out of that beym rome vij bemes full clere long as it were the light fier ¶ This sterne was seyn of mony a man but none of them wist wat it betokened ¶ vter that wos the kynges brother that wos iÌ„ wales with his host of bretoÌ„s saw that sterre Ì„ the gret light that it yaf he woÌ„dred ther of gretli what it myght betokeÌ„ Ì„ let call MerliÌ„ prayed hiÌ„ for to tell what it myght betoken ¶ Of the betokenyng of the stere MErlin saw that starre Ì„ beheld him long tyme and sithen he quoke and weped tendirli And sayed alas alas that so nobull a kyng and worthy is deid ¶ And I doo you to vnder stand that Aurilambros your brother is enpeysened and that I se well iÌ„ this sterre Ì„ yourself is betokeÌ„d bi the heed of the dragoÌ„ that is seiÌ„ at the bought of the beem that is yourself that shal be kyng Ì„ regne ¶ And by the beem that standeth toward the est is vnderstoÌ„d that ye shall get a son that shal conquere al fraunce all the landes that belongeth to the croune of fraunce that shal be a worthier kyng Ì„ of more honour than euer wos ony of his auncetours ¶ And bi the beem that strechys toward Irland is betokened that ye shall get a doughter that shall be quene of Irland ¶ And the vij bemes betokene that ye shall haue vij sonnis euerichon of them shall be kyng regne with moch honour abyde ye no longer heir but goth yef bataill to your enmys Ì„ fight with them bodely for ye shall ouer cuÌ„ them and haue the victori ¶ vter thanked hertely Merlyn toke his men and went toward his enmy Ì„ they foughten to gedre mortali so he discomfited his enmy them distroyed And him self kylled Passent that wos vortiger son ¶ And his bretons killed Guillomer that wos kyng of Irland Ì„ all his men ¶ And vter anone after that bataill toke his way toward winchester for to done entere Aurilambros kiÌ„g that wos his brother ¶ But tho was the body borne to stonheÌ„ge with moch honour that he had done made in remembrance of the bretons that ther wer slaiÌ„ thurgh treson of Engist that sam day that they shuld haue bene accordid in the same place they entered aurilambros the secuÌ„d yere of his regne with al the worshipe that myght belong to sich a kiÌ„g of whos soull god haue meâ—ci ¶ Of vter pendragon and werfor he was called so ye shall here And how he was ouer take wyth the loue fe Igerne that was the Erle of Cornewaill wife AFter the deth of aurilambros vter his broder wos crouned and regned well and worthely and in remembrance of the dragon that he wos likened to he let make ij dragons thurgh councell of his bretons Ì„ made that one for to be borne before hiÌ„ when he went in to bataill and that other to abide at winchester in the bisshoppis chyrche ¶ And for that cause he wos called euer after vter peÌ„dragoÌ„ ¶ And Otta that was Engistes son commendid vter bot lytell that wos made new kyng and ayens him begon to meue were and ordined a gret company of his frendis of his kin of Ossa his brother had takeÌ„ all the land froÌ„ humber vn to yorke but tho of yorke held strongly ayenes them and nold not suffer them to cuÌ„ iÌ„ to the cite nother to yeld the cite to heÌ„ he beseged the toune anoÌ„e right yaf therto a strong assaut bot they of the cite hem keped well Ì„ stroÌ„gly ¶ And wheÌ„ vter herd ther of he come theder with a gret pouer for to help rescu the toune Ì„ put away the sege yaf a stroÌ„g bataill Otta Ì„ his coÌ„pany them defeÌ„did as well as they myght but at the last they wer discoÌ„fitid the most ê‘t of them slaiÌ„ Ì„ Otta Ossa wer takeÌ„ put iÌ„ prison at london ¶ And vter hiÌ„ self duelled a while at yorke Ì„ after he went to london Ì„ at the estir after he wold bere croune hold a solempne fest and let somen all his Erles and Barons that thei shuld cum to that fest and all tho that had wyfes shuld bringe them also to that fest and all comeÌ„ at the kynges cummandmeÌ„t as they wer cummaundid ¶ The fest wos richely arrayed Ì„ holdyn and all worthely set to mete after that they wer of astat so that the erle Gorloys of Cornwaill Igern his wif setâ—Ì„ alther next the kiÌ„g Ì„ the kiÌ„g saw the fairnes of that lady that she had ¶ And wos rauysshed for hir beaute Ì„ oft he made to hir nyse sembland iÌ„ lokiÌ„g laughyng so at the last the erle ê‘ceyued the preue lokiÌ„g Ì„ laughyng the loue bitwen them ros vp froÌ„ the â—aâ—ullull iÌ„ wroth teke is wife Ì„ called to hiÌ„ his knyghtes Ì„ went thens all in wroth with out takiÌ„g leue of the kiÌ„g The king anone sent after hym that he shuld cum ayen and goo not thens in despite of hym ¶ And the Erle wold not cum ayene iÌ„ no maner of wise ¶ Wherfor the kyng wos full wroth and in wrath hym deffied as his deidly enmy And the Erle went thens in to cornewaill with his wife in to the Castell of Tyntagell ¶ And the kyng let ordin a gret host come in to Cornwaill for to distruy the Erle if that he myght but he had put hym iÌ„ sich a castell that was strong and well arayed of Tyntagell wold not yeld hym to the kyng and the kyng anone beseged the castel ther duelled xv dayes that neuer myght sped euer thought vpoÌ„ Igerne vpoÌ„ hir laid so moch loue that he not wist to done So at the last he called to hym a knyght that was callid vlfyn that wos preue with him told hiÌ„ all his councell and axed of him what wos best for to done ¶ Sir qd he doth send after Merlyn anone for he can tell you the best counsell of oÌ„ny man leuyng Merlin anone was sent after come to the kyng and the kyng told him all his councell his will ¶ Sir qd Merlin I shall done so moche thurgh craft that I can that I shall make you cuÌ„ this nyght iÌ„ to the castell of Tyntagell shall haue all your will of that lady ¶ How vter bigat on Igerne that wos the Erlis wife of cornewaill Arthur kyng MErlyn thurgh craft that he coud changed the kynges figure iÌ„ to the liknesse of the Erle Ì„ vlfyn garlois his chaÌ„berlayn in to the figure of iordan that wos the Erles chambirlayn So that yche of them wos transfigured to oder lekenesse ¶ And when Merlyn had so done he sayed to the kyng Sir qd he now may ye go sodenly to the castell of Tyntagell axen
accordid not to the kind blod of englond And if so gret lordis had bene onli weddid to english pepull than shuld pees haue bene and rest amonges them with owt any enuy ¶ And at that bataill was roger Clifford take sir IohnÌ„ monbray sir willm Tuchit sir willm Fitz willm Ì„ moÌ„y other worthy knyghtys ther wer take at that bataill And sir hugh Dandell the next day after wos taken Ì„ put iÌ„ to prison and shuld haue be done to deth if he had not spoused the kyngê nece that was erle Gilbertis sustre of Glocestre ¶ And anoÌ„e after wos sir Bartholomew of badelsmere taken at stowe paarke a maner of the bisshoppis of Lyncolne that wos his nepheu Ì„ mony other barons Ì„ banerâ—ttz wherfore wos made moch sorow ¶ How Thomas of Lancastre wos heded at pounâ—fret .v. barons honged and drawen ther. ANd now I shall tell yow of the nobull erle Thomas of Lancastre when he wos taken and brought to yorke moÌ„y of the Cite wer full glad and vpon him cried with an high vois O sir traitour ye er welcome blissid be god for now shall ye haue the reward that long tyme ye haue deserued cast vpon him mony snowe balles and mony other reproues they did him bot the gentill erle all suffred Ì„ said nothir on word ne other ¶ And in the same tyme the king herd of this same scomfiture and wos full glad Ì„ in hast come to PouÌ„tfret sir hugh spenser sir hugh his son sir IohnÌ„ erle of Arundell Ì„ sir Edmond of wodestoke the kynges brother erle of Kent and sir Aymer of valaunce erle of Penbroke and master Robert Baldoke a fals piled clarke that was priue duellid in the kynges courte all come theder with the kyng and the kyng entred iÌ„ to the castell ¶ And sir Andrew of Herkela a fals tirant thurgh the kynges commaundement toke with him the gentill erle Thomas to PouÌ„tfret Ì„ ther he was prisoned in his own castell that he had new made that stode ayen the abbey of kyng Edward ¶ And sir hugh the spenser the fader his son cast Ì„ thought how in what maner the good erle Thomas of Lancastre shÌ„uld be dede with out ony Iugement of hys perys ¶ Wherfore it was ordened thurgh the kyngê Iustices that the kiÌ„g shold put vpon him pointes of treson ¶ And so it befell that he was led to barre before the kiÌ„gis Iustis barehed as a thef in a fair hall in his own castell that he had made ther in moÌ„y a fair fest both to rich and to poer ¶ And thes wer his Iustises sir Hugh spenser the father Aymer of valauÌ„ce erle of peenbroke sir EdmoÌ„d of wodestoke erle of kent sir IohnÌ„ of Bretan erle of Richemond sir Robert of Malemethrop Iustice sir roberte him a coulpid in this maner ¶ Thomas at the frist owr lord the kyng this court excludeth you of all maner ansuere ¶ Thomas our lord the kyng putteth vpon yow that ye haue in his land riden with banner displayed ayens his pes as a tratoure And with that worde the gentill erle Thomas with an high vois said nay lordis forsoth bi sent Thomas I was neuer traytour ¶ The Iustice said ayen tho ¶ Thomas our lord the kyng puteth vpon you that ye haue robbed his folk and mordred his pepull as a thefe ¶ Thomas also the kyng put vpon you that he discomfited you and your pepull with his folkd in his own reame wherfor ye went and fled to the wodde as an outlawe ¶ And also ye were taken as an outlawe ¶ And Thomas as a traitour ye shall be hanged by reson but the kiÌ„g hath for yef you that Iewes for loue of quene Isabell ¶ And thomas reson wold also that ye shuld be hanged but the kiÌ„g hath for yef you that Iewes for cause and loue of your linage ¶ But Thomas For os moch as ye wer take fleyng Ì„ as an outlaw the king wyll that your hede shall be smyte of as ye haue well deserued Anone doth him out of prece and anone bring him to his iugement ¶ The gentill knyght Thomas had herd all thes wordis with an high vois he cried sore wepyng and said alas sent thomas fair fader Alas shall I be dede thus ¶ Graunte me now blissidfoll god ansuer but all a vailled him nothyng For the cursed Gascoyns put him hither thedder and on him cried with an high vois O kyng Arthur most dredfull well knawen is now thyn open traitorie an euell dethe shalt thow die has thow hast it well diseruyed ¶ And tho they set vpen his hede in scorn an hold chapelet that wos all to rent that wos not worth an half penne ¶ And after that they set him vpon a leue white palfra full vn semeli and eke all bare and with an hold bridell and with an horribul noise they droue him out of the Castell toward his deth and they cast vpon him mony balles of snowe iÌ„ disspite ¶ And as the traitoris lad him out of the Castell tho saied he this pytouse wordis and his handes held vp on hight toward the heuen Now the kyng of heuen yef vs merci for the erthely kyng hath vs forsakyn And a frere prechour wenten with him out of the castell till that he com to the place that he endid his lyfe vn to whom he shrofe him all his life ¶ And the gentill erle held the frere wonder fast by the clothis and said to him fair fadre abide with vs till that I be dede for my flesh quaketh for drede of deth ¶ And the soth for to say the gentill erle set him vpon his knees and turned him toward the est but a ribaud that was called Higone of Moston set hand vpon the gentill erle and saied in despite of him Sir traytour turne the toward the scottes thy soule dede to vnderfenge and turned him toward the Northe ¶ The nobull erle Thomas ansuered tho with a myld vois said now fair lordis I shall done your will And with that woide the frere went from him sore wepyng and anone a ribaude went to him and smote of his hede the xi Kal. of Auerell in the yere of grece M.ccc xxi ¶ Alas that euer such a geÌ„till blod shall be done to deth with out cause and reson ¶ And tratorsly wos the kyng couÌ„cellid wheÌ„ he thurgh the fals counsell of the speÌ„sers suffred sir Thomas his vncles son to be put to such a deth so bene heded ayens all maner of reson and gret pitte it was also that such a nobull kyng shÌ„uld be desceiued mysgouerned thurgh counsell of the fallis spenseres the wich tho he maiÌ„teneyd thorow loselrie ayens his honour and eke ê“fite For afterward ther fell gret vengeaunce in englond for encheson of the foresaid Thomas deth ¶ When the gentill
for as moch as thou hast bene orped in thy dedis he ded to the moch honour and made the erle of Cardoill thou as a traytour to thi lord the kyng ladest his pepull of his cuntre that shuld haue holpe him at the bataill of Beiland and thou ladest them a way by the cuntre of Copeland and thurgh the Erledom of of lancastre Wherfor our lord the kyng was discomfited ther of the scottis thurgh thy treson and falsenesse And if thou hadest comen be tymes he had had the bataill and tresō thou diddest for the gret soume of gold and siluer that thou vnderfenge of Iames Douglas a scot the kynges enmye ¶ And our lord the kyng will that the ordir of knyghod by the which thou vnderfeng all thyn honoor and worship vpon thy body be al brought to nought thi estate vndone that other knyghttes of lawer degre mow after be war the wich lord hath the a vaūced hugli in diuerse cuntreis in Englond that all may take exsample by the ther lord afterward trewly for to serue ¶ Tho commanded he a knaue anone to hewe of his spors on his heles And after he let brake the swerd ouer his hede the wich the kyng yaf him to kepe ̄ defēd his land ther with when he had made him erle of Cardoill ¶ And after he let him be vnclothed of his furred tabard ̄ of his hode of his furred cotes and of his gurdel when this wos don sir Antonye said vn to him Andrew quod he now art thow no knyght bot a knaue ̄ for thi treson the kyng will that thow shalt bene honged and drawe ̄ thyn hede smyten of ̄ thi bowelels taken out of thy body ̄ brent before the thy body quartired thyn he desent to london and ther it shall stond vpō londō brigge and the .iiij. quarters shall be sent to iiij toūes of englond that all other may be war ̄ chastised bi the. ¶ And as Antonye said so it was done all maner thyng in the last day of October In the yere of grace M ccc xxij yere ¶ And the sone turned in to blod as the pepull it saw that durid from the morne till it was xi of the cloke of the day ¶ Of the myracles that god wrought for sent thomas of Lancastre wherfore the kyng let close in the chirche doris of the Priore of pountfret that no mā shuld cum therin to the body for to offren ANd sone after that the good erle Thomas of Lancastre was martired ther was a prest that long tyme had be blind dremed in his slepyng that he shuld gone vn to the hill ther that the good erle thomas of lancastre wos done vn to deth and he shold haue his sight ayen and so he dremed .iij nyghtis fewyng ¶ And the prest let lede him to the same hill And when he com to that place that he was martirid on full deuoutly he made ther his praiers ̄ prayed god ̄ sent Thomas that he myght haue his sight ayen os he was in his praiers he laid his right hand vpō the same place that the good man was martired on ̄ a drope of dry blod smale sand cleued on his hand ther with striked his eeyn And anone thurgh the might of god of sent Thomas of Lancastre he had his sight ayen and thanked tho almyghty god and sent Thomas ¶ And whē this miracle wos knowen among men the pepull come thider on euery side and knelid made ther praiers at his toumbe that is in the priorie of pountfret and praied that holy merter of socour and of help god herd ther prayer ¶ Also ther wos a yong child drenched in a well in the toune of poūtfret wos dede .iij. dais ̄ iij. nyghtis men come ̄ laid the deid child vpō sent Thomas tombe the holy marter the childe arose from deth to liue as mony a man it saw ¶ And also moch pepull wer owt of ther mynd and god hath sent them ther mynd ayen thurgh uertu of that holy martir ¶ And also god hath yeuen ther also to crippils ther goyng ̄ to crokid ther handis ther fete and to blind also ther sight· ̄ to mony seke folke ther helth of diuerse maladies for the loue of this good martir ¶ Also ther wos a rich mā in Coundom in gascoyn ̄ such a maladie he had that all his right side roted and fell away frō hī that men myght se his liuer his hert so he stonke that vnneth men might cū ny hī wherfor his frēdis wer for hī wōder sori bot at the last as god wold they praid to sent Thomas of lancastre that he wold prai to almyghty god for that prisoner ̄ behight to go to Pountfret for to done ther pilgrimage he thoht that the mertir sent Thomas cō to him annoynted ouer all his sike body ¶ And ther with the good man awoke wos all hole his fleshe wos restorid ayen that before wos roted fallen away ¶ For wich miracle the good man his frēdis loued god sent Thomas euer mere after ¶ And this good man come ī to englōd ̄ toke with hī iiij felowes come to poūtfret vn to that holy marter ̄ did ther pilgrimage ̄ the good man that was seke come theder all naked safe his priue clothis ¶ And whē they had done they turned home ayen ī to ther own cūtre told of the miracle wher so euer that they come ¶ And also ij mē haue be heled ther of the mormale thurgh helpe of that holy marter though that euell be holdē incurabull ¶ And whē the spensers herd that god did such miracles for this holi mā they nold be leue it ī no maner wise ▪ bot said opēli that it was grete heresi such vertu of hī to beleue ¶ And when sir hugh the spenser the son saw all this doyng anōe he sent his messanger frō pountfret ther that he duellid to the kīg Edward that tho wos at Grauen at Scipton for cause that the kīg shold vndo that pilgrimage ¶ And os the ribaud the messīger went toward the kīg for to done his message he come bi the hill ther the good marter was don to deth ̄ in the same place he made his ordure And when he had don he went toward the kīg a strong flix come vpō him or that he come to yorke tho he shedde all his bowels at his foūdement ¶ And when sir hugh the spenser herd this tydīg somedele he was a drad ̄ thought for to vn do the pilgrimage if he myght by ony maner way ¶ And anōe to the kīg he went said that they shuld be in gret sklander thurgh out all cristīdom for the deth of Thomas of Lancastre if that he suffred the
Reignold that wos Gonedag son rened Gorbodian that wos this Reignold son xv yere Ì„ then he died lieth at yorke ¶ How gorbodian had ij sonnys how that one slew the other for to haue the heritage And how ydoyne ther modre killed thatt other wherfor the land was destruied WHen this Gorbodian was deid his .ij. soÌ„nys that he had become stout proude euer wered to geder for the land Ì„ the one was called Ferres Ì„ other Porres And this ferres wold haue all the land but the other woldnat suffre him this ferres had a felons hert thought thurgh tresoÌ„ to slee his brother but preualy he weÌ„t iÌ„ to fraunce ther abode with the kiÌ„g Syward till vpoÌ„ a tyme whan he come ayene Ì„ fought with his brother ferres but ful euell it happed tho for he was slayn fyrst wheÌ„ ydoyne ther moder wist that Porres was deid she made gret sorow for enchesoÌ„ that shee loued hym more theÌ„ that other Ì„ thought him for to kyll preualy ¶ And preuely she come to hir son vpoÌ„ a nyght with ij knyues therwith cut his throt the bodi also iÌ„ to small peces who herd euer suche a cursed moder that kyllid with hir owne handes hir own son and long tyme after last the reproue Ì„ shame to the moder that for enchesun of that one son she murdred the other Ì„ so lost them bothe ¶ How .iiij. kynges courtasly held all Breten and what be ther names ye shall heyr after WHen the ij brethern war deid they nad left behynd them nother son ne doughter ne noÌ„e other of the kynred that myght haue the heritage Ì„ for as moch as the strangest meÌ„ driueÌ„ scomfited the feblest Ì„ toke all ther londes so that in euery coÌ„tre they had gret were Ì„ strife vnder them but emong all other thynges ther were amoÌ„ges them iÌ„ the contre that ouer come all tho other Ì„ thurgh ther myght Ì„ strenght they tuke all the londes Ì„ euery of them tok a certayn coÌ„tre iÌ„ his contre let call hiÌ„ kyng Ì„ con of theÌ„ was cald Scater Ì„ he wos kiÌ„g of scotland that other wos called Dawaliere Ì„ he was kiÌ„g of loegers Ì„ of all the land that wos Lotrins thatt wos Brutes son The thrid was called Rudac and he was kyng of walis And the iiij was called Cloten Ì„ was kiÌ„g of Cornewaill but this Cloten shold haue had all the land by reson for be cause thar wos no maÌ„ that wist noÌ„e so right heir os he was butt they that were strongest set litell bi hem that wer of lesse estate and therfor this cloteÌ„ had nomore laÌ„d amoÌ„g hem but cornwaill ¶ Of kyng Donebant that was Clotens son wone the lond THis Cloten had a son that was called Doneband that after the deth of his fadre by come an hardy man and a fair and a curteys so that he passed all the other kingê of fairnes Ì„ of worthenesse And a none as he was knyght he wist well that when his fader lyued he was most rightfull heir of all the loÌ„d and shold haue had by reson but other kynges that were of moch more strength than he toke from hym his lond ¶ And afterward this Doneband ordeyned him gret pouer and conquered fyrst all the land of Logeris a and after he wold haue conquered all the land of scotland and wailles and Scat came with his meÌ„ and yaf him batell and Rudac come ayene with his walys men for to help hym but so it be fell that Rudac wos kylled also Scater iÌ„ playn bataill and so Doneband had the victorie and conquerid all the land and well maintined it in pees and in quiete that neuir befor it was so well mayntined ¶ How doneband was the frist kyng that euer bore croune of gold in bretan THys Doneband let make hym a croune of gold and wered the croune vpon his hede as neuer kiÌ„g did bifore and he ordyened a statut that and a man had done neuer so moch harme and myght comeÌ„ in to the tempull ther shold no man hym mysdo but gone ther in safete and in pees and after goin to what lond or cuÌ„tre that hym plesed with owt ony harme â–ª and if ony man sett any hond vpon hym he than shold lese his life And this Doneband made the toun of Malmesberi and the toune also off the vise And when he had regned well worthely xl yere then he died and lyeth at new Troy ¶ How Bronne and Belin deê‘ted bitweyn them the lond after the deth of Doneband ther fadre and of the were be twix them ANd after that this Doneband wos deid his soÌ„nys that he had deê‘ted the land bitweyn them as ther fader had ordeyned so that belyn his eldest son had all the land of bretan from humbar southward And his brotherbrenne had all the land from humber to ScotlaÌ„d but for as moch that BeliÌ„ had the better part Brenne therfor waxed wroth wold haue had more of the lond Ì„ belyn his brother wold greunte hym nomore wherfor coÌ„take were a roso betweyn them two But brenne the yonger brother had no myght ne strenght a yens belyn Ì„ therfor brenne thurgh coÌ„sell of hys folke weÌ„t fro thens iÌ„ to norwey to the kyng Olsinges prayd him of help socour for to coÌ„quer all the lond vpoÌ„ belin his brother vpon that connaund that he wold haue his doughter to wise Ì„ the kyng Olsinges him graÌ„ted belyn anoÌ„e as his brother wos a go to norway he seysed iÌ„ to his hond all the land of northhuÌ„berloÌ„d Ì„ toke all the castelles Ì„ let them be arayed and keped the costes of the see that brenne shold not arriue iÌ„ no sied but that he war take ¶ The kyng ol singes let assemble a gret host and deliueryd his doughter to brenne all the pepull that he had ordeyned Ì„ this damisell Samye had long tyme loued a kyng that wos called Gutlaghen and to hym she told all hir counselÌ„ how that Brenne shold hir haue hir lede with hym for euer more so he shold lese hir but that she myght for sake brenne And whan gutlagh had herd this tydiÌ„g he lay for to aspy brenne with as mony shippis as he myght haue so the two fletes metten to gedre and long tyme they faught so that Brenne turned ayene and wer discomfited And kyng gutlagh toke Samye and put hir in to his shyppe and brenne sham fulli fled thens as a man discomfitied ¶ And this kyng gutlagh wold haue went in to his owne contre but ther come vpon hiÌ„ sych a gret tempest that ·v dayes lasted so that thurgh that tempast he wos driuen iÌ„ to breten with iij. shippis and no mo Ì„ tho that keped the costes on the see toke Gutlagh and Samye
hym In this tyme he repared the law and the holy bokys the wich the caldes had brent And an happy wittynes to all the world he left in scriptur He fond new litters and lighter in faccion the wich thurgh the holy gost fulfilled he come ayene to ierusaleÌ„ with a gret multitude with the kynges preualeges that he shuld teche the pepull that law that he had repayred And ther he died in a good age Neemias an hebru butler of kyng Artraxerses at his lord commandment went from babulon in to ierusalem wher he yaf xij yere the lediÌ„g of pepull And the v. yere he be gon to repare the yates and the wallis of Ierusalem the wich werke he endit in .ij yere and iiij monethes and that with gret inpedimentes for the halfe of the pepul stoed armeid with out the Cite to withstond the pepull of odyr nacioÌ„ns intendyng to destruy them And the other part labured in armes holdyng in the ton hond stonys for wallis and iÌ„ the notobull odyr hond a swoord or ne by it vide plraÌ„ lib o suo Permenides phelosophurs and namly in morall thynges war a bowte this Socrates a phelosophur the wich vndirstoed mych of the power of god Ì„ he wos Plato maister Democritus Ipotras and odiâ— of whom the nobull werkis a boode Circa annuÌ„ muÌ„di iiij M viij C ix Et anÌ„ cristi natiÌ„ iij C lxxxx AZor is rehersed in the lyne of crist in mathe primo Bot nothyng off his dedes is wreten in the scriptur Elyasib or Elysaphat succedid Ioachym in the bysshoppryke vt dicit Eusebius et magister histor Camillus wos Dictator at Rome in whoe 's days myscheuys playes wer ordand that the pestelans shuld sees at Rome Off thes playes Sent austyn tretis delygently in repreuyng the falshed of the goddis The wich desired to be plesed with sych writch it playes So shamfully thes playes wer vsed with naked men Ì„ womeÌ„ that honest meÌ„ ne womeÌ„ wold not be at thos playes ne yet behold them vide plura in Augê° de ciuitate dei Darius nothus regned at the perses .xix. yere Plato thee diuyn phelosopher And Aristotill his discipull wos this tyme nobull and famus clerkis Tytus quintius wos Dictator at rome and he wos a couetus man whom Austyn de ciuitate dei bringes in a yens couetus and prewd cristen men Gayus wos a sonetour vnder whome was a gret batell a yens the kyng of Tuscorum and viijM. men of them wor taken Marcus valerius was an other senetour thee wich with .lxM. Romans fought with the fraunshmen and had the victorie and mony of them kyllid Artharxerses kyng of ê‘ses called a yene to his empyre Egipt and he put Nactanabo the kyng in to Echeopiam Ì„ mony Iues iÌ„ to transmigracion also he send vagosuÌ„ a prince ower flumiordan to aske a yene the tribute that was for yefen to Esdra that was the vij yere rent ppÌ„ sabbaÌ„ tre Arsamê° succedit hym and regned an yere Darius the son of arsamy regned with the ê‘ses xxiiij yere This darius wos a myghty man and a bold the wich asked of the Grekis a tribute And that wos the cause of the descruccion of the Monarch of ê‘sarum for it was translatit to the grekes after the prophesy off Daniell for it is sayid that Darius brought xvC.M. fightiÌ„g men whom all alexander slew Iodas the son of Elyzaphat was he bisshop iÌ„ ierusaleÌ„ in tyme of Mardachn IoheÌ„s his son succedid him Aristotiles the most sotell and famust Ppilosophur leuyd this tyme. Senocrate the most chast phelosophur was this tyme with dyuers other mo ¶ Bi cause the kiÌ„gê of bretan next after leued iÌ„ peese most pte lytyl of them is wreteÌ„ therfor they shall be set to geder tyll it be coÌ„miÌ„ to Cassibulon kiÌ„g of Breton the wich wos brother to Lud ANd whan Crombatrus was deid regned Guentholen that wos his soÌ„ a man of good ê¯dicions Ì„ welbeloued he gouerned the lond well and wiseli and he regned xxvi xere and after he died and lyeth at new Troy ¶ How kyng Seisell regned and well gouerned the land after guentholen ANd after this Guentholen regned his son Seissel well Ì„ wortheli well gouerned the loÌ„d as his fader had done befor him he regned xv yere and died and lieth at new Troy ¶ How Kymor regned after Seissell his fader and he begat Howan that regned after his fader in peese ANd after Seissell regned his son Kymor well Ì„ nobli xix yere in peese and then afterhym regned howan hys son x. yere and then he died and lieth at Ikaldoune ¶ How kyng Morw t died thurgh myschaunce thurgh a best AFter this howon regned Marwith Ì„ become so weked Ì„ so sterne tyll at the last gret vengeance come to him for as he went vpon a tyme by the see side he mete a gret best that wos blake horibull hideus he wened that it had bene a whale of the see bent an arblast Ì„ wold haue slayn that best with his quarell but he myght not smyte hym And when he had shot all his quarelles the best anone come to hym in a gret hast and hym deuored a lyfe and so he died for his wickednes thurgh vengeaunce of god after that he had regned ix yere ¶ Of GraÌ„dobodiaÌ„ that wos morwith son that made CaÌ„mbregge AFter that this Morwith wos deid the Bretens crosned GraÌ„dobodian his soÌ„ Ì„ this grandobodian long tyme regned iÌ„ goodnes made teÌ„puls tounys this graÌ„dobodiaÌ„ made the toune of Cambregge Ì„ the toune of Grauntham Ì„ wos wel beloued of rich poer for he honourd the rich helped the poer this Grandobodian had iiij sonnis Arthogaile Hesidur Higamê° Petitur when he had regned xi yere he died lieth at new troy ¶ Of Artogaill that wos graÌ„dobodians son how he wos made kyng Ì„ sieth put doune for his wikkednes AFter Grandobodian regned his son Artogaill v. yere he become so wikked Ì„ so sterne that the britons wold not suffre hym to be kyng but put him doun Ì„ made Hesidur his brother kyng he bi come so good Ì„ merciabull that men hym called kyng of pytte ¶ And wheÌ„ he had regned v. yere he had so grete pitte of his brother Artogaill that wos kyng before Ì„ anoÌ„e he forsoke his dignite Ì„ toke his brother the croune ayene Ì„ made hiÌ„ kyng ayens all the britans will ¶ And afterward Artogaill become so good of coÌ„dicion that he was welbeloued of all the land for he become so bonair fre and did right reson to all maner of men and he regned vi yere and died and lidth at grantham ¶ How Hesidur wos made kiÌ„g after the deth of his brether AFter the deth of Artogaill the britons crouned an other tyme Hesidur but his ij bred Higamê° Petitur had of him gret
vessell of the awter shuld be glas or tyn and not tre os iÌ„ old tyme the coÌ„secracion of the glorius blode wos made iÌ„ tre vessell And this tyme passit and the worship of the chirche grew glasin vessill wer ê“hibit â–ª vt pêª patet de conse di pri ca. Origines the nobull clarke wos this tyme he wrot so mych that sent Ierome saied hym self to haue red of Origen warke iiijM. volumys with out pystils he translatit the bybyll from hebru in to greke and did moÌ„y other gret thiÌ„gê And of this Origene Samson Salamon Traian is a gret questioÌ„ amonges docturs if that they be dampned or saued Ther forre thos thynges that with out perrill we be not bondyn to knaw ner the chirche is not certified of them and therfor let them be aloynly commytted vn to god Calistus a marter and a roman was pope after Zepherinus v. yere and he ordand the cimitori in via apia wher moni a M. martires is beried Also hee ordand the fast of the emering dayes to be keped Antonius Aurelius wos Empeour iij. yere And this man lacked no kiÌ„d of lechory and at the last he wos martired emong a gret multitude of pepull for his myssecheuus leuyng Antonius macus rened after hym vij yere This man leued obstinatlâ— and therfor he wos kylled as wos his predicessur Alexander wos Emprour after Antonius and regned xiij yere This man bi instance of his mother a cristin woman the techyng of Origen the wiche come to Rome to conuert hir· wos made so good vn to cristyn meÌ„ that he soffrid them to haue ther counsels and ther prayers by them selfe bot neuer the lase in his tyme the cursed officers of hym made mony martirs Anno domini CC.xliiij VRbanus wos pope after Calisto viij yere and old Ì„ yong wos veriy vertuus And all the halouyd vessell to the chirche he made of gold or syluer This man laft his pope heod Ì„ went to Agrippam Ì„ xi M. virgins with hym Ì„ the clargy said he laft not his dignite for holines bot for appetite of thos virgins Ì„ wrote hym not in the boke of popis And ther he a virgin wos martired with thos virgins Poncianus a marter succedid vrbanus Ì„ he ordant that psalmys shuld be saied day nyght in thee chirche of god And that a prest shuld say confiteor a fore thee masse Anteros a martir wos pope after this man This man ordand that a bisshop myght be remeued from on vn to an other And he made the lyfe of martirs to be writtyn and he wos slayn and beried in the cimitory of seut calixt Maximiaê° wos chosin emprourÌ„ at Maguncia of the host and not bi the senetours Ì„ regned iij. yere and destruyed the chyrche myghtely and was slayn for Origen Gordian regned after hiÌ„ sex yere and of hym is lityll writtyn bot he wos slayn Hijs diebus Celus dux colchestrie in asclepio rignat in britannia annis quasi triginta vsque ad aduentum constancij lati M vacat Philip wos emê‘our after hym and this Philip choesse to hiÌ„ Philip his son and they regned vij yere And they wer the fyrst Emprâ—urys that euer wer cristyned Ì„ after slayn of the host They bequethe all hyr tresour in ther deth that hit shuld be disposid to poer men And sent Laurens at the assynacion of his master the pope deê‘tid this tresour a bowt rome the wich was gret cause of his martirdome vt quid dicunt Decius wos emprour iij. yere and in all thinges a tyrant for he entyrid the empire when he the host had slayn the ij Philippis his lordis And after that he was slayn wyth hys son Fabianus a marter and a roman wos pope after Anteras xij yere This wos a veray holy man for when cristyn men stood to a bide the eleccion of the pope sodenli a white dowe or a culuur decendid on his heed sayng vn to hym thow shall be pope of rome this man ordend that creme euery yere shuld be haloid vpoÌ„ sher thursday also he deuided regions to dekyns the wich shuld writte the lyffe of martirs and at the last Decius kylled hym Cornelius a martir and a roman wos pope after Fabius iij. yere this man toke vp the bodyes of Petre and Paule and with gret honour put them in worschipfull places with beata lucina Lucius wos pope after Cornelius iij. yere and of hym lityll is writtyn Gallus with his son volucianus wer Emprours ij yere and they fought with Emilianus and wer slayn and Emilianê° the thrid moneth wos slayn Valerian wos Emprour with his son Galiene xv yere This man wos vertuus and manly in the begiÌ„nyng bot after he wos geuyn to vice moch wricchidnes and so was his son Galiene This valerian went vn to the loÌ„d of Perse and ther for the gret blod of martirs wich he had spied wos takyn of the kyng of Perci And wheÌ„ he had take hym he put out bothe his euyn and kepid hym in gret bondage and to thys intent he kepyd him that when so euer he shuld ryde this valerian shuld ly doune And he shuld set his feet vpon his bake when he wold take his horse This herd Galiene his son that wos left at rome and that caused him that he wos not so cruell ayenes cristyn men ¶ And here wos the viij ê‘secucion of the chirche made by thi Emprour and made the romans to lees ther kyngdoms thee wich wer neuer recouered ayene to the emprour and a generall pestelans wos thurgh out all the world for ther trespas Stephanê° a merter after Lucius wos pope iij. yere This man ordaned that no man shuld vse no haloed clothis bot to the worship of god Sextus a marter and a roman wos pope after Sstephanus ij yere This man ordant that the masse shuld be sayed vpon an autor the wich a fore wos not and then he died Dyonisius a roman was pope after hym ij yere This man deuided perichys chyrche yerdes and assigned to chirchis certayn prestis Felix a martir wos pope after Dyonisius ij yere He ordaned that for the memori of martirs masses shold be sayed Also he ordant thee Dedicacion of the chirche euery yere shold be sayed Claudius was Emprour after valerianus he subduid Goth as nobully and then he desseset Anno cristi CC.lxxiiij Euticianus a mertir wos pope after Felex viij yere This man ordand that corne and benys shuld be blissed on thee auter And he bereid iij C Ì„ xl iiij martirs with his own hondes Aurelius wos Emprour after Claudius v. yere This Aurelius fyrst to cristiÌ„ men wos gentyll wherfor he had the victori in euery place gloriusly And when he wos dessaued by cursit meÌ„ and pursued cristiÌ„men myghttely and namly in fraunce for ther he a bood and after that he had neuer good fortune bot was slayn And
in to an other contre wher that they mowe lyuen as ther auncestres did them be fore ¶ And therfor sir kyng yf ye haue ought to do with our company we be come in to your land Ì„ wyth good wil you will serue and your land kepe help defend from your enmys yf that ye nedeth ¶ When vortiger herd this tydyng he sayed he wold gladly them withold vpon sich couenant if they myght dalyuer his land of his emnys he wold yef them resenable londes wher they shuld duell for euer more Engist thonked goodly Ì„ in this maner he and his companye xiM. shold duell with the kyng vortiger and moch they did thurgh ther boldnes they deliuered the land clene of his emnys Tho prayed Engist the kyng of so moâ—h land that he myght make to hym a cite Ì„ for hys meny ¶ The kyng ansuerd it wos not to done with out conceill of his bretons ¶ Engist prayed hym eftsones of as moche place os he myght compas so with a thonge of a skyn wher vpon he myhht maake a maner for hym to duell on ¶ And the kyng hym granted frely ¶ Tho toke engist a bull skyn and cut it as smale as he myght all in to on thuong all a round and ther with compassed he os mych land as he had vpon a faire castell and when this castell was made he let call it Thwong castell For as mych as the place wos marked with a thwong ¶ Of Ronewen that was Engistes doughter and how the kyng vortiger spoused hir for hir bowte WHen this castell was made and full well arayed Engist preualy did send by letter in to the cuntre wher he come fro after an hondreth shippes fyllid with men that wos strong bold and also well fightyng in all batellis and that they shuld also bryng with them Ronewen his doughter that wos the fairest creature that a man myght se ¶ And when thos pepull wos comeÌ„ that he had sent after he toke them in to the castell with moch Ioy And hym self vpon a dey went vn to the kyng and prayed hym ther worthely that he wold cum and see his new maner that he had made in the place that he had compassed with a thuong of the skyn ¶ The kyng anone graunted hym frely and with hym went thider Ì„ wos well a payed with the castell Ì„ with the fair werke to geders ther they eten and dronk with moch ioy ¶ And whan nyght come that the kyng vortiger shuld go iÌ„ to his chamare for to take ther his nyghtes rest Ronewen that wos Engist doughter come with a cup of gold iÌ„ hir hand and kneled be fore the kyng and saied to hym wassaill and the kyng wystnot what it wos to mene ne what he shuld ansuer for as moch as hym self ne none of his bretons coud no english speke ne vnder stond it but spekyn in the same longage that bretons done yit ¶ Neutheles a latimer told the kyng the full vnderstondyng therof wassale and that other shold ansuer drynk haill ¶ And that wos the fyrst tyme that wassaill and drink haill come vp in this land and from that tym vn to this tyme it is well vsed in this land ¶ The kyng vortiger saw the fairnes of Ronewen and his armes laid a bowt hir nec and iij. swetly kytsed hir and anone right he wos a namered vpan hir that he desired to haue hir to wif and asked of Engist hir fadre ¶ And Engist granted hym vpon this couenant that the kyng shold yef hym all the cuÌ„tre of kent that thhe er myght duele in his pepull ¶ The kyng him graunted preuely with a good wyll and anone after he spoused the damysell and that wos moch ê¯fusion to him self ¶ And therfore all the bretons become so wroth for be cause he spoused a womaÌ„ of mysbeleue wherfor they went all from hiÌ„ Ì„ nothyng to him toke kepe ne help hym in thing that he had to done ¶ How vortimer that wos vortigers son was made kyng Ì„ Engist wos driuen out and how vortimer wos slayn THis Engist went in to kent and seised all the land in to his hond for hym and for hys men and by come in a lityl whyle of so gret pouer and so moch pepull had that men wyst not in lytell tyme wich wer the kynges men and wych were Engist men wherfor all Bretons had of hym dred and sayed amongê them bot yf that they ne toke other counsel be twen heÌ„ all the land shuld be betrayed thurgh Engist and his pepull vortiger the king had be goten on his fyrst wife iij. sonnys the fyrst wos called vortimer that secuÌ„d Catagren the thrid Passent ¶ The britons euerychon by on asseÌ„t chose vortimer to be ther lord souerayne counceller iÌ„ euery bataill crouned hiÌ„ Ì„ made hiÌ„ kiÌ„g Ì„ wold suffre vortiger no longer to regne for enchesoÌ„ of the aliance bituix engist Ì„ hiÌ„ The britoÌ„s ordined a gret host to driue out engist his coÌ„panie of the land Ì„ yaf hiÌ„ iij. batallis that fyrst wos iÌ„ Kent ther he wos lord The secuÌ„d wos at Tetford Ì„ the thrid iÌ„ a shire athis half Cooll iÌ„ a more ¶ And iÌ„ this botell them met Catagren Ì„ horne Engistes brother so that ych of them slew other Bott for as moch os the cuÌ„tre wos yef loÌ„g by for to horne thurgh vortiger tho he spoused his cosin ther he made a fair castell that is called horncastel after his own name ¶ And vortimer wos so annoyed for his bred deth catagreÌ„ that he wos deid iÌ„ sich a maner Wherfor anoÌ„e he let fell the castell to gronde ¶ And after that he ne left night ne day till he had driueÌ„ out engist all his pepull of the laÌ„d Ì„ wheÌ„ Engist wos driueÌ„ a way Ronewen his doughter made sorow y nowe quentely spek to them that wer next the kiÌ„g vortimer priueyst with hiÌ„ so moch she yaf hiÌ„ of yeftes that he wos enpoisened Ì„ died at london the iiij yere of his regne and ther he lieth ¶ How the bretoÌ„s chose an other tyme vortiger to be ther kiÌ„g Ì„ Engist come in to this land and they fouhten to gedre AFter vortimers deth the. Britons by hir commune asseÌ„t eft sones made vortiger hir kyng vpon this conuenient that he shold neuer after suffre Engist ne none of his eftsones to come iÌ„ to this land ¶ And wheÌ„ all this wos done Ronewen the quene preuely sent by letter to Enegist that she had enpoisend vortimer Ì„ that vortiger hir lord ayene bare the croune Ì„ rened and that he shuld come in to this land well arraied with moche pepull for to a venge hiÌ„ vpon the britons and to wynne this land ayein ¶ And whan Engist herd this tydynges he made gret Ioye and apparelled him hastely with xv thousand men that wer doughty in
vn to the erth The quene for this dede yaf the knyght gold siluer gret plenti Ì„ of other riches ynough And the knyght anone as this wos done went him ouer the se Ì„ so scappid he out of this land ¶ When this kyng Edward thus wos martired Hit was in thee yere of the Incarnacion after our lord ihuÌ„ crist ixC. lxxx· yere he had regned xij yere and an halfe Ì„ lieth at glastenburi ¶ Of kyng Eldred and how the kyng Swyne of denmarke held englond and how eldred that wos sent edwardis bred was not beloued iÌ„ his reame therfor he fled in to Normandie AFter this kyng edward regned eldred his brother and sent Dunstan crouned him and this sent Dunstone died sone after that he had for yefen the quene hir trespasse estrild for encheson that she wos cause of kyng edwardis deth and sent duÌ„stane had hir asoled and pennance hir enioyned and she lyued after chaste life and clene ¶ This kyng Eldred weddid an englissh woman on hir he begate edmond Irenside an other son that wos called edwyne And after died the quene ther mother And in that tyme come Swyne in to englond that was kyng of Denmarke for to chalange and conquere all that his auncestres had before that tyme and so he conquered and had it all at his axyng ¶ For the good erle Cutâ—ert of lyndesey Ì„ all the pepull of northhumberland and almost all the gret of englond held with Swyne that was kyng of Denmarke for os moch as they loued not kyng eldred for encheson that his good brother wos slaiÌ„ edward falsely for encheson of him and therfor no man set but litell by hiÌ„ wherfor kyng swyne had all his will and toke all the land and eldred the kyng flede tho in to Normandie so spake to the duke Rechard that the duke yaf hym his sustre Emma to wife vpoÌ„ the wich he gat ij sonnys that on was caled Alured that other edward when Swyne had conquered all the land he regnet nobeli leued xv yere Ì„ then died Ì„ lieth at yorke ¶ How kiÌ„g eldred come ayen froÌ„ Normande how knoght the danois regnet of the were betwix him edmond Irenside AFter the deth of Swyne that wos a Danois Knoght his son duelled in englond and wold haue be kyng and tho come ayene Eldred owt of Normandye with moch nomber of pepull with a strong menye that Knoght durst not abide bot fley thens in to Denmarke The kyng eldred had ayen his reame and held so gret lordship that he by gan to distruy all tho that holpid Swyne that wos a Danois ayens him ¶ And afterward come ayen this Knoght from denmarke with a gret pouer so that kyng Eldred durst not with him fight but fled fro thens vn to london and ther held hym ¶ Tho come Knoght and him beseggid so long tyll that kyng Eldred died in the cite of london and lieth at sent paulus and he regned ix yere BOnus was pope after Benedictus on yere This maij abode bot litell tyme. Bonefacius wos after him .v. monethes Benedictus wos after him x. yere This man crovned otto the secund and made mony romans to be take he gedrit a consell ayens the kyng of fraunce wher Gylberd the Negramensier wos deposit Iohannes the xiiij was pope after him viij monethis and he wos put in castell angill and wos famed to deth Iohannes the .xv. wos after him iiij monethis Iohannes the xvi wos after him almost xi yere This man was taught in Armys and made mony bokys and els litell of him is writtyn Gregorius the v. wos pope after this man almost iij yere This Gregori was made pope at the instans of the emprour Otto the thrid for he wos his cosin And when he had be a litell while pope and the emprour recedid from the cite of rome Placentinê° wos put in bi Crescencio a consull for monay and then was strife a few dais bot the emprour come sone after ayen and toke CrescenciuÌ„ the consull and stroke of his heed and put out the eyn of this man the wich put out his cosin of the dignite of the pope And maymet him on odir menbyrs and his knyghtis ne his dukys holped him nothyng For he did that thing that he shÌ„uld not haue done and he suffred that at he diserueâ—d Nota ¶ This Gregori wyth the emprour Otto ordand ther the chesers of the empire the wich from thens forthe hath a bydyn vn to this day For the frensshmen nor none othâ—r myght not breke that ordinanse thos chesers of the empire by the pope and Otto wer not made for ony blame of the Saxons bot to eschew the ê‘els to cum aned the namys be writyn for lerned men in latyn in thes versis Maguntinensis Treuerensis Coloniensis Quilibus imê‘ij fit cancellarius horum Et palatinê° dapifer Dux portitorensis Marchio prepositus camere Pincerna bohemus Hij statuuÌ„t dnÌ„m cunctis ê‘ secula suÌ„muÌ„ Palatinê° est comes renâ— Marchio est Brandeburgensis Dux saxonuÌ„ et Rex bohemorum verum vt quidam dicuÌ„t thurgh this occasion the Egill has lost mony a fether Ì„ in the end he shall be made nakid Otta the thrid wos emprour xviij yere This man was a worthy man all the dais of his empire after the wisdom of his fader he wos a veray faithfull man to the chirche and in mony batailles he ê“sperit be cause he wos deuote to almyghty god his sentis and yaf mighty worsshippyng to the Relekes of sentis oft tymes he vesid holy places This man wos crouned bi gregori his cosin Ì„ at the last he decessed at rome No Anno domini M.iiij SIluester the secund wos pope after Gregori iiij yere And he wos made pope bi the help of the deuell to whom he did homage· for he shuld yef him all thing that he desyrid he wos called Hylberd his emny gat him the grace of the kyng of fraunce and he made him the bisshop of Remensis bot anone he was deposit and after he gat the grace of the emprour and wos made the bishop of RaueÌ„nie and after pope bot he had an end anone so haue all that puttys ther hope in fals deuelis Yit men tristin iÌ„ his saluacion for certayn demonstracion of his sepulcur for the gret pennance that he did in his last end For he made his haÌ„d Ì„ his leggis to be cut of Ì„ dismeÌ„byrt iÌ„ al his body to be cast out at the doore to foulys theÌ„ his bodi to be drawi with wild bestis ther to be beried wher suÌ„ euer they restit as an hound and they stoed still at sent IohnÌ„ latronys Ì„ ther he wos beried and that wos sign of his salÌ„uacion Iohannes the xviij wos pope .v. monethis Iohannes the xix wos pope after
for ther went of statis old men and yonge riche and poer no man compellid them and this passage was made bi the vision of our ladi and the princes of this pepull wer diuerse On wos Godfray the bollion a nobull man of all the world Ì„ a vertuus man And an other was BeemuÌ„d the duke of Napuls The thrid wos Hugh the kynges brother of fraunce and mony other the wich did full nobully for the faith of god and it wer to long in this bake to reherse the glorius actis that they did ¶ Of kyng willm Roos that wos willm bastard son that destruyed tounes houses of religion for to make the new forest ANd after this willm bastard regned his son william the Rous and this willm was a wonder contrarious man to god and holy chirche let amende and make the toune off Cardeis that the paynyms had destroyed ¶ This kyng willm destruyed holy chirche and ther possessions in what ê‘te he myght them find â–ª ¶ And therfor ther was so moch debate bitwen him and the erchebisshop of cantorburi Ancelme for encheson that he vndernamme him of his wickidnesse that he destroied holÌ„y chirch And for encheson therof the kyng bore to him gret wrath and for that cause he exiled him out of this land and the erchebishop tho went to the court of Rome and ther duellid wyth the pope ¶ And this king made the new forest cast doune distruid xxvi tounes and lxxx houses of religion all for to make his forest lenger and broder and bicome wonder glad and proud of his wod of his forest and C the wild bestys that werther within that it was meruell for to wit so that men called him keper of wodis and of pastors and the lenger that he leued the more wekked he become bothe to god and to all holy chirche and to all his men ¶ And this kyng let make the gret hall of westmynster so vpon a day in the witsontyde he held ther in his frist fest and he lokid him a bout and said that the hall wos to litell bi the halueÌ„ dele ¶ And at the last he become so contrarius that all thing that plesed god displesid him and all thing that god loued he hatid deidly ¶ And so it befell that he dremyd vpon a nyght a litel or that he died that he wos let blod and bled a gret quaÌ„tite of blode and a streme of blode lepit on eigh toward heueÌ„ more than an hundreth vethem and the clerenes of the day was turned vn to nyght and dirkenesse and the firmament also ¶ And when that he a woke he had gret drede so that he not wist what for to done Ì„ told his dreme to men of his councell and said that he had gret dred and supposed that to hiÌ„ was sum mischance to cum ¶ And the secund night before a moÌ„ke dremed of the housold that the kiÌ„g went in to an chirche with moch pepull Ì„ he wos proud that he dispised all the pepull that wos with him and that he tok the ymage of the crucifix and shamfully bote it with hys tethe ¶ And the crucifix mekeli suffred all that he did but the kyng as a wode man rent of the armys of the crucifix and cast it vnder his fete and defouled it and threw it all a brode Ì„ a gret flame of fire come out of the crucifix mouth of wich dreme mony men had gret meruell and wonder ¶ The good man that had dremmed this straunge dreme told it to a knyght that wos most priuey with the kyng of all men and the knyght wos called HamuÌ„des soon the monke and he told the dreme to the kyng and saied that it shuld betokyn other thing than good and neuerthelas thee kyng laughed ther at twyes or thries and litell set ther by and thought that he wold go and hunte play in the forest And meÌ„ counsellid him that he shuld not that day for no maner thiÌ„g come in the wod so that he a bood at home before mete But anone as he had heten no man might hiÌ„ let bot he wold gon vn to the wod for to haue his disporte ¶ And so it befell that on of his knyghtis that heght walter Tirell wold haue shot to an hart his arew glensid vpon a branche and thurgh missaueÌ„tur smote the kiÌ„g to the hert so he fell doune deid to the grund with out ony word spekyng and so endid his life days ¶ And it wos no ferli for the day that he died he had let to ferme the erchebisshopprich of Cantorburi and xij abbeis also euer more did gret distruccion to holy chirche thurgh wrongfull takyng Ì„ axinges for no man durste withstond that he wold haue done and of his lethernesse he wold neuer withdraw nother to amend his life therfor god wold suffre hiÌ„ no lenger to regne iÌ„ his wikkidnes Ì„ he had bene kiÌ„g xiij yere Ì„ vi wekis Ì„ lieth at westmynster Anno domini M.lxxxviij PAscalÌ„ was pope after vrbaÌ„ xviij yer v. monethis the wich the xiij yere of his bisshopprich with his cardinales wos put iÌ„ prisoÌ„ bi Henri the fourth the emê‘our Ì„ they might not be deliuerid till the pope had suorne that he shuld kepe pees with hiÌ„ that he shuld neuer curs hiÌ„ on that ê“mis the pope yaf the emê‘our a pÌ„uylege Ì„ on the yere after the pope dampned that pÌ„uelege Ì„ said on this wise lett vs coÌ„pÌ„hend all holy scriptur the old testameÌ„t Ì„ the new the lawis Ì„ the ê“phettis the gospell Ì„ the canons of apostils Ì„ all the decrees of the popis of rome that at they held I hold and that at thei dampnid I dampne and most specialy that preuylege grauÌ„tid to Henri the emê‘our the wich rether is grantid to venge his males then to multiple the pacieÌ„s in vertu for euer more I dampne that same preuilege ¶ Of kyng Henri beauclerke that wos willm Rous brother Ì„ of the debate betwen him Robert Curthos his brother ANd when this willm Rous wos deid Henri beauclerke his brother wos made kyng for encheson that willm Rous had no child begoten of his bodi and this henri beauclerke was crouned kyng at london the iiij day after that his brother was decessid that is to say the v. day of august ¶ And anone as AncelÌ„me that was Archebisshop of Cantorburi that was at the court of rome herd tell that willm Rous wos deid he come ayen in to englond the kyng beauclarke welcomed him with moch honour ¶ And the frist yere that kyng henri regned Ì„ wos crouned he spoused Maude that wos Margaretis doughter the quene of Scotland and the erchebisshop Ancelme of cantorburi weddid them ¶ And this kyng begate vpon his wife ij sonnys and a doughter that is to say willm Richard Ì„ Maude And this
said masse thurgh out all london Ì„ so after thurgh out all engloÌ„d ¶ And the next yere after ther began a gret debate bitwene king IohnÌ„ Ì„ the lordis of engloÌ„d for encheson that he wold not grauÌ„te the lawes hold the wich sent Edward had ordeyned had be vsed hold vn to that tyme that he had them broken for he wold hold no law bot did all thiÌ„g that hiÌ„ likid desheried mony meÌ„ with out ê¯sent of lordis Ì„ peris of the land wold desherite the good Erle Randulf of Chestre for enchesoÌ„ that he vndertoke hiÌ„ of his wykkidnesse for cause that he did so moch shame Ì„ velany to god and holy chirche And also fer he held hauntid his own brothers wife lay also bi mony other womeÌ„ gret lordis doughtres for he sparid no woman that him liked for to haue wherfore all the lordis of the land wer with him wonder wroth and went to london Ì„ toke the cite ¶ And for to cese this debate and sorow the erchebishop and other gret lordis of the land assembled them before the fest of sent Iohan baptist in a medow besides the toune of stanes that is called Romnemede And the kyng made them ther a chertour of fraunches such as they wold axen Ì„ iÌ„ soch maner they wer accordid and that accordemeÌ„t last not full longe for the kyng him selfe sone after did ayens the pointis of the same chartre that he had made wherfor the most parte of the land of lordis assembled them and began to were vpoÌ„ him ayen and brened his tounes and robbid his folke did all the sorow that they myght Ì„ made them as stronge as they myght with all ther pouer thoght to driue him out of englond and make Lowys the kynges son of fraunce kyng of englond ¶ And kyng IohnÌ„ sent tho ouer see and ordeyned so moch pepull of Normans Ì„ of Piccardes Ì„ of Flemmynges So that the land myght not susteyn them but with moch sorow ¶ And among all thes pepull ther was a maÌ„ of Normandie that was called Faukis of brent and this Normand his ê¯pany spared nother chirche ne house of religion bot thei briÌ„t robbed it Ì„ bare away all that they might take so that the land wos all destroied what on oon side on other ¶ The barons lordis of Englond ordeyned amoÌ„g them the best spekers and wysest meÌ„ sent them ouer se to kiÌ„g Philip of fraunce and prayed him that he wold send lowys his son in to engloÌ„d to be kyng of engloÌ„d Ì„ to vnderfenge the croune ¶ How Lowys the kinges son of fraunce come in to englond with a stronge pouer of pepull to be kiÌ„g of englond WHen kyng Ppilip of fraunce herd this tydyng he made certayn aliaunce bitwene them by ther commune eleccion that Lowys kyng Pphilipes sone of fraunce shÌ„uld go with them iÌ„ to Englond driue out kiÌ„g IohnÌ„ of the land and all that wer in presence of Lowys made vn to him homage and bicome his men ¶ And the barons of englond held them styll at londoÌ„ abiden Lowys the kiÌ„ges son of frauÌ„ce this was the next saturday before the Ascencion of our lord that lowys come in to englond with a strong pouer that tyme kyng IohnÌ„ had takyn all the castels of engloÌ„d in to alyens handis ¶ And tho com Lowys be segid Rouchestres castell toke it with strength the thursday in whitson wâ—ke lethonge all the aliens that wer theriÌ„ the thursdai tho next suyng he come to London ther he wos vnderfenge with mech honour of the lordis that a byden him ther all to him made homage ¶ And afterward on the tewysday next after the Trinite sonday he toke the castell of Reigate Ì„ in the morow after the castell of Gilford Ì„ the friday next after the castell of Farneham Ì„ the moÌ„day next after the cite of wynchestre to him was yold Ì„ in the morow after sent IohnÌ„ day the maner of woluesey and the tewisday after the vtas of sent Petre sent paule they toke the castell of Odiham and the moÌ„day after sent Margaretes day he ordend him toward Bawmore for to sege the castell and ther he duelled xv dais Ì„ myght not get the castell Ì„ than when the thens Ì„ come to london Ì„ the toure to him wos yolde ¶ How the pope send in to Englond a legat that wos called Swalo and of the deth of kiÌ„g iohnÌ„ ANd in the same time the pope send in to england a legat that wos called Swalo and he wos prest Cardinall of rome for to maynten kyng Iohans cause ayens the barons of Englond but the barons had so huge part and help thurgh Lowys the kynges son of fraunce that kyng IohnÌ„ wist not whidder for to turne ne gone ¶ And so it befell that he wold haue gone to Nycholl and as he weÌ„t thiderward he come by the abbey of Swynes hede Ì„ ther he abode ij dais ¶ And as he sat at mete he axed a monke of the house how moch a lofe was worth that wos set befor him vpoÌ„ the tabull And the moÌ„ke said that the lofe was worthe but and halfpeny ¶ O quod the kyng tho here is gret chepe of brede Now quod the kyng I may life soch a lofe shall be worth xx shillyng or half a yere be gone ¶ And wheÌ„ he had said this word moch he thougt oft he sighed tok ete of the bred said by god the word that I haue spokyn it shall be soth ¶ The moÌ„ke that stode before the kyng was for this word full sori in hert thoght rather he wold him self suffre deth and thought if he myght ordeyn ther fore some maner remedie ¶ And anone the moÌ„ke went to his abbot Ì„ wos shriuen of him Ì„ told the abbot all that the kyng had said· and praid his abbot for to assoill him for he wold yef the kiÌ„g such a drink that all Englond shuld be glad ther of ioyfull ¶ Tho went the monke in to a gardeyn and fouÌ„d a gret to de therin toke hir vp Ì„ put hir iÌ„ a cup Ì„ prikked the tode thurgh with a broche moÌ„y tymes till that the venym comen out of euery side iÌ„ the cup. tho toke the cup Ì„ fillled it with good ale brought it before the kiÌ„g kneliÌ„g said sir qd he wassale for neuer the days of your life dranke ye of so good a cup ¶ Begin monke qd the kiÌ„g Ì„ the monke dranke a gret draught Ì„ toke the kyng the cup the kiÌ„g also dranke a gret draught set douÌ„e the cup ¶ The monke anone right weÌ„t iÌ„ to the farmori ther died anone on whâ—â— seule god haue merci amen And v. moÌ„kis sing for his
come aspi vn to the kyng and told him wher the Scottys wer assembled for to a bide bataill ¶ And on sent mari Magdelene day the kyng come to fonkirke and yaf bataill to the scottis and at that bataill wer kylled xxxiij thousand scottys and of englishe men but xxviij no mo of the wich was a worthy knyght slayn that wos a knyght an hospiteler that wos callid Freri brian Iay. ¶ For when willm wales fled from the bataill thatt same frere Brian him pursued fersly as his hors ran it start in to a myere of a maries vp to the bely ¶ And willm walis turned tho ayene Ì„ there kylled the forsaid Brian that wos moche harme ¶ And that while kyng Edward weÌ„t thurgh scotlaÌ„d for to enquere if he myght find any of his enmys And iÌ„ that land he duelled as long as him likyd and ther wos none enmye that durst him abide ¶ And sone afterward kiÌ„g Edward weÌ„t to south hamtoÌ„ for he wold not abyde in scotland in wynter seson for esemeÌ„t of his pepull And when he come to londoÌ„ he let ameÌ„d mony misdedis that wer done ayens his pees and his law while that he wos in Flaundres ¶ Of the last mariege of king Edward and how he went the thrid tyme in to Scotland ANd afterward it was ordeyned thurgh the court of rome that kiÌ„g edward shuld wedde dame Margaret that was kiÌ„g Philip sustre of frauÌ„ce and the Erchebisshop Robert of wynchelse spoused theÌ„ to gedre thurgh the wich mariege ther wos made pes betwen kyng Edward of englond kyng Philip of fraunce ¶ Kyng edward went tho the thrid tyme in to Scotland tho within the first yere he had enfamined the land so that ther left not on that he ne come to his merci sauf tho that wer in the castell of Estreuelin that wos well vetaled Ì„ astorid for vij yere ¶ How the castell of estreuelin wos beseged KYng Edward come with an huge pouer to the castell of estreuelin and beseged the castell but it litell a vailed for he might do the scottis none harme For the castell wos so strong well kepid ¶ And kyng edward saw that thought him vpoÌ„ a queyntize Ì„ let make anone ther .ij. paire of high galews before the tour of the castell Ì„ made his oth that as moÌ„y as wer iÌ„ the castell wer he erle or baron he wer take with strength but if he wold the rather him yold he shÌ„uld be honged vpoÌ„ the galewis ¶ And when tho that wer within the castell heerd this they come yeld them all to the kyngê grace Ì„ merci And the kiÌ„g for yaf them all his maletalent ¶ And ther wer all the gret lordis of scotland swore to kyng edward that they shuld cum to london to euery parlament shuld stond to his ordynance ¶ How Troylebastonne wos first ordeyned THe kyng Edward went thens to londoÌ„ and wenet for to haue had rest Ì„ pees of his were iÌ„ the wich were he wos ocupied xx yere That is to say in wales in Gascoyn and in ScotlaÌ„d And thught how he myght recouer his tresour that he had spendid about his were let enquere thurgh the reame of all the tyme that he had bene out of his reame that men called Troillebaston And ordeyned ther to Iustices Ì„ in this maner he recoueryed tresour with out nombre ¶ And his enchesoÌ„ wos for he had thought for till haue gone iÌ„ to the holy land for to haue werid vpon goddis enmis For enchesoÌ„ that he was crossid long tyme before ¶ And neuer thelas that law that he had ordeyned did moch good thurgh all englond to them that wer mysbode For tho that trespassid wer well chastised and afterward the moch more meker Ì„ the better Ì„ thee poer commyns wer in rest Ì„ in pees ¶ And the same tyme kiÌ„g Edward prisoned his own son edward for enchesoÌ„ that Walter of langtoÌ„ bisshop of Chestre that wos the kynges tresorar had made vpoÌ„ him complayn said that the forsaid edward thurghe couÌ„sell Ì„ ê“curment of on Pers of Ganaston a squyer of gascoiÌ„ had brokyn the parkis of the forsaid bisshapois Ì„ this Pers couÌ„cellid and lad this same edward ¶ And for this cause kyng odward exiled his son out of englond for euer more ¶ Of the deth of willm waleis the fals tratour ANd wheÌ„ this kyng Edward had his enmys ouer cummyn in wales Gascoyn and in Scotland and distroyd his traitours all but only that ribaud willm wales that neuer to the kiÌ„g wold him yeld and at the last in the toune of sent Dominic iÌ„ the yere of kyng Edwards regne xxxiij That fals tratour wos take Ì„ presentid to the kyng but the kyng wold not se him and sent him to london to underfenge his Iugement vpon sent Bartholomes eue he wos honged and draw his hede smyten of hys bowelis take out of his bodi and brint Ì„ his bodi quartired and sent vn to iiij of the best tounes of scotlad and his hede put vpoÌ„ a spere set vpon london brigge in exampull that the scottis shuld haue in mynd for to do amys ayens ther leige lord eftsones ¶ How the scottis come to kyng edward for to ameÌ„d ther trespasse that they had done ayens him ANd at Mihelmasse tho next commyng kyng Edward helde his parlament at westmynstre and thider come the scots that is to say the bisshop of sent Andrewes Robert the Brus erle of Carik SimoÌ„d the Frisell IohuÌ„ the erle of Athell thei wer accordid with the kiÌ„g and bounde and by oth swore that they afterward if any of them misbore them ayens kyng Edward that they shuld be disherited for euer more ¶ And whan ther pees was thus made They toke ther leue priueli and weÌ„t home vn to ther own cuntre ¶ How Robert the Brus chalenged scotland ANd after this Robert the Brus erle of carik sent by his letter to the erles and barons of Scotland that they shulde come to him to Scone in the morow after the concepcion of our lady for hegh nedes of the land and the lordis come at the day assined ¶ And the same day sir Robert the Brus said fair lordis full well ye know that in my ê‘son duelled the right of the reame of scotland os ye wate well i am rightfull heir sith that sir iohan Bailoll that wos our kyng vs hath forsaken Ì„ left his land ¶ And though it so be that kyng Edward of englond with wrongfull pouer hath made me to him assent ayens my wyll if that ye wyll graunt that I may be kyng of scotland I shall kepe you ayens kyng edward of englond ayens all maner men and with that word the abbot of Scon arose vp and before them all said that it was reson for to helpe him Ì„ the land ta kepe
Alas the while that is to sai the x. day of October the iij. yere of kyng Edwardis regne and whan the kyng wist ther of he wos wonder sori Ì„ let entier him at the frere mynors at wynchestre ¶ Of the deth of sir Roger mortimer erle of march ANd so it befell at that tyme that sir Roger Mortimer erle of the marche was so proud and se hauteyn that he helde no lord of the reame his pere and tho become he so couetous that he folowed Dame Isabell the quenes court that wos kyng Edwardis modre and beset his penyworthis with the offics of the quenes housold in the same maner that the kynges officers did and so he made his takyng as tochyng vitalles and also of cariagis all he did for because of spensis and for to gadre tresur and so he did with out nombre in all that he myght ¶ Tho made he hym wonder priue with the quene Isabell Ì„ so moch lorship Ì„ reteneu had so that al the gret lordis of englond of him wer adrad Wherfore the kyng his coÌ„cell towardis hiÌ„ wer agreued Ì„ ordeyned among them to vndo hiÌ„ thurgh pure resoÌ„ law for cause that king edward that was the kyngê fadre traitoursly thurgh him was mordred in the castell of Berkeley as bofore is said more planly iÌ„ the same part of this boke of his deth ¶ And suÌ„ that wer of the kynges coÌ„cell loued the martimer and told him in priuete how that the kiÌ„g Ì„ his couÌ„cell wer about froÌ„ day to day hiÌ„ for to shend and vndon wherfor the Mortimer was sore annoyed Ì„ angri as the deuell ayens them that wer of the kiÌ„ges couÌ„cell said he wold of thaÌ„ bene avenged how so euer he toke on ¶ It was not long afterward that kynd Edward Ì„ Dame Phelip his wife Ì„ Dame Isabell the kyngê modre sir Roger mortimer ne went vn to Notyngham ther for to sodiorne so it befell that the quene Isabell thurgh councell of the Mortimer toke to hir the keys of the yatis of the castell of Notingham so that no man mygh cum nother in ne out by nyght but thurgh commaundement of the Mortimer ne the kyng ne none of his councell ¶ And that tâ—me it fell so that the Mortimer as a deuell for wroth bolled and also for wrath that he had ayens the kyngê men edward Ì„ principally ayenest them that had him accused to the kyng of the deth of sir Edward his fadre ¶ And pÌ„uely a couÌ„cell was take bitwen quene isabell Ì„ the Mortimer the bisshÌ„op of Lyncoln sir Symond of Beford sir Hugh of Trumpyngton and oder priue of ther couÌ„cell for to vndone them all that had accused the Mortimer vn to the kyng of his fadres deth of treson and of felonie ¶ Wherfore al tho that wer of the kynges councell whan they wysteÌ„ of thee mortimers castyng priuely come to kiÌ„g edward Ì„ said that the mortimer wold them destroy for cause that they had him accused of kiÌ„g edwardis deth his fadre praid him that he wold maynten them iÌ„ ther right ¶ And thes were the lordis to pursue this quarell sir william of mountagu sir Humfrey de boâ—hun sir william his brother sir Rauf of Stafford sir Robert of Hereford sir willm of Clinton sir IohnÌ„ Neuil of hornby moÌ„y othre of ther conseÌ„t and alÌ„l thes sworen vpon a boke to mayÌ„ten the quaril in as moch as they myght ¶ And it befell so after that sir william moÌ„tagu ne none of the kiÌ„ges frendis must nat be herbrugged in the Castel for the mortimer· but went and toke ther herbrughe in diuerse places in the toune of Notyngham ¶ And tho were they sore adrad lest that mortimer shuld them destroy And iÌ„ hast thei come vn to kyng Edward ser william mountagu tho that he wos in the castell and priueli him told that he ne none of his companie shuld not take the mortimer with out couÌ„cell help of willÌ„m of Eland ê¯stabul of the same Castel Now certes ê™ the kiÌ„g I loue you wel and therfore I councel you that ye go to the forsaid ê¯stabull and commaund him in my name that he be your fiend and your help for to take the Mortimer all thing I left vpon parill of life and limme ¶ Tho said mountaygu sir my lord grouÌ„t mercy ¶ Tho went forth the forsaid montaygu come to the cuÌ„stabull of the castell Ì„ told him the kyngê will ¶ And he ansurid Ì„ said the kynges will shuld be done in as moch as he myght and that he wold not spare fore no maner deth and so he swore made his oth ¶ Tho said sir willm mountagu to the conestabull iÌ„ hering of all them that were helpyng vn to the same quarell ¶ Now certis dere frend vs behoueth to worch do by your quentyse for to take the mortimer sith that ye be keê‘ of the castell and haueth the keyes in your ward sir quod the constabull will ye vnderstond that the gates of the castell ben lokked with the lockis that Dame isabell send hider and be nyght she hath the keys therof lieth them vnder the leuesell of the bed vn to the morow and so ye may not cuÌ„ in to the castell bi the yates in no maner of wise ¶ But I knowe an aley that stretcheth out of the ward vnder the erth in to the forsaid castell that goth in to the west wich aley Dame Isabell the quene ne none of hir men ne the Mortimer ne none of his companie knoweth it not ¶ And so I shall lede you thurgh that aley and so ye shall cum in to thee castell with out aspieng of oni maÌ„ that ben your emnys ¶ And thee same nyght sir willm mouÌ„tagu all the lordis of his quarel the same ê¯stabul also weÌ„t them to horse Ì„ made semblaÌ„t as it wer for to wend out of the mortimer sight ¶ But anone as the mortimer herd this tydyng he weÌ„t that they wold haue gon ouer see for dred of hiÌ„ and anone he his companie token councell amonges them for to let ther passage sent lettres anone to thee portes so that none of the gret lordis shuld weÌ„d home to ther own cuÌ„tre bot if they were arestid Ì„ take ¶ And amoÌ„g oder thingê willm Eland conestable of the foresaid castel priueli lad sir william mountagu and his compain by the foresaid way vnder the erth so tilÌ„ they com iÌ„ to the castell and went vp in to the toure there that Mortimer was in ¶ But sir hugh of Trumpyngton them ascried hidously and said A traitours it is all for nought that ye be comen vn to this castell ye shall die yit an euell deth euerychon and anone on of them that was in Mountagu is companie vp with a mace and smote the same hugh
day after met sodenly wos smyten with a palasie lost his speche on marie magdelene dai died ¶ Of the deth of kyng edward how sir IohnÌ„ Monsterwarth knyght wos drawen honged for his falsenesse RYght anone after in the lij yere of kyng Edward in the begynnyng of october Pope Gregarie the xi brought remeued his court with him from Auinion to rome ¶ And the xij day of Aprill Iohan Monsterworth knyght at london was draw Ì„ honged than quartired sent to iiij chief touÌ„es of englond and his hede smyten of set vpon london brigge for this same IohnÌ„ wos full vn trew to the kyng to the reame Ì„ couetous vnstabull for he toke oft tymes gret soumes of monay of the kyng his councell for men of armes wagis that hee shÌ„uld haue paid them toke it to his own vse he dred that at the last he shold be shent acused for the same cause Ì„ fled priuely to the kyng of fraunce Ì„ wos suore to him Ì„ bicome his man Ì„ behight him a gret nauy out of spayn in to confusion distroyng of engloÌ„d ¶ But rightfull god to whom no priuite is vnknowne suffrid him frist to be shend Ì„ spilt or that he so tratoursly falsly his lige lord the kyng of englong Ì„ his pepull in his ream in the wich ground the same Iohan wos bore wykkedly thurgh bataill destroie or bring his cursed purpose about ¶ In the fest of sent George tho next after kyng Edward yaf to Richard of Burdeux his heir that wos prince edwardis son at wyndesor the ordir of knyghthod made him knyght the wich kyng edward whan he had regned li. yere and more the xi KalÌ„ of Iune he died at Shene and is buried worshipfulli at westmynstre on whois soule god haue merci amen ¶ This kyng edward was forsothe of a passing goodnesse full grecious among all the worthy men of the world for he passid shone by vertu of grace yef to him fro god a boue all his predicessours that wer nobull men worthy he wos a well herted maÌ„ a hardy for he drad neuer no mishâ—ppis ne harmes ne euell fortun that might fall a nobull weri our and a fortunat for both on land se in all batailles and assembles with a passing glorie ioye he had the victorie he was meke benyngne homeli sobre soft to all maner of men as well to straÌ„gers os to his own subgectis Ì„ to oder that wer vnder his gouernauÌ„ce ¶ He wos deuout holy both to god Ì„ holy chirch for he worshipped holpe Ì„ mayntened holy chirche Ì„ ther mynisterres with all maner reueraunce he wos tretabull well auised in temê‘all and wordly nedes wise iÌ„ couÌ„cell discret meke to speke wt. iÌ„ his dedis Ì„ maners geÌ„till wel taught hauiÌ„g pitte of them that wer iÌ„ disese plentious in yeueng of benefaites almose bisi Ì„ curious iÌ„ bylddyng Ì„ lighili he bere suffred wroÌ„ges Ì„ harmis wheÌ„ he was yeue to any ocupacioÌ„ he left all oder thiÌ„g for the tyme tent ther to semly of body a meyn stature hauiÌ„g all way to high to lawe a good chere ¶ And ther sprong shone so moch grace of hiÌ„ that what maner man had behold his face or had dremed of hiÌ„ he hoped that day that all thiÌ„g shÌ„uld hap to hiÌ„ ioyfull likiÌ„g ¶ And he gouned his kyngdoÌ„ gloriously vn to his age he was large iÌ„ yeueÌ„g wise iÌ„ speÌ„ces he was fulfilled with all honeste of good maners Ì„ vertues vnder whoÌ„ to liue it wos as for to regne wherfor his fame his loos sprong so fer that it come iÌ„ to hethennesse barborie shewiÌ„g Ì„ telling his worthenes Ì„ manhod iÌ„ all landis that no land vnder heuen had brought forth so nobull a kiÌ„g so gentill so blessid or myght rase such an other whan he wos dede ¶ Neuer the latter lechorie and meuyng of his flesh haunted him in his age wherfor the rather as it is to suppose for vnmesurable fulfilliÌ„g of his lust his lyfe shorted the sonn ¶ And here of take good hede lyke as his dedis berith witnesse· for as in his begynnyng all thiÌ„ges were ioyfull and likyng to hiÌ„ Ì„ to all pepull ¶ And iÌ„ his midde age he passid all pepull in high Ioye worship and blissednesse right so when he drew in to age drawyng douÌ„ward thurgh lechori othir sinnes litell and litell all tho ioyfull and blissid thyngê and ê“sparite decreced and mishappid Ì„ infortunat thyngê Ì„ vnê“fitable harmes with mony euels began for to spring the more harme is it continued long time after CLemens the sext wos pope after Bendict x. yere this maÌ„ in name dede was vertuus mony thyngê that benedict was rigus iÌ„ he made ese certan that he depriuyt he restorid and the rigusnesse of the faith of Benedict was laudabull But moch more laudabull wos the mekenesse of Clement ¶ This man wos a nobull prechour and mony sermones he geddrid he let no man paasse from him bot he yaf him good councell And decessid a blissid man Karolus the iiij wos Emprour after Lodewik xxxi yere This man wos the kyng of Beeme a wise man a myghty And this man wos chosin Emprour by the coÌ„maundement of Clemens Lodewik beyng on liue in his coÌ„temacy be cause he asked mekely the popes blissing Ì„ to be crouned of him as ather good kynges did Therfor he wos proteckid of god and preualed ouer all his enmys And mony fauerabull lawes he made to spirituall men the wich yit er called Karolma at the last he decessid a rich man iÌ„ vertu and goodis Innocencius the sext wos pope after Clement x. yere And he wos a gret louer of religious men and he founded a monastery in frauÌ„ce of the ordir of Cartusiens and was a gret canonyst Vrbanus the v. wos pape after Innocent This man was abbot of Missolens of the ordir of sent Benet a doctur and is take for a seint He made the crosse to be prechit ayens the turkis And he made a pasage to the Turkis· And to him sent Brygit wos sente from crist for the confirmacion of ther rule And then he wos poysenned and decessid Gregorie the xi wos pope after hiÌ„ viij yere This Gregorie did litell And after hiÌ„ foloyd the tribulacioÌ„ the wich our lord shewed to sent Brigit for the sinne of the clargie Venselans son to Karolus a forsaid was Emprour xiiij yere And he wos a child and was chosen when his fadre wos on liue but he toke no kepe of the empire and when he wos warned mony tymes to take heid vn to it and wold not he was deposed For he yaf all his delite and lust vn
bene withstonde ¶ For the kyng Ì„ all the lordis of the ream of Englond wer departed except the lorde Scales that kepid the tour of london ¶ And the fifth day of Iuyll he did done smyte of a mannys hede in southwark and the nyght after the â—naire of london with the aldermen and the communes of the cite concludid to driue a way the capitayn his host sent to the lord scalis to the toure Ì„ to mathew gohe a copitayn of Normandie that they wold that nyght asaille the capitayn with them of Kent ¶ And so they did y come to londoÌ„ brige iÌ„ to southwarke or the capitayn had ony knowlege ther of ther they sought with them that keped the brigge And the Kentishmen went to harnes and come to the brigge Ì„ shot faught with them gat the brigge made them of londoÌ„ to fle slow mony of them this endurid all the nyght to Ì„ fro to ix of the cloke on the more And at the last they brent the draw brigge wher mony of them of londoÌ„ wer drowned In wich nyght Sutton an aldermaÌ„ was slayn Roger heysant and Mathew gohe and mony othir And after this the Chancilar of Englond sent to the Capitayn a pardone generall for him othir for all his menye And then they deê‘ted from southwarke euery man home vn to his own hous ¶ And when they wer all deê‘tid and goon· ther wer ê“clamacions madem Kent southsex and othir places that what man coude take the captayn quike or dede shÌ„old haue a M. mark And aftir this on Alixander Iden a squier of Kent toke him in a gardeÌ„ in southsex iÌ„ the takiÌ„g the CaptaÌ„ IohnÌ„ Cade wos slaiÌ„ Ì„ after behedid his hede set on londoÌ„ brigge ¶ And anone after then the kyng come in to Kent and did his Iustices sitte at Cauntorberi and enquered who wer causaries chief cause of this Insurreccion ¶ And ther wer viij men Iuged to deth in on day in othir places mo And from thens the kyng weÌ„t in to southsex and in to the westcuntre wher a litell before wos slayn the bisshop of Salisberi ¶ And this same yere wer so mony iugged to deth that xxiij hedes stode vpon londoÌ„ brigge at on s ¶ Of the feld that the duke of york toke at brentheth iÌ„ KeÌ„t and of the burth of prince Edward of the frist bataill at sent Albons wher the duke of Somersete wos slayn IN the xxx yere of the kiÌ„g The duke of yorke com out of the march of wales with therle of DeuiÌ„shire the lord Cobham gret puissaunce for reformacion of certayn Iniuries and wroÌ„ges also to haue Iustice on certayn lordis beyng about the kyng Ì„ toke a feld at brontheth beside dertford in Kent wich wos a stroÌ„gfeld for wich cause the kyng with all the lordis of the lande went vn to the blake heth with a gret and strong multitude of pepull armed and ordeyned for the were in the best wyse And when they had mustred on the heth Certayn lordis wer tho sent vn to him for to tret and make appointement with him wich were the bisshop of Ely and the bisshop of wynchestre and the erles of Salisberi and of werewyke And they concludid that the duke of Somersete shold be had to ward Ì„ to ansuer to such articles as the duke of yorke shold put on him and than the duke of yorke shÌ„usd breke his feld and cum to the kyng wich wos all promised by tho kyng ¶ And so the kyng commaundid that the duke of Somersete shold be had in ward And than the duke of york brake vp his feld and come to the kyng and whan he was comen ê¯trarie to the promisse afore made the duke of somerset was preseÌ„t in the feld a waytyng and chief about the kyng made the duke of yorke ride before as a prisoner thurgh londoÌ„ and after they wold haue put him iÌ„ hold But anoyse aroso that the erle of march his son was commyng with x. thousand men to londonward wherfore the kyng and his couÌ„cell ferid and than they concludid that thee duke of yorke shold deê‘te at his own will ¶ About this tym began gret diuision in Spruce bitwen the gret mastir and the knyghtis of the duche ordre wich wer lordis of that cuntre For the comunes and touÌ„es rebellid ayenst the lordis and made so grete were that at the last they called the kyng of Pole to be ther lord the wich kyng come and wos worshipfully resaued and laid sege to the castell of Marienburgh wich was the chief castell of strength of all the land wan it and drofe out the mastir of dansk Ì„ all othir places of that land And so they that had ben lordis mony yeres lost all thirseygnorie and possessions in tho landis ¶ And the yere of the Incarnacion of our lord M. cccc liij on sent Edwardis day the quene Margaret wos deliuered of a fair prince wich wos named Edward That same day IohnÌ„ Norman wos chosin for to be maire of londoÌ„ And the day that hee shuld take his oth at westmynsire he went theder by water with all the craftis wher afore tyme the maire aldermen and the craftes rode on horsbake wich wos neuer vsed after For sen that tyme. they haue gone euer by water in barges ¶ Ye haue well vnderstond before how that contrari to the promisse of the kyng and also the ê¯clusioÌ„s taken bitwen the kyng the duke of yorke at brentheth the duke of Somerset went not to ward but abode about the kyng and had gret rule and anone after he wos made capitayn of calais ruled the kyng his reame as he wold wherfore the gret lordis of the reame Ì„ also the comunes wer not plesid For wiche cause the duke of yorke the erle of warwyk the erle of salisburi with mony knyghtis and squiers and moch pepull come for to remeue the said duke of somersete othir fro the kyng ¶ And the kiÌ„g hering of ther comyng thought by his couÌ„cell for to haue gon westward and not for to haue met with them Ì„ had with him the duke of somerset the duke of Bokyngham the erle of stafford the erle of NorthuÌ„berland the lord Clifford mony othir ¶ And what tyme that the duke of yorke Ì„ his feliship vnderstode that the kyng wos deê‘ted with thes lordis from london Anone he changed his way and coste the cuÌ„tre come to sent Albonys the xxiij day of May Ì„ ther met with the kyng to whom the kyng sent certayn lordis desired them to kepe the pees and deê‘te but in conclusion whils they treted on that on side· the erle of warwik with the march men oder entred the toune on that oder side fought ayeÌ„st the kyng and his ê‘tie and so began the bataill Ì„
vertu as Dauit Ì„ suÌ„ faylit a non as Saul Ì„ Ieroboan Also it is red that moÌ„y war nobull men by tyrannyde Ì„ violens of the wich sum war distryet a non and suÌ„ a bood in stabulnes as Paynyms myght Aº muÌ„di ijM.ix C v. Et anÌ„ xpÌ„i natiÌ„ .ijM.ij .ijC. lxxxxiiij SAruch lyneally descendyt from Adam to Abraham and Nachor wos hys sone Ì„ lyuid an hundyrth Ì„ xlviij yere And a bowte this tyme Ydolatri be gan myghttely And yf ye reuolue Ì„ loke the hystoryes ye shall fynd that iij. thyngê principall broght men to ydolatri that is to wete the affeccion that they had to deed men Dreed Ì„ flatyring a nendys thaer priÌ„ces Ì„ the dyligens of craftimen a boute sculptures or grauyngis dulys then entyrt the ydolis and gaf ownswars to the pepull and thes spretis coÌ„formyt the errur of the pepull myghtily In so mych that who suÌ„ euer wold note coÌ„forme hym to ther reson he shuld suffir the payn of deth also wos addit to thes thyngê the dissauyng laud of poettys the wych wrecchys and dampnyt men in to heuyn wyth ther gay writyngis exaltit And that same tyme when dulys be gan to speke so farly and so mekely to man the good lorde of his grett marcy send his angils that thay shÌ„uld speke to hys eleckyt men in visibely lest that all man kyne shuld ê‘ych wyth that muscheuus errower Belus sonne to Nemroth this tyme wos Kyng of Babulon Ì„ he was the fyrst kyng of this world and this man wos he whom the errur of pepull fyrst trawit shuld be a god wher for diuse pepull namyt hym diuersly Ì„ suÌ„ cald hym Bell. sum Baall suÌ„ Baalim sum Beelphagor Ì„ sum Beelsabub and this vnhapy errur stood in man kynd moor theÌ„ ijM. yere Ninus son to belus the secund kyng of Babulon or of assuriorum regnyt liiij yere and this Ninus desyryt to haue lordshyp Ì„ worshyp Ì„ to that entent that he myght be lord of all the cuÌ„tre a boute hym and he gaaffe batellÌ„ to allÌ„ that dwellit ne a bowte hym And be cause that tyme the pepull wos rude Ì„ had not the connyng of feghtyng nor armur a noon he subduyt vn to hym all Asiam Ì„ ther wos maad the fyrst monarch iÌ„ the est ê‘ti Ì„ when his hart wos sory for the deth of his father Belê° hee maad to be maad to hym for his comforth an ymage of his fadyr to whom he gaafe so myghti reuerens that what sum euer gylty man had fleed to that ymage ther shuld no man do vn to hym no hurte And he pardonythim of all his trespase And thurgh his ensampull moÌ„y a maÌ„ be gan to worshype the deed ymag of ther deer frendys Then thees malicius spretis seyng the curiosite off the pepull hyde them with in them and gaafe onswars to the pepull and said they war goddys and commandit them to do reuereÌ„s vn to them as god thus that vnhappy syn of ydolatri wos broght in the wich repugnyt myghteli to goddis magesty Ì„ iÌ„ so myche this madnes grew that he shuld suffir the payne of deth thatt sayd they warmen bot goddys Anno muÌ„di iijM.C.xiiij Et anÌ„ xpÌ„i natiÌ„ ij M lxxxv THare son to Nachor leuyd ij C Ì„ v yere this Thare after the deth of Aram went from vr of calde and passit in too Charram with his childyrn Ì„ his neuens and it is sayd be cause he woldnot worshipe the fier as Nemreth had taght he wos flemyt the cuntre And the comyn oppynion of the Hebreus is that NeÌ„roth regnyt ther the wich wos cald a nodir name Amraphel the kyng of Sennaar wom long tyme after this Abraham awrcaÌ„ vt dicitur Genes Genesis .xiiij. Anno muÌ„di iijM.C.lxxxiiii Et anÌ„ xpiÌ„ natiuitateÌ„ ij M xv Heer begynnith the deuoit Ì„ holy story of owr Patriarkis the wich worshippit the ueray god Ì„ iÌ„ ther worshipping thai taght it vide plura gen 12. vsque ad fineÌ„ this AbrahaÌ„ a faithfull louer of god wos born the xliij yere of Ninus kyng of babuloÌ„ knaw ye that the lxxv yere of AbrahaÌ„ thurght the myghty glori of the hee god Abraham Here begiÌ„nith the threde aage of the worlde duriÌ„g to dauid the word of merci deceÌ„dit apon mankynd for then be gane to appeer the oraculê° of the ê“misse of god vide aug 16 de ci de Itm gen ih for this tyme holy aÌ„gels apperit to vs iÌ„ form of mankynd ¶ This abrahaÌ„ had .ij. brether AraÌ„ Ì„ Nachor Ì„ aram gatt Loth a rightwes maÌ„ Ì„ an holi Ì„ he deseruyt to be visit with angels as his hunkil abrahaÌ„ wos Ì„ for this loth abrahaÌ„ smoot iiii kyngê for they toke loth vt gen 14. of whom on was said to be Nemroth bot he is cald heer amraphell ¶ And abrahaÌ„ had mony wiffes as Sarar Ì„ agar Ì„ his childer Ì„ his brether had moÌ„y childer bot for vs that writte cronyclis it is not necessary to speke of all meÌ„ bot of the noble faders sed vide plraÌ„fiÌ„e gen Melchysedech this tym wos kyng of SaleÌ„ this maÌ„ wos cald a right wis kyng for hys excedyng holines Ì„ he offirt bred Ì„ wyne to abrahaÌ„ iÌ„ signe of a gret mysteri he wos also the prest of the he god Semyramis the thrid king of BabuloÌ„ this ordaÌ„t an army Ì„ went iÌ„ to ynde Ì„ obtenet that cuÌ„tre Ì„ so by all Asiam the kiÌ„gdom of Assuriorum wos dilatit Ì„ he multiplied the cite of BabuloÌ„ myghteli Ì„ maad wallis a bowt it this Semyramis had a wyff Ì„ he for soke hiir Ì„ it is wreten that sche wos slain of hiir sone Ninus be cause sche ê“uokit him to the vnleful coÌ„cupiceÌ„s sic dicit aug 18 de ci dei Ì„ the maister iÌ„ his storys sayes that sche weddit hiir awn son Ì„ he gat a child on hiir the wich ordant bobulon to be the heed of his reme Ninus the iiij kyng of babuloÌ„ wos son to gret Ninus of this man litill is wreten bot that he slow his own modir as it is sayed a foor Arrius wos the. v kyng of babulon and vnder hym wos borne ysaac Ysaac sone to Abraham of the lyne of crist leued C.lxxx yere This Ysaac had a wife cald Rebecca Ì„ on hir hee gat ij sonnys Esau Ì„ Iacob this esau sould his enheritons to his brother Iacob Ì„ he wos the fadyr of Ydumeorum Ì„ he had in possession the hille of Seir. Ì„ put fyrst maris to assys wher of wos geÌ„dyrte mulis ¶ A bowte this tyme xxx lordschippis Ì„ Gomorra forther horrobli syn war owerthrow the wife of Loth lokyng bacward turnet iÌ„ to a salt stone shewis that no maÌ„ iÌ„ the way of deliberacion shuld desyre thyngê past hee augê° de
ci dei â–ª Anno muÌ„di iijM.iij .iijC.xliij Et anÌ„ xpÌ„i natiÌ„ M.viij C lvi Iacob leued C.xlvij yere this Iacob had iiij wyfes or suÌ„ ê¯cubynes that is to wete LyaÌ„ BalaÌ„ ZelphaÌ„ Ì„ Rachell lyam wos the fyrst wiff Ì„ she wos blereit and she baar hym sex sonnys s. Iudas RubeÌ„ SymeoÌ„ Leny Ysachar Zabulon Ì„ a doghttyr that heyt Dina. Bala seruand to lya and ê¯cubyne to Iacob baar him ij· soÌ„nys s. Dan and Neptalim Rachel the secuÌ„d wieff to Iacob wos barran long tyme. and at the last she bare hym .ij. soÌ„nys Ioseph and Beniamyn Zolpha seruand to Rachel baar Iacob ij soÌ„nys Gad and Aser and euerychoon of thes maad a trybe of whom iÌ„ this place it is not necessary too speke vide plura gen Ioseph son to Iacob wos borne lxxxx yere of his fadre age he leued C. yere on Xerses this tyme wos kyng of babuloÌ„ vnder whom wos born Iacob he wos the vij kiÌ„g of babuloÌ„ Armauictre wos kyng after him after sent aug in that maÌ„nys dayes our lord apperit to Ysaac ê“mysing him tho thyngê the wich hâ— ê“mysed to his fadre Belocê° the ix kyng of babuloÌ„ wos after this maÌ„ vnder this belocê° or iÌ„ his tyme our lord speke with iacob promising hym that he had ê“mysit to his fader the wich war ij.s. the possessioÌ„ of the lond of ê“mission chanaan Ì„ the bnÌ„diccion of al pepull iÌ„ his seed the wich is our lord thuÌ„ crist Abraham a boute this tyme decessit Ì„ wos bereed iÌ„ hebroÌ„ Inachê° the frist kyng that euer was iÌ„ Grees wos this tyme. foor then the kyngdoÌ„ be gone Phoronius wos kyng after hym and he ordant lawis to the grekys etc. Anno muÌ„di iijM.iij .iijC.iiij Et anÌ„ xpiÌ„ natiÌ„ M. vnC. lxxxxix Ivdas soÌ„ of Iacob desceÌ„dit of hym Ì„ of this tribe of Iudas caÌ„ the kiÌ„gê ê“geni Ì„ at the last crist our lord ¶ Iudas gat Phares Ì„ phares EsroÌ„ Ì„ of thes meÌ„ litil his had iÌ„script bott Math rehersis them Beleus iÌ„ this phares days wos kyng of Assuriorum or of babuloÌ„ Ì„ he wos the .x. kyng vnder whâ—m ysaac decessid Athlas the gret Astronomyer wos also the wich is said to beer vp heuyn on his shuldre for the veray knaulech of the sterris Sarapis wos the thyâ—d kyng of arguiorum or of Grecorum â— this sarapis wos called other wisse apis and he caÌ„ iÌ„ to Egyppit with a myghty nauy Ì„ ther decessit Ì„ wos made of the blind geÌ„tyles the egipcions the grettest god emongê them Ì„ that tyme began ameruelê° suê‘sticion iÌ„ ydolatri of a calfe of .ij. colours the wich they called Apem. that calf deyd the dulis ê“currit a lyke calf to that· for to be maid that they myght dessoue the rude pepul Ì„ after that it come that the chyld of israel did on the same wise vt patet Ì„ what thiÌ„g cold be more wrechit or folisshir iÌ„ maÌ„ hauiÌ„g resoÌ„ Argus wos the .iiij. kyng of grekis after whoÌ„ the nobul cite of argê° toke his naÌ„me Cicropis edefied Athenas iÌ„ grecia Ì„ this cite wos the noricher of liberal sciens Ì„ of moÌ„y phelosoforê° yet they wordes saiued by dulys Ì„ gret suê‘sticiosite iÌ„ the cite wos maid vide augê° et mirabileÌ„ fabulaÌ„ reê‘ies Omogires the fyrst maÌ„ put ox sin to the plough Beleê° this tyme wos kiÌ„g of babuloÌ„ Ì„ he wos the .x. kiÌ„g of that region Ì„ vnder hym died ysaac Pharao wos kyng of Egipt the wich resayuyt Ioseph Ì„ exaltet hym for the iÌ„terpretacioÌ„ of his dremes vide sciÌ„siaÌ„z pulcherimaÌ„que historiaÌ„ gen 41. etc. Amythus wos the xij kyng of babuloÌ„ vnder whome dyed Ioseph a blessit maÌ„ iÌ„ chastite Pharao emonophis aboute Esrom dayes wos kyng of Egypt this pharao knew not Ioseph ner noÌ„e of his linage he coÌ„mandet the child of israel to be drenchynt as it is had exodi po. ye that be clerkes loke that boke for we that be none pas to the Croniclys bot a boute this tym the hystory of exodi be gone Anno muÌ„di iij M v C xliiij Et anÌ„ xpÌ„i natiÌ„ M.v C lx Aram son to Esrom of the lyne of crist wos aboute this tim he got Aminadab Naason of thes meÌ„ litill is wrete iÌ„ scriptur therfor I ê“cede to other maters Iob that holi man of al paciens the ensampyll a boute this tyme wos born of the lyne of nachor the brother of habrahaÌ„ he leued moÌ„y yeres Ì„ after that god had visit hym Ì„ had assayed hys pacieÌ„s he leued C.xl. yere ê‘ augê° greg lir Moyses abowt this tyme wos born the child of israel war iÌ„ gret tribulacion bondage Ì„ Moyses wos put iÌ„ the water to be drounet Aron a boute this tyme wos borne Dafrus wos king of babuloÌ„ he wos the xiiij kyng Ì„ Moyses ws borne vnder hym iÌ„ egipt Cicrops wos the fyrst kiÌ„g of Athenas after Sent austiÌ„ that tyme moÌ„y lesyng war wretyn iÌ„ the histories of the grekys the wich coÌ„miÌ„li war lesse then the coÌ„myn faame sayes of a litell thyng they wret a grett mater be cause to shew tther connyng for ther wos the vniuersite of grekys An o muÌ„di iij M vi C lxxxviij Et anÌ„ xpiÌ„ natiÌ„ M.v C xi AMynadab son to AraÌ„ of crist lyne wos this tyme. thys amynadab fyrst after moyses with a fool fayth entyrd iÌ„ to the reede see Ì„ dred not wheÌ„ moÌ„y a huÌ„drith war ferd lest they shuld be drenchit Ì„ therfor he deseruyt to bring forth the kyngê linage of whom deceÌ„dit our lord IhuÌ„ crist Moyses wos the fyrste iuge of israel that euer wos Ì„ he wos iuge xl yere this moyses was the most excelent ê“phit that euer god made Ì„ the most notabil writer of stories Ì„ of his louyng heuyn Ì„ erth speeke for he saw almyghty god clerli fais to fays the wich in this freel lyef wos neuer fondeÌ„ iÌ„scriptur bot of hym Ì„ paule the apostell Aron thee fyrst bisshope leued a C.xxiij yere this AroÌ„ wos called of god iÌ„ to the dignyte of the hee prest or of a bisshope Ì„ wos ordaÌ„t the eternall testameÌ„t to hym self to al that come after hym for the gret pouer of presthod when he wos an C.xxiij yere of age he decessit Ì„ wos bereid iÌ„ the hill of hor. Ì„ his son Heleazarê° succedit hym iÌ„ the bisshoprike· Pharao boccharis this tyme wos kyng iÌ„ egipt this Pharao wold not her the coÌ„maÌ„dment of god ner delyuer the child of israel wherfor he wos ponichit with x. plagis vt pêª patet exo And afterward he with all his hoost wos drounet iÌ„ the reid see Naason son to Aminadab wos prince of the tribe of Iudas iÌ„ the dissert ¶ And a bowt this tyme the
coÌ„sait of the kyng with his felouys and aftirward he descussit the drenmys of the kyng and wos made a maÌ„ of gret honesti vt pêª patet dan primo Ioathas the secund sone of Iosie regned on the Iues iij. monethes wos made kyng bi the pepull he wos not good And Pharao toke him lede hym in to Egipt Ì„ made hys heldir brother kyng· vt pêª patet 4º reguÌ„ 23. Anno muÌ„di iiij M v C lxxxviij Et anÌ„ xpiÌ„ natiÌ„tateÌ„ vi C xi IOachym or Ieconyas the son of Iosie wos made kynge of Iues by Pharao regned xi yere Ì„ be cause he liued noght ne herd not the ê“phettis Nabegodonoser toke hiÌ„ Ì„ made hiÌ„ his seruand iij. yere And he rebellid a yens hym afterward and he toke hiÌ„ and was aboute to haue led him vn to babulon bot his consell wos changed so Nabegodonser kylled hym iÌ„ Ierusalem Ì„ kest his bodi ower the walles after the prophesy of Ieromy and toke with hym the vesell of our lord and put them iÌ„ his tempull vt pêª patet 2º para vlt Samias wos bisshop vrias ê“phet was slain of Iecony the kyng Ì„ ieromy wos pÌ„seÌ„t Ioachim son to Ieconias regned iÌ„ the Iure iij. monethes and leued nought therfor a none he wos meuyt that he shuld regne no longer And wos bonden and translat iÌ„ to BabuloÌ„ moÌ„y with hym wer translayt vt pêª patet 4 reguÌ„ 24. Daniell Ananyas Azarias Misaell Ezechiell Ì„ Mardochius all thes with Ioachym the kiÌ„g wer led iÌ„ to babuloÌ„ yong child for be cause they wer of the nobull blode Anno muÌ„di iiij M viC. Et ante ypÌ„i natiÌ„tateÌ„ vi C SEdechias the thrid son of Iosie regned on the iues xi yere This sedechy wos a myscheuê° man iÌ„ his leuyng and he wold not here Ieromy the ê“phet Therfor he ê‘yschet wrecchidli And all the iury with hym And his â—en wer put out and his chylder wer slayn vt pêª patet 4º reguÌ„ Iosedech the son of Azarie wos bisshop Ì„ wos traÌ„slayt fro ierusaleÌ„ bi Nabogodonosor iÌ„ to babuloÌ„ Abacuk ê“phesyed ayenes Nabuch at babulon Ì„ ther be oppynyons what tyme this abacuk wos This abacuk broght mete to Daniell wheÌ„ he was put to the Lyons after ierom here endis the fourth age Ì„ the history of reguÌ„ This tyme the tempull of Salamon wos brent of the Caldees Transmigracio Here begiÌ„nis the fifte aage of the world during to the NatiÌ„te of crist Ì„ ierusalem wos destruyed this tempull stood iiij C xlij yere that is to wete fro the fyrst makyng the wich was made the fourth yere of SalamoÌ„ And fro that destruccion the wich wos made by Tytus that is to wete xlij yere after the passion of Criste Priscus torquinê° the v. kynge of Rome regned Ì„ he made Capitâ—lliuÌ„ quasi caput soluÌ„ For in the gronde werke wos found a hed with out ony body as for ê“phesy of thynges to cuÌ„ For ther afterward the senatours sat as on heed of all the world ¶ This tyme iij. chyldir wer kest in to a fornes brynnyng Ì„ with a myracull thei war deliuered as it it is schewed in dan pri o Nabogodonoser the son of Nabogodonosor the myghty regned iÌ„ babuloÌ„ This maÌ„ made an hyngyng gardyn with myghty costys for hys wiffe and mony meruelê° thinges he did so that he wold be named to excede Hercules in his gretnes Ì„ strength Enylmerodâ—ch brother to the later Nabagodonoser regned in babuloÌ„ This maÌ„ toke Ioachym out of preson worshippit him and his fadâ—â— deed body after the counsell of this man he deuidet to an huÌ„dyrth gripes lest that he shold rise from deth to lyue Nota The play of the Ches wos found of Xerse a philosophur for the correccion of Enylmerodach this tyme the kyng of babulon a gret tyrant the wich was wont to kyll his own maisters and wyse men And for he durst not rebuke him oppynly with sych a witty game he procurt hym to be meâ—ke Anno muÌ„di iiij M vi C xxxiiij Et anÌ„ iÌ„xpÌ„i natiÌ„tateÌ„ v C lxv SAlathiell of the line of crist wos son to Iecoâ—y the king of Iues the wich he gat after the transmigracion of babuloÌ„ as Marke the Euangelest saeth Seruius Tuliê° the sext kiÌ„g of Rome was of a bond codecion on the mother syed for she was a captiue madyn bot she was of the nobull blude This maÌ„ had gret louyng and nobully he bare hym in euery place iij. hellis to the cite he put diked the walles round a bowt Regusaâ— Sabusardach and Balthasar wer bretheren the wich regned on after a nother and wos kynges in Babuloo and Balthasar wos the last kyng in babuloÌ„ the wich wos slayn of Darius Cyrus· Plura vide danielÌ„ quinto DArius vnkyll to Cyro felo iÌ„ the kyngdoÌ„ with Ciro occupied the kyngdom of babuloÌ„ Darius translatit the kyngdom of babulons Caldees in to the kyngdoÌ„ of ê‘sarum Ì„ medorum Cyrus was emprour xxx yere This cyrus held the monarch hoill at perses of this man ê“phesied Ysaias he destruyed babulon and kylled Balthasar the kyng of babulon and he worschipped gretly Daniell the Iues he send home ayene that they shold bilde the tempull of god vt pêª patet esdre primo Babulon that strong castell was destrued Ì„ his pouer was taken fro him as it wos ê“phesied This wos the fyrst cite and thee grettest of all the world of the wich incredebyll thyngê ar wreteÌ„ and this that wos so strong iÌ„ on nyght wos destrued that it myght be shewed to the power of god to the wich power all other be bot a sparke Ì„ dust For it is saied for sothe that it wos incredabull to be made with mans handis or to be dethruyed with mans strenght wherof all the world myght take an ensample and it wold or myght be informyt Tarquinus suê‘bus wos the vij kyng of Rome he regned xxxv yere This man ê¯saued fyrst all thes tormeÌ„tis wich ar ordeyned for malefacturs as exile pÌ„soÌ„ weilis galowis fettres Ì„ manyclys chynes colers sych other Ther for his gret pride cruelnes god suffrid him to myschefe and in what maner wyse it shall bi shewed ¶ He had a son of the same name the wich son dofouled a worthy manys wiffe thei called hym Collatyn his wyffe wos called Lucres This Tarquynê° that wos this seuynth kiÌ„g son a foor saied come vn to this ladyes howse absent hir howsbond to soê‘ Ì„ to logiÌ„g and when all wer a slepe he rose with a suerde in his hond Ì„ with strengthe feir he rauychid the womaÌ„ And wheÌ„ he wos go the nexte day after she send vn to hir fadre to hir housbond for she was off gret kynne and thus she saied vn to them ¶ This kyngê son come heder os a freynd of whom I had no mystrist
the romans sent legats the wich coÌ„maÌ„ded antiaco that he shold sese of his tyrannyde a yenst hym And Marcê° publiê° made a cerkill a boute Antiochi thê° sayng The senetours of Rome the pepul coÌ„maÌ„dith the that thow go not out of this cerkell till thow haue anwsar to this mater This antiochê° seyng that he myght not coÌ„tinu his tyranyde sayed yf it be thê° coÌ„maÌ„did me of the senetour romans pepull I must nedis turne ayene so woed angre he wos that he lost the seege of Alexander Ì„ turned to the poer releuys of the Iues vengyng hym vpoÌ„ them be cause he myght not veÌ„ge hym an no myghtier pepull vtêª iÌ„ li o machabeorum primo et 2o. MAthathias an holy maÌ„ of all louiÌ„g most worthy hated iÌ„ his hert ê¯uersacioÌ„ al synners alonly tristyng iÌ„ our lord god of israel vtêª pri o macha 2º And this man had v. soÌ„nes of the same loue vn to god This maÌ„ wos not bishop iÌ„ israel bot his iij. soÌ„nes wer Iudas machabeê° wos bishop iij. yere and he wos son to Mathathias This macabeê° was the most named maÌ„ that euer wos iÌ„ israell the wich had neuer none like hym a foor ne after he wos iÌ„ batell a myghty man and offred hiÌ„ to dye a marter for the lawys of god Ionathas his brother succedit hym xix yere the wich grew iÌ„ uertu gouerned stedfast stode iÌ„ the lawis of god and after falsly was slayn of Criphone ij of his soÌ„nys plraÌ„ vide iuda et freÌ„ eiê° libro macha Antiochê° Epiphanes son to Antiochê° the myghty this tyme was kyng of Syrry this maÌ„ from the heed vn to the fort with iÌ„ Ì„ with out all was cursed And therfor he was figured to antecrist moÌ„y marters cruelly he made and falsly he disposid hym to entyr iÌ„ to Egipt as his fader did bot he obtened not For the romans lettyd hym his most vnhapy werkes Ì„ how he wos iÌ„ hostage at Rome how the ê“phesi of daniell is completed in hym ye may se in the boke of machabeorum Qvintus Flaminius Marchus Catho Thiberiê° Graccê° weer senetours of Rome this tyme was so contiunall and so mych batell that lerned men of Gentyles and off the trew fayth bothe wer wery to writte the actys or haue them in mynde iÌ„ the wich batellis men merueled gretly on the stedfastnes of the RomaÌ„s that no tribulacion no drede no herdnes myght feere them bot euer contynuid in batell And certanly thes Romans after the worldis honesty they wer the most wise men that wer And therfore the Machobees desired ther companye Circa annuÌ„ muÌ„di v M lix Et ante xpÌ„i natiÌ„tateÌ„ C·xl MAthan son to Sadoch of the lyne of crist gat Iacob vt pêª patet Math .1o. Symon son to Mathathias wos bisshope viij yere This symon was a veray wise man and from hys youth vn tyll his age wos euer of good conuersacion euer more uertuus Ì„ at the last he was slayn of his brother Elay vt pêª patet pri o machabeo Iohannes Hyrcanus son to Symon wos after his fadir xxix yere a nobull man as all the kynred wos be fore hym This man aftir his decesse left his wife a veray wysse woman And his .v. sonnys to gouerne the Iuri of whom the holdest wos called Aristobolê° an vnpacient man and an vnhappy His own mother with .iij. of his yonger brether he presenit and slew them thurgh honger and so a loyn he leued kyng and bisshop on yere vide plura libro machabeorum Publius Lucinius Luciê° Emilius â–ª Lucius Lucinius Lucius Censorinus wer coÌ„sules at Rome in whos tyme the Cartagines and the Romans wered strongly bot the romans sabduit them intendyng to haue destrued the Cartagines vtterly Bot emong the Romans ther wos a notabull wisse man calldd Cipio nauta and emong mony notabull consellys .ij. he gaffe specealli to be had iÌ„ miÌ„de The fyrst that Cartago shuld not be destrued that thurght the occasion of forand batellis a inward concord shuld a bide emong the Romans and a ê‘petuall strength for continuall exorcise of batell The secund that in no wise the teathur shuld be belde in Rome for he sayed that was the most enmy that myght be to the pepull that vsid were for that place nuryched slouthe and prouoked lechory And how wisely this notabull man yaf counsell the tymes foloyng declare vide plura iÌ„ augê° de ciuitete dei et oro libro quarto Yet for all this counsell that nobull cite of Cartagie wos destruyed of Cipio and the senetours and it brent xvij dayes continually mony men ther wer sold and mony men ran in to the fyer willely ¶ Corinthus this same yere wos destruyed of thee romans the wich wos the richest cuntre of the world Ptholomeus this tyme regned in Egipt and wos famulier with thee romans And so long he and his predicessurs regned as they kepyd fidelite to the romans and knaw euery man that ther was no other cause that the pouer of the romans encresed so strongly a bown odir pepull bot vertu the wich abundantly regned in them and nomli rightwisnes the wich a bown all thyng they vsed And as long as they keped mesurnes and loued rightwisnes so long they wer neuer ouer comen And os soon as they wer corrupped it is red thei wer euer ower comen Hit is had iÌ„ a certayn reuelacion of god shewed to Sent Briget that our lord god beris witnes to thes oold Romans that noon in this world of puer naturall reson leued more rightwisly And what lyghttis of faythe they shewed in the tyme of cristyn relegion shall by shewed afterwerd RegnuÌ„ iudeorum restituitur ARistobolê° wos the fyrst kyng and prest iÌ„ the Iuri This man regned on yere a loyn and toke to hym the dyame of the kyngdom And he held hym not content with that that his fadre yaf hym iÌ„ hys testament bot he put his modir iÌ„ preson and his bred therfor he periched wrechidli with his brother antigonê° the wich wos of his counsell and helpet hym vide mrmÌ„ iÌ„ historiis ¶ Antigonê° brother to the kyng wos slayn thurgh the enuy of the quene Alexander wos bisshop after aristobolus and he stood xxvij yere And he wos all a tyrend all though he appered sobur iÌ„ the begiÌ„yng bot he made it knawyn what he wos iÌ„ his stomoke· for he slew his own bred and iÌ„ xij yere he slew .l. M of the old saage fadres of gret uertu be cause they told hiÌ„ his mysgydyng Then wheÌ„ he shuldie hed left ij sonys bi hynd hiÌ„ HircanuÌ„ AristoboluÌ„ bot certanly he saied his wyfe shuld regne for she stood iÌ„ the grace of the pepull Seruiê° Flaocê° Lucius Celius Fabius Publiê° this tyme wer senetours at rome this tyme batels emong them self be gan of the wich the fyrst cause Ì„ the begiÌ„yng wos Graccê° a myghty maÌ„ well
trow that he was god after the fulychnes of the panyms And ther she shewed hym a fayr virgyn in heuyn holdyng a chyld in hir armys sayed to hiÌ„ This chyld is gret theÌ„ tho therfor do hiÌ„ worshipe ¶ The Monch of Rome a bowt this time mightili encresed And wheÌ„ it wos so that bi all the world in diuerse ê“uynsis batiles wer rased sodanli all men meruellyng they wersesid put them holly to the prince of rome that opynly it myght be shewed that sych a vniuersall peese come neuer by labur of batell bot of the power of the veray god That in his Natiuite peese shuld regne in all the world Herod Ascolonita wos kyng iÌ„ the Iuri xxxvij yere This Herod ydumeus wos the fyrst strang kyng that regned on the Iues The maister iÌ„ historiis sayes he wos a nobull maÌ„ and faythfull in the begynnyng and in all thyng he had hym nobully He wos veray gentyll vn to the romans and to the pepil that louyd peese And in his old age when he wold awr mekyll pleese the Romans And herd of the byrth of crist dredyng to be expulsit of his kyndoom as a stranger wrycchitly he fell and kylled the Innosentis and diuerse of his own chylder And at the last wos hatfull to all pepull and fell seeke and died wretchydly ¶ Mari the mother of crist was borne a foor ethe Natiuite of crist xvi yere or ther a bowte ¶ Of Kymbalyn that wos Androgeus son a good man and well gouerned the lond of Bretan AFter the deth of Androgen regned Kymbalin his son that wos a good man and well gouerned the lond in moch ê“sperite and pees all his lyfes tyme and in his tyme wos borne Ihesu crist our sauyour of that swete virgin Marie This kyng Kymbalin had ij sonnys Guidar Armoger good kynghtes and worthy and when this kyng Kymbalyn had rogned xxij yere then he died and lieth at London XpÌ„s natê° eÌ„ ex virgine maria an o muÌ„di v M C lxxx xviij IN the begynnyng of the xlij yere of Octauian the Emperour the wich be gan to regne in marrhe And the xxxi yere of Herod vij C li yere after that rome was belded The sext moneth from the consauyng of IohnÌ„ Baptist the viij kalend of Aprill The sext fery at Nazareth of galalee of the virgin Mari wos ê¯saued crist our saueour the same yere was borne XpÌ„s natus est Here beginnith the sexte aage during to the ende of the world And thee thred wos called Agrippa sone to aristoboly sone to the fyrst Herod the wich kylled Iamys and presenyd Peter ¶ The fyrst Herod when he saw his sonnys Alexium and aristobolem thurgh the pretens of his letter by the Emperour send striue for the succession off his kyngdom He disposed and made Antipatron that wos hys fyrst be goten soÌ„ to be bi for them and when they wer talkiÌ„g of the deth of ther fadir he kest theÌ„ away they went to the Emprour to complayn of the wrong of ther fadre ¶ And in thee meyn tyme the iij. kynges of Colan come by Herod vn to Ierusalem And when that they come not a yene by hym he thought that they war asshamed for to cum ayene by hym for be cause that they wer dessaued and that they fond not the chyld as he trowed Therfor in the meynseson he sessed to kyll the chyldyr off israell And than he went vn to Rome for thee citacion of the Emperour and he toke his way by the cite of Tarsum wher he brent the shyppes in the wich the iij. kynges of Colan shuld haue sailed in to ther own cuntre ¶ Then after a yere and certayn dayes this Herod come fro rome a yenâ—e acorded with his sonnis and for the confirmacion of his kindoÌ„ he wos made much boldyr And then he kylled all the chyldir of Bethelem that wer of ij yere of age and vndir· that had space of on nyght of aage and emong thes was ther oon of his own chylder And Aristobolus and AlexiuÌ„ wer had suspeckyt In so mych as they promysed a barbour a gret reward that he shuld take anâ—â—ut ther faders throte when that he did hym shaue And when this Herod herd this he was greued ther he kylled bothee his sonnys and herod agrippa his son he ordand to be kiÌ„g wher foor Antipater his holdest son wos a bout for to pusyn hys fadre the wich Herod agrippa vndyr stoed and presenit ther hys brother the wich the Emprour herd and sayed that he had leueyr be an hog off Herodes then for tyll be on of his sonnys For hys hoggys he sporeth and his sonnys he kyllis And when thatt Herod wos lxx yere off age He wos strikyn with a gret sekenes in his hondes and in his feit and iÌ„ his meÌ„bres that no leche myght cuÌ„ to hym for stynke and so died So Antipater his sune in prison herd tell this and ioyed gretly And therfor that cause he wos slayn ¶ Then stroffe Archelaê° an Herodes for the succescion of the fyrst Herod a fore the Emê‘our The Emperour ther thurgh consell of the senetours the half of the iuri idumya gaffe to Archelaê° vndir name of a tetrarche The other partte he deuided iÌ„ to too Galali he yaf to herod antippe And IturiaÌ„ and TraconitideÌ„ he yaf to Philippe herods brether ¶ And that same yere crist come froÌ„ Egippt Ì„ Archelaê° was accused mony tymes of the iues and was exiled iÌ„ to vieÌ„nam iÌ„ to fraunce in that place wer set iiij tetrarches to the repreuyng of the iÌ„stabulnes of the Iues ¶ And that same yer OctouiaÌ„ the emê‘our died Anno Cristy xij INRI Crux xpÌ„i Petrê° Credo iÌ„ deuÌ„ patreÌ„ omnipoteÌ„teÌ„ creatorem celi et terre Andreas Et in ihesum xpÌ„m filium eius vnicuÌ„ dominuÌ„ nrmÌ„ IohaÌ„nes Qui coÌ„ceptus est de spiritu scÌ„o natê° ex maria virgine Iacobus Passus sub poÌ„cio pilato crufixê° mortuus et sepultus ThoÌ„as Descendit ad iÌ„ferna tercia die resurexit a mortuis Iacobê° Ascendit ad celos sedet ad dexteraÌ„ dei ptiÌ„s omnipotentis Philippê° Inde veÌ„turus est iudicare viuos et motuos Bartholoê° Credo in spiritum sanctum Matheê° Sanctam ecclesiam catholicam Symon Sanctorum commumonem remissionem peccatorum Iudas Carnis resureccionem Mathias Et vitam eteernam Amen IHesu crist our saiueour roos from deth to lyue and saied to his discipules all the power in heuen and erth is geuyn vn to me And go ye thus iÌ„ to al the world and preche and teche wn to eueri creatur And I shall be with yow to the end of thee world ¶ Her he chose him lxxij discipules And he had xij apostolis the wich he send iÌ„ to al the world to pÌ„che ne it is not red that ther war mo orderis emong the discipuls of crist Of whom thee prestys and bysshoppis in the chirche of
exiled out of englond for sent Thomas cause of Lancastre that is to say sir Roger of wigmore sir willm Trussell sir IohnÌ„ of Cromewell Ì„ moÌ„y oder good knyghtys ¶ Wherfor thei toke ther couÌ„cell Ì„ ordeyned amoÌ„ges them for to make a mariege bitwen the duke of gnyheÌ„ the kiÌ„gys son of engloÌ„d Ì„ the erles doughter of henaud that was a nobul knyght of name a doughty iÌ„ his time ¶ And if that thiÌ„g myght be brought about than stode they trowyng with the help of god with his help to recouer ther heritage in engloÌ„d wer of they wer put out thurgh the fals congettynges of spensers ¶ How kyng edwar thurgh couÌ„cell of the spensers sent to the douzeê‘s of frauÌ„ce that they shÌ„uld help that the quene Isabell hir son sir edward wer exiled out of frauÌ„ce WHen kyng edward Ì„ the spensers herd how that quene Isabell and sir Edward hir son had alied them to the erle of Henaud and to them that wer exiled owt of englond for encheson of Thomas of Lancastre they wer so sori that thei not wist what for to done ¶ Wherfor sir hugh spenser the son said vn to sir hugh his fadre in this maner wyse ¶ Fadre cursed be the tim and the couÌ„cell that euer ye consentid that quene Isabell shuld go vn to fraunce for to trete of accord bitwen the kyng of englond and hir brother the kyng of frauÌ„ce for that was your councell for at that tyme forsoth your wit failed ¶ For I drede me sore lest thurgh hir and hir son we shall be shÌ„ent bot yf we take the better councell ¶ Now fair sirres vnderstond how meruelus felonie falshed thÌ„e spensers ymagened and cast for priuely they let fill v. barellis ferrors with syluer tho soume amounted v. thousand pound and they sent tho barrels ouer se priuely by an alien that wos called Arnold of Spayn that was a brocour of London that he shuld gone to the dâ—usepers of Fraunce that they shuld procuren speke to the kyng of fraunce that quene Isabell and hir son Edward wer driuen and exiled out of Fraunce ¶ And among all other thynges that they wer brought to the deth as priuely as they myght ¶ But almighty god wold not so for when this Arnold wos in the high see he wos take with se land res that met him in the high see toke him lad him to ther lord the erle of henaud Ì„ moch ioye was made for that taking Ì„ at the last this Arnold priueli stole away fro thens come to london ¶ And of this takiÌ„g of oder thiÌ„ges the erle of henaud said to the quene Isabell Dame maketh you meri be of good chere for ye be richer than ye wened to haue bene take thes v. barell is full of siluer that wer sent to the douzeê‘s of frauÌ„ce for to kyll yow and your son Edward thinketh hasteli for to wend in to englond taketh ye with you sir Iohan of henaud my brother v. C meÌ„ of armes for mony of theÌ„ of frauÌ„ce iÌ„ whome ye haue had grett trust done you for to scorne ¶ And almyghti god graunte you grace your enmys to ouer cum ¶ The quene Isabell sent tho thurgh henaud and FlauÌ„dres for hir saudiowrs and ordeyned hir euery day for to wend in to Englond ayen and so she had in hir coÌ„panye sir edmond of wodstoke that was erle of kent that was sir Edwardis brother of englond ¶ How kyng edward let kepe the costes by the see Ì„ let trie all the prise men of armes fote men thurgh englond WHen kyng Edward herd tell that quene Isibell and Edward hir son wold cum in to Englond with a gret pouer of aliens and with them that wer outlawed owt of Englond for hir rebelnesse he was sore adrad to be put douÌ„e and for to lese his kyngdom ¶ Wherfor he ordeyned to kepe his castels iÌ„ wales as well as in englond with vitales and ther apparile and let kepe his riueres and also the see costes Wherof the v. portes toke to kepe them and also the see ¶ And at the fest of DecolacioÌ„ of sent IohnÌ„ Baptest the Citizenis of london sent to the kyng to porchestre an hondreth men of armes ¶ And also he commauÌ„ded bi his letters ordeyned that euery hondreth and wapentake of englond to triours as well of men of armmes os men of fote Ì„ that they shold bene put in xx some Ì„ in an hondreth some coÌ„maÌ„ded that all tho men wer redy when any outese or crie wer made for to pursue and take the aliens that come to englond for to benomme him the land for to put him owt of his kyngdom· ¶ And more ouer he let crie thurgh his patent in euery faire and in euery marketh of Englond that the quene Isabell and sir Edward his eldest son the erle of kent that they wer take and saufely keped with out any maner harme vn to them doyng and all other maner pepull that come with them anone smyten of ther hedis with out any maner of ransome takyng of them ¶ And what man that might bringe sir Roger hede Mortimer of wygmore shuld haue an hondreth pouÌ„de of monay for his trauell ¶ And forthermore he ordend by his patent and coÌ„mauÌ„ded to make a fire vpon euery hyll beside the riueres and in law cuntres for to make hie beekenes of tymbbre that if it so wer that the aliens come vn to the land by nyght that men shuld tend the bekenes that the contre might be warned and cum and mete ther enmys and in the tyme died sir Roger Mortimer his vncle in the tour of london ¶ How the quene Isabell and sir Edward duke of Gnyhene his son com in to lond at herewich and how they did WHen quene Isabell and sir Edward hir sone Duke of gnyhenne sir Edward of wodstoke erle of Kent and sir Iohan the erles brother of Henaud and ther company drad not thee manace of the kyng ne of his traitours for they trustid all in goddis grace Ì„ com vn to herewich in sauthfolke the xxiiij day of Septembre in the yere of grace M.ccc.xxvi And the quene Ì„ sir edward hir son sent lettres to the maire Ì„ coÌ„mmalte of londoÌ„ requiring them that they shuld be helpyng in the quarell Ì„ causa that they had begonne that is to say to distroy the tratours of the ream bot none ansuer was sent ayen wherfore the quene syr Edward hir son senteÌ„ an other patent letter vnder ther seales the tenour of wich letter here foloweth in this maner ¶ Isabell by thee grace of god quene of englond lady of Irland Countes of pountyf we Edward the eldest son of the kyng of englond Duke of gnyhen erle of chestre of Pauntif of Moustroill to the maire to all the cominalte of the cite of
london for to kepe the Cite vn to him ayen the quene Isabell his wyfe and ayens edward his sone anone hiÌ„ self toke with him sir hugh spenser the son and sir Iohan erle of Arundell and master Robert Baldoke his Chancelar a fals piled prest and token ther way toward Bristow ¶ And ther the kyng abode a litell tyme and made sir hugh the spenser the fader as conestable and keê‘ of the castell ¶ And the kyng thatt other spenser went in to ship Ì„ sailed toward wales toke no leue of the stiward ne of none in the kingê housold Ì„ went ouer iÌ„ to wales for to arere the walshmen ayen dame Isabell the quene thee duke hir son the erle of Kent Ì„ sir Iohan of Henaud and thei went Ì„ pursued after them and ther pouer encresid euery day So at the last the kyng was taken vpon a hill in wales sir hugh thee spenser the son in that other side of the same hill and the fals pilede clarke master Robert Baldoke ther fast besides them Ì„ wer brought ayen in to englond as almighti god wold ¶ And the kyng him self was put in sauf kepyng in the castell of Kemlworth hiÌ„ kept sir HeÌ„ri that was sent Thomas broder of Lancastre ¶ And sir hugh the fader come put him iÌ„ the quenes grace and sir Edward hir sun duke of Gnyhenne ¶ But sir hugh thee spenser after the tyme that he was taken nold neuer ete no maner mete ne drinke no maner drinke froÌ„ he wist to haue no mercy sauf only to be dede ¶ And the quene hir counsell tho had ordeyned that he shuld haue be do to deth at londoÌ„ bot he was so febull for hys moch fastyng that he was ny dede And therfor it wos ordend that he shuld haue his Iugemet at herford Ì„ at a place of the toure his hood wos take from his hede and also from Robert of Baldoke that wos a fals piled clarkd and the kynges Chauncelare and men set vpon ther hedis chappelettis of sharpe netteles and two squyers blew in ther ere 's with .ij. gret bugles hornes vpoÌ„ tho ij prisoners that men might here ther blowyng out with hornes more than a myle◠¶ And on Symond of Ridyng the kyngê marchall bare before them ther armes vpoÌ„ a spere reuersed iÌ„ tokeÌ„ that they shÌ„uld be vndone for euer more ¶ And vpoÌ„ the morew was sir hugh spenser the sone dampned to deth wos draw honged Ì„ heded Ì„ his bowels takin out of his body brent and after thatt he was quartired Ì„ his .iiij. quarters wer sent to iiij tounes of englond and his hede sent to London brigge ¶ And this Simond for encheson that he dispised quene Isabell he was draw honged in a stage made a myddest the forsaid sir hugh galewes ¶ And the same day a litell from thens wos sir IohnÌ„ of aruÌ„dell beheded for encheson that he wos on of sir hugh spensers councelers ¶ And anoÌ„e after wos sir hugh spenser the fader honged draw and heded at Bristow Ì„ after honged ayen bi the armes with ij strong ropes the iiij· day after he was hewen all to peces and houndes eten him and for that encheson that the kyng had yeffen him the erledom of wynchestre his hede wos sent thider Ì„ put vpoÌ„ a spere ¶ And the fals Baldoke wos sent to londoÌ„ Ì„ ther he died iÌ„ prison amonges thefes for men did hiÌ„ no more reuerens than they wold done vn to an hound Ì„ so died the traitours of englond blissed be almyghty god ¶ And it wos no woÌ„der for thurgh ther councell the good erle Thomas of lancastre wos don to deth and all that held with Thomas of lancastre thurgh the traitours wer vndone all ther heires disherred ¶ Hw kiÌ„g edward was put douÌ„e his dignite take froÌ„ him ANd anone after as all this was done The quene Isabel and Edward hir sone and all the grett lordis of Englond at one assent sent to kiÌ„g Edward to the castell of kenilworth ther that he was in kepyng vnder the ward of sir Iohan HachiÌ„ that wos the bisshop of Ely Ì„ of sir Iohan of Percy a baroun for encheson that he shuld ordeyn his parlament at a certain place in england for to rodresse Ì„ amend the state of the reame ¶ And kyng Edward them ansuerd and said lordis quod he ye see full well how it is Lo haueth here my seal and I yef yow all my pouer for to ordeyn a parlament wher that ye will ¶ And they toke ther leue of him come ayen to the barons of englond ¶ And when they had the kiÌ„ges patent of this thyng they shewed it to the lordis ¶ And tho was ordeyned that the parlameÌ„t shuld be at westmynstre at the vtas of sent Hillarie ¶ And all the gret lordis of englond let ordeyn for them ther ayens that tyme that the parlament shuld be ¶ And at wich day that parlament wos the kiÌ„g wold not cum ther for no maner thyng as he had set him self and assigned ¶ And notheles the barons sent vn to him o tyme other And he suore by godis soule that he nold not cuÌ„ ther on fote Wherfore it wos ordeyned by all the gret lordis of engloÌ„d that he shuld no longer be kyng but be deposid said that they wold croune Edward his sone the elder king that wos the duke of Gnyhenne sent tydyng vn to the kyng ther that he was in ward vnder sir Iohan erle of Garen and sir Iohan of Bothun that was bisshopp of Ely and sir Henri Percy a barone and sir willm Trussell a knyght that wos with the erle sir Thomas of Lancaster for to yeld vp ther homages vn to him for all them of englond ¶ And sir willm Trussell said thes wordis Sir Edward for encheson that ye haue traied your pepull of englond and haue vndone mony gret lordis of englond with outen any cause ye shall be deposid now ye be withstond thanked be god ¶ And also for encheson that ye wold not cuÌ„ to the ê‘lameÌ„t as ye ordeyned at westmynstre as in your own letter patent is contend for to tret with your lege men as a kyng shÌ„uld ¶ And therfore thurgh all the comuns assent Ì„ of all the lordis of englond I tell vn to yow thes wordis ye shall vnder stond sir that the barons of englond at on assent will that ye be no more kyng of Englond but vtterly haue put yow out of your rialte for euer more ¶ And the bisshop of Ely said tho to the kyng ¶ Sir edward heri I yeld vp feaute and homage for all the erchebisshoppis bisshoppis of englond for all the clerge ¶ Tho said sir Iohan erle of Garenne sir edward I yeld vp here vn to yow feaute homage for me
fighting wiche endurid a gret wyle but in conclusion the duke of yorke obtened had the victorie of that iournay ¶ In wich wos slayn the duke of somerset the erle of NorthuÌ„berland the lord Clifoord mony knyghtis squiers moÌ„y mo hurt ¶ And on the morne after they brought the kyng in gret astate to londoÌ„ wich was logged in the bisshoppis palais of london ¶ And anone after wos a gretê‘lament In wich ê‘lament the duke of yorke wos made ê“tectour of Englond the erle of werwike Capitoyn of Calais the erle of Salisberi Chancelar of englond And all such parsons as had the rewle be fore about the kiÌ„g wer set a part myght not rule as they did be fore ¶ And this same yere died pope Nicholas the v. and after him was Calixte the thrid This calixt wos a catalane and thactis of him shall be shewyd sone after ¶ In this same yere fell a gret affray in London ayenst the Lumbardes The cause began because a yong man toke a dagger from a lumbard and brake it wherfore the yong man on thee morne wos sent fore to cum before the mayre and the aldermeÌ„ and ther for the offence he wos comytted to warde ¶ And then the maire deê‘ted from the gyldhall for to go home vn to his dynner but in the Chepe the yong men of the mercerie for the most part preÌ„tises held the maire and sheriues styll in châ—pe and wold not suffre them to depart vn to the tyme that ther felow wich wos comitted to ward wer deliuered and so bi force they rescued ther felow from prison and that done the maire and sheriues departed Ì„ the prisoner deliuered wich if he had bene put to prison had be in iupardie of his life ¶ And than began a romur in the cite ayenst the lumbardis and the same euenyng the handcraftimen of the toune arose and ran to the lumbardis houses and despoiled Ì„ robbed diuerse of them wherfore the maire and aldermen come with the honest pepull of the cite drofe them thens and sent sum of them that had stolen to newgate ¶ And the yong man that wos rescued by his felowes saw this gret romur afray and roborie enshewed of his frist meuyng to the lumbard deê‘tid and went to westmynstre to sentorie or els it had cost him his life For anoÌ„e after come doune an Oeyr determyne for to do Iustice on all them that so rebelled in the cite ayens the Lumbardis on wich sat with the maire that time willm Marow the duke of Bakyngham and mony othir lordis for to see execucion done ¶ But the comunes of the cite secretly made them redy and did arme them in ther houses wer inpurposed for to haue rongyn the comune bell wich is called bow bell but they wer let by sad men wich come to the knowleche of the duke of Bokyngham and othir lordis and incontinente they arose for they durst nolanger abide For they doutid that the hole cite shÌ„uld haue arisen ayenst them ¶ But yit neuerthelesse two or iij. of the cite wer Iugged to deth for this robborie Ì„ wer honged at Tiborne ¶ Anone after the kyng Ì„ the quene and othir lordis rode vn to Couentre and withdrew them froÌ„ london for thies cause Ì„ a litell before the duke of yorke wos seÌ„t fore to Grenwich ther wos discharged of the ê“tectourship And my lord of Salisberi of his Chancelarship Ì„ after this thei wer sent fore by priue seale for to cum vn to couentre wher they wer almost deceyued the erle of werwike also and shuld haue bene destruyed if they had not seyn well to ¶ How the lord Egremond was taken by the erle of Salisberi sonnys and of the robbyng of Sandwich THis yere wer takyn iiij gret fisshes bitwen Eereth and london that on wos called mors marine the secund was a swerd fisshe and the othir twayn wer whales ¶ In this same yere for certan affrayes done in the northcuntre bitwen the lord Egremond and the Erle of Salisburi sonnys the said lord Egremond whom they had takyn was condempned in a gret soum of monay to the said Erle of salisburi and therfore comittid iÌ„ to prison in newgate in london wher when he had bee a certayn space he brake thee prisun and iij. prisoners with him and ascapid and went his way ¶ Also this yere thee Erle of werwik and his wyfe went to Calais with a fair feliship and toke possession of his office ¶ About this tyme was a gret reformacion of mony monasteries of religion in diuerse parties of the world wich wer reformid after the frist institucion continued in moÌ„y places ¶ This same yere wos a gret bataill in the marches bytwen the land of Hungrie and the Turkye at a place called septedrad wher innumerabull Turkis wer slayn more by miracle thaÌ„ by mannys hond For only the hand of god smote them sent IohnÌ„ of capistrane wos ther present and prouoked the cristyn pepull beyng then aferd after to porsue the Turkis wher an infinite multitude wer slayn and destroyed And the Turkis said that a gret nombre of armed men folowed them that they wer aferd to turne ayen and they wer holi angellis ¶ This same yere the prisoners of newgate in london brake ther prison went vp on the leedis fought ayens them of the cite Ì„ kepid the gate a long while but at the last the toune gat the prison on them than they wer put in fetrris Ì„ Irons wer sore punysshed mensamof othir ¶ In this yere also ther wos a gret erthquake in Naples in so moch that ther perisshed xl· thousand pepull that sanke ther in to the erth ¶ Item in the yere xxxvi sent Osmond sum tyme bisshop of Salisberi wos canonised at Reme by pope Caliste And the xvi day of Iuyll he was translated at Salisbery by the bisshop of Cantorburie and mony othir bisshoppis ¶ And in August after sir Pers de Bresay seneschall of Normandi with the Capitayn of Depe and mony othir Capitayns and men of were went to the see with a gret nauy and come in to the Downes by nyght on the morne erly before day they londid and come vn to Sandwych both by land and water and token the toune and Rifled and despoiled it and toke mony prisoners And left the toune all bare wich wos a rich place and moche good therin And lad with them mony rich prisoners ¶ In this same yere in mony places of fraunce Almayn flauÌ„dris Holand and Zeland Childer gadrid them to geder by gret companies for to go on pylgrimage to sent Mihele mount iÌ„ Normandie wich come from fer cuntries wherof the pepull maruellid and mony supposid that sum wickid spret meued them to do so bot it endurid not long be cause of the long way and also for lake of vitaill as they went ¶ In this