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
sent the Bishop of Imola to treate of peace betwixt Richarde King of Englande and Iames king of ScotlaÌ„d Iames king of Scottes hauing not long before made diuers incursions roades into England and that to his profite hee sewed therevpon for a truce which came to passe euen as king Richarde wished so that condiscending to haue a communication Commissioners appoynted on the behalfe of the king of England and Scotlande to treatâ—… for a peace at Notingham commissioners were appoynted for both partes to meete at Notyngham y e seuenth day of September nexte ensuing For the King of Scottes there appeared Colin Earle of Argile the Lorde Cambell and the Lord Chancellor of ScotlaÌ„d William Bishop of Abirdene Robert Lord Lyle Laurence Lord Oliphant Iohn Drummound of Stubhall Archybald Duytelaw Archdeacon of Lawden and Secretary to king Iames Lyon king of armes and Duncan Dundas For king Richard there came Richard Bishop of S. Assaph Iohn Duke of Norfolke Henry Erle of Northumberlande Thomas Lord Stanley George Stanley Lord Straunge Iohn Gray Lord Powes Richarde Lord Fitzhugh Iohn Gunthorpe keeper of the Kings priuie seale Thomas Barrow master of the Rolles sir Thomas Bryan chiefe iustice of y e common place Sir Richarde Ratclife Knighte William Catesby Richard Salkeld Esquires These counsellers in the latter end of September after sundry meetings and communications had togither concluded as followeth a peace to bee had betwixt both the Realmes for y e space of three yeres â—…â—…eaâ—…e conâ—â—d for â—…re yeeres the same to begin at the rising of the sunne on the .29 of September in the yeere .1484 and to continue vnto the setting of the sunne on the .29 of September in the yeere .1487 during whyche tearme it was agreed that not onely all hostilitie and warre shuld ceasse betwixt y e two Realmes but that also al ayde and abaitement of enimies should be auoided and by no colorable meanes or way in any case vsed The towne and Castell of Barwike to remayne in the Englishmens haÌ„ds for the space of the sayde tearme with the same boundes as the Englishmen possessed it at that season when it was deliuered to the ScottishmeÌ„ by king Henry the sixt It was likewise condiscended that all other Castels holdes and fortresses during the tearme of the sayde three yeeres should abide in the hands of those that held them at that present the Castell of DuÌ„bar only excepted The Castell of Dunbar in the Englishmens hands â—…n article for the Castell of Dunbar This Castell of Dunbar was deliuered vnto the Englishmen by the Duke of Albany when he fled into France and so remained in their haÌ„ds at that time of concluding this truce Herevppon by reason the Scottish commissioners had not authoritie to conclude any ful agreement for that Castell vnlesse the same might be restored vnto y e king their masters hands it was accorded that if the king of Scots within the space of .40 dayes next ensewing did intimate his resolute refusall to be agreeable that the sayd Castell shoulde remayne in the Englishmens hands aboue y e space of sixe moneths that then during that tearme of sixe moneths those that kepte the Castell for the Englishmen should remayne in quiet and not be troubled nor molested by any kind of meanes by the sayde King of Scottes or any other by hys procurement so that they within y e Castell likewise absteyned from making any issues or reisses vpon the Scottishe people And if after that the sayd tearme of sixe moneths were once expired it should chance that any warre arose for defending or recouering the sayd Castell yet the truce shuld endure for all other rightes and possessions notwithstaÌ„ding that it might be lawfull to do what lay in any of their powers eyther for winning or defending the foresaid Castel as though no truce had bene concluded It was further agreed An article for Traytors that no traytor of eyther Realme shoulde be receyued by y e Prince of y e other Realm and if any traytor or Rebell chanced to arriue in eyther Realme the Prince thereof to deliuer him vpoÌ„ demauÌ„d made An article for Scottishmen already being in England Scottes already abiding in England sworne to the king there may remain stil so their names be certified to y e Scottish King within .40 days An article for the Wardens of the marches If any Warden of eyther Realm shuld inuade y e others subiects he to whome such WardeÌ„ is subiect shal within sixe days proclaime him traytor certifie the other Prince thereof within .2 days A clause to be put in safeconducts An article for such as should serue eyther Princes in warre And in euery safeconduct this clause shoulde be conteyned Prouided alwayes that the 〈◊〉 nor of this safeconduct be no traytor If any of the subiects of eyther Prince do presume to aide 〈◊〉 mainteyne or serue any other Prince against any of the contractors of this truce then it shall be lawfull to him to whome hee shewed himselfe enimie to apprehende and attach the sayd subiect going comming or tarying within any of hys dominions Colleagues comprised in the truce Colleagues comprised in this truce if they woulde assente thereto on the Englishe part were these the king of Castell and Leon the king of Arragone y e king of Portingale y e Archduke of Austrich and Burgoine and the Duke of Britaine On the Scottishe parte Charles the French king Iohn King of Denmarke Norway the Duke of GelderlaÌ„d the Duke of Britayne Lorne and Lunday excepted The Lordship of Lorne in the Realme of Scotland and the Iland of Lunday lying in the riuer of Seuerne in the Realme of Englande were not comprehended in this agreement This concord peace and amitie thus concluded was appoynted to be published y e first day of October in the most notable cities and townes of both the Realmes For y e sure obseruation keeping performance of this truce and league there were appointed for conseruators on y e Scottish side Dauid Earle of Crawford Lord Lindsey George Erle of Huntley Lord Gordon and Badzenath Iohn Lord Darnlye Iohn Lord Kenedy Robert Lord Lâ—…e Patrick Lord Haleene Laurence Lord Oliphant William Lorde Borthwike sir Iohn Rosse of Halâ—…herâ—… sir Gilbert Iohnson of Elphyâ—…ston sir Iohn Lundy sir Iohn Ogâ—â—â—y of Arly sir Robert Hamilton of Fâ—…galton Sir WillaÌ„ BalÈe of Lamington sir Iohn Kenedy of Blarqbone sir Iohn Wenâ—…es sir W. Rochwen Edward Stochton of Kirke paty Iohn Dâ—â—as Iohn Rosse of Mountgrenan Esquires It was further agreed Commissioners appointed to meete at Loughmaâ—…an that Commissioners shoulde meete at Loughmaâ—…an the eyghteene day of Nouember aswell for redresse of certayne offences done on the West marches as also for declaring and publishing the peace On y e English part the Lord Dacres the Lord Fitzbugh sir Richard Ratcliffe sir Christopher Moreshye sir Richard Salkeild or three of theÌ„ For y e Scots
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
true it is that the Archbishop and the Earle Marshall were brought to Pomfret to the king who in this meane while was aduaunced thither wyth hys power and from thence he went to Yorke whyther the prisoners were also brought The Archbâ—… Yorke 〈◊〉 Marshal and other put to death and there beheaded the morrowe after Whitsunday in a place without the Citie that is to vnderstand the Archbishop himselfe the Earle Marshal sir Iohn Lampley and sir Robert Plompton The Archbishoppe tooke his death verie constantly insomuche as the common people tooke it hee dyed a Martyr The Archb. puted a 〈◊〉 affyrming that certaine myracles were wrought as wel in the field where he was executed as also in the place were hee was buryed and immediately vpon such bruytes both men and women beganne to worship hys dead carkasse whom they loued so much when he was aliue tyll they were forbydden by the Kinges friendes and for feare gaue ouer to visit the place of his sepulture The Earle Marshals bodie was buried in the Cathedrall Church but his head was set on a pol aloft on the walles for a certaine space till by the king permission it was taken downe and buried togither with the bodie After the king accordingly as seemed to him good had raunsomed and punished by grieuous sines the Citizens of Yorke which had borne armor on theyr Archbishops side agaynst hym he departed from York with an army of .xxxvij. M. fighting men furnished with all prouision necessarie marching Northwards agaynst the Earle of Northumberland At his comming to DurhaÌ„ the Lord Hastings the Lord Fauconbridge sir Iohn Colleuille of the Dale sir Iohn Grisâ—… The lordes executed being coÌ„uicted of y e coÌ„piracy were there beheded The Earle of Northumberland hearing that his counsail was bewrayed and his confederates brought to confusion The Erle of NorthuÌ„berlaÌ„d â—…eth through too much haste of the Archbishop of York with three hundred horse got him to Berwicke The king comming forwarde quickly wan the Castell of Warkworth Whervpon the Erle of Northumberlande not thinking himself in suretie at Berwicke fled with the Lord Berdolfe into Scotlande where they were receyued of Dauid Lord Fleming The king comming to Berwicke coÌ„maunded them that kept the Castell against him to render it into his handes and when they flatly denied so to doe he caused a peece of artillerie to be planted agaynst one of the Towres and at the first shot ouerthrowing part thereof they within were put in such feare â—…wick castel â—…dded to the â—…g that they simplie yeelded themselues without any maner of condition wholy to remaine at the kings pleasure Herevpon the chiefest of them to wit sir William Greystock sonne to Raufe Baron of Greystocke â—…e sonne of â—… Greyâ—… and oâ—… put to â—…h â—…ton sir Henrie Beynton and Iohn Blenkinsoppe with foure or fiue other were put to death and diuerse other were kept in prison Some write that the Earle of Northumberlande at his entring into Scotland deliuered the towne of Berwike vnto the Scots who hearing of king Henries approch dispairing to defende the town against him set fire on it and departed There was not one house that was left vnburnt except the Friers and the Church After that the king had disposed things in such conuenient order as stoode with his pleasure at Berwicke he came backe The Castel of Alnewicke yelded to the King and had the Castell of Alnewike deliuered vnto him with all other the Castels that belonged to the Earle of Northumberland in the north parts as Prodhow LaÌ„gley Cockermouth Alnham and Newsteed Thus hauing quieted the north parts The K. passeth into Wales he tooke his iourney directly into Wales where he found fortune nothing fauourable vnto him for all hys attemptes had euill successe He losseth his cariages insomuche that losing a fiftie of his cariages through aboundaunce of raine and waters he returned and comming to Worcester He returneth he sent for the Archbishop of Canterburie and other bishops declaring to them the misfortune that had chaunced to him in consideration whereof he requested theÌ„ to helpe him with some portion of mony towards the maintenance of his warres for the taming of the presumpteous and vnquiet Welchmen In the meane time Hall The Marshal MountmeraÌ„cy sent to ayd Owen GleÌ„douer the Frenche king had appointed one of the Marshals of Fraunce called Montmerancie the master of his Crosbowes with .xij. M. men to saile into Wales to ayd Owen Glendouer They tooke shipping at Brest and hauing the wind prosperous landed at Milford hauen with an Cxl ships as Tho. Wals hath though Engnerant de Monstrellet maketh mention but of 120. The most part of their horses were lost by the way for lack of fresh water The Lord Berkley and Henry Pay espying their aduantage burnt .xv. of those French ships as they lay at road there in the hauen of Milford shortly after the same L. Berkley and sir Thomas Swymborne with the sayde Henrie Pay tooke other .xiiij. shippes as they came that way with prouision of vitails and munition forth of France to the ayde of the other In the meane while the Marshall Montmerancie with his army besieged the towne of Carmarden Carmarden wonne by the French and wanne it by composition graunting to the men of warre that kept it against him lycence to depart whither they woulde and to take with them all their moueable goodes The Castell of Pembrooke they attempted not esteeming it to be so wel manned that he shuld but lose their labor in attempting it Notwithstanding they besieged the towne of Hereforde west Hereford west manfully defended Engeret Monstrellet sayth they brent the townes but coulde not win the Castel which neuerthelesse was so well defended by the Earle of Arundel and his power that they lost more than they wan so they departed towards the towne of Denhigh where they founde Owen GleÌ„douer abiding for their comming with ten M. of hys Welchmen Here were the Frenchmen ioyfully receyued of the Welch rebelles and so when all things were prepared they passed by Glamorgan shire towards Worcester The suburbes of worcester burnt and there burnt y e suburbes but hearing of the kings approche they sodenly returned towards Wales The king with a great puissance followed and founde them embattailed on a high mountain where there was a great valley betwixt both y e armies so that either army might plainly perceiue the other and eyther host loked to be assayled of his aduersarie therefore sought to take the aduantage of ground Thus they continued for the space of eyght dayes from morning to night readie to abide but not to giue battaile There were manye skirmishes and diuerse proper feates of armes wrought that meane while French Lordes slaine in the which the Frenche lost many of theyr nobles and gentlemen as the lord Patroullars de Tries brother to the Marshall of Fraunce the Lorde
rising least they shuld be resisted they deuised that some should be murthered in churches some in their houses some in seruing the king in commission other as they might be caught and to picke quarels to theÌ„ by alteration of seruice on the holy dayes and thus was the platforme cast of theyr deuice according as afterwarde by their coÌ„fession at their examinations was testified and remayneth in true record Thus they being togither agreed Oindler and Dale and others by their secret appointment so laboured the matter in the parish of Semer Wintringham and the towns about that they were infected with the poyson of this confederacie in such sort that it was easie to vnderstande wherevnto they woulde encline if a Commotion were begonne the accomplishment whereof did shortly follow For although by the wordes of one drunken fellow of that conspiracy named Caluers at the Alehouse in Wintringham some suspition of that rebellion began to be smelles before by the Lord President and gentlemen of those parties so preuented in that place where the Rebels thought to beginne yet they gaue not ouer so but drewe to another place at Seâ—â—r by the Seawast and there by â—…ight 〈◊〉 to the Beacons at Staxton and set it on side and so gathering togither a rude route of rascals yet of the townes neare about being on a slur Oindler Thomas Dale Baxton and Robert Dale hasted forthwith with the Rebelles to master Whytes house to take him who notwithstanding being an horsebacke miâ—…ting to haue escaped their handes Dale Ombler and the rest of the Rebels tooke him and â—…lopton his wiues brother one Sauage a Marchaâ—…dâ—…f Yorke and one Berry serualint to sir Walter Mudmay Which foure without cause or quarell sauing to fulfill their seditious prophecie in foure part and to giue a terrour to other Gentlemen they cruelty murthered after they had 〈◊〉 them one mile from Samer towarde the Wolde and there after they had stripped them of their clothes and purses left them naked behind them in the plain fieldes for Crowes to feede on vntill Whites wife and Sauages wife then at Semer caused them to be buryed Long it were 〈…〉 tedious to recite what reuell these Rebels kept in their raging madnesse who rauaging about the Countrey from towne to towne to enlarge their vngracious and rebellious bande taking those with force which were not willing to go and leauing in no town where they came any man aboue the age of .xvj. yeares so encreased this number that in short time they had gathered three thousand to fauour their wicked attempts and had like to haue gathered more had not the Lordes goodnesse through prudent circumspection of some interrupted the course of theyr furious beginning For first came the kings gracious and free pardon discharging and pardoning them and the rest of the Rebelles of all treasons murthers felonies and other offences done to his Maiestie before the .xxj. of August Anno .1549 Whiche pardon althoughe Ombler contemptuously reading persysting stil in his wilfull obstinacie disswaded also the rest from the humble accepting of the kings so louing and liberall pardon yet notwithstanding wyth some it did good To make shorte it was not long after this but Ombler as hee was ryding from Towne to Towne twelue myles from Hummanbie to charge all the Conestables and Inhabitaunts where he came in the Kings name to resort to Hummanbie by the way hee was espyed and by the circumspect diligence of Iohn Worde the yonger Iames Aslabey Raufe Twinge and Thomas Conestable Gentlemen he was had in chase 〈◊〉 capâ—… of the 〈◊〉 taken and at last by them apprehended and brought in the nyght in sure custodie vnto the Citie of Yorke to answere to his demerits After whome within short time Thomas Dale â—…nes of rebels taâ—… execuâ—… Yorke Henrie Baxton the first Chieftaines and ringleaders of the former Commotion whiche Iohn Dale Robert Wright WilliaÌ„ Peacocke Weatherell and Edmonde Buttrie busie styrrers in this sedition as they trauayled from place to place to drawe people to theyr faction were lykewise apprehended committed toward lawfully conuicted and lastly executed at Yorke the xxj of September Anno. 1549. â—… Actis iudicij publici registro exceptis notatis Whilest these wicked commotions and tumults through the rage of the vndiscrete Commons were thus raysed in sundrie partes of the Realme to the great hynderaunce of the common wealth losse and daunger of euerye good and true subiect sundry wholsome and godly exhortations were published to aduertise them of their duetie and to lay before them theyr heynous offences with the sequele of the mischiefes that necessarily folowed therof the which if they shoulde consider togyther with the punishment that hanged ouer their heades they myght easily be brought to repent theyr lewde begonne enterprices and submit themselues to the kings mercie Among other of those admonitions one was penned and set forth by sir Iohn Cheeke whiche I haue thought good here to insert as a necessarie discourse for euerie good English subiect The hurt of sedition how grieuous it is to a common wealth set out by sir Iohn Checke Knight Anno. 1549. The true subiect to the Rebell AMong so many and notable benefits wherewith God hath alreadye liberally and plentifully endued vs there is nothing more beneficiall than that we haue by his grace kept vs quiet froÌ„ rebellion at this time For we see such miseries hang ouer the whole state of the common welth through the great misorder of your sedition that it maketh vs much to reioyce that we haue beene neither partners of your doings nor conspirers of your counsayles For euen as the Lacedemonians for the auoyding of drunkennesse did cause their sonnes to beholde their seruants when they were drunke that by beholding their beastlinesse they might auoyd the like vice euen so hath God like a mercifull father stayed vs from your wickednesse that by beholding the filth of your fault we might iustly for offence abhorre you like Rebels whom else by nature we loue like Englishmen And so for our selues we hau great cause to thanke God by whose religion and holy worde dayly taught vs we learne not only to feare him truly but also to obey our king faithfully and to serue in our owne vocation like subiects honestly And as for you wee haue surely iust cause to lament you as drethren and yet iuster cause to â—…yse against you as enimies and most iust cause to ouerthrow you as rebels For what hurt could bee done either to vs priuately or to the whole common wealth generally that is now with mischief so brought in by you that euen as we see now the flame of your rage so shall we necessarily be consumed hereafter with the miserie of the same Wherefore consider your selues with some â—…ight of vnderstanding and marke this grieuous and horrible fault which ye haue thus vilely committed how heynous it must needes appeare to you if ye will reasonably consider that whiche for my
Queenes Maiesties Commissioners afore mentioned maye bee accompted one of the most necessarie expeditions and most beneficiall seruices that had beene made and put in practise in many yeares before For the Queenes Maiestie as some haue truely written had not onely hir chiefe desire Churchyard by remoouing the French hir daungerous neighbours that were about to nestle themselues so neare hir elbowe but also a perfite peace with the Scottes was thereby procured lyke to continue many yeares if the sayd Scottes shall not seeke theyr owne woe beeing full vnable to aduauntage themselues by warres agaynst vs as to the wyser and beste sorte of them I trust is not vnknowne But to leaue the further consideration of the benefite that may growe hereof to this Realme vnto theyr iudgements that haue ryper heades to vnderst and the same I will proceede herewyth make an ende of this matter concerning the siege of Lieth After that the Frenchmen were departed and the Fortes about Lieth and Dunbarre razed and demolished according to the couenants of peace the Queenes Maiestie called backe hir armie without reteyning any peece within Scotlande to hir owne vse In whiche honourable and vpright dealing she wanne more fame and estimation than if shee had seysed and kept in hir possession halfe the realme of Scotland The Queenes Maiestie by the aduice of hir most honourable Counsaile meaning to abolish all corrupt base and copper moneys then currant in this realme of Englande coyned in the tymes and reignes of King Henrie the eight and King Edwarde the sixt to the great hynderaunce and decay of the common wealth of this Realme and therewith to restore vnto all hir subiectes fine and pure Sterling moneys both of Golde and Siluer to the great honour and benefite of the whole Realme Stow. published a Proclamation on Michaelmasse Euen before Noone that the Teston coyned for twelue pens and in the reigne of King Edwarde embased by Proclamation to sixe pens shoulde nowe foorthwith that of the best sort marked wyth the Portculeis be currant for foure pens halfepenie the second marked with the Greyhound for two pens farthing the third and worst sort not marked as afore not to be currant at all nor receyued for any value The grote to be currant for two pens the former peece of two pens for a pennie c. It was not long after this An. reg 3. but that hir grace restoring to hir subiects fine sterling money called all the sayde base and corrupt coyne into hir Maiesties Mynt allowyng to them therfore after the rate before mentioned so much of the sayd fine moneys as they brought in of the sayde base moneys About the same tyme 1591 Additions to Lanquet hir grace also fynding this Realme greatlye vnfurnished of Armour Munitions and Powder for the defence thereof in tyme of necessitie did so largely and plentifully prepare and cause to bee brought into the same such sufficient furniture of armour and weapons as Englande hath iust cause to prayse and giue thankes to God and hir Maiestie for that it is certaine that the realme was neuer so amply stored nor prouided of all maner of kindes of conuenient armor and weapons as it is at this present The .xxj. of Marche a notable Grammer schoole was founded by the maister wardens The Merchan◅ Taylors f◅ee Schoole and assystents of the right worshipfull companie of the marchant Taylors of London in the Parish of S. Laurēce Pountney in the same citie the right worshipfull Emanuell Lucar Robert Rose William Merick Iohn Sparke and Robert Duckington then beeing maister and wardens of that companie 1461 William Gef◅y whipped The tenth of Aprill was one William Geffrey whipped from the Marshalfey in Southwarke to Bedlem without Bishops gate of London for that hee professed one Iohn Moore to be Christ our sauior on his heade was set a Paper wherein was written as foloweth William Geffrey a most blasphemous heretike denying Christ our sauiour in heauen The sayd Geffrey being stayed at Bedlem gate ◅ to Christ ◅pped Iohn Moore was brought forth before whom Williā Geffrey was whipped till he confessed Christ to be in heauen Then the sayde Iohn Moore being examined answering ouerthwartly was commaunded to put off his coate dudlet and shyrt which he seemed to do very willingly and after being tyed to the Cart was whipped an Arrowes shot from Bedlem where at the last he also cōfessed Christ to be in heauen and himselfe to be a sinfull man then was Iohn Moore sent again into Bedlem and William Geffrey to the Marshalsey where they had layne prisoners nigh a yeare and a halfe the one for professing himselfe to be Christ the other a disciple of the same Christ ◅les steeple ◅ fire On Wednesday the fourth of Iune betwene foure and fiue of the clocke in the after noone the steeple of Pauls in Lōdon being fiered by lightning brast forth as it seemed to the beholders two or three yardes beneath the foot of the crosse and from thence burnt downe the sphere to the none worke and belles so terribly that within the space of four houres the same steeple with the roofes of the Church so much as was tymber or otherwise combustible were consumed whiche was a lamentable sight and pitifull remembrance to the beholders therof After this mischaunce the Queenes Maiesty being much grieued for the losse of so beautifull a monument directed hir highnesse letters to the Maior of the Citie of London wylling him to assemble the Citizens to take some order for speciall ayd and help for the repayring again of the sayd monument and theof hir most gracious disposition to giue a comfort vnto other for the furtherance thereof did presently giue deliuer in golde one M. markes and a warrant for M. load of tymber to be taken out of hir maiesties woods or elswhere and the citizens of Lōdon granted one beneuolence and three fiftenes to be forthwith payed and the Clergie of Englande vnder the Prouince of Canterburie granted to giue the .xl. part of the value of their benefices beeing charged with first fruites and not beeing charged with firste fruites to paye the thirtith part And the Clergie of the diocesse of London graunted to giue the .xxx. part of their benefices being in first fruites and the .xx. part being out of first fruites And immediately by the commandement of the Queenes highnesse hir priuie counsaile tooke order that six Citizens of London and two of the Clergie of the church of Paules had charge and commaundement to ouersee and set forwarde this worke who made suche expedition that within one moneth next following the burning thereof the whole Church that is to say all the foure great rouses of the same were couered with bourdes and leade after the maner of a false roufe And the greatnesse of the worke dispatched in so short tyme coulde fearcely bee credited of any but of such as saw and knewe the same And the cause
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
and in the ende they concluded vpon the same which were registred in eight articles Fyrst Mariages that they shoulde not contract any vnlawfull mariages with their cousins or neare allyes but in the same obserue the rules of the Canons Infantes baptised Secondly that their Infants should be Catechised at the church doores by the priests after baptized in the Fontes of their Churches Thirdely Tythes to be payed that all those that tooke themselues for Christian men shoulde duelye pay their Tythes of corne and Catell and other increasing things Fourthly that the landes and possessions belonging to the Church Liberties of the Church shoulde be enfranchised of all secular exactions and specially that neyther the Kinges nor Erles nor anye other Lordes of Irelande nor theyr sonnes with theyr familyes shoulde demaunde nor presume to exact violently from thence forth any meate or drinke or harborrow within the Church possessions as they had beene vsed and that the dyet which had beene exacted foure tymes in the yeare of Churche mennes fermes should not any more be demaunded nor answered Murthers Fiftly that for murthers committed when the offender compouÌ„ded with the kinsmen of the partie dead Churchmen that were cousins to the offender should not be forced to beare any part of the fine except they were accessaries to the offence Sixtly Testaments how they shoulde be made that the sicke should cause his testameÌ„t to bee made and read in presence of credible persons and if they had wyues theyr debts and seruantes wages deducted the residue of theyr goods should be deuided into three parts whereof y e wife was to haue one the children another and the thirde to be employed about his funerals and otherwise as he should appoynt If he had no lawfull issue then his goodes to bee deuided betwixt him and his wife and if he had children and hys wife deceassed then the same to bee deuided betwixt him and his children Funerals Seuenthly that the funerals of the dead be deuoutly and solemnly kept and executed Vniformitie in Church seruice with the English church Eightly for as much as it had pleased God to deliuer them vniuersally into the gouernment of the Englishe Nation it was decreed that in all poyntes rytes and ceremonies they should agree in forme with the Church of England Thus where in many things before the king of Englands comming into Irelande many inordinate and heynous customes were crept into the gouernment as well ecclesiasticall as ciuil by his good diligence and politike meanes the same were in part reformed so that what good orders either for maintenance of peace or increace of religion remayned afterwardes among them was to bee ascribed to him The Articles before rehearsed were established and confyrmed with consent of all the Synode Galas Primate of Ardmagh Galas the Primate of Ardmagh was not there by reason of infirmitie and great age but yet he came afterwardes to the King at Dublyn and gaue his consent in all things fauoring the kings order and disposition herein He dyed two yeares after so aged a man that his onely sustenaunce was the mylke of a white Cowe A tempestuous winter which he tooke with him whither soeuer he trauayled The winter was so tempestuous that vneth any ship durst venter to passe either to or fro betwixt Englande and Irelande so that aduertisements were verye geason both with the king in Irelande and with his counsell at home here in Englande not hearing but very seldom they froÌ„ him or he froÌ„ them Thus whilest he lay for the most part of y e winter season in Waterford longing dayly to here forth of EnglaÌ„d he practised to procure certain knights that serued vnder the Erle of Pembrook as Reymond Miles Cogan WilliaÌ„ Maskarel others being meÌ„ of right approued valiancie experience in warlike exploytes to forsake the Erles seruice to serue him taking it to be no smal policie so 〈◊〉 make his part the stroÌ„ger the Erles the weaker for he had the Erle stil in a iealousie mistrusted least his puissance might in time breed danger to his estate After midlent ships arriued there both forth of England and Aâ—â—â—taine by who it was signified that there were come into Normandie two Cardinals froÌ„ Pope Alexander the third Cardinals sent to the king menacing to put the K. his whole dominions vnder the sentence of interditing if he came not the sooner to meete them to excuse himself of things they had to charge him with touching 〈…〉 of the Archbishop Thomas 〈◊〉 herevnto another mischief appeared for it was informed him y t hys sonne Henry whoÌ„ his father had for good purpose crowned king was through euil aduice so misled â–ª that he ment to thrust himself into the actuall possession of the â—…eason in his fathers lifetime These newes sore troubled the king bycause he must nedes returne home leaue Irelande for that time where he ment to haue remayned til in that sommer following he might aswell with building castels fortresses haue made himself strong as also established the cuntry in perfect peace whiche be much desired But sith there was no helpe but y e vrgent occasioÌ„ of businesse as ye haue heard called him thence he took order for the safe keeping of the cuntry in his absence appoynted captaines with coÌ„petent numbers of men of warre to lie in garison within sundrie townes where he thought necessarie Hugh Lacie In Dublin he left Hugh Lacy to whoÌ„ he had giuen the cuntry of Meth to hold of him in fee with him .xx. knights Robert Fitz StephaÌ„ and Maurice Fitz Gerald with .xx. other knights were also appoynted to the gard of the same citie Humfrey de Bohun Robert Fitzbernard Hugh de Gundeuile with .xl. knights were left in Waterford WilliaÌ„ Fitz Aldelme Philip de Hastings Philip de Brewse w t .xx. knights had the charge of Wexford coÌ„mitted to them The king returneth forth of Irelande The king hauing thus prouided for the safe keeping of these townes other places leauing order for the gouernmeÌ„t of the cuntry in the best wise he might he toke the sea at Wexford on Easter Monday in the morning with prosperous wind and weather passed the seas landed in Southwales in an haueÌ„ there not past .xij. miles distaÌ„t froÌ„ Hauerford west so hasted forward not staying much till he got ouer into Normandy where he met the Cardinals at Constance as in the English hystorie you may read more at large After that the king was thus departed forth of Ireland Ororick king of Meth. Ororick king of Meth surnamed Monoculus that is with the one eye made suite to come to a Parley with Hugh de Lacie but Ororick had deuysed to murther the sayde Lacie and had brought hys purpose to passe Maurice Fitz Geralde if a Knight that was Nephewe to Maurice Fitz Geralde named Griffyne
Iustice might haue possessed the Iles if they had bene worth the keeping into the which Iles except the sayd Darcy the Earle of Sussex late Lieutenant of Irelande no gouernor at any time yet aduentured At Darcyes comming backe into Irelande and exercising the office of Lorde Iustice he deliuered Walter Birmingham out of the Castell of Dublin Howe a Realme of warre might bee gouerned by one both vnskilfull and vnable in all warlike seruice Articles or questions How an officer vnder the king that entred very poore might in one yeare grow to more excessiue wealth than men of great patrimonie and liuelode in many yeares Howe it chaunced that sithe they were all called Lordes of theyr owne that the soueraigne Lord of them all was not a pennie the rycher for them The chiefe of them that thus seemed to repine with the present gouernment was Thomas Fitz Maurice Erle of Desmonde through whose maintenance and bearing out of the matter the Countrey was in great trouble so as it had not lightly beene seene that suche contrarietie in myndes and dislyking had appeared amongest those of the English race in that realme at any time before Herewith Raufe Vffort was sent ouer Lord Iustice who bringing hys wyfe wyth him 1343 Raufe Vffort Lord iustice the Countesse of Vlster arryued about the .xiij. of Iulie Thys man was verye rygorous and through perswasion as was sayde of his wyfe he was more extreeme and couetous than otherwyse hee woulde haue beene a matter not to bee forgotten The Countesse of Vlster for if thys Ladie had beene as readie to moue hir husbande to haue shewed hymselfe gentle and mylde in his gouernment as she was bent to pricke him forwarde vnto sharpe dealing and rygorous proceedings shee had beene nowe aswell reported of as shee is infamed by theyr pennes that haue regystred the doyngs of those tymes And whilest hee yet remayned in Mounster he deuised wayes how to haue the Earle of Desmonde apprehended whiche being brought to passe hee afterwarde deliuered him vpon mainprise of these sureties whose names ensue Sureties for the Earle of Desmonde William de Burgh Earle of Vlster Iames Butler Earle of Ormonde Rycharde Tuyt Nicholas Verdon Maurice Rochefort Eustace le Power Geralde de Rochefort Iohn Fitz Robert Power Robert Barry Maurice Fitz Girald Iohn Wellesley Walter le Fant Richard Rokelley Henrie Traherne Roger Power Iohn Lenfaunt Roger Power Mathew Fitz Henrie Richarde Walleys Edmonde Burgh sonne to the Earle of Vlster knightes Dauid Barry William Fitz Gerald Foulke de Fraxinus Robert Fitz Maurice Henry Fitz Berkley Iohn Fitz George de Roche Thomas de Lees de Burgh These as ye haue heard were bounde for the Earle and bycause hee made default the Lorde Iustice verily tooke the aduauntage of the bonde agaynst the mainpernours foure of them onely excepted the two Earles and two knightes Vffort euill spoken of The lord Iustice is charged with strayte dealing by wryters in this behalfe for that the same persons had assisted him in his warres agaynste Desmond but truly if we shal consider the matter with indifferencie he did no more than law reason required For if euery surety vpō forfeyture of his bonde shoulde be forborne that otherwyse doth his duetie what care woulde men haue eyther to procure sureties or to become suretyes themselues But such is the affection of wryters specicially when they haue conceyued any mislyking towardes those of whome they take occasion to speake so as many a worthie man hath bene defamed and with slaunder greatly defaced in things wherein he rather hath deserued singular commendation But howsoeuer this matter was handled touching the Earle of Desmonde Ioy conceyued for the death of the lord Iustice Vffort vpon the death of the Lord Iustice whiche ensued the nexte yeare Bonfyres were made and greate ioye shewed through all the Realme of Irelande His Ladie verily as shoulde appeare was but a miserable woman procuring him to extortion and bryberie Much he abridged the prerogatiues of the Churche and was so hated that euen in the sight of the Countrey he was robbed without rescue by Mac Cartie notwithstanding he gathered power and dispersed those Rebels of Vlster Robert Darcy was ordeyned Iustice by the Counsell 1346 Robert Darcie Lord iustice till the kings letters came to sir Iohn Fitz Morice who released Fitz Thomas Earle of Kildare left in durance by Vfford at his death Iohn Fitz Morice Iustice Fitz Morice continued not long but was discharged and the Lorde Walter Birmingham elect to succeede in that rowmth Lord Birmingham Iustice who procured a safeconduct for Desmonde to pleade his cause before the King by whome he was liberally entreated and allowed towarde his expences there twentie shillings a day at the Princes charge in consideration of whiche curtesie shewed to hys Kinnesman the Earle of Kildare accompanied with dyuerse Lordes Knightes and chosen Horsemen serued the King at Calyce a towne thought impregnable and returned after the winning thereof in greate pompe and ioylitie 1347 ◅ecord Tur. Wee finde that Thomas Lorde Berkeley and Reignalde Lord C◅bham and Sir Morice Berckley became main◅ernours for the sayde Earle of Desmonde that hee shoulde come into England and abide such tryall as the law would awarde 1348 The Prior of Kilmaynam Baron Carew Iustice Sir Thomas Rokesby Iustice Record Tur. Iohn Archer Prior of Kylmaynam was substituted Lieutenaunt to the Lorde Iustice To whome succeeded Baron Carew and after Carewe followed Sir Thomas Rokesbye Knight vnto whome was assigned aboue his ordinarie retinew of twentie men of armes a supplie of tenne men of armes and twentie Archers on Horsebacke so long as it should bee thought needfull Greate mortalitie chaunced this yeare as in other partes of the worlde so especially in places aboute the Sea coastes of Englande and Irelande 1349 In the yeare following departed this life Alexander Bignor Archbishop of Dublin Iohn de Saint Paule Archbishop of Dublin And the same yeare was Iohn de Saint Paule consecrated Archbishop of that sea This yeare deceased Kemwryke Shereman sometime Maior of Dublin 1350 Kenwrike Shereman a great benefactor to euery Churche and religious house within .xx. myles rounde aboute the Citie His legacies to the poore and other besides his liberalitie shewed in his lyfe tyme amounted to three thousande Markes Sir Robert Sauage In this season dwelled in Vlster a wealthie knight one sir Robert Sauage who the rather to preserue his owne began to wall and fortifie his Manor houses with Castelles and pyles against the Irish enimie exhorting his heyre Henrie Sauage to applie that worke so beneficiall for himselfe and his posteritie Father quoth yong Sauage I remember the prouerbe Better a Castell of bones than of stones where strēgth courage of valiant men are prest to helpe vs neuer will I by the grace of God comber my selfe with dead walles My fort shall bee where soeuer yong blouds be
Canterbury and banished Anselme so that he stayed at Lyons in France for the space of one yere and foure monethes during whiche terme there went many letters and messages to and fro specially the Pope wrote to kyng Henry very courteous letters exhorting him to call Anselme home againe and to release his clayme to the inuestures of bishops The Pope vvriteth curteously to the king Wherevnto he coulde haue no right sith it appertained not to the office of any temporal magistrate adding furthermore if the kyng woulde giue ouer that vngodly and vsurped custome that he wold shewe suche friendly fauour in all thinges as by the sufferance of God in any wyse he mighte be able to performe and further would receyue not onely him but also his young sonne William whiche lately it had pleased God to sende him by his vertuous wyfe Quene Maude into hys protection so that who so euer hurte eyther of them should be thought to hurt the holy churche of Rome In one of the Epistles also whiche the sayde Pope writeth vnto Anselme after that the king was contented to renounce the inuestures aforesaid he willeth Anselme according to y e promise whyche hee had made to assayle as well from sinne as from penaunce due for the same bothe the King and also hys wyfe Queene Maude with all suche persons of honour as in his behalf had trauayled with the kyng to induce hym to be agreeable to his purpose 1104. The Earle of Mellent Moreouer the Earle of Mellent and Rycharde de Riuers the whiche had counselles the kyng to sticke in it at the firste and not to gyue ouer his title to suche inuestures An. regn 5. fith his â—â—ncesters had vsed the so long a time before his dayâ—… by reason whereof in renouncing his ryghte to the same he shoulde doe a thing greately preiudiciall to his royall estate and Princely Maiestie were nowe earneste trauaylers to agree the kyng and the Pope The king persuaded to renounce his title to the inuesture of prelats Eadmâ—…rus and so in the ende the kyng was perswaded by Anselme and them to giue ouer his holde whyche hee performed resignyng the inuestures with staffe and ring notwithstanding that hee still reserued the right of ElectioÌ„s and suche other royalties as otherwyse appertained to hys Maiestie so that suche Bishoppes as had done homage to the kyng were not disabled thereby but quietly permitted to receyue theyr iurisdictions Duke Robert commeth into Englande to visite his brother About this tyme also Roberte Duke of Normandie came into Englande to see his brother and through the sugred wordes and sweete entertaynmeÌ„t shewed to him by the king he released the yerely tribute of .3000 marks whiche he shuld haue had out of the realme by the agrement as before ye haue hearde but â—…hirâ—…ly in deede at the request of the Queene being instructed by hir husbande howe she shoulde vse the matter wyth him that was knowne to be free liberall without any greate consideration what he presentlye graunted After he hadde bene here a certaine tyme and sported him with his brother and sister hee returned into Normandie and shortely after begunne to repente him of his follye in being so liberall as to releasse the foresayde tribute And here vpon also he menaced the king and openly in his reproch sayd that he was craftily circumuented by him and in the ende â—â—atly beguyled There were diuers in Normandie that desired nothing more earnestly than to sette the two brethren at square namely Roberte de Belâ—â—me erle of Shrewsbury VV. Malm. Factious persons practise to set the tvvo brethren at variance and William erle of Morâ—…aigne these two wer banished 〈…〉 Englande â–ª the one that is to say the erle of Shrewsbury by the kings comaundement for his rebellous attempts as before ye haue hearde and the other that is to wit the earle of Mortaigne The erle of Mortaigne left the land of his owne wilful and stubborn minde 〈◊〉 himself only for the hatred which he 〈◊〉 vnto the king â–ª for being not contented with the Earledome of Mortaigne in Normandie and the erledome of Cornwall in England he made suite also for the Earledome of Rent whiche his vncle Odo sometyme helde and bicause he was not only denyed of that his 〈◊〉 but also by order of lawe had certaine parcels of lande taken from him which he wrongfully deceyued he got him into Normandie and there made war both against those places which the king held 〈…〉 and also against other Richard earle of Chester which belonged to Richard erle of Chester who was then vnder gouernment of the king by reason of his minoritie The threatnyng woordes of Duke Roberte commyng at the last to King Henries eares by such as coulde sette them foorth in woorâ—…er sorte than peraduenture they were spoken caused hym foorthwith to conceyue righte high displeasure againste the Duke A povver of men sent into Normandie â–ª in so muche that he sent ouer a power into Normandie whiche fynding no greate resistance did muche hurte in the countrey by fetchyng and carying spoyles and prayes Agayne the Normans rather fauoured than fought to hinder the enterprise of king Henry bicause they sawe howe duke Robert with his foolishe prodigalitie and vndiscreete liberalitie had made away al that belonged to his estate so that of the whole duchie of Normandie hee had not any citie or towne of name left in his owne possession Roan only excepted which he also would haue departed with Gemeticensis if the Citezens would haue consented to any suche alienation King Henry therfore beâ—…ing of the good successe of his men 1105. The K. passeth ouer into Normandie Anno reg 6. St. Dunelm Gemeticensis Polidor passed ouer hymself soone after with a mightie armie 〈◊〉 tooke with small trauaile Eâ—…reur or as other haue Baicus and Cane which cities when he had furnished with sufficient garnisons of men he repassed the sea again into Englande â–ª bycause the wynter began to approche and the wether waxed troublesom for such as lay in the fielde Herevpon duke Robert considering with himself how vnable he was by reason that his people fayled him at nede to resist king Henrie sith the Brytaines also and they of Aniow tooke parte with the sayd king he thoughte good to lay armour aside and to passe ouer into Englande to entreate with him by way of brotherly frendship in full hope by that meanes to auoid this present daunger 1106. which he did But at his arriuall here â–ª he learned howe the king his brother as then was at Northampton An. reg 7. wherfore he hasted thyther and comming to him he made earnest 〈◊〉 for peace beseeching the king in respecte of brotherly loue to graunt the same or if it were that he regarded not the good will of his naturall brother he required him to consider at the leaste wise what appertayned to his accustomed
determined that the elect of Yorke shoulde eyther acknowledge his subiection to the Churche of Canterbury or else forgoe his dignitie of Archbishop and so in the end he came to London where vpon the .xxviij. day of Maye hee was consecrated by Richarde the Bishop of London as Deane to the sea of Canterburye and there hauyng the profession whiche he oughte to make his subiection to the sea of Canterbury deliuered to him vnder seale he brake vp the same and read the wrttyng in forme as followeth Ego Thomas Eboracensis ecclesiae consecrandus Metropolitanus profiteor subiectionem canonicam obedientiam sanctae Dâ—…robernensi ecclesia eiusdem Ecclesiae primati canonice electo consecrâ—â—o successoribus suis canonice inchronizatis salua fidelitate Domini mei Henrici regis Anglorum saluae obedientia ex parte mea teneÌ„da The tenour of the profession vvhiche the Archb. of York made vnto the Archbishop of Canterbury quaÌ„ Thomas antecessor meus sanctae Romanae ecclesiae ex partâ—… sua professus est The English wherof is thus I Thomas to be consecrated Metropolitane Archbyshop of Yorke professe my subiection and canonicall obedience vnto the holy Church of Canterburye and to the primate of the same churche canonically elected and consecrated and to hys successoures Canonically inthronizate sauyng the faythe which I owe vnto my soueraine lord K. Henry inthronizated sauing the obedience to be holden of my parte which Thomas my antecessour professed on his behalfe vnto the holy churche of Rome When this writing was thus redde the Bishoppe of London tooke it and deliuered it vnto the Prior of Canterbury appoynting him to keepe the same as a witnesse and recorde of the thing in tyme to come Thus was Thomas the Archebishoppe of Yorke consecrated the .xxvij. in number that had gouerned that See 1110. and when he was thus consecrate the Popes Legate went vnto York and there delyuered to the same Archebishoppe the Palle and so hauyng inuested hym therewith he departed and retourned towards Rome as he was appointed At the feast of Christmasse next ensuing the king helde his courte at London with greate solemnitie The Archbishop of Yorke prepared to haue sette the crowne on the kings head and to haue song the Masse afore hym bycause the Archebishoppes sea of Canterburye was voyde But the Bishop of London woulde not suffer it claymyng as hyghe Deane to the sea of Canterburye to execute that office and so did Strife betvvixt Bishops leading the kyng to the Churche after the maner but when they should come to sitte downe at diner there rose eftsoones a stryfe betwixte the sayde two Bishops aboute their places bycause the Bishoppe of London for that hee hadde bene ordeyned long before the Archebishoppe and therefore not onely as Deane to the Sea of Canterburye but also by reason of prioritie pretended to haue the vpper seate But the King perceyuing theyr maner woulde not heare them but commaunded them out of his house and to gette them to dynner at their Innes An. reg 11. Aboute the same tyme the cause of the maryage of Priestes and their keeping of Women come againe into question so that by the kings commaundement they were more straightly forbidden the companye of women than before in Anselmes tyme. For after hys deceasse dyuers of them as it were promising to themselues a newe libertie to doe that whiche in his lyfe time they were constrayned sore against their willes to forbeare deceiued themselues by their hastie dealing For the King being enfourmed therof by the forâ—â— of the Ecclesiastical lawes compelled them to stande to and to obeye the decree of the Counsell holden at London by Anselme as before ye haue hearde at the leaste wyse in the sight of men But if so it be sayeth Eadmerus that the Priests attempt to do worse as it were to the condemnation and reproofe of Anselmes dooings lette the charge lighte on theyr heades sithe euery manne shall beare his owne burthen for I knowe sayth he that if fornicatours and adulterers God shall iudge the abusers of their owne cousyns I will not say their owne sisters daughters shal not surely escape his iudgement Aboute the same tyme many wonders were seene and hearde of The riuer of Trent neare to Notingham for the space of a myle ceassed to runne the wonted course duryng the tyme of foure and twentie houres so that the chanelle beyng dryed vp menne might passe ouer too and fro on foote drye shodde Also a sowe brought foorth a Pigge wyth a a face lyke to a man And a chicken was hatched with foure feete Moreouer a Comete or blasing starre appeared after a straunge sorte VVi. Thorne Mat. VVest for rysing in the east when it once came alofte in the firmamente it kepte not the course forwarde but seemed to goe backewarde as if it hadde bin retrograde Iohn Stow Robert the kings base son created earle of Gloucester Aboute this season the kyng maryed his base sonne Robert vnto the Ladie Maude daughter and heire vnto Robert Fitz Ham and withall hee made his sayde sonne Earle of Gloucester who afterwards buylded the castels of Bristow and Cardiffe and the Priorie of S. Iames in Bristowe where his bodie was buryed 1111. An. reg 12. In the yeare followyng the Earle of Aniou named Foulke enuying the prosperous estate of kyng Henrye Polidore The citie of Constances taken and lamentyng the case of Duke Robert wanne the Citie of Constances by corrupting certain of y e kings subiects inhabiters of the same Citie The king passeth into Normandie Wherof King Henrye being aduertised passed ouer into Normandie recouered the sayd Citie punished the offendours and reuenging hymself of the Earle returned into Englande After this rested there an other warre to be finished 1112. whyche brake off the kinges studye from heapyng vppe of money in his coffers whervnto he was moste inordinately giuen An. reg 13. and wherby hee pinched many so sore that they ceassed not to speake the worste of his doings and namely he was euyll spoken of bycause hee kepte still the Archebishoppes sea of Canterburye in his handes The Archebishops sea of Canterbury in the kings hand and woulde not bestowe it of any man for that he found a sweâ—…enesse in receiuing all the profites and reuenues whiche belonged thervnto during the tyme that it remayned vacant whiche was the space of foure yeares or thereaboutes 1113 An. reg 14. In like manner when he was admonished to place some meete man in the roome he woulde say that he was willing to bestow it but he tooke the longer tyme for that he ment to find some such one to preferre therto as shuld not he too far behind Lanfrank Anselm in doctrine vertue wisdome And sith there was none suche yet to be found he suffred that sea to be voide till such coulde be prouined The kings excuse This excuse he
Aques whiche the vicount of Aques and the Earle of Bigoâ—…re hadde fortified against him but he wan it within tenne dayes after his comming before it â—…n Reg. 23. â—â—lidor â—â—ffrey the â—â—ngs base â—â—ne made â—â—â—hop of â—â—â—colne Moreouer Kyng Henry to auoyde further slaunder placed for Byshoppe in that see of Lincolne a Bastard sonne which he had named Geffrey after hee had kept that Bishopricke in hys hands so long till he had almost cleerely destroyed it And his sonne that was nowe made Bishoppe to help the matter for his parte made hauocke in wasting and spending foorthe in riotous manner the goodes of that Churche and in the end forsooke hys myter and left the See agayne in the Kyngs hands to make his best of it Furthermore the King in times past made a vowe to builde a new Monasterie in satisfactioÌ„ of his offences committed against Thomas the Archbishop of Canterbury and nowe therefore hee required of the Bishoppes and other spirituall fathers to haue some place by them assigned where he might begin that foundation But whilest they shoulde haue taken aduice heerein hee secretely practised with the Cardinals and with diuers other Bishops that hee mighte remoue the secular Canons out of the Colledge at Waltham and place therein regular Canons so to saue money in his cofers plantyng in another mans vineyard But yet bycause it should not be thought he did this of suche a couetous meaning hee promised to giue great possessions to that house whiche hee after but slenderly performed though vppon licence obteyned at the Bishoppes handes he displaced the Canons Priests displaced and Chanons regular put in theyr roomthes and broughte in to their roumthes the Chanons as it were by way of exchange Also the same yeare hee thrust the Nunnes of Amesbury out of their house Rog. Houed Nunnes of Amesburie bycause of their incontinente liuing in abusing theyr bodyes greatly to theyr reproche and bestowed them in other Monasteries to bee kepte within more straightly And theyr house was committed vnto the Abbesse and couent of Founteuererd the whyche sent ouer certayne of their number to furnishe the house of Amesbury wherein they were placed by the Archbyshoppe of Caunterbury in the presence of the King and a greate number of others About the same time Mat. Paâ—â—â— Polidor came Ambassadors vnto King Henry from Alfonse King of Castile and Garsias King of Nauarre to aduertise him that in a coÌ„trouersie risen betwixt the said two Kings touching the possession of certaine groundes neere vnto the confines of their Realmes they had chosen him for Iudge by compromise promising vppon their othes to stande vnto and abide his order and decree therein Therefore they required hym to end the matter by his authoritieâ—… sith they had wholly put it to his iudgement Rog. Houed Furthermore eyther King hadde sente a most able and valiaunt Knighte furnished with horse and armoure ready in their Princes cause to fight the combate if K. Henry should happily committe the triall of their quarrell vnto the iudgement of battayle King Henry gladly accepted their request so y t therevppon calling his counsellours togither hee aduised with them of the thing â–ª â—…olidor and hearing euery mans opinion at length hee gaue iudgemente so with the one that the other was contented to bee agreeable therevnto Within a while after Philip Earle of Flaunders came ouer into England to doe his deuotioÌ„s at the Tombe of Thomas Archbishop of Caunterbury of whome the most part of men then had conceyued an opinion of such holynesse that they reputed him for a Saint The King mette hym there and very friendly enterteyned him and bycause he was appoynted shortly after to goe ouer into the holy land to warre against Goddes enimies the King gaue him fiue hundred markes in reward and licenced William Mandeuile Earle of Essex to go in that iourney with other Lords Knightes and men of warre of sundry nations that were of his dominions The King then returning vnto London tooke order for the establishing of things touching the 〈◊〉 of the Realme and his owne estate Rog. Houedâ—… And first he appoynted the custodie of such Castels as were of most importance by their situation vnto the keeping of certaine worthy Captaynes To Sir William de Stuteuille hee assigned the custodie of Rockesburgh Castell to Sir Roger de Stuteuille the Castell of Edinburgh to Sir William Neuille the Castell of Norham to Sir Geffrey Neuill the Castell of Berwike and to the Archbishop of Yorke hee deliuered the Castell of Scarbarrough and Sir Roger Conyers hee made Captayne of the tower of Durham Durham Tower which he had taken from the Bishop bycause hee had shewed himself an vnstedfast man in the time of the ciuill warre and therefore to haue the kings fauoure againe hee gaue to hym two thousande markes with condition that his castels myghte stand and that his sonne Henry de Putcey alias Pudsey Henry de Pudsey might enioy one of the Kynges manor places called Wighton About the same time it rayned bloud in the I le of Wighte by the space of two dayes togither so that linen clothes that hoong on the hedges were couloured therewith which vnketh wonder caused the people as the manner is to suspect some euill of the sayd Iohns gouernement Moreouer to this Parliament holden at Oxenforde all the chiefe rulers and gouernoures of Southwales and Northwales repaired and became the King of Englands liege men Rog. Houed swearing fealtie to him against all men Heerevpon he gaue vnto Rice ap Griffin Prince of Southwales the lande of Merionith and to Dauid ap Owan hee gaue the lands of Ellesmare Also at the same time hee gaue and confirmed vnto Hugh Lacie as before is saide the lande of Meth in Ireland with the appurtenances for the seruice of an hundred knightes or men of armes to holde of him and of his sonne Iohn by a charter whyche he made therof and also he deuided there the landes and possessions of Irelande with the seruices to his subiectes as well of England as Irelande appoynting some to holde by seruice to fynde fortie knights or menne of armes and some thirtie and so foorth Vnto two Itish Lordes hee graunted the kyngdome of Corgh for the seruice of fortie knights and to other three Lordes hee gaue the kingdome of Limeryke for the seruice of the lyke number of knightes to bee holden of him and his sonne Iohn reseruyng to him selfe and to his heires the Citie of Lymerike with one Cantred To William Fitz Aldelme hys Sewer William Fitz Aldelme he gaue the Citie of Willeford with the appurtenaunces and seruices and to Roberte de Poer his Marshall Robert de Poer Hugh Lacy. he gaue the Citie of Waterforde and to Hugh Lacy hee committed the safe keping of the Citie of Dyuelyne And these persons to whome suche giftes and assignations were made receyued othes of fealtie to beare theyr allegiance
Henry his brother as a witnesse of this their atchieued victorie This Enstace was a Flemyng borne Eustace the Monke vvhat he vvas and sometyme a Monke but renouneyng his coole to receyue suche heritage as fell to hym by the death of his brethren deceassing wythoute issue hee became a notable Pyrate and hadde doone in his dayes muche mischiefe to the Englyshemenne and therefore was nowe rewarded accordyng to his demerites The spoyle and praye of the Frenche shippes was verye ryche A riche spoyle so that the Englishmen being loden wyth ryches and honour vpon their safe returne home were receyued with great ioye and gladnesse But Lewes after he vnderstoode of this mischaunce happened to his people that came to his ayde began not a little to dispayre of al other succour to come vnto hym at any time heereafter wherfore he enclined the sooner vnto peace so that at length he tooke suche offers of agreemente as were offred vnto him and receiued furthermore a summe of money for the release of suche hostages as he had in his handes ◅n accord be◅wixt K. Hen◅ and Levves together with the title of the kingdom of England and the possession of al such Castels holds as he held within the realm The French Chronicle to the which the chronicle of Dunstable and Mathewe Paris doe also agree affirmeth that he receyued .xv. M. markes The Englishe ◅hronicle say◅ a thou◅nd pound Moreouer the Popes Legate assoyled Lewes all those that had taken his part of the offence of disobedience shewed in attempting the warre agaynst the Popes commaundement Math. Paris After whiche Lewes with all his complices that had bin excommunicate sware vpon the holye Euangelist that they shuld stande to the iudgement of holy Churche and from thencefoorth be faythfull vnto the Pope and to the Churche of Rome Moreouer that he with his people should incontinently depart out of the realme and neuer vpon euil intent returne agayn And that so farre as in him lay he should procure his father King Philip to make restitution vnto king Henry of all the right which he had in the parties of beyond the sea that when he should be king of France he should resigne the same in quiet maner On the other part King Henry tooke his othe together with the Legate and the Erle of Pembroke gouernor of the realme that he shoulde restore vnto the Barons of his realme and to other his subiectes all their rightes and heritages with all the liberties before demaunded for the whiche the discorde was moued betwixte the late Kyng Iohn and his barons Moreouer all prysoners on both parties were released and sette at libertie without paying any ransom yea and those whiche had couenaunted to paye and vpon the same were set at libertie before the conclusion of thys peace were nowe discharged of all summes of money whiche then remained vnpayed Thus peace was concluded on the .xj. daye of September not farre from Stanes harde by the riuer of Thames where Lewes himself the Legate Guallo and diuers of the spiritualtie wyth the erle of Pembroke lord gouernor of the realm and others did meete and talke about this accord When all things were ordred and finished agreable to the articles and couenants of the peace so farre as the tyme present required the Lordes of the realme when Lewes should departe homewarde attended him to Douer in honorable wise as appertayned and there tooke leaue of him and so he departed out of the realme about the feast of Saint Michaell King Henry by this meane being put in full possession of the realme according to the prescript of that article conteined in those conditions of the peace lately specified pardoned all those that had ayded his aduersale Lowes during the warres except certain of the spiritualtie whiche were put to suche fynes that they were compelled to laye all that they had to pledge The p◅ are fyne to leuie suche summes of money as they might with the same obteyne the kings fauoure againe and beside that to sue to Rome for their entier absolution at the Popes owne handes Amongest other Hugh Bishop of Lincolne returning into England was compelled to paye a thousande markes to the Popes vse for recouerie of his Bishoprike and an hundred markes also to the Legate of good and lawfull money Suche cheuaunce made the Legate amongest them of the church An. reg 2 VVhat chauance the Logate made as well persons secular as regular that he got together .xij. thousand markes toward his charges whereby it appeared that he loste no tyme in England But to proceede The realme now being in quiet of al outward felicitie a number of vnruly persons such as deliting in ydlenesse knew not how to lyue in tyme of peace assembled themselues together and appointyng Foulkes du Brent Foukes de Brent who was a man of greate stomacke and more rashnesse to bee their capitayne and ringleader began to make watre against the Kyng and to spoyle the townes and countreys about them so that their euill doings might haue caused no small perill to haue ensued by some great ciuill sedition if the Erle of Pembroke had not in tyme preuented their attemptes For he assēbling the kinges power hasted towardes the rebelles and what by his owne auctoritie and by the reuerend regard of some bishops in his companie more than by vsing of any force of armes he stayd the matter for that time Math. Pari◅ so that no farther mischiefe folowed of this mutenie Besydes the foresayd Foulks du Brent there were other of the Nobilitie also whiche practised the lyke mysorder as William Earle of Albemarle Roberte de Veypounte Bryan de Lisle Hugh de Baliole Philip de Marc and Roberte de Gaugi the whiche Robert withheld the Castell of Newarke that belonged to the Bishoppe of Lincolne The Castel◅ Nevvarke ◅stored to the bishop of Li◅colne and would not deliuer it tyll the K. with Willyam Marshall Earle of Pembrooke had layne at siege before it an eight days In the ende of which terme by mediation of friendes the matter was taken vp and the Bishop recouered his castell paying to the sayde Robert de Gaugi an hundred poūds sterling for the victuals which he left within the same castell Soone after this Ranulph Earle of Chester was sent into the holy lande by king Henry with a faire companie of souldiours and men of war to ayde the Christians there againste the Infidels Mat. Paris The earle of ◅hester goeth ◅to the holy ◅nde whiche at the same time had besieged the citie of Damieta in Egypt in which enterprise the valiancie of the same Erle after his cōming thyther was to his greate prayse moste apparaunt There went with him in that iourney Saer de Quincy Earle of Winchester William de Albeney Earle of Arundell beside dyuers barons as the Lord Robert Fitz Walter Iohn Constable of Chester ◅onne to kyng ◅ohn
Breuse â—…nolde de â—…e the same Reginalde besought the king to helpe to remoue that siege The king cotented with his request came with a puissant armye into those partyes and therwith the siege was raysed for the Welchemen acording to theyr accustomed maner fled The king then entring further into the country came to the place where Mountgomerie nowe standeth â—…tgomerie â—…ll buylt and perceiuing the site of the same to serue well for fortification he caused a castell to he builded there to restrain the Welchmen from theyr accustomed trade of harrying the countrey And so after he had foraied those quarters and taken order for the full accomplishment of that castell hee returned Escuago pay dâ—… the nobles graunting to him of euerye Knightes see two markes of siluer These things being thus brought to quiet the king who by dayly experience of matters grewe to more knowledge from time to tyme beganne nowe of himselfe to order his aâ—…ayres for his owne behalfe Polidorâ—… namely â—…oudyng the estâ—…e of his kingdome and bicause he was minded to allaye the recoueryt of those places which his father had loste in Fraunce he orderned Sauarye de Manâ—…on to be his lieutenant in Guyeme wherof a great part as yet remained in his handes K. Henry requireth restitution of his right of the FreÌ„ch king and moreouer sent ambassadors vnto the Frenche king requiring of him restitution of those places whiche he had taken from his father These Oratours being come into Fraunce and admitted to the kings presence receyued aunswere that nothing oughte to be restored The Frenche kings ansvver whiche by lawe of armes was rightly conquered And other redresse at that tyme woulde none bee graunted But a maruayle it was to consider heere at home in how short a space the state of the Englishe Common wealthe was chaunged and from a troubled fourme reduced to a flourithyng and prosperous degree chiefly by the diligente heede and carefull prouision of the king himselfe So muche auaileth it to haue him that ruleth to attende that whiche belongeth to his office These mariages were solempnised at Yorke on the morrowe after the feaste of Saint Iohn Baptist in the presente of a greate number of the nobles bothe of Englande and Scotland An. reg 6. 1222. A councell or synode at Oxford A councell also was holden by the Archebishoppe of Canterbury at Oxforde for reformation of the state Ecclesiasticall and the Religion of Monkes In which CouÌ„cel two naughtie felows were preseÌ„ted before him that of late had bin apprehended eyther of them naming himself Christ and preached many thinges againste suche abuses as the Clergie at those dayes vsed Tvvo dissemblyng persones apprehended Mat. VVest Moreouer to proue theyr erroure to haue a shewe of truth they shewed certein tokens and signes of woundes in theyr bodies handes and feet like vnto our sauiour Iesus that was nailed on the crosse In the ende being well apposed they were found to be but false dissemblers wherefore by dome of that councell they were iudged to be nailed vnto a crosse of woode and so those to whome the execution was assigned had them forthe to a place called Arborberie wher they nailed them to a crosse They are executed and there left them till they wer dead The one of them was an Hermophrodite that is to wit bothe man and woman Tvvo vvomen counterfaiting themselues to be the one our Lady the other Marye Magdalene Radulphus Cogeshall Also there were two women condempned of whome the one had taken vpon hir to be that blessed Virgin Marye and the other fained hir selfe to be Marye Magdalen Rafe Cogheshall sheweth this matter otherwise and saith that there were two men and two women in deede broughte before the archbishoppe at this Councell of the whiche one of the men being a deacon was accused to bee an Apostata and for the loue of a woman that was a Iewe he had circumcised himselfe he beeing hereof conuict and disgraded was committed to the secular power and so burnt by the seruaÌ„tes of Foulkes de Brent The other beeing a yong man was accused of contempning the sacramentes of the church and that he had suffred himselfe to be crucified hauing the printes of the fiue woundes appearing in his bodie and counterfaited himselfe to be Christ reioicing to haue the two women to giue out and spread the rumor abroade that hee was Christe in deed one of the which women being very aged was also accused of witchery hauing with hir sorcerie and witchcrafte brought that yong man vnto suche wicked folie and madnes They two being hereof coÌ„uicted wer closed vp betwixte two walles where they remayned till they died the other woman being sister to the yong man was pardoned and let go bicause she had reuealed the deuilish practise of the other At the daye appointed there was a greate assemblie and the Stewarde hadde gotte together out of all partes the best wrastlers that might be hearde of so that there was harde holde betwixte them and the Londoners But finally A riâ—…â—…ted vâ—… tence of â—… stelyng the Steward vpon desire of reuenge procured them to fal together by the eares without any iust cause so that the Londoners were beaten and wounded and constrayned to flee back to the citie in greate disorder The Citizens sore offended to see their people so misused rose in tumulte and rang the coÌ„mon bell to gather the more company to them Roberâ—… Maior oâ—…â—…don Robert Serle Maior of the Citie wold haue pacified the matter persuadyng them to lette the iniurie passe tyll by orderly playnt they mighte get redresse as lawe and iustice shoulde assigne But a certayne stoute man of the Citie named Constantine Fitz Arnulfe Constanâ—… Cuâ—…â—…don pâ—… the câ—… reuengeâ—… cause by 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 Math. 〈◊〉 of good auctoritie amongst them aduised the multitude not to herken vnto peace but to seke reuenge out of hand so as the houses belongyng to the Abbotte of Westminster and namely the house of his stewarde might be ouerthrowen and beaten flatte with the grounde This lewde Councell was sonest receiued and executed by the outrageous people Constantine himselfe being chiefe leader of them crying with a loude voice Mount ioy Mounte ioye God bee our ayde and our soueraigne Lewes The King furthermore to reuenge this matter deposed all the Magistrates of the Citie and ordeined newe in their roomes Whiche caused greate hartburning against diuers of the nobilitie but chiefly the Lorde Hubert and Foulkes de Brent on whom in time they hoped to haue reuenge And as the brosle vexed the Citie of London â—… tempest so in this yeare there chaunced greate tempest of thunder lightning and rayne wherby muche hurte was done in dyuers partes of the realme â—…enerall â—…der and at sundry times as by throwing downe of Steeples Churches and other buildings with the rootewalting of trees aswel in woodes as in orchards righte maruellous to consider
staying there till the twoo and twentyth of the same Moneth sette forewarde that daye towardes Cambridge where hee lay wyth hys armye the better to bridle them that kepte the Ilse of Elye agaynste hym The Earle of Gloucest vvith an armie commeth to LoÌ„don Hee laye there all the Lente season And in the meane tyme the Earle of Gloucester takyng greate displeasure for that hee myghte not haue his will â—…ie of â—…cester â—…an armye â—…th to London as well for the banishing of straungers as for restitution to bee made vnto the disenherited men of their laÌ„ds he began a new sturre and assembling a greate power in the marches of Wales came neare vnto Lodon preteÌ„ding at y e first as though he had come to aide the kyng at length he got licence of the Mayor and citizens to passe through the citie into Southwarke where he lodged with his people thither came to him shortly sir Iohn de Eyuele by Southery side bringing with him a great company The Mayor caused the bridge water side to be kept and watched both day and night with armed men and euery night was the drawbridge drawne vp but within a whyle the Erle vsed the matter so that he was permitted to lodge within the Citie with a certaine of his men by reason wherof he drewe more and more of his people into the citie so that in the ende he was master of the citie in Ester weeke toke the keys of the bridge into his hands The legate coÌ„ming forth of the Toure repaired vnto the churche of S. Paule vnder a color to preach y e Croisey The Legate admonisheth the Earle of Gloucester to obey the king but in the end of that his exhortation he turned his words to the Erle of Gloucester admonishing him to obey the king as he was bouÌ„d by his allegiaunce and further whereas the Earle had giuen coÌ„maundement that no victuals shuld be suffred to be brought into the Toure wher the Popes legate was lodged he thought himselfe euil vsed in that behalf â—…th he was a mediator for peace and no partaker But when the Earle seemed to giue small regarde to his wordes he got him secretly againe into the Tower with certain noble men the Kings friendes meaning to defeÌ„d into the vttermost of their powers The legate and other meane to defende the tovver againste the erle of Glocester There entred also into the Tower a great number of Iews w t their wiues children vnto whome one ward of y e Tower was committed to defend which they did in that necessity very stoutly Many of y e citizens fearing a newe insurrection auoided out of y e citie whose goods the Erle seased vnto his owne vse or suffred his men to spoyle the same at their pleasures The citizens of London in an vprore chose nevve officers The moste parte of all the commons of the citie tooke parte with the Erle and in a tumulte got them to the Guilde hall and there chose for theyr Maior or Custos of the Citie Richard de Collworthe knyght and for bailiffes Robert de Linton Roger Marshall discharging the olde Mayor and Sheriffes of their roomths Diuers Aldermen were committed to prison and their goodes sequestred and muche parte therof spoyled Also all suche persons as were prysoners in Newegate Ludgate Creplegate or in any other prison aboute the Citie Prisoners sette at libertie for the quarrell of the Barons warre were set at libertie The legate perceyuing suche disorder accursed generally all suche as thus troubled the â—…ges peace The 〈◊〉 accâ—… troubleâ—… the kâ—… peace shewyng themselues enimies to the King and the realme He also interdiâ—… all the churches within the citie and aboute it licenâ—…ng only diuine seruice to be sayde in houses of religion and without â—…gyng of any bell or â—…ging and whylest seruice was in hande heap pointed the Churche dores to be shafte bycause none of them that stoode accursed shoulde enter and be present The kiâ—… at Câ—… The King in the meane â—…e lay at Cambridge to defend the countries about from iniuries whiche were dayely attempted by them that helde the I le of Ely agaynste hym of whome at one time he distressed a certaine number at Ramsey Ramsey And bicause nowe after that the Earle was thus come to London an other coÌ„panie of them brake out to robbe and spoyle and were stopped by the kyngs power from entryng into the Isle agayne they repayred streyght to London doing mischiefe inough by the waye The Earle of Gloucester greately encourâ—…ged by theyr assistance fell in hande to assayâ—… the Tower wythin the whyche the Popes Legate Othobone and dyuers other were incâ—…sed takyng vppon them to defende it agaynste the Erle and all his puissaunte The Kyng vppon the fyrste newes of the Earle of Gloucester his commotion The â—…keth 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 â—…re 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 vvaâ—… 〈…〉 â—…guagâ—… the Shrynes of Sainctes and other Iewâ—… and Relykes of the Churche of Westmynster vnto certayne Merchauntes for greate summes of money wyth the whyche sendyng into Fraunce and Scotlande hee reteyned men of warre to come to hys ayde Herevpon his sonne Prynce Edward came to hys succoure vnto Cambridge bryngyng thyther wyth hym thyrtie thousande able men out of the north partes Scottes and other The kyng then leauing a conuenient number to defende Cambridge The kings moueth â—…des VVyâ—… marched from thence towarde Wyndesore After his comming thither his armie dayly increased The Earle of Gloucester and hys complyces beganne to feare the matter and sente to hym for peace whiche coulde not bee graunted wherevpon they appoynted to giue him battayle vpon Hounde flow heath The kyng comming thither in the mornyng founde no man there to resist him and therfore after he had stayed there a certain space The K. 〈◊〉 to Straâ—… Fabian he marched forth came to Stratforde where hee was lodged in the Abbey hys hoste laye at Hamme and thereaboutes As the Kyng thus laye at Stratforde there came vnto hym from the parties of beyonde the sea â—…e Eâ—…s of â—…loâ—… and Pâ—…e 〈◊〉 fleete of â—…scoins come 〈◊〉 the kyngs â—…dâ—… the Earle of Bolougne and Saint Paule with CC. men of armes and theyr suite of other souldiours Also there arriued in the Thames a fleete of great vessels fraught with Gascoynes and laie afore the Towre abidyng the kings pleasure The Earle of Gloucester had caused bulwarkes and barbicanes to be made betwixte the Tower and the Citie and also in sundrye places where neede required dytches and trenches were cast so that the Citie was strongly fortifyed But yet nowe that the sayd Earle and his complices perceyued theÌ„ selues in maner as besieged they fought for peace And by mediation of the King of Almayne Chyngdon peace conâ—…ded the Lorde Philippe Basset and the Legate Othobone the same was granted the ordinaunce of Killingworthe in euerye condition obserued â—…he Londoâ—…rs pardoned The
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
and finally died there himselfe in the yere 1207. But now to returne to other doings of King Edwarde We finde that whilest hee lay still at Lauercost Bernards Castel giuen to the Earle of Warwike hee gaue to the Earle of Warwike Bernards Castel the which he had by escheit through forfeiture thereof made by Iohn Balliol late K. of ScotlaÌ„d He also toke and seased into his hands Penreth with the appurtenances An. reg 35. 1307 A Parliament at Caâ—… In y e Octaues of S. Hillarie y e K. held a ParliameÌ„t at Careleill in the which by the peeres of y e Realm great coÌ„plaint was made of y e oppressioÌ„s done to Churches Abbeys Monasteries by reason of paimeÌ„ts lately reised and taxed by one master William William Testa the Popes Chaplayne inhâ—…oâ—…ted to leuie money or Guilelmo Testa the Popes Chaplaine CoÌ„mandement therfore was giueÌ„ to y e same Chaplain y t from theÌ„ceforth he shuld not leuy any such paimeÌ„ts for further remedy messengers were made forth vnto y e Pope to declare vnto him y e incoÌ„uenieÌ„ce therof This Testa was sent froÌ„ Pope ClemeÌ„t into EnglaÌ„d with bulles Abingdon in y e contents whereof it appeared that the Pope had reserued to himself y e first frutes of one yeares reuenewes of euery benefice that fell void by anye maner of meanes within y e Realme of England Scotland Wales and IrelaÌ„d and likewise of al Abbeys Priories Monasteries But the King and lords of y e land thought it against reason y t the Pope should take receiue y e profites of those Abbeys Monasteries which had bin fouÌ„ded by their predecessors for the seruice of God and the maintenance of almes deedes good hospitalitie to be kept so y e Pope changed his purpose touching Abbeys but graunting to the K. the tenth of the English Church for two yeres he obteined the first frutes of y e same Churches for himself as before he required In y e same Parliament A 〈◊〉 â—…gainst the â—…ligious 〈◊〉 Nic. Triâ—… Peâ—… paâ—… dâ—…all 〈…〉 were statutes made concerning Religious meÌ„ which had their head houses in foraigne regions There came also at y e same time a Cardinal froÌ„ y e Pope named Petrus Hispanus to procure y e conâ—…matioÌ„ of y e mariage betwixt y e prince of Wales the FreÌ„ch kings daughter for y e same was delayed by reason y t al couenants were not kept on y e French kings behalf touching y e deliuerie of the townes in Gascoigne For wheras in times past The câ—… his coâ—… y e French K. had giueÌ„ one of those Townes that wer takeÌ„ froÌ„ the EnglishmeÌ„ named Mauleâ—… vnto a French knight he kept y e same stil woulde not deliuer it now at y e French kings commauÌ„dement wherethrough as was saide the marriage had bin hitherto deferred Mat. VVâ—… His â—…oâ—… of money religion houses The same Cardinall by vertue of his bul would haue had of euery Cathedral Church Colledge Abbey and Priory twelue markes of sterling money of euery person of parishe Churches eight pens of euery marke of his reuenewes But y e english Cleargie appealed froÌ„ this exaction so y t by y e K. his couÌ„sell it was ordeined y t he shuld haue no more thaÌ„ in times past Cardinal OthoboÌ„ did receiue that is to witte the halfe of this demand Moreouer this Cardinal being at Careleill The Caâ—… preacheâ—… hauing made a sermon in praise of peace vpon the coÌ„clusion of mariage betwixt the Prince of Wales and the French Kings daughter in the ende hee reuelled himselfe and the other bishops whiche were present and then with candels light and causing y e belles to bee roong He aâ—… Robert 〈◊〉 Nic. Tâ—… they accursed in terrible wise Robert Bruce the vsurper of y e Crown of Scoâ—…land with al his partakers aiders and mainteyners Neuerthelesse Robert Bruce in this mean while slept not his busines but ranging abroade in the countrey slew many that would not obey him and sente foorth his two brethren Thomas that was a Knighte and Alexander that was a Priest with part of his army into an other quarter of the countrey to allure the people vnto hys obedience partly with gentlenesse and partly with menaces But the Englishmen came vpon them in the nighte and tooke them bothe Thâ—… and 〈◊〉 Brâ—…e 〈◊〉 so that being brought afore the Iustices they were condemned and therevpon hanged drawen quartered Some write that Duncan Magdoil Mat. 〈◊〉 a maÌ„ of great power in Galloway tooke these â—…s brethreÌ„ prisoners togither w t Reginald Crewforde on the ninth day of February as they with certayne other captaines men of warre came by sea landed in his countrey vpon whome beyng seuen C. meÌ„ he with three C. or few aboue that number boldly gaue the onset and not only tooke the said three persons prisoners sore wounded as they were with diuers other but also slew Malcolme Makaile a Lord of Cantir and two Irish lords Thomas Bruce â—…cuted whose heads and the foresaid prisoners he preseÌ„ted vnto K. Edward who caused Thomas Bruce to be haÌ„ged drawen and quartered but y e other two were onely hanged â—…exander â—…e and Reâ—…ald Crawâ—… executed and quartered at Careleil where their heads were set vp aloft on y t Castell and gates of y e Citie After Easter theyr brother Robert Bruce calling himselfe Kyng of ScotlaÌ„d hauing now augmented his army w t many souldiers of y e out Iles â—…e Earle of â—…broke put â—…light fought with y e Erle of Pembroke put him to flight slewe some of his men though not many Within a few dayes after â—…ce besieâ—…h the Baile Gloucester he chased also the Erle of Gloucester into y e castel of Aire besieged him within y e same til an army was sent froÌ„ K. Edward to the reskue for then the said Robert was coÌ„streined to flee 〈◊〉 is chased 〈◊〉 that fiege the EnglishmeÌ„ followed till he got into the wods marishes wher they might come nere him without manifest danger to cast theÌ„selues away The K. of EnglaÌ„d minding to make a full coÌ„quest of y e Scots not to leaue off vntill he had wholly subdued theÌ„ sent his coÌ„missions into Englande coÌ„manding al those that ought him seruice to be redy at Careleil within three weekes after Midsomer He sent his son Edward into England y t vpoÌ„ knowledge had what the French K. did touching y e agreemeÌ„t he might accordingly proceede in y e mariage to be made with his daughter After the prince was departed froÌ„ the campe his father K. Edward was takeÌ„ with a sore sicknes yet he remoued froÌ„ Careleil wher the same sicknes first tooke him â—…e death of â—…g Edwarde 〈◊〉 firste vnto Bourrough vpoÌ„ Sand and there the day after being the seueÌ„th day of Iuly he ended his life after hee had raigned 34.
bring their purpose to any perfect conclusion althoughe they remained here for the space of twoo yeares but only by good meanes yet they procured a truce betweene the saide kings and all their assistauntes to endure from the time of the publication thereof vnto the feaste of Sainct Iohn Baptiste A â—…or 〈◊〉 whiche shoulde bee in the yeare .1359 out of the whiche truce was excepted the lorde Phillippe of Nauarre and his alies the Countesse of Mountfort and the whole Dutchie of Britaine The Frenche 〈◊〉 â—…ed 〈◊〉 inâ—…or A none after the Frenche King was remoued from the Savoy vnto the castell of Winsor with all his housholde and then hee wente on huntyng and hauking there aboute at his pleasure and the lorde Phillip his sonne wyth him all the residue of the prisoners abode still at London but were suffred to goe vp and downe and to come to the Court when they woulde Rennes beesieged The same yeare the Duke of Lancaster besieged the Citie of Rennes in Britayne in the title of the Countesse of Richemounte and hir yong sonne Iohn of Mountfort that claimed to bee Duke of Britaine Those that were within the Citie as the Vicount of Rohan and Berthram de Clayquine who as then was a lustie yong bacheler and others defended themselues manfuâ—…ie for a time but yet at lengthe they were compelled to rendee the citie into their enemies handes Aboute the same tyme twoo Franciscane Friers wer brent at London Tâ—… VVals for matters of religion Moreouer Quene Isabel mother vnto king Edwarde the thirde departed this life the seuen and twentith day of Auguste and wâ—… buried the seuen and twentieth daye of Nouember in the Church of the Friers Minore at London not yet dedicated Dauid King of Scotlande shortely after the truce was concluded betwixte Englande and Fraunce and sette at libertie Fourdon paying for his raunsome the summe of one hundrethe thousande markes as Fourdon sayeth The King of Scottes 〈◊〉 but whether hee meaneth Scottishe or steeling money I cannot saye He also was bounde by couenaunt nowe vpon his deliueraunce to cause the Castelles in Nedesdale to be raised Polidore which were knowen to be euill neighbours to the Englishe borderers as Dunfrise Dalswinton Morton Dunsdere 〈◊〉 other nine His wife Quene Ioan made suche earnesse sute to hir brother King Edwarde for hir husbandes deliuerance that king Edward was contented to release him vpon the paiment of so small a portion of mony Froissâ—… and performance of the couenauntes for the rasing of those castells although Froissart sayth that hee was couenaunted to pay for his deliueraunce within the terme of tenne yeares fiue hundrethe thousande nobles and for suretie of that payment to sende into Englande sufficient hostages as the earles of Douglas Murrey Mar Sutherlande and Fiffe the baron of Vescye and sir William Camoise Also he couenaunted neuer to weare armour agaynste Kyng Edwarde within his Realme of Englande nor consent that his subiectes shoulde so doe And further shoulde vpon his retourne home doe the beste hee coulde to cause the Scottes to agree that their Countreye shoulde holde of hym in fee and that hee and his successoures kings of Scotlande shoulde doe homage to the King of Englande and his successors for the Realme of Scotlande 1358 An. reg 32. In this two and thirtie yeare as witnesseth the frenche Chronicles Sir Roberte Knolles Iames Pipe and one Thomlin Foulke Annales de Fraunce with other capitaines and men of warre as souldiours to the king of Navarre vppon the tenthe daye of Marche carely in the morning scaled the walles of the citie of Auxerre and behaued them so manfully that they were masters of the Towne before the Sunne was vp They got exceeding muche by the spoile of that citie and by raunsoming the prisoners whiche they tooke there At lengthe after they hadde remained eighte dayes in that Citie The citie of Aâ—…rre takeâ—… by sir Robert Knolles and taken their pleasure of all thinges within it they wrought so with the Citizens that to haue possession of their Citie againe and to haue it saued from fyre they agreed to giue to sir Roberte Knolles and to his companie fiftie thousand motons of gold whiche amounted to the summe of twelue thousande and fiue hundreth pounde sterling or there aboute and yet was it agreed that the Englishemenne shoulde brenne the gates and throwe downe the walles in diuers places In Aprill nexte ensuing the Towne of Daubignie sur le Metre was likewise wonne by the Englishemenne Danbignie sur le Metre Chaâ—…lon and the seconde daye of Maye Chastelon sur Loigne was taken by the sayde Sir Roberte Knolles and put to sacke as the other were Nevvcastell â—…r Loire From thence they went to Newecastell vppon Loyre And thus did the Englishemenne and other in title of the Kyng of Nauarre Talke of a peace and articles thereof dravven greately endomage the Realme of Fraunce dayly winning townes and Castelles raunsomyng the people and wasting the countreys in most miserable wise as in the historie of Fraunce you may reade more at large Caxton In this meane while there was talke of peace betwixte the Kyng of Englande and the Kyng of Fraunce and articles thereof drawn in this forme That the whole countreis of Gascoigne Guyenne Poictow Touraine Xainctonge Piergourd Quercie Limosin Engolismois Calais Guynes Bolongne and Ponthieu shoulde remayne to the Kyng of Englande wholy withoute doyng homage or paying any reliefe for the same but on the other parte he shoulde renounce all his righte whiche hee mighte by any manner of meane claime to the countreys of Normandie Aniou or Mayne And further that the Frenche King shoulde pay a certaine summe of money for his raunsome and delyuer sufficient pledges for the same and so departe into Fraunce These articles were sent ouer into FrauÌ„ce that the three estates there might confirm them whiche they refused to doe Wherevpon when the truce ended the warres were agayne reuiued The Kyng helde this yeare the feaste of Sainct George at Windsor in more sumptuous manner than euer it hadde bene kepte before Tho. VVals The same yeare also Frier Iohn Lisle Byshoppe of Elie beyng as he tooke it somewhat wronged by the Ladye Blaunche de Wake The Bishoppe 〈◊〉 Eâ—… and other that were of hir counsell went the laste yeare againste the Kynges will vnto the Popes Courte where exhibiting his complaint he caused the Pope to excommunicate all hys aduersaries sending to the Bishoppe of Lincolne and other of the Clergie that if they knewe any of them so excommunicated to bee deade and buried Excommunication they shoulde drawe them out of their graues whiche was done and bycause some of those that were excommunicated were of the Kinges counsell the King tooke suche displeasure therewith that hee greenouslye disquieted the Prelates Wherevpon there were sente from the Courte of Rome on the behalfe of the Bishoppe
abolished the Pope might not sayd his nuncio with a safe conscience otherwise do than proceede against thē that made those statuts in such order as the Canons did appoint Moreouer the said nuncio declared to the king certaine daungerous practises betwixt the Antipape and the French king as to make the duke of Touraine the Frēch kings brother king of Tuskaine and Lombardie and to establish the Duke of Aniou in the kingdome of Sicille Moreouer he gaue the king to vnderstande The Pope N◅◅io open◅ the king the French king p◅y pract◅ that if the Frenche king might compasse by the Antipapes meane to bee chosen Emperour hee woulde seeke to vsurpe vpon ech mans right and therefore it stoode the king of England chiefly in hande to prouyde agaynst such practises in time And as for the treatie of peace which the Frenche men seemed so much to fauour it was to none other ende but that vpon agreement once hadde they might more conueniently compasse theyr purpose in the premisses Furthermore Nuncio the nuncio ernestly besought the king of ayd in the Popes behalf against the Frēch king if as he threatned to do he shoulde inuade him in Italie with open force The king seemed to giue fauourable eare vnto the nuncio and after aduice taken appoynted to stay till after Michaelmasse at what time a parliament was appoynted to be assembled wherein such things as he had proponed shoulde be weyed and cōsidered of some conclusion taken therein The Duke of Gloucester his iourney into Prutzen land About the same time the Duke of Gloucester went into Prutzen land to the great griefe of the people that made account by his departure as if the sunne had beene taken from the earth doubting some mishappe to followe to the common welth by his absēce The Duke of Gloucester in great fauor with the commons whose presence they thought sufficient to stay all detriments y t might chaunce for in hym the hope of the Commons onelye rested In his returne home he was sore formented with rough weather tēpestuous seas At length yet he arriued in Northumberlande and came to the Castell of Tinmouth as to a Sanctuarie knowne to him of olde where after hee had refreshed him certaine dayes he tooke his iourney homewardes to Plaschy in Essex bringyng no small ioy for his safe returne to all the Kingdome An. reg 15. The ninth of Iuly the Sunne seemed darkned wyth certaine grosse and euill fauoured cloudes comming betwixt it and the earth so as it appeared ruddie but gaue no light from noone till the setting thereof And afterwardes continually for the space of sixe Weekes aboute the midst of the day clowds customarily rose somtimes they continued both day and nighte not vanishing away at all The same tyme suche a mortalitie and death of peope increased in Norffolke and in many other Countrees of England that it seemed not vnlike the season of the great pestilence A great death in York sun dry other places In the Citie of Yorke there died .xj. thousande within a short space Henrie Percy Erle of Northumberland lieutenaunt of Calais was called home from that charge and created warden of the Marches agaynst Scotland Robert Mowbray was sent to Calays to be the kings lieutenant there A parliament at London On Fryday next after all soules day the Parliament began at London in which the knightes would in no wise agree that the statute made agaynst spirituall men for the prouiding themselues of benefices in the Court of Rome should be repelled but yet they agreed thus much that it should be tollerated so as with the kings lycence such spirituall men might purchase to themselues such benefices till the next Parliament Halfe a tenth and halfe a fiftenth were granted to the King in thys Parliament to the furnishing of the treatie of peace whiche the Duke of Lancaster was appoynted to prosecute Also conditionally a whole tenth and a whole fiftenth were graunted to him if it chaunced that hee made anye iourney that yeare agaynst the Scottes The price of corne that had continued at an high rate almost for the space of two yeres The flix gottē by excessiue feeding on fruites began to fall immediately after the haruest got in to the great reliefe of the poore which before throughe immoderate eating of Nuttes and Aples fell into the disease called the Flixe whereof manye dyed and surely as was thought the death and dearth had beene greater if the commendable diligence of the Lorde Maior of London had not beene The L. Maior of London cōmended for his careful prouision of corne from beyonde the seas in the time of dearth in relieuing the Commons by suche prouision as hee made for corne to bee brought vnto London from the partyes of beyonde the Seas where otherwise neyther had the Countrey beene able in any thing to haue sufficed the Citie nor the Citie the Countrey On Christmasse day a Dolphin that came forth of the Sea vp the Thames vnto London bridge was espyed of the Citizens as he played in the water and being followed and pursued A Dolphyn taken at London bridge wyth much ado was taken He was ten foote long and a monstrous growne fishe so as the sight of him was straunge to many that behelde him He was thought by his cōming so far into the landward to foreshew such tempests as within a weeke after did follow Ye haue heard how the matter for a treatie of peace had beene first broched by the French king by sending Ambassadours to the king of Englande to moue the same 1392 Which motion beeyng throughly considered of the estates assembled in this last Parliament it was decreed that it shuld goe forwarde as before ye haue heard and so about Candlemasse the Lorde Thomas Percy Embassadors sent to the French king to trea◅e of peace sir Lewes Clifford and sir Robert Briquet with diuerse other in their companie were sent ouer to the French king and comming to Paris founde him lodged in his house of Louvre where they declared to him the good affection of the king theyr maister towardes peace and the better to bryng it to passe they shewed that king Richardes desire was to haue some place and time appoynted for Commissioners to meete with authoritie to treate and conclude vpon articles as shoulde bee thought expedient The French king greatly honored these Ambassadors in feasting and banquetting them for the space of sixe dayes togither and for answere concluded with them that he himselfe with hys vncles and other of his counsaile would bee at Amiens by the midst of Marche nest ensuing there to abide the king of Englāds comming and his vncles if it should please them thither to come The English Ambassadors said there was no doubt but that either the K. himself or his vncles should be there at the day assigned with full authoritie to conclude any agreement that shoulde seeme
men and Frenchmen but when after greate instance and labour made betwene the parties hee sawe their obstinate and frowarde myndes nothing enclined to any agreement he wan so much at theyr handes by earnest sute 〈…〉 for vl â—…es that a truce was graunted to endure for six yeares to come but as the same was hardly graunted so was it of the Frenchmen soone and lightly broken For the bastard of Orleans newly made Erle of Dunoys tooke by treason the towne of Chartres from the English men â—…es takeÌ„â—…y treason affyrming by the lawe of armes that stealing or buying a towne withoute inuasion or assault was no breach of league amitie or truce In which towne he slue the Bishop bycause he was a Burgonian Hereby did new malice encrease and mortal warre beganne eftsoones to be put in vre Whilest these things were doing in France the Cardinal of Winchester was come backe againe into Englande to appease certaine commotions and sturres attempted by certaine persons vnder colour of religion but after that William Maundeuille and Iohn Sharpe the chiefe authors therof were appreheÌ„ded and executed by the gouernour and the kings Iustices the residue yeelded and confessed their offences whereof two articles were these as some write that Priestes should haue no possessions and that all things by the order of charitie among christian people shuld be in common Other ther be that haue thought how their opinions were not so farre disagreeing from the scripture as to mainteyne any suche errors but that their enimies contriued to spread abrode such rumors of them to make them more odious to the people After that their conspiracie was thus by diligent inquirie therof had â—…ene â—…ed by the of Gloucesâ—… the k. being France clearly quenched a Parliament was called by the Duke of Gloucester in the which money was assigned to be leuied and men appoynted whiche shoulde passe ouer into Fraunce to the ayde of the Duke of Bedford for the better maintenance of the warres bycause it was suspected that the truce woulde not long continue During this Parliament A peace concluded with the Scots Iames the king of Scots sent Ambassadors to coÌ„clude a peace with the Duke of Gloucester who bycause the King was abseÌ„t referred theÌ„ matter to y e three estates After long consultation not without great argumentes a peace was concluded When the Parliament was ended the Cardinall well furnished with men and money departed out of England and came to Roan to the king to whom also resorted the duke of Bedford from Paris to consult of things not vnlikely to follow Herevpon a great counsaile was kept in the Castell of Roan and many doubtes moued and few weightie things out of hande concluded At length after great disputation with many arguments ended the dukes of Bedford and York and Edmond late Erle of Motaigne and nowe by y e death of Iohn Duke of Sommerset which dyed wythout heyre Male leauing behinde him a sole daughter called Margaret after Countesse of Richâ—…onde receyued to the name and tytle of Duke of Sommersetie lyked and approued the Argument and reason of those that helde how it was expedient to haue an aâ—…iâ—…e in a readinesse for defence least the Frenchmen sodainly shoulde attempt any enterpryse to the daunger of the Englishmen and losse of those townes and Countreys which were vnder their rule and dominion When all things were agreed King Henry departed to Calays and from thence to Douer 1432 K. Henry returneth out of France into England and so by easie iourneyes hee came the .xxj. day of Februarie to the Citie of London where he was both triumphantly receiued and richly presented as in the Chronicle of Robert Fabian it maye at large appeare After that the King was departed forth of Fraunce into Englande the Duke of Bedforde Regent of Fraunce and Captaine of Calays taryed behynde in the Marches of Pichardie where hee was enfourmed that certaine Souldiours of Calays grudging at the restraynte of Woolles beganne to murmure agaynst the king and his Counsaile so that the towne was like to haue stand in scopardie The Duke therefore foreseeing the mischiefe that might ensue and thinking it wisedome to withstande the first motion caused the chiefe doers to be apprehended and vpon due examination had diuerse were put to death and many banished that towne and marches for euer In the meane tyme the Ladie Anne Duchesse of Bedforde departed thys lyfe at Paris The Duches of Bedford sister to the Duke of Burgoigne deceased by whose death the assured loue and faythfull friendship betwixt the Duke of Bedford and his brother in law the duke of Burgoigne began to decay Shortly after to wit about the beginning of the next yeare .1433 the sayde Duke of Bedforde being thus a wydower through the perswasion of the Lorde Lewes of Lutzenbourgh Bishop of Tyrwinne and Ely and Chancellor of France for king Henrie The Duke of Bedford maryeth with the Erle of Saint Pol his daughter agreed to marry the Lady Iaquet daughter to Peter Earle of Saint Pol and neede to the sayde Bishoppe and to the Lorde Iohn of Lutzenbourgh The maryage was solemnized at Tyrwinne with greate triumph After which solemne feast ended the Duke of Bedforde returned wyth hys newe spouse being aboute the age of .xvij. yeres vnto Calays and so into Englande where hee remayned vntill August next and then returned againe to Paris The Duke of Burgoigne was nothing pleased with this new alliance contracted by the duke of Bedford with the house of Lutzenbourgh but the mariage was consummate ere he coulde finde any remedie to binder it Whilest these things were a doing in other places the French souldiers lacking wages began priuilye as the tyme serued to take both Englishmenne and Burgonians raunsoming and spoyling them at theyr pleasure The Englishmen herewith moued to displeasure prepared for warre after sixe Monethes that the truce had beene taken So by suche meanes was the warre againe renued The FrenchmeÌ„ breake the truce and take the towne of Saint Valerie The Frenchmen as open trucebreakers raysed a crew of men sodenly tooke the town of S. Valerie standing in Normandie neare to the mouth of the Riuer of Somme and an other army vnder the leading of Sir Ambrose de Lore wasted and destroyed al the country about Caen. The Duke of Bedforde not mynding to bee ydle on his part sent the Earle of Arundell the Earle of Warwikes sonne the Lord Lisle Adam marshall of Fraunce for king Henrie and .xij. C. men of warre with ordinance and munitions to besiege the towne of Laigny vpon the Riuer of Marne Laigny besieged The Earle with shot of Canon brake the arche of the bridge and got from the Frenche men theyr Bulwarke and set it on fire Diuerse assaultes were attempted but the towne was wel defended for there were within it an .viij. hundred men of armes beside other meane souldiers The Duke of Bedforde hereof
An. reg 22. slaughter and brenning sore defaced all Christendome lamented the continuall destruction of so noble a realme and the effusion of so muche christen bloud wherfore to agree the two puissant Kings all the Princes of Christendome trauayled so effectuously by their oratours and Ambassadors The dyet at To◅ or a peace to bee ◅d betvvene Englande and Fraunce that a dyet was appoynted to be kept at the citie of Tours in Tourayne where for the king of Englande appeared William de la Poole Earle of Suffolke doctour Adam Molyns keeper of the Kings priuie seale also Sir Robert Ros and diuers other And for the French king were appointed Charles duke of Orleans Lewes de Bourbon earle of Vandosme greate Maister of the Frenche Kynges householde Piers de Bresse Stewarde of Poyctowe and Bertram Beaunau Lorde of Precigny There were also sente thyther Ambassadours from the Empire from Spayne from Denmarke and from Hungarie to bee mediatours betwixte the two Princes The assemble was greate but the coste was muche greater insomuche that euerye parte for the honour of theyr Prince and prayse of theyr countrey sette foorth themselues as well in fare as apparell to the vttermoste Many meetings were had and many things moued to come to a fynall peace but in conclusion by reason of many doubtes whyche rose on both parties no finall concorde coulde be agreed vppon but in hope to come to a peace a certayn truce as well by sea as by lande A truce for .18 moneths was concluded by the Commissioners for eyghteen Moneths 1444 whyche afterwarde agayne was prolonged to the yeare of our Lord .1449 if in the mean time it had not bene broken In the treatyng of this truce the Earle of Suffolke extending his commission to the vttermost without the assent of his associates imagined in his fantasie that the next way to come to a perfecte peace was to moue some marriage betwene the Frenche Kinges kinsewoman the Ladye Margarete daughter to Reynet Duke of Aniou and hys Soueraygne Lorde Kyng Henrye This Reyner duke of Aniou named himselfe king of Sicile Naples and Ierusalem hauing only the name and stile of those realmes without any penie profite or foote of possession This mariage was made straunge to the erle at the first and one thyng seemed to bee a greate hinderaunce to it whiche was bicause the kyng of Englande occupyed a greate parte of the Duchye of Aniowe and the whole Countie of Mayne apperteyning as was alledged to king Reyner The Earle of Suffolke I can not saye eyther corrupted with brides or too muche affectioned to thys vnprofytable mariage condescended and agreed that the Duchie of Aniowe and the Countie of Mayne should be deliuered to the King the brydes father demaunding for hir marriage neyther pennye nor farthyng as who woulde say that this newe affinitie passed all riches and excelled bothe golde and precious stone And to the intent that of this truce might ensue a finall concorde a daye of enterview was appointed betwene the two kings in a place conuenient betwene Chartres and Roan When these thyngs were concluded the earle of Suffolke wyth his companie retourned into Englande where he forgat not to declare what an honourable truce he hadde taken out of the whyche there was a greate hope that a fynall peace myght growe the sooner for that honourable marryage whyche hee hadde concluded emittyng nothyng that myght extoll and ◅te foorth the personage of the Ladye or the nobilitie of her kinne But although this mariage pleased the kyng and dyuers of hys Counsell yet Humfrey duke of Gloucester protector of the realme was much agaynste it alledging that it should be both contrarie to the lawes of God and dishonorable to the Prince if he shoulde breake that promise and contract of mariage made by ambassadors sufficiētly therto instructed with the daughter of the Erle of Arminack vpon conditions both to him and his realme as much profitable as honorable But the Dukes wordes coulde not be heard for the Earles doings were only liked and allowed So that for performance of the conclusions the Frenche king sent the Erle of Vandosme great maister of his house and the Archebishop of Remes fyrst peere of Fraunce and diuers other into Englande where they were honorably receyued and after that the instrumentes were once sealed and deliuered on both partes the sayd ambassadors retourned into their countreys with greate giftes and rewardes When these things were done the king both for honour of his Realme Creations of estates and to assure to himselfe mo frends he created Iohn Holland Earle of Huntington Duke of Excester as his father was and Humfrey Erle of Stafford was made duke of Buckingham Henry erle of Warwike was erected to the title of duke of Warwike to whom the K. also gaue the castell of Bristowe with y e Isle of Iernesey and Garnesey Also the erle of Suffolk was made Marques of Suffolk which Marques with his wife and many honorable personages of men and women richely adorned both with apparell iewels hauing with them many costly chariots gorgeous horslitters sailed into France for the conueyance of the nominated Queene into the realm of England For king Reigner hir father for all his long stile had too short a purse to send his daughter honorably to the King hir spowse This noble copany came to the citie of Tours in Tourayne An. reg 23. 1445 where they were honorably receiued both of the French K. and of the K ▪ of Sieil The Marques of Suffolke as procurator to K. Henry espoused the sayd Lady in the churche of S. Martins At the whiche mariage were presente the father and mother of the bryde the Frenche Kyng himself which was vncle to the husband and the French Queene also whiche was Aunt to the wyfe There were also the Dukes of Orleans of Calabre of Alanson and of Britayne vij Erles .xij. barons xx Bishops beside knightes and Gentlemen When the feast triumph bankets and iustes were ended the Lady was deliuered to the Marques which in great estate he conueyed through Normandie vnto Diepe and so trāsported hir into Englande where shee landed at Portesmouth in the moneth of Aprill This woman excelled al other aswel in beautie and fauor as in wit and policie and was of stomacke and courage more lyke to a man than a woman And furthermore the Earle of Arminacke tooke suche displeasure with the Kyng of Englande for thys marryage that hee became vtter enemye to the Crowne of Englande and was the chiefe cause that the Englyshemen were expulsed oute of the whole Duchie of Aquitayne But moste of all it shoulde seeme that God was displeased wyth this marriage For after the confirmation thereof the Kings friends fell from hym bothe in Englande and in Fraunce the Lordes of his Realme fell at diuision and the commons rebelled in suche sorte that fynally after many fieldes foughten and many thousands of men slayn the
loue of the Marques Montacute than for any fauour hee bare to the Earle of Warwike promoted George Neuill their brother George Neuil Archbishop of Yorke 1468 to the Archbishoprike of Yorke Charles Duke of Burgoigne reioycing that he had so well spedde for conclusion of mariage with King Edwardes sister An. reg 8. was very desirous to see hir of whome he had heard so great prayse wrote to King Edward requiring him to sende his sister ouer vnto him according to the couenants passed betwixt them King Edward being not flacke in this matter appoynted the Dukes of Excester and Suffolke and theyr wiues beeing both sisters to the Lady Margaret to attende hir till shee came to hir husband And so after that Shippes and all other necessarie prouisions were ready they beeing accompanyed with a greate sorte of Lordes and Ladyes and other to the number of fyue hundred horse in the beginning of Iune The Lady Margaret sister to King Edward sent ouer to the Duke of Burgoigne departed out of London to Douer and so sayled to Sluse and from thence was conueyd to Bruges where the mariage was solemnized betwixt the Duke and hir with great triumph princely feastings In this meane time the Earle of Warwike bearing a continuall grudge in his hart toward king Edward sith his last returne out of Frāce perswaded so with his two breethren the Archbyshoppe and the Marques that they agreed to ioyne with him in any attempt which he should take in hande against the said Kyng The Archebyshoppe was easily allured to the Earles purpose but the Marques coulde by no meanes bee reduced to take any part agaynste King Edward of a long tyme til the Earle had both promised hym great rewards and promotions and also assured him of the ayde and power of the greatest Princes of the Realme And euen as the Marques was loth to consente to thys vnhappie conspiracie so with a faynte harte hee shewed himselfe an enemie vnto King Edwarde whyche double dissimulation was both the destruction of hym and hys breethren Beside this the Earle of Warwike beeyng a farre casting prince perceyued somewhat in the Duke of Clarence whereby hee iudged that hee bare no greate good will towards the King hys brother and therevpon feelyng hys mynde by such talke as he of purpose ministred vnderstoode how hee was bente and so wanne hym to hys purpose and for better assuraunce of hys faythfull friendshippe he offered him his eldest daughter in marriage with the whole halfe deale of his wiues inheritance And heerevppon after consultation hadde of theyr weightie businesse and daungerous affayres they sayl◅ ouer to Calaice of the whiche towne the Earle was capitayne where his wyfe two daughters then soiorned whome the duke being in loue with hir person had great desire to visite But the Earle hauing in continuall remembrance his purposed enterprise apointed his brethren the Archbishop the Marques that they shoulde by some meane in his absence stirre vp some new rebellion in the Countie of York and other places adioyning so that thys ciuile warre should seeme to all men to haue bin begun without his assent or knowledge he being on the further side the Seas 1469 Anno. re 9. The Duke of Clarence beeing come to Calais with the Earle of Warwike after he hadde sworne on the Sacrament to keepe his promise and pact made with the saide Earle whole and inuiolate hee married the Lady Isabell eldest daughter to y e Earle in our Lady Church there Shortly after according as had bin aforehād deuised a commotion was begunne in Yorkeshire to the great disquieting of that Countrey The same chanced by this meanes Saint Leonardes Hospitall in Yorke There was in the Citie of Yorke an old and rich Hospitall dedicated to Sainct Leonard for the harbourrough and relieuing of poore people Certaine euill disposed persons of the Earle of Warwikes faction intending to set a broyle in the Countrey perswaded the husbandmen to refuse to giue any thing to the saide Hospitall affirming that the corne giuen to that good inTent came not to the vse of the poore but was conuerted to the behoofe of the maister of the Hospitall and the Priestes whereby they grew to be riche and the poore people wanted their due succoure and reliefe and not contente with these sayings they fell to doings for when the proctors of the Hospitall according to their vsage went about the Countrey to gather the accustomed corne they were sore beaten wounded and euill intreated A Rebellion Shortly after the conspiracie of the euill disposed people grew to an open Rebellion so that there assembled to the number of fifteene thousand men euen ready bent to set on the Citie of Yorke but the Lord Marques Montacute gouernour and presidente of that countrey for the King taking speedie counsaile in the matter with a small number of men but well chosen encountred the rebels before the gates of Yorke where after a long conflict he tooke Robert Huldorne their Captayne Roberte Huidorne Capitaine of the rebelles taken and beheaded and before them commaunded hys head to bee striken off and then bycause it was a darke euening he caused hys Souldiers to enter into Yorke and there to refresh them Heere manye men haue maruelled why the Marques thus put to deathe the Captayne of those people whiche he had procured to this their rebellious enterprise Some say he did it to the intent to seeme innocent and faultlesse of his brothers doings But other iudge that he did it for that contrarie to his promise made to his brother he was determined to take part with King Edwarde with whome as it shall after appeare he in small space entred into grace and fauour The Rebels being nothing dismayd with the death of their Captain but rather the more bent on mischiefe by faire meanes and craftie perswasions gote to them Henry sonne to the Lord Fitz Hugh and Sir Henry Neuill sonne and heyre to the Lorde Latimer the one beeing nephew and the other cousin germayne to the Erle of Warwike Although these yong Gentlemen bare the names of Captaynes yet they had a gouernour that was Sir Iohn Conyers Sir Iohn Coniers a man of suche courage and valiantnesse as fewe were to bee found in his dayes within the Northpartes After they saw that they could not get Yorke bycause they wanted ordinance they determined with all speede to marche toward London intending to rayse suche a toy in the peoples myndes that they shoulde thinke King Edward neyther to bee a lawfull Prince nor yet profitable to the common wealth King Edwarde hauing perfect knowledge of all the doyngs of the Earle of Warwike and of his brother the Duke of Clarence was by diuers letters certified of the greate armie of the Northerne men with all speede commyng towarde London and therefore in greate hast The Earle of Pembroke hee sente to William Lord Herbert whome as yee haue heard
he himselfe but also hys companie were mynded to sell theyr liues dearelye before they woulde shrynke an ynche from any that was to encounter them It maye bee that dyuerse of the Captayne 's also were corrupted and although outwardly they shewed to bee agaynst him yet in heart they bare him good wil and in no wise minded to hinder him K. Edward with out interruption passeth forward to Yorke So forwarde hee marched tyll bee came to Yorke on a Monday beyng the eightenth day of Marche Before hee came to the Citie by the space of three Myles the Recorder of Yorke whose name was Thomas Coniers one knowne in deede not to beare hym any faythfull good will came to hym Th. Conyers recorder of Yorke and gaue him to vnderstande that it stoode in no wise with his suretie to presume to approche the Citie for eyther hee should bee kept oute by force or if he did enter hee shoulde bee in daunger to be cast awaye by hys aduersaries that were within King Edwarde neuerthelesse sithe hee was come thus farre forwarde knewe well ynoughe there was no going backe for him but manfully to proceede forwarde with hys begunne 〈◊〉 and therefore kepte on hys waye and shoâ—… after there came to him out of the Citie Robert Clyfforde and Rycharde Bourgh who affirm him that in the quarell whiche hee pretended to pursue to witte for the obteyning of hys right to the Duchie of Yorke he shoulde not sayle but be receyued into the Citie but immediately after came the sayde Coniers agayne with the like tale and information as hee had brought before and thus King Edwarde one while put in comforte and an other while discouraged marched forth till he came to the gates of the Citie where his people stayed whylest hee and aboute .xvj. or xvij other such as hee thoughte meetest King Edwâ—… commeth 〈◊〉 to Yorke wâ—…e forth and entred the Citie wyth the sayde Clifforde and Bourgh and as some wryte there was a priest ready to say Masse in which Masse tyme the King receyued the Sacrament of the Communion He receiued an othe and there solemnly sware to keepe and obserue two speciall Articles although it was far vnlyke that he mynded to obserue eyther of them the one was that hee shoulde vse the Citizens after a gentle and courteous maner and the other that hee shoulde bee faythfull and obedient vnto King Henries commaundementes For this wilfull periurie as hath beene thought the issue of this king suffered for theyr fathers offence the depriuation not onelye of landes and worldlye possessions but also of theyr naturall lyues by theyr cruell Vncle king Richarde the thirde When king Edwarde had thus gotten into the Citie of Yorke he made such meanes among the Citizens that he got of them a certaine sum of money and leauing a garnison within the citie contrarie to his othe for feare least the Citizens after his departure might happily moue some rebellion aginst him he sette forwarde the next day towards Tadcaster a towne .x. miles from thence belonging to the Erle of Northumberland The next day he tooke his way towards Wakefielde and Sendall a Castell and Lordship belonging to the inheritaunce of the Dukes of Yorke leauing the Castell of Pomfret vpon his left hande The Maâ—… Montaâ—… feeth king Eâ—…ward to pâ—… by hym where the Marques Monâ—…e with his armie lay and did not once offer to stop him Whether the Marques suffred him so passe by so with his good will or no diuerse haue dyuersly coniectured Some thinke that it lay not in the power of the Marques greatly to annoy him doth for that the king was wel beloued in those parties and againe all the Nobles and common there for the most part were towardes the Earle of Northumberlande and wythoute him or his commaundement they were not willing to sturre And therefore the Erle in sitting still not mouing to or fro was thought to do K. Edward as good seruice as if he had come to him and raysed people to assyst him for diuerse happilye that shoulde haue come with him remembring displeasures paste woulde not haue beene so faythful as the Erle himselfe if it had come to the iumpe of any hazarde of battaile About Wake fielde and the partes there adioyning some companie of his friendes came to him whereby his power was encreased but nothing in such numbers as he looked for From Wakefielde he crossed on the left hand so to come againe into the high way 〈◊〉 Edwarde 〈◊〉 to â—…on and came to Doncaster and froÌ„ thence vnto Notingham Here came to him sir William Parre and sir Iames Harrington with six hundred men well armed and appoynted also there came to him sir Thomas a Bourgh â—…d and sir Thomas Montgomerie with their aydes which caused him at theyr first comming to make Proclamation in his owne name to witte of King Edwarde the fourth boldely affyrming to him that they would serue no maÌ„ but a king Whilest he remayned at Notingham and also before he came there hee sent abrode diuerse of his auaunt courrers to discouer the countrey and to vnderstande if there were anye power gathered agaynst him Some of them that were thus sent aproched to Newarke and vnderstoode that within the towne there the duke of Exceter the erle of Oxford The Duke of 〈◊〉 with a â—…er at â—…ke the lord Bardolfe other were lodged with a great power to the number of four M. men whiche they had assembled in Essex Norffolke Suffolke and in the shires of Cambridge Huntington and Lincolne The duke of Exceter and the Erle of Oxford and other the chiefe chaptains aduertised that K. Edwards foreriders had bene afore the towne in the Euening supposed verily that hee and his whole armie were comming towards theÌ„ whervpon they not thinking it good to abide longer there determined with al speed to dislodge and so about two of the clocke after midnight they departed from Newarke leauing some of theyr people behinde which either state away from theÌ„ and taried of purpose or could not get away so soone as their fellowes In deede the forâ—…riders that so discouered them within the towne of Newarke aduertised the king thereof in al post hast who incontinently assembled his people and forthwith marched towards them but before hee came within three miles of the towne hee had knowledge that they were flâ—…dde and gone from Newarke wherevpon be returned again to Notingham intending to keepe on his nearest waye towardes the Earle of Warwike whom he vnderstood to be departed from London and to bee come into Warwikeshyre where and in the Countreys adioyning he was busied in lenying an army with the which he purposed to distresse him The King then from Notingham came to Leycester where three thousande able men King Edwarde commeth to Leycester and well furnished for the warre came vnto him These were such as he knewe would liue and die in his quarell the most parte
the French king was openly proclaimed through the Citie of London by a trumpet Margaret Queene of Scottes eldest sister to the king came this yeare into England and at Herbottell Castell was deliuered of a daughter begot by hir second husbande the Lord Archymbalde Dowglas Erle of Angus The birth of Margaret daughter to the Queene of Scottes and of the Earle Angus maried afterwards to the Erle of Leneuxe This daughter was cleped at the Font stone after hir mother Margaret The sayde Queene after the death of hir late husband king Iames maried the sayde Earle of Angus without consent of hir brother king Henrie or other of hir friendes chiefely as some haue thought for hir sonnes sake doubting if shee shoulde not haue taken hir choyse at home shee should haue maryed in some other place and so haue beene sequestred from hir sonne whose bringing vp apperteyned now chiefely vnto hir Hall But such contention rose shortly after in Scotlande amongest the Lordes The Queene of Scottes and Earle of Angus hir husband come into England that both shee and hir husbande were glad to seeke succour in Englande at hir brothers hande who was contented to relieue them assigning them the sayde Castell of Herbottell to lie in till his further pleasure should be knowne 1518 The .xviij. day of Februarie this yeare the Ladie Marie daughter to king Henrie the .viij. was borne at Greenwich The birth of ladie mary the kings daughter afterwards Queene This was she that afterwards was Quene of this realme and maried the king of Spaine This yere also died the king of Aragon father to the Q. for whoÌ„ was kept a solemne obseque in y e cathedral church of Pauls An. reg 8. The king sent for his sister the Queene of Scots hir husbaÌ„d to come to the court for their solace whervpon comming vp to London they lay at Saint Iohns without Smithfielde barres for a time and after at Baynardes Castell from whence the Queene was conueied to Greenwich where she was ioyfully receyued of the king the Queene his wife and of the French Queene hir sister Thus was she sometime at the Court and sometyme at Baynards Castell and so continued in England all this yeare The king for the honour of his sister the .xix. and .xx. day of May prepared two solemne days of Iustes wherein the king himselfe the Duke of Suffolke the Earle of Essex and Nicholas Carew Esquier answered all tommers At length the Earle of Angus returned into Scotlande leauing the Queene his wife behinde him About the same time were sent out of Englande twelue hundred Masons and Carpenters A castell builded by the king as Toâ—…y and three hundred laborers to the Citie of Tourney to beginne the foundation of a Castell which the king had determined to buylde there for the better chastising of the Citie if they shoulde attempt any rebellion This yeare the Cardinal caused all those to be called to accouÌ„ts that had medled with the kings money and had the occupying thereof in the warres or else where This audite troubled manye for some were founde in arrerages and some saued themselues by policie and briberie and waxed rich and some were wrongfully punished And surely he so punished periurie with open infamie Periury greuously punished by Cardinal Wolsey causing the offenders to weare Papers and so forth that in his time it was lesse vsed He punished also Lordes knights and men of all degrees for riots for bearing out wrongs Iustice executed by the Cardinal and for maintenance practised in their country that the poore men liued quietly so that no man durst vse suche bolstring for feare of imprisonment These doings were worthie of commendation in him but surely much more if hir had beene a man that coulde haue kept a meane which hee coulde not doe but through his pompe and presumptuous pride wanne him high disdaine in the ende of al men not only offending the nobles and high estates of the realme but also the whole multitude of people which could not away with his vaineglorious pride and namely for that hee tooke vppon him the gouernaunce of the whole realme in maner into his only hands It was a straunge matter to see a man not skilled in the lawes to sit in the seat of iudgement to pronounce the law being ayded at the first by such as according to the auncient custome dyd sit as associate with him but he would not sticke to determine sundrie causes neyther rightly derided nor adiudged by order of law and againe suche as were cleare cases hee would sometime prohibite the same to passe call them into iudgement frame an order in controuersies and punish such as came with vntrue surmises afore the Iudges and sharply reproue the negligence of the Iudges themselues whiche had receyued such surmises and not well considered of the controuersies of the parties 〈…〉 Hee ordeyned by the kings Commission diuerse vnder Courtes to heare complaynts by byll of poore men that they might the sooner come by iustice And such was the administration of the Cardinall vnder a colour of Iustice at the first â—…idor but bycause the same seemed at length to be but a verie shadow or colour in deed it quickly vanished away â—…ton is conâ—…e to this he taking vpoÌ„ him the whole rule himself for that he saw how the king made small accouÌ„t of any other but onely of him Whereby it came to passe that many of the Peeres and high estates of the realme withdrew them from the Court as first the Archbishop of Canterburie and the Byshop of Winchester which got them home into their Diocesses but yet before their departure as good fathers of their Countrey they instantlye besought the king that he woulde not suffer any seruant to exceede and passe his maister borowing that sentence out of the Gospell of Saint Iohn where our Sauiour speaking to his disciples sayth to them Verily verily I say vnto you the seruaÌ„t is not greater thaÌ„ his master Herevnto the king knowing that they meÌ„t this by the Cardinal made this answere that he would diligently see that euery seruaunt shoulde obey and not commaund After this the Duke of Norffolke departed home into his Countrey and last of all the duke of Suffolke also followed the other For hee hauing spent liberally in his iourneys when hee went as Ambassadour into Fraunce also in the solemnization of his mariage and in housekeeping sithe hee was maryed borrowed greate summes of money of the king whiche hee hoped shoulde haue beene forgyuen him but the Cardinall would not haue it so to the intent that the Duke being behind hande in debt shoulde bee the more at commaundement For as wealth maketh menne loftie so doeth wante make them lowly â—…al In the moneth of October in this viij yeare of king Henry Mathew Bishop of Sion or Sitten â—…e ambassaâ—… from the â—…mperour a Cardinal commonly called the Cardinal of
stubborne traytors that so vndutifullye refused the kings mercifull pardon freely offered by his officer at armes and other The Lorde Marques of Northampton sent into Norwike to represse the rebels There went with the Lorde Marques diuerse honourable and worshipshull personages as the Lorde Sheffelde the Lord Wentworth Sir Anthonie Dennie Sir Henrie Parker Sir Richarde Southwell Sir Rafe Sadler Sir Iohn Clere Sir Rafe Rowlet Sir Richarde Lee Sir Iohn Gates Sir Thomas Paston Sir Henrie Bedingfielde Sir Iohn Sulyarde Sir Willyam Walgrane Sir Iohn Curtes Sir Thomas Cornewalleys Knightes togither with a great manye of other Knights Esquires and Gentlemen and a small band of Italians vnder the leading of a Captaine named Malatesta Norwich summoned The Lorde Marques being approched within a myle of Norwiche sent Sir Gilbert Dethicke knight nowe Garter then Norrey King at armes vnto the Citie to sommon them within to yeelde it into his handes or vpon refusall to proclayme war against them Herevpon Augustine Stewarde the Maiors Deputie sent to the Maior that was in the Campe with Kette aduertising him what message he had receyued from the Marques The Maior sent worde againe that nothing was more grieuous vnto him than to see into what miserie the Citie and Countrie about were brought by the rage of these commotions and declaring in what case he stoode being kept by force among the rebels where as otherwise he would according to his dutie haue come to his honour But as for the Citie he had committed the gouernance vnto Augustine Stewarde who shoulde be readie to surrender it into his Lordships hands and that if Kette woulde giue him leaue he woulde come himselfe to his honor submitting all things wholy to his Lordships order and disposition This message being brought backe by the sayde Norrey Augustine Stewarde the Maiors Deputie with the Sherifes and a greate number of the Citizens came to the Lorde Marques his Campe and deliuered vp the Sworde to his Lordshippe declaring howe the Maior himselfe woulde gladly haue come if he coulde haue got from the rebelles and that although a great route of the lewde Citizens were partakers with the rebels yet a number of the substantiall and honest Citizens woulde neuer consent to their wicked doings but were readye to receyue his Lordship into their Citie The Lorde Marques giuing good wordes vnto the Citizens and willing them to bee of good comfort sithe bee trusted to appease these troubles verye shortlye deliuered the sworde vnto Sir Richarde Southwell Sir Richarde Southwell who bare it before the Lorde Marques as hee passed forth towardes the Citie entring the same by Saint Stephens gate And incontinently was proclamation made that they should all resort into the market place where they consulted togither howe they might best defende the Citie against the enimies and to represse their furie Herevpon was order giuen for the placing of watch and warde about the gates and wals as might seeme expedient The Lorde Marques supped that night and lodged in the Maiors Deputies house but his Lordshippe as well as other kepte their armour on their backes all that night for doubt of some sodeyne assault to be made against the Citie by the rebels Here it chaunced that the Straungers The strangers offer skirmish to the rebels eyther by appointment or otherwise went forth and offered skirmishe to the rebels vpon Magdalen hill The Rebelles came forth with their horsemen but it seemed that they were better practised to fetch in booties than to make their manage or Carere and therefore not able to matche the Straungers whiche being perceyued of their fellowes that were footemen they putte forth their archers before their horsemen and suche numbers herewith came swarming forth of their Campe meaning to compasse in those Straungers that they perceyuing the maner and purpose of the enimies cast themselues in a Ring and retired backe into the Citie againe But they left one of their companie behinde them a Gentleman that was an Italian who more valiantly than warily ventured to farre among the enimies through euill happe being ouerthrowne beside his horse he was enuironed about with a great multitude of those Rebelles that tooke him prisoner and like vyle wretches spoyling him of his armour and apparell An Italian hanged hanged him ouer the walles of Mont Surrey Which acte well shewed what curtesie myght be looked for at suche cruell traytours handes that woulde thus vnmercifully put such a Gentleman man and worthie souldier to death for whose raunsome if they woulde haue demaunded it they might haue had no small portion of money to haue satisfied their greedie myndes but it seemed that their beastlye crueltie had bereft them the remembraunce of all honest consideration and dutifull humanitie The Marques of Northampton causing as before ye haue hearde diligent watch to be kept vpon the walles and at the gates appointed the same to be visited right often that through negligence no mishap shoulde followe Moreouer beside the watch at the gates and walles the residue of the souldiers making a mightie huge fire in the market place so as all the streetes were full of light they remayned there all that night in their armour ready vppon any occasion to resist the enimies if they shoulde make anye attempt Sir Edwarde Warner Sir Edwarde Warner Marshall of the fielde gaue the watche worde Sir Thomas Paston Sir Iohn Clere Sir Willyam Walgraue Sir Thomas Cornewasleys and Sir Henrie Bedingfielde were appoynted to the defence of other partes of the Citie And now when euery thing was thought to be safely prouided for that the L. Marques other were layde to take their rest the rebels about the middest of the night began to shoote off their great artillerie towards the Citie so thick as was possible but the bullettes passed ouer their beades that were lodged in the Citie without doing any great hurt at all The Lorde Marques by reason of the often alarmes that were giuen whilest the enimies thus ceased not to rage with continuall shotte of ordinaunce was called vp by the Marshall sir Edwarde Warner and comming into the market place accompanied with the nobles and gentlemen of the armie fell in counsell wyth them howe to foresee that the Citie in suche daunger might be safely defended agaynst the enimies with such small power as he had there with him It was therefore determined that all the gâ—…tes whiche were on the contrarye part of the towne from the Rebels campe and likewyse the ruinous places of the walles shoulde be ramped vp that if the enimies shoulde chaunce to gyue an assault to the Citie they might more easilye be repulsed But as these things were a doing and almost brought to ende in a maner all the whole multitude of the rebelles came out of their cabanes running downe in most furious maner to the Citie and with great shoutes and yelling cryes went about to set fire on the gates to clymbe ouer the walles
Citie and returned homewardes wyth high commendation of the Citizens and others that acknowledged the sayde Earle to be the defender 〈…〉 times Robert Ket and his brother William Ket were brought vp to London where they were â—â—mitted to the Tower and shortly after arraigned of theyr treason and founde guiltie were brought to the Tower agayne where they continued tell the .xxix. if Nouember on which day they were deliuered to Sir Edmonde Wyndham high Sherife of Norffolke and Suffolke to bee conueyed downe into Norffolke where Robert Ket was hange in Chaynes vpon the top of Norwich Castell and William Ket his brother on the toppe of Wyndmondham Steeple in which towne they had both dwelled and conspyred with others to go forwarde with theyr wicked rebellion This William Ket as was thought had beene sure of his pardon 〈…〉 played the trayterous Hypocrite â—…liam Ket â—…ssembling 〈◊〉 for vpon his submission at the fyrst to my Lorde Marques of Northampton at hys commyng downe to suppresse this rebellion he was sent to his brother to perswade him and the rest to yeelde and receyue the Kings pardon but hee lyke a dissembling wretche although he promised to my Lorde to doe what hee coulde in that behalfe vppon hys comming to his brother into the rebels campe and behelde the greate multitude that were there aboute hym hee did not onely not diswade him and them from theyr trayterous rebellion but encouraged them to persyst and continue in their doyngs declaring what a small number of Souldiours the Marques brought with him nothing able to resyst suche a puyssaunce as was there assembled so that if it had not beene through the wicked perswasion of him and some other at that tyme not onely Robert Ket himselfe but also all the multitude besyde woulde haue submytted themselues and receyued the Kings pardon to the preseruation of manye a good mans lyfe that after dyed in the quarell But nowe to returne somewhat backe to the doings in Scotlande in the meane while that suche hurles were in hande here in Englande ye shall vnderstande that in the beginning of thys Sommer the king by aduise of his Counsaile sent forth a nauie by Sea towardes Scotlande the which arriuing in the Forth and comming before Lieth saluted the town with Canon shot and remayning there a tenne or twelue dayes tooke in the meane tyme the Isle of Inaketh Inaketh taken leauing there 〈◊〉 Ensignes of Englishe men and one of Italians with certaine Pioners to forâ—â—â— the place but the Frenchmen as in the Scottish Hystorie ye shall finde 〈…〉 at large after the departure of the English nauie recouered that Isle againe out of the English mennes possession after they had kept it sixteene dayes wyth the slaughter of Captaine Cotten theyr Generall Captayne Appleby and one Iasper that was captaine of the Italians beside others After the recouering of this Isle Monsieur de Desse returneth into Fraunce Monsieur de Desse returned into Fraunce leauing hys charge vnto Monsieur de Thermes lately before there arriued who after the departure of the sayde Desse with a campe volant did what he could to stop the Englishmen within Hadington froÌ„ dytayles The Erle of Rutlande But notwithstanding the Earle of Rutlande being Lieutenant of the North did not onely vytayle it but put the Frenche armye in haunger of an ouerthrowe as it was thoughte muste needes haue followed if they had not with more speede than is vsed in a common marche slipt away after they perceyued the English armie so neare at their elbowes Moreouer M. Foxe An other rebellion or tumult begon in Yorkshire beside these inordinate vprores and insurrections aboue mentioned aboute the latter end of the sayde month of Iuly the same yeare which was .1549 another like sturre or commotion beganne at Semer in the northeyding of Yorkeshyre and continued in the East ryding of the same and there ended The principall doers and raysets vp The chiefe stirrers of this rebellion wher of was one William Ombler of Eastâ—â—eflerton yeoman and Thomas Dale parishe Clearke of Semer with one Steuenson of Somer neighbour to Dale and nephew to Ombler which SteueÌ„son was a meane or messenger betweene the sayde Ombler and Dale being before not acquainted togyther and dwelling seuen myles one from the other who at last by the trauayle of the sayde Steuenson and their owne euill dispositions inclyned to vngraciousnesse and mischiefe knowing before ane the others mynde by secrete conference were brought to talke togyther on 〈◊〉 Iames day Anno 1â—…4â—… The causes moouing them to rayse this rebellion were these The causes mouing the Yorkshire men to rebellion first and principally their traterous heartes grudging at the kings most godly proceedings in aduauncing and refourming the true honour of God and his Religion an other cause also was for trusting to a blinde and a phantasticall prophecie wherewith they were seduced thinking the same prophecie should shortly come to passe by hearing the rebellions of Norffolke of Deuonshyre and other places the 〈◊〉 of which prophecie and purpose togyther of the traytours was that there should us King raigne in Englande A blinde prophecie amoÌ„gst the Northern-men the Noble men and Gentlemen to be destroyed and the Realme to be ruled by foure gouernours to be elected and appoynted by the commons holding a Parliament in Commotion to beginne at the South and North Seas of Englande supposing that this their rebellion in the North and the other of the Deuonshire men in the West meeting as they intended at one place to be the meane howe to compasse this their trayterous The deuice of the rebels how to compasse their purpose diuelish deuise And therefore laying their studies togither howe they might finde oute more companie to ioyne with them in that detestable purpose and to set forward the sturre this deuile they framed to sturre in two places the one distant seuen myles from the other and at the first rushe to kill and destroy such gentlemen and men of substance about them as were fauorers of the kings proceedings or which would resist them But first of al for the more speedie raysing of men they deuised to burne beacons and thereby to bring the people togither as though it were to defende the Sea coasts and hauing the ignorant people assembled then to poure out theyr poyson fyrst begynning with the rudest and poorest sort suche as they thought were pricked with pouertie and were vnwilling to labour and therefore the more ready to follow the spoyle of riche mens goodes bloing into theyr heades that Gods seruice was layde aside and newe inuentions neyther good nor godly put in place and so fending them with fayre promises to reduce into the Church againe theyr olde ignorance and Idolatrie thought by that meanes soonest to allure them to rage and runne with them in this commotion And furthermore to the intent they woulde giue the more terror to the gentlemen at the first
Beatrice put to death for poysonyng her husband 224.92 Becket Thomas Arcbyshop of Cantorburie translated 617.7 Bertine Churche endued with great giftes by kyng Adelstane 225.108 Beorne succeedeth Etwold in the kingdome of Eastangles 190.55 Beuerley Churche Colledge builded 186.15 Berosus cited 1.99 and .2.85 and 3.13 and .3.44 and .3.108 Bereford battell fought by the West Saxons agaynst the Mercians 189.64 Berkley towne taken and sacked by the byshop of Constans 318.53 Bedfoord battel fought against the Britaines 142.105 Bellings gate in London builded 27.110 Bellius castle nowe called the Tower of London builded 28.6 Belinus departeth this lyfe 28.11 Becket Thomas his horse taile cut of by the inhabitantes of Strowde in Kent 415.56 Beautie of the English boyes whiche were brought to sell at Rome 146.27 Berkamsted 306.56 Becket Thomas Archbyshop of Cantorburie reputed for a Saint 449.23 Bertwolf kyng of Mercia succeedeth Wighclafe and his chased out of his countrey by the Danes 207.109 Becket Thomas made Archdeacon of Cantorburie 393 63. Beamfeeld castle builded 216.20 Beamfield castle taken by the Englishmen 216.22 Bertha daughter to Cheribret king of Fraunce married to Ethelbert king of Kent vpon condition 145.102 Bernegus ordeyned Byshop of Sussex 223.59 Belesme Robert taken prisoner 345.77 Beneficed persons to returne into the realme within .iiii. monethes 408.13 Becket Thomas his kinne all banished out of the Kyng of Englands dominions 409.85 Becket Thomas departeth frō the Abbey of Pountney to the Abbey of Saint Columbes 409.96 Becket Thomas refuseth to stande to the iudgement of the Popes Ambassadours 409.113 Becket Thomas committed to the safe keeping of the Monkes of Cauntorburie 416.15 Becket Thomas brought by force by Monkes out of hys pallace into the Church 416.41 Becket Thomas slaine and his braynes turned out 416.100 Belesme Robert proclaymed a traytour 339.69 Belesme Robert forsaken of the Welchmen and banished the realme 340.16 Becket Thomas depriued of al his dignities and offices 403.18 Becket Thomas promiseth to obserue the Kinges lawes without all exception 403.32 Bere Richard Abbot of Glastēburie Ambassadour to the Pope 1461.20 Begemini castle 439.115 Beda cited 153.74 154.22 154.35 Becket Thomas his countrey and parentage 401.39 Beretgiles succeedeth Thomas in the Byshopricke of the Eastangles 172.47 Beatrice daughter to Henry the thyrd borne at Burdeox 703.74 Bensington battayle fought by Offa against Kinewulfe 197.87 Beeston Castle founded by Ranulphe Earle of Chester 618.11 Bedfordshire wasted by the Danes 245.71 Berengaria daughter to Sanctius king of Nauarre affianced to King Richard the first 491.56 maryed to king Richard the first 493.27 Beeland Abbey founded 394.28 Bearne Earle traytrouslye slayne 270.19 Belinus Generall of Cassibellanes armie against the Romanes 39.15 Bearn a Iudge burnt for hys crueltie 199.30 Beda departeth this lyfe 192.92 Berthune Duke of Sussex slayne 184.47 Bartham Antwisell Knyght slayn pag. 1288. col 1. lin 7. Becket Thomas his complaint to the Pope of the Kyng 407.8 Becket Thomas made keeper of the Citie of Cahors 399.39 Berwike taken by the Scots 951.20 b. surrēdred again 954.52 b. Bedford towne Castle won 596.34 Beertwell Castle delyuered to Duke Henrie Fitzempresse 387.116 Berosus cited 4.68 5.53 Becket Thomas elected and created Archbyshop of Cantorburie 401.50 Belesme Robert Earle of Shrewsburie rebelleth against King Henrie the first 339.55 Beaner Towne and Fortresse builded 411.53 Beandune or Beanton battaile fought by the Westsaxons against the Britaines 155.61 Becket Thomas his goods and landes seassed into the kings handes 407.104 Beda cited 113.23 114.49 129.69 129.86 145.50 153.56 Beda sent for to the Court of Rome 193.1 Bearne flyeth into Denmarke to seeke reuenge against Osbright 211.62 Becket Thomas made Lorde Chauncellour of Englande 395.50 398.6 Beuer Castle surrendred to King Iohn 595.26 Beauuoys Byshop restored to libertie 546.56 Beda cyted 154.76 156.39 157.13 163.28 164.10 166.74 Benedict Byshop commeth into England with the Archbyshop Theodore 178.101 Bergion slayne by Hercules in Gallia 6.18 Bedforde Castle deliuered to the Barons by Williā Beauchampe captayne of y e same 588.96 Becket Thomas disguised both in name and vesture flyeth ouer into Flaunder◅ 406.29 Bertus slayne by the Pictes 185.107 Beda one of the sonnes of Port. 130.6 Belman and outcrier ordeined in London for the sale of goods 1834.21 Benet Monke 193.9 Berthfride Earle a Northumber 190.67 Bedford towne besieged and taken 368.20 Beorcham 291.29 Bechellouyn or Ber in Normandie 346.8 Beautifull women soonest slandred and sharpest assaulted 137.14 Bernwine one of Byshop Wilfrides Nephewes 184.61 Belles knoulle in steeples with an earthquake 408.3 Becket Thomas Lord Chauncellour sent Ambassadour into Fraunce 398. Beuerley towne burned 469.60 Beda cited 192.58 Iohn lord Beauchamp of Holt executed Beuerstane 271.37 Bellencumbre castle 390.45 Beda cited 38.76.44.19 and 50.18 Berking Nonrie builded 181 21. Becker Thomas his aucthoritie with the Kyng Realme 401.43 Iohn Beaufourt created Marques Dorset 1097.30 b Benefices inhibeted to strangers 922.4 b. Beauvoisin Countie spoyled and burnt by Kyng Henry the second 399.55 Thomas Beaufort created Earle of Somerset 1090.45 a. Walter Bentley knyght committed to the Tower 948.40 a. Berwick wonne by the Scots 1007.19 b. and recouered agayne ibidem Berwick castle wonne by the Scots 1011.46 b. recouered agayne by the Earle of Northumberland 1012.1 a. Beauchampe Wylliam Lord dyeth 758.110 Guy Beuchampe Earle of Warwick dyeth 854.45 a. Berwick wonne 819.10 a. entred by the Scottes 829.46 b. Bedford castle besieged and taken by Henry the third 625.20 Berwick deliuered to king Edward the third 896.33 a. Simon Bereford knight hanged 895.13 a. Berhara downe 393.2 Beuerley Iohn maister to Beda 192.110 Berwick fortefied 850.35 a. betrayed to the Scots 855 41. b. Bernard of Neumerch 318.67 Iohn Lord Beaumont becommeth French 926.18 a Berwick Castle wonne by the Scottes 1048.1 a. recouered agayne by the Earle of Northumberland 1048.20 a. Beaumaries built 811.53 b. Beubrick Archbyshop of Yorke and Cardinall dyeth 1496.46 Berkhamsted Castle besieged is yeelded to Lewes 609.49 Thomas Beauchamp Earle of Warwick made protector 1016.2 a. Beche Iohn Abbot of Colchester executed for the supremacie 1574.38 Berwick besieged by Edward the .ii. 857.20 a. 896.5 a Beckets swoord 826.43 b. Thomas Beauchamp Earle of Warwick dyeth 980.34 b. Bernards Castle besieged and wonne 1849. Iohn Lord Beaumont of Henalt 877.24 a. Beneuolence demaunded of the Spiritualtie Temporaltie 1601.1 Lord Beaumont discomfited in Scotland 854.27 b. Beatrice Countesse of Prouance vniust dealinges 714 106. Belknap cōpelled to subscribe 1060.50 b. Benbridge doctor Archbyshop of Yorke 1461.3 Byshops accursed which ayded the Barons agaynst Kyng Henry the third 775.26 Byshops house nigh y e Churche in Litchfeeld buylded 179.55 Byshops nor Abbots to be inuested by the Kyng or any lay man 346.14 Byshops nor Abbots to be depriued of their consecration for doyng homage to y e king 347.1 Byshop of London Deane to the Archbyshop of Cantorburie 349.1 Byshop of Rochester houshold Chaplain to the
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
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
affianced to Richard sonne to kyng Henry the second 398 59. Ranulfe Earle of Chester departeth this lyfe 387.102 Raufe accursed by the Pope 358.35 Raufe departeth this life 359 35. Raufe Archdeacon of Landaffe 420.99 Ranulfe Bishop of Chichester taketh part with Archbishop Anselme agaynst king William Rufus 333.38 Ranulfe of Chester cited 333 88. Ranulphe Earle of Chester taketh his wyfe the Duchesse of Britaine prisoner 531.15 Raynulphe Earle of Chester Lincolne dyeth 640 Ratcliffe Iohn Lord Fitzwater fauoureth Perkin Warbeck 1443.31 is pardoned but afterward beheaded eadem 50. Ratcliffe Robert fauoreth Perkin Warbecke and leeseth his head 1443.38 Ranulphe Earle of Chester is sent with an armye into the Holy land to ayd the Christians 617.2 Raucin Geffrey owner of Tailbourgh fortresse 453.103 Raufe Poole Iustice pa. 1292 co 2. lin 28. Raufe Verney Sheriffe of London pag. 1292. col 2. lin 43. Raufe Byshop of Salisburye murdred pag. 1281. co 1. lin 16. Raufe Stanley pa. 1304. co 1. lin 14. beheaded co 2. lin 13. Rad Pont besieged and wonne 557.9 Rayneth not in Sussex y e space of three yeeres 182 Raufe Willoughby Esquyre slayne pag. 1288. co 1. lin 16. Raufe translated from the Byshoprick of Rochester to Cantorbury 351.96 Raufe goeth to Rome about the controuersie betweene hym and Thâ—…ustaine 355.43 Raymond Earle of Tholouse marryeth Constance Sister to kyng Lewes of Fraunce 372.66 Raucin Geffrey dyeth 521.64 Rauesteine Lord Rauesteine reuolteth 1435.54 Taketh the townes of Ipre and Scluse ibidem spoyleth al shyppes passyng to Antwerp 1438.1 is forced to yeelde the towne castle of Scluse eadem 15. Ramsey Abbey buylded 234 24. Rafe Earle of Hereford 271.32 Rayer founder of Saint Bartholomewes by Smythfield and first Priour therof 341 54. Raufe Bishop of Durham commytted to the Towre 337 52. Raymond Earle of Prouance dyeth 714.20 Ranulphe Earle of Chester returneth from the Holy lande 617.60 Rat Andrew 1425.55 Raucin Geffrey styrreth a rebellion in Guien 521.54 Raufe Percie knight submytted to Edward the fourth pag. 1313. co 2. lin 10. fledde to Henry the sixt pa. 1314. col 1. lin 12. slayne pag. 1314. co 2. lin 1. Raufe Gray Captayne of Banborough Castle pag. 1314 co 1. lin 8. pag. 1315. co 1. lin 7. beheaded pa. 1315 co 1. lin 42. Ratcliffe Iohn knight 1448.50 Raufe Collector to king Wylliam Rufus both malicious and couetous 330.19 Raufe breaketh prison and escapeth out of the Towre 3â—…8 99 Raymond Earle of Tholouse maryeth with Ioan Queene of Sicil sister to Richarde the first 532.102 Ratcliffe Richarde attaynted 1425.43 Ratcliffe Viscount Fitzwater created Earle of Sussex 1553.11 Ratcliffe Robert Lord Fitzwater created Viscount Fitzwater 1536.18 Raufe Iosseline Alderman of London pag. 1343. co 1. lin 32. Ragman Rowle 891.57 a. Raufe Earle of Westmerland pag. 1119. co 2. lin 28. Randol a Fryer prisoner in the Towre of London pa 1198. co 1. lin 51. Rayne 943.30 b. and. 971 10 b. Rayneth bloud 786.6 b Rayne 854.9 a. and. 893.10 b. and. 903.50 b Rayne exceedyng great high floudes 324.18 Ragged Staffe pa. 1326. co 1 lin 57. Rokesburgh yeelded to the English men 820.42 b Raufes wyfe besieged in the citie of Norwich yeeldeth the same vpon conditions 309.12 Rome taken by Brennus and Belinus 25.74 Romanes encounter with the Gaules and are vanquished 26.18 Rome sacked by the Gaules 26.59 Romanes compound wyth the Gaules for their libertie with money 27.6 Romanes passe ouer into Britaine 35.72 Romanes distressed by the Britaynes in the water 36.3 Romanes recouer land and put the Britaines to flyght 36.78 Romane shyppes sore distressed and dispersed by a tempest 37.29 Romanes put to the worst by the Britaines are succoured by Cesar 38.16 Romanes ouerthrowne and chased by the Britaines 39.60 Romanes flee to sea leauing the spoyle and cariage behinde them 40.9 Romanes hindered by reason of their heauie armour 41.74 Romanes passe ouer the Thames on foote 42.24 Romane souldiers vnwilling to go into Britaine 48.69 Romanes put to the woorse by the Britaines at Porchester 50.60 Romanes put to flight by Aruiragus 50.72 Romanes fal to intreatie of Concord and composition with the Britaines 51.39 Robert Archbyshop of Cantorburie banished the realme 274.27 Robert Archbyshop of Cantorburie comming from Rome dyeth by the way 274.30 Robert Earle of Northumberland conspireth against King William Rufus 325.104 Robert with his wife and children fleeth into Banbourgh Castle 326.7 Robert taken and committed to prison 326.22 Robert arriueth at Portesmouth wyth an armie 339. Robertes gentlenes wynneth the peoples heartes 339.9 Robert returneth with contentment into Normandie 339.49 Roger Archbyshop of Yorke forbydden the vse of the Sacramentes 412.37 Roger Archbyshop of Yoke restored to the administration of hys office agayne 414.85 Roger Archbyshop of Yorke sent Ambassadour to y e Pope 406.57 Roger Byshop of Worcester sent Ambassadour to the Pope 406.59 Rockesborough fortifyed by the Duke of Somerset 1631.20 Robert Brakenbery Knyght Constable of the Towre pag. 1390. col 1. lin 20. pa. 1415. col 2. lin 36. pag. 1416. col 1. lin 28. slayne pag. 1422. col 1. lin 17. Robert Hilliard pag. 1321. co 1. lin 1. Robyn of Riddesdale pa. 1321. col 1. lin 2. Lord Wells slayne pag. 1312. co 1. lin 38. Robert Horne pag. 1298. co 2. lin 38. Rochfort fortresse delyuered to the Englishmen 399.62 Robert Earle of Leicester made Lieutenaunt of Normandie 481.115 taken prisoner by the Frenchmen 521.17 Roger apprehended and beheaded 308.50 Robert Earle of Gloucester craftily taken at Northampton 381.36 Robert Earle of Gloucester departeth this lyfe 381.57 Robert Earle of Gloucester his Oration to hys souldiours 374.51 Robert Earle of Gloucester hys armye vanquished and hymselfe taken prisoner 377 85. Robert Earle of Gloucester exchaunged prisoner for king Stephan 378.15 Robert Earle of Gloucester maketh a conspiracie against king Stephan with the Nobilitie and commons 368.47 Roufe Iohn of Warwike cyted 7.3 Roe Thomas maketh a newe place of Buriall 1839.51 Robert Earle of Mellent entreth Normandie wyth fire and sword 359.65 Robert Earle of Mellent taken prisoner in an ambush 359.72 Roderike King of Pictes roueth with a fleete vpon the Oceane and arriueth in Irelande to seeke seates 67.23 Roderike King of Pictes slayne and his armie vanquished 67.45 Romane power sent to subdue Ireland 51.115 Romanes receyue a great oouerthrowe in Britaine in the raygne of Domicianus Nero the Emperour 59.50 Romanes vanquished and slaine at Camulodunum by the Britaines 63.91 Romanes driuen out of Spaine by barbarous Nations 98.65 Romanes mynding to ayde the Britaines no more byd them farewel 100.69 Romanes souldiours fall at variance among themselues 76.23 and. 77.18 Romane souldiours go to Rome to complaine on Perhennis 77.20 Romane souldiours slaye theyr owne weake fellows 80.9 Romanes chased by the Britaine 's to the citie of London 82.13 Rochester besieged and deliuered to king William Rufus 320.21 Rochester Churche aduanced from foure secular Clerkes to fiftie Monkes 320.65 Robert Duke of Normandy returneth out of
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