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A43208	Englands chronicle, or, The lives & reigns of the kings and queens from the time of Julius Cæsar to the present reign of K. William and Q. Mary containing the remarkable transactions and revolutions in peace and war, both at home and abroad, as they relate to this kingdom, with the wars, policies, religion and customs, success and misfortunes as well of the ancient Britains, as Roman, Saxon, Danish, and Norman conquerors, with copper cuts and whatever else is conduceable to the illustration of history / by J. Heath.	Heath, James, 1629-1664.	1689 (1689)	Wing H1325; ESTC R29472	167,333	265

about sundry Articles of Treason in the compass of which the Lords that stood out might fall he got them subscribed at Nottingham by Robert Trisilian Chief Justiciar Robert Belknap Chief Justice of the Common Pleas John Holt Roger Fulthrop and William Burgh Justiciars as likewise by John Lecton Serjeant at Law whereupon he proclaimed them Traitors and both sides armed but the King finding the Lords too powerfull for him and that they had discovered the Snares he had laid to entrap them thought it no time to oppose his small number against forty thousand men but shut himself up with such Forces as he had in the Tower of London where he had laid up Stores for his Subsistence if things came to farther Extremity The King withdrawn the Lords came to Westminster and there assembling to consult what was to be done they resolved to dispatch a Messenger to let the King know that if he left not the Tower and came quickly to them that things might be better settled and ordered they would proceed to chuse a King that should and would hearken to and the Judgment and Counsel of his Peers This though much against his will constrained him to meet them at Westminster and after some debate consented to remove from his Person Alexander Nevil Archbishop of York the Bishops of Durham and Chichester the Lords Zouch and Beaumont and many others with certain chargeable Court-Ladies who were maintained as Spies upon the Actions of the Nobility and the better to make up the breach a Parliament was summoned in which the Judges were called to an Account for the subscribing of the Articles and other matters and most of them being arrested as they sate in Judgment were sent Prisoners to the Tower but Trisilian took an opportunity to escape yet being apprehended he was in the morning sentenced in Parliament and in the Afternoon pursuant to that Sentence as one that had wheedled in the rest to a compliance he was conveyed to Tyburn and there had his Throat cut by Hand of the common Executioner and many others were put to death as evil Counselours and Betrayers of the People The Estates of the King 's chief Favourites were likewise confiscated but the Scots at the same time invading the Northern Parts the Proceedings were not carried on to the highth as was otherways intended and not long after the Scale turned for another Parliament being called at London the Sanctuary of former Laws and all partscular Charters of Pardon were disannulled and taken away from Thomas Duke Gloucester the Earl of Arundel and others for their Treasonable Practices and Enterprizes and all the Justiciars who stood for the King were cleared from the Danger and Scandal they lay under and the Articles they had signed were ratified and such as had offended against them proclaimed Traitors and Richard Earl of Arund●l was beheaded on Tower-Hill as guilty of the breach of them The Earl of Warwick upon the like cause was banished and the Duke of Gloucester arrested and carried to Calais where he was privately made away and the King created himself Earl of Chester and to his Escutcheon Royal added the Armories of Edward the Confessour creating his Cosin Henry Duke of Hereford who was not long after accused by Thomas Mowbray Duke of Norfolk for speaking dangerous words of the King and Mowbray constantly affirming what Hereford denied the Combat was granted them and all things in order to it prepared but when they were entred the Lists and at the point of defying each other to death the King threw down his Warder by that means staying the Combat changed the manner of the Order and banished them the Kingdom the Duke of Norfolk for ever and the Duke of Hereford first for ten Years then for six only constraining them upon pain of death immediately to depart and soon after the Duke of Lancaster Father to the latter and Uncle to the King dying he seized on all his Wealth which was extremely considerable he being looked upon one of the richest uncrowned Heads in Europe Long had not these Things passed before the Irish fell into Rebellion when to quiet them King Richard raised a great Army to supply which he grievously oppressed his Subjects by a heavy Tax which begot no small Hatred amongst the People so that some of the Nobles who favoured Hereford now become Duke of Lancaster sent to him to advertize him of the Discontents letting him know that this was his time to make his Fortune and he not delaying the opportunity with an Army of about 2000 English and Foreigners landed whilst King Richard was busie in Ireland and was immediately joined by the Earl of Northumberland and his Son and declaring as a specious pretence he came for no more than his Dutchy of Lancaster the People in compassion of his wrong flocked about him from all parts so that the Duke of York whom King Richard had left Governour of the Kingdom till his Return from his Irish Expedition not being able to oppose the Torrent was obliged to acquiess and suffer him to take Bristol where Bushy and Green two of the King 's Privy Counselours being made Prisoners they lost their Heads to please the multitude This allarmed King Richard in Ireland and obliged him to hasten for England gathering some Troups in Wales which he joined to those he brought over but few of the Nobles coming to his Assistence and finding himself too weak to oppose the Torrent he suffered them to disband and betook himself with a few of his Followers to Conwoth Castle and from thence sent to demand Honourable Conditions and amongst the rest That if himself and eight more whom he should name might have Allowance becoming their Qualities and an assurance of a quiet Private Life he would be content to resign the Crown to his Cosin the Duke of Lancaster and being promised what what was demanded he put himself into the hands of the Earl of Northumberland and was conveyed to the Tower of London whereupon a Parliament was called in his Name to sit at Westminster who concluding upon his Resignation sent an Instrument to him in order to his subscribing which being accordingly done as likewise seal'd he put his Signet Ring upon the Duke's Finger and after this a definitive Sentence passed in Parliament at which time the Duke of Lancaster rising from his Seat made his Claim and Challenge to the Crown in the following words viz. In the Name of God Amen I Henry of Lancaster claim the Realm of England and the Crown with all the Apurtenances as coming of the Bloud Royal from King Henry the Third and that Justice which God of his Grace doth send me by the help of my Friends for the Recovery of the said Realm which was in point of Perdition through default of Government and breach of Laws After this Claim Henry was acknowledged by all the Estates for King and seated in the Royal Throne which is accounted the end of Richard's

a great Scarcity of Provision happening he was constrained without performing any memorable Action to make his Retreat nor was the Scots so contented but falling on his Rear not only cut off a great many of his Men but obliged him to leave his Baggage with much Treasure as a Prey to them But now the Pope in favour of England having interdicted Scotland a Truce was concluded between the two Kingdoms for thirteen Years and so ended this tedious War and the King had leisure to make his Progress through the several Counties of York Lancaster and the Marches of Wales punishing such as had been in the former Rebellion and amongst others Andrew de Herkerley was drawn hanged and quartered for taking part with the Scots But now a greater Storm began to gather for young Mortimer making his Escape out at a Window and swimming the River of Thames fled beyond the Seas and joined himself to other Fugitives and banished English and not long after the Spencers oppressing the Kingdom and setting the King against the Queen she under a pretence of Visiting her Father's Court at Paris found means with her Son Edward to get beyond the Seas and refused upon the King 's sending for her to return till she joining with Mortimer her dear Fovourite and other Lords raising a considerable Power and holding Correspondence with the Lords that yet were disaffected in England landed in a hostil manner and marched against the King who was preparing to oppose her seizing upon many considerable Towns The King by this Proceeding finding himself in distress and that the Londoners and many of the Lords had declared against him setting the Prisoners every where at Liberty and recalling those that were banished thought it good to avoid coming to Battel whereupon the Queen with her Forces sate down before Bristol took it and therein Spencer the Elder whom she caused to be cut up alive after being dragged through the Streets for the Satisfaction of the People who mortally hated him And now the King finding himself in a manner forsaken fled into Wales and there for a time lay secret in the Abby of Neath but in the end being discovered and with him the younger Spencer Robert Baldok Chancellour and Simon de Reading the King hereupon was conveyed to Kenelworth Castle and the Lords to Hereford where the Queen lay and there Spencer and Reading being condemned by Sir William Trussel Lord Chief Justice on that occasion they were hanged The Confederates with the Queen having in this manner imprisoned the King and not conceiving it safe to set him at Liberty resolved amongst themselves to make Edward his Son a Prince of about thirteen years of Age King and thereupon sent Sir William Trussel to the Castle where the King was Prisoner to acquaint him with what was intended which put him into a mortal Agony from whence being recovered he greatly lamented and bewailed his hard Fate however Trussel being instructed what to doe proceeded to unking him in these words I William Trussel in the Name of all Men of the Land of England and of all the Parliament Procurator do resign to thee Edward the Homage that was made to thee some time and from this time forward I deprive thee and defie thee of all Power Royal and I shall never be tendent to thee after this time Anno Dom. 1327. And here following the Rule of other Historians we put an End to his Reign though he lived in Captivity as we shall have occasion to mention in the Reign of his Son This Edward the Second was King of England Lord of Ireland Duke of Aquitain and fourth Son of Edward the First by Eleanor his Queen he began his Reign the 7th of June Anno 1307. and reigned 19 Years 6 Months and 18 days and was the 30th sole Monarch of England he was murthered Anno 1327. in the 20th Year of his coming to the Crown and the 41st of his Age and afterward buried at Gloucester His Wife was Isabel Daughter to Philip the Fair King of France and by her he had Issue Edward of Windsor John of Eltham Joan married to David Bruce and Eleanor married to Reynold Duke of Guelder In his time there happened a very great Famine throughout England with many strange Sights betokening the Woes and Miseries that after followed c. Thus by misguided Zeal a Monarch fell Vndone by Parasites he lov'd too well Hard Fate of Princes that in time wont see Their Friends from Foes untill they ruin'd be The Reign and Actions of Edward the Third King of England c. EDward the Third though scarcely of sufficient years of Discretion to know what belonged to the Titles or Rights of Crowns and Kingdoms had however more compassion on his afflicted Father than the Queen his Mohter had on her Husband for young as he was when he heard what had happened he greatly bewailed his Misfortune vowing never to take upon him the Government unless the King freely consented to resign without compulsion nor could they constrain him to it but with threats that they would utterly reject the whole Line and chuse a King out of the Nobility though of another Family Upon these Considerations the young King eight days after his Father's Resignation was crowned with the usual Ceremonies but the old King being yet alive and the People compassionating his Captivity his Deposers thought themselves no ways secure especially Mortimer who was suspected to be over familiar with the Queen and from that time they fell to plotting his death in order to which Mortimer procured an express from the young King to remove him under pretences of Friendship and Advantage but indeed that he might put him into such hands as he was sure would dispatch him and thereupon he was conveyed to Berkley Castle when by the way for fear he should be rescued by the People who had yet some remains of Love for him they set him on a Mole-hill in order to shave him for the better disquise and in an insulting manner told him That the Water of the next Ditch should accommodate him for that purpose to which the sorrowfull King replied That there should be warm Water whether they would or not and thereupon sent forth a floud of Tears and being arrived at Berkley Castle in the Custody of Thomas Gurney and John Matravers he was murthered by them or such as they appointed in this barbarous manner viz. being bound to a bed with his face downwards they thrust a hollow Horn into his Fundament and through that to prevent any burning or searing in the outward parts they thrust an Iron Instrument red hot twisting it amidst his Bowels till with horrible pain and torment amidst crys and groans he expired And this Wickedness Historians record to be acted upon Mortimer's sending an ambiguous Sentence prepared by Adam Torleton Eishop of Hereford to such as kept the Castle viz. Edvardum occedere nolite t●mere bonum est To kill King Edward refuse to

Dorcetshire with about fourscore men and a considerable quantity of Arms and Amunition declaring his intention to deliver the Kingdom from the danger it was likely to be brought into by the prevailing power of the Papists under the influence of a King who had professed himself openly to be of the Roman Communion c. and divers of his Declarations were printed and scattered abroad for printing which one Mr. Desney a Councellour was seized and Tryed at the Marshalsea upon an Indictment of High Treason and being by the Jury found guilty he was sentenced and executed his head being afterward placed on London Bridge The Duke of Monmouth encreasing his Forces in the West and causing himself to be Proclaimed King not onely the standing Guards but a great number of New-raised forces were sent against him as likewise the Scotch Regiment sent from Holland when after sundry skirmishes in which divers were killed on both sides On the sixth of July the Duke in the dead of the night by a silent March endeavoured to surprize the King's Forces encamped on Sedgmore near Bridgwater commanding the Foot in person and ordering the Lord Grey with the Horse to take a compass and fall in the Rear but the design being discovered by an early Alarum after many brisk firings between the Foot and the Dukes Horse not coming timely up the King's Horse entred the Ranks and in spite of the opposition that was made broke and disordered them so that about daylight they fled in great confusion and a piteous slaughter ensued so that two thousand are held to be slain The Duke with most of the Commanders escaped the Field but having been Attainted in Parliament and a premium of 5000 l set upon his head he was upon the information of an old Woman searched for in the Inclosures near Holt Lodge and after divers attempts to escape was taken and by easie Marches brought to White-Hall and by the Council committed to the Tower and the third day after brought to the Scaffold on Tower-Hill where after he had made a very Christian-like and Heroick Speech he had his Head severed from his Body at five stroaks so barbarous was his execution the Body of this unfortunate and much lamented Nobleman in whose Veins flowed by the Father's side the Royal Bloud was put into a Hearse in order to its Interment but this execution allayed not the fury of some persons for the Lord Chief Justice Jeffries and others being sent into the West to try such as escaped Military execution caused about 300 to be executed in divers places amongst whom the Lady Lile was beheaded at Winchester for harbouring some persons who had escaped the Battel and soon after a Woman was burnt at Tyburn upon the like occasion During these proceedings the Earl of Argyle was Routed in Scotland taken in a pond and beheaded at Edenburg Rumbold the Malster was hanged and quartered and his quarters sent to England and set upon the Gates of London Colonel Ayloffe and Mr. Nelthorp were sent prisoners and executed one before the Temple and the other before Gray's-Inn And the Parliament meeting again after its prorogation the King told them that in consideration of sundry good Services several Roman Catholick Officers had done him he was willing they should continue in their places notwithstanding the Parliament was very earnest to have them removed and pardon granted them for what had passed in Acting contrary to Law as not being Qualified for places of Trust without taking the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy however they were continued and the Parliament soon after Dissolved An Embassadour was sent to Rome and the Pope's Nuncio came to England being kindly received by the King and now it began to be rumour'd that Father Petre a Jesuit was got to the Helm of Affairs and soon after he was declared a Privy Councellour And divers persons were Tryed upon the Account of what had been done in the Reign of King Charles the Second for which Alderman Cornish suffered in Cheapside and Charles Bateman a Chirurgeon at Tyburn And the Dissenters were severely prosecuted though at the same time the Popish Priests began to build them Chapels in Limestreet Bucklers-Bury St. John's and Southwark promising themselves no less than the re-establishment of that Religion and some people were punished for opposing their proceedings the City Trained Bands being ordered on Sundays c. to guard those houses from the violence of the Multitude and most of the Judges having declared a Dispensing Power in the King Papists throughout the Nation were put into places of Trust and Offices without taking the Oaths Especially after the Tryal of the Case of Sir Edward Hale● at the Court of King's-Bench where the Verdict went for him c but the Members of the Church o● England seeming not well pleased there followed an unexpected closing with the Dissenters and a Declaration was published for Toleration or Liberty of Conscience and a promise to Establish it by Law The Church of England-men we almost every where displaced and Papists and Dissenters placed in their stead most of the Fellows of Magdalen College in Oxford turned out and a President imposed on it A High Commission Court was ●erected to censure the Clergy the Bishop of London was suspended and most of the Corporations had their Charters taken into the King's hands some of them being shortly after restored with alterations The standing Forces were increased Campaigns were held on Hounslow Heath to exercise the Souldiers and the King designing to call a Parliament the people were questioned in many parts of the Kingdom whether they would themselves if chosen or give their Voices for such as should be willing to take away the Penal Laws and Tests And the Archbishop of Canterbury with Six other Bishops were sent prisoners to the Tower ●nd afterwards Tryed at the King's-Bench Bar but ●cquitted for petitioning the King to revoke his Order of Reading his Declaration for Liberty of Conscience in Churches in time of Divine Service And during their Imprisonment we had news that ●he Queen was brought to Bed of a Son for which 〈◊〉 Thanksgiving day was appointed and the Con●uits in London ran with Wine as likewise in many other places and the Embassadours in foreign Courts made great Rejoycing But whilst this ●oy lasted at Court and things were making ready or the calling a Parliament news came that great ●reparations were making in Holland with a design ●o pass an Army into England which changed the ●ace of Affairs for those that had been turned out ●f places of Trust were restored the Bishops were received into savour the Charter of London and other Charters were restored Depositions were taken relating to the Birth of the Infant and enrolled in Chancery and the King was willing no Papist should be a Member in Parliament with many other concessions and great Levys were made for Sea and Land however the Dutch Fleet without much interruption came to Torbay in

Great were the preparations and an Act on the 21st of March passed the Royal Assent for granting their Majestys a present Aide and another Act soon after passed for recviving Actions and Processes depending in the Courts of Westminster discontinued by the omitting Hillary Term with others conducing to the regulation and settlement of Affairs and divers great Officers were made and honours Conferred on sundry persons And now the Coronation day drawing near the Parliament considered of the Coronation Oath and the Royal Assent given to an Act intituled an Act for Establishing the Coronation Oath to be Administred to all the Kings and Queens that shall Succeed to the Imperial Crown of this Realm upon their respective Coronations by one of the Arch-Bishops to be done in Publick so that nothing being wanting to perfect the Royal Ceremony of the Coronation on Thursday the 11 of April the King and Queen landing at the Parliament Stairs went to the Princes Lodgings between 10 and 11 in the Morning and the Peers and Peeresses being in their Robes and having their Coronets their Majestys came to Westminster-Hall the Procession being put in order and there taking their Seats on a Throne under a Cloth of State the Regalia was presented and delivered to those Noblemen by whom it was to be born and the Earl Marshal Kings at Arms and Heraulds having put the Procession in order it passed on through the Guard of Soldiers that made a Lane blew Cloth being spread and scattered with sweet hearbs their Majestys under a Canopy of State in their Royal Robes the King in a Velvet Crimson Cap and the Queen with a Circlet of Gold on her head the Peers and Peeresses in their Robes with their Coronets in their hands and entring Westminster Abby their Majestys Ascended the Throne and the Nobles and others disposed themselves according to their degrees and Places and the Ceremony was performed with great Splendor and Magnificence after which their Majestys with their Crowns on their Heads and the Nobility with their Coronets on returned in the same order they went to Westminster-Hall where a Stately Banquet was prepared and being seated the first course was Marshalled in and the King Champion in Compleat Armour came into the Hall on Horseback and made his Challenge in these words repeated by York Herauld viz. If any person of any Degree whatsoever High or Low shall deny or gainsay our Sovereign Lord and Lady King WILLIAM and Queen MARY King and Queen of England France and Ireland Defenders of the Faith to be Rightfull King and Queen of this Realm of England or that they ought not to Enjoy the Imperial Crown of the same here is their Champion who saith he lieth and is a false Traytor being ready in person to Combate with him and in this Quarrel will Adventure his Life against him on what day soever he shall appoint The Royal Entertainment ended their Majestys returned to White-Hall and the great Guns and Bells proclaimed the Joy together with the peoples shouts and acclamations The Night was spent in Bonfiers and Drinking-healths which in a short time was so ordered throughout the Kingdom and Scotland not to be behind proceeded to Proclaim their Majestys King and Queen of that Kingdom deputing the Earl of Argyle and others to wait upon their Majestys with an offer of the Crown which being Accepted their Majestys have since been so owned that Kingdom with equal demonstrations of Joy The Charges of the Government appearing very great the Parliament agreed upon a Pole B●● which being brought in and approved it passed the Royal Assent encouraging the lending of 300000 l upon its security till Money can be raised The late King being by this time in Ireland and the French Fleet about to Land more men in that Kingdom were Engaged near Bantry-Bay by an English Squadron under the Command of Vice-Admiral Herbert and three of their great Ships disabled and sunk a great many of their Seamen and Officers killed without the loss of one Ship on our side though much inferiour in number And the French and Irish laying Siege to London-Derry were beaten off by the Besieged under the Command of Colonel Walker Minister of that Place and about 4000 of them slain insomuch that they were obliged to acquit it and draw off And several persons attempting to spread King James his Declarations in the City of London some were seized and committed to Newgate And during these Transactions the late Lord Chancellour Jeffreys and the late Lord Chief Justice Wright dyed one in the Tower and the other in Newgate The Convention of Scotland was turned into a a Parliament the Lord Hamilton made President and an Act passed for asserting their Power and preventing any questions or dispute that may arise about their power to Act as being a Parliament Aud since the Castle is surrendred Thus Reader you may see our chang'd estate And own God's Mercies Wonderfull and Great Whose swift Almighty Hand the Ruin stay'd That Rome's dark Thunder into Bolts had made Aiming 'em at Religion Life and Laws But Heaven defeats where e'er it owns the Cause

declaring they were granted in his nonage But this begat Hubert de Burgo his chief Justice who advised him to it a very great hatred amongst the People however the King with the Money thus gotten raised an Army and sailed for Britany winning many Places and driving them from their Encroachments but the Irish rebelling he was constrained to return sooner than he purposed but upon notice of his Preparations the Irish laid down their Arms and sneaked into their Eogs He about the same time quieted the Welsh that began to be mutinous and now it was that the Bishop of Winchester and others found an opportunity to accuse Hubert de Burgo of many high Crimes and Misdemeanours upon which he fled but being taken at Brent Wood in Essex he was brought bound to London and Imprisoned in the Tower when in his Place as chief Counsellour and Confident the King ordained Peter de Rupibus Bishop of Winchester but he being a Foreigner by Birth so greatly favoured Strangers that he procured them to be put into Offices and the most important Trusts of the Kingdom which made the English Noblemen confederate against him and the King summoning them to Parliament they sent him word that if out of hand he removed not the Bishop of Winchester and Strangers out of his Court they would drive both him and them out of the Kingdom and having removed him with his evil Counsellours they would consult about Creating a new King But animated by the Bishop of Winchester his Confident the King marched to Gloucester with an Army and sending for them by Name such as appeared not he burnt their Mannors and gave their Inheritances to his Strangers which made the Earl-Marshal and others that stood out contract a strict Alliance with Lewellin Prince of Wales and by way of Reprisal fell upon the Possessions of the Kings Favourites burning some Towns and many Castles but the Earl-Marshal crossing the Seas to recover his confiscated Possessions in Ireland was there wounded and of that wound he dyed whose Death instead of Rejoycing the King as some expected made him on the contrary burst into Tears declaring That he had not left his peer in England and the King plainly perceiving the People's hatred in general against the Bishop commanded him not to meddle any farther in Matters of State and finding the necessity of it he laid aside Peter Rivalis his Lord-Treasurer commanding the Poictuovians to depart the Land But the Disquiets ended not in this manner for the Pope perceiving the English Clergy did not greatly stickle for his Interest and Advantage he the better to support his Usurpation sent over 300 Romans requiring they should be placed in the first Benefices as they became vacant at the same time demanding great Summes of Money of the Clergy for the Maintenence of his Wars against the Emperour the which though at first denied was at length complyed with and soon after the Pope as he alledged out of a Curiosity from a Report he had heard of the Country's Fertility and Pleasantness was greatly desirous to come over and see it making his Suit to the King that he might be admitted but the Council considering he had some sinister end in it not only the Laity but the Clergy opposed it In the year 1240 Richard Earl of Cornwall with the Earls of Lincoln Salisbury Pembroke Chester and others departed with a great Train to the Holy-Land and two years after King Henry passed the Seas to recover Poictou but spent a great deal of Treasure without effecting any thing memorable which made him in his Return levy grievous Taxes to supply his Coffers and above all he sate heavy upon the Jews who were then great Usurers in this Kingdom draining them of what they had unlawfully gotten He likewise retrenched the Expences of his House condescending to such a meanness that to save Charges he would invite himself and his Court frequently to the Houses of such wealthy Persons as he thought best able to give him Entertainment getting likewise a great Summe of the Parliament under pretence of going to the Holy-Land and for his consenting again to restore the Liberties and Charters Anno 1257. Richard Earl of Cornwall the King's Brother was chosen King of the Romans by the Electoral Princes and with King Henry's consent passed into Germany yet he was obliged to purchase this Leave with a great Summe of Money as being accounted one of the richest Princes in Europe He was Crowned King of the Romans at Aquisgrave and received the Honour due to his Character from all the Princes and Estates of the Empire But after his Departure new Differences arose between King Henry and his Nobles upon the Account of the Return of Strangers contrary to the Agreement so that they came armed to the Parliament at Oxford binding themselves by Oath to have Things of that nature regulated and the King the better to quiet them without bloud-shed together with Prince Edward his Son was there content and the wide Differences being referred to a Parliament appointed to meet at London they were cemented But the Peace continued not long e● upon new Disgusts both Sides prepared for War so that the King seizing upon Oxford turned out the Students of that University to the number of 15000 whose Names were entered in the Matriculation Book which made many of them take part with the Barons and imbody themselves under a peculiar Standard so that when the King broke into Northampton where part of the Confederate Army lay the Students bore the brunt of the Battel and killed more Men than all the rest of the Soldiers which so incensed King Henry that he vowed a sharp Revenge but being told they were many of them the Sons and Kinsmen of the Noblemen in his Army and that such Rigour would alienate them from him he retracted his Resolution Yet heightned with this Success he pursued the Barons to Nottingham burning and wasting their Possessions which made them seek for Peace declaring by a submissive Letter their Loyalty to him and that they had no Design against his Person but their Quarrel was to his evil Counsellors the known Enemies of the Kingdom But the King reproaching them by the Name of Traitors sent them word that the Injury done to his Friends he took as done to himself and therefore held them as theirs and his own Enemies so that no good understanding being towards the Armies drew out and engaged in a mortal Battel wherein Prince Edward the King 's eldest Son behaved himself with much Bravery routing the Battalion composed of Londoners and following the pursuit four Miles which notwithstanding was prejudicial to his Father for in the mean while the King's Horse was slain under him and he made Prisoner together with his Brother the King of the Romans who a little before returned to England for the security of his Possessions so that the Prince not being able to restore the Battel Victory fell to the Barons and