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Syr Thomas Seimer highe Admi∣rall of Englande brother to the Lorde Protectour, and the kinges vncle, had maried Quene Katherine late wyfe to Kinge Henry, she conceiuinge a sto∣macke againste the Lorde protectors wife. And therevpon also in the be∣halfe of theyr wiues, displeasure and grudge began betwene the two bro∣thers,
which at the length brake out to the confusion of theym bothe: For the* 1.1 twenty day of March was the lord ad∣mirall beheaded at tower hill.
This yere about Whitsontide, and* 1.2 so foorthe vntyll September, the com∣mons in most part of this realm, made sundry insurrections and comm••tions Amongest whom, diuers of the com∣mons of Cornewall and Deuonshyre, rose against the nobles and gentilmen: and in sundrye Campes besieged the towne of Exceter, whiche was vali∣antly defended.
Also they of Norfolke and Suffolk* 1.3 encamped thē selues in a wood, called saynt Nicholas wood, nere vnto Nor¦wiche, declaring them selues to be grie¦ued with parkes, pastures, and inclo∣sures made by the gentilmē, who requi¦red the same to be disparked & set amōg the cōmons. Into Deuonsh••re against Humfrey Arundel and his rebels, was sent the lord Russel, lorde preuy seale, with a number of souldiors. The lord Gray was also sent with a number of strangers, which wer horsemen, wher¦in diuers conflictes they slewe many people, and spoyled that countrey.
In Norfolke againg captain Kite a
Tanner, and his company, syr Iohn Dudley erle of Warwicke, went with an army: where both he him selfe and a great number of gentilmen that wer with him, metynge with the rebelles, were in suche daunger, as they hadde thoughte all to haue dyed in the place: but God brought it so to passe, that as went there as in all other places, they were partely by power constrayned, partely by promes of theyr pardon per¦swaded to subin••r them selues to theyr prince, and delyuered theyr chiefe ca∣pitaynes to punishment, but yet after the losse of manye thousandes of En∣glishemen.
The king of Fraunce perc••auinge such sedition and trouble in England, did not omitte the occasion, but in the meane time▪ assaulted certain holdes a∣bout the town of Boloigne builded of the Englishmen for the defence of the same, and namely tooke the forte cal∣led newe hauen, and thereby much in∣damaged the Englishe garrison that lay at Boloigne. The losse of this was layd to the lord Protectour because he hauyng the chiefe gouernement of the Realme, dyd not see those partes bet∣ter furnyshed: in conclusion the erle of
Warwicke, with the consente of other nobles of the Realme, by open procla∣mation accused him of misgouernemēt as well in this as in diuers other mat∣ters. Wherfore when he fled with the yong kyng to Wyndsour castell, they caused hym to be fette from thens, and brought as a traitoure to the tower of London, the .xiiii. day of October.
An reg. 3. Execution
Cōmotion in Corne∣wal & De∣uonshyre
Cōmotion in Norfolk