THE Continuation of the Complete History of ENGLAND by Robert Brady D r. in Physic. 1700. Printed for S. Lowndes and A. I. Churchill A CONTINUATION OF THE Complete History OF ENGLAND CONTAINING The LIVES and REIGNS OF Edward I. II. III. AND Richard the Second By ROBERT BRADY Doctor in Physic In the SAVOY Printed by Edward Jones for Sam. Lowndes over-against Exeter-Exchange in the Strand and Awnsham and John Churchil at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row 1700. A CONTINUATION Of the Compleat History of England c. King EDWARD the First KIng Henry the Third died on the 16th of November 1272. and was buried at Westminster the 20th of the same Month and so soon as he was buried John Earl of Waren and 1 Mat. Westm fol. 401. n. 40. 50. A. D. 1272. The Nobility and Clergy swear Fealty to Edw. I. when beyond Sea after the Death of his Father and appoint Guardians of the Kingdom The Guardians Names They enter upon the Government all Writs and Instruments issued by them in the King's Name Gilbert Earl of Glocester with the Clergy and Laity went to the great Altar and sware Fealty to his First-born Son Edward who was then in the Holy Land not knowing whether he was living afterward the Nobility of the Nation met at the New Temple London and a new Seal having been made they appointed faithful Ministers and Guardians that might keep the King's Treasure and the Peace of the Kingdom Postmodum ad novum Templum Londini nobillores Regni pariter convenerunt facto sigillo novo constituerunt fideles ministros custodes qui Thesaurum Regis c. These Guardians were Walter Giffard Arch-Bishop of York Edmond Plantagenet Son to Richard Plantagenet Brother to King Henry the Third Earl of Cornwal and Gilbert de Clare Earl of Gloucester who entred upon the Exercise of the Government by the Advice and Appointment of the Nobility without any possible Privity or Knowledge of the King yet all the Writs Proclamations and Instruments concerning the Government were Issued in the King's Name as appears by the 2 Append. n. 1. A Writ to proclaim the King's Peace Writ directed to all the Sheriffs in England to proclaim the King's Peace throughout their whole Counties in all Cities Burghs Fairs Mercates and other Places Which was in this Form Edward by the Grace of God King of England Lord of Ireland and Duke of Aquitan c. Whereas our Father King Henry of Famous Memory being Dead the Government of the Kingdom is come to us by Hereditary Succession c. We command the c. Witness W. Arch-Bishop of York Ed. of Cornwall and G. of Glocester Earls at Westminster the 23d of November in the First Year of Our Reign But three Days after the Interrment of his Father There was also a Writ of almost the same Tenor in the King's Name directed to the Abbats of Dore and Hagenham to Receive the Oath of Fidelity from 3 Append. n. 2. Leulin Prince of Wales summon'd to take the Oath of Fealty Leulin Son of Griffin Prince of Wales Dated by the Hand of Walter de Merton then Chancellor and at least a great Assistant to the Guardians on the 29th of November in the First Year of Our Reign but he appeared not sent any answer to the Abbats as by the Return from them and the Constable of Montgomery Castle annexed to the Writ it self is manifest Writs likewise for keeping the Peace in Ireland were Directed 4 Pat 1 Ed. I. Part. 2. M. 20. De Conservatione pacis in Hibernia A Writ for the Conservation of the Peace in Ireland to Maurice Fitz-Maurice Justiciary of that Nation inhibiting all under the Pain of Life and Member and Disheriting That they presumed not to infringe the Publick or King's Peace with Promise to Maintain all People of that Land in their Rights Goods and Estates and do them full Justice against great and small 5 Ib. M. 20. De fidelitate Archiepiscopor Episcop c. Regi facienda With Command to the Arch-Bishops Bishops Abbats Priors Earls Barons Knights and Freemen of Ireland to take the Oath of Fealty before Commissioners there appointed Both these Records Dated by the Hand of Walter de Merton Chancellor on the 7th day of December at Westminster Besides these they Issued other Writs in the King's Name one for Assessing of 6 Append. n. 3. 4. A Writ to the Sheriff of Surry and Sussex to Suppress the Rabble and Plunderers Tallage dated Jan. 27. and to the 6 Sheriff of Surry and Sussex another to raise the Posse Comitatus for suppressing the Rabble who were up there Plundering Robbing and Murdering the King's Subjects dated the 6th of June both in his First Year so that they took upon them the Whole Administration of the Government in his absence and he was so far pleased with the Proceedings of his Chancellor especially against the Bishop of Carlisle for Excommunicating the Sheriff of Cumberland because he 7 Bundel Brov. 1 Ed. I. n. 14. in the Tower Distreined the Goods of an Abbat in his Diocese for the King's Debt prohibiting him to put in Execution the Excommunication or Prosecute him in Court Christian for that the Correction and Pleas concerning the Transgression of the King's Officers belonged to himself according to the Custom of the Kingdom that he wrote him a Letter of 8 Append. n. 5. Thanks when he was acquainted with them for his Diligence in the Dispatch of his and the Kingdom 's Business Directing and Incouraging him to go on as he had begun promising to Ratifie whatever he should do in Ways of Justice Commanding him not to spare any of what State or Condition foever but to proceed against them by Rigor of Justice if otherwise he could not restrain their Excesses This Letter is dated August the 9th in the First Year of his Reign at Melun upon the River Seyn in France Upon the News of his Father's Death he set all things in order and disposed them as well as he could and came from the Holy Land into Sicily and was received by the 9 Mat. West f. 402. n. 10 20 30 40 50. The King came from the Holy Land into Sicily from thence to Rome and so into France where he did Homage to that King for Aquitan King thereof with great Honour who Conducted him to the Roman Court where he spent some time with Pope Gregory the Tenth his Friend Familiar and Acquaintance in the Holy Land From thence he passed into Burgundy where at the foot of the Mountains some English Bishops Abbats Earls and Barons met him from whence he came into France where he was Honourably received by King Philip the Hardy his Cousin German and did Homage to him for the Hereditary Lands he held of him who thereupon granted him the possession of them After this he took his Leave of the King and Peers of France 1 Ibm.
2 Ibm. This Ordinance was Dated at Boys de Vincens the 23d Day of March 1338. and says Avesbury 3 p. 107. a. c. 53. it was found in Caen when it was taken and delivered to the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury that he might excite the Clergy and Laity ut per hoc excitaret clerum populum to pray more willingly for Peace and the King After these things had been declared and expounded 4 Rot. Parl. ut supra in Parlement they all thanked God for the Success he had given the King against his Adversary and said That whatever had been given him had been well employed and that they would further Aid him according to their Power The Knights Citizens and Burgesses desired time to consider of the Aid until Thursday An Aid granted next following when they granted him Two Fifteenths making grievous Complaints of Oppressions and Poverty in the Grant 5 Ibm. n. 11. The Commons Complaints and Grievances praying the King to think how they had been annually charged with Tallages as Fifteenths Wooll Ninths Men at Arms Hobelors Archers Victuals Guard of the Sea-Coasts and many other Taxes by which they were almost ruined And also in the last Parlement when they granted Two Fifteenths for the ending of the War it was granted and certainly promised to them grantes lour fust certeinment promis en le dit Parlement they should not be charged or grieved with Payments or Tallages Wherefore it seemed to them reasonable they ought now to be discharged and excused And notwithstanding these Grants and Promises there daily issued Commissions to Array in all Parts of England Men at Arms Hobelors and Archers according to the Value of their Lands or to make Composition therefore They likewise complained of Purveyance and Free Quarter and of the Custom and Subsidy of Forty Shillings the Sack upon Wooll 6 Ibm. Which Grievances Hardships and Oppressions les queux Grievances Duretees Oppressions were done and suffered every day without Assent or Grant in Parlement sanz Assent ou Grant en Parlement expresly against * See Rot. Parl. 14 Ed. III. Part 1. n. 8 9. Pulton's Stat. 14 Ed. III. c. 1. Record Yet notwithstanding these Oppressions and Grievances the Commons to the utmost of their Abilities granted Two Fifteenths for the final Accomplishment of the War by Gods Help and Destruction of his Enemies to be levied in two Years of Cities Burghs and ancient Demeasns as also of the Commons of the Counties so as 7 Ibm. their Petitions upon these Grievances and others might be recited on the morrow in Parlement and have speedy and good Remedy ordered sur ce hastive bon remedie ordeigner for the Common Profit of the Land according as the King 's Four Commissioners or Messengers had granted on his behalf to the Commons The first Petition of the Commons was 8 The Commons Petitions n. 10. That the Ordinances Promises and Grants made in Parlement for the future might be observed for the Ease of the Commons against the great Charges and Hardships they had felt and suffered Also That Commissions might not be issued out of Chancery to charge the People with the Array of Men at Arms Hobelors Archers or Victuals without Assent or Grant in Parlement and if any such were the People should neither be charged with nor bound to obey them The Answer was as to the first Point 9 Ibm. Râ— The King's Answer to the Commons Petitions That it should be as they desired As to the second it was notorious that the Great Men and Commons les Grantz Comunes in many Parlements had promised the King to assist him to their utmost in Body and Goods en corps avoir e quant qils poant in his Quarrel with France and for the Defence and Safety of England Wherefore the Great Men 1 Ibm pur quoi les ditz Grantz veantz la necessite nostre Seigneur le Roi seeing his Necessity to be supplied with such Men before his Passage to recover his Rights beyond Sea and for the Defence of England had ordered That those who had an Hundred Shillings a year Rent on this side Trent should find Men at Arms Hobelors and Archers according to the quantity of their Estate and Tenure to go with the King at his Wages or if they would not go in Person to find others or if not that to pay the King what he could procure Men for And so things were and had been done and no otherwise And the King would not that what was done in this Necessity should be made an Example for the future as appeared by his Letters Patents Another Petition of the Commons 2 Commons Petitions n. 18. was That the Forty Shillings a Sack upon Wooll might not be collected but only the old Custom paid To this the Answer 3 Ibm. The King's Answer was That the Prelates and others seeing the King's Necessity before his Passage beyond Sea to recover his Rights and defend his own Nation agreed by Consent of the Merchants he should have the Subsidy of Forty Shillings on every Sack of Wooll that passed beyond Sea for two Years and that several Merchants had advanced Money upon that Grant to the King for the carrying on the War And therefore it could not be annulled without the Assent of the King and his said Great Men de ses ditz Grantz While King Edward was doing these great things in France and was before Calais there came an account from the Earl of Derby in Gascony That the Duke 4 Aves p. 110. c. 56. The Earl of Derby's Success in Gascony of Normandy and the French had in great haste raised the Siege of Aguillon on Sunday before St. Bartholomew and went off in such haste as they left their Tents and most of their Baggage behind them That he had taken many Towns and Castles of Force and Value in that Country and put it into good Order and then marched into Poictou took Poictiers and settled that Country and thence came back to Burdeaux from whence he came to England and was at London on the Feast of St. Hillary or 13th of January The Success against the Scots was likewise considerable this Year 5 Ib. p. 111. a c. 57. The Scots invade England with a great Army David their King being excited by Philip of Valois invaded England with a great Army and marched as far as Durham near which place the Arch-Bishop of York Henry Piercy Ralph Nevill and other Great Men of the Northern Parts with such an Army as they had then raised met him and gave the The Battel of Nevill's Cross Scots Battel on St. Luke's Eve or 17th of October at Nevill's Cross near Durham where they obtained a very memorable Victory killing the Earls of Morave and Strathern and the Flower of the David King of Scots taken Prisoner Scots Militia and Men at Arms taking King David
Regaly in the Cases aforesaid and in all other Cases attempted against him his Crown and Regaly in all Points to live and die 3 Ibm. And further they pray the King and him require by way of Justice That he would ask all the Lords in Parlement as well Spiritual as Temporal severally and all the States of Parlement What they thought of the Cases aforesaid Whereupon the Lords Temporal so asked answered every one by himself That the Cases aforesaid were clearly in Derogation of the King's Crown and of his Regaly as it was well known and had been a long time known and that they would be with the Crown and Regaly in these Cases especially and in all others which shall be attempted against them in all Points with all their Power The Answer of the Lords Spiritual to the King's Demands much to the purpose of that of the Lords Temporal will best appear from the Arch-Bishop's Protestation so called upon the Parlement-Roll as 't is transcribed in the Appendix n. 118. and there translated After which Answers given 4 Ibm. the King by Assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal at the Prayer of the Commons Qrdained and Established That if any Purchase or Pursue or cause to be Purchased or Pursued in the Court of Rome or elsewhere any such Translations Processes and Sentences of Excommunications Bulls Instruments or any other things which touch the King against him his Crown Regaly or Kingdom as is aforesaid and they that bring them within the Realm or receive them or make thereof Notification or any other Execution within the Kingdom or without they their Notaries Procurators Maintainers Abetters Fautors and Counsellors shall be put out of the King's Protection their Lands and Tenements Goods and Chattels forfeited and also attached by their Bodies if to be found and brought before the King and his Council there to answer or that Process be made against them by Praemunire facias io manner as it is Ordained in other Statutes of Provisors After this there is nothing further that I have seen about these Controversies the Pope being quiet all his Reign yet I shall take notice of some things done by the King relating to these Affairs which were omitted in their due Place He caused James Dardain 5 Rot. Claus 12 Ric. II. M 39. Dors the Pope's Collector in England to Swear he would be Faithful to him and his Crown That he would not do permit or procure to be done any thing Prejudicial to him his Kingdom Laws and Rights And that he would not put in Execution any Papal Letters or Mandates or permit them to be put in Execution that were Prejudicial to the King his Regaly or Royalty Laws or Rights or to his Kingdom That he would not receive or publish any of the Pope's Letters but such as he should deliver to the King's Council as soon as he could That he would not send any Money or Plate out of the Kingdom unless he had special Licence from the King or his Council nor that he would introduce any Novelties by or without Command without the King's Licence And that he would keep the King's Laws and Rights without violation This Oath was taken August 27. in the 12th of Richard II. before his Council as appears by the Record it self Then he wrote to 6 Ib. 13 Ric. II. part 1. M. 17. De decimis Papae non solvendis William Arch-Bishop of Canterbury That he could not but know that he was bound by Oath for the Conservation of the Rights and Customs of the Kingdom and for the Indemnity and Right Government of his People and also that no Impositions upon the People could be made or levied any ways whatsoever without Common Counsel or Consent of the Kingdom And further That he had been Petitioned by the Commons lately assembled in Parlement at Westminster to provide Remedy against the Impositions upon the Clergy at that time published and exacted by the People And also that any one that should bring in any Pope's Bulls to levy such Impositions or create such Novelties not formerly used which might bring Damage to him or his Kingdom nor should publish such Impositions and Novelties or collect or levy them should be adjudged and suffer as a Traitor to him and his Kingdom And it was granted by him with Assent of the same Parlement nothing should be levied or paid that might tend to the Burthen and Damage of the Kingdom or Liege People This notwithstanding he was informed of a new Imposition upon the Clergy by the Pope which by his Authority or the Authority of his Suffragans by his Command was to be levied without Common Advice and Assent of the Kingdom which he might not suffer to be done saving his said Oath And then Commanded by the Faith in which he was bound to him and under forfeiture of all he could forfeit to revoke all that had been done for the levying and exacting of this Imposition and to return what had been paid and levied enjoining him not to pay or contribute any thing to this Subsidy or Imposition under the foresaid Faith and Forfeiture Witness the King at Westminster the 10th Day of October The like Writ and of the same Date 7 Ibm. was directed to the Arch-Bishop of York and all the other Bishops of England as also to the Guardians of the Spiritualities of the vacant Bishoprics and several Collectors of this Imposition The like Writ was likewise directed to James Dardain then the Pope's Nuncio Rex 8 Ibm. Jacobo Dardain Nuncio Domini summi Pontificis in Anglia c. to desist in exacting of this Imposition sub forisfactura Vitae Membrorum under the Forfeiture of Life and Members and all things he could forfeit Witness as before This Imposition was the Payment of a Tenth by the Clergy to the Pope by him laid upon them as appears by the Todding or Title of the Record De Decimis Papae non solvendis Concerning Tenths not to be paid to the Pope In the 14th of his Reign 9 Ibm. 14 Ric. II. M. 13. Dots De Proclamatione he caused Proclamation to be made through England to call from Rome under forfeiture of Life and Member and all they could forfeit many Persons that went thither to procure the Nulling and Vacating of divers Statutes made by him and his Progenitors with Consent of Parlement for the Common Profit of the Kingdom and to perpetrate many other Evils there to the Contempt and Prejudice of his Person to the great Damage of the Kingdom and People and to the manifest Cassation of the Laws and Customs thereof That they should be in England by the Feast of St. Martin in Winter or 11th of November at furthest And that no Man of what State or Condition soever he was should bring any Pope's Bulls Processes or Instruments for the Adnulling or Vacating of any the Statutes Laws or Customs aforesaid or obey them or put them in
Rot. 73 penes Remem Regis in scacar to Require and Induce them to pay a certain Sum charged upon or demanded of them toward the War which at this time was a sixth part of their Goods which was required first and granted in London as an Example to other Places The Commissions for all Counties in England bear Date the 21st of Novemb. 23d of Ed. I. The King wanting more Money to carry on the War against France in his 7 Claus 23. Ed. 1. M. 3. Dors. Dated Sept. 30. Summons to Parlement Writ of Summons directed to Robert Winchelsey Arch-Bishop of Canterbury to a Parlement to be holden on the Sunday next after St. Martin or the 10th of November told him That he could not but sufficiently understand since it was known all the World over That the King of France had fraudulently surprised Gascony and not content therewith had provided a Navy and Army to invade England and destroy the The King of France provides a Fleet and Army to Invade England Nation and Language if his Power were answerable to his Detestable Purpose To prevent these Dangers and Designed Mischiefs this Parlement was called but it sat not on that day the King being busied at Winchelsea in Equipping his Fleet for the Defence of the Kingdom and so could not be there and for this cause as 't is said in the 8 Ib. M. 2. Dors de parliamente prorogando Writ it self it was Prorogued before meeting unto the Sunday next before St. Andrew which was in the 24th of his Reign the 23d ending November 16th In a short time the Clergy gave the King a Tenth of all their Moveable Goods toward Maintaining the War The Earls Barons and Knights and others of the Kingdom Comites Barones Milites omnes alii de Regno in subsidium Guerrae nostrae gave an Eleventh part of their Moveable Goods Nobis 9 Pat. 24 Ed. I. M. 22. De undecima septima levand Colligend undecimam fecerunt c. And the Citizens Burgesses and good Men of his Demeasn Cities and Burghs granted him a Seventh part c. Et Cives Burgenses alii probi homines de Dominicis nostris Civitatibus Burgis septimam nobis concesserint c. The Writ for Levying and Collecting this Seventh and Eleventh is dated Decemb. 4. very few days after their meeting in the 24th of his Reign The King of Scots by the Instigation of his People taking advantage The Scots take advantage by this War with France of this Rupture between England and France obstructed the Vigorous Prosecution of the War against the French and thinking to Disingage himself and them from the Power of King Edward behaved himself and suffered as hath been related before in its due place The 1 Walsingh f. 62 63 c. And also the Welsh Welsh these two or three last Years having as they thought opportunities by King Edward's being Diverted by his Wars with France and Scotland attempted several times under divers Leaders to Free themselves from Subjection to the English were at length reduced to perfect Obedience * Fol. 325. A. D. 1295. Mezery the French Historian says both these Nations put themselves in Arms against King Edward by the Instigation and Procurement of the King of France Immediately 2 Walsingh f. 68. N. 30 40. after the King and whole Kingdom of Scotland upon their Defections were reduced to obedience and had the second Time done Homage and sworn Fealty to King Edward as we have heard before he issued his Writs for a Parlement to be holden at St. Edmunds-Bury on the Morrow of All-Souls or Parlement at St. Edmonds-Bury A. D. 1296. Third of November Dated the 26th of August in the 24th of his Reign at Berwick upon Tweed 3 Append. N. 16. In that directed to the Archbishop he tells him That he the other Prelates and Clergy late assembled at Westminster when they Granted the Tenth of their Rents and Benefices for the Defence of the Kingdom until the Feast of St. Michael then next coming which Grant was accepted by him in hopes of a more plentiful Aid for the future from him and others which they promised should be sufficient for the same Cause unless in the mean time there was a Peace or Truce made between him and the King of France Therefore he enjoined him to be with his Prior Archdeacon and Procurators of the Clergy at Bury at the time appointed to order the Quantity and Manner of the Subsidy The Writs to the other Bishops the Abbots c. were like to this Those to the Noblemen and Sheriffs were only to Treat about the Dangers impending upon the whole Kingdom and Remedies to prevent them In this Parlement the Citizens and Burgesses gave an Eighth Part of their Goods the rest of the Laity granted a Twelfth Part the Clergy Nothing by reason of a Constitution made that Year and Published by Pope Boniface 4 Walsingh Ut supra N. 40 50. The Clergy deny the King a Subsidy He Summons another Parlement A quo Parliamento a Civitatibus Burgis concessa est Regi octava a populo vero reliquo i. e. a Comitibus Baronibus Militibus Duodecima pars bonorum Clerus ob constitutionem Bonifacii Papae hoc Anno editam c. Regi pro Guerra sua subsidium petenti Denegavit The King in hopes of a better Answer deferred this Business to be treated on in another Parliament to be holden at London on the morrow of St. Hilary January the 14th In the mean time * Mat. West fol. 428. N. 30. The K. shut-up the Barns and Granaries of the Clergy the King caused to be shut up and secured all the Barns Granaries and Store-houses of the Clergy and the Archbishop sent the Pope's Bull to be published in all Cathedrals forbidding under the Pain of Excommunication any thing to be paid to Secular Princes out of Ecclesiastick Revenues The Bull or Constitution runs thus Boniface c. For the Perpetual 5 Append. N. 17. Pope Boniface his Bull. Prohibiting the Clergy to pay Taxes to Secular Princes Memory of the Matter c. 't is often delivered from Antiquity that Lay-men are spiteful to Clergy-men and the Experience of the present Times manifestly declares it while not content with their own Bounds they strive after what is forbidden and let themselves loose to do Evil not wisely attending that for them to have any power over Clercs or Ecclesiastick Persons and their Goods is prohibited yet they impose grievous Burthens upon Prelates and Ecclesiastics Regular and Secular they Tax them and Exact and Extort from them a half Part a Tenth a Twentieth or some other part of their Revenues and Goods endeavouring many ways to bring them into Servitude and under their Power And with Grief we relate some Prelates and Ecclesiastics fearing where no fear is seeking transitory Peace fearing more to offend Temporal
and Defend all the Clergy in their Bayliwics their Tenements Lands Goods Rents and all their Possessions not permitting them to receive any Injury or Molestation in their Persons or otherwise though they had not his Protection Witness the King at St. Pauls London 31st of July in the 25th of his Reign It ought not to be omitted here That notwithstanding the Mortal Enmity and War between the two Kings of England and The King of France Remonstrates against the Pope's Bull prohibiting Taxes France yet King Philip the 4th Published a sharp Remonstrance against the Pope's Bull which caused this Trouble and Contention between the King and Clergy in this Nation in which he strenuously asserted the Rights of his Crown and the Liberties of the Gallican Church which were the very same with those of England The Archbishop of Rhemes with the Suffragans and Abbots of his The Clergy of France join with him Province seconded their King's Remonstrance with a Supplication to the Pope to recal his Bull lest it might break the Peace and Vnity of the Gallican Church and Kingdom as being very Injurious and Grievous to the King and Temporal Nobility and as bringing Scandals nay perhaps Ruine and Destruction to the Nation whereupon Pope Boniface the 8th sent an Explanatory Bull to The Pope explains his Bull for the ease of the King Nobility c. King Philip by which he Declared That his former Bull extended not to voluntary Grants and Aids made by the Clergy nor to Cases of Necessity when Taxes and Contributions were necessary for the Defence of the Kingdom then they might be Raised without consulting the Pope That the King and his Successors provided they were Twenty years of Age might be Judges of the Necessity if not of that Age then their Council and Lastly He Declared that by this Bull or Constitution it was not intended to take away or diminish any Rights Liberties Franchises or Customs of the King Kingdom Dukes Earls Barons or Temporal Nobility whereof they were in Possession before he Emitted that Bull. The Remonstrance Supplication and last Bull Dated at Orvieto or the Old City July 22. in the Third year of his Pontificate A. D. 1297. are to be found in Peter Pithous Proofs of the Liberties of the Gallican Church Printed 1639. Chap. Sect. or Numb 8 9 10. Fol. 1085 1088 1089. By reason of the Clergies Denial to Grant the King a Seasonable and Timely Aid to carry on his Wars he was forced upon Vnwarrantable Courses against the Laws of the Realm 2 Knighton Col. .249 N 60. The K. forced upon Unwarrantable courses to raise Money by Raising the Custom upon Wool from a Noble to Forty Shillings the Sack and ordering the Owners should sell their Wool within a Month at certain Places assigned or they should be forfeited For the Victualling his Army and Ships he took Wheat Oates Malt Salt-Fish and Flesh as Pork Beef Mutton without paying for them as well from Lay-men as the Clergy by which Oppressions the People were very much Grieved and Disturbed being hereby prepared to follow the Dictates of any Projectors against the King It cannot be thought but by this time the Archbishop and his Friends the Constable and Marshal and their Friends understood one another and carried on a joint Design The Causes of the Controversie but just now only mentioned between the King Constable and Marshal and the Reasons of their Refusing to do their Duty their withdrawing from his Presence and from Court with their Denial to return when sent to will best appear from the King's Declaration upon Record sent to all the Sheriffs in England WHereas the King 3 3 Append N. 31. The King's Declaration of the Causes of the Constable and Marshal's refusing to do their Duty and retiring from Court always desiring the Peace Quiet and good Estate of his People and Kingdom after his Voyage which he is now making c. All occasions by which the said Peace and Quiet may be Disturbed shall be wholly taken away But because at this time there may be such Reports raised amongst the People that may cause them to behave themselves otherwise toward their Sovereign Lord then they ought especially since the Earl of Hereford and Earl Marshal have lately withdrawn themselves from him or for other Matters hereupon for that he would have the Affairs of his Realm Vniform and Quiet he makes known and would that all should know the Truth of what follows Lately when a great Part of the Men of Arms of England some upon Request others by Summons of the King came to London the King willing to provide for their Discharge the settling of their Expences and that they might know what they were to do sent to the said Earls as Constable and Marshal of England to come to him for that purpose The Earl of Hereford came and Monfieur John Segrave to Excuse the Earl Marshal that by reason of Sickness he could not come and therefore had sent him in his stead Presently by their assent they were ordered to make Proclamation in the City of London That all those that were come thither either by Summons or Request should on the Morrow appear before the Constable and Marshal to know and be * * This was the proper Business of these two great Officers and without this Ordering and Enrolment the Men at Arms were not assigned the Quantity of their Service Enrolled in what manner and how many of them would serve the King in that Voyage beyond Sea They told the King they would perform the Order as they had received it in Writing But the same day toward Night the Earls sent the King a Message in Writing by Sir John Esturnis Knight in this Form For that Dear Sir You commanded the Marshal by the Constable and by order in Writing that he should cause it to be published in the City That all such as were come by your Summons or Request should be on the Morrow by One of the Clock before the Constable and Marshal at St. Pauls and that they should Enroll so many Horse of one and the other and then to inform you of it Your Constable and Marshal do pray you to Command some other of your Houshold to do it And for that Sir you know well that tho' some are come upon Request and not Summons yet if they do this they should enter upon their Office and do Service Wherefore they pray you to Command others Vpon receipt of this Message and Counsel taken thereupon the King thinking they might have done it unadvisedly sent Monfieur Geofrey de Genevill Monsieur Thomas de Berkeley Monfieur John Tregâ—z Constable of the Tower and Guardian of London Roger Brabazon and Monsieur William de Bereford to advise them Better and that they might so order things as they might not turn to the Prejudice of the King nor their own Estate and if they would not be otherwise advised then
impassable in the Winter Season diverted his Intention and so as he sent to the Besieged wanting Victuals to yield the Castle saving their Lives and Limbs At Berwick the King remained until after Christmas and the Queen at Windsor but what he did there I find not other than that he issued his 2 Writs dated at this place December 29th A Parlement to begin the Second Sunday in Lent for the calling of a Parlement at London to meet on the Second Sunday in Lent In which the Charter of the Forest and Magna Charta with A. D. 1300. 28 Ed. I. Artic supra Chartas in the Preamble In which the Charters c. were confirmed and a new Statute made the Statute of Winchester were Renewed and Confirmed and a new Statute made called Articles upon the Charters Printed in the Statutes at Large Coke's Second Institutes and Totel's Magna Charta and then it was ordered they should be published by the Sheriffs four times in the year For the observation whereof where there was no Remedy at Common Law there were Three Knights chosen in every County summarily to hear and determine from day to day all Plaints concerning such as had offended against them the King's Ministers not excepted without allowing any delays allowable by the Common Law who had power to punish Offenders by Imprisonment Ransom or Amerciament according as the Fault required To this purpose the King 2 Claus 28 Ed. I. M. 11. Dors Three Knights chosen in every County to see the new Statute observed 3 Ibm. M. 8. Dors Which was to be read and published four times in the year issued his Writs to all the Sheriffs Coroners and Communities of Counties in England to choose Three Knights to be at York on the Morrow of Ascention to receive Instructions accordingly Witness the King at Westminster March 27th in the 28th of his Reign And likewise sent out other 3 Writs to all the Sheriffs in England by which he Commanded them to Read the Charters and publish them four times in the year on the first County days after Easter St. John Baptist Michaelmass and Christmass and as much as in them was to see them firmly holden and kept in all their Articles Witness the King at Westminster March 28. in the 28th of his Reign Within less then three weeks after he also directed 4 Ib. M. 7. Dors The Reason why the King granted the Statute called Articles upon the Charters Writs to all the Sheriffs in England to let them know That the People might be more ready for his Service and willing to assist him with Subsidies upon Occasion he had upon special Grace and Favour Granted the Articles upon the Charters so much to their advantage and Commanded them to proclaim them in the County Court and all Burghs and Mercate Towns within their Counties or Bayliwicks and to cause them to be firmly observed and performed Witness the King at St. Albans the 15th of April in the 28th of his Reign And a fortnight before he had directed his 5 Ib. M. 8. Dors He appoints Commissioners to make Perambulations of the Forests Writs to several Commissioners in all Counties where there were Forests to make Perambulations and to receive Instructions about them on the Morrow of the Feast of Ascention with a Charge that thro' their neglect they might not remain undone Witness the King at Westminster April 1. in the 28th of his Reign Yet all these Writs and Commissions satisfied not the Earls The Earls and Barons not satisfied with these things Barons and others they still murmured and pretended that the Perambulations would not be really made or speedily performed Whereupon as Walsingham saith 6 Fol. 80. n. 10 20. He calls a Parlement at Stanford The Earls and Barons came with Horse and Arms. The King grants their Demands the King held a Parlement at Stanford to which the Earls and Barons came with Force with intention as 't was said to extort the full Execution of the Charter of the Forest then delayed Ad quod Parliamentum convenerunt Comites Barones eum equis armis eo prout dicebatur proposito ut executionem Chartae de Foresta hactenus dilatam extorquerent ad plenum To whose Will the King condescended eorum voluntati in omnibus Rex condescendit and granted what they demanded At this time he sent the Statute of 7 Claus 28 Ed. I. M. 7. Dors The Statute of Winchester to be proclaimed c. Winchester inclosed to all the Sheriffs in England as it had been Confirmed and Renewed See Articles upon the Charters Cap. 17th to be Proclaimed and with Command they should see it firmly Observed and Kept in all and singular its Articles Witness the King at Stanford May the Second in the 28th of his Reign Then Eight Days after 8 Pat. 28 Ed. I. M. 14. The Commission to three Knights c. renewed at the Request of the Prelates Earls and Barons the King being at St. Edmunds-Bury at the Request of the Prelates Earls Barons and others to Quiet tho' perhaps not Please or Satisfie them he renewed his Commission to three Knights and others Elected in each County to see the Articles of the Great Charter the Charter of the Forest and Statute of Winchester observed and to punish all Offences against them not punishable by the Common Law of the Realm And this by speedy Justice and quick Proceedings upon Complaints from Day to Day without allowance of such Delays as the Common Law admitted Yet with a Saving to the Common Law that it might not hereby receive Prejudice or any Plea to be holden by these Commissions that might be Determined by it Witness the King at St. Edmunds-Bury May 10. in the 28th of his Reign There are two Writs upon the same Roll and Membrane dated The Sheriffs to assist these Commissioners And to Swear them faithfully to Execute their Office on the same Day and at the same Place to the Sheriffs of every County to be Assistant to these Commissioners so often as they should give them Notice and to impower them to Swear the Commissioners in full County well and faithfully to Execute their Office For the Receiving of the Returns of the Perambulations of the A Parlement called for the receiving the Returns of the Perambulations of the Forest Forests and Hearing and Determining all just Exceptions against them the King Summoned a Parlement to meet at Lincoln eight Days after St. Hilary or 20th of January 9 Claus 25. E. I. M. 9. Dors To meet at Lincoln Eight days after St. Hilary The Writ to the Sheriff of Cumberland containing That whereas of late for the comcommon Profit of the People of the Kingdom he had granted that the Charter of the Forest should be observed in all its Articles and had assigned Commissioners in every County of England where there were Forests to make Perambulations and to make Report to him before any
less than a Month after the Death of Henry the Third King Edward being in the Holy-Land the Guardians of the Kingdom and Council in his Name by their Proctors made publick 2 Append. N. 44. Protestation for the Vindication of the Prerogative and Rights of his Crown against these Provisions before they Granted the Temporalities 3 Ibm. shewing That Cathedral Churches when void ought of Right and Custom and were wont to be filled by the Canonical Election of the Chapter the King 's Leave having been first asked and obtained And that after the Election the Elect ought to be presented to the King That he might object against him if he had any thing reasonable to propound against him and that it seemed to the King and his Council a great Prejudice to him and the Church of Canterbury whose Patron and Defender he was especially if this should be made an Example in other Churches That the Pope omitted these Vsages where there could not be found any Fault either in the Matter or Form of the Election nor so expressed in his Letters of Provision yet should assume a Power of Supplying Vacancies with Bishops Whence lest for the future the Roman Church should proceed to do the like or if it should do it That the King might not receive Prejudice or be bound to restore the Temporalities of the Churches the King of his especial Grace granted them to this Man and then Iterus Bernard his Procurator and Clerc made Protestation in his Name and stead That this Grant of the Temporalities should not be drawn into Example for the future This Protestation was made and Read at Westminster in St. Stephen's Chapel on the Vigil of St. Lucy the Virgin i. e. December 12th in the presence of Friar Robert â—e â—dwarde by the Elect by the Monks afterwards in compliance with the Pope or under a Pretence to Preserve their own Right and of the Bishop of Eâ—â—â—ster Walter de Merton Chancellor of England John de Chistâ—â— Dean of St. Pauls R. Burnel Arch Deacon of York and many others A. D. 1272. And on the same Day the 4 Pat. 1. Ed. 1. M. 20. intuâ— Temporalties having had sufficient Testimony of his affection to the King and taken the Oath of Fealty to him for that Time out of his especial Grace were Granted by his Lieutenant or Guardians of the Kingdom After six years 5 Antiqu. Brit. f. 192. n. 20 30. A. D. 1279. this Archbishop was made Bishop of Porto in Italy and Cardinal and then Abdicated his Archbishopric upon whose Cession pretending it was his Right so to do notwithstanding the Monks had Elected the Bishop of Bath and Wells then Chancellor of England and the former Protestation The Pope made John Peckham another Preaching Friar-Minor Archbishop and Consecrated him at Rome He was born in Sussex of Obscure Parents and had his first Institution in the Monastery of Lewis The Archbishops Bishops and Clergy endeavouring to put in practice the Canons of Boniface made at 6 Compleat Hist of Engl. f 668. Merron 42 Hen. 3. A. D. 1258. and the Provincial Constitutions of the same Boniface at 7 Spelm. Concil Vol. 2. f. 305. Lambeth 45 of Hen. 3. A. D. 1261. This Archbishop in the 7th of this King on the Third of the Calends of August or 30th of July A. D. 1279. 8 Ibm. f. 320. 323. called a Council of his Suffragans at Reading in which several Sentences of Excommunication were enjoined to be Published 9 Append. N. 45. which so Troubled the King that he convened the Archbishop in his Parlement at St. Michael next following wherein he made an open Revocation of such as pleased him not and were against the Rights of his Crown In the 8th of King Edward this Archbishop and his Suffragans intending to hold a * Spelm. Vol. 2. f. 327. Council at London the King fearing by their late Canons and Proceedings at Reding they might presume to Constitute something therein against his Crown and Dignity 1 Append. N. 46. appointed Roger le Estrange and Hugh Fitz-Otto Steward of his Houshold his Commissioners to go to them and appeal against such Proceedings Next Year he called a 2 Spelm. Ut supra f. 328 Council at Lambeth but the King suspecting the Loyalty of the Archbishop and Bishops directed his 3 Apprend N. 47. Writ to them Commanding them upon their Oaths of Fealty they had all taken to be Faithful to him and Defend his Rights and the Rights of his Kingdom as much as they could and enjoined them by Virtue of their Oath and under pain of losing the Temporals they held of him that they should in that Council do nothing against him his Kingdom and the Rights or Laws which his Predecessors and he had used by ancient and approved Custom nor to do assent to or attempt any thing against them Notwithstanding this Inhibition the Review the Council of 4 See Church Affairs in time of Hen. 3. Spelm. Conc. Tom. 2. f. 329. Lambeth holden under Boniface the then Archbishop to see how far it was suspended by the King's Appeal to the Pope about it and notwithstanding his Revocation of some of the Canons and Sentences of Excommunication made at Lambeth and renewed at Reding about two years before in open Parlement he renewed them again in this Council as 5 Ibm. f. 334. Linwood Constitutiones Provinciales in fine f. 30. That against such as procured or obtained Prohibitions against Proceedings in Spiritual Courts That against the Infringers and Opposers of Ecclesiastic Liberty That against such as took any thing out of or from the Houses Mannors or Lands of Ecclesiastic Persons against their Wills That against such as took or removed any Persons or Goods out of Sanctuary and hindered any Victuals to be brought to such Persons and Lastly against such as Denied to execute the King's Writs for taking the Excommunicates or hindered the taking of them or unjustly procured their Liberty This Council ended 6 Spelm. Concil Tom. 2. f. 341. on the Sixth of the Ides or 10th of October and he wrote the King a Letter about 7 Ibm. Church-Liberty not long after wherein he tells him That for a long time and very anciently there had been great Dissention between the King and Great Men of England and the Archbishops Bishops and Clergy of the same concerning the Oppression of the Church against the Decrees of Popes the Constitutions of Councils and Sanctions of Orthodox Fathers in which the Bighest Authority the greatest Truths and Sanctity did consist and therefore beseeched the King there might be an End put to those Dissentions which could not otherwise be then by his being inclined to close with those three things from which the Canons were Collected and to submit his Crown to the Crown of Christ for that the Ecclesiastic or Church-Liberties were the Jewels of his Spouse He tells him further That
Clare Earl of Glocester and Hertford Thomas Earl of Lancaster Humfrid de Bohun Earl of Hereford and Essex Adomar de Valencia Earl of Pembroke Guy Beauchamp Earl of Warwick and Edmund Earl of Arundel 7 to signifie to them he was informed they were coming to his present Parlement which was continued at Westminster with Horse and Arms after an undue manner which would hinder the Dispatch of Business in Parlement which concerned him and the State of the Kingdom affright the People and disturb his Peace wherefore he Commanded them upon their Faith and Homage not to come in such manner but only as they used to come in his Father's time without Horse and Arms nor should attempt any other thing that might disturb the Peace By reason of the Solemnity of Christmas this Parlement was The Parlement Dissolved Another Parlement summoned Dissolved and much Business was left undispatched and therefore there was another Parlement summoned to meet concerning that Business at 7 Ib. M. 17. Dors Which never met Westminster on the first Sunday in Lent Witness the King at Westminster the 19th of December This Parlement never met the Sheriffs in all Counties had 8 Ibm. M. 15. Dors Command to make Proclamation That the Knights Citizens and Burgesses or others should not come at the time and to the place appointed because the King could not be there without any continuation of their meeting at other time and place Witness the King at York the 20th day of January Piers Gaveston quitted the Nation according to the 20th Article Piers Gaveston quitted the Nation according to the Ordinances of the Ordinances but long he stayed not beyond the Seas for on the 18th of January we find him in England with the King at York and recalled by him 9 Append. n. 53. Was recalled by the King as having been Banished contrary to the Laws and Vsages of the Kingdom which he was bound to maintain by the Oath he made at his Coronation and he farther wrote to the Sheriff of Yorkshire and all Sheriffs in England That seeing he had in the Instrument of Exile no other Appellations but of good and Loyal he returned at his Commandment and was ready to stand to Right before him and answer to all such as would accuse him every thing that should be objected against him according to the Laws and Vsages aforesaid Wherefore he should always esteem him good and Loyal and commanded them to repute him so and publish this Matter through their whole Counties Given at York the 18th day of January And 1 Cl. 5 Ed. II. M. 15. Dors two days after writes to the Sheriffs of those Counties where he had Lands to restore them with the Profits they had received since they had seized them into his Hands The Lords neglected not this opportunity offered them by this The Lords make advantage of the recalling Piers Gaveston Indulgence of the King Declaring the Laws and Customes of the Kingdom were not observed nor the late made Ordinances regarded The King to obviate the Effects of such Reports issued a Declaration The K. issues a Proclamation and Declaration to satiâ—fiâ— them and others which he commanded and firmly injoined the Sheriffs of all Counties to proclaim in full County in all Cities Burghs and Mercate Towns and other Places they should think expedient That it 2 was his great Care and chief Desire his Peace should every where be observed and that all the Laws and Customs of the Kingdom used and approved in the time of his Progenitors and also all the Ordinances lately made to the Honour of God and Holy Church and his own to the profit of him and the People which were not to the Damage or Prejudice of him or his Crown or contrary to the Laws and Customs abovesaid should be maintained and kept Witness the King at York the 26th of January And not long after fearing Disturbance from the Lords he wrote * Pat. 5 Ed. 2. Part 2. M. 22. The K. writes to the Mayor of London c. to secute the City c. to the Mayor Aldermen and Common Council of London to secure the City so as by the Meetings of the Prelates Earls Barons or any others there might happen no Hurt or Danger to him or the City Witness the King at York the 8th of February This Declaration and Order availed not and therefore the The Declaration avails not King as he said resolved to Preserve the Rights of his Crown and Dignity Royal the Peace and Tranquillity of Holy Church and the whole People committed to his Charge in all things And to this Purpose 3 Claus 5 Ed. 2. M. 13. Dors wrote to all Sheriffs the nearest to the Place where he was to signifie his Pleasure to all People as soon as might be lest by contrary Reports it might be suspected he would not do it and commanded them to make Proclamation thereof by themselves and Deputies once a Week in all Cities Burghs Mercat-Towns and other Places in their Counties and that his Intention might be more plainly known he directed That the Sheriffs should come to him and every one bring with him a Person of Credit whom he could Trust to hear what he should further say to them that they might publish it to the People as he should then openly Enjoin them Witness the King at York the 24th Day of February This way also proving ineffectual he intended to proceed amicably with the dissatisfied Bishops and Barons and according to the Power reserved in the Protestation he made when he confirmed the Ordinances he appointed 4 Append. N. 55. A. D. 1311. 5 Ed. 2. The King appoints Commissioners to Treat with the Ordainers about correcting the Ordinances according to his Protestation Commissioners the Bishop of Norwich Guy Terre John de Crumbewell Hugh de Audeley William Deyncourt Henry Spigurnell Henry le Scroop Knights the two last Justices and Thomas de Cobham Robert de Pikering Walter de Thorp Gilbert de Middleton John Fraunceys and Andrew Briggs Clercs or as many of them as could be present to Treat with the Prelates Earls and Barons who made the Ordinances upon which were grounded all the Pretences of Discontent and Quarrelling with the King to Correct and Reform by their good Advice all such Things in them as were Prejudicial and Injurious to him or contrary to the Form of the Commission granted to them if any such were Witness the King at York the 8th Day of March Those Prelates Earls and Barons were then at 5 Pat. 6 Ed. 2. Part 1. M. 20. intus Ry-Plac Parl. f. 541. London and excusing themselves for Treating concerning the Ordinances in the absence of the King sent him this Answer 6 Ibm. The Ordainers at present decline a Treaty with the King's Commissioners in his absence That in his presence whenever he pleased to call them together they would Treat upon the Ordinances and
2. A. D. 1317. Two Cardinals sent to make Peace between Engl. and Scotland Cardinals into England Ganselin by the Title of the Saints Marcellin and Peter Priest Cardinal and Lucas by the Title of St. Mary in the Broad-way Deacon Cardinal 9 to make Peace between the Two Kingdoms of England and Scotland and reconcile the Earl of Lancaster to the King 1 c. 59 4. D. 50 and the King and E. or Lanc. Sir Tho. de la Moor says they were made Friends in a Plain near Leicester and that they embraced and kissed each other 2 f. 110. n. 20. Walsingham says Peace was made between them upon certain Conditions and that not long after the King unjustly brake them They 3 Wals f. 109. n. 50. f. 111. n. 40. d la Moor ut supra They Excommunicate Rob. Brus and put Scotland under Interdict both say these Cardinals brought with them the Pope's Bulls by which they Excommunicated Robert Brus and put the Kingdom of Scotland under Interdict for their Defection from and Disobedience to the King of England unless he and they submited to him This Year 4 Ibm. de la Moor says Robert Brus manfully and by force took Berwick killing none that would yield 5 f. 111. n 50. A. D. 1318. Walsingham reports it was betrayed by the Governour Peter Spalding and sold to the Scots to the great Disturbance of the King Neither King nor Kingdom of Scotland valued much this Excommunication Neither Rob. Brus nor the Kingdom of Scotland valued the Excommunication or Interdict and Interdict or at least Robert Brus's Friends or those of his Party never considered or regarded it for in the 11th of this King the Year following he summoned a Parlement to meet on the morrow of Holy Trinity at Lincoln 6 Rot. Claus 11 Ed. II. M. 3. Dors The Scots invade England which he revoked for this reason That his Enemies and Rebels the Scots had invaded England and come into Yorkshire commiting many Murders Plundering Wasting and Burning the Country so as he resolved suddenly to march against them with an Army to restrain their Incursions and bring them to a Submission and therefore the Parlement not to meet According to this Resolution in Autumn this year 7 De la Moor f. 595. l. 1 c. The King besieged Berwick the King marched with a great Army to besiege Berwick the Scots on the other side of the Country invaded England spoiling wasting and burning as far as York 8 Ibm. and Walsingh Hist f. 112. n. 20 30. A Truce with the Scots for Two years which caused the King to raise the Siege of Berwick and consented to a Truce for Two years In the Twelfth of this King the Earl of Lancaster Governed and Directed all things 9 Append. n. 61. To him certain Prelates Earls and Barons by the Will of the King and Assent of many Great Men of the Realm and others of the King's Council being then at Northampton went to Discourse and Treat about the Honour and Profit of the King and Realm and it was agreed between them That Bishops Earls and Barons should remain with him to Advise him in such Matters as concerned him until his next Parlement and concerning this and other Matters an Indenture was made in the Form following This 1 Ibm. The Indenture of Agreement between the King the Earl of Lancaster and other Great Men. Indenture Witnesseth That the Honourable Fathers the Arch-Bishop of Dublin the Bishops of Ely Norwich and Chichester the Earls of Pembroke and Arundel Monsieur Roger de Mortimer Monsieur John Somery Sir Bartholomew de Badlesmere Monsieur Ralph Basset and Monsieur John Botetourt by the Will and Assent of the King have Discoursed with the Earl of Lancaster concerning the things touching the Profit of himself and the Realm in the Form following To wit That the Bishops of Norwich Chichester Ely Salisbury St. Davids Carlisle Hereford and Worcester the Earls of Pembroke Richmond Hereford and Arundel Sir Hugh de Courteny Sir Roger de Mortimer Sir John de Segrave Sir John de Grey and one of the Banerets of the Earl of Lancaster which he shall Name should remain with the King for one quarter of a year until the next Parlement and that Two Bishops One Earl One Baron and One Baneret of the Earl of Lancaster's at least should always be with him and that all considerable Matters that might or ought to be done out of Parlement should be done by their Assent otherwise to be void and amended in Parlement by the Award of the Peers and such as should remain with the King Quarterly shall be chosen and assigned out of them and others in Parlement to Act and Advise the King as aforesaid And the abovesaid Prelates Earls and Barons by the Will and Assent of the King undertook That he should Release and Acquit the Earl of Lancaster ses gentz ses meignees his People Followers or Retinue or as now those of his Party of all manner of Felonies and Trespasses against the Peace until the day of St. James this year and that the Charters of Release and Acquittance should be plain and absolute without Condition and if better Security for them might be found at the next Parlement they should have it and there Confirmed by the King and his Baronage And the Earl of Lancaster granted That he would make Releases and Acquittances to all those that on behalf of the King should demand them of Trespasses done to his Person as soon as the things aforesaid should be Confirmed nor that he would bring Suit of Felony against any one from the time they had his Letters saving to him all Plaints Actions and Suits which he had against the Earl of Warren and all those that were assenting and aiding to the Felonies and Trespasses which the Earl had committed against him against the King's Peace And that the Ordinances be kept and observed as they are under the King 's Great Seal And that these things abovesaid should be performed and kept in all Points The Honourable Fathers in God the Arch-Bishops of Canterbury and Dublin the Bishops of Norwich Ely Chichester Salisbury Chester or Litchfield Hereford and Worcester the Earls Marshal Edmond his Brother the Earls of Richmond Hereford Ulster Arondel and Anegos Sir Roger de Mortimer Sir John de Somery Sir John de Hastings Sir John de Segrave Sir Henry de Beaumont Sir Hugh le Dispenser le fuiz Sir John de Grey Sir Richard de Grey Sir Bartholomew de Badlesmere Sir Robert de Mohant Sir Ralph Bassel Sir Walter de Norwich have undertaken by the Will and Assent of the King In Witness whereof the Prelates Earls and Barons aforesaid have put their Seals to one part of this Indenture and the Earl of Lancaster hath put his Seal to the other Written at Leek whether in Staffordshire Warwickshire or Yorkshire it appears not the 9th day of
Record aver upon the Causes of the said Award And we are bound by the Oath we made at our Coronation and obliged to do Right to all our Subjects and to redress and cause to be amended all Wrongs done to them when we are required according to the Great Charter by which we are not to sell or delay Right and Justice to any one and at the pressing Advice and Request of the Prelates given us for the safety of our Soul and to avoid Danger and for to take away an ill Example for the time to come of such Undertakings and Judgments in the like case against Reason Wherefore we seeing and knowing the said Process and Award made in the manner aforesaid to be as well to the Prejudice of us the Blemishment or Hurt of our Crown and Royal Dignity against us and our Heirs as against the said Hugh and Hugh and for other reasonable Causes of our Royal Power in a full Parlement at York by the Advice and The Award made void by Assent of the whole Parlement Assent of the Prelates Earls Barons Knights of Counties the Commons of the Realm and others being at our Parlement at York pur le Conseil lassent des Prelatz Countes Barons Chevalers des Countez le Commun du Royalme altres a nostre dit Parlement a Everwyk Estauntz do wholly null and defeat de tut Anentissoms Defesoms the said Award of the Exile and Disheritance of the said Hugh and Hugh and all things in the Award quant que cel Agard touche and do fully remit and reconcile the said Hugh the Son and Hugh the Father to our Faith and Peace and to the Estate they had and were in before the making of the Award in all Points And we Award That they have again reeient Seisin of their Lands and Tenements Goods and Chattels c. And we Will and Command That where this Award is enrolled in any Places of our Court it be cancelled and annulled for ever And so the Roll was cancelled and crossed and remains so at this day with this Memorandum written under the Award Les choses susescrites sont anenties e chaunceles per force dun Agard que se sit au Parlement le Roy a Everwyck a treis semains de Pasch lan du Regne nostre Seign Quinsime sicome est contenue en un Roule que est consu pendant a ceo Roul en le Mois de May prochien These things above written are nulled and cancelled by force of an Award made in the Parlement at York held three Weeks after Easter in the 15th Year of the Reign of our Lord as 't is contained in a Roll sowed to and hanging at this Roll in the Month of May. In 4 Great Stat. Roll. from Hen. III. to 21 Ed. III. M. 31. Biblioth Cotton Claud. D. 2. f. 232. a. The Ordinances examined and annulled in Parlement A. D. 1322. 15 Ed. II. this Parlement at York the Prelates Earls Barons and the Commons of the Realm amongst which were the Ordainers then alive there assembled by the King's Command caused to be rehearsed and examined the Ordinances dated the 5th of October the 5th of Edward II. And for that by Examination thereof it was found in the said Parlement That by the things which were Ordained the King's Power was restrained in many things contrary to what was due to his Seignory Royal and contrary to the State of the Crown And also for that in times past by such Ordinances and Provisions made by Subjects over the Power Royal of the Antecessors of the Lord the King Troubles and Wars came upon the Realm by which the Land or Nation was in danger It was accorded and established in the said Parlement by the Lord the King the Prelates Earls Barons and all the Commonalty of the Realm at that Parlement assembled That all those things Ordained by the Ordainers and contained in those Ordinances from thenceforth for the time to come should cease and lose their Force Virtue and Effect for ever And that from thenceforward in no time no manner of Ordinances or Provisions made by the Subjects of the Lord the King or his Heirs by any Power or Commission whatever over or upon the Power Royal of the Lord the King or his Heirs or against the State of the Crown shall be of value or force But the things that shall be established for the Estate of the King and his Heirs and for the State of the Realm and People may be treated accorded and established in Parlement by the King and by the Assent of the Prelates Earls Barons and Commonalty of the Realm as hath been accustomed This Year the King raised an Army and about the Feast of St. James marched into Scotland the Scots fearing his Power went over the Scots Sea 5 Tho. de la Moor f. 596. n. 20. 30. The King raiseth an Army against the Scots and goesin Person The Army bâ—ffled The Scots invade England plunder and burnt almost as far as York ultra Mare Scoticum se conferunt that is Edinburgh Frith carrying with them and destroying all the Victuals on this side and in a short time the King returns into England his Army not having wherewithal to subsist The Scots come over the Frith and follow him by Night-marches and almost surprized him in his Camp in Blackmore-Forest but he escaping with a few they took the Earl of Richmond and the King of France his Envoy with many others and waste the Country with Fire and Rapine almost as far as York they burnt Ripon and compounded with Beverly for 400 l. Sterling and returned home laden with Spoils 3 Wals Hypoâ— Nâ—ustr f. 503. n. 40. Hist f. 17. n. 50 f. 18. lin 1 c. The King Kingdom of Scotland send to Rome to take off the Excommunication and Interdict but prevail not The Two Cardinals 6 sent from the Pope in the 10th of the King as there noted to make Peace between the Two Nations of England and Scotland and Reconcile the King and Earl of Lancaster but their Negociation being without Effect in Scotland Excommunicated Robert Brus King thereof and put the whole Kingdom under Interdict for their Perfidiousness to the King of England To take off both the 7 Ibm. f. 505. n. 30 40. Hist uâ— suprâ— Bishop of Glasco and the Earl of Murray were sent to Rome by King and Kingdom but prevailed not Satisfaction not having been given to the Pope nor King and Kingdom of England Whereupon Robert Brus desired of the King of England a Truce 8 De la Moor ut supra A Truce for 53 years between England and Scotland which was granted to him for Thirteen Years Philip the 9 Mexer Hist f. 345. Fair of France left Three Sons who all Reigned after him Lewis the Eldest Reigned but Nineteen Months to him succeeded Philip called the Long he Reigned Five Years and Six Weeks 1 Ibm. f
many heinous Crimes sworn against the Templars in the Provincial Council of London called at the Command of the Pope the same that were sworn against those in France They confessed the Report but not the Fact unless one or two Ribalds that is most wicked and profligate Men in every State to wit of Priest-Templars Knight-Templars Common Brethren and Servant-Templars Nisi unus vel duo Ribaldi in omni statu Yet at last they all confessed they could not purge themselves from the things charged on them so that every one of them were thrust into Monasteries there to do perpetual Pennance where they in all things behaved themselves well This Relation of Walsingham is taken out of Adam Murymonth 5 In 1310. 1311. who then lived and his very Words transcribed by him In the Sentence of Extinction of the Templars and Donation of their Lands and Goods to the Hospitalers all Possessors and unlawful Detainers of them of what State Condition Excellency and Dignity soever they were whether Bishops Emperors or Kings were Excommunicated unless within one Month after they should be required by the Master and Brethren of the Hospital of St. John's of Jerusalem or their Procurators they parted with and fully and freely restored them to that Order and also all that were Aiding Advising and Assisting in the Detaining of them and likewise all Chapters Collegiate and Conventual Churches Cities Castles Towns and other Places that detained them and delivered them not when required as aforesaid were put under Interdict from which Excommunication and Interdict they were not to be absolved until they had made full and due Satisfaction And besides these Punishments all Persons and Places that detained the Goods and Estates aforesaid and delivered them not that held Fees of the Roman or any other Churches were decreed ipso facto in very Deed to be deprived of them In the end of this Council says the last cited 6 Ibm. A D. Historian the Pope sent two Cardinals into England to receive the Lands Goods and Possessions of the Templars for the Use of the Hospitalers The Earls and Noblemen whose Progenitors had given them to the Templars the Order being dissolved possessed themselves of and refused to restore them so as the Nuncio's returned without doing the Business they came for The Pope's 7 Append. n. 76. Letter or Bull to the King That he should give his best Assistance in promoting of the Delivery of the Templars Goods to the Master and Brethren of the Hospital or their Procurators and further That he should expresly Command all his Earls Barons Great Men Corporations and Bodies Politick Seneschals Bailiffs and other Officers which were by him deputed to keep those Goods to deliver them when required was Dated the 26th of the same Month of of May in which he passed the Sentence of Extinction This in all probability was the Bull or Letter by which the two Cardinals as Procurators or Attorneys came to demand the delivery of the Lands of the Templars for the Hospitalers On the 25th of November 1313 by virtue of a long tedious 8 Rot. Claus 7 Ed. II. M. 12. Dors Instrument for the restitution of the Possessions Goods and Chattels to the Hospitalers which had belonged to the Templars in England in which the Pope's Proceedings against them were recited Albert of Black-Castle de Castro nigro Great Commander of the Hospital of St. John's of Jerusalem and Deputy of the Great Master and Leonard de Tibertis Prior of the Hospital of St. John's of Venice and Procurator General of the Order Their Procurators petitioned and required That whereas the Pope had given by Consent of the General Council all the Houses Churches Chapels Oratories Cities Castles Towns Lands Granges Places Possessions Jurisdictions Rents and Rights and all Goods Moveable and Immoveable with all their Rights Members and Appurtenances and annexed united incorporated and applied them to the Greatness and Extent of Papal Power de plenitudine Apostolicae potestatis to the said Hospital c. The King hearing this Supplication made Protestation for the Preservation of his Right and Rights of his Subjects notwithstanding such Restitution and Rendring and that if he made such Restitution it was for fear of the Danger which he foresaw might come upon him and his Kingdom if he did it not and which for the shortness of Time and other Causes could not be avoided And further protested That at a â—it time he and his Subjects would demand the Goods as if they never had been restored Three Days after on the 28th of November the King caused to be delivered all the Things above mentioned to the two Procurators Albert and Leonard according to the Pope's Bull directed to him and to avoid the many Dangers and Damages that might otherwise happen to him his Dominions and Subjects saving the Right of him and his Subjects according to the Effect of his Protestation The King's Letter to this purpose was directed to the Guardians 1 Ibm. of the Lands and Tenements of the Templars in London and Suburbs and the like Letters were sent 2 Ibm. to Fifty six other Guardians of their Lands and Possessions in all Counties and several particular Places in England and to Audomar Earl of Pembroke to deliver and surrender the new Temple with all its Lands Tenements and Appurtenances in London the Suburbs and Middlesex In like 3 Ibm. manner he wrote to the Bishop of Lincoln several Noblemen and all the Sheriffs of England And then after these Letters and Instrument there is entred upon Record a long impertinent 4 Ibm. Acquittance reciting the Proceedings as before in their Request against the Templars from these Procurators by which they acknowledge themselves to be well contented and paid bene contenti pacati by the King and all others in the Restitution c. Dated in London on the Nones or 5th of December A. D. 1313. The Pope by a long Bull dated on the 5th of the Kalends of November or 28th of October in the 4th of his Pontificate commanded Robert Winchelsey Arch-Bishop of Canterbury A. D. 1309 to deliver an Abstract of it to the King and to Expound it to him which was thus Directed 5 Râ—g stâ—â—m Wâ—nchelsâ—y f. 6. â— in Doctors-Commons Excellentissimo Principi Domino suo vobis Domino Edwardo Dei gratia Regi Angliae illustri Domino Hiberniae Duci Aquitaniae insinuamus Exponimus nos Robertus permissione Divina Cantuarensis Archiepiscopus totius Angliae primas ex injuncto nobis mandato Apostolico quae inferius discribuntur To the most Excellent Prince and his Lord you Edward by the Grace of God illustrious King of England Lord of Ireland and Duke of Aquitan we Robert by Divine permission Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and Primate of all England by the Pope's Command do insinuate and declare to you the things under-written Which were these Grievances 1. That his Officers altho they were bound
and of their Wives The Citizens Burgesses and Tenents of the ancient Demeasns of the Crown granted a Fifteenth part of their Moveables as also did the Clergy In his Second year at a Parlement holden at Westminster a Claus 3 Ed. II. M. 23. in Ced Month after Easter the Laity granted a Twenty fifth of their Moveables In the Seventh year in his Parlement at Westminster the Earls In Rot. Comp. ut supra Barons Knights Freemen and the Communities of Counties gave a Twentieth part of their Goods and the Citizens and Burgesses and Communities of Cities and Burghs gave a Fifteenth In his Eighth year he had a Twentieth part of the Moveables of Rot. Pat. 8 Ed. II. M. 12. Dors Part 2. the Laity granted by the Communities of Counties of the Kingdom per Communitates Comitatuum Regni in Parlement In his Ninth year he had granted a Fifteenth of Citizens Burgesses Rot. Parlem 9 Ed. II. n. 2. and Tenents in ancient Demeasns for his War with the Scots in the Parlement held at Lincoln the Community of the Kingdom or the Military Men being summoned to do their Service then In the Fifteenth year of his Reign the King * Rot. Claus 15 Ed. II. M. 16. Dors summoned a Parlement to meet at York three weeks after Easter and after the end of this Parlement and after the 7th of July next following he directed his Writs to the Prelates and Clergy to meet at a Provincial Council at Lincoln which the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury was immediately to summon to Treat of a Competent Ayd to be granted to him toward his Expedition against the Scots who had invaded England in which Writs as it were for a Direction he * Rot. Claus 16 Ed. II. M. 20. Dors recites what the Earls Barons Noblemen and the Communities of the Kingdom had done in the Parlement at York viz. That they had granted him a Tenth of the Goods of the Community of the Kingdom and a Sixth part of the Goods of Citizens Burgesses and Tenents of ancient Demeasns * Ibm. Praelati Comites Barones proceres necnon Communitates Dicti Regni apud Eborum ad tractandum super dictis negotiis aliis nos statum dicti Regni tangentibus nuper Convocati decimam de Bonis de Communitate ejusdem regni sextam de Civitatibus Burgis Antiquis Dominicis nostris nobis liberaliter concesserunt gratanter The Issue of Edward II. by Isabell Daughter of Philip the Fair King of France ON the Day of St. Brice or 13th of November his Eldest A. D. 1312. Ed. II. 12. Walsingh Hist f. 102. n. 30. Son Eoward who succeeded him by the Name of Edward the Third was born at Windsor In the year 1315 his Second Son John was born at Eltham Ibm. Hypodig Neutr f. 502. n. 30 40. from whence his Title on the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in the Eighth of his Father's Reign he was Created Earl of Cornwall and after several Matches propounded for him died unmarried about the 20th year of his Age. Joan his Eldest Daughter Married to David King of Scots Sandford Genealog Hist c. f. 155. when both Children and after being his Wife 28 years died without Issue Eleanor Dutchess of Gueldres his Second Daughter she Married Ibm. Reynald Second Earl of Gueldres who was Created Duke of Gueldres by the Emperor Lewis of Bavaria by her he had Two Sons Reynald and Edward who were both Dukes successively after him and died without Issue A CONTINUATION Of the Compleat History of England c. King EDWARD the Third THis Young Man at the Age of Fourteen Years being placed in the Throne of his Father then living and in Prison as hath been related in the latter end of the The young King managed by the Queen Mortimer c. The Adherents to Tho. Earl of Lancaster petition former Reign was with all the Affairs of the Nation managed by the Queen with the Advice of Roger Mortimer chiefly and other Privado's in their Designs who had been all Favourers and Abettors of the Cause and Quarrel of Thomas Earl of Lancaster whose Adherents being all Friends to and Assistants in this Revolution on the 3d of 1 Append. n. 82. to be restored to their Lands c. They were all Friends to and Assistants in this Revolution February two Days after the Coronation Petitioned the King and his Council in that Parlement which had Deposed his Father then Sitting at Westminster That being of the Quarrel of the Noble Earl of Lancaster estetent de la Querele le Noble Counte de Lancastre and therefore wrongfully Imprisoned Banished Disherited might be Restored to their Estates with the Issues of them from the time they had been wrongfully diseised And it was granted by the Assent of the whole Parlement That all the Lands and Tenements which had been seized by reason of that Quarrel or Contention which was affirmed to be good by the whole Parlement ia quele Querele par tot le Parsement est afferme bone as well in Ireland and Wales as in England should be Restored with their Issues and Arrears of Rent except those that had been Received to the King's Use On the same Day 2 Stat. at Large 1 Ed. III. The first thing printed f. 77. All that came over with the Queen her Son pardoned and those that joined them after their arrival all those that came over with the Queen and her Son and those that joined with them after their arrival were also pardoned c. The long Preamble to that Pardon Statute or Grant is worth notice as containing the Cover Pretences and Suggestions of all the Contrinances and Designs against Edward the Second in these Words Whereas Hugh Spenser the Father and Hugh Spenser the Son late at the Suit of Thomas Thun Earl of Lancaster and Leicester and Steward of England by the Common Assent and Award of the Peers and Commons of the Realm and by the Assent of King Edward Father to our Sovereign Lord the King that now is as Traitors and Enemies of the King and his Realm were Exiled Disherited and Banished out of the Relams for ever and afterwards the same Hugh and Hugh by Evil Counsel which the King had taken of them without the Assent of the Peers and Commons of the Realm came again into the Realm and they with others procured the said King to pursue the said Earl of Lancaster and other Great Men and People of this Realm in which Pursuit the said Earl of Lancaster and other Great Men and People of this Realm were willingly Dead and Disherited and some Outlawed Banished and Disherited and some Disherited and Imprisoned and some Ransomed and Disherited and after such Mischief the said Hugh and Hugh Master Robert Baldock and Edmond late Earl of Arundel usurped to them the Royal Power so that the King nothing did or would do but as the said Hugh and
1 Ibm. Commission of the same Date John Duke of Brabant the Earl of Hanaw and Gueldres the Marquiss of Juliers and Sir William Dunork Lord of Onstrehout were added to them The Stiles of the Commissions were different in one 't is Philippus de Valoys Consanguineus noster Franciae Philip of Valoys our Kinsman of France without other addition In the other 't is Excellentissimus Princeps Dominus Philippus Rex Franciae Illustris Consanguineus noster Charissimus Most Excellent Prince the Lord Philip King of France our Illustrious most dear Cousin At Antwerp there was a Congress of the Confederates with King At a Congress of the Confederates Edward where on the 22d of July he revoked 2 Pat. apud Antwerp 12 Ed. III. M. 3. 7. The Commissions to treat were revoked the Power he had given the Commissioners abovesaid to Treat with Philip de Valois as King of France From thence the 3 Froys lib. 1. c. 32. K. Edw. made Vicar-General of the Empire Marquiss of Juliers was sent to the Emperor who obtained a Promise from him To make King Edward Vicar-General of the Empire 4 Ibm. c. 34. which was done accordingly and the Emperor commanded all People and Subjects of the Empire to obey the King of England his Vicar as himself and do him Homage In the 13th of his Reign at the Request of the Cardinals 5 Pat. Concess homin Angl. Vascon 13 Ed. III. M. 17. Another Treaty appointed without effect John Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Richard Bishop of Durham Henry Bishop of Lincoln the Earls of Derby Salisbury and Suffolk with others had on the 1st of July Authority to Treat with Philip de Valois or his Deputies upon the Dignities Honours Rights and Lands belonging to King Edward and all other Differences whatever The French Commissioners were the Arch-Bishop of Rouen the Bishops of Langres and Beavais the Place at Arras but without effect Having made this Progress toward a War with France for the obtaining that Kingdom 6 Wals f. 136. n. 50. See there the whole Letter and in Rob. Avesbury p. 83. b. K Edw. writes to the Pope and sets forth his Title to the Crown of France by Right of Succession he wrote to the Pope setting forth his Title to it That the Crown belonged to him by lawful Right of Succession as being Grandchild to Philip the Fair by his Mother Queen Isabel and tho' as he grants she could not Inherit by the Constitution of France yet when all the Sons of Philip were dead without Issue Male Charles the Fair being the last he claimed it as the nearest Male to his Grandfather and having the Right of Succession before Philip of Valois being Son to Charles Earl of Valois his Grandfather's Brother and affirmed That his Mother's Disability to take the Crown could not nor ought not to barr him of his Right This Letter bears Date at Antwerp July 16. 1339. in A. D. 1339. 13th Year of his Reign The Pope in 7 Wals f. 140. n. 20. The Pope's Answer to K. Edward s Letter answer to this Letter reprehends him for joining with Lewis of Bavaria the Emperor and receiving from him the Office of Vicar-General of the Empire seeing by his Predecessor Pope John XXII he had been Excommunicated and deprived of all Dignity and Honour who also had exercised the Power of the Apostolic Sword against all his Adherents who shewed him any Favour and gave him any Help or Advice or called or acknowledged him Roman King or Emperor declaring them Favourers of Hereticks Then persuading him to Peace and pretending great Affection to him advised him to hearken to the Cardinals that loved him sincerely and wished him Prosperity and in making Peace would propound nothing but what was pleasing to God and acceptable to the People This notwithstanding King Edward after he had been at Antwerp He entred France with an Army above a Year on the 19th of September 1339. saith Avesbury in October says Walsingham 8 entred France with a great 1 Ibm. f. 143. n. 30 40 50. Aves p. 86. b. Burns wastes and destroys the Country Army and burnt wasted and destroyed Cambresis or the Territory of Cambray and the Country of Vermundois and such as resisted him were put to the Sword 9 Ibm. Puts all that resisted him to the Sword The King of France marched towards him with a vast Army but when he came to Fighting he retreated for Fear The Pope hearing of this 1 Wals 144. n. 10 20. The Pope offers his Mediation for a Peace attributes the cause of not Fighting to Providence and an Act of Divine Clemency for the sparing of Christian Blood and after many Remarks upon it and the War beseeched the King for the Lord's sake and by the Mercy of God to think of Peace and in the mean time to consent to a Truce in order to a Peace and if the Cardinals by what they should propound could not effect it he offered his own amicable Mediation for a happy End and Composure of all Differences The King's Answers to the 2 Ibm. f. 145. 10 20 c. K. Edward's Answer to the Pope's offer of a Mediation Pope were his most humble Thanks for offering his Mediation and the Care and Affection he had for his Sons and that he should pursue his wholesom Advice but that Philip unjustly usurped the Crown of France lawfully devolved upon him after the Death of his Vnkle Charles the last King thereof That he had seized on Aquitan and excited the Scots to Rebell against him and therefore he intended not to neglect his Hereditary Rights but should endeavour to recover them by the Help of God and although that Kingdom had been demanded for him before the Cardinals who had earnestly and laudably laboured in the Business of Peace yet he could not obtain a reasonable Answer nor know what he would do or offer and that after many Treaties he would not hearken to Reason On the 3 Claus 13 Ed. III. Part. 2. M. 28. Dors A Parlement summoned 25th of August not long before King Edward's Inroad into France the Duke of Cornwal Guardian of England in his Name issued Writs for a Parlement to meet 15 Days after Michaelmass 4 Rot. Parl. 13 Ed. III. Part. 1. n. 4. The King sent to them an Account of his Affairs in France To which Parlement came the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury the Bishop of Durham and Monsieur William de la Pole from the King then in France to shew the Lords and Commons what he had done beyond Sea and his Condition there and the Mischief that had befaln him and those with him by reason he was not supplied from England At the same time came Letters to the Earl of Huntington and to the Prussia Merchants That the King was in France near St. Quintins with an Army of 15000 Men and more so as it was hoped with the Ayd of God
others any grief or prejudice to be done to the other his Friends or Allies by the Church of Rome or others of Holy Church whatever they were nor to their Lands or Subjects by reason of the War or any other cause nor for the service the Allies and Assistants of both Kings had done or should do for either of them And if their most Holy Father the Pope or others would do so both Kings might oppose them to their Powers without doing ill during the Truce All Prisoners of War on both sides to be released during the Truce upon their Paroles to return again to Prison when it was ended 6. That there should be a Truce between the English and Scots for the same time and certain Persons appointed upon the Borders of each Kingdom to see it observed upon such Conditions as had been formerly Which if the Scots refused the King of France was not to assist them with Force or any other ways to relieve and encourage them And it was agreed That this Truce should be notified or proclaimed in England and Scotland 26 Days after the Date thereof 8 Ibm. p. 93. a. which was confirmed and sealed with the Seals of the Commissioners on both sides in the Church of Espetelyn on Monday the 25th of September in the Year of Grace 1340. In the time of this Truce several Commissions were issued for Several Commissions during this Truce to make a firm Peace without effect the ending all Controversies between the Two Kings by a full Peace or long Truce as they are to be found in the Alman or Close Roll in the Tower in the 15th of Edward III. But they had no other effect than to continue the Truce unto the Decollation of St. John Baptist or 29th of August from thence to the Exaltation of the Holy Cross or 14th of September and from that time to Midsummer the next Year While the King lay before Tournay the Scots 9 Knighton col 1580. The Scots plundered wasted the Borders that had not submitted to King Edward Baliol came into England and plundered and ravaged the Country as far as Durham but being included in the Truce as above all Hostility ceased during that Truce After the Siege of Tournay the King went to Gant and staid there some time and returning into England on the Feast 1 Claus 14 Ed III. Part 2. M. 12. Dors of St. Andrew about midnight he arrived at the Tower and next morning he sent for the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury to Lambeth but found him 2 Hist Sacr. vol. 1. f. 20. The A. Bp. of Canterbury and others of the King's Council imprison'd not there He also sent for the Bishop of Chichester his Chancellor the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry Lord Treasurer and several others his Great Officers Clerks of Chancery and Justices and imprisoned them in the Tower except the Bishops whom says 3 p. 93. a. c. 35. Robert of Avesbury for fear of the Clementine Constitution That Bishops ought not to be imprisoned he permitted to have their Liberty On the 3d of December the Arch-Bishop went to Canterbury and secured himself in his Church to escape future Dangers Most of the Persons 4 Rot. Parl. 14 Ed III Paâ—t 1. n. 13 14 15. sent for or imprisoned by the King were of the King's Council in England and those who were appointed and directed in Parliament to take care of the Payment of the King's Debts to the Town of Brussels and other Towns in Brabant and Flanders and treat with the Merchants both Foreign and English about paying the Money amongst whom was the Arch-Bishop The Sheriffs 5 Ib. Part 2. â— 17 25â— were commanded to send from all Cities and Burghs in their several Counties Merchants to be before the King's Council at London or Westminster on Monday next after the Assumption of the Virgin Mary or 15th of August to treat with About selling the Wooll granted them about buying the Ninth of Wooll in all Counties where the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury some other Bishops Earls and Barons of the King's Council there named as being nearest at hand Treated with them and contracted 6 n. 20 c. ad 28. for great numbers of Sacks of Wooll the Money to be paid at Bruges within three Weeks after or upon the Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary or 8th of September or upon the Feast of St. Michael The Merchants of Bard and Prussia bought much of this Wooll and engaged to pay the Money to the People of Louvain and Malins and several particular Persons there named Almans and others that had been retained by King Edward and also sent for divers Persons to account before them and ordered them to return the Money to the King beyond Sea On the 30th of July 7 n. 29. the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury the Lords Chancellor and Treasurer the Earl of Arundel Thomas Wake of Lydell and others of his Council in England wrote to the King to give him an account of his Subsidy and to let him know That the Grant of 20000 Sacks of Wooll to raise Money speedily was not made in the Parlement he Summoned before he went beyond Sea to meet on Wednesday next after the Feast of St. Thomas or 7th of July until the Vigil or Eve of St. James or 24th of the same Month And therefore he could not wonder nor his Allies or good People of Flanders That neither Wooll nor Money was then come to him for certainly as much as could be levied of his Subsidy should come to him daily as soon as the Pains or Knowledge of Man could cause it to be sent or paid The Arch-Bishop having secured himself at Canterbury 8 Hist Sacr vol. 1. f. 21. 25. The A. Bp of Canterbury's Advice and Reproof to the King the King sent Nicholas de Cantelpue with Letters of Credence That he would come to him to London where he might personally speak with him but he came not pretending some about the King had threatned to kill him Yet though he came not he wrote to the King and admonished him to take good Advice and make 9 Wals f. 150. â— 10 20 c. use of good and wise Counsellors and to remember that by evil Counsel his Father had contrary to the Laws of the Land and Magna Charta imprisoned some great Men and others adjudged them to death seized their Goods or put them to grievous Ransom And what hapned to him for this cause He also put him in mind That by the Circumspection and Discretion of the Prelates the Great and Wise Men of the Nation his own Affairs had prospered so as he possessed the Hearts of the People and had met more Assistance from the Clergy and Laity than any of his Progenitors But at present by the evil Counsel of some English and others who loved their own Profit more than his Honour or the Safety of the People he
or Tenths to be otherwise paid then they were granted that is the Ninths by such as held a Barony or used to be summoned to Parliament And then the King 1 Ib. n. 35. granted for him and his Heirs That if any Person do any act against the form of the Great Charter or any other good Law that he should answer in Parliament or other place where he ought by Law to answer The Statutes and the Conditions above-mentioned are enter'd Where the Statutes and Conditions are into the back of the Roll and Printed in the Statutes at Large this year and are a true Translation of the Record in French In the Third Chapter of the Statutes it was agreed That the Chancellor Treasurer Barons and Chancellor of the Exchequer the Great Officers to be sworn in Parliament Justices of both Benches Justices assigned in the Country Steward and Chamberlain of the King's House Keeper of the Privy Seal Treasurer of the Wardrobe Controllers and those that were appointed to remain and be about the Duke of Cornwall should then be sworn in Parliament and so from thenceforth at all times when they should be put in Office to keep and maintain the Privileges and Franchises of Holy Church the Points of the Great Charter the Charter of the Forest and all other Statutes without breaking any Point In the 4th Chapter of the same Statutes it is said it was agreed Orders about the Justices and great Officers That if any of the Officers aforesaid or Controullers or Chief Clerk in either Bench by Death or by other Cause be put out of his Office that the King by assent of the Great Men which should be nearest him in the Country and by the good Counsel he should have about him should put another convenient into his Office who was to be Sworn according to the Form aforesaid And that in every Parliament the King should take into his Hands at the third day thereof the Offices of all the Ministers aforesaid and so to remain four or five days except the Offices of the Justices of both Benches Justices assigned and Barons of the Exchequer so as they might be put to answer every Complaint And if by Complaint or otherwise they or any of them should be found faulty then to be attainted in Parliament and punished by Judgment of the Peers and outed of his or their Office and another convenient put in his place And the King was to cause Execution to be done without delay according to the Judgment of the Peers in Parliament Contrived by the Clergy It is very probable that these Agreements concerning the Officers were the Contrivances of the Arch-Bishop Bishops and Clergie for it was a great trouble to them that the Chancellor Treasurer and many other Officers who were Clerks had been put out of their Offices as hath been related before at the King's arrival in England and others that were Lay or Secular Persons placed therein 2 Walsingh f. 150. l. 13. Rex Edwardus Angliam intravit ministros suos videlicet Cancellarium Thesaurarium alios amovit non Clericos imo Seculares ad placitum suum substituit The Statutes above-mentioned were some months after the The Statutes and Conditions above-mentioned revoked making of them that is on the first of October next following revoked by the King as contrary to the Laws and Customs of the Land his Prerogatives and Royal Rights by the Advice and Consent of the Earls Barons and other Wisemen as appears by the Revocation it self of the same Date directed to the Sheriff of Lincoln Printed in this year in the Statutes at Large and in Pulton as likewise by a Writ directed to the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury The King 3 Append. n. 88. The King 's Writ to the Arch-Bishop that in a Provincial to be holden at London to the Venerable Father in Christ John Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Primate of all England Greeting Whereas some time since in our Parliament at Westminster assembled in the Quinden of Easter last past there were certain Petitions made expressly contrary to the Laws and Customs of England and not only very prejudicial but reproachful also to our Royal Dignity which if we had not permitted to have been drawn into a Statute the said Parliament had been without success and dissolved in Discord and so our Wars with France and Scotland which we principally undertook by your Advice had very likely been which God forbid in ruin And we to avoid such dangers permitting Protestations of revoking those things when we could conveniently that had so been extorted Nothing be done prejudicial to him or his Crown from us against our will yet permitted them to be sealed with our Seal at that time And afterward by the advice and assent of the Earls Barons and other Wisemen for Lawful Causes because our consent was wanting or as it is in the Revocation directed to the Sheriff of Lincoln because we never consented to the making of the Statute but as then it behoved us we dissimuled in the Premisses c. we have declared it null and that it ought not to have the name and force of a Statute And we understand you have commanded a Provincial Council to meet at London on the morrow of St. Luke next coming in which you intend to excite the Bishops of your Province against us and to Nor to confirm the Statute and Conditions ordain and declare some things prejudicial to us about confirming the said pretended Statute and for the enervation depression and diminution of our Royal Jurisdiction Rights and Prerogatives for the preservation whereof we are bound by Oath also concerning the Process depending between us and you for certain Matters charged upon you by us and that you intend to promulge grievous Censures concerning these things We willing to prevent so great mischief do strictly forbid that in that Council you do not propound or any ways attempt or cause to be attempted any thing in derogation or diminution of our Royal Dignity Power or Rights of the Crown or of the Laws and Customs of our Kingdom or in prejudice of the Process aforesaid or in confirmation of the pretended Statute or otherwise in contumely of our Name and Honour or to the grievance or disadvantage of our Counsellors or Servants Know ye that if you do these things we will prosecute you as our Enemy and Violatour of our Rights with as much severity as lawfully we may Witness the King at Westminster the first day of October The Revocation was confirmed or rather the Statute vacated in Parliament the 17th of Edward the Third in the very next Title or Number to the Acquittal of the Arch-Bishop as followeth 4 Append. n. 89. The Revocation confirmed in Parlement Also it is accorded and assented unto That the Statute made at Westminster in the Quinden of or fifteen days after Easter shall be wholly repealed and annulled and loose the
Comunes en pleyn Parlement Which Name of King of France he did retake and had his Great Seal and other Seals altered and that Title 8 Ibm. engraved upon them On the same 9 Day and Thursday the Estate of the King 8 Ibm. 9 10. was laid before the Great Men and Commons feust monstre as Grants Comunes lestat le Roy and because the War was open par cause de la Guerre queste overte he should be at great Charges as well by Sea and Land which he could not maintain without their Aid he requested them they would treat and advise how he might be best assisted to his greatest Profit and the least Charge and Damage to the People The Prelates Dukes Earls and Barons by themselves and then the Commons of one accord Granted les Prelates Ducs Barons par eux puys les Comunes A Subsidy of Wooll c. granted to maintain the War dun acord Granteront c. to the King a Subsidy of Woolls of every Sack 43 s. 4 d. and of the Woollfels every Twelvescore as much and of every Last of Leather 4 l. which passed beyond Sea for three Years besides the ancient Custom to begin at Michaelmas next coming of Denizons Of Strangers for every Sack of Wooll 4 Marcs of every Twelvescore Woollfels 4 Marcs and of every Last of Leather 8 Marcs He not only provided for Money this Parlement but 1 Ib. n. 25. K. Edward's Offer To all Persons whatever that would maintain his Quarrel against France declared That for the Compensation of such Lords or others of whatsoever Estate Degree Condition or Nation they were who would maintain his Party and Quarrel against his Enemies of France should hold Heritably what they should Recover and Conquer be they Dutchies Earldoms Vicounties Cities Towns Castles Fortresses or Lordships situate in France by what Name or Title they were called of him as of the King of France by the Services and Dues accustomed except and reserved expresly to him and his Heirs all his Demeasn Royalties Services Homages Dues Resorts and Soveraignties belonging to the Crown of France except also Church-Lands and the Lands of all such as without Force or Difficulty would obey adhere to and stay in Obedience to him on their own Good-will and him Aid Counsel and Comfort in his Quarrel c. This Year 2 Wals f. 184. n. 20. The Death of the Queen The Offer as above no advantage to K. Edward 3 Froys C. 272. Du Ches f. 704. D. He sends his Letters of Indemnity and Pardon into Aquitan on the Assumption of the Virgin Mary or 15th of August died Queen Philip Just and Sincere as the Historians say to the English Interest There is nothing extant which makes it appear that the Offer above-mentioned advanced King Edward's Cause and therefore next Year he sends his Letters of Indemnity and Pardon with great Promises of Reformation into Aquitan 3 That he being informed of certain Troubles Grievances and Molestations done or supposed to be done by his Dear Son the Prince of Wales in his Seigniory of Aquitan being obliged and desirous to remedy all things tending to evil Surmises Hatreds and Contentions between him and his Loyal Friends and Subjects did Announce and Pronounce Certifie and Ratifie of his meer Good-will and by great Deliberation of his Council to that purpose called and did Will and Command That the Prince of Wales should forbear and remit all manner of Actions done or to be done and restore to all such as had been grieved or molested by him or by any of his Officers and Subjects in Aquitan all their Costs Expences or Damages raised or to be raised in the Name of Aids or Chimney-Money And did further pardon all such as had revolted and forsaken his Homage and Fealty upon Condition that after the sight of these Letters within one Month they returned to their Obedience And if any Persons made any just Complaint against his Dear Son the Prince or any employed by him that in any thing they were grieved or oppressed or had been in times past he would cause them to have reasonable Amends for the maintaining of Peace Love Concord and Vnity between him and his People of the Dutchy And that all Men might be satisfied of the Truth of these Letters he willed they should have Copies of them and then declared he had Sworn to maintain and make them good by the Body of Jesus Christ in the Presence of his Dear Son John Duke of Lancaster the Earls of Salisbury Warwick Hereford and many other there named Dated at Westminster in the 44th Year of his Reign on the 5th of November in the Year of our Lord 1370. Mezeray 4 F. 389. The King of France joined Religion and Eloquence to his Arms And sent Preachers abroad to justifie his Cause taking notice of these Letters tells us That to the Force of Arms the King of France joined Religion and Eloquence which could do all things on the Hearts of the People He ordered Fasts and Processions to be made all over his Kingdom and sometimes went barefoot himself with the rest when at the same time the Preachers made out his Right and Title with the Justice of his Cause and the Injustice of the English Which had two Ends the one to bring back again those French Provinces which had been yielded by the Treaty of Bretigny the other to make those that were under him willing to suffer the Contributions and all other Inconveniencies of War The Arch-Bishop of Thoulouse alone by his Persuasions and Intrigues regained above Fifty Cities and Castles in Guien amongst others that of Cahors The King of England would have practised the same Methods on his part and sent an Amnesty or General Pardon to the Gascons with an Oath upon the Sacred Body of Jesus Christ to raise no more new Imposts but all this could not reclaim those Minds that had bent themselves another way King Edward 5 Ib. c. 249. 250. Forces sent into France to the Prince Some of the Companions joined with them sent Forces over to the Prince with Edmond Earl of Cambridge his own Son and the Earl of Pembroke his Son-in-Law who with a great number of Companions under the Command of Hugh Caverley an Experienced Officer which came from Aragon Rendezvoused at Angolesm and were put all under his Command by the Prince What things of Note they did I find not Before this time 6 Ib. c. 241 242. Henry the Bastard killed Peter King of Castile and fixed himself in the Throne Henry the Bastard had by the Assistance of Peter King of Aragon the King of France and the Power of Bertrand de Guesclin and his Companions seized the Kingdom of Castile and killed King Peter and fixed himself in that Throne The King of France wrote to Henry to 7 Ib. c 276. Bertrand de Guesclin and his Companions serve the K. of France against K. Edw.
Ib. n. 10. Sir Thomas Pâ—râ—y general Procurator for the Clergy Arch-Bishops and the Clergie of both Provinces constituted and appointed Sir Thomas Percy their Procurator as by their Instrument doth appear The Commission and Statute made upon it in 6 Stat. at Large 21 Rich. II. Cap. 2. This agrees with the Record The Commission and Statute made in the 11th year of the King Repealed the Eleventh year of this King are repealed and made void at the prayer of the Commons as being made Traiterously by constraint and compulsion against the King's Will his Royalty Crown and Dignity and it was Ordained and Established by the King with the Assent of the Lords and Commons That no such Commission or the like should be made and that he that should indeavour or procure any such to be made or the like in time to come c. being thereof duely Convict should suffer as a Traytor The Pardon 's granted to the Duke of 7 Râ—t Parl. 21 Rich. II. n. 12 13. The Pardons to the Dâ—ke of Glocester Earls of Arundel and Warwick made void Glocester and Earls of Arundel and Warwick in the Parlement of the Eleventh of this King are made void as done by force only against the King's Will as also the Pardon granted to the Earl of Arundel at Windsor in the 17th year of this King is revoked and annulled On the * Ib. n. 14. The Commons declare with the King's Leave their intent waâ— to accuse Persons during the 〈…〉 of this Parlement They hâ—â— the King's Leave 20th of September the Commons made Protestation to the King in full Parlement That tho they would shew and declare certain Matters and Articles they had then Advised of and Agreed amongst themselves nevertheless it was and is their Intent and Will by Leave of the King to accuse and impeach Person or Persons as often as they should think fit during the time of this Parlement ne nit meins il feust est lour intent volonte par conge de nostre Seigneur le Roy d'accuser empescher person ou persons a taunts de foitz come leur sembleroit affair durant le temps de cest present Parlement And they prayed the King he would please to accept their Protestation and that it might be entered of Record on the Parlement Roll which the King granted and commanded it to be done Then on the 8 â—â—â— 15. The Arch-Bishop of Canterbury accused of Treason same day before the King in full Parlement they accused and impeached Thomas Arundel Arch-Bishop of Canterbury of High Treason for that he being Chief Officer of the King to wit his Chancellor when he was Bishop of Ely was Traiterously aiding procuring and advising in making a Commission directed to Thomas Duke of Glocester Richard Earl of Arundelâ— and others in the Tenth year of the Reign of the King and made and procured himself as chief Officer of the Realm to be put into it to have Power with the other Commissioners to put it in Execution Which Commission was made in prejudice of the King and openly against his Royalty his Crown and Dignity and that the said Thomas put in Vse and Execution the said Commission Also for that 9 Ibm. the said Thomas Arch-Bishop in the Eleventh year of the King procured and advised the Duke of Glocester and the Earls of Warwick and Arundel to take upon them Royal Power and to Arrest the King's Lieges Simon Burley and James Barners and Judge them to Death contrary to the Will and Assent of the King and upon this the said Commons pray the King the said Thomas may be put in safeguard in an honest manner And the King 1 Ibm. said because the Accusation and Empeachment touched so high a Person and Peer of the Realm he would be advised Also the Twenty first day of 2 Ib. n. 16. The Commons pray Judgment against the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury September next following the Commons prayed the King That as they had Empeached and Accused the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury that he had assented or was in the Contrivance to cause the Commission to be made qil feust d'assent de fair fair la dit Commission on the Nineteenth of November in the Tenth year of the King and of the Execution of the same which was expressly against the King his State and Dignity That he would please to Ordain such Judgment against him as the Case required Hereupon the King caused to be Recorded in Parlement That the Arch-Bishop was before him in the presence of certain Lords and confessed que en la use de la dit Commission il soy misprist luy mist en la Grace du Roy. That he was mistaken or erred in the use of the Commission and put himself under the King's Grace Whereupon the 3 Ibm. He was adjudged Traytor and to be Banished King and all the Lords Temporal and Monsieur Thomas Percy having sufficient Power from the Prelates and Clergie as appeared upon Record in the said Parlement adjudged and declared the Article which the Arch-Bishop confessed to be Treason and touched the King himself and also judged and declared him a Traytor and thereupon it was awarded in Parlement That he should be Banished out of England his Temporalties seized and his Goods and Chattels forfeited to the King who was to appoint the time of his Exile And then the King 4 Ib. n. 17. assigned him time of Passage from the Eve of St. Michael until Six weeks next following from the Port of Dover into France and further That he should forfeit all his Lands Tenements and Possessions which he had in Fee Simple by Descent Purchase or otherwise at the day of the Treason committed or after or that any one held to his use to the King and his Heirs for ever The Commons interceeded with the King for his Favour toward such as were named in the 5 Ib. n. 26. The Commons interceed with the King for such as were named in the Commission and did not act Commission and made Commissioners but neither procured it consented to it or acted in the Execution of it Three whereof were alive the Duke of York the Bishop of Winchester and Richard Lescrop Knight and Four dead William late Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Alexander late Arch-Bishop of York Thomas late Bishop of Excester and Nicholas late Abbat of Waltham whose Loyalty and Innocency was acknowledged in Parlement The Declaration whereof was made a Statute by the King with the Advice and Assent of the Lords at the Prayer of the Commons They further 6 Ib. n. 27. humbly beseech the King That he would please to consider how at the time when Thomas Duke of Glocester Richard Earl of Arundel and Thomas Earl of Warwic did rise soy leverent and march against their Allegiance and the King The Commons move the King in behalf of the Earls of Derby and Nottingham the said
and besieged the Castle and took it and within it William Lescrop Treasurer Sir John Bussy and Sir Henry Green all the King's Counsellors who the next day by the Clamor of the People had their Heads struck off The Duke of York the King's Uncle and Guardian of the Kingdom with several Bishops Noblemen and the King's Council consulted how they might oppose the Duke but could do nothing King Richard when he heard in Ireland of his Landing 9 Ibm. n. 40 50. The Nobility and People desert King Richard secured the Sons of the Duke of Lancaster and Glocester in Trim Castle and with the Dukes of Albemarle Excester and Surrey the Bishops of London Lincoln and Carlisle and many others Shipped themselves with all speed that they might raise such a Force as might hinder the Duke's Progress But when he landed understanding his own Condition That the People and greater part of the Lords had forsaken him and gone in to Duke Henry he laid by all thoughts of Fighting and likewise dismissed his Family giving them notice by his Steward Sir Thomas Percy That they might provide for and reserve themselves for better Times The King shifting up and down here and there for many days the Duke always following him with his Army at length fixed at Conway Castle and desired to have Discourse with the Arch-Bishop and Earl of Northumberland to whom he declared He would quit his Government if he might have his Life secured and an Honourable He offers to Quit his Government his Life and an Honourable Maintenance secured Which was Granted Provision made for himself and Eight Persons he should Name These things granted and confirmed he went to Flint Castle where after a short Discourse with the Duke of Lancaster they mounted their Horses and went to Chester Castle that night the Duke 's numerous Army following him At Chester 1 Clause 23 Ric. II. M. 3 Dors Writs for a Parlement in King Richard's Name He is secured in the Tower of London summons were issued in King Richard's Name for the meeting of a Parlement on the Morrow of St. Michael or 30th of September dated there on the 19th of August in the 23d of his Reign In the mean time the King was brought to and secured in the Tower of London until the Parlement should sit Holingshed tells us 2 Chronicle f. 501. a. col 2. The Duke's Obeysance to King Richard at their first meeting And Declaration of the Cause of his coming into England The Duke received at London with great Rejoycing â— The Instruments of the King's Resignation and Deposition contrived by his Order the Duke at the first meeting of King Richard which was at Conway Castle in Carnarvonshire as he came towards him made a Reverend Obeysance and going on did so a second and third time the King taking him by the Hand and bidding him Welcome whereupon humbly Thanking him said The Cause of his coming was to have Restitution of his Inheritance unto which the King readily assented and called for Wine and when they had drank mounting their Horses they rode to Flint and to Chester where they stayed two or three days and went from thence to Nantwich and so the common Rode to London where the Duke was received with all imaginable Expressions of Joy and the King sent to the Tower where we hear no more of him until Michaelmass-Day against which time the Instruments of his Cession Resignation and Deposition with the Articles against him were prepared which are here recited from the Parlement Roll exactly Translated The Roll of Parlement summoned and holden at Westminster in the Feast of St. Faith the Virgin or 6th of October in the Year of King Henry the Fourth after the Conquest the First Membrane xx The Record and Process of the Renunciation of King This Record is Printed in X. Authores Col. 2744. and in Pryn's Plea for the Lords p. 425. which I have compared with the Original Richard the Second after the Conquest and the Acceptation of the same Renunciation likewise with the Deposition of the same King Richard as it here follows BE it Remembred 1 1 Rot. Parl. 1 Hen. IV. N. 10. That on Monday in the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel in the Twenty third year of the Reign of King Richard the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and other Notable Persons That is to say The Lord Richard le Scrop Arch-Bishop of York John Bishop of Hereford Henry Earl of Northumberland and Ralph Earl of Westmerland the Lord Hugh Burnell Thomas Lord Berkley the Prior of Canterbury and Abbat of Westminster William Thyrninge Kt. and John Markham Justices Thomas Stow and John Burbache Doctors of Law Thomas de Erpingham and Thomas Gray Knights William de Feryby and Dionyse Lapham Publick Notaries being Deputed to that purpose came into the presence of King Richard within the Tower of London about Nine of the Clock when the Earl of Northumberland said before the King That at 2 2 Ib. n. 11. Conway in North-Wales and then at Liberty He promised to Thomas Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and himself That he would Quit the Crown of England and France and Renounce all Right to it and to Kingship for the Causes there by himself confessed of his Inability and Insufficiency and this he would do after the best Manner and Form he should be Advised by the Skilful in the Law The same King before the said Lords and others above-named kindly answered That he would with Effect perform what he had promised but first desired to have Conference with his Cousin Henry Duke of Lancaster and the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury before he did it and desired a Copy of the Renunciation he was to make might be delivered to him to Deliberate upon which was done and the Lords departed 3 3 Ib. n. 12. On the same day after Dinner the King much desiring the coming of the Duke of Lancaster and long expecting him at length he and the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury with the Lords and Persons above-named came to his presence in the Tower the Lords Roos of Willoughby and Abergavenny and many others then being present And after he had Conference with the Duke of Lancaster and Arch-Bishop looking about him with a Chearful Countenance as it seemed to the People about him the King called them all to him and said publickly he was ready to make his Renunciation as he had said before and presently taking the Parchment Schedule of his Renunciation into his Hands tho it was told him to spare the Labour and Trouble of Reading it he might have it done by another he said he would read it himself which he did distinctly and absolved his Lieges Renounced Quitted and Sware Read and Said other Things and Subscribed his Name with his own Hand as 't is more fully contained in the Latin Record the Tenor of which follows The Resignation of Richard the Second IN 4 4 4 Ib. n. 13. Name
of God Amen I Richard by the Grace of God King of England and France and Lord of Ireland do Absolve the Arch-Bishops Bishops and other Prelates whatsoever of Churches Secular or Regular of what Dignity Degree State or Condition they are Dukes Marquesses Earls Barons Vassals Valvassores and my Liege Men whatsoever Ecclesiastick or Secular by whatever Name they are called from the Oath of Fealty and Homage and all others to me made and from all Bond of Ligeance Regality and Government or Command by which they have been or may be bound to me and them their Heirs and Successors for ever from the same Obligations Oaths and other Things whatsoever I free release and quit and make them free absolved and quit as to my Person according to the whole Effect of the Law which may follow from the Premisses or any of them And I do purely freely of my own accord simply and absolutely in the best Manner Way and Form that I can by this Writing Renounce wholly Resign and by Word and Deed put from me and recede for ever from all Royal Dignity and Majesty the Crown and Lordship and the Power of the said Kingdoms and Lordship and other my Dominions and Possessions which may any way belong to me and to all Right Colour of Right and Title Possession and Dominion that I ever had have or may have in the same or any of them also the Government and Administration of the said Kingdoms and Lordship and all mere and mixt Empire in the same and to all Honour and Royalty therein saving to my Successors Kings of England in the Kingdoms Dominions and Premisses for ever their Competent Rights And I do Confess Acknowledge Repute and truly of certain Knowledge Judge my self to be insufficient for the Government of the said Kingdoms and Dominions and for my notorious Demerits not unworthily Deposed And I Swear by these Holy Gospels of God by me Corporally touched That I never will Contravene this Resignation Renunciation Dimission and Cession or will any way oppose them in Word or Deed by my self or others nor will suffer them to be opposed or contravened as much as in me is publickly or privately but the same Renunciation Resignation Dimission and Cession will for ever hold firm and will firmly hold and observe them in the whole and every part as God and his Gospels help me Ego Richardus Rex antedictus propria manu hic me subscribo I King Richard beforesaid write my self with my own Hand And 5 5 Ib. n. 14. presently he added to his Renunciation and Cession That if it was in his Power the Duke of Lancaster should succeed him but seeing it was not he desired the Arch-Bishop of York and Bishop of Hereford who he had appointed to declare his Renunciation and Cession to the States of the Kingdom to intimate his Will and Pleasure to them and as a further Mark of his Intention he pulled his Signet Gold Ring off his own Finger and put it upon the Dukes desiring it might be made known to all the States of the Kingdom On the Morrow 6 6 Ib n. 15. being Tuesday the Feast of St. Hierom the Parlement met in Westminster-Hall where the Arch-Bishop of York and Bishop of Hereford publickly declared the King's Cession and Renunciation with the Subscription of the King's Hand and also the delivery of the Signet to the Duke of Lancaster The Cession and Renunciation was first read in Latin then in English and the States and People there present were asked if for their own Interest and the Profit of the Nation they would admit the Cession and Renunciation they unanimously answered They would admit it After 7 7 Ib. n. 16. which Admission it was publickly proposed That besides that it would be much expedient and advantageous to the Nation and to take away all scruples and sinister suspicions that many Crimes and Defects committed by the said King during the time of his Government for which as confessed in his Cession he might be worthily Deposed might be drawn up in Writing and publickly read and declared to the People The Tenor of all which Articles is such Here the Entry upon the Roll is confused and impertinent and such must be the Translation The Form 8 Ibm. of the Oath which the Kings of England usually take at their Coronation follows which is exacted and received from them by the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury as it is contained in the Pontifical Books of the Arch-Bishops and Bishops Which Oath was received from Richard King of England the Second after the Conquest by the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and afterwards Repealed as may be found upon Record in the Rolls of Chancery Thou 9 Ib. n. 17. shalt wholly preserve the Peace of the Church and People of God and Concord in God according to thy Power and shall Answer I will preserve them Thou shalt cause to be done in all thy Judgments equal and right Justice and Discretion in Mercy and Truth according to thy Power and shall Answer I will do it Thou dost Grant that just Laws and Customs are to be holden and dost Promise to Protect and Confirm them to the Honour of God which the Communalty have chosen according to your Power and shall Answer I Grant and Promise To these such Questions may be added which are just which the King is to Confirm by his Oath upon the Altar before all Persons The Objections against the King concerning his Deposition do follow FIrst 1 1 Ib. n. 18. It is Objected to King Richard That for his Evil Government by giving the Goods and Possessions of the Crown to Unworthy Persons and indiscreetly dissipating of them and for this cause imposing grievous and intolerable Burthens upon the People and otherwise committing other innumerable Evils Having by his Assent and Command by the whole Parlement chosen and assigned certain Prelates and other Lords Temporal who with all their Power should faithfully labour at their own Costs about the just Government of the Kingdom made a Conventicle of his Accomplices proposing to impeach of High Treason the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal so imployed about the Government of the Kingdom and violently drew the Justices of the Kingdom to Confirm his Wicked Purpose for fear of Death and Torment of Body endeavouring to destroy the said Lords Secondly The same 2 2 Ib. n. 19. King lately at Shrewsbury caused to come before him and others that favoured him in a Chamber many Persons and the greater part of the Justices where by Threats and divers Terrors he induced caused and forced them singly to Answer to certain Questions on his behalf touching the Laws of his Kingdom against their Will and otherwise then they would have answered had they not been forced By Colour of which Answers the same King propounded to have proceeded to the Destruction of Thomas Duke of Glocester the Earls of Arundel and Warwick and other Lords with whom
DE His Excuse for not answering Fol. Ib. His Lands adjudged to be seized Fol. 148 A His Endeavours to incense the Nobility against the Spencers and the Queen against the King Fol. Ib. BC His motion in Parlement whether King Edward II. or the Prince his Son should Reign over them Fol. 161 D He with the Bishops of Winchester and Lincoln the Contrivers of King Edward's Deposition Fol. 162 E Adolphus the Emperor deposed and the manner of it Fol. 63 D The occasion of his being deposed Fol. Ib. F Alexander III. King of Scotland dies without Issue Male Fol. 14 F His Grand-daughter Margaret the Maid of Norwey his Heir Fol. Ib. Anglesey Isle when taken Fol. 7 F Appellant Lords in Richard II.'s Reign with their Protestation Fol. 371 C The Lords and Commons Oath to stand by them Fol. Ib. F Their Articles against several Lords and others Fol. 372 c. Their Impeachments exhibited Fol. 383 E They desire that what was done in Parlement 11th of King Richard might be revoked Fol. 401 F Appealed Lords and others refuse to appear Fol. 384 E Judgment pronounced against them Fol. 385 A None of them to be restored Fol. 390 C Ard betrayed to the French Fol. 333 D Articles of Peace between King Edward III. and John King of France Fol. 263 c. Artois Robert de his Advice to Edward III. to claim the Crown of France Fol. 198 E Arundel Richard Earl restored by Edward III. to the Blood Lands and Goods of his Father Fol. 191 C He is made Admiral and his great Success at Sea Fol. 367 DE One of the Appellant Lords in Richard II.'s Reign Fol. 371 C Is appealed of High Treason Fol. 405 A His Trial and Judgment Fol. 407 Thomas Bishop of Ely made Chancellor Fol. 366 E Is Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and Impeached of high Treason Fol. 397 B Is adjudged a Traitor and to be Banished Fol. 398 C His Preachment upon the Deposition of King II. Fol. 433 A His Speech at the opening the first Parlement of Henry IV. Fol. 436 A Ayston John a Wyclivite in Oxford Fol. 459 F Proceedings against him Fol. 460 461 His Confession and Recantation Fol. 462 B. Baliol John and Brus Robert their Titles to the Crown of Scotland how to be Examined the main Question and their Pedigrees Fol. 25 A C E John his Title adjudged good by Edward I. King of England Fol. 28 D Possession granted him by King Edward's Writ Fol. 29 A He swears Fealty to King Edward Fol. Ib. C The Form of his Homage and by whom Witnessed Fol. Ib. E He appears at London on the Earl of Fife's Complaint Fol. 31 E His Plea granted by King Edward Fol. 32 A He excuses his Appearance in the English Parlement Fol. Ib. F His Demands of Satisfaction for Injuries Fol. 33 A He Confederates with the King of France Fol. Ib. C He returns his Homage and defies King Edward Fol. 34 D He is beaten and submits He renounces all Confederacies against King Edward Fol. 36 C E He is committed to the Tower at London Fol. 38 A He is again released and on what Conditions Fol. 66 A His Character of the Scots Fol. Ib. C Edward his Son claims and recovers the Crown of Scotland Fol. 194 E F He does Homage and Fealty to Edward III. King of England Fol. 195 A B His Grant to King Edward for his Assistance Fol. 196 A B His ill Vsage by his Subjects and Grant of the Crown of Scotland to King Edward Fol. 256 BC Ball John his Speech to the Rabble Fol. 349 E Bannock-Bourn Battel Fol. 120 B Barons See Nobility Bateman William Bishop of Norwich his Death Fol. 253 B Beauchamp Sir John made Governour of Calais Fol. 246 F Belnap Robert and other Judges Opinions concerning the Statute and Commission Fol. 378 C The Witnesses to their Opinions Fol. 379 F They are accused of High Treason Fol. 380 A His Excuse Fol. 386 C Sentence against him Fol. 387 A His Life spared upon Mediation of the Bishops Fol. 388 A He is Banished into Ireland Fol. 389 C He is again recalled Fol. 396 F Bereford Simon adjudged a Confederate of Mortimer's and executed Fol. 190 BC Berkley Tho. acquitted of the Murther of Edward II. Fol. 191 B Bertrand de Guesclin made Constable of France Fol. 290 C Berwick surprized by the Scots and retaken by the English Fol. 256 A 339 A Bigod Roger Earl of Norfolk and Marshal grants his Lands c. to the King and his Heirs Fol. 74 D He surrenders his Earldom and Marshalship with the occasion of it Fol. 75 AB Regranted to him by the King Fol. Ib. C Bintly Sir Walter his Victory over the French Fol. 251 C Blake John Impeached with his Answer and Sentence Fol. 387 BD Bohun Humphrey grants his Lands Honours and Offices to the King Fol. 76 D He is restored upon Marriage of the King's Daughter Fol. ib. E Bouler Robert made Lord Chancellor Fol. 211 B The Arch-Bishops Letter to him to preserve the Liberties of the Church Fol. ib. C Bowet Henry adjudged a Traitor for his Advice to King Richard in favour of the Duke of Hereford Fol. 418 D Brabason Roger his Answer to the Scots Petition to King Edward Fol. 30 C Brember Sir Nicholas accused of Treason by the Lords Appellants Fol. 373 374 He pleads Not Guilty but is Condemned and Executed Fol. 385 BE Bristol taken by Queen Isabel Fol. 158 C Brittans offer to yield their Towns and Castles to the English Fol. 339 D Their Duke's Alliance with King Richard Fol. ib. E He sends to England for Assistance and makes a Peace with the French King Fol. 342 AD Bruce alias Brus Robert his Title to the Crown of Scotland Fol. 26 B He is excluded by King Edward I. Fol. ib. E He is made King of Scotland and Crowned Fol. 84 B He is put to flight by the English Fol. 85 A 92 C He reduced the greatest part of Scotland to obey him Fol. 119 E F He is Excommunicated but doth not regard it Fol. 123 E His Confederate Thomas Earl of Lancaster Fol. 135 E He obtains a Truce with England for 13 Years Fol. 147 A David his Son denies Homage to Edward III. Fol. 196 E He submits and owns him his Superiour Fol. 198 C Burgh Sir William impeached of High Treason Fol. 386 A His Excuse in answer to it Fol. ib. E He is condemned Fol. 387 A His Life spared Fol. 388 A He is banished into Ireland Fol. 389 C He is recalled Fol. 396 F Burley Simon and others impeached Fol. 388 He is found Guilty Condemned and Executed Fol. 389 A C. CAlais besieged by Edward III. King of England Fol. 237 E Is in great distress Fol. 241 E Is surrendred Fol. 242 D Cambridge Rioters their Practices against the Vniversity Fol. 354 A How punished Fol. Ib. E Edmund Earl the King's Vnkle created Duke of York Fol. 369 E Cardinals Pentionars to King Edward I. Fol. 76 A
61 F He corrupts the German Princes Fol. 63 C Of Valois his Alliances against Edward III. Fol. 200 A His Commissioners appointed to Treat of Peace Fol. Ib. His Fleet beaten by the English Fol. 205 C His Answers to Edward III.'s Challenge Fol. 207 D He is overthrown by him at Cresly Fol. 237 B His attempt to relieve Calais unsuccessful Fol. 242 B His Death Fol. 247 F Philpot John set out Men of War at his own Charge Fol. 334 C Is questioned for it and discharged Fol. Ib. Pickering Sir James his Petition in behalf of the Commons Fol. 335 C Plesington Sir Robert adjudged a Traitor Fol. 407 D Pole Sir Michael made Lord Chancellor Fol. 359 D He accuseth the Bishop of Norwich Fol. 360 C His Sentence against Four Knights Fol. Ib. D Is made Earl of Suffolk Fol. 363 F He is impeached his Answer and Judgment Fol. 365 ACE Is accused of High Treason Fol. 372 D Pope prohibits the Clergy from paying Taxes to Secular Princes Fol. 41 A His Explanatory Bull Fol. 54 C He by his own Power declared a Truce for Two Years between England and France Fol. 61 D Protested against by the French King Fol. Ib. F Accepted as Mediator and not as Judge Fol. 62 His Award between the Two Kings Fol. 64 65 He sent a Nuncio to compleat it Fol. 66 E His Claim to the Kingdom of Scotland Fol. 70 E He suspended the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Fol. 81 C He appointed Receivers of his Temporalities but refused by the King Fol. Ib. F He absolved Edward I. from his Oath Fol. 84 C His Exactions in England Petitioned against by the Nobility Fol. 88 C He mediates a Peace between Edward III. and King Philip Fol. 200 F 202 D His Reservation of the Bishopric of Rochester to the Apostolic See Fol. 319 B Price of Provisions set by the King Fol. 120 C Revoked again by him Fol. 121 D Probi Homines in Scotland who they were Fol. 31 F R. Rapyngdon Philip Professor of Divinity in Oxford a Wyclivite Fol. 459 F Proceedings against him Fol. 460 461 Reading Sim. Executed for speaking ill of Q. Isabel Fol. 159 C Reynolds Walter Arch-Bishop of Canterbury writes to the Pope to Saint Tho. Earl of Lancaster Fol. 139 A Richard Eldest Son to Edward Prince of Wales Guardian of England Fol. 293 C Is Created Prince of Wales Fol. 302 D II. his Coronation Fol. 326 B His Command to his Parlement to dispatch their Business Fol. 337 D His Necessities forced him to Pawn his Jewels Fol. 343 A His Mercy to the Followers of Wat. Tiler Fol. 347 B He Knighted the Lord Mayor and other Citizens of London for their Services in Suppressing them Fol. 350 D His Grants of Liberties and Manumissions to Villans revoked in Parlement Fol. 351 B He appoints certain Lords to Examine into Mismanagements of his Affairs Fol. 352 A He Excepted several Towns and Persons out of his General Pardon Fol. 352 F His Offer to go in Person with an Army into France Fol. 356 E The Parlement Advise him to the contrary Fol. 357 C His intent to Arraign the Duke of Lancaster Fol. 362 A His Expedition into Scotland Fol. Ib. F His Answers to the Commons Petition about his Houshold Fol. 364 A He is sent for to Parlement by the Duke of Gloucester and Bishop of Ely Fol. 365 F He changed the Great Officers of State Fol. 366 E He appointed Commissioners to Govern the Kingdom Fol. Ib. F His Protestation in Parlement Fol. 367 C He questioned the Commission and Statute made in the last Parlement Fol. Ib. F His Judges Opinions of them Fol. 368 A His Reception by the Mayor and City of London Fol. Ib. He Excused the Duke of Gloucester and others by Proclamation Fol. 369 C He granted their Requests Fol. 370 C He sent the Judges taken off the Benches to the Tower Fol. Ib. E His grant of the Commons Petitions Fol. 390 D The Lords Spiritual and Temporal renew their Fealty and Homage to him and he his Coronation Oath Fol. Ib. F Is declared to be of full Age Fol. 392 A He seized and restored the Liberties of the City of London Fol. 394 A He concluded a Peace with France Fol. Ib. B He goes into Ireland Fol. 395 D His Kindness to several Lords Fol. 399 B C He made several Dukes and Earls Fol. Ib. D The Lords and Commons Oaths to him Fol. 400 401 He Pardoned the Duke of Hereford Fol. 403 F He appointed at the Commons Request certain Persons to determine Matters undispatched in Parlement Fol. 404 D He prevented Battle between Hereford and Norfolk and banished them Fol. 415 B Statutes and Ordinances made by him and others appointed Fol. 416 A He goeth again into Ireland Fol. 419 A His Nobility and People desert him and join Hereford Fol. Ib. D He offered to quit the Government Fol. Ib. E He is sent to the Tower and a Parlement summoned in his Name Fol. Ib. F The Process of his Renunciation and Resignation Fol. 420 421 Articles objected against him Fol. 423 c. William Thyrning's Speech to him in the Tower Fol. 434 E Bishop of Carlisle's Speech in his behalf Fol. 438 D He was removed to Ludlow and from thence to Pontfract Fol. 452 A The French King attempts his Relief but without effect Fol. Ib. B The manner of his Death uncertain Fol. Ib. D c. His Wives Fol. 467 Rickhill Sir William appointed to take the Confession of the Duke of Gloucester at Calais Fol. 409 A His Declaration of the same in Parlement Fol. 411 B Rioters how to be prosecuted Fol. 193 Rochellers declare for the King of France Fol. 292 F Roger Earl of March slain in Ireland Fol. 419 A Rushook Tho. Bishop of Chichester Confessor to Richard II. impeached by the Commons Fol. 388 A His Answer Fol. Ib. B Is found guilty and banished Fol. 389 C S. SCotland and Scots their Agreement with Edw. I. about Margaret King Alexander III's Grandchild and Heir Fol. 15 16 K. Edward's Concessions to them about the Match Fol. Ib. Their Nobility desire time to Consider of King Edward's Claim of the Crown of Scotland after Margaret's Death Fol. 18 D E The Competitors produce nothing against his Claim Fol. 20 Their Names and Submission to King Edward's Decision and how their Rights were to be tried Fol. 21 A B D The Guardianship of the Kingdom committed to King Edward Fol. 22 E They Swear Fealty to him Fol. 23 B How the Right of Succession to be determined Fol. 24 F The Kingdom not partible Fol. 27 B They send for Absolution to the Pope Fol 35 A They Command the English to quit Scotland Fol. Ib. D They enter England are beaten and then they submit Fol. Ib. 37 E 64 B They again Revolt and Submit Fol. 53 A They force the English out of Scotland Fol. 59 A They apply themselves to the Pope Fol. 70 E The Terms of Peace granted them by King Edward
contre le Roy et sa Corone et pur tant il voet estre ove le Roy en tel cas layalment et sustenance de sa Corone et en toutz autres cas touchantz sa Corone come il est tenuz par sa Ligeance et pria au Roy que la dite Cedule soit entre de Record en Roll de parlement et le Roy lottroia N. 118. Rendred in English Rot. parl 16. Ric. 2. n. 20. WIlliam Archbishop of Canterbury brought a Schedule into a full Parliament containing his Answers demanded to certain Articles in the Form and Words following TO our most redoubted Lord the King in this present Parliament his humble Chappellan William Archbishop of Canturbury to the petition brought into Parliament by the Commons of the Kingdom in which are contained certain Articles that is to say first whereas our Lord the King and all his Lieges ought of Right and were wont in all times to proceed in the King's Court to recover their Presentations to Churches Prebendaries and other Benefices of holy Church to which they had right to present the Cognisance of which Plea only belonged to that Court by ancient Right of the Crown used and approved in the Times of all the King's Progenitors Kings of England and when Judgment was given in that Court upon such Plea the Archbishops Bishops and other Persons Spiritual who had Institution of such Benefices within their Jurisdiction were bound and had made Execution of such Judgments by Command of the Kings for all the times aforesaid without interruption for a lay Person could not make such Execution and also are bound to make Execution of many other Commands of the King of which Right the Crown of England had been in peaceable Possession as well in this King's Time as the Times â—f all his Progunitors until this time But of late diverse Processes have been made by the holy Father the Pope and Censures and Excommunications published against certain English Bishops for that they have made Execution of such Commands in open Disheritance of the Crown and Destruction of the King 's Regalie his Law and his whole Realme if Remedy be not had To this Article the Archbishop making Protestation that it was not his Intention to say or affirm that our Holy Father the Pope could not Excommunicate a Bishop according to the Law of holy Church answereth and saith that if any Execution or Processes Censures and Excommunications should be made by any Person against any Bishop of England or any other of the Kings Lieges because they made Execution of such Commands he holds this is against the King as it is holden or affirmed in the Petition and therefore he will stand with the King and with his Crown in the Case aforesaid to his Power And also whereas it is said and contained in the same Petition that Clamour hath been made that the holy Father the Pope had ordained and purposed to Translate some Bishops of the Kingdom some out of the Kingdom and some from one Church to another within without the Assent and Knowledge of the King and without the Assent of the Prelate which was to be Translated which Prelates were much profitable to the King and his whole Kingdom by which Translations if they be suffered the Statutes of the Kingdom would be defeated and straightened and the wise Lieges of his Council without their Assent and against their Wills withdrawn and removed out of his Kingdom and the Riches and Treasure thereof exported whereby the Kingdom will be destitute of Counsel and Wealth to the final Destruction of the Kingdom and also of the Crown of England which was so free in all times that it had no earthly Soveraign but immediately subject to God in all things touching the Regalie thereof and to no other Should it be submitted to the Pope and the Laws and Statutes of the Kingdom by him be Defeated and Annulled at his Pleasure it would be to the perpetual Destruction of the Kings Soveraignty his Crown and Regalie and of his whole Kingdom which God forbid The said Archbishop making Protestation that it is not his Intention to say or affirm that our holy Father cannot make Translations of Prelates according to the Law of holy Church answereth and saith That if any Executions of such Translations of any Prelates of the Kingdom were made who were very profitable and necessary to the King and his Realm or that the Sage Lieges of his Council without his Assent and against his Will should be withdrawn or removed out of the Kingdom whereby the Wealth and Treasure thereof might be destroyed The said Archbishop holds this would be against the King and his Crown and therefore he will be with the King Loyally in this Case and in Sustenance of his Crown as he is bound by his Ligeance and prayed the King this Cedule might be entered on Record in the Parliament Role which the King granted N. 119. Pat. 6. Ric. 2. Part. 1. m. 32. REX Cancellario Procuratoribus Universitatis Oxonii qui nunc sunt vel qui pro tempore fuerint Salutem Zelo fidei Christiane cujus sumus semper esse volumus Desensores moti salubriter inducti volentes summo desiderio impugnatores dicte fidei qui suas pravas perversas doctrinas infra regnum nostrum Angliae seminare dampnatas conclusiones eidem fidei notorie obviantes tenere predicare jam noviter pessime presumpserunt conantur in perversionem Populi nostri ut accepimus antequam ulterius in suis procedant erroribus maliciis vel alios inficiant reprimere condignâ castigatione cohercere Assignavimus vos ad inquisicionem generalem assistentibus vobis omnibus theologis Universitatis predicte regentibus faciendam ab omnibus singulis graduatis Theologis Jurisconsultis Universitatis ejusdem si quos de jurisdictione Universitatis illius agnovêrunt qui sint eis probabiliter suspecti de favore credentia vel defensione alicujus heresis vel erroris maxime quarundam conclusionum per venerabilem patrem Wilhelmum Archiepiscopum Cantuariensem de consilio sui Cleri publice dampnatarum vel etiam alicujus conclusionis alicui earundem consimilis in sententia vel in verbis si aliquos de cetero inveneritis qui quicquam predictorum heresium vel errorum vel quemcumque consimilem crediderint foverint seu defenderint vel qui Magistros Johannem Wyclyf Nicolaum Herford Philippum Reppingdon vel Johannem Aston vel aliquem alium de aliquo predictorum heresium vel errorum seu alio simili in verbis vel sententia probabili suspicione notatum in domos hospicia ausi fuerint receptare seu cum eorum aliquo communicare vel sibi defensionem aut favorem prebere presumpserint aliqualem ad hujusmodi fautores receptatores communicantes Defenfores infra septem dies postquam premissa vobis constituerit ab Universitate Villa Oxonii banniendos expellendos donec coram Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi pro tempore existente suam innocentiam manifestâ purgatione monstraverint Ita tamen ut se purgare cogantur ipsos tales esse nobis eidem Archiepiscopo de tempore in tempus infra mensem sub Sigillis vestris certificetis Mandantes insuper quod per Universas Aulas Universitatis predicte diligenter inquiri scrutari faciatis indilate si quis aliquem librum sive tractatum de editione vel compilatione predictorum Magistrorum Johannis Wyclyf vel Nicolai habuerint quod librum illum sive tractatum ubicunque contigerit inveniri arestari capi prefato Archiepiscopo infra mensem absque correctione corruptione seu mutatione quacunque quo ad ejus sententiam vel verba presentari faciatis Et ideo vobis in fide ligeantia quibus nobis tenemini sub forisfacturâ omnium singulorum libertatum privilegiorum Universitatis predicte omnium aliorum que nobis forisfacere poteritis injungimus mandamus quod circa premissa bene fideliter exequenda diligenter intendatis ea faciatis et exequamini in forma predictâ et quod prefato Archiepiscopo et ejus mandatis licitis et honestis vobis in hac parte dirigendis pareatis prout decet Damus autem Vicecomiti et Majori Oxoniensi pro tempore existentibus ac universis et singulis Vicecomitibus Majoribus Ballivis Ministris et aliis fidelibus et subditis nostris tenore presentium in mandatis quod vobis in executione premissorum auxilientur pareant et intendant In cujus c. Teste Rege apud Westmonasterium tercio-decimo die Julii Per Consilium FINIS
Jews rather to get a Livelihood then out of Affection to Christ or Christianity pretended to be Converts for about Ten years after they were all Banished the Kingdom as appears by these Writs De Judaeis Regno Angliae Exeuntibus Of the Jews going out of England Claus 18 Ed. I. M. 6. And De passagio conductu Judaeorum Angliae for the Passage and Conduct of the Jews of England Pat. 18 Ed. I. M. 14. In the Tenth of this King 7 Mat. West f. 410. n. 50. A. D. 1282. The Welsh surprise the King 's Justitiary Lewelin Prince of Wales and his Brother David on Palm-Sunday night surprised the Lord Roger de Clifford the King 's Justiciary there killed many of his Servants wounded bound and sent him Prisoner to the Mountain of Snowdon committing great Ravages killing the People and destroying a great part of the Marches The King scarce believing the News at first upon better Information sent the Barons of the Exchequer and Justices of the Bench Justiciarios de Banco to Shrewsbury to put the Laws in Execution and followed them with an Army built a large Bridge over the River Conwey of Boats or as the Historian says Ships and possessed himself of the Country about Snowdon and gave many Shares of those Lands to his Barons and others that had faithfully assisted him Over this Bridge many of the Nobles of the King's Army passed out of Anglesey to view and observe the Country who affrighted with the Multitude and Clamour of the Welsh coming upon them hasting to return from whence they came were drowned in their Passage The Welsh incouraged by this Accident which they would have a Miracle non infortunio sed miraculo ascribentes pressed their Prince to Act like a Man of Courage and it would not be long e're according to Merlin's Prophecy he should wear the Crown of Brute Whereupon with a great Army he descended into the Plains and left his Brother David to defend the Mountains Where Edmund the Son of the Famous Roger Mortimer then dead with some other Marchers set upon them and without considerable damage to themselves The Welsh routed Lewlin's Head struck off slew a great number of the Welsh in which Conflict Lewelin's Head was struck off presented to the King and sent to London and set upon the Tower Walsingham 8 F. 50. n. 10 20. A. D. 1283. Relates this Story in the year 1283 the 11th of Edward I. and that this Battle was six days before the Feast of St. Lucy that year and says that the Welsh besieged Rothelan Castle now Radland in Flintshire and that upon King Edward's coming towards them they quitted the Siege and retired Tho. Wikes Reports it in the year 1281 and varies also from the others in the Story it self and whether any of them be true in that or not certain it is they are all false in the time as is evident from the Records hereafter cited The King 9 Append. n. 7. to the Sheriff of Norf. and Suff. Greeting Whereas Lewelin the Son of Griffin and other Welshmen his Accomplices and our Enemies and Rebels have so often in the times of us and our Progenitors disturbed the Peace of England and do still continue in the same Course And for that by the Advice of our Great Men and the whole Community of the Land we propound finally to repress their Rebellion and Instability so as it shall not be in their power to disturb the Peace of the Nation when they please altho it seems to be a very great Charge and Difficult Vndertaking We Command you that you cause to come before us on the Octaves of St. Hillary i. e. Jan. 20. at Northampton or before our Commissioners all those of your Bayliwick that have 20 l. a year and upwards who are able and fit to bear Arms who are not at present with us in our Expedition against the Welsh And Four Knights of each County for the Four Knights summoned to meet for every County For every City Burgh and Mercat Town two Men. Community of the same Counties having full power from them and also of every City Burgh and Mercate Town Two Men Duos homines for the Communities of the same to hear and do those things which on our behalf we shall cause to be shewn unto them c. Witness the King at Rothelan the 24th day of November in the 11th year of his Reign The like Precept was to the Sheriffs of all Counties in England to cause to meet c. at Northampton except to the Sheriffs of Yorkshire Cumberland VVestmerland Northumberland and Lancashire who were Commanded to cause c. to meet at York The like Precept was to the * Rot. Wall 11 Ed. I. M. 4. Archbishop of Canterbury to cause all his Suffragans Abbats Priors and other Prefects of Religious Houses Procurators of Deans and Chapters of Collegiate Churches to come before the King or his Commissioners at the same time and place to hear and do as before and further to give their Counsel and Assistance happily to finish what he had begun to the Praise and Honour of God the Magnificence of his Fame ad magnificentiam nostrae famae to the perpetual Peace and Tranquility of the whole Kingdom Witness as before The like was to the Arch-Bishop of York for the Meeting of the Clergy of that Province at York After this the King wrote 1 Rot. Walliae 11 Ed. I. M. 4. De potestate data petendi procurandi subsidium Regis in Expeditione Regis Wall The King demands a Subsidy and injoins the form of it Pope Nich. died Aug. 22. 1280 and Martin IV. succeeded Febr. 22. the same year Walsingham says it was in the year 1281 and according to Truth to the Venerable Fathers in Christ the Bishops Abbats Priors Deans Chapters of the Cathedral and Collegiate Churches of the Province of York and their Proctors To the Knights Freemen Communities and all others of every County beyond Trent that were to meet on the Octaves of Hillary or 20th of January then near at hand That for the Suppressing of the Welsh c. and Establishing a perpetual Peace in England which he intended with his whole Heart he had given Power to the Arch-Bishop of York and Anthony Bek Arch-Deacon of Duresm his Secretary to ask and procure in his Name according to the Form to them by him delivered and injoined a Subsidy to his Use of his Subjects of every Bishoprick and County beyond Trent plenam damus potestatem petendi procurandi nomine nostro juxta formam per nos eis inde Traditam injunctam subsidium ad opus nostrum c. Commanding and Requiring them to give Credit to what the Arch-Bishop and Anthony should say about the Premisses and to perform what they should propound to them on his behalf Ex parte nostra Witness the King at Rothelan the 6th day of January in the 11th of his
and our Statute-Books goes by the Title of Confirmatione Chartarum was Sealed and Dated the 10th of October and is to be found upon the Statute Roll 25 Ed. 1. M. 38. with this Memorandum at the End of it that this very Charter or Confirmation The Confirmation of them Sealed in Flanders word for word was Sealed in Flanders with the King 's Great Seal at Gaunt the 5th Day of November in the 25th year of his Reign and sent into England a sure Sign Sir Edward Coke never saw the Original of this nor of the Statute de Tallagio non Concedendo who placeth them in the 34th of this King On the 8 Append. N. 34. The Earl-Marshal the Constable and Lord Ferrers Pardoned and by what Mediation Statute-Roll there is a Destinal Pardon for the two Earls the Lord Ferrers c. somewhat differing from that in the Printed Statutes Dated at Gaunt on the same Day procured at the special Prayer and Request of his Son Prince Edward his Lieutenant in England William Bishop of Ely William Bishop of Bath and Wells Richard Bishop of London Walter Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry Henry Elect of York Edmund Earl of Cornwall John Warren Earl of Surrey and Sussex William Beauchamp Earl of Warwick and the others of his Council with his Son in England 9 Registrum Winchelsey in Doctors-Commons fol. 227. a. b. and 228. a. b. This Pardon had been doubly granted before by the Prince and by his Council in two Instruments or as they are called Letters-Pattents one of the Prince the other of his Council Dated October 10. and Sealed with their own Seals because the Great Seal of England was with the King At the same time also they Vndertook and Bound themselves to secure them from any Dammage which might happen to them from the King and procure them this very Pardon Things thus compos'd in England there was a Truce or as 't is A Truce between the two Kings and their Allies for a short time called in the Instrument it self A 1 See Bundle of Writs of Privy-Seal in the Tower And Pryns Hist Ed. 1. f. 757. Sufferance or Forbearing all Acts of Hostility by Sea and Land between the King of England and his Allies on the one Part and the King of France and his Allies on the other until the Feast of Epiphany for the Duchy of Aquitain and for the Earldom of Flanders and all other Parts until the Octaves of St. Andrew or the 7th of December Dated on the Feast of St. Denis that is October 9th in the Year of Grace 1297. in which there are the Names of the English Confederates That is to say the King of Almayn or Emperor the Earl of Flanders the Earl of Savoy the Earl of Bar the Duke The King of England's Allies or Confederates of Brabant the Earl of Holland the Earl of Montbeliard John de Cholon Seigneur Darly John de Burgonig John Lord of Moamtfancon Walter his Brother the Lord of Newcastle the Lord Dosselier the Lord of Fanconby the Lord of Jour the Lord of Conkendary Simon de Montbeliard Lord of Montron Stephen Doissler Lord of New-Town de Ville Neove and many others of Burgoinge Almaigne Brabant Holland Gascoinge and Arragon and others of which the Names were not known And by this Sufferance all Trade or Commerce was to be Exercised as at other times This was inclosed in Letters 2 Ibm. and Pryns Hist f. 758. The Truce sent into England under Privy-Seal dated at Gaunt the 15th of October in the 25th of his Reign and sent to his Son enjoyning him to see it kept in all points through the Realm and 3 Claus 25 Ed. 1. M. 26. Dors in cedula to that purpose on the 20th of October he sent it to all Ports in England to be Proclaimed and strictly Observed in all its Articles On the next Day setting forth that the Scots despising their The Scots despise their Oaths of Homage and Fealty Oatbs of Homage and Fealty and not content to have Broken the Peace before to have Killed his Subjects and done many other great Mischiefs 4 Ibm. They enter England burn and waste all before them The King summons the Service of Earls Barons c. to suppress them had then Entered England Burning and Wasting the Country slaying his People and destroying all before them sent his Summons to 200 Earls Barons Knights Abbats and others to be ready at Newcastle upon Tine on St. Nicholas-Day or 6th of December with their Service of Horse and Arms to go with his Son against the Scots to suppress their Rebellion and defend his own Kingdom By Commissioners on both sides the Sufferance or forberance of Hostility was prolonged and continued until Lent then next coming the 5 Bundle of Writs Pryn ut supra f. 756 757. The Truce between the Two Kings prolonged Instrument whereof was sealed with their Seals and dated at Grolingues Abby near Courtray in Flanders Nov. 23. 1297. In this Instrument also are contained the Names of King Edward's Confederates as before In the 24th of this 6 Walsingh Hist f. 64. 1. 5 c. n. 10. King in the year 1296 the Cardinals of Albanum and Praeneste had been sent by the Pope first into France then into England whether they came about Whitsuntide to make Peace between the Two Kings and expected the Two Cardinals sent to persuade Peace or make a Truce for two years King's coming out of Wales until the first of August when they delivered their Message and persuaded to Peace or a Truce for Two years The King answered he could agree to neither without the Consent of the King of the Romans by reason of the League between them confirmed by Oath They Request the King to obtain his Consent which in Reverence to the Court of Rome he granted and they returned into France The King as they desired 7 Bundle of Letters and Writs in Jurie London 24 25 Ed. I. and Pryn Hist Ed. I. from fol. 748 â—0 fol. 764. wrote to the King of Almaign or Romans to send his Commissioners to Cambray to the Cardinals with Power before them to Treat of and Conclude a Truce Honourable and Beneficial for them both Many Commissions were granted and Commissioners 8 Ibm. Aâ— ways propounded for a Peace or Truce prove ineffectual appointed on both sides at several times and References made to the Pope But when all these Ways proved ineffectual the Pope by his own Authority took upon him to denounce and declare a Truce for Two years under pain of Excommunication to such as should not submit to it 9 Walsingh ut supra f. 69. n. 50. The Pope by his own Authority declares a Truce for two years This the Cardinals published without success as appears by their Letter or Manifesto published for the knowledge of all People in which are contained the Minutes or Heads of
he sent the Bishop of Vicenza to the King of France before whom and with the Consent of the King of England's Commissioners it was Agreed That both the Kings should perform that Article and King Edward Authorized several Commissioners The King of England performs the 7th Article of the Pope's Award to deliver the Possession of his Lands Vassals and Goods into the hands of the Bishop who was to receive them in the Name of the Pope as a Private Person and Benedict Gaitan This Instrument bears Date at Westminster April 22. 1299 the 27th of Ed. I. In May following Prince Edward 2 Ibm. Prince Edward Contracted to Isabel the King of France his Daughter made the Earl of Lincoln his Proxy to Contract the Espousals with Isabel the King of France his Daughter While the Bishop of Vicenza was in France he sollicited the Release of John Baliol King of Scots by the King of France his Mediation to the Pope to give it in Charge to the Bishop his Legate who obtained it 3 Append. n. 36 and Pryn's Ed. I. f. 797. A. D. 1299. 27. Ed â— and he was delivered to him at Whitsand in France by Robert de Bourghersh Kt. Constable of Dover Castle the King's Proxy upon Saturday before St. Mary Magdalen's Day or 22d of July upon Condition That the Pope might Direct and King John Baliol delivered to the Pope's Proxy Order what he pleased only as to his Person and the Estate he had in England as King Edward might have done if he had been personally with him in England saving to him and his Heirs Kings of England the Kingdom of Scotland the Men and Inhabitants and all the Appurtenances to that Kingdom It being there Read and Rehearsed before his Delivery and in his own presence and the presence of the Bishop of Vicenza That he had committed many Inhuman Trespasses and Treasons against his Sovereign Prince King Edward contrary to his Homage and Fealty c. And that the Pope should not Qrdain or Direct any thing in the Kingdom of Scotland concerning the Men or Inhabitants or Appurtenances of the same Kingdom for John Baliol or his Heirs which are or may be or any other Cause whatsoever And upon these Terms the Bishop in Name and Stead of the Pope received him from the King's Proxy on the said Saturday before the Feast of St. Margaret A. D. 1299. and 27th of Ed. I. Certainly at this time the Pope understood not that Scotland was his Fee as he claimed it two years after It may be supposed that King John Baliol was willing to go any His Character of the Scots whither rather than into his own Country he having voluntarily and of his own accord without the privity of King Edward by an 4 Append. n. 37. and Pryns Ed. I. f. 665. Instrument drawn by a Publick Notary the year before Renounced Scotland and Resolved never to come there more or have to do with it because he had found such Malice Fraud Treason and Deceit in the Scots that they had designed to poyson him This year 5 Mat. West f. 431. n. 50. died Two very great Men Humfry de Bohun Earl of Essex and Hertfordshire and Constable of England and William Beauchamp Earl of Warwick The Scots were this year Troublesome and the King had summoned the Militia of the Kingdom 6 Brevia Regis in Jurie Lond. 27 Ed. I. and Pryns Ed. I. f. 809. The King summons the Militia to go with him into Scotland The Pope sends a Nuncio to compleat his Award to meet him at Carlisle on the Vigil of Pentecost to go with him into Scotland upon his own Wages against his Enemies and to settle such English as he had there given Lands unto in them in the mean time he received a Message from the Pope that he was sending his Nuncio to Mounstreuit in Picardy where should be a Treaty to end all Differences in pursuance of his former Award This Message was communicated to the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury other Bishops Earls and Barons who advised him to remain in the South while this Treaty was over by reason of Debates that might happen in it which might require speedy Advice and Resolution and therefore wrote to all the Sheriffs of England to make Proclamation the Militia should not meet at Carlisle until the first of August Given at Stabenheth the 7th of May 27th of Ed. I. A. D. 1299. 27 Ed. I. Many of the Nobility and People not being satisfied or seemed not to be so that the Perambulations and setting out the Bounds of the Forests were not done so speedily as they desired the King sent 7 Brevia ib. Pryn f. 810. The People dissatisfied at the delay of the Perambulations of the Forests Writs to the Sheriffs of all Counties to proclaim and give notice That the Commissioners for these Perambulations should meet at Northampton at Michaelmass next with full power to proceed Special Commissioners appointed to dispatch that Business in that Business without delay Dated at Lewis the 25th of June in the 27th of his Reign But this was not thought sufficient for it was reported and The People yet not satisfied noised abroad that the King intended not to observe Magna Charta or the Charter of the Forest nor would ever suffer the Perambulations to be made and the Bounds of the Forests to be set out and therefore the same day he issued a 8 Ibm. and f. 811. The King issues a Second Proclamation to quiet them further Proclamation to give the Causes and Reasons why the Perambulations c. could not be made sooner and to let the World know he was pressed too hard and not in due manner to do these things and that those who raised these Reports were malicious People and desired to cause Differences between him and his Subjects and to disturb the Peace of the Nation Dated on the same day and at the same place In the beginning of September 9 Walsingh f. 77. n. 10. Mat. Westm f. 432. n. 10 20. A. D 1299. 27th of Ed. I. King Edward Married to Margaret the King of France his Sister Margaret Sister to the King of France was Conducted into England by the Duke of Burgundy and Earl of Britan to whom King Edward was Married on the 12th of this month in the Cathedral of Canterbury by the Arch-Bishop The Wedding was very splendid and much Foreign Nobility attended the Solemnity The King's Expectations were every way great from this Match but it answered them not On the Feast of St. Martin or 11th of November says 1 Fol. 77. n. 30. Walsingham the King held a Parlement at York and from thence went to Berwick intending to proceed further into Scotland to Relieve Sterling Castle then besieged by the Scots but the Noblemen Sterling Castle delivered to the Scots then with the King informing and pressing him the boggy and low Grounds were
speciali as the Record hath it After the Transaction and Settling of these Two great Affairs those whom the King employed had time from the Chronicles sent to this Parlement from the Monasteries to make a * See Mat. Westm f. 439. n. 20 30 c. Wals f. 81 c. Rot. Claus 29. Ed. I. M. 10. Dors Printed in Ryley's Placita Parliamentaria Append f. 596. The King's Title to Scotland sent to the Pope with a Narrative of the Perfidiousness of the Scots Deduction of his Right and Title to Scotland which was Historical and almost the same but more full and particular than that which was delivered to the Scots when he claimed the Superiority and direct Dominion over Scotland in the 19th of his Reign This was sent in a Letter from the King to the Pope with a Narrative of the whole Nation of Scotland having done Homage and sworn Fealty to him and owned and acknowledged him to be their King and Supreme Lord several times and what they had done against their Oaths invading burning spoiling and wasting England when they thought fit and also cautioning the Pope against the false Insinuations and Suggestions of the Scots concluding with a Petetion That he would have a Paternal Care and Affection to his Royal Rights Dated at Kemsey or Kynardesey the 7th of May A. D. 1301. if the Year began at Christmas if on Lady-day or 25th of March then 1302. in the 29th of his Reign The King at the Request of the King of France had granted the Scots a Truce which was to end at Whitsunday next coming as says the 5 Claus 29. Ed. I. Dors M. Dugd. Summons to Parl. f. 35. Writ by which he Summoned the Earls Barons and Knights such as he pleased to meet him at Berwic in the Feast of St. John Baptist with their Horse and Arms and to go with him against the Scots His Rebels and notorious Traytors to Repress their Rebellion and Pride so the Record Contra Scotos Rebelles nostros notorie proditores ad ipsorum Rebellionem Proterviam reprimendam This Summons was dated at Lincoln Feb. 14. in the 29th of Ed. 1. on the same Day he confirmed the Perambulations This Year the King made his Eldest Son Edward 6 Wals f. 79. n. 10. Matth. West f. 433. n. 50. Prince of Wales Earl of Chester Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester with which the Welshmen were well pleased as being born at Caernarvon in their own Country In Scotland he makes his 7 Pat. 29. Edw. I. M. 2. intus Claus 29. Ed. I. M. 3. Dors Procurators or Proxies to the Pope Walter Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry Amadeus Earl of Savoy Otto de Grandison Kt. and Gerrard Arch-Deacon of Lichfield to desire him speedily to put an end to all Differences between him and the French King and to complete the long-deferred Treaty of K. Edw. sends Procurators to the Pope to complete the Treaty of Peace between him the K. of From. Peace according to the Form of his Pronunciation or Decree made by virtue of the Compromise unto him but the Pope was not at leisure The Commissions or Procuratory Letters are dated at Glasco Aug. 24. in the 29th of his Reign The King staid all Winter in Scotland 8 Wals £85 n. 50. A. D. â—301 30. Ed. I. where many of his Military Men lost their Horses for want of Forage After Christmas he again at the Instance of the King of France 9 Ib. â— 86. â—in 3. He grants the Scots a Truce Granted the Scots a Truce until the Feast of All-Saints next coming and toward the Spring having settled things in Scotland returned into England All the Arguments the King used by Letters and Messages to the Earl of Savoy and Otto de Grandison 1 Claus 30. Ed. I. M. 15. Dors Two of the King's Procurators to the Pope refuse the Employment who were best acquainted with the State of his Affairs and Differences between him and the King of France could not persuade them to undertake this Embassie or Procuration to the Pope and therefore he 2 Ibm. The other two proceed committed the whole Affair to the Bishop and Arch-Deacon to hear for him and in his Name the Pope's Pronunciation Will and Pleasure in those things that then were not declared and determined between them by virtue of the Compromise made by both into his Person 3 Ibm. Ad audiendum pro nobis nostro nomine Pronunciationem vestram Voluntatem Beneplacitum super his quae inter Regem Franciae nos per vos i. e. the Pope virtute Compromissi c. restant pronunciandae facienda This Letter and new Commission was directed to the Pope to give him notice of the Refusal of the First two the Earl 30. Ed. I. and Knight and dated at Darlington in the Bishoprick of Duresm March 5. in the 30th of Edw. I. In April following Roger le Bigod Earl of Norfolk and Marshal of England granted and quiet claimed for his Heirs 4 Rot. Claus 30. Ed. I. M. 14. Dors The Earl-Marshal grants his Lands c. to the King and his Heirs to the King and his Heirs for ever All his Castles Towns Mannors Lands and Tenements in England and Wales except the Mannors of Sterington Wylton Thornton and Leversham with the Advousons of the Churches and all other their Appurtenances in the County of York and the Mannors of Acle and Castre with their Appurtenances and the Advouson of the Church of Geldeston in the County of Norfolk with the Knights Fees Advousons of Religious Houses and Churches Hundreds Honours Liberties and all their Appurtenances by what Name soever they should be called so as neither he nor his Heirs nor any one in his Name should have any Right or Claim in them Which Grant was Dated at the Abby of St. John's in Colchester the 12th of April in the 30th of Ed. I. He also made a Grant 5 Ibm. Also his Goods to the King of all his Goods and Chattels upon and in those Castles Mannors Towns c. except upon the Mannors and Lands before excepted Dated at the same Time and Place And made Letters of Attorney of the same Date to several Persons in every 6 Ibm. County where he had Lands to give Livery and Seisin accordingly Further at the same Place and on the same Day he restored remitted and quiet claimed for him and his Heirs to the King and his Heirs for ever all the 7 Ibm. He Releases and gives up his Earldom and Marshalship Right Honour and Dominion he had by the Name of Earl in the County of Norfolk and the Marshalcie of England with every thing thereunto belonging Lastly he restored remitted and quiet claimed the 8 Ibm. Castles of Bristol and Nottingham which he was to have held for Life by the Grant of the King so as he nor any one in his Name
Kingdom who marching 2 Wals f. 87. lin 3. with a small Party towards Edinburgh the Scots who lay in Ambuscado wounded and took him with several others but a fresh Party coming up rescued Taken Prisoner and rescued and took him from those that had him Prisoner Next Year on the 10th of January A. D. 1303. beginning A. D. 1303. Pryn's Ed. I. 1020 the Year at Christmas as Walsingham always doth 3 the King of France willing to leave the Scots out of the Treaty and conclude a Peace with England King Edward gave his Letters Patents or Commissions to Amadeus Earl of Savoy Henry de Lacy Earl of Lincoln and Otto de Grandison or any Two of them dated at Odyham January 10. 3 Pryn's Ed. I f 1020 The Truce with the King of France prolonged 31 Ed. I. A Peace between the two Kings to Prorogue the Truce between him and the King of France their Kingdoms and Subjects and to settle a firm and perpetual Peace between them their Heirs and Successors against all Persons but the Pope and Church of Rome and also to the same Persons and Bishop of Worcester gave Commission on the 2d of March in the same Year to the same purpose who Treating with the Dukes of Burgoine and Britan and other Commissioners of the King of France concluded a firm Peace between the Two Kings and their Realms 4 Ibm. The Scots left out of it leaving the Scots out of the Treaty For the Confirmation whereof the King made his Letters Patents and Sealed them at the Town of St. John's or Perth in Scotland June 10. A. D. 1303. in the 31st of his Reign All the Procurations Patents and other things concerning this Peace and the Articles themselves are in a special Roll in the Tower which at the writing hereof I could have no opportunity to peruse Upon this Treaty and Peace 5 Mat. West f. 446. n. 20. Gascoigny restored to King Edward The Revolt of Flanders the cause of this Pâ—ace Gascoigne was restored to King Edward with all its Rights and Liberties as he possessed it before the beginning of the War The Revolt of Flanders from the Subjection of France which had been subdued when King Edward by reason of the Domestick Troubles and Confusion of his own Affairs at home was not able to assist the Flemmings 6 Ibm n. 30. Mezeray's Hist Fr. f. 330. contributed much to the advancement of this Peace for the French attempting to regain Flanders were every where beaten and their Armies routed and in all their Attempts had ill Success This Year the Scots armed again under the 7 Wals f. 86. n. 40. f. 87. n. 10. 20. 31 Ed. I. The Scots arm again under W. Waleys They crave Peace and have their Terms granted Sterling-Castle besieged Conduct of William Waleys and the King summoned his Militia to be at Roxburgh in Scotland on Whitsunday from whence by small Marches he went through the whole Kingdom to Cathness no Force opposing him The Scots finding they were not able to resist sent Mediators and humbly craved his Peace and that they might be permitted to compound for their Estates with them to whom they had been given both which the King granted In his Return from the North passing it by as he went he besieged Sterling-Castle which was defended against him and staid all Winter at Dumfermling not far from thence Mat. Westminster says the Great Men of Scotland as well Earls as Barons 8 f. 446. n. 40. 50. Magnates Regni Scotiae tam Comites quam Barones being wholly reduced and overcome submitted themselves to the Will of the King of England who admitted them to his Grace and Mercy imposing upon them a pecuniary Mulct appointing them Days and Years and certain Times for the payment of it This Year on the 9 Ibm. f. 447. N. 30. Pope Boniface thâ— 8th dies 12th of Octob. died with Grief and Anguish of Mind Pope Boniface VIII after he had been 1 Walsing F. 87. N. 20. f. 89. n. 10. Benedict the 11th Chosen accused by the King of France of Heresie Simony and Murder imprisoned and plundered of all his Goods and the Bishop of Ostia was chosen Pope by the Name of Benedict XI After Winter the 2 Ibm. f. 89. N. 40. King went in Person to the Siege of Sterling Castle when it was briskly plyed with Engines yet they within made a good Defence but being very hard pressed by the Besiegers the King being there all the time the Castle was Sterling Castle yielded upon Discretion A. D. 1304. 32 Ed. 1. yielded upon Discretion on St. Magaret's Day or 20th of July the Governor whereof William Olifard who had surprized it was sent to the Tower of London and others to divers Castles The King 3 Ibm. N. 50. John Segrave appointed Guardian of Scotland having thus subdued Scotland according to his Mind returned into England appointing John de Segrave Guardian of it and when he came to York 4 Ibm. The Kings-Bench and Exchequer removed to London removed the Courts of Kings-Bench and Exchequer which had been there seven Years to their old Place at London On the Seventh of July this Year died 5 Mat. West f. 448. lin 7. A. D. 1304. 32 Edw. 1. The Cardinals Nine Months in chusing a Pope Pope Benedict and in nine Months the Cardinals could not agree about the Choice of another at length they unanimously chose the 6 Ibm. f. 451. N. 10. Archbishop of Burdeaux Bertram de Angeous upon Whitsunday the Year following by the Name of Clement the Fifth Toward the latter End of the Year of the Lord 1304. and within three Months after the Beginning of the 33d year of the Reign of the King we find it Recorded upon what Terms the Scots made their Submission after their last Insurrection the Title of the Record is The Terms given to and accepted by John Comyn his Aydants and Assistants were these following in this Form These are the Things agreed on * with Monsieur Richard de Ryleys Placita Parliamentar f. 369. from the French Record there Burgh Earl of Vlster Monsieur Aymer de Valence Seigneur de Montignak Monsieur Henry de Percy Knights and John Benstede Clerk on the Part of King Edward and John Comyn of Badenagh for Himself and his Aydants of Scotland as well those that were out of it as within it For the Faithful Keeping and Observing whereof the said Earl Aymer Henry and John de Benstede in The Terms of Peace given to and accepted by the Scots the Name of the King and the said John Comyn Monsieur Edmund Comyn de Kilbride Monsieur John de Graham Monsieur John de Vaux Monsieur Godfry de Roos Monsieur John de Maxwell the Elder Monsieur Peter de Prendregyst Monsieur Walter de Berkeley de Kerdaau Monsieur Hugh de Erth Monsieur William de Erth Monsieur James de Roos and
ut supra f. 384. With a Dispensation to use their Offices c. Dispensation to use their Offices as Pope's Clercs and Nuncios as the Clercs and Nuncios of former Popes had done in former times notwithstanding any former Prohibition by him made Provided they did nothing against his Crown or Dignity or any of his Subjects any manner of way Dated the same Day and at the same Place Lastly He gave 3 Ibm. in Utrâ—que loco And Transport their Money by way of Exchange them leave by way of Exchange and by assistance of Merchants to send all the Money Collected which reasonably belonged to the Church of Rome or to the Pope so as they Transported not any Coined Money or Silver in the Mass by themselves or others Dated at the same Place and Time Under pretence 4 Append. N. 42. of these Letters Grants and Dispensations the Pope's Clercs aforesaid pretextu quarum literarum prefati Clerici Domini Papae c. not having respect to the Prohibitions in Parlement By reason of these Indulgences the Pope's Clerks return to their former Practices returned to their former Practices and being opposed in their Proceedings by many of the Kingdom by reason of those Prohibitions they Petitioned the King's Council holden at Westminster in the Feast of Holy Trinity next following and Exhibited their Letters c. And because it was found That by them the King had revoked nothing of the Ordinance made in Parlement Et They Petition the King and Council for allowance of them quia compertum fuit per easdem quod Dominus Rex nihil Revocavit de praedicta Ordinatione in Parliamento facta nor Granted any thing to the same Clercs by the said Letters but that they might have and receive the first Fruits of vacant Benefices as far as he could Grant them Quantum in Rege fuit and hereupon forbad them Their Petition was rejected and they commanded to desist from any such Practices to do or attempt any thing that might turn to the prejudice of his Crown and Royal Dignity or any other of his Subjects And it being found also That every of the Grievances aforesaid were in prejudice of the King and his Subjects By Command of the King being then at Carlisle it was agreed in the same Council That the Clercs should not do them nor have the first Fruits of Benefices of the Patronage of the King because it would turn to the prejudice of him his Crown and others The Clercs understanding this Agreement would not any further prosecute their Petitions or appear to receive their Answer And therefore there was a further Prohibition made That whereas there had not been a full Deliberation And for doing any thing against the K. his Crown and Dignity c. had upon their Petitions they should not attempt any thing any way prejudicial to Him his Crown and Dignity the Noblemen and People of his Realm Witness the King at Carlisle the 27th day of June in his 35th year This Prohibition was served 5 Ryley ut supra f. 385. upon them by the Mayor Aldermen and Sheriffs of London and afterwards if the said Clercs had presumed to have been Relieved against this Prohibition before they could attempt it the King died so as nothing further was done in this Matter In the time of this 6 Append. N. 43. Parlement at Carlisle either the King himself or the Lords took notice of the great Familiarity there was between the Prince and Piers de Gaveston and what Influence he had upon and Power over the Prince but whether upon the King 's own Observation or their pressing him to it I find not nor for what particular Reasons on the 26th of February at Lowercost by the King's Order and Command not on his Death-Bed as Piers de Gaveston Banished England commonly storied he was Banished England and to be ready to quit it at Dover three Weeks after the Turnament or Justs which should be Fifteen days after * Easter-Day was this Year 1307. on the 26 of March so that the day of his Departure was the First of May. Easter next coming and not to return without the King's Leave and Calling him back and for the Performance of this Order Monsieur Piers at the Day and Place aforesaid made Oath upon the Body of God i. e. The Consecrated Host the Old Cross and the King 's other Reliques and the Prince of Wales made Oath in like manner That he would not Receive Retain or Permit the said Piers to be with him contrary to this Order unless he was Recalled by and had leave from his Father to return and for his Subsistence beyond Sea so long as he staid there Monsieur Piers had allowed him an hundred Marks Sterling by the Year After Easter this Year in the Heat of the Controversie and Quarrel between the King Nobility and Pope's Nuncios as before related 7 Mâ—t. Wâ—st f. 458. Robert Brus put to flight the Eâ—of Pembroke and Glocester Robert Brus having increased his Army engaged Aymer de Vâ—lence Earl of Pembroke and put him to flight killing few of his Men Three Days after he also put to flight the Earl of Glocester with the Slaughter of many on both fides and afterwards besieged him in the Castle of Ayr until by the King's Army the Siege was Raised when with his Men he fled into the Woods and Mountains 8 Ibm. Robert Brus flies into the Woods and Mountains yet King Edward sent into England and under great Penalty Commanded all that ought him Service to be ready at Carlisle three Weeks after the Feast of St. John Baptist and there sent his Son into England also to prosecute his Match with the King of France his Daughter by the assistance of the The Prince sent into England Spanish Cardinal Bishop of Sabin 9 Ibm. After the Departure of his Son the King fell ill of a Dysenterie or Bloody-Flux yet by small Journeys he moved toward Scotland from Carlisle and at Burgh upon Sands his Disease increasing he Died the 7th of July A. D. The King Dies 1307. Church-Affairs NOT long before the Death of Henry III. the Monks of Canterbury by his License 1 Antiquit. Brit. f. 189. n. 10 20. God de presul Angl. p. 137. A. D. 1272. had chosen William de Chillenden their Sub-Prior for their Archbishop the Pope persuaded him as a Person not â—it for that Place to wave the Election and make way for Robert Kilwarâ—eby a Friar-Minor who for Eleven years had been the Collector of the Pope's Moneys or Revenues in England to be Archbishop by his Provision without the King's License the Monks Election and his Approbation afterwards contrary to the King's Prerogative the ancient Rights of his Crown the Laws of the Realm and Liberties of the Church But to provent if it might be for the Future the like Practices of the Pope within
of the Earls c and by the Earl of Pembroke Monsieur Hugh le Dispencer and Monsieur Nicholas de Segrave Deputed by the King to hear the said Treaty and Report it to him in the manner following 1. First That the Earls and Barons shall come before the King The Articles of Peace between the K. and Barons in Westminster-Hall and with great Humility on their Knees make their Submission and Swear if he will have them That what they did for which he thought ill of and intended to punish them was not done in Despight of him and they shall humbly pray his Forgiveness and receive it with a good Will and shall restore all that was taken at Newcastle upon Tine or other where from Pier de Gaveston whatever it was viz. all his Jewels Horses and other things whatever they were c. 2. The Second Article contains the Statute for the Security of the Earls and Barons their Adherents and Allies which was to have been passed in the next Parlement to be holden on the Third Sunday in Lent with this Title 9 Old Statutes printed A. D. 1540. Ne quis occasionetur pro Morte Petri de Gaveston That no Man be prosecuted for the Death of Peter Gaveston and further That the King should Release and Quit the Earls Barons their Adherents Friends and Allies all Rancor Displeasure Actions Obligations Complaints and Accusations which arose by the Occasion of Peter Gaveston since he married his Dear Companion Isabel Queen of England whether it were for the Taking Detaining or Death of him or the Seizing any Town or Castle or Besieging of them or for bearing Arms or imprisoning any Persons 3. Also it was agreed That if this Security pleased the Earls and Barons and that they would not come to Parlement in their proper Persons they should send their Proxeys with sufficient Power to receive and consent to that Security and also with sufficient Power to consent to a Security to be made in that Parlement for the Adherents to and Receivers of Peter Gaveston which security was treated of and agreed and there recited being the same with the 1 Ibm. Statute having this Title Ne quis occasionetur pro Reditu Petri de Gaveston That no Man be prosecuted for the Return of Peter de Gaveston 4. Also the Treaters agree That in the next Parlement there should be Provision made by the common Assent of the Prelates Earls and Barons that in all Parlements Treaties and other Assemblies in England from that time forward for ever Men should come without Force and without Arms peaceably to the Honour of the King and the Peace of him and the Realm and the three Treaters promised to use their utmost Endeavour with the Earls of Lancaster and Warwick by themselves or Poxey's to consent to this Provision And further it was ordered That no Business should be propounded in this Parlement but the Security's and this Provision nor any come with Arms before the Submission was made which was certainly Done or the Acts of Security had never passed and then they might Treat of other Parlement Matters as there might be occasion 5. Also the Treaters promised That after this Reconciliation was made they would do what in them lay with their whole Endeavour with their Peers That the King should have an agreeable Aid of the whole Realm for his War with Scotland 6. Also the three Treaters complained That the King since the Conduct given for this Treaty to the Lords and their Adherents had caused the Lands and Goods of Monsieur Griffin de la Pole to be seized and also of Monsieur Fouk Lestrange There were to be two Justices not suspected of Partiality appointed by the King to Examine the Matter and do them right 7. Also that the Goods of Monsieur Henry de Percy which were seized by the King be restored by Pledges or Sureties until the next Parlement 8. Also it was agreed on behalf of the King That all Men might safely Pass and Repass through the Kingdom of England or elsewhere for the Dispatch of their Business under his Protection they doing or receiving no Wrong This Conduct and Security to continue until Pentecost next coming and of this the King to grant Letters under the Great Seal To the Earls Barons and their Adherents The Collation of this Indenture was Made and Read in the Year of Grace 1312. on the Wednesday next before Christmas in the Cardinal's Chamber at London in the Presence of the Cardinal the Bishop of Poicters the Bishop of Worcester the Earl of Pembroke and many others In Witness whereof one Part of the Indenture remained with the King and the other Part was given to Master John Waleweyn and Michael de Meldon to be carried to the Earls and Barons The two Securities mentioned in this Treaty were not passed into Statutes as was agreed in the Second Article in the Parlement summoned on the 20th of January in the Sixth of this King to meet on the Third Sunday in Lent nor in the next summoned on the 23d of May next following to meet Fifteen days after the Nativity of St. John Baptist but in that which was A. D. 1313. summoned on the 26th of July in the Seventh of his Reign to meet on Sunday next after the Feast of St. Mathew the Apostle as may be seen in the Old Statutes Printed 1540. Robert Winchelsey Archbishop of Canterbury lived to see the Articles Robert Winchelsey A Bishop of Canterbury dies of this Treaty finished but Dying on the 2 Histor Sacra f. 17. By whose Persuasion the E. of Lancaster opposed the King 11th of May preceding lived not to the passing of these Statutes by whose Persuasion and Encouragement the Earl of Lancaster and Adherents opposed the King in his Folly 3 Ran. Higden Lib. 7. Cap. 41. Thomas Lancastriae ipsius Roberti speaking of this Archbishop animatus hortatu cum sibi adherentibus per plures annos conatus est Regiis obsistere ineptiis The great Opinion the Earl had of this Archbishop or thinking it a great Advantage for a Miracle-worker and Saint to have been a Patron of the Cause he wrote to the 4 Append. N. 59. The Earl of Lancaster wrote to the Prior and Convent of Canterbury for a Particular of the Miracles wrought by Winchelsey Prior and Convent of Canterbury praying them as he had done before to give Testimony some notorious Way and by their Letters Patents what Miracles God had wrought by Robert Archbishop of Canterbury that last was and what he had wrought as well in his Life-time as after his Death and to inform him of the Miracles which were hanged up in writing before his Tomb. Taking advantage of these Dissentions and Controversies in England Robert Brus 5 Buchan Hist f. 80. b. A. D. 1313. Robert Bruce taking advantage of the Dissentions in England reduceth a great Part of Scotland to his Obedience reduced the most Part
such as had been cast out of it for their Wickedness were sought up for Witnesses and Informers They also protest and declare it to be notorious That what the Brethren of the Temple had said or should say while in Prison ought not to prejudice the Order and that they were corrupted and compelled by Promises Money or fear of Torments and Contumelies they had seen others suffer whereas the false Brethren had great Promises made them and lived splendidly To prove these things they desire they might be in their former Liberty and might appear in the General Council and that those that could not come might appoint their Proctors These and many things more are contained in their Reasons Arguments and Articles of Defence which were delivered in Writing and due Form of Law to the Pope's Commissioners as may be seen in the Instruments themselves before cited in the Margin The Pope by his 5 â—pelm Concil vol. 2. f. 458. Labbei Concil Tom. 11. Part. 2. col 1539. A. D. 1308. Bull dated at Poicters on the 2d of the Ides or 12th of August in the 3d of his Pontificate A. D. 1308. had Summoned a General Council to meet at Vienne in Dauphin on the Calends or first of October two Years after the same Calends then next coming and from that time by a second Bull 6 Labbei ib. col 1554. Dated at Avenion on the 12th of the Calends of December or 22d of November in the 6th of his Pontificate A. D. 1310. he Prorogued the Meeting of the same Council to the Calends of October then next coming A. D. 1311. A. D. 1311. â— On the 11th of the Calends of April or the 22d of March next Ibm. Labbe col 1569. following on Thursday in the Week before Easter the Pope called a private Consistory of Cardinals and Prelates wherein he made void and utterly annulled the Order of Templars and on the 3d of April next coming A. D. 1312. the second Session of this Council began in which by Approbation of the Council the Pope published the Cassation as above Philip King of France being present with his Brother Charles of Valois and his three Sons The Bull by which this whole Order was dissolved hath this Title 7 Ibm. col 1557. Sententia de extinctione Templariorum a Clemente Papa V. lata in Concilio Viennensi The Sentence of Extinction of the Templars made by Pope Clement V. in the Council of Vienne Dated there on the 6th of the Nones or 2d of May 1312. an Exemplification whereof is to be found in the 8 â—ot Claus 7 Ed. II. M. 11. Dors Tower of London in which 't is said the Pope dissolved the Order non sine Cordis amaritudine dolore not without Grief and Bitterness of Heart for their unheard-of Wickedness and Obscenity which for the Filthiness of it could not be inserted in the Bull. Yet it was not done by definitive Sentence which could not of right be given upon the Inquisition and Process had against them but by way of Provision or Apostolick Ordinance 9 Labbe ib. D. E. Non per modum definitivae Sententiae cum eam super hoc secundum Inquisitiones Processus super his habitos non possemus ferre de jure sed per viam Provisionis seu Ordinationis Apostolicae by irrefragable Sanction to endure for ever by Apostolick Authority reserving all the Goods which in the Civilians and Canonists Sense are both Moveable and Immoveable to the Ordering and Disposal of the Apostolical See and then annexed them for ever to the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem That the Templars were taken and imprisoned in England and their Goods as well Moveable as Immoveable seized in the same manner as in France hath been shewn before That also they were here Examined as there appears by the Instrument or Commission and Records here cited The Pope by his Bull or Commission Dated at Poicters the 12th of August 1309. appoints the Patriarch of Jerusalem the Arch-Bishop of York the Bishops of Lincoln Chichester and Orleans the Abbats of Lotyngiac in the Diocese of Paris and St. Germans in the Meadows near Paris Richard de Vaux Cannon of Narbon his Chaplain and Hearer of Causes in his Palace and Guido de Vich Rector of Hoshe in the Diocese of London to be Inquisitors into and Examiners of the Crimes of the Templars 1 Claus 3 Ed II. M. 21. Dors in the 3d of Edw. II. it was agreed Aâ—cordez est que tous les Templars Dengleterre that all the Templars of England should be brought to three Places London and Lincoln in the Province of Canterbury and those in the Province of York to that City to be examined by the Inquisitors and Examiners assigned by the Pope and by the Ordinaries or Bishops of the Diocese where they were and that the Inquisitors and Ordinaries should repair thither and the King commanded such as had the keeping of the Templars to carry them before them as often as they should be required and in the 4th of his Reign granted safe 2 Rot. Pat. 4 Ed. II. Part 1. M. 10. Conduct to the Pope's Inquisitors or Nuncio's the Abbat of Lotyngiac and Richard or as in the Record Sicard de Vaux with others to go to Places aforesaid and enquire upon the Articles sent by the Pope against the Order of the Templars and all and singular Persons of it What was proved against the English Templars before these Inquisitors 3 Col. 1â—30 n. 10 20 30. I have not seen Recorded 5 Thomas Stubbs in the Acts of William Greenfield then Arch-Bishop of York gives this very short Account of it That at London and York before the Arch-Bishop and Bishop of those Cities the Templars were solemnly examined by the Pope's appointment upon the Articles framed against them to which they gave competent and agreeable Answers and though they were accused in many things yet nothing was found for which the Order might seem justly to be disannulled This Arch-Bishop was in the Council and much Honoured by the Pope and when the Order was dissolved Pietate motus moved with Piety about the Condition of the Templars in his Diocese distributed them into Monasteries and commanded they should be provided for during Life Walsingham in his History likewise 4 Fol. 99. n. 10 20 30 40. makes a short Report of the whole Story and tells us That Philip King of France thought to make one of his Sons King of Jerusalem and to obtain for him all the Rents and Revenues of the Templars and upon this occasion caused many of them and the Great Master of the Order to be burnt in his Kingdom and procured the whole Order to be made null in the Council of Vienne But he missed of his Purpose and the Pope not without a great Sum of Money non sine magnae pecuniae interventu gave them to the Hospitalers About this time there had been
Hugh Robert and Edmond Earl of Arundel did counsel him were it never so great Wrong During which Vsurpation by Duresse and Force against the Will of the Commons they purchased Lands as well by Fines levied in the Court of the said King Edward as otherwise And whereas after the death of the said Earl of Lancaster and of other Great Men our Sovereign Lord the King that now is and Dame Isabel Queen of England his Mother by the King's Will and Common Counsel of the Realm went over into France to Treat a Peace between the Two Realms of England and France upon certain Debates then moved the said Hugh and Hugh Robert and Edmond Earl of Arundel continuing their Mischief encouraged the said King Edward against our Sovereign Lord the King that now is his Son and the said Queen his Wife and by the Royal Power which they had to them encroached as afore is said procured so much Grievance by the Assent of the said King Edward to our Sovereign Lord the King that now is and the Queen his Mother then being beyond Sea that they remained as forsaken of the said King Edward and as exiled from this Realm of England Wherefore it was necessary for our Sovereign Lord the King that now is and the Queen his Mother being in so great Jeopardy of themselves in a strange Country and seeing the Destruction Damage Oppressions and Disherisons which were notoriously done in the Realm of England upon Holy Church Prelates Earls Barons and other Great Men and the Communalty by the said Hugh and Hugh and Robert Earl of Arundel by the encroaching of such Royal Power to them to take as good Counsel therein as they might And seeing they might not remedy the same unless they came into England with an Army of Men of War and by the Grace of God with such Puissance and with the help of Great Men and the Commons of the Realm they have vanquished and destroyed the said Hugh and Hugh Robert and Edmond Wherefore our Sovereign Lord King Edward that now is at his Parlement holden at Westminster at the time of his Coronation on the morrow after Candlemas in the First Year of his Reign upon certain Petitions and Requests made to him in the said Parlement upon such Articles above rehearsed by the Common Counsel of the Prelates Earls Barons and other Great Men and by the Communalty of the Realm there being by his Commandment hath Provided Ordained and Established in Form following First That no Great Man nor other of what Estate Dignity or Condition he be that came with the said King that now is and with the Queen his Mother into the Realm of England nor none other then dwelling in England that came with the said King that now is and the Queen in Aid of them to pursue their said Enemies in which Pursuit the King his Father was taken and put in Ward and yet remaineth in Ward shall not be Impeached Molested nor Grieved in Person nor in Goods in the King's Court nor other Court for the Pursuit of the said King taking and with-holding of his Body nor Pursuit of any other nor taking of their Persons Goods nor Death of any Man or any other things perpetrate or committed in the said Pursuit from the Day that the said King and Queen did arrive till the Day of the Coronation of the same King What follows in this Statute is not much to our purpose Those concerned in the Conspiracy against and Design upon the King thought them well covered by this Preamble and themselves well secured by this First Chapter After the end of this Parlement there were 3 Rot. Claus 1 Ed. III. M. 16. Dors The Scots refuse to treat of a Peace They break the Truce with England Commissioners sent to the Borders of Scotland to Treat of Peace but the Scots refused to Treat with them and not only so but brake the Truce which had been made with King Edward II. raised an Army and invaded England 4 Wals f. 127. n. 40. They make their escape from Stanhop-Park The Young King and his Mother raised an Army and with the Stipendiary Strangers marched against them and had almost inclosed them in Stanhop-Park in the Bishoprick of Durham yet in the Night they escaped and got into their own Country but threatned to return again Wherefore for the Defence of the Kingdom and other Matters there was a Parlement called to meet on the morrow of Holy Cross or 15th of September at Lincoln The 5 Rot. Claus ut supra Writ in which most of this Relation is contained bears Date at Stanhop Aug. 7. The English and Haynalters quarrel In their March towards the Scots the Haynalters Domineering over the English they Quarrelled at York where many were killed and the most English whether for fear of the English or 6 Knighton col 2551. n. 50. Wals ut supra The Haynalters c leave England for what other Reason the Haynalters and other Foreigners 7 Ibm. c. 2552. n. 40. left England not long after well Rewarded with Gold and Silver by the Queen and Mortimer and others of their Faction What was done in this Parlement I find not This Year there was another 8 Rot. Claus 1 Ed. III. M. 3. Dors Summoned to meet at York on the next Sunday after the Purification of the Virgin Mary to Treat of certain Articles propounded and declared between the Two Nations at Newcastle but nothing was done at this Parlement the Bishops and other Great Men not appearing and therefore as is expressed in the Writ 9 Rot. Claus 2 Ed. III. M. 31. Dors A Parlement at Northampton Dated March 5. next following he called another Parlement to meet three Weeks after Easter at Northampton In this Parlement 1 In A. D. 1327. A shameful Peace made with the Scots says Murymuth and Walsingham from him facta fuit turpis Pax inter Anglos Scotos there was made a shameful Peace between the English and Scots by the Direction and Contrivance of the Queen and Roger Mortimer by which David Son and Heir to Robert Brus King of Scotland was to Marry Joan King Edward ' s Sister both Children And he was also to release all his Right and Claim of Superiority that he and his Progenitors had in the Kingdom of Scotland and to deliver up all Charters and Instruments concerning the same Some great Matters having hapned after this Parlement that required great Advice there was a 2 Rot. Claus Ed. III. M. 15. Dors A Parlement at Salisbury Writ issued Aug. 28. for another to meet at Salisbury on the Sunday next after the Quinden of St. Michael In this Parlement 3 Wals f. 129. n. 10. Three new Earls made in this Parlement there were made 3 Wals f. 129. n. 10. Three new Earls made in this Parlement three Earls Iohn of Eitham the King's Brother Earl of Cornwal Roger Mortimer Earl
and zour own Writing upon which ze made and ordeyned zour Procurators the Ersbysshopp of Zork and the Bysshopp of Hereford for to notifie and declare in zour Name thes Renunciacion and Cession at Westmynstre to all the Stotes and all the People that was ther gadyrd bycause of the Sommons forsayd the whiche was done zesterday by thes Lordes zour Procuratours and wele herde and understonden thes Renunciation and Cession were pleinelich and frelich accepted and fullich agreed by all the States and People forsayd And over this Sire at the instance of all thes States and People there were certain Articles of Defauts in zour Governance redde there and though we le herd and pleinelich understonden to all the States forsayd hem thoght hem so trewe and so notoric and knowen that by the Causes and by mo other os thej sayd and having consideration to zour owne Wordes in zour own Renunciacion and Cession that ze were not worthy no sufficient ne able for to Govern for zour owne Demerites os it is more pleinerlich contened therein hem thoght that wos reasonable und cause for to Depose zowe and her Commissaries that her made and ordeined os it is of Record ther declared and decreed and adjudged zowe for to be Deposed and Pryved and in dede Deposed zowe and Pryved zowe of the Astate of Kyng and of the Lordeship contened in the Renunciacion and Cession forsayd and of all the Dignity and Wyrsshipp and of all the Administration that longed therto And we Procuratours to all these States and People foresayd os we be charged by hem and by hir Auctorite gyffen us and in her Name zelde zowe uppe for all the States and People soresayd Homage Liege and Feaute and all Legeance and all other Bondes Charges and Services that longe therto And that non of all thes States and People fro this tyme forward ne bere zowe Feyth ne do zowe Obeysance os to thar Kyng And he answered and seyd That he loked not therafter but he seyd That after all this he hoped that is Cosyn wolde be good Lord to hym And further to compleat his Design on the 1 Rot. Claus 1 Hen. IV. part 1. M. 37. Dors Summons of Parlement 30th of September he by Information of the Arch-Bishop That by the Acceptation of the Renunciation of King Richard his Cession and Deposition this Parlement was determined issued in his own Name Writs to the Lords and for Elections of Members Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons to meet on Monday next following being the Day of St. Faith and all this to be done and Returns made in six Days time So as these were the same Members who had been Summoned by King Richard to meet on the morrow of St. Michael as appears beyond Contradiction from the Writs 2 Append. n. 114. for their Expences which were Dated on the 19th of November the last Day of the Parlement and they were allowed their Expences for Fifty one Days besides the time of coming to and returning from Parlement in which Fifty one Days was included the 30th of September and all the Days between that and St. Faith's Day the 6th of October to make up the Number In this Parlement 3 Rot. Parl. 1 Hen. 4 n. 1. Pronunciation du Parlement or Declaration of cause of Summons The Cause of Summons Summoned and Holden at Westminster by King Henry IV. on Monday the Day of St. Faith which was the 6th of October in the first Year of his Reign sitting on his Royal Seat in the Great Hall at Westminster in the Presence of him and all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons and many other Gentlemen and Commons in great Number Thomas de Arundel Arch-Bishop of Canterbury declared the Cause of Summons and rehearsed how on Tuesday last past on the morrow of St. Michael King Richard II. after the Conquest summoned his Parlement to be then holden which Summons was of no force or effect by reason of the Acceptation of the Renunciation made by King Richard and the Deposing of him as without doubt he had informed King Henry before he issued his Writs for this Parlement And then proceeds That on the same Tuesday 4 Ibm. n. 2. in Presence of King Henry the Lords Spiritual Temporal and Commons he shewed that this Honourable Kingdom of England being the most abounding Angle with Riches had been a long time Governed by Children and the Counsels of young People so as the Kingdom was in point of Perdition and great Desolation and Mischief mightily to be lamented if it had not been that Almighty God of his Great Grace and Mercy had sent a Knowing and Discreet Man for the Government of the Nation who by the Aid of God will be Governed and Counselled by the Sages and Ancients of his Kingdom for the Aid and Comfort of himself and the whole People And said further That Men ought especially to consider how this Honourable Kingdom could so long continue under such mischievous Government Waste and Destruction which if it had been under Good and Just Government by Sage and Sufficient Counsel as it ought of Right it would have been in Riches Goods and other Advantages the most considerable of any Kingdom in the World 5 Ibm. n. 3. Et sur ceo mesme Lercevesque prist pur son Theame le Parole de Machabeorum primo in disent Incumbit nobis ordinare pro Regno And then the Arch-Bishop took for his Theme the Words in the first of Machabees saying Incumbit nobis ordinare pro Regno 1 Mac. Chap. 6. Vers 57. They are the last Words of a very long Verse and nothing to his Purpose nor what went before or what follows after The English Version is thus The Affairs of the Realm depend upon us But to go on with his Harangue Incumbit nobis ordinare pro Regno cest a dire c. That is to say It is the King's Will to be Counselled and Governed by the Honourable Sages and Discreet Persons of his Kingdom and by their Common Counsel and Assent do the best for the Government of himself and his Realm not desiring to be Governed by his own Will voluntary Purpose or singular Opinion but by Common Advice Counsel and Assent as abovesaid And the same Archbishop said further mesme Lercevesque dit outre There was not such a Kingdom in the World that could live without the Assistance of other Kingdoms so Honourably so Graciously and so Fully si honourablement ne graciousment ne plentiousment as might the Honourable Kingdom of England which God keep safe and maintain 6 Ib. n. 4. And upon this he alledged certain Authority saying Quod inter omnia regna hoc principatum tenet Of all Kingdoms this is the chief and shewed That to the Government of every Kingdom Three things especially were required that is to say Justice The Observation of the Laws And that every Person should rule
Grey Justiciary of Chester to give notice to all those in their several Bailiwicks or Counties that had 20 l. per Annum or above as well within Liberties as without whether they held of him in Capite or not to provide themselves with Horse and Arms and to be ready to go with his own Person for the Defence of themselves and whole Kingdom whensoever he should send for them Witness the King at Plympton the 5th day of May in the 25th of his Reign On the 15th of May for the Dangers and Perils that might happen to him and his Kingdom by the Treachery of his Enemies reciting the former Warrant and having appointed the time of his passage beyond Sea he 2 Append. n. 27. Of whomsoever they hold to pass with his Body beyond Sea commanded all the Sheriffs of England and Reginald de Grey to summon all that had 20 l. per Annum of whomsoever they should hold the same to be with him at London provided with Horse and Arms as they ought to be on Sunday next after the Octaves or Eight days after St. John Baptist to pass with his Body beyond Sea to the Honour of God of himself and their selves for the safety and common Profit of the Kingdom Witness the King at Loders in Dorsetshire the 15th of May in the 25th of his Reign At the same time he sent his 3 Ibm. He summons his whole Military Service to go with him Warrants to the same Persons to summon the Arch-Bishops Bishops Abbats Priors and other Ecclesiastick Persons and also Widows and other Women within their Counties that held of him in Capite by Military Service or Serjanty or of Wards in his Hand or Tuition to be at the same time and place with their whole Service of Horse and Arms to pass with his Body c. Witness as above Then also he wrote 4 Ibm. And writes to all the Earls Barons and Bishops particularly to be ready to Edmund Earl of Cornwall reciting his first Writ c. to be ready with Horse and Arms at the same time and place to pass with his Body c. Witness as above In like manner he wrote to Roger le Bygod Earl of Norff and Marshall of England To Humfry Bohun Earl of Hereford and Essex Constable of England To William Beauchamp Earl of Warwick Richard Fitz-Alan Earl of Arundel Robert de Ver Earl of Oxford John de Warena Earl of Surry Gilbert de Hunfranvil Earl of Anegos and 122 Barons and great Men there named And after the same manner he wrote to all the Bishops particularly On the 24th of this month the King wrote 5 Ibm. n. 28. again to all the Sheriffs of England and Reginald de Grey Justiciary of Chester to The Sheriffs to certifie all that had 20 l. per Annum in their Counties Execute his former Writ of Summons and to certifie under their Seals the Names of all such as had 20 l. per Annum or above of whomsoever they held it in their Bailiwicks or Counties Witness the King at Portsmouth the 24th of May in the 25th of his Reign While the King was thus preparing for his Voyage 6 Walsingh f. 70. N. 10 20 30 40. The Scots arm under William Waleys their Leader Kill the English the Scots by the Instigation of William Waleys whom they chose their Leader in this Month of May upon the King 's Justitiary William de Ormesby's Banishing many of them that refused to do Homage and Fealty to King Edward armed themselves and Killed all the English they met with practising strange Cruelties upon them which he having notice of laying to Heart the Affliction of his Friends in Flanders for want of his Assistance directed The Earl of Surry sent to Suppressthem He sent Henry de Percy William Waren Earl of Surrey with the Militia beyond Trent to march into Scotland to suppress this Insurrection The Earl raising an Army in the North Parts sent his Nephew Henry de Percy with it into Scotland who marching toward the Scots found the Heads of them the Bishop of Glascow the Steward of Scotland Andrew de Mornia and William Walleys inclineable to Peace upon Condition of the Safety of their Lives and Limbs Lands and Goods so as all things might be Pardoned to that time Henry Who accepts from them Terms of Peace de Percy admitted the Peace upon promise of Hostages and Articles in Writing if it should please the King who made acquainted with the Terms Consented to it that his Voyage might not be hindered When the Earl of Surrey went into Scotland to see the Performance of these things the Scots shifted from time to time delaying to deliver Hostages whereupon the Bishop of Glascow and William Douglas lest they might be thought Traytors yielded themselves the Bishop was secured in Roxburgh Castle and Douglas in Berwick In order to the King's Voyage into Flanders as hath been noted before the Militia was Summoned to meet at London on the Sunday after the Octaves of St. John Baptist which are July the First Mat. Westminster 7 Fol. 430. N. 20 30 40. A. D. 1297. The Earls of Norfolk and Hereford Constable and Marshal refuse to do their Duty and Service says They were summoned to meet on the Morrow of the Translation of Thomas the Martyr i. e. Becket which is July the 8th and may agree with the Record if the First of July that year fell on a Sunday when the Earls of Norfolk and Hereford the Marshal and Constable being Required by the King Refused to do their Duty and Request him to appoint some other of his Houshold to that Service and retired and on the 25th of July 8 he wrote again to all his Ports to send 8 Claus 25. E. 1. M. 9. Dors their Ships to Winchelsey with what speed they could The King no doubt in hopes of a perfect Reconciliation before he went over Sea 9 Append. N. 16. The King restores to the Archbishop of Canterbury all his Lands and Goods wrote to the Sheriffs of Kent Surrey Middlesex Sussex and Essex upon the earnest Request and Mediation of the Prelates of that Province and out of Special favour to Restore to the Archbishop of Canterbury all his Lay-Fees together with his Oxen Carts or Waggons and all other his Goods and Chattels being upon the same in the state they were then in Witness the King at Westminster July the 11th in the 25th of his Reign And that he might extend his further favour to all the Clergy that had submitted and were reconciled he gave a general Protection to them that had not received it before and 1 Ibm. N. 30. He grants a General Protection to all the Clergy wrote to the Sheriffs of London and others at the Request and Prayer of the Archbishop of Canterbury and other Bishops and Prelates of his Kingdom Supplicating him in behalf of the Clergy That they should Maintain Protect
the King and his Kingdom After this 5 Ibm. col 2705. n. 10 20 30. Many sent to Prison Others removed from Court the King commanded many there named to be sent to the Castles of Nottingham Dover Bristol Rochester Glocester c. to be kept until next Parlement to answer their Demerits There were also then Removed from the Court John de Fordham Bishop of Durham the Lords Beaumont Zouch Burnel and Lovell Sir Thomas Camoys the Son of the Lord Clifford Sir Baldwin Bereford the Bishop of Chichester the King's Confessor the Lady Mohun the Lady Poynings and the Lady Molineux 6 Ibm. col 2706. n. 10. The Judges taken off the Benches and sent to the Tower And on the first Day of the Parlement Sir Roger Fulthrop Sir Robert Belknap Sir John Cary Sir John Holt Sir William Burgh all Judges and John Loketon Serjeant at Law were taken off the Benches doing their Offices and sent to the Tower On the 17th of 7 Claus 11 Ric. II. M. 24. Dors A Parlement called The Cause of Summons Decemb. Writs were issued for a Parlement to meet on the 3d of February or on the morrow of the Purification of the Virgin Mary next coming On that Day Thomas Fitz-Alan Bishop of Ely and Chancellor of England Brother to the Earl of Arundel from whence his Name of de Arundel from that Title declared the cause of Summons to be 8 Rot. Parl. 11 Ric. II. n. 1. part 1. To consider by what means the Troubles in the Kingdom for want of good Government might be ended the King better Advised the Realm better Governed Misdemeanours more severely punished and good Men better encouraged how the Kingdom best defended the Sea best kept the Marches of Scotland best guarded Guyen preserved and how the Charges of these things was most easily to be born And then gave notice That who would complain in that Parlement of such things as could not well be redressed by the Common Law might carry their Petitions to the Clercs in Chancery there named appointed to receive them Thomas Duke of Glocester 9 Ibm. n. 6. The Duke of Glocester's suspicion of himself The King declares him not guilty kneeled before the King and said he understood the King had been informed that he was about to depose him and make himself King and profered to stand to the Award of his Peers in Parlement The King declared openly That he did not think him Guilty and had him fully excused The Lords Spiritual and Temporal then present * Ibm. n. 7. claimed as their Liberty and Franchise That all great Matters moved in that Parlement and to be moved in other Parlements in time to come touching Peers of the Land should be discussed and judged by the course of Parlement and not by the Law Civil or the Common Law of the Land used in lower Courts of the Kingdom Which Claim Liberty and Franchise the King benignement kindly allowed and granted in full Parlement The Five 1 Ibm. n. 8. The Protestation of the 5 Lords Appellants Lords Appellants Thomas Duke of Glocester Henry Earl of Derby Richard Earl of Arundel Thomas Earl of Warwic and Thomas Earl of Nottingham and Earl-Marshal made open Protestation in full Parlement That what they did touching their Appeal and Suit in that Parlement and had done before and all the Men and People being in their Company or of their Retinue or Assembly and with them in all that Affair was done principally to the Honour of God and in Aid and Safety of the King and all his Kingdom and the Safety of their Lives The Lords and Commons 2 Ibm. n. 11. Half a 10th and half a 15th granted granted half a Tenth and half a Fifteenth before the Parlement ended with Protestation That it was done of Necessity and that it might be no Prejudice to the Lords and Commons in time to come because it was granted And further they pray the King That notwithstanding the Grant so made the Parlement might hold on its course and be Adjourned if need were and that all things touching the said Parlement might be done and executed as if the Grant had not been made until the end of the Parlement in manner accustomed And the King granted their Request as a thing he ought to do of Reason Friday the 21st of March which was the 46th Day of Parlement 3 Ibm. n. 12. in fine The Prelates Lords and Commons swear the Prelates Lords and Commons made the Oath following upon the Cross of Canterbury in full Parlement Tou shall 4 Append. n. 106. Their Oath Swear That you will keep and cause to be kept the good Peace Quiet and Tranquillity of the Kingdom And if any will do to the contrary thereof you shall oppose and disturb him to the utmost of your Power And if any People will do any thing against the Bodies of the Persons of the Five Lords that is to say Thomas Duke of Glocester Henry Earl of Derby Richard Earl of Arundel and Surrey Thomas Earl of Warwic and Thomas Earl-Marshal or any of them you shall stand with them to the end of this present Parlement and maintain and support them with all your Power to live and die with them against all Men no Person or any other thing excepted saving always your Legiance to the King and the Prerogative of his Crown the Laws and good Customs of the Kingdom The Lords and Commons grant to the King in Defence of the The Subsidy of Leather Wooll c. Realm a Subsidy upon Leather Wooll and Woollfells 5 Rot. Parl. 117 Ric. II. n. 16. granted upon condition upon Condition the Five Lords Appellants should have out of it 20000 l. by Assent and Grant of the King for their Costs and Labour and Expences before that time for the Honour Profit and Safety of the King and whole Kingdom The Commons 6 Ib. n. 23. The Commons Request to the King pray That no Person of what Estate soever do intermeddle with the Business of the Kingdom nor the Council of the King but those assigned in his Parlement unless it be by Order of the Continual Council And prayed also That they might have Power to remove all Persons from the King which they thought fit to remove and put others in their Places As to the first Point of this Article 7 Ibm. Ro. His Answer le Roy le voet the King granteth it As to the second if any Lord of the Council or other Lord of the Kingdom will inform the King that he had about him any Person not Sufficient or Honest he willeth That if it be proved he shall be put away and removed and another Sufficient by Advice of himself put in his Place In this 8 Ib. part 2. Alexander A Bp. of York the Duke of Ireland and Earl of Suffolk accused Parlement Thomas Duke of Glocester Constable of England Henry Earl of Derby
Richard Earl of Arundel and Surrey Thomas Earl of Warwic and Thomas Earl-Marshal did accuse and appeal Alexander Arch-Bishop of York Robert de Vere Duke of Ireland and Michael de la Pole Earl of Suffolk saying I. That as False Traitors and Enemies to the King and Kingdom taking Advantage of his tender Age and the Innocency of his Person informed him and put upon him for Truth false things of their own Invention against Loyalty and Good Faith and made him entirely their own so as they had his Love firm Faith and Credit while he hated his Loyal Lords and Lieges by whom he ought to have been Governed And encroaching to themselves Royal Power in Disfranchising the King en Defranchisantz nostre dit Seigneur le Roy blemishing his Sovereignty and lessening his Prerogative and Royalty and made him so Obedient as he was Sworn to be Governed Counselled and Conducted by them by virtue of which Oath they kept him in Obedience to their false Imaginations and mischievous Deeds contained in the following Articles II. Also whereas the King is not bound to make any Oath but on the Day of his Coronation or for the Common Profit of himself and Kingdom the aforesaid Alexander Robert and Michael False Traitors and Enemies to the King and Realm made him Swear and Assure them That he would Maintain Support and Live and Die with them And also whereas the King ought to be of more free Condition than any other of his Kingdom they have put him more in Servitude than any one against his Honour Estate and Royalty against their Legiance as Traitors to him III. Also the said Robert Michael and Alexander by the Assent and Counsel of Robert Tresilian false Justice and Nicholas de Brembre false Knight of London by their false Contrivance would not suffer the Great Men of the Kingdom nor good Counsellors to come near the King nor would suffer him to speak with him unless in their Presence and Hearing accroaching to themselves Royal Power Lordship and Soveraignty upon the Person of the King to the great Dishonour and Peril of the King the Crown and his Realm IV. Also the said Alexander Robert Michael Robert Tresilian false Justice and Nicholas de Brembre false Knight of London by their false Wickedness evilly advised the King so as his appearance he ought to make to the Great Lords and his People Liege and the Favours and Right to which they requested his Answer were not to be obtained but at their Pleasure and Allowance in staying the King from his Duty and against his Oath and turning the Hearts of the Great Lords from him with Design to estrange his Heart from the Peers of the Land to have amongst them the sole Government of the Kingdom V. Also by the said Encroachment of Robert de Vere Duke of Ireland and Michael de la Pole by the Advice and Counsel of Alexander Arch-Bishop of York caused the King without Assent of the Kingdom by their Abetments without any Deserts of the Persons to give divers Lordships Castles Towns and Mannors as well annexed to his Crown as others as the Land of Ireland the Town of Okeham and the Forest thereof and other Lands which were the Lord Audley's and other great Estates to the said Robert de Vere and others whereby they are greatly enriched and the King become poor and had not wherewith to support and bear the Charges of the Kingdom unless by Impositions Taxes and Tributes put upon his People in Disheriting his Crown and undoing the Realm VI. Also by the Encroachment of the said Alexander Robert and Michael by the Assent and Advice of Robert Tresilian false Justice and Nicholas Brembre false Knight of London caused the King to give divers Lands Mannors Tenements Reâ—â—â— Offices and Bailiwics to People of their Kinred and other Persons of whom they received great Bribes and also to make them of their Party in their false Quarrels and Purposes as in the Case of Robert Manfield Clerc John Blake Thomas Vske and others to the undoing of the King and Kingdom VII Also Robert de Vere c. Michael de la Pole c. Alexander Arch-Bishop c. by Assent and Counsel of Nicholas Brembre c. encroaching to themselves Royal Power caused the King to give very great Sums of Gold and Silver as well of his own Goods and Jewels as the Treasure of the Kingdom as Tenths Fifteenths and other Taxes granted by divers Parlements to be expended in Defence and Safeguard of the Kingdom and otherwise which amounted to the Sum of 100000 Marks and more to Robert Vere Duke of Ireland and others And further they caused many good Ordinances and Purposes made and ordained in Parlements as well for the Wars as Defence of the Kingdom to be interrupted to the great Injury of the King and Kingdom VIII Also by the said Encroachment and by great Bribes taken by the said Robert Michael and Alexander divers Persons not sufficient or fit had the Guard and Government of divers Lordships Castles and Countries of War as in Guyen and otherwhere as well on this side as beyond the Sea whereby the People and Countries of those Parts Liege and Loyal to the King for the greater Part were destroyed and great Dominions of late rendred into the hands and possession of the Enemy without Assent of the Realm which were never in the hands of the Enemy since the Conquest of them as in the Marches of Scotland and otherwhere in Disherison of the Crown and great Injury of the Realm as in the Case of Harpedene Craddock and others IX Also by the Encroachment of the foresaid Alexander Robert Michael Robert and Nicholas divers People have been hindred of the Benefit of the Common Law of England and put to great Delays Losses and Costs and Statutes Judgments justly made upon the necessary Causes in Parlement have been reversed and nulled by Procurement of the said Misdoers and Traitors and this by Reason of the great Bribes by them received to the greatest Injury of the King and Kingdom X. Also the Five aforesaid accroaching to them Royal Power as false Traitors to the King and Kingdom caused and counselled the King to grant Charters of Pardon for horrible Felonies and Treasons as well against the State of the King as of the Party against the Law and Oath of the King XI Also whereas the Great Lordship and Land of Ireland hath been beyond Memory Parcel of the Crown of England and the People thereof for all that time have been the King's Lieges without mean to him or his Royal Progenitors and our Lord and his Noble Progenitors King 's of England in all their Charters Writs Letters and Patents and also under their Seals in Augmentation of their Names and Royalty stiled themselves Lords of Ireland the foresaid Robert Duke of Ireland Alexander c. Michael c. as false Traitors to the King by the said Encroachment gave Advice that the King inasmuch as was in