For that Siege lasted three years and more, And there a rat was [sold] at forty pence For in the city the people hungered sore. Women and children, for [de]falt of meat, were lore [_lost_]; And some for pain, bare bones were gnawing, That at their breasts had two children sucking. Of the Siege of Rouen it to write were pity, It is a thing so lamentable: Yet every High Feast, our King, of his charity, Gave them meat to their bodies comfortable; And at the last the town wan, without fable. Thus of all as now I make an end: To the bliss of heaven, GOD our souls send! _Thus endeth the Battle of Agincourt._ Imprinted at London in Foster lane, in Saint Leonard's parish, by me JOHN SKOT. FINIS [Illustration] JOHN FOX, the Martyrologist. [Sidenote: _The Ecclesiastical History, containing the Acts and Monuments, &c._ 2nd Ed., II., pp. 1355-6, 1570.] _How the Lord CROMWELL helped Archbishop CRANMER's Secretary._ [July 1539.] [Sidenote: The Archbishop CRANMER disputeth three days in Parliament against the _Six Articles_.] MENTION was made before how King HENRY, in the 31st year [1539-1540] of his reign, caused the _Six Articles_ [31. _Hen. VIII._, c. 14. _An Act abolishing diversity in opinions_] to pass [in June 1539]; much against the mind, and contrary to the consent of the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, THOMAS CRANMER: who had disputed three days against the same in the Parliament House, with great reasons and authorities. Which _Articles_, after they were granted and passed by the Parliament, the King, for the singular favour which he ever bare to CRANMER and reverence to his learning (being desirous to know what he had said and objected in the Parliament against these _Articles_; or what could be alleged by Learning against the same) required a Note of the Archbishop's doings, what he had said and opposed in the Parliament touching that matter. And this word was sent to him from the King by CROMWELL and other Lords of the Parliament, whom the King then sent to dine with him at Lambeth: somewhat to comfort again his grieved mind and troubled spirits: as hath been above recited at page 1,298. [The passage referred to runs thus: