suites in the court of Rome found such fauour at the hands of pope Calixt that he directed his letters as well to king Henrie as to Rafe archbishop of Canturburie by vertue whereof he accursed them both and interdicted as well the prouince of Yorke as Canturburie from the vse of all maner of sacraments from baptisme of infants the penance of them that died onelie excepted if archbishop Thurstan were not line 10 suffered within one moneth next after the receipt of those letters to inioy his see without compelling him to make any promise of subiection at all The king to be out of trouble permitted Thurstan to returne into the realme and so repaire vnto Yorke but with condition that he should not exercise any iurisdiction out of his owne diocesse as metropolitane till he had confessed his obstinat errour and acknowleged his obedience to the church of Canturburie Whilest these things were thus a dooing king Heâ—rie line 20 was aduertised that the Welshmen breaking the peace did much hurt on the marshes speciallie in Cheshire where they had burned two castels Meaning therefore to be reuenged on them to the vttermost he assembled an armie out of all parts of his realme and entred with the same into Wales The Welshmen hearing that the king was come with such puissance to inuade them were afraid and forthwith sent ambassadours beséeching him to grant them pardon and peace The king mooued with their line 30 humble petitions tooke hostages of them remitted them for that time considering that in mainteining of warre against such maner of people there was more feare of losse than hope of gaine But yet to prouide for the quietnes of his subiects which inhabited néere the marshes that they shuld not be ouerrun and harried dailie by them as oftentimes before they had béene he appointed Warren earle of Shrewesburie to haue the charge of the marshes that peace might be the better kept and mainteined in the line 40 countrie Soone after king Henrie caused a chanell to be cast along the countrie in Lincolnshire from Torksey to the citie of Lincolne that vessels might haue passage out of the riuer of Trent vnto the same Moreouer Rafe bishop of Durham began to build the castell of Norham vpon the banke of the riuer of Twéed At this time likewise Foulke Earle of Aniou being now come out of the holie land whither he went line 50 after the peace was made betwixt king Henrie and the French king began to picke a quarrell against king Henrie for withholding the ioincture of his daughter who as before you haue heard was married vnto William the kings sonne that was drowned He also gaue hir sister in mariage vnto William the sonne of duke Robert assigning vnto him the earledome of Maime to enioy in the right of his wife In the meane time king Henrie visited the north line 60 parts of his realme to vnderstand the state of the countrie and to prouide for the suertie and good gouernement thereof as was thought requisite In the yeare next ensuing the twentith of October year 1122 Rafe archbishop of Canturburie departed this life after he had ruled that see the space of 8. yeares in whose roome succéeded one William archbishop who was in number the eight and twentith from Augustine Moreouer Henrie the sonne of earle Blois who before was abbat of Glastenburie was now made bishop of Winchester a man for his singular bountie gentlenesse and modestie greatlie beloued of the English But to returne to the affaires of the king It chanced about this time that the parts beyond the sea being now void of a gouernour as they suppose by meanes of the death of the kings sonne began to make commotions Soone after it came also to passe that Robert earle of Mellent rebelled against the king who being spéedilie aduertised thereof sailed foorthwith into those quarters and besieged the castell of Ponteaudemer perteining to the said earle and tooke it About the same time also the king fortified the castell of Roan causing a mightie thick wall with turrets therabout as a fortification to be made Likewise he repaired the castell of Caen the castels of Arches Gisors Faleise Argentone Damfront Uernon Ambres with others made them strong In the meane season the earle of Mellent desirous to be reuenged of king Henrie proeured aid where he could and so with Hugh earle of Mountfert entred into Normandie wasting and destroieng the countrie with fire and sword thinking yer long to bring the same to obedience But the kings chamberlaine and lieutenant in those parts named William de Tankeruile being thereof aduertised laid an ambush for them and training them within the danger thereof set vpon them and after long fight tooke them twaine prisoners with diuers other and presented them both vnto the king whereby the warres ceassed in that countrie for a time The king hauing in this maner purchased quietnesse by the sword gaue himselfe somewhat to the reformation of his house and among other things which he redressed he caused all his knights and men of warre to cut their haire short after the maner of the Frenthmen whereas before they ware the same long after the vsage of women After this also in the yeare 1125. a cardinall named Iohannes Cremensis was sent into England from pope Honorius the second to sée reformation in certeine points touching the church but his cheefe errand was to correct preests that still kept their wiues with them At his first comming ouer he soiourned in colledges of cathedrall churches and in abbeies addicting himselfe to lucre wantonnesse reaping where he had not sowen At length about the feast of the natiuitie of our ladie he called a conuocation of the cleargie at London where making an oration he inueihed sore against those of the spiritualtie that were spotted with any note of incontinencie Manie thought themselues touched with his words who hauing smelled somewhat of his secret tricks that whereas he was a most licentious liuer and an vnchast person of bodie and mind yet he was so blinded that he could not perceiue the beame in his own eies whilest he espied a mote in another mans Herevpon they grudged that he should in such wise call other men to accompts for their honest demeanor of life which could not render any good reckoning of his owne insomuch that they watched him so narrowlie that in the euening after he had blown his horne so lowd against other men in declaring that it was a shamefull vice to rise from the side of a strumpet and presume to sacrifice the bodie of Christ he was taken in bed with a strumpet to his owne shame and reproch But being reprooued thereof he alledged this excuse as some write that he was no preest but a reformer of preests Howbeit to conclude being thus defamed he got him backe to Rome againe from whence he
and taken prisoners with a great number of their noblemen whereas they were in hope to haue gone awaie with the conquest and to haue had renowme line 20 for their reward Of which ouerthrow giuen to both these kings with the clemencie of king Edward in whose hands though their liues laie to be disposed as he list yet he was so far from violating the same that he shewed himselfe a woonderfull fauourer of their estates and in fine not onelie put them to their reasonable ransoms but restored them to their roialties from the which their sinister lot had deposed them Christopher Okland hath left this remembred Plantageneta duos reges iam illustris habebat line 30 Captiuos tenuit comites custodia mitis Multos ambabus claro regionibus ortos Sanguine quos saeuo bello cepere Britanni Attamen Eduardi viguit clementia regis Tanta tanta animo virtus innata sedebat Vt pretio pacto dimitteret aere redemptos In patriam ad propriae consanguinitatis amicos In this foure and thirtith yeare of king Edward men and cattell were destroied in diuerse places of this realme by lightening and tempest also houses line 40 were set on fier and burnt and manie strange and woonderfull sights seene ¶ The same yeare Edward prince of Wales married the countesse of Kent which before was wife vnto the lord Thomas Holland and before that she was also wife vnto the erle of Salisburie and diuorsed from him and wedded to the same lord Holland She was daughter vnto Edmund earle of Kent brother to king Edward the second that was beheaded in the beginning of this kings reigne as before yée haue heard And bicause line 50 the prince and shee were within degrees of consanguinitie forbidden to marrie a dispensation was gotten from the pope to remooue that let In this yeare also was a great death of people namelie of men for women were not so much subiect thereto This was called the second mortalitie bicause it was the second that fell in this kings daies This yeare also by the death of Richard fitz Rafe primat of Ardmach that departed this life in the court of Rome and also of Richard Kilminton deceassed line 60 here in England the discord that had continued for the space of three or foure yeares betwixt them of the cleargie on the one part and the foure orders of friers on the other part was now quieted and brought to end Moreouer this yeare appeared two castels in the aire of the which the one appeared to the southeast and the other in the southwest out of which castels about the houre of noone sundrie times were séene hosts of armed men as appeared to mans sight issuing foorth and that host which sailed out of the castell in the southeast seemed white and the other blacke They appeared as they should haue fought either against other and first the white had the vpper hâ—nd and after was ouercome and so vanished out of sight About the same time the souldiors which were discharged in France and out of wages by the breaking vp of the warres assembled togither and did much hurt in that realme as in the French histories yée may read Their cheefe leaders were Englishmen and Gascoignes subiects to the king of England The king assembled the states of his realme in parlement at Westminster in the feast of the Conuersion of S. Paule and there was declared vnto them the tenor and whole effect of the peace concluded betwixt England and France wherewith they were greatlie pleased and herevpon the nobles of the realme and such Frenchmen as were hostages came togither at Westminster church on the first sundaie of Lent next following and there such as were not alreadie sworne receiued the oth for performance of the same peace in a right solemne manner hauing the tenour of their oths written in certeine scrols and after they had taken their oths vpon the sacrament and masse booke they deliuered the same scrols vnto certeine notaries appointed to receiue and register the same The mortalitie yet during that noble duke Henrie of Lancaster departed this life on the éeuen of the Annunciation of our ladie and was buried at Leicester ¶ Iohn of Gant the fourth son to the king who had married his daughter the ladie Blanch as before yee haue heard succéeded him in that dutchie as his heire in right of the said ladie The same yeere also died the lord Reginold Cobham the lord Walter fitz Warren and thrée bishops Worcester London and Elie. This yeare vpon the fiftéenth day of Ianurie there rose such a passing wind year 1362 that the like had not béene heard of in manie yéeres before It began about euensong time in the south and that with such force that it ouerthrew and blew downe strong and mightie buildings as towers steeples houses and chimnies This outragious wind continued thus for the space of six or seauen daies whereby euen those buildings that were not ouerthrowne and broken downe were yet so shaken that they without reparing were not able long to stand After this followed a verie wet season namelie in the summer time and haruest so that much corne and haie was lost and spoiled for want of seasonable weather to gather in the same The lord Lionell the kings sonne went ouer into Ireland to be deputie to his father there and was created duke of Clarence and his brother Edmund was created earle of Cambridge also Edward prince of Wales was by his father king Edward inuested duke of Guien and did homage vnto his father for the same in like manner and forme as his father and other kings of England were accustomed to do for the said dutchie to the kings of France And afterwards about the feast of Candlemasse next insuing the said prince sailed into Gascoigne and arriued at Burdeaux taking vpon him the gouernment and rule of the countrie Moreouer this yeare the fiue first daies of Maie were kept roiall iusts in Smithfield by London the king and queene being present with a great multitude of the nobles and gentlemen of both the realms of England and France at which time came hither Spaniards Cipriots and Armenians requiring aid of the king against the infidels that sore molested their confines ¶ The staple of wols was this yeare remooued to Calis Also the sixtéenth of October a parlement began that was called at Westminster which continued till the feast daie of S. Brice on which daie the king at that time fiftie yeares then past was borne wherevpon as it were in the yeare of his iubile he shewed himselfe more gratious to his people granting pardon to offendors and reuoking outlawes Moreouer it was ordeined in this parlement that no maner of person of what estate or degrée soeuer he was the king the quéene and dukes onelie excepted should haue any purueiers of vittels nor should take vp any
Carrike but by negligence of the master or else by smoke of the ordinance or otherwise the Souereigne was cast at the sterne of the Carrike with which aduantage the Frenchmen shouted for ioy But when sir Thomas Kneuet who was readie to haue boorded the great ship of Déepe saw that the Souereigne missed the Carrike suddenlie he caused the Regent in the which he was aboord to make to the Carrike and to grapple with hir a long boord And when they of the Carrike perceiued they could not depart they let slip an anchor and so with the streame the ships turned and the Carrike was on the weather side and the Regent on the lie side The fight was cruell betwixt these two ships the archers on the English side the crossebowes on the French part dooing their vttermost to annoie each other but finallie the Englishmen entered the Carrike which being perceiued by a gunner he desperatlie set fire in the gunpowder as some say though there were that affirmed how sir Anthonie Oughtred folowing the Regent at the sterne bowged hir in diuerse places and set hir powder on fire But howsoeuer it chanced the whole ship by reason of the powder was set on fire so both the Carrike and the Regent being grappled togither so as they could not fall off were both consumed by fire at that instant The French nauie perceiuing this fled in all hast some to Brest and some to the Iles adioining The Englishmen made out boats to helpe them in the Regent but the fire was so terrible that in maner no man durst approch sauing that by the Iames of Hull certeine Frenchmen that could swim were saued Capteine of this Carrike was sir Piers Morgan and with him he had in the same nine hundred men and with sir Thomas Kneuet and sir Iohn Carew were seuen hundred but all drowned and burnt The Englishmen that night laie in Berthram baie for the French fléet was disperst as ye haue heard The lord admerall after this mischance thus happened to these two worthie ships made againe to the sea and scowred all alongest the coasts of Britaine Normandie and Picardie taking manie French ships and burning such as they could not well bring away with them The king of England hearing of the losse of the Regent caused a great ship to be made such a one as the like had neuer béene séene in England and named it Henrie grace de Dieu The French king about the same time sent to a knight of the Rhodes called Priour Iehan a Frenchman borne of the countrie of Guien requiring him to come by the streicts of Marrocke into Britaine the which he did bringing with him thrée gallies of force with diuerse foists and row-gallies so well ordinâ—â—â—â—â— and trimmed as the like had not beene séene in these parties before his comming He had laine on the coasts of Barbarie to defend certeine of the religion as they came from Tripolie This yeare in the moneth of Nouember the king called his high court of parlement in the which it was concluded that the king himselfe in person with an armie roiall shuld inuade France whervpon notice being giuen to such as shuld attend they made their purueiance with all diligence that might be In this parlement was granted to the king tws fiftéens and foure demies and head monie of euerie duke ten markes an earle fiue pounds a lord foure pounds a knight foure marks euerie man rated at right hundred pounds in goods to paie foure marks and so after that rate till him that was valued at fortie shillings paied twelue pence and euerie man that tooke fortie shillings wages twelue pence and euerie man and woman of fiftéene yeares or vpward foure pence The steeple and lanterne of Bow church in Cheape was this yeare finished By fire this yeare a great part of the kings palace of Westminster and the chappell in the Tower of London and manie other places in England were burned In Aprill the king sent a great nauie of twelue thousand men to the sea On Maie euen Edmund de la Poole was beheaded on the Tower hill his brother Richard was after slaine in France After this parlement was ended the king kept a solemne Christmasse at Gréenwich year 1513 with danses and mummeries in most princelie maner And on the Twelfe daie at night came into the hall a mount called the rich mount The mount was set full of rich flowers of silke and especiallie full of broome slips full of cods the branches were gréene sattin and the line 10 flowers flat gold of damaske which signified Plantagenet On the top stood a goodlie beacon giuing light round about the beacon sat the king and fiue other all in cotes and caps of right crimsin veluet embrodered with flat gold of damaske their cotes set full of spangles of gold And foure woodhouses drew the mount till it came before the quéene and then the king and his companie descended and dansed Then suddenlie the mount opened and out came six ladies all in crimsin sattin and plunket embrodered line 20 with gold and pearle with French hoods on their heads and they dansed alone Then the lords of the mount tooke the ladies and dansed togither and the ladies reentered and the mount closed and so was conueied out of the hall Then the king shifted him and came to the queene and sat at the banket which was verie sumptuous After Candlemasse the king created sir Charles Brandon vicount Lisle In March following was the kings nauie of ships roiall other set foorth to the line 30 number of fortie and two beside other balangers vnder the conduct of the lord admerall accompanied with sir Walter Deuereux lord Ferrers sir Wolstan Browne sir Edward Ichingham sir Anthonie Pointz sir Iohn Wallop sir Thomas Windam sir Stephan Bull William Fitz Williams Arthur Plantagenet William Sidneie esquiers and diuerse other noble and valiant capteins They sailed to Portesmouth and there laie abiding wind and when the same serued their turne they weied anchor line 40 making saile into Britaine came into Berthram baie and there laie at anchor in sight of the French nauie which kept it selfe close within the hauen of Brest without proffering to come abroad The English perceiuing the maner of the French men determined to set on them in the hauen and making forward in good order of battell at their first entrie one of their ships whereof Arthur Plantagenet was capteine fell on a blind rocke and burst in sunder by reason whereof all the other staied and 〈◊〉 line 50 English capteins perceiuing that the hauen was dangerous to enter without an expert lodesman they cast about and returned to their harborough at Berthram baie againe The Frenchmen perceiuing that the Englishmen meant to assaile them moored their ships so neere to the castell of Brest as they could and placed bulworks on the land on euerie side to
sixt He was not onelie courteous wise and gentle being dailie attendant at the court but forward and fortunate in seruice abroad as may well appeare in his sundrie voiages both into France and Scotland He was of nature verie gentle and pitifull not blemished by any thing so much as by the death of the admerall his naturall brother which could not haue beene brought to passe in that sort without his consent But of this good duke to let passe multitude of words maister Fox hath written no lesse trulie than commendablie no lesse commendablie than deseruedlie and no lesse deseruedlie than profitablie in his historie whereto I refer the reader for further knowledge Neuerthelesse of this vertuous duke by waie of application I saie as somtime one said verie aptlie as some thinke of the gratious ladie An Bullen Discite vos viui quid dira calumnia possit Inuidia alterius vitae comes arcta beatae Et falsis linguae commista venena susurris The protectors of England collected out of the ancient and moderne chronicles wherin is set downe the yeare of Christ and of the king in which they executed that function VPon the death of this duke of Summerset protector of England it shall not be vnsitting in this place to set downe all the protectors whereof I can as yet haue intelligence and who haue béene gouernors regents gardians or deputies of the realme and of the kings person during his minoritie and time of his insufficiencie of gouernement or else of his absence being out of the realme whereof I haue made an especiall title in my Pantographie of England in which this my collection of the protectors although perhaps I shall not set downe all for Barnardus non videt omnia yet it is better to haue halfe a loafe than no bread knowledge of some than of none at all Thus therefore I begin Guendoline the daughter of Corineus duke of Cornewall after the procurement of warre against hir husband wherein he was slaine was by common consent for that hir sonne Madrane which she had by Locrine was insufficient by reason of his minoritie to gouerne the kingdome made by the Britons ruler of the I le in the yeare of the world 2894 and so continued the same by the space of fiftéene yéeres vntill hir sonne came to lawfull age Martia the widow of Guenteline the king by reason that Sicilius hir sonne was not of age conuenient to weld the scepter as one being but seuen yeares old obteined the gouernement both of the realme and of hir sonnes person which she most worthilie deserued being a woman of rare vertue and iudgement Eldred Ethelred or Edred for all these diuersities are found in authors brother to Edmund king of England while the sonnes of Edmund Edwine and Edgar were for their minorities insufficient to dispose the kingdome was appointed protector to his nephues in the yeare of Christ 940 who about six or seuen yeares after his protectorship tooke on him the kingdome at Kingstone on Easter daie in the yeare of Christ as hath Iohn Stow 946 as others haue nine hundred fortie seuen Emma the quéene of England the widow of king Etheldred and of Canutus both kings of England iointlie with Goodwine earle of Kent had the gouernement of the realme vnder Hardiknute king of England who began his reigne in the yeare of Christ 1041. Harold the sonne of Goodwine at the death of king Edward the Confessor which fell in the yeare of Christ 1066 and the three and twentith yeare of the same king was by the testament of the said king Edward appointed regent of the yong Edgar Atheling named heire in the life of the said Edward and of the kingdome after the death of king Edward during the minoritie of the said Edgar Beside which the like commending of the kingdome to this Harold line 10 in respect of the quéenes honour as that before of the successours right is set downe by one that liued at that time and wrote the life of king Edward of erle Goodwine and of his children in these words Porrectáque manu meaning king Edward lieng on his death bed and speaking in the behalfe of Editha the quéene sister to this Harold ad praedictum nutricium suum fratrem Haroldum Hancinquit cum omni regno tutandam tibi commendo vt pro domina sorore vt est fideli serues honores obsequio vt quoad vixerit à me adepto non line 20 priuetur honore debito Commendo pariter etiam eos qui natiuam terram suam reliquerunt causa amoris mei mihÃque haectenus suleliter sunt obsequuti vt suscepta ab eis siita volunt fidelitate eos tuearis retineas aut tua defensione conductos cum omnibus quae sub me acquisiuerunt cum salute ad propria transfretari facias c. But he when king Edward was dead vsurped the crowne to himselfe and shortlie after lost both his life and his kingdome Odo bishop of Baieux and William Fitzosborne the first being earle of Kent and chiefe iustice line 30 of England and the second being earle of Hereford were gouernours of the realme in the yeare of our Lord 1067 and the first yeare of William the Conquerour when he went into Normandie after the conquest and indifferent quieting of the realme Lanfranke archbishop of Canturburie as appeareth by Matthew Parker writing in this sort in the life of the said Lanfranke Absente Gulielmo omnia Lanfranco mandabantur qui summa prudentia cunctae moderatus line 40 proceres plebem in officio tranquillè sine vlla motu atque tumultu continebat adeò vt si quae defectionis suspicio nascebatur ad eam illicò compescendam maximus potentissimus quisque opem adiumentum illi imperantipraestitit Sir Richard Lucie knight chiefe iustice of England was protector of the realme in the twelfe yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the second being the yeare of our Lord 1166 in the absence of the king when he was in Normandie and in the parts beyond the seas Which Lucie in the thirteenth yeare of the same king being the yeare of our redemption line 50 1167 did valiantlie resist and politikelie driue backe the earle of Bullongne inuading the realme Hée built the abbeie of Leosnes or Westwood in the parish of Erith in Kent and not in Southfléet as some haue written in the yeare of Christ 1178 being about the foure and twentith yeare of king Henrie the second and further built the castell of Angier in Essex in the diocesse of the bishop of London He had issue Godfreie bishop of Winchester and thrée daughters who after the death of Godfreie their brother line 60 were his heires the eldest daughter of which sir Richard Lucie was maried to Robert the first called Fitzwater the second daughter Auelina was maried to Riuers of whome issued Iohn de Riuers the third daughter Rose was
of honor as age hath consumed with the persons which inioied such prehemences in England I will from the first creation of anie duke since the conquest recite the creation descent and succession of all the dukes of England shewing first the time of the creation of such dukes secondlie the descent of all such dukes as are lineallie issued out of that creation which follow as they came in one line Edward the eldest sonne of king Edward the third being surnamed the blacke prince was made duke of Cornewall the eleauenth of Edward the third in the yeare of our redemption 1337 when he was yet but yoong This yoong prince was the first duke in England since the conquest and Cornewall was by that creation the first place that was erected to a dukedome Which duke being the flower of chiualrie in his time died about the fiftith yéere of king line 10 Edward the third in the yeare of Christ 1376 and was buried at Canturburie Henrie Plantagenet alià s Tort Colle bicause his head leaned somewhat to one shoulder like the great Macedone king Alexander whose valure in feats of armes this Henrie did also imitate being sonne to Henrie of Monmouth earle of Lancaster was in like sort earle of Lancaster by descent After which he was created earle of Darbie as some saie in the eleauenth yeare of Edward the third being line 20 the yeare of our Lord 1337 other saie in the fouretéenth yeare of Edward the third in the yeare of our saluation 1340. He was created duke of Lancaster as some haue in the six twentith yeare of Edward the third as other haue the seauen twentith and as the third sort haue the eight twentith yeare of Edward the third He was lord steward of England lieutenant of Guines This man was wise glorious in fortune and full of honor in feates of armes whilest he was yoong he died the fiue and thirtith yeare line 30 of Edward the third in the yeare of Christ 1361 being one of the first knights which were made at the first institution of the honorable order of the garter and the second duke that was made in England He had issue two daughters heires Mawd maried to William duke of Bauare earle of Henalt Zeland Holand which after became mad Blanch maried to Iohn of Gant fourth sonne to Edward the third Iohn Plantagenet surnamed of Gant in Flanders where he was borne the fourth sonne to king line 40 Edward the third was first by his father in the fiue and thirtith yeare of Edward the third in the yeare of Christ 1361 made duke of Lancaster so that he was duke of Lancaster earle of Lincolne Salisburie Darbie and Leicester king of Castile Lirne and steward of England He married thrée wiues the first was Blanch the daughter and heire of Henrie duke of Lancaster earle of Leicester Lincolne Sarisburie Darbie in whose right he obteined all those titles of honor whome he maried in the thirtith line 50 thrée yeare of Edward the third in the yeare of our Lord 1359 and by hir had issue Henrie Plantagenet duke of Hereford Philip married in the tenth yeare of Richard the second in the yeare of Christ 1386 as some saie or rather 1385 as others haue to the king of Portingale and Elisabeth married to Iohn Holland erle of Huntington His second wife was Constance eldest daughter to Peter king of Castile whom he maried in the six fortith yeare of Edward the third being in the yeare of Christ 1372 line 60 by whome he had issue Margaret maried to the king of Castile which Constance died in the yere of Christ 1394 as saith Ypodigma His third wife was Katharine the widow of Otho Swinford and daughter to sir Paien Ruet alià s Guien king at armes whom he maried in the nintéenth yeare of king Richard the second being the yere of Christ 1395 or as some saie 1396 by this woman he had before mariage Thomas Beaufort Iohn Beaufort Henrie Beaufort cardinall of Winchester Iane maried to Rafe Neuill earle of Westmerland all which children were in the twentith of Richard the second being in the yeare 1396 legitimated by parlement at which time the said Iohn of Gant gaue them the surname of Beaufort This Iohn of Gant was also earle of Richmond and constable of France in the time of Richard the second who made him also duke of Aquitaine in the fourtéenth yeare of his reigne being the yeare 1390 This Iohn of Gant died in the two twentith yeare of Richard the second in the yeare 1398 or as saith Ypodigma 1399 was buried in the quâ—ere of saint Paules church of London on the north side Henrie Plantagenet alià s Henrie of Bollinbroke so surnamed of the place of his birth the eldest son of the said Iohn was by inheritance duke of Lancaster earle of Leicester Salisburie Darbie and Lincolne he was created duke of Hereford by Richard the second who made him earle of Darbie in the ninth yeare of his reigne in the yeare of Christ 1386 and after made him duke of Hereford in the 21 yeare of his reigne being the yeare of Christ 1397. Which Henrie of Bollinbroke maried in the 9 yéere of the reigne of Richard the second in the yeare of Christ 1386 Marie the second daughter one of the heires of Humphrie Bohune earle of Hereford Essex and conestable of England which woman died in the yéere of Christ 1394 about the eighteenth yéere of Richard the second This Henrie was after king of England by the name of Henrie the fourth Lionell Plantagenet surnamed Lionell of Antwerpe in Brabant because he was there borne being the third son of king Edward the third was erle of Ulster in Ireland by his wife and created duke of Clarence in the 36 yéere of Edward the third in the yéere of Christ 1462 but other saie he was made duke in the 33 yeer of Edward the third He had two wiues the first Elisabeth some saie Eleanor but rightlie as I doo suppose the daughter of William Burgh earle of Ulster by whom he had issue Philip maried to Edmund earle of March the second wife was Ielant or Uielant daughter to Galeas duke of Millane to whom he was maried as saith the English chronicle in the two and fortith yéere of Edward the third in the yéere of Christ 1368 which yéere the Italians count 1367 by whom he had no issue This Lionell was somtime regent of France died 1368. Edmund of Langleie fift son to Edward the third made earle of Cambridge about the six and thirtith yéere of Edward the third being the yeere of Christ 1361 was made duke of Yorke in the eight or as some haue the ninth yéere of the said king Richard the second He in the six and fortith yéere of king Edward the third in the yéere that the word became flesh 1372 married Isabell one of the daughters of
yeare of Christ 1866 being the fortith yéere of the reigne of king Edward the third line 50 in which place he sat six yeares and being a verie old man and hauing béene treasuror about six yeares he died at Hatfield the seuenth ides of Iune in the yeare that God became man one thousand thrée hundred seuentie and thrée and the seuen and fortith yéere of the often named king Edward the third he was buried in the church of Elie besides the high altar on the south part I haue read and seene by manie noted that one named Richard de Chesterfield was treasuror to the line 60 king in the one and fortith yeare of king Edward the third whome they will haue lord treasuror which by no possible meanes as farre as I can yet conceiue maie be true bicause it appeareth by record that Iohn bishop of Elie which was this Barnet if you marke the time of his translating to Elie was treasuror in the same yeare but it maie be that he was treasuror of the chamber or houshold to the said king in the said one and fortith yeare of his reigne Thomas de Brantington being treasuror for the king in the parts of Guisnes marches and Calis in the yeare of our redemption one thousand thrée hundred sixtie and seuen being the one and fortith yeare of the reigne of king Edward the third was made bishop of Excester by especiall letters of the king in the yéere of our saluation one thousand thrée hundred sixtie and eight being the thrée and fortith yeare of the said Edward the third and was lord treasuror of England in the foure and fortith fiue fortith yéere of Edward the third in which fiue and fortith yeare being the yeare of our redemption one thousand three hundred seuentie and one he was in a parlement at the petition of the lords remooued at what time also there passed a law that the chancellor treasuror and clerke of the priuie seale shuld no more be spirituall men but that secular men should haue those offices Sir Richard Scroope or Scrobs knight lord of Bolton and chancellor of England was treasuror of England in the six and fortith seuen fortith eight and fortith of Edward the third and then gaue place to sir Robert Ashton knight This Richard made out of the ground the castell of Bolton consisting of foure great strong towers and of other statelie lodgings which castell was erecting eightéene yeares the charges whereof came yearelie vnto a thousand marks which was eighteene thousand markes or twelue thousand pounds the ounce of siluer being then but at twentie pence which being now treblâ— and at fiue shillings dooth at this daie amount vnto six and thirtie thousand pounds which castell he finished before Richard the second died He bought the heire generall of saint Quintine that was honor of Hornelie castell in Richmontshire which heire he was content one Coniers a seruant of his should marrie and haue the preferrement of that ward and so Hornelie castell came to the Conierses of which house the first lord was William Coniers grandfather to him that died in the time of queene Marie without heire male whereby his inheritance came to his three daughters Which William the first lord Coniers of that name did much cost vpon Hornelie castell being before but a meane thing I haue read of this lord Scroope that he had a sonne called William whereof we will speake more hereafter that was earle of Wilshire who being beheaded in his fathers life left no issue behind him After which the father suruiuing was made treasuror to the king and died in honor although he was not restored to his dignitie of chancellorship but at what time he should be the second time treasuror after the death of his sonne William in the time of Henrie the fourth I can not as yet certeinlie learne But it maie be that he was againe treasuror in the ninth yeare of Henrie the fourth for that I find not by any former search who then possessed that place It séemeth that he had two wiues the one the daughter of the lord Spenser the other the daughter of Michaell de la Poole erle of Suffolke called Blanch. He had three sons for whom he bought of the king the thrée daughters and heires of Robert lord Tiptost whereof the eldest daughter Margaret was married to Roger his second sonne the second daughter was married to William his eldest sonne the third daughter called Millescent was married to Stephan the third sonne of the said Richard Sir Robert Ashton knight constable of Douer castell was lord treasuror in the fiftith and one and fiftith of king Edward the third in Michaelmasse tearme which was the last Michaelmasse tearme wherein the king reigned being about the yeare of Christ one thousand three hundred seuentie and six of which name there was also one that was chiefe baron in the time of Edward the second as I haue read Henrie Wake or Wakefield being made bishop of Worcester in the yeare of our redâ—mption one thousand thrée hundred seueantie and fiue being the fortie and ninth yeare of the reigne of king Edward the third was made lord treasuror of England in the yeare that the word of the father tooke flesh in the wombe of the woman one thousand three hundred seuentie and six in the one and fiftith yeare of king Edward the third in which office he continued part of Easter tearme in the first yeare of king Richard the second being about the yeare of our redemption one thousâ—nd thrée hundred seauentie and eight he died in the yeare of Christ one thousand thrée hundred ninetie and fiue as saith Walsingham Thomas Brantington bishop of Excester was made lord treasuror of England towards the latter line 10 end of Easter tearme in the first yeare of king Richard the second falling in the yeare of Christ one thousand thrée hundred seauentie and eight as I at this time account it from which place he was shortlie remooued in the second yeare of king Richard the second Richard earle of Arundell and Surrie made lord treasuror of England in the second yeare of the reigne of king Richard the second whereof part fell in the yeare of our Lord one thousand thrée hundred line 20 seauentie and eight part in the yéere one thousand thrée hundred seauentie and nine continued about one yeare in the same and then gaue place to him which possessed the same office last before him he married Elisabeth the daughter of William de Bohune earle of Northampton Hereford by whome he had issue Thomas earle of Arundell Ione married to William Beauchampe lord Aburgauennie Elisabeth married to Thomas lord Mowbraie Margaret married to sir Rowland Lenthall and Alice married line 30 to Iohn Charleton lord Powes this Richard was beheaded in the one and twentith yeare of Richard the second Thomas Brantington bishop of Excester was the third time lord
696 b 50. The desire thereof an occasion to offend against dutie and honestie 743 b 50 744 a 50. The meanes that Henrie the seauenth practised to get it 792 b 20. Scant but vittels abundant 353 a 10 Lent Edward the third by Londoners 357 b 40. Imploied vpon the commonwealth 1354 a 40 50. Base and fall thereof 1193 b 50. Well unploied 1311 b 40 Gathered by cardinals 295 a 20. Edward the first his shifts to get it 280 a 50. Forren forbidden to go as currant 309 a 20 30. Edward the first his shifts for it 292 b 50. Purchaseth the princes fauor 496 a 10. Of practises to get it by Henrie the third 208 b 60. What cousening shifts the pope vsed to get it out of England 211 a 40. Gathered to confirme a marriage 222 b 60. To get it practise against practise 243 a 50. And what indirect means to get it practised by the Romish clergie 226 a 10 20 c. What shifts Henrie the third made to get it 241 b 20. Procured to the procurers losse 241 a 20. What shifts Henrie the third made to send it pope Innocent 250 b 40 c. Of the bishop of Herefords deuise to get some of the bishops 251 b 10. More estéemed than life 252 b 40. For lands morgaged to haue it 22 a 60 b 20. Purchaseth fauor when nothing els would note 25 b 40. Receiued to inforce an abiuration of christianitie 27 a 40. Giuen and taken of the French king to raise his séege 19 a 20. The shamefull shift of William Rufus to get it 20 b 10. Purchaseth peace 21 b 10 ¶ Sée Cardinall of Praxed Couetousnes Gifts Inquisitions Riches Monsieur ¶ Sée duke of Alanson Monsieur Thermes capteine of Calis his seruice his determination to spoile king Philips countries sicke of the gowt 1150 a 10 30 50 Monmouth castell taken 270 a 30 Monster borne of a woman 1083 a 40. Maried 1314 a 40 Of fourscore yeres old 1313 b 60 1314 a 10. Of a sow that brought out a pig of strange shape 37 a 40 Monsters bred and brought foorth in diuerse places of England 1195 a 10 Monstreau besieged and taken 576 a 50 Montargis recouered by the English 606 b 10 ¶ Sée Frenchmen Monument ¶ Sée Antiquities Moone in eclipse séene of king Henrie and his traine 103 a 60 New appéered before hir time 247 b 40 A strange woonder touching the same 245 b 30. Turned into a bloudie colour 39 b 10. Strange fights about it 102 b 30. Fiue séene in Yorke 163 a 50 Moonke Eustace what he was 201 a 60 Taken prisoner and beheaded 201 a 60. Malcus ¶ Sée Malcus Samuell ¶ Sée Samuell When a woonder among the northeren people 11 a 30. Carthusian apprehended and an enimie vnto the pope note 225 a 60. Conference with the duke of Buckingham his tresonable practises 863 a 60 b 10 c. The last that was seene in moonks clothing till queene Maâ—ies daies 952 b 60 Moonks when and how they shuld inioin penance 30 b 50. Should not be godfathers 30 b 50. Should not hold nor occupie farmes 30 b 60. At whose hands they should receiue parsonages c 30 b 60. Hindered by the comming of the friers preachers 26 b 30. Presumptuous stoutnesse 154 a 60. Displace the secular préests at Durham 13 a 50. Life order and profession what it should be 18 b 60. Supported by Lanfranke 18 b 10. Two striuing for preferment dismissed by a third 18 b 60. Thrée purposed to restore religion in Northumberland 11 a 10. Cisteaux to whom the emperor was bountifull 147 b 20. Cousened by Richard the first 144 a 10. Of Glastenburie dispersed into diuerse religious houses 13 b 50. Plaie the men against the abbat and his adherents 13 b 40. Of Couentrie displaced 129 a 20. Placed in the church and secular canons displaced 152 b 50. Of Canturburie without knowledge of king Iohn choose a new archbishop 169 a 60. Banished 171 a 30. Of the Charterhouse executed 938 a 60. Of Christs church complaine to the pope of their archbishop 153 a 20 Called Monachi de charitate 27 a 10 White when and by whome begunne and brought into England 26 a 60. Not priuileged as other churches coÌ„uentuall were 173 a 60. Delt hardlie withall by king Iohn 162 a 40. Molested by king Iohn diuerse waies 163 a 10. Of Norwich ¶ See Friers Moore knight late vndershiriffe of London now of Henrie the eight his priuie councell 841 b 50 The paines he tooke to appease ill Maie daies riot 842 a 10 20. Speaker for the commons his oration and behauiour in parlement 876 a 50 60. Answereth the oration of Faber in Henrie the rights behalfe 895 a 10. Lord chancellor his oration in the parlement 910 b 10 c. An enimie to protestants 913 b 60. Deliuered vp the great seale 928 b 10. Beheaded a iester and scoffer at the houre of his deth 938 b 10 30. In some sort commended deuoutlie giuen in his kind 939. a 20 40. Moore Edward ¶ Sée Iusts triumphant Moore fields ¶ Sée Archers Morgage of a dukedome for moneie 22 a 60. ¶ Sée Lands Morguison the midwaie betwéene Bullen and Calis 1061 b 20 Moris his deuise for conueiance of Thames water c. 1348 b 50 Morleie lord appealeth the erle of Salisburie 513 a 50. He is mainprised b 60. Slaine in battell against the French 770 b 50 Morleis in Britaine woon by the earle of Surrie 874 a 30. Mortaigne ¶ Sée Erle Mortaigne Mortalitie of people verie gréeuous note 157 a 10. ¶ Sée Derth and Deth Mortmaine statute established 280 a 10. Required to be repealed 293 a 30 Morton doctor an old English fugitiue a stirrer vp of rebellion in the north 1361 b 30. His secret ambassage from Rome 1362 a 30. ¶ Sée Bishop Morton Archbishop Mortimer and Audleie banished 269 b 10 Mortimer Hugh against Henrie the second 66 a 10 Mortimer king Henrie the thirds lieutenant in Wales 255 a 30. His reuenge against the Welshmen 263 b 50 Mortimer lord ofWigmore proclamed traitor 338 a 30. In what fauour with Edward the seconds wife 340 a 50 Mortimer earle of March proclamed heire apparent to the crowne 448 a 60 b 10. He ruleth all things at his pleasure 347 b 60. Enuieth Henrie the fourths aduancement 511 a 30. His good seruice in Ireland 440 a 30. Apprehended in Nottingham castell 348 b 50. Beareth the blame of euill counsell 347 b 20. Attainted and fiue articles obiected against him 349 a 40. Committed vnto prison in the Towre 349 a 10. Breaketh out of the Towre note 334 b 60. Shamefullie executed 349 a 60 Mortimers restored to the title and possessions of the earledome of March 381 b 60 Moubraie earle of Northumberland 17 a 40 Montacuâ—e ¶ Sée Erle Mountcaster now Newcastell 11 a 10 Mountfort Robert combattant 67 a 20 Mountgomerie Roger earle of Shrewsburie his wasting and spoiling 17 a 50 60 Reconciled to K. William Rufus 17
the queenes supremasie 1322. a 30. A declaration of queene Elisabeths commissioners their faucurable dealing for their examining 1357. a 60. c. 1358. to 1368 Executed in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire 767. b 40.50 ¶ See Preests seminarie Fugitiues Babington Felton and Storie Trauelling commended and discommended as necessarie and vnnecessarie 1568 b 50 c. Treiport suburbs set on fire by the English 879. a 30 Trenchulle lord William a man of great power 67. b 60 Trent riuer where duke William pitched his tents against the Danes 7. a 40. Hoised out of the chanell with a tempest 1142. a 40. Dried vp for the space of a mile 37 a 40. See Châ—â—â—ll Tresham knight made lord of saint Iohns of Ierusalem 1134. b 60 Tresham William ¶ See Iusts triumphant Tresilian chiefe iustice descried by his owne man executed at Tiborne 463. b 50 Treson against king Henrie the fourth to haue destroied him in his bed note 519. b 20. Against Edward the second the traitor executed note 333.334 Against Henrie the third by a clerke of Oxford 223. a 40. Of Thomas Becket 69. b 10 Of noble men iustlâ—e punished 515 b 10 c. Of a Saracen against prince Edward 275 a 20. Land to the duke of Aumerle and how he challenged triall 513. a 60. Of sir Thomas Turberuile he executed 295. b 40. Of a messenger disclosing the secrets of Edward the firsts letters 299. b 60 300. a 10. Of Foulks de Brent how punished 208. a 20. Of certeine Iewes and how reuenged 267. a 60. Notable of Francis Chrockmorton set downe in full discourse with the maner of proceeding against him note 1370. a 50 60 c. 1371. to 1375. Notorious of Parrie to haue murthered queene Elisabeth set downe at large note 1382. a 50 c. to 1395. Of erle Persie of Northumberland summarilie set downe note and vnto what foule end he came 1404. b 40.1405 c. to 1419 a 10. Of the duke of Buckingham ¶ See Duke Of nobles for the which they were apprehended 548. b 10. And exâ—cuted b 40. Of erle Iohn moued in the parlement and iudgement denounced against him 142. b 60. Laid vnto the archbishop of Canturburies charge by the speaker in parlement 490. b 40. Laid to the duke of Northfolke by the duke of Hereford 493 b 10. Laid to the duke of Lancaster he cleared and the accuser extremâ—lie tormented 445. b 40 c. In great men and they executed note 946. a 20. c. 50. Practised against the erle of Richmond but preuented 747. a 60. b 10 c. 60. Of the citizens that lost Mens 598. a 60. Laid to the bishop of Winchester with hisanswers 591. a 60. b 60. Wherewith the dukes of Yorke and Summerset mutuallie charge each other 639. a 50. 60. Against the duke of Clarence 580 a 10. He is slaine a 30. Laid to the nobles charge by king Iohn 169. a 30. Laid to ones charge and pledges sent to and fro to follow the sute 143. a 20. Of two sorts punished with death noâ—e 1227. b 60. Purposed at a maske against Henrie the fourth his person 515. b 50. In letters written by sir Ralfe Ferrers to certeine French lords arrested released 428. a 60. b 10. For misgouerning the king and realme and the parties executed 498. b 60. Tried by a combat note 424 b 10 c. 425. a 10 c. Suspected among the nobles and inquisition for the same 457. b 20. Intended and preuented 295 a 30. Will euer come to light by one meane or other 333. b 10. It and not religion the cause of the popes fauorers execution proued note 1366. b 10 c. 1368. a 40 c. The fauorers thereof punished 951 a 50.60 Punished in honorable personages of both sex 70 b 10. To defraud souldiors of their wages 411. b 10. Punished by death though disclosed 11. a 60. It and execution 945. a 10. b 10 952. b 30.60 Of two persons two waies note 928 a 10. â—13 b 40.598 a 60. b 40. Upon clergie men 520. a 10 c. Most seuerelie punished 1575. b â—0 c. ¶ See Chartres Conspiracie Elenor Cobham Eureux Noble men Paris Parâ—â—e Preests seminarie Rebellion Rone castell Scotish king Iames Serlo Traitors and Woolseie Tresuror lord sitâ—eth aboue the lord maior at the sargâ—nts â—east 667. b 20 Tresurors of England from the first to the last â—et downe in a collection 1238. a 1239. vnto 1257. a 10. ¶ See Câ—â—ill Tresure great of Richard king of Almaine 254. b. 20. Of Richard the first where it laâ—e and deliuered to king Iohn 157. a 20. Of Henrie the second found at Salisburie 118. a 20. See Officers Tribute of ox hides 96. b 50 Of twelue pense for euerie horsse or â—oke of oxen 98. b 10 Of three thousand marks by yeare released 32 a 50. Leuiâ—d throughout all England and how note 13. a 60. b 10. Denied vnto the pope with oths and protestations 236 a 60. To be paid vnto the pope moued for the maintenance of his estate 208. a 40. Of the French king to king Edward for peace and amitie note 700 b 10 c. For Thoâ—ouse 85. a 30. ¶ See Exactions Subsidies Taxes Tenths and Toll Triuet knight slaine with a fall from his horsse 465. b 50 Triumphs of the Romans excelled all their other shews 1333. a 20. ¶ See Pagents Triâ—â—lfe a noble seruitor in the French affaires â—50 b 60 Trollop forsaketh the rebellious lords his estimation 650 a 60 Truce for three yeares betwixt six kings 466. a 40. Betwixt England and France 445. a 50. 230 b 10. For fiue years 231. Treated 466. a 10. For three yeares 214. a 50. Generall 198 b 10. For three years expired 219 a 10. For fortie daies 892. a 60. For a moneth 304 b 60. For eighteene moneths 624. b 10. For six yeares 607. a 60. For two yeares 391 a 40.381 a 60.378 a 50.183 b 20. For three yeares 364. b 30.40 With the conditions of the same 50 60.365 a 10. For a yeare at the mediation of a woman 360. a 30.409 b 10. 93. b 50. Conditionall for two yeares 170. a 60. For foure yeares 480 b 40. For fiftie daies 160. a 40. 154. b 50. For fiue yeares 155 a 10. For thirtie yeares 486 â—50 Betwixt England and Scotland 875. b 30.439 a 10 At request of the French king 311 a 60.352 a 10.405 a 30. 89. a 60. With a treatie of aâ—iance 747. a 20. For sâ—uen yeares 767. b 60.668 b 60. After much mischiefe and trouble 334. b 30. Betwixt the emperor Charles and the gouernors of France 887 b 60. Betwixt Henrie the fift and the duke of Burgogne 558 a 10. Betwixt Henrie the sixt and the dutchesse of Burgogne 6â—5 a 30. Betwixt Henrie the fift and the duke of Britaine 561. a 50.60 Betwixt Henrie the eight and sundrie Forren princes 843. a 20. Betwixt the English and the Britâ—ns for six daies 814. b 60. Prolonged for a yeare 477.
honor painefull watchfull and able to tolerate heat and cold though he were tall of stature and verie grosse of bodie Toward the end of his daies he waxed verie deuout and became desirous to aduance the state of the line 40 church insomuch that he builded thrée abbeies in three seuerall places endowing them with faire lands and large possessions one at the place where he vanquished king Harold fiue miles from Hastings which he named Battell of the field there fought the other at Celby in Yorkeshire and the third in Normandie at Caen where his wife Quéene Maud had builded a nunnerie which Maud died in the yéere 1084. before the decease of the king hir husband After his death his bodie was buried in Caen line 50 in S. Stephans church but before it could be committed to the ground the executors were consâ—reined to agree with the lord of the soile where the church stood which as he said the king in his life time had iniuriouslie taken from him and gaue him a great summe of monie to release his title ¶ By this we may consider the great miserie of mans estate in that so mightie a prince could not haue so much ground after his death as to couer his dead corâ—s without dooing iniurie to another This line 60 also may be a speciall lesson for all men and namelie for princes noblemen and gentlemen who oftentimes to enlarge their owne commodities doo not regard what wrong they offer to the inferiour â—ort The said king William had by Maud his wife the daughter of Baldwine earle of Flanders foure sonnes Robert surnamed Curthose vnto whome he bequeathed the duchie of Normandie Richard who died in his youth William surnamed Ruâ—â—s to whom he gaue by testament the realme of England and Henrie surnamed Beauclerke for his cunning knowledge and learning vnto whom he bequethed all his treasure and mooueable goods with the possessions that belonged to his mother Besides these foure sonnes he had also by his said wife fiue daughters Cecilie who became a nunne Constance who was married to Alane duke of Britaine Adela who was giuen in mariage to Stephan earle of Blois of whom that Stephan was borne which reigned after Henrie the first Adeliza who was promised in mariage to Harold king of England as before you haue heard but she died yer she was maried either to him or to any other and so likewise did the fift whose name I cannot reherse But to conclude though king William held the English so vnder foot that in his daies almost no Englishman bare any office of honor or rule in his time yet he somewhat fauoured the citie of London and at the earnest sute of William a Norman then bishop of that see he granted vnto the citizens the first charter which is written in the Saxon toong sealed with greene wax and expressed in viij or ix lines at the most exemplified according to the copie and so printed as followeth Williem king grets Williem Bisceop Godfred Porterefan ealle ya Burghwarn binnen London Frencisce Englise frendlice Ic kiden eoy yeet ic wille yeet git ben ealra weera lagayweord ye get weeran on Eadwerds daege kings And ic will yeet aelc child by his fader yrfnume aefter his faders daege And ic nelle ge wolian yeet aenig man eoy aenis wrang beode God eoy heald Wilhelmus rex salutat Wilhelmum Episcopum Goffridum Portegrefium omnem Burghware infra London Frans. Angl. amicabiliter Et vobis notum facio quòd ego volo quòd vos sitis omni lege illa digni qua fuistis Edwardi dicbus regis Et volo quòd omnis puer sit patris sui haeres post diem patris sui Et ego nolo pati quòd aliquis homo aliquam iniuriam vobis inferat Deus vos saluet But howsoeuer he vsed the rest of the English this is recorded of some writers that by his rigorous proceedings against them he brought to passe that the countrie was so rid of theeues and robbers as that at length a maid might haue passed through the land with a bag full of gold and not haue met with any misdooer to haue bereft hir of the same a thing right strange to consider sith in the beginning of his reigne there were such routs of outlawes and robbers that the peaceabler people could not be safelie possessed of their owne houses were the same neuer so well fortified and defended Among manie lawes made by the said William this one is to be remembred that such as forced any woman should lose their genitals In this kings daies also liued Osmond the second bishop of Salisburie who compiled the church seruice which in times past they commonlie called after Salisburie vse The vse of the long bowe as Iohn Rous testifieth came first into England with this king William the Conquerour for the English before that time vsed to fight with axes and such hand weapons and therefore in the oration made by the Conquerour before he gaue battell to king Harold the better to encourage his men he told them they should encounter with enimies that wanted shot In the yeare of our Lord 1542. Monsieur de Castres bishop of Baieulx and abbat of Saint Estienne in Caen caused the sepulchre of this William to be opened wherein his bodie was found whole faire and perfect of lims large and big of stature and personage longer than the ordinarie sort of men with a copper plate fairlie gilt and this epitaph therevpon ingrauen Qui rexit rigidos Normannos atque Britannos Audacter vicit fortiter obtinuit Et Coenomenses virtute contudit enses Imperijque suilegibus applicuit Rex magnus parua iacet hac Guilhelmus in vrna Sufficit magno parua domus domino Ter septem gradibus se voluerat atque duobus Virginis in gremio Phoebus hic oâ—ijt that is Who ouer Normans rough did rule and ouer Britons bold Did conquest stoutlie win and conquest woone did stronglie hold Who by his valure great the fatall vprores calmd in maine And to obeie his powers and lawes the Manceaux did constraine This mightie king within this little vault intoomed lies So great a lord sometime so small a roome dooth now suffice When three times seuen and two by iust degrees the sunne had tooke His woonted course in Virgos lap then he the world forsooke Thus far William Conquerour William Rufus or William the Red. WIlliam surnamed Rufus or William the Red second sonne to William Conqueror began his reigne ouer England the ninth of September in the yeare 1087. about the 31. yeare of the emperour Henrie the fourth and the 37. of Philip the first king of France Urbane the second then gouerning the sée of Rome and Malcolme Cammoir line 10 reigning in Scotland Immediatlie after his fathers deceasse and before the solemnitie of the funerals were executed he came ouer into
sée which line 20 was brought to passe according to the kings desire at Westminster Afterward he was ordeined at Canturburie on saturdaie in Whitsunwéeke by Henrie bishop of Winchester although there be that write how Walter bishop of Rochester did consecrate him which consecration was in the 44. yeare of his age year 1162 and in the fift yere after his first aduancement to the office of Lord chancellor so that he was the eight and thirtith archbishop which gouerned in that see line 30 Toward the end of the same yeare Henrie the kings sonne receiued homage of the barons first in Normandie and after in England In the yeare ensuing the king his father committed him to archbishop Becket that he might sée him brought vp and trained in maners and courtlie behauiour as apperteined to his estate wherevpon the archbishop in iest called him his sonne This yeare Quéene Elianor was brought to bed at Rohan of a daughter named Elianor In like maner the kings of England and France line 40 receiued pope Alexander the third at Cocie vpon Loire with all honor and reuerence insomuch that they attended vpon his stirrup on foot like pages or lackies the one vpon his right side and the other on his left ¶ Note here the intollerable pride of this antichristian pope in assuming and the basemindednesse of these two kings in ascribing vnto that man of sinne such dignitie as is vtterlie vnfit for his indignitie line 50 But what will this monster of men this Stupor mundi this Diaboli primogenitus haeres not arrogate for his owne aduancement like yuie climing aloft choking the trée by whose helpe it créepeth vp from the root to the top But the end of this seauen horned beast so extolling and lifting it selfe vp to heauen is Erebo miserè claudetur in imo Atque illic miris cruciatibus afficietur In Ianuarie ensuing the king returned into England and the same yeare the king of Scots did line 60 homage vnto Henrie the yonger and deliuered his yonger brother Dauid to the king his father with diuerse other the sonnes of his lords and barons in pledge for assurance of a perpetuall peace to be kept betweene them with some such castels as he required In the meane time archbishop Thomas went to the councell holden by pope Alexander at Tours in the Octaues of Pentecost where he resigned his bishoprike into the popes hands as the â—ame went being troubled in conscience for that he had receiued it by the kings preferment The pope allowing his purpose committed the same pastorlike dignitie to him againe by his ecclesiasticall power whereby the archbishop was eased verie well of his greefe and shortlie after his returne from his councell seemed desirous to reduce cause to be restored such rights as he pretended to belong vnto the church of Canturburie whereby he ran into the displeasure of manie and namelie of the mightiest Moreouer he required of the king the kéeping of Rochester castell the custodie of the tower of London He alledged also that Saltwood Hith belonged peculiarlie to the seigniorie of his see He called Roger earle of Clare vnto Westminster to doo his homage vnto him for the castell of Tunbridge but the earle denied it through the setting on of the king alledging all the fee thereof to apperteine rather to the king than to the archbishop Thus was the archbishop troubled and he grew dailie more and more out of the kings fauour For yee must vnderstand that this was not the first nor the second but the eight time that the king had shewed tokens of his displeasure against him After this vpon the first day of Iulie Rice prince of Southwales with diuerse other lords and nobles of Wales did homage both to the king and to his sonne Henrie at Woodstocke Hamline the kings bastard brother married the countesse of Warren the widow of William earle of Mortaigne bastard sonne to king Stephan This countesse was the sole daughter and heire of William the third earle of Warren year 1164 which went with Lewes king of France into the holie land and there died Soone after the Welshmen rebelling with their prince Rice and his vncle Owen did many mischéefes on the marshes and by the death of Walter Gifford earle of Buckingham who deceased this yeare without heire that earledome came to the kings hands On the 20. daie of September were three circles seene to compasse the sun and so continued the space of thrée houres togither which when they vanished awaie two sunnes appeared and sprang foorth after a maruellous maner Which strange sight the common people imagined to be a signe or token of the controuersie then kindling betwixt the king and the archbishop About this time the king called a parlement at Westminster to treat of matters concerning the commonwealth wherein great discord arose betwixt the king archbishop Becket about certeine points touching the liberties of the church For the king hauing an earnest zeale vnto iustice and commanding the iudges to punish offenders without respect vnderstood by their information that manie things by them of the spiritualtie against whome their authoritie might not be extended were committed contrarie to common order as theft rapine murther and manslaughter in so much that in his presence it was made notorious that sith the beginning of his reigne aboue an hundred manslaughters had béene committed within his realme of England by préests and men of religious orders Herevpon being mooued in mind he set forth lawes against the spiritualtie wherein he shewed his zeale of iustice For as the cause procéeded from the bishops of that age so did the fault also sith contrarie to their owne canons they permitted préests to liue ouer licentiouslie without due correction studieng onelie to mainteine the liberties and immunities of the church and not to reforme the irregularitie of the regulars Of this crew was one Philip de Broc a canon of Bedford who being arreigned before the kings iusticer for a murther vttered disdainefull words against the same iâ—sticer which when he could not denie before the archbishop he was depriued of his prebend and banished the land for two yeares space These things troubled the king who therefore hauing alreadie set downâ— such 〈◊〉 as should bridle the spiritualtie from their wicked dooings thought that if he might get them confirmed in parlement by consent of the bishops and clergie 〈◊〉 the same should take place and be receiued for 〈◊〉 Wherefore he earnestlie required at this parlement â—haâ— it might be enacted against all such of the spiritâ—altie as should be taken and conuicted for 〈…〉 offense they should loose â—he priuiledge of the church and be deliuered vnto the ciuill magistrate 〈◊〉 line 10 should see them â—uffer execution for tâ—eir 〈◊〉 in like maner as he might any of the kings 〈◊〉 being laie men For otherwise the
it began as it had béene a great way off but after it burst out with such terrible crackes as was woonderfull But one amongst the rest excéeded and withall such lightening flashed foorth as put men in great feare and terror The chimnie of the chamber wherein the quéene and hir children then were was beaten downe to dust and the whole building sore shaken This was at Windsore where in the parke okes were rent in sunder and turned vp by the roots and much hurt doone as milles with the millers in them shéepfolds with their shepheards and plowmen and such as were going by the way were destroied and beaten downe About the same time the sea on the coasts of England arose with higher tides than the naturall course gaue by the space of six féet About Michaelmasse quéene Dowager of Scotland that was daughter to Monsieur de Cousie a Frenchman came through England to returne into France where she was borne and was of the king honorablie receiued and welcomed This yeare the nunrie of Marran not far from Lin was founded by the ladie Isabell countesse of Arundell ¶ Also this yeare the lord William de Cantlow departed this life in whose heritage his son also named William succeeded ¶ Moreouer Iohn Cobham Geffrey Spenser that was a man of great fame and one of the kings councell departed this life Cobham before Easter and Spenser shortlie after the same feast Also in the octaues of Pentecost Paule Peiuer or Peure departed this life he was one of the kings cheefe councellors and lord steward of his house This man at the first was not borne to anie great possessions but by purchase atteined to great reuenues The ladie Ione his wife compounded with the king for the marriage of hir son named Paule after his father but the lord Iohn Grai◠paied the monie being fiue hundred marks and so discharging hir of that debt maried hir sonne to one of his daughters at his manor of Eiton and afterwards at London married the mother of his sonne in law wherewith the king was sore displeased for he had giuen the marriage of hir vnto a stranger one Stephan de Salines so that the lord Graie was glad to giue to the king the summe of fiftie marks by way of a fine to haue his good will In the six and thirtith yéere of king Henries reigne the church of Hales was dedicated of the foundation of Richard earle of Cornewall At which dedication he kept a solemne feast on the euen of saint Leonard being Sunday There was present the king and the queene and almost all the Nobilitie of England both spirituall and temporall The building of that church all charges accounted stood the earle in ten thousand marks as he himselfe confessed vnto Matthew Paris ¶ About the same time the earle of Leicester and Guie de Lusignan the kings halfe brother came into England out of France and landed at Douer whome the king receiued with great ioy and gladnesse He gaue to his brother at his returne great rewards as he was euer accustomed In the feast of the Conception of our ladie at a iustes holden line 10 at Rochester the strangers were put to the worse and well beaten by the English batchlers and men of armes so that the dishonour which they did to the Englishmen at Brakley was now recompensed with interest For the strangers fleeing to the citie for succour were met by the way by the English knights seruants and yeomen which fell vpon them beat them sore with clubs and staues and handled them verie euill Hereof sprang a great hatred betwixt the Englishmen and strangers which dailie line 20 grew and increased more and more the rather bicause the king had them in so good estimation and reteined so manie of them within the realme The king did celebrate the feast of Christmasse at Yorke year 1252 whither came Alexander the yoong king of Scots and was there made knight by the king of England and on saint Stephans day he married the ladie Margaret daughter to the king of England according to the assurance before time concluded There was a great assemblie of noble personages at line 30 that feast The quéene Dowager of Scotland mother to king Alexander a French woman of the house of Coucie had passed the sea was present there with a faire companie of lords and gentlemen The number of knights that were come thither on the king of Englands part were reckoned to be at the point of one thousand The king of Scots had with him thrée score knights and a great sort of other gentlemen comparable to knights The king of Scots did homage to the king of England at that time for the line 40 realme of Scotland and all things were doone with great loue and fauour although at the beginning some strife was kindled about taking vp of lodgings This assemblie of the princes cost the archbishop verie déerelie in feasting and banketting them and their traines At one dinner it was reported he spent at the first course thréescore fat oxen ¶ At request of the K. of Scots the K. of England receiued Philip Lunell againe into fauour or rather Louell as I line 50 take it one of his councell against whome he had conceiued displeasure in the yeare last past for such briberie as he was thoght to be giltie of for shewing fauour to the Iewes The king of Scots when he should depart tooke his leaue in most courteous maner and led with him his new married wife on whome attended sir Robert Norice knight marshall of the kings house and sir Stephan Bausan and also the ladie Mawd the widowe of the lord William line 60 Cantlow with others On the octaues of the Epiphanie chanced an excéeding great wind which did much hurt in diuerse places of the realme The bishop of Rochester returning frō the court of Rome brought with him a bull authorising him to receiue to his own vse the fift part of the reuenues of all the beneficed men within his diocesse In this meane while the earle of Leicester remaining in England the Gascoignes made sore warre against such as he had left behind him and withall gaue information to the king that the earle of Leicester was a traitor and one that had spoiled the kings subiects and furthermore by his vniust dealings had giuen to the Gascoignes cause of rebellion The king to boult out the truth of this matter sent first his chapleine Henrie Wingham and afterwards sir Nicholas de Moles de Ualence as commissioners to inquire of the earles dooing who went and returned without finding any manifest crime in the earles demeanor The earle was much offended that his innocencie should be thus suspected but at length being appointed to returne into Gascoigne he obeied and hauing a great summe of monie he reteined a power of men of warre as well Frenchmen as others and meaning to be
sonne the lord chamberleine that neither durst go ouer themselues with the king nor abide at home in his absence gaue contrarie counsell and at length preuailed so that it was fullie determined that the kings eldest line 60 sonne Edward should go ouer which turned to their destruction as it appeared afterward Herevpon the king made a charter of grant vnto his sonne of the duchie of Guien and countie of Pontieu to haue and hold to him his heires kings of England with condition that if he chanced to depart this life whilest his father liued those lands should returne to his father againe so as the French king might not marrie the kings sonne at his pleasure nor appoint vnto him any gardians or gouernours This ordinance was made at Douer by the kings charter with consent of the prelats and other noble men of the realme there present the morrow after the Natiuitie of our ladie and on the thursdaie following the kings sonne tooke the sea and with him Walter bishop of Excester and others in competent number and about the feast of saint Matthew the apostle he did homage to his vncle the French king at Bois de Vincennes vnder certeine protestations made as well on the one part as the other The summer this yeare prooued excéeding hot and drie so that springs and riuers failed to yéeld their accustomed course of waters by reason wherof great numbers of cattell and beasts both wild and tame died through lacke of conuenient liquor to asswage their vehement thirst In the beginning of the next spring king Edward sent into France vnto his wife and sonne commanding them now that they had made an end of their businesse to returne home with all conuenient speed The queene receiuing the message from hir husband whether it was so that she was staied by hir brother vnto whome belike she had complained after what manner she was vsed at hir husbands hands being had in no regard with him or for that she had no mind to returne home bicause she was loth to see all things ordered out of frame by the counsell of the Spensers whereof to heare she was wearie or whether as the manner of women is she was long about to prepare hir selfe forward she slacked all the summer and sent letters euer to excuse hir tarriance But yet bicause she would not run in any suspicion with hir husband she sent diuerse of hir folkes before hir into England by soft iournies A lamentable case that such diuision should be betwéene a king and his quéene being lawfullie married and hauing issue of their bodies which ought to haue made that their copulation more comfortable but alas what will not a woman be drawne and allured vnto if by euill counsell she be once assaulted And what will she leaue vndoone though neuer so inconuenient to those that should be most déere vnto hir so hir owne fansie and will be satisfied And how hardlie is the reuoked from procéeding in an euill action if she haue once taken a taste of the same As verie truly is reported by the comedie-writer saieng Malè quod mulier incoepit nisi efficere id perpetrat Id illi morbo id illi senio est ea illi miserae miseria est Si bene facere incoepit eius eam cito odium percipit Nimisque paucae sunt defessae male quae facere occoeperint Nimisque paucae efficiunt si quid occoeperint benefacere Mulieri nimiò malefacere melius est onus quà m benè But to the purpose King Edward not a little offended with king Charles by whole meanes he knew that the woman thus lingered abroad he procured pope Iohn to write his letters vnto the French king admonishing him to send home his sister and hir sonne vnto hir husband But when this nothing auailed a proclamation was made in the moneth of December the nineteenth yeare of this kings reigne that if the quéene and hir sonne entred not the land by the octaues of the Epiphanie next insuing in peaceable wise they should be taken for enimies to the realme and crowne of England ¶ Here authors varie for some write that vpon knowledge had of this proclamation the queene determined to returne into England foorthwith that she might be reconciled to hir husband Others write and that more truelie how she being highlie displeased both with the Spensers and the king hir husband that suffered himselfe to be misled by their counsels did appoint indéed to returne into England not to be reconciled but to stir the people to some rebellion wherby she might reuenge hir manifold iniuries Which as the proofe of the thing shewed séemeth to be most true for she being a wise woman considering that sith the Spensers had excluded put out and remooued all good men from and besides the kings councell and placed in their roomes such of their clients seruants and freends as pleased them she might well thinke that there was small hope to be had in hir husband who heard no man but the said Spensers which she knew hated hir deadlie Wherevpon year 1326 after that the tearme prefixed in the proclamation was expired the king caused to be seized into his hands all such lands as belonged either to his sonne or to his wife About the same time one sir Robert Walkfare knight a right hardie man of his hands but craftie and subtill who being taken in the warres which the line 10 lords raised against the king had beene committed to prison in the castell of Corfe found means now to kill the constable of that castell most cruellie and escaping awaie got ouer to the quéene into France and so the number of them that ran out of the realme vnto hir dailie increased This sir Robert Walkfare was a great procurer of the discord betwixt the king and the lords and a chéefe leader or rather seducer of that noble man Humfrie de Bohune earle of Hereford and whilest other gaue themselues to line 20 seeke a reformation in the decaied state of the commonwealth he set his mind vpon murders and robberies Diuerse other about the same time fled out of the realme vnto the queene and vnto hir sonne the earle of Chester But in the meane time Walter Stapleton bishop of Excester which hitherto had remained with the queene in France stale now from hir and got ouer into England opening to the king all the counsell and whole mind of the queene which thing turned first of all vnto his owne destruction line 30 as shall after appeare About the same time one sir Oliuer de Ingham a yoong lustie and valiant knight was by the kings sonne the duke of Aquitaine not without his fathers consent established lord warden of the marches of Guien the which sir Oliuer gathering an armie of hired soldiers Spaniards Aragons and Gascoins inuaded the countrie of Agenois which the French king held yet in his hands contrarie to
intrailes and being rolled to and fro burnt the same but so as no appearance of any wound or hurt outwardlie might be once perceiued His crie did mooue manie within the castell and towne of Berkley to compassion plainelie hearing him vtter a wailefull noise as the tormentors were about to murther him so that diuerse being awakened therewith as they themselues confessed praied heartilie to God to receiue his soule when they vnderstood by his crie what the matter ment The quéene the bishop and others that their tyrannie might be hid outlawed and banished the lord Matreuers and Thomas Gourney who flieng vnto Marcels thrée yeares after being knowne taken and brought toward England was beheaded on the sea least he should accuse the chiefe dooers as the bishop and other Iohn Matreuers repenting himselfe laie long hidden in Germanie and in the end died penitentlie Thus was king Edward murthered in the yeare 1327 on the 22 of September The fame went that by this Edward the second after his death manie miracles were wrought So that the like opinion of him was conceiued as before had beene of earle Thomas of Lancaster namelie amongst the common people He was knowne to be of a good and line 10 courteous nature though not of most pregnant wit And albeit in his youth he fell into certeine light crimes and after by the companie and counsell of euill men was induced vnto more heinous vices yet was it thought that he purged the same by repentance and patientlie suffered manie reproofes and finallie death it selfe as before ye haue heard after a most cruell maner He had suerlie good cause to repent his former trade of liuing for by his vndiscreet line 20 and wanton misgouernance there were headed and put to death during his reigne by iudgement of law to the number of 28 barons and knights ouer and beside such as were slaine in Scotland by his infortunate conduct All these mischeefes and manie more happened not onlie to him but also to the whole state of the realme in that he wanted iudgement and prudent discretion to make choise of sage and discréet councellors receiuing those into his fauour that abused the same to their priuate gaine and aduantage not respecting line 30 the aduancement of the common-wealth so they themselues might atteine to riches and honour for which they onelie sought in somuch that by their couetous rapine spoile and immoderate ambition the hearts of the common people nobilitie were quite estranged from the dutifull loue and obedience which they ought to haue shewed to their souereigne going about by force to wrest him to follow their wils and to seeke the destruction of them whome he commonlie fauoured wherein suerlie they were worthie of line 40 blame and to tast as manie of them did the deserued punishment for their disobedient and disloiall demeanors For it was not the waie which they tooke to helpe the disfigured state of the common-wealth but rather the readie meane to ouerthrow all as if Gods goodnesse had not béene the greater it must néeds haue come to passe as to those that shall well consider the pitifull tragedie of this kings time it may well appeare line 50 But now to procéed with that which remaineth touching this infortunate prince He had issue by his wife quéene Isabell two sonnes Edward which was made king whilest he was yet aliue and Iohn which died yoong also two daughters Elianor which died before she came to yeares able for mariage and Ione which was after giuen in mariage vnto Dauid king of Scotland He was indifferentlie tall of stature strong of bodie and healthfull neither wanted there in him stoutnesse of stomach if his euill councellors line 60 had béene remooued that he might haue shewed it in honorable exploits which being kept backe by them he could not doo So that thereby it appeareth of what importance it is to be trained vp in youth with good and honest companie ¶ It is said that he was learned insomuch that there remaine verses which as some haue written he made whilest he was in prison Certeine it is he fauored lerning as by the erection of Oriall colledge in Oxford S. Maries hall which were of his foundation it may well be gathered Learned men we find recorded by Bale to liue in this kings time these as follow Iohn Duns that subtill logician borne as Leland hath gathered in a village in Northumberland called Emildune thrée miles distant from Alnwike although other hold the contrarie the Scots claiming him for their countrieman and the Irishmen for theirs Robert Walsingham a Carmelite frier that writ diuerse treatises Iohn Wilton an Augustine frier Walter Winterborne Rafe Locksley Nicholas Stanford William Whitley Thomas Ioice Walter Ioice William Gainesburgh Robert Baston borne not farre from Notingham a Carmelite frier of Scarburgh the same whome king Edward tooke with him into Scotland to write some remembrances of his victories although being taken by the Scots he was constreined by Robert Bruce to frame a dittie to a contrarie tune Iohn Horminger a Suffolke man borne William Rishanger a moonke of S. Albons an historiographer Rafe Baldocke bishop of London wrote also an historie which was intituled Historiae Anglica Richard Bliton a Lincolnshire man borne a Carmelite frier Iohn Walsingham borne either in Walsingham or Brunham as Bale supposeth a Carmelite frier also and wrote diuerse treatises Thomas Chabham a canon of Salisburie and a doctor of diuinitie Robert Plimpton borne in Deuonshire a regular canon Thomas Castleford a moonke of Pomfret William Mansfield Iohn Canon Robert Grime William Askettle of Beuerley Geffrey of Cornewall Iohn Gatisdene Theobald Anglicus Stephan Eiton or Edon Iohn Goldstone borne in Yorkeshire Iohn Winchelsey Nicholas de Lyra a Iew by birth of those that had their habitations in England who wrote verie manie treatises to his great commendation for his singular knowledge and zeale which he shewed in disprouing the Rabines that still sought to kéepe the Iewish nation in blindnesse and vaine hope in looking for another Messias Rafe Acton an excellent diuine Iohn Dumbleton a logician Thomas Langford borne in Maldon in Essex a logician Osbert Pickenam a Carmelite frier of Lin in Norffolke Nicholas Okeham a graie frier William Ockam a frier minor that wrote diuerse treatises and namelie against Iohn Duns and likewise against Iohn the three and twentith pope of that name in fauour of the emperour Lewes of Bauier Richard Walingford Thomas Haselwood a canon of Léeds in Kent wrote a chronicle called Chronicon compendiarium Robert Karew Robert Perscrutator borne in Yorkeshire a blacke frier and a philosopher or rather a magician Richard Belgraue a Carmelite Brinkley a minorite and others Thus far infortunat Edward the second Edward the third who came to the crowne by the resignation of his father Edward the second EDward the third of that name the sonne of Edward the second and of Isabell the onelie daughter of Philip
de Dunbarre and other of the Scotish lords had besieged at length it was surrendered by sir Thomas Uthred capiteine there of the English garison departing in safetie home into England Thrée daies before the feast of the Assumption of our ladie there chanced in the night season such a mightie and sudden inundation of water at Newcastell vpon Tine that it bare downe a péece of the towne wall six perches in length néere to a place called Walknow where a hundred and twentie temporall men with diuerse préests and manie women were drowned and lamentablie perished But now to returne to the king which all this while remained in Brabant Ye haue heard how the citie of Cambrie held with the French king wherfore the K. of England assembling togither a mightie strong armie aswell of Englishmen as of the low countries of Dutchland ment to besiege it but first he sent the archbishop of Canturburie with the bishops of Lincolne and Durham vnto Arras as commissioners from him to méet there with the archbishop of Rouen and the bishops of Langres and Beauuais appointed to come thither as commissioners from the French king to treat with the Englishmen of a peace but they could not agrée vpon anie conclusion wherevpon king Edward comming forward with his power approached to Cambrie and planted his siege round about it But the bishop not meaning to deliuer the citie vnto king Edward nor vnto anie other that should demand it to the behoofe of the emperour Ludouike of Bauiere as then excommunicated of the pope had receiued into the towne fiue thousand Frenchmen with the French kings eldest sonne the duke of Normandie latelie returned out of Guien and the lord Theobald Maruise with certeine companies of Sauoisins so that the citie was so defended that the king of England perceiuing he should but lose time leuied his siege and entred into France pitching his field at a place called Flaminguerie In the meane time had the French king not onelie made himselfe strong by land but also by sea hauing sent foorth a strong nauie of ships and gallies towards the coasts of England which arriuing at Southampton the mondaie after Michaelmas day tooke and spoiled the towne and the morrow after set fire vpon it in fiue places so that a great part of it was burnt Also thirteene sailes of the French fléet met with fiue English ships and after a sore fight which continued nine houres tooke two of those fiue being tall and goodlie ships the one called the Edward and the other the Christopher the other thrée being smaller vessels as two of them barks and the other a caruell escaped by their swiftnesse of sailing There was slaine in that fight vpon both parts about the number of six hundred men The French king himselfe hearing that the king of England would inuade his realme make his generall assemblie of his armie at Peronne and when he heard that he was entred France he remooued towards him with his whole power being at the point of an hundred thousand men as in the French chronicle yee may read more at large The king of England had not pasâ— thréescore thousand in his armie at the most but whilest he laie there vpon the borders of France his people did much hurt making roads abroad beyond the water of Some burning and spoiling abbies towns and villages as Orignie saint Benoit Ribâ—mont in Thiâ—rasse saint Gouan Marle and Cressie Also the lord Beaumont of Heinault burnt the towne of Guise though his daughter was as then within the same towne wife vnto Lewes earle of Blois his brother William earle of Heinault was latelie before deceassed leauing the earledome to his sonne named also William who continued with the king of England so long as he laie before Cambrie kept him within the bounds line 10 of the empire as though his allegiance had bound him to no lesse but after the said king was passed the riuer of Lescault otherwise called the Skell and in Latine Scaldis which diuideth the empire from the kingdome of France he would no longer serue the king of England but departed from him for feare to offend the French king accounting that the matter perteined not now to the empire but to the priuate quarell and businesse of the king of England notwithstanding his vncle the said sir Iohn like a faithfull gentleman continued still in king Edward his line 20 seruice The two armies of England and France approched within foure miles togither so that euerie man thought that there would sure haue béene battell betwixt them as there had béene in deed if the French king had béene willing yet some saie that he of himselfe was disposed thereto but his councellors aduised him to the contrarie by reason of certeine signs and tokens which they misliked as the starting of an hare amongst them and such like Also it was said line 30 that Robert king of Naples being then come into France whose knowledge in astronomie was knowne to be great dissuaded the French king by his letters that in no wise he should fight with the king of England for he had vnderstanding by art of the heauenlie influences and disposition of the bodies aboue that if the French king fought with this Edward king of England he should assuredlie bâ— put to the worse Whether this was the cause or anie other sure it is that the Frenchmen had no mind to line 40 fight so that these two mightie armies departed in sunder without battell and the king of England returned into Flanders sorie in déed that he had not with him halfe the number that the French king had yet in trust of the valiancie of his souldiâ—rs chosen out of the pikedst men through England and all the low countrie on this side the Rhene he ment verelie to haue incountered his enimies if they had come forward At his comming backe into Brabant there was a line 50 councell called at Brussels where were present all those lords of the empire which had béene with him in that iournie as the dukes of Brabant Gelderland and Gulike the marques of Blankbourgh the earle of Bergen the lord Beaumont of Heinault otherwise called sir Iohn de Heinault the lord of Ualkenbourgh and manie others Thither came also Iaques Arteueld chéefe gouernour of Flanders Here in councell taken how the king of England might best line 60 mainteine the wars which be had begun thus against the French king he was aduised that he should in anie wise require them of Flanders to aid him and in his quarell to defie the French king and to go with hiâ— against the said French king and if they would thus doo then should he promise them to recouer and deliuer into their hands the towns of Lisle Dowaie and Bothon The king of England according to this aduise to him giuen made such request to the Flemings who therevpon
and so foorth they went in good order and made good face to put their liues in hazard but when they saw the Englishmen approch in good order diuided into thrée battels the line 40 archers readie to shoot which they of Caen had not seene before they were sore afraid and fled awaie toward the towne without any order or arraie for all that the constable could doo to staie them The Englishmen followed and in the chase slue manie and entered the towne with their enimies The constable and the earle of Tankeruile tooke a tower at the bridge foot thinking there to saue themselues but perceiuing the place to be of no force nor able long to hold out they submitted themselues vnto sir Thomas line 50 Holland ¶ But here whatsoeuer Froissard dooth report of the taking of this tower and of the yéelding of these two noble men it is to be proued that the said earle of Tankeruile was taken by one surnamed Legh ancestor to sir Peter Legh now liuing whether in the fight or within the tower I haue not to saie but for the taking of the said earle and for his other manlike prowes shewed here and elsewhere in this iournie king Edward in recompense of his agréeable line 60 seruice gaue to him a lordship in the countie of Chester called Hanley which the said sir Peter Legh now liuing dooth inioy and possesse as successor and heire to his ancestor the foresaid Legh to whom it was so first giuen But to returne now to the matter where we left The Frenchmen being entred into their houses cast downe vpon the Englishmen below in the stréets stones timber hot water and barres of iron so that they hurt and slue more than fiue hundred persons The king was so mooued therewith that if the lord Godfrie of Harecourt had not asswaged his mood the towne had béene burnt and the people put to the edge of the sword but by the treatie of the said lord Godfrie proclamation wâ—s made that no man should put fire into any house nor â—lea any person nor force any woman and then did the townesmen and souldiers submit themselues and receiued the Englishmen into their houses There was great â—tore of riches gotten in this towne and the most part thereof sent into England with the fléet which the king sent home with the prisoners vnder the guiding of the earle of Huntington accompanied with two hundred men of armes and foure hundred archers When all things were ordred in Caen as the king could desire he marched from thence in the same order as he had kept before burning and exiling the countrie He passed by Eureux came to Louiers which the Englishmen soone entred and sacked without mercie Then went they foorth and left Roan and came to Gisors the towne they burnt but the castell they could not get they burnt also Uernon and at Poissie they repared the bridge which was broken and so there they passed ouer the riuer of Saine The power of the Englishmen increased dailie by such numbers as came ouer foorth of England in hope to win by pillage Also manie gentlemen of Normandie and other of the French nation which loued not nor owght any good will vnto the French king came to the king of England offering to serue him so that there were in his armie foure thousand horssemen and fiftie thousand footmen with the Normans and of this number there were thirtie thousand English arthers as Giouan Villani writeth The English marshals ran abroad iust to Paris and burnt S. Germans in Laie also Mountioy and S. Clowd and petie Bullongne by Paris the queenes Burge In the meane time had the French king assembled a mightie armie vpon purpose to fight with the Englishmen ¶ The lord Godfrey of Harecourt as he rode foorth with fiue hundred men of armes and 13 hundred archers by aduenture incountered with a great number of the burgesses of Amiens on horssebacke who were riding by the kings commandement to Paris They were quickelie assailed and though they defended themselues manfullie for a while yet at length they were ouercome and eleuen hundred of them slaine in the field beside those that were taken The Englishmen had all their cariage and armour Thus passed foorth the king of England and came into Beauuoisin and lodged neere vnto the citie of Beauuois one night in an abbeie called Messene and for that after he was dislodged there were that set fire in the same abbeie without any commandement giuen by him he caused twentie of them to be hanged that were the first procurers of that fire So long the king of England passed forward that finallie he approched neere to the water of Some the which was large and deepe and all the bridges broken and the passages well kept wherevpon he caused his two marshals with a thousand men of armes two thousand archers to go along the riuer to the end to find some passage The marshals assaied diuerse places as at Piqueney and other where but they could not find any passage vnclosed capteins with men of warre being set to defend the same in somuch that the marshals returned to the king and declared what they had seene and found At the same instant time was the French king come to Amiens with more than a hundred thousand men and thought to inclose the king of England that he should no waie escape but be constreined to receiue battell in some place greatlie to his disaduantage The king of England well perceiuing himselfe in danger remoued from the place where he was incamped and marched forward through the countries of Pontiew and Uimew approching vnto the good towne of Abuile and at length by one of the prisoners named Gobin de Grace he was told where he might passe with his armie ouer the riuer of Some at a 〈◊〉 in the same riuer being hard in the bottome and verie shallow at an eb water The French king vnderstanding that the K. of England sought to passe the riuer of Some sent a great baron of Normandie one sir Godmare du Foy to defend the passage of the same riuer with a thousand men of armes and six thousand on foot with the Genowaies line 10 This sir Godmare had with him also a great number of them of Muxterell and others of the countrie so that he had in all to the number of twelue thousand men one and other and hearing that the king of England was minded to passe at Blanchetake which was the passage that Gobin Agace had informed the king of England of he came thither When the Englishmen approched he arranged all his companie to defend the passage line 20 And suerlie when the Englishmen at the lowe water entered the foord to passe ouer there was a sharpe bickering for diuerse of the Frenchmen incountred the Englishmen on horssebacke in the water and the Genowaies did them much
but the archers of England sore galled the Scots so that there was an hard battell They began at nine of the clocke and continued still in fight till noone The Scots had sharpe and heauie axes gaue with the same great and mightie strokes howbeit finallie the Englishmen by the helpe of God obteined the victorie although they lost manie of their men There were diuerse line 10 of the nobles of Scotland slaine to the number of seuen earles beside lords The king was taken in the field sore wounded for he fought valiantlie He was prisoner to an esquier of Northumberland who as soone as he had taken him rode out of the field with him accompanied onelie with eight of his seruants and rested not till he came to his owne castell where he dwelled being thirtie miles distant from the place of the battell There was taken also beside him the earles of line 20 Fife Sutherland Wighton and Menteth the lord William Douglas the lord Uescie the archbishop of S. Andrewes and another bishop with sir Thomelin Foukes and diuerse other men of name There were slaine of one and other to the number of 15 thousand This battell was fought beside the citie of Durham at a place called Neuils crosse vpon a saturdaie next after the feast of saint Michaell in the yeare of our Lord 1346. Of this ouerthrow Christopher Okland hath verie commendablie written saieng line 30 haud omine dextro Iam Scotus intulerat vim Dunelmensibus agris Cùm formidandum saeuus bellum instruit Anglus Aggreditúrque hostem violantem foedera sacra Nominis incerti Scoticae plebs obuia gentis Sternitur tristi gladio cadit impia turba Frustrà obluctantur Scotiae comitésque ducésque Quorum pars iacet occumbens pars caetera capta Captiuum corpus dedit vincentibus auro Et pacto pretio redimendum bellicus vtmos line 40 Postulat At Dauid Scotiae rex captus ad vrbem Londinum fidei pendens dignissima fractae Supplicia adductus celebri concluditur arce Exiguus numerus volucri pede fisus equorum Effugit in patriam testis certissimus Anglos Deuicissesuos tristia funera narrant ¶ He that will sée more of this battell may find the same also set foorth in the Scotish historie as their writers haue written thereof And for somuch as by the circumstances of their writings it should séeme line 50 they kept the remembrance of the same battell perfectlie registred we haue in this place onelie shewed what other writers haue recorded of that matter and left that which the Scotish chronicles write to be seene in the life of king Dauid without much abridging therof The Englishmen after this victorie thus obteined tooke the castels of Roxburgh and Hermitage and also without any resistance subdued the countries of Anandale Galloway Mers Tiuidale and Ethrike forrest extending their marches line 60 foorth at that time vnto Cokburnes Peth and Sowtray hedge and after vnto Trarlinlips and crosse Caue The queene of England being certeinelie informed that the king of Scots was taken that Iohn Copland had conueied him out of the field no man vnderstood to what place she incontinentlie wrote to him commanding him foorthwith to bring his prisoner king Dauid vnto hir presence but Iohn Copland wrote to hir againe for a determinate answer that he would not deliuer his prisoner the said king Dauid vnto any person liuing man or woman except onelie to the king of England his souereigne lord and master Herevpon the quéene wrote letters to the king signifieng to him both of the happie victorie chanced to his people against the Scots and also of the demeanor of Iohn Copland in deteining the Scotish king King Edward immediatlie by letters commanded Iohn Copland to repaire vnto him where he laie at siege before Calis which with all conuenient spéed he did and there so excused himselfe of that which the queene had found hirselfe greeued with him for deteining the king of Scots from hir that the king did not onelie pardon him but also gaue to him fiue hundred pounds sterling of yearelie rent to him to his heires for euer in reward of his good seruice and valiant prowes and made him esquire for his bodie commanding him yet vpon his returne into England to deliuer king Dauid vnto the queene which he did and so excused himselfe also vnto hir that she was therewith satisfied and contented Then the quéene after she had taken order for the safe kéeping of the king of Scots and good gouernement of the realme tooke the sea and sailed ouer to the king hir husband still lieng before Calis Whilest Calis was thus besieged by the king of England the Flemings which had latelie before besieged Betwine and had raised from thence about the same time that the battell was fought at Cressie now assemble togither againe and dooing what damage they might against the Frenchmen on the borders they laie siege vnto the towne of Aire Moreouer they wrought so for the king of England earnestlie requiring their fréendship in that behalfe that their souereigne lord Lewes earle of Flanders being as then about fifteene yeares of age fianced the ladie Isabell daughter to the king of England more by constraint indeed of his subiects than for any good will he bare to the king of England for he would often saie and openlie protest that he would neuer marrie hir whose father had slaine his but there was no remedie for the Flemings kept him in maner as a prisoner till he granted to follow their aduise But the same weeke that the mariage was appointed to be solemnized the earle as he was abroad in hawking at the hearon stale awaie and fled into France not staieng to ride his horsse vpon the spurs till he came into Arthois and so dishonorablie disappointed both the king of England and his owne naturall subiects the Flemings to their high displeasure While the king laie thus before Calis diuerse lords and knights came to sée him out of Flanders Brabant Heinault and Almaigne Amongst other came the lord Robert of Namur and was reteined with the king as his seruant the king giuing him thrée hundred pounds sterling of yearelie pension out of his coffers to be paid at Bruges During the time that the siege thus continued before Calis the lord Charles de Blois that named himselfe duke of Britaine was taken before a castell in Britaine called la Roch Darien and his armie discomfited chéeflie by the aid of that valiant English knight sir Thomas Dagworth who had beene sent from the siege of Calis by king Edward to assist the countesse of Montfort and other his fréends against the said Charles de Blois that with a gret armie of Frenchmen and Britains had the same time besieged the said castell of Roch Darien cōstreining them within in such forceable maner that they stood in great néed of
and Burbone the lord Lewes de Sauoie and the lord Iohn de Heinault otherwise called lord Beaumont on the French part and the earles of Derbie and Northampton the lord Reginald Cobham and the lord Walter de Mannie on the English part These commissioners and the legates as intreators betwéene the parties met and communed three daies togither but agréed not vpon anie conclusion and so the cardinals departed and the French king perceiuing he could not haue his purpose brake vp his host and returned to France bidding Calis farewell After that the French king with his host was once departed from Sangate without ministring anie succour to them within the towne they began to sue for a parlée which being granted in the end they were contented to yéeld and the king granted to receiue them and the towne on these conditions that six of the cheefe burgesses of the towne should come foorth bareheaded barefooted and barelegged and in their shirts with halters about their necks with the keies of the towne and castell in their hands to submit themselues simplie to the kings will and the residue he was contented to take to mercie This determinate resolution of king Edward being intimated to the commons of the towne assembled in the market place by the sound of the common bell before the capteine caused manie a wéeping eie amongst them but in the end when it was perceiued that no other grace would be obteined six of the most wealthie burgesses of all the towne agreed to hazard their liues for the safegard of the residue and line 10 so according to the prescript order deuised by the K. they went foorth of the gates and were presented by the lord Walter de Mannie to the king before whom they knéeled downe offered to him the keies of the towne and besought him to haue mercie vpon them But the king regarding them with a fell countenance commanded streight that their heads should be striken off And although manie of the noble men did make great intreatance for them yet would no grace be shewed vntill the quéene being great with line 20 child came and knéeled downe before the king hir husband and with lamentable cheere wéeping eies intreated so much for them that finallie the kings anger was aswaged his rigor turned to mercie for Flectitur iratus voâ—erogante Deus so that he gaue the prisoners vnto hir to doo hir pleasure with them Then the quéene commanded them to be brought into hir chamber and caused the halters to be taken from their necks clothed them anew gaue them their dinner and bestowing vpon ech of line 30 them six nobles appointed them to be conueied out of the host in safegard and set at libertie Thus was the strong towne of Calis yéelded vp into the hands of king Edward the third of August in the yeare 1347. The capteine the lord Iohn de Uienne and all the other capteins and men of name were staied as prisoners and the common soldiers and other meane people of the towne were licenced to depart and void their houses leauing all their armor and riches behind them The king would not line 40 haue any of the old inhabitants to remaine in the towne saue onlie a priest and two other ancient personages such as best knew the customes lawes and ordinances of the towne He appointed to send ouer thither amongst other Englishmen there to inhabit 36 burgesses of London and those of the wealthiest sort for he meant to people the towne onelie with Englishmen for the better and more sure defense thereof The king and quéene were lodged in the castell and continued there till the queene was deliuered line 50 of a daughter named Margaret The cardinals of whome ye heard before being come as legats from pope Clement to mooue communication of peace did so much in the matter that a truce was granted betwixt the realme of England France for the terme of twelue moneths or two yeares as Froissard saith But the English chronicle and Iacobus Meir seeme to agree that this truce was taken but for nine moneths though afterwards line 60 the same was proroged To the which truce all parties agreed Britaine excepted for the two women there would not be quieted but still pursued the war the one against the other After that this truce was accorded the king with the quéene his wife returned into England and left as capteine within Calis one sir Amerie of Pauie an Italian knight or as other bookes haue he was but capteine of the castell or of some one of the towers of that towne which séemeth more like to be true than that the king should commit the whole charge of the towne vnto his gouernement being a stranger borne and therefore Iacobus Meir is the more to be credited that writeth how sir Amerie of Pauie was left but in charge with the castell onelie and that the towne was committed to the kéeping of the lord Iohn Beauchampe and Lewes his brother But now that there was a peace thus concluded betwixt the two kings it seemed to the English people that the sunne brake foorth after a long cloudie season by reason both of the great plentie of althings and remembrance of the late glorious victories for there were few women that were housekéepers within this land but they had some furniture of houshold that had béene brought to them out of France as part of the spoile got in Caen Calis Carenien or some other good towne And beside houshold stuffe the English maides and matrones were bedecked and trimmed vp in French womens iewels and apparell so that as the French women lamented for the losse of those things so our women reioised of the gaine In this 22 yeare from Midsummer to Christmasse for the more part it continuallie rained so that there was not one day and night drie togither by reason whereof great flouds insued and the ground therewith was sore corrupted and manie inconueniences insued as great sickenes and other in somuch that in the yeare following in France the people died woonderfullie in diuerse places In Italie also and in manie other countries as well in the lands of the infidels as in christendome this grieuous mortalitie reigned to the great destruction of people ¶ About the end of August the like death began in diuerse places of England and especiallie in London continuing so for the space of twelue moneths following And vpon that insued great barrennesse as well of the sea as the land neither of them yéelding such plentie of things as before they had doone Whervpon vittels and corne became scant and hard to come by About the same time died Iohn Stretford archbishop of Canturburie after whome succéeded Iohn Ufford who liued not in that dignitie past ten moneths and then followed Thomas Bredwardin who deceassed within one yeare after his consecration so that then Simon Islep
neuerthelesse the lords and chancellor of France argued to the contrarie and so agrée they could not insomuch as the Frenchmen required that if the Englishmen meant to haue anie conclusion of peace they should draw to some neerer points At length the foure dukes tooke order that all their demands on either side should be set downe in writing and deliuered to either partie interchangeablie that they might be regarded at length and such as should be found vnreasonable to be raced or reformed After they had communed togither diuerse times and remained there fiftéene daies they appointed to aduertise the two kings of their whole dooings and after nine daies space to meet againe The French dukes rode to Abbeuile where the French king then laie and the English dukes returning to Calis wrote to the king of England of all the whole matter The duke of Glocester was harder to deale with in each behalfe concerning the conclusion of peace than was the duke of Lancaster for he rather desired to haue had warre than any peace except such a one as should be greatlie to the aduantage and honour of the realme of England and therefore the commons of England vnderstanding his disposition agreed that he should be sent rather than anie other For where in times past the Englishmen had greatlie gamed by the warres of France as well the commons as the knights and esquires who had by the same mainteined their estate they could not giue their willing consents to haue anie peace at all with the Frenchmen in hope by reason of the wars to profit themselues as in times past they had doone The French king nobles of France were greatlie inclined to peace and so likewise was the king of England the duke of Lancaster But the Frenchmen were so subtill and vsed so manie darke and coloured words that the Englishmen had much a doo to vnderstand them which offended much the duke of Glocester But neuerthelesse at the daie prefixed these foure dukes met againe at Balingham and with the French lords came the king of Armenie newlie returned into France foorth of Grecia for into his owne countrie he durst not come the Turkes hauing conquered it the strong towne of Conich which the Genowaies held excepted The king of Armenie would gladlie that peace might haue béene established betwixt France and England in hope to procure the sooner some aid of the kings to recouer his kingdome But to conclude after that the dukes and other with them associat as assistants had diligentlie perused and examined the articles of their treatie they would not passe nor seale to anie till all darke and obscure words were cléerelie declared opened and made perfect so that no generall peace might be concluded Notwithstanding as Froissard saith a truce for foure yeares space vpon certeine articles was agreed to be kept as well by sea as by land It was thought that when they were at point to haue growne to agreement concerning manie articles if the French king had not newlie fallen into his former disease of frensie there had better effect followed of this treatie but by occasion of his sicknesse each man departed before that anie principall articles could be fullie ordered and made perfect The same time sir Thomas Persie the yoonger was made lord warden of Burdeaux and Aquitaine In Sepermber much hurt was doone thorough excéeding great thunder lightening and tempests which chanced in manie parts of England but speciallie in Cambridgeshire where manie houses were burned with no small quantitie of corne Great inundations and flouds of water followed shortlie after in October which did much hurt at Burie and Newmarket in Suffolke where it ouerthrew wals of houses and put men and women in great danger of drowning In Essex also in September great mortalitie fell by pestilence amongst the people whereof manie died ¶ The towne of Chierburg was restored againe to the king of Nauarre who had ingaged it to the king of England for two thousand markes year 1394 ¶ A parlement was holden at Westminster which began in the octaues of saint Hilarie ¶ The king purposing to go ouer into Ireland required a subsidie the cleargie granted to him a whole tenth toward the furnishing foorth of that iournie if he went himselfe if he went not yet they agréed to giue to him the moitie of a tenth In time of this parlement there appeared great euill will to remaine betwixt the duke of Lancaster and the earle of Arundell for the duke imposed to the earle that about the Exaltation of the crosse he laie with a companie of armed men in the castell of Holt by Chester the same time that the countrie there rose against the duke with their capteine Nicholas Cliffon and his complices whome he ment as the duke alledged to line 10 haue aided against him but this the earle flatlie denied and with probable reasons so excused himselfe as the quarrell at length was taken vp and the parties for the time well quieted This yeare on Whitsundaie being the seauenth of Iune quéene Anne departed this life to the great greefe of hir husband king Richard who loued hir intirelie She deceassed at Shene and was buried at Westminster vpon the south side of saint Edwards shrine The king tooke such a conceit with the house of line 20 Shene where she departed this life that he caused the buildings to be throwne downe and defaced whereas the former kings of this land being wearie of the citie vsed customablie thither to resort as to a place of pleasure and seruing highlie to their recreation Thus the king the duke of Lancaster and his sonne the earle of Derbie were widowers all in one season for the ladie Constance duchesse of Lancaster daughter to Peter king of Spaine deceassed the last yeare whilest hir husband the duke of Lancaster line 30 was at the treatie in France at the same time also deceassed the countesse of Derbie wife to the lord Henrie earle of Derbie ¶ Moreouer in this yeare 1394 Isabell duchesse of Yorke departed this life that was halfe sister to the duchesse of Lancaster being borne of one mother She was buried at Langleie This yeare in August was a proclamation set foorth that all Irishmen should auoid this land and returne home into their owne countrie before the line 40 feast of the Natiuitie of our ladie on paine of death The occasion of which proclamation was for that such multitudes of Irishmen were come ouer into this region in hope of gaine that the countries in Ireland subiect to England were in manner left void of people so that the enimies spoiled and wasted those countries at their pleasure finding few or none to withstand them And where king Edward the third had placed in Ireland his bench and iudges with his excheker for the good administration of iustice line 50 and politike gouernement to be vsed there he receiued from
and lord treasuror of England departed this life and by king Richard his appointment had the honor to haue his bodie interred at Westminster amongst the kings After line 40 this decease Roger Walden that before was secretarie to the king and treasuror of Calis was now made lord treasuror Yée haue heard that in the yeare 1392 Robert Uéer duke of Ireland departed this life in Louaine in Brabant King Richard therefore this yeare in Nouember caused his corps being imbalmed to be conueied into England and so to the priorie of Colnie in Essex appointing him to be laid in a coffine of cypresse and to be adorned with princelie garments line 50 hauing a chaine of gold about his necke and rich rings on his fingers And to shew what loue and affection he bare vnto him in his life time the king caused the coffine to be opened that he might behold his face bared and touch him with his hands he honored his funerall exequies with his presence accompanied with the countesse of Oxenford mother to the said duke the archbishop of Canturburie and manie other bishops abbats and priors but of noble line 60 men there were verie few for they had not yet digested the enuie and hatred which they had conceiued against him In this meane while the duke of Lancaster was in Gascoigne treating with the lords of the countrie and the inhabitants of the good townes which vtterlie refused to receiue him otherwise than as a lieutenant or substitute to the king of England and in the end addressed messengers into England to signifie to the king that they had beene accustomed to be gouerned by kings and meant not now to become subiects to anie other contrarie to all reason sith the king could not sauing his oth alien them from the crowne The duke of Lancaster vsed all waies he might deuise how to win their good wils and had sent also certeine of his trustie councellors ouer hither into England as sir William Perreer sir Peter Clifton and two clearkes learned in the lawe the one called maister Iohn Huech and the other maister Iohn Richards a canon of Leicester to plead and sollicit his cause But to be breefe such reasons were shewed and such matter vnfolded by the Gascoignes whie they ought not be separated from the crowne of England that finallie notwithstanding the duke of Glocester and certeine other were against them it was decréed that the countrie and duchie of Aquitaine should remaine still in demesne of the crowne of England least that by this transporting thereof it might fortune in time that the heritage thereof should fall into the hands of some stranger and enimie to the English nation so that then the homage and souereigntie might perhaps be lost for euer Indeed the duke of Glocester being a prince of an high mind loth to haue the duke of Lancaster at home being so highlie in the kings fauor could haue béene well pleased that he should haue enioied his gift for that he thought thereby to haue borne all the rule about the king for the duke of Yorke was a man rather coueting to liue in pleasure than to deale with much businesse and the weightie affaires of the realme About the same time or somewhat before the king sent an ambassage to the French king the archbishop of Dublin the earle of Rutland the earle Marshall the lord Beaumont the lord Spenser the lord Clifford named Lewes and twentie knights with fortie esquiers The cause of their going ouer was to intreat of a marriage to be had betwixt him and the ladie Isabell daughter to the French king she being as then not past eight yeares of age which before had beene promised vnto the duke of Britaines sonne but in consideration of the great benefit that was likelie to insue by this communication and aliance with England there was a meane found to vndoo that knot though not presentlie These English lords at their comming to Paris were ioifullie receiued and so courteouslie interteined banketted feasted and cherished and that in most honorable sort as nothing could be more all their charges and expenses were borne by the French king and when they should depart they receiued for answer of their message verie comfortable words and so with hope to haue their matter sped they returned But now when the duke of Lancaster had by laieng foorth an inestimable masse of treasure purchased in a manner the good wils of them of Aquitaine and compassed his whole desire he was suddenlie countermanded home by the king and so to satisfie the kings pleasure he returned into England and comming to the king at Langleie where he held his Christmasse was receiued with more honor than loue as was thought wherevpon he rode in all hast that might be to Lincolne where Katharine Swinford as then laie whom shortlie after the Epiphanie year 1396 he tooke to wife This woman was borne in Heinault daughter to a knight of that countrie called sir Paou de Ruet she was brought vp in hir youth in the duke of Lancasters house and attended on his first wife the duchesse Blanch of Lancaster and in the daies of his second wife the duchesse Constance he kept the foresaid Katharine as his concubine who afterwards was married to a knight of England named Swinford that was now deceassed Before she was married the duke had by hir three children two sonnes and a daughter one of the sons was named Thomas de Beaufort the other Henrie who was brought vp at Aken in Almaine prooued a good lawyer and was after bishop of Winchester For the loue that the duke had to these his children he married their mother the said Katharine Swinford being now a widow whereof men maruelled much considering hir meane estate was farre vnmeet to match with his highnesse and nothing comparable in honor to his other two former wiues And indeed the great ladies of England as the duches of Glocester the countesses of Derbie Arundell and others descended of the blood roiall greatlie disdeined line 10 that she should be matched with the duke of of Lancaster and by that means be accompted second person in the realme and preferred in roome before them and therefore they said that they would not come in anie place where she should be present for it should be a shame to them that a woman of so base birth and concubine to the duke in his other wiues daies should go and haue place before them The duke of Glocester also being a man of an high mind and stout stomach misliked his brothers line 20 matching so meanlie but the duke of Yorke bare it well inough and verelie the ladie hir selfe was a woman of such bringing vp and honorable demeanor that enuie could not in the end but giue place to well deseruing About this season the doctrine of of Iohn Wickliffe still mightilie spred abroad héere in England ¶ The schisme also still continued
and sixtéene too without hearing any word of the gouernors comming Then the winter beginning to wax cold and foule weather still increasing caused the king to breake vp his siege and so returned without battell or skirmish offered In the meane time that the king was thus in Scotland the Scots made a rode into Northumberland and burned diuerse townes in Bamburrough shire At the kings comming backe to Yorke there were two strangers the one a Frenchman and the other an Italian requiring to accomplish certeine feats of armes against sir Iohn Cornewall and Ianico de Artois Their request was granted and the strangers were put to the woorst whereby sir Iohn Cornewall obteined the kings fauour so farre foorth that he married the kings sister the widow of Iohn Holland earle of Huntington Yet some said that the knight and the countesse were agréed aforehand without the kings consent In the kings absence whilest he was foorth of the realme in Scotland against his enimies the Welshmen tooke occasion to rebell vnder the conduct of their capteine Owen Glendouer dooing what mischeefe they could deuise vnto their English neighbours This Owen Glendouer was sonne to an esquier of Wales named Griffith Uichan he dwelled in the parish of Conwaie within the countie of Merioneth in Northwales in a place called Glindourwie which is as much to saie in English as The vallie by the side of the water of Dée by occasion whereof he was surnamed Glindour Dew He was first set to studie the lawes of the realme and became an vtter barrester or an apprentise of the law as they terme him and serued king Richard at Flint castell when he was taken by Henrie duke of Lancaster though other haue written that he serued this king Henrie the fourth before he came to atteine the crowne in roome of an esquier and after by reason of variance that rose betwixt him and the lord Reginald Greie of Ruthin about the lands which he claimed to be his by right of inheritance when he saw that he might not preuaile finding no such fauor in his sute as he looked for he first made warre against the said lord Greie wasting his lands and possessions with fire and sword cruellie killing his seruants and tenants The king aduertised of such rebellious exploits enterprised by the said Owen and his vnrulie complices determined to chastise them as disturbers of his peace and so with an armie entered into Wales but the Welshmen with their line 10 capteine withdrew into the mounteines of Snowdon so to escape the reuenge which the king meant towards them The king therefore did much hurt in the countries with fire and sword sleing diuerse that with weapon in hand came foorth to resist him and so with a great bootie of beasts and cattell he returned The emperour of Constantinople comming into England to sue for aid against the Turkes was met by the king on Blackeheath vpon the feast day of saint Thomas the apostle and brought vnto London with great honor The king bare all his charges presenting line 20 him with gifts at his departure meet for such an estate year 1401 After the feast of the Epiphanie a parlement was holden in which an act was made against those that held opinions in religion contrarie to the receiued doctrine of the church of Rome ordeining that wheresoeuer any of them were found and prooued to set foorth such doctrine they should be apprehended and deliuered to the bishop their diocesane and if they stood stiffelie in their opinions and would not be reformed they should be deliuered to line 30 the secular power to be burnt to ashes The first that tasted the smart of this statute was one William Hawtrée or Sawtrée a priest that being apprehended was burnt in Smithfield in time of this parlement About the same time king Henrie according to promise made as ye haue heard vnto the French ambassadors sent ouer into the countrie of Guisnes Edward earle of Rutland otherwise in king Richards line 40 daies intituled duke of Aumarle son to Edmund duke of Yorke Henrie earle of Northumberland and his sonne the lord Henrie Persie the lord Yuan Fitzwarren the bishops of Winchester and Lincolne where the duke of Burbon the lords Charles d'Albert Charles de Hangest Iohn de Chastelmorant the Patriarke of Ierusalem and the bishops of Paris and Beauuois were readie there to commune with them and so they assembling togither at sundrie times and places the Frenchmen required line 50 to haue queene Isabell to them restored but the Englishmen séemed loth to depart with hir requiring to haue hir married to Henrie prince of Wales one in bloud and age in all things to hir equall but the Frenchmen would in no wise condescend thereto without their kings consent who at that present was not in case to vtter his mind being troubled with his woonted disease The commissioners then began to treat of peace and at length renewed the truce to endure for six and twentie yeares yet to come wherevnto the foure yeares passed being line 60 added made vp the number of thirtie yeares according to the conclusion agreed vpon in the life time of king Richard Some authors affirme that there was a new league concluded to continue during the liues of both the princes The Frenchmen diuerse times required to haue some dower assigned foorth for queene Isabell but that was at all times vtterlie denied for that the marriage betwixt hir and king Richard was neuer consummate by reason whereof she was not dowable Neuerthelesse she was shortlie after sent home vnder the conduct of the earle of Worcester associat with diuerse other noble and honorable personages both men and women hauing with hir all the iewels ornaments and plate which she brought into England with a great surplusage besides giuen to hir by the king She was deliuered betwixt Bullongne and Calis to Ualeran earle of saint Paule the French kings lieutenant in Picardie who being accompanied with the bishop of Chartres the lord de Hugueuile the ladie of Monpensier sister to the erle of March the ladie of Lucenburgh sister to the said earle of saint Paule diuerse other ladies and gentlewomen which receiued hir with great ioy and gladnesse and taking leaue of the English lords and ladies they conueied hir to the dukes of Burgognie and Burbon that attended for hir not far off vpon a hill with a great number of people They first conueied hir to Bullogne after to Abuile from whence the duke of Orleance conueied hir to Paris vnto the presence of the king hir father and the queene hir mother she was after giuen in marriage vnto Charles sonne to Lewes duke of Orleance About the same time Owen Glendouer and his Welshmen did much hurt to the kings subiects One night as the king was going to bed he was in danger to haue beene destroied for
of France aforesaid and also our confederats of the realme of England aforesaid shall in eight moneths from the time of this accord of peace as it is notified to them declare by their letters that they will draw to this accord and will be comprehended vnder the treaties and accord line 50 of this peace sauing neuerthelesse either of the same crownes and also all maner actions rights and reuenues that longen to our said father and his subiects and to vs and our subiects against all maner of such alies and confederats 30 Also neither our father neither our brother the duke of Burgognie shall begin ne make with Charles cleping himselfe the Dolphin of Uiennes any treatie or peace or accord but by councell and assent of all and ech of vs sorée or of other the three line 60 estates of either of the said realmes aboue named 31 Also that we with assent of our said brother of Burgognie and other of the nobles of the realme of France the which thereto owen to be called shall ordeine for the gouernance of our said father sâ—kerlie louinglie honestlie after the asking of his roiall estate and dignitie by the maner that shall be to the worship of God and of our father and of the realme of France 32 Also all maneâ— of persons that shall be about our father to doo him personall seruice not onelie in office but in all other seruices aswell the nobles and gentlenes as other shall be such as hath beene borne in the realme of France or in places longing to France good wise true and able to that foresaid seruice And our said father shall dwell in places notable of his obedience and no where else Wherefore we charge and command our said liege subiects and other being vnder our obedience that they keepe and doo to be kept in all that longeth to them this accord and peace after the forme and maner as it is accorded and that they attempt in no maner wise any thing that may be preiudiciall or contrarie to the same accord and peace vpon paine of life and lim and all that they may forfeit against vs. Yeuen at Troes the thirtith day of Maie 1420 proclamed in London the twentith day of Iune 33 Also that we for the things aforesaid and euerie one of them shall giue our assent by our letters patents sealed with our seale vnto our said father with all approbation and confirmation of vs and all other of our bloud roiall and all other of the cities and townes to vs obedient Sealed with our seales accustomed And further our said father besides his letters patents sealed with our great seale shall make or cause to be made letters approbatorie and confirmations of the peeres of his realme and of the lords citizens and burgesses of the same vnder his obedience All which articles we haue sworne to kéepe vpon the holie euangelists On the fourtéenth of Iune being fridaie there was a solemne procession at London and a sermon at Paules crosse in which the preacher openlie declared the effect of the kings mariage and the articles concluded vpon the same by reason wherof he said there must be a new great seale deuised and the old broken and in the new the kings name with a new addition of his title as regent of France and heire apparant of that kingdome was to be ingrauen Beside the league thus concluded by king Henrie with the French king and the whole bodie of the realme of France there was a priuat league accorded betwixt him and the duke of Burgognie the effect wherof was comprehended in articles as followeth First that the duke of Burgognie should procure this peace latelie before concluded to be obserued line 1 firme and stable in all couenants and points therof so far as he by any meanes might further the same in consideration whereof one of the brethren of king Henrie should take to wife one of the said duke of Burgognies sisters That king Henrie should euer line 2 haue in singular fauour the said duke of Burgognie as his most déere brother and support him in all his rights That the said duke after the deceasse of king line 3 Charles should take an oth of fealtie to be true to K. Henrie his heires according to the forme tenor therof before expressed should in all things be friend to king Henrie and his heires for euer That line 4 king Henrie should doo his vttermost indeuour that due punishment might be had for the murther of duke Iohn father to the said duke of Burgognie aswell vpon Charles that named himselfe Dolphin as vpon others that were guiltie and priuie to that murther If the said Dolphin chanced to be taken either in battell or towne besieged or if anie other chanced line 5 so to be taken that should be prooued guiltie or priuie to the murther of the said duke Iohn he should not be deliuered without iust punishment for his deeds nor without the consent of the two kings Charles and Henrie of the thrée estates of both the realmes In consideration of the great diligence and painfull trauell susteined by the duke of Burgognie it line 6 was also agreed that he should haue by patent granted of king Charles and queene Isabell a fée of twentie thousand pounds Parisien of yéerelie reuenues assigned foorth néere to the confines of his countrie to inioy the same to him and to his wife the duches Michaell and to the heires males betwixt them two lawfullie begotten to the obteining whereof king Henrie should shew all his furtherance if it might not be brought to passe till king Henrie had obteined the crowne of France then should he sée the same performed vpon the receiuing of his homage The king of England after all the articles of the said treaties and agréements were concluded passed line 10 and sworne vnto made to the French king the duke of Burgognie and other the French lords a sumptuous banket and before they departed from the same he sadlie and with great grauitie made to them a right pithie and sententious oration declaring to them both how profitable the ioining of the two kingdomes should be to the subiects of the same and also the right that he had thereto being by lineall descent of the womans side which is the furest rather a Frenchman than an Englishman And though he line 20 was an Englishman borne yet he assured them to tender the wealth of the realme of France as much as he would the aduancement of his owne natiue countrie of England Herewith he inueied against Charles the Dolphin being the head and onelie mainteiner of all the ciuill discord whose wicked nature and cruell disposition did well appeare in the murther of the late duke of Burgognie He therefore willed them according to their dutie oth and agréement to stand with him line 30 and helpe to reduce such a stubborne and disloiall sonne vnto the obeisance of his father
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 Prâ—signie There were also sent thither ambassadours from the empire from Spaine from Denmarke from Hungarie to be mediatourâ— 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 faâ—e as apparell to the vttermost Manie meetings were had and manie things mooued for a fiâ—all peâ—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
sanctuarie The other that were taken were condemned of the which sir Simon Montford Robert Ratcliffe and William Daubenie were beheaded Some had their pardons and the préests also for their order sake but yet few of them liued long after The lord Fitz-Water pardoned of life was conueied to Calis and there laid in hold after lost his head bicause he went about to corrupt his kéepers with rewards that he might escape intending as was thought to haue gone to Perkin Thus by the policie and subtile deuise of the king practised to the point by his espials the sinewes of this conspiracie was rent in sunder So that the malicious ladie Margaret was not a little swolne with indignation when she saw the course of hir deuise now that it had passed so far as that it was knowne to people on this side and beyond the seas stopped and the confederacie whereto she speciallie trusted dissolued Yet notwithstanding as women will not to die for it giue ouer an enterprise which of an enuious purpose line 10 they attempt so she put hir irons afresh into the fier to set hir hatred forward whome a while we will leaue at worke and shew some dooings betwéene England and Flanders King Henrie taking displeasure with the king of Romans for that he kept not touch in aiding him against the French king and partlie displeased with the Flemings but speciallie with the ladie Margaret for kéeping and setting forward Perkin Warbecke not onelie banished all Flemish wares and line 20 merchandizes out of his dominions but also restreined all English merchants from their repaire and traffike into anie of the lands and territories of the king of Romans or of the archduke Philip sonne to the same king of the Romans causing the mart to be kept at Calis of all English merchandizes and commodities Wherefore the said king and his sonne banished out of their lands and seigniories all English clothes yarne tin lead and other commodities of this realme The restreint made by the king sore hindered the merchants aduenturers for they had no occupieng line 30 to beare their charges and to support their credit withall And that most greeued them the Easterlings being at libertie brought to the realme such wares as they were woont so serued their customers throughout the realme Wherevpon there insued a riot by the seruants of the mercers haberdashers clothworkers in the citie of London the tuesdaie before saint Edwards day For they perceiuing what hinderance grew to their maisters in that they were not able so line 40 well to kéepe them as before they had doone assembled togither in purpose to reuenge their malice on the Esterlings so came to the Stilliard began to rifle spoile such chambers warehouses as they cold get into So that the Easterlings had much adoo to withstand them kéepe them back out of their gates which with helpe of carpenters smiths and other that came to them by water out of Southwarke they shored so fortified that the multitude of the seruants line 50 and prentises being assembled could not preuaile At length came the maior with a number of men defensiblie weaponed to remooue the force at whose approch those riotous persons fled awaie like a flocke of shéepe But diuerse of them were apprehended and vpon inquirie made before the kings commissioners aboue foure score seruants apprentises were found to be conspired togither and sworne not to reueale it of whome some of the chiefe beginners were committed to the Tower and there long continued But line 60 in conclusion bicause none of their maisters nor anie one housholder was found culpable the king of his clemencie pardoned their offense and restored them to libertie For he thought it no credit to his crowne to take vengeance of such sillie soules by seueritie of death whom in clemencie pardoning he might restore to a reformed life ¶ On the two twentith of Februarie in this yéere were arreigned in the Guildhall of London foure persons Thomas Bagnall Iohn Scot Iohn Heath and Iohn Kenington the which were sanctuarie men of saint Martins le grand in London and latelie before were taken out of the said sanctuarie for forging of seditious bils to the flander of the king some of his councell for the which thrée of them were iudged to die and the fourth named Bagnall pleaded to be restored to sanctuarie by reason whereof he was repriued to the Tower till the next tearme and on the six and twentith of Februarie the other three with a Fleming and a yeoman of the crowne were all fiue executed at Tiborne ¶ On the eight and twentith of Aprill Ione Boughton widow was burnt in Smithfield for holding certeine opinions of Iohn Wickliffe Wheat was sold at London at six pence the bushell baie salt for thrée pence halfe penie the bushell Nantwich salt was sold for six pence the bushell white herings nine shillings the barrell red herings at thrée shillings the cade red sprots six pence the cade Gascoigne wine for six pounds the tim Shortlie after sir Robert Clifford partlie trusting on the kings promise and partlie mistrusting the desperat begun enterprise returned suddenlie againe into England The king certified before of his comming went streight to the Tower of London the morow after the day of Epiphanie there taried till such time as sir Robert Clifford was there presented to his person This was doone for a policie that if sir Robert accused anie of the nobilitie they might be called thither without suspicion of anie euill and their attached and laid fast Some thought also that for a policie king Henrie sent sir Robert Clifford ouer as an espie or else he would not so soone haue receiued him into fauour againe Neuerthelesse there were great presumptions that it was nothing so for both was he in great danger after his begun attempt and neuer was so much estéemed with the king afterward as he was before But this is true vpon his comming to the kings presence he besought him of pardon and obteined it and therewith opened all the maner of the conspiracie so far as he knew and who were aiders fautors and chiefe beginners of it amongst whome he accused sir William Stanleie whome the king had made his chiefe chamberleine and one of his priuie councell The king was sorie to heare this and could not be induced to beleeue that there was so much vntruth in him till by euident proofes it was tried against him Then the king caused him to be restreined from his libertie in his owne chamber within the quadrat tower and there appointed him by his priuie councell to be examined in which examination he nothing denied but wiselie and sagelie agréed to all things laid to his charge if he were faultie therein The report is that this was his offense When communication was had betwixt him and the aboue mentioned sir Robert
continued till the fourteenth of March next line 30 insuing In the meane time the proceedings for the Scotish wars was not forgotten whervpon in the deepe of the winter there were conueied certeine bands of the English lancequenets and some number of Englishmen both horssemen and footmen by sea vnto Bronghticrag and passing from thence vnto Dundée a two miles from thence entred the towne and began to fortifie it but shortlie after by the comming of the French armie with monsieur de Desse line 40 they left it first spoiling the houses and after set them on fire at their departure The Reinsgraue coronell of the Almans and monsieur de Etauges being sent by monsieur de Desse before entered Dundee and lodged within it Within two daies after their comming thither they tooke certeine of their bands and going foorth did view and surueie the new fort which the Englishmen had begun to make on the hill a small distance from the castell But the Englishmen and their Almans issuing foorth against line 50 them were at their elbowes yer they were halfe well aduised that they were got so neare them whereby being driuen hastilie to retire they hardlie escaped out of danger being so hotlie pursued that if the Reinsgraue had not shewed his approoued valiancie guided with no lesse policie than manhood the whole troope had béene as was thought vtterlie distressed In Christmasse this yéere the castell of Hume was recouered out of the Englishmens hands through line 60 treson of certeine assured Scots that vsing to bring vittels of the Englishmen that kept it had marked all the manner of the scouts and watches with the places of the wall where the clime was most easie Whervpon in the night season certeine of the Scots secretlie comming into the ditches got vp to the heigth of the wals and entring the place slue and tooke vpon the sudden all that were within it The sixtéenth of Ianuarie sir Thomas Seimer baron of Sudleie year 1549 lord admerall and brother to the duke of Summerset lord protector was arrested and sent to the tower and after by authoritie of parlement he was attainted and the twentith of March next insuing in the third yeare of this kings reigne be headed at tower hill Moreouer in this parlement the vse of the masse was clearlie prohibited and a booke for the vniformitie of diuine seruice and right administration of the sacraments was set foorth and established Yee haue heard how the Frenchmen fortified the towne of Dundee where monsieur de Etauges with his companie of horssemen lieng in garrison chanced in a skirmish to be taken by the Englishmen that laie in Broughticrag to the great reioising of them that tooke him and no lesse gréefe of the French and Scots for the tried valiancie that was throughlie knowne to rest in him Moreouer the Englishmen that kept the towne of Hadington all this while against the enimies could not come by anie vittels but onelie by a conuoie of some conuenient power to gard the cariages that brought the same from the borders And as it fortuned at one time when the conuoie came and passed by Dunbar a skirmish was proffered by the French which laie within that castell in garrison And as sir Iames Wilford that was there amongst other vpon this occasion according to his woonted valiancie shewed himselfe verie forward and egre against the enimie he was inclosed by an ambush which the Frenchmen had laid on ech side the stréete within the towne that he could by no means escape out of their hands but hauing his horsse there slaine vnder him was taken prisoner euen by a Gascoigne of the countrie of Basque named Pellieque that woone no small commendation for that his good hap in taking such a prisoner whose name for his often approoued prowesse was verie famous euen among the enimies who saw well inough a resolutenesse in the man rather by perillous aduentures to purchase the perpetuitie of renowme than by defect of courage or negligent seruice to loose both life and same Which persuasion should enter into the hart of euerie seruitor in the field if they will be counted right valiant indeed considering that he which in his life time dooth performe nothing worthie memorie is like a plaier entring vpon the stage but shewing nothing either in spéech or in action as the poet verie fitlie saith Qui nullum facinus tota memorabile vita Ediderint obscuri homines migrare videntur Hinc vt qui structa nil dixerit histrio scena Some haue written that he was taken through default of those that were appointed to follow him sith he vndertooke to charge the enimie in hope that by them he should haue beene assisted But suerlie those that had the charge of this conuoie doubting by aduenturing too far to put all in hazard thought it wisedome rather to suffer the losse of one than to ieopard the whole not perceiuing which waie to remedie the matter at that present Now after that the generall of Hadington was thus taken prisoner to the great griefe vndoubtedlie not onelie of all the garrison there but also of all such as tendered the aduancement of the kings maiesties seruice sir Iames Crofts was thought a man most méet to supplie the place and therefore by the lord protector and others of the councell was ordeined generall of that towne of Hadington and the garrison there in which roome he bare himselfe so worthilie as if I should not be suspected of flatterie for that he liueth yet and in such credit as the world knoweth I might mooue my selfe matter to saie rather much than sufficientlie inough in his due and right deserued commendation The king by the aduise of his councell meaning to prosecute the wars in Scotland with great forces reteined a new power of lancequenets and other strangers vnder the conduct of diuers sundrie capteines but in the meane time the French king meaning to breake with the king of England thought to haue stolen the fortresse of Bullognberg so that a chosen power of men of warre to the number of seuen thousand vnder the conduct of monsieur de Chatillon being sent downe about that exploit on Maie daie at night came forward with their ladders and all other furniture méet for the purpose approching about the houre of midnight néere to the fort within the which were not at that time manie aboue thrée hundred and fiftie soldiers vnder the gouernement of sir Nicholas Arnalt knight generall of that line 10 péece a capteine of great courage and no lesse diligence in his charge And as it chanced there were among the Frenchmen thrée or foure Englishmen which hauing matched themselues in marriage with women of that countrie after the peace was concluded betwixt France and England were discharged out of the king of Englands wages and remaining with their wiues got interteinement among the Frenchmen line 20 and were with monsieur de
of his spouse the church continued no longer till she had vtterlie rooted out of the land this hereticall generation Yea how chanced it rather that almightie God to spare these poore heretikes rooted out quéene Marie so soone from hir throne after she had reigned but onelie fiue yeares line 40 and fiue moneths Now furthermore how God blessed hir waies and indeuors in the meane time while she thus persecuted the true seruants of God remaineth to be discussed Where first this is to be noted that when she first began to stand for the title of the crowne and yet had wrought no resistance against Christ and his gospell but had promised hir faith to the Suffolke men to mainteine the religion left by king Edward hir brother so long God went with hir aduanced hir and line 50 by the means of the gospellers brought hir to the possession of the realme But after that she breaking hir promise with God and man began to take part with Stephan Gardiner and had giuen ouer hir supremasie vnto the pope by and by Gods blessing leâ—t hir neither did anie thing well thriue with hir afterward during the whole time of hir regiment For first incontinentlie the fairest and greatest ship she had called great Harrie was burned such a vessell as in all these parts of all Europe was not to be line 60 matched Then would she needs bring in king Philip and by hir strange marriage with him make the whole realme of England subiect vnto a stranger And all that notwithstanding either that she did or was able to doo she could not bring to passe to set the crowne of England vpon his head With king Philip also came in the pope and his popish masse with whome also hir purpose was to restore againe the monks and nunnes vnto their places neither lacked there all kind of attempts to the vttermost of hir abilitie and yet therein also God stopt hir of hir will that it came not forward After this what a dearth happened in hir time here in hir land the like wherof hath not lightlie in England béene seene in so much that in sundrie places hir poore subiects were fame to féed of acorns for want of corne Furthermore where other kings are woont to be renowmed by some worthie victorie and prowesse by them atchiued let vs now sée what valiant victorie was gotten in quéene Maries daies King Edward the sixt hir blessed brother how manie rebellions did he suppresse in Deuonshire in Norffolke in Oxfordshire and else where What a famous victorie in his time was gotten in Scotland by the singular working no doubt of Gods blessed hand rather than by anie expectation of man King Edward the third which was the eleuenth king from the conquest by princelie puissance purchased Calis vnto England which hath béene kept English euer since till at length came queene Marie the eleuenth likewise from the said king Edward which lost Calis from England againe so that the winnings of this quéene were verie small what the losses were let other men iudge Hitherto the affaires of quéene Marie haue had no great good successe as you haue heard But neuer worsse successe had anie woman than had she in hir childbirth For séeing one of these two must néeds be granted that either she was with child or not with child if she were with child and did trauell why was it not séene if she were not how was all the realme deluded And in the meane while where were all the praiers the solemne processions the deuout masses of the catholike cleargie Why did they not preuaile with God if their religion were so godlie as they pretended If their masses Ex opere operato be able to fetch Christ from heauen to reach downe to purgatorie how chanced then they could not reach to the quéens chamber to helpe hir in hir trauell if she had béene with child in déed If not how then came it to passe that all the catholike church of England did so erre and was so déepelie deceiued Quéene Marie after these manifold plagues and corrections which might sufficientlie admonish hir of Gods disfauor prouoked against hir would not yet ceasse hir persecution but still continued more more to reuenge hir catholike zeale vpon the lords faithfull people setting fire to their poore bodies by dozens halfe dozens togither Wherevpon Gods wrathfull indignation increasing more and more against hir ceassed not to touch hir more neare with priuat misfortunes and calamities For after that he had taken from hir the fruit of children which chieflie and aboue all things she desired then he beerest hir of that which of all earthlie things should haue beene hir chiefe staie of honour and staffe of comfort that is withdrew from hir the affection and companie euen of hir owne husband by whose mariage she had promised before to hirselfe whole heapes of such ioy and felicitie But now the omnipotent gouernour of all things so turned the whéele of hir owne spinning against hir that hir high buildings of such ioies and felicities came all to a castell come downe hir hopes being confounded hir purposes disappointed and she now brought to desolation who seemed neither to haue the fauour of God nor the hearts of hir subiects nor yet the loue of hir husband who neither had fruit by him while shee had him neither could now inioy him whome she had maried neither yet was in libertie to marrie anie other whome she might inioy Marke here christian reader the wofull aduersitie of this queene learne withall what the Lord can doo when mans wilfulnes will néeds resist him and will not be ruled At last when all these faire admonitions would take no place with the queene nor mooue hir to reuoke hir bloudie lawes nor to staie the tyrannie of hir priests nor yet to spare hir owne subiects but that the poore seruants of God were drawne dailie by heapes most pittifullie as sheepe to the slaughter it so pleased the heauenlie maiestie of almightie God when no other remedie would serue by death to cut hir off which in hir life so little regarded the life of others giuing hir throne which she abused to the destruction of Christs church and people to another who more temperatlie and quietlie could guide the same after she had reigned here the space of fiue yeares and fiue moneths The shortnesse of which yeares and reigne vneth we find in anie other storie line 10 of king or quéene since the conquest or before being come to their owne gouernement saue onelie in king Richard the third Which reigne was so rough and rigorous notwithstanding the shortnesse of the same that it became a verie spectacle to all christendome and the maner of dealing vsed vnder hir gouernment was so detestable that as it was rare so it raised vp a rare report euen among strangers whose heads being fuller of matter than their pens full
the child representing the common wealth spake to hir highnesse these words following Most gratious prince vndoubted souereigne queene Our onelie ioy next God and chiefe defense In this small shew our whole estate is seene The wealth we haue we find proceed from thense The idle hand hath here no place to feed The painfull wight hath still to serue his need Againe our seat denies our traffike heere The sea too neare decides vs from the rest So weake we were within this doozen yeare line 50 As care did quench the courage of the best But good aduise hath taught these little hands To rend in twaine the force of pining bands From combed wooll we draw this slender threed From thense the loomes haue dealing with the same And thense againe in order doo proceed These seuerall works which skilfull art dooth frame And all to driue dame need into hir caue Our heads and hands togither labourd haue We bought before the things that now we sell These slender impes their works doo passe the waues Gods peace and thine we hold and prosper well Of euerie mouth the hands the charges saues Thus through thy helpe and aid of power diuine Dooth Norwich liue whose hearts and goods are thine line 60 This shew pleased hir maiestie so greatlie as she particularlie viewed the knitting spinning of the children perused the loomes and noted the seuerall works and commodities which were made by these means and then after great thanks by hir giuen to the people marched towards the market place where was the second pageant thwarting the stréet at the enterance of the market betwéene master Skinner master Quash being in bredth two and fiftie foot of assise and was diuided into three gates in the midst a maine gate on either side a posterne the maine gate in breadth fourtéene foot each posterne eight foot their heights equall to their proportion ouer each posterne was as it were a chamber which chambers were replenished with musike Ouer all the gates passed a stage of eight foot brode in manerof a pageant curious rich delitefull The whole worke from the pageant downewards séemed to be iasper marble In the forefront towards hir maiestie was the armes of England on the one side the gate on the other side the falcon with crowne and scepter The other side was beautified with the arms of England on the one side of the gate the crest of England on the other The pageant was furnisht with fiue personages apparelled like women The first was the citie of Norwich the second Debora the third Iudith the fourth Hester the fift Martia sometime quéene of England At the first sight of the prince till hir maiesties comming to the pageant the musicians vsed their lowd musike and then ceassed wherewith hir highnesse staied to whome the personage representing the citie of Norwich did speake in these words Whom fame resounds with thundring trump that rends the And perseth to the hautie heauens and thense descending flies Through flickering aire and so conioines the sea shore togither In admiration of thy grace good queene th art welcome hither More welcome than Terpsicore was to the towne of Troie Sea-faring men by Gemini conceiue not halfe my ioie Strong Hercules to Theseus was neuer such delight Nor Nisus to Eurialus as I haue in this sight Penelope did neuer thirst Ulysses more to see Than I poore Norwich hungred haue to gaine the sight of thee And now that these my happie eies behold thy heauenlie face The Lord of lords I humblie praie to blisse thy noble grace With Nestors life with Sibils helth with Cresus stocke store With all good gifts of Salomon and twise as manie more What shuld I saie Thou art my ioy next God I haue none other My princesse my peerlesse queene my louing nursse and mother My goods lands my hands and hart my lims and life are thine What is mine owne in right or thought to thee I doo resigne Grant then oh gratious souereigne queene this onlie my request That that whâ—ch shall be doone in me be construed to the best And take in part my slender shewes wherein my whole pretense Is for to please your maiestie and end without offense So shall I clap my hands for ioy and hold my selfe as rich As if I had the gold of Iude and double twise as mich Where princes sitting in their thrones set God before their sight And liue according to his law and guide their people right There doth his blessed gifts abound there kingdoms firmlie stand There force of foes cannot preuaile nor furie fâ—et the land My selfe oh peerlesse prince doo speake by proofe of matter past Which proofe by practise I performd and foild his foes at last For Iabin king of Canaan poore Israell did spite And meant by force of furious rage to ouerrun vs quite Nine hundred iron chariots he brought into the field With cruell capteine Sisera by force to make vs yeeld His force was great his fraud was more he fought we did defend And twentie winters long did last this warre without an end But he that neither sleepes nor slackes such furies to correct Appointed me Debora for the iudge of his elect And did deliuer Sisera into a womans hand I slue them all and so in rest his people held the land So mightie prince that puisant Lord hath plast thee here to be The rule of this triumphant realme alone belongs to thee Continue as thou hast begun weed out the wicked rout Uphold the simple meeke and good pull downe the proud stout Thus shalt thou liue and reigne in rest mightie God shalt please Thy state be sure thy subiects safe thy commonwealth at ease Thy God shall grant thee length of life to glorifie his name Thy deeds shall be recorded in the booke of lasting fame Oh floure of grace oh prime of Gods elect Oh mightie queene and finger of the Lord Did God sometime by me poore wight correct The champion stout that him and his abhord Then be thou sure thou art his mightie hand To conquer those which him and thee withstand The rage of foes Bethulia did oppresse The people faint were readie for to yeeld God aided me poore widow nerthelesse To enter into Holofernes field And with this sword by his directing hand To slaie his fo and quiet so the land If this his grace were giuen to me poore wight If widowes hand could vanquish such a fo Then to a prince of thy surpassing might What tyrant liues but thou maist ouerthro Perseuere then his seruant as thou art And hold for aie a noble victors part The fretting heads of furious foes haue skill As well by fraud as force to find their preie In smiling lookes dooth lurke a lot as ill As where both sterne and sturdie streams doo swaie Thy selfe oh queene a proofe hast seene of this So well
vp an high waie that directed towards the market towne of Cerne and yet notwithstanding the hedges wherewith it was inclosed inuiron it still and the trées stand thereon bolt vpright sauing one oke trée that is well nigh twentie goads remooued the place whereas the ground had his being at the first is left like vnto a great hollow pit The same thirteenth daie of Ianuarie being sundaie about line 30 foure of the clocke in the afternoone the old and vnderpropped scaffolds round about the beare garden commonlie called Paris garden on the southside the Thames ouer against the citie of London ouercharged with people fell suddenlie downe whereby to the number of eight persons men and women were slaine and manie other sore hurt and brused A fréendlie warning to all such as more delight themselues in the crueltie of beasts to sée them rent one an other line 40 than in the works of mercie which are the fruits of a true professed faith and ought to be the sabboth daies exercise and not onelie a warning to works of mercie but a watchword to put vs in mind how we violate the sabboth daie the Lords owne daie which he sanctified himselfe that we by his example might sanctifie the same and not prophane it with such gentilisme as we doo as though God would not call vs to a râ—ckoning for abusing his holie ordinances and falsifieng the glorious title of christians in line 50 our odious actions for the which God will seuerelie expostulat with vs and with indignation demand of vs why we take his lawes in our mouths renounce them in our minds why we let them swim in our lips and slip from our liues as the vaine Iewes did vnto whome God said in displeasure as followeth Quid de lege mea declamas ore profano Non hoc officij debuit esse tui Cùm tamen mores leges oderis aequas Et verbi officium negligis omne mei line 60 On the third of Februarie being sundaie William Bruistar habardasher a man of more than threescore yeares old being lodged ouer the southwest porch of saint Brides church in Fleetstréet with a woman named Marie Breame whome the same Bruistar had bailed out of Bridewell were both found smothered to death in maner following On the same sundaie in the morning a marriage being solemnized in that church a strong fauour was felt which was thought to haue béene the burning of old shooes or such like in some gentlemans chamber there about thereby to suppresse the infection of the plague But in the afternoone before euening praier the parishioners espied a smoke to issue out of Bruistars chamber and therevpon made hast to the dore which they found fast locked and were forced to breake it open but could not enter till they had ripped vp the lead and roofe of the chamber to let out the smothering stench which being doone they found Bruistar dead sitting on a settle by his beds side in his apparell and close trussed his right thigh right arme vp to the elbow burnt or scorched with the fire of a small pan of coales that stood before him but now being cleane quenched with the dampe or lacke of aire The woman also laie dead ouer the pan so that hir armes were likewise burnt with the nether part of hir bodie before to hir brest and behind to the shoulders and nothing else in the chamber burnt but the bottome of the settle wheron Bruistar sat Of this lamentable accident people talked diuerslie and pamphlets were published to make the same more knowne howbeit to leaue the certeine meanes of the euent to his knowledge that vnderstandeth and séeth all things let it be a warning to all ages so to liue as that an honest report may attend their death shame flie from them as a cloud before the wind Sic sapient sic non insipientes erunt On the sixteenth of Aprill about six of the clocke in the morning Thomas Worth Alice Shepheard year 1583 were hanged on a gibbet at Shoolane end in Fléetstreet for killing of a prentice in the same Shoolane Also on the same daie about eight of the clocke in the morning a gunpowder house called the signe of the gun in Fetterlane néere vnto Fléetstréet and diuerse other houses néere adioining were blowne vp with the spoire of fiftie hundred weight of powder two men and one woman were slaine diuerse other persons as well men as women and children were sore hurt some blasted with the flame some brused with the fall of timber vpon them c. Albertus Alasco frée baron of Lasco Uaiuode or palatine of Siradia in Poland arriued at Harwich in Essex and on the last of Aprill came by water to Winchester house in Southworke where he remained for the most part of his abode heere of whome more hereafter at his returne into his owne countrie Elias Thackar tailor was hanged at saint Edmunds burie in Suffolke on the fourth of Iune and Iohn Coping shoomaker on the sixt of the same moneth for spreading and mainteining certeine bookes seditiouslie penned by one Robert Browne against the receiued booke of English common praier established by the lawes of this realme their bookes so manie as could be found were burned before them This yeare on the ninth of Iune deceased Thomas Ratclife earle of Sussex lord chamberleine to hir maiestie and knight of the garter at Barmundseie in the borough of Southworke besides London and was on the eight of Iulie next following conueied through the same citie of London toward Newhall in Essex there to be buried in forme folowing First went on foot before him fortie and fiue poore men in blacke gownes then on horssebacke one hundred and twentie seruingmen in blacke coats then ninetie and fiue gentlemen in blacke gownes or clokes besides the heralds at armes and other which bare his helme creast sword coat of armes and banners of armes c. Then the deceased earle couered with a pall of blacke veluet in a chariot likewise couered with blacke veluet drawne with foure goodlie geldings next after was led the earles stéed couered with blacke veluet then sir Henrie Ratclife the succéeding erle chiefe mourner and eight other lords all in blacke then the lord maior and his brethren the aldermen of London riding in murraie gownes then on foot the gentlemen of Greis in and last of all the worshipfull companie of the merchant tailors of London in their liueries for that the said earle was a brother of their companie as manie noble men and famous princes kings of this realme before him had béene as more at large is declared in the summarie of the chronicles of England in the eightéenth yeare of king Henrie the seuenth The maior and aldermen the gentlemen of Greis in and the merchant tailors accompanied the corps to the barres without Aldgate and returned This was the end of that nobleman who whiles he liued
318 a 30. Of Dublin made archbishop 59 b 20. Of Durham created an earle 119 b 50. Besieged the castell of Tickâ—ill 142 a 30. Lost his earledome 144 a 10. Restrained of his libertie 122 b 60 Chiefe ruler of the north parts 121 a 10. He earle Patrike at strife 161 a 10. By letters asswageth the Scotish kings displeasure hee goeth into Scotland 785 a 30 40. Winneth castels 307 a 40. Of Elies taking vp of horses to K. Richard the firsts vse 122 b 50 60. Summoned to appeare at Reading his returne to London a declaration against him he yéeldeth vp the tower 131 all His letter to the shiriffe of Kent 130 b 30. Disguiseth himselfe in womans apparell he flieth is betraied and committed to prison complaineth of his wrongs to the pope 132 a 10. He deceaseth 151 b 10. Of Elie imprisoneth archbishop Geffreie of Yorke 130 b 30. Arriueth in England as a simple bishop 139 b 30. Sent ambassadour to the emperour 148 a 30. Banished 50 b 30. Blind of Excester sent to Rome from Henrie the first 37 b 30. Pat in charge with the citie of London beheaded by the Londoners 338 a 40 b 30. Hereford arrested for treson 335 a 10. His deuise to get monie of the bishops 251 b 10. Of Ireland elected out of England 22 a 50. Of Léege murthered 140 a 10. Of Lincolne visiteth abbeies and is suspended by the pope 244 a 40 50. Capteine of a band of men 30 a 50. Of London taken vp with reprochfull words and reuenged by the Londoners 412 a 20. His palace where Richard second kept open house 474 a 10. Stout words to an earle 458 a 20. Made lord chancellor 440 b 60. Ambassadour to the emperour 168 b 20. Deane to the archbishop of Canturburie 35 b 20. Of Norwich in armes against the antipaâ—e 441 b 50 60 442 a 40. Couragious and warlike 444 a 20. Setteth forward with his armie inuadeth Flanders 442 b 10 50. The order of his battell against the Flemings 443 a 30. His disobedience punished 445 a 20. His armie of fiue hundred footmen and manie horsmen 176 b 50. Returneth out of Flanders into England 444 b 60. Of Rosse an enimie to the English estate 1370 b 60. Of Salisburies men and the Londoners in a riot he maketh a great â—oâ—plaiâ—â— of them to the king 478 a 20 50. Dreth for thought 50 b 30. Made lord chancellor 51 a 10. Shamefullie mâ—rthered note 636 a 10. Of Whiteherne consecrated 119 b 10. Of Winchester lent Henrie the fift two hundred thousand pounds 580 b 10 Made a cardinall 596 b 10. Legated and vnlegated by the pope 602 a 60 b 60 Bishop earle of Kent 13 a 60. Capteine of an armie 7 b 40. Wiped of fiue thousand pounds by William Rufus note 20 b 10. Depriued of his staffe by the king 21 a 40. ¶ Sée Herbert One reuengeth anothers death 12 b 20 Bishops chosen principall iustices of the realme 115 b 20. Sent ambassadours to the French king 112 b 50 Forbidden the vse of the sacrament 76 b 10. Disallow archbishop Thomas Becket 71 b 40. Thinke to please God in breaking their oth 46 b 40. Of Man first and second 59. b 10. Threatened 59 a 40. In suspicion to be disloiall 50 b 10. Inuesting doonâ— by the kings of England 29 a 50. ¶ Sée William Rufus At strife about crowning the king and saieng masse before him 37 a 10. Translation from sée to sée 36 a 30. Of priuie councell and ambassadors to Rome 31 b 20. Fiue consecrated by Anselme in one daie 34 a 40. Inuestâ—tures giuen awaie from the king by the popes sentence 31 b 60. Of a late election Salisburie and Hereford 30 a 60 b 10. Depriued by the bishop of Elie 129 a 50. Conâ—entious and ambitious 121 a 50. Elected and consecrated 119 a 60 b 10. Quarell with the moonks of Canturburie 169 b 30. Thrée dead in one yeare 788 b 20. Restored and others depriued 1089 a 20. Trauell to make peace 265 a 30. Would rather become martyrs than loose their monie 252 b 40. Practise to disappoint the archbishop of Canturburie of his purpose 243 a 50. Readinesse to resist the Saracens 209 a 50. Ambassadors 205 a 60. Cannot tell what to saie in the contention betwéene king William Rufus and Anselme note 25. Of Ireland their names and fées 22 b 50. Seditious and ranke warriors 17 a 30 40. In fault that duke William was king of England 1 a 40 50. Submit themselues to duke William 1 a 40. Sworne to be loiall 1 b 20. Flie into forren lands and countries 6 a 20. Sées remooued from small towns to cities of more fame 11 b 60. In armes against rebellious earls 11 a 50. Of Scotland consecrated by the archbishop of Yorke 9 b 20. Of Excester from the first to the last set downe in a catalog 1300 a 20 30 1301 c. Six receiue the communion 1185 a 60 Depriued others succéeding 1184 b 30. ¶ Sée Ambition Archbishops and Consecration Bishoprike of Carleils erection 44 b 20. Of Elie first erected 36 a 30. Of Lincolne void seuentéene yeares 75 a 60 109 b 40. Of Waterford in Ireland erected 22 b 40 Bishoprikes bestowed by king Henrie his gift thought insufficient 31 a 50. Bought of king William Rufus 21 a 40. Let out to farme 26 a 40 Bishopsgate new builded 702 b 60 Biskains and Englishmen togither by the eares 813 b 60 Blackwagon that followed euill Maie daie 844 a 60 Blackheath field 782 b 10 Blackenesse an hauen towne on the south shore of Scotland 989 b 50 Blackwell knight smothered to death in a throng 319 a 10 Blacke Will a notorious murthering ruffian 1063 a 50 b 40. Receiueth ten pounds in reward for murthering of Arden 1065 a 10. Burnt at Flushing 1066 a 20 Blasing star 1131 b 10 252 a 50 204 b 40 277 b 40 1344 a 40 1314 a 50. Of strange appéerance 37 a 40. With other strange sights 519 b 60. Uerie dreadfull for thirtie daies space togither 225 b 60. In the north of a moneths continuance 323 a 10. With long terrible streames 353 a 20. Appéering in a faire cleare daie 11 b 50. ¶ Sée Comet and Starre Blasphemie of pope Iulie against God 1128 a 40. Of a popish preacher seuerelie punished by God 1128 b 60 1129 a 10 Bleothgent king of Wales partaker with a rebell 5 a 20 Blewbeard capteine of rebels 632 a 20 Blockhouses bulworks builded 946 b 10 Bloreheath field 649 a 50 Bluet Robert bishop of Lincolne note 20 b 10 Blunt knight his notable seruice against the French 540 b 50 Bohune Iohn his wife and issue 20 a 50 Boier maior of Bodwin in Cornwall hanged note 1006 b 50 c 1007 a 10 Boldnesse ¶ Sée Magnanimitie and Words Bolton prior of S. Bartholomews buildeth an house at Harrow on the hill to auoid flouds prognosticated that yeare 882 b 20 Bondage ¶ Sée Seruitude Bondmen by
Earle Pledges that duke William led ouer with him into Normandie 5 a 10. Scotish appointed to passe into England 1187. b 40. ¶ See Hostages Plentie and abundance note 284. a 40. And dearth 11â—3 a 30. Of vittels but scarsitie of monie 353. a 10. See Uittels Plimmouth burnt 355. a 60. Pocks wherof manie died 397. b 50. Poâ—r Ranulfe slaine 106 a 20. Poictiers battell when it was 390. a 10 Poictouins reuolt from king Iohn 164 b 10. Send king Henrie the third word of their readines to reuolt from the French king 207. a 10. Suspected to haue poisoned the English lords 259. b 50. Discomfited 217. b 40 Poinings knight lieutenant of Turnaie 825. a 10. Discharged of keeping it 837. b 40 A valiant captaine sent into Flanders 772. a 60. Sent into Ireland with an armie his valiantnes and successe 779. a 60. b 10. c. His decease 969 b. 20. Poisoning a woman burnt for it at Tunbridge 1262. a 60. And also at Maidstone 1226.40 Punished with boiling to death in hot water 926. b 60. Practised and the parties punished with standing on the pillorie 1258. b. 40. For the which a wench was burnt in Smithfield 1434 b 10. And execution for the same 259. b 60. 260. a 10. Bewraied by the sweating of pretious stones 194. b 20. Of earle Scot of Chester with his wife 220 b 60. Of the earle of Deuonshire 646. b 60. In Italie practised note 795. a 10. c. Polander ¶ See Albertus de Lasco Policie whereby Compiegne was surrendered to the English 587. a 60. Of the Parisions to outreach the duke of Bedford 586. a 6. Of the French in taking Ponâ— de Larch 629. a 20. In buieng peace of the English 700. b 10. c. Of Edward the fourth against his enimies 684 a 50. Of Richard the third mischiefous and incestuous note 350. a 60. Ungratious tending to the slaughter of princelie innocents 739. a 20. Of the earle of Richmond in getting the sun at the backe of his souldiers 758. b 60. To auoid danger 748. a 38. Of Henrie the seuenth against sir Robert Clifford 778. b 20. In senting forth espials into Flanders 777. b 30. To preuent an intended mischiefe note 536. b 20 Of duke Albert of Saxonie to get the towne of Dam 772. a 20. Of the English archers against their enimies shot 770. b 40. Of Henrie the seuenth to match suspected persons especiallie if they fled 780. a In surprising the towne of Pont Meulan a 10. b 10. For a bridge 617. b 60. Of sir Francis the Arragonois 619. b 10. Of Henrie the fift in the time of a commotion 544 b 10. Oftentimes passeth force 648. a 60. Of the earle of Huntington 617. Of Henrie the fift against the French horsemen 553. b 10 note 564. b 50. For redie bridges 571. b 40 Of a priest fauoring conspirators note 516. a 40. Of the earle of Westmerland 529 b 40.50.530 a 10. Of the English against the Flemish 454. b 10. Of the French king against the English 426. b 50.4222 a 60. Dastardlie of the French king to make Edward the third raise his siege from Calis 375 b 30. Of the Scots discomfiting the English 324. b. 60. Of a captaine against the Welshmen 236. a 60. a 60. Of the English 295. a 60. Of the duke of Guise against the English 1135. b 20. Of the French to make bridges 1138 b. 60. To restraine the people at the duke of Summersets execution 1067. a 60. b 50. Of a yeoman of the gard a rebell whereby he gat pardon 844. Of Scattergood a guner to deceiue the French 1192. a 60. Of Frenchmen disguised in womans aparell 1188. b 50. Of warre by the Kentishmen 2. a 20. Of the French to giue the English a repulse 1191. a 50 Of duke William in making a part of England waste 11. a 40. Of the French king to get possession of Uernueill 8.88 a 50. ¶ See Dissimulation Stratagâ—m Pomfret castle rendred to Edward the second 331. a Pontoise surprised by the Englishmen 570. a 30. Recouered by them 17. a 40. Besieged by the French king but valiantlie defended b 20. Gotten by French 618 a 30 Pont Mâ—ulan surprised by entrance of a common priuie 610. b 10 Pontorson rendered vnto the Englishmen 895 a 30. Poole Cardinall ¶ See Cardinall Poole and Pope Pope Adrian 274. a 40. An Englishman borne 66. a 50 His election to the popedome wondered and whie he commeth to Rome 871. b 30.50 His creation corruption of the cardinals in his election corrupted with manie vices 767. a 40 50. b 21. His pride note 69. a 40. His grant to make Iohn king of Ireland 101. a 30. Maketh profit of his great pardon or heauenlie grace 788. a 60. Letters for the reliefe of the Holie land 104. b 50. Fatherlie words to archbishop Lanfranke note 9. a 50. Depriueth bishops and restoreth them 9 a 40. Heareth the contention for the primasie betweene the archbishops 9. a 30. Sent commissioners into England 8. b 60. He and the emperor Frederik at debate 75. b 10. His answer to Beckets complaint 73. a 30. Pope Boniface prohibiteth Edward the first further to vex the Scots 309. b 30. Pope Calixius held a councell at Reimes and consecrateth the archbishop of Canturburie with his owne hands 40 a 50. A sutor for archbishop Thurstane 40. b 40. His cursse against both archbishops of Canturburie and Yorke 42. a 10. Pope Calestine a friend to archbishop Geffreie of Yorke 130. b 20. Maketh an archbishop of Canturburie legat of all England 147 b 50. Pope Clements reformation in England 315. b 40. And what summes of monie are had of the archbishop of Yorke note 315. a 30. Procureth a peace for one yeare betwixt the two kings of England and France 379. b 40. Sent two cardinals to accord the two kings of England and France 377. b 50. Letters in fauor of the bishop of Elie and how he defendeth his chapleins 132. a 60. Sendeth Henrie the eight a golden rose 883. a 60. Pretended a title to the realme of Sicill 124. b 60. Requireth Henrie the eight personallie to appeare at a generall councell 930. a 10. Taken prisoner by the emperors armie 1365. a 30. Deceseth more infortunat than fortunat 935. b 10. His death preiudiciall 131. b 60 Pope Eugenie sendeth a legat to treat a peace betweene the two kings of England and France 607. a 50 Pope Gelasius the second his death 40. a 10 Pope Gregorie sendeth the bishop of Rauennâ— to treat a peace betwixt England and France 408. b 50. Messengers sent to him about reseruations of benefices b 60.409 c. Denied to be true pope note 225. a 60. Sendeth cardinall Otho into England 221. b 30. His meanes to mooue the people to a iorneie against the Saracens 209. b 40. Disgraced by the cardinall of Burgis 514. b 60 His plaine song whereabouts was great fliâ—â—e 13. b 30. His bull against the hearing of a married
apperance in the aire Anno. Reg. 35. 1189 A legat Matth. Paris R. Houed King Philip entereth the countrie of Maine The words of king Henrie in his displeasure towards earle Richard Mauns yéelded to the French king Wil. Paruus Polydor. The earle of Flanders séeketh to agrée the parties Matth. Paris A peace concluded Thirtie thousand to the 〈◊〉 and twentie 〈◊〉 the barons 〈◊〉 France 〈◊〉 Ger. Dor. Rog. Houed It Gisorâ— saith Ger. Dor. Strange thunder lightning King Henrie departeth this life His surname whereof it came A strange maner of fight betwixt fishes The issue of Henrie the second His sonnes His daughters His base sons The constitution of his bodie His stature His qualities and conditions of mind Radulphus de Diceto Radulphus de Diâ—eto Bishops chosen principall iustices The vices of K. Henrie His incontinencie Rosamund his concubine Ran. Higd. Hiâ— negligeÌ„ce in aâ—ding the Christians against the Saraceâ—s Bale Anno Reg. 1. Wil. Paruus Matt. Paris Stephan de Turnham committed to prison Matth. Paris Polydor. Isabell daughter to the earle of Glocester married to Iohn the kings brother She is named by diuerse authors Haâ—isia Matth. Paris R. Houed Matt. Paris The kings mother set at libertie The 2. kings of England France determine to go into the holie land At South-hampton the 21 of August saith Ger. Dor. Rog. Houed Matth. Pariâ— His fathers treasure R. Houed Gau. Vinsaf Nic. Triuet The second of September saith Ger. Dor. The order of his coronatioÌ„ Matth. Paris Rog. Houed Rog. Houed The king his oth Wil. Paruâ—s The Iewes meant to present him with a rich gift Matt. Paris A Iew striken The people fall vpon the Iewes and beat them Their houses are set on fire Iewes burnt to death Pal. in suo sag. A councell at Pipewell Wil. Paruus The bishop of Whitherne consecrated Rog. Houed Matt. Par. Wil. Paruus The bishop of Durham Sadberge The bishop of Durham made an earle The citizens of London present monie to the king Polydor. Liberties granted to London Two bailiffes Port Greues Apprentises Fréemen Wards The Maior K. Richard setteth things on sale Ran. Higd. Wil. Paruus R. Houed William king of Scots A councell câ—lled at Canturburie Polydor. An oth Matth. Paris Matth. Paris Polydor. Restitution made to the K. of Scots Wil. Paruus Rog. Houed N. Triuet Matth. Paris Hugh bishop of Durham gouerneth the north parts Matth. Paris William LoÌ„gchampe bishop of Elie. R. Houed King Richard passeth ouer in to Normandie Vadum sancti Remegij A league betwixt the kings of England and France R. Houed Contention betwixt two ambitious bishops M. Palâ—n sua vâ—â—g Earle Iohn licenced to returne into England The bishop of Elie returneth Polydor. W. Paruuâ— The hatred borne to the Iewes Iohn Textor Five hundred saith Houeden and Textor The slaughter made of the Iewes at Lin. The citizens of Yorke put to their fine for slaughter of the Iewes Matt. Wesâ— The bishop 〈◊〉 Durham restreined of libertie William de Chisi The kings nauie is set foorth Baion Sablius or Sabuille Polydor. Sleiers of men Brallers Punishment for bloud-drawers Reuilers Theft and pickerie Wil. Paruus Polydor. King Richard set forward on his iourneie Rog. Houed Anno Reg. 2. The English fléet staied by contrarie winds Twentie gallies twelue other vessels saith Houed Upon the seauenth day of August saith Houeden Rog. Houed King Richard blameth the court of Rome for couetousnesse The king of Portingale Almiramumoli king of the Saracens Robert de Sabuuille Richard de Camuille A mutinie betwixt the Englishmen and the townsmen of Lisbone Englishmen committed to prison The English ships méet togither They arriue at Messina K. Richard arriueth at Messina A chaire of gold K. Richards demands for the dowrie of his sister wife to K. William k. Richard assalteth and entreth the citie by force The two kings of England and France receiue a solemne oth Ordinances deuised Plaie forbidden Borrowing Souldiers or mariners departing from their masters Uittelers Polydor. The French king setteth foorth from Messina towards the holie land Quéene Elianor returneth by Rome Matth. Paris 150. ships and 53. galies saith Rog. Houed The Englishmen take land chase their enimies King Richard with a camisado vanquiâ—heth the Cypriots chaseth them out of their campe Iohn Textor The K. of Ierusalem and other noble men doo fealtie vnto king Richard The offers of the king of Cypres The king of Cypres submitteth himselfe Robert de Turneham The king of England marieth the ladie Berengaria She is crowned quéene Castels deliuered to the king of England The king of Cypres again submitteth himselfe to the king of England Rafe Fitz Geffrey He arriued there on the saturdaie in Whitsunwéek being the saturdaie also next before the feast of S. Barnabie Galfridus Vinsant Pisans and Geneuois Matt. Paris Nic. Triueâ— Saphaldine the brother of Saladine Matth. Paris N. Triueâ— An eclipse of the sunne The seuenth houre of the daie saith Matth. Paris Richard de Camuille deceasseth Polydor. The Lord chancellor called the popes legat in England The statelie port of the lord chancellor Ran. Higd. A conuocation Moonks of Couentrie displaced Polydor. Ran. Higd. Wil. Paruus The occasion Ran. Higd. Wil. Paruuâ— Ran. Higd. Polydor. The L. chancellors reason The bishop of Durham The bishop of Winchester The lord chancellors meaning to kéepe earle Iohn lowe Palâ—in suo cap. Walter the archbishop of Rouen sent into England He is little regarded of the lord chancellor The lord chancellor besiegeth the castell of Lincolne Earle Iohn winneth the castels of Notingham and Tickhill The chancellor raiseth his siege with dishonor The lord chancellor and earle Iohn are agréed The chancellor breaketh the agréement The lord chancellor and earle Iohn make another agréement Castels deliuered in trust to the keeping of certeine persons Anno Reg. 3. Matth. Weâ—â— Polydor. Geffrey the archbishop of Yorke Rog. Houed Matth. Pariâ— Polydor. The death of the archbiâ—hop of Canturâ—â—rie Io. Textor The arcâ—bishop arriued and is committed toward R. Houed The chancellour summoned to appeare The chancellour retireth to London A declaration made against the lord chancellour The tenor of this leter shall héereafter appeare The citizens of London The chancellour yéeldeth vp the tower The print of the legats crosse The bishop of Elie late lord chancellour disguiseth himselfe in womans apparell He is bewraied Earle Iohn not the bishops fréend Ouid. lib. â— de rem am Matth. Paris The bishop of Elie complaineth of his wrongs receiued The popes letters vnto the archbishop and bishops of England Note how the pope defendeth his chaplins The archâ—ishop of Rouen chéefe gouernour of England R. Houed Wil. Paruus Fiftene saith Functius but others agrée with Houed as Gerardus Mercator citing Albericus a moonke The citie of Acres The French K. returneth home Saladine causeth the christian prisoners to be beheaded R. Houed Ger. Dor. Strife betwixt the archbishop of York and the bishop of Durham Roger Lacie conestable of Chester The euill
exhorâ—atorie speeches to the monsieur preparing and setling himselfe to Codward The monsieur departure out of this world like a lamp whose light 〈◊〉 for want oâ— oile Maruellous 〈◊〉 of inward loue 〈…〉 affectioÌ„ 〈…〉 the monâ—â—eur departed Theâ—e be verie 〈◊〉 〈…〉 â—â—â—eed For he was preacher c to the mounsieur and lost dimidium animae suae vp his death Ground remoued Eight persons killed by the fall of a scaffold at the beaâ—â— garden a warning to prophaners of the sabboth daie Eob. Hâ—ss in Psal. 50. WilliaÌ„ Bruistar and Marie Breame smothered to death A man and a woman hanged at Shoo-lane end The gunpowder house in Fetterlane blowne vp Palatine of Siradia in Poland came into England Elias Thackar and Iohn Coping hanged at Berrie Thomas Ratclife earle of Sussex deceased * I. Stow. Edmund Grindall archbishop of Canturburie deceassed Abr. Hart. in R.L. Iustice Randolfe his charitie of one thousand nine hundred pounds â—â—â—roners apprehended and executed A briefe description of Clinton Atkiâ—son and his parentage Companie libertie bring manie to miserie An heretike Iohn Lewes burned at Norwich Sée pag. 1299. Palatine of Siradia in Poland returned A description of Albertus his person apparell c. * At Oxenford where he termed the Latine that he spake Militare Latinum that is souldiers Latine The lord Norris his daughter maried to sir A. Paulet his eldest sonne The welcomming of Albertus to the vniuersitie of Oxenford with a partile description of his interteinment Raine of rose-water and haile of sugar confects c. Doctor Whitegift archbishop of Canturburie * Allusio ad D. archiep nomen Ab. Hart. quondam Cant. Trinitarius A monstrous fish taken in Norffolke Slade and Bodie executed An Reg. 26. Horssestealers hanged ten at once in Smithfield Desmonds head set on London bridge Nantwich in Cheshire burnt Someruile Arden and others arreigned Arden 〈◊〉 This booke for the time that it was in request set people toongs on woorke and filled their minds with strange conceipts Why it was called the great coniunction Touching the yeare of woonders gathâ—red to be 1588. â—â—ouitius Regiomontanus The great yeare of 1588 is more talked of than feared When people saw nothing in the aire as they looked for they fell to derision Cartar executed for printing a traitorous booke A declaration of the fauorable dealing of hir maiesties commissioners for the examining of traitâ—rs To the reader The slanderous report concerning the extreame vse of yâ— racke conuinced Campion and Briant were too fauourablie vsed and far vnder the proportion of their treasonable offenses The curst stubborne hart of Briant Ergo it is false which the infamous libeller hath â—ast abrode Relligio 〈…〉 mala vita 〈◊〉 This is consonant to the report set downe before in the discouerie of Campion pag. 1325. What allegigiâ—nce these fellows meant to her maiestie may appéere by these words of Campion being the mouth oâ— the â—est As namelie Campion of whom an infamous libeller reporteth in commendation forsooth of his constancie Non secreta mee iorius licâ—torâ— fatebor All offendors couer their faults with contrarie causes Rebels doo most dangerouslie couer their faults Rebellion in England and Ireland The rebels vanquished by the quéens power Some of the rebels fled into forreine countries Rebels pretend religion for their defense Kingleaders of rebels Charles Neuill earle of Westmerland and Thomas Stukeleie The effect of the popes bull against the queene of England The practises of the traitors rebels and fugitiues to execute the 〈◊〉 Seminaries erected to nursse seditious fugitiues The seminarie fugitiues come secretlie into the relme to induce the people to obeie the popes bull Sowers of sâ—dition taken coâ—â—ented executed 〈◊〉 trâ—ason The seditious treitors condemned by the ancient lawes of the realme made two hundred yeres past Persons condemned spared â—rom execution vpon refusall of their treasonable opinions The forren traitors continue sending of persons to mooue sedition in the realme The seditious 〈◊〉 labour to bring the realme into a warre externall and domestâ—â—â—ll The dutie of the quéene and all hir gouernors to God and their countrie is to repell practises of rebellion None charged with capitall crimes being of a contrarie religion and professing to withstand forreine forces Names of diuerse ecclesiasticall persons professing contrarie religion neuer charged with capitall crimes The late fauorers of the popes authoritie were the chiefe aduersaries of the same by their doctrines and writings A great number of laie persons of liuelood being of a contrarie religion neuer charged with capitall crime No person charged with capitall 〈◊〉 for the onelie maintenance of the popes supremasie Foure points of treason Such coÌ„demned onelie for treason as mainteine the effects of the popes bull against hir maiestie and the realme Doctor Sanders maintenance of the popes bull The persons that suffered death were condemned for treason not for religion The diuersitie betwixt truth and falshood A full proofe that the mainteiners of the bull are directlie guiltie of 〈◊〉 Doctor Mortons secret ambassage froÌ„ Rome to 〈◊〉 the rebellion in the north Persons and Campion are offendors as doctor Sanders is for allowance of the bull Faculties granted to Persons and Campion by pope Gregorie the thirtéenth Anno 1580. By what authoritie Campion came into England Harts confession of the interpretation of the bull of Pius Quintus A conclusion that all the infamous books against the quéene and the realme are false Difference of the small numbers that haue béene executed in the space of fiue and twentie yeares from the great numbers in fiue yeares of quéene Maries reigne An aduertisement vnto all princes of countries abroad The authoritie proclamed by the pope not warranted by Christ or by the two apostles Peter and Paul Pope Hildebrand the first that made warre against the emperor An. Do. 1074. The iudgement of God against the popes false erected emperor Pope Gregorie the seuenth deposed by Henrie the fourth Henrie the fift Frederike the first Frederike the second Lewes of Bauar emperors Whatsoeuer is lawfull for other princes souereignes is lawfull for the queene and crowne of England The title of vniuersall â—â—shop is a preamble of antichrist Rome sacked and the pope Clement takeÌ„ prisoner by the emperors armie King Henrie the second of France his edicts against the pope and his courts of Rome The besieging of Rome and the pope by the duke of Alua and king Philips armie Quéene Marie and cardinall Poole resisted the pope D. Peito a begging frier The kings of christendome neuer suffer popes to abridge their titles or rights though they suffer them to haue rule ouer their people The quéene of England may not suffer the pope by anie meanes to make rebellions in hir realme Additâ—menâ—â— to the popes martyrologâ— The strange ends of Iames earle of Desmond D. Sanders Iames Fitzmoris Iohn of Desmond Iohn Someruile The prosperitie of England during the popes cursses Reasons to persuade by reason the
should trie out in whose hands the wools and monie remained which were taken vp to his vse and that vpon a line 10 iust accompts had at their hands it might appeare who were in fault that he had not monie brought to him whilest he laie at siege before Tournie as he had appointed and that when the truth was knowne they that were in fault might be worthilie punished And as for his owne cause he signified that he was readie to be tried by his péeres sauing alwaies the state of holie church and of his order c. Further he besought the king not to thinke euill of him and of other good men till the truth might be tried for otherwise line 20 if iudgement should be pronounced without admitting the partie to come to his answere as well the guiltlesse as the guiltie might be condemned The king neuerthelesse still offended towards the archbishop caused Adam bishop of Winchester to indite a letter against him directed from the king to the deane and chapiter of Paules openlie to be published by them the effect whereof was to burthen the archbishop with vnthankfulnesse and forgetting of line 30 his bounden duetie towards his souereigne lord and louing maister namelie in that where he promised the king to sée him throughlie furnished with monie towards the maintenance of his warres when it came to passe none would be had which turned not onelie to the hinderance of the kings whole procéedings but also to his great discredit and causing him to run greatlie in debt by interest through borrowing of monie for the paiment of the wages of his men of warre when through the archbishops negligence line 40 who had the chéefe rule of the land the collectors and other officers slacked their duetie whereby there was no monie sent ouer according to that was appointed and wheras now since his comming ouer he had sent to the archbishop to come vnto him that by his information he might the better learne who they were that neglected their duetie he disobedientlie refused to come pretending some feare of bodilie harme through the malice of some that were about the king Wherevpon when Rafe lord Stafford line 50 lord steward of the kings house was sent with a safe conduct for him to come in all safetie to the court he flatlie made answer that he would not come except in full parlement Manie other misdemeanors was the archbishop charged with towards the king in that letter as maliciouslie slandering the king for vniust oppression of the people confounding the cleargie and greeuing the church with exactions leuies of monie tolles and â—allages Therefore sith he went about to slander the line 60 kings roiall authoritie to defame his seruants to stirre rebellion among the people and to withdraw the deuotion and loue of the earles lords and great men of the lanâ— from the king his highnesse declared that he meant to prouide for the integritie preseruation of his good name whereof it is said trulie Dulcius est aere pretiosum nomen habâ—re and to meet with the archbishops malice And herewith diuerse things were rehersed to the archbishops reproch which he should doo procure and suffer to be doone by his euill and sinister counsell whilest he had the rule of the realme in his hands vnder the king wherein he had shewed himselfe not onelie an acceptor of gifts but also of persons in gratifieng diuerse that nothing had deserued sundrie waies foorth and presuming to doo rashlie manie other things to the detriment of the kings roiall state and hurt of his regall dignitie and to no small damage of the people abusing the authoritie and office to him committed so that if he persisted in his obstinate wilfulnesse and rebellious contumacie the king by those his letters signified that he meant to declare it more apparantlie in due time and place and therefore commanded the said deane and chapiter of Paules to publish all those things openlie in places where they thought conuenient according to their wisedome giuen to them by God so as he might haue cause to commend therein their carefull diligence ¶ This letter was dated at Westminster the tenth of Februarie in the fifteenth yeare of his reigne ouer England and second ouer France Where the Londoners would not permit the kings iustices to sit within the citie of London contrarie to their liberties the king appointed them to sit in the tower and when they would not make anie answer there a great tumult was raised by the commons of the citie so that the iustices being in some perill as they thought feigned themselues to sit there till towards Easter Wherevpon when the king could not get the names of them that raised the tumult no otherwise but that they were certeine light persons of the common people he at length pardoned the offense After this those iustices neither sat in the tower nor elsewhere of all that yeare In the quindene of Easter the king held a parlement at London in the which the prelats earls barons and commons presented manie petitions as to haue the great charter of liberties and the charter of forrests dulie obserued and that they which brake the same should be discharged of their offices if they were the kings officers and that the high officers of the king should be elected and chosen by their peeres in parlement The king withstood these petitions a certeine time yet at length he granted to some of them but as concerning the election of his officers he in no wise would consent but yet he was contented that they should receiue an oth in parlement to doo iustice to all men in their offices c. Upon which article and others a statute was made and confirmed with the kings seale In the meane while the French king had with bribes woone Lewes of Bauaria that named himselfe emperour from further fauouring the king of England in so much that vnder a colourable pretense of finding himselfe greeued for that the king of England had without his knowledge taken truce with the French king he reuoked the dignitie of being vicar in the empire from the king of England but yet signified to him that where the French king had at his request put the matter in controuersie betwixt him and the king of England into his hands to make an end thereof if it so pleased the king of England that he should treat as an indifferent arbitrator betwixt them he promised to doo his indeuour so as he doubted not but that by his means he should come to a good agréement in his cause if he would fâ—llow his aduise And to receiue answer hereof he sent his letters by one Eberhard a chapleine of his the reader of the â—riers heremits to S. Augustins order requesting the king of England to aduertise him by the same messenger of his whole mind in that behalfe The king for answer signified againe by his letters to the emperour that for
the zeale which he had to make an accord betwixt him and his aduersarie Philip de Ualois that named himselfe French king he could not but much commend him and for his part he had euer wished that some reasonable agreement might be had betwixt them but sith his right to the realme of France was cléere and manifest inough he purposed not to commit it by writing vnto the doubtfull iudgement or arbitrement of anie And as concerning the agréement which the emperour had made with the French king bicause as he alledged it was lawfull for him so to doo sith without the emperors knowledge he had taken truce with the same French king he said if the circumstances were well considered that matter could not minister any cause line 10 to mooue him to such agreement for if the emperour remembred he had giuen to him libertie at all times to treat of peace without making the emperour priuie thereto so that without his assent he concluded not vpon any finall peace which he protested that he neuer meant to doo till he might haue his prouident aduise counsell and assent therevnto And as concerning the reuoking of the vicarship of the empire from him he tooke it doone out of time for it was promised line 20 that no such reuocation should be made till he had obteined the whole realme of France or at the least the more part thereof ¶ These in effect were the points of the kings letters of answer vnto the emperour Dated at London the thirtenth of Iulie in the second yeare of his reigne ouer France and fiftéenth ouer England This yeare about Midsummer or somwhat before at Gant in Flanders died the lord Geffrey Scrope the kings iustice and Henrie bishop of Lincolne line 30 two cheefe councellors to the king The quéene after hir returne into England was this yeare brought to bed in the tower of London of a daughter named Blanch that died yoong and was buried at Westminster ¶ In this meane while during the warres betwixt France and England the French king in fauour of Dauid king of Scotland had sent men of warre into Scotland vnder the conduct of sir Arnold Dandreghen who was after one of the marshals of France and the lord of Garrentiers with other line 40 by whose comfort and helpe the Scots that tooke part with king Dauid did indeuor themselues to recouer out of the Englishmens hands such castels and fortresses as they held within Scotland as in the Scotish historie ye shall find mentioned and how about this time their king the foresaid Dauid returned foorth of France into Scotland by the French kings helpe who hauing long before concluded a league with him thought by his friendship to trouble the king of England so at home that he should not be at great leisure to inuade him in France line 50 But now to tell you what chanced of the méeting appointed at Arras For the cōmissioners that shuld there treat of the peace when the day assigned of their meeting was come there arriued for the king of England the bishop of Lincolne the bishop of Duresme the earle of Warwike the erle of Richmond sir Robert Dartois sir Iohn of Heinault otherwise called lord Beaumont and sir Henrie of Flanders For the French king there came the earle of Alanson the duke of Burbon the earle of Flanders the line 60 earle of Blois the archbishop of Sens the bishop of Beauuois and the bishop of Aurerre The pope sent thither two cardinals Naples and Cleremont these commissioners were in treatie fiftéene daies during the which manie matters were put forth and argued but none concluded for the Englishmen demanded largelie and the Frenchmen would depart with nothing sauing with the countie of Pontieu the which was giuen with quéene Isabell in marriage to the king of England So the treatie brake the commissioners departed and nothing doone but onelie that the truce was prolonged for two yeares further Thus were the wars partlie appeased in some part of France but yet was the truce but slenderlie kept in other parts by reason of the duke of Britaine For whereas contention arose betwixt one Charles de Blois and Iohn earle of Mountfort about the right to the duchie of Britaine as in the historie of France maie more plainelie appeare the earle of Mountfort thinking that he had wrong offered him at the French kings hands who fauoured his aduersarie Charles de Blois alied himselfe with the king of England And as some write after he had woone diuerse cities and townes within Britaine he came ouer into England and by doing homage to king Edward acknowledged to hold it of him as of the souereigne lord thereof so that he would promise to defend him and that duchie against his aduersaries which the king promised him to doo After this the French king made such warres against this earle of Mountfort that he was at length taken prisoner in the towne of Naunts and committed to safe kéeping within the castell of Loure at Paris But his wife being a stout woman and of a manlie courage stood vp in the quarrell of hir husband and presented a yoong sonne which she had by him vnto such capteins and men of warre as serued hir husband requiring them not to be dismaid with the infortunate chance of hir husbands taking but rather like men of good stomachs to stand in defense of his right sith whatsoeuer happened to him the same remained in that yoong gentleman his sonne meaning that although the enimies should deale tyrannicallie with him without regard of his noblenesse practise his ouerthrow yet there was hope in hir son as increase of yeares should minister strength and courage both to be reuenged on his fathers enimies and to ad an inlargement of glorie and renowne to his present honor by practises of his prowesse which to be singular the séemelie symmetrie or goodlie proportion of his person and his iolie countenance séemed to testifie for Fortes creantur fortibus bonis Est in iuuencis est in equis patrum Virtus nec imbellem feroces Progenerant aquilae columbam This countesse of Mountfort was sister vnto Lewes earle of Flanders and named Margaret and not Claudia as some write She was verie diligent in hir businesse and spared no trauell to aduance hir cause so that she wan not onelie the harts of the men of warre but also of the people of Britaine the which fauoured hir husband and lamented the mishap of his taking She first furnished such cities townes castels and fortresses as hir husband had in possession with men munition and vittels as Renes Dinaunt Guerand Hanibout and others This doone she sent ouer into England sir Emerie de Clisson a noble man of Britaine to require the king of England of succors with condition that if it pleased him hir sonne Iohn should marrie one of his daughters ¶ The king of England glad to haue such an entrie