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A68202	The first and second volumes of Chronicles. [vol. 3 (i.e. The Third Volume of Chronicles)] comprising 1 The description and historie of England, 2 The description and historie of Ireland, 3 The description and historie of Scotland: first collected and published by Raphaell Holinshed, William Harrison, and others: now newlie augmented and continued (with manifold matters of singular note and worthie memorie) to the yeare 1586. by Iohn Hooker aliàs Vowell Gent and others. With conuenient tables at the end of these volumes.; Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande. vol. 3	Holinshed, Raphael, d. 1580?; Stanyhurst, Richard, 1547-1618.; Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607.; Stow, John, 1525?-1605.; Thynne, Francis, 1545?-1608.; Hooker, John, 1526?-1601.; Harrison, William, 1534-1593.; Boece, Hector, 1465?-1536.; Giraldus, Cambrensis, 1146?-1223?	1587 (1587)	STC 13569_pt3; ESTC S122178	4,305,113	1,536

gladlie heare and either determined them himselfe or else for end committed them to others He slept verie little but that verie soundlie in so much that when his soldiers soong at nights or minstrels plaied he then slept fastest of courage inuincible of purpose vnmutable so wise-hardie alwaies as feare was banisht from him at euerie alarum he first in armor and formost in ordering In time of warre such was his prouidence bountie and hap as he had true intelligence not onelie what his enimies did but what they said and intended of his deuises and purposes few before the thing was at the point to be done should be made priuie He had such knowledge in ordering and guiding an armie with such a gift to incourage his people that the Frenchmen had constant opinion he could neuer be vanquished in battell Such wit such prudence and such policie withall that he neuer enterprised any thing before he had fullie debated and forecast all the maine chances that might happen which doone with all diligence and courage he set his purpose forward What policie he had in finding present remedies for sudden mischeeues and what engines in sauing himselfe and his people in sharpe distresses were it not that by his acts they did plainlie appeare hard were it by words to make them credible Wantonnesse of life and thirst in auarice had he quite quenched in him vertues in deed in such an estate of souereigntie youth and power as verie rare so right commendable in the highest degrée So staied of mind and countenance beside that neuer iolie or triumphant for victorie nor sad or damped for losse or misfortune For bountifulnesse and liberalitie no man more frée gentle and franke in bestowing rewards to all persons according to their deserts for his saieng was that he neuer desired monie to kéepe but to giue and spend Although that storie properlie serues not for theme of praise or dispraise yet what in breuitie may well be remembred in truth would not be forgotten by sloth were it but onlie to remaine as a spectacle for magnanimitie to haue alwaies in eie and for incouragement to nobles in honourable enterprises Knowen be it therefore of person and forme was this prince rightlie representing his heroicall affects of stature and proportion tall and manlie rather leane than grose somewhat long necked and blacke haired of countenance amiable eloquent and graue was his spéech and of great grace and power to persuade for conclusion a maiestie was he that both liued died a paterne in princehood a lode-starre in honour and mirrour of magnificence the more highlie exalted in his life the more déepelie lamented at his death and famous to the world alwaie Peter Basset a chéefe man in his chamber affirmed that he deceassed of a pleurisie though the Scots and French set it downe to be of saint Feacres disease that they saie was a palsie with a crampe which Enguerant reports to be saint Anthonies fire but neither of them trulie ¶ Anglorum praelia saith that it was a sharpe feuer which happening vnto him wearied with the broiles of warre in a verie vnseasonable time of the yeare namelie the dog daies tormented him the sorer and grew to be not onelie dangerous but also desperat for it left him not till life was extinguished the poets report is as followeth Interea fractúmque aestu nimióque labore Corripit Henricum languentem febris acuta Coeli intemperies sextili Sirius ardens Virus pestiferi fecit ingrandescere morbi His bodie imbalmed and closed in lead was laid in a chariot roiall richlie apparelled with cloth of gold Upon his coffin was laid a representation of his person adorned with robes diadem scepter ball line 10 like a king the which chariot six horsses drew richlie trapped with seuerall appointments the first with the armes of S. George the second with the armes of Normandie the third of king Arthur the fourth of saint Edward the fift of France and the sixt with the armes of England and France On this same chariot gaue attendance Iames K. of Scots the principall mourner king Henries vncle Thomas duke of Excester Richard earle of Warwike the earle of March Edmund the earle of Stafford line 20 Humfrie the earle of Mortaigne Edmund Beaufort the lord Fitz Hugh Henrie the lord Hungerford Walter sir Robert Robsert lord Bourchier sir Iohn Cornwall lord Fanhope and the lord Crumwell were the other mourners The lord Louell the lord Audeleie the lord Morleie the lord Sowch bare the baners of saints and auoouries as then they were called the baron of Dudleie bare the standard and the earle of Longuile the baner The hachments were caried onelie by capteins to the number of line 30 twelue and round about the chariot rode fiue hundred men of armes all in blacke armour their horsses barbed blacke and they with the but ends of the●● speares vpwards The conduct of this dolorous funerall was committed to sir William Philip treasuror of the kings houshold and to sir William Porter his cheefe caruer and others Beside this on euerie side of the chariot went thrée hundred persons holding long torches lords bearing baners ba●er●ls and penons line 40 With this funerall appointment was he conue●ed from Bois de Uincennes to Paris and so to Rone to Abuile to Calis to Douer from thence thorough London to Westminster where he was interted with such solemne ceremonies mourning of lords praier of priests and such lamenting of commons as neuer before then the like was se●ne ●n England Shortlie after this solemne buriall his sorowfull quéene returned into England and kept hir estate line 50 with the yoong king hir sonne Thus ended this puissant prince his most noble and fortunate reigne whose life saith Hall though cruell Atropos abbreuiated yet neither fi●e malice nor ●retting time shall appall his honour or blot out the glorie of him that in so small time had doone so manie and roiall acts In this yeare the one and twentith of October deceassed the gentle and welbeloued Charles French king the sixt of 〈◊〉 name who was buried at S. Denis ¶ So that betwéene the death line 60 of these two kings namelie the one of England the other of France there was no great space of time sith Charles departed in October and Henrie in August by the priuation of whose liues which of the two realmes susteined the greater losse it is a question not to be discussed Certeine it is that they were both souereigns tenderlie loued of their subiects as they were princes greatlie fauouring their people Finallie in memorie of this Henrie the fift a king of a roiall hart and euerie waie indued with imperiall vertues I find so fit a report co●spiring in truth with his properties and disposition that I thinke it verie conuenient here to be inserted in place of an epitaph Henrici illustris properans mors occupat artus Ille suae patriae decus immortale per aeuum

kings all the princes of christendome trauelled so effectuouslie by their oratours and ambassadours that a diet was appointed to be kept at the citie of Tours in Touraine where for the king of England appeared William de la Poole earle of Suffolke doctor Adam Molins kéeper of the kings priuie seale also sir Robert Ros and diuers other And for the French king were appointed Charles duke of Orleance Lewes de Bourbon earle of Uandosme great maister of the French kings houshold Piers de Bresse steward of Poictou and Bertram Beautian lord of Pr●signie There were also sent thither ambassadours from the empire from Spaine from Denmarke from Hungarie to be mediatour● betwixt the two princes The assemblie was great but the cost was much greater insomuch that euerie part for the honour of their prince and praise of their countrie set foorth themselues as well in fa●e as apparell to the vttermost Manie meetings were had and manie things mooued for a fi●all pe●ce but in conclusion by reason of manie doubts which rose on both parties no full concord could be agreed vpon but in hope to come to a peace a certeine truce as well by sea as by land was concluded by the commissioners for eighteene moneths which afterward againe was prolonged to the yeare of our Lord 1449. In treating of this truce the earle of Suffolke aduenturing somewhat vpon his commission year 1444 without the assent of his associats imagined that the next waie to come to a perfect peace was to contriue a mariage betwéene the French kings kinsewoman the ladie Margaret daughter to Reiner duke of Aniou and his souereigne lord king Henrie This Reiner duke of Aniou named himselfe king of Sicill Naples and Ierusalem hauing onlie the name and stile of those realmes without anie penie profit or foot of possession This mariage was made strange to the earle at the first and one thing seemed to be a great hinderance to it which was bicause the king of England occupied a great part of the duchie of Aniou and the whole countie of Maine apperteining as was alledged to king Reiner The earle of Suffolke I cannot saie either corrupted with bribes or too much affectioned to this vnprofitable mariage condescended that the duchie of Aniou and the countie of Maine should be deliuered to the king the brides father demanding for hir mariage neither penie nor farthing as who would saie that this new affinitie passed all riches and excelled both gold and pretious stones And to the intent that of this truce might insue a finall concord a daie of enteruiew was appointed betwéene the two kings in a place conuenient betwéene Chartres and Rone When these things were concluded the earle of Suffolke with his companie returned into England where he forgat not to declare what an honourable truce he had taken out of the which there was a great hope that a finall peace might grow the sooner for that honorable mariage which he had concluded omitting nothing that might extoll and set foorth the personage of the ladie or the nobilitie of hir kinred But although this mariage pleased the king and diuerse of his councell yet Humfrie duke of Glocester protector of the realme was much against it alledging that it should be both contrarie to the lawes of God and dishonorable to the prince if he should breake that promise and contract of mariage made by ambassadours sufficientlie thereto instructed with the daughter of the earle of Arminacke vpon conditions both to him and his realme as much profitable as honorable But the dukes words could not be heard for the earles dooings were onelie liked and allowed So that for performance of the conclusions the French king sent the earle of Uandosme great maister of his house and the archbishop of Reimes first peere of France and diuerse other into England where they were honorablie receiued and after that the instruments were once sealed and deliuered on both parts the said ambassadours returned againe into their countries with great gifts and rewards When these things were doone the king both for honour of his realme and to assure to himselfe mo fréends created Iohn Holland earle of Huntington duke of Excester as his father was Humfrie earle of Stafford was made duke of Buckingham and Henrie earle of Warwike was elected to the title of duke of Warwike to whome the king also gaue the castell of Bristowe with the I le of Ierneseie and Garneseie Also the earle of Suffolke was made marquesse of Suffolke which marquesse with his wife and manie honorable personages of men and line 10 women richlie adorned both with apparell iewels hauing with them manie costlie chariots and gorgeous horslitters sailed into France for the conueiance of the nominated queene into the realme of England For king Reiner hir father for all his long stile had too short a pursse to send his daughter honorablie to the king hir spouse This noble companie came to the citie of Tours in Touraine where they were honorablie receiued both of the French king and of the king of Sicill line 20 The marquesse of Suffolke as procurator to king Henrie espoused the said ladie in the church of saint Martins At the which mariage were present the father and mother of the bride the French king himselfe which was vncle to the husband and the French quéene also which was aunt to the wife There were also the dukes of Orleance of Calabre of Alanson and of Britaine seauen earls twelue barons twentie bishops beside knights and gentlemen When the feast triumph bankets and iusts were ended the ladie line 30 was deliuered to the marquesse who in great estate conueied hir through Normandie vnto Diepe and so transported hir into England where she landed at Portesmouth in the moneth of Aprill This ladie excelled all other as well in beautie and fauour as in wit and policie and was of stomach and courage more like to a man than a woman Shortlie after hir arriuall she was conueied to the towne of Southwike in Hamshire where she with all nuptiall ceremonies was coupled in matrimonie line 40 to king Henrie the sixt of that name ¶ On the eightéenth of Maie she came to London all the lords of England in most sumptuous sort méeting and receiuing hir vpon the waie and speciallie the duke of Glocester with such honour as stood with the dignitie of his person Now when she came to Blackheath the maior aldermen and men of occupations in blew gownes imbrodered with some deuise expressing their art and trades whereby to be knowne did all shew themselues with congratulation line 50 of hir comming from whence they attended hir to London where with goodlie pageants and sundrie gallant historicall shewes in diuers places erected she was verie magnificallie welcomed The maner and order of which pompe in sundrie places exhibited to the high honour of the king queene states is verie amplie set foorth by Fabian pag. 423 424

towels about their necks gaue attendance about it that no filth should come in the font ouer it hoong a square canopie of crimsin sattin fringed with gold about it was a raile couered with red saie betweene the quier and the bodie of the church was a close place with a pan of fire to make the child readie in When all these things were ordered the child was brought to the hall and then euerie man set forward first the citizens two and two then gentlemen esquiers and chapleins next after them the aldermen and the maior alone next the maior the kings councell the kings chappell in copes then barons bishops earles then came the earle of Essex bearing the couered basins gilt after him the marquesse of Excester with the taper of virgin wax next him the marquesse Dorset bearing the salt Behind him the ladie Marie of Norffolke bearing the créesome which was verie rich of pearle and stone the old dutches of Norffolke bare the child in a mantell of purple veluet with a long traine furred with ermine The duke of Norffolke with his marshall rod went on the right hand of the said dutches and the duke of Suffolke on the left hand and before them went the officers of armes The countesse of Kent bare the long traine of the childs mantell and betwéene the countesse of Kent and the child went the earle of Wilshire on the right hand and the earle of Darbie on the left hand supporting the said traine in the middest ouer the said child was borne a canopie by the lord Rochford the lord Husée the lord William Howard and by the lord Thomas Howard the elder after the child followed manie ladies and gentlewomen When the child was come to the church doore the bishop of London met it with diuerse bishops and abbats mitred When the ceremonies and christening were ended Garter cheefe king of armes cried alowd God of his infinite goodnesse send prosperous life long to the high and mightie princesse of England Elizabeth then the trumpets blew Then the archbishop of Canturburie gaue to the princesse a standing cup of gold the dutches of Norffolke gaue to hir a standing cup of gold fretted with pearle the marchionesse of Dorset gaue thrée gilt bolles pounced with a couer and the marchionesse of Excester gaue thrée standing bolles grauen all gilt with a couer Then was brought in wafers com●ets ●p●●rasse in such plentie that eue●i● man had as much as he would desire Then they set forwar●s the truwpets going before in the same order towards the 〈◊〉 palace as they 〈◊〉 when they came thitherwards s●uing that the gifts that the godf●ther 〈◊〉 the godmothers gaue were b●ene before the child by foure persons that is to saie First sir Iohn Dudleie bare the gift of the ladie of Excester the ●ord Thomas Howard the yoonger bare the gift of the ladie of Dorset line 10 the lord Fitzwater bare the gift of the ladie of Norffolke and the earle of Worcester bare the gift of the archbishop of Canturburie all the oneside as they went was full of staffe torches to the number of fiue hundred borne by the gard and other of the kings seruants and about the child were borne manie other proper torches by gentlemen In this order they brought the princesse to the Q. chamber tarried there a while with the maior his brethren the aldermen and at the last the dukes of line 20 Norffolke Suffolke came out frō the K. thanking them hartilie who commanded them to giue thanks in his name which being doone with other courtesies they departed so went to their barges From that time forward God himselfe vndertaking the tuition of this yoong princesse hauing predestinated hir to the accomplishment of his diuine purpose she prospered vnder the Lords hand as a chosen plant of his watering after the reuolution of certeine yeares with great felicitie and ioy of all English hearts atteined to the crowne of this realme and now reigneth line 30 ouer the same whose heart the Lord direct in his waies and long preserue hir in life to his godlie will and pleasure and the comfort of all true and faithfull subiects Of the blessed natiuitie of this most gratious virgine quéene as also of hir baptisme and confirmation in the christian faith with all the solemnities and ceremonies recorded in our English annales hir education hir knowledge in diuerse languages hir peaceable gouernement and manie other trim discourses C. O. in his Ei●enarchia or line 40 Elisabetha hath made honorable mention saieng Septembris Deus hoc voluit quae septima luxest Consecrata venit Domino voluentibus aennis Parturijt coniux Henrici principis Anna Vi dolor increuit praescripto sedula nutrix Perstat in offici● matronáque nobilis instat Auxilium latura suum cùm pondus in auras Maturum genitrix enixa puerpera languet Certa tamen veraeque salutis signa dabantur Postquam pulchellae faciei prodijt infans line 50 Compositis membris speciosam vt caera liquescens Fingitur in formam populo mirante periti Artificis manibus tensis adsidera palmis Foemina conclamat senior Benedicite Christo Praesentes Domino ô vos benedicite Christo Virgo beat matrem virgo modo nata patrémque Britannos omnes posthâc haec virg● beabit Haec sola est nostrae spes solatia gentis Rex pater inuisit celeri sua gaudia passis Matrem filiolam verbis solatus ●micis line 60 Languidam adhuc illā partúsque doloribus aegram c. ¶ This yéere also one Pauier the towne clerke of the citie of London hanged himselfe which suerly was a man that in no wise could abide to heare the gospell should be in English And I my selfe heard him once saie to me and other that were by swearing a great oth that if he thought the kings highnesse would set foorth the scripture in English and let it be read of the people by his authoritie rather than he would so long liue he would cut his owne throat but he brake promise for as you haue heard he hanged himselfe but of what mind and intent he so did maie be soone gathered For God had no doubt appointed him to that iudgement no lesse heauie than his offense was heino●s namelie the contempt of Gods word the knowle●ge where of Dau●d ●esired preferring it before gold 〈◊〉 siluer yea before pearles pretious stones in richnesse and before honie and the honie-combe in 〈◊〉 as the paraphrase noteth saieng 〈…〉 sapi●●● incùnda palato ¶ About this time the pope by lingering sicknes whose grée●e in the first apprehension was the pains of the stomach which drawing with them to pa●●ions of a feuer and other accidents kept him long time vexed and tormented sometimes séeming to be reduced to the point of death and sometimes so eased and reléeued that he gaue to others but not to himselfe a kind

the plague himselfe and his men still bearing helping the poore creatures on shipboord A rare fact worthie reward and no doubt in remembrance with God the true recorder of mercifull deserts Thus was the towne of Newhauen reduced againe into the hands of the French more vndoubtedlie through the extreme mortalitie that so outragiouslie afflicted the soldiors and men of warre within the same than by the enimies inforcements although the same was great and aduanced to the vttermost of the aduersaries power Besides the meaner sort of those that died of the pestilence during the siege these I doo find noted as chiefe Cutbert Uaughan comptrollor of the towne Francis Summerset coosine to the earle of Worcester Auerie Darcie brother to the lord Darcie Iohn Zouch brother to the lord Zouch Edward Ormesbie Thomas Drurie aliàs Po●gnard Richard Croker Iohn Cockson Thomas Kemish Iohn Proud William Saule Wilfreid Antwisell Besides these being capteins in chiefe dieng there in that towne or else sickening there and dieng vpon their returne into England there were diuerse other gentlemen and such as had charge which likewise ended their liues by force of that cruell and most gréeuous pestilent infection There were diuerse also that were slaine as well by canon shot as otherwise in the field in skirmish as both the Tremains brethren of one birth Nicholas and Andrew capteine Richard Sanders with master Robinson and master Bromfield of which two before ye haue heard also one Leighton a gentleman diuerse mo whose names I know not worthie neuerthelesse to be remembred placed in ranke with such worthie men as in their countries cause haue lost their liues and are therefore by writers registred to liue by fame for euer But now to passe to other matters at home As ye haue heard the plague of pestilence being in the towne of Newhauen thorough the number of souldiors that returned into England the infection therof spread into diuerse parts of this realme but especiallie the citie of London was so infected that in the same whole yeare that is to saie from the first of Ianuarie 1562 vntill the last of December in 1563 there died in the citie and liberties thereof conteining one hundred eight parishes of all diseases twentie thousand three hundred thrée score and twelue and of the plague being part of the number aforesaid seuentéene thousand foure hundred and foure persons And in the outparishes adioining to the same citie being eleuen parishes died of all diseases in the whole yeare thrée thousand two hundred foure score and eight persons and of them of the plague two thousand seuen hundred thirtie and two So that the whole number of all that died of all diseases as well within the citie and liberties as in the outparishes was twentie thrée thousand six hundred and thréescore and of them there died of the plague twentie thousand one hundred thirtie and six The eight of Iulie in the morning happned a great tempest of lightning and thunder where thorough a woman and thrée kine were slaine in the Couent garden néere to Chaxingcrosse At the same time in Essex a man was torne all to péeces as he was carieng haie his barne was borne downe and his haie burned both stones and trées were rent in manie places The councell of king Philip at Bruxels commanded proclamation to be made in Antwerpe and other places that no English ship with anie cloths should come into anie places of the low countries their colour was as they said the danger of the plague which was at that time in London other places of England Neuerthelesse line 10 they would gladlie haue gotten our woolles but the quéenes maiestie thorough sute of our merchant aduenturers caused the wooll fleet to be discharged and our cloth fléet was sent to Emden in east Friseland about Easter next following in the yeare of our Lord 1564. Forsomuch as the plague of pestilence was so hot in the citie of London there was no tearme kept at Michaelmasse To be short the poore citizens of London were this yeare plagued with a thréefold plague pestilence scarsitie of monie and line 20 dearth of vittels the miserie whereof were too long here to write no doubt the poore remember it the rich by flight into the countries made shift for themselues c. An earthquake was in the moneth of September in diuerse places of this realme speciallie in Lincolne Northamptonshires After the election of the maior of London by the councels letters the quéens maiesties pleasure was signified vnto sir Thomas Lodge then maior that forsomuch as the plague line 30 was so great in the citie the new maior elected shuld kéepe no feast at the Guildhall for doubt that thorough bringing togither such a multitude the infection might increase For that wéeke there died within the citie and out parishes more than two thousand wherefore sir Iohn Whight the new maior tooke his oth at the vttermost gate of the tower of London From the first daie of December till the twelfe was such continuall lightning and thunder especiallie the same twelfe daie at night that the line 40 like had not béene séene nor heard by anie man then liuing In the moneth of December was driuen on the shore at Grimsbie in Lincolnshire a monstruous fish in length ninetéene yards his taile fiftéene foot broad and six yards betwéene his eies twelue men stood vpright in his mouth to get the oile For that the plague was not fullie ceassed in London Hilarie tearme was kept at Hertford castell beside line 50 Ware year 1564 This yeare the thirtéenth of Aprill an honorable and ioifull peace was concluded betwixt the quéenes maiestie and the French king their realmes dominions and subiects and the same peace was proclamed with sound of trumpet before hir maiestie in hir castell of Windsor then being present the French ambassadors And shortlie after the quéenes grace sent the right honourable sir Henrie Careie lord of Hunnesdon now lord chamberleine of whose honourable and noble descent it is thus written line 60 cuius fuerat matertera pulchra Reginae genitrix Henrici nobilis vxor accompanied with the lord Strange beside diuerse knights and gentlemen vnto the French king with the noble order of the garter who finding him at the citie of Lions being in those parties in progresse he there presented vnto him the said noble order and Garter king at armes inuested him therewith obseruing the ceremonies in that behalfe due and requisit The plague thanks be to God being cleane ceassed in London both Easter and Midsummer tearmes were kept at Westminster ¶ And here by the waie to note the infection of this plague to haue béene dispersed into other countries besides England it is read in Schardius In epitome rerum gestarum sub Ferdinando primo imperatore that the pestilence did so rage in Germanie and poisoned such peopled places namelie Norimberge

had taken from the bishop bicause he had shewed himselfe an vnstedfast man in the time of the ciuill warre and therfore to haue the kings fauour againe he gaue to him two line 20 thousand marks with condition that his castels might stand and that his sonne Henrie de Putsey aliàs Pudsey might enioy one of the kings manor places called Wighton After this the king went to Oxenford and there held a parlement at the which he created his sonne Iohn king of Ireland hauing a grant and confirmation thereto from pope Alexander About the same time it rained bloud in the I le of Wight by the space of two daies togither so that linen clothes that hoong line 30 on the hedges were coloured therewith which vnvsed woonder caused the people as the manner is to suspect some euill of the said Iohns gouernement Moreouer to this parlement holden at Oxenford all the chéefe rulers and gouernours of Southwales and Northwales repaired and became the king of Englands liege men swearing fealtie to him against all men Héerevpon he gaue vnto Rice ap Griffin prince of Southwales the land of Merionith line 40 and to Dauid ap Owen he gaue the lands of Ellesmare Also at the same time he gaue and confirmed vnto Hugh Lacie as before is said the land of Meth in Ireland with the appurtenances for the seruice of an hundred knights or men of armes to hold of him and of his sonne Iohn by a charter which he made thereof Also he diuided there the lands and possessions of Ireland with the seruices to his subiects as well of England as Ireland appointing some to hold by seruice to find fortie knights or men line 50 of armes and some thirtie and so foorth Unto two Irish lords he granted the kingdome of Corke for the seruice of fortie knights and to other three lords he gaue the kingdome of Limerike for the seruice of the like number of knights to be held of him his sonne Iohn reseruing to himselfe to his heires the citie of Limerike with one cantred To William Fitz Adelme his sewer he gaue the citie of Wesseford with the appurtenances and seruices and to Robert de Poer his marshall he gaue the citie line 60 of Waterford and to Hugh Lacie he committed the safe keeping of the citie of Diueline And these persons to whome such gifts and assignations were made receiued othes of fealtie to beare their allegiance vnto him and to his sonne for those lands and possessions in Ireland in maner and forme as was requisite The cardinall Uiuian hauing dispatched his businesse in Ireland came backe into England and by the kings safe conduct returned againe into Scotland where in a councell holden at Edenburgh he suspended the bishop of Whiterne bicause he did refuse to come to that councell but the bishop made no account of that suspension hauing a defense good inough by the bishop of Yorke whose suffragane he was After the king had dissolued and broken vp his parlement at Oxenford he came to Marleborrough and there granted vnto Philip de Breause all the kingdome of Limerike for the seruice of fortie knights for Hubert and William the brethren of Reignold earle of Cornewall and Iohn de la Pumeray their nephue refused the gift thereof bicause it was not as yet conquered For the king thereof surnamed Monoculus that is with one eie who had held that kingdome of the king of England being latelie slaine one of his kinsemen got possession of that kingdome and held it without acknowledging any subiection to king Henrie nor would obeie his officers bicause of the losses and damages which they did practise against the Irish people without occasion as they alleadged by reason whereof the king of Corke also rebelled against the king of England and his people and so that realme was full of trouble The same season quéene Margaret the wife of king Henrie the sonne was deliuered of a man child which liued not past thrée daies In that time there was also through all England a great multitude of Iewes and bicause they had no place appointed them where to burie those that died but onelie at London they were constreined to bring all their dead corpses thither from all parts of the realme To ease them therfore of that inconuenience they obteined of king Henrie a grant to haue a place assigned them in euerie quarter where they dwelled to burie their dead bodies The same yeare was the bodie of S. Amphibulus the martyr who was instructor to saint Albone found not farre from the towne of S. Albones and there in the monasterie of that towne buried with great and solemne ceremonies In the meane time king Henrie passed ouer into Normandie hearing that the old grudge betwixt him king Lewes began to be renewed vpon this occasion that whereas king Henrie had receiued the French kings daughter Alice promised in mariage vnto his sonne Richard to remaine in England with him till she were able to companie with hir husband king Henrie being of a dissolute life and giuen much to the pleasure of the bodie a vice which was graffed in the bone and therefore like to sticke fast in the flesh for as it is said Quod noua testa capit inueterata sapit at leastwise as the French king suspected began to fantasie the yoong ladie and by such wanton talke and companie-kéeping as he vsed with hir he was thought to haue brought hir to consent to his fleshlie lust which was the cause wherefore he would not suffer his sonne to marrie hir being not of ripe yeares nor viripotent or mariable Wherefore the French king imagining vpon consideration of the other kings former loose life what an inconuenience infamie might redound to him and his bethought himselfe that Turpe senex miles turpe senilis amor and therefore déemed iustlie that such a vile reproch wrought against him in his bloud was in no wise to be suffered but rather preuented resisted withstood Herevpon he complained to the pope who for redresse thereof sent one Peter a preest cardinall intituled of saint Grisogone as legat from him into France with commission to put Normandie and all the lands that belonged to king Henrie vnder inderdiction if he would not suffer the mariage to be solemnized without delaie betwixt his sonne Richard and Alice the French kings daughter The king aduertised hereof came to a communication with the French king at Yurie vpon the 21. of September and there offered to cause the mariage to be solemnized out of hand if the French king would giue in marriage with his daughter the citie of Burges with all the appurtenances as it was accorded and also vnto his sonne king Henrie the countrie of Ueulgesine that is to say all the land betwixt Gisors and Pussie as he had likewise couenanted But bicause the French king refused so to doo king Henrie would not suffer his sonne

of a thousand archers kept himselfe within the woods and desert places whereof that countrie is full and so during all the time of this warre shewed himselfe an enimie to the Frenchmen slaieng no small numbers of them as he tooke them at any aduantage O worthie gentleman line 60 of English bloud And O Grandia quae aggreditur fortis discrimina virtus In like manner all the fortresses townes and castels in the south parts of the realme were subdued vnto the obeisance of Lewes the castels of Douer and Windsore onelie excepted Within a little while after Will. de Mandeuille Robert Fitz Walter and William de Huntingfield with a great power of men of warre did the like vnto the countries of Essex and Suffolke In which season king Iohn fortified the castels of Wallingford Corse Warham Bristow the Uies and diuerse others with munition and vittels About which time letters came also vnto Lewes from his procurators whom he had sent to the pope by the tenor whereof he was aduertised that notwithstanding all that they could doo or say the pope meant to excommunicate him and did but onelie staie till he had receiued some aduertisement from his legat Gualo The chéefest points as we find that were laid by Lewes his procurators against king Iohn were these that by the murther committed in the person of his nephue Arthur he had béene condemned in the parlement chamber before the French king by the péeres of France and that being summoned to appeare he had obstinatelie refused so to doo and therefore had by good right forfeited not onelie his lands within the precinct of France but also the realme of England which was now due vnto the said Lewes as they alledged in right of the ladie Blanch his wife daughter to Elianor quéene of Spaine But the pope refelled all such allegations as they produced for proofe hereof seemed to defend king Iohns cause verie pithilie but namelie in that he was vnder the protection of him as supreme lord of England againe for that he had taken vpon him the crosse as before yée haue heard But now to returne where we left About the feast of saint Margaret Lewes with the lords came againe to London at whose comming the tower of London was yeelded vp to him by appointment after which the French capteins and gentlemen thinking themselues assured of the realme began to shew their inward dispositions and hatred toward the Englishmen and forgetting all former promises such is the nature of strangers and men of meane estate that are once become lords of their desires according to the poets words Asperius nihil est humili cùm surgit in altum they did manie excessiue outrages in spoiling and robbing the people of the countrie without pitie or mercie Moreouer they did not onelie breake into mens houses but also into churches and tooke out of the same such vessels and ornaments of gold and siluer as they could laie hands vpon for Lewes had not the power now to rule the gréedie souldiers being wholie giuen to the spoile But most of all their tyrannie did appeare in the east parts of the realme when they went through the countries of Essex Suffolke and Northfolke where they miserablie spoiled the townes and villages reducing those quarters vnder their subiection and making them tributaries vnto Lewes in most seruile and slauish manner Furthermore at his comming to Norwich he found the castell void of defense and so tooke it without any resistance and put into it a garison of his souldiers Also he sent a power to the towne of Lin which conquered the same and tooke the citizens prisoners causing them to paie great summes of monie for their ransoms Morouer Thomas de Burgh chateleine of the castell of Norwich who vpon the approch of the Frenchmen to the citie fled out in hope to escape was taken prisoner and put vnder safekéeping He was brother vnto Hubert de Burgh capteine of Douer castell Now when Lewes had thus finished his enterprises in those parts he returned to London and shortlie therevpon created Gilbert de Gaunt earle of Lincolne appointing him to go thither with all conuenient speed that he might resist the issues made by them which did hold the castels of Notingham and Newarke wasting and spoiling the possessions and lands belonging to the barons neere adioining to the same castels This Gilbert de Gaunt then togither with Robert de Ropeley comming into that countrie tooke the citie of Lincolne and brought all the countrie vnder subiection the castell onlie excepted After that they inuaded Holland and spoiling that countrie made it also tributarie vnto the French Likewise Robert de Roos Peter de Bruis and Richard Percie subdued Yorke and all Yorkeshire bringing the same vnder the obeisance of Lewes The king of Scots in like sort subdued vnto the said Lewes all the countrie of Northumberland except the castels which Hugh de Balioll and Philip de Hulcotes valiantlie defended against all the force of the enimie line 10 And as these wicked rebels made a prey of their owne countrie so the legat Guallo not behind for his part to get something yer all should be gone vpon a falkonish or woolnish appetite fleeced the church considering that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and tooke proxies of euerie cathedrall church house of religion within England that is to say for euerie proxie fiftie shillings Moreouer he sequestred all the line 20 benefices of those persons and religious men that either aided or counselled Lewes and the barons in their attempts and enterprises All which benefices he spéedilie conuerted to his owne vse and to the vse of his chapleins In the meane time Lewes was brought into some good hope thorough meanes of Thomas de Burgh whom he tooke prisoner as before you haue heard to persuade his brother Hubert to yéeld vp the castell of Douer the siege whereof was the next line 30 enterprise which he attempted For his father king Philip hearing that the same was kept by a garrison to the behoofe of king Iohn wrote to his sonne blaming him that he left behind him so strong a fortresse in his enimies hands But though Lewes inforced his whole indeuour to win that castell yet all his trauell was in vaine For the said Hubert de Burgh and Gerard de Sotigam who were chéefe capteins within did their best to defend it against him and all his power so that despairing to win it by force he assaied to obteine his purpose by threatning line 40 to hange the capteins brother before his face if he would not yeeld the sooner But when that would not serue he sought to win him by large offers of gold and siluer Howbeit such was the singular constancie of Hubert that he would not giue anie eare vnto those his flatering motions Then Lewes in a great furie menaced that he would not once depart from

to Iohn duke of Summerset which ladie was afterward moother to king Henrie the seauenth and besides that caused the king to line 50 create Iohn de Fois sonne vnto Gaston de Fois earle of Longuile and the Capdau de Beufe earle of Kendall which Iohn had married his néece and by his procurement the king elected to the order of the garter the said Gaston and Iohn his sonne giuing to the sonne towards the maintenance of his degrée lands and castels amounting to the summs of one thousand pounds which lands name and stile the issue and line of the said earle of Kendall at this daie haue and inioy line 60 These things being thus in dooing the French king seeing that the towne of Mans was not deliuered according to the appointment taken by force of the marriage raised an armie for to recouer the same Whereof the king of England being aduertised least the breach of the truce should come by him caused the towne to be deliuered without anie force This yeare was a great commotion in Norwich against the prior of the place At length the citizens opened the gates to the duke of Norffolke who came thither to appease the matter though at the first they would not suffer him to enter The chéefe offendors were according to their demerits gréeuouslie punished and executed and the maior was discharged of his office and sir Iohn Clifton was made gouernour there vntill the king had restored the citizens to their ancient liberties This commotion was begun for certeine new exactions which the prior claimed and tooke of the citizens contrarie to their ancient fréedome But herein a wrong taken for getting of right was worthilie corrected ¶ In the foure and twentith yeare of this kings reigne the prior of Kilmaine appeached the earle of Ormond of treason For triall whereof the place of combat was assigned in Smithfield the barriers for the same there readie pitcht Howbeit in the meane time a doctor of diuinitie named maister Gilbert Worthington parson of saint Andrews in Holborne and other honest men made such sute with diligent labour and paines-taking to the kings councell that when the daie of combat approched the quarell was taken into the kings hands and there ended ¶ In the same yeare also a certeine armourer was appeached of treason by a seruant of his owne For proofe whereof a daie was giuen them to fight in Smithfield insomuch that in conflict the said armourer was ouercome and slaine but yet by misgouerning of himselfe For on the morow when he should come to the field fresh and fasting his neighbours came to him and gaue him wine and strong drinke in such excessiue sort that he was therewith distempered and réeled as he went and so was slaine without guilt As for the false seruant he liued not long vnpunished for being conuict of felonie in court of assise he was iudged to be hanged and so was at Tiburne Whilest the warres betwéene the two nations of England France ceassed by occasion of the truce the minds of men were not so quiet but that such as were bent to malicious reuenge sought to compasse their prepensed purpose not against forren foes and enimies of their countrie but against their owne countrie men and those that had deserued verie well of the common-wealth and this speciallie for ouermuch mildnesse in the king who by his authoritie might haue ruled both parts and ordered all differences betwixt them but that in déed he was thought too soft for gouernor of a kingdome The quéene contrariwise a ladie of great wit and no lesse courage desirous of honour and furnished with the gifts of reason policie and wisedome but yet sometime according to hir kind when she had béene fullie bent on a matter suddenlie like a weather cocke mutable and turning This ladie disdaining that hir husband should be ruled rather than rule could not abide that the duke of Glocester should doo all things concerning the order of weightie affaires least it might be said that she had neither wit nor stomach which would permit and suffer hir husband being of most perfect age like a yoong pupill to be gouerned by the direction of an other man Although this toy entered first into hir braine thorough hir owne imagination yet was she pricked forward to the matter both by such of hir husbands counsell as of long time had borne malice to the duke for his plainnesse vsed in declaring their vntruth as partlie ye haue heard and also by counsell from king Reiner hir father aduising that she and the king should take vpon them the rule of the realme and not to be kept vnder as wards and mastered orphanes What néedeth manie words The quéene persuaded by these meanes first of all excluded the duke of Glocester from all rule and gouernance not prohibiting such as she knew to be his mortall foes to inuent and imagine causes and gréefs against him and his insomuch that by hir procurement diuerse noble men conspired against him Of the which diuerse writers affirme the marquesse of Suffolke and the duke of Buckingham to be the chéefe not vnprocured by the cardinall of Winchester and the archbishop of Yorke Diuerse articles were laid against him in open councell and in especiallie one That he had caused men adiudged to die to be put to other execution than the law of the land assigned Suerlie the duke verie well learned in the law ciuill detesting malefactors and punishing offenses in seueritie of iustice gat him hatred of such as feared condigne reward line 10 for their wicked dooings And although the duke sufficientlie answered to all things against him obiected yet because his death was determined his wisedome and innocencie nothing auailed But to auoid danger of tumult that might be raised if a prince so well beloued of the people should be openlie executed his enimies determined to worke their feats in his destruction yer he should haue anie warning For effecting whereof a parlement was summoned to be kept at Berrie year 1447 whither resorted all line 20 the péeres of the realme and amongst them the duke of Glocester which on the second daie of the session was by the lord Beaumont then high constable of England accompanied with the duke of Buckingham and others arrested apprehended and put in ward and all his seruants sequestred from him and thirtie two of the chéefe of his retinue were sent to diuerse prisons to the great admiration of the people The duke the night after he was thus committed to prison being the foure and twentith of Februarie line 30 was found dead in his bed and his bodie shewed to the lords and commons as though he had died of a palsie or of an imposteme But all indifferent persons as saith Hall might well vnderstand that he died of some violent death Some iudged him to be strangled some affirme that an hot spit was put in at his fundament

person qualities I will referre you to that which sir Thomas More hath written of him in that historie which he wrote and left vnfinished of his sonne Edward the fift and of his brother king Richard the third which we shall God line 40 willing hereafter make you partaker of as we find the same recorded among his other workes word for word when first we haue according to our begun order rehearsed such writers of our nation as liued in his daies As first Nicholas Kenton borne in Suffolke a Carmelit frier in Gippeswich prouinciall of his order through England Henrie Parker a Carmelit frier of Doncaster preached against the pride of prelats line 50 and for such doctrine as he set foorth was imprisoned with his fellow Thomas Holden and a certeine blacke frier also for the like cause Parker was forced to recant thrée speciall articles as Bale noteth out of Leland Iohn Harding an esquier borne in the north parts wrote a chronicle in English verse and among other speciall points therein touched he gathered all the submissions and homages had and made by the Scotish kings euen from the daies of king Athelstan whereby it euidentlie may line 60 appeare how the Scotish kingdome euen in manner from the first establishing thereof here in Britaine hath beene apperteining vnto the kings of England and holden of them as their chéefe superior lords William Iue a doctor of diuinitie and prebendarie of saint Paules in London Thomas Wilton a diuine and deane of the said church of Paules in London Iulian Bemes a gentlewoman indued with excellent gifts both of bodie and mind wrote certeine treatises of hawking and hunting delighting greatlie hir selfe in those exercises and pastimes she wrote also a booke of the lawes of armes and knowledge apperteining to heralds Iohn Stamberie borne in the west parts of this realme a Carmelit frier and confessor to king Henrie the sixt he was also maister of Eaton colledge and after was made bishop of Bangor and remooued from thence to the sée of Hereford Iohn Slueleie an Augustine frier prouinciall of his order Iohn Fortescue a iudge and chancellor of England wrote diuerse treatises concerning the law and politike gouernement Rochus a Chaterhouse moonke borne in London of honest parents and studied in the vniuersitie of Paris he wrote diuerse epigrams Iohn Phreas borne also in London was fellow of Balioll colledge in Oxenford and after went into Italie where he heard Guarinus that excellent philosopher read in Ferrara he prooued an excellent physician and a skilfull lawier there was not in Italie whilest he remained there that passed him in eloquence knowledge of both the toongs Gréeke and Latine Walter Hunt a Carmelit frier a great diuine and for his excellencie in learning sent from the whole bodie of this realme vnto the generall councell holden first at Ferrara and after at Florence by pope Eugenius the fourth where he disputed among other with the Gréekes in defense of the order and ceremonies of the Latine church Thomas Wighenhall a moonke of the order called Premonstratensis in the abbie of Durham in Norffolke Iohn Gunthorpe went into Italie where he heard that eloquent learned man Guarinus read in Ferrara after his comming home into England he was deane of Welles and kéeper of the priuie seale Iohn Hambois an excellent musician and for his notable cunning therein made doctor of musicke William Caxton wrote a chronicle called Fructus temporum and an appendix vnto Treuisa beside diuerse other bookes and translations Iohn Miluerton a Carmelit frier of Bristow and prouinciall of his order through England Ireland and Scotland at length bicause he defended such of his order as preached against endowments of the church with temporall possessions he was brought into trouble committed to prison in castell S. Angelo in Rome where he continued thrée yeares and at length was deliuered thorough certeine of the cardinals that were appointed his iudges Dauid Morgan a Welsh man treasuror of the church of Landaffe wrote of the antiquities of Wales a description of the countrie Iohn Tiptoff a noble man borne a great traueller excellentlie learned and wrote diuerse treatises and finallie lost his head in the yeare 1471 in time of the ciuill warre betwixt the houses of Yorke and Lancaster Iohn Shirwood bishop of Durham Thomas Kent an excellent philosopher Robert Huggon borne in Norffolke in a towne called Hardingham wrote certeine vaine prophesies Iohn Maxfield a learned physician William Gréene a Carmelit frier Thomas Norton borne in Bristow an alcumist Iohn Meare a moonke of Norwich Richard Porland borne in Norffolke a Franciscane frier and a doctor of diuinitie Thomas Milling a moonke of Westminster a doctor of diuinitie and preferred to the bishoprike of Hereford Scogan a learned gentleman and student for a time in Oxford of a plesant wit and bent to merrie deuises in respect whereof he was called into the court where giuing himselfe to his naturall inclination of mirth pleasant pastime he plaied manie sporting parts although not in such vnciuill maner as hath beene of him reported Thus farre the prosperous reigne of Edward the fourth sonne and heire to Richard duke of Yorke The historie of king Edward the fift and king Richard the third vnfinished written by maister Thomas More then one of the vnder shiriffes of London about the yeare of our Lord 1513 according to a copie of his owne hand printed among his other workes KIng Edward the fourth of that name after that he had liued fiftie three yeeres year 1483 seuen moneths and six daies and thereof reigned two and twentie yeares one moneth eight daies died at Westminster the ninth daie of Aprill the yeare of our redemption a thousand foure hundred fourescore and thrée leauing much faire issue that is to wit Edward the prince a thirtéene line 10 yeares of age Richard duke of Yorke two yeares yoonger Elizabeth whose fortune and grace was after to be quéene wife vnto king Henrie the seuenth and mother vnto the eight Cicilie not so fortunate as faire Briget which representing the vertue of hir whose name she bare professed and obserued a religious life in Dertford an house of close nunnes Anne that was after honorablie married vnto Thomas then lord Howard and after earle of Surrie and Katharine which long time tossed in either fortune sometime in wealth oft in aduersitie at the line 20 last if this be the last for yet she liueth is by the benignitie of hir nephue king Henrie the eight in verie prosperous estate and worthie hir birth and vertue This noble prince deceassed at his palace of Westminster and with great funerall honor and heauines of his people from thence conueied was interred at Windsor A king of such gouernance behauior in time of peace for in warre each part must néeds be others enimie that there was neuer anie prince of line 30 this land atteining the crowne by battell so heartilie beloued with the

Anno Reg. 6. Simon Dun. Hen. Hunt Matth Paris The king being sicke promiseth amendment of life Polydor. Eadmerus Anselme elected archbishop of Canturburie Eadmerus Matth. Paris Polydor. Robert Bluet L. Chancelor elected bishop of Lincolne Hen. Hunt Polydor. A proclamation that none should depar● the realme Ran. Higd. Rées king of Wales slaine Wil. Thorne Malcolme king of Scots commeth to Glocester Wil. Malm. Polydor. K. Malcolme inuadeth England Simon Dun. Ran. Higd. Anno Reg. 7. 1094 Ran. Higd. Wil. Malm. Simon Dun. Death murren of cattell Strange woonders Matth. Paris Polydor. Simon Dun. King William passeth ouer into Normandie Wars betwixt the king and his brother Matth. West Polydor. A peace concluded betwixt the king and his brother Robert Hen. Hunt Simon Dun. The Welshmen inuade England The castell of Mountgomeri● won by the Welshmen Anno Reg. 8. 1095 Robert earle of Northumberland refuseth to come to the king Matth. Paris Hen. Hunt Maluoisin a fortresse built against Banbourgh Polydor. Banbourgh yéelded to the king S●mo● Dun. ●he earle of ●we Matth. Paris King William inuadeth Wales The king returneth out of Wales with dishonour Eadme●us Murcherdach king of Ireland The councell of Clermount The iournie into the holie land Godfray be Bullion Anno Reg. 9. 1096. Hen. Hunt Wil. Thorne Simon Dun. A subsidie Eadmerus Polydor. The duchie of Normandie morgaged to king William Eadmerus Polydor. Anno Reg. 10. 1097 Eadmerus Waterford in Ireland made a bishoprike The archbishop of Canturburie primate of Ireland Murcherdach K. of Ireland Malchus consecrated bishop of Waterford The king eftsoones inuadeth the Welshmen Polydor. The Welshmen withdraw into the woods H. Hunt Simon Dun. R. Houed Anno Reg. 11. 1098 Matth. Paris Gyral Cam. Hugh earle of Shrewsburie slaine ●ab ex Guido de Columna Anno Reg. 12. 1099 Fabian Ran. Higd. Matth. Paris Polydor. The king goeth ouer into Normandie Finchamstéed Ran. Higd. Hen. Hunt Matth. West Wil. Malm. Hen. Hunt Matth. Paris Wil. Malm. The saieng of king William Rufus Man 's deliuered from an asséege Helias Hen. Hunt Polydor. Uariance betwixt the king and the archbishop Anselme Matth. Paris A thousand ma●kes demanded of Anselme Eadmer●● Matth. Paris The king could not abide to ●eare the pope named Eadmerus The kings demand to An●elme A councell at Rockingham in Rutlandshire * If they be Gods people The king renounceth the archbishop for his subiect The bishops driuen to their shifts how to shape an answer The meane to pacifie the king The stiffenes of Anselme in withstanding the kings pleasure Matth. Paris Ead●eru● Fabian Matth. Paris Anselme comming to Rome complaineth of the king Ranulfe bishop of Chichester Finess of préests that had wiues as by some writers it séemed Polydor. Robert Losaunge Ran. Higd. Wil. Malm. Stephan Harding a moonke Ran. Higd. Iacobus Philippus Berigonias Anno Reg. 13. 1100 The kings lauish prodigalitie Strange woonders Wil. Malm. A dreame Matth. West Wil. Malm. Sir Walter Tirell The king slaine Wil. Malm The liberall hart of king William Iewes An answer of a good Iew. A pretie deuision King William suspected of infidelitie Eadmerus Praieng to saincts His stature Whereof he tooke his surname Rufus Wil. Malm. Couentrie church ioined to the sée of Chester Anno Reg. 1. 1100. Wil. Thorne Geruasius Dorobernensis Matth. Paris The king ●●●keth to win the peoples fauour Simon Dun. Hen. Hunt Matth. Paris Anselme called home Wil. Malm. William Gifford bishop of Winchester Hen. Hunt Rafe bishop of Durham committed to the Tower Simon Dun. The first ordeining of the yard measure Wil. Malm. Wil. Mal● Polydor. The archbishop of Uienna the popes legat He is not receiued for legat Ran. Higd. Duke Robert chosen king of Hierusalem Polydor. Anno Reg. 2. Duke Robert is solicited to come into England to claim the crowne Wil. Malm. Simon Dun. In the Kal. of Februarie R. Houe Hen. Hun● Polydor. Duke Robert arriued at Portsmouth Simon Dun. Wil. Malm. Hen. Hunt Polydor. Wil. Malm. Simon Dun. Hen. Hunt Hen. Hunt Wil. Thorne Matth. West Geruasius Dorober Simon Dun. Robert de Belesme earle of Shrewsburie Stafford wasted Arundell castell besieged Bridgenorth besieged Anno Reg. 3. The earle of Shrewsburie banished the realme A synod of bishops Eadmerus Abbats priors ●epriued Matth. Par●● The cause why they wer depriued Hen. Hunt Sim. Dun. Eadmerus Mariage of préests forbidden Hen. Hunt Decrées instituted in this councell Against préests that were alehouse hunters Archdeaconries Subdeacons Préests sons Préests to wear crowns Tithes Benefices New chapels Consecration of churches Abbats Moonks Farmes Parsonages Contracts Wearing of haire Buriall Fond worshipping of men The cursse to be read euerie sundaie S. Bartholomewes by Smithfield founded Smithfield sometimes a common laiestall a place of execution Anno Reg. 3 Polydor. The king bestoweth bishopriks Matth. Paris Sim. Dunel Anselme refuseth to consecrate the bishops inuested by the king Gerard inuested archbishop of Yorke W. G●fford bishop of Winchester Matth. Paris Wil. Thorne Polydor. Polydor. 1102 Anno Reg. 4. Ambassadors sent to Rome Anselme goeth also to Rome Eadmerus The saieng of Wil. Warlewast to the pope The popes answer to him Polydor. Wil. Malm. The pope writeth courteouslie to the king The earle of Mellent Anno Reg. 4. The K. persuaded to renounce his title to the inuestiture of prelats Eadmerus Duke Robert commeth into England to visit his brother Wil. Malm. Factious persons practise to set the two brethren at variance The earle of Mortaigne Richard earle of Chester A power of men sent into Normandie Gemeticen●is The k. passeth ouer to Normandie Anno Reg. 6. Simon Dun. Gemeticensis Polydor. 1106 Anno Reg. 7. The brethren depart in displeasure K. Henrie passeth into Normandie to pursue his brother They ioine in battell The Normans vanquished The earle of Mortaigne Eadmerus W. Crispine W. Ferreis Robert de Estoutuille The number slaine Gemeticensis Wil. Malm. Robert de Belesme The 27. of September chro de Nor. Simon Dun. Matth. West Anselme returneth home Duke Robert prisoner in the castell of Cardiff Gemeticensis Polydor. Ma●th West Iohn Pike Richard prior of Elie. Polydor. Ran. Higd. Flemings cōming ouer into England haue places appointed them to inhabit Wil. Malm. A counc●ll Sim. Dunel Eadmerus Anno Reg. 9. Préests are sequ●stred frō their wiues Archdeacons and canons Archdeacons to be sworne Penance Polydor. Philip king of Fran. dead Lewis le gros K. of France Ambassadors from the emperour Maud the kings daughter fianced vnto the emperour Eadmerus The death of Gerard archbish of Yo●ke Thom●s the kings chapleine succéeded in that sée The doubt of Anselme Anselme writeth to the Pope The popes answer to Anselme The archbishop of Yorke refuseth to come vnto Canturburie to be consecrated Looke in the 9. page and the first columne of the debate betwéen Thomas of Yorke Lan●renke of Canturburie The bishop of London deane to the archbishop of Canturburie The bishop of Rochester his chapleine A stout prelat Anselme sen●●eth to the king Ans●lme