sonne all his former offenses and therevpon found him euer after more tracâable and obedient than before After this battell king William being thus accorded with his sonne returned with him into England and immediatlie sent him against Malcolme king of Scotland who hauing broken the truce in time of the trouble betwixt king William and his sonne had doone much hurt by forraies vpon the English borders wasting all Northumberland euen to the riuer of Tine Howbeit when he heard that Robert approched with his armie towards him he retired into Scotland Robert Curthuze then lodged with his armie vpon the banks of the riuer of Tine where he began the foundation of a castell whereof the towne of Newcastell did after take both beginning and name for before this season it was called Moncaster About the same time Odo the bishop of Bayeux was sent to Northumberland to reuenge the death of Walkher bishop of Durham whom not long before the people of Northumberland had slaine in a tumult The occasion of his death grew by the death of one Liulfus a noble man of those quarters and déerelie beloued of the people bicause he was descended of honorable parentage and had married the ladie Algitha daughter vnto earle Alered and sister to Alfleda the mother of earle Walteof This Liulfus a man of great possessions through England now that the Normans ruled in all places quietlie withdrew himselfe vnto Durham and grew into such familiaritie and credit with the bishop that touching the order of temporall matters he would doo nothing without his aduice Whereat Leofwin the bishops chapline conceiued such enuie for that he was not so often called to counsell as before that in the end he procured by his malicious meanes one Gilbert to whom the bishop had committed the rule of the earledome to murther the said Liulfus by night in his manor place not farre from Durham Whereof the bishop hauing vnderstanding and knowing that the matter would be gréeuouslie taken of the people sent out letters and messengers into the countrie offering to purge himselfe of the slaughter of this man according to the order of the canon lawes howbeit he did nothing lesse Among other things concerning his purgation he said that he had banished Gilbert and others who had committed the murther out of Northumberland Hervpon the malice of the people was kindled against him For when it was knowne that he had receiued the murtherers into his house and fauoured them as before they stomached the matter highlie insomuch that when by the trauell of those that went to and fro betwixt the bishop and the kinsfolks of Liulfus a daie was appointed on the which the bishop should come to farther communication with them at Gateshead he repaired thither according to his promise but refusing to talke with them abroad he kept himselfe still within the church and sent foorth such of his counsell as should commune with them But when the people that were there gathered in great numbers had signified in plaine words that he should either come foorth and shew himselfe amongst them or else that they should fire the place where he sat he caused Gilbert to go foorth vnto them first whom they slue and his partakers also that issued out of the church with him for his defense But when the peoples furie was not so quenched the bishop himselfe casting the skirts of his gowne ouer his face came likewise foorth and was immediatlie slaine of the people After this they set the church on fire bicause Leofwine the bishops chapline and others were yet within and refused to come foorth howbeit in the end being compelled by the rage of the fire to come out the said Leofwine was also slaine and hackt in péeces as he had well deserued being the ringleader of all the mischéefe ¶ Thus maie we sée what followed of the neglecting of iustice in the bishop for if he had either banished Gilbert and other his complices accordinglie as he pretended to doo or otherwise had séene due punishment executed against them the peoples rage had neuer proceeded so far as it did for they could not persuade themselues but that the bishop was guiltie line 10 and priuie to Liulfus death sith he had receiued the murtherers into his house the verie same night in which the fact was doone and kept them still about him which his bearing with them cost him his owne life But now to the historie When bishop Odo was come into those parties to reuenge the bishops death with an armie as we haue said he sore afflicted the countrie by spoiling it on euerie side with great crueltie Here king William line 20 placed and displaced diuerse rulers ouer the Northumbers for first he appointed one Copsi to haue the rule of that countrie in place of Marchar who before had held the same This Copsi expelled Osulfe the sonne of earle Edulfe brother to earle Aldred which Osulfe was substitute vnto the earles Edwine and Marchar who although he was driuen out of his gouernement by Copsi yet recouering his forces againe he slue the same Copsi as he entred into the church of Newburne But within a few line 30 moneths after the same Osulfe as he ran with his horsse against a theefe was thrust through the bodie with a speare which the theefe held in his hand and so died Then Gospatrike was assigned by king William to haue the gouernement there whose mother Aldgitha was daughter to Uthred sometime earle of Northumberland begotten vpon Elfgiua the daughter of king Egelred Some write that Gospatrike purchased the earledome of king William and so held it till the king line 40 tooke it from him againe and then gaue it vnto earle Walteof or Waldeue Next after him Walkher the foresaid bishop of Durham had the whole administration coÌmitted to him but after he was slaine as yée haue heard one Alberike ruled that countrie and lastlie Robert Mulbray a right noble personage for his wisedome and valiancie highlie renowmed with all men was created earle of Northumberland and gouerned the people of those parties in such politike and wise order that during his line 50 time it is hard to saie whether his quietnesse or the obedience of the people was greater In like manner after the foresaid Walkher one William was created bishop of Durham who was the originall founder of vniuersitie colledge in Oxford and by whose assistance the moonkes gaping both for riches ease and possessions found the means to displace the secular priests of the colledge of Durham that they might get into their roomes as they did indeed soone after to their great gaine and aduantage line 60 But to returne againe to the course of the historie Shortlie after the reuenge of the death of Walkher bishop of Durham the fornamed bishop Odo the kings brother was suspected of some vntruth and sinister dealing whervpon he was sent as a banished man into
means we haue at length by aduise of our peruerse counsell defied our said lord the K. of England and haue put our selues out of his allegiance and homage sent our people into England to burne houses to take spoiles to commit murther with many other damages and also in fortifieng the kingdome of Scotland which is of his fee putting and establishing armed men in townes castels and other places to defend the land against him to deforce him of his fee for the which transgressions our said souereigne lord the king entring into the realm of Scotland with his power hath conquered and taken the same notwithstanding al that we could do against him as by right he may do as a lord of his fee bicause that we did render vnto him our homage and made the foresaid rebellion We therfore as yet being in our full power and free will doo render vnto him the land of Scotland and all the people therof with the homages In witnesse whereof we haue caused these letters patents to be made Yeuen at Brechin the tenth day of Iulie in the fourth yeare of our reigne sealed with the common seale of the kingdome of Scotland After this king Edward went forward to see the mounteine countries of Scotland the bishop of Durham euer kéeping a daies iournie afore him At line 10 length when he had passed through Murrey land and was come to Elghin perceiuing all things to be in quiet he returned towards Berwike and comming to the abbeie of Scone he tooke from thence the marble stone wherevpon the kings of Scotland were accustomed to sit as in a chaire at the time of their coronation which king Edward caused now to be transferred to Westminster and there placed to serue for a chaire for the priest to sit in at the altar The king comming to Berwike called thither vnto line 20 a parlement all the nobles of Scotland and there receiued of them their homages the which in perpetuall witnesse of the thing made letters patents thereof written in French and sealed with their seales as the tenor here followeth The instrument of the homages of the lords of Scotland to K. Edward A Touz ceux que cestes lettres verront ou orront c. To all those that these present letters shall see or heare we Iohn Comin of Badenaw c. Bicause that we at the faith and will of the most noble prince and our dearest lord Edward by the grace of God king ofEngland lord of Ireland and duke of Aquitaine doo vow and promise for vs and our heires vpon paine of bodie and goods and of all that we may haue that we line 40 shall serue him well and trulie against all men which may liue and die at all times when we shall be required or warned by our said lord the king of England or his heires and that we shall not know of any hurt to be doone to them but the same we shall let and impeach with all our power and giue them warning thereof and those things to hold and keepe we bind vs our heires and all our goods and further receiue line 50 an oth thereof vpon the holie euangelists and after all we and euerie of vs haue done homage vnto our souereigne lord the king ofEngland in words as followeth I become your liegeman of life members and earthlie honour against all men which may liue and die And the same our souereigne lord the king receiued this homage vnder this forme of words We receiue it for the land of the which you be now seized the line 60 right of vs or other saued and except the lands which Iohn Balioll sometime king of Scotland granted vnto vs after that we did deliuer vnto him the kingdome of Scotland if happilie he hath giuen to you any such lands Moreouer all we and euerie of vs by himselfe haue done fealtie to our said souereigne lord the king in these words I as a faithfull liege man shall keepe faith and loialtie vnto Edward king ofEngland and to his heires of life member and earthlie honor against all men which may liue and die and shall neuer for any person beare armour nor shall be of counsell nor in aid with any person against him or his heires in any case that may chance but shall faithfullie acknowledge and doo the seruice that belongeth to the tenements the which I claime to hold of him as God me helpe and all his saints In witnesse wherof these letters patents are made and signed with our seales Yeuen at Warke the foure and twentith of March in the 24 yeare of the reigne of our said lord the king of England Then was Iohn Warren earle of Surrey and Sussex made by king Edward warden of Scotland Hugh Cressingham treasurer and William Ormesbie high iustice whome the king commanded that he should call all those before him which held any lands of the crowne and to receiue of them in his name their homages and fealties Iohn Balioll the late king of Scotland was sent to London and had a conuenient companie of seruants appointed to attend him hauing licence to go any whither abroad so that he kept himselfe within the circuit of twentie miles néere to London Iohn Comin of Badenaw and Iohn Comin of Lowan and diuerse nobles of Scotland were brought into England on the south side of Trent being warned vpon paine of death not to returne into Scotland till the king had made an end of his wars with France After this at his returne into England king Edward held a parlement at saint Edmundsburie which began the morrow after the feast of All saints in which the citizens burgesses of good townes granted vnto him an eighth part of their goods and of the residue of the people a twelfth part The cleargie by reason of a constitution ordeined and constituted the same yeare by pope Boniface prohibiting vpon paine of excommunication that no talages nor other exactions should be leuied or exacted of the cleargie in any manner of wise by secular princes or to be paid to them of things that perteined to the church vtterlie refused to grant any manner of aid to the king towards the maintenance of his wars Wherevpon the king to the intent they should haue time to studie for a better answer deferred the matter to an other parlement to be holden on the morrow after the feast of saint Hilarie This yeare after the feast of the Epiphanie Elizabeth the kings daughter was married vnto king Iohn earle of Holland Humfrey de Bohun earle of Hereford and Essex was sent to conueie them into Holland there to take possession of the earledome as then descended vnto the said Iohn by the death of his father latelie before slaine by his owne subiects bicause he would haue disherited this Iohn and made a bastard sonne which he had to be his heire ¶ The day appointed for the parlement to be
he caused to be fortified with a strong wall and a mightie deepe ditch and although the other earles would not come to serue him in that voiage by reason of a new variance risen amongst them yet he marched foorth into Scotland to seeke his aduersarie Robert le Bruce but Robert refusing the battell kept him foorth of the waie so that the king was driuen to returne to Berwike againe without meeting with his enimie And he was no sooner come backe but the said Robert and his people entred into Louthian sore molesting such as were yéelded to the king of England The king aduertised therof followed them but could doo no good so returned The earle of Cornewall laie at Rockesbourgh and the earle of Glocester at Norham to defend those parts After Candlemasse the king sent the earle of Cornewall with two hundred men of armes to S. Iohns towne beyond the Scotish sea who receiued to the kings peace all those that inhabited beyond that sea vp to the mounteins The king laie still at Berwike but the earles of Glocester and Warren after the beginning of Lent rode into the forest of Solkirke and receiued the foresters other the inhabitants there to the kings peace ¶ In this fift yeare of the kings reigne but somwhat before this present in the yeare 1310 Henrie Lacie earle of Lincolne gouernour of England in the kings absence departed this life in whose place the earle of Glocester was chosen gouernour and therefore he returned now into England This erle of Lincolne was buried in the new worke at Paules Lieng on his death bed he requested as was reported Thomas earle of Lancaster who had married his daughter that in any wise he should stand with the other lords in defense of the commonwelth and to mainteine his quarell against the earle of Cornewall which request earle Thomas faithfullie accomplished for by the pursute of him and of the earle of Warwike cheefelie the said earle of Cornewall was at length taken and beheaded as after shall appeare Some write that king Edward the first vpon his death-bed charged the earles of Lincolne Warwike and Penbroke to foresée that the foresaid Peers returned not againe into England least by his euill example he might induce his sonne the prince to lewdnesse as before he had alreadie doone Thomas earle of Lancaster came toward Berwike to doo homage to the king for the earledome of Lincolne fallen to him in right of his wife now after the deceasse of hir father the late earle of Lincolne But he was counselled not to go foorth of the realme to the king so that therevpon rose no small displeasure and great doubt least there would haue followed ciuill warres about it Neuerthelesse at length the king was persuaded to come ouer the water vnto Hagerston foure miles distant from Berwike and there receiued homage of the earle and so they continued fréends and for that time departed asunder in louing maner The lords perceiuing the mischeefe that dailie followed and increased by that naughtie man as they tooke it the earle of Cornewall assembled at Lincolne and there tooke counsell togither and concluded eftsoones to banish him out of the realme and so therevpon shortlie after about Christmasse as some write or rather as other haue within the quindene of saint Michaell he was exiled into Flanders sore against the kings will and pleasure who made such account of him that as appeared he could not be quiet in mind without his companie therfore about Canâlemasse he eftsoones reuoked Whitsundaie at the coronation of Philip sonne to the French king created that day king of Nauarre ¶ Iohn de Drokensford bishop of Bath and Welles was appointed warden of the realme till the kings returne In Iulie the king returned backe from his iournie into France and landed at Sandwich the mondaie before the feast of S. Margaret hauing dispatched his businesse with the French king in good and honorable maner for his lands and countrie of Gascoine ¶ About this season Maurice fitz Thomas line 10 and Thomas fitz Iohn maried two sisters that were daughters to Richard earle of Ulnester In this meane time Robert Bruce recouered the most part of all Scotland year 1314 winning out of the Englishmens hands such castels as they held within Scotland chasing all the souldiers which laie there in garrison out of the countrie and subduing such of the Scots as held on the English part King Edward to be reuenged herof with a mightie armie brauelie furnished and gorgiouslie apparelled line 20 more seemelie for a triumph than méet to incounter with the cruell enimie in the field entred Scotland in purpose speciallie to rescue the castell of Sterling as then besieged by the Scotishmen But at his approching néere to the same Robert Bruce was readie with his power to giue him battell In the which king Edward nothing doubtfull of losse had so vnwiselie ordered his people and confounded their ranks that euen at the first ioining they were not onelie beaten downe and ouerthrowne by those line 30 that coped with them at hand but also were wounded with shot a farre off by those their enimies which stood behind to succour their fellowes when need required so that in the end the Englishmen fled to saue their liues and were chased and slaine by the Scots in great number The king escaped with a few about him in great danger to haue béene either taken or slaine Manie were drowned in a little riuer called Banokesborne neere to the which the battell was foughten There line 40 were slaine of noble men Gilbert earle of Glocester Robert lord Clifford the lord Giles Argentine the lord Paine Tiptost the lord William Marshall the lord Reginald Daincourt the lord Edmund of Mauley the kings steward with other lords and barons to the number of 42 and of knights and baronets to the number of 67. There were slaine of all sorts vpon the English part that daie about ten thousand men ouer and beside the prisoners that were taken Amongst the which were accounted 22 men of line 50 name as the earle of Hereford the lord Iohn Segraue William lord Latimer Maurice lord Berkley and others He that listeth to heare more of this discomfiture may read thereof further at large in the Scotish historie The king of England hauing escaped from this battell which was fought on Midsummer day in the yeere aforesaid came to Yorke where he held a councell of his lords to haue their aduise by what means he might best restore his armie and reuenge the losse line 60 which he had susteined at the hands of his enimie R. Bruce And shortlie after was sir Peter Spalding sent vnto Berwike with a crew of souldiers to defend the towne against the said Bruce who intended shortlie to laie siege to that towne as the king had certeine vnderstanding Also the Scotishmen aduanced highlie in their minds for
Notingham and Stafford to the baron of Graistocke and to the Musgraues Lastlie they came to Carleill and boldlie assalted the citie but sir Lewes Clifford and sir Thomas Musgraue Dauie Holgraue and diuerse other worthie capteins being within it so defended the waues and gates that their enimies got small aduantage and finallie hearing that the English armie was returning homewards the Scots and Frenchmen drew backe into Scotland doubting to be inclosed by the Englishmen as they had béene in deed if the duke of Lancaster and his brethren vncles to the king might haue béene beleeued who counselled the king to pursue the enimies and stop the passages through which they must needs passe in their comming backe But the earle of Oxenford being most in fauour and credit with the king in those daies as one that ruled all things at his pleasure did aduise him to the contrarie by putting him in beléefe as was said that his vncles went about to bring him in danger to be lost and surprised of his enimies wherevpon he tooke the next way home and so brake vp his iournie When the Scots and Frenchmen were returned into Scotland the Scotish king hauing conceiued a iust displeasure towards the French admerall for that by his meanes the realme of Scotland had susteined such damage in that season caused him and his Frenchmen to be despoiled of the most part of their goods and sent them so awaie out of his countrie that the Scots might receiue some comfort by those warres In this yeare was the battell of Algeberota in Portingale where king Iohn of Portingale discomfited a great host of Spaniards and Frenchmen by the helpe and policie of certeine Englishmen which he had there with him vnder the leading of two esquiers Norberie and Hartell There were slaine diuers earls great lords of Spaniards but for that our writers do not rightlie note the Spanish names but write them corruptlie as strangers vse to doo we here omit them The king of Portingale after this victorie obteined against his enimies sent six gallies vnto the king of England to aid line 10 him against his aduersaries the which were well receiued and highlie made of by the Londoners and other so that the Portingales had no cause to repent of their comming hither The French king this yeare besieged and wan the towne of Dam after he had béene at great charges about it Whilest his nauie returned from Scluis where the same had laien at anchor a long time the ships by tempest were scattered wether-driuen so that in the feast daie of the exaltation of the crosse line 20 two of their gallies a great ship a barge and seauen balengers were cast on shore about Calis the Calisians tooke fiue hundred Frenchmen and Normans that escaped to land An other day 72 French ships as they were comming from Scluis to passe by Calis were met with by them of Calis who behaued themselues so manfullie that they tooke 18 of those French ships and a great barke in which thrée score armed men were slaine before it could be taken Within three daies after this the Calisians met 45 line 30 other French ships and after six houres fight obteined the victorie taking thrée of the most principall vessels whereof one being a hulke of Eastland was hired by the Normans to gard the residue The other two that were taken were of such mold that they could not enter into the hauen at Calis and therefore were sent to Sandwich the one of them being a new ship which the lord Clisson had bought at Scluis paieng for hir 3000 franks ¶ Henrie Knighton saith it was prised or valued at 20000 florens it line 40 was so tall big and large a vessell and therefore of great capacitie On saint Denise daie the soldiors of Calis and other English fortresses thereabouts made a secret iournie into France and got a bootie of foure thousand shéepe and three hundred head of great cattell which they droue towards their holds and as the lord de Rambures gouernour of Bullongne would haue recouered the preie he was vnhorssed with the rencounter of an English speare and being relieued by line 50 his companie and mounted againe withdrew himselfe not attempting to trie any further masteries and so the Englishmen safelie passed foorth with their bootie of cattell and aboue a hundred good prisoners which they had taken at this rode In this 9 yeare about the feast of S. Martine the king called his high court of parlement at Westminster in the which amongst other things there concluded he created two dukes a marques and fiue earles First Edmund Langlie earle of Cambridge the kings vncle was line 60 created duke of Yorke Thomas of Woodstoke his other vncle earle of Buckingham was created duke of Glocester Robert Uéere earle of Oxford was made marques of Deuelin Henrie of Bollingbrooke sonne and heire to Iohn of Gaunt duke of Lancaster was created earle of Derbie Edward Plantagenet sonne and heire to the Duke of Yorke was made earle of Rutland Michaell lord de la Poole chancellor of England was created earle of Suffolke sir Thomas Moubraie earle of Notingham was made earle marshall Also by authoritie of this parlement Roger lord Mortimer earle of March sonne and heire of Edmund Mortimer earle of March and of the ladie Philip eldest daughter and heire vnto Lionell duke of Clarence third sonne to king Edward the third was established heire apparant to the crowne of this realme and shortlie after so proclaimed The which earle of March anon after the end of the same parlement sailed into Ireland to his lordship of Ulster whereof he was owner by right of his said mother but whilest he remained there to pacifie the rebellions of the wild Irish a great number of them togither assembled came vpon him and slue him togither with the most part of his companie This Roger earle of March had issue Edmund Roger Anne Ales Eleanor which Eleanor was made a nunne The two sonnes died without issue and Anne the eldest of the daughters was married to Richard earle of Cambridge sonne vnto Edmund of Langlie before remembred the which Richard had issue by the said Anne a son called Richard that was after duke of Yorke and father to king Edward the fourth also a daughter named Isabell afterwards married to the lord Bourcher This Richard earle of Cambridge was put to death by Henrie the fift as after ye shall heare Moreouer in this yeare Henrie of Bollingbrooke earle of Derbie married the daughter and heire of Humfrie Bohun earle of Hereford in whose right he was after made duke of Hereford and by hir he had issue Henrie that after him was king of this relme the ladie Blanch duches of Bar and the ladie Philip married to the king of Denmarke also Thomas duke of Clarence Iohn duke of Bedford and Humfrie duke of Glocester ¶
Penbrochiae porrexit in curia quandam petitionem suam in haec verba A treshonore seigneur le duc de Lancast. senescall d' Angliter supplie Anne que fuit le femme Iohn de Hastinges nadgares countie de Penbroke qui come le mannor de Asheley in le com de Northfolke soit tenens de nostre seigneur le roy par le seruice de faire le office line 20 de napperie al coronement le roy quel mannor soel tient en dower del dowement son dit baron Ore plest luy accepter del faire son office person deputie a cestie coronement nostre seigneur le roye pernant les fees du dit office ceastascauoir les nappes quant il sont sustreytz Et quia post ostensionem verisimilium euidentiarum rationum ipsius Annae ac proclamationem in curia praedicta debitè factam in hac parte nullus huiusmodi clamor ipsius line 30 Annae contradixit consideratum fuit quòd ipsa ad officium praedictum per sufficientem deputatum suum faciendum admitteretur sic officium illud per Thomam Blunt militem quem ad hoc deputauit dicto die coronationis in omnibus perfecit peracto prandio mappas de mensis subtractis pro feodo suo recepit Thus this much touching this Iohn Hastings earle of Penbroke and dame Anne Mannie his wife line 40 Iohn hastings the sonne of Iohn Hastings last recited was earle of Penbroke lord Hastings Aburgauennie Weisford who being verie yoong at the time of his fathers death was ward first to Edward the third and then to Richard the second but neuer saw his full age of one and twentie yeares nor euer possessed the lands wherevnto he was borne for not long after that he had married Philip the second daughter of Edmund Mortimer earle of March Ulster and lord of Wigmore he was about the ninetenth line 50 yeare of his age the fiftéenth yeare of king Richard the second and the yeare of our redemption 1391 being a youthfull and lustie yoong gentleman but tender and slender in the Christmasse time when the K. held that feast at Woodstoke in Oxfordshire willing to learne to iust whervpon in the parke then incountring with a knight called Iohn saint Iohn a valiant and stout person he was slaine when they ran togither as the said knight did cast his speare line 60 from him and so the said earle receiuing this manner of death no man knew whether it happened by mishap or of purpose To which Iohn Hastings now slaine Margaret Segraue duchesse of Northfolke his grandmother by his mother the daughter of sir Walter Mannie was executrix and disposer of all his substance After his death his widow the ladie Philip was married to Richard earle of Arundell after that to Iohn lord saint Iohn being the same man as I suppose which slue hir first husband this Iohn Hastings But here before the death of this Iohn I must not forget that though he were within age at the coronation of Richard the second as not being past nine or ten yeares old he sued to execute at the said coronation the offices which his ancestors had afore performed But bicause his mother had the mannor of Ashley in dower as is before expressed he did not sue to serue in the pantrie but leauing that demandeth the carieng of the second sword and the golden spurs before the king The records of both which I haue here set downe The petition for the second sword which the earle of Arundell also claimed to beare was in this sort IOhannes de Hastings nuper comes Penbrochiae protulit quandam petitioneÌ in haec verba A treshonoree seigniour le duc de Lancastre seneschall d' Angleterre Iohn fitz heyre Iohn de Hastinges counte de Penbroke que coÌme il tient le Chastell de la ville de Tynbye le grange de Kingswood le coÌmote de Craytrath le mannor de Chastell Martin le mannor de Traygaire per seruice de porter le second espee deuant le roy a son coronement qui pleast a luy accepter a son dit office a faire ore a ceste coronement Et super hoc Richardus comes Arundell Surrey exhibuit in curia quandaÌ aliam petitioneÌ in haec verba A roy de Chastell de Lion duc de Lancastre senescall d'Angleterre supplie Richard counte de Arundell Surrey de luy receuer afaire son office a porter le sâcondespee deuant le roy ore a son coronement que luy apperâient de droit pur le countie de Surrey Quibus petitionibus intellectis auditis hinc inde dictorum âomitum rationibus pro eo quod dictus Iohannes comes Penbrochiae qui infra aetaâeÌ in custodia regis existit ostendit curiae meliores verisimiliores rationes pro se quà m praedictus comes Arundell pro ipso monstrauit Dominus rex declarata coram eo materia praedicta praecepit Edmundo comiti mariscallo quòd ipse gladium praedictum ista vice in nomine iure praedicti comitis Penbrochiae deferret saluo iure alterius cuiuscunque Qui quidem mariscallus gladium illum ex hac causa die coronationis gestabat calcaribus deauratis The other bill exhibited for the golden spurs is registred in this order IOhannes filius haeres Iohannis de Hastings nuper comitis PeÌbrochiae exhibuit in curia quandam petitionem in haec verba A treshonore seigneur le roy de Chastell c. Et seneschall d'Angâterre supplie Iohne fitz heyre Iohne Hastings nadgares counte de Penbroke de estre receue a son office de porter les grandes esperon d'oores deuant le roy nostre seigneur ore a son coronement en mannor coÌme William le marischall son ancester les porta il coronoment de roy Edw. audita intellecta billâ praedicta pro eo quòd Iohannes est infra aetatem in custodia domini regis quanquam sufficientes ostendit curiae recorda euideÌtias quòd ipse seruitium praedictum de iure facere deberet consideratum extitit quòd esset ad voluntatem regis quis dictum seruitium ista vice in iure ipsius Iohannis faceret Et super hoc rex assignabat Edmundum comiteÌ mariscallum ad defereÌdum dicto die coronationis praedicta calcaria in iure ipsius haeredis Saluo iure alterius cuiuscunque sic idem comes mariscallus illa calcaria praedicta in dicto die coronationis coram ipso domino rege deferebat In this Iohn Hastings ended all the honorable titles of the Hastings bicause this man dieng without issue his inheritances were dispersed to diuerse persons for the honour of Penbroke came to Francis at court by the kings gift the baronies of Hastings and Weisford came to Reinold Greie of Ruthine the baronie of Aburgauennie was granted to William Beauchampe of Bedford for all which lands and
for the bearing of the armes of this same Iohn Hastings without difference great contention line 10 grew betwéene sir Edward Hastings knight descended of Isabell Spenser and Reinold Greie lord Greie of Ruthine sonne of Reinold Greie sonne of Roger Greie that married Elizabeth daughter of Isabell Ualence for both the said lord Greie and sir Edward Hastings were descended by two venters as partlie before and partlie hereafter shal be shewed from one man Iohn Hastings husband to both said Isabels For the explanation whereof and lineall descent to conueie the said sir Edward Hastings line 20 from the said Iohn Hastings first lord of Aburgauennie of that surname I must here repeat a little of that which I haue alreadie written which is that the said Iohn Hastings first lord of Aburgauennie hauing two wiues both Isabels by his first wife Isabell Ualence had Elizabeth maried to Roger Greie and by his second wife Isabell Spenser he had issue sir Hugh Hastings knight from whome we are to deduce the said sir Edward Hastings in this sort Hugh Hastings knight lord of Folliot in the right line 30 of his wife being sonne of the second wombe of Isabell Spenser and Iohn Hastings sonne of Henrie Hastings married Margerie the daughter and heire of sir Richard Folliot by whom he came to be lord of Folliot and alwaies bare the armes of Hastings with a difference of a second brother of a second venter This marriage was procured and made by Isabell his mother who purchased the said ward for him This Hugh died in the yeare of Christ 1347 in the one and twentith yeare of Edward the third and line 40 was buried in the church of Elsing in Elsrug in Northfolke which he builded his wife Margerie died in the yeare 1349 being the thrée and twentith yeare of Edward the third and was buried in the chappell of Fornewell This Hugh had issue by his wife Hugh Hastings his heire and a daughter married to sir Robert de la Mare Hugh Hastings knight the sonne of Hugh and Margerie Folliot did marrie the daughter of Adam de Eueringham by whom he had Hugh Hastings line 50 his sonne and heire and two daughters the one married to Winkfield and the other to a knight called Elmham This Hugh died at Calkewelhell or Gwines and was buried in the friers of Doncaster in the yeare of our Lord 1369 about the foure fortith yéere of Edward the third This man for him and his heires in difference from the other Hastings earles of Penkroke his kinsmen by the halfe blood did beare the Hastings armes with the labell quartered with the armes of Folliot Hugh Hastings line 60 knight the sonne of Hugh and Margaret Eueringham married Anne the daughter of Edward Spenser earle of Glocester by whom he had issue Hugh Hastings and Edward Hastings which contended with Reinold Greie lord of Ruthine This Hugh tooke his pilgrimage to Ierusalem died in Spaine after whose death dame Anne Spenser his wife was maried to Thomas lord Morleie Hugh Hastings eldest son of Hugh Hastings and dame Anne Spenser married the daughter of sir Wil. Blunt knight this Hugh died at Calis at the mariage of Richard the second to Isabell the daughter of the king of France about the 19 yeare of the reigne of the said Richard being the yeare of our redemption 1395 who dieng without issue all his right and title came to his brother Edward Edward Hastings knight brother of the last Hugh began the contention with Reinold Greie lord of Ruthine for the right of the lands honors and armes without difference of the last Iohn Hastings earle of Penbroke This sute began about the eight yeare of Henrie the fourth and continued at least vntill the fift yeare of Henrie the fift if not longer but in the end notwithstanding manie false pedegrees counterfeited by this Hastings and his vncle Henrie bishop of Norwich one of the house of the Spensers yet it was adiudged against the said sir Edward Hastings in the marshals court that the lands honors and armes without difference as the last Iohn Hastings earle of Penbroke did beare them with the armes of William Ualence earle of Penbroke should be onelie borne by the said lord Greie of Ruthine and his heires as being of the whole blood and next heire to the said last Iohn Hastings earle of Penbroke and that the said Edward Hastings should vtterlie be barred to beare the armes of Hastings but quartered with the armes of Folliot as onelie descending of the halfe blood to the said last earle of Penbroke of that name And that all other pedegrees what so euer except this are false and of purpose contriued as appeareth by a notable booke and monument thereof remaining in the hands of Henrie Greie now earle of Kent descended of the said Reinold Greie of Ruthine conteining all the processe examinations witnesses pedegrees iudgements thereof more plainelie maie appeare In which contention there was shewed a matter by the deposition of sir William Hoo knight not vnworthie to be remembred though it touch not the Hastings concerning armorie and bearing of differences in armes which was that the said sir William said on his oth in the tenth yeare of Henrie the fourth that before the times of Edward the third the labell of three points was the different appropriat and appurtenant for the cognizance of the next heire but the same king made his sons to beare the entire armes with labels of thrée points with certeine differences in the said labels to be knowen the one from the other except his sonne the duke of Glocester who bare a border about the armes of France and England And thus this much Francis Thin touching the name of Hastings In this yeare Thomas earle of Lancaster for the opinion which had béene conceiued of him by reason of miracles and other respects was canonized for a saint The mondaie next after the feast of saint Hilarie a parlement was begun at Westminster in which there was a bill exhibited by the commons that the lords and great men of the realme should not giue to their men badges to weare as their cognizances by reason that through the abuse thereof manie great oppressions imbraseries vnlawfull maintenances and wrongs were practised to the hinderance of all good orders lawes and iustice The lords would not consent altogither to laie downe their badges but yet they agreed that none should weare any such cognizance except their seruants of houshold and such as were in ordinarie wages by the yeare ¶ In the same parlement certeine persons that had gone about some new rebellion in Kent being apprehended were condemned and so were drawne and hanged ¶ There was also an act made against such as should passe the seas to purchase prouisions as they termed them in any church or churches And if any from thencefoorth attempted so to doo he should be reputed and taken as a rebell Also there was
of Februarie ¶ The king to purge the North parts of all rebellion and to take order for the punishment of those that were accused to haue succoured and assisted the earle of Northumberland went to Yorke where when manie were condemned and diuerse put to great fines and the countrie brought to quietnesse he caused the abbat of Hailes to be hanged who had béene in armour against him with the foresaid earle In the beginning of March the king sent Edmund Holland earle of Kent with an armie of men imbarked in certeine ships of warre vnto the sea bicause he had knowledge that diuerse rouers were wafting about the coasts of this land and did much hurt When the earle had serched the coasts and could meet with no enimie abrode he was aduertised byespials that the pirats hearing of his comming to sea were withdrawne into Britaine wherefore the said earle intending to be reuenged on them whome he sought directed his course thither and finding that they had laid vp their ships in the hauens so as he could not fight with them by sea he lanched out his boates and with his fierce souldiers tooke land and manfullie assaulted the towne of Briake standing by the sea side They within stoutlie defended themselues dooing their best to repell the Englishmen with throwing darts casting stones and shooting quarels in which conflict the earle receiued a wound in his head so that he died thereof within fiue daies after The Englishmen not dismaied with his death but the more desirous to obteine their purpose continued their assaults till by fine force they entered the towne set it on fire and slue all that made resistance and after for want of a generall to command what should be doone they being pestered with preies and prisoners returned into England ¶ The countesse of Kent that was daughter as yée haue heard to Bernabo viscont lord of Millaine hauing no issue by hir husband was now mooued by the king after hir husbands death to marrie with his bastard brother the earle of Dorset a man verie aged and euill visaged wherevpon she misliking him meant rather to satisfie hir owne fansie and therefore chose for hir husband Henrie Mortimer a goodlie yoong bacheller by whom she had issue a daughter named Anne maried to sir Iohn Awbemond This yeare the next daie after the feast daie of Marie Magdalen in a councell holden at London by the cleargie the doctors of the vniuersities of Cambridge and Oxenford being there with the rest assembled debated the matter whether they ought to withdraw from the pope paiments of monie and their accustomed obedience considering that contrarie to his word and promise so solemnlie made and with an oth confirmed he withdrew himselfe from the place where he according to couenants should haue béene present to aduance an agréement and concord in the church ¶ Upon the euen of the Natiuitie of our ladie there chanced such flouds through abundance of raine as the like had not béene séene afore by anie man then liuing Also about the feast of All saints the cardinall of Burges came into England to informe the king and the cleargie of the inconstant dealing of pope Gregorie in like maner as he had informed the French king and the Frenchmen to the end that he might persuade both these kings which were accounted the chéefe in christendome to put vnto their helping hands that the same pope Gregorie might be induced to obserue and performe that oth which he had receiued so as by the roiall authoritie of those two kings concord might be had in the church The French king as this cardinall alleged following the aduise of the learned men of the vniuersities of Paris Bologna Orleans Tholouse and Montpellier to auoid the danger of fauouring schisme determined to obeie neither the one nor line 10 the other that contended for the papasie vntill peace and concord might be restored in Christes church The king vnderstanding the purpose of the cardinall shewed him what courtesie might be deuised offering to beare his charges so long as it pleased him to remaine in England and promising him to consider aduisedlie of the matter This yeare after the Epiphanie the archbishop of Canturburie called the cleargie of the prouince of Canturburie to a conuocation in Paules church at line 20 London year 1409 to choose sufficient persons that might go vnto the generall councell appointed to be kept at Pisa herevpon were chosen Robert Halom bishop of Salisburie Henrie Chichleie bishop of saint Dauid Thomas Chillingden prior of Christes church in Canturburie The king before this had sent ambassadors vnto pope Gregorie and also to the cardinals to wit sir Iohn Coluill knight and maister Nicholas Rixton clearke with letters signifieng the gréefe he had conceiued for the inconuenience that line 30 fell in the christian common-wealth thorough the schisme and withall putting the pope in remembrance what mischéefe and destruction of people had chanced by the same schisme These and the like matters to vtter what desire he had to haue an vnitie in the church he declared frankelie in his letters directed to the pope so as it might appeare to the world how soberlie and modestlie he sought to induce the pope to procure peace concord in the church ¶ Certeine collections of which letters as I find them in line 40 Thomas Walsingham I haue here set downe in commendation of this king so excellentlie minded An extract of the kings letter to pope Gregorie MOst holie father if the seat apostolicall would vouchsafe by prouidence to consider how great dangers haue inuaded line 50 the whole world vnder the pretext of schisme and speciallie the slaughter of christian people which is of aboue two hundred thousand as it is auouched by the outrage of warres and battell sproong vp in sundrie parts of the world now latelie to the number of thirtie thousand by meanes of the dissention about the bishoprike of Leods betweene two one contending line 60 vnder the authoritie of true pope and the other vnder the title of antipape slaine in a foughten field whereof we make report with greefe trulie the said seat would be pensiue in spirit with due sorow troubled in mind yea at the motion of a good conscience it would rather giue ouer the honour of that apostolicall seat than suffer such detestable deeds further to be committed vnder the cloke of dissimulation taking example of the true and naturall mother which pleading before king Salomon chose rather to part with hir owne child than to see him cut in sunder And although by that new creation of nine cardinals against your oth that we maie vse the words of others made by you wherof a vehement cause of woondering is risen it maie in some sort be supposed as it is likelie that your intent respecteth not anie end of schisme yet farre be it alwaies from the world that your circumspect seat
about the towne and destroied the suburbes in which were twelue parish churches and foure orders of friers They cut also downe all the vines trees and bushes within fiue leagues of the citie so that the Englishmen should haue neither refuge nor succour After the siege had continued full thrée weekes the line 30 bastard of Orleance issued out of the gate of the bridge and fought with the Englishmen but they receiued him with so fierce and terrible strokes that he was with all his companie compelled to retire and flee backe into the citie But the Englishmen followed so fast in killing and taking of their enimies that they entered with them ¶ The bulworke of the bridge with a great tower standing at the end of the same was taken incontinentlie by the Englishmen who behaued themselues right valiantlie vnder the line 40 conduct of their couragious capteine as at this assault so in diuerse skirmishes against the French partlie to kéepe possession of that which Henrie the fift had by his magnanimitie puissance atchiued as also to inlarge the same But all helped not For who can hold that which will awaie In so much that some cities by fraudulent practises othersome by martiall prowesse were recouered by the French to the great discouragement of the English and the appalling of their spirits whose hope was now dashed line 50 partlie by their great losses and discomfitures as after you shall heare but chéeflie by the death of the late deceassed Henrie their victorious king as Chr. Okland verie truelie and agréeable to the storie noteth Dolphinus comitésque eius fera praelia tentant Fraude domi capiânt alias virtute receptae Sunt vrbes aliae quâdam sublapsa refertur Anglûm spes retrò languescere pectora dicas Quippe erat Henricus quintus dux strenuus olim Mortuus hinc damni grauior causa atque doloris line 60 In this conflict manie Frenchmen were taken but more were slaine and the kéeping of the tower and bulworke was committed to William Glasdale esquier By the taking of this bridge the passage was stopped that neither men nor vittels could go or come by that waie After this the earle caused certeine bulworkes to be made round about the towne casting trenches betwéene the one and the other laieng ordinance in euerie place where he saw that any batterie might be deuised When they within saw that they were enuironed with fortresses and ordinance they laid gun against gun and fortified towers against bulworkes and within cast new rampiers and fortified themselues as stronglie as might be deuised The bastard of Orleance and the Hire were appointed to see the walles and watches kept and the bishop saw that the inhabitants within the citie were put in good order and that vittels were not vainelie spent In the tower that was taken at the bridge end as before you haue heard there was an high chamber hauing a grate full of barres of iron by the which a man might looke all the length of the bridge into the citie at which graâe manie of the chéefe capteins stood manie times viewing the citie and deuising in what place it was best to giue the assault They within the citie well perceiued this tooting hole and laid a péece of ordinance directlie against the window It so chanced that the nine and fiftith daie after the siege was laid the earle of Salisburie sir Thomas Gargraue and William Glasdale with diuerse other went into the said tower and so into the high chamber and looked out at the grate and within a short space the sonne of the maister-gunner perceiuing men looking out at the window tooke his match as his father had taught him who was gone downe to dinner and fired the gun the shot whereof brake and shiuered the iron barres of the grate so that one of the same bars strake the earle so violentlie on the head that it stroke awaie one of his eies and the side of his chéeke Sir Thomas Gargraue was likewise striken and died within two daies The earle was conueied to Meun on Loire where after eight daies he likewise departed this world whose bodie was conueied into England with all funerall appointment and buried at Bissam by his progenitors leauing behind him an onelie daughter named Alice married to Richard Neuill sonne to Rafe earle of Westmerland of whome more shall be said héereafter The damage that the realme of England receiued by the losse of this noble man manifestlie appeared in that immediatlie after his death the prosperous good lucke which had followed the English nation began to decline and the glorie of their victories gotten in the parties beyond the sea fell in decaie Though all men were sorowfull for his death yet the duke of Bedford was most striken with heauinesse as he that had lost his onelie right hand and cheefe aid in time of necessitie But sith that dead men cannot helpe the chances of men that be liuing he like a prudent gouernour appointed the earle of Suffolke to be his lieutenant and capteine of the siege and ioined with him the lord Scales the lord Talbot sir Iohn Fastolfe and diuerse other right valiant capteins These persons caused bastilles to be made round about the citie and left nothing vnattempted that might aduance their purpose which to bring to wished effect there was not anie want as of no cautelous policie so of no valiant enterprise tending to the enimies ouerthrow In the Lent season vittels and artillerie began to waxe scant in the English campe year 1429 wherefore the earle of Suffolke appointed sir Iohn Fastolfe sir Thomas Rampston and sir Philip Hall with their retinues to ride to Paris to the lord regent to informe him of their lacke who incontinentlie vpon that information prouided vittels artillerie and munitions necessarie and loded therewith manie chariots carts and horsses and for the sure conueieng of the same he appointed sir Simon Morhier prouost of Paris with the gard of the citie and diuerse of his owne houshold-seruants to accompanie sir Iohn Fastolfe and his complices to the armie lieng at the siege of Orleance They were in all to the number of fifteene hundred men of the which there were not past fiue or six hundred Englishmen These departing in good order of battell out of Paris came to Genuille in Beausse and in a morning earlie in a great frost they departed from thence toward the siege and when they came to a towne called Rowraie in the lands of Beausse they perceiued their enimies comming towards them being to the number of nine or ten thousand of Frenchmen and Scots of whome were capteins Charles of Cleremont sonne to the duke of Bourbon then being prisoner in England sir William Steward constable of Scotland a little before deliuered out of captiuitie line 10 the earle of Perdriake the lord Iohn Uandosine the Uidame of Chartres the lord of Toures the lord of Lohar the lord of Eglere the lord of Beauiew
the duke of Glocester in the which monie was assigned to be leuied and men appointed which should passe ouer into France to the aid of the duke of Bedford for the maintenance of the warres bicause it was suspected the truce would not long continue During this parlement Iames the king of Scots sent ambassadors to conclude a peace with the duke of Glocester who bicause the king was absent referred the matter to the thrée estates After long consultation not without great arguments a peace was concluded When the parlement was ended the cardinall well furnished with men monie departed out of England and came to Rone to the king to whome also resorted the duke of Bedford from Paris to consult of things not vnlikelie to follow Herevpon a great councell was kept in the castell of Rone and manie doubts mooued and few weightie things out of hand concluded At length after great disputation with manie arguments ended the dukes of Bedford and Yorke and Edmund late earle of Mortaigne and now by the death of Iohn duke of Summerset leauing behind him a sole daughter and heire maried to the earle and called Margaret after the countesse of Richmond atteined to the name and title of duke of Summerset approoued the reason of those that held it expedient to haue an armie in a redinesse for defense least the Frenchmen suddenlie should attempt anie enterprise to the danger of the Englishmen and losse of those townes and countries that were vnder them When all things were agréed year 1432 king Henrie came to Calis from thence to Douer and so by easie iournies the one and twentith daie of Februarie to London where he was triumphantlie receiued and richlie presented as in the chronicles of Robert Fabian it maie at large appeare After that the king was departed into England the duke of Bedford regent of France and capteine of Calis taried behind in the marches of Picardie where he was informed certeine souldiers of Calis grudging at the restraint of woolles began to murmur against the king and his councell to some danger of the towne The duke vpon due examination had caused diuerse to be put to death and manie banished that towne and marches for euer In the meane time the ladie Anne duchesse of Bedford departed this life at Paris by whose death the fast knot of faithfull freendship betwixt the duke of Bedford and his brother in law the duke of Burgognie began somewhat to slacken Shortlie after to wit about the beginning of the next yeare 1433 the said duke of Bedford being thus a widower through the persuasion of the lord Lewes of Lutzenburgh bishop of Terwine and Elie and chancellor of France for king Henrie agréed to marrie the ladie Iaquet daughter to Peter earle of saint Paule and néece to the said bishop and to the lord Iohn of Lutzenburgh The mariage was solemnized at Terwine with great triumph Which ended the duke with his new spouse being about the age of seauenteene yeares came vnto Calis and so into England from whence in the moneth of August next he returned to Paris The duke of Burgognie though nothing pleased with this new aliance contracted by the duke of Bedford with the house of Lutzenburgh but yet not able to doo anie thing to let it bicause of the mariage consummate yer he could find any power or knowledge to hinder it Whilest these things were a dooing in some places the French souldiers of the Dolphins lacking wages as the time serued tooke both Englishmen and Burgognians ransoming and spoiling them at their pleasure Herewith the regent much mooued prepared for warre after six moneths line 10 the truce had béene taken and so the warre againe was renewed The Frenchmen anon as open truce-breakers raised a crue and suddenlie tooke the towne of saint Ualerie in Normandie néere to the mouth of the riuer of Some An other armie vnder the leading of sir Ambrose de Lore wasted and destroied all the countrie about Caen. The duke of Bedford on his part sent the earle of Arundell the earle of Warwikes sonne the lord Lisle Adam marshall of line 20 France for king Henrie and twelue hundred men of warre with ordinance and munition to besiege the towne of Laignie vpon the riuer of Marne The earle with shot of canon brake the arch of the bridge and got from the Frenchmen their bulworke and set it on fire Diuerse assaults were attempted but the towne was well defended for there were within it an eight hundred men of armes besides other meane souldiers The duke of Bedford herewith gathered an armie line 30 of six thousand men whereof were capteins Robert lord Willoughbie sir Andrew Ogard chamberlaine to the duke sir Iohn Saluaine bailiffe of Rone sir Iohn Montgomerie bailiffe of Caux sir Philip Hall bailiffe of Uernoill sir Richard Ratcliffe deputie of Calis sir Rafe Neuill sir Rafe Standish sir Iohn Hanford sir Richard Euthin sir Richard Harington bailiffe of Eureux sir William Fulthorpe sir Thomas Griffin of Ireland Dauid Hall Thomas Stranguish Leonard Ormstone esquiers and Thomas line 40 Gerard. All gentlemen of courage and as forward to giue the French the foile as the French for their liues to giue them the discomfiture But vnto which side the victorie should befall vncerteine it was before the triall of both their chances had determined the doubt by the euent of the conflict The duke of Bedford furnished with this armie and companie of worthie capteins came to the siege before Laignie where he made a bridge of boats and ââought his ordinance so néere the towne that to all people it séemed not long able to resist But the earle line 50 of Dunois otherwise called the bastard of Orleance with diuerse hardie capteins as valiantlie defended as the Englishmen assaulted At length the French king perceiuing this towne to be the thrée cornerd keie betwéene the territories Burgognion English and French and the losse thereof should turne him to irreuocable damage sent the lord of Rieux Poiton the Hire the lord Gawcourt and six thousand men with great plentie of vittels to line 60 the intent either to raise the siege or else to vittell the towne The Frenchmen made a brag as though they would haue assailed the Englishmen in their campe but when they perceiued the courage of the lord regent and the desire he had to fight they framed themselues so in order of battell as though they could doo all things and yet in effect did nothing but that whilest part of them mainteined a skirmish a sort of rude rusticall persons were appointed to conueie into the towne thirtie oxen and other small vittels But this swéet gaine was déerelie paied for if the losse with the gaine be pondered in equall balance for hauing regard to their 30 leane oxen in the skirmish were slaine the lord Saintreiles brother to that valiant capteine Poiton de Saintreiles also capteine Iohn brother to the lord Gawcourt and fiftie
capteine thereof sir Rafe Greie defended it so manfullie for the space of twentie daies that king Iames being then aduertised that the earle of Northumberland was comming to fight with him fled with no lesse losse than dishonor and inough of both line 20 Shortlie after that the duke of Burgognie had béene before Calis at the desire of princes a truce for a time was moued to be had betwéene the king of England the said duke For which cause were sent to Grauelin for the king of England Henrie Beauford cardinall of Winchester Iohn lord Mowbraie duke of Northfolke Humfrie earle of Stafford and diuerse other well learned honorable personages And for the duke of Burgognie there appeared the duchesse his wife the bishop of Arras the lord of line 30 Croie and diuerse other At this treatie a truce was taken for a small time and for a lesse obserued which was concluded betweene the king of England and the duchesse of Burgognie interlacing the duke and his name Some thinke that the king of England would neuer enter in league with him bicause he had broken his promise oth and writing sealed to him and to his father Other imagined this to be doone of a cautell to cast a mist before the French kings eies to the line 40 intent he should beléeue that this feat was wrought by the duchesse without assent or knowledge of the duke or his councell and so he was not bound to accomplish anie act or thing doone in his wiues treatie Thus may you sée that princes sometime with such vaine glosses and scornefull expositions will hide their dooings and cloke their purposes to the intent they would not either be espied or else that they may plucke their heads out of the collar at their pleasure But as the common opinion goeth he which is line 50 a promise-breaker escapeth not alwaies with impunitie For it is well seene by dailie and vsuall euents both in princes and priuat persons that for violating their faith and breaking of promise manie discommodities arise and inconueniences not a few doo follow To the due keeping whereof the heathen bare such a religious conscience that a prophane man in respect of others preferreth it before sacrifice the sentence is of great excellencie out of a pagans mouth Non boue mactato coelestia numina gaudent line 60 Sed quae praestanda est sine teste fide About this season queene Katharine mother to the king of England departed out of this life and was buried by hir husband in the abbeie of Westminster This woman after the death of king Henrie the fift hir husband being yoong and lustie following more hir owne wanton appetite than fréendlie counsell and regarding more priuate affection than prince-like honour tooke to husband priuilie a galant gentleman and a right beautifull person indued with manie goodlie gifts both of bodie mind called Owen Teuther a man descended of the noble linage and ancient line of Cadwallader last king of the Britains By this Owen she brought foorth thrée goodlie sonnes Edmund Iasper and another that was a monke in Westminster and liued a small time also a daughter which in hir youth departed out of this transitorie life King Henrie after the death of his mother bicause they were his brethren of one wombe created Edmund earle of Richmund and Iasper earle of Penbroke which Edmund of Margaret daughter and sole heire to Iohn duke of Summerset begat Henrie who after was king of this realme called Henrie the seuenth of whome ye shall heare more in place conuenient This Owen after the death of the quéene his wife was apprehended and committed toward bicause that contrarie to the statute made in the sixt yeare of this king he presumptuouslie had maried the quéene without the kings especiall assent out of which prison he escaped and let out other with him but was againe apprehended and after escaped againe ¶ Polychronicon saith that he was a squier of low birth and like degrée the same author also reporteth that he was commanded to Newgate by the duke of Glocester then lord protector of the realme out of which prison he brake by the helpe of a preest that was his chapline Neuerthelesse he was apprehended afterwards by the lord Beaumont brought againe to Newgate whence when he had remained there a while he was deliuered and set at libertie The duchesse of Bedford also sister to Lewes erle of S. Paule more for affection than increase of honour without counsell of hir freends maried a lustie yoong knight called sir Richard Wooduile to the great displeasure of hir vncle the bishop of Terwine and the earle hir brother This sir Richard was made baron of Riuers and after earle and had by this ladie manie noble sonnes and faire daughters of the which one was the ladie Elizabeth after queene of England by reason she was married vnto Edward the fourth ¶ Whilest this marriage was a celebrating Iane late quéene of England and before duchesse of Britaine daughter to the king of Nauarre and wife to king Henrie the fourth died at the manor of Hauering and was buried by hir husband at Canturburie ¶ About the same time deceassed also the countesse of Warwike and Henrie archbishop of Yorke In this yeare also the duke of Summerset accompanied with the lords of Fauconbridge Talbot sir Francis Surien the Arrogonnois Matthew Gough Thomas Paulet Thomas Harington Walter Limbrike Iohn Gedding William Watton esquiers and Thomas Hilton bailiffe of Rone with a great companie of the English partie besieged the towne of Harflue latelie before gotten by the Frenchmen both by water and land the capteine within the towne was one sir Iohn d'Estouteuille hauing his brother Robert with him and a six hundred good fighting men The assailants cast trenches and so fortified themselues in their campe and lodgings that when the earles of Ew and Dunois the valiant bastard of Bourbon the lord Gawcourt and other famous capteins with a foure thousand men sent to the rescue of them within came bâfore the towne they could not succour their fréends nor annoie their enimies by anie meanes they could deuise so for feare to lose honour they returned backe againe with much trauell and little profit The capteins within the towne perceiuing they could not be aided did shortlie after render the towne to the duke of Summerset who after committed it to the kéeping of Thomas Paulet William Limbrike Christopher Barber and George saint George which manie yeares till the diuision began in England manfullie and valiantlie defended both the towne and the hauen But afterward when this duke of Summerset was regent and gouernour of Normandie he not onlie lost this towne of Harflue but also the citie of Rone and the whole duchie of Normandie whereas now being but a deputie he got it to his high praise and glorie In this yeare was Iames king of Scots murthered
séene in the said citie two elephants a nature of creatures which happilie had not béene séene in Italie since the triumphs and publike plaies of the Romans Emanuell king of Portingall sent to pope Leo the tenth a verie honorable ambassage and withall presented him with these huge and statelie elephants which his ships had brought by sea from India their entring into Rome was celebrated with a verie great concourse of people some woondering at the strange forme and stature of the beasts some maruelling to what vses their nature inclined them and some coniecturing the respects and purposes of such a present their ignorance making their woonder farre greater than their reason No lesse adoo was there at the bringing of the cardinals hat who on a sundaie in S. Peters church at Westminster receiued the same with the habit the piller and other such tokens of a cardinall And now that he was thus a perfect cardinall he looked aboue all estates which purchased him great hatred and disdaine on all sides For his ambition was no lesse discernable to the eies of the people than the sunne in the firmament in a cléere and cloudlesse summer daie which procured against him the more hatred among the noble and popular sort for that his base linage was both noted and knowne in so much that his insatiable aspiring to supereminent degrees of dignitie kindled manifest contempt and detestation among such as pretended a countenance of good will and honorable dutie vnto him though in verie deed the same parties if fréelie and without checke they might haue spoken their fansie would haue intituled him a proud popeling as led with the like spirit of swelling ambition wherwith the rable of popes haue béene bladder like puffed and blowne vp a diuelish and luciferian vice in the iudgements of men abhominable and in the sight of God most damnable as the poet in this distichon trulie witnesseth Dij superi fastum fastum mortales abhorrent Hac homini leuitas displicet atque Deo After the end of the parlement sir Edward Poinings laboured to be discharged of the kéeping of Tornaie bicause he could not haue health there and so he was discharged and sir William Blunt lord Mountioy was sent thither to haue that roome and for marshall was appointed sir Sampson Norton Immediatlie vpon their comming thither chanced a great riot raised by the souldiers so that to appease them the lord Mountioy was put in ieopardie of his life In conclusion to quiet them sir Sampson Norton was banished the towne for euer but what the matter was I haue not found rehearsed by anie writer After that the citie was appeased and euerie thing thought to be forgotten diuerse of the offendors were executed and diuerse banished the towne some fled and were confined both out of England and the towne After the parlement was ended the king kept a solemne Christmasse at his manor of Eltham and on the Twelfe night in the hall was made a goodlie castell woonderouslie set out and in it certeine ladies and knights and when the king and queene were set in came other knights and assailed the castell where manie a good stripe was giuen and at the last the assailants were beaten awaie And then issued out knights and ladies out of the castell which ladies were rich and strangelie disguised for all their apparell was in braids of gold fret with moouing spangls of siluer and gilt set on crimsin sattin loose and not fastned the mens apparell of the same sute made like Iulis of Hungarie and the ladies heads and bodies were after the fashion of Amsterdam And when the dansing was doone the banket was serued in of two hundred dishes with great plentie to euerie bodie This yéere the new league accorded betwixt king Henrie the French king was openlie proclaimed through the citie of London by a trumpet Margaret quéene of Scots eldest sister to the K. came this yere into England at Harbottell castell was deliuered of a daughter begot by hir second husband the line 10 lord Archembald Dowglasse earle of Angus This daughter was called at the fontstone after hir mother Margaret The said quéene after the death of hir late husband king Iames married the said earle of Angus without consent of hir brother king Henrie or other of hir friends chéeflie as some haue thought for hir sonnes sake doubting if she should not haue taken hir choise at home she should haue maried in some other place and so haue béene sequestred from hir sonne whose bringing vp apperteined line 20 now chéeflie vnto hir But such contention rose shootlie after in Scotland amongst the lords that both she and hir husband were glad to séeke succor in England at hir brothers hand who was contented to releeue them assigning them the said castell of Harbottell to lie in with apparell and all other necessaries till his further pleasure should be knowne The eightéenth daie of Februarie this yeere year 1518 the ladie Marie daughter to king Henrie the eight was borne at Gréenewich This was she that afterwards was line 30 quéene of this realme married the king of Spaine This yéere also died the king of Aragon father to the queene for whom was kept a solemne obsequie in the cathedrall church of Paules As ye haue heard the last yéere how the quéene of Scots with hir husband was come for succor into England and laie at Harbottell in Northumberland till the kings pleasure was to send for them so now know you that he like a naturall brother sent for hir and hir husband to come to his court for their line 40 solace for the which kindnesse the earle humblie thanked the king and promised to giue his attendance on the queene his wife to the court Wherevpon the king sent William Blacknall esquier clerke of his spicerie with siluer vessell plate and other things necessarie for the conueiance of hir and sent to hir all manner of officers for hir estate conuenient Now when she was readie to depart she asked for hir husband but he was departed into Scotland and left hir alone nothing remembring his promise line 50 Which sudden departing much made hir to muse howbeit the lords of England greatlie incouraged hir to kéepe hir promise with the king hir brother Now when she was somewhat appeased she set forward and in euerie towne she was well receiued so on the third day of Maie she made hir entrie into London riding on a white palfreie which the quéene of England had sent vnto hir behind sir Thomas Parre richlie beséene and with a great companie of lords and ladies she rode through the citie to Bainards line 60 castell and from thence she was conueied to Gréenewich and there receiued ioiouslie of the king the quéene the French quéene hir sister and highlie was she feasted And when the king heard that the earle of Angus hir husband was departed he said it was
well of the earledome as otherwise whereby he was in time following also constable of England and as it is most probable restored to that office by Henrie the second for that he was a great enimie to king Stephan He went amongest others with Henrie Fitz Empresse to Dauid king of Scots who knighted the said Henrie in the fouretéenth yeare of king Stephan he married Cicilie the daughter of Iohn Fitz Paine and died without issue Walter second sonne to Milo after the death of his brother Roger was earle of Hereford constable of England and lord ouer Gwenthie or Wenthie he builded in the time of Henrie the first the castels of Glocester Bristow and Rochester with the Tower of London he held the land of Wenthie by long time who hauing no heire of his bodie gaue the same land to Henrie of Hereford and for saking the world tooke monasticall habit on him at Lanthonie where he was buried dieng without issue Henrie of Hereford the sonne of Milo after the enterance of Walter his brother into religion was earle of Hereford constable of England and lord of Breckenocke and Deane who was in Wenthie at a conflict slaine by his owne men and buried at Lanthonie with Walter the constable after whose death Henrie the second deputed Iago ap Seisell to the custodie of the land of Wenthie William the sonne of Milo and brother to Henrie of Hereford was constable of England after the death of his brother and died without issue Mahaell the yoongest sonne of Milo after the death of William was constable of England who died without issue whome I feare not to place as constable since all histories agrée that all the sons of Milo did successiuelie inioie that office after whome the inheritance comming to their sister whereof the eldest called Margaret or Margerie was married to Humfrie Bohuno which line of the Bohunes became afterwards constables of England by inheritance Humfrie de Bohune steward to Henrie the first the sonne of Humfrie de Bohune steward in house to William Rufus sonne to Humfrie de Bohune that came in with the Conquerour was in the right of his wife Margerie one of the daughters and heire of the foresaid Milo constable of England he had issue Humfrie de Bohune Humfrie de Bohune constable of England married Margaret sister to William king of Scots and daughter to the earle of Huntington moother to line 10 Conon earle of Britaine he had issue Henrie This Margaret died the third of king Iohn being the yeare of Christ 1201. And this Humfrie also died in the time of king Iohn as some haue or rather as others haue in the time of king Richard the first Henrie de Bohune the sonne of the said Humfrie and Margaret was the first earle of Hereford of that name of the Bohunes contrarie to that receiued error which hitherto hath made the other Bohunes earle of Hereford and contrarie to the printed pedegrée of the deceassed father of the earle of line 20 Essex now liuing For this man being the first erle of the Bohunes was made earle of Hereford in the first yeare of king Iohn as the charter dooth witnesse He was also constable of England and married Mawd the daughter and heire of Geffrie lord Ludgarsall sometime earle of Essex in whose right hir husband was intituled to that honor of the earledome of Essex by whome he had issue Humfrie his heire He died about the fourth yeare of Henrie the line 30 third being the yeare of our redemption 1220 in his iournie as he went to Ierusalem with other noblemen Humfrie de Bohune sonne of Henrie being the second of that name that was erle of Hereford was also earle of Essex and constable of England being by all men termed La bone counte de Hereford He married Mawd the daughter of the earle of Oxie in Normandie he had issue Humfrie de Bohune that was taken in the yeare of Christ 1265 being the fortie line 40 ninth of king Henrie the third at the battell of Euesham and died in the life of his father leauing behind him a sonne called Humfrie heire to him and to his father which Humfrie the father died in the yeare of our redemption 1275 being the third yeare of king Edward the first Humfrie de Bohune the third earle of Hereford of that name the sonne of Humfrie Bohune slaine at the battell of Euesham was after the death of his grandfather erle of Hereford and Essex and constable of England he married Mawd de Ferens or line 50 Frenis and had issue Humfrie this earle died in the yeare of our redemption 1298 being the twentie sixt of Edward the first was buried at Walden with his wife Mawd. Humfrie de Bohune the fourth erle of Hereford of that name was earle of Hereford Essex and constable of England he married Elizabeth the daughter to king Edward the first and widow to Iohn earle of Holland he had issue Iohn erle of Hereford Humfrie earle of Hereford and William earle of line 60 Northhampton This Humfrie taking part with Thomas earle of Lancaster was slaine at Borrobridge by a Welshman standing vnder a bridge that thrust him thorough with a speare in the fouretéenth yeare of the reigne of king Edward the second being the yeare of our redemption 1321. Iohn de Bohune the eldest sonne of this Humfrie being the fiât earle of Hereford was after the death of his father earle of Hereford Essex and constable of England he married the daughter of Edmund Fitz Alen earle of Arundell and died without issue in the yeare of Christ 1335 being the ninth yeare of king Edward the third He was buried in the abbeie of Stratford besides London Humfrie de Bohune sixt earle of Hereford being brother to Iohn de Bohune whome he succeeded was after the death of his brother earle of Hereford and Essex and constable of England he died without issue in the yeare of our Lord 1361 being the thirtie fift of king Edward the third and was buried at the Augustine friers in London William de Bohune seuenth erle of Hereford of that surname being the sonne of the other Humfrie and brother to the last Humfrie was at a parlement holden in the tenth yeare of the reigne of king Edward the third being in the yeare of our Lord 1336 created earle of Northhampton and after the death of his brother Humfrie he was earle of Hereford and Essex and constable of England He was in the eighteenth yeare of Edward the third being the yere of Christ 1344 sent into Britaine as generall ouer the English armie to restore Iohn de Montford to the dukedome of Britaine which he did putting Charles de Blois to flight He married Elizabeth some saie Eleanor one of the daughters and heires of Bartholomew Bladesmere baron of Bedes in Kent by whome he had issue Humfrie Humfrie de Bohune the eight last
erle of Hereford of that surname of Bohune was after the death of William his father earle of Hereford Essex and Northampton and constable of England He augmented the castell of Brecnocke first built by Bernard Newmarch He in the eight and twentith yere of Edward the third as Iohn Stow noteth being the yeare of Christ 1354 reedified the frier Augustines church in London in which he was buried He maried Ione the daughter of Richard Fitz Alen erle of Arundell by whome he had issue two daughters and heires Eleanor the eldest maried to Thomas of Woodstocke and Marie the second maried to Henrie of Bollingbrooke after king of England by the name of king Henrie the fourth Thomas of Woodstocke the sixt sonne to king Edward the third was created earle of Buckingham in the first yeare of Richard the second at his coronation being the yeare of our Lord 1377 and after duke of Glocester in the eight yeare of Richard the second 1385. He maried Eleanor eldest daughter of Humfreie Bohune as before in whose right he was earle of Essex Northampton and constable of England besides which he was also lord of Brecnocke He had issue one son foure daughters his sonne was Humfreie erle of Buckingham whom K. Richard after the murthering of his father at Calis sent into Ireland where he remained as prisoner vntill the time of king Henrie the fourth which called him home who returning into England died of the plague without issue at Chester after whome his moother liued not long Of whose death thus writeth that worthie poet sir Iohn Gower knight liuing at that time in his booke of the historie of Richard the second and Henrie the fourth commonlie taken as part of his worke intituled named Vox clamantis Interea transit moriens nec in orbe remansit Humfredus dictus reddit ille Deo benedictus Defuncto nato cito post de fine beato Mater transiuit dum nati funera sciuit Primo decessit Cignus dolor vnde repressit Matrem cum pullo sibi mors nec parcit in vllo The foure daughters heires to Thomas of Woodstocke their brother Humfreie were Anne the eldest married to Edmund Stafford erle Stafford who had issue Humfreie erle of Stafford Hereford Northampton lord of Brecknocke c which Anne after the death of erle Stafforââaid the second time marie William vicont Bouâââ ãâã created erle of Ewe in France the second daughter was Philip which died without issue the third Ione was maried to Gilbert lord Talbot the fourth Isabell was a religious person at the Minories in London This duke of Glocester was murthered at Calis about the yeare of Christ 1398 being the 22 yeare of Richard the second touching whose life and death with the maner thereof thus writeth the said sir Iohn Gower in the same booke intituled Vox clamantis O quà m fortuna stabilis non permanet vna Exemplum cuius stat in ordine carminis huius line 10 Rex agit Cygnus patitur de corde benignus Ille prostratus non est de rege leuatus Ad Plessye captus tunc est velut hostia raptus Rex iubet arma geri nec eo voluit misereri Cum sponsa nati lugent quasi morte grauati Plússque lupo saeuit rex dummodo foemina fleuit Nil pietas munit quem tunc manus inuida punit Rex stetit obliquus nec erat tunc vnus amicus O regale genus princeps quasi pauper egenus Turpiter attractus iacet sine iure subactus line 20 Sunt ibi fautores regis de sorte priores Qui Cygnum pendent vbi captum ducere tendent Sic ducendo ducem perdit sine lumine lucem Anglia quae tota tenebrescit luce remota Trans mare natauit regnum qui semper amauit Flent centum mille quia Cygnus praeterit ille Calisij portus petit vnde dolus latet ortus Error quem regis genuit putredine legis Carcere conclusus subitò fuit ille reclusus Nescit quo fine sit vitae siue ruinae line 30 Tunc rex elatum sumpsit quasi falco volatum Vnde suas gentes perdit custode carentes A little after which followeth these verses touching the deniall of buriall to be granted vnto him among the rest of his honourable and roiall ancestors Sic nece deuictum sic corpus ab hoste relictum Clam de conclaui susceperat Anglia naui Per mare regreditur corpus nec ad huc sepelitur Námque sepulturam defendit rex sibi puram Desuper à latere patris loca iusta tenârâ line 40 Dummodo quaesiuit vix bassa sepulchra subiuit Of the maner also of whole death the said sir Iohn Gower hath set downe these thrée following verses Heu quà m toâtorum quidam de sorte malorum Sic ducis electi plumarum pondere lecti Corpus quassatum iugulántque necara iugulatum His wife Elenor died the third of October in the yeare of our redemption 1399 being the first yeare of king Henrie the fourth and was buried at Westminster on the south side of king Edward the third line 50 with this epitaph Icy gist Elenor de Bohune aysne fille vn des heyres a honorable seigneur monseigneour Humphrey de Bohune countie de Hereford de Essex de Northampton constable d'Angliterre femme a puissant ââââble prince Thomas Woodstocke fiâz tresexcâlleââ trespuissant seigneiur Edwarde roy d'Angliteâre pius le cóquest tierce duc de Glocester que moâust tierce iâure de October lan du grace 1399 de que alme Dieux fait mercye line 60 Edward Plantagenet sonne to Edmund of Langleie was by Richard the second created earle of Rutland and duke of Albemerle who being constable of England arriued in the thrée and twentith yeare of Richard the second and in the yeare of our Lord 1399 in Ireland to bring aid to the king being there in warre Of this man is more liberall discourse in my folowing treatise of the dukes of England Henrie Persie lord Persie the sixt lord and the first earle of Northumberland of that name was aduanced to that âonourable title of earle at the coronation of king Richard the second in the yeare of our redemption 1377. He was made high constable of England by Henrie the fourth then elected but not crowned king of England bicause the said earle did giue that ring to the king whereby he was wedded to the kingdome of England to whome also the king gaue the I le of man to beare the sword with which he entered the realme He in the fourth yeare of king Henrie the fourth being the yeare of Christ 1403 rebelled against the king but after comming to the king vpon sending for he was pardoned his life but commited to safe custodie After which in the fift yeare of that king he was at a parlement holden at London restored to his estate and dignitie who the yeare following being
Oxford Whervpon he was beheded at Tower hill and buried in the blacke friers of London He had three wiues wherof the first was called Cicilie the daughter of Richard earle of Salisburie the second Elizabeth the daughter of Robert Greindoure the third was Elizabeth after married to sir William Stanleie which Iohn had by his third wife Edward lord Tiptost who died without issue so the inheritance went to the sisters of the said earle Iohn Tiptost And here I thinke it not amisse to say somewhat of the lord Beaumont who being in our chronicles named constable of England as may appeare in the fiue and twentith yeare of Henrie the sixt in which yeare he arrested Humfrie duke of Glocester that for any thing that I can yet sée or learne this Beaumont was not constable by patent during his life but for the present time to execute the princes pleasure and therefore not méet in this discourse to haue anie speciall place amongest such as were constables of England either by descent or patent Sir Richard Wooduile knight earle Riuers was high constable of England in the fourth yere of king Edward the fourth of whom is more large mention in the following discourse of the treasurors of England in the historie of the reigne of quéene Elizabeth George Plantagenet second sonne to Richard duke of Yorke was created amongst other estates duke of Clarence in the yeare of our redemption 1461 being the first yeare of king Edward the fourth immediatlie vpon his coronation and was made constable of England in the time of Edward the fourth He in the eight of Edward the fourth about the yeare of Christ 1468 maried Isabell the eldest daughter of Richard Neuill earle of Warwike and Salisburie by whom he had issue Edward earle of Warwike and Salisburie borne vpon the sea in the hauen of Calis who was in the time of Richard the third a continuall prisoner and so hauing béene a prisoner and thereto borne by a certeine fatall destinie was in the yere of our redemption 1485 being the first of king Henrie the seuenth committed to custodie in the Tower where he continued all the rest of his life was beheaded at Tower hill in the fiftéenth yeare of king Henrie the seuenth being the yeare of Christ 1499 was buried at Birsam néere to his ancestors Besides this Edward this George duke of Clarence had issue a daughter called Margaret created by king Henrie the eight countesse of Salisburie who married sir Richard Poole knight of the garter descended of the ancient familie of the Pooles in Wales Richard Plantagenet the third sonne to Richard duke of Yorke was aduanced to the title and honor of the dukedome of Glocester in the yeare of our redemption 1461 being the first yeare of king Edward the fourth soone after his coronation He was high constable of England he maried Anne second daughter to Richard Neuill earle of Warwike and Salisburie Which Richard after the death of his brother king Edward the fourth did by the murther of his nephues ascend to the highest gouernement of England and was crowned king by the name of Richard the third Henrie Stafford whome our chronicles doo in manie places corruptlie terme Edward was sonne to Humfrie earle Stafford was high constable of England and duke of Buckingham This man raising warre against Richard the third vsurping the crowne was in the first yeare of the reigne of the said Richard being the yeare of Christ 1483 betraied by his man Humfrie Banaster to whome being in distresse he fled for succour and brought to Richard the third then lieng at Salisburie where the said duke confessing all the conspiracie was beheaded without arreignement or iudgement vpon the second of Nouember in the said yere of our redemption 1483 he maried Katharine the daughter of Richard Wooduile sister to quéene Elizabeth wife to Edward the fourth had issue Edward duke of Buckingham and Henrie earle of Wilshire with two daughters which were Anne maried to George lord Hastings of whom is descended the erle of Huntington now liuing and Elizabeth married to Richard line 10 Ratcliffe lord Fitz Waters of whome is issued sir Henrie Ratcliffe knight now earle of Sussex Edward Stafford sonne to Henrie duke of Buckingham being also duke of Bukingham after the death of his father was constable of England earle of Hereford Stafford and Northhampton being in the first yeare of Henrie the seuenth in the yeare of our redemption 1485 restored to his fathers dignities and possessions He is tearmed in the books of the law in the said thirtéenth yeare of Henrie the eight line 20 where his arreignement is liberallie set downe to be the floure mirror of all courtesie This man as before is touched was by Henrie the seuenth restored to his fathers inheritance in recompense of the losse of his fathers life taken awaie as before is said by the vsurping king Richard the third He married Elianor the daughter of Henrie earle of Northumberland and had issue Henrie lord Stafford father to Henrie lord Stafford now liuing and thrée daughters Elizabeth married to Thomas Howard line 30 earle of Surrie Katharine married to Rafe Neuill earle of Westmerland and Marie married to George Neuill lord of Aburgauennie And thus much by Francis Thin touching the succession of the constables of England In this meane while were the emperour and the French king fallen at variance so that the warre was renewed betwixt them for the pacifieng wherof the cardinall of Yorke was sent ouer to Calis where line 40 the ambassadours of both those princes were appointed to come to him He arriued there the second of August There went ouer with him the erle of Worcester then lord chamberleine the lord of S. Iohns the lord Ferrers the lord Herbert the bishop of Duresme the bishop of Elie the primat of Armacane sir Thomas Bullen sir Iohn Pechie sir Iohn Hussie sir Richard Wingfield sir Henrie Guilford and manie other knights esquiers gentlemen doctors and learned men Thus honourablie accompanied he line 50 rode thorough London the twentie fift daie of Iulie and at Thomas Beckets house the maior and aldermen tooke leaue of him praieng God to send him good spéed Thus passed he to Canturburie where the archbishop of Canturburie and others receiued him in his statelinesse and brought him vnto his lodging vnder a canopie to the bishops palace On the eight daie of Iulie he came to Douer On the twentith he the other lords with their retinues tooke passage and arriued at Calis in safetie where the lord deputie line 60 and the councell receiued them with much honour and lodged the cardinall in the Staple hall Shortlie after his arriuall at Calis thither came the chancellor of France and the countie de Palice with foure hundred horses as ambassadors from the French king and likewise from the emperour came great ambassadors either partie being furnished with sufficient
sixt He was not onelie courteous wise and gentle being dailie attendant at the court but forward and fortunate in seruice abroad as may well appeare in his sundrie voiages both into France and Scotland He was of nature verie gentle and pitifull not blemished by any thing so much as by the death of the admerall his naturall brother which could not haue beene brought to passe in that sort without his consent But of this good duke to let passe multitude of words maister Fox hath written no lesse trulie than commendablie no lesse commendablie than deseruedlie and no lesse deseruedlie than profitablie in his historie whereto I refer the reader for further knowledge Neuerthelesse of this vertuous duke by waie of application I saie as somtime one said verie aptlie as some thinke of the gratious ladie An Bullen Discite vos viui quid dira calumnia possit Inuidia alterius vitae comes arcta beatae Et falsis linguae commista venena susurris The protectors of England collected out of the ancient and moderne chronicles wherin is set downe the yeare of Christ and of the king in which they executed that function VPon the death of this duke of Summerset protector of England it shall not be vnsitting in this place to set downe all the protectors whereof I can as yet haue intelligence and who haue béene gouernors regents gardians or deputies of the realme and of the kings person during his minoritie and time of his insufficiencie of gouernement or else of his absence being out of the realme whereof I haue made an especiall title in my Pantographie of England in which this my collection of the protectors although perhaps I shall not set downe all for Barnardus non videt omnia yet it is better to haue halfe a loafe than no bread knowledge of some than of none at all Thus therefore I begin Guendoline the daughter of Corineus duke of Cornewall after the procurement of warre against hir husband wherein he was slaine was by common consent for that hir sonne Madrane which she had by Locrine was insufficient by reason of his minoritie to gouerne the kingdome made by the Britons ruler of the I le in the yeare of the world 2894 and so continued the same by the space of fiftéene yéeres vntill hir sonne came to lawfull age Martia the widow of Guenteline the king by reason that Sicilius hir sonne was not of age conuenient to weld the scepter as one being but seuen yeares old obteined the gouernement both of the realme and of hir sonnes person which she most worthilie deserued being a woman of rare vertue and iudgement Eldred Ethelred or Edred for all these diuersities are found in authors brother to Edmund king of England while the sonnes of Edmund Edwine and Edgar were for their minorities insufficient to dispose the kingdome was appointed protector to his nephues in the yeare of Christ 940 who about six or seuen yeares after his protectorship tooke on him the kingdome at Kingstone on Easter daie in the yeare of Christ as hath Iohn Stow 946 as others haue nine hundred fortie seuen Emma the quéene of England the widow of king Etheldred and of Canutus both kings of England iointlie with Goodwine earle of Kent had the gouernement of the realme vnder Hardiknute king of England who began his reigne in the yeare of Christ 1041. Harold the sonne of Goodwine at the death of king Edward the Confessor which fell in the yeare of Christ 1066 and the three and twentith yeare of the same king was by the testament of the said king Edward appointed regent of the yong Edgar Atheling named heire in the life of the said Edward and of the kingdome after the death of king Edward during the minoritie of the said Edgar Beside which the like commending of the kingdome to this Harold line 10 in respect of the quéenes honour as that before of the successours right is set downe by one that liued at that time and wrote the life of king Edward of erle Goodwine and of his children in these words Porrectáque manu meaning king Edward lieng on his death bed and speaking in the behalfe of Editha the quéene sister to this Harold ad praedictum nutricium suum fratrem Haroldum Hancinquit cum omni regno tutandam tibi commendo vt pro domina sorore vt est fideli serues honores obsequio vt quoad vixerit à me adepto non line 20 priuetur honore debito Commendo pariter etiam eos qui natiuam terram suam reliquerunt causa amoris mei mihÃque haectenus suleliter sunt obsequuti vt suscepta ab eis siita volunt fidelitate eos tuearis retineas aut tua defensione conductos cum omnibus quae sub me acquisiuerunt cum salute ad propria transfretari facias c. But he when king Edward was dead vsurped the crowne to himselfe and shortlie after lost both his life and his kingdome Odo bishop of Baieux and William Fitzosborne the first being earle of Kent and chiefe iustice line 30 of England and the second being earle of Hereford were gouernours of the realme in the yeare of our Lord 1067 and the first yeare of William the Conquerour when he went into Normandie after the conquest and indifferent quieting of the realme Lanfranke archbishop of Canturburie as appeareth by Matthew Parker writing in this sort in the life of the said Lanfranke Absente Gulielmo omnia Lanfranco mandabantur qui summa prudentia cunctae moderatus line 40 proceres plebem in officio tranquillè sine vlla motu atque tumultu continebat adeò vt si quae defectionis suspicio nascebatur ad eam illicò compescendam maximus potentissimus quisque opem adiumentum illi imperantipraestitit Sir Richard Lucie knight chiefe iustice of England was protector of the realme in the twelfe yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the second being the yeare of our Lord 1166 in the absence of the king when he was in Normandie and in the parts beyond the seas Which Lucie in the thirteenth yeare of the same king being the yeare of our redemption line 50 1167 did valiantlie resist and politikelie driue backe the earle of Bullongne inuading the realme Hée built the abbeie of Leosnes or Westwood in the parish of Erith in Kent and not in Southfléet as some haue written in the yeare of Christ 1178 being about the foure and twentith yeare of king Henrie the second and further built the castell of Angier in Essex in the diocesse of the bishop of London He had issue Godfreie bishop of Winchester and thrée daughters who after the death of Godfreie their brother line 60 were his heires the eldest daughter of which sir Richard Lucie was maried to Robert the first called Fitzwater the second daughter Auelina was maried to Riuers of whome issued Iohn de Riuers the third daughter Rose was
20 kingdome at the castell of Tunbridge in Kent and Rigate in Surrie which Gilbert with the other péers of the land immediatlie after the death of king Henrie the third assembling at the new temple brake the old seale of king Henrie made a new seale in the name of king Edward and appointed faithfull officers for the sure kéeping and obseruing of the treasure the riches the peace and the lawes of the kingdoms This Gilbert had two wiues his first wife was line 30 Alice the daughter of Hugh le Brune erle of March by whom he had issue a daughter that was countesse of Fife in Scotland his second wife was Ione the daughter of king Edward the first called Ione of Acres by whome he had one sonne called Gilbert the third earle of Glocester and Hertford who married Mawd the daughter of Richard earle of Ulster in the yeare of Christ 1308 at Waltham by whome he had issue a sonne Iohn borne in the yeare of Christ 1312 being in the sixt yeare of Edward the second that died without issue after the death of which Gilbert line 40 the third his lands and earldomes of Glocester and Hertford came to the sister of the said Gilbert the third who was slaine in the battell of Striueling against the Scots in the seuenth or as others haue the eight yeare of king Edward the second whome the Scots would gladlie haue kept for ransome if they had knowne him but he had forgotten to put on his cote of armes to shew what he was after which he was brought into England and was buried line 50 at Tewkesburie vpon whose death the two earledomes of Glocester and Hertford were so dispersed that there was neuer anie to this daie that iointlie succéeded or possessed them both Thus hauing digressed from Gilbert the second in treating of his sonne Gilbert the third let vs againe returne to him He besides his sonne Gilbert the third had by his wife Ione thrée daughters Elenor first married to Hugh Spenser second sonne to Hugh Spenser earle of Glocester and after his death to William Zouch Margaret married to Piers de Gaueston earle of line 60 Cornewall and after to Hugh Audeleie and Elizabeth or Isabell married in the yeare of our Lord 1308 being the first yeare of Edward the second to Iohn the sonne of Richard earle of Ulster This Gilbert the second before the marriage of his second wife was on the fiftéenth kalends of August diuorsed from Alice his first wife in the yeare of our redemption 1271 being the six and fiftith yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the third and after in Westminster church the last of Aprill married his second wife about the eightéenth yeare of Edward the first being the yeare of Christ 1290 which Gilbert the second being taken awaie by vntimelie death departed this world in the yeare of our redemption 1195 being the thrée and twentith of the reigne of the said Edward the first who was in word déed in commandement and authoritie the greatest person of the kingdome next to king Edward the first for which cause he well deserued to haue his sepulture among his worthie ancestors Edmund earle of Cornewall of whome there is somewhat spoken before being the sonne of Richard king of Almaine and earle of Cornewall brother to Henrie the third married Margaret the daughter of Richard de Clare erle of Glocester he was made protector of the Realme by Edward the first in the fouretéenth yeare as some saie or in the fifteenth as others saie for there is so much disagréement amongst authors for the accounts of yeares as it passeth anie one man to reconcile them in all points when the said king went into Aragon to reconcile the two kings of Arragon Naples He continued in this office in the yeare of Christ 1287 or 1228 as hath Treuet being the sixteenth yeare of Edward the first in which he subdued Rise ap Merdach the Welsh prince rebelling against Edward the first and ouerthrew the castell of Druffillane as hath the said Nicholas Treuet he was lord of Wallingford did much cost therevpon and died without issue as hath Matthew Westminster in the yeare of Christ 1300 but as hath Thomas Walsingham 1301 leauing the king of England his heire Yet are there some pedegrées and other authors and those not the meanest which saie that he had a daughter Isabell married to Morice Fitz Harding lord Barkleie so that these authors which saie that he died without issue are to be vnderstood of the issue male not of the heire generall for they account him to die without issue which leaueth no posteritie to continue his title of honor The which their meaning they make more plaine in that they saie that after his issulesse death the earledome came to the crowne And here bicause there is mention made of Wallingford I will set downe what Leland hath written touching the same bicause I desire to make common and to preserue all whatsoeuer monuments of Leland that come vnto my hands thus therefore he writeth of Wallingford in his commentaries of England written in the yeare of our redemption 1542 being the foure and thirtith yeare of king Henrie the eight in these words The towne of Wallingford hath béene a verie notable thing and well walled The dich of the towne and the crest wherevpon the wals stand be yet manifestlie perceiued and begin from the castell going in compasse a good mile and more and so continueth to Wallingford bridge a large thing of stone ouer the Thames There remaine yet the names of these stréets amongst others Thamesstréet Fishstréet Woodstréet Goldsmiths row And by the patents and donation of Edmund earle of Cornewall and lord of the honour of Wallingford it appeereth that there were fourtéene parish churches in Wallingford and there be men yet aliue that can shew the places and churchyards where they stood at this time there are but thrée parish churches The towne and the castell was sore defaced by the Danes warres yet they méetlie florished in the time of Richard king of the Romans earle of Cornewall and brother to Henrie the third he did much cost vpon the castell which ioineth to the north gate of the towne and hath thrée diches as vpon the crests of the same may appéere large and déepe about each of the two first diches on the crests of the ground cast out runneth an embatteled wall now sore in ruine and for the most part defaced All the goodlie buildings with the tower and dungeon be within the third dich There is also a collegiat chapell amongest the buildings within the third dich Edmund earle of Cornewall son to Richard king of Romans was the first founder and indower of this college Prince Edward the blacke as one told me augmented this college There is a deane foure priests six clerkes and foure choristers The late deane before doctor London that now is builded a faire stéeple of stone at the west
Peter king of Castile and sister by the mother to Constance second wife to Iohn of Gant duke of Lancaster brother to this Edmund who was about the twentith yéere of Richard the second protector of England while the king was in Ireland which Isabell died in the yeere of Christ 1394 being about the eightéenth yéere of Richard the second by the kings commandement was buried in the friers of Langleie This Edmund had issue by his wife Isabell Edward earle of Rutland and duke Albermerle Richard earle of Cambridge and one daughter called Constance married to Thomas lord Spenser he died the second as some haue or rather the third as others haue of Henrie the 4 in the yéere of Christ as hath Ypodigma 1402 and was buried at Langleie Edward Plantagenet son and heire of Edmund of Langleie duke of Yorke was in the fouretéenth of Richard the second created erle of Rutland in his fathers life in the yéere of Christ 1390 and in the twentith yeare of Richard the second or rather the 21 of the same king being the yeare of Christ 1397 he was made duke of Albermerle or Aumerle and after his fathers death he was duke of Yorke he was slaine at the battell of Agincourt in the third yeare of Henrie the fift being the yeare of Christ 1415 he married Margaret or rather more trulie Philip the ladie Fitzwater and widow to sir Iohn Gollafer knight bastard sonne to sir Iohn Gollafer of Cercedone or Saresdone knight in Oxfordshire And here because I haue mentioned the name of Gollafer although it be digressing from my first purposes onelie to treat of the dukes of England I thinke it not amisse to saie somewhat of these two knights of the Gollafers sir Iohn the father and sir Iohn the sonne This sir Iohn Gollafer the father line 10 being the sonne of Iohn Gollafer esquier whose ancestors as farre as I can learne had their first originall from Roger Gollafer of Cercedone in the time of king Iohn and was buried in Domo capitulari de Bruera in com oxon married Anne the daughter and heire of sir Thomas Langleie lord of Langleie in Oxfordshire now at this daie in the yeare 1585 by grant of quéene Elisabeth in the possession of Robert Sutton or Dudleie earle of Leicester which Anne died shortlie after without anie issue by him line 20 After whose death this sir Iohn Gollafer married Isabell the ladie of Missenden dwelling at Missenden and of Queintone in Buckinghamshire she being daughter to sir Barnard Brocas But this sir Iohn Gollafer hauing no issue by the said Elisabeth and desirous by some meanes or other to continue his name which yet he could not make perpetuall nor of anie long continuance made choise in the life of his wife Isabell of another woman whome he vsed for procreations cause and by hir had issue two line 30 bastards one called Iennet Pulham after prioresse of Burneham by Windsore and an other bastard called after the father Iohn Gollafer who in following time became a knight Afterward this sir Iohn the father died at Queintone in the yeare of our redemption one thousand three hundred seauentie and nine falling partlie in the second and third yeare of Henrie the fourth and was buried at the Graie friers in Oxford whose wife Isabell was after buried in Missenden priorie line 40 After the death of this sir Iohn the father sir Iohn Gollafer knight his base sonne being lord of Langleie married Phillip ladie Fitzwater after maried to this duke of Yorke as before is said which sir Iohn Gollafer died at Wallingford in the yeare of our redemption one thousand three hundred ninetie and six being the twentith yeare of Richard the second and was buried at Westminster néere vnto the toome of Richard the second Which ladie Philip died in the time of Henrie the sixt and was line 50 buried at Westminster néere vnto hir husband whose statelie toome is yet extant on the south side almost directlie oueragainst the toome of Richard the second Thus this much for the name of Gollafer and so againe to the dukes of England Thomas Plantagenet otherwise called Thomas of Woodstocke sixt sonne to king Edward the third was created earle of Buckingham the first yeare of Richard the second in the yeare one thousand thrée line 60 hundred seauentie and seauen the daie of his coronation before dinner This man was high constable of England and created duke of Glocester in the eight yeare of Richard the second of whom is more especiall mention made in the treatise of the constables of England pag. 867. Thomas Holland brother by the mothers side to king Richard the second and sonne to the lord Thomas Holland earle of Kent in the right of Iane daughter and heire to Edmund Plantagenet surnamed of Woodstocke earle of Kent was aduanced to the title of duke of Surreie in the two and twentith yeare of king Richard the second being the yeare of Christ one thousand thrée hundred ninetie and seauen he maried Alice the daughter of Richard Fitzallen earle of Arundell He had issue six daughters heires Margaret married to Iohn Beaufort earle of Summerset and marquesie Dorset Alice maried to Thomas Montacute earle of Salisburie Elisabeth married to Iohn lord Neuill sonne to Rafe Neuill the first earle of Westmerland and after his death to Edward Chareleton lord Powis Ioane married to Edmund of Langleie duke of Yorke and Bridget a nun at Barking This man with others at a parlement held the first yeare of Henrie the fourth in the yeare of our redemption one thousand thrée hundred ninetie and nine was depriued of his name of duke of all honours togither with the dignities belonging to a duke was after in the same yeare rebelling against king Henrie the fourth taken by the men of Circester and beheaded in the same towne after that he had caused the towne to be set on fire Iohn Holland full brother to Thomas Holland and halfe brother to Richard the second was created earle of Huntington in the fourtéenth yeare of king Richard the second and made duke of Excester at a parlement holden in the one twentith yeare of the same king though some attribute that to the twentith yeare of king Richard This man at a parlement held in the first of Henrie the fourth in the yeare of Christ 1399 was disgraded from his title of dukedome and was after taken at Pritewell in Essex in a mill and beheaded at Plassie in the said shire in the said first yéere of the said king Henrie the fourth he married Elisabeth the daughter of Iohn of Gant duke of Lancaster and had issue Iohn Holland earle of Huntington Iohn Holland earle of Huntington was as it seemeth made by Henrie the fourth after the death of the duke of Excester his father admitted to be duke of Excester he married Anne the daughter of Edmund earle of Stafford he had issue Henrie Holland duke
of Excester and Anne maried to sir Iohn Neuill knight brother of Rafe the third of that name erle of Westmerland he died the six and twentith of king Henrie the sixt on the fift of August being the yeare of Christ 1448 and was buried at S. Katharins nigh the tower of London After which his first wife he maried Anne the daughter of Iohn Montacute earle of Salisburie by whome he had no issue Henrie Holland sonne of Iohn Holland was after the death of his father duke of Excester he was disherited in the first of Edward the fourth at a parlement held then in the yeare 1461 he maried Anne daughter to Richard duke of Yorke and sister to king Edward the fourth which Anne at hir owne sute on the twelfe of Nouember in the eleuenth yeere of king Edward the fourth being the yeare of Christ 1471 was diuorced from the said duke of Excester Shortlie after which in the yeare of Christ 1413 being in the thirteenth of Edward the fourth this duke was found dead in the sea betweene Douer Calis but how he came there none could certenlie declare He died without issue leauing his sister Anne his heire maried as before to Iohn Neuill brother to Rafe earle of Westmerland Robert Uere earle of Oxford and marquesse of Dubline was in the yéere of Christ 1386 in the tenth of Richard the second created duke of Ireland he died withoutissue at Louaine in great penurie and vexation of mind as hath Ypodigma in the yeere of Christ 1392 being about the sixtéenth of king Richard the second he maried the daughter of Ingerame de Cousie earle of Bedford and after diuorced from hir he married Lancecrona one of meane parentage Margaret ladie Segraue the daughter and heire of Thomas Brotherton earle of Norffolke and marshall of England was created duchesse of Norffolke in the one and twentith yeare of king Richard the second she had two husbands whereof the first was Iohn lord Segraue by whom she had issue Elisabeth married to Iohn Mowbreie the third of that name Hir second husband was sir Walter Mannie knight of the order by whome she had a daughter married to Iohn lord Hastings erle of Penbroke This duchesse line 10 Margaret died in the yeare of Christ 1399 being about the three and twentith of Richard the second and was buried in the frier Minors of London Thomas lord Mowbreie second sonne of Elisabeth Segraue and Iohn lord Mowbreie hir husband was aduanced to the dukedome of Norffolke in the one and twentith yeare of the reigne of Richard the second Shortlie after which he was appeled by Henrie earle of Bullingbroke of treason and caried to the castell of Windsore where he was stronglie line 20 and safelie garded hauing a time of combat granted to determine the cause betwéene the two dukes the sixtéenth daie of September in the two and twentith of the said king being the yeare of our redemption 1398. But in the end the matter was so ordered that this duke of Norffolke was banished for euer whervpon taking his iourneie to Ierusalem he died at Uenice in his returne froÌ the said citie of Ierusalem in the first yeare of king Henrie the fourth about the yeare of our redemption 1399. He maried Elisabeth line 30 one of the daughters and heires of Richard erle of Arundell Warren and Surreie by whome he had issue Iohn duke of Norffolke and three daughters Elisabeth maried to Michaell de la Poole the yoonger earle of Suffolke Margaret maried vnto sir Robert Howard knight and Isabell maried to sir Iames Barkeleie Iohn Mowbreie earle of Notingham marshall of England and duke of Norffolke baron Segraue and Bower was buried in the Charteââouse within the I le of Exholme he maried Katharine the daughter line 40 of Rafe the first earle of Westmerland by whom he had issue Iohn duke of Norffolke Iohn lord Mowbreie the sixt baron of the name of Mowbreie sonne to Iohn duke of Norffolke was after his father duke of Norffolke This Iohn was buried in Tetford priorie who marieng Elenor the daughter of William lord Burchier earle of Ewe had issue Iohn duke of Norffolke Iohn the last duke of Norffolke of the surnâme of line 50 Mowbreie the sonne of Iohn the last before mentioned was in his fathers life time created earle of Warren and Surreie by king Henrie the sixt and after the death of his father was duke of Norffolke This Iohn the last duke died in his castell of Fremingham in the yeare 1461 being the second yeare of king Edward the fourth He maried Elisabeth daughter to Iohn lord Talbot earle of Shrewesburie by whome he had issue one onelie daughter and heire maried to Richard duke of Yorke second son to Edward the fourth line 60 Thomas Plantagenet second sonne to Henrie the fourth was created duke of Clarence in the eleuenth yeare of his father being about the yeare of our redemption 1409 and was afterward in the 13 of the same king created earle of Aumerle and high steward of England he was slaine the two and twentith of March in the ninth yeare of the reigne of the victorious king Henrie the fift in the yeare of our redemption 1420 beginning the yeare of our Lord on the fiue and twentith daie of March He maried Margaret the daughter of Thomas Holland earle of Kent and died without issue legitimat hauing a base sonne called Iohn the bastard of Clarence Iohn Plantagenet third son to Henrie the fourth was by his father created duke of Bedford at the parlement of Leicester in the yeare of Christ 1414 in the second of king Henrie the fift Of this man is more large mention made in my discourse of the protectors of England Humfreie Plantagenet fourth sonne of Henrie the fourth was by his father created duke of Glocester who for the nobilitie of his mind and vertuous life was made protector of England Of whom is more spoken in my former discourse of the protectors of England Iohn Beaufort which name of Beaufort was giuen by Iohn of Gant to his children which he had by Katharine Swineford when they were made legitimate by parlement about the one and twentith yeare of king Richard the second as is before touched was created marquesse Dorset by Henrie the fourth and after aduanced to the honour of duke of Summerset in the first yeare of king Henrie the first being the yeare of our redemption 1413. He maried Margaret the daughter of sir Iohn Beauchampe lord of Powicke he had issue Margaret maried to Edmund Haddam earle of Richmond father to king Henrie the seuenth after the death of which Edmund she was maried to Thomas lord Stonleie afterward by Henrie the seuenth created earle of Darbie and after vnto Henrie sonne to Humfreie duke of Buckingham This duke of Summerset died the two and twentith yeare of king Henrie the sixt and was buried at Winborne in the yeare of Christ
Chichelie archbishop of Canturburie touching a synod holden in the yeare of our Lord 1430 at what time of the clergie he saith that Iohannes Stafford episcopus Bathoniensis cancellarius D. Scrope thesaurarius regni necnon Wilhelmus Lindwood custos priuati sigilli pro rege subsidium postularunt mediam decimam tandem aegrè impetrarunt Rafe lord Cromwell the son of Rafe Cromwell lord of Tatershall possessed the place of the lord treasurorship of England in Easter terme in the twelfe yeare of the after deposed K. Henrie the sixt being the yeare of Christ 1434 and so continued in that office about ten years falling as I suppose in line 10 the yeare of our redemption 1444. This man being knight was created lord Cromwell by the said king Henrie the sixt and was lineallie descended of one of the heires of Robert lord Tatershall that maried one of the daughters and heires of William Dalbinie earle of Arundell This Rafe lord treasuror died without issue and made his testament in the yeare of Christ one thousand foure hundred fiftie and foure being in the thrée and thirtith yere of king Henrie the sixt after whose death the inheritance line 20 came to the three aunts being his heirs whereof the first was married to the lord Bardolfe slaine at Brancehome moore in Northumberland the second was married to sir William Fitzwilliams knight of the sepulchre the third Elisabeth to sir Iohn Clifton knight after his death to sir Edmund Benested knight Of one Rafe lord Cromwell I find this note set downe by Leland Dominus Radulphus Cromewell Matildis vxor eius fundatores collegij sanctae trinitatis de Tatershall quúmque Roberti ordine domini erant de line 30 Tatershall hos sequutus est Radulphus Cromewell Sir Rafe Butler knight of the garter lord Sudleie descended from Iohn lord Sudleie and William Butler baron of Wem which maried Ione daughter and heire to Iohn Sudleie lord Sudleie did possesse the honorable place of the lord treasurorship of England the seuenth of Iulie in the two and twentith yere of king Henrie the sixt being the yere of our redemption one thousand foure hundred fortie and foure which office he kept about thrée yeres line 40 for in the fiue and twentith yeare of the said king was the bishop of Carleill lord treasuror This Rafe lord Sudleie builded the castell of Sudleie in the time of king Henrie the sixt and of Edward the fourth who in the time of the said Edward the fourth was committed to prison by the king first sending for him to come to his presence Wherevpon he going to the king and resting on an hill from whense he did behold Sudleie castell said It is thou it is thou Sudleie castell and not I which am the traitor line 50 After which comming to king Edward the fourth he resigned the said Sudleie castell into the kings hands Which castell came after to Iasper duke of Bedford and is now in the yeare 1585 in the possession of Giles a Bridges lord Shandois This Rafe being made baron in the twentith yeare of Henrie the sixt maried Elisabeth the daughter of sir Iohn Northberie by whome he had issue Thomas his son that died without issue leauing his two sisters to be his heires wherof the eldest daughter called Elisabeth was maried to sir Iohn Northberie whose heire line 60 generall was maried to Iohn Halwell of Deuonshire who had issue Ione his daughter and heire maried to Edward lord Braie of whome the lord Cobham now liuing is descended The other sister maried to sir Hamond Belknap of whome is descended the woorthie gentleman Thomas Wootton of Bacton Maleherbe in Kent esquire now liuing The which Rafe lord Butler of Sudleie was Vexillifer and high Butler of England and steward in house to king Henrie the sixt Marmaduke bishop of Carleill was made lord treasuror of England in the fiue and twentith yeare of king Henrie the sixt in which office he continued about two yeares in the seuen and twentith yere of king Henrie the sixt being about the yeare of our redemption 1448 or as some haue 1449. Iames Fines created at Burie baron of Saie and of Sele on the third of March in the fiue and twentith yeare of king Henrie the sixt being the yeare of our redemption according to the English account 1446 was constable of Douer castell and lord treasuror of England in the eight and twentith yeare of the said king Henrie the sixt and was from thense remooued as some haue in the nine twentith yere of the said king was by the rebels of Kent Iacke Cade and his felowes taken out of the tower to the Guildhall where he was areigned before the maior and other the kings Iustices who desiring to be tried by his péeres was by the rebels forceablie taken from the officers and beheaded at the standard in Cheape The maner whereof shall be more fullie set downe hereafter in my large booke of the liues of the lord treasurors Which his beheading some doo attribute to the eight and twentith yere of the said Henrie the sixt being the yeare of our redemption 1450. He had issue sir William Fines knight and one daughter maried to sir William Cromer knight shiriffe of Kent beheaded at that time also with his father inlaw Of which Cromer is Iames Cromer of Kent now liuing descended Iohn Lord Beauchampe a person of great woorthinesse possessed the place of the treasurorship of England the nine and twentith and thirtith yeares of king Henrie the sixt Iohn Tiptost earle of Worcester possessed the place of the lord treasuror in the one and thirtith and two and thirtith of king Henrie the sixt Of whome is more mention made hereafter Iames Butler the sonne of Iames earle of Ormond being earle of Wilshire and Ormond possessed the office of the lord treasuror of England in Easter tearme the thrée and thirtith yeare of king Henrie the sixt falling in the yeare of our redemption 1455. Of whom is more spoken hereafter Henrie vicount Bourchier borne of the noble house of the Bourchiers the sonne of William Bourchier earle of Ewe in Normandie was lord treasuror of England in the thrée and thirtith yeare of the reigne of the deposed king Henrie the sixt in which office he did not long remaine Iohn Talbot earle of Shrewsburie the sonne of Iohn Talbot the first earle of Shrewsburie of that name possessed the place of the treasurorship of England in the fiue and thirtith and six and thirtith yeres of king Henrie the sixt and then gaue place to the earle of Wilshire This earle was slaine at the battell of Northampton in the eight and thirtith yeare of king Henrie the sixt being the yeare of our saluation 1460. He maried Elisabeth the daughter of Iames Butler erle of Ormond and had issue Iohn erle of Shrewesburie Iames Gilbert Christopher and George Anne maried to sir Henrie
maried to the lord Zouch Elisabeth maried to the lord Fitz Warren and Katharine maried to sir Thomas Arundell of Cornewall knight Here I thinke it not amisse to saie somewhat of a note which I haue séene that maketh Iohn Touchet lord Audleie tresuror which note is this Iohn Touchet lord Audleie treasuror of England died the six and twentith daie of December in the yeare of our redemption one thousand foure hundred foure score and ten falling in the sixt yeare of king Henrie the seuenth and had issue Iames lord Audelie beheaded the eight and twentith of Iune in the yeare of Christ 1497 being the twelfe yeare of king Henrie the seuenth he maried the daughter of sir Richard Dauell knight thus much the note But trulie for anie thing I can yet learne I can not perceiue when this Iohn Touchet should be treasuror and so cannot perceiue where he should be placed in this catalog of the treasurors of England But as I will not receiue him into anie place of this succession at this time so I will not altogither reiect him in hope that following time will informe me of the truth therein Thomas Howard the sonne of Iohn lord Howard created the first duke of Norffolke of that name in the time of Richard the third was at the same time also created earle of Surreie This man after the slaughter of his father at Bosworth field when the tyrant Richard the third was slaine by Henrie the seuenth was after receiued into such fauour with the said king Henrie the seuenth that he was aduanced to be lord treasuror of England in the sixtéenth yeare of king Henrie the seuenth in the yeare of our redemption one thousand fiue hundred which place he continued all the life of the said king Henrie the seuenth who died in the foure and twentith yeare of his reigne being the yeare of our redemption one thousand fiue hundred and nine After which for the good seruice he vsed in the time of Henrie the seuenth king Henrie the eight also permitted him to keepe that office which he possessed vntill the fiftéenth yeare of king Henrie the eight being the yeare of our redemption one thousand fiue hundred twentie and thrée This man was created duke of Norffolke on Candelmasse daie in the fift yeare of king Henrie the eight being the yeere of our redemption one thousand fiue hundred and thirtéene at what time also his son Thomas Howard was made earle of Surreie This duke was aduanced to that honour in recompense of the death of the king of Scots and for the good seruice that he did against that nation in the said fift yeare of Henrie the eight with an augmentation of his armes to beare the armes of Scotland in the bend of the arms of Howard Touching which victorie and death of the king of Scots Buchanan lib. 13. writeth to this effect that the said Thomas Howard as a note of the conquest gaue to his seruants his cognisance to weare on their left arme being a white lion the beast which he bare before as the proper ensigne of that house standing ouer a red lion the peculiar note of the kingdome of Scotland and tearing the same red lion with his pawes This Thomas duke of Norffolke maried two wiues his first wife was Elisabeth the daughter of sir Frederike Tilneie knight by whom he had issue Thomas erle of Surreie after duke of Norffolke Edward slaine at Bret admerall of England Edmund Howard with Elisabeth maried to Thomas Bulleine earle of Wilshire and Muriell married to Iohn Greie vicount Lisle His second wife was Agnes daughter line 10 of sir Philip Tilneie knight by whome he had issue William lord Howard of Effingham with manie others This Thomas duke of Norffolke died in the sixtéenth yeare of king Henrie the eight in the yeare of Christ one thousand fiue hundred fortie and foure and was buried at Thetford in Norffolke Thomas Howard sonne to the said Thomas duke of Norffolke being earle of Surreie possessed the place of the lord treasuror in the fiftéenth yeare line 20 of king Henrie the eight being the yeare that Christ tooke flesh of the virgine Marie one thousand fiue hundred twentie and three the which office he continued in the eight and thirtith yeare of the said king being the yeare of Christ one thousand fiue hundred fortie and six in which yeare on the eight and twentith of Ianuarie the said king Henrie died so that this duke and his father were lord treasurors of England almost eight and fortie yeares But about some few daies more than a moneth before the death line 30 of the said king that is to saie on the twelfe of December this duke with his sonne Henrie earle of Surreie were committed to the tower the one by water the other by land Shortlie after which the said Henrie was beheaded at tower hill the nineteenth daie of Ianuarie about nine daies before the death of the king And the duke remained as condemned to perpetuall prison till the beginning of the reigne of queene Marie who then set him at libertie He married for his first wife Anne the daughter of king line 40 Edward the fourth but had no issue by hir after whose death he married Elisabeth daughter to Edward duke of Buckingham by whome he had issue Henrie earle of Surreie beheaded as before Thomas vicount Bindon and Marie married to Henrie Fitzroie duke of Richmont He died about the beginning of the reigne of quéene Marie Edward Seimor earle of Hertford was after the death of king Henrie the eight made lord treasuror of England in the first yeare of king Edward the line 50 sixt being the yeare of our redemption one thousand fiue hundred fortie six in which yeare he was also made protector of England and duke of Summerset of whom thus writeth Matthew Parker calling him Regni camerarium in the life of Thomas Cranmer archbishop of Canturburie in these words page 397. In testamento meaning king Henrie the eight Edwardo principi minori nouem annis nato haeredi suo sexdecim tutores ex episcopis solos Thomam Cranmerum Cantuariensem line 60 archiepiscopum Cutbertum Tonstalium Dunelmensem episcopum dedit And a little after pag. 398. followeth Verùm pluribus vt diximus ei minori that was king Edward a patre constitutis curatoribus ne numero suo atque multitudine ad dissentiones faciles essent procliues vnus electus est qui ex consilijs reliquorum impuberis regis tutelam solus administraret Is fuit Edwardus Seimerus comes Hertfordiensis totius regni camerarius regÃsque aâunculus Qui suscepta tutela regis totius regni atque dominiorum suorum protector Somerseti dux nuncupatus atque creatus est This duke of Summerset being treasuror of England continued in the same office vntill his death as I gather more than foure years and was beheaded in the fift yeare of king Edward the sixt being
to a kings daughter 7 b 30 Concubine of the duke of Lancaster married vnto him 485 b 60 486 a 10. Of the duke of Glocester whom he marieth 590 a 60. Thrée of Edward the fourth 725 a 10. ¶ Sée Shores wife Perers and Préests Concubines loue to hir paramour notable 149 b 60 Conduit at Walbrooke new built 1211 a 60. In Holburne founded and finished 1311 b 60. In Cheapside builded 704 b 10. At Bishopsgate builded 792 b 10 Confession of the duke of Suffolke at his beheading 1100 b 60 1101 a 10. Of sir Thomas Palmer on the scaffold at Tower hill 1090 a 60. Uoluntarie of Francis Throckmorton the traitor written to quéene Elisabeth with his letters of submission note 1373 b 60 1374 c. Uoluntarie of Parrie the notable traitor that ment to haue murthered the quéene 1384 b 60 1385 1386 1387. Of the ladie Iane at hir beheading 1099 b 60 1100 a 10. Of sir Thomas Wiat before iudgement passed against him 1104. Of the duke of Northfolke when he should be executed on Tower hill note 1229 b 20 c 1230. Of Richard the first his lewd life note 126 b 10. Of Iack Straw at the time of his death 438 b 10. Of the duke of Summerset at his death on the Towerhill 1068 a 10 b 50. Of the lord Cromwell when he was beheaded 951 b 20. Of Elisabeth Barton the holie maid of Kent at hir execution 937 a 40. Auricular spoken against and how the same was punished note 968 b 30 Confirmation of children by the bishop 1003 a 40 Coniers knight a capteine of Durham tower 101 a 20. Of rare valiantnesse 672 a 50 Coniunction of Iupiter and Saturne 484 b 40. Prophesied but the prophesier deceiued 1356 b 30 c. Coniuror suddenlie dieth when a case of his should haue béene tried in law note 1271 a 20. Punished note 348 a 50 60 b 10. Hanged 1314 b 60 Connagh in Ireland how seated 81 b 60. A kingdome 96 b 40. The king thereof entreth into the marches of England he and his are vanquished 212 b 50 60. The king is taken and committed to prison 213 a 10 Conquet and diuerse other places burnt by the lord admerall of England 814 b 10. Taken and burned 1151 a 10 Conrade duke of Austrich ¶ Sée duke Conscience guiltie of an oftendor vnquiet note 1228 b 50 60. Guiltie in extremitie of sicknesse pincheth sore 541 a 40. Grudging and accusing what a torment 735 b 50. Troubled for offense of rebellion note 18 a 30. Guiltie ¶ Sée Suspicion Consecration of bishop Samuell note 22 a 40. Of Richard archbishop of Canturburie disturbed by yoong king Henrie 85 b 60 86 a 10. Of churches in what respect allowed 30 b 50. Of Thomas archbishop of Yorke vpon his submission and recouereth his pall 36 b 40. Of the archbishop of Yorke deferred note 35 all Of bishops denied bicause of their inuestiture by the king note 31 a 60 b 10. Of the archbishop of Canturburie by pope Calixtus 40 a 50. Of Eadmer whereabout was contention 41 a 20. Of the Lords bodie 1003 a 50 c. Of an Irish bishop 22 b 60 Conspiracie against king William Rufus to put him beside the crowne 17 a 10 20 Of Robert earle of Northumberland and whie 21 b 30. In Northfolke towards and how extinguished note 1221 b 60 1222 a 10. Of the lords against Henrie the third 209 a 50 60 c b 10. Of Foukes de Brent against Henrie the third and his âoule end 206 a 40. Against the lord chéefe iustice 205 a 40. To set prisoners at libertie 333 a 30. Of lords against king Iohn 184 a 10 185 a 30 c. Of lords banding themselues against king Iohn 185 a 10. Of great men against king Stephan 48 b 60. Disclosed and the discloser slaine 531 b 40. What an ill euent it hath 530 a 40 60 b 30 c. A fresh against Henrie the fourth by the earle of Northumberland and others 529 a 60. Of the Persies with Owen Glendouer 521 b 50 522 523. Deuised but not practised and yet punished note 520 a 10. c. Against Henrie the fourth the parties executed 516 â 50 60 b 10 c. Of the noblemen strangelie disclosed note 515 a 10 20. Of the abbat of Westminster against Henrie the fourth note 514 b 20 Betwéene the duke of Glocester and the abbat of saint Albons their purpose is disclosed 488 b 10 40 50. Of Richard the second against the duke of Glocester 489 a 60. Of Frenchmen against the English 568 b 60. Of nobles against Edward the fourth note 670 b 20 30 671 672 c. Of the Parisiens against the duke of Bedford punished with death 586 a 60 At Excester against Richard the third some of the parties executed 746 a 10 30. Of the duke of Buckingham against Richard the third had ill successe note 743 a 10 c 744 a 10 c. Against Henrie the seauenth and what an ill end it had 765 766 767 a 10 c. Against the prince falleth out alwaie to the coÌspirators shamefull death 790 a 30 40. Traitorous note 941 vpon a malcontentment ¶ Sée Lincolneshiremen Against the ladie Elisabeth whiles she was in trouble 1157 a 50 60 b 10 c. Against quéene Marie sorting to an euill end note 1132 a 20 40 60. Of quéene Maries death and the offendors executed 1117 a 60. ¶ Sée Duke of Buckingham Noblemen Rebellion Conspirators ouerthrowne and discomfited note 18 a 10 20. Extreamlie punished and that diuerslie 21 b 60. Uanquished and punished note 188 a 30 40 An league and inuade Henrie the seconds dominions 87 b all Against Henrie the first to put him bâside the crowne 29 b 20 Constable ¶ Sée France Constables of England called high constables the office ending in the duke of Buckingham 865 b 60 866 c. Constance the mother of duke Arthur ¶ Sée Duke Constance wife to Eustace sent home 61 a 30 Constancie of the archbishop of Yorke 256 b 40. Of the earle of Carlill at his death 334 a 60. In martyrdom 536 a 60. Of a good Iew in christianitie 27 a 60 Constantia the daughter of Margaret countesse of Britaine how married 7 b 30 Constantinople the emperor thereof commeth into England 222 a 60 Contention betwixt the earles of Leicester and Glocester 261 b 10. Betwéene the two princes of Wales pursued note 226 b 20 c. Betwixt prâlats 244 b 10. Betwéene Henrie the third and the bishop of Lincolne 228 b 40. Betwixt Frederike the emperour and pope Innocent 224 b 30. Betwixt two Welsh princes for the principalitie 224 b 10. Betwéene the archbishop of Canturburie and the earle of Kent 213 a 40 c. Newlie broched by the archbishop of Canturburie 204 b 60. Betwixt the earles of Leceister and Glocester 259 a 60. About the choosing of the emperor 155 a 20. Betwéene bishops for superioritie 133. a 60. Betwixt two ambitious bishops 121 a 50.
fauourable to the ladie Elisabeth 1158 b 10. Priuie seale deceaseth 1257 b 40. ¶ Sée Earle of Surrie Hubert de Burgh assaileth the French fléet 201 a 50 Hugh earle of Chester his exploits against the Welshmen 23 a 40. Despaireth of life 28 a 10 Hugh earle of Shrewesburie Arundell his exploits 23 a 40. Slaine by a rouer note 23 a 50 Huldorne captâine rebell executed 672 a 30 Humâ castell besieged yéelded vp possessed of the English 990 b 10 c. Hun hanged in the Lollards towre his death lamented whie 835 a 10 20 Hunger when people did eat horsses 1022 a 60 Hungerford lord executed for buggerie 952 b 20 Hunsdich paued 792 a 10 Hunsdon lord his descent he presenteth the order of the âarter to the French king 1206 a 60. He with others go against the rebels in the north 1212 b 20. Made lord chamberleine 1413 a 50 Hunting fatall of William Rufus 26 b 30 40. Préests were not to vse it 97 a 60. A statute made concerning it 238 b 20 Hunting roiall 473 a 20 30 Huntington earldome by whom and to whom giuen in dowrie 11 b 20. Scotish 66 b 50. The castell woone 92 a 60 Husbandrie hindered by frost 396 b 60. Diminished wherebââ and how remedied note 862 a 60 b 10. ¶ Sée Frosts and Raine I. IAcke Cads rebellion in Kent 632 a 60. Is at his wits end disguiseth himselfe is forsaken of his adherents proclamation out to take him he is apprehended and executed 635. Slaieth the Staffords 634 a 60 Iacke Straw his adherents executed 436 a 50. His confession at the time of his deth 438 b 10 Iane the daughter of K. Iohn married to the erle of March 182 b 60 Iane de Ualois sister to the French K. treateth for peace 360 a 30 Iane ladie Gilford proclamed quéene 1084 b 10. Hath the kéeping of the keies of the Towre 1087 a 40. CoÌmitted to the Towre with hir husband the lord Gilford 1088 b 50. Hir behauior at hir execution the words which she spake on the scaffold 1099 b 40 50 60 1100 a 10 c. Iaques Arkeneld purposeth the destruction of Gerard Deruse his house béâ set he slaine 368 a 30 c. Idlenesse meat of other mens charge what they doo 1049 b 20 Iennie a notorius knowne traitor conferrer with Francis Throckmorton 1371 b 10 Ierdseie ¶ Sée French king Ierusalem taken by Saladine prince of the Saracens 110 b 50. With more part of all other townes taken from the christians 111 a 60. The king thereof dooth fealtie to Richard the first 127 b 60. The king thereof commeth to England 205 a 50. ¶ Sée Holielaâd Iest of Philip the French king at duke William lieng sicke note 14 b 20. Of Richard the first at the castell of Chateau Galliard builded 155 b 10. Of king Iohn concerning the masse 196 b 20. Of Edward the fourth and a widow that gaue him monie 694 a 60. Plesant concerning the strict kéeping of ladie Elisabeth 1156 b 40. Merie at the rood of Paules 1121 a 60. Of a cat hanged in Cheape and of a dog clothed in a rochet called by the name of Gardener 1143 a 20. Against scripture iustlie rewarded 1223 a 50. ¶ Sée Derision and Mocke Iesuits massing préests proclamed against 1315 a 40 Sent ouer seas and banished the realme note well 1379 a 30 c 1380. ¶ Sée Priests seminarie Iew and of a good Iewes answer to William Rufus 27 a 60 b 10. Striken by a christian 118 b 50. Hath his téeth drawne out 174 a 40. At Teukesburie falleth into a iakes note 262 b 60 Iewes and christians dispute 27 b 20. Burnt to death 119 a 10. Sute to William Rufus against Iewes become christians note 27 a 40. Brought into this land by duke William 15 a 10. At Lincolne slaine and spoiled 272 a 20. Inhabiting London slaine for treson 267 a 60. Slaine at London whie 263 b 40. Accused executed for crucifieng of a child 253 a 50. Charged on paine of hanging to paie Henrie the third 8000 marks 252 a 10. Robbed in Oxford 238 b 10. CoÌstreined to helpe Henrie the third with monie 242 b 30. Released out of prison 254 a 20. Punished by the purse for a murther committed 224 a 30. Meant to crucifie a child in spite of Christ 219 a 30. Generallie imprisoned thorough out all England hated note 283 b 20. Banished out of England and whie 285 a 50. Drowned b 10. Giue Henrie third the third part of all their moueables 211 b 60. Indicted and punished for abusing the kings coiâe 279 b 30. Crucifie a child 56 b 20. Grieuouslie taxed tormented and imprisoned 174 a 30. And where they buried their dâad 101 b 20. Appointed to inroll all their debts pledges c 145 b 20. Excéedinglie hated and murthered note 121 b 50 122 all Houses set on fier at London 118 b 60. Beaten abused by the people 118 b 60. Meant to present king Richard with a rich gift 118 b 40 Iewell Iohn ¶ Sée Bishop Iland discouered ¶ Sée Sebastian Images taken awaie remoued from their places note 945 b 10 c. Remoued out of churches 979 b 50. Through out the realme pulled downe and defaced 992 b 20. Taken downe burned in the stréets 1184 b 60 1185 a 10 Impost ¶ Sée Custome and Subsidie Imprecation note 248 a 60 Incest of king Iohn 184 b 20 Inclosures of the fields about London cast downe and ouerthrowne by archers of London 830 a 10. A proclamation for the laieng of them open 1002 a 10 Incontinenciâ of Henrie the second 115 b 30 Indenture sextipartite of conspired noble men note 514 b 60 515 a 20. Tripartite touing conspiracie 521 b 60 Indulgences biennals triennals liberallie granted 428 b 60 Infection ¶ Sée Murren Infidelitie suspected in William Rufus 27 b 20 Ingratitude note 862 b 60. Shrewdlie practised and seuerelie punished 743 b 50. 744 a 50. A notable example thereof 605 b 40. Of Fitzosbert vnnaturall 149 a 50. Striketh dead 50 b 30. In all estates towards Richard the second 508 a 50 60. For good seruice vnrewarded and what followed 21 b 30. Of Odo for his restitution note 17 a 20. Of cardinall Poole to Henrie the right that brought him vp 1165 a 10 Iniurie doone and no reuânge sought note 1117 b 40. ¶ Sée reuenge Iniustice 173 b 30 Innocencie no barre against execution 1066 a 10 Innocent hanged for the nocent 173 a 30 Inquisitions taken of diuerse matters note 153 b 30. Taken by a iurie of sundrie matters 145 a 60. Of the losses euerie bishop had and susteined c 180 b 60. Calld Traile baston 312 b 60. Taken of the misdemeanors of iustices 312 b 40. For abusors of the kings coine 279 b 30. For the separating of forrests 207 a 50. What were the liberties in times past of K Henrie the thirds grandfather note 205 a 10. For washers clippers of monie 241 a
The earle of Kent rescued and conueied into Wales Polydor. The king entreth into Wales with an armie Polydor. The king returneth out of Wales The earle of Penbroke in danger He is rescued The Poictouins discomfited Dearth Tempests An earthquake A death Matth. Paris Iohn Monmouth receiueth an ouerthrow Polydor. Matth. Paris A part of the towne of Shrewsburie burnt Polydor. Matth. Paris Matth. Paris The earle of Penbroke passeth ouer into Ireland He is taken prisoner Geffrey Maurish The death ãâã the earle of Penbroke Polydor. Matth. Pariâ Gilbert Marshall earle of Penbroke Officers called to accounts The truce ended Welshmen sent ouer to the aid of the earle of Britaine The earle of Britaine submitteth himselfe to the French king Anno Reg. 19. 1235 Polydor. Fabian * Sée the like in pag. 56. col 1. Matth. Paris The emperor Frederike marieth the king of Englands sister A great and sumptuous feast Matth. Paris Usurers called Caorsini of whome sée more in pag. 211. col 1. The bishop of London his doctrine Anno Reg. 20. King Henrie marrieth the ladie Elianor daughter to the earle of Prouance Matth. Paris The earle of Chester The constable of Chester The earle of Penbroke The wardeÌs of the cinque ports The earle of Leicester Erle Warren The earle of Hereford Lord William Beauchampe The citizens of London The citizens of Winchester A parlement at London Polydor. Strange sights Matth. Paris Great raine Matth. Paris Matth. West A great thunder A drie summer Gilbert Norman founder of Merton abbeie Anno Reg. 21. High tides Matth. Paris Wisbech people perishing by rage of waters A subsidie Matth. Paris Iohn Scot earle of Chester departed this life Ran. Higd. His sisters Cardinall Otho or Othobon The lords grudge at the king for receiuing the cardinall without their knowledge The legat praised for his sober behauiour A tournie at Blie Earle Bigot Anno Reg. 22. The legat holdeth a synod at London The legat coâmeth to Oxford A fraie betwixt the legats men and the scholers of Oxford A cookes almes The legats cooke slaine The legat complaineth to the king The earle Waren sent to apprehend the offendors The legat cursseth The regents of yâ Uniuersitie absolued Polydor. Matth. Paris The emperor of Constantinople coÌmeth into England The countesse of Peâbroke sister to the king married to Simon de Montford Polydor. The archbishop of Canturburie displeased with the marriage He goeth to Rome to coÌplaine of the king The earle of Cornewall ââ also offended for the same marriage Matth. Paris The earle of Leicester gathereth ãâã He goeth to Rome to get â dispensation or rather confirmation of his marriage Aid sent forth of England ââ the emperour Henrie Trubleuille Iohn Mansel Wil. Hardell The bishop of Winchester departeth this life Matth. Paris A naughtie wretch meant to haue destroied the K. * Sée his end in pag. 230. Seneca in Octa Hippol. Anno Reg. 23. 1239 Matth. Paris Uariance betwixt the king and the earle of Penbroke Simon earle of Leicester fled ouer into France The birth of king Edward the first Polydor. A strange star Matth. Paris Ranulfe Briton taken out of his house and led to the tower Great raine The legat beginneth to looke to his owne coÌmoditie Sir Robert de Twing The Iewes punished by the pursse A synod holden at London Anno Reg. 24. 1240 Matth. Paris Matth. West Baldwin de Riuers earle of the I le of Wight The woods about Leicester féeld Leolin prince of Wales departeth this life Griffin ap Maddockeâ King Henrie aided the pope with monie against the âââperour Complaint to the king of the collections made for the pope The answer of the king Polydor. The causes that mooued archbishop Edmund to depart the realme Matth. West Matth. Paris Polydor. The death of Edmund archbishop of Canturburie surnamed of Pontney A Charterhouse moonke apprehended Iustices itinerants William de Yorke Robert Lexinton iustices The earle of Cornewal goeth into the holy land The earle of Leiceâster goeth thither also The earle of Albemarle The dedication of the church of S. Paule in London The death of Isabell the countesse of Cornewall The lord Iohn Fitz Robert A comet A battell betwixt fishes Matth. Paris The kings manour at Mortlake A great wind An oth receiued The seneshall of Aquitaine Peter Rosso Peter de Supino got a vintiesme that is the 20 part of préests benefices Anno Reg. 25. 1241 Boniface de Sauoie elected archb of Canturburie Matth. Paris The earle of Cornewall ãâã intercessor ãâã a peace to be had betwixt the pope and the emperour He returneth into England Warres betwéene the Welshmen King Henrie goeth into Wales with an armie Dauid driuen to his wits end Dauid deliuereth his brother to the K. Matth. Pariâ page 765. Matth. Paris page 830. Iohn Maââsell Death of âââble men Lacie lâft ãâã issue maâe behind him so that his daughters inheritââ his lands Cardinall Somercotean Englishman An eclipse Anno Reg. 26. The death of the empresse Isabell. Wars renued betwixt the kings of England France The earle of March Gaguinus Matth. West Sundrie opinions in the kings councellers Charugage a certeine dutie for euerie Plowland The bishops of Durham sent into Scotland The king of Scots warden of the English marshes The archbishop of Yorke gouernor of the realme Thirtie barrels of English coine The king passeth ouer into France The French king inuadeth the earle of Marches land The number of the English armie Tailborge Xainctes An encounter betwixt the English and French The valiancy of the earle of Leicester and others Iohn Mansell Sir Iohn Barris Wil. de Sey. Gilbert de Clare slaine The earle of March is reconciled to the French king Matth. Paris The countesse of Bierne The reuolting of other French lords Sée pag. 42 43 44. pag. 152. of the historie of England Death in the French camp Truce ãâã betwixt the two kings Polydor. The queen ãâã England deliuered of a daughter William Marisch executiâ Sée pag. 223. The seas trâebled with men of warre Escuage gathered 20 shillings of euerie knights fée Matth. West Death of noble men Anno. Reg. 27. The earle of Cornwal and other returne home Prouision of graine and victuals taken vp and sent to the king The king led by strangers He is euill spoken of A truce taken for fiue years Nicholas de Mueles his lieutenant in Gascoigne Death of Noble men Hugh Lacie Fabian Matth. Paris Stars fallen after a strange manner Anno Reg. 28. The countesse of Prouance mother to the quéene commeth ouer into England The earle of Cornewall maried to the ladie Sanctia William Ralegh bishop of Norwich He is consecrated bish of Winchester by the pope He steleth out of the realme He giueth to the pope 6000 marks Martine the popes collectour Antichasis de Christi papae facinorb sub authore anânymo The nobles complainâ ãâã the king ãâ¦ã popes ãâã The king writeth to the pope Polydor. The king asâketh counsel how to procââ in
the Scots The duke of LaÌcaster sent to aid the king of Nauarre Paulus Aâmilius Froissard The castell of Orbec rescued The citie of Eureux yéelded to the Frenchmen Uernueil The French K. commeth to giue the duke of Lancaster battell Froissard The prince of Wales inuadeth the French dominions The citie of Burges Issoldune assaulted Uierzon woone The passages stopped The prince returneth Remorentine A skirmish The Frenchmen fled The prince lodgeth in the towne of Remorentine The castell of Remorentine assaulted It is set on fier They withââ submitted themselues The French king foloweth the prince of Wales Froissard Seuen thousand chosen men saith Tho. Walsi Chauuignie The lord Raoull de Coucie taken Frenchmen distressed The ordering of the French battell The cardinal of Piergort The prince of Wales contented to come to a treatie The offer ãâã the prince of Wales The French kings presumptuous demand The English men fortifie their campe The cardinal trauelled in vaine Tho. Walâ A prophesie ãâã a prelate The exteââtion of the prince Noble men with the prince of Wales The capitall de Beuf The number of the prince his armie The number of the French The battell is begun The force of the English archers The lord Iames Audeley Tho. Walsi The earles of Warwike and Sâffolke The marshals battell put to yâ worst The Frenchmen séeke to saue themselus by flight Polydor. Froissard The valiancie of the French king The French king taken Ia. Meit Sir Denise Morbecke Froissard Noblemen slaine Ia. Meir Polydor. The chase Froissard Annales de France Archembald Douglas takâ Iacob Meir Prisoners taken The battell of Poâctiers when it was The prince suppeth the prisoners The French king thanâ ãâã the prince The prince returneth ãâã Burdeaux Froissard The lord âââdelie rewarded Bonfierâ 135â Anno Reg. ââ Additions ãâã Adam Meââmuth The priâce bringeth the French king ouer into England A iust holden in Smithfeld The French k. sorowfull Psalm 137. Thom. Wals. Froissard Cardinals sent into England A truce for two yeareâ The French king remoued to Windsor Rennes besieged Tho. Walsi Fourdon The king of Scots ransomed Polydor. Froissard 1358 Anno Reg. 3â Annales de France The citie of Auxerre takeÌ by sir Robert Knolles Daubignie sir le Metre Chastelon New castell vpon Loire Talke of a peace and articles thereof drawne Caxton Thom. Wals. The bishop of Elie. Excommunication Such as deliuered the popes letters hanged Discord betwixt priests and friers Th. Walsing Iohn of Gant married 1359 Anno Reg. 33. Windsore castell repared Additions to Triuet A solemne iusts at London Caxton The K. with his foure sons are of the chalengers part The French K. remoued He departed froÌ Hertford the 29 of Iulie Polydor. The king prepareth to make a iournie into France Froissard The duke of Lancaster Braie assaulted The kings arriuall at Calis Froissard Polydor. Froissard Reimes besieged 1â6â Anno Reg. 34. Tonnere woone Guillon Flauignie The number of carriages Caxton Additions to Ad. Merimuâh Winchelsie burnt by the French A CompositioÌ made to spare the coântrie of Burgognie Franks hath Paradine in Les Annales de Burgogniâ Froissard The king of England draweth towards Paris A treatie The English men before Paris Polydor. The suburbs oâ Parris burnt Froissard The bishop of Beauuois A new treatie The duke of Lancaster persuadeth the king to agrée An hideous storme tempest of wether A peace conclâded The articles Fabian Froissard Homages and seruices The date of the charter of the peace The French kings ransome Hostages The French not to aid the Scots Britaine The king of England returneth home The earle of Warwike Tho. Walsiâ The French king goeth ouer to Calis The kings receiue a solemne oth to sée the pâace performed The duke ãâã Normandie The ãâã of the Freâââ hostages The French king set at libertie In Angl. prel sub Edwardo 3. Strange woonders A great death Hân Mârl The primat of Ardmach departed this liâe 1â61 Additions to Triuet and Adâm Merimuâh A straÌge sight in the aâre Froissard Anno. Reg. 3â A parlement Caxton Tho. Walsi Adam Merimuth Caxton A mightie wind Anno Reg. 36. Creations of the kings sonnes to degrées of honoâ Hen. Marle The prince of wales passeth ouer into Guien Thom. Wals. Additions to Ad. Merim A iusts in Smithfield The Staple of wools remoued âo Calis A parlement A pardon A statute agaânst purueiers A subsidie Lawiers to plead their caâes in English Caxton Schoolemasters to teach scholers to construe their lessons in English 1363 Anno Reg. 37. Thom. Wals. Additions to Adam Merimuth A statute of araie against costlie apparell Thrée kings came into England about businesse with K. Edward Anno. Reg. 38. The death of the French king Fabian The battell of Aulroy Froissard Thrée thouâsand and six hundred figââting men ãâã Walsing ãâã The worâââ actiuitie of the English archers Sir Hugh Caluerlie The earle of Auxerre takeÌ prisoner Sir BerthraÌ de Cleaquin Ambassadors sent to the earle of Montford The variance for Britaine compounded Fabian Anno Reg. 39. Fabian Tho. Wals. The lord Coucie marieth the king of Englands daughter Polychron Froissard Ia. Mair A treatie of mariage for the earle of Cambridge The earle of Flanders The lord Latimer The king of Castile chased out of his realme Froissard Peter pence Ine king of Westsaxons A rainie haruest Caxton Death K. Richard the second borne Froissard 1367 Anno Reg. 41. The prince setteth forward towards Spaine He entreth into Nauaâre The king of Nauarre taken by the Frenchmen Sir Martin de Care Saint Machaule The king of Spaine sendeth to the prince Uictoria Uiana Polydor. Sir William Felton ãâã Froissard The number of the princes armie The chiefteins of the same armie The order ãâã the Spaniards The number of yâ Spanish armie The duke of Lancaster The capitall of Beuf The archers King Peter The Spaniards put to ââght The number slaine at this battell at Nauarret Fabian Caxton Froissard Caxton Froissard King Peters dissimulation Tho. Walsi The prince put to his shifts for deâault of paie The prince returneth into Gascoigne 1368 Anno Reg. 42. A blasing starre Polychron Polydor. Froissard The duke of Clarence goeth into Italie The ladie Uiolant His interteinement â Sauoy His receiuing into Millanâ Corio in the historie of Millane Ia. Meir Froissard Caxton Froissard The prince ãâã Wales constreined to bâââden his subiects with â sore subsidie Coine not to be inhanced nor abased The demâââ of this fuage the cause of yâ Gascoignes reuolting to the French king The earle of Saint Paule The prince of Wales appealed to appeare line 20 Anno Reg. 43. The princes answer to the messenger The duke of Berrie The lord Chandois Chimniage A letter published by the prince to appease the Gascoignes Ia. Meir Philip duke of Burgognie marieth the erle of Flanders daughter The cause of his surname le Hardie The earles of Arminacke Perigord Froissard The L. Wake discomfited Fabian The French king procéedeth against the prince in
distant as lions leopards lynxes and porcupines His estimation was such among outlandish princes that few would willinglie offend him Murcherdach king of Ireland his successors had him in such reuerence that they durst doo nothing but what he commanded nor write any thing but what might stand with his pleasure though at the first the same Morchad attempted something against the Englishmen more than held with reason but afterward vpon restraint of the entercourse of merchandize he was glad to shew himselfe more fréendlie Moreouer the earle of Orkney although he was the king of Norwaies subiect yet did he what he could to procure king Henries fréendship sending such strange beasts and other things to him oftentimes as presents wherein he knew the king tooke great delight and pleasure He had in singular fauour aboue all other of his councell Roger the bishop of Salisburie a politike prelate and one that knew how to order matters of great importance vnto whome he committed the gouernement of the realme most commonlie whilest he remained in Normandie As well in this kings daies as in the time of his brother William Rufus men forgetting their owne sex and state transformed themselues into the habit and forme of women by suffering their haire to grow in length the which they curled and trimmed verie curiouslie after the maner of damosels and yong gentlewomen insomuch that they made such account of their long bushing perukes that those which would be taken for courtiers contended with women who should haue the longest tresses and such as wanted sought to amend it with art and by knitting wreathes about their heads of those their long and side locks for a brauerie Yet we read that king Henrie gaue commandement to all his people to cut their haire about the 28. yeare of his reigne year 1127 Preachers indeed inueied against such vnseemlie maners in men as a thing more agréeable and seemelie for the contrarie sex Wil. Malm. reciteth a tale of a knight in those daies that tooke no small liking of himselfe for his faire and long haire who chanced to haue a verie terrible dreame For it séemed to him in his sléepe that one was about to strangle him with his owne haire which he wrapped about his throte and necke the impression whereof sanke so deepelie into his line 10 mind that when he awaked out of his sléepe he streightwaies caused so much of his haire to be cut as might seeme superfluous A great number of other in the realme followed his commendable example but the remorse of conscience herein that thus caused them to cut their haire continued not long for they fell to the like abuse againe so as within a twelue moneths space they excéeded therein as farre beyond all the bounds of séemelie order as before ¶ In this Henrie ended the line of the Normans as touching the heires male and then came in the Frenchmen by the title of the heires generall after that the Normans had reigned about 69. yeares for so manie are accounted from the comming of William Conquerour vnto the beginning of the reigne of king Stephan who succéeded the said Henrie Thus farre the succession and regiment of the Normans namelie William Conquerour the father William Rufus and Henrie Beauclerke the sonnes Stephan earle of Bullongne STephan earle of Bullongne the sonne of Stephan erle of Blois by his wife Adela daughter to William Conquerour came ouer with all speed after the death of his vncle and tooke vpon him the line 20 gouernement of the realme of England partlie through confidence which he had in the puissance and strength of his brother Theobald earle of Blois and partlie by the aid of his brother Henrie bishop of Winchester and abbat of Glastenburie although that he with other of the Nobles had sworne afore to be true vnto the empresse and hir issue as lawfull heires of king Henrie latelie deceassed line 30 The same day that he arriued in England there chanced a mightie great tempest of thunder horrible to heare and lightning dreadfull to behold Now bicause this happened in the winter time it séemed against nature and therefore it was the more noted as a foreshewing of some trouble and calamitie to come This Stephan began his reigne ouer the realme of England the second day of December in the yere of our Lord 1135. in the eleuenth yeare of the emperour line 40 Lothair the sixt of pope Innocentius the second and about the xxvij of Lewes the seuenth surnamed Crassus king of France Dauid the first of that name then reigning in Scotland entring into the twelfe of his regiment He was crowned at Westminster vpon S. Stephans day by William archbishop of Canturburie the most part of the Nobles of the realme being present and swearing fealtie vnto him as to their true and lawfull souereigne Howbeit there were diuerse of the wiser sort of line 50 all estates which regarding their former oth could haue béene contented that the empresse should haue gouerned till hir sonne had come to lawfull age notwithstanding they held their peace as yet and consented vnto Stephan But this breach of their othes was worthilie punished afterward insomuch that as well the bishops as the other Nobles either died an euill death or were afflicted with diuerse kinds of calamities and mischances and that euen here in this life of which some of them as occasion serueth shall be remembred hereafter Yet there were of them and namelie the bishop of Salisburie which protested that they were frée from their oth of allegiance made to the said empresse bicause that without the consent of the lords of the land she was maried out of the realme whereas they tooke their oth to receiue hir for queene vpon that condition that without their assent she should not marrie with any person out of the realme Moreouer as some writers thinke the bishops tooke it that they should doo God good seruice in prouiding for the wealth of the realme and the aduancement of the church by their periurie For whereas the late deceassed king vsed himselfe not altogither for their purpose they thought that if they might set vp and creat a king chéeflie by their especiall meanes and authoritie he would follow their counsell better and reforme such things as they iudged to be amisse But a great cause that mooued manie of the lords vnto the violating thus of their oth was as some authors rehearse for that Hugh Bigot sometime steward to king Henrie the first immediatlie after the decease of king Henrie came into England and as well before the archbishop of Canturburie as diuers other lords of the land tooke a voluntarie oth although most men thinke that he was hired so to doo bicause of great promotion declaring vpon the same that he was present a little before king Henries death when the same king adopted and chose his nephue Stephan to be his heire
into the countie of Beauâoisin burned manie villages in the same and destroied the strong castell of Gerberie except one turret which line 30 his souldiers could not take by reason of the fire and smoke which staied and kept them from it Moreouer Simon earle of Auranches deliuered vnto king Henrie such fortresses as he held in France as Rochfort Montfort and such like which was no small discommoditie and inconuenience to the French king bicause the garisons placed in those fortresses impeached the passage betwixt Paris and Orleance But shortlie after a truce was taken to last from the moneth of December vnto the feast of the holie line 40 Trinitie in the yeare next following In the moneth of Maie also insuing a peace was concluded vpon the former articles and conditions year 1160 for further confirmation whereof the mariage was solemnized betwixt Henrie the kings sonne being seuen yeares of age and the ladie Margaret daughter to the French king being not past three yeares old as writers doo report The marriage was celebrated at Newborough on the second daie of Nouember line 50 by the authoritie of two legats of the apostolike sée Henrie bishop of Pisa and William bishop of Pauia both preests and cardinals About the same time came certeine Dutchmen of the sort called Ualdoies ouer into this realme to the number of thirtie or more who held opinions in religion contrarie to the faith of the Romane church for as one author affirmeth they which first spred the opinions which these men held came from Gascoigne and preuailed so greatlie in setting foorth their doctrine line 60 that they mightilie increased through the large regions of Spaine France Italie and Germanie simple men God wote they were for the most part as is written of them and of no quicke capacitie Howbeit those which at this time came ouer into England were indifferentlie well learned and their principall or ringleader was named Gerard. Now also was a councell assembled at Oxford whereat these dogmatists were examined vpon certeine points of their profession The forsaid Gerard vndertaking to answere for them all protested that they were good christians and had the doctrine of the apostles in all reuerence Moreouer being examined what they thought of the substance of the godhead and the merits of ãâã they answered rightlie and to the point but being further examined vpon other articles of the religion then receiued then swarâed from the church and ãâã in the vse of the diuine sacraments derogating such grace ãâã the same as the church by hir authoritie had then ascribed thereto To conclude they would in no wise renounce their opinions in somuch that they were condemned burned in the foââhead with an hot iron and in the cold season of winter âââipped naked from the girdle ãâã vpward and so whipped out of the towne with proclamation ãâã that âo man should be so hardiâ as to ãâã them into any house ãâã haue them with meat drinke ãâã any other kind of meanes wherevpon it fell out in fine that they were starued to deaââ through cold and hunger howbeit in this their affliction theâ séemed to reioise in that they suffered for Gods cââse as they made account The same yeare Mattâew sonne to the earle of Flanders married the ladie Marie the abbesse of Ramsie daughter to king Stephan and with hir had the countie of Bullongne About this mariage grew the first falling out betwixt the king and his chancellor Thomas Becket as some haue written but none more than the said Matthew was offended with the said chancellor bicause he was so sore against the said contract King Henrie shortlie after the marriage was consummate betwixt his sonne the French kings daughter got into his hands the castell of Gisors year 1161 with two other castels situate vpon the riuer of Eata in the confânes of Normandie and France For it was accorded betwixt the two kings that when the marriage should be finished king Henrie should haue those thrée castels bicause they apperteined to Normandie in the meane time the same castels were deliuered into the hands of Robert de Poiron Tostes de Saint Omer and Robert Hastings thrée knights templers who vpon the consummation of the marriages before said and according to the trust committed to them surrendred the possession of the said castels into the hands of king Henrie But the French king was not a little moued for that king Henrie had seized vpon them without his licence in so much that he raised a power of armed men and sent them into Normandie where they had one cruell conflict aboue the rest with the Normans till the night parted them in sunder by meane whereof the Frenchmen withdrew to Chaumount and the Romans to Gisors The next daie as the Frenchmen came foorth againe purposing to haue won Gisors they were beaten backe by the Normans who issued out of the towne to skirmish with them Thus was the warre renewed betwixt these two princes and by setting on of Theobald earle of Blois the matter grew to that point that the English and French powers comming foorthwith into the field and marching one against an other they approched so neere togither that battell was presentlie looked for first in Ueulgessine and after in the territorie of Dune but yet in the end such order was taken betwixt them that their armies brake vp The three Templers also ran in displeasure of the French king for the deliuerie of the castels before they knew his mind so that he banished them the realme of France for euermore but king Henrie receiued them and gaue them honorable enterteinement Some write that there were but two castels Gisors and Meall which were thus put into their hands and by them deliuered as before is mentioned About this time Theobald archbishop of Canturburie departed this life after he had gouerned that sée the space of 22. yeares who at his going to Rome and receipt of the pall of pope Innocent the second was also created legat of the see apostolike which office he exercised so diligentlie and so much to the auaile of the church that the dignitie of legatship remained euer after to the archbishop of Canturburie by a speciall decrée so that they were intituled Legati nati that is to say Legats borne as mine author dooth report This Theobald greatlie fauoured Thomas Becket line 10 This Becket was borne in London his father hight Gilbert but his mother was a Syrian borne and by religion a Saracen howbeit no regard had of his parents he grew so highlie in fauour with the king and might doo so much in England that he seemed to reigne as if he had beene associat with him also in the kingdome and being Lord chancellor the king sent him ouer into England Richard Lucie being in his companie with sundrie letters in his fauour thereby to procure his election to that
sée which line 20 was brought to passe according to the kings desire at Westminster Afterward he was ordeined at Canturburie on saturdaie in Whitsunwéeke by Henrie bishop of Winchester although there be that write how Walter bishop of Rochester did consecrate him which consecration was in the 44. yeare of his age year 1162 and in the fift yere after his first aduancement to the office of Lord chancellor so that he was the eight and thirtith archbishop which gouerned in that see line 30 Toward the end of the same yeare Henrie the kings sonne receiued homage of the barons first in Normandie and after in England In the yeare ensuing the king his father committed him to archbishop Becket that he might sée him brought vp and trained in maners and courtlie behauiour as apperteined to his estate wherevpon the archbishop in iest called him his sonne This yeare Quéene Elianor was brought to bed at Rohan of a daughter named Elianor In like maner the kings of England and France line 40 receiued pope Alexander the third at Cocie vpon Loire with all honor and reuerence insomuch that they attended vpon his stirrup on foot like pages or lackies the one vpon his right side and the other on his left ¶ Note here the intollerable pride of this antichristian pope in assuming and the basemindednesse of these two kings in ascribing vnto that man of sinne such dignitie as is vtterlie vnfit for his indignitie line 50 But what will this monster of men this Stupor mundi this Diaboli primogenitus haeres not arrogate for his owne aduancement like yuie climing aloft choking the trée by whose helpe it créepeth vp from the root to the top But the end of this seauen horned beast so extolling and lifting it selfe vp to heauen is Erebo miserè claudetur in imo Atque illic miris cruciatibus afficietur In Ianuarie ensuing the king returned into England and the same yeare the king of Scots did line 60 homage vnto Henrie the yonger and deliuered his yonger brother Dauid to the king his father with diuerse other the sonnes of his lords and barons in pledge for assurance of a perpetuall peace to be kept betweene them with some such castels as he required In the meane time archbishop Thomas went to the councell holden by pope Alexander at Tours in the Octaues of Pentecost where he resigned his bishoprike into the popes hands as the âame went being troubled in conscience for that he had receiued it by the kings preferment The pope allowing his purpose committed the same pastorlike dignitie to him againe by his ecclesiasticall power whereby the archbishop was eased verie well of his greefe and shortlie after his returne from his councell seemed desirous to reduce cause to be restored such rights as he pretended to belong vnto the church of Canturburie whereby he ran into the displeasure of manie and namelie of the mightiest Moreouer he required of the king the kéeping of Rochester castell the custodie of the tower of London He alledged also that Saltwood Hith belonged peculiarlie to the seigniorie of his see He called Roger earle of Clare vnto Westminster to doo his homage vnto him for the castell of Tunbridge but the earle denied it through the setting on of the king alledging all the fee thereof to apperteine rather to the king than to the archbishop Thus was the archbishop troubled and he grew dailie more and more out of the kings fauour For yee must vnderstand that this was not the first nor the second but the eight time that the king had shewed tokens of his displeasure against him After this vpon the first day of Iulie Rice prince of Southwales with diuerse other lords and nobles of Wales did homage both to the king and to his sonne Henrie at Woodstocke Hamline the kings bastard brother married the countesse of Warren the widow of William earle of Mortaigne bastard sonne to king Stephan This countesse was the sole daughter and heire of William the third earle of Warren year 1164 which went with Lewes king of France into the holie land and there died Soone after the Welshmen rebelling with their prince Rice and his vncle Owen did many mischéefes on the marshes and by the death of Walter Gifford earle of Buckingham who deceased this yeare without heire that earledome came to the kings hands On the 20. daie of September were three circles seene to compasse the sun and so continued the space of thrée houres togither which when they vanished awaie two sunnes appeared and sprang foorth after a maruellous maner Which strange sight the common people imagined to be a signe or token of the controuersie then kindling betwixt the king and the archbishop About this time the king called a parlement at Westminster to treat of matters concerning the commonwealth wherein great discord arose betwixt the king archbishop Becket about certeine points touching the liberties of the church For the king hauing an earnest zeale vnto iustice and commanding the iudges to punish offenders without respect vnderstood by their information that manie things by them of the spiritualtie against whome their authoritie might not be extended were committed contrarie to common order as theft rapine murther and manslaughter in so much that in his presence it was made notorious that sith the beginning of his reigne aboue an hundred manslaughters had béene committed within his realme of England by préests and men of religious orders Herevpon being mooued in mind he set forth lawes against the spiritualtie wherein he shewed his zeale of iustice For as the cause procéeded from the bishops of that age so did the fault also sith contrarie to their owne canons they permitted préests to liue ouer licentiouslie without due correction studieng onelie to mainteine the liberties and immunities of the church and not to reforme the irregularitie of the regulars Of this crew was one Philip de Broc a canon of Bedford who being arreigned before the kings iusticer for a murther vttered disdainefull words against the same iâsticer which when he could not denie before the archbishop he was depriued of his prebend and banished the land for two yeares space These things troubled the king who therefore hauing alreadie set downâ such ãâã as should bridle the spiritualtie from their wicked dooings thought that if he might get them confirmed in parlement by consent of the bishops and clergie ãâã the same should take place and be receiued for ãâã Wherefore he earnestlie required at this parlement âhaâ it might be enacted against all such of the spiritâaltie as should be taken and conuicted for ãâ¦ã offense they should loose âhe priuiledge of the church and be deliuered vnto the ciuill magistrate ãâã line 10 should see them âuffer execution for tâeir ãâã in like maner as he might any of the kings ãâã being laie men For otherwise the
and comming to his father as an obedient sonne shewed himselfe readie to serue him at commandement with a glad and willing mind Soone after this and about the seauenth houre of the day the sunne suffered a generall eclipse so that no part of it appeared and therwith followed great thunder with lightning and sore tempest with the violence whereof both men and beasts were destroied and manie houses burned Shortlie after this the kings of England and France met and communed togither for the aiding of them in the holie land and they promised indéed to send thither both men and monie but the patriarch made small account thereof for he was much deceiued of that which he hoped to haue brought to passe which was either to haue got the king of England or one of his sonnes or some other man of great authoritie with him into the holie land but bicause that would not be he departed from the court verie sorrowfull and sore displeased so that it may be thought that then and not before his departure out of England he spake his mind so plainlie vnto the king as before yee haue heard Moreouer about this time king Henrie obteined of pope Urbane the third that he might crowne which of his sonnes it should please him king of Ireland in token of which grant and confirmation the said pope sent vnto him a crowne of peacocks feathers after a feat maner wouen in with gold This yeare the king held his Christmasse at Danfrount year 1186 and shortlie after came to a communication with the French king at the which he tooke a solemne oth that he would deliuer the ladie Alice the French kings sister whome he had as yet in his custodie vnto his sonne Richard erle of Poictou in mariage For the which mariage to be had and solemnized the French king granted to deliuer vnto the said Richard the towne of Gisors with all that which his father king Lewes promised vnto king Henrie the sonne latelie deceassed in marriage with quéene Margaret the wife of the same Henrie receiuing an oth thereto neuer to make anie claime or chalenge to the same towne and lands King Henrie after he had thus concluded and finished his affaires with the French king returned backe into England in Maie and then was Hugh prior of Witham instituted bishop of Lincolne after that the see there had béene void and without any lawfull gouernour almost the space of seauenteene yeares This Hugh was reputed a verie godlie and vertuous man Before him Walter Constance was nominated to that sée but bicause he was made archbishop of Rouen before he was inuested in the church of Lincolne he is not accounted in number of the bishops of Lincolne Moreouer king Henrie shortlie after his returne at this time into England assembled a great armie and went with the same to Caerleill in purpose to haue entred Galloway and there to haue chastised Rouland lord of that countrie who was sonne to Uthred the sonne of Fergus for the iniuries doone to his coosine germains namelie to Duncane sonne to Gilbert who was sonne to the same Fergus in spoiling him and the residue after the deceasse of the said Gilbert of their parts of inheritance vsurping the whole to himselfe But as the king was now readie to inuade his countrie Rouland came to him and vsed such meanes vnder pretense of satisfaction that he made his peace with the king who therevpon brought backe his armie and did no more at that time About the same time came newes to the king that Hugh Lacie was slaine in Ireland by an Irish gentleman that was his confederate or rather by a labourer as in the Irish historie you may read whereof the king was nothing sorie bicause the same Hugh was growne to so high degrée of puissance in that countrie that he refused to obeie the kings commandement when he sent for him ¶ It is to be noted that when king Henrie had conquered the most part of Ireland and set the countrie in some good order after his comming from thence such capteines as he left there behind him were not idle but still did what they could to inlarge the confines which were committed to their gouernance but amongst them all this Hugh Lacie was the chéefest in somuch that after the death of Richard earle of Striguile the king made him gouernour of the countrie in place of the said earle by reason whereof he so inlarged his possessions that within a while he became dreadfull not onelie to the enimies but also to his associats as to such English capteins as were abiding in Ireland vpon gard of the English line 10 frontiers For if any of them disobeied his commandement he would not sticke to chastise them at his pleasure so that by such meanes he seemed rather to conquer the countrie to his owne vse than to the kings Wherein he dealt not so directlie or discréetlie as he might for Homines volunt allici non impelli He had also ioined himselfe in mariage with a daughter of the king of Unlester not making king Henrie priuie to the same Wherevpon the king hauing sundrie informations presented to him of such line 20 his presumptuous demeanour commanded him by his letters to returne home and come before his presence which to doo as before I haue said he refused by reason whereof he confirmed the suspicion which was conceiued of him to rise vpon no vaine coniectures and therefore the euill that came to him was nothing lamented of king Henrie who with good cause was highlie offended towards him for the contempts and considerations aforesaid line 30 This yeare Geffrey the kings son who was earle of Britaine died at Paris and was buried in the same citie leauing behind him besides two daughters one onlie sonne as then in his mothers wombe of whom she was deliuered in the night of the feast of Easter next insuing hir husbands death he was named Arthur and succeeded his father in the earledome of Britaine His fathers death was occasioned as men iudge by a fall which he caught at a iournie for he was sore bruised therewith and neuer had his health but finallie fell into a flix and so died line 40 About this season pope Urbane wrote vnto Baldwin archbishop of Canturburie granting him licence to build a church at Alkinton in honour of S. Stephan and Thomas Becket now reputed a martyr and that the fourth part of the offerings which came to the box of Thomas the martyr should be assigned to the vse of the moonks an other fourth part to the buildings of that church and an other fourth part to be giuen to the poore and the other fourth part line 50 remaining he might reserue to himselfe to bestow at his pleasure But within a while after at the suit and supplication of the prior and couent of Canturburie who liked nothing of the former partition the pope sent letters of prohibition to the
Stephan de Longchamp Seguin de Barret Roger de Glanuille Raimond Fitz Prince Bartholomew de Mortimer Gerard Furniuall Rafe de Malleon Roger de Saâie William de Poole Hugh de Neuill Henrie Teutch or if ye will Teutonicus the kings standardbearer with diuerse others as well Englishmen Frenchmen Normans Poictouins Aniouines Britans Gascoignes as other nations of whome partlie mention is alreadie made before in this booke and partlie for breefenesse diuerse are omitted But now to returne sure it is that king Richard meant to haue recouered the citie of Ierusalem and all the holie land out of the Saracens hands by the assistance of almightie God if the doubt which he had of his brother the earle of Mortaigns practises the French kings dooings which were brought to him with a greeuous report had not reuoked him home For diuerse messengers were sent dailie into the holie land to aduertise him of such dangers as were like to insue if by his speedie returne the same were not preuented And first after Easter there came to him the prior of Hereford with letters from the bishop of Elie conteining a sore information against his brother earle Iohn for hauing expelled those whom he had appointed rulers ouer the realme of England and altered the state of things there contrarie to the ordinances by him deuised afore his setting forward vpon his iournie as before ye haue partlie heard Upon receipt of which letters he meant inmediatlie at the first to haue returned and to haue left behind him a conuenient power of men to wit thrée hundred knights or men of armes and two thousand chosen footmen to abide vpon the defense of the holie land with other christians at his costs and charges But yet at length he was persuaded to tarrie speciallie till things were set in some better state which then were out of order by the death of the marques of Montferrato lord of Tire whom two traitorous Saracens of the kind which they name Assassini had murthered After whose death Henrie earle of Champaigne nephue to king Richard married his wife and was made king of Ierusalem Guido resigning to him his title vnto whome as it were in recompense king Richard gaue the I le of Cypres although some write that the knights Templers had bought it of him before Thus king Richard remaining still in the holie land shortlie after Whitsuntide there came an other messenger to him one Iohn de Alanzon a clearke bringing worsse newes out of England than the prior of Hereford had brought before which in effect conteined that his brother earle Iohn was alied as a confederat with the French king and meant through his setting on to seize into his possession the whole realme of England notwithstanding the persuasion of his mother quéene Eliânor and other his fréends to the contrarie Herevpon king Richard was fullie persuaded to returne home but yet through the admonition of certeine persons and namelie of one William dâ Poicters a chapleine of his he estsoones altered his purpose and so remained there till at length through enuie and malice still increasing amongst the câristians he perceiued how no good purpose could go forward since that which séemed good to some was misliked of other and speciallie our writers put great blame in the French men who either vpon disdaine or other displeasure would not be persuaded to follow their aduise which were knowne bâst to vnderstand the state of things in those parties And herevpon when the armie was aduanced to Betenoble a place not past foure leagues distant from Ierusalem bicause their mind might not be fulfilled for the besieging of Ierusalem which they had intended to take in hand whereas the residue would rather that they shuld haue gone to besiege Babylon in Aegypt and that vpon sundrie great respects the Frenchmen raised their field and returned againe to Acres in great despite putting the rest of the armie also so much as in them laie in danger of vtter ruine and distresse line 10 Then king Richard and the other christian capteins perceiuing how the matter inclined and giuing ouer all hope of any more good successe followed them So that after they were thus returned to Acres king Richard still doubting least his long absence from home might put him in danger of more losse here than he saw hope of present gaine to be had there in such diuersitie of humours and priuie malice which reigned among them he determined fullie to depart homewards with no lesse purpose to line 20 returne thither againe after he had setled things at home in such sure stay as was expedient for the suertie of his owne estate and quietnesse of his people Herevpon being readie to enter into his ships at Acres or as some haue being on his iournie homewards in Cypres he was aduertised that the Souldane Saladine had taken the towne of Iaph slaine a great number of the christians within it and besieged the residue within the castell the which constreined through feare had compounded to yéeld if within line 30 thrée daies there came no succour King Richard being hereof aduertised and turning gréef into valiancie with all spéed sailed backe vnto Iaph and landing there with his people caused his enimies to forsake the towne but anon assembling themselues againe togither they turned once more to besiege it wherevpon he issued foorth into the fields and fought with them sundrie daies togither till finallie they were content to forsake their enterprise and to depart thence for altogither In these line 40 conflicts the valiant courage of king Richard and the worthie manhood of his souldiers right well appeared for he brought not with him at that time vnto Iaph aboue 80 men of armes and foure hundred other souldiers with crossebowes and yet with that small handfull of men and some aid of them that he found there in the castell he did not onelie bid battell to the enimies which were numbred to 62 thousand but also put them to the woorsse and caused them to flee backe to their great shame and confusion line 50 Thus Iaph being deliuered out of the enimies hands king Richard fell sicke at a castell called Cephas and so remained there certeine daies till he had recouered his health In which meane time the Soldane Saladine seeming to lament his âase sent vnto him certeine of his councellors to common with him of peace declaring that although he well vnderstood that king Richard ment shortlie to returne into his countrie and that after his departure out of the east parts he could with small adoo recouer line 60 all that the christians yet held within the holie land he would neuerthelesse in respect of king Richards high prowes and noble valiancie grant a peace for a certeine time so that not onelie Ascalon but also all other such townes and places as the christians had fortified or woone since the conquest of Acres should be raced as touching
after this Ranulph earle of Chester was sent into the holie land by king Henrie with a goodlie companie of souldiers and men of warre to aid the christians there against the infidels which at the same time had besieged the citie of Damieta in Aegypt in which enterprise the valiancie of the same earle after his comming thither was to his great praise most apparant There went with him in that iournie Saer de Quincie earle of Winchester line 50 William de Albenie earle of Arundell besides diuerse barons as the lord Robert Fitz Walter Iohn constable of Chester William de Harecourt and Oliuer Fitzroie sonne to the king of England and diuerse other The next yeare which was after the birth of our lord 1219 William Marshall the foresaid earle of Penbroke died gouernour both of the realme and also of the kings person a man of such worthinesse both in stoutnesse of stomach and martiall knowlege line 60 as England had few then liuing that might be compared with him He was buried in the new temple church at London vpon the Ascension day The same yeare also Wallo or Guallo the legat returned to Rome and Pandulph who as before is expressed did the message so stoutlie from pope Innocent to king Iohn was also made bishop of Norwich Moreouer the gouernement of king Henrie after the death of William Marshall the elder earle of Penbroke was committed vnto Peter bishop of Winchester for the yoong king was almost destitute of any of his kindred that were worthie to haue the rule of him forasmuch as his mother queene Isabell was latelie maried to Hugh Brime the earle of Marsh in France vnto whome she was promised before king Iohn tooke hir to wife as in the life of the same king Iohn is mentioned The bishop of Winchester being now in the possession of the kings person doubting least he had taken a greater charge vpon him than he might well answer caused diuerse sage and honourable personages to be admitted of the kings councell to assist him in the administration of the common-wealth and good gouernance of the realme Which being doone a parlement was holden at London wherein a subsidie was granted to the king of two shillings to be gathered and leuied of euerie ploughland within his dominions towards the relieuing of the great charges which he had susteined by the warres against the foresaid Lewes About the same time also he began the building of the new worke of the church at Westminster In which meane time the citie of Damieta afore mentioned was woone by the christian princes and Ranulph earle of Chester returned home leauing the earle of Arundell with a great number of souldiors behind him there in aid of the christians against the Saracens which dailie attempted the recouerie of the same Moreouer in the yeare insuing year 1220 which was of our lord 1220 and vpon the seauenteenth day of Maie being Whitsunday the king was eftsoones solemnelie crowned at Westminster to the end it might be said that now after the extinguishment of all seditious factions he was crowned by the generall consent of all the estates and subiects of his realme The same yeare also was the bodie of Thomas archbishop of Canturburie translated and Hugh bishop of Lincolne canonized for a saint In like manner in the vigile of Peter and Paule the king finding the castels of Rokingham and Sauueie at that present vnpurueied of victuals tooke the same into his hands against the will of William of Albemarle which before held the same ¶ This yeare also was a proclamation made in London and throughout all the realme that all strangers should auoid the land before the feast of saint Michaell then next following except those that came with merchandize Furthermore Ranulph earle of Chester after he was come from the holie land began to build the castels of Chartleie and Béeston and afterward he also builded the abbeie of Dieu Lencresse commonlie called Delacresse of the white order Toward his charges susteined about the building of which castels and abbeie he tooke toll throughout all his lordships of all such persons as passed by the same with any cattell chaffre or merchandize This yeare deceassed Henrie de Boun earle of Hereford and Saer de Quincie earle of Winchester in their iournie which they made into the holie land Also the same yeare the preests or canons that inhabited within the kings castell of old Salisburie remooued with the bishops sée vnto new Salisburie which by the king was made a citie The bishop Richard procured this remoouing through the kings helpe who was verie willing therevnto as it séemed by his charters largelie granted in that behalfe After this king Henrie held his Christmasse at Oxenford at what time William de Fortz earle of Albemarle meaning to trouble the kings peace and to set things in a new broile departed from the court in the night season without leaue or licence and hasted with all spéed vnto the castell of Biham where he assembled a sort of youthfull persons giuen to lewd demeanor and wearie of quietnesse as to whome theft and robberies were verie plesant by whose helpe he spoiled diuers townes and villages about him as Tenham and Deping with others There were of counsell with him also as was thought Fouks de Brent Philip de Marc Peter de Mauleon Engellard de Athie and manie other who priuilie sent men to his aid and furthered him in his tumultuous affaires that they might participat with him the sweetnesse of the spoile which is the marke whereat euerie one shooteth that is iners inops qui viuere luxuriosè Vult quamuis nequeat non respondente crumena Proinde animam vendit pretio seséque periclis Obijcit vt raptis alienis victor ouánsque Ad proprios referat praedam spolia ampla penates In the meane time the countrie people withdrew to the churches and gat their goods into the churchyards Moreouer the péeres of the realme assembled themselues in councell at Westminster where the king was present whither the earle of Albermarle was summoned to come who faining as though he had meant to haue gone thitherward directlie turned suddenlie his waie to the castell of Fodringhey line 20 and tooke it vpon the sudden furnishing it also with a garrison of souldiers to be kept hereafter to his owne vse That castell was in the kéeping of the earle of Chester who at that instant had but few souldiers there in garrison wherby it was the sooner surprised When these newes were brought to the king he raised a power and came with all spéed to the castell of Biham vpon the wednesdaie next after the feast of Candelmasse and then compassing the same about with a strong siege he constreined them line 30 within by force of such engins as they vsed in those daies that finallie on the eight
betwixt England and France was set at libertie paieng for his ransome the summe of one hundred thousand marks as Fourdon saith but whether he meaneth Scotish or sterling monie I cannot saie He also was bound by couenant now vpon his deliuerance to cause the castels in Nidesdale to be raised which were knowne to be euill neighbors to the English borderers as Dunfrise Dalswinton Morton Dunsdâre and nine other His wife quéene Ione made such earnest sute to hir brother king Edward for hir husbands deliuerance that king Edward was contented to release him vpon the paiment of so small a portion of monie and performance of the couenants for the raising of those castels although Froissard saith that he was couenanted to paie for his deliuerance within the tearme of ten yeares fiue hundred thousand nobles and for suertie of that paiment to send into England sufficient hostages as the earles of Dowglas Murrey Mar Sutherland and Fiffe the baron of Uescie and sir William Camoise Also he couenanted neuer to weare armour against king Edward within his realme of England nor to consent that his subiects should so doo and further should vpon his returne home doo the best he could to cause the Scots to agree that their countrie should hold of him in fée and that he and his successours kings of Scotland should doo homage to the king of England and his successors for the realme of Scotland In this two and thirtith yeare as witnesseth the French chronicles sir Robert Knolles Iames Pipe and one Thomlin Foulke with other capiteins and men of warre as souldiours to the king of Nauarre vpon the tenth day of March earlie in the morning scaled the walles of the citie of Auxerre and behaued them so manfullie that they were maisters of the towne before the sunne was vp They got exceeding much by the spoile of that citie and by ransoming the prisoners which they tooke there At length after they had remained eight daies in that citie and taken their pleasures of all things within it they wrought so with the citizens that to haue possession of their citie againe and to haue it saued from fire they agréed to giue to sir Robert Knolles and to his companie fiftie thousand motons of gold which amounted to the summe of twelue thousand and fiue hundred pounds sterling or there about and yet was it agreed that the Englishmen should burne the gates and throw downe the walles in diuers places In Aprill next insuing the towne of Daubignie sir le Metre was likewise woone by the Englishmen and the second daie of Maie Chastelon sir Loigne was taken by the said sir Robert Knolles and put to sacke as the other were From thence they went to Newcastell vpon Loire Thus did the Englishmen and other in title of the K. of Nauarre greatlie indamage the realme of France dailie winning townes and castels ransoming the people and wasting the countries in most miserable wise as in the historie of France you may read more at large In this meane while there was talke of peace betwixt the king of England and the king of France and articles thereof drawne in this forme that the whole countries of Gascoine Guien Poictou Touraine Xainctonge Piergourd Quercie Limosin Angolisinois Calis Guines Bullogne and Ponthieu should remaine to the king of England wholie without dooing homage or paieng anie reléefe for the same but on the other part he should renounce all his right which he might by anie manner of meane claime to the countries of Normandie Aniou or Maine And further that the French king should paie a certeine summe of monie for his ransome and deliuer sufficient pledges for the same and so depart into France These articles were sent ouer into France that the thrée states there might confirme them which they refused to doo Wherevpon when the truce ended the warres were againe reuiued ¶ The king held this yéere the feast of S. George at Windsor in more sumptuous manner than euer it had béene kept before In the same yeare also frier Iohn Lisle bishop of Elie being as he tooke it somewhat wronged by the ladie Blanch de Wake and other that were of hir counsell when the last yeare against the kings will vnto the popes court where exhibiting his complaint he caused the pope to excommunicate all his aduersaries sending to the bishop of Lincolne and other of the cleargie that if they knew any of them so excommunicated to be dead and buried they should draw them out of their graues which was doone And bicause some of those that were excommunicated line 10 were of the kings councell the king tooke such displeasure therewith that he gréeuouslie disquieted the prelats Wherevpon there were sent from the court of Rome on the behalfe of the bishop of Elie certeine persons which being armed met the bishop of Rochester lord treasuror deliuering to him letters from the pope the contents of the which were not knowen and foorthwith they shranke awaie but the kings seruants made such pursute after them that some of them they tooke and bringing them before the line 20 kings iustices vpon their arreignement they were condemned and suffered death on the gallowes Great discord rose also about this time or rather afore betwixt the cleargie and the foure orders of friers as in the booke of acts monuments set foorth by master Iohn Fox ye may read more at large In this yeare Iohn of Gant earle of Richmond sonne to the king the ninetéenth day of Maie married the ladie Blanch daughter to Henrie duke of Lancaster at Reading and bicause they were cousins within line 30 the degrées of consanguinitie forbidden by the church lawes to marrie a dispensation was procured of the pope to remoue that obstacle and let In this yeare the king set workemen in hand to take downe much old bildings belonging to the castell of Windsore and caused diuerse other faire and sumptuous works to be erected and set vp in and about the same castell so that almost all the masons and carpenters that were of any accompt within this land were sent for and imploied about the same works the ouerseer line 40 whereof was William Wickham the kings chaplâin by whose aduise the king tooke in hand to repare that place the rather in déed bicause he was borne there and therefore he tooke great pleasure to bestow cost in beautifieng it with such buildings as may appeare euen vnto this daie Moreouer this yeare in the Rogation wéeke was solemne iusts enterprised at London for the maior and his foure and twentie brethren as challengers did appoint to answer all commers in whose name and stéed the king with his line 50 foure sonnes Edward Lionell Iohn and Edmund and ninetéene other great lords in secret manner came and held the field with honor to the great pleasure of the citizens that beheld the same ¶ Ye
friers mendicants and other such religious men as soong for the dead celebrating as they termed it anniuersaries euerie of them gaue halfe a marke in reliefe of other of the cleargie that had still borne the burthen for them before Whervpon now they murmured and grudged sore for that they were thus charged at that present The same time the earle of Northumberland and the lord Bardolfe warned by the lord Dauid Fleming that there was a conspiracie practised to deliuer them into the king of Englands hands fled into Wales to Owen Glendouer This cost the lord Fleming his life for after it was knowne that he had disclosed to the earle of Northumberland what was meant against him and that the earle therevpon was shifted awaie certeine of the Scots slue the said lord Fleming Wherevpon no small grudge rose betwixt those that so slue him and the said lord Flemings friends For this and other matters such dissention sproong vp amongst the Scotish nobilitie that one durst not trust another so that they were glad to sue for a truce betwixt England and them which was granted to indure for one yeare as in some books we find recorded This truce being obteined Robert king of Scotland vpon considerations as in the Scotish historie ye may read more at large sent his eldest son Iames intituled prince of Scotland a child not past nine yeares of age to be conueied into France vnder the conduct of the earle of Orkenie and a bishop in hope that he might there both remaine in safetie and also learne the French toong But it fortuned that as they sailed neare to the English coast about Flambrough head in Holdernesse their ship was taken and staied by certeine mariners of Claie a towne in Norffolke that were abroad the same time and so he and all his companie being apprehended the thirtith of March was conueied to Windsore where though he had letters from his father which he presented to the king conteining a request in his sonnes behalfe for fauour to be shewed towards him if by chance he landed within any of his dominions yet was he deteined and as well he himselfe as the earle of Orkenie was committed to safe keeping in the Tower of London but the bishop got away and escaped as some write by what means I know not By the Scotish writers we find that this chanced in the yeare 1404 that is two yeares before the time noted in diuerse English writers as Thomas Walsingham and other But Harding saith it was in the ninth yeare of king Henries reigne to wit in the yeare 1408. But whensoeuer it chanced it is to be thought that there was no truce at that present betweene the line 10 two realmes but that the warre was rather open sith diuerse English rebels still remained in Scotland and were there succored to the high displeasure of king Henrie ¶ By authoritie of the parlement that all this time continued the Britons that serued the quéene with two of hir daughters were banished the realme Robert Halome chancellor of Oxford as then being in the popes court at Rome was created archbishop of Yorke ¶ Moreouer the same time the pope gaue vnto Thomas Langlie the bishoprike line 20 of Durham which by the death of Walter Skirlow was then void In the summer of this yeare the ladie Philip the kings yoonger daughter was sent ouer to hir affianced husband Erike king of Denmarke Norwaie and Sweden being conueied thither with great pompe and there married to the said king where she tasted according to the common spéech vsed in praieng for the successe of such as match togither in mariage both ioy and some sorrow among There attended hir thither Henrie Bowet bishop of line 30 Bath and the lord Richard brother to the duke of Yorke There was a iusts held at London betwixt the earle of Kent and the erle of Marre a Scotishman also sir Iohn Cornewall and the lord Beaumont against other two Scotish knights whereof the honor remained with the Englishmen In the parlement which yet continued the duke of Yorke was restored to his former libertie estate and dignitie where manie supposed that he had beene dead long before that line 40 time in prison Edmund Holland earle of Kent was in such fauour with king Henrie that he not onelie aduanced him to high offices and great honors but also to his great costs and charges obteined for him the ladie Lucie eldest daughter and one of the heirs of the lord Barnabo of Millane which Barnabo paied to him 100000 ducates in the church of S. Marie Oueries in Southwarke by the hands of Don Alfonso de Cainuola vpon the day of the solemnization of the marriage which was the foure and twentith line 50 of Ianuarie ¶ In this yeare Roger of Walden departed this life who hauing béene tossed vp and downe with sundrie changes of fortune tried in a short time how inconstant vncerteine variable wandering vnstable and flitting she is which when she is thought firmelie to stand she slipperinglie falleth and with a dissembling looke counterfaiteth false ioies For by the meanes of hir changeablenesse the said Roger of a poore fellow grew vp to be high lord treasuror of the line 60 realme and shortlie after archbishop of Canturburie but by what right the world knoweth considering that the lord Thomas Arundell was then liuing Anon after he was deposed from his dignitie and lead the life of an ordinarie priuat man a long time within a while after againe he was promoted and made bishop of London which sée he had not possessed a full yeare but was depriued and Nicholas Hobwith succeeded in his roome So that hereby men are taught not to be proud of their preferment nor to reckââ of them as of perpetuities sithens they may be as soone dispossessed as possessed of them and for that all estates degrées depend vpon Gods power and prouidence whereof the poet diuinelie saieth Ludit in humanis diuina potentia rebus Et certam praesens vix habet hora fidem In this yeare the seuenth of Maie was Thomas Langlie consecrated bishop of Durham after the decease of Walter Skirlow In which place he continued one and thirtie yeares He among other his beneficiall déeds beautified the church of Durham for euer with a chanterie of two chapleines Besides which for the increase of learning wherwith himselfe was greatlie furnished be built two schooles the one for grammar to instruct youth whereby in following time they might be made more able to benefit themselues and serue their countrie and the other of musicke wherein children might be made apt to serue God and the church both which schooles he erected in a parcell of ground coÌmonlie called The plaie gréene To which buildings for he was one that delighted much therein and like vnto the philosopher Anaxagoras supposed that there was not any more earthlie felicitie than to erect sumptuous palaces
the other act for labourers of these two acts was much communing and much businesse arose For the labourers would in no wise labour by the daie but all by taske in great and therefore much trouble fell in the countrie and in especiall in haruest time for then husbandmen could skarse get workemen to helpe in their haruest This parlement continued vntill Easter in the which diuerse subsidies were granted to the king toward his great costs and charges that he had béene at in his viage roiall to France After Easter the nineteenth daie of the moneth of Aprill the king deliting to set foorth yoong gentlemen called Nicholas Carew and Francis Brian and caused diuerse other yoong gentlemen to be on the counter part and lent to them horsse and harnesse to incourage all youth to séeke déeds of armes This yeare died at Rome by poison as was reported the archbishop of Yorke and cardinall called doctor Benbrike who was the kings ambassadour there this was a wiseman and of a iollie courage The king then gaue the said archbishoprike to Thomas Wolsie then bishop of Lincolne who at that time bare all the rule about the king and what he said was obeied in all places Now when he was once archbishop he studied daie and night how to be a cardinall and caused the king and the French king to write to Rome for him and at their requests he obteined his purpose as you shall heare afterward At this time was much communing and verelie as it appeared it was intended that the king in person would passe the sea to Calis and there on the marches of the same the French king and quéene to come and sée the king their brother and for the same iournie manie costlie works were wrought much rich apparell prouided and much preparation made against the next spring but death which is the last end of all things let this iournie For before the next spring the French king died at the citie of Paris the first daie of Ianuarie when he had béene married to the faire ladie Marie of England foure score and two daies whom he so feruentlie loued that he gaue himselfe ouer to behold too much hir excellent beautie bearing then but eighteene yeares of age nothing considering the proportion of his owne yeares nor his decaied complexion so that he fell into the rage of a feauer which drawing to it a sudden flux ouercame in one instant the life that nature gaue ouer to preserue anie longer He was a king iust much beloued of his people but touching his condition neither before he was king nor after he had the crowne he neuer found constancie nor stabilitie in either fortune For rising from a small duke of Orleance with great happinesse to the crowne and that by the death of Charles yoonger than he and two of his sonnes he conquered with a verie great facilitie the duchie of Millan and the kingdome of Naples and almost line 10 all the residue of the regions of Italie being gouerned for manie yeares by his direction he recouered with a verie great prosperitie the state of Genes that was in rebellion and vanquished with no lesse glorie the armies of the Uenetians being in person at both those victories But on the other side euen when he was in his youth and best disposition of bodie he was then constreined by king Lewes the eleuenth to marrie his daughter that was both barren and deformed and yet could neuer get the good will nor countenance of his father in law line 20 And after his death such was the greatnesse of the ladie of Burbon that he could neuer get the institution of the new king being then in minoritie being almost compelled to retire himselfe into Britaine where being taken in the battell of saint Aubin he liued two yeares in the calamitie of a prisoner To these afflictions maie be added the siege and famine of Nauarre the manie discomfits he had in the realme of Naples the losse of the estate of Millan Genes and all the townes which he had taken line 30 from the Uenetians and lastlie the gréeuous warre he had in France against verie mightie enimies his eies beholding into what lamentable perils his realme was brought neuerthelesse before he died it séemed he had conquered all his aduersities and fortune shewed good tokens of hir reconcilement both for that he had defended his kingdome against mightie enimies and also established a perpetuall peace and aliance with the king of England with whome line 40 by how much his amitie was great and assured by so much it gaue him hope to be able to reconquer the duchie of Millan The king of England being aduertised of the French kings death caused a solemne obsequie to be kept for him in the cathedrall church of S. Paule with a costlie hearse at which manie nobles were present After this he sent a letter to comfort the quéene his sister requiring to know hir pleasure whether she would continue still in France or returne into England And when he was aduertised line 50 of hir mind which was to returne into England the duke of Suffolke sir Richard Wingfield deputie of Calis and doctor West with a goodlie band of gentlemen and yeomen all in blacke were sent into France and comming to Paris were well receiued of the new French king Francis the first of that name who was the next heire male of the bloud roiall and of the same line of the dukes of Orleance he was preferred to the succession of the kingdome before line 60 the daughters of the dead king by vertue and disposition of the law Salike a law verie ancient in the realme of France which excludeth from the roiall dignitie all women so long as there is anie issue male of the same line The world had such a hope in his vertues and such an opinion of his magnanimitie and such a conceipt of his iudgement and wit that euerie one confessed that of verie long time there was none raised vp to the crowne with a greater expectation He was made the more agreeable to the fansies of men by the consideration of his age bearing then but two and twentie yeares his excellent feiture and proportion of bodie his great liberalitie and generall humanitie togither with the ripe knowledge he had in manie things But speciallie he pleased greatlie the nobilitie to whome he transferred manie singular and great fauours Unto this king Francis de Angoulesine did the foresaid English nobilitie declare the effect of their commission which was to receiue the quéene Dowager according to the couenants of the marriage The councell of France by the kings appointment assigned foorth hir dowrie and the duke of Suffolke put in officers and then was the quéene deliuered to the duke by indenture who behaued himselfe so towards hir that he obteined hir good will to be hir husband It was thought that when the king created him duke of Suffolke
of England This Geffreie Fitzpeter died in the yeare of our redemption 1212 being about the fourtéenth yeare of the reigne of the said miserablie afflicted king Iohn who died in the yeare of Christ 1216 whose death I haue beene the willinger here to mention because I would set downe his epitaph not else before set downe in our English line 60 chronicles as I find the same of ancient report Hoc in sarcophago sepelitur regis imago Qui moriens multum sedauit in orbe tumultum Et cui connexa dum vixit probra manebant Hunc mala post mortem timor est nefata sequantur Qui legis haec metuens dum cernis te moriturum Discito quid rerum pariat tibi meta dierum This Geffreie Fitzpeter maried Beatrice daughter and heire of William lord Saie by whom he had issue Geffreie Mandeuile earle of Essex Mawd maried to Humfreie de Bohuns by whome the Bohunes became earles of Essex William Marshall surnamed the great being erle of Penbroke was made protector of the realme person of the king after that the king being nine yeares of age was crowned in the yeare of our Lord 1216. Which office this William being also marshall of England vsed so honorablie that he recouered a great part of the nobilitie which tooke part with Lewes son of the French king against king Iohn father to this Henrie to assist the yoong king Henrie against the said Lewes who in the time of the said Iohn had obteined a great part of the kingdome of England By which meanes the said Lewes was expelled and the kingdome wholie recouered to the vse of the said yoong king Henrie the third This William Marshall maried Isabell daughter and heire to Richard Strangbow earle of Penbroke who made him a happie father in the multitude of his children For by hir he had fiue sonnes all which were in succession marshals of England and earles of Penbroke and fiue daughters The sonnes were William Richard Gilbert Walter and Anselme who all dieng without issue the inheritance was deuolued to the fiue sisters which were Mawd the eldest maried to Hugh Bigod in hir right earle marshall Ione the second maried to Waraine Monthensie in hir right also earle of Penbroke as hath Nicholas Triuet Isabell the third maried to Gilbert de Clare earle of Glocester Sibill the fourth maried to William Ferrers erle of Darbie Eue the fift daughter maried to William de Berehuse or de Brause This William the great died in the yeare of our redemption 1219 being the third as hath Nicholas Triuet or the fourth as hath Matthew Westminster yeare of the reigne of the said king Henrie the third and was buried at the new temple on Ascension daie being the seuenteenth calends of Aprill of whome was made this epitaph by Geruasius Melckeleie taking vpon him the person of the earle marshall Sum quem Saturnum sibi sentit Hibernia Solem Anglia Mercurium Normannia Gallia Martem Which signifieth that he was a sharpe corrector and ruler of the Irish an honor glorie to the English a councellor and dispatcher of the affaires of Normandie a warlike knight and inuincible capteine against the Frenchmen Petrus de rupibus or Peter of the Roch being bishop of Winchester was after the death of William Marshall earle of Penbroke aduanced to the protectorship of the king because that the yoong king was almost destitute of anie of his owne kindred that might woorthilie haue the rule of his person For his mother quéene Isabell was newlie maried to Hugh Brune earle of March in France This bishop of Winchester who was both a wise and a stout prelat being now in possession of the king and mistrusting that he had entred into a more weightie office than he might well discharge if all things were not doone according to the fansie of the nobilitie procured diuerse graue and honorable men to be preferred to the kings councell and to be associats to him in the administration of the weale publike and so entred into the administration of his new atchiued honor Which yet he did not long inioie But as the bishop was at the first carefull to plant such of the nobilitie about the king for the support of the realme so yet himselfe being a Gascoine did after in the riper yeares of the king prefer to offices about the king such Gascoins as both were of his owne bloud and kindred and by their extraordinarie dealing procured the nobilitie with an hard and vndutifull course to oppose themselues against the king This Peter was aduanced to the seat of Winchester in the yeare of our redemption 1204 being about the sixt yeare of king Iohn After which he went to Rome and being a prelat more fit to fight than to preach for Mars than for the muses did returne from Rome in the yeare of Christ 1205 being about the seuenth yeare of king Iohn He remained bishop about two and thirtie yeares and died at his manour house of Fernham on the fift ides of Iune in the yeare of our Lord as haue Matthew Paris and Matthew Westminster 1238 being the two twentith yeare of Henrie the third Who somewhat before his death about the one and line 10 thirtith yeare of his bishoprike went into the holie land with the bishop of Excester He builded and indued with possessions manie religious houses amongst which he founded Tichfield in Hampshire of which Peter de la Roches or of the rocks Matthew Paris maketh a more large discourse Hubert de Burow conestable of Douer castle earle of Kent and chiefe iustice of England being of great account in the realme for his probitie and goodnesse was made protector of the king and kingdome line 20 in the yeare of our redemption 1221 being the fift yeare of king Henrie the third This man in the yeare of Christ 1221 being the same yeare in the which he was made protector maried at Yorke Margaret sister to Alexander king of Scots And here I thinke it not amisse to saie somewhat touching the issue of this Hubert of Burow who in a certeine namelesse booke caried about in the hands of all men treating of the nobilitie created since the inuasion of William Conqueror is said to die without issue which cannot possiblie be so if that be line 30 true which I haue séene which I am led by manie reasons to beléeue to be most true For I haue read of two children which this Hubert had whereof the one being a sonne was called Richard de Burow who was knighted by Henrie the third as it séemeth to me after the death of his father if this Richard be not the same Iohn of whome Matthew Paris writeth that in the yeare of Christ 1229 Rex Anglorum Henricus in die Pentecostes Iohannem filium Huberti Angliae iusticiarij cingulo militari line 40 donauit tertio nonas Iunij The other child was a daughter called Margaret maried to Richard heire to the
which I suppose is this Nigellus de Oilie the conestable as I before said Robert de Oilie sonne of the said Nigellus did succéed his father and was as may appeare by some authors who tearme him accordinglie great constable of England This man together with his wife Edith were the founders of the religious house of Osneie touching whome I shall not greeue to set downe what I haue gathered out of Leland and others This Edith obteined of hir husband to build a church in the I le of Osneie in Oxfordshire to our sauiour Christ about the yeare of our redemption 1129 being about the nine and twentith yeare of king Henrie the first which church did after grow to be of great renowme and building the occasion of building whereof is set downe by others in this sort Edith being in great estimation with Henrie first married the said Robert de Oilie by the kings procurement which Robert began the priorie of the blacke chanons of Osneie by Oxford amongst the Iles made by the riuer of Isis or Owse This Edith vsed oftentimes to walke out of Oxford castell with hir gentlewomen for to solace and recreate hir selfe At what time at a certeine place as often as she came by the same certeine pies assembled themselues in a tree where they chattered and as it were spake vnto hir This ladie much maruelling at the matter happening so continuallie at one time in one place after one order and with one maner of foules was manie times astonished and feared therewith esteeming it a verie strange woonder Whervpon she sent for one Radulph or Rafe a chanon of saint Frediswide in Oxford a man of vertuous life hir confessor asking his counsell vpon the same To whom he answered after that he had séene the order of those pies onelie chattering at hir comming thither that she should build some church or monasterie in that place Wherevpon she intreated hir husband to build a priorie and so he did making that Radulph the first prior of that house All which matter that is the comming of Edith to Osneie Radulph wating on hir and the trée with the pies were all extant at the generall dissolution of the abbeies in the time of Henrie the eight to be séene painted on the north side of the high altar in the arch of the wall ouer Ediths toome in Osneie priorie vpon which toome there laie a stone image of Edith in the habit of a vowesse holding a hart in hir right hand This Robert de Oilie was buried in Osneie in the verie middle of the presbiterie vnder a flat marble stone wherevpon was a flowred crosse portraid which Robert had issue Henrie de Oilie baron of Hochnorton the kings conestable which maried Margerie the daughter of Humfreie de Bohune by whome that Henrie had issue Henrie de Oilie baron of Hochnorton and the kings conestable which died without issue Thus this much by waie of digression touching the conestables of England left out in my former discourse of those officers And so againe to the protectors Katharine the daughter of Ferdinando king of Spaine and wife to king Henrie the eight was in the absence of the said king beyond the seas in the the warres of Turwine and Turneie made regent of the realme in the yeare of Christ 1513 and the fift yeare of king Henrie the eight she had béene the widow of Arthur prince of Wales eldest sonne vnto king Henrie the seauenth and eldest brother to king Henrie the eight who after the death of that Arthur was by dispensation of the pope married to Henrie after king by the name of Henrie the eight being yoonger brother of the said Arthur from which king Henrie she was afterward not onelie diuorsed in the one and twentith of his reigne being the yeare of Christ 1529 but after by parlement also in the foure and twentith of the kings reigne in the yeare of Christ 1532 disgraded from the name of quéene and from thensefoorth appointed onlie to be called the line 10 princesse dowager of prince Arthur about fiue yeers after which she died on the eight of Ianuarie being the yeare of our redemption 1535 which was the seauen and twentith yeare of king Henrie the eight and was honourablie buried in the abbeie of Peterborow for which cause afterward in the generall dissolution of the abbeies when all those houses were spoiled this abbeie was not onelie for hir buriall there spared and not defaced but also further honored with a greater title and turned into a bishoprike by line 20 the said king Henrie the eight Katharine Par the daughter of sir Thomas Par lord of Kirkbie Kendall and wife to king Henrie the eight was by patent made protectresse of the realme of England when king Henrie the eight went in person to the wars of Bullongne on the thirtéenth of Iulie in the yeare of our redemption 1544 being the six thirtith yeare of the triumphant reigne of the said king This ladie Katharine being the lord Latimers widow was maried to the king line 30 at Hampton court one the twelfe of Iulie being the fiue and thirtith yeare of his reigne and the yeare of Christ 1543 who hauing no issue by the king was after the kings death married to Thomas Seimer knight lord Seimer of Sudleie and high admerall of England Edward Seimer knight vicount Beauchampe earle of Hertford after duke of Summerset was protector of the kings person and of the kingdome in the first yeare of king Edward the sixt his nephue line 40 which was in the yeare of our redemption 1546 the king being then but nine yeares old Of this man is more spoken in my following discourse of all the dukes of England by creation or descent since the conquest with which duke of Summerset the last in office of protectorship Francis Thin knitteth vp this simple discourse of the protectors of England of the kings person ¶ On the 17 of Februarie on which daie were line 50 receiued the bookes of the reliefe of all the wards of London towards the new hospitals by the kings commissioners the councell dined at maister Coopers the shiriffe and after dinner maister Thomas Curteis alderman came thither to speake with the lord chancellor for a matter he had depending afore him in the chancerie but for his misdemeanour in words and signes to the lord chancellor at that time the said maister Curteis was committed to ward in the Fléet The six and twentith of Februarie sir line 60 Rafe Uane and sir Miles Patridge were hanged on the tower hill sir Michaell Stanhope with sir Thomas Arundell were beheaded there The last of Aprill through negligence of the gunpowder makers a certeine house néere the tower of London with thrée last of powder was blowne vp and burnt the gunpowder makers being fiftéene in number were all slaine The sixtéenth of Maie was a goodlie muster of horssemen made before the king in the parke
valentibus occurrit ipsis dominus cum suis copijs obuià m porrigendóque ipsis dextram traxit eos per manus in campum Maâtium iuxta votum suum Thus much Whethamsted of Edmund Greie lord Ruthine who was made earle of Kent in the fift yeare of king Edward the fourth being the yeare of our redemption 1464. This Edmund Greie being lord Hastings Weisford and Ruthine before he had the honour of this earledome did by his déed of indenture dated the 18 of Nouember in the fiue and twentith yeare of king Henrie the sixt falling in the yeare of our redemption 1446 giue to Iohn Pinchbecke prior of Duffield in Northamptonshire in almesse during the life of the said prior his field called Challocke belonging to the manour of Challocke to kéepe the obits of sir Iohn Greie father to the said sir Edmund and of dame Custance the widow of the earle marshall and daughter of Iohn Holland duke of Excester and erle of Huntington mother to the said sir Edmund with masse c and such other collects as the said Edmund should deliuer vnto the said prior Out of this house of the Greies haue issued manie noble houses and those of great antiquitie whereof at this daie there yet remaineth two honourable houses the one being Henrie Greie earle of Kent now liuing a man of singular estimation in the countrie of Bedford where he now liueth as well for the nobilitie of his race being descended of this Edmund Greie lord treasuror of England for the good gouernment and carriage of himselfe and for the orderlie and wise managing of the affaires of that countrie deseruing no lesse honourable place in the common-wealth than the honour of his race and woorthinesse of his behauiour doo well merit The other house at this daie in honour is the lord Greie of Wilton knight of the garter and somtime deputie of Ireland a man of no lesse merit for his seruice abrode in the feats of armes than is the other Greie for his seruice at home in the affairs of peace But I will not saie all that I thinke and know of them both least some more maliciouslie than trulie line 10 blemish me with the note of flatterie For I protest I am so farre estranged from that as I being not at all knowne to the one and but slenderlie to the other and neuer benefited by anie of them both there is no cause why I should vse anie flatterie and yet such force hath vertue as it will shine euen in despite of malice But againe to the matter There haue out of this house of the Greies besides manie noble houses issued one duke of Suffolke two marquesses of Dorset and fiue earles of Kent line 20 Againe I thinke it not impertinent for the continuance of antiquities and of deserts of honour to mention how manie seuerall houses there haue bin of the nobilitie of these Greis and in what time they liued First there was Reignold Greie lord Greie of Codnor in the time of king Stephan the second was Reignold lord Greie of Rotherfield in the time of Richard the second the third Iohn Greie earle of Tankeruile in Normandie in the time of Henrie the fift the fourth this Edmund Greie lord Ruthine line 30 earle of Kent and treasuror of England in the time of king Edward the fourth the fift house Thomas Greie marquesse Dorset in the time of king Edward the fourth the sixt Edward Greie lord Lisle in the time of king Edward the fourth the seuenth Edward Greie lord Powes in the time of king Edward the fourth the eight Henrie Greie duke of Suffolffe in the time of Edward the sixt So that there were at one time in one kings daies which was the time of Edward the fourth six noble men liuing line 40 of the name of Greies which were the marquesse Dorset the earle of Kent the lord Lisle the lord Powes the lord Greie of Wilton and the lord Greie of Rotherfield Wherefore to draw to an end of this lord treasuror who hath occasioned me to be more liberall in treating of him and the Greies than of any lord treasuror or noble name besides for manie priuat reasons which I reserue to my selfe I will yet speake more liberallie of him and the Greies in my large line 50 booke of the liues of the lord treasurors of England and knit vp this Edmund Greie lord treasuror with the marieng of his wife Katharine the daughter of Henrie Persie earle of Northumberland by whome he had issue George Greie earle of Kent Elisabeth maried to Robert baron of Greiestocke and Anne maried to Iohn lord Greie of Wilton Sir Walter Blunt knight who was the first lord Montioie possessed the place of the lord treasurorship of England in the fift yeare of king Edward line 60 the fourth which fell in the yeare that the word of the father tooke flesh in the wombe of the virgine 1465. Of this man is mention made in the booke of the law called Long Quinto of Edward the fourth He maried the daughter of one Dirham and had issue William Iohn and Iames. Sir Richard Wooduile knight chamberleine to the king and constable of England was made baron on the ninth of Maie in the second yeare of king Henrie the sixt being the yeare of Christ 1424 and was after created earle Riuers in the fift yeare of king Edward the fourth being the yeare of our redemption 1465 who thus aduanced was after lord treasuror in the sixt seuenth eight of Edward the fourth In which eight yeare of Edward the fourth Thomas Cooke late maior of London was accused of treason and arreigned for the same Who after that he had béene manie times purged thereof was yet at last found giltie and by this lord Riuers then lord treasuror so handled as that he could not be deliuered vntill he had paied eight thousand pounds to the king and eight hundred to the quéene This lord treasuror maried Iaquet the widow of Iohn duke of Bedford daughter to Peter of Lucenburgh earle of S. Paule by whom he had issue Richard earle Riuers Antonie lord Scales in the right of his wife Edward Wooduile knight slaine at the battell of S. Albine in Britaine in the third yeare of Henrie the seuenth Lionell bishop of Salisburie Margaret maried to Thomas erle of Arundell Margaret maried to William Herbert erle of Huntington Anne first maried to William Burcher erle of Essex and after to George Greie erle of Kent Iaquet maried to Iohn lord Strange Elisabeth maried to sir Iohn Greie yoonger sonne to the lord Greie of Ruthine and after the death of the said sir Iohn Greie to king Edward the fourth and Katharine maried to Henrie duke of Buckingham Besides all which I haue read of one Iohn which was sonne to this earle Riuers which Iohn maried the old duchesse of Norffolke was beheaded with his father the truth wherof I leaue to further triall This Richard erle
fourth and the earle of Warwike 682 a 50. Weighing the inconuenience of discord wareth wise slow to aid the earle of Warwike his dissimulation 681 a 60 b 1050 60. He and the earle of Warwike soiourned at Excester to passe ouer the seas they arriue on the English coasts 676 b 10 60. A conspirator against his brother Edward the fourth he taketh the seas 674 a 40. His promise to a damsell persuading him to peace 675 a 10 20 Drowned in a but of Malmescie 703 a 40 Duke of Excester his pithie saieng 546 a 60. Uncle to Henrie the fift 560 a 30 40. Capteine of Harflue 556 a 60. His ouerthrow by the French b 10 With a power at Newarke 680 b 60. Left for dead but recouered note 685 a 60. Deceaseth 596 b 60 598 b 50. Found dead in the sea 694 b 10 Duke of Gelderlands letters to Richard second 475 b 50. CoÌmeth into England disuadeth Richard the second ârom peace with the French K. 477 b 30 Duke of Glocesters protestation vpon his oth 458 a 10. Arested 489 a 30. Confesseth all wherwith he was charged he is smoothered to death note 489 a 60 b 10. He Richard second at priuie grudge talke betwéene them 487 b 40 50. Excused to K. Richard second by the duke of Lancaster Yorke he the abbat of S. Albons conspire 488 a 40 b 10 c. Made duke of Ireland his iournie thither vnlucklie staied 479 b 50 60. His iournie into Prutzenland in great fauour with the commons 475 a 60. A seuere man 464 a 40. His death the dooers therein exempted from king Henrie the fourths pardon 514 a 50. In question 525 b 40. His deth in part reuenged 513 b 20 Much adoo about it note 512 a 50 60 513. a 10. His complaint to Henrie sixt against the cardinall of Winchester 620 a 50. Liketh well of the kings mariage with the earle of Armenaks daughter note 624 b 60. Winneth Rockesburgh castell 657 a 60. His deth what mischiefe followed it 627 a 60. He is commended note b 10 c. Discharged of all gouernment the faint quarell piked against him he is suddenlie murthered 627 a 10. Ill practises against him vnder faire countenances 622 b 60. Spoileth Flanders 614 b 60. Calleth a parlement Henrie the sixt in France 607 b 10. Articles against the bishop of Winchester 591 a 60. Mariage in question he waxeth werie of his wife 590 a 60 He and bishop of Winchester at dissention 590 a 60 591 a 10 c. Murthereth Henrie the sixt in the Towre 690 b 60. An enimie to peace 697 a 10. Proclamation against the lord Hastings c 724 a 20. Marieth another mans wife note 586 a 30. His behauiour in the assemblie of lords 722 b 10. His oration to the lords against the quéene 717 a 10. His resolution to go through with his diuelish enterprise 721 b 20 Solicitations tending wholie to trouble and bloudshed 714 a 60. His Buckinghams practises 715 a 30. Made protector 716 b 50. ¶ Sée duke of Buckingham Duke of Guise with a great armie commeth towards Calis entreth the English frontiers his policie 1135 a 20 40 b 10. His proclamation to bring in monie plate c 1136 a 10. Marcheth to the towne and fort of Guisnes 1137 a 40. And monsieur Dandelot with their powers in a rage with his soldiors a trumpetter from him to the lord Greie they haue communication one whole houre 1139 a 10 30 b 30 Appointed to be a principall leader and executor of forren inuasion 1371 b 30 40 c b 60 Duke of Hereford appealeth the duke of Northfolke of treason 493 b 20. Beloued of the people honourablie interteined with the French king 493 b 30 Duke of Irelands passage stopped by the lords his souldiors reuolt from him he flieth from his armie getteth him into Holland letters found in his trunks 421 a 10 50 60. He and his associats attainted of treason by parlement 463 b 30 Duke of Lancaster and the Londoners submit their quarels to the kings order 416 a 20. He Yorke excuse the duke of Glocester to king Richard the second 488 a 40. High steward of England at an arreignment 491 a 60. He Yorke assemble their powers to resist Richard the seconds dealings 490 a 10. Returneth into England out of Gascoigne 467 a 60. Created 380 b 50. Debate betwixt him and the duke of Brunswike 381 a 10. Goeth ouer sea with a nauie and two of Edward the thirds sonnes with him 382 a 30. Is sent to aid the king of Nauarre 386 b 30. Persuadeth Edward the third to peace with the French king 393 b 50. Maketh a iournie into France 404 a 50. Sent into France with an armie fortifieth his campe 403 b 30 50. Commeth to Burdeaux 408 a 50 c. In danger by the Londoners note 412 a 20. Goeth into Spaine with an armie 448 b 60. He landeth at Brest and winneth two bastides from the French landeth at Groigue 449 a 50 60. He the king of Portingall alied they inuade Castile he returneth out of Portingale into Gascoigne 450 a 20. Reconcileth the king and the lords 467 b 10. Made duke of Aquitaine 473 a 10. Commeth to Chester citie the countrie submit them selues vnto him Holt castell deliuered vnto him 500 a 10 30. He and Glocester sent into France to treat of peace 480 a 30. The grant of the duchie of Aquitane vnto him reuoked 485 b 10. He marieth a ladie of meane estate whom he kept as his concubine b 60. Calleth a parlement in Richard the seconds name 502 a 10. His behauiour to the king their méeting his demand receiuing into London 501 b 10 20 50. His bastards made legitimat 487 b 10. Ambassador for the K. into France 475 b 30 A prince of great renowme 477 a 60. Saileth into Aquitaine 481 a 60. Solicited to expell king Richard the second b 60. And to take vpon him the regiment 497 b 60. The duke of Britain his great fréend the commons denie to resist the duke he landeth in Yorkeshire his oth to the lords that aided him the harts of the commons wholie bent vnto him he marcheth to Bristow 498 a 10 50 60 b 10 30 60. Feasteth strangers 474 a 20. Enuied of the rebels note 431 a 20 c. Not suffred to enter into the towne of Berwike 439 a 10. Chargeth the erle of Northumberland with manie crimes commeth to the parlement with a great troopâ of men 439 a 20 60 b 10. Sent into France to treat of peace 446 a 40. Misliking the manners of the court getteth himselfe to Killingworth castell 419 b 20. He the erle of Cambridge appointed protectors 418 a 20. Saileth to Britaine with a great power 420 a 60. Getteth him to his castell of Pomfret and fortifieth it 446 b 60. Laieth challenge to the crowne 505 b 40. He is placed in the regall throne b 60. King elect his words
parlement 340 b 10. Saueth into Wales 338 b 60. His âaâourie to the Welshmen 339 a 10. Sought vnto to resigne his crowne his griefe therat 340 b 50 60. Betraied into his enimies hands brought to Killingworth castell 339 b 50 Wiâhstood in armes by his wife 336 337 338. Sendeth for his wife and sonne home out of France 336 b 10 2â Writeth to the duke of Britaine 335 b 30. Like to be betraied the traitors executed 333 334. Goeth to Scotland with an armie 332 b 50. Subdueth his barons 330 331 332 a 10. In armes against his enimies his proclamation 329 b 60. Passeth by a foord commeth to Tutburie causeth hue crie to be made 330 a 30 50. Durst not but yeeld to his nobles request 327 b 10. He goeth to Canturburie talketh with lord chamberleine besiegeth the castell of Léeds 327 b 10. Affection and loue to Pâers Gaueston 320 a 10. His request for his life his displeasure for his deth 321 a 30 60. Passeth ouer to France 318 b 50. Dooth homage to the French king marrieth his daughter returneth is receiued into London crowned 318 b 60 319 a 10. Goeth to Berwike 324 b 50. Passeth into Scotland what issue his armie had there he escapeth danger of death 322 a 20 40. Murthered 341 b 60. His nature and conditions his issue 342 a 10 c Edward the third borne 321 b 10. Beginneth his râigne 343 a 60. Passeth ouer into Calis inuadeth France returneth for want of vittels the constable of France demandeth battell of him 383 a 10. Lodgeth his armie néere Berwike the Scots yéeld vnto him the realme of Scotland resigned vnto him 386 a 50 60. Thrée kings come vn-him about businesse 396 a 50. Aduanceth his sons to degrée of honor 395 b 50. Prepareth to make a iournie to France arriueth at Calis 392 b 10 30 Draweth towards Paris 393 a 60. Returneth out of France into England 394 b 30. His foure sons take part with the lord maiors c chalenge at âusts 392 a 50. Sore afflicteth the Scots 386. b 20. His honorable hart to his enimie 379 b 10 Hath Calis surrendred vnto him ¶ Sée Calis His pitie towards the poore note 375 a 20. His voiage inuasion and victorie against the French summarilie set downe in a letter missiue 373 b 30 c. His words behauior to his son the yoong prince after his victorie against the French 372 b 60. Passeth ouer into Normandie his armie landing ordering of his soldiors 369 b 40 c. His enterprises and atchiuements against towns people his spoile booties he is in danger 370 all Beginneth his enterprise against the enimie with praier to God his demâanor before the battell 371 a 10 b 30. Hath towns restored him 360 a 60. Taketh into his hands all the profits that the cardinals c held within his realme 369 b 30. Goeth ouer into Flanders 367 b 60. Passeth ouer into Britaine 364 a 40. Returneth by sea out of Britain he is in danger of drowning 365 a 30. Feasted by the erle of Flanders he goeth into Zeland arriueth at the Towre deleth roundlie with his officers 360 b 10 c. Is offended with the archbishop of Canturburie 361 a 10. Taketh sea setteth vpon his enimies the French getteth the victorie goeth to Gaunt couenants betwixt him his confederats 358 a 50 60 b 50 359 a 40. Signifieth his right to crowne of France taketh vpon him the title and armes thereof 357 a 20 30. Taketh vpon him the name of K. of France 356 b 30 and by what right he clamed it 40 c. Besiegeth Cambrie 355 b 20. He raseth his siege b 40. Hath Flanders at commandment he saileth to Antwerpe 354 b 60. His confederats 355 a 10. Practiseth to alâenat the Flemings harts from obedience to their earle 353 b 50. Entreth into Scotland with an armie 351 a 10. Maketh spoile by fier and sword the Scots ordeine a statute in fauor of him towns fortified by him there he studieth to gather monie to mainteine his wars 352 all Aideth the K. of Scots and whie 350 a 10. Passeth the sea apparelled like a merchant 348 b 40. Waxeth féeble sicke 411 a 20. Deceasseth his issue praise proportion of bodie and vertues 412 a 40 c 413. Edward the fourth borne 623 a 30. Feasteth the maior and aidermen of London 705 a 10. He and the French king their interview the manner thereof note 699 a 30 40 c. His shift to get monie note 694 a 40 c. He passeth ouer into France and sendeth a defiance to the French king 694 b 10 40. Returneth into England 701 a 10. Without interruption passeth forward to Yorke marcheth to the citie gates receiueth the sacrament an oth the marquesse Montacute suffereth him to passe by he cometh to Northhampton 680 a 30 c. Dispraised and âowlie spoken of by the earle of Warwike 671 a 20. His communication with the duke of Burgognie note 697 a 50 60 b 10 c. Shamefull and slanderous words against him 698 b 30. His politike foresight 688 a 20. Commeth to Leicester prouoketh the earle of Warwike to fight commeth to Warwike he and his brother the duke of Clarence reconciled vnwitting to the earle of Warwike 681 a 10 c. His victorie and the offering vp of his standard 685 b 10. Lodgeth with his armie before his enimies 684 a 10. Set forward against his enimies the nobles of England 686 a 40. His painfull march with his armie the ordering of his battels 687 b 10 30. Passeth to London 682 b 30. The Londoners resolue to receiue him the Towre recouered to his vse he entreth into London 683 a 60 b 10. Arriueth on the coast of Northfolke then at the head of Humber landeth at Rauenspurgh the people let him passe hearing the cause of his comming into the countrie he passeth towards Yorke 679 a 10 c. Iudged a vsuâper 678 a 10. His fréends take sanctuarie 677 b 10. Receiued verie honorablie into the citie of Excester 676 b 30. The citizens beneuolence to him how long he continued there b 30 50. Commeth to Lin taketh ship to passe ouer sea the number that passed ouer with him he arriued at Alquemarâe 675 b 10 20 40. Taken prisoner and brought to Warwike castell 673 a 60. He is deliuered out of captiuitie commeth to London b 10 20. His proclamation to such as were assembled vnder him 664 b 10. His title to the crowne 663 b 60 664 a 10. Proclamed K. 725 b 10. Notablie slandered and spoken against in the duke of Buckinghams oration 728 a 50 60 c 729. a 10 c. His words to his mother about marriage 726 b 30. Slandered in a sermon 727 b 50. His flight into Holland 727 a 50. The chéefest deuise of the conspirators to depose him 725 b 60. Described his qualities 711 a 40 c. His thrée concubines 725 a 10. His last words vttered on his
with Henrie thirds sister 222 ball Maketh his possessions into monie and goeth into the holie land 224 a 60 b 10 225 b 40. Fled ouer into France 223 b 30. Stanlie of Derbie deceaseth his life death and qualities 1257 a 60 b 10. Stephan of Bullongne sworne to the succession of the crowne 43 a 10. ¶ Sée Stephan Strangbow marieth Dermutius his daughter 81 a 50. Confined séeketh king Henrie the seconds fauor and is pardoned 81 a 50 60. He maketh surrender to king Henrie the first b 20. Strangbow of Straguill 81 a 10. Summerset of Worcester sent into France robbed vpon the sea 1257 b 40 50 60 Erle Talbot of Shrewesburie and his son manfullie slaine 639 a 60 b 50. Sent into France with an armie 817 840. Theobald of Champaigne his descent in armes against the French king 39 b 20. His countrie inuaded by the French king 40 b 20. Theodorike of Flanders 66 b 60. Tiptoft of Worcester beheaded 678. Turketillus ¶ Sée Turketillus Erle Ualeran of saint Paule put to flight 528 b 20. Uéere of Oxford his charge to his bands of men his valiantnesse 759 a 10 20. Yéeldeth himselfe to king Edward the fourth sent ouer sea and kept prisoner twelue yeares 693 b 20. Made marquesse of Dublin 448 a 60. Created duke of Ireland 451 b 60. Duke of Ireland to be safelie conducted to the kings presence by the shiriffe of Cheshire 460 b 60. Deceaseth in miserable necessitie note 479 b 60. His corps conueied from Louaine into England and there roiallie buried 485 a 60. Séeketh to be diuorced from his lawfull wife note 458 a 10. Sent ouer into Gascoigne 294 b 60. His valiantnesse 684. b 20. Geiteth out of prison and he with others go to the erle of Richmond 749 a 10 20. He liuieth a power commeth into England his valor and chiualrie a 50 60. He submitteth himselfe and yéeldeth to the king b 50. The erle of Richmond is glad of him and his companie b 60. Deceaseth 950 a 60. Erle Walter of Essex saileth into Ireland 1258 b 60. Deceaseth 1263 a 40. The place of his birth 60. His praise in sundrie respects b 20. Disposed to inlarge his nobilitie 60 ¶ Sée Erle of Essex Waltheof ¶ Sée Waltheof Warren 51 b 60. Warren of Surreie his words to Edward the first 280 b 10. Of Shrewesburie warden of the Welsh marches 42 a 40. William of Arundell ambassador to the French king 72 a 50. Dieth 98 b 20. William of Kent William de Ypresse 54 a 30. William sonne to duke Robert erle of Flanders 43 a 50. Dieth of wounds 43 b 20. Duke Robert of Normandies son by Sibill 34. a 10. William named de Longspée with others go into the holie land 241 b 50. William of Mortaigne and Bullongne 68 a 20 66 b 50. A factious man 32 a 60. His wilfulnesse and malcontentment b 10. William of Salisburie inuadeth the countries about London 89 b 30. Erle of Albemerle 52 a 10 52 b 10. Whie supposed to betraie the towne 88 b 30. Of Aluergnes lands spoiled 75 a 40 Of Aniou 55 a 20 ¶ Sée Normandie Departeth this life 58 b 20. Of Arminacks daughter affâed to Henrie the sixt he his ladie sonne two daughters taken 624 a 10. An open enimie to England note 636 b 10. Of Arundels fréendlie spéech to ladie Elisabeth 1154 a 50. His exploits in France note 609 a 10. His death 610 a 20. Goeth to sea with fiue hundred men of armes and a thousand archers 454 a 50. His liberalitie note 454 b 50. Saileth into Britaine with a great power 455 a 10. Returneth into France 465 b 10. Sent to the sea with a great nauie in aid of the duke of Britaine 465 a 50. Ioineth with the lords in conspiracie 458 a 60. To be apprehended by the earle of Northumberland 60. Answer to his indictment he is condemned 491 b 10 50 60. Executed 492 a 10 20. Ouerthrowne in the middest of a water 56 a 30. Professeth himselfe sorie that he goeth not with the duke of Northumberland against the ladie Marie 1086 b 10. Apprehended 489 b 20. Arreigned 491 a 60 Erle of Bedford and his sonne the lord Russell deceaseth 1413 b 10. Of Blois his son made bishop of Winchester 42 a 60. Of Britaine assisted against the French king he submitteth himselfe 219 a 10 20. Of Buckingham sent into Britaine to and the duke against the French king 425 b 60. He maketh knights at his entrance into France 426 a 30. Displeased with the duke of Britaine returneth into England 427 b 60. Oâ Bullogne prepareth six hundred ships to inuade England 75 a 50 Erle of Caerleill raiseth an armie put to death for treason 333 a 10 b 20. His iudgment and constancie at his death 334 a 60. Of Cambridge returneth out of Portingale 441 b 20. His sonne affianced to the king of Portingals daughter 441 b 20 40. He and other lords apprehended for treason 548 b 10. Executed 50. The effect of his indictment 549 a 30 c. Of Chaster described 53 a 10. His exploits being the kings lieutenant 212 b 20. Withstood the gathering of tenths for the pope 211 a 50. Bare S. Edwards sword before Henrie the third at his mariage 219 b 40. His oration to the erle of Glocester 52 a 10. His right and title thereto and priuileges his foure barons vnder him note 20 a 20. Dieth 60 b 10. Of Cornwall marrieth the countesse of Glocester 213 b 50. Elected emperour 254 b 10. Stands against the K. his brother for grant of a subsidie 251 b 40. He lendeth the king monie 252 a 20. Elected king of Almaine taketh his leaue of the king his brother 256 a 20. And king of Almaine his protestation to the English ambassadors he commeth ouer into England receiueth an oth not to infringe the statuts of Oxford 261 a all An intercessor for peace to be had betwixt the pope and the emperour 226 b 10 Erle of Derbies exploits in France and his taking of townes 368 b 40 c 369 a 10 c. Assembleth an armie winneth townes and is victorious 375 a 30 c. His exploits against the infidels 473 b 10. Kéepeth Newland bridge 377 b 20. Ambassador into France his interteinement 1380 a 50 60 c 1381 all 1382 a 10 c. Of Desmond a rebell and others brought to order by the earle of Surrie his power 855 b 60. His strange and miserable end 1365 b 60. His head set on London bridge 1356 a 20 Erle of Essex capteine generall of Uister in Ireland 1259 a 20. How he spent his youthfull yeares 1264 a 10. Perfect in the scriptures 1264 a 30. I fauourer of preachers 40. Expert in chronicles histories c 50. Indued with martiall knowledge and prowesse b 20. His humanitie affablenesse c 1265 a 10. His âquanimitie 40. He could not awaie with swearing chasing c 50. His deuotion in licknesse 60. Heauenlie contemplation toward his death b
of Hales dedicated The charges of the building of the church of Hales Tournies and iusts in those daies were handled in more rough manner than is vsed in our tune The house of Coucie The king of Scots did homage to the K. of England Sir Robert Norice and sir Stephan Bausan An excéeding great wind The bishop of Rochest bull The Gascoignes make warre against the English subiects The earle of Leicester danteth his enimies Mal. Pal. in suo cap. A strange wonder of the new moone A great drought Manie diseases reigned A murren of cattell The cause of the death of cattell The bishop of Lincolne The Gascoigns meane to complaine of the earle of Leicester The earle disproueth the allegations of his accusers The bishop of Lincolns authoritie to institute vicars in churches impropriate The earle of Leicester sent eftsoones into Gascoigne Rusteine taken The kings eldest son Edward creates duke of Aquitaine Sir Arnold de Monteinie slaine The church of Elie dedicated A parlement The king demandeth the tenths of the spiritualtie The bishops refuse to yeild to the popes grant The king highlie offended with the bishops The king assaieth to get monie of the lords temporall The Londoners helpe at a pinch The death of sir Nicholas Samford The countesse of Winchester departeth this life Matth. Paris The deceasse of the countesse de Lisle de Wight Anno Reg. 37. The pope offereth the kingdome of Sicill vnto the earle of Cornewall The archb of Canturburie and the bishop of Winchester made fréends William de Ualence and Iohn de Warren The value of spirituall liuings in strangers hands The new moone appeared before hir time Running at the quintine The Londoners called Barons The earle of Leicester resigneth his gouernment of Gascoigne The Rioll S. Millâon townes in Gascoigne Knights to be made An ordinance against robbers The cause that mooued the Gascoignes to rebellion A parlement A tenth granted of the spiritualtie Escuage granted Magna charta Godlie counsell no doubt The king pâââposeth to go himselfe into Gascoigne He taketh the sea He arriueth at Burdeaux Ambassadors sent into Spaine A marriage concluded betwixt the K. of Englands sonne the K. of Spaines daughter A dearth in the kings campe The Gascoigns begin to humble themselues The bishop of Chichester Richard Witz and Grosted b. of Lincolne depart this life The praise of Grosted Leo papa The L. Wil. Uescie departeth this life Great wet Great drout Anno Reg. 38. The ladie Katherin the kings daughter borne Winter thunder The quéenes liberalitie towards the K. A strang sight in the aire Redborne A death of sheepe The king demandeth a subsidie The king offended with them that refused to helpe him with monie Edward the kings sonne is sent to the K. of Castile He marrieth the ladie Elenor daughter to K. Alfonse Ran. Higd. Polydor. Gaston de Biâânâ ãâã to take ãâã of Bââân A ãâã in the English aâââe A mightie storme of haile Anno Reg. 39. The king returneth homwârds thorough France The countesse of Cornewall The pope offereth the kingdome of Sicill vnto the king of England The K. maketh great shift for monie to send to the pope He sendeth to the pope a warant to take vp monie Matth. Paris The pope is liberall of an other mans pursse Manfred proclaimed king of Sicill A parlement The states refuâe to grant a subsidie The parlemeÌt adiourned Rob. de Ros Iohn Bailioll accused Reignold de Bath a physician An eclipse The earle of Glocester Iohn Mansell sent into Scotland Robert de Ros summoned to appeare A shift to get monie of the bishops deuised by the bish oâ Hereford A parlement Richard earle of Cornewall standeth against his brother for the grant of a subsidie The liberties of London seized into the kings hands The shiriffes of London imprisoned The king demandeth monie of the Iewes The kings debt 3000000 marks The earle of Cornewall lendeth the king monie Hor. lib. 2. serm An elephant sent to the K. An ewer of pearle peraduenture an agat Strange wonders High tides A comet The decease of Walter archbishop of Yorke Elianor the wife of prince Edward coÌmeth to the citie The liberties of the citie restored to the Londoners A legat from the pope named Ruscand a Gascoigne Tenths gathered for the pope The crosse preached against Manfred A councell called at London by the legat Matth. Paris The churchmen being pinched by their pursses fret and fume against the popes procéâdings in that behalfe The bishops would rather become martyrs than lose their monie Ruscand coÌplaineth to the king of the frowardnesse of the prelats The bishop oâ London his saiengs Anno Reg. 40. Edmund the kings sonne inuested king of Sicill and Naples Chro. Dun. The councell proroged The K. lieth in wait for mens goods Matth. Paris The Lord Gray forsaketh the court Iewes accused executed for crucifieng a child at Lincolne named Hugh Eighteene Iews hanged The prolocutors answer to the popes legat The prelats appeale Marke the cause of martyrdome The deane of saint Paules sent to Rome on the behalfe of the prelats Mens deuotion towards the pope waxeth cold Antith de prâcl Chrisâi c. The b. of Salisburie departeth this life Suit of court when it was first receiued for a law Matth. Paris Magnus king of Man A proclamation for knighthood A sore tempest of wind and raine The king of Scots commeth into England Iohn Mansell trusted the two kings Orders deuised for the appearance of shâriffes The shiriffes fined The king of Scots ãâã into his countrie Anno Reg. 4â Richard earle of Cornewâââ elected emperour The great treasure of Richard king of Almaine The Welshmen choose them a gouernour anâ rebell agaiâââ the king The king wanteth monie Sir Geffrey de Langlies hard dealing cause of the Welshmens rebellion Matth. Paris The number of the Welshâenimies The Welshmen diuide their power into two parts Nic. Treuet Stephan Bauzan ãâã Baucan Englishmen ouerthrowne Northwales and Southwales ioined togither in league The king passeth himselfe in person into Wales The lord Mortimer the kings lieutenant in Wales Polydor. A legat from Rome Matth. Paris A new order of Friers A parlement Matth. Paris The lord Edmund the kings sonne A subsidie demanded The offer of the spiritualtie The archbish of Cullen and other ambassadors of Almaine Six archbish present at London in time of the parlement The elect K. of Almaine taketh his leaue of the king his brother He landeth at Dordreigh A synod Matth. Paris A decrée made by the pope Matth. Paris The moonks of Durham that were excoÌmunicated are now absolued Matth. Paris Fabian An informaâââon against the lord maior of London The lord ãâã and shiriffes of London discharged The lord maior and shiriffes finâ Matth. Paris The archbisâââ of Yorke accursed The constancie of the archbishop of Yorke The lord Audelie warreth vpon the Welshmen Ambassadors sent into France The marshes of Wales sore impouerished A great dearth Matth. Paris The gréedie
historie written of this prince he shall find that he hath beene little beholden to the writers of that time in which he liued for scarselie can they afoord him a good word except when the trueth inforceth them to come out with it as it were against their willes The occasion whereof as some thinke was for that he was no great freend to the clergie And yet vndoubtedlie his déeds shew he had a zeale to religion as it was then accompted for he founded the abbeie of Beauleau in the new forrest as it were in recompense line 30 of certeine parishchurches which to inlarge the same forrest he caused to be throwne downe and ruinated He builded the monasterie of Farendon and the abbeie of Hales in Shropshire he repaired Godstow where his fathers concubine Rosamund laie interred he was no small benefactor to the minster of Lichfield in Staffordshire to the abbeie of Crokesden in the same shire and to the chappell at Knatesburgh in Yorkshire So that to say what I thinke line 40 he was not so void of deuotion towards the church as diuers of his enimies haue reported who of meere malice conceale all his vertues and hide none of his vices but are plentifull inough in setting foorth the same to the vttermost and interpret all his dooings and saiengs to the woorst as may appeare to those that aduisedlie read the works of them that write the order of his life which may séeme rather an inuectiue than a true historie neuerthelesse sith we cannot come by the truth of things through the malice line 50 of writers we must content our selues with this vnfréendlie description of his time Certeinelie it should séeme the man had a princelie heart in him and wanted nothing but faithfull subiects to haue assisted him in reuenging such wrongs as were doone and offered by the French king and others Moreouer the pride and pretended authoritie of the cleargie he could not well abide when they went about to wrest out of his hands the prerogatiue of his princelie rule and gouernement True it is that to mainteine his warres which he was forced to take in hand as well in France as elsewhere he was constreined to make all the shift he could deuise to recouer monie and bicause he pinched their pursses they conceiued no small hatred against him which when he perceiued and wanted peraduenture discretion to passe it ouer he discouered now and then in his rage his immoderate displeasure as one not able to bridle his affections a thing verie hard in a stout stomach and thereby missed now and then to compasse that which otherwise he might verie well haue brought to passe It is written that he meant to haue become feudarie for maintenance sake against his owne disloiall subiects and other his aduersaries vnto Miramumeline the great king of the Saracens but for the truth of this report I haue little to saie and therefore I leaue the credit thereof to the authors It is reported likewise that in time when the realme stood interdicted as he was abroad to hunt one day it chanced that there was a great stag or hart killed which when he came to be broken vp prooued to be verie fat and thicke of flesh Oh saith he what a plesant life this déere hath led and yet in all his daies he neuer heard masse To conclude it may séeme that in some respects he was not greatlie superstitious and yet not void of a religious zeale towards the maintenance of the cleargie as by his bountifull liberalitie bestowed in building of abbeies and churches as before yée haue hard it may partlie appeare In his daies manie learned men liued as Geffrey Uinesaufe Simon Fraxinus alià s Ash Adamus Dorensis Gualter de Constantijs first bishop of Lincolne and after archbishop of Rouen Iohn de Oxford Colman surnamed Sapiens Richard Canonicus William Peregrine Alane Teâkesburie Simon Thurnaie who being an excellent philosopher but standing too much in his owne conceit vpon a sudden did so forget all his knowledge in learning that he became the most ignorant of all other a punishment as was thought appointed him of God for such blasphemies as he had wickedlie vttered both against Moses and Christ. Geruasius Dorobernensis Iohn Hanwill Nigell Woreker Gilbert de Hoiland Benet de Peterburgh William Parnus a moonke of Newburgh Roger Houeden Hubert Walter first bishop of Salisburie and after archbishop of Canturburie Alexander Theologus of whome yee haue heard before Geruasius Tilberiensis Syluester Giraldus Cambrensis who wrote manie treatises Ioseph Deuonius Walter Mapis Radulfus de Diceto Gilbert Legley Mauricius Morganius Walter Morganius Iohn de Fordeham William Leicester Ioceline Brakeland Roger of Crowland Hugh White alià s Candidus that wrote an historie intituled Historia Petroburgensis Iohn de saint Omer Adam Barking Iohn Gray an historiographer and bishop of Norwich Walter of Couentrie Radulphus Niger c. Sée Bale Scriptorum Britanniae centuria tertia Thus farre king Iohn Henrie the third the eldest sonne of king Iohn HEnrie the third of that name the eldest sonne of K. Iohn a child of the age of nine yeres began his reigne ouer the realme of England the ninetéenth day of October in the yeare of our Lord 1216 in the seuenth yeare of the emperour Frederike the second year 1216 and in the 36 yeare of the reigne of Philip line 10 the second king of France Immediatlie after the death of his father king Iohn William Marshall earle of Penbroke generall of his fathers armie brought this yoong prince with his brother and sisters vnto Glocester and there called a councell of all such lords as had taken part with king Iohn Anon after it was once openlie knowne that the sonnes and daughters of the late deceassed prince were brought into a place of safetie a great number of the lords and cheefe barons of the line 20 realme hasted thither I meane not onelie such as had holden with king Iohn but also diuerse other which vpon certeine knowledge had of his death were newlie reuolted from Lewes in purpose to aid yoong king Henrie to whome of right the crowne did apperteine Thither also came Uallo or Guallo the popes legat an earnest defender of the kings cause with Peter bishop of Winchester Iocelin bishop of Bath also Ranulph earle of Chester William Ferrers line 30 earle of Derbie Iohn Marshall and Philip de Albenie with diuerse other lords and peeres of the relme and a great number of abbats and priors who by and by fell to councell togither what waie should be best to take for the good order of things now in so doubtfull and perilous a time as this The péeres of the realme being thus assembled William earle of Penbroke bringing the yoong king into their presence and setting him before them spake these words following line 40 The earle of Penbroks short and sweet oration as it is borrowed out of maister Fox BEhold right honourable and welbeloued
déeds he ãâã fullie performed The cardinall hauing saluted the king tooke leaue of him and came to Lin where he staied at the point of thrée moneths making such purchase amongst religious men that what by procuraries and other shifts he got as was thought a foure thousand marks towards line 10 his charges and so departed Edmund Lacie earle of Lincolne and Richard de Burgh as then wards to the king were married vnto two of those yoong ladies of Prouance which Peter de Sauoy earle of Richmond brought ouer with him whereat manie of the English nobilitie grudged Also about the thirtéenth of August the ladie Ione daughter to the lord Guarine de Monchencâe was married vnto William de Ualence the kings halfe brother The same ladie was heire to hir fathers line 20 lands by the death of hir brother the sonne of the said lord Guarine Sir William de Bueles knight a Norman borne was made seneshall of Gascoigne about this season and was sore vexed with wars by Gaston the sonne of the countesse of Bierne and others which Gaston shewed himselfe verie vnthankefull for the king had giuen both to him and to his mother a woman of a monstrous stature verie large interteinement to serue him in his wars at his last being in that countrie as before ye haue heard The line 30 archbishop of Canturburie suspended the préests of his prouince bicause they would not consent according to the grant which he had purchased of the pope that he should haue the first fruits for one yeare of euerie benefice that chanced to be vacant within the same prouince The earles of Cornewall and Penbroke got much monie by waie of a collection towards the reliefe of the warres in the holie land hauing purchased of the pope certeine buls of indulgence for the same Sir Fouke de Newcastell a valiant knight and coosen germane to the king on the line 40 mothers side died at London during the time of the parlement On the thirtéenth of October was a portion of the holie bloud of Christ as it was then supposed shewed in most reuerent wise in a solemne procession for the king comming to the church of S. Paule in London receiued there the same bloud conteined in a christalline glasse the which he bare vnder a canopie supported with foure staues through the stréets vnto the abbeie church of Westminster His armes were line 50 also supported by two lords as aids to him all the waie as he went The masters of the Templers and Hospitallers had sent this relike to the king To describe the whole course and order of the procession and feast kept that daie would require a speciall treatise But this is not to be forgotten that the same daie the bishop of Norwich preached before the king in commendation of that relike pronouncing six years and one hundred and sixtéene daies of pardon granted by the bishops there present to all that came to line 60 reuerence it Also the same daie and in the same church the king made his halfe brother William de Ualence and diuerse other yoong bachelers knights Unto the said William de Valence for his further aduancement and maintenance he gaue the castell of Hertford and the honor therto belonging with great treasure to the elder brother Guy de Lucignan which about the same time returned into France he gaue verie great and honorable gifts lading his sumpters with plate and treasure of sterling monie which in those daies in all countries was verie much esteemed The earle of Winchester remaining in Gallowaie where he had faire possessions in right of his wife was besieged of his owne tenants within a castell wherein he lodged and being in danger either to die through famine or else at the discretion of the enimies he burst forth and making way with his sword escaped and comming to the king of Scots complained of the iniurie doone to him by his people wherevpon the king tooke such order that the rebels were punished and the earle set in quiet possession of his lands againe Toward the latter end of Nouember William earle Ferrers of Derbie departed this life a man of great yeares and long troubled with the gout a iust man and a peaceable The same moneth the countesse his wife died also a woman of yeares vertue and fame like to hir husband Thomas Becket the archbishop of Canturburie did minister the priests office at their marriage Their eldest sonne William succéeded his father in the earledome a good man and a discreet but vexed with the gout verie pitifullie hauing that disease also as it were by inheritance from his father There died likewise other of the nobilitie as Richard de Burgh and William Fitz Ham. Beatrice the countesse of Prouance mother to the queene year 1248 and Thomas de Sauoy late earle of Flanders came into England to visit the king and queene and were honorablie receiued and at their departure backe towards home richlie rewarded This yeare in the octaues of the Purification a parlement was holden at London where all the nobilitie of the realme in manner was present There were nine bishops as the archbishop of Yorke with the bishops of Winchester Lincolne Norwich Worcester Chichester Elie Rochester and Carlell with the earls of Cornewall Leicester Winchester Hereford Northfolke Oxford Lincolne Ferrers and Warwike with Peter de Sauoy earle of Richmond besides lords and barons The archbishop of Canturburie was at the court of Rome the bishop of Duresme was lefted by sickenesse In this parlement king Henrie earnestlie required a subsidie in reliefe of the great charges which he had diuerse waies susteined wherevpon he was streightwaies by the péeres of the realme noted both of couetousnesse vnthankfulnesse and breach of promise bicause he neuer ceassed gathering of monie without regard had to his people and where he had promised manie things as that he would not be burdenous vnto them and such like he had performed verie little of those his gaie promises Manie misdemeanors and wrongfull doings to the gréeuance of his people were opened and laid before him as cherrishing and inriching of strangers vsing his prerogatiues too largelie to the great decaie hinderance of the common-wealth The king abashed herewith and supposing that the confession of his fault should make amends aswage the displesure which his Nobles and other had conceiued at his misgouernance to content them all with one answer he promised that he would reforme all that was amisse and so quieting the minds of his barons the parlement was proroged till the quindene of the natiuitie of S. Iohn Baptist. Wherein his prudence and wisedome was to be commended but his patience deserueth exceeding great praise whereby he shewed himselfe princelike-minded in that he could tollerate the exprobration and casting of his faults in his face euen by such as should rather haue concealed than disclosed them
them saue Peter Danthenazie and fiue and twentie other which by the swiftnesse of their horsses saued themselues After this conflict the lord Willoughbie returned to the earle of Salisburie lieng still at siege before the towne de la Fert Barnard which shortlie after was rendered vp into the erle of Salisburies hands to whome the lord regent gaue it to inioie to him and his heires for euer Beside this the said earle partlie by assalt partlie by composition tooke diuers other as saint Kales where he made capteine Richard Gethin esquier Thanceaux Lermitage where he made gouernour Matthew Gough Guerland of the which he assigned ruler Iohn Banaster Malicorne whereof he made capteine William Glasdale esquier Lisle Soubz Boulton whereof was made capteine sir Lancelot Lisle knight Loupelland whereof was made capteine Henrie Branch Montseur of the which was made capteine sir William Oldhall knight la Suze was assigned to the kéeping of Iohn Suffolke esquier And besides this aboue fortie castels and piles were ouerthrowne and destroied The newes hereof reported in England caused great reioising among the people not onelie for the conquest of so manie townes fortresses but also for that it had pleased God to giue them victorie in a pitched field whereof generall processions were appointed to render vnto God humble thanks for his fauour so bestowed vpon them This yeare after Easter the king called a parlement at Westminster by aduise of the péeres and comming to the parlement house himselfe he was conueied through the citie vpon a great courser with great triumph the people flocking into the stréets to behold the child whome they iudged to haue the liuelie image and countenance of his father and like to succeed him and be his heire in all princelie qualities martiall policies and morall vertues aswell as in his realmes seigniories and dominions In this parlement was granted to the king a subsidie of twelue pence the pound towards the maintenance of his warres of all merchandize comming in or going out of the realme as well of Englishmen as strangers During which parlement came to London Peter duke of Quimbre sonne to the king of Portingale cousine germane remooued to the king which of the duke of Excester and the bishop of Winchester his vncles was highlie feasted he was also elected into the order of the garter During the same season Edmund Mortimer the last earle of March of that name which long time had beene restreined from his libertie and finallie waxed lame deceassed without issue whose inheritance descended to the lord Richard Plantagenet sonne and heire to Richard earle of Cambridge beheaded as before yée haue heard at the towne of Southampton ¶ In the time of this parlement also was sir Iohn Mortimer cousine to the same earle either for desert or malice atteinted of treason and put to execution of whose death no small slander arose amongst the common line 10 people After all these things doone in England and in France Humfreie duke of Glocester who had married the ladie Iaquet or Iaqueline of Bauier countesse of Heinault Holland and Zeland notwithstanding she was coupled in marriage afore to Iohn duke of Brabant as yet liuing and had continued with him a long space passed now the sea with the said ladie and went to Mons or Bergen in Heinault where the more part of the people of that countrie line 20 came and submitted themselues vnto him as to their souereigne lord in right of his said wife the ladie Iaquet or Iaqueline with which dooing hir former husband was greatlie mooued And likewise the duke of Burgognie being great friend to the same duke of Brabant was much offended who of old familiaritie wrote louinglie to the duke of Glocester requiring him to reforme himselfe according to reason and to forsake his vngodlie life both in kéeping of an other mans wife and also in séeking to vsurpe line 30 other mens rights and titles Herevpon went letters betwixt them for a time but at length when the duke of Burgognie perceiued that the duke of Glocester meant to mainteine his interest to make warre against the duke of Brabant he tooke part with the duke of Brabant so earnestlie that he consented to fight with the duke of Glocester bodie to bodie within lists in defense of the duke of Brabants quarell and further aided the duke of Brabant in his warres against the duke of Glocester line 40 with all his puissance insomuch that in the end after the duke of Glocesters returne into England the duke of Brabant recouered all the towns in Heinault which the ladie Iaquet or Iaqueline held against him And further the same ladie was by composition deliuered by them of the towne of Mons vnto the duke of Burgognie who caused hir to be conueied vnto Gant from whence she made shift to escape into Holland where she was obeied as countesse of the countrie line 50 Then made she warre in hir owne defense against the dukes of Burgognie and Brabant who sought to spoile hir of all hir towns and lands but they procured pope Martin the fift before whome the matter was to giue sentence that the first matrimonie with the duke of Brabant was good and the second with the duke of Glocester to be vnlawfull But in the meane time the lord Fitz Walter was sent ouer to the aid of the ladie Iaquet or Iaquelin with a power of Englishmen landed in Zeland neere vnto the line 60 towne of Zerixe aginst whome came the duke of Burgognie and incountering with them and other such Hollanders and Zelanders as were ioined with them néere to a place called Brewers hauen there discomfited them so that of English Hollanders and Zelanders with the said lord Fitz Walter were slaine seauen or eight hundred and the residue chased to the water At length when the duke of Glocester vnderstood the sentence pronounced against him by the pope he began to wax wearie of his wife the said ladie Iaquet by whome he neuer had profit but losse and tooke in a second marriage Eleanor Cobham daughter to the lord Cobham of Sterberow which before as the fame went was his souereigne paramour to his slander and dishonour A little before this time sir Thomas Rampston sir Philip Branch sir Nicholas Burdet and other Englishmen to the number of fiue hundred men of warre repared and fortified the towne of S. Iames de Beuuron situate on the frontiers of Normandie towards Britaine within halfe a league of the duke of Britains ground with whome as then they had open warre and so began to doo manie displeasures to his people Wherevpon Arthur earle of Richmont and Yurie brother to the said duke and latelie before created constable of France assembled an huge power of men to the number of fortie thousand as some haue written and with the same came before the said towne of S Iames de Beuuron and planted his siege verie stronglie about it inforcing
great triumphs princelie feastings Touching the pompe had and vsed at the setting forward of this ladie on hir voiage it is a note worth the reading and therefore necessarilie here interlaced for honours sake ¶ On the eightéenth of Iune Margaret sister to K. Edward the fourth began hir iornie from the Wardrobe in London toward hir marriage with Charles duke of Burgognie first the offered in the church of saint Paule and then rode thorough the citie the earle of Warwike riding before hir with earles and barons a great number the duchesse of Norffolke with other ladies and gentlewomen in great number And at hir entrie into Cheape the maior of London and his brethren the aldermen presented hir with a paire of rich basons in them an hundred pounds of gold and that night she lodged at the abbeie of Stratford where the king then laie from thense she tooke hir iournie to Canturburie The king riding after to sée hir shipping on the first of Iulie she tooke the sea at Margate and there tooke leaue of the king hir brother and departed There returned backe againe with the king the duke of Clarence the duke of Glocester the earles of Warwike Shrewesburie and Northumberland And there abode with hir in the ship the lord Scales the lord Dacres hir chamberlaine sir Iohn Wooduile sir Iohn Howard and manie other famous knights and esquiers She was shipped in the new Ellen of London and in hir nauie the Iohn of Newcastell the Marie of Salisburie and manie other roiall ships and on the morrow landed at Sluis in Flanders Now as soone as hir ship companie of ships were entered into the hauen there receiued hir sir Simon de Lelein and the water bailiffe in diuerse boats and barks apparelled readie for hir landing The first estate that receiued hir was the bishop of Utright well accompanied and the countesse of Shorne bastard daughter to duke Philip of Burgognie and with hir manie ladies and gentlewomen and so procéeding in at the gate of the towne the same towne was presented to hir she to be souereigne ladie thereof also they gaue to hir twelue marks of gold Troie weight the which was two hundred pounds of English monie and so procéeded thorough the towne to hir lodging euerie housholder standing in the street with a torch in his hand burning On the morow the old duchesse of Burgognie came to hir accompanied with manie great estates On the third of Iulie came the duke of Burgognie to Sluis with twentie persons secretlie and was there openlie affianced to the ladie Margaret by the bishop of Salisburie and the lord Scales in presence of the lord Dacres the duchesse of Norffolke the ladie Scales and all the knights esquiers gentlewomen inuironing the chamber line 10 On the 8 of Iulie being saturdaie by the duke of Burgognies appointment the lady Margaret remoued by water to the Dame And on the sunday in the morning betwixt fiue and six of the clocke the mariage was solemnized betwixt them by the bishops of Salisburie and of Turneie there being present the old duches of Burgognie the lord Scales the lord Dacres with the knights esquiers ladies gentlewomen that came out of England The great triumphs feastings shewes of pageants with other line 20 strange deuises and iustings were such as I haue not read the like and would be ouer long in this place to set downe ¶ Of this aliance with other more mention is honorablie made in the declaration of the causes that moued the Quéene of England to giue aid to the defense of the people afflicted oppressed in the low countries by the Spaniards namelie for the maintenance of perpetuall amitie Which declaration is so set foorth in this booke as the same in the seuen and twentith line 30 yeare of hir maiesties reigne was published vnto which yeare I remit the reader for the further search thereof for that it conteineth much memorable matter touching the manifest causes of concord to be continued betwéene them of the low countries and vs English Sir Thomas Cooke late maior of London was by one named Hawkins appeached of treason for the which he was sent to the Tower and his place within London seized by the lord Riuers and his wife and line 40 seruants cleerelie put out therof The cause was this The forenamed Hawkins came vpon a season vnto the said sir Thomas requesting him to lend a thousand markes vpon good suertie wherevnto he answered that first he would know for whome it should be and for what intent At length vnderstanding it should be for the vse of queene Margaret he answered he had no currant wares whereof anie shifts might be made without too much losse and therefore required Hawkins to line 50 mooue him no further in that matter for he intended not to deale withall yet the said Hawkins exhorted him to remember what benefits he had receiued by hir when she was in prosperitie as by making him hir wardrober and customer of Hampton c. But by no meanes the said Cooke would grant goods nor monie although at last the said Hawkins required but an hundred pounds he was faine to depart without the value of a penie and neuer came againe to mooue him which so rested two or three years line 60 after till the said Hawkins was cast in the Tower and at length brought to the brake called the duke of Excesters daughter by meanes of which paine he shewed manie things amongst the which the motion was one that he had made to sir Thomas Cooke and accused himselfe so farre that he was put to death By meane of which confession the said sir Thomas was troubled as before is shewed when the said sir Thomas had laine in the Tower from Whitsuntide till about Michaelmas in the which season manie inquiries were made to find him guiltie and euer quit till one iurie by meanes of sir Iohn Fog indicted him of treason after which an oier and terminer was kept at the Guildhall in which sat with the maior the duke of Clarence the earle of Warwike the lord Riuers sir Iohn Fog with other of the kings councell To the which place the said Thomas was brought and there arreigned vpon life and death where he was acquited of the said indictement and had to the counter in Breadstreet and from thence to the kings bench After a certeine time that he was thus acquited his wife got againe the possession of hir house the which she found in an euill plight for such seruants of the lord Riuers and sir Iohn Fog as were assigned to kéepe it made hauocke of what they listed Also at his place in Essex named Giddihall were set an other sort to kéepe that place the which destroied his déere in his parke his conies and his fish without reason and spared not brasse pewter bedding all that they might carie for the which might neuer one penie be gotten in recompense
they said afterward that that prophesie lost not his effect when after king Edward Glocester vsurped his kingdome Other alledged that the cause of his death was for that the duke being destitute of a wife by the meanes of his sister the ladie Margaret duchesse of Burgognie procured to haue the ladie Marie daughter and heire to hir husband duke Charles line 60 Which marriage king Edward enuieng the prosperitie of his brother both gaine said and disturbed and thereby old malice reuiued betwixt them which the quéene and hir bloud euer mistrusting and priuilie barking at the kings Image ceassed not to increase But sure it is that although king Edward were consenting to his death yet he much did both lament his infortunate chance repent his sudden execution insomuch that when anie person sued to him for the pardon of malefactors condemned to death he would accustomablie saie openlie speake Oh infortunate brother for whose life not one would make sute Openlie and apparantlie meaning by such words that by the meanes of some of the nobilitie he was deceiued and brought to confusion This duke left behind him two yoong infants begot of the bodie of his wife the daughter of Richard late earle of Warwike which children by destinie as it were or by their owne merits following the steps of their ancestors succéeded them in like misfortune and semblable euill chance For Edward his heire whom king Edward had created earle of Warwike was thrée and twentie yeares after in the time of Henrie the seauenth atteinted of treason and on the Tower hill lost his head Margaret his sole daughter maried to sir Richard Pole knight and by Henrie the eight restored to the name title possessions of the earledome of Salisburie was at length for treason committed against the said Henrie the eight atteinted in open parlement and sixtie two yeares after hir father had suffered death in the Tower she on the greene within the same place was beheaded In whose person died the verie surname of Plantagenet which from Geffrie Plantagenet so long in the bloud roiall of this realme had florished and continued After the death of this duke by reason of great heat and distemperance of aire happened so fierce quicke a pestilence that fiftéene yeares warre past consumed not the third part of the people that onelie foure moneths miserablie and pitifullie dispatched brought to their graues So that if the number had béene kept by multiplieng of vnities out of them to haue raised a complet number it would haue mooued matter of verie great admiration But it should séeme that they were infinit if consideration be had of the comparison inferred for the more effectuall setting foorth of that cruell and ceaselesse contagion And suerlie it soundeth to reason that the pestilence should fetchawaie so manie thousands as in iudgement by proportion of fiftéene yeares warre one maie gather and manie more too For euerie man knoweth that in warres time place persons and meanes are limited time of warre begun and ended place circumscribed persons imbattelled and weapons also whereby the fight is tried so that all these haue their limitations beyond which they haue no extent But the pestilence being a generall infection of the aire an element ordeined to mainteine life though it haue a limitation in respect of the totall compasse of the world yet whole climats maie be poisoned and it were not absurd to saie that all and euerie part of the aire maie be pestilentlie corrupted and so consequentlie not limited wherefore full well it maie be said of the pestilence procuring so great a depopulation as one saith of surfetting Ense cadunt multi perimit sed crapula plures The councellors of the yoong duchesse of Burgoggnie sent to K. Edward for aid against the French king About the same time had the queene of England sent to the ladie Margaret duchesse of Burgognie for the preferrement of hir brother Anthonie erle Riuers to the yoong damsell But the councell of Flanders considering that he was but an earle of meane estate and she the greatest inheritrice of all christendome at that time gaue but deafe eare to so vnméet a request To which desire if the Flemings had but giuen a liking eare by outward semblance and with gentle words delaied the sute she had beene both succoured and defended Whether king Edward was not contented with this refusall or that he was loth to breake with the French king he would in no wise consent to send an armie into Flanders against the French king but yet he sent ambassadours to him with louing and gentle letters requiring him to grow to some reasonable order agréement with the yoong duchesse of Burgognie or at the least to take a truce with hir at his request The ambassadours of England were highlie receiued bountifullie feasted and liberallie rewarded but answer to their desire had they none sauing that shortlie after the French king would send ambassadours hostages and pledges to the king of England their maister for the perfecting and concluding of all things depending betweene them two so that their souereigne lord they should haue cause to be contented and pleased These faire words were onelie delaies to driue time vntill he might haue space line 10 to spoile the yoong damsell of hir townes and countries And beside this to staie king Edward from taking part with hir he wrote to him that if he would ioine with him in aid he should haue and inioie to him and his heires the whole countie countrie of Flanders discharged of homage superioritie and resort to be claimed by the French king or his successors He also wrote that he should haue the whole duchie of Brabant whereof the French king offered at his line 20 owne cost and charge to conquer foure of the chiefest and strongest townes within the said duchie them in quiet possession to deliuer to the king of England granting further to paie him ten thousand angels toward his charges with munitions of warre and artillerie which he promised to lend him with men and carriage for the conueiance of the same The king of England refused to make anie warres against those countries that were thus offered to him but if the French king would make him partner line 30 of his conquests in Picardie rendering to him part of the townes alreadie gotten as Bologne Monsterell and Abuile then he would suerlie take his part and aid him with men at his owne costs and charges Thus passed faire words and golden promises betwéene these two princes and in the meane time the yoong duchesse of Burgognie was spoiled of hir townes castels territories till at length for maintenance she condescended to marrie with Maximilian line 40 sonne to the emperour Frederike that he might kéepe the woolfe from the fold King Edward in the ninetéenth yeare of his reigne began more than he was before accustomed to serch the forfeiture of penall
Orleance after French king he was with mischarging of a speare by fortunes peruerse countenance pitifullie slaine and brought to death leauing after him one line 50 onelie son named Iohn which being banished Scotland inhabited maried in France and there died How dolorous how sorrowfull is it to write and much more painefull to remember the chances and infortunities that happened within two yeares in England Scotland betwéene naturall brethren For king Edward set on by such as enuied the estate of the duke of Clarence forgetting nature and brotherlie amitie consented to the death of his said brother Iames king of Scots putting in obliuion that line 60 Alexander his brother was the onelie organ and instrument by whome he obteined libertie fréedome seduced and led by vile and malicious persons which maligned at the glorie and indifferent iustice of the duke of Albanie imagined and compassed his death and exiled him for euer What a pernicious serpent what a venemous toade and what a pestiferous scorpion is that diuelish whelpe called priuie enuie Against it no fortresse can defend no caue can hide no wood can shadow no fowle can escape nor no beast can auoid Hir poison is so strong that neuer man in authoritie could escape from the biting of hir teeth scratching of hir pawes blasting of hir breth filth of hir taile Notable therefore is the Gréeke epigram in this behalfe touching enuie of this kind which saith that a worsse thing than enuie there is not in the world and yet hath it some goodnesse in it for it consumeth the eies and the hart of the enuious The words in their owne toong sententiouslie sound thus ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã Although king Edward reioised that his businesse came to so good a conclusion with the Scots yet he was about the same time sore disquieted in his mind towards the French king whome he now perceiued to haue dallied with him as touching the agreement of the mariage to be had betwixt the Dolphin and his daughter the ladie Elizabeth For the lord Howard being as then returned out of France certified the king of his owne knowledge how that he being present saw the ladie Margaret of Austrich daughter to duke Maximilian sonne to the emperor Frederike receiued into France with great pompe and roialtie and at Ambois to the Dolphin contracted and espoused King Edward highlie displeased with such double and vniust dealing of the French king called his nobles togither and opened to them his gréefes who promised him for redresse thereof to be readie with all their powers to make warres in France at his pleasure and appointment But whilest he was busie in hand to make his purueiance for warres thus against France whether it was with melancholie and anger which he tooke with the French kings dooings and vncourteous vsage or were it by any superfluous surfet to âhe which he was verie much giuen he suddenlie fell sicke and was so gréeuouslie taken that in the end he perceiued his naturall strength in such wise to decaie that there was little hope of recouerie in the cunning of his physicians whome he perceiued onlie to prolong his life for a small time Wherefore he began to make readie for his passage into another world not forgetting as after shall appeare to exhort the nobles of his realme aboue all things to an vnitie among themselues And hauing as he tooke it made an attonement betwixt the parties that were knowne to be scant freends he commended vnto their graue wisedoms the gouernment of his sonne the prince and of his brother the duke of Yorke during the time of their tender yeares But it shall not be amisse to adde in this place the words which he is said to haue spoken on his death-bed which were in effect as followeth The words of king Edward vttered by him on his death-bed MY welbeloued and no lesse betrusted fréends councellors and alies if we mortall men would dailie and hourlie with our selues reuolue and intentiuelie in our hearts ingraue or in our minds seriouslie ponder the fraile and fading imbecillitie of our humane nature and the vnstablenesse of the same we should apparantlie perceiue that we being called reasonable creatures and in that predicament compared and ioined with angels be more worthie to be named and déemed persons vnreasonable and rather to be associate in that name with brute beasts called vnreasonable of whose life and death no creature speaketh rather than in that point to be resembled to the angelicall societie and reasonable companie For while health in vs florisheth or prosperitie aboundeth or the glosing world laugheth which is he so reasonable of vs all that can saie if he will not âr from the truth that he once in a wéeke remembreth his fatall end or the prescribed terme of his induring or once prouided by labour studie or otherwise to set a stedfast and sure order for the securitie profit and continuance either of his possessions dominions or of his sequele and posteritie which after him shall naturallie succéed Such is the blindnesse of our fraile and weake nature euer giuen to carnall concupiscence and wordlie delectations dailie darkened and seduced with that lithargious and deceiuable serpent called hope of long life that all we put in line 10 obliuion our duetie present and lesse remember the politike purueiance for things to come for blindlie we walke in this fraile life till we fall groueling with our eies suddenlie vpon death The vanities of this world be to vs so agreeable that when we begin to liue we estéeme our life a whole world which once ouerpassed it sheweth no better but dust driuen awaie with a puffe of wind I speake this to you of my selfe and for your selues to you sore lamenting and inwardlie bewailing that I line 20 did not performe finallie consummate such politike deuises good and godlie ordinances in my long life and peaceable prosperitie which then I fullie determined to haue begun set forward and completlie to haue finished Which now for the extreame paines and tortures of my angrie maladie and for the small terme of my naturall life I can neither performe neither yet liue to sée either to take effect or to sort to anie good conclusion For God I call to record my heart was fullie set line 30 and my mind deliberatlie determined so to haue adorned this realme with wholesome lawes statutes and ordinances so to haue trained and brought vp mine infants and children in vertue learning actiuitie and policie that what with their roiall puissance your fréendlie assistance the proudest prince of Europe durst not once attempt to mooue anie hostilitie against them you or this realme But oh Lord all things that I of long time haue in my mind reuolued and imagined that stealing théefe death goeth line 40 about to subuert and in the moment of an houre cléerelie to ouertred Wherefore as men saie I now being driuen to the verie
that she could not pull line 10 him backe so highlie she disdained it that vnder pretext of hiâ dutie to Godward she deuised to disturbe this mariage and rather to helpe that he should marie one dame Elizabeth Lucie whome the king had also not long before gotten with child Wherefore the kings mother openlie obiected against his mariage as it were in discharge of hir conscience that the king was sure to dame Elizabeth Lucie and hir husband before God By reason of which words such obstacle was made in the matter that either the bishops line 20 durst not or the king would not proceed to the solemnization of this wedding till these same were clearlie purged and the truth well and openlie testified Wherevpon dame Elizabeth Lucie was then sent for And albeit that she was by the kings mother and manie other put in good comfort to affirme that she was ensured vnto the king yet when she was solemnlie sworne to saie the truth she confessed that they were neuer ensured Howbeit she said his grace line 30 spake so louing words vnto hir that she verelie hoped he would haue married hir And that if it had not béene for such kind words she would neuer haue shewed such kindnesse to him to let him so kindlie get hir with child This examination solemnelie taken when it was cléerelie perceiued that there was none impediment the king with great feast and honourable solemnitie married dame Elizabeth Greie and hir crowned queene that was his enimies wife and manie times had praied full hartilie for his line 40 losse in which God loued hir better than to grant hir hir boune But when the earle of Warwike vnderstood of this marriage he tooke it so highlie that his ambassage was deluded that for verie anger and disdaine he at his returning assembled a great puissance against the king and came so fast vpon him yer he could be able to resist that he was faine to void the realme and flee into Holland for succor where he remained for the space of two yeares leauing his new wife at Westminster in sanctuarie where she was line 50 deliuered of Edward the prince of whome we before haue spoken In which meane time the earle of Warwike tooke out of prison and set vp againe king Henrie the sixt who was before by king Edward deposed and that much what by the power of the erle of Warwike which was a wise man and a couragious warriour and of such strength what for his lands his aliance and fauor with all people that he made kings and put downe kings almost at his pleasure and not impossible to haue atteined it himselfe if he line 60 had not reckoned it a greater thing to make a king than to be a king But nothing lasteth alwaie for in conclusion king Edward returned and with much lesse number than he had at Barnet on the Easterdaie field slue the earle of Warwike with manie other great estates of that partie so stablie atteined the crowne againe that he peaceablie enioied it vntill his dieng daie and in such plight left it that it could not be lost but by the discord of his verie friends or falshood of his feined fréends I haue rehearsed this businesse about this marriage somewhat the more at length bicause it might thereby the better appeare vpon how slipperie a ground the protector builded his colour by which he pretended king Edwards children to be bastards But that inuention simple as it was it liked them to whome it sufficed to haue somewhat to saie while they were sure to be compelled to no larger proofe than themselues list to make Now then as I began to shew you it was by the protector and his councell concluded that this doctor Shaw should in a sermon at Pauls crosse signifie to the people that neither king Edward himselfe nor the duke of Clarence were lawfullie begotten nor were not the verie children of the duke of Yorke but gotten vnlawfullie by other persons in adulterie of the duches their mother And that also dame Elizabeth Lucie was verelie the wife of king Edward and so the prince and all his children bastards that were begotten vpon the quéene According to this deuise doctor Shaw the sundaie after at Paules crosse in a great audience as alwaie assembled great number to his preaching he tooke for his theame Spuria vitilamina non agent radices altas that is to saie Bastard slippes shall neuer take deepe root Therevpon when he had shewed the great grace that God giueth and secretlie infundeth in right generation after the lawes of matrimonie then declared he that commonlie those children lacked that grace and for the punishment of their parents were for the more part vnhappie which were gotten in base and speciallie in adulterie Of which though some by the ignorance of the world and the truth hid from knowledge inherited for the season other mens lands yet God alwaie so prouideth that it continueth not in their bloud long but the truth comming to light the rightfull inheritors be restored and the bastard slip pulled vp yer it can be rooted deepe And so he did laie for the proofe and confirmation of this sentence certeine insamples taken out of the old testament and other ancient histories Then began he to descend into the praise of the lord Richard late duke of Yorke calling him father to the lord protector and declared the title of his heires vnto the crowne to whome it was after the death of king Henrie the sixt intailed by authoritie of parlement Then shewed he that his verie right heire of his bodie lawfullie begotten was onelie the lord protector For he declared then that king Edward was neuer lawfullie married vnto the queene but was before God husband vnto dame Elizabeth Lucie and so his children bastards And besides that neither king Edward himselfe nor the duke of Clarence among those that were secret in the houshold were reckoned verie suerlie for the children of the noble duke as those that by their fauours more resembled other knowne men than him From whose vertuous conditions he said also that the late king Edward was far off But the lord protector he said the verie noble prince the speciall paterne of knightlie prowesse as well in all princelie behauior as in the lineaments and fauour of his visage represented the verie face of the noble duke his father This is quoth he the fathers owne figure this is his owne countenance the verie print of his visage the sure vndoubted image the plaine expresse likenesse of that noble duke Now was it before deuised that in the speaking of these words the protector should haue comen in among the people to the sermon ward to the end that those words méeting with his presence might haue béen taken among the hearers as though the Holie-ghost had put them in the preachers mouth should haue mooued the people euen there to crie King
king Richard entered into a treatie also of aliance for the concluding of a marriage betwixt the duke of Rothsaie eldest sonne to the king of Scots and the ladie Anne de la Poole daughter to Iohn duke of Suffolke and the duchesse Anne sister to king Richard which sister he so much fauoured line 30 that studieng by all waies and meanes possible how to aduance hir linage he did not onelie thus seeke to preferre hir daughter in marriage but also after the death of his sonne he proclamed Iohn earle of Lincolne hir sonne and his nephue heire apparant to the crowne of England disheriting king Edwards daughters whose brethren as ye haue heard he most wickedlie had caused to be murthered and made awaie The king of Scots standing in néed of freends line 40 although not so greatlie as king Richard did willinglie consent to that motion of marriage first broched by king Richard insomuch that it tooke effect and by commissioners was passed and concluded in maner as in the historie of Scotland it likewise appeareth But albeit that by this league and amitie thus couenanted and concluded it might he thought that all conspiracies coniurations and confederacies against king Richard had béene extinct especiallie considering the duke of Buckingham and his alies line 50 were dispatched out of the waie some by death and some by flight and banishment into farre countries yet king Richard more doubting than trusting to his owne people and freends was continuallie vexed and troubled in mind for feare of the earle of Richmonds returne which dailie dread and hourelie agonie caused him to liue in dolefull miserie euer vnquiet and in maner in continuall calamitie Wherefore he intending to be reléeued and to haue an end of all his doubtfull dangers determined line 60 cléerelie to extirpate and plucke vp by the roots all the matter and ground of his feare and doubts Insomuch that after long and deliberate consultation had nothing was for his purpose and intent thought either more necessarie or expedient than once againe with price praier and rewards to attempt the duke of Britaine in whose territorie the earle of Richmond then abode to deliuer the said earle into his hands by which onelie meanes he should be discharged of all feare and perill and brought to rest and quietnesse both of bodie and mind Wherefore incontinent he sent certeine ambassadors to the duke of Britaine which tooke vpon them beside the great and ample rewards that they brought with them into Britaine that king Richard should yearelie paie and answer the duke of all the reuenues rents and profits of the seigniories lands and possessions as well belonging and apperteining to the erle of Richmond as to anie other noble or gentleman which then were in the earles companie if he after that time would kéepe them in continuall prison and restraine them from libertie The ambassadors furnished with these and other instructions arriued in Britaine and came to the dukes house where with him they could haue no maner of communication concerning their weightie affaires by reason that he being faint and weakened by a long and dailie infirmitie began a little to wax idle and weake in his wit and remembrance For which cause Peter Landoise his cheefe treasuror a man both of pregnant wit and great authoritie ruled and adiudged all things at his pleasure and commandement for which cause as men set in authoritie be not best beloued he excited prouoked against him the malice and euill will of the nobilitie of Britaine which afterward for diuerse great offenses by him during his authoritie perpetrate committed by their meanes was brought to death confusion The English ambassadors mooued their message and request to Peter Landoise and to him declared their maisters commandement instantlie requiring and humblie desiring him in whose power it laie to doo all things in Britaine that he would freendlie assent to the request of king Richard offering to him the same rewards and lands that they should haue offered to the duke This Peter which was no lesse disdeined than hated almost of all the people of Britaine thought that if he did assent satisfie king Richards petition and desire he should be of power and abilitie sufficient to withstand and refell the malicious attempts and disdeinfull inuentions of his enuious aduersaries Wherefore he faithfullie promised to accomplish king Richards request desire so that he kept promise with him that he might be able to withstand the cankered malice of his secret enimies This act that he promised to doo was not for anie grudge or malice that he bare vnto the erle of Richmond for as you haue heard before he deliuered him from the perill of death at saint Malos when he was in great doubt of life and ieopardie But as cause ariseth we euer offend and that curssed hunger of gold and execrable thirst of lucre and inward feare of losse of authoritie driueth the blind minds of couetous men ambitious persons to euils and mischéefs innumerable not remembring losse of good name obloquie of the people nor in conclusion the punishment of God for their merits and deserts Which vengeance of God for such falshood was more to be feared than the gaie offers of the king to be desired for the one was sure to fall the other was likelie to faile Wherefore it is wisedome to make choise of a fréend by the rule of the wiseman to be obserued in wine which is drunke with pleasure when it is old Neither dooth it stand with a mans safetie to trust a freend too farre for occasions maie fall out wherby he shall become an enimie as the poet saith Hostis erit forsan qui tuns hospes erat But fortune was so fauourable to the publike wealth of the realme of England that this deadlie and dolorous compact tooke none effect or place For while posts ran and letters were sent to and fro for the finishing of this great enterprise betwéene king Richard and Peter Landoise Iohn Morton bishop of Elie soiourning then in Flanders was of all this craftie conueiance certified by his secret and sure fréends Wherefore he sent Christopher Urswike which at that verie season was come out of Britaine into Flanders to declare to the earle of Richmond how all the deceit and craftie working was conueied and compassed giuing him charge to counsell and aduise the earle in all hast possible with all his companie to retire out of Britaine into France When these newes were brought to the earle he then kept house in Uannes and incontinent dispatched againe Christopher Urswike vnto Charles the French king requiring him that he and his might safelie passe into France Which desire being obteined line 10 the messenger shortlie returned to his lord and prince The earle well perceiuing that it was expedient and necessarie with all spéed and diligence to looke to this weightie matter calling verie few to counsell he made inquirie
giuen and receiued diuerse Scots were wounded and some slaine and the residue ouermatched with multitude of the Englishmen fled as fast as their horsses could carie them The Scotish king hereof aduertised was highlie displeased and in all hast signified to king Henrie by his herald Marchemont in what sort his people to the breach of the truce were abused and handled King Henrie being not in will to breake with anie of his neighbours excused the matter affirming that he was not of knowledge to the misdemeanor of those that had the castell in kéeping requiring the king of Scots not to thinke the truce broken for anie thing doone without his consent promising in the word of a king to inquire of the truth and if the offense were found to be begun on the partie of the kéepers of the castell he assured him that they should for no meed nor fauour escape due correction and punishment This answer though it was more than reasonable could not pacifie the king of Scots till the bishop of Durham that was owner of the castell of Norham who sore lamented that by such as he appointed kéepers there the warre should be renewed with sundrie letters written to the Scotish king at length asswaged his displeasure so that the said king wrote courteouslie to the bishop againe signifieng that bicause he had manie secret things in his mind which he would communicate onelie with him touching this matter now in variance therefore he required him to take the paine to come into his countrie trusting that he should thinke his labor well bestowed The bishop was glad and sent word hereof to the king his master who willed him to accomplish the desire of the Scotish king which he tooke to bee reasonable At his comming into Scotland he was courteouslie receiued of the king himselfe at the abbeie of Melrosse And there after the king had for a countenance complained much of the vniust slaughter of his men late committed at Norham vpon the bishops gentle answers thervnto he forgaue the same and after began to talke secretlie without witnesses alone with the bishop And first he declared what iust causes mooued him in times past to séeke amitie with the king of England which now he desired much more to haue confirmed for further maintenance increase thereof Which he doubted not but should sort to a fortunate conclusion if the king of England would vouchsafe to giue to him in matrimonie his first begotten daughter the ladie Margaret vpon which point he purposed latelie to haue sent his ambassadors into England which thing he would the sooner doo if he knew the bishops mind therein to bée readie to further his sute The bishop answered but few words sauing that when he were returned to the king his maister he would doo the best in the matter that he could When the bishop was returned into England and come to the king he declared to him all the communication had betwéene king Iames and him from point to point in order The king liked well thereof as he to whom peace was euer a souereigne solace and comfort In this meane time Perkin Warbecke year 1499 disappointed of all hope to escape out of the Englishmens hands which was the onelie thing that he most desired found meanes yet at length to deceiue his kéepers took him to his héels But when he came to the sea coasts and could not passe he was in a maruellous perplexitie for euerie byway lane and corner was laid for him and such search made that being brought to his wits end and cut short of his pretensed iournie he came to the house of Bethlem called the priorie of Shéene beside Richmond in Southerie and betooke himselfe to the prior of that monasterie requiring him for the honour of God to beg his pardon of life of the kings maiestie line 10 The prior which for the opinion that men had conceiued of his vertue was had in great estimation pitieng the wretched state of that caitife came to the king and shewed him of this Perkin whose pardon he humblie craued and had it as fréelie granted Incontinentlie after was Perkin brought to the court againe at Westminster and was one day set fâttered in a paire of stocks before the doore of Westminster hall and there stood a whole day not without innumerable reproches mocks and scornings And the next daie he was caried through London and set vpon line 20 a like scaffold in Cheape by the standard with like ginnes and stocks as he occupied the daie before and there stood all daie and read openlie his owne confession written with his ownâ hand the verie copie whereof here insueth The confession of Perkin as it was written with his owne hand which he read openlie vpon a scaffold by the standard line 30 in Cheape IT is first to be knowne that I was borne in the towne of Turneie in Flanders and my fathers name is Iohn Osbecke which said Iohn Osbecke was controllor of the said towne of Turneie and my moothers name is Katharine de Faro And one of my grandsires vpon my fathers side was line 40 named Diricke Osbeck which died After whose death my grandmoother was married vnto Peter Flamin that was receiuer of the forenamed towne of Turneie deane of the botemen that row vpon the water or riuer called le Scheld And my grandsire vpon my moothers side was Peter de Faro which had in his keeping the keies of the gate of S. Iohns within the line 50 same towne of Turneie Also I had an vncle called maister Iohn Stalin dwelling in the parish of S. Pias within the same towne which had maried my fathers sister whose name was Ione or Iane with whome I dwelt a certeine season And after I was led by my moother to Antwerpe for to learne Flemish in a house of a cousine of mine an officer of the said towne called Iohn Stienbecke with line 60 whome I was the space of halfe a yeare And after that I returned againe to Turneie by reason of warres that were in Flanders And within a yeare following I was sent with a merchant of the said towne of Turneie named Berlo to the mart of Antwerpe where I fell sicke which sickenesse continued vpon me fiue moneths And the said Berlo set me to boord in a skinners house that dwelled beside the house of the English nation And by him I was from thense caried to Barow mart and I lodged at the signe of the old man where I abode for the space of two moneths After this the said Berlo set me with a merchant of Middle borow to seruice for to learne the language whose name was Iohn Strew with whome I dwelt from Christmasse to Easter and then I went into Portingall in companie of sir Edward Bramptons wife in a ship which was called the queens ship And when I was come thither then was I put in seruice to a knight that dwelled in Lushborne
perceiued no stedfast ground to line 60 catch anchor hold vpon he submitted himselfe vnder the protection of Philip archduke of Austrich But his brother Richard being a politike man so wiselie ordered himselfe in this stormie tempest that he was not intrapped either with net or snare The king not yet out of all doubt of ciuill sedition bicause a great number of euill disposed persons partakers of this conspiracie were fled into sundrie sanctuaries deuised to haue all the gates of sanctuaries and places priuileged shut and locked vp so that none should issue out from thence to perturbe and disquiet him And for that intent he wrote vnto pope Alexander desiring him by his authoritie to adiudge all Englishmen being fled to sanctuarie for the offense of treason as enimies to the christian faith interdicting and prohibiting the refuge and priuilege of sanctuarie to all such as once had enioied the libertie and protection of the same and after that fled out and eftsoones returned againe Which thing after that the pope had granted turned to the great quietnesse of the king and his realme For manie that had offended for feare to fall into danger returned to the due subiection of their prince and other that were yet frée from perill durst not hazard themselues so boldlie as they durst haue doone before vpon hope of such starting holes When the king had thus setled things to his owne contentation and pleasure there suddenlie happened to him a lamentable chance For that noble prince Arthur the kings first begotten sonne after he had béene maried to the ladie Katharine his wife the space of fiue moneths departed out of this transitorie life in his castell of Ludlow and with great funerall obsequie was buried in the cathedrall church of Worcester His brother the duke of Yorke was staied from the title of Prince by the space of a moneth till to women it might appeare whether the ladie Katharine wife to the said prince Arthur was conceiued with child or not It is reported that this ladie Katharine thought and feared such dolorous chance to come for when she had imbraced hir father and taken hir leaue of hir noble and prudent mother and sailed towards England she was continuallie so tossed and tumbled hither and thither with boisterous winds that what for the rage of the water and contrarietie of the winds hir ship was prohibited diuerse times to approach the shore and take land In this eightéenth yeare the twentie fourth daie of Ianuarie a quarter of an houre afore three of the clocke at after noone of the same daie the first stone of our ladie chapell within the monasterie of Westminster was laid by the hands of Iohn Islip abbat of the same monasterie sir Reginald Braie knight of the garter doctor Barnes maister of the rolles doctor Wall chapleine to the kings maiestie maister Hugh Oldham chapleine to the countesse of Darbie and Richmond the kings mother sir Edward Stanhope knight and diuerse others Upon the same stone was this scripture ingrauen Illustrissimus Henricus septimus rex Angliae Franciae dominus Hiberniae posuit hanc petram in honore beatae virginis Mariae 24. die Ianuarij anno Domini 1502. Et anno dicti regis Henrici septimi decimo octauo The charges whereof amounted as some report vpon credible information as they saie to fouretéene thousand pounds Quéene Elizabeth lieng within the Tower of London was brought a bed of a faire daughter on Candlemasse daie which was there christened and named Katharine and the eleuenth of the same moneth the said queene there deceased and was buried at Westminster whose daughter also liued but a small season after hir mother King Henrie the seauenth being himselfe a brother of the tailors companie in London as diuerse other his predecessors kings before him had béene to wéet Richard the third Edward the fourth Henrie the sixt Henrie the fift Henrie the fourth and Richard the second also of dukes eleuen earles eight and twentie and lords eight and fortie he now gaue to them the name and title of merchant tailors as a name of worship to indure for euer This yeare about the later end of March the prior of the Charterhouse of Shene was murthered in a cell of his owne house by meanes of one Goodwine a moonke of the same cloister and his adherents artificers of London A drie summer hauing no notable raine from Whitsuntide to the later ladie daie in haruest The eighteenth of Februarie the king at his palace of Westminster created his onelie sonne Henrie prince of Wales earle of Chester c who afterward succéeded his father in possession of the regall crowne of this realme Moreouer this yeare also after the deceasse of that noble queene for hir vertue commonlie called good queene Elizabeth departed out of this world also sir Reginald Braie knight of the garter a verie father of his countrie for his high wisedome and singular loue to iustice well worthie to beare that title If anie thing had béene doone amisse line 10 contrarie to law and equitie he would after an humble sort plainelie blame the king and giue him good aduertisement that he should not onelie reforâe the same but also be more circumspect in anie other the like case Of the same vertue and faithfull plainnesse was Iohn Morton archbishop of Canturburie which died as is shewed aboue two yeares before So these two persons were refrainers of the kings vnbrideled libertie whereas the common line 20 people ignorant altogither of the truth in such matters iudged and reported that the counsell of those two worthie personages corrupted the kings cleane and immaculate conscience contrarie to his princelie disposition and naturall inclination such is euer the errour of the common people ¶ About this time died Henrie the archbishop of Canturburie whose roome doctor William Warham bishop of London supplied And to the sée of London William Barnes was appointed and after his death succéeded one Richard line 30 fitz Iames. This yeare also the lord Cassimire marquesse of Brandenburgh accompanied with an earle a bishop and a great number of gentlemen well apparrelled came in ambassage from the emperor Maximilian and were triumphantlie receiued into London and lodged at Crosbies place Their message was for thrée causes one to comfort the king in his time of heauinesse for the losse of his wife The second for the renewing of amitie and the old league The third which was not apparant line 40 wâs to mooue the king to marie the emperours daughter âhe ladie Margaret duchesse Dowager of Sauoie The two first tooke effect for the king vpon Passion sundaie road to Paules in great triumph the said marquesse riding on his left hand And there the bishop made to the king an excellent consolatorie oration concerning the death of the quéene And there also the king openlie sware to kéepe the new reuiued league and amitie during their two liues
the sixt of Henrie the fourth and the yeare of Christ 1405 againe rebelled and after fled into Scotland to Dauid lord Fleming who receiued him and in the seuenth yeare of Henrie the fourth being the yere of our redemption 1506 as saith Iohn Stow. This Dauid persuaded the erle to flie into Wales for which cause the Scots slue the said Dauid After this in the ninth yeare of Henrie the fourth he came into England raised the people and was slaine at Broomâham neere to Hasewood in a conflict had with him by Thomas Rockleie shiriffe of Yorkshire He married two wiues the first was Margaret daughter to Rafe lord Neuill by whome he had issue Henrie Persie surnamed Hotspurre slaine at the battell of Shrewesburie in the fourth yeare of Henrie the fourth in his fathers life Thomas and Rafe His second wife was Mawd daughter to Thomas lord Lucie and sister and heire to Anthonie lord Lucie baron of Cockermouth being before the widow of Gilbert Humfreuill called the earle of Angus This ladie Mawd gaue to hir husband the lordship and castell of Cockermouth whereby the earles of Northumberland are bound still to beare the armes of Lucie Iohn duke of Bedford the sonne and brother of kings for so he calleth himselfe in the precept to summon Reginald lord Greie sir Edward Hastings knight to determine the controuersie for bearing of the armes of Hastings earle of Penbroke in the marshals court was earle of Richmond and Kendall and constable of England being aduanced to that office about the eight yeare of Henrie the fourth his father being the yeare of our redemption 1406 of whome there is more mention in the following discourse of the protectors of England Humfrie earle of Stafford Hereford and Northhampton lord of Breenocke Holdernesse and of Cambridge and constable of England and of Douer castell in the eight yeare of king Henrie the sixt being the yeare of Christ 1430 went into France with Henrie the sixt to attend his coronation at Paris He was created duke of Buckingham in the two and twentith yeare of Henrie the sixt being the yeare of Christ 1444. He was slaine at the battell of Northampton in the eight and thirtith yeare of king Henrie the sixt being the yeare of our Lord 1460 he maried Anne daughter to Rafe Neuil erle of Westmerland he had amongst manie other of his children Humfrie his eldest sonne earle Stafford hurt as hath Iohn Stow with an arrow in the right hand at the battell of saint Albons in the three and thirtith yeare of Henrie the sixt being the yeare of our Lord 1455 of which battell of saint Albons thus writeth Iohn Whethamsted a learned abbat of that hâuse Dum Maius madidi flos floâ uit imbribus austri Mollibus Zephyrus refouerat flatilus aruos Flora velut regnans herbis ditauerat hortâs Post glacies inopes hos fecerat locupleâes Sic râpidis stilbon praeâonibus vndÃque regnum Repleuerat nimis sic latè staâserat ipses Vt villam tandem tantus peruaserat isâam Illorum numerus quod vlx euaderet vnus Quin spolium lueret spoliantes vel trepidaret Aâcidit ex causa spoliatio tam grauis ista Mars coeli dominus fuerat tunc soror eius In terris domina belli Bellona vocata Vnde malum multis signanter partibus istis Contigit bellum fuit istic grande peractum Sanguis effusus multus dux est iugulatus Illius pugnae quae fertur causa fuisse Bello finito strepitu quóque pacificato line 10 Indultum est praedae praedones quippe fuere Victores omnes nulli quasi compatientes Tunc rex tunc proceres tunc villani quóque plures Ac alij varij fuerant rebus spoliati Attamen ecclesia simul ecclesiae bona cuncta Intra quae fuerant sub clausuráque iacebant Manserunt salua nec ei res defuit vlla Laus igitur domino laus in speciéque patrono Cuius per media stabant sua singula salua Saluis in cunctiâ simul abbas frater omnis line 20 Spiritus ille bonus sine fallo spiritus almus Ad villam regem qui direxit venientem Illius ad medium nec tunc permiserat ipsum Ecclesiam petere conseruauit sua quaeque Sed patronus erat qui pro monachis mediarat A raptore locúmque suum seruauit omnem Ipsius ornatum fedari nec siuit ipsum Sârex intrasset secúmque ducem sociasset Valuas ecclesiae paruissent cuncta rapinae Nec poterat furias quisquam compescere plebis line 30 Laus igitur domino rursus rursusque patrono Stat locusisâe suo saluus munimine soâo Saluaque supposita sua salua iocalia cuncta Iohn Tiptoth or Tiptost knight the son of Iohn lord Tiptost and of Ioice his wife second daughter to Edmund Charleton lord Powes was treasuror of the realme in Michaelmasse tearme in the tenth yere of Henrie the fourth after which he was againe admitted to that office in the one and thirtith and two and thirtith yeare of Henrie the sixt from which place line 40 being once more remooued he was the third time aduanced to the honor of lord treasuror of England in the second of Edward the fourth and continued the same in the third of the said king He was created earle of Worcester in the time of king Henrie the sixt This man in the yeare 1470 being the tenth of king Edward the fourth tooke his part against the duke of Clarence and Richard Neuill earle of Warwike at what time the said duke and earle being discomfited sled to the sea side and thence sailed line 50 to Southhampton where they thought to haue had the Trinitie a great ship of the earle of Warwikes but the lord Scales the queenes brother fought with them and inforced them to flie into France Wherevpon king Edward the fourth came to Southhampton and caused Tiptost earle of Worcester to sit in iudgement vpon certeine gentlemen as Clapham and others taken at the same skirmish of Southhampton where the earle caused the bodies of certeine condemned men after that they were hanged line 60 to be thrust thorough the fundament vp to the head with stakes for the which crueltie he and others fell into indignation of the common people Before which in the eight yeare of king Edward he was with Iohn Dudleie made constable of the Tower during their liues and the longer liuer of them two After this in the said yeare 1470 being the tenth of Edward the fourth in which Henrie the sixt readepted the crowne of England which yeare of Henrie the sixt is called in the law bookes the fourtie ninth yere of the reigne of K. Henrie the sixt This earle of Worcester was taken in the top of an high trée in the forest of Weibridge in Huntingtonshire brought to London and at a parlement arrested and condemned to death by sir Iohn Uere earle of
die for according to the law and by the law I am iudged to die and therfore I will speake nothing against it I am come hither to accuse no man nor to speake anie thing of that whereof I am accused condemned to die but I praie God saue the king and send him long to reigne ouer you for a gentler nor a more mercifull prince was there neuer and to me he was euer a good a gentle and a souereigne lord And if anie person will meddle of my cause I require them to iudge the best And thus I take my leaue of the world and of you all and I hartilie desire you all to praie for me Oh Lord haue mercie on me to God I commend my soule Iesu receiue my soule diuerse times repeting those words till that hir head was striken off with the sword Now bicause I might rather saie much than sufficientlie inough in praise of this noble quéene as well for hir singular wit and other excellent qualities of mind as also for hir fauouring of learned men zeale of religion and liberalitie in distributing almes in reliefe of the poore I will refer the reader vnto master Fox his volume of Acts and Monuments where he commendeth hir mild nature in taking admonition prooueth hir marriage lawfull defendeth hir succession ouerthroweth the sinister iudgements opinions and obiections of backebiters against that vertuous quéene sheweth hir faith and trust in Christ at hir death and finallie how the protestants of Germanie forsooke king Henrie for the death of so good a princesse ¶ Anglorum praelia saith that this good quéene was forwarned of hir death in a dreame wherein Morpheus the god of sléepe in the likenesse of hir grandfather appéered vnto hir and after a long narration of the vanities of this world how enuie reigneth in the courts of princes maligning the fortunate estate of the vertuous how king Henrie the eight and his issue should be the vtter ouerthrow and expulsion of poperie out of England and that the gouernment of quéene Elizabeth should be established in tranquillitie peace he saith vnto hir in conclusion by waie of prophesie as our poet hath recorded Forti sis animo tristis si nuncius adsum Insperata tuae velox necis aduenit hora Intra triginta spacium moriere dierum Hoc magnum mortis solamen habeto futurae Elizabetha suis praeclarè filia gestis Nomen ad astraferet patris matrÃsque suúmque Immediatlie after hir death in the wéeke before Whitsuntide the king married the ladie Iane Seimer daughter to sir Iohn Seimer knight which at Whitsuntide was openlie shewed as quéene And on the tuesdaie in Whitsunwéeke hir brother sir Edw. Seimer was created vicount Beauchampe and sir Water Hungerford lord Hungerford The eight of Iune began the parlement during the which the lord Thomas Howard without the kings assent affied the ladie Margaret Duglas daughter to the quéene of Scots and neece to the king for which act he was atteinted of treason and an act made for like offendors and so he died in the tower and she remained long there as prisoner In the time of this parlement the bishops and all the cleargie of the realme held a solemne conuocation at Paules church in London where after much disputation and debating of matters they published a booke of religion intituled Articles deuised by the kings highnesse c. In this booke is speciallie mentioned but thrée sacraments Also beside this booke certeine iniunctions were giuen foorth wherby a number of their holie daies were abrogated speciallie those that fell in haruest time ¶ The nine twentith of Iune the king held a great iusting and triumph at Westminster where were ordeined two lighters made like ships to fight vpon the water one of the which brake in the midst wherby one Gates a gentleman seruant to M. Knânet was drowned in his harnesse In the other a gun brake hir chamber maimed two of the mariners Thomas Cromwell secretarie vnto the king and maister of the rols was made lord kéeper of the priuie seale and the ninth of Iulie the lord Fitzwaren was created erle of Bath and the morrow after the said lord Cromwell was created lord Cromwell The eightéenth of Iulie he was made knight and vicar generall vnder the king ouer the spiritualtie and sat diuerse times in the conuocation amongst the bishops as head ouer them The two and twentith of Iulie Henrie duke of Richmont and Summerset earle of Northampton base sonne to the king begot line 10 of the ladie Tailebois then called Elizabeth Blunt departed this life at saint Iames and was buried at Thetford in Norffolke of whome you shall find more in the treatise of the dukes of this land In September Thomas Cromwell lord priuie seale and vicegerent sent abroad vnder the kings spirituall priuie seale certeine iniunctions commanding that the persons and curats should teach their parishioners the Pater noster the Aue Creed with the ten commandements and articles of the line 20 faith in English These articles and iniunctions being established by authoritie of parlement and now to the people deliuered bred a great misliking in the harts of the common people which had beene euer brought vp and trained in contrarie doctrine And herewith diuerse of the cleargie as moonks priests and others tooke occasion herby to speake euill of the late procéedings of the king touching matters of religion affirming that if spéedie remedie were not in time prouided the faith would shortlie be vtterlie line 30 destroied and all praier and diuine seruice quite abolished and taken awaie Manie sinister reports slanderous tales and feigned fables were blowne abroad and put into the peoples eares and diuerse of the nobilitie did also what they could to stir the commons to rebellion faithfullie promising both aid and succour against the king The people thus prouoked to mischiefe and deceiued through ouer light credence incontinentlie as it were to mainteine that religion which had so manie line 40 yeares continued and béene estéemed they stiffelie and stoutlie conspired togither and in a part of Lincolneshire they first assembled and shortlie after ioined into an armie being as it was supposed of men apt for the warres in number about twentie thousand Against these rebels with all the hast that might be the king in his proper person vpon intelligence therof had marched towards them being furnished with a warlike armie perfectlie appointed of all things that to such a companie should apperteine line 50 The rebels hearing that his person was present with his power to come thus against them began to feare what would follow of their dooings and such nobles and gentlemen as at the first fauoured their cause fell from them and withdrew so that they being destitute of capteines at length put certeine petitions in writing which they exhibited to the king professing that they neuer intended hurt
50 brought to London the least of them was more than anie horsse Much about this season there were thrée notable ships set foorth and furnished for the great aduenture of the vnknowne voiage into the east by the north seas The great dooer and incourager of which voiage was Sebastian Gabato an Englishman borne at Bristow but was the sonne of a Genowaie These ships at the last arriued in the countrie of Moscouia not without great losse and danger line 60 and namelie of their capteine who was a woorthie and aduenturous gentleman called sir Hugh Willoughbie knight who being tossed and driuen by tempest was at the last found in his ship frozen to death and all his people But now the said voiage and trade is greatlie aduanced and the merchants aduenturing that waie are newlie by act of parlement incorporated and indued with sundrie priuileges and liberties About the beginning of the moneth of Maie next following there were thrée notable mariages concluded shortlie after solemnized at Durham place The first was betwéene the lord Gilford Dudleie the fourth sonne of the duke of Northumberland and the ladie Iane eldest daughter to Henrie duke of Suffolke the ladie Francis his wife was the daughter of Marie second sister to king Henrie the eight first maried to Lewes the French king and after to Charles Brandon duke of Suffolke The second mariage was betwéene the lord Herbert son and heire to William earle of Penbroke and the ladie Katharine second daughter of the said ladie Francis by the said Henrie duke of Suffolke And the third was betwéene Henrie lord Hastings sonne and heire to Francis earle of Huntington and ladie Katharine yoongest daughter to the forenamed duke of Northumberland These mariages were compassed concluded chieflie vpon purpose to change alter the order of succession to the crowne made in the time of king Henrie the eight from the said kings daughters Marie and Elizabeth and to conueie the same immediatlie after the death of king Edward to the house of Suffolke in the right of the said ladie Francis wherein the said yoong king was an earnest traueller in the time of his sickenesse all for feare that if his sister Marie being next heire to the crowne should succéed that she would subuert all his lawes and statutes made concerning religion whereof he was most carefull for the continuance whereof he sought to establish a meet order of succession by the aliance of great houses by waie of marriage which neuerthelesse were of no force to serue his purpose For tending to the disheriting of the rightfull heirs they proued nothing prosperous to the parties for two of them were soone after made frustrate the one by death the other by diuorse In the meane while the king became euerie daie more sicke than other of a consumption in his lungs so as there was no hope of his recouerie Wherevpon those that then bare chiefe authoritie in councell with other prelats and nobles of the realme called to them diuerse notable persons learned as well in diuinitie as in the lawes of the land namelie bishops iudges other who fell to consultation vpon this so weightie cause and lastly concluded vpon the deuise of king Edwards will to declare the said ladie Iane eldest néece to king Henrie the eight and wife to the said lord Gilford to be rightfull heire in succession to the crowne of England without respect had to the statute made in the fiue and thirtith yeare of king Henrie the eight the true meaning of which statute they did impugne and ouerthrow by diuerse subtill sinister constructions of the same to disherit the said kings daughters to whome the succession of the crowne of England of right apperteined as well by the common lawes of this realme as also by the said statute made in the said fiue and thirtith yeare of king Henrie as aforesaid To which new order of succession all the said kings councell with manie bishops lords doctors and iudges of the realme subscribed their names without refusall of anie except sir Iames Hales knight one of the iustices of the common plées who being called to this councell would in no wise giue his assent either by word or writing as ye shall heare more in the historie of quéene Marie Now when these matters were thus concluded and after confirmed by a number of hands as aforesaid then the noble prince king Edward the sixt by long lingering sickenesse and consumption of his lungs aforesaid approched to his death and departed out of this life the sixt daie of Iulie in the seuenth yeare of his reigne and seuentéenth of his age after he had reigned and noblie gouerned this realme six yeares fiue moneths and eight daies And a little before his departing lifting vp his eies to God hee praied as followeth The praier of king Edward the sixt at his death LOrd God deliuer me out of this miserable and wretched life take me among thy chosen howbeit not my will but thy will be doone Lord I commit my spirit to thee oh Lord thou knowest how happie it were for mee to be with thee yet for thy chosens sake if line 10 it be thy will send me life and helth that I maie trulie serue thee Oh my Lord blesse thy people and saue thine inheritance Oh Lord God saue thy chosen people of England Oh my Lord God defend this realme from papistrie and mainteine thy true religion that I and my people maie praise thy holie name And therewithall he said I am faint Lord haue mercie vpon me and take my spirit line 20 Thus did this good yoong king yéeld vp to God his ghost the sixt daie of Iulie as before is mentioned whome if it had pleased God to haue spared with longer life not vnlike it was but he should haue so gouerned this English common-wealth that he might haue béene comparable with any of his noble progenitors so that the losse of so towardlie a yoong king greatlie discomforted the whole English nation that looked for such a reformation in the state of line 30 the common-wealth at his hands as was to be wished for of all good subiects which bred such a liking in them toward him that euen among verie traitorous rebels his name yet was had in reuerence although otherwise they neuer so much forgat their dutie both towards him and other appointed to gouerne vnder him through a malicious and most wilfull error as if his tender yeares had not sufficientlie warranted his roiall authoritie but that the same had béene vsurped by others against his will and pleasure line 40 And as he was intierlie beloued of his subiects so with the like affection of kindnes he loued them againe of nature and disposition méeke much inclined to clemencie euer hauing a regard to the sparing of life There wanted in him no promptnes of wit grauitie of sentence ripenesse of iudgement as his age might
1444. And his daughter the ladie Margaret died at Westminster on the nine and twentith of Iune in the first yeare of king Henrie the eight in the yeare of Christ a thousand fiue hundred and nine about three score and fiue yeares after the death of hir father Thomas Beaufort sonne to Iohn of Gant duke of Lancaster and Katharine Swineford was created duke of Excester in the fift yeare of K. Henrie the fift of whome is mention made in my protectors Edmund Beaufort sonne of Iohn Beaufort duke of Summerset was created earle Morton in the seuenth yeare of K. Henrie the fift He was created marquesse Dorset and duke of Summerset by king Henrie the sixt he was made regent of Normandie and lost the whole countrie to the French for which after his comming out of Normandie in the nine and twentith yeare of king Henrie the sixt he was on the sixt of December the same yeare being the yeare of our Lord 1450 apprehended and put vnder arrest and his goods by the commons fowlie despoiled and caried awaie from the Blacke friers He was slaine at the battell of S. Albons in Maie the thrée and thirtith yeare of king Henrie the sixt falling in the yeare of our Lord 1455 and was with Henrie Persie earle of Northumberland and Thomas lord Clifford buried at S. Albons He maried two wiues the first was Elenor the daughter of Richard Beauchampe earle of Warwike widow to Thomas lord Rosse by whom he had issue Henrie duke of Summerset Edmund duke of Summerset Iohn marques Dorset Margaret maried to Humfreie duke of Buckingham Elisabeth maried to sir Henrie Lewes knight Elenor maried to Iames Butler earle of Wilshire and after to sir Robert Spenser Anne maried to sir William Pastone knight and Ione maried to the lord Hooth of Ireland His second wife was Ione who was after maried to Henrie Bromefield knight of the which Edmund duke of Summerset and the other lords buried at saint Albons thus writeth the worthie poet Iohn Gower with these same verses hereafter following Quos mors quos Martis sors saeua suaeque sororis Bella prostrarunt villae medióque necarunt Mors sic occisos tumulauerat hîc simul ipsos Póstque necem requieÌ causauit habere perennem Et medium sine quo vult hîc requiescere nemo Hic lis hic pugna mors est qui terminat arma Mors sors Mauors qui strauerunt dominos hos Henrie Beaufort eldest sonne to Edmund duke of Summerset was after the death of his father erle line 10 Morton marquesse Dorset and duke of Summerset he was capteine of Calis who with other nobles in the nine and thirtith of Henrie the sixt slue the duke of Yorke at the battell of Wakefield in the yeare of our redemption 1460 according to the accompt of England Shortlie after which K. Henrie the sixt whom this duke supported all that he could was deposed Edward the fourth crowned Touching which deposing of the one crowning of the other although it be impertinent to the treatise of line 20 the dukes of England hauing here so good place therfore I will set downe such verses as I haue found in I. Whethamsted adding further such other verses also as I find in him concerning a battell fiercelie fought at Ferribrig in Yorkeshire in this sort X. numero seni lapsi sunt circiter anni Postquam successit lexiuris iuréue rexit Anglorum regnum vis non ius rexerat ipsum Iam noua progenies quia coelo venit ab alto line 30 Saturni soboles quae nomine dicitur altro Edwardus quartus Richardo sanguine iunctus Creditur à multis redeunt Saturnia nostris Temporibus saecla lis visque nephas simul vna Deperiunt iura lex pax sunt reditura Fraus etiámque dolus cessabunt aâ violentus Raptus auaritiae subeunt verúmque fidésque Haec spes plebis erat cleri chorus haecque putabat Det ceu speratur regnum Deus vt statuatur line 40 Et plebs tranquillè viuat clerus atque quietè Then of the time of that former recited warre in which the northerne men were ouercome there were these verses made vpon the excesse and euill which they outragiouslie committed in the south parts of England without regard of God obedience to their naturall prince reuerence to the church loue to their natiue countrie or benefite to themselues M. semel X. seno centum quater I. simul vno In Martis mense terdena denique luce line 50 In patria Boreae Ferrebrig propè iugera villae Pugna fuit plebis acris nimis satis atrox Vicerat Arcthos in bello Martius heros Iunior Edwardus Hector nouus alter Achilles Prostrauit multos Austro tunc cesserat Arcthos Et doluit casum supra X. bis millia quorum Quamplures domini plures erant generosi Illius patriae flos vt sors tunc cecidere Et meritò quoniaÌ spoliaruÌt nequiter Austrum line 60 Laus igitur Domino sit honor sit gloria Christo Cessat nunc flatus grandis Boreaeque boatus Inque Austrum redijt Acolus ventum variauit Est Bore as mordens valdè ventus adurens Est Auster iustus vult morsu rodere morsus Et malè mordentes bene vires tollere eidem Est Zephyrus placidus est suauis frater eius Hinc Boreásque Aquilo pro nuÌc clauduÌtur in antro Furthermore touching the title of the same king Edward the fourth to the gouernement of the kingdome of England and of his right and truth therevnto were these following verses composed to declare the deposition of king Henrie the sixt as beforesaid in the coronation of Edward the fourth and how the same kingdome of England with all the members thereof did belong to Edward the fourth as vnto the rightfull lineall heire to the same with his pedegrée proouing the same also in this sort In sibi coniunctis Edwardi semine natis Ortus erat primò Leonellus Iohnque secundò Cedat lex regni vult iunior vt seniori Attamen Henricus haeres genitúsque Iohannis Per vim sceptrigerum regimen tulerátque coronam Et tenuit multis sed non sine viribus annis Illi successit rex qui si non caruisset Iustitiae titulo non Hector dignior ipso Non iudex Eacus non ore politus Vlysses Ipso defuncto successit filius in quo Stirps ea cessauit Haeres rectus remeauit Scilicet Edwardus Leonelli proximus haeres Hic petijt regimen rex obstat dátque negamen Resagitur belli vicit sanguis Leonelli Et palmam tulerat Henricus rex fugiebat Bello finito multo quóque sanguine fuso Quum victor secum palmam ferrétque triumphum Vendicat hoc iterum plebs applaudebat eidem Clamabátque sibi Viuat foelicior omni Rege vel Augusto melior regat Octauiano Haec vox cunctorum clamor
protectors of England Henrie Beauchampe the sonne of Richard Beauchampe earle of Warwike by Isabell ladie Spenser his second wife succeeded his father in all his inheritances the twentith of Maie in the seuenteenth yeare of king Henrie the sixt being the yeare of our redemption 1439. For then the said Richard Beauchampe died at Rone in Normandie This Henrie after that his inheritance had béene kept two years in the kings hands was dismissed of his wardship and restored to his liuings with great glorie For he was crowned king of the I le of Wight as saith Iohn Stow by the kings owne hand and nominated chiefe earle of England in the twentith yeare of the said king Henrie the sixt being about the yeare of Christ 1442. Shortlie after in the two and twentith yeare of the said king Henrie the sixt in the yeare of our redemption 1444 he was created duke of Warwike vnto whome the king gaue the castell of Brightstow or Bristow with all the appurtenances with king Iohn kept in his hands to which duke also the king gaue the Iles of Garnseie and Ierseie About two years after which on the foure and twentith of the same king Henrie the sixt being the yeare of our redemption 1446 died this duke of Warwike whose stile was duke of Warwike chiefe earle of England lord Spenser and Aburgauennie king of the I le of Wight Garnseie and Ierseie and lord of the castell of Bristow He died without issue and was buried at Teukesburie whereby his inheritance came to his foure sisters which were by Elisabeth one of the daughters and heires of Thomas lord Barkeleie Lisle and Teies first wife vnto his father Margaret his eldest sister maried to Iohn Talbot first earle of Shrewsburie of that name Elenor the second sister first maried to Thomas lord Rosse and after to Edmund duke of Summerset c Elisabeth the third sister maried to George Neuill lord Latimer whose other fourth sister by Isabell the second wife vnto Richard earle Beauchampe daughter to Thomas lord Spenser and mother also to the aboue named Henrie duke of Warwike who died without issue was Anne maried to Richard Neuill earle of Salisburie Humfreie Stafford earle Stafford created duke of Buckingham in the two and twentith yeare of king Henrie the sixt being the yeare of our redemption 1444 was slaine at the battell of Northampton Of this man sée more in my discourse of the conestables of England pag. 868. Henrie sonne to the said Humfreie duke of Buckingham was beheaded in the first yeare of Richard the third in the yeare of our redemption 1483. Of this man is more set downe in my discourse of the conestables of England pag. 869. Edward Stafford sonne to the said Henrie was duke of Buckingham being beheaded in the thirtéenth yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the eight which was the yere of our redemption 1521 of whom also I haue intreated in the said discourse of the constables of England pag. 870. William de la Poole earle of Suffolke created marques of Suffolke in the two twentith of king Henrie the sixt being the yeare of our redemption 1444 was shortlie after also created duke of Suffolke in the eight twentith of the said king Henrie the sixt falling in the yeare 1450 was banished the realme for fiue yeares to pacifie the hard opinion which the commons had conceiued against him He tooke ship to performe his banishment the third of line 10 Maie and sailed towards France but was on the sea incountered by a ship of the tower named the Nicholas by which he was taken and beheaded and his bodie cast vp at Douer sands and buried in the charterhouse at Hull He maried Alice the daughter and heire of Thomas Chaucer son to that famous poet Geffreie Chaucer by which wife the maner of Ewelme commonlie called Newelme in Oxfordshire came to the Pooles This duke his wife did there build a new parish church of Ewelme standing line 20 on a hill and founded a pretie hospitall called Gods house at the west end of Ewelme parish church to which house he gaue the manours of Ramrige in Hampshire Conocke in Wiltshire and Mersh in Buckinghamshire He also founded an hospitall at Donnington castell This Alice wife of duke William suruiuing hir husband was after buried in the parish church of Ewelme on the southside of the high altar in a rich toome of alabaster with an image in the habit of a dutchesse crowned lieng on line 30 the same toome and hauing this epitaph Orate pro anima serenissimae principissae Alissiae Sulfolchiae huius ecclesiae patronae quae obijt 20 die mensis Maij anno Domini 1475 litera dominicali A. Iohn de la Poole son to the said William de la Poole duke of Suffolke was also duke of Suffolke after the death of his father This man on the eightéenth of Aprill in the fiftéenth yéere of king Edward the fourth being the yeare of our redemption 1415 was knighted by the king He married Elisabeth line 40 daughter to Richard duke of Yorke and sister to Edward the fourth by whom he had issue Edmund erle of Suffolke Iohn that by Edward the fourth was created earle of Lincolne and Anne who by procurement of king Richard the third was maried to the duke of Rothseie eldest son to the king of Scots Richard Plantagenet second sonne to king Edward the fourth was by his father created duke of Yorke in the 15 yéere of his reigne being the yeare of our Lord 1474 at a parlement in the said fiftéenth line 50 yeare of Edward the fourth This duke on the fiftéenth of Ianuarie in the seauentéenth yeare of king Edward the fourth being the yeare of our redemption 1477 was married to ladie Anne daughter and heire to Iohn Mowbreie duke of Norffolke and was in the first yéere of the reigne of the tyrant king Richard the third his vncle most vnnaturallie murthered in the tower in the yeare of Christ 1483. George Plantagenet third sonne to king Edward the fourth was created duke of Bedford by his line 60 father in the yéere of our redemption 1470 and died without issue being verie yoong Iohn Howard lord Howard the son of sir Robert Howard knight and of Margaret his wife one of the daughters and heires of Thomas lord Mowbreie duke of Norffolke earle of Notingham and marshall of England was created duke of Norffolke and marshall of England in the first yéere of the vsurping king Richard the third being the yéere of our redemption 1483. This man following the part of the said king Richard was at the battell of Bosworth in Lecestershire fought in the third yeare of the said king Richard in the yéere of Christ 1485 slaine with the said king Richard He had two wiues Katharine the daughter of William lord Molins by whome he had issue Thomas earle of Surreie after made duke of Norffolke by king
the yeare of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and one Sir William Paulet knight marquesse of Winchester was made lord treasuror vpon the death of the duke of Summerset in the fift yeare of king Edward the sixt and the yeare of Christ one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and one which office he kept by the space of twentie yeares and more a longer time than euer anie other treasuror had done before except the two last dukes of Norffolke This man being a man of extreme age as atteining to the yeares of ninetie seuen died lord treasuror of England the tenth of March in the yeare of our saluation one thousand fiue hundred seuentie and one being the fourtéenth yeare of the reigne of the famous queene Elisabeth at his manor of Basing He in his life time did sée the children of his childrens children growne to the number of one hundred and thrée a rare blessing of God to men of his calling He married Elisabeth the daughter of sir William Capell knight by whome he had issue Iohn marquesse of Winchester Thomas Chidiocke and Giles Alice married to Richard Stowell Margaret married to sir William Berkeleie Margerie married to Richard Waller and Eleanor married to sir Richard Peckshall Sir William Cecill knight of the garter and lord Burghleie was aduanced to the honorable place of lord treasuror of England on the thirtéenth daie of Iulie in the yeare of our redemption one thousand fiue hundred seauentie and two being the fouretéenth yeare of the reigne of our gratious quéene Elisabeth This man was descended of the honorable familie of the Sitsylts of Wales sometime lords of Beauport in the daies of Henrie the first as appeareth by this pedegrée here inserted 1 In the yeare of Christ one thousand ninetie and one Robert Sitsylt came with Robert Fitzhamon to the conquest of the countrie of Glamorgan and after wedded a ladie by whom he had Halterennes and other lands in Hereford and Glocestershires he had a sonne called Iames Sitsylt 2 Iames Sitsylt tooke part with Mawd the empresse against king Stephan and was slaine at the siege of the castell of Wallingford Anno quarto Stephani hauing then vpon him a vesture whereon was wrought in néedle worke his armes or ensignes as they be made on the toome of Gerald Sitsylt in the abbeie of Dore which are afterward trulie blazed in a iudgement giuen by commission of king Edward the third for the ancient right of the same armes This Iames had a sonne called Iohn Sitsylt and foure daughters 3 Iohn Sitsylt the sonne of Iames was after the death of his father in the same warres with Roger earle of Hereford and constable of England and being taken prisoner at the siege of Lincolne Anno. 6. Stephani he paid for his ransome foure hundred marks and therefore sold his lordship of Beauport and all his lands in the countie of Glocester he tooke to wife a ladie called Mawd de Frenes and had issue Eustace 4 Eustace Sitsylt the son of Iohn was wedded to Elianor the daughter of sir Walter Pembridge knight and had by hir Baldwin and Iohn and foure daughters whereof one of them was the wife of sir Thomas Fitzneale knight 5 Baldwin Sitsylt the sonne of Eustace was made knight by king Henrie the second in the warres that the king had against the Welshmen he was also killed in the same warres at the siege of the castell of Cardiffe his father being aliue he tooke to wife the daughter of Maurice de Brompton and had by hir Gerald Sitsylt Eustace Sitsylt Henrie Sitsylt Iohn Sitsylt and Walter Sitsylt and two daughters Catharine and Elianor Catharine was the wife of Hugh Muredake and Elianor was the wife of Walter Wallis This Baldwin Sitsylt knight tooke to his second wife Margerie the daughter of Stephan Radnor knight and had by hir Stephan Sitsylt Roger Sitsylt Hugh Sitsylt and Dauid Sitsylt and thrée daughters the first was Mawd and she was a Nun the second was Ione and she was the wife of Iohn de line 10 Solers the third daughter Anne was the wife of Owen ap Meredith This man gaue certeine lands in the towneship of Kigestone vnto the moonks of Dore and granted vnto the same moonks fréedome of common and pasture and other liberties in his woods 6 Gerald Sitsylt the first sonne of Baldwin Sitsylt knight tooke to wife Mabill the daughter of Sir William Moigne knight and had by hir three sonnes Gerald Sitsylt that died a child Robert line 20 Sitsylt that married and had children and Owen Sitsylt a moonke of the abbeie of Dore. He had also three daughters Catharine that was wedded to sir Griffin ap Yoreford and after to Dauid ap Euan and the third time to Geffreie de Bret sonne of sir Walter Bret knight Anne the second daughter of Gerald Sitsylt was wedded to Robert the sonne of Richard Bromewich And Ellen the third daughter of Gerald Sitsylt was the wife of Iohn Abrahall father of sir Iohn Abrahall line 30 knight 7 Robert Sitsylt the sonne of Gerald tooke to wife Alicia daughter of sir Robert Tregois knight and had by hir Iames Sitsylt his first sonne Gerald the second sonne Thomas the third sonne and Baldwin the fourth sonne and Margaret the first daughter and Elisabeth the second daughter 8 Iames Sitsylt the sonne of Robert tooke to wife Isabell the daughter of sir Iohn Knell knight and had by hir Iames and Gerald twins Iames line 40 died yoong he had also Robert Sitsylt and Iohn Sitsylt and fiue daughters that is to saie Alicia wedded to Walter Monington Grace wedded to Roger sonne of William Blunt Elianor wedded to Thomas Paine Margerie wedded to Morgan ap Meredith and Sislie married to Howell ap Blethin and after to sir Hugh Bruge 9 Gerald Sitsylt sonne of Iames tooke to wife Margaret daughter of Stephan Dalaber and by hir had Iohn Sitsylt and after he wedded Bridget line 50 the widow of sir Simon Ward knight and had by hir Iames Sitsylt and the third time married the daughter of Martine Hopton and had by hir Martine Sitsylt Henrie Sitsylt and Dauid Sitsylt and Ione a daughter And the fourth time the same Gerald Sitsylt tooke to wife Iane the daughter of Robert Emerton and had by hir one sonne named Stigand Sitsylt that was slaine in the warres of Striuelin in the time of king Edward the second and had no issue as the register of the abbie of Dore maketh mention line 60 10 Iohn Sitsylt the sonne of Gerald tooke to wife Sibill the daughter of Robert of Ewyas and had by hir sir Iohn Sitsylt knight George Sitsylt and a daughter named Margaret that was the wife of sir Robert Baskeruile knight who had by hir sir Iohn Baskeruile knight and by his second wife he had sir Richard Baskeruile knight that tooke to wife Iane the daughter and heire of George Sitsylt second sonne of
precise in the obseruation of good order For he would seldome breake it in anie respect but vpon euident knowne and most iust cause or when he was ouerruled as sometimes he was by such as had souereigne power to direct and command him Extraordinarie courses he alwaies vtterlie misliked especiallie when order was peruerted or iustice hindered whereby the common societie of mans life is onelie preserued and mainteined which two things speciallie purchased him such vniuersall goodwill euerie where and namelie amongst the officers of hir maiesties most honorable houshold with whome he would manie times be familiarlie conuersant as they haue often wished he might haue beene honored with a white staffe to haue borne office with authoritie amongst them His nature was so tempered with modestie pietie and patience as he seldome shewed heat or choler how greeuous so euer the offense was which was giuen him He was a fast friend where he professed friendship and no reuengefull so when he was offended hardlie would he be remooued in friendship from his friend or follower but vpon most iust certeine and knowne cause which he could not smulther and would not hide from the partie I haue manie times heard him saie and by occasion haue séene the same written in his owne letters that he was dubbed knight by that noble and vertuous prince king Edward the selfe same daie sir William Cecill then principall secretarie now lord treasuror of England was by meanes wherof and that sir William Cecill was yea euen in those daies estéemed a most rare man both for sundrie and singular gifts of nature learning wisedome and integritie and partlie by the friendlie good offices of that true paterne of humanitie and courtesie sir Iohn Chéeke then schoolemaster to the king a choise deare friend to them both that there began such an entrie of acquaintance knowledge loue mutuall goodwill and intire friendship betwixt them as continued alwais ãâ¦ã and ãâã after till his dieng daie A matter of proââritie it were and intollerable âediousnesse to parââculaâ in ampâe maner the raâe qualities of his bodie and mind wherefore we wâll ãâã run them ouer as loth to abridge his deserued ãâã too liberallie This noble man was fortunat in war and no lesse happie in peace passing well beloued of his soldiers vpright in iustice yet withall inclined to mercie âe reuerenced all mân of science for he would manie times saie Science was to be honored wheresoeuer it was to be found line 10 ãâ¦ã He omitted not moâning euening praier he was liberall and honorable in hospitalitie his skill far eâceâded other mens in knowledge and secrets of Ireland yea of that countrie birth The loue and affection the Irishrie bare him ãâã manie of them to ciuilitie he was little giuen to sléepe and ease in the night for he ââeldome kept his bed aboue six houres if he were in heââth neither after âe arose would he take in the daie time anie line 20 kind of repose He would in his iournies wearie and laie vp most of his companie nothing offended him more than ingratitude in his dealings his word was his worst sociable he was with his assistants he had an intention to haue erected certeine nurseries of learning his seruice was subiect to the eare and not to the eie whereby his vertues manie times were suppressed he was deputie of Ireland and president of Wales both at one time This noble knight graue councellor complet gentleman and most woorthie and rarâ subiect departed line 30 this life at the bishops palace at Worcester the fift daie of Maie in the yeare of our Lord 1586 being fiftie and seauen yeares old complet wanting onelie one moneth and fiftéene daies about foure of the clocke in the morning after he had continued seuen daies sicke of a kind of cold palseie as the physicians decréed of the disease which happened vnto him as it was of mânie said and of mo thought by reason of an eâtreâe cold he tooke vpon the water in his passage line 40 and remooue by barge betwéene Bewdlie and Worcester not long after he had béene purged and his bodâe not fullie setled but his pores remaining still ââen as it is most like by reasân of an extraordinarie loosenes which consequentlie followed the taking of his physicke and could not be stopped hauâng then beene lord president of hir maiesties councell established in the dominion and principalitie of Wales six and twentie years complet without anie change or alteration or absolute transferring the line 50 roome or authoritie to anie other in the meane time for whose death there was great mone and lamentation As for his bodie by easie iourneies and short remooues it was conueied from Worcester to his house at Penshurst in Kent verie honourablie and well attended with great traine ceremonie and all other things apperteining to funerall order honor and solemnitie where he was honorablie interred the one and twentith daie of Iune following He was before imbowelled his intrals buried in the deans line 60 chapell in the cathedrall church at Worcester his heart brought to Ludlow buried in the toome with his deere beloued daughter Ambrosia in the little oratorie he made in the semicollegiat parish church there wherein he erected this monument The ninth daie of August next following died the most noble worthie beneficent and bountious ladie the ladie Marie Sidneie his onelie spouse and most déere wife who was eldest daughter vnto that renowmed duke Iohn late of Northumberland and sister to the right honorable and most worthie the erls of Warwike and Leicester most zealouslie godlie and penitentlie as by the testimonie of some honorable and other graue personages is well auouched and was intoââed at Penshurst in the sâme toome with hir dââre and honorable husband During the whole course of hir sicknesse and speciallie a little before it pleased almigâtie God to call hir âense to his mercie she vsed such godlie ãâã earnest and effectuall persuasions to all those about hir and vnto such others as came of freendlie courtesie to visit âir to exhort them to repentance and amendment of life and dehort them from all sinne and lewdnesse as wounded the consciences and inwardlie pearsed the hearts of manie that heard hir They left behind them yet liuing most déere pledges noble and woâthie resemblances descended of them thâee sonnes all forward martiall and valoâous gentlemen and one onelie daughter matched in mariage vnto the right honorable Henrie earle of Penbroke whome God hath alreadie blessed with goodlie rare and towardlie issue sir Philip Sidneie his sonne heire Ad ãâã âereditas gloriâ ãâã imâtatiâ pertââet a gentleman of great hope and excéeding eâpectation indowed with manie rare gifts singular vertues and other ornaments both of mind and bodie one generallie belooued and estéemed of all men who matched in mariage with the daughter and heire of sir Francis Walsingham knight hir maiesties principall
letters reuocatorie disfranchised 437 a 10 Letters fo manumission called in 438 a 10 Boner bishop of London emploied about the controuersie of Henrie the eights vnlawfull marriage 923 b 30. Beareth with the enimies of the L. Elisabeth 1160 a 10. His god was the rood of Paules 1121 a 60. Writeth to cardinall Poole concerning persecution 1164 a 10. Head broken note 915 a 60 b 10 Bookes anie waie imparing the popes dignitie are forbidden 1131 a 60. Seditious scattered and the offendors executed 1353 b 40. Printed the printer executed 1357 a 40. Popish dangerous and damnable to read or listen vnto 1391 b 50. Seditious published against the state and the offendors executed 1413 a 50 ¶ Sée Libels Boorne doctor preaching at Paules crosse hath a dagger throwne at him 1089 a 60 b 10 Bosworth field ¶ Sée Battell Bounarme with his ten spears all at once about him 834. a 50 Bowes Rafe ¶ Sée Iusts triumphant Bow stéeple builded 815 b 60 Brabanders and the reason of their name note 98 b 50 60 99 a 10. Ouercome by earle Richard Henrie the seconds sonne 98 b 50. The number of 20000 reteined by Henrie the second to beare armor 87 a 50 Braie knight of the garter commended 791 a 10 Brambre knight executed with an ax of his owne deuise 464 a 10 Brandon knight standardbearer to the earle of Richmond slaine 759 a 50. Knight his pompe at a iusts 807 b 60. He is created vicount Lisle 816 a 30 Bread made of bran puffens 1022 a 10. Made of ferne rootes 616 b 60. ¶ Sée Assise Breame ¶ Sée Bruistar Brest yéelded vp to the duke of Britaine 487 b 30. Besieged by the duke of Lancaster and the maner how 449 b 10. Force intended against it 1149 b 50 Brethren at deadlie hate pursuing one another 32 b 40. Set at variance by factious persons 32 a 60. In armes one against another 19 a 10. Forces vnited how valiant effectuall in warre 6 b 50 7 a 20 Brereton capteine of the aduenturers taken and slaine 882 b 20 Briake in Britaine assaulted taken 534 b 30 Bribe of fiue hundred markes giuen to come to the popes presence 80 b 30 Bribes the ouerthrow of lawes good orders note 862 b 40. Of a iustice seuerelie handled for taking them 243 b 50 244 a 10. Hinder the execution of good orders statutes note 380 b 30 40. Refused 18 b 60 Briberie how it tempteth mens minds note 361 b 50. ¶ Sée Gifts and Rewards Bridges made with hard shift 1138 b 60. In England borne downe with landflouds 38 a 40. ¶ Sée Flouds Bridgenorth besieged 30 a 60 Bridewell a place which Henrie the eight put to vse of plesure 894 a 20. Henrie the eights new palace a place receiuing noblemen 873 b 30. The maior and aldermen enter and take possession thereof 1130 b 40. When it became a place to punish vagarant and lewd persons 1082 b 10 Bristow taken by the earle of Glocester 48 b 60. ¶ Sée Faire Britaine was the first name of England Scotland 1000 a 10. ¶ Sée Earles Britains plagued by the lord admerall 814 a 10 c. Bromleie esquire his manhood 551 b 10 Bromleie knight his decease 565 b 40. Made capteine of Dampfront 563 b 30. The old armes of their house 564 a 30. Knight lord chancellor 1272 a 20 1286 b 60 Brotherton Thomas K Edward the first his sonne 309 a 60 Browne his seditious bookes procure losse of life 1353 b 40 Browne ¶ Sée Murther Brunkard Henrie ¶ Sée Iusts triumphant Bruse crowned king of Scotland in armes against prince Edward and the English power put to flight by the erle of Penbroke fled into Kentrie his wife and brethren taken his words to his wife he is executed his lands giuen awaie by the king Edward the first wherein note the end of disloialtie 314 a 10 40 60 b 20 40 50 Bruse inuadeth England 332. His ill dealing with Welshmen 95 b 30. His wife whose daughter she was 314 b 20. Pronounced accursed 324 a 50. Chriueth in his successe inuadeth England raiseth his siege 322 a 10 b 30 40 Bruistar and Marie Breame smoothered to death 1353 a 60 b 10 Bucchanan reprouing and reproued 112 a 30 Buckhurst lord made of the priuie councell 1434 b 60. ¶ Sée Sackuill Buggerie committed by a lord and punished 952 b 20 Buieng and selling on the sundaie a law against it 624 a 20. ¶ Sée Selling. Buildings of William Rufus verie great and famous 23 a 60 b 10 Bull seditious hanged on the bishop of Londons gate and the partie executed as a traitor 1221 a 20 c. 1222 a 30. ¶ Sée Felton and Pope Bullen besieged assalted deliuered vp the number of them that went foorth of the towne 964 a 40 b 30 60. Manie seats of armes exploited betwixt the English French 972 a 40. The Frenchmen busie to build a fort there 970 a 60 b 10. To be restored to the French king by accord note how 973 b 20. And Bullenois restored to the French vpon certeine conditions note 1061 b 60. Deliuered vp and entered into a 10 20 By the French king 1062 a 10 c. Besieged by the Englishmen the king himselfe being present 775 a 10. The basâ a canuasado giuen vnto it the French haue an ouerthrow 967 a 20 c. Bullocke a mercilesse murtherer hanged within Bishopsgate note 1228 b 20 c. ¶ Sée Murther Bulmer knight rebuked for refusing K. Henrie the eights seruice and taking the seruice of the duke of Buckingham 852 b 60 853 a 10 Burchet gentleman of the middle temple hanged note 1259 a 30 Burdet knight his valiantnesse against the enimie note 590 b 40 Burdet knight slaine 618 a 40 Burdet for a word spoken beheaded 703 a 10 Burdeux yéelded againe to the French king 641. a 30 Burgesse of the parlement arrested and what mischéefe thereof insued note 955 b 40 c. 956 a 10 c. Burgognians ioine with the English host make it stronger 875 a 30 Burlie knight and the earle Uéere in faithfull freendship 464 a 40. What the same Burlie was note a 50 c. Buriall of duke Williams bodie not suffered without satisfaction to the lord of the soile 15 a 50. Of more than two hundred ded corpses in the Charterhouse yard 379 b 30. Christian forbidden préests concubines 207 b 30. Of nobles and great men in a moonks cowle note 195 b 10 20. Neglected note 157 a 10. Of the dead doone with honor and reuerence 576 a 60. For the dead 1211 b 10. Of dead bodies within their owne parishes 31 a 10. Of the Iewes at London 101 b 20. ¶ Sée Churchyard new Burning in the hand when inacted 787 a 60 b 10 Bursse ground purchased to build it the first stone thereof laid 1209 a 40 50. Finished named The roiall exchange by the now quéene Elisabeth 1224 a 60 Bushie knight 495. ¶ Sée Flatterie Butcher
agréement concluded betwixt the two kings read in S. Peters church in Yorke 96 a 10. Of agréement betweene the king of England and the king of Conagh 96 b 60. Of king Stephan and the pacification of troubles betwixt him and Henrie Fitzempresse 62 a 10. Of maââmission granted to the rebels by Richard the second 434 a 10. Blanke sealed note 496 a 10 Confirmed vnder Henrie the thirds acknowledgment and subscription of witnesses 220 b 20. Cancelled and much gréeued at 208 b 60. Chartres taken by treason notwithstanding the truce 607 a 60 Chastitie of the ladie Graie and hir wisdom 726 a 50. Should such professe as would be admitted subdeacons 30 b. 30. ¶ Sée Clergie Charugage a certeine dutie for euerie plowland 229 a 50 Chaucer the English poet in what kings time he liued 541 b 50. ¶ Sée Dukes Chaumount Hugh taken prisoner 152 a 10 Chéeke knight his deserued commendation note 1055 a 50 60 b 10 c. His treatise shewing how gréeuous sedition is to a commonwealth note 1042 1043 c to 1055. Cheinie knight lord warden of the cinque ports authorised by Henrie the eight to the christening of the Dolphins daughter 973 b 50 60. An enimie to Wiat note 1094 a 40. Henrie the eights letter to him for a prescript forme of demeanor in the English towards the French 974 a 40 c. Lord warden of the cinque ports his death his old seruices at home and abroad much spoken to his praise and honor note 1171 a 30 40 50 60 b 10 20 30. Cheapside conduit builded 704 b 10 Cheshire made a principalitie 492 b 40 Cheshiremen gard Richard the second 489 b 50. Slaine note 523 b 60 Chester abbeie by whome builded 27 b 60. And who gaue order thereto 28 b 10. Earledome by whome possessed and inioied 20 a 10 Chierburgh besieged by the English 562 b 50. Yéelded to the Englishmen 563 a 10. Deliuered to the English 420 a 10. Possessed by the English 564 a 40 Child of eleuen years old speaking strange spéeches 1315. a 10 c. Chime of saint Giles without Criplegate to be mainteined 1312 a 60. ¶ Sée Bels. Chimniage ¶ Sée Subsidie Chinon taken by force of assault 169 b 60 Chisie William a notable théefe hanged 124 a 20 Christ and of a portion of his bloud shewed in a solemne procession 240 a 40 Christ counterfet whipped 1194 a 10. False apprehended and punished 203 b 40 50 Christs hospitall erected 1082 b 10 Christians preuaile against the Saracens at Damieta 202 b 20. It enuious discord 134 a 20. Beheded by the Turks 133 a 30. And Saracens are a peace 135. Two hundred and thréescore deliuered from the captiuitie of the Turks by means of one Iohn Fox note 1310 b 20. ¶ Sée Saracens Christianitie abiured for monie note 27 a 40 Christianus a bishop of the Danes capteine in warre 7 b 40 Christine a quéenes sister a nun ¶ Sée Margaret Christmas roiall 807 a 40 Christmas shewes 816 a 10 Christmasse called The still Christmasse 892 b 40 Chronicles whereof and whie so named and their necessarie vse 1268 1269 Chroniclers deserue a dutifull reuerence and whie 1268 Church of saint Anthonies in London when and by whom builded 779 a 50. Of saint Dunstans in the east defiled with bloud note 562 a 20 c. Of Elie dedicated note 246 b 30. Of Hales solemnlie dedicated 244 b 60 245 a 10. Of Scotland obedient to the church of England 97 b 10. Of England sore fléesed of hir wealth 18 b 30. Ruinated by the Danes in the north parts and verie scant note 11 a 20. Depriued of temporall prosperitie 256 a 50. Impropriat and that the bishop of Lincolne had authoritie to institute vicars in them 246 a 40. Occupied by incumbents strangers of the popes preferring what grudge it bred note 214 a 60. Spoiles aduantage not the getter note 194 a 50. That for feare of the censure thereof the English pledges were released 147 b 10 Iewels c turned into monie for Richard the first his ransome 139 b 10. The state thereof in Beckets time 77 a 60. Liuings restored by act of parlement note 1130 a 20. Cathedrall to inioie the right of their elections 409 a 10. Ouerthrowne by an earthquake 440 b 40. In London striken and broken by tempest 1185 a 10. Made a kenell of hounds reuenged 23 a 50. ¶ Sée Consecration Fines Inuestitures Lands Schisme Churchmen ¶ Sée Clergie Churchyard new néere Bedlem first made â211 b 10 Cicester the situation thereof 796 b 10 Cicill knight commissioner into Scotland about an accord of peace 1192 a 30. Created lord treasuror 1238 a 50. His descent 1255 b 30 Cipriots resist Richard the first his landing and are pursued vanquished 127 a 60 b 10. Their offers in respect of his discontentment losse 127 b 60. Submit themselues and are receiued as his subiects 128 a 40. Their king submitteth himselfe to Richard the first 128 a 10. Stealeth awaie submitteth himselfe againe is committed prisoner and chained in giues of siluer 128 a 10 60 b 10 Circumcision for loue of a Iewish woman 203 b 60 Cisteaux moonks ¶ Sée monks white Citie wherof it consisteth 1046 b 50 Cities their necessarie vse and seruice note 1047 b 10 20 30 Citizens ¶ Sée Londoners Clergie their presumptuous ââthoritie restreined by acts 239 b 40. Large offer to Henrie the third in a parlement 255 b 30. Depriued of their liuings and liberties 8 b 60 and Normans preferred 9 a 10. Ricked at by duke William against whome note his malice 9 a 10. Pinched by their pursses fret and âume against the popes procéedings in that behalfe 252 b 30. Resist duke Williams decrées and are banished 8 a 30 Hardlie delt withall and out of order note 24 a 30. Of England complaine to pope Urban against William Rufus 18 b 40. Cardinall Pools articles concerning them 1162 b 30. Grant halfe of all their spirituall reuenues for one yeare to Henrie the eight 877 b 20. Complained of by the commons 911 a 30. Both head and taile one with another against them 911 b 10. In danger of a premunire their offer to Henrie the eight 923 a 20 30. The same pardoned 923 b 10. Their submission to H. the eight note 923. Speake euill of Henrie the eights procéedings in the reformation of religion 941 a 20 30. Conuocation for the reforming of religion 940 b 60. Complained of for their crueltie Ex officio 928 a 20. The cause whie so heinouslie offending was so fauoured 787 a 50 c. Of two sorts and both desirous to spare their pursses 792 a 30. Of Excester against Henrie the sixt and the duke of Summerset in defense of their ecclesiasticall priuileges 637 b 30. A bill exhibited against them in the parlement 545 b 10. Libels against them cast abrode 558 b 20. Sorelie brideled 475 a 30. Inueied against of the Wickleuists 481 b 60. They complaine of them to the king 482 a
60. He and the French kings interuiew at Gisors 74 a 60. Whie called Shortmantell 115 a 10. Sickeneth and dieâh 114 b 50. His dead bodie laie naked a long time 114 b 60 115 a 10. His epitaphs 116 a 40 Henrie the third borne at Winchester 171 b 60. The beginning of his reign 197 a 10. His coronation and annointing b 20. The presumptuous procéedings of the barons against him 263 a 50. Asked counsell how to procéed in his warres against the French king 232 b 20. Maketh hard shift for monie to hire soldiors to assist him he remooueth towards Windsore commeth to Stratford 273 a 60 b 10. Laie at Cambridge 273 a 50. He the lord wardens of the cinque ports reconciled 271 b 50. The barons that rose against him their chéefe capteins 264 b 20. Aided by his two halfe brethren he incampeth at Lewes the barons send him letters his answer he deâieth them the battell betwéene them 267 b all The scholers of Oxford fight against him 267 a 10. His protestation against the articles at Oxford 265 b 30. Licenced to passe ouer into France 263 b 20. Hée falleth sicke of a seuer quartane 263 b 20 In his time manie gouernours ouer the land pernicious to the coÌmonwâlth 263 a 60 b 10. Asketh licence to passe ouer sea 262 a 30. Saileth into France compoundeth all differences with the French king 262 a 40. Sore sicke and in despaire of life 208 a 40. His charges and wastfull expenses 255 b 60. Passeth himselfe into wales 255 a 30. Lacketh monie 254 b 40. Assaieth to get monie of the lordâ temporall 246 b 60. Maketh great shift for monie to send vnto the pope and sendeth the pope a warrant to take it vp 250 b 40. His charges to Gascoigne 250 b 10. Demandeth a subsidie 249 b 20. Offended with them that refused to helpe him with monie b 40. His dets thrée hundred thousand marks 252 a 20. Purposeth to go himselfe into Gascoigne taketh the sea ariueth at Burdeaux 248 b 10 c. Inuadeth Wales buildeth a castell at Gannoke 236 b 10. Returneth out of Wales 237 b 40. Flat against the pope his demands and decrées his proclamation inhibiting monie to be sent to the pope 238 b 60. 239 a 10. His halfe brethren come to sée him 239 b 60. Being in solemne procession at Paules note 240 a 30. Disgraced by his nobles in a solemne parlement 240 b 50. His eldest sonne created duke of Aquitaine 246 b 10. Goeth into Wales with an armie 226 b 40. Rather hindered than helped by the countesse of Bierne 230 a 40. Spareth to set himselfe out of debt 242 b 10. Driuen to sell his state for lacke of monie 241 a 20. Procureth aâ inhibition to the pope 242 b 10. His mother departeth this life 239 a 50. Taketh vpon him the crosse 242 a 40. Highlie offended with the bishops 246 b 60. Euill spoken of 231 a 30. Passeth ouer into France againsâ the French king 229 b 20. His sundrie meanes of impositions to gather monie note 229 a 50. His halfe brethren depart the realme 258 a 50 b 50. They are pursued and send to the French king for safe conduct 258 b 60. His seuere sentence against a bribetaking iustice 243 b 50 c 244 a 10. Goeth with an armie towards Scotland 233 b 40. He and the king of Scots made friends b 60. Lieth in wait for mens goods 253 a 10. Fauoureth not the citie of London 274 b 20. ¶ Sée London Put to flight 268 a 20. Returneth into England through France 250 a 60. Goeth ouer vnto the French king 266 a 40. Like to haue béene destroied at Woodstocke in his bed note 223 a 40. Crowned the second time and whie 202 b 30. His mariage 219 b 30. Entreth into Wales with an armie hath but sorie successe returneth 217 a 60 b 10 20. Goeth against the Welshmen but with ill successe 214 a 10. Gathereth monie towards his iornie into France 211 b 60. Saileth ouer into France hée taketh diuerse townes and castels getteth the victorie returneth into Britaine faileth home into England his owne realme 211 b 60 212 all Prepareth to passe ouer into France 211 a 60. Is constreined to agrée with the Welshmen 210 b 30. In fauor with Normans Poictouins 210 a 50. His grant to his brother 209 b 10. Glad to appoint a daie of treatie for pacification betwéene him his nobles 209 b 10. And whie he wold not admit Walter de Hamelsham archbishop of Canturburie 210 a 10. Will in no wise bind indanger his laie fée to the church of Rome 208 b 20. Demandeth restitution of parcels of inheritance belonging to the crowne 205 b 60. Purchaseth a bull of the pope for his sufficiencie to gouerne 205 b 10. Deposeth all the magistrats of the citie of London c 204 b 10. His summons to raise him an armie the capteins of the same 199 b 50 60. He requireth restitution of his right of the French king 203 b 10. Put in full possession of the realme 201 b 60. His practise to get monie 241 b 20. Sickneth 275 a 10. Extreame sicke his death buriall issue proportion of bodie conditions good and bad 276 a 40 c. Henrie the fourth duke of Lancaster proclamed king 507 b 30 Planâagenet his stile or title the beginning of his reigne 509 a 40. His coronation 510 all His title to the crowne 511 a 10 Ment to haue made a iournie against the infidels he is vexed with sickenesse 540 b 60. Of an apoplexie his death buriall issue stature c 541 a 10 c. His suspicious gelousie toward his son prince of Wales 539 a 10. Taketh vpon him to defend the Orleanciall faction 538 b 30. The faction of Orleance sue to him for aid 537 b 60. Articles of couenants which they offered him the conditions which they requested of him 538 a 10 60. A fauourer of the clergie 536 a 50. In danger to be taken by the French pirats 525 b 10. His comming to Berwike he preuaileth against the Scots he passeth into Wales looseth his cariages returneth 530 b 50 60 Wanteth monie can get none of the lords 527 b 60. Goeth to Yorke 524 a 10. Charged with periurie his answer to the messengers that brought the lords articles he offereth pardon to his aduersaries his manhood against them 523. His answer to the Persies libell his spéedie diligence against his enimies he troubleth them with his sudden comming 522 a 60 b 40. In armes against the Welshmen he looseth his labour 520 b 20 30. His suspicion grounded vpon a guiltie conscience his daughter maried into Germanie 520 b 10 In danger to haue béen destroied in his bed note 519 b 20. Inuadeth Scotland making gret wast 518 b 20. Causeth Richard the second to be put to a violent death 516 b 50. Commeth to the Towre of London the lords make towards the citie against him he goeth foorth against them 515
Anno Reg. 6. Simon Dun. Hen. Hunt Matth Paris The king being sicke promiseth amendment of life Polydor. Eadmerus Anselme elected archbishop of Canturburie Eadmerus Matth. Paris Polydor. Robert Bluet L. Chancelor elected bishop of Lincolne Hen. Hunt Polydor. A proclamation that none should deparâ the realme Ran. Higd. Rées king of Wales slaine Wil. Thorne Malcolme king of Scots commeth to Glocester Wil. Malm. Polydor. K. Malcolme inuadeth England Simon Dun. Ran. Higd. Anno Reg. 7. 1094 Ran. Higd. Wil. Malm. Simon Dun. Death murren of cattell Strange woonders Matth. Paris Polydor. Simon Dun. King William passeth ouer into Normandie Wars betwixt the king and his brother Matth. West Polydor. A peace concluded betwixt the king and his brother Robert Hen. Hunt Simon Dun. The Welshmen inuade England The castell of Mountgomeriâ won by the Welshmen Anno Reg. 8. 1095 Robert earle of Northumberland refuseth to come to the king Matth. Paris Hen. Hunt Maluoisin a fortresse built against Banbourgh Polydor. Banbourgh yéelded to the king Sâmoâ Dun. âhe earle of âwe Matth. Paris King William inuadeth Wales The king returneth out of Wales with dishonour Eadmeâus Murcherdach king of Ireland The councell of Clermount The iournie into the holie land Godfray be Bullion Anno Reg. 9. 1096. Hen. Hunt Wil. Thorne Simon Dun. A subsidie Eadmerus Polydor. The duchie of Normandie morgaged to king William Eadmerus Polydor. Anno Reg. 10. 1097 Eadmerus Waterford in Ireland made a bishoprike The archbishop of Canturburie primate of Ireland Murcherdach K. of Ireland Malchus consecrated bishop of Waterford The king eftsoones inuadeth the Welshmen Polydor. The Welshmen withdraw into the woods H. Hunt Simon Dun. R. Houed Anno Reg. 11. 1098 Matth. Paris Gyral Cam. Hugh earle of Shrewsburie slaine âab ex Guido de Columna Anno Reg. 12. 1099 Fabian Ran. Higd. Matth. Paris Polydor. The king goeth ouer into Normandie Finchamstéed Ran. Higd. Hen. Hunt Matth. West Wil. Malm. Hen. Hunt Matth. Paris Wil. Malm. The saieng of king William Rufus Man 's deliuered from an asséege Helias Hen. Hunt Polydor. Uariance betwixt the king and the archbishop Anselme Matth. Paris A thousand maâkes demanded of Anselme Eadmerââ Matth. Paris The king could not abide to âeare the pope named Eadmerus The kings demand to Anâelme A councell at Rockingham in Rutlandshire * If they be Gods people The king renounceth the archbishop for his subiect The bishops driuen to their shifts how to shape an answer The meane to pacifie the king The stiffenes of Anselme in withstanding the kings pleasure Matth. Paris Eadâeruâ Fabian Matth. Paris Anselme comming to Rome complaineth of the king Ranulfe bishop of Chichester Finess of préests that had wiues as by some writers it séemed Polydor. Robert Losaunge Ran. Higd. Wil. Malm. Stephan Harding a moonke Ran. Higd. Iacobus Philippus Berigonias Anno Reg. 13. 1100 The kings lauish prodigalitie Strange woonders Wil. Malm. A dreame Matth. West Wil. Malm. Sir Walter Tirell The king slaine Wil. Malm The liberall hart of king William Iewes An answer of a good Iew. A pretie deuision King William suspected of infidelitie Eadmerus Praieng to saincts His stature Whereof he tooke his surname Rufus Wil. Malm. Couentrie church ioined to the sée of Chester Anno Reg. 1. 1100. Wil. Thorne Geruasius Dorobernensis Matth. Paris The king âââketh to win the peoples fauour Simon Dun. Hen. Hunt Matth. Paris Anselme called home Wil. Malm. William Gifford bishop of Winchester Hen. Hunt Rafe bishop of Durham committed to the Tower Simon Dun. The first ordeining of the yard measure Wil. Malm. Wil. Malâ Polydor. The archbishop of Uienna the popes legat He is not receiued for legat Ran. Higd. Duke Robert chosen king of Hierusalem Polydor. Anno Reg. 2. Duke Robert is solicited to come into England to claim the crowne Wil. Malm. Simon Dun. In the Kal. of Februarie R. Houe Hen. Hunâ Polydor. Duke Robert arriued at Portsmouth Simon Dun. Wil. Malm. Hen. Hunt Polydor. Wil. Malm. Simon Dun. Hen. Hunt Hen. Hunt Wil. Thorne Matth. West Geruasius Dorober Simon Dun. Robert de Belesme earle of Shrewsburie Stafford wasted Arundell castell besieged Bridgenorth besieged Anno Reg. 3. The earle of Shrewsburie banished the realme A synod of bishops Eadmerus Abbats priors âepriued Matth. Parââ The cause why they wer depriued Hen. Hunt Sim. Dun. Eadmerus Mariage of préests forbidden Hen. Hunt Decrées instituted in this councell Against préests that were alehouse hunters Archdeaconries Subdeacons Préests sons Préests to wear crowns Tithes Benefices New chapels Consecration of churches Abbats Moonks Farmes Parsonages Contracts Wearing of haire Buriall Fond worshipping of men The cursse to be read euerie sundaie S. Bartholomewes by Smithfield founded Smithfield sometimes a common laiestall a place of execution Anno Reg. 3 Polydor. The king bestoweth bishopriks Matth. Paris Sim. Dunel Anselme refuseth to consecrate the bishops inuested by the king Gerard inuested archbishop of Yorke W. Gâfford bishop of Winchester Matth. Paris Wil. Thorne Polydor. Polydor. 1102 Anno Reg. 4. Ambassadors sent to Rome Anselme goeth also to Rome Eadmerus The saieng of Wil. Warlewast to the pope The popes answer to him Polydor. Wil. Malm. The pope writeth courteouslie to the king The earle of Mellent Anno Reg. 4. The K. persuaded to renounce his title to the inuestiture of prelats Eadmerus Duke Robert commeth into England to visit his brother Wil. Malm. Factious persons practise to set the two brethren at variance The earle of Mortaigne Richard earle of Chester A power of men sent into Normandie Gemeticenâis The k. passeth ouer to Normandie Anno Reg. 6. Simon Dun. Gemeticensis Polydor. 1106 Anno Reg. 7. The brethren depart in displeasure K. Henrie passeth into Normandie to pursue his brother They ioine in battell The Normans vanquished The earle of Mortaigne Eadmerus W. Crispine W. Ferreis Robert de Estoutuille The number slaine Gemeticensis Wil. Malm. Robert de Belesme The 27. of September chro de Nor. Simon Dun. Matth. West Anselme returneth home Duke Robert prisoner in the castell of Cardiff Gemeticensis Polydor. Maâth West Iohn Pike Richard prior of Elie. Polydor. Ran. Higd. Flemings coÌming ouer into England haue places appointed them to inhabit Wil. Malm. A councâll Sim. Dunel Eadmerus Anno Reg. 9. Préests are sequâstred froÌ their wiues Archdeacons and canons Archdeacons to be sworne Penance Polydor. Philip king of Fran. dead Lewis le gros K. of France Ambassadors from the emperour Maud the kings daughter fianced vnto the emperour Eadmerus The death of Gerard archbish of Yoâke Thomâs the kings chapleine succéeded in that sée The doubt of Anselme Anselme writeth to the Pope The popes answer to Anselme The archbishop of Yorke refuseth to come vnto Canturburie to be consecrated Looke in the 9. page and the first columne of the debate betwéen Thomas of Yorke Lanârenke of Canturburie The bishop of London deane to the archbishop of Canturburie The bishop of Rochester his chapleine A stout prelat Anselme senââeth to the king Ansâlme
Scots deliuered out of prison with other Matth. Paris Prisoners released Castels deliuered by the K. of Scots N. Triuet Matth. Paris Rog. Houed The kings of England and France méet at Gisors Philip earle of Flanders Polydor. Enuious persons readie to forge matters of suspicion The two kings the father and the sonne returne into England William de Breause The WelshmeÌ not well dealt withall N. Triuet Reignold erle of Cornewall departed this life Matth. West A synod held at London W. Paruus The king of Scots dooth homage to the king of England R. Houed A parlement at Windsor Ambassadors from K. Connagh A tribute of ox hides The tenor of the charter of the agréement A great derth Anno Reg. 22. 1176 A parlement at Northhampton Matth. Paris An act against preests that were hunters Polydor. Obedience of the church of Scotland to the church of England Rog. Houed The king of Scots commeth to the parlement R. Houed Diuision of circuits for iustices itinerants The oth of the iustices Ger. Dor. The presumptuous demeanor of the archbishop of Yorke Pub. Mim Pub. Mim Appeales made The conuocation dissolued N. Triuet R. Houed N. Triuet A tribut graÌted by the Irish R. Houed The wals of the towne and castell of Leicester raced Elianor the kings daughter married to the king of Castile Gilbert Fitz Fergus Richard earle of Poictow Wil. Paruus lib. 3. cap. 3. The departure of the legat foorth of the Realme Liberties obteined for churchmen N. Triuet The yoong K. beginneth new pâactises against his father R. Houed Rog. Houed The citie of Aques or Aigues Anno Reg. 23. Polydor. Geffrey the kings base sonne made bishop of Lincolne Préests displaced caââns regular put in their râomes R. Houed Nunnes of Amesburie Philip earle of Flanders Iohn de Curcie Roderike K. of Ulnestre vanquished Uiuiano a cardinall ãâã Paruus The legat holdeth a councell at Dublin Pââp lib. 3 Matth. Paris Polydor. R. Houed Polydor. R. Houed Durham tower Henrie de Pudsey A parlement at Oxford Iohn the kings sonne created king of Ireland Polydor. It rained bloud R. Houed William Fitz Adelme Robert de Poer Hugh Lacie Philip de Breause Matth. Paris Polychr Iewes in England R. Houed The kings meet at Yurâe R. Houed A law The purchase of the erldome of March. Anno Reg. 24. A generall councell summoned at Rome Ger. Dor. A strange sight about the moone A strange eclipse of the sunne Anno. Reg. â5 R. Houed A strange wonder of the earth M. Pal. in Aquar Luc. lib. 1. Richard de Lucie lord chéefe iustice of England deceasseth A parlement at Windsore Ranulfe de Glanuille Geffrey earle of Britaine son to king Henrie Guidomer de Leons The moone eclipsed The French K. commeth a madding to visit the archbishop Beckets toome The French word is Muis. Polydor. Matth. Paris Cadwallon prince of Wales Anno Reg. 26. R. Houed 1180. Discord betwixt the French K. and his nobles R. Houed The earle of Flanders doth homage to the king of England Matth. Paris Tailbourg woone Matth. Paris W. Paruus The forme of the kings coine changed Anno Reg. 27. R. Houed 1181. Matth. Paris R. Houed The danger of the holie land An ordinance for armour Iewes might haue no armour Matt. Paris The decâsse of Hugh earle of Chester Ran. Higd. The archbish of Yorke deceasseth The k. passeth ouer into Normandie The K. his sonne eftsoons reconciled Rog. Houed The duke of Saxonie The duchesse of Saxonie deliuered of a sonne Ranulfe Poer slaine Anno Reg. 29. 1183. Wil. Paruus Polydor. Ger. Dor. Rog. Houed war betwixt the brethren The father séeketh to appease the quarell betwixt his sonnes Earle Geffrey dealeth vnfaithfullie The disloiall dissembling of the yoong king King Henrie the sonne falleth sicke He sendeth to his father ãâ¦ã His repentance before hâs death A strange kind of superstitious deuotion if this report of our author be true He is drawne out of his bed a thing vnlike to be true His death N. Triueâ The bodie of the yong king lastlie buried at Rouen Iuuen. saâ 13. Limoges rendred to king Henrie Ueulquesine The kings of England and France talke togither Anno Reg. 30 The duchesse of Saxonie deliuered of a sonne The archbish of Colen Hugh Nouant The duke of Saxonie pardoned and reuoked out of exile Death of Noble men The gouernement of the forests diuided Heraclius patriarch of Ierusalem A councell at Clerkenwell Baldwin archbishop of Canturburie exhorteth men to go to warre against the Saracens Fiue thousand marks saieth Genâ Dor. Ran. Higd. The words of the partriarch to the king Rash iudgement in an holie father R. Houed Iohn the kings sonne made king of Ireland Ger. Dor. An earthquake The king and the patriarch passe ouer into France The kings message to his sonne earle Richard Erle Richard obeieth his father Rog. Houed Particular and not generall saith Ger. Dor. Anno Reg. 32. King Henrie returneth into England Ger. Dor. Hugh prior of Witham made bishop of Lincolne Hugh Lacie slaine Hugh Lacies diligence to inlarge his possessions in Ireland King Henrie not sorie for the death of Lacie The death of Geffrey the kings sonne The ladie Ermengard the vicount Beaumonts daughter maried to William king of Scots Castell of Edenbourgh Ambassadors sent to the French king Sir William de Walles The king of Englands subiects arested in FraÌce The French subiects arested in Normandie Anno Reg. 33 1187 Octauianus a cardinall King Henrie passeth ouer into Normandie Ger. Dor. Ierusalem taken Out of the annales of France written by Nicoll Gallis Ger. Dor. A truce granted Erle Richard giueth his father faire words He seizeth vpon his fathers treasure Anno Reg. 34. 1188 King Henrie returneth into England King Henrie passeth againe into Normandie Polydor. Heauie newes from the east paris An enteruiew betwixt the two kings The two kings receiue the crosse The French ware red crosses The English white The Flemings gréene An aid granted to them in the holie land Wil. Paruus Good orders and discipline instituted The king returneth into England A councell helden at Gaitington Ger. Dor. A tenth leuied The king of Scots The good meaning of the two kings disappointed Polydor. Reimond erle of Tholouze * where he shall be fullie sufficientlie answered Horat. in art poet Rog. Houed The nobles of Poictou rebell against earle Richard Peter Seille Erle Richard inuadeth the earle Tholouze lands Annales de France Rog. Houed The archbishop of Canturburie with the bishops of Chester saith Ger. Dor. Ger. Dor. Chateau Roux it is called in the French annales but that chronicles of Aniou name it Chasteau Raoul and rightlie as I thinke Sergeants The Welshmen The two kings come to a treatie An elme cut downe A commendable protestation and worthie to be noted Castellium Another treatie betwixt the two kings Erle Richard reuolteth from his father to serue the French king Polydor. Rog. Houed Beuerley burnt William de Sempringham decesseth Gilbert de Ogerstan A strange
coââprophet serued aright Ships of Rie win a good price Iohn de Northaâââââ maioâ oâ Lââdon ãâã punisâââ ãâã âdulterie ãâã ââme The Londoners ãâã of Wicliffes doctrine The fishmoongers sore trââbled by the maior A great earthquake Churches ouerthrowne by the earthquake A waâerquake Anno Reg. 6. The bishop of LondoÌ made lord chancâllor in the lord Scroope his roome A new rebellion intended in Norffolke is bâwraied by one of the cânspiracie before The coÌmissioners of Flanders reiected for want of sufficient authoritie An act against the fishmongers within the citie of London Remission of sins granted to as manie as would fight against Clement the antipape The earle of Cambridge returneth out of Portingale The earle of Cambridge his son affianced to the king of Portingals daughter Clementines Urbanists The crossed souldiers The capteins that weÌt with the bishop of Norwich against the antipape Froissard The statute against fishmongers repealed they are restored to their liberâies The bishop ãâã Norwich setteth forward with his armie Polydor. Froissard 500 speares â 115 other The bishop ãâã Norwich inuadeth Flanders Ia. Meir Dunkirke woon sackââ by the Englishmen The earle of FlaÌders sendeth to the bish of Norwich to know the cause of his inuasion of Flanderâ The herald of armes sent to the Flemings by the bishop of Norwich is slaine Thom. Wals. The order of the bishop of Norwich his battell against the Flemings The Flemings discomfited by the Englishmen Iac. Meir Froissard Tho. Walsi Préests and religious men hardy soldiers Iacob Meir The EnglishmeÌ subdue diuerse towns in Flanders and spoile the countrie The towne of Ypres besiged The maner of fortifieng townes in old time Hope of gaine incourageth the soldier Ia. Meir Anno Reg. 7. The siege at Ypres broken vp Newport sacked and burnt by the Englishmen and Gauntiners Thom. Wals. A couragious warlike bishop The French king with his huge armie driueth the Englishmen out of Flanders Bruckburge yeélded to the French The duke of Britaine a fâiend to the Englishmen Grauelin fortified by the Frenchmen for a countergarison to Calis Thom. Wals. The king quéene in progresse A great heaâ soone cooled The bishop of Norwich returned into England ãâã of Flanders Warke castell burnt by the Scots Diuerse French ships taken by the Englishmen A parlement at London The temporalties of the bishoprâke of Norwich seized into the kings hands for the bishops disobedience A treatie of peace betwéen England and France A truce taken betwéene England and France Tho. Walsin Great contention about the election of the maior of London Sir Robert Knolles The duke of Lancaster inuadeth Scotland with an armie Edenburgh left desolate Great death of horsses and men in the English host by reason of extreme cold A parlement at Salisburie An Irish frier appeacheth the duke of LaÌcaster of treason A miserable cruell torture A rode into Scotland One mischief asketh another Anno Reg. 8. The duke of LaÌcaster sent into France to treat of a peace Iohn de Northampton late maior of London coÌdemned to perpetuall prison and all his goods confiscated A combat The appellant being vanquished is adiudged to be hanged Abraham Fleming out of Henrie Knighton canon of Leicester abbeie Berwike castell woone by the Scots Berwike castell recouered by the earle of Northumberland The duke of Lancaster getteth him to his castell of Pomfret and fortifieth it The princesse of Wales maketh an attonement betwéene the king and the duke at Lancaster The ships of Portâmouth Dartmouth ãâã better seruice than the kings great name ãâã Meir Froissard The French king aideth Scots against Englishmen The Scots inuade the frontiers of England Anno Reg. 9. The K. goeth with an armie against the Scots Uariance betwéene sir Iohn Hollands seruaÌts and the lord Richard Stafford The lord Richard Stafford slaine by sir Iohn Holland Hect. Boetius Edenburgh burnt by king Richard The French admerall persuadeth the Scots to fight with the English host Cumberland sore spoiled by the Scots Carleill assalted by the Scots Good counsell neglected Polydor. A noble reuenge There were 600 Englishmâ who with their bowes did great seruice as by one author it appeareth The king of Portingale sendeth six gallies to K. Richards aid A good victorie of them of Calis against the French fléet Abr. Fl. out of Henrie Knighton canon of Leicester abbeie The Calisians others make a rode into France win great booties Fabian Creation of dukes and earles at the parlement Henrie of Bollingbrooke earle of Derbie afterwards king The lord Mortimer erle of March proclââed heire apparant to the crowne The earle of March ãâã by the wild Irish. The issue of the foresaid earle of March. Froissard The king of Armeniâ coÌmeth into England ãâã aid against the Turks Thom. Wals. Thom. ãâã Froissard Ia. Meir The duke ãâã Lancaster goeth into Spaine ãâã an armie In Angl. praelij Abr. Fl. out of Henrie Knighton canon of Leicester abbeie Thom. Wals. The duke of Lancaster landeth at Brest and winneth two bastidâs from the Frenchmen Anno Reg. 10. The duke of Lancaster landeth at ãâ¦ã Le Groigne Corone Abr. Fl. out of Henrie Knighton canon of Leicester abbeie Philip the dude of Lancasters daughter married to the king of Portingale The king of Portingale the duke of Lancaster ioining their armies togither inuade Castile Uariance amongst writers Great death in the English host in Spaine by reason of the great heat of that countrie Froissard The lord Fitz Walter I thinke that none of these three were barons but onlie the lord Poinings The duke of Lancaster returneth out of Portingale into Gascoigne A marriage concluded betweéne the prince of Spaine and the duke of Lancasters daughter Fabian Ab. Fl. out of Henrie Knighton canon of Leicester abbeie In Angl. ãâã sub Rich. 2. Iacob Meir Froissard A mightie great nauie of French ships at Sluis purposing to inuade EnglaÌd The description of the inclosure Thom. Wals. Tho. Walsi The prouision of the Englishmen to resist the great power of Frenchmen Abr. Fl. out of Henrie Knighton canon of Leicester abbeie The Londoners speciallie afraid of the FreÌch forces Dissention among the noblemen Froissard Tho. Walsin A parlement at London Robert Uéer marquessâ of Dubline created duke of Ireland Richard Exton iustlie coÌmended A subsidie granted and appointed to be spânt according to the discretion of the nobilitie Dissention betweenâ ãâã king anâ ãâã parlement house The duke of Glocester and the bishop of Elie sent to yâ K. at Eltham froÌ the whole bodie of the parlement Their requests to the king And oftenâr ãâã néed require The causes conditions of a parlement Absence of the king from the parlement ãâã the space of â daies The kings answer Wealth of the people is the glorie of the prince and suertie of his reigne Change of officers by the parlement The earle of Suffolke gréeuouslie charged by the parlement house for sundrie offenses Thirtéene lords appointed by parlement
Ambassadors from the French king for a perpetuall peace Froissard A proclamatiâ that all English benefited men in Rome should return into Englaââ The pope sââdeth his nuâcio to king Richard The popes nuncio openeth to the king the FreÌch kings priuie practises Nuncio Abr. Fl. out of Henrie Knighton canon of Leicester abbeie A sore bridle for the clergie The duke of Glocester his iournie into Prutzen land The duke of Glocester in great fauor with the commons Anno Reg. 15. A great death in Yorke and sundrie other places A parlement at London Abr. Fl. out of Henrie Knighton canon of Leicester abbeie The duke of Lancaster ambassador for the king right honorablie receiued into France Abr. Fl. out of Henrie Knighton canon of Leicester abbeie The flix gââten by excessiue feeding on fruits The lord ââior of Londââ commended for his carefull prouision of corne from beyond the seas in the time of dearth Abr. Fl. out of Henrie Knighton canon of Leceister abbeie The cause of the scarsitie was not want of breader corne Wooll sold dogcheape ãâã the stone Prouision against scarââtie to relieââ the poore O charitie of London A dolphin taken at London bridge Ambassadors sent to the French king to treat of peace Sir Robert Briquet a Frenchman of king Richard his priuie chamber The dukes of Lancaster Yorke the earls of Derbâe and Huntington the lord Thomas Persie the bishops of Durham and London were sent oâer as Froâssard saith A roiall ambassage The duke of Lancaster a prince of great renowme The truce prolonged for a yeare Thom. Wals. A councell at Stamford The duke of Gelderland commeth into England The duke of Gelderland dissuadeth the king from peace with the French and Scots The Londoners refuse to lend the king a thousand pounds A great fire kindled about a litle sparke A riot by the Londoners vpon the bishop of Salisburies men Walter Romane The bishop of Salisburie maketh a greéuous coÌplaint of the Londoners to the king The maior shiriffes of London sent for to Windsore to the king there imprisoned The liberties of London seized A gardian appointed to gouerne the citie of London Anno Reg. 16. Sir Edward Darlingrug lord warden of London Darlingruâ remoued ãâã Baldwine Radington made lord warden oâ London The liberties of London ãâã part confirmed in part condemned A sweét sacrifice He was ãâã with procesââon of the bishop clergie at S. Georges churches Southwâââ Gifts preââââed to the K. by the Londoners to pâcifie dâspleasure coâceiued agaiâââ them K. Richard roiallie ãâã into Lâââdon More gifts by the LoÌdoners to the king Tho. Walsin The liberties of London ratified by king Richard Abr. Fl. out of Henrie Knighton canon of Leceister abbeie The duke of Glocester made duke of Ireland His iournie into Ireland vnluckilie staied Uéere late duke of Ireland dieth at Louaine Tho. Walââ A parlement at Winchester The chancerie and kings bench kept at Yorke and froÌ thence remooued to LondoÌ Eures The I le of Man The dukes of Lancaster Glocester sent âo FraÌce to treat of a peace The French comissioners would haue Calis raced to the ground The demand of the English coÌmissioners Order taken that the demands on either side should be set downe in writing the better to be considered of The English gentlemen mainteined by the French warres The ãâã of the Frenchmen The commissioners meet againe The king oâ Armenie Obscure and doubtâull words to be opened A truce for foure yeares betweene England and France Anno Reg. 1â Great tempests Much hurt doone by greââ flouds in Suffolke A great ãâã in Essex Uariance betweene the duke of Lancaster and the earle of Arundell The death of queene Anne The K. defaceth the house of Shene bicause the queéne died there Anno Reg. 18. A proclamation that all Irishmen shuld returne into their countrie The English pale in IrelaÌd almost left desolate The yearelie reuenues of Ireland in K. Edward the third his daies The duke of Lancaster saileth into Aquitaine with an armie The Gascoignes flatlie refuse to accept the duke of Lancaster for their souereigne K. Richard passeth ouer into Ireland with a mightie armie Froissard Foure Irish kings submit themselues to K. Richard A parlement holden in Ireland A parlement at Westminster king Richard being in Ireland The Wickleuists wrote against the clergie The clergie complaine to the king of the Wickleuists and their fauorers K. Richard knighteth the foure Irish kings and others Froissard K. Richard returneth out of Ireland K. Richards dealings against the fauorers of the Wickleuists Abr. Fl. out of Henrie Knighton canon of Leicester abbeie Archbishop of Canturburies visitatioÌ Wickleuists excommunicated A ridiculous penance * For the papists saie that the sacrificing préest is the maker of his maker namelie God Boldnesse of women in ecclesiasticall matters taâed A fierie appârition of diuerse likenesses A head of waâ wrought by necromancie speaketh A fierie dragon seen in diuers places Abr. Fl. out of Thom. Walâââ in Rich. 2. pag. 341. A coniunctioÌ of Iupiter Saturne A schisme betwéene two popes for the dignitie of â Peters chaâre The Danes ãâã the Englâsh merchaÌts on the seas Great prises woone by the Danish pirets of the Englishmen Waltham bishop of Salisburie buried at Westminster amongst the kings Anno Reg. 19. The duke of IrelaÌds corps conueied from Louaine into England and there roiallie interred Froissard The Gascoignes send vnto K. Rich. signifieng vnto him that they ought not to be diuiâed from the crowne The grant of the duchie of Aquitaine to the duke of Lancaster reuoked Ambassadors sent into France to treat a marriage betwéene king Richard the French K. daughter Thom. Wals. The duke of Lancaster mârieth a ladie of a meane estate whome he had kept as his concubine Wickleuists increase The earle marshall affieth the French kings daughter in the name of king Richard Anno Reg. 20. A truce for 30 yeares betwéene England and France Tho. Walsin The popes letters to K. Rich. against yâ Wickleuists K. Richard goeth ouer to Calis The maner of the interview betweene king Richard and the French king Fabian Froissard Fabian The oth of the two kings The chapell of our ladie of peace The French K. giueth his daughter to king Richard in marriage The order of the French kings seruice at table The expenses of king Richard at this interview The mariage solemnized at Calis The maior of London and the citizens meete the K. the quéene on Blackeheath Certeine thrust to death in the prease on London bridge Iohn Stow. The quéens coronation The duke of Lancaster his bastards madâ legitimate by parlement The iustices reuoked out of exile Brest yéelded vp to the duke of Britaine Priuie grudge betwixt the king and the duke of Glocester The talke betwixt the king and the duke of Glocester Out of a French pamphlet The earle of saint Paule his counsell to K. Richard Polydor. The dukes of Lancaster Yorke excuse
place in our English historie The popes negociation naked of all hope issue The death of Selim and succession of Soliman Aliance betwixt the pope the French king The excessiue pride of the cardinall The cardinall taketh it in scorne to be called brother by the archbishop The French king writeth to cardinall Woolsie Ambassadors from the French king An vnreasonable number for an ambassage Abr. Fl. ex Edw. Hall in Hen. 8. fol lxv The ambassadors of FraÌce receiued on Blackeheath The French ambassadors come to the court Articles of ââgréement ãâã the deliuerâ of Tornaââ Edw. Hâll ân H. 8. fol. lââ ãâ¦ã maister ãâ¦ã rolles A statelie or ââall banket ãâã two hundred and sixtie ãâã The king of Englands âânificânce and bountifulnesse to the French ambassadours âentlemen Ambassadors sent from king Henrie ãâã the French ãâã Edw. Hall in H. 8 fol. lxvâ A banketting house of the French kings described The maner how Tornaie was deliuered to the French king Ed. Hall in H. 8. fol. lxvii The light and misliked demeanour of diuerse yoong gentlemen of England the French king Preparation for solemne disport A comedie of Plautus plaied before the king A iustes The ãâã of ãâã rewardeâ Abr. Fl. ex ãâ¦ã The portiââ giueÌ with ãâã kings daughter of England Peace and ââliance betwixâ the French king and the Spanish solemnlie celebrated The death of Iohn Ia Triuulce a noble seruitour in the French affaires The death of the emperour Maximilian ãâã pag 763. â description of the empeâââs qualities The French ãâã and the Spanish ãâã aspire to the empire The king of Spains claim to the empire The French king in hope to be emperor as well as the Spanish The French king builded his hope vpon the humors of the princes of Germanie The French king relieth vpon the âauour of the pope Abr. Fl. ex Edw. Haâl in H. 8. fol. lxviij c. Charles the fift king of Spaine chosen emperour The kings affablenesse familiaritie with the inferior sort of people grudged at of the councell Certeine of the priuie chamber remooued and others in ãâã roome appââââted The king ãâã quéene at Hââuering in ãâã Bower Newhall in Essex called Beaulieu A maske of graue and ancient courtiers A maske of youthfull courtiers The king ââtteth in the Starchamber in iudgement ãâã the ãâã humor of the cardinal ãâ¦ã ãâã Hall in ãâ¦ã lxix Preparation for the interâââning of the emperour Charles into England A deuise of a âââgon vpon ãâã sudden The whole maner of the interuiew coÌmitted to the cardinall Ab. Fl. ex Ed. Hall in H. 8. fol. lxx The first article of the interuiew of the two kings their traine The maner of their méeting and mutuall gréeting What both the kings were to doo the morrow after the first interuiew Order for feats of cheualrie and actiuitie and the place thereto appointed Order for âââperioritâe to be giuen to the king of England ãâã the quéene within the French territorie Order for restraint of assemblies to the places appointed ãâã the interuiââ Order for ãâã princes ãâ¦ã going ãâã comming Order for the ãâã of ãâã armes ãâã âârrisons The last ãâã of this âââtrument for ãâã ratificatiââ ãâã the artiâââs therein ãâã Great hatred betweéne the â cardinall and the duke of Buckingham The earle of Kildare committed toward Edw. Hall Good seruice doone by the earle of Surrie Polydor. The earle of Northumberland committed to prison Anno Reg. 12. The king setteth forward towards France The emperor Charles the fift landeth in England The méeting of the emperor and K. Henrie at Douer castell The emperor and K. Henrie kéepe Whitsuntide at Canturburie Polydor. The ãâã labouretâ ãâã hindeâ the purposed iâteruiew Edw. Hall The king ãâã at Calis Ed. Hall in ãâã fol. lxxiij The descriptioÌ of the new palace before Guisnes The forgâââ of the said palace Great cost vpoÌ popish trumperie supersticious trash The kings closet The quéenes closet A priuie gallerie Houses of offices both honourable and otherwise necessarie Tents erected A banketting house for solace and disport The great pompe of cardinall Wooisie Great credit committed to the cardinall by both the kings The interuiew of the two kings in the vale of Andren Edw. Hall in H. 8. fol. lxxvij The French kings roiall ornaments The description of the French kings person The lengââ of the campâ The two kings make chalenge to all commâââ at iusts c. The two quéenes ãâã at the campâ Ed. Hall in ââ fol. lxxvââ c. The French kings rich araie at these iusts The king ãâã Englands sumptuâus furniture at the same iusts The two kings enter ãâã the field The king of England runâeth against Grandeuile Monsieur de ãâã and âis band Tâe âââire of tâe French king and his paâtâners at ãâã The king of England and the parteners of his chalenge Monsiâuâ Leskew The marques de Salons his band The two kings armed enter the field A deuise oâ conceipt The lord Howard and his eleuen companions in armes The king of England and his band with their deuise on their apparell The French king his furniture and deuise vpon his ornaments Monsieur Florengis and his companie The French king ãâã to Guisnes the king of England ãâã to ãâã The king of England interteined of the French queene A masaââ the French court of English lords The ãâã kings ãâã Barriers The cardinall ãâã masse ãâã the two kings King Henrie departed from Guisnes to Calis a from thence to Graueling to visiâ the emperour ãâã Hall in H. S. fol. ãâ¦ã The emperor commeth to Calis to king Henrie Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 927. Banketting house within the towne of Calis Râ Turpin Goodlie workmanship within the banketting house Banketting house defaced by tempest A statelie mask to solace the emperor his companie French gentlemen in maskers apparell vnwéeting to them that bare rule in the reuels The king returneth into England Polydor. An inconuenience of turning arable ground into pasture The ãâã wealth ãâ¦ã thereby Commissions granted for the maintenance of âllage and laieng open of inclosures Bribes The cardinaââ deuiseth the destruction of the duke of Buckingham The ãâã imboiderâââ Kneuet against the duke Anno Reg. 13. The duke of Buckingham ãâã of ânion The effect of the dukes ãâã The duke is ãâã of ãâã in London Thus ãâã had sent ãâã of the ãâã of Hentons ãâã to the duke the ãâã to ãâã him to ãâã ouer to ãâã his chancellor as by ãâã other iââment apââereth The monks reuelation was peremptorie to the duke But herein the moonke lied The duke the monke haue conference saith the indictment Robert Gilbert the dukes chapleine and chancellor his errand to London Meanes that the duke vsed to make himselfe strong against the king A faâse prophesieng moonke He was in a verie ill mind âf this were true A certeine writing legitimating the duke of Summerset The duke ãâã couereth the secrecie of all the matter ãâã