84M. Mayor of Hereford M. Sheriff o'th'Shire,

85Commit Lord Powess to safe custody,

86To answer the disturbance of the peace,

87Lord Herberts peril, and his high contempt

88Of us, and you the Kings Commissioners,

89See it be done with care and diligence.

90Sher. Please it your Lordship, my Lord Powess is gone

91Past all recovery.

922. Jud. Yet let search be made,

93To apprehend his followers that are left.

94Sher. These are some of them: sirs, lay hold of them.

95Owen. Of us? and why? what has her done I pray you?

96Sher. Disarme them, Bailiffs.

97May. Officers assist.

98Davy. Hear you, Lord Shudge, what resson for this?

99Owen. Cossoon, pe puse for fighting for our Lord?

1001. Jud. Away with them.

101Davy. Harg you my Lord.

102Owen. Gough my Lord Herberts man's a shitten kanave.

103Davy. Ice live and tye in good quarrel.

104Owen. Pray you do shustice, let awl be prison.

105Davy. Prison, no,

106Lord Shudge, I wool give you pale, good surety.

1072. Jud. What bail? what sureties?

108Davy. Her Cozen ap Rice, ap Evan, ap Morice, ap

109Morgan, ap Lluellyn, ap Madoc, ap Meredith, ap Griffin,

110ap Davy, ap Owen, ap Shinken Shones.

1112. Jud. Two of the most sufficient are enow.

112Sher. And't please your Lordship these are all but one.

1131. Jud. To Jayl with them, & the Lord Herberts men,

115Riotous, audacious, and unruly Grooms,

116Must we be forced to come from the Bench,

117To quiet brawls, which every Constable

118In other civil places can suppresse?

1192. Jud. What was the quarrel that caus'd all this stir?

120Sher. About Religion as I heard, my Lord.

121Lord Powess detracted from the power of Rome,

122Affirming Wickliffs Doctrine to be true,

123And Romes erroneus: hot reply was made

124By the Lord Herbert, they were Traitors all

125That would maintain it. Powess answered,

126They were as true, as noble, and as wise

127As he, that would defend it with their lives,

128He nam'd for instance Sir John Oldcastle

129The Lord Cobham: Herbert replyed again,

130He, thou, and all are Traitors that so hold.

131The lye was given, the several Factions drawn,

132And so enrag'd, that we could not appease it.

1331. Jud.This case concerns the Kings Prerogative,

134And 'tis dangerous to the State and Common-wealth.

135Gentlemen, Justices, M. Mayor, and M. Sheriff,

136It doth behoove us all, and each of us

137In general and particular, to have care

138For the suppressing of all mutinies,

139And all assemblies, except souldiers musters,

140For the Kings preparation into France.

141We hear of secret Conventicles made,

142And there is doubt of some Conspiracies,

143Which may break out into rebellious armes

144When the King's gone, perchance before he go:

145Note as an instance, this one perillous fray,

146What factions might have grown on either part,

147To the destruction of the King and Realme:

148Yet, in my conscience, Sir John Oldcastle's

149Innocent of it, onely his name was us'd.

150We therefore from his Highnesse give this charge:

151You Master Mayor, look to your Citizens,

152You Master Sheriff, unto your Shire, and you

153As Justices in every ones precinct

154There be no meetings. When the vulgar sort

155Sit on their Ale-bench, with their cups and cans,

156Matters of State be not their common talk,

157Nor pure Religion by their lips prophan'd.

158Let us return unto the Bench again,

159And there examine further of this fray.

161Sher. Sirs, have ye taken the Lord Powess yet?

162Bail. No, nor heard of him.

163Ser. No, he's gone far enough.

1642. Jud. They that are left behind, shall answer all.

168Suf. Now, my Lord Bishop, take free liberty

169To speak your mind; What is your suit to us?

170Bish. My noble Lord, no more then what you know,

171And have been oftentimes invested with:

172Grievous complaints have past between the lips

173Of envious persons to upbraid the Clergy,

174Some carping at the livings which we have;

175And others spurning at the Ceremonies

176That are of ancient custome in the Church.

177Amongst the which, Lord Cobham is a chief:

178What inconvenience may proceed hereof,

179Both to the King, and to the Common-wealth,

180May easily be discern'd, when like a frensie

181This innovation shall possesse their minds.

182These upstarts will have followers to uphold

183Their damn'd opinion, more than Harry shall,

184To undergo his quarrel 'gainst the French.

185Suf.What proof is there against them to be had,

186That what you say the Law may justifie?

187Bish. They give themselves the names of Protestants,

188And meet in fields and solitary groves.

189S. Joh. Was ever heard (my Lord) the like till now?

190That thieves and rebels, sbloud hereticks,

191Plain hereticks, I'le stand to't to their teeth,

192Should have to colour their vile practises,

193A Title of such worth, as Protestant?

195Suf. O but you must not swear, it ill becomes

196One of your coat, to rap out bloudy oaths.

197Bish. Pardon him, good my Lord, it is his zeal,

198An honest country Prelate, who laments

199To see such foul disorder in the Church.

200S. Joh. There's one they call him Sir John Oldcastle,

201He has not his name for nought: for like a Castle

202Doth he encompasse them wilhin his walls,

203But till that castle be subverted quite,

204We ne're shall be at quiet in the Realme.

205Bish. This is our suit (my Lord) that he be tane

206And brought in question for his heresie:

207Beside, two Letters brought me out of Wales,

208Wherein my Lord Hertford writes to me,

209What tumult and sedition was begun,

210About the Lord Cobham, at the Sizes there,

211For they had much adoe to calme the rage,

212And that the valiant Herbert is there slain.

213Suf. A fire that must be quencht. Well, say no more,

214The King anon goes to the Council Chamber,