" condemn them; but, upon examining the Accu"fation already brought against them, great Difficul"ties occurred. It appeared, that, tho' they had been "guilty of numberlefs Extortions in their merciless "Execution of the Penal Laws, in carrying the Laws 68 even beyond what they would bear, that would << not be fufficient to take away their Lives, being in "themselves only Misdemeanours. It was refolved, 66 at laft, to profecute them for Treafon committed "against Henry VIII."

dicted.

And, to proceed, not long after Empfon They are inand Dudley's Commitment, they were feverally indicted both in London and Northampton; the overt Acts charged against them were, that they had confpir'd against the King and State, and fummoned, during his late Majefty's Illness, some of their Friends to be ready to take Arms at an Hour's Warning, in order, upon his Death, to haften to London; and either destroy or feize the King's Perfon.

By GEORGE CAVENDISH, Efq;

CHA P. IV.

On

The King promoting his Almoner, being made Cardinal, and Lord Chancellor of England.

And convicted of High Trea

Son.

On the 16th of July, Dudley was tried at Guildhall, London, and Empfon at Northampton, on the 14th of October then following, who were feverally found guilty of High Treafon; and the People in general not only rejoiced on their Conviction, but were fo incenfed against them, that, when they were brought out of the Tower, they were followed by the Populace with loud Acclamations of, Hang up the Commiffioners of Forfeitures! Hell-hounds! Blood Suckers, &c.

Burnet's Obfer

vations on their Cafe.

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Bishop Burnet, in his History of the Reformation, tells us, "That Empfon and Dudley, apprehending the Danger they were like to be in upon their "Master's Death, had been practifing with their Partners, to gather about them all the Power they could bring together; whether to fecure themfelves "from popular Rage, or to make themselves "feem confiderable or formidable to the new King;

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The SECRET HISTORY of the CARDINAL,

'compare with that of Canter

"this

reafon whereof there ingendered fome Grudge between them: But fhortly after he obtained to be made Cardinal, and Legatus de Latere, unto whom the Pope fent the Cardinal's Cap, and certain Bulls for his Authority in that Behalf, whereupon he was Inftalled at Westminster in great Triumphr 'which was executed by all Bifhops with their Mitres, Caps, and other Ornaments: And after all this, he was made Chancellor of England, and Canterbury who was the Chan'cellor, was difmiffed.

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Now he being in the Chancellorship, and endowed with the promotions of Archbishop, and Cardinal de Latere, thought

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"this and other Crimes being brought against them, they were found guilty of Treafon in a legal << Way."

A Remark thereon.

The Propriety of this we fhall not examine into, but only remark on what the learned Bishop phrafes found guilty in a legal Way; for, tho' Hiftorians allow, that they met with their deferved Fate, moft believed them not guilty of the Crimes they were convicted of; not being able to conceive, that two Perfons, who had made themselves fo hateful to the Nation, could hope for any Support in an Attempt to levy War and fieze the King's Perfon.

Notwithstanding the different Juries, that tried thefe avaricious Commiffioners, found them guilty of Crimes worthy of Death, his Majefty did not think proper to order them immediately for Execution, but directed them to be detained in Cuftody, till their Cafes fhould be laid before the Parliament, which did not meet this Year.

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By GEORGE CAVENDISH, Efq;

'himself fo fully furnished, that he was now able to furmount Canterbury in all Ju'rifdictions; and in all Eccle'fiaftical Powers to Convocate Canterbury, and all other Bifhops, and Spiritual Perfons 'to affemble at his Convoca

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Dominion, and all other Perfons to the Glory of his Dignity. Then had he two great Croffes of Silver, whereof one was of his Archbishoprick, and the other of his Legafie, borne before him wherefoever he rode or went, by two of the tallest Priefts that he could get in this Realm.

And to the Increase of his Gain, he had in his Hand the Bishoprick of Durham, and St. Albans in Commendum: Alfo, when Doctor Fox, Bishop of Winchefter died, he did fur• render Durham to the King, ⚫ and took himself to Winchester. He had alfo, as it were in Farm, the Bishoprick of Bath, Worcester, and Hereford, for C 2

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The Wits in thofe Days employed themselves in making Satyrical Pieces on Empfon and Dudley, par ticularly, Mr. Cornish, of the King's Chapel, made feveral fevere Verfes on Sir Richard Empfon, at the Request of the Earl of Kent, in Return for fome hard Ufage the Earl had met with from Empfon in the Time of his Ministry.

Stow relates, that Dudley, during his Confinement, wrote a Book, intituled The Tree of Common-Wealth, which he dedicated to the King, a Copy whereof he gave to his Grandfon, the Earl of Leicester, about the Year 1562.

Dudley's large

Fortune,

Dudley, at the Time of his Fall, had no lefs in Offices than to the yearly Value of 800 l. befides 20,000 l. in ready Money, over and above Jewels, Plate, and rich Houfhold Goods, to a very great Amount; and all this he gathered in lefs than 13 Years Time.

Of the Orders and Officers of his House and Chapple.

Comptroller, and a Surveyor over the Dreffer; a Clark in the Spicery, which kept continually a Mefs together in the Hall; alfo he had in the HallKitchen two Cooks, and La'bourers, and Children, twelve Perfons; four Men of the Scullery, two Yeoman of the Pastry, with two other Paftlayers under the Yeomen.

Then had he in his Kitchin, a Mafter Cook, who went daily in Velvet or Sattin, with a gold Chain, befides two other

Cooks,

The King prefents Emplon's House, &c. to his Alma

ner.

Empfon likewife acquired a very great Fortune, and lived in great Splendor to the Time of his Fall, at his House in Fleet-Street, near the King's Palace of Bridewell, which the King, upon his Conviction, was pleased to give to his Almoner, Wolfey. This Prefent must have been very confiderable, because, as is mentioned in the Grant, it had ten Gardens belonging to it. Hiftorians fay, the King made Wolfey this Present, in order to have him near the Court.

We have

Arguments for and against the King's Marriage.

The next Matter of Confequence was, the King's marrying Catherine of Arragon, Prince Arthur's Widow. before obferved what at first prevailed on Hen. the VIIth to contract his Son Henry to this Prin cefs. Those who favoured the Lady took the Liberty to urge, 1. That, if the King perfifted in not marrying her, it might make Spain too formidable, and too much expose his People to be ill used, either by

By GEORGE CAVENDISH, Efq;

Cooks, and fix Labourers in the fame Room.

In the Larder, one Yeoman ⚫ and a Groom; in the Scullery, ⚫ one Yeoman and two Grooms; in the Buttery two Yeomen and two Grooms; in the Ewry 'fo many; in the Cellar, three • Yeoman, three Pages; in the 'Chandlery, two Yeoman; in the Wayfary, two Yeoman; in the Wardrobe of Beds, the Master of the Wardrobe, ' and twenty Perfons befides; in 'the Laundery, a Yeoman and

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in the Barn, one Yeoman; Porters at the Gate, two Yeo

men, and two Grooms; a • Yeoman in his Barge, and a • Mafter of his Horfe; a Clark

of the Stables, and a Yeoman of the fame; a Farrier, and a Yeoman of the Stirrop; a • Maltlour and fixteen Grooms, every one of them keeping ⚫ four Geldings.

Now will I declare unto ( you the Officers of his Chapple, and finging Men of the fame. First, he had there a Dean, a great Divine, and a 'Man of excellent Learning, ⚫ and a Sub-Dean, a Repeator of the Quire, a Gofpeller, an Epiftoler of the finging Priests, a Master of the Children; in the

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