From the licentious character of this book the prelates Whitgift and Bancroft ordered its suppression and destruction soon after its appearance. 30. The first part of the Life and Raigne of King Henry the IIII. Extending to the end of the first yeare of his raigne. Written by J. H. Imprinted at London by John Wolfe, and are to be solde at his shop in Pope's Head Alley, neere to the Exchange. 1599. This book was written by Sir John Haywarde, L.L.D. It was dedicated in very encomiastic terms to the Earl of Essex, but it so highly irritated Queen Elizabeth, that proceedings were taken against the author as appears from the following documents. Among the Domestic State Papers of the year 1600 are interrogatories by Lord Chief Justice Popham, to be administered to Dr. Hayward in these terms; "To examyn hym who made the preface to the Reader. "Wherein he conceaveth or ment that booke might be not onely patterns for pryvat dyreccion and for matters of state, to instruct young men more shortly and old men more fully? "Where he hadd any warrant to sett down that Kyng H. the 2. never taxed the subject, or left 900000 li. in his coffers? "In what poynt were the othes unlawful taken by R. the 2. of his subjects? "When were any skattering forces sent in hys tyme into Ireland, and under whom, and what warrant hadd he to wryte so? "What moved hym to sett down that any were in dysgrace for their servys there? "What moved hym to sett down that the nobylyte were then hadd in contempt, or that they were but base that were culted about that Kyng? "What moved hym to sett down that the subjects were bound for their servys to the state, and not to the person of the Kyng? "What moved hym to maynteyn with arguments never mencyoned in the history, that yt myght be laweful for the subjects to depose the Kyng for any cause? "What moved hym to add unto yt so many presidentes off that kynd in alowans thereof? "What moved hym to alowe that ys well for comen weal that the Kyng is dead? "What was the true caws of settyng forth this symple story in this tyme, and thus fortefyed with arguments to the worst sens, omytt every princypal poynt that made agaynst the Traytors or Rebelles? "Myght he thynke that thys hystory, sett forth in sort as yt ys, wold not be very dangerous to come amongst the comon sort of people? "Whom he made prevy to hys purpos of wrytyng thys hystory, and what alowans gave they of it, where and when? "Who were the anymatters of you to sett forth thys story, and to what end? "When did you fyrst resolve to sett forth this hystory, and where and at what tyme did you begynne yt? "By what meanes came you to the records of these thyngs which you have sett down to have been done in that tyme?"[7] Then follows an Epistle to the reader, vindicating the book from intending any attack on the present times; thus,