that at â—â—ght of the clocke they shoulde lose their Maister Here is the ende and fall of Pride arrogancie of men Example of pride and arrogancie exalted by fortune to dignities for in hys tyme he was the haughtiest man in all hys procéedings alyue hauing more respecte to the honor of his person than he had to his spirituall profession wherein should be shewed all méekenesse 〈◊〉 aâ—â— charitie The Cleargie of Englande beyng iudged by the Kings The Cleargie condemned in the Premunire learned Councel to be in the premunire for maintaining y â— power Leganâ—ine of the Cardinall were called by proâ—eâ—â— into the Kings Bench to aunsweare wherefore in their conuocation they concluded a submission where in they called the King Supreme head of the Church of England and were contented to giue the King 100000. poundes to pardon King Henrie supreame head their offences touching y â— premunire by acte of ParliameÌ„t The fift of Aprill one Richard Rose a Cooke was boyled 1531 A Cooke boyled in Smithfielde for poysoning of diuers persons at the Bishop of Rochesters place King Henrie purchased the Hospitall of Saint â—ames â—éere to Charing Crosse and al the medows to the same adioyning Anno reg 23 The Kings house at Saint Iames. gyuing the sisters of the house pencions during their liues and then builded thereof a goodly Mansion with a Parke whiche he caused to be walleâ— about with Bricke The 〈◊〉 of August Thomas Bilney a Bacheler T. Bylney burned of Law 〈…〉 Norwich Richard Gresham 〈◊〉 Althâ—â—â—â—hâ— 28. of September Sherifes Maior Rice Griffyn executed Sir Nicholas Lambard Gâ—â—cer the 28. of October The fourth of December sir Rice Gryffyn was beheaded at the Tower hill and buryed at the Crossed Friers Iohn Hewes hys man 〈◊〉 to Tyborâ—â— hanged and quartered The 17. of May deceassed Robert Thorne Bacheler and Merchant Taylour of London who gaue by his Testament his debts firste being paide is to be destributed in the citie Robert Thom his charitie in the Citie of London of London 500. l. to pore housholders in the xxv Wardes 20. l. in euery warde To reléeue prisoners in the Counters 50. l. To pore Maides mariages 50. l. To the foure prisons about London Newgate Ludgate Kings bench Marshalsea 100. l. To Aldermarie Church in London 10. l. Summe 710. poundes In the Citie of Bristow to the making vppe of the Frée Robert Thornâ— his charitie in the tovvne of Bristovve schoole of Saint Bartholomew 300. l. to be diuided in the parishes among the poore housholders 300. l. to the redemption of the frée farme of prisage there 200. l. to the Almes houses there 100. l. to Thomas Moffit Maister of the Grammer Schoole 25. l. and to Robert his sonne 10. l. to the poore prisoners in Bristowe 50. l. to poore maides Mariages there 50. l. towarde making of a place for Merchants for the stréete in Bristow 100. l. to the repayring of hyghe wayes from Camer Marche to Bristow at the discretion of his executors as néede requyred and to the other high ways about Bristow 100. l. to Saint Nicholas Churche in Bristowe 20. l. to the four orders of Friers there euerye order 20. l. more to the prisoners of Bristowe 100. l. to the Chamber of Bristow 300. l. for the prouision of corne and wood more to the Chamber 500. l. to the reléefe of yong men that practise Clothing to the pore people of Bristow 500. l. And ouer and besides all this to be distributed in déedes of Charitie at the discretion of his executors 1000. l. Summe 3735. poundes Legacies to his sisters children other kindred amounted to 5142. l. 6. sÌ„ 8. d. His debts forgiueÌ„ wer 83. l. 5. sÌ„ 10. d. The residue of hys goods he gaue to his brother Nicholas Thorne The 28. of May Fryer Forrest was put in prison for contrarying Frier Forrest the Preacher before the King The othe which the Clergie had vsed to make to the Bishop Clergy svvorâ—e to the King of Rome was made voyde by statute a new othe confirmed wherein they coÌ„fessed the king to be Supreme head The fiftéenth of May sir Thomas Moore after great sute Siâ— Thomas Moore made by him was discharged of the Chancelorship The fourth of June the King dubbed Thomas Audeley Lorde Audley made Lorde Chauncelour Knight made him kéeper of the greate Seale and not long after Lord Chancelor The fiftéenth of June fiue men were hanged and quartred Coyners and Clyppers executed Christes Church suppressed at Tower hill for coyning and clypping In the Moneth of July the King suppressed the Priorie of Christ church in London he sent the Chanons of that house to other Priories and gaue their Church plate and lands to sir Thomas Audley The thrée and twentith of Auguste William Warham Archebyshoppe of Canterburie deceassed The King repayred the Tower of London The firste of September the Lady Anne Bolleine was Marchionesse of Penbrooke made Marchionesse of Pembrooke at Windsore and then was gyuen hir by the King one thousande pounde by yeare The eleuenth of October King Henrie landed at Calleis with the Duke of Richemonde hys bastarde sonne the Duke of Norffolke Lord Treasurer of England the Duke of Suffolke the Marquesse of Excester the Erles of Darby Arundale Oxforde Surrey and Rutlande the Vicount Lisle King Edwarde the fourth his bastarde sonne the Lord Matrauers the Lord Sands Lorde Chamberlaine of the Kings house the Lorde William Hawarde the Lorde Bray the Lorde Montague the Lorde Cobham the Lorde Mordant the Lorde Dawbney the Lorde Grey the Lord Clinton the Lorde Vaux the Lorde Mountegle the Lorde Rocheford wyth diuers other Lordes the Bishoppes of Winchester London Lincolne and Bathe sir William Fitz William treasourer of the kings house sir William Pawlet Comptroller sir William Kingstone Capitaine of the Guarde sir Iohn Page sir Iames Boleine sir Anthony Browne sir Edwarde Neuell sir Thomas Cheyney sir Iohn Russell sir Richard Page sir Ralph Eldercare sir Edward Baynton sir Edwarde Santener sir Griffyth Deene sir Iohn Dudley sir Iohn Femer sir Henry Long sir Anthony Hungerforde sir Iohn Brudges sir Arthur HoptoÌ„ sir Anthony Wingfielde sir William Paston sir Edmonde Bedingfielde sir Thomas Strange sir William Hawte sir Edwarde Wotton sir William Askewe sir Iohn Marleant sir William Barington sir William Essex sir Giles Strangweis sir Edwarde Chamberlaine sir Giles Caple sir Iohn Sent-Iohn sir Walter Hungerforde sir William Gascoine sir Lionel Norrice sir Edwarde Boloine sir Thomas Lisle sir Iohn Ashton sir Thomas Palmer sir William Boloine sir William Finche sir William Pellam sir Thomas Rotherham sir Iohn Norton sir Richarde Sandes sir Iohn Neuell and thyrtie Esquiers with manye Gentlemenne and all theyr traines The towne of Calleis had at thys season xxiiij C. beddes and stabling for two thousande horses besides the Uillages about The xxj of October King Henrie rode towarde Boloigne and was by the
his Christmas at Bermonsey where hauing conference Geruasius Doro. with his Nobles for the state of the Kingdome he 1155 promised to banish all Strangers Wherevpon William of Ipres and all the Flemings that had flocked into England fearing the indignation of the newe King departed the land And the Castels that had bin builded to pill the riche and spoyle the poore were by the Kings commandemente and counsell of his Chancellor throwne downe In March Quéene Elianor did beare a sonne at London called Henry after his father King Henry was sonne to Mawde the Empresse whose Line of the Saxons restored Gerua Doro. Radulphus de decâ—te mother was Mawde Quéene of England wife to King Henry the first and daughter to Margaret Quéene of Scottes who was daughter of Edward which he begat of Agatha the sister of Henry the Emperoure Edwarde was the sonne of King Edmond named Ironside whose father was King Etheldred whose father was the peaceable King named Edgar the sonne of Edmond the son of Edward the seigniour the sonne of Alured c. A counsell was holden at Wallingford where the Nobles Anno reg 2. Ger. Dorobor were sworne to the King and his issue King Henry went ouer into Normandy where with long 1156 Anno reg 3. séege he tooke diuers Castels of Mirable Chinon and other and obteyned the homage and pledges of all Aquitaine and Gascoyne William the Kings eldest sonne died and was buryed at Reding King Henry returned into England and then with an armie 1157 King Henry vvent against the VVelchmen Reedifyed Castels Henry of Essex went against the Welchmen where he felled their wods fortified the Castell of Rutland and recouered many strong holdes He reedifyed the Castell of Basingwirke c. but he lost many of his men for Henry of Essex that bare the Kings Standerd as he was assayled amongst his enimies let fall the Standerd to the ground which encouraged the Welchmen and put the Englishmen in feare supposing that the King Iocelyn of â—racland had bin slayne The King notwithstanding got of a certayne King of Anno reg 4. Wales and other Barons homage and hostages and so rereturned Quéene Elianor brought forth a sonne named Richard at Oxford in the Kings Pallace there William Earle of Glocester was taken by the Welchmen Giraldus Cambre in the Castell of Cardife On Christmas day King Henry ware his Crowne at 1158 Winchester where after celebration of diuine seruice he set his Crowne vpon the Altar and neuer ware it after King Henry went into France and at Paris was ioyfully receyued of King Lewes who required to haue his daughter Margaret to be maryed to his sonne Henry which suite he obteyned and King Henry obteyned that as Seneshall to the French King he might enter into Britaine and call afore him suche as made warre one against another to appease them whereby he brought the Citie of Naunts to his dominion An Earthquake happened in many places Earthquake through England and the Riuer of Thamis was dryed vp that at London men might walke ouer the same dryshod Quéene Elianor brought forth a sonne named Geffrey Anno reg 5. Ypodigma A new Coyne was made in England King Henry tooke esâ—uage of the Englishmen the summe 1159 Geruasius whereof grew to 12400. pounds of siluer Of other Countreys subiect to him he gathered also an infinite exaction then passed towards Tholouse with an huge army and beséeged that Citie from Midsomer til Hallontide There were with him Malcoline King of Scottes and a certaine King of Wales and all the Earles and Barons of England Normandy Aquitaine Angeow Gascoyne but Lewes the French King so defended that Citie that the Kings purpose was frustrate and the séege raysed King Henry returned from Tholouse and Henry y â— King Anno reg 6. 1160 of Englands sonne not seauen yeares olde maried Margaret the French Kings daughter that was not yet thrée yeares Gerua Dorâ— Anno reg 7. 1161 Anno reg 8. Thomas Wikes â—â— Beuâ—â—la old Mathew Earle of Bolonia married Mary Abbesse of Rumsey daughter to King Stephen Theobald Archbishop of Canturbury deceassed and the Churche of Canturbury was voyde one yeare one moneth and fourtéene dayes King Henry caused all his subiects to sweare fidelitie to 1162 Mathew Paris his sonne Henry concerning his inheritance Thomas the Kings Chancellour tooke his othe first sauing his fidelitie to King Henry the father so long as he liued This Thomas was elected Archbishop of Canturbury and when he was consecrated he forthwith refused to deale any more with matters of the Court renouncing the Chauncellorship c. There came into England xxx Germaynes as well men as women who called themselues Publicanes their head and Wilbel Nouobur Ralphe Cogshall ruler named Gerardus was somewhat learned the residue very rude They denyed Matrimony and the Sacraments of Baptisme and the Lords Supper with other Articles They being apprehended the King caused a Counsell to be called at Oxford where the sayd Gerard answered for all his fellowes who being pressed with Scriptures aunswered concerning their faith as they had bin taught and woulde not dispute thereof After they coulde by no meanes be brought from their errors the Bishops gaue sentence against them and the King commanded that they should be marked with an whote Iron in the forehead and whipped and that no man should succour them with houserome or otherwise they tooke their punishment gladly their Captayne Publicans vvhipped going before them singing Blessed are ye when men do hate you they were marked in the forehead and theyr Captayne both in the forehead and the chinne Thus being Anno reg 9. whipped and thrust out in the winter they dyed with cold no man reléeuing them Robert de Mountfort accused his néere kinsman Henry 1163 Iocâ—lin of Bracland of Essex of high treason before the Nobilitie affirming that he in an expedition into Wales in a narrow and hard passage at Colleshele most fraudulently threwe away the Kings Standard and with a lowde voyce pronounced him to be dead and turned backe those that came to y â— Kings succour Indéede the foresayde Henry of Essex was perswaded that King Henry was slayne whiche vndoubtedly had come to passe if Roger Earle of Clare had not with quicke spéede come to with his retinue and raysed agayne the Kings Standarde to the encouraging of the whole army Henry withstoode the foresayd Robert and denyed all his accusations whereby in processe of time the matter came to be tryed by Combate They met at Reding to fight in an Iâ—e Combate at Reading néere to the Abbey Thither also came much people to sée what ende the matter woulde come to And it chanced that when Robert had manfully powred out many and heauie strokes Henry turning reason into rage tooke vpon him the part of a challenger and not a defender who whilest he
sixe miles and in the great Hall at Westminster men tooke their Horsebackes bycause the waters ranne ouer all Anno reg 28 Richard Earle of Cornewall maryed the thirde daughter of the Earle of Prouence Hugh Blunt Adam Basing the 28. of September Sherifes Maior 1244 Miserable death of Griffin Mathew Paris Ralph Ashnye Peperer the 28. of October Griffyne the eldest sonne of Leolin Prince of Northwales which was kept prisoner in the Tower of London deuised subtilly how to escape wherefore one night hauing deceyued the Watch made of the hangings shéetes towels c a long line and put himselfe downe from the toppe of the Tower but as he was sliding a good pace with the weight of his body being a very bigge man and a fatte the rope brake and he fell on his necke whose miserable carcase in the morning being founde by the Tower wall was a pitifull sight to the beholders for his head and necke were driuen into his brest betwéene the shoulders the King hearing thereof punished the watchmen and caused Griffins son y â— was imprisoned with his Father to be more straightly kept The King tooke of the CitizeÌ„s of London 1500. Markes for that they had receyued into their Citie agayne Walter Bokerell who had bin banished twenty yeares notwithstanding the Citizens had proued that before that time the said Walter and his brother Andrew by their suite to the King had gotten him to be reconciled and restored to the Kings fauour Robert Grosted Bishop of Lincolne with other Robert Grosted Anno reg 29. Prelates complayned to the King of the waste made of the Church goodes by aliant Bishops and Clearkes of this land where vpon they were shortly voyded Ralph Foster Nicholas Bat the 28. of September Sherifes Maior 1245 Anno reg 30 Michaell Tonny the 28. of October Quéene Elianor brought forth a sonne named Edmond The King enlarged the Church of Saint Peters in Westminster pulling downe the olde walles and stéeple and caused them to be made more comely Robert Ros being made a Templar died and was buryed at London in the new Temple Robert of Cornehill Adam of Bentley the 28. of Sept. Sherifes Maior 1246 Iohn Gisers Peperer the 28 of October In the Dioces of Lincolne there was a woman of noble birth welfauoured and beautifull which was maried to a rich man and did beare him children she also got another Monstruous Anno reg 31 Gentlewoman with childe and begat thrée sonnes of hir one after another or euer it was knowen the womens names were Hauisia and Lucia Harold King of Man was made Knight at London Simon Fitz Meger Laurence Frowike the 28. of Sept. Sherifes Maior 1247 Queene Hyue Customes of London Iohn Gisers Peperer the 28. of October King Henry let to ferme the Queenehiue in London to Iohn Gisers then Maior and his successours and comminaltie of London for euer for the summe of fiftie pounde the yeare to be payde at two payments at Clarkenwell Dated at Windesore the xxxj of his raigne The Church of Saint Mildred in Canturburie and a great Ger. Dorobor part of that Citie was brent A great Earthquake was in many places especially at Earthquake London about the banckes of the Thamis The Coyne was so sore clipped that it was thought good Coyne base to change the same and make it baser A great plague was in England so that in September Pestilence Mathew Pariâ— there was euery day nine or tenne buried in the Church-yard of Saint Peter at Saint Albons Elianor Sister to Arthure Duke of Briteyne was buryed Anno reg 32 Wâ—l Wasion Sherifes Maior 1248 at Ambresburie among the Nunnes Iohn Viell Nicholas Bat the 28. of September Peter Fitz Alwyne the 28. of October By reason of the embasing of the Coyne a great penurie followed Robert Bacon preaching Frier deceassed at Oxforde The King required a great ayd of money whiche was denyed him whereby through counsell he was forced to The King selleth his Iev vels sell his plate and Jewels to the Citizens of London The Towne of Newcastell vpon Tine was burned bridge Earthquake and all By a strange Earthquake the toppes of houses were Anno reg 33 throwen downe walles did cleaue the heads of chimneys and Towers were shaken but the bodyes and foundations did not moue Nicholas Fitz Iosey Geâ—â—rey Winchester the 28. of Sep. Sherifes Maior 1249 Mathew Paris A Mart at VVestminster Michael Tonney the 28. of October The King deuising how to exact money from the Citizens of London made a mart at Westminster to last fiftéene dayes and coÌ„manded that all trade of Marchandise should ceasse in the Citie those fiftéene dayes which the Citizens were fayne to redéeme with two thousande poundes Besides this the King tooke victuals and wine wherein could be found and payde nothing for it Two Marchants of Brabant complayned to the King at Mathew Paris Strangers robbed and Pirats hanged Winchester that they had bin robbed by men of that Countrey who had taken from them to the value of two hundred markes which théeues they had séene in the Courte wherevpoÌ„ such as were suspected were takeÌ„ to be tryed by y e Countrey but y e CouÌ„trey purged theÌ„ by oth bycause they were for the most part all infected and giuen to théeuerie but the Marchants continuing their suite to the King sayd that if they could not haue iustice they woulde stay so much of Englishe Marchants goodes in Brabant Then the King caused twelue men of Winchester to be chosen who also did quit them that were accused whiche thing when the King did sée he caused those twelue to be imprisoned and sware that in short space they should be hanged as Théeues accessarie and periured and caused other twelue to be empaneled which last quest found and confessed all and appeached many especially of Hamshire which were hanged Great dissention arose in Cambridge betwixt the Schollers Discord at Cambridge and Townesmen so that houses were broken downe and spoyled and many men wounded and slayne In the Moneth of June fell great Raynes especially aboute Anno reg 34 Abingdon whiche caryed away many trées houses beastes milles bridges and one Chappell not farre from Abingdon Richard Hardell Iohn Thollason the 28. of September Sherifes Maior 1250 Mathew Paris Roger Fitz Roger the 28. of October The Friers Augustines beganne to inhabit at Wales at Wodhouse Boniface Archbishop of Canturburie in his visitation Mathew Paris came to the Priorie of Saint Barthelmew in Smithfielde where being receyued with Procession in most solemne wise he sayd he passed not vpon the honor but came to visit them vnto whome the Chanons answered that they hauing a learned Bishop ought not in contempt of him to Archbishop of Canturbury visiteth Saint Barthelmevves in Smithfield beateth the Supprior and Channons c. be visited by any other which answere so much misliked the Archbishop that
Bodotria Glota haue sundry passages into y e sea and are clearely dirempte one from the other as Leuinus and Glota are not wherfore they iudge rather the riuer nowe called the Frith to be that which of olde time had to name Bodotria and to proue the same they adde manye other reasons whiche here I omitte But a good space on thys side Grampius riseth the riuer of Taus the greatest in all Scotland taking his name of a Laake from whence it springeth whiche falleth by Atholia and Calidonia by many places but chiefly by Perthum now called Saint Iohns towne and lastlye by Dunde in time past called Alectum and there breaketh into the Germaine sea and at the mouth forceth great estuars or armes of the sea whereof Tacitus maketh mention Againste Taus is Anguise whiche by meanes of that riuer is fertile and prosperous and is deuided from Fife To y ◠same vpō the North adioyneth Athels not the barrēnest Countrey as well for water as for plentie of soyle On the other side Arguile sheweth it selfe whyche being full of laakes yéeldeth greater plentie of fodder than fruite whose vttermost bounds stretch so farre as Ireland is not distante past xvj miles about which the promontorie or foreland called Lands hed standeth That coast whilom the Silures did inhabite as Polidor gathereth by these wordes of Plinie in hys 4. booke the. 16. Chapter Ireland being situate ouer against Brytain is distant frō the nation of Silures by the shortest cut xx myles Howbeit some other for that it is manifest by the same Plinie in y t same Chapter and also by other writers that Brytaine was not in hys tyme well knowen so farre North suppose he mente not by this that the Silures shoulde inhabite Arguile but rather South-Wales from whence the passage ouer was better known and as he mighte haue vnderstanding shortest Wher also as wel Tacitus as Antoninus séeme to place that people Betwéene Argile and Olgouia Westwarde lyeth the Countrey of Sterling so called by a towne there Here the forest of Calydonia began on the left side which within stretcheth farre and broade This forrest sometimes bred white Bulles long maned like Lions whiche were so wilde as they coulde not be tamed but bycause the flesh was pleasant and daintie to the mouth the whole race of them almoste is extinguished There likewise is the Castel of Calydone situate by Taus called Doucheldine From a little hil of the forrest ryseth Glota or Cluid which by a brode chanel falleth into the Irishe Ocean for stayed in a manner by the bankes of the mountaine Grampius it slydeth into the sea by greate tydes so as witnesseth Tacitus the Romaines thought it to be another Ilande Of that riuer the Dale was called Glotevale whyche Countrey that Riuer runneth by and in the same is the Citie of Glasco a goodlye Uniuersitie Agayne towardes the Easte is ioyned the Countrey as Anguish and Merne vppon the Sea coaste wherein Fordune by situation is verye strong and for the reliques of S. Palladius the Scottish Apostle famous Of the same syde of Scotlande is the Countrey of Marre garnished with a Citie called Aberdone standing betwéene the two Riuers of Dona and Dea with a Schole also adorned Then followeth Morrey whiche the two notable Riuers doe compasse aboute called Nessa and Spea At the mouthe of thys last Riuer standeth the Towne of Elgis aboute the banckes whereof be huge woods replenished wyth all sortes of wilde beastes There is a Laake also called Spina stoared with plentie of Swannes but in the middle part standeth the broad Countrey of Rossia now called Beane Rozen stretching to the vttermost angle euen to both the Seas and the further it goeth Eastwarde the better it is inhabited In the same is a bosome of the Sea nowe and then so conuenient for Sailers as cōmonly it is called the port of Health or the Hauen of Safetie and the towne Thana The breadth of the Iland is very short for falling into y e forme of a wedge it is scant xxx mile ouer which defended with thrée promontories like towers repelleth the greate waues and surges of the Sea and inuironed with two gulfes whiche those promontories doe inclose the entries be quiet and calme and the water peaceable The straite of that lande is at this day called Cathanes coasting vpon the Sea Deucalidon Thus muche of the particulars of Scotlande But y ◠same is in euery place ful of good Hauens and nauigable entryes Laakes with Marshes flouds fountaines very full of fishe and mountaines vpon the tops wherof be pleasant plaines yéelding great store of grasse and plentie of fodder for Cattel wooddes likewise full of wilde beastes That part of the land is well sustained with commodities and therefore the people harde to be vanquished at anye time by reason the woods and Marshes be at hande for refuge and hunger eased wyth Ueneson and Fish About Scotlande in the Irishe Seas are xl Ilandes of Plinie tearmed Brytanniae other call them Meuania other Hebrides Manye of these in length at leaste are thirty miles but in breadth not aboue xij Amongest thē is Iona beautified with the Tombes of the Scottish Kings The Ilanders generally speake Irishe whiche declareth them to take their originall of the Irishe nation Beyonde Scotlande towarde the Northe be the Iles of Orchades whiche as Ptolome saith be xxx in number some lying in the Ducalidon Sea and some in the Germaine Ocean the principall of whiche Ilandes is Pamonia bycause it is a Byshops sea and is vnder the gouernement of Scotlande The Ilanders vse the Gothes spéeche whiche argueth them to procéede from the Germaines They be tall of stature but verie helthie and lustie of body and minde liuing very long although their chiefest foode is fishe for the lande almost continually beset with colde in many places is not able to bear corne and generally almost without trée or bushe Beyonde the Orchades standeth Thule in the Frosen sea nowe called Iselande to which our marchauntes repaire for fishing once euery yeare in the Sommer And thus much haue I to say of the scite of Scotlande nowe of the nature and maners of the people The Scottes whiche inhabite in the Southern parte bée wel nurtured and liue in good ciuility the most ciuile vse the English spéech And for that wood there is geason scant their common fewel is of a blacke stone whiche they dig out of the Earth The other part Northern ful of mountaines a very rude and homely kinde of people doth inhabite which are called the redshankes or wilde Scottes They be clothed with a mantel and shyrte saffroned after the Irishe manner going bare legged to the knée Their weapons are bowes dartes with a verie brode sword and a dagger sharp only at the one side All speake Irish féeding on fishe milke chéese fleshe hauing a great number of Cattell The Scottes differ from the Englishe in lawes and customes bicause
Cornwall 442 First King that vvare a crovvn of gold vvho builded Blackvvell Hall The seconde Lavves vvere Mulmutius lavves Flores HistoriaruÌ„ reduced this Realme into one Monarchie being before by ciuil warres and dissention seuered and broughte into diuers dominions he was the firste that ware a crown of golde he constituted good lawes whyche long after were called Mulmutius Lawes These lawes holy Gildas wrote oute of the British spéech into Latine He gaue priniledges vnto Temples and ploughes and beganne to make the foure notable wayes in Brytaine In newe Troy he builded a greate Temple called Templum Pacis which some suppose to be Saint Paules some Blackwell Hall and wythoute doubte the olde worke of Blackwel Hall now remayning was the Jewes Synagogue He raigned xl yeares leauing after him two sonnes Belinus and Brennus He was buryed in the Temple of Peace whiche he had builded BElinus and Brennus sons of Mulmutius and Cornouenna 401 diuided this whole Isle of Brytaine betwene them Unto Beline the elder brother was appointed Englande Wales and Cornwall Unto the other the North parte beyond Humber This Brennus a yong man desirous of glory Flores HistoriaruÌ„ I. Leiland â—aâ—fride and dominion raysed warre againste Beline But in conclusion by y e means of their mother they were accorded and Brennus being wholly giueÌ„ to y e study of wars left hys couÌ„try to y t gouernaÌ„ce of his brother weÌ„t into FraÌ„ce amoÌ„gest y e Galles where for his excelleÌ„t qualities he was greatly estéemed made of them theyr soueraigne Captaine with whoÌ„ he passed into Italie sacked Rome and expelling the Tuscanes builded Millain Brescia Como Bergamo Vincenza Trent Verona whiche he called after his owne name Brenona After Iustine this as writeth Trogus Pompeius abridged by Iustine hée raised an hoste of 150000. footemen and 15000. horsemen inuaded Macedone againe When Sosthenes sawe how they wasted the Countrey and villages he mette them with hys host of Macedones well appointed But by reason they were fewe and their enemies manye they were soone put to the worser Wherefore while the Macedones being beaten kept them within the walles of their Cities Brennus like a conquerour against whom no man durst shew his head to make resistaunce foraged al the Iles of Macedone And from thence as though those booties and spoyles séemed too base and simple in his eye he tourned his minde to the Temples of the Goddes immortall malapertlye scoffing that the goddes were riche and ought to departe liberally to men Therfore he toke his iourney towards Delphos setting more by y e gain of the gold that had ben offered to the Goddes than by theyr displeasure The Temple of Apollo at Delphos is situate in y e mount Parnassus vppon a cliffe on euerye side falling stéepe downe There the confluence of men hath made a populous Cittie Moreouer both the Temple and the towne are enclosed with the stéepenesse of the rocke The middle part of the rocke inwarde is in fashion like a Theatre by meanes whereof when men make any shouting or any Trumpet is sounded the same breaketh redoundeth in such wise vpon the stones from one to another that the Echo is herd double and treble the noyce resounding farre lowder than it wente forth The whyche causeth the ignoraunt to stande in more feare thinking it to be the presence of the Godheade In the winding of the rocke almost mid-way to the toppe of the Hil there is a little playne and in the same a déepe hole into the ground which serueth to giue Oracles Out of the which a certaine colde breath ascending vpwarde stirreth the mindes of the Prophetes into a madnesse and so compelleth them to giue aunsweare to such as come for counsayle In the same place therefore there are to be séene many and riche gifts of kyngs and peoples Wherefore when Brutus came within the view of the Temple he was in doubt a greate whyle whether hée wer better to attempt the matter forthwith or giue his souldiours that nights respite to rest them Euridanus and Thessalonus who for conetousnesse of the praye hadde ioyned themselues with him willed to cut off al delay while theyr enimies were vnprouided where as by giuing them that nights respite theyr enimies should perchance get both courage and succour but the common souldiours of the Frenchmen when after long penurie they founde a Countrey replenished with wine and all other kind of victuals they dispersed themselues in the fields making hauock of al things like conguerours by which meanes the Delphians had respit to lay for themselues and manned the towne by the helpe of theyr neyghbours or euer the Frenchmen coulde be called from the wyne Fat to their standarde Brennus had thréescore and fiue thousand chosen footemen of the best in al his hoste where as the Delphians were in al but. 4000. fighting men In disdayne of whiche small handful Brennus to the entente to sharpen the mindes of his men shewed them all what a riche and plentiful pray they shoulde haue The Frenchmen being by this vouching of their Captaine or rather by theyr owne beholding stirred vp and also wounded with the wine they had poured in the day before without respite of any daÌ„ger ran heâ—long to the encounter On the contrarie part the Delphians putting more truste in God than in their owne strength resisted theyr enemyes and what with stones and what with their weapons threw the Frenchmen as they scaled headlong from the top of the mountain While the two partes were thus striuing one with another sodainely the Priestes of al the Temples and the Prophetes wyth theyr haire aboute their eares c. like men straught out of their wittes came running into the forefront of the battaile crying out that while they were al making their supplications to God for ayde they met a yong maÌ„ of beautie and personage far excelling any mortal creature and in his companie two Uirgins in armour wherefore they besought them séeing the Gods did garde their standarde they shoulde not sticke to dispatch their enimies And there with all they forthwith perceyued that God was present on their side For both a piece of the mountaine being broken off by a sodaine earthquake ouerwhelmed the French hoste and the thickest of theyr enimies not without gret slaughter were opened and put to flight In the necke whereof there ensued a tempeste with hayle thunder and lightning consuming as manye as were anye thing sore wounded The Captaine Brennus himselfe not being able to abyde the smarte of his woundes Brennus killeth himselfe toke â— sworde and killed himselfe Thus farre abridged out of Iustrne Beline in the meane time bothe in ciuill iustice and also Religion greatly encreased his Realm He made thrée Archflamines whose Seas were at new Troy Kayrbranke Kayrlegion Archflames Foure notable vvayes He finished the foure greate wayes begon by his Father he subdued and made tributarie vnto him Denmarke In
they might haue vines and make wine After he had raigned fine yeares he was slaine by the souldiours CAius then succéeded him with his two sonnes Numerianus 282 Vopisens and Carinus to whiche Carinus he assigned Brytaine Gaule called Fraunce Illiricum Italie and Spaine but all thrée within thrée yeares space lost their liues VAlerius Dioclesianus was then chosen Emperour 284 who adioyned Maximianus vnto hym in lyke gouernement Aboute thys tyme holy Alban for professing Christ being Vita Albani ledde from the Cittie of Verolamium vnto Holmehurst where nowe the towne of Saint Albans is builded suffered martyrdome who is specified to be the first Martyre of Brytaine and shortly after to the number of one thousande Christiās were martyred at Lichfielde where Amphabole instructer Liber Lichfielde of Alban was taken broughte to Verolamium and there tormented to death Carausius was appointed to be admirall of the Brytaine Seas whyche were sore troubled by the Pyracies of the Franckes and Saxons but when he had oftentimes apprehended the Pirates and neyther reserued the prizes or was Reserued accountable for it neyther to the Emperours nor his deputies it was suspected that of set purpose he permitted these Rouers to haue recourse through those Seas to the ende hée mighte rifle them and inrich himself Maximianus therfore sent part of his armye to suppresse him in which were manye of the Thebane legion who in thys iourney were slayne by his commaundemente and made martyres bycause they professed Christ Carausius vnderstanding of the preparatiō made against him passed out of Gaule into Brytaine where bringing the Countrey to hys obeysaunce he vsurped the Roabe of an Emperour wherevppon they whiche were sente to surprise him retourned to Maximianus who then was encombered with newe warre in Gaule agaynste the Peasantes In the meane time Carausius built shippes in Brytayn intercepted certayn cōpanyes of souldiours assembled a gret number of barbarous people with spoyle with hope of whō he purposed to trouble the sea coastes of Gallia Spaine Holland also then holden by certayne Frankes reuolted to Carausius THen purposed Maximianus the seconde tyme to make 288 warre agaynste Carausius but by stormye weather and wante of Pilotes hée was enforced to deferre hys purpose leauyng the gouernement of thys I le to Carausius Shortlye after the two Emperours elected two Caesars 291 Valerius Maximus and Constantius Chlorus to which Constantius they committed the recouerie of Brytaine Hée immediatelye passing through Gaule hytherwarde sodaynely surprised Gesseriacum nowe called Bullen whiche Carausius had manned and so stopped the Hauen that it could stande Carausius in no stéede Then building shippes to passe ouer Paneg. Constantius dictus hither he first assayled luckily the Hollanders whiche had reuolted to Carausius and then staying for conuenient winde he houered a while on the sea coaste and in the meane tyme Carausius was traytorously slayne by Alectus his familiar friende ALbertus then vsurped the Empire here in Brytayne 292 agaynste whome Constantine wyth hys former preparation made readye for warre and launched out in haste thoughe the winde was contrarie Whyche when hys souldiours vnderstoode they sette out also wyth side windes out of the Seyne and other Ports in suche foggie and mystie Seyne weather that they passed by Alectus Nauie then honering for them aboute the I le of Wighte not séeing one the other The Romaines as soone as they landed burnte theyr shippes determining either to winne or lose their liues which when Allectus vnderstoode he left the shore and prepared himselfe for battaile with his Mercenarie barbarous souldiours in which he was slaine by Asclepiodatus Lorde greate maister of the Emperours house In thys fight none of the Romaynes perished but here al the fielde was ouer-spred with deade bodyes of the enimies among whom lay Alectus himselfe without any Imperiall ornamentes and scantly knowen Other Romaine souldiours also whiche had loste theyr companye in the myste arriued at London slewe in the Citie greate number of barbarous people whyche escaped from the battaile and purposed to haue sacked London Then when Constantius came a lande the Brytains with their wiues and children flocked vnto him and submitted themselues ioyfully being nowe deliuered out of a long thraldome Thys expedition of Constantius into Brytain is ascribed by some to Maximianus into which error a false inscription of the Panegirike hath led them ASclepiodatus as is before touched recouered Brytaine 290 Galfridu◠he belayde the Citie of London with a strong siege wherein was Liuius Gallus the Romaine Captaine and ere it wer◠long by Knightly force and violence entred the Citie and slew the forenamed Gallus neare vnto a brooke there at that daye running into whiche brooke he threwe him by reason wherof it was called in Brytish Nant Gallon since in the Saxon tongue Gallus or Wallus brooke and thys daye the stréete where some-time the brooke ranne is called Walbrooke COill after Asclepiodatus toke on him the Kingdome of 301 Brytaine COnstantius begā his Empire with Gallerius the Empire 305 was deuided betwéen them so that Constantius shoulde possesse Affrica Italie Fraunce and Brytaine Gallerius shoulde haue Illirica Asia and the East partes whiche done they substituted vnder them two Caesars Cōstantius holding himselfe content with the dignitie of Augustus refused to sustaine the trouble whiche he shoulde haue endured through the administration of the affaires of Italie and Affricke hée sought by all meanes howe he mighte enriche the people of the Empire He abolished the superstition of the Gentiles in his dominions so that afterwarde Brytaine felt no persecutions The yeare following he passed out of Fraunce hyther against the Pictes at whiche time his sonne Constantine who then serued Galerius perceyuing his destructien to be compassed posted to his Father in al haste howghing killing the post horsses whych way so euer he passed that he mighte not be pursued and came to his Father the verye houre that he wente aboorde to come into Brytaine but Constantius as Panegiricus soone as he came to Yorke sodainely sickned and perceyuing his daye to drawe neare when he was asked to whome hée woulde leaue the Empire aunswered to Constantine and shortly after departed COnstantine surnamed the great sonne of Constantius by 306 Helena first consecrated hys Father being nowe deade and with so great sorrowe and sheading of teares solempnized his burial that the souldiours hoping he would resemble hys Father saluted him Emperour at Yorke against his wil but when the Romaine Senate had confirmed hys election with theyr consent he willingly accepted it And the yere folowing setting the affayres of Brytaine in order he passed hence wyth manye Brytaines firste agaynste the Frankes whome he vanquished then agaynste Maxentius an Usurper whome he slewe and afterwarde agaynste Licinus who named hymselfe Emperour whome also he subdued Many barbarous nations also were by hym discomfited He establyshed the Gospell in hys Empyre and after hym
the verye yeare that he conquered Kent subdued also this Suthred and annexed Essex to hys Kingdome yet London with the Countrey confining about it came not in subiection to the Weast-Saxons but obeyed the King of Mercia as long as that Kingdome continued Sigehricke and Sigehard afterwarde aspired to the Kingdome of East Saxon but with no good successe Mercians MErcia the fifth Kingdome and greatest of the other contayned Gloucester Hereford Chester Stafforde Wircester Oxforde Warwicke Darby Leicester Buckingham Northampton Notingham Lincolne Bedforde Huntington and parte of Hartforde shires It had on the Weast side the riuer Dee fast by Chester and Seuerne fast by Shrewsburie vnto Bristow in the East the East sea in the South Thamis vnto London in the North y ◠riuer Humber so Westward down to the riuer Merce vnto the corner of Wyrhall This kingdome of Merce in the beginning was departed into thrée parts into West Mercia middle Mercia and East Mercia it cōtayneth the diocesses of Lincolne Wircester Hereforde Couentrie and Lichfielde CReda the eleuenth from Woden firste King of the Mercies 586 raigned ten yeares ¶ Wibba his sonne raigned xx yeares 596 616 626 W. Malme ¶ Ceorlus his sonne raigned x. yeares PEnda the sonne of Wibba a manne actiue in warres but franticke and most wicked toke on him the kingdome of the Mercies when he was fiftie yeres old he shooke the Cities and disturbed the borders of the kings that were hys owne Countreymenne borne he slewe Edwin and Oswald kings of Northumberlande where Oswald was slaine is nowe scituate the town of Oswalstre which of him toke that name he also slew Sigebert Egfride and Anna kings of the East Angles which all were of holy life and conuersation hée banished Kenewallus king of West Saxons but in the ende himselfe was slaine by Oswyn which succéeded Oswald hys brother when he had raigned xxx yeares PEda the sonne of Penda succéeded in part of the Kingdome 656 W. Malme being preferred by the gift of Oswin whose daughter hée had taken to wife on condition he shoulde embrace Christianitie and forsake Idolatry This Peda was the first foūder of Medeshamsted now called Petarborow Through y t treason Peterborow founded of his wife he dyed sodainly when he had raigned after hys Father iij. yeares OSwine toke the Kingdome but he raigned there onely 659 thrée yeares VLferus brother to Peda earnestlye preferred Christianitie 662 whych hys brother had begonne but he was the first sayeth W of Malmesbery that throughe the sinne of Simony sold the Byshoprick of London vnto Wyna He raigned xvij yeares EThelred brother to Vlferus succéeded in the kingdome of 676 Bishops sea ◠VVorcester the Mercians hée obtayned a Byshoppes Sea to be in the Citie of Worcester Bosellus was firste Bishoppe there Egwinus was the second This Egwinus by the helpe of Kenredus King of Mercies founded the Monasterie of Euesham in a Ex Carta place then called Eouesham of the shepherdes fielde and Euesham house purchased by the saide Bishop The towne in the Saxons time was called Hotheholme Aboute the same time two Liber Tewks noble men named Odo and Dodo founded the Priorie of Tewkesbury Monastery of Gloucester Inscriptiones Gloucestriae Tewkesburie Also Osricke duke of Gloucester founded the Monasterie of Gloucester then since the same is a Bishops Sea Etheldred became a Monke at Bardoney when he had raigned xxx yeares KInredus sonne to Wolferus in the fifth yere of his raigne 706 went to Rome and became a Monke CElred the sonne of Ethelred who as he was maruellous 710 in prowes against Ina of the West Saxons so was he miserable by vntimely death for he rained not past viij yeres and was buried at Lichfielde EThelbalde raigned in continuall peace many yeares and 718 Chronicle of Holande Ro. Mai. Epistle of Boniface to Ethelbald then by the procurement of Beruredus was slaine of hys own subiects Unto this Ethelbald Boniface y e secōd Bishop of Verche in Holland after Archbishop of Mens vpon the Rijne an English māborn who was afterward martyred sent an Epistle of the whiche I will here sette downe a péece to be séene for that it sheweth partlye the state of that time and serueth for example in time to come TO his most deare Lorde and to be preferred in the loue of Christ aboue all other kings of England Edbaldus Boniface Archbishoppe the Germaine legate perpetual helth of charitie loue in Christ We acknowledge before God that we did reioyce to heare of your prosperitie your Faith and good workes and we be sory when we heare any thing that goeth against you eyther in successe of warre or in danger of your soule for we haue heard that you forbid thefte and robbery that you loue peace defende the widowe and the poore for the which we giue God thanks but in that you refuse lawfull marriage which if it were to the preferring of chastitie it were cōmendable and sith you wallow in leacherie and adultery with Uirgins consecrate to God it is both shamefull and damnable for it doth confounde your renowme bothe before God and man placing you among Idolators bicause you violate the temple of God Wherfore my deare sonne repent and remember how filthy a thing it is that thou who by the gifte of GOD raygnest ouer so many nations shouldest to the great displeasure of GOD make thy selfe a bonde slaue to thyne owne fleshly lust Wée haue hearde also that the more parte of noble men and people of the Mercians by thyne euill example haue left theyr lawfull wiues and haue defiled the wiues of other and also Uirgins whiche howe farre it differeth from all good order and honestie let the lawes of straunge nations touche you for in the auntient Countrey of the Saxons where was no knowledge of God if eyther a mayde in hyr fathers house or being married to an husband were become an aduoutresse she shoulde be strangled by hir own hande closed to hyr mouth and the corrupter shoulde be hanged Aduoutry amōg the Infidels pushed by death vpon the pitte where the aduoutresse was buryed If shée were not so vsed hyr garmentes being cutte awaye downe to the gyrdle-stéede the chaste matrones dyd scourge and whip hyr and pricke hyr wyth kniues and so was sent from Towne to Towne where other freshe and newe scourgers or whippers did méete and whippe hir vntyll they hadde killed hyr Likewise the Womedeans who are the moste vncleane kinde of people hadde thys manner of vsage wyth them that the husbande beyng deade the woman togyther wyth the deade bodye shoulde caste hyr selfe headlong into the fiered stacke or pile of woodde prepared for the burning of theyr bodyes If therefore the Gentiles not knowing GOD hadde so greate zeale to chastitie howe muche the more my deare sonne it is to be required at thy handes who arte a Christian and a King Haue therefore
committing adulterie with a lay man and cast out of the Monasterie she ended hir life in pouertie miserie Houeden as of many that haue séene hir we heard sayth mine Author Asserius Asser EGbrichus obtayned the gouernement of the Weast Saxons 802 He tamed the Welchmen vanquished Bertulphus King of the Mercians at Hellendune and subdued to his obeysance W. Malme the Kentish Saxons East Saxons and Northumbers He caused the brasen Image of Cadwaline King of the Britaines to bée Scal. Croni throwen downe and this Lande no more to be called Britaine but Anglia or England He was Crowned at Winchester Britaine first named England In the 33. yeare of his raigne the Danes ariued at Lindisferne Danes arriued heere Sca. Cro. and foughte with the Englishmen at Carham where two Bishops two Earles and a greate number of the English people were slayne Two yeares after y â— Danes ariued in West Wales where Egbright ouercame them at Hengistendon He raigned ouer the most part of England the space of seauen and thirtie yeares and seauen monethes and was buryed at Winchester ADelnulfus the sonne of Egbrichus beganne his raigne ouer 8â—9 Wil. Malme the more parte of Englande He tooke to wife Iudith daughter to the King of France and had by hir four sonnes which were Kings after him In his time there came a great armie of the Pagan Danes Alredus Riusall with 350. Ships into the mouth of Thamis and so to London and spoyled it and put to flight Beorthulfe King of Mercia Danes spoyle London with all his power which came to bid them battel and then the Danes went with their armie into Southerie then Adhelnulfus with his sonne Adhelbald and a great army came against the foresayd Danes and at a place called Aolea they fought a cruell battell wherein the most parte of the Danes were slayne The same yeare Adhelstane the sonne of Adhelfus and Sca. Cro. Calchere y â— Earle slew a great armie of the Paganes at Sandwich in Kent and tooke nine of their Shippes Adhelnulfus sent his sonne Alfride to Rome with a great number of noble men and other at which time Pope Leo confirmed the said Alfride and tooke him to his sonne by adoption and also consecrated him King This Adhelnulfus did make the tenth part of his kingdome Tenth giuen to the Church by King Adelnulfus frée from tribute and seruice to the King and gaue it to them that did serue Christ in the Churche and the same yeare he wente to Rome where he repaired the Englishe English Schoole at Rome repayred Schole which was first founded by Offa King of the Mercies In the meane season his sonne Adhelbald rebelling vsurped the Kingdome so that when Adhelnulfus returned he was forced to deuide the Kingdome and to take the worse part He raigned eightéene yeares and was buryed at Winchester sayth Asser Asser ADhelbald raigned after his Father against God the 857 worthinesse of Christianitie yea and coÌ„trarie to the custome of all Paganes he presumed to hys Fathers marriage bedde and with greate infamie married Iudith the French Kings daughter He raigned after his father Flori Wigor two yeares and was buryed at Shirborne AThelbrict brother to Athelbald tooke vnder his dominion 860 Kent Southery and Sussex In this time the greate Armie of the Paganes inuaded Danes inuade and spoyle VVinchester and spoyled the Citie of Winchester who when they returned with a great pray towards their Ships Osrike Earle of Hampton and his folke and Adhelnulfus the Earle with Barkeshire men met them and farre from any Towne they ioyned battell where the Paganes were slayne in euery corner and the Christians kept the field The Normans and Danes made a firme league with the Kentishmen who promised them money to kéepe the league but notwithstanding the Paganes brake priuilie out of their Danes make a league and breake it Castels by night and spoyled all the East parts of Kent Athelbrict raigned fiue yeares and was buryed at Shirborne ETheldred brother to Adhelbrict receyued the Kingdome 866 of the Weast Saxons In the firste yeare of his raigne a great Nauie of Paganes came into England and remayned all the winter in the Kingdome of East England Anno 871 the Paganes came to Reading in Barkeshire where they cast a great ditch and wall betwixt the two Riuers Thames and Kynetan on the right side of the said towne Adhelnulfus Earle of Barkeshire and his armie mette with the Paganes in a place called Englefield where the Paganes had the worst and many of them slaine and the rest put to flight Etheldred King of the Weast Saxons and Aelfrede his brother came to Reading where was foughten a fierce and cruell battell but at the last the Christians fled and the Paganes had the victorie The Christians within four dayes fought a battell with the Paganes in Assendune but the Paganes deuided themselues Battayle at Assendune into two battels for then they had two Kings which when the Christians sawe they likewise deuided their armie into two companyes It was determined that King Ethelred with his battell shoulde goe againste the two Pagan kings with their battell and that his brother Aelfrede with his armye shoulde set on all the Pagan Dukes and theyr armye Battayle at Assendoune All things thus ordered when the king farried long in hys prayer and the Pagans being readilye prepared came to Chipenhane where the battel was pitched Aelfred séeing he muste either retire or sette on his enemies Sca. Cron. before his brother did come he straight ways set vpon them though the place of battel was vnequall for the Pagans had gotten the higher grounde and the Christians brought their battel from the valley There was in that place one onely thorne trée very short about which trée the battels met and ioyned wher when they had a long time fought Hubba one of the kings fiue Earles and many thousandes moe of the Pagans being slaine the other were chased A great heape of stones was layd copped vp where Hubba was buried and the place called Hubbeslow Hubbeslovv This being done King Etheldred and his brother Aelfrede Sca. Cro. shortly after gathered their power againe to fight wyth the Pagans at Basing where after a long and sore battayle the Pagans had the victorie After this battayle came another armye of Pagans from Pagans vanquished beyonde seas and ioyned with the first When King Etheldred had raigned fiue yeares he was slaine of the Pagans at Whitingham and buried in the Monasterie of Winburne with thys Epitaph In hoc loco quiescit corpus sancti Etheldredi regis WestsaxonuÌ„ Sca. Cro. Marians Scotus martyris qui anno Domini 872. 23. die Aprilis per manus Dacorum Paganâ—rum occubuit His armes a crosse Florie Anno. 870. Saint Ebbe Abbesse of Coldingham sixe myles Flores HistoriaruÌ„ Chastitie before beautie preferred a rare example
in bréedth 30. myles The same yere Hastings came with 80. shippes into the Milton mouth of Thamis and made a strong town Middleton in the Beaufleet South side of y e Thamis and another on the Northside called Beaufleete The yeare following the Citie of Yorke was taken by the Normans but Seber the Bishoppe by Gods prouision escaped The same yeare also Aelfred fought against the Normans at Fernham where he slewe them wounded their King and Fernham chased the remnant through the Thamis into Eastsex wherby many of them were drowned Aelfrede hearing that a great number of the Pagans were arriued at Exanceastre he toke with him a greate army and by battayle ouercame and chased them away In the meane season Adhered Earle of the Mercies and Beaufleet taken from the PagaÌ„s the Citizens of London with other came to Beaufleete and besieged the Castell of the Pagans and brake into it where they tooke excéeding riche spoyles of golde siluer horsses and garmentes among whiche was taken the wife of Hastings and hys two sonnes whiche were broughte to London and presented to the King who commaunded them to be restored againe But Hastings came againe into Beaufleete and repayred to the Castell whiche they hadde broken downe From thence he wente to Sceabridge and there builded a Sudbury strong Castell there was ioyned vnto hym the armye that remayned at Apuldrane and other that came from the East Englishe and from the Northumbers who altogyther spoyled Apuldoâ— and robbed tyl they came to the bancke of Seuerne and there at Bultingatume they made a strong towne but by Adhered Earle of the Mercies and other they were besieged shortly through famine forced to come out where many on bothe Florenâ—â— Cronica cronicaruin Marianus Scotus sides were slaine but the Christians had the victorie In the yeare 895. the Pagans wintered in a little Ile called I le of Mersey Ley a riuer that then bare ships vnto VVare Asserius Merâ—ig in the East part of Essex scituate in the sea and the same yeare they sayled by the riuer of Thamis after by the riuer of Ligea and twentie myles from London began to build a Fortresse In the Sommer following the Londoners and other néere adioyning did séeke to destroy the fortresse of the Danes but they being put to flight king Aelfrede pitched â— fielde not farre from the Citie least the Pagans should take away the Haruest of the Countrey and viewing the riuer one daye perceyued that the Chanel mighte be in one place dammed vp that the Danes should not get out their shippes he forthwith commaunded on both sides the riuer a damme to be cast and deuided that riuer into thrée streames so that where shippes before had sayled now a small boate coulde scantly rowe which when the Pagans perceyued they leauing theyr wiues and ships flée a foote to Quatbridge there Novv called Catvvarebrig or Catvvaâ—d bridge building a Fortresse lodged there the Winter following whose shippes the Londoners bring some to London the other they brake downe and destroyed Anno. 897. the Pagans came from Quatbridge parte into East England part into Northumberland some got them ships and sayled into Fraunce After al these verations by the cruel Danes committed folowed farre greater the space of thrée yeres by death of cattaile and mortalitie of men XX. Danish ships were taken being Pirates and the Pyrates slaine or hauged on the gallowes This victorious Prince the studious prouider for Alfred deceased widâ—wes orphanes and poore people moste perfect in Sa 〈…〉 Poetrie moste liberall indued with Wisdome Prayse of King Alfrede fortitude iustice and temperaunce the most patient bearer of sicknesse wherewith he was dayly vexed a moste discrete searcher of trueth in executing iudgement a moste vigilant and deuout Prince in the seruice of God Alfrede the. xxix yeare and sixth month of his raigne departed this life the xxviij daye of October and is buried at Winchester in the new Monasterie of his foundation He founded a Monasterie of Monkes at Ethelingsey and another for Nunnes at Shaftsburie He ordayned the hundreds and tenthes whiche Wil. Malmâ— Floriacâ—ns Reg. Hig. Sea Cro. Regist Hyde T. Rudburnâ— Vniuersitie in Oxforde Marianus Scotus men call Centuaries and Cupings he sent for Grâ—â—balde to come into England that by his aduice he might erect y â— studie of good learning cleane decayed By the counsell of Neotus he ordayned common scholes of diuerse sciences in OxeÌ„forde and tourned the Saxon lawes into Englishe with diuerse other bookes He established good laws by the which he brought so gret Regist Hidâ— a quietnesse to the Countrey that men might haue hanged golden bracelets and Jewels where the wayes parted and no man durst touch them for feare of the law He caried euer y â— Psalter in his bosome y â— wheÌ„ he had any leysure he might read it ouer with diligence He deuided the xxiiij houres of the daye and nighte into Asserius thrée parts he spent viij hâ—ures in writing reading praying eight in prouision of his body viij in hearing and dispatching Marianus Scotus the matters of his subiects He deuided his yerely reuenues into two partes and the first he deuided into thrée one part he gaue to his seruaÌ„ts the second part to his workmen which were occupyed in building the third part to straÌ„gers The second part of y â— who le he deuided into iiij parts the first part wherof he gaue in almes to the poore the second to Monasteries by him founded the third to scholes which he had erected and gathered of many both noble mens other mens sons of his nation the fourth part he distributed to the next Monasteries in all the English Saxon. Alhfwido wife to king Alfrede founded the monasterie of Nuns in Winchester EDward surnamed Senior the son of Aelfred was annoynted 900 Speculum histo Ri. Câ—ren Adhelvvoldâ— reuolteth king shortly after Adhelwoldus cousin germaine vnto king Edwarde reuolted and wente to the armie of the Pagans who forthwith chose him to be their Kyng in Northumberlands Ioannes Leoafer in his thirde booke of the description â—â— Iohns Leoafer Africa writeth that about this time to say about the yere â—â— our Lorde 905. the Englishmen at the perswasion of the Gothes besieged the great Citie Argilla in Barbarie which the Affricanes call Arella being 70. myles distant froÌ„ the streight of Marrocho Southwarde hoping thereby to withdraw the Sarazens out of Europe where they fought with so great courage and good successe that they wanne the sayde towne and so ransacked it with fire and sworde that scant one escaped there and the towne laye desolate and without inhabitantâ— for the space of thirtie yeare We account thys to haue hapned in the foresayde yeare bycause the aucthour after the â—â—shion of the Sarazens doth referre it to the. 314. yeare of Mâ—homets Hegira which by coÌ„ference of theyr places
doth séeme to beginne in the yeare of our Lord. 591. which number being added do bring forth 905. Adhelwoldus King of the Pagans brought a great armye from Eastsex and the East English whiche robbed and spoyled through all Mercia and the Weaste Countrey vntill they came to Crickalde and there went ouer the Thamis and tooke great spoyles about Bradney King Edward gathered an army and went towarde the Danes but while he tarried his army out of Kent Adhelwolf King of the Danes came vpon him with a great power and badde him battayle wherein Cochricus Adelwolfe kings of the Pagans were slaine In the yeare 910. a battaile was fought at Wodnesfielde a mile North from Wolfrune Hampton in Staffordeshire where VVodnesfielde in Staffordshire VVlfrune Hampton Cowilfus Healidene kings of y â— Pagans with many Erles and Nobles were slaine but of the common people innumerable Aethered Earle of the Mercies dyed and king Edwarde toke into his Dominion London and Oxenforde and all the Countrey adioyning therevnto In the yeare 913. by the Kings commaundement at Hertforde betwixt the riuers of Memeran Benefician and Legian in the North side a Citie is builded In the yeare 914. the Pagans of Northumberlande and Leycester in the Countie of Oxforde toke spoyles and in the kings towne called Hokenorton and in manye other places they slew many people and retourned home againe another army of y â— Danes being horssemen were sent into Hartfordeshire towardes Legeton with whom the men of y â— Countrey encountered and slaying manye of them put the rest to â—â—ight taking theyr horsses and armour with a great praye King Edward leauing certaine to builde a Citie in y â— South Maldon iâ— Essex part of the riuer Lâ—gea with more parte of his armye wente into Essex and encamped at Mealdune where he tarried til a Towne was builded at Witham In the yeare 915. a great Nauie of Danes sayled aboute the West Countrey and landed in diuerse places taking gret prayes and went to their shippes againe The King for strengthning of the Countrey made a Castel at y â— mouth of the water of Auon and another at Buckingham the thirde fast by that is on eyther side of the riuers course one then wente into Northampton and Bedfordshires and subdued the Danes there with their leader called Turketils King Edward builded or new repayred the towns of Tocester Tocester VVigmore and Wigmore In the yeare 918. the Kentish Southrey and East Saxons besieged Colchester and wanne it by force and slew all therein Cogshal a fewe excepted that escaped by flight The same yeare king Colchester in Essex Edward wente to Colchester with an army repayred y â— wals and put a great garrison of souldiours into it The next yeare died the noble Princesse Elfleda wife to HeÌ„rie Bradshaw Reynulâ— Hygden Etheldredus Duke of Mercia and was buryed in the Monasterie of Saint Peter whiche hir Lorde and she before had builded in the Towne of Glocester whiche Monasterie was after throwen to the grounde by the Danes but Aeldredus Bishoppe of Yorke of Worcester made there another which is now the chiefest Church in the towne This noble woman Elfleda réedified the Cittie of Chester she repayred the towne of Tomworth beside Lichfielde Chester Tomvvorth Lichfielde Stafford VVarvvike Shrevvesburie VVatersburie Eldesburie Leycester repayred Runcorn tovvn and castell and Brimsbery vvith the bridge builded Stafford Warwicke Shrewesburie Watrisburie Eldisburie Legeceaster with a towne and Castell in the North ende of Mercia vpon the Riuer of Merse that is called Runcorne she builded a bridge ouer Seuerne called Brimesberie bridge c. When she had once assaied the paines that women suffer in trauayling with childe she euer after refused the embracing of hir husbande saying it was not séemely for any noble woman to vse such fleshly lyking whereof shoulde ensue so great sorrow and paine tamed the Walchmen and in diuerse battayles chased the Danes after whose death Edward helde that Prouince in hys owne hande King Edward builded a newe town against the old town of Notingham on the South side of the Riuer of Trent made Marianus Scotus Wil. Thorne Henrie Hunting Alredus Riual Thilvval built Manchester repayred a bridge ouer the sayde riuer betwéene the two townes he subdued the kings of Scotland Wales he builded a town in y t North end of Mercia by y â— riuer of Merse named it Thilwal and repayred the Towne of Manchester after al which déeds by him done he deceased at Faringdon and was buried at Winchester in the new Church whiche hys father Aâ—lfrede had builded when he had raygne xxiiij yeares A Delstane after the deathe of Edwarde Senior his father 924 Alfridus Beuerla Iohn Leyland Speculum histo Rich. Cirenc was Crowned at Kingstone by Athelmus Archbishoppe of Canturburie His corenation was celebrated in the market place vpon a stage erected on hic that the King mighte beÌ„e séene the better of the multitude He was a Prince of worthy memorie valiant and wise in all his actes and brought W. Malâ—â— thys lande into one Monarchie for he expelled vtterly the Danes and quieted the Walchmen He caused them to paye hym yearely tribute twentie pounde of golde 300. pounde of siluer and 2500. heade of Neate with houndes haukes to a certaine number And after that he had by battayle conquered Scotlande hée made one Constantine king of Scottes vnder him adding this Princely word that it was more honoure to hym to make a King than to be a King He made seuen coyning mintes at Canturburie foure for the King two for the Archbishoppe and one for the Abbot at Rochester iij. two for the king and one Canturb recordes for the Byshoppe besides these in London eight in Winchester W. Lâ—â—bâ—â—â— Sax. Lawes sixe in Lewes two in Hastings two in Chichester one in Hampton two in Warham two in Excester two in Shaftesburie two and in euery good towne one Coyner He founded Saint Germaines in Cornewal which was since T. Rudborn Girardus Coâ—â—ubi a Bishops sea he founded Saint Peâ—rocus at Bodmin he founded Pilton Priorie Midleton and Michelney In his time Guy Earle of Warwicke in acombate slewe Guy of VVarvvicke slevv Colbrond Colbrond the Danish Giant in Hide Meade neare vnto Winchester Athelstane raigned fiftéene yeares and was buried at Io. Lidgat Malmesburie EDmunde the brother of Adelstan tooke on him the gouernaunce 940 of thys realme whose shorte raigne tooke from him the renoume of moste hyghe prayses that should haue redounded to this posteritie for he was a maÌ„ disposed Marianus of nature to noblenesse and Justice hée toke out of the Danes handes the Townes of Lincolne Notingham Darbie Leicester and Stanforde and brought all Mercia to hys Dominion he expulsed the two kings Anlafus the sonne of Sithricus Io. Taxtor and Reginalde the sonne of Cuthberte out of Northumberlande and subdued the Countrey to
reg 2. 1068 Ypodigma Mathild wife to King William came forth of Normandie and on Whitsonday was consecrated Quéene by Aldred Archebyshop of Yorke After this Marleswin Gospatricke and other noble menne of Northumberlande to auoyde king Williams roughe and boysterous dealings taking with them Edgar Etheling and his mother Agatha with his two sisters Margaret and Christian wente by sea into Scotlande where they were receiued and well entertayned of Malcoline king of Scottes who tooke Margaret the sister of Edgar to wife Iohn Rouse King William with his armye wente to Notingham and Castel at Notingham Yorke and Lincolne builded there builded a Castel he went to Yorke and made there two Castels and put in them garisons he coÌ„maunded also Castels to be made at Lincolne and other places This yere Henrie the kings sonne was borne in EnglaÌ„d T. Rudborne Earle of Northumberlande slaine for his eldest sons Robert and William Rufus were borne in Normandie before he Conquered England King William gaue to Robert Commin the Earledome Liber Dunelme Anno. reg 3. of Northumberland who entred by force into Duresme but for his outrages there done he and 900. of his men were slaine by the men of that Countrey in the Bishoppes palace that Sea Cro. had himselfe receyued him honourablye and king William came Afterward vpon them and slewe them euery one Agelricus bishop of Durham being accused of treason was 1069 imprisoned at Westminster And his brother Egelwine being made Bishop there was soone banished The Englishmen that were fledde out of Englande hauyng Edgar to be their Captaine returned out of Scotlande and sodainely set vpon the garisons that King William had sette at Yorke put them to flighte slewe them possessed the Citie and pronounced Edgar to be King but not long after King William came with a great armye and recouered thr Citie constrayning Edgar to retourne into Scollande Edgar seeing he coulde not make his partye good with king William adioyned vnto hym Canutus king of the Danes promising hym halfe of the kingdome Thus they entred Englande and came to Yorke The Normaines that were left to defende the Citie sette Yorke brent their suburbes on fire that their enimies shoulde haue no commoditie of it but the winde droue the fire on high and set all the Cittie on fire so that the garisons were forced to flée into their enimies hands In the â—kirmish were slaine 3000 Normans wherevppon all the North parte of England fell from William to Edgar When William had word of the slaughter of his men hée with great trauel came to Yorke where he fought with hys enimies and put them to flighte Canutus with a few Danes got to their shippes but Edgar and the Englishmen which escaped retourned into Scotland King William spoyled all the Countrey beyonde Humber Such a dearth was in England that men did eate horsses Anno reg 4. Mans flesh good meate Ioh Taxtor 1070 Monasteries rifled cattes dogges and mans flesh King William bereaued all the Monasteries and Abbayes in Englande of theyr golde and siluer sparing neyther chalice nor shrine appropriating the sayd Monasteries and Abbayes to himselfe he also brought vnder Knightes seruice all those Bishoprickes and Abbayes that held Baronies which had bin frée from all secular bondage appointing them howe many souldiours they should finde him and his successours in time of warre In a counsel at Winchester Stigand was deposed as an Ypodigma Stigand deposed Apostata Archebishop who for money got his Bishopricke and Lanfranke was chosen Archbishop of Canturburie Anno. reg 5. 1071 Edwine Earle of Mercia Marcherus Earle of NorthuÌ„berlande and Swardus an Earle with Egelwine Bishop of Durham and many other of the cleargie and laitie kéeping the Noble men fled wooddes for that they were not able to abyde the Kings displeasure at the last came into the I le of Elie Herewarde being their Captaine who sore afflicted that Countrey but king William besieging the I le they all sauing Herewarde submitted them to his plesure who committed some to perpetual prison some he put to death and some he ransomed but Hereward by strong hande broughte his men out of the I le and escaped The Castell of Ledes in Kent was builded by Creueken Anno. reg 6. Ex libro Norâ— Castel of Leder and of Oxforde builded Iohn Rouse 1072 Mathew Paris Yorke subiect to Canturburie Anno reg 7. 1073 Anno reg 8. and the Castel of Oxforde by Robert de Olly two noble men that came into England with William Conquerour In a Counsel holden at Windsore the primacie of y â— church of Canturburie ouer the Churche of Yorke being examined it was founde by good aucthoritie of olde writings that the Church of Yorke ought to be subiect to the Church of Canturburie and faithfully to obey the same King William with a great power inuaded Scotland and forced Malcoline to do him homage and fealtie King William with a greate power of Englishmen wente into Normandâ—e which rebelled and subdued it spoyling the Cities townes vineyardes corne c. Gregory the seauenth Pope excommunicated all committers 1074 Maried priestes remoued Ypodigma Mathew Paris of Simony and remoued maried Priestes from executing of deuine seruice whereof rose greate troubles in England Ranulph Erle of y e East-English by y â— counsel of the Erles Woltheopus Roger trauelled to expel K. WilliaÌ„ out of his kingdome The coÌ„spiracie was concluded at a mariage in y â— Conspiracie Citie of Norwich forthwith they sente to the King of Denmarke desiring his ayde and hauing confederated with the Walchmen euerye one where they came robbed the Kyngs townes King William came sodainly out of Normandie and toke the Earles committing them to prison but the Walchmen he caused to haue theyr eyes put out and some to be hanged Kanut the sonne of Swayne and Hacon the Earle came Anno reg 9. out of Denmarke with 200 saile but when they heard y â— theyr fautors were ouercome they tourned into Flaunders King William caused a castell to be builded at Dirham 1075 Ypodigma commaunded Waltheothus Earle of Northampton and of Huntindon son to Siward duke of Northumberland to be beheaded at Winchester who was buried at Crowland The king sayled into Brytaine and besieged the Castel of Dolens but preuayled not Walter Bishoppe of Durham bought of king William the Bisshop murdered Anno. reg 10 Earledome of Northumberlande wherin he vsed such cruelty that at the length the inhabitants slewe him and an hundred of his men by the riuer of Tine where the Bishop helde his courtes The Earth was harde frozen from the Calendes of Nouember 1076 T. Castleforde Iohn Leyland Anno. reg 11 till the middest of Aprill King William gaue the castel with the town of Pontfrait with land lying there about to Hilbert Lacy a Norman The castel town laÌ„ds about Pontfraite longed before y â— CoÌ„quest to
one Richard Ashnalde who had issue Ailricke who had Swane who had Adam of whom came two daughters one of them maried to Gaulfride Neuile the other to Thomas Burgh but neyther of them had anye part of the Towne or lands about Pontfrait Robert sonne to Hildebert Lacy founded the Priory of Pontfraite Robert the first sonne of King William bycause he could not possesse Normandie which his father had giuen him before his coÌ„ming into England in the presence of Phillip king of Fraunce he went into Fraunce and through ayde of Kyng Phillip he fetched prayes in Normandie brent townes slewe men and brought his father into no small perplexitie Upon Palme sondaye aboute noone appeared a Blasing 1077 Anno. reg 12 1078 Ypodigma starre neare vnto the sunne Malcoline King of Scots wasted Northumberland slew many and toke a great pray with him into Scotland The Cathedral Church of Hereford was brent by Grifin and Algare sonne to Leof icke Earle of Merce While King William gaue battayle vnto his eldest son Robert before the Castell of Kerbothead which King Philip King VVilliam vvounded had lent him he was wounded by hym in hys arme and caste besides his horsse but as soone as Robert knew him by his voyce he straight alighted and required his Father to mount on his horsse and suffred him to depart many of king Anno. reg 13 Williams men were slaine and his son William with many other sore wounded Trustin Abbot of Glastenbury committed a filthy acte in his 1379 Murder Mathew Paris Church for he caused thrée Monkes to be slaine which were layde vnder the Altare and xviij men to be wounded that their bloud ran from the Alter down y â— steps to y â— pauement This yeare was a great wind on Christmas daye And Anno. reg 14 1080 Anno. reg 15 1081 Anno. reg 16 Tutsbury Liber Tutsbury 1982 Bermondsey Anno. reg 17 1083 a greate Earthquake and roarings out of the earth the vj. of Aprill Henry Erle Ferrers founded a Priory within hys Castel of Tutsbury the late new Church was builded in Anno. 1407. when the Normans were put out Alwin Child a Citizen of London founder of the Monasterie of S. Sauior at Bermondfeey in Surrey gaue vnto the Monkes there dyuers rents in the Cittie of London Matild the Quéene daughter to Baldwin Earle of Flaunders and wife to King William died and was buryed at Cane in the Monastery of Nunnes whych she had builded Richard sonne to King William died in the new Forrest and was buryed at Winchester King William caused inquirie to be made howe manye Acres of land numbred â—â— Rouse Anno. reg 18. 1084 A greate taxe acres of lande were sufficient for one ploughe by the yeare howe many beastes to the tilling of one hide how many Cities Castels Farmes Oranges Townes Riuers Marshes and Woods what rent they were by yeare and howe many Knightes or Souldiors were in euery shire all whych was put in writing and remayneth at Westminster King William tooke homage and othe of allegiaunce of all Englande of what tenor or fée soeuer they were and tooke Anno. reg 19 of euery hide of land sire shillings and then fayled into Normandy When the Normans had accomplished their pleasure vpon 1085 the Englishmen so that there was no noble man of that nation left to beare any rule ouer theÌ„ it became a reproch to be Nevâ—â—â—â—rrest called an Englishman Wicked customes sprang vp and the more the people spake of equitie the more wroÌ„g was done the Justiciers were the authors of al vnrighteousnes Who so did take a Deare or a Goate had hys eyes putte oute It was broughte to passe that for the space of more than xxx Mathew Paris Bishop at Lincolne miles good profitable corne ground was turned into a chace for wilde beastes Remingus Bishop of Dorchester remoued his Sea to Lincolne Anno reg 20. where he buâ—lded a new Church to be his seate King William kept his feast of Christmas at Gloucester Flori. Wigmore where to thrée of his Chaplaines he gaue thrée Bishoprikes to Mawrice the Bishopricke of London to William that of Thetford and to Robert that of Chester There was a greate water floude so that hils were made 1086 VVater floude softe and consumed with their fal ouer whelmed many villages King William founded the Abbeys of Battel where hée ouercame Harolde of Selbe in Yorkeshire and of Cane in Normandy Battell Abbey in the which he was buried He founded the Priory of Saint Nicholas at Excester He gaue greate Priuiledges to Saint Martins le Graunde Liber S. Mar. Anno reg 21 Saint Martins le grand in London which Church was founded before the Conquest by Ingelricus and Ewardus his brother cousins to king Edward the Confessor he also gaue to y e Chlledge as appeareth by his Charter in these words I do giue Creeplesgate of London but a Posterne and all the grounde adioyning vvas a Doore or Marishe and graunt to the same Church al the land and more without the Posterne which is called Criplesgate on either parte of the posterne that is to say from the North corner of the wall as the riuer of the Wells there running departe the same more from the wal to y e ruÌ„ning water which entreth the Citie c. This yere was a great death of Cattel and sore distemperancie 1087 of ayre many dyed first of feuers and after of famine In the mean time a deuouring fire spread ouer al the principall Famine and Pestilence Cities of Englande The Church of Saint Paule in London was brent with the more part of the Citie which fire began London and Poules Churche brent 〈…〉 Erkenwaldi at the entry of the West gate consumed so y e East gate Mawrice then Bishop of London began the foundation of the new Church of Paules Richard his successor did wonderfully encrease the walles of the said Church and of his owne cost Floria Wig. purchased y â— large stréetes about it where were wont to dwel many laye men and compassed it with a strong wall In a prouince of Wales called Rose was found the sepulchre of Gawen vpon the sea shore who was sisters sonne to Wil. Malme Mens bones of large sixe Arthur king of the Britaines being xiij foote of length King William being at Roane in Normandie Philip king of Fraunce saide that he kept his Chamber as women do in childbed nourished his fat belly but when he is churched I will offer a thousand candles with him King William hearing of these scornes went with a great army into Fraunce spoyling al things as he passed Last of al he burned the Citie of Meanx with our Lady Churche and two Anchers that were enclosed there who perswaded themselues they ought not to forsake their house in such extremitie whereat the King reioysing cheared his men to féede the fire came
10 Iohn Fleming 11 Oliuer Saint Iohn 12 WilliaÌ„ Easterling now for shortnes called Sâ—radling Thus was the Lordship of Glamorgan Morgannoke wonne out of the Welchmens hands whiche Lordship conteyned in length from Râ—mid bridge on the East side to Pallekinan in the West side 27. miles The breadth from the Hauen of Aberthaw on the South side to the confine of Breknokeshire about Morleys Castell is 22. miâ—â—â— In this Prouince are neath vpon a Riuer of the same name Pontfaine that is to say Stone bridge sometimes called Cowbridge Lantwid Wenny Dinwid Townes and Castels besides Caer Phili a most antient Castell fortresse which by reporte was erected by the Romanes and Caerdid the Humfrey Lâ—â—yd principall Towne of the Shire standing vpon the Riuer Tafe Englishmen tearme it Cardid or Gardife Also within the body of the said Lordship were eightene Castels and â—6 Knightes fées and a halfe that helde of the same Lordship by Knights seruice besides a great number of frée holders Also the saide Lordship being a Lordship Marcher or a Lordship Royall and holden of no other Lordship the Lordes thereof euer since the winning of the same owing their obedience only to the Crowne haue vsed therein Iura regalia with the triall of all actions as well reall as personall and pleas of Crowne with authoritie to pardon all offences Treason only excepted King William W 〈…〉 Northumberland where he repaired 1091 Nevv Castell Sarisburie Anno reg 5 such Castels as the Scottes had impayred and builded the newe Castell on Tine Osmond Bishop of Sarisburie founded the Cathedrall Church of old Sarisburie and on the morrow after the dedication thereof the Stéeple was fiered by lightning In England fell wonderfull abundance of rayne and after 1092 Great Frost Mathew Paris Wil. Malme ensued so great frost that horsses and cartes passed commonly ouer great Riuers which when it thawed the Yse brake downe many great bridges Hugh Lupus Earle of Chester sente into Normandy for Abbey of Chester Anselme by his counsell to builde an Abbey at Chester of Saint Werbridge King William lying sicke at Glocester for feare of death Mathew Paris promised to correct the wicked Lawes He gaue the Archbishoprike of Canturbury to Anselme Anselme Archbishop and to his Chancellour Robert Bloet the Bishoprike of Lincolne but when the King had recouered his health he was sorie that he had not sold the Bishoprike of Lincolne Malcolme King of Scottes comming into Englande was King of Scottes flayne met withall and sodeinly â—â—ayne with his sonne and heire also by Robert Mowbray Earle of Northumberland Iohn Bishop of Welles by noynting the Kings handes Bishopricke at Bathe Levves in Suffex Anno reg 6. 1093 Carelile repayred and the Castell builded Famine â—â— Beuerla Thomas Rudburn transposed his Bishops seate to Bathe William Waren first Earle of Surrey and Gundred his wife founded the Abbey of Lewes in Sussex King William builded againe the Citie of Carelile which was destroyed by the Danes 200. yeares before He also builded a Castell there and out of the South parts of England sent men to inhabit This yeare was a great famine and after so great a mortalitie that the quicke were scant able to bury the dead King William made great warres in Normandy against his brother Robert through the whiche both England and Normandy were fore oppressed with exactions Exactions VVâ—lâ—chmen vvon Angleâ—ey The Welchmen spoyled the Citie of Glocester with a part of Shrewsburie and woonne the Isâ—e of Anglesey The Bishopricke of Thetford was translated to Norwich Bishopricke at Norvvich Anno reg 7. 1094 Northumberland spoyled by Herbert Losing Bishop there King William sent his brother Henry into Northumberland with a great power bycause Robert Mowbrey Earle of that Countrey refused to come to the Kings Court the Countrey was spoyled the Earle was taken and many were disherited Some had their eyes put out c. King William with a great power entred Wales but not King VVilliam inuaded vvales being able to followe the Welchmen among the hilles he builded two Castels in the borders and returned Great preparation was made by the Christians to goe Anno reg 8. 1095 〈…〉 to Hierusalem against the Infidels at Hierusalem Peter the Hermite being their first leader and after Godfrey of Lorraine called Godfrey of Bolleine Robert Duke of Normandy tooke his iourney towards Anno reg 9. 1096 Normandy pavvned An. reg 10. 1097 Nice and Antioch vvoon Hierusalem and layde Normandy to gage to his brother King William for 6666. poundes of siluer The Dukes Godfrey Beamonde and Robert beséeged the Citie of Niece with 6000. horsemen and 10000. footemen and tooke the same with the wife of Soliman and his sonnes They also tooke the Citie of Antioch King William with an armie of horsemen and footemen wente the seconde time into Wales meaning to kill all the male kinde there but he could vnneth kill or take any one of them All the lands in Kent that sometime belonged to Earle Hector Boetius Godvvin sands Godwine by breaking in of the Sea were couered with Sands and therefore is yet called Godwine Sands King William was in Normandy and gaue himselfe to Exactions An. reg 11. 1098 An. reg 12. 1099 Hierusalem vvonne warres there so that with exactions and tributes he did not only shaue but flea the people of England Hugh Earle of Shrewsburie was slayne in Anglesey by the Irishmen The Christians tooke the Citie of Hierusalem and placed there a King and a Patriarche After King Wilham was come out of Normandy he kept his Courte at Westminster in the new Hall which he had then caused to be builded the length whereof is 270. foote VVestminster Hall P. Patauiensis and the breadth 74. foote and hearing men say it was too bigge he answered this Hall is not bigge ynough by the one halfe and that it was but a Chamber in comparison Io. Euersden of that he was about to make A diligent searcher might Mathew Paris Io. Rouse yet find out the foundation of the Hall which he had purposed to builde stretching from the Thames side vnto the common strééte King William being a hunting in the new Forest word was brought him that his people were beséeged in Mayne he forthwith tooke shipping though he were vehemently perswaded to the contrary for that there was at that time a great tempest to whome he answered he neuer heard that any King was drowned At this time he gote more honor VVord of VVilliam Rufus Mathew Paris than euer he did in all his life for he chased his enemies and returned with victory In this Sommer bloud sprang out of the earth at Finchamstede Anno reg 13 in Barkeshire King William on the morrow after Lammas day hunting 1100 There standeâ—â— a Chappell King VVilliam slayne Wil. Malme Mathew Paris Radulphus Niger in the new Forrest of Hampshire in a
Mathew Paris Geruasius Battaile of the standarde Cro. Hautenprice the possession of the realme according to their othe made to hir In the meane time Dauid king of Scots promising to recouer the crowne of England for the Empresse Mawde hys Néece in most cruell wise inuaded Northumberland where by Thrustone Archbishop of Yorke the Scottes had an ouerthrow at Conton more than foure myles Northweast from Alnertâ—â— and were slaine aboue x. thousand In the moneth of July Robert Earle of Glocester retourned 1139 The Empresse returned into England Geruasius into England with his sister the Empresse and a gret armie which arriued at Portesmouth The Empresse was receiued into Arundel castel by Adelize late wife to king Henry as then wife or Concubine to William Earle of Arundel Earle Robert wente to Wallingforde and thence to Glocester and raised those Countries The king helde his siege before Marleborough but aduertised Marleborough besieged of the Empresse arriuall he hasted towardes Arundel where being by faire spéech pacified he commanded his brother Bishoppe of Winchester to bring the Empresse vnto Bristowe and he himself followed Earle Robert with his army The Empresse stayed at Bristow till October and then went to Glocester hir comming thither being knowen Miles the high Conestable and many other nobles toke part with hyr against king Stephen The king besieged Wallingforde Castell but profited not VValingford castel besieged Floriacensis and therefore raysing a Tower of woodde before it stuffed it with men of warre and went to win the Castell of Malmesburie The armye of Earle Robert wanne the Citie of Worcester brent the moste part of it and laden with the spoyle departed thence The Shirife of that Citie in reuenge hereof destroyed the towne of Sudley and with the spoyle thereof retourned to Worcester After this the King with a great army came from Oxford to Worcester where he gaue the honour of high Conestableship Anno. reg 5. being taken from Miles of Glocester vnto William the sonne of Walter Beauchampe Shirife of Worcester and then retourned to Oxforde and so to Salisburie The King went to Reading and after with hys army towardes 1140 Notingham spoyled Geruasius Doro. Ely but the Bishoppe fledde to Gloucester to Earle Robert and the King wanne the Castell of Ely Robert Earle of Glocester with a gret power inuaded the towne of Notingham and spoyled it the townes men were taken slaine or brent in the Churches wherevnto they fled One of them more rich than the others was taken and led Anno. reg 6. NotinghaÌ„ brent to his owne house by his takers to shewe them where hys treasure lay he bringing them into a low seller whilest they were busie to break open lockes Coffers he conueyed him self away shutting the doores after him set sire on y e house and soothe théeues to the number of thirtie were brent and by reason of this fire all the towne was set a fire and brent Kyng Stephen besieged Lincolne againste Ranulph Earle of Chester but Roberte Earle of Glocester came with a great 1141 Lincolne besieged King Stephen taken power and rescued the same chased the Kyngs armye and tooke him prysoner on Candlemas day firste he was had to Glocester and after to Bristowe there committed to prison The Empresse reioycing at this hir good happe departed from Glocester and came to Ciceste r with Byshops Barons and other in greate number from thence she went to Winchester where mette hir Lordes spirituall and temporall in great number the Citie with the tower and Crowne of the Realme was deliuered into hir hands The Bishop of Winchester that was king Stephens brother The Empresse obtayneth thè Crovvne accursed al that stoode against the Empresse and blessed those that tooke hir part From thence she departed to Wilton where the Archbishoppe of Canturburie came and saluted hyr When Easter was paste she went to Reding where she was receiued with all the honour that mighte be thence she went to Oxforde where the Castell was deliuered vnto hyr by Robert de Olly then went she to Saint Albons and was receyued with all honour Here the Citizens of London came and yéelded their Citie to hir wherevpon she went to London and so to Westminster where she being receyued with procession remained certain dayes taking order for the state of the Realme King Steuens wife and many Péeres of the realm made Ypodigma Geruasius Do. Floriacensis suite to the Empresse to haue the King restored to libertye and not to the kingdome promising to perswade with hym to become a Monke but she woulde not heare The Bishop of Winchester requested hir to giue vnto Eustace his nephew King Steuens sonne his fathers Earledome but it woulde not be The Citizens of London required hir to restore Kyng Edwardes lawes but she being puffed vp with pride would not graunte theyr requeste wherevppon they conspired to take hir prisoner but she aduertised hereof fled with shame The Empresse fledde leauing behinde hir all hir furniture of housholde and apparell Henrie Bishop of Winchester casting which way to deliuer his brother perswaded the Londoners to ayde him The Empresse got hir to Oxforde and froÌ„ thence to Gloucester and Ypodigma Floriacences Geruasius theÌ„ with hir assured friend Miles again to Oxforde bycause she trusted most in him she to do him honour gaue him the Earledome of Heneforde and now hauing got a great army about Lammes wente againe to Winchester and lodged in the Castel there The Bishop abashed of hir sodayn coÌ„ming departed out at one gate as she came in at another he getting a great army with the help of the Londoners besieged the Citie and the seconde of August committed the Citie to the VVinchester brent Geruasius Floriacensis fire with the whiche the Nunry and houses of office with more than twentie Churches some write xl and a greate part of the Citie with the Monasterie of Saint Grimbald the houses thereto belonging were brought to ashes About the exaltation of the crosse the Empresse being wearied of long siege got hir to horssebacke with hir brother Reginalde Earle of Cornewal and many other Earle Robert followed with a great number of Lords knights but the Bishops men setting on them slewe tooke a great number The Empresse fled to the Castel of Lutegershal heauy and The Empresse fled almost deade for feare from thence she was brought to the Castell of Vies and from thence to Glocester bound in a horse-litter like a deade carcasse Earle Robert being pursued was taken at Stobbridge w e Earle of Gloster taken Erle Waren and many other and presented to the Quéene as then new entred into Winchester Earle Robert was deliuered to William de Ypers who put him in prison in the Castel of Rochester Myles Erle of Hereford hardly escaped and came to Glocester Earle of Hereforde fled almost naked The Bishops men brent the Monasterie of Nuns at
manfully stroke was more stoutely striken agayne and endeuoring to conquer was conquered himselfe he being ouercome fell downe for dead and when he was thought to Henry of Essex ouercome haue bin slayne at the instance of suche of the nobilitie as were of kinne to him it was granted vnto the Monks there Flores HistoriaruÌ„ that his body should be buryed but afterward he reuiued and hauing recouered his health became a Monke in that place London Bridge was new made of timber by Peter of Colechurch Anno reg 10 London bridge made of Timber 1164 Geruasius Do. a Priest Chapleyne Malcoline the Scottish King and Resus Prince of Southwales and other did homage to King Henry and his sonne Henry at Westminster A Counsayle was holden at Claringdon in presence of the King and the Archbishops Bishops Lordes Barons c. wherein was recognised and by their othes confirmed many ordinances too long héere to recite Thomas Archbishop of Canturburie being sworne to the same shortly after sore repented and â—â—ed the Realme went to the Court of Rome The six and twentith day of January was a great Earthquake Anno reg 11 1165 An Earthquake Mathew Pariâ— Gerua Doro. Anno reg 12. in Eely Norffolke and Suffolke so that it ouerthrewe them that stoode vpon their féete and made the Belles to ring in the Stéeples The King seased into his handes all the Archbishops goodes and rents and banished all his kindred The King led an innumerable army against the Welchmen Radul Cogshal of Flemings Scottes Pictes Aniowans and other but with so great a multitude he could not ouercome them The Welchmen tooke the Castell of Cardigan In a certayne asséege at Bridgenorth againste Hugh de Mortimere when the King was shotte at by one of the enimies a valiant man Hubert de Saint Clere Constable of Colchester did thrust himselfe betwixte the King and the danger of the stroke and so receyued death for him whose only daughter the King taking into his custodie he gaue hir in mariage to William de Languale with hir fathers inheritance who begate on hir a sonne bearing the name and surname of his Grandfather Quéene Elianor brought forth a sonne named Iohn The King passed ouer into Normandy and there holding 1166 a counsell appoynted a collection to be made through all his Countreys two pence of the pound of mouable goodes A Taxe for the first yeare and one penny the pound for foure yeares after Robert sonne to William Earle of Glocester deceassed Anno reg 13 1167 The warre was renued betwixt the King of Englande and the French King for the Citie of Tholose and Mathewe Earle of Bulloigne brother to Philip Earle of Flanders manned sixe hundred Shippes to haue come into Englande but by such preparation as Richard Lucy gouernour of England made he was stopped well ynough Mawde King Henries daughter was maryed to Henry Anno reg 14 1168 Iohn Taxtor Gerua Doro. Ypodigma Duke of Saxon. Conan Earle of little Britaine dyed and left for his heire a daughter named Constance which he had by the King of Scottes sister which Constance King Henry marryed to his sonne Geffrey Robert de Boscue Earle of Leycester dyed He foundeâ— Anno reg 15 1169 Sca. Cron. Gerendon Leycester and Eaton Sca. Cro. the Monasteries of Gerendon of Monkes of Leycester called Saint Mary de Prate of Channons regular and Eaton of Nunnes was founded by Amicia his wife daughter of Ralph Montforde King Henry caused the Castell of Warwike to be builded Deruntius the sonne of Morcardus called Mack Murgh Giraldus Cambr. King of Leynster being expelled out of his kingdome came into Guyen to King Henry hnmbly requiring 〈…〉 â—â—r his restitution who vnderstanding fully the cause â—â—ereof gaue frée licence to all Englishmen that woulde to â—â—â—â—e the sayde Deruntius wherevpon he returning into Englande couenanted with Richard Earle of Chepstow to gâ—â—e him his daughter in marriage and with hir the succession of his Kingdome so that he would help him in the recouery of it and shortly after he promised to Robert Fitâ— Stephen and Mawrice Fitz Gerald large reuenues in Ireland for the like helpe King Henry helde his Court at Naunts where the Bishops Anno reg 15. 1170 and Barons of Britayne being present sware their fidelitie to the King and to his sonne Geffrey and then the King sayled into England but many of his company were Giral Cambr. drowned by the way Robert Fitz Stephen first of all Englishmen after the Conquest Englismnen transported into Ireland entred Ireland the first day of May with 390. men and there tooke Wexford in the behalfe of Deruntius King Henry caused his sonne Henry borne at London Henry the kings sonne Crovvned to be Crowned by the handes of Roger Archbishop of Yorke as he thought to the great quietnesse of himselfe and hys Realme but it proued farre otherwise Thomas Archbishop of Canturbury by the mediation of Pope Alexander and Lewes the King of France was restored to his Sea of Caunturbury In September Richard Earle of Chepstow surnamed Gualteruâ— Couen Strongbow sayled into Ireland with a thousand two hundred men of warre and by force tooke Waterford and Dubâ—â—â— and marryed Eue Deruntius daughter Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canturbury the xxviij of Anno reg 17 1171 December was slayne by William Tracy Baron of Braynes Reignolde Fitz Vrse Hugh Moruilt and Richarde Briton Knightes There was séene at S. Osythes in Estsex a Dragon of a Chro. Colchester maruellous bignesse whyche by mouing burned houses Ex Record King Henry returned from beyond the Seas and landed at Portesmouth in the moneth of August Nicholas Break espeare an Englishman borne at Langley in the County of Hartford sonne to Robert a yonger brother Pope Adrian an Englishman of the house of Breakespeares whiche Roberte after the death of his wife professed himselfe a Monke of Saint Albons leauing his sonne to prouide for his owne preferment this yong man passed into France was shorne a Monke and after chosen Abbot went to Rome was consecrated Bishop of Alba made Cardinall sente Legate to the Norwayes where he reduced that nation from Paganisme to Christianitie and after returned to Rome When Anastasius was dead he was chosen Pope by y â— name of Adrian the 4. During his Popedome he granted the regimente of Ireland King Henry Lord of Ireland Gesta Abbat Sancâ—â— Albani Regiâ—truÌ„ mâ—n Sancti Albani Iohn Bale Cimphriuâ— Anno reg 18. Giralduâ— Cambr. Radul Cogshal Geruasius Dâ—â—â— to the King of England wherevpon King Henry hauing caused Richard Earle of Chepstow to giue into his handes all the land which he had conquered in that Realme toke Shippe at Penbroke and sayled thither where the King of Conach Deruntius King of Corke Morice King of Methe the King of Vriell Duvenald King of Ossery Duvenald King of Limerike Machachelin Ophelon Machaleny Othneâ—hely
â—aruus Iohn Taxtor Gerua Doro. Canturb recordes Gual Couent euill fauoured of shape but yet verye eloquent moued the common people to séeke libertie and fréedome and not to bée subiect to the rich and mightie by which meanes he drewe to him many great companies and with all his power defended the poore mens cause against the riche 52000. Londonors he allured to him to be at his deuotion and commandemeÌ„t The king being warned of this tumult coÌ„manded him to cease from those attemptes but the people still followed him as they before had done he made to them orations taking for his theame this sentence Haurietis aquas in gauâ—io de fontibus saluatoris whiche is to say Ye shal draw in ioy waters forth of the wels of your sauiour And to this he added I am sayd he y e sauiour of poore men yée be poore haue assayed long y e hard hands of rich meÌ„ Now draw yée holsome water forth of my Wels that w e ioy for the time of your visitatioÌ„ is come This WilliaÌ„ was coÌ„maunded to appeare before the kings counsell to aunsweare for himselfe in suche causes as shoulde be layde against him where he appeared but wyth 1196 such a multitude of people that the Lordes were afrayde and remitted him with pleasaunte wordes for the time appointing some priuliy when he was alone to apprehende him He sooke the stéeple of Bow Church in Chope and fortified it with munition and victuals The Archbishop of Canturburie then being at LondoÌ„ with other Iustices sent to him and willed him to come forth of the Church he should haue his life saued but he refused to come forth wherfore y â— Archebishop talking with the Citizens of London called togither a great number of armed area least any stur should be made The Saterdaye therefore being the Passion sondaye euen the stéeple and Church of Bowe were assaulted and William with his complices taken but not without bloudshed for hée was forced by fire and smoke to for sake the Churche he was brought to the Archbishop in the Towre where he was by y e Iudges condemned and by the héeles drawn from thence to a place called the Elmes and ther haÌ„ged with nine of his fellowes This counterfaite friende to the poore who named hymselfe A false accuser of his elder brother in the ende vvas hanged to be the sauiour perswading them against the riche was a man of an euil life a murderer who slew one manne with his owne handes a fornicatour who poluted Bowe church with his Concubine and amongst other his detestable facts one that hadde falsely accused his elder brother of treason whyche elder brother hadde in hys youthe Anno reg 8. broughte him vppe in learning and done manye things for his preferment Yet after the death of this wicked malefactor the simple people honoured him as a martyre in so much that they stale awaye the gibbet whereon he was hanged and pared away the Earth that was be-bled with hys bloude and kepte the same as holye reliques to heale sicke men King Richard graunted licence vnto Phillip Bishoppe of Durham to coyne mony in his Citie of Durham which libertie Roger Houeden none of his predicessours had enioyed of long tyme before Sherifes Gerard de Anteloch Robert Durant Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne The Walchmen brake forth and did muche hurt by spoyling 1197 of the Marches The Archbishop of Canturburie callyng togither an army hasted thyther besieged the Castel of Polie and toke it and chased the enimies established peace and returned Rise the Walch king departed this life King Richard and the Earle of Flaunders confedered togither Anno reg 9. The French King entring vnwarely into Flaunders was intercepted and taken by the Earle of Flaunders but giuing pledges vpon couenaunt to make peace he was suffered to depart The viij day of September they met at Liste where by mediation of the Archbishop of Canturburie they toke a truce The Archbishop of Roane returned from Rome where he had complayned on King Richard for taking from him a plot of ground whereon he builded a strong Castell but at the request of the Archbishop of Canturburie the Kyng gaue him in recompence the towne of Deep Sherifes Roger Blunt Nicholas Ducket Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne The Walchmen on the Marches toke booties did much 1198 Geruasius hurt but Hubert the Archbishop of Canturburie being Lorde thiefe Iustice Lieuetenaunt or Warden of England found meanes to resist them so that they being fought with were ouerthrowen and fiue thousand of them slaine The Archebishop hauing got this victorie returneth to London where calling togither a great number of the Nobles of the lande he resigned his office of being head ruler in whose place the Anno reg 10 Lord Geffrey Fitz Peter succéeded in August King Richard toke of euery Carucata plough land or hid of land through England fiue shillings The French king was intercepted by the army of King Richard so that with much adoe he escaped into Cipres his army was dispersed and almost an hundred Knightes taken beside other common soldiours without number The Charters which the king had Mathew Paris before made with his new seale were chaunged Sherifes Constantine Fitz Arnolde Robert de Beaw Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne Hubert Archebishop of Canturbnrie through the procurement of the Monks of Canturburie and by the coÌ„mandement of the Pope brake downe euen with the ground the Chapel Colledge at Lambeth or Colledge at Lambeth which his predecessors had founded and he had finished in the honor of Thomas Archbishoppe of Canturburie King Richard tourned his armye against the Barons of 119â— K. Richaad vvoÌ„ded to death Paulus Aemeleus Gualterus Couen Ralph Cogshal Poictow that rebelled against him he set their Cities towns on fire spoyled their Countrey flew many of his aduersaries cruelly at the laste came to the Dukedome of Aquitaine and besieged the Castel of Chalne and brought it to that that they within offered to yéeld vpon conditions but he woulde not so receiue them but would haue them by force whervpvn a certain yong man named Bertram de Gordon standing on y e Castel wall leuelled a quarell out of a crosse bowe and smote him with a venomed Darte which stripe the king little regarded but inuading the castel wan it and put the soldiours in prison Of this wounde aforesayde he dyed the sixth day of Aprill in the yeare of our Lord. 1199. When he had raigned ix yeres and ix monthes and was buried at Fonteuerard at his fathers féete whom he confessed he had betrayed his heart was buried at Roane and his bowels at the foresayde Chalne ¶ King John IOHN brother to Richard aforenamed beganne his raigne ouer the Realme Anno reg 1 of Englande the vj. daye of April in the yeare of our Lord 1199. Of person he was indifferent but of melancholie and angrie complexion He being now in Normandie
out of Fraunce to the kings ayde Pope Vrbane sent a Legate and Cardinall the Bishop of Sabrine into Englande but they might not enter the realm the fiue Ports prohibiting them wherevpon they called certain English Bishops first to Amience and after to Bulloigne to whom he committed the sentence of excomunication to be pronounced against the Citie of London the fiue Portes and al those that troubled the King of EnglaÌ„ds peace but the Byshops dissembled the matter This yeare about the 20. of June a notable blasing starre appeared such a one as had not ben séene in that age which rising from the East with gret brightnesse vnto the midst of Blasing starre Nic. Triuet Rober of Glocester Anno reg 49 Sherifes 〈…〉 the Semisperie drew his streame it continued till after Michaelmas Gregory Rokesley Thomas of Deford the 28. of Septem 〈…〉 〈…〉 arose for that Simond not only kept the king other as prisoners The Earle of Glocester forsoke the Earle Leicester but also tooke to himself the reuenewes of the kingdome c. which should haue bene equally deuided amongst them so y â— Gilbert of Gloncester departing ioyned to him in league the noble Knights of the Marches whoÌ„ Erle Simond had commanded to auoyde the Realme but Iohn de Waren Earle of Surrey and Sussex William de ValeÌ„ce Erle of Penbroke had brought a great power by sea in the Weast parts of Wales and arriuing at Penbroke Earle Simon leading the king with him went to Hereforde where he gathered a great power to oppresse the sayd knights but while the Prelates laboured for peace Edward the kings son being in y e Castel of Hereford is permitted to exercise himselfe on horssebacke Edvvard the kings son taken from his keepers in a medowe without the Citie by his kéepers where after he had wearied diuerse horsses and mounting on a fresh appointed for that purpose he rode quite away and passing the riuer of Wey with two Knights and foure Esquires was folowed hard by his kéepers but when they were aduised of the standarts of Roger Mortimere and Roger Clifford comming to his reliefe they returned he escaped to Wigmore And this chaunced in the Whitson wéeke Lord Edward being thus escaped gathereth an army confederateth and submitteth to him the Countreys of Hereford Worcester Salop Chester with the townes Cities and Castelles he also winneth by force the Citie of Glocester whiche Earle Simon had lately fortifyed the townes men â—led to the Castel who xv dayes after yéelded it and departed The Earle of Leicester wan the Castle of Monmouth and layde it flat with the grounde and entring into the lande of the Earle of Glocester called Glomorgan méeting with the Prince of Wales Castel of Monmouth raced comming to his ayde they destroyed al with fire and sword Edwarde the Kings sonne hearing that manye of Earle Simonds partakers were come to the Castel of Kenilworthe takyng with him the Erle of Glocester he departed from Worcester and came vpon them at a sodaine where he toke the Earle of Oxford sir William Mountchalsie sir Adam Newmarch sir Walter de Solenle and other and Simon the sonne of Earle Simon hardly escaped in the Castell The Earle of Leicester hauing the King with him returned out of South-Wales and on Lammas daye came to Kemsey a place of the Bishop of Worcester and there tarried the next day Edwarde the Kings son returned from Kenelworth to Worcester whose returne being knowne Erle Simon departing from Kemsey by vnhappy chaunce stayed in the towne of Euesham for on y e morrow being the ij of August Edward the kings son departed from Worcester passing the riuer neare to the towne called Cliue closed vp the passage betwixt Earle Simon and Simon his son who was at Killingworth In the next mornyng Lord Edward approched néere to Euesham on the one side and Battaile of Euesham Gilbert Earle of Glocester on the other side and Roger Mortimer on the two other sides whereby Earle Simon was so enclosed that he must eyther fight or yéelde on Friday therfore was the fifth daye of Auguste theyr armies encountred ech other in a large fielde without the towne where the Earles part hadde the worste the Earle was killed in the fielde and Henrie sonne to Earle Simon Peter de Mountfort Hugh Dispencer Justice of England William de Mandeuile Ralph Basset Walter Greping William de Yorke Robert de Tregoze Thomas de Hostile Iohn de Beâ—â—ocampo Guido de Baylolle Roger de Roulens with sir Iohn de Saint Iohn sir William de Verence sir Iohn de Inde sir William Trossel sir Gilbert Einefielde and other of meaner sorte in great number especially of Walshmen for almost none of theÌ„ escaped thence but they were slain at Tewkesburie Lords taken Lords taken Liber Euesh at Euesham sir Vmfry de Boune sir Iohn Sainte Iohn sir Simons sonne sir Guy sir Baudwin Wake sir Iohn Vessy sir Henrie Hastings sir Nicholas Segraue sir Perce sir Roberte Mountfordes sons many other Simon de Mountfort y e son coÌ„ming too late to méete his Father at Euesham turned backe again to Kenilworth Castel the sixth of September he released King of Almain deliuered the King of Almain his mothers brother sir Reimond Fitz Pierce and many other A Parliament was holden at Winchester where all the A Parliament at VVinchester statutes made at Oxforde were disanulled and all the goods of them that were againste the king seased London was in great danger to haue bin destroyed by the king for displeasure he had conceyued against y e Citizens but the Citizens wholly submitted both liues and goods vnto him Eight persons carrying the same submission toward Windsor met Sir Roger Leyborne knight at Colbrooke who turned them backe againe and after they had discoursed the whole matter with him he willed them to deliuer to him their submission and he woulde moue the King in it whiche thing they did After sixe dayes thys Knight returned to the Citie and sayde the king had receyued their writings willing them first to take away all the chaines that were in the stréetes of the Citie and pull the postes out of the grounde that the same were fixed in and bring both chaynes and postes to the Tower of London then the Maior with fortie Citizens should the nexte day following attende vpon the king at Windsor to confirme theyr wryting and they shoulde goe and come safe in witnesse whereof he deliuered them the kings letter and seale for the space of foure dayes The next daye the Citizens being at Windsore attended at the gate vntill the king came from hunting at whiche time he woulde not once looke on them After the King was entred they woulde haue followed but they were forbidden shortly after they were called into the Castell where they were locked vp in a Towre with homely entertainment the nexte day the king gaue vnto Prince Edwarde the Maior and foure Aldermen y
brother He also reuoked the prouisions before Wil. Paston Tho. Walsing made for selling of victualles and permitted all men to make the best of that they had neuerthelesse the dearth â—â—creased through the abundance of rayne that fel in Haruest so that a Quarter of Wheate or of Salte was sold before Midsomer for thirtie Shillings and after fortie Shillings There followed this famine a gréeuous mortalitie of Anno reg 9. Mortalitie of men people so that the quirke might vnneath bury the dead The Beastes and Cattell also by the corrupt grâ—â—â— whereof they fedde dyed whereby it came to passe that the eating of flesh was suspected of all men for flesh of Beastes not corrupted was hard to finde Horsseflesh was counted great delicates the poore stale fatte Dogges to eate some Dogges flesh good meate Children vvere eaten as it was said compelled through famine in hidde places did eate the fleshe of their owne children and some stale others which they deuoureâ— Théeues that were in prisons Theeues in prison deuoure one another did plucke in péeces those that were newly brought amoÌ„gst them and gréedily deuoured them halâ—e aliue A Gallon of small Ale was at two pence of the better thrée pence and the best four pence The Londoners considering that Wheate made in Malt VVheate forbydden to bee made into Maâ—â— was muche consumed ordained that from thenceforthe it shoulde be made of other grayne and also that a Gallon of better Ale should be solde j. â— ob and of small Ale for j. â— and not aboue The King according to the Statute of London sente hys Writs through the Realme commaunding that as wel within the liberties as without in Cities Boroughs Townes and Uillages a Gallon of Ale shoulde be solde for j. â— and that from thenceforth no Wheate shoulde bée made into Malt whyche if he had not the sooner caused to be proclaimed the greatest parte of the people should haue perished throughe famine Earle Waren was excommunicate by the Byshoppe of Cro. Dâ—â—â— Chichester for Adultrey wherevppon the sayde Earle came to the Bishop with armed men and foure more hasty than the reste threatned the Bishoppe wherevpon the Byshops men fell on them and tooke the Earle Hamond Goodsheape William Bodele the. 28. of Sept. Sherifes Maior Tho. Walsing 1316 Stephen Abindon the. 28. of October There arriued in England by the Kings request Gaustelinus and Lucas de Flisco two Cardinalles to make peace betwixte the Realmes of England and Scotland and to reconcile vnto the King Thomas Earle of Lancaster They broughte Iohn Trocklow Tho. de la More Bulles from the Pope to excommunicate the Scottes except they returned vnto peace with the King of England These Cardinals wente into the North partes to enstall Lodowike Beomond to whome the Pope at the Kyngs instaunce hadde giuen the Byshopricke of Durham and when they came neare vnto the Towne of Derlington certayne robbers breaking out of a valley Gilbert Middleton and Walter Selby beyng their Capitaynes sodaynelye sette vppon the family of the Cardinals and of Lodowike Tvvo Cardinals robbed on Wigelesden More robbed them of their treasure and carryed Lodowike Byshoppe of Durham to Morpeth where they constrayned hym to paye a greate Raunsome they broughte Henrye Beaumont to the Castell of Râ—ntforde and there kepte hym tyll hée hadde payde a greate raunsome but the Cardinalles came to Durham where they tarryed a fewe dayes for aunsweare of the Scottes and so vnder the Kings conducte they retourned to Yorke and left their businesse whyche they came for vndone Gilbert Middleton after manye domages done Anno reg 10. to the Priory of Rymuth and other was taken in his owne Castell of Nitforde by Wyllyam Felton Thomas Hetton and Robert Horneclife carryed to London and there in the presence of the Cardinalles drawne and hanged The Cardinalles vnder certayne conditions made peace betwixte the King and Thomas Earle of Lancaster whyche conditions shortlye after were vniustly broken Syr Gosseline Deâ—â—uile and his brother Roberte wyth Theeues lyke Fryers two hundred in the habite of Friers did many notable robberies they spoyled the Byshoppe of Durhams Pallaces leauing nothing in them but bare walles for the whiche they were after hanged at Yorke William Cawston Raufe Balancer the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Iohn Wengraue the 28. of October Margaret daughter to Philip sonne to Lewes Kyng of Fraunce wife to Edwarde the firste deceassed the fourtéenth of Februarye and was buryed in the myddle of the Quire of the Gray Fryers Churche at London Edwarde de Bruis the King of Scottes brother who by Ioh. Trocklowe Edvvarde de Bruse beheaded the space of thrée yeares hadde assaulted Irelande and had crowned hymselfe Kyng was taken by Englishemen that were the King of Englandes Subiectes and was beheaded at Dundalke In that battel were slayne nine and twentie Baronets of Scotlande and fiue thousande and eight hundreth other the Primate of Armakh béeyng chiefe Capitayne for the Kyng of England This yeare was an earlye Haruest so that all the corne Early Haruest cheape corne was inned before Saint Giles daye A Bushel of Wheate Anno reg 11. that was before solde for tenne shillings was solde for ten pence and a Bushell of Otes that before was eighte shyllings was solde for eight pence Earle Warrin tooke the wife of the Earle of Lancaster and shut hir vppe in hys Castell for that he sayde she was betrothed to hym before she was marryed the Earles had eyther of them a wife but neyther of them cared for them Iohn Prior William Furneys the 28. of Sept. Sherifes Maior Barvvike betrayed Iohn Wengraue the 28. of October Aboute Midlent the Towne of Berwicke was betrayed to the Scottes throughe the treason of Peter Spalding and other Englishemen whome the Kyng of Scottes caused to be hanged for béeyng Traytors to theyr Countrey The Castell held oute till for wante of victualles they wythin were constrayned to delyuer it into the Scottishmens hands The Scottes inuaded England Richard South Iohn â—â—ucklowe who wanne also the same tyme the Castelles of Harbotel Warke and Mydforde so that they possessed the more parte of all Northumberlande euen to Newecastell vppon Tyne sauing certayne Castels that were defended agaynst them In May they entred further into the lande brenning al before them tyll they came to Rypon whyche Towne they spoyled and tarrying thrée dayes they receyued a thousande Markes of those that were gote into the Churche bycause they should not put the Town to the fyre as they hadde done the Townes of Northallerton and Borough Bridge c. In theyr returning backe they brent Knaresburghe and Skipton in Crauen and all other afore them carrying into Scotlande a maruellous multitude of Cattel besides prysoners men and women The Yorkeshiremen gathered togither to the number of Tho. Walsing ten thousaÌ„d met with the Scots at the town of Mitton ten myles by Northweast from
and therefore shalt thon dye for he vnderstoode not his spéech neyther had he anye skill to take gentlemen prisoners to kéepe them for their raunsome wherfore the residue of those Gennowayes after they had set the towne a fire and brent it vp quite fledde to their Galleyes and in theyr fléeing certaine of them were drowned After this the inhabitantes of the towne compassed it about with a strong and great Wal. The King still mayntayning his warres in Fraunce on the euen of the Annuntiation of our Lady â—j galleyes approching to the towne of Harwich they cast fire therein the force whereof by a contrarie winde was stayd so that no gret harme was done thereby Furthermore in the same yeare about the feaste of Pentecost certaine Pirates of Normandie and Genoâ— shipped in Gallenes and Pinaces made a shew on the sea about Southampton as they woulde haue come alande and threatned sore to spoyle the towne againe but perceyuing the townesmen ready to resist them they returned to the I le of Wight but entred not being put backe by the inhabitauntes wherevppon they sayled about the sea coastes séeking to lande in places lesse defended and after came to Hastings where they brente fishers cotages with theyr boates and slewe many men Also they made greate shewes many times against the I le of Thanet Douer and Fulkestone but in those places they did little harme excepte to poore fishermen thence they sayled about to the hauens of Cornewall and Deuonshire doing in all places much harme to the fisher men and suche shippes as they founde vnmaÌ„ned they fiered At length they entred Plimouth Hauen where they brent certain great shippes and a great parte of the towne these were met by Hugh Curtney Earle of Dâ—â—onshire a knight of foure scoure yeares olde being accompanyed with manye souldiours of his Countrey who hauing lost at the firste fronte a fewe of his men whiche were slaine by the quarrels of the French ioyned to fighte wyth them hande to hande and slaying many of the Pyrates vpon drye lande chased the residue which fled to take their Galleys and being not able to come nigh them by wading they â—â—ere drowned in the â—ea to the nuÌ„ber of fiue hundred Newâ—s being brought to the King lying in Brabant that diuers Parts of Englande were spoyled with the Pirates hée declared to his friends to wit the Marques of Iultâ—cence and a cerâ—â—â—â—e Cardinall what great causes he had to reuenge himself vpon them and in the end was aunswered by the Cardinal as followeth The kingdome of Frâ—â—â—â— sayde he is compassed about with â— thrâ—ed of â—â—lke whiche can not be broken by all the strength of the kingdome of Englande wherefore my Lorde king you must stay for the comming of the Dutchmen and other your friendes and confederates the greater part wherof you now â—aâ—lâ—â— The King raking great disdaine hereat staying nothing at alâ— said that he woulde ride into the land of Fraunce with Banner displayed and y â— ther he wold lâ—ke for that mightie power of the French men and that hée woulde eyther winne the same against any man that should with 〈…〉 〈…〉 or else â—â—nestly dye in the fielde 〈…〉 Poâ—â—â—â—et Hugh Mâ—betel the 28. of Septem Sherifes Maior Hence Darâ—â— the â—8 of October King Edward wintereâ— at Antwerp where Quéene Philip was deliuered of hir thirde son Lionel after Erle of Vlâ—â—er The king toke vppon him to be lieuetenauute of the King Edvvarde made vicegereÌ„â— of the Empire Empire from the Dâ—â—â— of Bauare who helde himselfe as Emperour A sodaine inundation of Water at Newcastle vpon Tine Richard South Nevvcastel drovvned 1339 bare downe a péece of the Towne Wall a sixe pearches in length neare to a place called Walkenew where â—20 men women were drowned In the Uâ—gâ—â—â—â— Saint Matthy king Edwarde beganne to ryde with Banner displayed and twelue thousand men of armes against the Frenche King burnyng Townes and Castels wheresoeuer he came In the first night being verye darke Geffrey Lord Scrope one of the Kings Justices led one of the Cardinals to wit Bertrand de Mount Faâ—â—ntyne of the title of our Ladie vp into an high Tower shewing hym the whole lande about towarde Fraunce for the compasse of fiftéene leagues to be in euery place on â—re saying these wordes sir doth not this siâ—â—en threed wherwith Fraunce is compassed seme to you to be broken the Cardinall aunswering nothing fel downe as deade for sorowe and feare In thys sort king Edward made â—ourneyes into France dayly continuing the space of fiue wéekes and caused â—yâ— armye to trauell in such sort that they destroyed the whole Countrey of Cambray Tourney Vermodeâ— and Landenewe excepting those Cities which wer sword to him w t churches and Castels The inhabitauntes of the Countrey fledde neyther was there anye man that durst resist his enterpryses althoughe the Frenche King had gathered greate armies within the Walled Cities himself lying in the stroÌ„g Towne of Saint Quintines what time the Brabanders had determined to returne home againe and were entred into theyr iourney being forced there vnto partlye by wante of victuals and partlye by the coldnesse of Winter whyche grew on fast The French king vnderstanding thereof beganne to moue himselfe with hys armye towarde the campe of the king of England who gladly loking for his comming called back again the Brabanders hauing receyued letters froÌ„ the Frenche King that he woulde ioyne battayle against hym he sent him worde back againe that he woulde stay for him thrée dayes wherefore on the fourth daye the Kyng loking for the Frenche Kings comming whiche woulde come no nearer them than two miles off breaking bridges and felling of trées that the King of Englande mighte not followe hym he fled to Paris wherevpon king Edwarde returned by Hanonia in Brabrant where he continued almost the whole Winter William Thorney Roger Frosham the. 28. of Septeâ— Sherifes Maior Andrewe Awbery Grocer the. 28. of October In this Winter time king Edwarde grewe into greate friendshippe with the Flemmings who prepared themselues at all times to shewe their selues as good subiectes vnto him swearing to doe homage and fealtie vppon condition that he would call himselfe King of Fraunce and in token thereof would from thence forth giue armes with Flouredeluces for otherwise they durste not obey him for feare of the Popes curse which was to be layde vppon them if at any time they rebelled against the King of Fraunce Wherefore by the coâ—â—â—â—ll of his friends the Flemmings and consent of his noble men he agréed there vnto and tooke vppon him both the name and armes of the King of France He also toke Flaunders vnder his gouernement the people wherof long after in all matters were to him obedient as vnto the King of Fraunce Conquerer As touching the title and and armes aforesayde the Frenche king sayde to certayne Englishmen sent vnto him our cousin quoth he doth wrongfully beare quartered armes of England
and Fraunce whiche matter notwithstanding doth not much displease vs for y â— he is descended from the weaker side of our kin and therfore as being a Batcheller we woulde be content to graunt him licence to beare part of our armes of Fraunce but wheras in his seales and letters patents he nameth hymself as well King of Englande as of Fraunce and doth set the firste quarter of his armes with Leopardes before the quarter of Liles it doth grieue vs very muche making apparaunt to the beholders that the little Islande of Englande is to be preferred before the great kingdome of France Unto whom sir Iohn of Shordich knighte made aunswere that it was the custome of men in those dayes to set the title and armes of theyr progenitors before the armes and title of the righte descending of their mother and thus of dutie and reason Anno reg 14 sayde he doth my Lord the King of Englande preferre hys armes King Edwarde being thus busied the Mariners of the Cinque Ports embarked themselues in Pinaces and smal beates wel appointed who after the feast of S. Hillarie arriued at Bononie vpoÌ„ the sea coast the weather being so cloudie and darke that they could scarsely be perceyued to be in the hauen they brent in the lower towne nintéene galleys and four great shippes and twentie small boates with all theyr tackling and all suche houses as were scituate nyghe to the sea cost amongst which was one great house full of dares sayles weapons and other necessaries sufficiente to furnish ninetéene galleys and men for theÌ„ at y e length in a skirmish betwixt the townes men and the Englishmen many of the land men were slaine About the beginning of Februarie king Edwarde returned into Englande came vnto Gaunt where the Quéene lay Iohn of Gaunt Parliament aâ— VVestminster 1340 in childbed of hir fourth sonne named Iohn he helde a Parliament at Westminster wherein the Temporalty granted hym euery ninth fléece of Wool euery ninth lambe and euery ninth sheafe of all sorts of corne and the cleargie gaue him a newe tenth Immediatety after Easter the Earles of Salisburie and Suffolke being accompanyed but with a fewe men gaue an assault to the Towne of Lile in Flaunders which Town was confederate with the French King but they chasing the FreÌ„ch men too far within the gates the Percolices being let fal they were beset with a multitude of men of armes and being taken they were conueyed into Fraunce fettered and shackeled with yron although they had â—â—orne to be true prisoners they were drawen in a Cart through the middest of euery Citie Towne Uillage and Hamlet with greate shoutes and cryes rayling on them and at length béeing brought to the presence of the French King he woulde haue most shamefully slaine them had he not bin otherwise perswaded by the counsel of the King of Boemia King Edward kept his Whitsontide at Ipswich for that he intended from thence to take his passage into Flaunders but being certified that the French king had sent a great Nauie of Spanish ships and also the whole fléete of Fraunce to stoppe his passage he caused his ships of the Cinque Ports and other to be assembled so that he had in his fléete great and small 260. shippes Wherefore on the Thursdaye before the matiuity of Saint Iohn Baptist hauing a prosperous winde he began to sayle and the nexte daye in the euen of the sayde feaste they escried the French Fléete lying in Swine Hauen Wherefore the King caused all his Fléete to come to Ancker The next day being the feast of S. Iohn Baptist â—arly in the morning the French Fléet deuided themselues into thrée parts and remoued themselues as it were a myle approching towards the kings Fléete Whiche when the king perceyued about nine of the clocke hauing the winde and sunne on his backe set forwarde and met his enimies as he woulde haue wished wherewithall the whole fléete gaue a terrible shoute and a showre of arrowes out of long woodden bowes so powred downe on the French men that thousandes were slaine in that méeting at length they closed and came to hand blowes with Pikes Powle axâ—s swordes and some threw stones from the toppes of shippes wherewith many were brained The greatnesse and heigth of the Spanish shippes caused many English men to strike many a stroke in vaine but to be short the French shippes being ouercome and al the men spente of the firste parte the Englishmen entred and tooke them The French shippes were chayned togyther in suche sort that they coulde not be separated one from another so that a fewe Englishmen kepte that part of the Fléete wherfore they set vpon the second ward and with greate difficultie gaue the charge whiche being done was sooner ouercome than the firste for that the French men leauing their ships many of them leapt ouer borde The Englishmen hauing thus ouercome the first and seconde parte of the Fléete and now hauing night drawyng on partly for want of light and partly for that they were wearie they determined to take some rest till the next morning wherefore that night xxx shippes of the thirde crewe fled awaye and a greate shippe called the Iames of Deepe thinking to haue carried away a certaine ship of Sandwiche belonging to the Prior of Canterburie was stayde for the Saylers so stoutely defended themselues by the helpe of the Earle of Huntingdon that they saued themselues and theyr ship from the Frenchmen The fight continued al the night and in the morning the Normans being ouercome and takeÌ„ there wer found in the shippe aboue 400 men slaine Moreouer the king vnderstanding that xxx ships were fledde hée sent fortie ships well appointed to followe them ouer the which he made Iohn Crabe gouernour but what good spéede he had is not knowen In the firste companye of shippes that were taken they founde these conquered shippes the Denise the George the Christopher and the blacke Cocke all whiche ships were taken by Erenchmen at Sluce and carried into Normandie The number of shippes of warre that were taken was about 200. and. 30. barges the number of enimies slaine and drowned were aboue fiue and twentie thousande and of Englishmen about foure thousand among whom were foure Knightes sir Thomas Mortimer the Kings cousin sir Thomas Latimer his son sir William Butteler of Seortkorne and sir Thomas Poynings About the same time the Scots came with a great power into Englande burning and spoyling all the Marches by fire and sworde and when they were returning wyth a great bootie of Cattayle they were neuer withstoode by the Nobilitie of the Marches but the common people wold not suffer them so to passe set vpon them toke theyr bootie from them and slewe manye of them and toke more than 80. Scots of good reputation whome they kept from raunsome for the whiche fact the Noble menne of the Marches were highly displeased About Lammas certaine French Pirats gaue an assault
with more than fiue hundered men of armes amongst whom was the Earle of Ro. Auesbery Anno reg 19. Penbroke and Walter de Many with manye Archers into Gascoigne with Ralph Baron of Stafforde Seneshal of Gascoigne who being come thyther the sayde Earle made fiftie Knightes of his armye and after wanne manye walled Townes and Castelles making many worthy skirmishes and at length won the towne of Daguâ—lown by assaulte to the kéeping wherof they appointed Ralph Stafford afterward they appointed thrée iourneys toward other townes as especially to Brigerecke so called for the strength thereof and also called the Chamber of Fraunce and also to y e town of Saint Iohn de Laruel and to many other greate and strong townes well fortified which with great toyles and diuerse daungerous assaultes they wan where the Earle of Darbie and his souldiours vndermining the Towers and Wals of the sayde towne were very sore assaulted by them whiche defended Thus he Conquered Cities Townes Castelles and Fortresses to the number of one hundred and fiftie bringing a greate parte of Gascoigne vnder subiection euen to Tolouse vnto the whiche Citie he did no domage neyther to the inhabitantes therof but that he made them wonderfully afrayde as certaine of them tolde me sayeth my aucthour their fear was such that the religious people were constrayned to beare armour and the Prior of the Carmelite Tho. de la More Friers of our Lady of Tolouse hauyng a Banner of our Ladye in Golde set in a fielde of siluer displayed the same prouoking thereby many to take armour About the second sonday in Lent the Earles being fully fraught with bootie prisoners gold and siluer they returned towardes Burdeaux where Iohn de Valoys eldest sonne to the French king being accompanyed with a great number of hyred Dutche souldiours besieged the Towne of Agnlowne and the Captaines thereof the Earle of Stafforde and other so entrenched the same Towne that without greate daunger the Englishmen coulde haue no accesse vnto them but the Earle of Darby bet awaye them that besieged the Citie and eâ—t soones new victualled the same notwithstanding they were not able to raise the siege bycause they hadde so entrenched themselues without the towne who refusing to fight in the fielde would aunswere that they came not to pitch a fielde but to besiege a Town wherefore they continued the same siege vntil the decollation of Saint Iohn but vnderstanding then that the King of England chaced his Father Phillip very sore at Grecie and fearing that he shoulde come verye late to the ayde of hys Father he gaue vppe the siege setting all his tentes on fire and fled in the darke but the Earle of Stafforde wyth hys power pursued them cut off theyr tayle tooke a greate manye of theyr horsses and prisoners and retourned After this certaine bowmen are mustered in England appointed to be sente ouer sea who commyng ouer are layde in garrison fordefence of the Countrey Also twenty thousande sackes of Wooll are graunted to the king Moreouer Geffrey de Harecourte a Norman came to the King requiring ayd against the French king who wrongfully withhelde hys landes from him at his first comming he did fealtie and sware homage to king Edward but afterward he reuolted Thomas of Hatfielde the Kings Secretary by meanes of Tho. Walsing the Kyngs letters to the Pope was admitted Byshoppe of Durham and when certaine of the Cardinalles sayde that the sayd Thomas was a light person and a lay man the Pope answered truly if the king of England at this time Ansvvere of the Pope had made his request for an Asse he should haue obteined it The same yeare dyed Adam Tarleton Bishop of Winchester that had bin long time blind after whome succéeded William Edendon Treasourer of England This man founded the Monasterie of Edendon the religious Liber Edendon bréethren whereof were called Bonhomes The same yeare dyed Henry Earle of Lancaster father to Henry Earle of Darby and was buryed at Leycester in the Monasterie of Channons the King and both the olde and yong Quéenes being present with Archbishops Bishops Earles and Barons in manner of all the lande whose sonne was then in Gascoigne doing chiualrous actes This yeare the Scottes to the number of thirtie thousande William Dowglas being their leader entred into Westmerland and brent Carelile Penreth with many other Townes wherefore the Bishop of Carelile with Thomas Lucy Robert Ogle and a great number compassed them in the night season and with lightes and noyse so disquieted them that they neuer durst go out for victuals nor giue their bodyes to sléepe but at the last Alexander Stragan stoutely prepared to go out for victualles whome the Bishop Scots ouercome and Robert Ogle mette and with a speare thrust him through the body so that the Scottes were soone after ouercome and slayne Edmond Hemenhall Iohn of Glocester the 28. of Sept. Sherifes Maior Richard Laget the 28 of October This yeare was the first coÌ„gregating and first Custos or gardian of the fraternitie of the Grocers in the Citie of London elected The Earle of Northampton and the other Lordes in Briteine Anno reg 20 committed certayne Castels wonne by them in Briteine to the safekéeping of faithfull Captaynes and Souldioures and then returned into England King Edward prepared to make a voyage into Normandy 1346 his Nauie being readie to transport him from Portesmonth King Edvvard sayled into Normandy and Porchester with the Earles of Northampton Arundell Warwike Harecourt Huntingdon Oxenforde and Suffolke the Bishop of Durham and Mayster William Killesby Clerke euery one of these leading a great armie of Souldioures well appoynted were embarqued and wayted for the winde from the first of June to the fifth of July and then Tho. de la More Tho. Walsing Ro. de Aâ—esbury hauing a good winde they beganne to make Sayle with the number of one thousande Shippes of burthen and Pinaces and on the thirtéenth day of July they landed at Hogges in Normandy where on the shore of the Sea King Edwarde made his eldest sonne Knighte and also Prince of Wales and immediately the Prince made Knightes Mortimere Montacute Rose and other That night the King lodged in the Towne of Hogges and the next day the Towne was brent by the Armie Hogges in Normandy brent The night following King Edward lodged in Mercels where he stayde fiue dayes during whiche time all the Countrey with the Towne of Barbefleete was by his men consumed with fire From thence they departed to Veloygus which they set a fire then they went to Senet combe de Mount whiche is nigh the Sea and to Garantam thence to Serius and to Saint Lewes passing along vnto the Towne of Turney wasting all with fire and that night the Kyng lodged at Carmalin then to Gerin being a Religious house belonging vnto Cane leauing nothing behinde them vnspoyled Afterward they made an assaulte and entred the Citie Cane
in Normandy beseeged by Edvvard the third of Cane making their entrance by a Bridge whiche was strongly defended There was slayne an hundreth thrée and fortie Knightes among the whiche was the Earles of Ewe and Camberlin de Tankeruill with dyuers other Captaynes whyche were sente into England and the Lady Abatesse of Cane and of them of the Citie were slayne aboue one thousande thrée hundred At this Citie the armie remayned sixe dayes and the spoyle thereof they solde to those Marriners whiche followed the coast as the King went Then they wente to the Monasterie in the Towne of Toward a very strong thyng and well defended Afterwarde they came vnto Argons by nighte burning still as they wente till they came to the Citie of Licens where they founde the Cardinalles of Clarimount and of Naples and one Archbishop who offered the King a treatie of peace and there the King continued thrée dayes refusing to treate of peace Then they wente to Lestentnoland and to the Towne of Briue and lodged at New Burge and after at Selelefe vpon Sayne and there the Welchmen â—â—amme through the water of Segan and béeing resisted by the inhabitantes they slewe many of them Then they passed nigh to the Towne and Castell of Pount Darch béeing strong places and not sautable Thys nighte he lodged at Lury vpon Segan nigh vnto the good Towne of Louars whiche they did burne After they passed by the Towne and Castell of Gaylon whiche they tooke and brente and lodged at Lingeuie whiche is nigh the good Towne and Castell of Vernon whiche they touched not and there they first entred into France and the same night they brente the Castell of Roche Blanche whiche standeth on the other side of Segan and lodged at Fremble vpon Segan After that they passed by the Towne de Maunt lodging that night at Oporne On the nexte day they passed to Frigmas and the nexte daye to the good Towne of Poecie where béeyng a Bridge to passe ouer the Riuer of Segan the Frenche had spoyled it but the Kyng caused it to bée reedifyed and the nexte daye they came vnto Amias where were thrée greate Armies appoynted to kéepe the King from passing that way but hée making a greate conflicte with them slewe thrée hundreth of them at the firste charge put the residue to flighte and spoyled their Tentes burning thrée hundreth and two Cartes and Wagons ladeÌ„ with Crossebowes Quarels Armor victuals the King staying there two dayes they went to Gresile nigh vnto Pountoys then to Antell the next day they passed by the Citie of Wenneys which they touched not and so by Trâ—solours at the water of Some where they lodged The next day they wan the Towne of Poys and brent the Castell From thence they went to Aregnus then to Achen where they lodged The next day they came to Noell vpon the Sea side the Frenchmen of Dabuile and the Countrey came to the fâ—â—rdes side to hinder their passage with whome the King had a sore conflict but the enimies were put to the worsse and more than two thousand slayne and the Towne of Croytoy taken and brent and aboue thrée hundred Germanes slayne The next day they followed the King on the Riuer of Some and on the banckes side where the King with his host were lodged came trauelling Phillip de Valoys the French king Tho. de la More with the Kings of Boheme and Malegre leading an army of men innumerable deuided into eight great battels King Edward sent to the French King offering him frée passage ouer the Foorde if he would come and choose a place apt to fight a field in but this Phillip would not fight but went to another place of passage On the morrow King Edward remoued to Cresifield where y e armie of the French King met him The King therefore set his sonne the Prince of Wales to gouerne the vaward The middle warde the Earle of Battayle of Crecy Northampton The third he tooke to guide himselfe The army of the Frenchmen were deuided into nine troupes The vaward was committed to the King of Boheme The French King commaunded his banner called Oliflam The French Banner of oyly flame signifyed no mercy more â—han fire in oyle to be set vp after which time it was not lawfull vnder payne of death to take any man to saue his life This banner that it might differ from his standard had in it Lillies of gold very broade On the other side King Edward commanded his Banner to be erected of the Dragon which signified fiercenesse and crueltie to be turned against the Lillies These armies being thus appoynted stoode in the fielde from one of the clocke vntill the euening Aboute the Sunne setting after the armies had iusted they beganne by sound of Trumpettes to giue signe of battayle but they themselues felt the force of the English Archers and as for their Quarels they fell short a great way Moreouer their footemen being placed among their owne horsemen were by them when they were gaulled with the English shotte of arrowes ouerrunne and troden vpon that a great outcrie was made as it were to the Starres and the whole forme of the array was broken and they fighting with the English armed men are beaten downe with Poleaxes In this so terrible a bickering the Prince of Wales being then but sixtéene yeares olde shewed his wonderfull towardnesse laying on very hotely with Speare and Shield This battell dured thrée partes of the night in the which time the Frenchmen gaue fiue great assaultes againste oure men but at the length they being conquered ranne away On the morrow there came four armies of fresh Souldioures to the French side and making semblant as though their part had suffered no harme they come against the Englishmen and gaue them a fresh battayle On the other side the Englishmen withstoode them very stoutely and after a sharp conflict they forced their foes to flie and in chacing of them togither with them that were slayne in the conflict they slew thrée thousand men in the sayd two dayes There were slayne in the battayle of Crecy the Kings of Boheme and of Maiorica the Archbishop of Zanxinus the Bishop of Noyone the Dukes of Lorayne and Burbon the Earles of Alanson Harecourt Awmarle Sauoy Nois Mountbilliard Niuars and of Flanders with the graund Priour of the Hospitall of France and foure thousand men of armes beside common souldioures without number The third day after King Edward passed by the Abbey of Mounteney and the next day they came to the Towne of Mountney and from thence to the Nunrie of Saint Ioce and after they passed ouer a Foorde and came to Newcastell where they stayde two dayes and from thence they came to Caleis which presently they entrenched to beséege being King Edvvarde beseeged Caleis the fourth day of September Iohn Croydon William Clopton the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Geffrey Witchingham the 28 of October The French King in
grounde wyth certaine prickes bothe shorte and sharpe then called Gadlings being closed in the ioyntes of hys righte Gauntlet the sayde Thomas strucke the sayde Iohn in the face and sore wounded hym but on the other side Iohn hadde no suche shorte kinde of weapon wherewyth hée myght hurte Thomas face and therefore cryed out aloude moste horribly whervpon by the kings commaundemente the combatte was ended and the victorie adiudged to Thomas who gaue the sayde Iohn being thus ouercome to the Prince of Wales for a Captiue and offered by his owne armoure to Sainte George in Sainte Paules Churche at London wyth greate deuotion These matters beyng thus finished the Cipres man is manumitted and fette at libertie as a frée man againe And Thomas thinking boldely to goe into the presence of his brother the Frenche King toke hys iourney thyther and at his comming founde the sayde King and the nobilitie of Fraunce greatlye offended and in indignation against him for that he agréed that the combat shoulde be tried before the King of England Wherefore Thomas thinking secretly with himselfe howe to winne the false friendship of his brother being desirous to shewe that therein hée hadde done well among all other things he greatelye praysed the nobilitie of Edwarde and his worthy fame spredde ouer al the worlde and also the iustice whiche he vsed in iudging not accepting the person of the manne of Cipres yea thoughe he loued the Kyng himselfe verye well neyther suffered him to be preferred before me whiche am a Frenche manne and brother and friende to thée my Lorde Kyng of Fraunce iudge ouer the sayde King Edwarde my aduersarie Also the Earle of Ewe hyghlye praysed the King of England for that hée hadde receyued greate comforte and commoditye at hys handes during the tyme of hys Captiuitie in Englande shewing also howe farre that good Kyng hadde banished enuie and hatred from hys hearte who at a time of iustyng beyng in the fielde at that exercise and the Kyng also was commaunded by the Kyng hymselfe to beare awaye the price and pricke from them all These commendations did the Frenche Kyng enuie at and for indignation he moste wickedlye commaunded the setters forthe of those prayses to be beheaded And for to colour the matter the better he fayned that the Earle vsed too muche familiaritie with the Quéene his wife and that his brother was guiltie of treason againste the king of Fraunce bycause he committed his cause and the combat to be tryed by the iudgement of the king of Englande After he had thus murdered his brother he tormented his wife to death by famine who was daughter of the noble King of Boheme lately slaine in battayle by Geffrey William Edington Bishoppe of Winchester and treasurer Groates and halfe groates Anno reg 25 Tho. Walsing Histo Auâ—â—a of England a wise man caused a newe coyne called a Groate and halfe Groate to be coyned but these were of lesse wayght than the pence called Esterlings by reason wherof victualles and merchandice became the dearer thorough the whole realme After the Octaues of the Purification of our Lady in a Parliament at VVestminster Parliament holden at Westminster Henrie Earle of Lancaster was created Earle of Lincolne Leicester Derby Grosmount and Ferrers and Duke of Lancaster vnto whome also was giuen great priuiledges suche as neuer any Erle had before his time Also Lionel of Antwerpe the kings sonne is made Earle of Vâ—star in Irelande Iohn of Gaunte his brother is made Earle of Richmonde and Ralph Baron of Stafforde is made Earle of Stafforde In the Lent following Walter de Maine and Roberte Herle Captain of Caleis rod into France making gret praes and doing great domage brought away gret store of beasts A fat Covv sixteene pence 1351 shéepe and swine so that at Caleis a fat Cowe was scarcelye solde for sixtéene pence sterling About Easter the Duke of Lancaster departing from Caleis marched alongst the Sea coastes of Artoys and Picardie brent the suburbes of Bulloign but assaulting the Town he preuayled not for that only the ladders were too short Therefore he wasted the Cities of Tirwin and the hauen also the Townes of Fauconbridge and Staples and in the same hauens he brent aboue 120. ships of diuerse moulds After this brenning the Champion Countrey he rode vnto Saint Omers and winning by force manye Fortresses with a great pray and many prisoners he returned to Caleis About the feast of Saint George things prospered wel in Gascoine for the Marshal of France with a greate number of armed men spoyled the Countrey about S. Dangel where Edmond Rose a Norffolke man was Captayne who with the garison valiauntly encountred the enimies flew many of them and toke the sayde Marshal and manye other nobles of Fraunce chasing aboue 400. Knightes The same yeare the Spanish shippes by a treatie of peace came into Englande where the last yeare they were restrayned but nowe a truce was taken for twentie yeares betwixt England and Spaine and a truce betwixt Englande and Fraunce for one yeare whiche the French men brake by reason of taking the Castel of Guisnes as in the next yeare shall be shewed Iohn Wroth Gilbert of Steineshorpe the. 28. of Septem Sherifes Maior Andrew Auberie Grocer the. 28. of October About this season the old coine of gold was changed into a new the olde Noble was worth muche aboue the taxed rate of the newe and therfore the Marchauntes boughte the olde and conueyed them out of the Realme to the greate losse of the king and kingdome to the whiche there was a remedie prouided by the chaunging of the stampe About the beginning of Januarie the French men béeing occupied about y â— repayring of y e wals of Guisnes town being afore that time destroyed by the English men some meÌ„ of armes of Caleis vnderstanding their doings deuised how they might ouerthrow the work it was done in this sort There was an Archer named Iohn Dancaster in prison in Anno reg 26 the Castel of Guisnes before that time takeÌ„ who not hauing wherwith to pay his raunsome was let lose with condition that he shoulde worke there amongst the French men The getting of Guisnes by the Englishe This fellow chaunced to lye with a Laundres a strumpet and learned of hir where beyond in the principal ditch from the bottome there was a Wall made of two foote broade stretching from the bottome to the brimme of the ditche within forthe so that being couered with Water it coulde not be séene but not so drowned but that a man going alofte theron shoulde not be wette paste the knées it beyng made for the vse of Fishers and therefore in the middest it was discontinued for the space of two foote and so the Archer hys Harlot shewyng it to hym he measured the heygth of the Wall wyth a thréede These things thus known one day slipping down from the Wal he passed the ditche by that hydden Wall and
the towne of Beal Marchi on the right hand lodged before the Towne of the Archbishop of Anfer called Le Base On this day Richard Stafford brother vnto the Earle of Stafford led his men with his Antient towards y e towne on the next day being Tuesday y e town was yéelded vnto him bicause it beloÌ„ged to y e Church the Prince would not suffer any maÌ„ to enter into it excepting certain persons appointed of purpose for the deliuering of victuals On Wednesday they leauing y e faire town of Escamount on y e left haÌ„d they came before the noble towne of Merand belonging to y e Earle of Commege which was ful of armed souldiours the Prince lodged in the great Monastery of Bartons in y e which Abbey there was not so much as one liuing creature fouÌ„d On Thurseday they lay still doing no harme to the sayde Abbey On Friday they went out of the faire and rich CouÌ„trey of Arminake entred the CouÌ„trey of Austerike through the which the passage was very hard hilly and lodging at Saxaunt a towne they set it on fire contrarie to the coÌ„mandement of y e Prince Al that day and thrée dayes following they passed alongst by the high hilles of Aragon On Saterday they came to the towne of S. More where y e rereward of the army lodged in a great Monasterie of blacke Monkes which were all fled away the middleward at Vilfrankes and the vaward at Tremaine these villages being very rich and full of victualles had no man in theÌ„ for all the inhabitants were fledde Sonday the xxiiij of October they passed a certaine foord and entred into the lands of y e Earle of Comenge which reached vnto Tolouse but these CouÌ„treys wer wasted with fire sword and leauing on the left hand the Towne called Sannetere in Austrike they passed by the strong Citie of Winbers where Pope Iohn the 22. remouing the blacke Monkes erected a Bishops sea and they were lodged in a great rich towne called Sotanco beloÌ„ging to y e Earledome of Comenge where was a coueÌ„t of friers Minors burning this towne on Monday they passed through a goodly wide countrey very plaine so came to the townes of S. Foy and S. Litz On Tuesday they rested and on Wednesday being the feast of Simon Iude the armie passed through y e Riuer of GerouÌ„d being a water very fierce stony terrible again the same day through y e Riuer of Arage much more dangerous came vnto Tolouse before that time neuer durst any horsemaÌ„ passe ouer these waters wherefore y e people of this couÌ„trey being wonderfully made aferd could not tell what to do for being sodeinly takeÌ„ they could not flée that night the Prince lodged at Falgard a little towne one mile from Tolouse On Tuesday they came vnto the faire great town called Mount Gistard being parte of the inheritance of the Lord Almerike de la Fossad the which Towne the Frenche King had taken froÌ„ him bycause he was y e King of Englands féed man Fast by the sayde Towne were twelue Windmilles the which they set on fire all at once There were taken two espies that certified the Prince that the Earle of Arminake was at Tolouse and the Connestable of France at Mount Maban four leagues from Tolouse On Friday they passed on towards Auinion by the good towne of Basige and the towne called Franke and the whole armie lodged at the great Towne called Auionâ—t and the middleward and rereward lay in one side of the suburbes and the vaward lay on the other side of the Towne which the Townesmen perceiuing fled euery one There was about this Towne twenty Windmilles which they set on fire On Saterday the last of October they lodged in the great Towne called Clastalnannar where a Church of Chanons a coueÌ„t of Friers Minors and another of Carmelites with an Hospitall and a Uillage called Les mauns de Pucels with a couent of Friers Augustines were al coÌ„sumed with fire On Sonday the feast of All Saincts the armie rested out of the which army certaine going to take booties they tooke a little towne the inhabitants whereof to be spared from spoyling gaue them x. M. Florens of golde On monday they marched along by the Townes of S. Mathele Port and the great Towne called Vilkapinch and froÌ„ thence they entred the Countrey of Carkason and the Prince lodged at a little Uillage called Alse On Tuesday they came to Carkason a faire towne rich and well built bigger than London Within the walles betwixt the towne of Senburge and the Citie being double walled there ranne a goodly water which passed vnder a faire stone Bridge at the foote whereof were foure couents of Religions of y e which the Friers ran not away but the other fled into the Citie The whole armie was lodged in the towne which abounded with Muskadell and all other delicate victuals this day the sonnes of the Lord Libret and Mayster Basset with Rowland Daues and many other were made Knightes On Wednesday Thurseday the armie lying still in the Towne and hauing made a truce they parlied with them of the Citie concerning a peace the Citizens Carkason in France burned offering for sauing the Towne from burning 250000. of golden Souses the Prince answered he came not for gold but to take Cities and Townes togither with their inhabitantes and the nexte day commanded the Towne to bée brent On Friday the Towne being brent the army departed leauing on the left hand the Castell of Botenake vntouched passing through the champion Countrey burning Townes called La Rustican and all the Countrey thereabout On Saterday they trauayled through a great wind and dust leauing on the lefte hande a great poole of freshe water béeing in compasse aboute thirtie leagues and is called Casibon They came to a Towne called Silony whiche was yéelded to the Prince and therefore neuer touched and the Prince was lodged that night at a good Towne called Canet On Sonday the eyght of Nouember they passed the water of Sandey partly at the Foord called Chastel de Terre and partly ouer a Bridge and so trauayled betwixt high hilles vnto the great Citie of Narbon whereof that Countrey taking his name is called Gallia Narbonensis This Citie was very strong and well walled hauing in it a great Cathedrall Church also a notable Castell belonging to the Bishop and a very strong Tower for the Earle of the same Towne It had also a Suburbe called a Borough much bigger and better built than the Borough of Carkason In the Borough were foure Couents of Religious persons Betwixt the Borough and the Citie there runneth a water called Ande comming from Carkason and runneth into the Greekish Sea Betwixt the Citie and the Borough are two Bridges of stone and the third of timber built with storehouses for diuers Merchandises The Prince was lodged in the house of Carmelite Friers On Tuesday the Borough béeing
and déepe ditches To this Towne also belongeth only two Gates for entries the one called Calturances the other Mostrouillier In this Towne besides the inhabitants thereof for the defence of the same were foure hundred men of armes deputed in Garrison amongst whome were these Lords Lord Discouteuile chiefe Captayne of the Towne Lord Blanuile Lord Haqueuile Lord Harmanuile Lord Eancourt Lord Gaillard Bos and diuers other Lords and men expert in warre The King commanding the Duke of Clarence to asséege the Towne he endeuoured Titus Liuius to conuey his people ouer the Riuer in the passage whereof he had a great skirmish with the inhabitants of the Towne but at the last his aduersaries being put to flight recoyled within the walles The Duke conuayde ouer the Riuer all his ward and company and bycause the Riuer deuided the Kings Camp from the Dukes they ordeyned a ready and sure passage ouer the same Riuer betwixt both the Campes to the kéeping whereof certayne Gentlemen were appoynted so that theyr enimies myghte not endomage them neyther by Water nor Lande In this meane time befell a great misaduenture to the Enguerant Frenchmen that were beséeged for the Gonnepouder and shotte that was sent vnto them by the French King was encountred vpon the Sea by the Englishmen and taken to their great displeasure and domage The King gaue the charge of the fielde to his brother Titus Liuius Humfrey Duke of Glocester On the same side the Riuer that the King lay was y e Duke of Yorke high Connestable of England lodged with his band When euery man was placed y e Towne was so streightly asséeged that all entries and issues of the Towne were stopped so y ◠they of y e towne were in dispaire to haue any succour from the Realme of France Many engins were reysed by the English which in short time should haue bin the destruction of the walles if they of the Towne had not the sooner stopped the Riuer of the same towne within wherby the water gathered reised without the towne betwixt the King and the D. of Clarence to the semblance of a little Sea which caused the Englishmen to withdraw their Gonnes and other engins whereby at that time the walles were saued Then the King caused to Enguerant be made vnder the water thrée great Mines vnto the walles of the towne which in like maner had bin the cause of their ruine if the inhabitants had not countermined them and letted their purpose The inhabitants of the Town perceyuing Titus Liuius themselues thus streightly asséeged as well by Land as by Sea conuayde all their Shippes within their Hauē and bound them togither with cheynes and in the two towers that were made for the defence of the Hauen they put certaine Garrisons and armed men who oftentimes attempted to inuade the Kings Nauie but at all times they were by his Shippes beaten and constreyned to recule still within their Hauen at the last the Captaynes and inhabitants considering that by such skirmishes as well vpon the Land as vpon the Sea they gained nothing tooke this appointment with the King that if they were not rescued by the Frenchmen within certayne dayes limited they shoulde then delyuer into hys handes the Towne with thirtie persons of the greatest and most noble within the Towne suche as the King woulde desire to bée ordered at the Kings pleasure and all the residue as well menne of Warre as the inhabitantes of the same Towne without armoure and leauing behynde them theyr goodes shoulde fréely goe where they woulde for the suretie of whyche appoyntemente to bée kepte they deliuered vnto the King twelue of their greatest personages for pledges The Captaynes and inhabitants of the Towne séeing their day of appoyntment to approch and themselues vtterly desperate of any succours of their people ordeyned to perfourme their couenant at their day prefixed whiche was the xxij of September on which day came Sir Lionell Braquemont gouernour of the Towne vnto the King and knéeling before him sayd Most victorious Prince beholde héere the keyes of this Towne which after our promis I yéeld vnto you with the Towne my selfe and my companie Then were brought to the King the Lord Coteuile the Lord Gangcourt and other to the number of thirtie and all the residue as well souldioures as inhabitants were suffered vnarmed to depart The King constitute Captayne of the Towne Sir Thomas Beawford Earle of Dorset hys Unkle to whome he also committed two thousand souldiers chosen men of his host Then considering that winter drew on as also the losse of their men by reason of the Flix then reigning amongst them by which infirmitie died Michaell at Poole Earle of Suffolke the Bishop of Norwich the Enguerat Lord Beawmont and others and of the commons to the number of two thousand and aboue King Henry created the sonne of Michaell at Poole Earle of Suffolke who liued not long after After King Henry had remayned at Harefleete fiftéene dayes after y e deliuerie of the Towne and of the Towers he departed from thence towards Caleis whereof when his Titus Liuius enimies were aduertised and also by what way he intended to passe all the people of the Countrey Cities and Townes were maruellouslie oppressed with feare wherefore they hasted them to defensible places and other that were apt to warre tooke them to their horsses and assembled them togither in great number with no small companie of footemen and in all that they might they oppressed the Englishmen The Kings host kept an easie pace without making any hast and when they approched the Towne of Ewe their enimies assayled them in the fieldes with great force and noyse where on both parties it was foughten sore and vigorously Enguerant but the Frenchmen reculed to the Towne where they were in good suretie From thence the King departed and came to a passage of the Riuer of Some which the Frenchmen call Blankhestoke or Blanch tache This passage at Titus Liuius the comming vnto it was fixed with sharp stakes by their enimies so that they could not passe there but were constreyned to go farther séeking their passage vntill they came directly to haue the Citie of Amiens and the Castell of Gorby on their left side where they of the sayde Citie began with them a new fight but they were soone forced by the English to returne to their Citie agayne The xix of October the King passed the Riuer of Some at the passage of Vienna and Bethew-court and wente then to lodge him at Mouche-legach frō whence he aduanced him towardes the Riuer of Miramont In the meane time the French King and the Duke of Guyen his sonne then Dolphin purposing to resist the Englishmen came to Roane from whence they sent thrée Heraults to the King of England to giue vnderstanding that he should not escape without battayle vnto whome the sayde King answered All things be done at the pleasure
Saint Simon and Iude earely in the Regist of Maiors morning came tidings to London of this victorie for ioy whereof Te deum was song in all the Churches and at nine of the clocke all the orders of Religious men of the Citie went on Procession from Saint Paules vnto Westminster with the new Maior his Aldermen and the Craftes the Quéene and hir Lords and all hir trayne who all offered at Saint Edwards Shrine and then the Maior tooke his charge and euery man returned with great ioy The xxiij of Nouember King Henry arriued at Douer King Henry returned the Maior of London with the Aldermen and Crafts riding in red with hoods red and white mette with the King on Blacke heath comming from Eliam and so brought him thorough Londō to Westminster with all his prisoners of France On the next morrow the Maior Aldermen and 200. of the commoners presented the King with a thousand pound in two Basens of Gold worth 500. pound In the feast of the Purification seuen Dolphins of the sea came vp the Riuer of Thamis and playd there whiles four of them were kilde In a Parliament begun the fiftéenth of March at Westminster the halfepens of Ianua cōmonly called Galey halfepens Halfepens of Ianua forbiddē were forbid to be vsed as lawfull payment among the English people The first of May the Emperour landed at Douer and the Anno reg 4. 1416. seauenth of May the Maior Aldermen and Craftes of London receiue him at Blacke heath and the King with his Lords met him at Saint Thomas Waterings and so brought him thorough London to Westminster The Emperour returned out of England the sixtéenth of August after he had laboured but could make no peace betwéene England and France Iohn Benet Woolmā who had in Lōdō scattered scedules Tho Wals VVoolman beheaded ful of sedition was drawne hanged and beheaded on Michaelmas day The viij day of October was a Parchment maker of Trillmell stréete drawne hanged and headed for that he had harbored Sir Iohn Oldcastell Robert Widington Iohn Couentrie the 28. of Septemb. Sherifes Maior Anno reg 5. Henry Barton Skinner the 28. of October In the Parliament at London the Earle of Dorset was made Duke of Excester The xxvij of Nouember was a Begger drawne and hanged for dismembring of yong children he was drawne in his owne carre from the Leaden Hall vnto Tiborne A Spicers wife of Saint Albons and the Bayliffes wife of Vinesburie were hanged at Tiborne and shortly after the Bayly of Vinesburie himselfe was also hanged at Tiborne On Easter day in the after noone at a Sermon in Saint Dunstons in the East of London a great fray happened in the 1417 A fray in Saint Dunstons Church Church where-through many people were sore wounded and one Thomas Petwarden Fishmonger dwelling at Sprots Key was slayne out of hande wherefore the Churche was suspended and the beginners of the fray which was the Lord Strange and Sir Iohn Tussell Knight through the quarell of their two wiues were brought to the Counter in the Pultry the Archbishop of Canterbury caused them to be excommunicate Records of Caunt The L. Strange his vvife doth penance as well at Paules Crosse as in al other Parish Churches of the Citie The xxi of Aprill the sayd Archbishop sate at S. Magnus to enquire of the authors of that disorder where he foūd the fault to be in the Lord Strange and his wife who vpon the first of May following in Paules Church before the Archbishop the Maior of London and other submitted themselues to penance and sware to do the same which was enioyned them that immediately al their seruants should in their shirtes goe before the Parson of S. Dunstons from Paules to S. Dunstons Church and the Lorde bare headed with his Lady bare footed Reignold Kenwood Archdeacon of London following them and at the halowing of the Church the Lady should fill all the vessels with water and also offer an ornament to the Alter of tenne pound and the Lord Straunge should offer a Pixe of Siluer of fiue pound The xxix of June the Earle of Huntington with his retinue fought with nine Carikes of Iene and tooke foure of them to their patrons and the Admirall of them all that was called the Bastard of Burbon with all the treasure that they all should haue bin waged with for a quarter of a yeare The thirtith of July King Henry with his host sayled into Normandy and tooke the Castell of Tonke and shortly after gat Cane Beyonx and many other Townes and Castels Henry Reade Iohn Gedney the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Richard Marlow Ironmonger the 28. of October Sir Iohn Oldcastell was sent vnto London by the Lorde Tho. Wals Powes out of Wales which Sir Iohn was conuict by Parliament drawne to Saint Giles field where he was hanged by Tho. Wals the necke in a chayne of iron and after consumed with fire The 14. of December King Henry continuing hys Anno reg 6. warres in France held his Christmas in Normādy at Bayaux about which time the Castell of Falase was yéelded vnto 1418 him and the Citie of Aueraunce was also yéelded After Easter Thomas Duke of Clarence was sent by the King to beséege the Monasterie of Becke Helowin and Humfrey Duke of Glocester was sent to beséege the Towne Cherburghe Richard Earle of Warwike was sent to beséege the Castell of Daunfrount and the Earle of Kime was sent to beséege the Castell of Milly Leuisque About the feast of the holy Trinitie the King sent Thomas Duke of Excester his Unkle into Normandy with fiftéene thousand men of armes In the moneth of June King Henry beséeged the noble Towne of Louens and compelled them within to yéelde to him vpon conditions on the euen of Saint Iohn Baptist Then the King on the xxij of June remoued his armie Titus Liuius towards Pount large where he layde his séege on the one side of y ◠Towne by the middle whereof the Riuer of Seene hath his course but could haue no passage ouer the riuer to lay séege on y e other side for y e bridge which was without y e town was defended with a strong Tower and a Garrison but King Henry commanded to make Boates of wickers and those to be closed in Beastes Skinnes by which Boates on the fifth of July the Duke of Clarence with hys companie passed ouer secretly in great number and then beséeged the other side of the Towne but bycause the Riuer of Seene diuided his host whereby if eyther part should haue néede of other they could not come togither for the Riuer the King caused to be made so many small square Boates of the wicker aforesayd that being tyed togither and cast into the Riuer he made of them a Bridge When the inhabitants and Garrisons perceyued them thus enuironed in all partes they agréed with the King that if within
fiftéene dayes they were not deliuered from thys séege they should deliuer to the King the Towne and Castell and when the day was come they perfourmed promise and this was the first Bridge ouer the Riuer of Seene that the King subdued to his power After the King had thus obteyned that Bridge ouer the Riuer of Seene and that there was none other Riuer or floud mighte lette his iourney with all the hast he might he entred hys iourney towardes Roane The Citizens hearing the approche of their enimies and fearing least they shoulde bée lodged in the Suburbes whiche were muche larger than the Citie was within the walles and was also muche replenished with Monasteries Churches and Towers burned the same and made all euen with the grounde To this Citie on the thirtith day of Julye thys victorious King approched agaynste whome came the Citizens with theyr Garrisons and men of warre where the more parte of all that day they continued in battell and fought sore on both partes but the Frenche were forced to séeke their succour within the walles of the Citie whome in theyr recoyle the King pursued still before the Citie where hée ordered his séege in this maner First the King with a noble company of yong hardy men lodged himselfe before the gate of Saint Hillarie The Duke of Clarence with his power was lodged before the gate of Caulx The Duke of Excester after he was câ—me to the king was lodged with his people before the gate of y e Castel called Beanuice Erle Marshal was lodged before y e gate called Markeuile The Earle of Warwicke after he was come from the Castle of Donfrounte was lodged vpon the Hil where the strong Monasterie of Saint Katherie was The Erles of Salisburie and Huntingdon were lodging ther vpon the other side of the Riuer of Seene vpon whom their enimies made many assaults and bycause the Riuer of Seene diuided the English hoaste in two partes the King caused to be made a strong bridge of Tymber ouer the same Riuer that when néede shoulde require they might haue frée passage on foote and horsse and bycause their enimies shoulde not approch vnto it w t their ships or Galleys the K. caused to be made a great cheyne to be drawen ouer the Riuer betwixt the citie and the Bridge At that tyme the King of Portingale coâ—â— to the King of England sent a nauie of shippes wel manneâ— into the Kings ayde whom the King commaunded to lye betwixte the Citie and the sea to enclose the Citie from all succours by Water The towne of Caudbeke fearing the daunger of the time couenaunted with the King of England that when the Citie of Roane were taken and deliuered into the Kings obeysaunte they in like manner woulde yéelde them to him without any assaulte and vnder the same appointed according with the King xiiij other defensible Townes and Castels that were nigh borderers vnto Roane After many cruell battayles and assaultes the Citizens fearing at leÌ„gth to be famished dayly put out of the Citie gret number of poore people and other but the hunger encreasing they were forced to eate their horsses dogges cattes rattes and mise and these and other like things were consumed eaten Then the plague of famine entred the Citie so that the people for defaulte of reliefe dyed that the liuing might scarcely burie the deade whereby that noble Citie was brought into so muche miserie that it is not lesse maruayle than pitiful to heare In this mean time during this siege of Roane The duke of Excester besieged the Citie of Eneroys also about the xx of August king Henrie had thrée maruellous victories in Normandie The first was that one hundered Englishmen take iij. great Lords at a place called Kilbuife and put to flight thrée hundred and fourescoure persons besides The second was foure hundered of his enimies entred within the suburbes of the Towne of Ebroicens and eleauen Englishmen chased them away and toke foure of them and slew twelue tooke 40. of their horsses The thirde was the enimies would indéede haue taken the town which was called Leuers but the Captaine of the same with an hundered of our men wente out against a thousand of them and ouercame them toke 180. gentlemen of the enimies Aboute thys tyme also Captaine de la Bouche toke the Towne of Pontoys by Paris The Parson of Wrotham in Norffolke whiche haunted New market Heath and there robbed and spoyled many was with his Concubine brought to Newgate of London where he dyed in prison Iohn Brian Ralphe Barton the. 28. of Sep. Iohn Parnesse Sherifes the. 28. of October This Iohn Brian Sherife as he came one a time from Wapping in the Woose thinking to haue eased himselfe beyond Saint Katherines Mill fell into the Thamis and was dragged vp againe by his men and the Miller but dyed therof within a seauen-night in whose place was chosen Iohn Parnesse William Seuenoke Grocer the. 28. of October Maior This William Seuenoke when he was a newe borne babe was founde at a Town called Seuenoke in Kent where by charitable people he was christened by the name of William and for that hys father or mother could not be known they gaue him to surname Seuenoke being by theÌ„ broughte vp till he was able to serue they then bounde him prentise with a Citizen of London where after his good seruice God indued him with such wisedome and wealthe that he came to be Maior of that Citie who being not vnthankefull to God and the common wealth among other his charitable workes founded in the Towne of Seuenoke where he hadde bin nourished a Frée schole and thirtéene almes houses When the Citizens of Roane perceyued themselues maruellously afflicted by famine as is before shewed and also to be in dispaire of succour from the Frenchmen nowe after halfe a yeares siege and more vpon certaine conditions they deliuered to the king of England their Citie castle Tower Abbayes Churches houses Citizens Captaynes Garisons and generallye all things that were within the Citie whatsoeuer they wer The xix day of Januarie there had dyed within this Citie as was sayde for defalt of victuals during this siege mo than xxx thousand people This Anno reg 7. 1419 noble King the rather to relieue this oppressed Citie ordayned the same to be the chiefe Chamber of all Normandie and ordayned hys exchequer hys Treasurie and hys coynage to be kepte in the same he also â—dified a strong tower behinde the Castle Whilest the King ordered his businesse at Roane he sente diuerse Lordes with strong puissaunce of people to receyue the Castelles of Townes borderyng vppon Roane amongst whom the Duke of Clarence in short tyme redused to the King the mightie Castell of Galiarde the Towne of Vernon the Towne of Naunte the Castall of Bandmounte and manye other strong places and holdes The Earle of Salisburie wyth the Garrison to hym assigned tooke the Town of Hounslowe the
Towne of Mounâ—iour de Villers the towne of Ewe the Towne of Gurney the newe Castle and generallye all the places in that part This yere Quéene Iane the Kings stepmother being deâ—amed by certaine persons of some wicked practice by witch craft or 〈…〉 that she had deuised against the 〈…〉 the counsell of 〈…〉 dolph a Doctour of Diuinitie hir Confessor 〈…〉 ing all hir seruaunts put from hir was committed to the custody of Iohn Wellam who appoynted nine seruaunts to attend hir brought hir vnto the Castell of Pemsey to be gouerned vnder his prouidence Frier Randolph â—â—â— sent to the Tower where at length to wéete in Anno. 〈…〉 the fifte of June he was slaine by the Parson of the Tower falling out at wordes with him And after Quéene Ioane was deliuered Kyng Henry sente his brother Humfrey Duke of Gloucester accompanyed wyth the Earle Marshall and a greate power of armed men to laye siege afore the Towne and Castell of Yuory which Town after many assaâ—â—ts and battayles the Duke tooke by force But the Castel thereof was not yelded til the thirtéenth of May. The King also sent the Earle of Huntington wyth a power from Maunt to the Towne of Pontois by which if it were taken he might haue the more sure and easie passage to Paris Those whyche were sent at the entry of the night were come nygh vnto Pontois where in a Wood they lefte their horses and that done in the darkenesse of the night they went on foote to the ditches of the Towne whych then were drye where parte of them lay on the banks of the ditches with their Ladders in their handes ready to scale the walles when time shoulde serue and the residue hyd them in the Uines where they might be ready to enter the town at the opening of the gates At the breake of the daye they of the towne changed their Watche at the whych change the â—â—â—â—es were lefte without Watches for the time But the Englishmen séeyng time to accomplishe their intent â—aysed their Ladders and scaled the walles and by that meanes entred the Towne where some of them forthwyth brake the gate and made entry for the reste of their company whiche when the garrisons of the Town perceyued as meÌ„ amazed they turned themselues to flight But not long after they armed them and assayled their enimies but to the Englishmens great auayle the Earle of Huntingdon w t his company set spurres to theyr horsses and hasted them to the succour of their first company whereby the Frenchmen as al discouraged and in dispaire to saue the Towne at the sight of these newe rescues that came to the Englishmen leauing behinde them all their riches and substaunce endeanoured themselues to escape by flighte and so the towne of Pointois auoyded of all Frenchmenne was lefte frée to the English After these enterprises thus atchieued the king with all his company came to this Towne of Pointois where he aboade a certaine time from whence he sent the Duke of Clarence w t a chosen power of men to Paris to view y e scituation and strength thereof before which Citie when he had tarried certaine dayes and had séene all that him liked and that none of the Frenche men woulde issue out of the Citie to fight with him he returned to the King and assertayned him of al that he had séene On the. xviij of August King Henrie with all his hoste departed from Pointois And bycause the Castell of Bokinvillers Bokinvillers yeelded had done certaine inhumane cruelties to the Kings landes that bordered thereabout to the intente to represse theyr malice the King lodged himself not far from thence and sent certaine to assault the same Castle where both the inhabitants and garrisons feared so much the King that as men desperate of all succours they yéelded both Castel and goods And then all the townes Castels and holdes within a great circuite without abyding battaile yéelded them to the King but that strong and mightie town of Gysors wherof the Castel is much more defensible than the Town would not submit to the King wherefore on the last day of August the King with all his host toke his iourney thyther and enclosed the Towne with his pauilions and tentes Betwyxt him and them of the Towne were many sharpe battayles and cruell assaultes but at all times the Englishmen put the Frenchmen to flight wherfore the inhabitantes and garisons of the towne and Castel deliuered the same to the King in the xxiiij of September Richard Whitingham Iohn Butler the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Richard Whitington Mercer the. 28. of October King Henrie returned with his army to Maunt where he deuided his host into thrée battayles whereof he deliuered the one to the Duke of Glocester whome he sente to subdue the Towne of Saint Germaines which after manye battayles and assaultes in short time was yéelded to him the seconde battayle he sent to the Castell of Mount Oye which in like manner was yéelded with the thirde battayle the King in hys owne perfom went to besiege Mewlance which aboue al other was most strong The situation of this town was in a plenteous I le betwixte two armes of the sea c. notwithstanding when the inhabitauntes and Garisons sawe the great prouision of the King they yéelded the town on the last day of October from thence the Kyng returned againe to Maunt and sente the Duke of Excester to besiege the Castle of Gâ—â—â—arde whiche to him was yéelded the xx of December King Henrie kept his Christmasse in the Citie of Roane he sent the Earle of Salisburie to take the Towne of Fresvey which in shorte time he toke The Earle Marshal and the Earle of Huntington were sente by the Kyng to subdue the Prouince of Shenon where the Dolphin had deputed a Captaine with a strong power whiche Captaine mette the two Earles and gaue them battayle but the Englishmen remayned conquerors And thus those two Earles subdued the prouince of Shenon without any other great resistaunce Whilest these and many other victories wer atchieued the King continuing in the Citie of Roane the ambassadors of Charles the French King of the Duke of Burgoigne came to the King to treate of peace where of the King they were right honourably recoyued and sent with him to the French King and the Duke of Burgoigne hys ambassadours wyth full aucthority to conclude this long soughte peace the principall ambassadour was the Earle of Warwicke in company of certaine Bishops and other discrete men accompanyed with a strong power of armed men These ambassadors were first brought to the Duke of Burgoigne bycause hée was next vnto them and after they toke their iourney vntil they came to the Citie of Troys where they founde King Charles Anno reg 8. 1420 of Fraunce with the Quéene his wife and that beautifull Lady Katheren theyr daughter And entring into communication of peace with the Kings counsell of Fraunce the
and Katherin and of the Duke of Burgoigne departed from Troys and toke his iourney to Paris and from Paris not many dayes after they all went to laye siege to the Citie of Sens whiche was to them contrarie but before the whole hoste were setled in their places the Captaine Citizens and Garisons submitted their bodyes and Citie with all that they had to the King Then they hasted to Monstrean which Towne they toke by force On the xv of July they went to the Citie of Melune and inuironed the same with a strong siege for there were the Kings of Englande of France and Scotlande the Duke of Burgoigne Tho. Wals Bauier Clarence Bedforde and Excester the Earles of March Warwicke Huntington and Somerset c. This siege coÌ„tinued xiiij wéekes and odde dayes from the feast of Mary Magdalen to the feaste of All Saintes not without in a maner euery day a conflict and sore skirmishe but at length for wante of victualles the besieged yéelded themselues to the Kyngs of Englande and Fraunce from whence the forsayde Kyngs with a greate parte of theyr armye wente to Paris Iohn Butler Iohn Wels the. 28. of September Sherifes Maior William Cambridge Grocer the. 28. of October King Henrie kept hys Christmasse in the Citie of Paris in the Castle of Saint Anthony And after he had holden a Parliamente there he went to Roane and therewith hys Titus Liuius Normans and Englishmen helde a Parliament And theÌ„ when he had established sure guarde for this Realme of Fraunce Dutchie of Normandie he passed throughe Picardie to Caleis and so to Douer where with his Quéene he landed on Candlemasse day The fourtéenth of Februarie Quéene Katherin was Crowned at Westminster vnto whom the King assigned to hir dowrie 10000. markes also he consented to the deliuerie of the King of Scots who had bin long prisoner in Englande with condition that before his departure out of Englande he shall take to wiâ—e the Duke of Somersets sister niece to the Cardinal of Winchester Anno reg 9. 1421 The. xxij of March the duke of Clarence with many other Lords were slaine beyond the Water of Leire in Fraunce many Lords were taken prisoners of the which the Earle of Huntington and the Earle of Somerset were principal In a ParliameÌ„t at Westminster it was ordayned that no man should profer gold in payment but if it helde waight wherfore was ordayned Balances and weightes The king suppressed the French houses of religious Monkes and Friers and such like in Englande bycause they thought ill of the Conquest ouer Fraunce theyr lands were giuen by him and Henrie the sixth to Monasteries and Colledges of learned men In this Parliament was demaunded subsidie The Bishop of Winchester lent the king â—0000 pounde to straine y â— matter The King hauing disposed all thing in order coÌ„cerning the realme of England and the wars in Scotland leauing in Englande his Quéene with a greate power to the number after Enguerant of thirtye thousande returned into Fraunce where after he hadde visited the King and Quéene of Fraunce at Paris he tooke the Castell of Dâ—wex by assault And when he heard that his enimies prepared themselues to battaile he approched the floude of Loyre aboute whyche Titus Liuius floud it was said his enimies were but against him came no man Wherfore the Kyng ledde his hoste to laye siege to the City of Sens commonlye called the Kings new Town whiche Towne for lacke of victualles yéelded themselues and the Town to the King Iohn Mortimer brake foorthe of the Tower of London and beyng afterwards taken hée was drawen and hanged Richarde Gosselin William Weston the 28. of Septemb. Sherifes Maior Sir Robert Chicheley Grocer the 28. of October This Syr Robert Chicheley when he deceased in Anno 1439. willed in his Testament that vppon his mind day a competent dinner should be ordained for 2400. pore men housholders of the Citie and twenty pounde in mony to be distributed amongest them whyche was to euery man two pence He also with his brother William Chicheley Alderman of London gaue liberally to the Almes houses founded by his brother Henrie Chicheley Archebyshop of Canterbury at Higham Ferrers in Nothamptonshire in whych Towne they were borne In the Moneth of October when King Henry had deliuered Tiâ—us Liuius the Citie of Paris from all annoyaunces he with his hâ—ste went to besâ—ege the Citie of Meaulx in Brye to whych City nigh adioyning is a place called y â— Market of Meaulx betwixt which two places floweth the riuer of Marne whiche also enuironeth bothe the same places Thys Citie was besieged all the Winter wherein were so manye and so greate stormes and flouds of raine that the kings host was often annoyed with huÌ„ger colde The sixth of December Lady Katherine Quéen of Englande broughte forth hir firste begotten sonne in the Castell of Windsore and his name was gyuen him Henry for there receyued hym at the Fonte Iohn Duke of Bedford hys vncle Lord Warden of England and Henrie the Kings vncle B. of Winchester and Iaquelyn dutches of Holland that remained then in England Henry Archbishop of Canterburie doing the office of Baptisme In the moneth of Februarie the Knights that were in Garison and the principall of y â— Citie of Mealx perceyuing that the Sommer comming shoulde cause the siege to be more light and lesse painefull to the Englishmen and difficil vnto themselues departed the Citie and wente into that Anno reg 10 1422 place that is called the Market of Mealx as to the more defensible holde after whose departing the coÌ„mon people hauing none ability to resist the Kings power yéelded themselues and the Citie to the King After this in the moneth of May when the King had sore beaten the forsayd Market of Meaulx he constrayned the Frenchmen that were besieged to condescende vnto certaine couenauntes and to deliuer the place vnto him and shortly after were deliuered to the King the towne of Orepy in Valois the Castle of Pier Pountmeralaw OffemouÌ„t and many others After the rendering of these Townes and Castles the King returned to Paris In the moneth of Aprill Katherin Quéene of Englande shipped at Hampton and sayled ouer into Fraunce with a strong power vnder the conducte of Iohn Duke of Bedforde y â— kings brother Humfrey Duke of Glocester being appointed Warden of England in the Duke of Bedfordes place wheÌ„ the comming of Quéene Katherin was knowne to Kyng Henry hir husband and to Charles king of France both these Kings and with them the Quéene of Fraunce accompanyed with many great Lordes and estates as well of Englande as of Fraunce went to méete hir at Boys de Viscenne wher she was ioyfully receyued of them as if she had bin an Angell sente from God The. xxx day of May the two Kings of Englande and Fraunce with theyr Quéenes departed from Bois de Viscenne and went to Paris the king of
tosquashed his face whereof he dyed after which mishappe the Englishmen lost rather than wanne so that by little and little they lost all their possessions in France This yeare Humfrey Duke of Glocester tooke to wife Duke of Glocester married Elianor Cobham Elianor Cobham whome before hée hadde wantonlye kept Henry Frowike Robert Otley the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Parliament Subsedy Iohn Gidney Draper the 28. of October In a Parliament at Westminster was graunted to the King a Subsedie of euery Tunne of Wine thrée shillings and of other Merchandise excepte wooll fell and cloth xij 1418 pence of the pound Also of euery parish through y e Realme excepted Cities and Boroughes the benefice being in value x. Marke tenne of that parish should pay vj. s viij d. euery man viij d and of euery benefice that were x. pound x. parishners to pay xiij s iiij d and so rate and rate like of euery benefice from the lowest to the highest And for the inhabitants of Cities and Boroughes euery mā being in value of xx s aboue his houshold stuffe the apparell of him his wife should pay foure pence and so after that rate vnto the richest On Corpus Christi day a Briton that a good widdow and honest woman had cherished and brought vp of almes Murther quitte vvith murther dwelling in White Chappell parish without Aldgate murthered the sayd woman in a night sléeping in hir bedde and after conuayde such iewels and stuffe as he might carrie but he was so pursued vpon that for feare he tooke a Churche and there foresware the Kings land and the Connestables caused him to be brought to London and so intended to haue conuayde him Westward but so soone as he was come into the parish where before he had committed the murther the wiues cast vpon him so much filth and ordure of the stréete Anno reg 7. that notwithstanding the resistance made by the Connestables they slew him there out of hand On the first of September the Cardinall of Winchester Cardinall of VVinchester being returned from beyonde the Seas was mette by the Maior and his bréethren and certaine Citizens of London on horsebacke without the Citie and so brought to his pallace in Southwarke This yeare was a great fire at Baynards Castell in London Fire at Baynards Castell Sherifes Maior Thomas Duffehouse Iohn Abbot the 28. of September Henry Barton Skinner the 28. of October The viij of Nouember the Duke of Norffolke was like to haue bin drowned passing through London bridge hys Duke of Norffolke escaped drovvning Barge being set vpon the piles ouerwhelmed so that to the number of thirtie persons were drowned and the Duke with other that escaped were drawne vp with ropes The xxj of February Ri. Neuill was made Earle of Salisb 1429 The fifth day of June Frier Randolph a Mayster of Diuinitie that had bin long prisoner in the Tower of London 1. Treuise was there slayne by the Parson of the Tower In the moneth of June the Cardinall of Winchester with a warlike companye passed the Sea intending to haue made warre vppon them that then inhabited the Countrey of Prage but for néede of men that the Regente had in Fraunce the Cardinall chaunged his purpose and taryed there a season with the Regent William Ruffe Ralph Holland the 28. of September Sherifes Maior William Castfielde Mercer the. 28. of October The sixth of Nouember King Henrie being about the age of nintéene yeares was solempnely crowned in Saincte Peters Churche of Westminster at whose coronation were made xxxvj Knightes of the Bath and after solemnization in the Churche finished an honorable feaste in the greate Hall of Westminster was kept wherof yée may reade a large discourse in Robert Fabian After whiche feaste great preparation was made for the Kings iourney into France The. xxiiij of Januarie a battayle was done in Smithfielde 1430 within the listes before the King betwéene two men of Feuersham in Kent Iohn Vpton appellaunte and Iohn Downe defendaunt when they had long fought the Kyng toke vp the matter and forgaue both parties The. xxvij day of April the King toke shipping at Douer landed the same day at Caleis hauing in his company the Dukes of Yorke and Norffolke the Bishops of Bath Ely and Rochester the Earles of Huntington Stafforde Warwicke Oxforde Deuonshire Mortaine of Ewe and of Ormonde and Barrons the Lorde Boucher Beaumond Typtoft Fitz Water Roos Arundale Audley Faucōbridge Gray Codner Scrop and Welles Whilest the Kyng remayned at Caleis manye skirmishes were fought betwéene the Englishmen and the Frenche in diuerse partes of France and the Frenchmen preuayled greatly by helpe of a Woman which they named The Mayden of God So that lastlye she with hir companye came to the Towne of Champaigne to the end to remoue the siege layde therevnto by the Duke of Burgoigne and other of the Englishe Captaines and the. xxiij of Maye she gaue battaile to the Englishmen and fought with them a long time but in the ende by the manhoode of a Burgonian Knight named sir Iohn Luxemborough she was taken aliue and hir company distressed she was conuayed to the Citie of Roane and there kept a season where she fained hir selfe to be with child but when y e contrarie was known she was condēned brent After this King Henrie by small iorneyes into Fraunce came to Paris wher he was honorably receiued of y e Citizēs and taken for theyr soueraigne Lord and King whiles hée Robert Gagwine there remayned sayeth Gagwine the Frenchmen wan many holds of the Englishmen and the Burgonians in the country of Bry. The third of August dyed the the Countesse of Vrmonde and was buried at Saint Thomas of Acres in London Anno reg 9. Sherifes Maior Walter Chertesey Robert Large the. 28. of September Nicholas Wotton Draper the. 28. of October Soone after Easter the Lord protector was warned of an assembly of certaine lewde persons to be assembled at Abington wherefore he sent thyther certaine persons and also rode thyther himselfe and there arrested the Baylye of the Towne named William Mandeuil a Weauer the whiche was appointed for a Captain who had named himself Iack Sharpe of Wigmers lande in Wales who being examined confessed that he ment to haue done many mischiefes especially against Priests so that he would haue made their heads as cheape as Shéeps heads that is to say thrée for a peny or as some write ten for a penny manye of his complyces were taken and sent to dyuarse prisons Their Captaine was drawne hanged and headed at Abingdon and his head was sent to London and set on the bridge his other fautors were executed in diuerse places and Countreys to the terror of other The. xiij of Julye Richarde Russel a Wooll-man was drawn hanged and quartered for that he wold haue made Dukes and Earles at his pleasure Richard Robsert Lord Bourcher deceased and
was buried at Westminster King Henrie remayning still in Fraunce the Earle of Arundale accompanyed with two thousand Englishmen sente a certaine of his company vnto a Towne called Bealmount to prouoke she Frenchmen to issue out of the towne which smal coÌ„pany when Boyssycant Sentrales theÌ„ Captains behelde they with their souldiours sped them forth to take the sayd Englishmen y â— which by little little gaue backe till they had tolled the Frenchmen a good space from the Towne and then sette vpon them with a stoute courage and helde them on hand tyll the Earle with his company rescued them then betwixt them was a cruell fighte but in the end the Frenchmen were chased and the sayd Sentrayle with many footmen of the sayde Town were slaine Iohn Aderle Stephen Browne the. 28. of September Sherifes Maior Iohn Wels Grocer the. 28. of October Thys IOHN WELLES Maior of London caused the Conduite commonlye called the Standarde in Cheape to bée builded On the seauenth day of December Kyng Henrie was Crowned in Paris by the Cardinall of Winchester at the which Coronation was presente the Duke of Burgoigne the Duke of Bedforde Regente and diuerse other Nobles of France After the solemnitie of thys feaste was ended the King departed from Paris and so came to Roane where he helde hys Christmasse and that done he returned to Caleis where when he hadde soiourned a season he tooke shipping and returned into England and landed at Douer the eleauenth of Februarie and then rydyng towarde London he was mette on Barham Downe betwixte Douer and Canterburie by a greate companye of Gentles and Commons of Kent all cladde in a liuerie wyth redde hoods the whiche accompanyed hym tyll he came to Blacke Heath which was on the one and twentith day of February where he was mette by the Maior of London who rode in a gowne of Crimson Ueluet his Aldermen in Scarlet the Citizens al in white gownes and red hoodes with diuerse works or Cognisances brodered vpoÌ„ their sléeues after y e facultie of their misteries or crafts after due obeysaÌ„ce and saluting of the king they rode on before him towards y e City And when the King was come to the Bridge there was deuised a mightie Giaunt standing with a sworde drawen in his hande hauing written certaine spéeches in metre of great reioycing and welcoÌ„ming of the King to the Citie on the middest of the Bridge and in diuerse other places of the Citie were diuerse faire and sumptuous pageants replenished with goodly and beautifull personages the order and spéeches whereof are sette downe by Robert Fabian in hys cronicle Thus being coÌ„ueyed to his pallace at Westminster the Maior with the Citizens returned to London and on the xxiitj day of Februarie the Maior and Aldermen yode to the King and presented him with a Hampire of Golde and 1433 therin a thousand pound of nobles This yeare by reason of the souldiours of Caleis a restraynte was made there of the Woolles for they were not content of their wages wherefore the Regente of Fraunce came downe thyther in Easter wéeke at which time many souldiours wer arrested and rode again to Tirwine And hauing not long buried the Lady Anne his late wife sister to the Duke of Burgoigne he married there the Earles daughter of Saint Paule and shortly after returned to Caleis where he caused foure of those souldiours to be beheaded on the. xj of June and. 110. souldiours to be banished the towne besides 120. that were banished before that tyme. And vpon Midsommer euen the Lord Regent with his new wedded spouse came to London and remayned there till the Anno reg 11 Sherifes Maior latter end of August Iohn Olney Iohn Peddesley the. 28. of September Iohn Perneis Fishmonger the. 28. of October On the. xxv day of Nouember was the Lord Fitz Water drowned on the sea and much other harmes were done by tempest 1433 Parliament On the eight day of July King Henrie began his Parliament at Westminster continued it till Lammas and then adiourned it vntil Saint Edwards tide This yere in the South-Weast appeared a blasyng star During the raigne of this King Henrie the sixth were lieutenaunts ouer the realme of Irelande Edmond Earle of March and Iames Earle of Ormond his deputie Iohn Sutton Knight Lorde of Dudley and sir Thomas Straunge hys deputie sir Thomas Stanley and sir Christopher Planket his deputie Lyon Lorde Welles and the Earle of Ormonde his deputie Iames Earle of Ormonde the Kings Lieuetenaunt by himselfe Iohn Erle of Shrewesburie and the Archbishop of Diuelin Lord Justice in his absence Richard Plantagenet Anno reg 12 Duke of Yorke Father to Edwarde the fourth and Earle of Vlstar had the Office of Lieutenaunt by letters patents during the space of tenne yeares who deputed vnder him at seuerall times the Baron of Diuelin Richarde Fitz Eustace Knight Iames Earle of Ormonde and Thomas Fitz Moris Earle of Kildare to this Richard then resident in Diuelin was borne within the Castel there the seconde sonne George Duke of Clarence afterward drowned in a Butte of â—almesey Thomas Chalton Iohn King the. 28. of September Sherifes Maior Iohn Brokeley Draper the. 28. of October The ninth of Nouember the tormente of the Earle of Saint Paule Father to the Dutchesse of Bedford was solemnly holden in Paules Church of London where the more parte iâ— estates of this realme were present The ninth of Marche the Lorde Talbot with a goodlye companye passed throughe the Citie of London towardes Fraunce where he wrought much woe to the Frenchmen The 1434 Towne of Saint Denis which is within two English myles of Paris was gotten by the practise of one Iohn Notice a knight of Orleance from Matthew Gouglye and Thomas Kiriel Captaines they slewe there many Englishmen and toke many prisoners but soone after the sayde Captaines with strength taken from Paris layde such a strong siege aboute Saint Denis that finally they agréed to deliuer the Town to the Englishmen In thys season also the earle of Arundale which in Normandie had manly born him hearing that one Hirus â— Frâ—ch Captaine had fortifyed a strong Castell named Gerborym before destroyed of the Englishmen toke with him a certaine number of souldiours and belaied the Castel with a strong siege and assaulted it sundry times manfully but Gagwine sayeth the saide Hirus with his companye issued out of the Castell and gaue vnto the sayde Earle a cruel skirmish in the which the sayde Earle receiued a deadly wound and dyed shortly after Anno reg 13 Sherifes Maior Thomas Barnewel Simon Eyre the. 28. of September Roger Otley Grocer the. 28. of October Through a great Froste that lasted from the fiue and Great Frost twentith of NoueÌ„ber vnto the tenth of Februarie the Thamis was so frozen that the Merchandice which came to the Thamis mouth was there landed and carried through Kent to London When the Pope Eugeny the fourth
and his Cardinalles 14â—5 after long laboure coulde make no peace betwixte King Henry of England and France and Charles also named King of Fraunce they at length made a peace betwixte the said Charles and Philip Duke of Burgoigne whereby the said Duke of Burgoigne became vtter enimy to the King of England and soone after the said Duke beganne his order of the Lillie and the Golden fléece and ordayned certaine Knightes of that order and made thervnto many Statuts wherof some of them were like vnto the Statutes of the Garter On the fourtéenth daye of September at Roan in Normandy dyed the noble Prince Iohn Duke of Bedforde and Regent of Fraunce and was after with great solemnitie â—â—ryed within the Churche of Noâ—ir Dame of the same â—itie Anno reg 14 Sherifes Maior Thomas Catworth Robert Clopton the. 28. of Septemb. Henry Frowike Mercer the 28. of October King Charles of Fraunce recouered the Citie of Paris and at Newyeares tide wanne the Towne of Harflewe and 1436 Sainct Denis and manye other Townes and holdes expellyng and murdering the Englishe people in greate number The nintéenth daye of Julye the Duke of Burgoigne wyth a great multitude of Burgonians and Flemmings appeared Caleis besieged before Caleis and there pight his pauilions and tentes at which season was Lieutenaunt of Caleis Sir Iohn Ratclife Knight and of the Castell was Lieutenant the Baron of Dudley this siege endured about thrée wéekes in whiche season many knightlye actes were done exercised on both partes On the second day of August the Duke of Glocester protectour Robert Fubâ—â—â— of Englande with 500. sayles as some write landed at Caleis and entended vppon the thirde day following to haue issued out of the Towne and to haue gyuen battel to the Flemmings but as testifyeth our Englishe writers so soone as the Duke of Burgoigne was ware of the great power of the Lorde Protector he toke with him of his ordinaunce that he might lightly carrye and the other that were cumberous he left behind When the Duke with his host was thus fledde the Lorde Protectour with his people followed hym into the Countrey by the space of eleauen dayes in whiche season he brente the two Townes of Popering and Bell and returned to Caleis and so into England This yeare was the Castel or Towne of Rokesborough in Scotlande besieged by the Kyng of Scottes but when hée Anno. reg â—â— hearde that Syr Ralph Graye Knyghte was commyng thyther with a competente number to remoue the siege anone he departed leauyng some parte of hys Ordinaunce behynde hym to hys greate shame and dishonour Thomas Norstede William Gregory the. 28. of Sep. Sherifes Maior Iohn Michel Fishmonger the. 28. of October The second of Januarie Quéene Katherin late wife to Henrie the fifth and mother to King Henrie the sixth dyed at Bermondsey and was buried at Westminster but being takeÌ„ Part of London bridge fel. vp againe in the raigne of Henrie the seauenth when he layde the foundation of his new Chappel there she was neuer buried since but lyeth still aboue ground in a Coffin of bordes behinde the East end of the Friers The. xiiij of Januarie at noone of the day the gate on LoÌ„don bridge wyth the Tower vpon it nexte to Southwarke fell down and two of the furdest Arches of the same bridge and no man perished Ralph Lord Cromwel erected the Colledge of Taâ—eshall 1437 Taâ—eshall Colledge in Lincolneshire King Henrie put downe the Maior of Norwich sente the Aldermen some to Linne some to Canterburie toke their fraÌ„chises into his hande and appointed Iohn Wels Alderman sometime Maior of London to be Warden of Norwich who so continued eight moneths as I haue red on his Monument in Saint Antholines Churche in London whiche Monument is nowe amongest manye other by lewde persons defaced The ninth of July Quéene Iane wife to King Henrie the fourth dyed at Hauering a Boure and was buried at Canterburie All the Lyons in the Tower of London dyed Anno reg 18 Sherifes Maior William Hales William Chapman the. 28. of Septemb. William Eastfielde Mercer the. 28. of October This William Eastfield Maior of his own costes caused to be builded the Water Conduite in Fleetestreete of London On Easter daye Iohn Gardener was taken conuaying 1438 Gardeneâ—brent the Sacrament from his mouth with a soule cloth after he had receyued the same at the Priests hande in Saint Marie at the Axe Churche of London for the whiche he was brent in Smithfielde the xiiij of May. Owen Tewther â—ouly hurting hys kéeper brake out of Newgate but was againe taken afterwarde thys Owen had priuilye as it was sayde maryed Quéene Katherin late wife to Henrie the fifth and had foure children by hir whiche was not knowen tyll she was dead and buried On the Uigil of Mary Magdalen the town of Nantwich in the Countie of Chester was pitifully consumed with fire A great dearth of corne for wheate was in some places Dearth of corne Anno reg 17 Sherifes Maior solde for two shillings sixe pence the Bushell Hugh Diker Nicholas Yoo the. 28. of September Stephen Browne Grocer the. 28. of October The fiue and twentith of Nouember a great winde dyd Great vvâ—nâ—es muche harme in manye places In London it bare muche leade of the Gray Friers Churche and almost blewe downe the one side of the stréete called the Olde Change so that the same was faine to be vnderset with Timber On New yeres day a stacke of woodde fell downe at Baynardes Castell and killed thrée men manye moe were sore hurte By fall of a Staire at Bedforde where the shire daye was kepte eightéene persons were slayne and manye moe hurte Richard Beauchampe Earle of Warwicke dyed at Roane in NormaÌ„die the last of May and the fourth of October next folowing his corpse was honourably conueyed as well by water as by land from Roane vnto Warwicke and there worshipfully buried in the Colledge of our Lady Church founded by his noble auncestours Wheate was sold at London for thrée shillings y e bushel Malt at thirtéen shillings y â— quarter Otes at eight pence the bushel which caused men to eate beans pease and barley more than in a hundred yeares before Anno reg 18 StruÌ„pets vvare Raye hoodes Manye Stumpets were sette on the Pyllerye and banyshed the Cytye excepte they ware theyr Raye hoodes Phillip Malpas Robert Marshal the 28. of September Sherifes â—â—ior Robert Large Mercer the. 28. of October In a Parliament at Reading it was ordayned that all Marchaunt straungers shoulde goe to host with Englishmen and to make sale of theyr Merchaundises and buy again what they woulde wythin the space of sixe monethes geuing theyr hoste for euerye twentye shillings worth two pence except the Esterlings And that euery housholder that Order for straungers was alien should pay to the King xuj. pence the yeare and euery seruant
and she was conuicte of the sayde Articles then was it asked if she woulde saye anye thing agaynste the witnesses wherevnto she aunsweared nay but submitted hyr selfe The seauen and twentith daye of October she abiured the Articles and was adioyned to appeare again the ninth of Nouember In the meane time Thomas Southwel dyed in the Tower of London as himselfe had prophesied that hée shoulde neuer dye by Justice of the Law William Combis Richarde Riche the. 28. of September Sherifes Maior Elianor CobhaÌ„ did penaunce Robert Clopton Draper the. 28. of October The ninth of Nouember Dame Elianor appeared béefore the Archbishoppe and other in the sayde Chappel and receyued hyr penaunce which she perfourmed On Monday the. xiij of Nouember she came froÌ„ Westminster by water and landed at the Temple Bridge from whence with a taper of waxe of two pounde in hir hande she went throughe Fleetestreete hoodlesse saue a kerchefe to Paules where she offered hyr Taper at the high Aulter On y e Wednesday next she landed at y e Swan in Thamis stréete then went through Bridgestreet Grace Church Streete streight to Leaden Hall and so to Christ Church by Aldegate On Fryday she landed at Queene Hiue and so went through Cheape to Saint Michels in Cornehil in fourme aforesayd at all which times the Maior Sherifes and Craftes of London receyued hir and accompanyed hir This being done she was committed to the ward of sir Thomas Stanley wherein she remayned duryng hyr life in the castel of Chester hauing yerely an hundred marks assigned for hyr finding whose pride false couetise and lecherie were cause of hir confusion The xviij of NoueÌ„ber Roger Bolingbroke with sir Iohn Hum Priest and William Woodham Esquire was arraigned in the Guild Hall of London where the sayde Iohn and William had their Charters but Roger Bolingbroke was condemned had iudgemeÌ„t of sir Iohn Hody chief Justice of the Kings Bench and the same day he was drawen froÌ„ the Tower to Tiborne there hanged and quartered when y e said Roger shold suffer he said y t he was neuer guilty of any treason against the kings person but he hadde presumed too far in his cunning whereof he cryed God mercie and the Justice that gaue on him iudgemente liued not long after Henrie Beauchampe succéeded in hys fathers inheritaÌ„ce who being kept two yeares in the Kings hands was restored to al his liuings with greate glory for he was crowned King of Wight by the kyngs owne handes and nominated chiefe Earle of England A challenge was done in Smithfield within listes before 1442 A Combat in Smithfielde the King by the Lorde Beawfe of Aragon and Iohn Ansley Esquire of the Kings house whiche Ansley hadde the fielde and at the Kings hande was made Knight and the Anno. reg 21 Lord Aragon offered his harneis at Windsor In the moneth of August was a great fray in Fleetstreete betwéene the yong Studentes of the Innes of Courte and the inhabitauntes of the same stréete whiche Fray began in the night and so continued the assaultes and bickeryngs till the next day in whiche season muche people of the Cytie was thyther gathered and diuerse men on both partes slaine and many hurte but lastly by the presence of the Maior and Sherifes this Fray was appeased of whiche was chiefe occasioner one of Cliffords Inne named Herbotel Thomas Beaumount Richard Norden the 28. of Sept. Sherifes Maior Iohn Athirle Ironmonger the. 28. of October Iohn Beaufort Earle of Somerset was made Duke of Somerset and Lord Talbot Earle of Shrewesburie The stéeple of Waltham Holy Crosse in Essex was brente with lightning on Candlemasse day The Citizens of Norwiche rose against the Priour of 1443 Christes Churche wythin the same Citie and would haue fiered the priorie they kept the towne by strength againste the Duke of Norffolke and all his power wherefore the Kyng sente thyther the chiefe Judge Iohn Fortescue wyth the Earles of Stafforde and of Huntington who indicted many Citizens and the Priour also The Liberties of the Citie were seysed into the Kings hand and Sir Iohn Clifton made Captaine there and manye of the Citizens fledde ouer the seas c. Anno reg 22. Sherifes Maior Nicholas Wilforde Iohn Norman the. 28. of September Thomas Catworth Grocer the. 28. of October Iohn Earle of Huntington at Windsore was made Duke of Excester Iohn Beauforde Duke of Somerset deceased and was buryed at Wimborne The Earle of Stafforde was created Duke of Buckingham Henrie Beauchampe Earle of Warwicke Duke of Warwicke 1444 Cro. of â—ewx vnto whom the King gaue the Castell of Bristowe with all the appurtenances which King Iohn had kept in his haÌ„ds he gaue vnto him also the Isles of Garnsey and Iarnsey The Earle of Dorset was made Marques of Dorset and the Earle of Suffolke Marques of Suffolke King Henrie sent into Fraunce Ambassadours William de la Pole Marques of Suffolke Adam Molens Bishoppe of Chichester and kéeper of the priuie seale sir Roberte Roos and other to treat of a marriage betwéene King Henrie and Margaret the kings daughter of Scicil which was concluded in the Citie of Towres in Touraine Anno reg 13 Sherifes Maior Stephen Poster Hugh Wich the. 28. of September Henrie Frowike Mercer the 28. of October In the moneth of Nouember William de la Pole Marques of Suffolke with other went againe into Fraunce for to conduct the sayd Lady Margaret into England On Candlemasse euen in diuerse places of England was heard terrible thunders wyth lightning wherby the church of Baldoke in Hertfordshire the Churche of Walden in Essex diuerse other were sore shaken And the stéeple of Saint Pauls in London about two of the clocke in the after noone was set on fire in the middest of the shaft but by the labour of many well desposed people the same was quenched and no man perished The stéeple of Kingstone was likewise fiered by the same lightnings Ladie Margaret landing at Portchester went from thence 1445 by water to Hampton rested there in a place called Gods house from thence she went to the Abbay of Tychfielde and Quene Margaret crovvned was there wedded to King Henry y e xxij of April She was receyued at the Blackeheath by the Citizens of London ryding on horsebacke in blewe gownes with brodered sleues and red hoods the 28. of May and on the 30. of May she was crowned at Westminster hir badge was the Daysie With the fall of Kingstone steple one man was slaine Kingston steple fell An reg 24. Sherifes Maior Leaden hall in Lon. builded and many sore hurt Iohn Darby Godfrey Filding the 28. of September Simon Eyre draper the 28. of October This Simon Eyre builded the Leaden hall in London to be a store house for graine and fewell for the poore of the Citie also a beawtifull Chappel in the East end of y e same ouer the gate whereof he
caused to be written Dextera Domini A notable example exaltauit me that is to say The Lordes right hand hath exalted me Whereby he doing so notable a worke for the common weale also left example to other Citizens comming 1446 Cronicle of Thevvkesbury Iohn Rovvse Duke of vvarvvik King of vvight died after him whoÌ„ God likewise exalteth with such temporall blessings that they be not vnthankfull to God and their common weale wherein they haue receiued them Henrie Duke of Warwike chiefe Erle of England Lorde Spencer and Aburgaueny King of the Isle of Wight Garnsey and Iarnsey and Lord of the Castell of Bristow died without issue and was buried at Tewksburie Iohn Dauid appeached his master William Catur an Armorer CoÌ„bat betvven a master the seruaunt dwelling in S. Dunstones Parish in Fletestreete of treason and a day being assigned them to fight in Smithfield the maister being wel beloued was so cherished by his friends and plied with wine that being therewith ouercome was also vnluckily slaine by his seruaunt An. reg 25. Baylifes Custos Robert Horne Godfrey Boleine the 28. of September Iohn Olney Mercer the 28. of October Pope Eugenius sent a golden Rose to the King of England expressing the propertie and aplicatioÌ„ of the same with the ceremonie that is yéerely vsed on Palme Sonday touching Record Ecclesi Canta the same Rose exhorting the Kyng agaynste the Turkes Which Rose Lodouicus Cordona Doctor of Diuinitie did present to the King in S. Stephens Chappell at Westminster vpon S. Andrewes day in presence of the Dukes of Yorke Excester Cardinall Kempe Archbishop of Yorke Iohn Stafford Archbishop of Caunterburie Chauncellor of England The x. of Februarie beganne a Parliament at Saint Edmondesburie Parliament at Burie in Suffolke at which time al the wayes about the same Towne were kept with armed men both daye and night so that many dyed with colde and waking Humfrey The Duke of Glocester arested sone after dyed Duke of Glocester being at the castell of the Vies in Wilshire came from thence to the Parliament and was lodged in the Hospitall where shortly after he was arrested by Iohn Lord Beaumount high Constable the Duke of Buckingham the Duke of Somerset and other who appointed certaine of the Kings housholde to waite vpon him but on the. xxiiij 1447 day he died for sorrow as some said that he might not come to his aunswere he was buryed at Saint Albons xxxij of his principall seruauntes were arrested and sent to diuers prisons and fiue of them were arraigned at London and condemned v. â—â—n hanged after pardoned whose names were sir Roger Chamberlain knight Middleton Herbert Arteyse Esquiers and Richard Nedam gentleman which were al fiue drawne from the Towre of London to Tiborne and there hanged letten downe quicke stript naked marked with a knife for to be quartered and then a charter shewed for their liues but the yoman of the crowne had their liuelode and the hangman had their clothes Henry Beauford Cardinal of Winchester deceased after him W. Wainflete Prouost of Eaton was made Bishop of Winchester The v. of August died Iohn HollaÌ„d duke of Excester An. reg 16. was buried at S. Catherins nygh the Towre of London William Abraham Thomas Scot the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Iohn Gidney Draper the 28. of October This yéere during y â— peace betwéene England Fraunce â— knight of the English part named sir Frances Aragonoyse toke a towne named Fogars vpoÌ„ the borders of NormaÌ„die belonging 1448 to y â— duke of Britaine For the which he complained him to y â— French king he at y e said dukes request sent vnto y â— king of England to aske restitutioÌ„ of the harme The which messengers were answered of y e kings CouÌ„sell that y â— déede was right displeasant vnto y e king that sir Francis Aragon had enterprised y â— feate of his owne presumption WhervpoÌ„ it folowed shortly after that y e French by like policie toke y â— towne castle of Pountallarche after that many other so y â— the taking of y â— foresaid towne of Fogiars by y e English men An. reg 27. was y â— occasion by y e which the French after gat al NormaÌ„dy William Catlow William Marow the 28. of September Sherifes Maior 1449 Roane yeelde â— to the French Steuen Browne Grocer the 28. of October This yéere the FrenchmeÌ„ got many townes in NormaÌ„dy out of the possession of y e EnglishmeÌ„ Also y â— citie of Roane was yéelded to the French with condition that the Captaines garrisons might depart with armour goods not long after was rendered with the like coÌ„ditioÌ„ as of Roane the towns of Harflewe Hounflewe A knight of France called sir Lewes de Breyll challenged an Esquier of England named Ralph Chalons of certaine feates of Warre the which to proue a day to them was giuen to méete at a towne in France named Maunce where y â— French king at that day was present But Chalons canne the French knight through the body with his An. reg 28. speare whereof the said Lewes dyed William Hulin Thomas Cannings the 28. of September Sherifes Maior B. of Chichester murdered Thomas Chalton Mercer the 28. of October The 9. of Januarie AdaÌ„ Molins Bishop of Chichester kéeper of the kings priuie seale through y â— procurement of Richard duke of Yorke was by shipmen slaine at Portesmouth The 9. of Februarie Thomas Thany otherwise Blewberd Blevvberd hanged 1450 a Fuller was taken beside Caunterburie for raising a rebellion who was hanged and quartered WilliaÌ„ Delapole duke of Suffolke was banished y e land for v. Duke of Suffolk murdered yéeres to appease y e rumor of y e coÌ„mons of England who taking ship at Ipswich the 3. of May sailed toward Fraunce but was mette on the sea by a ship of warre named Nicholas â—â— the Towre and beheaded and his corps was cast vp at Douer and buried in the Charter house at Hull This William de la pole Duke of Suffolke and Alice his wife daughter to Thomas Chawcer sonne to Geffrey Chawcer the famous Poet translated and increased the manner place of Eweline in Oxfordshire they builded a newe the parishe Churche of Gods house at nevv Evveline in Oxfordshire Eweline a comely péece of worke standing on a hyll and also hard adioyning to the West end of Eweline parishe Church they founded a pretie Hospitall or almes house for ij priests â—iber fundationis and xiij poore men to dwell and be sustained in for euer one of the priestes to be maister of the almes house the other priest a scholemaster fréely to teache the children of the tenaunts of the sayd Lordship of Eweline and other Lordships pertaining to the said almes house their GraÌ„mer eyther of those ij priests to haue x. pound the yeare One of
against the Kings Regalitie and his Lawes and nought setting by the Kings Grace and pardons grauÌ„ted not onely to him but to al the Kings subiectes the which by his deceyt haue assembled with him the which he with great reuerence receiued on Munday last passed and so did all that were assembled with him not withstanding al this he laboureth now of newe to assemble the Kings people againe to that intent beareth them on hand that the Kings letters of pardon graunted to him and them be not auaileable nor of none effect without authoritie of Parliament wheras the contrarie is true as it is openly knowen by that that the King grauntes from tyme to tyme his Charters of Pardon to such as him lyst of all manner of crimes and offences both generall and speciall The King therfore willeth and commaundeth that none of his subiectes giue fayth nor credence to the said falsâ— Informations of the sayde false â—raylor nor accompany with him in any wise nor comfort nor sustaine him nor his with victuall nor with any other things But will whosoeuer of the Kings subiectes may take him shall take him and that who so euer taketh him and bringeth him quicke or dead to the King or to his CouÌ„sel shal haue a thousand markes for his labour truely payde him without faile or delaye by the prouision of the Kings Counsell And who so euer taketh any of those that from this day forth accompany with him shal haue v. marke for his reward truely to be paide in maner and forme aboue saide And ouer this commaunding all Constables Ministers Officers of the said Shire that none of them on paine of death take vpoÌ„ them to execute any coÌ„mandement by word or writing sent or made vnto them by the said Cade calling himselfe Mortimer Captaine be it to rere any people or to any other intent but to arest and make to be arested such as take vpoÌ„ them to bring any such coÌ„maundemeÌ„t by writing or by word Et hoc nullatenus omittatis Teste me ipso apud Westminster x. die Iulij anno regni 28. After which Proclamation Captaine of Kent taken and beheaded thus published a Gentleman of Kent named Alexander Eden awayted so his time that he tooke the sayde Cade in a Garden in Snssex And there he was slaine at Hothfield and brought to LondoÌ„ in a cart there quartered his head set on LondoÌ„ bridge and his quarters sent to diuers places in Kent This done y â— King sent his CoÌ„missioners into Kent rode after himself caused inquiry to be made of this riot in CauÌ„terbury where for y â— same vitj. meÌ„ were iudged executed in other townes of Kent Sussex was dane y â— like execution This yeare the Commons also in diuers partes of England and in Sussox Salisbury Wilshire and other places didde much harme to many persons among the which on the xxix of June William Ascoth Bishop of Salisburie after he had sayde Masse at Edington was by his owne tenauntes drawen from y e Altar in his Albe with his Stole about his necke to the toppe of an hill and there by them shamefully murthered and after spoyled to the naked skynne they renting Bishop of Salisburie murdered his bloudy shirt tooke euery man a péece made boast of their wickednesse The day before his Chariot was robbed An. reg 29. to the value of x. thousand markes Iohn Middleton William Deere the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Fray in LondoÌ„ against the Maior Nicholas Wilforde Grocer the 28. of October Souldiours made a fraye against the Maior of London the same day he tooke his charge at Westminster at nyght comming from Saint Thomas of Acres after he had bene at Paules The. vj. of Nouember began a Parliament at Westminster and the first of December the Duke of Somerset which was newly come out of Normandie was put vnder arest 1451 and his goods by the Commons was foulely despoyled and borne away from the Blacke Eryers After which ryot on the nexte morrowe Proclamation was made through the Cittie that no man should spoyle or robbe vpon paine of death and the same day at the Standard in Cheape was a man beheaded for doyng contrarie to the Proclamation And thus beganne malice to spring between the Lordes of the Lande and specially against the Duke of Somerset and other of the Quéenes Counsell for the léesing of Normandie whereof the chiefe Cittie of Roane was lost or giuen vp by appoyntment the yeare procéeding as witnesseth Gagwyne vpon condition that the Duke of Somerset Robert Gagwyne with his wife English souldiours shoulde with such goods as they might carrie depâ—rte fréely from the Cittie For which frée passage he shoulde paye vnto the French king lvj M. Scuâ—s which amount to fourtèene thousand marks sterling And also he was bounde to deliuer into the French Kings possession all Townes and Castels that at that day were in the possession of Englishmen wythin the Dutchie of Normandie for performaunce of whiche couenauntes the Lord Talbot was sent for one of the pledges and so by one Floquet all the Townes and Castelles were to the Frenche Kyngs vse receyued Harfleete onely excepted whereof the Captaine named Curson with the assistance of sir Thomas Auringham in despight of al the French Kings power laide both by Sea and lande helde the same a full moneth or more and then for lacke of rescue gaue it vppe by appoyntment An. reg 30. Matthew Phillip Christopher Warton the 28. of Sep. Sherifes Maior William Gregorie Skinner the 28. of October The sixtéenth of Februarie King Henrie accompanyed with the Duke of Somerset and many other Lords tooke towardes the Marches of Wales for as muche as he was credibly informed that the Duke of Yorke assisted wyth diuerse other Lordes and men of name had in those partes gathered a strong power of people and with them was entring the land and so helde on his iourney towarde him but wheÌ„ the Duke had witting of the Kings greate power he returned from the way which was taken by the Kings hoste and hasted towardes London and when he had receyued knowledge from the Citie that he might not there be receyued he went ouer Kingstone Bridge and so into Kent and there vpon Brent Heath neare vnto Dertforde he pight his fielde wherof the king hauing knowledge sped him after lastly came vnto Blacke Heath and there pighte hys fielde When both the hostes were thus embattelled mediation of peace was made betwéene them for furtheraunce whereof to the Duke were sente the Bishops of Winchester and of Ely with the Earles of Salisburie and Warwicke To whom it was answered by the Duke that he nor none of his company entended any hurt to the Kings person nor to any of hys couÌ„sayle beyng louers of the Common wealth and of him and hys land but his intent and purpose was to remoue from the King a
to haue distressed sir Iohn Neuil Lorde Mountacute was himselfe slaine with many other The. xv of May King Henries power beyng at Hexham the Lorde Mountacute with a power came thither and enclosed them round about There were taken slaine many Lords that were with King Henry but he himself was fled iiij dayes before into Lancashire where he and other liued in caues full hardly vnknowne more than a yéere On Trinitie Sonday King Edward made the Lord Mountacute Earle of Northumberland and warden of the Marches The Earles of Warwike and Northumberlande tooke Bambrugh Castle and beheaded sir Ralph Grey at Doncaster The Earle of Warwike was sent into Fraunce to conclude a mariage with the French Kings sisters daughter for K. Edward which he did K. Edvvard maried but in the meane while on the first of May King Edwarde tooke to wife Elizabeth Daughter to Iaquet Duches of Bedforde sister to the Earle of Saint Paule late wife to sir Iohn Grey slayne at Courton fielde on King Henries parte which mariage was kept secret almost halfe a yéere King Edward tooke the Chauncellorship from the Byshop of Excester brother to the Earle of Warwike and gaue it to the Byshop of Bathe In the moneth of May the Duke of Somerset the Lord Roos the Lord Molyns Talbois Earle of Kyme sir Philippe Wentworth sir Thomas Finderne gathered an hoste in the Duke of Somerset and other beheaded North Countrey sir Iohn Neuill Earle of Northumberland with x. thousand men came vpoÌ„ them whom the commons forsaking their Captaines were taken beheaded King Edward searing the Lord MouÌ„tacute the Earle of Warwike whom he had of late made Earle of Northumberland he caused the men of the Countrey to desire the rightfull heyre Percie sonne to Henrie y â— was slaine at Yorke fielde so Percie Earle of Northumberland made Marques Mountacute was restored and Mountacute was made a Marques his sonne Duke of Bedforde which shoulde wed the Kings eldest daughter which by possibilitie should be King of Englande Aboute Michaelmas the King held a Counsell at Reading where the Quéene was shewed openly and receiued as Coine enhauÌ„sed Quéene After this wedding knowne the Earle of Warwike and King Edward were neuer friends The King changed the Coyne both gold and siluer and ordained that y e newe Pestilence Grote waied scantly iij. d. and that the Noble of vj. sÌ„ viij d. should go for viij sÌ„ iiij d. c. A great Pestilence and the Thames ouer frosen In Michaelmas Terme were made Sergeantes at Lawe Thomas Young N. Geney Richard Serieants feast Regester of maiors Neale Thomas Brian Richard Pigot I. Grenefield I. Catesby and Gwy Fairfax which helde their feast in the Bishop of Eles place in Holborne to the which feast the Maior of London with the Aldermen Sherifes and Commons of diuers Craftes being bidden repayred but when the Maior looked to be set to kéepe the state in the Hall as it had béene vsed in all places of the Cittie liberties out of the Kings presence vnknowne to the Sergeauntes and against their willes as they sayd y â— Lord Grey of Ruthin then Treasurer The Maior of London departeth from the Serieants feast of England was there placed wherevpon the Maior Aldermen and Commons departed home and the Maior made all the Aldermen to dyne with him howbeit he and all the Citizens was greatly displeased that he was so delt with and the newe Sergeaunts and other were right sorie therfore and had leauer thâ—n much good it had not so happened This was then as my Recorde reporteth more at large recorded to be a president in time to come Iohn Tate Iohn Stone the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Nevv coyne Anno. reg 5. Ralph Iosseliâ— Draper the 28 of October A newe Coine was made a Rose Noble at x. shillings the halfe Noble fiue shillings the farthing two shillings sir pence an Angelet six shillings eight pence y e halfe thereof thrée shillings foure pence On the. xxvj of May Quéene Elizabeth was Crowned at 1465 Westminster beyng Trinitie Sonday against the which time King Edward made xxxix Knightes King Henrie was taken in Cletherwood beside Bungerley King Henrie taken Hyppingstons in Lancashire by Thomas Talbot sonne heire to sir Edward Talbot of Basshall and Iohn Talbot his cosyn of Colebry which deceiued him being at his dynner at Wadington Hall and brought him toward London with his legs bounde to the stirops where he was mette by the Earle of Wâ—rwike and arested at Esyldon Doctor Manning Deane of Windsore Doctor Bedle and yong Ellerton being in his companie with their féete bound vnder the horse bellyes were brought to the Towre of London A licence was grauÌ„ted to conuey certaine Coteswold shéepe Sheepe traÌ„sported ouet the seas Long piked Shone forbid into Spaine which haue since greatly multiplyed there It was proclaynied throughout England that the beakes or pikes of Shoone and Bootes should not passe ij ynches vpon paine of cursing by the Clergie and forfeting xx sÌ„ to be payde one Noble to the King one other to the Cordewayners of London and the thirde to the chamber of London and for other Cities and Townes the like order was takeÌ„ Before this time and since the yéere of our Lord. 1282. the pikes of shooes bootes were of such length that they were fayne to be tyed vp to their knées with chaynes of siluer and guilt or at the least with silke laces Henrie Wauer William Constantine the 28. of Sep. Sherifes Maior Sir Ralph Verney Mercer the 28. of October The. xj of Februarie Quéene Elizabeth was deliuered at Westminster of a Daughter also named Elizabeth who was long after married to King Henrie the seuenth whose Christening was done in the Abbey with y e most solemynitie that might be and the more because the King was assured by his Phisitions that the Quéene was conceyued with a Prince which proued otherwise as ye haue heard This yéere was the Lord Hungerford beheaded at Salisburie Anno. reg 6 1466 Also sir Thomas Hungerford Knight sonne to the Lord Hungerford and Henry Courteney of right Earle of DeuoÌ„shire were beheaded at Salisburie The Lord Stafford of Southwike procured the said Courteneys death to be made Earle of Deuonshire as in déede he was shortly after Iohn Browne Henrie Brice the 28. of September Sir Iohn Yong Grocer the 28. of October Sherifes Maior Iohn Stocton the 26. of Iune The. iij. of June beganne a Parliament at Westminster Anno. reg 7. 1467 All the Kings giftes reuoked wherin was resumed to y e Kings honor all maner of giftes that had bin giuen from the first day he tooke possession of y â— Realme to that time except certaine things then named On Thursday next after Corpus Christi Antonie Wooduile Iustes in Smithfielde Lorde Scales iusted in Smithfield with the Earle of the Roche called the Bastard of Burgoygne
tempest of wind being at y â— Southwest The King of Castile landed in England which began the xv of January and continued till the sire and twenty of y â— same Phillip King of Castile and his wife were weather driuen and landed at Falmouth in England as Francis Guicciar they were passing on the. xvj of January out of Flanders toward Spayne who were honourably receiued by the Earle of Arundell at y â— Kings appointmeÌ„t with thrée C. horses all by torch light This teÌ„pest was strange to many meÌ„ bycause y â— VVeather cock of Paules blovvn dovvne violence thereof had blowne downe the Egle of brasse from the spire of Paules Church in London and in the falling the same Egle brake and battered the blacke Eagle whiche hong for a signe in Paules Churchyard that time being but low houses where now is the Schole of Paules About the end of March Edmond de la Poole was taken in Flanders and conneyed through the Citie to the Tower of London and there left prisoner In the beginning of July a Galory newe buylded at Galery at Richmont fell Anno reg 22. Richmond wherein the King and the Prince his sonne had walked not one houre before it fell sodeinly downe aboute midnight but no christian man perished thereby William Copingar Thomas Iohnson the 28. of Septem Sherifes These Sheriffes being on the morrow after Michaelmas day by the Maior and Aldermen presented before the Barons of the Exchequer only William Copingar was admitted and sworne but Thomas Iohnson they woulde not admitte till they knew farther of the Kings pleasure The x. of October a commandement was brought from the King to the Lord Maior that he shoulde cause an election to bée made for a new Sheriffe at which day came into the Guild Hall Mayster Edmond Dudley the Kings President and there shewed the Kings letters that the commons shoulde name for the Kings pleasure William Fitz William to bée Sheriffe for the yeare ensuing which with much difficulty at length was granted which William Fitz Williams kept his feast the sixtéenth day of October Richard Haddon Mercer by the Kings commandemente Maior the 28. of October On S. Thomas day at night afore Christmas was a Bakers house in Warwike Lane brent with the Mistres of y â— house ij women seruants iij. other In Lent the King deliuered all Prisoners in London 1057 Anno reg 23. Sherifes which lay for the debt of fortie shillings or vnder William Butler Thomas Kirkeby Merchant Taylor the 28. of September William Browne Mercer the 28. of Octo. Who deceassed Maior and forthwith Sir Lawrence Aylmer Draper was chosen sworne and went home in a grey cloke with y â— sword borne afore him on the xxvij day of March. Item he tooke his oth at y â— Tower kept no feast William Capell was put in suite 1508 VVilliam Capel sued by the K. Thomas knesvvorth imprisoned by the King for things by him done in his Maioraltie Also Tho. Kneisworth that had bin Maior of London and his Sheriffes were sent to the Kings Bench till they were put to their fine of fouretéene hundred pound In the moneth of June the Citie of Norwich was sore perished and néere consumed Norvvich on â—â—re Anno reg 24. with fire that began in a Frenchmans house named Peter Iohnson a Surgeon in the Parish of Saint George Thomas Exmew Richard Smith the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Stephen Genings Merchant Taylour the 28. of October This Stephen Genings Maior of London founded a frée Grammer Schole at Wlfrunehampton in Staffordshire wyth Freeschoole at VVlfrunehampton conuenient lodgings for the Mayster and Usher in the same place where he was borne He gaue Lands sufficient for the mayntenance leauing the ouersight therof to the Merchant Taylors in London who haue hitherto iustly dealt in that matter and also augmented the building there Mayster Nichols who marryed the only daughter and heire of the aforesayd Stephen Genings gaue Landes to maynteyne the pauements of that Towne Also Iohn Leneson Esquier about Anno 1556. gaue Lands where of four pound should be dealt euery yeare on good Friday to the poore people of Wilfrunehampton and sixe and twenty Shillings eyght pence yéerely towards the reparation of the Church there Moreouer aboute Anno 1566. Sir Iohn Lighe a Priest Iohn Ligh of VVlfrunehampton his rare example of Charitie whiche had serued in that Churche there the space of thréescore yeares for fiue pounds sixe Shillings eyght pence the yeare without any other augmentation of his liuing who would neuer take any Benefice or other preferment gaue twentye pounds to purchase twenty Shillings the yeare Lands the same to be giuen yearely for euer to the poore of Wlfrunehampton vpon good Friday and twelue pounds thirtéene Shillings fourpence to purchase a Marke a yeare Lande the same to be giuen to the poore of Chifnall in the Countie of Salope where the sayde Lighe was borne This man liued nigh one hundred yeares He bestowed besides his owne laboure whiche was greate in bearing of stone c. aboue twentye pounde on the high wayes about that Towne of Wlfrunehampton This Towne of Wlfrunehampton is now corruptly called 〈◊〉 for in Anno 996. in King Etheldreds tyme VVlfrunehaÌ„pton corruptly called VVolnerhampton who wrote himselfe Rex Anglâ—rum princops Northumbrerum Olimpiade tertia regni sui for so he wrote the count of his reigne then which was the fiftéenth yeare it was then Ex Carta Regia â—alled Hampton as appeareth by an old Charter written by the Notarie of the sayd King Etheldred whiche Charter I haue séene and read and for that a noble woman named Wlfrune a Widow sometyme wife to Althelme Duke of Northampton did obteyne of the sayd King to giue Landes vnto the Churche there whiche she had founded the sayde Towne tooke the addition of the same Wlfrune for that Charter so nameth hir Wlfrune and the Towne Hampton Sir Lawrence Aylmer and his two Sheriffes were put Sir Lavvrence Aylmer and his Sheriffes to their fine to the King of a thousand pound This yeare was finished the goodly Hospitall of the Sauoy 1509 Smart Hospitall of the Sauoy néere vnto Charing Crosse which was a notable foundation for the poore done by King Henry the seauenth vnto the which he purchased and gaue Lands for the releeuing of one hundred poore people This was first named Sauoy place by Peter Earle of Sauoy Rec. of Canterbury Church Father to Boniface Archbishop of Canterbury about the nine and twentith yeare of King Henry the thirde who made the sayde Peter Earle of Richmond This house belonged since to the Duke of Lancaster and at this tyme was conuerted to an Hospitall still reteyning the first name of Sauoy King Henry also buylded thrée houses of Franciscane Friers whiche are called Obseruants at Richmond Greenewich and Newarke and thrée other of that
at Graues ende within little more than thrée houres where hée tarryed no longer than his post Horsses were prouiding and then trauayled so spéedily that hée came to Douer the nexte morning whereas the passengers were readye vnder Sayle to Caleis into the which passenger without tarrying he entred and sayled foorth wyth them that long before noone hée arriued at Calleis and hauing post Horsses departed from thence with such spéede that he was that night with the Emperour disclosed the whole summe of his Embassage to y â— Emperor of whom he required spéedie expedition the which was granted him by the Emperour so that the next day he was cléerely dispatched with all the Kings requestes fully accomplished at which time he made no longer delay but tooke post Horsses that night and rode towarde Caleis conducted thyther with such persons as the Emperour had appoynted and at the opening of the Gates of Caleis he came thither where the passengers were as readie to returne into England as they were before at his iourney forward in so muche that he arriued at Douer by tenne of the clocke before noone and hauing post Horsses came to the Court at Richmond the same night where he taking some rest vntill the morning repayred to the King at his first comming from his bed-chamber to this closet whome when the King sawe hée checked him for that he was not on his iourney Sir quoth he if it may please youre Highnesse I haue already bin with the Emperour and dispatched your affayres I trust to your Graces contentation and with that presented the King his Letters of credence from the Emperoure The King being in a great confuse and wonder of his spéedy returne and procéedings dissembled all his wonder and demanded of him whether he encountred not his Pursiuant the which he sent vnto him supposing him not to be out of London with Letters concerning a very necessary matter neglected in their consultatioÌ„ yes forsooth quoth the Chaplayne I met with him yesterday by the way and hauing no vnderstanding by your Graces letters of your pleasure haue not withstanding bin so bold vpon mine owne discretion perceyuing that matter to be very necessary in that behalfe to dispatch the same and forasmuch as I haue excéeded your Graces commission I most humbly require your Graces pardon the King reioycing not a little sayd we do not only pardon you thereof but also giue you our Princely thankes both for the procéeding therein and also for your good and spéedie exployte commanding him for that time to take his rest and repaire agayne after Dinner for the further relation of his Ambassade The Embassador when he saw tyme repaired before the King and Counsayle where he declared the effect of all his affaires so exactly with such grauitie and eloquence that all the Counsell that heard him commended him estéeming his expedition to be almost beyond the capacitie of man The King gaue him at that time the Deanerie of Lincolne From theÌ„ce Thomas VVolsey Deane of Lincolne forward he grew more and more into estimation and authoritie and after was promoted by the King to be hys Almoner After the death of King Henry the seauenth and Thomas VVolsey the Kings Almoner in the flourishing youth of King Henry the eyght thys Almoner handled himselfe so politiquely that he soone found the meanes to be made one of the Kings Counsaile Thomas VVolsey of the priuie Counsayle vvith King Henry the eyght and to grow in fauour with the King to whome the King gaue an house at Bridewell in Fleete streete sometyme Sir Richard Empsons where he kept house for his familie and so dayly attended vpon the King and in his especiall fauour who had great sute made vnto him His sentences and wittie perswasions in the Counsell Chamber were alwayes so pithie that the Counsayle as occasion moued them continually assigned him to be the expositor to the King in all their procéedings in whome the King receyued such a leaning fantasie for that he was most earnest and readyest of all the Counsayle to aduance the Kings will and pleasure the King therefore estéemed him so highly that all the other Counsaylors were put from the great fauour that they before were in in so much that the King committed all his will vnto his disposition which the Almoner perceyuing tooke vpon him therefore to discharge the King of the weightie and troublesome businesse perâ—wading the King that he should not néede to spare any time of his pleasure for any businesse that should happen in the Counsell and whereas the other Counsaylours would diuers times perswade the King to haue sometime recourse into the Counsell Chamber there to heare what was done the Almoner would perswade him to the contrarie which delighted him much and thus the Almoner ruled all them that were before him such did hys policie and witte bring to passe Who was now in hygh fauoure but Maister Almoner and who ruled all vnder the King but Maister Almouer thus he perseuered in fauour vntill at last in came presents giftes and rewards so plentifully that he lacked nothing that might eyther please his fantasie or enrich his coffers And thus procéeding in fortunes blisfulnesse it chanced the warres betwéene the Realmes of Englande and France to be open in so much as the King béeing fully perswaded in hys most royall person to inuade hys foraigne enimies with a puissant Armye wherefore it was necessarye that thys royall enterprise shoulde bée spéedily prouided and furnished in euery degrée of things apt and conueniente for the same the expedition whereof the King thought no mans witte so méete for policie and paynefull trauayle as was hys Almoner to whome therefore he committed hys whole trust therein and hée tooke vpon hym the whole charge of all the businesse and brought all things to good passe in a decent order as all manner of victualles prouisions and other necessaryes conueniente for so noble a voyage and Armie All things béeyng by hym perfected the King aduanced to hys royall enterprise passed the Seas and marched forwarde in good order of battayle vntill hée came to the strong Towne of Turwyne to the whyche hée layde hys séege and assayled it very strongly continually with such vehemente assaultes that within short space it was yéelded vnto hys Maiestie vnto the which place the Emperour Maximilian repaired vnto the King with a greate Armie like a mightie Prince taking of the King his Graces wages which is a rare thing and but seldome séene an Emperour to fighte vnder a Kings Banner Thus after the King had obteyned this puissant Fort and taken the possession thereof and sette all thynges there in due order for the defence and preseruation thereof to hys vse he departed thence and marched towarde the Citie of Turney and there layde hys séege in like manner to the which he gaue so fierce and sharpe assault that they were constreyned of fine force to render the Towne vnto his victorious
might haue oppressed and how by hys pitie he had reléeued them wherefore he would héere after that for kindnesse they shoulde shewe hym none vnkindnesse but inuiolably kéepe that league which was coÌ„cluded In the moneth of May was proclamation made against Proclamation against vnlavvfull gâ—â—es all vnlawfull games and commissions awarded into euerie Shire for the execution of the same so that in all places Tables Dice Cardes and Bowles were taken and brent but when yong men were restreyned of these games and pastimes some fell to drincking some to ferretting of other mens Conyes and stealing of Deare in Parkes and other vnthristinesse The sixth of September was proclamation for Golde Gold ennaunced the French Crowne foure shillings sixe pence the Angelet seauen shillings and sixe pence the Riall xj sÌ„ iij. d. c. Stephen Peacocke Nicholas Lambart the 28. of Sept. Sherifes Maior Sir Thomas Semer Mercer the 28. of October In the monethes of Nouember December and Januarie Great raynes and land vvaters fell such rayne that thereof ensued great fluddes which destroyde Corne fields Pastures and Beastes then was it drie till the twelfth of April and from that time it rayned euery day and night till the third of June whereby Corne fayled sore in the yeare following After the deliuerie of the French King out of the Emperours 1527 bondage and his sonnes receyued in hostage for the Emperours and the King of Englands securitie of all Anno reg 19. such demaundes and requestes as should be demaunded of the French King The Cardinall Wolsey lamenting the French Kings calamitie and the Popes great aduersitie who yet remayned in the Castell Angell trauelled all that he could with the King and his Counsell to take some order for the quietnesse of them both At last it was thought good that the sayde Cardinall shoulde take vppon him the Kings commission to trauell beyond the Seas in this matter Cardinall sent Embassador into France and by his witte to compasse a perfect peace among those potentates wherevpon he was commanded to prepare himselfe to this iourney which he tooke vpon him He had with hym the Earle of Darby the Bishop of London Lord priuie seale Sir Henry Gilfort Knight of the Garter comptroller of the Kings house the Lord Sands Knight of the Garter Lord Chamberlayne of the Kings house Doctor Taylor Mayster of the Rolles Sir Thomas Moore Knight Chancellour of the Duchy of Lancaster the Bishop of Deuelin the Lord Mountegle the Lord Harrenden Sir Iohn Dudley Knight Mayster Ratclife Maister Willowby Mayster Parker Mayster Sturton Uicounts and Baroâ—â— sonnes and heires Sir Francis Brian Sir Edward Semer Sir Robert Gernigam Doctor Stephen Gardener Secretarie Doctor Peter Vannes Secretarie Of the priuie Chamber Maister Hennege Maister Arundell Maister Kneuet Maister Alford Phisitions Doctor Frances Doctor Smith Gentlemen Ushers of the priuie Chamber Maister Walgraue Maister Elles Sir Thomas Denis high Chamberlen Maister Sentâ—lere Uizchamberlaine Gentlemen Ushers M. Wentworth M. Hansard M. Pemercy M. Constable M. Werren Of houshold M Cade Steward sir Wil. Gascoigne Treasurer M. Gostike Comptroller M. Broughton Mayster of the Horsse Doctor Allen Doctor Benet Doctor Duke Deane of the Chapell Doctor CapoÌ„ Almoner y â— Archdeaâ—â— of Canterbury the Archedeacon of Carleile sir Iohn Sent-Iohn sir Richard Sands Knights c. in al to y e number of 900. horses Then marched he forwarde from hys owne house at The pompous ryding of the Cardâ—â—aâ— Westminster throughe London ouer London bridge hauing before hym all the Gentlemen thrée in a rancke in Ueluet Coates and the moste of them greate chaines of Golde aboute their neckes and all hys Yeomen followed hym with Noblemens and Gentlemens seruants al in Orenge tawney coates with the Cardinalles Hat and a T. â— for Thomas Cardinall embrodered vpon all the Coates aswell of hys owne seruants as of al the reste of Gentlemens seruantes and hys Sumpter Mules whyche were twentie or more with all his cariage of Cartes and other of hys traine were passed before He rode like a Cardinall verye sumptuouslye on hys Mule wyth his spare Mule and spare horse trapped in Crimosin Ueluet vpon veluet and stirrops guilt folowing him And before hym he had his twoo great Crosses of siluer his two great Pillers of siluer the Kings broade Seale of Englande and hys Cardinals Hat and a Gentlemanne carying hys Ualence otherwise called his Cloake bagge whyche was made of fine Scarlet altogyther embrodered very richly with Golde hauing in it a cloake Thus passed he forth throughe London and all the waye euerye daye in his iourney he was thus furnished hauing hys Harbengers in euerye place before whych prepared lodging for hys traine The first iourney that he made was twoo myles beyond Dertford in Kent vnto sir Thomas Wiltshires house and the reste of hys traine were lodged in Dertford and in the countrey there-aboutes The nexte daye he marched to Rochesâ—â—â— where he was lodged in the Byshoppes Pallaice and the rest of his traine in the Citie in Strowde The third day he rode to Feuersham and there was lodged in the Abbey his traine in the towne there and some in the Countrey there-aboutes The fourth daye he rode to Caunterburie where he encountred wyth the worshipfull of the town and Country and lodged in the Priorie of Christchurch and all hys traine in the Citie where he continued thrée dayes in whiche season there was a greate fayre in the Towne by reason it was the feast of Thomas of Canterburie At whych daye there was a solempne Procession wherein the Cardinal then went apparelled in hys Legantine Ornamentes with hys Hat on his heade who commaunded the Monks and the Quéere to sing the Letany after this sorte Sancta Maria or a pro Papa nostra Clemente the Cardinall knéeling at a Stoole before the Quéere dore all the while the Monks and their Quéere stoode in the body of the church singing the Letany The eleauenth of July the Cardinall arriued at Calleis who was receiued with all the Officers and Counsell of the Towne the Maior of the Towne and the Maior of the Staple in Procession and in the Lauterne Gate he knéeled and made his prayers that done they passed on before vntill he came to Saint Maries Churche from whence he repayred with a greate number of Noblemen and Gentlemen béeing Péeres of the Towne vnto a place called the Checker where he was lodged and kepte his house as long as he abode in the Towne When all his traine and carriage was landed and euery thing prepared for his iourney he called all hys Noblemen Gentlemen beyng seruants vnto him into hys priuie Chamber where they being al assembled before hym he sayde I haue called you hither to the intent to declare vnto you that I consider the duetie you beare me and the good will that I semblably beare to you séeing your intendment to further the aucthoritie that I haue by Commission whiche your
solemnne Procession and lodged that nighte The nexte morning the Cardinall rode towarde Amiens and passing on his way he was encountred with noble personages who made to him diuers Orations whiche he answered extempore Afterwarde the Frenche King with a goodly company mette with the Cardinal embraced eche other The preace was so thicke that diuers had their legs hurt with horses Then the King and the Cardinall on his right hande rode forth towardes Amiens euery Englishe Gentleman accompanyed with an other of Fraunce The traine of these twoâ— Princes endured two long Englishe myles they were nobly receyued into the Towne of Amiens with shot of Guns and costly Pageants vntil the King had brought the Cardinall to his lodging and then departed for that nighte the King being lodged in the Bishoppes Pallaice The next daye after dinner the Cardinal rode to the Courte to the King at whiche time the king kepte his bedde yet neuerthelesse the Cardinall came into his bed chamber where on the one side of the bed sate the Kings mother and on the other side the Cardinal of Loraine accompanied with diuers other Noblemen of Fraunce and after a shorte communication and drinking of a cuppe of Wine he departed to hys owne lodging Thus continued the Cardinall and the king in Amiens the space of a fortnight and more consulting and feasting eche other dyuers tymes Then the King and the Cardinall remoued to a Citie called Champaine whych was more than xx English myles from Amiens they were both lodged in the great castel of y â— town wherof y â— Cardinal had the one halfe assigned him for his lodging the king the other halfe And like wise they denided a long Gallerie béetwéen theÌ„ where was made in the midst a strong wal with a window a dore The King the Cardinal would many times méete at the same window talke and diuers times they woulde goe into the other at the said dore Then came there to my lord Cardinal y â— Lord Chancelor of France with al the kings counsellers where they toke great paines dayly in consultation insomuch that y â— Cardinall of England fel out with the Chancelor of France laying to hys charge that he went about to hinder the league whyche before his comming was coÌ„cluded insomuch that Madam Regent hir self many Nobles of France with much labor trauel coulde scarcely bring the Cardinal to his former state of communitation he was in suche a wroth against the Chancelor by these meanes he brought other things to passe that before he could not attaine whiche was more for feare than for any affection to the matter he had the heades of the Counsell so vnder his gyrdle The next morning after this conflict he rose early about foure of the clocke and sate him downe to write letters into Englande vnto the King commaundyng me of hys Chapleines to prepare hym ready to say Masse insomuch that the Chaplaine stoode in his vestures vntill four of the clocke in the afternoone al which season the Cardinal neuer rose to eate or drinke nor to make water but continually wrote and aboute the houre of foure in the afternoone he made an end commaunding Christopher Gunner the Kings seruant without delay to ride Post into Englande with those letters whome he dispatched away or euer he dranke and then went to Masse and said his seruice with his Chapleine and after went bothe to dinner and supper all at once The nexte night after the Cardinall made a great Suppeâ— for Madam Regent for the Quéene of Nauar and other â—â—â—ate estates of Ladies and noble women and at the middest of the said banquet the Kings of Fraunce and of Niâ—â—â—â— came so day â—elye in vnlooked for and tooke their place in the lowest parte of the banquâ—t The supper and banquet being finished the Ladyes and Gentlemen fell to dauÌ„cing and so passed awaye the moste of the nighte ere they departed Shortely after the King caused a wilde Bore to be lodged for him in the For rest of Champaigne and thither the Cardinal rode wyth hym to sée hym hunt where the Lady Regent with a number of Ladyes and Damoisels were standyng in Chariots looking on the toyle on the oute side whyche was pitched there for that purpose among whom stoode the Cardinal to regarde the hunting in Madam Regents Chariot and wythin the Toyle was the King with diuers minion Gentlemen of Fraunce readye furnyshed to thys highe and daungerous enteprice of the hunting the King beyng in his doublet and hozen all of shéepes colour cloth hauing in his â—â—ippe a brace of greate white Greyhoundes who were armed as the maner there is and the reste of the Kings Gentlemen being appoynted to hunte this Bore were likewise in their doublets and hoss holdyng eache of them in theyr handes verye sharpe Bore speares Then the King commaunded the Kéepers to vncouche the Bore and that euerye person béeing within the Toile should go to a standing among whome were dyuers Gentlemen and Yeomen of Englande and incontinent the Bore issued out of his den and followed with an hounde came into plaine where béeing scaled a whyle and gazing vpon the people and incontinent pierced by the hounde he spyed a lyttle bushe standing behinde a banke ouer a ditche vnder the whiche laye two Frenche Gentlemen and thither fledde trusting there to haue defended himselfe who thrust his head snuffing into the same bushe whyche caused the two Gentlemen to flye from thence as from the danger of death Then was the Bore by pursuite of Hunters and the hounde driuen from thence who ranne straighte to one of the Cardinalles foote men a very taâ—â— yong Yeoman who hadde in his handes a â—â—â—â—line with the whiche he was faine to defende hymself from the Bore a greate while the Bore continually â—oyning at hym with his tuskes so that he was faine at laste to pitche his Iaueline in the grounde betwéene him and the Bore the whiche the Bore brake with the force of hys foyning and with that the yeoman drew hys sword and stoode at defence and therewith the Hunters came to the rescue and putte him once againe to flight with that he fledde to an other yong Gentleman of England called Maister Henry Ratcliffe who was sonne and heyre to the Lorde Fitz Walter who had borrowed by chance of a Frenche Gentleman a very fine and sharp Bore speare where with he thruste the Bore in the mouth and so into the throate wherevpon the pastime was ended The Cardinall passing diuers dayes in consultation in other matters expecting the returne of Christopher Gunner at the laste he returned with letters againe vppon receite whereof the Cardinall intended to remoue being then at Masse in hys Closet he consecrated the Chauncelour of Fraunce Cardinall and putte vppon hym his Habite hys Hatte and Cap of Scarlet and then tooke hys iourney returning againe into Englande makyng suche necessary expedition that he came to Guisâ—es where he was nobly
downe the Roode in Paules Church with Marie and Iohn all other Images in y e Church then y e liâ—e was done in al Churches in England Also Easter folowing began the Communion and confession in Englishe but no manne constrained thereto excepte Anno reg 2. 1548 they woulde but after Easter beganne the Seruice in Englishe in dyuers Parishe Churches and at Whitsontide at Paules by the commandement of the Deane Barking Chappell nighe the Tower of London and Saint Martins Le Graund nigh the Shambles were pulled down Also the parish Churches of Saint Nicholas in the Shambles and Saint Ewyns within Newgate were pulled downe and the Parishioners appointed to the late dissolued Grey Friers Churche whyche is now named Christes Church founded by King Henrie the eight The watche whiche hadde béene accustomed in London at Midsommer of long time laide downe was nowe againe vsed both on the euen of Saint Iohn and of Saint Peter in as comely order as it had béene accustomed whych watch was greately beautified by the number of more than thrée hundred Dimilaunces and light horsemen that were prepared by the Citizens to be sent into Scotlande for the rescue of the Town of Hadington and other kept by Englishmen in Scotland On Saint Peters euen Monsieur Dassey Lieuetenant to The siege of Hadington the French King and the Reingraue of Fraunce wyth the number of x. thousand French and Almaines besides Scots besieged the Towne of Hadington in Scotlande defended by the Englishmen vnto whose aide shortly after came from Barwike iij. E. horsemen which were 700. men of armes and Dimitances the Captaines whereof were sir Robert Bowes and sir Thomas Palmer whych horsemen not long after by the Frenchmen were enclosed and the moste part either slaine or taken with their Captaines before named neuerthelesse our Englishmen defended the Town often skirmishing wyth the French and putting them to the worse vntill the twentith daye of August and then came an army out of Englande of sixetéene thousande of the whiche foure thousande were Almaines the Kyngs Lieuetenant was the Earle of Shrewsburie the General of the Almaines was Captaine Courtney At the comming of this armie the Frenchemenne and Scottes in peaceable manner departed from before Hadington giuing our Captaynes and Souldiers great commendation for their seruice Francis Earle of Sâ—râ—wshurie after he had séene the Towne victualled and stored with fresh Souldiers and munitions departed into England and our meÌ„ kept the Towne of Hadington oftentimes skirmishing with the Frenchmen and Scottes till the twentith day of September Hadington rased by Englishe men and then came with the Earle of Rutland with thrée thousand Almaynes and as many Borderers who caused the Toâ—ne to be razed and so brought their Ordinance and carriage to Berwike and returned without battayle On Saint Peters day Stephen Gardiner Bishop of Winchester Bishop of VVinchester sent to the Tovver preached at Westminster in the Courte before the King for the which Sermon he was on the morrow after sent to the Tower of London The vij of July a Priest was hanged and quartered in A Priest of Cornevvall executed Smithfield for that he and other in Cornewall had slayne Mayster Body one of the Kings Commissioners the others of his societie were put to death in diuers other partes of the Realme This yeare a great mortalitie by the pestilence was in Great Pestileuce in London London wherefore commaundement was giuen to all Curates and other hauing to do therwith that no corps should be buried before sixe of the clocke in the morning nor after sixe of the clocke at night and that there should at the buriall of euery corpse be rong one bell at the least by the space of thrée quarters of an houre In September dyed Quéene Katherine late â—â—â—s to King Queene Katherine dyed Henry and after marryed to Sir Thomas Seymer Lorde Admirall William Locke Iohn Aâ—liâ—e the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Sir Henry Aâ—â—ots Fishmonger the 28. of October The xvj of Nouember Saint Annes Church within Aldersgate Saint Annes Church brent Anno reg 3. Lord Thomas Seymer beheaded of London was brent The xvj of January Thomas Seymer Lord Admirall and brother to the Lord Protector was sent to the Tower of London the xx of March he was beheaded on the Tower hill The â—â—â—th o◠〈◊〉 Proclamation was made for the 1549 â—â—â—â—e to be put downe through the whole 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tenth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the â—loysten of Paules Church in 〈◊〉 â—alâ—â—â— Pardon Churchyard with the Daunce of Death commonly called the Daunce of Paules about the Daunce of Paules pulled dovvâ—â—e same Cloyster costly and cunningly wrought and the Chappell in the midst of the same Church-yard were all began to be pulled downe Also the Chernill house of Paules with the Chappell Charnill house of Paules there after the Tombes and other Monuments of the dead were pulled downe and the dead mens bones buryed in the fields were conuerted into dwelling houses shoppes About the same time the Stéeple and most part of the Church of Saint Iohn by Smithfield blovvne vp Church of Saint Iohn of Hierusalem néere vnto Smithfield was vndermined and ouerthrowne with Gunne powlder the stone whereof was applyed in the building of the Lorde Protectors house at the Strand The xxiij of Aprill sixe houses at Broken Wharffe were Fire at Broken VVharffe brent In the moneth of May by meanes of a Proclamation for eâ—â—losuâ—es the Commons of Somersetshire and Lincolneshire made a Commotion and brake vp certayne Parkes Commotion in Sommersetshire and Lincolneshire of Sir William Herberds and Lord Sturtons but Sir William Herberd â—lew and executed many of those Rebels In July the Commons of Essex and Kent Suâ—â—â—ke and Norffolke rose agaynst inclosures and pulled downe dyuers Parkes 〈◊〉 Also the Commons of Cornewall and Deuonshire rose against Commotion in Cornevvall and Deuonshire the Nobles and Gentlemen and required not only that the inclosures might be disparked buâ—â— also to haue their old Religion and Acte of sixe Articles restored these â—â—sée god the Citie of Excester which was valiantly defended Against these Rebels was sent Iohn Lord Russell Lord priuie Seale with a number of Souldyers who entred the Citie of Excester the fifth of August where they â—lew and â—ooke prisoners of the â—â—eâ—â—â—s more than four thousand and Rebels subdued after hanged diuers of them in the Towne and Countrey about The Lorde Gray was also sente with a number of Strangers horssemen who in diuers conflictes sâ—ew many people and spoyled the Countrey The last of July William Lorde Marques of Northhampton Commotion at Norvvich Lord Sheffield slayne Marciall Lavv. entred the Citie of Norwich and on the next morning the Rebels also entred the Towne burned part thereof put the Lorde Marques to flighte and sâ—ewe the Lorde Sheffeld In this meane time diuers persons were apprehended as ayders of the foresayde
GentlewomeÌ„ riding on horses trapped with red veluet and their gownes and kirsâ—es likewise of red veluet after them followed two other Chariots couered with red sattin and the horses betrapped with the same certaine Gentlewomen betwéene euery of the said Chariots riding in Chrimson sattin their horses betrapped with the same the nuÌ„ber of the GentlewomeÌ„ so riding were xlvj besides them in the Chariots At Fenchurch was a costly Pageant made by the Genewayes at Grassechurch corner there was another Pageant made by the Easterlings At the vpper end of Grassestrâ—ete there was another Pageant made by the Florentines very high on the top whereof there stoode iiij pictures and in she midst of them and most highest there stood an Angell all in gréene with a Trompet in his hand and when the Trompetter who stood secretly in the pageant did sound his tromp the Angel did put his trâ—mp to his mouth as though it had bin the same that had sounded to the great maruelling of many ignorant persons this Pageant was made with iij. thorough faires or gates c. The Conduit in Cornehill ran wine and beneath y â— Conduit a Pageant made at the charges of the Citie and another at the great Conduit in Cheape and a fountaine by it running wine The Standard in Cheape new painted with the Waytes of the Citie aloft therof playing The Crosse in Cheape new washed burnished One other Pageant at the little Conduit in Cheape next to Paules made by the Citie where the Aldermen stoode and when y e Quéene came against them the Recorder made a short proposition to hir and then the ChaÌ„berlaine presented to hir in the name of the Maior and the Citie a â—â—râ—â— of cloth of gold and â— thousand marlies of â—â—lâ—in it then she rode forth and in Paules Church-yarde against the Schoole one Maister Heywod sate in a Pageant vnder a Uine and made to hir an Oration in Latine and English Then was there one Peter a Dutchman stoode on the weathercocke of Paules stéeple holding a streamer in his hand of fiue yards long and waning therof stoode sometime on the one foote and shooke the other and then knéeled on his knées to the greate maruell of all people He had made two Scaffoldes vnder him one aboue the crosse hauing torches and streamers set on it and one other ouer the bole of the crosse likewise set with streamers and torches which could not burne the wind was so great the said Peter had sixtéene pound thirtéene shillings fourpence giuen hym by the Citie for his costes and paynes and all his stuffe Then was there a Pageant made against the Deane of Paules gate where the Queresters of Paules playde on Uials and song Ludgate was newly repaired paynted and richly hanged with minstrels playing and singing there then was there another Pageant at the Conduit in Fléetestréete and the Temple barre was newly paynted and hanged And thus she passed to White hall at Westminster where she tooke hir leaue of the Lord Maior giuing hym greate thankes sor his paynes and the Citie for their cost On the morrow which was the first day of October the Quéene went by water to the old Pallace and there remayned till about eleuen of the clocke and then went on foote vpon blew cloath being rayled on eyther side vnto Saint Peters Church where she was solemnely crowned and a noynted by the Bishop of Winchester which Coronation and other ceremonies and solemnities then vsed according to the old custome was not fully ended till it was nigh foure of the clocke at night that she returned from the Church before whome was then borne thrée swords sheathed and one naked The great seruice that day done in Westminster hall at dinner by diuers noblemen would aske long time to write The Lorde Maior of London and twelve Citizens kept the high Cupbâ—â—rd of plate as Butlers and y e Quéenâ— gaue to the Maior for his fée a cuppe of gold with a couer waying seauentéene ounces The fifth of October the Parliament began at Westminster Parliament The fiue and twenty day of October the Barge of Graues end a Catch running vpon hir was ouerturned and fourtéene Graues end Barge ouerturned persons drowned and sixtéene saued by swimming Sir Thomas White Merchant Taylor the 28. of October Maior This Sir Thomas White a worthy patron and protector of poore Scholers and learning renued or rather erected a Charitable deedes of Sir Tho. VVhite Colledge in Oxford now called Saint Iohns Colledge before Bernard Colledge He also erected Schooles at Bristow and Reading Moreouer this worshipfull Citizen in his life time gaue to the Citie of Bristow two thousand pounds of ready money to purchase lands to the yearely value of 120. pound for the which it is decréed that the Maior Burgeses and Communaltye of Bristow in Anno. 1567. and so yearely during the tearme of ten yeares then next ensuing should cause to be payd at Bristow one hundred pound of lawfull money The first 800. pound to be lent to sixtéene poore yong men Clothiers and frée men of the same Towne for the space of tenne yeares fiftie pound the péece of them putting sufficient sureties for the same and at the end of ten yeares to be lent to other sixtéene at the discretion of the Maior Aldermen and foure of the common Counsell of the sayde Citie The other two hundred pound to be employed in the prouision of Corne for the reliefe of the poore of the same Citie for their ready money without gaine to be taken And after the end of tenne yeares on the feast day of Saint Barthelmew which shall be in Anno. 1577. at the Merchant taylors Hall in London vnto the Maior and communaltie of the Citie of Yorke or to their Attourney aucthorised an hundred and four pound to be lent vnto four yong men of the sayde Citie of Yorke fréemen and inhabitants Clothiers alway to be preferred viz. to euery of them fiue and twenty pound to haue and occupie the same for the terme of tenne yeares without paying any thing for the loane the four pound ouerplus of the 104. pound at the pleasure of the Maior and communaltie for their paines to be taken about the rescepts and paymentes of the sayd 100. pounde The like order in all poyntes is taken for the deliuerie of 104. pound in the yeare 1578. to the Citie of Canterbury In the yeare 1579. to Reading 1580. to the company of the Merchant Taylours 1581. to Glocester 1582. to Worcester 1583. to Excester 1584. to Salâ—sburie 1585. to Westchester 1586. to Norwich 1587. to South-hampton 1588. to Lincolne 1589. to Winchester 1590. to Oxford 1591. to Heriford East 1592. to Cambridge 1593. to Shrewsburie 1594. to Lin 1595. to Bathe 1596. to Derby 1597. to Ipswich 1598. to Colchester 1599. to Newcastell And then to begin againe at Bristow one 140. pound the next yeare to the Citie of Yorke and so foorth to euery of the sayd Cities
â—ll the Londoners parte of the Gard and more than thrée â—artes of the retinue wente to the Campe of the Kentishmen where they still remayned At this discomfiture the Duke lost eyght péeces of brasse with all other munition and Ordinance and himselfe with few other hardly escaped The last of January Wyat and his company came to Dertforde and the next day they came full and whole to Greenewich and Depeford where they remayned Thurseday Fryday and the foorenone of Satterday On the Fryday which was Candlemas day the most parte of the housholders of London with the Maior and Aldermen were in harnesse yea this day and other dayes the Justices Sergeants at the Lawe and other Lawyers pleaded in harnesse In this meane time Henry Duke of Suffolke Father to the Lady Iane fléeing into Leycestershire and Warwikeshire with a small companye in diuers places as he went made Proclamation agaynst the Quéenes marriage with the Prince of Spayne c. but the people enclined not to him The first of February Proclamation was made at London that the Duke of Suffolke was discomfited and fled with his two bréethren And also that Sir Peter Carow with his vnckle Sir Gawyn Carow and Gibbes were fledde into France and further that the Quéene did pardon the whole Camp of the Kentishmen except Wyat Harpar Rudstone and Iseley and that who soeuer could take Sir Thomas Wyat except the sayde foure persons should haue an hundred pound Lands to hym and his heires for euer The same day in the afternoone being Candlemas euen the commons of the Citie assembled in their Liueries at the Guild hall whether the Quéene with hir Lords and Ladyes came Queene Mary came to the Guild hall in London riding from Westminster and there after vehement wordes against Wyat declared that she meant not otherwise to marrie than the Counsell should thinke both honourable and commodious to the Realme and that she could continue vnmaryed as she had done the greatest part of hir age and therefore willed them truly to assist hir in repressing such as contrarie to their duties rebelled When she had done vnderstanding that many in London did fauour Wyats part she appoynted Lord William Howard Lieutenant of Lord VVilliam Hovvard Lieutenant of the Citie the Citie and the Earle of Pembroke General of the Field which both prepared all thyngs necessarie for theyr purpose In the meane season to wéete the third day of February VVyat came into Southvvarke about thrée of the clocke in the after noone Sir Thomas Wyat and the Kentishmen marched forwarde from Depeford towards London with fiue Ancients béeing by estimation about two thousand which their comming so soone as it was perceyued there was shot off out of the white Tower sixe or eyght shotte but missed them sometime shooting ouer and sometime short After knowledge thereof once had in London forth with the Draw Bridge was cut downe and the Bridge Gates shutte The Maior and Sheriffes harnessed commanded each man to shutte in their shoppes and windowes and to be ready harnessed at their dores what chance soeuer might happen By this time was Wyat entred into Kentstreete and so by Saint Georges Churche into Southwarke Himselfe and part of hys company came in good aray downe Barmondsey streete and they were suffered peaceably to enter Southwarke without repulse or anye stroke stricken eyther by the inhabitants or of any other yet was there many men of the Countrey in the Innes reysed and brought thither by the Lorde William and other to haue gone against the sayd Wyat but they all ioyned themselues to the Kentishmen and the inhabitantes with their best enterteyned them Immediatly vpon the sayde Wyats comming hée made Proclamation that no Souldyour shoulde take anye thyng but that hée shoulde pay for it and that hys commyng was to resist the Spanish Kyng c. At the Bridge foote he layde two péeces of Ordinance and beganne a greate trenche betwéene the Bridge and hym Hée layde one other péece of Ordinance of Sainte Georges and one going into Bermondsey streete and one other toward the Bishop of Winchesters house On Shroue Tuesday the sixth of February Sir Thomas Wyat remoued out of Southwarke towarde Kingston Bridge which was done vpon this occasion The nighte before hys departing out of Southwarke by chance as one VVyat remoued out of Southvvarke of the Lieutenants men of the Tower named Thomas Menchen rowed with a Sculler ouer against the Bishop of Winchesters place there was a waterman of the Tower staire desired the sayde Lieutenants man to take him in who did so which béeing espyed of Wyats men seauen of them with Harguebusses called to them to land agayne but they would not whereupon each man discharged their péece and killed the sayd waterman which forthwith falling downe dead the Sculler with much payne rowed through the Bridge to the Tower wharffe with the Lieutenants man and the dead man in his boate which thing was no sooner knowne to the Lieutenant but that euen the same night and the next morning he bent seauen great péeces of Ordinance Euluerings and Demi-Canons full against the foote of the Bridge and against Southwarke and the two Stéeples of Saint Oliues and Saint Mary Oueryes besides all the péeces on the white Tower one Culuering on Diueling Tower and thrée Fauconets ouer the Water gate which so soone as the inhabitants of Southwarke vnderstoode certayne both men and women came to Wyat in most lamentable wise saying Sir we are all like to be vtterly vndone and destroyed for your sake oure houses shall by and by bée throwne downe vpon our heads to the vtter spoyle of thys Borough with the shotte of the Tower all ready bente and charged towardes vs for the loue of God therefore take pitie vppon vs at whiche wordes hée béeyng partly abashed stayde awhile and then sayde I pray you my friendes bée contente a whyle and I will soone ease you of this mischiefe for God forbid that you or the least héere should be killed or hurt in my behalfe And so in most spéedye manner hée martched awaye As he marched towards Kingstone he met by chance a Merchant VViat marched tovvards Kingstone named Christopher Dorell whome he called saying Cosen Dorell I pray you commend me vnto your Citizens the Londoners and say vnto them from me that when libertie and fréedome was offered them they woulde not receyue it neyther woulde they admitte me to enter within their Gates who for theyr fréedome and the disburthening of theyr gréefes and oppression by Strangers would haue franckely spente my blond in that their cause and quarrell but nowe well appeareth theyr vnthankefulnesse to vs their friendes which meaneth them so much good and therefore they are the lesse to bée moned héereafter when the miserable tyrannie of Strangers shall oppresse them and so hée wente forwarde This daye by nighte hée came to Kingstone where the Bridge was broken and kepte on the other syde by two
â— right Archbishop of Canterburie deceased reuerende Father in God Matthew Parker Doctour of diuinitie Archbishop of Canterburie deceased at Lambeth and was there honorablye buried on whose Tombe being of blacke Marble is written this Epitaph made by Doctour Walter Haddon Sobrius prudens studiis excultus vsu Integer verae religionis amans Walter Haddon Matthaeus vixit Parkerus fouerat illum Aula virum 〈…〉 nem fouit aula senem Ordine râ—â— gâ—ssâ—â— recti defensor â—â—â—â— Vixerat ille â—â— mortuus ille reâ— est This reuerend Father examined throughly the Englishe translation of the holy Bibles wherein he partlye vsed the helpe of his brethren Bishoppes and other Doctours and caused the same to be newly printed in the largest volume for the furniture of many churches then wanting Also making diligent searche for the antiquities of the Brytons and Englishe Saxons to the end those monuments might be carefully kepte he caused them to be well bounde and trimlye couered and such wherof he knew very few examples to be extant among the which was Matthew Paris Matthew Florilegus and Thomas Wallingham hée caused to be printed The famous Pallace of his sea at Canterburie by long continuaunce decayed and consumed with fire he renewed builded fully restored with the charges of more thaÌ„ xiiij C. li. He founded a Grammer schole in Rachdale in the CouÌ„tie of Lancaster To Corpus Christi Colledge in Cambridge he procured 13 Schollerships and bare the charges in making and furnishing two Chambers for scholers and the inward Librarie of the same Colledge Item he gaue to y â— outward inward Librarie of y â— saide Colledge a goodly company of printed bookes a great nuÌ„ber of written bookes of great antiquitie muche value Item he procured to y â— said Colledge y â— patronage of S. Marie Abchurch in LondoÌ„ Item he hath founded two felowships in y e said Colledge procured one Charter of Mortmaine to the sum of C. li. by yearâ— Item he hath giuen to y â— same Colledge of siluer plate double guilte 309. ounces 3 quarters surrendered to them a lease with the improuement of xiiij pound viij shillings yearely for xvij yeares Item 100. l. to y â— maintenance of a fier in y â— Hall froÌ„ Halamas to Candlemas by his last will testament 500. l. Item to diuerse scholers chaÌ„bers within y â— said colledge diuers bedstéeds with sufficient bedding bookes to remain for euer Item he hath founded for euer v. Sermons to be preached in diuerse places of Norffolke euery yeare in rogation wéeke xl shillings to be deuided at Norwich to y â— poore and other Item to the Citie of Norwich one Bason Ewre of siluer and double guilt 175. ounces Item to y â— town of Maâ—sal in Norffolke for euer an anuitie of 50. shillings to be deuided to the poore with a Sermon in Rogation wéeke Item to Guâ—â—â— and Caius Coledge anâ— scholership with a standing â—up a pot of siluer double guilt 55. ounces thrée quarters and one nest of goblets wyth a couer siluer gilt with a number of good bookes to their Librarie Item to Trinitie Hall one scholership a standing cup and a pot of siluer and guilt 53. ounces a neast of goblets siluer and gilt with a couer and bookes to their librarie Item to the Uniuersitie librarie fiftie olde antient written bookes and fiftie printed bookes The xxj of May being Whitsoneuen one man and ten Annabaptistes banished women Anabaptists Dutch were in the consistory of Paules condemned to be brent in Smithfield but after great paynes taking with them only one woman was conuerted the other were banished the land On the first of June the nine women being ledde by the Sheriffes officers the man was tyed to a Cart and whipped and so all conueyed from Newgate to the waters side where they were shipped away neuer to returne agayne The xij of June stoode at Paules Crosse fiue persons Englishmen Fiue persons of the familie of loue stoode at Paules Crosse of the sect tearmed The family of loue who there confessed themselues vtterly to detest as well the aucthour of that sect H. N. as all hys damnable errours and Heresies The xxij of July two Dutchmen Anabaptists were brent in Smithfield who dyed in great horror with rearing Annabaptistes brent and crying The xxx of July in the afternoone was a great tempest Thunder and hayle of lightening and thunder where through both men and beastes in diuers places were striken dead Also at that time sell great abundance of hayle whereof the stones in many places were founde to be sixe or seauen ynches about The fourth of September being Sunday about seauen of the clocke in the morning a certayne Glasse house which The glasse house brent sometime had â—â—â— the Crossed friers hall néere to the Tower of London brast out on a terrible fire wherevnto the Lord Maior Aldermen and Sheriffes with all expedition repaired and practised there all meanes possible by water buckets hookes and otherwise to haue quenched it all which notwithstanding whereas the same house in a small time before had consumed great quantitie of wood by making of fine drinking glasses now it selfe hauing within it néere fortie thousand billets of wood was all consumed to the stone walles which walles greatly defended the fire from spreading farther and doing any more harme The xxvj of September a Pulters wife in the parish of Foure chyldren at one burden Christes church within Newgate of London was deliuered broughte to bed of iiij children at one burden al females or maiden children whiche were Christned by the names Elizabeth Mary Margaret and Dorothy and the same day Moneth the mother was buried but al the foure children liuing and in good liking were borne to church after hir Edward Osburne Wolston Dixsey the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Ambrose Nicholas Salter the 28. of October This Maior went by water to Westminster and there tooke his othe as hathe béene accustomed he kepte no feaste in the Gild-hall but dyned at his owne house with his brethren the Aldermen and other The Companyes dyned at their seuerall Halles c. This was done as in the yeare laste béefore passed to auoide the infection of the plague whyche myghte haue encreased by commyng togyther of greater number That wéeke from the two and twentith vnto the eight and twentith of October deceassed in the Citie and Liberties of al diseases 132. of the which number 36. were accompted to dye of the plague The next wéeke following ending the thirde of Nouember thankes be gyuen to God therefore there deceassed of all disseases but 110. and of theÌ„ of the plague but 26. The eleauenth of February Anne Aueries widowe forswearing Anno reg 18 God punisheth periurie hirselfe for a little mony that she should haue paid for sixe pounde of Towe at a shop in Woodstreete of London
meanest of vs all or of any subiectes should suffer the slaunder of so tyranous or trayterous a fact yea or of the prepension or forethought of so horrible a treason toward hit thoughe it were in facte See the exceeding loue of a prince tovvarde hir subiectes in excusing all accidents vvithout any suspition of ill meaning Here al the people shouted out Amen Amen neuer executed Wherein to all our singular comfortes it pleased hir w t moste princely affection and earnestnesse graciouslye to affirme that neuer Prince had better nor more kinde true subieas God for his mercie direct vs euer to be so with our due gratefulnesse to sacrifice at hir kinglye féete oure bloude and liues for hir seruice sake when occasion shal cal vs thereto M. Carie vvas maister to this â—ude Appletree and Knight Marshal for that day appointed One other thing I finde hir Maiestie troubled with y â— is the sorrow this noble yong Gentleman M. Henrie Carie hath suffered in continuall grieft of his hart for the offence of his man who through the vaine iealousie of some euill disposed persons hath likewise borne some slaunder of the cause But it suffiseth to cleare him that no intente of malice nor forethought of this fact is found in the partie himselfe M. Caries commendation His conuersation besides with excéeding faith and diligence in hir highnesse seruice will euer deliuer him as a most acceptable Gentleman frée from this and al other euil in the sight of hir Maiestie and all the worlde I shall not néede therefore to speake of him for hys cause néedeth none excuse Here may you behold the rare goodnesse of our great and He reciteth the Queenes vertues and most vvorthsly commendeth hir rare courage in such a perilous chance gracious Mistresse full of religion and pietie Justice and mercie Temperance and magnanimitie and that I cannot but tell you of the most constant and noble courage that euer liued the proofe wherof the cause heard whereat I was present I leaue to your iudgements Hir Maiestie taking prospecte out of the vales of hyr Behold hir princely stoutnesse nothing dismayed at thir sodaine terror but vvith such care to this pore vvounded man and vvith suche countenaunce to the Embassador that she seemed a mother to the one a Queen to the other Barge at the very instant did sée the man stricken and behelde his fall and hearde as it were his deadly scrâ—tch whoÌ„ she immediately commaunded to be taken vp and then beholding him all embrued with bloude commaunded hys woundes to be lapped vp with a scarffe of hir owne and so with hir most constante and amiable countenaunce continued hir entertaynement of the Ambassadoure as thoughe there had bene no such matter Afterwardes the man began to fainte hir highnesse then commaunded a cloke to be put on his bodye with other suche necessarie reliefes asÌ„ were there presentlye to be hadde without alteration of countenaunce Beholde this kinglye hearte and courage of rarâ— magnanimitie Hir highnesse magnanimitie mingled vvith mercie the one most comfortable to hir subiectes and the other most terrible to hir foes séeing as it were the presente death of the next to hir neyther feared hir owne life nor was dismayed with this treasonable chaunce An action more than maruellous in hir sexe Hereof howe muche wée maye reioyce I want witte to tell you But in one worde hir highnesse that with hir singular wisedome and policie hath preserued hir Empire these twentie yeares in moste ioyfull peace wyth thys courage magnanimitie will no doubt as mightily defende vs in the moste cruell wars God therefore euer blesse hir and let vs with oure handes stretched vp to Heauen and oure eyes fixed on the seate of God praye for hir long life and moste prosperous raigne ouer vs. Thomas An earnest exhortation to pray Appletree receiue thy life from hir most excellent Maiestie and pray to God on thy knées for hir all thy dayes to come Here Maister VizchaÌ„berlaine kneeled on hys knees vvith al the people pray sing God for hir Maiesties safe deliuerie And so the people being moued to prayer for hir Maiesties moste happy escape and for the blessing of God to lengthen hir dayes for many any many yeares he fell on hys knées with great deuotion amongest them and so departed with excéeding ioy to the people and a thousand blessings on him selfe A Shippe called the thrée halfe Moones manned with xxxviij men and well fenced with munitions sette from Iohn Fox delyuered 269. Christians ouâ—e of captiuitie of the Turkes Portesmouth towarde Ciuill a Citie in Spaine but falling into the streightes were taken by the Turkes putte in their Galleys their clothes torne from their backes and then set to the Ores where their fare was scant of bread vnholesome water and plentie of stripes Nigh to the Citie of Alexandrâ—a being a Hauen Towne vnder the dominion of the Turkes there is a Roâ—â—e very fencible where into the Turkes doe customably bring their Galleis on shoare euery yere in the Winter and there do trimme them against the Spring time In whyche roade there is a prison wherein the Captiues and suche prisoners as serue in the Galleis are putte for all that time vntill the Seas be calme and passable for the Galleis euery prisoner laden with yrons on their legs Into whiche prison these Christians were putte and faste warded all the Winter season but ere it was long the Maister and the owner by meanes offriendes were redéemed the reste abyding whyle they were all throughe their yll vsage and worse fare myserablye starued sauing one Iohn Fox who being somewhat skilfull in the Crafte of a Barber by reason thereof made great shift in helping his fare now and then with a good meale till at the last God sente him fauour in the sight of the kéeper of the prison so that he had leaue to go in and out to the Roade at his pleasure paying a tertayne stipend vnto the kéeper and wearing a locke about his legge which libertie likewise sixe more had vpon like sufferance who not being suspected to start aside had libertie to go in and out at the sayd Roade and to returne agayne at night In the yere of our Lord 1577. in the Winter season the Galleis comming to their accustomed harborough and being discharged of all their Mastes Sayles and other such furnitures and all the maysters and marriners of them being lodged in their owne homes there remayned in the prison of the sayd Roade 268. Christian prisoners who had bin taken by the Turkes force and were of sixtéene sundry Nations among the which there were thrée Englishmen whereof one was named Iohn Fox of Wodbridge another William Wickney of Portesmouth and the third Robert Moore of Harwich which Iohn Foxe hauing bin thirtéene or fourtéene yeares vnder their gentle intreatance minding his escape tooke good heart vnto him Not farre from the Roade at one side of
London Belyall coueting to snatch the money from the executors hands but missing of their purpose they fell on the poore people murthering 129. and drowned 30. of them bycause one of them had bewrayed their former wicked purposes This yeare was made an Acte of common counsell for Price of Pulterie prices of victuals to be sold at London by consent of the King and Nobilitie concerning the price of Powlterie A fatte Cocke for thrée halfepence two pullets for thrée halfepence a fat Capon for two pence halfepeny a Goose foure pence a Mallard thrée halfe pence a Partridge for thrée halfe pence a Feasant four pence a Heron sixe pence a Plouer one peny a Swanne for thrée Shillings a Crane for xij pence two Wodcocks for thrée halfe pence a fatte Lambe from Christmas to Shrouetide sixtéene pence and all the whole yeare after for four pence Iohn Armenter Henry Fingrie the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Anno reg 28. Elias Russell the 28. of October The King made cruell warre vpon the Scottes and had of them a great victorie and then they yéelded themselues to his mercie This Realme was troubled with false money whiche False Money 1300 Wil. Rishang was called Crokden and Pollard coyned in partes beyond the Seas and vttered for sterling so that many thereby were deceyued whiche vpon Saint Stephens day was clouen in two and was accompted but halfe the value On Easter euen the same money was forbidden through all England and after called in and new coyned to the Kings great aduantage A sodeine fire enclosed the Monasterie of Glocester the Rob. of Glocester Cloyster Belfrie the great chamber with other buildings was consumed For the establishment of the peace betwéene England and France King Edward tooke to wife Margaret sister to Philip Wil. â—aking le Bew then King of France they were married at Canturburie Lucas de Hauering Richard Champes the 28. of Septem Sherifes Maior Anno reg 29. Elias Russell the 28. of October King Edward made his voyage against the Scottes wherin he subdued a great part of the land tooke the Castell of Estreuelin with other made the Lords sweare to him fealtie and homage In the meane while the Quéene was conueyed to London againste whome the Citizens to the number of 600. rode in one liuerie of red and white with the cognisance 1301 of their misteries brothered vpon their sléenes and receiued hir four miles without the Citie and so conuayed hir to Westminster Robert Caller Peter de Bosenho the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Anno reg 30 Sir Iohn Blound the 28. of October The King gaue to Edward his sonne the Princedome of Wales and ioyned thervnto the Dukedome of Cornewall and the Earledome of Chester He kept his Christmas in Scotland 1â—02 with a great armie but at y e instance of the French King he granted truce and returned About the feast of all Saintes the King sent a great power into Scotland Hugh Pourt Simon Paris the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Anno reg 31 Tho. de la More 1033 Ex Record Sir Iohn Blount the 28. of October The Scottes rebelling against King Edward made William Wales their leader wherefore the King hauing his Armie readie passed by the Castell of Striueling ouer the whole land nonc offering them battayle but fléeing before the sword This yeare on the twelfth of March before Iohn Blound Maior of London William Leyre Thomas Romaine William Robert Fitz VValter acknovvledgeth his seruice done to the Citie of London Biton Walter Finchingfeld Hen. Glocester Willi. Mazarar Salamon Coteler Iohn Wengraue Iohn Darments Nicholas Picote Aldermen Hugh Pourt Simon de Paris Sherifes before vj. men of euery ward of London Roberte Fitz Walter acknowledged his seruice to the same Citie and sware vpon the Euangelistes that he woulde be true vnto the liberties thereof and maynteyne the same to hys power and the counsell of the same Citie to kéepe c. The right that beloÌ„ged to Robert Fitz Walter Chastelein of London Lord of Wedeham were these The sayde Robert and his heires ought to be and are chiefe Banerars of London in fée for the Chastelerie which he and his ancesters had by Castle Baynard in the said Citie In time of warre the sayde Robert and his heires ought to serue the Citie in manner as followeth that is The sayd Robert ought to come he being the twentith man of armes on horsebacke couered with cloth or armour vnto the great Weast dore of Saint Paule with his Banner displayed before him of his armes and when he is come to the sayd dore mounted and apparelled as before is sayde the Maior with his Aldermen and Sheriffes armed in their armes shall come out of the sayd Church of Saint Paule vnto the sayde dore with a banner in his hande all on foote whiche banner shall be Gueles the Image of Saint Paule Golde the face hands féete and sword of Siluer and assoone as the sayde Robert shall sée the Maior Aldermen and Sheriffes come on foote out of the Churche armed with such a Banner he shall alight from his Horsse and salute the Maior and say to him Sir Maior I am come to do my seruice which I owe to the Citie and the Maior and Aldermen shall answere we giue to you as to our Banerar of fée in this Citie this Banner of the Citie to beare gouerne to the honor and profit of the Citie to your power and the sayd Roberte and his heires shall receyue the Banner and shall goe on foote out of the gate with the Banner in his hands and the Maior Aldermen and Sheriffes shall follow to the dore and bring a Horse to the sayde Roberte worth twentie pounds which Horse shall be sadled with a saddle of the armes of the saide Robert and shall be couered with sendall of the saide armes Also they shall presente to him xx â— sterling money and deliuer to the Chamberlayne of the said Robert for his expences that day Then the sayde Robert shal mount vpon the horse which y e Maior presented to him with y e Banner in his haÌ„d and assone as he is vp he shal say to the Maior that he cause a Marshall to be chosen for the host one of the Citie which Marshal being chosen y â— sayde Robert shall commaund the Maior and Burgesses of the Citie to warne the commoners to assemble togither they shal al go vnder the Banner of Saint Paul and the said Robert shall beare it himselfe vnto Aldegate and there the sayde Robert and Maior shall deliuer the sayde Banner of Saint Paule from thence to whom they shall assent or thinke good And if they must make any issue forth of the Citie then the sayd Robert ought to chose two forth of euery warde the most sage personages to forsée to the safe kéeping of the Citie after they be gone forth And this Counsell shall be taken
in the Priorie of the Trinitie neare vnto Aldegate And before euery towne or Castel whiche the hoaste of London besiege if the siege continue a whole yeare the sayde Roberte shall haue for euery siege of the communaltie of London an hundred shillings for his trauell and no more These be the rights that the sayd Robert hath in the time of war Rights belonging to Robert Fitz Walter and to his heires in the Citie of London in the time of peace are these that is to saye the sayd Robert hath a Soken or ward in the Citie that is a wal of the Chanonrie of Saint Paul as a man goeth down the stréete before the Brewhouse of Saint Paul vnto the Thamis and so to the side of the Mill whiche is in the water that commeth down from the fléete Bridge and goeth so by London Walles betwixt the Friers preachers and Ludgate and so returneth backe by the house of the sayd Friers vnto the sayd common wall of the said Chanonry of Saint Paule that is al the parish of Saint Andrew whiche is in the gifte of hys auncestours by the saide senioritie and so the sayde Robert hath appendant vnto the sayd Soken al these things vnder written that he ought to haue a Soke man to place what Sokeman he will so he be of the Sokemanrie or the same ward and if any of the Sokemanry be impleaded in y e Guild Hall of any thing that toucheth not the body of the Maior y â— for the time is or that toucheth the bodye of no Sherife it is not lawfull to the Sokeman of the Sokemanrie of the sayd Robert Fitz Walter to demand a Court of the sayd Robert and the Maior and his Citizens of London ought to graÌ„t him to haue a Court and in his Court he ought to bring his iudgement as it is assented and agréed vppon in the Guilde Hal that shall be giuen him If any therefore be taken in hys Sokenry he ought to haue his stockes and imprisonment in his Soken and he shal be brought from theÌ„ce to y e Guild Hall before the Maior there they shall prouide him his iudgement that ought to be giuen of him but his iudgement shal not be published till he come into the Courte of the sayde Robert and in his libertie And the iudgement shall be such that if he haue deserued death by treason he be tyed to a post in the Thamis at Woodwharfe where boates are fastened two ebbings and two flowings of the Water And if hée bée condemned for a common théefe he ought to be ledde to the Elmes and there suffer his iudgemeÌ„t as other théeues and so the said Robert and his heyres hath a great honor that he holdeth a gret Franches within the Citie that the Maior of the Citie and Citizens are bounde to do him of right that is to say that when the Maior will holde a greate counsel hée ought to call the sayd Robert and his heyres to be with hym in Counsell and of counsell of the Citie and the sayde Robert ought to be sworne be of counsel with the Citie against all people sauing the King and his heyres And when the sayde Robert commeth to the Huystings in the Guilde Hall of the Citie the Maior or his lieuetenaunt ought to ryse against him and set hym down néere vnto him and so long as he is in Guilde Hall all the iudgemente oughte to be giuen by his mouth according to the Recorde of the Recorders of the sayde Guilde Hall and so manye weifs as come so long as he is there he ought to giue them to the Baylifes of the town or to whom he will by the Counsell of the Maior of the Citie These be the Franchises that belonged to Roberte Fitz Walter in London in time of peace whiche for the antiquitie I haue here noted out of an old Recorde William Combmartin Iohn Burforde the. 28. of Septem Baylifes Custos Anno reg 32 Adam Meri Grauesend Bishop of LondoÌ„ Sir Iohn Blound the. 28. of October Richard Grauesend Byshop of London deceased who is reported by some to haue purchased the Charters and Liberties for the Citie of London in the yeare of our Lord. 1â—9â— in the sixtéenth yeare of King Richard the seconde The vntrueth whereof I haue thought good thus muche in place to note King Edward went into Scotland and there besieged the Castel of Striueline which William Clifford kept the space of * 1304 Tho. de la More 90. dayes with sundry valiaunt assaultes but being able no longer to resist they put off their shoes and with haulters about their neckes came forth of the Castel and fel prostrate before the king committing both liues and lims to his mercie whom the King pardoned of life but sent them prisoners into England The King returning out of Scotlande by the Citie of Yorke commaunded the Courtes of the kings Benche and the Exchequer which had now remayned at Yorke vij yeares to be remoued to theyr olde places at London Roger Pares Iohn de Lincolne the. 28. of September Sherifes Custos Anno reg 33 Dravv thy staffe Adam Meri Sir Iohn Blound the. 28. of October King Edwarde helde his Christmasse at Lincolne where he ordayned Justices of Traylebaston againste intruders into other mens landes truce breakers extortioners murderers and suche like offendours by whyche meanes the Kings treasure was maruellously encreased Roger Brabason and Robert de Reuer satte at the Guilde Hall in London to heare the complaintes made concerning the foresayde Articles of Traylebaston The Citizens of Norwiche made peticion vnto the Norvvich vvalled Parliament Recordes 1305 King that lyke as it hadde pleased hym heretofore to graunte them hys helpe and lycence certayne yeares for the wallyng aboute of theyr Towne whiche tearme was nowe expyred to graunte them a longer tyme the same being not yet finished wherevppon v. yeares were granted by him and his Parliament at Westminster Iohn Leyland writeth that a Marchaunte of Norwich I. Leyland whom he nameth not builded a great part almost halfe of that Wall Robert Fitz Walter requested the king that the Fries of Friers of the Sacke A sinagoge of the Ievves neare Baynards Castel in LondoÌ„ Parliament recor the Sacke coÌ„monly called de Penitentia Iesu in London might assigne to the sayde Robert one Chappel of olde time called the sinagoge of the Iewes neare adioyning to the place of the same Robert which request was graunted These Friers liued altogither by begging and had of late multiplyed in number greatly vntill the counsel at Lions wherein it was decréed that Friers beggers should receyue none into their order except Grey and White Friers They wer also licensed to enter into religion of larger rule from the which time forth all mendicant Friers began to decrease and were in short time brought to nothing except the Preching Friers William Wales which had ofttimes sette Scotland in gret VV. VVales in Scotland trouble was
and Townes in the like order as afore and thus to continue for euer as in the indentures tripartite more playnely may appeare Cardinall Poole who had long time bin forth from this Cardinal Poole Realme and now in great estimation in the Court of Rome was sent for by Quéene Mary to returne into his Countrey of England The third of Nouember the weathercocke of Paules was set vp which cocke wayed fortie pound his length VVeathercock of Paules from the bill to the tayle was four foote and his breadth ouer the wings thrée foote and a halfe the which cocke béeing of copper was ouer gilt The thirtéenth of Nouember Doctor Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury Lady Iane that was before proclaymed Quéene and the Lord Guilford hir husband were arraigned at the Guild hall of London and condemned of Treason The Parliament was dissolued on the sixth of December And on the one and twentith of December beganne Latine seruice in the Church throughout England the Church seruice to be done in Latine as was enacted by the last Parliamente and as the same had bin left in the last yeare of King Henry the eyght In the beginning of the moneth of January the Emperour sent a noble man called Ecmondane and certayne other Embassadors into England to conclude a marriage betwéene King Phillip his sonne and Quéene Mary of Englande The fourtéenth of January D. Stephen Gardener Bishop of Winchester Lord Chancellour of England in the Chamber of presence at Westminster made to the Lordes Nobilitie and Gentlemen an Oration very eloquent wherein hée declared that the Quéenes Maiestie partly for amitie and other waightie considerations had after muche suite on the Emperours and Prince of Spaynes behalfe made determined by the consent of the Counsell and Nobilitie to match hir selfe with the sayde Prince in most godly and lawfull matrimonie and declared further that she should haue for hir ioynter thirtie thousand Duckets by the yeare with all the lowe Countrey of Flanders and that the issue if there happened any betwéene them two lawfully begotten should bée heire as well to the Kingdome of Spayne as also to the sayde lowe Countrey He sayde therefore that they were all bound to thanke GOD that so noble worthy and famous a Prince would vouchsafe so to humble hymselfe as in thys marriage to take vppon hym rather as a Subiect than otherwise for the Quéene and hir Counsell shoulde rule all thynges as â—â—e dyd before and that there shoulde bée of the Counsell no Stranger neyther to haue the custodie of anye Fortes or Castels c. nor beare anye rule or office in â—he Quéenes house or else-where in all Englande with â—yuers other Articles there by hym rehearsed whereâ—â—e hée sayde the Quéenes pleasure and request was â—â—at lyke good Subiectes for hir sake they woulde most â—â—â—inglye receyue him with reuerence ioy and honoure The next day the Lord Maior of London with his bréethren the AldermeÌ„ were sent for to the Court and to bring with them fortie of the head commoners of the Citie vnto whome before the Counsell the Lord Chancellour made the like Oration desiring them to behaue themselues like good subiects with all humblenesse and reioycing The purpose of this marriage was so gréeuously taken of diuers men that for this and for Religion they in such Conspiracy sort conspired against the Quéene that if the matter had not broken out before the time by them appoynted men thought it would haue brought much trouble and daunger The xxv of January Sir Iohn Gage Lord Chamberlayne certified the Lord Maior of London that Sir Thomas Commotion in Kent by Sir Thomas VViat Wyat with certayne other Rebels were vp in Kent aboute Maydestone wherevpon great watche was kepte and that night the Lord Maior rode about to peruse the same and euery night after two Aldermen did the like in the day time the gates of the Citie were warded by substantiall CitizeÌ„s The xxvij of January the Lord Treasurer came to the Guild hall from the Counsell to request the Citizens to prepare fiue hundred footemen well harnessed to go agaynste Wyat which was granted and made ready the same night and on the morrow were deliuered to their Captaines and sent to Grauesend by water The xxix of January the Duke of Norffolke with the Captayne of the Gard and other souldiers The Duke of Norffolke sente against VVyat and the Captaine and Souldiers that were sent from London minded to assault Rochester Castell where Wyat and his people lay but before the setting forward of these VVyat strengthened vvith the Queenes Ordinance men the Duke sent Mayster Nory an Herault vnto Rochester with the Quéenes Proclamation of pardon to all such as would desist from their purpose who comming to the bridge woulde haue gone through into the Citie but they that kept the bridge would not suffer him till that the Captayne came who at the last granted the same to be read â—â— the Citie but holding a Dagge against him cryed speakâ—â— softly or else they would shoote him thorough so that they would not suffer the people to heare the Proclamation which béeing ended each man cryed they had done nothing wherefore they should néede any pardon and in that quarrell which they had taken in hande they would lyue and dye neuerthelesse at the last Sir George Harpar receyued the pardon outwardly and béeing receiued vnder the Duke of Norffolkes protection came on forwarde againste the Kentishmen and euen as the company were set in a readinesse and marched forward toward the Bridge Brette béeing Captayne of the fiue hundred Londoners of which the more parte were in the fore-ward turned himselfe aboute and drawing out his sword sayd these or like words Maysters we go about to fight against our natiue Countreymen of England and our friends in a quarrell vnrightfull and partly wicked for they considering the great and manyfolde miseries which are like to fall vpon vs if we shall be vnder the rule of the proude Spanyards are héere assembled to make resistance of their comming for the auoyding of so great mischiefes and inconueniences likely to light not only vpon themselues but on euery of vs and the whole Realme wherefore I thinke no English heart ought to say against them much lesse by fighting to withstande them and therefore I and others meaning such as were in that ranke with hym will spende our bloud in the quarrell of this worthy Captayne Mayster Wyat and other Gentlemen héere assembled which words once pronounced each man turned their Ordinance agaynst their folowers and therevpon cryed a Wyat a Wyat of which sodeyne noyse the Duke the Captayne of the Gard and other béeing abashed fledde forthwith immediatly came in Mayster Wyat and hys company on horssebacke rushing in amongst as well the Garde as the Londoners and sayde so many as wyll come and tarrye wyth vs shall be welcome and so many as wyll departe good leaue haue they and so