in remembraunce of olde Troye from whence hys auncesters procéeded for which the Romaines pronounced afterward Trinobantum although the Welchmen doe call it still Trenewith This city was builded as some write much about the tenth yeare of his raigne so y t he lyued not aboue 15. yeares after he had finished y e same But of y e rest of hys other actes attempted and done before or after the erection of this city I finde no certayne report more then that when he had raigned in this Island after his arriuall by the space of 24. yeares he finished his dayes at Trenouanton aforesayde beyng in hys young and florishyng age where at his carcase was honorably interred As for the maner of hys death I finde as yet no mention therof among such writers as are extant I meane whether it grew vnto him by defect of nature or force of grieuous woundes receyued in hys warres agaynst such as withstood him from tyme to tyme in this Islande and therefore I can say nothing of that matter Herein onely all agrée that duryng the tyme of his languishing paynes he made a disposition of his whole kyngdome deuiding it into thrée partes or portions according to the nuÌ„ber of his sonnes then liuing whereof the oldest excéeded not 28. yeres of age as my coniecture gaueth me Locrine To the eldest therefore whose name was Locrine he gaue the greatest and best Region of all the rest Loegria whiche of hym to this day is called Lhoegres among the Britons but in our language Englande of such English Saxons as made conquest of the same This portioÌ„ also is included on the south with the Brittish sea on the east wyth the Germaine Ocean on the north wyth the Humber and on the west with the Irish sea and the riuers Dée and Sauerne wherof in the general description of this Island I haue spoken more at large To Camber his secoÌ„d sonne Camber Cambria he assigned all that lyeth beyonde the Sauerne and Dée towarde the west whiche parcel in these dayes conteineth Southwales and Northwales with sondry Islandes adiacent to the same the whole beyng in maner cut of and seperated from England or Loegria by the said streames wherby it séemeth almost Pemusula or a bye land if you respect the small hilly portion of ground that lyeth indifferently betwene their maine courses or such branches at the least as run and fall into them The Welchmen or Brytons call it by the auncient name still vnto this day but we Englishmen terme it Wales which denomination we haue from the Saxons who in time past did vse the word Walshe in such sort as we do straunge for as we cal all those straungers that are not of our nation so dyd they name them Walshe which were not of their countrey The third and last part of the Island he allotted vnto Albanacte hys youngest sonne for he had but thrée in all Albanact as I haue sayd before whose portion séemed for circuite to be more large then that of Camber and in maner equall in greatnesse wyth the dominions of Locrinus But if you haue regard to the seuerall commodities that are to be reaped by eche you shal find them to be not much discrepaunt or differing one from another for what so euer the first and second haue in plenty of corne fine grasse and large cattell This latter wanteth not in excéedyng store of fishe rich mettall quarries of stone and aboundaunce of wylde foule so that in myne opinion there coulde not be a more equall particion then this made by Brute and after the aforesayd maner This later parcel at the first toke the name of Albanactus who called it Albania But now a small portion onely of the Region beyng vnder the regiment of a Duke reteyneth the sayd denomination the reast beyng called Scotlande of certayne Scottes that came ouer from Ireland to inhabite in those quarters It is deuided from Loegres also by the Humber 〈◊〉 so that Albania as Brute left it conteyned all the north part of the Island that is to be fouÌ„d beyond the aforesayd streame vnto the point of Cathenesse To conclude Brute hauyng deuided hys kingdome after this maner and therin conteniyng himselfe as it were wyth the general title of the whole it was not loÌ„g after ere he ended his life and being solemnly interred at his new city by his thrée children they parted eche from other and tooke possession of their prouinces But Scotland after two yeres fell agayn into the handes of Locrinus as to the chiefe Lord by the death of his brother Albanact Locriâ—… king â—… of Scâ—â—land who was slayne by Humber kyng of the SeithieÌ„s and left none issue behynde hym to succéede hym in that kyngdome That notwithstanding the former diuision made by Brute vnto his children the souereigntie of the whole Islande remained still to the prince of Lhoegres and his posteritie after him Chap. xvj IT is possible that some of the Scottish nation reading the former chapter will take offence with me for meaning y t the principalitie of the North partes of this Isle hath alwayes belonged to the kinges of Lhoegres The Scotâ—… alwayâ—… desinrâ—… to 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 subiâ—â— haue oâ—…ten 〈◊〉 cruell 〈◊〉 odious temptaâ—… to be 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 For whose more ample satisfaction in this behalfe I will here set downe therfore a discourse therof at large written by diuers and nowe finally brought into one Treatise sufficient as I thinke to satisfie the reasonable although not halfe ynough peraduenture to content a wrangling minde sith there is or at the least wyse hath béene nothing more odious amoÌ„g some then to heare that the king of England hath oughtes to doe in Scotland How their Historiographers haue attempted to shape a couloured excuse to auoyde so manifest a tytle all men maye sée that reade their bookes indifferently whereunto I doe referre them For my part there is little or nothing of myne herein more then onely the collection of a number of fragmentes togither wherein chiefly I haue vsed the helpe of Nicholas Adams who wrate thereof of set purpose to king Edward the sixt as Leland dyd the lyke to king Henry the eyght Iohn Harding vnto Edwarde the fourth beside thrée other whereof the first dedicated hys Treatise to Henry the fourth the seconde to Edwarde the thirde and the thirde to Edwarde the first as their writinges yet extant doe abundâ—…ntly beare witnesse The tytle also that Lelande giueth his booke which I haue had written with his owne hands beginneth in this maner These remembraunces following are found in Chronicles authorized remaining in diuers nonasteries both in Englande and Scotlande by which it is euidently knowen shewed that the kinges of England haue had and nowe ought to haue the souereignetie ouer Scotlande wyth the homage and fealtie of the kings their reigning from time to time Herevnto you haue heard already what diuisioÌ„ Brute made of this Islande not
officers and offices after the maner of their countries that very little of the olde regiment remayned more then the bares names of some officers except 〈◊〉 aduenture in Kent so that 〈◊〉 these dayes it is hard to set downe any great certainty of thing â–ª as they stoode in Alfreds time more then is remembred touched at this present â—â—at a â—â—th is Some as it were roming or â—â—uing at y e name Lath affirme that they were certen circuites in euery câ—…uÌ„ty or shyre coÌ„tayning an appâ—…ynted number of townes whose inhabitaâ—…ntes alwayes assembled to know and vnderstande of matters touching their portions in to some one appoynted place or other within their limites especiallye whylest the causes were such as required not the ayde or assistaâ—…nce of the whole countye Of these Lathes also as they saye some shyres had more some lesse as they were of greatnesse â—â—â—les And M. LaÌ„bert séemeth to be of the opinion that the leâ—…s of our tyme wherein these pledges be yet called Franci plegij of the worde Frée burghe doe yéelde some shadow of that politike institutioÌ„ of Alfrede but sith my skill is so small in these cases that I dare not iudge any thing at all as of myne owne knowledge I will not seâ—…te downe any thing more then I read and reâ—…ding no more of lathes my next talke shal be of hundredes â—â—ndred â—â—eapoÌ„â—â— The hundrede and the wapentake is all one and by this diuision not a name appertynent to a sette number of townes for then 〈◊〉 hundrede shoulde be of equall quantitie out a limited iurisdiction within the compasâ—…e whereof were an hundred persons called pledges â—â—arie â—…ithing or ten deâ—…aries or tithings of men of which eache one was bounde for other good abering and laudable behauiour in the coÌ„mon welth of the realme â—â—â—hing 〈◊〉 in laâ—â— Decuâ—â— The chiefe man lykewyse of euerie Denarie or Tithing was in those dayes called a tithing man in latine Decurio â—â—sholâ—â— but now in most places a borsholder as in Kent where euery tithing iâ—…â—â—re ouer named â—… Burrow Burrow although that in the West countrie he be still called a Tithing man and his 〈◊〉 a Tithing as haue hearde at large I reade â—…urther more and it is partly afore nâ—…ted that the sayde Alfrâ—…de caused â—â—che man of frée condicion for the better maintenaunce of his peace to be 〈◊〉 into some hundred by placing himselfe in one Denarie or other where he might alwaâ—…es haue such as should swerâ—… or saye vppon 〈…〉 for his honest be 〈…〉 if it should happen at any time that his credite should 〈◊〉 in question In like sort I gather out of Leland and other that if any smâ—◠〈◊〉 did fall out worthie to be 〈◊〉 the Tithing man or boâ—…sholder now officers 〈◊〉 the coÌ„mandement of y e Constable should 〈…〉 same in their Letes wheras the greatest causes were referred to the Hundredes the greater to the Lathes and the greatest of all to the shire daies where the Earles or Aldermen dyd set themselues and make finall endes of the same according vnto Iustice For this purpose likewise in euery Hundred were 〈◊〉 men chosen of good age and wisdome Twelue men and those 〈◊〉 to gyue their sentences without respect of person and in this maner as they gather were thinges 〈◊〉 in those daies In my tyme there are found to be in Englande 40. shyres and likewise 13. in Wales Fourtie shyres in Englande thirtéene in Wales and these lâ—…tter erâ—… 〈…〉 by King Henry y e eyght who made the Brythe or WelchmeÌ„ 〈◊〉 in all respectes vnto the Englishe and brought to â—…asse that both nations should indifferently 〈◊〉 gouerned by one law which in times past 〈◊〉 ordred by diuers those far descrepaâ—…t â—…isagreyng one wyth an other as by the seuerall view 〈◊〉 y e same is yet easy to be deserâ—…ed The names of the shyres in England 〈◊〉 these wherof the first 〈…〉 betwéene the Bâ—…ittish sea and the Thames Kent Sussex Surrey Hampshyre Barkeshyre Wilshyre Dorset shyre Somerset Deuon Câ—…mewall There are moreouer on the north side of the Thames betwéene the same the riuer â–ª Trent which passeth thorowe the middest of Englande as Polidore sayth 16. other shires whereof sixe lye towarde the east the rest towarde the west more into the middest of the countrye Essex Middlesex Hartfordshire Suffolke Norfolke Cambridge shyre Bedforde Huntingdon Buckingham Oxford Northampton Rutland Lewcestershire Nottingham shyre Warwicke Lincolne We haue 6. also that haue there place westward towardes wales whose names insue Glocester Hereford Worcester Shropeshiâ—â— Stafford Chestershire And these are the 32. shires which lie by south of the Trent Beyonde the same ryuer we haue in lyke sort other 8. as Darby Yorke Lancaster Comberlande Westmerland Richemonde Durham Northumberland So that in the portioÌ„ sometime called Lhoegres there are nowe fourtie shyres In Wales furthermore are 13. wherof 7. are in south Wales Cardigan or Cereticon Penmoroke or Penbrooke Caermardine Glamorgan Moneâ—â—â—h Breckenocke Radnor In Northwales likewise are 6. that is to say Anglesey Carnaruon Merioneth Denbighe Flint Montgomery Which being added to those of EnglaÌ„d yéeld 53. shires or couÌ„ties Odde parcelles of shyres so y e vnder the Queenes Maiesty are so many Counties whereby it is easily discerned that hir power farre excéedeth that of Offa who of olde time was highelye honoured for that he had so much of Brytaine vnder hys subiection as afterwarde conteined 39. shyres when the diuision was made whereof I spake before Thys is moreouer to be noted in our deuision of shyres that they bee not alwayes counted or laid togither in one percel wherof I haue great marueyle But sith the occasion hath growen as I take it either by Priuyledge or some lyke occasion it is better bryefelye to set downe howe some of these partes lye then to spende the tyme in séeking a iust cause of thys their odde diuision First therfore I note that in the part of Buckingham shyre betwéene Amondesham and Beconsfelde there is a péece of Hartforde shyre to be founde enuironed rounde about wyth the countye of Buckingham and yet thys patche is not aboue thrée myles in length two in breadth at the verye most In Barkeshyre also betwéene Ruscombe and Okingham is a péece of Wilshyre one myle in breadth and foure myles in length whereof one side lyeth on the Loden riuer In the borders of Northamton shyre directlye ouer against Luffelde a towne in Buckinghamshyre I fynde a percell of Oxfordâ—… shyre not passing two miles in compasse With Oxford shyre diuers doe participatâ—… in so much that a péece of Glocester shyre lyeth halfe in Warwicke shyre and halfe in Oxforde shyre not very farre from Horâ—â—ton Such another patche is there of Glocester shyre not farre from long Compton but lying in Oxforde county and also a péece of Worcester shire dyrectly betwéene it and Glocester shyre Glocester hath y e
was theyr purpose The bloodie souldiers letting fall theyr weapons in sted of executing the pretenced murder fell to reuerence him and at length departed from him as freendes For line all desease of bishops Three yeares he sate in the primacie rather to discontinue the horrible corruption before vsed than with intent to settle himselfe there After he hadde remoued the abuse he procured Orlasius to succeede him in the Archbishops sea and he returned to his former sea of Downe to the which as then was annexed the Bishopryke of Coner but Malachias vnderstanding that in tymes past they were .vj. seuerall seas he deuided them againe ordeined an other to the Bishoprike of Coner desirous rather to lessen his cure than to enlarge the frutes by taking more charge vpon hym Malachias being demaunded of his brethren the Monkes of Benchar where and when hee would wish to die and to be buried if it lay in his choyce he answered If in Ireland beside the bodie of S. Patrik if beyond the seas at Clareuale where S. Bernarde was then resiant and in the feast of all soules He purposed within few dayes to sue to Pope Eugenius for increase of the nuÌ„ber of Metropolitans whiche request was shortly after accomplished And in this voyage which he thus made hee stayed at Clareuale and shore diners tymes openly foreshewed that the yere of his departure foorth of this world was come and accordingly when he had taken leaue of Sainte Bernarde and the brethren hee wente downe from his chamber to the churche and there bidde communicate Whiche doone hee returned to his lodgyng and there on All Soule daye in the yere of his age .54 he gaue vp the ghost so myldlye and quietlye that it seemed rather a sleepe than a death Malchus Malchus thoughe borne in Irelande yet he spente the moste parte of his tyme in the monasterie of Wrnchester in Englande and from the 〈◊〉 was taken admitted bishop of Lismore Saint Bernard remembreth of him by occasion he cured a lunatike childe in confirming or else as they termed it in bishopping him This miracle seene and confessed by many hundredes of people was blowen through the world The same tyme happened discord betwixt the king of Mounster and his brother Discorde betvvixt the king of Mounster and his brother and as the matter was handled the king was ouermatched and fled into England wher he visited Malchus in his Abbey and would by no meanes departe from hym but remayne there vnder his rule and gouernmente so long as it pleased God to denie hym quiet returne into his countrey hee contented himselfe with a poore celle vsed dayly to bathe himselfe in colde water to assuage the wanton motions of his fleshe and for his dyet receyued none other delicates than breade water and salte daye and nyghte sobbing and bewayling with greate remorse of conscience his former mysdemeaned lyfe At length the other Kings and people of Irelande beganne to repine at the vsurper set vpon him with open warre vanquished him in a pight fielde and called home the rightefull Prince his brother agayne to resume his kingdome who with many ernest perswasions of Malchus and Malachias coulde vneth bee broughte to forsake that trade of lyfe and companye the whyche he had wyth suche delectation enured him selfe vnto Thus farre of the Irishe Sainctes Of the whyche as some of them are to bee esteemed right vertuous and godlye menne so other of them are to bee suspected as persons rather holye by the superstitious opinion of the people than endued with any suche knowledge of true godlynesse and syncere Relygion as are woorthye to be Registred in the number of those that of right ought to passe for sayntes Foxe Bale as by certayne late writers may appeare But this we leaue to the iudgemente of the aduised Reader for that in suche matters wee mynde not to preiudice any mans opinion but onely wishe the Reader to take heed howe he giueth credite to that whych oftentymes is found written by Authoures touching feigned miracles and other vayne superstitious dealings wherethorough many zelous persons haue often bene deceyued Nowe therefore to leaue Sayntes and returne to other masters touchyng the Irishe historie In the yeare .586 586. The Norvvegians skoure the seas and inuade the yles of Orkney the Norwegians had got dominion ouer the Ilandes in the north Weast Ocean called the Iles of Orkeney and skoured the Seas that none other nation â—…urste vnnethe appeare in sight for dread of them A people giuen greately to seeke the Conquestes of other Realmes as they that coulde not fayle to fynde more warme and fruitefull places for to inhabite than theyr owne These fellowes chaunced to light into Irelande by this meanes They inuade Irelande Caraticus king of Brytaine ranne into suche hatred of his people that they raysed warres agaynst him The Saxons that possessed now sixe seuerall kingdomes in the I le of Brytayne reioysed not a little at this ciuill discorde betwixt the Brytayne king and his subiects wherevpon meaning to make a full conquest of the Brytaines and vtterly to expulse them forth of the whole I le assembled their powers ioyned to the same GurmuÌ„dus Gurmundus an Archpyrate of the nation of Norway a notable rouer of the Norwegians who hauing at all tymes a Nauie in a readinesse and men to furnishe it holpe the Saxons to chase the Brytaynes into the Marches of Wales For from thence being retyred into the Mountaynes and Wooddes they coulde not dryue them This Gurmound as some thinke buylded at the same tyme the towne of Gurmondchester and after beeing assysted by the Saxons hee made a voyage into Irelande where hee spedde not greatly to his desire and therefore the Irishe account not this for any of theyr conquests as some of their antiquaries infourmed oure Authour Champion Gurmounde therefore fynding but sorie successe buylt a fewe sleight Castelles and Fortes in the frontiers and so lefte the lande and sayled from thence into Fraunce where at length hee was slaine Our Chronicles in deede name him King of Irelande Turgesius but the Irishe affyrme that before Turgesius there was none of the Easterne people that obteyned dominion in theyr Countrey Geraldus Caâ—…is to make the matter whole a Gods name thinketh Turgesius to haue conquered the lande as Lieutenaunt or Deputie vnder Gurmundus But thys being graunted there ryseth a more manifest contradiction than the former Laogerius 430 for hee hymselfe numbreth betwixte Laogirius King of Irelande that lyued in the yeare .430 and Edlumding whom Turgesius vanquished xxxiij Monarkes whose raignes comprehended foure hundred yeares so that Turgesius lyued in the yeare after the incarnation .830 Then it is too playne that hee coulde not haue any doyngs wyth Gurmundus who ioyned with the Saxons agaynst Careticus The doubt resolued in the yeare .586 This knotte saith our Authour might be vntwyned with more facilitie thus Gurmundus
fire and specially in the citie of London where vpon the .vij. day of Iuly a sodain flame began which burnt y e church of S. Paule Simon Dun. with a great part of the Citie downe to the very ground After that king William had taken the othe of obedience of all his Lordes Ran. Higd. Sim. Dun. Edgar Etheling who was reconciled vnto his fauour as you haue heard obteyning licence of him to bee out of the realme for a certaine season sayled into Puglia with two hundred souldiers but of his acts there and returne againe into Englande I finde small rehersall and therfore I passe ouer to speake any more of him An. reg 21. con◅ecting any stile to king William who hauing now brought the Englishmē so lowe and bare that little more was to be got out of their hands went once againe ouer into Normandie with an huge Masse of money and there soone after chaunced to fall sicke so that he was constrayned to keepe his bed longer than hee had bene accustomed to do wherat Philip the French king in leas◅ing maner sayde howe king William his cousin did nowe lie in childbed alluding partly to his great fat belly VVil. Mal Mat. Par. bycause he was very corpulent and withall added Oh what a number of Candles must I prouide to offer vp at his going to Church certenly I thinke that .100000 will not suffice c. which talke so moued the king when it came to his care that hee made this answere well I trust when I shal be churched that our cousin shall bee at no suche cost VVil. Malm. Ran. Higd. but I will helpe to finde him a thousande Candelles my selfe and light them vp to some of their paynes if God doe graunt mee life and this promise hee bound with an othe which in deed he performed for in the Moneth of Iuly ensuing when their corne fruit and grapes were most florishing He inuadeth Fraunce and readie to come to proufe he entred France with a great army set on fire many of their Cities and townes in the westside of that Countrey lastly came to the citie of Maunt Gemeticensis The Citie of Maunt burnt by K. William Mat. VVest which he bunrt with the Church of our Ladie and therein an Ankresse enclosed in the wall thereof as an holy recluse for the force of the fire was suche as all wente to wrecke Howbeit in this heate king William tooke such a sicknesse which was not diminished by the fall of an horse as he rode to and fro Math. Paris bycause hee was not able to trauaile on foote aboute his Palace by reason of his disease that cost him hys life in the ende King William departed this life Simon Dun. Mat. VVest The .lix. of his age hath VVil. Mal. so that when he had ordeyned his last will and taken order for the stay of things after his decease hee departed this life on the .ix. day of September in the yeare after the byrth of our Sauiour .1087 and .lxxiiij. as Polidor saith of his age hauing gouerned Normandie aboute lj yeares and reigned ouer Englande .xx. yeares tenne monethes and .xxviij. dayes as all the writers doe report Not long before his death he released also out of prison his brother Odo the bishop of Bayeux He set all prisoners at libertie sayth VVil. Malm. Marchar Earle of Northumberland and Wilnotus the sonne of king Harolde or as some say his brother Polidor Moreouer he repented him as some say when he lay on his death bed for his cruell dealing with the English men considering that by them he had atteyned to such honour and dignitie as to weare the crowne and scepter of a kingdome but whether he did so or not or that some Monke deuised the excuse in fauor of the Prince Surely he was a famous knight and though his time was troublesome yet hee was right fortunate in all his attempts Againe if a man shall consider howe that in a straunge realme he coulde make suche a conquest and so perfitely and speedily establish the same to his heyres with newe lawes orders and constitutions whiche as appeare are moste like euer to endure he woulde thinke it a thing altogither voyde of credite Yet so it was and so honourable were his doings and notable in sight of the worlde here that those kings which haue succeeded sithence his death beginne their account at him as from one that had by his prudence renued the state of the realme and instituted an other forme of regiment in atchieuing whereof he did not so much pretende a rightfull chalenge by the graunt of his cosin king Edwarde the Confessor as by the law of armes and plaine conquest than the which as he supposed there coulde be no better tytle Herevpon also those that haue sithence succeeded him vse the same armes as peculiar to the crowne of Englande which he vsed in his time that is to witte He bare but two Lions or rather Leopards as some thinke three Lions passant golde in a fielde gewles as Polidor writeth the three floure Delices were since that time annexed thereto by Edward the third by reason of his clayme to the crowne of Fraunce whereof hereafter yee shall heare more Polidor There be also that write how the inconstancie of the English people by their oft rebellions occasioned the king to be so heauie Lorde and master vnto them Where he of his naturall disposition was rather gentle and curteous than sharpe and cruell diuerse mē might be perswaded so to thinke of him in deed if he had ceassed frō his rough gouerning yet in the ende but sithence he continued his rigor euen to his last days we may rather beleeue that although happily from his childhoode he shewed some tokens of clemencie bountie and liberalitie yet by following the warres and practising to raigne with sternenesse he became so invred therewith that those peaceable vertues were quite altered in him in maner clearly extinct in whose place cruel rigor auaritious couetousnesse and vnmercifull seueritie caught roote and were planted Yet is he renoumed to haue reteyned still a certaine stoutenesse of courage and skil in feates of warre which good happe euer followed Moreouer he was free from lecherous lustes and without suspition of bodily vices quicke and subtile of wit desirous of honor and coulde very well susteyne trauail watching colde and heate though he were tall of stature and very grosse of bodie In like maner toward the ende of his dayes he began to waxe verie deuout and somewhat to bend toward the aduauncing of the present estate of the church insomuch that he builded three Abbayes in seuerall places endowing them with fayre lands and large possessions as two in England one at the place where hee vanquished King Harolde fiue miles distant from Hastings which he named Battaile of the field there foughten the other at Celby in Yorkshire y e third
Ague and so died shortly after King Henrie departeth this life the first day of December being as then aboute .lxvij. yeres of age and after he had raigned .xxxv. yeres foure moneths lacking foure dayes His bodie was conueyed into Englande and buryed at Reading within the Abbay Churche which he had founded endowed in his life time with great and large possessions Math. VVest Ran. Higd. Sim. Dunel It is written that his bodie to auoyde the stench which had infected many men was closed in a Bulles skinne and howe he that clensed the heade dyed of the sauour whiche issued out of the brayne The issue of king Henrie the first He had by his first wife a sonne named William that was drowned as ye haue heard in the sea also a daughter named Mawde whom with hir sonnes he appoynted to inherite his Crowne and other dominions He had also issude by one of his concubines a sonne named Richarde and a daughter named Mary which were also drowned with their brother William By an other concubine he had a sonne named Robert that was created Duke of Gloucester He was strong of bodie His stature fleshie and of an indifferent stature blacke of heare and in maner balde before with greate and large eyes of face comely well countenaunced and pleasant to thy beholders namely when hee was disposed to myrth He excelled in three vertues wisedome His vertues eloquence and valiancie which notwithstanding were somewhat blemished with the like number of vices that raigned in him as couetousnesse His vices crueltie and fleshly lust of bodie His couetousnesse appeared in that hee sore oppressed his subiects with tributes and impositions His crueltie was shewed chiefely in that he kept his brother Robert Courtehuse in perpetual prison and likewise in the hard vsing of his cosin Robert Earle of Mortaigne whome he not onely deteyned in prisō but also caused his eies to be put out which act was kept secrete till the kings death reuealed it And his lecherous lust was manifest by keeping of sundrie women His wisdome But in his other affayres he was circumspect and in defending his own very earnest and diligent such warres as might be auoyded with honourable peace he euer sought to appease But when such iniuries were offred as he thought not meete to suffer he was an impacient reuenger of the same ouercomming al perils with the force of vertue and manly courage His manly courage shewing himselfe eyther a most louing friend or else an extreeme enimie for his aduersaries hee would subdue to the vttermost and his friends he vsed to aduaunce aboue measure And herein he declared the propertie of a stoute Prince which is Parcere subiectis debellane superbos that is to bring vnder the proude enimies and to fauour those that submit themselues and seeke for mercy With the constant rigour of iustice he ruled the common◅ quietly and entertayned the Nobles honorably Theeues counterfeyters of money His zeale to iustice and other transgressours he caused to bee sought out with greate diligence and when they were found to be punished with great seuerity Neither did he neglect reformations of certaine naughtie abuses And as one Author hath written Sim. Dunel Theeues appoynted to be hanged he ordayned that theeues should suffer death by hanging Whē he heard that such peeces of mony as were cracked would not be receyued amongst the people although the same were good and fine siluer he caused all the coyne in the Realme to bee eyther broken or s◅it he was sober of diet vsing to eate rather to quench hunger than to pamper him selfe vp with many dayntie sortes of banketting dishes and neuer dranke but when thirst moued him he woulde sleepe soundly and snore oftentymes till he wakened therewith He pursued hys warres rather by policie than by the sworde His policie and ouercame his enimies so neare as he coulde without bloudshed and if that might not be yet with so small slaughter as was possible To conclude hee was not inferiour to any of the kings that reigned in those dayes His prayse for his Princely gouernment in wisedome and policie and so behaued himselfe that hee was honoured of the Nobles and beloued of the commons He buylded diuerse Abbayes both in Englande and in Normādie Reading Abbay buylded but Reading was the chiefest He also buylded the Manour of Woodstocke with the Parke there in whiche beside the greate store of Deare hee appoynted diuerse straunge beastes to be kept and nourished whiche were brought and sent vnto him from Countreyes farre distaunt from our partyes as Lions Leopardes Lynxes and Porkepines His estimation was suche amongest forrayne Princes that fewe woulde willingly offende him Morchav king of Irelande and his successours had him in suche reuerence Morchad king of Irelande that they durst doe nothing but that which he commaunded nor write any thing but that whiche might stande with his pleasure although at the first the same Morchad attempted somthing against the English men more than stoode with reason but afterwarde vpon restraint of the entercourse of Marchandice hee was glad to shewe himselfe more friendly The Earle of Orkney Moreouer the Earle of Orkney although he was the king of Norwayes subiecte yet hee did what hee coulde to procure king Henries friendship sending vnto him oftentymes presents of suche straunge beastes and other things in the which he knewe himselfe to haue great delyte and pleasure He had in singular fauour aboue all other of his Councell Roger Bishop of Salisburie Roger the Bishop of Salisburie a politike Prelate and one that knewe howe to order matters of great importance vnto whome hee committed the gouernment of the Realme most commonly whilest he remayned in Normandie In this Henrie ended the line of the Normans as touching the heyres male and then came in the Frenchmen by the tytle of the heyres generall after that the Normans had raigned about .lxix. yeares for so many are accounted from the comming of William Conquerour vnto the beginning of the raigne of king Stephen who succeeded next after this foresayde Henrie As well in this kings dayes as in the time of his brother William Rufus mē forgetting their owne sexe and state transformed themselues into the habite and fourme of women by suffring their heares to growe at length the which they curled and trimmed verie curiously The abuse of wearing long heares after the maner of Damosels and yong Gentlewomen and suche account they made of their long bushing perukes that those which woulde be taken for Courtiers stroue with women who shoulde haue the longest tresses and such as wanted sought to amende it with arte and by knitting wreathes aboute their heades of those their long and side lockes for a brauerie 1127 Mat. VVest Yet we read that king Henrie gaue cōmaundement to all his people to cut their heares about the .28 yere of his reigne Preachers in deed
themselues to the Frenche King who taking a greate pryde in his doings for that victorie passed ouer Loyre and wanne the Citie of Towrs wherein hee placed a garnison and so hauing spedde hys businesse wyth good successe bringeth home hys armie laden wyth prayes and booties Polidor King Henrie beeing thus put to the worse and not perceyuing anye readie meane howe to recouer his losses beganne to despayre in hymselfe and therefore of necessitie thought it best to seeke for peace The Earle of Flaunders seeketh to agree the Parties but hys suyte was in vaine for the enimie hauing now the aduantage would not graunt to agree vpon any reasonable conditions At the last Philip the Earle of Flaunders Mat. Paris and William Archbishoppe of Reymes with Hugh Duke of Burgoyne came to king Henrie to moue wayes of agreement and to conclude the same betwixte hym on the one partie and the French King and Earle Richarde on the other parte Earle Richarde had the Brytaynes and them of Poictou confederate wyth him vnder such conditions as hee myght not agree with his father without that they mighte bee comprysed in the agreemente A peace concluded At length they agreed vpon conditions not altogither aduauntageable to the King of Englande yet in the ende Chateau Raoul was restored to king Henrye wyth all that had beene taken from him sithe the tyme that the Frenche king and hee tooke vppon them the Crosse On the other part King Henrye did homage to the Frenche King whiche in the beginning of thys warre he hadde surrendred and renounced Thirty thoâ—…sand to the king and .xx. to the Baron of France 〈◊〉 He was bounde also to paye to the Frenche King twentie thousande Markes for the ayde whiche Earle Rycharde had receyued of him Moreouer to resigne and acquite vnto the Frenche King Ger. Do. all that whiche eyther he or hys predecessours helde or possessed within Aluergne Other Articles there were which king Henry agreed vnto sore agaynst hys will as the delyuery of the Ladie Alice or Adela and suche other which as not muche materiall wee passe ouer This peace was concluded not farre from Towrs â—…g Houed Gisors saith â—…er Do. in a place appoynted conuenient for both the Kings to meete in aboute the feast of the Apostles Peter and Paule And as writers recorde there chaunced great thunder and lightning at the very tyme when the two kings came to enteruiew and talke togither â—…ange thunâ—…r and lightâ—…ng so that the leit bolt light betwixt them two And yet notwythstanding suche thunder and lightning the ayre was cleare and nothing troubled The two Kings departed in sunder through feare thereof for that day and on the next day the like chaunce happened greatly to the terrour of them both Which moued King Henrie the sooner to condifcende to the agreement Moreouer this is not-to-bee forgotten that when all matters were quieted and accorded amongst them King Henrie requyred to haue all theyr names delyuered vnto him in wryting which had promised to take part were ioined as confederates with the French king and Erle Richard This was graunted and when the rolle was presented vnto him he founde his son Iohn the first person that was named in that register wherewith he was so troubled and disquieted in his mynde that comming to Chinon hee felte such griefe hereof that hee cursed euen the verye day in whiche he was borne and as was sayde gaue to hys sonnes Gods cursse and hys the whiche hee woulde neuer release although he was admonished to do it both of sundry Bishops and other religious and godly men Thus hath Houeden Howbeit it is not like that Earle Richarde at this tyme had procured hys brother Iohn to bee confederate with hym in hys rebellious dealings but rather bycause Earle Rycharde had some suspition leaste his father woulde make Iohn hys heyre and successour in the kingdome it might bee a pollicie wrought by the Frenche king and Earle Richarde to alienate his fathers minde from the sayd Iohn These euils were esteemed to fall vnto king Henrie by the iust iudgement of God for that being admonished dyuerse wayes as well by diuine Reuelation as by the wholesome aduise of graue menne as Hugh Bishoppe of Lincolne and others hee woulde not refourme hys lycencious appetyte of heaping vppe sinne vpon sinne but styll wallowed therein to his owne destruction Wherevpon beeing brought to suche an extremitie as ye haue heard hee was taken with a grieuous sickenesse which bringing him to vtter desperation of recouering of health he finally departed this lyfe though more through verie anguishe and griefe of hys late losse and troubles susteyned than by the force of hys bodily disease King Henrie departeth this life as wryters haue affyrmed But howsoeuer it was he ended nowe his life the sixth of Iuly in the .lxj. yeare of his age and after he had raigned xxxiiij yeares nine Monethes and two dayes whiche was in the yeare after the byrth of oure Sauiour .1189 and of the creation of the Worlde .5155 And here may be thought that the raigne of the Normans and French men ouer the realme of England tooke ende a hundred .xxij. yeares after the comming in of the Conquerour for those that raigned after this Henrie the seconde wee may rightly esteeme them to bee Englishemen bycause they were borne in Englande and vsed the English tongue customes and maners according to the nature and qualitie of the Countrey His bodie was buryed at Founteverarde whiche is an Abbey situate not farre from the Towne of the Eagle wythin the Duchie of Alancon Immediately vpon his death those that were about him applyed theyr market so busily in catching and filching awaye things that lay readie for them His surname whereof it came that the kings corps lay naked a long time tyll a childe couered the nether partes of his bodie with a short Cloke and then it seemed that his surname was fulfilled that hee had from hys childhood which was shortmantell being so called bycause hee was the first that brought shorte clokes one of Anion into England As his sonne Richarde mette the corpse going towardes the buryall sodainly there issued bloud oute of the deade bodyes Nosthrillos whiche was taken for a signifycation that it abhorred the presence of so wicked a Sonne whiche in hys lyfe tyme hadde so persecuted the father His death was signified by a marueylous straunge woonder A straunge maner of fight betwixt fishes for a fewe dayes before hee dyed all the fishes in a certayne Meere or Poole in Normandie leapt forth on lande in the nighte season and fought togyther with suche a noyse that a great multitude of men came running thither to beholde the wonder and coulde not finde one fishe aliue in the Meere He had issue by hys wyse Queene Elonor The issue of Henrie the seconde His sonnes as may appeare by that whiche alreadie is rehearsed â—…foure sonnes Henrye Rycharde
returned agayne to Boys de Vincennes and beeing there receiued of the King and Queene of Fraunce and of the Queene his wife the thirtith day of May being Whitson euen they remoued altogither vnto Paris where the King of England lodged in the Castell of Loure and the Frenche King in the house of Saint Paule These two kings kept great estate with their Queenes The royall port of the K. of Englande at this high feast of Pentecost but the King of Englandes Court greatly exceeded so that al the resort was thither The ParisieÌ„s that beheld his princely port and high magnificence iudged him rather an Emperour than a Kyng and their owne King to be in respect to him like a Duke or a Marques The Dolphin hauyng knowledge by espials where the King of England and his power lay came with all his puissance ouer the riuer of Loyre and besieged Cosney Cosney besieged by the Dolphyn a towne scituate vpon that riuer a sixe score miles distant from Paris and appointed parte of his army to wast and destroy the confynes of the Duchie of Burgoigne to the inteÌ„t to deuide the power of the Kyng of Englande from the strength of the Duke of Burgoigne supposing as it came to passe indeede that the Duke would make hast towardes Burgoigne to defende hys owne lands In the meane time they within Cosney were so hard handled that they promised to render their towne to the Dolphin if they were not rescued by the King of EnglaÌ„d within tenne dayes King HeÌ„ry hearing these newes woulde not send any one creature but determined to goe himselfe to the reysing of that siege and so with all deligence came to the Towne of Corbeil and so to Senlis where The king falleth sicke whithout were with heate of the ayre or that he wish hys daily labour were â—…obled or weakened he began to ware sicke yea and so sicke that hee was constreyned to tarrie send his brother the Duke of Bedford to rescue them of Cosney which he did Cosney rescued by the duke of Bedford to his high honor for the Dolphin hearing that the Duke of Bedford was comming to reise his siege departed thence into Berrie to his greate dishonor and lesse gaine Aboute the same time the Duke of Britaine sent his Chancellor y e Bishop of Mauntes Titus Lâ—… The Duke of Britayne seadeth ambassadors to the K. of England with the Bishop of Vannes and others of his counsell as Ambassadors from him vnto K. Henrye with full commission to ratifie and allowe for him and his people the peace coÌ„cluded at Troyes but by reason of the Kings greeuous sicknes nothing as then was done in that matter Neuerthelesse the Duke himselfe in person came afterwardes to Amiens and there performed that which he had appoynted his Ambassadors at this time in his name to haue done and accomplished In the meane season The king of Englande is brought sickâ—… to Boys de Vincennes King Henrye waxed sicker and sicker and so in an horselitter was coÌ„ueyed to Boys de Vincennes to whome shortly after repared the Dukes of Bedforde Gloucester and the Earles of Salisburie and Warwike whome the King louingly welcomed and shewed himselfe right glad of their presence and when he saw theÌ„ pensiue for his sicknesse great danger of life wherin he presently laye His aduice vpon his death bedde he with many graue curteous pithie words recomforted them the best he could and therwith exhorted them to be trustie and faithfull vnto his son and to see that he might be wel and vertuously brought vp and as coÌ„cerning the rule and gouernaÌ„ce of his realmes during the minoritie yong yeares of his said sonne he willed them to ioyne together in frendly loue and concorde keping continuall peace and amitie with the duke of Burgoigne and neuer to make treatie with Charles that calleth himselfe Dolphyn of Vyenne by the whyche any part eyther of the crown of France or of the Duchies of Normandie and Guyenne may be lessened or dimynished and further that the Duke of Orleauns and the other Princes shoulde styll remayne Prisoners tyll hys sonne came to lawfull age least retournyng home againe they myght kindle more fyre in one day than myght be quenched in three He further aduiseth theÌ„ that if they thought it necessarye that it shoulde be good to haue his brother Humfrey duke of Glocester to be protector of Englande during the nonage of his sonne and his brother the duke of Bedford with the helpe of the duke of Burgongne to rule and to be regent of France commaunding him with fire and sword to persecute the Dolphyn til he had either brought him to reason and obeysance or else to driue and expell hym out of the realme of Fraunce And herewith he protested vnto them Titus Liuius that neyther the ambitious desyre to enlarge his dominions neyther to purchase vayne renowne and worldlye fame nor any other consideration hadde moued him to take the warres in hande but onely that in prosecuting his iust title he might in the end atteyn to a perfect peace and come to enioy those peeces of his inheritance whiche to him of right belonged and that before the beginning of the same warres he was fully perswaded by menne bothe wyse and of greate holynesse of lyfe that vppon suche intent he myghte and ought bothe beginne the same warres and follow them til he had brought them to an end iustly and rightly and that without all daunger of Gods displeasure or perill of soule The noble men present promised to obserue his preceptes and to perfourme his desires but their hearts were so pensife and replenished with sorow that one could not for weping behold an other Then he sayd the .vij. psalmes and receyued the sacrament and in saying the Psalmes of the Passion â—…e departed 〈◊〉 life ended his dayes here in this world the last of August in the yere a thousand foure hundred twentie and two The câ—…mendâ—… of kyng Henry the fifte 〈◊〉 expressed by â—…er Hall This Henry was a king whose lyfe was immaculate and his liuing without spotte Thys king was a Prince whome all men loued and of none disdayned This Prince was a captain against whome fortune neuer frowned nor mischance once spurned This captain was a shepheard whom his flocke both loued and obeyed This shephearde was suche a Iusticiarie that lefte no offence vnpunished nor frendship vnrewarded Thys Iusticiarie was so feared that all rebellion was banished and sedition suppressed Hys vertues were no more notable than his qualities were worthie of praise for in strengthe and nimblenesse of bodie from his youthe fewe were to hym comparable for in wrastling leaping and running no maÌ„ almost durst with him presume in casting of great iron barres and heauie stones he excelled commonly all menne No colde made him slouthfull nor heat caused him to shrinke and when he moste laboured his head was vncouered He
Brudeus king of Pictes whom he sent into ScotlaÌ„d with a great power where in battail he tooke this Alpine king of Scots prisoner and discomfited his people and this Alpine beyng their king found subiect and rebell his hed was strikeÌ„ of at a place in Scotland which thereof is to this day called Pasalpine that is to say the hed of Alpine And this was the first effecte of theyr Frenche league Osbright king of england with Ella hys subiect and a great number of Britons and Saxons shortly after for that the Scots haâ—… of theÌ„selues elected a new king entred Scotland and ceassed not his warre against them vntil their king and people fled into the Iles with whom at the last vpon their submission peace was made in this wyse The water of Frith shal be March betwene Scots and englishmeÌ„ in the east partes and shal be named the scottish sea The water of Cluide to Dunbriton shal be March in the west partes betwene the Scots and Britones This castle was before called Alcluide and now Dunbriton that is to say the castle of Britons So the Britons had all the landes froÌ„ Sterlyng to the Ireland seas and from the water of Frithe and Cluide to Cumber with all y e strengthes and commodities therof and the englishmen had y e lands betwéene Sterlyng and Northumberlande Thus was Cluide March betwene scots and Britones on the one side and the water of Frithe named the Scottish sea Marche betwene them and englishmeÌ„ on the other side and Sterlyng common March to thrée people Britons Englishmen and Scottes and king Osbright had the Castle of Sterlyng where first he caused to be coyned Sterlyng mony The English meÌ„ also builded a bridge of stone for passage ouer the water of Frith in the middes wherof they made a crosse vnder which were written these verses I am free March as passengers may ken To Scottes to Britons and to Englishmen Not many yeres after this Hinguar Hubba two Danes with a great number of people arriued in Scotland and slew Constantine whom Osbright had before made kyngâ—… whereupon Edulfe or Ethelwulfe then kyng of englaÌ„d assembled his power against Hinguar and Hubba in one battaile slue them both but such of their people as woulde remayne and become christians he suffered to tary the rest he banished or put to death c. â—…ome This Ethelwulf graunted the Peter peÌ„â—â— of which albeit Peter and Paule had litâ—â—â— néede and lesse right yet the payment therof continued in this realm euer after vntil now of late yeres but the Scottes euer since vnto this day haue and yet do pay it by reason of that graunt which proueth them to be then vnder his obeysaunce Alurede or Alfrede succéeded in the kyngdome of England and reigned nobly ouer the whole monarchie of great Britayne He made lawes that persons excommunicated should be disabled to sue or clayme any propertie which law Gregour whom this Alurede had made king of Scottes obeyed and the same law as well in Scotland as in England is holden to this day which also proueth hym to be high lord of Scotland Thys Alurede constreyned Gregour king of Scots also to breake the league with Fraunce for generally he concluded wyth hym and serued hym in all his warres as well agaynst Danes as others not reseruing or making any exceptioÌ„ of the former league with Fraunce The sayd Alurede after the death of Gregour had the lyke seruice and obeysaunce of Donald king of Scottes wyth fiue thousand horsemen against one Gurmonde a Dane that then infested the realme and this Donald dyed in this faith and obeisaunce wyth Alurede Edward the first of that name called Chifod sonne of this Alurede succéeded next kyng of englaÌ„d against whom Sithrijc a Dane the Scottes conspired but they were subdued and Constantine their kyng brought to obeisance He held the realme of scotland also of kyng Edwarde and thys doth Marian their owne country man a Scotte confesse beside Roger Houeden WilliaÌ„ of Malmesbury In the yere of our Lord 923. the same king Edward was President and gouernor of all the people of England Cumberland Scots Danes and Britones King Athelstane in like sort coÌ„quered scotland and as he lay in his tentes beside Yorke whylest the warres lasted the king of Scots fayned hymselfe to be a minstrel and harped before him onely to espy his ordinaunce his people But beyng as their writers confesse corrupted with money he sold his fayth false hart together to the Danes and ayded them against king Athelstane at sondry times Howbeit he met w tall their vntruthes at Breâ—â—â—â—gfield in the west countrey as is mentioned in the 9. chapter of the first booke of thys description where hée discomfited the Danes and slew Malcolme deputie in that behalfe to the king of Scottes in which battaile the Scottes confesse themselues to haue lost more people then were remembred in any age before Then Athelstane folowing hys good lucke went throughout all scotland and wholy subdued it and being in possession therof gaue land there lying in AnnaÌ„dale by his déede the copy wherof doth followe I kyng Athelstane giues vnto Paulan Oddam and Roddam al 's good and al 's faire as euer they mine were and therto witnes Mauld my wyfe By which course wordes not onely appeareth y e plaine simplicitie of mens doinges in those dayes but also a ful proofe that he was then seized of Scotlande At the last also he receyued homage of Malcolme king of Scottes but for that he coulde not be restored to his whole kingdome he entered into Religion and there shortely after dyed Then Athelstane for his better assuraunce of that countrey there after thought it best to haue two stringes to the bowe of their obedience and therefore not onelye constituted one Malcolme to be their king but also appointed one Indulph sonne of Constantine the thirde to be called prince of Scotlande to whome he gaue much of Scotlande and for this Malcolme did homage to Athelstane Edmund brother of Athelstane succéeded next king of Englande to whome this Indulph then kyng of Scottes not only dyd homage but also serued him wyth ten thousand Scottes for the expulsion of the Danes out of the realme of Englande Edred or Eldred brother to thys Edmund succéeded next king of Englande Some referre this to an Edward he not onelye receyued the homage of Irise then kyng of Scottes but also the homage of all the Barons of Scotlande Edgar the sonne of Edmund brother of Athelstane being nowe of full age was next kyng of England the reigned onely ouer the whole Monarchie of great Britaine and receyued homage of Keneth king of Scots for the kingdome of Scotlande and made Malcolme prince thereof Thys Edgar gaue vnto the same Keneth the countrey of Louthian in Scotland which was before seized into the hands of Osbright king of England for their rebellion as is before declared He enioined this Keneth their
king also once in euery yere at certaine principall feastes whereat the king dyd vse to weare his crowne to repaire vnto him into Englande for the making of lawes which in those daies was done by y e noble meÌ„ or peres according to the order of France at this day To thich end he allowed also sundry lodgings in England to him his successours wherat to lye refreshe themselues in their tourneyes and finally a péece of ground lying beside the newe palace of Westminster vppon which this Keneth buylded a house that by him and his posteritie was enioyed vntill the reigne of King Henry the seconde in whose tyme vpon the rebellioÌ„ of William theÌ„ king of Scottes it was resumed into the king of Englands handes The house is decayed but the grounde where it stoode is called Scotlande to this day Moreouer Edgar made this lawe that no man shoulde succéede to his patrimonie or inheritaunce holden by knightes seruice vntill he accomplished the age of one and twentie yeares bycause by intendement vnder that age he shoulde not be able in person to serue hys king and countrey according to the tenour of his déede and the coÌ„dition of his purchase This lawe was receyued by the same Keneth in Scotlande and aswell there as in Englande is obserued to this day which prooueth also that Scotlande was then vnder hys obeysaunce In the yeare of our Lorde 1974. Kinalde king of Scottes Malcolin king of Cumbreland Macon king of Man and the Isles Duuenall bing of southwales Siferth and Howell kings of the rest of wales Iacob or Iames of Galloway and Iukill of westmerlande did homage to king Edgar at Chester And on the morow going by water to y e monastery of s Iohns to seruice and returning home againe y e said Edgar sitting in a barge stiering the same vpon the water of Dée made the sayd kings to rowe y e barge saying that his successors might well be ioyefull to haue the prerogatiue of so great honour and the superiority of so many mightie princes to be subiect vnto their monarchie Edward the sonne of this Edgar was next king of Englande in whose tyme this Keneth kyng of Scots caused Malcolme prince of Scotlande to be poysoned wherupon king Edwarde made warre agaynst him which ceassed not vntill this Keneth submitted himselfe and offered to receyue him for prince of Scotlande whome king Edward woulde appoint herevpon Edwarde proclaymed one Malcolme to be prince of Scotlande who immediately came into Englande and there dyd homage vnto the same King Edwarde Etheldred brother of thys Edwarde succéeded next ouer Englande against whome Swayn kyng of Denmarke conspired with this last Malcolme then king of Scots But shortly after this Malcolme sorowfully submitted himself into the defence of Etheldred who considering how that which coulde 〈◊〉 be amended must only be repented benignelye receyued him by helpe of whose seruice at last Etheldred recouered hys realme againe out of the handes of Swayn and reigned ouer the whole Monarchy eyght thirtie yeares Edmund surnamed Ironside sonne of this Etheldred was next king England in whose tyme Canutus a Dane inuaded the realme with much crueltie but at last he marryed w t Emme sometime wyfe vnto Etheldred and mother of this Edmund which Emme as arbitratrix betwéene hir naturall loue to the one and 〈…〉 procured such 〈…〉 them in the ende that 〈…〉 the realme with Canutus kéeping to himselfe all 〈…〉 all the râ—… 〈…〉 Humber with the seignorie of Scotlande to this Canutus â–ª whervpon Malcolme then king of Scottes after a little customable resistâ—…nce dyd homage to the same Canutus for kingdome of ScotlaÌ„d and thus the sayde Canutus helde the same ouer of this Edmond king of Englande by the lyke seruices This Canutus in memorie of his victorie and glorie of his seignorie ouer the Scottes commaunded this Malcolme their king to buylde a Church in Bâ—…hâ—…haâ—… in Scotland where a fielde betwéene him and them waâ—… fought to be dedicate to Olâ—…uâ—… patrone of Norway and Denmark which Church was by the same Malcolme accordingly perfourmed Edwarde called the confessour sonne of Etheldred and brother to Edmond Ironside was afterward king of england He toke froÌ„ Malcolme king of Scottes his lyfe and hys kingdome and made Malcolme sonne to the king of Cumbrelande and Northumbrelandâ—… king of Scottes who dyd him hâ—â—age and fealtie Thys Edwarde perused the olde lawes of the realme and somewhat added to some of them as to the lawe of Edgar for the wardshippe of the landes vntyll the heirs shoulde accomplishe the age of one twentie yeares he added that the marryage of such heire shoulde also belong to the Lorde of whom the same lande was holden Also that euery woman marrying a frée man shoulde notwithstanding she had no children by that husbande enioye the thirde part of his inheritaunce during hir lyfe with many other lawes which the same Malcolme king of Scottes obeyed And which aswel by them in Scotlande as by vs in Englande be obserued to this day and directly prooueth the whole to be then vnder his obeysaunce By reason of this law Malcolme the sonne of Duncane next inheritour to the crowne of Scotlande being within age was by the nobles of Scotlande deliuered as warde to the custome of this king Edwarde during whose minoritie one Makebeth a Scot trayterously vsurped the crowne of Scotland against whom this king Edward made warre in which the said Makebeth was ouercome and slayne whervpon y e said Malcolme was crowned king of Scottes at Stone in the viij yere of the reigne of this king Edward Thys Malcolme by 〈◊〉 of the sayde nâ—… 〈…〉 of wardship was marryed vnto Margarâ—â— the daughter of Edward sonne of Edmond Ironside and Agatha by the disposition of the same king Edward and at his ful age dyd homage to this king Edward for this kingdome of Scotland Moreouer Edwarde of Englande hauing 〈…〉 of his body and mistrusting that Marelde the sonne of 〈…〉 of the daughter of Harolde Hâ—â—efoote 〈…〉 worlde 〈…〉 the raâ—…ne if he should 〈◊〉 it to his cosin Edgar Edâ—â—â—g being theÌ„ within age and 〈◊〉 by the peticion of his 〈◊〉 â—â—ctes â—…â—…ho before had â—…rne neuer to receiue 〈…〉 writing as all 〈◊〉 clergy writers affirme 〈◊〉 the crowd of great Britaine vnto William their duke of Normandie and to his heires constituting hâ—… his heire testamentarie Also there was proximiteâ—… in bloude betwéene theÌ„ for Emme daughter of Richarde duke of Normandye was wife vnto Etheldred 〈◊〉 whom he begat Aâ—â—red and able Edwardâ—… and this William was sonne of Robert sonne of Richarde brother of the whole bloud to in the same Eâ—â—e whereby appeareth that this William was Heire by tytle and not by 〈◊〉 albeit that partly to extinguish the mistrust of other tytles and partely for the glory of hys 〈◊〉 he chalenged in the ende the name of a 〈◊〉 hath bene so written euer fithâ—…s his aâ—…riâ—…ll This king William called the
ecclesiasticall thorough Christendome conferred the whole clergy of Scotland accordyng to the olde lawes vnder the iurisdiction of the Archbishop of Yorke In the yeare of our Lord 1185. in the month of August at Cairleil Roulande Talnante lord of Galway did homage and fealty to the said king Henry with all that held of hym In the 22. yeare of the raigne of king Henry the 2. Gilbert sonne of Ferguse prince of Galway did homage and fealtie to the sayd king Henry and left Dunecan his sonne in hostage for conseruation of peace Richard surnamed Coeur de Lyon sonne of this Henry was next king of england to whoÌ„ the same William king of Scottes dyd homage at Caunterbury for the kyngdome of Scotland This king Richard was taken prisoner by the Duke of Ostrich for whose redemptioÌ„ the whole realme was taxed at great summes of money vnto the which this William king of Scots as a subiect was contributory and payed two M. markes sterlyng In the yere of our Lord 1199. Iohn kyng of england sent to William king of Scottes to come do his homage which William came to Lincolne in the moneth of December the same yeare and did his homage there vpon an hill in the presence of Hubert Archbishop of Caunterbury and of all the people there assembleâ—… and there was sworne vpon the crosse of the said Hubert Also he grâ—â—â—ted by his charter conâ—â—â—â—ed that he should haue the mariage of Alexander hys 〈◊〉 as hys liegeman alwayes to hold of the king of england promising moreâ—â—er that he the sayde king William his soâ—…e Alexander should kepe and hold faith and allegeance to Henry 〈◊〉 of the sayd king Iohn as to their chiefe Lord against all maner of men Also where as William king of Scots had put Iohn Bishoppe of s Andrewe out of his Bishopricke Pope Clemente wrote to Henry kyng of englande that he shoulde 〈◊〉 and indure the same William and if néede were requyre by hys Royall power compell hym to leaue his rancour agaynst y e sayd Bishop and suffer him to haue and occupye his sayde Bishopricke againe In the yeare of our Lorde 1216. and fiue and twenty of y e reign of king Henry sonne to king Iohn the same king Henry and the Quéene were at Yorke at y e feast of Christmasse for the solemnization of a marryage made in the feast of s Stephane the Martir the same yeare betwéene Alexander king of Scottes Margarete the kings daughter and there the sayde Alexander dyd homage to Henry king of Englande In Buls of diuers Popes were admonitions geueÌ„ to the kings of Scottes that they should obserue truly kéepe all such appointments as had ben made betwéene the kings of england and Scotland And that the kings of Scotland should holde the realme of Scotlande of the kings of englande vpon payne of curse and interditing After the deathe of Alexander kyng of Scottes Alexander his sonne beyng nyne yeres of age was by the lawes of Edgar inwarde to king Henry the 3. and by the nobles of Scotland brought to Yorke and there deliuered to him During whose minoritie king Henry gouerned Scotland and to subdue a commocion in this realme vsed the ayde of v. M. Scottishmen but king Henry dyed during the nonage of this Alexander whereby he receiued not his homage which by reason and law was respited vntil his full age of xxj yeares Edward the first after the conquest sonne of this Henry was next king of england immediately after whose coronation AlexaÌ„der king of Scottes being then of ful age did homage to hym for Scotlande at Westminster swearyng as all the reast did after this maner I.D.N. king of Scottes shal be true and faithfull vnto you Lorde E. by the grace of God king of England the noble and superior lord of the kingdome of Scotland and vnto you I make my fidelitie for the same kingdome the which I hold and claime to hold of you And I shall beare you my faith and fidelitie of lyfe and limme and worldly honour against all meÌ„ faithfully I shall knowledge and shall doe you seruice due vnto you of the kingdom of Scotland aforesayde as God me so helpe and these holy Euangelies This Alexander king of Scottes died leauing one only daughter called Margaret for his heire who before had maried Hanygo sonne to Magnus king of Norway which daughter also shortly after died leauyng one onely daughter her heire of the age of two yeares whose custody and mariage by the lawes of king Edgar and Edward the confessour belonged to Edward the first whervpon the nobles of Scotland were commauÌ„ded by our king Edward to send into Norway to conuey this yong Quéene into England to him whom he entended to haue maried to his soÌ„ne Edward and so to haue made a perfite vnion betwéene bothe Realmes Hereuppon their nobles at that tyme considering the same tranquillitie that many of them haue sithens refused stoode not vpon shiftes and delayes of minoritie nor conteÌ„pt but most gladly consented and therupon sent two noble men of Scotlande into Norway for hir to be brought to this king Edwarde but she died before their comming thither therefore they required nothing but to enioye the lawful liberties that they had quietly possessed in the last king Alexander his tyme. After the death of this Margaret the Scots were destitute of any heire to the crown from this Alexander their last king at which time this Edwarde discended from the bodye of Mawde daughter of Malcolme sometyme king of Scottes beyng then in the greatest broile of his warres with Fraunce mynded not to take the possession of that kingdome in his own right but was contented to establish Balioll to be king therof the weake title betwene him Bruse Hastings being by the humble peticion of all the realme of Scotland committed to the determination of this king Edward wherin by autentique writing they confessed the superioritie of the realme to remaine in king Edward sealed with the seales of iiij Bishops vij earles and xij barons of Scotland which shortly after was by the whole assent of y e thrée estates of Scotland in their solemne Parliament confessed and enacted accordingly as most euidently doth appeare The Balioll in this wise made kyng of ScotlaÌ„d did immediately make hys homage and fealty at Newcastle vpon saint Freâ—â—â—â— day as 〈◊〉 likewise all the Lordes of Scotland â—â—he one setting his hand to the compoâ—â—â—ion in writing to king Edward of England for the kingdom of Scotland but shortly after defrauding the benigne goodnesse 〈◊〉 this king Edward he rebelled and did 〈◊〉 much hurt in englande Hereupon king Edward inuaded Scotland seaâ—â—d into his haÌ„dâ—… the greater part of the countrey and tooke all the strengthes thereof whereuppon Baliol king of Scottes came vnto king Edwarde at Mauntrosse in Scotland with a white 〈◊〉 in his hand and there resigned the crownâ—… of Scotland with all his right title and interest to the same into the
confessour All this was done Anno dom M. CCCC.iiij which was within fiue yeares after the death of kyng Richarde This Henry the fourth reigned in this state ouer them fouretéene years Henry the fift of that name sonne to thys king Henry the fourth was next king of england He made warres against y e french king in all which this Iames then king of scottes attended vpon him as vpon his superior lord with a conuenient number of scots notwithstanding their league with fraunce But this Henry reigned but nine yeares whereby the homage of this Iames their king hauing not fully accomplished the age of one and twentye yeares was by reason and lawe respited Finallye the sayd Iames wyth dyuers other lordes attended vpon the corpes of the sayde saide Henry vnto Westminster as to his dutie appertayned Henry the sixt the sonne of this Henry the fift was next king of englande to whome the seignorie of scotlande and custodye of thys Iames by right lawe and reason discended marryed the same Iames king of scottes to Iane daughter of Iohn earle of Sommerset at s Mary â—â—er Ise in southâ—…arke and tooke for the value of thys marryage the summe of one hundreth thousand markes sterling This Iames king of scottes at his full age did homage to the same king Henry the sixt foâ—… the kingdome of scotland at Wyndsore in the moneth of Ianuary Since which tyme vnto the dayes of king Henry the seauenth graundfather to our souereigne lord that now is albeit this realme hath béene molested with diuersitie of titles in which vnméete tyme neither lawe nor reason admit prescription to the preiudice of any ryght yet did king Edwarde the fourth next king of englande by preparation of warâ—…e against the scottes in the latter ende of hys reigne sufficiently by al lawes indure to the continuaâ—â—â—â—e of his claime to the same superioritie ouer them After whose death vnto the beginning of the reigne of our souereigne lorde king Henry the eight excéeded not the number of xxvij yeares about which tyme the impediment of our clayme of the scottes part chaunced by the nonage of Iames their last king which so contâ—â—â—â—d the space of one twentie yeres And like as his minoritie was by all law and reason an impediment to himself to make homage so was the same by like reasoÌ„ an impediment to y e king of this realme to demaunde any so that the whole time of intermission of our claime in the time of the sayde king Henry the eyght is 〈◊〉 vnto the number of thirtéene yeres thus much for this matter Of the wall sometime buylded for a particion betweene Englande and the Pictes Cap. 17. HAuing hitherto discoursed vpon the title of the kings of england vnto the scottish kingdome I haue nowe thought good to adde hereunto the description of the wall that was in times past a limite vnto both the sayde regions therefore to be touched in this first booke as generallye apperteinent vnto the estate of the whole Islande The first beginner of the Picts wal The first author and beginner therefore of this wall was Hadriane the emperour who as Aelius Spartianus sayth erected the same of foure score miles in length to deuide the barbarous Brytons from the more ciuile sort which theÌ„ were generally called by the name of Romaines The finisher of the wall After hys tyme Seuerus the emperour coÌ„ming againe into this Isle where he had serued before in repression of the tumultes here begun after y e death of Lucius amongst other thinges he finished the wall that Hadriane had begunne and extended it euen vnto the the west sea that earst went no farder then foure score myles from the east part of the Ocean as I haue noted already It is worthy y e noting how that in thys voyage he lost 50000. men in the scottish side by one occasion and other which hinderaunce so incensed him that he determined vtterlye to extinguish theyr memory from vnder heauen and had so done in déede if his life had indured but vntill another yeare Sextus Aurelius writing of Seuerus addeth howe that the percell of the wall The wall goeth not streight by a line but in and out in many places which was left by Hadriane and finished by this prince conteyned two thirtye miles whereby the bredth of this Island there and length of the wall conteyneth onlye 112. miles as maye be gathered by hys wordes but chiefly for the length of the wall Spartianus who touchting by it among other thinges saieth of Seuerus as followeth Brittaniam quod maximum eius imperij decus est muro per transuersam insulam ducto vtrinque ad fineÌ„ Oceani muniuit that is he fortified Brytaine which is one of the chiefe acts recorded of his time with a wall made ouerthwart the Isle that reached on both sides euen to the very Ocean The stuffe of the wal That this wal of stone also the ruines therof which haue ministred much matter to such as dwell nere therunto in their buildinges is triall sufficient Hereby in lyke sorte it commeth to passe that where the soile about it is least inhabited there is most mention of the sayde wall which was wroughte of squared stone as vnto this day may euidently be confirmed Howbeit this Wall was not the onelye partition betwene these two kingdomes sith Iulius Capitolinus in vita Antonini Pij doth write of another that Lollius Vrbicus did make beyond the same of Turffe which neuerthelesse was often throwen downe by the scottes Two other wals and eftsoones repayred againe vntill it was geuen ouer and relinquished altogether The like mudde wal hath bene séene also within the wall about an arrow shot from that of stone but how farre it went as yet I cannot finde this onely remayneth certaine that the wall made by Hadrian and Seuerus was ditched with a notable ditch 〈…〉 and a rampire made theron in such wise that the scottish aduersary had much adoe to enter scale the same in his assaults Betwixt Thirlewal and the Northe Tine are also in the waste groundes manye parcelles of that walle yet standing wherof the common people doe babble many thinges Beginning therefore with the course thereof from the west sea 〈…〉 I finde that it runneth froÌ„ Bolnesse to Burgh about foure miles and likewise from thence within halfe a mile of Caerleil and lesse on the north side and beneath the confluence of the Peder and the Eden From hence it goeth to Terreby a village about a myle from Caerleil then thorow the Barrony of Linstocke and Gillesland on the north side of the riuer Irding or Arding a quarter of a mile from the Abbey of Leuercost Then 3. myles aboue Leuercost and aboue the confluence of Arding and the Pultrose becke which deuideth Gillesland in Cumberlande from south Tindale in NorthuÌ„berland it goeth to Thirlwall castle theÌ„ to the Wall towne next of all ouer the riuer to
marched forth towards them that had so rebelled agaynst him Then followed more mischiefe and trouble thā euer had bene seene afore that time in Scotlande What mischief ensued for by reason of this ciuill dissention castels were razed ouerthrowne townes burned vp corne destroyed and fieldes wasted the people slaine in all places yea as well in churches as elswhere Malcolme prince of Cūberland hearing of such cruell warres as were thus raysed in Scotlande betwixt the king and the nobles of the realme to the daunger of the vtter euersion of the whole cōmon wealth returned with al speed forth of Englande where hee was with an armie as then in ayd of king Egelred agaynst the Danes into his owne countrey for defence of his subiects if any attempt should happely be made against them in that troublesome season Howbeit he was no sooner returned home Malcolme is required to relieue the Scottish estate but the nobles of Louthian came vnto him beseching him to take pitie vppon his miserable and torne countrey and to employe hys whole force to remoue away from the people such imminent destruction as dayly hasted towards them which to do they thought it was partly euen his dutie sith God had bestowed vpon him suche giftes both of body minde and fortune as most plenteously appeared in him not onely for the weale of himselfe ▪ but also of his friends and countrey and therefore his part was to shew his earnest diligence to deliuer the common wealth of such tyrannie as was practised by the misgouernment of Gryme and his vnhappie counsellers Which being done he might order al things as should like him best Malcolm consenteth to make warres against Grime Malcolme moued with these and the like perswasions of the Scottish Lords which dayly resorted vnto him resolued with promise of their support to leuie warre against Grime in this so necessarie a quarell so assembling a great puissance togither he did set forth towards his aduersarie By the way also there came still vnto him great numbers of men from eche side to ayde him in this enterprice offring by solemne othes to become his liege men and subiects Grime assembleth an army to encounter Malcolme Gryme likewise beeing aduertised of those newes with all speede got togither such people as hee might assemble for the time and comming forwarde with the same at the towne of Auchnabart The campes neare the one to the other both the armyes pitched downe theyr tentes the one fast by the other on the Ascention day Here Grime supposing that he might take his enimies at some great aduantage Grimes pol◅cie if he came vpō them on the sodaine for that being giuen to deuotion they woulde looke for nothing lesse than for battaile on y t day he got forth of his campe in the dawning of that morning in purpose forthwith to assaile them Notwithstanding Malcolme being aduertised therof sent vnto Grime Malcolmes request requesting him to desist from battaile for reuerence of that blessed feast but Grime woulde in no wise assent thereto but needes would come on without stop or stay wherevpon both the armies rushing togither met right fiercely The battaile betwixt Grime Malcolme so that in the begynning there was great slaughter made on both sides but within a while king Grymes side was put to the worse and in the ende clearly discomfited In the chase were many slaine Grimes part discomfited but yet no such number as so notable a victorie requyred It is said that Grime was taken aliue stāding at defēce most fiercely fighting The ende of king Grime being sore woūded in the head ▪ had both his eies put out afterwards continuing so in great miserie sanguor certaine dayes at length departed out of this life in the .ix. yeare of his raigne and was buried in Colmkill after the incarnation .1010 yeares 1004. Io. Ma 1010. H.B. His request herein being graūted with generall consent both of the nobles and cōmons the crown was set vpon his heade he beeing placed in the Chayre of Marble to the great reioysing of al the people present Malcolme WHen the solemnitie of this coronation was ended he called afore him again al the lords and peeres of his realme of the which part had ayded him in the last warres part had bin assistant vnto his aduersarie Grime Malcolme agreeth the nobles of his realme there vsed the matter in such wise amongst them that he made them all friendes eche one promising to other to forget all former offences displeasures controuersies past which he did to auoid al intestine trouble y t might grow out of the rootes of such rācor malice as in time of the ciuil discord had sprūg vp amōgst thē Malcolmes wisdome in ordeyning officers Further for the better administration of iustice in due forme and maner he bestowed publike offices vpon discrete persons skilful in the lawes and ordinances of the realme Other offices perteining to the warres defence of the realm he committed vnto such as were practised trayned in such exercises so that iustice was ministred on all sydes throughout the kingdome with such equitie and vprightnesse as had not beene heard of in any age before him Whilest the Scottish estate was gouerned in such happie wise by the prudent policie of K. Malcolme Sueno king of Denmark landed in Englande it chaunced that Sueno king of Danes landed in England with a mightie nauy in purpose to reuenge the iniuries done before vnto his people by the English men Thus Egeldred being vtterly vanquished and dispairing of al recouerie fled out of Englande ouer into Normandie where he was right friendly receyued of Richard as then Dyke of Normādy afterwards purchased such ◅an or there amongst the Normans that he maried the Ladie Emme daughter vnto the sayde Duke and begot of hir two sonnes̄ Alured and Edward as in the English Chronicles more at large it doth appeare Sueno albeit he was of nature very cruell yet he qualified his displeasure by this humble submission of the English nobility in such sort that he vsed the victorie farre more gently Vode◅ what conditions Sueno licenced the Englishmē to liue in their own countrey than at the first he had purposed cōmaūding that the whole English nation should remaine in the countrey but in such wise as by no meanes they shuld presume to beare any armor or weapō but to apply thēselues vnto husbandry other seruile occupations vnder the gouernment of the Danes vnto whom they shuld resigne deliuer al their castels forts strōg holds and taking an oth to be true liege men vnto Sueno as their soueraine lord king they should bring in to be deliuered vnto his vse al their weapon armor with other munition for the warres also all their golde and siluer aswell in plate as coyne If any of the English men refused
of Englande not wel contented nor pleased in his mind that the Scottes shoulde enioy a great portion of the north partes of England aunciently belonging to his crowne as parcell thereof he raysed a great army and before any denouncing of war by him made inuaded Northumberland The castell of Anwike won by the English men tooke the Castell of Anwike putting all suche to the sworde as were founde in the same King Malcolme to withstande such exploytes attempted by his enimie leuied a great hoste of his subiectes and comming with the same into Northumberlande besieged the sayde Castell of Anwike The castell of Anwike besieged by the Scottes And nowe when the keepers of the hold were at poynt to haue made surrender a certaine English knight conceiuing in his mind an hardie and daungerous enterprise mounted on a swift horse without armor or weapon sauing a speare in his hand vpon the poynt wherof he bare the keyes of the castel so issued forth at y e gates riding directly towardes the Scottish campe They that warded mystrusting no harme brought him with great noyse and claymor vnto the kings tent Who hearing the noyse came forth of his panilion to vnderstande what the matter ment The Englishman herewith touched his staffe as though it had beene to the ende that the king might receyue the keyes whiche he had brought And whilest all mens eyes were earnest in beholding the keyes An hardie enterprice the Englishe man ranne the king through the left eye and sodainly dashing his spurres to his horse escaped to the next wood out of all daunger The poynt of the speare entred so farre into the kings head that immediately falling downe amongst his men he yeelded vp the ghost K. Malcolme is slaine This was the ende of king Malcolme in the middest of his armie It is sayde that king William chaunged the name of this aduenturous knight The name of the Percees had no suche beginning for they came forth of Normandie at the conquest Earles of Northumberland and called him Pers E and for that he stroke king Malcolme so right in the eye and in recompence of his seruice gaue him certaine landes in Northumberlande of whom those Percees are discended whiche in our dayes haue enioyed the honourable tytle of Earles of Northumberlande The Scottes after the slaughter of their king brake vp theyr campe K. Malcolme buryed at Tynmouth and buried his bodie within the Abbay of Tynmouth in England But his sonne Alexander caused it to be afterwardes taken vp and buryed in Dunfermling before the Aulter of the Trinitie The same tyme was Scotlande wounded with an other missehappe Edward prince of Scotlande dyed For Edwarde the Prince of Scotlande eldest sonne to king Malcolme dyed of a burt which be receyued in a skirmish not farre from Anwike and was buryed in Dunfermeling the fyrst of the bloud royall that hadde hys bones layde in that place Queene Margaret being aduertised of the death both of hir husbande and sonne as then lying in Edenbourgh Castell hir disease encreased through griefe thereof so vehemently Queene Margaret died that within three dayes after she departed out of this life vnto an other more ioyfull and blessed King Malcolme was slaine in the yeare of of oure redemption 1092. 1097. H.B. The Ides of October H.B. on the .xiij. day of Nouember and in the .xxxvj. yeare of hys raigne Strange wonders In the same yeare manye vncouth things came to passe and were seene in Albion By the highe spring Tydes whiche chaunced in the Almaine Seas Aâ—… huge tyde many Townes Castels and Wooddes were drowned aswell in Scotland as in England After the ceassing of which tempest the lands that somtime were Earle Goodwines of whom ye haue hearde before lying not farre from the towne of Sandwich by violent force and drift of the Sea were made a sande bed and euer sithence haue beene called Goodwine sandes Goodwin sandes The people haue thought that this vengeance came to that peece of grounde being possessed by his posteritie for the wicked slaughter of Alured which he so trayterously contriued Moreouer sundrie Castelles and Townes in Murry lande were ouerthrowne by the sea Tydes Thunder Such dreadfull thunder happened also at the same time that men and beastes were slaine in the fields and houses ouerturned euen from their foundations Trees corne burnt In Lonthian Fife and Angus trees and corne were burned vp by fire kindled no man knew how nor from whence In the dayes of this Malcolme Cammore liued that famous hystoriographer Marianus a Scottish man borne Marianus but professed a Monke in the Monasterie of Fulda in Germany Also Veremond a Spanish priest Veremonde but dwelling in Scotland florished about the same time and wrote the Scottish historie whome Hector Boetius so much followeth The sonnes of king Malcolm Cammore Malcolme had by his wife Queene Margaret otherwise called for hir holinesse of life S. Margaret vj. sonnes Edward as is said was slain Etheldred which died in his tender age and was buried in Dunfermling and Edmond which renounced the world liued an holy life in England the other three were named Edgar Alexander and Dauid There be that write how Edmond was taken and put to death in prison by his vncle Donalde Bane Donald Bane when he inuaded the kingdome and vsurped the crowne after the deceasse of his brother king Malcolme and so then was Edgar next inheritour to the crowne Donalde Bane fled into the Iles. This Donald Bane who as before is mentioned fled into the Iles to eschue the tyrannical malice of Makbeth after he once heard that his brother king Malcolme was dead Donalde Bane returneth into Scotlande His couenant for the gift of the Iles to the king of Norway returned into Scotland by support of the K. of Norway vnto whom he couenanted to giue the dominion of all the Iles if by his meanes and furtheraunce hee might obteyne the crowne of Scotland Herevpon landing with an armie in the Realme he founde small resistance and so with little a doe receyued the crowne for many of the people abhorring the riotous maners and superfluous gurmandice brought in amongst them by the English men The respect that the people had to receyue Donald Bane for their king were willing inough to receiue this Donalde for their king trusting bycause hee had beene brought vp in the Iles with the olde customes and maners of their auncient Nation without tast of the English lykerous delicacies they shoulde by his seuere order in gouernment recouer againe the former temperancie of theyr olde progenitors As soone as Edgar Adeling brother to Queen Margaret was aduertised that Donalde Bane had thus vsurped the crowne of Scotland K. Malcolmes sonnes sent for into Englande by Edgar their vncle he sent secretly for his thre nephews Edgar Alexander and Dauid with two sisters which they had
by the Balliol quickly entred it by force without any great resistance The Erle of March that lodged as is sayd the same night that the battaile was fought not past fiue myles off hearyng what had chaunced bothe of the battayle and towne came wyth his people arayed in good and perfecte order vnto Perth aforesayde to besiege the Englishmen with Ewarde Ballyoll and other as then within it Perth beseged by the Earle of March Kyng Dauid beyng not paste nyne yeares of age to auoyde all daungers in that troublesome tyme as destitute of succoures King Dauid is conueyed ouer into Fraunce by aduise of his Counsel was conueyd ouer into France wyth Queene Iane hys wyfe sister to Edwarde kyng of Englande and was most frendly receyued by Philippe King of Fraunce the sixte of that name so that they remayned there with him for the space of nine yeeres R. Southwell and in the meane time diuers noble men that yet remayned at the deuotion of King Dauid vnderstandyng that King Edward le Balliol soiourned within the towne of Perth otherwise called S. Iohns towne which standeth almost in the middle part of the Realme and was at that present not closed with any wall Saint Iohns towne beseeged or rampire they reysed theyr powers and beseeged him within y e same towne he hauing as then no great company about him Whereof whē they of Galloway had aduertisemente bycause the Kyng was their special Lord and chiefe gouernoure they assembled togyther vnder the conduct of the Lorde Eustace de Makeswel and inuaded the lands of those Scottishmen that had thus beseeged their Lorde King Edward Ballyol and by that meanes constreyned the aduersaries to leuie their seege Wherevpon Earle Patricke the newe Earle of Murrey with the Lord Andrewe de Murrey and the Lord Archēbald Dowglas with an army assēbled in all speede Galloway inuaded entred into Galloway doing al the mischiefe they coulde deuise with fire and sworde taking and bringing away from thence a great number of Cattell and other goodes but they slewe no greate number of people for they found them not at home being withdrawen out of y e way for feare of this terrible inuasiō Thus did the Scottes in that part of the Realm spoyle and harrie each others countreys In the meane time King Edwarde le Balliol fortifyed the towne of Perth Saint Iohns town fortified appoynting the Earle of Fife to the keeping thereof whilest he with an army passed into the countrey but before he retourned hys aduersaries to witte the sonnes of them that had bin slain at the battel of Duplyn Robert Keith Alexāder Lindsey Iames and Simon Fraseir wanne Saint Iohns towne in the third moneth after they had layde seege thereto Saint Iohns town wonne as Hector Boetius hath but whether that is to be intended after the first beseeging thereof or now after theyr last comming thither I can not affirme but as the same Boetius writeth now when the towne was won the Earle of Fife and Androw Murray of Tullybard were taken with other of their complices The Earle was sent to y e Castle of Kyldrūmy there to remayne vnder safekeeping but Androw Murray for his treason afore committed was beheaded The towne being thus won was deliuered to the keeping of Iohn Lindsay The gayning of this towne put the Scottes in hope of more prosperitie to succeede In this battel wer slayn Sir Henry Ballyol a man of great valiancie Sir Iohn Mowbray Walter Cumyn and Richard Kyrkby but Alexander Bruce Erle of Carryke and the lorde of Galloway were taken prisoners and saued by the helpe of the Earle of Murray for that they hadde submitted them selues to the Balyoll but lately before Androw Murray chosen fellow gouernor with the erle of Marche Shortly after the atchieuing of this victorie Androw Murray a man of great puissance and possessions was chosen to be gouernoure as colleague and associate with the Erle of March These two gouernors hearing that the king of England was mynded to inuade Scotlande with a mayne armie sent sir Alexander Seyton with many other gentlemen vnto Berwike for defence of that towne and castell Androw Murray the newe gouernour is taken prisoner Shortly after the newe gouernour Androw Murray was taken prisoner at Roxburgh by reason that hauing put his enimies to flight in a skirmishe which he made with them at the bridge withoute the castell he pursewed ouer rashely in the chase and was inclosed amongest them and so taken ere he might be reskued There was also taken beside the gouernoure a notable pyrate named Crab Ric Southwel Crab a pyrate taken who before that tyme had done many displeasures to the english men both by sea and lande and now bicause his countrey men woulde not raunsome him but to his further griefe had slayne his sonne within Barwike he becam the king of Englands man and did the Scots more domage afterwards thā euer he had done to the Englishmen before The gouernour at length was raunsomed for a great summe of golde About the same tyme William Douglas of Lyddesdale named for his singular manhood William Douglas of Liddesdale taken prisoner the floure of chiualrie fought with the Englishmen in Annandale where himselfe was taken and his people discomfited Bothe these noble men thus taken prisoners were deteyned in captiuitie more than a twelue moneths space and then raunsomed for a great summe of golde This William Douglas was sonne to sir Iames Douglas of whome so often mention is made heretofore The realme of Scotlande being thus deuyded in two partes the one assisting the Ballyol the other continuing in their allegiance sworn and promised to king Dauid Edward king of Englande purposeth to subdue the Scottes Edwarde king of England iudged y t time to serue wel for his purpose to make a conquest on the Scots and herevpon gathering a mightie armie both of English men and strangers as well suche as were subiectes to hym as other whome he reteyned out of Normandie Aniou and Flanders he came with the same to subdue as he outwardely pretended only such Scottes as woulde not yelde themselues to the Ballyoll The Scots perceyuing themselues thus ouerset with enimies on ech side The Erle of Murray is sent into Fraunce sent Iohn Randoll Erle of Murray into Fraunce vnto kyng Dauid that by his meanes they might purchase some ayd of the French kyng to defend y e realme from the force of the enimies William Seyton sonne to the captaine of the towne was taken prisoner and his basterde brother as he assayled the english shippes one night ouerfiercely was drowned by mischaunce in the sea At length when they within the towne began to want victuals Sir Alexander Selton captain of Barwike the captain sir Alexander Seiton sent vnto king Edward promising that if he would graunt a truce for the space of .vj. dayes if no succour came in the meane tyme to
first sent vnto Saint Colmes Ins Put in prison and from thence to Dunfermling and lastly to Lochleuin where he dyed and was buried in S. Sarffis I le in Lochleuin 1479 William Schewes is coÌ„secrated Archbishop The sayd William Schewes was consecrate Archbishop of Sainte Androwes on passion Sunday in Lente within Holy Roode house the king being present many of the nobles of the Realm And there y e sayde Archbishop receiued y e pall as a signe of his Archbishops dignitie so was coÌ„firmed primate legate of y e Realm notwithstaÌ„ding y e impediment made against Graham before by the Bishops about y e same This yere also The Duke of Albany imprisoned Alexander Duke of Albany was committed to prison by the king his brother within y e Castel of Edenburgh through euil counsel but he brake out escaped to DuÌ„bar wher he caused the Castel to be furnished with al necessaries leauing his seruants within it He escaped passed himself into France was there of y e king honorably receyued and louingly intreated Edenburgh besieged In the beginning of May following the king besieged y e Castel by his Lieutenant the Erle of Auâ—…ndale who lost at that siege .3 good knights the Lord of Lute sir Iohn Schaw of Sauche the Lorde of Cragiwallace with y e shot of a gun Iohn RaÌ„say was slain with a stone cast by haÌ„d WheÌ„ thei within saw they could not loÌ„g endure they left y e Castel fled away by sea the Erle of Auandale entred found it void of al things wherof any accoÌ„pt was to be made Doctor Ireland sent vnto the king of Scottes Doctor IrelaÌ„d being graduat in diuinitie at Paris was sent from y e FreÌ„ch king vnto y e king of Scottes to perswade him to make war into EnglaÌ„d to y e end y t king Edward shuld not aid y e Duke of Burgundy And moreouer he had in charge to moue for the Pardon of y e Duke of Albany and shortly after returned with answer 1480 Iohn Steward a prisoner The Erle of Mar called Iohn Steward y e kings yoÌ„ger brother this yeere in the moneth of December was taken in the nighte within hys owne house conueyed vnto Cragunster where he was kept as prisoner by the kings commaundement and after was conuict of conspiracie for witchcraft which he shuld practise against y e king hervpon in Cannogate beside Edenburgh Was put to death hys vaynes were cut so he bled to death Ther were many diuers Witches sorcerers aswil men as women coÌ„uicted of y e crime burnt for y e same at EdeÌ„b The K. sent Ambassadors into EnglaÌ„d to make suite to haue the Lady Cicill daughter to king Edward â—…ariage coÌ„ ded ioyned in mariage with his sonne Iames y e Prince which was graÌ„ted and y e mariage concluded to be solemnizate when y e prince of Scotland should come to perfect age as in the English historie it more playnely appeareth Doctor Irelande with a knight and another religious man came againe to king Iames from the French king to perswade him to make warre against England and at length King Iames his nobles coÌ„discended to breake the peace wherewith Thomas Spens Bishop of Abirdene that was full tenderly beloued of king Edwarde 〈◊〉 Spenâ—…ed and had bin euer a mediator for peace betwixte the kings of England France and ScotlaÌ„d and the Duke of Burgongne when he heard that warre would folow he dyed through griefe of mind and melancoly at Edenburgh in the moneth of Aprill 1481 〈◊〉 Iames a ambasâ—…o king 〈◊〉 The king sente two Heraldes vnto King Edwarde requesting him not to ayde the Duke of Burgongne nor any other against y e King of France for if he did hee must needes supporte the Frenchmen by reason of y e league betwixt France Scotland but king Edward would not admit those Heraldes to his presence â—…ing Edward 〈◊〉 nauie 〈◊〉 Scotland but kept them still without answer till he had sent foorth a nauie of Ships into y e Forth before Lieth Kingorne and Pettenwenne theÌ„ were the Heralds licensed to returne 〈◊〉 taken 〈◊〉 The Englishe fleete entring the Forth tooke eight great shippes which they found in that riuer and landing at Blacknesse brent y e towne and a great Barge that lay there at rode and so returned â—…he of king â—…and preâ—…d an army The king assembled an army from all partes of the Realme and amongst other y e Lord of the Iles came with a great coÌ„pany and nowe the king being ready to enter into England there came to him a messenger of king Edward sente from a Cardinall Legate that was residente as then in England Legate inâ—… him commanding king Iames by authoritie apostolike not to proceede any further in his purposed iourney to the ende that peace being obserued all Christian Princes might bende their powers againste the Turke and Infidels This commaundemente did king Iames obey and so discharged his army notwithstandyng that king Edwarde sent foorth his nauie agayne into the Forth 〈◊〉 naâ—… into â—…and vnto the I le of Ins Keith but they did no hurt for the countreymen kept them off The Scottish borderers inuaded y e Englishe marches destroyed townes and led many prisoners away with them into Scotland â—…ke assieâ—… an arâ—… of England â—…en The king of Englande caused Berwike to be assieged both by sea and lande all the winter season and ouerthrew a wall that was newly made about it for defence thereof but the Scottes within it defended the towne for that time so stoutly that the enimies might not winne it from them 1482 The Duke of Albany after his wife was dead which he had married in France perceyuing him selfe not so well entreated as before came ouer into Englande The Duke of Albany commeth into England where king Edwarde receyued him righte honorably promising as some haue written to make him king of Scotlande therevpon assembled an army of thirtie thousand meÌ„ with a great nauie by Sea to inuade Scotland and appoynted Captaynes and leaders of the army by land his owne brother y e Duke of Glowcester the Duke of Albany and others The king of Scotâ—…tes hearing of their approche to inuade his Realme reised a puissant army to resist them and came forward with the same vnto y e town of Lowder where beeing encamped the principall nobles of his Realme as Archembalde Earle of Angus George Erle of Huntley The presumptuous demeanor of the Scottish nobilitie Iohn Erle of Lenox Iames Erle of BuchquhaÌ„ Androw sord Grey Robert Lord Lile and diuers other beeing armed entred the kings lodging where they accused him of diuers things done and practised by him contrary to his honor the common weale of his Realme and specially bycause he vsed yoÌ„g counsell of lewde persons vnworthy and base of birth suche as
agreement and free consent Moreouer immediately after the Kynges death bycause he deceassed without making any will or taking any direction for the gouernemente eyther of the Realme or custody of the yong Queene hys daughter Dauid Beaton Dauid Beaton Cardinall Cardinall and Archbyshop of S. Androwes the speciall minister and factor of the Frenche causes to the aduancement and continuaunce thereof â—…forging of â—…ll inuented and forged a will and Testament of the late King now departed in whiche among other things hee established hymselfe chiefâ—… regent adioyning with him the Garles of Murreyâ—… baâ—…e brother to the Kyng deceassed Huntley and Argile not once mentioning the Garle of Lennox then absent in Fraunce nor yet Iames Earle of Arraine his Cousin The Protestants espyed the Cardinals craftie iugling beeing there present in Scotland Those that professed the reformed Religion being then called Protestantes to whome the sayde Cardinall was â—…uerâ—… cruell enimie and sharp scourge espyed forth his vniust dealing in this behalfe and trusting by the gentle nature and good inclination of the sayd Earle of Arraine to haue some libertie to imbrace the Gospell set him againste the Cardinall so that by the helpe of his owne and their friendes he remoued the Cardinal and his adherents from the vsurped roomth and authoritie and therewith was the sayde Earle of Arraine proclaymed gouernour and protector of the Realme This Earle of Arrane made a title to haue and enioy that office and roomth as nexte in bloudâ—… yong Queene as discended from a sister of King Iames the third married to his Grandfather Lord Hamilton in the yere .1475 by reason of whiche marriage hee was created Earle of Arrane as by acte of Parliament holden the same yeare at EdeÌ„burgh it was agreed and ordeyned The King of Englande that noble Prince Henrye the eyght aduertised of the death of the King of Scottes considered with good aduise that now there was offered a most ready meane and iust occasion whereby the two Realmes of Englande and Scotland might be broughte into one â—…tier Monarchie without warre or bloudshed by the marriage of his sonne Prince Edwarde beeyng then little past sixe yeares of age with the yong Queene of Scotlande The King of England talketh with the Lords of ScotlaÌ„d prisoners for a marriage betwixt his sonne and their Queene Hee therefore being resolued fully to bring the same to passe eyther by quiet meanes or by force and sending for the Erles of Cassill and Glencarne the Lordes Maxwell and Fleming and other Prisoners y t had bin taken at Soloway Muffe caused them to bee conueyd vnto Hampton Court where the seauen and twentith of December they being right curteously enterteined hee made vnto them an ouerture of his purpose and whole intent proponing the whole matter vnto them requesting them for their partes to help with their consents that a contract of marriage mighte bee made betweene his sonne the Prince and their yong Queene promising to them libertie without raunsome besydes other pleasures and benefytes if they would doe theyr indeuour to perswade the Gouernoure and other of the nobilitie of Scotland to be agreeable heerevnto The Scottishe Earles and Lords accepted the Kings offer and withall promised to doe their diligence to perswade the rest of the nobilitie in Scotland at their coÌ„ming home wherevpon they were licenced to depart and so comming to Newcastell remayned there with the Duke of Suffolke then the Kings Lieutenant of the North partes till he had receyued forthe of Scotlande certayne pledges of the chiefest of these Lordes for performance of their promises The Earle of Angus sente home into Scotlande Likewise the King of England sent wyth them the Earle of Angus and his brother Sir George Dowglas with his letters to the Gouernoure requesting effectuously y t they mighte be restored to their roomthes lands and possessions in that Realme 1542 These Lords arriuing at Edenburgh aboute the middes of Ianuary declared to the Gouernoure their message and proposition made by the King of Englande with such efficacie that the Gouernour beeyng perswaded thereto by their wordes sente for the Lords and nobilitie of the Realme to come vnto Edenburgh to a conuention A conuention of the Scottish nobilitie there to be holden the seauen and twentith of that present moneth where they concluded that a Parliamente shoulde bee kepte in Marche next ensuing and doubting least the Cardinall beeing there present should goe about to perswade the nobilitie not to consent to their desires they caused hym to be put in warde within the Castell of Dalketh The Cardinall committed to warde the Lord Seton being appoynted to haue the custody of him Also hee commaunded not onely the Cardinall as before ye haue heard but also ordeyned that the Queene mother should remayne in Lithgow with the yong Queene hir daughter vnder some manner of safe custody and the Cardinall to be remoued vnto his owne Castell of Saint Androwes with warders about hym to see him safely kept Theâ—… Realme beeing thus brought in quiet and vnder good gouernement The French King misliketh of the match with Englande the French King sore misliking this new coniunction of y e Scots with England and doubting least the olde former bond of aliance betwixt France and Scotland might therby be vtterly dissolued and shaken off he sent for Mathew Earle of Leuenox Mathew Earle of Lennox then abrode in his seruice in the warres of Italy and vppon his comming backe from thence to the Court hee declared to him the deceasse of the late King of Scottes the intrusion of Arrane and the attemptes in that Realme begun with all the circumstances from poynt to point as he knewe and further discoursed with hym what wrong hee had to be sette aside and displaced from hys ryghte of gouernemente and therefore exhorted hym to repayre home to recouer the same offering not only to assist him with men money and munition but also to ioyne hys friendes in Scotlande with hym in ayde to attayne the place of regimente and to remoue Arrane and others from it The Earle of Leuenox heerevpon with commission and instructions deliuered to him by the French King had also letters from him directed to the Lordes that were of the French faction wherein the sayde Kyng requested them to remaine and continue in their former good meanings towards him and to assist the Erle of Leuenox in all things as should be thought expedient â—…e Earle of 〈◊〉 pasâ—… into â—…d The Earle therefore fully instructed by the Frenche Kyng howe to deale and proceede tooke his leaue and with all speede taking the Sea directed hys course into Scotlande where after his arriual he came to Edenburgh in which towne all the Lords being assembled togither with the Gouernoure hee declared to them the effect of hys commission from the French Kyng his request to them and good affection to maynteyne them against England if in case they woulde continue the
inferre accuse and declare what euidence he coulde agaynst the Lorde Iustice but none came Then passed a decree by the Counsaile commaunding all Bishops Abbots Priors the Maiors of Dublyn Corke Lymerike Waterford and Droghdagh the Shirifes Knightes and Seneshals of euerie shire to appeare at Dublin From amongst all these they appointed .vj. inquisitors which examining the bishops other persons aforesayd singularly one by one found that with an vniuersal cōsent they deposed for the Prior affyrming that to their iudgments he was a zealous and a faithfull childe of the Catholike Church In the meane time Arnold le Poer the prisoner deceased in the Castel and bycause he stoode vnpurged long hee lay vnburied In the yeare .1329 1329 The Earle of Louth slaine Iohn de Birmingham Erle of Louth and his brother Peter with many other of that surname and Richard Talbot of Malahide were slain on Whitson euen at Balibragan by men of the Countrey The Lorde Butler slaine Also the Lord Thomas Butler and diuerse other noble men were slaine by Mac Gogoghdan and other Irish mē neare to Molinger for the Irish aswell in Leynister as in Meth made insurrections in that season and so likewise did they in Moūster vnder the leading of Obren whom William Erle of Vlster and Iames Erle of Ormond vanquished So outragious were the Leynister Irish that in one Church they brunt foure score innocent soules asking no more but the life of their priest thē at Masse whō they notwithstāding sticked with their Iauelins spurned the host wasted al with fire neither forced they of y e Popes interdictiō nor any ecclesiasticall censures denoūced against thē matters of no smal cōsideratiō amōg thē namely in those days but maliciously perseuered in y e course of their furious rage till the citizens of Wexford somwhat tamed thē slue .400 of thē in one skirmish y e rest fleeing were all drenched in the water of Slane In the yeare .1330 1330 the Earle of Vlster with a great army made a iourney agaynst Obren The Prior of Kilmaynam Lord Iustice and the prior of Kilmaynā Lord iustice put Maurice Fitz Thomas Erle of Desmond in prison in the Marshalsee out of the which he freely escaped and the Lord Hugh Lacie returned into Ireland and obteyned the kings peace and fauour In the yeare .1331 1331 the Earle of Vlster passed ouer into Englande and great slaughter was made vpon the Irish in Okensly Also the castell of Arclo was taken by the Irish men and great slaughter made of the Englishe in the Cowlagh by Otothell and other Also the Lorde Anthonie Lucie was sent ouer Lorde Iustice into Irelande Anthony Lucy Lord Iustice and great slaughter was made of the Irish at Thurlis by the knightes of the Countrey and at Finnath in Meth there were manye of them slaine by the English but yet was the Castell of Fernis taken and burnt by the Irish On the feast day of the Assumption of our Ladie which falleth on the .xv. of August The Earle of Desmond apprehended Maurice Fitz Thomas Erle of Desmond was apprehended at Limerike by the Lorde Iustice and sent vnto the Castell of Dublyn Moreouer the Lord Iustice tooke sir William Birmingham at Clomell by a wile whilest hee was sicke in his bed and sent him togither with his sonne Walter Birmingham vnto the Castel of Dublyn the .xxx. of Aprill 1332 William Birmingham executed In the yeare .1332 the sayde sir William was hanged at Dublin but Walter was deliuered by reason he was within orders Campion Campion following suche notes as he hath seene writeth that the death of this William Birmingham chaunced in time of the gouernment of William Outlaw Prior of Kilmaynā being lieutenant vnto Iohn Lorde Darcie that was made Lorde Iustice as the sayd Campion hath noted in the yeare .1329 Although Marleburgh affyrmeth that hee came thither to beare that office in the yeare .1332 after the Lord Lucie was discharged as hereafter shall be recyted But whensoeuer or vnder whom soeuer Birmingham was executed hee was accounted an odde Knight and suche one as for his valiancie hys matche was not lyghtly to bee any where founde Also Henry de Mandeuile was taken and sent prisoner to be safely kept in Dublyn Likewise Walter Burgh with two of hys brethren were taken in Connagh by the Earle of Vlster and sent to the Castell of Norburgh This yeare the Lord Antonie Lucie was discharged of his rowmth by the king and so returned with his wife and children into Englande The Lorde Darcie iustice and the Lorde Iohn Darcie was sent ouer Lord Iustice in Lucies place and great slaughter was made vpon Bren Obren and Mac Carthi in Mounster by the English of that Countrey This Iohn Darcie as shoulde appeare by gyftes bestowed vpon him by the King was in singular fauour wyth him Amongest other things which hee had of the kings gyft we fynde that hee had the Manours of Louth and Baliogarie and other landes in Irelande which belonged to the Earle of Ew The Earle of Ew and for that the sayd Earle was a French man and tooke part wyth Philip de Valois the kings enimie they were seysed into the kings hande The Earle of Desmonde vpon sureties was set at libertie 1333 A Parliament and by the Parliament holden at Dublyn in this yeare .1333 was sent ouer into Englande vnto the King and William Earle of Vlster a yong Gentleman of twentie yeares of age in goyng towardes Knocfergus the .vij. of Iune The Earle of Vlster slaine was slaine neare to the fourdes in Vlster by his owne people but hys wyfe and daughter escaped into Englande and the daughter was after maryed vnto the Lorde Lionell the kings sonne She deceassed afterwards at Dublyn and left a daughter behind hir that was hir heyre maryed to Roger Mortimer Earle of March and Lorde of Trym This murther was procured by Robert Fitz Martine Mandeuile who was the first that presumed to giue to the Earle any wounde To reuenge the death of this Erle of Vlster slaine as ye haue heard beside Knocfergus the Lorde Iustice Darcie with a great power went into Vlster to pursue those that through Mandeuiles seditious tumultes had so trayterously murthered their Lord. At his setting forward Sir Thomas Burgh the saide Iustice Darcie appoynted sir Tho. Burgh Treasurer to gouerne as lieutenant to him in his absence When the Lorde Iustice had punished the trayters in Vlster The Lorde Iustice inuadeth Scotland hee passed ouer into Scotlande there to make warre agaynste the Scottes that were enimies at that present to the king of England and on the feast day of Saint Margaret greate slaughter was made of the Scots by the Irish men and so what by the king in one part and the Lorde Iustice of Irelande in another Scotland was in maner wholy conquered and Edwarde Ballioll was established king of Scotland The Lord
I woulde you shoulde knowe it I am a Gentleman and an Englishe man My Lorde quoth Fitz Simons my meaning is to learne in what shire of Englande you were borne In Lyncolnshyre good sir quoth Staples Why then my Lorde qouth Fitz Simons we are no traytors bycause it was the Earle of Lincolne and the Lorde Louell that crowned him and therefore if you be a Gentleman of Lincolnshyre see that you be pardoned for God and our King be thanked we haue need of none At this answere Meth was set and suche as were present were forced to smyle to see what a round fall he caught in his owne turne Henry White raysed an vp◅re in Dublin In the seconde yeare of Skeffington his gouernment it happened that one Henrie White seruant to Benet a Marchant of Dublyn was pitching of a Cart of hay in the high streete and hauing offred boyes play to passengers that walked to and fro he let a bottle of his hay fall on a souldiers Bonet as he past by his Cart the souldiour taking this knauishe knacke in dudgeon burled his Dagger at him and hauing narowly mist the princocks he sticked it in a post not farre off White leapt downe from the Cart and thrust the souldiour through the shoulder wyth hys pyke Wherevpon there was a great vprore in the Citie betwene the Souldiours and the apprentises insomuch as Thomas Barby beyng the Maior Thomas Barby Maior hauing the King his sworde drawne was hardly able to appease the fray in which dyuerse were wounded and none slaine The Lorde Deputie issued out of the Castel and came as farre as the Pyllorie to whome the Maior posted through the prease with the sworde naked vnder his arme and presented White that was y e brewer of all this garboyl to his Lordship whom the Gouernour pardoned White pardoned as well for hys courage in bickering as for his retchles simplicity and pleasantnesse in telling the whole discourse Wherby a man may see how many bloudie quarels a brawling swashbuckler may pyke out of a bottle of bay namely when his braynes are forebitten with a bottle of nappie Al◅ About this time ther was a great sturre reised in Englād about the king his diuorse who thinking it expedient in so fickle a worlde to haue a sure post in Irelande Kildare Lorde Deputie Croommer Butler made Kildare Lorde Deputie Croommer the Primate of Armach Lorde Chancellour and sir Iames Butler Lord Treasorer Skeffington supposing that he was put beside the quishion by the secrete canuassing of Kildare his friendes Skeffington offended with Kildare conceyued thereof a great iealousie being therein the deeper drenched bycause that Kildare hauing receyued the sworde woulde permit Skeffington who was late gouernour now like a meane priuate person to daunce attendance among other suiters in his house at Dublyn named the Carbry Skeffington playing thus on the bit He sayleth into Englande shortly after sayled into England vpon whose departure the Lorde Deputie summoned a Parliament at Dublin 1532 A Parliament summoned at Dublin where there past an Act agaynst leazers of corne Item for the vniting and appropriation of the personage of Galtrim to the Priorie of Saint Peters by Trim. In the Parliament tyme Oneale on a sodaine inuaded the Countrey of Vriell Vriell inuaded by Oneale ryssing and spoyling the king his subiects at which tyme also was the Earle of Ossorie greatly vexed by the Giraldines by reason of the olde quarelles of either side a fresh reuiued The next yeare the Lorde Deputie going agaynst Ocarroule was pitifully hurt in the side Kildare hurt with a Gunne at the Castell of Byrre so that he neuer after enioyed his lymmes nor deliuered his wordes in good plight otherwise like ynough to haue bene longer forborne in consideration of his many noble qualities great good seruices and the state of those tymes Streight wayes complayntes were addressed to the king of these enormities Kildare accused and that in most heynous maner that could be deuysed houlting out his doings as it were to the least brake of sinister surmises turning euerie priuate iniurie to be the king his quarell and making euerie Puddings pricke as huge in shewe as Sampsom hys Piller He is sent for to Englande Wherevpon Kildare was commaunded by sharpe letters to repayre into Englande leauing such a person for the furniture of that realm and the gouernance of the lande in his absence for whose doings he would answere Being vpon the sight of this letter prepared to sayle into England he sate in counsaile at Dublyn Thomas Fitz Girald and hauing sent for his sonne and heyre the Lorde Thomas Fitz Giralde a yong stripling of xxj yeares of age borne in England sonne to the Lorde Souch his daughter the Erle of Kyldare his firste wife in the hearing of the whole boorde thus he spake Sonne Thomas I doubt not but you know that my soueraigne Lord the King Kildare his exhortation to his sonne the L. Thomas hath sent for me to Englande and what shall besyde me God knoweth for I know not But howsoeuer it falleth both you and I know that I am well stept in yeares and as I may shortly die for that I am mortal so I must in hast decease bicause I am olde Wherefore in as much as my Wynter is well neare ended and the Spring of your age nowe buddeth my will is that you behaue your selfe so wisely in these your greene yeares as that to the comfort of your friendes you may enioy the pleasure of your Sommer gleane and reape the fruite of your Haruest that with honour you may growe to the catching of that hoarie Winter on whiche you see me your father fast pricking And whereas it pleaseth the king his Maiestie that vpon my departure here hence I shoulde substitute in my rowme suche one for whose gouernment I woulde answere albeit I knowe that your yeares are tender your wit not settled your iudgement not fully rectified and therefore I myght bee with good cause reclaymed from putting a naked sworde in a yong mans hande yet notwithstanding forasmuch as I am your father and you my sonne I am well assured to beare that stroke with you in steering your ship as that vpon any information I may commaunde you as your father and correct you as my sonne for the wrong handling of your helme There be here that sit at this bourd far more sufficient personages for so great a charge than you are But what then If I shoulde cast this burthen on their shoulders it might bee that hereafter they woulde bee so farre with enuie caryed as they woulde percase hazard the losse of one of their owne eyes to be assured that I should be depriued of both mine eyes But forasmuche as the case toucheth your skinne as neare as mine and in one respect nigher than mine bycause as I sayde before I rest in the Winter and you in the Spring of your
the Secretary of the house named Will. froÌ„ entring the queere â–ª It was decreed also that the residue should cease so long a tyme froÌ„ saying seruice as they had sayd it before vnlawfully against the archbishops commaundement For it was thought reason that whilest other sang and wer mery they should keepe silence which wilfully tooke vpon theÌ„ to sing whilest other held their peace and were styll They began therefore to cease from saying diuine seruice and from ringyng of their belles in the second weeke of Lent and so kept silence from the .xij. day of March vnto the first day of August The Queene wife to K. Stephen in this meane while lay much at S. Augustines in Canterb. bicause of hastenyng forward the buildyng of Feuersham Abbey which she with hir husbande K. Stephen had begon froÌ„ the very fouÌ„dation And bicause the Monkes of S. Augustine might not celebrate diuine seruice she called thither coÌ„monly the Monkes of Christes churche to say seruice before hir And thus muche for that purpose Now to returne againe vnto other doings The L. Henry returneth into EnglaÌ„d The L. Henry Fitz Empresse after al these businesses returned into England in the moneth of May Anno regni 14. 1149. with a gret coÌ„pany of meÌ„ of war both horsmen and footmen 〈◊〉 reason whereof many reuâ—â—ted from K. Stephen to take part with hym whereas before they sate styll and wold not atteÌ„pt any exployt against hym â–ª But now encouraged with the presence of the Lord Henry they declared theÌ„selues frends to hym enemies to the king Immediately after his arriual he tooke with hym the earles of Chester and Hereford Randall and Roger and diuers other Noble men and knightes of great fame beside those which he had brought w t him forth of NormaÌ„dy and went vnto Carlile wher he found his cosin Dauid K. of ScotlaÌ„d of whoÌ„ he was most ioyfully receiued and vpoÌ„ Whitsonday with great solemnity he being not past xvj yeres of age He is made knight R. Houe was by the same kyng made knight with diuers other young Gentlemen that were much what of the same age Some write that the K. of Scots receyued an oth of hym before he gaue to him y e honor of knighthood that if he chanced to attaine vnto the possession of the realme of England he should restore to the Scottes the towne of Newcastle with the couÌ„trey of NorthuÌ„berland froÌ„ the ryuer of Tweed to the ryuer of Tyne but whether it were so or not I am not able to make warrantise Howbeit K. Ste. hearing that the king of Scots and his aduersary the L. Henry with the chiefest Lordes of the West partes of England lay thus in Carleil he raysed an army and came to the citie of Yorke K. Stephen vvith an army commeth to Yorke where he remayned for the most part of the moneth of August fearing least his enemies should attempt the winnyng of that citie But after that the one part had remayned for a tyme in Carleil the other in Yorke they departed from both those places without any further exployt for that season sauyng that Eustachius K. Stephens sonne hauyng also lately receyued the order of knighthood dyd much hurt in the couÌ„treys that belonged to those Noble men that were with the Lord Henry The great raine that set in the sumer season this yeare M. Paris Great rayne dyd much hurt vnto the groweth of corne on the ground so that a great â—…earth folowed And in the Wynter after about the tenth day of December A sore frost it beganne to frese extremely and so continued tyll the xiâ—… of February Whereby the Ryuer of Thames was so frosen that men might passe both 〈◊〉 foote and horsbacke ouer the same In the meane while Henry Duke of Normandy Anno regni 15. 1150. after he was returned from the â—…yng of Scottes passed ouer againe into Normandye about the beginnyng of August leauyng England full of all those calamities which ciuill warre is accustomed to bring with it as burnyng of houses kylling robbâ—…ng and spoyling of people so that the land was in daunger of vtter destructioÌ„ by reason of that present discorde betwixt the parties This yeare the .xxiij. of February Galfridus Monumetensis otherwise called Galfridus Arthurius that turned the British historie into Latine was consecrated bishop of S. Assaph by Theobald archb of Canterbury at Lamheth William Bishop of Norwich and Walter Bishop of Rochester assisting hym This Earle of Leicester was brother to the Earle of Melent The earle of Leicester brother to the earle of Melent Anno. regni 17. 1152. The duke of Normandy Fitzempresse maryeth the Duchesse of Aquitaine And thus the kings purposed intention and painfull trauayle on that behalfe came to none effect Whilest these things were thus a doing in France King Stephen woulde haue caused the Archbishop of CaÌ„terbury diuerse other bishops whoÌ„ for that purpose he had assembled to crown annoynt and confirme his sonne Eustace king ouer the realme of England but the Archbishops the rest of the Bishops refused so to do The Pope is â—…gaynst it bicause the Pope by his letters sent to the Archbishop had coÌ„maunded him to the contrarie that is that hee should in no wise crown the kings sonne bycause his father king Stephen had got possession of the land agaynst his othe receyued in behalfe of the Empresse The father and sonne being not a litle offended herewith The Bishops are threatned committed most of the bishops to warde seeking by threates and menacings to bring them to their purpose The BishopS also were in no small perplexitie for according to the truth the king seemed neuer to fauor ChurchmeÌ„ greatly bycause of their strength as before tyme by his rigor vsed against the bishops of Salisburie and Lincolne it had well appeared and yet would not these men yeeld to his pleasure wherevpon although they were set at libertie they were neuerthelesse depriued of their temporall possessions which notwithstanding afterwards vpoÌ„ the kings own motion were restored again vnto theÌ„ Howbeit the Archb. of Canterbury persisting still in his opinion was forsaken of diuerse of the Bishops whiche through feare durst not stande against their princes pleasure Ger. Dor But the Archbishop when he perceiued how the matter went and that all the blame was lyke to light and rest on hys shoulders The Archbishop of Caunterbury flieth out of the realme he got himselfe by a maruellous hap ouer the Thames and with speede ryding to Douer there passed the sea so to auoyde both the father and sonnes reuengeful displeasure Whervppon the king seased into his hands all the landes possessions that belonged to the Archbishop Mat. Paris Ger. Do. This yeare Queene Mawde wife to King Stephen departed this lyfe at Hangey Castell that belonged to Earle Alberike de Veer aboute the thirde day of May and she was buried in the Abbay of Feuersam which
greatly Thomas Becket that afterward succeeded him Which Becket was also borne in London moreouer his father hight Gilbert but his mother was a Syrian borne and by religion a Sarazin howbeit without all respect of his parents this Becket grew so highly in fauour with the king The authoritie of Becket An. reg 6. and might doe so much in England that he seemed to reigne as if he had bin associat with him also in the kingdom and being lord Chancellor the king sent ouer into England Richard Lucy in his company with sundry letters in his fauoure thereby to procure his election to that sea whiche was broughte to passe according to the kings desire at Westminster He is consecrat Archbishop VVil. Paruus 1162 Quadrilogâ—…um ex vita etusdeÌ„ Thoâ—â—â— afterward also he was ordeined at Canterbury on the Saterday in the Whitson weeke by Henry Bishop of Winchester although there be that write how Walter bishop of Rochester did consecrate him whiche consecration was in the xliiij yeare of his age and in the fifth yeare after his first aduancement to the office of Lord ChaÌ„cellor so that he was the .38 Archbish which gouerned in that sea The same yeare but towarde the end Henry the kings soâ—â—â—eceyued homage of the barons first Normandie and after in England In the yeare ensuâ—â—â—g the King his father comitted him to the Archebishop Becket The Archbis a better courtyer than a preacher that he might see him brought vp and trained in maners and courtâ—…y behauior as apertained to his estate Whervpon the Archbish â–ª in gaâ—â— called by in his sin The Queene brought to beâ—… of a daughter An entervevv An. reg 9. 1163. N. Triuet This yeere at Rohan Queene Elianor was brought whâ—â—â—of a daughter that was named Elianor â–ª 〈◊〉 like â—â—â—ner the thâ—â—kings of EnglaÌ„d and France at Cocy vpon â—â—yre receiued Pope Alexander the third with al honor and reuerence in somuch that they attâ—â—ded on his stiâ—â—pe a foote like pages or footmen the one vpon his right side the other on his left In Iâ—â—uary also ensuing the king returned into Englande Homage of the K. of Scottes the same yere the K. of Scottes did homage vnto Henrye the yonger and deliuered to the Kyng his father his younger brother Dauid with dyuers other the sonnes of his lordes and barons in pledge for assurance of the peace to be kepte betwene them for euermore with some such castels with the conclusion of the leage as he required In the mean tyme the Archbishop Thomas went to the counsell holden by Pope Alexander at Towres in the Octaues of Pentecost A Counsel at Tours when he resigned into the Popes handes as the fame went his Bishoprick by reason he was troubled in conscience in that he had receiued it by the kings prefermeÌ„t but this was shortely doone and the Pope allowing his purpose coÌ„mitted the same pastorlike dignitie to him again by his ecclesiastical power wherby the Archbish was eased very wel of his grief shortly after his returne also from this counsell he seemed desirous to bring home such rights as he pretended to belong vnto the church of Canterbury wherby he ran into the displeasure of many namely of the mightiest moreouer he required of the king the keeping of Rochester Castell and the tower of London The Archbish. practiseth treason secretly Also he alledged that Saltwood and Hiâ—…h belonged perticularly to the seigniorie of hys sea he called also Roger Earle of Clare vnto Westminster to doe his homage vnto him for the Castell of Tunbridge Homage for the casteil of Tunbridge but the Earlâ—… denyed it through setting on of the king alledging all the fee thereof to appertayne rather to the king than to the Archbishop Thus the Archbish was troubled and therwithall the kings fauour more and more apered dayly to fal from hym as afore For ye must vnderstaÌ„d that this was not the first nor second tyme that the king had shewed tokens of his displeasure against him but the eight tyme. Mat. Paris Mat. VVest After this vpon the fyrste day of Iuly Ryse Prince of Southwales with diners other lordes and nobles of Wales didde homage both to the king and to his sonne Henry at Woodstocke An. reg 10. Iomage of the velchmen 1164 N. Triuet Hamlyn y e kings bastard brother maried y e CouÌ„tesse of Warrein the widow of William Earle of Mortaigne that was bastarde sonne to king Stephen This countesse was the sole daughter and heire of William the third earle of Warrein which went with Lewes king of Fraunce into the holy land there dyed Sone after y e Welchemen rebelled with their Prince Ryce and his vncle Owen and did diuers displeasures on y e Marches and by the death of Waltar Gyfford earle of Buckingham which deceased this yeare without heyre that Earledome came to the Kinges handes The .xx. daye of SepteÌ„ber were .iij. circles seene to compasse the sunne Mat. Paris and so continued the space of .iij. houres together which wheÌ„ they vanished away it appered y e two Sunnes sprang forth again after a maruellous manner Whiche strange sight the coÌ„mon people imagined to be a signe or token of the controuersie that was then in hand betwixt the king and the Archbishop Vnto these reasons thus proponed by the Kyng to haue hys purpose to take effecte the Archbishoppe and his Suffraganes the rest of the Bishoppes answered very pithely to proue that it was more againste the liberties of the Church than that they might with reason wel allow of Wherevppon the Kyng beyng moued greeuously towardes them asked of them whether they would obserue his royall lawes and customes which the Archbyshops and Byshops in time of his grandfather dyd hold and obserue or not who therevnto made aunswer that they would obserue them Their order saued their order in all things saued But the King being highly offeÌ„ded with such exceptions vrged the matter so that he woulde haue them to take their oth absolutely and withoute all exceptions but they woulde none of that The Kyng offended vvith the Bishops At length hee departed from London very much displeased with the Bishoppes when he had firste taken from the Archbishop Thomas all his offices and dignities which he occupyed since his first being created Chancellour Howbeit after this many of the Bishoppes seeyng whervnto thys geare would turne began to shrinke from the Archbishop and enclined to the Kings syde But the Archbyshoppe stiffely stoode in hys opinion and woulde not bende at all till at length not only his Suffraganes the Bishops but also the Byshoppe of Liseux that was come ouer to do some good in the matter R. Houe and likewise the Abbot of Elemosina sente from the Pope perswaded him to agree to the Kyngs will in so much that finally ouercome with the earnest sute of his frieÌ„ds hee came firste to Wodstocke R. Houe 1164.
and King Lewes and for the further confyrmation a newe alliaunce was accorded betwixt them A mariaâ—â— concludeâ—… whiche was that the Ladie Adela the daughter of king Lewes shoulde be giuen in maryage vnto Earle Richarde the sonne of King Henrie and bycause she was not yet of age able to mary shee was conueyed into Englande to be vnder the guyding of King Henrie till she came to lawfull yeares Thus the peace being concluded king Henrie for getting all passed inâ—â—reyes brought howe his sonnes in maner aforesayde And they 〈◊〉 will pleased with the agreement attended theyr father into Normandie VVil. Par. where Richarde and Geffrey did homage to theyr father receyuing theyr othes of allegiance according to the maner in that ease requyred But king Henrie the sonne did no homage Rog. Houed VVil. Par. sayth that he did homage also for his father in respect that he was a king woulde not suffer him and therefore tooke onely sureties of him for performance of the couenants on his part as was thought expedient Wil. king of Scots deliuered out of prison with other At length king Henrie goeth to Faleyse and there delyuereth out of captiuitie William king of Scotlande Robert Earle of Leycester Hugh Earle of Chester with diuerse other noble men whiche were kepte there as prisoners putting them to theyr raunsomes and receyuing of them pledges with an othe of allegiance Mat. Par. Prisoners released King Henrie the father released for hys part the number of nine hundred .lxix. knightes or menne of armes if yee lyst so to tearme them which had beene taken sith the begynning of these passed warres And king Henrie the sonne set at lybertie aboue an hundred and that without raunsome paying according to the Articles of the peace as before ye haue heard But yet some as before we haue specified were excepted out of the benefit of that article as William king of Scotlande who being not able to pay his raunsome in present money deliuered vp in gage foure of the strongest Castelles within his realme into king Henries handes Barwike Edenbourgh Roxbourgh and Sterling Castels deliuered by the K. of Scottes with condition that if he brake the peace and payed not the money behinde due for his raunsome king Henrie and his successours shoulde enioy for euer the same Castelles He also couenaunted not to receyue any English Rebels into his realme Nic. Triuet Mat. Par. Other write that the king of Scottes did not onely become the king of Englands liegeman at this time and couenanted to doe homage vnto him for the Realme of Scotlande and all other his landes but also deliuered the Castels of Barwike and Roxbourgh to be possessed of the same king of Englande and hys heyres for euer without any couenant mentioned of morgage Things beeing setled thus in good order King Henry leauing his sonne Henrie at Rouen goeth to Argenton and there helde hys Christenmasse and afterwardes that is to wit in the feast of the Purification of our Ladie Rog. Hou 1175 both the kings as well the father as the sonne were at Maâ—…ns and vpon their return from thence into Normandie they came to a communication with the Frenche King at Gysors The Kings of Englande and France meete at Gisors and then being come backe into Normandie at Bure the sonne to put the father out of all doubt and mystwist of any euill meaning in him sware 〈◊〉 to him agaynst all persons and so became hys liegeman in the presence of Rothrod Archebishops of Roâ—…len Henrie Bishop of Baycax William Earle of Mandauille Richarde de Humez his 〈◊〉 and many other After this they kept theyr Easter at Châ—â—bourgh and from thence they came to Caâ—â— Philip Earle of Flanders where they mette wyth Philippe Earle of Flanders who had lately before taken vpon hym the Crossed to goe into the holy lande and there King Henry the father requyred him to releasse all suche couenauntes as King Henry the sonne had made vnto him in tyme of his last warres whiche hee freely did and delyuered vppe the wryting whiche hee hadde of the same King concerning those couenauntes and so then they confyrmed vnto him the yearely rent whiche hee was wont to receyue out of Englande before the sayde warres Finally after that king Henrie had visited the most parte of the Countrey Polidor he commeth to Harflewe and causeth his Nauie to bee becked and rigged that hee might sayle ouer into Englande Whilest he taryed here tyll his ships were readie hee sendeth letters to his sonne King Henrie willing him to repayre vnto him meaning that he shoulde accompanie him into Englande At the first the sonne was loth to obey hys fathers pleasure herein bicause some enuious persons aboute him had put in his heade a doubt Enuious persons readie to forge matters of suspition least his father had not altogither forgot his former grudge and that he ment at his comming into Englande to commite him to prison But yet the father handled him so gently with courteous letters and messages that shortly after hee came to his father of his owne accorde vnto Harflewe from whence shortlye after they sayled both togyther ouer into Englande The two kings the father and the sonne returne into England landing at Portsmouth on a Fryday the .ix. of May they tooke the way froÌ„ thence streight vnto London al the wayes beeing full of people that came to see them to shewe theÌ„selues glad ioyfull of theyr concord and happy arriual At their comming to the citie they were receyued with great reioycing of the people besieching God long to preserue theÌ„ both in health and honour The same yeare William de Breause hauing got a great number of Welchmen into the Castell of Begemini William de Breause vnder a colourable pretext of a communication proponed this ordinance to be receyued of them vnder a corporall othe that no trauayler by the waye amongest them shoulde beare any vow or other vnlawful weapon which othe when they refused to take The WelchmeÌ„ not well deale with bycause they woulde not stande to that ordinance he condemned them all to death And this deceyt he vsed towardes them in reuenge of the death of his vncle Henrie of Hereford whom vpon Easter euen before they had through treason murthered were now acquited with the like againe The Realme being nowe brought into good order and delyuered from the troubles of warre as well at home as abrode the king being at good leysure determined to ride about a great part of the realme VVil. Par. The king of Scottes doth homage to the king of Englande and comming to Yorke sent for the king of Scots to come and do his homage which was done for the king of Scots according to couenants before concluded came vnto Yorke in the Moneth of August where doing his homage about the .xx. day of the same Moneth in S. Peters Church graunted further
namely on the eighte day of February at Grauntham in Lincolneshire where there chaunced beside the thunder suche a stinke and filthie sauour to followe in the Churche that the people fledde out for that they were not able to abide it Likewise in the daye of the exaltation of the Crosse a generall thunder happened throughe the Realme and thereof folowed a continuall season of fowle weather and wet till Candelmas nexte after which caused a dearth of corn Great dearth of corne so as wheate was solde at twelue shillings the quarter Likewise on the day of Saint Andrew an other terrible tempeste of thunder happened through the Realme An other tempest of thunder throwing downe and shaking buildings in many places in so much that at Pillerdeston in Warwikeshire Polidore in a knights house the Ladie thereof and .vj. other persones were destroyd by the same and a Turbary therby compassed aboute wyth water and matresse was so dried vp that neyther grasse nor mire remained after which ensued an Earthe quake Moreouer on the euen of saint Lucy a mightie winde raged whiche did muche hurte in sundry places of the Realme Furthermore aboute this time there appeared in Englande a wonderfull Comet or blasing starre A Comete or blasing starre The sea also rose with higher tides and springs than it had bin accustomed to doe Math. Paris The king of Ierusalem coÌ„meth into Englands In thys season also Iohn de Brenne king of Ierusalem and the Lorde greate maister of the Knightes Hospitallers came into Englande where they were honourably receyued of King Henrye and liberally rewarded The cause of their comming was to require ayde of the king for the recouery of the holy lande out of the possession of the Sarazins In like maner aboute the same time Leolin Prince of Northwales with certein Englishe Lordes as Hugh Lacy and others vpon an hatred whiche they bare towardes king Henry for his fathers sake supposing that so euill a stocke as they tooke him to be coulde not bring forthe any good braÌ„ch sought by open warres to bring William Marshall Earle of Pembroke and other Barons that wer faithfull friendes to the king vnto their purpose but the whole Country risinge against them they were disappointed to their owne confusion so that they coulde neuer bring that to passe whiche they so earnestly intended Moreouer King Henry sent other ambassadoures to Rome who purchased a Bull of the Pope wherby hee was adiudged to be of age sufficient to receyue the gouernmeÌ„t of the kingdome of England into his owne handes therby to order and dispose al things at his plesure and by the aduise of suche councellers as hee shoulde elect and chose to be aboute him Wheruppon after the sayde ambassadoures wer returned all those Erles Barons and nobles whiche helde any castelles honors manors or places apperteining to the king were commaunded to deliuer and resigne the same to his vse whiche caused muche trouble as after shall appeare for dyuers noble men whose hartes were filled with couetousnes woulde not obey the Popes order herein but sore repined yet not to muche againste the Kyng as againste the Lewâ—… Huâ—… de Burghe by whose counsell the king 〈◊〉 moste ledde and â—…iled And therfore they did put hym in all the blame as one that shulde set the king againste them and stay him front suffering them to inioye thâ—…se libertyes An. reg 8. whyche they from tyme to tyme so muche laboured to â—…ant had to them granted conflemed Vpon this â—…tion therefore Polidor The king gyueth a gentle ansvvere to his Lordes they â—…ued to the Kyng for the restitution of the auncient lawes according to his promyse who to pacifie them for the tyme gaue them a gentle answere assuring them that hee woulde perfourme all that he had promysed so soone as opportunitie woulde permit and suffer hym so to doe Howebeit afterwardes by the aduise of certayne olde counsellours which has bene of the priuy counsell with Kyng Iohn his father he founde a shift to disappoynt them of theyr demaundes by requyring them on the other side to restore vnto hym those things whiche they had in tymes past receiued of his auncetors Furthermore bicause he would the more easily obteyne his purpose and make the residue afraide to followe a suite so displeasaunte and yrkesome he thoughte beste to beginne wyth the chiefe auctors and firste procurers of the sayd petitions and to take from them whatsoeuer they helde belonging to his crowne Hereuppon therfore assembling a greate power aboute hym 1224. The kyng demaundeth restitution of parcels of inheritance belonging to the crovvne he demaunded of Ranulphe Earle of Chester the restitution of certayne Lordeshippes whiche aunciently appertained to the Crowne of the Realme whiche Earle not being as then able to resist readyly obeyed the Kyngs pleasure and resigned them all By this entraunce of the Kyng into the execution of his purpose diuers of the rest of the Barons were brought into suche feare that they were contented also to doe the like so that by this meanes the Lordes being cut shorte and weakened in power surceased as then from molesting the Kyng any further with the demaunde of other landes or liberties The Archebishop of Canterbury also threatned them with the darte of excommunication if they wente aboute to disquyet the Realme with any ciuile commotions thoughe no man was more desyrous to haue that matter goe forwarde than hee as appeared by his diligent trauaile therin hoping as now in short processe of tyme and that by curteouse meanes to perswade the King to his purpose but the Kyng droue hym off with fayre wordes and mynded nothing lesse than to alter any one of the lawes whiche he knewe to be profytable to hym selfe and his successoures after hym Wherevppon diuers myslykyng hys dealyng herein withdrewe themselues secretly some into one place and some into an other to the intent they might auoyde the dayely syghte of suche abuses as they for the moste parte coulde not well abide to heare Whilest King Henry thus politikely prouideth for his affaires at home Sauary de Manleon maketh prouisyon in Guyenne to withstande such perils and dangers as he saw moste lykely to ensue by the practises of the Frenchemenne But as hee was moste busily occupyed aboute the purueyaunce of suche thynges as shoulde bee verye necessarye for his dooyngs there sprang a greate dyssention beetwixte hym and Wyllyam the Earle of Salisburye Discorde betvvixt Sauary de Mauleon and the Earle of Salisbury who was sente ouer into that Countreye with Commission to surueye the state thereof and by coloure of the same Commission tooke vpon hym to order all thyngs at his owne pleasure Whereas the foresayde Sauarye de Mauleon being a man of highe parentage in those parties where hee was borne iudged it to be a matter nothyng standyng wyth his honour that an other man shoulde order thyngs at his will and commaundement wythin the Countrey
Citie the gates whereof were by the Maiors appointment closed and kept with watche and warde doth day and night Soone after also for the more safegarde of the Citie and sure keeping of the peace the king of Almaine with the sayd sir Hugh and sir Philip came and lodged in the Citie with their companies and suche other as they woulde assigne to strengthen the citie if need required Shortly after the king returned out of France The king â—…turneth in England and about the feast of S. Marke came to London and lodged in the Bishops Palace Bycause of tumors that were spred abroade sounding to some euill meaning whiche Prince Edward should haue agaynst his father the king brought ouer with him a great power of men of armes straungers howbeit he brought them not into the Citie but left them beyond the bridge â—…n the parties of Surrey but he being entred y e citie so kept the gates entries that none was permitted to enter but such as came in by his sufferance The Erle of Gloucester by his appoyntment also was lodged within the Citie and the Prince 〈◊〉 the Palace at Westminster And shortly after by the kings commaundement hee remoued to S. Iohns all the other Lordes were lodged without the citie and the king of Almaines remoued againe to Westminster In which time a direction was taken betweene the sayde partyes and a newe assembly and Parliament assigned to bee kept in the quindene of Saint Iohn Baptyst and after deferred or proroged tyll the feast of Saint Edwarde at the which tyme al things were pacifyed for a tyme but so as the Earle of Gloucester was put besyde the rowmth whiche hee had amongest other the Peeres The Eâ—… Glocesâ—… federâ—… self wâ—… Earle of â—…cester and so then hee ioyned in friendshippe with the Earle of Leycester as it were by way of confederacie against the residue and yet in this last contention the sayde Earle of Leycester tooke parte wyth the Prince agaynst the Erle of Gloucester This yeare the Lorde William de Beauchampe the elder deceased Chrâ—… The Lorde Edwarde the kings sonne with a fayre companie of knightes and other men of armes passed the Seas to exercise himselfe in Iustes but hee hymselfe and his menne were euill entreated in manye places so that they lost horse armour and all other things to hys great griefe and dislyking as may be esteemed yet as some write he returned home with victorie in the Iustes Mat. VVest â—…w at Teuâ—…uâ—…ie falâ—… into a â—…s This yeare at Teukesburye a Iew falling by chaunce into a Iakes vppon the Saterday in reuerence of his Sabboth woulde not suffer anye manne to plucke hym forth whereof the Erle of Gloucester beeyng aduertised thoughte the Christians should doe as much reuerence to their Sabboth which is Sunday and therfore woulde suffer no man to go about to take him forth that day and so lying styll till Monday he was there founde deade â—…t VVest â—…th of noâ—…men Diuerse noble men departed this life in this yeare as the Erle of Albemaâ—…e the Lord William Beauchampe Stephen de Longespee Lorde chiefe Iustice of Irelande and Roger de Turkby one of the kings chief counsellers Iustices of the land William de Rickham B. of Durham and Iohn de Crakehale treasurer of England a spiritual man 〈◊〉 rather but rich beyond measure Also HeÌ„rie de Ba another of the kings Iustices of the Berâ—…he â—…t VVest 〈◊〉 reg 45. 〈◊〉 king of â—…s coÌ„meth â—…ondon In the .xlv. yeare of king Henries raigne Alexander king of Scotland came vnto LoÌ„don anon after the feast of S. Edwarde with a fayre companie of Scottishmen and shortly after his wife the Queene of Scottes came thyther also Moreouer K. Henrie kept a royal feast at Westminster â—…t VVest where he made to the number of .lxxx. knightes amongst the which Iohn sonne to the Erle of Britain who had maried the Lady Beatrice one of the kings daughters was there made knight And shortly after was sir Hugh Spencer made Lorde chief Iustice 1261 〈◊〉 Dun. After Christmasse the king comming into the tower of London fortified it greatly and caused the gates of the Citie to be warded sending forth commaundement to his Lordes that they should come to the tower there to holde a Parliament but they denied â—…atly so to do sending 〈◊〉 word that if it pleased 〈◊〉 they would come to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 usually the Parliament had beene kept and not to any other place wherevpon there rose 〈◊〉 betwixt him and the Barons After the feast of the â—…acation Fabian A Folkmote holden at Pauls crosse at a Folkmote holden at Paules Crosse where the King was present in person with the king of Almaine the Archbishop of Canterburie and diuerse other of the nobles commaundement was giuen to the Maior that euery stripling of the age of .xij. y e â—…tes and aboue An othe to be true to the king should before his Alderman de sworne to bee true to the king his heyres kings of England and that the gates of the Citie shuld be kept with armed men as before by the king of Romaines was deuised About Easter the Barons of the lande with coÌ„sent of the Peeres The L. Spencer discharged of his office discharged sir Hugh Spencer of his office of chiefe Iustice and places in hys rowmth sir Philip Basset without the kings assent hee beeing not made priuie therevnto Wherevpon a newe occasion of displeasure was ministred to kindle debate betwixt the king and his Lordes but by the policie of the king of Almaine and some Prelates the matter was quieted for a time till after at Hallowentide next ensuing which was the .xlvj. yeare of king Henries raigne At that time the Barons tooke vppon them to discharge such Sherifes as the king had elected and named Gardeyns of the Countreys and Shires and in theyr places putte other Sherifes 2 An. reg 46. The presumptuous proceedings of the Barons against the king And besydes that woulde not suffer the Iustice whiche the King had admytted to doe hys office in keeping hys cyrâ—…uise but appoynted suche to doe it as it pleased them to appoynte wherwith the king was somuch offended that he laboured by all meanes to him possible about the disanulling of the ordinances made at Oxforde and vpon the second Sunday in Lent he caused to be read at Paules Crosse a Bull 1262 A Bull read at Pauls crosse obteyned of Pope Vrbane the fourth as a consâ—… of an other Bull before purchased of his predecessour Pope Alexander for the assoyling of the King and all other that were sworne to the maintenances of the Articles agreed vpon at Oxforde This absolution hee caused to bee shewed through the Reaâ—… of England Wales and Ireâ—… giuing straight charge that if any person 〈…〉 that woulde disobey this absolution â–ª the same shoulde be committed to pryson there to remaine till the kings pleasure
seruaunts and rested not till he came to his owne Castell where he dwelled being .xxx. mile distant from the place of the battaile There was taken also beside him Hec. Boetius Southwell Fabian Froissart the Erles of Fife Sutherlande Wighton and Menteth the Lorde William Dowglas the Lord Vescie the Archb. of S. Andrewes and another Bishop wyth Sir Thomelyn Fowkes and diuerse other men of name There were slaine of one and other to the number of .xv. M. This battaile was fought beside the citie of Durham Neuils crosse at a place called Neuils crosse vpon a Saterday next after the feast of S. Michaell See in Scotlād Pag. 350. 351 in the yeare of our Lorde .1346 He that will see more of this battaile may finde the same also set forth in the Scottishe hystorie as theyr writers haue written thereof And forsomuch as by the circumstances of their writings it shoulde seeme they kept the remembraunce of the same battaile perfitely registred wee haue in this place onely shewed what other wryters haue recorded of that matter and left that which the Scottishe Chronicles write to be seene in the life of king Dauid without much abridging thereof Hec. Boetius Counttreys of Scotland subdued by the Englishmen Froissart The English men after this victorie thus obteyned tooke the Castels of Roxburgh and Hermitage and also without any resistance subdued the Countreys of Annandale Galloway Mers Tiuidale and Ethrike Forest extending theyr marches forth at y e time vnto Cokburnes Peth and Sowtray hedge and after vnto Trarlinlips and crosse Cane The Queene of England being certainly enformed that the king of Scottes was taken and that Iohn Copland had conueyed him out of the field no man vnderstood to what place she incōtinently wrote to him Iohn Copland refuseth to deliuer the king of Scottes commaunding him forthwith to bring his prisoner king Dauid vnto hir presence but Iohn Copland wrote to hir againe for a determinate answere that he would not deliuer his prisoner the sayde king Dauid vnto any person liuing man or woman except onely to the king of England his soueraigne Lord maister Herevpon the Queene wrote letters to the king signifying to him both of the happie victorie chanced to his people against the Scots also of the demeanor of Iohn Coplande in deteyning the Scottish king King Edwarde immediatly by letters commaunded Iohn Coplande to repaire vnto him where hee laye at siege before Calais which with all conuenient speede he did and there so excused himselfe of that which the Queene had found hirselfe grieued with him for deteyning the king of Scots from hir that the king did not ◅ly pardon him but also gaue to him .v. C. Iohn C◅ rea◅ pounds sterling of yearely rent to him and to his hey◅ for euer in reward of his good seruice and valiant prowes and made him Esquier for his bodie cōmanding him yet vpō his returne into England to deliuer king Dauid vnto the Queene whiche he did and so excused himselfe also vnto hir that she was therwith satisfied and content The Queene then after she had taken order for the safe keping of the king of Scots and good gouernment of the realme toke the sea and sayled ouer to the K. hir husband stil lying before Calais Whilest Calais was thus besieged by the king of Englande the Flemings which had lately before besieged Betwine Iames M◅ The Fle◅ had raysed from thence about the same time that the battaile was fought at Cressy nowe assemble togither againe and doing what domage they mighte agaynste the Frenche men on the borders they lay siege vnto the towne of Ayre Moreouer Froissart they wrought so for the king of England earnestly requiring their friendship in that behalfe that their soueraigne Lorde Lewes 1347 An. reg ◅ Earle of Flaunders being as then about fiftene yeares of age fianced the Ladie Isabel daughter to the king of England The Earle of Fla◅ders ◅strayned to promise ◅riage to the king of Englāds d◅g◅ more by cōstraint in deed of his subiects than for any good wil he bare to the king of England for he would often say that he would neuer mary hir whose father had slain his but there was no remedie for the Flemings kept him in maner as a prisoner till he graunted to folow their aduice But the same weeke that the mariage was appoynted to bee solemnized the Earle as he was abrode in hawking at the Hearon stale away and fled into France not staying to ride his horse vpon the spurres till he came into Arthois and so dishonourably disappoynted both the king of England and his owne naturall subiects the Flemings to their high displeasure There were taken beside the Lorde Charles de Bloys naming himselfe Duke of Brytayne diuerse other Lordes and men of name as Monsieur Guy de la Vaal sonne and heyre to the Lorde la Vaal which dyed in the battayle the Lord of Rocheford the Lorde de Beaumanour the Lord of Loyack with other Lordes knights and Esquiers in great numbers There were slaine the sayde Lorde de la Vaall the Vicounte of Rohan the Lorde of Chasteau Brian the Lorde de Mailestr◅ite the Lorde de Quintin the Lord de Rouge the Lord of Dereuall and his sonne Sir Raufe de Montfort and many other worthie men of armes Knightes and Esquiers to the number betwixt sixe and seuen hundred as by a letter wrytten by the sayde sir Thomas Dagworth and regystred in the Hystorie of Robert de Auesburie it doeth appeare In this meane while King Philip hauing daylye worde howe the power of his enimie king Edwarde dyd encrease by ayde of the Easterlings and other nations Fabian whiche were to him allyed and that his menne within Calais were brought to such an extreame poynt that wythout speedie reskue they coulde not long keepe the Towne but muste of force render it ouer into the handes of hys sayde enimye to the great preiudice of all the Realme of Fraunce Thē French king assembleth an army Froissart after greate deliberation taken vpon this so weightie a matter hee commaunded euerie man to meete hym in theyr best array for the warre at the feast of Pentecost in the Citie of Amiens or in those marches At the day and place thus appoynted there came to him Odes Duke of Burgoigne and the Duke of Normandie eldest sonne to the King the Duke of Orleaunce his yongest sonne the Duke of Burbon the Earle of Fois the Lorde Lois de Sauoy the Lorde Iohn of Heynault the Erle of Arminacke the Earle of Forrest and the Erle Valentinois with many other These noble men being thus assembled they tooke counsayle which way they myght passe to gyue battayle to the Englishe menne It was thought the best way had beene through Flaunders but the Flemings in fauour of the king of Englande denyed The Fleming a besiege Ayre not onely to open theyr passages to the
Robert Langland a secular Priest borne in Salopshire in Mortimers Cliderie Lewes Kaetiâ—…on a Welchman an excellent Astronomer Mathematicien Iohn Garanson â–ª Nicolas Durham a Carmelite frier of Newcastell Willi. Fleete an Hermite wrote sundry treatises exhorting hys countreymen of Englande to repentaunce to auoide the vengeaunce else likely to come Iohn Stafforde a frier Minor borne in Stafforde whereof he tooke name Thomas Rugâ—…ced a blacke frier Raufe Stride an excellente Logitian Will. de Sancta Fide or of S. Faith to called of the towne in Northfolke where hee was borne a carmelite frier Iohn Mandeuille knight that great traueller liued in these dayes and departed this life de Liege the seuententh of NoueÌ„ber in the yere .1372 Thomas of Douer a Monke of the Abbey there Henry Knighton wrote an Historie entituled de gestis Anglorum Iohn Stokes borne in Suffolke an Augustine frier Iohn Horneby a frier carmelite of Boston Henry Bederike or as other rather wiâ—… of Bury an Augustine frier Simon Alcocke a Diuine Eltred Balton borne in the marches of Waleâ—… a Monke of Durham William Iordan an Augustine frier Iohn Hilton a frier Minor William de Lincolne a carmelite borne and professed in that citie whereof hee tooke his surname Adam Daâ—…lingham a frier of the same order but borne in Northfolke Simon Mepham a Prebend of Chichester and a greate diuine Iohn Bampâ—…on a carmelite and studente in Cambridge Iohn Wichingham a grey frier and dyuers other whiche for that we are not certaine in what age they liued we here passe ouer King Richard the seconde Rich. the seconde An. reg 1. 1377 RIchard the second of that name and son to Prince Edward called the blacke Prince the sonne of K. Edward y e third a child of the age of eleuen yeares beganne to raigne ouer the realme of England the .22 day of Iune in the yere of the world .5344 of our Lord 1377. after the conquest .310 about the .32 yere of y e Emperour Charles the fourth and in the fouretenth yere of Charles the fifth K. of France and about the seuenth yere of y e raigne of Roberte the second K. of Scotland Fabian he was named Richarde of Burdeaux bycause hee was borne at Burdeaux in Gascoigne Tho. VVals whilest his father ruled there The day before it was vnderstod that his grandfather K. Edward was departed this life beeing the .21 of Iune on which day neuerthelesse he deceassed the Citizens of London hauing certayne knowledge that he could not escape his sicknesse sente certayne Aldermen vnto Kingston The Londoners sent to K. Richard commeÌ„ding themselues to his fauour before the â—…eath of king Edward where the Prince with his mother the Princesse then lay to declare vnto the saide Prince their readye good willes to accept him for their lawfull kyng and gouernour immediately after it should please God to call to his mercy his grandfather beeyng now past hope of recouerye to healthe wherefore they besought him to haue their Citie recommeÌ„ded vnto his good grace and that it would please him to visit y e same w t his presence sith they were ready in all sorts to honor obey hym to spend both liues goodes in his cause if neede required Moreouer they besought him that it myghte please his grace to make an ende of the discorde betwixt the CitizeÌ„s and the Duke of Lancaster which through the malice of some had bin raysed Iohn Philpot. to the commoditie of none but to the discommoditie of diuers When Iohn Philpot one of y e foresaid Aldermen that had the words in al their names had ended his oration he was aunswered by the Prince and his counsell that he would endeuours hymselfe in all things to satisfie their requests and so were they sent home to bring a ioyfull answere of their message to the Citie The morrow after there were sent to London froÌ„ the K. y e Lord Latimer sir Nicholas Bond sir Simon Burley sir Richard Adderbury knightes to bring theÌ„ sorowful newes of the assured death of K. Edwarde who as we haue said deceassed y e day before but comfortable newes againâ—… 〈◊〉 gret towardlinesse good meaning of y e yâ—… 〈◊〉 who promised to loue them and their Câ—… 〈◊〉 come to the same citie as they had desiâ—… him 〈◊〉 doe And further that he had spoken to y e Duke of LaÌ„caster in their behalfe and y t the Duke hâ—… submitted himselfe to him in all things â—…oucâ—… y e cause The Duke 〈◊〉 Lancaster 〈◊〉 the Lâ—… submit 〈◊〉 quâ—…els 〈◊〉 kings 〈◊〉 wherevpoÌ„ the kings pleasure was y t they shuld likewise submitte theÌ„selues he would doe his endeuour that an agreemeÌ„t might be had to y e honor of y e Citizens and profite of the Citie The Citizens liked not of this forme of proceeding in the Dukes matter bycause the K. was yong and coulde not giue order therein but by substitutes yet at leÌ„gth with muche adoe they were coÌ„tented to submit themselues as the Duke had done before though not til y t the knights had vndertakeÌ„ vpon their oth of fidelitie and knighthood that their submissioÌ„ shuld not redound to y e teÌ„porall or bodily harme of any of theÌ„ coÌ„senting to the 〈◊〉 will in this pointe And so with this caution they toke their iourney towardes Shene where they found y e new K. with his mother y e duke of Lancaster his breethren vncles to y e K. and 〈◊〉 bishops about y e body of the decessed K. When it was knowen that y e Londoners were come they were called before y e K. by whom the matter 〈◊〉 so handled y t the duke and they were made 〈◊〉 After this when y e K. shuld ride through the Citie towards the coronation the said Duke and y e L. Percy riding on greate horses before him 〈◊〉 by vertue of their offices appointed to make 〈◊〉 before vsed theÌ„selues so courteously mâ—…y pleasantly that where before they two wer greatly suspected to y e coÌ„mon people by reason of their great puissance in the Realm huge route of reteiners they ordred the matter so that neither this day nor y e morrow after being y e day of the kings coronatioÌ„ they offended any maner of person 〈◊〉 rather by gentle sweete demeanor they â—…med y e harts of many to whom before they 〈◊〉 greatly had in suspition thought euill of 〈◊〉 now sith we are entred into y e maâ—…r of this 〈◊〉 coronatioÌ„ we haue thought good dreâ—…ly to 〈◊〉 some perticular point thereof as in Tho. Wâ—… we find it though nothing so largely heerâ—… 〈◊〉 author himselfe setteth it forth bycause y e 〈◊〉 of this worke wil not so permit The K. in â—…ng through y e citie towards Westminster on the 〈◊〉 of Iuly bring Wednesday The â—…er 〈◊〉 order of the kings coâ—…tion was accoÌ„paâ—… 〈◊〉 such a traine of y e nobilitie â—…hers as in such 〈◊〉 was requisite
him and as it were couenaunting with him by an interchangeable othe that if euer he might vnderstand that he did violate and breake that oth he should die for it a most shamefull death This yeare the Danes that lay rouing on the Seas did much hurt to the English Merchants taking and robbing many English Shippes when the hauen townes alongst the Coastes of Northfolke made forth a number of Shippes The Danes robbe the English marchâ—… on the seas ventured to fighte with those Pirats they were vanquished by the Danes so that manye were slayne and manye taken prisoners whiche were constreined to pay great ransomes The enimies also found in ransacking the Englishe Shippes Great prises wonne by thâ—… Daâ—…lâ—…hâ—…peâ—… 〈◊〉 of the english men twentie M. poundes which the Englishe Merchants had aboorde with theÌ„ to buy wares with in place whither they were bound to goe The same yere Wil. Courtney Archb. of Canterbury hauing more regard to his own priuate coÌ„modity thaÌ„ to the discoÌ„modity of others purchased a Bull of the Pope whereby hee was authorised to leauie through his whole prouince four pence of the pound of all Ecclesiastical promotions as well in places exempt as not exeÌ„pt no true nor lawfull cause being shewed or pretended why he ought so to doe and to see y e execution of this Bull put in practise the Archbyshop of York the Bishop of London were named appoynted many that feared y t censures of suche high executioners chose rather to paye the money forthwith than to goe to the lawe and be compelled happely maugre their good willes Some there were that appealed to the Sea of Rome meaning to defende their cause and to procure that so vnlawfull an exaction myghte be reuoked Specially the prebendaries of Lincolne stoode most stiffely againste those Byshops but the death of the Archbyshop that chanced shortly after made an ende of those so passing great troubles This yeare Iohn Waltham Byshoppe of Salisburie Waltham bishop of Salisbury buried at Westminster amongst the kings and Lorde Treasorer of Englande departed this life and by King Richarde hys appoyntmente hadde the honor to haue his bodye enterred at Westminster among the Kings After his deceasse Roger Walden that before was Secretarie to the Kyng and Treasorer of Calais was now made Lord Treasorer An. reg 19. Ye haue hearde that in the yeare .1392 Robert Veer Duke of Ireland departed this life in Loname in Brabant King Richarde therefore thys yeare in Nouember caused his corps being embaulmed to be conueyed into Englande and so to the Priorie of Colney in Essex The Duke of Irelandes corps â—…eyed froÌ„ Iâ—…yn into Englande and 〈◊〉 royally â—…red appoynting him to bee layde in a Coffine of Cypres and to be adorned with princely garmentes hauyng a chayne of golde about his necke and riche ryngs on his fingers And to shew what loue and assertion hee bare vnto him in his life time the Kyng caused the Coffine to bee opened that hee mighte beholde his face bared and touche him with hys hands he honored his funerall exequies with hys presence accompanyed with the Countesse of Oxforde mother to the sayde Duke the Archbyshop of Canterburie and many other Byshops Abbots and Priors but of noble men there were very few for they had not yet disgested the enuie and hatred whiche they hadde conceyued against hym Froisart In this meane whyle the Duke of Lancaster was in Gascoigne treating with the Lordes of the Countrey and the inhabitantes of the good Townes whiche vtterly refused to receyue hym otherwise than as a Lieutenaunte or substitute to the Kyng of England and in the ende addressed messengers into Englande to signifie to the Kyng that they hadde bin accustomed to be gouerned by Kings The Gascoyns â—…de vnto K. Rich signify 〈◊〉 vnto hym 〈◊〉 ought 〈◊〉 to be deâ—…ed from 〈◊〉 â—…wne and meant not now to become subiectes to any other contrary to all reason sith the King could not sauing his othe alyene them from the Crowne The Duke of Lancaster vsed all wayes hee mighte deuise howe to winne theyr good willes and hadde sente also certayne of his trustie counsellors ouer hither into Englande as Sir William Perreer Sir Peter Clifton two clearkes learned in the lawe the one called master Iohn Hucch and the other master Iohn Richardes a Chanon of Leycester to pleade and solicite hys cause but to bee briefe suche reasons were shewed and suche matter vnfolded by the Gascoignes why they ought not bee separated from the Crowne of England that finally notwithstanding the Duke of Gloucester and certayne other were againste them it was decreed that the Countrey and Duchie of Aquitayne shoulde remayne still in demayne of the Crowne of Englande The graunt of the duchie of Aquitayne to the duke of Lancaster reuoked least that by thys transportyng thereof it myghte fortune in tyme that the heritage thereof shoulde fall into the handes of some straunger and enimie to the Englishe nation so that then the homage and soueraignetie mighte perhappes be lost for euer Indeede the Duke of Gloucester beeyng a Prince of an hygh minde and loth to haue the Duke of Lancaster at home being so hyghly in the Kyngs fauoure coulde haue beene well pleased that hee shoulde haue enioyed hys gifte for that hee thoughte thereby to haue borne all the rule about the Kyng for the Duke of Yorke was a man rather coueting to lyue in pleasure than to deale with muche businesse and the weightie affayres of the Realme Aboute the same tyme or somewhat before the Kyng sente an Ambassade to the Frenche Kyng the Archebyshoppe of Dublin the Earle of Rutlande the Earle Marshall Ambassadours sente into France to treat a mariage betvvene K. Richarde and the French kings daughter the Lorde Beaumonde the Lorde Spencer the Lorde Clifforde named Lewes and twentie knightes with fortie Esquiers The cause of theyr going ouer was to intreate of a marriage to be had betwixt hym and the Lady Isabell daughter to the French king shee beeyng as then not past an eighte yeares of age whiche before hadde beene promised vnto the Duke of Britaignes sonne but in consideration of the greate benefite that was lykely to ensue by thys communication and alliance with Englande there was a meane founde to vndoe that knotte though not presently These Englishe Lordes at their comming to Paris were ioyfully receyued and so courteously entertayned banqueted feasted and cherished and that in most honorable sorte as nothyng coulde bee more all their charges and expenses were borne by the Frenche Kyng and when they shoulde departe they receyued for aunswere of theyr message very comfortable wordes and so with hope to haue their matter spedde they returned But nowe when the Duke of Lancaster had by laying foorthe an inestimable masse of treasure purchased in a manner the good willes of them of Aquitayne Tho. VVals and compassed hys whole desire hee was suddaynely
treatises of hystoricall matters the oâ—…e intituled Chronicon 40 annorum the other Chronicon 60. an Simon Bredon borne in Winchcombe a doctor of Phisicke and a skilfull Astronomer Iohn Thompson borne in Norffolk in a village of that name and a Carmelite frier in Blackney Thomas Winterton borne in Lincolnshyre and an Augustine Frier in Stamford William Packington Secretarie sometime to the blacke Prince an excelleÌ„t historiographer Geffray HinghaÌ„ a ciuilian Iohn Botlesham borne in Cambridgeshire a black Frier William Badby a Carmelite frier Bishop of Worcester and confessor to the Duke of Lancaster William Folleuille a Frier minor borne in Lincolnshire Iohn Bourgh parson of CollinghaÌ„ in NotinghaÌ„shire a doct of diuinity and Chancellor of the vniuersitie of Cambridge William Sclade a Monke of Buckefast Abbay in Deuonshire Iohn Thoresbie Archbishop of Yorke and Lord Chauncellor of England was admitted by Pope Vrbane the fifth into the Colledge of Cardinals but he died before K. Richard came to the Crowne aboute the .xlviij. yeare of king Edwarde the thirde in the yeare of our lord 1374. Thomas Ashborne an Augustine Frier Iohn Astone an earnest follower of Wicklifes doctrine and therefore condemned to perpetuall prison Casterton a Monke of Norwiche and an excellent diuine Nicholas Radclife a monke of S. Albones Iohn Ashwarby a diuine and a fauorer of Wicklifs doctrine Richard Maydston so called of the towne in Kent where hee was borne a Carmelite Frier of Aylefford Iohn Wardby an Augustine Frier and a great diuine Robert Waldby excellently learned as well in diuinitie as other artes Adunerfis Episcopus for the which he was first aduaunced to a Bishoprike in Gascoigne and after he was admitted Archbishoppe of Dubline William Berton a doctor of diuinitie and ChaÌ„cellor of the Vniuersitie of Oxford an aduersarie to Wicklif Philip RepingtoÌ„ Abbot of Leycester a notable diuine defeÌ„der of Wicklife Thomas Lombe a Carmelite Frier of Lynne Nicholas Hereford a secular priest a doctor of diuinitie and scholer to Wicklife Walter Britte also another of Wicklifs scholers wrote both of diuinitie and other arguments Henry Herkley Chauncellour of the vniuersitie of Oxford an enimie to Wicklife and a great Sophister Robert Iuorie a Carmelite Frier of London and the .xx. prouinciall of his order here in Englande Lankine a Londoner an Augustine Frier professed in the same Citie a doctor of diuinitie an aduersarie to Wicklife Wil. Gillingham a Monke of Saint Sauiours in Canterburie Iohn Chilmarke a fellow of Marton Colledge in Oxford a great Philosopher and Mathemetician Iohn Sharpe a Philosopher and a diuine wrote many treatises a great aduersarie to Wicklife Richard Lauingham borne in Suffolke and a Frier of Gipswich an excellent Logitian but a sore enimie to theÌ„ that fauored Wicklifes doctrine Peter Pateshull of whom ye haue heard before it is sayde that hee was in the ende constrayned for doubt of persecution to flie into Boheme William Woodforde a Franciscane Frier a chosen champion agaynst Wicklife beeing nowe dead procured thereto by the Archbishop of Canterburie Thomas Arundell Iohn Bromyard a Dominicke Frier both a notable lawyer and a diuine a sore enimie also to the Wicklinistes Marcill Ingelne an excellent Philosopher and a diuine one of the first teachers of the Vniuersitie of Heydelberg which Robert duke of Baniere and Counte Palatine of the Rhine had instituted about that season Richarde Northall sonne to a Maior of London as is sayd of that name he became a Carmelite Frier in the same Citie Thomas Edwardson Prior of the Frier Augustines at Clare in Suffolke Iohn Sommer a Franciscan Frier at Bridgewater an enimie to the Wickliuistes Richard Withe a learned Priest and an earnest follower of Wicklif Iohn Swafham a Carmelite Frier of Linne a student in Cambridge and became bishop of Bangor a great aduersarie to the Wickliuists William Egumonde a Frier Ermite of the sect of the Augustines in Stamford Iohn Tyssington a Franciscane Frier a mainteyner of the Popes doctrine William Rymston or Rimington a Monke of Salley an enimie also to the Wicklinistes Adam Eston well seene in the tongues was made a Cardinall by Pope Gregorie the xi but by Pope Vrban the sixt he was committed to prison in Genoa but at the contemplation of king Richarde he was taken out of prison but not fully delyuered till the dayes of Boniface the ix who restored him to his former dignitie Iohn Beaufu a Carmelite of Northamton proceeded doctor of Diuinitie in Oxforde and was made Prior of his house Roger Twiford alias Good-luck an Augustine Frier Iohn Trenise a Cornish man borne and a secular Priest Vicar of Berkley he translated the Byble Bart. de Propriâ—…tatibus Polichron of Ranulfe Higeden and diuerse other treatises Raufe Spalding a Carmelite Frier of StaÌ„ford Iohn Moone an Englishman borne but a student in Paris who compyled in the Frenche tongue the Romant of the Rose translated into English by Geffrey Chaucer William Shirborn Richard Wichingham borne in Norffolke and diuerse other King Henrie the fourth H. the fourth WHen king Richarde had resigned as before is specified the scepter crown HeÌ„rie PlaÌ„tagenet borne at Bullingbroke in y e countie of Lincolne duke of Lancaster Heref. erle of Derby Leycester Lincolne son to Iohn of Gant duke of Lancaster with generall consent both of the lords commons was published proclamed and declared king of England and of France lorde of Ireland the last day of September in the yeare of the world .5366 of our Lord .1399 of the raigne of the Emperor Wenceslaus the .22 of Charles the sixt king of Fraunce the .xx. and the tenth of Robert the third king of Scottes 〈◊〉 officers 〈◊〉 Forthwith he made certaine new officers And first in right of his Erledome of Leicester he gaue the office of high steward of England belonging to the same Erledome vnto his second sonne the Lord Thomas who by his fathers coÌ„maundemeÌ„terexercised that office being assited by reason of his tender age by Thomas Percy Earle of Worcester The Erle of Northumberland was made Conestable of England sir Iohn Scyrley Lord Chauncellor Iohn Norburie Esquier L. Treasorer sir Richard Clifford lord priuie seale Forasmuch as by king Richards resignation the admitting of a newe king all pleas in euery Court and place were ceassed and without daye discontinued now writtes were made for summoning of the Parliament vnder the name of king Henrie the fourth â—…e parliameÌ„t â—…mmoned the same to be holden as before was appointed on Monday next ensuing â—…d Turris Vpon the fourth day of October the Lorde Thomas seconde Sonne to the King satte as Lorde high stewarde of Englande by the kings commaundement in the Whitehall of the kings Palace at Westminster and as belonged to his office he cause inquitie to be made what offices were to be exercised by any maner of persons the day of the kings coronation and what fees were belonging to the same causing proclamation to be made
Matelonne or Martelonne the lord de la Valle and the bastard of Bourbon with other to the number as some haue writtē of fiue C. But Enguerant de Monstrellet affirmeth that vpon their returne into Fraunce there wāted not aboue .lx. persons of all their cōpanies After they had lain thus one against an other y e space of .viij. dayes as before is sayde vitails began to fail so that they were enforced to dislodge The Frēch Welchmē withdrew into Wales and though the Englishe men followed yet empeached with the desart grounds and barren coūtry through which they must passe as ouer felles and craggie mountaines from hill to dale from marish to wood from naught to worse as Hall sayth without vitailes or succor the king was of force constrained to retire with his army and returne againe to Worcester in which returne the enimies took certaine cariages of his laden with vytayles The French men after the armies were thus withdrawne returned into Britain The French men returne home making small bragges of their painfull iourney This yeare at London An. reg ◅ the Earle of Arundell maried the bastard daughter of the king of Portingale the king of Englande and the Queene with theyr presence honouring the solemnitie of that feast whiche was kept wyth all sumptuous royaltie the morrowe after Saint Katherines daye And on the day of the Conception of our Ladie the Ladie Philip King Henries daughter was proclaymed Queene of Denmarke Norwey and Sweden in presence of suche Ambassadours as the last Sommer came hither from the king of those Countreys to demaund hir in mariage for him and had so trauayled in the matter that finally they obteyned This yeare the first of Marche 1406 A parliament a Parliament began which continued almost all this yeare for after that in the lower house they hadde denyed a long time to graunt to any subsidie yet at length a little before Christmasse in the .viij. yeare of his raign they granted a .xv. A fiftenth gr◅ted by the te◅poraltie to the losse and great domage of the comunaltie for through lingring of time the expenses of knights and burgesses grewe almost in value to the sum that was demaunded Moreouer A new kind◅ of subsidie g◅ted by the clergie by the Clergie a new kinde of subsidie was graunted to the King to bee leuied of stipendarie priests and Friers mēdicants other such religious men as sung for the dead celebrating as they termed it Anniuarsaries euery of thē gaue halfe a marke in reliefe of other of the Clergie that had still borne the burthen for them before Whervpon now they murmured and grudged sore for that they were thus charged at that present The same time the Erle of Northumberland and the Lorde Bardolfe warned by the Lord Dauid Fleming that there was a conspiracie practised to delyuer them into the King of Englandes hands fledde into Wales to Owen Glendouer This cost the Lorde Fleming his life The l. Fleming left ◅ life for g◅ knowledge the erle of ◅thumberland of that wh◅ was m◅◅galest him for after it was knowne that hee hadde disclosed to the Earle of Northumberlande what was ment agaynst him and that the Earle therevpon was shyfted awaye certaine of the Scottes fiue the said Lord Fleming Whervpon no small grudge rose betwixt those that so slue him and the sayde lord Flemings friends For this other matters such dissention sprung vp amongst the Scottish Nobilitie that one durst not trust another Dessenti◅◅mōg the ◅tish nobilitie so that they were glad to sue for a truce betwixt Englande and them whiche was graunted to endure for one yeare as in some bookes we finde recorded This truce being obteyned Robert King of Scotland vpon considerations as in the Scottish historie ye may read more at large sent hys eldest sonne Iames intituled prince of Scotland a childe not past nine yeres of age to be conueyed into Fraunce ◅ewen yeares sayth Hard. vnder the conduct of the Earle of Orkency The prince of Scotland stayd here in Englād and a Bishop in hope that hee myght there both remayne in safetie and also learne the French tongue But it fortuned that as they sayled neare to the Englishe coast about Flambrough heade in Holdernesse their shippe was taken and stayed by certaine Mariners of Claye a towne in Norffolke that were abrode the same time and so he and all his companie being apprehended the xxx of Marche was conueyed to Wyndsore where though he had letters from his father which he presented to the king conteyning a request in his sonnes behalfe for fauour to bee shewed towardes him if by chaunce hee landed within any of his dominions yet was he deteyned and as wel he himselfe as the Earle of Orkney was committed to safe keeping in the tower of London but the Byshop got away and escaped as some write by what means I know not By the Scottishe writers were finde that thys chaunced in the yeare .1404 that is two yeares before the time noted in diuerse English writers as Tho. Wals and other But Harding sayth it was in the .ix. yere of king Henries raigne to wit in An. 1408 but whensoeuer it chanced it is to be thought that there was no truce at that pri◅nt betweene the two realmes but that the war to as rather open sithe diuerse Englishe rebelles styll remayned in Scotlande Hall and were there succored to the high displeasure of King Henrie By authoritie of the Parliament that all this time continued the Braytons that serued the Queene with two of his daughters were banished the realme Robert Halome Chauncellor of Oxforde Rob. Holome Archbishop of Yorke as then beeing in the Popes Court of Rome was created Archbishop of Yorke Moreouer the same time the Pope gaue vnto Thomas Langley the bishoprike of Durham which by the death of Walter Skirlaw was thē voyde In the sommer of this yeare the Ladie Philip the kings yonger daughter was sent ouer vnto hir affianced husband Erick king of Dēmark The K. and the Queene brought hir to Lyane where she toke shipping Tho. VVals Norway Sweden being cōueied thither with great pomp and there maried to the said king where she tasted according to y e cōmon speech vsed in praying for the successe of suche as matche togither in mariage both ioy some sorow amōg There attended hir thither Hērie Bowet Bishop of Bath and the L. Richard brother to the duke of Yorke An. reg 8. The Duke of Yorke restored a◅ liberty In the Parliament which yet continued the Duke of Yorke was restored to his former libertie estate and dignitie where many supported that he had bin dead long before that time in pryson Edmond Holland Erle of Kent was in suche fauour with king Henrie The erle of kent in fauour with the king that he not onely aduanced him to high offices and great honors but also to his great costs
charges obteyned for him the ladie Lucy eldest daughter one of the heires of the L. Barnabo of Millant whiche Barnabo payed to him .100000 ducates He maryeth a daughter of Bernabo Lord of Millaine in the Church of S. Mary Queries in Southwark by the handes of Don AlfoÌ„so de Cainuola vpoÌ„ the day of y e soleÌ„nizatioÌ„ of y e mariage which was the .24 of Jan. 1407 The duke of Orleans hauing leuied a mightie armie The Duke of Orleans besiegeth townes in Gascoigne had besieged the townes of Burg and Blay in Gascoigne meaning with force to win the same but so it fortuned that for the space of eight weekes togither there passed not one daye without tempest of raine snow and hayle myxed with windes and lightnings which killed aswell men as cattayle by reason whereof he loste as was reported sixe thousande men so that he was constreyned to breake vp his campes from before both those townes and to get him away with dishonor for all his dragges and boastes made at his first comming thither Henry Pay a valiant sea man The same time Henrie Pay and certaine other persons of the fiue ports with fiftene shippes tooke an hundred and twentie prises whiche lay at ancre in and about the coast of Brytayne laden with Iron salt Oyle and Rochelle wines In this season also bylles were set vp in dyuerse places of London on the doore of Poules Church in which was conteyned that king Richarde being aliue King R. stil aliue as was faigned and in health woulde come shortly with great magnificence and power to recouer again his kingdome but the contriuer of this deuise was quickly found out apprehended and punished according to his demerites The Citie of London this yeare in the sommer was so infected with pestilent mortalitie that the king durst not repayre thither nor come neare to it Wherevpon he beeing at the Castell of Leedes in Kent and departing from thence tooke ship at Quinbourgh in the I le of Shepey to sayle ouer vnto Lee in Essex and so to goe to Plaschy there to passe the time till the mortalitie was ceassed As he was vpon the Sea certaine French pirates which lay lurking at the Thames mouth to watch for some pray The k. in danger to be takeÌ„ by FreÌ„ch parts got knowledge by some meanes as was supposed of the kings passage and therevpon as hee was in the middest of hys course they entred amongst his fleete and tooke foure vessels next to the kings shippe and in one of the same vessels sir Thomas Rampston Sir Thomas RaÌ„ston taken the kings Vicechamberlaine with all his chamber stuffe and apparell They followed the king so neare that if his shippe had not bene froyst hee had landed sooner in Fraunce than in Essex but suche was his good happe The k. escaped through swiftnes of his ship The L. Camois put in blame that he escaped and arriued at his appoynted Port. The Lord Camois that was commaunded with certaine shippes of warre to waft the king ouer whether the winde turned so that he coulde not keepe his dyrect course or that his Shippe was but a slugge ranne so farre in the kings displeasure that hee was attached and indyted for y t as was surmised against him he had practised with the French men that the king might by them haue beene taken in his passage Ye haue heard that the Pope by vertue 〈◊〉 prouision had giuen the Archbishoprike of Yorke vnto maister Robert Halom but the King was so offended therewith that the sayde Riâ—… might in no wise enioy that benefice and so the length to satisfie the kings pleasure Henry Bowet 〈…〉 Yorke master Henrie Bowet was translated from Bathe vnto Yorke and maister Robert Halom was made Byshoppe of Salisburie then voyde by â—…uyng of Henrye Chichelley vnto Saint Dauid The Lorde Henrie Prince of Wales thys yeare in the sommer season besieged the Castell of Abiruscwith Abiruscwith and constrayned them within to compounde with him vnder certaine conditions for truce but the Prince was no sooner froÌ„ thence departed OweÌ„ GleÌ„douer but that Owen Glendouer by subtill craft entred the Castell put out the keepers and charging them wyth treason for concluding anye agreement wythoute hys consent placed other in that Fortresse to defende it to hys vse About the feast of the Assumption of our Ladie that auncient warriour and worthie knight sir Robert Knolles departed thys lyfe Sir Robert knolles depaâ—…teth this 〈◊〉 Bermonâ—…es hee was as before yee haue hearde borne of meane parentage but growing into such estimation for his valiant prowes as he was thought meet to haue the leading of whole armyes and the rule and gouernment of large Prouinces For not long before hys deceasse Saint Albâ—… hee beeyng gouernour of Aquitaine encumbred with age resigned hys office vnto Sir Thomas Belforte a ryghte valyaunt Captaine and therewyth returned into Englande where he dyed at a Manour place of his in Norffolk and from thence was brought to London in a Lytter wyth greate pompe and muche Torche lyght He was buried in the white Friers and was buryed in the Churche of the whyte Friers in Fleetestreete by the Ladye Constaunce hys wyfe where was done for hym a solemne Obsequire wyth a great Feast and lyberall dole to the poore Besyde the dyuerse noble exploytes and famous warrelike enterpryses atchieued by thys valiaunt sonne of Mars he to continue the perpetuall memorie of his name buylded the bridge of Rochester He bulâ—…e Rochester bridge commonly â—…led Knolles bridge ouer the Riuer of Medway wyth a Chappell at the ende thereof hee repayred also the bodie of the Church of the whyte Friers where hee was buryed which Churche was fyrst founded by the auncestour of the Lorde Gray of Codner He founded a Colledge of secular priests at Pomfret Tho. VValâ—… and did many other things in his life right commendable Sir Thomas Rampston Conestable of the Tower was drowned in comming from the court as he would haue shut y e bridge the stream being so big that it ouerturned his Barge The Leâ—…ois â—…eyned and â—…cquited The Lorde Camois was arraigned the last of October before Edmonde Erle of Kent that day high stewarde of England and by his Petres acquitte of the offence whereof he had beene indited as before ye haue hearde and so dismissed at the barre was restored againe both to his goodes landes and offices This yeare the Winter was exceeding sharp through frost and snowe that continued and couered the ground by al the Monethes of December Ianuarie Februarie and March 1408 The Erle of Nothumberland and the Lorde Bardolf after they had bene in Wales in France and Flanders to purchase ayde against king HeÌ„rie were returned backe into Scotland and had remayned there nowe for the space of a whole yeare and as they euill fortune woulde whilest the king helde a Counsell of the Nobilitie at LoÌ„don
time shall amongst vs englishmen eyther appall his honor or blot out his glory whiche in so few yeares and shorte dayes atchieued so high aduētures Of lerned men writers these I finde remembred by Baleand others to haue liued in the dais of this noble and valiant king Henry the fift Fyrst Alain de Linne borne in Lynne and professed a Carmelite Frier in that town and at length became Prior of that conuent but proceeded doctor of diuinity in the Vniuersitie of Cambridge and wrote manye treatises Thomas Otterborne that wrote an historie of Englande is thought to liue aboute this season he was a Franciscan or grey Frier as they called them and a greate student bothe in diuinitie and philosophy Iohn Seguarde and excellent Poet and a Rhetoritian he kepte a schoole and read to his schollers in Norwich as is supposed writing sundry treatises reprouing aswell the profaning of the Christian religion in Monkes and Priestes as the abuse of poetrie in those that tooke vppon them to write filthye Verses and rithmes Roberte Rose a Frier of the Carmelites order in Norwiche commonly called the white Friers both an excellent Philosopher and a diuine hee proceeded Doctor at Oxforde he was promoted to bee Priour of his house and wryting diuers treatises amongest all the Sophistes of his tyme as sayeth Bale he offended none of the Wicleuists which in that season set foorth purely the worde of God as maye appeare by hys workes Iohn Lucke a Doctor of diuinitie in Oxford a sore enimie to the Wicleuists Rich. Caister borne in Norffolke Vicar of S. Stephens in Norwiche a man of greate holynesse and puritie in lyfe fauoring though secretly the doctrine of Wicliffe and reprouing in his Sermons the vnchaste manners and filthie example that appeared in the Clergie Of Sir Iohn Oldcastell Lord Cobham ye haue heard before William Walleys a blacke Frier in Lyn and prouinciall of his order here in England Rich. Snetisham a student in Oxford where he profited so greatly in lerning and wisedome that he was accōpted for the chiefest in all that vniuersitie in respect wherof he was made chancellor of the saint he was chosen also to be one of the xij to examine and iudge vpon Wiclifes doctrine by the Archbi of Canterbury Iohn Langdene a monk of Christs church in Canterbury another of the .xij. that were chosen to iudge of Wiclifes opinions William Taylor a priest and a maister of arte in Oxford a stedfast follower of Wiclefes doctrine and was brente for the same in Smithfield at London the secōd day of March in the yeare of our Lord .1422 and last of Kyng Henry the fifths reigne Richard Grasdale studied in Oxforde and was one of those .xij. that were appointed to iudge of Wiclefs doctrine William Lyndwood a lawyer excellently learned as well in the Ciuill as Canon lawes hee was aduaunced to the seruice of this king Henry the fifth and made by hym keeper of the priuye Seal was sent in ambassade bothe to the kyng of Spayne and of Portingale aboute businesse of most weightie importance It is said that he was promoted to the Bishopryke of S. Dauid Bartholomew Florarius supposed as Bale saieth by Nicholas Brigham to be an englishmā wrote a treatise called Florarium wherof he took his surname and also an other treatise of abstinence in whiche he reproueth certaine corrupte maners in the clergie and the profession of Friers mendicants Adā Hemmelington a Carmelite Frier studied both in Oxford and in Paris William Batecon be is placed by Bale about the tyme of other learned men which liued in king Henry the fifthes tyme but in what season he liued he saith he knoweth not he was an excellent Mathematician as by the title of hys workes which he wrote it shoulde appeare Titus Liuius de Foro Luvisijs lyued also in these dayes and wrote the lyfe of this Henry the fifth an Italian borne but sith he was bothe refiant here and wrote the lyfe of this Kyng I haue thought good to place him among other of oure Englishe writers One there was that translated the sayd historie into Englishe adding as it were by waye of notes in manye places of that booke sundrye thinges for the more large vnderstanding of the historie a copie wherof I haue seene belonging to Iohn Stow citizen of London There was also aboute the same tyme an other writer who as I remember hath followed the sayd Liuius in the order of his booke as it were chapiter for chapiter onely chaunging a good familiar and easy stile which the said Liuius vsed into a certayn Poeticall kinde of writing a copie wherof I haue seene and in the life of this king partly followed belonging to maister Iohn Twine of Kent a lerned Antiquarie and no lesse furnished wyth olde and autentike monumentes than ripe iudgemente and skilfull knowledge for the perfect vnderstanding therof as by the fruites of his labors parte wherof as I am enfourmed he meaneth to leaue to posteritie it will no doubt ryght euidently appere Henry the sixte 1422 Henry the .6 AFter that Death had bereft the worlde of that noble Prince King Henry the fyfth his only sonne Prince Henry beyng of the age of nyne moneths or thereaboute wyth the sounde of Trumpettes Anno. reg 1. was openly proclaimed kyng of England and of Fraunce the thirtie daye of August by the name of Henrye the sixte in the yeare of the worlde Fyue thousande three hundred eightie and nyne after the birth of our Sauiour .1422 about the twelfth yeare of the emperour Fredericke the thirde the fortie and two and laste of Charles the sixte and the firste of Iames the thirde king of Scotlande The custodie of this young prince was appoynted to Thomas duke of Excester and to Henry Beauforde Bishoppe of Winchester the duke of Bedford was deputed Regent of France and the Duke of Gloucester was ordeyned protectour of Englande whiche takyng vpon him that office called to hym wyse and graue counsellours by whose aduice he prouided and tooke order as well for the good gouernemente of the Realme of Englande and the subiectes of the same at home as also for the mayntenaunce of the warres abroade and further conqueste to be made in Fraunce appoynting valyant and expert capitaynes whiche shoulde be ready when neede required Beside this he gathered great summes of money to maynteyne men of warre and left nothing forgotten that might aduance his purposed enterprises Whyle these things were a doing in Englande the duke of Bedforde Regent of France studyed moste earnestly not onely to keepe and well to order the countreys by king Henry late conquered but also determyned not to leaue off from dayly warre and continuall trauayle tyll the tyme that Charles the Dolphin which was nowe a flote bycause king Charles his father in the Moneth of October in thys presente yeare was departed to God shoulde eyther bee subdued or brought to due obeysance And surely the death of this
men and Frenchmen but when after greate instance and labour made betwene the parties hee sawe their obstinate and frowarde myndes nothing enclined to any agreement he wan so much at theyr handes by earnest sute 〈…〉 for vl â—…es that a truce was graunted to endure for six yeares to come but as the same was hardly graunted so was it of the Frenchmen soone and lightly broken For the bastard of Orleans newly made Erle of Dunoys tooke by treason the towne of Chartres from the English men â—…es takeÌ„â—…y treason affyrming by the lawe of armes that stealing or buying a towne withoute inuasion or assault was no breach of league amitie or truce In which towne he slue the Bishop bycause he was a Burgonian Hereby did new malice encrease and mortal warre beganne eftsoones to be put in vre Whilest these things were doing in France the Cardinal of Winchester was come backe againe into Englande to appease certaine commotions and sturres attempted by certaine persons vnder colour of religion but after that William Maundeuille and Iohn Sharpe the chiefe authors therof were appreheÌ„ded and executed by the gouernour and the kings Iustices the residue yeelded and confessed their offences whereof two articles were these as some write that Priestes should haue no possessions and that all things by the order of charitie among christian people shuld be in common Other ther be that haue thought how their opinions were not so farre disagreeing from the scripture as to mainteyne any suche errors but that their enimies contriued to spread abrode such rumors of them to make them more odious to the people After that their conspiracie was thus by diligent inquirie therof had â—…ene â—…ed by the of Gloucesâ—… the k. being France clearly quenched a Parliament was called by the Duke of Gloucester in the which money was assigned to be leuied and men appoynted whiche shoulde passe ouer into Fraunce to the ayde of the Duke of Bedford for the better maintenance of the warres bycause it was suspected that the truce woulde not long continue During this Parliament A peace concluded with the Scots Iames the king of Scots sent Ambassadors to coÌ„clude a peace with the Duke of Gloucester who bycause the King was abseÌ„t referred theÌ„ matter to y e three estates After long consultation not without great argumentes a peace was concluded When the Parliament was ended the Cardinall well furnished with men and money departed out of England and came to Roan to the king to whom also resorted the duke of Bedford from Paris to consult of things not vnlikely to follow Herevpon a great counsaile was kept in the Castell of Roan and many doubtes moued and few weightie things out of hande concluded At length after great disputation with many arguments ended the dukes of Bedford and York and Edmond late Erle of Motaigne and nowe by y e death of Iohn Duke of Sommerset which dyed wythout heyre Male leauing behinde him a sole daughter called Margaret after Countesse of Richâ—…onde receyued to the name and tytle of Duke of Sommersetie lyked and approued the Argument and reason of those that helde how it was expedient to haue an aâ—…iâ—…e in a readinesse for defence least the Frenchmen sodainly shoulde attempt any enterpryse to the daunger of the Englishmen and losse of those townes and Countreys which were vnder their rule and dominion When all things were agreed King Henry departed to Calays and from thence to Douer 1432 K. Henry returneth out of France into England and so by easie iourneyes hee came the .xxj. day of Februarie to the Citie of London where he was both triumphantly receiued and richly presented as in the Chronicle of Robert Fabian it maye at large appeare After that the King was departed forth of Fraunce into Englande the Duke of Bedforde Regent of Fraunce and Captaine of Calays taryed behynde in the Marches of Pichardie where hee was enfourmed that certaine Souldiours of Calays grudging at the restraynte of Woolles beganne to murmure agaynst the king and his Counsaile so that the towne was like to haue stand in scopardie The Duke therefore foreseeing the mischiefe that might ensue and thinking it wisedome to withstande the first motion caused the chiefe doers to be apprehended and vpon due examination had diuerse were put to death and many banished that towne and marches for euer In the meane tyme the Ladie Anne Duchesse of Bedforde departed thys lyfe at Paris The Duches of Bedford sister to the Duke of Burgoigne deceased by whose death the assured loue and faythfull friendship betwixt the Duke of Bedford and his brother in law the duke of Burgoigne began to decay Shortly after to wit about the beginning of the next yeare .1433 the sayde Duke of Bedforde being thus a wydower through the perswasion of the Lorde Lewes of Lutzenbourgh Bishop of Tyrwinne and Ely and Chancellor of France for king Henrie The Duke of Bedford maryeth with the Erle of Saint Pol his daughter agreed to marry the Lady Iaquet daughter to Peter Earle of Saint Pol and neede to the sayde Bishoppe and to the Lorde Iohn of Lutzenbourgh The maryage was solemnized at Tyrwinne with greate triumph After which solemne feast ended the Duke of Bedforde returned wyth hys newe spouse being aboute the age of .xvij. yeres vnto Calays and so into Englande where hee remayned vntill August next and then returned againe to Paris The Duke of Burgoigne was nothing pleased with this new alliance contracted by the duke of Bedford with the house of Lutzenbourgh but the mariage was consummate ere he coulde finde any remedie to binder it Whilest these things were a doing in other places the French souldiers lacking wages began priuilye as the tyme serued to take both Englishmenne and Burgonians raunsoming and spoyling them at theyr pleasure The Englishmen herewith moued to displeasure prepared for warre after sixe Monethes that the truce had beene taken So by suche meanes was the warre againe renued The FrenchmeÌ„ breake the truce and take the towne of Saint Valerie The Frenchmen as open trucebreakers raysed a crew of men sodenly tooke the town of S. Valerie standing in Normandie neare to the mouth of the Riuer of Somme and an other army vnder the leading of Sir Ambrose de Lore wasted and destroyed al the country about Caen. The Duke of Bedforde not mynding to bee ydle on his part sent the Earle of Arundell the Earle of Warwikes sonne the Lord Lisle Adam marshall of Fraunce for king Henrie and .xij. C. men of warre with ordinance and munitions to besiege the towne of Laigny vpon the Riuer of Marne Laigny besieged The Earle with shot of Canon brake the arche of the bridge and got from the Frenche men theyr Bulwarke and set it on fire Diuerse assaultes were attempted but the towne was wel defended for there were within it an .viij. hundred men of armes beside other meane souldiers The Duke of Bedforde hereof
shoutes and clapping of hands The Lordes were shortly aduertised of the louing consente whiche the commons frankely and freely of their owne free willes had gyuen wherevpon incontinently they all with a conuenient number of the most substanciall commons repayred to Baynards Castell makyng iust and true reporte of their election and admission and the louing assent of the commons The Earle after long pausing first thanked God of his greate grace and benefite then towards him shewed and the Lords and coÌ„mons also for their hartie fauoure and assured fidelitie notwithstanding like a wise Prince he alledged his insufficiencie for so great a roomth weightie burthen as lacke of knowledge want of experience and diuers other qualities to a gouernour apperteining but yet in conclusion beyng perswaded by the Archbyshop of Caunterburie the Byshoppe of Exeter and other Lordes then presente The Earle of Marche taketh vpon 〈◊〉 as King hee agreed to their petition and tooke vpon him the charge of the Kingdome as forfeited to him by breache of couenauntes established in Parliamente on the behalfe of Kyng Henry But now before we proceede any further sith the raigne of King Henrye may seeme heere to take ende we will specifie some such learned meÌ„ as liued in his time Iohn Leland surnamed the rider in respect of the other Iohn Leland that paynefull antiquarie of our time wrote dyuers treatises for the instruction of Grammarians Iohn Haynton a Carmelite or white Friet as they called them of Lincolne Roberte Colman a Frantiscane Frier of Norwich and Chancellor of the Vniuersitie of Oxford WilliaÌ„ White a Priest of Kent professing y e doctrine of Wicklife and forsaking the order of the Romayne Churche married a wife but continued his office of Preaching till at length in the yeare 1428. he was apprehended and by William B. of Norwiche and the Doctors of the Friers Mendicantes charged with thirtie articles which he maynteyned contrarie to the doctrine of the Romane Church then in vse and in September the same yeare suffered death by fire Alexander Carpenter a learned man set forthe a Booke called Destructorium Vitiorum wherin he enueygheth against the Prelates of the Churche of that time for their crueltie vsed in persecuting the poore and godly Christians Richarde Kendale an excellente Gramarian Iohn Bate Warden of the white Friers in Yorke but borne in the bordures of Wales an excellent Philosopher and a diuine he was also seene in y e Greeke tong a thing rare in those dayes Peter Basset Esquier of the priuie chamber to King Henrye the fifth whose life he wrote Iohn Pole a priest that wrote the life of S. Walburgh daughter to one Richard a noble man of this Realme of Englande whiche Walburg as hee affirmeth builded our Lady Churche in Andwerp Thomas Ismaelite a Monke of Sion Walter Hilton a Chartreaux Monke also of Sheene eyther of these wrote certaine treatises full of superstition as Iohn Bale noteth Tho. Walden so called of the Towne where he was borne but his fathers surname was Netter a white Frier of London and the three and twentith prouinciall gouernour of his order a man vndoubtedly learned and throughly furnished with cunning of the Scholes but a sore enimie to them y t professed the doctrine of Wicklife writing sundrye greate volumes and treatises againste them hee dyed at Rouen in Normandie the seconde of Nouember in the yere .1430 Richard Vllerston borne in Lancashire wrote diuers treatises of Diuinitie Peter Clearke a student in Oxforde and a defender of Wicklifes doctrine wherevpoÌ„ when he feared persecution heere in England he fled into Bohenie but yet at length he was apprehended by the Imperialistes and dyed for it as some write Fabian and Caxton but in what order is not expressed Roberte Hownde slow a religious man of an house in Howndeslow beside London wherof he tooke his surname Thomas WalsinghaÌ„ borne in Northfolke in a Towne there of the same name but professed a Monke in the Abbey of Sainte Albons a diligente historiciâ—…ie Iohn Tilney a white Frier of Yermouths but a student in Cambridge and proued an excellent diuine Richarde Fleming a Doctor of diuinitie professed in Oxford and by the King aduanced to the gouernement of the Bishopricke of Lincolne he founded Lincolne colledge in Oxford in which Vniuersitie he had bin studente Iohn Lowe borne in Worcestershire an Augustine Frier a Doctor of diuinitie and prouinciall in England of his order and by King Henry the sixth made firste Bishop of Saint Assaph and after remoued from thence to Rochester Thomas Ringstede the yonger not the same y t was Byshop but a doctor of the lawe and Vicar of Mildenhall in Suffolke a notable preacher and wrote diuers treatises Iohn Felton a doctor of Diuinitie of Magdalene Colledge in Oxforde Nicholas Botlesham a Carmelite Frier borne in Cambridgeshire and student firste in the Vniuersitie of Cambridge and after in Paris where he proceeded Doctor of Diuinitie Thomas Rudburne a Monke of Winchester and an Historiographer Iohn Holbroke borne in Surrey a greate Philosopher and well seene in the Mathematikes Peter Paine an earnest professor of Wiclifes doctrine and fearing persecution heere in England fled into Boheme where he remained in great estimation for his greate learning and no lesse wisedome Nicholas Vpton a Ciuilian wrote of Heraldry of colours in armorie and of the duetie of chiualrie William Beckley a Carmelite Frier of Sandwich and warden of the house there a diuine and professed degree of Schole in Cambridge Iohn Torp a Carmelite Frier of Norwiche Iohn Capgraue borne in Kent an Augustine Frier proceeded Doctor of diuinitie in Oxforde was admitted prouinciall of his order and proued without controuersie the best learned of anye of that order of Friers heere in England as Iohn Bale affirmeth hee wrote manye notable volumes and finally departed this life at Lynne in Northfolke the twelfth of August in the yere 1464. which was in the fourth yeare of K. Edward the fourth Humfrey Duke of Gloucester Earle of Pembroke and Lorde Chamberlaine of Englande also protector of the Realme during the minoritie of his nephew King Henrye the sixth was both a greate fauourer of learned men and also very well learned himselfe namely in Astrologie whereof beside other things hee wrote a speciall treatise entituled Tabula directionum Iohn Whethamsted otherwise called Frumentarius was Abbot of Sainte Alboâ—…s and highly in fauoure with the good Duke of Gloucester last remeÌ„bred hee wrote diuers treatises and among other a booke as it were of records of things chancing whilest he was Abbot whiche booke I haue seene and partly in some parcell of this Kings time haue also followed Roger Onley borne in the West countrey as Bale thinketh was acensed of treason for practising with the Ladye Eleanor Cobham by sorcerie to make the King away and was therof condemned and dyed for it though he were innocent therof as some haue thought he wrote a treatise entituled Contra vulgi supersâ—…iones
Spiritualtie and Temporaltie hauing eyther lande or substance were inuited to that plucking banket Sir Gilbart Talbot Knight 1307 and Richard Bere abbot of Glastenburie and Doctor Robert Sherborne Deane of Pouls were sent as ambassadors from the king vnto Rome to declare vnto Pius the third of that name newly elected Pope what ioy and gladnesse had entred the Kings heart for his preferment but hee taryed not the comming of those Ambassadours for within a Moneth after that he was installed hee rendred his deâ—… to nature and so had short pleasure of his promotion The Lord â—…y dieth At the same time dyed Gyles Lord Dawbeney the kings chiefe Chamberleyne whose office Charles bastarde sonne to Henrie last Duke of Somerset occupied and enioyed a man of good wit and great experience An reg 23. 〈◊〉 baâ—…d 〈◊〉 of Vâ—…bin â—…ye made 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 Soone after the king caused Guidebalde duke of Vrbyne to be elected knight of the order of the Garter in like maner as his father Duke Frederike had beene before him which was chosen and admitted into y e order by K. Edward the fourth Sir Gilbert Talbot and the other two Ambassadors being appointed to keepe on there iourney vnto Pope Iuly the seconde elected after the death of the sayde Pius the thirde bare the habite and coller also vnto the sayde Duke Guidehalde which after he had receyued y e same sent sir Balthaser Castalio knight a Mantuan borne as his Orator vnto king Henrie whiche was for hym enstalled according to the ordinaÌ„ces of the order This yere that worthie prelate Thomas Sauage Archbishop of York departed this life at his Castel of Cawood a man beside the worthinesse of his birth highly esteemed with his Prince for his fast fidelitie and great wisdome He bestowed greate cost in repayring the Castell of Cawâ—…d and the Manor of Scroby His body was buried at Yorke but he appoynted by his testament that his hart should be buried at Macclesfield in Câ—…shire where hee was borne in a Chapell there of his foundation ioyning to the Southside of the Churche meaning to haue founded a Colledge there also if his purpose had not beene preuented by death After him succeeded doctor Beâ—…bridge in the Archbishops sea of Yorke the .56 Archbishop that had sit in that sea About this same time Lewes the French king maried his eldest daughter named Clare vnto Frances de Valois Dolphin of Vienne and duke of Angolesme which Ladie was promised vnto Charles the king of Castile wherevpon by Ambassadors sent to and fro betwixt K. Henrye and the said king of Castile a mariage was coÌ„cluded betwixt the said K. of Castile the ladie Marie daughter to K. Henry being about the age of ten yeres For conclusion of which mariage 1508 the lord of Barow and other Ambassadors wer sent into England from the Emperor Maxilian which with great rewardes returned The sicknesse which held the king dayly more and more encreasing An. reg 24. he well perceyued that hys end drew nere and therfore meaning to do some high pleasure to his people graunted of his free motion a general pardon to all men 1509 for al offences done and coÌ„mitted against any his lawes or statutes theeues murtherers and certaine other were excepted He payed also the fees of all prisoners in the Gales in and about London abiding there only for that dutie He payed also the debts of all such persons as lay in the CouÌ„ters or Ludgate for .xl. ss vnder some he relieued that wer condenmed in .x. lb. Herevpon were processions generally vsed euery day in euery citie parish to pray to almightie God for his restoring to health long coÌ„tinuaÌ„ce of y e same Neuerthelesse he was so wasted w t his long malady The death of King Henrie the seuenth y e nature could 〈◊〉 loÌ„ger sustein his life so he departed out of thys world the .xxij. of April in his palace of RichmoÌ„d in the yere of our lord .1509 His corps was conueied w t al funeral pompe to Westm there buried by the good Q. his wife in a sumptuous chapel which he not loÌ„g before had caused to be buiâ—…ded He reigned .xxiij. yeres more thaÌ„ .vij. Moneths liued .lij. yeres He had by his Q. Elizabeth foure sonnes foure daughters of y e which three remained aliue behind him HeÌ„ry his second son prince of Wales which after him was king Margaret Q. of Scots the lady Mary promised to Charles k. of Castile The description of King Henry the seuenth He was a maÌ„ of body but leane and spare albeit mighty strong therewith of personage stature somwhat higher thaÌ„ the mean sort of meÌ„ of a woÌ„derful beauty faire complexion of countenance mery smyling especially in his communication his eies gray his teeth single heare thin of wit in al things quick prompt of a princely stomack chante courage In gret â—…rils doubtful affaires matters of importance â—…pernatural in maner diuine for hee ordred all his doings aduisedly and with greate deliberation Besides this he was sober moderate honest courteous bounteous and so muche abhorring pride and arrogancie that he was euer sharpe and quicke to them that were noted with that fault Hee was also an indifferent and vpryght Iusticier Iustice mingled with mercye by the which one thing he allured to him the heartes of many people and yet to thys seueritie of hys hee ioyned a certayne mercyfull pitie whiche he did extende to those that had offended the penall lawes and were put to theyr fynes by hys Iustices Hee dyd vse hys rygour onelye as hee sayde hymselfe to daunte bryng lowe and abate the highe myndes and stoute stomacks of the wealthie and wylde people nourished vp in seditious factions and ciuill rebellions rather than for the greedie desyre of money although such as were scourged wyth amerciamentes cryed oute and sayde it was rather for the respect of game than for any politike prouision In deede he left his Coffers well stuffed for hee was no wastfull consumer of his ryches by any inordinate meanes Out of the Bishoppe of Rochesters funerall sermon preached in Poules church at London To conclude he had asmuch in him of giftes both of bodie minde and fortune as was possible for any king to haue his politique wisedome in gouernaunce was singuler his wytte alwaye quicke and ready his reason pithie and substanciall his memorie fresh and holding his experience notable his counsailes fortunate and taken by wise deliberation his speche gratious in diuerse languages his person as before ye haue hard right comlie his natural complexion of the purest mixture leagues and coÌ„federations he had with all Christian Princes His mightie power was dread euery where not onely wythin hys Realme but without Also his people were to him in as humble subiection as euer they were to King his lande many a daye in peace and tranquilitie hys
of EnglaÌ„d and Irelande the Supremehead he beyng yet but nyne yeares and odde Monethes of age Hee was thus proclaymed the .xxviij. of Ianuarie 1547 in the yeare of the worlde .5513 and after the birth of our Lord .1547 accordyng to the accompt of them that beginne the yeare at Christmasse but after the accompte of the Churche of England in the yere .1546 about the xxix yere of the Emperor Charles the fift the .xxxiij. of Frauncis the firste of that name king of Fraunce and in the fifthe yeare of the reigne of Mary Queene of Scotland Shortely herevpon the Earle of Hertforde with other of the Lordes resorted to Hatfield where the yong King thou laye from whence they conducted him with a great and right honorable companie to the Tower of London During the tyme of hys aboade there for the good gouernement of the realme the honoure and suertie of his Maiesties person his Vncle Edward Earle of Hertforde was by order of the Counsell The Earle of Hereford chosen protector and the assente of hys Maiestie as one moste meetest to occupye that roomthe appoynted gouernoure of hys royall persone and protectour of his realmes dominions and subiectes and so proclaymed the fyrste of Februarye by an Heraulte at armes and sounde of Trumpette thorough the Citie of London in the vsuall places thereof as it was thoughte expediente The sixthe daye of Februarie the Earle of Hertforde Lord Protectour adorned king Edwarde with the order of knighthoode remayning then in the Tower and therewyth the Kyng standing vp called for Henry Hubblethorne Lorde Maior of the Citie of London who commyng before hys presence the Kyng tooke the sworde of the Lorde Protectour and dubbed the sayd Hubblethorne knight he being the fyrst that euer be made The .xvij. of Februarie the Lorde Protectour was created Duke of Somerset the erle of Essex was created Marques of Northampton The Lorde Lisle high Admirall of Englande was created Earle of Warwike and hygh Chamberlayne of Englande Sir Thomas Wriothesley Lorde Chauncellour was created Erle of Southampton â–ª Syr Thomas Seymer was aduaunced to the honoure of Lorde of Sudley and high Admirall of Englande whyche office the Earle of Warwike then resigned Syr Rychard Riche was made Lorde Riche Syr William Willoughby was created Lord Willoughby of Parrham Sir Edmund Sheffield was made lord Sheffield of Butterwike The same tyme greate preparation was made for the Kynges Coronation The Kyng rydeth through London to VVestminster and so the foure and twentieth of Februarie next ensewing his maiestie came from the Tower and so rode thoroughe London vnto Westminster with as greate royaltie as myght be the streetes beyng hoong and Pageantes in dyuers places erected to testifye the good willes of the Citizens reioycing that it had pleased God to deale so fauourably with the Englishe nation to graunt them suche a towardly yong Prince to their king and soueraigne thus to succede in place of his noble father The morrowe after being Shroue Sunday and .xxv. of February King Edvvard crovvned his coronation was solemnized in due forme and order wyth all the royaltie and honoure whyche therevnto appertayned Shortly after the Coronation to witte the sixte of Marche the Earle of Southampton Lorde Chauncellour of Englande for his too muche repugnancie as was reported in matters of counsell to the residue of the Counsellours about the Kyng The L. Chancellor discharged of his roomth was not onely depriued of hys office of Chancellour but also remoued from his place and authoritie in counsell and the custodie of the greate Seale was taken from him and deliuered vnto Sir William Paulet Lord Saint Iohn that was lord great maister of the kings housholde 〈…〉 Also shortly after his Coronation the kinges Maiestie by the aduice of hys Vncle the Lorde Protectoure and other of hys pryuie counsell myndyng fyrste of all to seeke Gods honour and glorie and thervpon intending a reformation did not only set foorth by certain Commissioners sundrye Iniunctions for the remouyng of Images out of all Churches to the suppressing and auoydyng of Idolatry and superstition within his realmes and dominions â—…lies but also caused certayne Homilies or Sermons to bee drawen by sundrye godly learned men that the same myght bee redde in Churches to the people whythe were afterwardes by certayne of these Commissioners sent forth as visitours accompanyed with certayn Preachers throughout the Realm for the better instruction of the people published and putte in vre At Easter nexte followyng he sette out also an order thorough all the Realme The comâ—…â—… in bothe sides that the Supper of the Lord should be ministred to the lay people in both kindes These thinges done the Lorde Protectour and the reste of the Counsell calling to mynde the euill dealyng and craflye dissimulation of the Scottes concerning the matter of marriage beetwixte the Kynges Maiestye and the Queene of Scotlande whyche marryage as ye haue hearde in the fyue and thirtith yeare of King Henry the eygthe was by authoritie of Parliamente in Scotlande fully concluded thought it not to stande wyth the Kings honour to be in suche manner by them deluded and withall considering howe greatly it shuld tourne to the quietnesse and safetie of bothe Realmes to haue these two Princes conioyned in Matrimonie they dydde deuise sundry wayes and meanes howe the same myghte bee brought to passe Grafton and the rather as some doe write for that Kyng Henry before his death hadde giuen them in speciall charge by all indeuours to procure that the sayde marriage myghte take place but the Lordes of Scotlande were so inueygled and corrupted by the French Kyng and abused by Cardinall Beton Archebishoppe of Saincte Andrews and other of theyr Clergie that they not onely shranke from that whyche they hadde promysed but also sought to destroye those that fauoured the kyng of Englandes parte wherevppon a great and puissaunt armye was now prepared to passe by lande into Scotland and lykewyse a Nauie to passe by sea to attende vppon the same Whereof the greate Galeye and foure and twentie tall shippes were thorougly furnyshed with menne and munitions for the warre besides many merchantes shippes and other smaller vesselles whiche serued for carrynge of victualles and other necessities But nowe to shewe what noble men and other were ordeyned officers and assigned to haue the conduction as well of the ariuye by lande as of the fleete by sea Ye shall vnderstande Chieftaynes in the armye the firste the Duke of Somersette Lorde Protectour tooke vpon hym to goe him selfe in persone as generall of the whole Armie and Capitayne also of the battayle or middle warde wherein were foure thousande footemenne The Marsiall Earle of Warwike appoynted Lorde Lieutenaunt of the same army ledde the foreward conteyning three thousande footemenne The Lord Dacres gouerned in the rereward wherin were other three thousande footmenne The Lorde Grey of Wilton was ordeyned hyghe Marshall of the sayde armye and
and order of necessitie it shuld be rather more conuenient for you to seeke and require moderate agreements of vs whom God hath hitherto according to our most iust true and godly meanings and intents prospered and set forward with your affliction and miserie than y e we being superioures in the field maisters of a great part of your Realme shoulde seeke vpon you Yet to the intent that our charitable mindes and brotherly loue should not cease by all meanes possible to prouoke and call you to youre owne commoditie and profite euen as the father to the sonne or the elder brother to the yonger brother And as the louing Phisition would doe to the mistrustfull and ignorant patient we are content to call and crie vppon you to looke on your state to auoyde the greate calamitie that youre Countrey is in to haue vs nether brothers than enimies and rather Countreymen than Conquerors And if your gouernour or Captaynes shall reteyne and keepe from you this oure exhortation as heeretofore they haue done our proclamation tending to the like effect for theyr owne priuate wealth and commoditie not regarding though you be stil in miserie so they haue profite and gouernaunce ouer you and shall still abuse you with frigned and forgeâ—…tales yet this shall bee a witnesse afore God and all Christian people betwixt you and vs that wee professing the Gospell of Iesus Christ according to the doctrine thereof doe not ceasse to call and prouoke you from the effusion of youre owne bloud from the destruction of the Realme of Scotlande from perpetuall enimie and hatred from the finall destruction of youre nation and from seruitude to forrayne nations to libertie to amitie to equalitie with vs to that whiche youre writers hathe alwayes wished might once come to passe Who that hathe code the stories in times past and dothe marke and note the greate battayles foughte betweene England and Scotlande the incursions rodes and spoyles whiche hathe bin done on both parties the Realme of Scotlande fyue times wonne by one Kyng of Englande the Scottish kings some taken prisoners some slayne in battayle some for very sorow and discomfort vpon losse dying and departing the world and shall perceyue agayne that all nations in the world that nation onely besyde Englande speaketh the same language and as you and wee be annexed and ioyned in one Islande so no people are so lyke in manners forme language and al conditions as wee are shall not hee thinke it a thing verye vnmeete vnnaturall and vnchristian that there shoulde bee betwixte vs so mortall warre who in respecte of all other nations bee and shoulde bee lyke as two breethren of one Island of greate Britaine and though hee were a straunger to both what should he thinke more meete than if it were possible one Kyngdome to bee made in rale whiche is one in language and to bee deuided in rulers whiche is all one in Countrey And for asmuche as two successors cannot concurre and fall into one by no other manner of meanes than by marriage whereby one bloud one lignage one parentage is made of two and an indefensible right giueÌ„ of both to one without the destruction and abolyshing of eyther If God shoulde graunte that whatsoeuer you woulde wishe other than that whyche nowe not by fortune hathe chanced but by his infinite mercy and most inscrutable prouidence as carefull for you he hath gyuen vnto you The whyche thyng that you shoulde also thynke to come of hys disposition and not by blynde fortune howe vnlyke hathe it bene and howe suddaynely hathe it turned that the power of GOD myghte bee shewed youre last Kyng beeing a Prince of much excellencie and yong whome you knowe after a promise broken contrarye to hys honour and misfortune by Goddes iust iudgemente following vpon it God eyther by sorowe or by some meanes otherwise at hys inscrutable pleasure dyd take away from you hadde three children did not almightie God as it were to shewe hys will and pleasure to bee that the long continued warre and enmitie of both the nations shoulde be taken away and knitte in perpetuall loue and amitie take the two menne childreÌ„ of those babes being distante the one from the other A matter worthy to be noted and in dyuers places both as it were at one time and within the space of foure and twentie houres leauyng but one mayden childe and Princes When the most wise and victorious Prince late oure Kyng and maister Kyng Henrye the eyght in other of hys mariages not most fortunate had by his most lawfull and most vertuous wife Queene Iane his other two wiues before that marriage departed thys world and neuer surmise nor question made of that mariage sith that tyme to thys daye nor so muche as all hyr lyfe tyme name or motion to or of anye other wife one Prince of so hygh expectation of so great giftes of God the righte and vndoubted heyre of the Realme of Englande and hys maiestie onely of male issue left behynde hym to succeede the imperiall Crowne If nothing 〈◊〉 hadde 〈◊〉 done what can anye wise or anye Christian man that thinketh the worlde to bee gouerned by Goddes prouidence and not by fortune thynke otherwise but that it was Goddes pleasure it shoulde bee so that these two 〈◊〉 should ioyne in marriage and by a godly Sacramente make a godly perpetuall and moste friendly vaâ—…tie and concorde whereby 〈◊〉 benefytes as of vaâ—…tie and concorde common maye through his infinite grace come vnto their Realmes Or if anye man of you or of anye other nation doubteth hereof excepte you looke for miracles to bee done heerin and yet if you marke all the possibilities of the natures of the two Princes the children alreadye hadde the doubtfull chance least eache of them shoulde haue a sonne or both daughters or not of â—â—te ages with other circumstances both of the partie of this Realme of Englande and that of Scotlande whyche hathe not chanced in eighte hundred yeares it must needes be reckoned a greate maruell and a miracle But lette it bee no miracle seeyng that GOD does not now speake in oracles as amongst the Iewes hee dyd and presente prophecies nowe adayes bee but eyther not certayne or else not playne what more certaynetie can bee hadde of Goddes will in thys case than the before rehearsed bothe bryng but if God hymselfe should speake what coulde he speake more than hee speaketh in these Call you them prouidences or chances if you bee still afflicted and punished maye hee not saye I of any infinite mercy and loue to youre nation hadde prouided a righte heyre and a Prince to the one and a right heyre and Princes to the other to bee ioyned in my holye lawes and by the lawe of nature and the world to haue made an vnitie concorde and peace in the whyche Isle of bothe the Realmes you refused it you loued better dissention than vnitie discorde than agreement warre than peace hatred than
resort to a greater matter of youre vnkyndenesse a great vnnaturalnesse and suche an euill that if we thought it had not bene begonne of ignoraunce and continued by persuasion of certaine traytours amongst you which we thinke fewe in number but in their doings busie we coulde not be persuaded but to vse our sworde and to doe iustice And as we be ordeyned of God for to redresse your errours by auengement But loue and zeale yet ouercometh our iust anger but howe long that will be God knoweth in whose hande our heart is and rather for your owne causes being our christened subiectes we woulde ye were persuaded than vanquished taught than ouerthrowne quietly pacified than rigorously persecuted Yee require to haue the Statute of sixe Sixe articles Articles reuiued and knowe you what yee require Or knowe yee what case yee haue with the losse of them There were lawes made but quicklye repented too bloudie they were to bee borne of our people and yet at the first in deede made of some necessitie Oh subiectes howe are ye trapped by euill persons Wee of pitie bicause they were bloudie tooke them away and you nowe of ignoraunce will aske them againe You know full well that they helped vs to extende rigour and gaue vs cause to drawe our sworde verye often And since our mercie mooued vs to wryte our lawes with milke and equitie howe bee yee blinded to aske them in bloude But leauing this maner of reasoning and resorting to the truth of our authoritie we let you wit the same hath bene adnulled by Parliament with great reioyse of our subiectes and not nowe to be called in question The authority of a Parliamēt And dareth anye of you with the name of a subiect stande against an Acte of Parliament a lawe of the Realme What is our power if lawes shoulde be thus neglected or what is your suretie if lawes be not kept Assure you most surely that we of no earthly thing vnder the heauen make such reputation as we doe of this one to haue our lawes obeyed and this cause of God to be throughlye maintained from the which we will neuer remoue a heares breadth nor giue place to any creature liuing But therein will spend our owne royall person our crowne treasure Realme and all our state whereof we assure you of our high honour For herein resteth our honour herein doe all Kings knowledge vs a King And shall anye one of you dare breath or think against our kingdome and crowne In the ende of this your request as we be giuen to vnderstande ye woulde haue them stand in force vntill our full age To this we thinke that if ye knewe what ye spake ye woulde not haue vttered the motion nor neuer giuen breath to such a thought For what thinke you of our kingdome Be we of lesse authoritie for our age Be we not your King nowe as wee shall be Shall ye be subiectes hereafter and nowe are ye not Haue wee not the right wee shall haue If ye woulde suspende and hang our doings in doubt vntill our full age yee must first know as a king we haue no difference of yeares but as a naturall man and creature of God we haue youth and by his sufferance shall haue age Wee are your rightfull King your liege Lorde the souereigne Prince of Englande not by our age but by Gods ordinance not onelye when we shall bee one and twentie yeares of age but when we were of ten yeares We possesse our crowne not by yeares but by the bloude and discent from our father King Henrie the eyght If it be considered they which moue this matter if they durst vtter themselues woulde denie our kingdome But our good subiectes knowe their Prince and will encrease not diminishe his honour enlarge his power not abate it knowledge his kingdome not deferre it to certaine yeares All is one to speake against our crowne and to denie our kingdome as to require that our lawes may be broken vnto one and twentie yeares Be wee not your crowned annoynted and established King Wherin be we of lesse maiesty of lesse authority or lesse state than our progenitors Kings of this Realme Except your vnkindnesse your vnnaturalnesse will diminishe our estimation We haue hitherto since the death of our Father by the good aduise and counsayle of our deare and entirely beloued vnkle the Duke of Somerset and Gouernour and Protector kept our estate maintained our Realme preserued our honour defended our people from all enimies We haue hitherto bene feared and dreade of our enimies yea of Princes Kings and nations Yea herein we be nothing inferiour to any our Progenitours whiche grace we acknowledge to be giuen vs from God and howe else but by good obedience good counsayle of our Magistrates By the authoritie of oure kingdome Englande hitherto hath gained honour during our Reygne It hath wonne of the enimie and not lost It hath bene maruayled that we of so yong yeares haue reigned so nobly so royally so quietly And howe chaunceth that you our louing subiectes of that our countrie of Cornewall and Deuonshire will giue occasion to slaunder this our Realme of Englande to giue courage to the enimie to note our Realme of the euill of rebellion to make it a praye to oure olde enimies to diminishe our honour whiche God hath giuen our father lefte our good vnkle and Counsayle preserued vnto vs What greater euill coulde yee committe than enter nowe when our forreyne enimie in Scotlande and vpon the sea seeketh to inuade vs to doe oure Realme dishonour than to arise in this maner against our lawe to prouoke our wrathe to aske our vengeance and to giue vs an occasion to spende that force vppon you which we ment to bestow vpon our enimies to begynne to slay you with that sworde that we dreweforth against Scottes and other enimies To make a conquest of our owne people whiche otherwise should haue bene of the whole Realme of Scotlande Thus farre we haue descended from our high Maiestie for loue to consider you to your simple ignorance and haue bene content to sende you an instruction like a father who of iustice might haue sent you your destructions like a King to rebelles And nowe we let you know that as you see our mercie abundantly so if ye prouoke vs further we sweare to you by the liuing God ye shall feele the power of the same God in our sworde whiche howe mightie it is no subiect knoweth how puissant it is no priuate man can iudge howe mortall it is no Englishman dare thinke But surely surely as your Lorde and Prince your onely king and maister we say to you repent your selues and take our mercie without delay or else we will forthwith extende our princely power and execute our sharpe sworde against you as against infidels and Turkes and rather aduenture oure owne royall person state and power than the same shoulde not be executed And if you will proue the
in Fraunce 178.44 Adrian made Abbot of the Monasterie of S. Augustines 178.51 Adrian Abbot excellent well learned 178.85 Adrian buildeth a wal between the Britaines and Scotes 76.49 Adrian the Emperour passeth ouer into Britaine and quieteth the Iland 76.41 Adelwold fleeth into Northumberland to the Danes 219.101 Adelwold entereth the parties of the East Angles with a nauie of the Danes 220.19 Adelwold and many of hys Danes slayne 220.44 Adelwold brother to King Edward surnamed the Elder taketh y e towne of Winbourne maryeth a NuÌ„ne 219.94 Adelme succeedeth Pleymond in the Archbyshoprick of CaÌ„torburie 224.8 Adelme Erle moueth a rebellion against Cuthred King of West Saxons 193.71 Adeline with his armie of rebelles discomfited and pardoned 193.79 Adelward put to death 260.43 Adelwold King of Sussex 176.89 Adelwold byshop of Winchester â—…34 19 Adrian refuseth to be made Archbyshop of Cantorburie 178.8 Adelstane sonne to king Edward borne 222.113 Adelstane ordeyned Byshop of Saint Germans in Cornwall 223.56 Adolfe Earle of Bulleigne 225.102 Adulfe rebelling is expulsed out of Northumberlande 224.53 Adulfe succeedeth Edelwald in the kingdome of Eastangles 177.4 Adnothus slaine in battayle by Godwyn and Edmond the great 299.28 Adarstone a little towne page 1415. col 1. line 37. page 1416. col 2. line 27. Aduentrers 1522.5 1529.10 1531.30 34. their ende 1533. Adethelme Erle slayne by the Danes 206.83 Aduersitie promiseth more theÌ„ prosperitie meaneth to performe 27â—… 64 Adam Byshop of Hereford arested 873.53 b. his Oration to the armie 879.16 b Adela sister to king Henrie the first marryed to Stephen Earle of Bloys 354.113 Adela wife to king Richard the first forsaken and sent home 475.15 491.5 Adela daughter to the French King giuen in mariage to Richard sonne to King Henrie the second 438.116 Adam Banester hanged 854.19 a. Adeline ordeyned Byshop of Welles 223.57 Adeliza daughter to Duke William of NormaÌ„die 283. â—…5 Ada the sonne of Ida created King of Brenitia 140.59 Adelicia daughter to the Duke of Lorâ—â—yne marryed to king Henrie the first 358.26 Aeâ—…wooâ—…e looke Eltwold Aetius put to death 121.63 Aetius gouernour of Fraunce vnder Honorius the Emperour 101.47 Affrica alotted vnto Cham. 1.77 Agriculas gouernment â—â—â—th commended 69.9 Agricula sent Lieutenant into Britaine 68.57 Agricolas fame groweth by neglecting it 69.4 Agricola 〈◊〉 â—â—mmaunded home to Rome by Domitianus 73.69 Age of king Iohn 543.26 Age of Arthur Duke of Britaine 543.27 Ager Anthonie knight is slaine fighting valiantly 1771.30 Agilbertus returneth into Fraunce and is made Byshop of Paris 171.74 Aguell Henrie drowned in a tempest 411.94 Agnexus and Hubbo brethren chosen captaines of y Danes 210.77 Agnes daughter to Hugh le Grand Earle of Paris maried to Richard the seconde Duke of Normandie 288.116 Ages of the realme of England as the state thereof was vnder certaine Princes 237.94 Agencourt battell page 1178 col 2. line 14. Aganippus one of the Princes of Fraunce marrieth Corddilla youngest daughter to Leix 19.113 Agendis recouered from the Frenche 876.38 b. Agatha daughter to Henrie the Emperour marryed to Edward sonne to king Edmond 259.34 Agnes hote burning vexe the people in England 242.15 Aganippus passeth into Britaine with an armie and restoreth Leiâ—… to his kingdome 20.41 Agelnothus Abbot of Glastenburie 297.13 Agathyrses otherwise called Pictes 13.89 Agilbeetus Byshop commeth into England 171.61 Ayre appeareth red and burning 353.29 Apre Riuar page 1310. col 2. line 40. Aiguillon beseged by the FreÌ„chmen 928.7 b. Aimouth furtifyed 1779.10 Ayde agaynst the Turkes and Infiacis 552.70 Akalon a riuer in Greece 11.37 Aldred murtherer of king Ethelbert slayne 201.68 Alrick sonne to Herbert slayne 201.74 Alured constrained by y e Danes to flie into the fennes of Somersethire 214.4 Alure taking vpon him the habite of a Mâ—…nstrell goeth into the Danish caÌ„pe 214.34 Alured setteth sodainly vppon the Danes and slayeth them 214.54 Alfred sonne to Egelredus arriueth in England with a great power to obtayne the crowne 264.15 .265.47 Alureds armie slaine by the Post nyne slayne and the .x. preserued 264.27 Alureds eyes put out 264.32 .265.98 Alured dyeth 264.34 Alureds cruell death and torments 266.7 Alfrike Archbyshop of Yorke 267.1 Alfred helpeth to expulse the Danes 269.20 Alwine or Adwine Byshop of Winchester accused of incontinencie with Queene Emma and imprisoned 269.59 Alered Archbyshop of Yorke obtaineth pardoÌ„ for Swaine 270.22 Algar sonne to Earle Leofrike 272.23 Algar made Earle of Oxford 275.6 Aldred Byshop of Worceter sent for Edward sonne to King Edmond Ironside 276.1 Algar banished the Realme 276.13 Algar ioyning himselfe to the Welchme inuadeth the Enlishe borders wyth a nauie 276.16 Algar pardoned and restored to his Earldome 276.58 Algar succedeth his father in the Earldome of Chester and Mercia 277.39 Algar accused of treason and agayne exiled the land 277. 41. Algar returneth into England with a power of men and recouereth his Earldome by force 277.50 Albania lyeth Northward beyonde Humber 16.48 Albion when this Iland first so called 5.45 .6.30 Alderman of London setteth forth a fleete 1009.19 b. Alchfled daughter to king Oswy 172.21 Alfwen daughter to Ethelfleda disinherited 222.55 Alexander King of Scotes maryeth the ladye Margaret daughter to Henry the third 727.22 Alfred succeedeth his brother Ecgfride in the kingdome of NorthuÌ„berland 185.85 Alfred an excellent Philosopher 185.95 Alferd departeth this lyfe 185. 114. Aldiminus looke Ealdbright Allerton castle made playne with the ground 445.21 Aluredes diligence in deuiding the day and night vnto seuerall purposes 218.43 Alureds last wil and the implosing of his goods to godlye purposes 218.55 Alured obteyneth a part of the kingdome of Mercia 218. 110. Aldhelme ordeyned Byshop of Shirebourne 190.10 Alrike succeedeth his brother Ethelbert in the kingdome of Kent 191.84 Alrike ouerthrowen in battaile by the Mercians 191.91 Aldwine Byshop of Lichfeild 191.99 Aldwolfe Byshop of Rochester 191.100 Aleria called Alize in Burgogne by whom builded 6.45 Alfin succeedeth Odo in y e Archbyshoprike of Canterburye and Aulafe Godfrey succede their father Sithrike in the kingdome of Northumberlande 224.55 Aulafe and Godfrey making warre vppon king Adelstane are driuen out of their countrey 224.59 Altred succeeded Molle in the kingdome of Northumberland 196.30 Altred expulsed out of his kingdome 196.31 Aldulfe sonne to Bosa slayne 196.39 Alfreda prophesieth her mother Quendreds destruction 196 9. Alfreda professeth hirselfe a Nunne 197.15 Algar falleth in loue with Friswive and would rauish her 197.55 Algar suddeinly stroken blynde 198.56 Alswold king of Northumberland 198.67 Alfreds treason against Adelstane and his death 224.13 Alfreds landes giuen to God and S. Peter 224.30 Alured or Alfrede succeedeth his brother Etheldred in the kingdome of West Saxons and ouer the more part of England 211.82 Alured sacred king at Rome by the Pope 207.28 .211 92. Alured goeth with speede forth with an armie against the Danes 212.2 Alewine sent Ambassador vnto Charles the great 195.43 Alured departeth this lyfe and is buryed at Winchester 216.104
flee by the Frenchmen at Albemarle 524.43 Englefield battell fought by the English men agaynst the Danes 210.2 English men ouerthrowen by the Danes at Wilton 212.5 English power ouerthrowen by the Weltchmen 272.63 English men ouerthrowen by the Danes at Yorke 209.46 English Ambassadours not admitted to the Popes presence without a bribe 418.15 English outlawes perpetually pardoned 307.65 Englishmen reteined and setled in Ireland 418.54 England conquered by the Duke of Normandie vppon that day on which afterward Normandie was subdued by the king of England 345.84 English men ouerthrowen by the Welch rebelles 744.68 English men distressed by the Welchmen 638.50 English men compound for peace with the Danes for monie 240.74 and. 246.60 Ende of the Danish Kings in England 268.19 English armye spoyleth Scotland 940.31 a. English men ouerthrowen by the Britaynes at Hatfield 163.57 English Gentlemē maynteined by French warres 1083.48 b. English men agree to submit themselues to the Danes 249.20 English scoole in Rome 212.27 Enromium Emme cited 264.88 English men lost all in France pag 1275. col 2. lin 14. England blessed with learning and puissaunce 178.92 Ercombert King of Kent departeth this life 177.105 English men inuade the confines of Castill 1008.20 a. England deuided into circuites for Iustices itinerantes 443.53 English men ouerthrowen by the Danes in a cruell battell at Ashdon 255.77 English bloode restored to the Crowne of England 259.78 Controuersie betwixt Edward the fourth and the French Kyng pag. 1348. col 2. lin 55. England sore pestred with Flemings 347.38 English men had in ellimation for their good seruice 261.1 English bloud mixed with the Danes and the Britaines 241.91 English men ouerthrowen by the Danes at Scorastā 251 87. English men ouerthrowen and put to flight by the Danes at Wigmere 245.38 Englishmen discouraged by the Welchmen 611.32 Englishmen vanquished and put to flight by the Danes 204.62 English army betrayed to the Danes and chased 243.58 Englishe men almost vtterly ouerthrowen by the Danes 210.82 Englande when first called by that name 204.45 Englande growen to olde and feeble age vnder king Egelredus 237.93 English Nobilitie spoyled pursued imprisoned banished and slayne by king William 306.84 English men giuen to the reading of the holy Scriptures 192.61 England deuided into hūdreds and tithings 217.22 Engistland appoynted the name to the Saxons portion in Britaine 128.24 England verye gainful to the See of Reme 564 90 Encomium Emmae cited 257 50. and. 258.1 and. 259. 87. and. 264.39 English men of whom they learned their excessiue gurmandize 268.12 English nauie lost and drowned by a tempest 322.39 Englande first accursed by the the Pope and why 223.37 Eolwils a Danish knig slayne 220.64 Eopa looke Copa Epte Riuer in Normandy 385 34. Epitaph founde within kyng Williams Sepulchre 316.69 Earle of Penbrooke appeaseth rebellion 616 91 Earle of Albemarle obtayneth peace with the king 618.77 Erlotus the Popes Nuntio departeth home with a flea in his eare 754.54 Erick murdred by his owne people for his sharpe dealing with them 221.97 Erchenwine first king of the east Saxons 152.35 Ernulfus sonne to earle Geffrey Maundeuille taken and banished 380.72 Erick king of east Angles conspireth with others to make warre against king Edward of England 221.73 Erickes army vanquished and put to flight by the English men 221.90 Erocus king of the Almanes 90.81 Earle of Pembrooke vseth diligence to set the realme at libertie from the Frenchmen 615.20 Eric gouernor of Norway returneth to his shippes with great booties 251.89 Eric forbydden to spoyle the countrey 252.2 Erchenwin first king of the east Saxons 131.35 Erchenwyn sonne to king Offa 131.37 Erghom Iohn 1462.7 Earle of Lincolne Caruer at the Coronation 1119. col 2 lin 14. Earle of Northumberland high Constable 1119. col 2. lin 17. Earle of Westmerland earle Marshal of England 1119 col 2. lin 28. Earle of Warwicke Panter at Coronation 1119. col 2. lin 44. Earle of Arundel chiefe Butlar of England 1120. col 2. lin 23. Earle of Warwicke gouernor to king Henry the sixt pag. 1235. col 1. lin 9. Regent of Fraunce pag. 1262. col 1 lin 47. col 2. lin 43. dyed at Roan pag. 1264. col 1. lin 2. Earle of Arūdel slaine in france pag. 1253. col 2. lin 8. Ermenfred bishop of Sion sent into England in commission from the Pope 304.54 Ermenredus brother to kyng Ercombert 180.106 Erming streete where it beginneth and endeth 205.8 Earle of Flaunders feasteth K. Edward the third 912.20 b. Earle of Pearche a French man slaine at Lincolne 613 81. Erkenwald ordeyued bishop of the east Saxons 181.14 Erpwald looke Corpwald Ecguine bishop of Worcester 190.43 Ermengard Lady daughter to Richard vicount Beaumeūt maried to William king of Scots 463.62 Raufe Earle of Ewe taken prisoner at Caen. 930.55 a Esterlings assaulted at home in the Stiliard 1443.20 Espeke Walter bringeth y e order of White Monkes into England 333.94 Eschequer Court remoued frō Westminster to Northampton 567.47 Essex deliuered to the Saxons 118.41 Esketel a kyng of the Danes 212.19 Essington taken and spoyled by the Danes 244.36 Estric sister to king Cnute maryed to Richard the thirde duke of Normandie 289.22 Escuinus or Eleuinus taketh vpon hym the gouernment of the west Saxons 180.84 Escuinus maketh warre vpon Wolfhere and is put to the woorse 180.95 Essex inuaded by the Danes 216.31 Estrild daughter to a certayne king of Scithia 17 Estrilo paramour to Locrinus 17.22 Estrild maried to Locrinus 17 25. Essex rebels scattered slayne 1033.30 a. Eschage graunted to Henry the third 708.39 Esay cited 389.83 Essex waited by Danes 240.73 Eske Riuer 76.50 Estates of the Realme assembled at Norhamtō 542.60 Essex yelded to Adelwold 220.21 Estoutuill Robert taken prisoner 345.28 Esoder looke Elidurus Espeake Walter 369.61 Escuage payed 795.57 a. Essex brought vnder subiection of the West Sa◅ōs 203.64 Ethelbaldus succedeth Ecoired in the kingdome of Mercia 189. ◅0 Ethelbaldus spayleth Northumberland and returneth without battell 189.56 Ethelbuldus ouercome in battell by Cuthred King of West Saxons 189.63 and 193.90 Ethelbaldus slayne at Secandon 189.67 Ethelbaldus reproued for fornication liceciousnes 199. Ethelwitha wife to King Alured 216.106 Ethelfleda sore handled in the birth of a child euer after forbeareth to companie with her husband 216.114 Ethelbert putteth away his wife and marrieth Alfled daughter to King Offa. 201.43 Ethelbert slayne by his owne subiectes 201.50 Ethelfledas noble deedes and valiencie 222 1. Ethelfleda departeth this life 222.36 Ethelbert sonne to Irmenrike succeedeth his father in the kingdome of Kent 142.80 Ethelbert succeedeth his brother Edbert in the kingdome of Kent 191.84 Ethelwolfus or Ethaultus son to Edbert beginneth his reigne ouer the West Saxons 205.101 Ethelwolfus in orders and assoyled by the Pope 205.109 Ethelwolfus maryeth Osburga his Bu◅lers daughter 205.115 Ethelbert restored vnto hys kingdome 201.19 Ethelwolfus kingdome deuided betweene himselfe and his sonne 207.70 Ethelwolfus departeth thys ◅e and is buryed at Winchester 207.92 Ethelwold falleth in
daughter eadem 20. his great gyftes to the Frenche Ambassador 1609. a. 57. commaundeth one thing by letter and the contrarie by worde of mouth 1609. b. 40. maketh his Testament ordayning his Executors to gouerne the realme during the minoritie of hys sonne 1611. a. 44. dyeth eadeÌ„ b. 54. is buried at Windsor 1612. a. 8. is described Henry Earle of Richmond sendeth for Edward Earle of Warwicke from Sherifehuton Castle and puts him prisoner in the towre of London 1425. a. 26. Henry Earle of Richmond sendeth for Elizabeth eldest daughter of king Edward y e fourth from Sherifhuton castle and conueigheth her vnto her mother at London 1425.33 a. Henry Earle of Richmonde commeth to London and is there honorably receyued 1425.43 offreth vp three flaÌ„ders ead 54. promiseth to mary the Ladie Elizabeth 1425. b. 8. is crowned king and proclaimed Henry the seuenth 1425. b. summoneth a Parlament wherin are attainted the chiefest aydors of king Richard 1425. b. 36. aduaunceth diuers of his friendes vnto honour 1426. a. 30. hath the Crowne confirmed by Parlament to him and his heires eadem 50. redeemeth his hostages left beyond the Seas eadem b. 34. marieth the Ladie Elizabeth eadem 28. first ordayned Yeoman of the garde eadem 36. borroweth money of the Londoners and repayeth it 1427. a. 40. summoneth a Parlament eadem 51. maketh a progresse into the North partes eadem b. 1. publisheth a pardon of all crimes 1429. a. 32. discomfiteth in battaile the Earle of Lincolne and other rebels his Complices 1431. a. 42 holdeth solemne processions three dayes for his victorye eadem 46. taketh truce with the Scottes 1432. a. 20. trauaileth in vayne to make atonement betweene the French king and the Duke of Britayne eadem b. 40. and. 1433. a. 10. summoneth a Parlament eadem b. 18. aydeth the Duke of Britayne 1434. a. 7. borroweth money of the Citie of London and repayeth it eadem 54. rydeth to Yorke to represse a rebellion 1435. a. 12. aideth Maximilian Duke of Burgongue eadem b. 30. is loth the French king should marie the heire of Brytayne 1437. a. 18. summoneth a Parlament eadem b. 22. enacteth great summes of money by way of a beneuolence eadem 40. inuadeth France 1439. a. 41. Besiegeth Bolongne eadem b. 47. concludeth peace with the French king 1440. a. 3. the conditions thereof eadem b. 3. returneth into England eadem 25. sendeth certeyne into Flaunders to learne ouâ—… the true progenie of the counterfeit Duke of Yorke 1442 b. 7. sendeth spies into FlauÌ„ders to learne the counsels of the conspirators 1443. a. 10. forbiddeth flemiâ—â— wares and trafique with Flemings eadem b. 3. remoueth the Mart to Calice eadem 8. sendeth an armie into IrelaÌ„d 1444. b. 31. summoneth a Parlament and leuieth a subsidie 1446. a. 30. sendeth an armie to succor Norrham Castle and then inuadeth Scotland 1448. a. 31. releaseth the restraint into Flaunders 1448. b. 20. taketh truce with the king of Scots eadem 31. buildeth Richmond house 1454. b. 20. sayleth with the Queene vnto Calice eadem 24. meeteth with Phillippe Duke of Bourgogne eadem 42. returneth into England 1455 a. 6. concludeth peace with y e king of Scottes betroughthing vnto him his eldest daughter and his eldest Son vnto Katheren the daughter of the kyng of Hispayne eadem b. 47. buildeth our Ladie Chappell within Westminster 1457. b. 36. reneweth the olde league amitie with Maximilian the Emperour 1558. a. 58. summoneth a Parlament and leuieth a subsidie eadem b. 32. erecteth a Court for the execution of penall statutes eadem 41. ordeyneth a newe coyne of Siluer 1559. a. 15 willeth by his Testament violentâ—â— all money exacted for forfeytures to be repayed eadem 40. reneweth league and amitie with Phillippe Duke of Bourgongne 1460 a. 12. publisheth a generall pardon 1461. b. 23. his charitable deedes eadem 26. dieth ead 36. is buried ead 40. his age and yeares of his reigne ead 43. is described eadem 48. left great ryches behinde him 1464. b. 1. Henry Fitzempresse proclaimed and crowned king of England 395.1 Henry the second borne in Fraunce 395.2 Henry the second contrary to his othe right law and equitie depriueth his brother Geffrey of the Earledome of Aniou 396.65 Henrye de Essex Standerd bearer to the kyng by inheritance 397.54 Henrye de Essex throweth downe his Standerd and dishonorably runneth away 397.55 Henrye de essex vanquished in a combat by Râ—…bert de Mountfort 397.59 â—… Henry â—…f Essex pardoned his lyfe and shorne a Monke 397. â—…2 Henry the second entreth into Gascoigne with an army 399.5 Henry the second offreth 〈◊〉 to the Emperour againste the Pope 410.95 Henry sonne to king Henry the second dooth homage to the French king for the County of Aniou 411.39 Henry Earle of Aniou made Seneschal of France 411.41 Henry eldest sonne to king Henry the second proclaymed fellowe with his father in the kingdome 412.21 Henry eldest sonne to king Henry the second crowned kyng of England by commaundement of his father 412.26 Henry the seconde serueth his sonne Henry at the table 412 44. Henry Fitzempresse thought to be bastard sonne to king Stephen 392.14 Henrye Fitzempresse appoynted to be slaine by treason escapeth 392.76 Henry Fitzempresse saileth into Normandy after the treason practised against hym 393 13. Henry Fitzempresse his puissance and honours 393.31 Henry de Bloys alias the Sully Abbot of Glastenbury 134 46. Henry the second why he caused king Arthurs graue to be searched 136.1 Hect. Boet. cited 127.50 and. 128.27 and. 129.66 and. 129.71 and. 129.78 Hengist and Horsus with their army of Saxons arriue in Britaine 111.66 and. 112 7. Hengist deuiseth how to plant hymselfe in Britaine 112.53 Hengist and Horsus Pedigree to Woden 113.19 Henry sonne to king Henry the second begynneth new practises against his father 446 68. Henry the seconde begynneth wantonly to fancie the Lady Alice his daughter in lawe 450.82 Henry Fitzempresse commeth into England to see his mother 379 4â—… Hercules Lybiens sonne to Osyris 5.96 Henry Fitzempresse returneth agayne into England 383.54 Henrye Fitzempresse made knight 383.72 Hereford towne spoyled and burnt 276.32 Hereford Minster set on fyre 276. Henrye Emperour departeth this lyfe 360.9 Henry the first inuadeth France with an army 361.26 Hereford shyre wasted by Edrik Syluaticus 297.28 Hereward escapeth into the I le of Ely 306.93 Hereward fleeth out of the I le of Ely into Scotland 306 105. Herford shyre wasted by the Welchmen 272.59 Hereford Castle 272.62 Henry the third sonne to kyng William borne in England 299.21 Henry Earle of Britaine arriueth in England 633.72 Henry the third marieth the Lady Eleanor 647.68 Henry the thyrd euil spoken of for louyng strangers 704 70. Henry the third goeth toward Scotlande with an army 708.50 Henry the thyrd sweareth against the Pope 73.100 Heraclius Patriarch of Hierusalem commeth into England for aide against the Sarasins 460.54 Heraclius Patriarch of Hierusalem departeth comfortles greatly discoÌ„teÌ„ted in mind 461.7 his reprochful