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A29168	A complete history of England from the first entrance of the Romans under the conduct of Julius Cæsar unto the end of the reign of King Henry III ... : wherein is shewed the original of our English laws, the differences and disagreements between the secular and ecclesiastic powers ... and likewise an account of our foreign wars with France, the conquest of Ireland, and the actions between the English, Scots and Welsh ... : all delivered in plain matter of fact, without any reflections or remarques by Robert Brady ...	Brady, Robert, 1627?-1700.	1685 (1685)	Wing B4186; ESTC R19638	1,289,549	1,106

Barons about the King who told him that the Bishops were more intent upon Erecting Castles than their Function or Offices and no doubt but they were built for his destruction and that when the Empress came over they would assist and deliver them to her as being obliged to it by the Memory of the Favours they had received from her Father perswading him they were to be forced to give up their Castles to him He readily heard them and took the first occasion to put their Advice in Execution Which was done after this Manner At Oxford about the 24 th of June was a [5.] Ibidem n 40 50. f. 103. a. lin 1. c. An Affray between the Servants of the Bishops of Salisbury and Lincoln and the Servants of the Earl of Britanny The Bishops brought before the Kings Court. Ordered to deliver their Castles to the King Meeting of the Great Men where were these two Bishops William of Malmsbury reports he heard the Bishop of Salisbury say he had no mind to the Journey and undertook it with great Reluctancy for that he could be of no use to the King and so it happened that the Reteiners and Servants of the Bishops and the Reteiners and Servants of Alan Earl of Britanny quarrelled about taking up Lodgings from Words it came to Blows many were wounded and one Knight killed but the Bishops Men were superior in the Conflict The King takes the advantage Commanded the Bishops to be Convented that they might satisfie his Court for that their Men and Servants had broken the Peace and the satisfaction was to be the delivery of their Castles to the King as security for their Faith They were willing to give satisfaction but considering whether they should yield up their Castles he commanded they should be kept with greater strictness lest they should make their escapes They delay to do it and are kept with greater strictness Roger Bishop of Salisbury was carried unbound and his Son Roger the Chancellor of England which he had by Maud of Ramesbury his Concubine was carried in Fetters before the Castle of Devises which his Nephew Nigell Bishop of Ely who fled from Oxford thither held out against the King The Castles of Salisbury They deliver their Castles Sherborn and Malmesbury were delivered upon the first demand and the Devises after three days the Bishop of Salisbury of his own accord without force resolving to fast until it was in the Kings possession that he might incline his Nephew to yield who otherwise would have defended it as long as he could His other Nephew Alexander Bishop of Lincoln purchased his Liberty by rendring his Castle speedily Ordericus Vitalis tells this Story otherwise He [6.] F. 919. D. 920. A. B. The foregoing Story differently reported by Ordericus Vitalis Episcopi pellex principalem munitionem servabat William de Ipre threatens to starve the Bishop of Salisbury and hang the Chancellor of England if the Bishop of Ely delivered not the Castle of Devises says Walran Earl of Mellent and his Brother Robert with Alan Earl of Britanny sought occasion of Quarrel with the Bishops and that after the Affray when the Bishops Roger and Alexander were taken the Bishop of Ely escaped to the Castle of Devises and fortified it in which Maud of Ramesbury the Bishop of Salisbury's Harlot kept the chief Place of Strength The King hearing of this was very angry and sent William of Ipre a Flemming before with an Army to take in the Castle who carried Roger the Bishop and Roger the Chancellor with him and swore the Bishop should not eat until it was delivered to him and further erecting Gallows before the Castle Gate threatned forthwith to Hang the Chancellor Maud to redeem her Son sent to the King that she would surrender the Keep or chief Place of Strength she was in which forced the Bishop of Ely to give up the whole Castle in Consideration he might have his Liberty This Act of the King made a great noise [7.] Ib. n. 10. Hugh Arch-Bishop of Roven defends King Stephen Hugh Arch-Bishop of Roven a great Friend to and Defender of the Cause of King Stephen was of Opinion it was but just Bishops should be deprived of their Castles which were not built by allowance of the Canons Ecclesiastick they ought to be Evangelists of Peace not Architects of such Houses that were to be Places of Retreat and Security to them for their Evil Doings Henry Bishop of Winchester King Stephens Brother and the Popes Legat affirmed [8.] Ibidem n. 20 30 40 50. The Bishop of Winchester and Popes Legat commanded the King to appear in a Council of Bishops c That if Bishops transgressed in any thing they were not to be tried in the Kings Court but to be judged by the Canons nor to be deprived of any thing but by a publick and Ecclesiastical Council and forthwith commanded the King his Brother to be present in the Council he intended to hold at Winchester on the Twenty ninth day of August On that day appeared most of the Bishops of England A Council of Bishops at Winchester with Theobald Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Thurstan Arch-Bishop of York was excused both in respect of Health and present Care in the Defence of the North parts against the Scots The Popes Legat aggravates King Stephens supposed faul●s The Legat first produced his Commission from the Pope and then made a Latin Speech to the Clergy wherein he aggravated his Brothers Fact in that he should Command the Bishop of Salisbury to be taken in his Chamber at Court and the Bishop of Lincoln in his Lodgings without notice And Exhorting the Arch-Bishop and others to consult what was needful to be done telling them that for the loss of his Brothers Friendship or of his Possessions or Head he would not forbear to put in Execution the Decree of the Council The King not distrusting his Cause sent some of the Earls into the Council And was resolute against him to know why he was called thither The Legat immediately answered That he who was guilty of such a Crime as that Age never saw knowing himself to be a Christian ought not to take it hainously if he was called by the Ministers of Christ to make satisfaction They might therefore tell his Brother that if he would take his Advice by the help of God it should be such as neither the Roman Church the Court of France or their Brother Earl Theobald a Pious and Religious Man would find fault with which was That he should do wisely either presently to give a Reason of this Action or submit to the Judgment of the Canons The Earls when they had heard what was said went out and not long after returned again [9.] Ibidem b. lin 6. Rex Comitem Albericum de Ver ad Go●cilium misit M. Paris f. 77. n. 50. Alberic de Ver a Man much Exercised in Law Controversies accompanied

nor sent and of all such as depart without his Licence and keep them safe until further Order On the 24th of September the King [3] Pat. 48 Hen. 3. M. 3. Dors. wrote to the Sheriff of Oxford and Buckingham Shires to Command and Injoyn all Knights and Free-tenants in his Bailywic that were able to bear Arms and had Lands to the value of an Hundred Shillings or Ten Pounds a year under the penalty of losing all the Lands and Tenements they held in the Kingdom that they should come to him in their proper Persons with Horse and Arms where-ever he was in England in all haste to oppose the Strangers that were to come from beyond Sea who were to be furnished with Money for their Expences in the Army until Three Weeks after Michaelmass and the Sheriffs were to provide for the Expences of such as were not Able by taxing the County and also for the Expences of the Foot Matthew Westminster [4] f. 385. n. 10. What the King of France thought of the English says That almost all France as far as the Alps by the Instigation of the King of France Peter Earl of Savoy Boniface Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and the Elect of Lyons and other of the Queens Relations was in great Indignation with the English that behaved themselves Seditiously toward and Traiterously opposed their King which might raise a Suspicion in them of the Inclinations and willingness of those People to Assist the King but speaks not of any Shipping provided or Forces raised there to reduce them to Obedience Though the [5] Paris f. 996. n. 40 50. A. D. 1265. 49th Hen. 3. King was in the Custody of the Earl of Leicester and under his Power Richard King of Almain Prisoner in the Tower and their two Eldest Sons Prisoners and Hostages in Dover Castle Some Loyal Barons take up Arms against Montfort Yet there remained in the Marches of Wales several Stout and Loyal Barons Roger Mortimer Iames Audley Roger de Leyburn Roger de Clifford Hamo L'estrange Hugh Turbervile and many others being much troubled at the Usage of the King and Prince with one Consent took Arms against the Earl of Leicester They brake down the Bridges upon the River Severn and secured themselves in the Borders of Wales on the West side of it To Reduce these [6] Mat. Westm f. 389. n. 40 50. Montfort carries the King with him to oppose them Assumpsit secum Regem Henricum quem habuit adeo acclivem c. Montfort carried with him the obsequious King made so by Threats and marched with a great Army to Worcester And having his Fast Friend Leolin Prince of Wales to come upon the back of them they were forced to make a Peace on Condition they should leave the Nation for a year and deliver up their Castles to Leicester The Barons constreined to deliver up their Castles to him To which Terms they the more readily consented that Prince Edward might be freed of his Imprisonment by this Means Leicester became possessed of almost all the Castles upon the Marches from Bristol to Chester which City and Castle with the Earldom and Honour and the Appurtenances Prince Edward granted to him [7] Pat. 49 Hen. 3. M. 6. He made a plentiful provision for himself and Family under pretence of an Exchange before his Liberty could be Treated of which Grant was Confirmed by the King on the 20th of March following and also the [8] Cart 49 Hen. 3. M. 4. Castle and Honour of Pe● the Castle and Town of Newcastle Underline in Staffordshire were then granted with them to him and his Heirs And now all things being quiet in the [9] Mat. Westm f. 390. lin 7. Marches of Wales the King went toward Woodstock to keep his Christmass there And the Earl Fortune favouring him in all things he had contrived celebrated the same [1] Ibid lin 9. He Governs and Orders every thing in the Kingdom Feast at his Castle of Kenelworth At this time all England but the utmost North Parts of it which as yet held out against him by the Instigation of the King of Scots and John Baliol was subject to him [2] Ibid n. 10. The King only as a Shadow and always under a Guard all things were ordered by him all the Kings Castles were put into his hands Nor was the King that had now Reigned near fifty years any more than a Shadow so that he could not walk in his own Land without a Keeper and Guard and under the total Disposition of some other person And his [3] Ibid. f. 394. n. 30. Who were his Keepers Keepers usually were Montfort's Sons Hugh D'espenser and John Fitz-John the Earl of Glocester being excluded from the Custody of him whom they only feared as able to break this Confederacy They divide the Kings Castles and Forts among themselves All the Kings Castles and strong Forts of the Kingdom they divided amongst themselves and made the Kings capital Enemies Officers of his House There was also at this time much Discourse of [4] Ibid. n 40. Prince Edward purchaseth his Liberty Releasing Prince Edward which had continued almost a year until he had given him for his Liberty of being a Prisoner only at large the Earldom of Chester And for this [5] The Writ of Summons Cause chiefly and to Treat of some other Difficult Matters of the Kingdom was the famous Parlement of the 49th of this King called the first [a] Though the Keepers of the Peace in each County had Writs directed to them to send four Knig●t● to that Convention called a Parlement in June 48th of this King yet that was not a Parlement according to this Method and the Usage afterward for there was neither Citizens nor Burgesses nor any to Represent the Chapter of Cathedral Churches or the Ordinary Clergy and without doubt these four were of the Number of the small Barons or Tenants or Community in Capite and called to Represent them to give the more Credit to the Traiterous Ordinance then made Pattern of our Parlement since that time or from the eighteenth of Edward the First For the History whereof how it was summoned why called and the old way of Parlements at this time changed I refer the Reader to my Answer to Mr. Petyts Book of the Rights of the Commons asserted in my Introduction to the Old English History from fol. 136. F. to fol. 143. D. But Prince Edwards Release could not be agreed upon in this Parlement whatever other Business might be dispatch'd for there was another Treaty about it with the Great Men upon [6] Pat. 49 Hen. 3. n. 100. Thursday the morrow of Ash-Wednesday and the Discharge from the King to Henry Montfort his Keeper for the [7] Append. 219. Prince Edward still a Prisoner at large Receipt of his Body bears Date 10th of March and when he was released out of Dover Castle he