no neede to byd them to styrre: for beggyng to them was worsse, thē hye heresie. Wherfore the holy father pope Paulus the 2. to represse the sparkles of this doctrine, which otherwise perhaps might haue set his whole kitchin on fire, taketh the matter in hand, & eftsoones directeth downe his Bull into England, insinuating to the prelates here,MarginaliaEx hist. Scala mundi fol. vlt. Hæresim illam pestifere asserentem, quod Christus publice mendicauit, esse antiquitus a Romanis pontificibus, cum suis Cōciliis damnatam, & eam pro damnata, vndique declarandam, & conculcandam, &c.MarginaliaThe Popes determined solutiō, that Christ was no beggar. That is, that this heresie which pestiferously doth affirme that Christ dyd openly begge, was condemned of old tyme by the Byshops of Rome, and his Coūcells, and that the same ought to be declared in all places for a damned doctrine, and worthy to be troden downe vnder all mens feete. &c. This was in the same yeare whē Prince Edward, kyng Edwardes sonne was borne in the sanctuarie at Westminster. an. 1465.

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MarginaliaK. Edward vanquished ix. battailes being himselfe present at them all. As touchyng the rest of the doinges and affaires of this king (which had vanquished hetherto. ix. battayles, himselfe beyng present) how afterwardMarginaliaCharles Duke of Burgoyne failed his promyse with the kyng. he, through the incitement of Charles Duke of Burgoyne his brother in law, ventred into Fraunce with a puissaūt army, & how the Duke fayled him in his promise,MarginaliaPeace betwene the two kinges, bought wyth the French kynges money. also how peace betwene the two kynges was at length cōcluded in a solēne meetyng of both the sayd kynges together (which meetyng is notified in stories, by a white doue sittyng the same day of meeting, vpon the top of kyng Edwards tente)MarginaliaMariage betwene the Frēch kinges sonne & kyng Edwardes daughter, made and broken. also of the mariage promised betwen the yoūg Dolphin & Elisabeth K. Edwards eldest daughter, but afterward broken of the French kyngs part: moreouer as touchyng the death of the duke of Burgoyne slayne in warre, & of his daughter Mary, neece to kyng Edward, spoyled of her landes & possessions wrōgfully, by Lewes the French kyng, & maryed after to Maximilian: furthermore as touchyng the expedition of kyng Edward into Scotlād,MarginaliaKing Iames of Scotland goeth frē his promise of maryage. by reason of kyng Iames, breakyng promise in marying with Cecilie the ij. daughter of kyng Edward, & of driuyng out his brother, & how the matter was composed there,MarginaliaBarwicke recouered. & of the recouery agayne of Barwicke: of these (I say) & such other thyngs mo, partly because they are described sufficiētly in our cōmon English stories, partly also because they be matters not greatly perteyning to the Church, I omitte to speake, makyng of thē a supersedeas. Two thynges I finde here among many other, specially to be remembred.  

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MarginaliaAn. 1473.
Iohn Goose Martyr. The first is concernyng a godly & constaunt seruaunt of Christ, named Iohn Goose  

, whiche in the tyme of this kyng, was vniustly condemned & burnt at the tower hill. an. 1473. in the moneth of August. Thus had England also his Iohn Hus, as well as Boheme.MarginaliaIohn Goose in Englishe, is as much as Iohn Hus in the Bohemiau tounge. Wherin moreouer this

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is to be noted, that since the tyme of kyng Richard 2. there is no reigne of any kyng to be assigned hetherto, wherein some good man or other hath not suffered the paynes of fire, for the Religion and true testimonie of Christ Iesus. Of this sayd Iohn Goose, or Iohn Hus   , this moreouer I finde in an other English monument   recorded, that the sayd Iohn being deliuered to Robert Belisdone, one of the Shriffes, to see him burnt the after noone: the Shriffe lyke a charitable man, had him home to his house, and there exhorted him to deny (sayth the story) his errors. But the godly man after long exhortation heard, desired the Shriffe to be content, for he was satisfied in his conscience.MarginaliaIohn Goose taketh hys dynner before he went to Martyrdome. Notwithstādyng this he desired of the Shriffe, for Gods sake to geue him some meate, saying that he was very sore hungered. Then the Shriffe commaūded him meate: wherof he tooke and did eate, as he had bene toward no maner of daunger: & sayd to such as stode about him: I eate now a good & a competent dynner: for I shall passe a litle sharpe shower, ere I go to supper   . And when he had dyned, he gaue thankes, & required that he might shortly be led to the place, where he should yeld vp his spirite vnto God. Ex Polychron.

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MarginaliaThe vnworthy death of the duke of Clarence. The second thyng herein to be noted, is the death of George Duke of Clarence, the kyngs second brother: Of whō relation was made before, how he assisted kyng Edward, his brother, agaynst þ^e Earle of Warwicke at Barnet field, and helped him to the crowne, and now after all these benefites, was at length thus required, that (for what cause it is vncertaine) he was apprehended & cast into the Tower,MarginaliaThe duke of Clarence drowned in a butte of Malmesey. where he beyng adiudged for a traytor, was priuely drowned in a but of Malmesey. What the true cause was of his death, it can not certeinely be affirmed.  

Diuers coniectures and imaginations there be diuersly put forth.MarginaliaThe causes of his death expended. Some partly impute it to þ^e Queenes displeasure. Other suppose it came for takyng part in the cause of his seruaunt, which was accused and condemned for poysonyng, sorcery, or inchauntment.MarginaliaThe mischiefe that Sathan worketh by false prophesies. An other fame there is, whiche surmiseth the cause hereof to ryse vpon the vayne feare of a foolishe Prophecie, commyng no doubt (if it were true) by the crafty operation of Sathan, as it doth many tymes els happen among infidels and gentiles where Christ is not knowen: where among hygh Princes and in noble houses much mischief groweth, first murther and parricide, and thereby ruine of auncient families, and alteration of kyngdomes. The MarginaliaThe prophesie of G. effect of this Prophesie (as the fame goeth) was this, that after kyng Edward should one reigne, whose name should begin with G.   And because the name of the Duke of Clarēce, beyng George, began with a G, therfore he began to be feared, & afterward priuely (as is aforesayd) was made away.

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MarginaliaPhophesies not rashly to be beleued. ¶ By these experimentes & mischieuous endes of such Prophecies, and also by the nature of them, it is soone to be sene, from what fountaine or author they procede: that is (no doubt) from Sathan, the auncient enemy of mankynd, and Prince of this world: agaynst whose deceitfull delusions, Christen men must be well instructed, neither to maruell greatly at them, though they seeme straunge, nor yet to beleue them, though they happen true.MarginaliaSathan can say truth for a wicked end. For Sathan being the prince of this world, in such thynges worldly can foresee what will follow, and can say truth for a mischeuous end, and yet for all that is but a Sathan.MarginaliaDeuilishe prophesies although they tell truth, yet are not to be folowed. So the dreame of Astiages, seyng a vyne to grow out of his daughter, whiche should couer all Asia, and fearyng thereby that by his nephewe he should lose his kyngdom, proued true in the sequele therof, and yet notwithstādyng of Sathan it came, and caused cruel murther to folow, first of the shepheardes child, thē of the sonne of Harpagus, whom he set before his owne father to eate.MarginaliaEx Iust. lib. 1. Ex Iust. lib. i. Likewise Cyrus was Prophetically admonished by his dreame, to take him for his guide, whom he first met the next morow. In that also his dreame fell true, and yet was not of God. In the same number are to be put all the blynd Oracles of the Idolatrous Gentiles, which although they procede of a lying spirit, yet sometime they hyt the truth, to a mischieuous purpose.MarginaliaMarlynes prophecies.
1. Reg. 18. The like iudgement also is to be geuen of Merlynes Prophecies. The Sorceresse, mentioned 1. Reg. 28. raysing vp Samuell, told Saul the truth, yet was it not of God.MarginaliaAct. 16. In the. 16. chap. of the Actes, there was a Damosell hauyng the spirite ofMarginalia* A spirite of diuination which could gesse & foredeme things past, present, and to come, which knowledge God many tymes permitteth to the deuill. * Pytho, who sayd truth of Paul and Sylas, callyng them the messengers of the hygh God, & yet it was a wrong spirite. The vncleane spirites in geuyng testimony of Christ, said the truth, yet because their testimony came not of God, Christ did not allow it.

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MarginaliaEx Paulo Diac. Paulus Diaconus recordeth of Valence the Emperour that he also had a blynd Prophecie, not much vnlyke to this of kyng Edward, whiche was, that one should succede him in the Empire, whose name should begyn with. xxx and. xxx. Whereupon one Theodorus, trustyng vpon the