euer being the lesse number against the greater Againe he declared how necessarie it was to tame the â—old attempts of the presumptuous Dolphin now in the beginning least if the fire were suffered further to burne it must haue néed of the more water to quench it Manie words he vttered to put them in hope of good successe and victorie But scarse had he ended his exhortation when the Englishmen rushed foorth and boldlie set on their enimies crieng Saint George a Bedford a Bedford and the Frenchmen likewise cried Montioy saint Denis Then began the battell right fierce on both sides continuing for the space of three houres in doubtfull balance fortune shewing hir selfe so equall that no eie could iudge to whether part she was more fauourable But at length after that those foure hundred horssemen which were appointed as yée haue hard to breake the arraie of the Englishmen had passed thorough on the one side vnto the place where the cariages and horsses stood and could not passe further by reason of the fierce shot of the English bowes they falling to the spoile made a hand and therewith departed Those archers then that were appointed to kéepe the cariages being now at libertie came forward and so fiercelie shot at the thickest prease of their enimies fighting on foot that in the end they were not able longer to indure but were borne downe by fine force and so vanquished This battell was fought the eight and twentith of August in the yeare of our Lord a thousand foure hundred twentie and foure in the which battell were slaine of the Frenchmen the earles of Aumarle Uentadour Forest Marie the lords Grauile Gaules Fountaines Ambois Touars Montenie Combreste Brunell Tumble and Poisie beside thrée hundred knights The vicount Narbonne was hanged on a gibbet bicause he was one of the murtherers of the duke of Burgognie Of Scots also were slaine Archembald earle Dowglas that was made as before is mentioned duke of Touraine Iames Dowglas sonne to the said Archembald earle of Wictoâ— Iohn earle of Bouqhen newlie made constable of France sir Alexander Meldrin sir Henrie Balglauie sir Iohn Sterling William of Homelsdon sir Iames Graie sir Robert Randen sir Alexander Linsaie sir Robert Steward sir Robert Swinton and seauen and twentie hundred Scots of name and armes beside others So that in this battell were slaine by report of Montioy king at armes in France and the English haralds there present of Frenchmen Scots nine thousand and seauen hundred and of Englishmen one and twentie hundred but no man of name sauing fiue yoong esquiers And there were taken prisoners Iohn duke of Alanson the bastard of Alanson line 10 the lord of Faiect the lord of Hormit sir Piers Harison sir Lois de Gaucourt sir Robert Brusset sir Iohn Turnebull a Scot and two hundred gentlemen beside common soldiers The Frenchmen within Uernoill séeing the Dolphins armie thus ouerthrowne deliuered the towne to the regent their liues saued Then was sir Philip Hall appointed capteine there and the lord regent returned and came to Rone and after to Paris line 20 The Dolphin that called himselfe king of France was sore appalled with the ouerthrow of his armie for he was driuen out of all the countries in maner that apperteined to the crowne of France might resort to none except to Bourbonois Aluergne Berrie Poictow Touraine a part of Aniow and Languedoc yet to shew himselfe as king he erected his court of parlement his chancerie all other courts in the citie of Poictiers and there established his great seale with all due circumstances thereto apperteining line 30 where he continued fouretéene yeares togither and then was remooued to Paris after he had got that citie and expelled the Englishmen as after shall appeare The duke of Bedford lieng at Paris sent the lord Scales sir Iohn Montgomerie sir Iohn Fastolfe with two thousand men to winne the countries of Aniow and Maine vnto whom were rendred without assault the strong castels of Beaumont le Uicount Teune Sillie Osce Courceriers Roussie line 40 Uasse Couetemenant and twentie other which I doo heere passe ouer Such was then the opinion conceiued of the English puissance so oft tried prooued and preuailing that the Frenchmen thought the Englishmen would haue all which they wished for or wrought for The earle of Salisburie with the said lord Scales and the other capteins before named were appointed with an armie of ten thousand men to besiege the rich and strong citie of Mans the chéefe citie of all line 50 the countrie of Maine whither when they came they made their approches and planted their batterie to the wals so that with the shot of their great péeces which kind of engins before that time had not beene much séene nor heard of in France the citie was within a few daies despoiled of all hir towers and outward defenses The citizens and soldiers perceiuing in what danger they stood knowing not how to remedie the matter offered the towne vpon this condition that all persons which would tarrie within line 60 the towne might abide and all that would depart with horsse and harnesse onelie should be permitted which offers were accepted and the towne rendered whereof the earle made capteine the earle of Suffolke and his lieutenant sir Iohn Fastolfe After this the earle of Salisburie besieged the faire towne of saint Sâ—san whereof was capteine one Ambrose de Lore a right valiant cheefteine The earle-caused the towne to be assaulted at his first comming to it but he lost more than he gained and therefore left off his assaults and caused a trench to be cast about the towne and so planted his batterie by force whereof he ouerthrew the walles in such sort that the capteine offered for himselfe and his soldiers 200000 crownes so that they might depart in their doublets onelie which summe bicause winter approched was accepted and the towne yeelded Of this towne sir Iohn Popham was made capteine Then the erle went to Maine la Iuhez which towne after fiue wéekes siege was yéelded and appointed to the kéeping of sir Iohn Montgomerie knight After the feast of the Purification of our ladie the earle of Salisburie besieged the castell de la Ferâ— Barnard during which siege a sale was made of the towne of Alanson being in the Englishmens possession by a Gascoigne that was one of the garrison there But this sale being opened to the erle of Salisburie by the same Gascoigne at the daie appointed the lord Willoughbie and sir Iohn Fastolfe with two thousand men were sent to incounter with the buiers of that towne so that when Charles de Uilliers chéefe merchant of this ware came earlie in a morning with two hundred horsemen and three hundred footmen and approached the towne abiding for the Gascoigne yer he was aware the Englishmen had compassed him and his companie round about and setting vpon the Frenchmen slue and tooke all the whole number of
the yeare of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and one Sir William Paulet knight marquesse of Winchester was made lord treasuror vpon the death of the duke of Summerset in the fift yeare of king Edward the sixt and the yeare of Christ one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and one which office he kept by the space of twentie yeares and more a longer time than euer anie other treasuror had done before except the two last dukes of Norffolke This man being a man of extreme age as atteining to the yeares of ninetie seuen died lord treasuror of England the tenth of March in the yeare of our saluation one thousand fiue hundred seuentie and one being the fourtéenth yeare of the reigne of the famous queene Elisabeth at his manor of Basing He in his life time did sée the children of his childrens children growne to the number of one hundred and thrée a rare blessing of God to men of his calling He married Elisabeth the daughter of sir William Capell knight by whome he had issue Iohn marquesse of Winchester Thomas Chidiocke and Giles Alice married to Richard Stowell Margaret married to sir William Berkeleie Margerie married to Richard Waller and Eleanor married to sir Richard Peckshall Sir William Cecill knight of the garter and lord Burghleie was aduanced to the honorable place of lord treasuror of England on the thirtéenth daie of Iulie in the yeare of our redemption one thousand fiue hundred seauentie and two being the fouretéenth yeare of the reigne of our gratious quéene Elisabeth This man was descended of the honorable familie of the Sitsylts of Wales sometime lords of Beauport in the daies of Henrie the first as appeareth by this pedegrée here inserted 1 In the yeare of Christ one thousand ninetie and one Robert Sitsylt came with Robert Fitzhamon to the conquest of the countrie of Glamorgan and after wedded a ladie by whom he had Halterennes and other lands in Hereford and Glocestershires he had a sonne called Iames Sitsylt 2 Iames Sitsylt tooke part with Mawd the empresse against king Stephan and was slaine at the siege of the castell of Wallingford Anno quarto Stephani hauing then vpon him a vesture whereon was wrought in néedle worke his armes or ensignes as they be made on the toome of Gerald Sitsylt in the abbeie of Dore which are afterward trulie blazed in a iudgement giuen by commission of king Edward the third for the ancient right of the same armes This Iames had a sonne called Iohn Sitsylt and foure daughters 3 Iohn Sitsylt the sonne of Iames was after the death of his father in the same warres with Roger earle of Hereford and constable of England and being taken prisoner at the siege of Lincolne Anno. 6. Stephani he paid for his ransome foure hundred marks and therefore sold his lordship of Beauport and all his lands in the countie of Glocester he tooke to wife a ladie called Mawd de Frenes and had issue Eustace 4 Eustace Sitsylt the son of Iohn was wedded to Elianor the daughter of sir Walter Pembridge knight and had by hir Baldwin and Iohn and foure daughters whereof one of them was the wife of sir Thomas Fitzneale knight 5 Baldwin Sitsylt the sonne of Eustace was made knight by king Henrie the second in the warres that the king had against the Welshmen he was also killed in the same warres at the siege of the castell of Cardiffe his father being aliue he tooke to wife the daughter of Maurice de Brompton and had by hir Gerald Sitsylt Eustace Sitsylt Henrie Sitsylt Iohn Sitsylt and Walter Sitsylt and two daughters Catharine and Elianor Catharine was the wife of Hugh Muredake and Elianor was the wife of Walter Wallis This Baldwin Sitsylt knight tooke to his second wife Margerie the daughter of Stephan Radnor knight and had by hir Stephan Sitsylt Roger Sitsylt Hugh Sitsylt and Dauid Sitsylt and thrée daughters the first was Mawd and she was a Nun the second was Ione and she was the wife of Iohn de line 10 Solers the third daughter Anne was the wife of Owen ap Meredith This man gaue certeine lands in the towneship of Kigestone vnto the moonks of Dore and granted vnto the same moonks fréedome of common and pasture and other liberties in his woods 6 Gerald Sitsylt the first sonne of Baldwin Sitsylt knight tooke to wife Mabill the daughter of Sir William Moigne knight and had by hir three sonnes Gerald Sitsylt that died a child Robert line 20 Sitsylt that married and had children and Owen Sitsylt a moonke of the abbeie of Dore. He had also three daughters Catharine that was wedded to sir Griffin ap Yoreford and after to Dauid ap Euan and the third time to Geffreie de Bret sonne of sir Walter Bret knight Anne the second daughter of Gerald Sitsylt was wedded to Robert the sonne of Richard Bromewich And Ellen the third daughter of Gerald Sitsylt was the wife of Iohn Abrahall father of sir Iohn Abrahall line 30 knight 7 Robert Sitsylt the sonne of Gerald tooke to wife Alicia daughter of sir Robert Tregois knight and had by hir Iames Sitsylt his first sonne Gerald the second sonne Thomas the third sonne and Baldwin the fourth sonne and Margaret the first daughter and Elisabeth the second daughter 8 Iames Sitsylt the sonne of Robert tooke to wife Isabell the daughter of sir Iohn Knell knight and had by hir Iames and Gerald twins Iames line 40 died yoong he had also Robert Sitsylt and Iohn Sitsylt and fiue daughters that is to saie Alicia wedded to Walter Monington Grace wedded to Roger sonne of William Blunt Elianor wedded to Thomas Paine Margerie wedded to Morgan ap Meredith and Sislie married to Howell ap Blethin and after to sir Hugh Bruge 9 Gerald Sitsylt sonne of Iames tooke to wife Margaret daughter of Stephan Dalaber and by hir had Iohn Sitsylt and after he wedded Bridget line 50 the widow of sir Simon Ward knight and had by hir Iames Sitsylt and the third time married the daughter of Martine Hopton and had by hir Martine Sitsylt Henrie Sitsylt and Dauid Sitsylt and Ione a daughter And the fourth time the same Gerald Sitsylt tooke to wife Iane the daughter of Robert Emerton and had by hir one sonne named Stigand Sitsylt that was slaine in the warres of Striuelin in the time of king Edward the second and had no issue as the register of the abbie of Dore maketh mention line 60 10 Iohn Sitsylt the sonne of Gerald tooke to wife Sibill the daughter of Robert of Ewyas and had by hir sir Iohn Sitsylt knight George Sitsylt and a daughter named Margaret that was the wife of sir Robert Baskeruile knight who had by hir sir Iohn Baskeruile knight and by his second wife he had sir Richard Baskeruile knight that tooke to wife Iane the daughter and heire of George Sitsylt second sonne of
certeine ships passing by the towre with wheat and other vittels into the towre making the price thereof himselfe The matter was had before sir Philip Basset lord cheefe iustice and others who vpon the sight and hearing of all such euidences and priuiledges as could be brought foorth for the aduantage of both the parties tooke order that the constable should when he lacked prouision of graine or vittels come into the market holden within the citie and there to haue wheat two pence in a quarter within the maiors price and other vittels after the same rate Prince Edward the kings sonne returning from line 10 the parts beyond the sea went with a great power as well of Englishmen as strangers against the Welshmen towards Snowdon hils but the enimies withdrawing themselues to their strengths within the woods and mounteines he could not much indamage them wherevpon after he had fortified certeine castels in those parts with men numition and vittels he returned being sent for backe of his father The archbishop of Canturburie foreseeing the trouble that was like to insue betwixt the king and his line 20 barons got licence of the king to go vnto Rome about such businesse as he fained to haue to doo with the pope and so departed the land and kept him awaie till the trouble was appeased Upon Midlent sundaie at a folkemote holden at Paules crosse before sir Philip Basset and other of the kings councell the maior of London was sworne to be true to the king and to his heires kings of England and vpon the morrow at the Guildhall euerie alderman in presence of the maior tooke the same oth And vpon line 30 the sundaie following euerie inhabitant within the citie of the age of 12 yeares and aboue before his alderman in his ward was newlie charged with the like oth Then began the displeasure betwéene the king and his barons to appeare which had béene long kept secret diuers of whom assembling togither in the marches of Wales gathered vnto them a power of men and sent a letter vnto the king vnder the seale of sir Roger Clifford beséeching him to haue in remembrance line 40 his oth and manifold promises made for the obseruing of the statutes ordeined at Oxford But although this letter was indited and written verie effectuallie yet receiued they no answer from the king who minded in no wise to obserue the same statutes as by euident takens it was most apparant Wherevpon they determined to attempt by force to bring their purpose to passe The king and the quéene for their more safegard got them into the towre of London and prince Edward laie at Clerkenwell line 50 but in such necessitie and discredit for monie that neither had they any store to furnish their wants neither was there any man that would trust them with a groat Prince Edward not able to abide such dishonor in the feast of the apostle Peter and Paule taking with him Robert Waleran and certeine others went to the new temple and there easling for the kéeper of the treasure-house as if he meant to see his mothers iewels that were laid vp there to be safelie line 60 kept he entred into the house and breaking the coffers of certeine persons that had likewise brought their monie thither to haue it in more safetie he tooke away from thence the value of 1000 pounds ô quantum cogit egestas Magnum pauperies opprobrium iubet Quiduis facere pati Virtutisque viam deserit arduae The citizens of London were so offended herewith that they rose in armour against him and other of the kings councell in somuch that they assailed the lodging of the lord Iohn Gray without Ludgate and tooke out of his stables 32 horsses and such other things as they might laie hold vpon kéeping such stur that the lord Gray himselfe was forced to flie beyond Fleetbridge The like rule they kept at the house of Iohn de Passelew Iohn Mansell departing foorth of the towre to the Thames with the countesse de Lisle and other ladies that were strangers borne sailed into France and landed at Whitsand where the said Mansell hearing that the lord Henrie sonne to the king of Almaine that then held with the barons was in those parts he caused the lord Ingram de Fines to staie him as prisoner and so he remained till king Henrie vpon the agreement betwixt him and the barons found meanes to get him released and so then he returned into England But now touching the barons they procéeded in their businesse which they had in hand with all earnest diligence of whome these were the chéefe that vndertooke this matter yoong Humfrie de Boun the lord Henrie son to the king of Almaine Henrie Montford Hugh Spenser Baldwin Wake Gilbert Gifford Richard Gray Iohn Ros William Marmion Henrie Hastings Haimon le Strange Iohn Fitz Iohn Godfrey Lucie Nicholas Segraue Roger de Leiborne Iohn Uesie Roger de Clifford Iohn de Uaus Gilbert de Clare Gilbert de Lacie and Robert Uepont the which with one generall consent elected for their chéefe capteins and generall gouernours Simon de Mountfort earle of Leicester Gilbert of Clare earle of Glocester and Robert Ferreis earle of Darbie and Iohn earle of Warren On the kings part these persons are named to stand with him against the other First Roger Bigod erle of Norffolke and Suffolke Humfrie de Boun earle of Hereford Hugh Bigod lord cheefe iustice Philip Basset William de Ualence Geffrey de Lucignan Peter de Sauoy Robert Walrand Iohn Mansell Geffrey Langley Iohn Gray William Latimer Henrie Percie and manie other The barons notwithstanding hauing assembled their powers resolued to go through with their purpose The first enterprise they made was at Hereford where they tooke the bishop of that sée named Iohn Breton and as manie of his canons as were strangers borne After this they tooke sir Matthew de Bezilles shiriffe of Glocester a stranger borne and kéeping on their waie towards London with baners displaied so manie as came within their reach whom they knew to be against the maintenance of the statutes of Oxford they spoiled them of their houses robbed them of their goods and imprisoned their bodies hauing no regard whether they were spirituall men or temporall In diuerse of the kings castels they placed such capteins and soldiers as they thought conuenient 〈◊〉 placed others whom they either knew or suspected to be aduersaries to their purpose About Midsummer when they drew néere to London they sent a letter to the maior and aldermen vnder the seale of the earle of Leicester willing to vnderstand whether they woulâ—â—bserue the acts and statâ—tes establishâ—d at Oxford or else aid and assist such persons as meant the breath of the same And herewith they sent vnto them â— copie of those articles with a prouiso that if any of them were preiudiciall or in any wife
in French ATous ceulx qui ceste presente lettre verrunt ou orrunt Florence counte de Holland Robert de Brus seigneur du Val Danand Iehan Baliol seigneur de Galloway Iehan de Hastings seigneur de Abergeuenne Iehan Comin seigneur de Badenaugh Patrique de Dunbar counte de la Marche Iehan de Vescy pur son pere Nichol de Seules Guilaum de Ros saluz en dieu Come nous entendons d'auger droyt en reaume d' Escoce celle droyt monstrer chaleÌ„ger auerer deuant celuy que plus de poer iurisdiction reeson eust de trier nostre droyt l' noble prince sire Edward par la grace de dieu roy d' Angleterre nous a enforme per bonnes suffisaunt reesons que aluy apent auer doit la souerein seigneurie du dict reaume d' Escoce la cognisaunce de oir trier terminer nostre droyt Nous de nostre propre volunté sanz nulle maniere de force ou destresse voluns otrions grantons de receiuré droyt deuaunt luy come souerein seigneur de la terre Et voluns ialemeins promettons que nous auerons tendrons ferme estable son fait que celuy emportera le reaume a qui droyt le durra deuant luy En testimoigne de ceste chose nous auons mis nous seaules a ceste escript Fait donné a Norham le mardi prochein apres la Ascension l'an de Grace 1291. In English thus TO all them that these present letters shall see or heare Florence earle of Holland Robert le Bruce lord of Annandale Iohn Comin lord of Badenaw Patrike de Dunbar earle of March Iohn de Baliol lord of Gallowaie Iohn Hastings lord of Abergeuennie Iohn de Vescy in stead of his father Nicholas de Sules Walter Ros send greeting in our Lord. Whereas we intend to haue right in the kingdome of Scotland and intend to declare chalenge and proue the same before him that hath the best authoritie iurisdiction and reason to examine our right and that the noble prince the lord Edward by the grace of God king of England by good and sufficient reasons hath informed vs that the superior dominion of Scotland belongeth to him and that he ought to haue the knowledge in the hearing examining and defining of our right we of our free willes without all violence and constraint will consent and grant to receiue our right before him as the superior lord of the land We will also promise that we shal haue and hold his deed for firme and stable and that he shall haue the kingdome vnto whom before him best right shall assigne the same In witnesse whereof we haue to these letters put our seales Giuen at Norham the tuesdaie next after the feast of the Ascension of our Lord in the yeare of Grace 1291. The recognising therefore made of the superioritie and submission of grant to receiue that which before the king of England should by law be defined the said king required to haue the castels and the whole land deliuered vnto his possession that by peaceable seizine thereof had his right of superioritie now recognised by their letters and writings might be the more manifest and apparent to the whole world They streightwaies agreed to the kings request and writings thereof were made and confirmed with their seales being written in French as followeth The copie of the second charter touching the possession of the line 10 land in French ATous iceulx que ceste presente lettre verrunt ou orront Florence counte de Holland Robert de Brus seigneur du Val Danand Iehan de Baliol seigneur de Galloway Iehan de Hastings seigneur de Abergeuenny Iehan Comin seigneur de Badenaw Patrique Dunbar counte de la Marche Iehan de Vescy pour son pere Nichol de Seules Guilaume line 20 de Ros saluz en dieu Come nous aions otrie graunte de nostre bonne volunté comune assent sans nulle destresse a noble prince sire Edward par la grace de dieu roy de Angleterre quil come souerein seig de la terre de Escoce puisse oir trier terminer nos chalenges nos demandes que nos entendons monstrer auerrer pur nostre droyt en la reaume de Escoces droyt receiuer deuant luy come souerein seigneur de la terre promettons line 30 ia lemains que son fait auerons tendrons ferme estable qu' il emportera le reaume a qui droyt le durra deuant luy Mes pour ce que lauandict roy de Ang. ne puist nulle manier conusance faire ne a complier sauns iugement ne iugement doit estre sauns execution ne execution ne peult il faire duement sauns la possession seysine de mesme la terre de chasteaux Nous volons otrions grantons quil come line 40 souereine seigneur a parfaire les choses auant dictes ait la seysine de toute la mesme terre de chasteaux de Escoce tant que droyt soit feit perfourme as demandans en tiel maniere que auant ceo qu' il eit le seysine auant dict face bone seurte suffisante as demandants as gardiens a la commune du reaume d' Escoce a faire lareuersion de mesme le reaume de chasteaux oue toute la royauté dignité seignourie franchises coustomes droitures leys vsages possessions line 50 touz manieres des apurtenances en mesme le estate quils estoient quant la seysine luy fust bailleé liuereé a celuy que le droyt emportera par iugemeÌ„t de saroyaute sauue au roy d' Anglterre le homage de celuy qui serra rey Yssint quela reuersion soit feit dedans les deux moys apres le iour que le droyt sera trieé affirmé Et que les yssues de mesme la terre en le moyne temps resceus soient sauuement mis en depos bien gardees par la main le line 60 chamberleyn d' Escoce que ore est de celuy qui serra assigne a luy de par le rey d' Angleterre de sous leur seaus sauue renable sustinance de la terre des chasteaux des ministres du royaume En testimoigne de â—estes choses auandicts nous auons mis nos seaules a ceste escript Faâ—t donne a Norham le mecredie prochein apres l' Ascension â— ' an de Grace 1291. The same in English TO all them that these present writings shall see or heare Florence earle of Holland Robert le Bruce lord of Annandale Iohn de Balioll lord of Galloway Iohn Hastings lord of Abergeuenny Iohn Comin lord of Badenaw Patrike de Dunbarre the earle of March Iohn de Vescy in stead of his father Nicholas de Sules William de Ros send greeting in our lord Bicause that of our
Narbonne and six thousand Frenchmen which finding the Englishmen out of araie incumbred with carriage of their great spoile suddenlie set on them gaue them the ouerthrow slue thrée hundred and tooke manie prisoners as the said sir Iohn de la Poole sir Iohn Basset Iohn Aâ—fort lieutenant of Faleise Iohn Clitton Henrie Mortimer and other to the number of six hundred But though the Frenchmen got here in this place they went not awaie with like gaine in an other for the bastard de la Baulme and the lord Craignar capteins of Courallon with a great band made rode into Masconnois whom by chance Matthew Gough and other Englishmen which were also abroad in the countrie met and incountred There was a sore fight betwéene the parties being of courage and number in maner equall But after long conflict the Frenchmen almost all were slaine and taken and the bastard being well horssed fled after whome followed vpon the spurres Matthew Gough chasing him euen to his castell gate and there tooke him for the which act he was much praised of the erle of Salisburie to whom he presented the said bastard and had not onelie the rights giuen him that belonged to the prisoner but also was rewarded with a goodlie courser at the earles hands About this season Arthur brother to Iohn duke of Britaine commonlie called the earle of Richmond hauing neither profit of the name nor of the countrie notwithstanding that king Henrie the fift had created him earle of Yurie in Normandie and gaue him not onelie a great pension but also the whole profits of the same towne of Yurie yet now bicause that the duke his brother was returned to the part of the Dolphin he likewise reuolting from the English obeisance came to the Dolphin to Poictiers and there offered himselfe to serue him whom the Dolphin gladlie accepted reioising more thereof than if he had gained an hundred thousand crownes for the Britons within the towne of Yurie hearing that their maister was ioined with the Dolphin kept both the towne and castell against the duke of Bedford furnishing it dailie with new men and munition The lord regent aduertised hereof raised an armie of Englishmen and Normans to the number of eighteene hundred men of armes and eight thousand line 10 archers and other He had in his companie the earles of Salisburie and Suffolke the lords Scales Willoughbie and Poinings sir Reginald Graie sir Iohn Fastolfe sir Iohn Saluaine sir Lancelot Lisle sir Philip Hall sir Iohn Pashleie sir Iohn Greie sir Thomas Blunt sir Robert Harling sir William Oldhall and manie other both knights and esquiers with whom he came before the towne of Yurie which was well defended till they within perceiued themselues in danger by reason of a mine which the Englishmen line 20 made wherevpon they yeelded the towne But the capteins of the castell would not presentlie render the place howbeit they promised to deliuer it if the same were not rescued at a day assigned by the Dolphin or his power Upon this promise hostages were deliuered into the possession of the lord regent by whose licence an herald was sent to the Dolphin to aduertise him of the time determined who vnderstanding the distresse of his fréends incontinentlie sent Iohn duke of Alanson line 30 as his lieutenant generall the erle Douglas whome at their setting foorth he made duke of Touraine and the earle Buchquhane as then constable of France the erls of Aumarle Uentadoure Tonnere Maulieurier and Forests the vicounts of Narbonne and Touars the lords of Grauile Gaules Malicorne Mannie Ballaie Fountains Montfort and manie other noble knights and esquiers to the number of fifteene thousand Frenchmen Britons besides fiue thousand Scots whome the earle line 40 Dowglas had but latelie transported out of Scotland This roiall armie approched within two miles of Yurie But when the duke of Alanson vnderstood by such as he had sent to view the conduict of the Englishmen that he could not get anie aduantage by assailing them although the Dolphin had giuen him streict commandement to fight with the regent he retired backe with his whole armie to the towne of Uernueill in Perch that belonged to the king of line 50 England sending word to the garrison that he had discomfited the English armie and that the regent with a small number with him by swiftnesse of horsse had saued himselfe The inhabitants of Uernueill giuing too light cerdit herevnto receiued the duke of Alanson with all his armie into the towne In the meane time came the daie of the rescues of Yurie which for want thereof was deliuered to the duke of Bedford by the capteine called Gerard de la Pallier who presenting vnto the duke of Bedford line 60 the keies of the castell shewed him a letter also signed and sealed with the hands and seales of eightéene great lords who the daie before promised by the tenour of the same letter to giue the duke battell and to raise the siege Well said the duke if their hearts would haue serued their puissance was sufficient once to haue proffered or to haue performed this faithfull promise but sith they disdaine to seeke me God and saint George willing I shall not desist to follow the tract of their horsses till one part of vs be by battell ouerthrowne And herewith he sent foorth the earle of Suffolke with six hundred horssemen to espie the dooings of the Frenchmen and where they were lodged The earle riding foorth passed by Dampuile and came to Bretueill where he heard certeine newes where the Frenchmen had gotten Uerneueill and remained there still These newes he sent by post vnto the duke of Bedford the which incontinentlie vpon that aduertisement set forward in great hast towards his enimies The Frenchmen hearing of his comming set their people in arraie and made all one maine battell without fore ward or rere ward and appointed foure hundred horssemen Lombards and others to breake the arraie of the Englishmen either behind or at the sides of the which was capteine sir Stephan de Uinoiles called the Hire The duke of Bedford likewise made one entier battell and suffered no man to be on horssebacke and set the archers euerie one hauing a sharpe stake both on the front of the battell and also on the sides like wings And behind were all their horsses tied togither either by the reins or by the tailes with the carts and cariages to the defense whereof were two thousand archers appointed Héerewith either part being come almost to the ioining the duke of Alanson on the one side exhorted his people to plaie the men declaring vnto them that the conclusion of this battell should either deliuer them out of vile seruitude or place them in the vale of bondage On the other side the duke of Bedford to incourage his men willed them to remember how oft they had subdued those their aduersaries in battell with whome they should now cope for the most part
driuen to depart thense vnto the Camber at Rie which then was a notable good rode though now vtterlie decaied or into the Isle of Wight For in a sudden flaw or storme of wind at southeast there haue beene seuen or eight ships broken all to péeces in one daie vpon the said cliffes To reléeue and amend the same harborough and somewhat to mitigat the foresaid inconuenience line 10 there was a round tower builded by one Iohn Clarke préest maister of the maison de Dieu about the yeare one thousand fiue hundred at the southwest part of the said baie which serued somewhat to defend the ships from the rage of the southwest wind but especiallie to moore the ships which were tied therevnto For manie great ringles were fastened to the same tower for that purpose as it maie yet be séene sith it standeth there at this houre And hereby that part of the baie was made so pleasant as euer after line 20 that corner hath béene named and is at this daie called Little paradise Neuerthelesse this was thought verie insufficient in respect of the place for the safegard of such a multitude of ships as vsuallie laie for harbour in that rode For besides all strange botes which commonlie repaired thither it appeareth in the booke of Doomesdaie that Douer armed yearelie at his proper charges twentie vessels to the sea by the space of fiftéene daies with one and twentie able men in ech ship line 30 Now about the yeare of Christ one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and two one sir Iohn Thomson clarke parson of the parish of saint Iames in Douer being a man ingenious and séeing the conueniencie and possibilitie of a good hauen to be made in that place consulted with the cheefe and best mariners of the towne Among whome it was agréed that humble sute should be made to the kings maiestie by the state of the towne for his gratious fauour and aid toward the making of a good hauen there And it was also line 40 by them all thought meet that the said sir Iohn Thomson should exhibit their petition to his highnesse whervnto he agréed and drew a plot and prepared a supplication in the name and behalfe of the towne conteining the necessarie causes and reasons deuises and instructions for the erection and building thereof But he told them he was poore and therefore vnable of his owne proper charges to follow the sute In which respect they collected among themselues and deliuered vnto him foure pounds ten shillings which line 50 he accepted and foorthwith repaired to the court where he so demeaned himselfe as he had present accesse to the king who heard his sute with great fauor and debated with him about the contents of his plot and liked so well of his informations that he willed him to repaire home and without delaie to returne to his presence accompanied with some of the best mariners or seamen of the towne and so with commendations dismissed him for that time When the maisters of the towne vnderstood his graces pleasure they immediatlie assembled themselues line 60 and made choise of Edward Maie Robert Iustice Richard Cowchie and Iohn Steward as the fittest and skilfullest persons to vse conference and to be imploied in that cause being all mariners of good experience These foure and the said sir Iohn Thomson without further staie resorted to the court with whom when the king had communed he conceiued of the necessitie of a hauen to be there had and of the probabilitie and likelihood of good successe in the enterprise to be performed according to their suggestion And because his maiestie vnderstood the poore estate of the towne he granted his gratious aid for the supplie of their want of monie deliuering at that time out of his owne cofers vnto them the summe of fiue hundred pounds wherewith he willed them to make a beginning of the worke At which time he bestowed on the said sir Iohn Thomson the maistership of the maison de Dieu of Douer which was a hospitall valued at one hundred and twentie pounds by the yeare the custome and dutie of the which house was as the ancient townesmen informe me to interteine and reléeue souldiors and others which came from beyond the seas hurt or distressed who were allowed some reléefe there by the space of certeine daies gratis which though I find not directlie set downe in record yet doo I know assuredlie the same to haue beene put in execution wherewith the verie name of the house is agréeable and as it were a credible witnesse The king at that time also appointed the said sir Iohn to be principall surueior of the works and vnder him the other foure to be ouerseers of the same Now am I to giue you to vnderstand that the drift and deuise of the said sir Iohn Thomson was to erect a huge wall which he termed by the name of a pierre from Arcliffe chapell being the southwest part of the baie directlie towards the east into the maine sea about 131 rods in length so as by that meanes the harborough was to be garded from the rage of all weather comming from the north northeast northwest and southwest and so the entrance onelie at east southeast whereinto when the ships were once brought they might there lie safe in all weather at the one side or the other But the pierre was not finished by 350 foot so far as the foundation thereof which he called the Molehead was laid which foundation consisted of great rocks brought from a place néere hand called Hakcliffe or the castell Raie and Folkestone This pierre was begun on S. Annes daie 1533 and it was compiled of two rowes of maine posts great piles of fiue or six twentie foot long set at each side close togither which were let downe and put in certeine holes hewed in the great rocks laid for that purpose but some of those piles were shod with iron and driuen into the maine rocke of chalke with a great engine called a ram These posts and piles were combined and held togither with iron bolts and were filled with mightie stones of chalks as also with beach and other earth but the bottome consisted altogither of great rocks of stone which if they had not béene brought thither by a speciall deuise must néeds haue béene extreame chargeable for manie of them were of twentie tun a péece and few vnder The practise of this charge is now common but it was before that time rare vnknowne in England and inuented there by a poore simple man named Iohn Yoong who first with a nutshell after with an egshell lastlie with a small vessell made proofe what weight those things could raise beare in the water and hauing by that experiment made triall or at least a probable coniecture that stones of great weight might be raised and carried in the water by greater vessels he
the first to estéeme greatlie of the offer made to him by the Englishmen who had thus written ouer vnto him blaming generallie all the English Nobilitie for that while he was abroad in the seruice of the christian common-wealth against the infidels they would suffer him to be in such wise defrauded of his fathers inheritance by his brother through their vntruth and negligence yet although he meant to delaie the matter and thought it rather better to dissemble with them for a time than to commit the successe of his affaires and person to their inconstancie shortlie after being set on fire and still incouraged by the persuasion of Rafe bishop of Durham who by a woonderfull wilie shiâ—t about the first of Februarie had broken out of prison with all speed possible he gathered an armie purposing out of hand to passe ouer with the same into England and to hazard his right by dent of sword which was thus by plaine iniurie most wickedlie deteined from him King Henrie in the meane time vnderstanding his meaning assembled likewise his power and rigged foorth a great number of ships appointing them to lie in a readinesse to stop his brothers comming to land if it might be He himselfe also lodged with his maine armie neere the towne of Hastings to giue him battell if he landed thereabouts Duke Robert also meaning to set foreward sent certeine of his ships before to choose some conuenient place where he might land with his armie which ships by chance fell into the danger of the kings nanie but yet absteining from battell they recouered the wind and returned backe to the duke signifieng from point to point how they had sped in this voiage The duke as he was of a bold courage and of so gentle a nature that he beleeued he should win their good wils with whom he should haue any thing to doo passed forward and approching to the kings nauie vsed such mild persuasions that a great part of the souldiours which were aboord in the kings ships submitted themselues vnto him by whose conduct he arriued in Portsmouth hauen and there landed with his host about the begining of August Now when he had rested a few daies refreshed his men he tooke the way towards Winchester a great number of people flocking vnto him by the way The king hauing knowledge as well of the arriuall of his enimies as also of the reuolting of his subiects raised his campe and came to lodge neere vnto his enimies the better to perceiue what he attempted and purposed to doo They were also in maner readie to haue ioined battell when diuers Noble men that owght good will to both the brethren and abhorred in their minds so vnnaturall discord began to entreat for peace which in the end they concluded vpon conditionallie that Henrie who was borne after his father had conquered the realme of England should now enioy the same yeelding and paieng line 10 yeerelie vnto duke Robert the summe of iij. M. marks Prouided that whose hap of the two it shuld be to suruiue or outliue he should be the others right and lawfull heire by mutuall agreement Conditionallie also that those English or Normans which had taken part either with the king or the duke should be pardoned of all offenses that could be laid vnto them for the same by either of the princes There were twelue Noble men on either part that receiued corporall othes for performance of this agréement line 20 which being concluded vpon in this sort duke Robert who in his affaires shewed himselfe more credulous than suspicious remained with his brother here in England till the feast of S. Michaell and then shewing himselfe well contented with the composition returned into Normandie In the second yeare of this kings reigne the Quéene was deliuered of hir daughter Maud or Mathild so called after hir owne name who afterward was empresse of whom yée shall heare by Gods grace anon in this historie line 30 year 1102 The king being now rid of forren trouble was shortlie after disquieted with the seditious attempts of Robert de Belesme earle of Shrewsburie sonne to Hugh before named who fortified the castell of Bridgâ—north and an other castell in Wales at a place called Caircoue and furnished the towne of Shrewsburie with the castels of Arundell Tickehill which belonged to him in most substantiall maner Moreouer he sought to win the fauour of the Welshmen by whose aid he purposed to defend himselfe line 40 against the king in such vnlawfull enterprises as he ment to take in hand But the king hauing an inkeling whereabout he went straitwaies proclaimed him a traitor wherevpon he got such Welshmen and Normans together as he could conuenientlie come by with whom and his brother Arnold he entred into Staffordshire which they forraied and wasted excéedinglie bringing from thence a great bootie of beasts and cattell with some prisoners whom they led foorthwith into Wales where they kept themselues line 50 as in a place of greatest safetie The king in the meane time with all conuenient spéed raised a power first besieging the castell of Arundell and then planting diuerse bastillions before it he departed from thence and sending the bishop of Lincolne with part of his armie to besiege Tickehill he himselfe went to Bridgenorth which he enuironed about with a mightie armie made out of all parts of his realme so that what with gifts large promises and fearefull threatnings at the last he allured line 60 to his side the fickle Welshmen and in such wise wan them that they abandoned the earle and tooke part against him Wherevpon the king within 30. daies subdued all the townes and castels which he held out of his hands and banished him the relme and shortlie after confined his brother Arnold for his traitorous demeanour vsed against him whereby their attempts were brought vnto an end After this at the feast of saint Michaell Anselme archbishop of Canturburie held a councell at Westminster whereat were present the archbishop of Yorke the bishops of London Winchester Lincolne Worcester Chester Bath Norwich Rochester and two other bishops latlie elected by the king namelie Salisburie and Hereford the bishop of Excester was absent by reason of sicknesse At this councell or synod diuers abbats and priors both French and English were depriued of their promotions and benefices by Anselme bicause they had come vnto them otherwise than he pretended to stand with the decrées of the church as the abbats of Persor Ramsey Tauestocke Peterborow Middleton Burie and Stoke the prior of Elie and others The chéefest cause of their deposing was for that they had receiued their inuestitures at the kings hands Diuers constitutions were made by authoritie of this councell but namelie this one 1 That preests should no more be suffered to haue wiues which decree as saith Henrie of Huntingdon séemed to some verie pure but
that Peter de Mountfort was at Northampton assembling people to strengthen the barons part he got togither such men of warre as he could from all places and so he had with him his brother Richard king of Almaine his eldest sonne the lord Edward William de Ualence his halfe brother on the mothers side Iohn Comin of Ward in Scotland with a great number of Scots Iohn Ballioll lord of Gallowaie Robert Bruis lord of Annandale Roger Clifford Philip Marmion Iohn Uaux Iohn Leiborne Henrie Percie Philip Basset and Roger Mortimer Thus the king hauing these Noble men about him with his armie sped him towards Northampton and comming thither tooke the towne by force â—â—ue diuerse and tooke prisoners Peter Mountfort and Simon Mountfort the earle of Leicesters son William Ferries Baldwin Wake with Nicholas his brother Berengarius de Wateruile Hugh Gubiun Robert Buteuilein Adam of Newmarch Robert Newton Philip Dribie Grimbald Pauncefâ—et Roger Beltram Thomas Mansell and diuerse other to the number of 80 knights or as Matthew Westminster hath 15 barons and 60 knights besides a great number of esquires and burgesses the which were bestowed abroad in sundrie prisons The towne as some write was taken by this meanes Whilest diuerse of the capteins within were talking with the king on the one side of the towne towards the medowes the lord Philip Basset approched the walles néere vnto the monasterie of S. Andrew and there with his people hauing spades mattocks and other instruments prouided for the purpose vndermined a great paine of the wall and reuersed the same into ditches making such a breach that fortie horssemen might enter afront Some put the blame in such moonks of the abbeie as were strangers as though they should prepare this entrie for the enimie but howsoeuer it was the king got the towne out of his enimies hands This also is to be remembred that where by reason of variance which had chanced that yere betwixt the scholers of Oxford and the townesmen a great line 10 number of the same scholers were withdrawen to Northampton and there studied They had raised a banner to fight in defense of the towne against the king and did more hurt to the assailants than anie other band wherevpon the king threatned to hang them all and so had he doone indéed if by the persuasion of his councell he had not altered his purpose doubting to procure the hatred of their fréends if the execution should haue béene so rigorouslie prosecuted against them for there were amongst them manie line 20 yoong gentlemen of good houses and noble parentage Thus was the towne of Northampton taken on a saturdaie being Passion sundaie euen and the morrow after the daie of S. Ambrose which is the fift of Aprill On the monday following the king led his armie towards Leicester where the burgesses receiued him into the towne at his comming thither From thence he marched to Notingham burning and wasting the houses and manors of the barons and other of his enimies and speciallie those that belonged to the earle of Leicester Here he also gathered line 30 more people and so increased his power in somuch that diuerse Noblemen as Roger Clifford Henrie Percie Richard Gray Philip Basset Richard Sward and Hubert earle of Kent doubting the lacke of power in their companions reuolted incontinentlie to the kings side He sent his sonne prince Edward into Darbishire and Staffordshire with a strong power where he wasted the manours and possessions of Robert de Ferrers earle of Darbie and namelie he ouerthrew line 40 and defaced the castell of Tutburie Wheresoeuer the kings armie or that which his sonne prince Edward led chanced to come there followed spoiling burning and killing The barons on the other side sate not still for the lord Iohn Gifford with others that were appointed by the earle of Leicester to kéepe Killingworth castell which was furnished with all things necessarie maruellouslie and with such strange kind of engines as had not béene lightlie heard of nor seene in these parts tooke by a policie the castell of line 50 Warwike and William Manduit earle of Warwike with his wife and familie within it and leading them to Killingworth there coÌ„mitted them to prison The cause was for that they suspected him that he would take part with the king against them The castell of Warwike they raced downe least the kings people should take it for their refuge In the Passion weeke the Iewes that inhabited in London being detected of treason which they had deuised against the barons and citizens were slaine almost line 60 all the whole number of them and great riches found in their houses which were taken and caried awaie by those that ransacked the same houses After Easter the erle of Leicester hauing London at his commandement went to Rochester and besieged that citie but the capteine thereof Iohn earle of Warren did manfullie resist the enimies till the king aduertised thereof with the power of the marshes of the north parts and other came and remooued the siege This doone he left a conuenient garrison within the citie to defend it and comming to Tunbridge wan the castell and taking the countesse of Glocester that was within it permitted hir to depart This doone he repaired to the sea side towards France to staie there till his brethren Geffrey and Guie the sonnes of the earle of Marsh should arriue with some band of souldiers for whom he had now sent and reuoked into the realme being latelie before banished by the Nobles as before yée haue heard They shortlie after landed wherevpon the king hauing his power increased came to Lewes and pight downe his field not farre from that towne In the end of Aprill the barons hearing where the king was departed from London with a great multitude of the citizens whom they placed in the vantward and marched foorth towards the king and comming neere to the place where he was lodged set downe their tents and incamped themselues a little beside him Either here or by the waie as they came forward the barons deuised a letter and sent it vnto the king conteining an excuse of their dooings and a declaration of their well meanings both towards him and the wealth of the realme and heerewith accused those that were about him and with euill counsell misinformed him both against them against the publike wealth of the land and his owne honor This letter was dated the tenth of Maie and subscribed with the names of a great number of noble men of the which the more part doo here insue but yet not all Sir Simon de Montfort earle of Leicester and high steward of England sir Gilbert de Clare earle of Glocester Robert Ferrers earle of Darbie Hugh Spenser lord cheefe iustice Henrie Montfort sonne and heire to the earle of Leicester Richard Grey Henrie Hastings Iohn Fitz Iohn Robert de Uéepont Iohn Ginuile Robert Rops William Marmion Baldwine
and made a roade into Berrie with foure hundred spears The earle of Arundell after he had laine at Marrant fiftéene daies returned to his ships and finallie came backe into England and Perot le Bernois likewise returned to his fortresse ¶ About the same time was a truce taken betwixt the parties English and French on the marches of Aquitaine to begin the first daie of August and to indure till the first of Maie next insuing ¶ In this yeare 1388 in Lent the Scots entred into the westerne borders what with killing as also with burning they did much mischiefe Moreouer they shewed extreme crueltie against young children and sucklings against women bigge with child and in trauell against weake and weerish men and crooked with age in the countrie of Gildisland within the lordship of the lord Dacres gathering them togither into houses and shutting them vp and locking the doores they burned without mercie or pitie to the number as it was said of two hundred and aboue This yeare in August the Scots inuaded the countrie of Northumberland and at Otterburne ouerthrew a power of Englishmen which the earle of Northumberland and his sonnes had leauied against them In this battell the earle Dowglas chiefe of that armie of Scots was slaine and the lord Henrie Percie and his brother sir Ralfe sonnes to the said earle of Northumberland were taken prisoners as in the Scotish chronicles ye may read more at large After the feast of the natiuitie of our ladie a parlement was holden at Cambridge in the which diuerse statutes were ordeined as For the limiting of seruants wages For punishment of vagarant persons For the inhibiting of certeine persons to weare weapons For the debarring of vnlawfull games For maintenance of shooting in the long bow For remouing of the staple of woolles from Middleburgh vnto Calis For labourers not to be receiued but where they are inhabiting except with licence vnder seale of the hundred where they dwell There was also an act made that none should go foorth of the realme to purchase anie benefice with cure or without cure except by licence obteined of the king and if they did contrarie herevnto they were to be excluded out of the kings protection There was granted to the king in this parlement a tenth to be leuied of the clergie and a fiftéenth of the laitie Moreouer during the time of this parlement as sir Thomas Triuet was riding towards Barnewell with the king where the king lodged by forcing his horsse too much with the spurs the horsse fell with him so rudelie to the ground that his entrails within him were so burst and perished that he died the next daie after Manie reioised at this mans death as well for that men iudged him to be excéeding haultie and proud as also for that he was suspected not to haue dealt iustlie with the bishop of Norwich in the iournie which the bishop had made into Flanders but speciallie men had an ill opinion of him for that he stood with the king against the lords counselling him in the yeare last past to dispatch them out of the way ¶ Sir Iohn Holland the kings brother on the mothers side that was latelie returned out of Spaine where he had béene with the duke of Lancaster was now made earle of Huntington ¶ In Iulie whiles the king was at Shéene year 1389 there swarmed togither in his court great multitudes of flies and gnats insomuch that in maner of skirmishing they incountered ech other and making great slaughters on both sides were in the end swept awaie from the place where they lay dead with brushes and béesoms by heaps This was deemed an vnluckie prognosticat of some mischiefe like to fall vpon the necke of the land Also in this twelfth yeare were commissioners appointed to méet at Balingham betwixt Calis and Bullongne to treat a truce to be had betwixt the realmes of England France and Scotland Walter Skirlow bishop of Durham that had béene latelie before remoued from Bath vnto Durham from line 10 whence Iohn Fordham had béene translated vnto Elie was sent as head commissioner for the king of England and with him were ioined sir Ihon Clanbow and sir Nicholas Dagworsh knights and Richard Rowhale clearke a doctor of law By Froissard it appeareth that the earle of Salisburie was one sir Thomas Beauchampe lord deputie of Calis appointed likewise as an assistant with them The bishop of Baieux the lord Ualeran earle of S. Poule sir Guillam de Melin sir Nicholas Bracque and sir line 20 Iohn le Mercier came thither for the French king And for the king of Scots there appeared the bishop of Aberdeine sir Iames and sir Dauid Lindsey and sir Walter Sankler knights After long treatie and much a doo at length a truce was concluded to begin at Midsummer next and to last thrée years after ¶ In this yeare of Grace 1389 in the Lent time there sprang a pitifull strife in Oxford the variance in the yeare before being not fullie allaied but both sides alwaies prouoking ech other For the Welsh line 30 scholers being euermore quarelous and hauing the southerlie scholers taking their parts rose against the scholers of the north so that to and fro manie a deadlie mischiefe happened betwéene them In the end this strife did so increase that there was a dai◠of skirmish appointed and agreed vpon by both sides to be tried in the field But by the meanes of Thomas of Woodstoke duke of Glocester all this sturre was appeased and manie of the Welsh scholers banished from the vniuersitie ¶ On the thursdaie before line 40 Easter being mawndaie thursdaie the lord Beaumont gardian of Carleill in the west marches entred Scotland fortie leagues spoiling Fowike made wast at his pleasure and brought awaie with him manie Scots prisoners captiues ¶ About this time a truce of thrée years was taken betwéene king Richard the kings of France Scotland Spaine Portingale and of Nauarre This truce began on the first daie of August in the néerer parts of the realme both by sea and land and on the fiftéenth of line 50 August in the further parts because knowledge could not be giuen thereof without some long time Whilest the commissioners were occupied in the marches betwixt Calis and Bullongne about this truce the Scots entring into Northumberland did much mischiefe leading awaie manie prisoners men and women besides other great booties and preies which they got abroad in the countrie The lord Thomas Mowbraie earle of Notingham was sent with fiue hundred spears to reuenge those attempts line 60 of the enimies but for that his power was small in comparison to theirs he preuailed litle or nothing against them Sir Iohn Clanbow and sir Richard Rouale clerke tooke the French kings oth and the earle of saint Paule that had maried the ladie Maud Courtnie with other noblemen came into England and receiued the kings
discomfited slaine and chased leauing a glorious victorie to the Englishmen and Burgognions There were slaine of the Frenchmen an eightéene hundred knights and esquiers beside commons of Scots néere hand thrée thousand Amongest the Frenchmen these were chiefest that were slaine the earle of Lestrake the earle of Comigens the earle of Tonnoâ—re the lord Coquart de Comeron the bastard of Arminake the vicount of Touraine the bastard of Forreâ—tes the lord de Port and the lord Memorancie Of Scots the lord of saint Iohns towne sir Iohn of Balgarie sir Iohn Turnbull sir Iohn Holiburton sir Robert Lislie sir William Coningham sir William Dowglas sir Alexander Hume sir William Lislie sir Iohn Rotherford sir William Craiford sir Thomas Seton sir William Hamilton and his sonne Iohn Pillot There were taken the earle of Buchquhane constable of France which lost his eie the earle of Uentadour sir Alexander Meldrine sir Lewes Ferignie and two and twentie hundred gentlemen of the French part Of Englishmen there were slaine sir Iohn Greie sir William Hall sir Gilbert Halsall one of the marshals of the field Richard ap Madocke and one and twentie hundred souldiers and men of warre After this fortunate victorie was the earle of Salisburie made by the lord regent lieutenant and vicegerent for the king and the said lord regent in the countries of France Brie and Champaigne and sir Iohn Fastolf was substituted deputie vnder the lord regent within the duchie of Normandie on this side the riuer of Seine and withall he was also made gouernour of the countries of Aniou and Maine The earle of Salisburie after fiue moneths siege wan by surrender the towne and castell of Montaguillon in Brie the capteins whereof the one named Pregent of Cotinie and Guille Bourgois Britons sware neuer to beare armour against the Englishmen on this side the riuer of Loire In the meane time of that siege the earle of Suffolke tooke by force the castell of Coucie and the strong castell of la Roch in Masconnois he got by appointment In this second yeare of king Henrie the sixt Iames the first of that name the hundred second K. of Scotland year 1424 tooke to wife the ladie Iane daughter to Iohn earle of Summerset deceassed and sister to Iohn then duke of Summerset and also coosine germane remoued to king Henrie and neece to the line 10 duke of Winchester and to the duke of Excester was set at libertie couenanting to paie a small portion of monie more than was allowed to him for his wiues marriage monie and left hostages for the same But before his departure out of the realme he did his homage vnto the yoong king of England Henrie the sixt at the castell of Windsor before thrée dukes two archbishops twelue earles ten bishops twentie barons and two hundred knights and esquiers beside others in order of words according line 20 to the tenour hereafter following The formall recognisance or acknowledgement of the said homage I Iames Steward K. of Scots shall be true and faithfull vnto you lord Henrie by the grace of line 30 God king of England France the noble and superiour lord of the kingdome of Scotland and to you I make my fidelitie for the same kingdome of Scotland which I hold and claime of you and I shall beare you my faith and fidelitie of life and lim and worldlie honour against all men and faithfullie I shall knowledge and shall doo you seruice due for the kingdome line 40 of Scotland aforesaid So God helpe me and these holie euangelists But notwithstanding this his oth and the great bounteous liberalitie of the mother vncles of his wife in bestowing on him abundance of plate treasure with rich clothes of arras he had not béene long at home but that soone out of France into Scotland ouer came there Iames Steward who after manie of the Scotish nobilitie by diuerse occasions in line 50 France consumed grew to be capteine of the horssemen there With him came the archbishop of Remes with power and commission for concluding a league betweene France and Scotland and also of a mariage betwéene Lewes the Dolphins sonne and Margaret Iameses daughter though both verie yoong Which matters acordinglie accomplished to France againe they got them So Iames became as firme French as any of his predecessours But now to leaue the Scotish king amongst his line 60 countriemen in Scotland and returne to the dooings of England I find that the duke of Glocester being protector and gouernour of the realme prepared an armie of ten thousand men and sent them ouer to his brother the regent into France who comming into the territorie of Paris were ioifullie of him receiued About the same time the Frenchmen got by stealth diuerse townes out of the Englishmens hands and amongst other the faire towne of Compiegne was one and the pretie towne of Crotoie an other When the duke of Bedford was aduertised hereof he determined not to let the matter passe in such sort but with all conuenient spéed sent foorth a force to recouer those townes againe And first the earle of Suffolke with the earle of Lignie and diuerse other capteins of the Englishmen went to besiege Compiegne and lodged on the one side of the riuer of Soâ—â—me as the lord Lisle Adham sir Thomas Rampston and the prouost of Paris laie on the other side The Frenchmen within the towne well furnished with good souldiers munition and vittels couragiouslie defended themselues The Englishmen remembring that Guilliam Remond otherwise called Mariolaine had béen the leader of the souldiers within the towne which Mariolaine before at Pacie was taken prisoner by sir Iohn Fastolfe caused him to be brought from Paris vnto the campe and set him in a chariot with an halter about his necke and conueied him to the gibet without the towne sending word to them within that if they would not without delaie render the towne their capteine should incontinentlie be strangled afore their faces Which moued the souldiers so much by reason of the loue they bare to their old capteine and gouernour that for the deliuerance of him and partlie of themselues they yéelded the towne so that both he and they might depart with horsse and harnesse onelie in sure conduct and safetie Yet yer this towne of Compiegne was deliuered sir Philip Hall which was sent to Crotoie by the lord regent with eight hundred men to besiege it got it suddenlie by assault yâ—r the Frenchmen had either disposed their garrison or appointed their lodgings About the same time sir Iohn de la Poole brother to the duke of Suffolke being capteine of Auranches in Normandie assembled all the garrisons of the base marches of the countrie of Aniou and came before the citie of Angiers burnt the suburbes spoiled and destroied the whole countrie and hauing as manie prisoners as his men might go awaie with he was incountered by the earle of Aumarle the vicount of
that king Richard was not lawfull king he would fight with him at the vtterance and threw downe his gantlet and then all the hall cried King Richard And so he did in thrée parts of the hall and then one brought him a cup of wine couered and when he had drunke he cast out line 50 the drinke and departed with the cup. After that the heralds cried a largesse thrise in the hall and so went vp to their stage At the end of dinner the maior of London serued the king quéene with swéete wine and had of each of them a cup of gold with a couer of gold And by that time that all was doone it was darke night And so the king returned to his chamber and euerie man to his lodging When this feast was thus finished the king sent home all the lords into their countries that would depart line 60 except the lord Stanleie whome he reteined till he heard what his sonne the lord Strange went about And to such as went home he gaue streight charge and commandement to sée their countries well ordered and that no wrong nor extortion should be doone to his subiects And thus he taught other to execute iustice and equitie the contrarie whereof he dailie exercised He also with great rewards giuen to the Northernemen which he sent for to his coronation sent them home to their countrie with great thanks whereof diuerse of them as they be all of nature verie gréedie of authoritie speciallie when they thinke to haue anie comfort or fauour tooke on them so highlie and wrought such maisteries that the king was faine to ride thither in his first yeare and to put some in execution and staie the countrie or else no small mischeefe had insued Now fell there mischeefs thicke And as the thing euill gotten is neuer well kept thorough all the time of his reigne neuer ceassed there cruell death and slaughter till his owne destruction ended it But as he finished his time with the best death and the most rigtehous that is to wit his owne so began he with the most pitious and wicked I meane the lamentable murther of his innocent nephues the yoong king and his tender brother whose death and finall infortune hath naithelesse comen so farre in question that some remaine yet in doubt whether they were in his daies destroied or no. Not for that onelie that Perkin Werbecke by manie folks malice and mo folks follie so long space abusing the world was as well with princes as the poorer people reputed and taken for the yoonger of these two but for that also that all things were in late daies so couertlie demeaned one thing pretended and an other meant Insomuch that there was nothing so plaine and openlie prooued but that yet for the common custome of close and couert dealing men had it euer inwardlie suspect as manie well counterfaited iewels make the true mistrusted Howbeit concerning the opinion with the occasions moouing either partie we shall haue place more at large to intreat if we hereafter happen to write the time of the late noble prince of famous memorie king Henrie the seauenth or percase that historie of Perkin in anie compendious processe by it selfe But in the meane time for this present matter I shall rehearse you the dolorous end of those babes not after euerie waie that I haue heard but after that waie that I haue so heard by such men and by such meanes as me thinketh it were hard but it should be true King Richard after his coronation taking his waie to Glocester to visit in his new honour the towne of which he bare the name of his old deuised as he rode to fulfill the thing which he before had intended And forsomuch as his mind gaue him that his nephues liuing men would not reckon that he could haue right to the realme he thought therefore without delaie to rid them as though the killing of his kinsmen could amend his cause and make him a kindlie king Whervpon he sent one Iohn Greene whom he speciallie trusted vnto sir Robert Brakenberie constable of the Tower with a letter and credence also that the same sir Robert should in anie wise put the two children to death This Iohn Gréene did his errand vnto Brakenberie knéeling before our ladie in the Tower Who plainelie answered that he would neuer put them to death to die therefore With which answer Iohn Gréene returning recounted the same to king Richard at Warwike yet in his waie Wherewith he tooke such displeasure thought that the same night he said vnto a secret page of his Ah! whom shall a man trust Those that I haue brought vp my selfe those that I had wéent would most suerlie serue me euen those faile me and at my commandement will doo nothing for me Sir quoth his page there lieth one on your pallet without that I dare well saie to doo your grace pleasure the thing were right hard that he would refuse Meaning this by sir Iames Tirrell which was a man of right goodlie personage and for natures gifts worthie to haue serued a much better prince if he had well serued God and by grace obteined as much truth and good will as he had strength and wit The man had an high heart sore longed vpward not rising yet so fast as he had hoped being hindered kept vnder by the meanes of sir Richard Ratcliffe and sir William Catesbie which longing for no mo parteners of the princes fauour and namelie not for him whose pride they wist would beare no péere kept him by secret drifts out of all secret trust which thing this page well had marked and knowne Wherefore this occasion offered of verie speciall friendship he tooke his time to put him forward and by such wise doo him good that all the enimies he had except the deuill could neuer haue doone him so much hurt For vpon this pages words king Richard arose for this line 10 communication had he sitting at the draught a conuenient carpet for such a councell and came out into the pallet chamber on which he found in bed sir Iames and sir Thomas Tirrels of person like and brethren of bloud but nothing of kin in conditions Then said the king merilie to them What sirs be ye in bed so soone And calling vp sir Iames brake to him secretlie his mind in this mischéeuous matter In which he found him nothing strange Wherefore on the morow he sent him to Brakenberie with line 20 a letter by which he was commanded to deliuer sir Iames all the keies of the Tower for one night to the end he might there accomplish the kings pleasure in such things as he had giuen him commandement After which letter deliuered the keies receiued sir Iames appointed the night next insuing to destroie them deuising before and preparing the meanes The prince as soone as the protector left that name and tooke
Meinthorne Walter Holiburton Richard Hanganside Andrew Car Iames Dowglas of Cauers Iames Car of Mersington George Hoppringle William Ormeston of Enmerden Iohn Grimstow Manie more there were beside but ouerpassed by maister Patten for that they remained in the register with these as he saith The duke of Summerset tendred the furtherance of the worke so much that he forbare not to laie his owne hand to the spade and shouell thereby to incourage others so as there were but few lords knights and gentlemen in the field but with spade shouell or mattocke did therein their parts The fiue and twentith of September being sundaie the Scots began to bring vittels to the campe were so well intreated and paied for the same that during the time of the Englishmens abode there they wanted not of the commodities which their countrie could minister The eight and twentith of September a Scotish herald accompanied with certeine Frenchmen that were perchance more desirous to marke the armie than to wit of their welfare came and declared that within a seauen-night after their commissioners to whome safe conduct had béene granted should come and commune with our councell at Berwike whose comming the earle of Warwike and sir Rafe Sadler with other the commissioners appointed did so long while there abide But what the Scots ment by breaking promise I cannot saie howbeit come they did not therfore escaped not the iust note of dissimulation howsoeuer else they could colour the matter in their owne excuse The same daie after noone the duke of Summerset adorned with titles of dignitie diuerse lords knights and gentlemen the names and promotions of whom master Patten hath set downe out of the heralds booke as followeth Sir Rafe Sadler treasuror sir Francis Brian capteine of the light horssemen sir Rafe Uane lieutenant of all the horssemen these knights were made banerets a dignitie aboue a knight and next to a baron The lord Greie of Wilton high marshall the lord Edward Seimer the duke of Summersets son the lord Thomas Howard the lord Waldike a Cleuelander sir Thomas Dacres sir Edward Hastings sir Edmund Bridges sir Iohn Thin sir Miles Patridge sir Iohn Conweie sir Giles Poole sir Rafe Bagnoll sir Oliuer Laurence sir Henrie Gates sir Thomas Chaloner sir Francis Fleming master of the ordinance sir Iohn Gresham sir William Skipwith sir Iohn Buts sir George Blaag sir William Francis sir Francis Knolles sir William Thornburrow sir George Howard sir Iames Wilford sir Rafe Coppinger sir Thomas Wentworth sir Iohn Meruen sir Nicholas Strange sir Charles Sturton sir Hugh Askue sir Francis Salmin sir Richard Tounleie sir Marmaduke Conestable sir George Audleie sir Iohn Holcroft sir Iohn Southworth sir Thomas Danbie sir Iohn Talbot sir Rowland Clarke sir Iohn Horsleie sir Iohn Forster sir Christopher Dies sir Peter Negro sir Alanzo de Uile sir Henrie Husseie sir Iames Granado Brabander sir Walter Bonham sir Robert Brandling maior of Newcastell and made knight there at the duke of Summersets returne But now that Rockesburgh was sufficientlie made defensible the which to sée it séemed the duke of Summerset had vowed before he would thence depart his grace and the councell did first determine that my lord Greie should remaine vpon the borders there as the kings lieutenant and then tooke order for the forts that sir Andrew Dudleie capteine of Broughticrag had left with two hundred soldiers of harquebutters others and a sufficient number of pioners for his works sir Edward Dudleie capteine of Hume castell threescore harquebutters fortie horssemen and a hundred pioners sir Rafe Bulmer capteine of Rockesburgh thrée hundred soldiers of harquebutters and others and two hundred pioners As things were thus concluded and warning giuen ouer night on this wednesdaie being Michaelmasse euen on the next morrow being Michaelmasse daie euerie man fell to packing apase and got them homewards passing ouer the Twéed there with some trouble and danger also by reason of raine that latelie fell before had raised the streame line 10 which being swift of it selfe and the chanell vneuen in the bottome with great stones made the passage cumbersome so that manie as well horssemen as footmen were in no small perill as they passed thorough and one or two drowned and manie cariages ouerthrowne and in great hazzard of losing The duke of Summerset rode streight to Newcastell and thence homewards The earle of Warwike my lord Greie and sir Rafe Sadler with diuerse other rode to Berwike to abide the comming line 20 of the Scotish commissioners In the meane time of their tarieng there the earle of Warwike made sir knights sir Thomas Neuill the lord Neuils brother sir Andrew Corbet sir Anthonie Strelleie sir Arthur Manering sir Richard Uerneie sir Iohn Berteuille After that the earle of Warwike had taried for the comming of the Scots the full terme of the appointment which was vntill the fourth of October and perceiued they came not the next daie he departed homewards Here ye haue to vnderstand also that in part of line 30 the meane time whilest the duke of Summerset was in dooing of these exploits in Scotland as ye haue heard rehearsed the earle of Lenox and the lord Wharton warden of the west marches with an armie of fiue thousand men entred Scotland on that side and first passing two miles after a daie and a nights defense they wan the church of Annan tooke seuentie two prisoners kéepers of the same burnt the spoile for cumber of cariage and caused the church to be blowen vp with powder passing thence a sixtéene line 40 miles within the land they wan the castell of Milke the which they left furnished with munition and men and so returned But of this ye shall find more in the historie of Scotland by the sufferance of God where we intreat of the dooings there in this yeare Thus much haue I collected out of master Pattens booke or rather exemplified the same not much digressing from his owne words except where I haue line 50 bin forced to abridge his worke in some places wishing to haue inserted the whole if the purpose of this volume would haue so permitted as well for the full vnderstanding of euerie particular point by him remembred as also for his pleasant and apt maâ—er of penning the same Whilest the lord protector was abrode thus in wars against the Scots the lords of the councell that remained at home chiefelie by the good and diligent calling on and furtherance of the archbishop of Canturburie and others of the cleargie line 60 tooke order for the aduancement of religion causing the bookes of homilies and the paraphrase of Erasmus to be set foorth and had in churches At the comming backe of the lord protector from his iourneie into Scotland the citizens of London determined to haue receiued him with great triumph but he hearing thereof forbad them in anie wise so to doo for
and watch euerie man declaring his opinion in that behalfe agreeing strictlie and circumspectlie to kéepe hir Then one of them which was the lord of Sussex swearing said My lords let vs take héed and doo no more than our commission will beare vs what soeuer shall happen hereafter And further let vs consider that she was the king our maisters daughter and therefore let vs vse such dealing that we may answer vnto it hereafter if it shall so happen for iust dealing quoth he is alwaies answerable Wherevnto the other lords agréed that it was well said of him and therevpon departed Being in the tower within two daies commandement was that she should haue masse within hir house One maister Yoong was then hir chapleine and bicause there was none of hir men so well learned to helpe the priest to saie masse the masse staied for that daie line 10 The next daie two of hir yeomen who had gone long to schoole before and were learned had two abcies prouided and deliuered them so that vpon the abcies they should helpe the priest One of the said yeomen holding the abcie in his hand pretending ignorance at Kyrie eleison set the priest making as though he could answer that no further It would make a pitifull and a strange storie here by the waie to touch and recite what examinations and rackings of poore men there were to find out that knife which line 20 should cut hir throte what gaping among my lords of the cleargie to see the daie wherein they might wash their goodlie white rochets in hir innocent bloud but especiallie the bishop of Winchester Stephan Gardiner then lord chancellor ruler of the rost who then within fiue daies after came vnto hir with diuerse others of the councell and examined hir of the talke that was at Ashridge betwixt hir and sir Iames Acroft touching hir remouing from thence to Dunnington castle requiring hir to declare what line 30 she meant thereby At the first she being so suddenlie asked did not well remember anie such house but within a while well aduising hir selfe she said In déed quoth she I doo now remember that I haue such a place but I neuer laie in it in all my life And as for anie that hath mooued me therevnto I doo not remember Then to inforce the matter they brought foorth sir Iames Acroft The bishop of Winchester demanded of hir what she said to that man She answered that she had line 40 little to saie to him or to the rest that were then prisoners in the tower But my lords quoth she you doo examine euerie meane prisoner of me wherein me thinks you doo me great iniurie If they haue doone euill and offended the quéenes maiestie let them answer to it accordinglie I beséech you my lords ioine not me in this sort with anie of these offendors And as concerning my going vnto Dunnington castle I doo remember that maister Hobbie and mine officers and you sir Iames Acroft had such talke but line 50 what is that to the purpose my lords but that I may go to mine owne houses at all times The lord of Arundell knéeling downe said Your grace saith true certeinlie we are verie sorie that we haue so troubled you about so vaine matters She then said My lords you doo sift me verie narrowlie but well I am assured you shall not doo more to me than God hath appointed and so God forgiue you all At their departure sir Iames Acroft knéeled down declaring that he was sorie to see the daie in which he should be brought as a witnesse against hir grace line 60 But I assure your grace said he I haue beene maruellouslie tossed and examined touching your highnesse which the lord knoweth is verie strange to me For I take God to record before all your honors I doo not know anie thing of that crime that you haue laid to my charge and will thervpon take my death if I should be driuen to so strict a triall That daie or thereabouts diuerse of hir owne officers who had made prouision for hir diet brought the same to the vtter gate of the tower the common rascall souldiers receiuing it which was no small greefe vnto the gentlemen the bringers thereof Wherfore they required to speake with the lord chamberleine being then conestable of the tower Who comming before his presence declared vnto his lordship that they were much afraid to bring hir graces diet and to deliuer it to such common and desperat persons as they were which did receiue it beseeching his honor to consider hir grace and to giue such order that hir viands might at all times bee brought in by them which were appointed therevnto Yea sirs said he who appointed you this office They answered Hir graces councell Councell quoth he There is none of them which hath to doo either in that case or anie thing else within this place and I assure you for that she is a prisoner she shall be serued with the lieutenants men as other the prisoners are Whereat the gentlemen said that they trusted for more fauor at his hands considering hir personage saieng that they mistrusted not but that the queene and hir councell would be better to hir grace than so and therewith shewed themselues to be offended at the vngratefull words of the lord chamberleine towards their ladie and mistresse At this he sware by God striking himselfe vpon the breast that if they did either frowne or shrug at him he would set them where they should neither see sunne nor moone Thus taking their leaue they desired God to bring him in a better mind towards hir grace and so departed from him Upon the occasion whereof hir graces officers made great sute vnto the quéenes councell that some might be appointed to bring hir diet to hir that it might no more be deliuered in to the common soldiers of the tower Which being reasonablie considered was by them granted Wherevpon were appointed one of hir gentlemen hir clearke of hir kitchin and hir two purueiors to bring in hir prouision once a day all which was done the warders euer waiting vpon the bringers thereof The lord chamberleine himselfe being alwaies with them circumspectlie and narrowlie watched and searched what they brought and gaue héed that they should haue no talke with anie of hir graces waiting seruants and so warded them both in and out At the said sute of hir officers were sent by the commandement of the councell to wait vpon hir grace two yeomen of hir chamber one of hir robes two of hir pantrie and ewrie one of hir buttrie another of hir cellar two of hir kitchin and one of hir larder all which continued with hir the time of hir trouble Here the conestable being at the first not verie well pleased with the comming in of such a companie against his will would haue had his men still to haue serued with hir graces men
ordinance the victorie and the cause why the rebels preuailed not was bicause all the catholikes had not béene dulie informed that the queenes maiestie was declared to be as they terme it an heretike which want of information to the intent to make the rebels mightier in number and power was diligentlie and cunninglie supplied by the sending into the realme of a great multitude of the seminaries and Iesuits whose speciall charge was to informe the people thereof as by their actions hath manifestlie appéered A supplement to amend the former errour And though doctor Sanders hath thus written yet it may be said by such as fauoured the two notable Iesuits one named Robert Persons who yet hideth himselfe in corners to continue his traitorous practise the other named Edmund Campion who was found out being disguised like a roister and suffered for his treasons that doctor Sanders treason is his proper treason in allowing of the said bull and not to be imputed to Persons and Campion Therefore to make it plaine that these two by speciall authoritie had charge to execute the sentence of this bull these acts in writing following shall make manifest which are not fained or imagined but are the verie writings taken about one of their complices euen immediatlie after Campions death although Campion before his death would not be knowen of anie such matter Whereby may appéere what trust is to be giuen to the words of such pseudomartyrs Facultates concessae pp. Roberto Personio Edmundo Campiano pro Anglia die 14 Aprilis 1580. PEtatur à summo domino nostro explicatio bulla declaratoria per Pium Quintum contra Elisabetham ei adhaerentes quam catholici cupiunt intelligi hoc modo vt obliget semper illam haereticos catholicos vero nullo modâ— obliget rebus sic stantibus sed tum demum quando publica eiusdem bullae executio fieri poterit Then followed manie other petitions of faculties for their further authorities which are not néedfull for this purpose to be recited but in the end followeth this sentence as an answer of the popes Has praedictas gratias concessit summus pontifex patri Roberto Personio Edmundo Campiano in Angliam profecturis die 14 Aprilis 1580. Praesente patre Oliueriâ— Manarco assistence The English of which Latine sentences is as followeth Faculties granted to the two fathers Robert Persons and Edmund Campion for England the fourteenth daie of Aprill 1580. LEt it be asked or required of our most holie lord the explication or meaning of the bull declaratorie made by Pius the fift against Elisabeth such as doo adhere or obeie hir which bull the catholikes desire to be vnderstood in this maner that the same bull shall alwaies bind hir and the heretikes but the catholikes it shall by no meanes bind as matters or things doo now stand or be but hereafter when the publike execution of that bull maie be had or made Then in the end the conclusion was thus added The highest pontife or bishop granted these foresaid graces to father Robert Persons Edmund Campion who are now to take their iournies into England the 14 daie of Aprill in the yeare of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred and eightie Being present the father Oliuerius Manarke assistant Hereby it is manifest what authoritie Campion had to impart the contents of the bull against the quéens maiestie howsoeuer he himselfe denied the same for this was his errand And though it be manifest that these two Iesuits Parsons and Campion not onelie required to haue the popes mind declared for the bull but also in their owne petitions shewed how they and other catholikes did desire to haue the said bull to be vnderstood against the quéene of England yet to make the matter more plaine how all other Iesuits and seminaries line 10 yea how all papists naming themselues catholikes doo or are warranted to interpret the said bull against hir maiestie and hir good subiects howsoeuer they will disguise it you shall see what one of their fellowes named Hart who was condemned with Campion and yet liueth did amongst manie other things declare his knowledge thereof the last daie of December in the same yeare one thousand fiue hundred and eightie in these words following The bull of Pius Quintus for so much line 20 as it is against the quéene is holden amongest the English catholikes for a lawfull sentence and a sufficient discharge of hir subiects fidelitie and so remaineth in force but in some points touching the subiects it is altered by the present pope For where in that bull all hir subiects are commanded not to obeie hir and she being excommunicate and deposed all that doo obeie hir are likewise innodate and accurssed which point is perillous to the cathâ—likes for if they obeie hir they be in the popes cursse line 30 and if they disobeie hir they are in the quéenes danger therefore the present pope to reléeue them hath altered that part of the bull and dispensed with them to obeie and serue hir without perill of excommunication which dispensation is to indure but till it please the pope otherwise to determine Wherefore to make some conclusion of the matters before mentioned all persons both within the realme and abroad maie plainelie perceiue that all the infamous libels latelie published abroad in sundrie line 40 languages and the slanderous reports made in other princes courts of a multitude of persons to haue béene of late put to torments and death onelie for profession of the catholike religion and not for matters of state against the queenes maiestie are false and shamelesse and published to the maintenance of traitors and rebels And to make the matter seeme more horrible or lamentable they recite the particular names of all the persons which by their owne catalog exceed not for these fiue and line 50 twentie yeares space aboue the number of thrée score forgetting or rather with their stonie and senselesse harts not regarding in what cruell sort in the time of quéene Marie which little excéeded the space of fiue yeares the quéenes maiesties reigne being fiue times as manie there were by imprisonment torments famine and fire of men women maidens and children almost the number of foure hundred besides such as were secretlie line 60 murthered in prisons and of that number aboue twentie that had béene archbishops bishops and principall prelats or officers in the church lamentablie destroied and of women aboue thrée score and of children aboue fortie and amongest the women some great with child and one out of whose bodie the child by fire was expelled aliue and yet also cruellie burned examples beyond all heathen crueltie And most of the youth that then suffered cruell death both men women and children which is to be noted were such as had neuer by the sacrament of baptisme or by confirmation professed or was euer taught or instructed or euer had heard of anie other kind
Houed The king and the earle of Tholouse agreed Matt. Paris The earle of Flanders alied with K. Richard Iacob Meir Les annales de France Iacob Meir Wil. Paruus Towns won by the earle of Flanders Gisors besieged The French king entreth into Gisors K. Richard raiseth his siege Hugh de Chaumount taken prisoner Ouid in 3. Art am ep 16. Robert Rosse put to his fine for an escape Matth. Paris Nic. Treuet The French kings request for a combat K. Richards answer Matth. Paris Ships burnt and mariners hanged Les annales de France Anno Reg. 9. R. Houed One yeare 4 moneths saith Wil. Paruus Griffin king of Wales departed this life Weights and measures Moonks placed againe in the church of Couentrie Messengers from the stats of Germanie Three hundred knights of men of armes to be found The bishop of Lincolne The moonks of Christes church send to the pope complaining of their archbishop The pope sendeth to the king Anno Reg. 10. King Philip almost drowned Seuen score saith R. Houed Matth. Paris R. Houed Eoâ— Hâ—ss in Psal. 144. Inquisitions taken Ordinances of forrests Préests to be arrested offending in forrests Ger. Dor. The church of Lameth The pope coÌ„mandeth the church of Lameth to be raced The presumtuous stoutnesse of the moonks Welshmen vanquished Ger. Dor. ascribeth this victorie vnto Hubert archâ— of Canturburie and saith there were slaine about 500 of the enimies Mauds castle The earle of Leicester Marchades A truce taken betwixt the two kings R. Houed A truce concluded for fiue yeares Contention about the choosing of the emperour R. Houed The popes letters to the king for the church of Lameth The moonks borne out by the pope M. Pal. in suo sag. A tax Fiue shillings of euerie plough land as saith Matt. Westm. Chasteau Galiard built Images of an emperour and of his wife children all of fine gold The annales of Aquitaine Chalus Cheuerell R. Houed K. Richard besiegeth Chalus He is wounded Ra. Niger The king despaired of life He ordeineth his testament R. Houed Matth. Paris Rog. Houed A notable example of forgiuing an enimie Matth. Paris King Richard departed this life His stature shape of bodie Gal. Vinsaf His disposition of mind The vices that were in king Richard Fulco a préest Baldwine Hubert archbishops of Canturburie Iohn Bale A great derth A great mortalitie of people Wâ—l Paruus Two sunnes Anno Reg. 1. Rog. Houed Matth. Paris Chinon Robert de Turneham Sawmer Rog. Houed Thomas de Furnes Strife amongst the English subiects on the other side of the sea Matth. Paris The states assembled at Northampton Eustace Uescie sent into Scotland Quéene Elianors enuie against Arthur Constance dutchesse of Britaine Prop. lib. 2. Quéene Elianor passeth into Normandie The citie of Mauns takeÌ„ Matth. Paris R. Houed K. Iohn inuested duke of Normandie The citie of Angiers taken K. Iohn commeth ouer into England Matth. Paris Polydor. Rog. Houed Matth. Paris Additions to Iohn Pike Rog. Houed WilliaÌ„ Marshall earle of Striguille Geffrey Fitz Peter created earle of Essex The archb of Canturburie made lord chancellour The saieng of the lord Bardolfe Ambassadors from the king of Scots N. Triuet The French K. inuadeth Normandie Rog. Houed L. William de Stuteuille Roger de Lacie conestable of Chester King Iohn passeth ouer into Normandie A truce for fiftie daies The earle of Flanders Polydor. The league renewed betwixt England and Flanders Rog. Houed The earle of Namure France interdicted Normandie interdicted Rog. Houed Arthur duke of Britaine made knight The French kings demand Balun 〈◊〉 A peace betwixt king Iohn his nephue Lauardin William de Roches The vicount of Tours The mistrust that duke Arthur had in his vncle king Iohn Philip king Richards bastard son 〈◊〉 the vicount of Limoges Great flouds Uariance betwixt the bishop of Durham and earle Patrike A rate of the prices of wines King Iohn returneth into England A subsidie He saileth againe into Normandie Anno Reg. 2. A peace concluded with a marriage Matth. Paris Ra. Niger Polydor. The king coÌ„meth backe againe into England Ia. Meâ—â— R. Houed King Iohn is diuorsed Matt. West Matth. Paris R. Houed Matth. Paris Geffrey arch of Yorke depriued Rog. Houed A councell called at Westminster by the archbishop of Canturburie Arthur duke of Britaine doth homage to the king of England King Iohn returneth into England The quéene is crowned In ambassage sent vnto the K. of Scots The king of Scots came to the king of England at Lincolne Matth. Paris Ran. Higd. R. Houed Polydor. A presumptuous part in a bishop Fiue moones Matt. Paris Anno. Reg. 3. Rog. Houed The archbish of Yorke restored Ambassadors sent to Scotland The king passeth ouer into Normandie He commeth to talke with the king of France King Iohn entreth into Paris The league renewed Matth. Paris R. Houed Walter Lacie meant to haue taken the lord Curcie Polydor. Aid against the Turkes and infidels Matth. Paris Unseasonable weather Fabian Matth. Paris The French K. beginneth to make war against king Iohn Polydor. Hugh earle of March. The Poictouins reuolt from king Iohn Arthur proclaimeth himselfe earle of Aniou c. Quéene Elianor Matth. Paris Matth. West Polydor. K. Iohn commeth vpon his enimies not looked for Arthur duke of Britaine takeÌ„ prisoner Matth. Paris De Castre Erald 252 knights or men of armes besides demilances Anno Reg. 4. Matth. Paris King Iohn eftsoones crowned Rafe Cog. Guie sonne to the vicount of Touars Constance the mother of duke Arthur accuseth king Iohn Matt. Paris The ordinaÌ„ce for the assise of bread Great tempests Matth. Parâ—â— Anno Reg. 5. Matth. Paris Polydor. The French king inuadeth Normandie Roger de Lacie conestable of Chester taken The pope sendeth his Nuncij into France Gaguinâ—â— Polydor. Radpont woone Castell Galiard Matth. Paris Hugh de Gourney reuolteth from king Iohn K. Iohn commeth back into England Matth. Paris A parlement at Oxenford A subsidie granted Anno Reg. 6. Rafe Cog. Ambassadors sent into France Towns wâ—n by the French king Rouen besieged by the French king The great fidelitie of the citizens of Rouen RoueÌ„ through famine is surrendred to the French king Matth. Paris 〈…〉 this sâ—ould 〈…〉 in the daiâ—s of K. Henrie the second A fish like to a man Iohn Stow. M. Pâ—â— in 〈◊〉 120â— An extreame frost Anno. Reg. â— Polydor. Matth. Paris King Iohn prepareth an armie to go into France Rafe Cog. The archbishop of Canturburie and the earle of Penbroke persuade the king to staie at home The king repenting him goeth backe to the sea side He goeth to the sea the 15 of Iulie as some authors haue The death of the archb of Canturburie Matt. Paris Polydor. An archbishop chosen Matth. West Iohn Gray bishop of Norwich president of the councell Matth. Paris Helias de Brantfield The bishops quarell with the moonks of Canturburie about the election of an archbishop Gerard de Atie Robert de Turnham takeÌ„ prisoners Hubert de Burgh a valiant