of Richmond be both betwéene me the gate to enter into the Maiestie royall and getting of the Crowne and when we had a little comoned concernyng her sonne and were departed I then beganne to dispute w t my selfe whether I were best to take vpon me by the election of the nobilitie and communaltie or to take it by power thus standing in y e wauering ambiguitie I considered first y â— offiâ—e dutie and pain of a King which surely I think that no mortall men can iustlye and truely obserue excepte hée â—ée elected by GOD as King Dauid was but further I remembred that if I once toke on me the gouernaunce of the Realme the daughters of King Edwarde and theyr Allies being bothe for hys sake muche helpned and also for the greate iniurye done to them muche pytied woulde neuer cease to barke at the one syde of mée Senâ—bâ—abye my coosin the Earle of Richemonde hys aydes and kinsfolke wyll surelye attempte eyther to â—yte or to pierse mée on the other syde so that my life and rule shoulde euer hang vnquiet in â—pubte of deathe or deposition And if the sayde two lyâ—ages of Yorke and Lancaster shoulde ioyne in one againste mée then were I surelye matched Wherefore I haue cléerelye determyned vtterlye to relinquishe all imaginations concerning the obtayning of the Crowne For as I told you the Countesse of Richmond in my returne from the newe named King méeting me in the high waye prayed me first for kinred sake secondly for the loue I bare to my grandfather Duke Humfrey whiche was sworne brother to hir father to moue the King to be good to hir son Hencie Earle of Richmonde and to license him with his fauour to returne againe into England and if it were his pleasure so to doe she promised that the Earle hir sonne shoulde marrie one of king Edwards daughters at the appointment of the King without anye thing demaunded for the sayde espousalles but only the Kings fauoure whiche request I sâ—â—ne ouer passed and departed but after seruice I called to memorie more of that matter I am bente that the Earle of Richmonde heire of the house of Lancaster shal take to wife Lady Elizabeth eldest daughter to K. Edwarde by the which marriage both the houses of Yorke and Lancaster maye be vnite in one when the Duke had sayde the Bishop Morton whiche fauoured euer the house of Lancaster â—â—s wondeâ—ous ioyfull for all his imagination tended to this effecte and least the Dukes courage shoulde swage oâ— his minde alter he sayde to the Duke my Lord of Buckingham sithe by Godâ— prouision and your incoÌ„parable wisedome thys noble coniunction is first moued it is necessarie to consider what persons we shall firste make priâ—â—e of this polliticke conclusion by my troth quoth the Duke we will beginne wyth my Ladye of Richmonde the Earles mother whyche knoweth where he is in Brytaine sith you will begin that waye sayde the Byshoppe I haue an olde friende wyth the Countesse called Reignalde Bray for whom I shall send if it be iyocâ—â— pleasure so the Byshoppe wrode for him to come to Breckeâ—â—â—ke who streight came backe with the messenger where the Dirke and Bishoppe declared what they hadde deuised for the prefermente of the Earle of Richmonde sonne to hys Ladye land Maistresse willyng hyr firste to compasse howe to obtayne the good wyll of Quéene Elizabeth and also of hir eldest daughter and after secretly to send to hir sonne into Britaine to declare what highe honour was prepared for him if he would sweare to marrye the Lady Elizabeth as soone as he was King of the Realme Reynold Bray with a glad heart returned to the Countesse his Ladie When Bray was gone the Byshoppe tolde the Duke that if he were in his Isle of Elie he could make many friendes to further their enterprise The Duke knewe this to be true but yet lothe to lose the companie of such a counseller gaue the Byshoppe fayre wordes saying he shoulde shortly departe well accompanied for feare of enemies but the Bishop or the Dukes company were assembled secretly disguised in a night departed and came to Elie where he founde money and friendes and so sayled into Flaunders where he did the Earle of Richmond good seruice when Reynold Bray had declared his message to the Countesse no maruaile if she were glad wherefore she deuised a meanes hold to breake this matter to Quéene Elazabeth then being in Sanctuarie at Westminster And hauing in hir family a certayne Welâ—hman called Lewes learned in Phisicke nowe hauing opportunitie to breake hir minde vnto him declared that the time was come that hir sonne should bée ioyned in marriage with Ladye Elizabeth daughter and heyre to King Edward and that King Richard shoulde out of all honour and estate be detected and required him to goe to Quéene Elizabeth not as a messenger but as one that came friendly to visite hir and as tyme and place should serue to make hir priuie of this deuise This Phisition with good diligence repayred to the Quéene and when he saw tyme conuenient he said vnto hir Madame although my imagination be verye simple yet for the entire affection I beare to you and to your children I am so bolde to vtter vnto you a secrete conceit that I haue compassed in my brayne When I remember the great losse that you haue sustayned by the death of your louing husband and the great sorow that you haue suffered by the cruell murther of your innocent chyldren I can no lesse doe than daylye studie howe to bring your heart to comforte and also to reuenge the quarrell of you and your children on that cruell tyraunt King Richard And first consider what battayle and what mischiefe hath risen by the disâ—ention betwéene the two houses of Yorke and Lancaster which two families if they may be ioyned in one I doubt not but y â— your line shall be againe restored to your great ioye and comforte You knowe Madame that of the house of Lancaster the Earle of Richmond is nexte of bloud and to the house of Yorke your daughters nowe are heyres If ye coulde inuent the meane howe to couple your eldest daughter with the Earle of Richemond in Matrimonie no doubt but the vsurper should bée shortly deposed and your heire agayne to hir ryght restored When the Quéene had heard thys friendly motion shée instantly besought hym that as he had béene the first inuenter of so good an enterprise that now he would not desist to folow the same requrring him further that he would resorte to the Countesie of Richemond mother to the Earle Henrie and to declare to hir on the Quéenee behalfe that all the friendes of King Edwarde hir husband should assist and take part with the Erle of Richemond hir sonne so that he woulde take an othe that after the Kingdome obteyned to espouse the Lady Elizabeth hir daughter c. After Lewes so spedde his businesse that he made a finalâ—enâ— of this
of Saint Iohn in Colchester of blacke Channons and those were the first in England Simon Earle of North-hampton and Mawde his wife Saint Andrevve in North-hampton Ex Carta â—o Rouse 1106 Anno reg 7. Elder brother seeketh fauour of the yonger founded the Monasterie of Saint Andrew in North-hampton Robert Duke of Normandy came to his brother at Northhampton and friendly desired him to beare brotherly loue foward him but King Henry féeling his conscience accusing him for obteyning the Kingdome by defrauding of his elder brother and fearing men more than God first he reconciled the Nobles of the Realme with faire promises thinking afterwards to make amende for his great wrongs by founding of an Abbey The Duke returning into Normandy the King followed with a great power where betwéene them were many sore battayles fought but at the last the valiant man Roberte was taken This yeare appeared a blasing Starre from thrée of the A Blasing Starre Mathew Paris clocke till nine And on the Maundy Thursday was séene two full Moones one in the East and another in the West The first Chanons entred into the Church of our Lady T Rudborne Saint Mary Ouery Liber Roffensis â—o Reuerla 1107 Anno reg 8. in Southwarke called Saint Mary Ouery fouÌ„ded by William Pountlarge Knight and Wiliam Daneys Normans Aigedus was first Prior there WheÌ„ King Henry had set in order Normady according to his pleasure he returning into England brought with him his brother Robert Wâ—rlham of Morton put them in perpetuall prison froÌ„ wheÌ„ce shortly after Duke Robert deceiuing The yonger brother puttetâ— out the eyes of his elder his kepers sought to escape but he was takeÌ„ as he fled by his brothers coÌ„mandement had his eies put out kept streighter till his dying day This yeare the Priorie of the holy Trinitie within 1108 Priorie of the Trinitie in London Liber trini Aldgate of London was founded by Matild the Quéene in the Parishes of Mary Magdalen Saint Michael Saint Katherine and the holy Trinitie all whiche are nowe but one Parish of Christ Church in old time called holy Roode parish W. Dunthorne She gaue to the same Priorie the port of Aldgate with the stocke therevnto beloÌ„ging which was of hir demaynes and is now called Aldgate Warde King Henry with sundry expeditions brought vnder him the Welchmen and to pull downe their stoutenesse he Anno reg 9. Wâ—it Malme Gerua Doro Flemings sent into VVales sent all the Flemings that inhabited England thither which of late were come hither when great part of Flanders was drowned and also in time of his father by aliance of his mother in so muche that through their greate multitude they séemed gréeuous to the Realme wherefore he sente them ali with their substance and kindred into Rose a CoÌ„untrey of Wales aâ— into aâ— stucke that he mighte clense the Realme of them and also suppresse the wildnesse of the enimie and not long after he made expedition thither compelling the Welchmen to giue him for pledges the sonnes of the Nobilitie with some money and much Cattell and returned Henry Emperour of Rome sente messengers into England requiring to haue Mawde the Kings daughter giuen 1109 Anâ— reg 10. him in mariage which was granted by the King who then tooke thrée Shillings of euery hide of lande through England The King translated the Abbey of Eoly into a Bishopricke A Taxe Iohn Taxtor EelyÌ„ a Bishoprick Mathew Paris â—ibermoÌ„n Elie. and made Haruey Crust Bishop of Bancor Bishop there A Comete appeared after a strange fashion for it was risen out of the East and astended vpwards A great Earthquake was at Shrewesburie and the water 1110 Anno reg 11 A Comete Trent dried vp Floria censis of Trent at Nottingham was dryed vp from one of the clocke till thrée King Henry maryed Robert his bastard son to Mawde Floriacen daughter and heire to Robert Fatzham and made him the first Earle of Glocester who after builded the Castels of Bristow Castels at Bristovv and Cardife Saint Iames at Bristovv Kensham 1111 Anno reg 12 Mathew Paris and Cardeffe with the Priorie of S. Iames in Bristowe where his body was buryed And his sonne Earle William began the Abbey of Kensham King Henry went into Normandy to make war against the Earle of Angiew whiche kept Maine againste the Kings will and spoyled the whole Countrey William Baynard vnder whome Lady Iuga helde the Cro. Dun. title of Dunmow by misfortune lost his Barony and King Henry gaue it wholly to Robert the sonne of Richard the Robert Fitâ—â— Richard sonne of Gilbert Earle of Clare and to his heires togither with the honor of Baynards Castell in London and the appurtenances This Robert was Cupbearer or Butler to the King Aboute this time Gefferey Clinton Treasourer and 1112 Anno reg 13 Kenelvvorth Priory and Castell founded Lib. Ken. Chamberlayne to King Henry the first founded the Priorie at Kenelworth of regular Chanons Geffery Clinton the yonger confirmed to the Chanons all which Geffery his father gaue them except those landes which his father reserued to make his Castell and Parke on in Kenelworth This yeare was a great mortalitie of men and moreine Mathew Paris of Beastes The Citie of Worcester the chiefe Church the Castell 1113 Anno reg 14. Floriacen Cro. Hautenprice and all other buildings one of the Monkes with two seruants and fiftéene CitizeÌ„s were all brent the twentith day of July The King subdued the Walchmen The King caused all his Nobles to sweare to William his sonne The tenth of October the Riuer of Medway by no small 1114 Anno reg 15 Thames and Medvvay dried vp number of miles did so fayle of water that in the midst of the Chanell the smallest Uessels and Boates coulde not passe The selfe same day the Thamis did suffer the like lack of water for betwéen the Tower of London and the bridge and vnder the Bridge not only with Horse but also a greate Thomas de Wike Walter Couen Iohn Taxtor William Sheepehead Liber Roffensis Chichester brent A blasing starre 1115 Anno reg 16 Liber trinitatis number of men and children did wade ouer on foote whiche defecte of water did endure the space of two dayes Chichester with the principall Monasterie was brent There was many stormes and a blasing Starre This yeare through an hard Winter almost all the bridges in England were borne downe with Yse Edgar sometime King of England granted vnto thirtéene Knightes a portion of grounde without the walles of the Citie of London lefte voyde in the East part of the same Citie Knighten Gild novv Portsoken vvard togither with a gilde which he named Knighten Gild that now is called Portsoken warde and now the Church of the holy Trinitie being founded within Aldgate of London by Mathild then Quéene as is afore shewed The successors of those Knightes to
Porter at the Gates to deliuer him y e keyes therof who would in no wise obey his coÌ„mandement although he were roughly threatned streightly coÌ„manded in y e Kings name to make deliuery of theÌ„ to one of the Earles seruants Sir quoth he seeing that ye do but intend to set one of your seruants in my place to kéepe the Gates I knowe no seruant that ye haue but I am as able as he to do it and kéepe the Gates to your purpose whatsoeuer it be and also the keyes were deliuered me by my Lord and Mayster wherefore I pray you to pardon me for whatsoeuer ye shall commaund me to do in the ministratioÌ„ of mine office I shall do it with good will with that quoth the Earle hold him a Booke coÌ„maunded him to lay his hand theron thou shalt â—weare quoth he that thou shalt well and truly kéepe the Gates to the Kings vse and to doe all such things as we shall commaund and that ye shal let passe neither in nor out at these Gates but such as ye be commaunded by vs and with this oth he receiued the keyes at the Earles hands Of all these doings knewe the Cardinall nothing for they stopped the steire so that none went vp to the Cardinals Chamber and they that came downe could no more go vp againe at the last one escaped who shewed the Cardinall that the Earle was in the Hall wherat the Cardinall maruelled would not beléeue him but coÌ„maunded a Gentleman to bring him the truth who going downe the staires saw the Earle of Northumberland and returned and said it was very he then quoth the Cardinall I am forâ— that we haue dined for I feare our Officers be not prouided of any store of good fishe to make him some honourable chéere let the Table stande quoth he with that he rose vp and going downe y â— staires he encountred the Earle coÌ„ming vp with all his tayle and as soone as the Cardinal espied y â— Earle he put off his â—ay said my Lord ye be most hartily welcome so embraced each other then the Cardinall tooke the Earle by the hand â—â—â— had him vp into the Chamber whome followed all the number of the Earles seâ—â—ants From thence he led him into his bedchamber and they being there al alone the Earle said vnto the Cardinall with a soft voice laying his hande vpoÌ„ his arme my Lord I arrest you of high Treason with which words y e Cardinal being maruellously astonied staÌ„ding both stil a good space at the last quoth the Cardinall what authority haue you to arrest me forsooth my L. quoth â— Earle I haue a coÌ„missioÌ„ so to do where is your coÌ„mission quoth he that I may sée it nay sir that you may not sayde the Earle well then quoth the Cardinall I will not obey your rest But as they were debating this matter betwéene them in the Chamber so busie was M. Walsh in arresting Doctor Augustine at the dore in y e pallace saying vnto him go in Traytor or I shal make thée At the last M. Walsh being entred the Cardinals Chamber began to plucke off his hoode and after knéeled down to the Cardinall vnto whom the Cardinal said come hither gentlemaÌ„ and let me speake with you Sir héere my Lord of Northumberland hath arrested me but by whose authoritie he sheweth not if ye be ioyned with him I pray you shew me Indéede my Lord quoth M. Walsh he sheweth you the truth well then quoth the Cardinall I pray you let me sée it Sir I beséech you quoth M. Walsh hold vs excused there is annexed to our coÌ„missioÌ„ certaine instructions which you may not sée well quoth y e Cardinall I trow ye are one of the Kings priuie Chamber your name is Walsh I am content to yéeld to you but not to my Lord of Northumberland without I sée his commission the worst in the Kings priuie Chamber is sufficieÌ„t to arrest the greatest péere of the Realme by the Kings commandement without any commission therefore put your commission and authoritie in execution spare not I will obey the Kings will I take God to Judge I neuer offended the Kyng in worde nor déede Then the Earle called into the Chamber diuers Gentlemen of his owne seruauntes and after they had taken the Cardinalles keyes from him they put him in custodie of the Earles Gentlemen then they went about the house to set all things in an order theÌ„ sent they Doctor Augustine away to London with as much spéede as they could who was boune vnto the Horsse like a Traytor but it was Sunday toward night ere the Cardinal was conuayd from Cawod lodged that night in the Abbey of Pomfret The next day he remoued towarde Daneaster and was there lodged at the blacke Friers The nexte day he was remoued to Shefilde Parke where the Earle of Shrewsburie with his Lady and a traine of GentlemeÌ„ and Gentlewomen receyued him with much honor then departed all the great number of Gentlemen that conducted him thether and the Cardinall being thus with y â— Earle of Shrewsburie coÌ„tinued there xviij dayes after vpoÌ„ whome the Earle appointed diuers Gentlemen to attend coÌ„tinually to sée that he should lacke nothing béeing serued in his owne Chamber as honourably as he had in his own house and once euery day the Earle would repaire vnto him commune with him After the Cardinall had thus remained with the Earle of Shrewsburie aboute a fortnight it came to passe at a certaine time as he sate at his dinner in his own chaÌ„ber hauing at his boords end a messe of Gentlemen and Chaplaines to kéepe him company toward y â— end of his dinner when he was come to eating hys fruites his colour was perceyued often to change whereby he was iudged not to be in good health where vpon one of The Cardinall â—ickneâ—â—â— his Gentlemen said Sir me séemes you are not well at ease to whome he answered with a loude voice forfooth no more I am for I am quoth he taken sodâ—inly with a thing about my stomacke that lyeth there along as colde as a whetstone which is no more but wind I pray you go to the Poâ—icarie and enquire of him â—â— he haue any thing that wil breake winde vpward Then went he to the Earle and shâ—wed him what estate the Cardinall was in and what he desired with that the Earle caused the Poticarie to be called before him and demanded of him if he had any thing that would breake wind vpward in a mans body he answered he had such geare Then quoth the Earle fetch me some theÌ„ y â— Apoticary fetched a white coÌ„fectioÌ„ in a fair paper shewed to y â— erle who coÌ„manded one to giue y e assay therof before him then y â— same to be brought to the Cardinall who receiued it vp al at once into his mouth but immediatly after surely he auoided much wind vpward â—o quoth he ye
them with garrisons and weÌ„t from thence but by Counsel of Roberte Earle of Leicester the kings Castels were ouerthrowen the Castel besieged deliuered from daunger A diuorcement was made betwéen Lewes king of France 1152 Mathew Paris Geruasius Doro. and Elianor hys Quéene bycause they were a kinne in the fourth degrée moreouer she was defamed of adulterie with an infidel c. Henrie Duke of Normandie maried Elianor whoÌ„ Lewes king of Fraunce had deuorced from him and had by hir a son named William Kyng Stephen called a Parliamente at London declaryng to Theobalde Archebyshoppe of Canturburie and the other Byshoppes howe he woulde vtterly disherite Henrie duke of Normandie and confirme his owne sonne Eustace to be his successour by crowning him king but the Pope had sent a commaundement to the Archbishoppe prohibiting him to crowne king Stephens sonne bycause his father had vsurped the kingdome contrarie to his othe Whiche thing as was thought was brought to passe by the subtile policie of Thomas Becket a Chaplaine borne in London King Stephen and his sonne being not a little offended therewith caused the Bishops with their Primate to be closed vp in an house threatning with terrors to extort of them that which with prayers or price they could not obtain The Archbishop stiffely standing in his purpose some of the Bishops through fear went from him at length the Archbishop by a maruellous hap escaping got ouer the Thamis and so to Douer and thence transporting ouer the seas escaped the threates of the King and his sonne and depriued his son of his coueted honour Quéene Mawde deceased and was buried at Feuersham Anno reg 18 Norvvich increased Chronicle of Brom holma The people of Norwich obtained of the king to haue Coroners baylifes for before y t time they had no other Officer but a sergeant for the king that kept Courts and after this that is to say in the 37. yeare of Hemie the third they had licence to inclose that towne with ditches got of sundry hundreds c. Henrie Duke of Normandie furnished with an army came 1153 into Englande and at his first comming wan the Castell and towne of Malmesburie from thenceforth Roberte the noble Earle of Leicester began to take the Dukes part and to furnish him with things necessarie a thirtie Castels or moe through his counsel with them that kept them submitted themselues to the Duke at length it was decréed y â— the King should talke with the Duke touching peace to be had and so they met in a place wher y â— Thamis was most narrow the one standing on the one side the other on the other After long talke they returned the Duke to his men the king to his and so laying down weapon euery man departed in peace Eustace the kings sonne was angry with hys father for agréeing to this peace and therefore in a rage departed from Policraticon Iohn Sarisburien Iohn Taxtor Mathew Paris the Court towards Cambridge to destroy that Country CoÌ„ming to S. Edmunds Burie he was there honorablye receyued and feasted but when he coulde not haue such money as hée demanded to bestow among his men of war he went away in a rage spoyling the corne in the fields belonging to y e Abbay and caryed it into his castels thereby but as he sat him down to dinner he fel madde vpoÌ„ receiuing the first morsel and miserably died and was buried at Feuersham The Duke besieged Stamfort Castel and wanne it and Stamforde Notingham and Ipsvvich besieged then he went to Notingham and wan that The King in the meane time besieged Ipswich and wan it At length thorough the great labour of the Archbishop of Canturburie and the other Bishops the king commanded the nobles to méet Ex charta regia Anno reg 19 King Stephen adopted Henry Ypodigma 1154 at Winchester where the duke being receiued with gret ioy the King in sighte of all men adopted him his son and confirmed to him the principalitie of all Englande The duke receiued him in place of a father graunting to him al the dayes of his life to enioy the name and seate of the kings preheminence Duke Henrie in the Octaues of the Ephiphanye came togither with the king to Oxforde where the Erles and Barons by the kings commaundement sweare fealtie to Duke Henrie sauing the kings honor so long as he liued This assurance being made they departed asunder but shortly after they met againe at Dunstable there to entreate of the state and peace of the kingdome Shortlye after Duke Henrie with king Stephen and certaine Lords of England came to Canturburie and from thence to Douer where they had communication with Theodrike Erle of Flaunders the Countesse the Dukes aunte When the King and the Duke had dismissed the Earle of Flaunders and were turning towards Canturburie the slaughter of the Duke was prepared by a conspiracie of the Flemmings which enuied both y â— duke peace but behold sodainly y â— kings yoÌ„ger son WilliaÌ„ priuie with the conspirators on BarhaÌ„ down fel of his horsse breaking his leg he gathered all y â— company about him in sorrow The duke in the mean time vnderstanding the appointed treason got him to Canturburie and so escaped hys enimies hands from thence by Rochester and London he came to the sea and passed ouer into Normandie William Archbishop of Yorke going to Yorke in the feaste of Pentercost was poysoned at Masse and dyed within fewe dayes after In October the king met the Earle of Flaunders again at Douer and talked with him After the Earle was dismissed the king was taken with a sodaine paine of the Iliake passion K. Stephen died Gerâ—a Doro. Ralph Cogshal and with an olde disease or running of the Emerodes and there in y â— house of the Monkes dyed the xxv of October when he had raigned xviij yeres x. monthes and odde days He fouÌ„ded the Abbays of Cogshal in Essex of Furnes in Lancashire of Hurguilers and Feuersham in Kent where hys body was buried He founded an house for Nunnes at Carewe ¶ King Henrie the seconde HEnrie the seconde son of Geffrey Plantagenet and Mawde the Empresse began his raigne ouer this realme Anno reg 1. of England the xxv day of October in the yere of our Lord 1154. he was Crowned at Westminster the. xvij daye of December by Theobalde Archbishop of Canturburie he was somewhat red of face short of body and therwith fatte of speach reasonable wel learned noble in chiualry and fortunate in battayle wise in counsel one that loued peace lyberall to straungers but hard to his familiars vnstedfast of promise giuen to pleasure and a wedlocke breaker by his manhoode and policie the crowne of England was much augmented with the annexing of Scotland Ireland the Iles of Orcades Boytaine Peyters Guyen and other prouinces of Fraunce Thomas Becket Archdeacon of Canturbury was made the Kings Chancellour He held
reg 4 Then the Archebishoppe of Rhoane wyth the consente of Earle Iohn toke vpon him the rule of the lande as Uiceâ— Chauncellour Sherifes Nicholas Duke Peter Newlay Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne King Richarde hauing knowledge that Phillip of 1193 Fraunce inuaded Normandie and that Iohn his brother hadde made himselfe King of Englande made peace with the Saladine for thrée yeares and wyth a small companye retourning homewarde was taken prisoner by Leopolde Duke of Austria who broughte hym to Henrie Anno reg 5. King Richarde taken prison the Emperour and there kepte hym in prison a yeare and fiue monthes He was enuyed for hys valiauncie in that he hadde shewed more proofe of hys prowes than all the other had Wolfangus Lazius in hys booke de Romano Imperio affirmeth that Leopolde of Austria when he hadde taken king Richard for some iniurie done to the house of Austria hée King Richard of England builded the vvals of Vienna compelled hym to builde the walles aboute Vienna the chiefest Cittie of Austria the whyche Wals wythin oure memorie defended all Germanie from the inuasion of the Turke The rumor being spredde that King Richarde was taken Earle Iohn rebelled against King Richard as yée haue hearde forth wyth the Frenche King and Erle Iohn made a greate conspiracie togyther meaning to take the Kingdome of Englande herevppon a greate number of Flemmings were assembled at Witsaâ—â—e and an innumerable multitude of Flemmings readye to come ouer but theyr messengers being taken their treason was bewrayed Elianor the olde Quéene caused the Sea coastes to bée watched ouer against Flaunders but notwithstanding Erle Iohn came secréetely into Englande to rayse the Walchmen and Scottes but the King of Scottes woulde not ayde hym The Walchmen in the partes about Kingstone and Windsore toke prayes abrode The Frenche King entred Normandie founde small resistaunce wanne diuerse Townes Gisors was deliuered to him then he hasted towards Roane besieged it but through the great industrie of Robert Earle of Leicester he profited little there and so returned into Fraunce Earle Iohn perceiuing his treason was discouered fortifyed hys Castels and passed ouer into Fraunce and ioyned with the Frenche King Sherifes Roger Duke Richard Fitz Alwyne Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne King Richard sent for his mother and the Archebishop of Rhoane to come vnto hym into Almayne being nowe in greate hope to bée deliuered and in the meane tyme the Archbishoppe of 〈◊〉 was made regent of England The Kings friendes entreating for his deliueraunce his The Kings raunsome Geruasius Doro. Radul Cogshal ransome was set at 100000. pound to wit to the Emperour 100000. markes to the Empresse 30000. markes and to y â— Duke of Austrich 20000. markes wherevpon commaundemeÌ„t was directed from the kings Iustices that al Bishops Prelates Earles Barons Abbots and Priors should bring in the fourth parte of theyr reuenewes towardes the kings raunsome and besids this the cleargie brought in their golden and siluer chalices and fléeced their shrines all whiche was coyned into money The order of the Cestercencies did giue theyr wool for one Mathew Paris Roger Houeden yeare c. all the money gathered for the Kings raunsome to remaine in the custodie of Hubert Archbishoppe of Canturburie Richarde Bishoppe of London William Earle of Arundel Hameline Earle of Warren and the Maior of London The King was restored to libertie the most parte of hys raunsome being paide and pledges left for the residue In the mean time letters were intercepted of Erle Iohn which he had sent into EnglaÌ„d touching treason one Adam of Saint Edmund Cleark being sent by Erle Iohn to prouide that his Castel might be fortified against King Richard came to London and dyned with Hubert Archbishoppe of Canturburie where he bragged of Earle Iohns prosperitie and familiaritie Recardâ—â— caâ—â—â—â— with the French king for y â— which being suspected he was after dinner appreheÌ„ded by the Maior of LondoÌ„ who toke froÌ„ him his letters and deliuered them to the Archbishoppe of Canturburie who on the next morrow called a CouÌ„sel of the Earles and Barons and shewed them the letters wherevpon they al câ—nsented that Erle Iohn should be dispossessed of all his lande in England and that his Castels should be besieged The same day the same Archbishop and Bishoppes excommunicated Earle Iohn and all his fauourers whiche troubled the peace of the kingdome And forth with the Archbishop 1194 besieged the Castel of Marleborough which belonged to Earle Iohn and toke it After this he besieged Notingham Castell The King taking ship at Antwerpe landed aâ— Sandwich on Godâ—â—â— vâ—â—â—â—alfe Gerua Doro. K. Richard the second time Crovvned Anno reg 6. the. 12. of March shortly after he besieged the Castell of Notingham and wan it and after that the Castel of Tikehil and then rode to Winchester wher he was again solemnly crowned on the xvij of April After this he called into his hands all such thing as hée had eyther giuen or sold by patentes or otherwise by whiche meanes he got a great sum of money and sayled into Normandie the xij of Maye where hauing a great army he tooke Taileburge and the countie of Angolesme Shortly after a peace was taken betwéene the two kings of England and Fraunce the xiij of June and also by meanes of Elianor the old Quéene Earle Iohn was reconciled to hys brother King Richard gaue to him the Erledomes of Morton Cornewal Dorset Somerset Notingham Darby Lancastre y â— Castels of Marleborough Luthegarshal with the forrests and Gual Couen appurtinaunces the honor of Wallingford Tikehil and Eye the Earledome of Gloucester with the Earles daughter Isabel though she were a kin to him but he kept certaine Castelles belonging to the said Earldâ—mes in his owne handes he remoued from him hys Concubines and toke to him his own wife which he had not knowen of a long time before Sherifes William Fitz Isable William Fitz Arnolde Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne King Richard sent messengers to the Pope complayning vpon the Duke of Austrich for misusing of him and his as they came by distresse of weather throughe his Countrey wherevpon the Pope excommunicated the Duke and enioyed him to release the â—â—uenaunts that he constrayned the King to make and to sende home the pledges but the Duke refused this order contempning the Popes authoritie who shortly after dyed and was kept vnburied til his son had released the English pledges that lay in hostage for the mony behinde of K. Richards caâ—nsome and further sware to staÌ„d to the iudgement of the Church for that offence of his father Hugh Bishoppe of Lincolne gaue to the king a thousande Anno reg 7. markes for his mantell of Sables which his predecessours were wont yearely to haue giuen them by the King Sherifes Robert Beasaunt Ioke de Iosue Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne William Fitz Osbert a Citizen of London poore in degrée VV. vvith the â—earde Roger Houed Wil.
There was also a yong man and two women broughte before them the yong man would not come in any Church nor be partaker of the Sacraments but had suffered himselfe to be crucified in whom y â— scars of al y e wouÌ„ds were to be séene in his haÌ„ds head side Radulphus Cog. fâ—et he reioiced to be called Jesus of these women other One of the women being olde was accused for beâ—â—â— ching Radulphus Cog. Wal. Couentren Nicholas Triues the yong man vnto such madnesse and also altering hir owne name procured hirself to be called Mary the mother of Christ They being coÌ„uict of these crimes and other were adiudged to be closed vp betwéene two wals of stone where they ended their liues in miserie The other woman Counterfaite Marie and Christ being sister to the yong man was let go bycause she reueâ—led the wicked fact On Saint Iames day the Citizens of London kept gameâ— of defence and wrestling néere vnto the Hospital of Matild VVrestling Mathew Paris where they got the maisterie of the menne of the Suburbes The Baylife of Westminster deuising to be reuenged proclaymed a game to be at Westminster vppon Lammas daye wherevnto the Citizens of London repayred and when they had played a while the Baylie with the men of the suburbs harnised themselues and fell to fighting that the Citizens being foully wounded were forced to runne into the Citie where they rang the common Bel and assembled the Citizens in gret number and when the matter was declared euery man wished to reuenge the fact The Maior of the Citie being a wise man and a quiet willed them firste to moue the Abbot of Westminster of the matter and if he wold promise to sée amendes made it were sufficient but a certaine A tuâ—ult in London Citizen named Constantine Fitz Arnulâ—e willed that all houses of the Abbot and Baylie should be pulled downe whiche word being once spoken the common people issued out of the Citie without anye order and fought a ciuil battaile for Constantine the firste pulled downe many houses and ofâ—times with a loude voyce cryed in prayse of the sayd Constantine the ioye of the mountaine the ioy of the mountaine God helpe and the Lord Lodowike A fewe dayes after this tumult the Abbot of Westminster Cro. Dâ—n Abbot of VVestminster pat to his shifts came to London to Phillip Dawbney one of the kings counsel to complaine of the iniuries done to him which the Londoners perceyuing beset the house aboute and tooke by violence twelue of the Abbots horsses away cruelly beating of his men c. But whiles the foresayde Daubney laboured to pacifie the vprore the Abbot gotte out at a backe dore of the house and so by a boate on the Thamis hardlye escaped the Citizens throwing stones after him in great aboundaÌ„ce These things being thus done Hubert de Burgo Justiciar Chief Iustice en tred the Citie of London vvith an army of England with a great armye of men came to the Tower of London and sent for the Maior and AldermeÌ„ of whom he enquired for the principal aucthours of this faction Then Constantine who was constaunt in the sedition was more constante in the aunsweare affirming that he had done it and that he hadde done muche lesse than he ought to haue done The Justiciar tooke him and two other with him and in y â— morning earely sent them to Falcatius by water with a gret number of armed men who brought Constantine to the gallowes CoÌ„staÌ„tine vvith other hanged and when he sawe the rope about his necke he offered for his life 15000. marks but that would not saue him so he was hanged with Constantine his nephew Galfride that proclaymed his proclamation on the sixtéenth of August Then the Justiciar entring the City with a great army Mathew Paris Feete handes of many cut of caused to be apprehended as many as he coulde learne to be culpable whose féet and hands he caused to be cut off which crueltie caused many to flée the Citie The King toke of the Citizens 60. pledges which he seÌ„t to diuers Castelles he desposed the Maior appointing a Gardien or kéeper ouer the Citie and caused a greate gybet to be made and after heauie threatnings the Citizens were reconciled paying to the king manye thousande Anno reg 7 Tempestes and dearth markes On holy Rode daye was great Thunder and lightning throughout all England and such great flouds of water followed with great windes and tempest which continued tyll Candlemasse that the yeare following wheate was sold for xij shillings the quarter Richard Renger Thomas Lambert the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Searle Mercer the 28. of October On Saint Andrewes daye a great Thunder ouerthrewe Great tempests Churches Castels and houses so that scantly any body escaped frée from harme by this Tempeste A Knight and hys wife and eyghte menne of hys housholde with the fall of his house were slaine in Pilardestune a villedge of Warwickeshire In a Counsel holden at London the Archbishop of Canturburie 1223 and other the nobilitie and Barons of the Realme required the king to confirme the liberties for the whiche the warre was moued against his Father and that himselfe at the departing of Lewes out of Englande sware to obserue where vppon forthwith the King sente his letters to all the Sherifes of the realm commanding them to inquire by the othes of twelue lawfull men in euery Countie what liberties were in England in the time of King Henrie his grandfather and to send the inqusition so made to London fiftéene dayes after Easter Iohn de Brennes king of Ierusalem and chiefe maister of K. of Ierusalem the Hospital there came into England and required ayde to winne Ierusalem but he returned with smal comfort Leolyn Prince of Wales founded the Castell of Mountgomerie Tho. Wikes and therewith certaine Englishmen in despighte of the King attempted to constraine William Marshall Earle of Penbroke and other to yéelde to them but the whole Countrey Anno reg 8. Sherifes Maior 1224 Mathew Paris rose in armour and ouercame them Iohn Trauers Andrew Bokerel the. 28. of September Richard Renger the. 28. of October The Earle of Chester and other rose against the king and hys Justiciars for the custodyes of the Castelles and landes whyche the Kyng demaunded of them Wherefore the Archbishop of Canturburie and the Byshops excommunicated al the perturbers of the king and the Realme The Earle of Chester and his complices perceyuing that the King had a greater number of men of armes then they and also fearing the excommunicatioÌ„ came to the king at Northampton yéelding their castels honors which appertayned to the Crowne Then the king layed siege about the Ral. Cogshall Bedford castel besieged Castel of Bedforde that Falcatius had long kepte by strength which siege he continued by the space of eight wéekes and toke the
the King being wroth fortifyed Windsore Castell and beganne to build Towers and other strange things The Abbot of Saint Denis in France béeing sent Legate from the Pope to demaund the legacie that King Edwards father gaue to the holy land did earnestly request King Edward to remoue from him Peter Gauaston with whose conuersation all the world was as it were infected Then the King appoynted a Parliamente at North-hampton determining from thence to passe into Scotland the Barons came to this Parliament well furnished but the King sente them worde he woulde not come there yet at the last he came to Stony Stratford whither were sente to him by the Barons the Earles of Warwike and Clare who requested him to come for his owne profite and the commoditie of the Realme at length he went in the habite of a Squire and the Barons met him without armour and in the ende louingly embraced and were made friends and the voyage to Scotland was reiourned til another time After Michaelmas the Parliament was holden at London vnto the whiche Parliamente came Lewes the French Kings brother with the Bishop of Poytow from the Kyng of Fraunce to entrenie vnitie betwixt the King and his Lordes and there were diuers get ordinaunces made And once agayne though sore agaynst the Kings mind he caused Pierce to obiure with condition added by the Barons that if he were founde agayne in any lande subiecte to the Kings dominion he shoulde be taken as a common enimy and condempned This beyng doneâ— he passed into Flanders and from thence to other Countries séeking reste which he coulde not finde Iames of Saint Edmond Roger Palmer the 28. of Sept. Sherifes Maior 1310 Anno reg 4. Thomas Romaine the 28. of October Pierce of Gaueston conceyuing a trust in the friendshippe of the King and the Earle of Gloucester whose sister he had marryed taking with him many straungers returned into Englande And a little before Christmas he came to the Kyngs presence who foâ— ioy of his comming forgettyng all othes and promises receyued hym as a heauenly gift The King kept his Christmas at Windsore where Walter Langton Bishop of Chester and the Bishop of Saint Andrews in Scotland were released out of prison The seconde daye of September at night an horrible tempest of thunder happened so that Hedges and Trées loste their gréenenesse and the Church of Middleton in Dorcetsnire wyth the Stéeple Belles Ornamentes and all other monuments of that place were consumed wyth the lightning the Monkes being at Mattins Henry Lacy Earle of Lincolne and Conestable of Chester W. Shep. dyed at London and was buryed in the newe worke of Paules Simon de Coâ—pe Peter Blackney the 28. of September Sherifes Maior 10. Rouse Richard Râ—â—â—am Mercer the 28. of October Blâ—ckeney deceassed in whose place succeeded Iohn â—â— Combridge A Prouinciall Counsell was holden at London agaynste Templers condempned Thomas Dele the Templers in England vppon Heresie and other articles where of they were accused who denyed the facte sauing one or two of them â— notwithstanding all did confesse that they coulde not purge themselues and therefore were condempned to perpetuall penuance in seuerall Monasteries where they be haued themselues very well At Paris in Frauuoe liiij of the Templers were brent by 1311 iudgement of the French King Thomas who had maryed the daughter of Henry late Earle of Lancaster hel de in hys handes the Earledomes of Lancaster Lincolne Salisbury Leyoester Ferraâ—s the Libertie of Pickering and the Honoure of Cokermore besides greate landes in Wales and in the Earledome of Arthoys in France King Edwarde wyth Peter Gauaston hys companion went to Yorke where the King was lodged in the Palace of the Archebyshoppe and Peter in the Castle they caused the Citie to be fortified and the walles to be repayred and sent to Robert Bayliol of Scotlande for ayde againste his Lordes but Robert made answeare he woulde not forth of Scotland neyther woulde he disquiet any man the lyke aunsweare was made by the Welchmen The Earles assembled at Bedford Gilber Earle of Glocester being one of them they came to London and ordayned the Seas to be kept leaste straungers shoulde enter to ayde the Kyng After Easter the brother of Pierce of Gauaston was taken with greate treasure whiche he hadde conueyed oute of the Kyngs Treasurie his shippe beyng tossed wyth tempeste on the Sea was driuen where it was taken and the treasure was brought to London in Carles About this time King Edward for his recreation tooke the Sea leauing Peter of Gauaston at Yorke where vpon the Barous brought their power entred the citie of Yorke but Peter fled to Scarborough then the Barons besieged Scarborough where they took him and committed him to y e custody of Aymerde Valence Erle of Penbroke who brought him to the Manor of Dedington which is betwixt Oxford Warwike â— there left him to be kept sâ—fer but y e next day in y â— morning Guy Earle of Warwike with a company of armed men took him from thence and brought him to Warwike Castell after deliberation taken the Earles of Lancaster of Warwike and Iohn Treklow Pierce of Gauaston beheaded Anno reg 5. of Hereford caused in their presence in a place called Gauesice or Blacke Lowe the xix of June his head to be stricken off his body by the Frier Preachers was conuayed to Oxford and there kept more than two yeares till the King caused the same to be translated to his manor of Langley and there in the Friers Church which he had builded to be buryed Simon Merwood Richard Wilford the 28. of Septemb Sherifes Maior 1312 Tho. de la More The Roades vvonne by the Christians Sir Iohn Gisors Peperer the 28. of October Quéene Isabell was deliuered of hir first sonne named Edward at Windsore the xiij day of Nouember The Knightes of the order of Saint Iohn Baptist called Saint Iohn of Hierusdlem put the Turkes out of the Isle of Roades and after that wan vpon the sayde Turkes dayly for a long time after This Religion was greatly preferred by the fall of the Templers whose possession was giuen to them by a Counsell holden at Vienna Anno reg 6. Robert de Bruce gote againe almost all Scotland the Castels with munitions the English Garrisons being cast out he tooke agayne into his power This yeare therefore Tho. de la More Hugh Spencer the yonger by consent of the Prelates and certayne nobles Hugh SpeÌ„cer the sonne was appoynted the Kings Chamberlayne in place of Peter of Gaueston whome they the rather preferred bycause they knew the King hated him neuerthelesse not long after by his great diligence he brought himselfe into the Kings fauour The Father of this Hugh béeing olde was yet liuing a Knight of great vertue in counsell wiâ—e in armes valiant whose confusion and shamefull end he wanne vnto himselfe by naturall loue though disordinate towardes hys sonne who was
Philippe de Labeche Iohn de Becke Henry de Laybourne these tenne and thrée score and twoo Knightes more were bestowed in dyuers prisons The Justiciers of Trailebaston in Essex sate vppon all Cron. of Dunsta Iustices of Trailebaston complayntes excepte Assises touchyng pleas of féed landes and others in the Kyngs Benche to bée pleaded who dydde abstaine theyr handes from all kindes of giftes And they dydde not onely refuse the giftes but also woulde not be called to the feastes and bankets of any man The thirde Wéeke after Easter a Parliament was Tho. de la Mâ—â—â— gathered at Yorke where Hughe Spencer the father was made Earle of Winchester vnto whome the Kyng gaue the Castell and Honour of Dunnington whiche was parcell of the Earledome of Lincolne Aboute the feast of Saint Iames the King wyth a great T. de la More Hen. Elanforde armye entred Scotland but the Scottes hauing destroyed all aâ—ore were retyred beyond the Scottishe Sea So that the King beyng oppressed bâ—â—â—mine retourned into Englande Addictions to Nich. Triuet Anno reg 15 whome the Scottes foll 〈…〉 and in a place of the Forrest of Blackamore they â—et 〈…〉 ng so that he hardly escaped There were taken the Earle of Richemond and the Lorde of Silicico the Frenche Kings Embassador and many other where vppon the Scottes spoyling al the Couâ—â—â—â— and brenning euen to Yorke they brent Ripon slew many Priests of the Colledge there but in Beuerley they hurte not a man for the Burgesses and Cannons dydde redéeme the same wyth foure hundreth poundes of sterling money And so the Scottes by reason of Winter made retourne being laden with spoyles Thys yeare the Kyng made Syr Andrewe Herkley Earle of Carlile and gaue hym landes in the Marches of Scotlande Richard Constantine Richard Hackeney the. 28. of Sept. Sherifes Maior Hamond Chickwell Peperer the 28. of October Aboute the feaste of the Purification of our Lady Andrewe de Herkeley late made Earle of Carlile vnder colour of peace fayned that he woulde marry Robert Bruis his sister Wherevppon the King reputing him a Traitor caused him to be taken by hys trusty friende Syr Anthony de Lucy and after he was disgraded of the Earledome by the taking away froÌ„ him the sword cutting off his spurs 1322 then hanged quartred at Carlile also the third of March his head was sent to London and his four quarters to foure seueral parts of this land The. xxx of May Aymer de Valence Earle of Penbroke Hugh Spencer the yonger Robert Baldocke Archdeacon of Midlesex sir William Herle Knight William de Aizewine Cannon of Yorke Galfride de Scrope were for King Edwarde of England sent to Newcastel vpon Tiâ—e where they met with William Bishop of Saint Andrewes Thomas Raâ—â—dâ— â—â— Earle of Mourt Iohn de Meteâ—h Robert de Lowther the Father Knights and maister Walter de Tromant Clearke for the King of Scottes there to talke of a final peace but when that wold not be they â—et to a truce which they agreed vpoÌ„ for xiij yeres which was proclaimed about the xj of June dated at Anno reg 16 Thorpe néere vnto Yorke Thys yere Phillip King of Fraunce dyed and his brother Charles succéeded him About the beginning of Auguste king Edwarde being at Pikering there came Ambassadors from the new French king the Lorde Benuille and sir Andrew de Florentia to cite the King to come to doe homage for â—â—yon Aquitaine and other lands which he helde of him and though Hugh Spencer the sonne Lorde Chamberlayne and Roberte Baldocke Lorde Chauncellour had procured the sayde Ambassadours not to declare theyr message to the King yet when they shoulde depart they did it admoniâ—hing him to come And the sayd syr Andrew de Florence being a Notarie made a publike instrument of the sayde Citation and admonition Iohn Grantham Richard of Ely the. 28 of Septem Sherifes Maior Tho. de la More Hamond Chickwel Peperer the. 28. of October The Frenche King made a processe againste the King of Englande And Charles de Valoys vncle to king Charles of Fraunce a most deadly enimy to Englishmen did seaâ—e on the Dukedome of Angue and the Countie of Portowe vnto the vse of his nephew the King At the length going forward to the towne of Ryall he founde it wel defended by Edmond of Woodstocke Earle of Kent betwixte whome a finall truce being taken to continue vntill suche time as it coulde be determined betwéene both the Kings as concerning peace and the towne being yelded vp both the armies departed home The next Lent in a Parliament holden at London Adam Tarleton Bishoppe of Hereforde was accused of treason but Henrie Blanford 1323 by the Archbishops of CaÌ„terburie Yorke and Dubline and their suffragan Bishoppes he was taken from the Barre and had away notwithstanding inquisition being made by lawefull men of that Country they founde y â— he had ayded the Mortimers with horsse and armour against the King wherevppon all hys Temporalities were seased into the kings hands In this Parliament the king graunted at petition of y â— Prelate that all the bodies of the noble men that were hanged on gallowes shoulde be taken downe and buried in ecclesiasticall Anno reg 17 sepulture The King also asked a subsidie of the cleargie and people for the redéeming of Iohn Britaigne Earle of Richmonde Adam Tarleton Bishop of Hereford being depriued of all hys temporall goods did hate the Spencers deadlye so dyd Henrie Burwashe of Lincolne and their friendes who withhelde Tho. de la More their handes only for reuerence of the King On Lammas daye Roger Mortimer of Wigmore by Henrie Blanford giuing to his kéepers a sléepe drinke escaped out of the Tower breaking through the wal and comming into y â— Kitchin neare adioyning to the Kings lodgings and getting out of the toppe thereof came to a Warde of the Tower and so with cordes knitte ladder-wise prepared afore hande by a friende of hys got to another Warde and so with greate feare got to the Thamis and with his helper and two moe of his counsell passed the riuer and auoyding the high wayes came to the sea and there finding a shippe passed ouer into Fraunce Adam of Salisburie Iohn of Oxforde the 28. of Septem Sherifes Maior 1324 Tho. de la More Anno reg 18 Nicholas Farendon Goldsmith the. 28. of October The Kyng sente Ambassadours to the French Kyng the Byshoppes of Winchester and of Norwiche with Iohn of Brytaine Earle of Richmonde to take order for the Dukedome of Brytaine who after long debatings toke a certayne forme of peace with the King King Edwarde sente the Quéene hys wife vnto hyr brother The QueenseÌ„tâ— into Fraunce the French Kyng to establishe the peace who went ouer with a small company By hyr mediation a peace was fullye finished to witte that the Kyng of Englande should giue to his eldest sonne Edwarde the Dukedome of
one of them that made the shoute for ioy towards London where he was committed to the Tower and afterward condemned at Westminster in presence of the whole Parliament on Saint Andrewes euen next following and then drawne to the Elmes and there hanged on the common gallowes whereon he hung two dayes and two nightes by the Kings commandement and then was buryed in the Grey Friers Church He was condemned by his Péeres and yet neuer was brought to answere before them for it was not then the custome after the death of the Earles of Lancaster Winchester Glocester and Kent wherefore this Earle had that law him selfe which he appoynted for other The causes of his death laid against him were these First that he was consenting to the murthering of the Kings father Secondly for that he had receiued a great summe of money whereby the Kings honor was greatly abated at Stanhope Parke where he gaue a signe vnto the Scottes that they should flie Thirdly for that he caused certayne auntient déedes and Charters to be brent wherein the King of Scots stood bound vnto the King of Englande and especially for that he had caused a contraâ—t to be made betwixt the Kings sister and Dauid the sonne of Robert le Bruis Fourthly that he had vnprofitably consumed a greate deale of treasure which he found in the kings treasurie and in the treasurie of the Earles of Winchester and Glocester Fiftly for appropriating vnto himselfe the wardes and mariages of all England Sixtly for being an euill counseller to the King and to the Quéene mother and for being ouermuch familiar No Iustice with hir There died with him his friends Simon de Burford Knight brother to Sir William Burford that was Justice Anno reg 4. Iohn Deuerell Esquier who was desirous to haue made open confession of the Kings fathers cruell death but he could not be suffered King Edward the Bishop of Winchester Wil. Mountacute and very few others passed ouer 1â—â—0 Sea like as they had bin Merchants hauing with hym scarse xv horsemen He left Iohn of Eltham his brother Protector of the Realme He returned againe about the beginning of April and then helde a great Turniament at Dertford in Kent The xv of June was borne vnto king Edward Turniament aâ— Dertford Edvvard the blacke Prince borne his first sonne at Wodstoke who was after named Edwarde the blacke Prince The K. tooke into his hands all y e lands assigned to his mother and only left hir a 1000. pound the yeare About Michaelmas there was very solemne iusting of all the stoute Earles Barons and Nobles at London in Cheape betwixt the great Crosse and the great Conduit Turniament in Cheape at London Adam Meri Ro. Auesbery nigh Soper Lane which lasted thrée dayes where the Quéene Phillip with many Ladyes fell from a Stage notwithstanding they were not hurt at all wherefore the Quéene tooke greate care to saue the Carpenters from punishmente and through hir prayer whiche she made an hir knées she pacifyed the King and Counsell whereby shée purchased greate loue of the people Robert of Ely Thomas Whorwode the 28. of Sept. Sherifes Maior Saint Lavvrence Pultney Sir Iohn Pultney Draper the 28. of October This Sir Iohn Pultney builded the Colledge in London called Saint Laurence Pultney and little Alhallowes a Parish Churche in Thamis streete and also the Carmelite Regist Carmil Friers Church in Couentrie Such a wet Sommer with excéeding rayne was this Late Haruest yeare that the Corne in the field could not ripe so that in many places they began not Haruest till Michaelmas The house of Croxton got not in their Wheate till Hallontide W. Sheepeshed and their Pease not before S. Andrewes tide The Monkes on Alhallowen day and Martelmas day were serued with Pease gréene in the coddes in stead of Peares and Apples King Edward held a solemne Christmas at Welles which Anno reg 5. he continued till the feast of the Epiphany where was manye strange and sumptuous shewes made 1331 In the beginning of August Edward Bailioll sonne and heire to Iohn King of Scottes came into England which Edward had bin before that time banished out of Scotland At his comming he declared what right he had in the Kingdome Henry Beawmont Earle of Bohune Gilbert Vmfreuill Earle of Angus Dauid Earle of Athels Richard Talbot Ralph Baron of Stafford Fulx Fitz Williams with many other noble men affirming they had right of inheritance in Scotland desired licence and ayde of the King of Englande to recouer the sayd Kingdome and landes due to them but the King hauing regard of the peace lately made and also for his sisters sake Quéene of Scottes woulde not suffer them to leade an armie through his lande wherefore the sayde Lordes getting a Fléete of Shippes entred the Sea and sayling toward Scotland landed at Kinkehorne where the Earle of Fife and Robert Bruse Bastard sonne to Robert Bruse with tenne thousand Scottes resisted them néere vnto Dunfermeling but the Englishmen put them to flight and slew many Afterward to wéete on Saint Lawrence day they had a sore conflict at Gledesmore where two thousand Englishmen ouercame fortie thousand Scottes By reason of the great throng of the multitude amongst themselues fiue Earles and many other were thronged to death On the morrow the Englishmen tooke the Towne of Saint Iohns well furnished with victualles The seauen and twentith of September Edward Baylioll Edvvard Baylioll resigned the Crovvne of Scotland to King Edvvarde of England Sherifes Maior Hospitall at Leycester was Crowned King of Scottes but afterward he resigned it to King Edward of England and remayned vnder his protection many yeares after Iohn Mocking Andrew Aubury the 28. of September Sir Iohn Poultney Draper the 28. of October Henry Earle of Lancaster and of Leycester high Steward of England founded the new Hospitall by the Castell of Leycester wherein were one hundred poore impotent people prouided for with all things necessarie Edward Baylioll and the foresayde Lords and Nobles Anno reg 6. Iohn Maundeuill continued the warres in Scotland vnto whome came many other noblemen of the Realme of England voluntarily seruing of their owne charges and beséeged Berwike The King of England gathered a great power and beséeged 1â—â—2 Berwike which at length was yéelded for want of victualles During this séege the Scottes sought many wayes to remoue the same leuying a great army ouer all Scotland but comming to the séege they could not bring their purpose to effect yet still prouoking the Kings army to battell wherevpon at length the two armies appoynted to fight and setting out vpon Halidowne hill there commeth forth of the Scottes Campe a certayne stout Champion of greate stature who for a facte by him done was called Turnebull he standing in the midst betwixte the two armies Callenge of Combate challenged all the Englishmen any one of them to fight with him a Combate at
leÌ„gth one Robert Venâ—â—e Knight a Nonffolke man requesting licence of the King being armed with his sword drawne marcheth toward the Champion méeting by the way a certayne blacke mastife Dogge Turnebull a callenger ouercome in combate which wayted on the Champion whome with his sworde he suddaynely strake and cut him off at his loynes at the sight whereof the mayster of the Dogge slayne was much abashed and in his battayle more warie and fearefull whose left hande and head also afterwarde this worthye Knight cut off After this Combate both the armies met but they fighting scarce halfe an houre certayne of the Scottes béeing slayne they closed their armie which was in thrée all into one battayle but at length fléeing the King followed them taking and chacing them into lakes and pittes for the space of fiue miles There were slayne of them eyght Earles 1300. Horsemen and of common Souldioures 35000. at a place by Berwike called Bothull néere vnto Halidon In the meane season the Scottes had beséeged the Castell of Kambrugh in which at that time the Quéene was but when they heard of the victorie aforesaid they lefte the séege and fledde The Townesmen of Berwike yéelded to the King Edvvarde vvan Barvvike King of England both the Castell and the Towne who placing garrisons there he sent Edward Baylioll and other nobles to kéepe the Realme of Scotland Earle Patritius in the next Parliament holden at Yorke made fealtie and did homage vnto the King by oth who receyued of the King for yéelding vp of Berwike vnto him many honors and preferments notwithstanding this Earle returned againe to Rebellion who holding Dunbar against the King was beséeged by William Mountacute Earle of Salisburie This yeare William Elsing Mercer of London obteyning Rising Spittle 1. Leyland the Kings licence made a new Hospitall of an olde house of Nunnes by Creeplegate within the wall of London â—iber trinitate and placing Chanons Regular there he became their first Priour endowing the same with Lands for the reléefe of the poore and impotent Nicholas Pike Iohn Husband the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Iohn Preston Draper the 28. of October Adam Tarleton first Bishop of Hereford then of Worcester Anno reg 7. is now translated to Winchester Edward Bayholl King of Scottes held a Parliamente at 1333 Gallowey to the which came the noble men of Englande and made clayme for their landes and possessions whiche they had in Scotland and so returned peaceably into their Countrey King Edward kept his Christmas at Wallingford The Quéene was deliuered of a daughter named Isabell at Wodstoke The King sommoned a Parliamente to be holden at Yorke the same to begin on Monday the seconde wéeke of Lent to the which Parliament the King of Scottes called Conquerour although he were warned to be there yet he came not but sent messengers to excuse him to wéete Henry de Bellemount and William Montacute Earles certaine other Barons and Knightes who signified that the King of Scottes Conquerour coulde not be there withoute great danger for that certaine Scottes lay in the Ilands ready to do him domage At the feast of Saint Iohn Baptist the said King of Scottes King of Scottes did homage Conquerour did his homage to King Edward of England at Newcastell vpon Tine and not long after that King Edward tooke homage of the Duke of Briteine for the Earledome of Richmont In a Parliament at London it was tolde the King that the Scottes had taken Richard Talbot sixe other knightes and had slayne many footemen wherefore the King tooke a fiftéenth of the Laytie and a tenth of the Cleargie to the intente the malice of the Scottes mought bée brideled Iohn Hamond William Hausard the 28 of September Sherifes Maior Sir Iohn Poultney Draper the 28 of October King Edwarde wente toward the Marches of Scotland and wintered in those coastes but vnderstanding that the Earle Dassels was trayterously turned to the Scots Henry Bellemount beséeged by the Scottes he entred Scotland and reysed the séege and then kept his Christmas at Roxborow Anno reg 8. Presently after the feast of the Epiphany the French King sente messengers to King Edward to wéete the Bishop of Aur enges and certayne Lordes to treate a peace for the Scottes who wayted for an answere in Englande till Midlent and then at Nottingham a truce was granted vnto them vntill the feast of Saint Iohn next comming that in the meane time a Parliament might be holden of matters 1334 concerning peace and the state of both the Kingdomes in which Parliament holden at Yorke it was decréed that the King shoulde passe with his armie through Scotlande beyond the Scottish Seas the which thing was quickly performed and done but the Scottes desirous to fight a fielde they fayned that they woulde haue peace to obteyne the which many came aboute the feast of Saint Michaell and chiefely the Earle of Dascels wherevpon it came to passe that afterward the Earle of Morefe being taken prisoner at Edenborough was sente to be kept prisoner in England and Richard Talbot was ransomed for two thousand fiue hundred Markes but the Earle of Dascels willing to shew that he was truly reuolted to the King of England rode againste the Scottes at the séege of a certayne Castell and falling into the hands of his enimies bycause he woulde not yéeld he was slayne with thirtéene of his men After the feast of Saint Michaell the King continuing still in the Marches of Scotlande was dayly entreated by messengers from the French King concerning some peace to be made About the feast of Saint Martine Edwarde Bohune a noble man was drowned in the marches of Scotland for as he was driuing a bootie of Cattell ouer a Riuer he felte himselfe in danger causing his guide to ride before hym through the water where through the smoothnesse of the stone whereon the water ranne his guide not being able to take sure footing fell downe with his mayster being armed and before any help could come they were drowned in the bottome of the Channell Iohn Archbishop of Canterburie went ouer the Sea to Phillip de Valoys King of France requesting of him the continuance of peace and amitie betwixt the two Kingdomes to be mainteyned Secondly that all Townes and Castels taken before time by his father should be restored to the King of England Thirdly that the sayde French King should sweare neuer to giue ayde to the Scottes agaynst the King of Englande vnder which conditions the two Kings of both Realmes shoulde prepare to trauell towardes the holy lande and to fight agaynst the enimies of Christ But the French King accompted the King of Englande not worthie of his friendship so long as he continued warres against the Scottes his friendes whome he sayde were iust men Unto the seconde petition he woulde not otherwise consente therevnto than if all charges were repayde agayne which his father Charles de
fact he was drawne hanged and quartered To this Counsell came two Earles and two Clearkes sente from the Princes electours signifying that their election was made to the King for the dignitie of the Kingdome of Almayne These messengers the Kyng receyued King Edvvard elected King of Almayne with due honour but aunswered them that hée woulde not take so great honour vppon hys shoulders vntill hée had the Crowne of France due vnto him in peaceable possession A little after Easter there were great Justings holden Iusting at Lincolne at Lincolne by the Duke of Lancaster where were presente many Ladyes with the Countesse and also certayne messengers sente from the King of Spayne for the Lady Ioane daughter to the King that should be maryed to their Mayster the Kings sonne whome hir husbande méeting she dyed of the great Pestilence so that he followed hir to the graue The same yeare King Edward with his eldest sonne the Earle of Warwike and the Bishop of Winchester went to Caleis from whence the King sente the Duke of Lancaster to Denemere to receyue in his behalfe fealtie and homage of the Earle of Flanders â—hich thing was by the sayd Earle perfourmed Henry Picard Simon Dolseby the 23. of September Sherifes Maior Tho. de la More Great PestileÌ„ce Tho. Waâ—sing Iohn Loueken Fishmonger the 28. of October There beganne amongst the East Indians and Tartarians a certayne Pestilence which at length waxed so generall infecting the middle region of the ayre so greatly that it destroyed the Sarasins Turkes Sirians Palestinians and the Gretians with a wonderfull or rather incredible death in so much that those peoples béeing excéedingly dismayde with the terrour thereof consulted amongst themselues and thought it good to receyue the Christian Faith and Sacramentes for they had intelligence that the Christians whiche dwelte on this side the Gréekish Sea were not so greatly more than common custome was troubled wyth sicknesse and mortalitie At length this terrible slaughter passed ouer into those Countreys which are on this side the Alpes and from thence to the partes of France which are called Hesperia and so by order along into Germany and Dutchland And the seauenth yeare after it beganne it came into England and first beganne in the Townes and Ports ioyning on the Sea coastes in Dorsetshire where euen as in other Countreys it made the Countrey quite voyde of inhabitantes so that there were almost none left aliue From thence it passed into Deuonshire and Somersetshire euen vnto Bristowe and raged in suche sort that the Glocestershiremen woulde not suffer the Bristowmen to haue anye accesse vnto them or into their Countrey by anye meanes but at length it came to Gloceâ—â—or yea and to Oxforde and London and finally it spread ouer all England and so wasted and spoyled the people that scarce the tenth person of all sortes was lefte aliue when Church yardes were not sufficiente and large ynough to burie theyr dead in they chose certayne Fields appoynted for that purpose Gualter Mayny Lord of Mayny borne in Cambray who serued in company of Henry Duke of Lancaster in his great Records of the Garter actes of Gaseoyne and Gâ—ien after this time made Knight of the Garter in England hauing a respect to the danger that might fall in time of this Pestilence then begonne in England if the Churches and Church-yardes in London might not suffise to bury the multitude he purchased a péece of ground called Spittle Croft for that it belonged to the Mayster and bréethren of Saint Barthelmewes Spittle conteyning Register of the Charterhouse Ex Carta thirtéene acres and a rodde without the barres of Weast Smithfield and caused the same to be enclosed and dedicated by Ralph Bishop of London in the which place in the yeare Charterhouse Church-yard by London following was buryed more than fiftie thousand persons as is affirmed by the Kings Charters which I haue séene and also by an inscription fixed on a stone crosse in the same place And in memorie thereof the same Gualter Mayny caused vpon the same grounde a Chappell to be builded Anno reg 23. and after founded the same to be an house of Charterhouse Roâ—de Auesburie Charterhouse at London founded Monkes Also about the same time one Iohn Cory procured of Nicholas Prior of the Church of the Holy Trinitie néere vnto Alâ—gate one tost of ground néere vnto East Smithfield for the buriall of them that dyed that it mought be called the Church yard of the Holy Trinitie which ground he caused to be enclosed and dedicated by Nicholas Northbroke Bishop of London in the which place King Edward the third by consent of the sayd Prior and Couent founded the Abbey Nevv Abbey by the Tovver of London founded Liber trinita Lond. Lib. Eastminster of Saint Mary of Grace in the yeare 1359. placing therein an Abbot and Monke of the order of Cisteaux whiche were white Monkes and named the place Eastminster All sutes and pleading in the Kings Bench and other places for a season ceassed Uery fewe noble men dyed among whome departed Iohn Mountgomery and his Lady the Lord Clisteles Captayne 1349 of Caleis dyed at Caleis and was buryed in the white Friers at London Of the common people togither with Religious and Clearkes there dyed an innumerable sorte for no man but God onely knewe how many There dyed from the first of January to the first of July in the Citie of Norwich 57374. persons besides Ecclesiasticall Mendicants Norvvich Regist of Norwich Anâ—â— ecclesi â—â—â— Yermouth and Dominikes There was buryed in the Church and Church-yard of Yermouth in one yeare 7052. men and women before which time the Personage there was worth 700. markes by yeare and afterwardes was scarse worth fortie pounde the yeare This note was certified to King Henry the seauenth in the â—â— of his raigne and the same is written on the gates of the Church of Yermouth This great Pestilence began at London about the feast of All Sainctes in y â— yeare 1348. What time this Pestilence had wasted all England y e Scots greatly reioycing mocked sware oft-times by the vile death of y â— Englishmen but y â— sword of Gods wrath departing froÌ„ thence slew coÌ„sumed the Scots in no lesse nuÌ„bers than it did the other It also wasted the Welchmen and within a while passed ouer into Ireland where it destroyed a great nuÌ„ber of English people that dwelt there but suche as were right Irishmen borne y â— dwelt in the hilly countreys it scarcely touched so that few of theÌ„ died therof This plague coÌ„tinued sometime in one place sometime in another vntill the yeare of our Lord 1357. The same yeare for a truce or finall peace to be concluded the B. of Norwich the Earle of Northampton the Earle of Stafford Richard Talbot Walter Mayny Knightes sayled ouer the Sea into France whom y â— Frenchmen met peaceably but they would not agrée to a
â—â—nall peace vnlesse that Caleis were restored to theÌ„ againe which would not be granted and the truce whiche was taken for a yeare was so continued But the Earle of Flanders who would not in any case receyue conditions of peace vnlesse the French King were quite forsaken notwithstanding his solemne oth not long after entred into Flanders with a great power of Frenchmen burning and killing where euer he came but the people of the Countrey with a few Englishmen withstoode him stoutely and gaue him a sore skirmish in the which beside that many Frenchmen were slayne the Earle himselfe was forced to flie for the whiche worthy acte many Knightes were made amongst the which was Iohn de Filebert and English man In the feast of the Natiuitie of Saint Iohn the Quéene was purified at Windesore where were solemne Iustes and running at the Tilt at the which Dauid King of Scottes Iustes at VVindsore was present and the Earle of Ewe the Lord Tankeruill Lord Charles de Valoys and many other Strangers captiues who by the Kings licence were permitted to runne also at the Tilte at the which pastime the price of the field was adiudged to the Earle of Ewe After in Sommer season these Strangers passed their time in hunting in the company of the King and other nobles of the Realme at Claringdon in Wiltshire nigh Salisburie and in diuers other Forrestes Whiles the King was thus occupyed the Frenchmen notwithstanding the truce entred the marches of Britaine but the sonnes of Sabater with a few other who went out a forraging tooke Thomas Dagworth Knight a man of great experience who but with a few men to wéete sixtéene armed men entred the woodde against these robbers and inuaded them slaying to the number of thrée hundred but at the length being stricken fiue times in the face with Quarels Sir Thomas Dagvvorth slayne all his men being first slayne he himselfe was thrust through the body with a sword Adam of Burie Ralph of Linne the. 28 of September Sherifes Maior Ro. Auesbery Adam Merâ— William Turke Fishmonger the. 28. of October About the feast of Saint Michael more than 120. persons of Sealande and Hollande comming through Flaunders vnto London sometime in the Church of Saint Paule sometyme in other places of the Citie twice in the day in the sighte of all people from the loynes vnto the héeles couered in lynnen A bloudy Procession of publicans clothe all the rest of their bodies being bare hauing on theyr heades hats with red crosses before and behinde euery one in their right handes a whip with thrée cordes eache corde hauing a knotte in the middest beat themselues on theyr bare bloudie bodies going in procession foure of them singing in theyr owne language all the other aunswering them The same yeare the Earle of Lancaster the Barons of Stafforde and Greystocke also the heires of the Lordes Percy and Neuel and the Lord Burniual with Barthelmew Burwash and diuerse other about the feast of Al-saintes passed ouer sea into Gascoign to delay the furious vprore that Iohn de Valoys sonne to the French king had made in that dukedome greatly spoyling and wasting the same Also the kings counsel ordained that none of the kings Justices during the time of their offices shoulde receyue any fée gift or reward of any man except it were of the king himselfe Also thys yeare in the Countie of Oxforde nyghe vnto A Serpent vvith tvvo heades in Oxfordshire a towne called Chippingnorton there was founde a Serpent hauing two heades and faces like women and being shaped after the newe tyre of that time another after the manner of the old attyre and it had great wings after the manner of a Flyndermouse or Bat. About the feast of Al-sainctes kyng Edwarde beyng accompanyed K. Edvvarde sayled tovvards Flaunders with the Earle of Lancaster and Southfolke and diuerse others passed ouer the seas into Flaunders and theÌ„ce leading his armie towardes Fraunce the French men made meanes vnto him to renewe their truce and nowe the Earle of Flaunders submitted himselfe the thirde time vnto the kings mercie and dominion Then the king returning toward Englande to solemnizate the translation of S. Thomas the Confessour and Bishoppe of Hereforde dyd wyth his presence and Nobilitye honoure the same to the greate expences of Nicholas Cantulupus Baron and cousin to the sayde Saint Thomas during whiche feaste and solemnitie it was signified to the King by the Secretaries of Emericus of Padua who was a féed manne to the king of Calleis like to haue bin betrayed Englande that on the fourtéenth day of Januarie nexte comming Geffrey Cherney Knight and manye other Frenche men shoulde be receyued into Caleis vnto whom the sayd towne was solde by the sayde Emericus but the Towne beyng presentlye rescued by king Edwarde the sayde Emericus of Padua with other Genoways coÌ„tinued in Caleis beyng maintayned there at the costes of the Frenche king againste the king of Englande when he besieged it who also after the yéelding of it to the King of England being pardoned bothe of life and lymme from thenceforth continued and dwelte as a féed man of the kyngs in the sayde Towne for the defence thereof At that tyme the sayde Geffrey was Lorde of Matas a man more skylfull in warfare than anye Frenche man in Fraunce Wherefore he was greatelye estéemed euen to the time of his death This craftie deuiser indeuored by his letters wherin he made promise of large giftes of golde and other sophisticall perswasitions quite to subuert the fayth and loyaltie of the sayde Emericus Finally thys craftie deuiser agréed with this false man that for twentie thousande French crownes he shoulde lette in the Frenche menne to the Towne and as muche as laye in hym delyuer vppe to the Frenche menne both the Towne and Castell This bargaine being most traytorously made by othe and breaking of y e Sacrament betwixt them yet all this notwythstanding he wrote letters vnto the Kyng touching the state of the whole matter but verye priuilye howe that hée was readie to shewe friendshippe to the Frenche menne yet meanyng to make frustrate theyr purpose whereby they shoulde be conuicted of breakyng the truce and also manye of them shoulde be taken to bée raunsomed wherefore kyng Edwarde spéedilye passed ouer beyng accompanyed wyth hys eldest Sonne the Earle of Marche and a fewe other commyng before the tyme appoynted for the yéeldyng of the Towne certayne dayes Therefore Anno reg 24 hée beyng come to Callayes hée sayde certayne men of armes wythin the Uaultes whyche were betwixte the outter gate and the inner parte of the Castell buyldyng a thinne and stender Wall before them newelye sette vppe not made of Playster but of counterâ—ayte matter whyche ioyned to the other Wal craftilye deuised and made like the olde worke so that no manne woulde Judge that that anye were enclosed therin Also he caused the maynepostes of the drawe bridge to bée sawed
of the couenants Embassadoures are sente to the Sea of Rome from eyther Realme On the King of Englands Anno reg 28. behalfe went the Bishop of Norwich the Duke of Lancaster the Earle of Arundell and other knightes who going to Auinion there came to them the Archbishop of Rohan the Duke of Burgoigne Geffrey Charney and other of the French Kings Counsell all these were receyued in great honor many Cardinalles and Bishops met the Duke of Lancaster who brought him for the space of two miles vnto Auinion and to the Popes Pallace at length in the Consistorie of the Pope he with the Cardinalles and Embassadoures being present the causes of their message was declared and the Embassadoures of England requested to haue the couenants coÌ„firmed which had bin concluded at Caleis to whom the FrenchmeÌ„ answered that gladly they would haue peace but touching Aquitaine and the foresaid Countreys as they sayde the French King could not nor they might giue their assents that the same shoulde be alienated from the entire body of the Kingdome to the which as well the King as they had taken an oth to maynteyne but yet they could be contented that the profitable dominion of the sayd Duchy and Countreys should be deliuered and come to the King of England as his auncesters had Aquitayne but so yet as the regalitie of the Crowne of France should euer be reserued The Englishmen requested that these sayd dominions should 1354 be absolutely and without any condition restored to the King answere also was made to the reason of the Frenchmen touching the oth of their King and themselues whereby they were bound to conserue the integritie of the honour of their Kingdome to wéete that the Pope for the benefite of peace might assoyle them from the saide othe and this as to certayne articles premitted it shoulde be very well done but yet nothing was done that might be offorce to the furthering of the peace And so the Embassadoures without effect returned home the Bishop of Norwich excepted that deceassed and was buried there to whome succéeded Thomas Percy The King of Nauarre through a brawle raysed slewe Charles de Spayne Marshall of France wherevpon to auoyd the displeasure and punishment of the French King he fled into his owne Countrey sending his Unckle vnto the Duke of Lancaster with Letters humbly besieching him that he woulde come into Normandie to his ayde and defence and to receyue an oth of fidelitie and amitie of hym against all men The Duke therefore getting licence of the King assembled togither a great Nauie at Southampton where when the Duke was readie to haue made Sayle Knightes that he had sente into Normandie came backe to view the truth of this businesse by whome it was notifyed to the Duke that the sayde King of Nauarre hys Cousin was reconciled to the King and so the Dukes voyage was stayde The Friers Augustines Church in London was reedified by Humfrey Bohun Earle of Hereford and Estsex whose Frier Augustines Church in London Ro de Auesberie Dissention at Oxford â—isto Auria body was buryed in the Quire of the same Church A great dissention fell in Oxford betwéene a Scholler and a Uintner for a quart of Wine so that the Scholler poured the Wine on the Uintners head brake his head with the potte by reason whereof a great conflict was made betwixt the Schollers of the Uniuersitie and the Lay men of the Towne in the which many Lay men were wouÌ„ded and about twentie slaine These troubles continued the space of two dayes and then the Religious men of the Towne labouring to make peace the Lay men pursued a Scholler and wounded him to death yet that day the tumult was appeased but on the morrow the people of the Uillages about Oxford being coÌ„federate with the Lay men of the Towne came with great force and erected a blacke Banner whervpon the Schollers fled to their Colledges but the Lay meÌ„ breaking vp the dores slew many of them and threw them into their priuies they cut and rent their Bookes and bare away what they listed By this meanes the Uniuersitie was dissolued the Schollers sauing of Marton Colledge went to their friends so continued more than a yeare Many both Schollers and Lay men were endited Citizens of Oxford endited by y â— Kings Justices amoÌ„gst y â— which four burgesses y â— had bin Maiors of Oxford were sente to the Tower of London William Totingham Richard Smelt the 28. of Septem Sherifes Maior Thomas Leggy Skinner the 28. of October About the xx of Nouember K. Edward held a ParliameÌ„t Ro. Auesbery at Westminster in the which was granted towards the recouerie of his title in France fiftie Shillings of euery sacke of wooll to be transported ouer the Seas for the space of sixe yeares then next following by meanes whereof the King might dayly dispend during the said sixe yeares more than 1000. markes sterling for by the coÌ„mon opinion ther were more thaÌ„ an 100000. sackes of wooll yearely into foraigne lands transported so that during those sixe yeares the sayd grant extended to fiftéene huÌ„dred thousand pounds sterling King Edward helde a great Justing at Wodstoke for honour Anno reg 29 Iusting at VVodstock of the Quéene who was then purifyed of hir sonne Thomas After Gaster in a Parliament at Westminster the King 1355 tooke the quarell of Oxford into his hands and sauing euery mans right he forgaue the Schollers all the whole trespasse Ro. de Auesburie so that in the Sommer following the Uniuersitie beganne Vniuersitie of Oxford restored agayne to flourish and the King gaue to the Chancellour of Oxford the only view of the assise of Bread Ale and Wine and all other victualles excluding the Maior vtterly from that office The communaltie of the Towne gaue to the Uniuersitie 250. poundes for amends sauing vnto them neuerthelesse the actions which they had vnto euery singular person of the Towne In this Parliament the processe of the iudgement made against Roger Mortimer Earle of March was reuoked so Ex Recordis that the yong Roger Mortimer sonne to Edmond Mortimer was restored to the title and possessions of the Earledome of March as Cousin and heire to his Grandfather King Edward being about Sandwich on his iourney towardes King Edvvardâ— sayled into France France and the Prince of Wales at Sutton in Deuonshire on hys voyage towardes Aquitayne looking for a prosperous winde by the space of fortie dayes or more all things else being readie the French King had his armieâ— deuided in sundrie places about in the Hauens of Normandie and other partes to empeach the landing of the King and Prince and so long they lay there that the Frenchmen with their hired Souldioures did fowly wast their owne Countrey and consumed so many thousands of Crownes out of the French Kings coffers vaynely that in the ende he being néedie payde not his people and so
toke them and led them into Scotlande this he did in reuenge of his Fathers iniurie who was before taken by the English men and kept prisoner in the Castel of Scarborow Iohn Philpot a CitizeÌ„ of London a maÌ„ of iolly wit very rich in substance considering the want of y e Duke of Lancaster and other Lords that ought to haue defended y e realm Anno reg 2. and lamenting the oppressions of the inhabitauntes hyred wyth his owne money to the number of a thousand souldiours the whiche mighte take from the sayde Iohn Mercer both his shippes and goods whiche he had by reuenge takeÌ„ and defended the Realme of England from suche incursions and it came to passe within a small time that his hyred meÌ„ toke the sayde Iohn Mercer with all his ships which he had violently taken from Scarborow and fiftéene Spanish shippes that were laden with muche riches and were with hym in ayde at that present There was greate ioy made among y e people all men praysing that worthy mans bountifulnesse and loue towards the king The Earles and Barons séeing so laudable an acte atchieued by Iohn Philpot tooke it grieuously althoughe they knewe themselues guiltie firste they secretly lye in awayte to do him some displeasure and after they spake against him openly saying it was not lawfull for him to doe such things without the counsell of the King and Realme certayne of the Lordes but the chiefe being Hugh Earle of Stafforde that rehearsed these things thus against him were aunsweared by the same Iohn Philpot sir know sayth he that I neyther sente my money nor men to the daunger of the Seas that I shoulde take from you or your fellowes the good renoume of Chilualrie and winne it to me but being sorrowfull to sée the peoples myserie in my Countrey whych nowe through your slouthfulnesse of the most noble Lady of Nations is brought to lye open to the spoyling of euerye vilest nation when there is not one of you that doth put hys hande to the defence thereof I haue therefore set forth my selfe and mine for the sauing of my nation and Countrey the Earle had not to aunswere The. xi of August certaine wicked persons of the Kings Murder in the Church of VVestminster Tho Walsing house being armed at high Masse tyme entred the Churche of Westminster Abbay and there set vppon two valiaunt Esquiers Iohn Schakel and Robert Hawley whyche had escaped out of the Tower of London to the sayde Abbay for refuge of Sanctuarie they slewe the sayde Robert Hawley in the quire before the Priours stal and slewe a Monke which intreated them to spare the sayde Robert in that place Syr Ralph Ferreis and sir Alan Buxule Captain of the Tower some say the Lord Latimer wer the captaines of this mischiefe The aforesayd two Esquires Robert Hawley and Iohn Shakell in the battayle of Nazers in Spaine toke the Erle of Dene poisoner who deliuered vnto him his soÌ„ for a pledge and bycause they would not present the sayde Earles son to the King who woulde giue them little or nothing for hym the foresayde Allen Buxule with other were sent to do thys myschiefe who slewe the one and caste the other in prison Iohn Boseham Thomas Cornewalis the. 28. of Septem Sherifes Maior Iohn Philpot his charitie Sir Iohn Philpot Grocer the. 28. of October This Iohn Philpot Maior of London gaue to the same Citie certaine tenementes for the which the Chamberlain payeth yearely to xiij poore people euerye of them seauen pence the wéeke for euer and as any of those thirtéene persons dyeth the Maior appointeth one and the Recorder another The Scottes beganne to Rebell and a Squire of theirs 1379 Tho. Walsing called Alexander Ramsey with fortye persons in a nighte toke the Castell of Berwicke but the ninth day following the Erle of Northumberland recouered it and slew the Scots that were therein The Marchauntes of London wickedly slew a rich marchaunt of Genua for that he woulde carry to a better market the spices that he had promised to bring into this Country the doers wherof were after apprehended and some for that fact executed as after shal appeare So great a mortality of men hapned in the North parts Pestilence in the North. Tho. Wals of England as neuer had bin séene before which the Scots séeing raunged through and slewe with the sworde them that were sicke of the plague and so pursued them that had not the plague that they droue out of the Countrey almost all the able men In a Parliament at London it was decréed that euerye Taxe Duke should pay ten markes to the King the Archbishops the like Earles Bishops and mitered Abbots shoulde giue sixe markes and euery Monke xl pence no religious person man or woman Parson Uicar or Chapleine escaped this taxe Iohn Mountfort Duke of Brytaine returned to his countrey where he was receyued with great honour A bushel of Wheate was solde for sixe pence a gallon of Anno reg 3. VVheat and VVine cheape white Wine sixe pence and a gallon of red Wine for foure pence Iohn Heylisdom William Barret the. 28. of September Sherifes Maior Tho. Walsing S. Iohn AruÌ„dale drovvned Iohn Hadley Grocer the. 28. of October Iohn of Arundale brother to the Earle of Arundale was sent to helpe the Duke of Brytaine with manye other noble knightes and Esquires who beginning their voyage wyth spoyling their own Countrey rauishing wiues widowes and Uirgins and robbing of Churches were by tempeste driuen on the rockes of a certaine Islande in Ireland when they were al most miserablye drowned with their treasure and prouisions which was of inestimable value Sir T. Banister Cro. Matoris Lon. sir Roger Trumpington sir Nicholas Kâ—riel sir Thomas Dale sir Iohn Sentcler and sixe other knightes perished there the sixtéenth of December In a Parliamente at London was graunted to the Kyng 1380 a tenth of the Ecclesiastical persons and a fiftéenth of the secular vpon condition that no other Parliament shoulde be holden from the Calendes of March til Michaelmasse A combat was foughte at Westminster in the kings presence A combat at VVestminster betwéene Iohn Ausley knight and Thomas Catrington Esquire whom the forsayde knight had appealed of treson for selling the Castel of Saint Sauiours whiche the Lord Chandos had builded in the I le of Constantine in France and the knight ouercame the Esquire Thomas of Woodstocke Earle of Buckingham Thomas Percy Hugh Caluerley Robert Knowles Lorde Basset sir Iohn Harleston William of Windsore approued and tryed Knightes were sent with a great power to ayde the Duke of Brytaine who were conuayed to Caleis and from thence rode aboute throughe Fraunce spoyling the Countrey and slaying the people to the borders of Brytaine and entred the same without losse eyther of man or beast In this iourney sir Iohn Philpot Citizen of London Iohn Philpot his good seruice deserued great commendations
sureties for the prosecuting of their appeale Richarde Earle of Arundell was arreigned in a redde Gowne and a Scarlet whood and forthwith the Duke of Lancaster sayde to the Lorde Neuell take from hym hys girdle and whoode and so it was done and héerewith the Articles of appeale béeing to the sayde Earle declared with a valiaunt and a bolde mynde hée denyed that hée was a Traytor and required the benefite of the pardon protesting that he would not goe from the fauour of the King and his grace The Duke of Lancaster sayde to hym thou Traytor that pardon is reuoked The Earle answered truely thou lyest I was neuer Traytor Also the Duke of Lancaster sayde why diddest thou purchase thy pardon the Earle answered to escape the tongues of myne enimies of whome thou arte one and verily as farre forth as toucheth Treason thou hast more néede of pardon than I. The King sayde make answere vnto thyne appeale The Earle answered I sée well that these persons haue accused me of Treason shewing the appealementes but truely they all lye I was neuer Traytor but I aske alwayes the benefyte of my pardon the whyche youre Grace granted to me within these sixe yeares now last past being of full age and of your francke good will and proper motion Then sayd the King I did so grant it that it should not be against me then sayde the Duke of Lancaster then the graunt auayleth not The Erle answered truly of that pardon I know lesse than thy selfe that was then on the further side the Seas Then said Sir Iohn Bushy that pardon is reuoked by the King the Lordes and vs his faithfull people the Earle answered where be those faithful people I know thée well and thy company how ye are gathered togither not to deale faithfully for the faithful people of the Realme are not héere and therefore the people do lamente for me and well I know that thou hast bin euer false And then Bushy and his fellowes cried out Behold soueraigne Lord and King how this Traytor goeth about to reyse sedition betwixt vs and those people that are at home The Earle answered ye lye I am no Traytor Then rose the Earle of Darby and sayde didst not thou say thus to me at Huntington where we were first assembled togither to rise that it was the best afore all things to take the King The Earle sayd to the Earle of Darby thou lyest on thy head I neuer thought of my soueraigne Lorde the King but that that was good and for his honor Then sayd the King didst not thou say to me in time of thy Parliament in the Bath behinde the White Hall that Sir Simon de Burley was worthie of death for many causes and I answered that I knew no cause of death in him and yet thou and thy fellowes didst trayterouslie put him to death and then the Duke of Lancaster pronounced iudgement against him in this manner Richard I Iohn Steward of England iudge thée to be a Traytor and I condemne thée to be drawne and hanged to be beheaded and quartered and thy lands tailed and not tailed from thée and from thine heires of thy body descending to be confilcate then the King for reuerence of his bloud commanded him only to be beheaded and then was he ledde to the Tower hill and there beheaded and was buried at the Augustine Friers in London Also the same day the King appoynted the Lord Cobham accused by the commons to be arraigned Also vpon the Saterday Sir Thomas de Mortimer was sommoned vpon payne to be banished as a Traytor within sixe moneths to come to be tried in iudgement and then saide the King peraduenture the Earle of March can not take him and therefore I will so long stay for his certificate out of Ireland Also a declaration was made that all benefices or gifts granted or alienated by those that were already condemned or after were to be condemned in this Parliament and other whatsoeuer graunted sith the tenth yeare of this Kings raigne should be reuoked Also on Monday following the certificate giuen in of the Earle of Notingham then Captayne of Caleis in whose custodie the Duke of Glocester was that the same Duke might not be brought to be tried in iudgement bycause he was dead in his custodie at Caleis at the petition yet of the saide appellents the same sentence was pronounced against him which had bin pronounced earst against the Earle of Arundell Also the Archbishop of Canterbury first his temporalities being confiscated was banished the Realme On the Tuesday Rikell on of the Kings Justices borne in Ireland read certayne confessions drawne in writing vpon the said treasons put forth affirming that the same were the confessions of the said Duke by him put forth or discouered and written with his owne hand Also the Earledome of Chester was aduanced to the honor of a Duchie by annexing thereto the Lands of the sayd Earle of Arundell confiscate Also the same day the Earle of Salisburie made request to haue a Scire facias graunted to him against the Earle of March for the Lordship of Denbigh in Wales and the King answered therevpon that he would take deliberation Also on the Wednesday it was ordeyned that the Lands of the sayde Earle of Arundell annexed to the Duchie of Chester should enioy the liberties of the same Duchie excepted that to the Welchmen of those partes their olde Lawes and customes should still remayne and be continued Also it was ordeyned that such as gaue eyther counsell ayde or fauour to the children of them that were condemned or that shoulde be condemned in this Parliamente should be punished as Traytors On Friday the King appoynted a prefixed day to the Archbishop of Canterbury to wéete the third of the sixt wéeke to depart the Realme Also it was ordeyned that all the Lords Spiritual and Temporall should sweare inuiolably to obserue whatsoeeuer in this Parliament were enacted and that the censures of the Church should be pronounced by the Prelates against all those that should go against the same Also the Earle of Warwike was arreigned and his whood being taken off and the appeale read as he had bin some miserable old woman confessed all things conteyned in the appeale wéeping wayling and howling to be done trayterously by him and submitting himselfe to the Kings grace in all things sorowing that euer he had bin associate vnto the appellants Then the King demanded of him by whome he was allured to ioyne with them and he answered by Thomas Duke of Glocester and the Abbot of Saint Albons and a Monke recluse in Westminster and euer besought the King of grace and mercie and the King granted him life to be led in perpetuall prison out of the Realme his goodes moueable and vnmoueable to be confiscate as the Earle of Arundels had bin and the King commanded that he should be had to the Tower of London and after to be conuayde â—uer to the Castell within the Isle
the number of thréescore and foure The tenth of September Iohn Claydon Skinner and A Skinner a Baker brent Richard Gurmonfrench Baker in Lombardstreeâ—e of London were brent in Smithsield Iohn Michelâ— Thomas Allin the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Mooregate first made in the vvall of LoÌ„don Thomas Fawconar Mercer the 28. of October This Thomas Fawconar Maior caused to breake the wall of London néere to the ende of Colmanstreete and made there a Gate vpon the moore side where was none before He also caused the ditches of the Citie to be cleansed and a commâ—â— priuie that was on the moore without the wall to be taken downe and another to be made within the Citie vpon Walbrooke into the which brooke he caused the water of citie to be turned by grates of iron in diuers places Our Embassadors the Bishops of Durham Norwich returning now the second time out of France declared to the King that the Frenchmen did but vse fraude and deceiptes wherefore the King being stirred vp vnto anger determined to aâ—atâ— their â—â—â—rninâ—â—â— and to teach them to vnderstaÌ„d their fully in â—â—aking of a â—â—éeping Dogge and forth with the King commanded all the Preâ—â—tes and Nobles of the Realme to come to London there to intreate of waightâ— affaires coÌ„cerning y â— Realme at y â— which time the Archbishop of Canterbury held a great counsayle in y â— which were chosen 〈◊〉 of the Cleargie of England to go to the generall Counsell that should be holden at Constance a Citie of Germâ—â— and so there were sent the Bishops of Salisburie Bath and Hereford and with them the Abbot of Westminster and the Prior of Worcester and many other wise men in coâ—â—â—â—â—â— of the Earle of Warwike whose presence did theÌ„ much honour This yeare the order of Church seruice throughout Anno reg 3. 1415 Order of Church seruice in England altered England was changed from the vse of Saint Paule to the vse of Salisburie which was to the great disliking of many men in those dayes When King Henry perceyâ—ed that the Frenchmen had with deceite entreated him with fayned promises and faire words he gathered his â—aâ—y togither apointed his bowmeÌ„â— men of armes prepared his engins all things necessary â—or y â— warres coÌ„manding all y â— should go w e him to be ready against the feast of Saint Iohn Baptist and to mâ—eâ—e him at Hampton The eyghtenth day of â—â—â—e King Henry with many Lords and others rode from London toward South-hampton the Maior 〈◊〉 and Craftes of the Câ—tle 〈…〉 ing him on his â—â—â—y to â—he â—owne of Kingston vpon Thamis whileâ—â— the King 〈◊〉 â—◠〈◊〉 〈◊〉 where he abode for his reliâ—â—â—â— and â—â—â—ffe â—â—nging to the warres On the last â—â— July was discouered a great conspiracie Conspiracy disclosed Tho. Wals Regist Maior against him by three 〈…〉 is 〈◊〉 of all the rest he pat greatest trust and confidâ—â—â—◠〈…〉 of them was Henry Scrope Lord Treasours the second Richard â—aâ—â—e of Cambridge brother â—o Edward Duke of Yorke and Sir Thomas Grey a Knight of the North these had made Edmond Earle of Maâ—â—h 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vpon a Booke not to dâ—â—â—â—ose their counsell and then â—â—lâ—â— him that they thought to 〈◊〉 the King and to 〈◊〉 the sayd Edâ—â—oÌ„â—â— King the which â—â— he refused to take vpon him they would â—â—ey him where vppon the Earle prayse them to giue him one houâ—es spaâ—e to take â—â—uiseâ—ent what was best to doe whiche being granted the Earle went secretly and â—olâ— the Kingâ— therâ—â—â— who caused them forthwith â—o be apprehended and brought before him where they confessed the â—â—â—ason for the which on the sixth of August they were arâ—â—â—gned in y â— Kings presence and the same day all three beheaded The Earle was buried head and all buâ— the other heaâ—â— were â—eâ—â—â— the one to Yorke the other to Newcastell vpon Tine and there seâ— vp On the eleuenth of August the King tooke shipping and entred the Sea with a thousand Sayle Enguerant sayth King Henry sayled into Normandy Tho. Wâ—â—s Titus Liuius Enguerant 1600. Sayles and the third night after arriued at Kedecaâ—x in Normandy whiche is betwixte Hereflete and â—imflete of whose comming all the Cities and States of thâ—â—â— partes being aduertised were striken with great feare The King the Dukes of Clarence and of Glocester his bréethren the Duke of Yorke his Unkle the Earles Barons Knightes Gentlemen and Souldiours 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 anâ—â—â—â— â— there and tooke land without any resistance and the King forthwith falling to the ground vpon his knées deuoutely prayde to God that to his honor he would giue him iustice of his enimies He had at his landing in his host sixe thousande Speares and xxiiij thousand footemen besides Gunners and other enginars artificers and labourers of whome the King had great abundance The King gaue to diuers Gentlemen the order of Titus Liuius Knighthoode and assigned the bearing of his Standarts and Banners to such meÌ„ as he knew to be of great strength and prowesse All thing being set in good order and array the King with all his host ascended to the toppe of an high hill there nigh and there he rested the next day On the sixtéenth day of August the Duke of Clarence leader of the foreward in good ordinance entred his iourney towarde a Towne called Herefleete distant from Kedecamp scarcely thrée leagues where he lodged his host in a field before the towne The King at his comming lodged himselfe nigh to the first warde not farre from the Towne The Earle of Suffolke Michaell at Poole Chiefetayne of the rereward lodged on the other side before the Towne Other noble men that had the conduct of the two wings lodged them one on the right haÌ„d the other on the left Forthwith were sent to the Towne men of armes in great number to sée the scituation thereof who shortly returned with a great pray of Cattell and enformed the King of all his demaundes Hereflete is the key of the sée of all Normandy and is scituate Enguerant Description of Herefleete vpon the Sea side by the Riuer of Seene betwixte two hilles and through the middle thereof runneth a Riuer whiche not farre from the same Towne entreth into the Seane and from thence both those Riuers in one descende into the Sea where as a great and goodly Hauen is belonging to the same Towne which Hauen is garnished with the defence of two faire and strong Towers and in the same Hauen a right great Nauie of Shippes may ride in safetie and if the inhabitants of this Towne enclose and képe within the Towne the course of the foresayd Riuer by their sluces as they may right well do then the Riuer riseth without the Towne so high that it forecloseth all entries to the walles so that no man may approch the towne on that part This Towne is also defended with high and thicke walles and towers and is also enuironed with broade
and come downe in the midst Doctour Shaa by his sermon lost his honestie and soone after his life for â—erys shame of the worlde into whiche he durste neuer after come abroade But the Frier forced for no shame and so it harmed him the lesse How be it some doubt many thinke that Penker was not of counsayle of the matter before the coronation but after the common maner fel to flatterie after namely sith his Sermon was not incontinent vppon it but at Saint Marie Hospitall at the Easter after But certaine it is that Doctor Shaa was of counsayle in the beginning so farre forth that they determined that he should first breake the matter in a. SermoÌ„ at Paules Crosse in whiche he should by the authoritie of his preaching incline the people to the Protectors ghostly purpose But now was all the labour and studie in the deuise of some conuenient pretext for whyche the people shoulde be content to depose the Prince and accepte the Protector for King In which diuerse things they deuised But the thieâ— thing and the weighte of all that inuention rested in thys that they should alledge Bastardie eyther in king Edward himselfe or in his children or both So that he should séeme disabled to inherite the Crowne by the Dyke of Yorke and the prince by him To laye Burstardie in King Edwarde founded openlie to the rebuke of the Protectours owne mother which was mother to them both for in that point coulde be none other colour but to protende that his owne mother was an aduoutresse which notwithstanding to further thys purpose he letted not but naâ— the lesse he woulde that poynt shoulde be losse and more fauourably handled not euen fully plaine and directly but that the matter shoulde be touched aslope â—raâ—tily as thou 〈…〉 spared in that 〈…〉 t to speake al the troth for feare of his displeasure But the other poynt concerning the Bastardie that they deuised to surmise in King Edwardes children that woulde he should be openly declared and inforced to the vttermost The colour and pretext whereof cannot be wel perceyued but if we firste repeate you some things long before done about King Edwards mariage After that King Edwarde the fourth hadde deposed King Henrie the sixth and was in peaceable possessioÌ„ of y â— realm determining himselfe to marie as it was requisite both for himselfe and for the Realme he sent ouer in Ambassade the Earle of Warwicke with other noble men in his companye vnto Spaine to intreate and conclude a mariage betwéene King Edwarde and the Kings daughter of Spaine In which thyng the Earle of Warwicke founde the parties so towarde and willing that he spéedilyé according to his instructions without any difficultie brought the matter to very good coÌ„clusion Now happened it that in the meane season there came to make sute by petition to the king Dame Elizabeth Gray which was after his Quéene at that time a Widowe borne Dame Elizabeth Gray of noble bloude specially by hyr mother whiche was Dutches of Bedforde ere she married the Lorde Woodfielde hyr Father Howbeit this Dame Elizabeth hir selfe being in seruice wyth Quéene Margaret wife vnto King Henrie the sixth was maryed vnto one Iohn Gray an Esquire whom King Henrie made Knight vppon the fielde that he had on Bernet Heath by Saint Albons against King Edwarde And little while enioyed he that Knighthoode for he was at the same fielde slaine After which done and the Earle of Warwicke being in his Ambassade aboute the afore remembred mariage thys péere Ladie made humble sute vnto y e King that she might be restored vnto such small landes as hir late husbande had giuen hyr in ioynture Whome when the Kyng behelde and hearde hyr speake as she was both fayre and of a goodly fauour moderate of stature wel made and very wise he not only pitied hir but also waxed enamoured of hir And takyng hir after secretly aside beganne to enter in talking more familiarly Whose appetite when she perceyued she vertuously denyed hym But that did she so wisely with so good maner and words so wel set that she rather kindled his desire than quenched it And finallye after manye a méeting muche wooyng and manye greate promises she well espyed the Kings affection towarde hyr so greatelye encreased that shée durste somewhat the more boldely say hir minde as to him whose heart she perceyned more feruently set than to fall off for a worde And in conclusion she shewed him playne that as shée wyste hyr selfe to simple to be his wife so thoughte she hir selfe too good to be hys Concubine The King muche maruelling at hir constancie as hée that hadde not bene wonte else where to be so stiffelye sayde naye so muche estéemed hir continencie and chastitye that hée sette hyr vertue in the steade of possession and riches and thus takyng Counsayle of his desire determined in all possible haste iâ— mary hir And after he was thus appointed and hadde betwéene them twaine ensured hir then asked he Counsaile of hys other friendes and that in suche manner as they might then perceiue it booted not greatly to say nay Notwithstanding the Dutches of Yorke his mother was so sore moued ther w t y e she diswaded the mariage as much as she possible might The Kings Mother alleaging y e it was his honor profite and surety also to marie in a noble progenie out of his Realme whervpon depended great strength to his estate by y e affinitie and great possibilitie of encrease of his possession And that he coulde not well otherwise doe standing that the Earle of Warwick had so far moued alreadye which were not likely to take it wel iâ— al his voiage wer in such wise frustrate his apointments deluded And she sayd also y t it was not Princely to mary owne subiecte no greate occasion leading therevnto no possessions or other commoditie depending therevpon but onely as it were a rich man that woulde marie his mayde only for a little wanton votage vpon hyr person In which mariage many mo coÌ„mende the maydens fortune than the maisters wisedome And yet therin she sayd ther was more honestie than honor in this mariage For as much as there is betwéene no Merchaunte and his owne mayde so greate difference as betwéene the King and this widow In whose person albeit there was nothyng to be mislyked yet was there she sayde nothing so excellent but that it mighte bée founde in diuerse other that were more méetly quoth shée for your estate and maydens also wheras the only widowhead of Elizabeth Gray though she were in all other things conuenient for you shoulde yet suffice as me séemeth to refrayne you from hir mariage sithe it is an vnsitting thing and a very blemishe and high disparagemente to the sacred maiestie of a Prince that ought as nigh to approche priesthoode in cleanesse as he doth in dignitie to be defouled with Bigamie in his first mariage The King
the Ladye Elizabeth than for lacke of that affinitie the whole Realme shoulde runne to ruyne Wherefore hée sent to the Quéene being in Sanctuarie diuers and often messengers whiche shoulde excuse hym of all things before agaynst hir attempted and after shoulde so largelye promyse promotions not onely to hir but to hir sonne Thomas Marques Dorset that they shoulde bryng hir if it were possible into some wan hope The Messengers so perswaded the Quéene that shée beganne somewhat to reâ—ent in so muche that shée faythfully promysed to yéelde hir selfe to the Kyngs wyll and pleasure And so shée first delyuered vnto Kyng Richardes handes hir fyue daughters Afterwarde shée sent letters to the Marques hir sonne beyng then at Paris wyth the Earle of Richemond wylling hym in any wyse to repayre into Englande where for him were prouided great honours assertayning hym that all offences on both parties were forgiuen and forgotten After that King Richarde hadde thus pleased the mutable mynde of Quéene Elizabeth he caused all hir daughters to bée conueyed into his Palace with solempne receyuing Nowe nothing was contrarie to his purpose â—ut that his mansion was not voyde of a wyfe and first 〈…〉 abstayned both from the bedde and companye of hys wyfe after he complayned to many of the infortunate barrennesse of his wife After this he procured a common rumor to be published among the common people that the Quéene was dead When the Quéen heard tell that so horrible a rumor of hir death was sprong amongst the communaltie she sore suspected the world to be almost at an ende with hir and not long after howsoeuer it fortuned the Quéene departed out of this life and was with due solemnitie buryed at Westminster The King thus losed out of the bonds of Matrimony began to cast a fancie to Lady Elizabeth hys Néece making much suite to haue hir ioyned with him in lawfull Matrimonie but bycause all men and the Mayden hir selfe most of all detested thys vnlawfull copulation hée determined to deferre the matter till he were in a more quiet case for all thys season he was oppressed with weighty affayres on euery syde considering that dayly parte of the Nobilitie sayled into France other priuily fauoured the Earle of Richmond amongst the noble men whome hée most suspected these were the principall Thomas Lorde Stanley Sir Wyllyam Stanley hys brother Gilbert Talbot and sixe hundred other of whose purpose though King Richard were ignorant yet he gaue no credence to any one of them and least of all to the Lord Stanley bycause he was ioyned in Matrimonie wyth the Lady Margaret mother to the Earle of Richmond for when the sayde Lorde Stanley would haue departed into hys Countrey the King in no wyse woulde suffer hym to departe before he had lefte as in hostage Anno reg 3. in the Courte George Stanley Lord Strange his first begotten sonne and heire Whyle Kyng Richarde was thus troubled sodeynely hée hearde newes that the Castell of Hames was delyuered into the handes of the Earle of Richmonde by the meanes of the Earle of Oxford and that not onely he but also Iames Blunt Captayne of the Castell were fledde into France to ayde the Earle of Richmond Henry Earle of Richmond obteyning of King Charles a small crue of men and borowing certayne summes of money of hym and of dyuers other hys priuate friendes hée departed from the French Court and came to the Citie of Roane Whyle he taryed there making prouision at Harefleete in the mouth of the Riuer of Seyne for all things necessarye for hys Nauye tydings were broughte to hym that Kyng Richarde béeyng wythout Children and a Widdower intended shortly to marrye wyth Lady Elizabeth hys brothers daughter whyche newes hée tooke of no small momente for thys thyng onely tooke away from all hys companyous theyr hope to obteyne an happye enterprise by reason whereof hée iudged that all hys friendes in Englande woulde shrinke from him yet notwithstanding Earle Henry of Richmonde bycause he woulde no longer linger and wéerie hys friendes lyuing betwéene hope and feare determined in all hast conuenient to sette forwarde and caryed to hys Shippes armour weapons vitiayle and all other ordinances expedient for warre which béeyng done onely accompanyed wyth two thousande men and a small number of Shyppes weyed vp hys Anckers and in the kalendes of August hée sayled from Harefleete wyth so prosperous a wynde that the seauenth day after Henry Earle of Richmond landed at Milford Hauen hée arriued in Wales in the euening at a Port called Milford Hauen and incontinente tooke lande and came to a place called Dale and at the Sunne rising remoued to Hereford West where he was receyued of the people wyth great ioy From thence he remoued to Cardigan fiue mile from Hereford West whether came to the Earle Richard Griffith with all his men and power After him the same day came Iohn Morgan wyth hys men Then the Earle aduanced forwarde making no abode in anye place and sodeynly hée was ascertayned that Sir Walter Harbert and Rice appe Thomas were in harnesse before hym readye to encounter wyth hys Armye and to stoppe theyr passage Wherefore he first determined to set vpon them and eyther to destroye or to take them into his fauour and after with all hys power to gyue battayle to King Richarde But to the intent his friendes shoulde knowe with what deâ—teritie he attempted his enterprise forwarde he sent messengers with letters and instructions to the Ladye Margaret his mother to the Lorde Stanley and his brother to Talbot and to other declaring to them that he holpe with the ayde of his friendes intended to passe ouer the riuer of Seuerne at Shrewsburie and so to passe directly to the Citie of London requiring them as his speciall trust was in the hope of their fidelitie that they woulde méete him by the waye with all diligent preparation When these messengers were departed he marched forward towardes Shrewsburie in his passage there mette and saluted him Rice ap Thomas with a goodly band of Welchmen which submitted himselfe whole to his order and commaundement In the meane tyme the messengers laden with rewardes returned to him the same daye that he entred into Shrewsburie and made relation to him that his friendes were readie in all poyntes to doe all things for him which they myghte doe The Earle Henrie continued his iourney and came to a little towne called Newporte and pitched his campe on a little hyll adioyning reposing himselfe there that nyghte In the Euenyng of the same day came to him sir George Talbot with the whole power of the young Earle of Shrewsburie then beyng in warde which were accounted ij thousand men And thus his power increasing he arriued at the Towne of Stafforde and there paused To whome came sir William Stanley accompanyed with a fewe persons After that the Earle departed from thence to Lytchfield and lay without the walles in campe all that night The
Suffolke the Marques Dorcet the Earle of Wiltshire hir father the Earles of Arundale Darby Rutland Worcester Huntington Sussex Oxforde and many Byshops and Noble men euerye one in hys Barge whyche was a goodly sight to beholde shée thus being accompanyed rowed towardes the Tower and in the meane waye the Shippes whyche were commanded to lye on the shoare for letting of the Barges shotte dyuers peales of Gunnes and ere she landed there was a maruellous shotte out of the Tower I neuer hearde the like and at hir landing there mette wyth hir the Lord Chamberlaine with the officers of Armes and brought hir to the King whych receyued hir with louing countenance at the Posterne by the water side and kissed hir and then shée turned backe agayne and thanked the Mayor and the Citizens wyth manye goodly wordes and so entred into the Tower After whyche entrye the Citizens all this while houered before the Tower makyng greate melodie went not alande for none were assigned to lande but the Maior the Recorder and two Aldermen but to speake of the people that stoode on euerye shoare to beholde this sighte hée that saâ—e it not will not beléeue it On Friday at dinner serued the King all suche as were appoynted by hys Highenesse to be Knights of the Bathe whiche after dinner were brought to their Chambers and that nighte were bathed and shriuen according to the olde vsage of Englands and the nexte daye in the morning the King dubbed them according to the ceremonies thereto belonging whose names here after ensue ninetéene in number The Marques Dorcet The Earle of Darby The Lord Clifford sonne and heire to the Earle of Comberland The Lord Fitz Walter sonne and heire to the Earle of Huntington The Lord Mountague The Lorde Vaux Sir Henrie Parker sonne and heyre to the Lorde Merle Sir William Winsore sonne and heyre to the Lorde Winsore Sir Iohn Mordant sonne and heyre to the Lorde Mordant Sir Frauncis Weston Sir Thomas Arondale Sir Iohn Hudlestone Sir Thomas Poynings Sir Henry Sauell Sir George Fitz William of Lincolnshire Sir Iohn Tindale Sir Tomas Ierney On Saterday the one and thirtith of May the Quéene The conueying of Queen Anne through the Citie to VVestm was conueyed through London in order as followeth To the intente that the horses shoulde not slide on the pauement nor that the people shoulde be hurte by horses and the highe stréetes where throughe the Quéene should passe were all graueled from the Tower vnto Temple barre and rayled on eche side wythin whiche raile stoode the Craftes along in their order from Grace Churche where the Merchauntes of the Stiliarde stoode vntill the lyttle Conduite in Cheape where the Aldermen stoode and on the other side of the stréete stoode the Conestables of the citie apparelled in Ueluet and Silke wyth greate staues in their handes to cause the people to giue roume and kéepe good order and when the stréetes were somewhat ordered the Mayor in a gowne of Crimosin veluet and a riche collar of Esses with two footemen clothed in white and red damaske rode to the Tower to giue hys attendaunce on the Quéene on whome the Sherifes with their officers did awaite till they came to the Tower hill where they taking their leaue rode downe the high stréetes commaunding the Conestables to sée roume and good order kept and so wente and stoode by the Aldermen in Cheape and before the Quéen with hir traine should come Grace-streete and Cornehill were hanged with fine Scarlet Crimosin and other grayned clothes and in some places with riche Arras and the moste part of Cheape was hanged with cloth of Tisshew Golde Ueluet and many riche hangings whyche made a goodlye shewe and all the windowes were replenished with Ladies and Gentlewomen to beholde the Quéene and hir traine as they shoulde passe by The firste of the Quéenes company that sette forwarde were twelue French men belonging to the Frenche Embassadoure clothed in contes of blewe Ueluet wyth sléeues of yellow and blew Ueluet their horses trapped with close trappers of blewe sarsenet powdred with white Crosses After them marched Gentlemen Esquiers Knights two and two after them the Iudges after them the Knights of the Bathe in violet gownes with hoods purfled with Miniuer like Doctors after them Abbots then Barons after them Bishoppes the Earles and the Marquesses then the Lorde Chanceloure of Englande after hym the Archebyshoppe of Yorke and the Embassadoure of Venice after them the Archebyshoppe of Caunterburie and the Embassadour of Fraunce after rode twoo Esquyers of honor wyth robes of estate rolled and worne Bauldrike-wise aboute their neckes wyth Cappes of estate representing the Dukes of Normandie and Aquitaine after them rode the Mayor of London wyth hys Mace and Garter in hys Coate of Armes whyche bare also hys Mace of Westminster hall after them rode the Lorde Wyllyam Howarde wyth the Marshalls rod deputy to hys brother the Duke of Norffolke Marshall of Englande whyche was Embassadoure then in Fraunce and on hys righte hande rode Charles Duke of Suffolk for that daye highe Conestable of Englande bearing the warder of siluer appertayning to the office of Conestableshippe and all the Lordes for the moste parte were clothed in Crimosin Ueluet and all the Quéenes seruauntes or officers of Armes in Scarlet next before the Quéene rode hir Chancelor bare headed the Sergeaunts and Officers at Armes rode on both the sides of the Lords then came the Quéene in a white Litter of white cloth of Golde not couered nor bailled whyche was ledde by twoo Palfreys clad in white Damaske downe to the grounde heade and all ledde by hir footemen shée hadde on a Kertle of white cloth of Tissue and a Mantle of the same surred wyth Ermyn hir haire hangyng downe but on hir heade shée hadde a coyâ—e wyth a Circlet aboute it full of ryche stones ouer hir was borne a Canapie of Cloth of Golde wyth foure guylte staues and foure siluer Belles for bearyng of the whyche Canapie were appoynted sixetéene Knightes foure to beare it one space on foote and foure an other space according to their owne appoyntment nexte after the Quéene rode the Lorde Browghe hir Chamberlayne nexte after him Wyllyam Coffim master of hir horses leading a spare horse wyth a syde Saddell trapped downe wyth cloth of Tissewe after hym rode seauen Ladies in Crimosin Ueluet turned vppe wyth Cloth of Golde and of Tissewe and theyr horses trapped wyth Golde after them twoo Chariots couered wyth redde cloth of Golde in the firste Chariote were twoo Ladies whyche were the olde Dutchesse of Norffolke and the olde Marchionesse of Dorcet in the seconde Chariot were foure Ladyes all in Crimosin Ueluet after them rode seauen Ladyes in the same sute their horses trapped and all after them came the thyrde Charyot all in white wyth syxe Ladyes in Crimosin Ueluet nexte to them came the fourth Chariot all red with eyghte Ladyes also in Crimosin after whome followed thirtie Gentlewomen all in
a platter with porage and four pencâ— in money The xiiij of Nouember Hugh Ferringdon Abbot of Abbots of Reading Glastonbâ—â—y executed Reading and two Priests named Ruge and Onyon for denying the Kings Supremacie were hanged and quartered at Reading The same day was Richard Whiting Abbot of Glastonburie hanged and quartered on Torre hill beside his Monasterie for the same cause The first of December Iohn Beach Abbot of Colchester was likewise executed In December were appoynted to wayte on the Kings Pencioners appoynted highnesse person fiftie Gentlemen called Pencioners or Speres vnto whome was appoynted fiftie pound the péece pearely The third of January was the Lady Anne of Cleeue receiued King Henry married Lady Anne of Cleue at Blacke heath and brought to Greenewich with great triumph and the sixth day of y e same moneth she was maryed to King Henry After Christmas the Priorie Church of Saint Mary Ouery Saint Mary Oueryes made a parish Church in Southwarke was purchased of the King by the inhabitants of the Borow Doctor Gardener Bishop of Winchester putting to his helping hand they made thereof a parish church and the little Church of Mary Megdalen ioyning to the same Priorie was made all one Churche and Saint Margarets in Southwarke a parish was admitted to the same parish The xij of March Henry Bowrcher Earle of Essex riding Earle of Essex deceassed a yong Horsse was cast and brake his necke at his Manour in Essex He was the eldest Earle in England The xix of March Iohn Vere Earle of Oxforde high Earle of Oxford deceassed chamberlayne of Englande deceassed at his Manour in Essex Ther. of Aprill Sir William Peterson Priest late commissarie 1540 of Caleis and Sir William Richardson Priest of Saint Maryes in Caleis were both there drawne hanged Priests at Caleis executed and quartered in the Market place for the Supremacie The 18. of Aprill Sir Thomas Cromwell Lorde priuie Cromvvell Earle of Essex Seale was created Earle of Essex and high Chamberlayne of England Also Gregory hys sonne was made Lorde Cromwell In a Parliament which began the xviij of Aprill was Subsedie and four fifteenes graunted to the King a subsedie of two shillings the pound Lands and twelue pence goodes and four fiftéenes The xxiiij of Aprill Thomas Lord Audley Chancellor Anno reg 32 of England with Sir Anthony Browne Maister of the Kingâ— Lord Audley Knight of the Garter Horsse were made Knightes of the Garter On May day was a great triumph of Justing at Westminster which Justes had bin proclaymed in France Flaunders Iusting of challengers Scotland and Spayne for all commers that woulde against the challengers of Englande which were Sir Iohn Dudley Sir Thomas Seymer Sir Thomas Poynings Sir George Carew Knightes Anthony Kingston and Richarde Cromwell Esquiers which sayd challengers came into the listes that day richly apparelled and their Horsses trapped all in white Ueluet with certayne Knightes and Gentlemen riding afore them apparelled all in white Ueluet and white Sarsenet and all their seruants in white dublets and hozen cut after the Burgonion fashion and there came to Just against them the sayd daye of defendants xlvj the Earle of Surrey being the formost Lord William Heyward Lord Clinton and Lord Cromwell sonne and heire to Thomas Cromwell Earle of Essex and Chamberlayne of EnglaÌ„d with other which were all richly apparelled And that day Sir Iohn Dudley was ouerthrowne in the fielde by mischance of his Horsse by one Mayster Breme defendant neuerthelesse he brake diuers Speares valiantly after that and after the saide Justes were done the sayde challengers rode to Durham place where they kepte open housholde and feasted the King and Quéene with hir Ladyes and all the Court. The seconde of May Anthony Kingston and Richarde Cromwell were made Knightes at the sayd place The third of May the sayde challengers did turney on Tournying horssebacke with swords and against them came xxix defendants Sir Iohn Dudley and the Earle of Surrey running first which the first course lost both their gauntleâ—s and that day Sir Richard Cromwell ouerthrew Mayster Palmer in y e field off his Horsse to the great honor of the challengers The v. of May she said challengers fought on foote at the Barriers against theÌ„ came xxx defendants which â—ought Barriers valiantly but Sir Richard Cromwell ouerthrew that day at the Barriers Mayster Culpeper in the field and the sixth of May the sayd chalengers brake vp their houshold The vij of May Sir William Weston Knight Lorde Saint Iohns in Smithfield suppressed Prior of Saint Iohns without Smithfield dyed and the King tooke all the Lands that belonged to that order into hys hands to the augmentation of his Crowne and gaue vnto euery of the Chalengers aboue written for a rewarde of their valiantnesse a hundred Markes and a house to dwell in of yéerely reuenues out of the sayd lands for euer The 26. of May was sent to the Tower Doctour Wilson and Doctour Sampson Bishop of Chichester for reléeuing certayne prisoners which denyed the Kings Supremacie for the same offence Richard Farmer Grocer of London a rich Richard Farmer in the Premunire and wealthy man was committed to the Marshalsea and after arraigned and attaynted in the Premunire and lost all his goodes Also the kéeper of Newgate was sent to the Marshalsea for giuing libertie to Doctor Powell and Doctour Abell his prisoners The ninth of July Thomas Lord Cromwell Earle of Thomas Lord Cromvvell beheaded Essex béeing in the Counsell Chamber was sodeinly apprehended and committed to the Tower of London The ninetéenth he was attainted by Parliament of heresie and high Treason and y e xxviij of July he was beheaded on the Tower hill with the Lord Walter Hungerford of Heitisburie In this moneth of July King Henry by authoritie of King Henry deuorced from Lady Anne of Cleeue Parliament and Conuocation was deuorced from Lady Anne of Cleeue The xxx of July Robert Barnes Thomas Gerrard William Sixe Priestes three brent three hanged Ierome Priests were burned in Smithfield The same day Thomas Abell Edward Powell and Richarde Fetherstone all thrée Doctours were hanged and quartered for denying the Kings supremacie of the Church The fourth of August were drawne to Tiborne sixe persons Seauen executed at Tiborne and one ledde Lawrence Cooke Prior of Dancalfe William Horne a lay brother of the Charterhouse Giles Horne Gentleman Clement Philpot Edmond Bromham Darby Kenham Robert Birde Iaruis Carrow all put to death for Treason The Ditches about London were clensed The eyght of August Lady Katherine Haward daughter to Edmond Lord Haward was shewed opeÌ„ly as Quéene King Henry married at Hampton Court The xj of September was hanged in Moore field a StraÌ„ger Harlots cause many murthers named Iames Rinatian who had slayne his Maister one Capon a Florentine in a Garden for his Harlot The later end
reg 7. the North partes of the Element séemed to be couered wyth flames offyre procéeding towards the middle of the firmament where after it had stayed nigh one houre it descended West and all the same night being the next after the chaÌ„ge of the Moone séemed as light as it had bin daye Sir Richard Mallery Mercer the 28. of October Maior The twentith of Nouember in the morning throughe negligence of a Maiden with a Candle the snuffe falling in an hundred pounde waighte of gunne poulder thrée houses in Bucklerslourie werefore shaken and the Maide dyed two dayes after The dâ—e and twentith of December begasâ—e a Froâ—e The Thaniâ—â—â—rosen ouer whyche â—â—◠〈…〉 so extreamly that on Neweyeres euen people weÌ„t ouer and along the Thamis on the Ice from London bridge to Westminister some played at foote ball as boldely there as if it had bin on the dry land diuers of the Court being then at Westminster shotte dailye at prickes sette vpon the Thamis â— And the people both men and women went on the Thamis in greater number than in anye stréete of the Citie of London On the thirde daye of January at night it beganne to thawe and on the fifth daye was no Ice to bée séene betwéene London bridge and Lambeth whyche caused greate â—loudes and highe waters that bare downe Bridges and houses and drowned manye people in Englande especially Ovves bridge borne dovvne in Yorkeshire Owes bridge was borne away wyth other The thyrde daye of February Henry Stuarte Lord Darloâ—â— Henry Stuarte marryed the Quene of Scots aboute the age of ninetéene yéeres eldest sonne of Mathew Earle of Leunex who wente into Scotlande at Whitsontide before hauing obtayned licence of the Quéenes Maiestie tooke his iorney towarde Scotland accompanied with â—iue of his fathers men where when he came was honorablye receyued and lodged in the Kings lodgings and in the Sommer following marryed Marie Quéene of Scotlande Aboute this time for the Quéenes Maiestie were chosen and sent commissioners to Bruges the Lorde Montacute Knight of the honorable order of the Garter Doctour Wotton one of his Maiesties honorable Counsell Doctor HaddoÌ„onâ—â—â— the Maisters of 〈…〉 to hir highnesse with other 1565 Maister Doctor Aubrey was for the Merchant Aduenturers of Englande They came to Bruges in Lent Anno. 1565. continued there till Michaelmasse followyng and then was the diet prolonged till March in 1566 and the Commissioners returned into Englande The two and twentith of Aprill the Ladye Margaret Lady Liunex sente to the Tovver Countesse of Liunex was commaunded to kéepe hir Chamber at the White hall where she remayned till the xxtj. of June then conueyed by sir Frauncis Knolles the Guard to the Tower of London by water On Midsomer day Donell Mac Cartie More was created Baron of Valencia and afterwarde the same daye Earle of Glankerre at White hall On S. Peters euen at night was the like standing watch VVatche at Midsoâ—uer in London as hadde béene on the same nighte twelue moneths The xvj of July about nine of the clocke at night began Tempest at Chelâ—â—forde a tempest of lightning and thunder wyth showres of haile whyche continued til thrée of the clocke the nexte morning so terrible that at Chelmsforde in Essex 500. acres of corne were destroyed the Glasse windowes on the East side of the Towne and of the Weast and South sides of the church were beaten downe wyth also the tiles of their houses beside dyuers Barnes Chimneys and the battlements of the Churche whiche were ouerthrowen The like harme was done in manye other places as at Leedes Cranebrooke Douer c. Christopher Prince and Margraue of Baden wyth Cicelie Margraue and Marques of Baden his wyfe sister to the King of Swethlande after a long and daungerous iorney wherein they had trauelled almoste xj moneths sayling from Stokeholme crossing the Seas ouer into Lifeland from whence by land they came aboute by Polland Pruscy Pomerland Meckeburge Friseland and so to Antâ—arpe in Brabant then to Callais at the laste in September 〈…〉 at Douer and the xj day of the same they came to London and were lodged at the Earle of Bedfordes place neare vnto Iuie bridge where wythin foure dayes after that is to â—aye the xv of September she trauelled in childe bed and was delyuered of a man childe whyche childe the laste of September was christned in the Quéenes Maiesties chappell of White hall at Westminster the Quéenes Maiestie in 〈…〉 owne person being Godmother the Archebyshoppe of Canterburie and the Duke of Norffolke Godfathers at the câ—riâ—â—â—ing the Quéene gaue the childe to name Edwardus Fortunatus for that God had so gratiously assisted hys mother in so long and daungerous a iourney and brought hir so safe to lande in that place whyche she moste desired and that in so shorte time before hir deliueraunce Iohn Riuers Iames Hawes the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Mariage of the Earle of VVarvvike Sir Richarde Champion â—rapeâ— the 28. of October The eleauenth of Nouember the right honourable Ambrose Earle of Warwike marryed Anne eldest daughter to the Earle of Bâ—dforde for the honor and celebration of whiche noble marriage a goodlye chalenge was made and obserued aâ— â—estminster at the Tâ—â—â— with ech one sixe courses at the Tourney twelue strokes with the Sword thrée pushes wyth the punchion staste and twelue blowes with the Sworde at Barâ—iars or twentie if any were so disposed At tenne of the clocke the same daye a valiant seruiâ—eable Robert Thomas slaine man called Roberte Thomas Maister Gunner of Englande destrous also to honour the feaâ—â— and marriage day in consideration the saide Earle of Warwike was Generall of the Ordinaunce wythin hir Maiesties Realmes and Dominions made thrée traines of great Chambers which terribly yéelded forth the nature of their voyce to the greate astonishment of diuers who at the fyring of the seconde was vnhappilye staine by a péece of one of the Chambers to the greate sorrowe and lameâ—â—ation of many The foure and twentith of December in the mornyng Anno reg 8. there rose a greate storme and tempest of winde by whose rage the Thames and Seas ouerwhelmed many persons and the greate Gates â—â— the Weaste ende of Paules Church in London betwéene the whyche standeth the Brazen Piller Paules Gate blovven open were throughe the force of the winde then in the weasterne parte of the worlde â—loâ—en open In January Mâ—nsâ—eur Raâ—buley â— Knight of the Order Order of Sainte Michaell in Fraunce was sent ouer into Englande by the French King Charles the ninth of that naâ—â—e wyth the Order who â—â— Windsore was stalled in the behalfe of the saide French King wyth the Knighthoode of the moste honorable order of the Garter and the four and twentith of January in the Chaâ—pell of hir Maiesties Pallaice of White â—all the saide Monsieur Rambuley inuested Thomas Duke of Norffolke and Robert Earle of