Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (3 of 9): Henrie the Sixt, Sonne and Heire to Henrie the FiftHolinshed, Raphael
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Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (3 of 9): Henrie the Sixt, Sonne and Heire to Henrie the Fift
Holinshed, Raphael
Great Britain -- History -- Henry VI, 1422-1461; Great Britain -- History -- To 1485; Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603
13 Item, the people of the said shire of Kent, maie not haue their frée
election in the choosing of knights of the shire: but letters béene
sent from diuerse estates to the great rulers of all the countrie, the
which imbraceth their tenants and other people by force to choose other
persons than the c[=o]mons will is.
14 Item, whereas knights of the shire should choose the king collectors
indifferentlie without any bribe taking, they haue sent now late to
diuerse persons, notifieng them to be collectors: wherevpon gifts
and bribes be taken, & so the collectors office is bought and sold
extortionouslie at the knights lust.
15 Item, the people be sore vexed in costs and labour, called to the
sessions of peace in the said shire, appearing from the furthest and
vttermost part of the west vnto the east; the which causeth to some men
fiue daies iournie: wherevpon they desire the said appearance to be
diuided into two parts; the which one part, to appeare in one place;
an other part, in an other place; in reléeuing of the gréeuances and
intollerable labours & vexations of the said people.
The requests by the capteine of the great assemblie in Kent.
Inprimis, desireth the capteine of the commons, the welfare of our
souereigne lord the king, and all his true lords spirituall and
temporall, desiring of our said souereigne lord, and of all the true
lords of his councell, he to take in all his demaines, that he maie
reigne like a king roiall, according as he is borne our true and
christian king annointed: and whoso will saie the contrarie, we all
will liue and die in the quarell as his true liege men.
Item, desireth the said capteine, that he will auoid all the false
progenie and affinitie of the duke of Suffolke, the which béene openlie
knowne, and they to be punished after the custome and law of this land,
and to take about his noble person the true lords of his roiall blood
of this his realme, that is to saie, the high and mightie prince the
duke of Yorke, late exiled from our said souereigne lords presence
(by the motion and stirring of the traitorous and false disposed the
duke of Suffolke and his affinitie) and the mightie princes & dukes of
Excester, Buckingham, and Norffolke, and all the earles and barons of
this land: and then shall he be the richest king christian.
Item, desireth the said capteine and commons punishment vnto the false
traitors, the which contriued and imagined the death of the high,
mightfull and excellent prince the duke of Glocester, the which is too
much to rehearse; the which duke was proclamed as traitor. Vpon the
which quarell, we purpose all to liue and die vpon that it is false.
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