A myrroure for magistrates Wherein may be seen by example of other, with howe greuous plages vices are punished: and howe frayle and vnstable worldly prosperitie is founde, even of those, whom fortune seemeth most highly to fauour. Anno. 1559.
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- A myrroure for magistrates Wherein may be seen by example of other, with howe greuous plages vices are punished: and howe frayle and vnstable worldly prosperitie is founde, even of those, whom fortune seemeth most highly to fauour. Anno. 1559.
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- Londini :: In ædibus Thomæ Marshe,
- [1559]
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- Political ethics -- Early works to 1800.
- Great Britain -- History -- Poetry.
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"A myrroure for magistrates Wherein may be seen by example of other, with howe greuous plages vices are punished: and howe frayle and vnstable worldly prosperitie is founde, even of those, whom fortune seemeth most highly to fauour. Anno. 1559." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/a02342.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 4, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- Love and Lyve. To the nobilitye and all other in office, God graunt vvisedome and all thinges nedeful for the preseruacion of theyr Estates. Amen.
- ¶ A Briefe Memorial of sundrye Unfortunate Englishe men. William Baldwin to the Reader.
- The fall of Robert Tresilian chiefe Iustice of Englande, and other his felovves, for mis∣construyng the lavves▪ and expoun∣ding them to serue the Princes affections.
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- Hovve the tvvo Rogers, surnamed Morti∣mers, for theyr sundry vices ended theyr lyues vnfortu∣natelye.
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- Hovve syr Thomas of VVudstocke Duke of Glocester, vncle to king Richarde the seconde, vvas vnlavvfully murdred.
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- Hovve the Lorde Movvbray promoted by Kyng Richarde the seconde, vvas by hym banyshed the Realme▪ and dyed miserably in exyle.
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- Hovve kyng Richarde the seconde vvas for his euyll gouernaunce deposed from his seat, and miserably murdred in prison.
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- Hovve Ovven Glendour seduced by false prophesies tooke vpon him to be prince of VVales, and vvas by Henry then prince therof, chased to the mountaynes, vvhere he miserably dyed for lacke of foode.
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- Hovv Henry Percy Earle of Northhum∣berland, vvas for his couetous and trayterous attempt put to death at Yorke.
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- Hovv Richard erle of Cambridge en∣tending the kinges destructi∣on vvas put to death at Southhamp∣ton.
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- Hovv Thomas Montague the earle of Salysbury in the middes of his glory, vvas chaunceably slayne vvith a piece of ordinaunce.
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- Hovv king Iames the first for breaking his othes and bondes, vvas by gods suffrauns miserably murdred of his ovvne subiectes.
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- Hovv Lorde VVilliam Delapole Duke of Suffolke vvas vvorthily punyshed for abusing his Kyng and causing the destruction of good Duke Humfrey.
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- Hovv Iacke Cade traiterously rebelling agaynst his Kyng, vvas for his treasons and cruell doinges vvurthely punyshed.
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- Hovv Richard Plantagenet duke of York vvas slayne through his over rash boldnes, and his sonne the earle of Rutland for his lack of valiauns.
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- Hovv the lord Clyfford for his straunge and abhominable cruelty, came to as straunge and sodayne a death.
- The infamous ende of Lord Iohn Tip∣toft Earle of VVurcester, for cru∣elly executing his princes butcherly commaun∣dementes.
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- Hovv sir Richard Nevell Earle of VVar∣vvike, and his brother Iohn Lord Mar∣quise Mountacute through their to much boldnes vver slayne at Barnet field.
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- Hovv king Henry the syxt a vertuous prince, vvas after many other mi∣series cruelly murdered in the Tovver of London.
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- Hovv George Plantagenet third sonne of the Duke of Yorke, vvas by his bro∣ther King Edvvard vvrongfully imprisoned, and by his bro∣ther Richard misera∣bly murdered.
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- Hovv king Edvvard through his sur¦feting and vntemperate life, sodain∣ly died in the mids of his prosperity.
- The Contentes and Table of the booke.
- ¶Fautes escaped in the printing.
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