That if he or they should ever be in War against him or How and in what manner he bound himself to be true and faithful to him and his Heirs them or Ayding or Advising any of their Enemies secretly or openly that then their Bodies Lands Tenements and all they had or could have should from that time be forfeited to the King and his Heirs in such manner as neither he nor his Heirs might claim them at any time And further he Granted for him and Heirs That if at any time it should happen they should be against the King or his Heirs as aforesaid That the Arch-Bishops Bishops or any other Prelates of England or Scotland as many and such as the King or Heirs would without Cognisance of the Cause or any manner of Admonition Warning or Contradiction of any one might give the Sentence of Excommunication against him and his Heirs and put all his Lands under Interdict In Witness whereof he Sealed these Letters Patents A. A. 1306. 34 Ed. I. in the Priory of Canons at Lanercost 23d of October A. D. 1306. and of the King's Reign the 34th Done in the presence of five Barons two Knights and four Clerks with Two Publick Notaries allowed by the Pope to attest it On the 3d of 1 Claus 34 Ed. I. M. 2. Dors A Parlement for the setling of Scotland and Business concerning the State of the Kingdom November being then at the Priory of Lanercost in the County of Cumberland near Carlisle the King issued his Writs of Summons for a Parlement to meet at that City on the Octaves of St. Hillary or 20th of January This Parlement was called for the Settling and Establishment of Scotland and for other Business concerning the King and the State of the Kingdom as appears by the Writ What was done concerning Scotland I find not the Business of the Kingdom was besides the hearing many Petitions and dispatch of much private Business the great Oppression of Churches and Monasteries 2 Stat. of Carl. Riley's Placita Parl. f. 312. Cok. 2. Institut f. 580. The chief Business of the Kingdom was to prevent the Tallage and Tribute imposed upon English Monasteries by Foreign Abbats The Oppression of Monasteries as was shewed by the grievous Complaints of the Great and Noblemen arose from the imposition of Tribute by their Superiors as then called from beyond the Seas as especially by the Abbats of the Orders of Cisteaux Clâ—ny Praemonstratum of St. Augustin and Benedict who under pretence of visiting them here in England as being the Heads of their Orders imposed upon them divers grievous and importable Tallages Rents and Tributes contrary to the Laws and Customs of the Kingdom by which means what had been Charitably given to Pious Vses and for the increase of Divine Worship was turned into a Wicked Tribute not pleasing to God in censâ—m Reprobum est conversum wherefore by the Advice of the Earls Barons Great Men Chief Men and other Noblemen and the Communities of his Kingdom in his Parlement at Westminster in the 33d year of his Reign Ordained in that Parlement That no English Abbats c. should pay Taxes or Tallages to Forreign Houses or Abbats he Ordained and Determined That no Abbat Prior Master or Guardian or any other Religious Person of what State Condition or Order soever he was under his Power and Dominion should pay any Rent Tallage Tribute or Impositions charged upon them by their Superiors the Abbats Priors Masters Wardens of Religious Houses or Places or agreed between themselves Nor that they should go beyond Sea to visit such Monasteries or under any pretence whatsoever so as the Goods or Revenue of their Monasteries might any way by Exchange or Merchandize be conveyed out of the Kingdom upon pain of grievous Punishment to such as should do contrary to this Statute in contempt of the King's Prohibition Further the King inhibited all and singular Foreign Abbats Priors The King's Inhibition to Foreign Abbats c. to Exact such Contributions Masters and Wardens of Religious Houses under whose Subjection and Obedience the Houses of the same Order were in his Dominions that they should not impose any Payments or Burthens upon them under forfeiture of all they had in his Dominions or could forfeit for the future Yet by these Statutes and Ordinances it was not the King's 3 Riley â—t supra f. 314. The King intended not by that Institution to extinguish the Visitation of those Monasteries c. intention to exclude the Abbats Priors and other Forreign Religiose from the Office of Visiting only in those things which belonged to Regular Observance and the Discipline of their Order provided that such Visitors took nothing from the Monasteries Priories or Houses they Visited or carried any thing out of the Kingdom but their moderate and reasonable Expences These Ordinances and Statutes 4 Ibm. tho they were made in the 33d of Edw. I. as abovesaid yet the Publication of them was suspended until this Parlement at Carlisle that they might proceed with more Mature Deliberation after which and a full Debate with the Earls Barons aliis Nobilibus Communitatibus The King Ordains and Determines in making a Law Regni sui and other Nobles and the Communities of his Kingdom by their Unanimous Consent Ordinavit Statuit he Ordained and Determined this Statute should take place from the First day of May next coming And sent it to all the Sheriffs in England to be published 5 Ibm. as a Law made for the common Benefit of the People and Melioration of the State of the whole Kingdom Ad Communem populi utilitatem totius Dominii nostri meliorationem Witness the King at Carlisle the 20th of March in the 35th of his Reign 35 Ed. I. The other great Business was the Consideration of the 6 Append. n. 39. Petitions of the Nobility against the Exactions of the Pope Petitions exhibited by the Earls Barons Great Men and Community of the whole Kingdom of England for the State of the Crown of the Lands of Scotland Wales and Ireland and the whole Community aforesaid concerning divers new intolerable Grievances Oppressions Injuries and Extortions done to and brought upon the Earls Barons Great Men and Community by the Authority and Command of the Pope and by Mr. William Testa his Clerk or And his Clerk William de Testa Nuncio or by his Commissaries Ministers or Vicegerents in his Name The Articles or Heads 7 of the Petitions were First The The Articles of the Petitions Extravagant Number of Provisions of the best Spiritual Preferments given to Italians other Forreigners and Non-Residents to the great prejudice and disinheritance of the Founders Benefactors and their Successors and to such as had the Right of Advowson and the Gifts of such Preferments Secondly The Rents and Revenues of Religious Houses which the Pope intended to apply to the use of divers Cardinals Thirdly
Body Lands Tenements Goods and Chattels so as he was imprisoned and all his Lands Tenements Goods and Chattels seized into the King's Hands of which Lands and Tenements he gave some to the Earl of Cambridge and others to Thomas of Woodstocke then Earl of Buckingham for Term of their Lives All which Forfeitures and Imprisonment the King taking pity of the said Richard by the Perswasion of the said Alice and her singular Persuit and Procurement at his Court at Shene with the assent of his Council pardoned and also pardoned the said Richard 300 l. due from him in the Exchequer and further granted 1000 Marks of his Treasure as a Gift which things being contrary to the said Ordinance the Steward demanded of the said Alice how she would Excuse her self of the said Articles who answered she was not culpable Her Answer or guilty of these Articles which she was ready to aver and prove by the Witness and Testimony of John de Ipre at that time Steward of the King's House William Sheet Controller Sir Allen Buxhall Nicholas Carren Keeper of the Privy Seal and others of the Court of the said King and present at the time of the supposed Forfeiture Upon this Day 2 Ibm. was given her to Wednesday next after in the mean time it was ordered by the assent of the Lords That the Articles should be tried by Witness or by Inquest of such as were of the House of the said King and thereupon certain Persons were Sworn and Examined before the Duke of Lancaster the Earl of Cambridge the Earl of March the Earl of Arundel and the Earl of Warwick First Roger Beauchamp late Witnesses Sworn against Alice Perrers Chamberlain of the said King being Sworn said That in the presence of Alice Perrers a Bill was given him to carry to the King at his Court at Havering which Bill he took and as he understood it it contained the Revocation of Sir Nicholas Dagworth from Ireland because he was Enemy to Monsieur William de Windsore he refused to carry the Bill because the Council had ordered the contrary and the said Alice requested him to do it which he did and the King asked him what they talked about which when he informed him of the Contents of the Bill he answered the Petition was reasonable and when Monsieur Roger replied his Council had ordained to the contrary the King answered he was Soveraign Judge and it seemed to him the Bill was reasonable and commanded him to call back the said Nicholas which was done accordingly Concerning Richard Lyons he said he knew nothing The Duke of Lancaster Examined said That one day he came to Havering and found Dame Alice Perrers there when Roger Beauchamp shewed him a Bill containing as above about which he fell into Discourse with the King who concerning Sir Nicholas Dagworth going to Ireland said it was not reasonable one Enemy should Judge another and there he thought fit to countermand his Voyage in which having satisfied the King as done by his Consent in Council but the King not long after coming from Alice Perrer's Chamber came to the Duke and prayed him dearly he would not suffer Dagworth to go toward Ireland but the Duke could not comply by reason it was ordained by King and Council and on Monday morning when he took his Leave of the King in Bed he commanded him upon his Blessing he should not suffer Dagworth to go toward Ireland notwithstanding the Ordinance made the day before and also he was countermanded And to the Article of Richard Lyons he said in his Conscience he believed Alice Perrers was the chief Promoter of that Business but was not present Monsieur Philip de la Vache Sworn says nothing to the purpose Nicholas Carren Sworn says That he was commanded to come to Shene to the King where he found Richard Lyons and they were both commanded to come before the King in Bed where he found Dame Alice Perrers sitting at the King's Bed's Head where was shewed that the King would pardon the said Richard 300 l. due to the King upon Account in the Exchequer and also give him a Thousand Marks of his Treasure and restore him what was given him to his Sons the Earl of Cambridge and Tho. of Woodstock and commanded him the said Nicholas to let his Sons know so much and that the King rehearsed these Grants of his Grace c. before divers Knights and Esquires he called from behind the Curtains of his Bed to Witness the same Monsieur Alein Buxhall Swears the same except Alice Perrer's sitting at the King's Bed's Head and further That Alice desired him to acquaint the Earls of their Father's Pardon to Lyons which at her Instance the King commanded him to do There were more Sworn who said as they believed and much to this purpose and presently there were made to come before the Duke and other Earls Monsieur A Jury Sworn Roger Beauchamp Alein Buxhall John de Burle Richard Stury Philip de la Vage John de Foxle Tho. Garre Knights Nicholas Carren John Beauchamp of Holt John Beverle George Felbrigge John Salesbury William Street Piers Cornwall Tho. Londâ—n Helmin Leget Esquires of the King's House Sworn and charged to speak plain Truth whether the said Alice was culpable who They find her Guilty found her guilty and accordingly to the intent of the Statute made 50 Edw. III. considering the damages and villanies by her done she was sentenced by Parlement to be banished her Lands Her Sentence and Punishment Chattels Tenements in Demesn and Reversion to be forfeited and seized into the King's Hands And it was ordained by the King and Lords in that present Parlement That all her Land in Feoffees hands or purchased in Trust should be also forfeited But it was the Intention of the King and Lords and this Law made particularly Which was not to be made an Example for others for the prevention of such odious things should not be made use of or made an Example against any other Person or in any other Case The Commons 3 Ib. n. 49. pray for that King Edward was guided by unfit Counsellors par auscuns Conseillers nient Covenables as had been authentickly proved That they might be removed from all the King's Counsels and so as such nor other such should be King Edward guided by Evil Counsellors such to be removed from this Kings Counsels The King's Officers not to maintain Suits near him nor in office with him and that other fit Persons might be put in their places and that no Officers of the King's Court great or small do keep up Quarrels or Suits in the Country by Maintenance nor meddle with any thing but what belongs to his Office As to the first Request le Roy le voet the King willeth and as to the second Request touching Maintenance the King will straightly forbid any Counsellor Officer or Servant or others 4 Ib. Ro. The
for there is nothing of this Accusation on the Parlement-Roll About the 6 Wals f. 310. n. 30. A. D. 1385. 8 Ric. II. The Duke of Lancaster goes into France makes only a Truce for 3 quarters of a year His extravagant Expences beginning of August the Duke of Lancaster went into France to Treat about a Peace or Truce He staid there long with many Noblemen and made a Truce only to the first of May next coming and then returned after the Expence of 50000 Marks While the * Ib. n. 40 50. John of Northampton's Trial and Judgment Duke was in France the King called many of the Noblemen together at Reding where John of Northampton was Tried for his late Practices in London when he was Convicted by the Testimony of his Clerc and Sentence was to be given upon him in the King's Presence He said such Judgment ought not to pass upon him in the Absence of his Lord the Duke which brought ill Suspicions upon him The Judge told him That he was to acquit himself by Duel of the Crimes laid against him or by the Laws of the Land to be Drawn Hanged and Quartered To which making no Answer he was condemned to perpetual Prison above 100 Miles from London and sent to Tintagel-Castle in Cornwal and the Goods to be seized to his King's Use Some time after the King * Ibm. f. 314. n. 50. The Duke of Lancaster was to have been Arraigned of High-Treason intending to Arraign the Duke of Lancaster upon several Articles of Treason before Sir Robert Trisilian Lord Chief Justice whereas he ought to have been Tried by his Peers he Victualled and Manned his Castle of Pontfract and stood upon his Guard until his Peace was made by the Princess of Wales his Mother On the 7 Rot. Parl. 8 Ric. II. n. 1 2 3. A Parlement The cause of Summons morrow of St. Martin or 12th of November a Parlement assembled at Westminster The Chancellor shewed the King's great Care of the Church Commons and Laws of England and further shewed how the Nation was invironed with Enemies the French Spaniards Scots and Flemings and that the chief cause of calling the Parlement was to provide for the Safety and Defence of the Kingdom and to consider how this Provision might best and most speedily be made and so as the poor People might be least burthened and withal let them know the King offered to go in his own Person for Defence of the Kingdom against any Enemy by the Advice of his Council These things considered 8 Ibm. n. 10. Two 15ths granted the Lords and Commons granted the King for the Defence of the Kingdom the Safeguard of the Sea and Marches of Scotland Two Fifteenths one to be paid at Lady-Day next coming the other at Midsummer upon condition that the last half Fifteenth granted at Salisbury might not be paid And in case the King went not in his own Person against his Enemies or that Peace or Truce should be made with them then the latter of these Two Fifteenths not to be Levied In this Parlement 9 Ibm. n. 13. The Judgment against Alice Perrers repealed Alice Perrers the Wife of Sir William Windsor petitioned to have the Judgment and Order made against her in the 50th of Edward III. and the Judgment and Statute made against her in the first of this King to be repealed and that she might be restored to all her Lands and Tenements 1 Ibm. Ro. Which was granted by Advice and Assent of the Lords and Commons so as the Gifts and Grants of any of the Lands Tenements and Houses repealed may remain in force There is nothing more concerning Scotland and England in our Historians for this Year but alternate Invasions as they found or made Opportunities and burning and plundering each others Countries Next Year 2 Knight col 2674 n. 60. The French and Scots join to invade England John de Vienna Admiral of France came from thence with a great Fleet and in June transported an Army into Scotland to join with the Scots to invade England The King prepares an Army to march into Scotland and sends the Duke of Lancaster with a good Force before to secure the Borders 3 Ibm. col 2675. n. 10. The King marcheth into Scotland with a great Army On the 7th of July the King was at Leicester and the Queen with him and there went before came with and followed him the Flower of the English Militia Earls Barons Knights Esquires Valets and others to a vast Number With this Royal Army the King marched into Scotland but could not find the Scots or at least could not follow them into the Woods Forests Fastnesses or the High-lands whither they drove with them their great Cattel 4 Ib. n. 20 30 40. The Scots fly into the Woods and High-lands Finding nothing in the Country he burnt Edinburgh and many other Towns cut down Woods and burnt them likewise While these things were doing by the English toward the High-lands about Edinburgh and in the East-Marches the Scots and French slipt the English entred the The French and Scots march into England West-Marches burnt Penreth plundered the Country took many Captives and made an Attempt upon Carlisle but hearing of the coming of the English got again into their own Country 5 Wals f. 317. n. 30. and do more Mischief there than the King with his Army did in Scotland A mighty Fleet prepared by carrying more out of England than the King with his Royal Army carried out of Scotland While the English Army was in Scotland the King of France was providing a mighty Fleet and Army at Sluis in Flanders to invade England Froysart 6 Vol. 2. cap. 53 53 54. the King of France to invade England says this Navy was Twelve hundred and eighty seven Ships in September 1386. at Sluis and Blanqueberg and adds since God created the World there was never seen so many great Ships together The Land-Forces were according to this mighty Fleet and the King having notice of these vast Preparations provided accordingly both by Sea and Land to intercept them or hinder their Descent 7 Ibm. c. 59. The Wind held contrary so as they could not pass toward England until after St. Andrew or 30th of November when a Council being called it was resolved it being so late in the Year the Expedition was laid aside until April or May following 8 Ib. c. 60. Froysard says he had an Account of the great Provision the Dauphin of Avergn made for this Voyage from himself In the 9th of this King a Parlement was 9 Claus 9 Ric. II. M. 45 Dors A. D. 1386. holden at Westminster on the Friday next after St. Luke in which the Lords Great Men and the Communities of Counties Cities and Burghs 1 Rot. Parl. 9 Ric. II. n. 10. A Tax granted for the Duke of Lancaster's Voyage into Spain Memorandum