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"admit of no fuch Alienation, though promised by the King: That the People of Burgundy like"wife exclaimed against it; that the Princes, his "Friends and Confederates, were all of the fame

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Opinion: And therefore he had been obliged, "in his own Defence, to enter into a strict Alliance "with them." Then he concludes with imploring all the Chriftian Princes, not to fee him and his Children wronged; but he fays not one Word of the Oath he had taken to obligate him to return to Prifon. The

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By GEORGE CAVENDISH, Efq;

the Law; and therefore in his princely Place he hath conftituted a Chacellor, to order for him the fame, and there3fore the Court of Chancery hath been commonly called the • Court of Confcience; for that it hath Jurifdiction to command the Law in every Cafe, to defift from the Rigour of the Execution: And now I fay to you, Mafter Shelley, have la Power, or may I with Confcience give that away which is now mine for me and my Succeffors? If this be Law and Confcience, "I pray you shew me your Opi

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late give away the Patrimony of the Church, and fo, in Procefs of Time, leave nothing for their Succeffors to maintain their Dignities, which would be but little to the King's

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Well, quoth my Lord, let me fee your Commiffion, which was fhewed to him. Then, quoth my Lord, tell his Highnefs, that I am his most faithful Subject and obedient Beadf man, whofe Command I will in no wife difobey, but will in all Things fulfil his Pleafure, as you the Fathers of the Law fay 1 may: Therefore I charge your Confcience to discharge and fhew his Highness from me, that I must defire his Majefty to remember there is both Heaven and Hell. And thereupon the Clerk took and wrote the Recognizance, and • after fome fecret Talk they departed.

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The Imperialists were not wanting in fetting out a long Answer to this Apology, retorting upon the King all he charges upon the Emperor.

"Firft, as to the Breach of Faith, they prove it 66 upon the King in the Treaties of Paris and Noyon, "as the Cafe was decided by the King of England, "when he was conftituted Umpire to adjudge which " of them had infringed the Articles of thefe Treaties, "who had abfolutely declared against France." Then they bring in many Instances of the King's

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The SECRET HISTORY of the CARDINAL,

perceiving the good Affection the King bare always to him, ⚫ devised a Means to difquiet his Patience, thinking thereby to give him Occafion to fret and chafe, that Death fhould rather enfue than otherwife, which they moft defired, for they • feared him more after his Fall, then they did in his Profperity, fearing that he fhould, by Reafon of the King's Favour, rife again, and be again in Favour, and great at the Court; then his Enemies might be in Danger of their Lives for their Cruelty wrongfully miniftred unto him, and by their malicious Surmifes invented and brought to pafs against him: And did continually find new Matters against him to make him vex and fret, but he was a wife Man, and did arm himself with much • Patience.

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the King. The King demanded, faying, Have you feen yonder Man?-Yes, Sir, quoth he-How do you like him? quoth the King.--Sir, quoth he, if you will have him dead, I ⚫ will warrant you he will be

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Marry, God forbid, quoth the King, that he fhould die, for I would not lofe him for 20,000l. I pray thee go to him, and do your Care to

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Then must your Grace, quoth Dr. Butts, fend him fome comfortable Meffage.—So • I will, quoth the King, by you; therefore make Speed to him again, and you shall deliver him this Ring from me for a Token. In the which Ring was the King's Image engraven with a Ruby, as like the King as might be devised: This Ring •he knoweth well, for he gave me the fame; and tell him, That I am not offended with him in my Heart for any thing; and that shall be ⚫ known

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unjuft Proceedings, as his agreeing with Pope. "Leo the Xth, to divide the Emperor's Dominions "in Italy; his encouraging the Rebellion in Spain; "his invading Flanders and Navarre, and much more "to the fame Purpofe." As to the Affair of Milan they urge, "the King of France commenced the War "without any Right to that Dukedom, which is "undoubtedly a Fief of the Empire". In regard to Flanders and Artois they plead, "the Imperial Dignity takes off all Acknowledgment of Superiority

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known fhortly; therefore bid him pluck up his Heart, and be of good Comfort: And I charge you come not from him, till you have brought him out of the Danger of Death, if it be poffible.

Then spake the King to Mrs. • Anne Bulloigne, Good Sweet heart, as you love me, fend the • Cardinal a Token at my Requeft, and, in fo doing, you fhall deferve our Thanks. She, being difpofed not to offend the King, would not difobey his loving Request; but took incontinently her Tablet of Gold, that hung at her Side, and delivered it to Dr. Buts, with ⚫ very gentle and loving Words. And fo he departed to Albur with Speed; and after him the · King fent Dr. Cromer, Dr. Clement, and Dr. Wotton, to 'confult and advife with Dr. Buts for my Lord's Recovery. Now after Dr. Buts had been • with him, and delivered him the Tokens from the King and Mrs. Anne Bulloigne, with the most comfortable Words he could devife on the King's and - VOL. IV.

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'Mrs. Anne's Behalf, he advanced himself in his Bed, and ' received the Tokens very joy

fully, giving him many Thanks for his Pains and good Com⚫ fort. He told him further, that the King's Pleasure was, that he fhould minifter unto him for his Health; and, for the • better and more affured Way, he hath alfo fent Dr. Cromer, Dr. Clement, and Dr. Wotton, all to join for your Recovery; therefore, my Lord, quoth Dr. Buts, it were well they were called to vifit you, and • to confult with them for your • Disease.

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At which Motion my Lord was contented, and fent for ⚫ them to hear their Judgments; but he trufted more to Dr. Cromer than all the reft, because he was the very Means ' of bringing him from Paris to

England, and gave him partly his Exhibition in Paris. To be 'fhort, in four Days they fet him again upon his Feet, and he had gotten him a good Stomach to Meat. All this done, and my Lord in a right F good

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to any other; befides that, the Fealty of these Provinces were unduly introduced by Philip the Ift.' Concerning the Duke of Bourbon they fay," that no Promifes from the Emperor, but the King's refufing to do him Juftice, obliged that Prince to "fly to his Imperial Majefty for Protection; that "the Earldom of Provence of Right appertained to "the Emperor, and not to the King; that the King " had not been conquered by Fortune, but by dint of Valour; was conveyed into Spain at his own Request, "and

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good. Way of Amendment, they took their Leaves and departed, to whom my Lord offered his Reward; but they refufed, faying, The King hath given a fpecial Commandment, that they fhould take nothing of him, for at their Return he would reward them of his Coft.

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After this my Lord continued at Abur till Candlemas, before and against which Feast, the King caufed to be fent to my Lord three or four Loads of Stuff; and most thereof, except Beds and Kitchen-ftuff, was loaded in Standards, wherein was both Plate and rich Hangings, and Chapel-ftuff, which was f done without the Knowledge of the Lords of the Council; for all which he rendered the King moft humble and hearty Thanks; and afterwards made fuit unto the King to be removed from Abur to Richmond, which Request was granted.

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the King had made an Exchange with him for Hamptoncourt. Had the Lords of the • Council known of thefe Fayours from the King to the Cardinal, they would have perfuaded the King to the contrary, for they feared left his now Abode near the King might move the King at fome Seafon to refort unto him, and to call him Home again, confidering the great and daily Affection the King bare unto him. Therefore they moved the King that my Lord might go down to the North, to his Benefice there, where he might be a good Stay (as they alledged) to the Country; to which the King condefcended, thinking no lefs but that all ⚫ had been true according to their

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"and there treated as if in his own Kingdom: That "he himself proposed to yield up all his Pretences "in Flanders, Milan, Genoa, and Naples, and, in "Lieu of Burgundy, to conquer Florence and Venice "for the Emperor; to bear half the Charges of "the Emperor's War, and to ferve him in Perfon: "That he was never threatned with perpetual Im *prifonment, but had Liberty to walk Abroad and "hunt: That the King notwithstanding was carrying on Projects against the Emperor, and had endea"voured

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Benefice: Well then, Thomas, quoth my Lord, we will go then to Winchester. I will

then, quoth Mafter Cromwell, • tell my Lord of Norfolk what you fay; and fo he did at his next meeting of him. What fhould he do there? quoth the Duke; let him go to the rich Bishoprick of York, where his greatest Honour and Charge • lieth, and fo fhew him. The • Lords who were not his Friends perceiving, that my Lord was difpofed to plant himself fo nigh the King, thought then to withdraw his Appetite from Winchester, moved the King to give my Lord a Penfion of 4000 Marks out of Winchester, ⚫ and all the reft to be diftributed amongst the Nobility and ⚫his Servants; and fo likewise to divide the Revenues of St. Albans, whereof some had 200 Pounds: And all the Revenues ⚫ of his Lands, belonging to his •College at Oxford and Ipfwich,

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the King took into his own • Hands; whereof Mafter Crom• well had the Receipt and Government before my - Lord's Affignment, wherefore it was

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thought very necessary that he 'fhould have the fame ftill, who executed all Things fo well and exactly, that he was had in great Estimation for his Behaviour therein.

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Now it came to pass that thofe, to whom the King had given any Annuities or Fees for Term of Life, or by Patent, could not be good but only for and during my Lord's Life, forafmuch as the King had no longer Eftate therein, but what he had by my Lord's Attainder in the Premunire; and, to make their Estate good and fufficient, there was no other Way but to obtain my 'Lord's Confirmation of their Patents; and to bring this a 'bout, there was no other Mean's but by Mafter Cromwell, who was thought the fittest Instru ment for this Purpose, and for his Pains therein he was wor thily rewarded; and his Dea meanor, his Honefty, and Wisdom was fuch, that the King took great notice of him, as you shall hereafter • hear. * Stild

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