styrrers of this rebellion in the North.The principall doers and raysers vp whereof was one W. Ombler of Eastheslerton yoman: and Tho. Dale parish Clarke of Semer, with one Steuenson of Semer, neighbour to Dale, and neuye to Ombler. Whych Steuenson was a meane or messenger betwene the sayd Ombler and Dale, being before not acquaynted together, and dwelling. vij. miles one from the other. Who at last by the trauayle of the sayd Steuenson and theyr own euill dispositions inclined to vngraciousnes and mischiefe, knowing before one the others mynde by secrete conference, were brought to talke together on Saint Iames day, an. 1549.

MarginaliaThe causes mouing the Yorkshyre mē to rebellion.The causes mouing thē to raise this rebellion, were these: Fyrst & principally their traiterous hartes grudging at the kinges most godly procedinges, in aduauncing and reforming the true honor of God, and his religion. An other cause also was, for trusting to a blind and a phantasticall prophecie, wherewith they were seduced, thinking the same prophecie shoulde shortlye come to passe, by hering the rebellions of Northfolke, of Deuonshiere, and other places.

MarginaliaA blind prophesie amongst the Northeren men.The tenour of which prophecie, and purpose together of the traitours was, that there shoulde no kyng reigne in England: the noble men, and Gentlemen to be destroyed: And þ^e Realme to be ruled by 4. gouernours to be elected and appointed by the Commons, holdyng a Parlament in commotion, to begyn at the South and North seas of England. &c. supposing that this their rebellion in the North, and the other of the Deuonshyre men in the West, meeting (as they entended) at one place, to be the meane how to compasse this their traiterous deuilishe deuise.

MarginaliaThe deuise of the rebels how to cōpasse their purpose.And therefore laying their studies together, how they might find out more company to ioyne with them in that detestable purpose, and to set forward þ^e sturre, this deuise they framed, to sturre in two places, the one distante vij. myles from the other, and at the first rushe to kill and destroy such Gentlemen & men of substaūce about them, as were fauourers of the kynges procedynges, or which woulde resiste them. But first of all, for the more spedy raising of mē, they deuised to burne Beacons, and therby to bryng the people together, as though it were to defend the Sea coastes, and hauing the ignorant people assembled, then to poure out their poyson: first beginning with the rudest and poorest sort, such as they thought were pricked with pouertie, andMarginaliaFalse forged of Gods true religion.were vnwilling to labour, and therefore the more ready to follow the spoyle of rich mens goods, blowing into their heades, that Gods seruice was layd aside, and new inuentions neither good nor godly put in place, and so feedyng them with fayre promises to reduce into the thurch agayn their old ignoraunce and Idolatry, thought by that meanes soonest to allure them to rage and runne with them in this commotion. And furthermore to the intent they would geue the more terrour to the Gentlemen at their first rysing, lest they should be resisted, they deuised that some should be murdered in churches, some in their houses, some in seruyng the kyng in Commission, & other as they might be caught, and to pyke quarells to them by alteration of seruice on the holy dayes. And thus was the platteforme cast of their deuise, accordyng as afterward by their cōfession at their examinations was testified, and remaineth in true recorde.

Thus they beyng together agreed, Ombler & Dale, and others by their secrete appoyntement, so laboured the matter in the parishe of Semer, Wintringhā, and the townes about, that they were infected with the poyson of this confederacie, in such sorte, that it was easie to vnderstand wherunto they would incline if a comotion were begon. The accōplishment wherof did shortly folow. MarginaliaThe cōspiracie of the rebels vttered in dronkenes.For although by þ^e wordes of one dronken fellow of that cōspiracie named Caluerd, at the alehouse in Wintringham some suspicion of that rebellion begā to be smelled before by the Lord President and Gentlemen of those parties, and so preuented in that place where the rebelles thought to begin: yet they gaue not ouer so, but drewe to an other place at Semer by the Sea coast, and there by night rode to the Beacon of Staxton, and set it on fire: and so gatheryng together a rude route of raskals out of the townes nere about beyng on a sturre, Ombler, Tho. Dale, Barton, and Rob. Dale hasted forthwith with the rebelles to M. Whites house to take him, with notwithstandyng beyng on horsebacke, myndyng to haue escaped their hādes, Dale, Ombler, and þ^e rest of þ^e rebels tooke him, and Clopton his wiues brother, one Sauage a Marchaunt of Yorke, and one Bery seruaunt to Syr Walter Myldmay, MarginaliaFoure men cruelly murdered by the rebels in the North.which iiij. without cause or quarell, sauyng to fulfill their seditious Prophecie in some part, and to giue a terrour to other Gentlemen, they cruelly murdered after they had caryed them one myle from Semer towardes the Wolde, and there after they had strypped them of their clothes and purses, left them naked behynd them in the playne fieldes for crowes to feede on, vntill Whytes wife, and Sauages wife then at Semer caused them to be buryed.

Longe it were and tedious to recite what reuell these rebelles kepte in their raging madnes, who raunging about the countrey from towne to towne to enlarge their vngratious and rebellious bande, takyng those wyth force which were not willyng to go, and leauing in no towne where they came, any man aboue the age of. xvj. yeares, so encreased thys number, MarginaliaThe rebels in Yorkeshyre gathered to iij. thousād persons.that in short tyme they had gathered. iij. thousand to fauour their wicked attemptes, and had like to haue gathered moe, had not the Lordes goodnes through prudent circumspection haue interrupted the course of theyr furious beginning.

MarginaliaThe kings free pardon sent to the rebelles.For fyrst came the Kings gracious and free pardon discharging and pardoning them, and þ^e rest of þ^e rebels of all treasons, murders, felonies, and other offences done to his Maiesty, before the xxj. of August, an. 1549. MarginaliaOmbler refused the kings pardon.Which pardon although Ombler contemptuously refused, persisting styll in his wylfull obstinacie, diswadyng also the rest from the humble accepting the kings so louing and liberall pardon, yet notwithstandyng wyth some it dyd good.

To make short, it was not long after this, but Ombler, as he was riding from towne to towne, xij. myles from Hūmanby, to charge all the Cunstables and in-