appoynted the King and Earle Godwine should méete at London and thus departing for the time the King increasing his armie ledde the same to London and Godwine with his power came to Southwarke on the other side of the Riuer Thamis but there bycause his armie by little and little stipped from him he fledde and the King forthwith pronounced him with his fiue sonnes to be banished who straightwayes with his wife and two of his sonnes came to Thorney where his Shippe being laden with Golde Siluer and precious things he sayled towarde Flanders his other sonnes tooke Shippe at Bristow and sayled into Ireland In the next yeare Harold and Leofwine sonnes to Earle Godwine returning out of Ireland entred Seuerne arriued with many Shippes in Somerset and Dorsetshires spoyled many Townes in the Countrey slew many people and returned with pray then they sayle about Portesmouth c. Earle Godwine landed in Kent gathered a power sayled to the I le of Wight wasting along the Sea coastes till his sonnes Harold and Leofwine came with a Nauy which being come togither they take their course vp the Riuer of Thamis came to Southwarke and there stayed for the Tide and then weyed vp Anchor and finding none that offered to resist them on the Bridge they sayled vp by the South side of the Riuer and his armie by land placing it selfe vppon the banckes side made shew of a thicke and terrible battayle After this the Nauie turned toward the North shore as though it would haue compassed in the Kings Nauie but they that were with the King and with Godwine abhorred to fight againste their owne kindred and Countreymen wherefore a peace was made Godwine with his sonnes were restored to all former honor and the Normans were banished the land As William of Malmesbury writeth a certayne yong woman W. Malme Kings euill healed by the King being terribly diseased by reason of humors gathered about hir necke into great swelling kernels came to King Edward who with his right hand dipped in water handled hir necke and forthwith y e hardnesse did breake the wormes with the matter ranne out and all the noysome dwelling asswaged so that she was perfectly hole and faire skinned ere the wéeke were ended and they that knewe his life sayd he had oft cured this plague in Normandy This Edward raigned thrée and twentie yeres sixe monethes T. Rudborn and odde dayes He was buryed on the day of the Epiphanie in the Abbey of Saint Peeter in Westminster which he had newly builded In the same day Harold the eldest sonne of Godwine Earle of Kent and brother to Edgitha the Quéene hauing obteyned fayth of the nobilitie tooke the Crowne Leofrike Earle of Mercia and of Hereford founded the Monasterie of Couentrie in Anno 1044. He also granted great priuiledges to that Towne HArold that he might in some behalfe séeme to make the 1066 The yeare of our Lord beginneth heere at Christmas yong Edgar amendes for the wrong he had done him gaue him the Earledome of Oxford and so from a King he made him an Earle But in the meane season England began to be tossed and turmoyled with warres within and without for the disheriting of the right heire is alwayes wont to be the beginning of ciuill warres The 24. day of Aprill a Comete appeared not only to the people of this land but also in other parts of the world seauen dayes Toftus enuying as men said the prosperitie â—og Houed Simon Dâ—nel Gualter Couen of his brother stirred vp troubles in the Realme for he ioyning himselfe to Harold the King of Norway assaulted England in warlike sort both by sea and land Whose attempt whiles Harold of England prepared to withstand William Duke of Normandy who notwithstaÌ„ding he was a Bastard VVilliam Conquerour cousyn to King Edvvard by the mother side was of kinne to Saint Edward in the thirde and fourth degrée of consanguinitie séeing a conuenient time and occasion offered to take the Kingdome in gathered a Nauie of 896. Shippes and came into England with a very well appoynted armie alledging that by all right and title it was due to him by the gift of King Edward his kinsman and also by the couenant that was made and by othe established betwixt Harold and him He landed at Pemsey nine miles Gualter Couen from Hastings the 28. of September Harold notwithstanding he was bare of men by reason of the battel that he had fought against Toftus and the men of Norway yet hearing of Williams comming wente straightwayes againste him Both armies being broughte into aray the battell was fought wherin great slaughter of Englishmen was made and England conquered by vvoden bovves and arovves the Normans gote the victorie especially by meanes of their wodden bowes and arrowes which the Englishmen had not then in vse for Duke William commanded his men that Io. Rouse some of them should shoote directly forwarde and some vpward by reason whereof the arrow shot vpward destroyed the English as they stouped and the arrow shot directly afore hand wounded them that stoode vpright and King Harold himselfe valiantly fighting was shotte through the Harold slayne braynes whereof he dyed when he had raigned nine monethes and was buryed in the Priorie of Waltham which he Sigebertus Gemlaâ—en W. Gemiâ—â—censis Gualterus Couen Hen. Hunting Register of Wodbridge Chronicle of Normandy The description of the Saxons Mathew Paris W. Malme Flores HistoriaruÌ„ had founded This battell was fought at Hastings in Sussex vppon the fourtéenth day of October being Saterday in the yeare of oure Lord 1066. There was slayne of Englishmen 67974. and of Normans 6013. This was saith Mathew Paris the dolefull destruction of this swéete and pleasant land the Kings whereof meaning the Saxons at their firste comming with barbarous countenance and gesture in warlike sort prouoked all men to malice and hatred towards them who ouercame al men by warre and subtiltie but after they had receyued the Christian faith and by little and little applyed their diligence vnto Religion they neglected the exercise of armour for the Kings did change their habite and some at Rome and some in their owne Countrey sought to change their temporall Kingdomes for euerlasting Kingdomes and many which all their life time embraced worldly things did yet distribute their treasures vnto all the workes of mercy but afterwards when charitie waxed colde all their studie and trauaile of Religion slaked and then came the destruction of the inhabitants first at the comming of the Danes and now in the expulsing of the Englishmen by the Normans for the noble men giuing themselues to gluttonie and lecherie did not goe to the Church in the morning as Christian men vse to doe but lying in their Chambers dalying with Women did heare the Priest hastilie rattle vp diuine seruice The Clerkes also that had taken orders if one had learned but his Grammer euery one wondered at him All men generally gaue
Abel Awgers Angenoun Archer Asperuile Amonerduilâ— Arey Akeny Albeny Asperemound Bertram Buttecourt Brahus Byseg Bardelf Basset Bygot Bohun Baylife Bondeuile Barbason Beer Bures Carta W. Regâ— de S. Martin â—â— gâ—â—â—dâ— Bonylayne Barbayon Berners Braybuf Brand. Bonuile Burgh Busshy Blundell Breton Belaâ—yse Bowser Bayons Bulmere Broune Beke Bowlers Banastre Belomy Belknape Beauchamp Bandy Broyleby Burnel Belot Beufort Baudewine Burdon Berteuylay Barre Busseuile Blunt Beawper Bret. Barret Bainard Barnevale Barry Bodyt Berteuile Bertine Belew Bushell Beleners Buffard Boteler Boteuile Brasard Belhelme Braunche Bolesur Blundel Burdet Bagot Beawpount Bools Belefroun Barchampe Camos Canuille Chawent Chauncy Couderay Coluyle Chamberlaine Chambernoune Cribet Corbine Corbet Coniers Chaundos Coucy Chaworthâ— Claremaus Clarell Camuine Chaunduyt Claruays Chantilowe Colet Cressy Courtenay Constable Chaucer Cholmelay Corneuile Champeney Carew Chawnos Claruaile Champaine Carbonell Charles Chereberge Chawnes Chawmont Cheyne Cursen Conell Chayters Cheynes Cateray Cherecourt Chaunuile Clereney Curly Clyfford Denauile Dercy Dine Dispencer Daniel Denyse Druell Deuaus Dauers Doningsels Daâ—el Delabere De la Pole De la Lind. De la Hill De la Wate De la Watche Dakeny Dauntre Desnye Dabernoune Damry Daueros De la Vere De Lee. De la Warde De la Planch Danway De Hewse Disard Durant Drury Estrange Escutauile Escriols Engayne Euers Esturney Foluile Fitz Water Fitz marmaduk Filberd Fitz Roger. Fitz Robert Fanecourt Fitz Phillip Fitz William Fitz Paine Fitz Alyne Fitz Raufe Fitz Browne Foke Freuile Faconbrige Frissel Fâ—lioll Fitz Thomas Fitz Morice Fitz Hughe Fitz Warren Faunuille Formay Formiband Frison Finer Fitz vrcy Furniuall Fitz Herbert Fitchet Fitz Iohn Gargraue Graunson Gracy Glaunuile Gouer. Gascoyne Gray Golofer Grauns Gurly Gurdon Gamages Gaunt Hansard Hastings Haulay Husie Herne Hamelyn Harewell Hardel Heckâ—t Hamound Harecord Iarden Iay. Ianuile Iasparuile Karre Karron Kyriell Le Strange Leuony Latomere Loueday Logenton Leuel Le Scrope Lemare Litterilâ— Lucy Lislay Longspes Longschampe Lastels LindSey Loterell Lindsey Longuaile Le Vawse Loy Laue. Le dispenser Marmilou Moribray Moruile Manley Malebranche Malemaine Muschampe Musgraue Mâ—nilebillers Mortmaine Muse Marteine Mountbocher Maleuile Mountney Maleherbe Musgros Musard Mautrauers Merke Murres Montague Mantalent Mandute Manle Malâ—ry Merny Muffet Menpincoy Mainard Morell Morley Mounrmartin Myners Mauley Mainwaring Mantell Mayel Morton Neuile Newmarche Norton Norbet Norece Newborough Neele Normanuile Otenell Olibef Olifaunt Oysell Oliford Oryoll Pigot Pery Perecount Pershale Power Paynel Peche Peuerell Perot Picard Pudsey Pimeray Pounsey Punchardon Pynchard Placy Patifine Pampilion Poterell Pekeney Peruinke Penicord Quincy Quintine Rose Ridle Rynel Rous. Russell Roâ—d Richmond Rocheford Reymond Seuche Seint Quintine Seint Omer Seint Amond Seint Leger Someruile Sanford Somerey Seint George Seint Les. Sauine Seint Clo. Seint Albine Seint Barbe Sandeuile Seint More Seint Scudemor Towrs Toget Talybois Tuchet Truslot Trusbut Traynel Taket Talboâ— Tanny Tibtote Trusell Turbeuile Turuile Totet Tauers Torel Tirell Totels Tauerner Valence Vancord Vauâ—sour Vender Verder Verdon Aubrie de Vere Vernoune Venables Venâ—ure Verlaud Verlay Vernoys Verny Vilan Vmframuile Vnket Vrnall Wake Walenger Warde Wardebus Waren Wate Wateline Wateuile Woly Wyuell THis yeare through the greate suite and labour of WilliaÌ„ the Norman then Bishoppe of London King William graÌ„ted the Charter and liberties to the same William Byshoppe VVherefore the Mayor and Citizens of LoÌ„don repayre to Poules and Godfrey Portgreue and al the Burgies of the Cittie of London in as large forme as they enioyed the same in the time of Saint Edwarde before the Conquest in rewarde whereof the Citizens haue fixed on hys graue being in the middest of the great West I le of Saint Paules Church in London this Epitaph following GVilielme viro sapieÌ„tia vitae sanctitate clarâ— qui primùm Epitaph of VVilliam Byshop of LondoÌ„ diuo Edwardo Regi Confessori familiaris nuper in Episcopum Londinensem erectus nec multò post apud inuictissimuÌ„ Principem Guilelmum Angliae regem eius nominis primum ob prudentiam fidemqúe singularem in consilium adhibitus amplissima huic vrbi celeberimae priuilegia abeodem impetrauit Senatus populusque Londinensis bene merenti posuit Sedit Episcopus annos 20. Decessit anno à Christo nato 1070. HAEc tibi clare pater posuerunt marmora ciues Praemia non meritis aequiparanda tuis Namque sibi populus te Londoniensis amicum Sensit huic vrbi non leue praesidium Reddita libertas duce te dotaque multis Te duce res fuerat publica muneribus Diuitias genus formam breuis opprimat hora Haec tua sed pietas benefacta manent Obijt anno 1070 Sedit Episcopus annos 20. The same in English TO William a man famous in wisedome and holynesse of life who first with Saint Edward the king and Confessour being familiar of late preferred to be Byshoppe of London and not long after for hys prudencie and sincere fidelitie admitted to be of counsel with the moste victorious Prince William king of Englande of that name the first who obteyned of the same great and large priuiledges to this famous Citie The Senate and Citizens of LoÌ„don to him hauing well deserued haue made this He continued Bishop xx yeares and died in the yere after Christ his natiuitie 1070. THese Marble monuments to thee thy Citizens assigne Rewardes O Father far vnfit to those deserts of thine Thee vnto them a faithfull friend thy London people founde And to thys towne of no small weyght a stay both sure and sounde Their liberties restorde to them by means of thee haue been Their publike weale by meanes of thee large gifts haue felte and seen Thy riches stocke and beautie braue one houre hathe them supprest Yet these thy vertues and good deedes with vs for euer reste KIng William leauing his brother Odo Byshop of Bayon Marianus Ypodigmâ— Neustriâ— and William Fitz Osberne whom he had made Earle of Hereforde to be Wardens of England retourned into Normandie which at that time was bent to shrink from him Hée toke with him Edgare Etheling Stigandus Archbishoppe of W. de Wâ—lum Canturburie Frederike Abbot of Saint Albons Egelnothus Abbot of Glastenburie Edwyne Duke of Mercia Morcarus duke of Northumberlande Walden Earle of Northampton and of Huntington Roger late Earle of Hertford Renulphe Earle of Cambridge Gospatrike Earle of Cumberlande Gualter the son of Siward and manye other nobles of England thinking they woulde be truer to him in a forraine Countrey than in their owne by theyr diligence he subdued the rebelling Normans When Winter was at hand King William retourned and set an importable tribute on the Englishmen After this going into Deuonshire he besieged Excester Excester besieged which the Citizens and other English men helde againste him The Countesse Githa mother of King Harolde and sister to Swanus king of Denmarke with manye other fléeing out of the Cittie escaped and got them ouer into Flaunders and the Citizens yéelded to the King Anno
reg 2. 1068 Ypodigma Mathild wife to King William came forth of Normandie and on Whitsonday was consecrated Quéene by Aldred Archebyshop of Yorke After this Marleswin Gospatricke and other noble menne of Northumberlande to auoyde king Williams roughe and boysterous dealings taking with them Edgar Etheling and his mother Agatha with his two sisters Margaret and Christian wente by sea into Scotlande where they were receiued and well entertayned of Malcoline king of Scottes who tooke Margaret the sister of Edgar to wife Iohn Rouse King William with his armye wente to Notingham and Castel at Notingham Yorke and Lincolne builded there builded a Castel he went to Yorke and made there two Castels and put in them garisons he coÌ„maunded also Castels to be made at Lincolne and other places This yere Henrie the kings sonne was borne in EnglaÌ„d T. Rudborne Earle of Northumberlande slaine for his eldest sons Robert and William Rufus were borne in Normandie before he Conquered England King William gaue to Robert Commin the Earledome Liber Dunelme Anno. reg 3. of Northumberland who entred by force into Duresme but for his outrages there done he and 900. of his men were slaine by the men of that Countrey in the Bishoppes palace that Sea Cro. had himselfe receyued him honourablye and king William came Afterward vpon them and slewe them euery one Agelricus bishop of Durham being accused of treason was 1069 imprisoned at Westminster And his brother Egelwine being made Bishop there was soone banished The Englishmen that were fledde out of Englande hauyng Edgar to be their Captaine returned out of Scotlande and sodainely set vpon the garisons that King William had sette at Yorke put them to flighte slewe them possessed the Citie and pronounced Edgar to be King but not long after King William came with a great armye and recouered thr Citie constrayning Edgar to retourne into Scollande Edgar seeing he coulde not make his partye good with king William adioyned vnto hym Canutus king of the Danes promising hym halfe of the kingdome Thus they entred Englande and came to Yorke The Normaines that were left to defende the Citie sette Yorke brent their suburbes on fire that their enimies shoulde haue no commoditie of it but the winde droue the fire on high and set all the Cittie on fire so that the garisons were forced to flée into their enimies hands In the â—kirmish were slaine 3000 Normans wherevppon all the North parte of England fell from William to Edgar When William had word of the slaughter of his men hée with great trauel came to Yorke where he fought with hys enimies and put them to flighte Canutus with a few Danes got to their shippes but Edgar and the Englishmen which escaped retourned into Scotland King William spoyled all the Countrey beyonde Humber Such a dearth was in England that men did eate horsses Anno reg 4. Mans flesh good meate Ioh Taxtor 1070 Monasteries rifled cattes dogges and mans flesh King William bereaued all the Monasteries and Abbayes in Englande of theyr golde and siluer sparing neyther chalice nor shrine appropriating the sayd Monasteries and Abbayes to himselfe he also brought vnder Knightes seruice all those Bishoprickes and Abbayes that held Baronies which had bin frée from all secular bondage appointing them howe many souldiours they should finde him and his successours in time of warre In a counsel at Winchester Stigand was deposed as an Ypodigma Stigand deposed Apostata Archebishop who for money got his Bishopricke and Lanfranke was chosen Archbishop of Canturburie Anno. reg 5. 1071 Edwine Earle of Mercia Marcherus Earle of NorthuÌ„berlande and Swardus an Earle with Egelwine Bishop of Durham and many other of the cleargie and laitie kéeping the Noble men fled wooddes for that they were not able to abyde the Kings displeasure at the last came into the I le of Elie Herewarde being their Captaine who sore afflicted that Countrey but king William besieging the I le they all sauing Herewarde submitted them to his plesure who committed some to perpetual prison some he put to death and some he ransomed but Hereward by strong hande broughte his men out of the I le and escaped The Castell of Ledes in Kent was builded by Creueken Anno. reg 6. Ex libro Norâ— Castel of Leder and of Oxforde builded Iohn Rouse 1072 Mathew Paris Yorke subiect to Canturburie Anno reg 7. 1073 Anno reg 8. and the Castel of Oxforde by Robert de Olly two noble men that came into England with William Conquerour In a Counsel holden at Windsore the primacie of y â— church of Canturburie ouer the Churche of Yorke being examined it was founde by good aucthoritie of olde writings that the Church of Yorke ought to be subiect to the Church of Canturburie and faithfully to obey the same King William with a great power inuaded Scotland and forced Malcoline to do him homage and fealtie King William with a greate power of Englishmen wente into Normandâ—e which rebelled and subdued it spoyling the Cities townes vineyardes corne c. Gregory the seauenth Pope excommunicated all committers 1074 Maried priestes remoued Ypodigma Mathew Paris of Simony and remoued maried Priestes from executing of deuine seruice whereof rose greate troubles in England Ranulph Erle of y e East-English by y â— counsel of the Erles Woltheopus Roger trauelled to expel K. WilliaÌ„ out of his kingdome The coÌ„spiracie was concluded at a mariage in y â— Conspiracie Citie of Norwich forthwith they sente to the King of Denmarke desiring his ayde and hauing confederated with the Walchmen euerye one where they came robbed the Kyngs townes King William came sodainly out of Normandie and toke the Earles committing them to prison but the Walchmen he caused to haue theyr eyes put out and some to be hanged Kanut the sonne of Swayne and Hacon the Earle came Anno reg 9. out of Denmarke with 200 saile but when they heard y â— theyr fautors were ouercome they tourned into Flaunders King William caused a castell to be builded at Dirham 1075 Ypodigma commaunded Waltheothus Earle of Northampton and of Huntindon son to Siward duke of Northumberland to be beheaded at Winchester who was buried at Crowland The king sayled into Brytaine and besieged the Castel of Dolens but preuayled not Walter Bishoppe of Durham bought of king William the Bisshop murdered Anno. reg 10 Earledome of Northumberlande wherin he vsed such cruelty that at the length the inhabitants slewe him and an hundred of his men by the riuer of Tine where the Bishop helde his courtes The Earth was harde frozen from the Calendes of Nouember 1076 T. Castleforde Iohn Leyland Anno. reg 11 till the middest of Aprill King William gaue the castel with the town of Pontfrait with land lying there about to Hilbert Lacy a Norman The castel town laÌ„ds about Pontfraite longed before y â— CoÌ„quest to
himselfe so neare y â— with the heate of his harneys he got a disease to the encrease of his sicknesse Also the kings horsse leaping ouer a ditch did burst the inner parts of the K. with the pain wherof he was sore afflilcted and retourned to Roane wher shortly after he ended his life The. ix day of Septem in the yere of King VVilliam dyed our Lord. 1087. when he had rained xx yeres xj monthes lacking fine days his body being brought w t great soleÌ„nitie in Cane in Normandie there to be buried in a Church whiche he had founded a certaine knight boldly forbod the burial of W. Malme him in that place affirming that by title of inheritaunce the ground was his that king William ought not to be buried Burial forbiddeÌ„ to VVilliam Conquerour in the ground which by violence he had obtayned wherfore by consent of Henry his son this reproch was appeased with the payment of an hundred pounde of siluer He had issue by Matild his wife daughter to Baldwin Erle of Flaunders Robert Curthose vnto whom he gaue Normandie Richard that Issue of VVilliaÌ„ Conquerour dyed yong William Rufus vnto whom he gaue England and Henry to whoÌ„ he gaue his wiues inheritance treasure hée had daughters Cicily Abbesse of Cane Constance marryed to Alane Earle of Brytain Adale wife to Stephen Earle of Bloyse Margaret promised to Harold king of EnglaÌ„d Alianor betrothed to Alfonse King of Galicia King WilliaÌ„ commanded all prisoners to be released his tresure to be distributed vnto churches ¶ King William Rufus WIlliam le Rovvse or Rufus the thirde sonne of William Conquerour beganne his raigne the Anno reg 1. ninthe daye of September in the yeare of our Lorde 1087. and was crowned at Westminster by Lanfranke Archbishop of Canturburie y â— first day of October He was variable inconstant couetous cruel hée burdened his people with vnreasonable taxes pylled the ryche and oppressed the poore and what he thus got he prodigally spent in great banqueting and sumptuous apparel for he woulde neyther eate drinke or weare any thing but W. Malme Robert of Glocest S. Albons Cronicl that it coste vnmeasurably déere As for example it was in those dayes written and for vs now to be noted that in a mornyng hys Chamberlayne bringing him a newe paire of hosen he demaunding what they coste and the Chamberlaine The best paire of hose three shillings answering thrée shillings the king being wroth said away begger that thou art are those méete hose for a King to weare bring me a paire of a Marke or thou shalte sore repent it then his Chamberlaine fette another paire that were much worse than the first and sayd â—hâ—y cost a Marke wherewith King William was well pleased Thus farre haue I noted the saying of King William bycause it importeth the simplicitie of apparell in those dayes vsed so farre different from the excesse of this present time Odo Bishop of Bayon and Earle of Kent with his brother 1088 The Nobles â—ebesâ— Robert Earle of Mortaigne and Hereford and almost all the Nobles of England raysed warre against King William and would haue had Robert his eldest brother to be King but King William by fâ—irs words pacifying some of the principall conspirators beséeged the residue in the Castell of Rochester W. Malme and with muche labour lastly ouercame them An Earthquake ouerturned many houses and churches An Earthquake in England Lanfranke Archbishop of Canturbury deceassed He renued Anno reg 2. 1089 the great Church of Canturbury restoring xxv manors to the same He repaired the walles of that Citie builded two Hospitals the one of Saint Iohn the other at Harbaldowne Hospitall of Saint Iohn and Harbaldovvne He restored the Church of Rochester from four secular Clarkes to fiftie Monkes He alwayes attended his booke and trauelled to correct the corruption of Writers When Lanfranke was dead King Wilham kept in his owne hands the Churches and Monasteries of England after Mathew Paris G. Lilly their pastours were dead making great spoyle and lotting them out to ferme King William making warre against his brother Robert Anno reg 3. 1090 King VVilliam made vvarre on his brother Duke of Normandy tooke the Castels of Wallarroke and of Albemarle making great spoyle in his brothers Countrey but at length agréemente was made betwéene them that Robert should giue vp into the Kings hands the Castels that he had gotten of him and the King shoulde helpe him to get all that his father had England only excepted and also if one of them dyed without issue the other should succéede in the inheritance to which couenant were sworne twelue Princes of the Kings side and twelue Barons on the Dukes side Malcoline King of Scottes did homage and fealtie to King of Scots did homage Mathew Paris Great tempest King William of England A great tempest sell on Saint Lukes day in â—imdry places of England specially in Winchcombe where a great part of the Stéeple was â—uerthrowne with thundering and lightning and in London the winde ouerturned 606. houses and 606. houses ouerturned the rouâ—e of Bow Church in Cheape wherewith some persons were slayne foure of the â—afters of 20. foote in length were with such violence pitched into the stréeâ—e that scantly Wil. Malme Gualter Couen foure foote of them remayned aboue grounde whiche were fayne to be â—â—t euen with the same grounde bycauâ—e they could not be plucked out About this time one Iustinus sonne to Gurguntus Earle Anno reg 4. of Glamorgan and Morgannoke refusing to obey Rhesus sonne to Theodore Prince of South-wales sente Aeneas The vvinning of Glamorgan and Morganoke out of the VVelchmens hands sonne to Gediâ—orus sometyme Lorde of Demeâ—ia into England to take muster of Souldioures and there receyued a great Armie vnder the conduct of one Robert Fitzhamon and ioyning with other tables out of Went and Breciniâ— met with Rhesus in Blacke hâ—ll and there â—â—ewe him and sâ— paying the Englishmen their wages discharged them But they taking regard vnto the goodnesse of the soyle and the great variance which was then amongst the Welchmen as in foretime the Saxons had done they turned their force of armes against those which had entertayned them and soone displaced them wholly of all the Champion and the best of the Countrey which Robert Fitzhamon diuided amongst twelue Knightes whiche he broughte with him reseruing the better parte to hymselfe who building there certayne Castels and ioyning their power togither defended their Farmes and Lordships whiche they had taken and possessed whose heires peaceably enioy the same vnto this day but Iustinus scarsely reserued to himselfe and his the hilly Countrey The names of the twelue Knightes were these 1 William Lowdon 2 Richard Granuille 3 Paganus Turberuille 4 Robert Saintquiâ—tiâ—â— 5 Richard Siward 6 Gilbert Vmfreuill 7 Roger Berkerowle 8 Reynald Sully 9 Peeter Soore
10 Iohn Fleming 11 Oliuer Saint Iohn 12 WilliaÌ„ Easterling now for shortnes called Sâ—radling Thus was the Lordship of Glamorgan Morgannoke wonne out of the Welchmens hands whiche Lordship conteyned in length from Râ—mid bridge on the East side to Pallekinan in the West side 27. miles The breadth from the Hauen of Aberthaw on the South side to the confine of Breknokeshire about Morleys Castell is 22. miâ—â—â— In this Prouince are neath vpon a Riuer of the same name Pontfaine that is to say Stone bridge sometimes called Cowbridge Lantwid Wenny Dinwid Townes and Castels besides Caer Phili a most antient Castell fortresse which by reporte was erected by the Romanes and Caerdid the Humfrey Lâ—â—yd principall Towne of the Shire standing vpon the Riuer Tafe Englishmen tearme it Cardid or Gardife Also within the body of the said Lordship were eightene Castels and â—6 Knightes fées and a halfe that helde of the same Lordship by Knights seruice besides a great number of frée holders Also the saide Lordship being a Lordship Marcher or a Lordship Royall and holden of no other Lordship the Lordes thereof euer since the winning of the same owing their obedience only to the Crowne haue vsed therein Iura regalia with the triall of all actions as well reall as personall and pleas of Crowne with authoritie to pardon all offences Treason only excepted King William W 〈…〉 Northumberland where he repaired 1091 Nevv Castell Sarisburie Anno reg 5 such Castels as the Scottes had impayred and builded the newe Castell on Tine Osmond Bishop of Sarisburie founded the Cathedrall Church of old Sarisburie and on the morrow after the dedication thereof the Stéeple was fiered by lightning In England fell wonderfull abundance of rayne and after 1092 Great Frost Mathew Paris Wil. Malme ensued so great frost that horsses and cartes passed commonly ouer great Riuers which when it thawed the Yse brake downe many great bridges Hugh Lupus Earle of Chester sente into Normandy for Abbey of Chester Anselme by his counsell to builde an Abbey at Chester of Saint Werbridge King William lying sicke at Glocester for feare of death Mathew Paris promised to correct the wicked Lawes He gaue the Archbishoprike of Canturbury to Anselme Anselme Archbishop and to his Chancellour Robert Bloet the Bishoprike of Lincolne but when the King had recouered his health he was sorie that he had not sold the Bishoprike of Lincolne Malcolme King of Scottes comming into Englande was King of Scottes flayne met withall and sodeinly â—â—ayne with his sonne and heire also by Robert Mowbray Earle of Northumberland Iohn Bishop of Welles by noynting the Kings handes Bishopricke at Bathe Levves in Suffex Anno reg 6. 1093 Carelile repayred and the Castell builded Famine â—â— Beuerla Thomas Rudburn transposed his Bishops seate to Bathe William Waren first Earle of Surrey and Gundred his wife founded the Abbey of Lewes in Sussex King William builded againe the Citie of Carelile which was destroyed by the Danes 200. yeares before He also builded a Castell there and out of the South parts of England sent men to inhabit This yeare was a great famine and after so great a mortalitie that the quicke were scant able to bury the dead King William made great warres in Normandy against his brother Robert through the whiche both England and Normandy were fore oppressed with exactions Exactions VVâ—lâ—chmen vvon Angleâ—ey The Welchmen spoyled the Citie of Glocester with a part of Shrewsburie and woonne the Isâ—e of Anglesey The Bishopricke of Thetford was translated to Norwich Bishopricke at Norvvich Anno reg 7. 1094 Northumberland spoyled by Herbert Losing Bishop there King William sent his brother Henry into Northumberland with a great power bycause Robert Mowbrey Earle of that Countrey refused to come to the Kings Court the Countrey was spoyled the Earle was taken and many were disherited Some had their eyes put out c. King William with a great power entred Wales but not King VVilliam inuaded vvales being able to followe the Welchmen among the hilles he builded two Castels in the borders and returned Great preparation was made by the Christians to goe Anno reg 8. 1095 〈…〉 to Hierusalem against the Infidels at Hierusalem Peter the Hermite being their first leader and after Godfrey of Lorraine called Godfrey of Bolleine Robert Duke of Normandy tooke his iourney towards Anno reg 9. 1096 Normandy pavvned An. reg 10. 1097 Nice and Antioch vvoon Hierusalem and layde Normandy to gage to his brother King William for 6666. poundes of siluer The Dukes Godfrey Beamonde and Robert beséeged the Citie of Niece with 6000. horsemen and 10000. footemen and tooke the same with the wife of Soliman and his sonnes They also tooke the Citie of Antioch King William with an armie of horsemen and footemen wente the seconde time into Wales meaning to kill all the male kinde there but he could vnneth kill or take any one of them All the lands in Kent that sometime belonged to Earle Hector Boetius Godvvin sands Godwine by breaking in of the Sea were couered with Sands and therefore is yet called Godwine Sands King William was in Normandy and gaue himselfe to Exactions An. reg 11. 1098 An. reg 12. 1099 Hierusalem vvonne warres there so that with exactions and tributes he did not only shaue but flea the people of England Hugh Earle of Shrewsburie was slayne in Anglesey by the Irishmen The Christians tooke the Citie of Hierusalem and placed there a King and a Patriarche After King Wilham was come out of Normandy he kept his Courte at Westminster in the new Hall which he had then caused to be builded the length whereof is 270. foote VVestminster Hall P. Patauiensis and the breadth 74. foote and hearing men say it was too bigge he answered this Hall is not bigge ynough by the one halfe and that it was but a Chamber in comparison Io. Euersden of that he was about to make A diligent searcher might Mathew Paris Io. Rouse yet find out the foundation of the Hall which he had purposed to builde stretching from the Thames side vnto the common strééte King William being a hunting in the new Forest word was brought him that his people were beséeged in Mayne he forthwith tooke shipping though he were vehemently perswaded to the contrary for that there was at that time a great tempest to whome he answered he neuer heard that any King was drowned At this time he gote more honor VVord of VVilliam Rufus Mathew Paris than euer he did in all his life for he chased his enemies and returned with victory In this Sommer bloud sprang out of the earth at Finchamstede Anno reg 13 in Barkeshire King William on the morrow after Lammas day hunting 1100 There standeâ—â— a Chappell King VVilliam slayne Wil. Malme Mathew Paris Radulphus Niger in the new Forrest of Hampshire in a
place called Chorengham Sir Walter Tirell shooting at a Déere vnawares hitte the King in the brest that he fell downe starke dead and neuer spake worde his men specially that Knighte gate them away but some came backe agayne and layde his body vpon a Colyars Cart whiche one sillie leane beast did draw vnto the Citie of Winchester where he was Radul Cogshal buryed on the morow after his death at whose buryall men could not wéepe for ioy This King was taken out of the world in the middest of his vnrighteousnesse who being wicked to his owne people and to strangers was most wicked to himselfe The Countreys about him he prouoked with warres and England was so miserably oppressed vnder him that it Io. Rouse could not recouer for he and his trayne spoyled and subuerted all things He reigned twelue yeares and eleuen monethes lacking eyght dayes He gaue vnto the Monkes called De Charitate in Southwarke Register of Bernaâ—dsey the great newe Church of Saint Sauioure of Barmonds eye and also Barmonds eye it selfe He also founded of an olde Monasterie of Monkes a Ex Câ—â—â— goodly Hospitall in the Citie of Yorke called Saint Leonards for the sustentation and finding of the poore as well men as women He gaue the Churche of Saint Peeter in the Citie of Bathe to be a Bishops Sea and the mother Church of Somersetshire ¶ King Henry Beawclerke HEnry brother to William Anno reg 1. Io. Rouse Rufus and y â— first of that name for his learning called Beawclearke brought vp in the studie of the liberall artes at Cambridge chieflye through the trauell of Henrye Nowborough Earle of Warwike who appeased all debates of that time to the The. Râ—dborne W. Malme contrarie obteyned the dominion ouer this Realme of Englande and beganne his raigne the first day of August in the yeare oâ—â—ure Lorde 1100. and was crowned at Westminster on the fifth day of August by Mawrice Bishop of London bycause at that time Geâ—â—â— Dorâ— Anselme Archbishop of Canturburie was by persecution of William Rufus exiled This Henry borne at Selbe in Englande was a noble Prince strong and mightie of body high of stature and amiable of countenance He was excellent in wit eloquent and fortunate in battaile and for these thrée he had thrée notable vices couetousnesse crueltie and lecherie He maryed Mawde the daughter of Malcoline King of Scottes of whome he begate William and a daughter named Mawde At the beginning of his raigne he restored the state of the Cleargie aswaged the gréeuous payments reduced againe Saint Edwards lawes and amended them He put out of his Court all nice and wanton persons He reformed the olde vntrue measures and made a Measures reformed W. Malme Vlno novv called a yard W. Malme measure by the length of his owne arme whiche was then called Vlno an Elle and now the same is called a yarde or metewand c. He restored to his Subiects the vse of lights in the night Vse of light in the night permitted which lightes and also fire had him forbidden by his father to be vsed after the ringing of a Bell at eyght of the clocke at night Edgar King of Scottes did homage to this Henry This yeare Iordan Briset Baron the sonne of Raufe the Saint Iohns by Smithfielde sonne of Brian Briset founded the house of Saint Iohn of Hierusalem néere vnto London by Smithfield The same Iordan gaue fourtéene Acres of ground lying Clarken vvell Register of Clerken well Ex Carta in the field next adioyning vnto Clarken well to build therevpon a house of Nunnes wherein he with Murioll hys wife were both buryed in the Chapter house Robert Shorthose Duke of Normandy the Kings eldest 1101 Anno reg 2. brother whiche was nowe returned from Hierusalem made warre vpon his brother Henry for the Crowne of England who assembled a strong armie and landed at Portesmouth but by mediation a peace was made on condition that Tribute to Robert Shorthose VVinchester and Glocester brent Liber Glocestr Tevvkesbery builded Cronica de Theoksbery Henry should pay thrée thousand markes yearely to Duke Robert and if the one dyed without issue the longer liuer should inherit Winchester was brent the xvij of May and Glocester was brent the twentith of May Robert Fitzham who came with the Conquerour out of Normandy with Sibell his wife founded a new the Church of Theukesbery and was there buryed Robert de Belasine Earle of Shrewsburie eldest sonne to 1102 Robert de Belasme rebelled Wâ—l Malme Floriacensâ—s Roger Mountgomery strengthned the Towne and Castell of Shrewsbury so did he the Castels of Bridgenorth Tichile and Arundell with viâ—â—uals and armed men against King Henry but the King being warned thereof he gathereth his power and beséegeth Bridgenorth whiche Towne was yéelded vnto him And this being knowne to them of Arundell they forthwith submitted themselues with condition that their Lorde Robert de Belasme might be permitted fréely to passe into Normandy Also they of Shrewsbury sent the keyes of their Castell and pledges of their obeysance and then Robert with his brother Ernulfus and Roger of Poytiers abiured this land for euer The Cathedrall Churche of Norwich was founded by Minster of Norvviche Anno reg 3. Register of Saint Barthelmew Hospitall of S. Barthelmevv 1103 Anno reg 4. Herbert Bishop of Norwich The Priorie and Hospitall of Saint Barthelmewe in Smithfield was founded by a pleasant I ester or Minstrell of the Kings named Reior who became first Prior there Before this time Smithfield was a laystow of all drdure and filth and the place where fellons and other transgressors were put to execution Roberte Duke of Normandy comming into Englande through the subtelty of King Henry his yonger brother released The yonger brother begyleth the elder to him the tribute of thrée thousand Markes of Siluer Hugh Lacy founded the Monasterie of Saint Iohn at Ex libre Lanthony Mathew Paris Lanthony founded Chro. Donmow Lanthony the Chanons of which place were since translated by Miles high Connestable and Earle of Here ford to a place néere vnto Glocester then called Hide since called Lanthony Iuga Baynard Lady of little Donmow caused Maurice Bishop of London to dedicate the Church of Donmow which the Priorie of Donmovv in Essex founded by the VViddovv of Baynard that buylded Baynards Castell in London had founded and the same day she gaue to it halfe a hide of land This Lady Iuga was late wife to Baynard that firste buylded Baynards Castle in London Great malice was kindled betwéene the two bréthren 1104 Anno reg 5. Robert and Henry wherevpon deadly warre ensued There appeared about the Sunne foure circles and a blasing Starre King Henry remayned in Normandy making strong 1105 Anno reg 6. Saint Iohns in Colchester warres vpon his brother Robert and Rorsia his wife Eudo Dapifere or sewer to King Henry founded the Monasterie
of Saint Iohn in Colchester of blacke Channons and those were the first in England Simon Earle of North-hampton and Mawde his wife Saint Andrevve in North-hampton Ex Carta â—o Rouse 1106 Anno reg 7. Elder brother seeketh fauour of the yonger founded the Monasterie of Saint Andrew in North-hampton Robert Duke of Normandy came to his brother at Northhampton and friendly desired him to beare brotherly loue foward him but King Henry féeling his conscience accusing him for obteyning the Kingdome by defrauding of his elder brother and fearing men more than God first he reconciled the Nobles of the Realme with faire promises thinking afterwards to make amende for his great wrongs by founding of an Abbey The Duke returning into Normandy the King followed with a great power where betwéene them were many sore battayles fought but at the last the valiant man Roberte was taken This yeare appeared a blasing Starre from thrée of the A Blasing Starre Mathew Paris clocke till nine And on the Maundy Thursday was séene two full Moones one in the East and another in the West The first Chanons entred into the Church of our Lady T Rudborne Saint Mary Ouery Liber Roffensis â—o Reuerla 1107 Anno reg 8. in Southwarke called Saint Mary Ouery fouÌ„ded by William Pountlarge Knight and Wiliam Daneys Normans Aigedus was first Prior there WheÌ„ King Henry had set in order Normady according to his pleasure he returning into England brought with him his brother Robert Wâ—rlham of Morton put them in perpetuall prison froÌ„ wheÌ„ce shortly after Duke Robert deceiuing The yonger brother puttetâ— out the eyes of his elder his kepers sought to escape but he was takeÌ„ as he fled by his brothers coÌ„mandement had his eies put out kept streighter till his dying day This yeare the Priorie of the holy Trinitie within 1108 Priorie of the Trinitie in London Liber trini Aldgate of London was founded by Matild the Quéene in the Parishes of Mary Magdalen Saint Michael Saint Katherine and the holy Trinitie all whiche are nowe but one Parish of Christ Church in old time called holy Roode parish W. Dunthorne She gaue to the same Priorie the port of Aldgate with the stocke therevnto beloÌ„ging which was of hir demaynes and is now called Aldgate Warde King Henry with sundry expeditions brought vnder him the Welchmen and to pull downe their stoutenesse he Anno reg 9. Wâ—it Malme Gerua Doro Flemings sent into VVales sent all the Flemings that inhabited England thither which of late were come hither when great part of Flanders was drowned and also in time of his father by aliance of his mother in so muche that through their greate multitude they séemed gréeuous to the Realme wherefore he sente them ali with their substance and kindred into Rose a CoÌ„untrey of Wales aâ— into aâ— stucke that he mighte clense the Realme of them and also suppresse the wildnesse of the enimie and not long after he made expedition thither compelling the Welchmen to giue him for pledges the sonnes of the Nobilitie with some money and much Cattell and returned Henry Emperour of Rome sente messengers into England requiring to haue Mawde the Kings daughter giuen 1109 Anâ— reg 10. him in mariage which was granted by the King who then tooke thrée Shillings of euery hide of lande through England The King translated the Abbey of Eoly into a Bishopricke A Taxe Iohn Taxtor EelyÌ„ a Bishoprick Mathew Paris â—ibermoÌ„n Elie. and made Haruey Crust Bishop of Bancor Bishop there A Comete appeared after a strange fashion for it was risen out of the East and astended vpwards A great Earthquake was at Shrewesburie and the water 1110 Anno reg 11 A Comete Trent dried vp Floria censis of Trent at Nottingham was dryed vp from one of the clocke till thrée King Henry maryed Robert his bastard son to Mawde Floriacen daughter and heire to Robert Fatzham and made him the first Earle of Glocester who after builded the Castels of Bristow Castels at Bristovv and Cardife Saint Iames at Bristovv Kensham 1111 Anno reg 12 Mathew Paris and Cardeffe with the Priorie of S. Iames in Bristowe where his body was buryed And his sonne Earle William began the Abbey of Kensham King Henry went into Normandy to make war against the Earle of Angiew whiche kept Maine againste the Kings will and spoyled the whole Countrey William Baynard vnder whome Lady Iuga helde the Cro. Dun. title of Dunmow by misfortune lost his Barony and King Henry gaue it wholly to Robert the sonne of Richard the Robert Fitâ—â— Richard sonne of Gilbert Earle of Clare and to his heires togither with the honor of Baynards Castell in London and the appurtenances This Robert was Cupbearer or Butler to the King Aboute this time Gefferey Clinton Treasourer and 1112 Anno reg 13 Kenelvvorth Priory and Castell founded Lib. Ken. Chamberlayne to King Henry the first founded the Priorie at Kenelworth of regular Chanons Geffery Clinton the yonger confirmed to the Chanons all which Geffery his father gaue them except those landes which his father reserued to make his Castell and Parke on in Kenelworth This yeare was a great mortalitie of men and moreine Mathew Paris of Beastes The Citie of Worcester the chiefe Church the Castell 1113 Anno reg 14. Floriacen Cro. Hautenprice and all other buildings one of the Monkes with two seruants and fiftéene CitizeÌ„s were all brent the twentith day of July The King subdued the Walchmen The King caused all his Nobles to sweare to William his sonne The tenth of October the Riuer of Medway by no small 1114 Anno reg 15 Thames and Medvvay dried vp number of miles did so fayle of water that in the midst of the Chanell the smallest Uessels and Boates coulde not passe The selfe same day the Thamis did suffer the like lack of water for betwéen the Tower of London and the bridge and vnder the Bridge not only with Horse but also a greate Thomas de Wike Walter Couen Iohn Taxtor William Sheepehead Liber Roffensis Chichester brent A blasing starre 1115 Anno reg 16 Liber trinitatis number of men and children did wade ouer on foote whiche defecte of water did endure the space of two dayes Chichester with the principall Monasterie was brent There was many stormes and a blasing Starre This yeare through an hard Winter almost all the bridges in England were borne downe with Yse Edgar sometime King of England granted vnto thirtéene Knightes a portion of grounde without the walles of the Citie of London lefte voyde in the East part of the same Citie Knighten Gild novv Portsoken vvard togither with a gilde which he named Knighten Gild that now is called Portsoken warde and now the Church of the holy Trinitie being founded within Aldgate of London by Mathild then Quéene as is afore shewed The successors of those Knightes to
Gillemehelmach Ocadeci Ocaruell with other Princes and the Bishops submitting themselues and theirs to the King of Englande and his successors builded for him a greate Pallace at Dublin where he helde hys Christmas The Church of Norwich with the houses thereto belonging was brent and the Monkes were dispercled The King returned into England on Monday in the Easter 1172 wéeke about the Ascention tide sayled into Normandy At Andouer a Priest praying before the Altare was striken with thunder and slayne Likewise one Larke and his brother was brent to death with the lightning Cro. Colâ—estre King Henry the sonne with his wife the French Kings daughter were both togither Crowned at Winchester the seauen and twentith of August by the handes of Rotrod Archbishop of Roane King Henry the elder was assoyled of the death of Thomas Geruasius Anno reg 19. the Archbishop vpoÌ„ his oth made that he was not priuie to it King Henry married the eldest daughter of Hubert 117â— Ypodigma Earle of Morton vnto his sonne Iohn surnamed without land He also made Mary the sister of Thomas Becket Abbesse of Berking Henry the yonger rebelling in Normandy against King Henry the yonger rebelled Henry his father many Earles and Barons fledde ouer to him whereby diuers strong battayles were fought as well in England as in Normandy Poytow Guyen and Britaine There tooke part against the father Lewes King of France William King of Scottes Henry Geffrey and Iohn his sonnes Robert Earle of Leycester Hugh of Chester and others Robert Earle of Leycester with thrée thousand Flemings comming into England ariued at Walton and after were receyued by Earle Hugh into Framilingham Castell They brent the Castell of Hagoneth the Citie of Norwich c. but by Iohn Taxtor Anno reg 20 Richard de Lucy the Kings Justice both he his wife and as many Normans and Frenchmen as were with him were taken but the Flemings were all slayne or drowned This battayle was fought without the Towne of S. Edmondsburie néere to a place called S. Martins of Farneham William King of Scottes with many Flemings entring into England wan the Castels of Appleby Brough and Pridehoâ— King Henry the elder returning into England in shorte time subdued his Rebels The Citie of Leycester by his 1174 Leycester brent commandement was brent the walles and Castell raced and the inhabitants sparcled into other Cities Robert de Scoteuile Radulph de Mandeuile Barnard Bayllole of whome Baynards Castell tooke the name and William de Vescy came to Newcastell and after tooke King William King of Scottes taken prisoner Ger. Dorobor Baynardes Castell Sca. Cron. prisoner and sent him to London from whence King Henry tooke him and the Earle of Leycester with him into Normandy and there imprisoned them at Roane where King William compounded for his ransome and after was deliuered at Yorke for 4000. pound The Nobles of Scotlande came no néerer than Pembles in Scotland to méete with their King wherefore he tooke with him many of the yonger sonnes of noble men in England that bare him good wil and gaue them landes in Scotland which he tooke from suche as were Rebels to him there The names of those Gentlemen that he toke with him were Baylliol Brewle Soully Mowbrey Saintclere Hay Giffard Ramesey Lanudell Bisey Berkeley Wellegen Boys Montgomery Valx Celenille Friser Grame Gurlay and diuers other The v. day of September Christes Church in Canturburye Geruasius Doro. Wil. Thorne Canturbury brent was burned with certayne houses of Office in the court King Henry the sonne with his bréethren other were reconciled to King Henry the father The Archbishop of Canturbury held a Counsell in S. Peeters Anno reg 21 1175 at Westminster on Sunday before the Ascention day at which Counsell were present all the suffragan Bishops of his Prouince Worcester except that was sicke and so excused himselfe and y â— Bishop of Norwich which was deceased A brother of the Earle Ferrers was in the night priuily Roger Houed slayne at London which wheÌ„ the King vnderstoode he sware that he would be auenged on the Citizens for it was then a common practise in the Citie that an hundred or more in Night vvalkers in London did murther all they met a company of yong and old would make nightly inuasions vpon the houses of the wealthy to the intent to robbe them and if they found any man stirring in the Citie within the night they would presently murther him in so much that when night was come no man durst aduenture to walke in the Stréetes When this had continued long it fortuned that as a crew of yong and wealthy Citizens assembling togither in the night assaulted a stone house of a certayne rich man and breaking through the wall the good man of that house hauing prepared himselfe with other in a corner when he perceyued one of the Théeues named Andrew Bucquinte to leade the way with a burning brand in the one hand and a potte of coales in the other whiche he assayed to kindle with the brand he flew vpon him and smote off his right hande and then with a lowde voyce cryed Théeues at the hearing whereof the Théeues tooke their flight all sauing he that had lost his hande whome the good man in the next morning deliuered to Richarde de Lucy the Kings Justice This Théese vpon warrant of his life appeached his confederates of whome many were taken and many were fledde but among the rest that were apprehended a certayne Citizen of greate countenance credite and wealth surnamed Iohn the olde when he coulde not acquite himselfe by the waterdome offered the King for his life fiue hundred Markes but the King commaunded that he shoulde be hanged which was done Gualter Couen and the Citie became more quiet The Kings of England both father and sonne did eate Anno reg 22 1176 and drinke at one Table lay in one Chamber and wente togither to visite the Tombe of Thomas late Archbishop of Canturburie accomplishing indéede the peace whiche they had promised The King caused to be razed and ouerthrowne the Castels of Huntington Walton Groby Tutsburie Hay and Trest Castels razed with many other in reuenge of the harme the Lordes of them had done to him This yeare 1176 after the foundation of Saint Mary Redulphus de diceto Oueryes Church in Southwarke the stone bridge ouer the The stone bridge at London begon to bée buylded Ex recordis SaÌ„ctae Mariae de Southwarke Iohn Leyland Thamis at London was begonne to bée founded A Cardinall and the Archbishop of Canturburie gaue a thousande Markes toward the same foundation In March the King called a Conuocation of the Cleargie at London when the Popes Legate was set and the Archbishop of Canturbury on his right hande as primate of England the Archbishop of Yorke disdeyning to sitte on the lefte hande came and swapt him downe to haue thrust
After them Awburie de Vere Portgraue and Robert de Barquerel Prouost In the time of King Stephen Gilbert Becket Portgraue and Andrew Buchennet Prouost In the time of King Henrie the second Peter Fitz Walter Portgraue After him Iohn Fitz Nigelly Portgraue After him Ernulfus Buchel Portgraue After him William Fitz Isabel Portgraue These Portgraues are also in diuerse Recordes called Vicecomites or Sherifes for that they then farmed the Sherifwike of the King as the Shirifes of London doe at this day Iohn Beuar and some authors as Iohannis Beuar and other do cal them Domes men or Judges of the Kings Court. This yeare the Citizens of London obtayned to be gouerned Baylifes by two Baylifes whiche in diuerse auntiente records are also called Sherifes for that they like as the Portgraues farmed the Sherifewike They also obtained to haue a Maior to be their principal gouernour and lieuetenaunte of the Citie as of the Kings Chamber The names of the first Baylifes or Shirifes who entred at the feast of Saint Michael the Archangell were as followeth Sherifes Henrie Cornehil Richard Reinery Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne Fitz Leofstan Goldsmith The first maior firste Maior of London and continued Maior during his life that was foure and twentie yeares as appeareth by a very antient Recorde sometime pertayning to the Nunrye of Clerkenwel contayning as a perfite register all such Register of Clerkenvvel grauntes of landes as was made to them by anye which hath diuerse déeds where vnto Henrie Fitz Alwyne first Maior of London is a witnesse dated the 1. 2. 3. 4. c. of Richard the first And for a more proofe I finde recorded in the Guilde Hal Consuetud de LoÌ„ in a booke called the Customes of London a constitution or order howe Citizens shall procéede in buildings betwéene Citizen and Citizen whyche constitution begynneth thus In the yere of our Lord. 1189. the first yere of the raigne of king Richard Henry Fitz Alwyne being Maior who was the first Maior of London it was prouided and ordayned c. Other proofes might be shewed out of diuerse auntiente Recordes but these are sufficient King Richard betooke the guiding of this land to William 1190 Gouernour of Englande VVilliam Bishop of Ely King Robert toke his voyage ouer to Ierusalem Geruasius Ypodigma Longshampe Bishop of Ely Chauncellour of England and y â— foure and twentith daye of Februarie he tooke his scrip and staffe at Canturburie and the sixth of Marche toke the Sea at Douer and transported ouer The second of July the two Kings of England of France met at Towers and from thence set forward on their iourney towards Ierusalem The towne of Mawling in Kent with the Nunry was coÌ„sumed with fire The Jewes in the townes of Norwich Saint Edmunds Burie Lincolne Stamforde faire and Linne were robbed and spoyled Ievves slevv themselues And at Yorke to the number of 500. besides women and children entred a tower of the castel which the people assailing the Jews profered money to be in safetie of their liues but the Christians would not take it wherevpon their men of law sayde to them it is better for vs to die for our lawe than to fall into the handes of our enimies and they all agréeing to that Counsell cut the throtes of their wiues and children and cast them ouer the walles on the Christians heades the residue they locked vp in the kings lodging and burnt both the house and themselues Geffrey Archebishoppe of Yorke retourning from Rome Archbishop of of Yorke dravven from the Alter to prison Ralphe Cogshall and now consecrated arriued at Douer with his traine whoÌ„ Matthew de Clare by the commaundemente of the Kings chaunceller entring with violence into the Church of Saint Martins le Grande in London drew from the Alter and so caried him to prison William Bishoppe of Ely builded the vtter wall aboute Anno reg 2. W. Diâ—â—thorne A ditch made about the tovvre of London Richarde Sothwel the Tower of London and caused a déepe ditche to be made about the same thinking he coulde haue caused the riuer of Thamis to goe rounde aboute it but he bestowed great cost in vainâ— Sherifes Iohn Herlion Roger Duke Maior Henrie Fitz Alyne King Richarde subdued the I le of Cipers and then ioyning Mathew Paris Rog Houed Galfâ—idâ—â— Vinisâ—l his power with Phillip the French Kings in Asia conquered Acon where there grewe betwéene the two Kings a gréeuous displeasure for which cause Phillip shortly departed thence and comming into Fraunce inuaded the Country of Normandie Iohn brother to King Richard toke on him the kingdom Arbor Successiâ—nis of England in his brothers absence Robert Earle of Leicester dyed in his iourney to Ierusalem King Richard restored to the Christians the Cittie of Ioppa and in manye battayles putte the Turkes to greate sorrow The bones of the most famous King of Brytaine Arthur 1191 were found at Glastenburie in a goodly olde seâ—ulchre about the which stoode two pillers in which were letters written which by reason of the great barbarousnesse of the laÌ„guage and the foulenesse no body coulde reade vpon the sepulture was a crosse of leade whereon was written here lyeth the Anno reg 3. noble king of Brytains Arthur Sherifes William Hauerell Iohn Bucknote Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne William Bishoppe of Ely did commonlye ride with 500. Iohn the kings brother rebelled horsses and gréeued Abbayes by meane of his lodging wyth them he withstoode Iohn the Kings brother who sayde hée wist not if his brother Richard were aliue or not To whom the Bishop aunswered if King Richard be yet liuing it were vntrueth to take from him the Crowne If he be deade Arthure the elder brothers sonne muste enioye the same King Richarde exchaunged Cipres wyth Guy of Lesingham 1192 Ex anniles â—lieâ— Vita Gâ—â—ngâ— câ—â—â— for the Kingdome of Ierusalem wherefore the King of Englande a long time after was called King of Ierusalem The Bishoppe of Ely legate to the Pope Chauncellour Rogeâ— Houed The Bishoppe put to his shifts Geruasius Doro. of Englande and gouernour of the Realme was forced to take the Tower of London for hys refuge wherein Earle Iohn besieged him at lengthe the Bishoppe getting licence to depart went to Douer but he was there forced to sweare that he woulde not departe the Realme yet béeing in a maruellous disquietnesse of minde he putte off hys mannes apparell put on womans meanyng so to escape whylest hée goeth vppe and downe on the shore bearing a webbe of clothe on hys arme as hée woulde sell it styll wayting for a shippe a sorte of women pulled off his kerchiefe and threwe him to the grounde and after beate hym and drewe hym along the sandes wherevpon great crye beyng made the Burgesies ranne and with muche a doe gotte hym from among them and kepte hym strayghtlye tyll he hadde obtayned licence to departe the Realme Anno
reg 4 Then the Archebishoppe of Rhoane wyth the consente of Earle Iohn toke vpon him the rule of the lande as Uiceâ— Chauncellour Sherifes Nicholas Duke Peter Newlay Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne King Richarde hauing knowledge that Phillip of 1193 Fraunce inuaded Normandie and that Iohn his brother hadde made himselfe King of Englande made peace with the Saladine for thrée yeares and wyth a small companye retourning homewarde was taken prisoner by Leopolde Duke of Austria who broughte hym to Henrie Anno reg 5. King Richarde taken prison the Emperour and there kepte hym in prison a yeare and fiue monthes He was enuyed for hys valiauncie in that he hadde shewed more proofe of hys prowes than all the other had Wolfangus Lazius in hys booke de Romano Imperio affirmeth that Leopolde of Austria when he hadde taken king Richard for some iniurie done to the house of Austria hée King Richard of England builded the vvals of Vienna compelled hym to builde the walles aboute Vienna the chiefest Cittie of Austria the whyche Wals wythin oure memorie defended all Germanie from the inuasion of the Turke The rumor being spredde that King Richarde was taken Earle Iohn rebelled against King Richard as yée haue hearde forth wyth the Frenche King and Erle Iohn made a greate conspiracie togyther meaning to take the Kingdome of Englande herevppon a greate number of Flemmings were assembled at Witsaâ—â—e and an innumerable multitude of Flemmings readye to come ouer but theyr messengers being taken their treason was bewrayed Elianor the olde Quéene caused the Sea coastes to bée watched ouer against Flaunders but notwithstanding Erle Iohn came secréetely into Englande to rayse the Walchmen and Scottes but the King of Scottes woulde not ayde hym The Walchmen in the partes about Kingstone and Windsore toke prayes abrode The Frenche King entred Normandie founde small resistaunce wanne diuerse Townes Gisors was deliuered to him then he hasted towards Roane besieged it but through the great industrie of Robert Earle of Leicester he profited little there and so returned into Fraunce Earle Iohn perceiuing his treason was discouered fortifyed hys Castels and passed ouer into Fraunce and ioyned with the Frenche King Sherifes Roger Duke Richard Fitz Alwyne Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne King Richard sent for his mother and the Archebishop of Rhoane to come vnto hym into Almayne being nowe in greate hope to bée deliuered and in the meane tyme the Archbishoppe of 〈◊〉 was made regent of England The Kings friendes entreating for his deliueraunce his The Kings raunsome Geruasius Doro. Radul Cogshal ransome was set at 100000. pound to wit to the Emperour 100000. markes to the Empresse 30000. markes and to y â— Duke of Austrich 20000. markes wherevpon commaundemeÌ„t was directed from the kings Iustices that al Bishops Prelates Earles Barons Abbots and Priors should bring in the fourth parte of theyr reuenewes towardes the kings raunsome and besids this the cleargie brought in their golden and siluer chalices and fléeced their shrines all whiche was coyned into money The order of the Cestercencies did giue theyr wool for one Mathew Paris Roger Houeden yeare c. all the money gathered for the Kings raunsome to remaine in the custodie of Hubert Archbishoppe of Canturburie Richarde Bishoppe of London William Earle of Arundel Hameline Earle of Warren and the Maior of London The King was restored to libertie the most parte of hys raunsome being paide and pledges left for the residue In the mean time letters were intercepted of Erle Iohn which he had sent into EnglaÌ„d touching treason one Adam of Saint Edmund Cleark being sent by Erle Iohn to prouide that his Castel might be fortified against King Richard came to London and dyned with Hubert Archbishoppe of Canturburie where he bragged of Earle Iohns prosperitie and familiaritie Recardâ—â— caâ—â—â—â— with the French king for y â— which being suspected he was after dinner appreheÌ„ded by the Maior of LondoÌ„ who toke froÌ„ him his letters and deliuered them to the Archbishoppe of Canturburie who on the next morrow called a CouÌ„sel of the Earles and Barons and shewed them the letters wherevpon they al câ—nsented that Erle Iohn should be dispossessed of all his lande in England and that his Castels should be besieged The same day the same Archbishop and Bishoppes excommunicated Earle Iohn and all his fauourers whiche troubled the peace of the kingdome And forth with the Archbishop 1194 besieged the Castel of Marleborough which belonged to Earle Iohn and toke it After this he besieged Notingham Castell The King taking ship at Antwerpe landed aâ— Sandwich on Godâ—â—â— vâ—â—â—â—alfe Gerua Doro. K. Richard the second time Crovvned Anno reg 6. the. 12. of March shortly after he besieged the Castell of Notingham and wan it and after that the Castel of Tikehil and then rode to Winchester wher he was again solemnly crowned on the xvij of April After this he called into his hands all such thing as hée had eyther giuen or sold by patentes or otherwise by whiche meanes he got a great sum of money and sayled into Normandie the xij of Maye where hauing a great army he tooke Taileburge and the countie of Angolesme Shortly after a peace was taken betwéene the two kings of England and Fraunce the xiij of June and also by meanes of Elianor the old Quéene Earle Iohn was reconciled to hys brother King Richard gaue to him the Erledomes of Morton Cornewal Dorset Somerset Notingham Darby Lancastre y â— Castels of Marleborough Luthegarshal with the forrests and Gual Couen appurtinaunces the honor of Wallingford Tikehil and Eye the Earledome of Gloucester with the Earles daughter Isabel though she were a kin to him but he kept certaine Castelles belonging to the said Earldâ—mes in his owne handes he remoued from him hys Concubines and toke to him his own wife which he had not knowen of a long time before Sherifes William Fitz Isable William Fitz Arnolde Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne King Richard sent messengers to the Pope complayning vpon the Duke of Austrich for misusing of him and his as they came by distresse of weather throughe his Countrey wherevpon the Pope excommunicated the Duke and enioyed him to release the â—â—uenaunts that he constrayned the King to make and to sende home the pledges but the Duke refused this order contempning the Popes authoritie who shortly after dyed and was kept vnburied til his son had released the English pledges that lay in hostage for the mony behinde of K. Richards caâ—nsome and further sware to staÌ„d to the iudgement of the Church for that offence of his father Hugh Bishoppe of Lincolne gaue to the king a thousande Anno reg 7. markes for his mantell of Sables which his predecessours were wont yearely to haue giuen them by the King Sherifes Robert Beasaunt Ioke de Iosue Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne William Fitz Osbert a Citizen of London poore in degrée VV. vvith the â—earde Roger Houed Wil.
â—aruus Iohn Taxtor Gerua Doro. Canturb recordes Gual Couent euill fauoured of shape but yet verye eloquent moued the common people to séeke libertie and fréedome and not to bée subiect to the rich and mightie by which meanes he drewe to him many great companies and with all his power defended the poore mens cause against the riche 52000. Londonors he allured to him to be at his deuotion and commandemeÌ„t The king being warned of this tumult coÌ„manded him to cease from those attemptes but the people still followed him as they before had done he made to them orations taking for his theame this sentence Haurietis aquas in gauâ—io de fontibus saluatoris whiche is to say Ye shal draw in ioy waters forth of the wels of your sauiour And to this he added I am sayd he y e sauiour of poore men yée be poore haue assayed long y e hard hands of rich meÌ„ Now draw yée holsome water forth of my Wels that w e ioy for the time of your visitatioÌ„ is come This WilliaÌ„ was coÌ„maunded to appeare before the kings counsell to aunsweare for himselfe in suche causes as shoulde be layde against him where he appeared but wyth 1196 such a multitude of people that the Lordes were afrayde and remitted him with pleasaunte wordes for the time appointing some priuliy when he was alone to apprehende him He sooke the stéeple of Bow Church in Chope and fortified it with munition and victuals The Archbishop of Canturburie then being at LondoÌ„ with other Iustices sent to him and willed him to come forth of the Church he should haue his life saued but he refused to come forth wherfore y â— Archebishop talking with the Citizens of London called togither a great number of armed area least any stur should be made The Saterdaye therefore being the Passion sondaye euen the stéeple and Church of Bowe were assaulted and William with his complices taken but not without bloudshed for hée was forced by fire and smoke to for sake the Churche he was brought to the Archbishop in the Towre where he was by y e Iudges condemned and by the héeles drawn from thence to a place called the Elmes and ther haÌ„ged with nine of his fellowes This counterfaite friende to the poore who named hymselfe A false accuser of his elder brother in the ende vvas hanged to be the sauiour perswading them against the riche was a man of an euil life a murderer who slew one manne with his owne handes a fornicatour who poluted Bowe church with his Concubine and amongst other his detestable facts one that hadde falsely accused his elder brother of treason whyche elder brother hadde in hys youthe Anno reg 8. broughte him vppe in learning and done manye things for his preferment Yet after the death of this wicked malefactor the simple people honoured him as a martyre in so much that they stale awaye the gibbet whereon he was hanged and pared away the Earth that was be-bled with hys bloude and kepte the same as holye reliques to heale sicke men King Richard graunted licence vnto Phillip Bishoppe of Durham to coyne mony in his Citie of Durham which libertie Roger Houeden none of his predicessours had enioyed of long tyme before Sherifes Gerard de Anteloch Robert Durant Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne The Walchmen brake forth and did muche hurt by spoyling 1197 of the Marches The Archbishop of Canturburie callyng togither an army hasted thyther besieged the Castel of Polie and toke it and chased the enimies established peace and returned Rise the Walch king departed this life King Richard and the Earle of Flaunders confedered togither Anno reg 9. The French King entring vnwarely into Flaunders was intercepted and taken by the Earle of Flaunders but giuing pledges vpon couenaunt to make peace he was suffered to depart The viij day of September they met at Liste where by mediation of the Archbishop of Canturburie they toke a truce The Archbishop of Roane returned from Rome where he had complayned on King Richard for taking from him a plot of ground whereon he builded a strong Castell but at the request of the Archbishop of Canturburie the Kyng gaue him in recompence the towne of Deep Sherifes Roger Blunt Nicholas Ducket Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne The Walchmen on the Marches toke booties did much 1198 Geruasius hurt but Hubert the Archbishop of Canturburie being Lorde thiefe Iustice Lieuetenaunt or Warden of England found meanes to resist them so that they being fought with were ouerthrowen and fiue thousand of them slaine The Archebishop hauing got this victorie returneth to London where calling togither a great number of the Nobles of the lande he resigned his office of being head ruler in whose place the Anno reg 10 Lord Geffrey Fitz Peter succéeded in August King Richard toke of euery Carucata plough land or hid of land through England fiue shillings The French king was intercepted by the army of King Richard so that with much adoe he escaped into Cipres his army was dispersed and almost an hundred Knightes taken beside other common soldiours without number The Charters which the king had Mathew Paris before made with his new seale were chaunged Sherifes Constantine Fitz Arnolde Robert de Beaw Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne Hubert Archebishop of Canturbnrie through the procurement of the Monks of Canturburie and by the coÌ„mandement of the Pope brake downe euen with the ground the Chapel Colledge at Lambeth or Colledge at Lambeth which his predecessors had founded and he had finished in the honor of Thomas Archbishoppe of Canturburie King Richard tourned his armye against the Barons of 119â— K. Richaad vvoÌ„ded to death Paulus Aemeleus Gualterus Couen Ralph Cogshal Poictow that rebelled against him he set their Cities towns on fire spoyled their Countrey flew many of his aduersaries cruelly at the laste came to the Dukedome of Aquitaine and besieged the Castel of Chalne and brought it to that that they within offered to yéeld vpon conditions but he woulde not so receiue them but would haue them by force whervpvn a certain yong man named Bertram de Gordon standing on y e Castel wall leuelled a quarell out of a crosse bowe and smote him with a venomed Darte which stripe the king little regarded but inuading the castel wan it and put the soldiours in prison Of this wounde aforesayde he dyed the sixth day of Aprill in the yeare of our Lord. 1199. When he had raigned ix yeres and ix monthes and was buried at Fonteuerard at his fathers féete whom he confessed he had betrayed his heart was buried at Roane and his bowels at the foresayde Chalne ¶ King John IOHN brother to Richard aforenamed beganne his raigne ouer the Realme Anno reg 1 of Englande the vj. daye of April in the yeare of our Lord 1199. Of person he was indifferent but of melancholie and angrie complexion He being now in Normandie
touching these matters aforesayd and for other considerations also caused a newe coyne of golde to be made in Gascoigne being busied himselfe aboute the repayring of such things as were decayed and throwen downe And in this season there sprang vp a foolish fantasie in the French mens heades that the King of Englande was come into Normandie the cause of which rumour rose vppe for that the Duke of Lancaster after that he had fortifyed the strong places belonging to the King of Nauar whiche were in the I le of Constance and other places did direct his iourney towardes Brytaine whereof he was newly made chiefe Captaine Another cause was this Phillippe brother to 1356 the King of Nauar came into England and earnestly craued ayde of the King against the Frenche King who kept hys brother in prison that he mighte by force of armes restoare all such lands vnto him as were wrongfully withholden from him wherevpon hée offeryng to doe homage and fealtie he hadde of the Kings appoyntmente Miles Stapleton a manne of great integritie and in martiall affayres very skilful him I say the king appointed to be his faithful felow These men with two thousande men well appoynted trauelling throughe Normandie toke townes and Fortresses burning diuerse of them passing along tyll they came to a Castell nine leagues distaunte from the Citie of Paris neyther did they aâ—lake theyr trauayle vntil they hadde forced theyr enymies to enter into a yearelye truce By this meanes a great report and no lesse fear filled the heartes of all French men whiche report at length came to the eares of the Prince lying at Regla wherefore he gathering all the power he had with him in hys Dukedome to the intent to méete hys Father whiche he muste doe by trauelling through Fraunce he came at length to Brugetat where he was certifyed that the Earle of Armenia woulde after his departure haue spoyled the Countrey and for that intent had prouided a greate bande of men wherefore hée sent backe to the gouernour of Gascoigne vnto Barnarde de Libret and other From thence the prince went into France through the coastes of Barny and Lymon stil encouraging his men against their enimies sending before him Iohn Chandos Iames Dawdeley and other complices to trye out the state of their enimies countrey least perhappes some crafty ambushment might sodainely assaulte our men afore they were ware He himself remouing his campe euery day and now being entred into Pictauia his espies broughte worde that the French king had gathered a greate armye beyng now in Aurelian who also knewe of the Princes comming for he sente out espies to discouer our armye amongst whoÌ„ Griffin Micco of Chambly petie Captaine of two hundered men méeting with other espies came to his coaste for oure espies toke thirtie of theÌ„ and slew the residue so that there was not one of them lefte to carrye worde what was become of theyr fellowes Our espies procéeded towardes Romerentine where méeting with the Lord Crone and Lord Brisgande they sette vppon them and slew them their chief Captaines being forced to flée to a castle and hauing taken their lodging in a town the prince commanded that on the morning a great assault should be giuen to theÌ„ of y e Castell The day folowing our men being al armed passed through the ditches came vnto y e wals of the Castel some applied to scale y e wall with ladders some burne the gates and entring slew a gret many of the chief men but y e Lords before named fled vnto the principal tower of y e castel but y e prince determined not to depart til they that were besieged were eyther taken or yéelded at length the Castell being vndermyned the men besieged with all humilitie yéelded vp the Castell After this the spies declared that the Frenche King was come downe to Turon to prouide armies to go against the Prince of the which tydings the Prince being gladde he pighte his tentes againste the Frenche King but could not passe the riuer of Leger by reason of greate floudes and the Frenche King hadde broken all the bridges to the intent there shoulde be no passage betwixte the Prince and the Duke of Lancaster whose armyes might wel euerye nyght perceyue eache others fiers in the Campes but the Prince folowing alongst the riuer of Legers Eastwarde he pyghte hys tentes neare vnto Turon where loking for the Frenche Kyng foure dayes hoping to fighte with him for that hée was distaunte but one league off he vnderstoode that the Frenche King was retyred backe to Blamia ten leagues off passing ouer by a Bridge the Riuer of Legers at a place vsed betwixt two strong Townes and so towarde Poyters This retyring of the Frenche king certifyed the Prince returned backe intending to haue mette him in his waye whych he coulde not doe yet crossing ouer all as he imagined the nerer way he sette vpon the tayle of his enymies and cut froÌ„ them the Earles of Inyni and Winters and also the Marshall of Burgonie these being takeÌ„ died as was thought through the great toyle they had taken night drawing on our men gaue themselues to reste in a wood intending the next day to take theyr iourney towarde Poiters and by the waye they were certifyed that the Frenche King with greate prouision prepared himselfe to battayle and drew nigh to our tents The Batayle of Poyters the Prince therefore committed the vawarde of the armye to the Earles of Warwick and Oxford the middle ward was guided by the Prince and the rerewarde was led by the Earles of Salisburie and Suffolke In all the whole armye of the Prince there was not aboue foure thousande menne of armes one thousande armed souldiours and two thousand Archers The pompous nobilitie of the French men drewe nygh greatly disdayning the small company of the Englishe men for they had in number eight thousande fighting souldiours they had also seuen auntients At this matter a gret many of our men murmured bycause of late a great part of our army was sent to defende Gascoigne There was among the French men a certaine Scotte called William Douglas a man of great force and practise in the Warres this manne did the French king make Knight and bycause he knewe he woulde be a deadly enimie to the English men he gladlye hearkned to his aduices This William was Captain ouer two hundred Scottes these men vnderstoode wel that it was the custome of the Englishe men in those dayes to fighte on foote in which point they followed the Scottes and the Scots also prouoked the French king and other French men to fight in like maner The French king obeying his foolish counsel gladly agréed vnto his sayings wherevpon he sente lighte horssemen into the Cittie that they shoulde suffer no man to make any chase but only 500. horssemen well appointed to come out againste the Archers in the beginning of the conflict and to runne them ouer and to treade them vnder
England and his Quéen were lodged in the Castell of Lowre and the King of France and his Quéene were lodged in the pallace of Saint Paule King Henrie hearing that the Dolphen with a great power besieged the Towne of Guisney he determined to goe himselfe to the raysing of the siege and so came to the town of Corbeil and so to Senlis where he waxed so sicke that hée was constrayned to tarry and send his brother the Duke of Bedforde to rescue theÌ„ of Cosney but the Dolphin raysed hys siege and departed thence King Henrie his disease increasing he departed this life in the Castell called Boyes de Visceme not far from Paris on the last of August in the yeare 1422. when he had raigned nine yeares fiue monethes and odde dayes There was present at his death King Charles of Fraunce and the two Quéenes but before his death this most prudent King disposed the guarde of the yong Prince his sonne and the defence of the realme of Englande to hys brother Humfrey Duke of Glocester but the custodie of the body of this yong Prince the King committed to his vncle the Duke of Excester and the reuenues of the Dutchie of Normandie he bequethed to his brother Iohn Duke of Bedforde for the gouernaunce of the same Dutchy and of the Realme of France In his life time he reedified his royall manour that then was called Shine nowe Richmount hée founded two Monasteries vpon the Thamis not farre from Richmount the one of Carthusians whiche he named Bethlem the other of religious men and women of Saint Bridget and that he named Sion He founded Gartar principal Kyng at armes of all Englishmen and also the brotherheade of Sainte Gyles without Creple Gate of London Shortlye after hys departing his bowels were enterred in the Church of Sainte More de Fosses and his corps well enbaulmed and seared was closed in leade and accompanyed with all the Lords Enguerant estates and commons of England that were there presente with also many Lords and great estates as well of France Normandie Burgondie and Picardie was brought with greate honour to Paris and set in the Churche of our Ladie where were done for him right solemne exequies with distributioÌ„ of mony and great almes to the poore From thence he was broughte to Roane where he aboade long When all things necessarie were prepared for the conueyaunce of the deade King into Englande hys body was layde in a Chariot whiche was drawen by foure great horsses and aboue the dead corpes they layde a figure made of boyled hydes or leather representing his person as nyghe to the semblaunce of him as could be deuised painted curiously to the similitude of a liuing creature vpon whose heade was set an Emperiall Diadem of golde and precious stones and in his right hand he helde a Scepter royall and in his lefte hand a ball of gold And in this manner adorned was this figure layde in a bedde in the sayde Chariot with hys vnsage vncouered toward the heauens and the couerture of hys bedde was of red silke beaten with golde and besides that when the body shoulde passe through anye good Town a Canapie of maruaylous great value was borne ouer the Chariot by men of great worshippe In this manner accompanyed of the King of Scottes and of all Princes Lordes and Knightes of hys house he was broughte from Roane to Abeuile where the corpse was set in the Churche of Sainte Offrâ—ne From Abuile he was broughte to Hedin and from thence to Menstreull so to Bulloigne and to Caleis In all thys iourney were many men about the Chariot clothed al in white which bare in theyr handes torches burning after whom followed al the housholde seruauntes in blacke and after them came the Princes Lordes and estates of the Kyngs bloud adorned in vestures of mourning and after all thys from the sayde Corpse the distaunce of two Englishe myles followed the Quéene of Englande righte honourably accompanyed In thys manner they entred Caleis from whence after a fewe dayes they departed and continued theyr iourneys by water and lande vntyll they came to London where they arriued about the tenth of Nouember so were conuaied by London bridge through Cheap to the Cathedrall Churche of Saint Paule vppon the couering of the for moste of the foure horsses that conuayed the Chariot wer imbrodered the auntient armes of EnglaÌ„d vpon the couerture of the seconde horsse were the armes of England and Fraunce in one shielde quarterly vppon the couerture of the thirde horsse was imbrodered the armes of Fraunce without any maner of difference and on the fourth horsse were the armes of King Arthur When his exequies were solemnized at Saint Paules Church in London hée was brought from theÌ„ce to be enterred in the Abbay of Saint Peter at Westminster amongst hys noble auncestoures Thus thys most victorious and renoumed Kyng entred the way decréed for euery creature in the floure most lustie time of hys age to witte but sixe and thirtie yeares olde ⸪ ¶ King Henry of Windsor HEnrie the sixth being an infant of eight moneths old beganne Anno reg 1. Titus Liuius his raigne the last of August in the yeare 1422. Continuing the time of his youth the gouernance of the Realme was committed to y e Duke of Glocester and the gard of his person to the Duke of Excester and to the Duke of Bedford was giuen the regiment of France who right wisely and nobly ruled the same so long as he liued This Henry was of witte and nature simple gentle and méeke he loued better peace than warre quietnesse of mind than businesse of the world honestie than profite rest and â—ase than trouble and care all iniuries that euer happened to him which were many he suffered patiently and reputed them to be worthely sent of God for his offences William Gastfield Robert Tatarsale the 28. of Septem Sherifes Maior William Walderne Mercer the 28. of October The xxj of October Charles King of France passed out of this world and was buried at S. Denis in France after he haâ— History of Loys Duke of Orleance Charles le bievv King of France dyed bin Crowned King 46. yeares He was greatly beloued of his people all his life time and therefore was called Le Roy Charle le biew ame but yet he had a sicknesse the more part of his raigne that being out of his witte he woulde strike all that came néere him it tooke him first in the Citie of Mans shortly after he had bin in Flanders to reduce the Flemings to obedience There was by reason héereof great trouble in France bycause those that were néere to him in lignage sought euery one to haue the chiefe gouernement in theyr hands When he thus dyed the Realme was left in miserable state for people of each strange nation were gouernoures in the Realme First the Englishmen had conquered a great parte and sought to haue the rest and the Duke of
get the good wyll of the people who had conceyued an ill opinion of hym of thys arose ciuill warres within the Realme and often dissention and discordes as well of the Nobles as of the common sort Anno. 982. a great part of the Citie of London was brent Thomas Rudburn which Citie at this time had most building from Ludgate towarde Westminster and little or none where the harte of the Citie is nowe except in diuerse places was housing that stoode without order so that manye Cities as Canturburie Yorke and other in Englande passed London in building but after the Conquest it encreased and nowe passeth all other A disease not knowen in England in time past to witte Asser Flux of men c morraine of Cattaile Bishops Sea at Excester Feuers of men with the Flix and Morren of cattayle killed many Anno. 994. King Ethelred erected a Byshoppes sea at Excester The same yeare Anlafe Kyng of the Norwayes Sweyne King of Danes on the daye of the Natiuitie of our Lorde in xviij Galleys came vp to London whiche they attempted to breake into and to set on fire but they were repulsed not without their greate detriment and losse by the Citizens wherevppon they being driuen with furie leauing London set vpon Eastsex and Kent by the sea coastes brent Townes and wasted the fields without respect of sex or age killed al wasted with fire sword al what they may not carry away At length being pacified with a Tribute of 16000. pounds departed to theyr shyppes and Wintered at Southampton Anno. 995. a Comet apeared The Bishoprick of Lindâ—fer Bishops sea aâ— Durham or Holâ—e Iland was remoued to Durham In the yeare 1002. King Etheldred caused al the Danes in The Danes 〈…〉 thered Burton vpon Trent England to be slayne vpon the day of Saint Brice The same yeare Vlâ—ricus Spote founded a Monasterie at Burton vppon Trent In Anno. 100â— Swayn King of Denmark with agret army inuaded EngleÌ„d with fire and sword 1004 they fought a great battell at Theâ—forde against Vlfekettel Carle of East-Angle Asser The yere 1009. they fought another battel against Vlfekettel at Rengemore The yere 1011. they destroyed Canturburie for that y â— Archbishoppe Elfegus woulde not yéelde to them he was first imprisoned there after carried to Grenewiche and there stoned to deathe Christes Churche is spoyled and brent the Monkes with all other men are â—â—â—â—hed TiraÌ„ny of the Danes in Englande nine of euery ten being put to death the tenth suffered to liue in miserie the number of them that were left aliue was four Monkes and of lay people eight hundred so that y â— number slaine was 36. Monkes and. 8000. of the lay people In Anno. 1012. they toke tribute of 48000. poundes and Record eccle Caâ— Marianus Tloriacensis at the last after diuerse ouerthrowes giuen to the meÌ„ of this Iland they possessed the same and putte king Etheldred to flight constrayning him to liue in exile among the NormaÌ„s This Etheldred had two wiues Ethelgina an Englishe Ethelgina and Emma vviues to Etheldred Alured and Edvvard the sons of Etheldred woman and Emma a Norman of the first he had two childreÌ„ of which sauing of Edmonde who succéeded hym in the kingdome it were nothing to our purpose to speake Of the secoÌ„d that was Emma sister to Richard Duke of Normandie there were borne two sonnes to witte Edward and Alured And that I do here contrarie to that is commonly vsed set Edward before Alured as elder brother I am moued therevnto by no smal aucthoritie which I haue taken out of the historiographers W. Gemeticensis Encomium Emma of that age out of Gemeticensis a most diligeÌ„â— writer of Genealogies and one other author who in hys Commentarie written in praise of Emma the Quéene affirmeth that Edwarde was the elder brother whom I doe the better beléeue bycause it is not like that he séeing the things wyth his eyes shoulde mistake the matter especiallye writing to the Quéene who was mother to them both Swanus in the meane time subdued al Englande and the people for feare yelded vnto hym on euery side ouer whome most cruelly he tryumphed But not long after he departed this life at Geynesburge and left Canutus his sonne successour in the Kingdome Etheldrede hearing that Swanus was dead leauing in Normandie with Duke Richard his sisters sonne Emma his wife and the children that he hadde by hyr returned with al spéede into Englande with Edmunde his sonne by hys firste wife being then at maÌ„s state by the trustinesse of his own men and the ayde of the Normans moued warre against his enimie Canutus finding himselfe vnable to matche with him went into Denmarke minding to returne hither immediatly againe Etheldred being contrarie to his expectation thus restored to his kingdome shewed great crueltie vpon the Danes that remained in England sparing neither man nor woman yong nor old Therefore Canutus being very desirous to reuenge the same prepared a new armie and came into England against Etheldred with al spéede he could raging wide and side with fire and sword Etheldred in the meane season whether by sicknesse or for sorrow dyed when he had raigned â—o Taxtor Wil. Malme Alfredus Beuers lacensis eight and thirtie yeares and was buryed in the North I le of Paules Church in London aboue the high Aulter EDmond the sonne of Etheldred by his first wife succéeded 1016 Edmond Ironside W. Malme in the Kingdome who whether it were for the greate strength of his body or for that he alwayes vsed to go in armour was surnamed Ironside He had sixe battels against Canutus King of the Danes Leyland at Penham hard by Gillingham in Dorcetshire He put the Danes to flight after that at Shirestone He held euen hand with them in the field notwithstanding that the Englishmen at the first beganne to flée by the policie of Edricus Duke of Lincolne and of Merce who cryed Edrike a Traytor runne away wretches Edmond your King is slayne After this King Edmond came to London to deliuer the Citizens whome part of the enimies had beséeged as soone as he was gone from thence He had made a ditch also round about the Citie where Ditch about London the Riuer of Thamis doth not runne The Danes fléeing the King followed them and passing ouer Brentford he vanquished them with a notable victorie The rest of y e Danes which remayned with Cnute whiles London beseeged both by land and by vvater Edmond rested him and set his matters in order did againe beséege London both by water and by lande but the Citizens stoutely withstoode and repulsed them wherefore they shewed their anger vpon the Countrey of the Mercies spoyling Townes and Uillages with robbery burnings and murther and caryed their pray to the Shippes whiche they had gathered togither in the Riuer of Medway which runneth by Rochester from
whence they were driuen by the King who taking the foorde of Brentford before them put them to flight and slew a great number of them The sixt and last battell was at Essendone in Essex néere to Rochford in which battell Edmond had gote the victorie Cogshal Sca. Cro. but Edrike agayne playing the Traytor greate slaughter of the Englishmen was made there the honor of Englande was ouerthrowen and Edmonde wente almost alone on foote to Glocester where hée gathered a newe force to set vpon his enimies but Cnute pursued him as he fledde and hauing prepared their armies both the Kings themselues attempted to fight hand to hand for the right of the Combate for the Kingdome kingdome in the I le of Olania in Seuerne in the which Combate they both being wéeryed fell to a couenant to deuide the same so that the one halfe of the Kingdome shoulde be England deuided vnder Canutus and the other halfe vnder Edmond which Edmond not long after dyed at Oxford whereas it is saide he was slayne by the treason of Edrike of Straton and was buryed at Glastenbury leauing Edmonde and Edwarde his children very yong This Edrike was not long vnrewarded according to his desertes for hymselfe making vaunt thereof vnto Canutus then being at Baynardes Castell in London sayde in this wise Thus haue I done Canutus for the loue of thée Edrikus a Traytor to whome he answered saying and thou shalt dye as well thou art woorthy bycause thou art giltie of Treason against God and me in that thou hast slayne thine owne Lord and King which was ioyned to me in league as a Brother his bloud be vpon thine owne head and straight wayes least there should be any tumulte the Traytor was in the same Speculum histo Ri. Cirecest Chamber tormented to death with firebrands and linkes and then his féete being bounde togither he was drawne through the Stréetes of the Citie and cast into a ditch called Houndes ditch for that the Citizens there cast their dead Hunsditch Treason revvarded Dogges and such other filth accompting him woorthy of no better buriall These Princes raigned togyther two yeares CAnutus the Dane taking an occasion bycause in the couenant 1018 that was coÌ„cluded concerning y e deuiding of the Realme no assurance was made for the Children of Edmond The Danes possessed all England he chalenged all England to himselfe alone by law as they call it of growing to which was a most easie thing for him to do bycause there was no man that durst erect himselfe as patrone to defend the childrens right and title and by this suttle and craftie interpretation of the couenant the Dane gote the Monarchie of England and slew the brother of Edmond and conueyed the children farre away out of England least they should at any time be brought againe and receiue their right Some say they were sent to a certayne The Kings children conueyed into Svvethen man that was a Prince in Swethland there to be dispatched out of the waye and that the Prince vnderstanding they were Kings children spared them coÌ„trarie to the credit and trust that was committed vnto him which appeareth to be true in that the same foraigne Lord kept and brought vppe the children honourablye the yongest of whiche whose name was Edwarde did afterwardes marrie Agatha the Agatha the Emperors daughter the vvife of Edvvarde daughter of Henry the fourth Emperour of Rome of whome he had many children of whiche we shall speake héereafter And the other which was y e elder brother whose name was Edmond dyed without children In the meane season Canutus bycause he had no heire that lawfully might succéede him in his kingdome for Harold Swaine were begotteÌ„ of Harolde and Svvayne concubines children a Concubin partly that he might establish in time to come the kingdome that he had gotten vnto his owne kindred y t came by lawfull succession and partly that he might purchase to himselfe the friendship of the Englishmen and of the Normans procured to haue giuen him in marriage Emma the widow of King Etheldred who at that time was with Edward and Alured hir sonnes in exile with Duke Richard in Normandy whiche mariage séemeth to be made euen by Gods prouidence who had determined to restore the common wealth in England whereby as by the law and title of recouerie and returne out of exile the monarchie of all England which the Danes had taken from the Englishmen and had possessed sixe and twentie yeares and more did returne againe to the Englishmen that were the right heires For Emma concluded mariage with the Dane vpon condition Mariage made vpon conditioÌ„ that the Kingdome of England should remayne vnto none other but to the Children that were begotten of hir if any of them did remaine aliue by reason of this mariage shortly after she did beare Canutus a sonne of his owne name commonly called Hardycanutus This second name was giuen him bycause of his great Hovv tvvo names vvere giuen to Kings courage like as his brother Harold was named Harefoote that is to say lightfoote bycause of his notable swiftnesse of foote By this affinitie and aliance the Danes became of the more strength and power He kept Englishmen in his seruice so long as he liued He subdued the Scottes whereby he was King of England Canutus King of foure Kingdomes Scotland Denmarke and Norway After that he went to Denmarke and so to Rome and returned againe into England where he kept good iustice all his life and did many charitable déedes He made a faire Church at Ashendume in Essex He founded a-new the Monasterie of Saint Edmondesbury Saint Edmundsbury buylded Ex charta regia Marianus restoring the donation which Edmond King of the West Saxons had giuen to Saint Edmund the King and Martyr who lyeth there buryed He appoynted to be King of Norway Swanus his sonne Marianus as was sayde by Alfgine daughter to Althelme Duke of Northampton and his Lady Vulfrune but other said he was a Priests sonne c. He also appoynted his sonne Hardycanutus by Emma to be King of Denmarke and deceassed at Shaftesburie when he had raigned twentie yeares and was buried in S. Swithens at Winchester HArold for his swiftnesse called Harefoote whome Canutus 10â—8 had by a Concubine Alice of Hampton a Shomakers daughter affirming himselfe to be sonne of Canutus and Peter de Ichâ—â—â— Marianus Floriacen Alfgina the Earle of North-hamptons daughter slept not vppon the occasion and oportunitie offered but vsing the force of the Danes that dwelt in England inuaded the Realme while his brother Hardycanute gouerned in Denmarke He tooke from his mother in law Emma the most parte of the riches and treasure that Canute his father had left hir and then with consent of the great Lords began to raigne but not so mightily as his Father Canutus did for a more iust heire Hardycanutus was
looked for wherevpon the Kingdome was deuided the North part to Harold and the South to Hardycanute Edward and Alfred sonnes to King Ethelred with many Knightes came out of Normandy to sée their mother at Winchester whiche sore troubled the mindes of many greate men who bare more fauour to King Harold Especially Godwine Earle of Kent feigning to receiue Alfred as a friend came to méete him but in the end put him in prison parte of his companye he put in fetters and after put out their eyes Of some he caused their skinne to be plucked ouer their eares chopping off their hands and féete Some he commanded to be solde and diuers were murthered at Gilforde Quéene Emma hearing of this dealing she sent hir sonne Edward backe againe into Normandy After this Alfride was conueyed to the I le of Eely where his eyes being firste plucked out he was deliuered to the Monckes to be kept prisoner there where shortly after hée departed this life and was buryed in the South I le of the West part of the Church Bycause Hardycanutus delayed to come ouer being sent for he was vtterly reiected and Harold who before was King of the Mercies and Northumbers was chosen King of all England who shortly after expelled his mother in law Emma out of the Realme He raigned thrée yeares dyed at Oxford and was buryed at Westminster and after at Saint Clements without Templebarre at London HArdycanutus the lawfull begotten sonne of Canutus and 1041 Emma as soone as he had gotten his fathers Kingdome fetched home his mother out of exile and in reuenge of displeasure that was done to hir and of the murther of his brother Alured he commanded the carkas of Harold to be digged out of the earth and to be throwen into the Riuer of Thamis where by a Fisher it was taken vp and brought to the Danes who buryed it in a Church yard which they had This is supposed to be S. Clements Church vvithout Temple barre at London Which done the King appoynted eyght markes to be payde to euery Sayler in his name twelue markes to euery Pilote or Maister which tribute was to be payd of al England so gréeuous that scarce any was able to beare it Shortly after he sent for Edward the sonne of Etheldred his brother of the mothers side to come into England and embraced him with all loue and fauour Being at a mariage feast pleasantly drincking with the Bride other persons in the middest of his cups he fell suddaynely downe to the ground so remaining dumbe departed this life the third yeare of his raigne was buried by his father at Winchester EDward borne at Islip besides Oxford the sonne of Etheldred 104â— Alfridus Beuerla Io. Rouse whom Hardycanutus had sent for into England was Crowned at Winchester This Edward for his excelleÌ„t holynesse is vntill this day called Saint Edward who so soone as he had gotten his fathers kingdome of his owne frée will released the tribute of 40000. pound called Dane gelt which Dane gelt the English people euen from the very beginning of the reigne of the Danes was compelled to pay to their Kings euery The first comâ—â—ing vp of the common Lavv. yeare He was also the chiefe author and cause that the law which we call the common Law was first brought vp being gathered togither out of the lawes and ordinaÌ„ces of four nations which were receiued when the Island was subiect to diuers regiments gouernances to witte of the Mercies of the West Saxons of the Danes of the Northumbers Mercies vvest Saxons Danes and Northumbers He was hard to his mother bycause she was hard to him in his minoritie and also suspected with Alwine Bishop of Winchester whome he put in prison by counsell of Roberte Archbishop of Canturbury but after his mother had purged hirselfe Alwine was deliuered and Robert the Archbishop conueyed himselfe out of England He tooke to wife Edgitha Sea Cron. the daughter of Earle Godwine who bycause she brought Edgitha vvas barreyne him forth no children neyther was there any hope that she should beare any wheÌ„ he did sée that many did gaye after y â— kingdome he began to be carefull for one that should iustly succéede him and therfore following the reason of y â— commoÌ„ law he sent for home into England his Nephew Edward the sonne of king Edmond his brother who by reason of his loÌ„g absence out of the Countrey was coÌ„monly called y e outlaw This is that Edward the sonne of King Edmond surnamed Ironside which remained aliue whome Canutus when he had gotten England had sent into Swethen with his brother He knowing the aduise of his Uncle came againe into England and brought with him Agatha his wife Edgar Margaret and Christian his children borne in Panonia in hope of the kingdome where he liued but a while Thus S. Edward being disappoynted both of his Nephew and his heire for that Edward the outlaw was both by néerenesse of bloud and by lawfull succession right heire vnto the Kingdome withoute delaye pronounced Edgar the outlawes sonne and his greate Nephew to bée heire of the Kingdome and gaue him to surname Adeling which name in those dayes was peculiar onely to Kings Children which were borne in hope and possibilitie of the Kingdome for thys worde Adeling in the English tong is as much to say as Prince or Lorde the contrary of which word is Vnderling that is The signification of the vvord Adeling to say a seruanâ—â—or or bondman or according to the Walche spéech Adeling signifieth heire but bycause this Edgar was but yong of yeares and within age by his testamente he made Harold the sonne of Godwine a stoute man both in warre and peace Regent vntill the yong Edgar should be of age to receyue the Kingdome and that then he should be made King which thing Harold with a solemne oth promised to sée so performed and done Notwithstanding he like a Traytour by force of armes immediately after y â— death of Edward refused the name of Regent and pronounced himselfe Alfridus Beuerl Speculum histo Râ— Cirecest Flores histo King whiche thing shortly after brought destruction both to himselfe and to all England Anno 1051. Eustace Earle of Bullogne which had to wife Floriacen Goda sister to King Edward arriued at Douer where one of his men quarelling aboute his lodging slewe one of the Townesmen in reuenge whereof not only the quareller but other of his company and many of the Towne were slayne whiche doing so muche offended Godwine Earle of Kent that he assembled a great power wherewith he marched toward Glocester where the king then lay vnto whome he sent messengers to denounce warre except he would deliuer Eustace and his fellow Normans and Bolognians which held a Castell in the dominions of Kent After this Godwins armie entered into Glocester but it was there agréed that at a day
one Richard Ashnalde who had issue Ailricke who had Swane who had Adam of whom came two daughters one of them maried to Gaulfride Neuile the other to Thomas Burgh but neyther of them had anye part of the Towne or lands about Pontfrait Robert sonne to Hildebert Lacy founded the Priory of Pontfraite Robert the first sonne of King William bycause he could not possesse Normandie which his father had giuen him before his coÌ„ming into England in the presence of Phillip king of Fraunce he went into Fraunce and through ayde of Kyng Phillip he fetched prayes in Normandie brent townes slewe men and brought his father into no small perplexitie Upon Palme sondaye aboute noone appeared a Blasing 1077 Anno. reg 12 1078 Ypodigma starre neare vnto the sunne Malcoline King of Scots wasted Northumberland slew many and toke a great pray with him into Scotland The Cathedral Church of Hereford was brent by Grifin and Algare sonne to Leof icke Earle of Merce While King William gaue battayle vnto his eldest son Robert before the Castell of Kerbothead which King Philip King VVilliam vvounded had lent him he was wounded by hym in hys arme and caste besides his horsse but as soone as Robert knew him by his voyce he straight alighted and required his Father to mount on his horsse and suffred him to depart many of king Anno. reg 13 Williams men were slaine and his son William with many other sore wounded Trustin Abbot of Glastenbury committed a filthy acte in his 1379 Murder Mathew Paris Church for he caused thrée Monkes to be slaine which were layde vnder the Altare and xviij men to be wounded that their bloud ran from the Alter down y â— steps to y â— pauement This yeare was a great wind on Christmas daye And Anno. reg 14 1080 Anno. reg 15 1081 Anno. reg 16 Tutsbury Liber Tutsbury 1982 Bermondsey Anno. reg 17 1083 a greate Earthquake and roarings out of the earth the vj. of Aprill Henry Erle Ferrers founded a Priory within hys Castel of Tutsbury the late new Church was builded in Anno. 1407. when the Normans were put out Alwin Child a Citizen of London founder of the Monasterie of S. Sauior at Bermondfeey in Surrey gaue vnto the Monkes there dyuers rents in the Cittie of London Matild the Quéene daughter to Baldwin Earle of Flaunders and wife to King William died and was buryed at Cane in the Monastery of Nunnes whych she had builded Richard sonne to King William died in the new Forrest and was buryed at Winchester King William caused inquirie to be made howe manye Acres of land numbred â—â— Rouse Anno. reg 18. 1084 A greate taxe acres of lande were sufficient for one ploughe by the yeare howe many beastes to the tilling of one hide how many Cities Castels Farmes Oranges Townes Riuers Marshes and Woods what rent they were by yeare and howe many Knightes or Souldiors were in euery shire all whych was put in writing and remayneth at Westminster King William tooke homage and othe of allegiaunce of all Englande of what tenor or fée soeuer they were and tooke Anno. reg 19 of euery hide of land sire shillings and then fayled into Normandy When the Normans had accomplished their pleasure vpon 1085 the Englishmen so that there was no noble man of that nation left to beare any rule ouer theÌ„ it became a reproch to be Nevâ—â—â—â—rrest called an Englishman Wicked customes sprang vp and the more the people spake of equitie the more wroÌ„g was done the Justiciers were the authors of al vnrighteousnes Who so did take a Deare or a Goate had hys eyes putte oute It was broughte to passe that for the space of more than xxx Mathew Paris Bishop at Lincolne miles good profitable corne ground was turned into a chace for wilde beastes Remingus Bishop of Dorchester remoued his Sea to Lincolne Anno reg 20. where he buâ—lded a new Church to be his seate King William kept his feast of Christmas at Gloucester Flori. Wigmore where to thrée of his Chaplaines he gaue thrée Bishoprikes to Mawrice the Bishopricke of London to William that of Thetford and to Robert that of Chester There was a greate water floude so that hils were made 1086 VVater floude softe and consumed with their fal ouer whelmed many villages King William founded the Abbeys of Battel where hée ouercame Harolde of Selbe in Yorkeshire and of Cane in Normandy Battell Abbey in the which he was buried He founded the Priory of Saint Nicholas at Excester He gaue greate Priuiledges to Saint Martins le Graunde Liber S. Mar. Anno reg 21 Saint Martins le grand in London which Church was founded before the Conquest by Ingelricus and Ewardus his brother cousins to king Edward the Confessor he also gaue to y e Chlledge as appeareth by his Charter in these words I do giue Creeplesgate of London but a Posterne and all the grounde adioyning vvas a Doore or Marishe and graunt to the same Church al the land and more without the Posterne which is called Criplesgate on either parte of the posterne that is to say from the North corner of the wall as the riuer of the Wells there running departe the same more from the wal to y e ruÌ„ning water which entreth the Citie c. This yere was a great death of Cattel and sore distemperancie 1087 of ayre many dyed first of feuers and after of famine In the mean time a deuouring fire spread ouer al the principall Famine and Pestilence Cities of Englande The Church of Saint Paule in London was brent with the more part of the Citie which fire began London and Poules Churche brent 〈…〉 Erkenwaldi at the entry of the West gate consumed so y e East gate Mawrice then Bishop of London began the foundation of the new Church of Paules Richard his successor did wonderfully encrease the walles of the said Church and of his owne cost Floria Wig. purchased y â— large stréetes about it where were wont to dwel many laye men and compassed it with a strong wall In a prouince of Wales called Rose was found the sepulchre of Gawen vpon the sea shore who was sisters sonne to Wil. Malme Mens bones of large sixe Arthur king of the Britaines being xiij foote of length King William being at Roane in Normandie Philip king of Fraunce saide that he kept his Chamber as women do in childbed nourished his fat belly but when he is churched I will offer a thousand candles with him King William hearing of these scornes went with a great army into Fraunce spoyling al things as he passed Last of al he burned the Citie of Meanx with our Lady Churche and two Anchers that were enclosed there who perswaded themselues they ought not to forsake their house in such extremitie whereat the King reioysing cheared his men to féede the fire came
wéete Radulphus fitz Algede Winiard le Douershe c. gaue the foresayde Lands called Knighten Gild to the same Church but Othowerus Accolinillus Otto and Gefferey Earle of Estsex Constables of the Tower of London by succession with-helde by force a portion of the same lande that is to say East Smithfield néere to the Tower to make a Uineyard and would not depart from it by any meanes till the seconde yeare of King Stephen when the same was adiudged and restored to the Church of the holy Trinitie King Henry hauing greate warres with Lewes King 1116 Anno. reg 17 Cro. Peter of France the Realme of England was sore oppressed with exactions The Towne of Peterborow with the stately Churche there was burned downe to the ground In March was excéeding lightning and in December 1117 Anno. reg 18. Tempest and Earthquake thunder and hayle and the Moone at both times séemed to be turned into bloud This yeare in Lumbardy was an Earthquake continued fortie dayes whiche ouerthrewe many houses and that Floriacen whiche was maruellous to be séene a Towne was moued from his seate and set a good way off Mathild the Quéene wife to King Henry of Englande 1118 Anno reg 19. Mathew Paris deceassed at Westminster and was there buryed in the Reuostrie She founded the Priorie of Christes Church within the East gate of London called Aldgate and an Hospitall of Mathilds Hospitall Saint Giles in the fielde without the Weast part of the same Citie The order of the Templers began Knightes of the Temple Many sore battayles were fought in France and Normandy betwéene the King of England and of France 1119 Anno reg 20 1120 Anno reg 21. The Kings children drovvned W. Malme Mathew Paris King Henry hauing tamed the Frenchmen and pacifyed Normandy returned into Engalnde in whiche voyage William Duke of Normandy and Richard his sonnes and Marye his daughter Richard Earle of Chester and his wife with many noble men and to the number of one hundred and sixtie persons were miserably drowned the Sea being calme King Henry marryed Adelizia the Duke of Louans 1121 Anno reg 22. daughter at London from thence the King with a great armie wente towarde Wales but the Welchmen met him humbly and agréed with him at his pleasure The Citie of Glocester with the principall Monasterie was brent againe as before and Lincolne was burned 1122 Anno reg 23 Glocester brent Lib. Glocest Mathew Paris 1123 Anno reg 24. VVarvvike vvith the Colledge King Henry sayled into Normandy where he remayned long trauelling to quiet that Countrey Henry Earle of Warwike and Margaret his wife founded the Colledge of Saint Mary in y â— towne of Warwike And Roger de Belemound his sonne Earle of Warwike and Aeline his wife translated the same Colledge into the Castell of Warwike in Anno 1123. At that time were nine parishes in Warwike Saint Sepulcre Saint Hellens of these twayne were made one Priorie of Saint Sepulchre Alhalowes Saint Michaell Saint Iohn Saint Peter Saint LawreÌ„ce Saint Iames these fiue last Liber Warwicâ—â— Io. Rouse were ioyned to Saint Maryes in Anno 1367. Saint Nicholas Waleran Earle of Mellent is takeÌ„ in Normandy by King 1124 Anno reg 25 1125 Anno reg 26 Mathew Paris Taxtor Coyners punished Henry and he with many other are imprisoned at Roane Iohn Thremensis Cardinall came into England who inueying sore against Priestes Concubines was himselfe detected of whoredome The King caused all the Coyners of England to haue their priuie members cut off and also their right hand bycause they had corrupted the Coyne Henry the fourth Emperour being dead as it was said 1126 Anno reg 27. The Empresse returned into England Giraldus Cambr. and Mawde the Empresse returning into England dwelte with the Quéene in hir Chamber bycause she was suspect of hir husbands death but some affirmed him to be long after in England lyuing as an Hermite and in the end to be buryed at Chester King Henry held his Courte with great magnificence Floriacen in his Castell of Winsore and there assembled all the nobilitie of his Realme where when the Archbishop of Yorke woulde haue Crowned the King equally with the Archshop of Canturbury by the iudgement of all menne he Archbishop of Yorke vvith his Crosse cast out of the Kings Chappell was repulsed the bearer of his Crosse togither with the Crosse was throwne out of the Kings Chappell for it was affirmed that no Metropolitane out of his owne Prouince might haue any Crosse borne before him The feast being ended the King with all the States of the Realme togither came to London and there at the Kings commandement William the Archbishop and the Legate of the Romish Churche and all other Bishops of the English Nation with the Nobilitie tooke an othe to defend against all men the Kingdome to his daughter if she suruiued hir father except that before his deceasse he begate some sonne to succéede him The King also granted to the Churche of Canturburie and to William and his successors the custodie and Constableship of the Castell of Rochester for euer The Archbishop of Canturbury assembled a counsell of Bishops 1127 Anno reg 28. Abbots and other Prelates at Westminster where they determined many causes concerning Ecclesiastical businesse and the King with his counsell confirmed them King Henry went with a warlike army into Fraunce bycause 1128 Anno reg 29 Lodowike the French King defeÌ„ded the Erle of Flaunders the Kings Nephew and enimy At this time men had such a pride in their haire that they Men vveare haire like vvomen W. Malme 1129 Anno reg 30 Mathew Paris contended with women in length of haire King Henry helde a Counsell at London wherein it was graunted him to haue the correction of the Cleargie whiche came to an euill purpose for the King tooke infinite summes of mony of Priests and suffred them to do what they would Robert Deolley Knight great Conestable of England was the first founder of Osney King Henry gaue his daughter the Empresse to Geffrey 1130 Anno reg 31 1131 Anno reg 32 Rochester brent Richard Diuiensis 1132 Anno reg 33 Carleil a Byshopricke Geruasius Gualter Couen London brent Geruasius Doro. Thomas Wikes Plantagenet Earle of Angiou In the Moneth of May the King beyng present the Citie of Rochester was sore defaced wyth fire The King made a Bishopricke at Carleil Mawde the Empresse did beare to Geffrey Plantagenet Earle of Angiou a sonne and named him Henry which when the King knewe hée called hys nobles togyther and ordayned that his daughter and the heires of hir body should succéede him in hys Kingdome In Whitsonwéeke a great fire beginning at Gilbert Beckets house in Weast Cheape consumed a greate parte of London from thence to Algate with the Priorie of Channons of the holy Trinitie and many houses of Office thereto
belonging An Earthquake in England Earthquake Henry Bloys Bishop of Winchester builded the Hospitall Liber canonitrinitatis of Saint Crosse neare vnto Winchester The same hadde béene a Hospitall in the Saxons time but after spoyled by the Danes There was greate darkenesse in England and the Sunne 1133 Anno reg 34. VVorcester brent became like the Moone in the thyrd quarter Worcester as it had oft before chaunced was sore defaced with fire Mawde the Empresse brought forth a sonne named Geffrey for which cause King Henrie went ouer into Normandie Robert Shorthose King Henries brother died in the Castel 1134 Anno reg 35 Robert Shortâ—ose died 1135 Anno reg 36 Death of King Henrie Mathew Paris of Cardife and was buried at Glocester King Henrie remayning in Normandie vpoÌ„ a day did eat Lampraies wherof he toke a surfeite and deceased the firste day of December Anno. 1135. when he had raigned 35. yeres 4. monthes his bowels braynes and eyes were buried at Roan the rest of his bodie was pondered with salt and wrapped in Bulles hydes bycause of the stincke which poysoned them that stood about him The Phisition which being hyred with a great reward to cleaue his heade to take out y e brain with the stinck therof died so that he enioyed not the reward that was couenaunted Thus among a gret many that king Henrie slew this Phisition was the last King Henrie was buried at Reding which he had foundeâ— He also founded the Priorie of Dunstable he conuerted a rich Colledge of Prebends in the Towne of Cirencester into an Abbay of Chanons regular he also builded â— Leyland there an Hospitall of Saint Iohn and newe builded the Castel of Windsor with a Colledge there ⸪ ¶ King Stephen STephen Earle of Morton Anno reg 1 W. Malme Floriacencis Gernasius Do. Ypodigma and of Boloigne sonne to the Earle of Bloys Adela William Conquerours daughter and nephew to king Henrie the firste claymed the kyngdome the seconde daye of December Anno. 1135. He comming into Englande was repulsed by them of Douer shutte out by them of Canturburie but receiued of y e Londoners and Péeres of the land admitted king and crowned at Westminster on Saint Stephens daye by William Archbishop of Canturburie This was a noble man and hardy of passing comely fauour and personage he excelled in martiall pollicie gentlenesse and liberalitie toward all men especially in the beginning and although he had continuall warre yet did he neuer burden his commons with exactions But vniustly and contrarye to his othe made to Mawde the Empresse daughter Fire at London to King Henrie he toke on him the crowne of England Fire which began in the house of one Ailward neare LoÌ„don Liber trinitatis London Thomas Wikes 1136 Excester besieged Ger. Dorobor stone consumed Eastward to Algate and Westwarde to Saint Erkenwalds shrine in Poules Church King Steuen assembling a great armye of Englishmen and Flemmings entred into Deuonshire and besieged the Castell of Excester a long time whiche Baldwine de Riuers helde against him but at length when they within the Castel wanted necessarie things to liue by they compounded Baldwine with hys wife and children are disherited and expulsed the lande A battayle was fought at Goher betwixte Normans and Walshmen where a hundred and. xvj persons on bothe sides Battaile against the vvalchmen were slaine whose bodies laye in the fieldes and were horribly torne and deuoured of Wolues After this was made greate eruptions by the Walchmen who destroyed Churches Townes Castels corne cattayle slewe men women and children riche and poore or solde theÌ„ in forraine countries In October a sore battayle was fought at Cardigan in the which such slaughter of men was made that the men except which were led awaye captiue there were of women taken and ledde away that there remayned to the tenth a thousaÌ„d their husbands with their small children partelye drowned partly brent partly slaine so that the bridge being broken ouer the riuer of Tinde there was a bridge made of mens bodies Anno reg 2. and horsses drowned In March King Steuen passed the Sea to subdue NormaÌ„die 1137 Ypodigma Rochester Richard Diuiensis where he toke many Cities and strong Castels The thirde of June Sainte Andrewe in Rochester was brent with all the Citie and the Bishoppes and Monkes houses The fourth of June Saint Peters the Archbishops sea in Saint Peters in Yorke Yorke Saint Maries without the wals and an Hospital whiche the Archbishoppe Thrustoâ— had builded with 39. other Churches also the Trinitie Church in the suburbes of the same Citie within a small time after were brent Also Saint Peters Church at Bathe and all the Citie the The Citie of Bath brent Liber Roff. Geruasius Dorâ— Floriacensis Anno. reg 3. 27. of June was brent And the same moneth the citie of Leogere was consumed with fire England began to fall into great troubles whych caused King Steuen to returne out of Normandy before he had finished his businesse there Kyng Stephen besieged Bedford and wonne it then he weÌ„t 1138 Bedford besieged Floriacencis Geruasius with a strong power into Northumberlande where he stayed not long but went to Glocester where the Citizens receyued him with greate reioycing Miles the Kings Conestable broughte him into the Kings Pallace there where all the Citizens were to him sworne From thence he wente to Hereford bicause that he heard the Castel was holdeÌ„ against him and on Whitsonday he sate crowned in the Churche of Hereford When they that kept the Castell sawe the Kyngs power to encrease they yéelded themselues The King tooke also the Castell of Webheleyge whych Geffrey Talbot hadde helde agaynste hym The same day that the Kyng departed Hereford brent out of Hereforde all beyond the Ryuer of Wye was brente by the saide Geffrey The King returned to Oxforde where he tooke Roger the Bishop of Sarum with the Byshop of Lincolne and his sonne Roger the Bishop of Eely escaping went to the Castell of Vies and kept it against the King but at lengthe it was deliuered The same time Robert Earle of Gloucester renounced his allegeaunce to King Stephen fortified Bristow and other Castells Also Miles the Kings Conestable reuolted Wherfore Bristovv besieged the Kyng besieged the Castell of Bristow but at length being wearyed he tourned to other of the Earles Castels and séeing hys enimyes still encreasing he called out of Flaunders Anno reg 4. Ypodigma men of warre wyth Wylliam de Ypers their leader whose counsell he chiefly followed The same yeare Roger Byshop of Salisbury a great builder Geruasius Doâ—o of Castelles and Houses departed this life There was founde in hys Coffers fortie thousande Markes of siluer besides much golde and dyuers Jewels that came to the kings hande so that he hadde gathered treasure but wist not for whom The Nobles sent for Mawd the Empresse promising hir
his Christmas at Bermonsey where hauing conference Geruasius Doro. with his Nobles for the state of the Kingdome he 1155 promised to banish all Strangers Wherevpon William of Ipres and all the Flemings that had flocked into England fearing the indignation of the newe King departed the land And the Castels that had bin builded to pill the riche and spoyle the poore were by the Kings commandemente and counsell of his Chancellor throwne downe In March Quéene Elianor did beare a sonne at London called Henry after his father King Henry was sonne to Mawde the Empresse whose Line of the Saxons restored Gerua Doro. Radulphus de decâ—te mother was Mawde Quéene of England wife to King Henry the first and daughter to Margaret Quéene of Scottes who was daughter of Edward which he begat of Agatha the sister of Henry the Emperoure Edwarde was the sonne of King Edmond named Ironside whose father was King Etheldred whose father was the peaceable King named Edgar the sonne of Edmond the son of Edward the seigniour the sonne of Alured c. A counsell was holden at Wallingford where the Nobles Anno reg 2. Ger. Dorobor were sworne to the King and his issue King Henry went ouer into Normandy where with long 1156 Anno reg 3. séege he tooke diuers Castels of Mirable Chinon and other and obteyned the homage and pledges of all Aquitaine and Gascoyne William the Kings eldest sonne died and was buryed at Reding King Henry returned into England and then with an armie 1157 King Henry vvent against the VVelchmen Reedifyed Castels Henry of Essex went against the Welchmen where he felled their wods fortified the Castell of Rutland and recouered many strong holdes He reedifyed the Castell of Basingwirke c. but he lost many of his men for Henry of Essex that bare the Kings Standerd as he was assayled amongst his enimies let fall the Standerd to the ground which encouraged the Welchmen and put the Englishmen in feare supposing that the King Iocelyn of â—racland had bin slayne The King notwithstanding got of a certayne King of Anno reg 4. Wales and other Barons homage and hostages and so rereturned Quéene Elianor brought forth a sonne named Richard at Oxford in the Kings Pallace there William Earle of Glocester was taken by the Welchmen Giraldus Cambre in the Castell of Cardife On Christmas day King Henry ware his Crowne at 1158 Winchester where after celebration of diuine seruice he set his Crowne vpon the Altar and neuer ware it after King Henry went into France and at Paris was ioyfully receyued of King Lewes who required to haue his daughter Margaret to be maryed to his sonne Henry which suite he obteyned and King Henry obteyned that as Seneshall to the French King he might enter into Britaine and call afore him suche as made warre one against another to appease them whereby he brought the Citie of Naunts to his dominion An Earthquake happened in many places Earthquake through England and the Riuer of Thamis was dryed vp that at London men might walke ouer the same dryshod Quéene Elianor brought forth a sonne named Geffrey Anno reg 5. Ypodigma A new Coyne was made in England King Henry tooke esâ—uage of the Englishmen the summe 1159 Geruasius whereof grew to 12400. pounds of siluer Of other Countreys subiect to him he gathered also an infinite exaction then passed towards Tholouse with an huge army and beséeged that Citie from Midsomer til Hallontide There were with him Malcoline King of Scottes and a certaine King of Wales and all the Earles and Barons of England Normandy Aquitaine Angeow Gascoyne but Lewes the French King so defended that Citie that the Kings purpose was frustrate and the séege raysed King Henry returned from Tholouse and Henry y â— King Anno reg 6. 1160 of Englands sonne not seauen yeares olde maried Margaret the French Kings daughter that was not yet thrée yeares Gerua Dorâ— Anno reg 7. 1161 Anno reg 8. Thomas Wikes â—â— Beuâ—â—la old Mathew Earle of Bolonia married Mary Abbesse of Rumsey daughter to King Stephen Theobald Archbishop of Canturbury deceassed and the Churche of Canturbury was voyde one yeare one moneth and fourtéene dayes King Henry caused all his subiects to sweare fidelitie to 1162 Mathew Paris his sonne Henry concerning his inheritance Thomas the Kings Chancellour tooke his othe first sauing his fidelitie to King Henry the father so long as he liued This Thomas was elected Archbishop of Canturbury and when he was consecrated he forthwith refused to deale any more with matters of the Court renouncing the Chauncellorship c. There came into England xxx Germaynes as well men as women who called themselues Publicanes their head and Wilbel Nouobur Ralphe Cogshall ruler named Gerardus was somewhat learned the residue very rude They denyed Matrimony and the Sacraments of Baptisme and the Lords Supper with other Articles They being apprehended the King caused a Counsell to be called at Oxford where the sayd Gerard answered for all his fellowes who being pressed with Scriptures aunswered concerning their faith as they had bin taught and woulde not dispute thereof After they coulde by no meanes be brought from their errors the Bishops gaue sentence against them and the King commanded that they should be marked with an whote Iron in the forehead and whipped and that no man should succour them with houserome or otherwise they tooke their punishment gladly their Captayne Publicans vvhipped going before them singing Blessed are ye when men do hate you they were marked in the forehead and theyr Captayne both in the forehead and the chinne Thus being Anno reg 9. whipped and thrust out in the winter they dyed with cold no man reléeuing them Robert de Mountfort accused his néere kinsman Henry 1163 Iocâ—lin of Bracland of Essex of high treason before the Nobilitie affirming that he in an expedition into Wales in a narrow and hard passage at Colleshele most fraudulently threwe away the Kings Standard and with a lowde voyce pronounced him to be dead and turned backe those that came to y â— Kings succour Indéede the foresayde Henry of Essex was perswaded that King Henry was slayne whiche vndoubtedly had come to passe if Roger Earle of Clare had not with quicke spéede come to with his retinue and raysed agayne the Kings Standarde to the encouraging of the whole army Henry withstoode the foresayd Robert and denyed all his accusations whereby in processe of time the matter came to be tryed by Combate They met at Reding to fight in an Iâ—e Combate at Reading néere to the Abbey Thither also came much people to sée what ende the matter woulde come to And it chanced that when Robert had manfully powred out many and heauie strokes Henry turning reason into rage tooke vpon him the part of a challenger and not a defender who whilest he
manfully stroke was more stoutely striken agayne and endeuoring to conquer was conquered himselfe he being ouercome fell downe for dead and when he was thought to Henry of Essex ouercome haue bin slayne at the instance of suche of the nobilitie as were of kinne to him it was granted vnto the Monks there Flores HistoriaruÌ„ that his body should be buryed but afterward he reuiued and hauing recouered his health became a Monke in that place London Bridge was new made of timber by Peter of Colechurch Anno reg 10 London bridge made of Timber 1164 Geruasius Do. a Priest Chapleyne Malcoline the Scottish King and Resus Prince of Southwales and other did homage to King Henry and his sonne Henry at Westminster A Counsayle was holden at Claringdon in presence of the King and the Archbishops Bishops Lordes Barons c. wherein was recognised and by their othes confirmed many ordinances too long héere to recite Thomas Archbishop of Canturburie being sworne to the same shortly after sore repented and â—â—ed the Realme went to the Court of Rome The six and twentith day of January was a great Earthquake Anno reg 11 1165 An Earthquake Mathew Pariâ— Gerua Doro. Anno reg 12. in Eely Norffolke and Suffolke so that it ouerthrewe them that stoode vpon their féete and made the Belles to ring in the Stéeples The King seased into his handes all the Archbishops goodes and rents and banished all his kindred The King led an innumerable army against the Welchmen Radul Cogshal of Flemings Scottes Pictes Aniowans and other but with so great a multitude he could not ouercome them The Welchmen tooke the Castell of Cardigan In a certayne asséege at Bridgenorth againste Hugh de Mortimere when the King was shotte at by one of the enimies a valiant man Hubert de Saint Clere Constable of Colchester did thrust himselfe betwixte the King and the danger of the stroke and so receyued death for him whose only daughter the King taking into his custodie he gaue hir in mariage to William de Languale with hir fathers inheritance who begate on hir a sonne bearing the name and surname of his Grandfather Quéene Elianor brought forth a sonne named Iohn The King passed ouer into Normandy and there holding 1166 a counsell appoynted a collection to be made through all his Countreys two pence of the pound of mouable goodes A Taxe for the first yeare and one penny the pound for foure yeares after Robert sonne to William Earle of Glocester deceassed Anno reg 13 1167 The warre was renued betwixt the King of Englande and the French King for the Citie of Tholose and Mathewe Earle of Bulloigne brother to Philip Earle of Flanders manned sixe hundred Shippes to haue come into Englande but by such preparation as Richard Lucy gouernour of England made he was stopped well ynough Mawde King Henries daughter was maryed to Henry Anno reg 14 1168 Iohn Taxtor Gerua Doro. Ypodigma Duke of Saxon. Conan Earle of little Britaine dyed and left for his heire a daughter named Constance which he had by the King of Scottes sister which Constance King Henry marryed to his sonne Geffrey Robert de Boscue Earle of Leycester dyed He foundeâ— Anno reg 15 1169 Sca. Cron. Gerendon Leycester and Eaton Sca. Cro. the Monasteries of Gerendon of Monkes of Leycester called Saint Mary de Prate of Channons regular and Eaton of Nunnes was founded by Amicia his wife daughter of Ralph Montforde King Henry caused the Castell of Warwike to be builded Deruntius the sonne of Morcardus called Mack Murgh Giraldus Cambr. King of Leynster being expelled out of his kingdome came into Guyen to King Henry hnmbly requiring 〈…〉 â—â—r his restitution who vnderstanding fully the cause â—â—ereof gaue frée licence to all Englishmen that woulde to â—â—â—â—e the sayde Deruntius wherevpon he returning into Englande couenanted with Richard Earle of Chepstow to gâ—â—e him his daughter in marriage and with hir the succession of his Kingdome so that he would help him in the recouery of it and shortly after he promised to Robert Fitâ— Stephen and Mawrice Fitz Gerald large reuenues in Ireland for the like helpe King Henry helde his Court at Naunts where the Bishops Anno reg 15. 1170 and Barons of Britayne being present sware their fidelitie to the King and to his sonne Geffrey and then the King sayled into England but many of his company were Giral Cambr. drowned by the way Robert Fitz Stephen first of all Englishmen after the Conquest Englismnen transported into Ireland entred Ireland the first day of May with 390. men and there tooke Wexford in the behalfe of Deruntius King Henry caused his sonne Henry borne at London Henry the kings sonne Crovvned to be Crowned by the handes of Roger Archbishop of Yorke as he thought to the great quietnesse of himselfe and hys Realme but it proued farre otherwise Thomas Archbishop of Canturbury by the mediation of Pope Alexander and Lewes the King of France was restored to his Sea of Caunturbury In September Richard Earle of Chepstow surnamed Gualteruâ— Couen Strongbow sayled into Ireland with a thousand two hundred men of warre and by force tooke Waterford and Dubâ—â—â— and marryed Eue Deruntius daughter Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canturbury the xxviij of Anno reg 17 1171 December was slayne by William Tracy Baron of Braynes Reignolde Fitz Vrse Hugh Moruilt and Richarde Briton Knightes There was séene at S. Osythes in Estsex a Dragon of a Chro. Colchester maruellous bignesse whyche by mouing burned houses Ex Record King Henry returned from beyond the Seas and landed at Portesmouth in the moneth of August Nicholas Break espeare an Englishman borne at Langley in the County of Hartford sonne to Robert a yonger brother Pope Adrian an Englishman of the house of Breakespeares whiche Roberte after the death of his wife professed himselfe a Monke of Saint Albons leauing his sonne to prouide for his owne preferment this yong man passed into France was shorne a Monke and after chosen Abbot went to Rome was consecrated Bishop of Alba made Cardinall sente Legate to the Norwayes where he reduced that nation from Paganisme to Christianitie and after returned to Rome When Anastasius was dead he was chosen Pope by y â— name of Adrian the 4. During his Popedome he granted the regimente of Ireland King Henry Lord of Ireland Gesta Abbat Sancâ—â— Albani Regiâ—truÌ„ mâ—n Sancti Albani Iohn Bale Cimphriuâ— Anno reg 18. Giralduâ— Cambr. Radul Cogshal Geruasius Dâ—â—â— to the King of England wherevpon King Henry hauing caused Richard Earle of Chepstow to giue into his handes all the land which he had conquered in that Realme toke Shippe at Penbroke and sayled thither where the King of Conach Deruntius King of Corke Morice King of Methe the King of Vriell Duvenald King of Ossery Duvenald King of Limerike Machachelin Ophelon Machaleny Othneâ—hely
his tayle betwixte the Legate and the Archbyshop of Canturburie whiche Archbishop of Canturburie béeing lothe to remoue the other set his buttocke in his lappe but he had vnneath touched hym with his bumme when the Bishops and other of the Cleargie and Laytie stepte to hym pulled hym threwe hym to the grounde and beganne to lay on hym with fistes and battes so that the Archbishop of Canturburie yéelding good for euill was fayne to defende the other Archbishop who with his rent Coape gote vppe and away straight to the King with a greate complaynte but when the trueth of the matter was once knowen hée was well laughed at for hys remedye Richard Strangbow Earle of Chepstow deceassed and was Iohn Beuer. buryed at Dublin in Ireland William Earle of Arundell also deceassed and was buryed at Wimondham William Earle of Glocester bycause he had no sonne to Anno reg 23 Ypodigma inherite his landes and béeing loth to distribute them amongst his daughters he made Iohn the Kings sonne his successor A showre of bloud raigned in the Isle of Wighte two Cron. Tinmouth houres space The Church of secular Channons at Waltam was by 1177 Ypodigma Geruasius the Kings commandement newe builded and regular Channons placed there After the death of Rosamund the Faire daughter of Walter Rosamund Lord Clifford Concubine to Henry the second at Woodstoke he tooke priuily King Lewes daughter of France that was marryed to his sonne Richard Earle of Poytow for his Leman and had practised for a diuorce betwixt him and his Quéene Eleanor wherevpon followed great discord betwixt the Kings of England and France but méeting togither they agréed vpon peace for a time Richard Lucy the Kings Justiciar layde the foundation of the couentuall Church in the honor of Saint Thomas in 1178 a place which is called Westwood otherwise Lesnes in the territorie Lesnes Geruasius Walter Couen Gerua Tilberien of Rochester in the new Parish of Southfleete This Richard Lucy builded the Castell of Anger in Estsex in the diocesse of the Bishop of London The Citie of Yorke was brent On Christmas day at Oxenhall in the territorie of Derlington Anno reg 25. 1179 Cron. vinmouth in the Bishopricke of Duresme the earth lifted vp it selfe in the manner of an high Tower and so remayned from the spring of the day vnmoueable vntil the euening and then fell with so horrible a noyse that it feared the inhabitantes thereabout and the earth swallowed it vp and made there a déepe pitte which is séene vntill this day For a testimonie thereof Leyland sayth he saw the pittes there Iohn Leyland commonly called Helkettles The tenth day of Aprill the Church of Saint Andrewe in Rochester was consumed with fire Richard Lucy departed this life in the Abbey of Lesnes hauing changed his habite The Usurers in England were gréeuously punished for Anno reg 26 1180 Vsuters punished Gerua Dorâ— corrupting the Coyne the whiche besides other vexations were fettered two and two togither and carryed in Cartes to the Kings Court. A new Coyne was ordeyned in England Geffrey the Kings Bastarde sonne resigned the Byshopricke Anno reg 27 1181 of Lincolne and was made the Kings Chancellour This yeare Giraldus Cambrensis wrote his booke of the Itinerarium Cambriâ— Giraldi description of Wales wherein he noteth to haue happened in his time in the Prouince of Kemmeis a yong man borne in those partes to be persecuted with Toades as all within that Countrey had come crawling togither to vexe him A man deuoured by Toades and when innumerable numbers of them were killed by those that kept him and other of his friends and kinsmen Geruasius de mappa mundi yet came they still as if they had sprong like Hydraes head numberlesse at length when his friends were wéeried with watching they caused him in a Coffin to be hoysed vp into an high trée that was shred of all the boughes and made smooth but there was he not preserued from his venemous enemies which assaulted him créeping vp into the trée till they had eaten him to the bones that he dyed his name was Seisillus Elker her that is long legge Barnewell with the Priorie néere vnto Cambridge was fired Anno reg 28 1182 and brent Robert Harding a Burgesse of Bristow to whome King Henry gaue the Barony of Barkeley builded the Monasterie Saint Austins in Bristovv Anno reg 29 1183 of Saint Augustines in Bristow King Henry the elder went into France and there made his testament They of Aquitayne hated their Duke Richard for his crueltie and were minded to driue him out of the Earledome of Poytow and Dukedome of Aquitayne and to transpose those estates to his brother King Henry the yonger but when all men looked for victory to the yong King he King Henry the yonger deceassed Giraldus Cambr 〈…〉 1184 Gualterus Couen fell miserably sicke and dyed in the Castell of Limouicen about the beginning of June and was buryed at Roane King Henry returned into England and sent many men of warre into Wales for the Welchmen emboldned by the Kings absence had broken forth and slayne many Englishmen The Abbey of Glastenbury was brent with the Church of Glastenbury brent Saint Iulian. Heraclius Patriarch of Hierusalem came to King Henry Anno reg 31. desiring him of ayde agaynst the Turkes but the King bycause 1185 Heracâ—â—us the Patriarke Gerua Doro. of the crueltie of his sonnes was counselled not to leaue his Dominions in hazard and to goe so farre off wherefore he promised the Patriarke 50000. Markes of Siluer This Patriarke dedicated the new Temple then builded Nevv Temple in the West part of London King Henry sente his sonne Iohn into Ireland that he Iohn the kings sonne Lord of Ireland Ypodigma might be made Lorde thereof The Pope sente him a Crowne of Peacocks feathers brayded with Golde This yeare dyed Hugh Mortimere founder of Wigmorâ— Abbey Mawde the Empresse Mother to King Henry the second The Empresse deceased deceassed she founded the Abbey of Bordesley Geffrey Earle of Britayne the Kings sonne of England dyed Anno reg 32 1180 Geffrey Earle of Britayne dyeth Giral Cambr. Mathew Paris Roger Houeden Iohn Taxtor at Paris about the beginning of August and was there buryed He left issue two daughters which he had by Constance daughter to Conan Earle of Britaine who also at the time of his death was great with childe and after brought forth a sonne named Arthur A great Earthquake threw downe many buildings amongst the which the Cathedrall Church of Lincolne was rent in péeces the fiue and twentith of Aprill The Cathedrall Church of Chichester and all the whole Chichester brent Citie was brent the twentith of October Néere vnto Orford in Suffolke certayne Fishers of the Anno reg 33 1187 A Fish like a man Ralphe Cogshall Monument in Colchester Sea tooke in
Castel on the fiftéenth of August on which daye hée caused to be hanged to the number of 8â— men of armes and other souldiours Falcatius de Brent who was fledde into Wales hearing that the Castel was taken and his men slain vnder the conduct of the Byshoppe of Couentrie came to Bedforde and fel at the kings féete requiring mercy The Kyng deliuered him to Eustace Bishop of London and the Castell was made an heape of stones There was graunted to the King throughout Englande two shillings for euery carucat of land Caruage graÌ„ted Gray Friers Registrum fratrumminoram The Friers Minours first arriued at Douer nine in number fiue of them remayned at Canturburie and did there build the first CoueÌ„t of Fries Minours that euer was in England the other foure came to London and lodged at the preaching Friers the space of fiftéene daies and then hyred an house in Cornhil of Iohn Trauers one of y t Sherifes they builded there little Celles wherein they inhabited The deuotion of the Citizens towardes them and also the multitude of Friers so encreased that they were by the Citizens remoued to a place in Saint Nicholas Shambles whyche Iohn Iwyn Citizen and Mercer of London appropriated vnto the comunaltie of the Citie to the vse of the sayde Friers and became himselfe a lay brother Anno reg 9. William Ioynar builded their quire Henrie Wales sometime Maior of London the body of the Church Walter Potter Alderman the Chapterhouse Gregorie Roksle the Dortar Barthelmew of the Castel made the Refertorie This yeare the King graunted to the comunaltie of the the Citie of London to haue a common seale Iohn Trauers Andrew Bokerel the. 28. of September Sherifes Maior 1225 Fifteene Great charter confirmed Richard Renger the. 28. of October The xv part of al mens goods mouable within y â— realm as wel of the Cleargie as of the Laitie was granted to the King to ayde him in his right beyond the Seas and the king granted to the Barons and people the liberties which they long time had sued for he caused charters to be made and sent into euery Country twaine one of the common Liberties and the other of the Forrest Richard the kings brother and his vncle William Earle Gascoin subdued Anno reg 10. of Salisburie and many other were sent into Gascoigne who subdued the same and recouered Poyters Roger Duke Martin Fitz William the. 28. of September Sherifes Maior 1226 Free vvarren free toll Anno reg 11 Richard Renger the. 28. of October The King graunted to the Citizens of London frée warren that is to say frée libertie to hunt a certain circuit about the Citie And also that the Citizens of London shoulde passe toll frée throughout all England and that al weres in Thamis should be plucked vp and distroyed for euer Roger Duke Martin Fitz William the. 28. of September Sherifes Maior 1227 Richard Renger the 28. of October The King blaming the Citizens of London bycause they hadde giuen to Lewes the Frenche King nowe deceased at his departure out of England 500. markes he compelled them to pay the like summe to him beside the xv parte of theyr moueables and of the Burgeses of Northampton hée toke 1200. markes In a Counsell at Oxforde the King proclaymed that Charters canceled for as much as he was nowe of lawfull age he woulde rule hymselfe at hys pleasure and forthwith made all y e charter of y e Liberties Forrests to be frustrate alledging that they were graunted whiles he was vnder warde of other and had not power of his owne bodie so it followed y t who so woulde enioy the liberties afore graunted muste renewe their charters of the kings new seale with such a price as the Justiciar awarded them Richard the Kings brother returned into Englande was made Earle of Cornewal at Westminster Hubert de Burgo was made Earle of Kent Shortly after the Barons declared vnto the king that except he would restore the Charter of liberties of the Forest which lately he had canceled at Oxford they would compel him by the sworde Anno reg 12 Sherifes Maior 1228 Anno reg 13 Stephen Bokerel Henrie Cocham the. 28. of September Roger Duke the. 28. of October The King corrected the measures and weyghtes and made them bigger In the Sommer was often greate thunder and lightning which brent many houses and slew both men and beastes Stephen Bokerell Henrie Cocham the. 28. of September Sherifes Maior 1229 Anno reg 14 Roger Duke the. 28. of October Robert Lingham Bishop of Salisburie by the Kings help prosecuted the building of the newe Churche at Salisbuburie which his predecessour Richard did translate William Winchester Robert Fitz Iohn the. 28. of Septem Sherifes Maior 1230 Mathew Paris Darkenesse in Paules Churche Roger Duke the. 28. of October Upon the day of Saint Paules Conuersition when Roger Niger Bishop of London was at Masse in the Cathedrall Church of Saint Paule a greate multitude of people being there sodainely the weather waxed darke that one coulde scantly sée another in the Churche and sodainely an horrible Thunder clappe lighted on the Churche that the same was shaken as though it shoulde haue fallen and out of a darke cloude came such lightning that all the Churche séemed to be on fire and such a stincke that all men thought they shoulde haue died Thousandes of men and womenne ran out of the Churche and being astonied fell vppon the grounde voyde of al vnderstanding none of al the multitude taried in the Churche saue the Bishoppe and one Deacon which stoode stil at the high Alter awayting the wil of God Anno reg 15 King Henrie with a great army sayled into Brytaine wher after spoylyng the Countrey a peace was concluded Anno reg 15 Iohn Beuer. Sherifes Maior 1231 Gilbert of Clare Earle of Glocester dyed in Brytaine Richard Walter Iohn of Woborne the. 28. of September Roger Duke the. 28. of October Richard the Kings brother married Isabel Countesse of Glocester late wife to Gilbert Earle of Glocester lately deceased and sister to William Marshal Earle of Penbroke and the marriage being scantly finished the sayde William died and was buried in the new Temple at London by his father His brother Richard succéeded him in the Earledome Leolin Prince of Wales spoyled the lands of the Barons Nicho. Triuet Anno reg 16 that were on the borders of Wales wherefore the king gathered a great power at Oxford and went against the Walshmen and builded the Castell of Matilde which before hadde bene destroyed The Jewes builded a Sinagoge at London very curiously Ievves sinâ—goge Iohn Shepeshed but the Christians obtayned of the king y t it should be dedicated to our blessed Lady Michael of Saint Helen Walter de Buffel the. 28. of Sept. Sherifes Maior 12â—2 Andrew Bokerel Peperer the 28. of October Ranulph Earle of Chester and Lincoln dyed at Walingford and was
Pallace of Westminster men did row with wherries in the midst of the Hall and they rode on Horsebacke to their Chambers A Parliament at Marton wherein was made the Statutes Anno reg 21 Statutes of Marton Sherifes Maior 1237 of Marton Henry Cocham Iordan of Couentry the 28. of Septem Andrew Bokerell Peperer the 28. of October By the Kings procurement Octobon a Cardinall came into England as Legate from y e Pope the second day of July This yeare passed a stormie and troublesome weather and very vnhealthfull so that no man coulde remember that euer so many folkes were sicke of the ague Iohn Scot last Earle of Glocester deceassed and the Countrey Anno reg 22 Nic. Triuet Iohn Beuer. Sherifes Maior returned to the King for lacke of heires Iohn Tolason Geruas the Cordewenor the 28. of Sept. Andrew Bokerell Peperer the 28. of October Simon de Mountfort sonne to Simon Earle of Mountford for doubt that Quéene Blanche mother to the French King was offended with him fledde into England and was made Earle of Leycester and Steward of England by King Henry and had the Kings sister Elianor widdow of William Nicholas Triuet Io. Beuerla Marshall giuen him to wife Octobone being lodged in the Abbey of Osney the Schollers 1238 Mathew Paris Ypodigma Legate put to his shiftes of Oxford slew his mayster Cooke who was also the Legates brother and the Legate for feare gate him into the Stéeple of the Church where he held him till the kings officers comming from Abingdon conuayed him to Wallingford where he accursed the misdoers Odo de Kilkenny as Standerdbearer of the Schollers was taken with twelue other and cast in prison and long after went from Saint Paules Church in London to the Legates Scholers did penance at London Iohn Beuer. house which was Durham place vngirded withoute gowne bareheaded and barefooted whereby they asked him forgiuenesse and then the Legate restored them to their Uniuersitie A Scholler of Oxford fayning himselfe madde enterprised to haue slayne the King in his Chamber at Wodstocke King in darge◠Anno reg 23 but he was taken and after long emprisonment plucked in péeces with Horsses at Couentrie Iohn Coders Iohn de Wilehale the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Nicho. Triuet 1229 Richard Renger the 28. of October Simon de Mountfort whome the King had made Earle of Leycester after he had agréed with his elder brother Earle Almericus for the same Earledome being also Steward of Gascoine induced the King of England to recognise that he would hold of the King of France the land of the Baseles the chiefe Towne whereof is Bayon and was in times past a Kingdome of it selfe and so by acknowledging to be of the fée of the King of France excluded the King of Castile who chalenged the sayd fée to belong to the King of Spayne The Tower of London was fortified which the Citizens Mathew Paris Tovver of London fearing least it were done to their detriment complayned to the King who answered that he had not done it to their hurt but sayth he I will from henceforth do as my brother Ypodigma Anno reg 24 doth in building and fortifying of Castels who beareth the name to be wiser than I am Quéene Elianor bare a sonne named Edwarde at Westminster the 22. day of June Roger Bongye Ralph Ashwye the 28. of September Sherifes Maior 1240 William Ioyner the 28. of October Richard Earle of Cornewall the Kings brother tooke his iourney towardes Ierusalem with many other noble men of England Upon Saint Georges night the stone gate and bulwarke Mathew Paris which the King had caused to be builded by the Tower Bulvvarke by the Tovver of London was shaken with an Earthquake and fell downe but the King commanded the same to be builded againe stronger than before Lewlin Prince of Wales deceased and then betwixt his bastard sonne Griffin his legitimate son Dauid nephew to y e K. of Englād by his sister great gréeuous destructiō rose for the principalitie but at length Griffin being taken of his brother was cōmitted to prison Many strange and great Fishes came ashore whereof xj were Sea Bulles and one of huge bignesse passed vp the Monstrous Fishes Riuer of Thamis through the Bridge at London vnhurt till he came as farre as the Kings house at Mortlake where he was killed Aldermen chosen in London whiche had the rule of the Wards of the Citie but were euery yeare changed Anno reg 25 Aldermen in London Sherifes Maior 1241 Iohn Gifers Michaell Tony the 28. of September Gerard Bat the 28. of October The Jewes were constrayned to pay twentie thousand Markes at two tearmes in the yeare or else to be kepte in perpetuall prison Gilbert Marshall Earle of Penbroke dyed without the Towne of Hereford being brused in Turneament and was Iohn Beuer. buryed at London in the new Temple Walter his brother hardly obteyned the Earledome bycause he procured that Turneament contrarie to the Kings will and pleasure This Walter dying without issue his heritage was diuided Nic. Triuet betwixt the sonnes of his fiue sisters The walles and Bulwarkes that were newly builded about the Tower of London in the building whereof the Bulvvarkes by the Tovver Mathew Paris King had bestowed more than twelue thousand Markes were agayne vnrecouerably throwne downe as it were with an Earthquake for which chance the Citizens of London nothing sory were much amazed for they were threatned that the sayde walles and bulwarkes were builded in despight of them to the end that if any of them woulde presume to contende for the Liberties of the Citie they might there be imprisoned and to the ende that many mighte bée Anno reg 26 layde in diuers prisons many lodgings were made there that no one should speake with another Iohn Viell Thomas Duresme the 28. of September Sherifes Maior 1242 Nic. Triuet Ypodigma Roger Bongey the 28. of October King Henry with a great armie sayled into Normandy purposing to recouer Poyters Guine and other Countreys but after many bickerings to the losse of Englishmen he treated a peace Elianor daughter to Geffrey Earle of Briteyne and sister to Arthure ended hir life prisoner in the Castell of Bristow Iohn Fitz Iohn Ralph Ashwye the 28. of September Anno reg 27 Sherifes Maior Roger Bongey the 28. of October Hugo de Albeneto Earle of Arundell dyed and his inheritance was diuided among foure sisters Also Hubert de Burgo Earle of Kent dyed at his Manor of Banstede and was buryed in the Church of the Friers Preachers at London vnto the whiche Churche he gaue his noble Pallace at Mathew Paris Westminster whiche afterwardes the Archbishop of Yorke bought of them and made it his Inne since commonly called Yorke place now White Hall The Thamis ouerflowed the bankes about Lambeth and 1243 Great flouds drowned houses and fieldes the space of
e rest were committed to seueral prisons Anno reg 50 Sherifes Maior 1266 Pierce Longtofe Robert Brune Edward Blund Peter Aunger the. 28. of September Thomas Fitz Thomas Fitz Richard the. 28. of October King Henrie came to Westminster and there gaue vnto diuerse of his housholde seruauntes aboute the number of thrée score housholdes and houses within the Citie so that the owners were compelled to agrée redéeme theyr houses and goods or else to auoyde them then he made Custos of the Citie sir Othon Conestable of the Tower who chose Baylifes to be accomptable to him Iohn Adrian and Walter Haruy. After this the King toke pledges of the best mens sonnes of the Citie the whiche were put in the Tower of London and there kept at the costes of their parents By great labour and sute made al the foresayde persons whiche were in Windsor Castell eight only except were deliuered and the king agréed with the Citizens for twentie thousand markes to be payd for the leauying of which fine were taxed as wel seruauntes as housholders and many refused the liberties of the Citie to be quit of the charge The Castell of Douer was yéelded to Edward the kings sonne into the which he put Guy de Mountfort to be kepte The Countesse of Leicester wife to Simond Mountfort yéelded the Castel of Pemsey to K. Henrie hir brother who forthwith banished hir the realm of England for euer About Alhalowntide the Quéene of England returned from beyonde the Seas with hir came a Legate named Othobone who shortly after his comming in counsel holden at Northampton accursed al the Bishoppes and Priests that had ayded Earle Simon against the King especially he cursed by name Walter of Worcester Henrie of London Stephen of Chichester and the Bishop of Lincolne Worcester shortly after deceased the other â— of Glocest ther thrée went to Rome and were assoyled The Legate also published the Popes Bull for the tenthes of Churches to bée payde to the king for the next yeare Sir Simond the yonger fled from Kenilworth Castel to the disherited Knightes who then were in the I le of Oxholme wher he remayned not loÌ„g for through messengers with faire promises and hostages giuen by Edward the kings sonne he forsaking them went to London to the king his nobilitie but being priuily warned of their guile he made an escape got ouer into Fraunce The kéeper of Guy Mountfort about Easter being brybed let him go went with him into Fraunce this Guy weÌ„t into Tuscane and serued Earle Rufus in whose war waxing famous he obtained to haue his daughter in mariage Robert Ferters Earle of Darby Henrie Hastings Baudewinde Battaile of Chesterfielde Wake Iohn Derâ—â—le and other with theyr power being in the Towne of Chesterfielde in Darbishire there came against them Iohn Earle Waren sir Henrie of Almaine sir Waren of Basingborne and manye other Knightes who on Whitson euen met without the town on hunting sir Baudwyn Wake sir Henâ—y Hastings sir Gregory Caldwel sir Iohn Clynton sir Roger Maundeuil sir Richard Caldwel and to y â— number of xxij Knightes al vnder one speare al which they chased and put to flight wherof when sir Iohn Danuil being in the towne had vnderstanding he with a small companye rode out pierced through the hoste wounding many and escaped Erle Waren entring the towne slew many a man and toke the Erle Ferrers who was sicke of the goute and had that day bene letten bloud him they sente to the Tower of London from whence but lately he had bin deliuered Henrie Hastings and his company comming to Kenilworth founde there sir Iohn de Eynuile and many other valiant Knights Sir William de la Knowe and sir Iohn de la Ware had well stored y e Castel of all things necessarie King Henrie hastyng Kenilvvorth Castel besieged thyther beganne his siege the morrowe after Midsommer daye whiche siege continued til Christmasse after for they within the Castell not fearing his force which was great set open theyr gates and neuer closed them daye nor night come who so would they came to theyr cost so that many a man was slaine on both sides and manye were taken and raunsomed At length the Legate the Archbishop two other Bishops came to make accorde betwéene the king and the disherited and also them of the Castle but the disherits nor they of the Castel would grant to the Kings will wherfore the legate a coursed them and all that were of theyr accord but they of the Castell not regarding the Legate nor his cursing in mockage therof clothed a priest their surgeon Phillip Porpeis in a cope of white setting him on the Castel wal as a white Legate against the red made him to accurse y e K. the Legate al their partakers Whiles this businesse lasted at Kenilworth the disherites toke y e I le of Ely strengthned it in such wise that they helde it long they robbed Norffolk Suffolke Cambridgeshire they spoyled y e Citie of Norwich ransomed y e rich men at their pleasure At Bartholmewtide y â— K. held a Parliament at Killingworth wherein by his Barons were chosen vj. persons whiche being sworne chose to theÌ„ other vj. these xij to make an accord betwéen the K. and the disherits y e first vj. were Walter Gefford Bishop of Bath Nicholas of Ely Bi. of Worcester Walter B. of Excester Roger de Sumerey Roberte Walronde Alayne de la Souch BaroÌ„s these vj. chose to them Gilbert E. of Glocester Humfry Erle of Hereford the B. of S. Dauids sir Iohn Bailiol sir Phillip Basset and sir Warayn de Basingborne if these xij could not agrée the Legate Henrie son to Richard King of Almaine shold be Umpiers these met and agréed at the last Anno reg 51 Sherifes Maior Iohn Hinde Iohn Walrauen the. 28. of September William Richards the. 28. of October By the kings coÌ„mandement y e Bishops Abbots Priors Erles Barons knights of y e realme were asseÌ„bled at Northampton on y â— twesday next before Alhalownday ther to vnstand and to confirme by statute what the forenamed twelue stats had deeréed for the state of y e kingdome which was for y â— Barons y â— none should be disherite but y e Mountfort the Ferrers y â— other should redéeme their lands w t money at the hands of theÌ„ who had y â— same in possession of the Kings gift so y â— none payde aboue vij yeres value nor vnder iij. yeares value which was the lest this shal be assessed according to y e quaÌ„tity of their trespasse The siege of Kenilworth yet continuing they within the Castel began to be sore troubled with y e flixe and also wer without hope of succour to come to theÌ„ whervpoÌ„ on S. Thomas day before Christmasse they yéelded Kenilvvorth Castel ye elded y â— Castel to the K. with conditioÌ„ to depart w t life
taken and brought to London with greate numbers of men and women wondring vppon him he was lodged Adam Merimo in the house of William Delect a Citizen of London in Fanchurche stréete On the morrow being the euen of Sainte Tho. Delamore Bartholmew he was brought on horssebacke to Westminster Iohn Segraue and Geffrey Knights the Maior Sherifes Aldermen of London and many other both on horsseback and on foote accompanying him and in the gret hall at Westminster he being placed vppon the South benche crowned with Laurel for that he had sayd in times past y e he ought to bear a Crowne in that Hall as it was commonly reported and being appeched for a traytour by sir Peter Mallorie y e kings Justice he aunswered that he was neuer traytour to y e king of England but for other crimes whereof he was accused hée confessed them and was after headed and quartered There was opened to the K. a conspiracie wrought by the Archbishop of Canturburie and diuerse Earles and Barons against him at such time as he was in Flaunders The Earle Marshal being examined of this and being not able to purge himselfe made the king his heire and put him in possession of his landes to haue his grace and thus doing the Kyng gaue him again 1000. pound land by the yeare during hys life William cosine Reignalde Thunderle 28. of September Sherifs Custos Anno reg 34 Sir Iohn Bloud the. 28. of October Robert Bruce an Englishman presuming by the righte of his wife to vsurpe the Kingdome of ScotlaÌ„d called a Parliament of the nobles of Scotland within the Church of the Friers 1306 Minors in Domfries where he slewe Iohn Comin bycause he woulde not agrée to the treason and shortlye after to wit in the feast of the Anunciation of our Lady in the Abbay of Scone he caused himself to be solemnely crowned king by the Bishoppes of Glasco and Saint Andrewes firste and the third day after by the Countesse of Bowan bicause hir brother the Earle of Fife to whome by right of inheritaunce that office belonged was then absent in England In the feast of Penticost king Edward honored his eldest sonne Edward of Carnaruan with the degrée of Knighthoode and with him also moe than a hundred noble yong men at Westminster About the feast of the Natiuity of our Lady the king weÌ„t againe into Scotland with a great army hauing sent his son Edward with Ayner de Valence Earle of Penbroke Roberte Clifforde Henrie Lacy and many other noble knightes and gentlemen at Whitsontide before also he sente before hym his Justices of Trayle BastoÌ„ two and two togither into euery Citie and place into which he woulde come giuing theÌ„ power to kill traytours drawe and hang periured persons burn such as worke deceite destroy the wicked and set Englishmen in their places and there were taken by them in the space of two monthes by inquisition of Juries Hundreds Thousands breakers of peace and conspiratoures amongst the which Nigellus de Bruse brother to Robert de Bruse was drawne through Berwicke and hanged Moreouer Christopher and Iohn Seyton brethren wer hanged y â— Countesse of Bowan was closed in a Cage whose breadth length height depth was eight foote and hanged ouer the waâ—â— of Berwike the Bishop of Saint Andrews and of Glasco with the Abbot of Stone were sent to seuerall prisons in England King Edward besieged Simon Frisell in Lilyscho and tooke him and sent him to London Tower where he founde many Scottish Lordes in fetters of yron amongst whom was Thomas Morham with Herbert his sonne and Thomas Roy his Esquire who were all beheaded Simon Frisel was hanged drawne and quartered Earle Iohn de Athol bycause he was of the Kings bloud and an Englishman was not drawn but hanged and headed Sir Iohn Wallers was sente to the Tower of London and after hanged and headed Lawrence de Megos Esquire was taken at Douer there beheaded The Earle of Stratherne yéelded to king Edward who condemned him to remaine during his life in yron fetters in the Castel of Rochester At this time and long after King Edward had Scotland in such good obedience as he gaue of the landes thereof to hys Ex charta regia seruauntes and subiectes in England with Markets Fayres and Warrens amongst others I haue séen vnder the broade seale of the sayd king Edward a Manour called Ketnes in the Countie of Ferfare in Scotland and néere the furthest parte of the same nation Northwarde giuen to Iohn Evre and hys Lord Evre heires ancester to the Lord Eyre that now is for his seruice done in those partes with market euerye Monday fayre for thrée dayes euery yeare at the feast of Saint Michael and frée Warren for y e same dated at Lauercost the. 20. day of October Anno regni 34. Geffrey Cundute Simon Bylet 28. of September Sherifes Custos Sir Iohn Blound the. 28. of October This yere Margaret Quéene second wife to Edwarde the Registrum fâ—â—â—rum â—inorâ—m Anno reg 53 first began to builde the quire of the Churche of the Gray Friers in London to y e building wherof in hir life she gaue 2000. markes and. 100. marks by hir Testament Iohn of Brytaiâ— Earle of Richmond builded the body of the church Lady Marie Countesse of Penbroke Gilbert Clare Earle of Glocester Margaret Countesse Lady Elenor le Spencer and Lady Elizabeth de Brugh sisters to the Gilbert de Clare gaue greate summes of mony towards the same Richarde Whitington sometime Alderman and Maior of London founded the Librarie there in Anno. 1421. King Edward held his Christmasse at Carlile with a great multitude of English people in the month of January next Parliament at Carlile 1307 following he called a great Parliament to be holden at Carlile vpon the Octaues of S. Hillarie to treat of matters coÌ„cerning the state of Scotland wherevnto were somoned manye Lords both of the Spiritualtie TeÌ„poraltie who either appeared Parliament Records in person or else by proxie My self haue séene and red an auntient register of good authoritie contayning y e names of lxxxvij Erles and BaroÌ„s xx Bishops lxj Abbots viij Priors besides many Deanes Archdeacons other inferiour Clearks of y e Conuocation The maister of the Knights of the Temple of euery shire two Knightes of euerye Citie two Citizens and of euery borough two Burgesses c. Archbishop of Yorke Bishops Of Lincolne London Chichester Excester Hereford Salisburie Landaf S. Assafe Bangor S. Dauids Couentrie and Liâ—chfielde Bath and Wels. Norwich Rochester Durham Carlile Elie. Worcester Abbots Of S. Augustine in CaÌ„terbury Of Saint Edmunde Saint Albane Westminster Waltham Euesham Saint Marie at Yorke Peterborow Ramsey Winchcombe Glocester Bristow Malmesburie Glastonburie Selby Cyrcester Reding Furney Sawley Alnewike Saint Osith Barlyng Tupholme Byley Dale Newhâ—s Croxton Cokersande Saint Radegound Tichfield Torre Holmcolthram Welbecke Hales New Monasterie Iereual Fountaines
brother He also reuoked the prouisions before Wil. Paston Tho. Walsing made for selling of victualles and permitted all men to make the best of that they had neuerthelesse the dearth â—â—creased through the abundance of rayne that fel in Haruest so that a Quarter of Wheate or of Salte was sold before Midsomer for thirtie Shillings and after fortie Shillings There followed this famine a gréeuous mortalitie of Anno reg 9. Mortalitie of men people so that the quirke might vnneath bury the dead The Beastes and Cattell also by the corrupt grâ—â—â— whereof they fedde dyed whereby it came to passe that the eating of flesh was suspected of all men for flesh of Beastes not corrupted was hard to finde Horsseflesh was counted great delicates the poore stale fatte Dogges to eate some Dogges flesh good meate Children vvere eaten as it was said compelled through famine in hidde places did eate the fleshe of their owne children and some stale others which they deuoureâ— Théeues that were in prisons Theeues in prison deuoure one another did plucke in péeces those that were newly brought amoÌ„gst them and gréedily deuoured them halâ—e aliue A Gallon of small Ale was at two pence of the better thrée pence and the best four pence The Londoners considering that Wheate made in Malt VVheate forbydden to bee made into Maâ—â— was muche consumed ordained that from thenceforthe it shoulde be made of other grayne and also that a Gallon of better Ale should be solde j. â— ob and of small Ale for j. â— and not aboue The King according to the Statute of London sente hys Writs through the Realme commaunding that as wel within the liberties as without in Cities Boroughs Townes and Uillages a Gallon of Ale shoulde be solde for j. â— and that from thenceforth no Wheate shoulde bée made into Malt whyche if he had not the sooner caused to be proclaimed the greatest parte of the people should haue perished throughe famine Earle Waren was excommunicate by the Byshoppe of Cro. Dâ—â—â— Chichester for Adultrey wherevppon the sayde Earle came to the Bishop with armed men and foure more hasty than the reste threatned the Bishoppe wherevpon the Byshops men fell on them and tooke the Earle Hamond Goodsheape William Bodele the. 28. of Sept. Sherifes Maior Tho. Walsing 1316 Stephen Abindon the. 28. of October There arriued in England by the Kings request Gaustelinus and Lucas de Flisco two Cardinalles to make peace betwixte the Realmes of England and Scotland and to reconcile vnto the King Thomas Earle of Lancaster They broughte Iohn Trocklow Tho. de la More Bulles from the Pope to excommunicate the Scottes except they returned vnto peace with the King of England These Cardinals wente into the North partes to enstall Lodowike Beomond to whome the Pope at the Kyngs instaunce hadde giuen the Byshopricke of Durham and when they came neare vnto the Towne of Derlington certayne robbers breaking out of a valley Gilbert Middleton and Walter Selby beyng their Capitaynes sodaynelye sette vppon the family of the Cardinals and of Lodowike Tvvo Cardinals robbed on Wigelesden More robbed them of their treasure and carryed Lodowike Byshoppe of Durham to Morpeth where they constrayned hym to paye a greate Raunsome they broughte Henrye Beaumont to the Castell of Râ—ntforde and there kepte hym tyll hée hadde payde a greate raunsome but the Cardinalles came to Durham where they tarryed a fewe dayes for aunsweare of the Scottes and so vnder the Kings conducte they retourned to Yorke and left their businesse whyche they came for vndone Gilbert Middleton after manye domages done Anno reg 10. to the Priory of Rymuth and other was taken in his owne Castell of Nitforde by Wyllyam Felton Thomas Hetton and Robert Horneclife carryed to London and there in the presence of the Cardinalles drawne and hanged The Cardinalles vnder certayne conditions made peace betwixte the King and Thomas Earle of Lancaster whyche conditions shortlye after were vniustly broken Syr Gosseline Deâ—â—uile and his brother Roberte wyth Theeues lyke Fryers two hundred in the habite of Friers did many notable robberies they spoyled the Byshoppe of Durhams Pallaces leauing nothing in them but bare walles for the whiche they were after hanged at Yorke William Cawston Raufe Balancer the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Iohn Wengraue the 28. of October Margaret daughter to Philip sonne to Lewes Kyng of Fraunce wife to Edwarde the firste deceassed the fourtéenth of Februarye and was buryed in the myddle of the Quire of the Gray Fryers Churche at London Edwarde de Bruis the King of Scottes brother who by Ioh. Trocklowe Edvvarde de Bruse beheaded the space of thrée yeares hadde assaulted Irelande and had crowned hymselfe Kyng was taken by Englishemen that were the King of Englandes Subiectes and was beheaded at Dundalke In that battel were slayne nine and twentie Baronets of Scotlande and fiue thousande and eight hundreth other the Primate of Armakh béeyng chiefe Capitayne for the Kyng of England This yeare was an earlye Haruest so that all the corne Early Haruest cheape corne was inned before Saint Giles daye A Bushel of Wheate Anno reg 11. that was before solde for tenne shillings was solde for ten pence and a Bushell of Otes that before was eighte shyllings was solde for eight pence Earle Warrin tooke the wife of the Earle of Lancaster and shut hir vppe in hys Castell for that he sayde she was betrothed to hym before she was marryed the Earles had eyther of them a wife but neyther of them cared for them Iohn Prior William Furneys the 28. of Sept. Sherifes Maior Barvvike betrayed Iohn Wengraue the 28. of October Aboute Midlent the Towne of Berwicke was betrayed to the Scottes throughe the treason of Peter Spalding and other Englishemen whome the Kyng of Scottes caused to be hanged for béeyng Traytors to theyr Countrey The Castell held oute till for wante of victualles they wythin were constrayned to delyuer it into the Scottishmens hands The Scottes inuaded England Richard South Iohn â—â—ucklowe who wanne also the same tyme the Castelles of Harbotel Warke and Mydforde so that they possessed the more parte of all Northumberlande euen to Newecastell vppon Tyne sauing certayne Castels that were defended agaynst them In May they entred further into the lande brenning al before them tyll they came to Rypon whyche Towne they spoyled and tarrying thrée dayes they receyued a thousande Markes of those that were gote into the Churche bycause they should not put the Town to the fyre as they hadde done the Townes of Northallerton and Borough Bridge c. In theyr returning backe they brent Knaresburghe and Skipton in Crauen and all other afore them carrying into Scotlande a maruellous multitude of Cattel besides prysoners men and women The Yorkeshiremen gathered togither to the number of Tho. Walsing ten thousaÌ„d met with the Scots at the town of Mitton ten myles by Northweast from
Philippe de Labeche Iohn de Becke Henry de Laybourne these tenne and thrée score and twoo Knightes more were bestowed in dyuers prisons The Justiciers of Trailebaston in Essex sate vppon all Cron. of Dunsta Iustices of Trailebaston complayntes excepte Assises touchyng pleas of féed landes and others in the Kyngs Benche to bée pleaded who dydde abstaine theyr handes from all kindes of giftes And they dydde not onely refuse the giftes but also woulde not be called to the feastes and bankets of any man The thirde Wéeke after Easter a Parliament was Tho. de la Mâ—â—â— gathered at Yorke where Hughe Spencer the father was made Earle of Winchester vnto whome the Kyng gaue the Castell and Honour of Dunnington whiche was parcell of the Earledome of Lincolne Aboute the feast of Saint Iames the King wyth a great T. de la More Hen. Elanforde armye entred Scotland but the Scottes hauing destroyed all aâ—ore were retyred beyond the Scottishe Sea So that the King beyng oppressed bâ—â—â—mine retourned into Englande Addictions to Nich. Triuet Anno reg 15 whome the Scottes foll 〈…〉 and in a place of the Forrest of Blackamore they â—et 〈…〉 ng so that he hardly escaped There were taken the Earle of Richemond and the Lorde of Silicico the Frenche Kings Embassador and many other where vppon the Scottes spoyling al the Couâ—â—â—â— and brenning euen to Yorke they brent Ripon slew many Priests of the Colledge there but in Beuerley they hurte not a man for the Burgesses and Cannons dydde redéeme the same wyth foure hundreth poundes of sterling money And so the Scottes by reason of Winter made retourne being laden with spoyles Thys yeare the Kyng made Syr Andrewe Herkley Earle of Carlile and gaue hym landes in the Marches of Scotlande Richard Constantine Richard Hackeney the. 28. of Sept. Sherifes Maior Hamond Chickwell Peperer the 28. of October Aboute the feaste of the Purification of our Lady Andrewe de Herkeley late made Earle of Carlile vnder colour of peace fayned that he woulde marry Robert Bruis his sister Wherevppon the King reputing him a Traitor caused him to be taken by hys trusty friende Syr Anthony de Lucy and after he was disgraded of the Earledome by the taking away froÌ„ him the sword cutting off his spurs 1322 then hanged quartred at Carlile also the third of March his head was sent to London and his four quarters to foure seueral parts of this land The. xxx of May Aymer de Valence Earle of Penbroke Hugh Spencer the yonger Robert Baldocke Archdeacon of Midlesex sir William Herle Knight William de Aizewine Cannon of Yorke Galfride de Scrope were for King Edwarde of England sent to Newcastel vpon Tiâ—e where they met with William Bishop of Saint Andrewes Thomas Raâ—â—dâ— â—â— Earle of Mourt Iohn de Meteâ—h Robert de Lowther the Father Knights and maister Walter de Tromant Clearke for the King of Scottes there to talke of a final peace but when that wold not be they â—et to a truce which they agreed vpoÌ„ for xiij yeres which was proclaimed about the xj of June dated at Anno reg 16 Thorpe néere vnto Yorke Thys yere Phillip King of Fraunce dyed and his brother Charles succéeded him About the beginning of Auguste king Edwarde being at Pikering there came Ambassadors from the new French king the Lorde Benuille and sir Andrew de Florentia to cite the King to come to doe homage for â—â—yon Aquitaine and other lands which he helde of him and though Hugh Spencer the sonne Lorde Chamberlayne and Roberte Baldocke Lorde Chauncellour had procured the sayde Ambassadours not to declare theyr message to the King yet when they shoulde depart they did it admoniâ—hing him to come And the sayd syr Andrew de Florence being a Notarie made a publike instrument of the sayde Citation and admonition Iohn Grantham Richard of Ely the. 28 of Septem Sherifes Maior Tho. de la More Hamond Chickwel Peperer the. 28. of October The Frenche King made a processe againste the King of Englande And Charles de Valoys vncle to king Charles of Fraunce a most deadly enimy to Englishmen did seaâ—e on the Dukedome of Angue and the Countie of Portowe vnto the vse of his nephew the King At the length going forward to the towne of Ryall he founde it wel defended by Edmond of Woodstocke Earle of Kent betwixte whome a finall truce being taken to continue vntill suche time as it coulde be determined betwéene both the Kings as concerning peace and the towne being yelded vp both the armies departed home The next Lent in a Parliament holden at London Adam Tarleton Bishoppe of Hereforde was accused of treason but Henrie Blanford 1323 by the Archbishops of CaÌ„terburie Yorke and Dubline and their suffragan Bishoppes he was taken from the Barre and had away notwithstanding inquisition being made by lawefull men of that Country they founde y â— he had ayded the Mortimers with horsse and armour against the King wherevppon all hys Temporalities were seased into the kings hands In this Parliament the king graunted at petition of y â— Prelate that all the bodies of the noble men that were hanged on gallowes shoulde be taken downe and buried in ecclesiasticall Anno reg 17 sepulture The King also asked a subsidie of the cleargie and people for the redéeming of Iohn Britaigne Earle of Richmonde Adam Tarleton Bishop of Hereford being depriued of all hys temporall goods did hate the Spencers deadlye so dyd Henrie Burwashe of Lincolne and their friendes who withhelde Tho. de la More their handes only for reuerence of the King On Lammas daye Roger Mortimer of Wigmore by Henrie Blanford giuing to his kéepers a sléepe drinke escaped out of the Tower breaking through the wal and comming into y â— Kitchin neare adioyning to the Kings lodgings and getting out of the toppe thereof came to a Warde of the Tower and so with cordes knitte ladder-wise prepared afore hande by a friende of hys got to another Warde and so with greate feare got to the Thamis and with his helper and two moe of his counsell passed the riuer and auoyding the high wayes came to the sea and there finding a shippe passed ouer into Fraunce Adam of Salisburie Iohn of Oxforde the 28. of Septem Sherifes Maior 1324 Tho. de la More Anno reg 18 Nicholas Farendon Goldsmith the. 28. of October The Kyng sente Ambassadours to the French Kyng the Byshoppes of Winchester and of Norwiche with Iohn of Brytaine Earle of Richmonde to take order for the Dukedome of Brytaine who after long debatings toke a certayne forme of peace with the King King Edwarde sente the Quéene hys wife vnto hyr brother The QueenseÌ„tâ— into Fraunce the French Kyng to establishe the peace who went ouer with a small company By hyr mediation a peace was fullye finished to witte that the Kyng of Englande should giue to his eldest sonne Edwarde the Dukedome of
Aquitaine and the Earledome of Poâ—tâ—â—e and that the French Kyng shoulde receyue homage of hym wherevpon Edwarde the Kings sonne wente ouer wyth a competent housholde aboute the feaste of Saint Mathewe and did homage vnder certaine protestations to his vncle the Frenche King Bennet of Fulham Iohn Cowson the. 28. of September Sherifes Maior 1325 Hamon Chickwel Peperer the. 28. of October Whiles the Quéene wyth hyr sonne remayned in Fraunce longer than the Kings pleasure was and would not come agayne wythout Roger Mortimer and other Nobles that were fledde out of Englande and especially for the hatred shée bare to the two Hughe Spencers the Kyng in displeasure banished them bothe and all other that toke theyr partes wherevppon manye fledde ouer the Seas to the Quéene amongst the whych was one a subtill Knyght Sir Robert Walkefare who slaying the Conestable of Corfe Castel brake from them where he had long line prisoner Sir Oliuer Ingham Knight whom the yong Duke Edwarde Oliuer Ingham hadde made kéeper of Aquitaine gathered a great armye and inuaded the prouince of Aniowe whiche the Frenche King contrarie to couenauntes dydde wythholde Anno reg 19 and broughte it wholby into the dominion of England Moreouer the kings Nauie tooke a hundred ships of the Normans and brought them into England for which cause gret hatred grew betwixt the two kings and their Realmes The Q. perceyuing that y â— nobles of France were corrupted with gifts sent out of EnglaÌ„d so that she could trust none of them secretly conueyed hir selfe and hir sonne to the Erle of Heynalde desiring ayde of him who receyued and intreated hyr very honourably so long as she remayned there Gilbert Mordon Iohn Cottoâ— the. 28 of September Sherifes Maior 1326 Richard Betaine Goldsmith the. 28. of October Isabel the Quéene made a mariage betwixt hir eldest son Edward and Phillip the Earles daughter of Heynalde and and then with hir sonne Edwarde Edmunde of Woodstocke Erle of Kent the kings brother Roger Mortimer and many other noble men that were fledde out of Englande and Iohn brother to the Earle of Heynalde being Captaine with stipedarie knightes out of Almaine and Henalde she toke the seas with all hir power whiche were to the number of MM. DCC LUII menne well armed and arriued at Vrewel or Orwel hauen besides Harwich in Essex about Michaelmasse whether immediately the Earle Marshal the Earle of Leicester the Bishops of Lincolne Hereforde Diuelyn Ely came and being ioyned to the Quéene made a great army Anno reg 20. Queene Isabel returned the other Bishops specially of Canturburie ayded hyr with mony When she had refreshed hir armye at Saint Edmondesburie she went forwardes pursuing hir enimies whose goods she applyed to hir owne vse The King requested ayde of the Citizens of London who made him aunsweare they woulde The King requested ayde with due obedience honour the King and Quéene and theyr sonne who was lawfull heyre to the Realme and that they woulde shut theyr gates against all forraine traytors of the Realme but they would not go out of their Citie to fighte except they might according to theyr liberties return home againe the same day before Sunne sette which when the K. hearde he fortified the Tower of London and lefte there hys Proclamation by the king yonger sonne Iohn of Eltham he caused also to be proclaimed that euery â—â—â— should resist them that were arriued and to inuade them to the vttermost of theyr powers the Quéene with hir some Edward and the Erle of Kent his brother only excepted and wholoeuer coulde bring the heade of Roger Mortimer shoulde haue a thousande pounde On the other sâ—â—â— it was proclaymed in the Quéenes behalfe that al men Proclimation by the Queene should haue good peace except the disturbers of the Realm to wit the Spencers y â— father and the son Robert Baldocke byshop of Norwich the kings Chancellour and theyr fautours whosoeuer did bring to the Quéen the head of Hugh Spencer shoulde haue a M. pound The Citizens of London without respect of any beheaded such as they took to be the Quéenes enimies among the whiche they beheaded one of their owne Citizens named Iohn Marshal bicause he was familiar with Hugh Spencer the yonger They toke also Maister Walter Stapleton Bishoppe of Excester and on the. xv day of Bishop of Excester beheaded October beheaded him the eight and tweÌ„tith of March next following he was buried at Excester with great solemnitie and two of his seruauntes a squire and a yeoman named William Atwall and Iohn of Padington at the standerd in Cheape bycause as the saying was he had gathered a greate army to withstand the Quéene they did also wrest the keyes of the Tower of London out of the Conestables handes and deliuered al the prisoners Richard Rothing Roger Chaunteclere the. 28. of Septem Sherifes Maior Saint Iames. Richard Britaine Goldsmith the 28. of October Thys Richarde Rothing Sherife builded the Parishe Church of Saint Iames at Garlike Hithe in London The Quéen besieged Bristow which was soone reÌ„dered to The Queen besieged Bristovv hir and the morrow after hir coÌ„myng Hugh Spencer the elder was drawen hanged in his armour then beheaded Spencer the elder executed Wil. Pakington his body hanged vppe againe and after foure dayes cutte al to péeces and cast to the dogges to be eaten but his heade was sent to Winchester The King Hugh Spencer the yonger and Robert Baldocke determyned to flée into the I le of Lunday whiche is in the mouth of the riuer Seuerne twoo miles in length euery waye verye fruitefull pleasaunte and harde to conquer but beyng in greate daunger on the Sea the space of a The King taken Tho. de la More Alexan. Nethaâ— wéeke at laste arriued in Wales where they were taken the sixtéenth daye of Nouember in the Monasterye of Neth The Kyng was committed to Henrie Earle of Lancaster his kinsman who broughte hym to Kellingworthe Castell The K. sent to Killingvvorth Hugh Spencer Robert Baldocke and Symon Readyn were broughte to the Quéene at Hereforde the Earle of Arundell Iohn Daniel and Thomas Muchelden by procurement of Roger Mortimer were beheaded before theyr comming Hugh Spencer was condemned without aunswere at Hereforde where he was drawen and hanged vppon a Spencer the yoÌ„ger executed Gallowes thirtye foote hygh and then headed and quartered on the foure and twentith of Nouember Simon Reading was drawen and hanged on the same Gallowes but ten foote lower Robert Baldocke dyed in Newgate with manye torments These things beyng done the Quéene wyth hyr sonne Edwarde Roger Mortimer and other went to Wallingforde Castell a little before Christmasse and before the twelfth daye they came to London where they were ioyfully receyued On the morrowe after the sayde feaste they helde a Parliamente where by common decrée they elected Edwarde hys eldeste sonne and then sente in the name of
the whole Parliament thrée Bishoppes Iohn K. Edvvard the second deposed Stratforde Bishoppe of Winchester Adam Tarleton Byshoppe of Hereforde and Henrie Byshoppe of Lincolne two Earles two Abbottes foure Barons and euery Countie thrée Knightes c. vnto the Kyng at Kenilworthe Adam de Tarleton Byshoppe of Hereforde being the chiefe in malice dyd the message with many greate threates declaring vnto hym theyr election and required him to renounce the Kyngly dignitie and Crowne to hys sonne the Kyng aunsweared with teares that hée was very sorie that hée hadde behaued hymselfe so euill towardes the people of hys Kingdome but séeyng the matter was so vnrecouerable he prayed them all to forgiue hym and thanked them that they had chosen his eldest sonne The messengers renounce all homages and dueties due to Edwarde of Carnaruan late King and Thomas Blunte Knight stewarde of housholde brake hys rodde resigned hys office and shewed that the Kyngs housholdehad frée libertie to departe and then returned with the Kings aunswere and made the people ioyfull He was thus deposed when he had raigned nintéene yeares sixe monethes and odde dayes He was deliuered to the custodie of Henrie Earle of Leicester and one hundred markes the moneth allowed for his charges in Kellingworth Castell ¶ King Edward the thirde EDvvarde the thirde borne at Windsor abonte the age of xiiij yeares after the deposing of hys Father beganne his raigne the Anno reg 1 xxv day of Januarie in the yeare of our Lorde 1326. He was crowned at Westminster on the first day of February by Walter Reignalds Archbishoppe of Canturburie This Prince was endued with passing beautie and fauour of wit prouident circumspect and gētle of nature of excellent modestie and temperaunce He aduaunced such persons to dignities as did most excel other in innocencie of life In feates ◠de la More Gual Baker of Swinbroke of armes he was very expert as the noble enterprises by hym atchieued doe well declare At the beginning of hys raigne he was chiefely ordered by hys mother Isabel vnto whome was assigned so greate a Dowrie that the thyrde parte of the Kyngdome didde scantelye remayne to hyr sonne The inhabitauntes of the Towne of Burie in Suffolke Regester of Burie Iohn Prigton The Abbay of Burie spoyled assembled themselues in warlike manner on Saint Lukes daye last before passed in the twentith yeare of Edward the seconde and besiged the Abbey of Burie brent the gates bet wounded y ◠Monkes bare out of the Abbey al the Gold siluer ornamentes bookes Charters and other writings with the assay of their coyne stampes and all other thyngs pertayning to their minte and all other goods as Brasse Pewter Iron Leade c. They also brent many houses about the Abbey and in the Town pertayning to the Abbot with his manours in Berton Packenham Rugham Oldhaw Hernigesburie Newton Whipsted Westle Riseby Ingham Ferneham Redwel Haberdon and others with all the corne in the same manours and droue awaye the horsses oxen kine swine shéepe c. They drewe y e monks out of theyr Abbey put them in prisons and after brought them againe to theyr Chapter house where they forced them to search Charters at theyr pleasure c. For the whiche factes the malefactours were this yeare by vertue of the Kings commission directed to Thomas Earle of Norffolke Commons of Burie executed Marshall of Englande Thomas Bardolfe and others apprehēded and conuicted nintéene of them wer hanged and one pressed to death After this the whole inhabitauntes of the Towne for that they had not stayde the malefactours of their enterprise in y ◠beginning as they might haue done wer amerced to pay y e Abbot toward his damages 140000. pounde Neuerthelesse the Abbot and Couent at the kings request who was there present with his nobilitie forgaue and remitted to them 122333. pounde sixe shillings eight Burie amerced perice of the summe and for the rest vsed suche fauour that if they truely payde 2000. markes in twentie yeares following and obserued their couenaunts for good order and quietnesse they forgaue them all the rest About thys time the like stir was made againste the Record ecclesia Christi Cantu Monkes of Canterburie whereof I fynde recorded as followeth King Edward preparing an army into Scotland commāded the Baylifes and Citizens of Canterburie to furnish him twelue horssemen and sende them to Nowcastel towarde which charge the Citizens required ayde of the Monkes who aunswered them that without the assent of the Kyng and theyr Archbishoppe they would not agrée therevnto for so much as the Kings of Englande had founded theyr churche in frée and perpetuall almes Wherevpon William Chilham Baylife and many commons of the Citie assembled themselues in the Preaching Friers Churchyarde conspired and sware against the Monkes as followeth 1 That they would ouerthrow the pentises windowes and milne belonging to the Monkes 2 That no Citizen should dwell in any house belonging to the Monks 3 That all rents belonging to the Monkes of Canterburie should be gathered to the vse of the commons 4 That no man shoulde sende or sel to the Monkes anye victuals 5 That they should sell all the horsses and beasts y ◠came into the Citie with cariage to the Monkes 6 That al such Monks as came forth of their house shold be spoyled of their garments 7 That a trench shoulde be cast to stop all men from going in or comming out 8 That euery Pilgrime shold at his entring swere that he should make no offering 9 Also that euerye of those commons aforesayde should weare on their finger a ring of golde of those that belonged to Thomas Becket Syr Iohn the Earles brother of Henalt came to helpe Cro. Pet. Coledge Edwarde the thirde againste the Scottes with fiue hundred men of armes whiche Henawders and the Englishmen fell out by chaunce on Trinitie Sonday at Yorke where 80. of the Lincolnshire men were slaine and buried vnder a stone in S. Clements Churchyarde in Fosegate The King wente againste the Scottes that were entred Iourney tovvards scotland Englande as farre as Stanhope Parke in Wardale where they were besieged thrée dayes but they escaped Iames Douglas one night secretly entring the English campe came néere to the kings tent to haue taken or slain him but his Chaplein being a bolde man and well armed with some other beyng slaine he with much adoe got backe vnhurte Isabel the Quéene being perswaded that the Earle of Leicester too muche fauoured the olde King hyr husbande Tho. de la More Walter Barker of Swinebroke through the subtile deuise of hyr scholemaster Adam Tarleton Bishop of Hereforde appointed that Thomas Gornay and Iohn Maltrauers Knightes hauing receyued him into theyr custody should carrie him about whether they would so that none of hys well willers shoulde haue accesse vnto him or vnderstand where he made any long abode These brought him out by nighte from Kenilworth and
firste he is brought to the Castell of Corfe then to Bristow where for a season he was kept shut vp close in the Castel vntil suche time as it was vnderstoode of by certaine Burgesses of the same Towne who for the deliueraunce of the said Edward conueyed themselues ouer Sea whose determination béeing knowne to his kéepers in a certaine darke night they conueyed him thence to Berkeley These tormentours forced him to ride bareheaded when he woulde sléepe they would not suffer hym neyther when he was hungry would they giue him suche meate as liked him but suche as he lothed Euerye worde he spake was contraried by them giuing out moste slaunderously that he was madde And to conclude in all matters that they coulde imagine they were contrarie to hys wyll that eyther by colde or watchyng or vnholesome meates or melancholy or other infirmitie he myght languishe and dye But contrariwise thys man being of a good disposition by nature stoute to suffer and patiente throughe Gods grace to abyde griefes hée endured all the wicked deuises of hys enymies For as touching poysons whiche were ministred to him by the benefit of nature he dispatched them away These ChaÌ„pions as I sayd bring the olde king towardes Barkeley being guarded with a rabble of Helhoundes along by the graunges belonging to the Castell of Bristow where that wicked man Gerney making a crown of Hey put it on hys heade and the souldiours that were aboute him mocked him saying Tprut auaunt sir King making a kinde of noise with theyr mouthes as though they had farted These doubting to meete some of hys friendes bent theyr iourney ouer the Marish grounds lying by the ruier of Seuerne Moreouer diuising by all meanes to disfigure him that hée mighte not be knowen they determined to shaue as well the heare off hys heade as also off his bearde wherefore comming by a little Water whiche ranne in a ditche they commaunded him to alighte from his horsse to be shauen to whome being set on a Molehill a Barbour came with a Bason of colde Water taken out of the ditch to whoÌ„ Edwarde sayd shall I haue no warme water the Barber answered this wyll serue quoth Edward will ye or nil yée I will haue warme water and that he might kéepe his promise he beganne to wéepe and to shed teares plentifullye as it was reported by William Byshop to sir Thomas de la More knight At length they came to Berkeley Castel where Edward was shutte vppe close like an Ancher Isabel his wife taking it grieuously that hir husbaÌ„ds life was thus prolonged made complaint to Adam Bishop of Hereforde fayning that she had certayne dreames the interpretation whereof she misliked In like sorte the Bishop being in hys conscience guiltie of treason stoode in feare the like feare also stoke the heartes of other for the same offence whom the Diuer had gathered together to that effect Wherfore it séemed good to many of great dignity bloud as wel spiritual as temporal y t al such fear should be taken away by y e death of Edwarde whervppon letters were sent to hys kéepers blaming them for suffering him to enioy so much libertie nourishing him so delicately Moreouer there is a priuie motion made to them that Sophistical letter procuring the murder of the olde king the death of Edwarde woulde not be misliked vnto them and in this pointe the great deceyte of Sophisters stoode in force set downe by the Bishoppe of Hereforde who wrote thus Edwardum occidere nolite timere bonum est Kyl Edward do not feare it is a good thing or thus To seeke to shed king Edwards bloud Refuse to feare I counte it good Thys saying is to be resolued into two propositions whereof the first consisting of thrée wordes to witte Edwardum occidere nolite and the seconde of other thrée that is Timere bonum est do séeme to perswade very subtilly but the receyuers of the letters not being ignorant of the Sophistical writing chaunged the meaning thereof to thys sense Edwardum occidere nolite timere and afterwarde ioyned these wordes bonum est Nowe when the olde king was broughte to the Castell aforesayde he was very curteouslye receiued by Thomas Lorde Barkeley but after the tormentors had receyued letters concerning the gouernemente of the Castell Thomas Lord of Berkley is commaunded to departe from thence wherefore taking his leaue with sighes he goeth to his other dwelling places After this the olde king was shutte vp in a close Chamber where with the stincke of the deade carkasses layde in a celler vnder him he was miserablye tormented manye dayes in suche sorte that he was well nyghe suffocated therewith and that the paine was almost intollorable it appeared by the complainte he made on a certayne daye at the Chamber windowe certayne Carpenters then working on the righte side thereof hearing the same But these tyraunts perceyuing that this woulde not force hys death one night being the xxij of September they came rushing in vppon him as he laye in his bedde with greate heauye The old king murdered â—eatherbeddes as muche in weyghte as xv menne coulde beare wherwyth they oppressed and smoothered hym into whom also they thrust a plummers yron being made redde hotte vp into his bowels throughe a certaine instrumente like to the end of a Trumpet or glister pipe put in at hys fundiment burning thereby his inward partes prouiding thereby least any wound being founde in the kings bodye they might be caused to aunsweare it In this sort was this stoute King oppressed crying with a lowde voyce so that many as well within the Castell as without heard it perceyuing it was the cry of one that suffered violente deathe which caused many of Berkeley as they affirmed to take coÌ„passion thereof and to pray for the soule of him that was then departing Isabel and the Bishop that their tyrannye mighte be hid outlawed and banished Thomas Gournay The murderers fledde and Iohn Maltrauers Thomas fléeing into Marcels thrée yeares after being known was taken and brought towards Englande and was beheaded on the Sea least he shoulde accuse the chiefe doer Iohn Maltrauers repenting himselfe lay long hid in Germanie This yeare died Charles king of Fraunce the thirde brother whiche was brother to the Lady Isabel Quéene of Englande K. Edvvards title to Fraunce mother to King Edward the thirde by whose deathe the succession of the Kingdome of Fraunce came to the said Edwarde but it was vsurped and possessed by Phillip de Valoys vncle to the sayde Charles who dyd intrude himself by force King Edward married Phillip the Earles daughter of Edvvard the third married Heynalde at Yorke the fiue and twentith of Februarie shée was sisters daughter to Phillippe de Valoys aforesayde Henrie Darcy Iohn Hauten the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Hamond Chikwel Grocer the 28. of October A Parliament was holden at Northampton in whiche â— Anno reg 2. Parliament at
with more than fiue hundered men of armes amongst whom was the Earle of Ro. Auesbery Anno reg 19. Penbroke and Walter de Many with manye Archers into Gascoigne with Ralph Baron of Stafforde Seneshal of Gascoigne who being come thyther the sayde Earle made fiftie Knightes of his armye and after wanne manye walled Townes and Castelles making many worthy skirmishes and at length won the towne of Daguâ—lown by assaulte to the kéeping wherof they appointed Ralph Stafford afterward they appointed thrée iourneys toward other townes as especially to Brigerecke so called for the strength thereof and also called the Chamber of Fraunce and also to y e town of Saint Iohn de Laruel and to many other greate and strong townes well fortified which with great toyles and diuerse daungerous assaultes they wan where the Earle of Darbie and his souldiours vndermining the Towers and Wals of the sayde towne were very sore assaulted by them whiche defended Thus he Conquered Cities Townes Castelles and Fortresses to the number of one hundred and fiftie bringing a greate parte of Gascoigne vnder subiection euen to Tolouse vnto the whiche Citie he did no domage neyther to the inhabitantes therof but that he made them wonderfully afrayde as certaine of them tolde me sayeth my aucthour their fear was such that the religious people were constrayned to beare armour and the Prior of the Carmelite Tho. de la More Friers of our Lady of Tolouse hauyng a Banner of our Ladye in Golde set in a fielde of siluer displayed the same prouoking thereby many to take armour About the second sonday in Lent the Earles being fully fraught with bootie prisoners gold and siluer they returned towardes Burdeaux where Iohn de Valoys eldest sonne to the French king being accompanyed with a great number of hyred Dutche souldiours besieged the Towne of Agnlowne and the Captaines thereof the Earle of Stafforde and other so entrenched the same Towne that without greate daunger the Englishmen coulde haue no accesse vnto them but the Earle of Darby bet awaye them that besieged the Citie and eâ—t soones new victualled the same notwithstanding they were not able to raise the siege bycause they hadde so entrenched themselues without the towne who refusing to fight in the fielde would aunswere that they came not to pitch a fielde but to besiege a Town wherefore they continued the same siege vntil the decollation of Saint Iohn but vnderstanding then that the King of England chaced his Father Phillip very sore at Grecie and fearing that he shoulde come verye late to the ayde of hys Father he gaue vppe the siege setting all his tentes on fire and fled in the darke but the Earle of Stafforde wyth hys power pursued them cut off theyr tayle tooke a greate manye of theyr horsses and prisoners and retourned After this certaine bowmen are mustered in England appointed to be sente ouer sea who commyng ouer are layde in garrison fordefence of the Countrey Also twenty thousande sackes of Wooll are graunted to the king Moreouer Geffrey de Harecourte a Norman came to the King requiring ayd against the French king who wrongfully withhelde hys landes from him at his first comming he did fealtie and sware homage to king Edward but afterward he reuolted Thomas of Hatfielde the Kings Secretary by meanes of Tho. Walsing the Kyngs letters to the Pope was admitted Byshoppe of Durham and when certaine of the Cardinalles sayde that the sayd Thomas was a light person and a lay man the Pope answered truly if the king of England at this time Ansvvere of the Pope had made his request for an Asse he should haue obteined it The same yeare dyed Adam Tarleton Bishop of Winchester that had bin long time blind after whome succéeded William Edendon Treasourer of England This man founded the Monasterie of Edendon the religious Liber Edendon bréethren whereof were called Bonhomes The same yeare dyed Henry Earle of Lancaster father to Henry Earle of Darby and was buryed at Leycester in the Monasterie of Channons the King and both the olde and yong Quéenes being present with Archbishops Bishops Earles and Barons in manner of all the lande whose sonne was then in Gascoigne doing chiualrous actes This yeare the Scottes to the number of thirtie thousande William Dowglas being their leader entred into Westmerland and brent Carelile Penreth with many other Townes wherefore the Bishop of Carelile with Thomas Lucy Robert Ogle and a great number compassed them in the night season and with lightes and noyse so disquieted them that they neuer durst go out for victuals nor giue their bodyes to sléepe but at the last Alexander Stragan stoutely prepared to go out for victualles whome the Bishop Scots ouercome and Robert Ogle mette and with a speare thrust him through the body so that the Scottes were soone after ouercome and slayne Edmond Hemenhall Iohn of Glocester the 28. of Sept. Sherifes Maior Richard Laget the 28 of October This yeare was the first coÌ„gregating and first Custos or gardian of the fraternitie of the Grocers in the Citie of London elected The Earle of Northampton and the other Lordes in Briteine Anno reg 20 committed certayne Castels wonne by them in Briteine to the safekéeping of faithfull Captaynes and Souldioures and then returned into England King Edward prepared to make a voyage into Normandy 1346 his Nauie being readie to transport him from Portesmonth King Edvvard sayled into Normandy and Porchester with the Earles of Northampton Arundell Warwike Harecourt Huntingdon Oxenforde and Suffolke the Bishop of Durham and Mayster William Killesby Clerke euery one of these leading a great armie of Souldioures well appoynted were embarqued and wayted for the winde from the first of June to the fifth of July and then Tho. de la More Tho. Walsing Ro. de Aâ—esbury hauing a good winde they beganne to make Sayle with the number of one thousande Shippes of burthen and Pinaces and on the thirtéenth day of July they landed at Hogges in Normandy where on the shore of the Sea King Edwarde made his eldest sonne Knighte and also Prince of Wales and immediately the Prince made Knightes Mortimere Montacute Rose and other That night the King lodged in the Towne of Hogges and the next day the Towne was brent by the Armie Hogges in Normandy brent The night following King Edward lodged in Mercels where he stayde fiue dayes during whiche time all the Countrey with the Towne of Barbefleete was by his men consumed with fire From thence they departed to Veloygus which they set a fire then they went to Senet combe de Mount whiche is nigh the Sea and to Garantam thence to Serius and to Saint Lewes passing along vnto the Towne of Turney wasting all with fire and that night the Kyng lodged at Carmalin then to Gerin being a Religious house belonging vnto Cane leauing nothing behinde them vnspoyled Afterward they made an assaulte and entred the Citie Cane
grounde wyth certaine prickes bothe shorte and sharpe then called Gadlings being closed in the ioyntes of hys righte Gauntlet the sayde Thomas strucke the sayde Iohn in the face and sore wounded hym but on the other side Iohn hadde no suche shorte kinde of weapon wherewyth hée myght hurte Thomas face and therefore cryed out aloude moste horribly whervpon by the kings commaundemente the combatte was ended and the victorie adiudged to Thomas who gaue the sayde Iohn being thus ouercome to the Prince of Wales for a Captiue and offered by his owne armoure to Sainte George in Sainte Paules Churche at London wyth greate deuotion These matters beyng thus finished the Cipres man is manumitted and fette at libertie as a frée man againe And Thomas thinking boldely to goe into the presence of his brother the Frenche King toke hys iourney thyther and at his comming founde the sayde King and the nobilitie of Fraunce greatlye offended and in indignation against him for that he agréed that the combat shoulde be tried before the King of England Wherefore Thomas thinking secretly with himselfe howe to winne the false friendship of his brother being desirous to shewe that therein hée hadde done well among all other things he greatelye praysed the nobilitie of Edwarde and his worthy fame spredde ouer al the worlde and also the iustice whiche he vsed in iudging not accepting the person of the manne of Cipres yea thoughe he loued the Kyng himselfe verye well neyther suffered him to be preferred before me whiche am a Frenche manne and brother and friende to thée my Lorde Kyng of Fraunce iudge ouer the sayde King Edwarde my aduersarie Also the Earle of Ewe hyghlye praysed the King of England for that hée hadde receyued greate comforte and commoditye at hys handes during the tyme of hys Captiuitie in Englande shewing also howe farre that good Kyng hadde banished enuie and hatred from hys hearte who at a time of iustyng beyng in the fielde at that exercise and the Kyng also was commaunded by the Kyng hymselfe to beare awaye the price and pricke from them all These commendations did the Frenche Kyng enuie at and for indignation he moste wickedlye commaunded the setters forthe of those prayses to be beheaded And for to colour the matter the better he fayned that the Earle vsed too muche familiaritie with the Quéene his wife and that his brother was guiltie of treason againste the king of Fraunce bycause he committed his cause and the combat to be tryed by the iudgement of the king of Englande After he had thus murdered his brother he tormented his wife to death by famine who was daughter of the noble King of Boheme lately slaine in battayle by Geffrey William Edington Bishoppe of Winchester and treasurer Groates and halfe groates Anno reg 25 Tho. Walsing Histo Auâ—â—a of England a wise man caused a newe coyne called a Groate and halfe Groate to be coyned but these were of lesse wayght than the pence called Esterlings by reason wherof victualles and merchandice became the dearer thorough the whole realme After the Octaues of the Purification of our Lady in a Parliament at VVestminster Parliament holden at Westminster Henrie Earle of Lancaster was created Earle of Lincolne Leicester Derby Grosmount and Ferrers and Duke of Lancaster vnto whome also was giuen great priuiledges suche as neuer any Erle had before his time Also Lionel of Antwerpe the kings sonne is made Earle of Vâ—star in Irelande Iohn of Gaunte his brother is made Earle of Richmonde and Ralph Baron of Stafforde is made Earle of Stafforde In the Lent following Walter de Maine and Roberte Herle Captain of Caleis rod into France making gret praes and doing great domage brought away gret store of beasts A fat Covv sixteene pence 1351 shéepe and swine so that at Caleis a fat Cowe was scarcelye solde for sixtéene pence sterling About Easter the Duke of Lancaster departing from Caleis marched alongst the Sea coastes of Artoys and Picardie brent the suburbes of Bulloign but assaulting the Town he preuayled not for that only the ladders were too short Therefore he wasted the Cities of Tirwin and the hauen also the Townes of Fauconbridge and Staples and in the same hauens he brent aboue 120. ships of diuerse moulds After this brenning the Champion Countrey he rode vnto Saint Omers and winning by force manye Fortresses with a great pray and many prisoners he returned to Caleis About the feast of Saint George things prospered wel in Gascoine for the Marshal of France with a greate number of armed men spoyled the Countrey about S. Dangel where Edmond Rose a Norffolke man was Captayne who with the garison valiauntly encountred the enimies flew many of them and toke the sayde Marshal and manye other nobles of Fraunce chasing aboue 400. Knightes The same yeare the Spanish shippes by a treatie of peace came into Englande where the last yeare they were restrayned but nowe a truce was taken for twentie yeares betwixt England and Spaine and a truce betwixt Englande and Fraunce for one yeare whiche the French men brake by reason of taking the Castel of Guisnes as in the next yeare shall be shewed Iohn Wroth Gilbert of Steineshorpe the. 28. of Septem Sherifes Maior Andrew Auberie Grocer the. 28. of October About this season the old coine of gold was changed into a new the olde Noble was worth muche aboue the taxed rate of the newe and therfore the Marchauntes boughte the olde and conueyed them out of the Realme to the greate losse of the king and kingdome to the whiche there was a remedie prouided by the chaunging of the stampe About the beginning of Januarie the French men béeing occupied about y â— repayring of y e wals of Guisnes town being afore that time destroyed by the English men some meÌ„ of armes of Caleis vnderstanding their doings deuised how they might ouerthrow the work it was done in this sort There was an Archer named Iohn Dancaster in prison in Anno reg 26 the Castel of Guisnes before that time takeÌ„ who not hauing wherwith to pay his raunsome was let lose with condition that he shoulde worke there amongst the French men The getting of Guisnes by the Englishe This fellow chaunced to lye with a Laundres a strumpet and learned of hir where beyond in the principal ditch from the bottome there was a Wall made of two foote broade stretching from the bottome to the brimme of the ditche within forthe so that being couered with Water it coulde not be séene but not so drowned but that a man going alofte theron shoulde not be wette paste the knées it beyng made for the vse of Fishers and therefore in the middest it was discontinued for the space of two foote and so the Archer hys Harlot shewyng it to hym he measured the heygth of the Wall wyth a thréede These things thus known one day slipping down from the Wal he passed the ditche by that hydden Wall and
fifth of May and the. 24. of Maye entred London with them where he was receyued with greate honour of the Citizens and so conuayed to the kings pallaice at Westminster where the King sitting in his estate in Westminster Hall receyued them and after conueyed the French King to a lodging where he lay a season and after the sayde French King was lodged in the Sauoy which then was a pleasant place belonging to the Duke of Lancaster In the Winter following were gret and royal iustes holden in Smithfielde at London where many knightly sights of armes wer done to the gret honour of the king realm at the which were present the Kings of England Fraunce and Scotlande with many noble estates of all those Kingdomes wherof the more part of the strangers were prisoners Henrie Picarde Uintener Maior of London in one day dyd sumptuouslye feaste Edwarde King of Englande Iohn King of Fraunce the King of Cipres then arriued in England Dauid king of Scottes Edward Prince of Wales wyth many noble men and other and after the sayde Henrie Picarde kepte his Hall against all commers who soeuer that were willing to play at Dice and Hazard In like maner the Lady Margaret his wife did also kéepe hir Chamber to the same intente The King of Cipres playing wyth Henrie Picarde in hys Hall dyd wynne of hym 50. markes but Henrie being verye skilfull in that arte altering hys hande did after win of the same king the same 50. markes and 50. markes more which when the same king began to take in ill parte although he dissembled the same Henrye saide vnto him my Lord and King be not agrieued I couet not your golde but your play for I haue not bid you hyther that I might grieue you but that amongst other things I might trie your playe and gaue hym his money agayne plentifully bestowing of his owne amongst the retinue besides he gaue many riche giftes to the King and other Nobles and Knightes whiche dyned wyth hym to the greate glorie of the Citizens of London in these dayes Stephen Candish Barthelmew Frostling the. 28. of Sep. Sherifes Maior Sir Iohn Stody Vintener the. 28. of October This sir Iohn Stody gaue vnto the Uinteners of London all the quadrant wherein the Uinteners Hal now standeth with the tenements round about from the lane yet called Studis Lane where is founded thirtéene houses for xiij poore people whiche are there kept of charitie rent frée About Halowntide Dauid le Bruce king of Scots was deliuered from the long imprisonmēt of a. xj yeres in the castel of Oldiham his raunsome being set a 100000. markes to be payde the next ten yeares following Normandie and Brytaine were soare spoyled and wasted Tho. Walsing Anno reg 32 Rob. Knovvles by Phillippe the King of Nauers brother Iacob de la Pipe and Roberte Knowles wyth manye other Englishe menne whyche were Captaynes of that companye who raged in warlike sorte in these Countryes the space of thrée yeares and more contrarye to the Kyng of Englandes pleasure Thys Roberte Knowles béeyng a meane man of birth became Captaine of many souldiours and did manye maruellous actes Isabel daughter to Phillippe the fayre king of Fraunce 1358 now wife to King Edward the second deceased apnd Risinges Registrum fratrum minorum iuxta London the. xxij of August and was buried in the Grey Friers Quire at London in a Tombe of Aliblaster Iohn Barnes Iohn Buris the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Anno reg 33 Iohn Louekinstoke Fishmonger the 28. of October Iohn of Gaunt the Kings sonne by dispensation tooke to wife Blaunch dauhter of Henry Duke of Lancaster his kinswoman The French King vnder coulour of peace offered to King Edward Flanders Picardie Aquitayne and other lands which the Englishmen had ranged through and spoyled for the perfourmāce wherof messengers were sent into France but the Frenchmen would not perfourme the offer wherfore King Edward being angrie with a Nauie of Shippes passed the Sea to Caleis wherefore deuiding his armie into thrée partes committed one companie vnto Henry Duke King Edvvarde inuaded Burgundie of Lancaster another to Prince Edward and the third he reserued to himselfe and so passed into Burgundie In the meane season the Normans with a small Nauie 1359 Frenchmen arriued at VVinchelsea arriued at Winchelsey and partly brent the Towne and slew such as did withstand them wherefore the Prelates of England assembled from all partes in armour to withstande them but when they had prepared themselues to battayle the French were gone Simon of Benington Iohn of Chichester the 28. of Sept. Sherifes Maior Anno reg 34. 1360 Simon Dolseby Grocer the 28. of October King Edward with his power rode through France by Picardie Artois Roan Champaine and so to Briteine destroying the Countrey before him And héere is to be noted that the fourtéenth day of Aprill and the morrow after Easter day King Edward with his host lay before the Citie of Paris which day was full darke of mist and hayle and so bitter colde that many men died on their Horsse backes with the cold wherefore vnto this day it hath bin called the blacke Monday The King of Nauarre vexed sore the marches of Normandie Thus was the Realme of France miserably beset on all sides At the last a finall peace was concluded on Peace vvith France this condition that King Edward should haue to his possession the Countreys of Gascoine Gwyen Poytiers Limosin Baleuile Exantes Caleis Gwisnes and diuers other Lordships Castels Townes and all the Landes to them belonging Tho. Wals without knowledge of any soueraigntie or subiection for the same This peace being confirmed by writing and by oth King Edward came into England and so streight to the Tower to sée the French King where he appoynted his raunsome to be thrée millions of Florences and so deliuered French King releassed him of all imprisonment and brought him with great honor to the Sea who then sayled ouer into France Iohn Denis Walter Berney the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Iohn Wroth Fishmonger the 28. of October King Edward the 24. of Januarie beganne a Parliament at Westminster where the forme of the agréement was redde and allowed of all estates where the King on the last of Januarie caused his Nobles to sweare to holde and Anno reg 35 1361 kéepe the sayde agréement especially those as well Prelats as other that were not at Caleis where he sware and other that were there with him A great dearth pestilence hapned in England which was called the second pestilence in which died Henry D. of Lancaster The seconde mortalitie in March at London and was buryed at Leycester in the colegiate Church which he had founded with a Deane twelue Chanons Prebendaries as many Uickers and other ministers accordingly There dyed also Reginald Lord Cobham and Walter Lib. Lichfield Fitz Waren valiant and famous
Michaell by Crooked Lane of London in whiche Parish he then dwelled was a very small and homely thing standing in part of that ground where now of late the Personage house is builded and the grouÌ„d therabout a filthie plot by reason of the Butchers in Eastcheape who made the same their Lest haw he on the same grounde builded the faire new parish Church of Saint Michaell now standing and was there buried in the middle of the Quire vnder a faire Tombe of Stone with the images of him and his wife grauen in Allablaster vpon the same Tombe He also as writeth Iohn Leyland founded a Colledge to the same Church néere therevnto adioyning The sayde parish Churche of Saint Michaell hath bin since encreased Eastwarde with a new Quier and side Chappels by Sir William Walworth Fishmonger and Maior of London as shall be shewed in the fourth yeare of King Richard the second Also the Tombe of Iohn Louekin was remoued and a â—lat stone of grey Marble garnished with plates of Latin and an Epitaph was layde vpon him as it yet remayneth Edward Prince of Wales taking compassion vpon Peter Tho. Wall Anno reg 41 The Bastard brother disheriteth the lavvful 1367 King of Spayne who was driuen out of his Kingdome by Henry his Bastard brother entred Spayne with a great puissance and in a battell at Nazers the third of Aprill put to flight the foresayde Bastard ouercame his power and slew sixe thousande of his men where there was taken thréescore persons of name and two thousande of the common Souldioures whiche done he restored the sayde Peter to his former dignitie and returned home with greate triumph and victorie but not long after Henry the Bastarde The Bastard brother murthereth the lavvfull whiles King Peter sate at a Table sodeinly thrust him thorough with a Speare and inuaded the Lande by Treason which by open warre he could not do Iohn Tornegold William Dikeman the 28 of Septem Sherifes Maior Iames Andrew Draper the 28. of October The Frenchmen tooke diuers Townes and Castels in Poytow that belonged to the King of England and to the ende Anno reg 42 they mighte the more effectually deceyue the King of England the French King sent him word that he was readie to pay the residue of his fathers raunsome and to perfourme the conditions of peace Also he sente him Wines out of 1368 Boheme and other presents in token of loue but it fortuned whiles the Embassadors were in the Kings presence the lamentable newes were brought of the forcible inuasion of the Frenchmen in Poytow whiche when the King hearde he Sutteltie of Frenchmen commaunded the Embassadors to gette them home with their deceiptfull presents to their deceiptfull Lord whose mockes he woulde not long leaue vnreuenged The Embassadoures returning home were mette by the menne of Caleis who tooke their Wines and other goodes from them Robert Girdler Adam Wimondham the 28. of Sept. Sherifes Maior Anno reg 43 Third Pestilence Dearth of Corne. 1369 Simon Mordin Stockfishmonger the 28. of October The thirde mortalitie or Pestilence was this yeare whereof dyed Blaunch Duches of Lancaster and was buried in Paules Church at London This yeare was a great dearth of Corne so that a Bushell of Wheate at London was solde for two shillings sixe pence of Barlie twentie pence of Otes twelue pence The xv of August died Quéene Philip wife to Edwarde the third and was buried at Westminster Quenesborough Kingston vpon Hull and Saint Botolphes alias Bostowne made Staples by Parliament The Kings sonne Iohn Duke of Lancaster and Humfrey Bohan Earle of Hereford with a greate Armie wente into France where they little preuayled bycause an huge Armie of Frenchmen had pitched their Tentes vppon the toppe of Chalke hill néere vnto Caleis so strongly that they coulde not be sette on withoute greate losse and dammage but shortlye after Thomas Beawchampe Earle of Warwike arriued at Caleis wyth a number of chosen Souldiers at whose comming the Frenchmenne leauing their tentes and victualles fledde away neuerthelesse he passed forth spoyling and wasting the Isle of Caws with fire and sword but as he returned towarde Caleis he fell sicke whereof he dyed and the other Captayne 's returned without honor Iohn Piel Hugh Holditch the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Anno reg 44 The King borovved great summes 1370 Iohn Chichester Goldsmith the 28. of October King Edward borowed of the Prelates and other many great summes of money saying he would bestow the same in defence of the Church and Realme but about Midsomer he sente a greate armie into France whereof Sir Roberte Knowles was generall a man who before time had fortunately handled the beyond sea warres so long as they were ruled by his counsell but toward Winter the yong Lords sayde they ought not to be subiect to him who was not so noble of birth as they and so diuiding themselues into diuers companies Sir Robert Knowles departed into Briteine to his owne Castels which he had conquered The Lords being so diuided the Frenchmen set vpon them tooke prisoners whome they listed and slew the residue A great part of Gascoigne fell from the Prince bycause of the strange exactions he layde vpon them also sicknesse encreasing vpon him he returned into England with his wife and his sonne Richard and resigning into his fathers haÌ„ds the gouernement of Gascoigne The Monasterie of Abingdon fiue miles from Oxforde was spoyled by them of Oxford togither with the Artificers Mathew Parker of Abingdon William Walworth Robert Gayton the 28. of Septem Sherifes Maior Iohn Barnes Mercer the 28. of October This Iohn Barnes gaue a Chest with thrée lockes and a thousand Markes to be lent to yong men vpon sufficiente A Chest vvith three lockes and neuer a penie Anno reg 45 1371 gage so that it passed not one hundred Markes and for the occupying thereof if he were learned to say at his pleasure Deprofundis for the soule of Iohn Barnes if he were not learned to say Pater noster but how so euer the money is lent at this day the Chest standeth in the Chamber of London without money or pledges In a Parliament at London the King demaunded of the Great subsedie Adam Meri Cleargie and Communaltie a subsedie of 50000. pounds for the leuying whereof Chauntrie Priestes and small benefited were taxed Also the Bishops were remoued from the offices of Chanceler Treasurer and Priuis Seale and Lay men put in their stéede Robert Hatfield Adam Staple the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Anno reg 46 1372 Iohn Barnes Mercer the 28. of October Iohn Duke of Lancaster and Edmond Earle of Cambridge returning out of Gascoigne brought with them two daughters of Peter late King of Spayne whome afterwards they tooke to be their wiues the Duke maried the elder and from that time wrote himselfe King of Castile The Englishmen fought a battaile on the Sea with the
and déepe ditches To this Towne also belongeth only two Gates for entries the one called Calturances the other Mostrouillier In this Towne besides the inhabitants thereof for the defence of the same were foure hundred men of armes deputed in Garrison amongst whome were these Lords Lord Discouteuile chiefe Captayne of the Towne Lord Blanuile Lord Haqueuile Lord Harmanuile Lord Eancourt Lord Gaillard Bos and diuers other Lords and men expert in warre The King commanding the Duke of Clarence to asséege the Towne he endeuoured Titus Liuius to conuey his people ouer the Riuer in the passage whereof he had a great skirmish with the inhabitants of the Towne but at the last his aduersaries being put to flight recoyled within the walles The Duke conuayde ouer the Riuer all his ward and company and bycause the Riuer deuided the Kings Camp from the Dukes they ordeyned a ready and sure passage ouer the same Riuer betwixt both the Campes to the kéeping whereof certayne Gentlemen were appoynted so that theyr enimies myghte not endomage them neyther by Water nor Lande In this meane time befell a great misaduenture to the Enguerant Frenchmen that were beséeged for the Gonnepouder and shotte that was sent vnto them by the French King was encountred vpon the Sea by the Englishmen and taken to their great displeasure and domage The King gaue the charge of the fielde to his brother Titus Liuius Humfrey Duke of Glocester On the same side the Riuer that the King lay was y e Duke of Yorke high Connestable of England lodged with his band When euery man was placed y e Towne was so streightly asséeged that all entries and issues of the Towne were stopped so y ◠they of y e towne were in dispaire to haue any succour from the Realme of France Many engins were reysed by the English which in short time should haue bin the destruction of the walles if they of the Towne had not the sooner stopped the Riuer of the same towne within wherby the water gathered reised without the towne betwixt the King and the D. of Clarence to the semblance of a little Sea which caused the Englishmen to withdraw their Gonnes and other engins whereby at that time the walles were saued Then the King caused to Enguerant be made vnder the water thrée great Mines vnto the walles of the towne which in like maner had bin the cause of their ruine if the inhabitants had not countermined them and letted their purpose The inhabitants of the Town perceyuing Titus Liuius themselues thus streightly asséeged as well by Land as by Sea conuayde all their Shippes within their Hauē and bound them togither with cheynes and in the two towers that were made for the defence of the Hauen they put certaine Garrisons and armed men who oftentimes attempted to inuade the Kings Nauie but at all times they were by his Shippes beaten and constreyned to recule still within their Hauen at the last the Captaynes and inhabitants considering that by such skirmishes as well vpon the Land as vpon the Sea they gained nothing tooke this appointment with the King that if they were not rescued by the Frenchmen within certayne dayes limited they shoulde then delyuer into hys handes the Towne with thirtie persons of the greatest and most noble within the Towne suche as the King woulde desire to bée ordered at the Kings pleasure and all the residue as well menne of Warre as the inhabitantes of the same Towne without armoure and leauing behynde them theyr goodes shoulde fréely goe where they woulde for the suretie of whyche appoyntemente to bée kepte they deliuered vnto the King twelue of their greatest personages for pledges The Captaynes and inhabitants of the Towne séeing their day of appoyntment to approch and themselues vtterly desperate of any succours of their people ordeyned to perfourme their couenant at their day prefixed whiche was the xxij of September on which day came Sir Lionell Braquemont gouernour of the Towne vnto the King and knéeling before him sayd Most victorious Prince beholde héere the keyes of this Towne which after our promis I yéeld vnto you with the Towne my selfe and my companie Then were brought to the King the Lord Coteuile the Lord Gangcourt and other to the number of thirtie and all the residue as well souldioures as inhabitants were suffered vnarmed to depart The King constitute Captayne of the Towne Sir Thomas Beawford Earle of Dorset hys Unkle to whome he also committed two thousand souldiers chosen men of his host Then considering that winter drew on as also the losse of their men by reason of the Flix then reigning amongst them by which infirmitie died Michaell at Poole Earle of Suffolke the Bishop of Norwich the Enguerat Lord Beawmont and others and of the commons to the number of two thousand and aboue King Henry created the sonne of Michaell at Poole Earle of Suffolke who liued not long after After King Henry had remayned at Harefleete fiftéene dayes after y e deliuerie of the Towne and of the Towers he departed from thence towards Caleis whereof when his Titus Liuius enimies were aduertised and also by what way he intended to passe all the people of the Countrey Cities and Townes were maruellouslie oppressed with feare wherefore they hasted them to defensible places and other that were apt to warre tooke them to their horsses and assembled them togither in great number with no small companie of footemen and in all that they might they oppressed the Englishmen The Kings host kept an easie pace without making any hast and when they approched the Towne of Ewe their enimies assayled them in the fieldes with great force and noyse where on both parties it was foughten sore and vigorously Enguerant but the Frenchmen reculed to the Towne where they were in good suretie From thence the King departed and came to a passage of the Riuer of Some which the Frenchmen call Blankhestoke or Blanch tache This passage at Titus Liuius the comming vnto it was fixed with sharp stakes by their enimies so that they could not passe there but were constreyned to go farther séeking their passage vntill they came directly to haue the Citie of Amiens and the Castell of Gorby on their left side where they of the sayde Citie began with them a new fight but they were soone forced by the English to returne to their Citie agayne The xix of October the King passed the Riuer of Some at the passage of Vienna and Bethew-court and wente then to lodge him at Mouche-legach frō whence he aduanced him towardes the Riuer of Miramont In the meane time the French King and the Duke of Guyen his sonne then Dolphin purposing to resist the Englishmen came to Roane from whence they sent thrée Heraults to the King of England to giue vnderstanding that he should not escape without battayle vnto whome the sayde King answered All things be done at the pleasure
waye of peace was founde betwixt those two Kings by aliance that is to say by a mariage to be made betwixt y â— most victorious K. of England the Lady Katherin daughter to y â— King Quéene of Fraunce but bicause they perceyued that many things mighte not be done w tout the presence of the kings as wel for y â— apposition of their seales for y e ratifying of y â— articles of this peace as for the solemnization of y e matrimony also y â— King Charles was a man of many yeres they condescended y â— the K. of EnglaÌ„d at a certain day amoÌ„gst them limited shoulde come to the foresayde Citie of Troys w t as great an armed power as he woulde At whiche day appointed if he fayled to be there al his coÌ„municatioÌ„ of peace shold be as voyde These things thus concluded set down in writing y â— erle of Warwicke w t his company returned to y â— K. of Englande to whoÌ„ they declared by order what they had done who was contente in all things to performe their appointments prepared for his iourney He called togither knights men of armes archers to y â— nuÌ„ber of xvj M. of theÌ„ the more part were Archers when the time came that he would depart toward Troys as he was accustomed he deuided his people in thrée parts battayles two wings and in that maner the. viij day of May he entred his iourny toward Troys in Campaine where he was met by the Duke of Burgoigne accompanyed with manye noble meÌ„ two leagues w tout the town whoÌ„ he receiued w t gret honor due obserâ—ance Then this most victorious king accompanyed bothe of English and Frenchmen of euery estate degrée entred the 〈…〉 resaid Citie of Troys y â— stréetes wherof w tout any abyding he passed vntil he came to the kings place wher K. Charles and the Quéene his wife abode his comming of whom the was receyued goodly and after a Princely maner When y â— King of England was thus royally receiued after the due resolutions on his part made to King Charles the Quéene he departed from them and by the Duke of Burgoine and other great estates as well of England as of Fraunce he was conueyed to his lodges The Cittie was deuided into two pâ—rts wherof the one half was assigned to the Frenchmen Burgonians and the other halfe to the Englishmen and bicause that parte assigned to the Englishmen suffised not to receyue them all within the walles but that a great part of theÌ„ must be lodged in the suburbes the King of Englande bicause hys people on that part shoulde haue frée concourse togither he caused the wall on that part of the Citie where he was lodged to be cast down to the ground King Charles gaue aucthoritie and power to Isabel his wife and Quéene to Phillip Duke of Burgoigne and to certaine other of his Counsell plenarily to conclude the peace with King Henrie for hym and for his realme of France vnder such conditions as shold be decréed also to proue ratify coÌ„firme the same by oth solemnized in the parsoÌ„ of K. Charles without fraude in al things to be obserued vnto the sayd K. Henrie his heyres successours by the sayde King Charles his heyres and successors c. On the xxj of May in the xl yere of the reigne of King Charles in the Cathedral Churche of Troys the King of Englande with the Duke of Clarence his brother and other Dukes Earles Bishops Barons Lordes of estat and other Prelates of Englande and Isabel the Quéene of Fraunce with the Duke of Burgoigne and other of the Kings Counsel of Fraunce and in that part hys especiall commissioners for and in the name of the king of Fraunce and also for themselues in their proper names in a great assembly of the iij. estates of Fraunce vulgarly called theyr Parliamente concluded a peace betwixt the two Realmes of England FraÌ„ce and the same ratified and approued with the conditions and Articles that in part shall follow wherevpon writings wer made sealed with the braoâ—e seale of the sayde king Charles Then immediately Isabel the Quéene and the Duke of Burgoigne in the name of King Charles made a solemne oth vpon the holy Euangelistes that y â— same Charles his heyres and successours shoulde obserue and kéepe without fraude the peace made betwixt the two Realmes And the same othe the Quéene and the Duke of Burgoigne in theyr owne names and for themselues theyr heyres successours made vnto the King for him his heyres and successours and after them as many as were there present both of the Kings counsel and also of the Parliament as Bishoppes Lords Knightes and commons made the same othe to the Kyng And the. xxiij and. xxiiij daye of May the Chauncellour of Fraunce and many other Lordes Bishops Prelates and noble men gaue the like fayth and othe The thirde of June being present the Counsell of K. Charles Isabel Quéene of Fraunce the Duke of Burgoigne and the Parliament of Fraunce and also the Duke of Clarence with many Bishops Lords and Knightes of England with King Henrie the matrimonie was solemnized betwixt the most victorious King Henrie of England and the excellent glorious Lady Katherin daughter to Charles of Fraunce and Isabel his Quéene The peace that was confirmed betwixte the sayd two kings and their realmes was red as foloweth King Henrie from nowforth during the life of Kyng Charles shall not name or write himselfe King of Fraunce nor shall not suffer himselfe of his people so to be named or written After the death of king Charles king Henry shal be king of Fraunce peaceably with hys heyres and successours And bicause King Charles by reason of his infirmitie is vnable to gouerne the common weale king Henrie during y e life of Charles shal rule and gouerne the realme of Fraunce to the profit honor of the same king Charles King Charles in al his writings shal name the same King Henrie our son and heyre of France during the life of the said king Charles King Henrie shall be written Henrie King of Englande and heyre and Regent of Fraunce and in the like maner hée shal write himselfe in all things that shall be aucthorized vnder his owne seale King Henrie shall call King Charles hys Father and Quéene Isabel hys mother and shall honoure them Nor King Henrie shal not prohibite with holde nor defraude King Charles his Father of the Crowne of France nor the issues or reuenues thereof And the Quéene his mother at all times during hiâ— life he shall kéepe in due estate as belongeth to hiâ— maiestie c. with diuerse other Articles which for libertie I set not downe in this place After the final end and accomplishing of this marriage couenants and conditions ratifyed in all partes King Henrie accompanyed of King Charles and of his counsel of the two Quéenes Isabel
and Katherin and of the Duke of Burgoigne departed from Troys and toke his iourney to Paris and from Paris not many dayes after they all went to laye siege to the Citie of Sens whiche was to them contrarie but before the whole hoste were setled in their places the Captaine Citizens and Garisons submitted their bodyes and Citie with all that they had to the King Then they hasted to Monstrean which Towne they toke by force On the xv of July they went to the Citie of Melune and inuironed the same with a strong siege for there were the Kings of Englande of France and Scotlande the Duke of Burgoigne Tho. Wals Bauier Clarence Bedforde and Excester the Earles of March Warwicke Huntington and Somerset c. This siege coÌ„tinued xiiij wéekes and odde dayes from the feast of Mary Magdalen to the feaste of All Saintes not without in a maner euery day a conflict and sore skirmishe but at length for wante of victualles the besieged yéelded themselues to the Kyngs of Englande and Fraunce from whence the forsayde Kyngs with a greate parte of theyr armye wente to Paris Iohn Butler Iohn Wels the. 28. of September Sherifes Maior William Cambridge Grocer the. 28. of October King Henrie kept hys Christmasse in the Citie of Paris in the Castle of Saint Anthony And after he had holden a Parliamente there he went to Roane and therewith hys Titus Liuius Normans and Englishmen helde a Parliament And theÌ„ when he had established sure guarde for this Realme of Fraunce Dutchie of Normandie he passed throughe Picardie to Caleis and so to Douer where with his Quéene he landed on Candlemasse day The fourtéenth of Februarie Quéene Katherin was Crowned at Westminster vnto whom the King assigned to hir dowrie 10000. markes also he consented to the deliuerie of the King of Scots who had bin long prisoner in Englande with condition that before his departure out of Englande he shall take to wiâ—e the Duke of Somersets sister niece to the Cardinal of Winchester Anno reg 9. 1421 The. xxij of March the duke of Clarence with many other Lords were slaine beyond the Water of Leire in Fraunce many Lords were taken prisoners of the which the Earle of Huntington and the Earle of Somerset were principal In a ParliameÌ„t at Westminster it was ordayned that no man should profer gold in payment but if it helde waight wherfore was ordayned Balances and weightes The king suppressed the French houses of religious Monkes and Friers and such like in Englande bycause they thought ill of the Conquest ouer Fraunce theyr lands were giuen by him and Henrie the sixth to Monasteries and Colledges of learned men In this Parliament was demaunded subsidie The Bishop of Winchester lent the king â—0000 pounde to straine y â— matter The King hauing disposed all thing in order coÌ„cerning the realme of England and the wars in Scotland leauing in Englande his Quéene with a greate power to the number after Enguerant of thirtye thousande returned into Fraunce where after he hadde visited the King and Quéene of Fraunce at Paris he tooke the Castell of Dâ—wex by assault And when he heard that his enimies prepared themselues to battaile he approched the floude of Loyre aboute whyche Titus Liuius floud it was said his enimies were but against him came no man Wherfore the Kyng ledde his hoste to laye siege to the City of Sens commonlye called the Kings new Town whiche Towne for lacke of victualles yéelded themselues and the Town to the King Iohn Mortimer brake foorthe of the Tower of London and beyng afterwards taken hée was drawen and hanged Richarde Gosselin William Weston the 28. of Septemb. Sherifes Maior Sir Robert Chicheley Grocer the 28. of October This Syr Robert Chicheley when he deceased in Anno 1439. willed in his Testament that vppon his mind day a competent dinner should be ordained for 2400. pore men housholders of the Citie and twenty pounde in mony to be distributed amongest them whyche was to euery man two pence He also with his brother William Chicheley Alderman of London gaue liberally to the Almes houses founded by his brother Henrie Chicheley Archebyshop of Canterbury at Higham Ferrers in Nothamptonshire in whych Towne they were borne In the Moneth of October when King Henry had deliuered Tiâ—us Liuius the Citie of Paris from all annoyaunces he with his hâ—ste went to besâ—ege the Citie of Meaulx in Brye to whych City nigh adioyning is a place called y â— Market of Meaulx betwixt which two places floweth the riuer of Marne whiche also enuironeth bothe the same places Thys Citie was besieged all the Winter wherein were so manye and so greate stormes and flouds of raine that the kings host was often annoyed with huÌ„ger colde The sixth of December Lady Katherine Quéen of Englande broughte forth hir firste begotten sonne in the Castell of Windsore and his name was gyuen him Henry for there receyued hym at the Fonte Iohn Duke of Bedford hys vncle Lord Warden of England and Henrie the Kings vncle B. of Winchester and Iaquelyn dutches of Holland that remained then in England Henry Archbishop of Canterburie doing the office of Baptisme In the moneth of Februarie the Knights that were in Garison and the principall of y â— Citie of Mealx perceyuing that the Sommer comming shoulde cause the siege to be more light and lesse painefull to the Englishmen and difficil vnto themselues departed the Citie and wente into that Anno reg 10 1422 place that is called the Market of Mealx as to the more defensible holde after whose departing the coÌ„mon people hauing none ability to resist the Kings power yéelded themselues and the Citie to the King After this in the moneth of May when the King had sore beaten the forsayd Market of Meaulx he constrayned the Frenchmen that were besieged to condescende vnto certaine couenauntes and to deliuer the place vnto him and shortly after were deliuered to the King the towne of Orepy in Valois the Castle of Pier Pountmeralaw OffemouÌ„t and many others After the rendering of these Townes and Castles the King returned to Paris In the moneth of Aprill Katherin Quéene of Englande shipped at Hampton and sayled ouer into Fraunce with a strong power vnder the conducte of Iohn Duke of Bedforde y â— kings brother Humfrey Duke of Glocester being appointed Warden of England in the Duke of Bedfordes place wheÌ„ the comming of Quéene Katherin was knowne to Kyng Henry hir husband and to Charles king of France both these Kings and with them the Quéene of Fraunce accompanyed with many great Lordes and estates as well of Englande as of Fraunce went to méete hir at Boys de Viscenne wher she was ioyfully receyued of them as if she had bin an Angell sente from God The. xxx day of May the two Kings of Englande and Fraunce with theyr Quéenes departed from Bois de Viscenne and went to Paris the king of
man might iudge which way the victorie would encline but at length the men of King Charles began to breake and then the Englishmen began to thrust in among them and did so much that they discomâ—â—ted their enimies There were slayne the Earle Dowglas Duke of Turon Iames Dowglas Earle of Wighton Iohn Earle of Boughan with the Uicount Nerbon and many other to the number of tenne thousand sayth Fabian foure Robert Fabian thousande sayeth mine Author a Frenchman who sayeth that the Duke of Bedford bare himselfe most valiantly fighting with an axe so fiercely as he had the prayse of all other The Earles of Salisburie and Suffolke gouerned themselues also right valiantly The Lord of Torsy and other Lords of Normandy which before had taken part with the Englishmen this day turned to the French hoping that the Englishmen shoulde haue lost the battell True it is that the Frenchmen would neuer suffer their King Charles to be present in person at any battayle but when they thought to pitch a fielde they sent him into some strong Towne By the losse of this battayle fought on the seauentéenth of August before Vernole in Anno reg 3. Perche King Charles was put to great hinderance so that he was not able in puissance to giue the Englishmen any battayle hauing ynough to defende and kéepe his Townes and fortresses against them The Duke of Bedford returned into Normandy where he punished many that fledde from him the day of the battayle Then went he to Paris where he found the Duke of Burgoigne who receyued him and the Dutches of Bedforde The Duke of Burgoigne enamored vvith the Countesse of Salisburie vvhere of came great displeasure and losse to England by the breach of amity betvvixt the English and the Burgonions his wife the sayde Duke of Burgoignes Sister right ioyfully and made to them great feast at whiche feast also were the Earles of Salisburie and Suffolke the olde Quéene of France mother to King Charles and many other greate estates of diuers nations amongst the whiche the Duches of Bedford was holden for the most gallantest Lady of all other and with hir the Countesse of Salisburie a very faire Lady The Duke of Bedford that had neuer iusted before iusted there The Duke of Burgoigne was a very goodly amiable maÌ„ of personage doing excellently well whatsoeuer he tooke in hand and especially in dansing and iusting he excéeded all other of his Countrey At this feast he became desirous of the Countesse of Salisburie and some messages passed betwixt them which came to the Earle of Salisburies eare whereof he was nothing contented with the Duke and therfore sought to do him displeasure afterward This feast being ended the Duke of Burgoigne went into his Countrey of Burgoigne and there tooke to wife the Duches of Neuers which had bin wife to his Unkle the Duke of Neuers and had by hir two Children She was halfe sister to the Duke of Burbon but she liued not long with him The D. of Burgoigne also gaue his sister the yongest named Agnes The second cause of breach of amitle betvvixt England and Burgoigne in marriage vnto Charles de Barbon Earle of Cleremont for the which the Duke of Bedford and other Englishmâ— were wroth for that he made suche alliance with the enimies without their accord This yeare the Frenchmen repaired the Castell of Mouns in Champaigne which had bin a little before destroyd by the Englishmen and now it was well stuffed with victuals and men which began to make sore war to the Countrey but shortly after the Earle of Salisburie beséeged theÌ„ and with him Messire Iohn de Luxenburg who did so much that the Castell was yéelded to him The D. of Bedford with his wife the Duches lay for the most parte in Paris leading there a pleasant life with the Lady whom he greatly loued and was lodged in y e house of the Tournels â—éere to the Castel Saint Anthony where he made faire buildings and his men still made sore warres againste the French towards the Riuer of Loyre and other places vpon base Normandy and toward the Duchie of Alanson This yeare in Englande Edmond Mortimere Earle of March with many other Lords a great retinue were sent Earle of March sent into IrelaÌ„d into Ireland where the sayd Earle of March ended his life Simon Seman Bythewater the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Iohn Michaell Stockfish monger the 28. of October This yeare 1424. the warres began in Henault by reason of Iaqueline Duches of Henault daughter to Duke William Iaqueline Duches of Henault of Henault Unkle to Phillip Duke of Burgoigne and also daughter to Duke Iohn of Burgoignes sister wife to the â—â—renamed William and so double Cousin german to Philâ—â—p Duke Phillip now liuing This Iaqueline was married â—â— Iohn Duke of Brabant hir Cousin german Cousin gerâ—â—n also to Duke Philip of Burgoigne and before that she â—â—s married to the Earle of Pontioue son to King Charles le â—â—â—n aime eldest Brother to King Charles now liuing â—â—t notwithstanding that she was thus married to the Duke of Brabant yet was she conuayed by Sir Robersart Knight and brought into England to the Duke of Glocester and there married to the sayd Duke of Glocester and so she Iaqueline married to the D. of Glocester had two husbandes aliue at once Brabant and Glocester â— thing thought vnreasonable both against God the world and the Church for she had bin four or fiue yeares in companie with the Duke of Brabant but there had fallen some variance betwixt them and so she was come from him into Henault About the last of Aprill began a Parliament at Westminster wherein was graunted a Subsedie of twelue in the Robert Fabian Parliament at London First Subsedie payde pound of all manner Merchandize comming in or passing out of this Realme thrée Shillings of a Tunne of Wine for the tearme of thrée yeares to be holden And furthermore it was enacted that all Merchant strangers should be set to an English host within fiftéene dayes of their comming to their port sale and to make no sale of any Merchandize ere All Strangers to be lodged vvithin English hostes they were so lodged then within fortie dayes following to make sale of all they brought and if any remayned vnsold at the sayd fortie dayes end that then all such Merchandize vnsold to be forfeyted Also that all Strangers that caried any woolles out of this land should pay xliij shillings four pence for a sacke custome where the English Merchants and Denisons payde but fiue nobles c. After the marriage had bin solemnized betwéene the Duke of Glocester and Iaqueline Duches of Holland as is aforesayde The Duke of Glocester goeth into Holland within a moneth after the Duke of Glocester assembled an armie of twelue hundred fighting men at the least all Englishmen and taking the Duches with him in coÌ„panie
passed ouer to Caleis and streight from thence to Lâ—â—â— in Artois and so into Henault making no outrage as he passed through Duke Phillips Countreys At their comming into Henault many townes obeyed theÌ„ and other refused â—â— to do likewise were y â— Nobles diuided The D. of Burgoigne hearing of this was sore offended for the iniurie done to his Cousin of Brabant the dishonor of his Cousin the Duchâ—â— Iaqueline and the euill dealing of the Duke of Glocester A third cause of the amitie to be broken betvvixt England and Burgoigne and the losse of many Tovvnes in France and therefore to ayde the Duke of Brabant he appoynted many of his Captaynes with xij C. fighting meÌ„ Pickards to go against the Duke of Glocester The Duke of Brabant was a man but of weake complexion and therefore by the Counsell of Brabant it was ordeyned that his yonger brother Philip Earle of Saint Pol should be chiefe Captayne of the warre against the Duke of Glocester He had a great Armye as the more part of the Nobles of Brabant of Henalt and of Burgoigne in all 50000. Piere de Luxenburge Earle of Conuarson his néere kinsman had the leading of the Armie for himselfe was but yong The Duke of Burgoigne had put of his men in garrison within the towne of Braine in the Countie of Henault who made sore warre to the Countrey about but the Earle of Saint Pol and Conuarson did come and beséege Braine continuing afore it twelue dayes before they within yéelded compounding to departe with bodyes and goodes saued these hauing wonne Braine destroyde it vtterly and that done tooke the Field with all puissance which was great and the Duke of Glocester likewise came into the fielde so that they approched néere togither and the vauntcurrers skirmished but the battayle ioyned not The Duke of Glocester had sent his Heraulte and Humfrey Duke of Glocester chalengeth the Combate vvith Phillip Duke of Burgoigne written to the Duke of Burgoigne calling him Traytor and disloyall to the King of England and France for that he had sente men in ayde against him and offered him the Combate wherevnto the Duke of Burgoine aunswered that hée would accept the Combate denying that euer he had fayled of his promise but that the Duke of Glocester had done great wrong to the Duke of Brabant to haue bereft him of his wife contrarye to the ordinance of God and of holye Church and for other wordes which the Duke had vttered against the Duke of Burgoignes honor he gaue him the lye and so farre the matter went in words betwixt them that the day was appoynted for the Combate and the Duke of Burgoigne chose for Iudge of the Combate the Emperour of Almayne and the Duke of Burgoigne sent the Duke of Glocester a safeconduct to departe safely into England to prepare himselfe of things necessarie for the Combate wherevpon both the Campes brake vp the Duke of Glocester wente to Mons in Henalt to the Duches his wife so tearmed gaue hir to vnderstand that he was desirous to trie the Combate with the Duke of Burgoigne and many other things he told hir which he performed not for within four dayes after he tooke all his power with him and returned into EnglaÌ„d and left the Duches in Mons smally accoÌ„panyed with y e people of that Countrey Shortly after his departure the Duke of Burgoigne sent the Lord Lilladam to the Towne of Mens to receyue Iaqueline the Duches who being deliuered vnto him he conueyed hir to Gaunt where the Duke and she made great semblance of ioy togither she promising to bée gouerned alwayes by his aduise but to goe to hir olde husband the Duke of Brabant she would not and when she espied hir time she stale away into hir Countrey of Holland where she was well receyued of many Lordes and began forthwith to mainteyne warre against Duke Philip of Burgoigne and sent to the Duke of Glocester for ayd who sente to hir a thousand fighting men vnder the conduct of the Lorde Fitzwaters The Duke of Burgoigne fearing least Iaqueline would deliuer the Countrey of Holland into the possessioÌ„ of the D. of Glocester he assembled his power and wente into Holland to put the CouÌ„trey into obeysance At his comming thither Iaqueline accompanyed with many Nobles of the Countrey and the Lord Fitzwaters woulde haue defended his landing but notwithstanding al the defence they could make he entred vpoÌ„ theÌ„ there néere to y e Towne of Brusseils they ioyned in battaile the D. of Burgoigne his people against the Englishmen Hollanders taking y e Duches Iaquelines part there was a fierce battayle on all sides but in the end the Hollanders and Englishmen were all discomfited and there dyed in that place aboue seauen or eight hundred besides those that were taken prisoners the Lord Fitzwater hardly escaped After this battell gote by the Duke of Burgoigne 1425 diuers Townes of the Countrey reuolted to him against Iaqueline the Duches as Dordrecht Sericzee and many other Shortly after the Duke of Burgoigne leauing garrisons in those Townes that obeyed him to make resistaÌ„ce against the Duches that lay in the Towne of Gaunt hée returned into his Countrey of Flanders and Artoyes there to prepare such abiliments as were necessary for him to vse at the Combate appoynted betwixt him and the Duke of Glocester The Duke of Glocester likewise in England made his pronision of his habilimentes and furniture but the Duke of Bedforde brother to the Duke of Glocester tooke greate paynes to make them friends and also the counsell of the yong King of England were nothing content with this variance doubting least it might be occasion that the Duke of Burgoigne mighte withdrawe himselfe from their amitie whereby their businesse in France should be hindered The Duke of Bedford therefore tooke hys iourney from Paris to Caleis and so into Englande to the ende to agrée the sayde Anno reg 4. Dukes he tooke with him the Duches his wife and not past a four or fiue hundred men About Michaelmasse the Prince of Portugale came into England and was honorably receyued and feasted by the Kings Uncles William Mildred Iohn Brokell the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Rob. Fabian Iohn Couentry Mercer the 28. of October The morrow after Simon and Iudes day when the Maior of London had bin at Westminster to take hys charge as Debate betvveene the Duke of Glocester and the Bishop of VVinchester the custome is at suche tyme as hée was holding hys greate dinner hée was by the Duke of Glocester Lord Protector sent for in spéedie manner when hée came to hys presence he gaue to hym commaundement to sée the Citie were surely watched in the night following and so it was done On y e next morrow about ix of the clock certain seruaÌ„ts of y â— Bishop of Winchester brother to y e said Protector would haue entred the Citie by the
caused to be written Dextera Domini A notable example exaltauit me that is to say The Lordes right hand hath exalted me Whereby he doing so notable a worke for the common weale also left example to other Citizens comming 1446 Cronicle of Thevvkesbury Iohn Rovvse Duke of vvarvvik King of vvight died after him whoÌ„ God likewise exalteth with such temporall blessings that they be not vnthankfull to God and their common weale wherein they haue receiued them Henrie Duke of Warwike chiefe Erle of England Lorde Spencer and Aburgaueny King of the Isle of Wight Garnsey and Iarnsey and Lord of the Castell of Bristow died without issue and was buried at Tewksburie Iohn Dauid appeached his master William Catur an Armorer CoÌ„bat betvven a master the seruaunt dwelling in S. Dunstones Parish in Fletestreete of treason and a day being assigned them to fight in Smithfield the maister being wel beloued was so cherished by his friends and plied with wine that being therewith ouercome was also vnluckily slaine by his seruaunt An. reg 25. Baylifes Custos Robert Horne Godfrey Boleine the 28. of September Iohn Olney Mercer the 28. of October Pope Eugenius sent a golden Rose to the King of England expressing the propertie and aplicatioÌ„ of the same with the ceremonie that is yéerely vsed on Palme Sonday touching Record Ecclesi Canta the same Rose exhorting the Kyng agaynste the Turkes Which Rose Lodouicus Cordona Doctor of Diuinitie did present to the King in S. Stephens Chappell at Westminster vpon S. Andrewes day in presence of the Dukes of Yorke Excester Cardinall Kempe Archbishop of Yorke Iohn Stafford Archbishop of Caunterburie Chauncellor of England The x. of Februarie beganne a Parliament at Saint Edmondesburie Parliament at Burie in Suffolke at which time al the wayes about the same Towne were kept with armed men both daye and night so that many dyed with colde and waking Humfrey The Duke of Glocester arested sone after dyed Duke of Glocester being at the castell of the Vies in Wilshire came from thence to the Parliament and was lodged in the Hospitall where shortly after he was arrested by Iohn Lord Beaumount high Constable the Duke of Buckingham the Duke of Somerset and other who appointed certaine of the Kings housholde to waite vpon him but on the. xxiiij 1447 day he died for sorrow as some said that he might not come to his aunswere he was buryed at Saint Albons xxxij of his principall seruauntes were arrested and sent to diuers prisons and fiue of them were arraigned at London and condemned v. â—â—n hanged after pardoned whose names were sir Roger Chamberlain knight Middleton Herbert Arteyse Esquiers and Richard Nedam gentleman which were al fiue drawne from the Towre of London to Tiborne and there hanged letten downe quicke stript naked marked with a knife for to be quartered and then a charter shewed for their liues but the yoman of the crowne had their liuelode and the hangman had their clothes Henry Beauford Cardinal of Winchester deceased after him W. Wainflete Prouost of Eaton was made Bishop of Winchester The v. of August died Iohn HollaÌ„d duke of Excester An. reg 16. was buried at S. Catherins nygh the Towre of London William Abraham Thomas Scot the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Iohn Gidney Draper the 28. of October This yéere during y â— peace betwéene England Fraunce â— knight of the English part named sir Frances Aragonoyse toke a towne named Fogars vpoÌ„ the borders of NormaÌ„die belonging 1448 to y â— duke of Britaine For the which he complained him to y â— French king he at y e said dukes request sent vnto y â— king of England to aske restitutioÌ„ of the harme The which messengers were answered of y e kings CouÌ„sell that y â— déede was right displeasant vnto y e king that sir Francis Aragon had enterprised y â— feate of his owne presumption WhervpoÌ„ it folowed shortly after that y e French by like policie toke y â— towne castle of Pountallarche after that many other so y â— the taking of y â— foresaid towne of Fogiars by y e English men An. reg 27. was y â— occasion by y e which the French after gat al NormaÌ„dy William Catlow William Marow the 28. of September Sherifes Maior 1449 Roane yeelde â— to the French Steuen Browne Grocer the 28. of October This yéere the FrenchmeÌ„ got many townes in NormaÌ„dy out of the possession of y e EnglishmeÌ„ Also y â— citie of Roane was yéelded to the French with condition that the Captaines garrisons might depart with armour goods not long after was rendered with the like coÌ„ditioÌ„ as of Roane the towns of Harflewe Hounflewe A knight of France called sir Lewes de Breyll challenged an Esquier of England named Ralph Chalons of certaine feates of Warre the which to proue a day to them was giuen to méete at a towne in France named Maunce where y â— French king at that day was present But Chalons canne the French knight through the body with his An. reg 28. speare whereof the said Lewes dyed William Hulin Thomas Cannings the 28. of September Sherifes Maior B. of Chichester murdered Thomas Chalton Mercer the 28. of October The 9. of Januarie AdaÌ„ Molins Bishop of Chichester kéeper of the kings priuie seale through y â— procurement of Richard duke of Yorke was by shipmen slaine at Portesmouth The 9. of Februarie Thomas Thany otherwise Blewberd Blevvberd hanged 1450 a Fuller was taken beside Caunterburie for raising a rebellion who was hanged and quartered WilliaÌ„ Delapole duke of Suffolke was banished y e land for v. Duke of Suffolk murdered yéeres to appease y e rumor of y e coÌ„mons of England who taking ship at Ipswich the 3. of May sailed toward Fraunce but was mette on the sea by a ship of warre named Nicholas â—â— the Towre and beheaded and his corps was cast vp at Douer and buried in the Charter house at Hull This William de la pole Duke of Suffolke and Alice his wife daughter to Thomas Chawcer sonne to Geffrey Chawcer the famous Poet translated and increased the manner place of Eweline in Oxfordshire they builded a newe the parishe Churche of Gods house at nevv Evveline in Oxfordshire Eweline a comely péece of worke standing on a hyll and also hard adioyning to the West end of Eweline parishe Church they founded a pretie Hospitall or almes house for ij priests â—iber fundationis and xiij poore men to dwell and be sustained in for euer one of the priestes to be maister of the almes house the other priest a scholemaster fréely to teache the children of the tenaunts of the sayd Lordship of Eweline and other Lordships pertaining to the said almes house their GraÌ„mer eyther of those ij priests to haue x. pound the yeare One of
vpon Bakers for making Anno. reg 16. 1476 of light bread he caused diuers of them to be set on the Pillorie in Cornehill And also one Agnes Daintie a Butter-wife for felling of butter new and olde myngled together Agnes Daintie set on the pillerie being first trapped with butterdishes was then set on the pilery The Countesse of Oxforde deceassed and was buryed at Windsor Richard Rawson William Horne the 28. of Sept. Sherifes This Richard Rawson one of the Sherifes of LondoÌ„ caused to be builded one house in the Church yarde of S. Marie Hospitle without Byshopsgate of London where the Maior of that Cittie and his brethren the Aldermen vse to sit and heare the Sermons in the Easter holydayes as in tymes past appeared by an inscription on the front of the same house now by wethering defaced which I haue red in these wordes Pray for the soules of Richard Rawson late Mercer and Alderman of London and Isabel his wife of whose goods this worke was made and founded Anno Domi. 1488. Ralph Ioâ—celine Draper the 28. of October Maior By the diligence of this Maior the Wall about London was newe made betwixte Aldgate and Creplegate the caused Part of London vvâ—â—â— nevv builded the Moore field to be fearched for Clay the Bricke â—o be made burnt there he also caused Chalke to be brought out of Kent and in the same Moore fielde to be brent into Iohn Rouse Lyme for the furtheraunce of that worke The Maior with his company of the Drapers made all that parte betwixte Byshops gate and Athalowes Church in the same Wall And Byshops gate itselfe newe builded by the Marchauntes Almaynes Byshops gate nevv builded of the Stillyard and from Alhallowes Churche toward Mooregate a great part of the same was builded of the goods and by the executors of sir Iohn Crosseby late Alderman of London as may appeare by his armes in two places fixed Anno reg 17. 1477 The companie of Skynners made that parte of the wait betwéene Aldgate and Buryes Markes towardes Byshops gate as may appeare by their armes in thrée places fixed the other companyes of the Cittie made the other deale of the sayde Wall which was a great worke to be done in one yeare Thomas Burdet an Esquier of Arrowe in Warwikeshire Burdet for a vvord spoken beheaded sonne to sir Nicholas Burdet who was great butlar of Normandie in Henry y â— sixt dayes was beheaded for a worde spoken in this sort K. Edward in his progresse hunted in Tho. Engwarant Burdets parke at Arrow flew many of his Deare amongst the which one was a white bucke wherof Tho Burdet made great account therfore when he vnderstoode therof he wished Register of the Grey Friers the buckes head in his belly y â— moued the King to kyll it Which tale being told to the King Burdet was appreheÌ„ded accused of treason for wishing the buckes head hornes all in the Kings belly he was condemned drawne from the Towre of London to Tyburne and there beheaded then buried in the grey friers Church at London Henrie Collet Iohn Stocker the 28. of Sept. Sherifes Maior Humfrey Heyford Goldsmith the 28. of October The. xv day of Januarie K. Edward the fourth solemnized the Matrimoniall feast of his sonne the Duke of Yorke and Lady Aâ—â—e daughter sole heire to Iohn Duke of Norfolke The. xvj day of Januarie began a Parliament at Westminster Duke of Clarence murdred Anno reg 18 where George Duke of Clarence K. Edwards brother was attainted of treason and y â— xj of March after he had offred his owne Masse penny in y â— Tower of LondoÌ„ made his end in a vessell of Maluesey after buried at Tewkesburie by his wife somtime daughter to y â— erle of Warwike which being with childe died of poyson but a little before him Margaret Dutches of Burgoygne sent to hir brother King 1478 Edward of England for aide against the Frenche King which he would in no case graunt to do but sent Ambassadors to y â— French King with leâ—ing letters requiring him to growe to â—â—â—e reasonable agréement w t the sayd Lady of Burgoygne Robert Hâ—â—ding Robert Byfield the 18. of Sept. Sherifes Maior Anno. reg 19 1479 Richard Gardiner Mercer the 28. of October This yere was a great mortalitie death of y â— pest not onâ—â—â—â— LondoÌ„ but in diuers partes of y â— Realme which begaÌ„ in the â—â—tter end â—â—â—â—pt in the yéere laâ—â— befor a passed continued all this yéere till the beginning of Noue â—â—her which was aboute xiiij monethes in the which space dyed innumerable of people in the saâ—d Citie and else where This yéere the Maior of London being in Paules knéeling in his deuotions at Saint Erkenwaldes shrine Robert Byfield one of the Sherifes vnaduisedly knéeled downe nigh vnto the Maior whereof afterward the Maior charged him to haue done more then becommed him but the Sherife answering rudely and stubbornly would not acknowledge to haue committed any offence for the which he was afterwarde by a court of Aldermen fyned at fiftie pounde to bée payde towarde the reparations of the Condites in London which was truely payde Thomas Ilam Iohn Ward the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Sir Bartholmew Iames Draper the 28. of October This Thomas Ilam one of the Sherifs last before named newly builded the great Condite in Cheape of his owne charges This yéere King Edward began his Christmas at Waking and at fiue dayes end remoued to Greenewich where he kept out the other part of his Christmas with great Royaltie The. xxij day of Februarie were fiue notable théeues put to death for robbing the Church called S. Martins le graund Anno reg 20 1480 in London and other places thrée of them were drawne to the Towre hill hanged and brent the other two were pressed to death Thomas Daniell William Bacon the 28. of Sept. Iohn Browne Mercer the 28. of October King Edwarde required great summes of money to bée tent him the Citizens of London graunted him 5000. marks Anno. reg 21 1481 which was sessed of the. xxv wardes which 5000. markes was truely repayde againe in the next yéere following This yéere on Whitsonday King Edward the fourth created the Lord Barkeley Uicount Barkeley at Grenewiche An house on London bridge called the common siege or priuie fell down into the Thames where through it fiue persons â—ala tempo were then drowned Robert Tate William Wiking the 28. of Sept. Sherifes Maior Richard Chawrie the first of Februarie William Harriot Draper the 28. of October This yéere King Edward with his Quéene kept a Royal Christmas at Windsor About the ende of Januarie deceassed William Wiking one of the Sherifes of London In whose place was chosen Richard Chawrie on the first of Februarie King Edwarde so greatly fauoured this Maior that he Anno
the Duke desirous to be magnified and also he perceyued the inwarde hatred whiche he bare towarde King Richard hée opened hys stomake to the botome and saide my singular good Lorde sith the tyme of my captiâ—itie whyche béeyng in your Graces custody I maye rather call it a libertie then a straight imprisonment in auâ—yding of ydlenesse mother of all vyces in reading Bookes and auncient Pamphlets I haue founde this sentence written that no manne is borne frée and at libertie of himselfe onely for one part of duty he oweth to his parents an other parte to his friends and kinsfolkes but the natiue countrey in the which he firste tasted this pleasaunte and flattering worlde demaundeth a debte not to be forgotten whyche saying causeth me to consider in what case this realme my natiue countrey nowe standeth and in what estate and assuraunce before this time it hathe coÌ„tinued what gouernor we now haue and what ruler we might haue for I plainely perceiue the Realme being in this case must néeds decay be brought to confusioÌ„ but one hope I haue that is wheÌ„ I consider youre noble personage your iustice and indifferencie your feruent zeale and ardent loue toward your naturall country in like maner the loue of your countrey toward you the great learning pregnant witte eloquence which so much doth abounde in your person I muste néedes thinke this realme fortunate whyche hathe such a Prince in store méete and apt to be gouernor But on the other side when I call to memorie the good qualities of the late Protector and nowe called King so violated by tyranny so altred by vsurped authoritie so clouded by blinde ambition I muste néedes say that he is neither méete to be King of so noble a realme nor so famous a realme méete to be gouerned by such a tyrant Was not his first enterprice to obtaine the Crowne begunne by the murther of dyuers noble personages Did he not secondarily procéed againste his owne naturall mother declaring hir openlye to be a woman giuen to carnall affection and dissoulute lyuing declaring furthermore hys two brethren and two nephewes to be Bastardes and to be borne in aduoâ—trey yet not contented after he had obtayned the Garlande hée caused the two pore innocents his nephewes committed to him to be shamefully murthered the bloude of whiche little babes dayly cry to God from the earth for vengeaunce what sure tie shall be in this realme to any person eyther for life or goodes vnder suche a cruell Prince whych regardeth not the destruction of his owne bloud then the lesse the losse of other but nowe to conclude what I meane toward your noble person I say affirme if you loue God your linage or your natiue couÌ„try you must your self take vpon you y â— Crown of this Realme both for y e maintenaÌ„ce of the honour of the same as also for the deliueraunce of your natural CountreymeÌ„ from the bondage of such a Tyrante And if your self wil refuse to take vpon you y e Crown of this Realme TheÌ„ I adiure you by the faith y â— you owe to God to deuise some way how this realme may be brought to some conuenient regiment vnder some good gouernour wheÌ„ the B had ended his saying the D. sighed spake not of a gret while so y â— night they coÌ„moned 〈…〉 ore The next daye the Duke sent for the B. vnto whom he sayd my L. of Ely I must néedes in hart thinke and with mouth confesse that you be a sure friende a trustie counsaylour and a verye louer of your Countrey And sith at our last communicatioÌ„ you haue disclosed the secrets of your hart touching y e new vsurper of the Crowne and also haue a little touched the â—â—auncement of the two noble families of Yorke and Lancaster I shal likewise declare vnto you my priuie entents and secrete cogitations and to beginne when King Edwarde was deceased I then beganne to studye and with deliberation to ponder in what maner this realme shoulde be gouerned I perswaded wyth my selfe to take part wyth the Duke of Glocester whom I thought to be as cleane without dissimulation as tractable without iniurie and so by my means he was made Protector both of the king and realm whiche auathoritie being once gotten he neuer ceased printly to require me other Lords as wel spirituall as temporall that he might take vppon hym the Crowne till the Prince came to the age of xxiiij yeares and were able to gouerne the realme as a sufficient king which thing when he saw me somewhat sticke at he then brought in instrumeÌ„ts autentike Doctors Proctors and notaries of the law with depositions of diuers witnesses testifying King Edwardes children to be bastards whiche depositions then I thought to be as true as nowe I knowe them to be fayned When the sayde depositions were before vs read and diligentlye hearde hée stoode vppe bare headed saying Well my Lordes euen as I and you would that my nephewes should haue no wrong so I praye you do me nothing but right for these witnesses and sayings of famous Doctours be true for I am onelye the vndubitate heyre to RICHARDE PLANTAGENET Duke of Yorke adiudged to be the verye heire to the Crowne of this realme by aucthoritie of Parliament Whyche thynges so by learned men for veritie to vs declared caused me and other to take him for our lawful vndoubted Prince and Soueraigne Lorde so agayne by my aide he of a Protector was made a King but when he was once crowned King and in full possession of the realme he caste awaye his olde conditions For when I my selfe sued to him for my parte of the Earle of Herefords landes which his brother Kyng Edward wrongfully detained from me and also requyred to haue the office of the highe Conestableship of Englande as diuers of my noble auncestours before this time haue hadde and in long descent continued in this my firste sute hée did not only first delay me and afterward deny me but gaue me suche vnkind wordes as though I had neuer furthered him al which I suffred pacieÌ„tly but wheÌ„ I was informed of the death of the two yong innocentes O Lord my heart inwardly grudged in so much that I abhorred y e sight of him I toke my leaue of the Court and returned to Brecknocke to you but in the iourney as I returned I had diuerse imaginatioÌ„s how to depriue this vnnatural vncle Frst I santiâ—ed y â— if I list to take vpon me the Crowne now was the way made playne and occasion giuen For I sawe he was dysdayned of the Lords temporall and accursed of the Lordes spiritual After diuerse cogitations of this matter As I rode betwéene Worcester and Bridgenorth I encountred with the Lady Margaret Countesse of Richmonde now wife to y e Lord Stanley which is the very daughter and sole heire to Iohn Duke of Somerset my grandfathers elder brother so that she and hir sonne the Garle
of Richmond be both betwéene me the gate to enter into the Maiestie royall and getting of the Crowne and when we had a little comoned concernyng her sonne and were departed I then beganne to dispute w t my selfe whether I were best to take vpon me by the election of the nobilitie and communaltie or to take it by power thus standing in y e wauering ambiguitie I considered first y â— offiâ—e dutie and pain of a King which surely I think that no mortall men can iustlye and truely obserue excepte hée â—ée elected by GOD as King Dauid was but further I remembred that if I once toke on me the gouernaunce of the Realme the daughters of King Edwarde and theyr Allies being bothe for hys sake muche helpned and also for the greate iniurye done to them muche pytied woulde neuer cease to barke at the one syde of mée Senâ—bâ—abye my coosin the Earle of Richemonde hys aydes and kinsfolke wyll surelye attempte eyther to â—yte or to pierse mée on the other syde so that my life and rule shoulde euer hang vnquiet in â—pubte of deathe or deposition And if the sayde two lyâ—ages of Yorke and Lancaster shoulde ioyne in one againste mée then were I surelye matched Wherefore I haue cléerelye determyned vtterlye to relinquishe all imaginations concerning the obtayning of the Crowne For as I told you the Countesse of Richmond in my returne from the newe named King méeting me in the high waye prayed me first for kinred sake secondly for the loue I bare to my grandfather Duke Humfrey whiche was sworne brother to hir father to moue the King to be good to hir son Hencie Earle of Richmonde and to license him with his fauour to returne againe into England and if it were his pleasure so to doe she promised that the Earle hir sonne shoulde marrie one of king Edwards daughters at the appointment of the King without anye thing demaunded for the sayde espousalles but only the Kings fauoure whiche request I sâ—â—ne ouer passed and departed but after seruice I called to memorie more of that matter I am bente that the Earle of Richmonde heire of the house of Lancaster shal take to wife Lady Elizabeth eldest daughter to K. Edwarde by the which marriage both the houses of Yorke and Lancaster maye be vnite in one when the Duke had sayde the Bishop Morton whiche fauoured euer the house of Lancaster â—â—s wondeâ—ous ioyfull for all his imagination tended to this effecte and least the Dukes courage shoulde swage oâ— his minde alter he sayde to the Duke my Lord of Buckingham sithe by Godâ— prouision and your incoÌ„parable wisedome thys noble coniunction is first moued it is necessarie to consider what persons we shall firste make priâ—â—e of this polliticke conclusion by my troth quoth the Duke we will beginne wyth my Ladye of Richmonde the Earles mother whyche knoweth where he is in Brytaine sith you will begin that waye sayde the Byshoppe I haue an olde friende wyth the Countesse called Reignalde Bray for whom I shall send if it be iyocâ—â— pleasure so the Byshoppe wrode for him to come to Breckeâ—â—â—ke who streight came backe with the messenger where the Dirke and Bishoppe declared what they hadde deuised for the prefermente of the Earle of Richmonde sonne to hys Ladye land Maistresse willyng hyr firste to compasse howe to obtayne the good wyll of Quéene Elizabeth and also of hir eldest daughter and after secretly to send to hir sonne into Britaine to declare what highe honour was prepared for him if he would sweare to marrye the Lady Elizabeth as soone as he was King of the Realme Reynold Bray with a glad heart returned to the Countesse his Ladie When Bray was gone the Byshoppe tolde the Duke that if he were in his Isle of Elie he could make many friendes to further their enterprise The Duke knewe this to be true but yet lothe to lose the companie of such a counseller gaue the Byshoppe fayre wordes saying he shoulde shortly departe well accompanied for feare of enemies but the Bishop or the Dukes company were assembled secretly disguised in a night departed and came to Elie where he founde money and friendes and so sayled into Flaunders where he did the Earle of Richmond good seruice when Reynold Bray had declared his message to the Countesse no maruaile if she were glad wherefore she deuised a meanes hold to breake this matter to Quéene Elazabeth then being in Sanctuarie at Westminster And hauing in hir family a certayne Welâ—hman called Lewes learned in Phisicke nowe hauing opportunitie to breake hir minde vnto him declared that the time was come that hir sonne should bée ioyned in marriage with Ladye Elizabeth daughter and heyre to King Edward and that King Richard shoulde out of all honour and estate be detected and required him to goe to Quéene Elizabeth not as a messenger but as one that came friendly to visite hir and as tyme and place should serue to make hir priuie of this deuise This Phisition with good diligence repayred to the Quéene and when he saw tyme conuenient he said vnto hir Madame although my imagination be verye simple yet for the entire affection I beare to you and to your children I am so bolde to vtter vnto you a secrete conceit that I haue compassed in my brayne When I remember the great losse that you haue sustayned by the death of your louing husband and the great sorow that you haue suffered by the cruell murther of your innocent chyldren I can no lesse doe than daylye studie howe to bring your heart to comforte and also to reuenge the quarrell of you and your children on that cruell tyraunt King Richard And first consider what battayle and what mischiefe hath risen by the disâ—ention betwéene the two houses of Yorke and Lancaster which two families if they may be ioyned in one I doubt not but y â— your line shall be againe restored to your great ioye and comforte You knowe Madame that of the house of Lancaster the Earle of Richmond is nexte of bloud and to the house of Yorke your daughters nowe are heyres If ye coulde inuent the meane howe to couple your eldest daughter with the Earle of Richemond in Matrimonie no doubt but the vsurper should bée shortly deposed and your heire agayne to hir ryght restored When the Quéene had heard thys friendly motion shée instantly besought hym that as he had béene the first inuenter of so good an enterprise that now he would not desist to folow the same requrring him further that he would resorte to the Countesie of Richemond mother to the Earle Henrie and to declare to hir on the Quéenee behalfe that all the friendes of King Edwarde hir husband should assist and take part with the Erle of Richemond hir sonne so that he woulde take an othe that after the Kingdome obteyned to espouse the Lady Elizabeth hir daughter c. After Lewes so spedde his businesse that he made a finalâ—enâ— of this
the Ladye Elizabeth than for lacke of that affinitie the whole Realme shoulde runne to ruyne Wherefore hée sent to the Quéene being in Sanctuarie diuers and often messengers whiche shoulde excuse hym of all things before agaynst hir attempted and after shoulde so largelye promyse promotions not onely to hir but to hir sonne Thomas Marques Dorset that they shoulde bryng hir if it were possible into some wan hope The Messengers so perswaded the Quéene that shée beganne somewhat to reâ—ent in so muche that shée faythfully promysed to yéelde hir selfe to the Kyngs wyll and pleasure And so shée first delyuered vnto Kyng Richardes handes hir fyue daughters Afterwarde shée sent letters to the Marques hir sonne beyng then at Paris wyth the Earle of Richemond wylling hym in any wyse to repayre into Englande where for him were prouided great honours assertayning hym that all offences on both parties were forgiuen and forgotten After that King Richarde hadde thus pleased the mutable mynde of Quéene Elizabeth he caused all hir daughters to bée conueyed into his Palace with solempne receyuing Nowe nothing was contrarie to his purpose â—ut that his mansion was not voyde of a wyfe and first 〈…〉 abstayned both from the bedde and companye of hys wyfe after he complayned to many of the infortunate barrennesse of his wife After this he procured a common rumor to be published among the common people that the Quéene was dead When the Quéen heard tell that so horrible a rumor of hir death was sprong amongst the communaltie she sore suspected the world to be almost at an ende with hir and not long after howsoeuer it fortuned the Quéene departed out of this life and was with due solemnitie buryed at Westminster The King thus losed out of the bonds of Matrimony began to cast a fancie to Lady Elizabeth hys Néece making much suite to haue hir ioyned with him in lawfull Matrimonie but bycause all men and the Mayden hir selfe most of all detested thys vnlawfull copulation hée determined to deferre the matter till he were in a more quiet case for all thys season he was oppressed with weighty affayres on euery syde considering that dayly parte of the Nobilitie sayled into France other priuily fauoured the Earle of Richmond amongst the noble men whome hée most suspected these were the principall Thomas Lorde Stanley Sir Wyllyam Stanley hys brother Gilbert Talbot and sixe hundred other of whose purpose though King Richard were ignorant yet he gaue no credence to any one of them and least of all to the Lord Stanley bycause he was ioyned in Matrimonie wyth the Lady Margaret mother to the Earle of Richmond for when the sayde Lorde Stanley would haue departed into hys Countrey the King in no wyse woulde suffer hym to departe before he had lefte as in hostage Anno reg 3. in the Courte George Stanley Lord Strange his first begotten sonne and heire Whyle Kyng Richarde was thus troubled sodeynely hée hearde newes that the Castell of Hames was delyuered into the handes of the Earle of Richmonde by the meanes of the Earle of Oxford and that not onely he but also Iames Blunt Captayne of the Castell were fledde into France to ayde the Earle of Richmond Henry Earle of Richmond obteyning of King Charles a small crue of men and borowing certayne summes of money of hym and of dyuers other hys priuate friendes hée departed from the French Court and came to the Citie of Roane Whyle he taryed there making prouision at Harefleete in the mouth of the Riuer of Seyne for all things necessarye for hys Nauye tydings were broughte to hym that Kyng Richarde béeyng wythout Children and a Widdower intended shortly to marrye wyth Lady Elizabeth hys brothers daughter whyche newes hée tooke of no small momente for thys thyng onely tooke away from all hys companyous theyr hope to obteyne an happye enterprise by reason whereof hée iudged that all hys friendes in Englande woulde shrinke from him yet notwithstanding Earle Henry of Richmonde bycause he woulde no longer linger and wéerie hys friendes lyuing betwéene hope and feare determined in all hast conuenient to sette forwarde and caryed to hys Shippes armour weapons vitiayle and all other ordinances expedient for warre which béeyng done onely accompanyed wyth two thousande men and a small number of Shyppes weyed vp hys Anckers and in the kalendes of August hée sayled from Harefleete wyth so prosperous a wynde that the seauenth day after Henry Earle of Richmond landed at Milford Hauen hée arriued in Wales in the euening at a Port called Milford Hauen and incontinente tooke lande and came to a place called Dale and at the Sunne rising remoued to Hereford West where he was receyued of the people wyth great ioy From thence he remoued to Cardigan fiue mile from Hereford West whether came to the Earle Richard Griffith with all his men and power After him the same day came Iohn Morgan wyth hys men Then the Earle aduanced forwarde making no abode in anye place and sodeynly hée was ascertayned that Sir Walter Harbert and Rice appe Thomas were in harnesse before hym readye to encounter wyth hys Armye and to stoppe theyr passage Wherefore he first determined to set vpon them and eyther to destroye or to take them into his fauour and after with all hys power to gyue battayle to King Richarde But to the intent his friendes shoulde knowe with what deâ—teritie he attempted his enterprise forwarde he sent messengers with letters and instructions to the Ladye Margaret his mother to the Lorde Stanley and his brother to Talbot and to other declaring to them that he holpe with the ayde of his friendes intended to passe ouer the riuer of Seuerne at Shrewsburie and so to passe directly to the Citie of London requiring them as his speciall trust was in the hope of their fidelitie that they woulde méete him by the waye with all diligent preparation When these messengers were departed he marched forward towardes Shrewsburie in his passage there mette and saluted him Rice ap Thomas with a goodly band of Welchmen which submitted himselfe whole to his order and commaundement In the meane tyme the messengers laden with rewardes returned to him the same daye that he entred into Shrewsburie and made relation to him that his friendes were readie in all poyntes to doe all things for him which they myghte doe The Earle Henrie continued his iourney and came to a little towne called Newporte and pitched his campe on a little hyll adioyning reposing himselfe there that nyghte In the Euenyng of the same day came to him sir George Talbot with the whole power of the young Earle of Shrewsburie then beyng in warde which were accounted ij thousand men And thus his power increasing he arriued at the Towne of Stafforde and there paused To whome came sir William Stanley accompanyed with a fewe persons After that the Earle departed from thence to Lytchfield and lay without the walles in campe all that night The
fewell were rowed vp to Holborne Bridge as they of old time had bin accustomed which was a great commoditie to all the inhabitantes in that parte of London Also the Tower néere to the blacke Friers was taken downe by the commandement of the Maior The sixth of May Sir Iames Tirell Knight Lieutenant of Guisnes Castell and Sir Iohn Windham Knighte were beheaded on the Tower hill and a Shipman was hanged and quartered at Tiborne all for ayding Edmond de la Poole Earle of Suffolke Thys yeare were brought vnto the Kyng thrée men taken Men brought from the nevv found Ilands in the new found Ilands by Sebastian Gabato before named in Anno 1468. these men were clothed in Beastes Skinnes and eate raw Flesh but spake such a language Anno reg 18. as no man could vnderstand them of the which thrée men two of them were séene in the Kings Court at Westminster two yeares after clothed like Englishmen and could not bée discerned from Englishmen Henry Keble Nicholas Nines the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Bartholmew Rede Goldsmith the 28. of October The Chappell of our Lady aboue the East ende of the high Aultare of Westminster Churche with a Tauerne called King Henry the seauenths Chappell at VVestminster the white Rose néere adioyning was taken downe in whiche place a most beautifull Chappell was then forthwyth begonne to be buylded by Kyng Henrye the seauenth the charges whereof as I haue bene credibly informed amounted to the summe of fourtéene thousande pounds Elizabeth Quéene of England wife to Kyng Henry the Queene Elizabeth deceassed seauenth dyed of Childbed in the Tower of London on the twelfth of February and was solemnely buryed at Westminster King Henry the seuenth being himselfe a brother of the Sixe Kings of England breethren vvith the Taylors Company in London before they vvere entituled Merchant Taylors 1503 Taylors company in London as diuers other his predecessors Kings before him had bin to wéete Richard the third Edward the fourth Henry the sixth Henry the fifth Henry the fourth and Richard the second Also of Dukes eleuen Earles xxviij and Lords xiviij he now gaue to them the name and title of Merchant Taylors as a name of worship to endure for euer This yeare about the later end of March the prior of the Prior of Shene murthered Charterhouse of Shene was murthered in a cell of his owne house by meanes of one Goodwine a Monke of the same Cloyster and his adherents artificers of London On the xxv of June at the Bishop of Salisburies place in Fléetestréete was the noble Prince Henry the second sonne of King Henry the seauenth assured in matrimonie to the Lady Katherine late the wife of that excellent Prince Arthure The fifth of August deceassed Sir Reginald Bray Knight Treasurer of the Kings warres and was buryed at Windesore The eyght of August the King of Scottes marryed Margaret Margaret the Kings daughter maryed the eldest daughter of King Henry the seuenth A drye Sommer hauing no notable rayne from Whitsontide Anno reg 9. to the later Lady day in haruest Christopher Hawes Robert Wittes the 28. of Septemb. Sherifes Thomas Granger the 11. of Nouember Sir William Capell Draper the 28. of October Maior The xiij of Nouember was holden within the pallace Sergeants feast of the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth the Sergeants feast where dined the King and all his nobles and vpon the same day Thomas Granger newly chosen Sheriffe of London was presented before the Barons of the Kings Exchequer there to take his oth and after went with the Maior vnto the same feast whiche saued him money in hys pursse for if that day that feast had not bin kepte he must haue feasted the Maior Aldermen and others Worshipfull of the Citie This Feast was kept at the charge of tenne learned men newly admitted to be Sergeants to the Kings law whose names were Robert Bridnell William Greuill Thomas Marow George Edgore Iohn Moore Iohn Cutler Thomas Elyot Lewes Pollard Guy Palmis William Fayrefax On the xxj day of Nouember at night beganne a perillous Fire on London Bridge fire at the signe of the Panyer vpon London Bridge néere to Saint Magnus Church where sixe tenements were brent ere the same could be quenched The seauenth of January were certayne houses consumed Fire with fire againste Saint Butolphes Churche in Thamis stréete The xxv of January beganne a Parliament at Westminster Parliament of the which was chosen speaker for the commons Maister Edmond Dudley The xxvij of March was an house brent againste Sainte 1504 Martins le grand in London A newe Coyne was by Parliament appoynted that is Nevv Coyne to say Grote and halfe Grote which bare but halfe faces the same time also was coyned a Grote whiche was in value twelue pence but of those were but few coyned This yeare Alume which many yeares had bin sold for Alume deere sixe shillings an hundred and lower arose to fiue Nobles an hundred and after to foure Markes c. The forenamed Sir William Capell Maior of London caused in euery ward of London a Cage with a paire of Stocks Anno reg 20 Cages and Stockes ordeyned Hunsditch paued Sherifes Maior therein to punish vagabonds Also he caused all Hunsditch to be ouerpaued the which many yeares before lay full noyously and perilously for all trauellers that way Roger Acheley William Browne the 28. of Septemb. Iohn Winger Grocer the 28. of October About Christmas the more parte of the prisoners of the Marshalsey in Southwarke brake out and many of them béeing Prisoners of the Marshalsey brake out shortlye after taken were put to execution speciallye those which had layne for Felouie or Treason The xv of Aprill a money maker one of the Coyners of 1505 the Tower was drawne to Tiborne and there hanged There was great strife in the Guild hall about choosing Anno reg 21. of the Sheriffe for the Taylors woulde haue had Mayster Fitz Williams Tailor and the other commons chose Roger Groue Grocer Richard Shore Roger Groue the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Thomas Kniesworth Fishmonger the 28. of October This Thomas Kneisworth of his owne goodes builded the Conduit at Bishopsgate He gaue to the Fishmongers Conduit at Bishopsgate builded certayne tenements for the whiche they be bound to finde four Schollers that studie Arte two at Oxford and two at Cambridge euery of them foure pound the yeare They bée bound also to giue to twelue aged poore people of their company to euery one of them at Barthelmewtide a winter garment for euer Also to giue to the prisoners of Ludgate and Newgate euery yeare forty shillings c. The fifth of January in the night the Kings Chamber Richmond on fire was fiered at Richmond the which might not be quenched till many curteyns carpets rich beds and much other stuffe was consumed Through great
Suffolke the Marques Dorcet the Earle of Wiltshire hir father the Earles of Arundale Darby Rutland Worcester Huntington Sussex Oxforde and many Byshops and Noble men euerye one in hys Barge whyche was a goodly sight to beholde shée thus being accompanyed rowed towardes the Tower and in the meane waye the Shippes whyche were commanded to lye on the shoare for letting of the Barges shotte dyuers peales of Gunnes and ere she landed there was a maruellous shotte out of the Tower I neuer hearde the like and at hir landing there mette wyth hir the Lord Chamberlaine with the officers of Armes and brought hir to the King whych receyued hir with louing countenance at the Posterne by the water side and kissed hir and then shée turned backe agayne and thanked the Mayor and the Citizens wyth manye goodly wordes and so entred into the Tower After whyche entrye the Citizens all this while houered before the Tower makyng greate melodie went not alande for none were assigned to lande but the Maior the Recorder and two Aldermen but to speake of the people that stoode on euerye shoare to beholde this sighte hée that saâ—e it not will not beléeue it On Friday at dinner serued the King all suche as were appoynted by hys Highenesse to be Knights of the Bathe whiche after dinner were brought to their Chambers and that nighte were bathed and shriuen according to the olde vsage of Englands and the nexte daye in the morning the King dubbed them according to the ceremonies thereto belonging whose names here after ensue ninetéene in number The Marques Dorcet The Earle of Darby The Lord Clifford sonne and heire to the Earle of Comberland The Lord Fitz Walter sonne and heire to the Earle of Huntington The Lord Mountague The Lorde Vaux Sir Henrie Parker sonne and heyre to the Lorde Merle Sir William Winsore sonne and heyre to the Lorde Winsore Sir Iohn Mordant sonne and heyre to the Lorde Mordant Sir Frauncis Weston Sir Thomas Arondale Sir Iohn Hudlestone Sir Thomas Poynings Sir Henry Sauell Sir George Fitz William of Lincolnshire Sir Iohn Tindale Sir Tomas Ierney On Saterday the one and thirtith of May the Quéene The conueying of Queen Anne through the Citie to VVestm was conueyed through London in order as followeth To the intente that the horses shoulde not slide on the pauement nor that the people shoulde be hurte by horses and the highe stréetes where throughe the Quéene should passe were all graueled from the Tower vnto Temple barre and rayled on eche side wythin whiche raile stoode the Craftes along in their order from Grace Churche where the Merchauntes of the Stiliarde stoode vntill the lyttle Conduite in Cheape where the Aldermen stoode and on the other side of the stréete stoode the Conestables of the citie apparelled in Ueluet and Silke wyth greate staues in their handes to cause the people to giue roume and kéepe good order and when the stréetes were somewhat ordered the Mayor in a gowne of Crimosin veluet and a riche collar of Esses with two footemen clothed in white and red damaske rode to the Tower to giue hys attendaunce on the Quéene on whome the Sherifes with their officers did awaite till they came to the Tower hill where they taking their leaue rode downe the high stréetes commaunding the Conestables to sée roume and good order kept and so wente and stoode by the Aldermen in Cheape and before the Quéen with hir traine should come Grace-streete and Cornehill were hanged with fine Scarlet Crimosin and other grayned clothes and in some places with riche Arras and the moste part of Cheape was hanged with cloth of Tisshew Golde Ueluet and many riche hangings whyche made a goodlye shewe and all the windowes were replenished with Ladies and Gentlewomen to beholde the Quéene and hir traine as they shoulde passe by The firste of the Quéenes company that sette forwarde were twelue French men belonging to the Frenche Embassadoure clothed in contes of blewe Ueluet wyth sléeues of yellow and blew Ueluet their horses trapped with close trappers of blewe sarsenet powdred with white Crosses After them marched Gentlemen Esquiers Knights two and two after them the Iudges after them the Knights of the Bathe in violet gownes with hoods purfled with Miniuer like Doctors after them Abbots then Barons after them Bishoppes the Earles and the Marquesses then the Lorde Chanceloure of Englande after hym the Archebyshoppe of Yorke and the Embassadoure of Venice after them the Archebyshoppe of Caunterburie and the Embassadour of Fraunce after rode twoo Esquyers of honor wyth robes of estate rolled and worne Bauldrike-wise aboute their neckes wyth Cappes of estate representing the Dukes of Normandie and Aquitaine after them rode the Mayor of London wyth hys Mace and Garter in hys Coate of Armes whyche bare also hys Mace of Westminster hall after them rode the Lorde Wyllyam Howarde wyth the Marshalls rod deputy to hys brother the Duke of Norffolke Marshall of Englande whyche was Embassadoure then in Fraunce and on hys righte hande rode Charles Duke of Suffolk for that daye highe Conestable of Englande bearing the warder of siluer appertayning to the office of Conestableshippe and all the Lordes for the moste parte were clothed in Crimosin Ueluet and all the Quéenes seruauntes or officers of Armes in Scarlet next before the Quéene rode hir Chancelor bare headed the Sergeaunts and Officers at Armes rode on both the sides of the Lords then came the Quéene in a white Litter of white cloth of Golde not couered nor bailled whyche was ledde by twoo Palfreys clad in white Damaske downe to the grounde heade and all ledde by hir footemen shée hadde on a Kertle of white cloth of Tissue and a Mantle of the same surred wyth Ermyn hir haire hangyng downe but on hir heade shée hadde a coyâ—e wyth a Circlet aboute it full of ryche stones ouer hir was borne a Canapie of Cloth of Golde wyth foure guylte staues and foure siluer Belles for bearyng of the whyche Canapie were appoynted sixetéene Knightes foure to beare it one space on foote and foure an other space according to their owne appoyntment nexte after the Quéene rode the Lorde Browghe hir Chamberlayne nexte after him Wyllyam Coffim master of hir horses leading a spare horse wyth a syde Saddell trapped downe wyth cloth of Tissewe after hym rode seauen Ladies in Crimosin Ueluet turned vppe wyth Cloth of Golde and of Tissewe and theyr horses trapped wyth Golde after them twoo Chariots couered wyth redde cloth of Golde in the firste Chariote were twoo Ladies whyche were the olde Dutchesse of Norffolke and the olde Marchionesse of Dorcet in the seconde Chariot were foure Ladyes all in Crimosin Ueluet after them rode seauen Ladyes in the same sute their horses trapped and all after them came the thyrde Charyot all in white wyth syxe Ladyes in Crimosin Ueluet nexte to them came the fourth Chariot all red with eyghte Ladyes also in Crimosin after whome followed thirtie Gentlewomen all in
at Grenevviche Henrie Norice and other From this Iustes King Henrie sodainely departed to Westminster hauing only with him sixe persons of which sodayne departure many menne maruelled On the nexte morrowe the Lorde Rocheford brother to the Quéene and Henrie Norrice were brought to the Tower of London prisoners Also the same daye aboute fiue of the clocke in the afternoon Quéene Anne Bolleine was brought to the Tower of London by sir Thomas Audley Lord Chancelour the Duke of Norffolke Thomas Cromwell Secretary and sir William Kingston Constable of the Tower and when she came to the Tower gate entring in she fell on hir knées before the saide Lordes beséeching God to helpe hir as shée was not guiltie of that whereof she was accused and then desired the saide Lordes to beséeche the Kings Grace to bée good vnto hir and so they lefte hir there prisoner On the xv of May Quéene Anne was arraigned in the Tower of London on a Scaffold for y ◠purpose made in y ◠kings Hall before the Duke of Norffolke who sate vnder y e cloth of Estate as high Steward of England with the Lord Chancellour on his right hand the Duke of Suffolke on his left hande with Marquesses and Lords c. and the Earle of Surrey sate before the Duke of Norffolke his father as Earle Marshall of England The Kings commission being redde the Connestable of the Tower the Lieutenant brought the Quéene to the barre where was made a Chaire for hir to sit downe in and there hir inditement was redde whervnto she made so wise and discrete answeres that she séemed fully to cléere hirselfe of all matters layd to hir charge but being tried by hir Péeres wherof the Duke of Suffolke was chiefe she was by them found giltie and had iudgement pronounced by the Duke of Norffolke and immediatly the Lord Rochford the Quéenes brother was likewise arraigned and condemned the Maior of London his bréetherne the Aldermen the Wardens and four persons moe of euery the twelue principall companyes béeing present The xvij of May the Lorde Richford brother to the Quéene Henry Norris Marke Smeton William Brierton and Francis Weston all of the Kings priuie Chamber about matters touching the Quéene were beheaded on the Tower hill the Lord Rochfords body with the head was buryed in the Chappell of the Tower the other four in the Church-yard there On the xix of May Quéene Anne was on a Scaffold made for that purpose vpon the gréene within the Tower of London beheaded with the sword of Caleis by the handes of the hangman of that Towne hir body with the head was buryed in the Quéere of the Chappell in the Tower The xx of May the King marryed Lady Iane daughter King Henry married Lady Iane. to Sir Iohn Seymour Knight which at Whitsontide was openly shewed as Quéene and on Tuesday in the Whitson wéeke Sir Edwarde Seymour was created Uicount Beauchamp and Sir Walter Hungerford made Lorde Hungerford The eyght of June beganne a Parliamente and the Articles of Religion deuised by the King Cleargie held a Conuocation in Paules Churche where after much disputing and debating of matters they published a Booke of Religion entituled Articles deuised by the Kings highnesse On Saint Peters night the King Quéene stoode at the Mercers Hall and saw the watch The xxix of June the King held a great iusting triumph at Westminster where were ordeyned two Lighters made Triumph at VVestminster like Shippes to fight vpō the water one of the which brast in the midst whereby one Gates Gentleman a seruant of Maister Kneuits was drowned in his harneis In the other a Gunne brast hir Chamber maymed two of y e mariners Thomas Cromwell Secretary to the King and Mayster of the Rolles was made Lord Kéeper of the priuie Seale The ix of July the Lord Fitzwaren was created Earle of Bath and y e morrow after Thomas Cromwell was made Lord Cromwell The xviij of July Lord Thomas Cromwell Thomas Cromvvell Lord priuie Seale vicar generall was made Knight and high vicar generall ouer the Spiritualty vnder the King and sate diuers times in the Conuocation among the Bishops as head ouer them The xxij of July Henry Duke of Richmond and Somerset Henry Duke of Richmount Earle of Northampton a Bastard sonne of King Henry borne of the Lady Taileboise that time called Elizabeth Blunt dyed at Saint Iames and was buryed at Thetford in Norffolke This moneth of July Lord Thomas Howarde Lord Thomas Hovvard sent to the Tovver yongest brother to the Duke of Norffolke was sente to the Tower of London for making a priuie contract of Matrimonie with the Lady Margaret Dowglas daughter to y e Quéene of Scottes by the Earle of Anguish and néece to King Henry of England the said Lord Thomas was attaint by Parliament and also the saide Lady Margaret Dowglas was after committed to the Tower for the same In September Thomas Cromwell Lorde priuie Seale and Uizgerent sent out vnder the Kings Spiritual Seale certayne Iniunctions to the Prelates and Cleargie of the Realme charging Curates to preach and to teache their parishners the Pater noster Aue and Creede the Commaundements Pater noster creede and commandements articles of y e faith in English with other articles In the beginning of October at a Sise for the Kings Commotion in Lincolneshire Subsidie kept in Lincolneshire the people made an insurrection and gathered nye twenty thousand persons who tooke certayne Lords and Gentlemen of the Countrey causing them to be sworne to them vpon certayne Articles whiche they had deuised and such as refused to sweare they kepte prisoners and beheaded a Priest who was the Bishop of Lincolnes Chancellour Against those the King did send the Commotion appeased Duke of Suffolke the Earle of Shrewshurie and the Earle of Rutland with a strong power whereof when the Rebelles heard they desired pardon brake vp their armye and departed home but their Captaynes were apprehended and executed The ix of October a Priest and a Butcher were hanged A Priest and a Butcher executed at Windsore for wordes speaking in the behalfe of the Lincolneshiremen y e Butcher wished y e good fellowes as he tearmed them in Lincolneshire to haue the flesh on his stall rather than to sell it at such price as he was offered the Priest standing by likewise wished them to haue it for he said they had néede of it The men of Lincolneshire being pacifyed within sixe dayes Commotion in Yorkeshire after began an insurrection in Yorkeshire for the same causes there people gathered to the number of fortie thousand who tooke the Archbishop of Yorke and the Lord Darcy and caused them to be sworne to their partie Agaynste those Rebelles the Kyng sente the Duke of Norffolke the Duke of Suffolke the Earle of Shrewshurie and the Marquesse of Excester wyth a greate Armye wyth whome a Battayle was appoynted to haue béene
from beyond the Seas concerning matters of Religion but the matter came to small effect The seauenth of Aprill was a peace proclaymed betwixt England and France And the like betwéene hir Maiestie and the King and Quéene of Scotland The xix of Aprill was kepte the Serieants feast in the â—â—ner Temple and nine Serieants were there made Maiâ—â—er Reignald Chamley Recorder of London being one of y â— ix A Subsidie of ij sÌ„ viij d. the pound of moueable goods was Subsidy granted granted and the Parliament dissolued the vij of May. The seconde of July the Citizens of London had a muster The Citizens of London mustered at Greenevvich afore the Quéenes Maiestie at Greenewich in the Parke of fourtéene hundred men whereof eyght hundred were Pikemen all in fine Corselets foure hundred Haquebuts in shirtes of mayle with morians and two hundred Halberters in almanriuets which were furnished and set forth by the companyes of the Citie of London they had to euery hundred two wiffelers richly apparelled and twelue wardens of the best companyes riding in coates of blacke Ueluet to conduct them with drommes and fifes and sixe Ensignes all in Jerkins of white Bridges Satten cutte and lined with blacke Sarsenet with cappes hosen and skarfes according the Captayne 's Robert Constable and Mayster Saunders brought them in battayle ray afore the Quéene euen as they should haue fought which made a goodly shewe before hir Maiestie the Emperoures and French Kings Embassadours béeing present In the moneth of July the olde Bishops of England then liuing were called and examined by certayne of y e Quéenes Bishops depriued Maiesties Counsayle where the Bishops of Yorke Ely and London with other to the number of thirtéene or fourtéene for refusing to take the oth touching the Quéenes supremacie and other Articles were depriued from their Bishoprickes And likewise were diuers Deanes Archdeacons Parsons and Uicars depriued from their Benefices and some committed to prison in the Tower Fléete Marshalsea and Kings bench Commissioners were likewise appoynted for the establishing Commissioners of Religion through the whole Realme For London were appoynted Sir Richard Sackuile Knight Doctouâ— Horne a Diuine Doctour Huicke a Ciuilian and Mayster Saluage who called before them diuers persons of euery parish and sware them to enquire and present vpon certayne iniunctions Iniunctions Also the houses of Religion erected by Quéene Mary Houses suppressed as the Monkes of Westminster Nunnes and bréethreâ— of Sion and Sheene the blacke Friers in Smithfielde and the Friers of Greenewich were all suppressed On the euen of Saint Barthelmew the daye and the Church ymages burned merrow after c. were burned in Paules Church yarde Cheape and diuers other places of the Citie of London all the Roodes and other Images of Churches in some places the Coapes Uestments Alter clothes Bookes Banners Sepulchers and Roode loftes were burned The fifth of September about midnight fell a greate tempest at London in the ende whereof a great lightning with a terrible clappe of thunder strake the Spire béeing stone of the Stéeple of Alhallowes Churche in Bredstreete Churches in London striken and broken by tempest about a tenne foote beneath the toppe out of the which fell a stone that slew a Dogge and ouerthrew a man playing with the same Dogge and the Spire of the Stéeple was so perished that not long after the same was taken downe with lesse charges to the Parish than the repayring woulde haue cost And at the same instant by the same tempest one of the South dores of Saint Dionise Churche in Fenchurch streete with the dore of the Reuestrie of the same Churche were both stricken thorough and broken The eyght and ninth of September a solemne Obsequie Obsequy for the French King was kepte in Paules Churche at London for Henry the French King departed who dyed of a wound giuen by the County Mountgomerie at a triumph iusting in the Citie of Paris whereof he dyed about the tenth daye of July About the last of September Iohn Duke of Finland seconde Embassadour from Svvethen sonne to Gustabus Kyng of Swethen was sente by hys father to treate a marriage for hys eldest brother Ericus with the Quéenes Maiestie of Englande he arriued at Harwich in Essex and was there honourably receyued enterteyned by y e Earle of Oxford which said Earle the Lord Robert Dudley with a goodly baude of Gentlemen and yeomen conueyed him to London where he was receyued of diuers Knightes and Gentlemen of the Court on the fifth of October and was with his trayne of about the number of fiftie persons well horssed conuayed to the Bishop of Winchesters place in Southwarke where he was lodged during his abode héere and remoued from thence two dayes before Easter homeward and sped on his message as may appeare by that which foloweth takeÌ„ out of Iohannes Lewenclaij comment de bellis Moscorum Ericus King of Sweden sonne of Gustabus late King of the sayde Kingdome hauing committed to prison his brother Iohn Duke of Finlande whome a little before he had employed into England on an Embassage to the Quéenes Maiestie whome he sued to for marriage and had his sute reiected agayne the second time solicited hir Maiestie in the same suite notwithstanding to his great dishonor and as it fell out his iust disgrace he attempted the same matter with the yongest daughter of Phillip Lantgraue Vanhessen at whose hand hauing the seconde tyme bin reiected of hir Maiestie héere the matter béeyng knowne there he also not onely receyued a denyall but the Lady was by hir Father bestowed vppon Adolfe Duke Van Holst Unckle Iohannes Lewenalaij of Frederike Kyng of Denmarke then enemie of the sayde Erice Thus farre Iohannes Lewenclaij Thomas Lodge Roger Martin the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Anno reg 2. Sir William Hewet Clothworker the 28. of October About this time many men of warre were conueyed out of France into Scotlande and there placed in Townes and Fortresses as in the Towne of Leeth Dunbarre Inskith and other whereby it was to bée suspected that they would sodeynely inuade thys Realme wherevpon the Quéenes Maiestie sente the Duke of Norffolke towards Duke of Norffolke sent into Scotland Scotland as Generall with an army who remayned at Berwike In the moneth of Aprill the Lord Grey Wilton entred 1560 Scotland with an army of tenne thousand and beséeged the towne of Lâ—th where betwéene the French and the English Lord Grey beseeged Lieth were often skirmishes and many slayne on both sides for few were taken prisoners In May a noble man of France by licence of the Quéenes Maiestie passed through England into Scotland to talke with the Quéene Dowager and the Frenchmen for the appeasing of this matter who at his returne agayne into England obteyned of the Quéenes Maiestie to send Sir William Ciuill Knight hir Maiesties principall Secretary with Mayster Doctour Wootton to treate with the
order of the Garter one of the Quéenes Maiesties priuy Counsell and Lorde high Treasorer of England at his Manour of Basing Thys worthy man was borne in the yeare of our Lorde 148â— the firste yeare of King Richarde the thirde and lyued aboute the age of 87. yeares in sixe Kings and Quéenes dayes He serued fiue Kings and Quéenes Henrie the seauenth Henrie the eight Edwarde the sixth Quéens Marie and Quéene Elizabeth All these he serued faithfully and of them was greately fauoured Hymselfe did sée the chyldrâ—n of hys childrenâ— children growen â—o the â—â—â—ber of â—03 Aâ—â—â—â— blessing gyuen by God to men of hys â—â—â—â—ing The xxv and xxvj of March by the commaundement of the Quéenes Maiestie hir Councel the Citizens of London assembling at their â—â—â—â—â—all Halles the Maisters chose oute â—he moâ—â—e 〈◊〉 â—â—◠〈◊〉 persons of euerye their companies to 〈…〉 eâ— of thrée thousande whom they appoynted to be Pikemen and 〈◊〉 â—hâ— Pikemen were forthwith armed in â—aâ—â—â—â—â—râ—eâ—â— and â—â—â—â—r furniture according there vnto the Gunners had euery of them hys Callyuer with the furniture and 〈◊〉 on theyr heaâ—es To these were appoynted dyuers valiant Capitaines who to â—â—aine them vp in warlike â—eaâ—◠〈◊〉 them â—â—râ—ce euery wéeke sometimes in the Artillery yarde teaching the Gunners to handle their péeces sometime at the Miles end and in Saint Georges fielde teaching them to skyrmishe In the whyche skyrmishe wythe Miles end the tenth of Aprill one of the 〈◊〉 of the Goldsmiths company was shot in the 〈◊〉 wyth a péece of a scowring sticke lefte in one of the Calyuers whereof he dyed and was buryed the twelfth of Aprill in S. Paules Churcheyarde al the Gunners marching from the Miles end in battaile ray shotte off theyr Calyuers at hys graue On May day they mustred at Grenewich before y e Quéens Maiestie where they shewed manye warlike feates but were hindred by the weather whych was all day showring they returned that nighte to London and were discharged on the nexte morrowe The fourth of May Walter Deueroux Lorde Ferrers of Earles of Essex and Lincolne created Chartley and Viscount of Herâ—fonde was created Earle of Essex And Edwarde Fines Lorde Clinton and Say hyghe Admirall of Englande was created Earle of Lincolne The eight of May the Parliament beganne at Westminster Barons made and that same daye in the Parliament by the Quéenes Maiesties Writtes sir Henrie Compton Knight Lorde of Comptâ—n in the Hole sir Henry Cheyney Knight Lorde of Tudington sir William Pawlet Knight of Basing and sir Henrie Norrice Knight Lorde of Rycote were called Barons into the higher house In this Parliament for so muche as the whole Realme of England was excéedingly pestred with Roags Uagabonds and sturdy beggers by meanes wherof dayly hapned diuers horrible murders theftes and other greate outrages it was enacted that all persons aboue the age of fourtéene yeres beyng taken begging vagrant and Roags brente through the â—are wandring misorderly shoulde be apprehended whipped brent through the griâ—â—le of the right eare with a hote yron of one ynch compasse for the firste time so taken The foure and twentith of May Martin Bulloke was hanged on a Gibbet by the Well with two Buckets in Bishoppes gate stréete of London for robbing and most shamefullye murdering of a Merchaunt named Arthure Hall in the Personage of Saint Martine by the saide Well Thys Martin hadde procured the saide Arthure Hall to come to the sayd Personage to buy of hym certaine Plate but after the saide Arthure hadde well viewed the same he saide this is none of your Plate it hathe Doctor Gardeners marke I knowe it to be his that is true said Martin Bullocke but he hath appoynted me to sell it c. After thys talke whyles the said Arthure was weighing the Plate the same Martin fetcht out of the Kitchen a thicke washing Béeâ—le and commyng behinde hym strake the saide Arthure on the head that hée felled him with the firste stroke and then strake hym againe and after tooke the saide Arthures Dagger and sticked hym and wyth hys knyfe cut hys throate and after woulde haue trussed hym in a Danske Cheste but the same was too shorte wherevppon he tumbled him downe a paire of stayres and after thinking to haue buryed hym in the Seller hys legges being broken with the fyrst fal and stiffe he coulde not drawe hym downe the Seller staires béeyng wynding wherefore he cutte off hys legs wyth an Hatchet and in the ende trussed hym with Strawe in a drye fat and saying it was his apparell and Bookes caused the same to be carryed to the water side and so shipped to Rye The sixe and twentith of May the right honorable Earle of Lincolne departed from London towardes Fraunce Embassador being accompanyed with the Lords Dacres the Lord Riche the Lord Talbot the Lord Sandes and the Lord Clinton sir Arthure Chambernowne sir Ierome Bowes and sir Edwarde Hastings Knightes wyth dyuers other Gentlemen who takyng ship at Deuer cutte ouer to Bolongne where they were very honorably receyued from thence conueyed by iorneys to Paris where they were lodged in a house of y e kings named Le Chasteau de Loure being attended on by the Kings Officers Fiue dayes after they wente to the King at a house called Madril where the Kyng wyth his two brethren the Admirall and the moste parte of the Nobles of Fraunce mette them a distance from the place and broughte them into the house where they dyned and remayned till Sondaye followwyng from whence the Kyng and hys nobles with the nobles of Englande came to Paris the Kyng his two brethren and oure Embassador ryding in one Coche togither and the Nobles of England and Fraunce being so placed also in Coches came to the saide Castell of Loure and there dyned After dinner the King our Embassadour with the Nobibilitie of bothe Realmes wente to a Churche named Saint Germaine where the Frenche King his brethren and Nobilitie hearde Euensong the Noble men of Englande withdrawing them into a Chappell til Euensong was done were then fetched thence by the Nobles of Fraunce to the Kyng and hys brethren that awayted their commyng where was League vvith Fraunce confirmed in Fraunce confirmed the league whyche hadde bin concluded at Blois the ninetéenth of April deputies beyng there for the French partie Frauncis Momorencie Reignold Virago Sebastian de Lanbespine and Paul de Foix. And for the Quéene of Englande sir Thomas Smith and Maister Walsingham Embassadors Thys being done they departed without the wals of Paris to a Garden of pleasure where they supped after supper the King departed to his place of Madrill and the nobles of Englande to the Castell of Loure On Monday the Admirall feasted the Nobles of Englande On Tuisday the Duke of Aniow the Kings brother and on Wednesday the Duke of Alanson hys yonger brother and so passed in banquetting and feasting wyth riche giftes on bothe partes On Fridaye the Nobles of Englande tooke
707. at Mortimers crosse Pag. 708. at Towton Pag. 712. at Barnet Pag. 727. at Thewkesburie Pag. 728. at Stoke Pag. 863. at Blackeheath Pag. 870 Battel Abbey buylded Pag. 166 Battell of Gnats Pag. 509 â—arwike wonne by Edwarde the firste Pag. 306. betrayed Pag. 339. deliuered to the Scots Pag. 712. won by the Earle of Warwicke Pag. 715. wonne by the Scottes and recouered again by the Earle of Northumberland Pag. 477. 497 Barbican of London Pag. 373 Bay salt deare Pag. 1180 Bedford towne Pag. 105. Pag. 114. besieged Pag. 189 Bedforde Castle besieged Pag. 259 Benet a MoÌ„ke brought glasing into this land Pag. 111 Beda famous Pag. 111 Bewly builte Pag. 251 Beaufleete in Essex Pag. 125 Beuerley brent Pag. 215 Beranbridge Pag. 114 Bewmarise Castel builded Pag. 307 Beggers murdered Pag. 310 Biefe and Mutton first sold by weighte Page 999 Berking in Essex founded Pag. 100 Belins gate in London Pag. 27 Belinus and Brennus king Pag. 24 Beston Castel builded Pag. 254 Bermonsey founded Pag. 165 Bensintoâ— Pag. 114 Bishoprickes in England Pag. 2 Bishoprickes in Wales Pag. 11 Bishoppe of Excester drawne out of hys Church Pag. 279 Bishop of Chichester murdered Pag. 651 Bishop of Salisburie murdered Pag. 664 Bishop of Durham murdered Pag. 164 Bishop of Ely put to his shiftes Pag. 222 Bishops gate of London builded Pag. 746 Bishop of Rochester beheaded Pag. 1004 Bishops depriued Pag. 1112 Bishoppe of Winchester sent to the Tower Pag. 1039. depriued Pag. 1048 Bishops restored other displaced Pag. 1067 Bible commaunded to be had in euerye Church in Englishe Pag. 1013 Bilney burned Pag. 978 Bladud king Pag. 22 Blasing starres Pag. 116. Pag. 179. blasing star Pag. 179 285. 297. 636. 550. 3679. 1100. Blacke Heath fielde Pag. 688 870 Blacke Friers in Holborne Pag. 273 in London Pag. 298 Blanke charters burned Pag. 546 Blasing starre Pag. 182 Bledgabredus king Pag. 31 Blewbeard hanged Pag. 651 Bloude rayned Pag. 23. Pag. 117. Pag. 211. sprang out of the Earth Pag. 174. bloud of Hales Pag. 1014 Boniface his Epistle to Ethelbald Pag. 102 Bones of men monstrous Pag. 167 Bones of Arthur found Pag. 221 Bosten spoyled and brent Pag. 302 Bow Church suspended Pag. 302 Bow steeple builded Pag. 897 Booke written against Luther by King Henrie the eight Pag. 930 Booke of Common prayer set forthe Page 1054 Bokeland Pag. 297 Boloigne yeelded to the French Pag. 1046 Bonars heade broken Pag. 271 Bridge at London Pag. 3 Brute arriued in Brytaine Pag. 17 Brutaine so named of Brute Pag. 17 Brutaine deuided into three Pag. 18 Brother slue brother Pag. 24 Brytaine tributarie to the Brutaines Pag. 34 Brytaines barbarous Pag. 34 Brasen Image of Cadwaline cast downe Page 118 Brakenburie Conestable of the Tower Page 826 Bridge of London new made Pag. 204 Bridge of stone begun at London Pag. 211 finished Pag. 238 Bridge at Stratford vpon Auen Pag. 865 Bridges borne downe Pag. 299 Brimsburie with the bridge builded Page 130 Bristow Castel built Pag. 181. besieged Pag. 189 Brytains house in Holland Pag. 37 Brytains bodyes painted Pag. 59 Brentford Pag. 137 Bretan receyued the Faith Pag. 55 Bruite Greneshilde King Pag. 20 Bradford brent Pag. 1097 Bridwel giuen to the Citie of London Page 1057 Browne hanged in Smithfield Pag. 1168 Bursse begun in Cornehill Pag. 1129 Burton vpon Trent Pag. 135 Burgondie inuaded by the Englishe Page 457 Boundwica a woman of Britaine Pag. 40. 41. 42. 43. Britains had all things common Pag. 41 Bury Abbey spoyled and brent Pag. 353 Burial forbidden to W. Conqueror Pag. 167 Buckingham Castel builded Pag. 129 Bul hanged on the Bishops of Londons gate Pag. 1146 Burdet beheaded Pag. 747 Buriall of King Edward the sixth Pag. 1067 P. Burchet wounded Maister Hawkins Pag. 1175. founde an Hereticke ibid. kylleth his keeper Pag. 1176. hanged ibid. C. CArliele builded Pag. 21 Caratacus Pag. 38 Caligula his expedition into Britain Pag. 36 Caius Pag. 65 Canterburie builded Pag. 21. Castell buylded Pag. 34 Canterburie defaced by fire Pag. 270 Canterburie prouince deuided into Parishes Pag. 92 Canterburie brent Pag. 209 Canterburie ouerflowed by breaking out of bornes Pag. 294 Caporus King Pag. 31 Cassibelanus King Pag. 34 Cambridge builded Pag. 29 Cairleon vpon Vske builded Pag. 27 Capenus King Pag. 31 Carausius vsurped Britaine Pag. 65 Careticus King Pag. 88 Cadwalin King Pag. 88 Cadwalader King Pag. 89 Cadwine king Pag. 88 Catellus King hung vp oppressors Pag. 3â— Castels at Notingham Yorke and Lincolne builded Pag. 161 Cardife Castle builded Pag. 181 Carliele repayred and the Castell builded Pag. 172 Carlile a Bishops Sea Pag. 185 Canutus the Dane King of England Pag. 139 King of foure kingdomes Pag. 140 Cardinals robbed Pag. 337 Cambridge sore perished by fire Pag. 306 Cane in Normandy spoiled by E. Pag. 3. 394 Carliele consumed by fire Pag. 303 Caleice besieged by E. Pag. 3. Pag. 398. described and builded Pag. 400. yeelded Pag. 402 Caleice like to haue bene betrayed Pag. 410 Caleice besieged by the Duke of B. Pag. 639 Caleice lost by the Englishmen Pag. 1106 Castle at Ethelingey builded Pag. 123. Monasterie builded Pag. 127 Carcason in FrauÌ„ce burned by the English Pag. 438 Caple Alderman of London Pag. 868 Cardinal Wolsey the storie of his life vprising described Pag. 904 Cardinal Campeius came into Eng. Pag. 923 Cardinal Poole came into EnglaÌ„d Pag. 1093 Castel at Tourney built Pag. 922 Catte hanged in Cheape Pag. 1090 Cecilius King Pag. 28 Caesar Iulius his first voyage into Brytain Pag. 31. his second third voyage Pag. 32. subdued Brytaine Pag. 33. slaine Pag. 34. London yeelded to Caesar Pag. 33 Cerdike first King of the West SaxoÌ„s Pag. 113 Cerdikes Shore Pag. 113 Cerdikes Forde Pag. 113 Chester a Citie Pag. 21 Chesse a game deuised Pag. 23 Chartsey in Surrey founded Pag. 100 Chartley Castle builded Pag. 254 Christians first in Brytaine Pag. 5â— Chester repayred Pag. 129 Churchyardes appointed to Bury Pag. 117 Chastitie before beautie to be preferred Page 121 Charing Crosse Pag. 305 Children were eaten of their parentes Page 336 Chichester brent Pag. 182 Christes Church in London fouÌ„ded Pag. 180 Children of King Henrie drowned Pag. 183 Chester Abbey Pag. 172 Christ was borne Pag. 35 Children of Englishmen solde in common markets Pag. 107 Chipenham Pag. 121 Chichester builded Pag. 34. 94 Chipingham in Wilshire Pag. 123 Chichester brent Pag. 214 Chrisanthus deputie in Brytaine Pag. 77 Chirinus King Pag. 30 Chester repayred Pag. 54 Christ counterfaite Pag. 255 Charterhouse of London founded Pag. 406 Chicheley his testament Pag. 612 Church seruice altered Pag. 587 Chest in the Guild Hal of London Pag. 464 Chappell at Westminster for Henrie the seauenth Pag. 875 Christ Church suppressed Pag. 908 Charterhouse Monkes executed Pag. 1003. 1004. Charitable deeds of sir Iohn Allen. Pag. 1005 Charitie of Thomas Huntlowe Pag. 1016 Churches pulled downe Pag. 1038 Churche of Sainte Iohn by Smithfielde blowne vp Pag. 1040 Charnel house of Paules conuerted to dwellings
they vse the ciuill lawe as almost other Countryes doe The English haue theyr own laws and edicts In certain other conditions they be not farre vnlike but their language is one their habite complexion like one corage in battel and in the Nobilitie one desire and pregnancie in hunting The countrey houses be narrow couered with straw réede wherein the people and beasts do lodge togither Theyr towns besides S. Iohns towne are vnwalled which is to be ascribed to their animositie hardinesse fixing all their succor helpe alway in the valiancie of their body The Scots are verye wise as their learning declareth For to whatsoeuer Art they do apply themselues they easily profite in the same But the ydle â—louthful and such chiefly as shun and auoyde labour liue in great pouertie yet wil not sticke to boast of their nobilitie and gentrie as though it were more séemely for the honest to lacke than comely by exercise of some honest Arte to get their liuing But the Scots generally be deuoute obseruers of Religion And thus muche of Scotlande Wales the third parte of Brytaine lyeth vppon the lefte VVales hande whiche like a Promontorie or foreland or an Isle as it were on euery side is compassed with the maine Sea except it be on y e Southeast part with the riuer of Sabrine commonly called Seuern which diuideth Wales from England although some late writers affyrme Hereford to be a bound betwéene Wales and England and say that Wales beginneth at Chepstow where the riuer Wey augmented with an This arme of the Sea as I â—udge is novve called Aust vvhere is a passage betvveene the village of Aust and Chepstoâ—â— other riuer called Lugge passing by Hereforde doth runne into the Sea whiche riuer ryseth in the middle of Wales out of that hil but vncertayne whether oute of that Spring that Sabrine doth for euen to that place there goeth a great arme of the Sea which passing through the land westward on the right hand leaueth Cornwal and on the left Wales whiche Topographie or description althoughe it be newe yet I thought good to follow Therefore Wales is extended from the town of Chepstow where it beginneth almost by a straight line a little aboue Shrowsburie euen to Westchester Northward Into that part so many of the Brytaines as remayned aliue after the slaughter and losse of their countrey at the length being driuen to their shiftes did repayre as auntient writings report where partly through refuge of the mountaines and partly of the wooddes and marishes they remained in safetie which part they enioy euen to this day That land afterwards the English men did cal Wales Giraldus Cambrensis and the Brytaines the inhabitants of the same Walshmen for amongs the Germaines Walshman signifieth a stranger an alien an outborne or strange man that is suche a one as hath a coÌ„trarie laÌ„guage from theirs for Wal in their tongue is called a stranger borne as an Italian or Frenchman which differ in spéech from the Germaine Man signifieth Homo which is a Man in Englishe Therefore Englishmen a people of Germanie after they had wonne Brytaine called the Brytaines whiche escaped after the destruction of theyr Country after their Country maner Walshmen bicause they had an other tongue or speach besides theirs and the laÌ„d which they inhabited Wales which name afterward both to the people and country did remaine By this meane the Brytaines with their kingdome loste their name But they which affirme that name to be deriued of their Kyng or Quéene without doubt be deceyued The countrey soyle towardes the Sea coast in other places in the valleys and playnes is moste fertile whiche yéeldeth bothe to man and beast great plenty of fruite and grasse but in other places for the most part it is barraine lesse fruitful bicause it lacketh tillage for whych cause husbandmen doe liue hardly eating Oten cakes drinking Milke mixt with water There bée many towns strong Castels foure Bishoprickes if the Foure Bishope in VVales Bishopricke of Hereford be counted in England as the late wryters declare The firste Bishopricke is Meneue so called of Meneua which at this day they call Saint Dauids a Citie very auntient scituated vppon the Sea coast and boundeth Westwarde towarde Irelande An other is Landaffe the thirde Bangor and the fourth Saint Asaph which be vnder y e Archbishop of Canterbury The WelshmeÌ„ haue a language froÌ„ the Englishmen which as they say y t fetch their pedigrée froÌ„ y e Troians doth partly sounde of the Troian antiquitie and partly of the Gréeke But hewsoeuer it is the Walshemen doe not pronounce their speache so pleasauntlye and gently as the Englishmen doe bicause they speake more in the throate and contrariwise the Englishmen rightly following the Latines do expresse their voice somewhat within the lips whiche to the hearers séemeth pleasaunt and swéete And thus much of Wales the thirde part of Brytaine Nowe followeth the fourth and last part of Brytaine named Cornwal This part beginneth on that side which standeth towarde Spaine Westward Toward the Easte it is of bredth foure score and ten miles extending a little beyond S. Germains which is a very famous village situate on y e right hand vppon the Sea coaste where the greatest bredth of that Countrey is but. xx miles for this parcel of land on the right hande is compassed with the coast of the maine Sea and on the left hand with that arme of the sea which as before is declared parteth the land and runneth vp to Chepstow wher the CouÌ„try is in forme of a horne For at y e first it is narrow and then groweth broder a little beyonde the sayd town of S. Germain Eastward it bordreth vpoÌ„ EnglaÌ„d West South North y e main sea is rouÌ„d about it it is a very barren soile yéelding fruite more through trauel of y e tillers husbaÌ„dmeÌ„ than through the goodnesse of the ground but there is greate plentie of Lead Tin in the mining digging wherof doth specially consist the liuing and sustentation of the inhabitaÌ„ts Their tong is far dissonant from English but it is much like to the Walsh tong bicause they haue many words coÌ„mon to both tongs yet this difference there is betwéen them when a Walsh man speaketh the Cornish maÌ„ rather vnderstandeth manie words spoken by the Walshman than the whole tale he telleth whereby it is manifest that those thrée people doe vnderstand one another in like maner as y e Southern Scots doe perceiue and vnderstand the Northern But it is a thing very rare and maruellous that in one Iland there should be such varietie of spéeches Cornwal is in the Diocesse of Exceter whiche was once worthy to be counted the fourthe parte of the Iland for the contrariety of the language Afterwards the NormaÌ„s which constituted a kingdome of al those thrée parts reckened Cornwal to be one of the Counties or
Cornwall 442 First King that vvare a crovvn of gold vvho builded Blackvvell Hall The seconde Lavves vvere Mulmutius lavves Flores HistoriaruÌ„ reduced this Realme into one Monarchie being before by ciuil warres and dissention seuered and broughte into diuers dominions he was the firste that ware a crown of golde he constituted good lawes whyche long after were called Mulmutius Lawes These lawes holy Gildas wrote oute of the British spéech into Latine He gaue priniledges vnto Temples and ploughes and beganne to make the foure notable wayes in Brytaine In newe Troy he builded a greate Temple called Templum Pacis which some suppose to be Saint Paules some Blackwell Hall and wythoute doubte the olde worke of Blackwel Hall now remayning was the Jewes Synagogue He raigned xl yeares leauing after him two sonnes Belinus and Brennus He was buryed in the Temple of Peace whiche he had builded BElinus and Brennus sons of Mulmutius and Cornouenna 401 diuided this whole Isle of Brytaine betwene them Unto Beline the elder brother was appointed Englande Wales and Cornwall Unto the other the North parte beyond Humber This Brennus a yong man desirous of glory Flores HistoriaruÌ„ I. Leiland â—aâ—fride and dominion raysed warre againste Beline But in conclusion by y e means of their mother they were accorded and Brennus being wholly giueÌ„ to y e study of wars left hys couÌ„try to y t gouernaÌ„ce of his brother weÌ„t into FraÌ„ce amoÌ„gest y e Galles where for his excelleÌ„t qualities he was greatly estéemed made of them theyr soueraigne Captaine with whoÌ„ he passed into Italie sacked Rome and expelling the Tuscanes builded Millain Brescia Como Bergamo Vincenza Trent Verona whiche he called after his owne name Brenona After Iustine this as writeth Trogus Pompeius abridged by Iustine hée raised an hoste of 150000. footemen and 15000. horsemen inuaded Macedone againe When Sosthenes sawe how they wasted the Countrey and villages he mette them with hys host of Macedones well appointed But by reason they were fewe and their enemies manye they were soone put to the worser Wherefore while the Macedones being beaten kept them within the walles of their Cities Brennus like a conquerour against whom no man durst shew his head to make resistaunce foraged al the Iles of Macedone And from thence as though those booties and spoyles séemed too base and simple in his eye he tourned his minde to the Temples of the Goddes immortall malapertlye scoffing that the goddes were riche and ought to departe liberally to men Therfore he toke his iourney towards Delphos setting more by y e gain of the gold that had ben offered to the Goddes than by theyr displeasure The Temple of Apollo at Delphos is situate in y e mount Parnassus vppon a cliffe on euerye side falling stéepe downe There the confluence of men hath made a populous Cittie Moreouer both the Temple and the towne are enclosed with the stéepenesse of the rocke The middle part of the rocke inwarde is in fashion like a Theatre by meanes whereof when men make any shouting or any Trumpet is sounded the same breaketh redoundeth in such wise vpon the stones from one to another that the Echo is herd double and treble the noyce resounding farre lowder than it wente forth The whyche causeth the ignoraunt to stande in more feare thinking it to be the presence of the Godheade In the winding of the rocke almost mid-way to the toppe of the Hil there is a little playne and in the same a déepe hole into the ground which serueth to giue Oracles Out of the which a certaine colde breath ascending vpwarde stirreth the mindes of the Prophetes into a madnesse and so compelleth them to giue aunsweare to such as come for counsayle In the same place therefore there are to be séene many and riche gifts of kyngs and peoples Wherefore when Brutus came within the view of the Temple he was in doubt a greate whyle whether hée wer better to attempt the matter forthwith or giue his souldiours that nights respite to rest them Euridanus and Thessalonus who for conetousnesse of the praye hadde ioyned themselues with him willed to cut off al delay while theyr enimies were vnprouided where as by giuing them that nights respite theyr enimies should perchance get both courage and succour but the common souldiours of the Frenchmen when after long penurie they founde a Countrey replenished with wine and all other kind of victuals they dispersed themselues in the fields making hauock of al things like conguerours by which meanes the Delphians had respit to lay for themselues and manned the towne by the helpe of theyr neyghbours or euer the Frenchmen coulde be called from the wyne Fat to their standarde Brennus had thréescore and fiue thousand chosen footemen of the best in al his hoste where as the Delphians were in al but. 4000. fighting men In disdayne of whiche small handful Brennus to the entente to sharpen the mindes of his men shewed them all what a riche and plentiful pray they shoulde haue The Frenchmen being by this vouching of their Captaine or rather by theyr owne beholding stirred vp and also wounded with the wine they had poured in the day before without respite of any daÌ„ger ran heâ—long to the encounter On the contrarie part the Delphians putting more truste in God than in their owne strength resisted theyr enemyes and what with stones and what with their weapons threw the Frenchmen as they scaled headlong from the top of the mountain While the two partes were thus striuing one with another sodainely the Priestes of al the Temples and the Prophetes wyth theyr haire aboute their eares c. like men straught out of their wittes came running into the forefront of the battaile crying out that while they were al making their supplications to God for ayde they met a yong maÌ„ of beautie and personage far excelling any mortal creature and in his companie two Uirgins in armour wherefore they besought them séeing the Gods did garde their standarde they shoulde not sticke to dispatch their enimies And there with all they forthwith perceyued that God was present on their side For both a piece of the mountaine being broken off by a sodaine earthquake ouerwhelmed the French hoste and the thickest of theyr enimies not without gret slaughter were opened and put to flight In the necke whereof there ensued a tempeste with hayle thunder and lightning consuming as manye as were anye thing sore wounded The Captaine Brennus himselfe not being able to abyde the smarte of his woundes Brennus killeth himselfe toke â— sworde and killed himselfe Thus farre abridged out of Iustrne Beline in the meane time bothe in ciuill iustice and also Religion greatly encreased his Realm He made thrée Archflamines whose Seas were at new Troy Kayrbranke Kayrlegion Archflames Foure notable vvayes He finished the foure greate wayes begon by his Father he subdued and made tributarie vnto him Denmarke In
noyse c. Rodianus was king of Brytaine two yeares Redargius raigned king of Brytaine thrée yeares Samulius raigned king of Brytaine two yeares Penisellus was king of Brytaine thrée yeares Pyrrhus ruled this land of Brytaine two yeares Caporus was king of Brytaine two yeares DInellus the son of Caporus a iust and vertuous prince gouerned this Real me foure yeares HElius his sonne raigned not fully one yere Of this prince the I le of Elie toke the name LVd the eldest sonne of Hely succéeded his father he ameÌ„ded 66 Lud repayred fortified London Flores Hist his laws and toke away al vsages that wer nought moreouer he repayred the Citie of new Tâ—â—y with faire buildings and waltestand builded on the Weast parte thereof a strong gate which vnto this time retayneth the â—â—â—ne of him and is called Ludgate Finally he dyed leauing after hym two sonnes Androgius and Theomantius who not being Ludston or London toke the name of king Lud. of the age â—o gouerned their vncle Cassibelan obtayned the Crown London toke the name of Lud and was called Ludston He was buried nere to the same Ludgate in a Temple which he there â—â—ilded CAssibelanus the sonne of Hely after the deathe of his brother 58 Iohn Bâ—le Iulius Caesar his first voyage into England Eutropiuâ— Lud was made gouernour of Brytaine which ruled xix yeares In the. viij yeare of his raigne Iulius Caesar coâ—â—â—ing vnto that parte where Caleys and Boloigue now stand determined to make warre into Brytaine which Eutropiuâ— vntil that time remained vnfrequented and vnknown of the Romains His quarrell was bicause y e in the wars of FraÌ„ce Casars Commentaries he perceyued the Frenchmen to haue much succour and ayde from thence And bycause he could not vnderstand nor learn the greatnesse or state of the IlaÌ„d neither what nations they were whiche inhabited the same nor what lawes customes or kinde of gouernemente they vsed nor yet what Hauens they had able to receyue any number of ships he sent Caius Volusenus before with a Galley to discouer as muche as hée coulde concerning those matters who within fiue dayes after retourned to Caesar declaring such things as he had learned by coasting alongst the shore for he durste not for feare of the Brytaines stirre out of his Galley In the meane space there came Embassadours from many Cities of the Isle and deliuered him Hostages with whom he sent Comius of Arras charging him to exhort and perswade the reste of the Cities and Countyes to do the like And he himselfe shortly after hauing prepared lxxx ships sayled into Brytaine where Tvvo voyages of Caesar at the first being wearied with an harde and sharpe battayle and after with sodaine tempest his nauie almost destroyed he retourned againe into Fraunce there to winter his men The next Spring which was the yere before Christ 51. his Nauye being newe rigged and encreased he passed the Seas againe with a greater armye but whiles hée went towards his â—â—imies on land his ships lying at Anker were driuen on the sands where they stacke fast or else throughe beating one against another with force of the tempest they were destroyed so that xl were lost the other with muche labour were saued In the meane space Saeua one of Caesars soldiours Eutropius with foure others who before in a small vessel were conueyed to a rocke neare the Isle and by ebbing of the OceaÌ„ being for saken a greate number of Brytaines fell on a fewe Romaines and some of his companions though but fewe found meanes to returne by boate but Saeua remained with out fear in y e midst of his enimies darâ—s first with his speare he reâ—â—sted them after with his sword he alone foughte against many of them and when he was both wearie wouÌ„ded and had lost his helmet and shielde with two light harnesses he ranne to Caesars tents and asked pardoÌ„ of the Emperor for his ouerboldnesse who not onely forgaue him but honored him with the Office of a Centurion Upon land Caesars horssemen at the first encounter were vanquished Laberius Durus the Tribune slaine in a place now called ChestoÌ„ wood neare vnto Rochester as saith the Chronicle of Wygmore Cro Wigmore At the second conflict not w tout great daunger of his men he put the Brytaines to fight from thence he went vnto the riuer Thamis on y e further side wherof Cassibelanus with a great multitude of people was kéeping the banks who had set all the sayde bankes and al the shallow places vnder the Casars Comen water with sharpe stakes euery one of them as big as a maÌ„s thighe bounde aboute with leade and driuen so fast into the bottom of the riuer that they can neuer be remoued so saith Bede Asser Bede and Asser who affirme that in their times the sayde stakes were easilye perceiued to remaine as aforesayd But Cassibelanus and his Brytains not being able to resist the violence and force of the Romaines hid themselues in woods with sodaine eruptions oftentimes inuaded them but in the London submitted to Caesar meane time London their strongest Citie submitted it selfe deliuered hostages to Caesar who at their request placed MaÌ„dubratius to be their gouernour whose Father called Imanentius being chiefe Lord or ruler of the Trinobants Cassibelane had before slaine wherewith Mandubratius fled and comming to Caesar not only submitted hymself but also was a great meanes as many doe write for Caesar to subdue the rest yet did Cassibelane sende messengers to the foure Kings that ruled in the quarters of Kente that with al theyr puissance they shold set on the Romaines that lay next theÌ„ their names wer Cingetorex Caruilius Taximagulus Segonax who obeying his requeste were discomfited and Cingetorex taken wherewithal Cassibelane being dismayed after many losses was constrayned to giue pledges and to agrée that Brytaine shoulde become tributarie to Romaines Then Caesar Iulius Câ—sar conquering the vvorld vvas slain vvith bodkins Eutropius Iohn Lydgate Plinie Suetonius The Castels of Douer Cauterbury Rochester the tovver of London built Salisbury Chichester Excester builded like a conquerour with a great number of prisoners sayled into Fraunce and so to Rome where after his retourne out of Brytaine he consecrated to Venus a surcotte of Brytayne Pearles the desire wherof partly moued him to inuade this Countrey shortlye after he was by the Senate slaine in the Counsel house Iohn Lydgate Iohn Rouse and others write that Iulius Caesar builded in this lande the Castels of Douer of Canturburie Rochester and the Towre of London the Castell and towne of Caesars Burie taking his name after Caesar the which is now called Salisburie He also edifyed Caesars Chester that now is called Chichester and the castel of Excester c Caesar in his Commentaries fayth the Brytons coyne was Caesars CoÌ„menmentaries touching the barbarousnesse of Brytons of brasse or else rings of Iron sized at a
committing adulterie with a lay man and cast out of the Monasterie she ended hir life in pouertie miserie Houeden as of many that haue séene hir we heard sayth mine Author Asserius Asser EGbrichus obtayned the gouernement of the Weast Saxons 802 He tamed the Welchmen vanquished Bertulphus King of the Mercians at Hellendune and subdued to his obeysance W. Malme the Kentish Saxons East Saxons and Northumbers He caused the brasen Image of Cadwaline King of the Britaines to bée Scal. Croni throwen downe and this Lande no more to be called Britaine but Anglia or England He was Crowned at Winchester Britaine first named England In the 33. yeare of his raigne the Danes ariued at Lindisferne Danes arriued heere Sca. Cro. and foughte with the Englishmen at Carham where two Bishops two Earles and a greate number of the English people were slayne Two yeares after y â— Danes ariued in West Wales where Egbright ouercame them at Hengistendon He raigned ouer the most part of England the space of seauen and thirtie yeares and seauen monethes and was buryed at Winchester ADelnulfus the sonne of Egbrichus beganne his raigne ouer 8â—9 Wil. Malme the more parte of Englande He tooke to wife Iudith daughter to the King of France and had by hir four sonnes which were Kings after him In his time there came a great armie of the Pagan Danes Alredus Riusall with 350. Ships into the mouth of Thamis and so to London and spoyled it and put to flight Beorthulfe King of Mercia Danes spoyle London with all his power which came to bid them battel and then the Danes went with their armie into Southerie then Adhelnulfus with his sonne Adhelbald and a great army came against the foresayd Danes and at a place called Aolea they fought a cruell battell wherein the most parte of the Danes were slayne The same yeare Adhelstane the sonne of Adhelfus and Sca. Cro. Calchere y â— Earle slew a great armie of the Paganes at Sandwich in Kent and tooke nine of their Shippes Adhelnulfus sent his sonne Alfride to Rome with a great number of noble men and other at which time Pope Leo confirmed the said Alfride and tooke him to his sonne by adoption and also consecrated him King This Adhelnulfus did make the tenth part of his kingdome Tenth giuen to the Church by King Adelnulfus frée from tribute and seruice to the King and gaue it to them that did serue Christ in the Churche and the same yeare he wente to Rome where he repaired the Englishe English Schoole at Rome repayred Schole which was first founded by Offa King of the Mercies In the meane season his sonne Adhelbald rebelling vsurped the Kingdome so that when Adhelnulfus returned he was forced to deuide the Kingdome and to take the worse part He raigned eightéene yeares and was buryed at Winchester sayth Asser Asser ADhelbald raigned after his Father against God the 857 worthinesse of Christianitie yea and coÌ„trarie to the custome of all Paganes he presumed to hys Fathers marriage bedde and with greate infamie married Iudith the French Kings daughter He raigned after his father Flori Wigor two yeares and was buryed at Shirborne AThelbrict brother to Athelbald tooke vnder his dominion 860 Kent Southery and Sussex In this time the greate Armie of the Paganes inuaded Danes inuade and spoyle VVinchester and spoyled the Citie of Winchester who when they returned with a great pray towards their Ships Osrike Earle of Hampton and his folke and Adhelnulfus the Earle with Barkeshire men met them and farre from any Towne they ioyned battell where the Paganes were slayne in euery corner and the Christians kept the field The Normans and Danes made a firme league with the Kentishmen who promised them money to kéepe the league but notwithstanding the Paganes brake priuilie out of their Danes make a league and breake it Castels by night and spoyled all the East parts of Kent Athelbrict raigned fiue yeares and was buryed at Shirborne ETheldred brother to Adhelbrict receyued the Kingdome 866 of the Weast Saxons In the firste yeare of his raigne a great Nauie of Paganes came into England and remayned all the winter in the Kingdome of East England Anno 871 the Paganes came to Reading in Barkeshire where they cast a great ditch and wall betwixt the two Riuers Thames and Kynetan on the right side of the said towne Adhelnulfus Earle of Barkeshire and his armie mette with the Paganes in a place called Englefield where the Paganes had the worst and many of them slaine and the rest put to flight Etheldred King of the Weast Saxons and Aelfrede his brother came to Reading where was foughten a fierce and cruell battell but at the last the Christians fled and the Paganes had the victorie The Christians within four dayes fought a battell with the Paganes in Assendune but the Paganes deuided themselues Battayle at Assendune into two battels for then they had two Kings which when the Christians sawe they likewise deuided their armie into two companyes It was determined that King Ethelred with his battell shoulde goe againste the two Pagan kings with their battell and that his brother Aelfrede with his armye shoulde set on all the Pagan Dukes and theyr armye Battayle at Assendoune All things thus ordered when the king farried long in hys prayer and the Pagans being readilye prepared came to Chipenhane where the battel was pitched Aelfred séeing he muste either retire or sette on his enemies Sca. Cron. before his brother did come he straight ways set vpon them though the place of battel was vnequall for the Pagans had gotten the higher grounde and the Christians brought their battel from the valley There was in that place one onely thorne trée very short about which trée the battels met and ioyned wher when they had a long time fought Hubba one of the kings fiue Earles and many thousandes moe of the Pagans being slaine the other were chased A great heape of stones was layd copped vp where Hubba was buried and the place called Hubbeslow Hubbeslovv This being done King Etheldred and his brother Aelfrede Sca. Cro. shortly after gathered their power againe to fight wyth the Pagans at Basing where after a long and sore battayle the Pagans had the victorie After this battayle came another armye of Pagans from Pagans vanquished beyonde seas and ioyned with the first When King Etheldred had raigned fiue yeares he was slaine of the Pagans at Whitingham and buried in the Monasterie of Winburne with thys Epitaph In hoc loco quiescit corpus sancti Etheldredi regis WestsaxonuÌ„ Sca. Cro. Marians Scotus martyris qui anno Domini 872. 23. die Aprilis per manus Dacorum Paganâ—rum occubuit His armes a crosse Florie Anno. 870. Saint Ebbe Abbesse of Coldingham sixe myles Flores HistoriaruÌ„ Chastitie before beautie preferred a rare example
themselues to drinking and gulling and spent both day and night in such exercises till they vomited The Saxons ware their garmentes to the midde knée their heare rounded and their beardes shauen all saue the ouerlip their armes adorned with golden bracelets and W. Malme their skinne paynted and printed c. ¶ Thus endeth the Reigne of the Saxons who were first sent for by Vortiger about the yeare of our Lord. 450. and had nowe continued sometimes in warres with the Britaines then with the Danes and now with the Normans the space of sixe hundred yeares Verses A thousand sixe and sixtie yeare it vvas as vve do reade When that a Comete did appeare and Englishmen lay dead Of Normandie Duke William then to Englandvvard did sayle And conquerde Harold vvith his men and brought this Land to bale ¶ King VVilliam Conquerour WIlliam Duke of Normandie Anno. reg 1. surnamed Conquerour Bastarde sonne of Robert the sixte Duke of that Duchie and Coosin germane vnto King Edward on the mothers side beganne his dominion ouer the Realme of England the fourtéenth day of October being Saterday in the yeare of our Lord 1066. After the battayle at Hastings Duke William came to London where with great ioy he was receyued both of the Cleargie and people and was proclaymed King When the Citie of London was thus yéelded vnto him he tooke his iourney towardes the Castell of Douer to subdue that and the rest of Kent also which when the Archbishop Stigand and Egelsin the Abbot of Saint Augustines being as it were the chiefest Lords and gouernours of all Kent did perceyue and consider that the whole Realme was in an euill state and that whereas in this Realme of England before the comming of the foresayd Duke William there were no bondmen now all as well noble men as the common people were without respect made subiecte vnto the perpetuall bondage of the Normans taking an occasion by the perill and danger that their neighbors were in to prouide for the safegard of themselues and their Countrey they caused to assemble at Canterbury all the people of the Countie of Kent and declared to them the perils and dangers imminent the miserie that their neighbours were come into the pride and insolencie of the Normans and the hardnesse and griefe of bondage and seruile estate wherevpon all the people rather choosing to end their vnfortunate life than to submit themselues to an vnaccustomed yoke of seruitude and bondage with a common consent determined to méete Duke William and to fight with him for the laws of their Countrey And y ◠foresayd Stigand the Archbishop and the Abbot Egelsin choosing rather to die in battell than to sée their nation in so euill an estate being encouraged by the examples of the holy Machabees became Captayne of the armie And at a day appoynted all the people met at Swanescombe two miles west from Graues-end and being hidden in the woods lay priuily in wayte for the comming of the foresayd Duke William And bycause it can not hurt to be very wary in such cases they agréed before hande that when the Duke was come and the passages on euery side stopped to the end he should no way be able to escape euery one of them as well Horsemen as footemen should beare boughes in their hands The next day after whē the Duke was come into the fields and territories néere vnto Swanescombe and saw all the Countrey set and placed round about him as it had bin a stirring mouing wood and that with a meane pace they approched and drewe néere vnto him with great discomfiture of mind he wondered at that sight And as soone as the Captaynes of the Kentishmen sawe that Duke William was enclosed in the middest of their armie they caused the trumpets to be sounded their banners to be displayed and threw downe their boughes and with their bowes bent their swords drawne and their speares and other kinde of weapons stretched forthe they shewed themselues readie to fight Duke William and they that were with him stoode as no maruell it was sore astonied and amazed and he which thought that he had already all England fast in his fist did now dispaire of his owne life Therefore on the behalfe of the Kentishmen were sent vnto Duke William the Archbishop Stigand and Egelsin Abbot of Saint Augustines who told him their message in this sort My Lord Duke behold the people of Kent commeth forth to méete you and to receiue you as their liege Lord requiring at your hands the things which pertayne to peace and that vnder this condition that all the people of Kent may enioy for euer their antient liberties and may for euermore vse the lawes and customes of the Countrey otherwise they are ready presently to bidde battell to you and them that be with you and are minded rather to die héere altogither than to departe from the lawes and customes of their Countrey and to submit themselues to bondage whereof as yet they neuer had experience The Duke séeing himself to be driuen in such a straight and narrow pinch consulted a while with them that came with him prudently considering that if he should take any repulse or displeasure at the hands of this people which be the key of England all that euer he had done before should be vndone againe and of no effect and all his hope and safetie shoulde stande in danger and ieopardy not so willingly as wisely he granted the people of Kent their request So when the couenant was established and pledges giuen on both sides the Kentishmen being ioyfull conducted the Normans who also were glad vnto Rochester and yéelded vp to the Duke the Earledome of Kent and the noble Castell of Douer Thus the antiente liberties of Englande and the lawes and customes of the Countrey whiche before the comming of Duke William out of Normandy were equally kept throughout all England do through this industrie and earnest trauell of the Archbishop The antient liberties and lavves of England remayne in Kent only Thomas Sprot Wil. Thorne Stigand and Egelsin Abbot of Saint Augustines remayne inuiolably obserued vntill this day onely in the Countie of Kent Thus farre Thomas Sprot after him William Thorne After this Duke William wasted Sussex Hampshire Southery Marianus Floriacen Wigor Middlesex and Hertfortshire not ceassing to burne Townes and sley the people till he came to Barkehamsteed where the Archbishop Alredus Wolstan Bishop of Worcester Wilferus Bishop of Hereford Clito Edgar the Earles Edwine and Morcare and euery one of the noble men about London came to him and giuing pledges submitted themselues and sware fealtie to him with whome also he made a league neuerthelesse permitted his army still to burne Townes and to take spoyles Chro. S. Albani There was at that time an Abbot of Saint Albons called Frederike Abbot of S. Albons his policie against Duke VVilliam Fretherike who hearing of the comming of Duke William
their nettes a Fish hauing the shape of a man in all poyntes whiche Fishe was kepte by Barthelinew de Glaunuile Custos of the Castell of Orford in the same Castell by the space of sixe monethes and more for a wonder he spake not a word All manner of meates he gladly did eate but most gréedily raw fishe after he had crushed out all the moysture Oftentimes he was brought to the Churche where he shewed no tokens of adoration At length when he was not well looked to he stale away to the Sea and neuer after appeared The Kings of Englande and of France mette betwixt Gisors Anno reg 34 1188 and Trye where they tooke on them the Crosse and dyuers other with them The King of England landing at Winchelsea hasted towards North-hampton where at Gedington Richarde Sothwel Rog Houed â—nâ—iqâ—â—â—â—erl Gual Coueâ—â— about eight or tenne miles from North-hampton he helde a Parliamente aboute the voyage into the holy land where many Articles concerning that voyage were concluded and the whole Realme troubled with paying of tithes towarde that voyage The Christians were appoynted to pay aboue lxx thousand pound and the Iewes lx thousand without any delay but by meanes of a discorde that fell betwixt the two Kings that voyage was stayed The Towne of Beuerley with the Church of Saint Iohn Beuerley brent Anno reg 35 Geruasius 1189 there was brent the twentith of September The Kings of England and of France with Richard Earle of Poytow the Legate and the Archbishops of Canturbury Roane Rhenes and Burges mette at Naunts the ninth day of June There Philip the French King required that his sister which had bin kept in England a two and tweÌ„ty yeares â—odouicus viâ—es Death of King Henry the second mighte be restored vnto Earle Richard as his wife and Earle Richard desired the same but King Henry denyed this request and so they departed a sunder and got them to armour The French King and Earle Richard pursued the King of England so hard that he was forced to yéelde to Richardus Cambr. all the requestes as wel of the French King as of his sonne Richard This was done at Gisors and so departing came to Azai where he fell sicke and departed this life the sixth day Ypodigma of July in the yeare of our Lord 1189. when he had raigned xxxiiij yeares ix monethes and xij dayes and was buryed at Fonteuerard in the Monasterie of Nunnes by hym founded He founded the Priories of Douer and of Stoneley and Basingwarke and the Castell of Rudlan He also began the stone Bridge ouer the Thamis at London He left issue Richard and Iohn ¶ King Richard Cuer de Lion RIchard the first borne at Oxford for his valiantnesse surnamed Anno reg 1. Cordelion or with the Lions heart the seconde sonne of Henry the second began his raigne the sixth day of July in the yeare of oure Lorde 1189. He was bigge of stature with a merrie countenance To his Souldyoures fauourable bountifull to his friends to Strangers a gréeuous enimie hard to be pleased desirous of warre abhorring ydlenesse enclined to pride lechery and auarice He comming from beyonde the Seas landed at South-hampton Geruasius Do. Mathew Paris the twelfth day of August and was Crowned at Westminster on the third day of September by the hands of the Archbishop Baldwine He commanded that no Iewes nor women shoulde be at his Coronation for feare of enchantmentes whiche were wont to be practised for breaking of whiche commmandement many Iewes were slayne the same day Elianor the olde Quéene who at the commaundement of hir husbande had bene long kept close prisoner was now set at libertie The Archbishop of Canturburie being sore offended wyth Erle Iohn the kings brother for takyng to wife Isabel countesse of Glocester his coosin in the thirde degrée wrote a threatning letter to the same Iohn commanding him not to touch the virgine and to appeare at a peremptory day before him to aunswere the matter King Richard gaue the Castels of Berwike and Rokesburgh to the Scottish king for the summe of x. M. pound he also sold to Hugo de Puteaco Bishoppe of Durham his own prouince for a great péece of mony and created him Erle of the same and then sayde in game I am a wonderous craftesman I haue made a newe Earle of an olde Bishoppe He solde the Priorie of Couentrie to Hugh Bishoppe of Chester for iij. C. markes which Hugh with a power of armed men inuaded the Priory chased the Prior away beat the Monkes lamed some cast some into prison and spoyling the other droue theÌ„ away brake the Hutches of the Churche brente their Charters and priuileges The King also fayned to haue lost his signet and made a newe and then caused to be proclaymed that who so euer woulde safely enioy those things which before time they had inrolled shoulde come to the newe seale wherby it came to passe that many which could not finde him in England went ouer sea to fine with him at his plesure He gaue his brother Iohn the prouinces of Notingham Deuonshire and Cornewal In this time were many robbers and out-lawes among Iohn Maior Outlavves in England the whiche Robert Hoode little Iohn renowmed théeues continued in woods despoyling and robbing the goods of the rich They killed none but such as would inuade them or by resistance for their own defence The sayde Robert entertayned an hundred tall men and good Archers with such spoyles and theftes as he got vppon whome foure hundred were they neuer so strong durste not giue the onset He suffered no woman to be oppressed violated or otherwise inolested poore mens goods he spared aboundantlye relieuing them with that whiche by theft he gotte from Abbayes and the houses of rich Carles whome Maior blameth for his rapine and thefte but of all théeues he affirmeth hym to be the Prince and the moste gentle théefe Till this firste yeare of King Richard the firste the Citizens Magistrates of the Citie of London since before the Conquest Robert Fabian of London hadde bene gouerned by Portgraues as Fabian sometime an Alderman of London in his Chronicle affirmeth whose names with the lawes and customes of the Cittie then vsed he sayeth were recorded in an olde booke written in the Saxon tongue called Domes daye sometime remayning in the Guilde Hal of London but now embezeled To this accordeth the Charter of the same Citie granted by William the Conquerour and diuerse other Records wherein I finde that the chiefe Magistrate of the Citie of Portgraue London in the time of king Edward last before the Conquest called the Confessor was called Portgraue whose name was Wolfgare In the time of William Conquerour and William Rufus Liber trinitatis W. Dunthorne Prouost Godfrey Mandeuile or Magnauile was Portgraue Richarde de Pare Prouost In the time of King Henrie the first Hugh Bouch Portgraue and Leofstanus Goldsmith Prouost
sailed ouer into England was crowned at Westminster on y ◠Ascention daye And at Midsomer Ralphe Cogshall he returned again into Normandie with a great army which al the Sommer season contending against y ◠French proued the worthynesse of y e enimies to be sufficient ynough Consuetud de Lō for Phillip king of Fraunce in the quarrell of Arthur the son of Geffrey Iohns eldest Brother duke of Brytaine made war vppon King Iohn in Normandie and toke from him diuerse Castels and townes King Iohn granted the Shirifewike of London and Midlesex Sherife vvike of London let to ferme to the Citizens thereof for 300 pound yerely to be paid for that of auntient time it had bene so accustomed to be fermed as king Henrie the first before he had graunted to the same Citizens for 300. pounde yearely Also he gaue them full aucthoritie to chose and depriue their Sherifes at theyr pleasure Sherifes Arnolde Fitz Arnolde Richard Fitz Barthelmew Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne King Iohn made a lawe that no tunne of Wine of Poiters 1200 Price of vvines Gual Couen should be solde dearer than twentie shillings of Anioye foure and twentie shillings and of French wine fiue twentie shillings vnlesse the same French wine were so good that some woulde giue for it sixe and twentie shillings eyghte pence but not aboue A sexter of wine of Poiters no dearer than twelue pence nor white wine aboue sixe pence King Iohn hauing made peace beyonde the sea he required Annoreg 2 Taske aide of his Realme of xxx M. markes wherefore an edict was made that euery plow land should pay thrée shillings which troubled the lande very sore considering the escuage that went afore for euery Knights fée two markes whiche before neuer payde aboue twentie shilling The king being deuorced from his wife Isabel the Earle King Iohn deuorsed Mathew Paris Ypodigma Radul Cogshal of Glocesters daughter he passed ouer the sea paide thirtie M. markes to the French King vanquished his enimies and returned into Englande with Isabel his wife daughter to the Earle of Angolesme and crowned hir Quéene at Westminster on the eight of October Sherifes Roger Dorset Iames Bartelmew Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne King Iohn went to Lincolne where he met with William King of Scottes did homage King of Scottes Rotland Lorde of Galloway and many other noble men who did to him homage on the one and twētith day of Nouember A noble man of Aquitaine named Hugh Brune rebelling 1201 Hugh Brune rebelled against King Iohn inuaded diuers parts of the prouince bicause the King had maried the daughter of the Earle of Angolesme whom the sayd Brune had affied and had in his custodie wherefore the passed ouer and restrained the rebels from their attemptes The 25. of June there arose a cruell Tempest of thunder Ypodigma Annoreg 3. Tempestes lightning and hayle with a vehemente raine that destroyed corne cattell menne and houses by brenning them c. The 10. of July another Tempest much like to the former hapned so that the Medowes could not be mowed and the hay that was downe was carried away by the outragious course of waters that ouerflowed the grounde greate numbers of fishes through the corruption of the waters dyed many bridges borne downe corne and hay caried away many men drowned so that al men thought a new deluge had bene come Sherifes Walter Fitz Alis. Simon de Adermanbury Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne King Iohn sharplye warred vppon the Earle of March 1202 Radulphu◠Cog. Hugh Brune and the Earle of Eue hys brother who béeing not able to resist they complayned to Phillip king of France as to their soueraigne and chiefe Lorde who sent ofttimes to King Iohn mouing him to cease from vexing them but that woulde not serue wherefore he was sommoned by the Annoreg 4. Nobles of Fraunce as Duke or Earle of Aquitaine and Anioy to come vnto the Courte of the Frenche King and to stande to the iudgement of hys Péeres all which Kyng Iohn denyed K Iohn sōmoned to the French Kings Court wherevpon the same Courte adiudged hym to be depriued of all his landes which he or his predecessours helde of the king of Fraunce c. King Phillip forth with assembled an armye and inuaded the Castel of Buteuant in Normandie which King Richard had buylded he rased it to the ground He tooke the land of Hugh Gorney and all the Castels there about He tooke the Castell of Albomarle with the County of Eue and all the land to Arches none resisting him Also Arthure Earle of Britayne being made Knight by the French King whose Arthure Earle of Britayne taken yonger daughter he had fianced he being but sixtéene yeres olde wente to Hugh Brune and Geffrey of Lucingnam and with 250. Knightes beséeged the Castell of Mirable in which Quéene Eleanor his Aunte was enclosed but King Iohn came with a power and deliuered his mother from daunger He tooke there his Nephew Arthure William de Brawsa Geffrey de Lucingham Hugh Brune Andrew Caueny Saluaricus de Mauleon and diuers others Great thunder and lightning with hayle as bigge as Hennes egges c. Sherifes Normand Brundell Iohn de Ely Maior Henry Fitz Alwyne The waters encreased and did much hurt in Englande 1023 Mathew Paris Annoreg 5. Earle of Britaine murthered Radul Cogshal Arthure Earle of Britaine from Falaise was broughte to Roane and put in the Tower vnder the custody of Robert de Veypont where shortly after he was dispatched of his life some say by the hands of his Uncle Iohn The King of France inuaded the Castels of Normandy tooke Lisle Dandely with the Castell and the Vale de Ruell in the whiche were Robert Fitz Water Sayer de Quincy and many other He toke the strong Castell vpon Seyne builded by King Richard which had bin valiantly kept by the Connestable of Chester Sherifes Walter Browne William Chamberlayne Maior Henry Fitz Alwyne King Iohn doubting treason in his owne men in December retourned into Englande where he gathered greate aydes of money Elianor daughter to the Earle of Poyters that had bin 1204 Ralph Cogshal Anno reg 6. wife to Lewes King of France and after to King Henry the seconde of Englande departed this life and was buryed in Westminster King Iohn sente Embassadoures to treate a peace with the King of France but he bycause the worlde wente with him woulde not agrée in any wise except Arthure mighte be deliuered to him aliue or if he were dead he woulde haue his Sister in mariage with all the lands on that side the Seas Shortly after he tooke Falaise Caen and so forth all the Countrey to Barflot Charburgh and Dunfront Roane Vernoll and Arches and so proude Normandy Angiow Briteyne Mayne Poitow and Thoraigne were within a short time deliuered to King Phillip King Iohn marryed Iane hys Bastarde Daughter to Lewlin Prince of Wales and gaue with hir
and a halfe William Courtney Archbishop of Canterbury standing there against said the Church ought to befrée and in no wise to be taxed by the Laytie whiche answere A bill put against the Cleargie for their temporalties so moued the commons that they forthwith presented to the King a bill against the Cleargie of the Realme mouing him to take from them their temporalities and thereby to abate their pride but the King hearing the inordinate cryings out on this side and the iust answeres of the other he commanded that the Bill should be cancelled and such inordinate petitiōs to ceasse saying that he would preserue the Churche during his time in as good state as he found it or in better The Archbishop therefore hauing made the Cleargie priuie wente to the King and declared to him that he with his Cleargie of their whole consents and frée willes had prouided for his vses a Tenth which graunt the King so thankefully receyued that hée openly affirmed that he had rather haue this frée graunt than any other foure times double that were constreyned The eleuenth of Noueinber Robert Vere Earle of Oxford States created was made Marquesse of Diuelin in Ireland Thomas of Woodstocke Duke of Glocester and his brother Edmonde Earle of Cambridge Duke of Yorke Michaell de la Poole Chancellour of England was made Earle of Suffolke and had giuē him by the King a thousand markes by the yeare The Earle of March Mortimer was proclaymed heire apparant Lib. Peter col to the Crowne Also King Richarde at the earnest request of the Bishops restored to the Bishop of Norwich his temporalities which he had holden from him manye yeares King Richard with Quéene Anne his wife kept their Christmas at Eltham whether came to him the King of Ermony vnder pretence to reforme peace betwixte the Kings of England but what his comming profited he onely vnderstoode for beside innumerable giftes that he receyued of the King and of the Nobles the King granted to him a Charter of a thousand pounds by yeare during his life He was as he affirmed chased out of his Realme by the Tartarians and for that cause he got great giftes of the Christian 1386 Priuces About the feast of Easter Iohn Duke of Lancaster with a great company of Knightes Esquires and Archers prepareth to go into Spayne which was due to him by the inheritable righte of his wife the Lady Constance daughter sometime to Peter King of Castile and Lion so that now he meant to challenge it eyther with consente of the inhabitants or by law of armes He with a greate power tooke the Seas and landed in Spayne at the Hauen of Greyne on the euen of Saint Lawrence with all his Nauie in safetie At the sute of the King of Spayne King Richard releassed out of prison Iohn Northampton Iohn More and Richarde Norburie The Londoners fearing y ◠comming of the French K. ranne to their walles pulled downe houses néere about y e Citie About Michaelmas the Nobles came to the Parliamēt at London with great numbers of armed men to the ende they might be readie to withstand the Frenchmen who were comming but through contrarie windes returned The King created Robert Vere Marquesse of Irelande Robert Vere Duke of Ireland Duke of Ireland Not lōg after this Michaell de la Pole was by y ◠Knights of the Parliament deposed from his Chancellorship and amerced to pay to the King 20000. Markes but the King caused this to take small effect William Stondon William More the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Nicholas Exton Fishmonger the 28. of October Richard Earle of Arundell and Tho. Mowbray Earle of Notingham went to the Sea of the which the first was made Admiral vpon y ◠Uigill of our Lady the Annuntiation a great Nauie of Flanders France Spayne fraught with mē of 1387 warre diuers engins was discouered with whome the Earles encountred and tooke of them 100. ships and more the which conteined xix M. Tonnes of Wine whiche they Rochell VVine taken brought to diuers parts of England wherby Wine was then sold for thirtéene shillings four pence the Tonne Robert de Vere Duke of Ireland for sooke his wife a yong Lady noble faire borne of the Lady Isabell daughter to y ◠noble K. Edward maried another that came with Quéene Anne forth of Boheme she was called in the vulgar tong of hir Conntrey Lancecrona The Lordes tooke indignation héerewith especially the Duke of Glocester Unkle to y e yong Lady that was forsaken The Duke of Ireland studied how to take the Duke of Glocester out of y e way Easter was now past the time in whiche the Duke of Ireland shoulde haue transported into Ireland but least there shoulde be too muche sturre in the Realme among the Lords the King as it were to bring him to the water side goeth with him into Wales as not to leaue him but there to kéepe him that they might denise how to take away the D. of Glocester the Earles of Arundell Warwike Darby Notingham with other There were with thē the Earle of Suffolke Michaell at Pole Robert Tresilian Justice many other which no more slowly than the D. of Ireland conspired the death of the said noble mē After a great time was passed the King as if the Duke of Irelāds iourney had bin forgotten returned with him and the other forth of Wales to the Castell of Notingham there to treate of Anno reg 11 the death of the said noble men there therfore he sent for diuers from Lōdon whome he knew would be readie to which way soeuer they should be moued he called thither also all the Sherifes and Justices of the Realme and there interdited the Lords of many crimes which the King had imagined against them In the meane time the rumor of this doing came to the Lords eares whervpon first of all y e Kings Unkle the D. of Glocester that he might mitigate the Kings displeasure before the Bishop of London and manye other Nobles swearing vpon the Euangelistes tooke it vpon his oth that he neuer had imagined any thing to the kings hinderance or done any thing to his displeasure except that he had not giuē good countenāce to the D. of Ireland nor would héereafter giue him any who had dishonested his kinswoman the which he firmelie had determined to reuenge William Venor Hugh Forstalfe the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Sir Nicholas Exton Fishmonger the 28. of October The D. of Glocester calling togither secretly the Earles of Arundell Warwike Darby that were in like danger of cōdemnatiō if they prouided not the more spéedily he discouereth to thē the matter they therfore gathering their armies togither determine to talke with the King vpon the premises Contraryly the King for his party did deliberate howe he might take each of thē by themselues out of the way and first he sent to
Bridge but the warders or kéepers thereof kept them out by force as before they were commanded wherwith they being gréeuously discontented gathered to them a greater number of Archers and men of armes and assaulted the Gate with shot and other meanes of warre in so much that the commons of the Citie shut in their shoppes and spedde them thither in great number so that greate bloudshed woulde haue followed had not the wisedome of the Maior and Aldermen stayde the matter in time The Archbishop of Canterbury with the Prince of Portugale and other tooke great labour vpon them to pacifie this variance betwixt the two bréethren the Protector and the Bishop in so muche that they rode betwéene them eyght times ere they might bring them to any reasonable conformitie and lastly they agréed to stande to the rule of the Duke of Bedford Regent of France or of such as he would assigne wherevpon the Citie was set in more quiet and the Bishop of Winchester wrote a Letter to the Duke of Bedford Lord Regent as followeth RIght high and mighty Prince and right noble and after one leuest earthly Lorde I recommende me vnto your Grace with all my heart and as ye desire the welfare of the King our soueraigne Lorde and of his Realies of England and of France and your owne weale with all yours hast you hither for by my troth and ye tarrie long we shall put this Land in ieoperdy with a Field such a Brother yée haue héere God make him a good man For your wisedome knoweth well that the profite of France standeth in the welfare of England Written at London the last of October On the tenth day of January next ensuing the sayde Duke of Bedford wyth hys wife came vnto London with them also came the said Bishop of Winchester and the Maior and Citizens receyued him at Merton and â—onâ—ayde hym through the Citie vnto Westminster where he was lodged in the Kings Pallace and the Bishop of Winchester was lodged within the Abbots lodging On the morrow following the Maior presented the Regente with a paire of Basins of Siluer and ouer-gilt and in them a thousande Marke of gold The xxj of February began a great Counsayle at Saint Albons which was after reiorned to Northampton but for that no due conclusion mighte be made on the 1426 Parliament at Leycester xxv of March was called a Parliamente at Leycester the which endured till the xv day of June This was called the Parliamente of Battes bycause men being forbidden to bring Swords or other weapons brought great battes and staues on their neckes and wheÌ„ those weapons were inhibited theÌ„ they tooke stones and plomets of Leade During this Parliament the variance betwixt the two Lords was debated in so much that the Duke of Glocester put a Bill of complaynt against the Bishop conteyning sixe Articles all which Articles were by the Bishop sufficiently aunswered and finally by the counsell of the Lord Regent all the matters of variance betwéene the sayd two Lordes were put to the examination and iudgemente with the assistance of the Lordes of the Parliamente Henry Archbishop of Canterburie Thomas Duke of Excester Iohn Duke of Norffolke Thomas Bishop of Durham Philip Bishop of Worcester Iohn Bishop of Bath Humfrey Earle of Stafford Raulph Lord Cornewell and Maister William Alnewike then kéeper of the priuie Seale which Lordes made a decrée and awarde so that eyther party tooke other by the hande with friendly and louing words none hauing amends of other Upon Whitsonday following was a solemne feast holden at Leycester aforesayde where the Regente dubbed King Henry Knight and then forthwith the King dubbed Richard Duke of Yorke that after was father to King Edward the fourth and other to the number of fortie After the Parliamente the Kyng wente to Killingworth Castell Henry Chicheley Archbishop of Canterbury founded a Colledge at Higham Ferrers in Northamptonshire of eyght Colledge and Hospitall at Higham Ferrers fellowes foure Clearkes and sixe Choristers He also founded there an Hospitall for poore folke with many preferments to the sayd Towne which house for the poore his Anno reg 5. bréethren Robert and William Chichely Aidermen of London augmented with goodly legacies On Saterday the euen of Saint Michaell the Archangell Iohn Audley An Earthquake during tvvo houres in the morning before day betwixte the houres of one and two of the clocke began a terrible Earthquake with lightning and thunder whiche continued the space of two houres and was vniuersall through the world so that men had thought the world as then should haue ended and the generall dome to haue followed The vnreasonable Beasts rored and drew to the Townes with hideous noyse Also the Foules of the ayre likewise cryed out suche was the worke of God at that time to call his people to repentance Iohn Arnold Iohn Higham the 28. of September Sherifes Maior VVardes in London discharged of fifteenes Iohn Reynwell Fishmonger the 28. of October This Iohn Reynwell Maior of London gaue certayne Lands or tenements to the Citie of London for the whiche the same Citie is bound to pay for euer all such fiftéenes as shall be graunted to the King so that it passe not thrée fiftéenes in one yeare for thrée wardes in London to wéete Reignwels Testament Downegate warde Billingsgate warde and Aldgate warde This yeare the Tower at the Draw Bridge of London Tovver on LoÌ„don Bridge was begun by the same Maior of London On the Newyeares daye Thomas Beawford Duke of Excester deceassed at Greenewich and was buryed at Sainte Edmonds Burie in Suffolke About the Purification of our Lady the Duke of Bedford Regent of France with his wife and familie passed the seas vnto Caleis and so through Picardy into France but ere he departed from Caleis to wéete vpon the feast day of the Annuntiation 1427 of our Lady the Bishop of Winchester within the Church of our Lady of Caleis was created Cardinall and after the solemnitie done the Regente tooke him on hys righte hande and so conuayed hym vnto hys lodging This yeare was vnseasonable weathering for it reyned most part continually from Easter to Michaelmasse This yeare the Duke of Alanson that before was taken prisoner at the battayle of Vernole in Perch was deliuered for a raunsome of 200000. Scuttes of Golde whiche was Rob. Gagwin 50000. Markes sterling This yeare also the Earle of Salisburie accompanyed with the Earle of Suffolke the Lord Talbot and other layde Rob. Fabian a strong séege vnto the Citie of Orleance and hilde the Citiezens very streight and maugre the Duke of Orleance and the Marshall of France the Englishmen wanne from them diuers strong holdes adioyning to the Citie and forced them to bren a great part of their suburbes but one day as y e sayd Anno reg 6. Earle of Salisburie Thomas Mountagew rested him at a bay window a Gunne was leuelled out of the Citie which all
and his Cardinalles 14â—5 after long laboure coulde make no peace betwixte King Henry of England and France and Charles also named King of Fraunce they at length made a peace betwixte the said Charles and Philip Duke of Burgoigne whereby the said Duke of Burgoigne became vtter enimy to the King of England and soone after the said Duke beganne his order of the Lillie and the Golden fléece and ordayned certaine Knightes of that order and made thervnto many Statuts wherof some of them were like vnto the Statutes of the Garter On the fourtéenth daye of September at Roan in Normandy dyed the noble Prince Iohn Duke of Bedforde and Regent of Fraunce and was after with great solemnitie â—â—ryed within the Churche of Noâ—ir Dame of the same â—itie Anno reg 14 Sherifes Maior Thomas Catworth Robert Clopton the. 28. of Septemb. Henry Frowike Mercer the 28. of October King Charles of Fraunce recouered the Citie of Paris and at Newyeares tide wanne the Towne of Harflewe and 1436 Sainct Denis and manye other Townes and holdes expellyng and murdering the Englishe people in greate number The nintéenth daye of Julye the Duke of Burgoigne wyth a great multitude of Burgonians and Flemmings appeared Caleis besieged before Caleis and there pight his pauilions and tentes at which season was Lieutenaunt of Caleis Sir Iohn Ratclife Knight and of the Castell was Lieutenant the Baron of Dudley this siege endured about thrée wéekes in whiche season many knightlye actes were done exercised on both partes On the second day of August the Duke of Glocester protectour Robert Fubâ—â—â— of Englande with 500. sayles as some write landed at Caleis and entended vppon the thirde day following to haue issued out of the Towne and to haue gyuen battel to the Flemmings but as testifyeth our Englishe writers so soone as the Duke of Burgoigne was ware of the great power of the Lorde Protector he toke with him of his ordinaunce that he might lightly carrye and the other that were cumberous he left behind When the Duke with his host was thus fledde the Lorde Protectour with his people followed hym into the Countrey by the space of eleauen dayes in whiche season he brente the two Townes of Popering and Bell and returned to Caleis and so into England This yeare was the Castel or Towne of Rokesborough in Scotlande besieged by the Kyng of Scottes but when hée Anno. reg â—â— hearde that Syr Ralph Graye Knyghte was commyng thyther with a competente number to remoue the siege anone he departed leauyng some parte of hys Ordinaunce behynde hym to hys greate shame and dishonour Thomas Norstede William Gregory the. 28. of Sep. Sherifes Maior Iohn Michel Fishmonger the. 28. of October The second of Januarie Quéene Katherin late wife to Henrie the fifth and mother to King Henrie the sixth dyed at Bermondsey and was buried at Westminster but being takeÌ„ Part of London bridge fel. vp againe in the raigne of Henrie the seauenth when he layde the foundation of his new Chappel there she was neuer buried since but lyeth still aboue ground in a Coffin of bordes behinde the East end of the Friers The. xiiij of Januarie at noone of the day the gate on LoÌ„don bridge wyth the Tower vpon it nexte to Southwarke fell down and two of the furdest Arches of the same bridge and no man perished Ralph Lord Cromwel erected the Colledge of Taâ—eshall 1437 Taâ—eshall Colledge in Lincolneshire King Henrie put downe the Maior of Norwich sente the Aldermen some to Linne some to Canterburie toke their fraÌ„chises into his hande and appointed Iohn Wels Alderman sometime Maior of London to be Warden of Norwich who so continued eight moneths as I haue red on his Monument in Saint Antholines Churche in London whiche Monument is nowe amongest manye other by lewde persons defaced The ninth of July Quéene Iane wife to King Henrie the fourth dyed at Hauering a Boure and was buried at Canterburie All the Lyons in the Tower of London dyed Anno reg 18 Sherifes Maior William Hales William Chapman the. 28. of Septemb. William Eastfielde Mercer the. 28. of October This William Eastfield Maior of his own costes caused to be builded the Water Conduite in Fleetestreete of London On Easter daye Iohn Gardener was taken conuaying 1438 Gardeneâ—brent the Sacrament from his mouth with a soule cloth after he had receyued the same at the Priests hande in Saint Marie at the Axe Churche of London for the whiche he was brent in Smithfielde the xiiij of May. Owen Tewther â—ouly hurting hys kéeper brake out of Newgate but was againe taken afterwarde thys Owen had priuilye as it was sayde maryed Quéene Katherin late wife to Henrie the fifth and had foure children by hir whiche was not knowen tyll she was dead and buried On the Uigil of Mary Magdalen the town of Nantwich in the Countie of Chester was pitifully consumed with fire A great dearth of corne for wheate was in some places Dearth of corne Anno reg 17 Sherifes Maior solde for two shillings sixe pence the Bushell Hugh Diker Nicholas Yoo the. 28. of September Stephen Browne Grocer the. 28. of October The fiue and twentith of Nouember a great winde dyd Great vvâ—nâ—es muche harme in manye places In London it bare muche leade of the Gray Friers Churche and almost blewe downe the one side of the stréete called the Olde Change so that the same was faine to be vnderset with Timber On New yeres day a stacke of woodde fell downe at Baynardes Castell and killed thrée men manye moe were sore hurte By fall of a Staire at Bedforde where the shire daye was kepte eightéene persons were slayne and manye moe hurte Richard Beauchampe Earle of Warwicke dyed at Roane in NormaÌ„die the last of May and the fourth of October next folowing his corpse was honourably conueyed as well by water as by land from Roane vnto Warwicke and there worshipfully buried in the Colledge of our Lady Church founded by his noble auncestours Wheate was sold at London for thrée shillings y e bushel Malt at thirtéen shillings y â— quarter Otes at eight pence the bushel which caused men to eate beans pease and barley more than in a hundred yeares before Anno reg 18 StruÌ„pets vvare Raye hoodes Manye Stumpets were sette on the Pyllerye and banyshed the Cytye excepte they ware theyr Raye hoodes Phillip Malpas Robert Marshal the 28. of September Sherifes â—â—ior Robert Large Mercer the. 28. of October In a Parliament at Reading it was ordayned that all Marchaunt straungers shoulde goe to host with Englishmen and to make sale of theyr Merchaundises and buy again what they woulde wythin the space of sixe monethes geuing theyr hoste for euerye twentye shillings worth two pence except the Esterlings And that euery housholder that Order for straungers was alien should pay to the King xuj. pence the yeare and euery seruant
whereof he dyed slew many of his men and tooke many prisoners with two Shippes the one called the Lion the other a Barke called Ienny Perwine which Shippes were brought to Shippes taken from the Scots Blacke Wall the seconde of August and the Scottes to London where they were kept as prisoners in the Bishop of Yorkes Place and after sent into Scotland Nicholas Shelton Thomas Mirfine the 28. of Septemb. Sherifes Maior Roger Acheley Draper the 28. of October The fiftéenth of January began the Parliamente at Westminster Sir Robert Sheffeld Knight sometime Recorder Parliament of London was speaker for the Commons During this Parliamente in the moneth of March a Yeoman of the Crowne one of the Kings Gard named Nevvbolt hanged Newbolt slew within the Pallace of Westminster a sernant of Mayster Willoughbyes for the whiche offence the Kyng 1512 coÌ„manded to be set vp a new payre of Gallowes in y e same place where the sayde seruante left his life and vppon the same the sayd Newbold was hanged and there remayned on the Gallowes by the space of two dayes King Henry sente the Lorde Darcy with a goodly company Anno. reg 4. of men into Spayne to ayde the King hys Father in law against the Moores but ere he arriued a peace was concluded betwéene them In August Sir Edward Poynings accompanyed with the Lorde Câ—nton and diuers other was sente into Gelderland with fiftéene hundred Archers to ayde the Prince of Castell at the request of Margaret Duchesse of Sauoy and Regent of Flanders Edward Haward Lord Admirall of England through hys too much hardinesse was slayne before Brest in Britayne after whome hys brother Thomas Haward was made Admiral About the moneth of August the Nauyes of England and France méeting at Briteine Bay fought a cruell battayle in the which the Regent or Soueraigne of England and a Carike of Brest in France being crappeled togither were burned and their Captaynes with their men all drowned the English Captaine was Sir Thomas Kneuet who had with him Sir Iohn Carew and seauen hundred men In the Frenche Carrike was Sir Piers Morgan with nine hundred men which were all brent or drowned Robert Holdernes Robert Fenrother the 28 of Septemb. Sherifes Maior William Copinger Fishmonger the 28. of October Richard Hadden Mercer The Stéeple and Lantarne of Bow Church in Cheape Bovv Steeple builded was this yeare finished By Friers this yeare a great parte of the Kings Pallace Kings Pallace at VVestminsier brent Sca. Tempo of Westminster and the Chappell in the Tower of London and many other places in England were brent In a Parliament at Westminster was granted to the king two fiftéenes and four demies and head money of euery 1513 Duke tenne Markes an Earle fiue pound a Lorde four pound a Knight four Marke and euery man valued at Great subsedie eyght hundred pound in goods to pay four Markes and so after that rate till him that was valued at fortie shillings payd twelue pence and euery maÌ„ that tooke fortie shillings wages xij d. euery maÌ„ womaÌ„ at xv yeres or vpward 4. d. In Aprill the King sent a great Nauie of twelue thousand men to the Sea On May euen Edmond de la Poole was beheaded on the Tower hill his brother Richard was after slayne in France King Henry hauing sent ouer a great and puissant Armie King Henry beseegeth Turvvyne into France to beséege the Citie of Turwine himselfe accompanyed with many noble men and vj. C. Archers of his Gard all in white gabberdines tooke his Ship at Douer on the last of June in the morning When the King was shipped and made Sayle all his armie followed to the number of foure hundred Shippes and the winde was so that they were brought the same night into Caleis Hauen On the nexte morrowe being the first of July Thomas Lord Howard Admirall of England landed at Whitsandbay and entred spoyled and brent the Towne and returned to his Shippes The xxj of July the King passed out of the Towne of Caleis in goodly array of battell and tooke y e field and notwithstanding that the fore-ward of the Kings great Armie were before Turwine yet the King of his owne battayle made thrée battayles the Lord Lisle Marshall of the host was Captayne of the fore-warde and vnder him thrée thousand men Sir Richard Carew with thrée hundred men was the right hand wing to the fore-ward and the Lorde Darcy with thrée C. men wing on the left hand The scourers and fore-riders of this battayle were the Northumberland men on light geldings The Earle of Essex was Lieutenant Generall of the Speares and Sir Iohn Pechy was vicegouernour of the Horsemen Before the King wente viij C. Almaynes all in a plump after them came the Standert with the redde Dragon next the Banner of our Lady and nexte of the Trinitie vnder the whiche were all the Kings houshold Then went the Banner of the Armes of England borne by Sir Henry Guildford vnder which Banner was the King himselfe with diuers noble men and other to the number of thrée thousand meÌ„ The Duke of Buckingham with vj. C. men was on y e Kings left hand On the right haÌ„d was Sir Edw. Poynings with other vj. C. meÌ„ egall w t the Almains The L. of Burgainie w t viij C. meÌ„ was wing on the right hande sir William Compton with the retinue of the Byshoppe of Winchester Fox and Maister Thomas Wolsey afterward Cardinall of eighte hundred was in manner of a rerewarde sir Anthony Oughtred and sir Iohn Neuell with the Kings speares that followed were foure hundred and so the whole armye was eleauen thousande and thrée hundred men The Maister of the ordinaÌ„ce set forth the Kings artillerie as Faulcons Slyngs Bombards powder stones bowes arrowes and suche other things necessarye for the fielde the whole number of the carriages were thirtéene hundred the leaders and driuers of the same were ninetéene hundred men The King laye the firste nighte betwixte Calkewell and Freydon the nexte night before the Castel of Gwisnes at Bocarde the next night he laye beside Arde a good waye wythout the Englishe pale when he was a little beyonde Dernome there came a greate hoste of French men that purposed to haue sette vpon him but the Kyng with his hoste kepte their ground and shotte their greate ordinaunce wherewyth the aray of the French men was broken The fourth of August the King in good order of battell came before the Citie of Turwine and planted his siege in warlike wise The eleuenth day of August Maximilian the Emperor came to King Henrye who was receiued with greate triumph betwéene Aire and the campe The Emperor and all his seruants were reteyned with the King of Englande in wages by the daye euery person according to his degrée and the Emperor as the kings souldioure ware a Crosse of Saint George with a Rose and so hée and all
receyued by the Lorde Sandes then Capitaine there wyth all the retinue of the same And from thence he rode to Calleis where he tarryed the shipping of his stuffe horses and â—â—aine And in the meane time he stablished there a Marte â—or all nations These things and other for the weale of the Towne and Garrison by him perfecte he tooke shipping â—â—â—â—ued at Douer the xxiiij of September from whence he â—â—de to the Courte the King being in hys Progresse at sâ—â— Henrie Wiats house in Kent he wente immediately to hym with whome he hadde long talke and continued twoo or three dayes there in the Courte and then retourned to hys house at Westminster Such scarcitie of bread was in London and al England that Scarcitie of breads many dyed for default thereof the King of his goodnesse sent to the Citie of his own prouision 600. quarters or else for one wéeke there had bin little breade The bread cartes coÌ„ming froÌ„ Stratford toward London were met at y â— Myle â—nd by the Citizens so that the Maior and Sheriffes were forced to goe and rescue the same Eartes and to fée them broughte to the Markets appointed Wheate was then at fiftéene shillings the quarter but shortly after the Merchants of the Stiliarde broughte from Danske sâ—â—he store of Wheate and Rie that the same was better cheape to be solde in London than in any other part of the Realme besides Iohn Hardie William Hollis the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Sir Iames Spencer Vintner the 28. of October After the beginning of the Terme the Cardinall caused to be assembled in the Starre Chamber all the Noblemen Iudges and Iustices of Peace that were in Westminster hall at that tyme present and there made to them a long Oration Cardinal VVolsey in the Starre Chamber declareth vvhat an honorable peace he hadde concluded declaring the cause of his Embassade into Fraunce and of his procéedings there among the whyche he saide he had concluded such an amitie as neuer was heard in the realm before as well betwéen the Emperour and vs as betwéene the King our Soueraigne and the Frenche King with a perpetuall peace the whyche should be confirmed in writyng sealed in fine Golde affyrming further that the Kyng of Englande should receiue yearly his tribute by that name out of the Dutchie of Normandie wyth all the costes whyche hée had sustained in the warres And also where there was a restraint made in Fraunce of the Frenche Quéenes Dowrie whome the Duke of Suffolke had married for diuers yeres during the wars it was concluded that she should not onelye receiue it againe but also the arrerages that were â—â—payed This peace thus concluded there shoulde be suche an amitie betwéene the Gentlemen of eache realme and entercoâ—rse of Merchants that it shoulde séeme to al men both territories to be but one Monarchie c. The twentith of October were receyued into London certaine Embassadorâ— oute of Fraunce aboute eyghte in number of the moste noble and worthye Gentlemenne in all Fraunce they were lodged in the Bishops Pallaice in Paules Churchyard to whome diâ—ers Noblemen resorted and gaue them dyuers presents especially the Maior of the Citie of London Then they resorted vnto the Courte béeyng at Greenewiche where they were receiued by the King They hadde Commission to establishe the King in the order of Fraunce for whome they broughte for that intente a collar of fine Golde with the Michaell hanging thereat and Robes to the same order appertenant the whiche was of blewe Uelâ—et richly embrodered And the King to gratifie the French â—yng with the semblable he sent a noble man of the order here in Englande with Garter the Harrault into France to establishe the Frenche King in the order of the Garter with â—â—emblable collar wyth a Garter and Robes accordyng to the same The Embassadors remayning here vntil theyr returne â—â— things béeyng concluded concerning the perpetuall peace vppon solempne ceremonies and othes contained in certain Instruments touching the same whych was confirmed by receyuing of the Sacrament in Paules Churche of London by the King and the Graund Maister of France who represented the King his Maister and there the instrumentes were seâ—led with Golde and the King put his hande therevnto and the Graund Maister did the lyke betwéene whome the Cardinall diuided the Sacrament And that done they deâ—â—rted the King rode wyth the Cardinall to Westminster and there dyned wyth all the Frenche men passyng aâ— the day after with consultation of waightie matters touchyng the conclusion of the saide article of the perpetuall peace The King then depaâ—ted againe by water to Greenewich at whose departing it was concluded by the Kings deuice that al the Frenche men shoulde resorte to Richemonde and hunt in euerye one of the Parkes there and from thence to Hampton Courte and there to hunt and the Cardinall to make there a supper or banquet or both to them And from thence they should ryde to Windsore and there to hunt And after to returne to London so to Greenewich there to banquet with the King Then was there made preparation of all thyngs for this greate assemblye at Hampton Court the Cardinall called before him his principal Officers as Stewarde Treasorer Comptroller and Clearke of hys Kitchin to whome he declared his minde touchyng the entertainement of the Frenche men at Hampton Courte his pleasure to them knowne they sent out Caters Purueyors and other the Cookes wrought both night daye in suttleties the Yeomen and Grooms of the Wardrobes were busied in hanging of the Chambers and furnishing the same wyth beds of silke and other furniture there were prouided 280. beds furnished with all manner of furniture to them belonging The daye was come to the French men assigned and 1526 they ready assembled before the houre of their appointmeÌ„t wherefore the officers caused them to ryde to Haâ— orth a place and a Parke of the Kings wythin thrée myles there to hunt spenâ— the day vntill night at whyth time they returned againe to Hampton Courte euery of them conueyed to theyr seuerall Chambers hauing in them greate â—â—ers and wiâ—e for their comforte remayning there vntil the Supper was ready The Chambers where they supped and banqueted were ordered in this sort First the great wayting Chamber was hanged with rich Arras as none were Aâ—â—oreg 20 better than other and furnished with tall yeomen to serue There were sette Tables rounde aboute the Chamber banquet wise couered a Cupborde was there garnished with whyte siluer Plate hauing also in the same Chamber to giue the more light foure plates of siluer sette with greate lightes and a greate fire of wood and coales The nexte Chamber being the Chamber of Presence was hanged with verye riche arras and a sumptuous cloth of estate furnished with many goodly Gentlemen to serue the Tables ordered in maner as the other Chamber was sauing that the highe Table was remoued beneath the
June being Saint Peters daye at eleauen of the clocke in the forenoone the Sheriffes of London accordingly as they were appointed were readye at the Tower to haue receiued the saide prisoner and him to haue led to execution on the Tower hill but as the prisoner should come forth of the Tower on Heire a Gentleman of the Lord Chancelors house came and in the Kings name commaunded to stay the execution till two of the clocke in the afternoone whyche caused many to thinke that the King woulde haue graunted his pardon But neuerthelesse at thrée of the clocke in the same afternoone he was brought forth of the Tower and delyuered to the Sheriffes who led him on foote betwixte them vnto Tyborne where he dyed His body was buryed in the Churche of Saint Sepulchres he was not paste foure and twentie yeres of age when he came thus throughe greate mishappe to hys ende for whome many sore lamented and likewise for the other thrée Gentlemen Mantell Frowdes and Roydon but for the saide yong Lord being a right towardly GentlemaÌ„ and such a one as many had conceiued great hope of better proofe no smal mone and lamentation was made the more indéede for that it was thought he was induced to attempt suche follis which occasioned his death by some light heads that were then aboute him The firste of July a Welchman a Minstrell was hanged and quartred for singing of songs whiche were interpreted to be prophecying againste the King In the moneth of August the King tooke his Progresse Progresse to Yorke towarde Yorke About this time Westminster and Bristow were made Bishopricke â— Rowland Hill Henrie Sucley the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Sir Michaell Dormer Mercer the 28. of October On Christmasse euen at seauen of the clocke at nighte beganne a great fire in the house of sir Iohu Williams Maister of the Kings Jewels where many of those Jewelles were brent more imbezeled The Lady Katherine Haward whom the King had marryed for hir vnchaste liuing committed with Thomas Culpeper and Francis Derham was by Parliament attainted Culpeper and Derham were put to death at Tyborne y e tenth day of December The xxiij of January the King was proclaymed King of King Henry K. of Irelande Queene Katherine beheaded Irelande The 1â— of February the Lady Haward otherwise called Quéene Katherine and the Lady Iane Rocheforde for beyng of hir Councel with Thomas Culpeper were both beheaded within the Tower of London The twelâ—th of March Iohn Dudley was created Viscount Lisle by the right of his mother Lady Elizabeth sister and heire to sir Iohn Grey Viscount Lisle who was late wife to Arthur Plantagenet Viscount Lisle late deceassed The seauentéenth of March Margaret Dauy a Maid was A Maide boiled in Smithfielde boyled in Smithfielde for poysoning thrée housholdes that she had dwelled in The eight and twentith of Marche the Parliament sitting 1542 George Feres Burgesse for the Towne of Plimmouth was arrested in London vpon a condemnation wherevppon the Sergeant at armes of the Common house was sente to the Counter in Bredstrete to fetch him but the Clearks would not delyuer him till the Sheriffes came them selues who in the ende deliuered him howbeit this matter was so takeÌ„ in the Common house that the Sheriffes the Clearks and fiue officers wyth the partie plaintife were sent to the Tower The Sheriffes of London sent to the Tovver Anno reg 34 and there laye two dayes and were then deliuered by y e Speaker and common house the Sheriffes were deliuered from all charges excepte twentie pounde for their fées In Maye the Kyng tooke a loane of money of all such as were valued worth fifty pound or vpwarde In the moneth of August Iames Erle of Desmond in Irelande The Earle of Desmoude came and submitted himselfe to the King and so returned The firste of October the greate Oneale of Irelande was The greate Oneale created Earle of Tiron and hys base sonne Mathew Oneale Baron of Donmagan for Shane Oneale the onely sonne of his bodye lawfully begotten was then little estéemed The Duke of Norffolke entred Scotland the one and twentith Duke of Norffolke entred Scotlande of October burning and wasting all the Marches and there tarried wythoute anye battel proffered by the King of Scottes vntill the middest of Nouember Henry Hoblethorne Henry Hancots the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Iohn Coates Salter the 28. of October After the departure of oure armye from Scotlande the Kyng of Scottes made a roade into Englande and did muche harme but at the laste sir Thomas Wharton and sir William Scots ouerthrovvne Musgraue wyth a fewe of the bordurers met the Scots where they being in number 15000. were ouerthrowne in whiche conflicte was taken the Lorde Maxwell the Earles of Glencarne and Sassilles wyth all the Capitaines of the army to the number of one and twentie and on Saint Thomas euen the Apostle they were broughte to the Tower of London where they laye that night the nexte daye they were by the Kings charge apparelled in silke and rode through the Citie to Westminster where they were sworne to be true prisoners and then were deliuered to the custodie of dyuers noble menne whyche honorably entertained them At New-yeares tide they were sent home againe agréeing to certaine articles The 9 of February a proclamation was made whereby VVhite meate licenced to bee eaten in Lent the people were licenced to eate white meates in Lent but straightly forbidden the eating of fleshe Wherevppon shortly after the Earle of Surrey with diuers Lords Knights and Gentlemen were imprisoned for eating of fleshe in the same Lent contrarie to the saide Proclamation The 8. of May one Leche sometyme Bayly of Lowth who 1543 Anno reg 35 Somerset an Herault kylled had killed Somerset one of our Herraults of Armes at Dunbarre in Scotlande was drawne to Tyborne and there hanged and quartred And the twelfth of June Edwarde Leche hys brother and with him a Priest for the same facte were lykewise executed at Tyborne This yeare the firste caste péeces of yron that euer were Firste yron peeces caste made in Englande were made at Buckestede in Sussex by Ralfe Hoge and Peter Bawde The thirde of June the Obrine a Lorde in Irelande and dyuers of the wilde Irishe submitted them to Kyng Henrie In July the saide Obrine was created Earle of Clawricarde The 12 of July King Henrie married Ladye Katherine King Henrye marryed Ladye Katherine Par. Parre late wife to the Lorde Latimer and sister to the Marquesse of Northampton at Hampton Courte King Henry sent ouer 6000. men to 〈…〉 whether An army sent to Landersey also came the Emperouâ— with a greate armye â—â—◠〈…〉 after came downe the Frenche King wyth a great army and offered to gyue battaile to the Emperour by reason whereof the siege was raysed then the Frenche men victualled the Towne and on the morrowe
Castell where they firste called before them the Mayor and Alderman c. And bycause Richard Read Alderman would not agrée to pay as they set hym he was commaunded vpon paine to serue the King in hys wars of Scotlande who departed from London the thrée and twentith of January Also sir William Roâ—â—â— Alderman for words â—â— displeasure taken by the Kings Councell was by them sent Sir VVilliam Roche sente to the Fleete to the Fleete where he remayned till Passion Sondaye The sixe and twentith of January there camped on the Weast side of Boloigne beyond the Hauen an army of French to the number of eightéene thousand where they laye tenne dayes and the sixth of February were put to flight by the Earle of Hartford and sir Iohn Dudley Lord Admiral then being Deputie of Boloigne The thirtéenth of February a Priest was set on the Pillorie in Cheape burnt in both chéeks with the letters F A. a paper on his heade wherein was written For false accusing whyche iudgement was giuen by the Lorde Chancelor in the Starre Chamber a notable example of Justice great cause haue I to wishe the lyke to the lyke accuser who neuer yet repented but coÌ„trariwise sweareth and forsweareth that he neuer did any suche acte againste his brother In the beginning of March a roade was made into Scotlande towarde Gedworth by the Englishemen who at the firste gote greate praise but they were so gréedy and went so far that a greate army of Scottes beset them with thrée battels where the Englishemen for the moste part were slaine and taken at Panyer Howghe among whome sir Ralph Eure Lorde Alderman of London taken prisoner Eure and Warden of the East Marches was slayne and Richard Read Alderman of London wyth other taken prisoners by the Scots Trinitie Terme was adiorned bicause of the warres 1545 Anno reg 37 About the xxv of June was great tempest of wind in Darbishire where through trées were ouer-turned and dyuers Churches Chappels and houses were vncouered Also in Hailestones fâ—gured lyke menâ— heades Lancashire there fell hailestones as big as mens fists which had diuers printes in them some like mens faces some like Gunne holes c. The ninetéenth of July the French kings nauy comming Frenchemen arryued in Susseâ— out of Newhauen and Deepe arriued on the coaste of England in Sussex afore Bright Hamsteade where they sette certaine of their souldiours alande to burne but the Beacons were fyted and the men came downe so thicke that the French men fledde and did little hurte The xix of July by misfortune of shooting a Gun in one of Men brent in the 〈…〉 y â— Hedgehogs a ship afore Westminster a â—irken of gun-poulâ—â—â— fyred slew 7. men and the eight leaped into the Thamis and was drowned The xx of July the king being at Portsmouth a goodly ship Mary Rose vvas drovvned of Englande called the Mary Rose with sir George Carrowe the Captaine and manye other Gentlemen were drowned in the middest of the Hauen by greate negligence The xxj of July the French Galleis nauye came afore Frenchmen landed in the I le of VVight Portsmouth Hauen and landed certaine of their army in the I le of Wight at Saint Helens Point there burned encamped about two thousande men but they were soone driuen away with losse of their Captaine many souldiors Within few dayes after the whole fléete remoiâ—ed from the Wight Frenchmen landed at Nevvhauen in Sussex to a place in Sussex called Newhauen four miles from Lewes and there landed many Captaines souldiors who by the valiantnesse of the Gentlemen and Yeomen of Sussex were slaine and drowned in the Hauen a great number of them the reste hardly recouered their shippes and Galleis In the moneth of August deceassed at Guilforde Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolke and Lorde greate Maister of the Kings housholde who was honorably buryed at Windsore In August the Earle of Hereforde was sent into Scotland Erle of Herford sent into Scotl. with an armye of 12000. menne where he destroyed dyuers Townes and greatly endaâ—uaged the Scottes The ninth of September sir Iohn Dudley Lorde Lisle Lorde Admirall brene Treyport Lorde Adinirall of Englande landed with 6000. men at Treyport in Normandie and there brente the Towne and Abbey with other houses about it and thirâ—â—e ships with a Barke that laye in the Hauen with losse of fourtéene Englishmenne and so reâ—urned The twelfth of September the Churche of Saint Giles S. Giles churche brent without Criplegate of London was brent The eightéenth of October the Procession was firste begon in Paules Church to be sung in English and so commanded by Iniunction through the whole realme George Barnes Ralphe Allen the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Sir Martin Bowes Goldsmith the 28. of October The xxliij of Nouember began a Parliament wherein was graunted to the Kyng a subsedie of two shillings eight Chauntres Colledges and hospitals giuen vnto the King pence of the pound in goods four shillings of the pound in lands Also at Colledges Chauntries and Hospitalles were committed to the Kings order to alter and transpose whyche he promised to do to the glorie of God and the common profite of the Realme In the latter ends of March the Stewe in Southwarke was put down by the Kings commandement In May the kings 1546 The Stevves put dovvne Anno reg 38 VVilliam Foxley slepte more than fourteene dayes and as many nightes vvithout vvaking ships tooke one of y e French Kings Galleis with gret riches The xxvij of Aprill being Tuisday in Easter wéeke William Foxley Potte maker for the Mint in the Tower of London fell asléepe and so continued sléeping and coulde not be wakened with pricking cramping or otherwise burning whatsoeuer till the firste day of the nexte Tearme whyche was full fouretéene dayes and as many nights or more for that Easter Terme beginneth not afore seauentéene dayes after Easter The cause of his thus sléeping could not be knowen thoughe the same were diligently searched for by the Kings Phisitions and other learned menne yea the King himselfe examining the saide William Foxley who was in all pointes found at his wakening to be as if he had slept but one night and is yet liuing in the Tower of London this present yeare of oure Lorde God 1579. The thirtéenth of June being Whitsonday a peace was proclaymed betwéene the Kings of England and France with a generall Procession in London The seauen and twentith of June Doctour Crome recaÌ„ted at Paules Crosse The xvj of July were burned in Smithfied for the Sacrament Anne Askevve and other brent Anne Askew alias Keime Iohn Lassels Nicholas O 〈…〉 tleâ— Priest Iohn Adlam Tailour and Doctour Shaxton 〈…〉 time Bishop of Salisburie preached at the same fire and 〈…〉 erecanted perswading them to doe the lyke but they â—oulde not The xxj of August came
leaue of the King and on Sonday came to Saint Dennis and after to Bolongne where they tooke shippe and returned into Englande the fourth of July The second of June in the morning betwéen the houres of seauen and eight Thomas Hawarde Duke of Norffolke was beheaded on a Scaffolde sette vpon the Tower hill The Duke of Norffolke beheaded Aboute the ninth of June Frauncis Duke of Momorencie French Embassadors chiefe Marshall of Fraunce Gouernour and Lieutenant of the Isle of Fraunce Generall to Charles the ninth Kyng of Fraunce and Paule de Foix of the priuie Councell to the saide King and Bertrande de Saligners Lorde de la Mothefenalon Knightes of the order of Saint Michael Embassadors for the same King arryued at Douer The fouretéenth day they shotte London bridge towards Somerset house at the Strande where they were lodged The fiftéenth daye beyng Sundaye the saide Embassadours League vvith Fraunce confirmed at VVestminster repayred to the White hall where they were honorablye receyued of the Quéenes Maiestie with hir Nobilitie and there in hir Graces Chappell aboute one of the clocke in the afternoone the Articles of treatie league or confederacie and sure friendship concluded at Blois the ninetéenth of Aprill as is afore shewed betwixt the Quéenes Maistie and the Frenche King being read the same was by his Maiestie and his Embassadours confirmed to be obserued and kepte wythout innouation or violation c. The reste of that day wyth great part of the night following was spent in greate triumph with sumptuous banquets The eightéenth of June the feaste of Saint George was holden at Windsore where the French Embassadoures were royally feasted and Frauncis Duke of Momorencie was S Georges feast at VVindsore stalled Knight of the moste honorable order of the Garter The eight and twentith daye of June the afore named Embassadoures departed from London towardes Fraunce The fouretéenth of June Thomas Lorde Wharton deceassed in his house of Chanon Rowe at Westminster The thyrtéenth daye of July the Qu 〈…〉 Maiestie at Lorde Treasorer Lord priuie Seale L. Chamberlaine vvyth other officers White hall made sir William Cecil Lorde o 〈…〉 〈…〉 hley Lorde highe Treasorer of Englande Lorde Willi 〈…〉 〈…〉 awarde late Lorde Chamberlaine Lorde priuie Seal 〈…〉 The Earle of Sussex Lorde Chamberlaine sir Thomas Smith principall Secretarie and Christopher Hatton Esquier Captaine of the Guarde c. The two and twentith of August Thomas Percie Earle Earle of Northumberland beheaded of Northumberlande late of Topcliffe who hadde béene béefore attainted by Parliament of highe Treason as béeyng one of the principall conspiratoures in the late rebellion and nowe broughte oute of Scotlande whether he hadde fledde was beheaded at Yorke aboute twoo of the clocke in the afternoone on a newe Scaffolde set vppe for that purpose in the Market place In this moneth of Auguste sir Thomas Smith one of the Englishmē sente to Vlstar in Irelande Quéenes Maiesties priuie Councell carefully tending the reformation of Irelande sent hys sonne Thomas Smith Esquyre thither with a Colonie of Englishemen to inhabite the Ardes in Vlster Richarde Pipe Nicholas Woodroffe the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Sir Lionell Ducket Mercer the 28. of October The eyghtéenth of Nouember in the mornyng was Anno reg 15 A strange Starre appeared séene a Starre Northwarde verye brighte and cleare in the Constellation of Cassiopeia at the backe of hir Chaire whiche wyth thrée chiefe fixed Starres of the saide Constellation made a Geometrical figure losinge wise of the learned menne called Rombus thys Starre in bignesse at the fyrste appearing séemed bigger than Iupiter and not muche lesse than Venus when she séemeth greatest also the said Starre neuer changing hys place was carryed about with the daylye motion of Heauen as all fixed Starres commonlye are and so contynued by little and little to the eye appearyng lesse for the space of almoste sixetéene Moneths at what tyme it was so small that rather thoughte by exercise of ofte viewyng myghte imagine the place than any eye coulde iudge the presence of the same and one thyng is herein chieflye to be noted that by the learned skill and consent of the best and most expect Mathematicians which obserued the state property and other circumstances belonging to the same Starre it was found to haue bin in place Celestiall farre aboue the Moone otherwise than euer anye Comet hathe bin séene or naturally can appéere Therefore it is supposed that the signification thereof is directed purposely and specially to some matter not naturall but celestiall or rather supercelestiall so straunge as from the beginning of the worlde neuer was the like The four and twentith of Nouember Edward Earle of Earle of Darby deceassed Darbie Lord Stanley and Strange of Knocking Lord and Gouernor of the Isle of Man Knight of the noble order of the Garter and one of the Quéenes Maiesties priuie Councell deceassed at his house called Latham in Lancashire His life and death deseruing commendation and crauing memorie to be imitated was suche as followeth His fidelitie vnto two Kings and two Quéenes in daungerous times and greate rebellions in whyche time and alwayes as cause serued He was lieutenant of Lancashire and Cheshire and lately offered tenne thousande men to the Quéenes Maiestie of his owne charge for the suppression of the last rebellion His godlye disposition to his tenantes neuer forcing anye seruice at their handes but due payment of their rent His liberalitie to strangers and such as shewed themselues gratefull to him His famous house kéeping 220. in checkroll neuer discontinuing y e space of xlij yere His féeding especially of aged persōs twice a day lx od besids al cōmers thrice a wéeke appoynted for hys dealing dayes and euerye Good Friday these xxxv yeres one with another 2700. with meate drinke money and money worth There was neuer Gentleman or other that waited in his seruice but had allowance from him to haue as wel wages as otherwise for horse and man His yearely portion for the dispenses of hys house 4000. l. His cunning in setting bones dis-ioynted or broke His deliuery of hys George and Seale to the Lord Straunge wyth exhortation that hée myghte kéepe it so vnspotted in fidelitie to his Prince as he had and his ioye that he dyed in the Quéenes fauoure his ioyfull parting thys world his takyng leaue of all his seruants by shaking of handes and his remembraunce to the last daye The eyght and twentith of Nouember Iohn Hall Gentleman Hall and VVilkinson executed and Oswald Wilkinson late of Yorke and Gailour of Yorke Castell béeyng before arraigned and condemned of treason were drawne from the Tower of London to Tiborne and there hanged bowelled and quartred Thys yeare a greate and sharpe frost almoste continuallye Greate froste a sharp vvinter lasted from before the feaste of all Saints till after the feaste of Epiphany of oure Lorde wyth sometimes
beheaded Pag. 1165 Earle of Worcester sent into Fraunce robbed on the Sea Pag. 1163 Earle of Essex with others sayled into Ireland Pag. 1174. Captaine general Pag. 1175 Ebbe Abbesse of Coldingham Pag. 121 Edenbourgh builded Pag. 20. yeelded to the Englishmen Pag. 1173. brent Pag. 1029. Edmond King of Eastangles martired by the Danes Pag. 97 Edmond Ironside king Pag. 137 Edrike of Statun the Traytour Pag. 137. 138 Edwine of the West SaxoÌ„s a vicious king depriued Pag. 132 Edgar K. crowned at Bath Pag. 132. restored Monasteries Pag. 133. eyghte kings rowed him Pag. 133 Edwarde sonne to Edgar murthered by his stepmother Pag. 134 Edmonds Burie builded Pag. 140 Edwarde Confessour Pag. 142 Edmonds Burie brent Pag. 245 Edward the first king Pag. 296 Edward the second king Pag. 325. imprisoned Pag. 349. deposed Pag. 350. murdred Pag. 357. Edwardle Bruse beheaded Pag. 338 Edward the third king Pag. 352. elected King of Almaine Pag. 404. dyed Pag. 469 Edwarde the seconde bruted to be aliue Page 359 Edendon founded Pag. 393 Edward Earle of March Pag. 711. crowned Pag. 712 martired Pag. 715. taken prisoner Pag. 723. escaped ibid. fledde Pag. 724. returned Pag. 726. made knightes at London Pag. 735. banqueted the Maior of LondoÌ„ Pag. 749. ended his life Pag. 750. his description Pag. 752. Oration at his death Pag. 758. his Concubines Pag. 799 Edward Lord Grey made Earle of Kent Page 713 Edward the sixth borne Pag. 1011. beganne to raigne Pag. 1035. made knight ibid. decesed Pag. 1058 Eguesham Pag. 114 Egelburge Pag. 114 Egbrightstone Pag. 123 Elanius king Pag. 28 Elidurus king Pag. 29 Eldrea king Pag. 30 Eliud king Pag. 30 Elye minster founded Pag. 97. Pag. 111. a Bishops sea Pag. 180 Elder brother seeketh fauour of the yoÌ„ger brother but it would not be obtayned Pag. 179 Elsing spittle founded Pag. 366 Elianor Cobham apprehended Pag. 644. indited of treason Pag. 645. did penance Pag. 646 Elizabeth now Queene of England hyr birth Pag. 999. hir christning Pag. 1000 Lady Elizabeth sent to the tower Pag. 1090 Emerianus king Pag. 30 Emperour came to London Pag. 930 England first so called Pag. 118 Ensigne of the Danes Pag. 123 Englishmen besieged the Castel of Argilla in Barbarie Pag. 128 England deuided Pag. 138 Englande conquered by woodden bowes Pag. 46 England interdicted Pag. 236. released 244 English ships ouercome by Spaniar Pag. 475 Entercourse with Flaunders Pag. 870 Englishmen sent to Saint Quint. Pag. 1104 Englishmen sent to Vlstar in IrelaÌ„d Pag. 1163 Epistle of Elutherius Pag. 55 Epistle of Boniface to king Ethelbald Pag. 102 Erchenwine first king of East SaxoÌ„s Pag. 98. Essendune in Essexe Pag. 138 Exchequer at Northampton Pag. 237 Exchequer at Yorke Pag. 306 Exchequer at Yorke Pag. 340 Ethelbert king of Kent Pag. 90. christened Pag. 91 Ethelburge poysoned hir husband Butricus king of West Saxons Pag. 118. hir miserable end ibid. Ethelingey the noble Iland Pag. 123 Etheldred king of West Saxons Pag. 134 Euesham founded Pag. 102 Excester builded Pag. 34 Excester the Danes wintered there Pag. 122 Excester a Bishops Sea Pag. 135 Excester besieged Pag. 160. 188 ExecutioÌ„ in Pauls churchyard Pag. 1015. 1083 F. FAmine Pag. 166. 172 Fals accuser of his elder brother hanged Pag. 227 Farendon founded Pag. 251 Fat Cow xvj pence Pag. 420 Fall of money Pag. 1049. second fall of money ibid. Pag. 1115 False Christ whipped Pag. 1116 Faelix Bishop of Donwich Pag. 96 Fernehame in Southsex Pag. 125 Feuersham in Kent founded Pag. 195 Feete and hands of many meÌ„ cut of Pag. 257 Feast of Saint George at Windsâ—r Pag. 415 Free Schoole at Bedford founded Pag. 1117 Felton arraigned and executed Pag. 1148 Fire-light forbidden to the English Pag. 153 Fish like a man Pag. 214. like armed knights Pag. 245. monstrous Pag. 268 Fikets felde Pag. 585 Fire at Baynardes Castle Pag. 652 Fitz Water drowned Pag. 636 Fire nigh Ludgate of London Pag. 674 Fire at Leaden Hal. Pag. 846. in Breadstreete Pag. 859. in Roode lane Pag. 1013. at Temple barre Pag. 1003. at Broken wharfe Pag. 1040 Friste fruites and tenthes giuen to the King Pag. 1003. restored to the Cleargie Page 1099 First shew of children in Christs Hospitall Pag. 1055 Fifteenes granted at a Parliament Pag. 1017 Fiue persons of the familie of loue stode at Paules Crosse Pag. 1184 Flyes venomous Pag. 23 Florianus Pag. 64 Flauius Pag. 64 Flemmings sent into Wales Pag. 180 Floudes of water Pag. 269. 272. 274. 1123. 276 Flint Castell builded Pag. 297. rased to the ground Pag. 299 Fleete dike at London which sometime bare shippes sore decayed Pag. 322 Florences of Gold Pag. 388 Flemmings robbed by the keÌ„tishmen Page 724 Ferrex and Porrex kings Pag. 24 Forest in Hampshire Pag. 166 Fodringhey Colledge founded Pag. 574 Foure Eclipses Pag. 1027 Foxley of the Tower Potmaker slept Pag. 14. dayes and as manye nightes without waking Pag. 10â—3 Frawe a riuer Pag. 122 Frost great Pag. 172. Pag. 234. Pag. 293. Pag. 299. Pag. 194. Pag. 638. Page 923 Free Schoole and almes houses at Ratcliffe Pag. 1014 Frier Forrest brent Pag. 1012 Free Schoole at Drayton in Shropshire Page 1032 Free Schole at Tonbridge Pag. 1048 Frenchmen landed in the I le of Wight Pag. 1032. at Newhauen in Sussex ibid Frenchmen attached Pag. 930 Frenchmen arriued in Sussex Pag. 1031 Friers houses suppressed Pag. 1003. againe Page 1014 Free Schole at Walthamstow Pag. 903 Fray in Saint Dunstans Church of London Pag. 568 Frier tormented to death Pag. 494 Friers of the sacke Pag. 316 French nauie taken Pag. 501 Fray against the stilyarde men Pag. 867 Fier at the starre in Breadstreete Pag. 643. on London bridge Pag. 877 Frier Randulph slayne Pag. 632 French men land in Wales Pag. 565 Fraunce Pag. 390 Frier Randulph sent to the Tower Pag. 604 Fray at Wrestling Pag. 673 Fulgen king Pag. 30 Fullenham or Fulham Pag. 124 Foure children borne at one burdeÌ„ Pag. 1183 Flyes in Februarie in greate number Page 1180 Frobishers first voyage to Cataya Pag. 1186 Frost and a sharp winter Pag. 1165 G. GAlley halfepence forbidden Pag. 597 Gardiner hrent Pag. 640 Gascoigne wine sold for fortie shillings the tun Pag. 873 Garnodo won from the Turke Pag. 866 Gardins about Londo stroyed to make Rome for Archers Pag. 872 Gatehouse of the middle Temple newe built Pag. 905 Gambo and another Captaine murdedered Pag. 1045 Germany toke the name Pag. 20 Gernucius king Pag. 30 Germanus and Lupus Bishops Pag. 77 Gerend on â—ourded Pag. 206 Geffrey Chaucer Pag. 548 George Plontagenet made Duke of Clarence â—13 Geffrey whipped for heresie Pag. 1116 Gifford Angolisme created Earle of Huntington Pag. 471 Gilbert Pot punished in Cheape Pag. 1059 Glamorgan Pag. 23 Glastenburie Pag. 58 Glocester founded Pag. 102 Glocester Pag. 114. brent Pag. 177. burned Pag. 183 Glocester Castle take by the Baros Pag. 279 Glocester Church brent Pag. 310 Glocester besieged Pag. 282 Glamorgan and Morganocke wonne Pag. 170 Glastenburie builded Pag. 116