Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (3 of 9): Henrie the Sixt, Sonne and Heire to Henrie the FiftHolinshed, Raphael
History
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
In which for hir pranks so vncouth and suspicious, the lord regent by
Peter Chauchon bishop of Beauuois (in whose diocesse she was taken)
caused hir life and beléefe, after order of law to be inquired vpon
and examined. Wherein found though a virgin, yet first shamefullie
reiecting hir sex abominablie in acts and apparell to haue counterfeit
mankind, and then all damnablie faithlesse, to be a pernicious
instrument to hostilitie and bloudshed in diuelish witchcraft and
sorcerie, sentence accordinglie was pronounced against hir. Howbeit
vpon humble confession of hir iniquities with a counterfeit contrition
pretending a carefull sorow for the same, execution spared and all
mollified into this, that from thencefoorth she should cast off hir
vnnaturall wearing of mans abilliments, and kéepe hir to garments
of hir owne kind, abiure hir pernicious practises of sorcerie and
witcherie, and haue life and leasure in perpetuall prison to bewaile
hir misdéeds. Which to performe (according to the maner of abiuration)
a solemne oth verie gladlie she tooke.
[Sidenote: _Polydo. 23. in H. 6._]
[Sidenote: _Les grand chron._]
[Sidenote: _Les grandes chronic. le 4 liure._]
But herein (God helpe vs) she fullie afore possest of the féend, not
able to hold hir in anie towardnesse of grace, falling streight waie
into hir former abominations (and yet séeking to éetch out life as long
as she might) stake not (though the shift were shamefull) to confesse
hir selfe a strumpet, and (vnmaried as she was) to be with child. For
triall, the lord regents lenitie gaue hir nine moneths staie, at the
end wherof she found herein as false as wicked in the rest, an eight
daies after, vpon a further definitiue sentence declared against hir to
be relapse and a renouncer of hir oth and repentance, was she therevpon
deliuered ouer to secular power, and so executed by consumption of fire
in the old market place at Rone, in the selfe same stéed where now
saint Michaels church stands, hir ashes afterward without the towne
wals shaken into the wind. Now recounting altogither, hir pastorall
bringing vp, rude without any vertuous instruction, hir campestrall
conuersation with wicked spirits, whome in hir first salutation to
Charles the Dolphin, she vttered to be our Ladie, saint Katharine,
and saint Annes, that in this behalfe came and gaue hir commandements
from God hir maker, as she kept hir fathers lambs in the fields (where
saints in warres among christen men were (be we sure) neuer so parciall
patrons or partners to maintenance of horrible slaughters, rapines, and
bloudshed) hereto hir murtherous mind in killing of Franquet hir owne
prisoner, hir two yeares continuance in hir abominations and deadlie
mischiefe without anie hir trauell or motion betwéene the princes
for peace, hir relapse at last & falling againe into hir abiured
iniquities, by hir virginitie (if it were anie) by hir holie words, hir
fasting and praiers what they might be, sith satan (after S. Paule) can
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