1497.19 is made Lord chancelor cad 42. hath his Cardinals Hat brought too London with great tryumph ead 53. calleth too accountes all those that hadde medled with the kings money 1498.27 executeth iustice very seuerely ead 34. conceiueth a grudge agaynst Frances the Frenche king 1499.1 obteyneth the bishoprike of Bath 1504.50 obteyneth a gainfull court of Legate to be erected 1504.30 hurteth all the Cleargie with his ill example of pride ead 45. his excessiue pride ea 52. and .1505.1 hath a thousande Markes of yearely pension of the Frenche king 1505.40 his pompe 1510.22 hath great authoritie and credite committed vnto him by the English French kings 1510.30 goeth to Calais to parle with the French Ambassadours 1516.55 goeth to Bruges the Emperour comming a mile oute of the towne to meete him 1517 27. carieth the great seale with him beyonde the seas ead 3. maketh meanes to the Pope 1518.20 giueth a generall dispensation for eating of white meates one Lent 1519.40 his pompe and pride 1520.3 and ead 22 is made B. of Durham 1524.11 resigneth the bishoprike of Bath ead 11. laboureth tooth and nayle to get a great subsidie graunted 1524.40 remoueth the conuocatiō from Poules too westminster 1524.32 woulde haue visited the Friers Obseruantes but they withstood him 1533.40 erecteth two Colledges ead 56. suppresseth small Monasteries 1534.41 deuiseth straunge Commissions ead 41. altereth the state of the Kings house 1526.24 goeth Ambassador into France with a thousand two hūdred horses 1539.16 deuiseth a newe forme of Letanie 1539.22 women vnwilling to agree 943.53 a. wolney foure Miles from warwike 1321.40 Wodens issue 282.6 wrestling betweene Londoners and men of westminster 620.60 wriothesley Thomas lord wriothesley made Lord Chancellour and knight of the Garter 1610.38 one of the Kings executors 1611.55 is created Earle of Southamton .1614.15 depriued of the Chauncellorship and authoritie in the Counsail ead 47. writers in the time of Hērie the fifth 1218. co 2.32 wolles stayed 809.17 b wraw Iohn captain of the Suffolke rebels 1030.40 wreckes pardoned by king Richard the first 489.77 wriothesley Tho. knight Secretarie created Lord wriothesley of Trihefield 1591.54 wraw Iohn priest executed 1038.30 b writers in the time of Hērie the fourth 1163.39 writers that liued in king Iohns dayes 607.36 wolstane bishop of worcester dieth 336.5 Edmonde of woodstocke borne 836.22 a. Earle of Kent 861.3 b. is condemned of Treason 892 23. b. beheaded 893.20 a wulhard Earle ouerthroweth the Danes wyth an armye at Hampton 206.77 wulferth looke Vimer Y. YIn auncient time had the sound of v. and i. 9.91 Yarde measure ordeyned in Englande through all places 337.56 Yewan king of Northumberland 22.92 Yll May day 1511.1 Yeomen of the Garde instituted 1426.40 Yong Thomas Archbishop of Yorke dieth 1839 23. Yorkeswolde spoyled by the Scottes 871.4 a Yorke Monasterie buylded 307.16 Yorke citie by whom builded 18.10 Yorkeshyre men rebell against the Romains and are appeased 54.25 Yorke Citizens put to their fine for sleaing the Iewes 483.80 Yorke william Bishop of Sarisburie dieth 742.45 yorkeshire and Northumberlande wasted by king william 302.37 yong men set vp in dignitie easilye forget themselues 412.56 yorkeshire subdued to Lewes 602.35 yorke besieged by the Saxons and rescued 127.47 york besieged by king Arthure 132.47 yorkeshire wasted by the Danes 209.41 and .240.49 yorke burnt by the Danes 209.61 yorke conquered by King Reynolde 223.102 yong beautifull boyes and wenches solde for money into Denmarke 275.42 yorke Castell buylded 299.1 yorke great part consumed with fire and by what meanes 300.50 yorke besieged and deliuered too King william 301.30 ypres william Generall of Queene Mawdes armie agaynst Mawde Empresse 377.65 ypres william Earle of Kent constrained to forsake the realme 395.73 ypres william Earle of Kent his Countrey and progenie 377.66 Isabell Dutches of yorke dieth 1084.40 b yuon Haruey deliuereth certaine Castels into the handes of King Henrie the seconde 411.54 yurecester Richard Archdeacon of Poicters made Bishop of winchester 432.55 yuri taken by the English 1198.50 yuell a towne 1336.14 Z. ZEno Emperor 122.87 Zeale of the Northūbers in aduauncing the christian faith 16◅ 76 FINIS Faultes and ouersightes escaped in the printing of the first part of the English Historie before the Conquest FIrst in the Catalogue of the Authours whom I haue in the collection of the same hystorie chiefly followed I forgot Iohn Brend who wrote the expedition intoo Scotlande 1544. Thomas Churchyard Vlpian Fulwell Thomas Knell Polibius Nicholaus ▪ Perotus Hadrianus Berlandus and such other Ithan de Beugue not Bauge a Frenchman Pa. 1. col 1. lin 52. for Noe read Noah Pa. 2. col 1 lin 9. for Hebr read Heber Eadem col 1. lin 18. for acceste rit read acceslerint Ead. col 2. lin 58. for than read there Pag. ◅ col 2. lin 7. for disenssing read decising or discussing Pa. 5. co 1. li. 10. for of him read to him Ead. col 1. lin 37. for restance read resistance Eadem col 1. lin 54. for Serosus read Berosus in the mergent Eadem col 1. line 21. for amphitrita read amphitrite Pag. 11. col 1. lin 50. for preasing read pressing Pag. 13. col 1. lin 21. for cuse read case Pa. 15. col 1. lin 35. for Totnesse read Dodonesse Ead. col 1. lin 38. for captiuitie of Babilon read bondage of Pharao Pa. 16. col 2. li. 46 for 1874. read 2◅74 Pag. 18. col 1. lin 8. for Ebracus read Ebrancus Ea. co 1. l. 13. for Guilles read Gaules Eadem col 1. lin 41. for Henand read Henault Ead. col 1. lin 50. for loyne read Loire Ead. col 2. li. 29. for built by P. Ostor read built as by P. Ostorius Pag. 20. co 1. lin 48. for inheritor read inheritance Ead. col 2. lin 28. for there read that Pa. 24. co 2. lin 55. for Northeast read Northwest Pag. 27. col 1. lin 4. for those read they Pag. 33. col 1. lin 8. for who read whom Pag. 41. col 2. lin 5. for these two cohorts yet read the Britains therfore Pag. 42. col 1. lin 1. for aduentured too sight read aduentured not to fight Pag. 47. col 1. line 28. for earing read earings Ead. col 2. lin 38. for 79. read 793. Pag. 50. col 1 lin 5. for 79. read 795. Pag. 51. col 1. lin 1. the three first lines are in the foot of the page before Pa. 54. col 1. lin 5. for reformable read conformable Ead col 1. lin 13. for shorter they read shorter before they Pag. 56 col 2. lin 39. for captaine read captiue Pag. 75. col 2. lin 51. for sure read sithe p. 79. c. 2. l. 8. for marres read marishes Pa. 80. co 2. l. 30. for vestros read vestras Pag. 104. co 1. lin 25. for Rextachester read Reptacester Pa. 106. col 1. lin 15. for so to returne read and so to returne Pa. 133. col 1. li. 45. for Howell king of Britaine read Howell king of little Britaine
generall prayer vnto God and earnest supplication for the good successe of these men they sent them home agayne with no small charge that they should be diligent in their function and carefull ouer the flocke committed to their custody The first of these was called Eluanus a man borne in the Isle of Aualon and brought vp there vnder those godly Pastours and their Disciples whom Phillip sent ouer at the first for the conuersion of the Brytons The other hight Medguinus and was thereto surnamed Belga bycause he was of y e towne of Welles which then was called Belga This man was trayned vp also in one schoole with Eluanus both of them being ornaments to their hory ages and men of such grauititie and godlinesse that Eleutherus supposed none more worthy to support this charge then they after whose comming home also it was not long ere Lucius and all his housholde with diuers of the nobility were Baptized A zealous prince maketh ferueÌ„t subiects beside infinity numbers of the common people which daily resorted vnto them and voluntarily renounced all their Idolatry and Paganisme In the meane time Eleutherus hearing of the successe of these learned Doctours supposing with himself that they two only could not suffice to supporte so great a burden as shoulde concerne the conuersion of the whole Islande Faganus Dinauus Aaron He directed ouer vnto them in the yeare insuing Faganus Dinaw or Dinauus Aaron and diuers other godly Preachers as fellow labourers to trauayle wyth them in the Vineyarde of the Lord. Radulphus de la noir alias Niger These men therfore after their comming hyther consulted wyth the other and forthwith they wholly consented to make a diuision of thys Islande amongst themselues 3. Chiefe Bishops in Britain appoynting what percel eche Preacher shold take y e with the more profits and ease of the people and somewhat lesse traueyle for themselues Theonus Theodosius the Doctrine of the Gospell might be preached and receaued In this distribution also they ordayned that there should be one congregation at London where they placed Theonus as chiefe Elder and Byshop London yorke Caerlheon for that present time Another at Yorke whether they appoynted Theodosius And the thirde at Caerlheon vpon the ryuer Vske which thrée cities had before time béene Archeflamines to the end that the couÌ„tries rounde about might haue indifferent accesse vnto those places and therewith all vnderstande for certeintie whether to resort for resolution if after their conuersion they shoulde happen to doubt of any thing Thus became Britaine the first Prouince Britainâ—… first Prâ—…uince thâ—… receyueâ—… Gospell generalâ—… that generally receyued the faith and where the Gospell was fréely preached without inhibition of hir prince Howbeit although that Lucius and hys princes and great numbers of his people imbraced the word with gréedinesse yet was not y e successe therof eyther so vniuersal that all men beléeued at the first y e security so great as that no persecution was to be feared from the Romaine empyre after his decease or the procéeding of the king so seuere as y t he inforced any man by publicke authoritie to forsake and relinquish his Paganisme but only this fréedom was enioyed that who so woulde become a christian in his time might without feare of his lawes professe the Gospel in whose testimonie if néede had béene I doubt not to affirme but that he woulde haue shed also his bloude as dyd his Nece Emerita Emerita néece 〈◊〉 Lucius who beyng constant aboue the common sort of women refused not after his decease by fire to yéelde hir selfe to death as a swéete smelling sacrifice in the nostrels of the Lorde beyonde the sea in Fraunce The fayth of Christ being thus planted in this Islande in the 177. Lucius â—…deth 〈◊〉 to Rome after Christ and Faganus and â–ª Dinaw with the rest sent ouer froÌ„ Rome in the 178. as you haue heard it came to passe in the thirde yeare of the Gospell receyued that Lucius did sende agayne to Eleutherus the Byshop requiring that he might haue some briefe Epitome of the order of discipline then vsed in the Churche For he well considered that as it auayleth little to plant a costly Vineyarde except it afterwarde be cherished kept in good order and such things as annoy daily remooued from the same so after Baptisme and entraunce into religion it profiteth little to beare the name of christians except we doe walke continually in the spirite Ro. 8. â—… haue such things as offende apparantly corrected by seuere discipline For otherwise it will come to passe y t the wéedes of vice and vicious liuing will so quickly abounde in vs that they will in the ende choke vp the good séede sowen in our mindes eyther inforce vs to returne vnto our former wickednesse with déeper security then before or else to become méere Atheistes which is a great deale woorse For this cause therefore dyd Lucius sende to Rome the seconde tyme for a copie of such politicke orders as were then vsed there in their regiment of the Church The wisedome of Eleutherus But Eleutherus considering w t himselfe how that al nations are not of like condition therfore those constitutions that are beneficiall to one may now and then be preiudiciall to another and séeing also that beside the worde no rites and orders can long continue or be so perfect in all points but that as time serueth they wil requyre alteration He thought it best not to lay any more vpon the neckes of the newe conuerts of Britaine as yet then christ his Apostles had already set downe vnto al men In returning therefore his messengers he sent letters by them vnto Lucius and hys nobilitie dated in the Consulships of Commodus and Vespronius wherein he tolde them that Christ had left sufficient order in y e scriptures for the gouernement of his Church already in his worde and not for that only but also for the regimeÌ„t of his whole kingdome if he woulde submit himselfe to yéelde follow that rule The Epistle it selfe is partly extaunt and partly perished yet such as it is and as I haue faithfullye translated it out of sundry copies I doe deliuer it euen here to the ende I will not defraude the reader of anye thing that may turne to his commoditie in the hystorie of our nation Epistle of Eleutherus vnto Lucius You requyre of vs the Romaine ordinaÌ„ces and therto the statutes of the Emperours to be sent ouer vnto you and which you desire to practise and put in vre within your realme and kingdome The Romaine lawes those of Emperours we may eftsoones reprooue but those of God can neuer be founde fault withall You haue receyued of late thorowe Gods mercy in the realme of Britaine the law and fayth of Christ you haue with you both volumes of the Scriptures out of them therefore by Gods grace and the Counsel
to ioyn with him against the Englishmen that with coÌ„mon agreement they might sette vpon the englishe nation and vtterly subdue them King Edw. hauing intelligence hereof King Edvvard inuadeth the countrey of the Eastangles purposed to preuent him therevpon entryng with an armie into his countrey cruelly wasted spoyled the same K. Erick hauing alreadie his people in armour through displesure conceiued hereof and desire to be reuenged hasted foorthe to encounter his enimies And so they met in the field fiercely assayled eche other But as the battaile was rashly begon on king Ericks side so was the end very harmeful to him Ericke put to flight for with small a doe after great losse on his side was he vanquished and put to flight And after his comming home bycause of his great ouerthrowe and foule discomfiture he began to gouerne his people with more rigour and sharp dealing thaÌ„ before time he had vsed Wherby he prouoked the malice of the Eastangles so highly against him y t they fell vpon him murthered him yet did they not gain so much hereby as they looked to haue doone for shortely after they being brought lowe The kingdome of the Eastangles subdued by K. Edvvard and not able to defende their countrey were compelled to submit them selues vnto king Edw. And so was that kingdome ioyned vnto the other dominions of the same king Edwarde who shortly after annexed also the kingdome of Mercia vnto other of his dominions immediatly vpon the death of his sister Elfleda whome he permitted to gouern that countrey during hir lyfe And not without good reason for by hir wyfe politike order vsed in all hir doings he was greately furthered and assisted But namely in reparing and buyldyng of Townes and Castelles H. Hunt Mat. VVest Sim. Dunel shee shewed hir noble magnificence in so muche that during the time of hir gouernaunce whiche continued an eyght yeares it is recorded by wryters that she did buylde and repare these Townes whose names heere ensewe 〈…〉 and VVarvvike 91â—… Thamwoorth beside Lichefielde Stafford Warwike Shrewsburye Watersbury or Weddesbury Elilesbury or rather Edbury in the forest of De la mere besides Chester Brimsbery bridge vpon Seuerne Rouncorn at the mouth of the riuer of Mercie with other Chester repared 905. Sim. Dunel Moreouer by hir helpe the citie of Chester whiche by Danes had bin greately defaced was newly repaired fortified with walles and turrets and greatly enlarged So that the castell whiche stoode without the walles before that tyme was now brought within compasse of the new wall Moreouer she boldely assaulted hir enimyes whiche wente aboute to trouble the state of the countrey as the Welchemen and Danes She sent an armie into Wales Queene of the VVelchmen taken Brecanamere Ran. Higd. H. Hunt 918. Derby vvon from the Danes and tooke the towne of Brecknocke with the Queene of the Welchmen at Bricennamere Also she wan from the Danes the towne of Darby and the countrey adioyning In this enterprise she put hir owne person in great adueÌ„ture for a great multitude of Danes y t were withdrawen into Derby valiaÌ„tly defended the gates and entries insomuche that they slew foure of hir chief men of warre which wer named Wardens of hir person euen fast by hir at the very entrie of the gates But his notwithstanding with valiaÌ„t fight hir people entred and so the towne was wonne she gotte diuers other places out of their handes and constrained them of Yorkeshire to agree with hir so that some of them promised to become hir subiectes Some promised to ayde hir and some sware to be at hir coÌ„maundement Finally this martiall Lady and manly Elfleda H. Hunt the supporter of hir couÌ„treymen and terrour of the enimies Anno Christi 919. Mat. VVest St. Dunelm departed this life at Thamworth aboute the .xij. of Iune in the xviij or rather .xix. yeare of hir brother king Edwards reigne as by Math. West it should appeare But Simon Dunelm writeth that she deceassed in the yeare of Christ .915 which should be about the .xiiij. yeare of king Edwards reign Hir bodie was conueyed to Gloucester and there buried within the monasterie of S. Peter which hir husband and she in their life tyme had buylded and translated thither the bones of Sainct Oswyll from Bardona Ranul The same monasterie was after destroyed by Danes But Aldredus the archbishop of Yorke who was also bishop of Worcester repared an other in the same Citie that was after the chiefe Abbey there After the decease of Elfieda king Edwarde toke the dominion of Mercia as before we haue sayde into his owne handes and so disinherited his neece Alfwen or Elswen the daughter of Elfleda This Alfvven vvas sister to Edelfled as H. Hunt hath takyng hir awaye wyth him into the countrey of Westsaxons By thys meanes he so amplifyed the boundes of his kingdome that he had the most parte of all this Ilande of Brâ—…tayne at his commaundement 〈…〉 for the 〈◊〉 of the Welchmen namely the kyng of 〈◊〉 and of the Scots acknowledging hym to be their chiefe soueraigne Lorde and the Danes in Northumberland were kept so short that they durst attempt nothing againste him in his lattâ—…r dayes so that he had tyme to applye the buildyng and reparing of Cities townes King 〈◊〉 a great 〈◊〉 and 〈…〉 Notingham bridge 〈◊〉 and castels wherin he so muche delighted He buylded a newe towne at Notingham on the southsyde of Trent and made a bridge ouer that riuer betwixt the olde towne and the newe Mat. VVest Manchester repared An. 5â—…6 Sim. Dun. He also repared Manchester beyonde the riuer of Mercie in Lancashire accompted as then in the southe ende of Northumberlande he buylt a Towne of auncient writers called Thilwall nere to the same riuer of Mercie and placed therin a garrison of souldiers diuers other townes and castels he buylt as two at Buckingham on eyther side the water of Ouâ—…e as before is shewed and also one at the mouth of the riuer of Auon Hee likewise buylt or new repared the townes of â—…ocetor and Wigmore with diuers other H. Hunt as one at Glademuth about the last yeare of his reigne Some also he destroyed whiche seemed to serue the enimies turne for harbrough as at Temnesforde a Castell whyche the Danes had buylded and fortifyed At lengthe after that this noble Prince king Edward had reigned somewhat aboue the terme of .xxiij. yeares hee was taken out of this lyfe at Faringdon His bodie was conueyed froÌ„ thence vnto Winchester and there buried in the newe Abbey He hadde .iij. wyues or as some haue written but two affirming that Edgiua was not his wife but his concubine of whom he begat his eldest sonne Adelstane Polidâ—…re A 〈◊〉 who succeded him in the kingdome This Edgiua as hathe bene reported dreamed on a tyme that there rose a Moone out of hir belly whiche with the brighte
trust to purchase some large portion of mony in Scotlande Scotland interdited put the same vnder proces of interditing namely he accursed king Alexander most terribly for that he had inuaded England and as he alledged spoyled Churches as well as prophaine places These cursings ◅ inflamed the heartes of the Scottish men with hatred agaynst the Englishemen that the same was not like to haue ended without the vtter destruction and ruine of both their realmes Neuerthelesse at length by the diligent trauayle of the Bishops of Yorke and Salisburie Bishops of Yorke and Salisburie which came vnto king Alexander to treate an agreement a finall peace was concluded vnder these conditions A peace concluded First it was agreed that King Alexander should render the Citie of Carleil into the English mens handes The conditiōs and king Henrie the towne of Barwike vnto the Scottes The whole dominion of Cumberland to remaine vnto king Alexander with the one halfe of Northumberlande to the Recrosse And further that King Alexander shoulde be absolued of the Censures of the Churche which Gualo the Cardinall had denounced agaynst him Thus the two Kings beeing accorded the two foresayde Byshops comming vnto Barwike assoyled King Alexander and deliuered his Realme of the interdiction by suche authoritie as they had procured of the Cardinall Gualo But yet the same Cardinall not mynding to depart with emptie handes The cleargy of Scotland sommoned by cardinal Gualo to come to Anwike summoned all the Prelates of Scotlande to appeare before him at Anwike there to receyue theyr full absolution to the intent by such meanes to trouble them tyll they had disbursed to his vse some large portion of money Sundrie of them which loued quietnesse more than contention satisfyed his mynde but others refused vtterly so to doe taking great indignation that spirituall causes were thus dispatched for money Sale of spirituall promotions ecclesiasticall prefermentes bought and solde no otherwise than secular possessions and prophane dignities The Scottish clergie cited to Rome Incontinently therevpon Gualo cited them to Rome supposing that rather thā to take vpon them so long a iourney they woulde haue compounded with him at his pleasure Notwithstanding they beeing nothing in doubt thereof The cōplaint of the Scottish cleargie to the Pope went vnto Rome and at theyr commyng thyther made vnto the Pope their complaint in most grieuous maner of the insufferable iniuries attempted in England Scotland by his most couetous Legate the foresayde Gualo The auarice of Cardinall Gualo By reason of which complaint and of sundrie such letters and informations as dayly came out of England and Scotland from other Bishoppes and Abbots conteyning right grieuous accusations concerning the insatiable auarice of Gualo the Pope reuoked him home vnto Rome to make answer in his presence vnto such matters as were layd to his charge At his returne thither forsomuch as hee was not able to discharge himselfe of suche manifest crymes wherewith hee was burdened Cardinal Gualo condemned in a summe of money the Pope condemned him in a great summe of money to bee payed as a fine for his trespasse and transgressions And those Scottishe Bishops The Scottish Bishops absolued which were come for their absolution were absolued by the Pope and suffred to depart in peace In this meane tyme Dauid Earle of Huntington Dauid Erle of Huntington deceased brother to William late king of Scots ◅ of whom ye haue heard before howe he went in the iourney made by the Christian Princes into the holy lande deceassed 1219 and was buried within an Abbay in England Henrie king of Englande after he came to yeares of perfite descretion An enterviewe betwixt the kings of Englande and Scotlande shewed himselfe to be more desirous of peace than of warres Wherevpon at Yorke there was a meeting appoynted betwixt him and King Alexander where mutuall alliaunce was accorded betwixt them on this wise Iane the sister of King Henrie was promised to bee giuen in mariage to King Alexander Mariages concluded and two sisters of King Alexander were despoused vnto two great Princes of the English Nobilitie These maryages were thus concluded in the yeare of our Lord 1220. In the yeare next following came a Legate into Scotlande from Pope Honorius A Legate sent from Pope Honorius for a collection with bulles to gather a summe of money towards the furnishing forth of an armie against the Turkes or rather Sarasins This Legate was a Cardinall and named Egidius who hauing purchased no small quantitie of coyne both of the Cleargie and Laitie of Scotland spent the same in riot and outrageous insolencie making his excuse at his returne to Rome A Legate excuse howe it was taken from him by certaine Brygants and robbers Within short while after was an other Legat with semblable commission sent into Scotland from the foresayde Pope An other Legate But king Alexander being aduertised of his comming called a counsell in the whiche one of the Bishops that as should seeme tooke great indignation to see howe couetousnesse raigned in moste shamefull wise amōgst the Romish Legates spake in maner as followeth Howbeeit sundrie considerations there are An oration of a Bishop which might stay me from vttering such things as be moste preindiciall to the common wealth yet most noble Prince when I consider thy humanitie fayth and constancie giuen to nothing more than to the defence and weale of thy true liege people I cannot but for the zeale I beare to common libertie declare the truth for sithe all maner of tyrannie is intollerable yea euen that Tyrannie intollerable which is exercised by Kings or Princes descended by liniall succession to theyr rightfull herytage much more is that tyrannie to bee detested whiche is exercised by men of vile and base lynage Men of base linage Therefore if the sundrie and manifest wrongs done to vs these many yeares now passed had come by the Popes themselues the same might somewhat more sufferably haue beene borne Men of base lynage but sithe naughtie vile persons of base byrth and obscure lynage promoted to benefices and ecclesiasticall dignities onely for theyr wicked and horrible vices haue not onely interdyted our Realme without lawfull commission but haue also consumed in maintenaunce of theyr wanton and insolent vices that money whiche they gathered in our Countrey by the Popes authoritie vnder colour of raysing and army to goe agaynst the Turkes and Infidels I am of this opinion that theyr cursed auarice ought to haue no further place amongst faythfull people specially amongst vs whose simplicitie and humblenesse they haue in contempt In the yeares passed ye complayned of the iniuries done by Gualo The Scottes sore offended against Gualo when he had put your Realme vnder the censure of interdyting and the most part of your prelates vnder the curse bycause they would not answere him of
Linne of whiche I thinke it good to note some parte of the maner thereof although briefly and 〈◊〉 to returne to my purpose agayne The occasion therfore of the tumult at Linne chaunced by this meanes It fortuned that one of the Iewes there was become a Christian wherwith those of his nation were so moued that they determined to kill hym where soeuer they might find him And herevpon they sette vppon him one day as he came by through the streates he to escape their handes fled to the nexte churche but his countreymen were so desirous to execute theyr malicious purpose that they followed him still and enforced themselues to breake into the Churche vpon him Heerewith the noyse beeing raysed by the Christians that soughte to saue the conuerted Iewe a number of mariners beeing forreyners that were arriued there wyth their vessells out of sundrye partes and dyuerse also of the Townesmen came to the reskue and setting vpon the Iewes caused them to flee into their houses The Townesmen were not verie earnest in pursuing of them bicause of the kings proclamation and ordinaunce before tyme made in fauour of the Iewes The slaughter made of the Ievves at Lyn. but the maryners followed them to theyr houses slewe diuers of them robbed and sacked their goods and finally set their dwellings on fyre and so brente them vp altogither These Marriners beeing enryched wyth the spoyle of the Iewes goodes and fearyng to bee called to accompte for their vnlawfull acte by the Kinges officers gotte them foorthwith to shipboorde and hoysting vp sayles departed with their shippes to the sea and so escaped the danger of that whiche might haue bene otherwyse layde to their charge The Townsmen being called to an accompt excused them selues by the Mariners burdening them with all the faulte But thoughe they of Lynne were thus excused yet they of Yorke escaped not so easyly For the Kyng bryng aduertised of suche outrage done contrarie to the order of his Lawes and expresie commaundement wrote ouer to the Bishoppe of Elâ—…e hys Chauncellour commaunding him to take cruel punishement of the offenders The Bishop with an armye wente to Yorke but the chiefe authors of the ryot hearyng 〈◊〉 his comming fledde into Scotlande yet the Bishop at his comming to the Euie caused earnest inquirie to bee made of the whole matter The citezens excused themselues and 〈◊〉 to proue that they were not of counsell with them that had coÌ„mitted the ryot neither had they â—…ydes nor coÌ„forted theÌ„ therin in any maner of wise And in deede the most part of theÌ„ that were the offenders were of the counâ—… townes neere to the citie with such as wer 〈◊〉 into 〈…〉 â—…nd now goneouer to the king so that veâ—… 〈◊〉 or none of the substantiall men of the Citie were founde to haue ioyned with them Howbeit this woulde not excuse the Citizens but that they were put to their fine by the sâ—…te Bishop The Citizens of Yorke put to their fyne for the slaughter of the Ievves â—…ery of them paying his portion according to 〈◊〉 â—…ower and abilitie in substance the common â—…rte of the poore people being pardoned and not called into iudgement sith the ringleaders wereâ—…led and gone out of the way But now to return vnto the king who in this meane time was very bulle to prouide all things necessarie to set forward on his iourney his shippes whiche laye in the mouthe of the ryuer of Sayne beyng readie to put off he tooke order in many poyntes concerning the state of the common wealth on that side and chiefely hee called to mynde that it should be a thyng necessarie for him to name who shuld succede him in the kingdome of Englande if his chaunce shoulde not bee to returne agayne from so long and daungerous a iourney He therfore named as some suppose his nephewe Arthure Mat. VVest the sonne of his brother Geffreye Duke of Britayne to bee his successour in the Kingdome a young manne of a lykely proofe and Princely towardnesse but not ordeyned by GOD to succeede ouer this kingdome Aboute the same tyme the Bishoppe of Elye Lorde Chauncellour and chiefe Iustice of Englande tooke vp to the kinges vse of euerye citie in England two Palfreys and two Sumpter horsses and of euery Abbey one Palfrey and one Sumpter horse and euery Manour within the Realme founde also one Palfreye and one Sumpter horse Moreouer the sayde Bishoppe of Elye deliuered the gouernement of Yorkeshire to his brother Osberte de Longchampe And all those Knyghtes of the sayd shire the whyche woulde would not come to make aunswere to the lawe vpon sommons giuen them hee coÌ„maunded to be appreheÌ„ded and by by laid in prison Also when the Bishoppe of Durham was returned from the Kyng and come ouer into England to goe vnto his charge at his meting with the lord Chancelor at Bice notwithstanding that he shewed him his letters patentes of the graunt made to him to be Iustice from Trent Northwarde the sayde Lorde Chancellor taking his iourney to Southwell with hym The Bishop of Durham reâ—…rayned of liâ—…ertie there deteyned him as prisoner till he had made surrender to him of the Castell of Wyndsore and further had delyuered to him his sonnes Henrye de Putsey and Gilbert de la Ley as pledges that he should keepe the peace agaynst the king and all his subiectes vntill the said Prince should retourne from the holy lande And so he was deliuered for that tyme though shortly after and whylest hee remayned at Houeden there came to hym Osberte de Longchanipe the Lord Chancellors brother William de Stute bille the whiche caused the sayd Bishop to fynde sufficient suretie that he should not thence departe without the kings licence or the Lorde Chancellours so long as the king should be absent Herevpon the Bishop of Durham sent knowledge to the kyng howe and in what sorte he had bin handled by the Chauncellour After this the king came backe vnto Chinon in Aniou 〈◊〉 kinges naâ—… is set foorth and there toke order for the settyng forth of his nauie by sea ouer which he appointed chiefe gouernours Gerarde Archbishop of Aux Bernard bishop of Baieux Robert de Sablius Richarde de Camville â—…ion Sabâ—…olus or Sabaille and William de Forz de Vlerun commaundyng all those that shoulde passe foorth with his sayde nauie to be obediente vnto these persones as his deputies and lieutenauntes Herewith they were appointed to prouide victuals to serue all those that shoulde goe by sea for the space of threescore dayes Polidor the king also made the same tyme certaine ordinaunces to be obserued among the seafaring men whiche tended to this effect â—…lcers of men First that if any man chaunced to slea an other on the shipbourde he should be bounde to the dead bodie and so throwne into the sea secondly if he killed hym a lande he shoulde yet be bounde to him as afore and so buryed
a Mâ—… whiche of necessitie he must passe through the whiche a great Riuer called Ghelte runneth About him of the clocke in the morning the rebels were got togither in order of battel before the Lord Honne soon coulde with his foote menent tâ—… the plaine where vppon he commaunded the footemeÌ„ to kepe theÌ„selues in breath and welled sir Iohn Forster with his NorthuÌ„berlande horsemenne George Henry and Machaâ—…l as a rereward to back the footemen This done he himself with his three sonnes and an hundred horsemen hauing got the hill and perceiuing the enimies to come so fast forward that with their arrowes they hurte his Horse vnder him and diuerse other horses of his troupe he gaue a sodain charge vppon them and by the helpe of God within a shorte space ouerthrew al their footemen of who were slaine betwixt foure fiue hundred But Leonarde Dacres himselfe with his sixe hundred horsemen many of meÌ„ being Scottes escaped into Scotland Leonard Dacres chased into Scotland being chased foure miles of the way by the Lord Honnesdon his small company and had bin taken if the Scottes had not the better defended him The Captaines of Barwike Reade Yarley Caruisle Progel shewed that day good proofe of their skilful valiancy bringing their men forwarde in such good order that no smal feare entred the hartes of the aduersaries to trie the battaile with them When they that kept Naworth Castel being about foure hundred men wel appointed vnderstoode of the ouerthrow they abaÌ„doned the place and fledde away wherof the L. Honnesdon being aduertised sent certaine of his companie to take possession thereof and wente himself to Cartile where he remained til he had put al the houses which Leonarde Dacres hadde seased vppon into safe keeping to the Queenes maiesties vse and so returned to Barwike and afterwardes by special and humble sute procured pardon for those that escaped with life in consideration that there were so many killed as the ouerthrow On good Friday the xxvij of March SimoÌ„ Digby of Askue Iohn Fulthorpe of Iulbeckâ—… Esquires Robert Peneman of Stokesly Tho. Bishop of Poklinton the yonger gentlemen were executed at the place of execution without Yorke and their foure heades set ouer the principal gates of the Citie w t iiij of their quarters the other of their quarters were set vp in diuerse places of the Countrey William Earle of Pembroke baron of Cardiffe Knight of the Garter one of the priuy couÌ„saile and lord steward of the Queenes maiesties housholde disceased the .xviij. of April and was buried in S. Paules Church at London The Earle of Sussex in reuenge of the euill demeanor of the Scottes inhabiting neare to the English Marches as well in receiuing and succouring diuerse of the Englishe Rebels as other naughty practises assembled such forces as be thought expedient in the night that followed the .xxvij. of April and hauing with him the lord Honnesd on gouernour of Barwike and Lorde Wardeyn of East Marches sir William Drurie Marshall of the saide armie and Towne of Barwike The Barle of Sussex inuadeth Scotland came to Warke being twelue miles distant from the saide towne of Barwike and then the nexte daye being the .xviij. of the same moneth they entred into Tiuidale in Scotland where marching in warlike order they burnt ouerthrew wasted and spoyled all the Castels Townes and Villages The Moses Tower as they passed till they came to a Tower called the Mosse Tower staÌ„ding in a marish and belonging to the Lard of Buclewgh whiche likewise was rased ouerthrowne and burnt and so marching forward wasted the whole country before them till they came to a great towne called Crauling Sir Iohn Forster The same day sir Iohn Forster warden of the middle Marches with all the garnison and forces of the same entred likewise into Tiuidale at Espesgate distant .xvj. myles from Warke where in like order they burnt and spoyled the Countrey before them til they came to a Castel in the possession of the mother of the Larde of Ferniherst being percel of hir sonnes landes whiche likewise was ouerthrowen rased and burnt with all other Castels Piles Townes and Villages all alongst the saide Countrey till they came to Crauling ioyning there with the Lord Lieutenants power This town was likewise burnt and spoyled Thus they passed the riuer of Tiuet rasing burning and spoyling the Castels Piles stone houses townes villages alongst that Riuer til they came to Iedworth where they lodged for that nighte and were of the Magistrates of that towne courteously receiued who had made indifferent good prouision for the armie both of vittayles for men and of bay and prouaÌ„der for horses wherevppon Proclamation was publikelye made in name of the Lorde Lieutenant that no Englishman vpon paine of death shoulde disturbe or wrongfully take away any thing from anye of the inhabitants of the same towne without disbursing readie money therfore which thing did so much content the Scottes that the next daye the Lard of Sesford The Larde of Sesford wardeÌ„ of the middle marches of Scotland with all the principall of hys alyes and kyndred came in to the Lorde Lieutenant submitting themselues to him and were receiued into assurance for that neyther he nor any of them had at any time 〈◊〉 the English Rebelles neither ayded nor assysted them neyther yet made any inuasion into Englande and wheras some of their men and tenauntes without their knowledge had to spassed in such behalfe they were contented to abide and stand vnto the Earle of Sussex his order for theyr sayde men and Tenauntes And herevppon neither they nor any of theirs receyued any hurte But by his Lordships commaundement were preserued from sustayning any domage either in bodie or goodes The .xix. day the armie was deuided into two seuerall pattes whereof the one passing ouer the Riuer of Tiuet The Castel â—… Ferniherst burnt burnte the Castell of Ferniherst vtterly spoyling the same and all other Castelles and townes that belonged to the Lards of Ferniherst Hunthil and Bedrall Mintoe and so passed to Myntoe where both the armyes meeting ioyned togither againe being not paste a foure miles from Hawike whether they marched directly intending to lodge there that night bycause the Baylifes of the Towne had offred to receiue the whole armie and to make prouision for the Souldiers of all things necessarie they paying readie money for the same and the inhabitauntes to bee assured not to bee hurt in body or goodes as was promised The Scottes Hawike they breach of couenaunt But the Scottes breaking couenant before the comming thither of the armie had vncouered theyr houses carried the Thaiche into the streetes and there sette it on fire and thys done they sledde their wayes with muste parte of their goodes so that when the armye approched there was suche a thicke smoke that no manne myghte vnneth enter the Towne and so for that night the Souldiers suffred greate lacke of
whose names I wyl also set downe here with those also of their founders to the ende the zeale which they bare vnto learning may apeare and their remembraunce neuer perish from among the wyse and learned Of the Colledges in Cambridge Yeares of the foundations Colledges Founders 1546. 1 Trinity Colledge K. Henry 8. 1441. 2 The Kinges Colledge K. Henry 6. Edward 4. Henry 7. and Henry 8 1511. 3 S. Iohns L. Margaret grandmother to Henry 8. 1505. 4 Christes Colledge K. Henry 6. and the L. Margaret aforesaide 1446. 5 The Queens Colledge L. Margaret wife to K. Henry 6. 1496. 6 Iesus Colledge Iohn Alcocke Byshop of Ely 1342. 7 Bennet Colledge The Brethren of a Popish guild called Corporis Christ 1343. 8 Pembroke hall Maria de Valentia Countesse of Pembroke 1256. 9 Peter Colledge Hugh Balsham Byshop of Ely 1348. 10 Gundeuill and Caius Colledge Edmund Gundeuill Parson of Terrington and Iohn Caius D. of Phisicke 1557. 1354. 11 Trinity hall William Bateman Byshop of Norwiche 1326. 12 Clare hall Richarde Badow Chauncelour of Cambridge 1459. 13 Catherin hall Robert woodlarke D. of Diuinity 1519. 14 Magdalen Colledge Edward Duke of BuckinghaÌ„ Thomas Lord Awdley Of Colledges in Oxforde Yeres Colledges Founders 1539. 1 Christes Church King Henry 8. 1459. 2 Magdalen Colledge William wainflet B. of winchester 1375. 3 New colledge William wickham B. of winchester 1276. 4 Merton Colledge Walter Merton B. of Rochester 1437. 5 All soules Colledge Henry Chicheley Archbishop of Caunterbury 1516 6 Corpus christi Colledge Richarde foxe Bishop of Winchester 1430. 7 Lincolne Colledge Richarde Fleming B. of Lincolne 1323. 8 Auriell Colledge Adam Browne almoner to Edward 2. 1340. 9 The Queenes Colledge R. Eglesfeld chaplen to Philip Queene of England wife to Ed. 3. 1263. 10 Balioll Colledge Iohn Ballioll King of Scotland 1557. 11 S. Iohns Sir Thomas white Knight 1556. 12 Trinity Colledge Sir Thomas Pope Knight 1316. 13 Excester Colledge Walter Stapleton Bishop of Excester 1513 14 Brasen nose William Smith Bishop of Lincolne 873. 15 Vniuersity Colledge William Archdeacon of Duresme  16 Glocester Colledge   17 S. Mary Colledge   18 Iesus Colledge nowe in hande  There are also in Oxforde certayne Hostelles or Halles which may rightwel be called b the names of Colledges if it were not that there is more lyberty in those then is to be séene in the other In myne opinion the Studentes of these are verye lyke to those that are of the Innes of the chauncery Brodegates Hart hall Magdalen hall Alburne hall Postminster hall S. Mary hall White hall New Inne Edmond hall Besides which there is mention recorde of diuers other Halles or hostelles that haue béene ther in times past as Béefe hal MuttoÌ„ hal c. whose ruines yet appeare so that if antiquitie be to be iudged by y e shew of auncient buyldinges which is very plentifull in Oxforde to be séene it shoulde be an easie matter to conclude that Oxford is the elder Vniuersitye Therein are also manye dwelling houses of stone yet standing Erection of Colleges in Oxforde the ouerthrowe of Halles that haue béene Halles for students of verye antique workemanship beside the olde walles of sundrie other whose plots haue béene conuerted into gardens sithence Colledges were erected In London also the houses of studentes at the Common law are these Sergeaunts Inne Graâ—…es Inne The Temple Lincolnes Inne Dauids Inne Staple Inne Furniualles Inne Clyffordes Inne Clements Inne Lions Inne Barnardes Inne New Inne Of Cities and townes within the realme of Englande Cap. 7. AS in olde time we read that there were 28. 26. Cities in Englande flamines and Archflamines in the south part of this Isle and so many great cities vnder their iurisdiction so in these our dayes there is but one or two fewer eache of them also vnder the Ecclesiasticall regiment of some one Bishop or Archbishop who in spirituall cases haue the charge and ouersight of y e same So many cities therefore are there in Englande and Wales as there be Bishoprijcks and Archbishoprijcks for notwithstanding that Lichfielde and Couentry and Bathe and Welles doe séeme to extend the aforesayde number vnto nyne and twentie yet neyther of these coples are to be accompted but as one intier citie and Sie of the bishop sith one Bishoprijcke can haue relation but vnto one Sie and the sayd Sie be scituate but in one place after which the bishop doth take his name It apeareth by our olde and auncient hystories that the cities of thys southerly portion haue béene of excéeding greatnesse and beautie whereof some were buylded in the time of the SamotheaÌ„s and of which not a few in these our times are quite decayed the places where they stoode worne out of al remembrance Such also for the most part as yet remayne are meruaylously altered insomuch that whereas at the first they were large ample nowe are they come eyther vnto a very fewe houses or appeare not to be much greater in comparison then poore and simple villages Sitomagâ—… â–ª Nouioâ—…gus Neomaâ—… Niomaâ—… Antoninus the most diligent writer of the thorow fares of Brytaine noteth among other these auncient townes following as Sitomagus which he placeth in the way froÌ„ Norwitch as Lelande supposeth wherein they went by Colchester to London Nouiomagus that lyeth betwéene Carleill and Cantorbury within tenne myles east of London and likewyse Neomagus and Niomagus which take their names of their first fouÌ„der Magus the sonne of Samothes and second king of the Celtes that reigned in this Islande Of these moreouer Sir Thomas Eliot supposeth Neomagus to haue stood somewhere about Chester and George Lilly in his booke of the names of auncient places iudgeth Niomagus to be the verye same that we doe nowe call Buckingham And as these sundry other nowe perished tooke theyr denomination of thys prince so their are dyuers causes which mooue me to coniecture that Salisbury it self doth rather take the first name Sarron the sonne of the sayde Magus then of Caesar Salisâ—…ry of Sâ—…ron Caradoc or Seuerus as some of our writers doe imagine But sith coniecturs are no verities mine opinion is but one mans iudgement Sarâ—…um Sarâ—…bury I will not stande now vpon the proofe of this matter least I shoulde séeme to take great paines in adding new coniectures vnto olde in such wyse to deteyne the heades of my readers about these trifles that otherwyse peraduenture woulde be farre better occupyed To procéede therfore as soone after the first inhabitation of this Islande our Cities began no doubt to be buylded and increased so they ceased not to multiplye from tyme to tyme till the lande was thorowly furnished with hir conuenient numbers whereof some at this present with their auncient names doe still remaine in knowledge though dyuers be doubted of many moe peryshed by continuance of time and vyolence of the enemie I doubt not also but the least of
had raigned the terme of .viij. yeares leauing behinde him fiue sonnes Gorâ—…omannus Archigâ—…llo Elidurus Vigenius or Nigenius and Peredurus Gorbonian A righteous and religious Prince This Gorbonianus in the Englishe Chronicle is named Graubodian and was a righteous Prince in his gouernment and very deuont according to such deuotion as he had towardes the aduauncing of the religion of his Gods and thervpon he repayred all the olde Temples throughe his kingdome and erected some of newe He buylded also the townes of Cambridge and Grantham as Caxton wryteth and was beloued both of the rich and poore for he honored the rich and relieued the poore in time of their necessities In his time also was more plentie of al things necessarie for the wealthfull state of man than had beene before in any of his predecessors dayes He dyed without issue after hee had raigned by the accorde of most wryters about the terme of ten yeares There be that write that this Gorbonian built the townes of Cairgrant now called CaÌ„bridge 〈◊〉 by 〈◊〉 was 〈◊〉 and also Grantham but some thinke that those which haue so written are decâ—…yued in mistaking the name for that CaÌ„bridge was at the first called Granta and by that meanes it might bee that Gorbonian built onely Erantham and not CaÌ„brige namely bicause other write how that CaÌ„bridge as before â—…s said was builâ—…in the dayes of GurguÌ„tius the sonne of Beline by one Cantaber a Spaniard brother to Partholoin which Partholoin by the aduiâ—…e of the same GurguÌ„tius got sâ—…ates for himselfe and his companie in Ireland as before ye haue heard The sayd Cantaber also obteyning licence of Gurguntius â—…uylded a town vpon the side of the ryuer called Canta which he closed with walles and fortified with a strong tower or Castell and after procuring Philosophers to come hither from Athens where in his youth he had bene a student he placed them there and so euen then was that place furnished as they say with lerned men and such as were redie to instruct others in knowledge of letters Philosophicall doctrine But by whoÌ„ or in what time soeuer it was built certaine it is that there was a Citie or towne walled in that place before the coÌ„ming of the Saxons called by the Brytaynes Cairgâ—…aunt and by the Saxons Grantchester This towne â—â—ll so in ruyne by the inuasion of the Saxons that at length it was in maner left desolate and at this day remayneth as a village But neare thervnto vnder the Saxon kings another towne was buylt now called Cambridge where by the fauor of K. Sigebert Felix a Bâ—â—gunian that was Bishop of Dunwich a schoole was erected as in place coÌ„uenient it shal appeare Archigallo ARchigallo Archâ—…gallo â–ª the seconde sonne of Morindus brother vnto Gorbonianus was admitted King of Brytayn in the yeare .3686 after the buylding of the citie of Rome .470 after the deliuerance of the Israelites out of captiuitie .255 and in the first yeare of Sosthenes king of Macedonia This Archigallo in the English Chronicle called Artogaill 〈◊〉 nourish 〈◊〉 followed not the steppes of hys brother but giuing himselfe to dissention strife ymagined causes agaynst his Nobles that hee might displace them set such in their rowmthes as were men of base byrth and of euill coÌ„ditions Also he sought by vnlawfull meanes to bereaue his wealthie subiects of their goods and riches so to enrich himselfe and impouerish his people For the which his inordinate doings his Nobles coÌ„spired agaynst him and finally depriued him of all his honor kingly dignitie after he had raigned about the space of one yeare Elidure This Elidurus in the English Chronicle named Hisider or Esoder proued a most righteous Prince and doubting least he should do otherwise than became him if hee did not take care for his brother Archigallos estate A man might wonder what diligence he shewed in traueyling with the Nobles of the Realme to haue his brother restored to the Crowne againe And as it chaunced one day being abrode on hunting in the Wood called Calater neare vnto Yorke he found his brother Archigallo wandring there in the thickest of that wildernesse By this it â—…hould seeme â—…hat Alâ—…liud should not be in Scotland â—…ontrary to the Scottish Authours whom in most louing maner he secretly conueyed home to his house being as then in the Citie of Aldud otherwise called Acliud Shortly after he feyned himselfe sicke and in al hast sent Messengers about to assemble his barons who being come at the day appoynted hee called them one after another into his priuie chaÌ„ber there haÌ„dled theÌ„ in such effectuous sort with wise and discrete wordes that hee got their good willes to further him to their powers for the reducing of the kingdome eftsoones into the handes of his brother Archigallo And after this he assembled a counsel at York where he so vsed the matter with the commons that in conclusion when the sayd Elidurus had gouerned the land well and honourably the space of three yeres he resigned wholy his Crowne and kingly title vnto his said brother Archigallo who was receyued of the Brytaynes againe as King by mediation of his brother in maner as afore is sayde An example of brotherly loue A rare example of brotherly loue if a man shall reuolue in his mind what an inordinate desire remayneth amongest mortall men to atteyne to the supreeme soueraintie of ruling and to keepe the same when they once haue it in possession For this greate good will and brotherly loue by hym shewed thus towards his brother he was surnamed the godly or vertuous Archigallo againe WHen Archigallo was thus restored to the kingdome and hauing learned by due correction that he must turne the leafe and take out a new lesson by chaÌ„ging his former trade of liuing into better if he would raigne in surtie he became a new man vsing himselfe vprightly in the administration of iustice behauing himselfe so worthily in all his doings both towards the Nobles and commons of his realme that he was both beloued and dread of all his subiects And so continuing the whole terme of his life finally departed this worlde now after he had raigned this second time the space of tenne yeares and was buryed at Yorke Elidure againe ELidurus brother to this Archigallo Mat. VVest was then again admitted king by consent of al the Britaynes .3700 of the worlde But his two yonger brethren Vigenius and Peredurus Brother agaynst brother enuying the happie state of this worthie Prince so highly for his vertue and good gouernaunce esteemed of the Brytaynes of a grounded malice conspired agaynst him and assembling an armie leuied war agaynst him and in a pight field tooke him prisoner and put him in the Tower of London Elidure committed to prison there to be kept safely as a prisoner after he had raigned now this last time the space of one yeare Vigenius and
their riual to be .514 There died of the Brytons that daye .v. M. men and the residue escaped by fleeing as wel as they might In the vj. yeare after this battayle Stuff and Wightgar y e were nephues to Certicus came wyth three shippes and landed at Certicestshore and ouerthrew a number of Britons that came againste them in order of battayle and so by the comming of those his nephews being right valyant and hardie capitaines the part of Certicus became much strâ—…nger About the same time Elle king of the Southsaxons departed this lyfe after whome succeeded his sonne Cissa of whom wee fynde little lefte in writing to bee made accompte of H. Hunt Brytons ouerthrovven by Saxons About the yeare of our Lorde 51â—… and in the yeare after the commyng of the Saxons .71 whyche was in the .xxvj. yeare of the Emperor Anastatius the Brytons fought with Certicus and his sonne Kenrike at Certicesforde where the Captayne 's of the Brytons stoode to it manfully but in the ende they were discomfyted and greate slaughter was made there of them by the Saxons and greater had bene if the nyghte commyng on had not parted them and so many were saued From that daye forewarde Certicus was reputed and taken for king of Weastsaxon The kingdom of VVestâ—… and so the same kyngdome at that tyme whyche was as Harrison noteth it whose orderly proceâ—…dyng in this behaâ—…ten for the accoumpte of tyme giueth greate lyght to our historie the yeare of Christe fiue hundred and ninteene after the buylding of Rome a thousande two hundred and seuentie of the worlde foure thousande foure hundred eyghtie and fiue of the couâ—…nyng of the Saxons seuentie of Iustinus Anicius Emperoure of the Easte the fyrste and thirde of the renouned prince Patricius Arthurus then reygnyng oure the Brytaynes The sayd kingdom also conteyned the countreis of Wiltshire Somersetshire Berkeshire Dorsetshyre Deuonshire and Cornewall hauing on the East Hamshire on the North the 〈◊〉 of Thames and on the South and Weast the Ocean sea Howbeit at the firste the kinges of the Weastsaxons had not so large dominion but they dayly wanne grounde vpon the Brytons so in the rude by enlarging their confines they came to enioy all the sayde countreys and the whole at the last In the nynthe yeare of the reigne of Certicus he eftsoons fought with the Saxons at Certicesforde aforesayde Certicesford where great slaughter was made on bothe partes This Certicesforde was in times past called Nazaleoy of the late remembres Nazaleod king of the Brytons Aboute this season at sundry tymes dyuerse greate companies of the Saxons came ouer into Britayne out of Germanie and got possession of the countreys of Mercie and Eastangle but as yet those of Mercie had no one king that gouerned them but were vnder certayne noble men that got possession of diuers partes in that countrey by meanes wherof great warres and many encounters ensued The kingdome of the Eastsaxons IN those dayes also the kyngdome of the Eastsaxons began Erchenwyn the chiefe Citie whereof was London It conteyned in effect so much as at this presente belongeth to the Diocesse of London The kingdomâ—… of the Eastsaxons One Erchenwyn a Saxon was the fyrst king thereof the whiche was sonne to one Offa the sixte in lineall descent from one Saxnot from whom the kings of that countrey fetched their originall Harison noteth there exacte yeare of the erection of the kingdom of the Eastsaxons to begin with the end of the eight of Cerdicius K. of the Westsaxons that is the .527 of Christe and .7 after the commyng of the Saxons Arthur Arthure After the decease of Vter Pendragon as we finde in the Britishe histories his sonne Arthur a yong towardly Gentleman of the age of .xv. yeares or theraboutes began his reigne ouer the Britons in the yere of our lord .516 or as Math. 516. Math. VVest hath noted 5â—â— West hath .57 in y e .18 yere of the emperor Anastasius in the .iij. yere of the reignes of Châ—â—bert Clathare Clodainâ—…e Theodorik brethreÌ„ y t w ere 〈◊〉 of the FrenchmeÌ„ Of this Arthure 〈…〉 are writen beyond credite for that there is no ancient author of authoritie that coÌ„firmeth the same But â—…inely as may be thought he was some worthie man and by all 〈…〉 a great 〈◊〉 to the Saxons by reaâ—â—â— wherof the Weiâ—…hemen which or the very Brytons in 〈◊〉 haue 〈◊〉 faâ—â—◠〈◊〉 He fought as the common report of him goeth xiâ—… notable batayles agaynst the Saxons and in euery of them wente awaye with the victorie But yet hee myghte not vtterlye dryue them oute of the lande but that they kepte still the countreys whiche they had in possession as Kent Southrey Northfolke and others howbeit some writers testifie that they helde these countreyes as tributaries to Arthure But trouth it is as dyuers authours agree that hee helde continuall warre agaynst them and also agaynst the Pictes the whiche were alyed wyth the Saxons For as in the Scottishe histories is conteyned euen at the fyrste beginning of hys reigne the two kings of Scottes and Pictes seemed to enuie hys aduauncemente to the crowne of Brytayne bycause that they had maryed the two systers of the two brethren Aurelius Ambrosius and Vter Pendragon that is to witte Loth kyng of Pictes hadde maryed Anne theyr eldest syster and Conran kyng of Scottes had in maryage Alda theyr yonger sister so that bicause Arthur was begot out of wedlocke they thoughte it stoode wyth more reason that the kyngdome of the Brytons should haue descended vnto the sisters sonnes rather than to a bastarde namely Loth the Pictishe king whyche had issue by his wyfe Anna sore repined at the matter and therefore at the fyrst when he sawe that by suite he coulde not preuayle hee ioyned in league wyth the Saxons and ayding them agaynste Arthure loste many of his menne of warre being ouerthrown in battayle which he had sent vnto the succours of Colgerne the Saxon Prince that ruled as then in the north partes But fynallye a league was concluded betwixte Arthur and the foresayde Lothe kyng of Pictes vpon certain conditions as in the Scottishe history is expressed where ye may read the same with many other things touching the acts of Arthure somewhat in other order than oure writers haue recorded The Britishe authors declare that Arthure immediately after he had receyued the Crowne of Dubrighte Bishoppe of Caerlleon wente wyth his power of Brytons agaynst the Saxons of Northumberlande whiche had to their Capitayne as before is sayde one Colgrime or Colgerne whome Arthure discomfited and chased into the Citie of Yorke Yorke besieged within which place Arthur besieged him til at length the same Colgrime escaped out of the Citie Cheldrike coÌ„meth in apâ—… of Colgrime and leauing it in charge with his brother called Bladulffe passed ouer into Germanie vnto Cheldrike kyng of that Countrey of whome he obteyned succors so
Citizen of London to buyld a Church of Sainte Peeter without the Citie of London towarde the West in a place then called Thorney that is to witte the Isle of Thornes now is called Westminster though other haue written that it was buylte by Lucius King of Britaine or rather by Siberte Kyng of the East Saxons This Church was eyther newly builte or greatly enlarged by Kyng Edwarde surnamed the Confessor and after that the thirde Henry King of England did make there a beautifull Monasterie and very richly endowed the same with greate possessions and sumptuous iewels The place was ouergrowen with vnderwooddes as thornes and brembles before that the Church was begun to be builded there in this King Ethelbertes dayes Thus the fayth of Christ being once begunne to bee receyued of the Englishmen tooke wonderfull increase within a short time Ran. Cest. Beda Sigebertus an 19. Mauricij imperatoris They did as he commaunded and it chanced that when they came they found Augustine sitting in his chaire which wheÌ„ they beheld Three things required by Austin of the Britaynes to be obserued straight wayes they conceyued an indignation and â—…oting him of pride laboured to reprooue all hys sayings He tolde theÌ„ that they vsed many things contrary to the custome of the vniuersal Church and yet if in three things they woulde obey hym that is to witte in keeping the feast of Easter in due time and minister Baptisme according to the custome of the Romaine Churche and preach to the Englishmen the word of life with him and his fellowes then would he be contented to suffer all other things paciently which they did though the same were contrary to the manners and customes of the Romayne iurisdiction But they flatly denyed to do any of those things and gaue a playne aunswere that they woulde not receyue him for their Archbishoppe for they laying theyr heads togither thus thoughte that if hee refused now to ryse vnto vs how much the more will he contemne vs if we should become subiect to him Austine thretneth Vnto whome as it is sayde Augustine in threatning wise tolde them aforehande that if they woulde not receyue peace with their breethren they shoulde receyue warre of the enimies and if they would not preach to the Englishmen y e way of life they should suffer punishment by death at the handes of them whiche thing indeede after came to passe as in place conueniente shall be expressed 604 After this in the yeare of our Lorde .604 the Archbishop Augustine ordeyned two Bishops that is to say Bishops ordeined at London and Rochester Mellitus at LondoÌ„ that he might preache the worde of God to the East Saxons whiche were deuided from them of Kente by the Riuer of Thames and Iustus in the Citie of Rochester within the limittes of Kent AT that time Sabart reigned ouer the East Saxons but hee was subiect vnto Ethelbert King of Kent whose Nephewe he was also by his sister Ricula that was married vnto king Sledda y t succeeded after Eâ—…chenwine y e first K. of y e East Saxons begate on hir this Sabert y t receyued y e faith After y e Augustine had ordeyned Mellitus to be Bishop of London as before is sayd King Ethelbert builded as some write the Churche of Sainte Paule within the same Citie The Church of Saint Paule builded â–ª where the same Mellitus and his successors might keepe their See And also for the like purpose he builded the Church of Saint Androw the Apostle at Rochester that Iustus and his successors myghte haue theyr See in that place according to Augustines institution hee bestowed great giftes vpon both these Churches endowing them with lands and possessions very bountifully to the vse of them that should be attendante in the same with the Bishops Ran. Cestrâ—… Finally Augustine after hee had gouerned as Archbishop the Churche of Canterburie by the space of twelue yeares current departed this life the sixe and twentith of May and was buryed first without the Citie neere to the Church of the Apostles Peeter and Paule whereof mention is made before bicause the same Church as yet was not finished nor dedicated but after it was dedicated his body was broughte into the Churche and reuerently buried in the North I le there He ordeyned by his life time Laurence to bee his successor in the Sea of Canterbury of whom yee shall heare hereafter Thus haue ye heard in what maner the Englishmen were first brought from the worshipping of false Goddes and baptised in the name of the liuing God by the foresayde Augustine as wee fynde in Beda and other writers and nowe wee will returne to other doyngs chancing in the meane tyme amongst the people of thys Isle AFfter the deceasse of Chelricus Kyng of the West Saxons Mat. VVeâ—… hath 34. wee finde that Ceovulf or Ceoloulph succeeded in gouernmente of that Kingdome and raigned twelue yeares Hee began his raigne as should appeare by some writers 607. 〈…〉 VVest hath about the yeare of our Lord .597 and spente his time for the more part in warres not gyuing place to ydlenesse but seeking eyther to defende or enlarge the confines of his dominion He was the sonne of Cutha which was the son of Kenrike that was the sonne of Certike AFter Wybba or Wypha king of Mercia who nothing inferiour to his father did not onely defend his kingdome but also enlarge it by subduing the Brytaynes on eche side one Ceorlus succeeded in that kingdome beeing not hys sonne but his kinsman Beda Edelferd Yee haue heard that Edelferde whiche otherwise is called also by writers Edelfride surnamed the wild gouerned still the Northumbers whiche Edelferde did more domage to the Brytaynes than any one other king of the English Nation None of them destroyed theyr countreyes more than he did neyther did any Prince make mo of the Brytaynes tributaries or inhabited more of theyr Countreys with English people than he Herevpon Edan king of those Scots which inhabited Brytayne beeing therewith moued to see Edelferd prosper thus in his conquestes came agaynst him with a mightie armie but ioyning in battaile with Edelferd and his power at a place called Degsastane or Degsastone or Deglaston he lost the moste part of his people and with the residue that were left aliue he escaped by flight This was a sore foughten battaile wyth much bloudshed on both parties For notwithstanding that the victorie remayned with the Northumbers Theodbaldus the brother of Edelferd was slaine with all that part of the English host which he gouerned and it was fought in the yeare of our Lorde .603 in the .xix. 603 Henric. HuÌ„t Beda li. 1. cap. 34. yeare of the raigne of the foresayde Edelferd and in the sixt yeare of Coâ—…wulf king of the West Saxons and in the first yeare of the Emperour Focas or rather in the last yeare of hys predecessour Mauritius From that day tilâ—…
Deâ—…went and is called Gotmâ—…ndin Gaham where the foresayd Bishop by the inspiration of God defaced and destroyed those aulters which he himselfe had hallowed King Edwyn therefore with all the nobilitie King Edwyn with his people receyue the christian fayth Beda li. 2. cap. 14. and a great nuÌ„ber of his people receyued the faith and were baptized in the yeare of our Lorde .627 in the tenth yeare of his raigne and about the .178 yeare after the first comming of the English men into this lande 627 Hee was baptised at Yorke on Easter day which fel that yere the day before the Ides of Aprill in the Church of S. Peter the Apostle which hee had caused to bee erected vp of timder vpon the sodaine for that purpose and afterwards began the fouÌ„dation of the same church in stone worke of a larger compasse comprehending within it that Oratorie which hee had fyrst caused to be built but before he coulde finish the worke he was slaine as after shall bee shewed leauing it to be performed of his successor Oswalde Pauline continued from thenceforth during the kings life which was sixe yeares after in preaching the gospel 〈◊〉 prouince coâ—â—â—eâ—â—ing an 〈…〉 number of people to me fayth of Chryst amongâ—…st â—…hâ—… whiche were 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 of Edwyn 〈…〉 begot tâ—…aâ—… tyme of hys 〈…〉 Quinburga the daughter of Cearlus King of Meccia Also afterwardeâ—… 〈◊〉 children begot on his seconde wife Ethelburga that is to say a son called Edelhimus and a daughter named Ediltrudis Ediltrudis and another sonne called Bustâ—â—ra of the which the two first died in theyr Cradels and were buryed in the Church at Yorke To bee briefe by the kings assystance and fauour shewed vnto Pauline in the worke of the Lorde greate multitudes of people dayly receyued the fayth and were baptised of Pauline in manye places but specially in the Ryuer of Gâ—…euy wythin the Prouince of Bernicia and also in Swale in the Prouince of Deira For as yet in the begynning thus of the Church in those Countreys no temples or fountes coulde be buylded or erected in so short a time Of such great zeale was Edwyn as it is reported towards the setting forth of Gods truth This chaunced in the yeare 632 as hath Math. VVest that hee perswaded Carpwalde the Sonne of Redwalde King of the Eastangles to abandon the superstitions worshypping of Idolles and to receyue the fayth of Christ with all hys whole Prouince His father Redwalde was baptised in Kent long before this time but in vaine for returning home Redwald king of Eastangles baptised through counsayle of his wife and other wicked persons he was seduced and being turned from the sincere puritie of fayth his last doings were worsse than his fyrst so that according to the manner of the olde Samaritanes he woulde seeme both to serue the true God Carpwalde woulde serue God and the diuell and his false Goddes which before time he had serued and in one selfe Churche had at one time both the Sacraments of Christ ministred at one aulter and Sacrifice made vnto Diuels at another But Carpwalde within a while after he had receyued the fayth was slaine by one of his owne Countrey men that was an Ethnicke called Richbert and then after his death that Prouince for the terme of three yeares was wrapped eftsoones in errour Sibert or Sigibert tyll that Sybert or Sigibert the brother of Carpwalde a moste Chrystian Prince and verie well learned obteyned the rule of that kingdome who whilest hee liued a banished man in France during his brothers life time was baptised there and became a Christian and when he came to be king hee caused all his Prouince to be partaker of the same fountaine of life wherein he had beene dipped himselfe Vnto his godly purpose also a Bishop of the parties of Burgoigne named Felix was a great furtherer who comming ouer vnto the Archebishop of Canterburie Honorius that was successour vnto Iustus and declaring vnto him his earnest desire was sent by the same Archbishop to preache the worde of life vnto the Eastangles which he did with such good successe that he conuerted the whole countrey to the fayth of Iesus Christ A Bishops 〈◊〉 Dunwich and places the 〈◊〉 of his Bishoprike at Dunwich â—â—ding the course of his 〈◊〉 therein peace after he had continued in that his Bishoplyke office the space of .xvij. yeares In that Citie he also buylded a Churche of stone worke Thus Pauline trauailed in the worke of the lord the same being greatly furthered by the help of Edwin in whose presence he baptised a greate number of people in the riuer of Trent neare to a towne the which in the olde English tongue was called Tâ—…o vuifingacester This Pauline had with him a deacon named Iames the which shewed himselfe verie diligent in the ministerie and profited greatly therein But now to returne to king Edwin who was a prince verily of worthy fame and for the polytike ordering of his Countreys and obseruing of iustice deserued highly to be commended VVil. Mâ—â— for in his time all robbers by the high way were so banished out of his dominions that a woman with hir new borne childe alone withoute other companie might haue trauayled from sea to sea and not haue encountred with any creature that durst once haue offered hir iniurie He was also verie carefull for the aduauncement of the commoditie and common wealth of his people Mat. VVest Beda lib. 2. cap. 16. insomuch that where there were any sweete and cleare water Springs hee caused postes to bee set vppe and Iron dishes to be fastned thereto wyth Chaynes that wayfaryng men might haue the same readie at hand to drink wyth and there was none so hardye as to touch the same but for that vse he vsed wheresoeuer he went within the Cities or elsewhere abrode to haue a banner borne before him in token of Iustice to be ministred by hys royall authoritie In the meane season Pope Honorius the fift hearing that the Northumbers had receyued the fayth as before is mencioned at the preaching of Pauline Beda li. 2. cap. 17. sent vnto the sayde Pauline the Pall confirming him Archbishop in the Sea of Yorke He sent also letters of exhortation vnto king Edwin to kindle him the more with fatherly aduice to continue and proceede in the waye of vnderstanding into the which he was entered At the same time also bycause Iustus the Archbishop of Canterburie was deade and one Honorius elected to that Sea Pope Honorius sente vnto the foresayde Honorius the elect Archbishoppe of Canterburie his Pall with letters A decree concerning the Archbishops of Canterburie and Yorke wherein was conteyned a decree by him made that when eyther the Archbishoppe of Canterburie or Yorke chaunced to depart thys life he that suruiued should haue authoritie to ordeyne another in place of him that was deceassed that they shoulde not neede to wearie
slaine Sigibertâ—… Egricus 〈◊〉 togither with Sigiberte and his cousin Egricus theyr King The yeare in the which Sigiberte and Egricus were slayne in manner as is aboue rehearsed was after the birth of our Sauioure as some haue 652. 652 Baleuâ—… Beda lib. 3. cap. 19. Furseus In the dayes whilest Sigibert as yet ruled the East angles there came out of Irelande a deuoute person named Furseus who comming into the countrey of the East angles was gladly receyued of Kyng Sigiberte by whose help afterwardes hee buylded the Abbey of Cumbresburge in the which Sigibert as some haue written when he renounced his Kingdome was professed a Monke Of this Furseus many thyngs are writteÌ„ the which for breefenesse we ouerpasse After that Felix the Bishop of the East angles was dead one Thomas was ordeyned in his place who after he had bin Bishop fiue yeres dyed and then one Beretgils was ordeyned in his roomth by Honorius the Archbishop of Canterburie The sayd Honorius hymselfe when hee had runne the race of his naturall life deceassed also in the yeare of our Lord .653 the last of September 653 AFter Egricus succeeded Anna the sonne of Enus in the Kingdome of East Angle Anne and was likewise slayne by Penda King of Mercia VVil. 〈◊〉 with the most parte of his army as he gaue battell vnto the sayde Penda that inuaded his countrey He lefte behynde him many children Edelhere king of East angle but his brother Edelhere succeeded hym in gouernemente of the Kingdome who was slaine by Oswy the King of Northumberlande togyther with the foresayd Penda and woorthely sith that hee woulde ayde that Tyrante whyche hadde slayne hys kinsman and hys brother that were predecessors with him in his Kingdome After this when the Sea of Canterbury had bene vacant by the space of one whole yeare and sixe Monethes Deus Dedit one Deus Dedit of the countrey of the West Saxons was elected and consecrated by Ithamar the Byshop of Rochester the .7 Calends of April He gouerned the Church of Canterbury by the tearme of nine yeres four moneths and two days When he was departed this life the foresayd Ithamar coÌ„secrated for him one Damianus of the countrey of Sussex Mercia receyueth the fayth â—… hist eccle 3. cap. 21. ABout this time the people of Mercia coÌ„monly called midle Angles receyued the Christian faythe vnder theyr Kyng named Peda 653 or Peada the sonne of Penda King of Mercia the which being a towardly yong Gentleman and worthy to haue the guyding of a kingdome Peda or Peada 〈◊〉 of the â—â—ddle angles his father Penda aduaunced him to the rule of that Kingdome of the middle angles during his own life Heere may you note y t the Kingdome of the midle angles was one the Kingdome of Mercia another though most commonly the same were gouerned by one king This yong Peda came to the king of Northumberlande Oswy to require of him to haue hys daughter Alchfled in marriage but when he was enformed that he mighte not haue hir except hee would become a Christian then vppon hearyng the Gospell preached with the promise of the celestiall ioyes and immortalitie by the resurrectioÌ„ of the fleshe in the life to come he sayde that whether hee had King Oswyes daughter to wife or not he woulde surely be baptised and chiefly hee was perswaded thereto by his kinsman Alchfride which had in marriage his sister the daughter of Penda named Cimburgh He was therfore baptised by Bishop Fynnan with all those whyche came thither with him Ad murum at a place called at y e wal And taking with him foure priestes whiche were thought meete to teache and baptise his people he returned with great ioy into his owne countrey The names of those Priestes were as followeth Cedda Adda Betti and Diuna of the whyche the last was a Scotte by nation and the other were Englishmen These Priestes commyng into the prouince of the middle angles preached the worde and were well hearde so that dayly a greate number both of the nobilitie and communaltie renouncing the filthy dregges of Idolatrie were christned Neyther dyd King Penda forbidde the preaching of the Gospell within his prouince of Mercia but rather he hated and despised those whome hee knewe to haue professed themselues Christians The saying of K. Penda and yet shewed not y e workes of faythe saying that those were wretches and not to be regarded which woulde not obey theyr God in whome they beleeued This alteration of things began about two yeares before the deathe of King Penda The East Saxons eftsoones receyue the faith This was about the yeare 649. as Math. West hath noted King Sigibert hauing now receiued the Christian faith when he should returne into his countrey required king Oswy to appoynte hym certayne instructors and teachers which might conuert his people to the faith of Christ King Oswy desirous to satisfie his request sente vnto the prouince of the middle angles calling from theÌ„ce that vertuous man Cedda Cedda and assigning vnto him another Priest to be his associate sente them vnto the prouince of the East Saxons there to preache the Christian faithe vnto the people And when they had preached and taughte through the whole countrey to the great increase and enlarging of the Church of Christ it chaunced on a time that Cedda returned home into Northumberlande to conferre of certaine things with Bishop Fynan which kept his See at Lindesferne where vnderstaÌ„ding by Cedda the great fruite whiche it had pleased God to prosper vnder his handes in aduancing the fayth amongst the East Saxons hee called to him two other Byshops and there ordeyned the foresayde Ced Bishop of the East Saxons Ced or Cedda Bishop of the East angles Herevppon the same Ced returning vnto hys cure wente forewarde with more authoritie to performe the worke of the Lord buildyng Churches in diuers places ordeyned Priests and Deacons whiche mighte helpe him in preaching and in the ministerie of Baptising specially in the Citie of Ithancester vpon the riuer of Pente and likewise in Tileburg on the riuer of Thames Tilbery Whilest Ced was thus busie to the great comfort and ioy of the Kyng and all hys people in the setting forwarde the Christian Religion with great increase dayly proceedyng it chaunced thorough the instigation of the enimie of mankynde the Deuill that King Sigibert was murthered by two of his owne kinsmen which were brethreÌ„ the which when they were examined of the cause that shoulde moue them to that wicked fact they had nothing to alledge but that they did it bycause they had conceyued an hatred againste the King for that he was too fauorable towards his enimies and would with great mildnes of mind forgiue iniuries committed againste him suche was the kings faulte for the which he was murthered bycause he obserued the commaundemeÌ„ts of the Gospell with a deuoute hart in the whyche
yeares This Kenwalk was such a Prince Mat. 〈◊〉 dereg 〈◊〉 as in the beginning he was to be compared with the worst kind of rulers but in the middest and later ende of his raigne hee was to bee compared with y e best His godly zeale borne towards the aduancing of the Christian religion wel appeared in the building of the Church at Winchester where the Bishops Sea of al that prouince was theÌ„ placed His wife Sexburga ruled the Kyngdome of West Saxons after him a woman of stoutues ynough to haue atchieued actes of worthy remeÌ„brance but being preuented by deathe ere she had raigned one whole yeare she could not shewe any full proofe of hir noble courage I remember that Math. West maketh other report hereof declaring that the nobilitie remoued hir from the gouernement But I rather followe William Malmes in this matter TO proccede therefore after y t Sexburga was departed this life or deposed Escuinus if you wil nedes haue it so Escuinus or Elcuinus whose Grandfather called Cuthgislo y e brother of K. Kinigils succeded in gouernmeÌ„t of y e West Saxons VVil. Mal. reigning about y e space of two yeres and after his decesse one Centtuinus or Centwine tooke vppon him the rule and continued therein the space of nine yeares But Bede sayth that these two ruled at one time and deuided the kingdom betwixt them Elcuinus fought against Vulfhere Kyng of Mercia a greate number of men being slayne on both parties Hen. 〈◊〉 though Vulfhere yet had after a manner the vpper hand as some haue written In the same yere that the Sinode was holden at Herford Beda lib. â—… cap. sup 〈◊〉 that is to say in the yeare of our Lord 673. Ecgbert the King of Kent departed this life in Iuly King Locius and lefte the Kingdome to his brother Lothore which held the same eleuen yeares and seuen monethes VVil. Malm. Beda dereg lib. 1. Thunnir A vile maâ—…ther Some haue written that King Egbert by the suggestion of one Thunnir who had the chiefe rule of the kingdome vnder him suffered the sayde Thunnir to put vnto death Ethelbert or Ethelbright whiche were the sonnes of Ermenredus the brother of King Ercombert that was father vnto king Egbert for doubt leâ—…t they being towardly yong Gentlemen myghte in tyme growe so into fauor with the people that it shoulde bee easie for them to depriue both Egbert and his issue of the Kyngdome Also that they were priuily put to death and priuily buried at the firste but the place of their buriall immediately beeyng shewed after a miraculous manner theyr bodyes long after in the dayes of Kyng Egilrede the sonne of Kyng Edgar were taken vp and conueyed vnto Ramsey and there buried And although Egbert being giltie of the death of those his cousins did sore repent him for that he vnderstoode they dyed giltlesse yet hys brother Lothaire was thought to be punished for that offence as after shall be shewed Bishop Winfrid deposed Winfrid Bishop of the Mercies for cause of disobedience in some poynt was depriued by the Archbishop Theodore Sexvulfe ordeyned Bishop of the Mercies and one Sexvulfe that was the buylder and also the Abbot of the Monasterie of Meidhamstede otherwise called Peterborrough was ordeyned and consecrated in his place 675. as Math. West hath Bishop Erkenwalde About the same time Erkenwalde was ordeyned Bishop of the East Saxons and appoynted to hold his See in the Citie of London This Erkenwalde was reputed to bee a man of great holynesse and vertue Before he was made Bishoppe hee buylded two Abbeyes the one of Monkes at Chertsey in Sowtherie where hee himselfe was Abbot and the other of Nunnes at Berking within the prouince of the East Saxons Ethelburga where he placed his sister Ethelburga a woman also highly esteemed for hir deuout kinde of life Iohn Capgraue She was firste brought vp and instructed in the rules of hir profession by one Hildelitha a Nunne of the parties of beyond the Sea whome Erkenwald procured to come ouer for that purpose Waldhere Sebby king of East SaxoÌ„s Beda lib. 4. cap. 61. After Erkenwald one Waldhere was made Bishop of London in whose dayes Sebby king of the East Saxons after hee had raigned thirtie yeares beeing nowe vexed with a greeuous sicknesse professed himselfe a Monke whiche thyng he would haue done long before if his wife hadde not kept him backe Hee died shortly after within the Citie of London and was buried in the Church of Saint Paule King Sighere whyche in the beginning raigned with him VVil. Malâ—… and gouerned a parte of the East Saxons was departed thys life before so that in his latter time the foresayde Sebby had the gouernemente of the whole prouince of the East Saxons and left the same to his sonnes Sighard and Sewfred About the yeare of our Lorde .675 675 Vulfhere King of Mercia departed this life after hee hadde raigned as some haue .19 yeares VV. Mal. But other affirme that â—â— raigned .17 yeares Beda Peada or rather Weada but as other affirme hee raigned but .17 yeares Howbeit they which reckeÌ„ nineteene include the time that passed after the slaughter of Penda wherein Oswy and Peada held the aforesayde Kingdome King Ethelred The Bishoppe of Rochester Putta after that his Church was spoyled and defaced by the enimies wente vnto Sexvulfe the Bishop of Mercia and there obteyning of him a small â—â—re and a portion of ground remayned in that countrey not once labouring to restore his Church of Rochester to the former state but wente aboute in Mercia to teach song instruct suche as would learne musicke wheresoeuer hee was required or could get entertaynement Herevpon the Archbishop Theodore consecrated one William Bishop of Rochester in place of Putta and after when the sayd William constreyned by pouertie left that Church Theodore placed one Gebmound in his steede In the yeare of our Lord .678 in the moneth of August 678 A blasing Starre a blasing Starre appeared with a long bright beame like to a piller It was seene euery morning for the space of three monethes togither The same Ecgfrid king of Northumberland Mat. VVest Beda li. 4. cap. 12. Bishop Wilâ—…rid banished Hlagustald Hexam Eadhidus Lindesferne â—…oly ilande banished Bishop Wilfrid vppon displeasure taken with hym out of his See and then were two Bishops ordeyned in his place to gouerne the Church of the NorthuÌ„bers y e one named Bosa at Yorke the other called Eata at Hagustald or Lindesferne Also one Eadhidus was ordeined about the same time Bishop of Lindsey the which prouince king Egfride hadde of late conquered and taken from Vulfhere the late King of Mercia whome he ouercame in battel and droue him out of that couÌ„trey The said three Bishops were consecrated at Yorke by the Archbishop of Canterbury Theodorus the whiche within three yeares after ordeyned two Bishops more in that prouince of the
began not his raigne till the Nones of August in the yeare following which was after the byrth of our Sauior .759 This man proued right valiaunt in gouernment of his subiects He slue in battaile an Earle of his Countrey named Oswin the which artearing warre agaynst him fought with him in a pight fielde at Eadwines Cliue and receyued the worthie rewarde of rebellion This chaunced in the third yeare of his raigne Shortly after that is to witte in the yeare of our Lorde .764 Simon Dun. 764 there fel such a marueylous great snowe and therewith so extreeme a frost as the like had not beene heard of continuing from the begynning of the Winter almost tyll the midst of the Spring with the rygour whereof trees and fruites wythered away and lost theyr liuely shape and growth and not onely feathered foules but also beastes on the lande and fishes in the Sea dyed in great numbers The same yeare died Ceolwulf somtyme king of Northumberlande vnto whome Beda dyd dedicate his booke of Hystories of the English Nation After that hee was become a Monke in the Monasterie of Lyndisferne Monkes licenced to drinke wine the Monkes of that house had lycence to drincke Wine or Ale where as before they myght not drinke any other thing than milke or water by the ancient rule prescribed theÌ„ of Bishop Aydan first founder of the place The same yeare sundrye Cities Townes and Monasteryes were defaced and sore wasted with fyre chauncing on the sodayne as Stretehu Giwento Anwicke London Yorke Doncaster and many other After that Molle had raigned .vj. yeares he resigned his kingdome But other write that hee raigned .xj. yeares VVil. Malm. and was in the ende slaine by treason of his successor Altred Altred began his raigne in the yeare .765 as SimoÌ„ Dun. hath Henric. HuÌ„t Mat. VVest Ethelbert This Altred raigned ten yeares ouer the Northumbers and was then expulsed out of his kingdome by his owne subiects Then was Ethelbert named also Edelrede the sonne of the foresayde Molle made king of Northumberlande and in the fifth yeare of hys raigne he was dryuen oute of his kingdome by two Dukes of his Countrey named Edelbalde and Herebert the whiche moouing warre against him had slaine first Aldulfe the sonne of Bosa the Generall of his armie at Kingesclyffe and after Kinewulfe and Egga other two of his Dukes at Helatherne in a sore foughten fielde so that Ethelbert dispayring of all recouerie was constrayned to get him oute of the Countrey And thus was the Kingdome of Northumberlande brought into a myserable state by the ambitious working of the Princes and Nobles of the same After that Ethelbert King of East Angles was dead H. Hunt Iohn Capgraue Mat. VVest and others Ethelbert king of East angles his sonne Ethelbert succeeded hym a Prince of great towardnesse and so vertuously brought vp by his fathers circumspect care and diligence that hee vtterly abhorred vice and delighted onely in vertue and commendable exercises for the better atteyning to knowledge and vnderstanding of good sciences There remayne manye sundrye sayings and doyngs of hym manyfestly bearing wytnesse that there coulde not be a man more honourable thankefull curteous or gentle Amongst other he had this saying oftentimes in his mouth That the greater that men 〈◊〉 The 〈◊〉 king 〈◊〉 the more humble they ought to beare themselues for the Lorde putteth prowde and mightie 〈◊〉 from theyr seates and exalteth the humble and meeke Moreouer he did not shew himselfe onely wise in wordes but desired also to excell instayednesse of maners and continencie of life Whereby hee wanne to hym the heartes of hys people who perceyuing that hee was nothing delighted in the companie of women 〈◊〉 therefore mynded not maryage they of a singular loue and fauour towards him required that he shuld in any wise yet take a wife that he might haue issue to succeed him At length the maâ—…ter beeing referred to hys Counsayle hee was perswaded to followe theyr aduices And so Alfred the daughter of Offa King of Mercia was fiaunced to hym so that he hymselfe appoynted for meane to procure more fauor at hys father in lawes hands to go to fetch the bride froÌ„ hir fathers house Manye straunge things that happened to hym in taking vppon hym this iourney putte hym in greate doubte of that whiche shoulde followe Tokens of mishap follow Hee was no sooner mounted on hys Horse but that as seemed to hym the earth shooke vnder him Againe as he was in his iourney aboute the mydde tyme of the daye suche a darke myste compassed hym on eche side that he coulde not see nor discerne for a certaine time any thing aboute him at all Lastly as hee layâ—… one night a sleepe hee thought hee sawe in a dreame the roofe of his owne Palayce fall downe to the ground But althoughe wyth these things hee was brought into greate feare The 〈◊〉 mistrusted of no 〈◊〉 yet hee kept on his iourney as hee that mistrusted no deceyte measuring other mens maners by his owne King Offa right honourably receyued hym but his wyfe named Quâ—â—dred a wyse woman but therewyth wicâ—â—d conceyued a malicious deuise in hir heart and streyght wayes goeth aboute to perswade hir husbande to putte it in execution which was to murther king Ethelbert and after to take into hys handes hys Kingdome Offa at the firste was offended wyth hys wyfe for thys motion but in the ende through the importunate request of the woman hee consented to hir minde The order of the murther was committed vnto one Wynnebert Iohn Caâ—… Wynnebert that had serued both the sayde Ethelbert and hys father before tyme the whiche feyning as thoughe hee had beene sent from Offa to will Ethelbert to come vnto him in the night season â—…mon Dun. â—…th 771. slue him that once mistrusted not any such treason Offa hauing thus dispatched Ethelbert inuaded his kingdome Offa conquereth East Angles and conquered it But when the Bryde Alfreda vnderstoode the death of hir liked Make and Bridegrome she abhorring the fact did curse father and mother as if were inspired with the spirit of prophecie she pronounced that worthie punishment woulde shortly fall on hir wicked mother for hir heynous crime coÌ„mitted in perswading so detestable a deede â–ª and according to hir wordes it came to passe for hir mother dyed miserably within three Monethes after Alfreda a Nunne Beda Mat. VVest The Mayde Alfreda refusing the worlde professed hirselfe a Nunne at Crowlande the which place beganne to waxe famous aboute the yeare of our Lorde .695 by the meanes of one Gutlake a man esteemed of great vertue and holynesse which chose to himselfe an habitation there and departing this lyfe about the yeare of oure Lorde .714 was buried in that place where afterwardes an Abbay of Monkes was builded of Saint Benets order The bodie of king Ethelbert at length was buried at Hereford though first it was committed to
in secular causes they were nowe forbidden so to doe Many other things were for meane of reformation artycled both for spirituall causes and also concerning ciuill ordinaunces as dissenabling children to be heyres to the parentes whiche by them were not begotte in lawfull matrimonie but on coÌ„cubines Nunnes concubines whether they were Nunnes or secular women Also of paymeÌ„t of tithes performing of vowes auoyding of vndecent apparell and abolishing of all maner of Ethnish vsages and customes that sounded contrarie to the order of Christianitie Curtayling horses as curtayling Horses and eating of Horses flesh These things with many other expressed in .xx. principal articles as we haue sayd were first concluded to be receyued by the Church of the Northumbers in a Councell holden there subscribed by Alfwold king of the NorthuÌ„bers by Delberke Bishop of Hexham by Eaubalde Archbishop of Yorke Hygwalde Byshop of Lyndisferne Edelbert Bishop of Whiterne Aldulfe Byshoppe of Myeth Ethelwyne also an other Byshop by his deputies with a number of other of the Clergie and Lordes also of the temporaltie as Duke Alrike Duke Segwulfe Abbot Aldberiâ—…ke and Abbot Erhard After this confirmation had of the Northumbers there was also a counsell holden in Mercia at Cealtide in the which these persons subscribed Iambert or Lambert Archbishop of Canterburie Offa King of Mercia Hughbright Bishop of Lichfield Edeulfe Bishoppe of Faron with Vnwone Bishop of Ligor and nine other Bishops beside Abbots and three Dukes as Brorda Farwalde and Bercoald with Earle Othbalde But nowe to returne backe to speake of other doings as in other parties of this lande they fell out 764 Aboute the yeare of our Lorde .764 the Sea of Canterburie beeing voyde one Iambert or Lambert was elected Archbishop there and in the yeare .766 the Archbishop of Yorke Egbert departed this lyfe Simon Dun. hath .780 in whose place one Adelbert succeeded The same tyme one Aswalde or Alfewolde raigned ouer the Northumbers beeing admitted King after that Ethelbert was expulsed and when the same Alfwolde had raigned tenne or as other haue .xj. yeares he was trayterously He begin his raigne Anno 779 as hath Simon Dunel and raigned but ten yeares and without all guilt made away and murthered by his owne people The chiefe conspiratour was named Siga and his bodie was buried at Hexam The same Alfwolde was a iust Prince and worthilye gouerned the Northumbers to hys highe prayse and commendation He was murthered as before yee haue hearde the .xxiij. of September in the yeare of our Lorde .788 788 Mat. VVest Simon Dun. 792 In the yeare .792 Charles king of Fraunce sent into Brytaine a booke which had beene sent vnto him from Constantinople conteyning certaine articles agreed vpon in a Synode wherein were present aboue the number of three hundred Bishops quite contrarie and disagreeing from the true fayth namely in thys that Images ought to be worshipped which the Church of god vtterly abhorreth Agaynst this booke Albinus that famous Clearke wrote a treatise confirmed with places taken out of holy Scripture whiche treatise with the booke in name of all the Bishops and Princes of Brytayne he presented vnto the king of Fraunce In the yeare .800 on Christmasse euen chanced a marueylous tempest of winde Simon Dun. 800 which ouerthrew whole Cities and townes in diuers places and trees in greate number beside other harmes which it did as by death of Cattell c. In the yeare following a great part of the Citie of London was consumed by fire Brightrichus This Brightrike was procreate of the â—â—ue of Cerdicius the first king of West Saxons and xvj in number from him He was a man of nature quiet and temperate more desirous of peace than of warre and therefore he stoode in doubt of y e noble valiancie of one Egbert which after succeeded him in the kingdome The linage of Cerdicius was in that season so coÌ„fouÌ„ded and mingled that euerie one as he grew to greatest power stroue to be king and supreme gouernor But specially Egbertus was knowne to be one that coueted the place as hee that was of the blouâ—… royall and a man of greate power and lustiâ—… courage King Brightrike therefore to liue in more suretie banished him the lâ—…nde Egbert banished and appoynted him to goe into Fraunce Egbert vnderstanding for certaine that this his departure into a forraine Countrey shoulde turne to his aduauncement in time to come obeyed the kings pleasure About the thirde yeare of Brightrykes raigne there fell vpon mens garmentes as they walked abrode A straunge wonder Crosses of bloudie colour and bloud fell from heauen as drops of raigne Mat. VVest VVil. Malm. Hen. Hunt Danes Some tooke this wonder for a signification of the persecution that followed by the Danes for shortly after in the yeare ensuing there arryued three Danish shippes vpon the English coastes against whome the Lieutenant of the parties adioyning made forth to apprehend those that were come a lande howbeeit aduenturing himselfe ouer rashly amongest them he was slaine but afterwardes when the Danes perceyued that the people of the Countreyes aboute beganne to assemble and were comming agaynst them they fled to theyr shippes and left their pray and spoile behinde them for that time These were the fyrst Danes that arryued here in this lande beeing onely sente as was perceyued after to viewe the Countrey and coastes of the same to vnderstande howe with a greater power they myght bee able to inuade it as shortly after they did and warred so wyth the Englishe men that they got a greate partâ—… of the lande and helde it in theyr owne possession In the tenth yeare of King Brightrykes raigne there were seene in the ayre fyrie Dragons flying whiche betokened as was thought two grieuous plagues that followed Fyrst a greate dearth and famine and secondly the cruell warre of Danes Famine and warre signified which shortly followed as yee shall heare Finally after that Brightrike had raigned the space of .xvj. yeares he departed this life and was buried at Warham Some wryte that hee was poysoned by hys wife Ethelburga Ran. Cestren li. 5. cap. 25. Brightrike departed this life whom he maryed in the fourth yeare of his raigne Shee was daughter vnto Offa King of Mercia as before yee haue heard Shee is noted by wryters to haue beene a verye euill woman proude and high mynded as Lucifer Ethelburga hir conditions and wicked nature and therewyth disdaynfull Shee bare hir the more stately by reason of hir fathers greate fame and magnificence whome shee hated shee woulde accuse to hir husbande and so put them in daunger of theyr lyues And if she might not so wreake hir rancour shee woulde not sticke to poyson them And so it happened one daye as shee ment to haue poysoned a yong Gentleman agaynste whome shee hadde a quarell the King chaunced to taste of that Cuppe and dyed therof as before ye haue heard Hir
Chesshire was destroyed by Pirates of Norway 982 The same yeare by casualtie of fire a greate part of the Citie of London was burnt 983 Alfer or Elfer â—…uke of Mercia departed this life Alfrike or Elfrike duke of Mercia Fabian In the yeare of our Lorde 983. Alfer Duke of Mercia departed this life who was cosin to king Edgar and his sonne Alfrike tooke vpon him the rule of that Dukedome and within three yeares after was banished the lande Aboute the eight yeare of his raigne Egelred maryed one Elgina or Ethelginu daughter of Earle Egbert In the ninth yeare of his raigne vpon occasion of strife betweene him and the Bishoppe of Rochester he made warre agaynst the same Byshop wasted his Lordships and besieged the citie of Rochester VVil. Malm. Mat. VVest till Dunstan procured the Bishops peace with paymeÌ„t of an hundred pound in gold and bycause the king woulde not agree with the Bishop without money at the onely request of Dunstan the said Dunstan did send him worde that sithence he made more account of golde than of God more of money than of S. Andrew Patrone of the Church of Rochester and more of couetousnesse than of him being the Archbishop the mischiefes which the Lord had threatned woulde shortly fal and come to passe but the same should not chance whilest he was aliue who died in the yere following the .xxv. of May on a Saturday Of this Dunstan many things are recorded by wryters Vita Dunstane that he should be of such holinesse and vertue that God wrought many myracles by him both whiles he liued here on earth and also after his decease He was borne in west Saxon Iohn Capg Osborne Ran. Higd. his father was named Heorstan his mother Cinifride they in his youth set him to schole where he so profited that he excelled al his equals in age Afterwarde he fell sicke of an Ague which vexed him so sore that it draue him into a frensie therfore his parents appoynted him to the cure and charge of a certain womaÌ„ where his disease grew so on him that he fell in a trance as though he had bin dead after that he sodenly arose by chance caught a staffe in his hande and ran vp downe through hilles and dales and layde about him as though he had bene afrayde of mad dogges The next night as it is sayde he gat him to the top of the church by the help of certain ladders that stood there for workmen to mend the roof and there ran vp and downe very daungerously but in the ende came safely down and layd him to sleep betwene two men that watched the Church that night when he wakened maruelled howe he came there Finally recouering his disease his parents made him a priest and placed him in the Abbay of Glastenburie where he gaue himselfe to the reading of Scriptures and knowledge of vertue But as well his kinsmen as certaine other did raise a report of him that he gaue not himselfe so muche to the reading of scriptures as to charming coniuring and sorcery which he vtrerly denied howbeit learned he was in deed and could do many pretie things both in handie worke other deuices he had good skill in musicke and delited much therin At length he grew in such fauour that he was aduaunced into the seruice of king Adelstane And on a time as he came to a Gentlewomans house with his harpe and hung the same on the wall while he shaped a priestes stoale the Harpe sodenly began to play a Psalm which draue the whole houshold in such feare that they ran out and said hee was too cunning and knewe more than was expedient wherevpon he was accused of Nicromancie and so banished out of the Court. And after this he began to haue a liking to women and when Elfheagus then Bishop of Winchester and his cousin perswaded him to become a Monke he refused it for he rather wished to haue maried a yong damosell whose pleasant companie he dayly enioyed But being soone after strikeÌ„ with such a swelling disease in his bellie that all his bodie was brought into such state as though he had bene infected with a foule leprosie hee bethought himselfe and vpon his recouerie sent to the bishop who immediatly shore him a Monke in which life he liued in so great opinion of holynes as he in time became Abbot of Glastenbury where on a time as hee was in his prayers before the aulter of S. George he fell asleepe and imagining in his dreame that an vgly rough Beare came towards him with open mouth and set his forefeete vpon his shoulders ready to deuour him he sodenly waking for feare caught his walking staffe which he coÌ„monly went with layd about him that all the Church rang thereof to the great wonder of such as stood by Poâ—â—trors The common tale of his plucking the diuell by the nose with a paire of pynsors for tempting him with women while he was making a Chalice the great loue that the ladie Elfleda nigh kinswoman to K. Adelstan bare to him to hir dying day with a great meiny of other such like matters I leaue as friuolous and wholy impertinent to our purpose onely this I reade that through declaring of his dreames and visions he obteyned in the time of K. Edgar first the Bishoprike of Worcester after of London last of al the Archbishoprike of Canterburie And now I will returne to the doings of Egelred and to speake of such things as chaunced in his time Shortly after the decease of Dunstan VVil. Malm. Mat. VVest The Danes inuade this land y e Danes inuaded this Realme on eche side wasting and spoyling the Countrey in moste miserable wise They arryued in so manye places at once that the Englishe men coulde not well deuise whyther to goe to encounter first with them Some of them spoyled a place or towne called Wicheport Alias Wecederport and from thence passing further into the Countrey Hen. Hunt Sim. Dunel Danes vanquished were mette with by the Englishe men who giuing them battayle lost theyr Captaine Goda but yet they gotte the victorie and beat the Danes oute of the fielde and so that parte of the Danishe armie was brought to confusion Simon Dun Simon Dunel sayth that the English men in deede wanne the fielde here but not withoute great losse Goda Earle of Deuonshire slaine For besyde Goda who by report of the same Authour was Earle of Deuonshire there dyed an other valyaunt man of warre named Strenwolde In the yeare 991. Brightnod Earle of Essex at Maldon gaue battaile to an armie of Danes which vnder their leaders Iustin Guthmund Mat. VVest had spoyled Gipswich and was there ouercome slaine with the most part of his people and so the Danes obteyned in that place the victorie 991 The same yeare and in the .xiij. yeare of king Egelreds raigne when the land
Ryuer they spoyled and wasted Kent Southerie Sussex Barksh Hāpshire and as is before sayd a great part of Wilshire 1111 The king and the peeres of the realme not knowing otherwise how to redresse the matter The king sendeth to the Danes Simon Dun. sent Ambassadors vnto the Danes offring them great summes of money to leaue off suche cruell wasting and spoyling of the lande Fabian ex Antonino The Danes exercised passing great crueltie in the winning of that Citie as by sundrie Authors it doth and may appeare The Archbishop Elphegus taken Hen. Hunt They slue of menne women and children aboue the number of .viij. thousand They tooke the Archbishop Elphegus with an other Bishop named Godwyn Also Abbot Lefwyn Alseword the kings Baylif there They spared no degree insomuch that they slue and tooke .900 priestes and other men of religion Antoninus Vincentius And when they had taken their pleasure of the Citie they set it on fire and so returned to their ships VVil L◅mb ex Asserio Meneuensi alijs There be that write that they tithed the people after an inuerted order slaying the whole nines through the whole multitude and reserued the tenth so that of all the Monkes there were but foure saued and of the lay people .4800 whereby it followeth that there dyed .43200 persons and hereof is gathered that the citie of Canterburie the Countrey thereabouts the people whereof belike fled thither for succor was at that time verie well inhabited so as there haue not wanted sayth Master Lambert which affyrme that it had then more people than London it selfe 1112 Hen. Hunt But now to our purpose In the yeare next ensuing vpon the Saterday in Easter weeke after that the Bishop Elphegus had bin kept prisoner with them the space of .vj. or .vij. monethes they cruelly in a rage led him fortb into the fields and dashed out his braynes with stones The Archbishop Alphegus murthered bycause he would not redeeme his libertie with three M. pound which they demaunded to haue bin leuied of his farmers and tenants This cruell murther was cōmitted at Grenewich foure miles distant from London the .xix. of Aprill where he lay a certaine time vnburied Myracles but at length through miracles shewed as they say for myracles are all wrought now by deade men and not by the liuing the Danes permitted that his bodie might be caried to London Elphegus buried in Lōdon there was it buried in the Church of S. Paule where it rested for the space of ten yeares till king Cnute or Knoght had the gouernment of this lande Translated to Canterburie by whose appoyntment it was remoued to Canterburie Turkillus the leader of those Danes by whom the Archbishop Elphegus was thus murthered helde Norffolke and Suffolke vnder his subiection VVil. Mal. Turkillus held Norffolk and Suffolke and so continued in those parties as chief L. and gouernor But the residue of the Danes at length xlviii thousād pound as sayth Simon Du. Mat. VVest compounding with the Englishmen for◅ tribute to be payed to them of .viij. M. pounde spred abrode in the countrey soiourning in cities townes and villages where they mighte finde most conuenient Harbrough Moreouer fortye of their Shippes H. Hunti◅ ▪ or rather as some write .xlv. were retayned to serue the king promising to defende the Realme with condition that the Souldiers and Mariners should haue prouision of meate and drinke with apparell found them at the kings charges As one Authour hath gathered Sweyne king of Denmarke was in England at the concluding of this peace which being cōfirmed with solemne othes and sufficient Hostages he departed into Denmarke Also the same Authour bringeth the generall slaughter of Danes vppon Saint Bry◅es daye Mat. VVest to haue chaunced in the yeare after the conclusion of this agreement that is to witte in the yeare .1012 at what tyme Gunthildis the sister of King Swaine was slaine Gunthildis the sister of K. Swaine murthered with hir husbande and sonne by the commaundement of the false traytour Edrike But bycause all other Authours agree that the same murther of Danes was executed aboute tenne yeares before thys supposed tyme wee haue made rehearsall thereof in that place Howbeeit for the death of Gunthilde it maye bee that shee became Hostage eyther in the yeare .1007 at what tyme King Egelred payed thirtie thousande pounde vnto king Swayne to haue peace as before you haue hearde or else myght shee bee delyuered in hostage in the yeare .1011 when the last agreement was made with the Danes as aboue is mētioned But when or at what time soeuer she became hostage this we finde of hir that she came hither into England with hir husband Palingus VVil. Mal. a mightie Earle and receyued baptisme here Wherevpon she earnestly trauailed in treatie of a peace betwixt hir brother king Egelred whiche being brought to passe chiefely by hir suyte shee was contented to become an Hostage for performaunce thereof as before is recyted And after by the commaundement of Earle Edricke shee was put to death pronouncing that the shedding of hir bloude woulde cause all England one day fore to rue She was a right beautifull Ladie and tooke hir death without all feare not once chaunging countenaunce though she saw hir husbande and hir onely sonne a yong Gentleman of much towardnesse first murthered before hir face Turkillus discloseth the secretes of the Realme to K. Swayne Turkillus in the meane tyme had aduertised king Swayne in what state things stoode here within the Realme howe King Egelred was negligent onely attending to the lustes and pleasures of the fleshe howe the Noble menne were vnfaythfull and the Commons weake and feeble through wante of good and trustye leaders Simon Dun. Some wryte yet that Turkyll as well as other of the Danes whiche remayned here in Englande was in league with King Egelred insomuche that he was wyth him in London to helpe to defend the Citie agaynst Sweyne when hee came to assault it as after shall appeare Whiche if it bee true a doubt may rise whether Sweine receyued any aduertisement from Turkill to moue him the rather to inuade the realme but suche aduertisements might come from him before that he was accorded with Egelred Swaine prepareth an armie to inuade Englande Swayne therefore as a valiaunt Prince desirous both to reuenge his sisters death and win honour prepared an huge armie and a greate number of Shippes with the whiche hee made towardes Englande and firste comming to Sandwiche taryed there a small while He landeth at Sandwich 1013 and taking eftsoones the Sea compassed aboute the coastes of the East Angles and arryuing in the mouth of Humber sayled vp the water and entring into the Ryuer of Trent he landed at Gaynesbourgh Gaynesbourgh purposing to inuade the Northumbers But they as men brought into great feare for that they
about the fourth yeare of the Emperor Henrye the thirde surnamed Niger in the .xij. yeare of Henry the firste of that name Kyng of Fraunce and about the third yeare of Maâ—…beth king of Scotland This Edwarde the third of that name before the conquest was of nature more meeke simple than apte to the gouernement of the realme and therfore did Erle Goodwyn not only seeke the destruction of his elder brother Alfred but also holpe in that he mighte to aduaunce this Edwarde to the crowne in hope to beare great rule in the realme vnder him whome hee knewe to be softe gentle and easy to be persuaded But whatsoeuer writers do report hereof sure it is that Edwarde was the elder brother and not Alvred so that if erle Goodwyn did shew his furtherance by his pretenced cloake of offring his frendship vnto Alvred to betraye him he did it by king Harolds coÌ„mandement and yet it may be that he ment to haue vsurped the crowne to him self if eche poynt had aunswered his expectation in the sequele of things as he hoped they would and therfore had not passed if bothe the brethren had bin in heauen But yet when the worlds framed contrary peraduenture to his purpose he didde his test so aduaunce Edward trusting to beare no small rule vnder him being knowne to be a man more appliable to be gouerned by other than to trust to his owne wit and so chiefly by the assistance of Erle Goodwyn whose authoritie as appeareth was not small within the Realme of Englande in those dayes Edwarde came to attayne the Crowne wherevnto the erle of Chester Leofryke also shewed all the furtherance that in him lay Some write which semeth also to be confirmed by the Danish chronicles that king Hardiknought in his lyfe tyme had receyued this Edwarde into his Courte Ran. Higd ex Mariano Albert. Cranes and reteyned him still in the same in moste honourable wyse But for that it maye appeare in the abstracte of the Danishe Chronicles what their writers hadde of this matter recorded we doe here passe ouer referring those that be desyrous to knowe the diuersitie of oure wryters and theyrs vnto the same Chronicles where they may fynd it more at large expressed Thys in no wyse is to be lefte vnremembred that immediatly after the death of Hardiknought it was not only decreed and agreed vppon by the greate Lords and nobles of the Realme Polidore Danes expelled that no Dane from thencefoorth shoulde reigne ouer them but also all menne of warre and souldiours of the Danes whiche lay within anye Citie or Castell in garrison within the realme of Englande were then expulsed and put out or rather slayne as the Danishe writers do rehearse Sim. Dunel Amongst other that were banished the ladie Goâ—…ild nece to king Swayn by his sister was one Gâ—â—ild nece to king Svvayne beeing as then a widowe and with hir two of hir sonnes whiche she had then lyuing Heming and Turkyll were also caused to auoyde There be that write that Alfred the brother of king Edwarde Polidore came not into the realme till after the death of Hardiknought and that he didde helpe to expulse the Danes and that doone was slaine by Erle Goodwin and other of his complices But how this may stande considering the circumstaÌ„ces of the tyme with suche things as are written by diuers authors hereof it may well be doubted But whether Earle Goodwyn was guiltie to the death of Alfred eyther at this time or before certayne it is that he so cleered him selfe of that cryme vnto King Edwarde the brother of Alfred that there was none so highly in fauoure with hym as Earle Goodwyn was K. Edvvarde marieth the daughter of erle Goodvvin insomuche that king Edwarde maryed the lady Eaditha the daughter of erle Goodwyn begotten of his wyfe Thira that was syster to King Hardiknought and not of his seconde wyfe as some haue written But so it was that King Edwarde neuer had to doe with hir in fleshly wyse Polidor But whether he absteined bicause he hadde haply vowed chastitie eyther of impotencie of nature or for a priuie hate that hee bare to hir kinne men doubted For it hath bene thoughte that he esteemed not Earle Goodwyn so greatly in his hearte K. Edvvarde absteyneth froÌ„ the companie of his vvise as he outwardely made shewe to doe but rather for feare of his puissaunce disseÌ„bled with him least he shoulde otherwise put hym selfe in danger both of losse of life kingdom Howsoeuer it was he vsed his counsel in ordering of things concerning the state of the coÌ„mon wealth and namely in the harde handelyng of his mother Quene Emme K. Edvvarde dealeth straytly vvith his mother Queene Emme agaynste whoÌ„ diuers accusatioÌ„s were brought alledged as first for y t she consented to marrie with king Cnute the publike enimie of the realme Againe that she did nothing ayde or succoure hir sonnes whyle they liued in exile and that worse was Queene Emme dispoiled of hir goodes contriued to haue made them away For which cause she was dispoyled of al hir goodes And bicause she was defamed to be naughte of hir bodie with Alwyne or Adwine bishop of Winchester She is accused of dissolute liuing both she and the saint bishop were admitted to prison within the citie of Winchester as some write but other affirme that she was straytly kepte in the Abbey of Warwell Ran. Higd. tyl by way of purging hirselfe after a maruellous manner in passyng barefooted ouer certaine hot shares or ploughyrons She purgeth hir selfe by the lavv â–ª Ordalium according to the laws 〈◊〉 she clered hir selfe as the world tooke it and was restored to hir first astate and dignitie VV. Malm. Hir excessiue couetousnesse without regarde had to the poore caused hir also to be euil reported 〈◊〉 And ageyne for that she euer shewed hir selfe to be more naturall to the issue whiche she had by bi r second husband Cnute than to hir children which she had by hir firste husbande kyng Egelred as it were declaryng howe she was affected toward the fathers by the loue 〈◊〉 to the children she loste a greate peece of good will at the handes of hir sonnes Alfred Edwarde So that nowe the said Edwarde enioying the realme was easily enduced to think euill of hir and therevppon vsed hir the more vncourteoussy But hir greate liberalitie employed on the churche of Winchester whiche she furnished with maruelous rich iewels and ornamentes wan hir great commendation in the worlde and excused hir partly in the sight of many of the infamie imputed to hir for the immoderate filling of hir coffers by all wayes and meanes shee coulde deuise And after that she had purged hir self as before is meÌ„cioned hir sonne king Edwarde had hir euer after in great honor and reuerence Ran. Higd. And wheras Robert Archbishop of Canterbury had ben sore against hir he
likewise Martirnes Beuers Foxes Weselles whose skinnes and cases are solde vnto straungers at huge and excessiue prices In Murray land also is not all-only great plenty of wheate Barley Otes and such like grayne beside Nuttes and Apples but likewise of all kindes of fishe and especially of Salmon The people thereof in like sort do vse a strange maner of fishing for they make a loÌ„g Wee le of wicker narrow necked wide mouthed with such cunning that wheÌ„ the tide commeth the fishe shoote themselues into the same foorthwith are so inclosed that whilest the tide lasteth he cannot get out nor after the water is gone escape the hands of the fishers In this region moreouer is a lake named Spiney wherein is exceeding plenty of Swannes The cause of their increase in this place is ascribed to a certaine hearbe which groweth there in great abundaÌ„ce and whose seede is very pleasant vnto the sayde foule in the eating wherfore they call it Swan Gyrs herevnto such is the nature of y e same that where it is once sowen or plaÌ„ted it wil neuer be destroyed as may be proued by experience For albeit that this lake be fiue myles in length was sometime within the remembrance of man very well stored with Salmon and other great fishe yet after that this 〈◊〉 began to multiply vpon the same it became â—…o shallow that one may now wade thorow the greatest parte thereof by meane whereof all the great fishe there is vtterly consumed In the portion furthermore is the Churche of Peâ—â— where the bones of litle Iohn remayneth great admiration Certes this catcase hath bene 24. foote long his members well proportioned according to his stature This was no Foâ—… 〈…〉 into 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 Scotland and not fully sixe yeares before this booke was written by Boethus hee sawe his hanche bone whithe seemed so great as the whole thighe of a man and he did thrust his aâ—…me into the hollownesse thereof whereby it appereth what mighty people grew vp in 〈◊〉 region before they were ouercome with gluttony and excesse In this quarter finally is the towne called Elgyn not farre from the mouth of Spaye and therin is a Cathedral church furnished with Chanons there are thereto sundry riche and very wealthy Abbayes in Murray as Kyllâ—…s of the order of the Cisteaux and Pluscardy of the Cluniackes Of Boene Anze Buchquhaue Mar Meruis Fiffe and Angus with the lakes floudes Abbeyes townes and other notable things conteyned in the same Chap. 6. NExt vnto the Murray lieth Boene and Anze two fertile and plentifull regions whiche extend their boundes euen vnto the 〈◊〉 They are both very notably indued with baâ—â—ble pastures and by reason thereof are very full of cattell they yeelde moreouer excellent corne by meanes of theyr large woodes and forests not without great store of wilde beastâ—…s of sundry kindes and natures Neare also vnto the Douerne water which is a riuer marueylously stored with fish staÌ„deth a towne named Bâ—â—â— and vnder these two regions aforesayde lieth Buchquhane a very barable soyle for all kindes of cattell but especially of sheepe whose wooll exceedeth that of the like beast of all other countries there aboutes for whitenesse and 〈◊〉 The riuers that are in this countrey do in lyke maner abound with Salmons so that there is no one of them voyde of this commoditie except the Rattra onely wherein it is not hearde that any hath ben seene herein also standeth the castell of Slanis in which the high constable of ScotlaÌ„d dwelleth and neare vnto the same is a marueylous caue for the water that droppeth into the same in a short processe of time becommeth an harde white stone and except they had bene oft remoued heretofore the caue it self had bene filled vp with the same many yeres agone This region is voide of rattes such is the nature therof that if any be brought thither from other places they are found to die immediatly finally it is most marueylous of all y t as Otes do growe there in many places of themselues without culture tillage so if a man come thither of set purpose to mow downe the same he shal find nothing els but empty hulles straw but if he chaunce vpon the sodaine and without premeditatioÌ„ of the thing to cut downe any a matter impossible in my minde he shall finde them so good ful as any are elswhere to be gathered ledde home Certes it appeareth hereby that this is nothing els but an illusion wherewith the wicked fends do captiuate blinde the senses of the superstitious sort for that it should be so by nature it is a thing altogither impossible Nexte vnto this lieth the greate region of Mar whiche is very plentifull of cattell and extendeth 60. miles in length froÌ„ the Almaigne seas to Badzenoch In this is the Citie of Aberdene wherein is a Bishops sea and noble Vniuersitie sometime founded by William Elphinston Bishop there This citie lieth betwixt two riche riuers the Done the Dee wherin is the greatest store of Salmons that is to be founde againe within the compasse of Albion and likewise the greatest longest if you respect their quantitie Next vnto Marre we haue Mernis toward y e sea a very fatte soyle ful of pasture abundantly replenished with euery sort of cattell In this portion standeth Dunnother the Marshall of Scotlands house likewise the towne of Fordon in whiche the bones of Palladius do rest who is taken generally for the Apostle of our nation The water of Eske is bound vnto this region whiche is otherwise called Northeske a very daungerous chanell wherin many haue perished for default of a bridge as they haue attempted to passe repasse ouer the same Angus bordereth vpon the Mernis it was sometime part of Horrestia now watered with three notable riuers as the Northeske already mentioned marueylously replenished with SalmoÌ„s likewise the Southeske finally the Tay the noblest water in all Scotland and remembred by the Romayne writers vnder the name of Tau In Angus also is an highe Mountayne or Promontory called the redde Brayes whiche lieth out farre off into the Almayne seas The Tay also riseth farre beyond the Mountaynes of Granzeben out of Loch Tay whiche is a poole of 24. miles of length and 10. of breadth wherein are not onely diuerse Islandes with Castels in them but the water of the lake it self beyng moste fine and subtile is notably replenished with great store of fish and therfore very commodious for such as dwell about it It falleth into the Almayne sea beside Dundee a towne called in olde tyme Alectum wherein I was borne and in whiche the people trauayle very painefully about weauing and making of cloth There are in Angus also many other cities riche Abbayes as Mountros Brechin Forfayr beside so many Castelles as lieth not in me to number This likewise is not to be passed ouer with
Moneth of May sir Iohn Borthwike commonlye called Capitayne Borthwike suspected defamed and accused of heresie Captain Borthwike accused of heresie was sommoned to appeare in Saint Andrewes before the Cardinall and diuerse other Bishops and Prelates there present where notwithstanding his absence the same being proued by sufficient witnesse agaynst him as was thought hee was conuict and declared an heretike An ymage was made to resemble him and at the Market crosse of the sayd Citie as a signe and a memoriall of his condemnation it was burned to the feare and example of other but he himselfe escaped their handes and got into Englande where he was receyued This yeare the King of England aduertised of the meeting of the Emperor the French King 1541 The king of Englande sendeth to the K. of Scottes and Pope at the Citie of Nice doubting some practice to be deuised there agaynst him sent to the king of Scotland the L. William Howard desiring him as his most tender kinsman and nephew to meete him at the citie of Yorke in Englande where he would communicate such things with him as shoulde be for the weale of both the realmes and therewith the King of Englande trusting that the king of Scotlande would haue fulfilled his desire caused great preparation to be made at Yorke for the receyuing of him But albeit the king of Scotlande was willing of himselfe to haue passed into Englande to haue met and seene his Vncle yet after long reasoning and deliberation of his Counsaile and Prelates assembled for that purpose casting in their mindes as they tooke it what daunger might fall to him and his realme if he should passe into Englande in case he should be stayed and holden there contrarie to his will as king Iames his predecessor was hauing no succession of his bodie and againe for that it was certainly knowne that the principall cause why the King of Englande required this meeting or enteruiew was to perswade the king of Scotlande to vse the like order in Scotlande as he had done within his realme of England in abolishing the Popes authoritie making himselfe supreme heade of the Churche expulsing religious persons oute of their houses and seasing the iewels of their houses their lands and rentes with such like information and if it chaunced their king should attempt the like they thought he should lose the friendship which was betwixt him the Pope the Emperor and French king that were his great friendes and confederates Herevpon they perswaded him to stay and by their aduise sent pleasant letters and messages vnto the sayd king of Englande desiring him to haue him excused for that he could not come into Englande at that time hauing such lettes and causes of abyding at home as shortly he shoulde vnderstande by his Ambassadors which he went to sende to him as well for this matter as other causes 〈◊〉 Iames Leyrmouth ambassador 〈◊〉 England And shortly after sir Iames Leyrmouth was appoynted to go as Ambassador into England as well to make the kings excuse for his not comming to meet the king of England at York as also to make complaint vpon certaine â—…sions made by the borderers of Englande into Scotland and also for the vsing of the debatable ground betwixt the two Realmes 1542 The King of England mesâ—… make â—…e into Scotland But the king of England sore offended that the king of Scotlande woulde not satisfie his request to meete him at Yorke as before is recited would admitte no excuse but determined to make warre into Scotland albeit as the Scottishmen alledge hee would not suffer the same to be vnderstood till he had prepared all things in a readinesse and in the meane time sent Commissioners to meete with the Scots coÌ„missioners vpon the debatable grouÌ„d to talk for redresse to be made of harmes done vpon the borders but no good conclusion coulde be agreed vpon by these commissioners neither touching the debatable land nor yet for reparing of wrongs done by inuasions But that the truth concerning the causes of this warre moued at this present by that noble Prince king Henrie the .viij. may the better appeare I haue thought good here to set downe the same as they were drawne forth and published in print to the whole worlde by the sayde king in a little Phamplet vnder this title A declaration conteyuing the iust causes and considerations of this present warre with the Scots wherein also appeareth the true and right title that the kings most royal Maiestie hath to his soueraintie of ScotlaÌ„d and thus it beginneth A declaration 〈◊〉 iust caused the war 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 of Scots BEing now enforced to the warre which wee haue alwayes hitherto so much abhorred and fled by our neighbor nephew the king of Scots one who aboue al other for our manifold benefits towarde him hath most iust cause to loue vs to honor vs and to reioice in our quietnesse we haue thought good to notifie vnto the worlde his doings and behauior in the prouocatioÌ„ of this war and likewise the meanes and wayes by vs to eschew and auoyd it and the iust and true occasions whereby we be now prouoked to prosecute the same and by vtteraÌ„ce and demulging of that matter to disburden some part of our inwarde displeasure and griefe and the circumstaunces knowne to lament openly with the worlde the infidelitie of this time in which things of suche enormitie do brust out and appeare The king of Scottes our nephew and neighbour whom wee in his youth and tender age preserued and mainteyned from the great daunger of other and by our authoritie and power conducted him safely to the royall possession of his estate he now compelleth and â—…th vs for preseruation of 〈◊〉 honour and 〈◊〉 to vse our puissaunce and power agaynst him The lyke â—…sse hath 〈◊〉 〈…〉 by other in â—…able cases agaynst Gods lawe mans lawe and all humanitie but the 〈◊〉 it chaunceth the more it iâ—… to be abhoured and yet in the persons of Princes for the raritie of them can so happen but seldome as it hath now come to passe It hath bene verie rarely and seldome seene before that a king of Scottes both had in maryage a daughter of Englande We cannot â—…e will not reprehende the king our fathers acte therein but lament and hee sorie it tooke no better effect The king our father in that matter mynded loue amitie and perpetual friendship betweene the posteritie of hath which how soone it fayled the death of the King of Scottes as a due punishment of God for his vniust inuasion into this our Realme is and shal be a perpetuall testimonie of theyr reproch for euer and yet in that present time coulde not the vnkindnesse of the father extinguish in vs the naturall loue of our nephew his sonne being then in the miserable age of tender youth but we theÌ„ forgetting the displeasure that should haue worthily prouoked vs to inuade that realm nourished and brought
Nigropellice and S. Faleise Capitaynes of light horsemen with others that passed through Englande and so home into theyr countrey The Marques 〈◊〉 Mayne Moreouer the Marques de Maine after Duke Daumalle coÌ„myng ouer into England about the same time for an hostage passed afterwardes through the realme into Scotland to visite his sister Queene Dowarier and shortly after returned They mourned both for the death of theyr father Claude de Lorayne y e first Duke of Guyse The death of the first Duke 〈◊〉 Guyse who deceassed the .xviij. of Aprill this present yeare 1550. In SepteÌ„ber followyng the queene Dowarier accompanied with the Earles of Huntley Cassils Marshall Southerlande and diuers other of the Scottish nobilitie tooke the sea and sayling to Fraunce landed at Diepe The queene 〈◊〉 sayâ—…d into FraÌ„ce she was conueyed thither by the Prior of Capoa Leone Strozzi sent and appointed with .vj. Galeys to haue the conduction of hir From Diepe she remoued to Rowen where the king then lay of whome shee was right courteously receyued The master of Erskin Hence beâ—…n ScotlaÌ„d and the lowe countreys of â—…land 155â—… master Henry Sinclar Deane of Glasquo sayled into FlauÌ„ders where they passed confirmed a peace betwixt Scotlande and the lowe countreys After that the Queene Dowarier had remayned aboute a .xij. monethes or more in Fraunce this yeare in October she returned homewardes to passe thorow EnglaÌ„d she landed at Portesmouth and the second of NoueÌ„ber she came froÌ„ Hampton courte by water The Queene â—…et coÌ„â—…h home 〈◊〉 though EnglaÌ„d and landed at Powles wharfe in the after noone and from thence roade to the Bishop of LoÌ„dons palace by Paules and there lodged The .iiij. of Nouember she roade in hir charet to the kings palace of the white Hall accoÌ„panied with the Ladie Margaret Dowglas the three Duchesses of Suffolke Richmont Northumberland â—… receyuing 〈…〉 diuers other great Ladies Gentlewomen both Scots and English At the courte gate the Dukes of Northumberland and Suffolke the Lord Thresorer were ready to receyue hyr and at hir entring into the Hall the king stood in the vpper ende therof the Erle of Warwike holding the sworde before him She at hyr approching to him kneeled downe he courteously tooke hir vp kissed hir taking hyr by the hand ledde hir vp into his owne chamber of presence after into the Queenes chamber of presence where he kissed al the Ladies of Scotlande so departed for a while She dined on the Queenes side that day with the King his seruice hirs coÌ„ming both togither the kings being placed on the right hande of the table and hyrs on y e left What pleÌ„ty of all maner of costly meates and drinkes there was what riche furniture of plate all other things was shewed to set forth the feast it wer superfluous to write All the Ladies both of England and Scotland dined in the Queenes great chamber After diner the king shewed hyr his Galerie and gardens with all other commodities of the place And about foure of the clocke he brought hyr downe agayne by the hand into the Hall where he first receyued hir there kissing hir she tooke hir leaue returned to the Bishops palayce froÌ„ whence she came The .vj. of NoueÌ„ber she departed towardes Scotlande riding froÌ„ Poules through the citie passing forth at Bishops gate The Duke of Northumberlande the Earle of Pembroke the Lord Thresorer brought hir to Shordich church there tooke their leaues of hir The Duke of NorthuÌ„berland had an .100 men on horsebacke with Iauelins whereof .xl. were geÌ„tlemen clad in blacke veluet coates garded w t white hattes of blacke veluet with white feathers chaynes of gold about their neckes The erle of PeÌ„broke had .vj. score men well apointed also with blacke Iauelins hattes with fethers the Lord Threasorer had an .100 gentlemeÌ„ Yemen with Iauelins in like maner wel apparelled which three companies of horsemen furnished the streetes on either side froÌ„ the crosse in Cheap to BircheÌ„ lane end as she passed y t way The Sherifes of LondoÌ„ had the conduction of hir to WaltaÌ„ towne end where she lodged that night in euery shire through which she passed y e Sherife with the gentlemeÌ„ of the same shyre receiued hir gaue their attendaÌ„ce on hir till she came to enter into the next shire where y e Sheriffe gentlemen there receyued hir that order was obserued till she came to the bordures of Scotland al hir charges for meate drinkes aswell for hir selfe and whole trayne as also the prouision for theyr horses was borne allowed by the King The erle of Huntley diuers other of the Scottish Lordes returned home by sea the sayde Earle landing at Montros aboute the later ende of December Doctor Wanthope a Scottishman borne The Archbishop of Armachane Archbishoppe of Armachane so nominated by Pope Paule the thirde and after created Legatus à latere by Iulius the thirde deceassed this yeere in Paris the .x. of Nouember 1551. This man was blynde from his infancie but yet gaue him selfe so vnto studie that he was first made Doctor of Diuinitie in the vniuersitie of Paris and after atteyned to such estimation in the court of Rome that he was by the foresayde Popes aduaunced as before ye haue heard This yeere in the moneth of Iune the queene Dowarier and the Gouernour 1552. wente into the North partes of Scotlande and at Inuernes Elgin Bamf Abyrdene and Perth Wrongs don are by iustice redressed the Gouernour satte in Iustice for redresse of wrongs and administration of rightuous lawes and orders And afterwardes they repayred to the Weste partes and satte lykewise in Iustice at Dunfreis and in other places in that countrey where diuers were put to their fines for transgressing the lawes but fewe or none touched by corporall punishment In this iourney the Queene secretly trauayled with the Lordes The Queene mother seketh to be gouernour bothe spirituall and temporall to haue their consentes to be regent of Scotland immediatly after hir doughter the Queene came to sufficient yeres and that the time of hyr Tutoriship were accoÌ„plished or sooner if the lawes of the realme would so permitte and to assure hir selfe of their good willes in this behalfe she contracted sundry priuy baÌ„des w t theÌ„ making large promises of great rewardes vnto euery of them To conclude this matter was so handled by hir others to whom she committed the doings therein 1553. The gouernment is 1. signed vnto the Queene that in the yeare following the Gouernour agreed to surrender vp the gouernance into hyr handes hyr doughter the young Queene beyng not yet full .xij. yeares of age The Gouernour was promised not only a full discharge and a quietus est of al his doyngs aswell for recept of money iewels and other things duryng the time of his
conspiring K. Iames the first death 385.20 Stevvard Robert executed 385.50 Stevvard Iames marrieth Queene Dovvager 386.80 Stevvard Iames and Queene Dovvager his vvife imprisoned and releassed 386.84 Stevvard Alane Lord of Darnely sayne 386.92 Stevvarde Iames husbande to the Queene banished the Realme 388. 55 Stevvard Iames dyeth 388.59 Stevvard Iohn Erle of Mar brother to the King put to deathe for VVitchcraft 402.114 Stevvarde Andrevve Pronost of Glenlovvden made Archbyshop of S. Andrevves 404.51 Stevvard Bernard Lord Dobigny sent from Levvis the french King in Ambassade into Scotland 414.50 Stevvard VValter Abbot of GleÌ„â—…e 429.13 Stevvard Henry marrieth the Q. mother of Scotlande and is made L. of Methvven 438.16 Stevvard VVilliam Bishop of Aberdine sent Commissioner into England 441.113 Stevvarde Iames of Cardonalde conductour of fiue Ships sente by the French King into Scotland to ayde his friendes there 460. 56 Stevvarde Robert Lord Obenie one of the foure Marshals of France 462.53 Stevvard Iohn Captayn of Milke Castell 469.102 Stevvarde VVilliam one of the Queenes seruants slayn 476.34 Sâ—… hill vvhy so called 28â—… 6 Sâ—…pe Gallant an vniuersall sicknesse in Scotland 415.67 Sraâ—…o câ—…ted 21.38 Strange voice heard in the nighte by King Kenneth 220.82 Strange fights appeare in the aire 47. 19 Strange visions seene in the ayre 50â—… 34 Strange accidente of the Bishops croâ—… staffe at Camelon 180 1â—… Strange dealing in vvomen and contrary to nature 57. â—…3 Strange miracle of Valdâ—…s bodye 142.61 Strength of the place vvhere Caratake vvas incamped 39.79 Strange sightes seene 40.71 Strife betvveene Henrye Beaumount and Alexander Movvbray for landes in Buchquhanc 339. 44 Striueling Iohn and his army discomfited 346.56 Striueling taken by the Englishment 301.77 Striueling burnt by rebels 39â—… 69 Stratton Andrevve burnt for Religion 44â—… 47 Strayton VValter slayne 384.42 Strozze Leone Prior of Capoa and knight of the order of Maâ—…ta 466.71 Succession in the Pictish gouernement appointed 6.50 Stradcluyd Kingdome of the Britaynes and the boundes thereof 195.55 Sueno King of Danes arriueth in England vvith an army 228.25 Sueno conuerted to the Christian faith in Scotland 228.39 Suenos cruell determination against the Englishmen 229.12 Sueno prepareth a nevv armye to inuade Scotland 233.42 Sueno King of Norvvay landeth in Fife vvith a puissante armye 241 6 Sueno discomfiteth Duncane and his army 242.15 Sueno fleeth into Norvvay in one shippe 242.100 Sunne darkened tvvo days vvithout Eclipse 276.17 Sunne appeareth bloudy 135.47 Sunne nor Moone seene the space of sixe monethes 209.1 Sonnes landes to be forfait by the fathers treason 246.34 Superfluous possessions of the Church condemned 264.74 Superfluous rents of Abbayes are prouocations to inordinate lusts 271.73 Superfluous vvelth ministreth occasion of vice 209.72 Supplye of Saxons commeth ouer into Britaine 115.68 Surfetting cause of many straÌ„ge diseases 20.6 Surnames taken froÌ„ offices 252.41 Surnames taken froÌ„ proper names 252. 44 Sutherland Iohn made heyre apparant of the Crovvne of Scotland 254.76 Sutherlande Iohn dyeth in England 354.90 Svvearing of fealtie first instituted 23. 13 Svvorde seene gliding in the aire 385. 85 Svvord vvith a sheath and hilles of golde sent to King VVilliam from the Pope 279.83 T. TAle of a vvoman abused by a Spirit 119.91 Tale of a yong man haunted vvith a Spirit like a faire vvoman 120.28 Tale of a yong Gentlevvoman gote vvith childe by a Spirite 120. 45 Tale of the Chappel vvher Fiacre lyeth buried 144.83 Tale of Queene Guaynores graue in Angus 135.23 Tale of a Crosse miraculously falling into King Dauid the firste hands 264.19 Talboyes VVilliam taken prisoner by the Scottes 345. â—… Tantallon castell besieged and deliuered 440.26 Temple of Claudius and Victoria altered 309.7 Tenantius taken prisoner by the Romaines 28.87 Tentâ—…s of fruâ—…es appoynted to the Priestes 136.48 Tenthes giuen vnto the Cleargie 166. 98 Thaara King of Pictes 13.18 Teruan Archbishop of Pictland 108. 49 Thanes changed into Erles 252.27 Tharan King of Pictes slaine 35.73 Thametes or Thamevv daughter to Loth King of Pictes 137.27 Thebes giuen to Gathelus and his people 135 Theefe hanged for stealing hys ovvne 330 Theefe eateth mans flesh 397.24 Theodosius Emperoure of Rome 93. 31 Theobald slayne 140.95 Thelargus King of Pictes 79.49 Thereus sonne to Reâ—…er Kyng of Scottes borne 17.13 Thereus made King 18.85 Thereus neglecteth Iustice and embraceth all vices 18.92 Thereus fleeth to the Britaines 18. 109 Thereus dyeâ—… in â—…bly in exile 18. 114 Thermes Monsieur a French Captayne 478.55 made generall conduct of the French armye in Scotland 479.10 Thomas the timer a notable prophesier 296.74 Thornton Patrike executed 394. line 79 Thunder and lightning settyng Churches on fyre in Yorkeshire 276.21 Thurstone Archbishop of Yorke 265. 113 Tinneman Archbald name giuen to Earle Dovvglas 370.34 Tyrannie iustly revvarded 14.44 Title of Iohn Ballioll to the Crovvne of Scotland 298.63 Title of Roberte Bruce to the Crovvne of Scotland 298.76 Title of Iohn Hastinges to the Crovvne of Scotland 298.83 Tiuidale recouered out of the Englishmens hands 346.35 Toncet Chancellour of Murrey land 131 1â—… Toncet playeth the parte of a vvicked officer 131.19 Toncet slayne as he sate in iudgement 131.38 Tovvnes and Villages drovvned by inundations of vvaters 296. line 44 Tovvnes and Villages throvven dovvne vvith hayle stone 297. line 53 Traherus a Romaine Captayne vanquisheth Octauius 83.25 inuadeth the Scottes dominions 83.38 is put to flight 83.65 fleeth ouer into France 83.100 returneth into Britaine 84.6 murthered by a conspiracie 84.17 Trebellius Lieutenant of Britain 56. 53 Trebellianus Cousin to Agricola beloued of the Romayne Souldyers 56.55 Trebellius not regarded of the Souldiers 56.64 Trebellius Publius sente Lieutenant into Britaine 67.37 gyuen to couetousnesse 67.40 hated of the Britaines 27.56 is ouerthrovveÌ„ 67.74 vvriseth to the Emperour Commodus for ayd 68. 6 Treatie of peace betvvixte the Scottes and Pictes 8.35 Treason pretended againste Feâ—…linacus â—â— 108 Treason duely revvarded 205. â—… Treâ—…s and come burnt vvith fire no man knovveth hovv 259.33 Truce concluded betvveene the Scottes and Pictes 80.74 Truce concluded betvveene the Englishmen and Scottes vpon condition 265.116 Truce taken betvveene Kyng Edvvard the first and the Scots 306. 34 Truce concluded betvveene the Scottes and Hollanders for one hundred yeares 382.92 Turnebull Bishop of Glasgevve 394. 82 Turne a Citie burned 52.112 Tumulte raysed in the Saxons Camp â—…16 Turgot Prior of Durham Abbey 257. 202 Turgot vvrote the lines of Malcolme and Queene Margaret his vvife 257.103 Tvveedale vvhy so called 178.13 Tvvelue Gouernoures chosen to rule Scotland 302.81 Tvvhang castre vvhy so called 115. 83 Tvvo Kings prisoners in EnglaÌ„d at one tyme. 354.18 Tovvnes and houses drovvard vvith fall of rayne and rising of vvaters 355.69 Tvvo Scottish armyes inuade England at once 361.108 Tvvo Romane Lieutenants sente into Britaine 93.36 Tvvo Cometes seene before K. Malcolmes death â—â—1 44 Tvvo Moones seene in the â—…irmament â—…8â—… 56 Tvvo Philosophers by Shypvvracke arriue in Scotlande 20. 13 Tvvo Gouernoures chosen to rule Scotland 332.82 Tvvo English armyes sente togither into Scotland
make a collection for repayring the ruines of that auntient building first begun by the Danes and continued by Citrius Prince of Dublin at the instaunce of Donate sometime Bishop of that Citie and dedicated to the blessed Trinitie Donaâ—… Bishop of Dublin At length Strangbow Erle of Pembroke Fitz Stephans and LaureÌ„ce that for his vertue was called S. LaureÌ„ce Archbishop of Dublin and his foure successors Iohn of Euesham Henry Scorchbill and Lucas and last of all Iohn de Saint Paule finished it This notable building sith the time that it was thus defaced by fire hath bin beautifyed in diuers sorts by many zealous Citizens Strangbowes tombe defaced by the fall of the roofe of the Church Strangbowes tombe restored by Henry Sidney Sir Henry Sidney when he was Lord Deputy restored and likewise did cost vpon the Earle of Kildares Chappell for an ornament to the quier ouer the which he left also a monumente of Captayne Randolfe Captayne Randol late Coronell of the Englishe bandes of footemen in Vlster that dyed there valiantly fighting in his Princes seruice as after shall appeare In the yeere .1283 Furmund Chancellor of Ireland and Richarde Tute departed this life and Friar Stephan Fulborne was made Lorde Iustice of Irelande Moreouer at Rathode the Lord Geffrey GeÌ„uille fled and sir Gerard Doget and Raufe Petiâ—… were slayne with a great number of other The Norwagh Ardscoll with other townes and villages were brente by Philip Stanton the xvj day of Nouember in the yeere .1286 Also Calwagh was taken at Kildare In the yeere .1287 diuers nobles in Irelande deceassed as Richard Deceter Gerald Fitz Morice Thomas de Clare Richard Taffy and Nicolas Teling Knightes The yeere next ensuing 1288 Samfort Archbishop of Dublin Lorde Iustice deceassed Friar Fulborne Lord Iustice of Ireland and Iohn SaÌ„fort Archbishop of Dublin was aduaunced to y e roomth of Lorde Iustice Also Richard Burgh Erle of Vlster besieged Theobald Verdon in the Castell of Athlone and came with a great power vnto Trim by the working of Walter Lacie 1290 In the yeere .1290 was the chase or discomfiture of Offali and diuers Englishmen slayne Also Mack Coghlan slewe O Molaghelin King of Meth and William Burgh was discoÌ„fited at Deluin by Mac Coghlan The same yeere .1290 William Vescy Lorde Iustice William Vescy was made Lord Iustice of Irelande and entred into that office on Saint Martins daye Vnto thys Iustice Edward Ballioll King of Scotland did homage for an Erledome which he helde in Ireland in like manner as he did to king Edwarde for the Crowne of Scotland In the yere .1292 a fiftenth was graunted to the King of all the temporall goodes in Ireland whilest Vescy was as yet Lord Iustice This Vescy was a sterne manne and full of courage 1294 he called Iohn Earle of Kildare before him charging him with riots foule misdemeanors for that he ranged abroade and soughte reuenge vpon priuate displeasures out of all order and not for any aduauncemente of the publike wealth or seruice of his soueraigne William Dodâ—â—gsels Lord Iustice William Dodingsels being this yere made Lord Iustice of Irelande after Vescy dyed in the yeere next following 1295 that is .1295 and .23 of King Edwarde the firste After hym succeeded in that roomth the Lorde Thomas Fitz Maurice Thomas Fitz Morice Lorde Iustice In the yeere .1296 Friar William de Bothum was consecrated Archbishop of Dublin 1296 1298 In the yeere .1298 and .xxvj. of Edwarde the first the Lorde Thomas Fitz Maurice departed this life and an agreement was made Record Turris betwixte the Earle of Vlster and the Lorde Iohn Fitz Thomas Earle of Kildare by Iohn Wogan that was ordeyned Lorde Iustice of Irelande In the yeere .1299 1299 William Archbishop of Dublin departed thys life and Richarde de Fringis was consecrated Archbishop in hys place The King wente vnto Iohn Wogan Lorde Iustice commaunding hym to gyue sommâ—…naunce vnto the nobles of Irelande to prepare themselues with Horse and armour to come in theyr best aray for the warre to serue hym againste the Scottes and withall wrote vnto the same Nobles as to Richarde de Burgh Earle of Vlster Geffrey de Genuill Iohn Fitz Thomas Thomas Fitz Maurice Theobalde Lorde Butler Theobalde Lorde Verdon Piers Lorde Brimingham of Thetemoy Eâ—…stace Lorde Power Hugh Lorde Purcel Iohn de Cogan Iohn de Barry William de Barry Walter de Lastice Richarde de Exeter Iohn Pipurd Walter Lenfante Iohn of Oxforde Adam de Stantoun Symon de Pheybe William Cadell Iohn de Vale Maurice de Carre George de la Roche Maurice de Rochford and Maurice Fitz Thomas de Kerto commaunding them to bee with him at Withwelaun the first of March Such a precept I remember I haue redde registred in a close rolle among y e recordes of the Tower but where Marleburrow sayeth that the sayde Iohn Wegan Lord Iustice of IrelaÌ„d and the Lord Iohn Fitz Thomas with many other came to King Edward into Scotland in the .xxix. yeare of Kyng Edwards raigne Campion noteth it to be in the yeare .1299 which fell in the .xxvij. of the raigne of King Edward and if my remembrance fayle me not the close rolle aforementioned beareth date of the .xxiiij. yere of King Edwards raygne all which notes may bee true for it is very lyke that in those warres against the Scottes y e King sent diuers times to the Irish Lordes to come to serue him as it behoued them to do by theyr tenures and not only he sent into Ireland to haue the seruices of men but also for prouision of vittayles as in close rolles I remember I haue also seene recorded of the .xxvij. and .xxx. yeere of y e sayd King Edward the first his raigne For this we finde in a certaine abstract of the Irish Chronicles Chr. Pembrig whiche shoulde seeme to be collected out of Flatsburie whome Campion so much followed that in the yeere .1301 1â—…01 the Lorde Iohn Wogan Lorde Iustice Iohn Fitz Thomas Peter Bermingham Irishmen inuade Scotland and diuers other went into Scotland in ayde of King Edward in whiche yeere also a great part of y e Citie of Dublin with the Church of Saint Werburgh was brente in the nighte of the frast daye of Sainte Colme Also the Lorde Genuille married the daughter of Iohn de MoÌ„tfert and the Lorde Iohn Mortimer married the daughter and heire of Peter Genuille also the Lord Theobald de Verdon married the daughter of the Lorde Roger Mortimer The same yeere in the winter season the Irishe of Leynister reysed warre against y e townes of Wicklow and Rathdon doing muche hurte by brenning in the countrey all about but they were chastised for their wickednesse losing the most part of their prouision and Cattell and in the Lent season the more parte of them had bin vtterly destroyed if discorde and variance had not risen among the Englishmen to the impeachmente of
in Normādie at Caen where also wife Queene his Mawd had buylded a Nunnerie which Mawde died in in the yeare .1084 before the king hir husband After his death his bodie was buried in Caen in S. Stephens church but before it could be committed to the grounde They gaue him an hundred pounde sayth Hen. Marle the executors were constrayned to agree with a certaine man that claymed to be Lord of the soyle where the Church stoode and which as he sayd the king in his life time had iniuriously taken from him and gaue him a greate summe of money to release his title wherby you may cōsider the great miserie of mans estate and how that so mightie a Prince as the Conquerour was coulde not haue so much grounde after hys death as to couer his dead corps without doing iniurie to an other which may be a noble lesson for all other men and namely for Princes noble men and gentlemen who oftentimes to enlarge their owne commodities doe not regarde what wrong to the inferior sort they offer Furthermore King William had issue by Mawde his wife the daughter of Baldwin Erle of Flaunders foure sonnes Robert surnamed Curthose vnto whom he bequeathed the duchie of Normandie Richard died yong William surnamed Rufus to whom he gaue by his testament the realme of Englande and Henrie surnamed Beauclerk for his cunning and perfit knowledge in learning vnto whom he bequethed all his treasure and moueable goods with the possessions that belonged to his mother Hen. Marle Besides these four sonnes he had also by his wife fiue daughters Cecillie which became a Nunne Constance maried to Alane duke of Britaine Adela giuen in mariage to Stephen Earle of Bloys of whom that Stephen was borne which raigned after Henrie the first Adeliza promised in mariage to Harold K. of England as before ye haue heard but she died before she was maried either to him or to any other and so likewise did the fift whose name I cannot reherse Among other grieuances which the Englishe men susteyned by the hard dealing of the Cōquerour this is also to be remembred that he brought the Iewes into this land frō Rouen and appointed them place here to inhabite But now to conclude though king William helde the English so vnder foote that in his dayes almost no English man bare any office of honor or rule in his time Iohn Rous. yet he somewhat fauoured the Citie of London and at the earnest sute of William a Norman then Bishop there he graunted vnto the Citizēs the first Charter which is written in the Saxon tongue sealed with green wax and expressed in .viij. or .ix. lines at the most But howsoeuer he vsed the rest of the Englishmē Math. Paris Hen. Hunt this is recorded of some writers that by his rigorous proceedings agaynst thē he brought to passe that the Countrey was so rid of theeues and robbers that at length a mayd might haue passed through the land with a bag ful of golde and not haue met with any misdoer to haue bereft hir of the same which was a thing right straunge to consider sith that in the beginning of his reigne there was such great companies of Outlawes and robbers that vneth were men warranted within their owne houses though the same were neuer so strong and well prouided of defence Iohn Rous. Hen Marle Among many other lawes also made by him this one is to be remembred that suche as forced any woman should lose their genitals In this William the Conquerors dayes liued Osmond the seconde Bishop of Salisburie who compiled the Church seruice Salisburie vse which in times past they commonly called after Salisburie vse Shooting The vse of the long Bow as Iohn Rous testifieth came first into Englande with this king William the Conquerour for the English men before that time vsed to fight cōmonly with axes and such hand weapons and therfore in the oration made by the Conqueror before he gaue battail to king Harolde the better to encourage his men he tolde them they should encounter with enimies that wanted shotte In the yeare of our Lorde .1542 Monseur de Castres Bishop of Baieulx and Abbot of Saint Estiennie in Caen caused the Sepulchre of this noble prince William the Conqueror to be opened within the which his body was found whole fayre and perfite of limmes large and big of stature and personage longer than the common sort of men of our age by two foot within the same sepulchre or tombe was found a copper plate fayre gylt conteyning this Epitaph Qui rexit rigidos Northmannos atque Britannos Audacter vicit fortiter obtinuit Et Coenomenses virtute contundit enses Imperijque sui legibus applicuit Rex magnus parua iacet hac Guilhelmus in vrna Sufficit magno parua domus domino Ter septem gradibus se voluerat atque duobus Virginis in gremio Phoebus hic obijt In English thus H. F ▪ Who ouer Normās rough did rule ouer Britōs bolde Did cōquest stoutly win conquest won did strongly holde Who by his valure great the fatall vprores calmde in Mayne And to obey his power and lawes the Manceaux did constrayne This mightie king within this little vault entombed lyes So great a Lorde somtime so small a rowmth doth now suffise When three times seuen and two by iust degrees the Sun had tooke His wonted course in Virgos lap then he the worlde forsooke Here to fill vp this page I haue thought good to set downe the Charter which this king Wil. the Conqueror graunted vnto the Citie of London at the special sute of William then Bishop of the same Citie aswel for the briefnesse thereof yet conteyning matter sufficient in those dayes to warrant his meaning as also for the strangenesse of the English then in vse VVilliem Kyng grets VVilliem Bisceop Godfred Porterefan The charter of K. William the first 1067 ealle ya Burghwarn binnen Lōdon frencisce Englisce frendlice Ic kiden eoy yeet Ic wille that git ben ealra weera lagayweord ye get weeran on Eadwerds daege kings and Ic will yeet aelc child by his fader yrfnume aefter his faders daege And Ic nellege wolian yeet aenig man eoy aenis wrang beode God eoy heald VVilhelmus rex salutat VVilhelmum Episcopum Goffridū Portegrefiū omnē Burghware infra London Frans Angl. amicabiliter Et vobis notū facio quòd ego volo quòd vos sitis omni lege illa digni quae fuistis Edwardi diebus regis Et volo quòd omnis puer sit patris sui haeres post diem patris sui Et ego nolo pati quod aliquis homo aliquam iniuriam vobis inferat Deus vos saluet VVilliam Rufus 1087 An. reg 1. WIlliam surnamed Rufus that is to say William the red seconde sonne to William Conqueror began his reigne ouer Englande the .ix. of September in the
yeare .1087 whiche was about the .xxxj. yeare of the Emperour Henrie the fourth and the xxxvij of Philip the first king of Fraunce Vrbane the seconde as then gouerning the Sea of Rome and Malcolm Cammoir as yet raigning in Scotland Immediately after his fathers deceasse Polidor Simon Dun. and before the solemnitie of the funeralles were executed he came ouer into Englande with so muche speede as was possible Mat. Par. and following the counsaile of Lanfranke the Archbishop of Cāterburie in whome hee reposed all his trust hee sought to winne the fauor of the Peeres and nobilitie of the realme by the great and liberall gifts which he in most boūteous maner dayly bestowed amongst them For although there were but fewe of the homeborne estates that bare any rule in the realme at this season yet those that were remayning and offended by the generall iniuries of his father hee verie gently interteyned promising them not onely to continue their good Lorde and soueraigne but also to make more fauourable ordināces than his father had left behind him and furthermore to restore againe the former lawes and liberties of the realme which his sayde father had suppressed thus by fayre wordes and and pollicie he obteyned his purpose Howbeit soone after he forgat himselfe imprisoned Marchar Sim. Dunel Marchar and Wilnote and Wilnotus whom he had brought ouer with him forth of Normandie being set at libertie by his father The nobles at the first wished rather to haue had his elder brother Duke Robert to haue gouerned ouer them Lanfranke had fauored him euen of a child Math. Paris Wil. Rufus is crowned howbeit by the ayde onely of the sayd Lanfrank whose authoritie was of no small force amongest all the Lordes of the lande This William according to his fathers assignation was proclamed and crowned at Westminster on the .xxvj. of Septēber being sūday the .vj. Kalends of 〈◊〉 and the .xj. indiction as the best writers doe report After his coronation to gratifie the people Polidor he wēt to Winchester where he found great substance of treasure which his father had layde vp there to his owne vse whereof he was no niggard His bountifull munificence but freely spent the same in large giftes and all kinde of princely liberalitie He set great numbers of prisoners also at libertie did many other things to pleasure the people wherin the diligence and good aduice of Lanfranke did not a little preuaile for he perceyued that there was in the king no stayed minde but an vnstable nature not setled but disposed to lightnesse and folly and therfore he tooke ofttimes the more paines in perswading him not only vnto liberalitie which is none of the least ornaments in a Prince but also to vse a discretion and orderly behauiour in all his other doings Moreouer he sticked not furthermore to put him in feare of an euil ende troublesome regiment likely to ensue if he did giue himselfe to vice and wilfulnesse and neglect the charge thus by the prouidence of God commited to his person And after this maner did the sayd prelate trauuile with the king whom we will leaue at this time as it were harkning to his admonitions and set forth by the way what his brother Robert did whilest William Rufus hys brother was occupied in suche wise as you haue heard It happened that this Robert was abrode in Germany when king William his father died whether he went to rayse a power to the entent he might therby obteyne the possession of Normandie which hee thristed to enioy in his fathers lifetime and there hearing newes of his death he hasted streight wayes into Normandie where he was ioyfully receyued quietly proclamed duke of that countrey with great honor and gladnesse of the people There were in Rochester a sort of valiant gentlemen the flower in maner of all Normandie with Eustace Erle of Bullongne many gētlemen of Flanders which were in mind to defende the place agaynst the king but the king hearing what was done came with his army besieged y e citie of Rochester on eche side so straightly y t they within were glad to deliuer it into his handes Rochester besieged by the king An. Reg. 2 Polidor 1089 The Bishop Odo thus lost all his liuings and dignities in England and so returned into Normandie where vnder duke Robert he had the chief gouernment of the country committed vnto him After this he ouercame diuers of his aduersaries some by the sworde and some by flatterie but this notwithstanding there yet remained the Bishop of Durham one of the chiefe conspirators who withdrew himselfe into the city of Durham there to lie in safetie till he sawe howe the worlde would go but being therein besieged by the king who came thither in proper person hee was at length forced to surrender the citie and yeeld himself The Bishop of Durhā exiled whervpō also he was exiled the land with diuerse of his complices But within two yeres after he was called home again and restored to his church wherin he liued not long but died for sorrow bycause he could not clerely purge himself of his offence in the sayd rebellion albeit that he labored most earnestly so to do that he might therby haue atteyned vnto the kings fauor againe Lanfrāk Archbishop of Cāterburie departeth this life Whilest these things were thus in hande the Archbishop Lanfranke falleth sicke and dieth in the .xix. yeare after his first entring into the gouernment of the sea of Canterburie This Lanfranke as shoulde seeme was a wise politike Prelate and also learned so long as he liued he qualified the furious and cruell nature of king William Rufus instructing him to forbeare such wild outrageous parts as his youthful courage seemed to be inclined vnto and moreouer he perswaded with the English men to obey the same king as their lawfull Prince whereby they shoulde occasion him to bee their good Lorde and king not vsing them with any rigour as his father had done So that Lanfrank could not wel haue bene spared in the time of the rebellion without the great danger of subuerting the state of the cōmon wealth He buylded two Hospitals without the Citie of Canterburie for the relief of poore people and straungers the one of S. Iohn the other at Harbaldown He aduanced the church of Rochester from foure secular Clerkes to the nūber of fiftie Monkes hee also repayred Christes Church in Canterburie Mat. VVest Paule Abbot of S. Albons and the Abbay of S. Albons of the which hee made Abbot one Paule that was his nephewe whiche Paule gouerned that house by his vncles assistance greatly to the aduancement thereof aswell in temporall preferments as also spirituall as it was then iudged Likewise the sayde Lanfranke was right profitable in gouernment of his Churche and Sea of Canterburie recouering sundrie portiōs of lands and rents alienated from the same before his days insomuch
the Conqueror and long after which Hugh was sonne to Richarde Earle of Auranges and of the Countesse Emma the daughter of a noble man in Normandine named Herlowin who maried Arlet the daughter of a burgesse in Falois mother to William CoÌ„queroure so y t the sayde Hugh being sister sonne to y e Conquerour receyued by gyft at his handes the Earledome of Chester to holde of him as freely by right of the sworde as he helde the Realme of Englande in right of his Crowne For these be the wordes Tenendum sibi Heredibus ita libere ad gladâ—â— sicut ipse Rex totaÌ„ tenebat Angliam ad corâ—…nam Earle Hugh then established in possession of this Earledome with most large priuiledges and freedomes for the better gouernment thereof he ordeyned vnder him foure Barons Foure barons Nigel or Neal. Piers Malbank Eustace Waren VernoÌ„ to witte his cousin Nigell or Neal BaroÌ„ of HaltoÌ„ sir Pierce Malbanke baron of Nauntwich sir Eustace â—…leftblankâ—… baron of Mawpasse and sir Warren Vernon baron of Shipbroke Nigell helde his baronie of Halton by seruice to leade the Vauntgarde of the Earles armie when he shoulde make any iourney into Wales so as he shoulde bee the foremoste in marching into the enimies Countrey and last in comming barke Hee was also Conestable and Marshall of Chester From this Nigell or Neal The Lacies the Lacyes that were Earles of Lincolne had theyr originall Earle Hugh gouerned the Earledome of Chester the terme of .xl. yeares and then departed this life in the yeare 1107. He had issue by his wife Armetridâ—… â–ª Richard that was the seconde Erle of Chester after the conquest Robert Abbot of Saint Edmonds burie and Otuell tutor to the children of king Henrie the first Moreouer the sayde Earle Hugh had a sister named Margaret Iohn Bohun that was maried vnto Iohn Bohun who had issue by hir Randulf Bohun otherwise called Meschines which Randulfe by that meanes came to enioy the Erledome of Chester in right of his mother after that Earle Richarde was drowned in the Sea and not by exchaunge for the Earledome of Carleil as by this which we haue alreadie recited it may be sufficiently proued To returne therefore where we left An. Reg. 6. After that king William Rufus had giuen order for the buylding fortifying and peopling of Carleil hee returned Southwardes and came to Gloucester where he fell into a grieuous and dangerous sicknesse 1093 Simon Dun. Hen. Hunt Math. Paris The king being sicke promiseth ameÌ„dment of life Polidor Edmerus so that hee was in dispayre to escape wyth life in time whereof he tooke sore repentance for his former misdeedes and promised if hee escaped that daunger of sicknesse to amende his life and become a newe man But after he was restored to health â–ª y t promise was quickly forgotteÌ„ for his doings were not so badde and wicked before but that compared with those which followed after his recouerie they might well be taken for verie good and sufferable Moreouer whereas he reteyned in his handes the Bishoprike of Canterburie the space of foure yeares hee nowe bestowed it on Anselme Anselme elected archbishop of Canterbury who was before Abbot of Bechellouyn in NormaÌ„die and likewise vnto certaine Abbayes which he had held long time in his possession he appoynted Abbottes By meane whereof all men but especially the spiritualtie beganne to conceyue a very good opinion of him The yeare in the whiche Anselme was thus elected was from the byrth of our Sauiour .1093 on the sixth of Marche Edmerus beeing the first Sunday in Lent as Edmerus recordeth Furthermore the Sea of Lincolne being void by the death of Bishop Remigius Mat. Paris Polidor Robert Bluet L. Chauncelor elected bishop of Lincolne he gaue it vnto his Counsellour Robert Bluet but afterward repenting himselfe of suche liberalitie in that hee had not kept it longer in his handes towardes the enryching of his Coffers hee deuised a shifte howe to wype the Byshoppes nose of some of his Golde whiche he perfourmed after thys maner He caused the Bishoppe to bee sued quarelling with him that he wrongfully vsurped vpon certain possessioÌ„s togither with the Citie of Lincolne which apperteyned to the sea of Yorke And though this was but a forged cauillation and a greate vntruth Hen. Hunt yet coulde not the Bishoppe bee delyuered out of that trouble tyll hee had payed to the king fiue thousand pounds to be at rest and quiet And as hee thus dealt with the spiritualtie so he caused diuerse of the Nobilitie to be put to grieuous fines for transgressing of his lawes though the fault were neuer so little He also caused the Archebishoppe Anselme to paye to hym a greate summe of money vnder colour of a contribution whiche was due in Lanfrankes dayes though it was certainly knowne that Lanfranke had payed it Thus waxed King William from tyme to tyme more sharpe and grieuous to his subiectes so that whosoeuer came within the daunger of the lawes was sure to be condemned and accouÌ„ted well gotten good and such as woulde play the promoters giue informations agaynst any maÌ„ for transgressing lawes were highly rewarded In this sixt yere there chaunced such exceeding greate raine and such high flouds the Riuers ouerflowing the low groundes that lay neare vnto them as the like had not beene seene of manye yeares before that tyme and afterwardes ensued a sodaine frost which frose the great streames in suche wise that at the dissoluing thereof manye bridges both of wood and stone likewise Milles were borne downe and ouerthrowne Furthermore perceyuing that diuerse occasioned by his cruel and couetous gouernment Polidor did dayly steale out of the Realme to liue in forraine Countreyes he set forth a proclamation that no man shoulde depart the Realme withoute his lycence and safeconduct A proclamation that none shoulde depart the realme And hereof it is thought that the custome rose of forbidding passage out of the realme which oftentymes is vsed as a lawe when occasion serueth Soone after also he went agaynst the Welchmen whom hee vanquished in battaile neare to Brecknocke and slue theyr king named Rise or Rees who hauing done muche hurt within the English borders was their encamped This Rise or Rees was the last king that reigned ouer the Welchmen Ran. Higd. Rees king of Wales slaine as the Authours affirme for afterwardes though they oftentymes rebelled yet the kings of Englande were reputed to be the supreme gouerners of y t part of the IlaÌ„d Thus king Malcolme came to his ende Simon Dun. by the iust prouision of God in that prouince which he had wasted and spoyled at fiue seuerall tymes as first in the dayes of king Edwarde when Erle Tostie was gone to Rome the seconde tyme in the dayes of William Conquerour when hee spoyled also Cleuelande thirdely in the same Conquerours dayes whilest Bishoppe Walker gouerned the Sea of Durham at
to the king towardes hys ayde at that time Edmerus but bycause he would not leaue thys for an example to bee followed of his successours he graunted to the Churche of Canterburie the profites and reuenues of his Manour of Petteham to bee receyued to the vse of the same Churche for the tearme of seuen yeares the same reuenues amounting to the summe of thirtie pounde yearely in those dayes Thus King William seeking rather to spoile the Realme of Englande Polidor than to preserue the royall state thereof after hee had gotten togyther a greate masse of money sayled ouer into Normandie and there delyuering vnto the Duke the tenne thousande poundes aforesayde The Duchie of Normandie engaged to king William was put in possession of the Duchie to enioy the same and the profites rysing thereof tyll the sayde tenne thousande poundes were repayde to him agayne or as some wryte it was couenanted that in recompence thereof Edmerus the King shoulde enioy the profites of that Duchie for tearme onelye of three yeares and then to restore it againe without any further interest or recompence This done Polidor hee returned agayne into England and Duke Robert setteth forwarde on hys iorney in coÌ„panie of other noble men towards the holy laÌ„d In which iorney his noble prowes at all turnes when any seruice shoulde be shewed was most manifestly perceyued to his high fame and renowme among the princes and nobilitie there assembled An. reg 10. 1097 Edmerus Waterford in Ireland made a Bishoprike About the same time the Citizens of Waterford in IrelaÌ„d perceyuing y t by reasoÌ„ of y e great multitude of people in that city it was necessarie for theÌ„ to haue a Bishop they obteyned of their king and rulers licence to erect in their Citie a Bishops sea and that it might please them to write vnto Anselme the Archbishop of Canterburie that was their Primate The Archbish of Canterburie primate of Irelande to haue his consent therin so as it might stand with his pleasure to institute and ordeigne suche a person to haue gouernment of their church as Bishop whom they should name knowing him to be a man of such lerning knowledge discretion worthinesse as were meete to exercise the rowme Herevpon were letters sent by messengers from Muchertachus king of Ireland vnto Anselme Muchertake K. of Irelande â–ª enforming him of the whole matter and in the same letters was one Malchus commended presented vnto him to be admitted and sacred if he thought it good These letters were subscribed with the handes not onely of the sayde King Murchertachus but also of his brother Duke Dermeth of Bishoppe Dufnalde of Idiman Bishoppe of Methe of Samuell Byshoppe of Dubline of Ferdomnachus Bishop of Laginia or Leynister and of many others bothe of the spiritualtie and temporaltie Anselme therefore considering their request to be iust and necessarie graunted to fulfill theyr desires and so vpon examination had of the man and taking of him his promise of obedience according to the maner hee consecrated the same Malchus 〈…〉 and so ordeyned him to rule the church of Waterforde as Bishop This was done at Canterburie the .xxviij. day of October Raufe Bishop of Chichester and Gundulfe Bishop of Rochester helping Anselme in the consecration as Ministers vnto him in that behalfe The sayde Malchus was a Monke and somtime vnder Walkhelme bishop of Winchest But to the purpose King William after his returne into Englande remembring what domage he had susteyned two yeares before at the handes of the Welchmen determined eftsoones to inuade their countrey and therefore doubling his power The king eftsoones inuadeth the Welchmen commeth into the Marches pitcheth his field and consulteth with his captaines what order he were best to vse in that his enterprise for the taming of his aduersaries Polidor The Welche men hearing of the kings approche and that his armie was farre greater than the last whiche hee brought into theyr Countrey The Welch men withdraw into the woods fell to theyr woonted policie and gotte them into the Wooddes there to lie in awayte trusting more to the aduauntage of places than to their owne force and puissaunce When the king therefore vnderstoode theyr practice he placed armed men in dyuerse places Hen. Hunt and buylded Towers and houses of strength for theyr defence bycause he durst not assay to enter into wilde and waste groundes where he had receyued hinderance and domage before that time hoping by this meanes thus in stopping vp the wayes and passages of the countrey â–ª to bring the Rebelles to more subiection But when thys policie was tryed to wearie rather the Kinges Souldiours than to hurt the ennimies whiche wandering from place to place in the Wooddes entrapped oftentymes the Normans and Englishe men in taking them at aduauntage the king without bringing his purpose to anye good effect departed home into Englande And after this Simon Dun. R. Hoâ—…ed he sent Edgar Etheling with an armie into Scotlande that he might place his Cosin Edgar the sonne of king Malcolme in the gouernment of that Kingdome and expulse his vncle Duffnalde whiche had vsurped in the same Whilest King William in the meane tyme being inflamed with yre that he coulde not haue his will An. reg â—â— 1098 determined with continuall warres to tame the rebellions stomackes of the Welchmen And first to set vpon them of Anglesey which being an I le enuironed with the Sea was euer a refuge for them when they were sharply pursued This enterprice was chiefly committed vnto Hugh Earle of Shrewsburie and Arondell Math. Paris and to Hugh Erle of Chester who at their first comming wanne the Ile and vsed the victorie wyth great crueltie putting out the eyes of some cutting off the noses the armes or handes of other and some also they gelded Moreouer as Authours doe write the sayde Erle of Shrewsburie made a kenell of the church of Saint Fridancus Giral Camb. laying his houndes within in it for the night time but in the morning hee founde them all raging woode But how true so euer this tale is I knowe not but shortly after they had committed in maner as before is sayd all kinde of crueltie in that I le it chaunced that a nauie of rouers came thither from the Iles of Orkney whose chiefe Admirall was one Magnus Hugh Earle of Shrewsburie slaine who encountering with the sayde Earle of Shrewsburie shotte him into the ey with an arrow which part of his bodie remayned only bare and not armed so that the said Erle fell streyght wayes dead out of hys shippe into the sea which when Magnus behelde he sayde scornfully in the Danishe tongue leit loupe that is let him leape nowe yet the Englishe menne had the victorie at that tyme as some wryte and chased away theyr ennimyes wyth greate slaughter and dishonour Variance betwixt the King and the Archbishop Anselme There
this flelde fought as ye haue heard VV. Paris Geffrey Earle of Aniou husbande to the Empresse receiuing aduertisemeÌ„t of this victorie gotten in England forthwith inuaded Normandye inducyng all the Nobles of the countrey to incline vnto him for by publishing the captiuitie of king StepheÌ„ it was not hard for him to come by the possession of the same Also Dauid king of Scotland entred into Northumberland The king of Scottes taket Northumberland into his possession Polid. The Empresse folovveth the victorie and by commaundement of the Empresse tooke the couÌ„trey into his hands whilest shee like a woman of great wisedome as shee was no lesse in deede iudging that it stood her vpon to vse the victorie that thus was chaunced vnto hir slept not hir businesse but went forward and setting from Gloucester shee came to Winchester where shee was honorably receiued of the Bishop Henry though he was king Stephens brother and inwardly lamented the misfortune of the king Then came shee backe agayne to Wylton and so to Oxford from thence to Reading and then to S. Albones into al the which cities townes shee was receiued with much triumph and honour Thus hauing passed through all the South parties of the Realme on that side Shee commeth to LoÌ„don shee finally came to London where the citizens welcomed hir also in most ioyfull harty maner Being come to London and whâ—â—â— shee consuteâ—…d with those of hir counsaile 〈◊〉 for the quieting of the whole state of the Realme Queene Mondo wife to king Stephen for so shee was also called maketh humble sure vnto hir to haue hir husband 〈◊〉 all fortie promising that he should resigne his whole clayme 〈◊〉 into hir hand is and 〈◊〉 hade some word aÌ„ priuate life The queene â—â—eth to the empresse for the deliuery of her husband But 〈◊〉 would farre of bid being graunted that she was relucted with deprochfull wordes Wherevpon ther coâ—…ienued a most high displeasure and 〈◊〉 nowe will ynough that peace was to be purchased onely by force of armes and not in any other maner Therefore with all diligence shee sent to hir sonne Eustrace as then being in Kent willyng hym to prepare an army which he did most speedily It chaunced at the same tyme also that the citizens of London made great labour to the said Empresse that they might haue the lawes of king Edward the CoÌ„fessor restored againe the strait lawes of hir father king Henry abolished But for somuch as they could get no grauÌ„t of their petition and perceiued the Empresse to be displeased with theÌ„ about that importunat request wherin only she ouershot her self The Londoners conspire to take the empresse they druised how by what meanes they might take hir prisoner knowing that all the Kentishmen would helpe to strengthen theÌ„ in their enterprise But she being therof warned fled by night out of the citie Shee fled in the night tyme out of the citie weÌ„t to Oxford determining to be reuenged vpon hir aduersaries when tyme should serue hir tuene herewith began she to waxe more displeasant both to those nobles whom she had in prison also to other but namely to K. Stephen whoÌ„ she coÌ„maunded to be lodeÌ„ with yrons kept with very slender diet N. Triuet After that she was thus fled out of London which chanced about the feast of the Natiuitie of S. Iohn Baptist the Tower of London was besieged which Geffrey de MauÌ„deuille held valiantly defended Geffrey de Maundeuill The Bishop of London taken The same Geffrey issuing forth one tyme came to Fulham where he tooke the Bishop of LondoÌ„ as theÌ„ lodging there in his own manor place being one of the contrary faction Polid. Henry Bishop of Winchester perceiuing the wrath of the Empresse more more to encrease daily against hir people Castles fortified by the Bishop of VVinchester thinking it wisdome to serue the time manned all the Castles which he had builded within his dioces as at Waltham al Farnham and in other places and withdrew him selfe into the castle of Winchester there to remaine tyl he might see to what end the fury of the womaÌ„ would incline This being knowen the Empresse calleth vnto hir Dauid K. of Scotland that was hir vncle who immedietly came vnto hir and then ioyning these armies together they go to Winchester and besiege the castle In them haue time the 〈◊〉 aâ—â—her sonne Eustace thou with the â—â—ipe of their frends as the K. without the Londoners and offer had assembled a great army and appoynted the gouernment and generall conduct tâ—â— of vnto one Willâ—â— of Ypres a Fremyng VVilliam de Ypres who for as valiancie was by K. Stephen created Earle Kent La Meir He was sonne to Philip of Flaunders but bigot of a Concubine which Philip was sonne to Earle Robert of Flaunders surnamed Foiâ—â— This William was banished out of his countrey by The dâ—…pike of â—…rass earle of Flaunders bicause he attempted to berâ—…ne hym of his Earledome The Queenes army thus committed to his landing came nere vnto Winchester and kept the Empresse and hir people in maner besieged and at length perceiuyng the aduantage aform the roÌ„myng of a great supply of Londoners to their ayde VV. Mal. in nouelta historia N. Trimete S. Dun. Polid. The Empresse army put to flight VV. Mal. Rob. Earle of Gloucester taken prisoner they set vpon hir army as the same was departing with suche violents that straightwayes hir power was put to flight and discomfited The Empresse was glad to slaine hir selfe dead and so to be conueyed in a Coache as a dead corps vnto Gloucester Her brother Robert with many other of the Nobles that stayed behynd tyl shee and other might get out of daunger were taken prisoners And bicause the king was kept at Bristowe vnder the custodye of the said Robert the Queene caused hym to be straitly vsed that he might proue the wordes of the Gospell true With what measure ye meate vnto other with the same by other shall it be measured vnto you againe M. Par. He had deserued very euyll of the king hereto fore and therefore it was nowe remembred He was taken in maner abouesaid on the feast day of the exoltation of the Crosse King Stephen after the spoyling of sundry Churches the robbing and burnyng of many townes and villages by the hands of his hyred men of warre that were for the more part Flemyngs at length with his brother the Bishop of Winchester he came with a strong army of men vnto Wilton The kyng commeth to VVylton where he tooke in hande to fortifie the Nunry in steed of a Castle to resist the incursions and enterprises of them of Salisbury whiche in the behalfe of the Empresse had done many displeasures vnto his frendes but earle Robert vnderstaÌ„ding of his doings got a power together with al speede the first day of Iuly about sunne
of theyr landes goodes or catailes otherwise than by order of the Iustices or officers of the king so that they shulde be iudged in the kings courtes according to the lawfull customes and ordynaunces of the Realme and lykewyse Earle Iohn shoulde cause the same orders to be obserued throughe all his landes and if any man attempted to doe otherwise vpon supporte or mainteinaunce of the Earle Iohn hee shoulde stande to be refourmed by the Archebishoppe of Rouen if he chaunced then to be in Englande and by the kings Iustices and by those that hadde sworne to obserue this peace and also Earle Iohn him selfe at theyr request shoulde see suche reformation to bee hadde All those Castels that had bene buylte or begunne to bee buylded sith the Kinges passage ouer towards his iourney should be rased and no new made or fortifyed tyll hys retourne excepte in Manours perteyning to the Kyngs demayne if neede required or by hys speciall commaundemente eyther by Letters or sufficiente messengers The Sheriffwike of Lincolne which the Lord Chancellor had assigned vnto William de Stuteville should be restored vnto Gerarde de Camville who had day apointed hym to apere in the kings court to hear what might be layd against him if suche matter coulde be proued for y e which he ought to lose y e sayd sheriffwike the castell of Lincolne then he should depart froÌ„ them by iudgemeÌ„t of y e court or else not Neither shuld erle Iohn maintain him against y t iudgemeÌ„t of y t court nor shuld receyue any outlaws or such as were notoriously knowen for enimies to the king and so named nor shuld suffer theÌ„ to be recepted within precinct of his liberties to hold maintein obserue this peace The said earle ChaÌ„cellor sware in the hand of y e Archb. of Rouen w t .7 barons on either part On the part of earle Iohn these were the names of them that receued y t othe StephaÌ„ Ridell his Chancellor William de la Mare Rob. de la Mare Philip de Turechester WilliaÌ„ de Kahennes Gilbert Basset WilliaÌ„ de Montacute On the ChaÌ„cellors part y e erles of Arundell and Salisbury Earle Roger Bigot and the Earle of Clare with Walter Fitz Robert WilliaÌ„ de Breuse and Roger Fitz Ramfray These things were concluded in this sorte the authoritie and commaundement of the king yet in all things saued and reserued but so that if before his returne hee shoulde signifie his pleasure to the contrary of the ordinances aboue meÌ„tioned then should the Castels of Nottingham and Tickhill be restored vnto Earle Iohn notwithstanding whatsoeuer the King should commaund touching the same An. Reg. 3. Math. VVest â—…olidor Geffrey the Archbishop 〈◊〉 Yorke â—…g Houed Thus was the peace concluded eftsoones betwixt Earle Iohn and the Chauncellour In this meane while the elect Archbyshop of Yorke Geffrey after long sute and many delaies contriued specially by the Chauncellor obteyned his Pall being consecrated by the Archbyshop of Tours by vertue of Bulles obteined from Pope Celestine The newes of whose enprisonement was anon bruted thorough the realme wherwith the nobles fretted and the commons curssed finally all men detested such tyrannie in the Chauncellour But namely the Kings brother Earle Iohn stormed at the matter and with all spede assembled an armie out of those places where he bare rule encreasing the number with a power of Welchemen There came to him the bishop of Winchester with many Earles and barons also the bishop of Bathe and Chester whyche lately before hadde bene chiefe fauourers of the Chauncellour in all his doings but nowe that the worlde was chaunged they shewed themselues the most earnest enimies hee had as well in wordes as actes After hee was thus retired into the Tower of London Earle Iohn the Archbishoppe of Rouen and the other Bishops Earles and Barons associate togither againste hym followe him at the heeles enter the Citie and besiege the Tower on each side And on the morrowe after being the fourth day after the Octaues of Sainte Michaell they come togither into Poules church yarde where they publikely declare the iniurious wrongs done and practised by the Chauncellour A declaâ—… made agaâ—… the Lorde Chancelâ—… namely against the Archbishop of Yorke and the Bishop of Durham Those also that had bin appointed as associates with him accused hym in that he had taken vpon him to rule and gouerne all things after his owne selfe will not vouching saue to haue their aduice or councell in suche sorte as had bin conuenient The Archbishop of Rouen and William Marshall Earle of Pembroke shewed there afore all the people the Kyngs letters which he hadde sent from Messina The teâ—… this letter he reaâ—… appearâ—… appoynting that they shoulde bee associate with hym in gouernement of the Kingdome and that without the councell and aduice of them and others assigned thereto hee shoulde not meddle with the rule of the land and that if hee shoulde doe anye thing to the hinderaunce of the common wealthe or seeke to meddle with the affayres of the Realme withoute theyr good aduice that then he should be deposed Heerevppon it seemed good to Earle Iohn and to all the Bishoppes Earles and Barons of the Realme and to the Citizens of London there assembled that the sayd Chancellour should bee deposed and so they proceeded and deposed him indeede appoynting the Archbishoppe of Rouen in his place who woulde not take vppon him to do anye thing touching the rule of the land without consent of his associates assigned to him and the Barons of the Eschecker The same day Earle Iohn and the Archbishop of Rouen and other of the Kings Iustices â—…e Citizens London graunted to the Citizens of London the priuiledge of their communaltie and the sayde Earle and Archbishop and in manner all the Byshops Earles and Barons of the Realme sware to mainteyne the sayd priuiledge firme and stable so long as should please their soueraigne Lorde And the Citizens of LondoÌ„ sware to be true and to do their faithfull seruice vnto Kyng Richarde and his heires and if hee chanced to die withoute issue then to receyue Earle Iohn the brother of Kyng Richarde for their King and soueraigne Lord and therevpon sware fealty to him against all men sauing that whiche they owed vnto hys brother Kyng Richard The Chancellor perceyuing the multitude to be suche whiche hee hadde with him in the Tower as the place was not able to hold them any long tyme after he had remayned within it one night he came foorth vnto Earle Iohn and to the other that were thus entred the Citie and now ready to besiege hym of whome hee getteth licence for them that were enclosed within the Tower to departe withoute domage â—…e Chaunâ—…lor yeelâ—…th vp the â—…wer and therewith delyuered vp the Tower vnto the handes of the Archbishoppe of Rouen with the Castell of Windsor and certayne other Castels which he held within the
of the Erle of S. Giles wherein is to be noted y t with the precinct of the premisses thus graunted to king Richard v. Archbishops seas and. xxxiij Bishops seas are included Howbeit the truth is that the Emperour neuer had possession of these countreys cities and townes himselfe neither would the inhabitants receyue any person so by him appoynted to theyr Lorde and gouernour wherefore the king made smal account of that his so large graunt But after that he once vnderstood the certaintie of the summe that he shuld pay for his raunsome which businesse he most attended he dispatched one with letters by and by and in great hast into Englande to his treasorers Polidor requiring them with all conuenient speede to prouide money and to sende it to him by a day that hee might be set at libertie with speede Rog. Houed Order taken for leuying money to pay the kings raunsome These letters being come to the Queene mother and other that had charge in gouernaunce of the realme tooke order that al maner of persons as well spirituall as temporall should giue y e fourth part of their whole reuenues to theÌ„ for that yeare accrewing and as much more of their moueable goodes and that of euery knights fee there should be leuied the summe of xx s. Also that religious houses of the order of the Cisteaux Sempringham shoulde giue all their woolles for that yeare towards the kings raunsome and those that had coÌ„mission to leuie this mony The hard dealing of officers in the collection vsed much straightnesse in exacting it not onely leuying it to the vttermost value and extent of mens landes goodes and possessions but after their owne willes and pleasures so that vnder colour of the kings coÌ„mission and letters to them directed there seemed not a tribute or subsedie to be raysed but by some publike proclamation all the goodes and substance of the people to be appoynted as a pray to the kings officers Church iewels whereby it came to passe that not onely priuate mens goodes but also the Chalices Iewels and vessels belonging to the church were turned into money a farre greater summe made than was at the first commaunded a great part of the ouerplus being conuerted to the vse of those through whose handes the receipt passed There was no priuiledge nor freedome allowed to exempt any person or place for beeing contributorie towardes the payment of thys money The order of Cisteaux that were neuer charged with any payment before were now assessed more deeplye than the rest The Bishop of Norwich lamenting the iniurious dealings of the petty officers The 〈◊〉 Norwiâ—… â–ª and pitying the people of the Church collected halfe the value of all the Chalices within his Diocesse himselfe and to make vp the other halfe of the whole sume he spared not to giue a great portion of his owne treasure The Abbot of Saint Albones acquit all those Churches within the compasse of his iurisdiction The Alâ—… Saint Alâ—… by the gyft of an hundred Markes The Biâ—… Chester But the Bishop of Chester had very yll lucke with his collections for hauing gathered a great summe of money to the kings vse he was spoyled thereof in one night as he lodged neare vnto Canterburie being on his iourney towards the king Mathewâ—… Clere. bycause Mathew de Cleere that lay in the Castel of Douer was knowne to ayde those that robbed the sayd Bishop the Archbishop of Canterburie pronounced him accursed About this tyme and on the morrow after the Natiuitie of Saint Iohn Baptist Rog. Hâ—… The Biâ—… of Elie. the Byshop of Ely Lord Chancellour arryued in Englande not shewing himselfe in any statelyke port for hee tooke vppon him neyther the dignitie of Chancellor nor Legate nor yet of Iustice but onely as a simple Bishoppe and Messenger sent from the king The Queene mother the Archbishop of Rouen and suche other as had gouernment of the lande hearing of his comming mette hym at Saint Albones where hee shewed to them the Emperours letters conteyning the agreement made betwixt him and king Richarde and withall appoynted certaine Lordes and Barons to goe with him at his returne backe to the king as Gilbert Bishop of Rochester Sifrid Bishop of Chichester Bennet Abbot of Peterborow Rychard Earle of Clare Roger Bigotte Earle of Norffolke Geffrey de Saye and dyuerse other It was also ordeyned at this same tyme that the money gathered towarde the payment of the kings raunsome shoulde remaine in custodie of Hubert Bishop of Salisburie Richarde Bishop of London William Earle of Arundell Hamelyne Earle of Warrenne and of the Maior of London vnder the seales of the Queene mother and of the Archbishop of Rouen but see the happe of things whilest eche one was thus occupied about the aforesayde money it chaunced Anno â—… VVil. Pâ—… that king Richarde was at poynt to haue beene deliuered into the handes of his deadly aduersarie the French king after this maner The Emperour vpon displeasure conceyued against the Bishop of Liege which lately had atteyned to that benefice coÌ„trarie to the Emperors pleasure who wished the same rather to an other person hyred certayne naughtie fellowes to goe into Fraunce where the Bishop remayned for feare of the Emperors malice and there to finde meanes trayterously to slea him The bishop of â—…iege murâ—…hered which they accordingly did by reason wherof the Duke of Lonaigne that was brother to the Bishop and other of his kinsmen vpon knowledge had therof ment to haue made the Emperour warre in reuenge of that murther Insomuche that the Emperour to haue the Frenche Kings ayde agaynste them was mynded to haue delyuered king Rycharde vnto him howbeit after that the matter was taken vp and a concorde made betwixt the Emperour and his nobles he chaunged his purpose also touching the deliuering ouer the King Richarde who perceyuing that tyll his raunsome were payde which woulde amounte to the summe of an hundred fiftie thousand Markes he should not get libertie and putting greate confidence in the dexteritie and diligence of Hubert bishop of Salisburie whome hee sent as yee haue heard into England to deal for the leuying of the same he thought good to aduaunce the same Bishop to the Metropolitane Sea of Canterburie which had bene vacant euer sith the decease of the Archbishop Baldwin that died as ye haue heard in the holy land â—…Vil Paruus Herevpon wryting to the Byshops of the realme and to the Monkes of Canterburie he required them to proceede to the election of an Archbishop for that Sea and withall commended vnto them the foresayde Hubert as a man most sufficient and meet for that roumth He wrote likewise to the Queene to further that matter â—…ubert Bishop Salisburie â—…cted Arch-â—…ishop of Canterburie and easily hereby obteyned his desire For shortly after the same Hubert was elected by the Bishops and Monkes which assembled togither for that
suffer death openly confessed how he had accused those persons only in hope to defer his owne execution being conuicted as accessary to the treason of the Clearke that suffered at Couentrie the last yere He had accused not only y e said Briton but diuers of the nobilitie also to be priuie and giltie of the same conspiracie The Earle of Albemarle Shortly after also Iohn Erle of Albemarle William Fortis Peter de Mallow a Poictouin men for their valiancie greately renoumed wente thither leading with them a great number of Christian souldiors In this yere also and vpon the day of S. Remigius was the church of S. Paule in the Citie of London dedicated by Roger Bishop of that Citie The dedicatioÌ„ of the Churche of Saint Paule in London the king and a great number of Bishops and other noble men beyng present which were feasted the same day by the sayd Bishop Roger and the canons Moreouer there dyed this same yeare the Countesse Isabell wyfe to Richarde Erle of Cornewall The death of Isabell the Countesse of Cornvvall The lord Iohn Fitz Roberte A Comete and two Earles William Earle Warreyn and Iohn Earle of Lyncolne also the lord Iohn Fitz Robert one of the chief Barons in all the north parties of the Realme Also in Februarye there appeared a Comete or blasyng starre righte dreadfull to beholde for the space of .xxx. dayes togyther Moreouer on the coast of England there was a great battayle amongst the fishes of the sea A batrayle betvvixt Fishes Math. Paris so that there were rj Whales or Thirlepooles cast on lande beside other huge and monstrous fishes which appeared to be dead of some hurtes and one of those myghtie fishes commyng into the Thames alyue was pursued by the Fyshers and coulde vneth passe through the arches of London bridge At length with dartes and other such weapons they slewe hym before the Kyngs Manour at Mortlake The kynges Manour at Mortlake whether they folowed hym There was also a greate sounde hearde this yeare in sundrye partes of Englande at one selfe tyme as if it hadde bene the noyse of some myghtie mountayne that had fallen into the Sea And vpon the seuenth of May there chanced a greate boysterous wynde that sore troubled the skye A great vvynd This yeare also the King caused the Citizens of London and the Gardians of the fiue ports Aâ—… ceâ—… and many other to receiue an othe to be true and faithfull to his sonne Prince Edwarde The Fryers Preachers and Minors and other men of the churche that were diuines assoyled suche as had taken vpon them the Crosse receyuing of them so muche money as would suffise to haue borne their charges in that iourneye and this not without selaunder redoundyng to the church and the same meane to get moneye was practised also by the Legate Otho hauing authoritie therto of the Pope The same yeare also the Seneshall of Aquitayne came ouer to the king The 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 and gaue hym to vnderstande that if tymely prouision were not had all those countreyis on the fursyde the sea would be loste No other incident chaunced the same yeare neither in warre abroade nor in the state of gouernement of the common wealth of home wherof any great accompt is to be made but that the Legate Otho got great summes of money by dyuers wayes namely of Religious men to the Popes behoofe whervpon certayn abbots made complaynts to the king but in place of comfort they receiued discomfort and knowledge therof giuen to the Legate hee was more extreme with them than hee was before Also shortly after one of the Popes familiars and kinsman named maister Peter Rosso came from Rome Peâ—… takyng Englande in his waye to goe into Scotlande and vsed in both suche diligence in the Popes cause that he got a .xv. granted here whyche he speedily gathered And about the same tyme one Peter de Supino was sent into Irelande Peter 〈◊〉 no 〈…〉 theâ—… of prâ—… and there lykewise he got a vintiesme bringing from these the sum of .xv C. markes and aboue But the collection which Peter Rosso got out of the Scottish confines doubled that summe as was thought In his returne also from thence visiting the houses of religion and searching the consciences of religious persons by newe shiftes he craftyly got yet more money to the Popes vse causyng them to sweare to keepe this mysterie secrete as it were some priuitie of Confessyon for the space of one halfe yeare whereby hee dydde tourne the heartes of manye menne from the loue of the Churche of Rome woundyng them wyth greate griefe and remorse of conscience to see this pillery An. 〈…〉 12â—… In the fiue twentyth yeare of his raigne Kyng Henry kept his Christmasse at Westminster at which tyme the legate was sent for to retourne vnto Rome and after he had ben honorably feasted of the King on the fourth daye of Christmasse he departed from London towardes the sea side after he had remained here aboue three yeares Peter of Sauoye that was vncle to the Queene came into Englande and was honorably receiued and entertained of King Henry who had giuen to him the Earledome of Richmond Wyâ—… 〈…〉 dayes after The Earle of Cornvvall an intercessour for a peace to be had betvvixte the pope and the Emperour hee went to the Couâ—…tâ—… 〈◊〉 to trye if he myght or â—…e so 〈◊〉 agreement oâ—… 〈…〉 the Emperor and the Pope but findyng the Pope to 〈◊〉 and nothyng conformâ—…â—…ept he myght haue had all his owne will whyche was that the Emperour shoulde haue submytted hymselfe to the Popes pleaâ—… and to stande to whatsoeuer order the Churche shoulde appoynt he reâ—…ourâ—…ed â—…ke to the Emperour without concludyng any thing with the Pope and declaring vnto hym as he had found â–ª After this hee remayned a two monethes wyth the Emperor then taking his leaue he was honoured wyth greate giftes at his departure and so retournyng towardes Englande He returneth into Englande at length arriued at the towne of Doâ—… on the morrowe after the feaste of the Epiphanie in the yeare following Aboute the same time that the erle of Cornewall was in his returne forthe of the holy lande there was â—…nly râ—…ised newe warre in Wales whyche happened well for Kyng Henry There were dyuers of the Welchemen that coulde not well like wyth the gouerment of Dauid and therefore sore lamenting the captiuitie of his brother Griffin whome before as ye haue heard he had by a traine taken and kept still as prisoner began to make warre vnto the saide Dauid and to those that toke his parte the whiche on the other side sought to oppresse theyr aduersaries VVarres betvveene the VVelchmen so that there ensued muche bloudshed and slaughter beetwene the parties The wyfe also of the sayde Griffin and suche other noble men as were become enemyes vnto Dauid sente and writte vnto Kyng Henrye
those townes which yet remayned vnder his obeysaunce for he putte no greate confidence in the people of that countrey the whiche of custome beeing vexed with continuall warre were constrained not by will but by the change of tymes one whyle to holde on the Frenche syde and an other while of the Englishe In deede the Townes namely those that hadde their situation vppon the Sea coastes were so destroyed and decayed in theyr walles and fortifications that they coulde not long bee anye greate ayde to eyther parte and therefore beyng not of force to holde oute they were compelled to obeye one or an other where by their willes they wold haue doone otherwyse And this was the cause that the king of Englande oftentymes vppon truste of these townes whiche for the moste were readie to receyue hym was broughte into some hope to recouer his losses and chiefly for that he was so manye tymes procured to attempte his fortune there at the requeste of the fickle mynded Poyctouins who whylest they dydde seeke styll to purge theyr offences to the one Kyng or to the other they dayely by newe treasons defamed theyr credit and so by suche meanes the king of Englande oftentymes with small aduantage or none at all made warre against the French Kyng in truste of theyr ayde that coulde or vppon the least occasion conceyued quickely woulde doe little to his furtheraunce And so therby Kyng Henry aswell as his father Kyng Iohn was oftentymes deceyued of his vaine conceyued hope In this seuen and twentith yeare of Kyng Henryes raygne dyuers noble personages departed this lyfe ◅eath of noble ◅n and firste aboute the beginning of Ianuarye deceassed the Lord Richard de Burghe a man of greate honoure and estimation in Irelande where he helde many faire possessions by conqueste of that noble Gentleman his worthye father Also that valiaunt warriour Hughe Lacye ◅gh Lacy. who had conquered in hys tyme a greate parte of Irelande Also the same yeare the seuenth of Maye Hughe de Albeney Earle of Arundell departed this life in the middest of his youthfull yeares and was buried in the Priorie of Wimundham whiche his auncetores had founded After his deceasse that noble heritage was deuided by partition amongest foure sisters Also aboute the same tyme to wit on the twelfthe daye of Maye Hubert de Broughe Earle of Kent departed this life at his Manor of Banslude and his bodye was conueyed to London and there buryed in the Churche of the Friers preachers vnto the whiche Fryers he had bene verie beneficiall And amongest other things hee gaue vnto them his goodlye Pallace at Westminster adioyning neare to the Pallace of the Earle of Cornewall whyche the Archebishoppe of Yorke afterwardes purchased ◅ Fabian The Monkes of the Cisteaux were this yeare somewhat vexed by the Kyng bycause they had refused to aide hym with money towardes his iourney made into Gascoyne ◅ath Paris Also the pleas of the Crowne were kepte and holden in the Towre of London And in the nighte of the sixe and twentyth daye of Iuly starres were seene fall from the skye after a maruellous sort ◅arres fallen ◅er a straunge ◅ner not after the common maner but thyrtye or fortye at once so faste one after an other and glaunsing to and fro that if ther had fallen so many verye starres in deed there woulde none haue bene lefte in the firmament An. reg 28. ◅he ◅ountesse Pro◅ance ◅other to the ◅eene com◅nouer into ◅glande In the eighte and twentye yeare of Kyng Henryes raygne the Quenes mother the Ladye Beatrice Countesse of Prouaunce arryued at Douer on the fourteenthe daye of Nouember bringing with hir the Ladye Sancta her daughter and in the octaues of saint Martine they were receyued into London in moste solemne wise the streetes beeing hanged wyth ryche clothes as the maner is at the coronations of Princes On Saint Clementes daye Rycharde Earle of Cornewall the Kings brother marryed the saide Ladie Sanctia The Earle of Cornvvall maried to the Lady Sanctia whych mariage was solemnised in moste royall wise and with suche sumptuous feastes and banquetings as greater coulde not be deuised Finally the Quenes mother the Countesse of Prouance being a righte notable and worthie Lady was honored in euery degree of hir sonne in lawe king Henry in most curteous and sumptuous manner and at hir departure out of the realme which was after Christmasse she was wyth moste riche and Princely gyftes honorably rewarded Aboute the same tyme also VVilliā Ralegh bishop of Norvviche where as William de Ralegh was requested to remoue from the sea of Norwyche vnto Wynchester and consentyng therevnto without the Kyngs lycence obtained his confirmation of the Pope The king was highly displeased therwith He is consecrated bishop of VVinchester by the Pope bycause he ment it to an other Whervpon when the sayde Wyllyam Ralegh was retourned from Rome to be installed the Kyng sente commaundement to the Mayor and Citizens of Winchester that they shoulde not suffer him to enter the Citie Wherevppon hee beeing so kept out accursed bothe the Citie and the Cathedrall Churche with all the Monkes and others that fauoured the Prior whiche had intruded himselfe onely by the Kyngs aucthoritie and not by lawefull election and meanes as was supposed At length the sayde Bishoppe vpon griefe conceyued that the Kyng shoulde bee so heauy Lorde vnto him got into a shippe at London 1244. and stale awaye into Fraunce where of the Frenche Kyng hee was well receyued He stealeth out of the realme and greatly cherished Also he found suche meanes that the Pope in fauour of his cause wrote letters bothe to the Kyng and to the Quene namyng hir hys cosin but whyche waye that kinred should come aboute as yet it was neuer knowen The Bishoppe to shewe hym selfe not vnthankefull for suche friendeshyppe He giueth to the Pope 6000 markes gaue to the Pope aboue sixe thousande Markes as is saide and the Pope bycause he woulde not be accompted a disdainefull person turned not backe one pennye of that whiche was so gently offred hym At lengthe partely at contemplation of the Popes letters and partly by reason the Bishoppe humbled himselfe in aunswering the articles whyche the Kyng had obiected agaynste hym in cause of the controuersie beetwixte them he graunted hym his peace and receyued hym into the lande restoryng to hym all that had bin taken and deteyned from hym Moreouer in this meane while the Pope trusting more than inoughe vpon the Kyngs simplicitie and patience who in deede durste not in any case seeme to displease him had sente an other Collector of money into Englande named Martin Martine the Popes Collectour not adorned wyth power Legantine but furnished wyth suche auctorities and faculties as had not bene heard of He was lodged in the Temple where he shewed what commyssion hee had to gather vp the Popes reuenues and to exacte money by sundry
religious men where no Vicars were and where such were as seemed to slenderly prouided of sufficient allowance to augment the same as he thought expedient which his authoritie he vsed more largely than stoode with the pleasure of religious persons bycause hee shewed great fauour to the Vicars The copie of the letters which the Bishop had procured of the Pope authorising him herein followeth as we aâ—… the same in the Chronicles of Mathew Paris Prieâ—…t of Popes â—…nt Innocentius Episcopus c. Coâ—… sicut accepâ—… in tua ciuirati diâ—…coesi nonnulli religiosi aâ—… rellegia â—…relefias perâ—…oâ—…s impropâ—…oâ—… vsâ—…â—…râ—…â—… 〈◊〉 in quiâ—… nimis exileâ—… nulla taxâ—…ae sunt Vicariae Frater â—…cariâ—… tuae 〈…〉 â—…am mand â—…s 〈…〉 quòd in â—…sd 〈…〉 dâ—…uÌ„ proâ—…tibus vicarias instiâ—…s institutâ—…s exiles ad aâ—…geas vice nostra prout iuxâ—… câ—…suetu dinempas 〈◊〉 sicundum deum videras expedâ—… non obstantibus si praedicti exeptâ—… sint aut alias muniti aposâ—… priâ—…uilegijs siue endulgentijs per qua id impediâ—… vel differi possit Et de quibus speciale oporteat iâ—…prasentibus fieri mentionem â—…dictâ—…â—…er censurâ—…s ecclesiasticas apostoâ—… potest 〈…〉 â—…uÌ„ Lugduni 〈◊〉 â—…al Octab poÌ„r fâ—…â—…tri â—…ijâ—â— The Earle of Leycester 〈…〉 into Gascoigne by the king The Earle of Leycester sent eftsoones into Gascoigne who had not careâ—… if â—…e had fallen into his enimies to 〈◊〉 â—…as should appeare Boâ—… the Earle â—…y â—…fouâ—… 〈◊〉 in France and comming into Gascoigne â—…ltâ—… agaynst his enimyes though in 〈◊〉 conâ—…â—…eâ—… was in daunger of loosing both â—…ife â—…nâ—… the hominâ—… of the fielde But yet 〈◊〉 ougâ—… his good happâ—… Gâ—… 〈◊〉 and the valiancie 〈…〉 and â—…me of duâ—… 〈◊〉 hee 〈◊〉 the vâ—…â—…nde and 〈◊〉 hys enimies to flight taking Rusteyn Rusteyn takeÌ„ 〈◊〉 of the which â—…gâ—… adâ—… of the 〈◊〉 whome he caused to 〈…〉 to the king 〈◊〉 kings elâ—… sonne Edâ—…d created 〈◊〉 of Aquiâ—… At the same time had the king inuested hys sonne Edward with the Dâ—…e of Aâ—…quiâ—… 〈◊〉 to the offence of the Erle of Cornwall to whome by charter to haâ—… before gineâ—… confirmed the 〈◊〉 In a Iustes holden at Walden sir Arâ—…oldde MoÌ„terny Arnold de â—…teyny â—…e right valiaÌ„t knight was slaine by sir Roger ad Leniborne for which mischaunce all the Nobles there assembled made great lanientation and namely the sayde sir Roger but yet he was suspected to be in blauie bycause the soket of his staffe was polished and not abated Hereby it should appeare that in qualitie of weapon not in maner of their running togither these iustes turneys in those dayes practised differed from the very order of warre 〈◊〉 church of â—…dedicete The .xvij. of Septem the cathedral Church of Ely was dedicat which the B. of that sea named Hugh had builded with his owne proper costes charges togither with the palace there The king a great nuÌ„ber of the peeres nobles of the realm both spiâ—…ltaal â—…por â—…oâ—… present at this solâ—…ne feast which was kept in 〈…〉 The .xiij. day of October the â—…ghâ—… had a great feast at London A Parliament and had called the estates 〈◊〉 Realme then and the 〈◊〉 â—…femiâ—… in Parliament to wheâ—…â—…ed to thâ—… popes grant which he had obteyned of the tenthes The king demaundeth the tenthes of the spiritualtie due to the Churche to be receyued by hiâ—… for three yeares towardes his charges in his â—…urke 〈◊〉 the hâ—… them to make into the holâ—… lande â–ª The Bishops and namely Lincolne â—…ter 〈…〉 he contributaries to his grauntâ—… The Bishops refuse to yeeld to the Popes graunt They alledged â—…onâ—… to be reasons for their excuse as the pouertie of the English Church being 〈…〉 bare wyth continuall â—…actions and oppressions but chiefly they excused themselues by the absence of the Archbishops of Canterburie and Yorke of whom the one was beyond the sea and the other at home in the north partes All the residue of the English Bishops were there except Hereforde Châ—… which Chester was sicke and therefore without the consent of those that were absent and namely theyr Primate the Archbishop of Canterbury they coulde not conclude vpon any general point touching the kings demaunde And although the king fretted and stormed agaynst them yet could he not bring them to his purpose so that the Parliament for that time was dissolued Yet before theyr departure from London hee communed with the Bishops apart to see if hee myght perswade them to giue to him some portion of money towardes his charges but they had tuned theyr strings all after one note discording all from his tenour so that not a penie coulde be got of them The king highly offended with the Bishops wherefore hee tooke high displeasure agaynst them reuyling them in moste reprochfull maner and amongst other he vpbrayded his half brother the elect of Winchester of greate vnthankfulnesse who also amongst the residue stood agaynst him The king assayeth to get money of the Lordes temporall The king hauing this repulse at the Bishops handes began to fall in talke with the Lordes of the Temporaltie touching the troubles in Gascoâ—…gne where things were in broyle by the harde doings of the Earle of Leycester against whome the Gascoignes ceassed not to make warre styll and of late hauing besieged him in the Castell of Mountalbon droue him to such shift that to escape the present daunger he was glad to set at libertie certaine rebels whiche he had before taken captiues Therfore to reduce that Countrie vnto quiet the king determined to go thither himselfe and to remoue the Earle of Leycester out of hys office but when he came to the pith of the matter whiche was to desire them of ayde both of men money the Lordes woulde not agree to graunte him any And where he sought to burden the erle of Leycester with misgouerning things agaynst his honour they excused the same Earle and so the Lordes also departed in displeasure of the king aswell as the Bishops The Londoners helpe at a pinche Of the Lonâ—…oners yet the king by way of princely prayer got .xx. thousand Markes of golde at that time And to theyr further griefe for better meane to be reuenged agaynst the Bishop of Elie he caused the sayde Londoners to keepe S. Edwards fayre for xv dayes togither at Westminster and in the meane time to keepe their shops shut through all the Citie Which thing by reason of the foule weather chauncing at that time was very grieuous vnto them albeit there was such repayre of people thither that London had not bene fuller to the iudgement of olde auncient men neuer at any tyme in theyr dayes to theyr remembraunce The death of sir Nicholas Samford This yeare died sir Nicholas Samford knight a man of great reputation and valiancie Also on the .xx. day of October the Countesse of Winchester daughter to
to great daunger and the Church depriued of temporall prosperitie as sayth Mathewe Paris for by this meanes saith hee it was needefull vnto Religious menne to choose to theyr gouernour a man not religious but rather halfe temporall and suche one as to whome rather Iustinians lawes than Christes whiche conuerteth soules shoulde be familiar â—…th Paris Monkes â—…ham were exâ—…municate now â—…led The Monkes of Durham the whiche onely with the Chanons of Gisborne resisted the wicked proceedyngs of the Popes exactors and stood therefore interdited a long tyme at length after manye alterations were assoyled Oh sayeth Mathewe Paris if in that theyr tribulation they myght haue hadde fellowes and in theyr constante doyngs aydors howe happely hadde the Churche of Englande triumphed ouer hir tormentors and oppressors Yee haue hearde howe Richarde Earle of Cornewall beeyng elected Kyng of Almayne Mat. Paris sayled thither where on the Ascention daye last he was Crowned Kyng by the Archbyshoppe of Colen of whome and dyuers other great Princes of Germanie hee was holden for their lawfull King and gouernour as in the Teutch hystories yee maye finde more largely expressed though other of them had chosen Alfonse Kyng of Castill the whych Alfonse wrote to the King of Englande as his confederate and alie requiring hym of ayde againste the sayde Richarde that was hys owne brother to the whych vnreasonable request the Kyng woulde in no wise consente Shortly after was William Fitz Richarde by the Kyngs commaundement made Mayor and Thomas Fitz Thomas and William Grapisgate Sherifes Math. Paris The Archbyshop of Yorke accursed The Archbyshop of Yorke was accursed by the Popes commaundemente through all Englande with booke bell and candle that by suche terror his constancy might be weakened but the Archbishop saith Mathewe Paris enformed by the example of Thomas Becket and by the example and doctrine of Saint Edmond sometime his instructor The constancy of the archbyshop of Yorke and also taughte by the faythfulnesse of blessed Robert late Byshop of Lincolne despaired not of comfort from HeaueÌ„ in bearing paciently the Popes tyrannie neyther woulde he bestowe the welthy reuenewes of his Churche vppon Italians beeing vnworthy persons and straungers neyther would he obey and encline to the Popes will like a faint harted person by leauing and setting aparte the rigor of the lawe An. Reg. 42. About the beginning of the two and fortith yeare of Kyng Henries raigne the Lord Iames Audeley that had bin ouer with the King of Almayne and was lately returned home in company of the Lord Henry sonne to the said Kyng who came backe from his father about the feast of Saint Michael last past vnderstanding howe the Welchmen in his absence had brent wasted and destroyed his lands possessions and Castels which belonged to him in y e confynes of Wales he meant to be reuenged of those iniuries and inuading them hee slewe a great number of them The 〈◊〉 Audely â—…reth vâ—… the Wâ—… so reuenging the deathe of those his friendes seruauntes and tenauntes whome they before had murthered The Welchmen were not so discouraged heerewith but that they brake vpon hym out of their starting holes and places of refuge through the marishes and slaying their enimies horses put them backe to their power and ceassed not to do what mischiefe they could by spoyling killing and brenning houses and Castels where they mighte come vnto them and so the Realme of Englande was dayly put to losses and hinderance For out of Wales Englande was accustomed to bee furnished with Horses Cattell and other things to the profit of both the Countreys About the same time Ambassâ—… sent 〈◊〉 France there was an Ambassate sente from the Kyng of Englande vnto the Frenche Kyng as the Bishop of Worcetor the elect of Winchester the Abbot of Westminster the Earle of Leicester and Hugh Bigod Earle Marshall with Peter de Sauoy and Roberte Walcron The effect of their message was to require restitution of those countreys lands Cities and Townes whiche had bin euicted out of the hands of King Iohn and others apperteyning by righte of inheritance to the Kyng of England These Lordes did their message but as was thoughte they had no towardly aunswere but rather were putte off with trifling wordes and skornefull tauntes so that they returned shortly againe all of theÌ„ the Abbot of Westminster only excepted who remayned there behinde for a more ful aunswere not only to those requests exhibited on the part of the Kyng of Englande but also on the behalfe of the Kyng of Almaigne The marches towardes Wales in this season were brought almost deserte by reason of the continuall warres with the Welchmen 〈◊〉 marches Wales fore â—…ouerished for what with fire sword neyther building nor liuing creature nor any other thing was spared that fire and sword might bring to ruine â—…eat dearth â—…t Paris In this yeare was an exceeding great dearth in so much that a quarter of wheate was solde at London for four and twenty shillings whereas within two or three yeares before a quarter was solde at two shillings It had bin more deerer if great store had not come out of Almaigne for in France and in NormaÌ„dy it likewise fayled 1258 But there came fiftie greate Shippes fraughte with wheate and barley with meale and bread out of Teutchland by the procurement of Richard K. of Almaigne which greatly relieued the poore for proclamation was made and order taken by the K. that none of the Citizens of London shoulde buy any of that grayâ—… to say it vpone â—…ore â—…ohâ—… by it might be sold at an higher price 〈…〉 â—…dy but although this prouision did 〈◊〉 case yet the want was great ouer all the Realm For it was certainly affirmed that in three shâ—… within the Realm there was not found so 〈◊〉 grayne of that yeares growsh as 〈…〉 those fiftie shippes The greedy dealing of the Londoners to the hurt of the commoÌ„ welth The proclamation was setteâ—… foorth to restreine y e Londoners from â—…ngrossing vp that grayne and not withoute cause we the welthy Citizens were euill spokeÌ„ of in y e season bicause in time of scarcetie they would either stay such shippes as fraught with vittayles weâ—… comming towards the Citie and send them some other way foorthe or else buy the whole that they myghte sell it by retaile at their pleasure vnto the needy By meanes of this great dearth and scarcetie the common people were constreined to liue vpon herbes and rootes and a greate number of the poore people dyed through famine They also compleyned greatly of his misgouernaunce in that hee aduaunced so muche the Poictouins and other straungers to the impouerishment of himselfe and the whole Realme and further maynteyned them so farre foorthe that they were ready to offer wrong vnto other vpon presumption of his fauoure and bearing with them he hauing by commaundement restreined that no processe shoulde passe out of the Chauncery
Citie the gates whereof were by the Maiors appointment closed and kept with watche and warde doth day and night Soone after also for the more safegarde of the Citie and sure keeping of the peace the king of Almaine with the sayd sir Hugh and sir Philip came and lodged in the Citie with their companies and suche other as they woulde assigne to strengthen the citie if need required Shortly after the king returned out of France The king â—…turneth in England and about the feast of S. Marke came to London and lodged in the Bishops Palace Bycause of tumors that were spred abroade sounding to some euill meaning whiche Prince Edward should haue agaynst his father the king brought ouer with him a great power of men of armes straungers howbeit he brought them not into the Citie but left them beyond the bridge â—…n the parties of Surrey but he being entred y e citie so kept the gates entries that none was permitted to enter but such as came in by his sufferance The Erle of Gloucester by his appoyntment also was lodged within the Citie and the Prince 〈◊〉 the Palace at Westminster And shortly after by the kings commaundement hee remoued to S. Iohns all the other Lordes were lodged without the citie and the king of Almaines remoued againe to Westminster In which time a direction was taken betweene the sayde partyes and a newe assembly and Parliament assigned to bee kept in the quindene of Saint Iohn Baptyst and after deferred or proroged tyll the feast of Saint Edwarde at the which tyme al things were pacifyed for a tyme but so as the Earle of Gloucester was put besyde the rowmth whiche hee had amongest other the Peeres The Eâ—… Glocesâ—… federâ—… self wâ—… Earle of â—…cester and so then hee ioyned in friendshippe with the Earle of Leycester as it were by way of confederacie against the residue and yet in this last contention the sayde Earle of Leycester tooke parte wyth the Prince agaynst the Erle of Gloucester This yeare the Lorde William de Beauchampe the elder deceased Chrâ—… The Lorde Edwarde the kings sonne with a fayre companie of knightes and other men of armes passed the Seas to exercise himselfe in Iustes but hee hymselfe and his menne were euill entreated in manye places so that they lost horse armour and all other things to hys great griefe and dislyking as may be esteemed yet as some write he returned home with victorie in the Iustes Mat. VVest â—…w at Teuâ—…uâ—…ie falâ—… into a â—…s This yeare at Teukesburye a Iew falling by chaunce into a Iakes vppon the Saterday in reuerence of his Sabboth woulde not suffer anye manne to plucke hym forth whereof the Erle of Gloucester beeyng aduertised thoughte the Christians should doe as much reuerence to their Sabboth which is Sunday and therfore woulde suffer no man to go about to take him forth that day and so lying styll till Monday he was there founde deade â—…t VVest â—…th of noâ—…men Diuerse noble men departed this life in this yeare as the Erle of Albemaâ—…e the Lord William Beauchampe Stephen de Longespee Lorde chiefe Iustice of Irelande and Roger de Turkby one of the kings chief counsellers Iustices of the land William de Rickham B. of Durham and Iohn de Crakehale treasurer of England a spiritual man 〈◊〉 rather but rich beyond measure Also HeÌ„rie de Ba another of the kings Iustices of the Berâ—…he â—…t VVest 〈◊〉 reg 45. 〈◊〉 king of â—…s coÌ„meth â—…ondon In the .xlv. yeare of king Henries raigne Alexander king of Scotland came vnto LoÌ„don anon after the feast of S. Edwarde with a fayre companie of Scottishmen and shortly after his wife the Queene of Scottes came thyther also Moreouer K. Henrie kept a royal feast at Westminster â—…t VVest where he made to the number of .lxxx. knightes amongst the which Iohn sonne to the Erle of Britain who had maried the Lady Beatrice one of the kings daughters was there made knight And shortly after was sir Hugh Spencer made Lorde chief Iustice 1261 〈◊〉 Dun. After Christmasse the king comming into the tower of London fortified it greatly and caused the gates of the Citie to be warded sending forth commaundement to his Lordes that they should come to the tower there to holde a Parliament but they denied â—…atly so to do sending 〈◊〉 word that if it pleased 〈◊〉 they would come to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 usually the Parliament had beene kept and not to any other place wherevpon there rose 〈◊〉 betwixt him and the Barons After the feast of the â—…acation Fabian A Folkmote holden at Pauls crosse at a Folkmote holden at Paules Crosse where the King was present in person with the king of Almaine the Archbishop of Canterburie and diuerse other of the nobles commaundement was giuen to the Maior that euery stripling of the age of .xij. y e â—…tes and aboue An othe to be true to the king should before his Alderman de sworne to bee true to the king his heyres kings of England and that the gates of the Citie shuld be kept with armed men as before by the king of Romaines was deuised About Easter the Barons of the lande with coÌ„sent of the Peeres The L. Spencer discharged of his office discharged sir Hugh Spencer of his office of chiefe Iustice and places in hys rowmth sir Philip Basset without the kings assent hee beeing not made priuie therevnto Wherevpon a newe occasion of displeasure was ministred to kindle debate betwixt the king and his Lordes but by the policie of the king of Almaine and some Prelates the matter was quieted for a time till after at Hallowentide next ensuing which was the .xlvj. yeare of king Henries raigne At that time the Barons tooke vppon them to discharge such Sherifes as the king had elected and named Gardeyns of the Countreys and Shires and in theyr places putte other Sherifes 2 An. reg 46. The presumptuous proceedings of the Barons against the king And besydes that woulde not suffer the Iustice whiche the King had admytted to doe hys office in keeping hys cyrâ—…uise but appoynted suche to doe it as it pleased them to appoynte wherwith the king was somuch offended that he laboured by all meanes to him possible about the disanulling of the ordinances made at Oxforde and vpon the second Sunday in Lent he caused to be read at Paules Crosse a Bull 1262 A Bull read at Pauls crosse obteyned of Pope Vrbane the fourth as a consâ—… of an other Bull before purchased of his predecessour Pope Alexander for the assoyling of the King and all other that were sworne to the maintenances of the Articles agreed vpon at Oxforde This absolution hee caused to bee shewed through the Reaâ—… of England Wales and Ireâ—… giuing straight charge that if any person 〈…〉 that woulde disobey this absolution â–ª the same shoulde be committed to pryson there to remaine till the kings pleasure
of certaine persons that had likewise brought their money thither to haue it in more safetie he tooke away from these to the value of a thousand poundes The Citizens of London were so offended herewith that they rose in armor against him and other of the kings couÌ„saile The Londoners rob the house of the Lorde Gray insomuch that they assayled the lodging of the Lord Iohn Gray without Ludgate and toke out of his stables .xxxij. horses such other things as they might lay hold vpon keeping such sturre that the Lorde Gray himselfe was forced to flie beyonde Fleete Bridge The like rule they kept at the house of Iohn de Passelew Iohn Mancell fleeth into France Iohn Mancell departing forth of the Tower to the Thames with the Countesse de Lisle and other ladies that were straungers borne sayled into Fraunce and landed at Whitsand where the sayde Mancell hearing that the Lorde Henrie sonne to the king of Almaine that then held with the Barons was in those parties he caused the Lorde Ingram de Fines to stay him as prisoner and so he remayned till king Henrie vpon the agreement betwixt him and the Barons found meanes to get him released and so then he returned into Englande But nowe touching the Barons they proceeded in theyr businesse which they had in hande with all earnest diligence These were the chiefest personages that tooke this enterprice in hand The Barons that rose agaynst the king yong Humfrey de Boun the Lorde Henrie sonne to the king of Almaine Henrie Mountforde Hugh Spencer Baldwyn Wake Gylbert Gyfforde Richard Gray Iâ—…en Ros William Marmion Henrie Hastings Haymon le Strange Iohn Fitz Iohn Godfrey Lucy Nicholas Segrane Roger de Leyborne Iohn Vesie Roger de Clifford Iohn de Vaus Gilbert de Clare 〈…〉 Vapont the which with one generall 〈…〉 letter for their chiefe Captaynes and general coÌ„mandes Their â—… capâ—… Simon de Mount for 〈…〉 â—…steâ—… Gilbert de Clare Earles of Gloucestâ—… 〈◊〉 Robert Ferreys Erle of Dâ—… 〈…〉 Warâ—…n The 〈…〉 part 〈◊〉 king On the kings part theâ—… perfuâ—…s â—…med to stand with him against 〈…〉 Roger Bight Erle of Norffolke and Saâ—… Humfrey de Boun Earle of 〈…〉 gâ—…t Lord chiefe Iustice Philip Sasset 〈◊〉 de Valenceâ—… Geffley de Lucignan Peter 〈◊〉 â—…uoy Robert Wairand Iohn Mâ—…st 〈◊〉 Langley Iohn Grey William Latimer 〈◊〉 Pelleyland in any other The Barons notwithstanding hauing assembled 〈…〉 to go through with 〈◊〉 purpose â–ª About Mydsommer when they drewe neare to London they sent a letter to the Maior and Aldermen vnder the Seale of the Earle of Leycester willing to vnderstand whether they would obserue the actes and statutes established at Oxforde or else ayde and assyst suche persons as ment the breache of the same And herewyth they sente vnto them a Copie of those Articles wyth a prouiso that if any of them were preiudiciall or in anye wise hurtfull to the Realme and common wealth that then the same by the aduice of discrete persons should be amended and reformed The Maior bare thys Letter and the Copie of the Articles vnto the King who in this meane time remained in the Tower of London togither with the Queene and the K. of Almain lately returned oute of Almaine also his sonne prince Edward and many other of his counsail The king asked of the Maior what he thought of those articles who made such answer as the king seemed well pleased therewith and so permitted the Maior to returne againe into the Citie The diligence of the Lorde â—…aior of London who tooke muche payne in keeping the Citie in good quiet nowe in that daungerous tyme. All suche the Inhabitantes as were straungers borne and suspected to fauor eyther of the parties were banished the Citie but within a while after Prince Edward set them or the most part of them in offices within the Castell of Windsore And on the Saterday next after the translation of Saint Benet as the Queene woulde haue passed by water from the Tower vnto Windsore The misdeâ—…aner of â—…wde persons â—…wardes the â—…ueene a sort of lewde naughtipacks got them to the bridge making a noise at hir and crying drowne the witch threw downe stones cudgels dyrt and other things at hir so that shee escaped in great daunger of hir person fled to Lambeth and through feare to be further pursued landed there and so she stayed till the Maior of London with much ado appeasing the furie of the people resorted to the Queene and brought hir backe againe in safetie vnto the Tower â—…hron Dunst And as some wryte bycause the King woulde not suffer hir to enter agayne into the Tower the Maior conueyed hir vnto the Bishop of Londons house by Paules and there lodged hir Mat. VVest The Barons in this meane time hauing got the Citie of Worcester and Bridgenorth with other places were come into the South partes to the ende that they mighte winne the Castell of Doner and finde some meanes to set the Lorde Henrie sonne to the king of Almaine that was prisoner beyond the seas at libertie â—…ro Dunst â—…shops traâ—…yle to make â—…ace In the meane tyme the Bishoppes of Lyncolne London and Chester trauayled betwixte the King and Barons for a peace but the Barons woulde not agree except that the King and Queene woulde fyrst cause the Lorde Henrie to bee set at libertie and delyuer into theyr handes the Castelles of Wyndsore Douer and other fortresses and sende away all the straungers and take such order that the prouisions of Oxforde might be obserued as well by the King as all others The king although these conditions seemed verie hard and displeasant to his mynde yet was he driuen to such an extremitie that he graunted to accept them and so an agreement was made and had betwixt him and the Lordes But now all the difficultie was to appease the Lorde Edwarde â—…ungers â—…pe the Caâ—… of Windâ—… and to remoue the straungers whiche he had placed in the Castell of Wyndsore which they had not onely fortified but also in maner destroyed the towne and done much hurt in the Countrey rounde aboute them They were to the number of an hundred Knightes or men of armes as I may cal them beside a greater number of other men of warre But nowe after that the King had agreed to the peace the Barons entred the citie the Sunday before Saint Magarets day and shortly after the King came to Westminster wyth the Queene and those of hys Counsayle And immediately herevpon by consent of the King and the Barons Sir Hugh Spencer was made chiefe Iustice and keeper of the Tower During the tyme that the Lordes remayned in London many robberyes and ryottes were done within the Citie and small redresse had in correctyng the offenders they were so borne oute and mainteyned by their maisters and other The Commons of the Citie were farre oute of order for in the assemblies and Courtes The great
is true for if both the K. and his son had bin taken prisoners in the fielde the Barons would surely haue constreyned him to haue consented to the obseruance of the statutes without putting the same in compromise to be altered at the discretion of any arbitrators and namely straungers But howsoeuer it was on the Twesday before the Ascention day Peace proclaymed peace was proclaymed in London betweene the King and the Barons and whereas the King eyther by constreynte for safegarde of hymselfe or his friendes eyther vppon assurance of the Barons promise committed hymselfe vnto the company of the same Barons at their comming with him to London they went from this last agreement and forthwith deuised other ordinances as thus They ordeyned A new deuise of the Barons that two Earles and a Bishop which being elected out by the coÌ„munaltie should choose to them nine other persons and of these three of them shoulde still remaine about the K. and by their order and the other nyne all thyngs should be gouerned both in the Courte and in the Realme They constreyned the King and hys sonne Prince Edwarde menacing to depose the one and to keepe the other in perpetuall prison to consente and agree to this last ordinance and so the Earles of Leicester and Gloucester and the Bishoppe of Chichester were ordeyned there the chiefe rulers and letters sent with all speede vnto the Cardinall Sabinensis the Popes Legate and to the King of Fraunce to signifie to them that the compromise agreede vppon at Lewes was vtterly reuoked and that a newe peace in friendly wise was concluded But although the Bishops of London Winchester and Worcester instantly required the saide Legate that hee would help to further the same peace yet hee sore rebuked them in that they woulde giue their coÌ„sent so much to abase and bring vnder the Kings royal power And bycause he might not be â—…â—…ed to enter the Realme he first cited them to â—…peare before him at Bulleigne And wheras they seemed to contemne his authoritie and appeared not he both suspended the said three Bishops and excommunicated the saide Earles of Leicester and Gloucester and their complices with the Citie of London and the fiue portes but y e foresaid Byshops Earles and Barons feigning to make their appeales to the Popes consistory or if neede were vnto a generall Counsell and to foorth though indeede trusting more to the temporall sword than fearing the spirituall they did not forbeare to saye and heare deuine seruice in Churches and else wher as before they had done till the commyng of the Cardinall Othobone The Captaines and men of warre which the King had left at Tunbridge immediately vpon the agreement concluded betwixt the Kyng and the Barons were commaunded by the Kyng to depart and repaire euery man to his home Mat. Vâ—… but they fearing the malice of their enimies woulde not breake in sunder but keeping togither wente straight to Bristowe and there remained till the Lorde Edwarde the Kinges sonne was escaped out of Captiuitie But this is to be remembred that before their departure from Tunbridge Nic. Triâ—… when by reporte of William de Say who escaping from the battell at Lewes was come thither they vnderstoode howe the matter hadde passed on both sides and that the Londoners being chased out of the field The loudâ—…neâ—…s spoyâ—… at Croâ—… were lodged at Croydon about the euening tide they came thyther and assayling them in their lodgings slew many and wanne a great spoile The Earle of Leicester and the Barons hauing the rule of the K. and Realme in theyr handes soughte to oppresse all suche as they knewe to be against theÌ„ and not to lyke with theyr proceedyngs namely the Northren Lordes and those of the Marches of Wales as the Lorde Mortimer and others but waxing heerewith wilfull they vsed thyngs with small discretion whyche at length broughte them to confusion For the four sonnes of the Earle of Leicester Henry Guy Simon and an other Henry whiche hadde serued ryghte woorthely indeede on the daye of the battayle beganne to waxe so proude that in comparison of themselues they despised all other The Earle of Gloucester perceyuing hymselfe not well vsed secretly entred into confederacie with the Lorde Mortimer and other of the marches wherevpon the Earle of Leicester hauing thereof some inkeling came to Hereford in purpose to haue taken the Earle of Gloucester and to haue put him in safekeeping as lately before hee had serued the Erle of Derby But by the practise of the Lorde Mortimer shortly after the Lord Edward or Prince Edward whether ye lest to call him assaying abroade in the fieldes an horse or two suche as hee shoulde vse at iustes and torneys which were appoynted to be holden he mounted at length vpon a light courser which the sayd Lord Mortimer hadde sente to him and bidding the Lorde Robert Roos and other that were appointed to attend on him as his keepers farewell Prince Edward escapeth away Mat. VVest he galoped from them and could not be ouertaken of them that pursued him till at leÌ„gth he came to the Lord Mortimer the which with a great troupe of men was come foorth of his Castell of Wigmore to receyue him This was on the Thurseday in Whitson weeke Aboute the same time the Earle of Warren with William de Valence Earle of Pembroke the Kings halfe brother and other the whiche as ye haue hearde fledde from the battell at Lewes were nowe returned into the Realme landing first in Southwales with a power of Crossebowes and other men of warre the whiche hearing that the Lorde Edwarde was thus escaped out of captiuitie came to Ludlowe and there ioyned with hym and so likewise did the Earle of Gloucester And after they had coÌ„muned togither and were made friendes and coÌ„federates they caused all the bridges to be broken that the enimies shuld not come to oppresse them till they had assembled all theyr forces and so passing forward towards Gloucester wanne the Citie Glouceâ—…â—…oâ—…e and still came people vnto them from all sides and namely those Lordes and Captaynes whiche all the time sith the battayle of Lewes had laine in Bristow After this they came to Worceste and entred there also When the Earle of Leicester was heereof aduertised who in all this meane time by order taken was about the Kyng and ruled all things in the Court he sent in all hast vnto his sonne Simon de Mountforte to rayse a power of menne The Earle 〈◊〉 Leicesters sonne raseâ—… an army He waâ—…e Wincheâ—… the which accordingly assembled to him much people and comming with the same vnto Winchester wanne the Citie by surrender spoyled it and slew the more parte of the Iewes that inhabited there Then he layde siege to the Castell but hearing a fayned rumor that Prince Edwarde was comming thither with his power he departed froÌ„ thence with his company and went to Kenelworth â—…idor As
from an enimye and so bothe the Englishemen and Frenchemen were dispersed tyll the Moone rose and the Frenchemen wythdrewe to theyr Fouresses and amongest them certayne of the Englyshemen were myngled whyche beyng discouered were taken Prisoners as the Lorde Iohn Saint Iohn and others The slaughter was not great The lord Saint Iohn taken for there were no â—…hremente on eyther parte to spoyle or kill the men of armes that were thrown besyde their horsses For the Englyshe footmen remayned in the wood or were wythdrawne backe as before yt haue hearde without attemptyng anye exployte worthie of prayse Indeede some lay the blame in the Gascoyne footemen for the losse of this battayle Mat. VVest bycause that they withdrewe backe and lefte the Englishe horsemen in daunger of the enimies whiche hadde compassed them aboute on euerye syde Three hundred of the menne of armes came through to the towne of Bellegarde Abyngdon but bicause it was nyghte so that they coulde not be discerned whether they were friendes or foes they within the towne wold not suffer them to enter wherevpon they departed and went to S. Seuere foure leagues off Yet further in the night other of the Englishmenne were receyued into Bellegarde which came thyther after the other and so in the mornyng they of the garison with theyr assistance issued foorth and commyng to the place where the battaile hadde bene gathered the spoyle of the fielde and conueyed into their Towne such prouision of victuals as they founde there The Earle of Lincolne wyth a great many of other wandred a greate parte of the night and knewe not whether to goe The Earle of Lincolne escaped At lengthe aaboute three of the clocke in the morning he came to Perforate where he had lodged with his army the night before He commeth home and there founde a greate number of hys people ryght gladde of hys commyng and happye escape oute of daunger From thence hee retourned vnto Bayonne wyth the Earle of Richemont sir Iohn de Brytayne and all hys companye that were lefte And suche was the happe of this iourneye In Lent folowing â—…e that were dispersed here and there abroade resorted to the Erle of Lincolne soiorning at Bayonne and in the sommer season made a iourney towardes Tholouse He inuadeth the countrey about Tholouse spoyling and wastyng the Countreyes of Tholousyne and other theraboutes and remoued also the siege whyche those of Tholouse had layde vnto a fortresse called Saint Kiternes in chasing them from the same siege and towardes Michaelmasse they retourned to Bayonne and there laye all the Wynter till after Christmasse and then by reason of the truce concluded as after appeareth betwixte the two kinges of Englande and Fraunce they retourned home into Englande The custom of vvooll raysed The same yeare the kyng reysed the custome of Wooll to an hygher rate than had bin payde at any tyme before for he tooke now forty shillings of a sack or serpler where before there was payde but halfe a marke Abingdon Euersden Prouision for the kings iourney into FraÌ„ce Moreouer he commaunded that agaynst his iourneye whyche hee meant to make ouer into Fraunce there shoulde be two thousande quarters of wheate and as muche of Oates taken by the Sheriff in euery countie within the realme to be conueyed to the sea side except where they had no store of corn and there should beeues and bakons be taken to a certayne number Ia. Meir In the meane tyme the Earle of Flaunders was sore vexed by warre which the French king made against hym The Frenche king inuadeth Flaunders being entred into Flaunders with an armie of three score thousande men as some authors haue recorded Lisle besieged About the feaste of the Natiuitie of Sainte Iohn Baptiste he layde siege to Lisle and shortly after came the Earle of Arthois being returned out of Gascoyne with his power vnto that siege The Earle of Arthois vanquisheth the Flemings in battayle and was sent foorth to keepe the Flemings and others occupyed whyche laye at Furneys and in other places theraboutes in lowe Flaunders wyth whome hee foughte and gotte the victorie Kyng Edwarde therfore to succour his frendes prepared to go ouer into Flanders N. Triuet and thervppon summoned all those that ought hym any seruice and suche also as helde landes to the value of .xx. poundes and aboue to bee ready wyth horsse and harneys at London about Lammasse to passe ouer wyth hym in that iorney A rebellion in Scotlande by the meanes of one VVilliam VValace In the meane tyme aboute the Moneth of Maye there beganne a Rebellion in Scotland by the settyng on of William Waleys for the kyng of Englandes Iustice Wylliam Ormsbye accordynglye as hee hadde in Commission confyned and put to outlawrye a greate sorte of suche Scottishmen as refused to doe fealtie and homage vnto the Kyng of Englande the whyche Scottishemen beeing thus condemned as Outlawes elected the foresayde Wylliam Waleys for their captayn with whom WilliaÌ„ Douglas beeing once associate the number of them encreased hugelye The Erle of Surrey and the Tresures 〈◊〉 in Englande those outlawes purposed to haue taken the Iustice at Scone but he beyng wâ—… though almoste too late escaped himselfe wyth muche adoe leauyng the moste parte of his people as a spoyle to the enimies Engâ—… 〈…〉 For WilliaÌ„â—…leys and his company kylled as many Englishmen as fell into his handes and taking câ—… religious men he bound their hands behynd 〈◊〉 and constrained them to leape into the riuer taking pleasure to beholde howe they plunged The King sent the Bishop of Durham into Scotlande to vnderstande the certaintie of this rebellion who retourning from thence informed him of the truthe The Kyng not mynding to break his iorney which he had purposed to make into Flaunders appoynted that the Earle of Surrey should haue the leadyng of all such men of warre as myght be leuyed beyonde Trent to represse the Scottish rebels and also wrote vnto Iohn Cumyn Lorde of Badenaw The 〈…〉 and to the other Iohn Cumyn Erle of Boughan that remembring their fayth and promyse they should retourne into Scotlande and doe theyr beste to quiet the countrey they accordyng to his commaundement went into Scotlande but shewed themselues flow inough to procure those things that perteyned to peace and quietnesse In the meane tyme whilest these things were a doing the Bishop of Carleile Abingdâ—… and other which lay there vpon the garde of that Citie and Castell hauing some mistrust of the loyaltie in Robert Bruce the yonger Robert 〈◊〉 that was Earle of Carrike by his mother they sente hym word to come vnto them at a certayne daye bycause they had to talke with hym of matters touchyng the kinges affaires he durst not disobeye but came to Carleile together with the Bishop Gallowaye and there receyued a corporal othe vpon the holy and sacred mysteries The Bâ—… svvorde
Sainte Edmondes bury she marched forthe to secke the aduersaries of hir and of the Realme as she bruted it but they still keepyng themselues neere to the Kings person that vnder the shadowe of the wings of his protection they might remayne in more safegarde durst not depart from his presence At the time of y e Queenes landing he was at London and being â—…ore amased with the newes he required ayde of the Londoners The aunswere of the Londoners to the Kyng They aunswered that they would do all the honor they might vnto the Kyng y e Queene and to their sonne the lawfull heire of the lande but as for Straungers and traitors to y e Realm they woulde keepe them out of their gates and resist them with all their forces but to got foorthe of the Citie further than that they myghte returne before Sunne setting they refused pretending certayne liberties in that behalfe to them graunted in times past as they alledged The king forsaketh London and goeth towardes the marches of Wales The King not greatly liking of this aunswere fortified the Tower and leauing within it his yonger sonne Iohn of Eltham and the wife of the Lorde Chamberlayne Hugh Spencer the yonger that was his neece he departed towardes the marches of Wales there to reyse an army against the Queene Before his departure from London A proclamation sette forth by the Kyng he set forth a Proclamation that euery man vnder payne of forfeyting life and goodes should resist them that were thus landed assayle and kill them the Queene his sonne Edwarde and his brother the Earle of Kent only excepted and whosoeuer could bring y e head or dead corps of the Lord Mortimer of Wigmore shuld haue for his labor a thousand markes The Queenes proclamation The Queenes proclamations on the other part willed all men to hope for peace the Spencers publike enimies of the Realme and y e Lorde Chancellour Roberte Baldocke with their assisters onely excepted through whose meanes the present trouble was happened to the Realme And it was forbidden that no man shoulde take ought froÌ„ any person and who soeuer coulde bring to the Queene the head of Hugh Spencer the yonger should haue two thousand pounds of the Queenes gift The Byshop of Exeter left in charge with the Citie of London The K. at his departure from London lefte master Walter Stapleton the B. of Greter behinde him to haue the rule of the Citie of LondoÌ„ Then shortly after the Q. with hir son making towardes London wrote a letter to the Maior to the Citizens requiring to haue assistance for the putting downe of the Spencers 〈…〉 knowen enimies of theirs but also 〈…〉 to all the Realme of England To this letter Caxton no aunswere at the 〈…〉 made wherfore an other was sent 〈…〉 doâ—… the sixth day of October vnder the 〈◊〉 of Isabell by the grace of God Queene of 〈◊〉 â—…ld Lady of Irelande and Countesse of 〈◊〉 â—…ew and of Edwarde eldest sonne to the 〈◊〉 of England Duke of Guienne Erle of Câ—… of Pontiew and of Muâ—…er 〈◊〉 This letter 〈…〉 directed to the Mayor and communaltie â—…don conteyning in 〈◊〉 that the 〈…〉 landing and entring into the Realme of the time was onely for the honor of the 〈…〉 wealth of the Realme inâ—…ng hâ—… to â—…ner of person but to the Spencers was 〈◊〉 vpon the Crosse in Cheape their called 〈◊〉 Crosse in Cheape on the nighte before the â—…th day of October Dyuers copies of the 〈…〉 were set vppe and fastned vppon wind 〈◊〉 â—…res in other places of the Citie and one of the salne copies was racked vpon the Lord 〈◊〉 gates After which letter thus published in the 〈◊〉 Fabiâ—… Thâ—… 〈◊〉 a greate number of artificers and other 〈◊〉 â—…ed not to sit in rest vppon suche occasion of â—…cord offered nowe that things were in 〈…〉 other partes of the Realme assemblid 〈◊〉 in greate numbers and with weapon inâ—… came to the Lorde Maior of the Citie 〈…〉 they knew to fauour the Kings parte and therefore they forced him through feare of some â—…rious violence The 〈…〉 to take 〈…〉 to receyue an oth to stand to there ordinance whiche was to put to deathe all thâ—… that were aduersaries to the Queene or had by any meanes procured the hinderance of the Cities liberties vnder pretext of whiche othe Iohn Maâ—… taken aâ—… healed they ranne and tooke one of the Citizens called Iohn Marshall bycause hee was very familiar with the Earle of Gloucester and therefore suspected to haue accused the Citizens they stroâ—… 〈◊〉 hys head and spoyled all his goodes The same daye being the fourtenth of October continuing their rage they ranne to the house of the Byshoppe of Exeter Walter de Stapleton and setting fire on the gates they entred and spoyled him of all hys plate iewels money and goodes And as it chanced in an infortunate houre for him the Bishoppe beeing the same time returning from the fieldes woulde not seeme to shrinke although her was admonished of these outrageous attemptes of the people but sitting on horsebacke came to the North dore of Saint Paule where forthwith the furious people layde violente handes 〈◊〉 him threw him downe and drew him most outrageously into Cheape side where they proclaymed him an open traytor a seducer of the Kyng and a destroyer of their liberties The Byshoppe had vpon him a certayne coate of defence whiche was called an Aketon the same therefore beeing plucked beside his backe as all other his garments The Byshopp 〈◊〉 Exeter beâ—…aded they shore his head from his shoulders and to the lyke deathe they put two of his seruauntes the one an Esquire and the other a yeoman The Byshoppes head was set on a pole for a spectacle that the remembraunce of his deathe and the cause thereof might continue His body was buryed in an old Churchyarde of the pied Friers withoute any manner of exequies or funerall seruice done for him The chiefest cause of the enimitie whiche the Londoners bare toward this Bishop rose hereof He being Lord Treasorer procured that the Iustices itenerante did sit in the Citie of London and where many of the Citizens were found â—…fendors and iustly punished as well by losing their freedomes as paying their fines and suffering corporall punishmentes they conceyued a great displeasure towardes him Moreouer it was sayde that hee had raysed a greate multitude of armed menne againste the Queene and hir sonne the Duke of Aquitayne and therefore did the Londoners as they aâ—…â—…ed seeke to preuent his proceedings The morrowâ—… after that they had thus beâ—…â—…d the Bishop of Exâ—…ter they tooke by chaunce Sir Iohn Weston Connestatâ—… of the Tower â—…d from him they tooke the keyes of the same Tower and â—…o entring the Tower they setâ—… the prisoners at libertie and in like case all those â—…hat were imprisoned in manner through y e â—…aâ—… â—…here periâ—…tted to goe at large and all the
Hugh Spencer the yonger executed Then was his heade striken off his bowels taken out of his bodie and burnt and hys bodie deuided in quarters His head was sent to London and set vpon the bridge with other and his quarters were sent to foure seuerall partes of the Realme and there pight vpon polles to bee seene of the people He was drawne in his owne coate armour about the which there were letters embrodered plaine to bee read conteyning a parcell of the Psalme Psal 52. Quid gloriaris in ma◅ vnto the verse ◅go autem vt ◅liua c. Simon de Reding executed The same day was Simō de Reding drawne and hanged on the same Gallowes but ten foote lower them the other This Reding being Marshall of the kings house had vsed the Queene verie vncurteously giuing hir many reprothfull wordes which now were remembred and therefore may serue for an example how daungerous a thing it is to speake euill of the higher powers Caxton The cōmon fame went that after this Hugh Spencer the sonne was taken he woulde receyue no s◅snance wherefore he was the sente put to death or else had he beene conueyed to London there to haue suffred The Earle of Armdell takē Iohn Earle of Armdell was taken on Saint Hughes day in the parties about S◅rewes◅e and the same day s◅oun◅ght before the execution of the Earle of Gloucester Hugh Spencer the yonger as well the sayde Earle who had beene euer a great friend to both the Spencers Tho. VVals ◅xecution as also Iohn Daniell and Thomas de Micheldeure were put to death at Hereforde by procurement of the Lorde Mortimer of Wigmore that ha◅ed them extremely ◅ofiuour in which the lord Mortimer was ◅ith the Queene by reason whereof they were not like to speede much better for what he willed the same was done and without him the Queene in all these matters did nothing The Chancellor Robert de Baldocke being committed to the custodie of Adam de Torleton Bishop of Hereforde remayned at Hereforde in safe keeping till Candlemasse next and then the Bishop being at London appoynted him to bee brought vp where not without the Bishops consent as was thought he was taken out of hys house by violence and layde in Newgate where shortly after through inward sorow and extreme griefe of minde he ended his life Robert Baldoe ended his life Thus the Queene and hir companie hauing compassed their businesse in to happie maner as they could wish she with hir sonne and a greate companie of Lordes and Gentlemen repayred to Wallingford where they kept Christmasse togither with great ioy and triumph the king in the meane while remayning as ye haue hearde at Kenilwoorth in a kinde of honourable estate although he was prisoner After Christmasse 1327 the Queene with hir sonne and such Lordes as were then with them remoued to London where at their comming thither which was before the feast of the Epiphanie they were receyued with great ioy triumph and large giftes and so brought to Westminster where the morrow after the same feast the Parliament which before hand had bene summ◅ned began in which it was concluded and fully agreed by at the estates for none durst speake to the contrarie that for diuerse artreses which were put vp agaynst the king he was not worthie longer to raigne A Parliament and therefore should be deposed and withall they willed to haue his sonne Edwarde duke of Aquitan to raigne in his place This ordinance was openly pronounces in the great hall at Westminster by one of the lords The king is deposed by act of Parliament on the feast day of S. Hillarie being Tuesday to the which all the people consented The Archbishop of Canterburie preacheth The Archbishop of Canterburie taking his theme Vox populi vti◅tes made a Sermon exhorting the people to pray to God to bestow of his grace vppon the new king And so when the Sermon was ended euery man departed to his lodging But the Duke of Aquitaine when hee perceyued that his mother tooke the matter heauily in appearance for that hir husband should be thus depriued of the crown he protested that he would neuer take it vpō him without his fathers consent and so therevpon it was concluded that certaine solemne Messengers should goe to Kenilworth to moue the king to make resignation of his Crowne and tytle to the kingdome vnto his sonne Thom. de la More Tho. VVals There were sent on this message as some write three or as other haue but two Bishops two Erles two Abbots two or as de la More Walsingham haue four Barons and for euerie Countie Citie Burrough and likewise for the cinque portes certain knights and burgesses The Bishops that were sent were these as de la More noteth Iohn de Stratford Bishop of Winchester Adam de Torleton Bishop of Hereford and Henrie Bishop of Lyncolne The two Earles as Southwell hath were Lancaster and Warwike the two Barons Rose and Courtney beside these as he sayth there were two Abbots two Priors two Iustices two Friers of the order of Preachers two of the Carmelites two knights for the Commons on the North syde of Trent and two for the other on the South syde of the same Ryuer two Citizens for London two Burgesses for the cinque Portes so as in all there were that went of this message as Southwell hath xxiij or rather .xxiiij. persones of one degree and other None of the Frier Minors went bycause they woulde not bee the bringers of so heauie tydings sithe he had euer borne them great good will The Bishoppes Winchester and Lyncolne went before and comming to Kenilworth associated with them the Earle of Leycester of some called the Earle of Lancaster that had the King in keeping And hauing secrete conference with the king they sought to frame his minde so as be might be contented to resigne the crowne to his sonne bearing hym in hande that if he refused so to doe the people in respect of the euil will whiche they had conceyued agaynste hym woulde not fayle but proceede to the election of some other that shoulde happely not touche hym in lynage And sithe this was the onely meane to bring the lande in quiet they wylled hym to consider how muche he was bounde in conscience to take that way that shoulde bee so beneficiall to the whole Realme The King being sore troubled to heare suche displeasant newes was brought into a marueylous agonie but in the ende for the quyet of the Realme and doubt of further daunger to hymselfe he determyned to follow theyr aduice and so when the other Commissioners were come and that the Bishop of Hereford had declared the cause wherefore they were sent the King in presence of them all notwithstanding his outward countenaunce discouered howe muche it inwardly grieued him yet after he was come to himself he answered that he knew that he was
goodes with the prisoners were carryed into Englande This chaunred on a Sunday the day before the feaste of Saincte Martin in Nouember Where the Lorde Walter de Manny might haue hadde .xj. thousande pounde sterling for the raunsome of the saide Sir Guy and other prisoners the king bought them of him in the fourteenthe yere of his raygne for eighte thousande pounde sterling as by recordes in the Tower it appeareth Aboute the feaste of Sainct Martine in winter Tvvo Cardinalles come into Englande there came vnto London two Cardinals sente by the Pope to treate for a peace betwixte the kings of Englande and Fraunce The Archebishoppe of Canterburie with the Byshops of Winchester Elie Chicester Couentrie the coÌ„meners of the citie of Lodon met them on Shoters hill Additions to Meri The duke of Cornwall with the earle of Surrey and many other of the nobilitie receyued them a mile without the Citie The Kyng himselfe receiued them at the lesser Hall dore of his Pallace at Westminster and brought them into the paynted chamber where they declared theyr message wherevppon the king caused a Parliament to be summoned at London to beginne the morrowe after Candelmas daye The King helde his Christemasse at Oxforde and within the Octaues of the same 〈◊〉 hee tooke his iourney towardes Scotlande de rather as other haue he sente thither the Earles of Salisburie Gloucester Derbie 133â—… R. Sâ—… The 〈…〉 An. reg â—… and Aâ—…gos with three Barons the lords Percy â—…uill and Stafforde the whiche with .xx. thousande men besieged the Castell of Dunbarre A parliament The morrowe after Candelmasse daye the parliament began in whiche there was a graunte made to the king by the Laitie of the one halfe of their woolles throughe the whole realme for the nexte sommer Croxden A subsidie whiche he receiued and likewise he leuied of the Clergie the whole causing them to paye nine markes of euery sacke of the hoste wooll But after the rate of the one halfe he tooke in whose hands so euer it was founde aswell merchantes as other After this hee tooke a fifteenthe of all the communaltie of his realme in wooll the price of euery stone conteyning fourteen pounde rated at twoo shillings The Cardinals retourne The one twentith of March the two Cardinals took the sea at Douer and in their companie went ouer the Archebishoppe of Canterburie and the bishoppe of Durham to treate of a peace if by any good meanes the two kings might bee made friendes but as it appeared theyr trauayle was in vayne for although they abode togither for a time on the FroÌ„ters doing their beste endeuour yet their trauaile nothing auailed as by that whiche followethe is moste manifeste The Flemings that fauoured Kyng Edwarde were put in suche comfort by the safe victorie obteined by the Englishemen in the Isle of Cadsont that fallyng to their former practise Iames 〈…〉 one Iaques or Iacob van Arteveld aâ—… honymaker of the town of Gaunt was chosen amongst them to bee as it were the defender of the people and namely of the weauers His 〈…〉 and other clothworkers Finally his aucthoritie grewe so hugely amongest all the whole number of the commons in Flaunders that hee might doe more with them than their Earle and yet the Earle to reconcile the people to his fauour ceassed not to vse all curteous meanes towardes them that he coulde deuise as releasing customes and dueties of mony pardoning offences forfeitures A Lâ—… tvviâ—…â—…landâ—… and â—…der and other suche like but all woulde not auaile him The king of England had so wonne them by the meanes of the saide Iaques van Arteuelde that in the ende Iohn Archebishoppe of Canterburie and Richarde the Bishoppe of Durham came into Flaunders as ambassadours from king Edwarde and trauailed so earnestly to draâ—…e the Flemings vnto an amitie with their master king Edwarde 〈◊〉 beâ—…ixt EnglaÌ„d â—…d Flaunders that finally a league was concluded betwixt the countrey of Flaunders and the saide King at Gaunt â—… Meâ—…r in the presence of the Erle of Gelderlande as then beeing there The chiefe aucthours of this league were the said Iaques van Arteveld and a noble man of Flaunders â—…ger de Curâ—…y called Siger de Curtrey But this Siger being immediatly after apprehended by the Earle of Flaunders was put to death Which act procured the earle so much hatred of the people that shortely after comming to Bruges and attempting to force the towne to his will hee was forced himselfe to fled from thence for otherwise hee had bene either taken or slaine The coÌ„mons of the towne and namely the Fullers The Fullers 〈◊〉 Gâ—… of whom he had slain some there in the streetes rose so faste vppon him Herevppon fleeing home to his house he tooke his wife â—…e Earle of â—…anders â—…eth into â—…nce and a sonne whiche hee hadde and fledde with them into Fraunce so forsaking his countrey whiche was nowe gouerned by Iaques van Arteveld as though he had bin immediate lorde thereof After this the Earle retourned home againe 〈◊〉 retourneth 〈◊〉 as it were with the Frenche Kinges commission to perswade the Flemings to renounce the league concluded with the King of Englande but hee coulde bring nothing to passe but was still in danger to haue bene arrested and stayed of his owne subiectes bothe at Gaunt and in other places but namelie at Dirmen â—…en where if hee had not made the more haste away hee had bene taken by them of Bruges â—…e eftsoones â—…th Amongest other of his stuffe whiche hee left behinde him in that hastie departure his signet was forgotten and not missed till hee came to Sainct Omers whether hee fledde for his safegarde â—…ders â—…holy at the â—…tion of â—…g Edvvard Thus yee maye perceiue that Flaunders rested wholy at King Edwardes commaundement who to establishe amitie also with the Duke of Brabant and other Princes of the Empire about the middest of Iuly sailed ouer vnto Antwerp â—…ng Edvvard â—…eth to â—…vverpe with his wife quene Philip his sonne the prince of Wales and a greate number of other of the peers and Barons of his realme where hee was moste ioyfully receiued of the duke of Brabant and other lordes of the empire â—…ssart â—…e Marques 〈◊〉 GulickerlaÌ„d Ther was sent vnto the Emperour to procure his friendship from the king of EnglaÌ„d the Marques of Gulik with certain noble men of England and also certen of the duke of GelderlaÌ„d his couÌ„sel the which Marques was made at y e time an erle the erle of GelderlaÌ„d was made duke The Earle of â—…elderlande â—…cared Duke This duke of Gelderland named Reginald had maried the ladie Isabell sister of K. Edward and therfore in fauour of the king his brother in law trauailed most earnestly to procure him all the friendes within the Empire that he coulde make The princes and lordes then with whome king Edwarde
seruaunts and rested not till he came to his owne Castell where he dwelled being .xxx. mile distant from the place of the battaile There was taken also beside him Hec. Boetius Southwell Fabian Froissart the Erles of Fife Sutherlande Wighton and Menteth the Lorde William Dowglas the Lord Vescie the Archb. of S. Andrewes and another Bishop wyth Sir Thomelyn Fowkes and diuerse other men of name There were slaine of one and other to the number of .xv. M. This battaile was fought beside the citie of Durham Neuils crosse at a place called Neuils crosse vpon a Saterday next after the feast of S. Michaell See in Scotlād Pag. 350. 351 in the yeare of our Lorde .1346 He that will see more of this battaile may finde the same also set forth in the Scottishe hystorie as theyr writers haue written thereof And forsomuch as by the circumstances of their writings it shoulde seeme they kept the remembraunce of the same battaile perfitely registred wee haue in this place onely shewed what other wryters haue recorded of that matter and left that which the Scottishe Chronicles write to be seene in the life of king Dauid without much abridging thereof Hec. Boetius Counttreys of Scotland subdued by the Englishmen Froissart The English men after this victorie thus obteyned tooke the Castels of Roxburgh and Hermitage and also without any resistance subdued the Countreys of Annandale Galloway Mers Tiuidale and Ethrike Forest extending theyr marches forth at y e time vnto Cokburnes Peth and Sowtray hedge and after vnto Trarlinlips and crosse Cane The Queene of England being certainly enformed that the king of Scottes was taken and that Iohn Copland had conueyed him out of the field no man vnderstood to what place she incōtinently wrote to him Iohn Copland refuseth to deliuer the king of Scottes commaunding him forthwith to bring his prisoner king Dauid vnto hir presence but Iohn Copland wrote to hir againe for a determinate answere that he would not deliuer his prisoner the sayde king Dauid vnto any person liuing man or woman except onely to the king of England his soueraigne Lord maister Herevpon the Queene wrote letters to the king signifying to him both of the happie victorie chanced to his people against the Scots also of the demeanor of Iohn Coplande in deteyning the Scottish king King Edwarde immediatly by letters commaunded Iohn Coplande to repaire vnto him where hee laye at siege before Calais which with all conuenient speede he did and there so excused himselfe of that which the Queene had found hirselfe grieued with him for deteyning the king of Scots from hir that the king did not ◅ly pardon him but also gaue to him .v. C. Iohn C◅ rea◅ pounds sterling of yearely rent to him and to his hey◅ for euer in reward of his good seruice and valiant prowes and made him Esquier for his bodie cōmanding him yet vpō his returne into England to deliuer king Dauid vnto the Queene whiche he did and so excused himselfe also vnto hir that she was therwith satisfied and content The Queene then after she had taken order for the safe keping of the king of Scots and good gouernment of the realme toke the sea and sayled ouer to the K. hir husband stil lying before Calais Whilest Calais was thus besieged by the king of Englande the Flemings which had lately before besieged Betwine Iames M◅ The Fle◅ had raysed from thence about the same time that the battaile was fought at Cressy nowe assemble togither againe and doing what domage they mighte agaynste the Frenche men on the borders they lay siege vnto the towne of Ayre Moreouer Froissart they wrought so for the king of England earnestly requiring their friendship in that behalfe that their soueraigne Lorde Lewes 1347 An. reg ◅ Earle of Flaunders being as then about fiftene yeares of age fianced the Ladie Isabel daughter to the king of England The Earle of Fla◅ders ◅strayned to promise ◅riage to the king of Englāds d◅g◅ more by cōstraint in deed of his subiects than for any good wil he bare to the king of England for he would often say that he would neuer mary hir whose father had slain his but there was no remedie for the Flemings kept him in maner as a prisoner till he graunted to folow their aduice But the same weeke that the mariage was appoynted to bee solemnized the Earle as he was abrode in hawking at the Hearon stale away and fled into France not staying to ride his horse vpon the spurres till he came into Arthois and so dishonourably disappoynted both the king of England and his owne naturall subiects the Flemings to their high displeasure There were taken beside the Lorde Charles de Bloys naming himselfe Duke of Brytayne diuerse other Lordes and men of name as Monsieur Guy de la Vaal sonne and heyre to the Lorde la Vaal which dyed in the battayle the Lord of Rocheford the Lorde de Beaumanour the Lord of Loyack with other Lordes knights and Esquiers in great numbers There were slaine the sayde Lorde de la Vaall the Vicounte of Rohan the Lorde of Chasteau Brian the Lorde de Mailestr◅ite the Lorde de Quintin the Lord de Rouge the Lord of Dereuall and his sonne Sir Raufe de Montfort and many other worthie men of armes Knightes and Esquiers to the number betwixt sixe and seuen hundred as by a letter wrytten by the sayde sir Thomas Dagworth and regystred in the Hystorie of Robert de Auesburie it doeth appeare In this meane while King Philip hauing daylye worde howe the power of his enimie king Edwarde dyd encrease by ayde of the Easterlings and other nations Fabian whiche were to him allyed and that his menne within Calais were brought to such an extreame poynt that wythout speedie reskue they coulde not long keepe the Towne but muste of force render it ouer into the handes of hys sayde enimye to the great preiudice of all the Realme of Fraunce Thē French king assembleth an army Froissart after greate deliberation taken vpon this so weightie a matter hee commaunded euerie man to meete hym in theyr best array for the warre at the feast of Pentecost in the Citie of Amiens or in those marches At the day and place thus appoynted there came to him Odes Duke of Burgoigne and the Duke of Normandie eldest sonne to the King the Duke of Orleaunce his yongest sonne the Duke of Burbon the Earle of Fois the Lorde Lois de Sauoy the Lorde Iohn of Heynault the Erle of Arminacke the Earle of Forrest and the Erle Valentinois with many other These noble men being thus assembled they tooke counsayle which way they myght passe to gyue battayle to the Englishe menne It was thought the best way had beene through Flaunders but the Flemings in fauour of the king of Englande denyed The Fleming a besiege Ayre not onely to open theyr passages to the
day and two nightes and shewed themselues in order of battaile before the Citie This was on the .xxiiij. of September The French king was at the same time within the Citie and might behold out of his lodging of S. Poule the fiers smokes that were made in Gastenois through burning the townes and villages there by the EnglishmeÌ„ but yet he wold suffer none of his people to go forth of the citie although there was a great power of men of warre within the Citie both of such as had coasted the English army in all this iourney and also of other which were come thither by the kings commaundement beside the Burgesses inhabitants of the Citie When sir Robert Knolles perceyued that hee shoulde haue no battaile he departed and drewe towardes Aniou where they wanne by streÌ„gth the townes of Vaas and Ruelly But now in the beginning of winter there fell suche discorde amongst the English captaines through couetousnesse and enuie that finally they deuided themselues in sunder greatly to the displeasure of sir Robert Knolles theyr General who could not rule them Tho. VVals Sir Simon Minsterworth There was a knight among them named sir Iohn Mensterworth that had the leading of one wing of this army a good man of his handes as we call him but peruers of mind verie deceitful and to sir Robert Knolles to whoÌ„ he was muche beholden most vnfaythful This knight perceyuing the wilfull minds of certaine yong Lords and knights there in the army that repined at the gouernment of sir Robert Knolles as the Romains did somtime at the gouernance of Camillus The chiefe of them were these the Lorde Grantson the Lord Fitz Water and others hee did his best to pricke them forwarde sounding them in the eare that it was a great reporche for them being of noble Parentage to serue vnder such an olde rascall as he was eche of them being able to guyde theyr enterprice of themselues Bermondsey wythout his counsayle In deede this sir Robert Knolles was not discended of any high lynage Sir Robert Knolles borne in Chesshire but borne in the Countie of Chester of meane ofspring neuerthelesse through his valiant prowes and good seruice in warre growne to such estimation as he was reputed worthie of all honour due to a noble and skilfull warrior so that it was thought the King coulde not haue made his choyse of one more able or sufficient to supplie the roumth of a chieftaine than of hym but yet although this was moste true his aduice could not be hearde nor the authoritie appoynted hym by the King beare any sway for where he counsayled that they shoulde nowe vpon the approching of Winter drawe forth of Fraunce into Brytayne and there remayne for the Wynter season they would not so agree nor obey his will Wherevpon it came to passe that sir Berthram de Cleaquin Sir Robert Knolles counsaile not followed at that time newly made Conestable of Fraunce vnderstanding this diuision to grow amongst the Englishmen and that they were deuided into parts he set vpon them so much to their disaduantage that he distressed theÌ„ and tooke or slue the more part of them Discorde who coÌ„meth 〈◊〉 Caxton but sir Robert Knolles with the flower of the archers and men of warre went into Brytaine and there saued himselfe and those that followed him Here may you see how those y t before through amitie and good agreement were of such force as their enimies durst not once assay to annoy them now by strife and dissention amongst themselues were slain or taken by the same enimies and brought to confusion In this meane time that sir Robert Knolles made thys voyage throughe the Realme of Fraunce Froissart The Citie of Limoges besieged the Prince of Wales layde siege to the Citie of Lymoges whiche was reuolted to the Frenchmen There were with hym at the laying of thys siege his brethren the Duke of Lancaster and the Earle of Cambridge sir Guishard Dangle sir Loys de Harecourt the Lorde of Pons the Lorde of Partenay the Lorde of Pinane the Lorde of Tannaybouton sir Perciuall de Coulongne sir Geffray de Argenton Poictouyus and of Gascoignes the Lorde of Mountferrant the Lorde de Chaumount the Lorde de Lougueren sir Amerie de Tharse the Lordes of Pommiers Mucident de l' Esparre the Souldiche de Lestrade the Lorde of Geronde and many other of Englishe menne there were sir Thomas Percye the Lorde Ros the Lorde William Beauchampe sir Michaell de la Pole sir Stephen Goussenton sir Richarde Pontchardon sir Baldwyn Freuille sir Simon Burley sir Dangousse Sir Iohn Deuereux Sir William Menille or as some Copyes haue Neuille and many other There was also Sir Eustace Dambrethicourt and of the Companions sir Perducas Dalbreth who in the begynning of these warres beeing turned Frenche was by the perswasion of Sir Robert Knolles procured to returne agayne to the Princes seruice before the siege of Durmelle The Prince beeing thus accompanied wyth these worthie Captaynes and men of armes to the number of .xij. hundred beside a thousand archers and other footmen endeuoured by al wayes he could deuice to endomage them within In the ende he caused the walles to be vndermined and quite reuersed into the ditch Lymoges taken by force and then giuing assault entred by y e breach made an huge slaughter of them within insomuche that of men women and children for none were spared in respect of age or sexe there were slain and behedded that day aboue three thousand The Bishop with certaine knightes and captaynes were taken and had their liues graunted though the Bishop was in great daunger to haue lest his head bycause he was a chiefe doer in yeelding the Citie before vnto the Frenchmen Whilest the Prince lay at siege before Lymoges a little before he wanne it thither came to hym his brethren Polidor Froissart the Duke of Lancaster and the Earle of Cambridge the Lorde Ros sir Michaell de la Poole sir Robert Roux sir Iohn Saintlo sir William Beauchampe wyth a faire number of men of warre speares archers The Prince then after he had wonne Lymoges and executed some crueltie there to the terrour of other His maladie which still continued vpoÌ„ him rather encreased than diminished so that hee was aduised by Phisitions to returne into England in hope that chaunge of aire should restore him to health For the which consideration and other causes of businesse which he had to doe with his father The Prince returneth into England Thom VVals touching certain weighty affaires he tooke the sea came ouer into EnglaÌ„d leauing the gouernment of Aquitain vnto his brother the duke of Lancaster as his lieutenant there he landed at Plimmouth in the beginning of Ianuary The king of Nauar commeth ouer inâ—…o England Moreouer in this .xliiij. yeare of king Edward the king of Nauarre came ouer into England and at Claringdon found the king
therefore was the more circumspect for his owne safetie and studyed howe by some meanes he mighte dispatche the Duke of Gloucester out of the way as the man whome he most feared least his life shoulde be his destruction by one meanes or other Easter was nowe past the tyme as yee haue hearde appoynted before the which the Duke of Irelande should haue transported ouer into Irelande and yet was hee not set forward but least somewhat myght be thought in the matter and for feare of some sturre to be raysed by the Lords of the Realme that wished him gone accordyng to the order prescribed at the last Parliament Dissention betwixt the Kyng and the nobles the King as it were to bring hym to the water side wente with him into Wales where beeyng out of the way they myghte deuise how to dispatche the Duke of Gloucester the Earles of Arundell Warwike Darbye and Nottingham with others of that faction There were with the King besyde the Duke of Ireland Michael de la Pole Earle of Suffolke Roberte Trisilian Lorde chiefe Iustice and diuers other whiche doubtfull of theyr owne safegardes dyd what they coulde as writers reporte to moue the King forwarde to the destruction of those noble men After the Kyng had remayned in those parties a good while hee returned An. reg â—… and broughte the Duke of Irelande backe with him agayne so that it semed hys boyage into Ireland was now quite forgotten Addition to Paâ—… Memorand that the fiue and twentith daye of August in the eleuenth yeare of the raigne of King Richard the second at the Castell of Nottingham aforesayde Roberte Trisilian Lorde chiefe Iustice of Englande Roberte Belknap Lord chiefe Iustice of the common pleas Iohn Holte Roger Fulthorp and WilliaÌ„ Borough Knightes and associates of the sayde Roberte Belknap and Iohn Lockton one of the Kyngs sergeants at the lawe beeing personally required in presence of the Lordes and other witnesses vnder written by our sayd soueraigne Lorde the Kyng in that faith and allegiance in whiche to him they were bounden that they shoulde truely aunswere to certayne questions vnderwritten and vpon the same by their discretions to say the lawe Firste it was asked of them whether the newe statute Question in laws demided 〈◊〉 the Iustice ordinaunce and commission made in the last Parliament holden at Westminster bee hurtfull to the kings prerogatiue Wherevnto all of one minde aunswered that they were hurtfull and specially bycause they bee agaynste the kings will Item it was enquired of them howe they oughte to bee punished that procured the sayde Statute ordinance and Comission to be made Wherevnto with one assent they answered that they deserued death except the King of his grace would pardon them Item it was enquired how they ought to be punished whiche moued the King to consente to the making of the said statute ordinance and coÌ„mission Wherevnto they aunswered that vnlesse the King woulde giue them his pardon they ought to lose their liues Item it was enquired of them what punishment they deserued that compelled the Kyng to the making of that statute ordinance and commission Wherevnto they gaue aunswere that they ought to suffer as Traytors Item it was demaunded of them howe they ought to bee punished that interrupted the Kyng so that hee myghte not exercise those things that apperteyned to his regaltie and prerogatiue Wherevnto aunswere was made that they ought to be punished as Traytors Item it was enquired of them whether that after the affayres of the Realme and the cause of the callyng togither the states to the Parliamente were once by the Kyngs commaundemente declared and opened and other articles on the Kyngs behalfe limitted vppon whyche the Lordes and commons of the Realme ought to intreate and proceede if the Lordes neuerthelesse woulde proceede vpon other articles and not meddle with those articles which the Kyng hadde limited till time the King hadde aunswered the Articles proponed by them notwithstanding the Kyng enioyned them to the contrarie Whether in this case the Kyng myghte rule the Parliament and cause them to proceede vppon the Articles by hym limited before they proceede any further To whyche question it was aunswered that the Kyng shoulde haue in thys parte the rule for order of all suche articles to be prosecuted vntill the ende of the Parliamente And if any presumed to goe contrary to this rule he was to be punished as a traytor Item it was asked whether the King when so euer it pleased hym myghte not dissolue the Parliamente and commaunde the Lordes and commons to depart from thence or not Wherevnto it was aunswered that hee might Item it was inquired that for asmuche as it was in the Kyng to remoue suche Iustices and officers as offende and to punishe them for theyr offences Whether the Lordes and commons myghte without the Kings wil impeache the same officers and Iustices vpoÌ„ their offences in Parliament or not To this aunswere was made that they myghte not and hee that attempted contrarye was to suffer as a Traytor Item it was enquired howe hee is to bee punished that moued in the Parliamente that the statute wherein Edwarde the sonne of Kyng Edwarde greate grandfather to the Kyng that nowe is was endited in Parliamente myght be sente for by inspection of whyche Statute the sayde newe statute or ordinaunce and commission were conceyued and deuised in the Parliament To whiche question with one accorde as in all the residue they aunswered that as well hee that so summoned as the other whyche by force of the same motion broughte the sayde Statute into the Parliamente house be as publique offendors and Traytors to bee punished Item it was enquired of them whether the Iudgemente giuen in the Parliament agaynste Michael de la Pole Earle of Suffolke were erronious and reuocable or not To which question likewise with one assente they sayd that if the same iudgement were nowe to bee giuen the Iustices and Sergeaunte aforesayde woulde not gyue the same bycause it seemed to them that the sayde iudgemente is reuocable and erronious in euery part In witnesse whereof the Iustices and Sergeaunte aforesayde to these presentes haue set there seales these beeing witnesses Alexander Archbyshop of Yorke Roberte Archbyshoppe of Dublin Iohn Byshop of Durham Thomas Byshop of Chester Iohn Byshoppe of Bangor Robert Duke of Irelande Mighell Earle of Suffolke Iohn Rypon Clearke and Iohn Blake Tho. VVals Now beside these Iustices and Sergeaunte there were called at that presente vnto Notingham all other Iustices of the Realme and the Sherifes Also diuers of the Citie of London which the King knewe would encline to his will the rather for that some of them hauing aforetime confessed treason against the King by them imagined and obteyning pardon for the same were ready at his commaundemente to recompence suche fauoure in the accomplishmente of what soeuer they knewe myghte stand with hys pleasure Heerevppon they beeing enpanelled to enquire
honorably enterteined vvith the french king and him honorably interteined in so much that he had by fauor obteyned in mariage the only daughter of y e duke of Berry vncle to the frenche K. if King Richard had not bin a let in that matter who being thereof certified sent the earle of Salisbury with all speede into France Froissart both to surmise by vntrue suggestion hainous offences against him and also to require the frenche King that in no wise hee woulde suffer his cousin to bee matched in mariage with him that was so manifest an offendor On Neweyeares day this yeare 1399 the riuer that passeth betwixte Suelleston or Snelston and Harewood twoo villages not farre from Bedforde sodeinly ceassed hir course so as the chanell remained drie by the space of three miles that any man might enter into and passe the same drie foote at his plesure This deuision whiche the water made in that place the one part seeming as it were not to come nere to the other was iudged to signifie the reuolting of the subiectes of this land from their naturall Prince althoughe it may be that the water of that riuer sanke into the ground and by some secrete passage or chanell tooke course till it came to the place where it might rise again as in other places is likewise seene Ye haue heard before howe the Archebishop of Canterbury Thomas Arundel was banished the Realme Fabian Roger Walden was made Archbishop of that see who was a greate fauourer of the citie of London the which was eftsoones about this season falne into the kings displeasure but by the diligente labour of this Archebishop and of Roberte Braybrooke then bishop of London vpon the humble supplication of the citizens the kings wrathe was pacified Blanke charters But yet to content the kings mind many blanke charters were deuised and brought into the citie which many of the substanciall welthie citizens were fayne to seale to their greate chardge as in the ende appeared And the like charters were sent abroad into al shires within the realme wherby greate grudge and murmuring arose among the people for when they were so sealed the kings officers wrote in the same what liked them as well for charging the parties with payment of money as otherwise The deathe of â—…e duke of Lancaster In this meane time the duke of Lancaster departed out of this life at the bishop of Elies place in Holborne and lieth buryed in the cathedrall churche of S. Paule in London on the North side of the highe Aulter by the Lady Blaunche his firste wife The death of this duke gaue occasion of encreasing more hatred in the people of this realm towarde the king for he seased into his handes all the goods that belonged to hym and also receyued all the rents and reuenues of his landes whiche ought to haue discended vnto the duke of Hereforde by lawfull inheritaunce in reuoking his letters patents which he had graunted to him before Thom VVal. by vertue wherof he might make his attorneis generall to sue liuery for hym of any maner of inheritaunces or possessions that myghte from thenceforthe fall vnto hym and that hys homage myghte bee respited wyth making reasonable fine wherby it was euident that the king ment his vtter vnâ—… 〈◊〉 Thys hards dealing was muche myâ—… of all the nobilitie and cried out against of the meaner sorte But namely the Duke of Yorke was therewyth sore amoued who before this time had borne things with so pacient a 〈◊〉 as he could though the same touched him 〈◊〉 neare as the death of his brother the Duke of Gloucester the banishment of hys nephâ—… the said duke of Hereford and other mo iniuries 〈◊〉 greate number which for the slippery youth of the king hee passed ouer for the tyme and did forget aswell as he might But now perceiuing that neither law 〈◊〉 nor equitie could take place where the kinges wilful wil was bent vpon any wrongfull purpose he considered that the glorie of the 〈◊〉 wealthe of his countrey must needes decay by reason o the king his lacke of witte and want of suche as would without flattery admonish hym of hys duty and therefore hee thought it the parte of a wise man to get hym in time to a resting place and to leaue the followyng of suche an vnaduised capitaine as wyth a leaders sworde would cut his owne throate Herevpon he wyth the duke of Aumarle his sonne went to his house at Langley The duke of York mistaketh the court and goeth 〈◊〉 reioicing that nothing had mishappened in the common wealthe throughe his deuise or consent The realme let to ferme by the Kyng The common brute â—…anne that the kyng had sette to ferme the realme of England vnto sir Wylliam Scrope Earle of Wiltshire and then treasourer of Englande to sir Iohn Bushy Syr Iohn Bagot and sir Henry Greene Knights Aboute the same time the Earle of Arundels sonne named Thomas whiche was kept in the duke of Exeters house escaped out of the realme by meanes of one Willyam Scot meecer and went to his vncle Thomas Arundell late Archbishop of Canterbury as then soiorning at Coleyn King Richarde beeing destitute of treasure to furnishe suche a Princely porte as he mainteined Tho. VVals borrowed greate summes of money of many of the greate Lordes and Peeres of hys realme both spiritual and temporall and likewise of other meane persones promysing them in good earnest by deliuering to them his letters patentes for assuraunce that hee woulde repay the money so borrowed at a day appointed which notwithstanding he neuer payd Moreoreouer Nevve â—…actionâ—… this yere he caused .xvij. shires of the realme by way of putting theÌ„ to their fines to pay no smal suÌ„mes of money for redeeming their offeÌ„ces that they had aided y e duke of Gloucester the erles of Arudel Warwik wheÌ„ theâ—… rose in armor against him The nobles gentlemeÌ„ and commons of those shires were enforced also to receiue a newe othe to assure the king of their fidelitie in time to come The 〈◊〉 of 〈…〉 vvas 〈◊〉 plâ—…ce 〈◊〉 vvere to 〈◊〉 the King vvithall but the same displeâ—… many that vvas that conâ—…d to pay against their vvâ—…es and withall certaine prelates and other honorable persoâ—…ges were sent into the same shites to persuade men to this payment and to see thinges ordered at the pleasure of the Prince and surely the â—…nes whiche the nobles and other the meaner estates of those shires were constrayned to pay were not small but exceeding greate to the offence of many Moreouer the kings letters pâ—…coâ—…tes were sent into euery shire within this land by vertue whereof The people coÌ„â—… their othe 〈◊〉 alegeaâ—…nce by vvriting â—…ed an othe was demaunded of all the kings liege people for a further assuraunce of their due obedience and they were consterined to ratifie the same in writing vnder their handes and seales Moreouer they
was borne first a Carmelite Frier professed in Norwiche and after going to Cambridge hee there proceeded Doctor hee was also confessor to the Duke of Lancaster and to his wife the Duches Constance a greate setter forthe of Pope Vrbanes cause againste the other Popes that were by him and those of his faction named the Antipapes Thomas Maldon so called of y e towne of that name in Essex where hee was borne Iohn Edoe discended out of Wales by lignage and borne in Herefordshire a Franciscane Frier Nicholas Fakinham borne in Northfolke a grey Frier proceeded Doctor in Oxford a great Diuine and an excellent Philosopher prouinciall of his order here in Englande Laurence Holbecke a Monke of Ramsey well seene in the Hebrewe tong and wrote thereof a Dictionarie Iohn Colton Archbyshop of Ardmach Iohn Marrey so called of a village in Yorkeshire where he was borne a Carmelite of Doucaster Richarde Chefer borne in Northfolke a diuine and an Augustine Frier in Norwiche Iohn Lathburie a Franciscane Frier of Reading Nicholas Poutz Richard Scrope brother to William Scrope Lord Treasorer of England studyed in Cambridge and proceeded there Doctor of both the lawes became an aduocate in the Court of Rome and afterwardes was aduanced to the gouernemente of the Sea of Couentrie and Litchfield and at length was remoued from thence and made Archbyshoppe of Yorke he wrote an inuectiue againste Kyng Henry and at length lost his head as before yee haue heard Iohn Wrotham a Carmelite Frier of London and after made Warden of an house of his order in Calays Iohn Colby a Carmelite Frier of Norwich William Thorp a Northerne man borne and studente in Oxford an excellent diuine and an earnest follower of that famous Clearke Iohn Wicklife a notable preacher of the word Actes and monuments page 631. c. and expressing his doctrine no lesse in trade of life than in speeche he was at length apprehended by commaundement of the Archbyshop of Caunterburie Thomas Arundell and committed to prison in Saltwood Castell where at length hee dyed Stephen Patrington borne in Yorkeshire a Frier Carmelite prouinciall of his order thorough England of whiche broode there were at that season .1500 within this land he was Byshop of Sainte Dauids and confessor to Kyng Henry the fifth about the fifth yeare of whose raigne he deceassed Robert Mascall a Carmelite Frier of Ludlowe confessor also to the sayde King who made him Byshop of Hereford Reginald Langham a Frier Minor of Norwiche Actonus Dominicanus Thomas Palmer warden of the blacke Friers within the Citie of London Boston of Burie a Monke of the Abbey of Burie in Suffolke wrote a Cataloge of all the writers of the Churche and other treatises Thomas Peuerell a Frier Carmelite borne in Suffolke hee was aduanced to the Sea of Ossorie in Irelande by Richarde the seconde and after by Pope Boniface the ninth remoued to Landaue in Wales and from thence called by Henrye the fourth with consente of Pope Gregorie the twelfth to gouerne the Sea of Worcester and so continued Byshoppe of that Citie till hee ended his life in the yeare of oure Lord .1418 whiche was about the sixth yeare of the reigne of King Henry the fifth Iohn Puruey an excellente Diuine proceeded master of arte in Oxforde hee was apprehended for suche doctrine as hee taught contrarie to the ordinaunces of the Churche of Rome See master Foâ—…e in his booke of 〈◊〉 and moâ—…rmeÌ„ is 〈◊〉 and was at length compelled by Thomas Arundell Archbyshoppe of Caunterburie to recante at Poules Crosse seauen speciall articles hee wrote diuers treatises and was the second time committed to prison in Henry y e fifth his dayes by Henry Chichley that succeeded Arundell in gouernement of the Church of Canterburie William Holme a grey Frier and a good Phisition for curing diseases of the body whatsoeuer his phisick was for the soule he liued til HeÌ„ry the fifth his daies and deceassed about y e fourth yeare of his raigne Nicholas Bayard a blacke Frier a Doctor of Diuinitie professed at Oxforde Thomas Rudburne Archdeacon of Sudburie and Byshop of Saint Dauids in Wales succeding after Stephen Patrington hee wrote a Chronicle and certaine Epistles as Iohn Bale noteth Nicholas Riston who being sore greeued in mind as diuers other in those dayes to consider what inconuenience redounded to the Church by reason of the strife and brawling among the Prelates for the acknowledging of a lawfull Pope two or three still contending for that dignitie wrote a booke entituled de tollende Sersmate Iohn Walter an excellent mathemeticien being fyrste broughte vp of a Scholer in the Colledge of Winchester and after studyed at Oxford Thomas of Newmarket taking that surname of the Towne in Cambridgeshire where hee was borne hee for his worthinesse as was thoughte was made Byshoppe of Careleill well seene both in other sciences and also in diuinitie William Anger a Franciscane Frier of an house of that order in Brigewater Peter Russell a grey Frier and of his order the prouinciall heere in England Iohn Langton a Carmelite Roberte Wantham a Monke of Cerneley in Dorsetshire wrote a Booke in verse of the originall and signification of wordes William Norton a Franciscane Fâ—… of Couentrie Hugh Sueth a blacke Frier and a great preacher Richard Folsham a Monke of Norwiche Robert Wimbeldon a singular diuine and an excellent Preacher as appeareth by the Sermon whiche hee made vpon this texte Actes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 page 653. Redde rationem villicationis tua King Henrie the fifth An. reg 1. Henry the .5 HENRY Prince of Wales son and heire to Kyng Henrye the fourth borne at Monmouth in wales on the ryuer of Wye after his father was departed this life tooke vpon him the regimente of thys Realme of Englande the twentith of Marche being proclaymed King by the name of Henry the fifth in the yeare of the worlde .5375 after the birth of one sauior 1413. the third or theraboutes 1413 of the Emperor Sigismond the three and thirtie of Charles the sixt king of Fraunce and about the fifth of Iames the first K. of Scotland Suche greate hope and good expectation was hadde of thys mans fortunate successe to followe that within three dayes after hys fathers deceasse diuers noble men and honourable personages did to him homage Homage done to king Henry before his coronation and swâ—…re to him due obedieÌ„ce which had not bin sene done to any of his predecessors kings of this Realm till they hadde bin possessed of the Crowne and receyued their oth well and truely to gouerne He was Crowned the ninth of Aprill The day of K. Henryes coronation a very tempestuous daye beeyng Passion Sonday which was a sore ruggie and vntemperate daye with wind snow and fleete that men greatly maruelled thereat making diuers interpretations what the same mighte signifie But what so euer mens fancies hereof might coniecture this King was the man that according to the olde prouerbe
that faction promising more as was sayd thaÌ„ lay well in his power to performe The K. shortly after sent Ambassadors to them doth as the Bishop of Durham and Norwich with others Moreouer at this Parliament Iohn the kings brother was created Duke of Bedford and his brother Humfry Duke of Glocester Also Thomas Beauforte Marques Dorset was created Duke of Exeter 〈…〉 Imediately after the King sent ouer into France his Vncle the Duke of Exeeter the Lorde Grey Admirall of England the Archebishop of Dublin and the Bishop of Norwiche Ambassadoures to the Frenche K. with fiue hundred horse which were lodged in the teÌ„ple house in Paris keping such triumphaÌ„t cheere in their lodging and suche a solemne estate in their ryding through the citie that the Parisians and all the Frenchmen had no small meruaile at that honorable porte and lordely behauior The French king receyued them very honorably and banketted them right sumptuously shewing to them iustes and martiall pastymes by the space of three dayes together in the which Iustes the king himselfe to shewe his courage and actiuitie to the Englishmen manfully brake speares and lustily tourneyed When the triumphe was ended the Englishe ambassadours hauing a tyme appoynted them to declare theyr message and beyng admitted to the Frenche kinges presence requyred of hym to delyuer vnto the Kyng of Englande the realme and Crown of France wyth the entier Duchyes of Aquitayne Normandy and Aniou wyth the countreys of Poictieu and Mayne Manie other requestes they made and thys offered withall that if the French Kyng woulde without warre and effusion of Christian bloud render to the King their master his verye right lawfull inheritance that he woulde be content to take in mariage y e Lady Katherine daughter to the Frenche King and to endow hirwith all the Duthies and Countries before rehersed And of he would not so doe then the King of England did expresse and signifie to hym that with the aide of God and helpe of his people he woulde â—…couer his right and inheritaÌ„ce wrongfully withholden from him with mortall warre and dint of sword The Frenchmen being not a little abashed at these demaundes thought not to make any absolute aunswere in so weightie a cause till they hadde further breathed and therefore prayed the English Ambassadors to saye to the King theyr maister that they now hauing no oportunitie to conclude in so high a matter would shortly send Ambassadors into Englande which should certifie and declare to the King theyr whole minde purpose and intent The Englishe Ambassadors returned with this aunswere making relation of euery thyng that was said or done King Henry after the returne of his Ambassadors determined fully to make war in FraÌ„ce conceyuing a good and perfect hope to haue fortunate successe sith victorie for the moste parte followeth where right leadeth beeing aduanced forwarde by iustice and set forth by equitie And bycause manye Frenchmen were promoted to Ecclesiastical dignities as some to benefices and some to Abbeys and Priories within the realme and sente dayly innumerable summes of money into Fraunce for the reliefe of their naturall couÌ„treymen and kinsfolke he therefore in fauour of the publike wealth of his Realme and subiects in a counsel called at London about Michaelmas Tho. VVals It is not like that in this Counsell vvriters meane the Parliament that vvas adioâ—…ned from Leycester to VVestminster vvhere it began in the octaues of Saint Martin in that seconde yeare 1415. caused to be ordeined that no stranger hereafter should be promoted to anye spirituall dignitie or degree within this realme without his especiall licence and royall coÌ„sent and all they that shuld be admitted shoulde find sufficient suretie not to disclose the secretes of this Realme to anye forraigne person nor to minister ayde or succour to any of theÌ„ with money or by any other meant This was confirmed in a conuocation called the same time by the new Archeb of Caunterburie Moreouer such as were to goe vnto the generall counsell holden at Constance The Coâ—…d of Constance were named and appointed to make theÌ„ ready for the K. hauing knowledge froÌ„ the Emperor Sigismonde of the assembling of that counsell thought it not conuenient to sitte still as an hearer and no partaker in so high a cause which touched the whole state of the Christian common wealthe as then troubled by reason of the schisme that yet continued wherefore hee sente thither Rycharde 〈…〉 Diuers other thinges were concluded at that presente for the Kyng had caused not onely the Lordes of the spiritualtie Engnorrans but also of the temporaltie to assemble here at London the same time to treate specially of his iourney that he purposed to make shortly into Fraunce and herevpon meanes was made for the gatheryng of money whiche was graunted with so good a wil both of the spiritualtie and temporaltie that there was leuied the sum of three hundred thousand marks English and herewith order was giuen to gather a great host of men thorough all his dominions And for the more increasing of his nauie he sent into Holland Zeland and Frizelande to conducte and hyre shippes for the transportyng and countying ouer his men and mâ—…ntions of warre Great preparation for the â—…chvvirres and finally prouided for armour victuals money artillerie cariage boates to passe ouer riuers couered with leather tentes and all other things requisite for so high an enteprise The Frenchemen hauing knowledge heereof the Dolphyn who had the gouernaunce of the realme bicause his father was fallen into his old disease of fransye sent for the Dukes of Berrye and Alaunson and all the other lords of the couÌ„sel of Fraunce by whose aduice it was determined that they shoulde not only prepare a sufficient armye to resist the king of England when so euer hee arriued to inuade Fraunce but also to stuffe and furnishe the townes on the Frontiers and sea coastes with conueniente garnisons of men and further to send to the king of EnglaÌ„d a solemne embassade to make to him some offers according to the demaundes before rehersed The charge of this ambassade was committed to the Earle of Vandosme to maister William Bouratyer Archbishop of Bourges and to maister Peter Fremell Bishoppe of Lyseux to the Lords of Yvry and Braquemonte and to maister Gaultier Cole the kings Secretarie and diuers other An. reg 3. Ambassadours 〈◊〉 of France These Ambassadors accompanied with .350 horsses passed the sea at Caleys and landed at Douer before whose arriuall the King was departed from Windsor to Winchester enteÌ„ding to haue gone to Hampton there to haue surueyd his nauie but hearing of the Ambassadors approchyng he taryed stil at Winchester where y e said Frenche lordes shewed themselues very honorably before the King and his nobilitie The Archebishop of Bourges displeased that hys purpose tooke not effecte desiring licence and pardon of the kyng to speake and obteyning it A proude presumptuous prelare verye rashly
that nothing shoulde bee wanting that might further the speedie dispatche of his enterprices Aboute the same tyme there came agayne Ambassadours to him from the Frenche King Charles and from the Duke of Burgoigne to treate wyth hym of some good conclusion of peace to bee had but as yet hee had no suche trust in theyr sute but that hee doubted their meaning and therefore ceassed not to proceede in the wynning of Townes and Castels as he hadde done before Nowe when Christmasse approched the King withdrewe to Roan and there kepte the solemnization of that Feast appoynting in the meane tyme hys men of warre to be occupied as occasion serued The Earle of Salisburie was sent to besiege the towne of Fresney 1420 the which after stoute resistance made at the first shortly after was deliuered to him to the kings vse The Earles Marshall and Huntingdon sir Iohn Greene Cornewall Ann. reg 8. sir Philip Leech and diuerse other were sente into the Countrey of Mayne where not farre from the Citie of Mans they were encountered by a power of Frenche men whiche the Dolphin hadde sent agaynste them A great victorie on the English side There was at the first a sharpe bickering betwixt them but in the ende the victorie remayned with the Englishmen so that many of the FreÌ„ch men were slaine and taken and the residue chased out of the field There were slaine as Thomas WalsinghaÌ„ hath at the poynt of fiue thousande and two hundred taken prisoners among whom was the Marshal de Rous and dyuerse others of good account The two English Erles remayned there as Victors in the Countrey whiche was by the Kyng to them assigned Whilest these victorious exploytes were thus happely atchieued by the Englishmen and that the King lay still at Roan in giuing thankes to Almightie God for the same there came to him eftsoones Ambassadours from the Frenche King and the Duke of Burgoigne to moue him to peace The King mynding not to be reputed for a destroyer of the Countrey whiche hee coueted to preserue King Henry â—…cendth to 〈◊〉 â—…e of â—…eace or for a causer of Christian bloud stil to be spylt in hys quarell beganne so to encline and giue eare vnto theyr suyt and humble request that at length after often sending to and fro and that the Bishop of Arras and other men of honor had beene with him and likewise the Earle of Warwike and the Bishop of Rochester hadde beene wyth the Duke of Burgoigne they both finally agreed vpon certayne Articles so that the French King and his commons woulde thereto assent Now was the French King and the Queene with theyr daughter Katherine at Troys in Champaigne gouerned and ordered by them which so much fauored the Duke of Burgoigne that they woulde not for any earthly good once hynder or pull backe one â—…e of such Articles as the same Duke shoulde seeke to preferre and therfore what needeth many wordes A truce tripertiâ—… a 〈◊〉 â—…pertite was accorded betweene the two kings and the Duke and theyr Countreys and order taken that the king of Englande shoulde sende in the companie of the duke of Burgoigne his Ambassadours vnto Troyâ—…s in Champaigne sufficientlye authorised to treate and conclude of so great a matter The King of Englande being in good hope that all his affayres shoulde take so good successe as he coulde with or desire Ambassadors from K. Henry to the FreÌ„ch k. sent to the Duke of Burgoigne his Vncle the Duke of Exceter the Earle of Salisburie the Bishop of Eâ—… the Lorde Fâ—… the Lorde Fitz Hugh sir Iohn Robsert and sir Philip Hall with diuerse doctours to the number of fiue C. horse which in the company of the Duke of Burgoigne came to the Citie of Troys the .xj. of March The king the Queene and the Ladie Katherine them receyued hartily welcomed shewing great signes and tokens of loue and amitie After a few dayes they fel to counsel The Articles of the peace concluded betwene K. HeÌ„ry and the French king in which at length it was concluded that king Henrie of Englande should come to Troys and marry the Ladie Katherine and the king hir father after his death should make him heire of hys realm crown and dignitie It was also agreed that king Henrie during his father in lawes life shoulde in his sleade haue the whole gouernment of the realm of France as regent thereof wyth many other couenantes and articles as after shall appeare To the perfourmaunce whereof it was accorded that all the nobles and estates of the realme of France as well spirituall as temporall and also the Cities and coÌ„monalties Citizens and Burgesses of townes that were obeysant at that time to the French K. should take a corporall othe These Articles were not at the firste in all poynts brought to a perfect conclusion But after that the effect and meaning of them was agreed vpon by the commissioners the English men departed towards the king their maister and left sir Iohn Robsert behinde to giue his attendance on the Ladie Katherine King Henry being enfourmed by them of that which they had done was well content with the agreement and with all diligence prepared to go vnto Troys and therevpon hauing all things in a redinesse he being accoÌ„panied with his brethren the dukes of Clarence and Gloucester the Erles of Warwik Salisbury Huntingdon Eu Tankeruile Longuile .xv. M. men of warre went from Roane to Pontoyse and departing from thence the eight day of May came to Saint Denis two leagues from Paris and after to Pontchareton Tho. VVals where he left a strong garnison of men with sir William Gaicoigne to kepe the passage and so then entring into Brie Titus Liuius he tooke by the way a Castell which was kept agaynst him causing them that so kept it some to bee hanged and the residue to be led forth with him as prisoners And after this keeping on his iourney by Prouins and Nogent at length he came to Troyes The Duke of Burgoigne accompanyed wyth many Noble men receyued him two leagues withoute the towne and conueyed him to his lodging King Henry commeth to Troyes to the French king All his armie was lodged in smal villages therabout And after that he had reposed himselfe a little he went to visite the French King the Queene and the Ladie Katherine whome he founde in Saint Peters Church King Henry affreth the French kings daughter where was a ioyous meeting betwixt theÌ„ And this was on the .xx. day of May and there the king of Englande and the Ladie Katherine were affianced After this the two kings and their counsaile assembled togithers dyuerse dayes wherein the first concluded agreement was in diuerse poynts altered and brought to a certaintie according to the effect aboue mentioned When this great matter was finished the kinges sware for their partes to obserue al the couenants of this league and agreement Likewise the
opened vnto them all things according to his credence The Lordes then to make hast in the matter bycause the daye approched with all speede possible came to the posterne gate and alighting from theyr horses about sixe of the clocke in the morning they issued out of the Castell crying Saint George Talbot The Frenchmen beeing thus suddainely taken were sore amased in so much that some of them beyng not out of theyr beddes Mauns ◅uered gote vp in their shirtes and lept ouer y e walles Other ranne naked out of the gates to saue their liues leauing all theyr apparell horses armour and riches behynde them none was hurt but suche as resisted To bee shorte there were slayne and taken to the number of foure hundred Gentlemen the priuate soldiers were frankely let goe After this was inquisition made of the authors of the treason and there were accused thirtie Citizens twentie Priestes Traytors e◅cuted and fifteene Friers whiche according to their demerites were put to execution The Citie of Mans beeing thus recouered An. reg 6. the Lord Talbot returned to Alanson shortly after the Earle of Warwike departed into Englande to bee gouernoure of the yong Kyng in steede of Thomas Duke of Excester lately departed to God 1428 and then was the Lord Thomas Montacute Earle of Salisburie sente into Fraunce to supplye the roomth of the sayd Earle of Warwike who landed at Calaice with fiue thousand mē and so came to the D. of Bedford as thē lying in Paris where they fel in counsell togither concerning the affaires of France and namely the Earle of Salisburie began maruellously to phantesie the gayning of the Citie and Countrey of Orleans This Earle was the man at that time by whose witte strength and policie the Englishe name was much feareful and terrible to y e french nation which of himselfe mighte both appoynt commaund and do all things in manner at hys pleasure Mo◅ne Erle of Salisburie a politike and valiant man in whose power as it appeared after his death a greate part of the conquest consisted for surely he was a man both paynefull diligente readie to withstande all daungerous chaunces that were at hande prompte in counsell and of courage inuincible so that in no one man men put more trust nor any singular person wanne the hearts so much of all men Heerevppon after this great enterprise hadde long beene debated in the priuie counsell the Erle of Salisburies deuice therein was of them all graunted and allowed so that he beeyng replenished with good hope of victorie and furnished with artillerie and munitions apperteining to so great a siege accompanyed with the Earle of Suffolke and the Lorde Talbot and with a valiaunte armye to the number of tenne thousande menne departed from Paris and passed through the countrey of Beausse There he tooke by assault the Towne of Genuille and within fiue dayes after had the Castell deliuered vnto hym by them that were fledde into it for theyr safegarde He also tooke the towne of Baugencie suffering euery man which woulde become subiect to the Kyng of England to enioy theyr lands and goodes The Townes of Meun vppon Loyre and Iargeaulx hearing of these doings presented to them the keyes of theyr Townes vppon lyke agreement Anno. reg 7. Orleans besieged Bast◅rd of Or◅ After this in the moneth of September hee came before the Citie of Orleans and planted hys siege on the one syde of the ryuer of Loyre but before hys comming the Basterd of Orleans the Byshop of the Citie and a greate number of Scottes hearing of the Earles intente made dyuers fortifications about the Towne and destroyed the suburbes in the whyche were twelue parishe Churches and foure orders of Friers They cutte also downe all the vynes trees and bushes within fyue leagues of the Citie so that the Englishmen shoulde haue neyther comfort refuge nor succour After the siege hadde continued three weekes full the basterd of Orleans issued out of the gate of the bridge and fought with the Englishmen but they receyued hym with so fierce and terrible strokes that he was with all his company compelled to retire and flee backe into the Citie but the Englishmen followed so fast in killing and taking of theyr enimies that they entred with them the Bulwarke of the bridge whiche with a great tower standing at the ende of the same was taken incontinentlye by the Englishemenne In this conflict many Frenchmen were taken but mor were slayne and the keeping of the Tower and Bulwarke was cōmitted to William Glasdale Esquier By the taking of this bridge the passage was stopped that neyther men nor vittaile could goe or come by that way After this the Earle caused certaine Bulwarkes to be made rounde about the towne casting trenches betweene the one and the other laying ordynance in euery place where he sawe that any batterie might be deuised When they within saw that they were enuironed with fortresses and ordinance they layde gunne againste gunne and fortified towers against Bulwarkes and within cast newe rampiers and fortified themselues as strongly as mighte bee deuised against the violence of their enimies bat◅ie and assaultes The Basterd of Orleans and the Hire were appoynted to see the walles and watches kepte and the Byshop saw that the inhabitants within the Citie were put in good order and that vittaile were not wantonly consumed or vaynely spent In the Tower that was taken at the bridge ende as before you haue hearde there was an high chamber hauing a grate full of barres of yron by the which a man myghte looke all the length of the bridge into the Citie at whiche grate many of the chiefe Captaynes stoode many times viewing the Citie and deuising in what place it was best to giue the assault They within the Citie well perceyued thys tooting hole layde a peece of ordināce directly against the windowe It so chanced that the .59 day after the siege was layd the Erle of Salisburie Sir Thomas Gargrane and William Glasdale with diuers other went into the said tower so into the high chamber looked out at the grate and within a short space the sonne of the master gunner perceiuing mē looking out at the window tooke his match as his father had taught him who was gone downe to dinner and fired the gunne the shot whereof brake and sheeuered the iron barres of the grate The Earle of Salisbury slain so that one of the same barres strake the Earle so violently on the head that it stroke awaye one of hys eyes and the syde of hys cheeke Sir Thomas Gargrane was likewise striken and dyed within two dayes The Earle was conueyghed to Meun on Loire where after eight dayes he likewise departed this worlde whose body was conueyed into Englande with all funerall pomp and buried at Bissam by his progenitors leauing behind him an only daughter named Alice married to Richarde Neuill sonne to Raufe Earle of Westmerlande of whome
glad of his comming backe than of hys aduauncing forwarde Anon after the Pope vnlegated him and sette an other in hys place where with he was nothing contented On the sixth day of Nouember being the day of Saint Leonarde King Henrie in the eyght yeare of his raigne was at Westminster with all pompe and honour crowned king of this realme of England The same yeare the Frenche King was receyued into the towne of Compiegne and shortly after were the townes of Senlis and Beauvoys rendred to him And the Lorde Longueual tooke by stealth the Castell of Aumarle and slue all the Englishmen within it Tho. VVals Also about the same tyme the Frenchmen recouered Castell Galiarde forth of the Englishe mens handes where the Lorde Barbason was found in a dungeon enclosed within a great grate of Iron like to a little Chamber and forthwyth they brake open the grate but Barbason woulde not come forth bycause he had gyuen his fayth and promise to one Kingston that was captaine of that Fortresse for the king of Englande to bee true prisoner vntil the Frenchmen had sent to the same Kingstone that was departed vpon suche couenants as they were agreed vpon at the delyuerie of that fortresse willing him to come backe againe vpon safeconduct which at theyr earnest request he did and withall discharged the Lorde Barbason of his othe and so then he came foorth and remayned at his libertie to the greate reioysing of the Frenchmen which iudged that he had bene rather deade than aliue all that time of his imprisonment About the same time also the French K. sought by all meanes possible to breake the amitie betwixt the realme of Englande and the house of Burgoigne whereof the Duke of Bedforde hauing intelligence thought it stoode him vpon the more earnestly to looke to his charge and namely as it were for an ancreholde hee determined to to prouide that hee might defende and safely kepe the duchie of Normandie and therefore appoynting the Bishop of Terrowen and Ely named Lewes of Lutzenburgh Chancellor for King Henrie of the realme of Fraunce to remayne at Paris vpon the defence of that Citie with a conuenient number of Englishmen he departed into Normandie and comming to Roan called a Parliament there of the three estates of the Duchie A parliament â—… Roan called by the Duke 〈◊〉 â—…ord in the which he declared many things vnto them touching the happy life and great freedome which they might be assured to enioy so long as they continued vnder the English obeysance and therefore he exhorted them to abyde constant in theyr allegiaunce fayth and promyse made and sworne to his noble brother King Henrie the fifth Whylest the Duke of Bedforde was busie to retaine the Normans in theyr due obedience the French king departed from Senlis and coÌ„ming to the towne of Saint Denys found it in maner desolate so that he entred there without resistance and lodged his armie at Mount Martyr and Abberuilliers neare vnto the Citie of Paris And from thence sent Iohn Duke of Alanson and his forceresse Ioan la Pucelle with three thousande light horsemen to assault the Citie and followed himselfe in hope to get it eyther by force or treatie But the English Captaynes euery one keeping his warde and place assigned so manfullye defended themselues their walles and towers with the assystance of the Parisians that they repulsed the Frenchmen and threwe downe Ioan theyr great Goddesse into the bottom of the town ditche where she lay behinde the backe of an Asse sore hurt till the tyme that shee all filthie wyth myre and durt was drawne out by Guyscharde of Thienbrone seruant to the Duke of Alanson The French king perceyuing that he coulde not preuaile in this enterprise left the dead bodies behinde him and taking with him the wounded Captaine returned into Berrie But in the meane way the inhabitants of Laignie submytted themselues vnto him The Duke of Bedford being in Normandie hearing of this sodain attempt with all hast possible came to Paris where he gaue many greate thankes with highe commendations vnto the Captaynes souldiers and Citizens for theyr assured fidelitie great hardinesse and manly doing which his gentle words so encouraged the hearts of the Parisians that they sware promised and concluded to bee friendes for euer to the king of Englande and his friends and enimies alwayes to his foes and aduersaries making proclamation by this style friendes to king Henrie friends to the Parisians enimies to England enimies to Paris Marie whether this was vttered from the bottome of theyr hearts it is heard to so say but the sequele of their acts would seeme to proue the contrarie Soone after these doings came to Paris with a great companie Philip Duke of Burgoigne and then vpon long consultation had for the recouerie of theyr losses it was agreed that the Duke of Bedford shoulde rayse an armie and that the Duke of Burgoigne shoulde be his Deputie and tarie at Paris for the defence of the Citie The Duke of Bedforde then withoute anye great resistance recouered againe the towne of Saint Denys with dyuerse other fortresses And after this hee sent the Bastarde of Clareuce to laye siege to the Castell of Torsie the which notwythstanding the great strength therof after six monethes siege was rendred vp into his handes During the siege of this Castell sir Thomas Kiriell knight with foure C. Englishmen departed from Gourney in Normandie and rode by Beauvoys spoyling and robbing the Countrey to the Suburbes of Cleremount whereof the Earle of that towne hauing aduertisement assembled all the men of warre of the garnisons adioyning and wyth the same set forwarde to fight wyth the Englishmen whom he found in a strayte place neare to Beauvoys The Earle of Cleremonte perceyuing that hee coulde not hurte them wyth hys men of Armes by reason of the strength came downe on foote wyth all hys companye and fiercely sette on the Englishmenne but by the terrible shotte of the Englishe Archers the Frenchemenne in the ende were constrayned to flee and the English menne perceyuing the matter streyght leapt on Horsebacke and followed the chase In the whiche were taken two hundred Prisoners and thrice as many slaine The Earle escaped by the swiftnesse of his horse At the same season the Earle of Suffolke besieging the Towne of Aumarie whereof was Captayne the Lorde of Rambures after .xxiiij. greate assaultes gyuen to that Fortresse had the towne and Castell simplye to hym rendred Thus by lyttle and lyttle the Englishe menne recouered many Townes which before they had lost But yet aboute the same tyme the Frenche meÌ„ stale the towne of Laual by treason wrought by a Myller which keeping a Myll that ioyned to the Wall suffred the Frenche to passe through his Myll into the towne Shortly after also sir SteueÌ„ de Vignoilles surnamed la Hyre tooke by scaling the towne at Louiers in Normandie Laygny besieged by the englishmen The Englishe men in the
colde Moneth of December besieged the towne of Laigny in the whiche was the Pusâ—…lle and diuerse other good Captaynes The weather was so cold and the raine so great and continuall that the Englishe menne by that vntemperauncie of the ayre and not by the enimyes were constreyned to rayse theyr siege 1430 After this the Duke of Burgoigne accompanied with the Earles of Arundell and Suffolke and the Lorde Iohn of Lutzenburgh Compeigne besieged besieged the towne of Compiegne with a great puyssance This towne was well walled manned and vitayled so that the besiegers were constrayned to caste trenches and make mynes for otherwise they sawe not howe to compasse their purpose In the meane time it happened in the night of the Ascention of our Lord that Poyton de Saintreyles Ioan la Puselle and fiue or sixe hundred men of armes issued oute by the bridge towarde Mondedier intending to set fire in the tentes and lodgings of the Lorde Bawdo de Noyelle At the same verie tyme sir Iohn de Luxenburgh with eight other Gentlemen chaunced to be nere vnto the lodgings of the sayd lord Bawdo where they espyed the Frenchmen which beganne to cut downe Tents ouerthrow Pauilions and kill men in theyr beddes wherevppon they with all speede assembled a great number of men as well English as Burgonions and couragiously set on the Frenchmen and in the ende beate them backe into the towne so that they fled so faste that one letted another as they woulde haue entred Saint Albons In the chase and pursute was the Puselle taken with diuerse other besydes those that were slaine which were no small number Diuerse were hurte also on both partes Among the Englishmen sir Iohn Montgomerie had hys arme broken and Sir Iohn Stewarde was shotte into the thigh with a quarell Ioan the Pusel taken The same Puselle was afterwardes sent vnto Roan where being presented vnto the Duke of Bedforde she was long tyme kept in pryson and at length by due processe of the lawes condemned for a Sorceresse But at the first abiuring hir errours and great wickednesse it was thought 〈◊〉 shoulde haue escaped death But when it 〈◊〉 after proued agaynste hir Eugâ—… that shee fell into 〈◊〉 relaps protesting the same vppon a wyâ—â—full 〈◊〉 obstinate minde shee was committed to the â—…lar power The 〈…〉 and by force thereof finally burns to Ashes After the taking of the sayd Ioan la 〈◊〉 the siege still continued before Compiegne 〈◊〉 the Duke of Bedforde sent to the Duke of Burgoigne lying at the siege the Earle of Huntingdon and sir Iohn Robesert with a thousand archers which dayly skirmished w t theÌ„ within 〈◊〉 made suche Bastiles and Fortresses that the Towne had beene rendred into theyr handes 〈◊〉 that the Duke of Burgoigne departed from the siege to goe into Brabante to receyue the possession of that Duchie by the death of his cousin Philip the Duke of that Countrey as then departed this worlde Sir Iohn de Lutzenburg was lefte by the duke of Burgoigne as generall of the siege before Compiegne An. reg 9. the which he raysed within a shorte space after contrarie to the myndes of the Englishe menne whiche were verie desirous to haue lyen there tyll the Towne hadde beene renderâ—… whiche if the siege had beene continued but eight dayes longer muste needes haue come to passe by reason that pestilence and famine hadde almoste consumed all the Souldiers wythin the Towne so that it remayned in maner withoute defence After the breaking vppe of this siege 1431 Iohn Duke of Norffolke tooke agayne the townes of Dampmartine and the Chasse Mougay wyth diuerse other townes Also the Earle of Stafforde tooke the towne of Bryn Countie Robert and from thence sorraged all the Countrey to Sens and after tooke Quesnoy in Brie Grand Puys and Raâ—…pellon During which tyme the French men on the other side tooke Louiers and Villeneuf Then also did the Towne of Melun rebell and had suche ayde of other townes adioyning that the English Souldiers were faine to leaue Melun Morret and Corbell Thus did things wauer in doubtfull ballance betwixt the two nations English and French But bycause the Englishe sore mystrusted further daunger it was concluded that King Henrie in his royall person wyth a newe armie shoulde come into Fraunce partly to visite and comfort his owne subiectes there and partly eyther by feare or fauour bycause a childe of hys age and beautie doth commonly procure them loue of elder persons to moue the Frenchmen to continue theyr due obeysaunce towardes hym Wherefore after a great host conuenient for that purpose assembled and money for maine 〈◊〉 of the warre readie gathered King Henry 〈…〉 in perâ—… goeth with 〈…〉 into 〈◊〉 and the realme frâ—…̄ in an order vnder the gouernment of the Duke of Gloucester Protector â–ª whiche during the Kings absence appeased dyuerse or pottes and purnished the â—…ders the king with a great power tooke shipping at Douer on Saint Georges 〈◊〉 within night and landed at Calays on the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—…e Albons â—…ing Saint Georges day and Sunday by seuen of the clocke in the morning He remayned in Calays a good space and from thence hee reâ—…ued to Roaâ—… 〈◊〉 beeing there receyued wyth all nymâ—…phe Hee taryed at that Citie a long 〈◊〉 his Nobles dayly consulting on their great â—…nesse and weightie affayres An. reg 10. In the Moneth of Nouember hee remoued from Roan to Pâ—…ntoyse and so to Saint Denyse to the intent to make his entrie into Paris and there to be sacred king of Fraunce There were in his companie of his owne Nation his vncle the Cardinall of Winchester the Cardinall and Archbishop of Yorke the Dukes of Bedforde Yorke and Norffolke the Earles of Warwicke Salisburie Oxforde Huntingdon Ormonde Mortaine and Suffolke Of Gascoignes there were the Earles of Longuille and Marche beside many other noble men of Englande Guienne and Normandie And the chiefe of the French Nation were the Dukes of Burgoigne and Lewes of Luxenburg Cardinal and Chauncellour of Fraunce for king Henrie the Bishoppes of Beauoys and Noyoune both Peeres of Fraunce besyde the Bishoppe of Paris and dyuerse other Byshoppes the Earle of Vaudemount and other Noble menne whose names were superfluous to rehearse And hee had in a garde aboute his person three thousande price Archers some on horsebacke and part on foote To speake with what honour he was receyued into the Citie of Paris what Pageauntes were prepared and how richly the gates streetes and bridges on euerie syde were hanged wyth costly clothes of Arras and tapesserie it would be too long a processe and therefore I doe here passe it ouer with silence King Henry â—â—e sixe crowâ—… in Paris On the .xvij. day of December he was crowned king of France in our Ladie Church of Paris by the Cardinall of Winchester the Bishop of Paris not being contented that the Cardinall should doe such an high ceremonie in
Februarie that the Shippes wyth Marchandice arryuing at the Thames mouth coulde not come vppe the Riuer by reason it was so frozen and so their lading being there discharged was brought to the Citie by lande After the death of that Noble Prince the Duke of Bedforde the bright Sunne that in Fraunce commonly shone moste fayre and beautyfull vppon the Englishe menne beganne to be clowdie and daylye to waxe more darke for the Frenchmenne beganne not onely to wythdrawe theyr obedyence whiche they had by oth promysed to the King of England but also tooke sword in hande and openly defyed the Englishmenne but yet coulde not all these mishappes any thing abashe the valiaunt courages of the Englishe people for they hauing no mystrust in God and good fortune sette vppe a newe sayle The Duke of Yorke made Regent of France beganne the warre agayne afreshe and appoynted for Regent in Fraunce Richard Duke of Yorke sonne to Richard Erle of Cambridge Although the Duke of Yorke was worthye both for byrth and courage of this honor and preferment yet hee was so disdeyned of Edmonde Duke of Sommerset being cousin to the King that by all meanes possible hee sought hys hynderaunce as one glad of hys losse and sorye of his well doing by reason whereof ere the Duke of Yorke coulde gette hys dispatche he was constrayned to lynger tyll Paris and dyuerse other of the chiefest places in Fraunce were gotten by the French king The Duke of Yorke perceyuing his euil wil openly dissembled that which he inwardly mynded and thus eyther of them wrought things to the others displeasure till through canered malice and pestiferous diuision continuing in the heartes of these two Princes at length by mortall warre they were both consumed wyth almost all theyr whole lynes and offsprings The Normans of the Countrey of Caux beeyng heartened by the death of the Duke of Bedforde beganne a new rebellion fiue diuerse Englishmen robbed many Townes that were vnder y e English obeysaunce and tooke the towne of Herflew by assault and dyuerse other townes But the Lorde Regent beeing aduertised sente forth the Lorde Scales sir Thomas Kiriel and the Lorde Hoo whiche so afflicted those rebels of Caux y t they slue aboue .v. M. persōs burnt all the Townes and villages in the Countrey not being walled so that in that parte was neyther habitation nor tillage for all the people fled into Britaine and all the beasts of the Countrey were broughte to Caudebecke where a good sheepe was solde for an English peny a Cow for twelue pence Dayly was skirmishing and fighting in euery part in so much that the Lord Scales discomfited at the Rye beside Roan the Hire and fifteene hundred valiant Frenchmen of the whiche aboue three hundred were taken prisoners beside seauen goodly faire coursers Amongst other of the prisoners were sir Richard Reignold de Fountaynes sir Alayne Gerond Alayn de Monsay and Geoffrey Grame capitayne of the Scottes But yet this victorie and others the lyke stayed not the Frenchemen from working treason dayly in somuche that diuers townes turned to the part of K. Charles and some were taken by practise as Dieppe Boys de Vincennes and other Heere is one chiefe pointe to be noted that eyther the disdeyne among the chiefe peeres of the realme of England as ye haue heard or the negligence of the Kings counsell whiche did not foresee daungers to come was the losse of the whole dominion of France betweene the ryuers of Soane and Marne and in especiall of y e noble Citie of Paris For where before there were sent ouer thousands for defence of the holdes and fortresses now were sent hundreds yea and scores some rascalles and some not able to drawe a bowe or carrie a bill for the Lord Willoughby and the Bishop of Terrouanne whiche had the gouernaunce of the great Citie of Paris 1436 had in their company not two thousand Englishmen which weakenesse King Charles wel perceiued and therefore he appointed the Connestable Arthur of Britaigne the Earle of Dunoys the Lords de la Roche and Lisle Adam with other valiant Captaines and men of warre as well Burgonions as Frenche to goe before Paris trusting by fauoure of certaine Citizens with whome he had intelligence shortly to bee Lorde of the Citie without great losse or battell So these Captaines came before the Citie of Paris but perceiuing y t all things succeeded not according to their expectatiō they returned to Mont Martir and the next day suddainely set on the Towne of Saint Denis and constreyned the Englishmen that kept it to flee into the Abbey and into the tower Venin In this conflict two hundred Englishmen were slayne and the residue vppon a reasonable composition rendred vp the place and departed to Paris Thomas Lorde Beaumonte whiche of late was come to Paris with eight hundred men issued foorth of the citie with .vj. C. souldiors only intending to view the doings and number of the Frenche armie but he was sodeynly espyed and compassed aboute so that within a small space he was discomfited and taken and wyth him .lxxx. prisoners beside .ij. C. which wer slain in y e field the remnant chased to the very gates of the citie The Parisians especially y e master of y e Halles and some of the Vniuersitie Michael Lallier and many notable burgesses of the Citie which euer with an Englishe countenāce couered a French heart perceiuing the weaknes of the Englishmen and the force of the Frenchmen signified to the Frenche Capitaynes their myndes and intentes willing them with all diligence to come that they myght receyue so riche a pray to them without any difficultie ready to be giuen and deliuered into their handes The Constable delaying no time came with his power and lodged by the Charter house and the Lord Lisle Adam approching to the walles shewed to the Citizens a Charter sealed with the great seale of King Charles by the whiche he had pardoned them their offences and graunted to them all their olde liberties The treason of the Parisians and auntient priuiledges so that they would heereafter be to him true and obedyente whiche thing to them declared they ranne aboute the towne crying Saynt Denis liue King Charles The Englishmen perceyuing this determined to keepe the gate S. Denis but they were deceiued for the cheynes were drawen in euery streete and women and children cast downe stones scalding water on the Englishmens heads and the Citizens in armour fought with them and chased them from streete to streete and from lane to lane and slew and hurt diuers and many of them The Bishop of Tyrwine Chancellor there for King Henry the Lord Willoughby and Sir Simon Moruiher tooke great payne to appease the people but when they saw that all auailed not they withdrewe into the Bastell of Saint Anthony whiche fortresse they had well vittailed and furnished with men and munitions Whilest this rumor was in the
Towne the Earle of Dunois and other scaled the walles and some passed the riuer by boates and opened the gate of Saint Iames Paris yelded to the frenche King by the which y e Connestable with his banner displayde entred at whose entrie the Parisians made great ioy The Byshop and the Lord Willoughby with theyr small companye defended their fortresse tenne dayes looking for ayde but when they saw that no comfort appeared they yeelded their fortresse so that they and theirs with certaine baggage might peaceablye returne to Roan Thus was the Citie of Paris broughte into the possession of Charles the French King thorough the vntrue demeanor of the Citizens the which contrarie to their othes and promised allegiance like wauering and inconstant mynded people reuolted from the Englishmē when they sawe them at the weakest After this glorious gayne the Frenchmen besieged the towne of Crayle vpon Oyse wherof Sir William Chamberlaine was Captaine the which with fiue hundred Englishmen issued out of the Towne and after long fight discomfited his enimies and slew two hundred tooke a greate number prisoners the remnant not lyking the market departed to Compeigne and other townes adioyning During whiche season twelue Burgesses of the Towne of Gisors sold it for money vnto Poyton de Xantrailes but be had not the Castell deliuered and therefore with all his power he besieged the same whereof the Lord Talbot being aduertised sent for the lord Scales and they both with eighteene hundred men rescued the Castell tooke the Towne and discomfited their enimies and slewe of them aboue four hundred persons Nowe according to the olde prouerbe when the steede is stollen shut the stable dore the Duke of Yorke appointed at the last Parliament to be regent of Fraunce after that Paris Saint Denis Saint Germaines in Lay and diuers other Townes in Fraunce were taken and betrayed for lacke of conuenient succours was sente ouer into Normandie with eight thousande men and in his company the Earles of Salisburie and Suffolke and the Lord Fawconbridge and dyuers other valiante Captaynes When he was landed the Earle of Salisburie besieged the Castell of Chamboys whyche shortly was to him rendred Then the Duke remoued to Roan where hee set good orders and did great iustice in the countrey wherefore the Normans in theyr Chronicle highly extoll him for that point Howbeit they say that he gate by long siege the Towne and Abbey of Fecamp and did none other notable acte during the time of his rule and gouernement In this fourtenth yeare the Duke of Burgoigne determined by the aduice of his counsell The Duke of Burgoyne prepareth an army against Calaya to attempte the winning of Calais The prouision was wonderous great which was made for the atchieuing of this enterprise whereof Sir Iohn Ratclife deputie of the Towne of Calais hauing perfect intelligence aduertised king Henrye and his counsell whiche incontinently sente thither the Earle of Mortaigne sonne to the Duke of Somerset and the Lord Cameys with fifteene hundred men and greate foyson of vittailes whiche issued out of Calais and came before Grauelin where they were encountred with a great number of Flemings whych were shortly discomfited and four hundred of them slaine and sixe score taken prisoners And within two dayes after the Englishmen draue by fine force the Lords of Warren and Bado to the barriers of Ard and discomfited their companie to the number of fifteene hundred and slewe seauen valiant Captaynes tooke many Gētlemen prisoners The Duke of Burgoigne remayning stil in his former purpose assembled togither of Flemings Picards Hollanders and Henneweyes a great army to the number of fortie thousand so well armed so well vittailed so well furnished with ordinaunce and so well garnished in all things that they thought in their harts and blasted amongst themselues that the Calisians woulde leaue their towne desolate and flee for their safegard hearing onely of the Dukes approch but they reconed before their host and so payde more than the shot came to When this mightie army was past the water of Graueline the Duke intending to begin his great conquest assaulted the little poore Castell of Oye which hauing in it but fiftie souldiers of the which twelue solde their liues deerely the remnant compelled by necessitie yeelded themselues to the dukes mercie which to please the Gantoyse beeing of number most puissante in all the armye liberally gaue to them both the Castel and prisoners the which rude and beastly people nothing expert in the lawes of armes not only rased the Castell but also hanged nine and twentie of the captiues and hadde so done with the residue if the Duke disdeyning theyr crueltie had not intreated for the rest After this victorie the Picardes besieged the Castell of Marke and gaue three assaultes to it The Englishmen within being in number two hundred and sixe vnder the gouernemente of their Captayne Sir Iohn Gedding valiauntly defended the place till at length despairing of succours they yeelded themselues their liues and limmes saued The Castel of Marke being thus deliuered was rased to the ground At the first assault the Hyre which was come to see the Duke of Burgoigne was sore wounded and hurte Beside this one thing troubled the Dukes eyes bycause that at euery tyde Shippes arriued in the Hauen out of England openly before his face laden with vittailes munitions and men The Duke one day roade about to view and behold the situation of the towne to the intente to take his most aduantage eyther by assaulte or otherwise hee was quickly espyed and with the shotte of a canon a Trumpetter which rode next before him and three horsses in his companie were slayne out of hand The Lorde of Croy and a conuenient number with him was appoynted to besiege the Castell of Guisnes where he gote little profite and did lesse harme Moreouer for y e better aduācing of his enterprice the Duke minded to stoppe vp the Hauē so that no succours should enter there Heerevpon he caused foure greate Hulkes to bee fraught with great square stones cimented and ioyned togither with leade to the intente they shoulde lie still lyke a Mount and not to seuer in sunder These Shippes with the residue of the Dukes nauie were conueyd into the mouth of Calais Hauen and at a full Sea by craft and policie were sonke downe to y e ground but whether God woulde not that the Hauen shoulde be destroyed eyther the conueyghers of the Hulkes knewe not the very channel these foure greate Shippes at the low water lay openly vppon the sands without hurting the roade or Channell whiche when the soldiers perceyued they issued out of the towne brake the Shippes and caried both the stones and timber into the Towne Another deuice yet was accomplished by the Duke whiche was the building of a strong bastell set on a little Mountayne furnished with foure hundred men and much artillerie whyche fortresse did impeach the Englishmen from issuing forth of
done they set fire in the castell and departed to Roan with their bootie and prisoners Thus maye ye see that in warre nothyng is certain and victorie is euer doubtfull whiche sometyme smyled on the Englishe parte and sometime on the Frenche side according to hir variable nature But nowe to speake somwhat of the doings in England in the meane tyme. Whylest the men of war were thus occupied in martiall feates and dayly â—…irmishes within the Realme of Fraunce ye shall vnderstande that after the Cardinall of Winchester and the Duke of Gloucester were to the outward apparaunce of the worlde reconciled eyther to other the Cardinall and the Archebyshop of Yorke ceassed not to do many things without the consent of the King or of the Duke A nevv breach â—…etvveene the Duke of Glouâ—…ster and the â—…ishoppe of â—…Vinchester being during the minoritie of the K. gouernour and protector of the Realme wherfore the sayde Duke lyke a true hearted Prince was nothyng pleased and therevppon in wrytyng declared to the Kyng wherein the Cardinall and the Archebyshoppe hadde offended both his Maiestie and the lawes of the realme This complaynt of the Duke of Gloucester was conteyned in foure and twentie articles as in the Chronicle of Maister Hall ye may reade at full the whyche for breefenesse I here omitte But the chefest point rested in that it was apparant howe the Cardinall hadde from tyme to tyme through the ambitious desyre to surmount all others in high degrees of honour and dignitie sought to eâ—…che himselfe to the great apparant hynderaunce of the king as in defraudyng hym not onely of his treasure but also in doing and practising thyngs greatly preiudiciall to his affaires in Fraunce and namely by settyng at libertie the Kyng of Scottes vpon so easy conditions as the Kynges Maiestie greately loste thereby When the Kyng hadde hearde the accusations thus layde by the Duke of Gloucester agaynste the Cardinall he commytted the examination thereof to his Counsell whereof the more parte were spirituall persons so that what for feare and what for fauoure the matter was winked at and nothyng sayde to it onely faire countenance was made to the Duke as though â—…o malice hadde beene conceyued agaynst hym but venym wyll breake out and inwarde grudge wyll soone appeare whiche was thys yeare to all men apparant for dyuâ—…rs secrete attemptes were aduaunced forwarde thys season agaynst thys noble man Humfrey Duke of Gloucester a farre off whiche in conclusyon came so neere that they bereâ—…te hym bothe of lyfe and lande as shall hereafter more playnly appeare For fyrst this yeare Dame Eleanore Cobham wyfe to the sayde Duke was accused of treason for that shee by sorcerie and enchauntement entended to destroy the kyng to the intent to aduaunce hir husbande to the Crowne Vppon thys shee was examined in Sayncte Stephens Chappell before the Byshop of Canterbury and there by examination conuicte and iudged to doe open penaunce in three open places wythin the Citie of London and after that adiudged to perpetual imprisonmeÌ„t in the ysle of Man vnder y e keping of sir Io. Stanley knight At the same season were arrested arrayned and adiudged gyltie as ayders to the Duchesse Thomas Southwell Prieste and Chanon of Saynte Stephens at Westminster Iohn Hun priest â—…s Iohn 〈◊〉 Roger Bolyngbrooke a cunning Necromancer as it was said and Margerie Iordayn surnamed the Witche of Eye The matter layde against them was for that they at the requeste of the sayde Duchesse had deuysed an Image of waxe representyng the Kyng whiche by their sorcerie by little and little consumed entendyng thereby in conclusion to waste and destroye the Kyngs persone Margerie Iordayne was brente in Smyshfielde and Roger Bolyngbrooke was drawne to Tyborne and hanged and quartered taking vpon his death that there was neuer any suche thing by them imagined Iohn Hun hadde his pardon and Southwell dyed in the Tower before execution The Duke of Gloucester bare all these thinges paciently and sayd little Edward son to the duke of Yorke was borne this yeare the .xxix. of Aprill at Roan King Edvvard the fourthe borne his father being the Kings lieutenant of Normandie 1442 The Counsell of Englande forgat not the late enterprise of the Frenche king An. reg 21. atchieued in the Duchie of Guyenne and therfore doubting some other the lyke attempte they sente thyther Syr Wyllyam Wooduile wyth eyght hundred menne to fortifye the frontiers and farther set foorth a proclamation that all men which wold transporte anye Corne Cheese or other victuall thyther shoulde pay no maner of custome or tallage whyche licence caused the Countrey of Aquitayne to bee well furnyshed of all thynges necessarye Aboute this season Iohn the valiaunt Lorde Talbot for his approued prowes and tried valiancie shewed in the Frenche warres Iohn Lorde Talbot creâ—… Earle of Shrevvebury was created Earle of Shrewesbury and with a companie of three thousande menne sente agayne into Normandie for the better defence of the same In this yeare dyed in Guyenne the Countesse of Comynges 1443 to whome the French king and also the Earle of Arminacke pretended to be heyre insomuche that the Earle entred into all the landes of the sayde Ladie and bycause hee knewe the Frenche Kyng woulde not take the matter well to haue a Roulande agaynste an Olyuer he sente solemne ambassadours to the king of Englande offeryng him his daughter in mariage wyth promyse to be bounde beside greate summes of money whyche hee woulde giue wyth hir to deliuer into the Kyng of Enlands handes all suche Castelles and Townes as he or his auncesters deteyned from him within any part of the Duchie of Acquitayne eyther by conquest of his progenitors or by gifte or deliuerie of any Frenche king and further to ayde the same Kyng wyth money for the recouerye of other Cityes wythin the same Duchye by the Frenche Kyng or by any other persone from hym vniustly kept and wrongfully withholden Thys offer seemed so profytable and also honorable to King Henry and to the realme that the Ambassadours were well hearde honourably receyued and wyth rewardes sente home into theyr countrey After whome were sente for the conclusion of the marriage into Guyenne sir Edwarde Hull sir Robert Ros and Iohn Graâ—…ton deane of S. Seuerines the whyche as all the Chronographers agree both concluded the marryage and by proxie affyed the yong Ladye The Frenche kyng not a little offended herewyth sent his eldest sonne Lewes the Dolphyn of Vyenne into Rouergue wyth a puissant armye whyche tooke the Earle and hys youngest sonne with both his daughters and by force obteyned the countreyes of Arminack Lovuergne Rouergue and Moulessonoys beside the cities Seuetac Cadeac and chased the bastarde of Arminack out of his countreyes and so by reason hereof the concluded mariage was deferred and that so long that it neuer tooke effect as hereafter it may appeare Thus whylest England was vnquieted and Fraunce by spoyle
did descend into hell neither yet to beleeue in the Catholike Church nor the communion of Saints Also that he held howe the vniuersall Church might erre in matters of fayth And that it is not of necessitie to beleue that that which is allowed ordeyned and determined in fauour of fayth and the health of mans soule by a generall Counsaile or by the vniuersall Church ought to be allowed and holden of all christian people Moreouer he helde that it was lawfull to euerie man to vnderstande the scriptures in the literall sense and that none is bounde to cleane vnto any other sense vpon anye necessitie of saluation King Henrie and his adherentes perceyuing that the Duke of Yorke lay still and styrred not returned to London and there called a great couÌ„saile openly declaring that the French and Scots enboldned by the ciuill discorde within this realm would attempt to annoy the same as of late they had shewed apparant tokens of theyr euill malicious meaning and would not ceasse vpon occasions to doe further displeasures tyll they perceyued a perfite concorde and an vnfeyned amitie to be concluded betwene him and his friendes and those of the contrarie part and confederacie And to the intent that he woulde be the chiefe Author of peace hee promised so to entertaine the Duke of Yorke and his sautors that al old gâ—…ueges being not onely inwardly forgotten but also outwardly forgiuen should be the cause of perpetuall loue and assured amitie This deuise was of all men present will taken and adiudged for the best Wherevpon dyuerse graue persons were sente to the Duke of Yorke and al other the great estates of the realm whiche since the battaile of Saint Albons neuer met nor communed togither commaunding theÌ„ for great causes and reasonable considerations to resort to the kings Palace without delay At his coÌ„maundement came to London Rychard Duke of Yorke with foure C. men and was lodged at Baynards castell being his owne house The peeres of the Realme called to a treatie and after him came the Erle of Salisburie with fiue hundred men and was likewise lodged at his owne house called the Herber Then came the Dukes of Exceter and Somerset with .viij. hundred men and were lodged without Temple Barre and the Earle of Northumberlande the Lorde Egremonde and the Lord Clifforde came with .xv. C. men and lodged withoute the Citie The Erle of Warwicke also came from Calais with six hundred men in red Iackets embrodered with white ragged staues behind and before and was lodged at the gray Friers Thus were all those of the one faction lodged within the citie and those of the other without in Holborne towarde Westmynster and in other places of the Suburbs as who sayd y t as the Iewes disdeined the companie of the Samaritains so the Lancastrians abhorred the familiaritie of the Yorkish lynage After y e these Lords were thus come vnto LoÌ„don the King and the Queene shortly followed comming thither the .xvij. day of Marche and lodged in the Bishops Palace Bicause no riotous attempt or bickering shuld be begon betweene any of the parties or their retinues the Maior and Aldermenne of the Citie kept great watch as well by day as by night ryding about the citie by Holborne and Fleetstreet with fiue thousand men well armed arrayed to see good order and peace on all sides kept The Lordes which lodged within the city held a dayly counsaile at the black Friers The other parte soiourning without the walles assembled lykewise in the Chapiter house at Westminster At length by the diligent trauaile good exhortation and prudent aduice of the Archb. of Cant. other vertuous Prelates both parties were perswaded to come to a communication and so did where after long debating of their grieuaunces they were accorded promising to forget all olde rancors The Lords are brought to agree and to be friendes eche to other and obedient to the King whereof writings were sealed signed and deliuered The principall poyntes whereof the king beeing named and reputed as whole arbitratour consisted herein VVhetham The awarde First that at the costs charges and expences of the Duke of Yorke The cleergy 〈◊〉 resure in those dayes to lose nothing by these contentions howe so euer the world went the Erles of Warwik and Salisburie xlv poundes of yearely rent shoulde be lawfully assigned giuen and assured by waye of a mortizement for euer vnto the Monasterie of Saint Albones for Suffrages and Obites to be kept and almes to bee employed for the soules of Edmond late duke of Somerset Henry late Erle of Northumberland and Thomas late L. Clifford which being slaine in the late battaile of S. Albones were buried there in the Abbey Church and also for the soules of all other slaine in the same battaile The saide Duke of Somerset the Earle of Northumberlande and L. Clifforde by vertue of the same award were declared for true and faithfull liegemen to the king so to be holdeÌ„ and reputed in the day of their deathes aswel as y e said duke of York the erles of Warwik Salish Moreouer it was decreed that the D. of York should giue to Elenore Duchesse of Somerset to Henrie Duke of Somerset hir son the summe of fiue thousand Markes of good assignments of debts which the K. ought to him for his wages due during the time of his seruice in IrelaÌ„d to be diuided as the K. should think coÌ„uenient betwixt the brethren sisters of the sayd D. of Somerset Also that the Erle of Warwick should giue to the Lorde Clifforde the summe of a thousande Markes in good and sufficient assignmentes of debts which the king ought to him to be destributed betwixt the said L. Clifford his brethren and sisters Also where Thomas Percie knight The Lord Egrâ—…mond L. Egremond Richard Percy his brother sonnes of the Lady Elenor Countesse of Northumberland had bin in a Sessions holdeÌ„ within y e countie of Yorke before Richard Bingham â—…ause Pole the kings Iustices other coÌ„missioners coÌ„demned vnto the Erle of Salisburie in the sum of viij M. marks to the same erle and to his wyfe Alice in the sum of fiue M. marks to Tho. Neuil knight sonne to the said Erle of Salisburie in the summe of a. M. marks to the said Thomas Mawd his wife in the sum of two M. markes and to Iohn Neuil knight son to the said Erle of Salisburie in the summe of .viij. C. markes for transgressions trespasses there found to bee done by the said L. Egremond Richard his brother vnto the said erle of Salisb Alice Thom. Neuil Mawd Iohn Neuil as by the record appeared It was ordeyned that the saide Erle his sonnes should release all the said summes of money the executions thereof and likewise release vnto Rauâ—… Verney Iohn Steward late Sherifes of London vnto whose custodie the saide L. Egremond had bin for the same coÌ„demnations coÌ„mitted
with a greate companie of armed men declaring to the Maior that their repayre onely was to defende and keepe the Citie from spoyle of such traytors as the king was credibly informed did thither resort to whoÌ„ the Maior answered that hee needed no fellowe helper either to defend or gouerne the citie to him committed in charge With which aunswere the lord Scales and his associates nothing coÌ„tented entred into the tower dayly deuising wayâ—… 〈◊〉 to grieue the Citizens whoÌ„ he perceyued to fauor rather the duke of Yorkes part than the kings But shortly after the Earles of Marche and Warwicke and other of their affinitie came to London and were of the Maior and Citizens ioyously receyued to whom resorted the Archbishop of Canterburie the Bishops of London Lyncolne Salisburie Ely and Exceter with many other Prelates and religious persons Vpon good deliberation and aduise had and taken amongst these Lordes how to go forwarde with their weightie enterprice the Earles of Marche and Warwike William Lorde Fauconbridge Henrie Lorde Bourchier called Erle of Eu with a great number of men whiche came out of Kent Essex Surrey and Sussex to the number as some wryters affyrme of .xxv. M. persons departed from London toward the king lying at Couentrie then called the Queenes secrete herbour Couentry the Queenes secret Harbor leauing behinde them to keepe the Londoners in theyr promised obeysance the Erle of Salisburie the Lorde Cobham and sir Iohn Wenlocke which tooke such order and watched the gates and entries on eche side so diligently that no succours might come to the Lord Scales lodging in the Tower who tooke therewith such displeasure that he shot out his great ordinaunce agaynst them within the Citie and they likewise shot at him againe to the hurt and no pleasure of both partes The king hauing knowledge of all these doings assembled a great armie and accompanied with the duke of Somerset lately come froÌ„ Guisnes the duke of Buckingham and diuerse other great Lordes that tooke his parte came to Northamton where the Queene perceyuing hee puissance to be able to matche in sight with the aduersaries tooke vpon hir to encourage hir friends and well willers for the King studied of nothing but of peace quietnesse and solitarie life When the whole host of the kings part was assembled the same issued forth of the towne and passing ouer the riuer of Nine lodged in the new fielde betweene Harsington and Sandifford strongly fencing themselues about with high banks and deepe trenches VVhethaÌ„sted On the other part the Lords being herewyth aduaunced verie neare the place where the kings people lay without NorthaÌ„ton the Bishops that were there with them by the aduice and consent of the said Lordes sent vnto the king the Bishop of Salisburie to vnderstand his mind to moue him vnto some treatie of peace and to admitte the Archbishop of Canterburie and the other bishops there present to be mediatours in the matter that some good accord might be concluded betwixt the parties so as an vniuersall peace might bee restored in all parts through the whole realme The Bishop of Salisburie doing this message not so circumspectly as had beene conuenient returned without bringing any towardly answere but rather wardes of high despite and vtter distance For the Lordes that were about the king trusting in their warlike engines and strength of place in whiche they were enraÌ„ped though otherwise inferior in number of 〈◊〉 purposed to abâ—…e the brunt of battel so led with the spirite of rashnesse sent none other answere back againe by the bishop but continuelious words sounding greatly to the reproch of theyr aduersaries who beeing sore offended therewith determined to seeke reuenge with dynt of sworde The Erle of Marche as theÌ„ being in the flourâ—… of his lustie and most couragious youth lying betweene Toucetor and Northampton determined to set on the kings armie without longer delay and therevpon in the night season remoued his campe toward Northampton in marching forwarde set his men in order of battaile whereof the vaÌ„twarde was led by the Erle of Warwick whiche eyther by strength or stealth The battel of Northampton wanne a streyte which the Lorde Beaumont kept going toward the kings campe and herewith entring freshly wyth his people beganne the battayle aboute seuen of the clocke the ninth day of Iulye After him followed the Earle of Marche with the banner of his father Other write VVhethaÌ„sted that the Earle of Marche led the forewarde the Earle of Warwicke the middleward and the lord FaucoÌ„bridge the â—…erewarde Moreouer that Edmond Lord Grey of Ruthin who was on the kings side The L. Grey of Ruthen fayled in y e trust committed to him for where the enimies coulde not without great daunger to be beaten downe and slaine enter vpon the Kings campe by reason of a mightie trench and rampyre pight full of pyles and sharpe stakes wherewith the campe was compassed about the sayd Lord Gray came with his men and with helping handes pulled the enimies vp receyued them into the field where the battaile was begonne with greate force and violence for being now entred the field they sette vpon the Kings people so fiercely that it seemed they mente eyther to obteyne the victorie or to dye for it euen all the whole number of them The fight continued ryght fierce and cruell Hall The kings part discomfited wyth vncertayne victorie till the houre of nine at whiche tyme the Kings armie was discomfited and of the same slaine and drowned in the Riuer few lesse than ten thousande tall English men The k. taken and the king himselfe left comfortlesse alone was taken by the aduersaries as a man predestinate to miserie At this battaile were slaine Humfrey Duke of Buckingham Iohn Talbot Earle of Shrewesburie a valiaunt personne and not degenerating from his noble parentes Thomas lord Egremond Iohn Viscont Beaumont sir William Lucie which made great haste to come to part of the fight and at his fyrst approche was stryken in the heade wyth an Axe Beside these that were slaine many were taken prysoners bycause they left theyr horses alighting to fight on foote The Duke of Somerset and other whiche narrowly escaped fled with the Queene prince into the bishoprike of Durham The Erles hauing got the victorie in thys bloudie battaile conueyed the king to London lodged him in the Bishops Palace The tower de liuered to the Erle of March After whose comming to the Citie the tower was deliuered to the Erle of Marche vpon a certaine composition but the Lord Scales suspecting the sequele of the deliuerie thereof tooke a wherrie priuilye intending to haue fledde to the Queene but hee was espyed by dyuerse watermen belonging to the Earle of Warwike whiche wayted for his forth comming on the Thames and sodenly taken The L. Scales slayne and shortly slaine with many dartes and daggers and his bodie left naked
also an other De sua innocentia Nicholas Cantlow a Welchman borne discended of an auntient family in Southwales as by Bale it should appeare became a Frier Carmelite in Bristow Henry WichinghaÌ„ a Carmelite Frier of Norwiche a notable diuine a greate Preacher and wrote also sundrie treatises of diuinitie Iohn Lidgate a Monke of Burie an excellente Poet and chiefe in his time in that facultie of al other that practised the same within this land he trauelled through Fraunce and Italy to learne the languages and sciences how greatly he profited in atteyning to knowledge the workes whyche he wrote doe sufficiently testifie Nicholas Hostresham an excellent Phisition Iohn Blackney a religious man of the order of the Trinitie entituled De redemptione captiuorum and Prior of an house of the same order at Ingham in Northfolke he was surnamed Blackney of the towne where he was borne Thomas Beckington Bishop of Bathe wrote againste the lawe Salique whereby the Frenchmen woulde seclude the Princes of this Realme from theyr title to the Crowne of Fraunce Iohn BaringhaÌ„ a Carmelite Frier of Ippeswich or Gippeswiche in Suffolke Dauid Boys borne in Wales and a Frier Carmelite professed in Gloucester a doctor of diuinitie Iohn Brome an Augustine Frier Michael Trigurie a Cornishe man borne whome for his excellencie in learning K. Henry the fifth appointed to be master or gouernoure whether ye list to call him of that schole or Vniuersitie which he instituted in the Citie of Caen in Normandie after hee had broughte it vnder his subiection Iohn Amundisham a Monke of Sainte Albons Oswalde Anglicus a Monke of y e Chartreux order Iohn Keningale a Carmelite Frier of Norwiche Peter de Sancta fide that is of Sainte Faith a Carmelite also of Norwiche Reginalde Pecocke Bishop of Chichester of whome yee haue heard before he was borne in Wales and Student in Oriall Colledge in Oxforde where hee proceeded doctor of Diuinitie hee wrote manye treatises touching the Christian religion Iohn â—…named Bâ—…ie of the towne where hee was borne an Augustine Frier in the Towne of Clare in Suffolke Robert Fleming Thomas Gascoigne borne at Hunâ—…te in Yorkshire of that worshipfull familie of y e Gascoignes there a Doctor of Diuinitie and Chancellor of the Vniuersitie of Oxforde William Stapilhart borne in â—…ente but by profession a white Frier in London Robert FuninghaÌ„ borne in Northfolke a Franciscane Frier in Norwich Nicholas Moâ—…ute an Historiographer Iohn ChaÌ„dler Chancellor of Welles William Botoner discended of a good house a Knight by degree and borne in Bristowe very studious in antiquities and other sciences Iohn Stowe a Monke of Norwiche but Student in Oxeford where he proceeded doctor of Diuinitie Thomas Langley a Monke of Hulme Nicholas Bingey borne in a Towne of Northfolke of that name wrote an historie called Adunationes chronicorum Henrye Beauford Bishoppe of Winchester base sonne to Iohn Duke of Lancaster of whome before we haue made sufficient mention hee was aduanced to the dignitie of Cardinall by Pope Martine the fourth in the yeare .1426 Adam Homlington a Carmelite Frier William Coppinger master of the Vniuersitie of Oxford Thomas Stacie an experte Mathematicien and no lesse skilfull in Astronomie Iohn Talaugerne a Monke of Worcester William Sutton an Astrologicien Robert Balsacke wrote a booke entitled De re militari that is to saye of warre or cheualrie so that as is thoughte hee was both a good souldier and a painefull student of good letters Thomas DaÌ„do a Carmelite Frier of Marleburg hee wrote the life of Alphred Kyng of West Saxons William Grey borne of the noble house of the Greys of Codnor hee 〈◊〉 attayne to some excellencie of learning into Italy where hee hearde that noble Cleaâ—…e Guarinus Veronensis reede in Ferrarâ—… hee was preâ—…erred to the Bishopricke of Elie in the yeare .1454 by Pope Nicholas the fifth when Thomas Burchier was translated from thence to Caunterburie Iohn Kemp Archbishop of York and after remoued from thence to Caunterbury as before yee haue heard hee was made Cardinall of Saint Albine by Pope Eugene the fourth Adam Molins or Milner as Bale calleth hym keeper of the Kinges prittie Seale excellently learned in time of the ciuill warre betwixt King Henry and the Duke of Yorke lost his head as many other did in time of those helliâ—…e tragedies God deliuer euerye Christian Realme from the like Thomas Chillenden a Doctor both of the lawe Ciuill and Canon became at length a Monke in Canterburie Roberte Bale surnamed the elder excellently learned in the lawes of the Realme was aduanced to the office of Recorder of London gathered as it were a Chronicle of the customes lawes foundatioÌ„s changes restoring Magistrates offices orders and publique assemblies of the Citie of London with other matters touching the perfect description of the same Citie he wrote other works also touching the state of the same citie and the actes of King Edwarde the thirde hee departed this life in the yeare of our Lorde .1461 euen about the beginning of the raigne of King Edward the fourth vnto whome we will nowe agayne returne King Edward the fourth An. reg 1. Edward the .iiij. AFTER that thys noble Prince Edward Erle of March had consented to take vpoÌ„ him y e gouernemente of thys Kingdome of Englande through perswasion of the Prelates and other of the nobilitie as before ye haue hearde the morow next ensuing being the fourth of March he rode to the Church of Saint Paule The Earle of Marche taketh vpon him as King and there offered and after Te Deum song with greate solemnitie hee was conueyd to Westminster and there set in the hall with the Scepter royal in his hand where to all the people there in great number assembled His title declared his title and clayme to the Crowne of England was declared two maner of wayes the first as sonne and heire to Duke Richard hys father right inheritor to the same the second by authoritie of Parliament and forfeiture committed by King Henry Wherevpon it was agayne demaunded of the commons if they woulde admitte and take the sayde Earle as their Prince and soueraigne Lord whiche all with one voyce cryed yea yea This agreement then being thus concluded he entred into Westminster Churche vnder a Canapie with solemne procession and there as king offered and herewith taking the homages of all the nobles there present hee returned by water to London He is proclaymed King and was lodged in the Bishops palais and on the morrow after he was proclaymed K. by the name of Edwarde the fourth throughout the Citie This was in the yeare of the world .5427 and after the birth of our sauiour .1461 after our accompt beginning the yeare at Christmas but after the vsuall accompt of the Church of England 1460. about the twentith of the Emperor Frederike the thirde the nine and thirtith and last of Charles the seuenth King of Fraunce and fyrste yeare of the raigne of Iames the
no better successe excepte peraduenture yee will saye that it greeued hym for that such slaughters and mischieues as hadde chaunced within thys lande came to passe onely through hys folly and defaulte in gouernemente or that more is for hys fathers his Grandfathers and hys owne vniust vsurping and deteyning of the Crowne But howsoeuer it was for these before remembred and other the lyke properties of reputed holynesse whych was sayde to rest in hym it pleased God to worke miracles for hym in hys lyfe tyme as menne haue lysted to report by reason whereof Canonizing of kings deere King Henrye the seauenth sewed to Pope Iulio the seconde to haue hym canonized a Sainct but for that the canonizing of a King seemed to bee more costly than of a Byshoppe the sayde Kyng left off hys sute in that behalfe thynkyng better to saue his money than to purchasse a newe holy day of Sainte Henrye with so great a price remitting to God the iudgemente of hys will and intent Eaton colledge Thys Henrye the sixte amongst other good deedes buylte the Schoole of Eton by Windesor and also the Kings Colledge in the Vniuersitie of Cambridge Kinges colledge in Cambridge whereof hys liberal mind towardes the mayntenance of good learning may euidently be coniectured But nowe to returne to King Edward Ye shall vnderstande that after hys commyng to London hee rested there but one day or two at the most takyng hys iourney forthrighte into Kente with all hys armie following the â—…asterd and other his complices to suppresse them if they were in anye place assembled agaynâ—… to resist him but after they were once disâ—…ed they durst not shewe themselues agayne 〈◊〉 armour those onely excepted that were wiâ—…â—…awen vnto Sandwiche with the basterde Sâ—…dwich 〈◊〉 by the rebeâ—… whiche for the more parte were marriners an eyght or nine hundred besyde certayne other euill disposed persons that accompanyed hym as hys soldiers and men of warre with whose assistance the Basterde kepte that Towne by strength hauing in the hauen a seauen and fortie Shyppes greate and small vnder his gouernaunce The rebelleâ—… sue for parâ—… but vppon the Kings approching neere vnto those parties they sente to hym for pardon promising that vpon a reasonable appoyntment for y e safegard of their liues and other indempnities to bee hadde for their benefite they woulde become hys faithfull subiectes deliuer into his hands all the Shippes Their offer the K. vppon great considerations by good deliberate aduice of counsell thought best to accept there vpon being at that time in Canterburie he graunted to theyr petitions and sent immediately vnto SaÌ„dwich hys brother Richard Duke of Gloucester to receyue them to mercie togither with all the Shippes which according to their promise they deliuered into his handes But notwithstanding that as some write the Basterde Fauconbridge and other of hys companie that were gote to Sandwiche had thus theyr pardons by composition at the Kyngs hande we finde neuerthelesse that the sayde Basterd beeing afterwards at Sea a rouing belyke The basterdâ—… of Fauconbridge beâ—…ded as hee hadde vsed before came at length into the open hauen at Southhampton and there taking lande was apprehended and shortly after beheaded This chanced as should appeare by Fabian about the latter end of October More ouer Roger Vaughan that had bin sent by K. Edwarde into Wales 〈◊〉 Vâ—…ghaÌ„ 〈…〉 anon after Townesbury field being a man of great power in that countrey 〈…〉 and furnâ—… by some â—…eâ—…orâ—…â—…eight the Earle of Pembrooke the sayd erle being therof 〈◊〉 tooke the sâ—…me Roger and without delay â—…roke off his head After this was the erle besieged â—…e the towne of Pembrooke by Morgan Thomas bâ—…he siege was reised by Dauid Thomas or other to the sayd Morgan 〈◊〉 Thoâ—…s a faithfull frende to the Erle and then the erle by his help was couâ—…yed to Tynby where he got ships and with his nephew the Lord Henry erle of â—…hemond sayled into Britain â—…e earle of Pembrooke 〈◊〉 his Neâ—…re the erle â—…nde 〈◊〉 euer into 〈◊〉 where of the Duke they were curteously intertayned with assurance made that no creature should do them any wrong or iniurie within his dominions King Edward visiting diuers places in Kent satte in iudgement on such as had ayded the baâ—…stard in the last coÌ„motion of whom diuers were condemned and executed as Spising one of the captains that assaulted Algate whose head was set vp ouer the same gate â—…tion and so likewise was the head of one Quintine a butcher that was an other captaine amongst them and chief of those that assaulted Bishops gate as some write Moreouer at Canterbury the Maior of that citie was executed and diuers other at Rochester Maydstone and Blackheath for the Lord Marshal and other Iudges beeing appointed to hold their Oyer and determiner in that countrey of Kent there were aboue an hundred indited condemned Diuers also of the Essex men that had bin partakers in this rebellion with the bastard and holpe to set fire on Bishops gate Algate were hanged betwixt Stratford London Manie of the welthy coÌ„mons in Kent were put to grienous fines and when the king had made an end of his businesse in that countrey he returned to London comming thither againe vppon Whitson euen Fabian being the firste of Iune and hauing thus within the space of .xj. weekes recouered in maner the whole possession of his realme being relieued of the most part of all his doubtfull feare he ment to remoue al stops out of the way and therfore sent the Archebishop of Yorke brother to the Erle of Warwike The archiâ—… of Yorke and to the Marques Montacute ouer to Guysnes therto be kept in safe custodie within the castel where he continued a long seson til at length he was by friendship deliuered and shortly after through very anguish of mind departed this life whom Lauâ—…e Bathe and after him Thomas Rotheâ—…an in the sea of Yorke did ordinarily succeede Besyde this Iohn Earle of Oxford whiche after Barnet field The Earle of â—…rde bothe â—…fully aâ—… dâ—…y kept Sainct Michaels mount in Corn wall if thâ—… forâ—…e 〈◊〉 of ayde or perswaded by his 〈◊〉 gâ—…ue vp the Mâ—… and yelded himselfe to king Edward his â—…fâ—… only 〈◊〉 wâ—… 〈…〉 was graunted 1472 〈…〉 of 〈…〉 â—…maginations King Edward also sente hym â—…â—…châ—… 〈…〉 Whereby the space of 〈…〉 he was in strong prison thaâ—… vp and wardly 〈…〉 King Edwarde was not a 〈◊〉 disqâ—… his â—…inde An. reg 12. for that the Earles 〈…〉 and Richâ—…mont were not onâ—… escaped ouâ—… of the Realme but also will receyued and entertained of the Dâ—… of Britaine Messengers sent to the duke of Britaine hee sente therefore in secrete wise graue and close messengers to the sayde Duke the whyche should not 〈…〉 promisse the Duke greate and 〈◊〉 â—…des so that hee would deliuer doth the Earles into their
afterwardes for hee neuer intended more to moue hir in that matter in which she thought that he and al other also saue hirselfe lacked eyther wit or truth Wit if they were so bull that they coulde nothing perceyue what the Protector intended truth if they should procure hee sonne to be deliuered into hys handes in whom they shoulde perceyue towarde the childe any euill intended The Queene with these wordes stood a good while in a greate studie And forasmuche as hir seemed the Cardinall more readie to depart than some of the remnant and the Protector himselfe readie at hande so that shee verily thought shee coulde not keepe him there but that he should incontinent bee taken thence and to conuey hym else where neyther had she time to serue hir nor place determined nor persoÌ„s appointed al things vnredie this message came on hir so sodainly nothing lesse looking for than to haue him set out of Sancturie which she thought to be now beset in such places about that he could not be conueyed out vntaken and partly as shee thought it myght fortune hir feare to bee false so well she wysse it was eyther needlesse or bootlesse wherefore if she should needes go from him she deemed it best to deliuer him And ouer that of the Cardinalles fayth shee nothing doubted nor of some other Lordes neyther whom she there sawe Whiche as she feared least they might be deceyued so was she well assured they woulde not bee corrupted then thought shee it shoulde yet make them the more warely to looke to him and the more circumspectly to see to his surety if she with hir own handes betooke him to them of trust And at the last she tooke the yong duke by the hande sayde vnto the Lordes My Lordes quoth shee and all my Lordes I neyther am so vnwyse to mystruste youre wyttes nor so suspitious to mystrust your truthes Of which thing I purpose to make you suche a proofe as if eyther of both lacked in you myghte turne bothe mee to greate sorowe the Realme to muche harme and you to great reproch For we heere is quoth she thys Gentleman whome I doubt not but I coulde heere keepe safe if I woulde whatsoeuer anye man saye and I doubte not also but there bee some abrode so deadly enimies vnto my bloud that if they wyst where any of it laye in theyr owne bodie they would let it out Wee haue also experience that the desire of a kingdom knoweth no kindred The brother hath beene the brothers bane and may the nephewes be sure of theyr vncle Eche of these children is the others defence while they be asunder and eche of theyr liues lieth in the others bodie Keepe one safe and both be sure and nothing for them both more perillous than to be both in one place For what wise Marchant aduentureth all his goodes in one ship All this notwithstanding here I deliuer him and his brother in him to keepe into youre handes of whom I shall aske theÌ„ both afore god and the world Faythfull ye be that wore I well and I know well you be wise Power strength to kepe him if you list neither lack ye of your self nor can lacke helpe in this cause And if ye cannot else where then may you leaue him here But only one thing I beseech you for the trust which his father put in you euer for y e trust that I put in you nowe that as farre as yee thinke that I feare too muche be you well ware that you feare not as farre too little And therewithall she sayde vnto the childe fare well mine owne sweete son God send you good keeping let me kisse you yet once ere you goe for God knoweth when wee shall kisse togither agayne And therwith she kissed him and blessed him turned hir backe wept and went hir way leauing the childe weeping as faste When the Lorde Cardinall and these other Lordes with him had receyued this yong duke they brought him into the starre Chamber where the Protector tooke him in his armes and kissed him O dissimulation with these wordes now welcome my Lord euen with all my very heart And he sayd in that of likelyhoode as he thought Therevpon forthwith they brought him vnto the king his brother into the Bishoppes Palace at Poules and from thence throughe the Citie honourably into the Tower out of the which after that day they neuer came abrode This that is heere betwene this marke * and tâ—…s marke * was not written by him in english bâ—…t is translated out of this History which he wrot in Latten When the Protector had both the children in his handes he opened himselfe more boldely both to certaine other men and also chiefly to the duke of Buckingham Although I knowe that many thought that this duke was priuy to al the Protectors counsaile euen from the beginning and some of the Protectors friends sayde that the duke was the first mouer of the Protector to this matter sending a priuie messenger vnto hym streight after king Edwards death But other againe which knew better the subtil wit of the protector denie that he euer opened his enterprise to the duke vntill he had brought to passe the things before rehearsed But when hee had imprysoned the Queenes kinsfolkes and gotten both hir sonnes into his owne handes then he opened the rest of his purpose with lesse feare to them whoÌ„ he thought meet for the matter and specially to the duke who being woon to his purpose he thought his strength more than halfe 〈◊〉 The matter was broken vnto the duke 〈…〉 till folkes and such as were their craftmaistâ—… in the handling of such wicked deuises 〈◊〉 who declared vnto him that the yong king was 〈◊〉 with him for hys kinsfolkes sake and if hee 〈◊〉 euer able he would â—…nge them Who wâ—…t pricke him forwarde therevnto if they 〈◊〉 they would remember their imprisonmeÌ„t or 〈◊〉 if they were put to death without doubt the yong king woulde bee carefull for their deathes whose imprisonment was grieuous vnto him And that with repenting the duke shoulde nothing auaile for there was no way left to redeeme his offence by benefites but he shoulde sooner destroy hymselfe than saue the king who with his brother and his kinsfolkes he sawe in such places imprisones as the Protectour myghte wyth a backe destroye them all and that it were no doubt but he would doe it in deede if there were any newe enterprise attempted And that it was likely that as the Protectour had prouided priuie garde for himselfe so hadde hee spyalles for the Duke and traynes to catche him if hee shoulde be agaynste hym and that peraduenture from them whome hee leaste suspected For the state of things and the dispositions of men were then such that a man coulde not well tell whom he might trust or whome he might feare These things and such like beyng beaten into the Dukes mynde brought him to that
and aboue the harth with the fiftie pencioners with their battaile axes and so the King broughts hir vp to hir priuie chamber where hee lefte hir for that time Assoone as the K. and she were enâ—…red the Court was shot off froÌ„ the Tower of Grenewich and there about a great peale of artillerie When the Kinges companye and hirs were once come within the Parke as before yee haue heard then all the Horsemen on Blacke heathe brake their aray and hadde licence to depart to London or otherwhere to their lodgings The mariage 〈◊〉 solemnised betwixte King â—…y and the Lady Anne of Câ—…e On the Tewsday following being the daye of the Epiphany the mariage was solemnised betwixt the K. and the said Lady She was fetched from hir chamber by the Lords so that shee going betweene the Earle of Ouersteyne and the graund master Hosconder which had the coÌ„duit and order to see the mariage performed she passed through the Kings chamber al the Lords before hir til she came into the galerie where the K. was ready staying for hir to whome shee made three low obeisances and courtesies Then the Archb. of Canterbury receiued theÌ„ and maried them togither and the Earle of Ouersteine did giue hir When the mariage was celebrate they went hande in hande into the kings closet and there hearing Masse offered their tapers and after Masse was ended they had wine and spices And that done the K. departed to his chamber and al y e Ladyes waited on hir to hir chamber the D. of Norffolke goyng on hir rights hande and the D. of Suffolke on hir left hande After nine of the clocke the K. hauing shifted his apparell came to his closet and shee likewise in hir heare and in y e same apparell she was maried in came to hir closet with hir Sergeant at armes and all hir officers before hir like a Q. and so the K. and she went openly in procession and offered and dined togither After they hadde supped togither there were bankers and Maskes and diuers disportes shewed till time came that it pleased the King and hir to take rest On the Sunday after Iustes were kept solemne Iustes which greatly contented the strangers This daye shee was apparelled after the English manner with a french head which became hir exceedyng well When the Erle of Ouersseine and the other Lordes and Ladyes whiche had giuen their attendance on hir grace all that iourney had beâ—…e highly feasted and enterteyned of the K. and other of the nobles they tooke leaue and had great giftes giuen to them both in money and plate and so returned towarde their countrey leauyng behind them the Earle of Waldecke and dyuers Gentlemen and damosels to remaine with hir til she were better acquainted in the realme The fourth of February the King and she remoued to Westminster by water on whom the L. Maior and his breethren and twelue of the chiefe companies of the Citie al in Barges gorgeously garnished with baners penons and targets richly couered and furnished with instruments sweetely sounding gaue their attendaÌ„ce and by the way all the shippes shot off and likewise from the Tower a great peale of ordinaÌ„ce wente off iustely The twelfth of February The Duke of Norffolke Ambassador into France the D. of Norffolke was sente in Ambassade to the french K. of whom he was wel enterteined and in the ende of the same moneth hee returned again into England The eyghtenth of Aprill at Westminster was Thomas Lorde Cromwell created Earle of Essex and ordeyned great Chamberlayne of Englande whiche office the Earles of Oxforde were wont euer to enioy An. reg 32. The firste of May Sir Iohn Audeley Sir Thomas Seymour Sir George Carewe Sir Thomas Poinings knightes Rich. Cromwell and Anthony Kingston Esquiers Iustes enterprised a royall Iustes Torney and barriers The Iusts beganne the first of May the second of May the sayde Richard Cromwell and Anthony Kingston were made Knightes The Torney began the third day and the barriers the fifth of y e same moneth whiche chalenge they valiantly performed against al commers and at Durâ—…me place they kept open housholde feasting the King the Q and all the Lords Beside this on Tewsday in the rogation weeke they feasted all y e knights and burgesses of the common house and the morow after they had the Maior the Aldermen and all their wiues to dinner and on the Friday after they brake vp houshold In the Parliamente which began the eightenth of Aprill last past the religion of S. Iohns in Englande commonly called the order of Knightes of the Rodes The order of the Roades dissolued was dissolued and on the ascentioÌ„ day being the fifth of May sir Wil. Weston Knight prior of S. Iohns departed this life for thought as was reported which he tooke to heart after hee heard of that dissolution of his order The same moneth were sente to the Tower Doctor Sampson Bishoppe of Chichester The Byshop of Chichester and Doctor Wilâ—… committed to the Tower and Doctor Wilson for relieuing of certayne trayterous persons and for the same offence was one Richard Farmer a grocer of London a rich and welthie man and of good estimatioÌ„ in the Citie committed to the Marshall See and after at Westminster Hall arreigned and atteynted in the premunire so that be lost all his goodes The ninetenth of Iuly Tho. L. Cromwell The Lorde Cromwell committed the Tower late made Earle of Essex as in the last yeare yee may reade beeing nowe in the counsel chamber was suddainely apprehended committed to y e Tower of London which his misfortune many lamented but mo reioiced thereat specially suche as either had bin religious men or fauoured theÌ„ The ninetenth of Iuly he was by Parliamente atteinted neuer came to his aunswere He is 〈◊〉 by Parliament and 〈◊〉 both of heresie high treason as in y e record it appeareth The .28 day of Iuly hee was brought to the scaffold on the Tower hill where he spake these words following I am come hither to die and not to purge my selfe as may happen some think y t I will for if I shoulde so doe I were a verye wretch and miser I am by the law condemned to die and thanke my L. God that hath appointed me this death for mine offence for sitheÌ„ce the time y t I came to yeares of discretion I haue lyued a sinner and offended my L. God for y e whiche I aske him hartily forgiuenes And it is not vnknowen to manye of you that I haue bene a great traueyler in the worlde and being but of a base degree was called to high estate and sitheÌ„ce the time I came therevnto I haue offended my prince for the which I aske him hartily forgiuenesse and besech you al to pray to God with me that he wil forgiue me O father forgiue me O sonne forgiue me O holy Ghost forgiue me O three persons in one God forgiue
one Leigh a Gentleman and nine temporall men on which persons were apprehended and in diuers places put to execution The layde Leigh and 〈◊〉 other the one named Taterfall a clothyer and the other Thorneton a yeoman the seuententh of May were drawen through London to Tiborne and there executed And sir Iohn Neuil knight and ten other persons dyed Sir Iohn Nâ—…uill executed The countesse of Salisburie beheaded for y e same cause at Yorke The same day Margaret Countesse of Salisbury that had remayned a long tyme prisoner in the Tower was beheaded there within the Tower She was the last of the right line and name of Plantagenet The ninth of Iune for ensample sake Execution two of the kings gard the one named Dâ—…mport and the other Chapman were hanged at Greenewiche by the Friers wall for robberies whiche they hadde committed The Lord Leonard Gray beeyng endited of certain points of treason by him committed as was alledged againste him during the season that he was the kings Lieutenant in Irelande to wite for deliuering his nephew Girald Fitz Garard brother to Thomas Fitz Gararde before executed and also for that hee caused certain Irishmen to inuade the lands of the Kings friendes whome hee fauoured not the fiue and tweÌ„tith of Iune he was araigned at Westminster in the Kinges benche and appoynted to bee tryed by knightes bycause he was a L. by name and no L. of the Parliament but hee discharged the Iury and confessed the enditemente wherevpon he had iudgemente and on the eyghte and twentith of Iune being Saint Peters euen hee was beheaded at Tower hill The Lorde Leonard Grey beheaded where he ended his life very quietly and godly This noble man as he was come of high lignage so was he a ryghte valiant and hardy personage hauing in his time done his Prince and countrey good seruice both in Irelande France and other places greatly to his commendation although now his happe was thus to lose his head The same day that he suffered there were executed at S. Thomas Waterings three Gentlemen Iohn Mantel Iohn Frowds and George Roydon They dyed for a murther committed in Suffer as their â—…ement imported in company of Thomas Fâ—…s Lorde Daâ—…s of the Sonthe â–ª The truth where of was thus the sayde Lorde Dacres through the lewds perswasion of soute of them as hath ben reported meaning to hunt in the Parke of Nicholas Pelham Esquire at Langht a in the same countie of Sassex beyng accompanyed with the sayd Mantel Frowâ—… and Râ—…on Iohn Cheynte and Thomas Isley Gentlemen Richarde Middleton and Iohn â—…oâ—…ell yeomen passâ—… from his house of Hurstmonseux the last of Aprill in the night season towarde the same parke where they inteÌ„ded so to hunt and comiÌ„g vnto a place called Pikehay in the parish of Heâ—…ingâ—…y they founde one Iohn Buforigge Iames Busbrigge and Richard Saâ—…ner standing there togither and as it fell out through quaâ—…ing there ensurdâ—… fray betwixte the sayde Lorde Dacres and hys company on the one partie and the sayde Iohn and Iames Busbrigge and Richard Somener on the other in so muche that the sayde Iohn Busbrigge receiued such hurt that he dyed thereof the second of May next ensuing wherevpon as well the sayde L. Dacres as those that were there with him and diuers other likewise that were appointed to goe an other way to meete them at the said parke were endited of murther and the seauen and twentith of Iune the Lorde Dacres himselfe was araigned before the Lorde Audeley of Walden then Lord Chancellor sitting that daye as high Stewarde of Englande with other Peeces of the Realme aboute hym who then and there condemned the sayde Lorde Dacres to die for that transgression and afterwards the nine and twentith of Iune being S. Peters daye at eleuen of the clocke in the forenoone the Sheriffes of London accordingly as they were appointed were ready at the Tower to haue receiued the saide prisoner and hym to haue led to execution on the Tower hill but as the prisoner shoulde come forthe of the Tower one Heire a Gentleman of the L. Chancellors house came and in the Kings name commaunded to stay the execution till two of the clocke in the afternoone whiche caused many to thynke that the King would haue graunted his pardon But neuerthelesse at three of the clocke in the same afternoone he was brought forth of y e Tower and deliuered to the Sherifes who led him a foote betwixt them vnto Tiborne wher he dyed His body was buryed in the Churche of S. Sepulchers hee was not past four and twentie yeare of age when he came thus through great mishappe to his ende for whome manye sore lamented and likewise for the other three Gentlemen Mantell Frowdes and Roydon but for the said yong L. being a right towardly Gentleman and suche a one as many hadde conceyued greate hope of better proofe no small moane and lamentation was made the more indeede for that it was thought he was induced to attempt such follie whiche occasioned his deathe by some light heads that were then about him The King goeth in progresse into Yorkeshire This Sommer the King kept his progresse to Yorke and passed through Lincolneshire where was made to him an humble submission by the Temporaltie and confessing their faults they humbly thanked him for his pardon which he had graunted them Giftes giuen to him by them of Lincolneshire The Towne of Stanford gaue to him twenty pound the citie of Lincolne fortie pounde Boston fiftie pounde that parte of the Shire whiche is called Linsey gaue three C. pound and Kesterne and the Church of Lincolne presented him with fiftie pound At his entring into Yorkeshire hee was met with two hundred Gentlemen of the same shire in coates of veluet and foure M. tall yeomen and seruing menne well horsed whiche on their knees made their submission by the mouth of Sir Roberte Bowes gaue to the K. nine hundred pounde Giftes giuen by them of Yorkeshire On Barnesdale the Archb. of York with three C. Priestes and more met the K. and makyng a like submission gaue to him sixe C. pounde The like submission was made by the Maiors of Yorke Newcastell and Hull and eache of them gaue to the King an hundred poundes After he had bin at Yorke twelue dayes hee came to Hull Hull fortifyâ—… where he deuised certayne fortifications This done he passed ouer the water of Humbre and so through Lincolneshire returned towards the South parts and at Alhallowen tide came to Hampton Court Aboute the same time the Kyng had knowledge that the Queene lyued dissolutely in vsing the vnlawfull companye of one Frauncis Diram with whome she had bin too familiar before hir marriage with the King and not meaning to forgoe his company now in time of hir mariage without regard had eyther to the feare of God or the King hir husband the last Sommer beeing in progresse with the King at
and bishop of saint Assaph wrote agaynste Erasmus for his Translation of the newe Testament to his small praise as he handled the matter Thomas surnamed Philomelus a Londoner an excellent Poet William Grocine verye experte in bothe toungs Greeke and Latine Thomas Spencer a Carmelite Frier born in Norwich Henry Bullocke William Latymer Young a Monke of Ramesey Arnolde of London wrote certayne collections touchyng Historicall matters Thomas Lupset a Londoner a learned young man departyng thys lyfe in the xxxvj yeare of his age aboute the yeare of our Lorde .1532 he wrote sundry vertuous treatises William Melton Chancellour of Yorke Iohn Sowle a Carmelite Frier of London and a Doctour of Diuinitie Iohn Batemanson a Chartreux Monke and Prior of his house at London Richard Whitford Thomas Attourborne in Norffolke and fellowe wyth Bilneye in sufferyng persecution vnder Cardinall Wolsey Henry Bradshawe borne in Chester where hee was professed a blacke Monke wrote the lyfe of saincte Werbourgh and a certayne Chronicle Iohn Paulsgraue a Citizen of London wrote Instructions for the perfecte vnderstandyng of the Frenche tong Iohn Skuyshe a Cornysheman wrote certayne abbreuiations of Chronicles wyth a treatise of the warres of Troy Anthony Fitzherbert a Iudge wrote an Abridgement of the lawe Iohn Litleton wrote also of the principles of the Lawe but hee lyued before thys season to wit in the dayes of Wilfride Holme wrote a treatise of the rebellion in Lincolueshire and in the Northe after the manner of a Dialogue Iohn Constable an excellent Poet and rhetoritian Iohn Hilier Edwarde Foxe student in the Kings Colledge in Cambridge was aduanced to the Bishoppes sea of Hereford and was imployed in dyuers Ambassades from Kyng Henry the seauenth both into Germanie and Italy Iohn Lambert alias Nichols borne in Norffolke of whome yee haue hearde in the Historie of thys Kyng howe hee suffered for the controuersie of the Sacrament George Fulberye Iohn Hoker Thomas Lanquet wrote an Epitome of Chronicles also of the winnyng of Bollongne Iohn Shepre Leonard Coxe he wrote dyuers treatises one in English rhetorike wherof Bale maketh no mention Thomas Soulmon borne in the yle of Gernsey verie studious in histories as by his writings notes it appeareth Iohn Longlande Bishoppe of Lyncolne Maurice Chauncy a chartreux Monke Cutbert Tunstall bishop of Duresme Richard Sampson Alban Hill a Welchman an excellent Physition Richard Croke verye experte in the Greeke toung Robert Whittington borne in Staffordshire neere to Lichfielde wrote dyuers Treatises for the instruction of Grammarians Iohn Aldrige Bishop of Carleil Iohn Russell gathered a Treatise intitled Superiure Caesaris Papae he wrote also CoÌ„mentaries in Cantica William Roye Simon Fish a KeÌ„tishman borne wrote a booke called the Supplication of Beggers Iohn Powell and Edwarde Powell Welchemen wrote against Luther Edward died in Smith field for treason in denying the Kings Supremacie in the yeare .1540 Iohn Houghton gouernour of the Charterhouse Monks in London dyed lykewyse for treason in the yeare a thousand fyue hundred thirtie and fyue Iohn Rickes being an aged man forsaking the order of a Frier Minor whyche he had first protessed imbraced the Gospell George Bulleyn lorde Rocheforde brother to Queene Anne wrote dyuers Songs and Sonettes Frauncis Bigod knyght borne in Yorkshire wrote a booke agaynst the Clergie entituled De impropritationibus and translated certain books from Latin into English he died for rebellion in the yere a thousand fiue hundred thirtie and seuen Richarde Wyse Henry Morley Lorde Morley wrote diuers treatises as Comedies and tragedies the lyfe of Sectaties and certain rithmes William Thynne restored Chancers workes by his learned and painful corrections Iohn Smith somtime Schoolemaister of Heyton Richard Turpine borne of a woorshipfull familie in Englande seruyng in the garnison of Caleys wrote a chronicle of his tyme he dyed in the yeare a thousande fyue hundred fortie and one and was buryed in Saint Nicholas churche in Caleys Sir Thomas Wiat knighte in whose prayse muche myght be said as wel for his learning as other excellent qualities mete for a man of his calling he greatly furthered to enriche the Englishe tongue hee wrote diuers master in Englishe mettes and translated the seuen Penitentiall Psalmes and as some write the whole Psalter Hee dyed of the pestilence in the West countrey bering on his iourney into Spayne whether hee was sent ambassadour from the king vnto the Emperour in the yeare a thousand fiue hundred fortie and one Henry Howard Earle of Surrey sonne to the Duke of Norffolke delyted in the lyke studies with Sir Thomas Wyat wrote diuers treatises also in Englishe metre he suffered at Tower his as in the historie of this King before ye haue hearde Iohn Fielde a citizen and Lawyer of London wrote sundrye Treatises as hys owne aunsweres vnto certaine articles ministred to him by sir Thomas More the Byshoppe of Rochester Raffell and others When hee was in prison for religion he wrote also a treatise of mans free-will de serno hominis arbitrio and Collections of the common lawes of the land c. Tristram Reuell Henrye Brinklowe a Merchaunt of London wrote a lyttle booke whiche hee published vnder the name of Roderik Mors also a coÌ„plaint vpoÌ„ London c. Robert Shinglaton 〈◊〉 of a good family in Lancashire wrote a treatise of the seauen Churches and other thinges as of certaine prophecies for the whiche as some write he settled at London being conuicte of treason in the yeare .1544 William Parrey a Welcheman wrote a booke entituled Speculum Inuenum Of strangers that lyued here in thys kings dayes and for their workes whiche they wrote were had in estimation these we fynd recorded by Maister Bale Bernarde Andreas a Frenche man borne in Tolouse an Augustin Frier and an excelleÌ„t Poet Adrian de Castello an Italian of CorneloÌ„ a towne in Thuscayne he was commended vnto Kyng Henry the seuenth by the Archebishoppe Morton and therevppon was fyrste made Bishop of Hereforde and after resigning that sed was aduaunced to Bath and Welles Andreas Ammonius an Italian of the citie of Luâ—…a secretarie to the K. wrote dyuers treaches Iames Caleo an Italian also of Paula in Lumbardie by profession a Carmelite Frier an ernest defender of the diuorce betwixt the Kyng and the Ladye Katherine Dowager disproouyng the marryage betwixt them to be in any wyse lawfull King Edwarde the sixthe Edwar. the sixt AFter it had pleased Almightie God to call to hys mercye that famous Prince Kyng Henrye the eigthe the Parliament as yet continuing and now by his death dissolued the executors of the sayd Kyng and other of the Nobilitie assembling themselues togyther did firste by sounde of trumpet in the palace at Westminster King Edvvard proclaymed and so through London cause his sonne and heire Prince Edward to be proclaymed king of this realme by the name of Edward the sixt King of Englande Fraunce and Irelande defender of the faith and of the churches
Maior being thus returned to the citie caused the gates to be shut and such Gentlemen as had bene committed to prison within the castell or other places within the Citie he caused to bee set at libertie and with their aduise tooke order howe the Rebels might be kept out The citizens fauouring the rebels But as he was busie about such matters certaine of the Citizens that fauoured the Rebels had receyued a great multitude of them into the citie which put the citizens in 〈◊〉 feare that it was thought the most â—â—retie for the Gentlemen that had bene nowe released out of prison to be shut vp againe least the Rebelles finding them abroade shoulde haue membered them Yet after this when the Rebelles were departed out of the Citie againe the Maior and Aldermen fell in hande to rampire vp the gates to plant ordinance and to make all necessarie prouision that for them was possible At length they fell to shooting off their artillerie as well from the Citie as from the Campe doing their best to annoy eche other But when the Rebelles sawe that they did little hurt to the Citie with their great ordinance lying vpon the hill they remoued the same downe to the fote of the same hill and from thence beganne to beate the walles Notwithstanding shortly after they made suite for a truce to endure for a tune that they might passe to and fro through the Citie to fetche in vittayles whereof some want beganne to pinche them in the Campe. The Maior and Aldermen flatlye denyed their request protecting that they woulde not permit any traytours to haue passage through their Citie The Rebels sore kindled in wrath with this aunswere and deniall of their suite came running downe from the hil assaulting the gates were beaten off with shot of arrowes and other weapons and yet such rage appeared among the Rebelles that the boyes and yong laddes shewed themselues so desperate in gathering vp the arrowes that when they sawe and felte the same sticking in some part of their bodies they woulde plucke them forth and deliuered them to their bowe men that they might bestowe the same againe at the Citizens In the meane time whylest they were thus busie vpon one side of the Citie an alarme rose as the defendants backes crying that the Rebels were entred the Citie on the contrarie side and so euery man shrinking awaye and running thither to repulse the enimie there that part was left voyde of defendantes where the first assault began whereof the Rebelles being aduised rushed into the riuers that runneth before Bishops gate got to the gates and breaking them open entred without any great resistance For all the citizens were withdrawne to their houses and other places where they hoped best to hide themselues from the furie of their enimies The rebels coÌ„uer artillerie and munition out of the city to their camp The Rebelles hauing thus entred the Citie by force conueyed all the gunnes and artillerie with other furniture of warre out of the Citie into their Campe. The Herault that was yet abiding in the Citie to see if the Rebelles woulde before the daye prefixed for their pardons being not yet expired giue ouer their wicked enterprise cometh with the Maior into the market place and in the hearing of a great multitude of people that were come forth and stoode about him he eftsoones as gaue commandement in the kings name The heraults â—â—â—clamation in Norwich that they shoulde laye armes aside â–ª and gette them home to their houses â–ª whiche to so manye as did hee pronounced a generall pardon anâ—… to the rest extreme punishment by death The Rebels that stoode by and hearde him when he had once made an ende of his Proclamation baâ—…e him get him thence with a mischiefe The trayterous refusall of the rebels to accept the â—…ings pardon for it was not his faire offers nor hys sweete flattering wordes that shoulde beguile them for they made no account of suche maner of mercie that vnder a colour of pardon shoulde cut off al their safetie and hope of preseruation The Herault perceyuing howe obstinately they were bent and set on all mischiefe and that it was impossible to bring them from their outragious treason eyther through feare of punishment or hope of pardon departed without hauing brought that to passe for which he was sent Immediatly after his departure the Rebels sought for Leonarde Southerton purposing to haue apprehended him and committed him to prison for accompanying the Herault thitherwardes But he hauing knowledge of their meaning hid himselfe from them After this there were by Kets commaundement apprehended diuerse persons Prisoners committed towarde in mont Surrey as the Maior Robert Watson William Rogers Iohn Homerston William Brampton and many other which were brought out of the citie and committed to prison in Mont Surrey Ket perceyuing wel that he must eyther now obteyne a bloudie victorie by force against his countrie â–ª or else to taste such an ende as his vngracious attempts did wel deserue got togither so many wicked persons as he might procure to come vnto him from eche side Kets power increaseth with great rewardes and faire promises so that it was a straunge matter to consider what a multitude of vnthrifts and rascals came to him vppon the sodaine The Citizens of Norwiche yet sore displeased that their Maior being an honest man and one greatlye beloued among them shoulde be imprisoned and so remayne in daunger of life among the Rebelles for they threatened him sort and ieasting at his name woulde say one to another let vs all come togither to morow for wee shall see a Coddes heade solde in the Campe for a penie wherevpon the Citizens fearing least through the malice and rage of the Rebels their Maior might chaunce to be made awaye among them procured maister Thomas Alderiche whose authoritie was great among them to be a meane for his deliuerance who comming to Kette with sharpe and bitter wordes reproued him for his cruell dealing by imprisoning so honest a man as the Maior was withal commaunded him to release him The Maior of Norwich set at libertie whiche eyther for shame or rather throughe feare of a guiltie conscience that pricked him he caused incontinently to be done who therevpon might nowe and then go and come at his pleasure to and fro the Citie but bicause hee coulde not still remaine in the Citie but was constreyned to continue for the most part in the Campe Augustine Stewarde he appointed Augustine Stewarde to bee his Deputie who with the assistaunce of Henrie Bacon and Iohn Atkinson sherifes gouerned the Citie right orderlye and kept the most part of the Citizens in due obeysance The Counsell aduertised nowe vppon the Heraultes returne that there was no waye to reduce these Norffolke rebels vnto quiet otherwise than by force appoynted the Marques of Northampton with fiftene hundred horsemen to go downe vnto Norwiche to subdue those
Cosmographie and Geometrie moste skilfull hee was borne in Wales discended of a good family and finally departed this lyfe in the dayes of Queene Mary Baltholmew Traheron discended of a worshipfull house in the West partes of Englande deane of Chichester departed this lyfe in Germanie where he lyued in exile aboute the latter ende of Queene Maryes raigne Cutbert Tunstall Bishop first of London and after of Durham borne in Lancashire of a right worshipfull family excellently learned as by his workes it may appeare Doctor of both the Lawes departed this life in the yeare .1556 Richarde Samson Byshop of Couentrie and Lichfielde wrote certaine Treatises and departed this life Anno. 1555. Lucas Sheparde borne in Colchester in Essex an English Poet Iane Dudley daughter to Henrie Gray Duke of Suffolke wrate diuerse things highlye to hir commendation of whome ye haue hearde more before here in thys Hystorie William Thomas a Welchman borne of whome ye haue lykewise heard howe he suffred for Treason wrote the Hystorie of Italie and other things verie eloquently Iames Brokes a Doctor of Diuinitie Iohn Standish a Doctor likewise of the same profession greate defenders of the Popes doctrine as by their workes appeareth William Peryne a blacke Frier by profession and a Doctor also of Diuinitie wrote in defence of the Masse and preached Sermons which were prynted of like stuffe Iohn Baret borne in Lynne a Doctor of Diuinitie and sometyme a Carmelite Frier but reuolting from the Popes Religion became an earnest setter forth of the Gospell but eftsoones hee fell off and returned to hys former opinions nowe in the dayes of Queene Marie Henrie Lorde Stafforde sonne to Edwarde Duke of Buckingham amongst other things which he wrote he translated a booke out of the Latine into English intituled Vtriusque potestatis differentia that is the difference betwixt the two powers which booke as some thinke was first compyled and set forth by Edwarde Foxe Bishop of Hereford Iohn Hopkins translated dyuerse Psalmes of the Psalter into English meeter whiche are to bee founde amongest those appoynted to be sung in Churches Queene Elizabeth HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENCE The cause of your calling hither at this time is to signifie vnto you that all the Lordes here present are certainly certified that God this present morning hath called to his mercie our late soueraigne Ladie Queene Marie which happe as it is most heauie and grieuous vnto vs so haue we no lesse cause an other way to reioyce wyth prayse to almightie God for that he hath left vnto vs a true lawfull and right inheritrice to the crowne of this realme which is the Ladie Elizabeth second daughter to our late soueraigne Lord of noble memorie King Henrie the eight and sister to our sayd late Queene of whose most lawfull right and title in the succession of the crowne thankes be to God wee neede not to doubt Wherefore the Lordes of this house haue determined with your assentes and consents to passe from hence into the Palace and there to proclaim the sayde Ladie Elizabeth Queene of thys realme without further tract of tyme wherevnto the whole house answered with euident appearaunce of ioy God saue Queene Elizabeth long may Queene Elizabeth raigne ouer vs and so this present Parliament beeing dissolued by the acte of God the sayde Lordes immediately calling vnto them the Kings and Principall Herauldes at Armes went into the Palayce of Westmynster and directly before the Hall doore in the foore Noone of the same day after seuerall soundings of trumpets made The Ladie Elizabeth proclaymed Queene in most solemne maner proclamed the newe Queene by thys name and tytle Elizabeth by the grace of God Queene of England Fraunce and Irelande defender of the fayth c. to the great comfort and reioysing of the people as by theyr maners and countenaunces well appeared after which Proclamation made at Westminster the sayde lords to witte the Duke of Norffolke the Lord Treasurer the Erle of Oxforde and diuerse other lords and Bishops with all speede repayred into the Citie of London where the lyke proclamation was made in presence of them and also of the lord Maior and Aldermen in their skarlet gownes at the Crosse in Cheape with no lesse vniuersall ioy and thanks giuing to God of all the hearers and so our sayd most gracious soueraigne Ladie Q. Elizabeth began hir happie raigne ouer this realm of Englande to the great cōfort and gladnesse of al estates vpō the foresaid .xvij. day of Nouēber in the yere after the creation of the world .5525 after the birth of our sauiour .1558 1558 of the Empire of Ferdinando the first Emperor of Rome bearing that name the fyrste In the .xij. yere of the raigne of Henrie the second of that name French King and in the .xvj. yeare of the raigne of Marie Q. of Scotlande The Fryday morning being the .xviij. of Nouember and morrow after the deceasse of Q. The death of Cardinall Poole Marie Reginalde Poole Lorde Cardinall and Archbishop of Canterburie departed this life at Lambeth and was after buryed at Caunterbury in Christs Churche there The Queenes remouing frō Hatfielde On Wednesday the three and twentith of Nouember the Queenes maiestie remoued frō Hatfielde vnto the Charter house in London where she lodged in the Lord Northes house in which remouing and comming thus to the Citie it mighte well appeare how comfortable hir presence was to them that went to receyue hir on the way and likewise to y e great multitudes of people that came abrode to see hir grace shewing their reioycing hearts in countenance and wordes with hartie prayers for hir Maiesties prosperous estate and preseruation whiche no doubt were acceptable to God as by y e sequeale of things it may certaynely be belieued sith hys deuine Maiestie hathe so directed hir doyngs that if euer the commō wealth of this land hath flourished it maye rightly bee saide that in hir most happie raigne it hathe bin most flourishing in peace quietnesse and due administration of iustice mixed with mercifull clemencie so as those whiche cannot contente themselues with the presente state of things vnder hir rule no doubt they are such factious creatures as wil not rest satisfyed with anye kynde of gouernemēt be it neuer so iust and commendable from the which sort of men the Lord deliuer hir royal Maiestie and all hir true and louing subiectes and preserue hir in long life to all our comforts and continue hir in such happie proceedings as she hath begun to the ende On Monday the eyghte and twentith of Nouember about two of the clocke in the after noone hir grace remoueth agayne Hir grace remoueth to the Tower and takyng hir Charet rode from my Lorde Northes house alongst the Barbican and entring by Criplegate into the Citie kept along the wall to Byshoppes gate and so by blanke Chapelton vnto Marke lane At hir entring into blanke Chapelton the artillerie in the
come in at a lowe water and at a full sea the greatest Shippe the Queenes Maiestie hath may come in and haue good harbrough there The continuance of the same will not only bee profitable to the most part of the inhabitants there but also commodious to all the Queenes subiectes trauellers by sea And whereas one of the owners of a greate parte of the same marshes hadde certaine polles set vp therein and beeing very meete and in conueniente place of the same Marshe for the drying of their fishing nettes and receyued money yearely of those that dryed their nettes there sufficiently ynough yet he caused his seruaunte to pull vp the poles and lay them in an house standing in the same marshe and also coÌ„maunded his seruaunt to giue them warning that they shuld no more hang their nettes there except they woulde come and compound wyth him for it And the same night by Gods prouidence it came so to passe that according to hys saying though contrary to his good will and minde they are not lyke to hang their nettes there any more bycause of the depth of the water is so great and like to continue In hope of continuance of the same newe opened Hauen certaine men of the same towne haue begunne to builde faire barkes to trauell the Seas the whiche in continuance of time will bee a great furtherance to the maintenance of the Queenes nauy At the blacke shore ende before the sayde floud no boate could passe further than the shore ende and nowe a boate that draweth sixe foote water may come in at a low water Without the harre the water is deeper than it was by two foote and more in the Channell Kent At Prum hill marshe four miles from Rie the water came in so outragiously that it brake downe the marsh walles one maister Bury being owner thereof who lost by the same a thousande C. one threescore two of his Sheepe and it is thought that the marishe is neuer lyke to be gotten againe Item at Erith breache a Marriner riding by the marrishes seeyng two maydens in the marshes and perceyuing the waters breakyng in so fast that the maydes were not like to escape rode vnto them and one of them gate vp behynde hym and the other tooke holde on the Horse taile and by that were both saued from drowning In the same marshe were drowned a greate number of Sheepe Item there in a marsh laÌ„d that was sowen were two boyes keeping Crowes in the after noone seeing y e water breaking in so vehemeÌ„tly gat them into a Cart that was not farre from them where they were fayne to tarrie vntill the next tyde which came in so boysterously that it had like to ouerthrowne both the Cart and the boyes and the one of them beeing more stronger than the other kept the other in his armes where he with colde wet and feare dyed so that hee was fayne to lette hym fall from him into the water when he perceyued that hee was past recouerie A little from that place were also drowned a thousande of Sheepe and manye other Cattell Essexâ—… From a Towne called Raynam vnto the Towne named Mauldon all along by the water side were the marishes all ouerflowen â–ª wherin were a great number of Cattell drowned â—…uffolkeâ—… In Clay were twoo Shyppes laden wyth Danske ware which came to shore with no maÌ„ in theÌ„ nor any man can tell oâ—… whenâ—â— the 〈◊〉 In Clay the dwellers there lost a verye greate parcell of salte and heâ—…rings haâ—â—â—lled beeyng housed in an house walled with bricke â–ª three foote thicke and yet the wall was broken downe Also there was lost much saffron grounde with many other things moe to the great hinderance of many a man Item in Walderswicke Dunwich Blaybrooke was great losse of boorde planke timber and salte Oxforde A greate parte of the bridge by Magdalen Colledge was borne cleane away and manye trees were turned vp by the roote Stowe An. reg 13. The three and twentith of Ianuary the Queenes Maiestie accompanyed with hir nobilitie came from hir house at the Strand called Somerset place and entred the Citie of LoÌ„don by Temple Barre Fleetestreete Cheape and so by the North syde of the Bursse to Sir Thomas Greshams in Bishoppes gate streete where she dyned After dynner hir grace returning through Cornehill entred the Bursse on the South side and after hir hignesse hadde viewed euery parte thereof aboue grounde especially the Pawne whyche was richly furnished wyth all sortes of the fynest wares in the Citie shee caused the same Bursse by an Herrault and a Trumpet to bee proclaymed the Royall exchange so to bee called from thence forthe Royal exchange and not otherwise strange kind of earth mouing The seuenteenth of February at a place called Kynnaston neere Marleche hyll in the County of Hereforde was seene the grounde to open and certayne rockes wyth a peece of ground remoued and wente forward the space of foure dayes makyng at the fyrste a terrible noyse as it went on the earth it remoued it selfe betweene .vj. of the clocke in the euening .vij. the nexte morrow forty paces carrying greate trees and sheepe coates some sheepe coates wyth threescore sheepe in them some trees fell into the chinkes other that grewe on the same grounâ—â— growe nowe as firmely on a hill and some that stoode East â–ª stande West and those that stoode West stand East The depth of the hole where it first brake out is thirtie foote the breadth of the breach is eyght score yards and in length aboue twenty-score yardes It ouerthrew Kinnaston Chappell Also two high wayes bee remoued nigh one hundred yardes with the trees of the hedgerowes The ground in all is sixe and twentie acres and where tillage grounde was there is pasture lefte in place â–ª and where was pasture there is tyllage grounde gone vppon it The ground as it remoued drâ—…ue the earthe before it and at the lower parte ouerwhelmed the ground so that it is growen to a greate hyll of twelue faddome hyghe â–ª It remoued from Saterday tyll Monday at nighte following and so stayed Moreouer this yeare aboute Candlemas Sir Thomas Sackuille Baron of Buckhurst was sent in Ambassadâ—… froÌ„ the Queenes Maiestie to Charles the ninth â–ª Frenche King as well to congratulate for his marriage with the daughter of the Emperoure Maximilian â–ª as for other weightie affayres â–ª And as his Ambassage was greate so was his charge no lesse in furnishing himselfe and trayne accordingly being both in number and furniture such in euerye poynte as dyd apperteyne and hys receyuing and enterteynemente in Fraunce by the Kyng and others was agreeable thereto for hee was receyued vppon the coast by the gouernoures of the fortifyed Townes ryght honorably by order from the King Among other the Baron of Bournâ—â—sell was one who beeyng very well mounted and appoynted lefte not hys Lordshippe before hee came to the Courte and from thence accompanyed hym backe
created byshop of London 1458.37 The battel Solem Mosse 1599.40 Bastard of Bourbon Admirall of France pag. 1324. col 1. lin 2. Battel of S. Luce. 908.40 b. Bartholomew byshop of Exeter sent Ambassadour to the Pope 406.90 Battel of Potyers 957.50 b. Bats Abbey builded 195.52 Bambrough destroyed by the Danes 240.46 Barons of England withdraw them into Wales agaynst Henry the third 642.77 Battaile no Shrewsbery pag. 1139. col 1. lin 13. Barkesen his fayth 1244. col 2. lin 50. Battel of Nauertet 972.50 a Battel at Borowbrig 866.30 b. Battel at Biland 870.40 b. Baldwyn Earle of Flaunders father in law to Duke Wylliam of Normandy 285.46 Baldwyn Earle of Flaunders aydeth Duke William of Normandy in his conquest of England 285.46 Badges forbidden 1076.20 a Barons of the fiue partes pag. 1120. col 2. lin 21 Barley Wylliam 1442.30 and. 1443.26 Batel of Banocks Borne 852 40. b. Battel of Comeran in Ireland 854.30 a. Battel of Miton vpon Swale or y e white battel 857.13 b. Battel at Hai◅doun hill 896.6 b. Bath Monasterie ioyned to the Sea of Bath 336.1 Bonifacius byshop of Eastangles being dead Bisi succeedeth him 180.48 Bamborrough Castle pag. 1313. col 2. lin 30. taken pag. 1315. col 1. lin 38. Bardus renowmed for inuenting of dities and musicke 3.108 Bastardy in king Ed. the .iiii. pag. 1377. col 1. lin 40. Basreeg a leader or king of the Danes 209.114 Basreeg slayne 210.35 Barnard Herbe pag. 1305. col 1. lin 33. Battel at Dunbar 820.12 b. Battel at Neuels crosse 939.14 b. Bartholoin captaine of the Basclenses 28.47 Bamburge castle recouered frō the Scots 397.6 Battell at Bellegard 825.30 a Basingstoke 220.25 Basclenses assigned to dwell in Ireland 28.62 Bathe beseiged by the Saxons 133.20 Banbourgh castle besieged yeelded to king William Rufus 326.6 Bale Iohn cited 53.3 Bastard Fanconbridge beheaded pag. 1344. col 2 lin 37 Bambure castle builded 140.44 Barthes in olde tune called Bardi 4.49 Bardeny Abbey 189.7 Basingwerke Castle buylded 398.2 Barons ouerthrowen at y e battell of Eueshame 773.23 The battell of Saint Quintines 1768.20 Basing battaile fought by the Danes against the Englishmen 210.42 Battail of Morleis 919.20 a Bardi a sect of Philosophers whence descended 4.1 Bayliffes names that were first appointed to gouerne the citie of London 479.20 Battaile of Boswortha pag. 1420. col 2. lin 36. pag. 1422. col 1. lin 57. Barons haue possession of London 589.22 Barons write to other of the nobilitie to ioyne with them against king Iohn 589.23 Bardolph Hugh against the treation of Hubert to the Chancelours office 545.50 Barton Elizabeth the holye mayd of Kent 1561.27 her adherentes eadem 36. her historie at large eadem 42. is executed with her adherents 1◅62 24 Battaile of Ageincourt pag. 1178. col 2. lin 14. Barons of England letters to the Pope 836.37 b. Baieux in Normandie taken by kyng Henry the first 344.14 Battaile of Otterbourn 1074.12 a. Baynardes Castle pag. 1307. col 1. lin 41. Baldwyn Earle of Flaunders commeth into Englande 270.79 Balliolle Bernard an Englishe captaine 434.27 Battell of Dunkel or Methsen 842.40 a Bayon citie wonne 447.22 Barons sweare to maintayne their quarel against kyng Iohn 586.75 Barons cal their Armie against king Iohn the army of God and of the holy Church 588.90 Batteyll Abbey builded 315.89 Baldwine Earle of Flaūders maryeth Ethelswida daughter to king Alured 218.76 Baffus a valiant man of war 164.22 Barnes Doctor preacheth against Winchester 1577.40 asketh the Byshop forgiuenes in the Pulpet 1578 10. Basset Philip L. chiefe Iustice 761.26 Bayeux taken by Englishmen pag. 1189. col 2. lin 18. Bath Citie taken and sacked by the Byshop of Constans 318.52 Bardi and their sect remaine in Britaine vnto this day 4.48 Basesenses with their captaine banished out of Spaine 28.50 Bayon yeelded to the Englishmen 810.57 b. Bathe made a Byshops See 309.65 Bastard sonne of king Richard slewe the Vicount of Limoges 547.48 Barnes Doctor beareth a fagot 1536.48 Baldud falleth and is torne in peeces 19.39 Bathes at the citie of Bathe made by Necromancie 19.20 Barwicke bridge broken with a flud of water 547.53 Bardi their profession and orders 4.9 Balences looke Basclenses Basels abrogated 398.17 Balun Castle wonne by the Frenche king 547.12 Baliol hugh 595.67 Bascheruille Castle burnt 385 39. Battell at Halden rigge Battell of Cressy 932.24 b. Battell on the Sea 806.20 b. Bathe Citie called Caerbran 19.24 Bayliffes chosen and set ouer the Citie of London 775.1 Barnet field 1333. co 1. li. 29 Battell of Faukirke 833.20 a. Barbe ryuer in Normandie 385.13 Banbery fielde page 1320. col 1. lin 27. Baldwyn Emperour of Constantinople commeth into England 717.32 Becket Thomas repenteth him selfe of his othe taken to the kyng is discharged thereof by the Pope 403.80 Becket Tho. flying the realme is brought backe agayne by a contrary winde 403.100 Becket Thomas accused of disobedience to the king and his goodes confiscate to the kinges pleasure 403.115 Becket Thomas driuen to an accompt by the kyng 404.37 Becket Thomas forsaken of the multitude forfeare of the kinges displeasure 404.52 Becket Thomas appealeth to the Court of Rome there to be iudged 405.9 Becket Thomas forsaken of the byshops and accused of treason and periurie 405.43 Becket Thomas refused of euery man is only had in estimation and honoured of the poore 404.54 and. 406.8 Beranburie battel fought betweene the Britaines the Saxons 142.56 Becket Thomas resigneth his Archbyshopricke to y e Pope and receiueth it agayne at his handes 401.87 Becket Thomas sundry wayes incurreth the kinges displeasure 401.98 Becket Thomas requireth the keeping of Rochester castle and the Tower of London 401.99 Berured rebelleth agaynst Ethelbaldus and slayeth hym 189.70 Berured taketh vppon him the kingdome of Mercia 189.72 Bernulf kyng of Mercia leadeth an armie agaynst Egbert kyng of West Saxons 203.31 Bernulf and his armie discomfited by Egbert 203.39 Bernulf slayne and his armie discomfited by the East Angles 203.73 Bericus a Britaine perswadeth Claudius the Emperour to make warre agaynst the Britaines 48.61 Beda cited 167.2 and. 167.99 and. 168.88 and 180.90 and 185.50 and. 187.22 Belinus and Brennus sonnes to Mulmucius raigne iontly as kinges in Britaine 23.80 Bergion gouerneth Ireland and the Orkenlis 5.77 Beda cited 4.82 Becket Thomas beginneth to shewe him selfe conformable towardes agreement with the kyng 413.34 Becket Thomas wylfully persisteth in his owne opinion agaynst the kyng 413.103 Becket Thomas through meanes made is reconciled to the king of Englands fauour 414.21 Becket Thomas returneth into England 414.80 Bertwald Archbyshop of Canterburie departeth this lyfe 191.98 Beda cited 211.55 Beumount Rafe Phisition to king Henry the second drowned in a tempest 411.96 Belinus seaseth vpon Brennus dominions in his absence 23.103 Belesham wasted by the Danes 245.61 Bertus sent with an armie into Ireland 185.11 Bernicia nowe called Northumberland 164.43 Beatrice daughter to king Edward married to king Sithrike 422.66 Beatrice poysoneth her husband at her fathers instance 224.86
Cadwallo slayeth both y e kinges of Northumberland 164.58 Cadwallo borne to the destruction of the EnglishmeÌ„ 164.97 Camuisse Richard gouernour of Cypres falieth sicke and dyeth 494.28 Camuille Gerard depryued of the Sheriswike of Lincolnshire 495.48 517.15 arreigned for receyuing of theeues 517.67 Caratacus and his power discomfited by the Romanes 56.7 Caratacus wyfe and daughter taken prisoners by the Romanes 56.19 Caratacus deliuered to the Romanes by Cartemandua Queene of the Brigantes 56.23 Cartemandua Queene of the Brigantes deliuereth Caratacus to y e Romanes 56.23 Caratacus greatly renowmed in Italy and at Româ—… 56.28 Caratacus Oration to Clandius the Emperour 56.54 Caius Trebonius looke Trebonius Cassibellane and his Britaines flie from y e Romanes 42.31 Cadwallader constrained to forsake his countrey for want of vitteil 183.70 Cadwallader traueileth to Rome and there dyeth 183.81 Camalodunum citie taken 49.74 Caerguent or Winchester builded 19.3 Caen in Normandy besieged by Henry the .5 pag. 1187. col 2. lin 41. wonne pag. 1188. col 1. lin 40. Cain castle yelded pag. ibidem col 2. lin 23 peopled with Englishe pag. 1189. col 2. lin 28. Castles and Fortresses builded in Scotland by y e Romanes 69.95 Castle of Pomfret deliuered to Roger de Lacy Constable of Chester 546.12 Cambrey electe Byshop taken prisoner by the French 546.44 Cambrey elect Byshop restored to libertie 546.54 Cancorburie or Kaerkyn buylded 19.2 Careticus or Caretius made King of Britaine 143.83 Cameletum Castle where it stoode 54.64 Caermalet looke Cameletum Camulodunum mistaken for Cameletum 54.68 Camudolon all one citie wyth Camulodunum 55.6 Camulodunum supposed by some to bee Duncastre or Pontfret 55.10 Caratacus his fame and fortune 55.27 Caratacus fortifyeth a place of defence against y e Romanes 55.40 Caius Plautius looke Plautius Cataratacus sonne to Cynobellinus vanquished 49.6 Catuellani a people in Brytaine 49.11 Calphurnius y e Romane Lieutenant and his armye slayne 76.90 Campheius Laurence Cardinall Ambassadour froÌ„ Rome made Byshop of Lincolne 1504.23 Careticus besieged in Cicester escapeth into Wales 144.26 Carta de Foresta confirmed by Henry the third 626.50 Captaines names of great fame in the dayes of King Henry the second 32. Catharin wyfe to Perkin Warbecke taken 1450.44 Catharin daughter to Ferdinande king of Hispaine maryed Prince Arthur 1455.34 laye with Prince Arthur the night of her mariage â—â—dem 1455.58 maryed to Henry the eyght 1465.7 is crowned Queene tadeÌ„ 44. accusing the Cardinall appealeth to the Pope 1552. 4. is not called Queene but Princesse Dowager 1559. 50. is diuorsed 1560.40 procureth a curse against the king and realme and therfore her court is broken 1561.30 writeth a letter vnto the king 1564.1 dyeth eadem 12. Careticus departeth this lyfe 156.81 Causey made through the Fennes to the I le of Elye 779.66 Cambridge Thomas Clerke present at the murdering of Archbishop Thomas Becket 416.95 Cadwallo becommeth sole king of the Britaines 145.50 Cardinal Somercot an Englishe man dyeth 701.16 Castle Balon wonne by the Frenche king 547.12 Castle of Chinon surrendred to King Iohn 547.33 Carpwald ionne to Redwald beareth only y e name of king of the Eastangles 159.16 Cambridge and Huntington Counties graunted to Dauid brother to king Wylliam of Scotland 427.29 Canne Robert a Monke of Cisteaur order 406.77 Caerlier now called Leicester builded 19.57 Caligula Emperour of Rome prepareth an armie to go into Britaine 47.66 Caligula spoyleth the Ocean 48.14 Caligula requireth to haue a triumph for conquering the Oceane is denied 48.28 Caerbran now called the citie of Bathe 19.24 Calice besieged by Kyng Edward the third 935.54 b. yeelded to him 943.21 b Cardinals sent to Caleis to intreate of peace 942.17 b. procure a truice for a yeere 943.44 a. 945.1 b. Cador Earle of Cornewall slayeth Cheldrike 133.28 Cador rescueth Howel in Scotland 133.38 Carpwald king of Eastangles receiueth the Christian faith 162.23 Cantorburie besieged betrayed and spoyled by the Danes 246.3 Cantorbury better peopled theÌ„ London 246.32 Cassibellane submitteth hym selfe to Cesar 42.114 Cassibellane commaunded not to endamage Mandubratius 43.3 Cassibellane sighteth with Cesar and Androgeus and is ouerthrowen 44.4 Cassibellane put to a yeerely tribute 44.15 Cassibellane dyeth 44.95 Cassibellane not brother but sonne to Lud. 44.99 Carleil repayred and peopled 322.73 Carleil castle builded 322.77 Cambridgeshire mens valiancie agaynst the Danes 245.39 Castles throwen downe by the Kinges commaundement 395.78 Cardinals sent to treate of peace 813.21 b. geather money ibidem Cardigan castle wonne by the Welchmen 408.40 Cassibellane brother to Lud admitted kyng of Britaine 34 16. Cantorburie citizeÌ„s buy peace of the Danes for money 244.115 Canons regular placed at Caerleil 362.87 Cardes Dice or tables forbidden 466.28 Catherine daughter vnto Henry the seuenth borne and dyeth 1451.56 Carew Iohn Knight attendeth on the Archduke vnto the court 1459.28 Catigernus brother to Kyng Vortimer and Horsus fyght a cumbat and eyther slayeth other 116.2 Caen and the castle wonne by Chastillion 1824.50 Caerlud the name of London 33.115 Cadwan prepareth an armie against Ethelferd kyng of Northumberland 156.91 Cardinall of Tusculane sent by the Pope to Kyng Iohn to take away the interdiction of the Realme 582.80 he deposeth the Abbot of Westminster 582.90 he calleth a conuocation of the Clergie 582.106 Cardinall leaueth to K. Iohns side agaynst the Prelates of England for the restitution of their losses 583.12 Cardinall presumeth too much vpon his aucthoritie 583. 53. he appoynteth vnmeete men to the Church 583.58 Cahors citie recouered by the Englishmen 399.36 Calne a Manour belongyng to kyng Edward 235.109 and .136.20 Cartile citie by whom when builded 18.70 Caerleon citie nowe called Chester by whom builded 18.75 Cardinals sent from the Pope to treate of peace 962.16 a. Colloshill in Warwickeshyre pag. 1295. col 1. lin 22. Cairleon Ar Wiske builded 27.94 Syr Hugh Calurleys valiantnesse 1008.52 a. 1013. 30. b. Cane in Normandy taken by kyng Henry the fyrst 344.14 Calidonians by ambushes snap vp the Romanes 80.5 Calidonians conclude a league with the Romanes 80.21 Carew Gawen Knight rebellyng is taken 1727.58 is set at libertie 1763.24 Cobham Lord with his sonne Syr Wylliam Cobham deliuered out of the Tower 1734.41 Calphurnius remoued from the Lieutenantship of Britaine 77.8 Cause it moued the Lordes to conspire agaynst Kyng Iohn 587.7 and 587.89 Catching of Fishe with nettes taught 182.71 Castles deliuered to the keping of Wylliam Earle of Albemarle by king Iohn 596.47 Calaice besieged 1770.30 is yeelded 1771.50 Cary Henry knight Lord of Honnesdon caried the order of the Garter vnto Charles the nienth the French kyng 1834.36 warden of the East Marches and gouernour of Barwicke discomfited Leonard Dacres his complices 1841.40 Cadwallader succeedeth his father Cadwallo in the kyngdome of Britaine 183.51 Cardigan and Carmardyn Townes in reales pa. 1414 col 2. lin 2. Camelgaret a Welch byshop takeÌ„ prisoner by the Danes and raunsomed 221.20 Cardinall Archbyshop of Cantorburie sent to the Queene in sanctuary for her second sonne pag. 1367.
Britaine in battaile 1433.45 marrieth the heyre of Britaine 1437.10 redeemeth peace of King Henry the seuenth 1440.10 Church of S. Peter at Westminster buylded 75.36 Church of S. Peter in Cornhill builded 75.49 Cheyney Iohn knight sent into Britaine 1434.10 Iohn Lord Chandos slayne 981.1 a. Christianus a Byshop of the Danes 302.22 Charles bastard sonne to Henry Duke of Somerset Earle of Worcester sent into Frāce in Ambassade with a trayne of aboue 400.1506.23 Iohn Cheyney condenmed 1097.54 a. Christopher Vrswide pag. 1400. col 1. line 56. col 2. lin 8. pag. 1407. col 2. lin 54. pag. 1408. col 1. lin 6. Childe crucifyed by the Iewes at Norwich 381.11 Christiās beheaded by the Sarasins at Acres 501.26 Chiorburgh besieged by the English pag. 1192. col 1. lin 42. yeelded col 2. lin 24. Cheldrike King of Saxonie arryueth in Scotland wyth an armie 132.54 Cheldrike discomfited and chased wyth his armie of Saxons 132.74 Charles the fift Emperour dyeth 1785.58 Charugage what it is 549.2 Church of Paule in London dedicated 768.27 Chalenge of the Duke of Orliaunce pa. 1141. col 2. lin 1. Church goods sold towardes payment of King Richard the first his raunsome 512.47 Chipnham battaile fought betweene the Englishmen and Danes wyth equall victory 212.67 Chester made a Byshops See 309.65 Chester citie wonne by y e West Saxons 204.32 Chipnham 207.25 C ham alotted vnto Affrica 1.77 Christians honoured and cherished by Constantinus 91.90 Charnelles Hugh knight 595.30 Cheuling departeth into exyle and there dyeth 146.59 Chester Abbey builded 336.13 Cheape of things 900.40 a. Cheldrike pursued by the Britaines and slayne 133.30 Charles the French Kyngs brother marryed to Lady Beatrix 715.2 Geffrey Charney taken prisoner in Britain 919.27 a. Chicke hatched with foure feete 351.43 Chichester chiefe citie of the kingdome of the south Saxons 125.85 Cypriotes standerd taken in the feeld by the Englishmen and sent to Saint Edmondes shrine 492.36 Cypriotes submit them selues to Kyng Richard the fyrst 493.24 Cisteaux order charged with paiment towardes the ransome of king Richard the fyrst 512.56 refuse giftes offered by the Emperour 526.8 Cirencester nowe called Cicester 144.5 Cirester besieged by Gurmundus and taken 144.11 Ciuile contention in Kent for the kingdome 187.36 Cirencester battaile fought betweene Penda and Quichelme 169.31 Cicester castle rased by the freendes of king Henry the third 611.68 Citie of London assigned to the custody of the Constable of the Tower of Londō 74.81 Cinegiscus departeth this life 171.35 Citizens of London serued in the hall at coronation 1120. col 1. lin 32. Circuites appointed for Iustices itinerantes 443.53 Ciuil dissention breeding in England against king Iohn 586.32 Cicely Duches of Yorke mother vnto Edward y e fourth dyeth 1445.1 Cinuise Queene 175.59 Citizens of London accursed by the Pope 596.74 Ciuilis sent into Britaine to rule the Prouinces there 104.68 Ciuill warres in Britaine .li. yeeres 22.99 Ciuil warre in Britaine betweene Constantinus and Mordreds sonnes 138.17 Cied Wylliam knight Lorde Burleigh made Lord Treasurer of England 1864.8 Citie of London payeth to Henry the third for a fine three thousand markes 739.2 Cinegiscus succeedeth Do◅ulf in the kyngdome of West Saxons 155.51 Cinegiscus receiueth his sonne Richelinus to raigne ioinetly with him in his kingdome 155.57 Cimbil brother to Cedda 175 20. Cicile second daughter to Edward the fourth pag. 1356. col 1. lin 39. pag. 1413. col 1. lin 33. Cicilie sister to y e kyng of Sweden commethurto England and is deliuered of a sonne called Edwardus Fortunatus 1835.4 returneth into Sweden 1836.16 Citizens of Cantorburie slaine in a fraye 270.95 Citizens of London are graunted to passe tosle free through out an England 628.94 Citizens of London fined for ayding king Lewes 628.107 Cingetorir out of the Kinges of Kent vanquished and taken prisoner by the Romans 42.108 Citizens of Winchester serue in the kytchen at King Richard the fyrst his coronation 519.18 Cissa sonne to Ella succeedeth his father in the kingdome of South Saxons 130.53 Cinewulfus looke Kinewulfe Citizens of London serue in the Butterie at King Richard the fyrst his coronation 519. 14. the wealthiest cast into prison in Windsor castle 774.10 obteyne pardon of the kyng 774.43 and .775 63. Ciuile discord among the Britaines for the gouernement 75.115 Cipriotes slaine lyke beastes by the Englishmen 492.32 Cimbeline looke Kymbeline Cinegiscus receyueth the faith of Christe 169.5 Ciuile warres decayeth the force of Britaine 101.36 Cisteaur order fyrst begun 333 86. Cisteaur Abbey founded 333.91 Cimburgh daughter to Penda married to Alchfride 173.31 Cities Townes Trees ouerthrowē by wind 199.63 Cities townes defaced by sodaine fire 196.21 Clifford Robert knight sent by the rebelles to the Duchesse of Burgegne 1442. beleeueth Perken to be the Duke of Yorke ibidem returneth home and commeth vnto the kyng 1443.48 Lionel Duke of Clarence marrieth the Duke of Millans daughter 974.51 b. The Cleargie complained of in the lower house 1553.10 Clothes forbidden by the states of the lowe countreys to be transported thyther out of England 1833.35 the mart of them transferred vnto Embden ead 45. Claudius the Emperour arriueth at Porchester in Britaine and there fighting with the Britaines is put to the woorse 50.57 Claudius the Emperor driuen backe to his shippes by Aruiragus 50.72 Claudiocestria nowe Gloucester and why so called 51.52 Cleneland wasted by y e Scots 306.116 Clere Matthew Sheriffe of Kent 497.28 Clare Richard Earle of Gloucester dyeth 800.60 Clotenus kyng of Cornewall 22.89 Cloth workers strangers 900.43 b. Cleander setteth on the Romane souldiers to cōplaine on Perhennis 77.34 Cleberie castle taken and destroyed 396.10 Bertrain de Cleaquin discōfiteth the Englishmen 990.16 b. Gilbert de Clare Earle of Glocester dyeth 815.17 a. Gilbert de Clare Earle of Gloucester slayne 852.55 b. Clinton Geffrey accused of treason 361.75 Clarenbald elect Abbot of S. Augustines in Cantorburie 415.77 Clodius Albinus appoynted Lieutenāt of Britain 77.71 Clodius Albinus choseth forth a great power of Britaines to trāsport ouer into Fraūce 77.78 Clodius Albinus encountreth with Seuerus the Emperour in Fraunce is slayne 78.7 Clerke William atteinted 1425.48 Clifford Henry knight Earle of Cumberland 1536.17 The Clergie proud in apparell and licentious in lyfe 1504.45 Clergie denie to graunt a subsidie 823.45 a. they are excluded from the Kings protection 823.53 b. receyued againe 824.40 a. Sir Iohn Clerke slain 1013.10 a. Clergie out of order and full of vnseemely enormities 330.30 Clun Riuer 55.62 Clippers of money punished 788.47 b. Clergie denyeth to graunt a subsidie 991.4 b. Cloaricus a Mountaine in Wales 117.56 Claimes at the Coronation of king Henry the fourth 1116 46. a. Chilterne Woods and countrey 245.18 William Clinton created Erle of Huntington 900.13 b. Clide riuer 70.1 Clergie men punishable before a temperal Iudge for killing the Kings Deere 442.103 Clergie men to be conuented and punished by a temporall Iudge as wel as the Laytie 442.110 Claudianus the Poet cyted 106.63 Claudius the Emperour commeth into
Ponthieul 277.88 Dintingdale pag. 1311. col 1. lin 38. Dissimulation pag. 1293. col 2. lin 51. Disorder in the French campe at Tressy 933.16 a. Deuision of the offerings giuen to Thomas Becket Archbyshop of Cantorburie 463.56 Discipline of the Church howe to be practised 149.47 Digby Iohn knight Lieutenant of the towre 1453.57 Walter Diffe a Frier 1058.45 b. Dion Câ—…sues cited 48.61 .80.19 Dissention betweene king William Rufus and Anselme Archbyshop of Cantorburye 330.6 Dioclesian persecuteth y e Christians in Britaine and all other places of the world 75.30 Discordance among writers touching the death of Kyng Edmond Ironside 258.41 Dioclesianus mistaken for Danaus 6.110 Die one of the names of Samothes 2.39 Diepe towne wonne from the Englishmen by the Frenchmen 527.73 Description of Richard Duke of Glocester pag. 1357. col 2. lin 35. Disagreement among writers touching the British Kyngs that reigned from Elidurus to â—…ud 32.30 Dissention in Britaine made many Gouernours 45.9 Diuma first Christian Byshop in the kingdome of Mercia 170.18 Discorde falleth out betweene the Kinges of England 〈◊〉 Fraunce in their viageâ—… wardes the holy land 489.38 Dionethus Duke of Cornwal and gouernour of Brytaine 95.88 Disputation betweene Christians and Iewes 335.79 Drought great 1580.45 Dyuclyue citie committed to the keeping of Hugh Lacy. 450.21 Discord in the Englishe armie 990.30 a. Dinuhoc Castle in Cornwall 128. Dicalidones a kind of Pictes 104.5 Discord betwixt the Cardinall and the Archbyshop of Cantorbury 583.62 Diouionensis cited 137.71 Diuers sundry reportes of the death of King Iohn 605.77 Dearth 1519.9 Diet at Tours pag. 1269. col 1. lin 34. Discent of the Saxons in Brytaine 113.27 Dioclesanus and Maximianus fellowes in the gouernment of the Empire 83.16 Diocleslanus and Herculeus Maximianus renounce the rule of the Empyre 89.34 Doll castle in Britaine besieged 309.37 Douer castle besieged in vayne by Lewes kyng of France 609.9 Douer castle 271.76 Dorchester ordeyned a Bishops See 169.15 Doll castle towne fortified by the Barons 510.25 Donebant tooke Dunwallo Donwald king of Scottes sendeth Corman a learned clerk into England 167.77 Dogges hauen neare to Douer 415.66 Douer Castle deliuered vp to kyng William 292.37 Douer castle deliuered to kyng Stephons wyfe 369.17 Douer Castle deliuered to kyng Henry the thyrd 776.39 Douer castle furnished with necessaries by kyng Iohn 600.1 Douer castle valiantly defended agaynst Lewes by the captaynes Hubert de Burgh and Gerard de Gotingam notwithstanding al his foule and fayre offers made to the sayd captaynes 602.66 Douer castle confirmed to Philip Earle of Flaunders 427 13. Douer Abbey 393.78 Domitianus elected Emperor of Rome 73.46 Domitianus enuyeth the prosperous successe of Agricola in Britaine 73.49 Domitianus Nero Emperour of Rome 59.47 William L. Dowglas 891.7 a. Doctor Russell bishop of Lincolne made Lord Chancelor pag. 1363. col 2. lin 50. Dorcetshyre spoyled and wasted by the Danes 241.46 and. 252.10 Dole citie and castle in Britain wonne by kyng Henry the second 429.50 Dolpâ—…ine called king of Berry pag. 1213. col 2. lin 50 Dowglas Archimbald Earle of Angus commeth into England 1532.26 Dowglas Archimbald earle of Angus banished man maketh a rode into Scotland and discomfiteth a power of State 1559.18 Dowglas Archimbald Earle of Angus hath a thousande markes of yearely fed of king Henry the eight and returneth into Scotland 1589.36 Dowglas Margaret Countesse of Lindux sent to the Tower 1835.40 is deliuered 1837.25 Dowglas Margaret daughter to the Scottish queene commytted to the Tower for marying the Lord Thomas Howard 1565.2 Dowyll Walter pag. 1714. col 2. lin 12. Doncaster pag. 1315. col 1. lin 44. pag. 1329. col 1. lin 12. Druis or Dryus established king of Celtica 3.36 Drues aucthor of the Philosophers called Druides 3.48 Druides aboade principally in the I le of Anglesey 3.56 Druides charge and aucthoritie 3.62 Druides opinion concerning y e soules of men 3.69 Druides could foretell thinges to come 3.74 Druides opinion concerning y e immortalitie of the soule and of the one and euerlasting God 3.76 Druides accustomed to all men 3.86 Druides sect condemned and dissolued in Gallia 3.91 Druides sect abolished here in Britaine 3.93 Dragons firie seene flying 200.33 Danes beyng great Rouers land in the North partes of England 202.25 Danes lande in Northumberland and obtein a great part thereof without resistance 202.33 Danes arriue and make warre on the coastes of the lande 204.52 Dreme of King Richard the .iii. pag. 1417. col 1. lin 1. Drie Sommer 876.3 a. Drury William Marshal of the towne of Barwicke and also of the armie conducted into Scotland by Sussex is made knight 1846.44 is ordeyned Generall of an army into Scotland 1846. eftsons Generall of a power into Scotland where he besiegeth the castle of EdeÌ„borough 1866.50 winneth it 1868.30 Drommond a great ship of the Sarasins chased and vowged by the Englishmen 494.15 Dreur besieged and yeelded to the Englishe pag. 1213. col 2. lin 9. Drought 948.56 a. Dragons seene fighting in the ayre 642.27 Drayton in Shropshire pag. 1295. col 2. lin 5. Drax Castle wonne 393.23 Drincouer otherwise called Newcastle besieged won 429.30 Druides in the I le of Anglesey against the Romanes 59.101 Dustan reuoked made Byshop of Worcester and of London 232.7 Dunstan in high feuour wyth King Edgar ruleth all at his pleasure 232.15 Dunstan putteth King Edgar to penatice for his youthfull licenciousnes 233.52 Dunstan succeedeth Odo in the Archbyshoprick of antorbury 233.71 Dunstan denounceth plagues to fal vpon King Egelredus 238.61 Dunstans countrey and parentage 238.73 Dunstan driuen into a frensie runneth wildly aboute the fieldes 238.78 Dunstan in his sleepe walketh daungerously about the top of a Church 238.85 Dunstan reported to haue addiuced himselfe to coniuring and sorcerie 238.99 Dunstan aduaunced to the seruice of King Adelstane 238.105 Dunstans harpe suddenly playeth a Psalme alone 238.108 Dunstan accused of Necromancie and banished the Court 238. Dunstan shorne a Monke 239.8 Dunstans dreame of a Beare that would deuour him 239 13. Dunstan plucketh the deuill by the nose with a payer of pynsors 239.19 Dunstan preferred for declaring his dreames and visions 239.27 Dunstan dyeth 238.67 Dunstan seeth the deuill dauncing and wayting at the table 228.109 229 15. Dunstan made keeper of Kyng Edreons treasure 230.27 Dunstan certified by an Angell of King Edredus death 230.44 Dunstan frankly reproueth K. Edwyn for his shamefull abusing of his body 230.86 Dunstan vanished the remâ—â—e at the fute of King Edwyns Concubines 230.98 Dunwallo mulmucius sonne to Cloten getteth the Monarchie of all Britaine 23.18 Dublin citie in Ireland wonne by the Englishmen 419.9 Dublin chiefest Citie of al Ireland 420.50 Duneane a Scottish captaine wasteth Kendall with an armie 434.15 Duetie of a good preacher 177 72. Dublyn in Ireland ordeined an Archbyshoprick 386.31 Dunfoader in Scotland 225.68 Duke of Britaine accoumpted liege man to the Duke of Normandie 491.20 Dun Citiein Ireland taken by Iohn Lord Curcy 448.10 Duffuall a Welch King 231.81 Dunstan
Veer executed pag 1313. col 1. lin 20. Earconbert succeedeth hys father Eadbald in y e kingdome of Kent 169.44 Easter with the weeke before and after commaunded to be kept holy 91.94 East Saxons eftsoones receiue the Christian fayth 173.63 Earthquake at S. Albōs 724.3 Eartongatha daughter to Earcopbert professed a Nunne 169.55 Eadhidus ordeyned Byshop of Lindesey 182.16 Earle of Rendal pag. 1272. col 1. lin 21. 29. pag. 1284. col 2. lin 58. pag. 1285. col 2. lin 1. page 1298. col 2. lin 46. Earthquake at London 716.97 Earthquake about Bathe and Welles 128.28 Eadbectus one of the Byshops of the East Angles 192.1 Eata ordeyned Byshop of Lindesferne 182.15 Earthquake generally throughout al England 309 44. Eausled mother to Elfled departeth this lyfe 176.3 East Angles submit themselues to the West Saxons 203.65 Earle of Huntington Dauid sworne to King Iohn 542.81 Earle of Huntington Dauid sent into Scotland 543.7 Earle Riuers beheaded pag. 1321. col 1. lin 6. Earle Riuers landed at Pole pag. 1327. col 2. lin 3. Eastangles possessed by the Saxons 131.24 Earthquake 1833.57 Eata Riuer 398.20 Eadulfus Archbishop of Litchfeilde adorned with y e Pall. 195.7 Eadulfus Byshop of Dorchester 195.12 Eaton Colledge pag. 1344. col 1. lin 53. Eating of horses fleshe forludden 198.111 Eadwynes Cliue battayle fought by King Molle◅ agaynst Earle Oswin 195.115 Earle of Tholouze commeth in to England and rendreth the Citie of Tholouze to Kyng Iohn 582.55 Earle of Guisnes landes wasted by King Iohns Souldiers 584.6 Earthquake about Huntington towne 644.12 Eaubald Archbyshop of Yorke 198.70 Dunstanborough Castle pag. 1315. col 1. lin 36. Earthquake 1871.36 Earledome of Kent yeelded vp to King William 292.36 Eadbald King of Kent departeth this life 169.42 Earthquake maruellous in Northfolke Suffolke 407.116 Ealhere Duke 207.9 Earthquake 786.9 a. 786.1 b. Earthquake 1039.40 b. Ealhere slayne by the Danes 207.30 Earthquake in England at the making of the new Forrest 313.95 Eadsride sonne to Edwine baptised 161.115 Earle of Rutland slayne pag. 1304. col 1. lin 16. Ebrancke sonne to Mempricius begynneth to raigne ouer Britaine 17.94 Ebranke sendeth his thyrtie daughters into Italy 17.104 Ebranke first after Brute inuadeth France 17.110 Ebrankes sonnes vnder conduct of Affaracus one of their eldest brethren inuade Germanie 18.3 Ebrankes sonnes aided by king Alba of Italy plant them selues in Germanie 17.7 Ebusa and Occa sent for to come into Britaine 114.13 Ebusa and Occa arriue in the North and settle them selues there 114.18 Ebranke dyeth and is buryed at Yorke 18.22 Ecgfride sendeth an army into Ireland 185.10 Ecgfride leadeth an army against the Pictes 185.27 Ecgfride slayne with the most part of his army 155.30 Ecgbert kyng of Northumberland expelled out of his kyngdome 219.20 Ecgbert departeth this lyfe 219.24 Ecgbert succeedeth Rigsig in y e kyngdome of Northumberland 219.34 Ecgfride sonne to Oswy in hostage with Queene Cimisse 175.55 Ecgfride and his armye ouerthrowen in battayle by Edilred 182.98 Ecgfride and Edilred made friendes 182.102 Ecgfride succeedeth his father Oswy in the kyngdome of Northumberland 179.77 Etbearne Abbey in Luidsey builded 179.52 Eclipse of the Sunne 893.7 b. Ecclesall in Stafford shyre pa. 1295. col 1. lin 21. Edgar succeedeth his brother in the kyngdome of England 231.20 Edgar a great fauorer of monkes and studious of peace 231.43 Edgars diligence to preserue his Realme from inuasion of strangers 231.51 Edgar rowed in a Barge by kyngs 231.89 Edgar a fauorer of the Danes 231.103 Edward sonne to kyng Henry the thyrd goeth with a power of men against the Welchmen 761.36 breaketh vp the treasurie of the Temple for money 761.91 besieged in the castle of Bristow and deliuered 763.90 escapeth out of captiuitie 770 85. and. 772.17 receiueth the Crosse of the Legate Othoban 780.16 Edward departeth this lyfe is buryed at Westminster 279.32 Edwardes maners and dispoposition of mynde described 279.39 Edward enspired with the gyft of prophesie and of healyng 279.81 Edwarde warned of his death before he dyeth 279.89 Edward canonized for a saint and called Edward the Confessor 179.97 Edwyn succeedeth Edredus in the kingdome of England 230.62 Edwyn committeth iurest with his neere kinswoman vppon the day of his Coronation 230.81 Edwyn keepeth both mother daughter to Concubine 230.90 Edwyn deposed for anguish departeth this lyfe 131.16 Edward ruled altogether by Normans 274.44 Edward gathereth all the Englishe lawes into one summarie called y e Common lawes 274.88 Edward sonne to King Edmond Ironside sent for into England 276.3 Edward surnamed the Outlaw ordeined heire apparant to the crowne of England dyeth 276.5 Edmetus disciple to Ansoline and in what tyme he lyued 3.57.42 Edmerus elected Archbyshop of S. Androwes in Scotland 357.51 Edmerus receiueth his staffe from an aultas 357.75 Edmerus returneth out of scotland to Cantorbury 357.86 Edward sonne to King Henrye the thyrde returneth home towardes England from the Holy land 781.87 holdeth Iustes and Turneis in Burgongne and winneth the honour 782.74 Editha daughter to kyng Edward maryed to Sithaike king of Northumbers 224.48 Edenborough Abbey in Scotland buylded 208.22 Edmond kyng of Eastangles cruelly slayne by the Danes 209.109 and .211.29 Edgina another daughter of kyng Edwardes maryed to Lewes king of Aquitayne 223.29 Edwarde seiseth the cities of London and Oxford into his handes 220.68 Edmond kyng of east Angles goeth againste the Danes with an army 211.22 Edmond bishop of Shireboure slaine 210.40 Edanton battaile fought by the Englishe men againste the Danes 214.84 Edward sonne to kyng Egelre dus sent into Englande to trie the peoples constancie to his father 250.17 Edwyn fleeth into Scotland 298.62 Edmond succeedeth his brother Adelslane in the gouernment of the most part of Englād 227.43 Edmond leadeth an armye agaynst Aulafe and encountreth with hym at Leycester 227.60 Edmondes Lawes founde and translated into Latine 228 50. Edmond miserably slaine by a theefe 228.61 and .228 80. Edmondes death signified before hand to Dunstan 228.91 Edward sonne to king Egelredus chosen to succeede kyng Hardicnute in the kingdome of England 268.36 Edward commeth into England with a cōuenient traine of Normans 268.50 Edgar pretely deceiued of his fleshly purpose by a Ladye 233.22 Edgar put to penance kept from the Crowne for his youthful lasciuiousnes 233.52 Edgar sacred king at Bath 233.61 Edgar recrefied with a dreame restoreth the spoyle of Glamorgan 233.98 Edgar departeth this life and is buryed at Glastenbury 233.107 Edgar exceeding beneficial to Monkes 233.112 Edward slayne in battaile by Godfrey and Aulafe 224.100 Edrodus brother to Edmond begynneth his reigne ouer the Realme of England 229 20. Edredus leadeth an armye against the Northumbers Scots 229.40 Edgar Edeling sayleth into Puglia with a power of mē 314.40 Edgar murdeteth Ethelwold and marieth Alfred his wife 232.108 Edethere succeedeth his brother Anna in the kingdome of east Angles 172.59 Edelhere slaine by Oswy 172 60. and .175.67 Edward commeth into Englande to visite king Hardienute his brother and Emma his mother
William 299.35 Exeter yeelded vnto King William 299.47 Exmouth Castle assaulted by the Danes 241.65 Example of rare brotherly loue 31.52 Exeter made a Byshops See 309.65 Excheker court instituted 303 50. Exceter Citie besieged by the Danes and deliuered 216.29 Eylmer a Monke of Malmesburie 280.41 Ewe countie in Normandie 321.71 Eweline and Hirilda fall at variance 43.50 F. Faleife yeeldeth to Chastillon 1824.40 Fabian Robert 1463.7 Faleys besieged by Henry the fift pag. 1190. col 2. lin 30. rendered to him pag. 1191. col 1. lin 54. Father of our Lorde Iesus Christ onely king 262.52 Famine and dearth in the kingdome of South Saxons 182.57 Falaise yeelded to the French pag. 1277. col 1. lin 4. Faruham Castle rased by the frendes of Kyng Henry the third 611.67 Falayse towne in Normandye won by the french K. 558.42 Farnham Castle builded 377.53 Farindon Castle builded 381.18 Fabian cited 166.72 Farribridge pag. 1310. col 2 lin 7. False protestation horribly punished 274.110 Fabian cited 32. 96. and. 44 97. and .74.30 and .75 106. and .93.18 Fausta daughter to Maximinianus married to Constantinus 91.7 Fabian cited 93.57 and .95 41. and 102.50 and .117 59. and .125.19 Feryngdon high Abbot of Reding executed for denying the supremacie 1574.30 Ferdinande the Emperour dieth and his Obsequies 1834.36 Felton Iohn hāged for bāging vp a Romish Bull. 1853.2 Ferrers George a Burgesse of the Parlament house arrested vppon an execution and deliuered by the Parlament 1584.20 Fredericke the Emperour sendeth a power to represse the rebellious Flemings 1431 40. Fermherst Castle won 1529.44 Fescampe in Normandie 321.72 Ferentine Iohn a Leagate frō the Pope cōmeth into England in visitation and spedely departeth againe 563.64 Fescampe William 313.7 Fert Castle burnt 385.41 Felixa Burgunian Byshop of Dunwich 30.92 Fechamley battell fought by the Saxons against the Britaynes 143.18 Fetherston hanged for the supremacie 1580.40 Feigned friendship betweene King Henry the second of Englande and Lewes of Fraunce 398.69 Ferdinando Archduke of Austrich made Knight of the Garter 1531.18 Feuexshame Abbey builded 383.46 Felix Bishop of the parties of Burgoigne commeth into Britaine 162.52 Felix conuerteth the Eastangles to the fayth of Christ 162.59 Felix dieth at Dūwich 162.61 Ferrers Georg Lord of misrule in the Court 1711.45 Fetherston William naming himselfe K. Edward the sixt is whipped and afterward for saying king Edward was liuin ga◅d that he spake with him is hanged 1763.46 Sir Raufe Ferrors accused of treason 1022.41 b. Ferrex and Porter sonnes to Gorbedug beginto reigne ouer Britaine 22.36 Ferrex fleeth into Fraunce for aide agaynst his brother 22.50 Ferrex and his people slayne 22 56. Ferreys William taken prisoner 345.27 Feader a Collectour slayne 267.24 Ferreys Robert Earle of Darbie 435.20 Ferdomachus Bishop of Leynister in Ireland 328.28 A fyfteen graunted 1557.30 Fysher Iohn Bishop of Rochester is of counsel with the Queene in her matter of diuorce 1551.6 refuseth the oth of succession 1563.17 is beheadded 1563.56 had been elected Cardinal 1567.3 Fits Williams William Knight Captaine of Guisnes 1531.17 Fits Roy Henry Duke of Richmond dyeth 1565.30 Fits Garett Thomas Lord rebellethin Ireland and committeth great outrages 1563.17 is taken prisoner 1564.24 is executed with his fiue Vncles 1569.5 Fits Williams Williā knight Treasurer of the kings houshold 1536.1 Fits Williams William knight landeth with a Nauie at Treyport 1526.40 Fines Thomas Lorde Dacres of the South hanged 1580.35 Fits Williams William Knyght vice Admiral receyued the Emperour on the Sea 1509.16 Fines Lord Clinton Admiral of the Nauie at Muskleborough field 1615. his prowesse at Blackenesse 1629. 20. wynneth Broughty crag 1630.1 Colonel of y e footemen in the iourney of Saint Quintins 1767.26 hygh Admyral goeth forth wyth a great fleete 1779.26 burneth Conquest and other places adioyning 1781.16 is sent into the North against the rebels with an armie ioyntly with the Earle of Warwicke 1840.37 is created Earle of Lincolne 1862.48 goeth Ambassadour into Fraunce 1863.24 Shelley Edward his Vallor death 1624.32 Fitzwilliams William made knight 1487.28 Fitz Iocelyne Reginald made Byshop of Bath 432.54 Fitz Miles Roger Earle of Hereford 396.16 Fitz Roy Henry base sonne of Henry the eyght created Earle of Notingham and afterward y e same daye Duke of Richmond and Somerset 1526.10 Fiue shillings leuied of euery hyde of land 535.62 Iohn Fitz Thomas created Earle of Kildare 855.54 b Fitz Iames Richard created Byshop of London 1458. 38. maketh an Oration consolatory to the kyng 1458.36 Fitz Miles walter succeedeth his brother Roger in the Earldome of Hereford 396 19. Fitz Iohn Eustace slayn 397 45. Fitz Scrope Richard inuadeth and spoyleth the landes of Edrick Siluaticus 297.20 Finan succeedeth Aydan in the Bishoprick of Northumberland 171 20. Fyue Moones seene in Yorke shyre 551.56 First falling out betweene king Henry the second and Thomas Becket 400.53 First inhabitants of Brytayne not certainely knowne 1.10 First inhabitantes of Brytaine why called Giantes 6.80 Fitz Peter Geffrey made chief Iustice of England 535.90 Fitz Peter Geffrey created Earle of Essex and gyrded wyth the sworde of the same 545.39 First battaile betweene the Saxons one against another in Britaine 142.97 Fitz Peter Geffrey dieth 582 62. what he was 582.64 Fitz Walter Robert appoynted general for the Barons of England agaynst king Iohn 588.12 Fitz Walter Robert 556.57 Fyre brasteth out of certayne ryftes of the earthe 362.112 Fyre seene in the ayre 558.1 Finchamsteede in Barkeshyre 329.29 Fitz Hamon Robert 334.1 Fines sea◅ed by Henry the .iii. on his officers for falshood 646.38 Fitz Iohn Eustace 369.1 Fitz Alain William 369.1 Fitzvize Richard taken prisoner 376.36 Fyrst Mayor of London 566.92 Fitziames Byshop of London dyeth 1518.45 Fitz Peter Geffrey Lord chief Iustice of England 542.18 Fitz Bernard Thomas accursed by Archbyshop Thomas Becket 409.80 Fitz Vrse Reignold knight 415.62 Fitz Aldeline William Sewer to king Henry the seconde 419.55 Fitzbarhard Robert sent ouer into Ireland 419.55 Fitz Bernhard Robert made keeper of Waterfoord and Wessefoord cities in Ireland 421.42 Fitz Radulfe William Lorde Steward of Normandie interdicted 508.49 Fitz Osoert William called otherwise William wyth the long beard 528.100 Fitz Williams William Erle of Southampton Lord Priuie seale dyeth at Newcastle in his iourney towardes Scotland yet his standard is borne in the foreward al this iourney 1595.14 Fitz Williams Williā knight Lord Admyral is created Earle of Southampton 1571.5 Fitz Williams William hurt 1477.35 Fifteene payed 786.53 a. 840 30. a. Flint Castle builded 789.6 a. Fifteenes graunted pa. 1144. col 1. lin 36. pag. 1150. col 2. lin 28. pag. 1156. col 1. lin 45. Fitz waren Lorde Fitz waren created Erle of Bath 1565 22. Fitz Baldrick Hugh Shyrife of Yorkeshyre 307.99 Fishmongers of Lōdon disquieted 1039.24 b. Fish like to a man taken in the sea 559.56 Fishes fight vpon the land 471 101. Fitzaldelme William ordeyned Lord chiefe Iustice of Ireland 444.76 Fishes die in the waters thorowe sharpnes of a froste 447
Valois treateth for peace 912.16 a. Iago dieth and is buried at Yorke 21.113 Iames Prince of Scotland stayed in England pag. 1151. col 1. lin 14 Iane of the Tower maried to Dauid Bruce 892.1 a. Iames king of Scottes murdered pag. 1262. col 1. lin 31. Iames Tirrel deuised the destruction of Edw. the fourts children pag. 1390. col 1. lin 55. made knight pag. 1391. col 1. lin 25. beheaded pag. 1391. col 2. lin 3. Iames the fift king of the Scottes knight of the Garter 1564. Iames a Deacon companion to Paulinus 162.78 Iaruman or Iaroman succeedeth Trumhere in the Bri. shoprick of Merci◅ 178.21 Iaspor Earle of Penbroke pag 1304. col 2. lin 36. pag. 1315. col 2. lin 43. Iaspor Earle of Penbroke with Henry earl of Richmōte passe ouer into Britain pag 1545. col 1. lin 14. Iames Blunt Captayne of Hames Castle pag. 1409. col 1. lin 41. pag. 1411. col 2. lin 30.42.48 pag. 1412. co 1. lin 12. Iagged cut and laced apparrel forbidden 466.24 Iames the fourth king of the Scottes honoreth Perken Warhect 1445.36 miserabily wasteth Northumberlād eadem 40. besieged Northam Castle 1448.20 his vayne bragges eadem 40. Iaspore Earle of Penbroke pag. 1414. col 1. lin 5. pag. 1417. col 2. lin 32. Iames Harrington knight pag 1329. col 1. lin 14. Iames butler Earle Ormond and Wilshire pag. 1288. col 1. lin 26. pag. 1304. col 1. lin 38. Iceni supposed to be Northfolke men 55.12 Icius portus now called Calice 35.14 Ida beginner of the kingdome of Brenitia 139.98 Ida his issue recited 140.47 Ida king of Northumberland dyeth 142.72 Idolatrie defaced in the kingdome of Nortumberland 161.83 Idle Riuer 155.34 Idle battel fought by Redwald agaynst Ethelbert 155.34 Idols vtterly destroyed thorughout al Kent 169.46 Iewes detected of treason at London and slayne 767.41 slayne by the Barons at Winchester 772.51 spoyled and slayne at Lincolne 776.62 defend one ward◅ of the Tower of London 778.36 Iewel Iohn Byshop of Salisburie dyeth 1860.17 hys prayses ibidem Iernesey inuaded by the frenchmen 1696.28 Ieruman sent to reduce Sighere and his people to the sayth which he accomplisheth 178.20 Ieruman departeth this lyfe 179.34 Ierome Williā burnt 1580.5 Iewe looke Inas Ierusalem taken by Nabuch◅donozor 21.109 Ierusalem citie taken by the Sarasins 464.66 Iewes outragiously dealt with al and their houses set on fire 477.6 restored to peace 478.3 deadly hated for their vnmerciful vsurie 482.20 commit an horrible fact at Standford in murdering themselues 482.34 slayne and expulsed out of Sa◅nt Edmonsbury 483.9 Iewes a great multitude thoroughout all England 450.60 Iewes obtaine a place of buriall in euerye quarter where they dwel 450.66 Iewes to keepe no armour but to sell that which they haue 455.73 Iewes constrained to ab◅ure Christianitie 335.35 Iewes godly answeare to an vngodly Christian king 335 61. Iewes crucifie a child at Norwi◅h 381.11 Iewes slaine by Mariners in a tumult at ◅inne 483.45 Iewes paye to Henry the .iii. by way of Talladge eyght thousand markes 739.5 Iewels and reliques of the Church of Westminster engu◅ged to certaine Marchantes for money 778.86 Iewes robbed at Oxford 715 38. Iew at T◅ukesbury falleth into a ◅agues and dyeth of his owne folly 759.5 Iewes slaine at London 800 70. Iewes accused to be purposed to crucifie a child and therfore they are conuicted and punished 646.74 Iewes imprisoned 795.41 b banished 799.10 a Iewes constrayned to giue the third part of their goodes to Henry the thyrd 634.16 Iewes accused and executed for crucifying a child at Lincolne 741.29 Iewes vsed yearely to crucifie a Christian ch◅ld 741 49 Iewes tared and tormented by king Iohn 569.50 Iew had his teeth drawen out because he would not pay the money he was seased to pay 569.59 Iewes brought into the realme by king William 316.19 Ienico Dartois 1103.45 b put in prison for his faithfulnes 1109.7 b Igwane wife to Gorolus duke of Cornwal 128.33 Igerna looke Igwarne Igwarne maried to king Vter Pendragon 128.38 Ile of Man sold 1083.20 a I le of Wight won by the Saxons 131.49 Ile of Wight giuen to Stuff Wightgar 131 51 Ile of Wight men whence descended 113.24 Ile of Thanet spoyled by the Danes 238.34 Ile of Wight cōquered by Ceadwalla 184.49 Ile of Wight of al Britaine L◅st receyueth the faith 184 66. I le of Lindesfarne giuen to Aydan for the See of his bishopricke 168.27 Ile of Orholme 433.24 Ile of Oldney 256.61 Ile of Wight conquered by Wolfhere 176.88 Ile of Stepen 221.38 Ile of Huy in Scotlād 171.22 Ile of Ely taken by the Barons and fortified 777.40 Ile of Portland subdued and fenced 378.113 Ile of Anglesey a refuge for the Welch Rebels 328.86 Ile of Anglesey taken by the English man 328.92 Ile of Ely submitteth it selfe to king Hēry the thyrd 779.57 Ile of Ely besieged by kyng Iohns army taken and spoyled 597.20 Iles of Okeney added to the Romance Empyre 50.7 Ile of Wight subdued to the Rommes 52.50 Ile of Ely wonne by king William 306.102 Ile of Wight spoyled by Costie 284.15 I le of Wight assaulted by the the Earle of S. Paule pag. 1136. co 2. lin 1. by French men pa. 1141. co 1. li. 1.36 Ivon Fitzwarren pa. 1119. co 2. lin 53. Iles of Orkeney spoyled by Englishmen 1131. col 2. lin 28. Imbal king of Armorica slaine 95.70 Images commaunded to be set vp in England by the aucthoritie of a S◅node 189 39 Images to whom were any solemne Pilgrimages pulled downe 1571.24 Images taken downe 1802.20 and burnt 30. Imannentius king of the Troy nouants slaine by Cassibellane 42.61 Image of our Lady ouerthrowen by thunder and lightnyng 322.4 Image of the goddesse Victoria falleth downe and turneth her backe 60.111 Image of the Roode speaketh at Winchester 235.112 Imbert a messenger slaine by Corineus 14.19 Images pulled downe 1634 16. Images commaunded to be worshipped 199.53 Innocentes ouerborne by al men 112.10 Iniurious dealings of the Romans 60.73 and. 60.86 and. 60.90 and. 60.98 Inas fighteth against the Mercians with doubtful victory 187.102 Inas inuadeth the South Saxons with a mighty army 187.108 Inas renounceth his kingdom goeth to Rome and there dieth 188.2 Inhabitants of this land commaunded to be called English men 204.44 Inwer Riuer 175.70 Inwet battaile fought by O◅wy king of Northumberland against Penda king of Mercia 175.70 Ingwald Bishop of London 191.108 Insanum Parliamentum holden 751.11 Iners looke Inars Inhabitantes of Lindesey submyt thēselues to the Danes and deliuer pledges 247.73 Inas maketh warre vpon the Britaines 187.96 In trust appeareth treacherie 7.65 Indiginae what they signifie 6.101 Inhabitantes of Britaine came first out of ◅allia 4.72 In◅ogen daughter to Pandrusus maried to Bruce 12.9 Insurrection in Normandie against the English pa. 1252 col 2. lin 18. An insurrection in London against straungers 1499. Indenture Sertipartite pag. 1126 col 2. lin 3. Incumbentes straungers greatly mislyked 639.18 Inquisition of disturbers of straungers incumbentes
aydeth the Queene 877.55 b. Lewes commeth to London 600.15 he is excommunicated by Cardinal Gualo 600 61. League of agreemēt concluded betweene the Britaines and Saxons vpon conditions 128.19 Lewes the Emperour offereth to be a meane for peace 914.40 b. Learned men in king Richard y e seconds dayes 1117.20 b Lewes the Emperour wonne from the king of England 914.52 a. Learned men flourishing in k. Edward the thirdes dayes 1001.23 b. Lewes Phisition to Queene Elizabeth pag. 1400. col 1. lin 28. col 2. lin 5. League renued betwixt England and Flanders 546.33 Lewes the French king dyeth 629.29 Leofrike brother to king Harold slayne 288.3 Learned writers in the tyme Henry the fifth pag. 1218. col 2. lin 32. Learned mens names that flourished in the dayes of king Henrie the second 473.41 Leoline Prince of Wales 786.32 a. requireth hostages ibidem raiseth warre agaynst the king 786.32 b. maketh sute for peace 787.17 a. marryeth the Earle of Leycesters daughter 788.17 b. rebelleth 789.10 a. accursed 791.12 a. slayne 792.20 b. his head presented to the king crowned with Iuie caryed through Cheapside and set on the toppe of the Towre at London 792.50 a Legate sent from the Pope into England and not receiued 338.13 Leycester towne and Castle taken and burnt 430.10 Layborne Robert 1443.42 Lewes Letzenbrough Earle of S. Paule pag. 1346. col 1. lin 27. Learned men in the tyme of Henry the sixt pag. 1307. col 2. lin 6. Leporius Agricola Pelagian byshop in Britaine 119 36. Lewes holdeth a counsel at Cambridge 610.26 League renued betwixt king Iohn and the French king 552.39 Leon Ganer a Giaunt in Brytayne 18.78 Leonel Byshop of Concordia the Popes Ambassadour 1437.36 Leogitia called also Lergetia 12.31 Letters from the kyng to the Pope pag. 1155. col 1. lin 23. Learned men in the tyme of Queene Mary of whom many suffered for Religion 1782.20 Learned men in the tyme of Richard the thyrd pa. 1424 Learned writers in the tyme of Edward the fourth pag. 1355. col 1. lin 7. Lessey Richard 1443.42 Lefwyn Abbot taken by the Danes 246.16 Leo Isaurus Emperour 191.39 Leides Castle taken by king Stephan 371.33 League betweene England and Flaunders 902.50 b. Learned men in king Edward the firsts dayes 846 30. a. Leycester pag. 1329. col 2. lin 2. Lergetia called also Leogitia 12.31 Leoffe Monasterie 270.13 Leyland Iohn cited 134.48 Lewes Duke of Orleans taken prisoner 1434.1 Lewes the second Emperour 208.39 Lewes Emperour 219.81 Leo the fifth Emperor 115 60 League concluded betweene king Alured and king Gurthrun 214.106 Legate from Rome pag. 1249. col 1. lin 11. Leofwin banished the land 272 13. Llhuyd Humfrey cited 30.12 and. 33.69 and. 68.19 Llhuyd Humfrey cited 87.104 Llhuyd Humfrey cited 55.5 Llhuyd Humfrey cited 3.56 and. 4.50 and. 5.43 and. 27.57 Lindsey inuaded by the Danes 212.13 Lindesferne Abbey spoyled by the Danes 202.26 Line of the Norman heyres Male in the Crowne of England endeth 364.45 Lincolne towne besieged by K. Stephan and deliuered 380 80. Liberties graunted to Church-men by king Henry y e second 446.35 Liulfus withdraweth himselfe vnto Durham and there lyueth 311.25 Licenced to depart into Normandie 499.80 complayneth to the Pope in vayne 500.10 returneth into England with commission from king Richard the first 512.80 Liberties of Norwich seased pag. 1272. col 1. lin 46. Lisieux won by the French pa. 1276. col 2. lin 53. Litle Britaine which is Armorica in Fraunce 95.75 Liberties of London seysed 1081.10 b. restored 1082.8 b. Lilly George cyted 2.98 Liberties of Magna Charta confirmed by Parliament 779.92 Liberties of the Citie of London restored againe 739.67 Lincolne battaile fought by Maude the Empresse against king Stephan 373.70 Librarie in Yorke Minster consumed wyth fyre 300.52 Lynceus slayeth his vncle Danaus 8.26 Lynceus bringeth the Kingdom of Argiues vnder his subiection 8.28 Light shippes first inuented in the British seas 5.28 Lincolne made a Bishops See 309.65 Liulfus murthered in hys house 311.36 Lincolne wonne 602.29 Lydford wasted and burnt by the Danes 241.42 Lilius Giraldus cyted 6.46 Liberties of the Citie of London seised into Henrye the thyrds handes 738.37 Licence graunted to al men to build Castles Towers or holdes 366.11 Licinius maryeth Constantia sister to Constantinus 91.62 Lynceus saued by his wyfe Hypermnestra fleeth into Egypt 7.78 Limezun Citie in Cypres wonne by king Richard the first 492.11 Lincolne Castle builded 299.1 Lionel the kings sonne Garden of Englande 926.23 a. Lieutenantes appoynted ouer euery shyre in England 775 9. Lincolne Citie taken and spoyled by certaine outlawes 776.61 Lieth besieged by the Lorde Gray 1804.2 the sundrye exploytes done thereat ibidem and many leaues folowing 1813. where the towne is surrendered and peace made Listes in Smithfield pa. 1317 col 2. lin 50. Lincolne Iohn author of the insurrection on yll May day 1499.50 is hanged 1503.30 Lyndsey burned and the people slayne by king Egelredus 250.67 Liens Castle wonne by kyng Iohns souldiours 584.12 Iohn Littester Captaine of the Norfolke rebels 1031.22 a. executed 1032.34 a Limoges taken by the blacke Prince 991.10 a. Lith burnt· 1593.20 Lionel the kings sonne created Duke of Clarence 968.47 b. Licinius chosen fellowe wyth Maximianus in the Empire 91.51 Licinius sent wyth an armie against Maximinus ouerthroweth him 91.64 Lychfield whereof it tooke name 88.38 Lysieux taken by English pag. 1189. col 2. lin 21. Lincolne Church rent from the top downewardes with an earthquake 461.84 Liberalitie one of the greatest ornamentes of a Prince 317.62 Lincolne Church builded 162 70. Earle of Lile taken prisoner 927.7 b. Line and names of the kynges of the seuen kingdomes of England 281.1 Lylla seruant to king Edwyne slayne 159.71 Liuius Gallus a Romane captaine 82.23 Litchfield See to the Bishops of Mercia 179. Librarie in Yorke erected 192.84 Line and original of the Earles of Richmond 301.69 Limeryke kingdome in Ireland geuen to Philip de Breuse 450.40 Liuius Gallus slayne in London 82.44 Henry Byshop of Lincolne dyeth 915.11 b. Liberties of London seysed 794.56 a. Licinius vanquished and put to death by Constantinus 91.81 Lincolne spoyled ryfled and sacked 614.6 Lionel sonne to King Edward the thyrd borne 903.20 b. Lyke mayster lyke seruaunt 375.10 Lyndsey wasted by the Danes 240.48 Linne wonne by Lewes power 602.8 Lymene riuer in East Kent 215.76 Lynne pag. 1324. col 2. lin 28. Lichfielde a towne pag. 1415. col 1.28 col 2. lin 57. Earle of Lile put to flight 925 7. b. Liberalitie of the Frenche King pag. 1349. col 1. lin 30. Lyndsey spoyled by Earle Tostie 284.22 Lyncea whereof so called 8.14 Lindesferne Monasterie 196.16 Londoners discourtesie towardes the king 1080.30 b. commyt a riot in Fleetstreat 1081.10 a. present the king and queene with rich presents 1082.36 a. Lovel William holdeth the castle of Cary in the right of Maude the Empresse 368.75 Londoners pardoned for receiuing the Barones against king Henrie the third 779.32 London kept by the Romanes against the
Northumberland 312.48 Mutterel besieged 1594. the siege broken vp 1590.40 Murder committed at Oxford vppon a woman by a Priest 568.58 Murther in Westmin Church 1010.12 b. Murtherers to suffer death by hanging 472.59 Murtherers of king Constantius strangled 109.98 Merkam chiefe Iustice lost his office pag. 1381. col 1. lin 16. A Muster of Horsemen 1712.14 Mulinucius looke Dunwallo Mulinucius lawes 23.34 Murcherdach King of Ireland 326.70 Murreine among cattel 314.27 Earle of Murrey taken prisoner 898.20 b. Murton Byshop of Elie committed to warde pag. 1387. col 1. lin 8. N. Nathaliod a Britaine neyther of ancient house nor of skyll in the warres 127.67 Nathaliod and his army discomfited by the Saxons 127.84 Nazaleod king of Britaines maketh warre vpon the west Saxons 130.14 Nazaleod with his armye discomfited and slaine 130.39 Nazaleod nowe called Certicestshore 131.18 Nailes wherewith Christ was fastned to the crosse found what was done with them 91.115 and. 92.19 Nanneus sent to defend the inuasion of the Saxons 105 102. Nayles set in cuppes to measure draughtes 231.112 Nathaliod made general of the British army against y e Saxons 127.67 Names of the Bishops and Nobilitie present at the homage done by the Scottish kyng to kyng Iohn 550.14 Name of this land generally to be called England 204.45 Names and line of the kings of the seuen kingdomes of England 281.1 King of Naples disswadeth the French king from battaile 905.18 a. Nauntes citie vnliuered to K. Henry the second 398.43 Narcissus sent into Gallia to perswade the souldiers to go into Britaine 48.72 Narcissus in great credit with Claudius the Emperour 52 42. Nambre Earle Henry taken by the French 546.41 Nations neare to Britaine are subiect to the Romans 86 88. Names of the most valiant captaines and soldiers whose fame is moste renoumed for their noble deedes in the holy land against the Sarasins 504.3 Nauie alway in a readines to defend the coastes from Pyrates 266.51 Names of British kings which reigned from Elidurus to Lud. 32.65 and. 32.100 and. 33.40 King of Nauer commeth into England 991.41 a Names of the Peeres sworne to king Iohn 542.79 Names of the bishops present at the Coronation of kyng Iohn 545.10 Names of the nobilitie at the coronation of kyng Iohn 545.29 Names of the Bishops that accursed king Iohn and the Realme and afterward fled out of the Realme 566.24 Names of the sureties sworne to keepe the league made betweene king Iohn and Regiginald Earle of Boloigne 572.41 Names of the noblemen that continued vnto king Iohn 573.50 Names of British people which submyt them selues to Cesar 42.74 Names of foure kings in Kent at Cesars commyng 42.97 Nauie sent out by king Egelredus against the Danes 240.10 Nauie of Spaniards French discomfited by the Englishe men 1020.53 a Nantes besieged by the Englishmen 1021.54 a Names of learned men flourishing in the tyme of king Henry the thyrd 783.64 Names of the Barons that tooke part against king Henry the thyrd 726.19 Names of the Barons whiche tooke part with king Henry the thyrd against the other nobles of the Realme 726 35. Names of the Lords that banded them selues against kyng Iohn 588.45 Nauarre wonne by Ferdinand the kyng of Hispaine 1473 50. Nauie of Frenchmen 908.44 a. Robert de Namur serueth king Edward the third 940.45 b. Earle of Namur taken by the Scots 898.50 a Nauclerus cited 75.107 Names of writers that liued in king Iohns dayes 607.36 Names of the Lords that at the first went not against kyng Iohn but afterwardes ioyned with the other Barons at London 589.32 Names of the parties that sate to make the agreement betwene king Iohn and the Barons 589.75 Names of those elected to see the agreement betweene K. Iohn and his Barons performed 590.25 Names of the noble men and captaynes that came from beyond the seas to ayde king Iohn against the Barons 592.80 Names of the chiefe prisoners taken by king Iohn in the castle of Rochester 593.34 Names of the captaines of that part of the armye that Kyng Iohn left about London and of the other parte that went with hym Northward 595 7.14 Names of the Barons accursed by the Pope 596.77 Names of the chiefe captaynes vnder whom ayde came out of Fraunce to the Barons against king Iohn 597.72 Names of the noble men reuolting from king Iohn to Lewes 600.34 Names of Castles wonne by Lewes 600.78 Neotus an Abbot motioner of the founding of the vniuersitie of Oxford 217.63 Neuille George Lorde of Burgeyny cōmitted to the towre but deliuered againe 1460 20. New supply of Saxons sent for to come into Britaine 102.70 Neuill Alexander his Heptarchie cited 205.35 Newmerch and Vernon restored to the Duke of Normandie 393.47 Newcastle otherwise called Drincouet besieged woon 429.30 Newport a litle towne 1415 co 1. lin 13. Henry Newarke made archbishop of Yorke 815.32 a. dieth 835.58 a Newe mynster in Winchester builded 217.57 Newgate set on fire 1765.40 Newe eractions 1102.52 b. New historie which is the British historie 38.72 Newbourgh 194.66 Neuile Edward knight beheaded 1572.5 Newton slayeth Hamilton in combat 1634.30 Alexander Neuil Archbshop of Yorke fleeth 1070.36 a. attaynted 1071.25 New Forrest made by king William 313.85 Newcastle towne recouered from the Scottes 397.6 Lord Neuil sent into Britaine 993.7 b. Guy de Nealle Marshal of Fraunce slayne 947.10 b. Neal Bruce taken 842.50 a. executed 843.17.6 Neuil Iohn knight executed 1581.2 Newmerch Castle besieged and deliuered to the Frenchmen 385.20 Newark pag. 1329. col 1. lin 28. Newbourgh Abbey founded 394 28. Nefle Castle yeelded to the Frenchmen 510.40 Neuil Raufe Byshop of Cicester dyeth 611.42 Newburge Robert a man of great honour 398.32 Nennius a Britayne cited 7.14 Newburie Castle wonne by king Stephan 386.42 Raufe Lord Neuil created Earle of Westmerland 1097.30 b. Neuil Hugh high Iustice of the Forrestes 549.44 Newcastle pag. 1315. col 1. lin 13. Newcastle in olde tyme called Monkaster 307.100 Neomagus a Citie in Britaine by whom builded 2.95 Newton Peter knight Counsellour to Prince Arthur 1456.54 Newarke Castle builded 371.75 Newcastle taken by the Scots 366.80 Newcastle vpon Tyne brent by casual fire 728.16 Newarke Castle restored to the Byshop of Lincolne 105. Newcastle towne and Castle founded 311.8 Neglecting of Iustice is cause of greater mischiefes 311.82 Newburne Churh 312.26 Neuil Raufe elected Archbyshop hf Canterburie and the election made voyde by the Pope 637.27 Neuer as yet any king drowned 329.76 Neuille Alane accursed by Archbishop Thomas Becket 409.63 Nennius getteth away Cesars swoord in fyght 39.16 Nenuius dyeth of the hurte which Cesar gaue him 39.20 Neptunus called Nepthuin 5.4 Neptunus parentage 5.5 Neptunus called king and God of the seas 5.19 Newburgh brent by Earle Iohn 538.4 Nectaridus Earle of the Sea coast in Britayne slayne 103.95 Neuil Charles Erle of Westmerland rebelleth 1839.38 fleeth into Scotland 1841.12 Nicholas Burdet knight pag. 1227. col 1. lin 32. lin 56. col 2. lin 10. pa. 1237 co 2. lin 30. pag.
and named Adrian the fyft 780.8 Othe of Allegeance demaunded by King Iohn of his subiects 587.80 Otho the Emperour commeth into England to king Iohn 564.31 Otford battel fought by Offa against the Kentishmen 194 89. Otho the seconde Emperour 235.68 Outrages committed by the Frenche men that came against kyng Iohn vnder Lewes 601.67 Ouse ryuer 214.115 Ouse ryuer 284.59 Owen Glendoner wyth the Welchmen rebel pag. 1132 co 1. lin 34. pag. 1133. co 2 lin 14.39 pag. 1142. co 1. lin 16. his sonne taken pag. 1155. co 2. lin 57. Owen ayded the Frenche pag. 1149. co 2. lin 50. ended his lyfe pag. 1155. col 2. lin 20. Owse bridge born away 1834 13. Owen Teuther maried Queen Katharine pag. 1264. co 2. lin 4. committed to warde lin 21. taken and beheaded pag. 1304 co 2. lin 56. Owin Prince of Wales slaine 354.88 Earle of Oxford dyeth in Fraunce 967.12 b Oxford wonne by the Danes 247.81 Oxfordshiremen vanquished and slaine 54.1 Oxenford Iohn made Byshop of Chichester 432.60 Oxford statutes repealed by Act of Parliament 774.6 Oxford Castle 391.22 Oxford Schollers make a fray wyth Otho the legates men 652.11 Oxford forsaken of the Schollers 568.69 Oxford Burgeses require absolution for hanging three Schollers vniustly they are assoyled and penance enioyned them 582.94 Oxfordshiremen a puysant kind of people 53.73 Oxford besieged by king Stephan and taken 379.6 Oxford Vniuersitie founded 217.61 Oxford burned by the Danes 245.19 Oxeholm◅ I le taken and possessed by certaine outlawes and dishinherited persons 776.58 Oxe hides payed for a yeerely tribute out of Ireland 442.11 O◅cay walkeline a valiant knight 380.34 P. Pal sent from Rome vnto Rafe Archbishop of Cantorbury 351.102 Paul the Apostle was rounded and shauen 378.34 Pawlet Amise knight 1450.16 Paulus a Notarie sent ouer into Britaine with commissiō 94.68 Paulus called Catera why 94.73 Paulus returneth into Italy is slaine 95.16 Parliament 786. lin 29. a Parliamēt at London 790.5 b Parliament at Shrewsbury 793.45 b. Parliament at Aeton Burnel 794.2 a Parliament at Berwick 822 18. b Parliament at Bury 823.19 b. Parliament at Salisbury 824 38. b Parliament at Yorke 831. 1. a. Parliament holden at Oxford 557.69 Pawlet William Lord Saint Iohns Lord great master President of the Counsel politiquely obtayneth the Towre 1689.1 is created Marques of Winchester 1709. Paulet William knight treasurer of his maiesties house is created Lord S. Iohn 1572.52 Palingus Earle husbande to Gunthildus with his wife and his sonne put to death 247.30 Pawlet William knight is made Lord Pawlet of Basing 1862.54 Par William knight created Lord Par. 1572.54 Parliament vnder Henry the fourth 1119. co 1. lin 34. pa. 1121. co 2. lin 22. pa. 1132. co 2. lin 20. pa. 1135 co 2. lin 28. at Couentrie 1140. co 2. lin 44. at London 1141. co 1. lin 11. at Couentrie pa. 1143. co 1. lin 16. pa. 1150. co 2. lin 23. at Glocester pa. 1153 co 1. lin 2. pa. 1155. co 2. lin 34. pa. 1161. co 2. lin 50. Parliament by Henry the sixt pa. 1226. co 1. lin 41. pag. 1228. co 1. lin 29. pa 1243 co 2. lin 42. at Roan pag. 1245. pa. 1249. co 1. lin 52. pa. 1262. co 1. lin 54 pa. 1271. co 1. lin 27. at Bury pa. 1273. col 2. li. 20. at Leicester pa. 1277. co 2. lin 20. pa. 1279. co 1. lin 3. pa. 1288. co 2. lin 40. at Couentrie pa. 1298. co 1 lin 44. at Westminster pa. 1300. co 1. lin 30. Pace Richard doctor dieth mad 1551.20 Paulet William knight Controller of the Kyngs house ambassadour vnto the french king 1560 Parker Doctor Archbishop of Canterbury 1803.7 dieth 1870.57 his Epitaph 1872.5 Packington Robert murdered 1570.3 Parliament holden at Oxforde 629.5 Patrike William the elder conspyreth agaynst king Henrye the second 426.110 Paule Earle of Orkney 285.9 Paluel Castle taken by the French king 469.10 Pauline Souday field pag. 1311. col 2. lin 8. Pascy Castle besieged in vayne 538.7 Paulinus fleeth into Kent with Ethelburga and her children 164.19 Paulinus becommeth Byshop of Rochester 164.34 Palles sent from the Pope to Paulinus and honorius 163.9 Parishes how manye in England 1524.30 The Pageantes set foorth in the Citie of London as Queene Elizabeth went thorough it to her Coronation 1787.14 The new Palace before Guisnes descrybed 1509.54 Paulinus licenced to preach the Gospel in Northumberland 161.57 Valeran Earle of Saint Paule marryeth the kings halfe sister 1016.11 b. Palladius sent from Rome to preach in Scotlande 120.1 Paulet Amis knight sent Commissioner into Cornwal 1451.53 Paulinus Suetonius returneth out of Anglesey to London 63.116 Paulinus Suetonius receyueth ayde into Britayne 64.50 Paulinus Suetonius gyueth the Britaines an vtter discomfiture 65.22 Ponthoise recouered by the English pag. 1263. col 2. lin 52. got agayne by the French pag. 1265. col 1. lin 41. Palmer Thomas knight hanged 1722.25 Partrich Miles knight committed to the Towre 1709 31. is hanged 1712.5 Par William knight Vncle to the Queene created Lord Par of Horton 1591.52 Papirio Iohn a Cardinal sent Legate into Ireland 386.29 Papirio Iohn receiueth an othe of fidelitie vnto king Stephan 386.40 Patrike Earle of Salisburie slayne by treason of the Poictou◅s 411.20 Pal sent from Rome to Thomas the Archbyshop elect of Yorke 348.110 Pandulph made Byshop of Norwitch 617.26 Paganel or Paynel keepeth the Castle of Ludlow in the ryght of Maud the Empres 368.76 Paris yeelded to the French pag. 1258 col 1. lin 28. A Parliament 1708.18 Parliament when first instituted and the order thereof 354.12 Pal sent into Britayne vnto Augustine 149.99 Paulet William Marques of Winchester dyeth 1861.46 his prayses ibidem Pattern of an excellent gouernour 69.9 Parliament at Lincoln 836.28 a. Paule Abbot of Saint Albons Nephue to Lanfranke 320.69 Pace Richard sent to wage the Suisses 1499.28 Patents reuoked pag. 1144. col 1. lin 43. Pandulfe sent into Fraunce by the Pope to practise with the French king for king Iohns destruction 573.19 Parliament at Caerlile 844.41 a. Parliament at Northampton 847.35 b. 891.45 a. Parliament of white bandes 860.30 a. Pandrasus prepareth an armie agaynst the Troian ofspring 11.27 Pandrasus and his armie discomfited by Brute 11.34 Pandrasus taken prisoner and his armie ouerthrowen 12.4 Parliament sommoned at London to be holden 617.49 The Paraphrase of Erasmus translated and commaunded to be had in al Churches 1633.40 Parliament called in king Richards name 1111.16 a. Paulinus made Archbyshop of Yorke 163.10 Paulinus Byshop sent vnto Edwine with the Ladie Ethelburga 159.36 Amerie de Pauie knight Captayne of Calais Castle 943.1 b. selleth Calais to the French men 944.3 a. Parliament pag. 1166. col 1. li. 28. pa. 1168. col 1. lin 54. pag. 1186. col 1. lin 46. pag 1213. col 1. li. 23. pa. 1214. col 1. lin 44. Par William Marques of Northampton goeth against Queene Mary 1720.40 proclaymeth Queene Mary ibidem and goeth and submitteth
through London 1082.36 a. goeth into Ireland 1085.16 b. returneth into England 1086.1 b. marryeth the French kings daughter by a Deputie 1088.3 b. meeteth the French k. 1089.1 his expences at that entervewe 1090.1 a. beareth the armes of Saint Edward 1097.55 b. his sentence agaynst the two Dukes at Couentrie 1101.5 b. passeth into Ireland 1103.50 a. returneth into England 1107.47 a. stealeth from his souldiers 1107.33 b. betaketh himselfe to his enemies 1109.31 a. commeth to Flint 1109.2 b. committed to the Towre 1111.1 a. resigneth his â—…yght to y e crowne 1113.42 b. the same confirmed by Parliament 1114.25 b. publication of his deposing 1115.5 a. his description 1116.40 b. Rebellion in Somersetshyre but sone quieted 1570.51 The Regent burnt 1476.36 Rebellion intended in Norfolke bewrayed 1040.37 a. Rebellion begun at Dertsord 1024.33 a. Rockesburgh brent by the Scottes 1010.40 a. Rebellion in Ireland pag. 1275. col 2. lin 1. by Iacke Cade pag. 1279. col 1 lin 53. Redvers Baldwin keepeth Exeter agaynst King Stephan 367.44 Redvers Baldwine expulsed out of Exeter and exiled out of the Realme 367.87 Redwals king of Eastangles 155.5 Redwald setteth vppon Ethelferd suddeinly with an armie and slayeth him 155.22 Rebellion moued in Britayne by Valentinus 105.17 Reuenewes of the Churche how they ought to be deuided 149.8 Restitutus Bishop of London goeth ouer to the Synode at â—â—les 94.55 Rebellion mooued by Aurelius Câ—…naâ—â—us agaynst Constantinus 138.32 Rebellion mooued by Mordred agaynst King Arthur 133.73 Restitution appoynted to be made by king Iohn to the Byshoppes 583.26 Rebellion of the British Commons against the Nobilitie 101.20 Reading Castle deliuered to Duke Henry Fitzempresse 387.116 Rebellion in Essex 1024.54 b. Regrating of Wine forbidden 548.11 Rebels execute the Lord Chancelor and Treasurer 1027.30 a. Rebellions Britaynes subdued by King Henry the second 410.35 Reynold sonne to Gurmo submitteth himselfe to king Edmond 227.84 Reynold receyueth the Christian fayth and is baptised 227.94 Reynold and Aulafe driuen out of their countreis 227.104 Reginald Archbyshop of Coleyn rayser of a schisme in Almayne 409.76 Redfrid sent to conduct Archbishop Theodore into England 178.43 Reason nor law permit the sonne to iudge or condemne the father 405.93 Religious houses ransacked by souldiours 612.35 Reading Abbey founded and by whom 363.47 Reginald Bishop of Bath elected Archbishop of Cantorbury and dieth fiftene daies after 501.62 Rebellion moued by the Northumbers agaynst Tosâ—…ie their Earle 278.97 Restitution made to king Iohn 548.38 Remclid or Remeline ordeined Bishop of Hereford 341.76 Remclid restoreth his Bishopricke to king Henry the first 341.84 Rebellion moued by Earle Oswin agaynst king Molle 195.113 Rebellion moued by Duke Wade against king Ardulfe 201.61 Rebellion of Bernred agaynst king Ethelbaldus 189.70 Rebellion moued by Oswald agaynst king Ethelard 192.44 Rebellion moued agaynst Cuthred king of West Saxons 193.71 Register of al Cities Townes Villages and Hamlets Abbeyes Monasteries and Priories throughout Englande gathered 312.80 Rigmere battayle looke Wigâ—…rere Rebels handes chopped of in token of their rebellious dealing 300.3 Rebellion anew begun by the Earles Edwin and Marcharus agaynst king William 306.18 Rebellion moued by the Dukes of Mercia agaynst Oswy 176.46 Regent Maisters of Oxford go barefoote to the Legate 652 50. Rebellion moued by certayne of the English Nobilitie agaynst king William 308.20 Religion not to be enforced but to come of goodwil 148.57 Reding battayle fought by the Danes agaynst the English men 210.6 Remigius Priour of Saint Albons 480.69 Renues besieged by Henry Duke of Lancaster 962.46 a. Rebellion moued by Foukes de Brent and others of the commons 616.85 Rebellion moued by dieurs of the nobilitie 616.100 Remigius dieth 323.103 Reginald Earle of Cornwal 405.71 Remigius Bishop of Dorchestex depriued 305.30 Remigius restored to his Bishopricke 305.46 Rebellion moued by Edrike Siluaticus agaynst king William 297.14 Religious persons or Priestes not to passe the Seas without letters of safeconduct 408.95 Remorintin Castle won by the blacke Prince 956.40 b. Rebellion moued by Robert eldest sonne to Kyng William agaynst his father 310.11 Reguli or litle kings in Brytayne and why so called 119 14. Reginald Peacoke Byshoppe of Chichester abiured pag. 1291. col 2. lin 1. Ranulfe Earle of Chester 372 92. Ranulfe Erle of Chester his oration to his souldiers 374.29 Ramsey abbey spoyled 380.47 Rayneth bloud 21.57 Raulfe constrayned to fleâ—… into Britaine 308.40 Raufe Earle of Cambridge coÌ„spireth against king William 308.19 Raufe Byshop of Durham General of an army agaynst the Scots 369.71 Rameses one of the names of Egyptus 7.23 Ranulfe Hygden Policronicon cited 18.80 and. 58.20 122.55 Raufe Ferrers knight 1125 co 1. lin 6. Rauenspurre 1327. co 1. li. 52 Raufe B. of Chichester 328.38 Ratclife Thom. L. Fitzwaters vnhorsed at Muskleborough field 1625.27 knight of y e garter Earle of Sussex caried the Garter vnto Maximilian the Emperour 1837 42. is Lieutenant general in the North and leuied a power against the rebels 1840 54. entreth Scotland with an army 1842.10 ordeineth sir Wil. Drury General of a power sent into Scotlande 1845.58 maketh an OratioÌ„ vnto the souldiers 1846.26 eftsoones inuadeth Scotland with a power 1853.11 Randal Edward Serieant maior in y e iourney to S. Quintines 1767.43 Serieant maior in the iourney of Lith 1804.45 is knight marshal in the iourney to Newhauen 1838.14 his passing pitye shewed vnto the impotent souldiours at Newhauen 1833. conducteth a thousand footmen into Ireland 1836.44 discomfited in fight Shane Oneile and is hymself slayne through ouer much prowesse 1837.1 Requestes made by the lords of England to K. Iohn 587.45 he promiseth to consider of their requestes 587.65 findeth sureties for perfourmance of the same eadem 69. Rebellion in Norfolke pretended but preuented 1852.40 Rebellion in Deuonshyre and Cornwal vnder Humfrey Arundel others 1649. their articles 1650.10 the kings answeare vnto them 1651.58 are discomfited in fight 1655. Rebellion in Norfolk vnder Robert Ret. 1656.10 is suppressed and quieted 1673.30 Reuel Richard of Derbâ—…shyre aâ—â—â—â—ded 1425.50 Rebellion in the North. 1839 40. the rebelles executed 1841.21 and. ead 38. and 1852.34 Reynolds a brother of Syon executed 1563.38 Request of the CoÌ„mons against king Richard the second pa. 1123. co 1. lin 39. Request of the Earle of Salisbury 1124. co 2. lin 48 Rebellion in Westmerland raised by Nicholas Musgraue and Thomas Tilby 1569.10 Rebellion moued by Mordreds two sonnes against Constantinus 138.17 The Rebellion called the common wealth 1648.20 Rebellion in Yorkshyre vnder William Ombler and Dale 1675.30 Rebellion in Yorkshyre those partes 1567.14 is quieted 1568.47 Rebellion in Yorkshyre 1581 51. Raleg William Bishop of Norwich 705.77 he is remoued to Winchester by the Pope 705.81 he is kept out of the Citie eadem 89. he accurseth the Citie and Cathedral Church eadem 90. he stealeth out of the realme into Fraunce eadem 100. Raymond Earle of Barzelone meeteth with kyng Henry at Blayme 398 Raymond Earle of Barzelone his daughter offred and
Maxâ—…mulion the King of the Romaines 439.18 Vserers called Caorsini excommunicated 647. line 44 Vserers come from Rome into England â—…35 23 Vserers the Popes Merchants 725.50 Vter Pendragon sente with a power into Ireland 123.30 Vter Pendragon sente with an armie againste â—…alâ—â—mius 123.50 Vter Pendragon and Aurelius Ambrose returne into great Britain with an army 123.19 Vnseasonable weather 552. â—…3 Vthred Earle 241.29 and 252.45 Vter Pendragon carried ouer into little Britain 110.19 Vthred submitteth hymselfe deliuereth pledges to Cnute 252.68 Vthred taken and put to death 252.71 Vripreds landes giuen to Iricius 252.71 Vter Pendragon brother to Aurelius Ambrose made King of Britaine 127.32 Vter Pendragon why so called 127.36 Vter Pendragon faileth in loue with Agwarne wife to Gorolus Duke of Cornewall 128.32 Vter Pendragon slayeth Gorolus D. of Cornewall 128.35 Vter Pendragon marrieth Igwarne sometyme wife to the D. of Cornewall 128.38 Vter Pendragon dyeth of poyson 129.18 Vther a Danishe Earle slayne 22â—… 64 Vulthere King of Mercia selleth the Bishopricke of London 17â—… 77 VV. VVAuerley 445.7 Warning of seauen dayes giuen to Ceadda before hys death 179.61 Wade Duke rebelleth against King Ardulfe and is chased out of the field 201.61 Walley battaile fought by King Ardulfe againste Duke Wade and his coÌ„federates 201.64 Wales harrowed by King Egherre from East to west 213.18 Walcâ—… reduced into forme of good order 277.84 Walasco a Frier sent froÌ„ the Pope into England 757.30 Warlamchester nowe called Sainte Albons 88. line 16 Warlamchester destroyed 88.20 Wall builded the thirde time of turfes betweene the Britaines Scots 100.13 Wall builded the fourthe tyme of stone ouerthwart the Ilande betweene the Britaynes and Scottes 100.53 Wales subdued by Kyng William and the Princes do him homage 310. line 8 Warine Earle of Shrewsburie appointed gouernour of the marches of Wales 359.6 Walles of the Citie of LoÌ„don repaired and turrers builte at the costes of the Citie by the commaundements of Henry the third 747.16 Wales furnisheth EnglaÌ„d with horses and Cattel 748.57 Wallingford Castel besieged 373.47 Waltham Castel builded 377.52 Walter Bishop of Worceter dyeth 775.41 Wardens of the cinque portes reconciled to K. Henry the third 776.18 Wallingford taken by the Danes 244.34 Wassaile what it signifyeth 113.81 Warres left vnto Renulf as it were by succession 200.96 Wake Baldwine taken prisoner 777.29 Waterfoorde in Irelande made a Bishoppes Sea 328.5 Walkelme made Byshop of Winchester 305.12 Walcher Bishop of Durham slayne in a tumult 311.15 and .311.72 Walcher Bishop of Durham made gouernoure of Northumberlande 312.44 Walter Bishoppe of Winchester dyeth 723.25 Warram Castell 368.78 Walton Castell 369.1 Walkeline yeeldeth the Castell of Douer 369. line 16 Warre betwixt breethren cannot bee mainteyned without reproch 344.36 Warlewest William hys replye vnto Pope Pascall 342.52 Warlewast sente to Rome in Ambassage to y e Pope 342.23 Walter Bishoppe of Alba bringeth the Pall to Anselme the Archbishoppe 333.5 Waterforde Citie in Ireland wonne by the Englishmen 419.10 Waleton Castell made playne with the ground 445.19 Walkhem Bishop of winchester 320.94 Walstod Bishop of Herford 192.16 Walton 431.40 Walwine looke Gawain Waltheof sonne to Siwarde made Earle of Northumberlande 307. line 71 Waltheof ioyneth in conspiracie againste K William and bewrayeth it 308.22 Walteof beheded at Winchester 308.54 WalthaÌ„ Abbey by whome founded 288.32 Walteof marrieth Iudith neece to Kyng William 308.72 Walteofes issue and honors 309.1 Walter Huberte Archbishop of Canterbury 523. line 19 Waltham Colledge altered froÌ„ Priests to Chanons regular 447.56 VValdene Earle looke VValteof VValdene Castel deliuered to King Stephen 380.41 VVallingforde newe Castell ouer against the old Castell builded 381.29 VVaterforde Citie giuen to Robert de Poer 450. line 18 VValthir Bishop of Durham 307.112 VValter Bishop of Hereford submitteth hymselfe to King VVilliam 291. line 57 VValter Archbishoppe of Yorke dyeth 739.48 VVarrham Castell besieged and rendred vp 378. line 98 VVarrham VVilliam Doctor of the Lawes sente Ambassador vnto Philip the Archeduke 1443.18 his Oration vnto the Archduke eadem 30. Bishoppe of London 1455.40 is created Archbishoppe of Canterburie 1458.35 is of the counsell to king Henry the eyght and Lorde Chauncellor 1464.47 Crownoth HeÌ„ry the eyght and Queene Katherine 1465.46 is Godfather to Henry the firste begotten sonne of Henry the eyght 1468.48 his oration in the Parliament house 1472.44 giueth vp his office of Chancellorshippe and why 1497.33 withdraweth himselfe from the Courte and why 1499. line 23 VVallop Iohn Knighte burneth 21. Townes and Villages in Normandie 1494.44 VVoulston Iohn Counsellor to Prince Arthur 1456.55 VVatkins Richard Herrauld of armes attainted 1425.50 VVatche kept on Sainte Peters cue 1838.50 and 1839.45 and .1837.35 1839.58 VValter Herbert knight page 1413. col 1. line 55. col 2. line 5. page 1414. col 1. line 26. line 42. line 55. page 1415. col 2. line 15 VValter Hungerforde Knighte page 1415. col 2. line 40. page 1416. col 1. line 22 VValter Lorde Ferrers of Chartley slayn page 1422. col 1. line 15 VVelchmen acknowlege to holde their kingdome of the Englishmen 225. line 27 VVertermore in Scotland 225.68 VVerlewod 232.105 VVebbeley Castel 371.20 VVest Countreys submitte themselues to Cnute 252.20 VVestminster Towne and parish Church spoiled 778.115 VVelchmenne conspire with the Scots againste King Adelstane 225.18 VVelchmen subdued by King Adelstane 225.21 VVelchmeÌ„s presumptuous fiercenesse tamed by the Flemings 347.42 VVestwod or Lesnes Abbey founded 447.8 VVelche Kings submitte themselues to King Edgar 231.80 VVelchmen inuade and wast the English Marches 352.33 VVelchmen trust more to the aduautage of places than to theyr owne strength 352.40 VVelchmen slayne and taken by the Englishmen in greate numbers 352.52 VVerstan ordeyned Byshoppe of Shirebourne 223.57 VVestminster Hall founded 329.9 VVestminster Hal should haue bin larger 329.14 VVellsloweth with bloud at Finchamsteede 329. line 40 VVestefoord Citie gyuen to VVilliaÌ„ Fitz Adeline 450.17 VVelchmen wast Chesshire and are distressed 381.41 VVestminster little Hall consumed with fyre 761. line 15 VVelchmen rebell and are inuaded 397.35 VVelchmen submit theÌ„selues to the King and are pardoned 397.74 VVestminster new church begun to be builded 617. line 56 VVeights and measures ordered after one vniforme order throughout all England â—…34 53 WelchmeÌ„ not to passe armed ouer Offaes ditch 288.63 Welchwomen permitted to ioyne in marriage with Englishmen 288. line 71 Welchmen rebell and do diuers displeasures on the Marches 401.8 Welchmenne spoyle the marches and hardly obteyne pardon of the K. for their rebellion 408.5 Welchmen generally seuerely punished for their Rebellion 408.27 Welche rebels ouerthrowen and vsed very cruelty 328.92 Welchmen so tamed that they dare not shew theyr faces 329.3 Welchmen ouerthrowen at Brecknocke by the Englishmen 324.36 Welchmenne tamed and broughte to obedience 324.49 Welchmenne inuade the Englishe marches and destroy the Countreys 325.90 Wexford Citie in IrelaÌ„d 421.31 Welchmenne wrongfully accused of Rebellion detect Earle Godwin of a commotion 271.39 Welchmen rebell and ouercome the Englishe power 372.58 Weston Doctor
other sticketh fast as the 〈◊〉 at his coÌ„ming a land with his army in England 285. â—…9 William Wittelsey Archbishop of Caunterburye dyeth 995.17 a Willoughby Robert Lord Brooke generall of the army into Britain 1434 line 10 William succedeth Raufe in the Archbishopricke of Caunterbury 359.38 Winchcomb Church builded 200.105 Winchcomb Abbey founded 201.5 Wilshire wasted by the Danes 245.77 .252.10 Winchester wonne by the Danes 247.81 William of Malmesburie cited 19.25 .97.6 .116 line 52 William of Malmesburie confuted 19.28 Windham Iohn Knyghte and beheaded 1457.40 Wicklifes doctrine mainteyned page 1155. col 1. line 43. his bookes condemned line 55 William de la Pole Erle of Suffolke page 1269. col 1. line 36. col 2. line 6.25.40 page 1271. col 2. line 16. Duke of Suffolke page 1273. col 2. lin 57. a exclamation against him page 1277. col 2. line 6. sent to the Tower pa. 1278. col 2. line 47. deliuered line 49. banished page 1279. col 1. line 21. beheaded line 28 Wilfride a virgin taken out of a Nunrie and defloured by King Edgar 233.11 Wigmere battell foughte by the Danes against the Englishmen 245.35 Wilson Doctor in the premunire 1578.21 pardoned 1581.48 William King of Scottes conspireth with Henrye the sonne againste Kyng Henrye the second 426. 108. he entreth CumberlaÌ„d and besiegeth Careleil 427.67 .433.107 inuadeth NorthumberlaÌ„d and burneth and spoyleth the Countrey 430.28 William Fitz Osbert with the long bearde is conueted before the B. of Caunterbury 529.80 hee appeareth and is dismissed quietly 529.86 he is newly attached and escapeth into saint Mary Bowe Churche keepeth it by force is forced out by fire 529. 105. he is wounded with a knife 529.116 he is araigned in the Tower coÌ„demned drawen and executed 530.4 VVilliam Tirell esquier beheaded page 1313. col 1. line 28 VVilliam Neuill Lorde Fawconbridge Earle of Kente page 1313. col 1. line 40 VVilliam Tailbois Erle of Kyme page 1315. col 1. line 6. beheaded li. 12 VVilliam Lord Herberte Erle of PeÌ„broke page 1315. col 1. line 54. page 1319. col 2. line 35. beheded pag. 1320. col 2. li. 35 VVilford Iames knight valiauntlye defendeth Hadington 1638.20 is taken prisoner 1640.3 VVilliam sonne to Kyng Stephan considered of in the agreemente betweene his father and Henrye Fitz Empresse 389.45 VVilfrid Bishop of Hexham dyeth 190.105 VVilfrid the second succeedeth Iohn in the Archbishoprik of Yorke 190.109 VVilmote a noble man of Sussex banished lyeth rouing vppon the coastes 244 VVilliam Earle of Mortaigne wilfully banisheth himselfe the lande 343.49 VVisbasdowne battaile foughte betweene the Saxons one with another 142.95 VVilliam K. of Scottes marrieth the Lorde Ermengarde daughter to Richard VicouÌ„t Beaumount 463.62 VVilliam Conqueroure hath not so much ground as to bury him in without doing iniurie to another 315.103 VVilliam Conqueroures issue 315.111 VVilliam Bishop of London obteyneth the firste Charter for the Citie of London 316.25 VVilliam Conqueroures Sepulchre opened with the length and bignes of his body 316.61 VVilliam Rufus second sonne to King VVilliam looke Rufus VVilliam VVilnotus emprisoned againe by K. VVilliam Rufus 317.37 VVilliaÌ„ Bishop of Durham 318.60 VVilliam King of Scots commeth into EnglaÌ„d and doth homage to HeÌ„ry the second 408.68 he goeth ouer into Normandye with K. Henrye the second 408.82 VVilliam succeedeth hys father Patrike in the Earledome of Salisburie 411.23 VVilliam King of Scots taken prisoner 435.1 is released out of prison 439.20 he commeth to a Parliamente to Northhampton 443.22 VVilliam Earle of Arundell dyeth 445.6 VVinchester besieged by the Romaines 51.34 VVilliam King of Sicile departeth this life 486. line 102 VVilloughby Roberte knight conueyd the Erle of VVarwike froÌ„ Sheriffehuton to the tower of London 1425.20 VVilliam Conqueroure being ridde of one vexation is alwayes troubled with an other 307. line 20 VVilloughby Roberte created Lorde Brooke 1426.38 VVinleshore battell foughte by the Englishmen against y e Danes 207.13 VVinchester Citie destroyed by the Danes 208.55 VVinborne Abbey 211.14 VVilton battaile foughte by the Danes againste the Englishmen 212.2 VVinfrid B. of Mercia 179.94 VVinchester Churche builded 180.70 VVinfrid deposed for disobedience 181.8 William Cotton slayne page 1288. col 1. line 13 Wibbas or Wipha succeedeth his father Crida in the Kingdome of Mercia 145.88 William Conqueroure inuadeth Scotland with a mighty army 307.38 Wimond a Monke fyrste Byshoppe of the I le of Man had his eyes put out 386.6 VVilliam Archbyshoppe of Yorke complayned of to the Pope and deposed 382.38 Wiues to be kept according to the lawes of holy Church 420.110 VVilliam sonne to King Stephan departeth this life 399.44 VVilliaÌ„ VVicwan made Archbishop of York 789. 36 a dyeth 794.48 a Windsor Castell besieged by the Barons 603.19 they raise theyr Campe secretely in the nyghte 604.46 VVilliam Duke of Normandie promiseth hys daughter in marriage to Earle Harold 278.40 VVilliam erle of Northfolke breaketh his legge with a fall from hys Horse 303.3 VVilliam Duke of Normandyes backe peece of his armour put on before by chance 286.83 VVilliam King of Scots commeth to visit Kyng Henrye the seconde of England 411.99 VVilliam King of Scots and Dauid his brother do homage to Henry son to King Henrye the second 412.75 VVilliam StaÌ„ley knight page 1321. col 1. line 55 Wigmore Castell besieged and wonne by the Barons 765.37 VVilliam VVilford toke Shippes on the coastes of Britaine page 1140. col 2. line 34 VVilliam Sautre brente in Smithfield page 1132 col 2. line 30 VVilton Nunrie fortifyed in steed of a Castell 379.69 VVil. Argentine Knight page 1119. col 2. line 46 VVilliam Venoure page 1120. col 2. line 17 VVilliam Erle of Pembroke perswadeth the nobilitie against Lewes and to take parte wyth Henry the third 608.60 VVilliam wyth the long berd maketh an oration to the people 529.34 VVilliam Conqueroure leadeth a mighty armye into Wales 310.7 William Conqueroure leadeth an army against his eldest sonne Roberte in Normandy 310.34 he is vnhorsed by his sonne Roberte and is by hym eftsoones horsed againe 310.45 they are made friends 310.69 William long scoured the seas pa. 1156. col 2. lin 50 Wise saying of a worthye Prince page 1256. col 1. line 46 Wales deuided froÌ„ the other partes of Britaine by Seuerne 75.22 Wall builded or restored betwene the Britaines Scots by Seuerus 81.3 Walbroke in London why so called 82.50 Wichwood beside Stony Stratford page 1316. col 1. line 46 Whitsandbay page 1323. col 1. line 30 Wilton Abbey buylded 226.116 Wilfride Bishop of worcester 192.20 Wiccies prouince nowe Worcester 192.19 Winchester made a Bishops Sea 191.8 Withred departeth thys life 191.81 Wise meÌ„ deserue as much praise for their counsell as stoute warrioures for their valiancie 84.50 Wilfride restored to Northumberland 186.3 Withred son to Gegherte made K. of Kent 187.10 Wil. Conqueroure returneth out of Normandye into England 297.32 hee leadeth an army againste y e Citie of Exeter 299.41 he leadeth an army into the Northe againste the Danes and
Englishe exiles 301.2 Wincigi an army of strangers departe out of England 215.37 Winchelsey town spoyled by the rage of the Sea 723.53 Robert Winchelsey made Archbishop of Canterburie 806.13 a. his obstinacie against the King 822. 20. b. accused to the Pope 841.28 b. dyeth 852.43 a William Conquerour repenteth hym of his crueltie towardes the Englishmen 315.20 VVinchcombe Steeple Church throwne downe by thunder and lyghtning 322.1 Whitlafe king of Mercia chased out of his estate 203.82 Whitlafe restored too hys kingdome 204.2 Windsore castell committed to the keeping of straungers 762.11 William Conquerour protesteth that hee came too the rule of Englande by mere conquest 303.26 William Malmesb cyted 329.42 and .345.70 and 345.80 and .362.89 Wibteth Archb. of Rauēna set vp Pope by Henrie the Emperour against Vrbane 330.96 William son to king Stephen constrayned to surrender to K. Henry the second such landes as he held of the demain of the crowne 397.17 William of Malmesb cited 118.50 and .125.9 and 129.26 and .134.34 Wiptish fielde fought betweene the Britains and Saxons 126.25 Winchelsey won by force by prince Edward 776.44 Winghā Henrie elected B. of Winchester 755.87 William son to K. Henrie the first borne 341.62 William erle of Mortaigne taken prisoner 345.26 William sonne too Robert duke of Normandie erle of Flaunders 346.76 William consecrated B. of Winchester 347.10 Wil. Witlesey made Archb. of Canterburie 975.34 b Wight spoyled by Frenche men 1007.10 a Winchester castell razed by the friends of K. Henrie the thirde 611.68 Wicleuists rage against the Friers Augustins 1059.30 a. Wiremouth Abbey buylded 163.8 Windsore castell repayred 963.34 b. Winchelsey burnt by french men 965.40 a Wicleuists write agaynste the Cleargie 1086.17 a William Wickham Bishop of Winchester made chancellour 1075.38 a Wilton woon and rifled by the Danes 243.59 Wingfields letters conteyning the blacke Printers iourney 952.1 b Wicleuistes increase 1075.50 a. 1088.44 a. Wisbeche people perishe by rage of water 649.34 Whitsand besides Canterburie 225. ◅8 Wilton Towne set on fire 379.75 Wichport spoyled by the Danes 239.39 241.39 Wilton Nunrie buylded richly endowed 234.10 Winds 968. ◅4 b. 1076.3 b Wil. Zouch slaine 1288.11 Winchelsey burnt by the French men 1021.12 b Wicliffes Iohn opinions 993.30 b. 1023.57 a. Williā Parre kni 1329.14 Wil. L. Hastings 1340.20 William de Valence Earle of Pēbroke dieth 815.35 Wigmore towne repayred 222.82 William Mandeuile executed for cōspiracie 1249.36 Willoughbie Henry knight sent into Flāders 1435.48 Winter sharpe 1153.33 Winchester or Caerguent builded 19.8 Wimundham Priory founded 705 Wimundham 445.8 Winnebert murtherer of K. Ethelbert 196.113 Wigmore Castell surrendred to the king 396.13 William Malmesb cyted 223.61 and .264.74 William Nēuil Lord Fauconbridge 1311.25 Wil. Marleb cited 305.69 Wilnotus released oute of prison 315.17 Wilnosus son to erle Godwin 273.94 William Catesby 1371.57 Wine good cheape 1058.40 William duke of Normandies pedegrue and title to the crowne of Englande 282.91 Winchester won by surrender and spoyled by the Barons 772.49 Williā Zouch made Archbishop of York 908.13 a dieth 943.38 b Wickliffes doctrine 1038.19 b. William Neuill L. Fauconbridge 1297.12.1307.22 Wye riuer 270.52 Williā Lucre knight slain 1300.1 Winchester castel besieged 377.60 Windsore fortresse 391.12 Williā Trowtbeck knight pag. 129◅ col 2. lin 34. William Peche 1298.38 Wye riuer 297.29 Windsore 278.76 William Butley speaker of the Parliament 1271.55 William Wickham Bishop of Winchester 1144.3 William a Parre slaine 1304.5 Wil Corum slaine 1288.13 Wil. Parre knight 1125.35 Wil. Hosey esquier 1288.56 Wil. Malm. cited 364.72 Wilkinson Oswalde executed 1864.40 VVlnardus Bishoppe of Hereforde 195.12 VVorcester Citie taken and sacked by the Barons 765.54 VVorceter Citie almost wholy consumed wyth fire 352.25 VVorceter citie and castel besieged and deliuered 318.73 Women desirous too haue their beautye blased 232.101 VVorceter citie taken and cōsumed with fire 384.19 VVolstane keepeth his bishoprike by working a myracle 309.70 VVolstans Crosier staffe myraculously sticketh fast in Sainte Edwardes tombe 309.75 VVorceter castell besieged and deliuered 384.20 VVoodstock manor builded 364.13 VVorldly pleasures turne too naught in a moment 188.62 VVorceter Citie and the Countrey burnt and sacked for sleaing K. Hardicnuts collectors 267.26 VVool staple remoued frō Flaunders intoo Englande 941.27 a VVomen prophecie of the Romaines expulsing out of Britaine 61.12 VVorshipping of Images refused by the Princes and bishops in Englande 199. ◅8 VVolstane Archbishop of Yorke 227.6 VVolstane imprisoned for being of counsaile with his countrymens reuolting from K. Edredus 229.77 and why otherwise 230.7 VVolstane set at libertie and pardoned 230. a VVodnesburie battayle sought betweene the west Saxons and Mercians 187.104 VVoduile Edward Lord VVoduile aydeth the duke of Brytaine with foure C. men withoute the kings consent 14◅3 34. hath almost all hys men slaine ead 56. VVoolfes payed to King Edgar for a yearely trybute 232 VVoluesey castell won by Lewes ◅01 3 VVolstane Bishoppe of VVorcester submitteth himselfe to King VVilliam 291.56 VVodens pedegrue deriued from Adams 239.29 VVoden an anciēt prince of the Saxons 1◅3 5 VVoden falsly reputed a God 113. ◅ VVodens children their posteritie 1◅9 100 VVolshere king of Mercia departeth this lyfe 181.44 VVomen with childe how to bee ordred concerning Churchrites 149.71 Wolsey Cardinall thought to be author of the kings doubt of the lawfulnesse of his mariage 1551.1 is displeased with the Emperor and why 1551.7 sitteth in iudgemēt vppon the kings mariage 1551.24 offended wyth the Kings liking of the Ladie Anne Bolongne laboreth to stay sentence 1552.21 is in displeasure with the king eadem 43. hath the great seale takē from him ead 20. is condemned in a Premn◅ire ead 30. is depriued of the Bishoprike of Duresme and the Abbey of Saint Albons all his goods ead 40. is sent downe into his Diocesse of York 1554.20 writeth too the King for his Pall and Miter 1555.8 is arrested ead 24. dieth ead 46 is described 1556.1 VVodenesdic 145.57 VVodenesborne battaile fought by the Britaine 's agaynste the Saxons 145.77 Thomas of VVodstocke created Earle of Buckingham 1006.8 b Woods in VVales cutte downe 811.53 a Thomas of VVoodstocke created Earle of Buckingham 1050.2 b VVooll staple remoued to Calais 969.12 a VVooddes cut downe in Anglesey 60.1 Woodfield battaile fought by the Englishmen against the Danes 221.66 VVolde VVilliam prior of Birlington putte too death 1570.15 VVoolstaple at Sandwich 799.4 a VVonwaldremere 201.35 VVorthie answere of Hērie the thirde to the Popes Nuncio 713.74 VVonden people called by the Englishmen by y e name of Danes 215.16 VVorseley William deane of Poules traitor 1443.42 Woodhouse Thomas executed 1869.54 VVorceter Abbey buylded 277.31 VVorlde drowned by the great deluge 1.53 Wolshere brother to Peada made king of Mercia 176.47 VVolfgangus Lazius cited 105.92 VVonders 968.10 d VVolsey Thomas the kings Almoner 1479.7 taketh the oth of the Citizens of Tourney for the king 1479.21 consecrated Bishop of Lincolne 1494.36 borne at Ipswich and described ibid. consecrated Archbishop of yorke 1496.50 chosen Cardinall