assigned to Cunidagius This pertition chanced in the yeere of the World .3170 before the building of Rome .47 Vzia as yet raigning in Iuda Ieroboam in Israel Afterwards these two cousins Cunedag and MargaÌ„ had not raigned thus past a two yeares but thorough some seditious persons Margan was perswaded to reise warre against Cunedag telling him in his eare howe it was a shame for him being come of the elder sister not to haue the rule of the whole I le in his hande Herevpon ouercome with pride ambition couetousnesse he reised an army â—…argan inâ—â—deth his â—â—usin Cuneâ—â—g entring into y e land of Cunedag he breÌ„ued destroyed y e couÌ„trey before him in miserable maner Cunedag in all hast to resist his aduersarie assembled also al y e power he could make comming with the same against Margan gaue him battell in the which be slew a great nuÌ„ber of MargaÌ„s people and put y e residue to flight and furthermore pursued him from countrey to couÌ„trey till hee came into Cambria nowe called Wales where y e said Margan gaue him eftsones a new battell but beeing too weake in number of men â—…argan is â—â—yne he was there ouercome slaine in y e field by reason wherof y t countrey tooke name of him being there slaine 〈◊〉 VVest and so is called to this day Glau MargaÌ„ which is to meane in our English tong Margans land This was the end of that Margan after hee had raigned with his brother two yeres or thereaboutes AFter the death of Margan Cunedagius the son of HeÌ„nius Ragay middlemost daughter of Leir Cunedagius â—…lone before mentioned became Ruler of all the whole laÌ„d of Britayne in y e yere of y e World 3172. before the building of Rome .45 Vzia still raigning in Iuda and Ieroboam in Israell He gouerned this I le wel honorably for the tearme of .xxxiij. yeeres And then dying his body was buried at Troynouant or LondoÌ„ Moreouer our writers do reporte that hee builded also three teÌ„ples one to Mars at Perth in Scotland another to Mercury at Bangor and the thirde to Apollo in Cornewall Ryuall the .13 Ruler Riual RIuallon the son of Cunedag â–ª began to raign ouer y e Britaines in the yere of the world 3203. before the building of Rome .15 Ibathan as then beeing King of Iuda and Phacea king of Israel This Ryuall gouerned the lande in greate wealth and prosperitie It rayned bloud Mat. VVest In his time it raigned bloud by the space of three dayes togither After which raigne ensued such an exceding nuÌ„ber and multitude of flies so noysome and contagious that muche people died by reason thereof When he haâ—… 〈…〉 yeeres he died â–ª was bâ—â—â—ed at â—…aerâ—…ranke nowe called Yorke In y e time of this Ryuals raigne Rome builded was the Citie of Rome builded after the accordance of most parte of writers Perdix also a wisehart and a learned Astrologian florrisheth writeth his prophecies and Hâ—â—â—ne also Gurgust the .14 Ruler GVrgustius Gurgustâ—â—â— the son of the beforenamed Riuall beganne to gouerne the Britaynes in the yeere after the CreatioÌ„ of the world .3249 and after the first foundation of Rome .33 Eâ—…echias raigning in Iuda This Gurgustius in y e Chronicle of England is called Gordodian the sonne of Reignald he raigned .37 yeres then departing this life was buried at Caerbranke now called Yorke by hys father Sysillius the .15 Ruler SYsillius Sysillius or after some writers Siluius the brother of Gurgustius was chosen to haue the gouernance of Britayne in the yeere of the worlde .3287 and after the building of Rome .71 Manasses still raigning in Iuda This Sisillius in the English Chronicle is named Sezil He raigned 40. yeeres and then died and was buried at Carbadon now called Bath Iago the .16 Ruler IAgo or Lago y e cousin of Gurgustius Iago as next inheritor to Sisillius tooke vpon hym the gouernemente of Britayne in the yeere of the world .3336 and after y e building of Rome .120 in whose time the Citie of Ierusalem was takeÌ„ by Nabuchodonozor and the King of Iuda Maâ—…hania otherwise called Zedechias being slaine â–ª This Iago or Lago dyed without issue when hee had raigned eyghâ—… and twentie yeeres and was buried at Yorke Kinimak the 17. Ruler KInimacus or Kinmacus y e son of Sicilius as some write Kinimak or rather y e brother of Iago began to gouerne y e laÌ„d of Britayne in the yere of the World .3364 and after the buildyng of Rome .148 the Iewes as then being in y e third yeere of their captiuitie of Babilon This Kinimachus departed this life after hee hadde raigned .54 yeeres and was buried at Yorke Gorbodug the .18 Ruler GOrbodug the sonne of Kinimacus begaÌ„ his raigne ouer the Britaynes Gorbodug in the yeere after the creation of the world 3418. from the buildyng of y e Citie of Rome .202 the Iewes beeing in the 58. of their captiuitie at Babilon This Gorbodug by most likelyhoode to bring histories to accord should raigne aboute the tearme of .63 yeeres and then departing thys world was buried at London leauing after hym two sonnes Ferrex and Porrex or after some writers Ferreus and Porreus Ferrex the .19 Ruler After this folowed a troubleous season full of cruell warre seditious discord whereby in the ende and for the space of fiftie yeres the gouernemente of the Ilande was deuided betwixt fiue Kings or rulers till Dunwallon of Cornewall ouercame them all Thus the line of Brute after the affirmance of most writers tooke an ende for after the death of the two foresayde brethren no rightful inheritor was left aliue to succeede them in the Kingdome The names of these fiue Kings are found in certaine olde pedigrees Robert â—â—corde and although the same be muche corrupted in dyuers copies yet these are the most agreeablest Rudacus King of VVales Clotenus King of Cornewall Pinnor King of Loegria Staterus King of Albania Yewan King of Northumberlande But of these fiue Kings or Dukes the English Chronicle alloweth Cloton king of Cornewale for most rightfull heire There appeareth not any time certayne by report of auncient Authors howe long this variaunce continued amongst the Britaynes Fab. but as some late writers haue gessed it should continue for the space of .51 yeeres Ciuill 〈◊〉 51 yeeres coniecturing so much by that which is recorded in Policron who sayth how it did continue euen till the beginning of the raigne of Mulmutius Dunwallo who began to gouerne from the time that Brute first entred Britayne about the space of seuen hundred and three yeeres Heere ye must note y t there is differeÌ„ce amoÌ„gst writers about y e supputation accompt of these yeeres in somuch y t some making their reckoning after certain writers and finding y e same to vary aboue three C. yeeres are brought into further doubt of the troth of
they might be the better able to furnish theyr enterprise The third day after they mette togither with great ioy and coÌ„gratulations Reuther and Gethus meete ioyne their powers togither vnto whom with all speede a great number also of those Scottishmen and Pictes that had still continued iâ—… the countrey during the time of the persecution by the Brytains dayly resorted and came flocking in from eche side vnto them Sisillius king of the Brytains who succeeded after Denus as then lately deceassed hauing knowledge hereof assembled a great army of his subiectes The Brytains are discoÌ„fited by the Scottes and Pictes and hearing that the Scots and Picts were entred into the borders of his Realme hee hasted foorth to encounter with their powers so ioyning with them in battaile after long and cruel fight in the end the victory remayned with the Scottish men and Pictes by the greate valiauncie and manfull prowes of Reuther Whereof Rethirdail tooke the name whervpon the place where that battaile was foughteÌ„ hath bene euer since called Redirdail as ye wold say Reuthers valley This victorie was not very pleasant to any of the parties by reason of the greate numbers of men slaine on bothe sides in so muche that they were gladde to fall to agreement immediatly after A peace concluded concluded a peace with conditions that the Scottish men Pictes should be restored againe vnto their auncient possessioÌ„s lands in Albion This peace coÌ„tinued a long time after inuiolate betwixte these nations The yeare that Reuther returned thus into Albion 204. H. B. was before the birth of Christe .216 after the buylding of Rome .529 and from the creation of the world 3750. Reuther by Beda in his Ecclesiasticall historie of England is named Reuda 4995. H. B. Reuther by Beda is named Reuda who also supposeth him to be y e first of al y e Scottish princes y t set any foote in Brytain there to inhabite his coming thither was as seemeth to some loÌ„g after the supposed time here before alledged And verily there is great cause to moue a doubt of y e truth of that which Hector Boetius hath writteÌ„ in following as he saith other authors touching the firste comming into Brytaine aswell of the Stots Picts for if it were true that so long before the comming of the Romains into this Isle they were here plaÌ„ted groweÌ„ to such puissance it is strange that no mentioÌ„ is made of them in any of their writings till aboute the yeare .360 after Christ as in place conuenient it shall more plainely appeare Reuther passed the residue of his dayes without any further warres forrayne or ciuill An. mundi 4997. H.B. and so departed this worlde at Berigonium in the .xxvj. yeare of his raygne Reutha therfore being thus elected to raygne as king ouer the Scottish meÌ„ An ordinance for buriall of theyr Princes ordained that such noblemen as had atchieued any notable exployte in defence of their countrey should be had in perpetual memorie buried in solempne wise in sepulchres aloft vpoÌ„ hilles or mountaines Obeliskes or pointed stones vpoÌ„ the which were set so many Obelisks or loÌ„g pointed stones as they had slaine enimies in the warres wherof some remaine there to be seene euen vnto this day Craftes men brought into Scotlande to instruct the people This Reutha also vnderstandyng of the lacke of all maner of craftes men in his Realme of suche as were expert in the liberall sciences caused a great number of moste perfect artificers to be sent for to inhabite amongst his people the better to instruct them in their occupatioÌ„s Vnto these also as vnto other professing any liberall arte Liuings appointed forth vnto these craftes men were appointed honest liuings by way of fees assigned to be receiued of suche oxen beefes as were killed to euery man of science artificer his parte And further eche of them had certaine measures of Otes and Barly in steede of yearly annuities For as yet the vse of coigne was not knowen among the Scottish men The whiche custome of distributing theyr beasts which they killed in this wise is still vsed in the Westerne Isles euen vnto these our dayes Reutha perceiuing furthermore that through vnskilful Chirurgions Phisitions many wounded diseased persons were oftentimes cast away A law for Phisitions Chirurgions ordeined by the aduice and consent of his counsell that none should take vpoÌ„ them as a Chirurgion or Phisition vnlesse they were by long experience well practised aforehand in those sciences For before that time they vsed to carie foorth such persons as were sicke or otherwise hurte and to lay them in some open place in the streetes or market sâ—…edde that al such as came by might according to their knowledge declare their aduise and shew if they had bene vexed with the like disease by what meanes they had escaped the daunger recouered agayn theyr health For no maÌ„ might without the note of high reproche passe by in keeping silence in this behalf And this was according to the custome of the olde Egyptians Reutha thus studying for the aduauncement of the common wealth of his subiects continued in the estate with great prosperitie til finally perceyuing himselfe farre growen in age and not so able to trauell in the affayres of the realme as he was before he caused a parliament to be assembled and there in presence of all the estates he required to be discharged of the gouernment and that the same might be coÌ„mitted vnto his cousin Thereus who as then was not onely of sufficient age to take it vpon him but also of suche towardnesse as that in eche mans opinion he was thought likely to atteyne vnto the prowesse of any of his noble progenitours Thus Reutha after he had raygned a .xvij. yeares returned to a priuate lyfe Reutha resigned the estate vnto his coâ—â—â—â— Thereus resigning the whole rule of the realme vnto the foresayd Thereus being through his perswasion receyued as king of all estates by common consent there in that present assemble THis Thereus for the first .vj. yeares was equall in al points of princely gouernmeÌ„t to any of his predecessors Thereus but afterward he chauÌ„ged his copie in such maner that iustice and all other kindes of vertue being set aparte Iustice neglected and 〈◊〉 embraced he neyther regarded the lawes of the Gods nor yet of men but gaue himselfe to al sortes of filthinesse most detestable vices so farre foorth that his subiectes as their custome is in following the maners vsages of theyr Princes became so outragious in theyr licentious liuings and namely the Nobles and Gentlemen that thereof ensueâ—… theâ—…te murder rape spoyling and all kindes of oppression of those seely soules that had not meane to resist so as in fine diuers gouernours of the tribes perceyuing no hope of amendmeÌ„t whilest Thereus should raygne
Lacy Lorde of Meth departed this life in Englande he left two daughters behinde hym that were hys heires Margaret maried to the Lord Verdon The Lorde Verdon Geffrey GeÌ„neuille and Mathild wife to Geffrey Genneuille King Henry in the .xxxvj. yeere of his raigne gaue to Edward his eldest sonne Gascoigne Irelande 1252 and the county of Chester In the yeere following 1253 Hugh Lacy Earle of Vlster departed this life was buried at Cragfergus in the Church of the Friers Minors leauing a daughter behind him that was his heire whome Walter de Burgh or Bourke married and in right of hir was created Earle of Vlster as after shall appeare Morice Fitz Gerald Lord Iustice of Ireland being requested by this Prince to come and assist him with a power of men againste the Welche Rebels left a sufficiente garrison of menne in the Castell of Scligath which he had lately builded The Castell of Scligath and then came ouer with Phelin Ochonher and a lusty bande of Souldiers and meeting the Prince at Chepstow behaued themselues so valiantly that returning with victory they greatly encreased the fauoure of the Kyng and Prince towardes them and vppon theyr returne into Irelande they ioyned with Cormacke Mack Dermote Mack Rori and made a notable iourney againste Odonil the Irishe enimie Odonil that when Lacie was once dead inuaded and sore anoyed the Kings subiectes of Vlster Odonil being vanquished the Lord Iustice forced pledges and tribute of Oneale to keepe the Kings peace and diuers other exploytes prayseworthy dyd he during the time of his gouernement as Flatsberie hath gathered in his notes for the Lorde Gerald Fitz Gerald Earle of Kildare in the yeere 1517. Iohn Fitz Geffrey Lorde Iustice Alayne de la Zâ—…uch Lorde Iustice Stephan de long Espee After Morice Fitz Gerald succeeded in office of Lord Iustice Iohn Fitz Geffrey Knight and after him Alayne de la Zouch whome â—…he Earle of Surrey Fitz Warren slew And after de la Zouch in the yeere .1258 being the .42 of Henry the third his raigne was Stephan de loÌ„g Espee sent to supply that roome who slew Oneil with .352 of his men in the streetes of Doâ—â—ne shortly after departed this life then WilliaÌ„ Dene was made Lorde Iustice William Dene Lord Iustice Greene Castel destroyed Mac Carey 1261 Sir Richarde Capell Lorde iustice Greene Castell was destroyed Also Mac Carey played the Deuill in Desmonde In the yeere .1261 Sir William Dene Lord Iustice of Irelande deceassed and Sir Richarde Rochell or Capell as some copies haue was sent to be Lord Iustice after him who greatly enuyed the familie of the Giraldines during his gouernemente Lord Iohn Fitz Thomas slayne the Lorde Iohn Fitz Thomas and the Lord Morice his sonne were slayne In the yere .1264 Walter de burgh was made Earle of Vlster The Lorde iustice taken and Morice Fitz Morice tooke y e Lord Iustice of IrelaÌ„d togither with Theobald Butler Miles Cogan and diuers other greate Lordes at Tristildermot on S. Nicholas day And so was Irelande full of warres betwixt the Burghes and Giraldines 1266 In the yeere .1266 there chanced an Earthquake in Ireland 1267 In the yeere following King Henry tooke vp the variance that was in Ireland betwixt y e parties and discharging Dene appoynted Dauid Barry Lord Iustice in his place Dauid Barry Lord iustice who tamed the insolent dealings of Morice Fitz Morice cousin Germane to Fitz Gerald. In the yeere .1268 1268 Conhur Obren was slaine by Dermote Mack Monerd and Morice Fitz Gerald Earle of Desmond was drowned in the Sea Robert Vffert betwixt Wales and Ireland And Roberte Vffort was sente ouer to remayne Lord Iustice of Ireland and Barry was discharged who coÌ„tinued till the yeere .1269 Richard de Exceter 1270 1271 and then was Richarde de Exceter made Lord Iustice And in the yeere following was the Lorde Iames Audley made Lord Iustice Richard Verdon and Iohn Verdon were slayne and Fulke Archbishop of Dublin deceassed Also the Castels of Aldleck Roscoman and Scheligagh were destroyed The same yeere was a greate dearth and mortalitie in Irelande The Lord Audley In the yere .1272 the Lorde Iames Audley was slayne by a fal from his horse in ThomouÌ„d and then was Morice Fitz Morice made Lorde Iustice of Irelande Randon and the Castell of Randon was destroyed In the yeere .1272 The decesse of king Henry the thirde King Henry the thirde departed this life and the Lorde Walter Genuille lately returned home from his iourney into the holy land was sent into Ireland 1272 Walter Genâ—…ille and made Lord Iustice there In the yeere .1275 1275 the Castell of Roscoman was eftsoones repaired and fortifyed 1276 An ouerthrow at Glenburry In the yeere .1276 there was an ouerthrowe giuen at Glenbury where William Fitz Roger Prior of the Knightes Hospitallers many other with him were taken prisoners and a greate number of other were slayne The same yere Iohn de Verdon departed this world and Thomas de Clare married y e daughter of Morice Fitz Morice In the yeere following Robert Vffort was appointed to supply y e roomth of Genuille being called home and so was this Vffort the seconde time ordeyned Lord Iustice of Irelande He haâ—…ing occasion to passe into Englande made hys substitute Fulborne Bishop of Waterford til his returne and then resumed the gouernemente into his owne handes agayne In the yeere .1277 Thomas de Clare slewe Obrencoth King of Tholethmoâ—â— 1277 and yet after this the Irish closed him vp in 〈◊〉 whaâ—â—â— togither with Maurice Fitz Maurice so that they gâ—â—e hostages to escape and the Castell of Roscoman was wonne In the yeere next ensuing was Iohn de â—…erlington coÌ„â—â—crated Archbishop of Dublin 1278 â—…here was also a Councell holden at Grenok Macke Dermot slewe Cathguâ—… O Conthir King of Connagh In the yeere .1279 Robert Vffort vpon ocâ—…asion of businesse came ouer into Englande and left Friar Fulborne Bishoppe oâ—… Waterforde to supply his roomth and Raufe Piphard and O Haulen chased Onâ—â—l in a battell In the yeere 128â—… Roberte Vffort came the third time to occupie the roomth of Lorde chiefe Iustice in Irelande resuming that roomth into his hands againe In the yeere following 1281 the Bishop of Waterford was established by the King of England Lord Iustice of Irelande Adam Cusack y e yonger slewe William Barret and many other in Connagh And in the nexte yeere to witte .1282 Pâ—…uqueit slew Murertagh and his brother Arte Mac Murch at Athlone Also the Lorde Iames de Brimmingham and Peers de Euyt departed this life Also the Archbishop Derlington deceassed And about the same time the Citie of Dublin was defaced by fire the Steeple of Christs Church vtterly destroyed Christ Church repaired The Citizens before they wente about to repaire their owne priuate buildings agreed togither to
Iustice might haue possessed the Iles if they had bene worth the keeping into the which Iles except the sayd Darcy the Earle of Sussex late Lieutenant of Irelande no gouernor at any time yet aduentured At Darcyes comming backe into Irelande and exercising the office of Lorde Iustice he deliuered Walter Birmingham out of the Castell of Dublin Howe a Realme of warre might bee gouerned by one both vnskilfull and vnable in all warlike seruice Articles or questions How an officer vnder the king that entred very poore might in one yeare grow to more excessiue wealth than men of great patrimonie and liuelode in many yeares Howe it chaunced that sithe they were all called Lordes of theyr owne that the soueraigne Lord of them all was not a pennie the rycher for them The chiefe of them that thus seemed to repine with the present gouernment was Thomas Fitz Maurice Erle of Desmonde through whose maintenance and bearing out of the matter the Countrey was in great trouble so as it had not lightly beene seene that suche contrarietie in myndes and dislyking had appeared amongest those of the English race in that realme at any time before Herewith Raufe Vffort was sent ouer Lord Iustice who bringing hys wyfe wyth him 1343 Raufe Vffort Lord iustice the Countesse of Vlster arryued about the .xiij. of Iulie Thys man was verye rygorous and through perswasion as was sayde of his wyfe he was more extreeme and couetous than otherwyse hee woulde haue beene a matter not to bee forgotten The Countesse of Vlster for if thys Ladie had beene as readie to moue hir husbande to haue shewed hymselfe gentle and mylde in his gouernment as she was bent to pricke him forwarde vnto sharpe dealing and rygorous proceedings shee had beene nowe aswell reported of as shee is infamed by theyr pennes that haue regystred the doyngs of those tymes And whilest hee yet remayned in Mounster he deuised wayes how to haue the Earle of Desmonde apprehended whiche being brought to passe hee afterwarde deliuered him vpon mainprise of these sureties whose names ensue Sureties for the Earle of Desmonde William de Burgh Earle of Vlster Iames Butler Earle of Ormonde Rycharde Tuyt Nicholas Verdon Maurice Rochefort Eustace le Power Geralde de Rochefort Iohn Fitz Robert Power Robert Barry Maurice Fitz Girald Iohn Wellesley Walter le Fant Richard Rokelley Henrie Traherne Roger Power Iohn Lenfaunt Roger Power Mathew Fitz Henrie Richarde Walleys Edmonde Burgh sonne to the Earle of Vlster knightes Dauid Barry William Fitz Gerald Foulke de Fraxinus Robert Fitz Maurice Henry Fitz Berkley Iohn Fitz George de Roche Thomas de Lees de Burgh These as ye haue heard were bounde for the Earle and bycause hee made default the Lorde Iustice verily tooke the aduauntage of the bonde agaynst the mainpernours foure of them onely excepted the two Earles and two knightes Vffort euill spoken of The lord Iustice is charged with strayte dealing by wryters in this behalfe for that the same persons had assisted him in his warres agaynste Desmond but truly if we shal consider the matter with indifferencie he did no more than law reason required For if euery surety vpō forfeyture of his bonde shoulde be forborne that otherwyse doth his duetie what care woulde men haue eyther to procure sureties or to become suretyes themselues But such is the affection of wryters specicially when they haue conceyued any mislyking towardes those of whome they take occasion to speake so as many a worthie man hath bene defamed and with slaunder greatly defaced in things wherein he rather hath deserued singular commendation But howsoeuer this matter was handled touching the Earle of Desmonde Ioy conceyued for the death of the lord Iustice Vffort vpon the death of the Lord Iustice whiche ensued the nexte yeare Bonfyres were made and greate ioye shewed through all the Realme of Irelande His Ladie verily as shoulde appeare was but a miserable woman procuring him to extortion and bryberie Much he abridged the prerogatiues of the Churche and was so hated that euen in the sight of the Countrey he was robbed without rescue by Mac Cartie notwithstanding he gathered power and dispersed those Rebels of Vlster Robert Darcy was ordeyned Iustice by the Counsell 1346 Robert Darcie Lord iustice till the kings letters came to sir Iohn Fitz Morice who released Fitz Thomas Earle of Kildare left in durance by Vfford at his death Iohn Fitz Morice Iustice Fitz Morice continued not long but was discharged and the Lorde Walter Birmingham elect to succeede in that rowmth Lord Birmingham Iustice who procured a safeconduct for Desmonde to pleade his cause before the King by whome he was liberally entreated and allowed towarde his expences there twentie shillings a day at the Princes charge in consideration of whiche curtesie shewed to hys Kinnesman the Earle of Kildare accompanied with dyuerse Lordes Knightes and chosen Horsemen serued the King at Calyce a towne thought impregnable and returned after the winning thereof in greate pompe and ioylitie 1347 ◅ecord Tur. Wee finde that Thomas Lorde Berkeley and Reignalde Lord C◅bham and Sir Morice Berckley became main◅ernours for the sayde Earle of Desmonde that hee shoulde come into England and abide such tryall as the law would awarde 1348 The Prior of Kilmaynam Baron Carew Iustice Sir Thomas Rokesby Iustice Record Tur. Iohn Archer Prior of Kylmaynam was substituted Lieutenaunt to the Lorde Iustice To whome succeeded Baron Carew and after Carewe followed Sir Thomas Rokesbye Knight vnto whome was assigned aboue his ordinarie retinew of twentie men of armes a supplie of tenne men of armes and twentie Archers on Horsebacke so long as it should bee thought needfull Greate mortalitie chaunced this yeare as in other partes of the worlde so especially in places aboute the Sea coastes of Englande and Irelande 1349 In the yeare following departed this life Alexander Bignor Archbishop of Dublin Iohn de Saint Paule Archbishop of Dublin And the same yeare was Iohn de Saint Paule consecrated Archbishop of that sea This yeare deceased Kemwryke Shereman sometime Maior of Dublin 1350 Kenwrike Shereman a great benefactor to euery Churche and religious house within .xx. myles rounde aboute the Citie His legacies to the poore and other besides his liberalitie shewed in his lyfe tyme amounted to three thousande Markes Sir Robert Sauage In this season dwelled in Vlster a wealthie knight one sir Robert Sauage who the rather to preserue his owne began to wall and fortifie his Manor houses with Castelles and pyles against the Irish enimie exhorting his heyre Henrie Sauage to applie that worke so beneficiall for himselfe and his posteritie Father quoth yong Sauage I remember the prouerbe Better a Castell of bones than of stones where strēgth courage of valiant men are prest to helpe vs neuer will I by the grace of God comber my selfe with dead walles My fort shall bee where soeuer yong blouds be
themselues to the Frenche King who taking a greate pryde in his doings for that victorie passed ouer Loyre and wanne the Citie of Towrs wherein hee placed a garnison and so hauing spedde hys businesse wyth good successe bringeth home hys armie laden wyth prayes and booties Polidor King Henrie beeing thus put to the worse and not perceyuing anye readie meane howe to recouer his losses beganne to despayre in hymselfe and therefore of necessitie thought it best to seeke for peace The Earle of Flaunders seeketh to agree the Parties but hys suyte was in vaine for the enimie hauing now the aduantage would not graunt to agree vpon any reasonable conditions At the last Philip the Earle of Flaunders Mat. Paris and William Archbishoppe of Reymes with Hugh Duke of Burgoyne came to king Henrie to moue wayes of agreement and to conclude the same betwixte hym on the one partie and the French King and Earle Richarde on the other parte Earle Richarde had the Brytaynes and them of Poictou confederate wyth him vnder such conditions as hee myght not agree with his father without that they mighte bee comprysed in the agreemente A peace concluded At length they agreed vpon conditions not altogither aduauntageable to the King of Englande yet in the ende Chateau Raoul was restored to king Henrye wyth all that had beene taken from him sithe the tyme that the Frenche king and hee tooke vppon them the Crosse On the other part King Henrye did homage to the Frenche King whiche in the beginning of thys warre he hadde surrendred and renounced Thirty thoâ—…sand to the king and .xx. to the Baron of France 〈◊〉 He was bounde also to paye to the Frenche King twentie thousande Markes for the ayde whiche Earle Rycharde had receyued of him Moreouer to resigne and acquite vnto the Frenche King Ger. Do. all that whiche eyther he or hys predecessours helde or possessed within Aluergne Other Articles there were which king Henry agreed vnto sore agaynst hys will as the delyuery of the Ladie Alice or Adela and suche other which as not muche materiall wee passe ouer This peace was concluded not farre from Towrs â—…g Houed Gisors saith â—…er Do. in a place appoynted conuenient for both the Kings to meete in aboute the feast of the Apostles Peter and Paule And as writers recorde there chaunced great thunder and lightning at the very tyme when the two kings came to enteruiew and talke togither â—…ange thunâ—…r and lightâ—…ng so that the leit bolt light betwixt them two And yet notwythstanding suche thunder and lightning the ayre was cleare and nothing troubled The two Kings departed in sunder through feare thereof for that day and on the next day the like chaunce happened greatly to the terrour of them both Which moued King Henrie the sooner to condifcende to the agreement Moreouer this is not-to-bee forgotten that when all matters were quieted and accorded amongst them King Henrie requyred to haue all theyr names delyuered vnto him in wryting which had promised to take part were ioined as confederates with the French king and Erle Richard This was graunted and when the rolle was presented vnto him he founde his son Iohn the first person that was named in that register wherewith he was so troubled and disquieted in his mynde that comming to Chinon hee felte such griefe hereof that hee cursed euen the verye day in whiche he was borne and as was sayde gaue to hys sonnes Gods cursse and hys the whiche hee woulde neuer release although he was admonished to do it both of sundry Bishops and other religious and godly men Thus hath Houeden Howbeit it is not like that Earle Richarde at this tyme had procured hys brother Iohn to bee confederate with hym in hys rebellious dealings but rather bycause Earle Rycharde had some suspition leaste his father woulde make Iohn hys heyre and successour in the kingdome it might bee a pollicie wrought by the Frenche king and Earle Richarde to alienate his fathers minde from the sayd Iohn These euils were esteemed to fall vnto king Henrie by the iust iudgement of God for that being admonished dyuerse wayes as well by diuine Reuelation as by the wholesome aduise of graue menne as Hugh Bishoppe of Lincolne and others hee woulde not refourme hys lycencious appetyte of heaping vppe sinne vpon sinne but styll wallowed therein to his owne destruction Wherevpon beeing brought to suche an extremitie as ye haue heard hee was taken with a grieuous sickenesse which bringing him to vtter desperation of recouering of health he finally departed this lyfe though more through verie anguishe and griefe of hys late losse and troubles susteyned than by the force of hys bodily disease King Henrie departeth this life as wryters haue affyrmed But howsoeuer it was he ended nowe his life the sixth of Iuly in the .lxj. yeare of his age and after he had raigned xxxiiij yeares nine Monethes and two dayes whiche was in the yeare after the byrth of oure Sauiour .1189 and of the creation of the Worlde .5155 And here may be thought that the raigne of the Normans and French men ouer the realme of England tooke ende a hundred .xxij. yeares after the comming in of the Conquerour for those that raigned after this Henrie the seconde wee may rightly esteeme them to bee Englishemen bycause they were borne in Englande and vsed the English tongue customes and maners according to the nature and qualitie of the Countrey His bodie was buryed at Founteverarde whiche is an Abbey situate not farre from the Towne of the Eagle wythin the Duchie of Alancon Immediately vpon his death those that were about him applyed theyr market so busily in catching and filching awaye things that lay readie for them His surname whereof it came that the kings corps lay naked a long time tyll a childe couered the nether partes of his bodie with a short Cloke and then it seemed that his surname was fulfilled that hee had from hys childhood which was shortmantell being so called bycause hee was the first that brought shorte clokes one of Anion into England As his sonne Richarde mette the corpse going towardes the buryall sodainly there issued bloud oute of the deade bodyes Nosthrillos whiche was taken for a signifycation that it abhorred the presence of so wicked a Sonne whiche in hys lyfe tyme hadde so persecuted the father His death was signified by a marueylous straunge woonder A straunge maner of fight betwixt fishes for a fewe dayes before hee dyed all the fishes in a certayne Meere or Poole in Normandie leapt forth on lande in the nighte season and fought togyther with suche a noyse that a great multitude of men came running thither to beholde the wonder and coulde not finde one fishe aliue in the Meere He had issue by hys wyse Queene Elonor The issue of Henrie the seconde His sonnes as may appeare by that whiche alreadie is rehearsed â—…foure sonnes Henrye Rycharde
the Erle of Hereford departed this life at Groby The Oâ—… of Wâ—… depâ—…â—…e a Manor place belonging to hir husband the Earle of Winchester a little besides Leycester and was buried at Brackley The sayde Earle shortly after maryed an other wise in hope of issue For neither by this his laste wife Mat. Pâ—… neyther by his first that was daughter to the Lord Alane de Galoway he had any childreÌ„ Also the same yeare The 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 de Lâ—… Wigâ—… that noble Ladie Margaret Countesse of Lisle surnamed Riuers somtime wife to Fouâ—…s de Brent departed out of this worlde about the second day of October In the .xxxvij. yeare of king Henries raigne Aâ—… 〈◊〉 one of the Popes notaries called Albiet came into England to offer vnto Richard erle of Cornâ—…wall the kings brother The Pâ—…fereth 〈◊〉 kingâ—… Sicall 〈◊〉 Earle 〈◊〉 wall the kingdomeâ—… of â—…ples and Sicill But the Erle supposing it not to stande with his honour to depriue his nephewe Henry son to the Emperor Frederick the seconde by his wife the Empresse Isabell that was â—…e to y e said erle refused to take that honor vpoÌ„ him About the same time that is to say in the Octaues of Saint Martin Boniface the Archbishop of Canterburie arriued in Englande comming from the Court of Rome where he haâ—… bin long resiant The same time there chauâ—…ed a great occasion of strife betwixt the sayd Archbishop and the Bishop of Winchester For where maister â—…ustace de Linne oâ—…all to the said Archbishop had first excomunicate after for his coÌ„tumacie â—…ansed to be attached a priest which by authority of y e elect of Winchester as diocesane there was â—…red into possession of an Hospitall in Southwarke as gouernour thereof by the name of Prâ—… â—…thout consent of the Officiall whiche presâ—…ded tytle as Patrone in hys Maisters name the sayd elect of Winchester caused a ryotous sorâ—… of persons after the maner of warre to seeke â—…nge hereof the whiche after manye outrages done came to Lambeth and there by violence tooke the sayde Eustace out of his owne house and ledde him to Farnham where hee was kepte as prisoner The Archbishop here of aduertised at his first comming ouer and taking the same but for a homely welcom was maruelously offended and comming to London accompanied with the Bishops of Chichester and Hereforde in the Church of Saint Mary Bowe being reuested in Pontificalibus pronounced all those accursed whiche were Authours or fauourers of such a rashe and presumptuous deede and further commaunded all the Bishops within his Prouince by vertue of their obedience to denounce the same in their Churches euery Sunday and holy day The Bishop of Winchester on the other part sent coÌ„maundement to the deane of Southwarke to resist the Archbishop to his face to denounce his cursse to be voyde vaine and of no force but deuised of a craftie purpose and wicked meaning The Archbishop continuing in his conceiued displeasure went to Oxforde and there on the morow after Saint Nicholas day renued the same curse in solemne wise before all the learned men students 1253 and scholers of the vniuersitie At length yet the matter was taken vp betwixt them for the king in his brothers cause and the Queene for hir vncle the Archbishop 〈◊〉 Archb. of â—…erourie â—…he Bishop Winchester â—…e friends â—…liam de â—…ence and 〈◊〉 de Warâ—… tooke some payne to agree them And so in the Octaues of the Epiphanie they were made friendes and those assoyled that were excommunicate in which number William de ValeÌ„ce and Iohn de Warren were thought to be conteyned as those that shoulde be present in vsing the force against the Official as before ye haue heard By inquiry takeÌ„ about this time by the diligence of the Bishop of Lincolne it was found that the yearely profites and reuenues of spiritual promotions 〈◊〉 value of â—…uall lyâ—…gs in stranâ—… handes and liuings resting in straungers hands preferred by the Popes prouisions amounted to the summe of .lxx. thousand Markes which was more by two thirde partes than the kings reuenues belonging to his crown The Earle of Gloucester and the Lord Wil. de Valence went ouer into Fraunce in most triumphant maner to conclude a maryage betwixt the sonne of the sayde Earle of Gloucester and the daughter of the Lorde Guie of Engolesme Which mariage the king had mocioned for the affection which he bare towardes the aduauncement of his linage by the mothers syde Whereat bicause they were strangers the English nobilitie somwhat repined And wheras like lustie yoÌ„g geÌ„tlemen they attempted a Iustes and tourney to shewe some prouse of theyr valiaunt stomackes they were well beaten by the French men that disdeyned to see yong men so presumptuous to prouoke olde accustomed warriours to the tryall of such martiall enterprises About the beginning of Lent the new Moone was seene foure dayes before she ought to haue appeared by hir common course The newe Moone appeared before hir time The king by a shift got of the LoÌ„doners .1000 Markes For as it happened about the same time the youthfull Citizens for an exercise and triall of their actiuitie had set forth a game to runne at the Quintine Running at the Quintine and whosoeuer did best shuld haue a Peacocke which they had prepared for a prise Certaine of the kings seruants bycause the court lay then at Westminster came as it were in spight of the Citizens to the game The Londoners called Barons giuing reprochfull names to the Londoners which for the dignitie of the Citie auncient priuiledges which they ought to haue enioyed were called Barons the sayd LoÌ„doners not able to beare so to be misvsed fell vpon the kings seruaunts and bet them shrewdly so that vpon coplaint the king caused the Citizens to fine for their rash doings Moreouer for the better preseruation of peace and quietnesse amongst his people he appoynted watch to be kept by night in Cities borough townes And further by the aduice of the Sauoysynes An ordinance agaynst robbers which were about him he ordeyned that if any man chaunced to bee robbed or by anye meanes damnified by any theefe or robber he to whom the keeping of that Countrey chiefly apperteyned where the robbery was done shoulde competently restore the losse and this was after the vsage of Sauoy but was thought more hard to be obserued here than in those partyes where are not so many bypathes and starting corners to shift out of the way The Gascoignes continued in their seditioâ—…s doings and namely Gascon de Bierne who renouncing his duetie and obedience to the king of England ioyned himselfe to the king of Spaine through his help to be the stronger and more able to anoy the English subiectes The euill entreating vsed towards the Gascoigns which brought hyther Wines in that the same were oftentymes taken from them by the Kings officers The 〈◊〉 â—…ed 〈◊〉
also an other De sua innocentia Nicholas Cantlow a Welchman borne discended of an auntient family in Southwales as by Bale it should appeare became a Frier Carmelite in Bristow Henry WichinghaÌ„ a Carmelite Frier of Norwiche a notable diuine a greate Preacher and wrote also sundrie treatises of diuinitie Iohn Lidgate a Monke of Burie an excellente Poet and chiefe in his time in that facultie of al other that practised the same within this land he trauelled through Fraunce and Italy to learne the languages and sciences how greatly he profited in atteyning to knowledge the workes whyche he wrote doe sufficiently testifie Nicholas Hostresham an excellent Phisition Iohn Blackney a religious man of the order of the Trinitie entituled De redemptione captiuorum and Prior of an house of the same order at Ingham in Northfolke he was surnamed Blackney of the towne where he was borne Thomas Beckington Bishop of Bathe wrote againste the lawe Salique whereby the Frenchmen woulde seclude the Princes of this Realme from theyr title to the Crowne of Fraunce Iohn BaringhaÌ„ a Carmelite Frier of Ippeswich or Gippeswiche in Suffolke Dauid Boys borne in Wales and a Frier Carmelite professed in Gloucester a doctor of diuinitie Iohn Brome an Augustine Frier Michael Trigurie a Cornishe man borne whome for his excellencie in learning K. Henry the fifth appointed to be master or gouernoure whether ye list to call him of that schole or Vniuersitie which he instituted in the Citie of Caen in Normandie after hee had broughte it vnder his subiection Iohn Amundisham a Monke of Sainte Albons Oswalde Anglicus a Monke of y e Chartreux order Iohn Keningale a Carmelite Frier of Norwiche Peter de Sancta fide that is of Sainte Faith a Carmelite also of Norwiche Reginalde Pecocke Bishop of Chichester of whome yee haue heard before he was borne in Wales and Student in Oriall Colledge in Oxforde where hee proceeded doctor of Diuinitie hee wrote manye treatises touching the Christian religion Iohn â—…named Bâ—…ie of the towne where hee was borne an Augustine Frier in the Towne of Clare in Suffolke Robert Fleming Thomas Gascoigne borne at Hunâ—…te in Yorkshire of that worshipfull familie of y e Gascoignes there a Doctor of Diuinitie and Chancellor of the Vniuersitie of Oxforde William Stapilhart borne in â—…ente but by profession a white Frier in London Robert FuninghaÌ„ borne in Northfolke a Franciscane Frier in Norwich Nicholas Moâ—…ute an Historiographer Iohn ChaÌ„dler Chancellor of Welles William Botoner discended of a good house a Knight by degree and borne in Bristowe very studious in antiquities and other sciences Iohn Stowe a Monke of Norwiche but Student in Oxeford where he proceeded doctor of Diuinitie Thomas Langley a Monke of Hulme Nicholas Bingey borne in a Towne of Northfolke of that name wrote an historie called Adunationes chronicorum Henrye Beauford Bishoppe of Winchester base sonne to Iohn Duke of Lancaster of whome before we haue made sufficient mention hee was aduanced to the dignitie of Cardinall by Pope Martine the fourth in the yeare .1426 Adam Homlington a Carmelite Frier William Coppinger master of the Vniuersitie of Oxford Thomas Stacie an experte Mathematicien and no lesse skilfull in Astronomie Iohn Talaugerne a Monke of Worcester William Sutton an Astrologicien Robert Balsacke wrote a booke entitled De re militari that is to saye of warre or cheualrie so that as is thoughte hee was both a good souldier and a painefull student of good letters Thomas DaÌ„do a Carmelite Frier of Marleburg hee wrote the life of Alphred Kyng of West Saxons William Grey borne of the noble house of the Greys of Codnor hee 〈◊〉 attayne to some excellencie of learning into Italy where hee hearde that noble Cleaâ—…e Guarinus Veronensis reede in Ferrarâ—… hee was preâ—…erred to the Bishopricke of Elie in the yeare .1454 by Pope Nicholas the fifth when Thomas Burchier was translated from thence to Caunterburie Iohn Kemp Archbishop of York and after remoued from thence to Caunterbury as before yee haue heard hee was made Cardinall of Saint Albine by Pope Eugene the fourth Adam Molins or Milner as Bale calleth hym keeper of the Kinges prittie Seale excellently learned in time of the ciuill warre betwixt King Henry and the Duke of Yorke lost his head as many other did in time of those helliâ—…e tragedies God deliuer euerye Christian Realme from the like Thomas Chillenden a Doctor both of the lawe Ciuill and Canon became at length a Monke in Canterburie Roberte Bale surnamed the elder excellently learned in the lawes of the Realme was aduanced to the office of Recorder of London gathered as it were a Chronicle of the customes lawes foundatioÌ„s changes restoring Magistrates offices orders and publique assemblies of the Citie of London with other matters touching the perfect description of the same Citie he wrote other works also touching the state of the same citie and the actes of King Edwarde the thirde hee departed this life in the yeare of our Lorde .1461 euen about the beginning of the raigne of King Edward the fourth vnto whome we will nowe agayne returne King Edward the fourth An. reg 1. Edward the .iiij. AFTER that thys noble Prince Edward Erle of March had consented to take vpoÌ„ him y e gouernemente of thys Kingdome of Englande through perswasion of the Prelates and other of the nobilitie as before ye haue hearde the morow next ensuing being the fourth of March he rode to the Church of Saint Paule The Earle of Marche taketh vpon him as King and there offered and after Te Deum song with greate solemnitie hee was conueyd to Westminster and there set in the hall with the Scepter royal in his hand where to all the people there in great number assembled His title declared his title and clayme to the Crowne of England was declared two maner of wayes the first as sonne and heire to Duke Richard hys father right inheritor to the same the second by authoritie of Parliament and forfeiture committed by King Henry Wherevpon it was agayne demaunded of the commons if they woulde admitte and take the sayde Earle as their Prince and soueraigne Lord whiche all with one voyce cryed yea yea This agreement then being thus concluded he entred into Westminster Churche vnder a Canapie with solemne procession and there as king offered and herewith taking the homages of all the nobles there present hee returned by water to London He is proclaymed King and was lodged in the Bishops palais and on the morrow after he was proclaymed K. by the name of Edwarde the fourth throughout the Citie This was in the yeare of the world .5427 and after the birth of our sauiour .1461 after our accompt beginning the yeare at Christmas but after the vsuall accompt of the Church of England 1460. about the twentith of the Emperor Frederike the thirde the nine and thirtith and last of Charles the seuenth King of Fraunce and fyrste yeare of the raigne of Iames the
cleane rased Wherat the king taking great ioy presently called to certain of the Lordes of the counsel that were by and sayd How say you my Lords Chatillons garden the new forte is layd as flat as this floore One streight amongst them gaue iudgement That he â—…as had done it was worthy to lose his headâ—… The king streight replyed he had rather lost a dozen such he 〈◊〉 as his was thaâ—… so iudged 〈…〉 such seruants as had done it And herew t he coÌ„manded y t the L. Greys pardon shuld â—…ly be made y e which with a letter of great â—…kes and promise of rewarde was returned by the sayd sir Thomas Palmer to the sayd Lord Grey but the reward fayled the king not continuyng long after in lyfe the like happeÌ„ wherof had oftentymes happened vnto diuers of his worthie auncestors vpon their due desertes to haue bin considered of and therfore the cafe the lesse straunge This haue I set downe the more willyngly for that I haue receiued it from them which haue herd it reported not only by the L. Greys owne mouthe but also by the relation of Syr Thomas Palmer and others that were present The same not tendyng so muche to the Lord Greys owne prayse as to the betokening of the kings noble courage and the great secret trust which he worthyly reposed in the sayde Lord Grey Here is to be noted also least any man shuld mistake the matter as if the K. dealt indirectly herein that his Maiestie knowyng howe the Frenchmen in goyng about to buyld this fort did more than they might by the couenaÌ„ts of y e peace therfore was resolued at the first aduertisement thereof to haue it rased But yet for y t it might haply haue bin signified ouer vnto the freÌ„chmen before my L. Grey could haue accoÌ„plished the feate he therfore wisely wrote one thing in his letters whervnto many might be priuie sent secrete knowledge by words contrarie to the contents of the same letters so as if the messenger were trustye hys pleasure mighte not bee discouered to the hinderance or disappointing of the same but nowe to oure purpose The French king after this bycause as yet he woulde not seeme to breake the peace commaunded the trenches and newe fortifications made aboute thys fortresse called Chatillons Garden thus cast down to be filled by his own people and so it rested during the lyfe of king Henry but afterwardes it was begon againe and finished as after ye shall heare The Duke was atteynted by Parliament and the Atteynder after reuersed in the fyrste yeare of Queene Mary The euill hap as well of the father as of the sonne was greately lamented of many not onely for the good seruice which the Duke had done in his dayes in defence of this realme but also for that the Erle was a Gentleman well learned and knowne to haue an excellent witte if he had bin thankfull to God for the same and other suche good giftes as he had endued him with The king maketh his Testament The King now lying at the point of death made his last wil and testament wherin he not onely yelded himselfe to Almightie God but also tooke order that during the minoritie of his sonne Prince Edward his executors shuld be counsellors and ayders to him in all things as well concerning priuate as publike affairs They wer .xvj. in number whose names were as here foloweth His executors Thomas Cranmer Archebishop of Canterbury Thomas Wrioshlley Lord Chancellor Sir William Paulet knight of the order lord Saint Iohn great maister of y e houshold Sir Edward Seimer knight of the order erle of Herâ—…ford high ChaÌ„berlain of England Sir Iohn Russell knighte of the order Lorde Priuie seale Sir Iohn Dudley knighte of the order â—â—rout Lisle and baron of Manpas high Admirall of Englande Cutbert Tunstall bishop of Durham Sir Anthony Brown knight of the order and maister of the horsse Sir Edmund Montacute knight chiefe Iustice of the common place Sir Thomas Bromeley knighte one of the Iustices of the kings benche Sir Edward North knighte Chauncellour of the Augmentation Sir William Paget knight of the order Sir Anthonie Denny knight Sir William Herbert knight Sir Edwarde Wotton knighte Treasourer of Caleys The deceasse of king Henry the eyght Nicholas Wotton deane of Canterburye and Yorke So soone as the sayde noble King had finished his laste wyll and testamente as afore is sayde he shortly thervpon yelded vp his spirite to Almightie God departing this world the xxviij daye of Ianuarie in the thirtie and eyghte yeare of his reigne and in the yeare of our lord 1546. after the accompt of the churche of England but after the accompt whiche we follow here in this booke .1547 begynning our yeare the first of Ianuarie He reigned .xxxvij. yeares .ix. monethes and odde days His body according to his wil in that behalf was conueyd to Wyndsoxe with all funerall pompe and in the Colledge there enterred This noble Prince was ryght fortunate in all his dooings so that coÌ„monly what soeuer he attempted had good successe as well in matters of peace as of warres Of personage hee was tall and mightie in his latter dayes somewhat grosse or as we terme it bourly in wit memorie verie perfect of suche maiestie tempered with humanitie ' as best became so noble high an estate a great fauorer of learning as he that was not ignorant of good letters himselfe and for his greate magnificence and liberalitie his renoune was spread through the whole world Of learned men that lyued in the dayes of this moste famous prince we fynde many as first Iohn Colet deane of Paules and founder of the Schoole there he was borne in London of honest parentes William Lillie borne in the towne of Odiham in Hampshire was the first Schoolemaister of Paules Schoole after it was erected Tho. Linacer or rather Linaker borne in Derbyshire a learned Physitian and well seen in the toungs Iohn Skelton a pleasant Poet Richard Pace that succeded Iohn Colet in the roome of Deane of Poules Iohn Fisher Bishoppe of Rochester of whome yee haue herd before Tho. More born in London of whom likewise meÌ„tion is made in the life of this kyng Will. Horman born in Salisburie viceprouost of Eaton Colledge a lerned man as by his woorkes it appeareth Iohn Frith borne in London William Tyndall of whiche two persons ye haue hearde lykewyse in the historie of this King Roberte Wakefield excellently seene in the toungs Iohn Rastell a citizen and Stacioner of London Christofer Saint German an excellente Lawyer Roberte Barnes of whome also wee haue made mention beefore Syr Thomas Eliot knight Edward Lee Archebishop of Yorke Iohn Lerlande a diligente searcher of Antiquities Anne Askewe wrote certayne treatises concernyng hir examinations Sir Iohn Bourchier knyght Lorde Berners translated the Chronicles of sir Iohn Froissarte out of Frenche into Englishe William Chubb es Henry Standyshe a Frier Minor
of EnglaÌ„d and Irelande the Supremehead he beyng yet but nyne yeares and odde Monethes of age Hee was thus proclaymed the .xxviij. of Ianuarie 1547 in the yeare of the worlde .5513 and after the birth of our Lord .1547 accordyng to the accompt of them that beginne the yeare at Christmasse but after the accompte of the Churche of England in the yere .1546 about the xxix yere of the Emperor Charles the fift the .xxxiij. of Frauncis the firste of that name king of Fraunce and in the fifthe yeare of the reigne of Mary Queene of Scotland Shortely herevpon the Earle of Hertforde with other of the Lordes resorted to Hatfield where the yong King thou laye from whence they conducted him with a great and right honorable companie to the Tower of London During the tyme of hys aboade there for the good gouernement of the realme the honoure and suertie of his Maiesties person his Vncle Edward Earle of Hertforde was by order of the Counsell The Earle of Hereford chosen protector and the assente of hys Maiestie as one moste meetest to occupye that roomthe appoynted gouernoure of hys royall persone and protectour of his realmes dominions and subiectes and so proclaymed the fyrste of Februarye by an Heraulte at armes and sounde of Trumpette thorough the Citie of London in the vsuall places thereof as it was thoughte expediente The sixthe daye of Februarie the Earle of Hertforde Lord Protectour adorned king Edwarde with the order of knighthoode remayning then in the Tower and therewyth the Kyng standing vp called for Henry Hubblethorne Lorde Maior of the Citie of London who commyng before hys presence the Kyng tooke the sworde of the Lorde Protectour and dubbed the sayd Hubblethorne knight he being the fyrst that euer be made The .xvij. of Februarie the Lorde Protectour was created Duke of Somerset the erle of Essex was created Marques of Northampton The Lorde Lisle high Admirall of Englande was created Earle of Warwike and hygh Chamberlayne of Englande Sir Thomas Wriothesley Lorde Chauncellour was created Erle of Southampton â–ª Syr Thomas Seymer was aduaunced to the honoure of Lorde of Sudley and high Admirall of Englande whyche office the Earle of Warwike then resigned Syr Rychard Riche was made Lorde Riche Syr William Willoughby was created Lord Willoughby of Parrham Sir Edmund Sheffield was made lord Sheffield of Butterwike The same tyme greate preparation was made for the Kynges Coronation The Kyng rydeth through London to VVestminster and so the foure and twentieth of Februarie next ensewing his maiestie came from the Tower and so rode thoroughe London vnto Westminster with as greate royaltie as myght be the streetes beyng hoong and Pageantes in dyuers places erected to testifye the good willes of the Citizens reioycing that it had pleased God to deale so fauourably with the Englishe nation to graunt them suche a towardly yong Prince to their king and soueraigne thus to succede in place of his noble father The morrowe after being Shroue Sunday and .xxv. of February King Edvvard crovvned his coronation was solemnized in due forme and order wyth all the royaltie and honoure whyche therevnto appertayned Shortly after the Coronation to witte the sixte of Marche the Earle of Southampton Lorde Chauncellour of Englande for his too muche repugnancie as was reported in matters of counsell to the residue of the Counsellours about the Kyng The L. Chancellor discharged of his roomth was not onely depriued of hys office of Chancellour but also remoued from his place and authoritie in counsell and the custodie of the greate Seale was taken from him and deliuered vnto Sir William Paulet Lord Saint Iohn that was lord great maister of the kings housholde 〈…〉 Also shortly after his Coronation the kinges Maiestie by the aduice of hys Vncle the Lorde Protectoure and other of hys pryuie counsell myndyng fyrste of all to seeke Gods honour and glorie and thervpon intending a reformation did not only set foorth by certain Commissioners sundrye Iniunctions for the remouyng of Images out of all Churches to the suppressing and auoydyng of Idolatry and superstition within his realmes and dominions â—…lies but also caused certayne Homilies or Sermons to bee drawen by sundrye godly learned men that the same myght bee redde in Churches to the people whythe were afterwardes by certayne of these Commissioners sent forth as visitours accompanyed with certayn Preachers throughout the Realm for the better instruction of the people published and putte in vre At Easter nexte followyng he sette out also an order thorough all the Realme The comâ—…â—… in bothe sides that the Supper of the Lord should be ministred to the lay people in both kindes These thinges done the Lorde Protectour and the reste of the Counsell calling to mynde the euill dealyng and craflye dissimulation of the Scottes concerning the matter of marriage beetwixte the Kynges Maiestye and the Queene of Scotlande whyche marryage as ye haue hearde in the fyue and thirtith yeare of King Henry the eygthe was by authoritie of Parliamente in Scotlande fully concluded thought it not to stande wyth the Kings honour to be in suche manner by them deluded and withall considering howe greatly it shuld tourne to the quietnesse and safetie of bothe Realmes to haue these two Princes conioyned in Matrimonie they dydde deuise sundry wayes and meanes howe the same myghte bee brought to passe Grafton and the rather as some doe write for that Kyng Henry before his death hadde giuen them in speciall charge by all indeuours to procure that the sayde marriage myghte take place but the Lordes of Scotlande were so inueygled and corrupted by the French Kyng and abused by Cardinall Beton Archebishoppe of Saincte Andrews and other of theyr Clergie that they not onely shranke from that whyche they hadde promysed but also sought to destroye those that fauoured the kyng of Englandes parte wherevppon a great and puissaunt armye was now prepared to passe by lande into Scotland and lykewyse a Nauie to passe by sea to attende vppon the same Whereof the greate Galeye and foure and twentie tall shippes were thorougly furnyshed with menne and munitions for the warre besides many merchantes shippes and other smaller vesselles whiche serued for carrynge of victualles and other necessities But nowe to shewe what noble men and other were ordeyned officers and assigned to haue the conduction as well of the ariuye by lande as of the fleete by sea Ye shall vnderstande Chieftaynes in the armye the firste the Duke of Somersette Lorde Protectour tooke vpon hym to goe him selfe in persone as generall of the whole Armie and Capitayne also of the battayle or middle warde wherein were foure thousande footemenne The Marsiall Earle of Warwike appoynted Lorde Lieutenaunt of the same army ledde the foreward conteyning three thousande footemenne The Lord Dacres gouerned in the rereward wherin were other three thousande footmenne The Lorde Grey of Wilton was ordeyned hyghe Marshall of the sayde armye and
hote houses of y e maine wherof some writâ—… more a greate deale then modesty should â—â—ueale and honesty performe There went a fluse out of this Bath which serued in times past the Priory with water which was deriued out of it vnto twoo places and commonlye vsed for Bathes but nowe I dâ—… not thinke that they remaine in vsage As for the colour of the water of all the Bathes it is most like to a déepe blewe 〈…〉 and râ—…keth much after the manner of a sée thing potte commonly yéelding somewhat a sulpherus taste and very vnpleasant sauour The water that runneth from the two small Bathes goeth by a dyke into the Auon by West and beneath the Bridge but the same that goeth from the Kings Bathe turneth a myl 〈…〉 and after goeth into Auon abouâ—… Bath bridg where it loseth both force tasâ—… is like vnto the rest In all the thrée Bathâ—… a man may euidently sée how the water bubbeleth vp from the springes 〈…〉 This is also to be noted that at certaine times all entraunces into them is vtterly prohibited that is to say at highe noone and midnight for at those two seasons a while before and after they boyle very feruently and become so hote that no man is able to indure their heate or any whtie sustaine their force and vehement working They purge themselues further â–ª more from all such filth as the dyseased doe leaue in eache of them wherefore wée doe forbeare the rashe entraunce into them at that time so much the rather for that we wolde not by contractioÌ„ of any new diseasâ—â— departe more grieuouslye affected them an came vnto the citie which is indéede a thing that eche one should regard 〈…〉 For these causes they are commonlye shut vp from halfe 〈◊〉 houre after ten of the clocke in the foren 〈◊〉 to halfe an houre after one in the afternoone likewise at midnight at which tymes the kéeper of them resorteth to his charge openeth the gates and leaueth frée passage vnto such as come vnto them hytherto Lelandeâ—… what cost hath of late béene bestowed vpon these Bathes by diuers of the Nobility geâ—…try coÌ„monalty and clergy it lieth not in 〈◊〉 to declare yet as I here they are not onely verye much repaired and garnished wyth sundry curious péeces of workemanshipâ—â— partely touchyng their commendation and partely for the ease and benefite of such as resorte vnto them but also better ordered cleâ—â—ier kept and more friendely prouision made for such pouerty as daily repaire thether But notwythstanding all this such is the general estate of things in Bath that the rich men may spend while they will the poore beâ—…ge whâ—…est they lisâ—… for their maintenaunce and dyet so long as they remaine there And yet I deny not but ythere is very good order there for all degrées but where shall a man find any equal regard of poore rich though god do giue these hâ—… gifts fréely vnto both alyke I woulde here intreate further of y e customes vsed in these bathâ—… what nuÌ„ber of Phisitions daily attend vpon those especially such as be able to enterteine them doth enter into these Bathes before he consult with the Phisition also what diet is to be obserued what particular diseases are healed there to what ende the comers thither doe drinke oft times of that medicinable liquor but theÌ„ I should excéede the lymittes of a description wherfore I passe it ouer vnto other hoping that some man ere long wyll vouchsafe to performe that at large which the famous clarke Docter Turner hath brefely yet happily begun touching the effects and working of the same for hitherto I doe not knowe of manye that haue trauayled in the natures of those Bathes of our countrey wyth any great commendation much lesse of any that hath reuealed them at the full for the benefite of our nation or commoditie of straungers ¶ Of Parkes and Warrens Cap. 15. IN euery shyre of Englande there is great plentye of Parkes whereof some here and there appertaine vnto the Prince the rest to such of the Nobilitye and Gentlemen as haue their lands and patrimony lying néere vnto y e same I would gladly haue set downe the iust number of these inclosures to bée founde in euery countye but sith I can not so doe it shall suffise to say that in Kent and Essex only are to the number of an hundred where in great plentie of fallowe Déere is cherished and kept As for Warrens of Conies I iudge theÌ„ almost innumerable daily like to increse by reasoÌ„ that y e black skins of those beasts are thought to counteruaile y e prises of their naked carkases this is the onely cause why the gray are lesse estéemed Néere vnto London their quyckest marchaundise is of the yong rabets wherfore y e 〈…〉 of where there is 〈…〉 of Rabbetâ—…â—… 〈…〉 lâ—…sse by their 〈…〉 they are 〈◊〉 to grow vp to these 〈◊〉 greatnesse w t 〈…〉 Our 〈◊〉 are generally 〈◊〉 wyth strong 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 of which 〈…〉 there 〈…〉 from time to tyme 〈…〉 the maintaâ—… of the sayde 〈◊〉 and safe kéeâ—…g of the 〈…〉 about the countrey The 〈◊〉 of thâ—…se 〈…〉 in lyke maner 〈…〉 a walke of foure or fiue myles and 〈◊〉 more or 〈◊〉 whereby it is to be 〈◊〉 what store of ground to employed vpon that 〈◊〉 which bringeth no 〈◊〉 of gaâ—â—e or 〈◊〉 to the owner sith they 〈◊〉 giue awaye their fleshe 〈…〉 penny for the same because 〈…〉 england is neither bought 〈…〉 by the tight owner but maintained only for hys pleasure to the no smal decay of husbandry 〈◊〉 of mankinde For where in times past many large and welthy occupiers were dwelling within the compasse of some one parke and therby great plenty of corne cattell séene and to be 〈◊〉 amongst them 〈◊〉 a more copious 〈◊〉 of humaâ—…ne issue wherby the realme 〈◊〉 alwaies 〈◊〉 furnisheâ—… with able 〈…〉 serue the 〈◊〉 in his 〈◊〉 nâ—…w there is almost 〈◊〉 kept but a sort of wilde sauage 〈…〉 for pleasure and delite and yet the owners styll desirous to enlarge those groundes doe not let daily to take in more affirming that we haue already to great store of people in england and that youth by 〈◊〉 to soone doe nothing 〈◊〉 the countrey but â—…ll it full of beggers Certes if it be not one curse of the Lorde The decaie of the people is the destruction of a kingdome neyther is any man borne to possesse the earth alone to haue our countrey conuerted in such sorte from the 〈◊〉 of mankinde into the walkes and shrowdes of 〈…〉 I know not what is any How many 〈◊〉 also these great and small gaâ—â—es for so most kéepers call them haue eaten vp are likely hereafter to deuoure some men may coniecture but many more lameÌ„t sith there is no hope of restraint to be looked for in this behalf but if a man may preseÌ„tly giue a
that they vsed to eate twise in the day Among the Persians onelye the king dined when the sonne was at the highest and shadowe of the stile at the shortest the reast as it is reported went alwayes to meate as their stomackes craued it Howbeit at the last they fell generally to allow of suppers toward the setting of the sunne bycause they woulde haue all their family to go to meate togither whervnto they woulde appoynt their guestes to come at a certayne length of the shadow to be perceyued in their dialles Their slaues in lyke sort were glad when it grewed to the tenth foote for then were they sure soone after to go to meate In the scripture we read of many suppers and fewe dinners only for that dining was not greatly vsed in Christs tyme but taken as a thing lately sprong vp when pampering of the belly began to take holde occasioned by ydlenesse and great abundaunce of riches It is pretie to note in Iuuenall how he taunteth Marius for that he gaue himself to drincking before the Tâ—… at tâ—… the 〈◊〉 at 〈…〉 ninth houre of the day for thincking thrée houres to be to litle for the filling of his belly he beganne commonly at eyght which was an houre to soone Afterwards sixe houres onely were appointed to worke and consult in and the other sixe of the day to féede drincke in as the Verse sayeth Sex horae tanto rebus tribuantur agendus viuere post illas littera zetha monet But how Martial deuided his day and with him the whole trowpe of the learned and wiser sort these verses following doe more euidently declare Prima salutantes atque altera continet horas Lâ—… 4. â—… 8 Exercet raucos tertia causidicos In quintam varios extendit Roma labores Sexta quies lassis Septima finis erit Sufficit in nonam nitidis octaua palestris Imperat extructos frangere nona thoros Hora libellorum decima est Eupheme meoruÌ„ Temperat Ambrosias cum tua cura dapes Et bonus ethereo laxatur Nectare Caesar Ingentique tenet pocula parca manu Tunc admitte iocos gressu timet ire licenti Ad matutinum nostra Thaleia Iouem Thus we sée how the auncient maner of the gentils was to féede but once in the day and that towarde night till glotonie grewe on and altered that good custome With vs the nobilitie gentrie and students doe ordinarily go to dinner at a leauen before noone and to supper at fiue or betwéene fiue and sixe at afternoone The marchaunts dine and suppe seldome before 12. at noone sixe at night especially in London The husbandmen dine also at high noone as they call it sup at seauen or eyght but out of the terme in our Vniuersities the schoolers dine at tenne As for the poorest sort they generally dine and sup when they may so that to talke of their order of repast it were but néedelesse matter Of our apparell and attire Cap. 2. AN Englishman indeuouring sometime to write of our attire made sundry platformes for his purpose supposing by some of them to finde out one stedfast ground whereon to builde the summe of his discourse But in the ende like an oratour long without exercise when he saw what a difficult péece of worke he had taken in hande he gaue set his traueile and onelye drue the picture of a naked man vnto whome he gaue a paire of sheares in the one hande and a péece of cloth in the other in the ende he should shape his apparrell after such fashion as himselfe liked sith he could â—…de no kind of garment that coulde please him â—…ny whyle togyther and this he called an Englishemen Certes thys writer otherwise being a leawde and vngracious priest shewed himselfe herein not to be voyde of iudgement â—…rewe â—…rd sith the phantasticall follye of our nation is such that no forme of apparrell liketh vs longer then the first garment is in the wearing if it continue so long and be not layde aside to receyue some other trinket newly deuised by the ficle headded Taylours who couet to haue seuerall trickes in cutting thereby to draw fond customers to more expence of money For my part I can tell better howe to inueigh against this enormitie then describe our attire sithens such is our mutabilitie that to day there is none to the Spanishe guise to morowe the French toyes are most fine and delectable ere long no such apparell as that which is after the high Almaine fashion by and by the Turkish maner is generally best liked of otherwise the Morisco gownes and the Barbarian sléeues make such a comelye Vesture that except it were a dog in a dublet you shall not sée anye so disguised as are my couÌ„try men of england And as these fashioÌ„s are diuers so likewise it is a worlde to se the costlinesse and the curiositie the excesse and the vanitie the pompe and the brauery the chaunge and the variety and finally the ficlenesse and the folly that is in all degrées insomuch that nothing is more constant in england then inconstancie of attire Neither caÌ„ we be more iustly burdened with any reproche then inordinate behauiour in apparrell for which most nations deride vs as also for that we men doe séeme to bestowe most cost vpon our arses much more then vpon all the rest of our bodies as women do likewise vpon their heads and shoulders In women also it is most to be lamented that they doe now farre excéede the lightnesse of our men who neuerthelesse are transformed from the cap euen to the very shoe and such staring attire as in time past was supposed méete for none but light housewiues onely is now become an habit for chast sober matrones What should I say of their dublets wyth pâ—…ndâ—…nt câ—…pises on the breast 〈◊〉 tags and câ—… and â—…éeâ—… of sâ—…dy 〈◊〉 theyr gâ—…gâ—…soons couloured 〈◊〉 their 〈◊〉 and such lyke whereby their bodies 〈◊〉 ther deformâ—… then coâ—… I haue 〈◊〉 with some of them in London so but disguised that it hath passed my skill to discerne whyther they were men or women Thus it is now come to passe that womeÌ„ are become men and men turned into monsters those gâ—… giftes which almightie God hath giuen vnto vs to reléeue our necessitie withall not otherwyse bestowed them in all exceâ—…e as if we wist not otherwise howe to consume and wast them I pray God that in this behalfe our sinne be not lyke vnto that of Sodome and Gomorha whose errors were pride Ezech. 16. excesse of diet abuse of Gods benefits abundantly bestowed vpon them beside want of charitie toward the poore and certaine other pointes which y e Prophet shutteth vp in scilence Certes the commoÌ„wealth can not be sayde to florishe where these abuses reigne but is rather oppressed by vnreasonable exactions made vpoÌ„ farmers tenants wherwith to maintayne the same Neither was it euer meryer with Englande then when
hande when they did turne againe make any reise vpon him King Henrye the fift in hys beginning thought it a mere scoffery to pursue any follow Deare wyth hounds or greyhounds but supposed hym selfe alwayes to haue done a sufficient acte when he had tired them by his owne trauaile on foote and so kylled them wyth hys handes in the vpshot of that exercise and ende of hys recreation And thus 〈◊〉 very many in lyke sort wyth the Harte as I doe reade But I thincke y t was very longâ—…gone when men were farre higher and swifter then they are now and yet I deny not but any hunting of the redde Deare is a ryght Princely pastime In diuers forren cuntries they cause theyr redde and fallow Deare to draw the plowgh as we do our Oxen and horses In some places also they milke theyr Hindes as we doe here our Kine and Gotâ—…s 〈…〉 And the experience of this latter is noted by Gyraldus Cambriensis to haue béene séene and vsed in Wales where he did eate chéeâ—…e made of hindes milke at such time as Baldwine Archbishop of Caunterburie preached the Croysaide there when they were both lodged in a Gentlemans house whose wyâ—…e of purpose kept a dairy of the same As for y e plowing wyth Vres whych I suppose to be vnlikely and Alkes a thyng commonly vsed in the East countries here is no place to speake of it since we now want these kinde of beasts Neither is it my purpose to intreat of other thyngs then are to be séene in England wherfore I wil omitte to say any more of wilde and sauage beastes at thys tyme thinking my selfe to haue spoken already sufficiently of this matter if not to much in the iudgement of the curious ¶ Of Cattell kept for profite Cap. 8. THere is no kinde of tame Cattell vsually to be séene in these parts of the world whereof we haue not some and that great store in England as Horses Oxen Shéepe Goates Swine far surmounting the like in other countries as maye be prooued with ease For where are Oxen commonlye more large of bone Horses more decent pleasant in pace Shéepe more profitable for wooll Swine more holsome of fleshe Goates more gaineful to their kéepers then here wyth vs in England But to speake of them peculiarly â—…xen I suppose that our Oxen are such as the lyke are not to be founde in any countrye of Europe both for greatnesse of bodye and swéetenesse of fleshe or else woulde not the Romaine wryters haue preferred them before those of Liguria Their hornes also are knowne to be more fayre and large in England then in any other places which quantity albeit that it be giuen to our bréede generally by nature yet it is oft helped by arte For when they be verye yonge many Grasiers will oftentimes annoynte their budding hornes or typpes of hornes with Hony which mollyfieth the naturall hardenesse of that substaunce and thereby maketh it to growe vnto a notable greatnesse Certes it is not straunge in England to sée Oxen whose hornes haue y e length of a yarde or thrée foote betwéene the typpes and they themselues thereto so tall as the heigth of a man of meane and indifferent stature is scarce comparable vnto them â—…orses Our Horses moreouer are highe and although not commonly of such huge greatnesse as in other places of the maine yet yf you respect the easinesse of theyr pace it is harde to saye where their lyke are to be had Our lande doth yéelde no Asses and therefore the most parte of our caryage is made by these which remaining stoned are either reserued for the cart or appointed to beare such burthens as are conuenient for them Our Carte horses therfore are commoÌ„ly so strong that fiue of them will drawe thrée thousande weyght of the greatest tale wyth ease for a loÌ„g iourney Such as are kept also for burden will cary foure hundreth waight commonly without any hurt or hinderance Thys furthermore is to be noted that our Princesse and the Nobilitye haue their cariage commonly made by cartes whereby it commeth to passe that when the Quéenes maiestie doth remooue from any one place to another there are vsually 400. carewares appointed out of the Countryes adioyning whereby hir caryage is conueighed safely vnto y e appointed place herby also the auncient vse of sommers and sumpter horses is in maner vtterly relinquished Such as serue for the saddle are coÌ„monly gelded Geldings and now growne to be very dere among vs especially if they be well coloured iustly lymmed and haue thereto an easie ambling pace For our couÌ„trimen séeking their ease in euery corner where it is to bée had delight very much in these qualyties but chiefly in their excellent paces which besides that it is in maner peculiar vnto horses of our soyle and not hurtfull to the rider or owner sitting on their backes it is moreouer verye pleasaunt and delectable in hys eares in that the noyse of theyr well propotioned pase doth yéeld confortable sounde Yet is there no greater deceit vsed any wher then among our horsekéepers horsecorsers and Hostelers for such is the subtill knauery of a great sort of them wythout exception of anye be it spoken which deale for pryuate gaine that an honest meaning maÌ„ shall haue verye good lucke among them if he be not deceyued by some false tricke or other Our shéepe are very excellent sith for swetnesse of fleshe they passe all other Shepe so much are our woolles to be preferred before those of other places that if Iason had knowne y e value of them that are bredde and to be had in Englande he woulde neuer haue gone to Colchos to looke for any there What fooles then are our countrymen in that they séeke to bereue themselues of this commoditie by practizing dayly howe to transferre the same to other nations in carying ouer their rammes and ewes to bréede an increase among them But such is our nature and so blinde are we in déede that we sée no incoÌ„uenience before we féele it and for a present gaine we regarde not what damage may ensue to our posterity Hereto some other maÌ„ would adde also the desire that we haue to benefite other countries and to impeche our owne And it is so sure as God lyueth that euery tryfle which coÌ„meth from beyonde the sea though it bée not woorth thrée pence is more estéemed then a continuall commoditie at home which farre excéedeth that value It is furthermore to be noted for the lowe Countries of Belgy knowe it and dailye experience notwithstanding the sharpenesse of oure lawes to the contrarye doth yet confirme it Shéepe without hornes that although our Rammes Wethers doe goe thether from vs neuer so well headded according to their kinde yet after they haue remained there a whyle they cast there theyr hornes and from thencefoorth remayne polled without any hornes at all Certes this kinde of Cattell
to send vnto Rome euery yere three huÌ„dred Markes that is to wit one hundred Markes to S. Peters Churche Mancusa an other hundred Markes to S. Paules light and the third hundred markes to the Pope In his returne through Fraunce he married the Lady Iudith The Lady Iudith daughter to Charles y t Bald then K. of France and 〈◊〉 hir with him into his couÌ„trey placed hir by him in a chaiâ—…e of estate with which doing he 〈◊〉 so y t minds of his subiects bicause it was against the order tâ—…keÌ„ before time for the offence of 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 that his sonne Ethelbalde and â—…oâ—…lsâ—…an Bishoppe of Shireborne VVil. Malâ—… with Enwoulf Earle of Sommerset conspired to depose 〈…〉 his 〈◊〉 â—â—thoritie but by mediation of friendes the 〈◊〉 was taken vp and so ordrod that the kingdome was deuided betwixte the father and the son with such parcialitie that the sonne had the better parte lying Westward and the father was 〈◊〉 to conteâ—…ite himselfe with the East parte and the worst Of this trouble of Ethelwoulf Harrison writeth somewhat otherwise and after this manner word for word .857 Ethelwoulf K. of y e west Saxons beeing returned from Rome and y e parties beyond the Seas is prohibited the entraunce into his Realme by Alstone 〈◊〉 Shereborne Ethelbald his eldest sonne pretending outwardly his coronation of Alfride y e marriage of Iudith the French kings daughter and open eating with hir at the Table to be the only cause of this theyr manifest RebellioÌ„ Hitherto Harrison wherby he seemeth to inferre that this reuolting of Alstane and his son should proceede of the ambitious desire of Ethelbald to raigne and likely ynough or else this vnequall partition should neuer haue bin made But howsoeuer y e matter stoode K. Ethelwoulf liued not long after his returne froÌ„ Rome but departed this life after he hadde gouerned the kingdome of the West Saxons the space of â—…0 yeres and odde monethes His body was buryed at Winchester He left behind him â—… sonnes Ethelbald Ethelbert or Ethelbright Ethelred and Alfred or Alvred which were begotten of his first wife Osburga Only Westseâ—… hath Mat. W. and Simon Dunel sayth that Ethelbright land Sussex also and so doth Hen. Hunt A little before his death hee made his Testament last will appointing his son Ethelbald to succeede him in the whele regiment of his kingdomes of Westsex and Sussex which he held by inheritance but the kingdomes of Kente Essex he assigned to his son Ethelbright About the same time also the Danes soiourned all the Winter season in the Isle of Skeepey Bertwolf King of Mercia After Wightlafe K. of Mercia one Bertwolf raigned as tributary to y e West Saxons y t space of .12 yeres about y e ende of which tearme he was chased out of y t countrey by the Danes theÌ„ one Burthred was made K. of that kingdome Math West saith tâ—…e daughter Ran. Cestren Iohn Cap. which married Ethelswida y e sister of Ethelwoulf K. of West Saxons In this season one Modwine a virgin in Ireland was greatly renowmed in the world vnto whom the forenamed K. Ethelwolf sent his son Alvred to be cured of a sore disease y t was thoughte incurable but by hir meanes her recouered healthe and therefore when hir Monasterie was destroyed in Ireland Modwen came ouer into England vnto whome K. Ethelwolfe gaue land to build two Abbeyes and also deliuered vnto hir his sister Edith to bee professed a Nunne Modwen herevpon built two Monasteries one at Poule sworth ioyning to the boundes of Arderne wherin she placed the foresaid Edith with Osyth and Athea the other whether it was a Monasterie or cell she founded in Strenâ—…shall or Trentsall where she hir selfe remained solitary a certain time in praier and other vertuous exercises And as it is reported shee went thrice to Rome finally dyed being .130 yeres of age Hir body was firste buried in an iland compassed about with the Riuer of Trent called Andresey taking that name of a Church or Chappell of S. Androw which she had builte in the same Iland and dwelled therein for the space of seuen yeares Many Monasteries she built both in Englande as partly aboue is mentioned and also in Scotland as at Striuelius Edenbrough and in Ireland at Cellestlâ—…ne and else where Ethelbald and Ethelbright Ethelhald Ethelbright EThelbalde Ethelbright deuiding theyr fathers Kyngdome betwixte them began to raigne Ethelbalde ouer the West Saxons and the South Saxons Ethelbrighte ouer them of Kent and Essex in the yere of our Lorde 857. which was in the second yere of the Emperour Lewes the secoÌ„d 857 and the .17 of Charles surnamed Calvus or the bald K. of Fraunce and about the first yere of Donald y e fifth of that name K. of the Scottes The vnlawfull marriage of Ethelbalde VVil. Malm. The said Ethelbald greatly to his reproche tooke to wife his mother in lawe Q. Iudith or rather as some write his own mother whome his father had kept to concubine He liued not past fiue yeres in gouernement of the Kyngdome but was taken out of this life to the greate sorow of his subiects whome he ruled right worthily and so as they had him in great loue and estimatioÌ„ Then his brother Ethelbright tooke vppon him the rule of the whole gouerning as well ouer the West Saxons and them of Sussex as ouer the Kentishmen and them of Essex In his dayes the Danes came a land and destroyed the Citie of Winchester Hen. Hunt Winchester desâ—…royed by Danes but Duke Osrike with them of Hamshire and Duke Adelwolf with the Barkshire men gaue the enimies battel and vanquishing them 〈…〉 slew of them a great nuÌ„ber In the fifth yeare of Ethelbrightes raigne a nauie of the Danes ariued at the Isle of Tenet vnto whome when the Kentishmen had promised a summe of money to haue a truce graunted for a time the Danes one night before the tearme of that truce was expired brake foorth and wasted all the East part of Kent wherevppon the Kentishmen assembling togither made towards those truâ—…ebreakers and caused them to depart out of y e countrey The same yere after that Ethelbrighte had ruled wel peaceably the West Saxons fiue yeres and the KentishmeÌ„ ten yeres he ended this life and was buried at Shireborne as his brother Ethelbald was before him Ethelred This Ethelred was in tyme of peace a most curteous prince and one y t by all kinde of meanes sought to winne y e harts of his people but abroade in the warres he was sharp and sterne as he that vnderstood what apperteined to good order so that he would suffer no offence to escape vnpunished By whiche meanes he was famous both in peace and warre but hee neither liued any long time in the gouernment nor yet was suffered to passe the short while that he raigned in rest or quietnesse for wher as he
the feast of Saincte Andrewe nexte ensuyng the late mencioned agreement Fabian And this shoulde seeme true for wheras these Authours whiche reporte Ran. Higd. that Earle Edryke was the procurer of his death they also write that when he knewe the acte to be done hee hasted vnto Cnute H. Hunt and declared vnto hym what he had brought to passe for his aduauncement to the gouernement of the whole realme Whervppon Cnute abhorryng suche a detestable facte sayde vnto hym Bycause thou haste for my sake made awaye the worthyest bodye of the world I shall rayse thy head aboue all the Lordes of Englande and so caused him to be put to death Thus haue some bookes Howbeit this reporte agreeth not with other writers whiche declare howe Cnute aduaunced Edryke in the beginning of his reigne vnto high honour and made hym gouernour of Mercia Some thinke that he vvas Dâ—…e of Mercia before and novv had Essex adioyned therto and vsed his counsell in manye things after the death of king Edmund as in banishing Edwin the brother of kyng Edmunde with his sonnes also Edmunde and Edward His body was buryed at Glastenbury neere his vncle king Edgar With thys Edmunde surnamed Ironsyde fell the glorious Maiestie of the English kingdome The whiche afterwarde as it had beene an aged bodye beyng sore decayed and weakened by the Danes that nowe got possession of the whole yet somewhat recouered after the space of .xxvj. yeres vnder kyng Edward surnamed the Confessor and shortely thervpon as it had bin falne into a resiluation came to extreme ruine by the inuasion and conquest of the Normans as after by gods good helpe and fauorable assistance it shall appeare Canute or Cnute Canute shortely after the death of king Edmunde assembled a Councell at London in the whiche he caused all the nobles of the realme to do vnto him homage in receiuing an othe of loyall obeysance Hee deuided the realme into foure parts assigning Northumberlande vnto the rule of Irke or Iricius Mercia vnto Edrike Eastangle vnto Turkyl reseruing the west part to his own gouernance He banished as before is sayd Edwyn the brother of king Edmunde but such as was suspected to bee culpable of Edmundes death he caused to be put to execution wherof it should appeare that Edrick was not then in any wyse detected or once thought to bee giltie VV. Malm. The foresayd Edwyn afterwards returned and was then reconciled to the Kings fauour as some do write and was shortly after trayterously slaine by his owne seruants Ran. Higd. He was called the king of Churles King of Churles VVil. Mal. Other write that he came secretely into the realme after he had bin banished and keeping himselfe closely out of sighte at length ended his lyfe and was buried at Tauestocke Moreouer Edwyn and Edwarde the sonnes of king Edmund were banished the lande and sent first vnto Sweno king of Norway to haue bin made awaye Ran. Higd. but Sweno vppon remorse of conscience sent them into Hungarie where they founde great fauour at the handes of king Salomon in so muche that Edmunde married the daughter of the same Salomon but had no issue by hir Edward was aduaunced to marry with Agatha the daughter of the Emperour Henrye and by hir had issue two sonnes Edmunde and Edgar surnamed Adelyng as many daughters Margarete and Christine of the whiche in place conuenient more shall be sayd When Kyng Cnute hadde established thynges as hee thoughte stoode moste to his suretie he called to remembrance that he had no issue but two bastarde sonnes Harrolde and Sweno Polidore K. Cnute marieth Queene Emme the vvidovv of Egelred in Iuly anno 1017. begotten of his concubine Alwyne Wherfore he sent ouer vnto Richarde Duke of Normandie requiring that he mighte haue Queene Emme the widow of king Egelred in mariage so obteyned hir not a little to the wonder of manye which thought a great ouersight both in the woman and in hir brother that woulde satisfye the requeste of Cnute herein considering hee hadde bin such a mortall enimie to hir former husbauÌ„d But Duke Richarde did not only consent Polidore that hys sayd sister should be maryed vnto Cnute but also he hymselfe tooke to wyfe the Lady Hestâ—â—tha syster to the sayd Cnute Heere ye haue to vnderstande that this mariage was not made without greate consideration and large couenants granted on the part of king Cnute for before he could obtain queene Emme to his wife it was fully condiscended and agreed that after Cnutes deceasse the crowne of Englande should remaine vnto the issue borne of this mariage betwixte hir and Cnute The couenant made at the mariage betvvixt Cnute and Emme whiche couenant although it was not perfourmed immediatly after the deceasse of kyng Cnute yet in the ende it tooke place so as the right seemed to bee deferred and not to be taken awaye nor abolished for immediatly vpon Haroldes death that had vsurped Hardicnute succeeded as right heire to the crown by force of the agreement made at the tyme of the mariage solemnised betwixt his father and mother and being once established in the Kingdome hee ordeyned his brother Edwarde to succede hym whereby the Danes were vtterly excluded from all ryghte that they hadde to pretende vnto the Crowne of this land and the Englishe bloud restored thereto The Englishe bloud restored The praise of Quene Emme for hir vvisedome chiefly by that gracious conclusion of this mariage betwixt king Cnute and Queene Emme for the which no small prayse was thoughte to bee due vnto the sayd Queene sith by hir politike gouernement in making hir matche so beneficiall to hir selfe and hir lyne the Crowne was thus recouered out of the handes of the Danes and restored againe in time to the right heire as by an auncient treatise whiche some haue intitled Encomium Emmae Encomium Emmae and was written in those dayes it doth and may appere Whiche booke although there bee but fewe Copies thereof abroade gyueth vndoubtedly greate light to the historie of that tyme. But nowe to our purpose Cnute the same yeare in whiche he was thus maryed Mat. VVest thorought perswasion of his wyfe Queene Emme sent away the Danishe nauie armie home into Denmark giuing to them fourscore and two thousande poundes of siluer whiche was leuied thoroughout this lande for their wages In the yeare a thousande and eighteene VVil. Mal. Edrycke de Streona Erle of Mercia was ouerthrowen in his owne turne for being called afore the King into his priuie chamber and there in reasoning the matter about some quarell that was piked to him hee beganne very presumptuously to vpbrayde the king of suche pleasures as he had before tyme done vnto him I did sayde he for the loue which I bare towardes you forsake my soueraigne Lorde king Edmunde and at length for your sake slewe him At whiche wordes Cnute beganne to change
DESCRIPTION OF Scotlande written at the first by Hector Boethus in Latin and afterwarde translated into the Scottish speech by Iohn Bellendon Archdeacon of Murrey and now finally into English for the benefite of such as are studious in the Histories by W.H. The Contents of the Chapters conteyned in this Booke 1 OF the boundes of Albion with the sundrie commodities thereof and of the great infirmities that fall vnto the people there for their intemperancie and finally of the religion vsed there in olde tyme. 2 The description of the East VVest and middle borders of Scotlande with the most notable townes and floudes thereof 3 The description of Galloway Kile Carricke and Cunningham with the notable townes lakes and riuers in the same 4 The situation of Renfrew Cliddesdale Lennox Lowmund Argile Louchquaber Lorne and Kentire with all the notable things conteyned in the same 5 Of Ros Stranauerne and Murray lande with such Lakes and Riuers as are to be touched there 6 Of Boene Anze Buquhane Mar Mernes Fiffe and Angus with the Lakes Flouddes Abbeyes Townes and other notable commodities there to be seene and founde 7 Of Louthian Striuelin Menteith Calidon wood Bowgewall Gareoth with the notable Cities Castels and Flouds thereof 8 Of the greate plentie of Hares Hartes and other wilde beastes in Scotland also of the straunge nature of sundrie Scottish dogges and of the nature of Salmon 9 Of the sundrie kindes of Muskels and Cockles in Scotlande and Perles gotten in the same Of vncouth and strange fishe there to be seene and of the nature of the herbe Citisus commonly called Hadder 10 Of the Iles of Scotlande and such notable things as are to be found in them 11 Of the nature of their Claike Geese and diuerse maner of their procreation and of the Isle of Thule 12 The description of Orkenay and Shetlande with sundrie other small Isles and of the maners and conditions of the people dwelling in the same 13 Of the maners of the Scottes in these dayes and their comparison with the behauiour of the olde and such as liued long since within this Ilande 14 The description of an auncient Pict and such as dwelled beyond the wall of Hadrian 15 Of Bishoprikes Vniuersities and Counties in Scotland TO THE RIGHT VVORSHIPFVL Maister Thomas Secford Esquier and Maister of the Requestes William Harison vvisheth all knovvledge of God with dayly increase of his giftes at this present and in the worlde to come life euerlasting HAuing by your singular curtesie receyued great helpe in my description of the riuers and streames of Britain and by conference of my trauaile vvith the platformes of those fevv shires of England vvhich are by your infinite charges alreadie finished as the rest shall be in time by Gods helpe for the inestimable benefite of suche as inhabite this Ilande not a little pullished those rough courses of diuerse vvaters not exactly before time described by Leland our Countreyman or any auncient vvriter I coulde not deuise anye thing more agreable vvith mine abilitie your good nature vvhich greatly fauoureth anye thing that is done for a commoditie vnto many than to shevv some token of my thankefulnesse for these your manifold kindnesses by the dedication of my simple translation of the description of Scotland at this tyme vnto your vvorship In deede the trauaile taken herein is not great bycause I tie not my translation vnto his letter neither the treatise of it selfe such as taketh vp any huge rovvme in the volume of this Chronicle But such as it is vvhat soeuer it is I yeeld it vvholy vnto you as a testimonie of my good vvill vvhich detesteth vtterly to receyue any benefit though it be neuer so smal and not to be thankfull for it Certes my vocation is such as calleth me to a farre other kind of studie so that I exercise these things onely for recreation sake and to say the truth it is muche vnsitting for him that professeth Diuinitie to applie his time any other vvise vnto contemplation of ciuill Histories And this is the cause vvherfore I haue chosen rather onely vvith the losse of three or foure dayes to translate Hector out of the Scottish a tongue verie like vnto ours than vvith more expence of time to diuise a nevve or follovv the Latin copie vvhich is farre more large and copious Hovv excellently if you consider the arte Boethus hath penned it and the rest of his Historie in the Latin the skilfull are not ignorant but hovv profitably and compendiously Iohn Bellendon Archdeacon of Murrey his interpretour hath turned him from the Latin into the Scottish tongue there are verie fevve English men that knovv bycause vve want the bookes VVherefore sith the learned reade him in his ovvne stile and his Countreymen in their naturall language vvhy should not vve borovv his description and read the same in English likevvise sith the knovvledge thereof may redounde to the great benefit of so many as heare or read the same Accept therefore right vvorshipfull this my simple offer and although I assure my selfe your naturall inclination to be such as that it vvill take nothing in ill part that is vvell meant tovvard you hovve rudely soeuer it bee handled in the doing yet I vvill not let to craue pardon for my presumption in that I dare be so bold as to offer such a trifle vnto you whom more vveightie affayres doe dayly call from things of so small importaunce Almightie God keepe your vvorship from time to time in his feare and blesse you and my good Ladie your vvife vvith such increase of his benefites as may most redounde to his glorie and your ovvne aduauntage ¶ The boundes of Albion with the sundry commodities thereof and of the great infirmities that fall vnto the people there for their intemperancy and finally of the Religion vsed there in old tyme. Chap. 1. THe I le of Albion contayneth in the whole circuÌ„ference two thousande myles hauing in length 700. and in breadth 300. as appeareth well by the coast therof that lieth ouer agaynst Fraunce where it is broadest and from whence it gathereth narrower and narrower till it come to the vtter Marches last boundes of England and Scotland For betwixte the Mâ—…le of Galloway that is on the west side ouer against the Irish seas and Saint Ebbes head that lieth vpon the Germaine Ocean towarde the east are scarcely 130. myles and thenceforth it groweth smaller and smaller till it touch vpoÌ„ the North seas where it is not aboue 30. miles as I noted before in the descriptioÌ„ of Brytaine This I le is replenished with people horses and all other kindes of cattell and corne in moste aboundant maner except it be in suche places where as God of his singular goodnesse 〈◊〉 otherwise indued the soyle with ritche mynes of Gold Siluer Tinne Brasse Copper quicksiluer whiche for the most parte are so plentiful that they suffise not onely for the necessaries of the whole Iland but also
was so kindeled with wrath that detesting the falsehood of the Pictes hee vowed by open othe that he woulde not departe from the siege till he had put the citie and them within to the fire and swoorde without sparing of any eyther one or other Sundrie times he attempted to haue wonne the citie by force of assaulte The constācie of the Pictes whē they were besieged but the Pictes still defended theyr walles so stoutly that he coulde not atchieue his purpose Wherevpon the siege continued the space of foure moneths togither So that suche scarcetie of all kindes of vitayles still rose amongst them that the wretched Citezins abstayned from nothing that might in any wise be eaten though it were neuer so much to be abhorred And yet although they were brought vnto suche miserable stay that there was no hope longer to defende themselues if any man notwithstanding all suche extremitie were hearde to make mencion of surrendring he was foorthwith slayne by his fellowes as an enimie to his nation and friend vnto the Scots It was thought that Kenneths othe made them so obstinate in theyr wilfull contumacie bycause they sawe nothing but death whiche way so euer they inclined At length when the citie was thus reduced into all extreeme misery A prety crafte vsed by Kenneth the diches filled with faggottes and other suche stuffe Kenneth one night appoynted sixe hundreth of his choysest Souldiers to lie in ambushe within a wood adioyning neare to one side of the Citie so that in the mornyng when he shoulde gyue the assaulte on the contrary side they might sodenly come foorth and skale the walles on that other These souldiers accordyng to that whiche they had in commaundement shortely after the breake of day hearyng that Kenneth had begon the assault on his parte quickely came foorth of the wood and hauing theyr ladders ready came to the walles The Scottes enter the citie reared them vp and swiftely getting into the citie opened one of the gates where one parte of the army entred the cytezins standing in no doubt at all of any attempt on that side so as beyng gotten togither to defende the walles on that parte where Kenneth gaue the approche and now hearing how the enimies were got into the citie and comming on theyr backes they were wonderfully amazed but yet so long as they were able to make any resistāce they did what lay in theyr vttermoste power to beate backe the Scots to dryue them out of the citie againe The Pictes are miserably slaine without regard of person The slaughter therefore was great whiche the Scottes made of the Pictes in euery corner of the streetes in so muche that the Scottishe Lordes and other Captaynes in reuenge of the late receyued losse of theyr men through the false practised policie of the Pictes commaunded in a greate furie to sette fire on the houses and to kill and slea all suche of the Pictishe nation as came in theyr way Thus the murder proceeded vpon al estates aswell religious as other and lykewise vppon women and chyldren without any difference Ladies and Gentlewomen desire the king to bee pardoned of their liues A number of Ladyes and Gentlewomen gettyng them into the presence of kyng Kenneth besought him in moste lamentable wise to haue pytie vpon theyr wofull estate and to saue theyr lyues from the handes of his moste cruell souldiers But suche was the rage kindled in the Scottishmens hartes that there was no more fauour shewed towardes them than towardes the other and so immediatly were they also slayne without all comp◅lsion So farre foorth was the murder executed on all hands All the Pictes natiō destroyed The citie of Camelon is throwē down that there was not one left aliue of the Pictish nation neither man woman nor childe to bewayle that miserable destruction of theyr countrey and kinsfolkes Then were the walles throwen downe and made euen with the plaine grounde The houses and buyldings aswell priuate as publike with the churches chapels were set on fire and that which might not be cōsume◅ with the rage of fire was ruynate and destroyed with hande so that there remayned of all that famous citie nothing but the ashes with heapes of the broken and brenned stones and likewise of the pauement and fundacion of some parte of the walles The same time the castell of Maydens now called commonly Edenburgh castell was still kept with a mightie garyson of Pictes The castell of Maydens is left of the Pictes but they hearing of the miserable destructiō of Camelon and doubting to fall into the like mischaunce ▪ left the castel voyde and fled into Northumberland Thus ended the kingdome of the Pictes in Albion in the yeare after they firste began to reigne therein .1173 839. 1421. H. B. 6038. H. B. and in the yeare after the byrth of our sauiour .839 from the first cōming of Fergus .1166 and after the creation of the worlde .4806 if the Scottish chronicles be true But where as the truthe concernyng the tyme of the firste comming into this Isle aswell of the Scottes as Pictes resteth doubtfull and that aswell by authoritie of approued wryters as by reasonable coniectures wee haue in the Historie of Englande more largely written thereof Wee referre those that bee desirous to see further of that mater vnto the same following here in this historie of Scotlande the report most an ende as we finde it in Hector Boetius and other the Scottishe wryters not taking vpon vs so frankely to set downe our owne opinion in this Scottishe as in the Englishe historie through want of suche helpes in the one as we haue got in the other There was seene the same yeare two◅ cometes Prodigious tokens seene in the ayre or blasing starres of dreadfull aspect to the beholders the one went before the sunne rysing in haruest season and the other followed the going downe thereof in the spryng of the yeare There was often times seene also in the ayre a vision of fi◅ie armies runnyng togither with brennyng staues and the one being vanquished they sodenly bothe of them vanished away Also at Camelon as the Bishoppe was at seruice holding his crosier staffe in his hande it was kindeled so with fire that by no meane it coulde be quenched til it was brent euen to ashes About noone dayes the ayre being fayre and cleare as well in the countreys of the Scottes as of the Pictes there was heard such a noyse clattering of weapons and armure with braying of horses as though twoo armies shoulde haue bene togither in fight whereby many of eyther nation which heard it were put in great feare The interpretation of these tokens These vnkouth wonders were interpreted by deuinors diuersly some affirming the same to betoken ioy and happie prosperitie and other alledgyng how they signified rather mishap and vtter calamitie But to returne to our purpose King Kēneth hauing thus destroyed the
of Englande not wel contented nor pleased in his mind that the Scottes shoulde enioy a great portion of the north partes of England aunciently belonging to his crowne as parcell thereof he raysed a great army and before any denouncing of war by him made inuaded Northumberland The castell of Anwike won by the English men tooke the Castell of Anwike putting all suche to the sworde as were founde in the same King Malcolme to withstande such exploytes attempted by his enimie leuied a great hoste of his subiectes and comming with the same into Northumberlande besieged the sayde Castell of Anwike The castell of Anwike besieged by the Scottes And nowe when the keepers of the hold were at poynt to haue made surrender a certaine English knight conceiuing in his mind an hardie and daungerous enterprise mounted on a swift horse without armor or weapon sauing a speare in his hand vpon the poynt wherof he bare the keyes of the castel so issued forth at y e gates riding directly towardes the Scottish campe They that warded mystrusting no harme brought him with great noyse and claymor vnto the kings tent Who hearing the noyse came forth of his panilion to vnderstande what the matter ment The Englishman herewith touched his staffe as though it had beene to the ende that the king might receyue the keyes whiche he had brought And whilest all mens eyes were earnest in beholding the keyes An hardie enterprice the Englishe man ranne the king through the left eye and sodainly dashing his spurres to his horse escaped to the next wood out of all daunger The poynt of the speare entred so farre into the kings head that immediately falling downe amongst his men he yeelded vp the ghost K. Malcolme is slaine This was the ende of king Malcolme in the middest of his armie It is sayde that king William chaunged the name of this aduenturous knight The name of the Percees had no suche beginning for they came forth of Normandie at the conquest Earles of Northumberland and called him Pers E and for that he stroke king Malcolme so right in the eye and in recompence of his seruice gaue him certaine landes in Northumberlande of whom those Percees are discended whiche in our dayes haue enioyed the honourable tytle of Earles of Northumberlande The Scottes after the slaughter of their king brake vp theyr campe K. Malcolme buryed at Tynmouth and buried his bodie within the Abbay of Tynmouth in England But his sonne Alexander caused it to be afterwardes taken vp and buryed in Dunfermling before the Aulter of the Trinitie The same tyme was Scotlande wounded with an other missehappe Edward prince of Scotlande dyed For Edwarde the Prince of Scotlande eldest sonne to king Malcolme dyed of a burt which be receyued in a skirmish not farre from Anwike and was buryed in Dunfermeling the fyrst of the bloud royall that hadde hys bones layde in that place Queene Margaret being aduertised of the death both of hir husbande and sonne as then lying in Edenbourgh Castell hir disease encreased through griefe thereof so vehemently Queene Margaret died that within three dayes after she departed out of this life vnto an other more ioyfull and blessed King Malcolme was slaine in the yeare of of oure redemption 1092. 1097. H.B. The Ides of October H.B. on the .xiij. day of Nouember and in the .xxxvj. yeare of hys raigne Strange wonders In the same yeare manye vncouth things came to passe and were seene in Albion By the highe spring Tydes whiche chaunced in the Almaine Seas Aâ—… huge tyde many Townes Castels and Wooddes were drowned aswell in Scotland as in England After the ceassing of which tempest the lands that somtime were Earle Goodwines of whom ye haue hearde before lying not farre from the towne of Sandwich by violent force and drift of the Sea were made a sande bed and euer sithence haue beene called Goodwine sandes Goodwin sandes The people haue thought that this vengeance came to that peece of grounde being possessed by his posteritie for the wicked slaughter of Alured which he so trayterously contriued Moreouer sundrie Castelles and Townes in Murry lande were ouerthrowne by the sea Tydes Thunder Such dreadfull thunder happened also at the same time that men and beastes were slaine in the fields and houses ouerturned euen from their foundations Trees corne burnt In Lonthian Fife and Angus trees and corne were burned vp by fire kindled no man knew how nor from whence In the dayes of this Malcolme Cammore liued that famous hystoriographer Marianus a Scottish man borne Marianus but professed a Monke in the Monasterie of Fulda in Germany Also Veremond a Spanish priest Veremonde but dwelling in Scotland florished about the same time and wrote the Scottish historie whome Hector Boetius so much followeth The sonnes of king Malcolm Cammore Malcolme had by his wife Queene Margaret otherwise called for hir holinesse of life S. Margaret vj. sonnes Edward as is said was slain Etheldred which died in his tender age and was buried in Dunfermling and Edmond which renounced the world liued an holy life in England the other three were named Edgar Alexander and Dauid There be that write how Edmond was taken and put to death in prison by his vncle Donalde Bane Donald Bane when he inuaded the kingdome and vsurped the crowne after the deceasse of his brother king Malcolme and so then was Edgar next inheritour to the crowne Donalde Bane fled into the Iles. This Donald Bane who as before is mentioned fled into the Iles to eschue the tyrannical malice of Makbeth after he once heard that his brother king Malcolme was dead Donalde Bane returneth into Scotlande His couenant for the gift of the Iles to the king of Norway returned into Scotland by support of the K. of Norway vnto whom he couenanted to giue the dominion of all the Iles if by his meanes and furtheraunce hee might obteyne the crowne of Scotland Herevpon landing with an armie in the Realme he founde small resistance and so with little a doe receyued the crowne for many of the people abhorring the riotous maners and superfluous gurmandice brought in amongst them by the English men The respect that the people had to receyue Donald Bane for their king were willing inough to receiue this Donalde for their king trusting bycause hee had beene brought vp in the Iles with the olde customes and maners of their auncient Nation without tast of the English lykerous delicacies they shoulde by his seuere order in gouernment recouer againe the former temperancie of theyr olde progenitors As soone as Edgar Adeling brother to Queen Margaret was aduertised that Donalde Bane had thus vsurped the crowne of Scotland K. Malcolmes sonnes sent for into Englande by Edgar their vncle he sent secretly for his thre nephews Edgar Alexander and Dauid with two sisters which they had
King Williams raigne two Monkes of the Trinitie order were sent into Scotlande by Pope Innocent vnto whome King William gaue his Palace royall in Abirdene to conuert the same into an Abbay for them to inhabite and was in minde to haue gyuen them many other bountifull giftes if he had liued any longer time The King himselfe and all his seruants also were clothed in mourning weed A Parliament at Edenburgh during the space of one whole yeare The first Parliament which he called was holden at Edenbourgh in the whiche he confyrmed all the actes and ordinaunces deuised by his father Confirmation of Officers and further appoynted that all suche as had borne offices vnder him should still enioy the same Namely he commaunded that William Wood Bishop of Dunblayne shoulde still continue Lord Chancellour The office of the Constable and Alane of Galloway high Constable which is an office of most honor and reputation next to the king as hee that hath power of life and death if any man drawe bloud of an other by violence within two myles of the Court. When this Parliament was ended bycause the olde Queene his mother determined to remayne during the residue of hir life in the place where that holye woman Queene Margaret sometyme led hir lyfe he gaue vnto hir towards the maintenaunce of hir estate The landes of Forfair giuen to the olde Queene the Castelles and townes of Forfair with the landes and possessions to the same belonging He also appoynted certaine sage and moste graue personages to be chosen forth as Iudges A princely appointment which should be resident in euerie Citie and good towne of his realme for the hearing and due determining of all quarels and matters in controuersie betwixt partie and partie Dissention betwixt K. Iohn his nobles In this meane time great dissention rose betwixt Iohn king of Englande his barons by reasō wherof great warres ensued as in the english hystorie doth appeare The Barons made sute both to the french king to y e king of Scots for ayd so that at length Lewes the french kings sonne came ouer to support them whereof when king Alexander was aduertised K. Alexander passeth to London he likewise came with an army through England vnto London causing his soldiers by the way to abstaine from doing any kinde of domage to the people By his comming things were partly quieted for a time and shortly after that he had cōmuned with Lewes touching sundrie affayres perteyning to both the realmes they passed the Seas with ten vessels ouer into France leauing theyr powers behind them to assist the English lords The Frenche king aduertised thereof came down to Bulleigne where finding his sonne and king Alexander he renued the auncient bonde of amitie betwixt France and Scotlande The league betwixt Fraunce and Scotlande renued with the same Alexander according to the couenantes of the olde league with this addition that neyther Prince shoulde receyue the enimies of the others realme nor to marry with any stranger the one not making the other priuie thereto The best approued wryters affyrme that Lewes wēt not ouer into France til after the death of king Iohn These things being ratified king Alexander and Lewes returned into Englande shortly wherevpon king Iohn died more through anguish of minde and melancholy that by force of any other naturall disease His sonne Henrie the thirde of that name succeeded him and in the meane time had the Pope accursed both Lewes Lewes king Alexander cursed king Alexander with all those that fauored their cause against king Iohn which curse was pronounced in a generall counsell which was holden at Rome by Pope Innocent A counsell at Rome there being present foure hundred and .xij Bishops and .viij. C. Abbots King Alexander after the decease of king Iohn returning homewardes with his armie thought he might haue passed quietly without any annoiance by the way King Alexander returneth into his countrey through meanes whereof hee lost a certaine number of his men being sodenly inuaded by such English men as watched theyr time to take the Scottes at some aduauntage in straying abrode out of order with which iniurie king Alexander was so moued that hee spoyled and harried all the Countreyes by the which hee passed till he was entred within the confines of his owne dominion Shortly after Cardinall Guale came into England furnished with the Popes authoritie to denounce the excōmunication aboue remembred against Lewes Alexander with all their fautors wherevpon he accursed not only the foresaid persons Cardinall Gualo but also interdited all the places where they came insomuch that in the end Lewes was constrayned to buy an absolution with no small summes of money of that anaricious Cardinall Gualo and after vpō agreement also made with king Henrie he returned into France Lewes returneth into France Not long after came king Henrie with an army into Scotland sore endomaging the coūtry King Henrie inuadeth Scotlande but so soone as he was aduertised that king Alexander had assembled all the power of his realme to giue him battaile he retyred with al speed into England Ex codice antiquo S. Albani written by Mathew Paris as I take it The king of Englande had in his army at the same time 1200. men of armes right perfitly appointed and furnished with armor and weapon as was requisite and the king of Scots but only .v. C. But of footemen there were in the Scottish army 60000. able personages well appoynted with Ares Speares and Bowes readie to die and liue with their Prince constantly beleeuing that to lose this present life here in his defence was an assured way to be saued in an other worlde After that King Henrie was gone backe into Englande K. Alexander in Northumberland King Alexander followed after him into Northumberland where he ouerthrew and beate downe many Castels and strengthes which the English men helde Then marching through the countrey vnto Carleil he wan that Citie Carleil wonne by the Scots and garnished it with his people After this laying siege vnto Norham castel when hee had continued at the same a certaine time and perceiued how he lost but his trauail he left it returned home with great honor and triumph for his other atchieued enterprises in that iourney King Henrie being once aduertised that king Alexander had broken vp his campe incontinently got eftsoones his people togither Barwike won by K. Henrie comming to Barwike wanne both the towne and Castel After entring into Scotland he burned and spoyled the coūtrey alongst by the sea coasts till he came as far as Hadington Haddington putting al such to the sword as were found in the way women priestes and children onely excepted He assayed to haue wonne the Castel of Dunbar but missing his purpose there he returned into Englande In the meane time the auaritious Prelate Gualo vppon
About the same time dyed Mariorie Bruce king Roberts daughter Shortly after also was a truce taken betwixt the two Realmes of England and Scotlande for a certaine time Then king Robert hauing no trouble neyther within his Realme A Parliament at Perth nor without caused a Parliament to be holden at Perth where he requyred the Lordes to shew their deedes and charters whereby they helde their landes The Lords after long aduisement taken herein The euidence and charters whereby the Lords of Scotlande helde their landes at length pulled out theyr swords all at once declaring that they had none other euidence nor Charters to shewe for the tenure of theyr landes King Robert was somewhat amased of this sight and tooke no small indignation therewith but yet he dissembled for the time and commended them for their noble heartes and valiant stomacks neuerthelesse he purposed to be reuenged of their proude presumptions when more oportunitie of time serued thereto Sundrie of the nobles perceiuing that the king bare an inwarde grudge towardes them for this matter Conspiracie of the Lordes agaynst king Robert deuised amongst theÌ„selues how to deliuer him into king Edwardes handes so to auoyd all daunger that might folow of his displeasure conceyued thus agaynst them For the accomplishment of this their treasonable practise they made a bonde in wryting confirmed with their handes and seales betwixt theÌ„ and minded to send the same into England vnto king Edward But king Robert hauing some ynkeling of this their purpose caused diligent watch to be layde by the way for such as shoulde passe into England froÌ„ them with the said band A Palmer taken with writings on him insomuch that in the ende a Palmer or Pylgrym was apprehended which had the bonde and other wrytings enclosed within his pylgrimes staffe King Robert vnderstanding by these writings all the maner of the treason and what they were that had consented to the same he hastily sent for the whole number of them as though there had beene some matter in hand wherein he wished to haue their aduise They were no sooner come but streyghtwayes calling them before him hee questioned with them whether they knew their owne hands and seales and immediately therewith shewed the wrytings which were found in the Palmers staffe The Lordes that had conspired are coÌ„mitted to warde and bycause they coulde not denie theyr owne acte they were committed to warde within sundrie Castelles till he had taken further aduise in the matter Incontinently after he went to Barwike and there arrested the captaine of the towne named sir William Soulis and caused him to bee conueyed vnto Perth where shortly after he called an assembly of all the estates of the realme This was called the black Parliament The blacke Parliament kept in the yeare after the incarnation of our Sauiour 1320. 1320 In this Parliament at the begynning therof was Dauid Abernethy the sisters sonne of K. Robert accused as party to the treason aforesayd though being labored vnto by the rest of the conspirators to ioyne with them therein he refused so to doe but yet for that he did not vtter the thing but concealed with them Dauid Abernethy loseth his heade he was condeÌ„ned lost his head the people sore lamenting his mishap for the great valiancy which was knowne to be in him hauing serued honorably many yeares before agaynst the Sarasins and other miscreants in the parties of beyonde the seas where he was cleped the flower of chiualry In deed the king himselfe would gladly haue saued his life but for that he minded to do iustice on the residue and finding no man to make sute for hym he permytted the execution to proceede agaynst him Among other were these Gilbert de Malet Iohn Cogi knights and Richard Bron a noble warriour Iohn Maior On the morrowe after he caused all the residue of the trayters to be brought forth to iudgement and sentence being giuen agaynst them he commaunded without delay that they should be executed Then came diuerse and sundry persons in most humble wife to make sute for pardon to the king for their friends and kinsmen but he made them plaine answere that there was none to bee founde that would make intercession for the sauing of his kinsmans life the day before when he was led to execution that had offended nothing so grieuously in comparison to them for whome they now made sute therefore he had them be contented for they shoulde assuredly haue according to y e which they had deserued Execusion wâ—…thout respite And therwith were the officers coÌ„maunded to make hast with the execution whiche was done incontinently without any further respite There were some that were accused to bee partakers in this treason but yet for that no euident proues could be produced against them they were dismissed as Walter Maxwel with Walter Berclay Shirif of Aberdene Patrike Graim Hameline Neydrinton and Eustace a Rathre knights beside eight others But yet the CouÌ„tesse of Sâ—…atherne and William de Soulis were condemned to perpetuall prison The Earle of Buchquhanes landes who suffred at that present where deuided into two parts the one being giuen to William Hay that was made Conestable of the realme in place of Iohn Quincie who likewise suffred the same time and the other part was giueÌ„ vnto William Reth togither with the office of the Stewardship of the Realme About the same time the king of England by complaynt made to the Pope A Legate sent from Rome to the Scottes purchased that a Legate was sent from the Sea Apostolike into Scotland to admonish king Robert to ceasse froÌ„ further disquieting the realme of Englande by such cruell inuasions as were surmised that hee wrongfully exercised against the same Realme But answer was made herevnto by the king and other the nobles of the realme of Scotlande The answere made to the Legate that all the worlde might well vnderstande that the whole occasion of al the trouble which had chanced betwixt the two Realmes of Englande and Scotland did only proceed of the couetous desire in the English meÌ„ seeking to conquer that realm without any iust clayme or title and therefore they thought it reason first to suppresse the loftie stomacks of the English men and then if there were any thing worthie to be reformed on theyr behalues they would be contented to stand vnto the order of the Popes authoritie therein And thus was the Legate dispatched home without other effect of his errant Shortly after K. Robert entred with an army into EnglaÌ„d wasted the country before him King Robert with an army in Scotlande til he came to the Recrosse whiche standeth vpon Stanmoore Howbeit it should seeâ—â—â— by that which R. Ri. Southwel So writeth hereof that K. Robert was not present himselfe in person in this iourney 1321 but that he appoyntâ—â— the Erle of Murrey to be his LieutenaÌ„t who with an
prayse for euer FINIS A Table of the principall matters touched in the Historie of Scotland where note that the first number signifieth the page the second the line not accounting aboue 58. line in the first Colume at the most A. ABbey of Saint Colmes Inche builded 262.80 Abbey of Dunfirmeling finished 262.93 Abbey of Fosse in Fraunce founded 147.36 Abbey of Colmekill reedified 149.90 Abbey of LuÌ„doris builded 279.7 Abbey of Lauer cost fackt 350.39 Abbey of Durham spoyled 350.65 Abbey of Balmernocht founded 28â—… 60. Abâ—…rlemnon 235.8 Abbey of Colmkil appoynted for the buriall of the Scottish kings 100. 19 Abbey of Holme spoiled 323.107 Abbey of Furneirs saued froÌ„ spoiling 323.114 Abbeys of Melros Dryburgh burnt by the English meÌ„ 324.38 Abbey of Riuall 324.61 Abbeyes buylded by Dauid the first 263.83 Abbey of Abirbroth or Abirbrothock buylded 276.24 Abbey of Couper of the Cesteâ—… order founded 272.2 Abbey of Haddington buylded 276. 34. Abbey of Colmekill founded 100 17. Abbey of the holy Crosse builded 288. 73. Abbey of Pasley by vvhom buylded 247 58 Abbey of Charturare buylded 381. 37. Abbanath Crinen Thane of the vvest part of Scotland 239.11 Abernethy Laurence knight taken prisoner 346.69 Abernethy Dauid beheded 722.76 Abirden burnt by the EnglishmeÌ„ 343. 50. Aberlady fortified 479.18 Abirdin aduaunced from a village to a Citie 199.31 Albions and Saxons encounter in battaile 121.76 Abirdin indovved vvith manye priuiledges 285.17 Abirden burned 297.65 Achaius king of Scotland chaunged the forme of the Scottish crovvne 11.102 Achaius established a perpetuall league vvith Charles the Emperour 11 Achaius created king of Scotland 158. 101. Achaius setteth agreement betvvene his Nobilitie 158.114 Achaius doeth ayde the Pictes agaynst the English men 165.23 Achaius dieth 167.47 Acho king of Norvvey arriueth vvith an armie in the vvesterne Ilandes 289.32 Acho transporteth his armie into Albion 289.45 Acho shevveth the cause vvhy he came into Scotland 290.55 Achos nephevv slaine 292.25 Achos fleet drovvned and brokeÌ„ by a tempest 292.54 Acho escapeth flieth into Orkney 292.69 Acho dyeth in Orkney 292.106 Acon or Acres besieged by Richard the first 278.33 Acon taken by the Englishe men and Scottes 278.66 Acta bishop of Pictinia 155.1 Adelstane pursueth the Pictes into their ovvne countrey 165.35 Adelstanes cruel proclamation agaynst the Pictes 165.45 Adelstane slaine 160.23 Aylstone or Adelstanes foorde vvherof so named 166.25 Adelstane vvhere buried 166.77 Adelstane King of vvest Saxons inuadeth Deira 165.6 Adelstane vvasteth Deira vvith fire and svvorde 265.14 Ada daughter of Aurelius Ambrosius maried Conranus generall of the Scots 121.66 Adam bishop of Catâ—…es vilaynously misused and killed by the inhabitantes of that Countrey 284. 110. Adamson Iohn doctour of diuinitie in Abirden 285.63 Adannan bishop 151.108 Adhama daughter to king VVilliam maryed to the Erle of Laon 276.70 Adhama sister to king Malcolme maryed to Florence Earle of Holland 370.110 Adders vvhich do not hurt 279.12 Adrian Emperour of â—…ome â—â— 58 Adrian Emperor transporteth into Britaine 61.72 Adrian remoueth to Yorke 61.81 Adrian afflicteth the Scottes and Pictes vvhich fled to the mountaynes 61 9â—… Adrian maketh a vvall betvveene the Brytaines and Scots 61.109 Adrian returneth tovvard Rome 62. 14. Adrian a bishop 188.21 Adrians vvall repayred 92.74 Aduersarie in sute of lavv not to be stroken 181.59 Adulterie death 181.23 Age of Marie Quene of Scotland vvhen shee began his raigne 457. 28. Agricola Lieutenant of Britaine 49. 39. Agricola goeth agaynst the Scots 49. 47. Agricola studieth too bring the Scottes to ciuilitie 50.33 Agricola returneth into Pictland 51. 47. Agricola discomfiteth the Scottes and Pictes 52.93 Agricola maketh a bridge ouer the riuer Tay and passeth ouer vvith his army 54.19 Agricolas name dreadfull to the Scots and Pictes 67.23 Agatha daughter to Henrie the Emperour 253.108 Agatha and Christine renounce the vvorlde 257.6 Agasia daughter to the King of Brytaynes 21.50 Agreement made betvvene Scots and Pictes 139.60 Ayde sent into Scotlande to the Earle Lennox from the king of England 461.23 Aydan son to Conran returneth into Scotland 137.73 Aydan receyueth his inuesture in the kingdome of Scotland at the handes of saint Colme 138.30 Aydan bishop dyeth 149.6 Ayde sent oute of Fraunce to the Scottes agaynst the EnglishmeÌ„ 464. 61 Ayde sent out of Englande to the gouernour of Scotlande vnder the conduction of Thomas L. VVharton and the Lorde Euers 459.85 Aydans diligence in prouiding to resist his enimies â—…41 23 Aydan dyeth 142.16 Aydan requireth certaine Scottish outlavves of the Pictes 139. 10 Alexander the first surnamed the fierce created King of scotlande 261.54 Alexander goeth vvith an armye gaynste theeues and robbers in Murrey land and Ros. 261.74 Alexanders manhoode in slaying the theeues that vvoulde haue slaine him 262.12 Alexander pursueth the Rebelles that conspired vvith the theues and vanquished them 262.42 Alexander dieth 263.9 Alane Lorde of Gallovvayes bastarde sonne rayseth a commotion 285.62 Alane Lorde of Gallovves bastarde son slaine and his povver discomfited 285.86 Alexander leadeth an armie into Englande to ayde the Barons agaynst king Iohn 282.10 Alexander passeth ouer into Fraunce to renue the league vvith the French king 282.17 Alexander and Levves accursed by the Pope 282.36 Alexander prouoked by certaine Englishmen harrieth the countreys as hee vvent home into Scotland 282.50 Alexander pursueth k. Henrie the third vvith an armie into Northumberland 282.72 Alexander and his realm of Scotland absolued 283.13 Alexander of Scotlande and HeÌ„rie the thirde of England meet at Yorke to conclude and establish peace 283.72 Alexander goeth into Englande to set agreement betvvene K. Henrie and his Nobles 285.116 Alexander maryeth Mary daughter to Ingelram Lorde of Coucie 286.15 Alexander sendeth ayde to King Levves of Fraunce tovvardes his iourney into the holy land 286. 85. Alexander dyeth 287.1 Alexander the third sonne to Alexander the seconde crovvned king of Scotland 287.11 Alexander the third marieth Margaret daughter to Henrie the thirde of England 287.87 Alexander sonne to VVilliam prince of Scotlande borne 279. 76. Alexander graunteth to paye a yearely pension to the King of Norvvey for the vvesterne Iles 294.20 Alexander sendeth money to the Pope tovvardes the setting forth of an armie into the holye lande 294.102 Alexander and his Queene come to London to the coronation of king Edvvard the first 295.47 Alexander Prince of Scotlande maryeth the Erle of Flaunders daughter 295.92 Alexander prince of Scotland dieth 296.11 Alexander the thirde marieth Iolant daughter to the Earle of Champaigne in Fraunce 296.58 Alexander the third dieth 296.68 Alexander the third taken prisoner and kept by the Cumeyns 288.4 Alexander assembleth a povver agaynste Acho and his Norvvegianâ—… 200. â—…1 Alexander prince of scotlande sonne to Alexander the thirde borne 292.115 Alexander the seconde sonne to king VVilliam crovvned king of Scotland 281.79 Alexander Lorde of Arguile banished by king Robert 314. Alexander Lorde of the Iles moueth a rebellion agaynste K. Iames the first 378.74 Alexander Lorde of the Iles submitteth himselfe to the king and
Rise knight 462.61 Maide eateth mans flesh 397.30 Maulde daughter to King Henrie Beaucleark maryed to Henrie the fourth the Emperour 262. 114 Maulde vvife to King Dauid dyeth 265.45 Maulde the Empresse commeth into Englande too clayme the crovvne 266.49 Maxvvell Lord a politique captaine 435.48 appointed Prouost of Edenburgh 436.45 Maxvvel Robert Bishop of Orkney 445.9 Maxvvell Robert eldest sonne to the Lorde Maxvvell taken prisoner by the EnglishmeÌ„ 464.94 Maximus ouerthrovveth the Britayns in battaile 85.33 Maximus practise to ouerthrovv the Scottes 87.63 Maximus sendeth letters too the king of Pictes to renue the old league betvveene them and the Romaines 87.67 Maximus requireth restitution of the Scots for iniuries done vnto the Pictes 87.100 Maximus inuadeth the Scottishe confines vvith a mightie armie 88. 14 Maximus eftsoones inuadeth the Scottes 88.82 Maximus graunteth peace to the Irishmen 92.84 Maximus exceeding liberalitie to his souldiours 92.94 Maximus chosen Emperour in Brytaine 92.110 Maximus passeth ouer intoo Fraunce vvith a mightie armie 93. 12 Maximus slaine at Aquileia in Italy 93.21 Maximianus sent ouer into Brytaine vvith an armie 30â—… Maximianus ouerthrovveth 〈◊〉 Scottes and Pictes â—â—â— â—…4 Maximianus spoâ—…th the conâ—…s of the Scottes and Pictes 102. 16 Maximianus taketh vpon him the Emperiall title of Brytaine 102. 62 Maximianus â—…arryeth Oâ—…ia daughter to Dioneâ—… â—â—â— 66 Maximianus graunteth peace too the Scottes suyng for the 〈◊〉 102. 11â—… Maximianus sayleth ouer intoo Fraunce and proclaymeth himselfe Emperour â—…02 â—â— Maximinus souldiours in Brytaine reuolt too the Emperour Valentinianus 103. â—… Meane for princes to auoyde the daunger of their subiectes 407. â—…7 Meanes deuised too haue iâ—…iâ—… executed 33â—… â—…6 Meklevvort berries and theyr operation 24â—… 59 Melton VVilliam Archbishop of Yorke â—…2 71 Melros bridge 4â—â— 31 Melros Abbay 463.83 spoyled 463. 94 Meleâ—…hon father to Bâ—…deâ—…s king of Pictes â—…7 35 Men appoynted too deuide the Countrey of Scotlande into equall portions â—…0 44 Men accused too bee condemned by an odde quest of men 180. 7 Men of occupation brought into Scotlande to instruct the Scottishmen therein 3â—â— â—…5 Meremouth Adam cited â—â—â— 45 Merhernes people of goodly stature 44.34 Mertia vvhat â—…yres 〈◊〉 conteyned 143. 7â—… Merline the Britishe Soothsayer 119. 7â—… Mernes vvhy so called â—â—â— 9â—… Merueylous things seene at the taking vp of king Duffes bodie 210. 29 Metellus sendeth his three â—…es to ayde the Scottes in Ireland 5. â—… Metellus reigneth ouer the Scots in Spaine 4â—â— Metellanus created king 3â—… 56 Metellanus becommeth friend to the Romaines 31. â—…4 Metellanus sendeth gifts to Rome 31. 24 Metellanus dyeth 3â—…57 Mevvtas Peter knight 462.61 Mevvtas Peter knight sente by the Earle of Lennox too the King of England to aduertise him of the Earles proceedings 463. 65 Mevvtas Peter a captaine of fiue hundred Hagbâ—…tâ—…s 467.66 Middleton Richarde a learned man liueth 355 7â—… Mightie borderers to be daungerous 395.35 Milke turned into bloud â—…52 22 Milke Castell yeelded to the Englishmen 469.99 Milnes driuen vvith streaâ—… of bloud and vvater 30â—… 21 Miracle vvrought by Saint Pâ—…l lanes arme 3â—â— 30 Miserie of the English men vnder the Danes 229.49 Mise and Rattes such plentiâ—… that they cannot bee destroyed 335. 61 Mitton vpon Svvale 3â—… 76 Modan and Medun tvvo brethren and preachers 167.58 Moderation ought to be vsed in â—…e of prosperous successe 173. 5 Mogall admitted King of Scottes 60. 4 Mogall beloued of his subiectes 60. 17 Mogall prepareth an armie agaynst the Romaines 60.41 Mogall giueth battaile too the Romaines 61.7 Mogall through pride falleth into sundrie kindes of vices 62. 32 Mogall fleeth oute of his ovvne â—…se by night 62.58 Mogall murthered 62.68 Moydart Iohn one of the principall bloud of the Isles 44â—… 21 Molocke a godlye preacher in Scotlande 144.38 Monasterie of Iona buylded by banished Scottish Monkes 9â—… 75 Monasteries in Germanie for Scottish men onely 164.44 Monkes and other religious men laboured in the Lordes Vineyarde 147.27 Moâ—…k sent into Scotland to poison the Gouernor 331.59 Monke burnt for his dissimulation 332.72 Moniâ—…uske a Baronie in Scotlande 256.37 Monsieur de la Bavvtie sent into Scotland 422.60 Monsieur de la Bavvtie made vvarden of the marches 428.6 Monsier de la Bavvtie slaine 428. 64 Monsieur de Villegaignon transporteth the yong Queene of Scots into Fraunce 475.5 Monsieur de Brezze appoynted to transport the yong Queene of Scottes into Fraunce 475.24 Monsieur de Deffe ouerthrovveth the Englishmen in a skirmishe neare to Hadington 475.77 Monsieur de Eurages taken prisoner by the EnglishmeÌ„ 476.115 Monsieur de la Broffe and Monâ—…eur Menage sente from the French King Ambassador into Scotland 460.57 Moâ—…can a Bishop of great holynesse 220.104 Monstrous childe borne among the Danes 202.50 Mâ—…strous childe borne in Northumberland 202.58 Mâ—…ntaine called Fute in Irelande 196.21 Mountmorance Frances Lieutenant of Picardie 480.77 Monstrous childe borne in Angus 210.60 Montgomerie othervvise called monsieur de Lorges Knight of the order of saint Michael sent into Scotlande by the Frenche king vvith aide against the Englishmen 464.61 he inuesteth knightes of saint Michaels order there 464.67 Moone appeareth of a bloudye colour 222.9 Moone at the full appeareth in a quadrant forme 108 Moone nor sunne seene the space of sixe monethes 209.2 Mordred and Gavvan sonnes to Loth. 126. â—…5 Mordred appoynted heyre of the crovvne of Brytaine 128.32 Mordred marieth Gavvolanes daughter 1â—…8 39 Mordred succeedeth Loth in the kingdom of Pictland â—…32 97 Mordred complaineth to Arthure for creating Constantine hys heyre apparant 132.102 Mordred king of Pictes slaine 134. 55 Mordreds linage clearly extinct 135. 85 Mordacke created King of Scotlande 154.34 Mordack a great louer of peace 154. 48 Mordacke dyeth 154.89 Mordacke lieutenaunt of Gallovvay beareth vvith offenders 155. 67 Mordacke lieutenaunt of Gallovvay put to death 155.109 Morley Robert knight and hys valiancie 366.53 Mores a French captaine sent into Scotland 429.5 Mortalitie of pestilence throughout most part of the vvorlde 149. 98 Morton tovvne burnt 472.105 Moses Captaine generall vnder Pharao 1.24 Moses conquered Saba 1.25 Moses chosen captain vnder Pharao by diuine oracle 1.23 Moses doings misliked of 1.29 Moses fled into Madian 1.34 Moses by Gods appointment returneth into Egypt 1.44 Mountforde Simon chiefe of the barons of Englande that stroue vvith K. Henry the third 294.35 Mountsort Henrie slaine in Scotland 344.65 Mountsort Richard slaine and his armie discomfited by the Scots 345. 14 Mount Benart 50.66 Mount Granzbene 51.90 Monstrous child borne 56.42 Mountros a citie in Angus hovv in olde time called 215.1 Mountros taken by the Danes and razed to the grounde 215. 7 Mountbray Philip Knight Captaine of Striueling Castell 314. 70 Mundus novv called Bracehara a Citie in Portugall buylded 2. 27 Mungo Bishop of Valco 137.18 Munition sent out of France into Scotlande 416.103 Munition sent out of Denmarke into Scotland 416.14 Murketus men taken 29.53 Murketus hanged 29 Murtherers of Adam bishoppe of Cathnes punished 285.2 Murther revvarded 30.49 Murther seuerely punished 70.11 Murtherers
was theyr purpose The bloodie souldiers letting fall theyr weapons in sted of executing the pretenced murder fell to reuerence him and at length departed from him as freendes For line all desease of bishops Three yeares he sate in the primacie rather to discontinue the horrible corruption before vsed than with intent to settle himselfe there After he hadde remoued the abuse he procured Orlasius to succeede him in the Archbishops sea and he returned to his former sea of Downe to the which as then was annexed the Bishopryke of Coner but Malachias vnderstanding that in tymes past they were .vj. seuerall seas he deuided them againe ordeined an other to the Bishoprike of Coner desirous rather to lessen his cure than to enlarge the frutes by taking more charge vpon hym Malachias being demaunded of his brethren the Monkes of Benchar where and when hee would wish to die and to be buried if it lay in his choyce he answered If in Ireland beside the bodie of S. Patrik if beyond the seas at Clareuale where S. Bernarde was then resiant and in the feast of all soules He purposed within few dayes to sue to Pope Eugenius for increase of the nuÌ„ber of Metropolitans whiche request was shortly after accomplished And in this voyage which he thus made hee stayed at Clareuale and shore diners tymes openly foreshewed that the yere of his departure foorth of this world was come and accordingly when he had taken leaue of Sainte Bernarde and the brethren hee wente downe from his chamber to the churche and there bidde communicate Whiche doone hee returned to his lodgyng and there on All Soule daye in the yere of his age .54 he gaue vp the ghost so myldlye and quietlye that it seemed rather a sleepe than a death Malchus Malchus thoughe borne in Irelande yet he spente the moste parte of his tyme in the monasterie of Wrnchester in Englande and from the 〈◊〉 was taken admitted bishop of Lismore Saint Bernard remembreth of him by occasion he cured a lunatike childe in confirming or else as they termed it in bishopping him This miracle seene and confessed by many hundredes of people was blowen through the world The same tyme happened discord betwixt the king of Mounster and his brother Discorde betvvixt the king of Mounster and his brother and as the matter was handled the king was ouermatched and fled into England wher he visited Malchus in his Abbey and would by no meanes departe from hym but remayne there vnder his rule and gouernmente so long as it pleased God to denie hym quiet returne into his countrey hee contented himselfe with a poore celle vsed dayly to bathe himselfe in colde water to assuage the wanton motions of his fleshe and for his dyet receyued none other delicates than breade water and salte daye and nyghte sobbing and bewayling with greate remorse of conscience his former mysdemeaned lyfe At length the other Kings and people of Irelande beganne to repine at the vsurper set vpon him with open warre vanquished him in a pight fielde and called home the rightefull Prince his brother agayne to resume his kingdome who with many ernest perswasions of Malchus and Malachias coulde vneth bee broughte to forsake that trade of lyfe and companye the whyche he had wyth suche delectation enured him selfe vnto Thus farre of the Irishe Sainctes Of the whyche as some of them are to bee esteemed right vertuous and godlye menne so other of them are to bee suspected as persons rather holye by the superstitious opinion of the people than endued with any suche knowledge of true godlynesse and syncere Relygion as are woorthye to be Registred in the number of those that of right ought to passe for sayntes Foxe Bale as by certayne late writers may appeare But this we leaue to the iudgemente of the aduised Reader for that in suche matters wee mynde not to preiudice any mans opinion but onely wishe the Reader to take heed howe he giueth credite to that whych oftentymes is found written by Authoures touching feigned miracles and other vayne superstitious dealings wherethorough many zelous persons haue often bene deceyued Nowe therefore to leaue Sayntes and returne to other masters touchyng the Irishe historie In the yeare .586 586. The Norvvegians skoure the seas and inuade the yles of Orkney the Norwegians had got dominion ouer the Ilandes in the north Weast Ocean called the Iles of Orkeney and skoured the Seas that none other nation â—…urste vnnethe appeare in sight for dread of them A people giuen greately to seeke the Conquestes of other Realmes as they that coulde not fayle to fynde more warme and fruitefull places for to inhabite than theyr owne These fellowes chaunced to light into Irelande by this meanes They inuade Irelande Caraticus king of Brytaine ranne into suche hatred of his people that they raysed warres agaynst him The Saxons that possessed now sixe seuerall kingdomes in the I le of Brytayne reioysed not a little at this ciuill discorde betwixt the Brytayne king and his subiects wherevpon meaning to make a full conquest of the Brytaines and vtterly to expulse them forth of the whole I le assembled their powers ioyned to the same GurmuÌ„dus Gurmundus an Archpyrate of the nation of Norway a notable rouer of the Norwegians who hauing at all tymes a Nauie in a readinesse and men to furnishe it holpe the Saxons to chase the Brytaynes into the Marches of Wales For from thence being retyred into the Mountaynes and Wooddes they coulde not dryue them This Gurmound as some thinke buylded at the same tyme the towne of Gurmondchester and after beeing assysted by the Saxons hee made a voyage into Irelande where hee spedde not greatly to his desire and therefore the Irishe account not this for any of theyr conquests as some of their antiquaries infourmed oure Authour Champion Gurmounde therefore fynding but sorie successe buylt a fewe sleight Castelles and Fortes in the frontiers and so lefte the lande and sayled from thence into Fraunce where at length hee was slaine Our Chronicles in deede name him King of Irelande Turgesius but the Irishe affyrme that before Turgesius there was none of the Easterne people that obteyned dominion in theyr Countrey Geraldus Caâ—…is to make the matter whole a Gods name thinketh Turgesius to haue conquered the lande as Lieutenaunt or Deputie vnder Gurmundus But thys being graunted there ryseth a more manifest contradiction than the former Laogerius 430 for hee hymselfe numbreth betwixte Laogirius King of Irelande that lyued in the yeare .430 and Edlumding whom Turgesius vanquished xxxiij Monarkes whose raignes comprehended foure hundred yeares so that Turgesius lyued in the yeare after the incarnation .830 Then it is too playne that hee coulde not haue any doyngs wyth Gurmundus who ioyned with the Saxons agaynst Careticus The doubt resolued in the yeare .586 This knotte saith our Authour might be vntwyned with more facilitie thus Gurmundus
Captaines yeelding their winâ—â—â—gs to y e stronger This is the miserie of lawlesse people resembling the rudenesse of the rude world wherin euery maÌ„ was richer and poorer than other as he was in might violence more or lesse enabled Here began factions of the nobilitie in Irelande fauoring diuers sides that stroue for the Crowne of England For the Duke of Yorke in those ten yeeres of his gouernemente exceedingly wanne the hartes of the noblemen and Gentlemen of that land of the whiche diuers were slayne with him at Wakefielde as the contrary part was the next yeere by his sonne Edward Erle of Marche at Mortimers Crosse in Wales In which mean time the Irishe grewe hardy and vsurped the Englishe countreys insufficiently defended as they had done by like oportunitie in the latter end of Richard the second These two seasons set theÌ„ so a flote y t heÌ„ceforward they could neuer be cast out from their forcible possessions holding by playne wrong all Vlster and by certayne Irishe tenures no small portions of Monster and Connagh least in Meth and Leynister where the ciuill subiects of the Englishe bloud did euer most preuayle Edwarde the fourth And Edward the fifth Lieutenaunts and Deputies in king Edward the fourth his dayes THomas Fitz Morice Earle of Kildare Lord Iustice vntill the thirde yeere of Edward the fourth after whiche time the Duke of Clarence brother to the King had the office of Lieutenant while he liued and made his deputies by sundry turnes Thomas Erle of Desmond Iohn Tiptoft Erle of Wurcetor the Kings cousin Thomas Earle of Kildare and Henry Lord Grey of Ruthin Great was the credit of the Giraldines euer wheÌ„ the house of Yorke prospered The Butlers and likewise the Butlers thriued vnder the bloud of the Lancasters for whiche cause the Earle of Desmond remayned many yeres Deputie to George Duke of Clarence his good brother but when he had spoken certayne disdaynefull words againste the late marriage of king Edward with the Lady Elizabeth Gray the sayd Lady beeing nowe Queene caused his trade of life after the Irishe manner contrary to sundry olde statutes enacted in that behalfe The Erle of Wurceter to be sifted and examined by Iohn Earle of Wurcetor his successor so that hee was atteynted of treason coÌ„demned and forthe same beheaded at Droghedagh 1467 Campion out of Saint leger in his collections Iames the father of this Thomas Earle of Desmond being suffered and not controlled during the gouernemeÌ„t of Richard Duke of Yorke his godcept and of Thomas Erle of Kildare his kinsman put vpon the Kings subiects within the countries of Waterford Corke Keary Irish impositions and Limirike the Irish impositions of Quinio and Liuery Cartings Cariages lodings Cocherings Bonnaght and such like which customes are the very breeders maynteyners and vpholders of all Irishe enormities wringing from the poore tenantes euerlasting ceasse allowaÌ„ce of meate and money whereby their bodies and goodes were brought in seruice and thraldome so that the meÌ„ of warre Horses and their Galloglaghes lye stil vpon the fermors eate them out begger the couÌ„trey foster a sort of Idle vagabonds ready to rebell if their Lord commaund them euer non sled in stelth and robberies These euill presidents giuen by the father the sonne did exercise being L. Deputie to whome the reformation of that disorder specially belonged Notwithstanding the same faulte beeing winked at in other and with such rigor auenged in him was manifestly taken for a quarrell sought and procured 1469 Two yeeres after the sayd Earle of Wurcetor lost his head while Henry the sixt takeÌ„ out of the Tower was set vp againe king Edward proclaymed vsurper and then was Kildare enlarged whom likewise atteynted they thought also to haue rydde and shortly both the Earles of Kildare and Desmond were restored to their bloud by ParliameÌ„t Restitution to bloud Sir Rouland Eustace 1470 Fiatsbery sometime Treasorer and Lord Chancellor was lastly also Lord Deputie of Ireland He founded S. Francis Abbey beside Kilcollen bridge King Edwarde a yeere before his death honored his yonger son Richard Duke of Yorke with the title of Lieutenant ouer thys lande which he enioyed til his vnnaturall Vncle bereft both him and his brother King Edwarde the fifth of their naturall liues ¶ Richard the third Richard the third WHen this Monster of nature and cruell Tyrant Richard the third had murthered his two yong Nephewes and taken vpon hym the Crowne and gouernement of England hee preferred his owne sonne Edward to the dignitie of Lorde Lieutenante of Ireland whose deputie was Geralde Earle of Kildare that bare that office all the reigne of King Richard and a while in Henry the seuenth his dayes ¶ Henry the seuenth TO the which Earle came the wilie Priest Henry the seuenth Sir Richard SimoÌ„d Priest Lambert couÌ„terfeyt to be the Erle of Warwicke sir Richard Simond bringing with him a lad that was his Scholer named Lambert whome hee feygned to bee the sonne of George Earle of Clarence lately escaped foorth of the Tower of London And the boy could reckon vp his pedegree so redily and had learned of the Priest suche Princely behauiour that hee lightly moued the sayde Earle and many other y e nobles of Ireland tendering as well the lignage royal of Richard Plantagenet Duke of Yorke and hys sonne George their CountreymaÌ„ borne as also maligning the aduancement of the house of Lancaster in Henry the seuenth eyther to thinke or to faine y t the world might beleeue they thought verily this child to be Edward Earle of Warwike the Duke of Clarence his lawfull sonne And although King Henry more than halfe marred their sporte in shewing the right Earle through all the streetes of London yet the Lady Margaret Duches of Burgongne sister to Edwarde the fourth hyr Nephewe Iohn de la Poole The Lorde Louell 〈◊〉 Thomas Broughton y e Lord Louell Sir Thomas Broughton Knighte and dyuers other Captaynes of this conspiracy deuised to abuse the coloure of this yong Earles name for preferring their purpose which if it came to good they agreed to depose Lamberte and to erect the very Earle indeede nowe prisoner in the Tower for whose quarrell had they pretended to fight they deemed it likely hee shoulde haue bin made away Wherefore it was blazed in Irelande that the King to mocke hys subiectes had scholed a boy to take vppon hym the Earle of Warwikes name and hadde shewed him about London to blinde the eyes of the simple folke and to defeate the lawfull inheritour of the good Duke of Clarence theyr countreyman and protector duryng his life vnto whose lignage they also deriued title in right to the Crowne In all hast they assembled at Dublin and there in Christs Churche â—â—mberte â—â—â—ned they Crowned thys Idoll honoring him with titles imperiall feasting and triumphing reysing myghtie shoutes and cryes carrying him from thence to the Castell vpon tall
gentlenesse and to thinke with himself that war betwixte brethren coulde not be maintayned with out reproch nor the victorie gotten be honorable that was obtained against his owne fleshe and therefore hee required hym not to refuse peace frendshippe and offred beneuolence syth he was nowe ready to render all that euer he hadde into his handes The King nothyng moued herewith but as one that disdayned to make a directe aunswere murmured certaine thinges with himselfe and turned away from the Duke as hee that eyther by experience knewe his brothers lighte and vnstable mynde or els as one that determined to be reuenged of him eueÌ„ to the very vttermost The brethren depart in displeasure Duke Robert also abhorring and vtterly detesting this his brothers pride streightways returned home purposyng with hymselfe to trye the hazarde of warre sith he sawe no hope to be had in brotherly loue and amitie And thervpon prouideth for warres with all his power seekyng ayde from all places where he might gette any though the kyng his brother gaue him small leysure thereto K. Henry passeth into Normandie to pâ—â—sue his brother folowing him incontinently with a new supply of souldiours and desyring nothing more than to get him within his daunger The earle of Mortaigne Duke Roberte and the Earle of Mortaigne fighting most earnestly in the mid prease of their enimies were taken or as other say betrayed and deliuered into their enimies hands Also beside Duke Robert and the foresaid Erle of Mortaigne Eadmerus VV. Crispyne VV. Ferreys Robert de Estoutville The number slayne William Crispyne William Ferreys Roberte Estoutville the elder with .iiij. C. men of armes were taken and to the number of .x. M. footmen But of the number that were slayne in this battayle there is none that declareth any certaintie but yet it is reported by diuers writers â–ª tâ—… 〈…〉 battayle in those dayes was sorer fought nor with greater bloudshed 〈…〉 of Normandie or 〈…〉 VVil. Mal. This seemeth also to agree with that whiche Wil. Malmsbury writeth of this matter for he sayth that K. Henry with small adoe broughte into his handes duke Robert who with a greate power of men came against him as then lodging nere to the sayd castell of Tenerchbray the erle of Mortaigne was also taken Roberte de Beâ—â—sme but the Earle of Shrewsbury escaped by flight notwithstanding shortly after he was lykewyse taken as he went about to practise some priuie conspiracie against the Kyng This battayle was fought as the same Wil. Malmsbury affirmeth vpon a Saterday The .27 of September chro de Nor. being the daye of Saint Michaell in Gloria and that as may be thought by the prouident iudgemente of God to the ende that Normandie should he subdued vnto EnglaÌ„d on that day in the whiche fortie yeares passed King William the conquerour first 〈◊〉 foote on land at Hastings when he came out of Normandie to subdue Englande Si. Dunelm Neyther doth Symon Dunelmensis in maner vary in any thyng from Gemeticensis touchyng the conclusion of this busynesse and takyng of duke Roberte These warres beeing thus finished and the countrey set in quiet which through the mere folie of Duke Robert was wonderfully impouerished The king receiued the keys of all the townes and Castels which belonged eyther to the Duke or to the Earle of Mortaigne and furnished the same with garnisons to be kepte to his behoofe Mat. VVest 1107. Anselme returneth home After that he had thus pacified the countrey of Normandie he came to Bec or Bechellovyn where the archbishop Anselme then remained whome by mediation of frendes he receyued into fauour agayne and sending him ouer into Englande immediately after followed himselfe Duke Roberte prisoner in the the castell of Cardiffe In like manner Duke Roberte being thus spoyled of his dominions landes and libertie was shortely committed to prison within the Castel of Cardiff in Wales where he remained about the space of .xxvi. yeres then died He gouerned the Duchie of Normandie .xix. yeres Gemeticensis was a perfect good maÌ„ of war worthy to be compared with the best captains that then liued Polidor if he had bin somewhat more ware and circumspect in his affaires and therewyth coÌ„stant and stedfast in his opinion His worthye actes valiantly and happily atchieued against the Infidels ar notified to the world by many and sundry writers to his high coÌ„mendation and eternal praise It is sayd also that he was after his taking once sette at libertie by kyng Henry and bounde to forsweare the realme of England and Normandie also being apointed to auoide within the space of .xl. days and twelue houres But for that he was perceiued to practise somewhat against the king he was eftsones takeÌ„ again hauing his eyes put out committed to prison where finally worn thorough age and grief of mind he ended his miserable lyfe The forme of bannishing men the Realme as before is expressed was ordeyned by Edward the confessor which remained as a lawe and was had in vse till these our dayes for the benefite of them which fledde to any churche or other priuiledged place thereby to escape the punishment of death due for their offences by a latter custome it was deuised that they shuld also beare a Crosse in their hande as a signe that they were pardoned of life for respecte of the holy place within the whiche they sought for succour But as for Duke Robert as it should appeare by that whiche other write hee had no such fauour shewed Mat. VVest but only libertie to walke abroade into the kings forrestes parkes and chases nere to the place where he was appointed to remayne and one day as he was in such wyse walkyng abroade hee gotte a horse and with all speede rode his waye in hope to haue escaped but his keepers aduised thereof folowed hym with hewe and crye tyll at lengthe they ouertooke him in a medow ground wher he had layde his horse vp to the belly in a quaâ—…e myre and so being brought agayn his kepers kepte hym in straighte prison aduertising the king of his demeanour Wherevpon he commanded y t the sight of his eies shuld be put out but so as the balles of them shoulde remayne vnbroken to auoyde the noysome deformitie that would otherwise ensue if the glasses shuld take hurt In his return forth of the holy land he maried one Sibell the Earle of Conuersans sister in Puglia hir father hight Roger or Geffrey as some bookes haue and was nephue to Robert Guyshard duke of Puglia â–ª Iohan. Pike and by hir had issue one sonne named William that was after Earle of Flaunders wherof God willing more shall be sayd hereafter Here must I leaue duke Robert and speake somewhat of Anselme Shortely after that hee was returned into England Eadmerus ther came letters to him from Pope Pusâ—…all by the whiche Anselme was authorised to dispose and order
the Deane of Chichester sent from Anselme with a Monke of Bechellovyn ouer to the king to enforme him of all y e matter to beseeche his maiestie so by his authoritie to vse prouision that no discorde should rise to the diuiding of the present state of the churche of Englande Furthermore wheras he had commaunded him to graunt vnto Thomas the Archbishop of Yorke a tyme of respite he shulde take for a certaine answere that he would rather suffer himselfe to be cut in peeces than to graunt so muche as one houres space vnto the electe of Yorke whome he knewe alreadie to haue set him selfe vniustly against the auncient constitutions of holy fathers against the Lord himselfe The messengers y t were sent to declare these things to the kyng returned bringing word that the king had heard their message with fauourable mynde and promised by the power of God to declare to the world that he coueted an vnitie and not any diuision in the churche of Englande Anselme sicke All this meane whyle Anselme was deteyned with long and greuous sicknesse and yet not forgetfull of the rebellious doings of the electe of Yorke he wrote Letters vnto hym by the tenoure whereof he suspended hym from exercising all pastorall function till he had reformed hys errour and submitted hymselfe to receyue his blessing and acknowledged hys subiection vnto the Churche of Canterbury as hys predecessoures Thomas and Girarde after the custome and accordingly as theyr auncestors had doone before him And thus he charged him vpon payne of cursing except he woulde renounce his Archebishoppes dignitie for in so doing he did graunte him licence to vse the office and ministerie of a Priest whyche before tyme he had taken vpon hym or else not In the same letters he did also forbid all the Byshoppes within the precincte of the Isle of Bri◅tayne that in no wyse they shoulde consecrate hym vpon payne of curssyng And if hee shoulde chaunce to bee consecrated by any straunger that in no wyse they shoulde vnder the lyke payne receyue hym for Archebishoppe or communicate with him in any condition Euerye Bishoppe also within the whole I le of Brytayne hadde a copie of these Letters directed to them from Anselme vnder his seale Letters from Anselme commaunding them to behaue themselues therin according to the conteintes and as they were bounde by the subiection whyche they ought to the Churche of Canterbury The letters were dated alyke in Marche but vpon the .xxj. of Aprill ensuing 1109. Anselme ended his lyfe in the sixteenth yeare after his first preferremente to that sea An. reg 10. beeing threescore and sixtene yeares of age He was an Italian borne in Piemont neere to the Alpes Augusta Pretoriana in a Citie called Aosta he was brought vp also by Lanfrank and before he was made Archebishoppe he was Abbotte of the Monasterie of Bechellovyn in Normandie Aboute the same tyme was the Bishoppes sea of Elye erected by the King Mat. VVest The first erection of the bishoprik of Ely Eadmerus who appoynted one Haruy to bee the firste Bishoppe there that before had bin Bishop of Bangor In lyke maner Cambrigeshire was annexed to that sea and bicause the same had of former tyme belonged to the sea of Lincolne the kyng gaue vnto the Bishoppe of Lincolne as it were in recompence the towne of Spalding whiche was his owne The Priour of Ely named Richarde Richard priour of Elye desirous to honour himselfe and his house wyth the title of a Bishoppes dignitie procured the erection of that Bishoprike first mouyng the king therin and after perswading with the Bishoppe of Lincolne to graunt his good will but yet ere the matter was brought to ende thys Pryoure dyed and so the said Haruy enioyed the roomthe Polidore wherein the Prouerbe tooke place That one sowed an other reapeth as Polydore allegeth it But to proceede Shortly after the deceasse of Anselme Eadmerus there came a Legate from Rome that brought wyth him the palle for the Archebishoppe of Yorke but nowe that Anselme was departed thys lyfe A legate from Rome the sayde Legate wyst not what to make of the matter bycause hee was appoynted to deliuer the palle firste vnto Anselme and to doe further concerning the bestowing therof as should seeme good vnto hym In the feast of Pentecost nexte ensuing the king beeing retourned oute of Normandie held his court at London and after the solemnitie of that feast hee called an assemble of the Bishops to vnderstande what oughte to be done in the matter for the consecration of the Archbishop of Yorke Heere were the Letters shewed whiche the Archbishoppe Anselme hadde a little before his death directed vnto euery of the bishops as before ye haue heard the which when the Erle of Mellent had read The Erle of Mellent and vnderstode the effect of them He asked what hee was that durste receyue any suche letters without the kings assente and commaundement At lengthe the Bishops aduising themselues what they hadde to doe Samson bishop of VVorceter required Samson the Byshoppe of Worcester to declare his opinion the whiche boldely vttered his mynde thus Althoughe thys manne whiche is elected Archebishoppe is my sonne whome in tymes paste I begotte of my wyfe and therefore oughte to seeke his aduancement as nature and worldly respectes myghte moue mee yet am I more bounde vnto the Churche of Caunterbury my mother y e which hath preferred me to this honor which I doe beare and by the ministery of a Bishoplyke office hathe made mee partaker of that grace whiche it hathe deserued to enioye of the Lorde Wherfore I would it should be notifyed vnto you all that I meane to obey in euery condition the commandement conteined in the letters of our father Anselme concerning the matter which you now haue nowe in hande For I will neuer giue myne assente that he whyche is the electe of York shall be consecrated til he haue professed his due and canonicall obedience touchyng hys subiection to the Churche of Canterburie For I my selfe was present when my brother Thomas Archebishoppe of Yorke being constreyned bothe with auncient customes and inuinicible reasons did professe the like subiection vnto the Archebishoppe Lanfranke and to all his successours the Archbishoppes of Canterburie The protestation of the bishope to the king These things beeing thus vttered by the Bishoppe of Worcester all the Bishoppes returned together and cōming before the kyngs presence boldly confessed that they hadde receyued Anselmes letters and woulde not do any thing contrary to the tenour of the same Hereat the Earle of Mellent shooke the head as though he ment to accuse them of contempte towardes the kyng But the Kyng himself vttered his mynd and sayd That whatsoeuer other men thought of the matter he surely was of the lyke mynde with the Bishops and woulde be loth to runne in daunger of Anselmes cursse Wherevpon it was
all his tyme in a manner in mayntenance of the warres yet hee leuied but fewe tributes or almost none at all Hee put dyuers Bishops to greeuous fynes and that not withoute the appoyntmente of the most iust and Almighty God that they mighte so bee punished duely for theyr periurie committed in helping him to y e Crowne Vices wherewith he should be noted I find none but that vppon an ambitious desire to reigne hee brake his oth which he made vnto the Empresse Maude Abbeyâ—…s fouÌ„ded In his dayes the Abbey of Tiltey was founded Coggheshall hâ—… founded himselfe and Fontneys in Lancashire and Fâ—â—â—rshaÌ„ in Kente Also the Abbeys of Fontneys Rieualle Coggeshall in Essex Newbourgh and Beelande Meriuale in Warwikeshire and Garedon in Leicestershire and Kirksteed in Yorkshire with dyuers other in other parties of the Realme in so muche that there were more Abbeys founded in hys dayes than had bin within the space of an hundred yeares before VVil. Parâ—â—â— as William Paruus writeth There were also a greate number of Castels builded in his dayes as before yee haue heard by the nobles of the Realme eyther to defende the confynes of their countreys from inuasions of other or that they myghte out of the same the more easily inuade theyr neyghbours abroade Dyuers learned menne lyued in these dayes namely Historiographers as William Malmesbury Henry Huntington Simon Dunelmensis Galfridus Arturius otherwise called Monumetensis Caradoc Lancarnauensis William RheuelleÌ„sis and other Also the Archbishop of Yorke Thurstaine is not to be forgotten besyde other whyche in dyuers sciences were righte experte and skilfull as by treatises whyche they set foorthe it hathe to the worlde sufficiently appeared Henry the seconde Henry the seconde An. reg 1. HEnry the second of that name a Frenche manne borne the seconde sonne of Geffrey Plantagenet Earle of Aniou begotten of Maude the Empresse daughter to Henry the firste beganne hys raigne ouer Englande the fiue and twentith of October in the yeare after the creation of the worlde â—…12â—… and in the yeare after the incarnation of our Sauioure .1154 1154 about the beginning of the thirde yeare of the Emperour Fredericke the firste the second of Pope Anastasius the fourth the seuententh yeare of Lewis the seuenth â–ª Kyng of Fraunce and seconde of Malcolme then King of Scotlande Immediately after he was aduertised of the deathe of Kyng Stephen hee came ouer into England Nic. Treuet Math. Paris landing at Ostreham about the seuenth day of December After he had got togither his company whiche by tempeâ—â— had bin scattred in his passage he came first to Winchester where the nobles of the Realme beeyng come vnto him he receyued of them their homages and fealties This doâ—…e he set foorth towards London where he was Crowned K. by Theobald Archbyshoppe of Caunterbury the twentith day of December Nic. Treuet The Archbishop Rouen There were presente at hys Coronation the Archbishoppe of Rouen with three of his suffragants and the Archbyshoppe of Yorke with many other Bishops of Englande There was also the Earle of Flaunders Theodorus with a great number of other Earles Lords and Barons He was at that time about the age of three and tweÌ„tie yeres Polidor and to winne the peoples loue he spake many comfortable wordes vnto them to put theÌ„ in hope as the manner is that they shoulde finde him a louing and courteous Prince Hee vsed the Lordes also very gently And first of all after hys atteynyng to the Crowne he chose to hym CouÌ„cellors of the grauest personages Counsellors chosen and best learned in the Lawes of the Realme with whose prudent aduice he perused those lawes and amended them where he thought necessary commaunding chiefly that the lawes established by hys graundfather Henry the first shoulde be obserued Ran. Higd. and in many thyngs he stayed vpoÌ„ the aduice of Theobald Archbishoppe of Caunterbury Thomas Becket Lorde Chauncellor at whose sute hee admitted Thomas Becket to be his Chauncellour whyche Becket the sayde Archbishop had made Archdeacon of Caunterbury the yeare before Moreouer by the sentence and dome of hys Councellours to the intente that peace and quiet order might take place and be the better mayneteyned 1155 he commaunded by way of publishyng a proclamation that all Straungers which to get somewhat by the warres Nic. Treuet Polidor VVil. Paruus Strangers appoynted to departe the Realme hadde flocked into the Realme duryng the time of the ciuill discord betwene hym and Kyng Stephen shoulde departe home without further delay wherefore hee appoynted them a day before the whyche they shuld auoyde vppon the perrill that might ensue thereof Heerevppon it was a wonder to vnderstande home suddaynely these Aliens were quite vanished away Aliens auoyde the lande as though they hadde bin Phantasmes Their abiding here was nothing profitable for the subiects of the Realme as they that were still accustomed to attempt euery shrewde turne in others necke and thinke it lawfull for them so to doe Amongst them there was a great number of Flemings whome the Kyng hated more than the residue and by vertue of this Edict William de Ipres William of Ypres whome Kyng Stephen as yee haue heard had made Earle of Kent was constreyned with other to departe the Realme King Henry seasing all his possessions into his owne handes Castels ouerthrowen Polidor Mat. Paris Diuers Câ—…stells were also throwen downe and made plainâ—… with the ground by the Kings commaundement which priuate men by King Stephens permission had builded or else for that they stoode not in suche places as was thought meete and expedient yet some he caused to be fortifyed VVil. Paeruus Mat. Paris and furthermore tooke into hys handes agayne such lands and possessions as apperteyned to the Crowne and were alienated vnto anye manner of person of what degree so euer he was Thys wounded the mynds of many with an inwarde grudge as well ynough perceyuing that y e Kyng woulde looke so neere to his owne commoditie y t nothing should be left for them that mighte anye way be recouered and gotten to hys vse Queene Eleanore was deliuered of hir seconde sonne named Henry the last of February within the Citie of London Also Hugh Bigot resigned his Castels into the Kings handes But whilest Kyng Henry was aboute as before yee haue hearde to recouer and bring home againe the portions of hys kingdome made away and dismembred by hys predecessors he was enformed that the Welchmen made Rebellion againste him to represse whose attemptes Rebellion of Welchmen hee hasted foorthe with all diligence At his first approch to their countrey hys Souldiers being set vppon in the straytes The King inuadeth them were right fiercely put backe by the enimies in so much that a rumor was reysed how Kyng Henry was slayne whiche puffed vppe the Welchmen with no small hope and put the EnglishmeÌ„ in no lesse feare In deede diuers
ouer vnto Caleys wher he found Philippe Earle of Flaunders readie to receyue hym who attended vppon him tyll he came into Normandie where the kyng helde his Christmasse at Burun immediately he came to an enterviewe with the French king at Eue S. Remye 1190. Vadum sancti Remigit A league betvvixt the kinges of England and Fraunce where they concluded a peace together to bee kepte betwixte them and their countreys on eche parte the whiche was put in writyng and confirmed with their othes and seales in the feast of Saincte Hillarye And furthermore aboute the Purification of our Ladye Eleanor the Queene mother and the Lady Alice sister to the French kyng Rog. Houede Baldwyne the Archebishop of Canterbury Iohn bishoppe of Norwiche Hugh Bishop of Durham Geffrey Byshoppe of Wynchester Reginalde Bishoppe of Bathe William Bishoppe of Elye Huberte Bishoppe of Salisburye and Hugh Bishoppe of Chester with Geffreye the electe of Yorke and Iohn Earle of Mortaigne the kynges two bretherne by commaundement of the Kyng passed ouer into Normandye to commen with him before his setting forwarde Some write that nowe at this presente the Kyng shoulde ordeyne or rather confirme the Bishoppe of Elye his Chauncellour to be Lorde chiefe Iustice ouer all Englande and the bishop of Durham to bee Lorde Iustice from Trente Northwardes But when soeuer they were thus aduaunced to suche dignities Contētion betvvixte tvvo ambitious Byshops true it is that immediatly thervpon stryfe and discorde did aryse betwixt them contending which of them shuld bearemost rule authoritie in so muche y t what soeuer seemed good to the one the other mislyked therof as in cases where parteners in authoritie are equall it often hapneth But those controuersies are nowe decided and all matters betweene them lykely hereafter to moue contention appeased by the king Moreouer at the same time he caused his two brethren Earle Iohn and the Electe Archbishop of Yorke Geffrey to take an othe not to return into England during the terme of .iij. yeres next ensuing without his consent licence first had This he didde foreseeing what myghte happen prouiding as it were agaynste suche practises as his brethren might haply attempt against him But yet his mother Queene Eleanor procured him to reuoke that decree immediatly least it myght seeme to the world that hir sons should stande in feare one of an other Earle Iohn licenced to returne into Englande And so the Erle of Mortaigne was licenced to returne into England at his pleasure swearing an othe at his departure to obey the kings pleasure and truly to serue hym accordyng to the duetie of a good and loyal subiect The Bishop of Ely lord Chauncellor and chiefe Iustice of Englande was also sent back hyther into this realme to set forward thyngs behouefull for the kings iourney And in like maner the king sent to Rome to obteyn that the said bishop of Ely mighte be constituted the Popes Legate through bothe the Prouinces of Canterbury and Yorke The bishop of of Elye returneth and likewyse thorough Wales and Ireland Which was soone granted by the bulles of Pope Clement the third bearing date the .v. of Iune For the which office the Bishops gaue him .1500 markes to the greate offence of the king as he shewed afterward to Cardinal Octauiā y e came to visit him when he arriued in the riuer of Tyber being vpon his iorney towards Messina as after may appere But in y e mean time calling togither y e lords peeres of those his dominions on y e side the sea to wit Polidor Normādie Britain Aniou Poytou Guyen he cōsulteth with them what number of soldiors and howe many shippes it should bee conuenient for hym to take with hym and furnishe into Asia and herewith he dothe commaunde them also to obey Robert Earle of Leycester whome he appointed to remayn amongst them as his Lieutenaunt or vicegerent of those parties during his absence But here to leaue king Richard in consultation for matters apertayning to his iourney and shewe briefly what happened by the way to the Iewes whiche as then dwelt here in Englande after that king Richarde was passed ouer into Normandie Ye haue hearde alreadie howe after the ryotte committed againste them at London VVil. Paruus when the king was crowned the king toke order that they should remayn in peace vnder his protection and commaunded that no person shoulde in any wise molest them But nowe after that he was gone ouer and that the Souldiours whiche prepared themselues to follow him beganne to assemble in routes the heades of the common people began to waxe wylde The hatred borne to the Ievves and fayne would they haue had some occasion of reysing a newe tumulte agaynst the Iewes whome for theyr vnmercyfull vsurye practised to the vndoyng of many an honest man they moste deadly hated wyshing most earnestly their expulsion out of Englande Herevpon by reason of a riot committed lately against them at the towne of Linne in Norfolke where many of them were slayne other people in other partyes of the Realme takyng occasion hereof as if they hadde bin called vp by the sounde of a bell or Trumpette arose agaynst them in those Townes where they had any habitations and robbed and bet them after a disordered and most riottous manner On the morowe those that were saued called out to the people and not onely shewed how and after what sorte their fellowes were dispatched but also offred to bee baptysed and forsake theyr Iudaisme if they myght haue theyr liues saued from the imminent and present daunger wherein they sawe themselues to be wrapped thorough the furie of the people To be short thys thyng was graunted and they came foorthe howbrit they were no sooner entred into the prease but they were all slayne and not one man of them preserued After this also the people ranne to the Cathedrall Churche and broke into those places where theyr bondes and oblygations laye by the whyche they hadde dyuers of the Kynges subiectes bounde vnto them in moste vnconscionable sorte and for suche detestable vsurye as if the Authours that wryte therof were not of credite would hardly be beleeued All whyche Euydences or bondes they solemnely burned in the myddest of the Churche After whyche eche went his way the Souldiours to the king and the commons to their houses and so was the Citie quieted This hapned at Yorke on Palmsunday men being the .xvij. of Marche and vpon the .xv. of that moneth those that inhabited in the towne of Saint Edmunds Burye in Suffolke were sette vppon and manie of them slayne The residue that escaped thorough the procuremense of the Abbotte then named Sampson were expulsed so that they neuer had anye dwellings there since that tyme. Thus were the Iewes vnmercyfully dealte with in all places in maner through this realme the first beginning wherof chaunced at London as before ye haue heard and the next at
to LondoÌ„ From whence he sente messengers vnto all suche Lordes as hee suspected commaunding them to send vnto him hostages for more assuraunce of their fidelities The Lords durst not disobey hys commaundemente but sente their sonnes theyr nephewes and other their kinsmen accordingly as he required and so hys rancor was appeased for a time But Eustace de Vescy Roberte Fitz Walter and Stephen Ridell being accused and suspected of the K. for the saide treason were glad to flee the Realm Vescy departing into Scotland and the other two into Fraunce The Kyng vnderstanding the meaning of the messengers sent them backe againe to bring ouer the Legate Legate â—…ulph â—…meth ouer who incontinently transported ouer vnto Douer of whose arriuall when the K. was aduertised he went thither receyued hym with al due honor reuerence and after they had talked togither a little and courteously saluted eache other as the course of humanitie required the Legate as it is reported vttered his tale vnto the Kyng in this manner 〈◊〉 Legates â—…s to the â—…g I doe not thinke that you are ignorant how Pope InnoceÌ„t to do that which to his duety apperteyneth hath both assoiled youre subiectes of that oth whiche they made vnto you at the beginning and also taken from you the gouernaunce of England accordyng to youre desertes and finally giuen commaundement vnto certayne Princes of Christendome to expulse you out of thys Kingdome and to place an other in your roomth so worthely to punish you for your disobedience and contempte of Religion and that Phillippe King of Fraunce with the first being ready to accomplish y e Popes commaundement hath an army in a readinesse and with his nauie newly decked rigged and furnished in all poyntes lyeth at the mouth of the Riuer of Sayne looking for a prosperous winde that as soone as it commeth about hee may sayle therewith hither into Englande trusting as hee saith with the help of your owne people whyche neyther name you nor will take you for theyr Kyng to spoyle you of youre Kyngdome with small adoe and to conquere it at his pleasure for he hath as he sticketh not to protest openly to the world a charter made by all the chiefest Lordes of England touching their fealtie and obedience assured to him Therefore sith God for your iust desert is wroth with you and that you are as euill spoken of by all menne as they that come against you be well reported I would aduise you that whilest there is place for grace and fauour rather to obey the Popes iust demaundes to whose worde other Christian Princes are ready to giue eare than by striuing in vayne to cast away youre selfe and all others that take youre parte or are bente to defende your quarrell or cause These wordes beeing thus spoken by the Legate Kyng Iohn as then vtterly despayring in his matters when hee saw hymselfe constreyned to obey hee was in a greate perplexitie of minde and as one full of thoughte looked aboute him with a frowning countenaunce waying with himselfe what counsell were best for him to follow At length oppressed with the burthen of the imminent daunger and ruine agaynst hys will and very loth so to haue done hee promised vpon hys oth to stande to the Popes order and decree And therefore shortly after in lyke manner as Pope Innocent hadde commaunded hee taketh the Crowne besydes his owne head K. Iohn deliuereth his crowne vnto Pandulph and deliuereth the same to Pandulph the Legate neyther hee nor hys heires at any tyme thereafter to receyue the same but at the Popes handes After thys hee promised to receyue Stephen the Archbyshoppe of Caunterbury into hys fauour with all other the Byshoppes and banished menne makyng vnto them sufficiente amendes for all iniuries to them done and so to pardon them that they shoulde not runne into any daunger for that they hadde rebelled agaynste hym Then Pandulph keepyng the Crowne with hym by the space of fyue dayes in token of possession thereof at length as the Popes Vicar Pandulph restoreth the Crowne again to the Kyng hee restored it to hym againe By meanes of thys acte sayth Polidore the fame went abroade that Kyng Iohn willing to continue the memorie heereof made himselfe vassall to Pope Innocente with condition that hys successors should lykewise from thencefoorth acknowledge to haue theyr righte to the same Kyngdome from the Pope But those Kynges that succeeded Kyng Iohn haue not obserued any suche lawes of reconciliation neyther doe the autentique Chronicles of the Realme make mention of any suche surrender so that suche Articles as were appointed to Kyng Iohn to obserue perteyned vnto hym that hadde offended and not to hys successors Thus saith Polidor howbeit Ran. Higd. Ranulf Higden in hys Booke entituled Polichronicon sayth indeede that Kyng Iohn dyd not onely bynde hymselfe but hys heires and successors beeyng Kynges of Englande England became tributarie to the Pope to bee feodaries vnto Pope Innocente and hys successors Popes of Rome that is to saye that they shoulde holde theyr dominions of them in fee yeeldyng and paying yeerely to the See of Rome the summe of seuen hundred markes for England Mat. VVest and three hundred markes for Irelande Furthermore by reporte of the most autentique and approoued Writers Kyng Iohn Mat. Paris for to auoyde all daungers whyche as he doubted myghte ensue despairing as it were in hymselfe or rather most specially for lacke of loyall duetie in hys Subiectes condiscended to all the perswasions of Pandulph and so not withoute hys greate hartes greeuaunce he was contented to take hys othe togyther with sixteene Earles and Barons who laying their hands vppon the holy Euangelistes sware with him vpon perill of soule that hee shoulde stand to the iudgement of the Church of Rome and that if hee repented him and would refuse to stand to promise they should then compell him to make satisfaction Heerevpon they being altogither at Douer the King and Pandulfe with the Earles and Barons and a greate multitude of other people agree and conclude vpon a final peace in forme as here ensueth The charter of King Iohn his submissioÌ„ Johannes Dei gratia Rex Angliae Omnibus Christi fidelibus hanc chartam inspecturis salutem in domino Vniuersitati vestrae per hanc chartam sigiâ—…o nostro munitam volumus esse notum quod cum Deum matrem nostram sanctam Ecclesiâ—…m offenderimus in multis proiâ—…dè diuina misericordia plurimum indigeamuâ—… nec quâ—…d dignè offerre possimus pro satisfactione Deo ecclesiae debita facienda nisi nâ—…sinetipsos humiliemus regna nostra volentes nosipsos humiliare pro illo qui se pro nobu humiliauit vsque ad mortem gratia sancti Spiritus inspirante â—…on vi interdicti nec timore coacti sed nostra bona spontaneaque voluntate ac coÌ„muni consilio Baronum nostrorum conferimus libere concedimus Deo sanctis
both Spirituall and Temporall were assembled demaunded escuage of all those that helde any baronies of him that is to witte Esâ—…ge demaunded forraine Knightes fee fortie shillings or three markes Moreouer the Archbishop of Canterburie The Archâ—… Canterburâ—… staÌ„deth 〈◊〉 the king â—…fence of 〈◊〉 Cleargie as they say stoode agaynst the king in this demaunde mainteyning that the Cleargie ought not to be subiect vnto the iudgement of lay men sith this escuage was graunted in the parties beyonde the seas without their consent Whervpon the matter as touching the Bishops was deferred till the quindene of Easter albeit that all the laitie and other of the spiritualtie consented to the kings will About this time also there chaunced to ryse a greate strife and contention betwixt Richarde the Archbishop of Canterburie and Hubert the Earle of Kent â—…ntion â—…r the 〈◊〉 and the 〈◊〉 of Kent who as garden to the yong Erle of Gloucester had got into his handes the Castell of Tunbridge with the towne and certaine other possessions which belonged to the Archbishops Sea and therfore did the Archbishop complaine to the king of the iniurie which he susteyned but when hee perceyued no hope likely to come for any redresse at the kings handes hee tooke an other way 〈◊〉 Paris and first by his pontificall authoritie accursed all those that withhelde the same possessions and all theyr mainteyners the king excepted and therewith appealing to the Pope he went to prosecute his appeale to Rome whither the king and the Erle sent also their procurators and made the Pope their arbitratour to iudge of the matter In the ende Pope Gregorie hauing heard the whole proces of the coÌ„trouersie iudged the right to remaine with the Archbishop who hauing then obteyned his desire hasted towarde England but as he was returning homewards he dyed by the way not farre from Rome whereby the Popes iudgement tooke no place for whilest the sea was voyde there was none that woulde follow the sute and such was the ende of this controuersie for this tyme. â—…r Neuill â—…d Archb. â—…nterbury After the deceasse of this Archbishop Richard the Monkes elected Raufe Neuil Bishop of Chichester the kings Chauncellor an vpright man and of iust dealing in all his doings In whome also it is to be noted he would not giue one half-penie to the Monks towards the bearing of their charges in their iourney to Rome whiche they shoulde take vpon them from thence to fetche hys confirmation according to the maner least hee shoulde burden his conscience with the crime of Simonie which he greatly abhorred although some imputed this to proceede rather of a cloked spice of couetousnes But to y e purpose WheÌ„ the Monks came to the popes presence vpon inquirie made Simon Langtons report of the concitions of Rauf Neuil chiefly by report of Simon LangtoÌ„ who as some thinke gaped for y e dignitie he vnderstood that the saide Raufe Neuill should be a man vnlearned a courtier hasty short of word and that which most displeased the Pope it was to be feared that if he should bee preferred to that roumth he would go about to deliuer the realme of England froÌ„ the thraldom of the Pope the Court of Rome into the which being made tributorie by k. Iohn it had lately bin brought that as he shuld alledge it might serue God holy Church in the old accustomed libertie And to bring this to passe hauing the king thereto greatly inclined al the realme ready to assyst him in the same he would not sticke to put his life in ieopardie namely vpoÌ„ confidence of the right and appeales of Stephen the late Archb. of Canterburie made in solemne wise before the aulter of S. Paul in the cathedral Church of London The Pope maketh voyde the election when K. Iohn resigning his crowne into the handes of the Legate made that writing obligatorie moste execrable to the whole world When the Pope had heard this tale tolde he streight disanulled the election request of the confirmation of the said Rauf Neuil graunting libertie to the Monkes to chose some other which might proue a wholsome shepherd for the soule of maÌ„ profitable to y e church of EnglaÌ„d a faithful son to the sea of Rome so the Monks returning home made relation to the couent how they had speâ—… After this the monks elected the prior of their house named Iohn vnto their Archb. who going to Rome for his coÌ„firmation was persuaded in y e end to renouÌ„ce his electioÌ„ so y t at length one EdmoÌ„d y t was treasurer of y e colledge of Salisb was elected coÌ„firmed coÌ„secrated a maÌ„ of great zeale being the .xliiij. Archb. y t had gouerned in that see The Earle of Cornewal marieth the CouÌ„tesse of Gloucester Llewellin prince of Wales inuadeth the Englishe borders Moreouer Llewellin Prince of Wales about this season enterprysed to inuade the Englishe confines and burned and wasted the Countrey in most cruell wyse Whereof the King being aduertised hasted forth by great iourneyes with purpose to reuenge such iniuries But the enimyes hearing of his comming according to the custome of their Countrey wythdrewe into the Mountaynes Bogges and Marishes Wherefore the King seeing that hee coulde not haue them at his pleasure and least hee shoulde bee thoughte to spende tyme in vayne came backe and left behinde him a small crewe of souldiers to resyst theyr attempts if they should happen to rise vp any more The Welch men hauing intelligence that the King was returned home brake forth againe as before into the Englishe Marches and not onely tooke prayes and booties but went about to destroy with fyre and sworde all that stoode in theyr way Howbeit in their returne and as they raunged abrode somewhat vnaduisedly they were intrapped by the soldiers which the king had left there for the defence of the Countrey and put to flight neare to the Castell of Mongomerie The Wâ—… men pâ—… flight with great slaughter and losse of their people But Llewellin â—…dig dismayed therewith assembled a greater power than hee had before and began forthwyth to ronâ—…e and spoyle within the Englishe Marches wyth Paganisme extremitie which thing when it came to y e vnderstanding of the king he was verie sore displeased that so meane a man as Llewellin was shoulde put him to so muche trouble therefore hee raysed a farre greater armie than hee had done at anye tyme before The king goeth agaynst the Welch men Math. Paris and with the same came to the Citie of Hereford In the meane time Llewellin comming neare vnto the sayde Castell of Montgomerie by the practice of a trayterous Monke trayned forth the English souldiers which lay in garnison there and counterfeyting to flee The Englishe men distressed tyll he had layde them vp in Bogges and Myres with theyr horses so as they coulde not helpe themselues he fell vpon them and so
against certayne of them that were his roâ—… sins as the Earle of Pembroke and others Finally when the Lordes were in doubte which way to worke for their owne safeties they caused the Parliament to be proroged The 〈…〉 till y e 〈◊〉 of Saint Barnabe then to begin againe at Oxforde In the meane time the Lords of the Realme as the Earles of Gloucester Leicester Hereforde and Northfolke with other did confederate theÌ„selues togither bycause they stoode in feare to bee entrapped by the Kings subtile sleightes and by the craftie wiles of those straungers which he reteyned against them The same yere by y e wind which continually certayne monethes togyther kept Northerly the floures with other growing things were so hindered that vnneth they appeared to any purpose A 〈◊〉 till y e most parte of Iune was past wherevpon the hope of receyuing the frutes of the earth was quite taken away A deâ—… accoâ—… with 〈◊〉 and so vppon the great dearth that happened a sore deathe and mortalitie followed for want of necessary foode to susteyne the languishing bodyes of the poore people They dyed so thicke that there were greate pittes made in Churchyardes to lay the dead bodies in one vpon an other About the feast of the Ascention Seâ—…l 〈◊〉 of Yâ—… pâ—…lâ—…e Seuall the Archbyshop of Yorke departed this life the which constantly had resisted the tyrannie of the Court of Rome in defence of his Churche suffering in this world many greeuous tribulatioÌ„s but now was remoued from thence vnto the Kingdome of Heauen Mat. 〈◊〉 to be Crowned with the elect for hys good deseruings as was then certainely belieued About this time also a great number of Poictouins were come into Englande by reason of their aliance and cosynage to the King the whiche by the Kings fauour being highly aduaunced began to waxe proude thereof and to require to be restored vnto such lands and liuings as beforetime they had possessed The Kâ—… halfe 〈◊〉 Namely the Kyngs halfe breethren Athelmare or Odomare that was a Priest with William Geffrey and Guy these were the sonnes of Hugh le Brun Earle of Marche by his wife Queene Isabell the mother of Kyng Henry and being come into England shewed themselues very loftie and high minded partly bycause of the Cousinage to the Kyng and partly by reason of his courteous entertaining of them in so muche that they forgetting themselues began to despise vpon a presumptuous pride the English Nobilitie looking still for prefermente of honor aboue all other And surely Odomare obteyned at the firste a great peece of his purpose beeyng made by the Kyngs gifte Byshoppe of Winchester and by that meanes bare a stout porte and greately holpe his other brethren The English Barons not well able to suffer such presumption in straungers who seemed to haue them in derision compleyned to the Kyng in so much that at length as well for a reformation heereof as in other things a Parliamente was called as before yee haue hearde fyrste at London and after reiorned â–ª to Oxeforde there to be assembled about the feast of Saint Barnabie in the moneth of Iune This of some writers is named Insanum Parliamentum â—…sanum â—…rliamentuÌ„ that is to say the madde Parliamente for at this Parliamente to the whiche the Lords came with great retinues of armed men for the better safegarde of their persons manye things in the same were enacted contrary to the Kings pleasure and his royall prerogatiue For the Lords at the firste determined to demaunde the confirmation of the auntient charter of liberties which his father Kyng Iohn had graunted and hee himselfe had so often promised to obserue and maynteyne signifying playnely that they meant to pursue their purpose and intent herein not sparing eyther for losse of life â—…e demaund the Lordes lands or goods according to that they had mutually giuen theyr faythes by ioyning of handes as the manner in such cases is accustomed Besides the graunt of the greate charter they required other things necessary for the state of the common wealthe to bee established and enacted â—…dinances â—…de It was therefore fyrste enacted that all the Poictouins should auoide the land togither with other straungers and that neyther the King nor his sonne Prince Edwarde shoulde in anye secrete manner ayde them agaynste the people â—…oth exacâ—… of the K. Moreouer that the Kyng and hys sonne should receyue an othe to stande vnto the decrees and ordinances of that Parliament and withall speede to restore the auntient lawes and institutions of ther Realme whyche they both did rather constreyned therevnto by feare than of any good will â—…nd so not only the Kyng himselfe but also his sonne Prince Edwarde râ—…d an oth to obserue the ordinances of that ParliameÌ„t But Iohn Earle Warren â–ª and the Kyngs halfe breethren namely the Earle of Pembroke refused that othe and likewise the Lord Henry sonne to the Kyng of Almayne excused himselfe by his fathers absence without whose consent he would not receyue it vnto whome thys aunswere was made that if his father would not consente to the agreemente of the Baronage hee shoulde not possesse one fourrough of lande within thys Realme Also whereas the Earle of Leicester resigned the Casâ—…s of Kenelworth and Odiham into the Kyngs handes the which he had lately receiued by his gifte and newly repaired them the Earle of Pembroke and his other brethreÌ„ sware deepely that they woulde for no mans pleasure giue ouer suche Castels rentes and Wardships of theirs as they had of the Kyngs gift The Earle of Leicester threatneth the Earle of Pembroke but the Earle of Leicester tolde the Earle of Pembroke flatly and playnely that he shoulde eyther render them vp or else he shoulde be sure to lose his head â–ª and thys saying was confyrmed by the generall voyces of all other the Barons bycause it was a speciall article concluded amongst other in that Parliament The Kings halfe breethren The Kings halfe brethren shift away perceyuing which way the worlde wente stoode in doubt of themselues and secretely therevpon departed froÌ„ Oxforde and firste withdrewe vnto Winchester â–ª where Odomare one of the same breethren was Bishop through whose support and by reason of the strength of such Castels as he held they trusted to be in more safetie but finally perceyuing themselues not to be so out of daunger sith the Barons minded to pursue them about the eightenth day of Iuly They departe the Realme they departed the Realme with a greate number of other of their countreymen and amoÌ„gst those William de Saint Heeman the Kyngs karuer was one Richard Gray Captayne of Douer Castell and Lorde warden of the portes In the meane while one Richard Gray Chateillayne of Douer Castell a right valiant man and a faithfull suffred no man to passe that ways vnsearched according to that which he hadde in commaundement wherevppon he tooke and seased into his
aswell in diuinitie as philosophie and humanitie bothe in verse and prose Also Steephen Langton that for his singuler knowledge was made high chancelor of the Vniuersitie of Paris and at length was admitted archebishop of Canterbury againste the will of Kyng Iohn in whiche quarell so greate trouble ensued as before ye haue partly heard Ralfe Coggeshall also liued in kyng Henryes dayes that wrote the appendix vnto the chronicle of Raufe Niger he was abbot of Coggeshall abbey in Essex wherof he tooke his surname William Lanthonie Peter of saint Sauiour a Chanon of the house called S. Sauior or of the trinitie by London Alexander Hales a frier of the order of the minors who wrote many treatises in diuinitie Richard surnamed Medicus a moste lerned phisition and no lesse expâ—… Philosophie the Maâ—…tals Ther is also remembred by maâ—…ter Bâ—…e the Earle of Chester Randulf the thâ—… and laste of that name who hauing greate knowledge and vnderstanding in the lawes of this lande compiled a booke of the same lawes as a witnesse of his greate skill therin Alexander Wendock Bishop of Chester Iohn Bâ—…e Edmund Riche Robert Riche â–ª Henry Bratton that is excellent lawyer who wrote the booke commonly called Bracton after his name entituled de consuâ—… inibus Anglicanis Richard surnamed Theologus Walter de Euesham Raufe Fresborne Laurence Somerâ—…oâ—… brother as is thought to Roberte Somerâ—…oâ—… at that time a cardinall of the Romaine Churche Nicholas Fernham a phisition Robert Bacon a notable diuine Simon Langton brother to the Archebishoppe of Canterbury Stephen Langton Richarde Fisaker Simon Stokes Iohn of Kent or Kantianus William Shirwoode Michaell Blaunpaine Iohn Godarde Vincent of Couentrye Albeâ—…e Vâ—…er Richarde Wiche Iohn Basing alias de Basing Stoke Roger Waltham Wylliam Seningham Robert Grosted that lerned byshop of Lincolne whose memorie amongst the lerned will remayn whilest the world lasteth Edward the fyrste 1272. An. reg 1. EDVVARDE the firste of that name after the Conquest beganne hys reigne ouer the Realme of of Englande â—…Vil Harison 〈◊〉 his chronoâ—…gie the xvj daye of NoueÌ„ber in the yere of the world 5239. of our Lorde .1272 of the Saxons â—…4 after the conquest 206. the vacation of the Empire after the deceasse of Frederike the the seconde as yet enduring though shortly after in the yere next following Radulf of Habspurge was elected Emperor in the third yeare of Philippe the third as then reigning in Fraunce and Alexander the thirde as yet lyuyng in gouernemente of the Scottishe Kyngdome Thys Edwarde the first when his father dyed beyng aboute the age of .xxxv. yeares olde was as then in the holy lande or rather in his iourney homewards but wheresoeuer he was at that present the nobles of the â—…aÌ„d after his father was departed this life 〈◊〉 VVest â—…vve Seale â—…de assembled at the new TeÌ„ple in London and causing a new scale to be made they ordeyned faithfull ministers and officers which shuld haue the treasure in keeping and the administration of iustice for the mayntenaunce of peace and tranquilitie wythin the lande and on the .xxij. daye of Nouember hee was proclaymed Kyng 〈◊〉 Dunst who after he had remained a time in the holy laÌ„d and perceyued himselfe destitute of suche ayde as hee looked for at the handes bothe of the Christians and Tartarians â—…at VVâ—… he left in the Citie of Acon certayn stipendarie souldiers and taking the sea sailed homewards 1273. arriuing first in Sicill where of Charles Kyng of that lande hee was honorably receiued and conueyed til he came vnto Caâ—…ta Vecchia in Italy where Pope Gregorye as then laye with his Courte of whome as of his olde friende that had bene wyth hym in the holy land he obteined that Erle Aldebrandino Roffo and Guy of Mountfort that had murthered the Lord Henry eldest sonne to Richarde Kyng of Almain might be sent for Earle Aldebrandino purged hymselfe â—…y de Montâ—… excoâ—…e but Guye de Mountfort was excommunicate as a violatour of the churche a murderer and a Traytour so as he was disenherited turn vnto the fourth generation til he had reconciled hymselfe to the church After this it is wonderfull to remember with what great honor kyng Edward was receyued of the Cities as he passed throughe the countreys of Tuskayne and Luâ—…ldy At his comming ouer the mountains at Ehâ—…n in Burgundy he was at a Iustes and tourny which then was there holden by the french men against the Englishmen the honor wherof remained with the Englishmen In this Torney the fight of the footmen was greate for the Englishemenne beeyng sore prouoked slewe manye of the Frenche footemenne but bycause they were but raskalles no greate accompte was made of them for they were vnarmed gaping for the spoyle of them that were ouerthrowen King Edward passing foorth came to the Frenche court where of his cousin germayn king Phillippe he was ioyfully receyued Here King Edwarde doing homage to the Frenche Kyng for the landes whiche he ought to holde of hym in Fraunce passed into Guyenne An. Reg. 2. Mat. VVest A disme graunted to the king and his brother A Tenthe of of the Clergye was graunted this yeare to the Kyng and to his brother Edmund Erle of Leycester and Lancaster by the Popes appointment for two yeares a chaplein of the Pope a Eascoin borne named Reymond being sent into EnglaÌ„d for that purpose who gaue parte vnto them and parte thereof he kept to himselfe 1274 towardes hys charges but the moste parte was reserued to the Popes disposing Whilest the Kyng remained in Gascoigne he had somewhat to doe againste certaine rebelles as Gaston de Bierne and other that were reuolted from hym The Castelles belongyng to the saide Gaston he subdued but his person he coulde not meete with Finally after he had set order in things aswell in Guyenne as in other places in the partes of beyonde the seas he hasted homewards Nic. Triuet K. Edvvard his returne home and came to London the seconde daye of August where he was receyued wyth all ioye that might be deuised The streetes were hanged wyth riche cloths of silke arras and tapestrie Mat. VVest the Aldermen and Burgesses of the citie threwe out of theyr wyndows handfulles of golde and siluer to signifye the greate gladnesse which they had conceyued of his safe returne the Cundits ran plentifully wyth white wine red that eche treature myght drink his fill Vpon the xix day of Auguste in this seconde yeare of hys raygne he was crowned at Westminster togyther with his wife Quene Elianor by the hands of Robert Kilwarby Archbishop of Canterbury At this coronation were present Alexander Kyng of Scottes and Iohn Earle of Britayn with their wiues that were sisters to Kyng Edward The Kyng of Scots did homage vnto Kyng Edward for the Realme of Scotlande in like maner as other the kyngs of Scotlande before hym had done to other Kyngs of England auncetours to this Kyng
more to pastime in hunting there within the woddes about Blackamore than to the good ordering of his people which he had then about him Wherevppon the Scottishe King Bruce entring into that wilde and moorish countrey where he hadde not bin afore conueyed his enterprice so warely and with suche diligente industrie that on Saint Lukes day comming vppon the English army at vnwares he put the same to flight so that the King himselfe was in great daunger to haue bin taken prisoner For as some authors write the Scottes had almost taken him at dynner in the Abbey of Beighland Sir Iohn Britaigne Earle of Richmonde was taidn at this battell and the Kinges treasor was spoyled and carried away with the prouision and ordinance that belonged to the host The King escaping away goe to Yorke and the Scottes hauing thus the vpper hande R. Sâ—… after they had spoyled the Monasterie of Riuale and taken their pleasure there Yorkeswold â—…poiled by the Scottes â—…uerley ranâ—…med they passed for the into Yorkeswolde destroying that countrey euen almost vnto Beuerley whiche Towne they raunsoned receyuing a summe of money for spâ—…ing it least they shoulde haue brent it as they did other The Earle of Carleil reyâ—…eth an army The Earle of Cartleill beeing commaunded by the King to raise the powers of Camberland Westmerland Lancashire did so according to that hee hadde in commaundement bringing them belowe the countreys vnto Yorke found the Kyng there in no plighte to giue battell to his enimies all things beeing broughte about him into great confusion wherevpon he lâ—…censed his people to depart to their homes again and y e Scottes so returned without battell home into their countreys entring into Scotlande the morrow after Alhallowen day after they hadde remayned in Englande at this time one whole moneth and four dayes â—…abian Some write that in their returne they spoyled Northallerton and dyuers other Townes and places as they passed 〈◊〉 conspiracie 〈◊〉 set prisoâ—…â—…endâ—… liberâ—… The same yeare there was a great conspiracie practised by certayne persons that had taken part with the Barons in the late warre purposing to set at libertie in one selfe nighte all those noble men and other that were by the King kept in prison for that quarrell Certayne therefore of those conspirators came to the Castell of Walingford within the whiche the Lorde Maurice Berkeley and the Lord Hugh Audeley remained as prisoners The conspirators found shift to enter the Castell by a posterne gate inwardes the Thaâ—…mes side but yet not so secretely but that y e townesmeÌ„ hauing knowledge thereof assembled togither and besieged them that were so entred the Castell the Earles of Kent and Winchester came with a great power to reenforse y e siege so that in the ende they that had made this atteÌ„pt fled into the Chappel of the Castel in hope to bee saued through sanctuarie of the place but they were against y e willes of y e Deane Priests of y e colledge there that sought to defende there taken forthe by force â—…ir Iohn Golâ—…ngton so that Sir Iohn de Goldington knight sir Edmond of the Bech Chaplayne and an Esquire called Roger Walton were sent to Pomfret there put in prison the Esquire was after sent to Yorke and there drawen and haÌ„gâ—… This enterprise caused all other prisoners to â—…e more straightly loked to This yeare was begun a wicked proctiâ—… treason vpon this occasion Where K. Edwarde hauing assâ—…ed fortune so froward towardes him in chance of war against the Scottes at sundry times was thereby taught to doubt the trial therof any further and rather to seeke for peace he appointed Andrewe Herkley Earle of Cartleill to seeke soâ—â—e meanes Polidor whereby a peace myghte bee concluded betwixt him and King Robert The Eâ—… by the Kings coÌ„mandement going into ScotlaÌ„d coÌ„ming vnto K. Robert R. Southwell Polidor whome he found at Loghmaban entreated with hym of warre and not of peace for whether it were so that he despaired of y e state of K. Edwards businesse the which prospered neither at home nor abroade chiefly by reason of his owne wilfull negligence as some write or whether of his owne nature this Earle delited in nothing so muche as in deceipt craft and treason he concluded vppon pointes with the Scottish King how wheÌ„ and where Kyng Edwarde shoulde be betrayed and to the ende that couenaunted faith on eyther side might be the more surely kept and obserued the sister of King Robert was staunced vnto the said Earle of Careleill a righte beautifull Lady and a comely as was any where to be founde This practise beeyng thus contriued shortly after the Kyng got knowledge thereof though by whom it was not certainely knowne so 〈◊〉 a thyng it is for manne to conceale and keepe secret that thing whyche hee goeth about though hee stâ—…die neuer so muche so to doe Treason will euer come to light by one meane or other namely in matters of treason whyche hathe a tâ—…dofaâ—…e feete to â—…pe abroade and whyche way soeuer it gâ—…th it leaueth a thousand priuites of the fotesteppes behynde it by the which it may be discouered to the worlde This was the ende of sir Andrewe Herkeley worthily suffering for his wickes offenâ—…s as some haue recorded but there vs that write otherwise as it may well be thus That this Earle of Careleill perceyuing the miserie of his countrey without consent of the King of Englande made peace with the king of Scottes vnder this forme as by Richard Southwell we finde recorded R. Southwell Firste the Earle promised faithfully for hym and his heires that they shuld with all their force and meanes possible seeke to mainteyne the sayde King of Scottes his heires and successors in the peaceable possession of the Kingdome of Scotland and that to their powers they should fighte against all those that woulde not agree vnto that couenaunt as against them that should seeme to be enimies vnto the common wealth of both the Realmes of Englande and Scotlande The King of Scottes promised faithfully for hys part to defende the sayde Earle his heires and adherents in the said couenant or pactioÌ„ and not onely to keepe peace with Englande but also to buyld a Monasterie within Scotland assigning reuenewes thereto to the valewe of fiue hundred markes to celebrate deuine seruice and to pray coÌ„tinually for the soules of them that were deade by occasion of the passed warres betwixte England and Scotland and further that he shoulde giue to the Kyng of England within ten yeares fortie thousande poundes of siluer and that the King of Englande shoulde haue the Kyng of Scottes eldest sonne to marrie hym vnto some Lady of his bloud as he should thinke expediente To the performance of all whiche couenauntes well and truely to bee obserued Thomas Randulfe Earle of Murrey sware on the behalfe of the King of Scottes and the Earle of Careleill sware for himselfe and
this place Polidor it shall not bee muche amysse to rehearse somewhat of the ryght and tytle whereby king Edwarde did thus clayme the Crowne of Fraunce hauing of purpose omitted to speake thereof tyll nowe that he entituled himselfe wyth the name and tooke vppon him to beare the armes also of Fraunce vpoÌ„ occasion before expressed It is wel knowne that Philip le Beau King of Fraunce hadde issue by hys wyfe Queene Ioane three sonnes The issue of Philip le Beau. Lewes surnamed Hutine Philippe le Long and Charles le Beau Also two daughters the one dying in hir infancie and the other named Isabell lyued and was maryed vnto Edwarde the seconde of that name King of Englande who begotte of hir this Edward the thirde that made this clayme The three sonnes of the foresayde Philip le Beau reigned eche after other as Kinges of Fraunce First after Philip the father succeeded his eldest sonne Lewes Hutine Lewes Autine who had issue by his firste wife Margaret daughter to Robert Duke of Burgoigne a daughter named Ioane the whiche was anone gyuen in maryage vnto Lewes Erle of Eureur but she liuing not long dyed without issue Hir father the sayde Lewes Hutine maryed after the deceasse of his first wife an other wyfe named Clemence daughter to Charles Martell the father of Robert King of Scicill whome hee left great wyth childe when he dyed The childe beeing borne proued a sonne and was named Iohn but liued not many dayes after Philip le Long. Then Philip the Long was admitted to the Crowne of Fraunce though many stoode in opinion that Ione the daughter of Lewes Hutine whiche yet was aliue ought to haue inherited the kingdome after hir father and namely Odo Duke of Burgoigne Vncle to the said Ione was most earnest in that matter in fauour of his Nece But myght ouercame ryght so that hee was constrayned to bee quiet Philip le Long after he hadde raigned fiue yeares dyed also and left no issue behinde hym Charles le Beau. Then lastly Charles le Beau tooke vpon hym the kingdome and the seuenth yeare after dyed his wyfe bigge bellyed which shortly after brought forth a Mayden named Blaunche that streight wayes hasting to followe hir Father lyued no whyle in thys worlde By this meanes then the bloud royall in the heyres Male of Philippe le Beau was extinguished in hys Sonne the foresayd Charles le Beau whereof the contention tooke begynning aboute the right to the Crowne of Fraunce betwyxte the Frenche menne and Englishe menne whiche hangeth as yet vndecyded tyll these our dayes For King Edwarde auerred that the kingdome of Fraunce apperteyned vnto hym as lawfull heyre bycause that hee alone was remayning of the kings stocke and touched hys Mothers father Philip le Beau in the next degree of consanquinitie as hee that was borne of his daughter Isabell Therefore immediately after the deceasse of the sayd Charles le Beau by Ambassadours sent vnto the Peeres of Fraunce King Eâ—… 〈…〉 right 〈◊〉 crowne of Fraunce hee publisheâ—… to them hys right requyring that they woulde â—…mitte hym king according therevnto but hys Ambassadours coulde neuer bee quietly hearde and therefore returned home wythout anye towardly answere whiche mooued him in the ende to attempt the recouerie of hys lawfull inheritaunce by force sithe by lawe hee coulde not preuayle and now by aduice of hys friendes to take vpon him both the tytle and Armes of Fraunce to signifie to the Worlde what right he hadde to the same After that this league therefore was concluded with them of Flaunders Iames Mâ—… King Edwâ—… tooke vpon him the 〈◊〉 and armed of K. of Fraunce â–ª The Flâ—… sweare 〈◊〉 to the king â—… England and that king Edwarde had taken vppon him the name of king of Fraunce with the Armes the Duke of Guclderland and Iaques van Arteueld went vnto al the good townes and iurisdictions of Flaunders to receyue theyr othes of fidelitie vnto king Edwarde perswading with the people that the supreme rule belonged vnto hym sauing to the townes their auncient lawes and liberties and to their Earle his right of proprietie About the latter ende of this .xiij. Additâ—… Triâ—…eâ—… yere of king Edwardes raigne the mariners and Sea man of the cinque Portes getting them abourde into a number of small shippes and Balingers well trimmed and appoynted for the purpose passed ouer to Bullongne where they tooke lande one day in a thicke foggie weather The Englâ—… men burn the French shippes in Bolongne and setting on the Base towne they burnt .xix. Gallies foure great shippes and to the number of .xx. smaller vessels togither with their tackle and furniture They set fire also on the houses that stood nere to the water side namely they burnt one great house wherein lay such a number of oares sayles armor crossebows as might haue sufficed to furnish so many men as could be wel abourd in .xix. Galleys There were many slaine on both partes in atchieuing this enterprise but more of the Frenchmen than of the Englishmen About the same time the Queene of England was deliuered of hir fourth sonne in the towne of Gaunt Iohn of Gaunt â—…borne the which was named Iohn first created Erle of Richmond and after Duke of Lancaster He was borne about Christmasse in this .xiij. yeare of king Edwards raigne 1340 An. Reg. 14. When king Edward had finished his businesse with the Flemings at Gaunt he left his wife Q. Philip there stil in that towne and returned himselfe vnto Andwarpe and shortly after about the feast of Candlemasse tooke the Sea and came backe into Englande to prouide for money to mainteyn his begon warres And herevpon about the time of Lent following A Parliament hee called his highe court of Parliament at Westminster in the which he asked of his commons towardes hys charges for the recouerie of his right in Fraunce the fifth parte of theyr moueable goodes Hâ—…n Marl. Polidor the customes of woolles for two yeares to be payde aforehand and the .ix. sheafe of euery mans corne At length it was agreed that the king shoulde haue for custome of euerie sacke of wooll fortye shillings A subsidie for euery three hundred wool felles forty shillings and for euerie last of leader .xl. shillings and for other marchandice after the rate to begin at the feast of Easter in this .xiiij. yeare of the kings raigne to endure till the feast of PeÌ„tecost then next folowing froÌ„ that feast till the feast of peÌ„tecost theÌ„ next ensuing into one yere for which the king graunted that from the feast of Pentecost which was then to come into one yeare hee nor his heyres should not demaunde assesse nor take nor suffer to bee assessed or taken more custome of a sacke of wooll of any Englishman but halfe a marke and vpon the wooll felles leader the olde former custome Beside this the Citizens and Burgesses
the same betweene the seconde and .xv. yeare of hys raigne as well for the siluer as for the leade after the siluer was fined from it Also Iohn Moneron succeeding in the same office accomptant of the profytes of the same Mynes from Michaelmasse Anno .xix. of hys raigne vnto the secōd of Nouember Anno .xxiij. yeelded vpon his account both the siluer and the lead thereof remayning Moreouer hee let by indenture in the .xxxij. yeare of hys reigne vnto Iohn Ballancer and Walter Goldbeater his Mynes of Golde Syluer and Copper in the Countie of Deuonshyre for tearme of yeares There is an account thereof remayning and by the same as it appeareth was aunswered for the first yeare .xx. markes The seconde yeare the patenties dyed and the king then disposed the same to others In the eight and twentith yere of his raigne hee committed by Indenture his sayde mines in Deuonshire to one master Iohn Hanner and one Herman Raynithorp of Boheme Myners yeelding to the Kyng y e tenth part of the Oores as well of the gold and siluer as of the leade and copper that shoulde bee gotten foorth of the sayde mynes In this Kings dayes there liued many excellent men both in learning in vertue and in martial prowes as partly is touched in this discourse of his raigne as firste the saide noble and most valiant King the Prince of Wales his son surnamed the blacke Prince the Dukes of Lancaster Iohn of Gant sonne to the King and hys father in lawe Duke Henry Edmonde Earle of Cambridge and after Duke of Yorke the Erles of Warwike Huntington Salisburie Stafford Northampton Arundell and others the Lorde Reginald Cobham the Lord Basset the Lorde Thomas Holland the Lord Walter de Manny an Hennier the Lord Edward Spēser the Lord Iohn Chandos the Lord Iames Audeley Sir Iohn Copeland Sir Thomas Felton sir Robert Knolles who as I haue said being borne in Cheshire of meane parētage through his manly prowesse most skilfull experience in y e warres grew to be right famous Sir Hugh Caluerley borne in the same shire the Capitall de Beufe a Gascoigne Sir Thomas Percy Sir Hugh Hastings Sir Baldwine Freiuille Sir Iohn Harleston Sir Iames Pipe Sir Thomas Dagworth and that valiant Englishe Knight Sir Iohn Haukewood whose fame in the parties of Italy shal remaine for euer where as their histories make mention hee grewe to such estimation for his valiant atchieued enterprises that happie might that Prince or common wealth accompt them selues that mighte haue his seruice and so liuing there in such reputation sometimes he serued the Pope sometimes the Lordes of Millane Now this Prince or commō wealth now that other whiles none at all but taking one towne or other woulde keepe the same till some likyng entertaynement were offered and then would hee fell such towne where he had thus remayned to them that would giue him for it according to his mind Bernabo Lord of Millane gaue vnto hym one of his base daughters in marriage with an honorable portion for hir dower This man was borne in Essex as some write and at the fyrste became a Taylor in London and afterwardes going into the warres in Fraunce serued in roomth of an archer but at length he became a Captayne and leader of men of warre highly cōmended and liked of amongst the souldiers in so much that when by the peace concluded at Bretigny in the yeare 1360. great numbers of Souldiers were discharged out of wages they gote themselues togither in companies and without commaundemente of any Prince by whose authoritie they mighte make warre they fell too of themselues and sore harried and spoyled dyuers Countreys in the Realme of Fraunce as partly ye haue heard amongst whome this Sir Iohn Hawkewood was one of y e principall Captaines and at length went into Italy to serue the Marques of Montferato againste the Duke of M◅lane although I remember that some write how hee came into that Countrey with the Duke of Clarence but I thinke the former report be true But it may well be that he was ready to attende the sayd Duke at his comming into Italie And this muche concerning such famous Captaynes as serued this noble King Edward the thirde although for breefenesse I passe ouer diuers other no lesse famous and worthy for their high manhood and tried valiancie to be remembred thā these afore mentioned Of learned men these we finde by Iohn Bale registred in his Centuaries Iohn Baconthorp borne in Blackney in Northfolke a Frier Carmelite and prouinciall of his order so excellently learned as well in Diuinitie as in both the ciuill and canon lawes that he proceded Doctor in either facultie at Oxford and Paris and wrote diuers treatises to his high and singular commendation William Ockam Iohn Bloxham a Carmelite Frier Nicholas Triuet borne in Northfolke sonne to Sir Thomas Triuet Knight and one of the Kings Iusticiers proued excellently learned and wrote diuers treatises and amongst other two histories and one booke of Annales He was by profession a blacke Frier and departed this life about the seconde yeare of this King Edward the third Anno Christi .1328 William Alnewike borne in Northumberland in the Towne whereof hee tooke name a Frier Minor Iohn Tanet borne in the Isle of Tanet an excellēt Musition and a Monke in Canterbury Hugh of Saint Neote a Carmelite Frier in Hertfortshire a notable deuine as those dayes gaue William Alton borne in Hampshire a blacke Frier and a Diuine Richarde Stradley borne in the marches of Wales a Monke and a deuine writing certaine treatises of the Scripture W. Herbert a Welchman a Frier Minor wrote also certaine treatises of diuinitie Richard Comington a Frier of the order of the cordeliers a Preacher and a writer of diuinitie William Exeter a Doctor of Diuinitie and a prebendarie Canon in Exeter whereas it is thought he was borne Lucas Bosden a Westerne man and by profession a Carmelite Frier Thomas Walleis a Dominike Frier a great Diuine as by suche bookes as hee wrote it may appeare Thomas Pontius a Monke of Canterbury Iohn Ridewalle a grey frier Henry Costesay or Cossey a frier minor Geffrey Alievant borne in Yorkeshire a frier Carmelite Iohn Euersden a Monke of Bury in Suffolke an Historiographer Simon Burneston a doctor of the Vniuersitie of Cambridge and prouinciall of the friers Dominike or blacke friers as they called them heere in Englande Walter Burley a doctor of Diuinitie who in his youth was brought vp not onely in Martin Colledge in Oxforde but also in the Vniuersities and Scholes abroade beyonde the Seas in Fraunce and Germanye and afterwardes for hys wisedome good demeanor and learning hee was reteyned with the Byshoppe of Vlmes in Suabenlande a Region in hyghe Germanye Amongst other Treatises whiche he compiled being manye and namely of naturall Phylosophie he wrote a commentarie of the Ethikes of Aristotle and dedicated the same vnto the sayde Bishoppe a worke whiche hath bin highly
time shall amongst vs englishmen eyther appall his honor or blot out his glory whiche in so few yeares and shorte dayes atchieued so high aduētures Of lerned men writers these I finde remembred by Baleand others to haue liued in the dais of this noble and valiant king Henry the fift Fyrst Alain de Linne borne in Lynne and professed a Carmelite Frier in that town and at length became Prior of that conuent but proceeded doctor of diuinity in the Vniuersitie of Cambridge and wrote manye treatises Thomas Otterborne that wrote an historie of Englande is thought to liue aboute this season he was a Franciscan or grey Frier as they called them and a greate student bothe in diuinitie and philosophy Iohn Seguarde and excellent Poet and a Rhetoritian he kepte a schoole and read to his schollers in Norwich as is supposed writing sundry treatises reprouing aswell the profaning of the Christian religion in Monkes and Priestes as the abuse of poetrie in those that tooke vppon them to write filthye Verses and rithmes Roberte Rose a Frier of the Carmelites order in Norwiche commonly called the white Friers both an excellent Philosopher and a diuine hee proceeded Doctor at Oxforde he was promoted to bee Priour of his house and wryting diuers treatises amongest all the Sophistes of his tyme as sayeth Bale he offended none of the Wicleuists which in that season set foorth purely the worde of God as maye appeare by hys workes Iohn Lucke a Doctor of diuinitie in Oxford a sore enimie to the Wicleuists Rich. Caister borne in Norffolke Vicar of S. Stephens in Norwiche a man of greate holynesse and puritie in lyfe fauoring though secretly the doctrine of Wicliffe and reprouing in his Sermons the vnchaste manners and filthie example that appeared in the Clergie Of Sir Iohn Oldcastell Lord Cobham ye haue heard before William Walleys a blacke Frier in Lyn and prouinciall of his order here in England Rich. Snetisham a student in Oxford where he profited so greatly in lerning and wisedome that he was accōpted for the chiefest in all that vniuersitie in respect wherof he was made chancellor of the saint he was chosen also to be one of the xij to examine and iudge vpon Wiclifes doctrine by the Archbi of Canterbury Iohn Langdene a monk of Christs church in Canterbury another of the .xij. that were chosen to iudge of Wiclifes opinions William Taylor a priest and a maister of arte in Oxford a stedfast follower of Wiclefes doctrine and was brente for the same in Smithfield at London the secōd day of March in the yeare of our Lord .1422 and last of Kyng Henry the fifths reigne Richard Grasdale studied in Oxforde and was one of those .xij. that were appointed to iudge of Wiclefs doctrine William Lyndwood a lawyer excellently learned as well in the Ciuill as Canon lawes hee was aduaunced to the seruice of this king Henry the fifth and made by hym keeper of the priuye Seal was sent in ambassade bothe to the kyng of Spayne and of Portingale aboute businesse of most weightie importance It is said that he was promoted to the Bishopryke of S. Dauid Bartholomew Florarius supposed as Bale saieth by Nicholas Brigham to be an englishmā wrote a treatise called Florarium wherof he took his surname and also an other treatise of abstinence in whiche he reproueth certaine corrupte maners in the clergie and the profession of Friers mendicants Adā Hemmelington a Carmelite Frier studied both in Oxford and in Paris William Batecon be is placed by Bale about the tyme of other learned men which liued in king Henry the fifthes tyme but in what season he liued he saith he knoweth not he was an excellent Mathematician as by the title of hys workes which he wrote it shoulde appeare Titus Liuius de Foro Luvisijs lyued also in these dayes and wrote the lyfe of this Henry the fifth an Italian borne but sith he was bothe refiant here and wrote the lyfe of this Kyng I haue thought good to place him among other of oure Englishe writers One there was that translated the sayd historie into Englishe adding as it were by waye of notes in manye places of that booke sundrye thinges for the more large vnderstanding of the historie a copie wherof I haue seene belonging to Iohn Stow citizen of London There was also aboute the same tyme an other writer who as I remember hath followed the sayd Liuius in the order of his booke as it were chapiter for chapiter onely chaunging a good familiar and easy stile which the said Liuius vsed into a certayn Poeticall kinde of writing a copie wherof I haue seene and in the life of this king partly followed belonging to maister Iohn Twine of Kent a lerned Antiquarie and no lesse furnished wyth olde and autentike monumentes than ripe iudgemente and skilfull knowledge for the perfect vnderstanding therof as by the fruites of his labors parte wherof as I am enfourmed he meaneth to leaue to posteritie it will no doubt ryght euidently appere Henry the sixte 1422 Henry the .6 AFter that Death had bereft the worlde of that noble Prince King Henry the fyfth his only sonne Prince Henry beyng of the age of nyne moneths or thereaboute wyth the sounde of Trumpettes Anno. reg 1. was openly proclaimed kyng of England and of Fraunce the thirtie daye of August by the name of Henrye the sixte in the yeare of the worlde Fyue thousande three hundred eightie and nyne after the birth of our Sauiour .1422 about the twelfth yeare of the emperour Fredericke the thirde the fortie and two and laste of Charles the sixte and the firste of Iames the thirde king of Scotlande The custodie of this young prince was appoynted to Thomas duke of Excester and to Henry Beauforde Bishoppe of Winchester the duke of Bedford was deputed Regent of France and the Duke of Gloucester was ordeyned protectour of Englande whiche takyng vpon him that office called to hym wyse and graue counsellours by whose aduice he prouided and tooke order as well for the good gouernemente of the Realme of Englande and the subiectes of the same at home as also for the mayntenaunce of the warres abroade and further conqueste to be made in Fraunce appoynting valyant and expert capitaynes whiche shoulde be ready when neede required Beside this he gathered great summes of money to maynteyne men of warre and left nothing forgotten that might aduance his purposed enterprises Whyle these things were a doing in Englande the duke of Bedforde Regent of France studyed moste earnestly not onely to keepe and well to order the countreys by king Henry late conquered but also determyned not to leaue off from dayly warre and continuall trauayle tyll the tyme that Charles the Dolphin which was nowe a flote bycause king Charles his father in the Moneth of October in thys presente yeare was departed to God shoulde eyther bee subdued or brought to due obeysance And surely the death of this
opened vnto them all things according to his credence The Lordes then to make hast in the matter bycause the daye approched with all speede possible came to the posterne gate and alighting from theyr horses about sixe of the clocke in the morning they issued out of the Castell crying Saint George Talbot The Frenchmen beeing thus suddainely taken were sore amased in so much that some of them beyng not out of theyr beddes Mauns ◅uered gote vp in their shirtes and lept ouer y e walles Other ranne naked out of the gates to saue their liues leauing all theyr apparell horses armour and riches behynde them none was hurt but suche as resisted To bee shorte there were slayne and taken to the number of foure hundred Gentlemen the priuate soldiers were frankely let goe After this was inquisition made of the authors of the treason and there were accused thirtie Citizens twentie Priestes Traytors e◅cuted and fifteene Friers whiche according to their demerites were put to execution The Citie of Mans beeing thus recouered An. reg 6. the Lord Talbot returned to Alanson shortly after the Earle of Warwike departed into Englande to bee gouernoure of the yong Kyng in steede of Thomas Duke of Excester lately departed to God 1428 and then was the Lord Thomas Montacute Earle of Salisburie sente into Fraunce to supplye the roomth of the sayd Earle of Warwike who landed at Calaice with fiue thousand mē and so came to the D. of Bedford as thē lying in Paris where they fel in counsell togither concerning the affaires of France and namely the Earle of Salisburie began maruellously to phantesie the gayning of the Citie and Countrey of Orleans This Earle was the man at that time by whose witte strength and policie the Englishe name was much feareful and terrible to y e french nation which of himselfe mighte both appoynt commaund and do all things in manner at hys pleasure Mo◅ne Erle of Salisburie a politike and valiant man in whose power as it appeared after his death a greate part of the conquest consisted for surely he was a man both paynefull diligente readie to withstande all daungerous chaunces that were at hande prompte in counsell and of courage inuincible so that in no one man men put more trust nor any singular person wanne the hearts so much of all men Heerevppon after this great enterprise hadde long beene debated in the priuie counsell the Erle of Salisburies deuice therein was of them all graunted and allowed so that he beeyng replenished with good hope of victorie and furnished with artillerie and munitions apperteining to so great a siege accompanyed with the Earle of Suffolke and the Lorde Talbot and with a valiaunte armye to the number of tenne thousande menne departed from Paris and passed through the countrey of Beausse There he tooke by assault the Towne of Genuille and within fiue dayes after had the Castell deliuered vnto hym by them that were fledde into it for theyr safegarde He also tooke the towne of Baugencie suffering euery man which woulde become subiect to the Kyng of England to enioy theyr lands and goodes The Townes of Meun vppon Loyre and Iargeaulx hearing of these doings presented to them the keyes of theyr Townes vppon lyke agreement Anno. reg 7. Orleans besieged Bast◅rd of Or◅ After this in the moneth of September hee came before the Citie of Orleans and planted hys siege on the one syde of the ryuer of Loyre but before hys comming the Basterd of Orleans the Byshop of the Citie and a greate number of Scottes hearing of the Earles intente made dyuers fortifications about the Towne and destroyed the suburbes in the whyche were twelue parishe Churches and foure orders of Friers They cutte also downe all the vynes trees and bushes within fyue leagues of the Citie so that the Englishmen shoulde haue neyther comfort refuge nor succour After the siege hadde continued three weekes full the basterd of Orleans issued out of the gate of the bridge and fought with the Englishmen but they receyued hym with so fierce and terrible strokes that he was with all his company compelled to retire and flee backe into the Citie but the Englishmen followed so fast in killing and taking of theyr enimies that they entred with them the Bulwarke of the bridge whiche with a great tower standing at the ende of the same was taken incontinentlye by the Englishemenne In this conflict many Frenchmen were taken but mor were slayne and the keeping of the Tower and Bulwarke was cōmitted to William Glasdale Esquier By the taking of this bridge the passage was stopped that neyther men nor vittaile could goe or come by that way After this the Earle caused certaine Bulwarkes to be made rounde about the towne casting trenches betweene the one and the other laying ordynance in euery place where he sawe that any batterie might be deuised When they within saw that they were enuironed with fortresses and ordinance they layde gunne againste gunne and fortified towers against Bulwarkes and within cast newe rampiers and fortified themselues as strongly as mighte bee deuised against the violence of their enimies bat◅ie and assaultes The Basterd of Orleans and the Hire were appoynted to see the walles and watches kepte and the Byshop saw that the inhabitants within the Citie were put in good order and that vittaile were not wantonly consumed or vaynely spent In the Tower that was taken at the bridge ende as before you haue hearde there was an high chamber hauing a grate full of barres of yron by the which a man myghte looke all the length of the bridge into the Citie at whiche grate many of the chiefe Captaynes stoode many times viewing the Citie and deuising in what place it was best to giue the assault They within the Citie well perceyued thys tooting hole layde a peece of ordināce directly against the windowe It so chanced that the .59 day after the siege was layd the Erle of Salisburie Sir Thomas Gargrane and William Glasdale with diuers other went into the said tower so into the high chamber looked out at the grate and within a short space the sonne of the master gunner perceiuing mē looking out at the window tooke his match as his father had taught him who was gone downe to dinner and fired the gunne the shot whereof brake and sheeuered the iron barres of the grate The Earle of Salisbury slain so that one of the same barres strake the Earle so violently on the head that it stroke awaye one of hys eyes and the syde of hys cheeke Sir Thomas Gargrane was likewise striken and dyed within two dayes The Earle was conueyghed to Meun on Loire where after eight dayes he likewise departed this worlde whose body was conueyed into Englande with all funerall pomp and buried at Bissam by his progenitors leauing behind him an only daughter named Alice married to Richarde Neuill sonne to Raufe Earle of Westmerlande of whome
power dislodged from Poyssi and came to Maunte and soone after to Roan An. reg 20. When the Regent and the lord Talbot were returned agayne into Normandie the Frenche K. considering howe muche it shoulde redounde to his dishonor to let rest the town of Ponthoyse in his enimies hāds Po◅thoyse gotten by the Frenche sith he had bin at such charges and trauaile aboute the winnyng therof hee eftsoones assembled all his puissance and retourning sodeinly again vnto Ponthoyse he firste by assault gat the church and after the whole town toke the captain and diuers other Englishmen and slewe to the number of .iiij. C. whiche solde their lyues dearely for one French writer affirmeth that the French king lost there .iij. M. men and the whole garnison of the Englishmen was but only a thousand Enguerant Sir Nicholas Burdet flayne Among other that were slayne here of the defendants was sir Nicholas Burdet knight chief Butler of Normandie After this hotte tempeste the weather began somewhat to waxe more calme for king Henry and kyng Charles agreed to sende Ambassadours to commen of some good conclusion of peace So that King Henry sente the Cardinall of Wynchester wyth dyuers other noble personages of his counsel to Caleys with whom was also sent Charles duke of Orleans yet prisoner in England to the intent that he might be both author of the peace and also procurer of his owne deliueraunce The French king sent the Archbishop of Reimes and the Erle of Dunoys and the Duke of Burgongne sent the Lord de Creuecueur dyuers other All these mette at Caleys where the Duke of Orleans curteously receiue the Earle of Dunoys his bastarde brother thanking him greatly for his paynes taking in gouerning hys landes and countrey during the time of his captiuitie and absence Diuers cōmunications wer had as well for the deliueraunce of the Duke as for a fynall peace but nothyng was concluded sauyng that an other meetyng was appoynted so that in the meane season the demaundes of eyther partie mighte be declared to their Soueraigne Lordes and Maisters And herevpon the Commissioners brake vp their assemble and returned into their countreys The Englishmen as the Frenche writers recorde required not only to possesse peaceably the two Duchies of Aquitayne and Normandie discharged of al resort superioritie and soueraintie againste the Realme of Fraunce the Kings and gouernors of the same but also to be restored to al the towns cities and places which they within .30 yeres nexte before gone and past had conquered in the realme of Frauce Whiche request the Frenchmen thought very vnresonable and so both parts minding rather to gain or saue than to lose departed for y t time as ye haue heed After this meting thus proroged Philip D. of Burgogne partly moued in conscience to make amends to Charles duke of Orleans as yet prisoner in Englād for the death of duke Lewes his father whom duke Iohn father to this D. Philip cruelly murthered in the Citie of Paris and partly intending the aduancement of his neece y e Lady Marie daughter to Adolfe duke of Cleue by the which aliāce he trusted that al old rā◅ shuld ceasse contriued ways to haue the sayd D. of Orleans set at libertie vpon promise by hym made to take y e said lady Mary vnto wife This Duke had bin prisoner in Englande euer sith the bataile foughten at Agincourt vpon the daye of Crispyne and Crispynian in the yere 1415. and was set now at libertie in the moneth of Nouember in the yeare .1440 paying for his raunsome .iiij. C. thousand crowns though other say but .iij. hundred thousande The cause that he was deteined so long in captiuitie was to pleasure thereby the Duke of Bourgongne For so long as the Duke of Burgongne continued faithfull to the King of Englande it was not thought necessarie to suffer the duke of Orleans to be caunsomed least vpon his deliuerance hee would not ceasse to seeke meanes to be reuenged vpon the duke of Burgongne for the old grudge and displeasure betwixt their two families and therfore suche ransome was demaunded for him as he was neuer able to paye but after that the duke of Burgongne had broken his promise and was turned to the French part the counsell of the king of England deuised how to deliuer the duke of Orleans that thereby they might displeasure the duke of Burgoygne Whych thing the duke of Burgogne perceyuing doubted what mighte followe if he were deliuered without his knowledge and therfore to hys greate coste practised his deliuerance payde his raunsome and ioyned w t him amitie aliance by mariage of his niece The Duke of Orleans deliuered This Duke being nowe deliuered and speaking better English than Frenche after his arriuall in France repaired to the Duke of Burgogne and according to hys promise and conuention maryed the Ladie Mary of Cleue in the towne of Saint Omers on whome he begat a sonne whiche after was Frenche Kyng and called Lewes the twelfth Yet here is to be noted that olde rancour sodainly appeased cōmonly springeth out againe for although the vnhappie deuision betwixte the two families of Orleans Burgogne were by benefyte of this mariage for a tyme stayed and put in forgetfulnesse for the space of twenty yeres and more yet at length it brake out betwene their children and Cousins to the great vnquietyng of the more parte of the Christian world specially in the tymes of Kyng Frauncis the fyrste and hys sonne Henry the seconde very heyres of the house of Orleans For Iohn erle of Angolesme vncle to this Duke Charles begatte Charles father to the sayde King Francis whyche Earle Iohn had bene as pledge in England for the debt of Lewes Duke of Orleans sith the last yere of K. Henry the fourth till that nowe his nephewe beyng deliuered made shifte for money and raunsomed hym also and at length restored him to his countrey In the begynnyng of thys twentieth yeare Richarde Duke of Yorke Regent of Fraunce and gouernour of Normandie determined to inuade the territoryes of his enimyes both by sundrye Armyes and in seuerall places and there vppon without delaying of tyme he sente the Lord of Willoughby wyth a great crew of Souldiours to destroye the countrey of Amyens and Iohn Lorde Talbot was appoynted to besiege the Towne of Dieppe and the Regent hym selfe accompanyed wyth Edmunde Duke of Somerset set forward into the Duchy of Aniow The Lorde Willoughdy◅ accordyng to hys Commissyon entred into the countrey of hys enimyes in suche wyse vppon the sodayife that a great numbre of people were taken ete they coulde withdrawe into any place of safegarde or foreclet The Frenchemenne in the garnysons adioyning astonyed wyth the clamoure and crye of the poore people issued out in good order and manfully foughte wyth the Englyshmen but in the end the Frenchmen seyng theyr fellowes in the forfront slayn down kyld without mercie tourned their backes and fled the
the breach of amitie betwixt them troth it is that the priuie intentions of their heartes brake into so many small peeces that England Fraunce and Flaunders could neuer ioyne them againe during their naturall lyues But though the Earle of Warwike was earnestly inflamed against the King for that hee had thus married himselfe without his knowledge hauing regard onely to the satisfying of his wanton appetite more than to his honor The Earle of Franke kepeâ—… his greâ—…e â—…e or suretie of his estate he did yet so dissimule the matter at his returne into Englande as though hee had not vnderstoode any thing thereof but only declared what he had done with such reuerence and shewe of friendly countenance as hee hadde bin accustomed and when hee hadde tarried in the Court a certayne space he obteyned licence of the King to depart to his Castell of Warwike meaning wheÌ„ time serued to vtter to the worlde that whych he then kept secrete that is to saye hys inward grudge whiche hee bare towardes the Kyng with desire of reuenge to the vttermost of hys power Neuerthelesse at that tyme hee departed to the outewarde shewe so farre in the Kynges fauoure that manye Gentlemen of the Courte for honour sake gladly accompanyed hym into his countrey 1466 This yere also the kings daughter the Lady Elizabeth Anâ—… re 6. after wife to Kyng the seauenth was borne Kyng Edwarde concluded an ametie and league with Henrye King of Castill and Iohn King of Aragon Câ—…tesholde â—…ex transâ—…ed into 〈◊〉 at the concluding wherof hee graunted licence for certayne Cottesolde Sheepe to be transported into the Countrey of Spayne as people reporte whych haue there so multiplyed and increased that it hath turned the commoditie of England much to the Spanishe profite Beside thys to haue an amitie with his next neighbor the King of Scottes hee winked at the losse of Berwike 〈◊〉 wyth 〈◊〉 and was contented to take a truce for fifteene yeares Thus King Edwarde though for refusall of the Frenche Kings sister in law wanne him enimies in Fraunce yet in other places hee procured him friends but those friendes had stande hym in small steede if Fortune hadde not holpe hym to an other euen at hys elbowe This was Charles Earle of Charoloys sonne and heire apparant vnto Philippe Duke of Burgongue whiche Charles beeyng then a widdower was counselled to bee a suter vnto Kyng Edwarde for to haue in marriage the Lady Margaret sister to the same Kyng a Lady of excellent beautie and endowed with so many worthy giftes of nature grace and fortune that shee was thought not vnworthy to matche with the greatest Prince of the worlde The Lorde Anthonie basterde 1467 brother to the sayde Earle Charoloys commonly called the basterd of Burgoigne a man of great wit An. reg 7. The basterd of Burgoigne ambassador into Englande courage and valiantnesse was appoynted by hys father Duke Phillip to goe into Englande in Ambassade about this sute who being furnished of plate and apparell necessarie for his estate hauing in his companie Gentlemen and other expert in al feates of cheualrie and martiall prowesse to the number of foure hundred horses tooke hys Shippe and arriued in Englande where he was of the King and nobles honorably receyued Thys message beeyng declared yee maye be sure the same was ioyfully hearde of the Kyng and hys counsayle the whiche by that affinitie sawe howe they myghte bee assured of a buckler agaynste Fraunce but yet the Earle of Warwike bearyng hys hartie fauoure vnto the french King did as muche as in hym lay by euill reportes to hynder thys marriage but this notwithstandyng at length the Kyng graunted to the basterdes request and the sayde basterde openly in the Kyngs greate chamber contracted the sayde Ladye Margaret for and in the name of hys brother the sayde Earle of Charroloys After thys marriage thus concluded Iustes betwixt the bastarde of Burgongne the lord Scales the basterde chalenged the Lorde Scales brother to the Queene a man both egall in hart and valiantnesse with the basterde to fighte with hym both on horsebacke and on foote whyche demaunde the Lorde Scales gladlye accepted The Kyng causing lyftes to bee prepared in West Smythfielde for these champions and very faire and costly galeries for the Ladyes was presente at thys martiall enterprise hymselfe The firste daye they ranne togyther diuers courses with sharp speares and departed with egall honour The nexte daye they tourneyd on horsebacke The Lorde Seales horse had on his chafron a long sharp pike of steele and as the two champions coaped togither the same horse whether through custome or by chance thrust his pike into the nosethrilles of the basterdes horse so that for very payne he mounted so high that hee fell on the one side with his maister and theÌ„ Lorde Seales rode rouÌ„d about him w t his sword in his hand till the King commaunded the Marshall to help vp the basterd which openly said I cannot hold me by the clowdes for though my horse faileth me surely I will not faile my contercompanyon The Kyng would not suffer them to do any more that day The morowe after the two noble men came into the fielde on foote with two poleaxes and fought valiantly but at the last the poynte of the Poleaxe of the Lorde Scales happened to enter into the sight of the basterds healme and by fine force mighte haue plucked him on his knees the King suddaynely cast downe his warder and then the Marshals them seuered The basterde not content with this chaunce and trusting on the connyng whiche hee had at the Poleaxe required the King of iustice that he might performe his enterprise The lord Scales refused it not but the Kyng sayd he would aske counsell and so calling to him the Connestable and the Marshall with the officers of armes after consultation had and the lawes of armes rehearsed it was declared for a sentence difinitiue by the Duke of Clarence then Connestable of Englande The law of armes and the Duke of Northfolke then Marshall that if he would goe forward with his attempted chalenge he must by y e law of armes bee deliuered to hys aduersarie in the same state and like condition as he stoode when he was taken from him The basterd hearing thys iudgemente doubted the sequeale of the matter and so relinquished his chalenge Other chalenges were done valiantly atchieued by the Englishmen whiche I passe ouer The death of the Duke of Burgoigne Shortly after came sorowfull tidings to the basterd that his father Duke Phillip was dead and therevppon taking his leaue of King Edwarde and his sister the newe Duches of Burgoigne liberally rewarded with plate iewels with all speede he returned to his brother y e new Duke who was not a litle glad of the contract made for him with the said Lady as after it wel appeared In this same yeare Kyng Edward more for the
to bee broughte vnto hym in hys secrete Chamber where Persall after hys masters recommendation shewed hym that hee hadde secretely sente hym to shewe hym that in thys newe worlde hee woulde take suche parte as hee woulde and wayte vppon hym with a thousande good fellowes if neede were The Messenger sent backe with thankes and some secrete instruction of the Protectors minde yet mette him agayne with farther message from the Duke hys master within few days after at Nottingham whither the Protector from Yorke with manye Gentlemen of the North Countrey to y e number of sixe hundred horses was come on his way to Londonwarde and after secret meeting and communication had eftsoone departed Wherevpon at Northampton the Duke met with the Protector hymselfe with three hundred Horses and from thence still continued with hym partner of all hys deuises till that after his Coronation they departed as it seemed very great frieÌ„ds at Gloucester From whence assoone as the duke came home he so lightly turned from him and so highly conspired againste him that a manne woulde maruell whereof the change grew And surely the occasion of their varriance is of diuers men diuerslie reported Some haue I heard say that the Duke alittle before the Coronation among other things required of the Protector the Duke of Herefordes lands to the which hee pretended himselfe iust inheritor And forasmuch as the title whiche he claymed by inheritance was somewhat interlaced with y e title to the Crowne by the line of King Henrye before depriued the Protector conceyued such indignation that hee reiected the Dukes request with manye spitefull and minatorie wordes whiche so wounded hys heart with hatred and mistrust that he neuer after coulde endure to looke a righte on King Richard but euer feared his own life so farre forth that when the Protector rode through London towarde his Coronation hee fayned hymselfe sicke bycause he would not ride with hym And the other taking it in euill part sent hym worde to rise and come ride or he would make hym bee carried Wherevpon he rode on with euill wyll and that notwithstanding on the morrowe rose from the feast fayning hymselfe sicke and King Richard sayde it was done in hatred and despite of hym And they sayde that euer after continually eache of them liued in suche hatred and distrust of other that the Duke verily looked to haue bin murthered at Gloucester From whych naythelesse hee in faire manner departed But surely some right secrete at that days denie this and manye righte wise men thinke it vnlikely the deepe dissembling nature of those both men considered and what neede in that greene world the Protector had of the Duke and in what peril the Duke stoode if hee fell once in suspicion of the Tyrant y t eyther the Protector would giue the Duke occasion of displeasure or the Duke the Protector occasion of mistrust And verily men thinke that if King Richard had anye such opinion conceyued he would neuer haue suffered him to escape his hands Very truth it is 〈◊〉 was an high minded man and euill coâ—… beare the glorie of an other so that I haue 〈◊〉 of some that say they saw it that the Duke at 〈◊〉 time as the Crowne was first set vpon the Protectors head his eye coulde not abyde the 〈◊〉 thereof but wried his head another way But men saye that he was of troth not well at ease and that both to King Richarde well knoâ—… and not ill taken nor any demaund of the dukes vncurteously reiected but hee both was greate giftes and high behestes in most louing aâ—…â—…stie manner departed at Gloucester But 〈◊〉 after his comming home to Brecknocke hauing there in his custodie by the commaundement of King Richarde Doctor Morton Byshop of Elie who as ye before heard was taken in the Counsell at the Tower waxed with hâ—… familiar whose wisedome abused hys pride so his owne deliuerance and the Dukes destraction The Byshop was a man of great naturall witte very well learned and honorable in behauiour lacking no wise wayes to winne fauour He had bin fast vpon the parte of King Henrye while that part was in wealth and naythelesse lefte it not nor forsooke it in woe but fledde the Realme with the Queene and the Prince while King Edwarde hadde the King in prison neuer came home but to the fielde After whiche loste and that part vtterly subdued the tother for hys fast fayth and wisedome not only was contente to receyue hym but also woed him to come and had him from thenceforth both in secrete trust and very speciall fauour whiche hee nothing deceyued For he being as ye haue heard after king Edwards death firste taken by the Titante for his troth to the King founde the meane to sette this Duke in hys toppe ioyned Gentlemen togither in aide of King Henry deuising firste the marriage betweene him and King Edwardes daughter by whiche his faith declared the good seruice to both his masters at once with infinite benefite to the Realme by the coniunction of those two blouds in one whose seueral titles had long enquieted the lande he fledde the Realme went to Rome neuer mynding more to meddle with the world till the noble Prince King Henry the seauenth gate him home againe made him Archbyshoppe of Caunterburie and Chancellor of England wherevnto the Pope ioyned the honor of Cardinall Thus lyuing many dayes in as much honor as one man mighte well wishe ended them so godly that his deathe with Gods mercie well changed his life This man therefore as I was about to tell you by the long and often alternate proofe 1484 An. reg 2. as well of prosperitie as aduers fortune hadde gotten by great experience the very mother and mistresse of wisedome a deepe insighte in politike worldly driftes Whereby perceyuing now this Duke glad to comune with him fedde him with faire words and many pleasaunt prayses And perceyuing by the processe of their communicacions the Dukes pride nowe and then balke out a little bredde of enuie towarde the glory of the King and thereby feeling him ethe to fall out if the matter were well handled he craftely sought the wayes to pricke him forwarde taking alwayes the occasion of his commyng and so keeping himselfe so close within his boundes that hee rather seemed to followe hym than to leade him For when the Duke firste beganne to prayse and boast the King and shew how much profite the Realme shoulde take by his raigne my Lorde Morton aunswered Surely my Lord follie were it for me to lie for if I woulde sweare the contrarie your Lordship woulde not I weene beleeue but that if the worlde woulde haue gone as I woulde haue wished Kyng Henries sonne had hadde the Crowne and not King Edward But after that God had ordered him to leese it and King Edwarde to raigne I was neuer so madde that I woulde with a dead man striue againste the quicke So was I to King Edward a
were of him requyred that he should haue licence to speake to the king whiche whether it were to sue for pardon and grace or whether hee beeing brought to hys presence woulde haue stycked him with a dagger as men then iudged hee sore desired and required But when he had confessed the whole fact and conspiracie vpon Alsoulne day without arraignment or iudgement hee was at Salisburie in the open market place The Duke of Buckingham beheaded on a newe scaffold behedded and put to death This death as a reward the Duke of Buckingham receyued at the hands of king Richard whom he before in his affayres purposes and enterprises had holpen susteyned and set forwarde aboue all Gods forbode By this all men may easily perceyue that hee not onely loseth both his labor trauaile and industrie and further steyneth and spotteth his line with a perpetuall ignominie reproche which in euill and mischiefe assysteth and aydeth an euill disposed person considering for the moste part that hee for his friendly fauour shoulde receyue some great displeasure or importunate chaunce Beside that God of his iustice in conclusion appoynteth to him a condigne paine and affliction for his merits and deserts Whyle these things were thus handled and ordred in England Henrie Earle of Richmonde prepared an army of fiue thousand manly Brytonnes and fortie well furnished ships When all things were prepared in a readinesse and the day of departing setting forwarde was appoynted whiche was the .xij. day of the Moneth of October the whole armie went on shipbourd and halsed vp their sayles and wyth a prosperous wind tooke the sea but toward night the wind chaunged and the weather turned and so huge and terrible a tempest so sodainly arose that with the verie power and strength of the storme the ships were disparcled seuered and separate a sunder some by force were driuen into Normandie some were compelled to returne againe into Brytaine The ship wherein the erle of Richmond was associate onely with one other Barke was all night tossed and turmoyled In the morning after when the rage of the furious tempest was asswaged and the yre of the blustring winde was some deale appeased about the houre of noone the same day the Erle approched to the South part of the realm of England euen at the mouth of the Hauen of Pole in the Countie of Dorcet where he might plainly perceyue all the Sea bankes and shores garnished and furnished with men of warre and souldiers appoynted and deputed there to defende hys arriual and landing as before is mentioned Wherfore he gaue straight charge and sore commaundemeÌ„t that no person shuld once presume to take lande and goe to the Shore vntill suche tyme as the whole Nauie were assembled and come togither And while hee taryed and lyngered hee sent out a Shipbote towarde the lande side to knowe whether they which stood there in such a number and so well furnished in apparell defensiue were his foes and enimies or else his friends and comforters They that were sent to enquire were instantly desired of the men of warre keeping the coast which therof were before instructed and admonished to discend take lande affirming that they were appointed by the duke of Buckingham there to awayt and tarie for the arriuall and landing of the Erle of Richmonde and to conduct him safely into the campe where the Duke not farre of laye incamped with a mightie armie and an host of great strength and power to the intent that the Duke and the Earle ioyning in puissaunces and forces togither might prosecute and chase King Richarde being destitute of men and in maner desperate and so by that meanes and their owne labors to obteyne the end of their enterprice which they had before begon The Earle of Richmonde suspecting theyr flattering request to be but a fraude as it was in deede after hee perceyued none of his shippes to appeare in sight hee wâ—…yed vp his Ancors halsed vp his Sayâ—…s and hauing a prâ—… 〈◊〉 streynable winde and a fâ—…he 〈…〉 God to delyuer him from that paâ—… and 〈◊〉 â—…die arriued safe and in all â—…câ—… the Dâ—…chie of Normandy where he 〈◊〉 and sâ—…ace hys souldiers and people tooke his recration by the space of three dayes and clearely determined with part of his companie to passe all by laâ—… againe into Brytaine And in the meane season he sent Ambassadors to the Frenche king called Charles the eight which newly succeeded his father king Lewes the eleuenth not long before departed to God requâ—…ng of him a safeconduct licence to passe through his country of Normandie into Brytaine The yong King hauing compassion of the misfortune of the Earle of Richmond not duely gently graunted and assigned to him a pasport but also liberally disbursed to him a great summe of money for his conduct and expences necessarie in his long iourney and passage But the Earle trusting in the French kings humanitie aduentured to sende his shippes home into Brytaine and to set forward himself by land on his iorney making no great hast til his messengers were returned which being with that benefit so comforted and with hope of prosperous successe so encoraged marched towarde Brytayne wyth all dyligence entending there to consult further with his louers and friendes of his affayres and enterprices When hee was returned againe into Brytayne hee was certifyed by credible information that the Duke of Buckingham had loste hys heade and that the Marques Dorcet and a greate number of Noble men of Englande had a lyttle before enquyred and searched for hym there and were nowe returned to Vannes When he had heard these newes thus reported he first sorrowed and lamented his 〈◊〉 attempt and setting forwarde of his friendes and in especial of the Nobilitie not to haue more fortunately succeeded Secondarily he reâ—…ed on the other part that God had sent him 〈◊〉 manye valiant and prudent Captaynes to bee 〈◊〉 companioÌ„s in his martiall enterprises trusting surelye and nothing doubting in his owne opinion but that all his businesse shoulde hee wisely compassed and brought to a good conclusion Wherefore he determining with all diligence to set forwarde his new begon businesse departed to Renes and sent certain of his priuie seruitors to conduct and bring the Marques and other noble men to his presence When they knew that hee was safe returned into Brytayne Lorde howe they reioyced for before that tyme they myssed him and knewe not in what part of the world to make inquirie or search for him For they doubted and no lesse feared least he had taken lande in Englande and fallen in the handes of King Richarde in whose person they knew well was neyther mercie nor compassion Wherefore in all speedie maner they galoped toward him him reuerendly saluted which meeting after great ioy and solace and no smal thankes giuen and rendred on both partes they aduisedly debated and commoned of their great businesse and weightie enterprise in the which season
goe on land which being trayned foorth a pretie way frō their ships were sodainly compassed about beset of y e Kentishmen Perkin men ◅fated and at one stroke vanquished driuen backe to their ships of whom ther wer taken prisoners an C.lx. persons Perkins Cap◅nes taken and executed whereof fiue Montfort Corbet White Belt Quintine or otherwise Genin being captaines were brought to Londō by sir Iohn Pechy sheriffe of Kent railed in ropes like Horses drawing in a cart and after vpon their arrainment cōfessed their offēce were executed some at London other in the townes adioining to y e sea coast Perkin retu◅eth into Flāders And thus Perkyn missing of his purpose fled backe into Flāders In this very seson departed to God Cicilie Duches of Yorke mother to K. Edward y e .iiij. at hir castel of Berkhāstere a womā of smal stature The death of Cicely Duches of Yorke but of much honor high parentage was buried by hir husbād in y e colledge of Fodringey The K. being aduertised y e his enimies were landed leauing off hys progresse purposed to haue returned to London but being certified the next day of y e lucky speede of his faithfull subiects cōtinued his progresse sent sir Rich. Guylford both to cōmend the fidelitie manhod of the Kentishmen also to rēder to thē most harty thāks for y e same He also caused order to be takē for y e erecting of beacons and watching of them Perkin then perceiuing that hee shoulde not bee receiued in Englande sailed into Ireland trusting there to augment his nūbers and then to returne towards y e coast of England again and to take land in the West coūtrey if occasion serued but if not Perkin saileth into Irelande thē he determined to saile straight into Scotl. to seeke friēdship ther. After he had therfore stayed a while in Irelād and perceiued y t the hope of victory consisted not in y e Irish nation being naked people w tout furniture of armour or weapon he tooke y e sea againe at Corffe sailed into Scotlande where cōming to the presence of K. Iames he forged suche a painted processe to moue him to beleeue that he was the very sonne of K. Edward that the Scottishe King whether blinded by error or vsing dissimulatiō y t he mighte vnder a coulourable pretext make war against England begā to haue Perkin in great honour and caused him openly to bee called Duke of Yorke And to perswade y e world y t so he was indeede Katherine daughter to the Earle of Huntlay maried to Perkin 1496 he caused the Lady Katherine daughter to Alexander Erle of Huntley his nigh kinsmā to be espoused to him And shortly after hauing this Perkin with him in cōpany he entred into England with a puissant army caused proclamation to be made The Scottishe K. inuideth England with a great army in Perkin his behalfe to spare al those y t would submit thēselfs vnto Richarde D. of Yorke heerewith they began the war in most cruel maner w t slaughter of men brenning of Townes spoiling of houses and committing of all other detestable enormities so that all the Countrey of Northumberlande was by them in manner wasted and destroyed At length when the souldiers were ladē with spoile and saciate with bloud perceiuing that no succoures came out of Englād vnto the new inuented Duke contrary to that whiche he had made them to beleeue would come to passe they determined to returne rather with assured gaine than to tarrie y e vncertaine victorie of that counterfaite Duke and so therevpon they withdrew backe into Scotland enriched with prayes and booties It is saide that Perkin Warbecke beeyng retourned into Scotlande with the Kyng of Scottes vnder a cloked pretence should sore lamente the greate slaughter spoyle and domage which had bin done at this last roade made into Englande and therefore as one that bare a naturall loue towarde his natiue Countrey besoughte the King of Scottes that from thenceforth hee woulde no more so deface his naturall Realme and destroy his subiects with suche terrible fire flame and hauocke as who should say he beeing ouercome now with compassion dyd bewayle the cruell destruction of his naturall Countrey of England But the Scottish King told him that he seemed to take thought for that which appeared to be none of his sith that not so much as one Gentleman or yeoman for ought that he coulde see would once shewe themselues ready to ayde hym in the warre begunne for his cause and in his name within that realme whiche he pretended so cleerely to apperteine to him The Kyng of Englande beeing certyfied of this inuasion prepared an armye with all diligence to haue resisted the Scots but they were returned ere the Englishe power could assemble togither An. reg 12. When the King was truely certified that the Scottishe King was returned home hee stayed all the preparations made at that time to goe against him but yet meaning to bee reuenged of the wrongs done to hym by King Iames and his people he first called a Parliament and in that assemblie of the three estates of his Realm he declared the cause of the instant warre how necessarie it should be for the suretie and welth of the realme of England to haue that war pursued against those enimies that had begon it To this motion all the nobilitie wholly agreed And to the maintenance of that warre a subsidie was by whole assent of the parliament freely giuen and graunted Which payment though it was not great yet manie of the cōmon people sore grudged to pay y e same as they that euer abhorre such taxes exactions At the same parliament were diuers acts statutes made necessarie and expedient as was thought for the publike weale of the realm 1497 In the meane season the K. of Scots perceyuing that the Englishmen would shortly goe about to reuēge the iniuries done to them by him and his people assembled eftsoons a puissant armie that he might either defende his realme against the English power attempting to inuade his countrey or else a fresh to enter into the English borders And thus these two mightie princes mynded nothing more than the one to endomage the other But the king of England wold not deferre one houre by his good will til he were reuenged and therfore prepared a mightie army to inuade Scotland and ordeyned for chieftayn therof y e lord Daubeney But as this army was assembled and that the lord Daubeney was forward on his iourney towards Scotland he was sodainly stayed and called backe again by reason of a new commotion begon by the Cornishmen for the paimēt of the Subsidie which was granted at the last parliament A Rebellion in Cornewall for the payment of a subsedie These vnruly people the Cornishmen inhabiting in a bareyn country and vnfruitful at the firste sore repined that
and order of necessitie it shuld be rather more conuenient for you to seeke and require moderate agreements of vs whom God hath hitherto according to our most iust true and godly meanings and intents prospered and set forward with your affliction and miserie than y e we being superioures in the field maisters of a great part of your Realme shoulde seeke vpon you Yet to the intent that our charitable mindes and brotherly loue should not cease by all meanes possible to prouoke and call you to youre owne commoditie and profite euen as the father to the sonne or the elder brother to the yonger brother And as the louing Phisition would doe to the mistrustfull and ignorant patient we are content to call and crie vppon you to looke on your state to auoyde the greate calamitie that youre Countrey is in to haue vs nether brothers than enimies and rather Countreymen than Conquerors And if your gouernour or Captaynes shall reteyne and keepe from you this oure exhortation as heeretofore they haue done our proclamation tending to the like effect for theyr owne priuate wealth and commoditie not regarding though you be stil in miserie so they haue profite and gouernaunce ouer you and shall still abuse you with frigned and forgeâ—…tales yet this shall bee a witnesse afore God and all Christian people betwixt you and vs that wee professing the Gospell of Iesus Christ according to the doctrine thereof doe not ceasse to call and prouoke you from the effusion of youre owne bloud from the destruction of the Realme of Scotlande from perpetuall enimie and hatred from the finall destruction of youre nation and from seruitude to forrayne nations to libertie to amitie to equalitie with vs to that whiche youre writers hathe alwayes wished might once come to passe Who that hathe code the stories in times past and dothe marke and note the greate battayles foughte betweene England and Scotlande the incursions rodes and spoyles whiche hathe bin done on both parties the Realme of Scotlande fyue times wonne by one Kyng of Englande the Scottish kings some taken prisoners some slayne in battayle some for very sorow and discomfort vpon losse dying and departing the world and shall perceyue agayne that all nations in the world that nation onely besyde Englande speaketh the same language and as you and wee be annexed and ioyned in one Islande so no people are so lyke in manners forme language and al conditions as wee are shall not hee thinke it a thing verye vnmeete vnnaturall and vnchristian that there shoulde bee betwixte vs so mortall warre who in respecte of all other nations bee and shoulde bee lyke as two breethren of one Island of greate Britaine and though hee were a straunger to both what should he thinke more meete than if it were possible one Kyngdome to bee made in rale whiche is one in language and to bee deuided in rulers whiche is all one in Countrey And for asmuche as two successors cannot concurre and fall into one by no other manner of meanes than by marriage whereby one bloud one lignage one parentage is made of two and an indefensible right giueÌ„ of both to one without the destruction and abolyshing of eyther If God shoulde graunte that whatsoeuer you woulde wishe other than that whyche nowe not by fortune hathe chanced but by his infinite mercy and most inscrutable prouidence as carefull for you he hath gyuen vnto you The whyche thyng that you shoulde also thynke to come of hys disposition and not by blynde fortune howe vnlyke hathe it bene and howe suddaynely hathe it turned that the power of GOD myghte bee shewed youre last Kyng beeing a Prince of much excellencie and yong whome you knowe after a promise broken contrarye to hys honour and misfortune by Goddes iust iudgemente following vpon it God eyther by sorowe or by some meanes otherwise at hys inscrutable pleasure dyd take away from you hadde three children did not almightie God as it were to shewe hys will and pleasure to bee that the long continued warre and enmitie of both the nations shoulde be taken away and knitte in perpetuall loue and amitie take the two menne childreÌ„ of those babes being distante the one from the other A matter worthy to be noted and in dyuers places both as it were at one time and within the space of foure and twentie houres leauyng but one mayden childe and Princes When the most wise and victorious Prince late oure Kyng and maister Kyng Henrye the eyght in other of hys mariages not most fortunate had by his most lawfull and most vertuous wife Queene Iane his other two wiues before that marriage departed thys world and neuer surmise nor question made of that mariage sith that tyme to thys daye nor so muche as all hyr lyfe tyme name or motion to or of anye other wife one Prince of so hygh expectation of so great giftes of God the righte and vndoubted heyre of the Realme of Englande and hys maiestie onely of male issue left behynde hym to succeede the imperiall Crowne If nothing 〈◊〉 hadde 〈◊〉 done what can anye wise or anye Christian man that thinketh the worlde to bee gouerned by Goddes prouidence and not by fortune thynke otherwise but that it was Goddes pleasure it shoulde bee so that these two 〈◊〉 should ioyne in marriage and by a godly Sacramente make a godly perpetuall and moste friendly vaâ—…tie and concorde whereby 〈◊〉 benefytes as of vaâ—…tie and concorde common maye through his infinite grace come vnto their Realmes Or if anye man of you or of anye other nation doubteth hereof excepte you looke for miracles to bee done heerin and yet if you marke all the possibilities of the natures of the two Princes the children alreadye hadde the doubtfull chance least eache of them shoulde haue a sonne or both daughters or not of â—â—te ages with other circumstances both of the partie of this Realme of Englande and that of Scotlande whyche hathe not chanced in eighte hundred yeares it must needes be reckoned a greate maruell and a miracle But lette it bee no miracle seeyng that GOD does not now speake in oracles as amongst the Iewes hee dyd and presente prophecies nowe adayes bee but eyther not certayne or else not playne what more certaynetie can bee hadde of Goddes will in thys case than the before rehearsed bothe bryng but if God hymselfe should speake what coulde he speake more than hee speaketh in these Call you them prouidences or chances if you bee still afflicted and punished maye hee not saye I of any infinite mercy and loue to youre nation hadde prouided a righte heyre and a Prince to the one and a right heyre and Princes to the other to bee ioyned in my holye lawes and by the lawe of nature and the world to haue made an vnitie concorde and peace in the whyche Isle of bothe the Realmes you refused it you loued better dissention than vnitie discorde than agreement warre than peace hatred than
after it had stayed nighe one houre it descended west and all the same night being the next after the chaunge of the Moone seemed nigh as light as it had beene fayre day The .xx. of Nouember An. reg 7. Houses shattered with Gunpowder in the morning through negligence of a mayden with a candell the snuffe falling in an hundred pounde weight ◅ Gunpowder three houses in Bucklersburie were sore shaken and the Mayde dyed two dayes after The .xxj. of December began a frost The Thames frozen ouer which continued so extreemly that on Newyeares euen people went ouer and along the Thames on the Ise from London bridge to Westmynster some played at the football as holdly there as if it had beene on the drie land diuerse of the court being then at Westminster shot dayly at pricks set vpon the Thames and the people both men and women went on the Thames in greater number than in any streete of the Citie of London On the thirde day of Ianuarie at night it beganne to thaw and on the fifth day was no Ise to bee seene betweene London bridge and Lambeth whiche sodaine thawe caused greate floods and high waters that bare downe bridges and houses Owes bridge ◅ne downe and drowned many people in England especially in Yorkshire Owes bridge was borne away with other Henrie Stuart ◅ed the Q ◅ Scottes The thirde day of Februarie Henrie Stuart Lord Darley about the age of .xix. yeare eldest sonne to Mathew Earle of Lineux who went into Scotlande at Whitsuntide before hauing obteyned licence of the Queenes Maiestie tooke his iourney towarde Scotlande accompanied with fiue of his fathers men where when he came was honourably receyued and lodged in the kings lodgings and in the Sommer folowing maried Marie Queene of Scotlande About this time for the Queenes Maiestie were chosen and sent Commissioners to Bruges the Lorde Montacute knight of the honourable order of the Garter Doctor Wotton one of hir Maiesties honourable Counsaile doctor Haddon one of the Maisters of Requestes to hir highnesse with other Maister Doctor Aubrey was for the marchant aduēturers of England they came to Bruges in Lent Anno .1565 and continued there til Michaelmasse folowing and then was the dyet prolonged till Marche in the yere .1566 and the Commissioners returned into England 1565 Ladie Lineux ◅et to the Tower The .xxij. of Aprill the Ladie Margaret coūtesse of Lineux was commaunded to keepe hir chamber at the Whitehall where she remayned till the .xxij. of Iune and then conueyed by Sir Francis Knolles and the garde to the Tower of London by water Watch at mid s◅mmer On S. Peters euen at night was the lyke standing watch in London as had bene on the same night .xij. Monethes past Tempest at Chelmesford The .xvj. of Iuly about .ix. of the clocke at night began a tempest of lightning and thunder with showers of hayle which continued till three of the clocke in the next morning so terrible that at Chelmesforde in Essex fiue hundred acres of corne was destroyed the Glasse windowes on the East side of the towne and of the West and South sides of the Church were beaten downe with also the Tyles of their houses beside diuerse Barnes Chimneys and the Battelments of the Church which was ouerthrowne The like harme was done in many other places as at Leedes Cranebroke Douer c. Christofor Prince and Margraue of Baden The Margraue or Marques of Baden with Cicilie his wife sister to the King of Swethlande after a long and daungerous iourney wherein they had trauayled almost a .xj. Monethes sayling from Stockholme crossing the Seas ouer into Lifelande from whence by lande they came aboute by Pollande Pruscie Pomerland Meckleburge Friselande and so to Andwerpe in Brabant then to Calays at the last in September landed at Douer and the .xj. day of the same they came to London and were lodged at the Earle of Bedfords place neare vnto Iuie bridge where within foure dayes after that is to say the .xv. of September she trauayled in childbed was deliuered of a man child which childe the last of September was christened in the Queenes Maiesties Chapell of white Hall at Westminster the Queenes Maiestie in hir owne person being Godmother the Archbishop of Canterburie and the Duke of Norffolke Godfathers at the Christning the Queene gaue the childe to name Edwardus Fortunatus for that God had so graciously assisted his mother in so long and daungerous a iourney and brought hir safe to land in that place which she most desired and that in so short time before hir deliuerance The .xj. of Nouember the right honourable Mariage of the Earle of Warwike Ambrose Earle of Warwike maryed Anne eldest daughter to the Earle of Bedforde for the honour and celebration of which noble mariage a goodly chalenge was made and obserued at Westmynster at the Tylt with eche one sixe courses at the Tourney .xij. strokes wyth the sword three pushes with the punchion staffe xij blowes with the sworde at Barriers or .xx. if any were so disposed At ten of the clocke at night the same day a valiant seruiceable man Robert Thomas slaine called Robert Thomas maister Gunner of England desirous also to honour the feast and mariage day in consideration the sayde Erle of Warwike was generall of the Ordinaunce within hir Maiesties Realmes and Dominions made three greate traines of chambers which terribly yeelded forth the nature of theyr voyce to the greate astonishment of dyuerse who at the fiering of the seconde was vnhappily slaine by a peece of one of the Chambers to the great sorow and lamentation of many The .xxiiij. of December in the morning Anno. reg 8. there rose a great storme and tempest of winde by whose rage the Thames and Seas ouerwhelmed many persons Poules gate blowen open and the great gates at the West end of S. Paules Church in London betweene the which standeth the brasen piller were through the force of the winde then in the westerne part of the world blowne open Order of saint Michaell 1566 In Ianuarie Monsieur Rambulet a knight of the order in France was sent ouer into England by the French king Charles the .ix. of that name with the order who at Windsore was stalled in the behalfe of the sayde French King with the knighthoode of the most honourable order of the Garter and the .xxiiij. of Ianuarie in the Chapell of hir Maiesties Palaice of Whitehall the sayde Monsieur Rambulet inuested Thomas Duke of Norffolke and Robert Earle of Leycester with the sayde order of S. Michael The Marques of Baden and the Ladie Cicilie his wife The Marques of Baden returneth sister to the king of Swethen who came into this lande in the Moneth of September last past as before is declared being then by the Queenes especiall appoyntment at their arriuall honourably receyued by the Lorde Cobham an honourable Baron of
Laurence Humfrey Dauid Whitehead Iohn Bale Iohn Dee Anthony Gylbie Chrystopher Goodman William Whittingham Roger Askam Iohn Martine Barthelmew Clarke George Ackworth Iohn Caius an excellent Phisition who founded Caius colledge in Cambridge or rather by augmenting a hall called Gunhill hall by a seconde foundation named it Gunhill and Caius colledge Thomas North. Iohn Marbecke Edmond Becke Iohn Pullen Thomas Phaer Roger Hutchinson Thomas Gibson George Constantine Richarde Cockes Iames Calfhill Iohn Willocke Thomas Cartwright Abraham Hartwell Robert Crowley Iohn Gough Fecknam Laurence Tomson Andrew Kingsmill Iohn Barthlet Iohn Harding Edward Craddocke Thomas Sampson Saunders Thomas Leuer William Fulke Thomas Hill Edward Deering Iohn Brydges Iohn Veron Iohn More Daniell Rogers Michaell Rineger Peter Morwing Iohn Northbrooke Anthony Anderson Chrystopher Carlill Thomas Palfryman Steuen Bateman Thomas Doleman Iohn Wolton William Whitaker Robert Watson Humfrey Llhuid Lewes Euans Iohn Yong. Iohn Mardley Iohn Plough Philip Nicols Iohn Iosselin Arthur Golding Edmond Campion William Harison Richard Stanihurst Richard Grafton Iohn Stowe Alexander Neuill Barnabe Googe William Pattin William Baldwin George Ferrers Arthur Brooke William Barker Leonard Digges Thomas Digges WilliaÌ„ Cunningham William Painter Lodowike Llhuid Richard Raynolds Iohn Raynolds Nicholas Whitalke Iohn Vowell alias Hooket Thomas Harman Vlpian Fulwell Iames Sandford Geffrey FeÌ„ton Thomas Twine Thomas Hedley William Salisbury Iohn Barret Iohn Procter Richard Candish Thomas Nicols Robert Greene. Raphe Leuer Edward Grant Iohn Heywood Thomas Drant Nicholas Allen Essentian Thomas Tim. Thomas Lusser Thomas Hill William Borne Leonarde Maskall Thomas Blondeuill Richarde Eden Edwarde Hake Otuell Holinshed Iohn Barston Iohn Harte alias Chester Heralde Iohn Shute Captaine Richarde Willies George Gascon George Turberuill Thomas Churchyarde Thomas Brice George Whetstone Nicholas Carre Iohn Higgins Edmund Bunny Iohn Barnarde Thomas Newton Meridith Hanmer Iohn Dauys Thomas Vnderdowne Richard Robinson William Wolley Barnabe Garter Abraham Flemming Reginalde Scot. Thomas Stockir Henry Dethike Iohn Boswell William Beuerley Humfrey Baker Dionyse Graye Thomas Bishop George Pettie Thomas Gale Iohn Hall Iohn Studley Edmund Tilney I Haue here Gentle Reader disorderedly set downe these names for want of due knowledge how to place them according to their degrees callings or worthinesse eueÌ„ as they came to memory Although I allowe not of the wrytings of euery of them yet bicause I haue vndertaken in the former order of my Booke to Enregister the writers in eche age indifferently I must of force so ende and leaue the iudgement of their writings to the discrete Readers I know there are others that haue written very well but haue suppressed their names and therfore cannot blame me though they be not here enregistred I wishe suche to go forewarde in well doing and to remember that vertue cannot alwayes be hidden but in time their names wil be remembred among the best that those that are vertuously giuen may by their worthy prayse be encouraged to follow their steppes and indeuour themselues according to duety to aduaunce learning and necessary knowledge in their countrey FINIS A Table seruing vnto both parts of the Chronicles of England wherein for thy better instruction gentle Reader thou shalt vnderstand that the first number signifyeth the page and the second number the line of the page which in some places thou shalt finde diuided into the lynes of the Columes and in some other to followe the number of the whole lynes of the page some pages are by ouersight escaped faultie which it may please thee to correct and so vse it to thy profite AAron and Iulius martyred for y e faith of Christ 88.32 Aaron a Iew payd to Henry the thyrde thirtie thousand markes 722.90 Abell hanged for the supremacie 1580.40 Aborigines what they signifie 6.101 Aborigines that there are any conâ—…uted 5.65 Abbot of Westminster conspireth against Henry y e .4 pag. 1 〈◊〉 col 1. lin 5. dyeth sodainly pa. 1129. col 1 li. 39 Abbey of Peterburgh Crowland spoyled by King Iohn 604.73 Abbeyes and religious houses founded by King Iohn 606.45 Abbot of Saint Albons payeth foure score markes to Lewes in y e name of homage 610.9 Abbey of Lucresse coÌ„moÌ„ly called delacresse built by Radulen Erle of Chester 618.12 Abbots and Priours depriued by Archbyshop Anselme and why 340.30 Abbot of Westminster William deposed for wasting the reuenues of the house and for inconstancie 582.90 Abbots bishops of Englande not the Ministers of God but of the diuell 279.115 Abbot of Hales hanged pag. 1154. col 1. line 2. Abbeyes searched and spoyled by King William 304.43 Abbeyes destroyed within the lymites of Mercia 235.81 Abbey Church of Batteil dedicated to S. Martin 325.36 Abbay of Amphibalus in Winchester 109.6 Abbeyes let out to ferme 333.59 Abingdon battaile fought betweene the Englishmen and Danes with equall victorie 213.33 Abingdon battaile one of the forest foughten fieldes that had bin hearde of in those dayes 213.31 Abingdon abbey buylded and restored 230.54 Abingdon Abbey finished and set in good order 234.7 Aburgalieny Lord committed to the tower 1510.27 confesseth misprison of treason 1519.45 Abuses of the .124 gouernours of England 752.6 Aburgenny Lord distresseth the Kentishe rebels 1725.20 Alcluid Citie 194.62 Abirnethi and the peace there concluded 307.68 Abuse in men too shamefull for wearing loÌ„g haires 364.53 Absolon a Monke of Canterburie 382.97 Acca succeedeth Wilfride in the Bishoprick of HexaÌ„ 190 91. Act against fishemoÌ„gers 1040 10. b. repealed 1042.23 a. Alcluid Citie destroyed by the Danes 211.54 Achikelmeslawe spoyled by the Danes 244.36 Acca daughter to Alla sister to Edwine 155.76 Acce of land how many pearches it conteineth 312.101 Achelnotus Archbyshop of CaÌ„torbury 262.115 Adelstan Byshop of Shirebourne 206.57 Adelstane putteth his Cupbearer to death for accusing Edwyn the kinges brother 226.9 Adelstane leadeth an armie against Aulafe lying nyghe Humber 226.24 Adelstane subdueth Northumberland and ioyneth it to his kingdome 224.51 Adelstane sonne to King Edward fleeth the Realme 224.82 Adelstane leadeth an armie against the Scottes welchmen 225.20 Adelstane inuadeth Scotland with an armie and wasteth it 225.67 Adelstane offreth his knife to Saint Iohn of Beuerly and redeemeth it with a large price 225.64 Adelstane repenteth him sore of his rigor towards his brother Edwyn 225.112 Adelstane Byshop of Shyreburne departeth this lyfe 209.72 Adelstans swoorde restored to the sâ—â—bbard by myracle â—…26 68 Adelstane departeth out of this world 226.106 Adelstane eldest sonne to King Edward beginneth hys raygne ouer the most part of England 223.104 Adelstane crowned kyng at Kingstone vppon Thames 224.7 Adelstane somtime called Gurthrun the Dane made King of Eastangle 214.96 Adrian Abbot departeth thys lyfe 190.116 Adrian an Italian sent ambassador into Scotland is made bishop of Hereford and afterward of Welles and Cardinal 1436.30 restoreth good letters ibidem Adrian Pope sendeth Legates into England 198.63 Adulf Byshop of Myeth 199.3 Adelbert succeedeth Egbert in the Archbishopricke of York 199.25 Adrian sent into England with Archbishop Theodore 178.38 Adrian stayed
hym selfe with Duke William of Normandie for his othes sake 286 38. Gunthildis sister to king Swanus commeth into England and is baptised there 247 18. Guyse Iohn knight 1450.14 Gundulfe byshop of Rochester 328.39 Gunthildes sister to king Swanus with her husband and Sonne murthered 247.30 Guilthdacus king of Denmark ouercommeth Brennus in battile and taketh his wyfe prisoner 24.2 Guildebald Duke of Vrbin elected knight of the garter 1461.34 Guilthdacus departeth into Denmarke and becommeth tributarie vnto Belinus 24.52 Guana riuer in Wales 117.55 Guintolsnus appeaseth olde dissentions in the Realme 28.114 Gnintolinus dyeth and to buried at London 29.5 Gurgustus dyeth and is buried at Yorke 21.81 Guanius king of the Hunnes 95.106 Guanius king of the Hunnes sent against Marimus friendes 95.109 Gurdon Adam taken prisoner and pardoned 777.2 Guintolinus Sonne to Gurguintus admitted king of Britaine 28.89 Guyshard Robert Duke of Puglia 346.75 Gunhardus or Suardus a great Duke in Fraunce 2.51 Guanius and Melga flee out of Britaine into Ireland 96 7. Guyon Father to Duke Rollo of Normandie slayne 288.97 Guy or Guido Earle of Ponthreu 277.107 Gualter de Maunt. 270.83 Gurmundus arriueth in Britaine to ayde the Saxons 144.3 Gurgustus Sonne of Riuallon beginneth to reygne in Britaine 21.72 Gurden Barthram kyller of king Richard the first 540 37. forgiuen and rewarded 540.52 cruelly put to death 540.63 Gutlacke a man of great vertue and holinesse 197.18 Gurmond called also Guthryd 219.66 Guorōgus gouernor of Kēt vnder Vortigernus 113.104 Guintelinus loke Guintolinus Guenhera dyeth in Scotland and is buried in Angus 137 45 Guynes Castle taken by Iohn Dancaster 946.50 a. Guillomer vanquished and dooth fealtie to the king of England 133. ◅2 H. Harold ordeyned by kyng Edward to succeede him in the kingdome of England 282.111 Harold setteth the crowne vpon his own head 283.2 Harold seeketh to win his peoples fauour by courtesie 283.12 Harold denyeth to deliuer the kingdome of Englande vnto Duke William of Normandie 283.40 Harold refuseth to take to wife the dauthter to Duke Williliam of Normandie 283.79 Harold prepareth to withstand the sodeyne inuasion of the Normans 283.98 Harold leadeth that name against Tostie which he had prepared against the Norm◅ns 284.18 Harold Harfager king of Norway arriueth in Englande with a great Name of ships 284.49 Harold Harfager slayne and his armie discomfited 284.90 Harold leeseth the hartes of his people in vnequally diuiding the Norwegian spoyles amongst them 285.24 Harold hated of the Pope and Cardinals 285.106 Harold goeth ouer into Normandie to visite his brother and Nephue 277.86 Harold going vppon the Sea for pleasure is driuen vppon the coast of Ponthien and taken prisoner 377.99 Harold presented to William Duke of Normandie 278.9 Harold hyghly welcommed by Duke William of Normandie 278.9 Harold accompanyeth Duke William in armes agaynst the Britaines 278.22 Harold taketh an othe to keepe the Realme of England to Duke Williams vse 278.31 Harold hasteth out of the North partes to encounter with the Normans 286.18 Harold slaine by a wound in the eye 287.25 Harold fleeth to Westchester and there becommeth an Ancre 287.60 Harold last king in England of the Saxon blood 288.6 Harold a scourge to the Welchmen 288.42 Harold surnamed Harefoote why 263.99 Harold not sonne to king Cnute but to a Shoemaker 264.3 Harolds treason against queen Emma and her children 264.97 Harolds counterfeit letters sent to Queene Emmas children in Normandie 264.108 Harold departeth out of this world 266.58 Harold returneth into England 278.46 Harold striketh his brother Tostie in the presence of the king 278.79 Harold sent against the rebellious Northumbers with an armie 279.3 Harold after the death of king Edward proclaymeth hymselfe king of England 282.104 Hasting a Dane entreth the Thames with a fleete and is constrayned by siege 216.4 Hasting causeth his two sonnes to be baptised 216.18 Hasting euer most vntrue of woorde and deede 216.19 Harold base sonne to king Cnute succeedeth his father in the kingdome of England 263.30 Earle of Hare court slayne at Cressy 934.32 b. Hatfielde battaile fought by the Britaine 's against the Englishmen 163.56 Hardicnute returneth out of Denmarke into England 266.80 Hardicnute proclaymed and crowned king of England 266.89 Hasting fortresse builded by the Normans 286.10 Hasting battaile fought by the Normans agaynst the Englishmen 286.56 Harbert William knyght one of king Henry the eyght his executors 1611.51 represseth the Rebels in Somer◅etshire 1648.24 master of the horse and created Earle of Penbroke 1709.25 is generall of the armie agaynst What. 1731.20 is generall of an armie into Fraunce 1767. 17. Lord Stward of her maiesties house dieth 1841.52 Harold and Canutus Sonnes to king Swanus of Denmarke sent into Englande with a Nauie 300.25 Harrison William cited 81.58 and .81 92. and .88.75 and 89.73 and .99.90 Harold and Leofwin inuade the shires of Somer◅et and Durcet and slay the Inhabitants 272.68 Harolds bodye taken vp and throwen into the Thames 267.3 Harald byshop of Elsham 195.13 Hardiknought looke Hardicnute Harold king of man made knight 715.100 Harington Iames attaynted 1425.42 Hastings Robert a knyght temple◅ 400.70 Har. William cited 111.77 and .115.64 and .116.94 Har. William cited 291.16 Hartfoord Castle builded 220.78 Har. William cited 180.62 and .192.96.194.9 and .194.46 and .198.62 Godfray Harecourt fleeth out of Fraunce 928.58 b. Hall Iohn executed 1864.28 Iohn Hastings Earle of Penbroke slaine 1075.50 b. Hay Rauife sent ouer into England with a band of souldiours 433.51 Harold succeedeth his father Godwyn in the Earledome of Kent 275.5 Harold William cyted 130. 70. and .131.40 and .133 58. and .137.63 and .140 15. Haruie first Byshop of Ely there appointed 349.92 Haruie translated from Bangor to Ely 349.93 Hardicnute dyeth suddeinly 267.112 Hammes abandoned to the Frenchmen 1777.20 Hales Iames knyght hys sundry molestations and ende 1723. Har. William cited 121.3 and 125.77 and .127.30 and 128.40 and .129.16 Hayles Abbey founded 781.95 Hayles bloud brought into England 781.100 Harold Generall of kyng Edwardes armie against Algar and kyng Griffin 276. 37. and .277.52 Haymon Earle of Gloucester departeth this life 399.46 Hart burning among the Nobitie 746.61 Harold banished the land 272.12 Haroldes landes giuen to Algar 272.22 Robert Hal murdered in Westminster church 1010.12 b Haco a Danish Earle arriueth in Enlgand wyth an armie agaynst King William 309 26. Harding Stephan a Monke of Shirebourne 333.84 Haldene a leader or kyng of the Danes 209.115 Halewell Thomas knight 1450.43 Harold and Canutus wyth their armie put to flight by king William escape to their shippes 301.18 Haddington chase 1637.8 Hayle of the bignesse of hennes egges 556.27 Halden a Danishe King 212.12 Harrison William cited 44.89 and .74.23 and .74.39 Hambletew rendered to the French king 1695.4 Hamelton Stephan knight put to death 1570.10 Sir Iohn Hankewoods prase 1001.33 a. Harflew wonne by the English pag. 1262. col 1. lin 2. Hacun set at libertie and sent into England 278.44 Hatton Christopher made captaine of the
is created Lord Poynings and Leuetenant of Bologne and Bolongnois 1602.50.4 dieth and his commendations ibidem Poynings Edward knight sent to the siege of Scluse 1438.50 hath the two Castles yeelded vnto him eadem 20. Pope sueth to Richard the first for the deliuerance of the Bishop of Beauoyes out of prison 432.35 geueth ouer his suite and forsaketh the Byshop 532.47 Porrex and Ferrex sonnes to Gorbodug begin to rule ouer Britayne 22.36 Pope perswadeth peace betwixt Rychard the first and and Phillip king of Fraunce 538.43 truce is taken for fiue yeares 538.77 Pope exhorteth Cristians to warre agaynst the Saracens 630.85 Popes requestes vnreasonable 632.43 Pope Innocent requesteth aide agaynst the Turkes and infidels 552.70 Pope sendeth into Fraunce to make a peace betwixt the French king and king Iohn 556· 69. Poinings Edward knight dieth 1519.5 Poyntz Robert knight 1450.14 Policie of Constantius to discerne true Cristians from false 89.109 Policie of the Kentishmen to intrap King William and his armie 292.53 Pope requesteth ayde of king Richard the second 1011.34 b. Policie of Duke William of Normandie to disorder the English battayle 287.2 Poyton wonne by the French men 993.4 a. Poynings Edward knight Captaine of Tourney 1487 1. King of Portingal marrieth the Duke of Lanc. daughter 1052.7 a. Popes Collations forbidden 924.50 a. Powel hanged for the supremacie 1580.40 Policie of Gurmundus to burne Cicester 144.13 Policronicon cited 22.60 and. 22.101 and. 24.40 Popes Legate graunteth free remission of sinnes to all the kings souldiours 613.33 Polidore Virgil cited 123.76 and. 128.47 and. 129.19 Pope writeth to the Kyng agaynst the Wecleuists 1088 20. b. Pomfret Castle pag. 1310. col 2. lin 25. pag. 1328. col 2. lin 45. Portesmouth in Sussex whēce so called 130.11 Poole Richard Knight kinsman and chiefe Chamberlaine vnto Prince Arthur 1456.51 Poynings Edward Knyght Captayne of a band ▪ called the kings Gard. 1606. co 2. lin 41. Poynings Edward knight sent Ambassadour vnto Phillip the Archduke 1442.17 Poole Reynald Cardinal attainted 1570.53 Popea daughter to the Earle of Bayeulx married to Rollo Duke of Normandie 288.107 Polidore Virgil cited 99.81 and. 113.35 and. 116.99 and. 120.67 Ponte de Larche taken by the French pag. 1274. col 2. lin 26. Popes decree concerning spiritual mens goods 715.114 Popes peace 835.6 a. wryteth in defence of y e Scots 835.53 b. forbiddeth the king to vex thē 836.38 a. Poole Henry Lorde Mountague beheaded 1572.5 Poictunius subdued by the French 585.75 Pontorson rendred to the English pag. 1236. col 1. lin 31. Ponticus Virumnius cited 12 43. Poitiers wonne by Henry Erle of Derby 939.1 a. Porchester wonne by the Romans 51.33 Polichronicon cited 223.62 Pontfracte Coledge founded pag. 1152. col 2. lin 52. Policletus sent Commissioner into Britaine 65.76 Polidore cited 321.30 and. 333.58 Ponte de Larch rendred to the English men pag. 1193. col 2. lin 39. Polidor Virgil cited 210.56 and. 217.70 Poulesworth Abbey builded 208.7 Ponthieu taken by the French King 977.30 b. Pope Adrian an Englishman borne 396.61 Popes dispense with othes right law and equitie 396.63 Pomerey Henry dieth for griefe and feare 516.50 Policie and Zeale of Germaine to discomfit the Saxons 120.46 Possesworth in Warwikshyre 225.6 Porthland in deuonshyre spoyled by the Danes 238.37 Popes power how farre it extendeth 741.11 Policie of the Romans in getting the I le of Anglesey 68.92 Portes kept for feare of letters of interdiction 418.22 Portemouth disquieteth the French fleete 1046.10 b. Polidore cited 228.49 and. 236.2 and. 304.13 and. 315.10 and. 315.51 Policie of Maximianus to intrap Gracianus the Emperour 97.36 Policie of Ethelburga to perswade her husband Inas to renounce the world 188.43 Porth entreth Britaine at Portesmouth hauen 130.6 Policie of king William to entrap English men within his lawes of hunting the Deere 313.77 Polidore Virgil cited 3.69 4.83 and. 5.27 and. 38.72 and. 55.8 and. 60.26 Poysonyng worthily punished 224.92 Popes Nuntio commeth into England 1078.23 b Poictauins reuolt from Kyng Iohn 553.15 Poer Ranulph Sheriffe of Glocestershyre slaine by y e Welch men 456.77 Pope very liberal of another mans purse 736.74 Poinyngs Edward knight one of the kyngs coūsel 1464.55 Popes letters commaundyng Archbishop Thomas Beckets suffryng day to be kept holy 425.5 Policie of the Troians agaynst the Gaules 14.56 Polidore cited 349.108 and 353.75 and. 414.95 Porrer slain by his mother 22 70. Pope of Rome an hypocrite and therfore mens deuotiōs ware cold towards him 742.33 Pontien restored to king Edward the third 912.3 b Policie of Maude Empresse to escape the siege at Oxford 379.26 Polybius cited 27.37 Popes Legate gayneth in Englād twelue thousand marks 616.77 Policie of Aulafe to suruey the English campe 226.31 Poictou tooke name of y e Picts 13.96 Polichronicon cited 226.67 Popes authoritie not esteemed in England 351.105 Ponteandemer castle besieged and taken 359.53 Poore people dye through famyne 749.42 Pontoyse taken by the English 1200. co 2. lin 40. Poyron Robert a knight Templer 400.69 Policie of Elgina to procure the farther loue of K. Cnute 264.6 Prerogatiue of the English nation in the general Councel pa. 1186. co 1. lin 40. Progenie of the West Saxon kyngs endeth in king Edward the Confessor 280.48 Priest slayn by a tempest before the Altare at Andeuer 421 16. Prouisiō made by rate of lands for building of ships and furnishyng of armour 244.82 Preparation of warre made to goe against the Scots 567.77 Prayers made vnto God before battaile 164.114 Prizes great taken by sea of French goodes 1600.50 Princes euyl example geueth occasion to the subiectes to offend 157.53 Princes chalenge to thēselues the inuesting of Bishops other spiritual Ministers 341.93 Priestes displaced at Waltham Colledge and Chanons Regular put in their roumthes 447.64 Prasutagus king of the Iceni maketh the Emperour of Rome and two of his owne daughters his heires 60.73 Priestes Deacons and Subdeacons to lyue chastly 347 52. Priestes commaunded to forsake their wyues 347.60 Priestes that wyl forgo seruing at the altare to remaine with theyr wyues to be depriued 347.73 Priestes and Monkes forsakyng their orders for loue of theyr wyues to be excōmunicated 340.69 and. 347 78. Prior of the Charterhouse at London executed 1563.35 Prelates fined for rebellyng against the kyng 616.65 Prebendes in the new Monasterie of Winchester taken from priestes and geuen to vicars 234 Priestes and Churchmen miserably handled by king Iohn and by al men without remedie 566.48 Priestes lackyng to say dayly seruice in churches 567.70 Priestes and Canons remoued from old Salisbury to new together with the Byshops See 618.23 Prayers vsed to be sayd at the shuttyng in of doores windowes 298.32 Priuilege of those that tooke vpō them the crosse 599.38 Priestes saying Masse apprehended 1869.52 Prolocutor of the parlament his office 354.46 Prior of Lawnd apprehended pa. 1134. co 1. lin 33. presumption of the Cardinal of Tusculane 583.53 Prohibition to goe ouer sea without the kyngs licence 324.30 Priestes and
was slain and diuerse Barons on his side although the victorie and field remayned with his sonne the maister of Crawforde who succeeded his father and was called Earle Beirdy On the Erle of Huntleys syde were slaine Iohn Forbes of Petslege Alexander Berckley of Gartulye Robert Maxwell of Telyne William Gurdun of Burrowfielde Sir Iohn Oliphant of Aberdagie and fiue hundred more on theyr syde and one hundred of the victorers were also slaine as Hector Boetius hath Who likewise reporteth that the occasion of thys battayle dyd chaunce through the varyaunce that fell ouâ—…e betwixt the Earle of Crawfordes eldest sonne Alexander Lyndsey and Alexander Ogilbye or Ogiluie as some write him aboute the office of the Balifewike of Arbroth the which the Maister of Crawforde enioying was displaced and put out by the sayde Ogiluie Wherevpon the Maister of Crawforde to recouer his right as he tooke it got a power togither with helpe of the Hamiltons and with the same seased vpon the Abbay and Ogiluie with helpe of the Erle of Huntly came thither with an armie to recouer the place againe out of his aduersaries handes and so vpon knowledge hereof gyuen vnto the Earle of Crawforde he himselfe comming from Dundee vnto Arbroth at the very instant when the battails were readie to ioyne caused first his sonne to stay after calling forth sir Alexander Ogiluie to talke with him in purpose to haue made peace betwixt him his sonne was thrust into the mouth with a speare by a coÌ„mon souldier that knewe nothing what his demaundment so that he fel downe therewith and presently died in the place whervpon togither the parties went incoÌ„tinently without more protracting of time and so fought with such successe as before ye haue heard The Erle of Huntley escaped by flight but Alexander Ogiluie being taken and sore wounded was led to the castel of Fineluin where shortly after he died of his hurtes This battaile was fought the .xxiij. of Ianuarie 1445 The Castell of Edenburgh besieged in the yeare of our Lorde .1445 This yeare also or as Hector Boetius hath in the yere next insuing the castell of Edenburgh was besieged by the space of .ix. monethes by the king the Erle of Dowglas sir WilliaÌ„ Creichton being within it At length it was giuen ouer vpon certain coÌ„ditions the said sir William restored to the office of Chancellor againe but hee would not meddle with the ordering of the kings businesse staying for a time more conuenient Sir Iames Stewarde surnamed the blacke knight husband to the Queene the kings mother Iames Steward is banished the realme was banished the realme for speaking wordes against the misgouernment of the king realme wherwith he offended the Erle of Dowglas As he passed the seas towards Flanders He dyed he was takeÌ„ by the Flemings shortly after departed this life The queen his wife being aduertised of his death died also within a while after The Queene dyed 1446 was buried in the Charterhouse of Perth the .xv. of Iuly in y e yeare 1446. Hir name was Iane Somerset daughter to the Erle of Somerset Iames the first maried hir as before ye may reade in England She had by him .viij. childreÌ„ two sonnes .vj. daughters which were all honourably maried the first named Margaret to the Dolphin of Fraunce the seconde Eleanore to the Duke of Brytayne the thirde to the Lorde of Terueer in Zelande the fourth to the Duke of Austrich the fifth to the Earle of Huntley and the sixth to the Earle of Morton And by Iames Stewarde hir seconde husbande she had three sonnes Iohn Earle of Athole Iames Erle of Buchquhan and Androw Bishop of Murrey Soone after sir William Creichton with the Bishop of Dunkelde Nicholas Oterburn a Canon of Glasgâ—…w were sent in ambassade vnto the duke of Gelderland for his daughter called Marie King Iames maryed a daughter of Gelderland to be ioyned in mariage with K. Iames. Their suite was obteyned the Ladie sent into Scotland nobly accoÌ„panied with diuerse Lordes both spirituall and temporall At hir arryuall shee was receyued by the king with great triumph and the maryage solemnized by the assistaunce of all the Nobles of Scotland with great banketting ioyfull myrth and all pleasant intertainment of those strangers that might be 1447 In the yeare 1447. ther was a Parliament holden at Edenbourgh in the which sir Alexander Leuingston of Calender late gouernor Iames Dundas and Robert Dundas knightes aâ—… the pursuite of the Earle of Dowglas were forfalted and condemned to perpetuall prison in Dunbrytan and Iames Leuingston his eldest sonne Robert Leuingston Treasorer and Dauid Leuingston knights lost their heades Iames before his execution made a very wise oration to the standers by Iames Leuingston made an Oration declaring the instabilitie of fortune chauÌ„ge of court exhorting al persons to beware thereof sith enuye euer followed high estate and wicked malice neuer suffred good men to gouerne long W. Creichton condemned In the same Parliament sir William Creichton was also forfalted for diuerse causes but principally for that his seruants would not deliuer the house of Chreichton to the kings heralde who charged them so to do This forfalture was coÌ„cluded in parliament by vertue of an act which the saide William when he was Chancellor caused to be made so being the first inuenter was also the first against whom it was practised Incursions made 1448 The yeare next ensuing were sundris incursions made betwixt Scots and EnglishmeÌ„ on the borders Dunfreis was burnt and likewise Anwike in EnglaÌ„d but shortly after a truce was concluded for .vij. yeres great offers of friendship made by the English men for to haue the warres cease on that side bicause the warre betwixt theÌ„ Fraunce was very hotely pursued and ciuill dissention disquieted the state of EnglaÌ„d which was raysed betwixt y e two houses of LaÌ„caster York 1450 English men fetch booties 〈◊〉 of Scotlande The English borderers of the west Marches fetched a great bootie of cattell out of Scotlande notwithstanding the truce in reuenge whereof the Scots inuading England wasted the countrey burnt townes and villages slue the people and with a great praye of prisoners goodes and cattel The Sâ—…ntes made Englande returned home into Scotland Herewith followed dayly rodes and forrayes made on both sides betwixt the Scottes and English men and that with such rage and crueltie that a great part of Cumberland was in maner layde wast for on that side the Scots chiefly made their inuasions bycause that from thence the first occasion of all this mischiefe might seeme to haue had the beginning WheÌ„ such things were certified to the king of Englandes counsell an army was appointed forthwith to inuade ScotlaÌ„d vnder y e leading of the Earle of Northumberland A knight named Magnus of one Magnus surnamed redbeard a captain of great experience as he that had bene trayned
vp from his youth in the warres of Fraunce The Scottes bycause of his long red beard called him in scorne and derision Magnus with the red mane The Scottes hearing of the approch of thys armie towarde theyr borders The Earle of Ormont general of the Scottish armie leuyed a power Georg or rather Hugh Dowglas Earle of Ormont by the kings commission hauing the conduction thereof who vnderstanding that the enimies woulde enter into Annaâ—…dale drew thither with the sayd army to resist their attempts The English armie inuadeth Scotland The English men passing ouer the riuer of Sulwey Annaâ—…de came to another riuer called Sarc and there pight downe their tentes And on the next day they began to robbe and spoyle the countrey on eche syde but aduertised that the Scots were at hande with an army they that were thus gone forth were with all speede called barke to the campe by sounde of trumpet and forthwith theyr army was brought into order â—…f battail Magnus with the red mane was appoynted to leade the right wing Sir Iohn Penâ—…eynton and sir Iohn Penneynton a right skilfull warriour gouerned the left wing in the which the Welchmen were placed The battaile or middle warde the Earle of Northumberlande himselfe ruled The Earle of Ormonte on the other syde ordered his battailes in this wise He appointed a right valiant knight called Wallace of Craggy Wallace of Craggy with an hardie number of souldiers to encounter with Magnus And agaynst the Welchmen he placed the Lord Maxwel Lard Iohnston with a chosen coÌ„panie of lustie Scottish men and coÌ„maunding himself in the battail or middle ward had vneth set his people in aray when the trumpets in the English armie began to sounde to the battaile The Earle of Ormont exhorteth his armie He therfore exhorting his men to do valiantly put them in remembrance that they had put on armor being thereto prouoked by iniuâ—â— which their enimies had first offred them wherevpon they might conceiue good hope of victory by the fauour of the righteous God who giueth the vpper haÌ„d for the most part to that side that hath iust cause to make warre He willed them then to put all feare out of their heartes and as they had force ynough to vaÌ„quish their enimies that came thus to brag threaten them with vtter destruction so he besought them to shewe no lesse manlike stomacks to deliuer theyr countrey by hardie fight from iniurie of the same enimies The Scots herewith seeme to be so encouraged that they rushed forward with great egernes vpon the right wing of the English men where Magnus stood so laid about them with speares ares and such like hand weapons that with great slaughter they driue the Englishe men to breake aray and to flee Magnus herewith being more chaufed than afrayde as should appeare preassed forward vpon Wallace with great violence and seeking to approch vnto him that he might haue wroken his grief vpon him Magnus is slaine was inclosed among the Scottish troupes slaine with a few other of his friends and seruants that followed him The slaughter of this man in whom consisted no smal hope of victorie on the English part put the residue of their army in such feare that they were not able loÌ„ger to resist the Scottish mens violent impression The English men put to flight but turning their backs fled a main whoÌ„ the Scots pursued in chase right fiercely so that many of the English men died in the battail but more now in the chase for the â—…ide being come in 〈…〉 stayed many of them that made their â—…ourse to haue escaped through y e riuer wherby diuerse that ventured into the water were drowned and other that durst not take the water were oppressed by the Scottes that followed them There died in this battaile of English men The number slaine to the number neare hand of three M. and amongst other Magnus as before ye haue heard with .xj. other knights of no small account estimation Of Scots were lost somwhat 〈◊〉 hundred â—…741 Prisoners taken There were taken prisoners of English men sir Iohn Penneynton and sir Robert â—…arington knightes and the Lorde Percie sonne to the Earle of Northumberland The Earle of Northumberland escapeth by flight who helpe his father to horsebacke whereby he escaped by flight â–ª and beside these a great number of otherwere by the Scottes taken prisoners whome the sworde and water had spared The Erle of Ormond hauing got this honorable victorie conueyed the chiefest of the prisoners to the castel of 〈◊〉 and after payred to the court where he was of the king iâ—…ifully receiued honorably feasted and highly rewarded After this the Scottes that dwelle 〈◊〉 the borders liued for a season in better quiet for although the English men wishâ—…d to haue bene reueÌ„ged of this losse and ouerthrow of their people yet by reason of ciuil warres that shortly after folowed they were constrained to forbeare to make any further warres against the Scots till better occasion might serue And for the auoyding of danger that might 〈◊〉 in time of this intestine trouble by so maine enimies they sued to haue a truce with the Scots A truce for three yeares betwixt England and Scotlande which for y e tâ—…rme of three yeres was granted In this yeare William Erle of Dowglas with a great coÌ„panie of nobles and gentlemen as the Lords Hamilton Gâ—…ay Salton The Earle of Dowglas goeth into Italy Seiton OliphaÌ„t Also Calder Vrquhart Cambel Frasier and Lauder knights went into Italy was at Rome in time of y e Iubile which was kept there that yeare He left behinde him to gouerne his landes in Scotlande Hugh Earle of OrmoÌ„t that was his brother but in his absence through couÌ„sel of such as were about him the k. sommoned the Erle to appeare before him within .xl. dayes and bycause he came not within that prefixed time he was put to the horne his lands inuaded spoiled The castel of Dowglas bicause they that kept it defended themselues the place right stoutly against the king was â—…azed broken downe But Lochmaban being yelded was furnished with a garison of the kings friends The Earle aduertised of these things with all speed returned home comming through EnglaÌ„d sent his brother Iames vnto the king to know his pleasure who coÌ„maunding the Erle to see his countreys namely Annandal purged of theeues and robbers pardoned him of all offences and receyued him into fauor againe so that he was also eftsoones proclamed the kings lieutenant but shortly after going into EnglaÌ„d w tout the kings licence The Earle of Dowglas goeth into England without â—…ence of the king of Scots to coÌ„mon with the king of Englande about the recouerie of losses susteined by the Englishmen by certain inrodes as he alledged the K. tooke the matter in very euil part for that he shuld seme so to