[63] Grafton’s account of this affair is very picturesque:--“The which town of Builleyne, he, King Henry VIII., so sore assaulted, and so besieged with such abundance of great ordnance, that never was there a more valyaunt assaut made, for beside the undermyning of the castell, tower, and walles, the towne was so beaten with ordinaunce, that there was not left one house whole therein. In the morning the Duke of Suffolk rode into Bulleyne, to whom in the king’s name they delyvered the keyes of the towne; and at afternoone departed out of Bulleyne all the Frenchemen. The last person that came forthe was Monsire de Verinne, graund captaine of the towne, which, when he approched near where the kinge stoode, he alighted from his horse, and came to the kinge. And after he had talked with him a space, the kinge toke him by the hande, and he reverently kneeling upon his knees, kissed his hand, and afterward mounted upon his horse and so departed. The xviii. day the kingis highnesse, having the sworde borne naked before him, like a noble and valyaunt conqueror rode into Bulleyne, and all the trumpetters standing on the walles of the towne, sounded their trumpettes, to the great comfort of all the kinges true subiectes, the same beholding.”--Vol. ii. 492. [64] Arundel affirmed that the only method of making atonement for their past offences, was by a speedy return to the duty which they owed to their lawful sovereign; the motion was seconded by Pembroke, who clapping his hand to his sword, swore that he was ready to fight any man that expressed himself of a contrary sentiment.--Hume, 373. [65] This however did not “enable him to ascertain, according to the old English proverb, the exact length of her Majesty’s foot!”--Anon. [66] Shakspeare, in his Richard the Third, has introduced this incident into the opening scene of the battle. NORFOLK. This found I in my tent this morning. [_Giving a scroll._ RICHARD. [_reads_] “Jocky of Norfolk, be not too bold, For Dickon, thy master, is bought and sold.” A thing devised by the enemy. _Then dismissing them, continues_: Go, gentlemen--every man unto his charge, Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls; Conscience is but a word that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe; Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law. King Richard III. act v. sc. 3. [67] History of Framlingham and its Lords, p. 89, 90. R. Green. [68] Hist. of Framlingham, note, p. 90. [69] Sir Walter Scott’s Lay of the Last Minstrel. [70] Arundelian Marbles, called also the Parian Chronicle, are ancient stones on which is inscribed, in capital letters, a chronicle of the city of Athens, supposed to have been engraved in the island of Paros, 264 years before Christ. They take their name from the Earl of Arundel, who procured them from the East, or from this Earl, his grandson, who, as above stated, presented them to the University of Oxford.