to no other temperall person, but onely to himself that is stronge: and every of the said Capytaynes makeyth warre and peace for hymself, and holdeith by swerde, and hathe imperiall jurysdyction within his rome, and obeyeth to noo other persɔn, Englyshe ne Iryshe, except only to suche persones, as maye subdue hym by the swerde: of whiche regions, and capytaines of the same, the names folowyth immediate.

3.

[Letter from Surrey to Henry VIII., 30 June, 1521. State Papers, ii. p. 73.]

After my poure opinion. this londe shall never be broght to goode order and dew subjeccion, but only by conquest; wich is, at Your Graces plesure, to be broght to pas twoo maner off ways. One way is, iff Your Grace woll one yere sett on hande to wyn one contree, and a nother yere, another contree, and so contynew, tyll all at length be won. After myn opinion, the lest nomber, that Your Grace must occupie, can be no les then 2500; for it is not to be dowted, that whensoever the Irishmen shall know that Your Grace entendith a conqwest, they woll all combyne to gyders, and withstonde the same to the best off their poure. over and above their owne poure, undowtedly they may have three or foure thousand Irish Skottes, when soever, and as oftyn as they woll call for them; and they be not distaunt from the north parties off this londe, 4 owrys saylyng. Also I thynk thErle off Arguyle, and dyvers others off those we call Inglishe Skottes, woll come, iff they be desired.

And

And iff Your Grace woll, in more brieff tyme, have your purpose broght to pas, and to set upon the conqwest in

dyvers places, at one tyme; then, after my poure opinion, 6000 men is the lest nomber that Your Grace must occupie. But to advertise Your Grace, in how many yeres eyther the one nomber, or the other, shuld accomplishe and perffight the conqwest, the matier is so high and uncerteyne, that I dare not medle therwith.

And how few Inglish enhabitantes be now within thes 4 sheres, Master Peche can enforme Your Grace, for he hath sene a goode part theroff. And iff Your Grace shuld enhabite such contrees, as shuld be won, with Spanyardes, Flemynges, Almaynes, or any other nacion, save only your owne naturall subjectes, I feare, at length, they woll rather be obedient to the prince off their natyff countre, then to any other. The premysses consydered, after my poure opinion, the difficultie to conqwer this londe restith in thes three articles ensewing.

Furst, to furnyshe the army, that Your Grace will have here, with mony, unto the conqwest be perffighted.

Secondly, how to furnysh the seid nomber with vitelles, and cariage for the seid vitelles, ordinance, artilere, and all other stuff that must be occupied in byldyng off strong forteresses.

Thyrdly, how to fynd enhabitantes in sufficient nomber, that woll contynew trew subjectes to Your Grace, and your noble succession.

INDEX.

Beaumont [Bemont or Beaumound],
John, rebel, 14.

Bebulcho, Giovanni de, 129.

Beggars, legislation against, 217, 219.
Beggers, Supplication for the, 190.
Bekyrke, John, 200.

Bellay, Jean du, French ambassador
in England, 123.
Bellingham, Robert, 13.

ex- Belt, a rebel at Deal, 35, 36.
Benevolences, 113, 156.
Bergavenny,

Blackheath, 28, 246; defeat of Cor-Calais, lieutenant of, 24.

nish rebels at, 40, 43.

Blount, William, 4th Lord Mountjoy,
friend of Erasmus, 65, 234.
Bodrugan, Sir Henry, rebel, 14.
Boleyn, Anne, 119, 125.

Bologna, 70.

Bombasius, Paulus, friend of Eras-
mus, 233.

Bonde, John, manumission of, 247.
William, 240.

Bosworth, battle of, 2.

Boulogne, 28, 81, 106, 116.
Bourbon, Duke of, 95, 112.

Bourchier, Henry, second Earl of
Essex, 28, 34, 54.

Bowghton, Joan, heretic, 205.
Bowkyn, John, heretic, 205.
Brackenbury, Sir Robert, 2.
Bradford, Correspondence of Charles
V., extract from, 125.
Brailles, co. Warwick, 3.
Brampton, Sir Edward, 46.

Brandon, Charles, Duke of Suffolk,
110; marriage to Mary Tudor,
83.

Sir Thomas, 176.

William, 2.

Bray, Sir Reginald, Chancellor of the
Duchy of Lancaster, 34, 41, 157, 159.
Bredon, George, 172.

Brice, Hugh, 225.

Bridewell, 100.

Bristol, 187, 220, 258.

mayor of, 22.
plague in, 85.

Calender of Patent Rolls (Henry VII.),
extracts from, 32, 36, 42, 49,
57, 134, 156, 224, 240, 247,
251, 258.

State Papers, Carew Papers,
extracts from, 42.
Milan, extracts from,
19, 50, 129, 185.
Venice, extracts from,
[i] 8, 18, 25, 52, 184;
[ii] 68, 80, 81, 83, 87,
88, 130, 212; [iii] 92,
93, 99, 101; [iv] 122.
Spain, extracts from:
[i] 16, 19, 31, 38, 51,
57-59, 61, 148; [ii]
65, 70, 72, 73, 78, 79,
81; [iii] 115, 119,
123, 124.

Calstok, manor of, 247.
Cambridge, town of, 10, 85.
University of, 10.

Campbell, Materials, extracts from,
2, 8, 131, 156, 158, 161, 182, 235.
Campeggio, Lorenzo, Cardinal, 88;
in England for Henry VIII.'s
divorce proceedings, 119, 120, 122,
124.

Candlewick Street, 96.
Canterbury, 92, 162.

Archbishop of, see Morton, John.

Brittany, 9, 15, 16, 18, 25, 26, 51, 100, Cardinal's Hat, the, 225.