course incloseth thrée partes of Carew castell The other rysing neare to Coit Rath forrest is a freshe and going by Geffraiston Creswel and Lawrenny it leaueth the Sparek on the south side and â—…eth into the hauen after confluence with the former Nowe come I to the two swordes afore-mencioned whose courses I finde described â–ª in this order â—…hey The Clothâ—… ryseth at the foote of Wrenny vaur hill and comming downe to Monachlodge Langelman Lannabeden and Egremond it receyueth a ryll from by northwest before it come at Laâ—…haddon castell Eare long also it taketh in another on the east side from Narbarth castell by Râ—…beston then going by Gsaston Sleâ—… Pictâ—â— castell at Rise castell poynt west of Coit â—…eales as I haue béene informed it méeteth with the other sworde Dugledy named Dugledy wherof I reade as followeth The hed of the Dugledy is somewhere at northwest betwéene S. Laurences and S. Dugwelâ—… from whence it ruÌ„neth to Trauegarne Redbaxton and taking in a rill by the waye from Camensâ—… at the west it goeth to Haâ—â—rford west and there vniteth it selfe with a water which peraduenture is the same that LelaÌ„d called Gwyly Certes it riseth about 〈◊〉 Gwyly and comming by S. Kâ—… 〈◊〉 chappel and Pâ—…deâ—…g oft it falleth I say into the Duâ—…lâ—…dy ouer against the towne of Hauer forde or Herforde weâ—…k but iâ—… Weaâ—… Huâ—…fordeâ—… Lhoied dothe set it 〈…〉 it taketh 〈◊〉 other to 〈◊〉 from southwest whose head is short of S. Margarattes chappell and 〈…〉 betwéen Hart aldstone and Herforde which Harraldstone 〈◊〉 the name of Harraldâ—… the successour of Edwarde the 〈…〉 him who was a grieuous â—…all vnto theâ—… Britons that conâ—…ned in the time of sayde Edwards 〈◊〉 I haue no 〈◊〉 alreadie Cultâ—â— TheÌ„ Cultâ—â— coÌ„meth into the Duwleâ—… beneath Boâ—…shoff with 〈◊〉 course from by North of thereof foure myles after whose vnitiâ—…â—…ith the aforesayde watyer they ruine on as one till they mette with Elothy casting out by the waye sundry salt créekes as the ruine 〈◊〉 doth from thenceforth vntill it passe the Sâ—â—dy haue the Wale roâ—…e which ther a silly fresh 〈◊〉 of small value and become about agayne 〈◊〉 the large 〈◊〉 aâ—…e Hauing thus shew the courses of those â—â—fresh waters that come to Milford doeth we â—…ast about by the blackehouse 〈◊〉 S. Aâ—…es chappell to Gatehole Isle Gateholme Isle Stockeholme Isle than 〈…〉 and the Wilâ—â— keâ—… point 〈…〉 against Stockeholme Island that is scituate fardeâ—… of worthy 〈◊〉 towarde the 〈…〉 full 〈◊〉 great as the 〈◊〉 y e I before 〈◊〉 further Betwéene the Willâ—… 〈…〉 still great as the Greâ—â—holme The Gresholme lyeth 〈…〉 Midlande Isle Gresholme whence if you sayle thyther on the south sside 〈…〉 past by the new 〈…〉 the â—…aith of Scalmeâ—… you must league the Yarlande Foxe on your lefthead Whervnto 〈◊〉 well therfor 〈◊〉 eftsoones Islande already nameâ—… any conferre them with the 〈◊〉 and S. Dauids land you shall finde them 〈…〉 it were 〈…〉 includyng the Bred 〈◊〉 wherein notwithstanding the greatnesse are 1000. perilles and no freshe Brookes for me to deale withall Thus hauing doubled the Willocke point we entred yet into the Baie to sée what Isles were there against the nexte publication of thys booke if it maye please God to graunt mée lyfe to sée it printed once againe eyther by it selfe or otherwise S. Brides Islande First of all therefore I sawe S. Brides Islande a very little patche of grounde néere the lande before I came at Galtroy rode From thence we went aboute by the little hauen Dolnach Hauen Caruay Hauen Shirelace rocke Carnbuddy and Carnay Bayes Portâ—â—aiâ—… and so into the sounde betwéene Ramsey and the point In thys sound lykewise is a litle Isle almost annexed to the maine but in the middest thereof is a rocke called the horse a myle and more by north of Ribby rocke that lyeth south east of Ramsey and more infortunate then tenne of Seianes coltes but thanked be God I neuer came on his back TheÌ„ce passing by S Stephens baie A sorte of dangerous rockes lying on a row vpon the west ende of southwals called the bishop and his clarkes and Whitesande baie we saluted the Bishop and his Clarkes as they went in Procession on oure left syde beyng lothe to take any salted holy water at their hands and came at last to the point called S. Dauids head From whence we coasted along toward the southeast till wée came ouer against S. Catherins where goyng northwardes by the brâ—…ade hauen and the Strombles heade we sayled thence northeast and by north to Langlas head then â—â—at south by the Cow and calfe two cruell rockes which we left on the 〈◊〉 hande and so costed ouer as Abergwin or Fiscarde where we founde a freshe water named Gwin Gwerne or Gwernel whose course is in manner directly out of the east into the West vntill it come within a myle of the aforesayde Towne It ryseth flat north of the periâ—â—â—y hill from whence it goeth by Pont vain Lauerellidoch Lanchar Laâ—â—ilouair and so to Abergwine or Abergwerne for I doe read both FroÌ„ Abergwin we cast about by Dyuas heade till we come to the fall of Neuerne Neuerne where Newport standeth The head of thys ryuer is aboue Capell Nauigwyn from whence it runneth by Whitchurch but care it come at Kylgwin it taketh in a little water that ryseth short of Wreny vaur thence go foorth as one vntill they come to Newport Cardigan hauen is the next fall that I dyd stumble on wherein lyeth a little Islande ouer against the north point Teify or Tiue Hereinto also commeth the Teify whereof I haue spoken somewhat in my former treatise but sith it sufficeth not for the for the full knowledge of the course of thys streame I wyll supply the want euen here in such order as insueth The Teify or Tiue ryseth in Lintiue as is aforesayde and after it hath runne from thence a little space it receyueth a brooke froÌ„ southeast that commeth out of Lin Legnant and then after the confluence runneth on to Stradfleur Abbaie beneath which it méeteth with the Myricke water that ryseth aboue Stradmyrich and soone after with the Landurch 〈…〉 both from the northwest and finally the Bromis aboue Tregaron that commeth in by the east as Leland hath set down 〈◊〉 Néere to Landwybreuy also it crosseth the Brennige by east then goeth to Landuair 〈◊〉 Cledoghe Kellan soone after taking in the Matherne from by East that parteth Cardigan partely from Carmardine shire 〈◊〉 and likewise y e Dulas aboue Lanbedder 〈…〉 which ryseth aboue Langybby and goeth thence to Bettus on the northwest it goeth next of all to Lanbedder towne then to Laâ—…ydair beneath which it crosseth the Grauelth thence to PeÌ„carocke Lanibether Lanlloyny Graâ—… Lanyhangle and Landissel and there it vniteth it selfe with the Clethor which coÌ„meth down thither by Lantisilued chappell Lanframe dethâ—… and finaly
coÌ„myng Where after that they had fought a long tyme with singular manhoode on bothe parties finally the Troyans oppressed with multitude of their aduersaries being thirtie tymes as manye more as the Troyans were constrained to retyre into their campe within the which the Gaules kepte them as besieged lodging rounde about them and purposing by famine to compell them to yelde themselues vnto their mercie But Corineus taking counsell with Brute deuised to departe in the darke of the night foorth of the campe and to lodge himselfe wyth three thousand chosen souldiours secretly in a woodde and there to remayne in couert tyll in the morning that Brute shoulde come foorth and giue a a charge vppon the enimies wherewith Corineus should breake forth and assayle the Gaules on the backes This policie was putte in practise and tooke such effect as the deuysers themselues wished for the Gaules being sharply assailed on the front by Brute and his companie wer now by the sodain comming of Corineus who set vpon them behinde on their backes brought into such a feare that incontinentely they tooke them to flighte whome the Troyans egrely pursued making no small slaughter of them as they might ouertake them In this battaile Brute lost many of his men and amongst other one of his nephues named Turinus after he had shewed maruellous proofe of his great manhoode Of hym as some haue written the foresayd citie of Tours tooke the name and was called Turonium bycause the sayd Turinus was there buried Althoughe Andrew Theuet affirmeth the contrarie Theuet and maynteyneth that one Taurus the nephewe of Hanniball was the firste that closed it about wyth a pale of woodde as the maner in those days was of fencing their towns in the yeare of the world 3374. 3374. and before the birth of our Sauioure .197 But yet by Theuets leaue Brute and his companie myghte fyrst buylde the same towne and Taurus peraduenture might after fence it about with a pale at that supposed time wheÌ„ his vncle Hanibal came foorth of Spayn to passe through Gallia into Italy But to speake what I thinke I beleeue Theuet is as little able to proue his Taurus to be the first that enclosed it as other are to proue that it tooke the name of Turinus his buryall there But now to our matter concerning Brute who after he had obteined so famous a victorie albeit there was good cause for him to reioyce yet it sore troubled him to consider that his numbers dayly decayed and his enimies still encreased and grew stronger Brute in doubt vvhat to do whervpon resting doubtfull what to doe whether to proceede agaynste the Gaulles or to returne to his shippes â–ª and to seke the yle that was appoynted to him by oracle at leÌ„gth he chose the surest way and best as he toke it and as it proued for whylest yet the more parte of his armie was lefte alyue and that the name of the victorie remayned on his side hee drewe to his nauie and lading his shippes with exceding greate store of riches whiche his people had got abrode in the countrey he tooke the seas agayne Brute vvith his remnant of Troians arriue in this Isle An. muÌ„di 2850. And after a few dayes sayling they landed at the hauen whiche is now called Totnesse the yeare of the worlde .2850 after the destruction of Troy .66 after the deliueraÌ„ce of the Israelites from the Captiuitie of Babylon .397 almost ended in the .18 yeare of the reigne of Tyneas king of Babylon .13 of Melanthus king of Athenes before the buylding of Rome .368 whiche was before the natiuitie of our sauior Christ 1116 1116. almost ended and before the reigne of Alexander the great .783 This computation haue I set down acording to the Chronologie of William Harison not yet published VVilliam Harison whose accompte as he hath gathered it I haue folowed for the more parte as well in the historie of Scotland as here in this historie of England especially til I come vnto the time that the Saxons settled themselues here the rather bycause I am persuaded y t he hath bin verie diligent in serching out the true computation of yeres in reforming the same according to y e best authorities as I truste to the learned reader it may appeare And if there be any errour therein I doubt not but some suche learned Gentleman as hath spent some studie about the searche of the first peopling of this land will for the benefite of his countrey in tyme conueniente reforme that which is amisse and publishe to the worlde that whiche may better satisfie the learned and there all doubtes as well in the accompt of the time of Brutes comming hither as in all other circumstances of the whole Brytishe historie But nowe to proceede When soeuer Brute entred this lande immediatly after his arriuall as writers doe recorde he searched the countrey from side to side and euen from the one ende to the other finding it in moste places right â—…le and plentuâ—â—s of woodde and grasse and 〈◊〉 of pleasant springs and faire ryuers For this valiant deede and other the lyke seruice firste and laste atchieued Brute gaue vnto Corineus the whole countrey of Cornwall To be briefe After that Brute had destroyed suche as stoode agaynste him and brought suche people vnder his subiection as he found in the Isle and searched the land from the one end to the other He was desirous to buyld a citie y t the same might be the regal seat of his empire or kingdom Whervpon he chose foorth a plot of ground lying on the north syde of the riuer of Thames which by good consideration seemed to be most pleasant conuenient for any great multitude of inhabitants aswel for holsomnesse of aire goodnesse of soyle plentie of wooddes commoditie of the riuer seruing as wel to bring in as to carrie foorth all kindes of merchandise and things necessarie for gayne store and vse of them that there shuld inhabit The citie of Trinouant afâ—…er called LoÌ„don buylded See more hereof in the description Here therfore he began to buyld and lay the foundation of a citie in the tenth or as other thinke in the seconde yeare after his arriuall which he nameth saith Gal. Mon. Troy nouant or as Hum. Libuyd sayth Troyne with that is new Troy in remembrance of that noble citie of Troy from wheÌ„ce he and his people were for the more part descended When Brutus had buylded this citie and brought the Iland fully vnder his subiection he then by the aduise of his nobles commaunded this Ile whiche before hyghte Albion to bee called Britayne and the inhabitauntes Britons after his name for a perpetuall memorie that he was the first bringer of them into the lande Brute had three sonnes In this meane whyle also he had by his wyfe .iij. sonnes of which the firste was named Locrinus or Locrine the second Cambris or Camber and the third
that this beast is neuer seene but agaynst 〈◊〉 great trouble mischief to come vpoÌ„ the realme of Scotland For it hath ben discried also befâ—â—â— that time although not very often Lorne abâ—…tteth vpon Argile which was once a part of Argile and reacheth out into the Irishe sea in maner of a cape or touÌ„g full 60. miles This poynt also was called Nouantia but now it is named Kyntyre that is to say the head of Lorne whose vttermost part is not full 26. miles froÌ„ Ireland Some Authors affirme that both Argile and Cantyre were called Nouantia in old time sith Ptolomy maketh no mention of Argile in his Cosmography In this Lorne is great abundance of Barley whiche the Scottes call Beir Beyond Lorne is Lochquhaber heretofore a portion of Murrayland very riche in mines of Iron Lead no lesse beneficial to the country in all kindes of cattel There are likewise many woodes many lakes many riuers but two of them are mosle notable for the plenty of Salmons other delicate fishe aswell of the salt as fresh water which is there taken almost without any trauaile neyther is there any where els in all the I le such store The one of these is named Lochty and the other SpanÈe but vpon what occasioÌ„ these names were giuen vnto theÌ„ I finde as yet no certainty The Lochty riseth not aboue eight miles from Lochnes falleth beneath the same into the Germaine Ocean beside it there is a rocky cragge running out at length into the sea named Hardnomorth In y e mouth of Lochty likewise was somtime a riche towne named Inuerlochty whether the marchaunts of Fraunce and Spaine did make their dayly resort till at the last it was so defaced by the warres of the Danes that it neuer was able sithence the sayde time to recouer hir pristinate renowne But whether the negligeÌ„ce of the due repayre of this towne procedeth of the slouth of our people or hatred that some enuious persons do beare to cities walled townes in our countrey as yet it is vncertayne Beyond Lochty is the castell of Dunstaâ—…age in time past named Euonium beyoÌ„d Dunstafage also is the mouth of the water of SpanÈe where it falleth as I heare into the Germaine Ocean The discourse of Ros Stranauern and Mâ—…rrâ—…y land with the lakeâ—… riuers and notable townes in them Chap. 5. BEyond the water of SpanÈe lieth Ros somtime called Lugia a very narrow region God it wote but running out in greate leÌ„gth thorow the middest of the Ilande being enuiroÌ„ned on both sides with the Ocean That portion thereof whiche lieth nearest to the Irish seas is very difficulte for suche as trauell by the countrey by reason of the high Mountaynes whiche maketh the countrey more apt for wilde beastes than mankind to inhabite neuerthelesse waxing more fertile on that part whiche stretcheth toward y e Germaine sea it yeeldeth it self to culture rendreth some grayne In pasture also it is not altogither vnprofitable sith there is good grasse and very batable for their heards for the valeys there bring watered with sundry pleasant streames do yeelde a sweete very sauoury grasse wherewith all sortes of cattell are very muche delited In Ros are sundry lakes but Lochbrun is the greatest There are also many fresh riuers fraught with excellent fishe and finally a notable Firth or safe hauen called Cromart whervnto diuers in time of necessitie do resort to auoyde the daunger of shipwrack that otherwise would assuredly annoy theÌ„ The Scottish meÌ„ call it heill of shipmen In this region moreouer is y e towne called Thane where the bones of Dutho an holy man as they say do reste art had in greater estimation among the superstitious sorte as sometime ouer the whole Iland than the holy Gospel of God and merites of his Sonne wherby we are onely saued Two auncient houses are likewise maintained in one vale of the Ros whose formes resemble so many belles but to what ende as yet I do not find Next vnto the sayd Ros lieth the Stramauerne as the vttermost regioÌ„ of Scotland y e coastes wherof abutting for a while vpoÌ„ the Dencalidon sea do afterwarde turne againe towarde the Almaigne seas hauing partly the Deucalidon coast and partly Cathenese vpon the North side Sutherland on the east Rossâ—â— on the south DeucalidoÌ„ againe vpoÌ„ the west There are three great cragges or pointes lying on the vttermost side of Stranauerne that is to say the Hoye Howbrun the greatest of y e three and Downisby which bicause they shoote farre off into the sea do make two great Firthes and lakes eche of them being seuerally distinguished from other Next vnto Cathenese lieth Sutherland a profitable region both for grayne and all kindes of prouision but chiefly for the nourishment of vestial whervnto it chiefly enclineth as do the other two last before rehearsed On the farder side also of this lieth Murray land somtime called Vararis although the marches therof are changed from that they were of old For wheras in time past all the regioÌ„ lying betwene Spay and Nesse to the IrelaÌ„d sea was named Murray now it is knowen to be onely beyond the water of Spay Kssockâ—… reacheth on vntill it come to the Irish sea Betwixt Ros and Murray land is a great Baie likewise a disceÌ„t of sundry waters for therinto fal the Nesse Nardin Findorn Los and Spay whereof this latter runneth with so fierce and violent a streame that the force of the sea at the flood striuing to enter into the same is put backe may not resist y e inuincible fal beats backe the water that descendeth into the Ocean The Nesse issueth out of a lake of the same name which is not passing eight myles from the sayde plashe from whence the Lochtie runneth and thence goeth into the Irishe seas And this property it hath that neither the streame neyther the lake it selfe will yeelde to be frozen in the very deepe of winter Such also is the force therof that if any Ice or whatsoeuer frosen substance be cast therinto it will by and by relent and dissolue againe to water whereby it becommeth very profitable for suche cattell as are benuÌ„med with colde In the mouth of the Nesse standeth a towne called Inuernesse where sometime was great abuÌ„dance of herring taken but now they be gone by the secrete working of God The common people put the fault in the riche men of higher calling who enuying the commoditie of the poore inhabitantes will often seeme to bereeue them of this emolumeÌ„t by force and slaughter Wherevpon as they say it coÌ„meth to passe that the encrease eftsones decayeth very smal store is taken there by many yeares after such iniurie offered But to proceede beside Lochnesse which is 24. miles of length 4. in breadth by reason of the great woodes there staÌ„ding is great store of sauage beasts as Harts wild Horses Roes and suche like There are
army after y e feast of the Epiphanie entred into England The Bishoprike of Durham burnt by the Scottes comming to Daâ—â—ngton stayed there for a season whilest the Lord Iames Dowglas and the Lord Steward of Scotlande went abrode to harie and spoyle the countrey on eche side the one of them passing forth towardes Hartilpoole Cliueland and the other towardes Richmond Richmondshire redemed from spoyle with a summe of money The inhabitants of Richmondshire hauing no captain amongst them to defend their countrey from that grieuous inuasion of the enimie gaue a great summe of money in like maner as at other times they had don to haue their couÌ„try spared from fire spoyle The Scots taryed at this time about .xv. dayes within Englande in the end returned without battaile For when the Knightes of the north Countreys repayred to the Duke of Lancaster then lying at Pomfret and offred to goe into the field with him agaynst the Scots The Duke of Lancasters disloyaltie he would not once styrre his foote by reason of the discorde that was depending betwixt him and king Edward but howsoeuer the matter went king Edward sore grieued in hys minde with such inuasion made by his enimies the Scots he gaue order to leuie an army of an hundred thousand men what on horsebacke and on foote as the report went appoynting them to be readie to enter into Scotlande at Lanynas next wherof king Robert being aduertised King Robert inuadeth Englande ment to preuent him and therevpon in the Octaues of the natiuitie of Saint Iohn Baptist hee entred into Englande with an armie neare to Carleil burnt a manor place that sometime belonged to him at Rosse Allerdale The Abbey of Holme burnt spoiled the monastery of Holme notwithstaÌ„ding his fathers corps was there interred FroÌ„ thence he marched forward destroying and spoyling the country of Copland so keeping vpon his iourney passed Doden sandes towards the Abbay of Furneis Fourneis Abbey but y e Abbot meeting him on the way redeemed his landes from spoile and brought king Robert to his house and made to him great chere but yet the Scots could not hold their hanors from burning and spoyling dyuerse places Leuyn sandes And marching forwarde vnto Cartmele beyond Leuyn sands brent spoyled all the countrey about except a Priorie of blacke Chanons which stood there Passing from thence they came to Lancaster which towne they also brent The towne of Lancaster brunt saue onely the Priorie of blacke Monkes and a house of preaching Friers Here came to them the Erle of Murrey and the Lorde Iames Dowglas with an other armie wherevpon marching further southwards they came to Preston in Anderneis Preston in Anderneis burnt brent that towne also the house of Friers minors only excepted And thus being lxxx miles within England froÌ„ their owne borders they returned homewards w t al their prisoners cattel other booties which they had got in that iorney coÌ„ming to Carleil in the vigill of S. Margaret lodging about that towne the space of .v. dayes they wasted destroyed the corne al other things y t came within their reach Which done on S. Iames euen they entred into Scotland again hauing bene within England at this time three weekes and three dayes Immediately herevpon to wit about the feast of Lammas King Edwarde rayseth an armie King Edwarde with his armie came to Newcastell and desirous to be reuenged of suche iniuries done to his subiects entred into Scotlande He entred Scotlande and passing forth till he came to Edenbourgh through want of vitayles and other necessarie prouision he was constrayned to returne home within the space of .xv. dayes For king Robert aduertised of his coÌ„ming had caused all the corne and cattell in the Countrey to be conueyed out of the way into certain strengthes where the English men might not come to get it into their handes so to relieue themselues therewith But in their returning homewardes somewhat to reuenge their displeasures they spoyled brunt the Abbayes of Melrose and Drybourgh The Abbeyes of Mewrose or Melrose and Drybourgh burned with diuerse other religious houses places not sparing any kinde of crueltie agaynst all those of the inhabitants that fell into their handes In reuenge hereof King Robert shortly after entred with a puissant army into England King Robert inuadeth the north partes of England approching almost to York spoyling and wasting the Countrey till he câ—…me almost to Yorke At length hearing that king Edwarde was comming towards him with an army he chose a plot of grounde betwixt the Abbay of Bysâ—…nde and S. Sauiour there to abyde battayle whiche King Edward refused not to giue though in the end he was put to flight with his whole power King Edwarde is put to flight and chased with great slaughter both of English men and Normans whiche were there in hys ayde The Earle of Richmont is taken Diuerse also of the Nobilitie were taken prisoners as Iohn de Brytaine Earle of Richmont and Henrie Sowly with others This battaile was fought in the yeare of our sauiour 1323 .xv. dayes after the feast of Saint Michael the Archangell 1323 Ri. Southwel Riuale Abbay King Edward lying the same time at the Abbay of Riuale aduertised of this ouerthrowe fled and got him into Yorke leauing his plate and much other stuffe behind him for want of cariage in that his sodaine departure which the Scottes comming thither founde and tooke away with them And from thence they passed forth into Yorkswolde spoyling and wasting the countrey euen vnto Beuerley Yorkeswolde wasted by Scottes which town for a summe of money they were contented to spare and so then they returned homewardes entering agayne into Scotlande on all Soules daye whiche is the seconde of Nouember after they had remayned wythin Englande at that tyme the space of a Month and foure dayes Shortly after king Robert sent an Ambassadour to the French King to renue the auncient bonde of amitie betwixte the two Realmes of which might be auouched for any cause or consideration from the beginning of the worlde vnto that present day After the returne of sir Iames Dowglas forth of Fraunce with so good expedition and dispatch of that businesse where aboute he was sent King Robert right ioyfull thereof A Parliament at Cambuskenneth assembled a Parliament of the Nobles and other estates of the Realme at Cambuskenneth where hee procured a new acte to be established touching the succession of the crowne An act for the succession of the crowne which was that if his sonne Dauid deceassed without heires of his body lawfully begotten that then Robert Steward begotten on Mariorie Bruce his daughter should succeede in possession of the Crowne All the Lordes at the same time were sworne to mainteyne this ordinance In the meane while King Edward the thirde sent vnto king Robert for
things as shulde seeme to him most expedient and namely where the more and better parte of the Englishe clergie consisted of Priestes sonnes he committed to his discretion the order to dispence with them namely suche as were of commēdable lyfe and learning that they might be admitted to exercise the ministerie according as the necessitie of time and behoofe of the Churche should require Also the Pope by the same letters gaue Anselme authoritie to absolue Richarde the Prior of Elie Richard Prior of Elye vpon his satisfaction pretermitted and to restore him to the gouernemente of the Priorie of Elye if the king thought it necessarie Aboute the Calendes of Auguste in this yeare .1107 the king helde a Councell of Bishops and Abbots and other Lords of his realme in his pallace at London and there in the absence of Anselm the matter was argued and had in talk for the space of three days togither touching the inuestures of Churches in the ende bicause the Pope had graunted to the king the homages of the bishoppes and other prelates which his predecessor Vrban had forbidden together with the inuestitures The king was contented to consent to the Popes will in forbearing the same inuestitures And so after that Anselme was come the king in presence of him and of a great multitude of his people graunted and ordeyned that from thenceforth no bishop nor abbot shuld be inuested within the realm of England by the hand either of the King or any laye man where it was againe graunted by Anselme that no person elected into y e prelacie shuld be depriued of his consecration for doing his homage to the king These things being thus ordred the churches which through England had bin long vacant were prouided of gouernors which were placed without any inuestiture of staff or ring And amongst other Anselme consecrated fiue bishops at Canterbury in one daye that is to wit William to the sea of Winchester Roger that was the kings Chauncellor to Salisbury William Warlewast to Exceter Remalyne the Queenes chauncellor to Hereford and one Vrban to Glamorgan in Wales Polidore Ran. Higd. About this season it chaunced that where a greate parte of Flaunders was drowned by breaking in of the sea ouerflowing the coūtrey a great number of Flemings came into England requiring of the king to haue some voyde place assigned them wherin they might inhabite At the firste they were appointed to the countrey lying on the east part of the Riuer of Tweede Flemings comming ouer into England haue places appointed them to inhabite but within foure yeres after they were remoued into a corner by the sea syde in Wales called Pembrookeshire to the ende they might be a defence to the Englishe there against the vnquiet Welchemen It shoulde appeare by some writers that this cōpanie of Flemings consisted not of such only as came ouer aboute that tyme by reason their countrey was ouerflowen with the sea VVil. Mal. as ye haue heard but of other also that came ouer long before that is to say in the dayes of William the conqueror through the frendship of the Queene their countreywoman sithence whiche tyme the number of them so increased that the realme of England was sore pestred with them and that therevpon king Henrye deuised to place them in Pembrokeshire bothe to auoid them so out of the other parts of Englande and also by their healpe to tame the bold presumptuous fiercenesse of the Welch men which thing in those parties they broughte very well to passe for after they wer settled there they valiantly resisted their enimies and made verie sharpe warres vpon them somtimes with gaine and sometimes with losse 1108. A Councell Si. Dunelm Eadmerus An. regn 9. In the yeare .1108 Anselme held an other counsell in the whiche in presence of the king and by the assent of the Earles and barons of the realme it was ordeyned that Priestes Deacons and Subdeacons should liue chastly and kepe no women in theyr houses except suche as were neere of kinne to them Priestes are sequestred from their vviues and that suche Priestes Deacons and Subdeacons as contrarye to the inhibition of the Councell holden at London had eyther kepte theyr wyues or maryed other of whome as Eadmerus sayth there was no small number they should put them quite from them if they wold continue still in the ministerie and that neither the same wiues shoulde come to theyr houses nor they to the houses wher their wiues dwelled but if they had any thing to say to them they shoulde take two or three witnesses and talke with them abroade in the streete and if any of them chanced to be accused of breaking this ordinaunce he shoulde be driuen to purge himselfe with sixe sufficiente witnesses of hys owne order if he were a Prieste And if hee were a Deacon wyth foure and if he were a Subdeacon with two witnesses Moreouer those Priestes that woulde forgoe the seruing of the aulter and holye order to remayne with theyr wiues should be depriued of their benefices and not bee suffered to come within the quire But suche as contemptuously kept stil their wiues and presumed to saye Masse if being called to satisfaction they shoulde neglecte it then should they be excommunicated Within compasse of whiche sentence all Archedeacons and prebendarie Canons were also comprised Archdeacons and Canons both touching the forgoing of their women and the auoiding of their companie and also the punishemente by the Censures of the church if they transgressed the ordinance Also euerye Archedeacon was appointed to bee sworne Archdeacons to be svvorne that they shoulde not take any money for fauouring any person in transgression of these statutes and that they should not suffer any Priests whom they knew to haue wiues either to say Masse or to haue any vicars The like othe shoulde a Deane receyue and that suche Archedeacons or Deanes as shoulde refuse this othe shoulde bee depriued of their roomthes The Priests which forsaking theyr wiues woulde be contente to serue God and the Altar shuld be suspended from that office by the space of fortie dayes and be allowed to haue vicars in the meane tyme to minister for them and after vpon the performance of their enioyned penance by the Bishop Penaunce they mighte returne to the ministerie In this meane time King Henry being aduertised of the death of Philip king of France Polidore Philip king of Fraunce dead and not knowing what his son Lewes surnamed Crassus might haply attempte in his newe preferrement to the Crown sayled ouer into Normandie Levvys le Gros king of Fraunce to see the countrey there in good order and the townes castelles and fortresses furnished accordingly as the doubtful time required And after hee had finished his businesse on that syde he returned into Englande where he met with Ambassadours sent to him from the Emperour Henrie ◅mbassadours from the emperour The effect
fish for which he did cast his hooke so great was the fishe that he caught in the end that within the space of 1000 lesse it deuoured the fourth parte and more of the best soyle of the Islande which was whollye bestowed vpon his monkes and other relygious brodes y t were hatched since his time Whilest these things were thus in hande in the south parte of Albion the Meates Pictes and Caledoniens Meates Pictes Caledonies which lye beyonde the Scottish sea receiued also the preaching of such christian elders as aduentured thither daily and not without great successe and increase of perfit godlynesse in that parte of the I le Certes this prosperous attempt passed all mens expectatioÌ„ for that these nations were in those dayes reputed wild sauage and more vnfaithfull and craftye then well minded people as the wilde Irish are in my time and such were they to say the truth in déede as neyther the sugred curtesye nor sharpe swordes of the Romaines coulde restreyne from their naturall fury or bring to any order For this cause also in th end y e Romaine Emperours did vtterly cast them of as an vnprofitable brutishe and vntameable nation by an huge wall hereafter to be described separated that rude companye from the milde and ciuill portion Scotlande conuerted to y e fayth of Christ This conuersion of the north parts fell out in the sixt yeare before the warres that Seuorus had in those quarters and 170. after y e death of our Sauiour Iesus Christ From thenceforth also the christian religion contynued still among them by the diligent care of their Pastors and Byshops after the vse of the churches of the south part of this Island tyll the Romaine shepehearde sought them out and founde the meanes to pull them vnto him in like sort with his long staffe as he had done our countryemen whereby in in the ende he abolished the rites of the churches of Asia there also as Augustine had done already in England and in stéede of the same did furnish it vp with those of his pontificall Sie although there was great contention and no lesse bloudshed made amongst them before it coulde be brought to passe as by the Hystories of both nations yet extaunt is casye to be séene Palladius In the time of Coelestine Bishop of Rome one Palladius The first attempt of the Bish of Rome to bring Scotlande vnder hys obedience a Grecian borne to whome Cyrill wrote hys Dialogue de adoratione in spiritu sometime disciple to Iohn the 24. Bishop of Ierusalem came ouer from Rome into Brytaine there to suppresse the Pellagien heresye which not a little molested the Orthodoxes of that Iland And hauing done much good in the extinguishing of the aforesayd opinioÌ„ there he went at the last also into Scotlande supposing no lesse but after he had trauailed somewhat in confutation of the Pelagiens in those partes he shoulde easilye perswade that crooked nation to admit and receiue the rytes of the church of Rome as he woulde faine haue done beforehande in the south Fastidius Bishop of London But as Fastidius Bishop of LondoÌ„ and his Suffragans resisted him here so dyd the Scottish Prelates withstande him here also in this behalfe howbeit because of the authoritie of his commisson grauitie of personage the great gift which he had in the vayne of pleasaunt perswasion whereby he drewe the people after him as Orpheus did the stones with his Harpe and Hercules such as hearde him by his tongue they had hym in great admiration are nowe contented the rather also for that he came froÌ„ Rome to take him for their chiefe Apostle Palladiâ—…e accomptâ—… for the Apostle of Scottes returning from hys comming vnto them as from the fayth receiued which was in the 431. yeare of Christ as the truth of theyr History doth very well confirme Thus wée sée what religion hath from time to time béene receiued in this Islande and howe and when the faith of Christ came first into our country Howbeit as in processe of time it was ouershadowed and corrupted with the dreames and fantasticall imaginations of man so it daily waxed woorse woorse till that it pleased God to restore the preaching of his Gospell againe in our dayes wherby the man of sinne is nowe openly reuealed and the puritye of the worde once agayne brought to light to the vtter ouerthrowe of Sathan and his Popish adherentes that honour him day and night Of the number and names of such salt Islands as lye dispersed rounde about vppon the coast of Brytaine Cap. 8. THere are néere vnto or not verye farre from the coasts of Brytaine many faire Islandes whereof Irelande with hir neighbors not here haÌ„dled séeme to be the chiefe But of y e reast some are much larger or lesse then other diuers in lyke sort enuironed continually with the salt sea whereof I purpose onely to intreate although not a few of them be Ilands but at the floude other finally be clipped partely by the fresh and partly by the salt water or by the freshe alone whereof I may speake afterwarde Of these salt Islandes for so I call them that are enuyroned with the Ocean-waues some are fruitefull in Wood Corne Wildefoule and pasture grounde for Cattel albeit that manye of them be accounted barren because they are only replenished with conies those of sundry collors cherished of purpose by the owners for their skinnes carcases and prouysion of housholde wythout eyther man or woman otherwise inhabiting in them Furthermore the greatest number of these Islandes haue Townes and parishe Churches within theyr seuerall precinctes some mo some lesse and beside all thys are so inriched with commodities that they haue pleasant hauens freshe springes great store of fishe and plentye of Cattell whereby the inhabitants doe reape no small aduantage How many they are in nuÌ„ber I caÌ„not as yet determine bycause myne informations are not so fully set down as the promises of some on the side myne expectation on the other did exteÌ„d vnto Howbeit y e first of al there are certeine which lie néere togither as it were by heaps clusters I hope 〈◊〉 will rediliy deny Nesiadae Insule Scylurum Sileustrae Syllanae Sorlingae Sylley Hebrides Hebudes Meuanie Orchades Of these also those called y e Nesiadae Insulae Scylurum Sileustrae Syllanae nowe y e sorlings and Isles of Silley lying beyond Cornwall are one and conteineth in number one hundred fourtye seauen eche of them bearing grasse besides shelfers and shallowes In like sort the company of the Hebrides are another which are sayd to be 43. situate vpon the west side of this Island betwéene Ireland and Scotland and of which there are some that repute Anglesey Mona Gaesaris other lying betwéene them to be percell in theyr corrupted iudgement The thirde cluster or bunche consisteth of those that are called the Orchades and these lye vpon the
Anthonies it deuydeth it selfe into twoo armes wherof one goeth toward Colchester the other toward Maldon Into the Colne or Colunus whereof Lelande thinketh Colchester to take hys name and not a Colonia Romanorum doe run many salt créekes beneth Fingering ho whose names sith I doe not knowe nor whether they be serued with any backwaters or not I gyue ouer to intreat any farther of theyr positions Into that of Malden runneth many faire waters wherof I will say so much as I knowe to be true by experience There is a prety water that beginneth nere vnto Gwinbache or Wimbech church in Essex the very limits of Dunmow Deanery which runneth directly froÌ„ thence vnto Radwinter a parcell of your Lorships possessyons in those parts and within thrée quarters of a mile of the aforesaid church By the way also it is increased with sundry prety springs wherof Pantwell is the chiefe and to say the truth hath manye a leasing fathered on the same there is likewise another in a pasture belonging to the graunge now belongyng to Henry Browne Esquier soiournyng therevpon The third commeth out of the yarde of one of your Lordships Manour there called Radwinter hall The fourth froÌ„ Iohn Cockswettes house named the Rotherwell which running vnder Rothers bridge méeteth with y e Gwin on the northwest ende of Ferraunts meade southeast of Radwinter church wherof I haue the charge by your honors fauorable prefermeÌ„t Froshwell The next is named Froshwel and of this Spring doth the whole Hundred beare the name and also the Ryuer it selfe whereinto it falleth from by north so far as I remember Certes all these sauing y e first and second are within your Lordships towne aforesayd The streame therfore running froÌ„ hence and now called Froshwell of Froshe which signifieth a frog hasteth immediately vnto olde Sandford then thorow new Sandforde parke and afterward with full streame to Shalford Bocking Stisted Paswijc and so to blackwater where the name of Froshwel ceaseth the water being from henceforth as I here called Blackwater vntyll it come to Maldon From Blackwater therefore it goeth to Coxall Easterforde Braxsted and Wickham Barus where it méeteth wyth the Barus and so goyng togyther descende to Heybridge and finally into the saltwater aforesayde As for the Barus it ryseth in a stately parke of Essex called Bardfeld belonging to the crowne from whence it goeth to olde Salyng Brainctrée receyuing a ryllet by waye comming from Raine blacke Notley white Notley Falkeburne Wittham and falleth into the blacke water beneath Braxsted on the south Beside thys the sayde ryuer receyueth also the Chelme or Chelmer Chelmer which aryseth in Wymbeche aforesayde where it hath two heads wherof the one is not farre from Brodockes where Thomas Wiseman Esquier dwelleth the other nigh vnto a farme called Highams and ioyning ere long in one Chanell they hye them toward Thaxsted meting in the way also with a Ryll commyng from Boyton ende Beyng past Thaxsted it goeth by Tiltey and soone after receyueth one Ril which ryseth on the north side of Lindsell Lindis and falleth into y e Chelmer by north east at Tiltey aforesayde and another comming from southwest and rysing southeast from Lindseâ—… at moche Eiston From thence then holding on styll wyth the course it goeth to Moche Dunmowe little Dunmow Felsted Lies both Waltams Springfield so to Chelmeresforde Here vppon the south side I finde the issue of a water that riseth 5. miles or thereaboutes south and by west of the sayde towne from whence it goeth to Munasing Buttesbury there receiuyng a Rill from by west to Ingat stone Marget Inge Wilforde bridge Writtle bridge and so to Chelmeresforde crossing also y e second water that descendeth from Roxforde southwest of Writtle by the way wherof let this suffice 〈◊〉 From hence the Chelmer goeth directly towarde Mauldon by Badow Owting Woodhamwater Byly and so to Blackwater northwest of Maldon receyuing neuerthelesse ere it come fullye thither a becke also that goeth froÌ„ Lée parke to little Lées great Lées Hatfield Peueryll Lée Owting and so into Blackwater whereof I spake before as Maldon waters doth a ryll from by south ouer against S. Osithes and also another by Bradwell The Burne ryseth somewhere about Ronwell and thence goeth to Hull bridge 〈◊〉 south Fambridge Kirkeshot fery and so to Foulnesse as this is the short course of that ryuer so it brauncheth and the south arme therof receiueth a water comming from Haukewell to great Stanbridge and beneth Pakesham doth méete by South wyth the sayde arme and so finishe vp his course as we doe our voyage also about the coast of Englande Thus haue I finished the description of such ryuers and streames as fall into the Ocean according to my purpose although not in so precise an order and maner of handling as I might if information promysed had bene accordingly performed howbeit thys wyll I say of that which is already done that from the hauen of Southampton by south vnto the Twede that parteth England and scotland by north if you go backward contrary to the course of my description you shall finde it so exacte as beside a fewe bye ryuers to be touched hereafter you shall not néede to vse any further aduise for the finding and falles of y e aforesayd streames For such hath béene my helpe and conference wyth other men about these that I dare pronounce them to be perfite and exact In the reast I followed Leland in maner worde for worde what he hath sayd therefore of them that haue I examplyfied published herein Such was his dealing â—â—so in hys bookes that he sought not to be câ—…rious and precise in those descriptions that hée made but thought it sufficient to say somewhat and more of thinges then any maÌ„ had done before hym In the next booke therfore I will in thrée chapiters run ouer these matters agayne and as I haue already borowed somewhat of the same in settyng downe such braunches as fâ—…l into the mayne streames at large so will I there agayne remember such great riuers as I haue here eyther omitted or not so orderly handled as their dignities do require In reading therefore of the one refuse not I beséeche your honor withall to haue conference with the other for what this wanteth that other shall supply and y t which is briefly touched in this shal there be opened at large the onely occasion of this deuision growyng vpon hope of instruction to come in tyme whereof when I had most néede and the lefe vnder the presse I was left destitute and without hope of all reliefe It is possible that some curious head may finde carpyng worke inough in y e courses of these streames but if such a one wyll enterprise the lyke and try what one man can doe by reading onely for I sayled about my country within the compasse of my study therunto remember how many wais through many mens iudge
by Fyfeld Clatford Maulon and Preshute vnto Marlebury it holdeth on in lyke order to Ramsbury and northwest of little Cote taketh in a water by north descending from y e hils aboue Alburne chase west of Alburne town Thence it ruÌ„neth to little cote Charnham stréete and beneth Charnham stréete it crosseth the Bedwin which taking y e Chalkburn ril withal coÌ„meth froÌ„ great Bedwijne at HuÌ„gerford also Bedwijne Chalkes burne two other in one botom somewhat beneth the towne From hence it goeth to Auington Kinbury Hamsted marshall Euburne Newbery and beneath thys towne Lamburne taketh in the Lamburne water that coÌ„meth by Isbiry Egerston the Sheffords Westford Boxford Donington Castle and Shaw From Newbery it goeth to ThatchaÌ„ Wolhampton Aldermaston a little aboue which village it receyueth the Alburne an other broke increased w t sundry rilles Alburnus thus goyng on to Padworth Oston and Michael it commeth at last to Readyng where as I sayd it ioyneth with the Thames and so they go forward as one by Sonning to Shiplake and there on the east side receyue the Loddon that commeth downe thither from the south as by his course appeareth Lodunus The Loddon ryseth in Hamshire betwéene west Shirburne and Wootton towarde the southwest afterwarde directyng his course toward the northwest thorowe the vine it passeth at the last by Bramley and thorow a piece of Wiltshire to Stradfield Swallowfield Arberfield Loddon bridge leauyng a patch of Wiltshire on the right hande as I haue bene informed This Loddon not farre from Turges towne receyueth two waters in one botome whereof the westerly called Basingwater commeth from Basingstoke and thorow a parke vnto the aforesaid place The other descendeth of two heds from Mapledour well and goeth by Skewes Newenham Rotherwijc and ere it come at Hartly ioyneth with the Basing water from wheÌ„ce they goe togyther to Turges where they méete with the Loddon as I haue sayd alredy Diris vadum The next streame toward the south is called Ditford brooke It ryseth not farre from Vpton goeth by Gruell and beneath Wharnborow castle Ikelus receyueth the Ikell coÌ„myng from a parke of the same denomination froÌ„ whence they go togither by Maddingley vnto Swalowfield â—…luciâ—â— and so into the Loddon In this voyage also the Loddon méeteth with the Elwy or Eluey that commeth from â—â—der share not farre by west of 〈◊〉 and about Eluctham likewyse with another coÌ„ming from Dogmansfield named y e Deâ—…ke 〈…〉 and also the third not suferior to the rest â—…oÌ„nyng from Erâ—â— whose head is in Surrey 〈…〉 and goyng by Ashe becommeth a 〈◊〉 first betwene Surrey Hamshire then betwene Hamshire and Barkeshire and passyng by Ashe Erynley blackewater Yerâ—â—y Finâ—â—amsted it ioyneth at last with the Ditford before it come at Swalowfield 〈◊〉 therfore with our Loddon haâ—â—ng receiued all these waters and after the last 〈◊〉 with theÌ„ now beyng come to Loddon bridge it passeth on by a part of Wiltshire to Tâ—â—forde then to Wargraue and so into the Thames that now is merueilously intreâ—â—sed and grown vnto triple greatnesse to that it was at Oxford Being therfore past Shiplake and Wargraue it runneth by Horsependen or Hardyng then to Henley vpon Thames where sometyme a great will voydeth it selfe in the same Then to RemeÌ„ham Greneland goyng all this way from Shiplake iust north and now turnyng eastwards agayne by Medenham Hurley Bysham Marlow the greater Marlow the lesse Vse it méeteth with a brooke soone after that consisteth of the water of two rilles whereof the 〈◊〉 called the Vse ryseth about west Wickham out of one of the Chiltern hils and goeth froÌ„ thence to east Wickham or high Wickham a prety market towne The other named Higden Higâ—â—â— descendeth also from those mountaynes but a myle beneath west Wickham and ioyning both in one at y e last in the west ende of east wickham town they go togyther to Wooburn Hedsor and so into y e Thames Some call it the Tide and that word do I vse in my former treatise but to procéede After this confluence our Thames goeth on by Cowkham Topley Maydenhead aliâs Sudlington Bray Dorney Clure new Windsore takyng in neuerthelesse at Eaton by y e way the Burne which riseth out of a Moore and commeth thither by Burneham olde Windsor Wrayborow and a little by east therof doth crosse the Cole whereof I finde this short description ensuyng The Cole riseth néere vnto Flamsted froÌ„ whence it goeth to Redburn S. Mighels Colâ—â— Veâ—â— Vertâ—â— S. Albons AldeÌ„ham Watford and so by More to Richemansworth where there is a confluence of thrée waters of which this Cole is the first Gadus The second called Gadus riseth not farre from Asheridge an house or pallace belongyng to the prince From whence it runneth to great Gaddesden Hemsted betwene called Brane that is in the Britissh tong as Leland saith a frogge It riseth about Edgeworth and commeth from thence by Kingesbiry Twiford Periâ—â—ll Hanwell and Austerley Thence we followed our riuer to old BreÌ„tford Mortlach Cheswijc Barnelmes Fulham and Putney beneth which townes it crossed a becke from Wandlesworth that ryseth at Woodmans turne and goyng by Easthalton méeteth another comming from Croydon by Bedington and so goyng on to Mitcham Marton Abbey Wandlesworth it is not long ere it fall into the Thames Next vnto this is the Maryburne rill on the other side Mariburn which commeth in by Saynt Iames so that by this tyme we haue eyther brought the Thames or the Thames conueighed vs to London where we rested for a season to take viewe of the seuerall tydes there of which ech one differeth froÌ„ other by 24. minuts that is 48. in an whole day as I haue noted afore except the wether alter theÌ„ Beyng past London and in the way toward the sea the first water that it méeteth with al is on Kent side west of Grenewich whose hed is in Bromley parish and goyng from thence to Lewsham it taketh in a water froÌ„ by east so directeth hys course foorth right vnto the Thames Lée The next water that it méeteth withall is on Essex side almost agaynst Woolwiche and that is the Lée whose hed rileth shorte of Kempton in Hertfordshire 4. myles south east of Luton and goyng thorowe a péece of Brokehall park leauing Woodhall park on the north and Hatfield on the south with an other park adioyning it goeth toward Hartford towne But ere it come ther it receiueth a water peraduenture the Marran rising at northwest in Brodewater hundred froÌ„ aboue Welwin Marran northeast of Digeswell going to Hartingfeld bury wher the said coÌ„fluence is within one mile of the towne Beneth Hatfield also it receyueth the Beane as I gesse commyng from Boxwood by Benington Beane Aston Watton and Stapleford and a little lower the third arme of increase from aboue Ware which desceÌ„deth froÌ„ two heds whereof the greatest
the sea Neuerthelesse how so euer this matter standeth beyng past Langport it goeth by Awber toward s Antonies where it méeteth with the Tone next of all to be described The Tone issueth at Clatworthy â—…ne and goeth by west of Wiuelscombe to Stawley Ritford Runton Wellington and Bradford beneath which it taketh in a faire water commyng from Sanford Combe Elworthy Brunte Rafe Miluerton Oke and Hilfarens After this confluence also it runneth to Helebridge and there below meteth with one water that runneth by Hawse Hethforde and Norton then another froÌ„ Crokeham by bishops Slediard and the third and fourth at Tawnton that descendeth from Kingston by north and another by south that ryseth about Pidmister and thus is the Tone increased which goeth from Taunton to Riston Creche Northcurry Ling and so by Anthony into y e Iuell that after this confluence méeteth ere long with the Chare â—…are or â—…re a prety riuer that commeth by east from Northborow by CarletoÌ„ Badcare Litecare Somerton Higham Audry more Audry and Michelsborow From whence goyng on betwene Quéenes moore and North moore it receyueth one brooke called Peder from by southwest that runneth thorough Pederton parke and Northmoore â—…der and likewyse another that passeth by Durley ere it doe come at Bridgewater From Bridgewater it goeth by Chilton directly northwest and then turnyng flat west it goeth northwardes towards the sea takyng in two waters by the way wherof one runneth by Coripole and Cannington and beareth y e name of Cannington CaÌ„mingtoÌ„ Brier the other by Siddington and Comage and then receyuyng the Brier before it come at Start point they fol as â—…ne into the Ocean wherof let this suffice for the description of the Iuel whose streame doth water al the west part of Somersetshire and leaue it very fruitfull The Brier Bruer or Bréer Brier ryseth of two waters wherof one is in Selwood forest and commeth downe by Bruecombe Bruham LelaÌ„d wryteth y e first Brieuelus the seconde Mellodunâ—… or y e Milton water and Bruton The other which LelaÌ„d nameth Mellos is northeast of Staffordell towne goyng by the same it runneth by Redlinche to Wike where it meteth with the other hed and thence go on as one to Awnsford Alford where it taketh in a water called Dulis froÌ„ by north that ryseth nere Dolting Dulis and commeth by Euerchurch parke then to the Lidfordes Basborow wood the Tor hil Soway Pont perilous bridg wherinto they fable that Arthur beyng wounded to death did throw Calybur hys sword by Glassenbury and so into the Méere Beside this riuer there are two other also that fall into the said Méere wherof the one called Soway commeth from Créechurch parke Pulton by Hartlack bridge the other named Cos or the Coscombe water from aboue Shepton Cos. Mallet which east of Wyke taketh in a water commyng from Welles by Wyke Gedney and so into the Méere Finally returning all into one chanell it runneth to Burtlehouse and soone after diuiding it selfe one arme goeth by Bastian aliâs Brent bridge to High bridge leauyng Huntespill a market towne by South west the other by Marke to Rokes bridge Hebbes passage and so into the sea leauing a faire Island wherin beside Brentmarsh are 7. or 8. townes wherof Vphill is none which is contrary to my former assertion and here in therfore not onely the same but also an other errour in the name of this riuer is worthy to be redressed beside a third touching the course of the said Axe which brauncheth not so low but rather runneth into the braunche of Brier that lyeth most easterly as experience by the eie of him that of set purpose hath of late ridden to view it doth manifestly confirme Now as touching the water that commeth from Wels which falleth as I said into y e Coscomb water on the right hand of the Cawsey You shall vnderstand that as many springs are in Wels so the chiefe of them is named Andres well which ryseth in a medow plat not farre from the east ende of the cathedrall church and afterward goeth into the Coscomb in such place as I haue noted Leland speaketh of the Milton and Golafer waters Milton Golafer which should fall likewyse into the Brier but whether those be they wherof the one ryseth aboue Staffordell and in the discent runneth by Shipton Pitcomb and so to Awnsford on the one side as the other doth rise betwene Batcomb and Vpton noble on the other halfe or vnto whether of them eyther of these names are seuerally to be attributed as yet I do not read Axe 2. The Cheder brooke driueth .12 milles within a quarter of a myle of his heade The second Axe issueth out of Owky hole from whence it goeth by Owky towne afterward meeting with the Chederbrook that commeth from the Cheder rocks it runneth by Were Ratcliffe and after a little compasse into the northeast braunch of the aforesayde riuer last described betwene Rokes bridge and Hebbes passage as I haue bene informed Bane From the fall of Axe we come to an other called Bane northest of Woodspring whose hed is about Banwel parke or els in Smaldon wood Then to another and to the third called Artro Artro which riseth about Litton and goyng by the Artroes Vbbey Perrybridge receiuyng a rill ere it come theâ—…her from by south beneth Cungesbiry or as I learne betwene Kingston and Laurens Wike it méeteth with the sea Sottespill Sottespill water ryseth betwene Cheueley and Nailesey howbeit it hath no encrease before it come into the sea at Sottespill more then the next vnto it which is named Cleueden water of a certaine towne néere to the fall therof It ryseth southeast of Barrow Cleueden goeth by Burton Nailesey and so vnto Cleuedon Auon 3. The Auon commonly called the third Auon is a goodly water and growen to be very famous by sondry occasions to be particularly touched in our descriptioÌ„ of Bristowe It ryseth in the very edge of Tetbury and goeth by long NewtoÌ„ to Brokenton Whitchurch and Malmsbury where it receiueth two waters that is to say one from by west coÌ„ming by Foxeley and Bromleham which ruÌ„neth so néere to the Auon in the west suburbe of Malmesbury that the towne thereby is almost made an Island Another from Okesey parke by Hankerton Charleton and Garesden After this confluence it hasteth to Cole parke then goeth it toward the southeast till it méete with a water comming from south west betwene Hullauington and Bradfield by Aston and soone after with another at the northside from Bynall by Wootton Basset thorow the parke to Gretenham and Idouer bridges and after y e conflueÌ„ce to Dauntsey Segar Sutton Christmalford Auon Calwaies house then to west Tetherton Beneth this towne also it taketh in a water increased by two brokes wherof one coÌ„ming from Cleue by Hilmarton Whitley house and Bramble and there receiuyng another that commeth by
sorily so that in the ende when his countrey was inuaded by the West Saxons he was easily constreyned to departe into exile And thus was the kingdome of Kent annexed to the kingdome of the West Saxons after the same kingdome had continued in gouernmente of kings created of the same nation for the space of .382 yeres The ende of the kingdome of Kent 827 yeres that is to say from the yeare of our Lord .464 vnto the yere .827 Suithred or Suthred K. of Essex was vanquished and expulsed out of his kingdom by Egbert K. The end of the Kingdome of Eastsex of West Saxons as before ye may reade in the same yere that the kentishmen were subdued by the said Egbert or else very shortly after This Kingdome continued .281 yeres from the yere .614 vnto the yere .795 as by the table of the Heptarchie set foorth by Alexander Neuill it appeareth After the decesse of Kenvulfe K. of Mercia his sonne Kenelme a child of the age of .7 yeares was admitted K. Mat. VVest 821 The wickednesse of QueÌ„dred about the yere of our Lord .821 Hee had two sisters Quendred and Burgenild of the which the one that is to say Quendrede of a malitious minde moued through ambition enuyed hir brothers aduauncemente and sought to make him away so that in the ende she corrupted y e gouernor of his person one Ashberte with greate rewardes and high promises perswading him to dispatch hir innocent brother out of life that shee might raigne in his place Ashbert one day vnder a colour to haue the yong king foorthe on hunting King Kenelme murthered led him into a thicke wood and there cut off the head froÌ„ his body an Impe by reason of his teÌ„der yeres innocent age vnto the world voyde of gilt yet thus trayterously murthered without cause or crime he was afterward reputed for a Martir There hath gone a tale that his death should be signified at Rome and the place where the murther was committed by a straunge manner for as they say a white Doue came and alight vpon the Aulter of Saint Peter bearyng a scroll in hir 〈◊〉 which she let fall on the same Aulter in which scroll among other things this was contreyned in Cleâ—…c Koâ—… Bath Keneline Kenbarne lieth vnder thorne heaued betraned that is at Clenc in a Cow pasture Keneline the Kyngs Child lieth beheaded vnder a thorne This tale I reherse 〈◊〉 for any credite I thinke it 〈◊〉 of but only for y t it seemeth the place where the yong Prince innocently lost his life After that Keneline was thus made away Ceolwolf K. of Mercia 823 his Vncle Ceolwolfe the Brother of King Kenulfe was â—…reaâ—…ed King of Mercia and in the seconde yeare of his raigne was expulsed by Bernwolfe Bernwolfe in the thirde yeare or seconde as Harrison hath of his raigne was vanquished and put to flight in battell by Egbert King of West Saxons and shortly after 〈◊〉 of the East angles as before ye haue heard Then one Ludiâ—â—nus or Ludicanus was created King of Mercia and within two yeres after came to the like ende that hapâ—…es to his predecessor before him as he 〈◊〉 about to reuenge hys death so that the Kingdome of Britayne began now to recâ—…e from their owne estate and leane to an alteration which grew in the end to the erectioÌ„ of a perâ—â—t Monarchie and finall subuersion of their perticular estates and regiments After Ludicenus succeeded Wightlafe Mat. VVest 728 who first being vanquished by Egbert King of West Saxons was afterwardes restored to the Kingdome by the same Egbert and raigned thirtene yeres whereof twelue at the least were vnder tribute which he payed to the said Egbert and to his sonne as to his Soueraignes and supreme gouernoures The Kingdome of Northumberlande was brought in subiection to the Kings of West Saxons as before is mentioned in the yeare of oure Lord .828 828 and in y e yeare of the raigne of K. Egbert .28 but yet here it tooke not ende as after shall appeare EThelwoulfus otherwise called by some writers Athaulfus Ethelwolfus began his raigne ouer y e West Saxons in the yeare .837 which was in the .24 yere of the Emperour Ludouicus Pius that was also K. of France in the .10 yeare of Theophilus y e Emperour of the East about the third yere of Kenneth the seconde of that name K. of Scottes This Ethelvoulf minding in his youth to haue bin a Priest entred into the orders of SubdeacoÌ„ Hen. Hunt Math. VVest and as some write he was Bishop of Winchester but howsoeuer the matter stoode or whether he was or not sure it is that shortly after he was assoyled of his vowes by authoritie of Pope Leo and then maried a proper Gentlewoman named Osburga which was his butlers daughter Hee was of nature curteous and rather desirous to liue in quiet rest than to be troubled with the gouernement of many countreys â—…V Mal. so that coÌ„tenting himselfe with the kingdome of West Saxons he permitted his brother Athelstan to enioy the residue of the countreys which his father had subdued as Kent and Essex with other He ayded the K. of Mercia Burthred against the Welchmen and greatly aduanced his estimation by gyuyng vnto him his daughter in marriage But now the fourth destruction which chanced to this lande by forraine enimies â—…our especiall â—â—structions 〈◊〉 this land was at hande for the people of Denmarke Norway and other of those Northeast regions which in that season were greate rouers by Sea had tasted the wealth of this land by such spoiles and prayes as they hadde taken in the same so that perceiuing they coulde not purchase more profit any where else they set their myndes to inuade the same on each side as they had partly begun in the days of the late kings Brightrike and Egbert Hen. Hunt Simon Dun. The persecutioÌ„ vsed by these Danes seemed more greeuous than any of the other persecutions either before or sithence that time for y e Romanes hauing quickly subdued the land gouerned it nobly withoute seeking the subuersion thereof The Scottes and Pictes only inuaded y e North partes And the Saxons seeking the conquest of the land when they had once gote it they kept it and did what they could to better and aduance it to a florishing estate And likewise the Normans hauing made a conquest graunted both life libertie and auntient lawes to the former inhabitants But the Danes long time and often assayling the land on euery side now inuading it in this place and now in that did not at y e first so much couete to conquere it as to spoyle it nor to beare rule in it as to wast destroy it who if they were at anye time ouercome the victorers were nothing the more in quiet for a new nauie and a greter army was ready to make some new inuasioÌ„ neither did they enter all at one place
Rome certifying the Emperour Adrian of the ouerthrow they were slaine in the ende euerie mothers sonne Lucius Antenous hauing thus receyued the ouerthrow dispatched a post vnto Rome with all haste signifying vnto the Emperour Adrian the whole maner of the discomfiture and howe that by reason therof things stood in great daunger here in Brytaine if speedie succours were not the sooner sent for the enimies were neuer more cruell and fierce than at this present Women as readie to the battail as men not onely the men but also the women as in the last battaile he sawe plaine proufe who cared not for the losse of their owne lyues so that they might die reuenged When Adrian vnderstood these newes Adriā the Emperour prepareth to go into Brytayne he purposed forthwith to goe himselfe into Brytayne causing therefore an armie to be leuied he passed forth with the same into Fraunce then called Gallia and comming to Callice he transported ouer into Brytayne Adrian transporteth into Brytayne where hee learned howe the Scottes and Pictes were neuer more busie than at this present hauing of late wasted and spoyled the Countrey euen to the Riuer of Tine Herewith Adrian being sore offended ioyned the power which he had brought with him from Rome Adrian commeth to York with the other which he had caused to be raysed in Fraunce and Brytayne This done he remoued to Yorke where soiourning certaine dayes to refresh his people he afterwardes drewe towardes the borders and comming to the riuer of Tine he passed ouer the same The fourth day after He passeth ouer the riuer of Tine he came into a Countrey wherein was left no kinde of earthly thing seruing to mans vse and so passing forwarde a day or two he found neither corn Adrian findeth nothing abrode in the countrey of his enimies nor other prouision of vittaile nor any kind of liuing creature all the people being fled into the mountaines and marrish groundes where no man might come vnto them as cōmonly in case of extreme daunger they were accustomed to lie abroade in the same without house or any couerture ouer theyr heades What maner of people he had to doe with Howbeit for all that he gaue not ouer to pursue them but finding them out where they lurked in the hilles and woods he grieuously afflicted them and that in sundrie maner In the ende espying the barrennesse of the soyle rudenesse of the people and that there was no hope left to come by sufficient prouision for the maintenance of his armie be determined not to spend any longer time in suche a vaine and fruitlesse trauaile and therfore returned vnto Tine where to restraine the Scottes and Pictes from inuading such of the Brytaynes as were subiect to the Romaine Empyre Adrian beginneth to make a wall for safegarde of the Britaynes against the Picts Scots he caused a great trench to be cast ouerthwart the lande from the mouth of Tine to the ryuer of Eske and a wall to bee made on the inner syde of the same of turfe and soddes The Scottish Chronicles make mention that it was begonne by Adrian The romaine wryters doe confirme the same but not finished tyll the dayes of the Emperour Seuerus who made an ende of it and therefore the same Chronicles name it the wall of Septimius Seuerus Adrianus hauing thus dispatched in the North partes of Brytayne in hys returne visited Wales with the Marches of the same setting an order amongest such as had mooued a commotion agaynst the Magistrates in those partyes the Authours whereof hee punished according to their offences and so then he came to London whither at the same tyme a great number of the Brytayne Nobilitie resorted to doe hym honour Adrian commeth to London according to theyr duties And hee for hys parte shewed them suche friendlye entertaynment that they coulde not wishe any better Adrian returneth towarde Rome After this he sayled ouer into Fraunce taking Lucius Antenous with him bycause hee coulde not away with the ayre of Brytayne in whose place he left one Aulus Victorinus Lieutenant there Aulus Victotorinus Lieutenant of Brytaine who disposed dyuerse garrisons of Souldiours in places neare vnto the foreremembred Wall for defence of the inhabitauntes agaynst the violence of the Scottes and Pictes Who seeing this demeanor of the Romaines deuided those landes and Countreys whiche they had lately wasted on the further syde of Tine in suche sorte betwyxte them that all whatsoeuer laye towardes the Irishe Sea remayned to the Scottes The Scottishe men and Picts deuide the countreys beyonde Tine betwixt them and the rest coasting vpon the Almayne Seas fell vnto the Pictes for their portion After this Mogall liued many yeares in good quiet without any trouble of enimies But being puffed vp in pryde by suche notable victories as he had thus got of the Romaines the conquerours of the worlde Mogal throgh prise abuseth himselfe in sundrie kindes of vices hee coulde not in tyme of peace maister hys owne vnruly appetytes but that drowned in the fylthie lustes of the bodye hee spared neyther Mayde Wydowe nor wyfe Againe hee was giuen to suche vnquenchable couetyse that nothing mighte suffice hym fynding many forged matters agaynst the riche whereby to bereue them both of life and substaunce Hee was the fyrst whiche ordeyned that suche as were banished or condemned for anye cryme A couetous and cruel ordinance shoulde forfeyte all theyr landes and goodes wythoute any consideration had eyther to wyfe or chylde whiche is obserued at the full euen vnto these oure dayes where before it was otherwyse in that Countrey But these so notable vices in the Prince coulde not long continue vnpunished for at length a conspiracie was practised agaynst him whereof hee hauing knowledge whether by witchcraft or otherwyse by relation of friends A conspiracie attempted agaynst Mogal the certaintie is not knowne in the deade of the night hee armed himselfe Mogall fleeth out of his owne house and with two of his seruauntes onely fledde to the next wood not gyuing notice of his departure to any other of his householde His chiefe delyght was altogyther in banquetting and costly fare Conarus giuen to excessiue gluttonie not regarding the auncient temperancie in feeding vsed amongst hys worthie antecessours In wasting therefore hys kingly reuenewes vppon such ryotous excesse hee was nothing abasshed to require in an open assemble of hys Nobles a subsidie to bee graunted towardes the maintenaunce of suche royall cheere as hee iudged to stand with his honour to haue dayly in his house And therefore whereas the rentes that belonged to the crowne were not sufficient to furnishe the charges he requested a generall contribution to bee leuied throughe the Realme of euerie person according to theyr abilities for the maintenaunce of suche superfluous expences as hee dayly vsed in excessiue banketting The Lordes marueyling to heare hym moue any such
Louthian whilest he lay at Lieth offering themselues to be at the King of Englands commaundement and so were assured from receyuing hurte or domage by the English power The Duke of Somerset hauing remayned at Leith an right dayes and demaunding the Castell of Edenburgh The Englishe 〈◊〉 â—…eturâ—…â—…omeâ—… could not obteyne it departed from thence the eyghtenth of December homewardes the nexte way ouer the Mountaynes of Soutrey comming the thirde day before the Castell of Hume where they dyd so muche by countenancing to win that fortresse that within three or foure dayes after their coÌ„ming thither it was surrendred Hume Castell rendred to the Englishmen This Castell beeing wonne and a garnison left therein to keepe it they remoued to Rockesburgh where within the compasse of the ruinous walles of an olde Castell they builte a forte and after returning into England lefte a conuenient garnison to keepe it They gote also about the same time a stroÌ„g fortnesse called Fast Castell Fast Castell wonne by them standing neere to the Sea syde and placed a garnison within it And moreouer in this meane tyme Broughtie Crag wonne theyr Fleete by Sea wanne the Castell of Broughtie Crag and putte in like manner a garnison within it to keepe the same as in the Englishe Historie it may further appeare and in what sort also all the chiefest Lords and Gentlemen of the Mers and Tiuidale came in and submitted themselues to the Duke of Somerset vpon assurance had and giuen Furthermore whilest the Duke of Somersette with hys armie dyd thus inuade Scotland on the East parte it was ordeyned by the sayde Duke and other of the Counsell to the Kyng of Englande that Mathewe Earle of Lennox and Thomas Lorde Wharton then Warden of the West Marches of Englande should with a power inuade Scotlande on the West syde to the end that there should not any of the West bordures nor Countreys come to assist the Gouernour against the Duke of Somersettes armye but bee driuen to remayne at home to defend their owne Countrey Heerevppon there was an army leuied to the number of fiue thousande footemenne and eyghte hundred light Horsemen with whiche power the Earle of Lennox and the Lorde Wharton entring Scotlande the eyght of September encamped the firste night vpon the water of Eske marched the nexte daye through the nether parte of Annandale The Castell of Milke yeelded till they came to the Castell of Milke a fortresse of good strength y e walles being fourteene foote thicke Captain of this Castell was one Io. Steward brother to the Lard thereof who vppon the approch of the Earle of Lennox yeelded the house vnto him withoute any shewe of resistance wherevppon Fergusa Graham brother to Richie Grahame of Eske was appointed with a garnison of Souldiers to keepe that Castell to the vse of the yong King of Englande and was afterwards confirmed Captayne there with fiftie light Horsemen by appoyntmente of the Duke of Sommersette and the Counsell so that during the warres be remayned there to the great annoyance of the Scottes enimies to Englande and preseruation of the Countrey thereaboutes to the King of Englands vse The twentith of September the Earle of Lennox and the Lorde Wharton encamped neere to the Towne of Annande and the morrow after approching neerer to the same gaue sommonance vnto the Captaine thereof called Lion of the house of Glames who with an hundred Scottes kept the Churche and steeple of Annand beeyng peeces of themselues verye strong and mightily reenforsed with earth they within therefore refused to yeelde and valiantly defended themselues The greatest peeces of artillerie whych the Englishmen hadde there at that time were certayne double and single Falcons wherewyth they beate only the battlements till they myght with certayne engines approche harde to the walles The Church of Annand vndermined and vndermine the same so as the roofe of the Church was shaken downe and a greate number of them within the Church slayne and crusshed to death Suche as escaped fledde into the Steeple Two of the Englishmen that wroughte aboute the mynes were slayne but at length the Captayne moued by perswasion of the Erle of Lennox to whome hee claymed to bee of kynne The Steeple yeelded rendered the Steeple vnto hym with hymselfe and .96 Scottes Souldyers with condition to haue their lyues onely saued and the Captayne to remayne prisoner and to goe into England Immediately vpon theyr comming forth of the Steeple fyre was giuen to the traines of powder in the mynes and so both the Church and Steeple were blowen vp into the ayre The Church and Steeple of Annand blowen vp with powder and rased downe to the grounde Thys done they brente the Towne after they hadde sacked it and left not a stone standing vppon an other for that the same Towne hadde euer bin a right noysome neyghbour to Englande The Englishmen had conceyued suche spite towardes thys Towne that if they sawe but a peece of timber remayning vnbrente they would cutte the same in peeces with theyr bylles The Countrey heerewith was striken in such feare that the next daye all the Kilpatrickes and the Iordeynes the Lards of Kirkmichel The Scottes that came to assure them selues Apilgirtht Closbourne Howmendes Nuby and y e Irrewings the Belles the Rigges the Murrayes and all the clanes and surnames of the nether part of Annerdale came in and receyued an oth of obeysance as subiectes to the King of Englande deliuering pledges for their assured loyaltie The residue that woulde not come in and submitte themselues hadde theyr houses brent their goodes and cattell fetched away by the Englishe lyghte Horsemen that were sente abrode into the Countrey for that purpose These things thus executed the Earle of Lennox and the Lorde Wharton returned backe into Englande wyth theyr prisoners â—…ties and spoyles receyuing greate thankes and commendations by gentle letters of the fyue and twentith of September from the Duke of Somerset then lying at Rockesburgh aboute fortifying of that place The gouernour perceyuing thus that without the assistance of Fraunce hee should not be able to resist the Englishmen hauing now gote such foote hold within the Realme of Scotland The Gouernours suite the Queene Dowager anâ—… to the French Ambassador required the Queene Dowager and Monsieur Doysell Liger Ambassador for the Frenche Kyng to perswade with him by letters to send an army into Scotland to the aide of his frieÌ„ds there The Queene and Monsieur Doysell perceyuing a ready way prepared to bring that to passe which they most desired which was to haue the Queene of Scotlande ordred in all things by the Frenche Kyngs aduice they vndertooke to procure an army out of Fraunce according to the gouernours desire The Queene Dowager pâ—…miseth ayde out of Fraunce with condition if hee wyth the states of the Realme woulde agree that the Queene myghte bee sente into Fraunce and a contract made for hir
The names of the chiefe townes in Connaght Aloane Galuoy Anry Louaghryagh Clare Toame Sligagh Rossecomman Arctlowne The names of the chiefe townes in Meeth Trymme Doonshaghlenne Rathlouth Nauanne Abooy Scryne Taraugh Kemles Doonboyne Greenock Duleeke The names of the townes in Westmeeth Molingare Fowre Loughfeude Kylkenywest Moylagagh Deluynne In the xxxiiij 1542. yeare of the reigne of King Henry the eight it was enacted in a parliament holden at Desâ—…yeâ—…re before Syr â—…thouâ—…e Setitleger knight Lorde deputie of Irelande that Méeth shoulde be deuided and made two shyres one of them to bée called the countie of Méeth the other to be called the county of West méeth and that there shoulde be two shayeles and offycers conuenyent within the same shyres as is moâ—… exprest in the acte The names of the chiefe hauen townes in Irelande Loughfoyle The Banne Wolderfrith Craregfergus Strangforde Ardglas Lougheuen Carlingforde Kylkeale Dundalk Kylclogher Dunnany Drogheda Houlepatrick Nany Baltray Brymore Balbriggen Roggers towne Skerrish Rushe Malahyde Banledooyle Houth Dublynne Dalkee Wickincloa Arckloa Weisford Bagganbun The Passage Waterforde Dungaruan Rosse noua Youghylle Corck mabegge Corck Kynsale Kyerye Rosse Ilbere Dorrye Baltynymore Downenere Downesheade Downelounge Attannanne Craghanne Downenâ—…bwyne Balyneskilyliodge Daugyne â—…house Traly Senynne Cassanne Kylnewyne Lymmetick Innyskartee Belalenne Arynenewyne Glanemaughe Ballyweyham Bynwarre Dowrys Woran Roskam Galway Kyllynylly Innesbosynne Owran Moare Kylcolken Burske Belleclare Rathesilbene Byerweisowre Buraueis hare Ardne makow Rosbare Kilgolynne Wallalele Rabranne Strone Burweis now Zaltra Kalbalye Ardnock Adrowse Sligaghe Innes Bowsenne Camb. lib. 1. Top. dist 2. rub 3. 4. Cambriense obserued in his time that when the sea doth ebbe at Dublyue it ebbeth also at Bristow and floweth at Mylford Weisford At Wyckloâ—… the son â—…bbeth wheâ—… in all other partes â—…f commonly floweth Furthermore thâ—… he 〈◊〉 that the ryuer which â—…uÌ„â—…eth by Wâ—…ycklâ—… vpoâ—… 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 〈…〉 the next hauâ—… towne the ryuer 〈…〉 when the 〈…〉 wryteth 〈…〉 Archâ—…â—…â—…ethâ—… rocke and whâ—… the sea â—…eth inâ—… side therof it 〈…〉 the other 〈◊〉 â—…st Cambrienâ—…e â—…er with dyuers Philosophicall â—…lons 〈…〉 the 〈◊〉 by obseruing the 〈…〉 is the empresse of â—…yâ—…ure But the 〈…〉 leaue for the schoole streetes Of the estâ—… gâ—…nd wonderfull places in Irelande Cap. 4. I Thinke it good to begâ—…ne with S. Patrike his Purgatorie S. Patrike his Purgatorie partly bycause it is most notoriously knowen partly the more that some wryters as the auctor of Polichroâ—…icon and others that were miscaryed by 〈◊〉 séeme to make great doubt where they néede not For they ascribe the finding out of the place not to Patrike that couerted the countrey but to another Patricke aâ—… Abbat whâ—…̄ likewise they affirme to haue done employed in conuerting the Islande 〈◊〉 heatheâ—…rie to Christianitie But the auctor that broacheth this opinion is not founde to carie any such crediâ—…e wyth him as that a man may certainly affirme it or probably coniecture it vnlesse we relye to the olde wythered woorme eaten Legend loded with as many lowde lyes as lewde lines The better and the more certaine opinion is that the other Patricke founde it out in such wise as CambrieÌ„se reporteth Camb. lib. â—… Topog. dist 2. rub 6. There is a poole as lake sayeth he in the partes of Vlster that enuironneth an Island in the one part whereof there standeth a Churche much lightned with the brightsome recourse of Aâ—…gelles the other part is onely and gastly as it were a bedlem allotted to the visible assemblies of horrible and grisly bugges This part of the Islande contayneth nyne caues And if any dare be so hardye as to take one night his lodging in any of these Innes which hath béene experimented by some rashe and harebrayne aduenturers straight these spirites claw him by the back and tugge him so ruggedly and tosse him so crabbedly that nowe and then they make him more francke of his bumme then of his tongue a payment correspondent to his intertaynemeÌ„t This place is called S. Patricke his purgatorie of the inhabitours For when S. Patrike laboured the conuersion of the people of Vlster by setting before their eyes in great heate of spirite the creation of the worlde the fall of our progenitours the redemption of man by the blessed and precious bloude of our Sauiour Iesus Christ the certayntie of death the immortalitie of the soule the generall resurrection our latter dumbe the ioyes of heauen the paynes of hell howe that at length euery man small and great young and olde riche and poore king and keaser potentate peasaunt must eyther through God his gracious mercy be exalted to the one to floorish in perpetuall felicitie or through his vnsearcheable iustice tumbled downe to the other to be tormented in eternall miserie these and the like graue and weightie sentences wherewith he was aboundantly stored so farre funcke into their heartes as they séemed very flexible in condescending to hys behest so that some proofe of his estraunge preaching coulde haue béene veryfied Wherevpon wythout further delay they spake to the prelate in this wyse Syr as we like of your preaching so we dislyke not of our libertie You tell vs of many gye gawes and estraunge dreames You woulde haue vs to abandonne infidelitie to cage vp our libertie to bridle our pleasure For which you promise vs for our toyle and labour a place to vs as vnknowen so as yet vncertayne You sermon to vs of a dungeon appointed for offenders and miscredentes In deede if we coulde finde that to be true we woulde the sooner be weaned from the swéete napple of our libertie and frame our selues plyaunt to the will of that God that you reueale vnto vs. s Patricke coÌ„sidering that these sealy soules were as all dulcarnanes for y e more part are more to be terryfied from infidelitie through the paynes of hell then allured to Christianitie by the ioyes of heauen most heartily besought God sort stoode wyth his gracious pleasure for the honour and glorie of his diuine name to giue out some euident or glimsing token of the matter they importunatly requyred Finally by the especiall direction of God he founde in the North edge of Vlster a desolate corner hemmed in rounde and in the middle thereof a pit where he reared a Church called Reglis or Reglas Reglasse at the East end of the Churchyarde a doore leadeth into a closet of stone lyke a long ouen which they call S. Patricke hys purgatorie for that the people resorte thither euen at this day for pennaunce and haue reported at their returne estraunge visions of paine and blisse appearing vnto them Polichr lib. â—… 36.1138 The auctor of Polichronicon wryteth that in the reigne of king Stephane a knight named Owen pilgrimaged to this purgatorie being so appalled at the straunge visions that there he sawe as that vpon his returne from thence he was wholly mortyfied and sequestring himselfe from the worlde he spent the
demaunded in right of his wife the Empresse the whole kingdome of England to be at an ende with him king Stephen was contented to satisfie him with a yearely pension of fiue thousand Markes which composition he willingly receyued King Stephen maketh hast to rescue the north partes The Scottes retire In the meane time king Stephen hearing of this pitifull spoyle hasted forwarde with greate iourneyes to come to the reskue of the Countrey The Scots put in feare of his spedie comming to encounter them withdrew home into Scotland but he followed them King Stephen burnt the south partes of Scotland and entring into their couÌ„trey he burned and destroyed the South partes of that realme in most pitifull maner Whilest king Stephen is thus about to beate backe the foreyne enimies and to reuenge himself on them be is assayled by other at home and not without the iust vngeance of almightie god who ment to punish him for his periurie committed in taking vpon him the Crowne contrary to hys othe made vnto the Empresse and hir children For Robert Erle of Gloucester Robert Earle of Gloucester base brother vnto the Empresse and of hir priuie Councell sought by all meanes howe to bring king Stephen into hatred both of the Nobles and Commons that by theyr helpe hee mighte bee expulsed the realme and the gouernment restored to the Empresse and hir sonne Such earnest trauaile was made by this erle of Gloucester that many of his friends which fauored his cause now that king Stephen was occupied in the North parties ioyned with him in conspiracie agaynst their soueraigne And first the sayde Earle himselfe tooke Brystowe Bristow taken And after this diuerse other townes and Castelles there in that countrey were taken by him and others with full purpose to keepe the same to the behoofe of the Empresse and hir sonne Sim. Dun. Talbot Mat. Paris Louvell Paynell Amongst other William Talbot tooke vpon him to defend Hereforde in Wales William Louell helde the Castell of Cary Paganell or Paynell kept the Castell of Ludlow William de Moun the castel of Dunestor Robert de Nichol the Castell of Warram sustace Fitz Iohn Fitz Iohn Fitz Alayn â—…he castle of WaltoÌ„ WilliaÌ„ Fitz Alain the castle of Shrewsbury WheÌ„ word hereof came to K. Ste. he was â—â—rueylously vexed for being determined to haue pursued the Scots euen to the vttermost limits of their couÌ„trey he was now driuen to change his mind and thought it good at the first to stop the proceedings of his enimies at home least in geuyng them space to increase their force they might in processe of tyme grow so stroÌ„g that it wold be an hard matter to resist them at the last HereupoÌ„ therfore he returned Southward coÌ„ming vpoÌ„ his enimies S. Dunel M. Paris The castle of Douer deliuered to the queene Polid. recouered out of their haÌ„ds diuers of those places which they held as Hereford the castle of Shrewsbury about the same tyme one Walkelyne yielded the castle of Douer vnto the Queene who had besieged him within the same But K. StepheÌ„ knowing how the Scots wer not like long to continue in quiet he returned Northwards agayn And coÌ„ming vnto Thurstain the archb of Yorkes he coÌ„mitted the keeping of the countrey vnto his charge Thurstayne archbish of Yorke made LieutenaÌ„t of the North partes coÌ„mandyng hym to be in areadyues to defend the borders vpon any sodaine inuasion Which thing the couragious archb willingly vndertooke By this meanes kyng Stephen being eased of a great part of his care fell in hande to besiege the residue of those places which the rebels kept but they fearing to abide the daunger of an assault fled away some into one part and some into an other Whom the kyngs power of horsmen styl pursuyng and ouertakyng them by the waye slew and tooke no smal number of them prisoners in the chase Thus was the victory in maner wholy atchieued and all those places recouered which the enimies had fortified In like maner wheÌ„ king Dauid heard that the kyng was thus vexed with ciuill warre at home The Scottes eftsoones inuade Northumberland he entred England againe in most forcible wise and sendyng his horsmen abroade into the countrey coÌ„maunded them to waste spoyle the same after their accustomed maner But in the meane tyme he purposed with him selfe to besiege Yorke which citie if he might haue wonne he determined to haue made it the froÌ„tier hold against kyng StepheÌ„ and the rest that tooke part with hym Hereupon callyng in his horsemen from straying further abroade he marehed thitherwards and comming neare to the citie pitched downe his Tentes In this meane while the archbish Thurstaine to whoÌ„ the charge of defendyng the countrey chiefly in the kings absence apperteyned Archbishop Thurstayne raiseth a povver to fight vvith the Scots called together the Nobles and Gentlemen of the Shyre and parties adioyning whom with so pithy and effectual words he exhorted to resist the atteÌ„pts of the Scots whose cruel doings cold kope no measure that incoÌ„tinently all the power of y e Northparts was raysed vnder the leadyng of WelliaÌ„earle of Albernacle Walter Espekâ—… S. Dunel Captaynes of the army William Penerell of Nortingham and two of the Lacyes Walter and Gylbert offred to the vttermost peryll of lyfe and lymme to trye the matter with the Scottes in a pight fielde and eyther to driue them out of the countrey or els to loose their lyues in the quarell of their prince It chaunced at this time that the archb Thurstaine was diseased with sicknesse and could not come therfore into the fielde himself but yet he sent Raufe Bishop of Durham to supply his roume Raufe B. of DurhaÌ„ supplieth the roume of the Archbishop who though he sawe and perceyued that euery man was ready enough to encouÌ„ter with their enimies yet he thought good to vse some exhortatioÌ„ vnto theÌ„ the better to encourage them in maner as here ensueth Most noble English men and ye right valiant Normans M. Paris S. Dun. of whose courage the Frenchman is afrayde by whose power Englande is kept vnder by you also Apulia doth florish and vnto you IerusaleÌ„ Antioch haue yelded their subiectioÌ„ We haue at this present the rebellious nation of Scotland which of right ought to be subiect to the crowne of England come into the fielde against vs thinking for euermore to rid them selues of their subiection to bring both vs and our countrey into their bondage thraldome And now albeit I see in you courage sufficient to beate them backe from any further attempt yet least when you shal come to the tryall by any maner of chance you shold loose any peece thereof I lamentyng the state of my countrey whose displeasures I wishe you shoulde redresse do meane to vse a â—…ewe wordes vnto you not for that I woulde exhort you to doe any man wrong but rather to
Gourney who â—…ing 〈◊〉 Marcels three yeares after â—…g known 〈◊〉 and brought toward Englande was deheaded on the sea least hee shoulde â—…se the 〈…〉 as the Bishop and other Iohn Muttinees repenting himselfe lay long hidden 〈…〉 manie and in the ende died penitently Thus was king Edwarde â—…thered in the yeare 13â—…7 on the .xxij. of September The â—…e 〈◊〉 that by this Edwarde the seconde The fond opinion of the ignoraÌ„t people after his death manye myâ—…ses were wrought So that the like opinion of him was â—…eryâ—…s as before had beene of Earle Thomas of Lancaster namely amongst the common people He was knowne to bee of a good and â—…teons nature though not of moste pregnant 〈◊〉 The nature disposition of king Edwarde the seconde And alâ—…eâ—… 〈◊〉 youth 〈…〉 into certaine light â—…rymes 〈…〉 by the companie and counsaâ—…e of euill â—…on was â—…ndâ—…ed vnto more heyâ—… 〈…〉 thought that he purged the 〈◊〉 by repentance and paciently suffered many reproâ—…s and finally death it selfe as before yee haue hearde after a most cruell maner Hee had surely good cause to repent his former trade of syuing for by his indiscreete and wanton â—…uernance there were headed and put to death during his raigne by iudgement of law to the nuÌ„ber of .xxviij. barons and knights ouer and beside such as were slaine in Scotlande by hys infortunate conduct And all these mischiefes and many mor happened not only to him but also to the whole state of the realm in that he wanted iudgement and prudent discretion to make choyse of sage and discrete counsaylers receyuing those into his fauour that abused the same to their pryuate gaine and aduantage not respecting the aduancement of the common wealth so they themselues might attaine to riches and honour for which they onely sought insomuch that by theyr couetous rapine spoyle and immoderate ambition the heartes of the common people and nobilitie were quite estraunged from the dutifull loue and obedience which they ought to haue shewed to their soueraigne going about by force to wrasâ—… him to follow theyr willes and to seeke the destruction of them whom he commonly fauoured wherein surely they were worthie of blame and to taste as manye of them did the deserued punishment for theyr disobedient and disloyall demeanors For it was not the way whiche they tooke to helpe the disfigured state of the common wealth but rather the readie meane to ouerthrow all as if Gods goodnesse had not beene the greater it must needs haue come to passe as to those that shall well consider the pitifull tragedie of this kings tyme it may well appeare But now to proceed with that which remaineth touching this infortunate Prince â–ª Hee had issue by his wife Queene Isabell His issue two sonnes Edward which was made king whilest he was yet aliue and Iohn whiche dyed yong also two daughters Eleanore which died before she came to yeares able for mariage and Ioan which was after giueÌ„ in mariage vnto Dauid king of Scotlande He was indifferently tall of stature strong of bodie and healthfull neither wanted there in him stoutnesse of stomake if his euill counsaylers had bene remoued that he might haue shewed it in honourable exploytes which being kept backe by them he coulde not doe so that thereby it appeareth of what importance it is to be trayned vp in youth with good and honest companie It is sayd that he was learned insomuch that there remaine verses which as some haue written he made whilest he was in prison Certaine it is he fauoured learning as by the erection of Oriall Colledge in Oxford Oryall and S. Marie hall in Oxford and S. Maries Hall which were of his foundation it may well bee gathered Ex centuria 4. Bale Learned men we finde recorded by Bale to liue in this kings time these as follow Iohn Dâ—…ns that subtill Logitian borne as Lelande hath gathered in a village in Northumberlande called Emyldun three myles distant from 〈◊〉 wike although other hold the coÌ„trarie 〈…〉 clayming him for theyr countreymen 〈…〉 Irishe men for theirs Robert Waâ—… 〈◊〉 Eâ—…lite Frier that wâ—…iâ—… diuerse 〈…〉 Wilton an Augustine Friers 〈…〉 borne Raâ—…fe Locksley Nicholas 〈…〉 William Whitley Thomas Ioyâ—… 〈◊〉 Ioyceâ—… William Gaynesburg â–ª Robert Bâ—… borne not farre from Notingham 〈…〉 Frier of Scarbourgh the same whome king â—…warde tooke with him into Scotlande to 〈◊〉 some remeÌ„brances of his victories although being taken by the Scottes Soâ—… in Sâ—…lande Pâ—… he was constrâ—… 〈◊〉 Robert Brâ—… to frame a dittie to 〈…〉 time Iohn Horminger a Suffolke was 〈◊〉 William Rishanger a Monke of S. 〈…〉 Historiographer â–ª Ranfe Baldocke 〈◊〉 London wrote also an Historie which was 〈◊〉 â—…tuled Historia Anglica Richard Bâ—… 〈◊〉 â—…colnshire man borne a Carmelite Frier 〈◊〉 Walsingham borne either in Walsingham 〈◊〉 Brunham as Bale supposeth a Carmelite 〈◊〉 also and wrote diuerse treatises Thomas â—…ham a Cauoâ—… Salisburie and a 〈…〉 â—…initio Robert Plunpton borne in 〈◊〉 a regular Chanonâ—… Thomas Caâ—… 〈◊〉 of Pontfret William Mansfield Iohn 〈◊〉 Robert 〈◊〉 William Askattle of Beâ—… Gaffrey of 〈◊〉 Iohn Gatisdene â–ª Tâ—… Angliens StepheÌ„â—…ton or Edâ—… Iohn â—…stone borne in Yorkeshire Iohn Wâ—… Nicholas de Lira Iewe by byrth of those 〈◊〉 had their habitatioÌ„s in England who 〈◊〉 â—…ree many treatises to his great commeÌ„dation for his singuler knowlege and zeale which 〈…〉 in disprouing the Rabines that styll sought to keepe the Iewish nation in blindnesse and 〈◊〉 hope in looking for another Messias Raâ—…â—…ton an excellent diuine Iohn Dumbleton a â—…gitian Thomas Langford borne in Mâ—… Essex Osbert Pyckertam a Carmelite Frier of Lyn in Norffolke Nicholas Oheâ—… 〈…〉 Frier William Ocham a Frier Minor 〈◊〉 wrote diuerse treatises namely against Iohn Duns and likewise against Iohn the 〈…〉 of that name in fauour of the Emperour Lewes of Bauier Richard Walingford Thomas â—…wood a CanoÌ„ of Leedes in Kent wrote a Chronicle called Chronicon CampendiariuÌ„ Robert â—…rew Robert Perserutator borne in Yorkeshire a black Frier a Philosopher or rather a Magâ—… Richarde Belgrane a Carmelite Brinkley a minorite and others King Edward the thirde â—…dward â—…e 3. EDwarde the thirde of that name the sonne of Edwarde the seconde and of Isabell the onelye daughter of Philip le Beau and sister to Charles the fifth king of Fraunce began his raigne as king of England his father yet liuing the .xxv. day of Ianuarie after the creation .5292 in the yeare of our Lorde .1327 after the account of them that beginne the yeare at Christmasse 867. after the comming of the Saxons 260. after the conquest the .13 yeare of the raigne of Lewes the fourth then Emperor the seuenth of Charles the fift king of Fraunce the secoÌ„d of Andronicus Iunior Emperor of the East almost ended and about the end of the .22 of Robert le Bruce king of Scotland as Wil. Harison in his Chronologie hath diligently recorded He was crowned at Westminster on the day of
will behaue hymselfe for as it seemeth he standeth muche on hys honour At the makyng hereof the Earle of Arnimacke was at Auignion and the Kyng of Arragon is there also and of all other parleys whyche haue bin in diuers places wherof you know I can not certifie you at the makyng hereof Ryght deare Syr other thing I can not sende vnto you but that you remember your selfe to send newes to my lord Prince as soone as in anye wyse you maye and so the Lorde graunte you good lyfe and long Written at Leyborne the one and twentieth of Ianuarye These Letters haue I thought good to make the reader partaker of as I fynde them in the Chronicle of Roberte Auesburye to the ende ye may perceiue how other writers agree sherwith sith the same Letters may serue as a touchestone to trie the truthe of the matter And so nowe I wil returne to speake of the kings doyngs in the north parte where we lefte hym The fourteenth of Ianuarie Kyng Edward hauyng hys armye lodged neere the Towne of Berwycke and hys Nauye ready in the hauen to assayle the Scottes that were wythin the Towne hee entred the Castell whiche the Englyshemenne hadde in theyr handes the Lorde Walter de Manny being theyr Capitayn who hadde gotte certayne Myuers thyther from the Forrest of Deane and other parts of the realme whyche were busye to make passage vnder the grounde by a moyne throughe whyche the Englishmen might enter into the towne Herevpon when the Scottes perceyued in what daunger they stoode and knewe that they coulde not long defend the Towne against him they surrendred it into hys handes without further resistance In the Scottyshe Historyes it is recorded Hoc i◅ta that when those whiche were wythin the towne of Berwycke hearde howe that an armye of Englishmen came to the succours of the castell they rased the walles and beene the houses of the Towne and so departed wyth all the spoyle whych they had gotten there An. reg 30. But howe so euer it was kyng Edward being againe possessed of the towne he set men a worke to repare it and passyng foorth to Roxburg The resignati◅ of the realm of Scotlande ◅le by the Ballioll there met with hym the ryghtfull King of Scots Edwarde Ballioll who transferred and resigned all the right title and interest which he had or myght haue to the Crowne and Realme of Scotland into king Edwards handes which resignation he confirmed by his Letters patentes therof made and giuen vnder his hand and seale dated the .xxv. of Ianuary .1356 requiring K. Edwarde to perseuer in pursute of his title to the vttermoste King Edwarde hauing thus receyued the resignation and release of the Crowne of Scotlande of Edwarde Ballioll marched foorthe wyth hys armye tyll hee came to Hadington brenning and destroying the countrey on eche side round aboute him as he passed And whylest he laye there abyding for his shippes his men of warre were not ydle but raunged abroade in the countrey and did all the damage to their einmies that they coulde deuise At length when he had accomplished his will and so sette things in order he returned back into Englande with the forsayde Edwarde B◅lyoll in hys companie whom he kepe with him for doubte least hee shoulde reuolte and procure some newe trouble In the moneth of Iuly the Duke of Lancaster being sente to the ayde of the King of Nauarre The Duke of Lancaster sent to ayde the K. of Nauarre came into Constantine whiche is a portion of Normandie and there ioyned with the Lorde Philippe of Nauarre brother to the king of Nauarre Paulus Aemilius and with the Lord Godfrey de Harcourt the whiche beyng returned into Fraunce and restored to the Frenche kyngs fauour was lately agayne reuolted vppon displeasure taken for the death of his nephewe the Lorde Iohn de Harcourte as in the Frenche histories ye maye reade more at large They were in all aboute the number of foure thousande fightyng men Froissart and beeyng assembled togyther they wente to Lyseux to Orbec The Castell of Orbec resbued to Ponteau and rescued the Castell there whiche had bene besinged by the Lord Roberte de Hotetot maister of the Crossebowes in France more than two monethes But nowe hearyng that the Englyshemen and Nauarroys approched he departed from th ende leauing behynde hym for haste his engins and artillerie The duke of Lancaster passed forwarde vnto Bretuiel which he caused to be relieued and furnished with necessarie things as was conueniēt The citie of Evreux yelded to the Frenchmen And then leauing the Citie of Eureux whiche was as then in the Frenchmēs hands lately yelded to them after a long siege he went forwarde with the Lorde Philip de Nauarre in hys companye tyll they came to Vernuell in Perch Vernueil and there took both the Towne and Castel and robbed the towne and brent a great part therof The Frenche Kyng who hadde assembled a myghtie armye The French K. cōmeth to giue the Duke of Lancaster battayle beyng aduertised of these matters hasted forward towarde the Duke of Lancaster fully purposyng to giue him battayle The Duke and the lorde Philip de Nauarre hauyng knowledge that the French kyng followed them withdrewe towardes the Towne of the Egle and the King still wente after them tyll he came to Tuebeuf two leagues from the towne of the Egle and there it was shewed to hym that he coulde not followe his enimies any further by reason of the thicke forrests which he coulde not passe without greate daunger of hys persone and losse of his people Then returned he wyth all his hoste and tooke from the Nauarroys the Castel of Thy◅ers and also the castel of Brerueil whiche was yelded to him after two monethes siege Aboute the same tyme that is to saye in Iulye the Prince of Wales hauyng assembled an armye of menne of warre Froissart The Prince of VVales inuadeth the french dominions to the number of eyght thousand entred into the frenche dominions and fyrste passyng thorough Auvergne at length hee came into the countreye of Berrye wastyng and brennyng the Townes and vyllages as hee wente takyng easye iourneyes for the better reliefe of his people and destruction of his enimyes for when hee was entred into anye Towne that was sufficientely stored of things necessary he wold tary there two or three dayes to refreshe his Souldiours and menne of warre and when they dislodged they woulde stryke out the heades of the wyne vesselles and brenne the wheate oates and barley and all other thynges whyche they coulde not take with them to the intente theyr enimyes shoulde not therwith bee susteyned The citie of Burges After this they came before the citie of Burges and there made a greate skirmishe at one of the gates and there were manye feates of armes done The hoste departed from thence without any more doyng Issoldune assaulted and commyng to
an innocent mans life preserued that should haue died if their purposes had taken place After this by the great wisedome and policie of the Nobles and Captaynes a communication was had and an agreement made vppon the Kings pardon obteyned for all the Capitaynes and chiefe doers in this insurrection and promise made that they shoulde bee gentlye heard to declare such things as they found themselues agreeued with and that vppon theyr Articles presented to the King The 〈◊〉 taken vp theyr reasonable petitions shoulde be graunted as by hym and hys Counsaile it shoulde be thought expedient wherby all troubles might bee quieted and eche thing brought to a good conclusion Herewith euerye man departed and those whiche before bent as hote as fire to fight leâ—…d of theyr desperate purpose by Gods mercifull prouidence went now peaceably to their houses without any more businesse The selfe same time that these Northern men were lodged neare to Dancaster and the Kings power readie to stoppe them of theyr passage as before ye haue hearde there was an other army readie to haue marched Southwardes through Lancashyre but by the faythfull diligence of the Earle of 〈◊〉 who with the forces of Lancashyre and Cheshyre was appoynted to resyst them they were lykewise kept backe and brought to quiet Notwithstanding they were a verie great number assembled togyther of the Commons oute of Cumberland Westmerland and of the north partes of Lancashire The Earle of Sussex was sente towne by the King to ioyne in assystaunce wysh the Earle of Darbie who causing dyuerse of the chiefe procurers of that Rebellion in those parties to be apprehended and arraigned they being founde guiltie had iudgement and were executed as the Abbottes of Walley Saulley and others In tyme of this rebellion a Priest that by a Butcher dwelling within fiue myles of Wyndsore had beene procured to preach in fauour of the Rebelles and the butcher as well for procuring the Priest thereto as for wordes spoken as hee solde his meate in Wyndsore were hanged the Prieste on a Tree at the foote of Wyndsore Bridge and the Butcher on a payre of newe Gallowes set vp before the Castell gate at the ende of the same bridge The wordes whiche the Butcher spake were these When one bad him lesse for the carkasse of a Sheepe than he thought hee coulde make of it May by Gods soule sayde hee I hadde rather the good fellowes of the North had it and a score more of the best I haue than I woulde so sell it This Priest and Butcher being accused on a Monday in the morning whylest the Kings armie was in the fielde and the king himselfe lying at Wyndsore they confessed theyr faultes vpon theyr examinations and by the lawe martiall they were adiudged to death and suffred as before is mentioned â—…eat frost This yeare in December the Thames was frosen ouer And in Christmasse the King by his messengers and Herauldes sente downe into the North his generall pardons to all the offenders â—…erall parâ—… and shortly after Aske that had beene the principall procurer 1537 and as it were chiefe Captaine of the Northern Rebelles 〈◊〉 rewarded came to London and nowe was both pardoned and receyued into fauour receyuing of the Kings bounteous liberalitie apparayle and dyuerse other rewardes whereof hee was moste vnworthye for there lyued not as Hall sayeth a veryer Wretche as well in person as conditions and deedes specially towardes the Kings Maiestie as after it appeared The thirde of Februarie Thomas Fitzgaret late Earle of Kyldare and fiue of hys Vncles The Earle of Kildare executed Selbie were drawne hanged and quartered at Tiborne for treason In the same Moneth Nicholas Musgâ—…e Thomas Tylbie with other beganne a newe rebellion at Kyrâ—…bie Stephan in Westmerland A newe rebellion who hauing got togither right thousande men besieged the Citie of Carlile from whence they were beaten with the onely power of the Citie and in returning from thence the duke of Norffolke who then was Lieutenant of the North encountred with them tooke the Captaynes and according to the law Martiall arraigned .lxxiiij. of them whome hee hanged on Carleyl walles but Musgraue escaped In the same Moneth of Februarie begannâ—… newe Commotion Sir Frances Bygot by the procurement of Sir Fraunces Bigod who being entised to that mischieuous enterprise by certaine wicked persons forgat his dutie to his Prince although hee had bene a man as Hall sayth that vndoubtedly loued God and reuerenced his Prince with a right obedient louing feare but suche are men wheâ—… God leaueth them and that they will take in hande things whiche Gods moste holye worde vtterly forbyddeth This last Rebellion began in Setrington Pikering Leigh and Skarbâ—…row but it was quickly suppressed and the sayde sir Fraunces Bigod apprehended and brought to the Tower The sayde sir Fraunces and one Halam hauing raysed a great companie of Rebelles ment to haue taken the Towne of Hull there to haue fortifyed themselues and to haue assembled more power but by the wisedome of Sir Raufe Ellerkar and the Maior of the Towne of Hull the sayde Halam and threescore other of the Rebelles without any slaughter were taken which Halam was afterwardes hanged in Chaynes and two other wyth hym at the sayde Towne of Hull Sir Fraunces Bygod fled and coulde not be hearde of for a tyme but at length he was also apprehended Moreouer aboute the latter ende of thys xxviij yeare the Lord Darcy Aske Aske and other practise to rayse a new rebellion sir Robert Conestable sir Iohn Bulmer and his wyfe sir Thomas Percye brother to the Earle of Northumberlande Sir Stephen Hamilton Nicholas Tempest Esquier William Lomley sonne to the Lorde Lomley beganne eftsoones to conspire although euerie of them before had receyued theyr pardons and nowe were they all taken and brought to the Tower of London as prisoners This yeare Robert Packington a Mercer of London a man both riche wise and of good credite dwelling at the signe of the legge in Cheapeside one morning going as his custome was aboute foure of the clocke to heare Masse in the Churche then called Saint Thomas of Acres and nowe the Mercers Chapell as hee crossed the streete from hys house to the Churche was sodaynly murthered wyth a Gunne Robert Packington murthered the cracke whereof was hearde of the neighbours and of a great number of labourers that stoode at Soper Lane ende and sawe the sayde Packington goe forth of his house but there was such a thicke myst that morning as the lyke had not beene seene by couert whereof the murtherer founde shyft the more easily to escape Many were suspected but none founde in fault albeeit for so muche as hee was one that woulde speake hys mynde freely and was at the same tyme one of the Burgesses of the Parliament for the Citie of London and had talked somewhat agaynst the couetousnesse and crueltie practised by the Cleargie it was mistrusted least
.xxiij. of September they dislodged and went that morning to Rockesbourgh encamping in a great fallow fielde betwixt Rockesbourgh and Kelsey standing Eastwarde a quarter of a myle off Here at Rockesbourgh they beganne to buylde a Forte wythin the compasse of an olde ruynous Castell the plot and site whereof standeth naturally very strong â—…tion Rockesbourgh vpon a hyll East and West of an eight score in length and three score in breadth drawing to a narownesse at the East ende the whole ground whereof the olde walles did yet enuiron Besyde the height and hardnesse to come to it is strongly fenced on either side with the course of two greate Ryuers Tyuet on the Northe and Twede on the South both which ioyning somewhat nie togyther at the West ende of it Tyuet by a large compasse aboute the fieldes in the which the Campe lay at Kelsey 〈◊〉 is still into this Tweede whiche with greate deapth and swiftnesse runneth from thence Eastwarde into the Sea at Berwicke Ouer this betwyxte Kelsey and Rockesbourgh hath there bin a great stone Bridge with Arches the which the Scots in tymes paste haue all to broken bycause the Englishe menne shoulde not that waye come to them Soone after the Lorde Protectours suruey of the plotte The determination in what sort Rockesburgh should be fortified and determination to doe as muche in deed for making it defensible as shortnesse of the tyme and season of the yeare coulde suffer which was that one great trench of twentie foot brode with deapth according and a Wall of like depth breadth and height shoulde bee made a Crosse wythin the Castell from the one syde Wall to the other and a fortie score from the West ende and that a lyke Trenche and Wall shoulde likewise bee caste a trauerse within aboute a coytes cast from the East ende and hereto that the Castell walles on either syde where need was should bee mended with Turfe and made wyth loupes as well for shooting directly forwarde as for flanking at hande the woorke of whiche deuise dyd make that besyde the sauegard of these Trenches and Walles the Keepers shoulde also be much defended from the enimies force by both the ende Walles of the Castell the Pioners were sette a woorke and diligently applyed in the same The Larde of Scsseforth and manye other Lards and Gentlemen of Tiuidall the Mers hauing come coÌ„muned wyth the L. Protector and the Counsayle made an assuraunce or as it were a truce for that daye tyll the nexte daye at nyght and on the next day Scottes that came to the kings obeysance whyle the assurance lasted these Lordes and Gentlemen beeing the â—â—â—efest in the whole Mers and Tiuidale came in agayne whome the Dukes Grace wyth wisedome and policie wythoute bloudshedde did winne then vnto the kings obedience for the whiche they did willingly then receyue an othe whose names in part ensue Lardes The Larde of Scsseforth The Larde of Fernyhurst The Larde of Greenhead The Larde of Hunthill The Larde of Hundley The Larde of Markeston by Merside The Larde of Boniedworth The Larde of Ormeston The Lard of Mallestaine The Lard of Warmesey The Lard of Lynton The Lard of Egerston The Lard of Marton The Lard of Moâ—â—e The Lard of Reddell The Lard of Reamerside Gentlemen George Trombull Iohn Hullyburton Robert Car of Greyden Adam Kyrton Andrew Kyrton Andrew Meyther Sander Spur of Erleston Marke Car of Littleden George Car of Faldenside Alexander Makdowell Charles Rotherford Thomas Car of the yere Iohn Car of Meynthorn Walter Hollyburton Richard Hanganside Andrew Car. Iames Dowglas of Cauers Iames Car of Mersington George Hoppringle William Ormeston of Endmerden Iohn Grimstow Many mothere were beside but ouerpassed by maister Paten for that they remayned in the register with these as he sayth The Duke of Somerset tendred the furtherance of the worke so much The diligence of the Duke of Somerset to further the fortification to Rocksbourgh that he forbare not to lay his owne hande to the Spade and Shouell thereby to encourage others so as there were but fewe of Lordes Knightes and Gentlemen in the field but with Spade Shouel or Mattock did therein their partes The .xxv. of September being Sunday the Scottes beganne to bring vittayle to the campe and were so well entreated and payed for the same that during the time of the English mens abode there they wanted not of the commodities which their countrey could minister A Scottish Herauld The .xxviij. of September a Scottish Herauld accompanyed with certayne French men that were perchaunce more desirous to marke the armye than to witte of theyr welfare came and declared that wythin a seuen nyght after theyr Commissioners to whom safe conduct had bene graunted should come and commune with oure Counsaile at Berwike whose comming the erle of Warwike and sir Raufe Sadler with other the Commissioners appoynted did so long while there abide but what the Scottes ment by breaking promise I cannot say howbeit come they did not and therefore escaped not the iust note of dissimulation howsoeuer else they could colour the matter in their owne excuse The same day after noone the Duke of Somerset adourned with titles of dignitie diuerse Lordes knights and gentlemen Creation the names and promotions of whome maister Paten hath set downe out of the Heraulde booke as foloweth Banerets Sir Raufe Sadler Treasurer Sir Fraunces Brian Captayne of the lyght horsemen Sir Raufe a Vane lieutenant of all the horsmeÌ„ These knights more made Banerets all dignitie aboue a Knight and next to a Baron Knightes The Lorde Gray of Wilton high Marshall The Lorde Edwarde Seymet the Duke of Somersets sonne The Lorde Thomas Howarde The Lorde Waldike a Cleuelander Sir Thomas Dâ—…cres Sir Edwarde Hastings Sir Edmonde Bridges Sir Iohn Thynne Sir Myles Patriche Sir Iohn Câ—…nwey Sir Eyles â—…oâ—…le Sir Raufe Bagnoll Sir Oliuer Laurence Sir Henrie Gates Sir Thomas Chaloner Sir Frances Flemming maister of the ordinaÌ„ce Sir Iohn Greâ—…ham Sir William Skipwith Sir Iohn Buttes Sir George Blaag Sir William Fraunces Sir Fraunces Knolles Sir William Thornburrow Sir George Howarde Sir Iames Wilforde Sir Raufe Coppingen Sir Thomas Wentworth Sir Iohn Meruen Sir Nicholas Straunge Sir Charles Sturton Sir Hugh Askue Sir Francis Salmyn Sir Richarde Tounley Sir Marmaduke Conestable Sir George Audeley Sir Iohn Holcrost Sir Iohn Southworth Sir Thomas Danby Sir Iohn Talbot Sir Rowland Clearke Sir Iohn Horsley Sir Iohn Foxster Sir Christofer Dics Sir Peter Negro Sir 〈◊〉 Vtle Sir Henrie Hussey Sir Iames Goâ—â—ds Brâ—…dander Sir Walter Boâ—…ham Sir Robert Brandâ—â—ng Maior of Newcastell and made knight there at the duke of Somersets returne But nowe that Rockesbourgh was suffeciently made be â—â—sible the which to see it seemed the Duke of Somerset had vowed before hee woulde thence depart his graâ—…e and the counsell did first 〈◊〉 that my Lorde Gray shoulde remaine vpon the borders there as the Kings Lieutenaunt â—â—ken â—â—ce of 〈◊〉
Cosmographie and Geometrie moste skilfull hee was borne in Wales discended of a good family and finally departed this lyfe in the dayes of Queene Mary Baltholmew Traheron discended of a worshipfull house in the West partes of Englande deane of Chichester departed this lyfe in Germanie where he lyued in exile aboute the latter ende of Queene Maryes raigne Cutbert Tunstall Bishop first of London and after of Durham borne in Lancashire of a right worshipfull family excellently learned as by his workes it may appeare Doctor of both the Lawes departed this life in the yeare .1556 Richarde Samson Byshop of Couentrie and Lichfielde wrote certaine Treatises and departed this life Anno. 1555. Lucas Sheparde borne in Colchester in Essex an English Poet Iane Dudley daughter to Henrie Gray Duke of Suffolke wrate diuerse things highlye to hir commendation of whome ye haue hearde more before here in thys Hystorie William Thomas a Welchman borne of whome ye haue lykewise heard howe he suffred for Treason wrote the Hystorie of Italie and other things verie eloquently Iames Brokes a Doctor of Diuinitie Iohn Standish a Doctor likewise of the same profession greate defenders of the Popes doctrine as by their workes appeareth William Peryne a blacke Frier by profession and a Doctor also of Diuinitie wrote in defence of the Masse and preached Sermons which were prynted of like stuffe Iohn Baret borne in Lynne a Doctor of Diuinitie and sometyme a Carmelite Frier but reuolting from the Popes Religion became an earnest setter forth of the Gospell but eftsoones hee fell off and returned to hys former opinions nowe in the dayes of Queene Marie Henrie Lorde Stafforde sonne to Edwarde Duke of Buckingham amongst other things which he wrote he translated a booke out of the Latine into English intituled Vtriusque potestatis differentia that is the difference betwixt the two powers which booke as some thinke was first compyled and set forth by Edwarde Foxe Bishop of Hereford Iohn Hopkins translated dyuerse Psalmes of the Psalter into English meeter whiche are to bee founde amongest those appoynted to be sung in Churches Queene Elizabeth HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENCE The cause of your calling hither at this time is to signifie vnto you that all the Lordes here present are certainly certified that God this present morning hath called to his mercie our late soueraigne Ladie Queene Marie which happe as it is most heauie and grieuous vnto vs so haue we no lesse cause an other way to reioyce wyth prayse to almightie God for that he hath left vnto vs a true lawfull and right inheritrice to the crowne of this realme which is the Ladie Elizabeth second daughter to our late soueraigne Lord of noble memorie King Henrie the eight and sister to our sayd late Queene of whose most lawfull right and title in the succession of the crowne thankes be to God wee neede not to doubt Wherefore the Lordes of this house haue determined with your assentes and consents to passe from hence into the Palace and there to proclaim the sayde Ladie Elizabeth Queene of thys realme without further tract of tyme wherevnto the whole house answered with euident appearaunce of ioy God saue Queene Elizabeth long may Queene Elizabeth raigne ouer vs and so this present Parliament beeing dissolued by the acte of God the sayde Lordes immediately calling vnto them the Kings and Principall Herauldes at Armes went into the Palayce of Westmynster and directly before the Hall doore in the foore Noone of the same day after seuerall soundings of trumpets made The Ladie Elizabeth proclaymed Queene in most solemne maner proclamed the newe Queene by thys name and tytle Elizabeth by the grace of God Queene of England Fraunce and Irelande defender of the fayth c. to the great comfort and reioysing of the people as by theyr maners and countenaunces well appeared after which Proclamation made at Westminster the sayde lords to witte the Duke of Norffolke the Lord Treasurer the Erle of Oxforde and diuerse other lords and Bishops with all speede repayred into the Citie of London where the lyke proclamation was made in presence of them and also of the lord Maior and Aldermen in their skarlet gownes at the Crosse in Cheape with no lesse vniuersall ioy and thanks giuing to God of all the hearers and so our sayd most gracious soueraigne Ladie Q. Elizabeth began hir happie raigne ouer this realm of Englande to the great cōfort and gladnesse of al estates vpō the foresaid .xvij. day of Nouēber in the yere after the creation of the world .5525 after the birth of our sauiour .1558 1558 of the Empire of Ferdinando the first Emperor of Rome bearing that name the fyrste In the .xij. yere of the raigne of Henrie the second of that name French King and in the .xvj. yeare of the raigne of Marie Q. of Scotlande The Fryday morning being the .xviij. of Nouember and morrow after the deceasse of Q. The death of Cardinall Poole Marie Reginalde Poole Lorde Cardinall and Archbishop of Canterburie departed this life at Lambeth and was after buryed at Caunterbury in Christs Churche there The Queenes remouing frō Hatfielde On Wednesday the three and twentith of Nouember the Queenes maiestie remoued frō Hatfielde vnto the Charter house in London where she lodged in the Lord Northes house in which remouing and comming thus to the Citie it mighte well appeare how comfortable hir presence was to them that went to receyue hir on the way and likewise to y e great multitudes of people that came abrode to see hir grace shewing their reioycing hearts in countenance and wordes with hartie prayers for hir Maiesties prosperous estate and preseruation whiche no doubt were acceptable to God as by y e sequeale of things it may certaynely be belieued sith hys deuine Maiestie hathe so directed hir doyngs that if euer the commō wealth of this land hath flourished it maye rightly bee saide that in hir most happie raigne it hathe bin most flourishing in peace quietnesse and due administration of iustice mixed with mercifull clemencie so as those whiche cannot contente themselues with the presente state of things vnder hir rule no doubt they are such factious creatures as wil not rest satisfyed with anye kynde of gouernemēt be it neuer so iust and commendable from the which sort of men the Lord deliuer hir royal Maiestie and all hir true and louing subiectes and preserue hir in long life to all our comforts and continue hir in such happie proceedings as she hath begun to the ende On Monday the eyghte and twentith of Nouember about two of the clocke in the after noone hir grace remoueth agayne Hir grace remoueth to the Tower and takyng hir Charet rode from my Lorde Northes house alongst the Barbican and entring by Criplegate into the Citie kept along the wall to Byshoppes gate and so by blanke Chapelton vnto Marke lane At hir entring into blanke Chapelton the artillerie in the
of this great hall was for feare of raine whiche might haue perished the vawtes to the destruction of the whole Churche and the people that were therein And before the sayde yeare was fully ended all the sayde Isles of the sayde Church were made and framed of newe and maine Tymber and couered with lead and fully finished And the same yeare also the greate roufe of the West ende was framed and made of new great timber in Yorkshire and brought to London by Sea and set vp and couered with lead and fully finished And in like maner within the sayd yeare the whole roufe and frame of the East ende of the sayde Church was made in Yorkshyre and brought by Sea to London and there sayde readie to be raysed when the season of the yeare serued This one thing resteth to be tolde that by estimation of wise men ten M. pound more than is yet granted vnto it will not perfite and finishe the Church and Steple in such sore as it was before the burning thereof In this meane time also by reason of the Qeenes Maiesties letters directed to the Maior and his brethren of the Citie of London aboute the burning of Paules there were certain Aldermen and Commoners of the said City named called togither by the authoritie of the Maior so denise some good order â—…erdie remedie for the reliefe and comfort of the sayd Citie whensoeuer any chaunce of fire hereafter should happen as God forbyd wythin the sayde Citie or libertyes thereof And the persons so called after sundrie meetings and with good aduisement and deliberation agreed and penned a certaine order for the speedie remedie thereof as well for the readie knowledge of the place wheresoeuer the same fire should happen to be and for the sodain extinguishing and suppressing of the same as also for the safe keeping of the goodes of suche persons in whose house any fire should chaunce Which orders and rules vndoubtedly would be to the great comfort and safetie of the Citie and Citizens of the same if they were published and made knowne in tyme and executed accordingly But what should I say I can but lament not onely for this but also for manye such paynfull and profitable labours whiche for good gouernment of this Citie had beene taken And as soone as the talking thereof is done and the Bookes framed and delyuered so soone is it put in obliuion and nothing at all thought vppon vntill an houre after the myschiefe be past I cannot blame no bodie but there is a fault in some bodie This yeare was chosen Lorde Maior of London a woorthie Citizen named William Harper one of the companie of the marchant Taylers This man wishing in his lyfe time to benefite his Countrey founded a free schoole in the Towne of Bedford where he was borne and nowe lyeth buryed prouiding a competent stipende and lyuing for a Schoole maister there to traine vp and instruct children in vertue and learning for euer This yeare in Englande were many monstrous byrthes An. reg 4. in Marche a Mare brought forth a foale with one bodie and two heads Monstrous byrthes and as it were a long taile growing out betwene the two heades Also a Sow farrowed a pig with foure legges like to the armes of a man childe with handes and fingers c. In Aprill a Sow farrowed a Pigge with two bodies eight feete and but one head 1562 many calues and lambes were monstrous some with collers of skinne growing aboute their neckes like to the double ruffes of shyrtes and neckercheffes then vsed The .xxiiij. of May a man chylde was borne at Chichester in Sussex the heade armes and legges whereof were like a notamie the breast and belly monstrous bigge from the Nauell as it were a long string hanging about the necke a great coller of fleshe and skinne growing lyke the ruffe of a shyrt or neckerchefe comming vp aboue the eares pleyting and folding c. The Realme of France being in great trouble aboute this season by the meanes of ciuill dissentioÌ„ and warres that rose betwixt the house of Guise and other of that faction vpon the one side and the Prince of Condee and other that tooke part with him on the contrary side The Queenes Maiestie informed how that the duke of Guise and hys partakers hauing gotte into theyr possession the person of the yong King vnder a pretext of his authoritie sought the subuersion of many noble men and good subiects of the Crowne of Fraunce namely such as were knowne or suspected to be zealous for a reformation to bee had in matters of Religion Hir Maiestie therevppon considering that if theyr purpose myght bee brought to effect it was to bee doubted that they woulde not so rest but seeke to sette things in broyle also within thys hir Realme of Englande and other Countreys neare to them adioyning first as one that had euer wyshed a quyetnesse rather than the troubles of warre Sir Henrie Sydney sent Ambassador into France sent ouer Sir Henrie Sydney at that present Lorde President of Wales a manne of suche estimation as his worde ought to haue deserued credite to trye if hee myght doe any good to bryng the partyes to some attonement but such wilfull headynesse seemed to rest in some that were chyefe of the one faction that theyr desyre seemed altogyther bente to enter into to warres â—…other Amâ—…sade in Iuly Hir Maiestie yet hoping the best appointed to send another honorable ambassade which by their wisedomes good aduise might perswade the parties vnto concord whereby the due authoritie honor and dignitie might be restored to the King and euery other degree keepe their roomthes and places as to them apperteyned but all in vayne for this motion of a pacification to be hadde could take no place neyther might the will of the yong King or of his timerous mother as it then seemed bee regarded otherwise than as stoode with the pleasure and appoyntmente of those that were knowen to bee the chiefe authors and furtherers of all those troubles Whylest the Queenes Maiestie therfore did thus trauell in respect of the suretie whiche hyr grace bare to hir welbeloued brother the sayde King and to the commoditie and quietnesse of both the factions an open iniurie was offered to hir maiestie so as it might appeare what minds they bare towards hir that hadde thus excluded and refused all offers and meanes to growe to some good and indifferente conclusion of peace â—…hippes of London Exeter and Falâ—…outh spoiled by the French 〈◊〉 Britayne the thirtith of Iuly and ninetenth of August For whereas manye Merchauntes as well of London as of Exeter and other of the West partes of hir Realme were soiourning for cause of traffique in diuers portes and hauens of Britaigne and hauing dispatched their busines and gote their lading aboorde their Shippes were readye to hoyst vp sayles and to returne eache one towardes the place from whence he came
this Realme and the Lady his wife one of the Queenes maiesties priuie Chamber now in the Moneth of Aprill 1566. departed the same againe the Marques a few dayes before his wife being both conducted by a lyke personage the Lord of Aburgueuenny to Douer Certayne houses in Cornehill being fyrst purchased by the Citizens of London The Burse in Cornhill were in the Moneth of Februarie cryed by a Belman and afterwarde solde to such persons as shoulde take them downe and carie them from thence which was so done in the Monethes of Aprill and May next following And then the ground beeing made playne at the charges also of the Citie possession thereof was by certayne Aldermen in the name of the whole Citizens gyuen to the right worshipfull sir Thomas Gresham knight agent to the Queenes highnesse there to buylde a place for Marchantes to assemble in at his owne proper charges who on the seuenth day of Iune layde the first stone of the foundation beeing Bricke and forthwyth the woorkemenne followed vppon the same with such diligence that by the Moneth of Nouember in Anno .1567 the same was couered with slate The Commissioners before named appoynted for the matters of Flaunders keeping theyr diet at Bruges agreed to referre the whole matter to the Princes on both sides and if they could not agree then the Marchants to haue .xl. dayes to repayre home with their marchandise and in the meane tyme all things to stande as they were then Our Commissioners departed from Bruges about the .xxvj. of Iune The .xxxj. of August the Queenes maiestie in hir progresse came to the Vniuersitie of Oxforde The Queenes progresse to Oxforde and was of all the studentes which had looked for hir comming thither two yeares so honourably and ioyfully receiued as eyther their loyalnesse towardes the Queenes maiestie or the expectation of their friends did require Concerning orders in disputation and other Academicall exercises they agreed much with those which the Vniuersitie of Cambridge had vsed two yeares before Comedies also and Tragidies were played in Christs Church where the Queenes highnesse lodged Among the which the Comedie entituled Palemon Arcit made by maister Edwardes of the Queenes Chapel had such tragicall successe as was lamentable Misfortune Oxforde For at that time by the fal of a wall and a paire of staires and great presse of the multitude three men were slaine The fifth of September after disputations the Queene at the humble suyte of certaine hir Nobilitie and the king of Spains Ambassador made a briefe Oration in Latin to the Vniuersitie but so wise and pithie as England may reioyce that it hath so learned a Prince and the Vniuersitie may triumph that they haue so noble a Patronesse The .vj. of September after dinner hir grace comming from Christs church ouer Carfox and so to Saint Maries the scholers standing in order according to theyr degrees euen to the East gate certaine Doctours of the vniuersitie did ride before in their skarlet Gownes and hoodes and masters of arte in black gownes and hoodes The Maior also wyth certaine of hys brethren did ryde before hir in skarlet to the ende of Magdalen Bridge where their liberties ended but the doctours and maisters went forwarde still to Shootouer a mile and more out of Oxforde bycause their liberties extended so farre and there after Orations made hir highnesse with thanks to the whole Vniuersitie had them farewell and rode to Ricote The valiaunt Captaine Edward Randolfe Esquire Lieutenaunt of the Ordinaunce Souldiours transported into Irelande and Colonell of a thousande footemen in September last past was wyth hys hande embarked at Bristow and within fewe dayes after landed at Knockfergus in the North partes of Irelande and from thence by water to a place called Derrie by whiche passeth the Ryuer of Longfoyle there the sayde Colonell in shorte space fortifyed to the greate annoyaunce of Shane Oneyle and by greate foresyght and experience garded himselfe and his charge till the sayde Oneyle to hinder and disturbe his aboade there the .xij. of Nouember arriued with a great army of Kerne Galawglasses horsemen with whom the sayde Captaine Randall encountered and him there so discomfited as after y e conflict he durst neuer approch the Queens power and to his perpetuall fame the sayde Captaine by reason of his bolde and hardie onset that day lost his life â—…ng prince Scottes â—…ened Charles Iames the sixt of that name sonne to Henrie Stuart Lorde of Darnley and Marie King and Queene of Scottes was borne in Edenbourgh Castell An. Reg. 9. the .xix. of Iune last past and the .xviij. of December this yeare solemnly christened at Sterling whose Godfathers at the Christning were Charles king of Fraunce and Philibert duke of Sauoy and the Queenes Maiestie of England was the Godmother who gaue a font of golde curiously wrought and enameled waying .333 ounces amounting in value to the summe of .1043 pounde .xix. shillings â—…g of Scots â—…thered 1567 The tenth of Februarie in the morning Henrie Stuart Lorde of Darneley before named King of Scottes by Scottes in Scotlande was shamefully murthered the reuenge whereof remayneth in the mightie hande of God The .xxij. of Februarie the Ladie Margaret Dowglas Countesse of Lineux mother to the sayde King of Scottes was discharged out of the Tower of London â—…een Alderâ—…en deceassed 〈◊〉 London Within the space of ten Monethes last past dyed seuen Aldermen of London the first Edwarde Bankes deceassed the .ix. of Iuly Anno 1566. Richarde Chamberlaine late sherife sir Martin Bowes sir Richard Mallorie sir William Hewet and sir Thomas White late Maiors then Richarde Lambert one of the Sherifes for that yeare the fourth of Aprill .1567 The towne of â—…nistry burnt wife in thirty â—…es The .xxij. of Aprill by great misfortune of fire in the towne of Ossestrie in Wales twelue myles from Shrewsburie to the number of two hundred houses to say seuen score within the walles and three score without in the suburbs besides cloth corne cattell c. were consumed which fire began at two of the clocke in the after noone and ended at foure to the great maruaile of many that so great a spoyle in so short a time should happen Two long streetes with great ryches of that Towne was burnt in Anno 1542. And lykewyse or worse in .1564 Sergeants feast The .xxiiij. of Aprill the Sergeants feast was kept at Grays Inne neare vnto Holborne and there were at that time made seuen newe Sergeants of the law Milnal in Sufrike burnt The .xvij. of May in the towne of Milnall in Suffolke .viij. miles from Newmarket .37 houses besides Barnes stables and suche lyke were consumed with fire in the space of two houres Shane Oneyle who had most trayterously rebelled agaynst the Queenes Maiestie in Irelande and had done many great outrages in the partes of Vlster was this yeare with his great losse manfully repelied from the siege of
of the Mers and Tiuidale 1603.42 sente ouer wyth a power to wythstande the enterprises of the Frenchmenne in Bolognois 1607.36 is hyghe Chamberlayne and one of the executers of the kings testamente and the gouernors of the yong Kyng 1611.32 is chosen Lorde Protector of King Edwarde and his dominions 1614.50 adorneth King Edward with the order of Knightehoode eadeÌ„ 4. is created D. of Somerset 1614.14 inuadeth Scotlande 1615.10 his aunswere to Huntiers chalenge 1621.10 sendeth an Epistle exhortatorie vnto the Scottes 1643.40 setteth foorthe a Proclamation for laying opeÌ„ of enclosures 1648. 26. fearing the conspiracie of the Lordes remoueth hastily in the nyghte tyme wyth the yong Kyng to Windsore Castell 1689.10 his letter to the Lorde priuie scale for ayde eadeÌ„ 27. hys letter to the Lords assembled 1699. 30. hath a Proclamation published agaynste hym eadem 50. is commytted to Warde in Beauchampe Tower 1701.10 is committed to the Tower of London eadem 20. hath articles obiected againste hym eadem 28. is restored vnto hys libertie but not his protectorshippe 1702.36 maried hys eldest daughter to Warwike hys eldest sonne 1703.30 is eftsoones committed to the Tower 1709.27 wel beloued of the people eadem 50. condemned of felonie ibidem is executed 1710.10 the two speaches which he vsed at his death eadem 54. is described 1711.52 Semer Thomas Knight is created Lorde Semer and high Admiral 1614 2â—… is atteynted beheaded 164â—… 26 Seneschascie of Fraunce auntiently belongeth to the Earles of Aniou 411.42 Seaâ—…to be passed ouer on foote 353.14 Seuerus the Emperoure seeketh the destruction of Clodius Albinus Lieutenant of Britaine 77.75 Seuerne a Riuer page 1414. col 2. line 38. page 1415. col 2. line 44. Seuerus the Emperoure discended from Androgeus King of Britaine 78.19 Seuerus the Emperoure beginneth to rule ouer Britaine as King 78.26 Seuerus leadeth an army of Romaynes and Britaine 's againste Fulgentius 78.28 Seuerus slaine by FulgeÌ„tius buried at Yorke 78.41 Seuerus the Emperoure prepareth to come into Britaine againste the enimie 78.91 Seuerus the Emperoure ariueth in Britain 79.20 Sebby King of East Saxons professeth himselfe a Monke 181.32 Sebby dyeth and is buried in Sainte Paules in London 181.34 SeruaÌ„ts to Sigeferd and Morcade going aboute to reuenge their masters death are burnt 251.58 Seufred and Sigharde Kings of East Saxons depart this life 190.36 Seille Peter kept in close prison 467.35 Sepulchre of the Lorde found out at Ierusalem by Helene the Empresse 91.106 Sewfred and Sigharde succeede Sebby their father in the Kingdome of the East Saxons 181.42 Seuerus Bishop of Trier commeth ouer with Germane into Britain 121.27 Seguinus or Seginus Duke of the allobroges 24.37 Seuerus the Emperoure maketh manye forreys vpon the Britaines and returneth alwayes conquetor 79.94 Seuerus the Emperoure falleth sicke in Britaine 80.26 Seuerus dyeth rather through sorrowe than sicknesse 80.66 Seuerus eyther restoreth Adrians wall or buyldeth another 81.3 Sempringham William founder of the order of Sempringham dyeth 469.63 Sensuall lust blindeth the vnderstandyng of the wise 113.61 Selred succeedeth Offa in the Kingdome of East Saxons 190.47 Secandone battayle fought by the Mercians against their owne Kyng Ethelbaldus 189.67 Sebby sonne to Suward and Sighere succeede Swidhelme in the kingdome of the East Saxons 179.3 Senators of Rome slayne by the Gaules 26.54 Seuerus Lord Steward to Valentinianus the Emperour sente to reforme matters in Britaine 103.101 Sea ceasseth ebbing and flowing three monethes 716.106 Sergeantes of the lawe created 1837.50 Seuen Bishops in Wales 75.20 Sea seemeth to burne 723.47 Sexburga wife to Lenwalch dyeth 180.72 Sexvulf consecrated Bishop of Mercia 181.12 Sermon made by Thomas Arundell Archbyshop of Cant. 1116.1 a Seuen articles proposed to K. Henry the seconde to amend 422.30 Sedrike made a Nunne in France 169.66 Seuerus Coronell of the footemen sente to ayde Nanncus 105.112 Segburg daughter to the Kyng of East angles wife to Earconberte 169.53 Segninus Duke of Allobroges dyeth 25.42 Seianes Horse whose ryder euer came to some euill ende 202.11 Christofer Seton hanged 242.46 b Selwood 214.80 Seyne the Riuer at Paris frosen 1858.22 Seintleger Anthonie deputie of IrelaÌ„d 1583.29 Seolesew Abbey in Sussex builded 182.83 Sea of a bloudy coloure 61.7 Seuerne Riuer 143.54 Shippe seene in the ayre 734 3â—… Sandall a Castell page 1328. col 2. line 43 Shippes of a strange fasshion and molde driuen by weather into certaine Hauens about Berwik 735.24 Seuerus returneth again into Fraunce 121.49 Seuall Archebishoppe of Yorke dyeth 750.70 Sens Citie in Normandy yeelded to He. 5. pag. 1190. col 1. line 20 Selred K. of East Saxons slayne 197 3â—… Seuerne deuideth Wales from England 16.42 Sem allotted vnto Asia 1.75 Secion cited 2.70 Seymer Iane married to King Henrye the eyght 1561. she dyeth 1570.44 Sheriffes of London their tente which they pay to the King 780.110 Robert Shirborne deane of Paules afterwarde Bishoppe of Chichester sent commissioner into Cornewall 1450.54 Sheriffes of the laÌ„d greeuously punished for their extortion 411.106 Shippe of fine workemanship sente to King Adelstane for a presente 227.31 Shirburne Richarde Bishop of Chichester praysed 1463.26 Shaftesburie or Mont Paladoure buylded 19. line 4 Shippe of greate value and ritchly fraught giuen to king Hardicnute 267.63 Shores wife page 1372. col 2. line 34. line 44. line 52. described spoyled of all that shee had page 1375. col 1. line 10. put to penuaunce line 28. wente on beggyng page 1376. col 1. line 20 Shippes of Normandie taken 876.50 b Sheriffes of the Shires instituted 303.47 Shippes of England taken 904.24 b Shippes of Fraunce breÌ„t 906.30 b Shirebourne Castel builded 371.70 Sheriffes fined thorough out all Englande 743.50 Shires in Englande wasted and destroyed by the Danes 245.80 Shippes taken by the EnglishmeÌ„ from the french Kyng manned and sent home into Englande laden 579.2 Sheene the Kinges manoure brente 1454. line 1 Shrewsburie towne fortified agaynst king Henry the first â—â— Sheepe transported intoo Spaine pag. 1317. col 1 lin 47 Sherifhuton a Manour Castell 1425.20 34 Shrewsburie pag. 1414. col 2. lin 49. pa. 1415. co 1. lin 8. pag. 1415. col 2. lin 44. Sherborne Robert Doctor Ambassadour to the Pope 1461.20 Sherifes first sworne in London 566.97 Shene defaced 1084.24 b Shrewsburie parte burnt 644.69 Shaftesburie Abbey builded 217.58 Shift for money pa. 1346. col 1. lin 40. Sherifes of London imprisoned 738.70 Shipwrack 920.34 b Shoreham 544.8 Shrewsburie castell 369.2 Shirewood forest 516.83 Sigibert baptized in fraÌ„ce and brought vppe in the fayth of Christ 171.98 Sigibert foundeth the Vniuersitie of Cambridge 171.106 Sigibert resigneth hys Kingdome and becommeth a Monke 172.12 Sigibert commeth duâ—…e of the Monasterie to go agaynst Penda 172.19 Sigibert Egricus slain and their army discomfited by Penda 172.28 Sigibert professed a monk in Cumbresburge Abbey 17â—… 40 Sigibert surnamed the little king of Eastsaxons 173.73 Sigibert sonne to Sigebalde succeedeth Sigibert the little in y e Kingdome of Eastsaxons 17376. Sigibert sonne and
the histories and Recordes of the lande the matter myghte bee tryed iudged and ordered And thus for the time did the Pope ridde hys hands of these and the like matters Wherefore at their comming home and after long debating and discussing of the cause as in William Marleburgh it appeareth more at large at a Synode holden at Windsor in the yeare .1072 An. reg 6. 1072 Math. VVest The subiectiō of the Archbishopricke of Yorke to the Archbishopricke of Canterbury sentence was gyuen on Lanfrankes syde so that in all things concerning Religion and the fayth of holy Churche the Archbishop of Yorke should be euer subiect to the Archbishop of Canterbury and come with all the Bishops of his prouince to anye suche place as the Archbyshop of Canterbury shoulde call anye counsell within the Realme of Englande Moreouer when any elected Bishop of Canterbury was to be sacred the Archbishop of Yorke for the time beeing should come to Canterbury and sacre hym there and if the Archbishoppe of Yorke was to be stalled and sacred then shoulde he come vnto Canterbury or else where it should please the Archbishop of Canterbury to assigne ▪ and there to be sacred of hym taking an oth with hys profession of due obedience vnto the higher see And nowe heere is to bee noted that as the sayde Thomas of Yorke dyd yeelde obedience to Lanfranke of Canterbury so lykewise the electe Bishop of Glascowe in Scotlande named Michaell was soone after consecrated of the foresayd Thomas Archbishop of Yorke Polidor The Archbishop of Yorke acknowledged primate of all Scotlande and made an oth of obedience vnto the sayde Archbishop as to the primate of all Scotland and after him Tothade the Bishop of Saint Androwes did the like by commaundemente of Malcolme the third of that name Kyng of Scotlande and Margaret hys wife who thoughte good by this recognisance of obedience and duetie so to prouide againste further inconuenience to come that heereafter one of the Bishops of their Realme shoulde not take vpon them to consecrate an other or do any thing contrary to the ancient decrees of the old fathers that mighte be preiudiciall to the authoritie of the Archbishop of Yorke at whose appoyntmēt those and the like things were accustomed to bee done But to leaue this and to speake of other thyngs which chaunced in the meane time that this controuersie depended betwixt the two Archbishops I finde that Edwin Marchar Earles of Mertia and Northumberland being reconciled with the K. of Englande and hauing of late obteyned pardon for their former misdeameanor began now so muche to mislike the state of the worlde agayne as euer they did before for perceyuing howe the Englishmenne were still oppressed and thralled with miserie on eache hand they conspired and began a new Rebellion but with very ill successe as shall heereafter appeare The Kyng vnderstanding of theyr dealings Mat. Paris and beeing not only armed thoroughly with temporall force but also endued with the spiritual power of his Archbishop Lanfranke who aided him in all that hee might for the suppressing of those Rebels wasted the countreys exceedingly where hee vnderstoode that they had gotten any releefe minding vtterly to vanquish them with sword fire and hunger or by extreame penurie to bring them to some order They on the other part make as stout resistance and now perceyuing that it stoode thē vppon either to vanquish or to fall into vtter ruine they reise a mighty strong host and made Edgar Etheling their Captaine a comely gētle mā a valiāt in whom also y e whole hope of y e English nation reposed as appeareth by thys by worde Edgar Ethling Englandes dearling which was dayly rehearsed of him And amongst other noble men that were chiefe doers in the assemblyng of this army Fredericke Abbot of S. Albons was one of the chiefe a Prelate of greate wealth and no lesse puissance The King perceyuing hys estate to be nowe brought into no small daunger is by reason thereof in a great perplexitie what to do in the end he counselleth with the Archbishop Lanfranke of Canterbury how he might remedy the matter who told him that in such a desperate case the best way for hym shoulde bee to seeke by fayre words and friendly offers how to pacifie y e English nobilitie whiche by all meanes possible would neuer ceasse to molest him in the recouerie of their libertie Herevppon therefore hee made meanes to come to some agreement with them and so well the matter proceeded on his side that the Englishmen deceiued through his faire promises were contente to commune of peace for whiche purpose they came also vnder the conduit of the Abbot Fredericke vnto Berkamsted where after much reasoning and debating of the matter for the conclusion of amity betwixte them Kyng William in the presence of the Archbishop Lanfranke other of his Lords toke a personall othe vpon al y e reliques of the Church of S. Albons the holy Euangelists the Abbot Frederick ministring y e same vnto him that he would frō thensfoorth obserue and keepe the good and aunciente approued lawes of the Realme whiche the noble Kings of England his auncestors had made and ordeined heretofore but namely those of S. Edward which were supposed to be the most equall and indifferent The peace being thus concluded and the Englishmē growen therby to some hope of further quietnesse they began to forsake theyr allies returne eache one eyther to his own possessiōs or attēdance vpon y e K. but he warely cloking his inward purposed intēt notwithstāding y e vnitie lately made determineth particularly to assaile his enimies whose power without doubt so long as it was vnited could not possibly be ouercome as he thought therefore being now by reasō of this peace disseuered dispersed he thoght it high time to practise his secrete purposes and therevpon taking them at vnwares thinking of nothing lesse than warres and suddayne inuasiō he imprisoneth many killeth diuers pursueth y e residue w t fire sword spoiling thē of their goods possessions lāds inheritances banishing them out of y e Realm altogither at his pleasure In the meane time those of the Englishe nobilitie which could escape this his outrageous tirannie got away amōgst other Edgar Etheling fled again into Scotland but Edwin was slain of his own souldiers as he rode also towards Scotlād Ran. Higd. H. Hunt Mat. Paris Erle Marchar one Hereward with the Bishoppe of Durham named Egelwinus got into the Isle of Ely in purpose there to defend themselues frō the iniurie of y e Normans bycause they tooke y e place by reason of y e situatiō of y e same to be of no small strength but K. Williā endeuouring to cut thē short in y e beginning reised a power first stopped all y e passages on y e East side and on the west part he made a causey through y e Fennes
Polidor Hen. Hunt Math. Paris of two miles in length whereby he got vnto them constreyned those his enimies in y e end to yeld themselues by force vnto his mercy Howbeit Marchar or as others haue Herewarde perceyuing before hand the imminent danger likely to take effect made shift to get out of y e Isle by bote so by speedy flight escaped into Scotland The Bishop of Durham being taken Simon Dun. was sent to the Abbey of Abingdō to be kept as a prisoner where he was sparingly fed that within a short space Some write that he was so stubborne harted that after he knew he should remayne in perpetuall prison he refused his meate and so pined himselfe to death he died for hunger In this mean time and whilest K. Williā was thus occupyed in ridding out the English rebelles Malcolme King of Scotlād had wasted the countreys of Theisedale and Cleueland the lands of S. Cutbert with sundry other places in the North partes wherevpon Gospatrick being lately recōciled to y e K. made Earle of Northumberland was sente agaynste hym who wasted and destroyed that parte of Cumberlande in like manner whiche the sayde Malcolme had by violence brought vnder hys subiection At the same time Malcolme was at Weremouth beholding the fire whiche hys people had kindled in the Church of Saint Peeter to burne vp the same and there hearing what Gospatricke had done he tooke such displeasure therewithall that he commaunded his men that they should spare none of the Englishe nation alyue but put them all to the sworde withoute pitie or compassion so oft as they came to hand The bloudy slaughter therefore whiche was made at thys tyme by the Scottes through that cruell commaundement of Malcolme was pitifull to consider for women children old men and yong wente all one way howbeit many of those that were strong and able to serue for drudges and slaues were reserued and carried into Scotlande as prisoners where they remayned many yeares after in so muche that there were fewe houses in that Realme but had one or more Englishe seruauntes and captiues whiche they gate at thys vnhappy voyage Thus we may behold a myserable face of the English nation at this presente for they do not onely consume one another but the Scottes on the one side and Kyng William on the other doe make greate hauocke and oppresse them altogyther But to returne agayne to the purpose in hand King William hearyng of all these things was not a little moued at the same but chiefly with Malcolme K. of Scottes for that his countrey was the onely place wherein all the Rebels of his Realme had theyr refuge Wherefore thinking to reuenge the losse of hys subiectes and bring that Realme also vnto hys subiection hee went thither with an huge army about the midle of August where he first inuaded the boundes of Galloway Polidor bycause he heard howe the English Rebels were lately fled thither but after he had wearied his Souldiers in vayne pursuite of thē who kept thēselues in y e Mountaines and Marres ground hee gaue ouer the enterprise drew towards Lothiā wher he vnderstood that K. Malcolme lay with all his power findyng him there encountred with sundry English fugitiues he determined by battayle to make an ende of his trouble eyther purchase his quietnesse or finish his worldly life at this momēt time thus each one prepared to y e field but as both y e Kings with their armies were ready to ioine Malcolme began to doubt somewhat of the fiercenesse of the battel Math. Paris bycause he saw the great puissance ready willes to fighte of the army of Englishmen and Normans which K. William had brought with him H. Hunt and therevppon sente an Harrold to Kyng William to treate of a peace which K. William was cōtent at the last though with muche ado to heare of and so an vnitie yet ensued betwixte the two Princes vpō these conditions that K. Malcolme should do homage vnto K. William for y e Realm of Scotland therevpon delyuer sufficient hostages and that on the other side K. William shoulde perpetually pardon all the Englishe outlawes whiche then rebelled against him The place where this peace was concluded was called Abirneth◅ After which K. William returned into England where he ere long tooke the Earledome of Northumberlande from Gospatricke Simon Dun. gaue it to Waltheof y e son of Siward bycause y t of right it seemed to discende vnto him frō his father but chiefly frō his mother Alfreda who was the daughter of Aldred sometime Earle of that countrey At the same time also y e K. caused a Castell to be built at Durham after he had sped his businesse in those parties he returned to Londō where he receiued aduertisement y t his subiects in Normādy toward the parties of Angiew had begun a Rebellion against him Heerevpon with al speede he leuied an army whereof the most part consisted of Englishmen whose seruice hee chose rather in a foraine countrey than in their owne and with this army being once put in a readines he sailed ouer into Normandy easily subdued his enimies by help of y e Englishmen whom frō thenceforth he began somewhat to fauoure better thinke of than hee had bin before accustomed to do Yong Edgar also came into very good credite with him for though he had twice brokē hys oth of allegiaunce and runne to the Scottes as a Rebell yet now of his owne motiō returning to y e K. asking pardon he was not only receyued An. Reg. 8. 1074 but also highly honored preferred in his courte The yere .1074 ther were three Monks of y e prouince of Mercia y t which in purpose to restore religiō after their maner within y e prouince of Northumberlande came vnto Yorke and required of Hugh Fitz Baldricke as then Sherife of y e shire to haue a guide to saulfe cōduite them vnto Mōkaster which afterwards hight New Castel and so is called vnto this day These three Moonkes whose names wer Aldwine Alfwin Remfred cōming vnto the foresayd place found no tokē or remnant of any religious persons whiche sometime had habitation there for al was defaced and gone wherevpō after they had remayned in that place a certaine time they remoued to Iarrowe wher finding y e ruines of olde decayed buildings churches perteining in times past to y e Monkes y t there inhabited they founde such assistance at the hands of y e Bishop of Durham Walkher that at length by the diligente trauell and sute of these three Monks there were three Monasteries newly founded and erected in the North partes as one at Durham and an other at Yorke and the third at Whitby For you must consider that by the inuasion of the Danes the Churches and Monasteries through out Northumberland were so vtterly destroyed and throwen downe that vnneth