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A00525	Fabyans cronycle newly prynted, wyth the cronycle, actes, and dedes done in the tyme of the reygne of the moste excellent prynce kynge Henry the vii. father vnto our most drad souerayne lord kynge Henry the .viii. To whom be all honour, reuere[n]ce, and ioyfull contynaunce of his prosperous reygne, to the pleasure of god and weale of this his realme amen; Chronicle	Fabyan, Robert, d. 1513.	1533 (1533)	STC 10660; ESTC S121369	944,722	854

of pope Benet the .v. of that name And the thyrde cause was for that he occupyed the sayd Paule wythout lycence lefull authoryte of y e courte of Rome Than Stigandꝰ proued that benyuolence of kynge wyllyam For where before he made to him louyng and frendly countenaūce dyd vnto hym greate reuerence than he chaūged all his myldenesse into sternesse and exceuted hym by y e popes authoryte so that in the ende Stigandus was depryued of hys dygnytye and kepte in wynchester as a prysoner y e terme of hys lyfe It is recorded of hym that he was so couetous and sparyng y t he wold take nothynge of hys owne vsed to swere by Alhalowes that he had not one peny But that othe was proued vntrewe after hys deth by a lytell keye that was founde fastened about hys necke For by that keye was founden greate treasour vnder the erth in mo places than one In thys counsayle also were put downe dyuers other bysshoppes abbotes and pryours by the meanes of kynge wyllyam and all to the entent that he myghte preferre Normans to the rule of the chyrch as he hadde preferred hys knyghtes to the rule of the tēperaltye that he myght stande in the more suerty of the land In thys counsayle saynt wolstan̄ that than was bysshop of worceter axed besely of the kynge certayne possessyons fallen into hys handes by the deth of Aldredꝰ laste archbyshop of yorke that were wyth holden by y e sayd Aldredus But the kyng myght not here than of any suche maters for hurtyng of the lyberty of the chyrche of yorke Than vpon wytsonday after the kynge gaue the sayd archebysshopryche of yorke vnto Thomas a chanon of Bayon sent for Lamfrank an other Norman than abbot of Cadomonency and gaue vnto hym the archebysshopryche of Caunterbury Thys Lamfranke was an Italyan borne and was perfytely lerned in y e scyence of theologye or holy wrytte ryght apte in gouernynge of thynges bothe spyrytuall and temporall Upon our lady daye the Assumpcyō the kynge made hym archebysshop of Caūterbury Than Thomas that was chosen archebysshop of yorke came vnto Lamfranke for to be sacred as the vsage wolde Of whom Lamfranke axed an othe his professyon in wrytynge concernyng his obedyence Thomas answered and sayde that he wolde neuer do that but yf he myghte therof here suffycyent authoryte and skylfull reasons byndynge by the whyche it myght be knowen that he shulde so do with out any preiudyce of hys chyrche Than Lamfranke shewed and proued skylfully that hys askynge was reasonable and ryghtfull But yet Thomas wolde not assent but with sayde it and went for that tyme from Lamfrank vnsacred shewed vnto the kyng that Lamfranke entended to do wronge to hym and to his chyrche of yorke Than the kyng callyng Lamfrank before hym sayd than he trusted more in his cunnyng than he dyd in good fayth or reason But he answered so reasonably vnto y e kyng that in the ende Thomas by the cōmaundement of the kyng was fayne to come agayne to Lamfranke to be sacred and wrote hys professyō with hys owne hande of hys obedyence and radde it in the whyche was conteyned that he shulde be obedyent in all that belongeth to the worshyp of god and all crystē fayth ▪ which done he was sacred so deꝑted And shortly after Lamfranke axed toke professyō of all y e byshoppes of Englād THE CCXXI CHAPITER IN the .v. yere of wyllyam the conquerours reygne Edwyn and Marcharus erle of Mercia and of Northumberlande beynge in fere of daunger voyded y e kynges court secretly and were rebelles som what of tyme. But at length it turned to bothe theyr harmes For Edwyne was slayn as he went toward Scotlande and erle Marcharus wyth y e bysshop of Dorcham named Egelwynus toke the ile of Ely for theyr sauegarde But the kynge held them so shorte that in processe they were fayne to yelde them to the kynges grace and mercy Than he sent the bysshop to the abbey of Abyndon to be kept there as a prysoner where he was so dayntely fed that he dyed for hunger But some wryters testyfye that he was so hyghe herted that after he knewe he shuld remayne there as prysoner he wolde neuer ete mete after And erle Marcharus was had to the towre of London In the .vi. yere of hys reygne kyng wyllyam as before is touched went wyth a great army into Scotland and subdued Malco●yne theyr kynge as before I haue shewed in the precedynge chapyter In the .vii. yere of kyng wyllyam Thomas archebysshop of yorke not beynge content to be vnder the rule and obedyence of Lamfranke appealed to the courte of Rome so that the sayde two archbysshoppes appered both in proper persone before the pope Alexaunder afore named In whose presence Lamfranke was so well fauoured that where Thomas aboue named and Remigius byshop of Dorchester were for skylfull causes depryued of theyr croyses and rynges he by hys fauour meanes restored them to theyr former dygnytees The cause of Thomas was for that he had holpen duke wyllyam to warde hys iourney into Englande For the whyche the sayd duke promysed hym a bysshopryche yf he opteyned vyctory And y e other was depriued for y t he was proued a prestes sonne Than Thomas moued the cause of the prymacy of Caunterbury of subieccyon that to hym shuld belonge and sayde that these two sees were farre asonder that is to meane Caunterbury and yorke and that nother of them by the constytucyons of Gregory shulde be subiecte vnto other but that the one is more worthy than the other for so myche as he is of elder tyme. To thys answered Lamfranke and sayd that y e constytucyons of Gregory made no mencyō of Caūterbury but of yorke London Than the pope remytted thys mater to be determyned before y e kyng the byshoppes of England and gaue y e palle vnto Lamfranke But for this terme or word palle is to many one vnknowen I shall therfore here shewe vnto you what thynge it is This palle is an indument y ● euery archbyshop must haue is not in full authoryte of an archbyshoppe tyll he haue receyued hys palle of the pope and is a thynge of white like to y e breded of a stole But it is of a nother fassyon For where y e stole is made in length and is worne about the prestes necke thys is ioyned togyder aboue so that it lyeth a parte therof vppon the shulders And that one ende hangeth streyght downe to the grounde before and that other behynde garnysshed in dyuers places therof wyth crosses And where the stole is worne nexte vnto the albe whan the preste is reuested to masse thys palle is worne vpon thys vestymente ouermoste of all whan an archebysshoppe syngeth hys masse whan Lamfranke had thus sped hys nedys at Rome he wyth y e other two bysshoppes retourned into Englande where thys mater hangyng in varyaunce bytwene

neuew vnto Edward the confessour as before is shewed beganne hys domynyon ouer thys realme of Englande the .xv. daye of October in the yere of our lordes incarnacyon a thousand .lxvii and y e ix yere of the fyrste Phylyppe then kyng of Fraunce and was crowned kynge of the same vppon Crystmas daye nexte folowynge of Aldredus archbyshoppe of yorke for so myche as at that tyme Stigandus archbysshoppe of Caunterbury was then absent or durste not come in the p̄sence of the kynge to whome he ought no great fauour as in the sequele shall appere when wyllyam had sette in quyet a great parte of thys lande he betoke the gydyng therof to his brother the byshop of Bayon and in lent folowynge sayled into Normandye and led wyth hym the chefe rulers of England for doute of sturryng in tyme of his absence Amonge the whyche the two erles Marcarꝰ and Edwyne rulers of Northumberlande Mercia were two wyth also Stigandus and Edgare Ethelynge To the why the Stigandus wyllyam shewed great reuerence and coūtenaunce of fauoure But all proued to great dissymulacyon after as was shewed by the depryuynge of the sayd Stigandus and prysonment of hym in wynchester towne by a longe terme and season In the next wynter whan wyllyam had sped hys besynesse in Normandy he retourned into England wyth greate pompe and sette a greuous trybute vpon the Englyshmen By reason wherof some partyes of the lande rebelled agayne hym and specyally the cytye of Excetour the whyche defended hym for a certayne of tyme. But lastly by force he wanne the sayde cytye and punysshed the cytesyns greuously For thys and other sterne dedes of wyllyam Marcharus erle of Northumberlande wyth Edgare Athelynge and dyuers other as hys moder and two systers Margarete and Crystyan sayled into Scotlande But another cronycle telleth y t Edgare entendynge wyth Agatha hys moder and hys two systers to haue sayled into Almayne where he was borne was by tempest of the see dryuen into Scotlande where of Malcolyne than kynge of Scottes they were ioyously receyued And in processe of tyme the sayde Malcolyne caste suche loue vnto the sayd Margaret that he toke her to wyfe as before is touched in the fyrste chapyter of the story of Canutꝰ Of the which Margaret the sayde Malcolyne receyued .ii. doughters and .vi. sonnes wherof thre named Edgare Alexaūder Dauyd were kynges of Scotlande nexte folowynge theyr fader And Molde one of y e foresayd doughters was after maryed vnto the fyrst Henry kynge of Englande And the other doughter Mary was maryed to Eustace erle of Bolongii Of Molde the fyrste doughter Henry receyued .ii. sonnes named wyllyam and Rychard the whych bothe dyed before theyr fader as after in y e story of the sayd Henry shall appere And he receyued also two doughters named Molde and Mary whych Molde or Mawde was maryed to y e fyfte Henry emperour of Almayne After whose deth she was agayne maryed to Godfrey of Geoffrey Plātagenet erle of Aungeowe Of whom descended Henry surnamed shorte mantell and kynge of Englande called Henry the seconde And the other doughter Mary was maryed vnto the erle of Blaynes of whō descended Molde or Mawde that was wyfe vnto kynge Stephen Than it foloweth that thys wyllyam after thys foresayd trybute so leuyed of the Englysshemen and knowynge of the depertynge of the lordes foresayde kepte the other the streyter But it was not longe after that Marcharus was reconsyled to the kynges grace and fayled agayn as folowynge shall be shewed For thys and other causes whyche were tedyous to shewe wyllyam exalted the Normans and gaue vnto them the chyefe possessyons of the lande so that they dayly encreased in great honour and welth and the Englysh men as faste decayed Kynge wyllyā also made .iiii. stronge castels where of two be sette at yorke the thyrde at Lyndetyngham or Notynghm and manned them wyth Normans and the .iiii. at Lyncolne About the thyrde yere of his reygne Harolde Canutus sonnes of Swanus kynge of Denmarke came on lande in the North of Humber wyth a stronge nauy and in all haste drew them towarde yorke Than the Normans whyche hadde the rule of the towne and castelles feryng that the Englysshemen wolde ayde the Danys and wyth the houses of the suburbes of the towne haue fylled the towne dyches sette the suburbes on fyre wherof y e flame was so bygge and wyth the wynde so stronge that it toke into the cytye brent a parte therof wyth the mynster of saynt Peter In tyme wherof the Danys by fauour of some of the citesyns entred the cytye and slewe more than thre thousande of the Normans But it was not longe or kynge wyllyam chased the Danys to theyr shyppes and toke so greate dyspleasure wyth the inhabytauntes of that prouynce that he destroyed the land lyenge bytwene yorke and Durham in suche wyse that .ix. yeres after or there about the lande laye vnlabored vntylled onely out taken saynt Iohn̄s lande of Beuerley the which was for borne by reason of a wreche done by dyuyne power vpon one of kynge wyllyams knyghtes The whych as he was besyed in wastyng and spoylynge of the sayde countre fyll sodeynly wyth hys horse so that hys horse brake hys necke and the knyghtes face was turned to his backe And of the famyne that the people of that countre susteyned wonders are reported that they shuld eate all maner of vermyn as cattes rattes dogges other so harde they were kepte by the warre of the kyng And in that yere also Molde or Mawde the wyfe of kynge wyllyā was crowned quene of England of Aldredus archebysshop of yorke In the .iiii. yere of the reygne of thys kynge the Scottes with Malcolyne theyr kynge entred Northumberlande and wasted and destroyed sore that countre and slewe there in myche people and many they toke prysoners helde thē as bonde men But in the .vi. yere of hys kyngdome wyllyam made such warre vppon the Scottes that he lastely forced the sayde Malcolyne to swere to hym bothe homage and feauty as it is wytnessed of wyllyam of Malmesbery and other wryters THE CCXX CHAPITER Kynge willyam by counsayle of the erle of Hortford and other caused the abbeyes of Englande to be serched And what money in them at that season was founde he caused it to be brought to hys treasour For the whyche dede after the exposycyō of some authours the sayd erle was punysshed as after shall be shewed Soone vpon thys in the tyme by twene Easter and wytsontyde was holden a solempne counsayle at wynchester of the clergy of Englande At the whyche counsayle were presente two cardynalles sent from y e second Alexaunder than pope In thys coūsayle Stygandus archebysshop of Caūterbury was depryued from his dygnytye and that for thre skylles The fyrste was for that he had holden wrongfully that bysshopryche whyle Robert the archebysshop was lyuynge The seconde cause was for that he hadde receyued the Paule