of the age of .xvi. yere when he was admytted for kynge and that he was not crowned kynge tyll he hadde reygned the full terme of .xii. yeres whych terme ended and expyred he was enoynted and crowned kynge in the cytye of Bathe vppon a whytsondaye fallyng then vpon the .xv. day in May of Dunstane and Oswolde byshoppes that one of Caunterburye and that other of yorke In the begynnynge of his reygn he called home holy Dunstane that before was exyled of kyng Edwyne whych Dunstane harde aungellys synge peace be to the lande of Englyshemen Then he made DuÌstane that was abbot of Glastenburye byshoppe of worceter and vnyed and knyt into one the prouynce and lorshyppes of Englande and made of theym one monarchye and kyngedome In many places he putte away clerkes and prestes that lyued vycyously and sette there for theym munkes And as wytnessyth Guydo Policronica and other he buylded and repayred to the nomber of .xl. houses of relygyon wherof Abyndon Peterburgh Thorney Ramesey and wyltonÌ were parcell of theym And at wynchester in the newe abbay he putte in munkes where before dayes were seculer prestes The cause wherof was for so myche as the prestes fled or neglygently slowthed the dyuyne seruyce of god and sette vykers in theyr places whyle they lyued at theyr pleasure in other places and spente the patrymonye of that chyrche after theyr sensuall wyll Then kynge Edgar gaue to the vykers the lande that before belonged to the prebendaryes trustynge therby that they wolde do theyr duetyes But yt was not longe to or the sayd vycares were as neglygent as the other wherfore fynally the kyng by authoryte of pope IohnÌ the .xiii. of that name voyded clerely the prestes ordeyned there moÌkes though some of hys prelates where not therwyth contented This Edgar kepte suche iustyce and dyd so sharpe execucyon that neuer before his days was vsyd lesse felony or robberyes And for he wold haue the rauenous bestes destroyed thorough hys lande he caused Ludwallus prynce or kynge of walys to yelde to hym yerely by way of trybute thre hundred woluys By meane wherof wythin the space of .iiii. yeres after in Englande and walys myght scantely be founden one wolf a lyue It is wytnessyd of dyuers authours that Kynadus kynge of Scotlande dispysed Edgar for that that he was lytell of stature wherof Edgar beynge warned desyred the sayd Kynadus to dyner and made to him good countenaunce After whych dyner ended he toke the sayd Kynadus by y e arme and so wyth hym helde company tyll they came into y e feldes where beynge dysseuered from bothe theyr seruauntes Edgar drew from vnder his garment two swordes desyred Kynadus to take the chose of theym sayd to hym nowe thou hast good laysure to a saye thy strength wyth myne that before tyme thou haste so myche dyspysed And lette vs nowe proue whyche is more worthy to be subiecte to other It is not syttynge for a knyghte to make great boste at the borde and to do lytell in felde when the Scottyshe kynge hard the kyng thus challenge hym he knew well his wordes before spoken were disclosyd to y e kynge wherof he was not a litle abashed But for apeace y e kynge he behaued hym so lowely and gaue to hym suche plesaunte wordes that the kynge forgaue the trespace This Edgar amonge other of hys polytyke dedes vsed in the somer tyme to scowre the see wyth certayne shyppes of warre And agayn y e wynter he prouyded to laye the sayd shyppes in sure hauens and had redy in his owne seruyce and in hys lordes houses a certayne nomber of soâdyours that were alway redy when the kyng had nede of them And his shyp maysters were in wages wyth hym thorough the yere that euer atteÌdyd vpon the shippes to se that nothyng fayled that vnto theym was necessary By meane wherof he kepte hys land in great quyete fro outward enmyes And in the wynter he vsed to ryde ouer the land and to se how hys offycers entreated the people And yf any were accused of extorcyon or other crymes and agayne them suffycyently proued he dyd vppon all suche sharpe correccyon And for so mych as in his days grete multytude of Danys dwelled in dyuers places of England which vsed many vyces specyally great drynkynge wherof ensued dronkenesse and many other vices to the euyll examples and hurte of hys commons and subiectes he therfore ordeyned certayne cuppes with pynnes or nayles set in them and ordeyned made a law that what person dranke past that marke at one drought shuld for fayte a certayn peny wherof the one half shuld fall to the accusour that other half to the ruler of y e brough or towne that the offence was done in It is told of this Edgar by dyuers authours y t he vpon a season beyng at Chester entred y e ryuer of Dee there syttynge in a bote toke the rule of the helme and caused .viii. kynges whyche of Guydo are called regulâ whyche is to meane small or lytell kynges or vnder kinges y e whyche he commaunded to rowe hym vp and downe the ryuer vnto saynte IohnÌs chyrche and from thens to hys owne paleys in token y t he was lorde kynge of so many prouynces This noble Edgar had two wyues By the fyrste y t was called Egelfleda the whyte he hadde a son that was named Edwarde He was after kynge and slayne by reason of hys stepmoder Alfrita called in the englyshe cronycle Estrylde And vpon his seconde wyfe Alfrida or Estrylde he gat a son named Egelredus or after the englyshe boke Eldrede which was kynge after Edwarde the martyr as after shall be shewyd And of saynte wylfryth whych of some wryters is accoÌpted for a meÌchon he had a doughter named saynte Edyth in êcesse of ryme But this was of bast and not in wedloke For as Guydo and Policronicon testyfyen this virgyne wylfryth knowynge that the kyng caste to her vnlawfull loue put vppon her the habyte of a nuÌne thynkyng thereby to wythdrawe the kynges loue But that not wythstandynge she was at length brought to the kynges bedde For whych dede he was greatly blamed of the holy byshop Dunstane and dyd therfore vii yere penauÌce by the heste or byddynge of the sayde Dunstane And the forenamed wylfrith after y e chyld borne lyued so relygyousely y t she is now coÌpted for a saynt in heuen Of her doughter Edyth yt is radde that at lawefull age she was at wyltonÌ shorne a nunne where she vsyd more gayer apparell then was thought coÌuenyent to her religyon For y e which she beynge blamed of the holy bysshop Ethelwolde answered Goddes dome that maye not fayle is pleasyd onely wyth conscyence wherfore I truste that vnder these clothes maye be as clene a soule as vnder other y e ben of lasse shewynge Many vertues ben rehersed of this holy virgyn Edyth in the .ix. chapyter of the .vi. boke of
of pope Benet the .v. of that name And the thyrde cause was for that he occupyed the sayd Paule wythout lycence lefull authoryte of y e courte of Rome Than Stigandê° proued that benyuolence of kynge wyllyam For where before he made to him louyng and frendly countenauÌce dyd vnto hym greate reuerence than he chauÌged all his myldenesse into sternesse and exceuted hym by y e popes authoryte so that in the ende Stigandus was depryued of hys dygnytye and kepte in wynchester as a prysoner y e terme of hys lyfe It is recorded of hym that he was so couetous and sparyng y t he wold take nothynge of hys owne vsed to swere by Alhalowes that he had not one peny But that othe was proued vntrewe after hys deth by a lytell keye that was founde fastened about hys necke For by that keye was founden greate treasour vnder the erth in mo places than one In thys counsayle also were put downe dyuers other bysshoppes abbotes and pryours by the meanes of kynge wyllyam and all to the entent that he myghte preferre Normans to the rule of the chyrch as he hadde preferred hys knyghtes to the rule of the teÌperaltye that he myght stande in the more suerty of the land In thys counsayle saynt wolstanÌ that than was bysshop of worceter axed besely of the kynge certayne possessyons fallen into hys handes by the deth of Aldredê° laste archbyshop of yorke that were wyth holden by y e sayd Aldredus But the kyng myght not here than of any suche maters for hurtyng of the lyberty of the chyrche of yorke Than vpon wytsonday after the kynge gaue the sayd archebysshopryche of yorke vnto Thomas a chanon of Bayon sent for Lamfrank an other Norman than abbot of Cadomonency and gaue vnto hym the archebysshopryche of Caunterbury Thys Lamfranke was an Italyan borne and was perfytely lerned in y e scyence of theologye or holy wrytte ryght apte in gouernynge of thynges bothe spyrytuall and temporall Upon our lady daye the AssumpcyoÌ the kynge made hym archebysshop of CauÌterbury Than Thomas that was chosen archebysshop of yorke came vnto Lamfranke for to be sacred as the vsage wolde Of whom Lamfranke axed an othe his professyon in wrytynge concernyng his obedyence Thomas answered and sayde that he wolde neuer do that but yf he myghte therof here suffycyent authoryte and skylfull reasons byndynge by the whyche it myght be knowen that he shulde so do with out any preiudyce of hys chyrche Than Lamfranke shewed and proued skylfully that hys askynge was reasonable and ryghtfull But yet Thomas wolde not assent but with sayde it and went for that tyme from Lamfrank vnsacred shewed vnto the kyng that Lamfranke entended to do wronge to hym and to his chyrche of yorke Than the kyng callyng Lamfrank before hym sayd than he trusted more in his cunnyng than he dyd in good fayth or reason But he answered so reasonably vnto y e kyng that in the ende Thomas by the coÌmaundement of the kyng was fayne to come agayne to Lamfranke to be sacred and wrote hys professyoÌ with hys owne hande of hys obedyence and radde it in the whyche was conteyned that he shulde be obedyent in all that belongeth to the worshyp of god and all crysteÌ fayth ⪠which done he was sacred so deêted And shortly after Lamfranke axed toke professyoÌ of all y e byshoppes of EnglaÌd THE CCXXI CHAPITER IN the .v. yere of wyllyam the conquerours reygne Edwyn and Marcharus erle of Mercia and of Northumberlande beynge in fere of daunger voyded y e kynges court secretly and were rebelles som what of tyme. But at length it turned to bothe theyr harmes For Edwyne was slayn as he went toward Scotlande and erle Marcharus wyth y e bysshop of Dorcham named Egelwynus toke the ile of Ely for theyr sauegarde But the kynge held them so shorte that in processe they were fayne to yelde them to the kynges grace and mercy Than he sent the bysshop to the abbey of Abyndon to be kept there as a prysoner where he was so dayntely fed that he dyed for hunger But some wryters testyfye that he was so hyghe herted that after he knewe he shuld remayne there as prysoner he wolde neuer ete mete after And erle Marcharus was had to the towre of London In the .vi. yere of hys reygne kyng wyllyam as before is touched went wyth a great army into Scotland and subdued Malcoâyne theyr kynge as before I haue shewed in the precedynge chapyter In the .vii. yere of kyng wyllyam Thomas archebysshop of yorke not beynge content to be vnder the rule and obedyence of Lamfranke appealed to the courte of Rome so that the sayde two archbysshoppes appered both in proper persone before the pope Alexaunder afore named In whose presence Lamfranke was so well fauoured that where Thomas aboue named and Remigius byshop of Dorchester were for skylfull causes depryued of theyr croyses and rynges he by hys fauour meanes restored them to theyr former dygnytees The cause of Thomas was for that he had holpen duke wyllyam to warde hys iourney into Englande For the whyche the sayd duke promysed hym a bysshopryche yf he opteyned vyctory And y e other was depriued for y t he was proued a prestes sonne Than Thomas moued the cause of the prymacy of Caunterbury of subieccyon that to hym shuld belonge and sayde that these two sees were farre asonder that is to meane Caunterbury and yorke and that nother of them by the constytucyons of Gregory shulde be subiecte vnto other but that the one is more worthy than the other for so myche as he is of elder tyme. To thys answered Lamfranke and sayd that y e constytucyons of Gregory made no mencyoÌ of CauÌterbury but of yorke London Than the pope remytted thys mater to be determyned before y e kyng the byshoppes of England and gaue y e palle vnto Lamfranke But for this terme or word palle is to many one vnknowen I shall therfore here shewe vnto you what thynge it is This palle is an indument y â euery archbyshop must haue is not in full authoryte of an archbyshoppe tyll he haue receyued hys palle of the pope and is a thynge of white like to y e breded of a stole But it is of a nother fassyon For where y e stole is made in length and is worne about the prestes necke thys is ioyned togyder aboue so that it lyeth a parte therof vppon the shulders And that one ende hangeth streyght downe to the grounde before and that other behynde garnysshed in dyuers places therof wyth crosses And where the stole is worne nexte vnto the albe whan the preste is reuested to masse thys palle is worne vpon thys vestymente ouermoste of all whan an archebysshoppe syngeth hys masse whan Lamfranke had thus sped hys nedys at Rome he wyth y e other two bysshoppes retourned into Englande where thys mater hangyng in varyaunce bytwene
towarde the ryuer of Ancherre and so vnto Burdeaux In all whyche iourney they passed wythout fyghte or batayll natwithstaÌdyng the great hurte domage they dyd vnto y e townes couÌtres as they passed Excepte at a place or towne called Orchye a knyght of FrauÌce called syr IohnÌ de Uyenne encountred .l. speres and .xx. archers that were strayed from theyr hoste and set vppon theym and slew some parte of theym and toke the resydue of theym prysoners So that the Frenche boke sayth for so moche as for lacke of meate for theyr horses and other paynfull thynges that in that iourney to theym happened that though that iournay were vnto the Englysshemen honorable to ryde so ferre in the kynges laÌde vnfoughten wyth yet it was to theym very paynfull coÌsyderyng the manyfolde chaunces fallynge to theym as losse of horses and other thynges duryng that passage Anno dnÌi M.CCC.lxxii  Anno dnÌi M.CCC.lxxiii  IohnÌ Awbry  Adam of Bury  Anno .xlviii.  IohnÌ Fysshyde  IN thys .xlviii. yere were sente fro the pope than beyng the .xi. Gregory the archebysshop of Rauenne and the bysshop of Carentras for to treate of the peace betwene the .ii. kynges of Englande and of FrauÌce The whyche assembled them at Bruges in Flaundres whyther also for kynge Edwardes partye came the duke of Lancastre and the bysshope of LondoÌ wyth other And for Charles the Frenche kynge appered there the duke of Burgoyne the bisshop of Amyens and other The whyche coÌmyssioners after they had spente a greate parte of the lente in disputacions of thys matter the partyes for the Frenche kynge desyred a lycence of the legates that they myghte ryde vnto Parys and shewe vnto y e kyng the offycers of the englysshe partye and so to retourne with hys pleasur wherupon it was agreed that a certayne shulde ryde to shew vnto the Frenche kynge y t the Englysshemen abode styffely vpon the souerayntye that the kynge of Englande and hys heyres kynges shal enioy all the former landes comprysed in the peace made betwene hym and IohnÌ than kyng of FrauÌce as before is shewed in the .xxxiiii. yere of thys kyng wyth out homage or other duyte for them doynge For thys matter as sayth y e Frenche cronycle kyng Charlys assembled at Parys a great parte of y e nobles of hys realme wyth many other wyse meÌ doctours of dyuynite to haue that case suffyciently argued and debated In the whyche couÌsayl it was plenerly determyned that the kyng myght nat gyue ouer the sayd souerayntye without great peryll of hys soule as there was shewed by diuers resons whan thys reporte was brought vnto Bruges y e sayd treaty was dissolued wythoute any conclusyon takynge excepte the peace was contynued tyll the feast of all sayntes next ensuynge Anno domini M.CCC.lxxiii  Anno domini M.CCC.lxxiiii  Rycharde Lyons  wyllyam walworth  Anno .xlix.  wyllyam wodhowce  IN thys yere that is to vnderstande in the begynnynge of thys mayres yere and ende of the xlviii yere of kyng Edwarde a new wyse coÌplayned vpon to the kyng y t he was throwen into pryson where he lay many yeres after Than kyng Edwarde created Rychard sonnÌ of prynce Edward prynce of walys gaue vnto hym y e erledomes of Chester and Cornewayll And also for the kyng waxed feble sykely he than betoke the rule of the lande vnto syr IohnÌ of Gaunt duke of Lancastre and ordeyned hym as gouernour of the lande whyche so contynued durynge hys fathers lyfe In thys yere also the tenauÌtes or menyall seruauÌtes of the erle of warwyk made a ryot vpon the monkes of EuyshmÌ and slewe hurte many of the abbottes tenauntes spoyled and brake hys closures and warynnes and sewed theyr pondes and waters and dyd vnto them many displesures to the vtter ruyne of that monastery ne had the kyng y â soner haue sente downe to the erle hys letters chargynge hym to sease withdraw hys men from that ryot whych afterwarde was pacified without any notary punysshement of suche persons as were begynners or executours of that ryot Anno domini M.CCC.xcvi  Anno dnÌi M.CCC.xcvii  Androwe Pykman  Nycholas Bembre  Anno .lii.  Nycholas Twyforde  IN thys .lii. yere and .xii. daye of the moneth of Apryl syr IohnÌ Mynster worth knyght for certayne tresons of the whych he was conuict before the mayre and other iustyces of the kyng in the Guyld halle was thys foresayd daye at tyborne put in execucion that is to meane hanged heded and quartered hys hed sette after vpoÌ LoÌdon brydge The cause of whose dethe was for so moche as he beynge put in trust by the kyng receyued greate summes of money to paye wyth the kynges sowdyours the whyche he kepte vnto hys owne vse and deceyued the kynge and hys sowdiours And whan therof he was to the kyng accused he feryng punysshement fledde into Fraunce there conspyred newly agayne his natural prynce so lastly was taken and receyued hys meryte In thys yere also began a woÌderfull cysme in the churche of Rome For after the deth of the pope the .xi. Gregory was chosen .ii. popes wherof the fyrst was named the .vi. UrbaÌ and that other the seuenth Clement the fyrste an Italy on borne and that other a Frencheman Of the whyche ensued suche dyscorde in eleccyon of the pope that by the terme of .xxxix. yeres after there was euer .ii. popes in suche auctorytye that harde and doughtefull it was to knowe whether was indubitat pope And vpon the .xxii. daye of the moneth of Iuny dyed at hys manour of Shene now called RychmouÌt kyng Edward y e thyrde of that name whaÌ he had reygned .li. yeres and .v. monethes and odde dayes leuyng after hym .iiii. sonnes that is to saye Leonell duke of Clarence IohnÌ of GauÌt duke of Lancastre Edmund of LaÌgley duke of yorke and Thomas of woodstok erle of Cambrydge Of the whyche sonnes wyth other nobles of hys realme he was honourably coÌueyed froÌ his sayd manour of Shene vnto the monastery of westmynster and there solempnely wythin the chapell of saynt Edwarde vppon the south syde of the shryne wyth thys Epytaphyor superscrypcion in a table hangyng vpon hys tombe ¶ Hic decus Anglorum flos regum preteritoruÌ Forma futurorum rex clemens pax populorum Tercius Edwardus regni complens iubileum Inuictus pardus pollens bellis Machabeus The whych is thus to be vnderstaÌde in our mother tuÌge as folowynge Of Englyshe kynges here lieth the beauteuous floure Of all before passed myrrour to them shall sue A mercifull kynge of peace conseruatour The .iij. Edwarde The deth of whome maye ãâã All EnglysshmeÌ for he by knyghtehode due was lyberde inuict and by feate Marciall To worthy Machabe in vertu peregall PHylyp de Ualoys erle of Ualoys sonne of Charles de Ualoys brother vnto y e .iiii. Philip was admitted for
whose requeste the sayd knyght ranne with hym in woodstoke parke certayne courses In the whyche were it wyth stroke or other myshap the sayd erle receyued there hys dethes wounde dyed shortly after In this yere also moneth of Iuny a bakers man berynge a basket full of horsebrede to serue hys maysters customers in Fletestrete whanne he came foreagayn the bysshop of Salysburyes place standynge in Salysbury aley a seruaunt of the bysshoppes starte vnto the basket and toke oute one of the louys And for the baker wolde agayne haue recouered hys horse lofe y e bysshoppes seruauÌt wyth hys dagger brake the bakers hed Than came the inhabytauntes of the strete wolde haue broughte the yoman vnto warde for brekynge of the kynges peace But he was rescowed by hys felowes and so hadde vnto the bysshoppes palays whyche that daye stoode treasourer of Englande For this rescous the people beyng in a fury in greate multytude gathered aboute the palays and wolde haue entred parforce to haue set out the yoman Agayn whome the bysshoppes seruauÌtes made resisteÌce so y t y e rumour grewe more and more And the peple of the cytye aswell suche as were of yll dysposycion as other encreased into a greate noumbre Fame of thys doyng thaÌ spraÌge to y e mayer which in all haste wyth dyuers aldermen the shyryues sped hym thyther to se the peace kepte dyd that he cowde to withdrawe the people But after y e mayer the offycers of the citie were comyn thyder the coÌmons out of all partyes of the cytye drewe thyder in moche more multytude thanne they had before so that y e more they were in noumbre the worse they were to rule In so moche that they wold nat be satysfyed but they myghte haue y e yoman delyuered whose name was walter Romayne And for to brynge about theyr foly they made many assautes at the gates of y e sayd palays the bysshop hym selfe beynge than at wyndesore Lastly after many showtes lyftes at the gates made by dyscrescioÌ of the mayre aldermen with other dyscrete comoners of the cytye the people was mynysshed and sente agayne euery maÌ to hys dwellynge all was set in quyet reste whan worde of this came vnto the bisshop in moch worse maner thaÌ the thynge was in dede he gyuing light credeÌce without examinacioÌ made in the matter assocyat vnto hym mayster Arundell than archebisshop of yorke and chauÌceler of EnglaÌde so greuously enfourmed the kyng that he toke agayne the cytye ryght greuouse dyspleasure so that in all hast the mayre was sent for to the kynge At whose commyng was layd vnto his charge great heynous maters that he non otherwyse ruled the cytye but suffered the cytezyns to make suche assautes vppoÌ the kynges hed offycers to the kynges great dyshonour ieopardy of suche great treasoure as he than had of the kynges iÌ his custody and kepynge And after broughte vnto the kynges presence of whome nat wythstaÌdyng hys reasonable excuse before made he was of the kyng ryght sore blamed greuously sayde vnto ThaÌ was the mayre the sheryues dyscharged of the rule of y e cytie the liberties of the same seased into the kynges haÌdes a knyghte of the court called syr Edward DaliÌgryge a good man and fauourable to y e cytezeyns was made gouernoure of the cytye the .xxi. daye of Iune contynued in that offyce to the fyrste daye of Iuly next ensuyng At whych day beynge in the begynnynge of y e kynges .xvi. yere of hys reygne he was discharged syr Baldewyn Radyngton knyght putte in hys rome so coÌtynued tyll the feest of SymoÌde Iude folowynge And for the more dyspleasure of the cytezyns all plees sutes kept before tyme in westmynster hall were than remoued holdeÌ at yorke to the great noyaunce of all the lande whyche so contynued tyll Crystmas And in thys mayres yere also was a great traÌslacioÌ of bisshoppes Thys dyspleasure thus haÌgyng towarde the cytye the cytezyns made contynuall labour vnto the kynges grace by meanes of the quene and of doctour Grauysende than bysshope of London whych ought theyr especiall fauoures vnto the cytye By whose meanes the cytezeyns were restored vnto theyr lybertyes hadde licence to chose of them selfe a mayre two shyryues so that vppon saynt Mathewis daye folowynge they chose for shyryues Gylberte Manyfolde or Manfelde and Thomas Newyngton and vppon saynte Edwardes daye kynge and confessoure they chase for theyr mayre wyllyam Stondon Grocer whyche by the Lyeutenaunte of the towre were at that tyme admytted and sworne But yet the kynges dyspleasure was natte reconcyled nor the cytezeyns admytted vnto hys grace and fauoure Anno dnÌi M.CCC.xcii  Anno dnÌi M.CCC.xciii Grocer Gylbert Manfeylde  wyllyam Stondon  Anno. xvi  Thomas Newynghtyn  IN thys mayres yere and .xvi. yere of kynge Rycharde thys newe mayre wyth the worthyest men of the cytye made assyduat daylye meanes vnto the kynges grace for to haue hys moste bounteouse pardoÌ hys especyall fauoure vnto y e cytye The whych at lengthe by meanes of such freÌdes as they purchased about the kyng specyally by laboure of y e good quene Anne and the fornamed bysshop of London they were put in good coÌforte vpoÌ theyr demeanour submyssion at the kynges commyng to LondoÌ Upon whyche coÌforte the cytyzyns made royall and costyous purueyauÌce to receyue the kynge in theyr best maner hauynge monyssyon that the kyng entended to come vnto hys palays of westmynster apparayled them in one lyuerey to y e noumbre of .iiii. C. horsemen well be seen mette wyth hym vpon the heth on thys halfe hys manour of shene where in moste lowlye wyse accordynge to theyr dutyes they submytted them vnto hys grace besechynge hym of hys specyall grace pardon in all suche thynges as they before tymes had offended agayne hys hyghnesse And to y e entent that hys grace myght se the coÌformyte of all hys other subiectes the recorder made instauÌce to hym that he wolde of hys great bounte take so great peyne vppon hym as to ryde thorough hys chaumber of London The whych request he graciously accepted so helde on hys iournay tyll he came at LondoÌ brydge where he was preseÌted wyth .ii. fayre stedes trapped in ryche cloth of golde partyd of redde and whyte The whyche present he thaÌkefull receyued after helde on hys way tyll he came at the standarde in chepe the cytezyns of y e cytye staÌdynge vpoÌ eyther syde of the stretes in theyr lyuereys and cryeng kyng Rycharde kyng Rychard and at theyr backes y e wyndowys wallys hanged wyth all ryche tapettes clothes of arasse in moste goodlye shewyng wyse And at the sayd standarde in chepe was ordeyned a sumptuouse stage in the whych were sette diuers personages in ryche apparel Amonge y t whych an AnÌgell was ordeyned whyche set a ryche crowne of
Fabyans cronycle newly prynted wyth the cronycle actes and dedes done in the tyme of the reygne of the moste excellent prynce kynge Henry the vii father vnto our most drad souerayne lord kynge Henry the .viii. To whom be all honour reuereÌce and ioyfull contynaunce of his prosperous reygne to the pleasure of god and weale of this his realme AMEN ¶ Prentyd at London By wyllyam Rastell 1533. ⧠CVM PRIVILEGIO MVSEVM BRITANNICVM The table of the fyrste volume of Fabyanes cronycle ALbyon and why thys ile of olde tyme so was called it apereth in the fourth lefe the fyrst chapytre Brute the sonne of Siluius and of hys orygynall and fyrste coÌmyng into thys lande ca. ii folio iiii Brute of hys fyrst landynge ca. iii. fo v. Thys Brute the sonÌ of Siluius Posthumus descended of the noble blode of Troyans entred fyrst y e ile of Albion which he after named Brytayne and now is called England in the yere of the worlde iiii thousande lxiii and before the incarnacyon of Chryst as in the begynnyng of this worke is more openly shewed reygned yeres .xxiiii. Troynuaunt or London of thys kynge was fyrst fouÌded ca. iiii fo v. Locrinus or Locryne the eldeste sonne of Brute beganne hys reygne ouer Brytayne in the countrye called Leogria or Logiers that after was named myddell Englande in y e yere of the worlde .iiii. thousande .lxxxvii. and reygned yeres .xx. capi v. folio vi Gwendoloena or Gwendoleyn y e wyfe of Locryne began to reygne as quene ouer the Brytons or countrey of Logiers in the yere of the worlde iiii thousande C.vii. and reygned yeres xv ca. vi fo vi Madan the sonne of Locrine and of the sayd Gwendolyne began hys reygne ouer the Brytons in the yere of the worlde .iiii. thousande C. and xxii and reygned after the agrement of many wryters and moste yeres .xl. ca. vii fo vi In the seconde yere of thys kyngâ reygne ended the thyrde age of the world And Dauyd began to reygne ouer Israell Menpricus or Mempricius the sonne of Madan beganne hys rule ouer the Brytons in the yere of the world .iiii. M.C.lxii the yere before Chrystes incarnacyon and reygned yeres xx ca. viii folio vi Ebrancus or Ebrank the sonnÌ of Mempryce begaÌ to rule the BrytoÌs in the yere of the worlde .iiii. M.C.lxxxii reygned yeres .xii. Thys kyng made the citie of yorke y e town of Acryncte the castelles of Dunbarre Eddynbourgh in Scotland ca. ix fo vii Brute vixii scutum or Brute Greneshelde sonne of Ebranke was made ruler of the Brytons in y e yere of the worlde .iiii. M.ii. C.xlii reygned yeres .xii. ca. x. fo vii Leylus or Leyr the sonne of the forenamed Brute beganne hys rule ouer Brytayn in the yere of y e world iiii M.ii. C.liiii and ruled yeres .xxv Thys kynge founded the towne of Carleyll ca. xi fo vii Lud Hurdibras or Rudibras the sonnÌ of Leyl begaÌ hys dominioÌ ouer y e BrytoÌs in the yere of y e worlde iiii M.ii. C.lxxix ruled yeres .xxxix. This kyng made wynchester Caunterbury SeptoÌ now named Shaftysbury ca. xii fo vii Baldud the sonne of Lud began hys domynyon ouer the Brytaynes in the yere of the worlde .iiii. thousaÌd iii. C.xviii and reygned yeres .xx. Thys kynge founded the towne of Bathe and the bathes wythin the same after some wryters ca. xiii folio vii Leyr or Leyer the sonne of Baldud was made ruler ouer the Brytons in the yere of the worlde .iiii. M iii. C. and .xxxviii and ruled yeres .lx. Thys kynge made the towne of Leycestre ca. xiiii fo vii Cordeilla the yongeste doughter of the forenamed Leyer beganne to rule the Brytons in the yere of the worlde .iiii. thousande .iii. C.xcviii ruled yeres .v. ca. xvi folio viii Cunedagius with Marganus his neuewes sonnes of the two sisters of Cordeilla beganne theyr dominyon ouer Brytayne in the yere of y e world iiii thousande .iiii. hundreth and .iii. coÌtynued yeres .ii. ca. xvii fo viii This Cunedagius forenamed after that he in batayll hadde slayne Marganus beganne hys senyoury ouer the Brytons in the yere of the worlde .iiii. M.iiii C.v. and ruled after moste wryters yeres .xxxiii. ca. xviii fo ix Reynaldus or Rilalnus the sonnÌ of Cunedagius beganne to rule the Brytons in the yere of the world .iiii. thousande .iiii. C. and .xxxviii. reygned yeres .xlv. The .xxxii. yere of this kyng was Rome bylded of the twoo bretherne Remus and Romulus whyche was the yere of the worlde ca. xix fo ix Gurgustius Gurgusto or Gorbodian the sonne of Riuallus was made ruler of the Brytons in y e yere of the worlde .iiii. M.iiii C.lxxxiii and ruled yeres .xxxviii. ca. xx fo ix Sicillius or Siluius the brother or sonne of Gurgustus began hys domynyon ouer the Brytons in the yere of the world .iiii. thousand .v. C. and .xxi. and ruled yeres .xlix. ca. xxi folio ix Iago or Lago the neuewe of Gurgustius was made ruler of Brytayn in y e yere of the world .iiii. thousande v. hundreth .lxx. reygned yeres .xxv. ca. xxii fo ix Kinimacus the brother of Iago and after some wryters the sonne of Siluius began his seygnyorye ouer the Brytons in the yere of the world iiii thousand .v. C.xcv. ruled yeres .liiii. In the .xiiii. yere of thys kynge ended the .iiii. age the Iewes were captyued by the Babylons Also Isopus or Isoppe the feyner of fables in the latter days of thys Kinimacus in the countre of Grece florysshed fayned hys fables ca. xxiii fo ix Gorbodug whome Geffrey of MoÌmouth nameth Grobodugo sonÌ vnto Kinimacus began hys domynion ouer the Brytons in the yere of the world .iiii. thousande .vi. C.xlix ruled yeres .lxii. Aboute the .xxvi. yere of this kynges reygne was Holiferne slayne of Iudyth the wydow in the chamber of PapilioÌ As hath Iacobus Philippus ca. xxiiii fo ix Ferrex with hys brother Porrex sonnes of Gorbodug begaÌ iointly to rule y e BrytoÌs in y e yere after Adam iiii M.vii C. .xi. ruled yeres .v. Here endeth the lyne or ofspryng of Brute ca. xxv fo x. The storys agre that after y e deth of the forsayd bretherne the BrytoÌs because there remayned no heyre of them were in great dyscorde a longe season were subdued vnder diuers kynges But bycause y e foresayd auctours do nat certyfye y e terme of this dyscorde and also do wryte dyuersly of the reygnes of the forsayd kynges so that some do assyne very few or no certayn yeres and some other many yeres so that in thaccomptyng of the yeres and of tymes there appereth a great alteracyoÌ Therfore it is to be noted as affermeth Ranulph monke of Chester Guydo Galfryde and other that Cunedagius onely began to reygne in the yere of the world .iiii tyousande .iiii. hundreth and .v. And he reygned .xxxiii. yeres whyche maketh the yere of the worlde
some wryters Siluius the brother of Gurgustius as affermeth the foresayde olde cronycle was made chyef ruler of Brytayne in the yere of the worlde .iiii. thousande .v. hundred and .xxi. This in y e englyshe boke is named Seyzill Of the whych is no mencyon made nother of his reygne nor dedes excepte that Geffrey of Monmouth wryter of y e hystoryes of Brytons sayth that he reygned two yeres whyche sayenge is not accordaunte wyth other wryters But more to the coÌuenyency of tyme and agrement of other cronyclers accordyng to the sayeng of the forenamed old authour he reygned by y e terme of .xlix. yeres and after dyed was buryed at Caerbadon or Bathe and lefte after hym none heyre of his bodye begotten THE XXII CHAPITER IAgo or Lago y e cosyne of Gurgustius as wytnesseth Gaufryde as nexte inherytoure was made gouernour of Britayne in the yere of the worlde .iiii. thousande .v. hundred .lxx. This also ys vnmynded of wryters other for restfulnesse of tyme or ellys for rudenesse of his dedes that clerkes lyste not to speÌde any tyme in wrytynge of such dedes Of hym is nothynge specyfyed sauynge the forenamed olde authoure ioyneth to his tyme of reygne .xxv. yeres and also he sayth he dyed wythoute issue and was buryed by hys cosyn at Caerbrank or yorke THE XXIII CHAPITER BInimacus the sonne of Sisilliê° as some wryters haue but more verytably as sayth the olde cronycle y e brother of Lago was made ruler of Brytayne in the yere of the world .iiii. thousand .iiii. huÌdred .lxxx and xv the whyche as his brother before hym passed his tyme without any notable actes or dedes so that of hym is no more memorye made theÌ of his brother For the more party they that wrote the faytes dedes of Brytons make but a shorte rehersayll of these .v. kynges y t is to saye from Ryuallo to Gorbodug sayeng that after Ryuallo succedyd Gurgustius after hym succedyd Lago to Lago succedyd Kinimacus after Kinimacus succeded Gorbodug Of these .v. kynges or rulers is made lytell other mencyon Thenne yt foloweth in the sayd olde cronicle that when this Kinimacus had reygned liiii yeres he dyed and was buryed by his brother at CaerbraÌk or york leuynge after hym a sonne as testyfyeth Flos historiaruÌ whych sonne was named Gorbodug THE XXIIII CHAPITER GOrbodug the sonne of Kinimacê° was made ruler of Brytayne in the yere of the worlde folowynge the foresayde accompt .iiii. thousande .v. hundred and .xlix. whych all so passed his tyme lyke vnto the forenamed dukes or kynges wythout any specyall memory of honour noted by writers This by most lykelyhode to brynge historyes to accorde shulde reygne ouer the Brytons the terme of .lxiii. yeres whych terme endyd he dyed and lyeth buryed at new Troy or LoÌdon leuyng after hym two sonnes named Ferrex and Porrex or after some wryters Ferreus and Porreus THE XXV CHAPITER FErrex wyth Porrex hys brother sonnes of Gorbodug were ioyntly made gouernours and dukes of Britayne in the yere of the worlde foure thousande .vii. hundred and .xi and contynued in amytye a certayne tyme. After whyche tyme expyred as witnessyth Policronica and also Gaufride Porrex beynge couetouse of lordeshyp gaderyd his peple vnwetynge Ferrex his brother entendynge to destroy hym wherof he beynge warned for lacke of space to assemble his people for sauegard of his persone fled sodeynly into Gallia or FrauÌce and axyd ayd of a duke of Gallia named by Gaufryde Gunhardus or Suardus the the whych duke hym ayded and sent hym agayne into Brytayne with his hoste of Gallis After whose laÌdynge his brother Porrex with his BrytoÌs hym mete and gaue to hym batayll in the whyche batayll Ferrex was slayne with y e more part of his peple But here dyscordeth myn authour wyth some other wryters and wyth the cronycle of Englande for they testyfye that Porrex was slayne and Ferrex suruyuyd But whether of them was lyuyng the moder of these two brethern named widen settynge a parte all moderly pytye with help of her women entred the chambre of hym so lyuynge by nyght and hym there slepynge slew cruelly and cut into small peces And thus dyed the two foresayde bretherne after they had thus ruled Brytayne in warre and peace to the agrement of moste wryters .v. yeres THE XXVI CHAPITER HEre now endeth the lyne or of sprynge of Brute after the affermaunce of moste wryters For Gaufride saith after the deth of these forenamed bretherne great discorde arose amonge the Brytons y â which longe tyme among them continued by meane wherof the people and couÌtre was sore vexed and noyed vnder v. kynges And further saith Guydo de Columna that the Brytons abhorred the lynage of Gorbodug for so myche as fyrste that one brother slew that other and more for the innaturall dysposycyon of the morder that so cruelly slew her owne chylde The cronycle of Englande sayth that after the deth of the two forenamed bretherne no ryghtfull enherytour was lefte on lyue wherfore the the people were brought in great discorde in so myche that the land was deuydyd in foure partyes So that in Albania was one ruler in Loegria or Logiers one other ruler in Cambria the thyrde duke or ruler in Cornewayle the .iiii. duke or ruler But of these .iiii. dukes the english cronicle alloweth ClotonÌ duke of Cornewayll for moste ryghtefull heyre Policronyca sayth that after y e deth of the foresayde two bretherne great dyscorde was in the lande whyche greuyd the people sore vnder .v. kynges But he nother reheseth the names nor the tymes of theyr regnes excepte he addeth to that the sayde dyscorde contynued tyll the tyme of Moliuncius Dumuallo So y t here appereth no tyme certayn how loÌge this varyaunce and dyscorde amoÌg the Brytons contynued But who so lyst to loke vpon a draught made by me in english in y e beginnyng of this boke he shall se there yf he please to caste ouer the tymes and yeres there expressed that this forsayde discorde contynued nere to the terme of .li. yeres In whyche draught or conceyte yf any man here fynde erroure of his goodnes lette hym amende correcte yt and all other places where he shall by good profe fynde place of correccyon THE XXVII CHAPITER THus here endyth y e fyrst parte of this worke conteynynge or dyuyded in .vii. partes as before is shewed And in a waye of a thank to be gyuen to our moste blessyd aduocate helper of all wretches that to her lyste to call I meane y e moste blessyd vyrgyne our lady saynt Mary moder of Cryste for y t her grace hath fortheryd this worke hytherto and for to impetrate of her the grace and ayde of her moste mercyfull contynuauÌce to accomplysh this worke begonne as before is shewed vnder supporte of her most bouÌteous grace here wyll I wyth humble mynde salute her wyth the fyrste ioye of y e .vii. ioyes whych begynneth Gaude flore virginali c.
the stepdoughter of Herculeus Maximianê° and had by her syx sonnes So that this Heleyn was his secoÌde wyfe whyche was fayrest of all maydens and therewyth lerned and suffycyenly lettred She is also noted of many writers to be a captyue or a prysoner to the Romaynes Of this Constantius lytell memorye is lefte in the bretyshe or englishe cronycles excepte that he receyued of the foresayde Heleyn a sonne named Constantinus the whyche after for his knyghtly marcyall dedys was called Constantyne the great But for the noble dedys of so vyctoryous a duke shuld not be hydde as was this CoÌstantius therfore I shall now folowe the story of Rome whych sayth that for so myche as in the tyme of Dioclesianus and Maximianus beynge emperours many couÌtres rebellyd agayne the empyre therfore the sayde emperoures admyttyd this Constantius and one Galerius as cesars whych was a dignyte next of authoryte to the emperours And so y e empyre was at those dayes guyded by two emperours by two cesars This ConstaÌtius as wytnessyth Policronica made subiecte to the empyre the Almaynes slewe of theym in one daye .lx. thousande And after other many vyctoryous dedys when the sayde .ii. emperours had of theyr free wylles resygned and gyuen ouer all imperiall dygnyte thys sayde Constantius with his forenamed felowe Galeriê° were made emperours y t is to wytte Galerius was emperour of all Iliricum whyche now is named Grecia or Grece wyth all the eest laÌdes and CoÌstantiê° hadde to hym all the west landes But he helde hym contente wyth Gallia or Fraunce Spayne with Britayn graunted Italia vnto Galerius afore sayd Then he subdued the countre of Spayne as before is touched in the storye of Coelus and a parte of Gallia and after soiourned and abode in this lande of Brytayne in guydynge rulynge the same wyth great sobernesse and ordeyned his sonne gotten vpon Helayne to rule Gallia and Spayne But for to make this story more apparant open to y e readers and also to y e herers it is here to be noted that Dioclesianus or Dioclesian beganne his empyre ouer the Romaynes after moste wryters in the yere of our lorde two hundred .lxxx. and .vii. and he was emperour .xx. yeres And this CoÌstantius was sent into Brytayne from the senate as before is sayde in the seconde yere of y e sayde Dioclesian or the yere of oure lorde two hundred .lxxx. and .ix. whyche Constancius after he had in due maner spedde the nedes of the empyre as in subduynge this land of Brytayne as before is sayde he retourned agayn to Rome where he was shortely after made cesar and so contynued his lyfe as before ys touchyd And in the tyme of his beyng thus cesar and ruleâ of Brytayne vnder y e emperour the blessyd and holy prothomartyr of Brytayn saynt Alboon at Uerolan was martyred in the .x. persecucyon of the chyrche as wytnessyth Policronicon whyche persecucyon beganne as testyfye Eusebiê° and Beda the .xviii. yere of the forenamed emperours Dioclesian Maximyan and endured .x. yeres that is to say in y e eest vnder Dioclesian and in the weste vnder Maâââyan The whyche was so sharpe and feruent that wythin y e space of one moneth in dyuers places of the worlde were .xvii. thousande holy men and women martyred for Crystes fayth And when the sayde emperours left or resygned theyr imperyall dygnytye and âadde a pryuate lyfe this sayde Constancius wyth his felowe Galerius departyd the empyre betwene them as before is touched so that he reygned as ruler of Brytayn by the terme of .xvii. yeres and more or he were emperoure And after as emperour of the weste partye of the empyre ⪠and kynge of Brytayn .xii. yeres and more And so in all y e sayd CoÌstantius reygned ouer Brytayne xxx yeres And lastely dyed and was buryed at yorke leuyng after hym y e foresayd son called CoÌstantinê° without mo that any meÌcyon is made of THE LXVIII CHAPITER COnstantinus the sonne of CoÌstancius and of Heleyne doughter of kynge Coelus in the yere of our lord .iii. huÌdred .xix. was made kynge of Brytayne Antoninus archbyshop of Florence wryter of hystoryes sheweth in the fyrst chapiter of the .ix. tytle of his worke called Sââ Antonini that this CoÌstantine was made emperour or beganne to rule the empyre in the yere of our lordes incarnacyon .iii. hundred and .ix. which sayeng also affermeth UynceÌt historyall and other authours wherof the cause is y t the sayde authours accoÌpt not the yeres of the reygne of Constancius but folow the accoÌpte of Galerius felowe of Constancius whych reygned as emperour but .iii. yeres After the which rule yt muste nedis folowe that this Constantyne began his empyre as the sayd Antoninus wytnessyth and folowynge y e other accompt yt shulde varye Then to pursue or contynue y e storye of this Constantyne yt foloweth y t at the tyme of the decease of Constancius his fader he was occupyed in warres in Gallia those êties After whose deth he by a certayn terme ruled Brytayne the other landes the whyche his fader before helde in due maner And all be yt y t at y e daye he was a mysereant pagan yet he vsed no tyrannyes nor compelled not the Brytons to refuse the lawe and to worshyppe idollys as other tyrauntes at those dayes vsed In this whyle that Constantyne ruled thus the weste parte of this empyre one Maxentius whych was the son of Herculeus Maximianê° somtyme felowe in the empyre with Dioclesian as before is shewed was of the knyghtes of the pretory declared emperour This Maxentius was there worste of all men And as testyfyeth Eusebius other he fyrst began mekely to wynne therby loue fauour But when he was stablysshed in authorite he exercysed all tyraÌny pursued all crystyens wyth all kynde of torment Also he expulsed and putte out from Rome all honour hys fader Herculeê° Maximianê° y t enteÌdyd agayne to haue ben emperour Of y e tyranny of this MaxeÌtius when CoÌstantyne had wyttyng he assembled a great hoste of Brytons and Gallis for to oppresse the malyce of the sayde Maxentius And for to rule and guyde this laÌd of Brytane in his absence he deputed and ordeyned a maÌ of myght called Octauius the whych Polycronica nameth duke of Iewessis that after were named west Saxons And when the sayde Constantyne had all peparyd for his voyage he betoke the lande of Brytayne vnto the sayd Octauius and after spedde hym vppon his iourney And as he was towarde his sayde iourney he sawe in his slepe the sygne of the crosse shynynge in the fyrmament as yt hadde ben a brennyng lyght of fyre and an aungell standynge therby and sayenge Constantyne toicanata which is to meane Constantyne by this token thou shalte wynne vyctorye when he awoke he called this vysyon to mynde and tolde vnto his secretes by whose counsayll he commaunded the sygne of the crosse to
Derbysshyre and wayted his tyme and lastly fand the kynge smally accompanyed and entended to haue ronne thorough the kynge wyth a sworde enuenemed But one Lilla the kynges trusty seruaunt dysgarnysshed of shylde or other wepyn to defende his mayster starte betwene the knyg the sword and was stryken thorough the body and dyed and the kynge was wounded with the same stroke And after he wouÌded the thyrde and was takeÌ and confessyd by whom he was sent to worke that treason The other knyght that was secondly wounded dyed and the kynge laye after longe syke or he were helyd And the same nyght folowynge the quene was delyuered of a doughter the whyche kyng Edwyn caused to be crystened of Paulinus y e bysshop in tokeÌ that he wolde fulfylle all suche promyse as he before had made And she was named Enfleda and halowed vnto god And after whytsontyde y â kyng beynge scantly hole of the wounde assembled his hoste made towarde the kynges of westsaxon and after a greate and sore fyghte venquysshed them and theyr hoste But Edwyn for all thys vyctory and other thynges gyuen to hym of god as he that was in helthe of the worlde forgate his former promesse and had lytell mynde therof excepte that he by the preachyng of Paulinus forsoke his maumeÌtrye and for his excuse sayde that he myghte not clerely renye his olde lawe that his forefaders hadde kepte so longe and sodeynly be crystened without authoryte and good aduyse of hys counceyle He also receyued letters of exhortacyon and coÌforte to take the baptyme from y e .v. Boniface thaÌ pope The whiche also sent to the quene lyke letters with a myrrour garnysshed with syluer and a combe of iuory and for the kyng a shyrte wrought in soÌdry places with letters of golde But all this preuayled nothynge Then Paulinê° made his specyall prayers to god and had it shewed to hym by reuelacyon of the token that was gyuen to Edwyn in tyme of his trybulacyon After the which knowlege hadde Paulinus shortly after came vnto the kyng and layeng his hande on hys hed frayned of hym whyther he had any lyke remeÌbrauÌce of any lyke token The whyche whan the kynge hadde confessyd the holy bysshoppe sayde vnto hym Lo thou hast ouercomen thyne enemyes and wonne thy kyngdome holdest it in moste large wyse therfore perfourme thy promesse and be trew to hym that hath holpen thy It was not longe after that the kynge assemblyd hys counceyll and by theyr agremeÌt he was of the sayd Paulinus byshop of yorke baptysed wythin the sayde cytye the .xi. yere of hys reygne and the yere of grace as testifyeth Guido .vi. C.xxvii He was the fyrste crysten kyng that reygned in that couÌtrey And after hym many of hys lordes subiectes were also crystened of the sayd Paulinus and the flamyns or bysshoppes of theyr false goddes were turned to Crystes faythe In token wherof they armed them as knyghtes bestrode good horses where before by theyr lawe they myghte vse none armoure nor ryde but onely on a mare From that tyme forthwardes by the term of .vi. yeres durynge the lyfe of kynge Edwyn Paulinus crystened contynuelly in bothe prouynces of Deyra and in BreÌnicia in the ryuers of Gweuy Swala whyche he vsed for hys fontes and preached in the shyre of Lyndesey and buylded there a chyrche of stone at Lyndecoln or Lyncolne In thys tyme was so great peace in that kyngdome of Edwyne that a woman myghte haue gone from one towne to an other without grefe or noyaunce And for the refresshynge of waye goers this Edwyn ordeyned at clere wellys cuppes or dysshes of iron or brasse to be fastened to postes standynge by the sayd wellys sydes and no man was so hardy to take awaye those cuppes he kept so good iustyce and with that he was knyghtely of hys dedes He was the fyrste that wanne this ile of Eubonia now called the ile of man And by hys meanes Orpewaldus or Corpewaldus the sonne of Redwaldus kynge of Eest anglis or Norphis to whom as before is touchyd Edwyn had fledde for socoure was conuerted to the true fayth and a greate parte of his men with hym And for this Edwyn excellyd y e other kynges they enuyed at hym and specyally Penda kynge of Mercia the whyche excyted Cadwan kynge of Brytons agayne hym So that they two assemblyd a great hoste agayne Edwyn and lastly met in a palce called Hatfelde and after sharpe fyght on bothe sydes there Edwyne was slayne whan he had reygned ouer y e Northumbris .xvii. yeres in the yere of our lorde as sayth Guydo .vi. C. xxxiii when these two kynges Cadwan or Cedwalla and Penda hadde thus ouercomen the kynge and hym slayne and mych of hys people they became so cruell to men of that countrey that they destroyed therin mych people as men women chyldren as well religyous as other wherfore Paulinus the archebysshop beholdyng theyr cruelnesse toke with him the quene Enfleda hyr doughter fled by water into Kent And for the bysshoprych of Rochester was than voyde by reason that Romanus the last bysshop was adreynte Paulyne was there ordeyned and made bysshop of that see and there dyed And also lefte there his Paull as affyrmeth Policronycon and other the archebysshoppes see of yorke was voyde .xxx. yeres after But y e quene whyche was named Etherberga became a menchon sayled into Gallia or Fraunce wherein an abbaye called Brydgence or Bryggence she lyued an holy lyfe and dyed and hyr doughter Enfleda coÌtynued hyr professyon and was afterwarde abbesse of Strenshalt in the vale of whitby After the deth of Edwyn Osrycus that was the sonne of Elfricê° which was brother of Ethelfridus toke vppon hym to be kynge of Deyra and Eaufricus the eldest sonne of Ethelfrida as before in the C. and. xxviii chapiter is touched was made kyng of Brennicia the whyche turned theÌ both froÌ Crystes fayth and became myscreauÌtes For the whych goddes wrech fell vpon them in short whyle after for they were bothe slayne in y e yere folowynge of y e fornamed Cadwan and Penda And whan these sayde two kynges were thus slayne Oswalde y â second sonne of Ethelfrid began his reygne ouer the prouynce of Brennicia as chefe of that kyngdome of Northumberlande and had the rule of Deira in lyke wyse wherof whan Cadwan or Cedwalla was ware he gathered hys Brytons and thoughte to slee Oswalde as he hadde before slayne his brother Eaufricus But Oswald whan he was warned of the greate strength of thys Cadwan he made his prayers to god and besoughte hym mekely of helpe to withstande his enemyes And or he yode to prayer he arreryd a crosse of tre before the whyche he knelyd a longe whyle in a felde whyche longe after was called Heuynfelde and at thys daye is had in greate worshyppe That place is nere vnto the town or chyrche of Agustalde in Brennicia the whyche chyrche was there
woman of great wisdome of vertuous condicion and was honorably buryed by Dagobert hyr husbande in the church of saynt Denys Soone after ensued such scarcety of corne y â whete other greynes were at an excedynge pryce For after the rate of money nowe curraÌt a quarter of whete was worth .ii. markes a halfe by meane of which scarcitye myche poore people were famisshed dyed for defaut wherefore the kyng entendyng a remedy for the nedy people causyd yÌe house or church of saynt Denys that his fader before tyme had coueryd with plates of syluer to be rased of coueryd with lede that syluer to be dystributyd amonge the poore comoÌs to socoure theÌ agayn the great and huge famyn that then reygned all be it that this ded was somedeale withstanden by Agulphus Abbot of that place for that tyme. About the .viii. yere of his reygne the firste Pepyn that than ruled the house of Sigebert kyng of Austracy dyed And soone after dyed Agaynus mayster of the paleys of Clodoueus For which .ii. princis in eyther Countreys that they rulyd great dole and sorowe was for theym made After the deth of which sayd PriÌcis a noble man cosyn to Dagoberte late kynge was chosen mayster of the paleys with Clodoueus Thus kynge Clodoueus otherwyse called Lowes contynued his reygne in great peace prosperyte tyll lastly it fell in his miÌde that he wolde vysyte y e sepulcre of saynt Denys where after he had done certayne obseruauÌces and made his prayers he wolde nedely se the holy relykes and handle them wyth the doynge whereof it semed the holy martyrs were not contentyd For immedyately ensued suche a derknes that the kynge and all that were aboute hym were wyth it greately astonyed and aferde in so mych that the kyng loste the vse of reason and wente from hym selfe more than two yeres folowynge It is wryten of some authours that the kynge handelyd the body of saynte Denys so rabbysshely that he brake one of his armes But the Frenche booke and mayster Roberte Gagwyne sayen y t he dysseueryd one of the armes from the sayd holy body the whych he after whan he was somdele restoryd to hys helthe closyd in golde and precyous stoones and restored it to the sayd monasterye and lyued vppon two yeres folowynge that he was amendyd but not lyke vnto hys former beynge so y t he lastly dyed whan he had reygned syke and hole by y e terme of .xvi. yeres not without vyce as glotony lechery excedyng aueryce And was buryed by hys parentes in the monasterye forenamed leuynge after hym thre sonnes named Clotharius Chyldericus and Theodorych After whose deth hys wyfe named Batylde became a nonne in the monastery of Corbye that she before tyme had newly renued or reedyfyed and ended there in holy lyfe THE CXXXVII CHAPITER CLotharius the eldest sonne of Clodoueus was ordeyned kynge of Fraunce in the yere of our lordes incarnacyon .vi. hundred .lxii and the .xxvi. yere of Cadwall than kynge of BrytoÌs The whych anone as he was somwhat stablysshed he made the mayster of hys palayes a myghty man and tyrannous of condycyon named Eboryn as shall appere by hys condycyons ensuynge whan the tyme conuenyent of the expressement of them shall come But of thys Clotharius is lefte nothyng in wrytynge of worthy memory excepte that the Frenche cronicle sayth that he reygned .iiii. yeres THE CXXXVIII CHAPITER THeodoricus the second sonne of Clodoueus beganne hys reygne ouer the Frenchemen in the yere of grace .vi. hundred .lxvi and the .xxx. yere of Cadwall than kynge of Brytons The whych by couÌceyll of his lordes sent his yonger brother Chylderych into the lordshyp of Austracy or Lorayne to guyde that couÌtrey wyth the ayde and assystence of wolphanus a noble man of y e countrey For Sigeberte laste kynge of that prouynce was before this tyme dede wythout heyre of hys body This Theodorych gaue hym all to slowth rest so that the gouernauÌce of the realme was all in the power of the mayster of y e paleys whych was styll contynuynge the forenamed Eboryne The whyche among other cruell dedys by hym done he emprysoned the holy bishoppe of Oston called Leodegayr And lastely after many tormentes and vylanyes to hym done he raced hys eyen oute of hys hedde This dede wyth many other to the kynges dyshonour he âmomysyd which all were layd to y e kynges charge for so myche as the kynge kept most what his paleys Except y e one season of the yere in the moneth of may he shulde be broughte wyth great pompe into a place where the people shulde behold hym and gyue and offer vnto him gyftes and returne vnto y e paleys y t he was broughte fro and there to reste all the yere folowynge By meane wherof Eboryn dyd what to hym was lykynge and vexyd and troubled the people greuously wherfore by one assent y e lordes assembled theym and by authoryte depryued the kynge of all dignytye and closyd hym in a monastery there to contynue the resydue of hys lyfe when he hadde borne the name of a kynge wythout execucyon of the acte therunto belongynge .iii. yeres and the cruell Eboryn they exyled to Luxon or Luxunborgh in the prouynce of Burgoyne and not to departe thens vppon payn of hys lyfe THE CXXXIX CHAPITER CHildericus or Hildericus the thyrde sonne of Clodoueus that was sent to rule the prouynce of Austracy was ordeyned kynge of Fraunce in the yere of grace .vi. hundred .lxix. the .xxxiii. yere of Cadwal before named Of the whyche dede the sayde lordes shortely after repended theÌ For this Chylderych which was yonge and of lyght maners oppressyd his subiectes greuously and vsed the lawes of hys progenytours after hys pleasure and wyll wold nothynge be aduertised nor ruled by wolphanus before named y e whyche was before tyme assigned to hym for hys counceyllour and guyde But in augmentynge his malyce he caused a noble maÌ of his realme named Bolyde wythout gylte or trespace or greuous offence doynge to be bounden to a stake and there betyn tyll he yelded the spyrite For y e whych crueltye and other the lordes wyth the coÌmons murmuryd sore agayne hym ferynge lyke punyssyon wythout deseruynge wherfore they conspyryd agaynste hym and moste specyally two noble men of byrth of myghte named Iugebert Amabert which two wyth other awayted theyr tyme season wheÌ they myght fynde tyme coÌuenieÌt to bryng y e kyng out of lyfe And vpon a daye when y t kyng with his wyfe and small companye wyth theym were in the wood in theyr dysporte and game the sayde two lordes accompanyed purposely fell vppon hym slewe hym there and hys wyfe also great wyth chyld y e which ranne betwene her lord and them to y e entent to haue sauyd her lord and husbande from the dynt of y e sworde The whyche dede was done when y e sayde Childeriche had reygned
cytye of yorke and helde yt a certayne of tyme. Then the people of Northumberland varyed with in them self had more leuer ayde the Danys then to reygne vnder the kyng of westsaxoÌs For here is to be notyd that all such kynges as reygned there after Egbert whyche as before is sayde subdued that prouynce and other reygned as trybutaryes to the kynge of of westsaxons or Anglys wherfore Etheldredus herynge of the auauntage that the Danys then had assembled his people and sped hym thytherwarde and sente vnto the foresayd two kynges commaundynge them also to prepare theyr peple agayne hys coÌmynge But howe yt was or the kynge came wyth hys hoste the Danys so prouokyd the Northumbres to batayll that they met in playne feld foughte a longe batayll But finally the Danys wan the pryce and slew both the foresayd kynges wyth a great multytude of theyr people After whych vyctory they subdued myche of the sayde countrey and destroyed y e town of Aklynt or Aclynd the whyche as testyfyeth Beda was somtime one of the strongest townes of the Northe when Etheldrede hadde preparyd all thynge for the warre and was purposyd towarde the North for coÌsyderacyon aforesayde worde was brought vnto the sayde kynge Etheldrede of the dyscomfyture of the Northumbres and also of dyuerse of the sayde Danys wyth other that were comen to Mercia and hadde wonne the towne of Snotyngham or Notyngham whyche tydynges lettyd hym of his forth spedde in that iourney But thys sayenge is dysagreable vnto Policronicon For he sayth that the Northumbres were yet of theyr kynge Osbrutus or Osritus after some authours and chase vnto theÌ a tyraunt named Ella by meane wherof great dissensyon grew amoÌg them to the great hurte of the countrey But when the Danys hadde passed the countre and wonne the cytye of yorke that then was febly wallyd then by constraynte and of fere for the defence of theyr couÌtrey they were fayne to agree and to gather strengthe on all sydes so that bothe the foresayde kynges went agayne the foresayd Danis and both were slayn After whych scomfyture the people as desolate some fledde the countrey and some made peace wyth the Danys and lyued vnder theyr tuycyon And so the Danys kepte the possessyon of that couÌtrey in suche wyse that no Angle hadde rule therof tyll the time of Adelstone or Ethelstone or after some wryters tyl the tyme of Edredus so that they helde the possessyon therof ouer the terme of .lx. yeres Then the Danys beynge thus possessyd of the Northe countrey manned the same fortyfyed the stronge holdes therof And the other of them came downe into Mercia or myddell Englande and wanne a parte therof wyth the forsayde towne of Nothyngam and dwellyd there y e more parte of the yere folowynge wherfore kynge Etheldrede wyth ayde of Burdredus then kynge of Mercia layde seage vnto the towne The whyche when the Danys perceyued shulde be wonne they refusyd the towne and toke the towre or castell and defendyd yt in so stronge maner that they helde yt tyll a peas or apoyntement was concludyd betwene the two kynges and theym whyche was that they shulde go free where they wolde and carye wyth theym theyr horse and harnesse wythout any pyllage And wheÌ this peace was thus made eyther of the kinges departed to theyr owne and the Danys retourned vnto yorke dwelled there the yere folowynge And the yere folowynge that sayde yere a parte of the sayde Danys takynge shyppynge in the Northe entendynge to sayle towarde eest Englande mette in the see wyth a flote of Danys wherof the captaynes or ledars were named Hynguoar Hubba The whyche by exhortacyon of the other commynge oute of the North made all one course and lastly landed in eest Englande or Norffolk and in processe of time came vnto Therforde Therof herynge Edmundus then kyng of that prouynce assembled an hoste that gaue vnto them batayll But EdmuÌde and his hoste was forsed to forsake y e feld the kyng with a few persones fledde vnto the castel of FramilynghaÌ or Framyngeham whome the Danys pursued But he in short whyle after yelded hym selfe vnto the persecucyon of the Danys And for this blessyd man Edmunde wolde not renye or deny Cryste and hys lawys they therfore moste cruelly bonde him vnto a tree and causyd hym to be shot to deth and lastely causyd his hedde to be smytten from the body caste amonge the thycke of the bushes But when his frendes came after to burye this holy treasoure and lacked the hed and made for yt busy serche the hedde beyng in the clawys of a wylde wolfe spake sayde thre tymes dystynctely here here here By reason of whyche speche they came vnto y e place where the hedde in the sayde bestys kepyng laye whyche sayde wolfe contrarye to his kynde anon as he sawe the people fledde from the hedde and suffred theym to take yt vp and folowyd theym after a certayn of tyme as he hadde ben rame Then they wyth great solempnyte caryed the body and hed vnto Eglydon or Eglysdon now callyd saynte Edmundes bury and there buryed hym aboute the yere of our lorde as wytnessen Policronica Guydo and other viii huÌdred .lxix as before it is shewyd in y e chapyter of this worke foure score .xiv for whom dayly god shewyd there many miracles THE CLXX CHAPITER WHan this blessyd EdmuÌde was thus martyred for the loue that he bare towarde his mayster Criste and his lawes his brother named Edwoldus settynge a parte the lykynge and pleasure of the worlde all be yt that to hym belongyd the ryght of that kyngdome toke vpon hym the habyte of an heremyte and lyued onely by brede and water at the abbay of CernÌ in the countye of Dorset by the clere welle that saynt Austyne by his prayers made to sprynge when he conuertyd fyrst the Saxons of that prouynce to y e fayth of Cryste Of this said abbay of CeruÌ Policronica sayth y t it was after these dayes ryche and ryght welthy But the gouernours therof mysspent the patrymony therof in excesse glotony not amonge the seruauntes of god wherfore he sayth farther that couetyse and pryde hadde so chauÌged all thyng in England in these days that all thynges that before tyme were gyueÌ to abbays were then more wasted in glotony and outrage of the owners then in sustenaunce and ayde of nedy men and of gestes or nedy waygoers Albe yt he sayth the fyrst doers or gyuer lose not they re rewarde For theyr wyll and entent is full euenly paysed in a balaunce before hym that is the rewarder of all good But though Treuysa y t was the translatoure of this boke of Polycronycon out of laten into our vulgare tunge reporte this to be done or thys mysorder to be vsyd in thys dayes whyche lyued in the tyme of that honorable prynce Edwarde the thyrde yf he now lyued he wold not in no gouernours of munkes
Policronycon The which I passe ouer for length of the mater THE CXCIII CHAPITER EDgar thus rulynge the lande after the deth of his fyrst wyfe Egelfleda worde was broughte to hym of y e beaute of Alfrida or Estrild doughter of Orgarus erle of Deuenshire wherfore he sent a knight of his court named Ethelwold to espy whether the mayde were of such beautye as she was reported of or not chargynge hym yf she were so beautyous that then he shulde aske her to wyfe for the kynge But this knyght hauyng syght of this mayden was so wounded wyth the darte of the blynde god Cupyde that he forgate his trouth and allegiaunce y t he shuld owe to his mayster and souerayne and retourned shewynge to the kynge that she was nothynge of the beaute that she was reported of but of meane fayrenesse as other women were wherfore he besought the kynge consyderyng she was her fathers heyre a good maryage that he wolde be so good lord to hym as to wryte vnto her fader y t he myght haue her to wyfe The why the grace he obteyned and at length was maryed vnto her In processe of tyme the fame of the beaute of thys woman sprange so wyde that lastly yt came to the erys of Edgar wherwyth the kynge in mynde beynge sore dyscontentyd wyth Ethilwolde whyche hym had dysceyued yet kepte good countenaunce and made semblaunte as though he hadde nothynge forced y t mater And vpon a tyme as yt were in game warned this Ethilwolde y t then was an erle by reason of hys wyfe or otherwyse that he wold lodge one nyght in his house appoynted the daye when yt shulde be wyth thys monyssyon the erle beynge nothynge contented ranne home nygh deed for fere and prayed his wyfe of helpe in that tyme of nede and y t she wold in all that she myght make her self as fowle and as vnsemely as she coude and shewed to her all the resydue of y e mater Then y e woman cast in her mynde the great dyspleasure y t might ensue toward her agayn god to make that fowle whych he hadde made goodly and fayre and also to her lorde and husbande agayne the kynge thynkyng that he shuld cause her thus to do to the ende to mocke and dysceyue hym wherfore in consyderacyon of the premysses she enourned her in moste costly and shewynge aparayll And ouer y t yf dame nature hadde had any thynge forgoten or mysprinted in her she left not that by womaÌs helpe might be amended or refourmed and at the kynges coÌmynge receyued hym wyth all ioy and gladnesse By whyche meanes this yonge amorous kyng was soon caught in the dyuylles snare so that he sette reason a parte and folowed his own sensualyte And for to bryng his purpose the better about he kept forth a countenaunce as he had ben well contentyd wyth all thynge and desyred the erle that he wolde wyth hym ryde on huntyng into the wood of welwerley that now is called hore wood where he awaytynge his season tyme strake the erle thorough the bodye wyth his shafte so that he dyed soon after And then he maryed this Elfryda or Estrylde shortely hadde by her Egelredus as before I haue shewyd For the whyche dede sayth Ranulf this Elfrida buylded an house of nunnes at warwell But other authours saye yt was for the slayeng of her stepson Edwarde Also the englyshe cronycle sheweth that this Ethilwolde was slayne by an other meane and not by the kyng About this tyme dyed Oddo archbyshoppe af Caunterbury that was of the nacyon of Danys Of hym is tolde a longe processe in the .x. chapyter of the .vi. boke of Polycronycon And after hym Bryglinus that then was byshoppe of wynchester was made hys successour But for he was not suffycyent for so great a charge he went agayne to wynchester And holy Dunstane byshop of London of worceter was sacryd archbysshoppe of Caunterbury and went to Rome and receyued the palle of pope IohnÌ the .xiii. of that name This Dunstane was fyrste abbot of Glastynbury and byshoppe of London worceter and lastely archbyshoppe of Caunterbury In his dayes the order of munkes was religyous and Full of vertues For it hadde relygyous rulers clere of scyence and of clergy so that then men were lad as mych wyth other dedes and good examples of vertuous lyuynge as by theyr famous vertuous prechyng Than Edgare as before ys sayde was crowned kynge at the cytye of Bathe of Dunstane archbysshop of Caunterbury and Oswolde archbysshop of yorke whan he hadde ruled thys lande .xii. yeres The cause why it was so longe or this Edgar were enoynted was as testyfyeth Guydo for hys vnlefull Lechery and specyally for the offence done wyth wylfryde For the whyche dede he was of Dunstane ioyned to .vii. yeres penaunce The whyche penaunce durynge he was kept from the sayd enoyntement as affermeth the sayde Guydo But for what cause so euer it was by agrement of dyuers wryters he was not crowned tyll he had reygned .xii. yeres It is also tolde of thys Edgare that he beynge vpon a season at the towne of Andâuyr he was enamoured vpon a noble mannes doughter whyche was of passynge beautye made suche meanes by force or other wyse that the parentes were agreed that the kynge shulde haue hys pleasure But the moder subtyll of wytte bethoughte her of a whyle and sent a seruaunt of hers whych was both comely and fayre to the kynges bed In the mornynge whan the daye began to waxe clere the woman began to styrre and wolde haue departed from the kynge But the kynge refrayned her and asked the cause of her so hasty departyng For I muste be at my worke wyth my felowes sayde the woman at myne houre to kepe my taske And whan the kynge had questyoned wyth her further he lerned that she was a bonde woman and asked of the kynge fredome for y â nyghtis seruyce The kyng at this had good game and cherysshed that damosell so after that he made her lady of Lordes For these insolent wanton dedes it is sayde that by the counsayle of the holy Dunstane he buylded repayred so many abbeys and houses of relygyon as aboue is rehersed Thus thys noble Edgare passyng his tyme in vertue medled with vyce lastly had wyttynge of the rebellyon of y e Brytaynes or walshmen wherfore he assembled hys knyghtes and entred the lande and dyd them grete harme and waste And among other prayes spoyled the countre of GlamorganÌ and also toke or spoyled the countre of Ono and toke the bell of saynt Eltutus which serued for hys chyrche that was taken by vyolence wyth other stuffe hanged it about an horse necke In puttynge it to teÌporall seruyce to the dyspleasure of that saynte But for the vyolent takynge therof as Ranulf expresseth in an vndertyde whan kyng Edgar was layde to take hys reste the sayd Eltutus apered and smote the kyng
accepted the foresayde wyllyam to theyr lorde and souerayne Of thys wyllyams procreacyon yt is wytnessed of Uyncent hystory all and other that his father passynge by the cytye or towne of Faloys in Normandy he sawe a company of maydens daunsynge by the strete Amonges the whych was one of passynge beautye called Arlet and doughter to a skynner To y e which duke Robert caste vnlefull loue in suche wyse y t he caused her to be broughte to his bed the nyght folowyng and helde her to his concubyne a certayn of tyme after begat on her this wyllyam wheÌ his moder was wyth him coÌceyued she dremed that her bowel lys were sprad ouer all Normandye and Englande And when he was borne of his moders wombe he fyll to the grouÌde and closed his handes wyth powder of the flore or pauement Therfore the mydwyfe made and exclamacyon and sayd this chyld shall be a kynge Then yt foloweth when thys wyllyam was thus admitted duke some of his lordes by the meane of y e kyng of FrauÌce began to wythdraw them from hym In so myche y e erle Gylbert to whome duke Robert had betaken hys ponge sonne to gyde was slayne and other that were especyall frendes to the chylde There was fyghtyng and manslaughter and the countrey fowle faren with by reason of the opynyons that were amonges them selfe wherof Guy a Burgoyn was one of the chefe causers For he with his adherentes sayde alwayes that they wolde haue no bastarde to be ruler of them This Guy as saith the freÌche boke was nere kynnesman vnto y e yonge duke descendyd of the doughter of the seconde Rycharde and entended to haue ben duke hym selfe For the which he ensensed y e kyng of FrauÌce agayn hym in all that he myght but at length duke wyllyam toke hym and put hym to deth Thus the Frenche kynge forgettynge y e kyndnesse shewyd to hym by duke Robert hys father toke partye agayne hym to the vttermoste and ordeyned hym .ii. hostes wherof one he delyueryd to his brother Almaryk and warned hym to eutre y e countrey of Caus and he hym selfe ladde that other and entred with it the couÌtrey of Eurour But wyllyam not ferynge the kynges great power beynge growen wele towarde mannes stature lyke a luste yonge knyght made towarde the kynges brother gaue to hym batayll hym ouercame and chased the Frenchemen to theyr great bylany wherof heryng the Frenche kyng wyth his people spedde hym toward wyllyam to reuenge the shame done to his men But in coÌclusyon he wan there no honoure Then peace was made betwene the kyng and y e duke and the Frenche prysoners were delyueryd But this peace enduryed not long for the FreÌch kyng callynge to remeÌbrauÌce the losse of hys men at Mort mere or dede see wyth other dysauauntages by hym sustayned of the sayde duke wyllyam called to hys ayde Geoffrey erle of Aungiers And whan hys hoste was assembled they entred y e prouynce of NormaÌdy coÌtynued theyr iourney tyll they came to an arme of the see where the hoste shulde passe ouer Of thys new warre duke wyllyaÌ beynge warned in all haste assembled hys Normans and sped hym y e next waye to mete the Frenchemen In thys meane whyle the Frenche kynge had passed the water wyth certayne of hys hoste trustyng that the remenauauÌt shulde haue folowed But soone after the water flowed so faste that hys people myghte not passe And in thys whyle came the duke and set vpon the kynges hoste and bet theym downe cruelly so that at length the kynge was compelled to flee and loste a great nomber of his knyghtes to consyder them y e were slayne wyth the other that were taken prysoners whan kynge Henry had well dysgested in hys mynde the wrongfull trouble that he by enuyous persons hadde put the duke vnto and remeÌbred the yll expedycyon that he had in that warre he recoÌsyled hym selfe and made meanes that the duke and he myghte be agreed and accorded The whyche by dyscrete solycytours was shortely after brought to good effecte so that they contynued as freÌdes durynge theyr lyues after Than Henry abstayned hym from all warre vsed the reste of hys lyfe in peas and quyetnesse Thys Henry had two wyues and of the laste whyche was doughter to the kynge of Russy he had .iii. sonnes that is to say Phylyp y â whych he made kyng of Fraunce by hys lyfe Robert that was after duke of Burgoyne and Hughe that was after named Hugh le graunde and was fader to Raufe erle of Uermendoyse And in thys kynges dayes Burgoyne that had ben vnder y e Frenche kynges obeysaunce ouer a hundred and .xxx. yeres refused the Frenche kynge aparte of them torned vnto Conradus the seconde of that name than emperour So that that parte whyche stretched to Champayne belonged to Fraunce and that other parte whyche stretched toward Basaynz belonged to the Almayns And that yere that the kynge had admytted hys sonne Phylyp to the gydynge of the realme he dyed and was buryed at saynt Denys leuyng after hym the issue forenamed whan he hadde reygned after moste wryters .xxxi. yeres Anglia THE CCVIII CHAPITER HArold the sonne of Canutus of Elgma y e erlys doughter of Hampton begaÌ his reygne ouer Englande in y e yere of our lordes incarnacyon M. xxxix and the x. yere of Henry thaÌ kyng of FrauÌce Thys for his delyuernesse swyftenesse was surnamed Harefote In whose begynnynge stryfe was amonge the lordes for so myche as of hys byrthe shulde be doughte whyther he were the kynges son or not and specyally erle Goodwyne that dyd the vttermoste of hys power to sette hym by and put Hardykynitus his brother to that honour But Leo frycus that Canutus so mych loued and trusted wyth the ayde of the Danes wythstode so myghtely Goodwyne and hys sonnes that they fayled of theyr purpose Anone as thys Harold was crowned kynge he banysshed hys stepmoder Emma and toke from her suche goodes and iewelles as she had The whych Emma sayled than into FlauÌders and there of Bawdewyne the erle was reuerently receyued there abode durynge the lyfe of thys Harolde The whyche contynued hys lyfe to lytell fruyte or profyte of the land nor yet of the subiectes so that of hym other for y e vyce that clerkes lyste nat to put in memory other for the rudenesse whyche is worthy no memory nothynge of hym is put in remembraunce but that he dyed at London or after some at Oxenford was buryed at westmynster when he had reygned as moste wryters agreen .iii. yeres and odde monethes leuynge after hym none heyre wherfore hys brother kyng of Denmarke was next kynge after hym THE CCIX. CHAPITER HArdikynytus the sonne of Canutus of Emma was made kyng of England in the yere of our lordes incarnacyon M.xli and the xii yere of Henry than kyng of FrauÌce Thys of some wryters is named Hardykynytus and Hardyknough
Uincencius hystorialis Antoninus Iacobus Philippus and other wherfore it can not stande wyth reasoÌ y t they shulde slepe vpon y e other syde after y e tournyng .lxxiiii. yeres as is aboue sayd nor that they shulde sterue in y e tyme of thys holy kynge and confessoure For hys tyme of reygne was after y e tyme of Theodociê° aforesayd more than .vi. hundred yeres But yf it be ment by some other For there are vii other slepers spoken of in y e .xxvi. chapyter of the fyrste boke of Polycronycon that hath slepte in a nother caue many yeres wherfore I remytte thys vnto other and folowe the order of the story wherein it is founde that whan this blessed kyng Edwarde had receyued by dyuyne monycyon that he shulde chaunge thys transitory and bryckell lyfe for the lyfe euerlastynge he sykened in the Crystmasse weke In tyme of whych sykenesse was shewed to hym a vysyon that he after shewed vnto suche as were about hym and sayde two men of relygion came to me that I somtyme was famylyer wyth in Normandye and shewed that they were sent from god vnto me to gyue vnto me warynynge of such thynges as foloweth And fyrste they sayde that for the dukes bysshoppes and abbotes of Englande be not goddes seruauntes but the deuyllys god hath taken thys kyngdome into the handes of enemyes for a tyme and fendes shall walke and destroble the people Than I besought god that the people myghte haue warnynge and do penaunce and be delyuered as the people were of the cytye of Ninyue Nay sayde they for these men be so indurate of harte y e they shulde do no worthy penaunce nor to them god shall shewe hys mercy nor forgyuenesse Than I asked of them whaÌ myghte be hope of mercy and pardoÌ They answered whan a grene tree is hewen downe and a parte therof cut from the stocke and layde .iii. fourlonge from the stocke and wythout mannes helpe or hande shall retourne to his stocke or rote and take agayne hys shappe and than flouryshe and brynge forth fruyte whan thys is done than maye be hope of comforte and of remedy In the tyme that this blessyd man shewed thus thys vysyon was present there wyth other Stygandus archebysshoppe of Caunterbury The whyche sayde vnto the other that the kynge raued or ellys doted for age and sykenesse as olde men done and accompted these wordes for foly and vanyte But not longe after Englande felte and conceyued thys prophecye whan it was in subieccyon of straungers and alyauntes as after shall be shewed Than who that is desyrous to knowe the exposycion of the prophecye of the grene tree lette hym rede in the ende of the lyfe of thys gloryous kynge and confessoure translated by wyllyam Caxton in the boke called the Legende of sayntes and there he shall fynde it All be it that in other places I haue sene it otherwyse interpreted the whyche I remytte to them that haue experyence in suche facultye And to conclude thys storye trouth it is that this blessyd kynge dyed the .iiii. daye of Ianuary whan he hadde reygned .xxiii. yeres vii monethes and odde days and was buryed in the monastery of westmynster y â whych he before had gretly augmeÌted repayred but nat in that maner and fourme that it is nowe in For the chyrche that nowe there standeth was so reedyfyed and buylded newe of Henry the thyrde and sonne of kynge IohnÌ The whiche also after some wryters translated thys blessyd kynge Edwarde from the lower parte of y e chyrche and shryned hym there he now lyeth And this kynge Edwarde laft after hym no chylde for he was accompted for a vyrgyn whan he dyed Francia THE CCXV CHAPITER PHylyp the fyrst of that name son of Henry began his dominioÌ ouer the Frenchemen in the yere of our lorde M.lviii the .xvi. yere of Edwarde the confessour than kynge of Englande And of thys Phylyp it is radde that he maryed a wyfe named Berta the doughter of Baldewyne erle of Holland and of Fryce Of the whyche Berta this Philyp receyued a sonne and named hym Lewis and a doughter y e was called CunstauÌce But in processe of tyme he haunted so myche the company of a woman named Bertande that he hated hys laufull wyfe and at length helde her in pryson and kept that other in her stede and gatte vppon the sayd Bertrande two sonnes named Phylyp Florys and a doughter which myne authour nameth not For thys aduoutry he was often monysshed of y e pope that he shulde leue the companye of that yll woman and take to hym hys lawfull wyfe y t he so longe had holden in pryson within hys castell of Monsfruell And for he wolde not be obedyent vnto the popes couÌsayll he was fynally accused of pope Urbane the seconde of that name By meane wherof he was reconcyled and restored agayne to his wyfe and refused hys concubyne And in the tyme of thys Phylyp Godfrey de BollioÌ with many other crysten prynces at the exortacyon of Peter the heremyte sayled into the holy lande and wanne the cytye of HierusaleÌ out of the Sarasyns handes whyche prynces lastly crowned the sayd Godfrey kynge of the sayde cytye And after it so contynued in possessyon of crysten men by y e terme of foure score and tenne yeres vnder ix crysten kinges and lenger myght haue endured hadde not discencyon fallen amonges them selfe And so by Antoninus Peter Disrey and other it is manyfestely shewed Thys vyage after moste accorde of wryters begaÌ in the yere of grace M.lxxxvi and the .xxvii. yere of thys Phylyp And the sayd Godfrey was crowned kynge of the sayde cytye of Hierusalem after the affyrmaunce of y e sayde wryters in the yere of grace a thousande and foure score and .xix. Of thys Phylyp lytell worthy memory is lefte in wrytynge For lyke as hys fader Henry made hym kyng by his lyfe and suffered hym to haue the rule of the lande ryght so thys Phylyp after a certayne of tyme coÌmytted the rule of the lande vnto Lewys his sonne And he sette hys mynde to huntynge and other dysportes and so ladde hys lyfe in all slowthe and idelnesse Than Lewys takynge vppon hym the charge of the realme subdued the erle of Mounte Merusy other that laboured to take from the chyrche of saynt Denys certayn preuyleges and also constrayned them to restore and satysfye all hurtes and harmes to the sayde chyrche by them done Thys Lewys as affermeth the Frenche cronycle maryed the doughter of Guy erle of Cotcheforde the whyche after for nerenesse of kynne was deforced from the sayde Lewys to the greate dyspleasour of the sayde erle Guy wherfore he moued warre agayne the sayd Lewys and toke from hym certayne holdes and castelles of the whyche the castell of Gurney was one But at length Lewys had y e better of that warre and recoueryd diuers of the sayd holdes And amonges other prysoners by hym and his knyghtes takeÌ
neuew vnto Edward the confessour as before is shewed beganne hys domynyon ouer thys realme of Englande the .xv. daye of October in the yere of our lordes incarnacyon a thousand .lxvii and y e ix yere of the fyrste Phylyppe then kyng of Fraunce and was crowned kynge of the same vppon Crystmas daye nexte folowynge of Aldredus archbyshoppe of yorke for so myche as at that tyme Stigandus archbysshoppe of Caunterbury was then absent or durste not come in the pÌsence of the kynge to whome he ought no great fauour as in the sequele shall appere when wyllyam had sette in quyet a great parte of thys lande he betoke the gydyng therof to his brother the byshop of Bayon and in lent folowynge sayled into Normandye and led wyth hym the chefe rulers of England for doute of sturryng in tyme of his absence Amonge the whyche the two erles Marcarê° and Edwyne rulers of Northumberlande Mercia were two wyth also Stigandus and Edgare Ethelynge To the why the Stigandus wyllyam shewed great reuerence and couÌtenaunce of fauoure But all proued to great dissymulacyon after as was shewed by the depryuynge of the sayd Stigandus and prysonment of hym in wynchester towne by a longe terme and season In the next wynter whan wyllyam had sped hys besynesse in Normandy he retourned into England wyth greate pompe and sette a greuous trybute vpon the Englyshmen By reason wherof some partyes of the lande rebelled agayne hym and specyally the cytye of Excetour the whyche defended hym for a certayne of tyme. But lastly by force he wanne the sayde cytye and punysshed the cytesyns greuously For thys and other sterne dedes of wyllyam Marcharus erle of Northumberlande wyth Edgare Athelynge and dyuers other as hys moder and two systers Margarete and Crystyan sayled into Scotlande But another cronycle telleth y t Edgare entendynge wyth Agatha hys moder and hys two systers to haue sayled into Almayne where he was borne was by tempest of the see dryuen into Scotlande where of Malcolyne than kynge of Scottes they were ioyously receyued And in processe of tyme the sayde Malcolyne caste suche loue vnto the sayd Margaret that he toke her to wyfe as before is touched in the fyrste chapyter of the story of Canutê° Of the which Margaret the sayde Malcolyne receyued .ii. doughters and .vi. sonnes wherof thre named Edgare AlexauÌder Dauyd were kynges of Scotlande nexte folowynge theyr fader And Molde one of y e foresayd doughters was after maryed vnto the fyrst Henry kynge of Englande And the other doughter Mary was maryed to Eustace erle of Bolongii Of Molde the fyrste doughter Henry receyued .ii. sonnes named wyllyam and Rychard the whych bothe dyed before theyr fader as after in y e story of the sayd Henry shall appere And he receyued also two doughters named Molde and Mary whych Molde or Mawde was maryed to y e fyfte Henry emperour of Almayne After whose deth she was agayne maryed to Godfrey of Geoffrey PlaÌtagenet erle of Aungeowe Of whom descended Henry surnamed shorte mantell and kynge of Englande called Henry the seconde And the other doughter Mary was maryed vnto the erle of Blaynes of whoÌ descended Molde or Mawde that was wyfe vnto kynge Stephen Than it foloweth that thys wyllyam after thys foresayd trybute so leuyed of the Englysshemen and knowynge of the depertynge of the lordes foresayde kepte the other the streyter But it was not longe after that Marcharus was reconsyled to the kynges grace and fayled agayn as folowynge shall be shewed For thys and other causes whyche were tedyous to shewe wyllyam exalted the Normans and gaue vnto them the chyefe possessyons of the lande so that they dayly encreased in great honour and welth and the Englysh men as faste decayed Kynge wyllyaÌ also made .iiii. stronge castels where of two be sette at yorke the thyrde at Lyndetyngham or Notynghm and manned them wyth Normans and the .iiii. at Lyncolne About the thyrde yere of his reygne Harolde Canutus sonnes of Swanus kynge of Denmarke came on lande in the North of Humber wyth a stronge nauy and in all haste drew them towarde yorke Than the Normans whyche hadde the rule of the towne and castelles feryng that the Englysshemen wolde ayde the Danys and wyth the houses of the suburbes of the towne haue fylled the towne dyches sette the suburbes on fyre wherof y e flame was so bygge and wyth the wynde so stronge that it toke into the cytye brent a parte therof wyth the mynster of saynt Peter In tyme wherof the Danys by fauour of some of the citesyns entred the cytye and slewe more than thre thousande of the Normans But it was not longe or kynge wyllyam chased the Danys to theyr shyppes and toke so greate dyspleasure wyth the inhabytauntes of that prouynce that he destroyed the land lyenge bytwene yorke and Durham in suche wyse that .ix. yeres after or there about the lande laye vnlabored vntylled onely out taken saynt IohnÌs lande of Beuerley the which was for borne by reason of a wreche done by dyuyne power vpon one of kynge wyllyams knyghtes The whych as he was besyed in wastyng and spoylynge of the sayde countre fyll sodeynly wyth hys horse so that hys horse brake hys necke and the knyghtes face was turned to his backe And of the famyne that the people of that countre susteyned wonders are reported that they shuld eate all maner of vermyn as cattes rattes dogges other so harde they were kepte by the warre of the kyng And in that yere also Molde or Mawde the wyfe of kynge wyllyaÌ was crowned quene of England of Aldredus archebysshop of yorke In the .iiii. yere of the reygne of thys kynge the Scottes with Malcolyne theyr kynge entred Northumberlande and wasted and destroyed sore that countre and slewe there in myche people and many they toke prysoners helde theÌ as bonde men But in the .vi. yere of hys kyngdome wyllyam made such warre vppon the Scottes that he lastely forced the sayde Malcolyne to swere to hym bothe homage and feauty as it is wytnessed of wyllyam of Malmesbery and other wryters THE CCXX CHAPITER Kynge willyam by counsayle of the erle of Hortford and other caused the abbeyes of Englande to be serched And what money in them at that season was founde he caused it to be brought to hys treasour For the whyche dede after the exposycyoÌ of some authours the sayd erle was punysshed as after shall be shewed Soone vpon thys in the tyme by twene Easter and wytsontyde was holden a solempne counsayle at wynchester of the clergy of Englande At the whyche counsayle were presente two cardynalles sent from y e second Alexaunder than pope In thys couÌsayle Stygandus archebysshop of CauÌterbury was depryued from his dygnytye and that for thre skylles The fyrste was for that he had holden wrongfully that bysshopryche whyle Robert the archebysshop was lyuynge The seconde cause was for that he hadde receyued the Paule
so y t he withdrew hym froÌ the kynge and alyed hym wyth the byshop of Durham the erles of NorthuÌberland and Shrewesbury with other The whyche confederyd to gyder toke partye agayne the kynge and dyd thynges to his dyspleasure and hurte And amonges other damages by theym done Roger de Mount Gomoryk erle of Shrewesbury destroyed the countrey and endes of England vnto worceter town wyth ayde of the walshemen But in the ende thorough the prayer of the holy byshoppe wolstane the walshemen were so weked and febled that a few knyghtes scomfyted of them a great hoste when kyng wyllyam conceyued y e well nere all the Normans toke partye agayne hym he then forced of necessyte drewe to hym the Englyshemen And fauoured them by giftes easy lawes so that by theyr strength he lastely recouered the erle of Shrewesburye and chased some other of hys enymyes and shortely after occupyed the castell and strong holdes in Kent belongynge to byshop Odo hys forsayde vncle and in the ende coÌpelled hym to forswere England And y t done he besyeged y e citie of Rochester wherin the byshoppe of Durham the erle of Northumberland and other noble men were gadered and wan yt at length by appoyntement so that hys enymyes were vnto hym reconcyled In the thyrde yere of hys reygne dyed Lamfrank when he hadde ben archbyshop of Caunterburye .xviii. yeres By whose meanes the moÌkes of Englande were brought to the vse of theyr holy relygyon the whych before hys commynge lyued more lyke to seculer prestes theÌ religious men and exercysed them in huntynge and hawkynge for to auoyde idelnesse dysynge and cardynge in the wynter nyghtes that they myght be redy to kepe theyr howres and nyghtly seruyce And in theyr apparel they were lyke vnto consules and not vnto muÌkes wyth many other deformytyes The whych in y e begynnyng of Lamfrank he of policye suffered for a season lest he had brought all in his top atones and therby myght haue caused some scysme or varyauÌce to haue rysen in the chyrche In auoydynge wherof wyth other inconuenyences he lytell and lytell refrayned them of theyr outrage and in êcesse of tyme caused and constrayned them to lyue after the constitucyons and rules of theyr relygyon Aboute thys tyme Robert Curthose duke of Normandy enteÌdynge to take hys vyage into the holy lande layde his dukedome to wedde to hys brother wyllyam for .x. thousande pounde For leuyenge wherof kynge wyllyam set a taske vpon his commons and subiectes and reysed a farre excidynge some vnder colour of the same so that byshoppes melted theyr vessell and lordes spoyled theyr tenauntes The kynge of Scottes also brake the peace before made with wyllyam Conquerour and wasted and toke prayes ut the countrey of Northumberlande Then the kynge prouyded a nauy and sayled thyther in the wynter tyme. But by y e tempest of the see halfe his nauy or a great parte of yt was drowned and many of his knyghtes were loste for colde and hunger But yet in the ende after dyuers conflyctes and bykerynges by mediacyon of frendes a peace and vnyte was concluded so that Malcolyn then kynge of Scottes shuld be obedyent to kynge wyllyam vnder the same othe that he was before tyme sworne vnto hys father and kynge willyam shuld yerely gyue vnto him in y e way of a fee .xii. markes of gold In the fourth yere of his reygne and the fyft daye of October passyng great tempest of wederyng fell in soudry places of Englande and specyally in y e towne of wynchecome For there by tempeste of thuÌder and lyghtenyng a parte of y e steple of the chyrch was throwen downe and the crycyfyx wyth the ymage of our lady also standynge vpon the roode lofte was in lykewyse ouerthrowen and broke and shatered And after folowed a contagye and a fowle stenche y e whych endured tyll the munkes had gone in processyon about the chyrch and all the houses adioynyng to that abbay and other places Also thys yere at LoÌdon was great harme done by force of the wynde which blewe with such violence y t yt ouerturned or ryued as wytnessyth Polycronycon ouer the noÌber of .vi. hundred houses And y e rofe of saynt Mary Bow in chepe was also ryued wherwith two men were slayne And also at Salesburye was hurte done wyth y e same wynde or y e lyke therof In the .v. yere of wyllyaÌs reygne he went into Northumberlande and repayred suche holdes and castelles as the Scottes by theyr warrys had blemyshed and apayred and caused a new castell to be made at Caercol y e cytye or towne whych the Danys of two hundred yeres passed hadde destroyed Then y e kyng returned vnto Gloucester where he was greuously veryd wyth sykenesse so that he wende he shulde haue dyed In tyme wherof he toke great repentaunce êmysed yf he myght escape he wold neuer sell mo benefices ouer that he wold ameÌde hys lyuyng become a new maÌ But after he was restored to helth that promyse was shortely forgoten And in that yere he gaue vnto Anselme the archbyshopryche of yorke But he myghte take of yt but as the kynges pleasure was tyll suche tyme as the kyng hadde taken his trybute therof And more ouer he auouched that the see of LyncolnÌ be longed to the see of yorke tyll the bisshoppe of Lyncolne had pleased him wyth a great summe of money as .v. thousande marke after the wrytyng of Ranulfe In the .vi. yere of hys reygne were excedynge floodes wherof the lyke in many yeres passed hadde not ben sene And after that ensued wonderfull frostâ whych frose the great stremes in suche wyse y e horse and carte passed ouer y e gret ryuers And in the ende when the yse melted and brake the payse therof brake many a stronge brydge bothe of tymber and of stone THE CCXXIIII CHAPITER ABout thys tyme the welshemen with theyr kyng or duke named Rees brake out vppon the Englyshmen in the Bordour where standeth the castell of Brekenocke and there made masteryes for a while But in the ende his people were chaced and slayne and he wounded to deth so that he dyed the .iii. daye folowynge Thys Rees is accompted of wryters to be the laste kynge of walys For after thys daye they were so dauÌted that kynges of Englande had them in suche rule that they were vnder more stedfaste obedyence than they were before tyme. How be it they rebellyd full often as after shall appere And the yere folowyng kyng wyllyam to haue y e countrey in the more quyet hewe downe mych of y e wood and buylded in sundry places strong castels and pyles by meane wherof more and more they were plucked to obedyeÌce But not shortely after but specyally in the dayes of Edwarde y e fyrste and Edwarde the thyrde Malcolyn kyng of Scotland came vnto Glowcester to comon wyth the kynge of dyuers maters and to take a fynall agremeÌt But for kyng wyllyam wolde haue demyd
hym in hys courte therfore Malcoline departed from the kynge in great dyspleasur For the whyche and other causes the warre bytwene England and Scotlande was reuyued so that vppon saynt Bricius daye folowyng Malcolyne wyth hys retynewe foughte wyth an erle named Robert and thaÌ erle of Northumberlande and there was slayne wyth hys eldest sonne Edwarde For sorowe wherof Margaret quene of Scotlande and syster vnto Edgare Ethelynge as in the fyrste chapyter of the story of wyllyaÌ Conqueroure is shewed dyed soone after Than the Scottes made Dunwalde brother of Malcolyne theyr kynge and put by hys sonnes But by the ayde of kynge wyllyam Edgare whyche of some wryters is named Dunkam was made kynge as eldest sonne of Malcolyne In the .vii. yere of the reygne of kynge wyllyam Auncelyne or Anselme that was archbyshop of yorke was remoued to Caunterbury as affermeth one cronycle But Polycronycon and Guydo sayen that Hugh erle of Chester beynge sycke and diseased in the .vi. yere of wyllyam Rufus sent into NormaÌdy for Anselme than abbot of Barry for thre causes The fyrste to vysyte and se hym and to be reconcyled of hym as the man that he moste trusted The seconde cause was that he shuld releue some abbays of Englande that the kynge vexed wyth greuous trybutes And the thyrd cause was y t he shuld fouÌd an abbay at Chester whych place he after buylded made one Rycharde his chapleyne fyrst abbot of y e place and sone after he was made archbysshop of Caunterbury where by it appereth that the sayd see was voyde ouer the terme of thre yeres Thys sayd .vii. yere Englande Normandye were greued wyth trybute and moreyne of men so sharply that tyllynge of the erth was spared or putte of for that yere there after ensued great huÌger Thys yere also y e Scottes slewe theyr kyng Edgar and restored agayn to the rule of the lande the forenamed Dunwalde And many grysly and vncouth syghtes were thys yere sene in England as hostes of men fightyng in y e skye and fyre lemys other And the holy bysshop wolstone of worceter dyed soone after of whom it is shewed y t he sondry tymes warned rebuked Englyshmen for theyr mysseliuyng and sayd for theyr offenses they were so punysshed of the Normans But the Englyshmen excused them selfe and sayde that the Normans were worse in lyuynge than they where vnto the byshop answered and sayd that god vsed the wyckednesse of theÌ in Englyshmen For by the wycked he punysshed y e wycked And so doth god suffer the deuyll to punysshe synners in hell he hym selfe is punysshed wyth them Of thys wolstone it is radde that kynge wyllyam wold haue put hym from hys see to the entente that he myghte put another into hys see wherof thys holy man beynge warned yode vnto the kynge and sayde to hym I am enfourmed that thou wylte take from me the whiche a better man thaÌ thou arte gaue vnto me wherfore of whom that I receyued so noble a gyfte to hym wyll I gyue it agayn and than take it from hym yf thou may And whan he hadde so sayde to the kynge he yode to the sepulture of Edward the confessoure and after y t he had made his prayers there he pytched hys crosse in y e marble stone that laye vppon the graue But no man myghte plucke out the staffe tyll wolston came thyther hym selfe and pulled it out at the kynges coÌmaundement wherfore the kynge seyng that maruayle suffred hym to enioye hys benefyce styll In the .x. yere of willyam Rufus stryfe and dyscencyon fell bytwene hym and Anselme bysshop of Caunterbury for Anselme myght nat call hys synodys nor correcte the byshoppes but as the kynge wolde The kynge also chalenged the inuestiture of bysshoppes and pylled the spyrytualtye and temporaltye with vnreasonable taskes trybutes the which he spent vpon the towre of London the makynge of westmynster hall And ouer that the kynges seruauntes greued and pylled englysshmen vnreasonably And to thys mysery was ioyned the vnsaceable couetous of Ranulphe that was somtyme chapelayne vnto wyllyam conquerour the whyche was at thys day the kynges procuratour and gadered hys taskes ouer all He was so couetous and so euyll dysposed that he wolde leuye .iii. taskys for two He pylled the ryche and bare downe the poore and caused many men to lose theyr landes for smal causes and therfore the kynge had hym in hys synguler fauoure And by hys meanes byshoprykes were boughte and solde as playnly as other marchaundyses For that tyme clerkes vsed busshed and brayded heddys longe tayled blasynge clothes shynynge golden gyrdels and rode wyth gylte spurres wyth vsynge of dyuers other enormytees All whyche vyces Anselme wolde haue corrected but he lacked assystence of hys bretherne y e bysshoppes For the whyche cause other he departed the londe wherewyth the kyng beynge mysse contented sente after hym suche persons as robbed and spoyled hym and entreted hym in most cruell maner For the whyche dede Raufe bysshoppe of Chychester blamed the kynge and also rebuked all such bysshoppes as had refused the partye of Anselme had fauoured the kynge in causes coÌcernynge the foresayde varyaunce And forthermore he wythstode the kynge and hys offycers in takynge of fynes of prestes for cryme of fornicacyon For whyche causes the kyng wyth the sayd Raufe was sore amoued and dyscontented and opteyned such fauour that he suspeÌded many chyrches of hys dyoses But in the ende Raufe demeaned hym in suche wyse that he hadde hys owne wyll and his chyrches enlarged and freed that before were stopped wyth thornes And the kynge gaue vnto hym y e fynes of prestes within his dyosis and endued y e see of Chychester with many greate gyftes And vpon a tyme kynge wyllyam was rydynge towarde hys dysporte of huntynge and sodeynly a messenger came vnto hym and sayde that the cytye of Cenemonia in Normandye was beseyged wherfore he wythout longe taryenge or aduysement toke the streyght way to these syde and sent to hys lordes chargynge them to folow whan the sayd lordes came to hys presence they aduysed hym to tarye tyll his people were assembled But he wolde nothynge do after theyr counsayle but sayd such as hym loued he shortely wyste well wolde folowe hym and so yode to shyp settyng aparte all parels The mayster of the shyp was afrayde he sawe the weder so darke so clowdy and counceyled the kynge to tary tyll the wynde wolde blowe more fauorably But he commaunded hym to make all the spede that he cowde vpon hys lyfe sayenge that he neuer harde that euer any kyng was drowned And so he passed the see and landed in Normandy and gathered to hym there hys knyghtes whan the capytayne of the syege whose name was Helyas knewe of the kynges landyng he fered and anone began to breke the syege But by treason he was taken and brought to the kynges presence To whom the kynge shewed suche
abbot and to haue the rule of so holy a charge and so he gaue vnto hym that benefyce wythout takynge any peny Thys kynge wyllyam vsed alway lemmans wherfore he dyed without yssue legyttymat when he had reyned as before is sayde fully .xii. yeres and odde dayes THE CCXXVI CHAPITER HEnry the .iii. son of wyllyam CoÌquerour fyrste of y t name whyche for his connynge was surnamed beuclerk began hys reygne and domynyon as kynge of Englande the .v. daye of August in the yere of our lorde .xi. hundred one and the .xliii. yere of the fyrste Phylyppe then kynge of Fraunce was crowned at westmynster ryght shortly after of Thomas archebyshoppe of yorke and Morys byshoppe of London This Henry in his youth plyed him to such studye that he was instructe in the .vii. artes lyberall Anon he made holy chyrche free vsed saynt Edwardes lawes wyth the amendemeÌt of them He put out of his courte nyce and waÌton men and closed Ranulphe byshoppe of Durham in the towre of LoÌdon y e which as ye before haue harde was so great wyth wyllyam his brother and sent for Anselme archebyshoppe of Caunterburye whyche before was fledde fro the tyranny of wyllyam Rufus This Henry chastysed the olde vntrewe mesure and made a yerde of y e length of hys owne arme wyth dyuers other thynges reformyng that longe before his days had ben mysse vsed and abhorred excesse of metys and drynkes vsed to fyght more wyth couÌsayll then wyth sworde In the seconde yere of his reygne Robert hys brother that by all thys season hadde ben occupyed in warres vppon Cristes enymyes hauyng worde of the deth of hys brother wyllyam and howe his brother Henry hadde taken vpon hym as kynge returned into Normandy and there made preparacyon for to come into Englande In this season also was brokeÌ out of pryson Ranulfe byshoppe of Durham and comen to the sayde Robert into Normandy The whych excyted duke Robert in all that he myght to warre vppon hys brother Henry so that he assembled a stronge armye of knyghtes and toke shyppynge and landed in processe of tyme at Portysmouth But by medyacyon a peace was made and that in suche condycion that he shuld haue .iii. thousand markes yerely as before was promysed vnto hym by willyam Rufus his brother wyth other condycyons of successyon and other thynges the whyche I ouerpasse for length of tyme. Thus Robert beynge contented contrary to the myndes of his lordes after he a season hadde dysported hym in Englande retourned into Normandy where of his lordes he was for thys other dedes before done as after is shewed lytle or lesse and lesse setby For all be yt that by hys fathers lyfe he hadde vyctorye and vtterly dyspleased hym as some deale before ys touched yet by hys manhode and manfull dedes he fell into the fauoure of the people and dyd many and great notable actes and specyally at the wynnyng of the cytye of Acon vppon the myscreauntes and turkes For the whyche dedes yt apperyth by the sequele of the storye that he was also in the fauour of god For when the eleccyon shuld be made for the kynge of Hierusalem and certayne prynces and prynces peeres by ordynaunce made stode wyth theyr tapers abydynge the dyuyne purueyaunce that whose taper were fyrst wyth heuenly fyre lyghtened shulde be admytted for kynge the taper of thys duke Robert was fyrste onely wherfore by dyuyne purueyaunce he was then chosen kynge of Hierusalem The whyche he refused for the payne and trauayle that he shuld haue wyth all also for the couetyse of the crowne of Englande For as soone as he hadde knowlege of the deth of his brother willyam anon he parted the couÌtrey and sped hym homewarde in all that he myght For the whych dede as affermeth myne authour he spedde the worse in all his dedes after Thys Robert was wyse in counsayll stronge in batayll and also ryght lyberall and in hys retourne from Hierusalem maryed the doughter of wyllyam de Auersana lorde of Apulia wyth whome he receyued grete soÌmes of money for her dower the whych by meane of his liberalyte he spent shortly after Then fortune beganne to frowne vppon duke Robert and sette his owne lordes so agayn hym that they sent vnto kyng Henry hys brother wyllynge hym to come into Normandye and they wolde delyuer the couÌtrey vnto him and holde hym for theyr chefe lorde and ruler wherunto as sayth the englyshe cronycle kynge Henry soone coÌsented But or euer thys warre betwene the sayde duke Robert kyng Henry beganne thys Henry maryed Mawde or Molde the doughter of Malcolyne kyng of Scotlande and of Margarete hys wyfe doughter of Edwarde the outlawe as in the begynnyng of wyllyam Conqueroure is thouched Of the whyche Molde thys Henry receyuyd after some wryters two sonnes and .ii. doughters y t is to saye wyllyam and Rycharde Mawde Mary And also the sayd authour wyth other saye that Robert duke of Normandye came into Englande in the fourth yere of the reygne of kynge Henry and hadde good chere of his brother and syster For the which he at the request of his sayde syster released to his brother y e forenamed trybute of .iii. thousand markes But by yll tale tellers couetous of signory this broderly loue was after dissolued in such wise that the kynge with a strong army sayled into Normandy and held his broder Robert with so sharpe warre that he chased hym from one countrey to another and wanne from hym Roan Caan Faloys and all the good townes of Normandye and lastely constrayned hym to aske helpe of Phylyppe kyng of Fraunce after of the erle of FlauÌdres but he fayled helpe of them both Then wyth such power as he could make he gaue batayll vnto his brother kynge Henry In the whyche he was taken and sent ouer into England and put into the castell of Cardyffe in walys where he remayned as prisoner whyle he lyued And when he was dede he was buryed at Glowcester In this tyme and season as it were in y e .iii. yere of kyng Henry y e chyrch of saynt Barthelmew in Smythfeld of London was begonne to be founded of a mynstrell of this kyng Henry named Rayer and after perfourmed and ended by good and well disposed cytezens of the citye of LoÌdon This place of Smythfelde was at y e day a lay stowe of al ordure or fylth and the place where felons and other transgressours of the kynges lawes were put to execucyon THE CCXXVII CHAPITER SO as kynge Henry hadde fynyshed his warre in Normandye was returned into Englande Robert de Bolesyn which was the eldest sonne of Roger de mount Gomeryk erle of Shrewesburye arose agayne the kynge and manned his castellys of Shrewesbury of Bruggâ of Arundell and of Tekynhyll and incoraged the walshmen agayne the kyng But the kyng pursued so cruelly the sayd Robert y t wythin .xl. days he wan all thoses castellis
sayde warre contynued by the terme of two yeres In the ende of whych two yeres wyllyam the eldest sonne of kynge Henry beynge a chyld and wythin age contented so well the mynde of Lewys that he refrayned of hys warre for that tyme. In the .xiii. yere at Shrewesburye was a great erth quake and at Nothyngham from the morne to the vndertyde The ryuer of Trent was so fordryed in the moneth of June as sayth Guydo that men wente ouer drye And the starre called stella cometa or the blasynge sterre aperyde soone after Theruppon folowed an harde wynter great deth of the people and scarcete of vitayll by the great moreyn of bestes In thys yere also the kynge founded the abbay of Hyde wythoute the wallys of wynchester that of olde tyme was wythin the wallys THE CCXXVIII CHAPITER IN the .xv. yere of hys reygne y e kynge enteÌdyd to haue âmoted Faricus abbot of Abyndon vnto the see of Caunterburye But by a counsayll kept at wyndesoure of bysshoppes y e kynges mynde was chauÌged and to that see was then admytted Raufe that was byshoppe of Rochester And the same yere one Thurstone was chosen archebyshoppe of yorke the whyche wythsayde hys professyon of obedience that he shuld owe to the see of Caunterbury wherfore at lengthe he was depryuyd of hys dygnyte But after by laboure that he made to Pascall the pope before named the sayde pope wrote vnto the kynge that he shulde restore Thurstone agayne to the see of yorke By whyche meane he was agayne restoryd but yet he disdayned to do hys lawefull obedyence vnto Raufe archebyshope of Caunterbury Then the stryfe was renewed which Lamfranke before as ye haue harde in the thyrde chapyter of wyllyam Conquerour dyd appeace and was brought in argument before the pope The whyche at the kynges request promysed y t he wolde nothyng do nor ordeyne that shuld be derogacion to the archbyshop of Caunterbury or to the dygnyte of his chyrche But in coÌclusion the pope gaue such a defuse sentence in thys mater that he lefte the stryfe vndetermyned and vnassoyled And when y e kynges procuratours wyth also the archbyshop of Caunterbury were absent were yt for nede or for fauour the pope was so bowed that he forsoke y e olde rule vsed before hys days and sacred the sayde Thurstone and gaue vnto hym the pawle For this dede y e kyng was sore dyscontented wyth Thurstone and warned hym the entre of his lande wherfore the pope wrote after shortely to the kynge wyllyng hym to suffer Thurstone to occupye his see peaseably or he shulde be accused and suspended by the dygnyte of the offyce of Caunterbury and so Thurstone enioyed his see In the yere of our lorde .xi. hundred .xviii. as sayth the frenche cronicle whyche was the .xvii. yere of thys kyng Henry the fyrst the warre was agayn quyckened betwen kyng Henry and Lewys kynge of Fraunce wherof was the occasyon as sayth the sayde frenche cronycle Thybaude erle of Chartres whych Thybaude was greuyd by the Frenche kynge and for necessyte requyred kynge Henry of ayde and helpe to whome the kynge as to hys kynnesman sent ayde and socoure And afterwarde the kynge sayled ouer with a stronge armye and sente a nobleman named Stephan into the lordshyppe of Brye to defendeyt agayn the Frenche kynge when Lewys vnsterstode that kynge Henry was landed in Normandye wyth so great power he in all haste assembled a stronge power and drewe hym towarde the kynge But there were so stronge holdes mannyd wyth Normans also such depe and great ryuers that the Frenche kynge myght not wynne vnto kynge Henry Then lastely by a feate of warre whyche were longe to reherse he wan a town named Lyngues in Cause in the whyche towne was a brydge to passe the ryuer of Thee and so into Normandye when a certayne of the knyghtes of Lewes had thus wonne the foresayd towne the sayd Lewes wyth his people spedde hym shortly after and rescued his foresayde knightes then spoyled and robbed the towne the whyche was ryche for so myche as yt hadde ben in quyet and rest many yeres before He also slewe and toke prysoners all y e Normans there dwellyng put in theyr stede FrenchmeÌ And that done he sped hym towarde kynge Henry the which was at a castell called Male assyse there made purueyaunce for the defence of the Frenchmen And when he hadde garnyshed yt to hys pleasure he departed thens But not longe after the Frenche kynge came thyther wyth his hole hoste of Frenchmen and after many sore cruell assautys wan the sayde castell and bette yt downe euen wyth the grounde After whych season as sayth the sayd cronicle fell to the Frenche kynge many and dyuerse mysfortunes For shortely after amonge other myssechaunces a noble captayn of hys named Angueran de Chanmount the whyche had done myche harme in Normandye to kynge Henry and wonne there some castelles and other stronge holdes dyed sodeynly And in shorte tyme after Baldewyne erle of FlauÌdres a man of great streÌgth and puyssaunce as he beseaged a castell was wounded in the face and dyed wyth in .vi. dayes after Then Fauques erle of Aungeos in whom also this Lewys affyed mych and trusted maryed his doughter vnto willyam the eldest sonne of kynge Henry and refused the kynge of Fraunce parte and ayded and assysted kynge Henry in all that he myght so that dayly the power of kyng Henry encreased and the Frenche kynges mynyshed Lastely these two prynces met wyth theyr both hostes in playne feld and foughte a dedely and cruell batayll where in the ende the Frenche kynge was ouercomen and loste myche of his people and was coÌpelled to flee vnto a place called Audely for his sauegarde But thys ouerthrowe of Frenchemen is excused in the moste fayrest maner so y t they excuse them selfe and saye that kynge Henry set vppon kynge Lewys when he was not ware but hys knyghtes all oute of aray order and also kyng Henry had farre excedynge nomber of men ouer that theyr kyng had with other wordes of boste of them selfe slaunder of Englyshemen the whyche as to me appereth is an augmentacyon of theyr owne shame But Ranulfe the munke sayth shortely that kyng Henry ouercame the Frenche kynge royally in batayll Then yt foloweth in y e story fynally these sayde prynces were agreed and wyllyam the sonne of kyng Henry dyd homage vnto y e French kyng for the landes of Normandye by the agrement of his fader For the kyng thought hym selfe to good to be vnder the obeysauÌce of y e Frenche kyng Then kynge Henry caused hys free men of Englande and of Normandy to do homage vnto his sonne wyllyam And soone after Fouques before named lefte hys erledome of Angeer or Angiers in guydyng of kynge Henry and yode hym selfe into the holy lande and wylled in his testament that yf he retourned not agayne that the sayde erledome shulde remayne vnto his sonne
The fyrste yere of hys reygne he subdued Irlande And soone after Thomas Beketh whyche after was byshoppe of Caunterbury was made chaunceller of Englonde This kynge caste downe dyuers castellys that before in tyme of kynge Stephan were buylded other for dyspleasure of the owners or ellys for the fere they shulde be strengthed agayne hym And also he banyshed many of the lordes and gentylmen that kynge Stephan hadde in hys fauoure Aboute the thyrde yere of hys reygne in the moneth of October were sene in the fyrmament two sunnys and in the mone was sene a redde crosse But of thys wonder sheweth the authoure of Cronica cronicaruÌ and sayth that aboute thys tyme in Italy in the moneth of Nouember appered thre sunnys by the space of thre owres in the weste and the yere folowynge appered thre monys whereof the myddle mone hadde a redde crosse ouerthwarte the face whyche there ys noted for a prodygy or a token of the scysme that after fell amonges the cardinallys for eleccyon of the pope AlexaÌder the thyrd whyche scysme by meane of the fyrste Frederyke then emperoure endured almoste .xx. yeres Also aboute this tyme Adryan the fourthe of that name was pope an Englysheman borne in the towne of saynte Albon of whome is more declared in the begynnynge of the .xxii. chapyter of the .vii. boke of Polycronycon Also in thys yere the kynge wente wyth a stronge armye into walys and after he hadde sette that countrey in an order and quyet he buyldyd a stronge castell at Rutlande and founded the abbaye of Basyngewerke In the .vi yere of hys reygne thys Henry maryed hys seconde son Henry vnto the kynges doughter of FrauÌce that is to meane Lewys the viii whyche the sayde Lewys receyued of hys seconde wyfe named Constaunce the doughter of the kyng of Spayne as before ye haue harde in the seconde chapyter of y e story of the sayd Lewys This mayden was named Margaret By reason of whych maryage was appeased the warre that was begonne betwene Fraunce and Englande for the landes of Poyâowe and other the whyche kynge Henry helde by reason of hys wyfe In y e whych warre mych harme was done and more wolde haue ensued yf yt hadde not by thys meane haue ben agreed In the .vii. yere of his reygn Theobalde archbyshoppe of Caunterbury dyed and Thomas Beket chaunceller of Englande was archebysshoppe ⪠after hym of whome more shall folowe In the same yere kyng Henry with a stronge hoste yode to Scotlande and made so cruell warre vppon willyam kynge of that lande that lastely he was taken and dyd to the sayd Henry recompensacyon in yeldynge vnto hym the cytye of Carlell the castell of Bamburghe the newe castell vpon Tyne wyth dyuers other holdes and a great parte of Northumberlande the whyche he hadde wonne from the borderers And after fewtye and homage done by the sayde wyllyam vnto the kynge and a certayne summe of money by hym promysed wythin .ix. monethes folowynge the kynge suffred hym to go at large But an other authour sayth that the kynge of Scottys was not taken but strongely besyeged in a towne or castell so that fynally he was forced to agree to the foresayde couenauntes In the .viii. yere the cytye of CauÌterburye was fyred by neglygence a great part therof brente And in that season the archbyshoppe Thomas beganne to replye agayne y e kynges mynde for thynges that the kynge dyd exercyse agayn the liberties of the chyrche THE CCXXXVII CHAPITER IN the .ix. yere of hys reygne the kynge for dyuerse causes coÌcernyng y e nedes of his realme called a parliament at hys towne of Northampton Durynge whyche parlyament dyssencyon fell betwen the kynge and Thomas archbyshop of Caunterburye for dyuerse actes and ordinaunces that the kyng there procured to passe agayne the lybertyes of holy chyrch the whych Thomas gaynstode and denyed wherfore the kynge toke a great dyspleasure with Thomas in so myche that shortely after he was fayne to flee the lande and in processe of tyme spedde hym to Rome where he complayned hym to Alexaunder the .iii. of that name then pope and there contynued and in Fraunce and in other places in poore estate by terme of .vi. yeres and more when kynge Henry hadde certayne vnderstandynge that Thomas was thus departed out of hys lande he seased his maners and temporall landes into hys hande so that hys mouable goodes were spoyled and rauenyd amonge the kynges offycers In the .xiiii. yere of his reygne the kynge crowned Henry hys eldest sonne then lyuynge kynge of Englande at westmynster whyche was done to the derogacyon or harme of the archbyshoppe Thomas as yt is wytnessyd in hys legende and for that doynge Roger archbyshoppe of yorke whyche crowned hym was accursed But an other authour sayth that the kynge crowned Henry hys sonne to the ende he myght haue ful power and authoryte to rule thys lande and the people of the same whyle hys father was occupyed in Normandye and other countreys where hys landes laye In myche of thys season that thys blessyd man Thomas was thus banyshed the lande the kynge sente ouer byshoppes and proctours to complayne vppon hym to the pope for well nere all the bishoppes of Englande were agayne hym And yf any toke hys parte they durste not speke for the displeasure of theyr temporall lorde so that this blessed man defended the quarell of the chyrche alone In the .xvi. yere of y e reygne of kyng Henry Lewys the kynge of FrauÌce agreed kynge Henry and the archbysshoppe the kynge then beynge in Normandye Uppon whyche agrement thys blessyd man came to hys owne chyrche of Caunterbury and there so restynge hym sente for such persones as had spoyled and taken perforce the goodes of the chyrche aduertysynge theym by fayre meanes to restore the sayde goodes and to be reconcyled to the chyrche as trewe crysten men shulde But when he sawe that he myght not reconcyle theym by fayre meanes he then vsed compulsaryes and denounced them accursed but if they restored the goodes of the chyrche by a certayne day wherewyth the partyes beynge agreued sayled ouer to the kynge into Normandye and shewyd vnto hym greuous complayntes and more greuouse then the cause or mater requyred For the whych the kynge which hadde not yet quenched the bronde of malyce in hys harte the whyche he bare agayne thys holy man gaue lyght credence vnto those complayntes and was sore ferueÌtly amoued agayne the holy man Thomas in so myche that vppon a daye herynge the complayntes of this blessyd mannes aduersaryes he sayd in oppeÌ audyence of hys knyghtes that yf he had any good knyghtes about hym he had ben adueÌged of that traytour longe or that tyme. At the tyme of whyche wordes vtterynge was present syr wyllyam Bryton syr Hugh Moruyle syr wyllyam Tracy and syr Regnolde fytz Urle whych foure knyghtes thynkyng that they shuld to theyr mayster do a synguler pleasure yf they slewe thys blessyd man hastely takynge aduyse
solet The whythe versys to our vnderstandynge may thus as folowyth be englyshed and expowned The Rose of the worlde but not the clene floure Is here now grauen to whom bewtye was lent In thys graue full darke nowe ys her bowre That by her lyfe was swete and redolent But now y t she is froÌ this lyfeblente Though she were swete nowe fowly doth she stynke A myrrour good for all that on her thynke Longe tyme after the deth of the sayde Rosamounde in the sayde abbaye was shewed a cofer of the sayd wenches of the length of two fote in whych apperyd fyghtynge geauÌtes stertlynge of bestes swymmynge of fyshes and flyenge of fowlys In the forsayde .xx. yere after the opynyon of Guydo the kynge had the seconde monicyon of mendynge of hys lyfe by an Iryshe man y t told vnto hym many secret tokens whyche the kynge supposyd no man had knowen but hym selfe But yet the kynge toke lytell hede therunto In the .xxii. yere of his reygne after the forsayde takynge of y e Scottyshe kynge and .ii. erlys the .xi. day before SepteÌber wyllyam kynge of Scottys by assent of the lordes spyrytuall and temporall dyd homage to kyng Henry at hys cytye of yorke where the sayde wyllyam graunted by hys letters patentys that he and his successours kynges of Scotland shuld make theyr homage and fydelyte vnto the kynges of Englande as often as they shal be necessaryly requyred And in sygne and token of that subieccyon the kyng of Scottes offered hys hatte his sadell vppon the aulter of saint Peter in y e chyrch of york whyche for a remembraunce of that dede the sayd hat sadell were there kepte many yeres after And ouer y t the lordes of Scotland swore that if theyr kynge at any tyme wold wythdrawe hym from allegeaunce they wold all aryse agayn hym and be to hym as enymyes tyll he were returned to his fayth kepyng of his promyse And for the more streÌgth of the sayd coÌposycyon the kynge of Scottis came after to y e kyng Henries parlyament holden at NorthaÌpton and a nother season into Normandye Ranulfe munke of Chester sayth that Lewys the .viii. of that name kynge of Fraunce delyueryd vnto kynge Henry a doughter of hys to haue in guydynge and to haue ben maryed vnto Rycharde hys son the whyche after the deth of RosamouÌde he defloured of her vyrgynyte After whyche dede as affermyth the sayde authoure the kynge was in wyll to haue wedded that damoysell For expedicyon wherof he made great meanes ta HuguÌcia a cardynall then beynge in his land that he wold make a dyuorce betwene hym and Elyanoure the quene And thys he dyd to the ende to haue the more fauoure of the Frenchemen that by theyr ayde he myghte the better dysheryte hys sonnes But he fayled of his purpose and also yt turned to hys owne harme For by this means he caused the sayde Rycharde hys sonne to shewe all hys demeanour vnto the Frenche kynge so that by hys informacyon vnkyndnesse kyndled betwene them two therof ensued mortall warre as sayth the englyshe cronycle and also Polycronycon But of thys warre speketh nothynge the frenche cronycle nor of none other durynge the lyfe of the sayd Lewys after this daye which dyed in the .xxiiii. yere of thys Henry But the warre that was betwen the two kynges of England and of Fraunce was betwene thys Henry and Phylyppe sonne of thys Lewys as after shal be shewed About the .xxiiii. yere of thys kyng as wytnessen dyuerse wryters fell wonderfull wederynge and tempest of thunder in myddewynter tyme in Hampshyre and other places by violence wherof a preste amonges other was slayn And in the somer folowynge about Mary Magdalene tyde fell hayle of suche bygnesse y t yt slew both men and bestes And about this tyme were the bonys of kynge Arture and his wyfe Gueynour founde in the vale of Aualon whose here of the hed of the sayde Gweynour was then hole and of freshe coloure but so soone as yt was touched yt fell in powder whyche bonys were translated and buryed wythin the chyrche of Glastenburye and were founden by a synger of gestis vnder an holow oke .xv. fote wythin the grounde whyche fyndynge and translatynge is an obiecte to y e fantastycall sayeng of the walshemen that afferme hys commynge agayne to reygne as he before dyd Then hadde kynge Henry the seconde monycyon by a knyghte called syr wyllyam Chesterby or Lyndesey the whyche warned hym specyally for the reformacyon of .vii. artycles The fyrste was that he shuld sette better dylygence to the defence of holy chyrche and maynteynynge of the same The seconde that he shulde se hys lawes executed wyth better iustice then at those days was vsed The thyrd was that he shuld surmyse no mater agayn ryche men and by that mean plucke from them theyr landes goodes The fourth that he shulde restore all suche landes and goodes gotten by suche vnlawfull meanes or by any other The fyfte that he shuld for no medetarye ryghtfull sentence but suffer the ryght to haue hys processe The vi that he shulde se to the payment of hys subiectes for suche stuffe as was dayly taken to his vse also to the payment of hys seruauntes and souldyours wages whych dayly fell to robbynge for defaute The .vii. and the laste was that he shulde in all haste voyde the Iewys of hys lande whyche dayly wrought great sorowe to his commons and to leue theym somwhat to spende in theyr iourney But as he toke the other monycyons so he toke thys and coÌtynued hys lyfe as he before hadde done THE CCXXXIX CHAPITER IN the .xxviii. yere of his reygn after moste writers dyed Henry his eldeste sonne then lyuynge y e whych as before is sayde was crowned to the derogacyon of the martyr saynte Thomas And in thys yere whyche shulde be the .iiii. yere of Phylyppe the seconde or of Phylyppe surnamed Gyuen of god the warre beganne betwene kynge Henry and hym wherof was occasyon as testyfyeth the sayd Frenche cronycle the denyenge of the deferrynge of homage that shuld be done to the sayde Phylyppe of Rycharde then eldest sonne of kyng Henry for the laÌdes of Poytow An other cause also was that where certayne couenauntes were stablyshed and enrolled betwene kynge Henry and Lewys father of thys Phylyp at the maryage of Henry his sonne and Margarete syster of Phylyppe for certayne holdes and castellys wherof y e castell of Gysours was one whych were delyueryd in dower wyth the sayde Margarete vppon condycyon that yf the sayde Henry hadde yssue by y e sayde Margarete then the sayde castellys to remayne to the sayde heyres and yf the sayde yonge Henry dyed without yssue of y e sayde Margarete that then the sayde castellys and holdes to be reuerted vnto the crowne of Fraunce and for that kynge Henry denyed or deferred these two poyntes and wold not answere when he was called the Frenche kynge therfore entred the
hys reygne ouer England the xvii daye of Nouembre the morowe after saynt Edmond the archbisshop in the yere of our lorde M.CC lxxii the .ii. yere of the .iii. Phylype than kynge of Fraunce reygned nobly yeres .xxxiiii. fo lv Elyanoure mother to kyng Richard was enlarged fo iiii Edmounde Crouchbak was maried to the doughter of y e erle of Amnarle as apereth in fo xliiii EdmouÌd wodstocke wroughte treason fo lxxxviii Edward the sonne of Henry foresayd distressed the barons as it is shewed folio xxxix Edwarde forsayd dystressed the Barons the seconde tyme as is shewed folio xxxix Edwarde the holy kyng and confessour was translated as it shewed in folio xliiii Edwarde was crossed into the holy lande and of hys feates there done folio xlv Edwarde of Carnaruan as apereth folio lviii Edward the second called Edwarde Carnaruan the sonne of the fyrst Edwarde began hys domynyon ouer Englande in the moneth of Iuly and yere of our lorde god M.iii. C. vii and the .xxi. yere of the .iiii. Phylyppe or Philip the fayre than kynge of Fraunce and reygned yeres full xix fo lxxiiii Edwarde the fyrst maryed to hys .ii. wyfe the Frenche kynges syster folio lxv Edwarde the .iii. of that name sonÌ of Edwarde the secoÌde and of dame Isabell the doughter of Philippe le Beawe or the .iiii. Phylyp late kyng of Fraunce whych Edwarde aboute the age of .xv. yeres began hys reygn ouer the realme of England the .xxv. daye of Ianuary in the yere of grace M.iii. C. .xxvi and the .iiii. yere of Charles the fayre thaÌ king of FrauÌce the whyche reygned yeres .li. folio lxxxvi Edwarde Carnaruan was myserably slayne as is shewed fo lxxxvii Edwarde Bayloll was made kynge of Scottes fo lxxxviii Edwarde the .iii. sayled into Braban wyth hys wyfe loke in fo xci Edward the .iii. chaleÌged y e hole kingdome of Fraunce fo xciii Edward the eldest sonÌ of the duke of yorke was electe for king of EnglaÌd loke in fo cc.vi. Edwarde the .iiii. of that name and eldest sone of Rychard duke of yorke whych was proclaymed heyre paraÌt to the crowne began hys domynyon ouer the realme of Englande in the iiii day of Marche in y e yere of grace M.iiii C.lx the .ii. yere of the .xi. Lowys than kyng of FrauÌce reygned at that tyme .viii. monethes yeres viii fo cc.xiiii Edwarde the .iiii. beforenamed wan the felde of Barnet vpon Ester daye agayne kyng HeÌry the .vi. in the yere of grace M.iiii C.lxxi yere of Lowys the French kyng aforesayd and reygned after that day .x. monethes and yeres .xii. So that fyrste laste he reygned ouer .vii. monethes assygned to Henry the .vi. dayes .xxxvi. monethes yeres .xxi. or wyth the sayde monethes of Henry the .vi. set to Edwardes reygne make .xxii. yeres and odde dayes fo cc.xx. Edwarde the .v. of that name sonne of Edward the .iiii. of the age of .xiiii. yeres and lasse began to reygne as kyng of EnglaÌd the .x. daye of Apryll yere of our lord M. iiii.lxxxiii the xxxv yere of the .xi. Lowys thaÌ kyng of Fraunce and reygned tyll the .xx. day of Iuly next folowyng in which season passed dayes .lxxii. folio cc.xxiiii Elizabeth the holy womaÌ doughter of the kyng of Hungery fo xxi Eleanoure quene of her progenye loke in fo lxi Emperoure of Almayne came into England fo c.lxvii Emperour forsayd came agayn into thys lande fo c.lxxii Enuye of Frenchmen fo v Enguerram was put to deth folio lxxxiii Epytaphye of Rychard the fyrste as apereth in fo x Epytaphye of Frederyke the emperour fo xxv Epytaphye of Edward the fyrst loke in fo lxviii Epytaphye of Edward the .iii. folio cxvi Epytaphye of kyng Rycharde the .ii. loke in fo clxvi Erthquake fell in EnglaÌd fo xxv Erle of Penbroke was ouerset with Frenchmen other fo cxiii ExpressemeÌt of the grudges atwene kyng Rychard the fyrst the FreÌche kynge fo iiii Eugeny pope and of hys actes folio clxxxvii FAlse Cryst was crucyfyed as is shewed in fo xix False clerke of Oxenforde whych fayned hym selfe madde came to wodstocke enteÌdyng to haue slayne king Henry the .iii. fo xxii Faytes or actes of warre done at DoÌstable fo xcvi Fysshes wonderfull takeÌ in the .xxxv yere of kyng HeÌry the .vi. fo cci FlorenÌ of golde was made by kynge Edward the .iii. fo xcvii Fryers mynors came fyrst into Englande loke in fo xix Fryers Augustynes in the .xxxv. yere of kynge HeÌry the .iii. buylded theyr house in a place in walys called wodhous as is shewed fo xxvi Fryers were put to deth loke in folio clix Frenche kyng sent for hys doughter that was kynge Rychardes wyfe folio clix FreÌch nauy dyscoÌfyted fo clxxiiii Froste excedyng loke in fo clxviii GAscoynes make warre agaiÌst FrenchmeÌ borderers in kyng Charles the .v. days as is shewed in folio lxxxvi Gabell or taxe reysed vppon salte in Fraunce loke in fo cxix Guynes castell was yoldeÌ to Englishmen loke in fo ci Grudge betwene Baldwyn and his monkes fo vii Grudge arose betwene kyng IohnÌ hys lordes fo xvi Grudge and dyspleasure betwene y e bysshop of wynchester and the duke of Glouceter it is shewed in folio clxxxi Grudge and murmure toke place amonge the nobles of Fraunce as appereth fo cc.xxviii HArme done by thonder as appereth in fo cvii Hawâe wythout reuerence of the sacrament was slayne in the churche folio cxli Hastynges lord Chamberleyne was sodeynly put to deth fo ccxxiiii Henry the thyrd of that name sonnÌ of king IohnÌ a chyld of .x. yeres began to reygne ouer EnglaÌde in the moneth of Octobre and yere of oure lorde M.CC. .xvii and the .xxxvii. yere of Phylype thaÌ kyng of FrauÌce and reygned yeres .lvi fo xviii Henry Bolyng broke y e .iiii. of y e name and sonne heyre of IohnÌ of Gaunt duke of LaÌcastre the whyche IohnÌ was secoÌd sonne of Edwarde the .iii. lyuyng after theyr father or the .iii. sonne to rekyn prynce Edward this Henry after the deposicioÌ of Rychard in the ende of the moneth of SepteÌbre begaÌ to reygne ouer EnglaÌde in the yere of our lorde M.iii. C.lxxx xix and the .xix. yere of Charles y e .vii than kyng of Fraunce and reygned yeres .xiii. fo clxiii Henry the .vi. of that name sonnÌ of Henry the .v. of y e name sonne of HeÌry the .iiii. began hys reygne ouer the realme of EnglaÌd vppon the morne after saynt Cuthbertys day or y e âxi day of Marche in the ende of y e yere of grace M.iiii C. .xiii and y e âxxii yere of Charles the .vii. than kyng of FrauÌce and reygned yeres .ix. fo .clxx HeÌry the .v. dame Kateryne doughter of Charles the .vi. or .vii. a chylde of halfe yere of age begaÌ hys reygne ouer EnglaÌd FrauÌce in the ende of the moneth of Iuly and yere
after smote hym wych hys crosse vpon the lefte syde Upon the morne after the pope was fouÌden dede and hys bedde all blody But of thys is nothynge in the cronycle or storye of Innocent After that sayenge of Polycronycon this byshoppe Grostehede shuld dye in the .xxxvii. yere of thys kynge Henry the whyche sayenge agreeth better with the storye except that the sayde pope lyued after the deth of the sayde byshoppe .vi. yere Anno domini M.CC.l.  Anno domini M.CC.li.  Humfrey Basse.  IohnÌ Norman  Anno .xxxiiii.  wyllyam fyz Rycharde  IN this .xxxiiii. yere was an excedynge wynde the whyche in sondry places of England dyd great harme whyche was in the begynnynge of this yere vppon the daye of Symon and Iude. About thys tyme in the duchy of Burgoyne as testyfyeth Fasciculus temporuÌ and other an hyll remouyd from hys proper place and glode by many a myle and lastely ioyned hym vnto other hyllys In the whyche glydynge or ronnynge the sayde hyll oppressyd or slewe v. thousande people And thys yere Symon fyz mary alderman of London for hys dysobedyence and euyll counsaill that he gaue vnto Margarete Uyell before in the xxxi yere of thys kynge touchyd wyth other secret labours and maters entendyd by hym to the hurte of the cytye was dyschargyd of hys aldermanshyppe and put oute of the counsayll of the cytye Anno domini M.CC.li.  Anno domini M.CC.lii  Laurence Frowyke  Adam Basynge  Anno .xxxv.  Nycholas Batte  IN thys .xxxv. yere of kynge Henry beganne the frere Augustynes to buylde or inhabyte them in walys in a place callyd woodhouse And in this yere maryed kyng Henry his doughter Mary or after some wryters Margarete vnto Alexander kynge of Scottys at the cytye of yorke and dyd receyue homage of the sayde Alexander for the kyngedome of Scottes or for the prouynce of Scotlande in lyke maner as many of his progenytours had done dyuerse and many tymes before as in this worke both before thys tyme and also after is shewyd Anno domini M.CC.li.  Anno domini M.CC.lii  wyllyam Durham  IohnÌ Toleson  Anno .xxxvi.  Thomas wymborne  IN thys .xxxvi. yere the kynge graunted vnto the shryues of London that they shulde yerely be alowyed of .vii. pounde for certayne pryuyleges or grounde belongynge to saynte Paules chyrche the whych at this daye is allowyd by the Barons of the kynges excheker to euerey shryue when they make theyr accompte in the offyce of the pype Also thys yere was grauÌted by the kynge for the citesens more ease that where before tyme they vsyd yerely to present theyr mayre to y e kynges presence in any such place as he then were in Englande that nowe from thys tyme forthwarde they shulde for lacke of the kynges presence beynge at westmynster presente theyr mayre so chosen vnto the barons of hys Excheker and there to be sworne admyttyd as he before tymes was before the kynge Anno domini M.CC.lii  Anno domini M.CC.liii  IohnÌ Northampton  Nycholas Batte  Anno .xxxvii.  Rycharde Pycarde  IN thys .xxxvii. yere the water of the see aboute the daye of saynte Paulyn in the moneth of Ianuary rose of suche heyghte that yt drowned many vyllagys and housys nere vnto yt in dyuerse places of Englande And thys yere the kynge the quene and syr Edwarde his son wyth Bonyface archebyshoppe of Caunterburye and dyuerse other nobles of the realme sayled into Normandye and taryed at Burdeaux a certayne of tyme. But of theyr dedys or cause of theyr saylynge thyther is no mencyon made in the cronycle of England How be yt in the FreÌche boke yt is shewed y t the cause was to ioyne Edwarde the kynges sonne vnto the syster of y e kyng of Spayne by maryage This yere also the water of Thamys sprange so hygh that yt drowned many housys about the waters syde by meane wherof myche maâchaundyse was peryshed and loste And thys yere the cytezyns hadde graunted of the kynge that no cytesyns shulde paye scauage or tolle for any bestes by them brought as they before tymes hadde vsyd Anno domini M.CC.liii  Anno domini M.CC.liiii  Robert Belyngton  Rycharde Hardell  Anno .xxxviii.  Ranfe Aschewye  IN thys .xxxviii. yere by procurement of syr Rycharde erle of Cornewayll for dyspleasure whyche he bare towarde y e citye for exchauÌge of certayne grounde to the same belongynge the kynge vnder coloure that the mayre hadde not done due execucyon vppon the bakers for lackynge of theyr syzys seased the lybertyes of the cytye That ys to be vnderstanden that where the mayre and comynaltye of the cytye hadde by the kynges graunte the cytye to ferme wyth dyuerse customys and offyces for astynted and ascertayned summe of money now the kyng sette in offycers at hys pleasure the whiche were accomptable vnto hym for all reuenues and profytes that grew wythin the sayde cytye But wythin foure dayes folowynge the feste of saynte Edmunde the byshop or by the .xix. daye of Nouember the cytesyns agreed wyth the sayde erle for .vi. hundred marke After whych agrement wyth hym concluded they soone after were restoryd vnto theyr lybertyes This yere syr Edward the kynges sonne and heyre was maryed vnto Eleanour y e kinges sister of Spayn And in the Cristmas weke the kyng landed at Douer and y e quene wyth hym wyth many other lordes when the kynge was comen to London he was lodgyd in the towre where he sent for to come vnto hym the mayre and the shryues wyth whom he resoued greuously for the escape of one callyd IohnÌ Gate This IohnÌ had murderyd a pryour allyed vnto the kynge The mayre layde the charge of this mater from hym vnto y e shryues for so myche as to theym belonged the kepynge of all prysons wyth in the cytye so that the mayre returnyd home and the shriues remayned there as prisoners by y e space of a moneth after or more And in theyr places and for theym were chosen Steuen Oystergate Henry walmoode But how the old shryues passyd out of the kynges daunger I fynde not Anno domini M.CC.liiii  Anno domini M.CC.lv.  Stephan Oystergate  Rycharde Hader  Anno .xxxix.  Henry walmoode  IN this .xxxix. yere in the feaste of saynte Etheldrede dame Eleanour wyfe vnto the kynges son syr Edwarde came vnto London where she was honorably receued of the cytesyns and the cytye rychely curteyned and garnyshed wyth dyuerse ryche clothes where the kynge was present at her commynge And she was honorably coÌueyed through the cytye to saynte IohnÌs wythoute Smythfelde and there lodgyd for a whyle But after she was remouyd vnto Sauoy It was not longe after y t the kyng seasyd the lybertyes of the cytye for certayne money whyche y e quene claymed for her ryght of the cytesyns so that about saynte Martyns tyde in
payd in one yere but by deuided porcions in .iii. yeres ensuyng And of the lay fee or temporall men of EnglaÌde he had grauÌted to hym the .x. peny of theyr mouables the which was payd in .ii. yeres next ensuyng And thys yere in y e moneth of Marche was drawen hanged at London for treason done in Fraunce a knyghte called syr Thomas Turbeuyle And aboute y e tyme of Easter whan Charlys de Ualoys as ye before in that other yere haue harde had lyen longe at the castell of Ryon myght nothyng wynne vpoÌ the Englyshmen but dayly loste of the best of hys knyghtes he sent for more ayde and socoure At whyche tyme came vnto hym syr Rauffe Nele constable of Fraunce with a fressh company and thaÌ assawted it of new But whan they had lyen there a season sawe they preuayled nothynge agayn theyr enemys they yode vnto an holde there by named Poudency and it assauted for so moche as the more nombre of the sowdyours there were Normans and after .viii. days by appoyntemente or otherwyse gat the sayd holde so that all the Englisshemen had theyr lybertye goodes and the Normans taken as prysoners the whyche they brought after vnto the castell of Ryon and there in syghte of the sowdyours hanged al or the more partye of the sayde Normans whan the Gascoynes beynge wythin the towne and castell of Ryons sawe then theyr cosyns and couÌtrey men hanged before theyr eyen they caste in theyr myndes that yt was done by treason of the Englysshmen and that they wolde at length deale wyth them in lyke maner By reason wherof stryfe and varyauÌce arose betwene the EnglysshemeÌ and the Gascoygnes so that eyther of theym feryd the treason of the other For the whyche cause syr Iohan Seyn Iohan syr IohnÌ de Britayn syr Robert Typtoft syr Rauffe TaÌny syr Hugh Bardolfe syr Adam Cretynge with dyuers other fledde by see and in that maner saued them selfe and soone after the sayd towne and castell of Ryons was wonne by the Frenchemen and the inhabytauÌtes of the same sworne vnto the freÌch kynge ye haue harde before in the .xxii. yere of thys kynge howe after the dethe of Alexander kyng of Scottes many questyons fyll amonge y â sayd scottes who by ryght of enherytauÌce shulde be kynge of that lande consyderynge that the sayde Alexander had lefte after hym thre doughters the whyche lyuyng theyr father were maryed The fyrste to syr Iohan Bayloll the seconde to Roberte le Bruze and the thyrde to one named Hastynges Many of the lordes of Scotlande wolde haue crowned syr Iohan Bayloll by reason that he maryed the eldest of the doughters But the frendes of Robert le Bruze withstode it with all theyr power And other there were that heâde with Hastynges so that after greate stryfe and longe varyaunce the matter was broughte before kynge Edwarde as chyef lord and soueraygne of that lande promysinge to hym to abyde all suche determynacyon and iugemente as he shulde sette therin Than kynge Edwarde to the ende that the scottes shulde knowe perfytely that the kyng of EnglaÌde ought of ryghte to be there chyefe hede and soueraygne shewed vnto theym suche olde wrytynges as he lyttell tofore had caused to be serched and founde in the whyche it was conteyned by the auctorytye of olde cronycles and wryters as Maryanus y e scotte wyllyam of Malmesbury Roger of Huntyngdon and other that in the yere of our lorde .ix. C.xx kynge Edwarde the elder made subget vnto hym the kynges of Cumbrys and scottes Also in the yere of grace .ix. C. and xxi the foresayd scottes Cumbrys chase the sayd Edwarde the elder to be theyr chyefe lord and patron And in y e yere of our lord .ix. C.xxvi Ethelstane than kynge of Englande subdued constantyne than kyng of scottes and after admytted the sayd Constantyne to reygne as kynge vnder him by othe of obeysauÌs with feaute and homage Also Edredus brother to the sayde Ethelstane subdued of newe the scottes with the Northumbrys and receyued of them agayne othe and homage And ouer that it is founde in the sayd cronycles that Edgar ouercame Alphunius the son of Kynadus kynge of Scottes and receyued of hym feawty homage and helde hym vnder hys obeysauÌce as he had done hys father Kynadus before tyme. Moreouer it is there wytnessed that Canutus in the .xvi. yere of hys reygne subdued Malcolyne than kyng of scottes and receyued of hym feawty and homage Furthermore wyllyam Conquerour in the .vi. yere of his reygne subdued Malcolyne kyng of Scotlande the whyche before tymes had receyued the sayde kyngdome of the gyfte of Edwarde kynge and confessoure And wyllyam the rede dyd in lykewyse vnto the sayde Malcolyne and vnto hys two sonnes that reygned in Scotlande the one after the other Also Dauyd kynge of scottes dyd homage vnto Stephane than kyng of Englande And wyllyam kynge of scottes dyd homage vnto Henry the thyrde at the tyme of hys coronacyon and after came vnto hys father Henry the seconde whan the forenamed HeÌry was deed in Normandy made hys homage to hym agayne Thys Henry that was sonne vnto Henry the seconde is of many wryters named Henry the thyrd for so moche as he was the .iii. kyng that was crowned of that name But for he dyed before hys father hys dedes ben lytell spoken of so that of some wryters he is nothyng mynded And it foloweth in the story howe that AlexaÌdre kyng of Scottes in y t .xxxv. yere of HeÌry the thyrd or son of kyng IohnÌ maryed at yorke Margarete doughter of the sayd Henry and dyd vnto hym homage for the realme of Scotlande and bouÌde hym and hys heyres kynges of Scotlande by hys letters patentes to be trewe vnto the sayd HeÌry vnto his heyres kynges of Englande lyke as before tyme wyllyam kyng of Scottes had oblyged hym vnto the seconde Henry as before in the .xxii. yere of hys reygne is more manyfestly shewed And more to them was shewed y â popes bulles the whych were sent before tymes into Scotlande by auctoryte wherof the kynges of ScotlaÌde were accursed for they wolde nat be obedyent to theyr lordes kynges of Englande WHan all these presedentes were sene by y e Scottes a day was assygned of metyng at NorhmÌ in the marches betwene Englande and Scotlande whyther vnto the kyng came the chief rulers of the Scottes where they excused them to be bouÌde vnto the kyng for the obseruynge of the kynges ordenaunce for so moche as they lacked a kynge an hede by whome all suche ordenaunces shuld be maynteyned and holdeÌ But after by aduyce of bothe parties agremeÌt was made by the scottes that they shuld be bounde to obey the kynges iugement wheruppon bondes were made vpon bothe partyes that is to meane the kyng was bounde to theÌ in an hondreth thousande pounde y t within .ii. monethes after he had receyued the possessyon of the lande he shulde gyue it vnto
had reygned fyue yeres and odde dayes leuynge after hym none heyre of hys body excepte the quene was than wyth chylde whyche chylde dyed soone after y e byrthe wherfore some questions for that kyngedome were moued as before touched in the ende of the fourthe yere of thys Charles after shal be forther expressed Anglia Edwarde the thyrde EDwarde the .iii. of that name sonnÌ of Edward the seconde and of Isabell y e alonely doughter chylde of Phylip le Beawe or Phylyppe the fayre father to Charles laste kynge of Fraunce beganne to reygne as kynge of Englande his father yet lyuynge the syx twenty daye of Ianuary in the ende of the yere of grace a thousande thre hundreth and syx and twenty and the fourth yere of Charles the fyfth last kynge of Fraunce and was crowned at westmynster vppon the daye of the puryfycacyon of oure Lady nexte ensuynge In hys begynnynge came forthe plentye and gracyous happes for the erthe tooke plentye the ayre tempoure the see quyetnesse and to the chyrche grewe peace In thys fyrste yere he confermed the lybertyes and fraunchyses of y e cytye of London and ordeyned that the mayre for the tyme beyng shuld sytte in all places of iugement within the lyberty of the same for chiefe iustyce the kynges persone onely excepte that euery alderman that hadde ben mayre shuld be iustyce of peace in all London and Myddelsex eueryche alderman that hadde not be mayre shulde be iustyce of peace wythin his owne warde And also he graunted to the cytezyns the fee ferme of London for .iii. hundreth pownde that they shulde not be constrayned to go out of the cytye to fyghte or defende the land for any nede Also that after that daye the fraunchyse of the cytye shulde not be seasyd into the kynges handes but onely for treason or rebellyon done by the hole cytye And Southwerke was admytted to be vnder the correccyon and rule of the citye and the mayre of London to be baylyffe of Southwerke and the mayre to chose ordeyne such a baylyffe of that borough as hym lyked whiche ordinaunce endureth to this day In the moneth of Apryll for so mych as meanes were made by the frere prechours or the blacke freres for the delyuery of kynge Edwarde the .ii. out of pryson therfore he was had out of the castell of Kenelworth coÌueyed vnto y e castel of Berkeley where after about saynt Mathewys tyde the sayde Edward by y â meanes of syr Roger Mortimer was myserably slayne Of this Edward are lyke opinyoÌs as were of Thomas of Lancaster whyche I referre to goddys iudgement For certayne it is that for hys former wyld and insolent lyuynge he toke greate repentaunce And so he hadde great cause for durynge hys reygne there was hedyd and put to deth by iugement vppon xxviii barons and knyghtes ouer y t noble men that were slayne in Scotlande by hys infortunyte Kynge Edwarde as yet beynge of tender age not passing .xv. yeres heryng of the great pryde and presuÌpcyon of the Scottes and howe they dayly warred vpon the borders and entryd the lande in brennynge and spoylyng his people assembled hys people about Easter so sped hym toward Scotland In whych meane tyme the Scottes were entred the land were comen as farre as StaÌhop in Uiridale and had lodged theÌ in the woddes of Stanhop parke in dyuers bushementys wherof y â kyng beyng enfourmed made such prouysyon that he beset them rouÌde about and trusted well to haue brought theÌ vnder hys subieccyon But when the kynge thoughte to be of them moste sure by treason of some of hys hoste the Scottes were clene escaped and retourned into Scotlande wherof y e fame ranne vpon syr Roger Mortymer But how so it was y â kyng loste that iournay and retourned into Englande with lytle worshyppe And here ye shall vnderstand that to this day the olde mayre and shyryââes y t is to meane Hamunde Chyckwell Benet Fulham and IohnÌ Canston stode in offyce tyll y e day folowyng of SymoÌ Iude which was almost y â full of y e fyrst yere of y e sayd Edward the .iii. And then for the residue of the fyrst yere for the more party of the second yere was electe and charged the mayre and shyryffes folowynge Anno domini M.CCC.xxvi  Anno dnÌi M.CCC.xxvii  Henry Darcy  Rycharde Betayne  Anno .i.  IohnÌ Hawteyne  IN the ende of the fyrste yere of thys kynge Edwarde begynnyng oâ thys mayres yere the kynge after Crystmas maryed dame Phylyppe y e erles doughter of Henawde in the cytye of yorke in the euyn of y e conuersioÌ of saynt Paule or y e .xxiiii. daye of Ianuary And soone after the kyng about y e feast of Pentecoste helde hys parlyament at Northampton At the whych parlyament by euyll couÌsayl wherof syr Roger Mortymer the olde quene bare the blame the kynge made wyth the Scottes an vnprofytable and a dyshonorable peace For fyrste he released to theym theyr feauty and homage Also he delyuered vnto theym olde auncyent wrytynges sealed wyth the seales of the kynge of Scottes and of dyuerse lordes of that lande bothe spyrytuall temporall with many other charters patentes by the whyche y e kynges of Scottes oblyged them to be feordaryes vnto y t crowne of Englande At whyche season also was delyuered certeyne iewelles whych before tymes had ben woÌne froÌ y e Scottes by kynges of England Amonge the whych the blacke crosse of Scotlande is specyally named a relyke accompted of great preciosyte And nat alonely the kyng by hys synystre couÌsayll lost hys tytle and ryght that he had to the realme of Scotlande as farre as the sayd couÌsayl might helpe it but also all lordes barones all other men of England that had any landes or rentes within Scotlande loste theyr ryghte in lyke maner excepte they wolde dwel vpon the sayd landes and becomme the kynge of Scottes lyege men And soone after was concluded a maryage betwene Dauyd le Bruze sonne of Robert le Bruze and Iane the kynges syster whyche of diuerse writers is surnamed Iane of the towre or Iohan of Towers Anno dnÌi M.CCC.xxvii  Anno dnÌi M.CCC.xxviii  Symon Fraunces  Hamonde Chyckewell  Anno .ii.  Henry Combmartyn  IN thys yere whyche at thys daye was the seconde yere of the kyng Dauyd foresayd the son of Roberte le Bruze thaÌ kynge of Scottes maryed vppon the daye of mary Magdaleyne at hys towne than of Berwyke y e fore named Iane syster vnto the kynge of Englande But it was nat longe after or the Scottes in despyte of the Englysshemen called hyr Iane make peace And also to theyr more derysyon they made dyuerse truffes roundes and songes of the whyche one is specially remembred as foloweth ¶ Longe beerdys hartles Paynted hoodes wytles Gay cotes graceles Maketh Englande thryfteles whyche ryme
golde garnysshed wyth stone perle vppon the kynges hede as he passed by And that done he rode to Paulys and there offered and so rode vnto westmynster where the mayre and hys company takyng theyr loue returned vnto London Uppon the morowe whyche was the fyftene daye of the moneth of the sayde mayre and hys bretherne yode vnto westmynster presented there y t kynge wyth two guylte basyns and in theym two thousande nobles of golde besechynge hym in moste humble wyse to be good and gracyouse lorde vnto the cytye The whyche he accepted ryghte fauourably and gaue vnto theym many comfortable wordes And the thyrde daye folowynge they receyued a newe confyrmacion of all theyr olde Fraunchyses and lybertyes wherfore by counsayll of theyr frendes they ordeyned an aulter table of syluer and ouer gylte therein ymagery grauen enameled moste curiously of the story of saynte Edwarde the whiche was valuyd at a M. marke presented that also gaue it vnto the kynge the which he shortely after offered to the shryne of saynte Edwarde wythin the abbay where yet it staÌdes at thys daye And for the great zele loue whych y e fore sayde bysshop of LondoÌ ought vnto the cytye that by hys meanes theyr lybertyes were agayne restored they therfore of theyr owne goodly dysposycion after hys decease accustomed them and yet at thys daye done to go yerely vpoÌ the feestfull dayes folowynge y t is to say fyrst the morow after SymoÌde Iude whych daye the mayer taketh his charge at westmynster to Paulys there to saye in the west ende of y e churche where he lieth grauen Deprofundis for hys soule and all crysten in lyke maner vpoÌ Alhalowen daye Crystmasse daye ii the nexte days folowyng Newe yeres daye Twelf day and CaÌdelmas day wyth also the morowe after Myghelmasse day vpon the whyche the shyryfes yerely takeÌ theyr charge at westmynster All whych .ix. days nat all onely the mayer hys bretherne vse thys progresse and kepe thys obsequy but also all the craftes of the cytye in theyr lyueryes vse the same yerely And whan the kyng had wythdrawen as aboue is sayde hys displeasure froÌ the cytye thanne at Hyllarye terme folowyng y e feest of Cristmas all the kynges courtes and plees of the crowne wytl other retourned froÌ yorke to westmynster Anno dnÌi M.CCC.xciii  Anno dnÌi M.CCC.xciiii Grocer Drewe Barentyne  IohnÌ Hadley  Anno. xvii  Rycharde whytyngton  IN thys mayers begynnyng xvii yere of kyng Rycharde y t is to meane the moneth of NoueÌbre certayn gentylmen of ScotlaÌde entendynge to wynne honoure chalenged certayne poyntes of armes As fyrste the lord Moryf chalenged the erle of Nothyngham marshall of Englande syr wyllyaÌ Darel knyght chaleÌged syr Peter Courtnay knyght Cokborne esquyer chalenged syr Nycholas Hawberke knyght which feates of armes were done in smythfelde of London But Marse was so frendely vnto the Englyshmen that the honoure of y e iournay went wyth them in so moche that the erle marshall ouerthrewe hys appellaunte so brused hym that in his returne towarde Scotlande he dyed at yorke And syr wyllyam Darell refused his appellaÌt or they had ronne theyr full courses And the thyrde of them that is to wyt Cocborne was throwen at the secoÌd copyng to grouÌd horse and man And vpon the .vii. day of Iuny folowyng dyed y t gracyouse woman quene Anne and lieth now buryed at westmynster by hyr lorde kynge Rycharde vpoÌ y e southsyde of saynt Edward shryne to whose soul al cristeÌ our lord be mercyfull And thys yere in the moneth of Septembre as witnesseth the Frenche cronycle by meanes of the erle of Derby and other whych than were in Fraunce for the kynge of Englandes partye and the duke of Burbone the erle of Ewe vpon the French partye wyth other a trewes was concluded at saynte Omers for .iiii. yeres But nat wythstandyng that peace the Frenchmen and Englyshemen ranne togyther sundry tymes whanne the one espyed to haue any auauntage vppon that other Anno dnÌi M.CCC.xciiii  Anno dnÌi M.CCC.xcv Mercer wyllyam Brampton  IohnÌ Frenshe  Anno. xviii  Thomas Knolles  THys .xviii. yere of kynge Rycharde he shortly after Crystmas wyth a strong army sayled into Ireland The whych iournay was more to hys charge than honoure For the maner wherof syn it souÌded to no honoure of the prynce myne auctor therfore lyste nat in his boke to make any loÌge processe of y e mater In this yere also or about this tyme began the heresy of IohnÌ wycclyffe to sprynge in Englande the whyche was greatly auaunced by meane of the scysme in the churche hangynge at those dayes betwene two popes sittynge at ones the whyche began as before is shewed in the .xxiiii. yere of Charles the .vi. thaÌ kyng of FrauÌce Urban the .vi. and Clement the syxt contynued vnder Bonyface the .ix. and Benet the .xiii. Of whyche erronyouse oponyons of the sayd heresy who so is desyrouse to se the contentes of them let them serche cronica cronicarum and there he shall se theÌ brefely set out In thys yere also was wonderful teÌpest of wynde by the space of Iuly August specially SepteÌbre by violence wherof in sundry places of this lande greate and wonderfull hurte was done bothe of churches and houses Thys yere dyed Constance secoÌd wyfe to IohnÌ duke of LaÌcastre and lyeth buryed at Leyceter Anno domini M.CCC.xcv  Anno dnÌi M. CCC.lxcvi Uyâtener Roger Elys  wyllyam more  Anno. xix  wyllyam Sheryngham  IN the begynnynge of thys mayres yere and .xix. yere of kynge Rycharde and .xviii. daye of Nouembre as affermeth y e Frenche cronycle kyng Rycharde beynge thaÌ at Calays spowsed or toke to wyfe wythin the churche of saynt Nycholas Isabel the doughter of Charles the .vi. than kyng of Fraunce whych lady Isabell as wytnesseth the sayde Frenche story at the day of hyr marryage was wythin .viii. yeres of age And as it is regestred in one of y e bokes of guyldehalle of London the Frenche kynge in propre persone came downe wyth a goodly companye of lordes and knyghtes vnto a towne called Arde whyche standeth vppon the vtter border of Pycardy where wythin hys owne domynyon a ryche and sumptuouse pauylyon was pyght And in lyke maner a litle beyonde Guynys wythin the english pale was another lyke pauylyon pyghte for kynge Rycharde so that betwene the two sayde pauylyons was a distaunce of .lxx. pace And in the mydway atwene bothe was ordained y e thyrde pauylion at y e which bothe kinges coÌming from eyther of theyr tentes sondry tymes there met had communicacion eyther with other the wayes or distaunce atwene set with certayne persones apoynted standynge in arme .ii. and .ii the one syde beynge set with Englysshemen and that other with Frenche And a certeyne distauÌce from eyther of the ii first sayde pauilyons stode
before hym all the cunnyng maysters of musyke wythin hys realme that by the melodyous souÌde of theyr instrumentes he myghte be eased of his peyne But whan he had assembled of the best an C. and .xx. in noumber a fewe shepardes pypes were to hym more solace than all the other or any parte of them y t whych he helde styll in hys court commauÌded that euery day the sayd shepherdes shulde play a certeyn dystaunce from the place where he laye And ouer thys he sent for all ankers and other relygyous men that were famed for holy parfight men and for them ordeyned places within TuroÌ that by the meane of theyr prayers he myght be released of hys contynuall paynes And to haue lenger contynaunce of lyfe myne auctour sayeth y t thys Lewys had so greate a desyre to haue lengthe of lyfe for so moche as he knewe well that the realme of Fraunce shulde be in great trouble vexacyon shortly after But nat wythstandynge all these prouysyons and ordenaunces wyth many moo whyche longe were to wryte fynally thys Lewys dyed whaÌ he hadde ben kyng of FrauÌce by the terme of .xxvi. yeres or there vppoÌ and after was buryed in the churche of our Lady of Raynes where before tyme he prouyded hys sepulture in tyme of hys sykenesse lâye in it a certayne season whyle that certeyne orysons were ouer hym sayde Anglia ¶ Edwarde the .iiii. EDwarde the .iiii. of that name sonÌ of Rycharde duke of yorke as before is touched began hys reygne ouer y e realme of EnglaÌd the .iiii. daye of Marche in the ende of the yere of grace to reken after the churche of Englande M.iiii C. .lx and the .ii. yere of Lewys the .xii. thaÌne kynge of Fraunce The whych Edwarde after hys possessyon takynge at westmynster gettyng of the feelde at ToutoÌ by yorke was crowned anoynted for kynge at westmynster foresayde the .xxix. daye of Iuny as before is shewyd in the ende of the laste yere of Henry the .vi. After whyche solempnyte fynysshed the kynge in August after rode to Cauntorbury frome theÌs he rode to Sandewyche and from thens a longe by the sees syde to SouthamptoÌ so into the march of walys retourned by Brystowe where he was wyth all honour receyued and after visited sundry parties of hys realme In whych season or soone after the tyme of Rychard Lee mayre of LoÌdon expyred and Hughe wyche mercer was admytted for the yere folowynge Anno dnÌi M.iiii C.lxi.  Anno dnÌi M.iiii C.lxii.  IohnÌ Looke  Hughe wyche  Anno .i.  George Irelande  THis yere beyng the later ende of the fyrste yere of Edwarde the .iiii and the begynnynge of thys mayres yere that is to say the fourth daye of September a parlyamente was begonne at westmynster And vpon y e morow folowyng dyed IohnÌ duke of Northfolke the whyche had ben a speciall ayder of the kyng And vpoÌ Alhalowen daye before passed y e kyng created Rycharde hys yonger brother duke of Glouceter the lorde Bowchyer erle of Essex the lorde Fawcumbrydge erle of Kent vpon the .xii. day of February was the erle of Oxenforde wyth the lorde Aubry hys elder sonne syr Thomas TodeÌhamÌ willyaÌ Tyrell other brought vnto the towre of LoÌdon And vpon the .xx. day of the sayd moneth y e sayd lorde Awbry was drawen from westmynster vnto the towre hylle there beheded And vpon the .xxiii. daye of the same moneth syr Thomas TodeÌham wyllyaÌ Tyrell and IohnÌ MoÌgomory were also there beheded And vpon the fryday next ensuynge or the .xxvi. daye of the sayd moneth the erle of Oxenforde was ladde froÌ westmynster vpon hys feete to y e sayd place of there also beheded whose corps was after borne vnto y e frere Augustynes and there buryed wythin the quyer for that tyme. And in the later ende of the moneth of Iuly was the castell of Awnewyke yelden vnto the lorde Hastynges by appoyntement whan kynge Edwarde was thus stablysshed in this realme great sute and labour was made to hym for the repayment of the foresayd .xviii. M. li. to hym and other delyuered by the stapelers as before in y e .xxxviii. yere of Henry the .vi. to you I haue before shewed wherof was laborer were it by the agrement of the sayd stapelers or otherwyse one named Rycharde Heyron a marchaunt of pregnaunte wyt and of good maner and speche To whome at length was answered by the kynges counsayll that y e sayd xviii M. pounde wyth moch more the whyche was couertly kept frome the kynges knowlege belonged of ryght vnto y e erle of wylshyre which at the tyme of delyuery of the sayde goodes was hyghe tresourer of Englande and after for treason by him done agayne the kyng the sayd erles landes and goodes were forfayted vnto the kynge wherfore the kynge reteyned the sayde .xviii. M. li. as parceyll of hys forfayture wolde reteyne as hys owne Upon whych answere thys heyron seynge that of the kyng he myght haue no remedy and for so moche as moch of the sayd good belonged to hys charge he thaÌ resorted vnto the stapelers for conteÌtacyon of the sayd money But howe it was that there be faÌde no comfort he fynally sued the mayer of the staple and hys company and put them vnto greate vexacyon and trouble And in the ende fande suche fauoure in the courte of Rome that he denouÌced all the merchauntes stapelers accursed Howe be it that soone after they purchased an absolucyon And he in conclusyon after longe beyng iÌ westmynster as a seyntwaryman wythoute recouery of hys costes or dutye dyed there beynge greatly endetted vnto many persones Anno domini M.iiii C.lxii.  Anno domini M.iiii C.lxiii  wyllyam Hampton  Thomas Cooke  Anno .ii.  Barth Iamys  THys yere and begynnyge of y e moneth of Nouember Margaret late quene of EnglaÌd came out of FrauÌce iÌto ScotlaÌd froÌ theÌs iÌto Englande wyth a strength of FreÌch men Scottes wherfore the kynge sped hym into the north wyth a stroÌg hoste wherof herynge the quene brake hyr araye and fled and toke a caruyle therein entended to haue sayled into FrauÌce But suche tempest fell vpon the see that she was coÌstrayned to take a fysshers bote and by meane therof landed at Barwyke so drewe hyr vnto the Scottysshe kynge And shortly after her laÌdyng tydynges came to her that her sayde caruyll was drowned wythin the whyche she had greate treasoure and other rychesse And the same daye vpon .iiii. C. of the Frenchemen were dryuen vppon lande nere vnto Bambourth where they for so moche as they myght nat haue away theyr shyppes they fyred theÌ after for theyr sauegarde tooke an ilande wythin Northumberland where they were assayled of one called Maners wyth other in hys company of them slayne taken prisoners as many as there were whan y e kynge was ware of the quenes thus auoydynge
LoÌdricus or after some Rodicê° was slayne and a great parte of his people were slayne In remembraunce of whyche vyctorye kynge Marius lette arrere a great stone and in this he commaunded to be grauen Marii victoria whych is to meane the victorye of Marius wyllyam of Malmesburye sayth that this stone was arered in mynde of Marius the consull of Rome The englyshe cronycle sayth that this batayll was foughteÌ in a place the whyche now is called Stanysmore But where so this stone is set the countre there aboute was longe after called westmaria and nowe westmerlande Then yt foloweth in the story that when the resydue of the people of Lodricus whyche were fledde from the felde vnderstode that theyr hedde captayne was slayne they made huÌble request vnto y e kynge y t he wolde accepte theÌ vnto his grace and that he wold graunt to theym some lande and countre to dwell in whych grauÌted vnto theÌ a place in the ferre ende of Scotlande whyche is named of myne authoure Cathenesia where the sayd Scythis or Pictes fyrst inhabyted them And for so myche as the Brytons dysdayned to gyue vnto theÌ theyr doughters in maryage therfore they acqueynted them wyth the Iryshe men and maryed theyr doughters and grewe in proces into a great people And for this allyaunce attwene the Iryshe and them theyr countre as wytnessyth Policronycon y e .xxxvii. chapyter of hys fyrste boke was called Irlande and after Pictauia lastely Scotlande And when Marius had thus subdued his enemyes he attendyd and sette his mynde to the common wele of this lande and subiectes and contynued y e resydue of his lyfe in great tranquillite and reste And so lastely payde his naturall tribute was buryed at Caerleyll leuyng after hym a sonne named Coillê° or Coyll wheÌ he hadde reygned after moste wryters .lii. yeres THE LVIII CHAPITER COyllus the sonne of Marius was after the deth of his father made kynge of Brytons in the yere of oure lordes incarnacyon a huÌdred and .xxvi. This was from hys infancy noryshed and brought vppe amonge the Romaynes in Italia or Rome by reason wherof he was to theym louynge and kynde and they vnto hym And he for so myche as he knewe the power of the Romayns great in auoydyng of warre other daunger payde vnto them the foresayde trybute duryng his lyfe This Coillus also as wytnessyth Gaufryde was a lyberall man of gyftes by reason wherof he obteyned great loue of his nobles and also of his coÌmons And as some authours haue this Coyll made the towne of Colchester whych at this daye is a fayre town in the shyre of Essex But other ascrybe yt to Coell or Coill that was kynge nexte after Asclepeodotus But when this Coillus hadde reygned in soueraygne peace by y e terme of .liiii. yeres he dyed and was buryed at Caerbrank or yorke lefte after hym a sonne the whyche was named Lucius or Lucy THE LIX CHAPITER LUcius or Lucy the sonne of Coillus was made kynge of Brytons in the yere of oure lorde a hundred and .lxxx. The whych in all actes and dedes of goodnes folowed his forefaders in suche wyse that he of all men was beloued and drad Of this is litell or none acte notable put in memorye excepte that all wryters agree that this Lucius sent to Eleutherius then pope of Rome certayne pystles or letters prayeng hym that he his Britons myght be receyued to the fayth of Crystes chyrche wherof the pope beynge very ioyous and gladde sente into Brytayne two noble clerkes named Faganus and Dunianus or after some Fugacius and Dimianus These two good and vertuous clerkes were honourably receyued of Lucius the whych by theyr good doctryne and vertuous examples gyuynge coÌuertyd the kynge and a great parte of the Brytons But for so myche authours wryters wryte dyuersly of y e tyme of this receyuynge of the fayth by Lucius so that the one varyeth greatly from the other therfore I haue shewed in the forenamed table that yt shall vnder correccyon appere y t the fayth was receyued by Lucius as affermeth Petrus Pictauiens the .viii. yere of the reygne of the sayde Lucius And y t yere after Cristes incarnacion a hundred .lxxxviii. The whych Lucye after the fayth thus by hym receyued by the aduyce of the foresayde clerkes and wyth the instruccyons sent to theym by the foresayde pope Eleuthery instituted and ordeyned that all or the more partye of Archeflamynys and flamynys whyche is to meane archbysshoppes and bysshoppes of the pagan lawe whyche at that daye were in nomber as wytnessyth Gaufryde and other .iii. of the archeflamynys and .xxviii. of the flamynys were made and ordeyned archebyshoppes byshoppes of y e chyrch of Criste as after foloweth Archeflamynys byshoppes constytuted THE LX. CHAPITER THe fyrste of the archeflamynys see rule or iurysdyccyoÌ was as wytnessyth Gaufride Policronica at London the seconde at yorke and the thyrde at Caerurst or KaerglonÌ or Glouceter To these .iii. archbyshopes were subiecte the foresayd .xxviii. flamynys or byshoppes To the archebyshoppes see of London was subiecte Cornewayll and all myddel England vnto Humber To the archebyshoppes see of yorke was subiecte all Northumberlande from the bowe of Humber wyth all Scotlande And to the thyrde archbyshoppes see whych was at Glowceter was subiecte all walys In whych prouynce of walys were .vii. byshoppes where as now ben but iiii And at y e daye SeuaruÌ departed Brytayne and Cambria or walys But in the tyme of Saxons after they had the rule of the lande of Brytayne as testyfyeth wylhelmus de Pontific all be yt that saynt Gregory had graunted vnto London pryuylege of that archbishoppes see neuerthelesse saynt Austayn the which wyth other was sent into Englande by the foresayde Gregorye tourned the archebyshoppes see out of London into Caunterbury after the deth of saint Gregory by meanes of prayer of kyng Egbert or Ethelbert and other cytyzeyns burgesys of Caunterbury where yt hath contynued to this daye except that for the tyme of Offa kynge of Mercia or Mercheryk for dyspleasure that he hadde to the cytezeyns of Caunterburye bynaÌme and toke from theym that dygnyte and worshypped Adulphe bysshop of Lychefelde wyth the pall of Caunterbury by the assent of Adryan the fyrste of that name then pope Neuerthelesse in the tyme of Kenulphus whyche not longe after was kynge of the sayde Mercia or Mercheryk yt was agayne restoryd to Caunterbury The worshyp of y e see of yorke hath endured there alwaye and yet dothe though Scotland be withdraweÌ froÌ his subieccyon The archbyshoppes see of CaerglonÌ or Glowceter was tourned froÌ theÌs to Menenia whych is in y e west syde of Demecia vppon the Iryshe see whiche now is called saynt Dauids lande In this prouynce from the dayes of saynt Dauid vnto the dayes of Sampson bysshop sat .xxiii. byshoppes But in the sayde Sampsons dayes then archebyshop fyll such mortalyte thorowe walys of the yelowe euyll
called the Iaundyes that myche people therof dyed wherfore the sayde Sampson toke wyth hym the pall sayled into Armorita or lytell Brytayne and was there bysshoppe of Dolence or Dolences And from that tyme vnto the fyrst Henryâs tyme kyng of Englande hadde sytten at Menenia or saynte Dauids .xxi. byshoppes and all wythoute pall But whether yt were for lacke of connynge or ellys for pouerty it is not asserteyned Neuerthelesse alwaye from the tyme of the sayde Sampson vnto the foresayde Henry the fyrste tyme all the byshoppes of wales were sacred of y e byshoppe of Menenia or saynte Dauids And the archebyshop of Menenia was at all tymes sacred of y e bysshoppes of walys as of his suffragans and made no profession nor obieccyon to any other chyrche But after these dayes other byshoppes y t sat there were compelled to be sacred at Canterbury In token of whyche subieccyon Bonyface archbyshoppe of CauÌterbury legate of the crosse sange in euery cathedrall chyrche of walys a solemne masse whyche was done by the sayde Boniface in the tyme of Henry the seconde beynge kynge of Englande But now ye shall vnderstaÌde there ben but two prymates or archbysshoppes in all Englande and walys That one ys at Caunterburye and that other is at yorke To the prymate of Caunterburye ben subiecte xiii byshoppes in England and .iiii. in walys And the prymate of yorke hath but two suffragans in EnglaÌd which be the byshoppes of Caerleyll and Durham And who so wyll be further instructe of the order and chauÌges of bysshoppes see of Englande lette hym rede ouer the lii.liii.lv.lvi and lvii chapyters of the fyrste boke of Polycronycon or a ête of holy Bedys work whyche he compyled of the same mater called historia Anglicana and there he shall haue euery thyng sette out clerely and truely And for to contynewe my processe of Lucius as wytnessyth myne authoure Gaufride when he hadde as before ys sayde stablyssyd orderyd the foresayde archeflamyns and flamyns and that they were also confermed of the pope he then endowed them wyth such landes and possessyons as before tyme were occupyed or gyuen to the maynteynynge and vpholdynge of the pagan rytes and lawe vsyd before tyme. And the temples of idollys thorough his land he causyd to be dedycate to Iesu Criste and his sayntes honoured them wyth myche great and large gyftes And when he had done after moste accorde of wryters by y e terme of .xii. yeres he dyed and was buryed in y e cytye of Claudiocestre or Glouceter without heyre of his body the which after grewe to great damage of the Brytons as after shal be shewed Of this Lucius yt is shewed in a table hangynge vpon the wall of the north syde of the yle in the backe of the quere of saynte Paules chyrche in London that the sayde Lucius reygned ouer the Brytons .lxxvii. yeres And ouer that the authoure of cronica cronicarum testyfyeth that after Lucius had receyued the fayth he assembled a great hoste of Brytons and sayled ouer into Gallia or Fraunce and thens into other countres passynge by Becia and the cytye called Augusta there subdued many of the enymyes of Crystes fayth where after many vertuouse dedys he restyd in good peace And his suster called Emerita as sayth the said authour was also martyred for Cristes sake But of this sayeng other the doute is assoyled in the foresayde table in y e begynnyng of this worke where yt shall apere that he reygned but .xii. yeres as aboue is shewed And for so myche as in this Luciê° endeth for a tyme the lyne of BritoÌs and the lande after this daye was ruled some dele by the Romayns therfore I will here ende the thyrd parte of this worke And for y e good spede I haue hyderto had and to the ende to inpetre the more grace in accomplyshyng y e other dele of this worke I here salute our moste blessyd lady wyth the thyrd ioye of the foresayde vii ioyes whyche begynneth Gaude splendens vas virtutum c. Hayle and be glad thou vessell moste shynynge Of vertues and grace at whose commaundement The hole courte of heuen is euer and byddynge And thou also arte amonge them ment Moste benygne and happy to euery good entent As dygne moder of Iesu with moste excellence Honoured in glorye with all theyr assystence This thyrde parte to be accompted from the ende of the .ix. yere of Cassibellan to the laste yere of Lucius includeth of yeres two huÌdred .xli. TRouth yt is as affermyn all wryters that after the deth of the forenamed Luciê° for so mych as of his body remayned non heyre the Brytons amonge them selfe fyll at great dystaunce and warre The whyche warre and trouble endured to the greate dystourbaunce of the lande But howe longe the certayne is not sette out by any wryter that I haue seen excepte the englyshe cronycle sayth that yt endured .l. yeres The whych sayeng vnder correccyoÌ can not stande wyth the concordauÌce of other writers as yt is more playnly declared in the foresayde table where also yt shall appere that the sayde dyscorde amonge the Britons contynued but onely .xv. yeres After whyche terme of .xv. yeres expyred as after more clerely shall be shewed Seuerus beynge theÌ emperour of Rome beganne his domynyon ouer this lande of Brytayne So that ye shall nowe vnderstande that y e laste yere of this discorde was the yere of our lorde two hundred vii By reason wherof yt foloweth that the sayde .xv. yeres ioyned vnto the foresayde thyrde parte that the thyrde part coÌteyneth and includeth of yeres .ii. hundred and .lvi. ¶ Thus endeth the thyrde parte THE FOVRTH PARTE THE LXI CHAPITER SEuerê° a Romayn at this daye emperour of Rome begane to rule this lande of Brytayn in the yere of our lordes incarnacyon .ii. huÌdred and viii The whych as wytnesseth Gaufryde was before tyme sent from the senate of Rome with two legyons of knyghtes into Brytayne to appease the warre and stryfe amonge them and also for to wythstaÌde the Pictes and other enymyes whych dayly inuaded the land For dyuers wryters agree that this Seuerê° was made emperoure the yere of Crystes incarnacyon a huÌdred .lxxx. and .xv and ruled the sayd empyre after the most wryters .xvi. yeres By whych rule yt shuld appere that he shuld be takeÌ for gouernour of this realme of Brytayne the .xii. yere of his empyre It is sayde of this man that after he had subdued the Parthis and the Arabis he was named Particus was sent as before is sayde of the senate of Rome into Brytayne where he causyd to be made at the coste of the commoute a walle of turues and great stakes of the length as wytnes syth Policronica of a hundred .xii. myles as in the .xviii. chapyter of his .iiii. boke apperyth This wall after the exposycyon of the sayde Polycronica began at the ryuer of Tyne and enduryd to the Scottyshe see
as witnesseth Gaufryde was a Pict that was myche loued and greatly fauouryd of Constantyne so that he myghte at all tymes come to the kynges presence The whyche beyng an erraunt traytoure and sechynge conuenyent tyme to execute his detestable treason by a secrete meane slewe the kynge in his chamber when he hadde ben kyng after moste wryters tenne yeres THE LXXXI CHAPITER COnstantius sonne of Constantyne by meane of Uortigernus was made kynge of Brytayne in the yere of our lorde foure hundred and .xliii. This as before is touched for so myche as his fader thought he was not very apt to take so great a charge as to gouerne the lande after hym became a relygious man in the monastery before named Or as some wryters meane the sayd Constante of pure deuocyon that he hadde to god and saynt Amphiabyl made hym selfe a monke vnwyttynge the kynge his fader and other his frendes But how or in what maner so euer he became a monke trouth it is that Uortigerus or Uortigernus after y e deth of Constantyne founde suche meanes that he was taken out of the abbey and crowned kynge of Brytayne By meane wherof the sayde Uortiger had all the rule of the land so that Constante hadde but onely the name This Uortyger then consyderynge the innocencye and myldenes of the kyng cast in his mynde how he myght be kynge hym selfe And amonge other meanes founde to haue aboute y e kynges persone an hundred Pictes or after some Scottes y e whych he ordeyned for a garde for the kynges persone which done he bare hym in such wyse agayne the Pictes by meanes of great gyftes otherwyse that they at length had Uortyger in such fauoure that they feryd not to saye openly that Uortyger was more worthy to be kyng theÌ Constant. In this whyle Uortyger gatte into his possessyon the kynges treasour and what was of hym coÌmaunded was done though other therat murmured and grudge And euer in ryght and wronge he fauoured the foresayd Pictes or Scottes The whyche at length perceyuynge his corrupte mynde when they sawe that they had conuenyent tyme fyll vpon the kynge and hym slewe or murderyd After whych cruell dede by theym done they presentyd the hed of Constante vnto Uortiger then beyng at London wherof when he was ware to the ende that the Brytons shulde thynke that dede to be done agayne his mynde and wyll wepte made semblaunt of all sorowe and heuenes and causyd the sayde hundred knyghtes to be taken in all haste after and theym by dome and lawe of y e laÌd to be be heddyd by reason wherof he was taken not culpable or innocent of the kynges deth when the kynges deth was knowen to suche persones as hadde the kepyng of the two yonger bretherne Aurelius and Uter they in all haste for the more sauegarde of them fledde into lytell Brytayne there kept theym tyll yt pleasyd god ortherwyse to purueye for theym And thus as ye haue herd was kynge Constante slayne when he hadde reygned after moste wryters fyue yere THE LXXXII CHAPITER UOrtigernus duke of y e Iuesses or Uortigerê° erle of Iewesses after called westsaxons was made kynge of Brytayne in the yere of our lorde .iiii. hundred and .xlviii. and the .xviii. yere of Clodio kyng of FrauÌce whych after y e deth of Constant by strength and otherwise was made kynge and ruled the land not all wythout trouble For yt was not longe or the Pictes whych hauyng knowlege of the deth and iudgemeÌt of theyr knightes and kynsmen that they inuaded the north partes of the lande doynge therin great harme and domage And ouer that many dyuerse of the great of the Brytons perceyuyng that the kyng Constant was not murderyd all wythout consent of the sayde Uortyger rebelled agayne hym and dayly sent and say led ouer into lytell Brytayne to the ayde and assystence of the foresayde chyldern of Constant whyche putte the sayde Uortiger to great vnrestfulnesse and the more for that that he wyst not nor knewe not in whom he myght putte his truste and confydence in wyth these perturbauÌces was medled plenty of corne frute y t the lyke therof had not ben sene many yeres passyd wherwyth was ioyned lechery pestylence with many other incoÌueniences so y e vice was accoÌpted for small or none offence The which reygned not onely in the temporalty but also in the spiritualtie hedes of the same So y e euery maÌ turned the poynt of his spere agaynst the trewe innocent man the coÌmons gaue them all to dronkeÌnes and ydelnes where thorough ensued fyghtynge stryfe and mych enuy Of which foresayd myschyues ensued mych mortalyte and deth of men that the lyuyng scantly suffysed in some countres to bury the dede And ouer this y e kyng was so hard beset with y e forenamed enymyes that he was coÌstrayned as affermyth Policronica to sende for paynems as the SaxoÌs to helpe to withstand his enemyes and defende his lande and also he dayly ferid the landyng of Aurely and Uther Uortyger thus beynge beset wyth many aduersytyes in vysytynge hys lande and then beynge for dyuerse causes hym mouyng at Dorobernia or Caunterbury tydynges came to hym of the arryuynge of thre longe shyppes full of armed men at the yle of Tenet wherof fyrst he made countenaunce as though he hadde ben in doute whether it had ben the two brethern of Constant or none But wheÌ the same was blowen aboute y t they were none enymyes anon he caused the leders of them to be brought vnto his presence freynynge of theym the cause of theyr landyng of theyr nacyon and countre The whych answered vnto the kynge and sayd they were of the couÌtre of Germany and put out of theyr countre by a maner sorte or lot at soÌdry tymes vsed with in the sayde lande the whyche was vsed for so myche as the people therin encreasyd so faste that wythoute such prouysyon had the couÌtre shuld not suffyce for the people the whych was suche as foloweth At sondry tymes when the sayd couÌtre was replenyshed of people the prynces and rulers therof wolde assemble at a certayne place and call before theym the lusty yonge folkes Of the whych they wold chose out a certayne nomber and appoynte to them certayne dukes or leders with all thyng necessary to the warre And them so garnyshed wold coÌmaunde to serche theyr adueÌture to wynne some lande by theyr knyghthode where they myght inhabyte theÌselfe By whych vse custome thus longe vsyd now was fallen to theyr lotte to do as theyr fore faders had done before theym wherfore syns fortune had brought them to this land they besought the kyng that he wold take them to his seruyce they wold be redy to fyght for y e defence of him and his countre And when the kyng hadde enquyred farther he fouÌde that they had two leders named Hengistê° and Horsus and they and theyr people were called Saxons The
Of whych meruayle all the housholde was greatly astonyed and yeldyd thankynge vnto almyghty god and to that holy byshoppe Uppon the morowe this holy bysshoppe toke wyth hym the herdman yode vnto the presence of y e kynge axed of hym in sharpe wyse why that ouer nyght he hadde denyed to hym lodgynge wherwyth the kyng was so abasâhed that he hadde no power to gyue vnto the holy man answere Then saynt Germayne sayde to hym I charge the in the name of my lorde god that thou and thyne departe from this paleys and resygne yt the rule of thy lande to hym that is more worthy this rome then thou arte The whyche all thyng by power diuyne was obserued done and the sayde herdman by the holy byshoppes authoryte was sette into y e same dygnyte Of whom after descendyd all the kynges of Brytayne THE LXXXIIII CHAPITER THys story is also confermed of Antoninê° archebysshoppe of Florence and at lengthe by hym shewyd in the .xvii. chapyter and .ix. day of the seconde part of hys worke called SomÌ Antonini But by whoÌ so euer thys story was fyrste wryten I thynke he was none that discended of the walshmen nor yet of theyr blode For they come all of Pryamys blode and not of an herdman excepte that they fetche theyr lyne from Dauyd the holy kynge prophete Thys storye semeth to be of more fame then of credence For other wryters tell thys story to be done in the region of Powys by Buly theyr kynge And also for so mych as the foresayd authour maketh no mencyon of the more Brytayne nor of the lesse it is doutefull whyther thys happe fyll in that one regyon or in that other All be yt in the lyfe of saynte Germayne it ys redde that the sayde saynte Germayne deposyd Uortiger enhaunced the herdman as before is declared as affermeth Polycronica Then it foloweth in y e story when saynte Germayne hadde restoryd some parte of Brytayne to the trewe fayth he retourned into Fraunce fro whens he was before comen But in thys sayde sayenge shuld appere dyscorde in Cronycles For as at this day was not the fayth of Cryste receyued in Fraunce as after more clerely shall appere wherfore no bysshoppe of Crystes fayth myghte then kepe any see in Fraunce And also as affermeth Iacobus Phylyppus and other holy Remigius was the fyrst y t tourned FrauÌce to Crystes relygyon and that after moste concorde of wryters to be in the yere of our lorde .iiii. hundred lxxx and .xix. and the .xv. yere of the reygne of Clodoueus Lewys fyrste Crysten kyng of y e realme of FrauÌce Then to furnysshe or perfourme the story of Uortiger nedefull it is or necessary to retourne to the mater where we before lefte And to shewe that for so moche as the Brytons wythdrewe them from Uortyger he was therfore constrayned to holde wyth hym the Saxons By whose counsayle he after sent for Octa the sonne of Hengyst y e whych brought wyth hym an other company of Saxons when the lordes of Britayne sawe and consyderyd the greate multytude of Saxons and theyr dayly repayre into thys lande they assembled them togyder and shewed to the kyng the inconuenience and ieopardy that myght ensue to hym and hys lande by reason of the greate power of these straungers and aduertysed hym in aduoydyng of greter daunger to expelle and put them out of hys realme or the more parte of them But all was in vayne for Uortyger bare suche a mynde to the Saxons by reason of hys wyfe that he preferred the loue of them before the loue of hys owne naturall kynnesmen and frendes wherfore the Brytons of one wyll and mynde crowned for theyr kynge Uortimerus the eldest sonne of Uortyger and depryued hym of all kyngly dygnyte wheÌ he hadde reygned after moste concorde of hystoryes .xvi. yeres THE LXXXV CHAPITER MEroneus next of allie vnto Clodio last kyng of FrauÌce for so mych as of Clodeo remayned none issue was made kyng of FrauÌce in y e yere of our lorde .iiii. hundred and .l and the seconde yere yere of Uortiger than kynge of Brytayne The whyche was stronge and marcyall in all hys dedes and there vnto ryght profytable for the realme And amonge other notable dedes by hym done he slewe in one day of Hunes the whyche by the commaundement of Attiâa inuadyd dystroyed dyuers countres as Italy Germany and other an hundreth and lxxx thousande as is wytnessyd of mayster Robert Gagwine compyler and gaderer of the actes and dedes of Frenshmen Thys forenamed Attila was kynge of Hunes and led in one hoost .ii. hundred thousand men of warre as testyfyeth Policronica And after dyuers baytayles by hym wonne he came into y e feldes called Catulyntes the whyche conteyned an hundred legys in length and .lxx. in brede wherof euery lege conteyneth .iii. Englysshe myles In the whyche feldes or playnes he was encountred wyth the power of the Romaynes in whose ayde was y e kyng of Fraunce Meroneus the kynge or duke of Burgoyne and other where after a longe fyghte was slayne on bothe sydes the foresayde hundred and .lxxx. thousand Of the whyche nomber the sayde kynge or duke of Burgoyne was one as is more playnly shewed in the .xxxiii. chapiter in the .iiii. boke of the sayd Polycronicon wyth other wonders whyche I ouerpasse Of thys Meroneus dyscendyd all the kynges of Frensshemen tyll the tyme of Pepyn the whyche was father vnto Charles the greate or emperour And fynally dyed thys Meroneus when he had reygned after moste wryters .x. yeres leuynge after hym a sonne named Chylderych or Hylderych THE LXXXVI CHAPITER CHyldericus or Hildericus the sonne of Meroneus was ordeyned kyng of Fraunce in the yere of oure lorde god .iiii. hundred .lx the .xii. yere of Uortiger than kyng of Brytayne The whiche ensued no thynge the warres of hys father but allyed hym wyth all vyce and cruelnesse in suche exterme wyse that he became odyble vnto hys subiectes wherfore the said Childerich perceyuyng the murmur grudge among the people and ferynge hys sodayne distruccyon couÌsayled wyth a frend and lorde of hys named Guynomadus or Guynemeus by whose counsayle in auoydynge greater paryll he auoyded secretely hys lande and yode vnto the kynge of Thurynges named Besygne of whom he was ioyously receyued But the at departynge of the kynge from y e sayd Guynemeus he toke a pece of golde and brake it in two peces wherof y e one pece he delyuered vnto the kynge that other pece he kepte to hym self sayenge to the kynge that whan so euer that he receyued from hym that pece of golde that he shulde be sure to be restored agayne to hys regally and dygnyte After the kynge was departed his lande the Frenshmen of one assent chase for theyr gouernour and hed a Romayne named Gylf whyche at that daye hadde a parte of Gallia or Fraunce in hys rule to the behofe of the Romaynes whyche parte
.iiii. huÌdred .lxxvi. And the fyfte yere of Uortygers last reygne But Denys and other that accoÌpt this kyngdome to begynne in the yere of our lord foure hundred and .lv. allowe the begynnynge therof to be when Hengistus had fyrst gyft of the same by reason that Uortyger maryed his doughter This lordeshyppe conteyned the countre that stretcheth from eest Occean vnto the ryuer of Thamys and had vpon the southeest Southerye and vppon the weste London vpon the northeest the Thamys aforesayd and Eestsaxon nowe Essex And this lordshyppe conteyned also the yle of Thanet whyche lordshyppe or kyngdome endured after moste wryters from the tyme of the fyrste yere of the reygne of Hengiste tyll the .xxv. yere of Egbert before named by the terme of .iii. hundred and .xlii. yeres folowynge that accompte At whyche season the sayde Egbert then kynge of westsaxons subdued Baldredus theÌ kynge of Kent and ioyned yt to hys owne kyngdome Al be yt that the authoure of Policronica affermeth yt to endure by the space of thre hundred and .lxviii vnder .xv. kynges wherof Baldredus was the laste whyche folowyth nere vnto the accompt of Denys before named The fyrste crysten kyng of this lordshippe was Ethelbertus or Ethelbert the whyche receyued the fayth of Cryste by that holy man saynt Austayne or Augustayne nere about the yere of our lordes incarnacyon foure hundred .lxxx. and .xvi. The whyche Ethelbert caused soone after to be edyfyed the monastery of saynt Peter and Paule in the eestsyde or ende of the cytye of Dorobernia now Caunterbury He gaue vnto this Austayn and his successours byshoppes of Caunterbury a place for the byshoppes see at Chrystes chyrche wythin the sayd cytye endowed it with many ryche possessioÌs This Hengiste and all the other Saxons whyche ruled the .xvii. pryncypates of Brytayne as after shall be shewed are called of moste wryters reguli whyche is to meane in oure vulgare or speche as small or lytell kynges So that this Hengist is accompted a lyttell kynge The whyche when he hadde thus rule of the foresayde .iii. prouynces he sent for mo Saxons gatheryd them y t were sparkled abrode so y t in these prouynces the fayth of Chryste was all quenchyd and in slepe Then Hengist wyth Octa his son gaderyd a great streÌgth of SaxoÌs and faught wyth the Brytons and ouercame the Brytons and chasyd them in suche wyse that Hengiste kepte his lordesshyppe in peace and warre by the space of .xxiiii. yeres as moste wryters testyfye THE XCII CHAPITER NOwe then lette vs retourne agayne to Uortiger y e which when he sawe the Saxons in suche wyse encrease theyr strength and the Brytons dayly dyscreace for as writeth myne authour Gaufryde y t Saxons had the rule of London yorke Lincolne or LindecolnÌ and KaergueÌt that is wynchester wyth other good townes wherfore as affermeth the sayd Gaufryde the kyng for fere of y e SaxoÌs also for that y â he was some deale warned of the commyng of the .ii. bretherne Aurely and Uter sonnes of Constantyne he therfore consyderynge these many and great daungers fledde into Cambria or walys and there helde hym for the more suertye where as wytnessyth the sayde Gaufryde he then buylded the castel before mynded Of y e which buyldynge and impediment therof and also of the gettynge or byrthe of Merlyne and of his prophecyes he made a longe worke the whyche I passe ouer for dyuerse consyderacyons retourne agayne to Uortiger Trouth yt is that whyle Uortygernus was thus besyed in walys the forenamed brethern Aurely and Uter preparyd theyr nauy and men of armys and passed the see and landed at Totnesse as sayth the englysh cronycle wherof when the Brytons were ware that were disparklyd and seueryd in many couÌtres they drewe to them in all hasty wyse The which sayde bretherne when they sawe that they hadde a competent nomber of knyghtes they made towarde walys to dystresse Uortyger wherof he beynge warned for so myche as he well knewe y t he myght not make sufficyeÌt defence by streÌgth of knyghtes he therfore garnyshed his castell wyth strength of men and vytayll entendynge to sauegarde hym selfe by that meane but all in vayne For the sayde two bretherne wyth theyr armye besegyd the sayd castell and fynally after many assautes wyth wylde fyre consumed the sayde castell wyth Uortiger and all that was therin Of hym yt is redde that he shulde lye by his owne doughter in truste y e kynges shulde come of his blood For the whyche dede he was accursyd of saynte Germayne and lastely ended his lyfe as hefore is expressed when he hadde reygned nowe laste ix yeres THE XCIII CHAPITER AUrelius Ambrosius the seconde sonne of CoÌstantyne and brother to Constancius slayne by the treason of Uortyger was kynge made of the Brytons in the yere of oar lorde .iiii. hundred .lxxx. one and the .xxi. yere of Childericê° then kynge of Fraunce Of thys yt is sayd that when he hard of the dyuysion that was in the land of Brytayne betwene Uortiger and the Saxons and in what maner the SaxoÌs had subdued the Brytons he in all goodly haste wyth ayde of the kynge of lytell Brytayne spedde hym into thys lande where after the aboue sayde vyctory hadde of Uortiger he spedde hym towarde yorke as affermeth Gaufride and there chasyd the Saxons that helde the cytye wyth Octa or Osca sonne of Hengist and toke the sayde Octa kepte hym as a prysoner somwhat of tyme. But howe so yt was by treason of his keper or otherwyse he brake pryson And he wyth his fader gaderyd after a great hoste and mette Aurelius his Brytons at a place called Crekynford where was foughten a stronge myghty batayll to y e losse of both partyes but the more losse fyll to the SaxoÌs For of them was slayne foure dukes and .iiii. thousande of other men that other dele chasyd to theyr great daunger yet this not wytstandynge Hengiste contynued his lordshyppe in Kent and Aurelius Ambrose whyche the englyshe cronycle nameth Aurilambrose kepte the countre called Logiers or myddell Englande wyth walys and chasyd the Saxons y â dwelled in y e .ii. forsayd prouynces of eest Saxon and eest Anglis out of those countres The seconde kyngdome THE XCIIII CHAPITER IN this passe tyme a SaxoÌ named Ella wyth his thre sonnes called Symen or Symon Plettynger and Cissa came wyth thre shyppes called Obilas and landed in the south parte of Brytayne and slewe many Brytons at a place that then was named Cuneueshore chased many vnto a wood theÌ called Andresleger and after occupyed y e countre inhabyted hym his Saxons wythin the sayde prouynce makyng hym selfe kyng and lorde therof By reason wherof by his might power the sayd prouynce or countre was after named y e kyngdome or lordshyp of Southsaxons The whyche after most concorde of wryters shuld haue his begynnyng y â .xxxii. yere after the fyrst coÌmyng of HeÌgist which
I haue exhorted you And all the other deale I shall suffer you to amende and refourme wythin your selfe but they wold not therof of Then saynt Augustyne sayde vnto them and warned them by maner of inspyracyon that syns they wold not receyue peace of theyr bretherne they shulde of other receyue warre wreche the whyche was after put in experyence by Ethelfrydus kynge of Northumberlande Longe yt were to tell the cyrcumstauÌce of the lyfe of this blessyd man wherfore I passe ouer Lastly wheÌ he hadde in one daye crystyned .x. thousande of Saxons or Anglys in the weste ryuer that is called Swale besyde yorke and knewe that he shuld shortely dye after he ordeyned a successour named Laurence whyle he lyued for the state of holy chyrche in Brytayn was as yet but rude boystous But in y t doynge he folowed the ensample of Peter that was fyrst pope whyche made Clement by his lyfe helper and successour Also this Augustyne made Mellitus bysshop of London and of EestsaxoÌs whych after moste wryters were then newly entred the lande The ryuer of Thamys departed theym and Kent and after dyed and was buryed in y e monastery before rehersed wythoute the wallys of Dorobernia or Caunterburye THE CXX CHAPITER EThelbertus then confermyd in the fayth among other costly dedys beganne he foundacyon of Paulys chyrche wythin the cytye of London and ordeyned yt for the bysshoppes see of London For the archbyshoppes see that before tyme was at London was by Augustyne and Ethelbert at the prayer of y e cytezyns of Dorobernia traÌslated to the sayde cytye as in the .lix. chapyter of thys treatyse yt is more at length declared But of the buyldynge of thys chyrche of saynt Paule dyuerse opynyons ben For some wryters testyfye that yt was buylded or begonne to buylde by Sygebertus kynge of Eestanglys but more veryly kynge of EestsaxoÌs or Eestsex This Ethelbert also fouÌded the chyrche of sayne Andrew in the cytye of Dorubres in Kent nowe called Rochester of the whyche Iustus was byshoppe ordeyned before of saynt Albane About y e tyme or a season after the forenamed Ethelfrydus whyche in the englyshe cronycle is named Elfryde foughte wyth the Brytons at the cytye of Legyscestre or Chestre slew of the Brytons a great nomber At whyche tyme and season a great nomber of the monkes of Bangor were also there assembled for to pray for the good spede of the Brytons wherof when Ethelfrydus was warned he fell also vppon theym and flewe of theym at that tyme as wytnessyth dyuers authours .xxi. huÌdred as yt is before shewyd in the C. and ix chapyter of this boke This forenamed Ethelbert excyted a dweller or cytezen of London to make a chyrche or chapell in the worshyp of saynte Peter in the west ende of London then called Thorney and now the towne of westmynster the whyche that tyme was forgrowen wyth bushes and bâeres excedyngly where the sayde cytezen be ganne and buylded the fyrst chyrche of westmynster in y e honour of saynt Peter whych was after by saynt Edwarde the coÌfessour enlarged or new buylded But of the thyrde Henry when he reygned as kynge of England yt was newe edyfyed made as yt now is a beauteous monastery and rychely endowed bothe wyth possessyon and relykes and ryche iewellys It is shewyd in the Englyshe cronycle of Englande that thys Ethelbert shulde be slayne in a fyghte betwene hym and Ethelfryde kynge of Northumberlande But Policronicon sayth that he dyed and went to heuen when he hadde reygned ouer the lordshyppe of Kent .lvi. yeres and the .xxi. yere after that he hadde receyuyd Crystendome The kyngdome of Eestsaxons THE CXXI CHAPITER DUrynge also the foresayde persecucyon of y e BrytoÌs or any ruler of theÌ were specyally named beganne the reygne of Eestsaxons as wytnessyth Policronicon vnder Sebertus theyr fyrste kynge nere about the yere of our lordes incarnacyon .vi. hundred and .xiiii. All be yt that Guydo de Columna sayth that yt beganne nere about the tyme and season when the kyngdome of Eestanglys beganne But I folowe Polycronicon for he leyeth holy Beda for his Authour in myche of his worke This kyngdome whych is to meane Essex hadde in the eest syde the see in the weste Myddelsex and London in the southe the cyuer of Thamys in the north Suffolke and endured after moste wryters by the terme of two hundred and odde yeres But by y â sayeng of Policronica yt shuld not endure ouer two hundred yeres Neuerthelesse yt shulde appere by the storye of Edwarde the elder sonne of Aluredus y t yt shulde coÌtynue vnder the Danys and other wyse tyll the .viii. yere of his reygne And by that reason yt shulde endure two hundred .lxxx. .xiii. yeres The contynuauÌce therof is more doutfull to be iustly determyned for so myche as wryters be of dyuers opynyons of the begynnyng therof All be it y e Polycronycon in the .li. chapyter of hys fyrste boke sayth that yt began vnder Sebertus and vnder .x. kynges tyll Egbertus kynge of westsaxons subdued yt and ioyned yt to his owne kyngedome The fyrste crysten kynge of thys lordshyppe was the forenamed Sebertus conuertyd by meanes of Mellitus byshoppe of London as sayth Guydo But after hys sayeng thys Sebertus shulde be the thyrd kynge of Essex All wryters agreen that the kynges of thys lordshyp were more comynly named vnder kynges and were more subiecte to other kynges and chefely vnto the kynges of Mercia or Mercheryke Then to retourne agayn vnto the Brytons whyche by all this season occupyed a parte of Cornewayl and the countres of Cambria as Uenedocia whyche now is called Northwalys ad Demecea whych now is called Southwalys and there held them in makynge assautes vpon the Saxons as before is touchyd some whyle in one coste and some whyle in that other vnder sondrye dukes as witnessyth Gaufryde and also the englysh cronycle The whych so contynued after moste accorde of tyme and to accorde thys hystorye wyth other by the terme of .xxiiii. yeres ouer and aboue thre yeres alowed for the reygne of Careticus aforesayd So that from the fyrste yere of Caretycus to the laste of these .xxiiii. yeres expyryd or flowyd .xxvii. yeres At whyche tyme the Brytons of one assent chase for theyr hedde or ruler y â duke of Uenedocia or Southwalys named Cadwanus Francia THE CXXII CHAPITER CLotharius or Lotharius the sonne of Chilpericus second of y t name was made kynge of a parte of FrauÌce in y e yere of oure lorde .v. hundred lxxx and .viii and the .ii. yere of Careticus then kynge of the Brytons Thys Clotharius by the reporte of mayster Robert Gagwyne is notyd to be descendyd of Clodoueê° Lowis fyrste crystened kynge of Fraunce not expressely to be the sonne of Chilpericus But for so myche as in the cronycle of Chilperych I haue shewed to you somwhat of the dedys of Fredegund wyfe of Chylperiche therfore I
all pompe and pryde of thys worlde accompanyed hym in the felowshyp of poore men and yode vnto Rome in pylgrymage wyth great deuocyon when he hadde ben kynge of the westsaxons as before is sayde xxxvii yeres After whose departyng the foresayde Etheldreda hys wyfe went vnto barkynge .vii. mylys froÌ London where in the abbay before of Erkenwalde foundyd she contynued and ended an holy lyfe wheÌ she hadde ben abbesse of the same place a certayn of tyme. It is sayd testifyed of wyllyam wryter of kynges that this Iue was the fyrste kynge that grauntyd a peny of euery fyre house thorow this realm to be payed to the courte of Rome whych at this daye is called Rome stote or Peter pens and yet is payed in many places of Englande But why yt was graunted the cause is not here shewed how be it yt shall be shewyd after Francia THE CXLII CHAPITER CLodoueus y e thyrd of y e name son of the secoÌd Theodoricus beganne his domynyon ouer the realme of Fraunce in the yere of grace .vi. hondred .lxxx. and .x and the thyrd yere of Iue then kyng of westsaxons Of this Clodoueus is of wryters lefte no maner of memorye soundynge to good or euyll but Pepyn before named contynued as master of the paleys by all the tyme of the reygne of y e sayd Clodoueus The whych after that he hadde borne the name by the space of .iii. yeres he dyed wythoute yssue and was buryed by his father By reason of whose deth the sayde kyngedome fell by successyon vnto hys brother Childebert THE CXLIII CHAPITER CHildebertus the second sonne to Theodoryche and brother of Clodoueus foresayde began his domynyon ouer y e realme of FrauÌce in the yere of grace .vi. hundred .lxxx. and .xiii and the .vi. yere of Iue then kynge of westsaxons In tyme of whose reygne also the foresayde Pepyn contynued as chefe ruler of the kynges house all be yt y e he for such other charge as he had of ouerseyng of the realme set in hys place a substâtute or depute as his sonne Grimonart and other Thys Pepyn contrary to the lawe of the chyrche helde besyde hys lawfull wyfe called Pleâtrude a womaÌ named Alpayd For the whyche the holy bysshop of Treet named Lamberte blamynge and rebukynge the sayde Pepyn of the brother of the forenamed Alpayde whyche is called Dodon or Dodoin was slayne martyred in the yere of our lorde .vi. hundred .lxxx. and .xii as testyfyeth Antoninus in the .vi. chapyter of the âiii tytle of the seconde parte of hys worke called summa Antonini And as affermeth the sayde Antoninus also the Frenche cronycle the sayde Pepyn receyued of the sayd Alpayde a sonne whom he named Charlys whyche Charlys was after surnamed Marcellus was ryghte profytable to the realme of Fraunce as after shall appere Of the foresayd kyng Chyldebert is nothynge lefte in wrytyng worthy memory excepte that he receyued of hys wyfe a sonne named Dagobert and kepte the name of a kynge by y e terme of .xvii. yeres as sayth the cronycle in French and than dyed and was buryed in the abbey of Caus in y e chyrch or chapell of saiÌt Stephan THE CXLIIII CHAPITER DAgobertê° the seconde of that name and sonne of Chyldebert before named began his reygne ouer the Frenchmen in the yere of grace .vii. hundred and .x the .xxiii. of Iue than kynge of westsaxons The whyche was vnder the rule of Plectrude the wyfe of Pepyn than dede and of Theodowald than mayster of the paleys Thys Plectrude as before is shewed was stepmother to Charlys sonne of Pepyn and of Alpayde wherfore she berynge malyce to the sayd Charlys caused hym to be holden as prysoner wythin Coleyne where he so as prysoner remaynynge the foresayd Theoldowalde exercysed suche tyrannys and putte vpon the people suche exaccyons y e dyscensyon grewe bytwene hym and the lordes of FrauÌce so that dyuers coÌflyctes and skyrmysshes were had amonge the nobles of Fraunce for partyes were taken vpon eyther sydes whereby the kynges partye at length was wekyd And fynally the sayd Theoldowalde was depryued of hys rome and one Rangafredus was made mayster of y e paleys The whyche beynge Accompanyed with conuenyent strength toke with hym the kynge and coÌueyed hym thorow the forest of CharboÌnur tyll he came vnto y e ryuer of Mense In y e which passetyme the forenamed Charlys beynge as aboue is sayde prysoner by fauoure of hys kepars or otherwyse brake pryson and escapyd And shortly after dyed the kynge whan he hadde reygned or borne the name of a kynge as other of hys progenytours hadde done by y e terme of .xi. yeres leuyng after hym nother chylde as than knowynge nor nere of a lye whyche was cause of mysorder of the tytle of Fraunce as afterwarde shall appere THE CXLV CHAPITER DAnyell that of y e Frenchmen was after named Chilperich was by assente of them made kynge in the yere of grace .vii. hundred and xxi and the .xxxiiii. yere of Iue than kynge of westsaxons Thus as testyfyeth mayster Robert Gagwyne and also the Frenche cronycle was a preste or clerke and for his wysedome was cherysshed before tyme in the kynges paleys in y e whyche tyme and season he sufferyd hys crowne to be ouer growen Or ellys after Antoninus this Danyell after y e deth of Dagobert for so mych as he lefte after hym none of y e royall blode the Frenchemen supposynge hym to be apte for y e rule of the lond for suche experyence as before tyme in hym had be proued kepte hym secrete a certeyne of tyme tyll his heyre was fully growen and than declared hym to be the brother of Dagobert and chaungyd hys name and called hym Chylperych so by one assente admytted hym for kynge of Fraunce Charles before spoken of sonne of Pepyn beynge escapyd the daunger of prysonement sought and compassyd by all maner of wayes how he myghte obteyne the rome that sometyme hys fader occupyed And thys to brynge to effecte he purchasyd to hym a yonglynge of fayre goodly maners stature named Clothayre and sayd that he was descendyd of y e royall blode of Fraunce by meane wherof in shorte tyme he gaderyd to hym greate strength wherof heryng Chylperych commaunded Rangafrede to assemble hys knyghtes to wythstoÌde the purpose of Charlys And soone after bothe hostes mette nere vnto the forenamed ryuer of Mense where was foughte a strong and cruell batayle of y e whych Rangafrede was vyctor and compellyd Charles to forsake the felde But he shortly afterward assemblyd and gaderyd agayne togyder all suche as before were dysperklyd and fought efte wyth the sayde Rangafrede at a Place called Ablane Of the whyche batayle wyth great dyffyculte Charlys was lastly wyctour and chasyd Rangafrede and hys hoste greatly demynysshed lassyd Than thyrdly these two hostes met in a felde called the wyne felde where also was present the sayd Danyell or Chilperych hauynge in
saynte Cutbert of Durham About the .ix. yere of this kynges reygne the holy vyrgyne saynt Fredeswide dyed Of her yt is sayde for vylanye that to her shulde haue ben done by a kynge in Oxynford that kynges of England at the seasons syns haue sparyd to entre that towne for drede of myshappe who so wyll knowe the cyrcuÌstaunce of the mater and the holynesse of her lyfe lette hym serche the workes of holy Gyldas where he shall be suffycyently informed Soone after thys tyme and season Colwolphus kynge of NorthuÌberlande when he had reygned .viii. yeres he resygned his domynyon to his cosyn Egbertus and was shorne a monke in the abbay of Geruy or after some wryters in the abbay of Lyndesar or holy ylande Thus for as mych as lytle is shewyd of the dedis of Cutbert kynge of westsaxons therfore I haue made the more rehersayll of other chynges done in his tyme. For of hym is nothynge lefte in wrytynge worthy to be remembryd or mynded sauynge that he often and many tymes made warre vppon Ethelwalde kynge of Mercia and spedde therin diuersly lastely dyed when he had reygned after moste wryters .xvi. yeres Francia THE CXLIX CHAPITER HIldericê° or Childericus y e second of that name sonne of Theodoricus began his reygne ouer the Frenshemen in y e yere of our lordes incarnacyon .vii. huÌdred and xl and the .xi. yere of Cutbertus then kynge of westsaxons Of the whych for his dulnesse and hys other enormytes in hym exercysed lytle or no thynge of his actes or dedes are put in memorye ye haue before in the story of Theodoryche harde of the puyssaunt and stronge dedys of Charlis Martell the whyche styll durynge his lyfe coÌtynued in great honour to the great suertye of the realme of FrauÌce and to the great terrour and fere of theyr enymyes wherof to reherse all the cyrcumstaunce yt wolde occupye a longe tyme. wherfore shortely to conclude lastely after hys manyfolde trauayllys susteyned for the weale of the realme of Fraunce he dyed leuynge after hym thre sonnes that is to wytte Charlemayne Pepyn and Gryffon to the whyche he bequethed his possessions and goodes But for the yongest named Gryffon helde hym not contentyd wyth suche bequest as hys father to hym gaue he therfore made warre vppon hys other two bretherne The whyche behaued theym so wysely that wythout notable batayll they toke theyr sayde brother and putte hym in a safe kepynge And that done the sayde two bretherne assemblyd theyr knyghtes and spedde theym agayn Hanualde duke of Guyan then rebellyng agayn the crown of FrauÌce The whych duke with the countrey they brought vnder theyr fyrste obeysaunce After the whyche victorye of the sayde couÌtrey obteyned the sayd two bretherne spedde them to the cytye of Poytyers where they by aduyse of the nobles of the lande consyderynge the vnablenesse of Hilderyche y e kynge that he was vnsuffycyent to rule so great a charge dyuyded the lande of Fraunce betwene theym So that eyther of them shuld vnder the kynge rule and gouerne suche porcyon as then there was to them appoynted After the whyche porcyon Charlmayne herynge of the dyuysyon and stryfe amonge the Almaynes as thynge belongynge to hys charge spedde hym thyther in all haste And after a parte of that countrey wastyd and spoylyd and dyuerse of theyr stronge holdys caste playne wyth the erthe he brought theym to due subieccyon And soone after he went agayne the Bauarys y e whyche by his knyghtely strength he appeased in lykewyse In all whyche tyme and season Pepyn hys brother was occupyed in defendynge of the other partyes of Fraunce Then this foresayde Charlmayne steryd by dyuyne inspyracyon or as some authours meane as he before tyme hadde auowyd sodeynely renouncyd and gaue ouer all worldely prosperyte and domynyon and with pure deuocyon yode to Rome where of the pope then named zacharias he wyth all honour and ioy was receyuyd and of hym shorne a munke and dwelled a season in an abbaye of hym selfe buylded in the mounte Sarapte But for he sawe that dayly drewe to hym many great lordes of Fraunce by meane wherof he was lette from hys dyuyne seruyce and contemplacyon he therfore yode thens to the mounte Cassyne there endyd his naturall lyfe After whose thus departynge or gyuynge ouer of the sayde Charlemayne Pepyn as onely ruler toke vppon hym the charge of the hole realme In thys passe tyme Gryffon the yonger brother was enlargyd from prysone and by fauoure of hys bretherne was assygned to suche possessyons as to hym was demed suffycyent to lede an honorable lyfe How be yt when he sawe that hys brother Pepyn hadde all the rule and he nothynge he dysdayned hys sayde brother and thoughte no lenger to contynue in that maner but to be partener of the rule of the lande as Charlemayne hys brother hadde ben And this to brynge to hys purpose he fledde vnto the Saxons whyche as after shall appere were named Normans And with the prynce of theym made alyaunce so that wyth theyr ayde he mouyd warre agayne his brother and assembled a stronge hoste wherof Pepyn beynge warnyd gaderyd hys people and passynge thorow came to the ryuer of Sunaha or after the latyne tonge Smussaha and Gryffon sped hym tyll he came to a ryuer called Onacre wheÌ these .ii. hostes were thus nere meanes of treatye were soughte on both partyes Durynge whych communycacyon Gryffon hauynge susspeccyon to the Saxons that were on his parte leste they wold betraye hym and yelde hym into the handes of his brother made for that tyme a sleyght agrement and shortly after departyd from the sayd SaxoÌs and fled to the Bauarys or into Bayon where he allyeng hym wyth dyuerse nobles and barons of Fraunce vexyd and distourbed sore the duke and lorde of that countrey called Tassylon and lastly dysceasyd hym of that lordshyppe wherof Pepyn beynge warned spedde hym thyther wyth great strength and so bare hym that he had the better of his brother and restoryd the sayd Tassylon vnto his right after retourned into FrauÌce ledynge wyth hym his brother Gryffon as his prysoner But ye was not long after that by medyatours the sayde Gryffon was reconcilyd to his brother And for he shuld be coÌtent haue no more cause to vary with his broder there was assygned to hym as wytnessyth y e freÌch cronicle and other xii erldomes with in the realme of Fraunce wyth the whyche bounteous gyfte he not beynge coÌtente the selfe same yere fled vnto y e duke of Guyan named Gayffer and wyth hym newly conspyred agayne his sayde brother But lastely he was there slayne as after shall appere Pepyn then consyderynge in hys mynde in what daunger and trouble hys father before hym had ruled the lande he now for his tyme in lyke agony and trouble and the kynge to whome belonged all the charge kepte hys paleys folowed all his delytes and pleasures wythoute takynge of any payne wherfore consyderynge
the premysses for a reformacyon of the same sent hys ambassade to the pope then beynge zacharye before named askyng hys aduyse whether yt was more necessary or welfull for the realme of FrauÌce that he shulde be admytted for kyng that dyd nothynge but applye hys mynde to all pleasure of hys bodye wythout cure or charge takynge vppon hym for the guydynge of the lande and the people of the same or he that toke upon him all the charge and payne in defence of the lande and kepynge of the people in due subieccyon To this the pope answeryd and wrote vnto Pepyn that he was beste worthy and moste profytable for the realme to be admyttyd for kynge that ruled well the comynaltye by iustyce and prudence and the enymyes therof defendyth and subdueth by his polycy and manhode The whyche answere thus receyued frome the pope and declared vnto the lordes and barons of the realme anone they of one assente and mynde procedyd and went to the deposynge and puttynge downe of theyr kynge and gouernour Hylderyche And in shorte space after closyd hym in a monastery or house of relygyon when he hadde ben occupyer of a kynges rome by the name onely .x. yeres And that done the Frenche men electyd and chase Pepyn for theyr souerayne and kynge In the whyche Hilderyche or Childerych endyd the lyfe or progeny of Meroneus of whome the Frenche kynges lynyally descendyd by contynuaunce of tyme as foloweth Meroneus x. yeres Childericus xxiiii yeres Clodoueus xxx yeres Dagobertus xiiii yeres Clodoueus xvi yeres Clotharius iiii yeres Theodoricus iii. yeres Childericus ii yeres Lotharius l. yeres Chilpericus xxiiii yeres Lotharius xliii yeres Clodoueus iii. yeres Childebertus xvii yeres Dagobertus xi yeres Danyel v. yeres Theodoricus xiiii yeres Theodoricus xix yeres Hildericus x. yeres Anglia THE CL. CHAPITER SIgebertê° or Sigbertus the cosyne of Cutbert laste kynge of the westsaxons beganne his reygne ouer y e sayd Saxons in the yeres of y e incarnacyon of Cryst .vii. huÌdred and xlv and the .v. yere of Hildericê° then kyng of Fraunce He was cruell and tyrannous to his subiectes turnyd theyr lawes and customes of his fore fathers after his owne wyll and pleasure And for y e one of the noble men of his dominyon somdele sharply aduertysed him to chauÌge his maners and to behaue hym more prudently towarde his pleople he therfore malycyously caused hym to be putte to cruell deth About this tyme Egbertus after the yonger wylfryde was made archbyshoppe of yorke The whyche brought agayn thyther the pall that his predecessours hadde forgone syns the tyme that the fyrst Paulinê° had lefte that see and fled to Rochester in Kent and there lefte the sayd pall This Egbert was brother vnto Egbert kyng of NorthumberlaÌd by whose assystence and comforte he dyd many thynges for the weale of y e see made there a noble library Then yt folowyth for so myche as the kyng Sygebert contynued in his malyce cruell condycyons his subiectes conspired agayn hym and putte hym from all kyngely dygnyte So y t he fell after to great desolacyon mysery in such wyse y t he was founden after in a wood or desolate place wandryng alone without coÌforte where he beyng so foundeÌ by a swyne herd or vylayne some tyme belongyng to the erle CoÌbranê° y t he before tyme wyckydly had slayn in auengement of his sayd lordes deth slew hym in y e sayd place which sayd Sigebertus was thus depryued froÌ al houour wheÌ he after most writers had reygned or tyrannysed .ii. yeres THE CLI CHAPITER KEnulphus of the lyne or blode of Cerdicus fyrst kyng of westsaxons began hys domynyon ouer the sayde westsaxons in the yere of grace .vii. hundred .xlviii and the vii yere of Hildericus then kynge of Fraunce The vertue of thys man passyd his fame For after he hadde with the agrement of the westsaxons depryued Sygebert theyr kynge froÌ his authorite and regally he fyrst appeasyd dyuers murmurs and grudgis that kyndelyd among his subiectes set his lordshyp in great quyetnesse and rest touchynge theyr ciuyle dyscorde About the .viii. yere of the reygne of this Kenulphus Offa slewe a tyraunt named Beoruredus y t before had slayne Ethelwald kyng of Mercia After whose deth the sayde Offa as neuew to the sayd Ethelwald reygned as kynge of that prouynce Of this Offa is tolde many notable dedes wherof somwhat I entende to shew He hadde warre wyth the Northumbres theÌ for a tyme subdued He also had warre wyth Etheldrede kynge of eest anglys and wyth Egbert otherwyse called Pren kynge of Kent whome he toke prysoner and led hym bounden wyth hym into Mercia Then after these vyctoryes Offa buylded the chyrch of wychcom In tyme of the whyche buyldynge in presens of .xiii. byshoppes and many other great estatys kynge Offa enlargyd the sayde Egbert of imprysonement In token wherof the people beynge there present made such an exclamacyon of ioye and gladnesse that the chyrche therof range Thys kynge Offa hadde suche dyspleasure vnto the cytyzens of Caunterburye that he remoued the archbyshoppes see by the agremente of the fyrste Adryane then pope vnto Lychefelde He also chased the Brytons or welshmeÌ into walys made a famouse dyke betwene walys and the vtter bondys of Mercia or mydle Englande the whyche to this day is named Offedyche And after he buyldyd there a chyrch whych longe tyme after was called Offekyrke This Offa also by angelycall inspyracyon translatyd the holy prothomartyr saynt Albone and was fyrst founder of that famous monasterye ouer that holy bodye The whyche syns the fyrste foundacyon hath by sondry tymes ben perished and hurt by Danys other and newely syns that tyme reedyfyed This holy Albon was martyred as before apperyth in the .lxvii. chapyter and storye of CoÌstantius about the yere of our lorde two hundred .lxxx. and .xvii. By whych reason he shuld lye or he were translatyd ouer foure hundred and lx yeres This Offa also maried one of hys doughters to Bryghtricus y â was kynge of westsaxons And for that in his tyme was varyaunce betwene hym and the FreÌche men that passage of marchauntes was forboden therfore he sente that famouse doctour Anselmus vnto Charlis the great then kynge of Fraunce to comon the meanes of a peace whyche Charlis hadde after thys Anselmus in suche fauour that he became hys discyple Then retourne we to Kenelphus y t whyche before tyme had had often warre wyth Offa and with hym many conflyctes and lastely agreed About the .xi. yere of thys Kenelphê° Egbert kynge of Northumbres renouncyd his kyngly dignyte and became a munke And lastely the sayde Offa when he had reygned ouer Mercia .xxxix. yeres as sayth Guydo he lefte the kyngdome to hys sonne also named Kenelphus and yode to Rome And this Kenulphê° kynge of westsaxon kepte strongely hys lordshyp agayn y e power of all his enymyes hadde his subiectes in due order of
so sharpely that he was constrayned to leue the countrey and sayled into Fraunce and lefte the nuÌne behynde hym the whych the kynge caused to be restoryd agayn to the house y t she was taken fro The nexte yere folowyng the sayd Clito wyth his coÌpany landed in eest Englande gaderyd to hym y e Danys of that countrey and with theyr ayde destroyed and pylled the countrey about Crekynforde Criklade And then passed y e ryuer of Thamis spoyled the land to Bradenestoke and so froÌ thens retourned into eest Anglia y t is Norffolke Suffolke The kynge folowed his enymyes and spoyled of theyr landes whyche they helde by composycyon from the ryuer of Owse to the bordure of saynte Edmundus lande commaundynge hys knyghtes of hys hoste that none shulde dragge or tarye after hys hoste for fere that they were not beclyppyd of theyr enmyes But the Kentyshe men whych trusted to myche in theyr owne strength dysobeyed that commaundement wherfore the Danys awaytynge theyr praye fyll vppon them by bushementes and slewe the more partye of theym wherwyth the kyng was sore dyscontentyd Soone after bothe hostes mette where after longe fyght Clyto wyth many of the Danys was slayne and the remenaunt constrayned to seche peace the whyche was graunted vppon certayne condycyons that they shulde holde theym wythin the boundes to theym lymytted and ouer that paye yerely a certayne money in waye of trybute After whyche peace wyth them stablyshed he repayred cytyes townes and castellys that by the sayde Danys were shatered and broken And about the .viii. yere of his reygne kynge Edwarde repayred the wallys and also the cytye of Kaerlyon that now is called Chester To the whych were great helpers Etheldredê° duke of Mercia Elfleda his wyfe doughter of Alurede as before is shewyd suster of this kynge Edwarde And that done the kynge buylded a stronge castell at Herforde in y e egge of walys And he enlarged so greatly y e walles of Chester y t the castell whych before tyme was wyth out the wall is now wythin And the .ix. yere of his reygn Etheldredê° duke of Mercia by couÌsayll of his wyfe traÌslated y e bones of y e holy kyng Oswald froÌ Bradony to Gloucestre there buylded a fayre monastery in the worshyp of saynt Peter In the .xii. yere of kyng Edwardes reygne the Danes repentynge them of theyr couenauntes before made myndyng enteÌdyng y e breche of the same asseÌbled an hoste met with y e kynge in Staffordeshyre at a place called Toten halle and soone after at wodenesseylde At whyche .ii. places the kynge slew two kynges two erlys and many thousandes of the Danys that then occupyed the countrey of Northumberlande And soon after dyed the noble man Etheldredus duke or erle of Mercia or myddell Englande After whose deth the kynge for so myche as he hadde often prouyd her wysedome he toke the rule of that countrey to hys wyfe Elfleda London alonely exceptyd the whyche he toke vnder his onwe rule THE CLXXX CHAPITER OF this noble woman Elfleda yf I shulde shewe all the vertues yt shuld aske a long tyme and leasure But amonges other of her noble dedes she buylded and newly repayred many townes cytyes and castellys as Tomworth besyde Lychefeld Stafforde warwyke Shrowesbury watrysbury Eldysbury in the forest besyde Chester that nowe is ouer tourned and destroyed Also she buylded a cytye wyth a castell in the Northe ende of Mercia vpon y t ryuer Merce that in those dayes was named RuncofanÌ but now yt is called RuncornÌ And she also buylded a brydge ouer the ryuer of SeuernÌ whyche is or was named Brymmysburye brydge This stronge virago fauour of cytezeyns and fere of enymyes halpe myche the kyng her brother in gyuynge of counsayll buyldynge of cytyes Of her is told that when she hadde ones assayed the wo and sorowe that women fele and suffer in berynge of a chylde she hated the enbrasynge of her husband euer and toke wytnesse of god and sayde that yt was not coÌuenyent or semely to a kinges doughter to vse such flesshely lykynge wherof suche sorowe shuld ensue or folowe In the .xiii. yere of the reygne of this Edwarde a great nauy of Danys whych in tyme of Alurede were driuen into Fraunce now retourned agayn and sayled about the west couÌtrey and landed in dyuers places toke prayes and went to theyr shyppes agayn And at one time amoÌges other they robbed and spoyled at a place called Irchynfeylde and toke a Brytyshe byshop and caryed hym to theyr shyppes and fynally raunsomed hym at .xl. pounde But as soone as kynge Edwarde had knowlege of theyr beyng he assembled his knyghtes and sped hym westwarde by lande and sent a nother hoste by shyppe to encounter the Danys vppon the see wherof heryng the sayd Danys fledde into Irlande and by that course voyded the land and handes of the kynge Then the kynge for strengthynge of the countrey made a castell at the mouth of the water of Auene and a nother castell at Bokyngham and the thyrd faste therby y t is to meane vpon eyther syde of y e ryuer of Owseone And after retourned into Northamtonshyre and Bedfordshyre faughte there wyth the Danys of these couÌtres and at length subdued theâ wyth theyr leder or duke called Turketyllus About the .xvii. yere of this kynges reygned Elfleda lady of Mercia before mynded gaderyd her knightes And where the Brytons or walshe men brake into the lande about Brekenoke she wyth her people wythstode theym and amonge other prysoners prayes toke there the quene of walshemen And the yere folowynge kynge Edwarde buylded or newly reedyfyed the townes of Towsetour and wygmore and destroyed the castell that the Danys hadde made at Temesforde And that yere the noble Elfleda wanne the towne of Derby from the power of the Danys where they put her in such adueÌture that foure knyghtes whyche were called Gardeyns of her corps were slayne faste by her And y e .xviii. yere of his reygne dyed that noble pryncesse Elfleda in the moneth of Iune and was buryed in the monastery of saynt Peter which her lorde and she before tyme hadde buylded wythin the towne of Gloucetour as aboue is touched ouer the bones of that holy kynge saynte Oswalde whyche monastery was after throwen to grounde by the Danys But Aldredus byshop both of yorke of worcetour made there an other whyche is now chefe house or abbay of that towne or cytye when Elfleda was deed her doughter named Elswyna helde the lordeshyppe of Mercia a season But for the kynge coÌsydered yt to be to great a thynge for her to rule he therfore dyscharged her therof and ioyned it to his kyngedome but not all wythout stryfe For dyuers townes kepte of the kyng for a tyme as Snotyngham or Nothyngam Tomworth Derbye and other supposynge the doughter wold haue defended them as the mother by her lyfe had done But finally they came to the
and fette there his aimes hys sayde wyfe then lyenge at the castell of warwyke not knowynge of any man what he was tyll lastely he was visited with so sore sykenes that he knew well that he shuld dye wherefore he sente hys weddynge rynge vnto hys wyfe requyrynge her in all haste to come and speke wyth hym whych she obeyed in humble wyse and sped her vnto the sayd Heremytage wyth all womanly dylygence and fande hym deed at her commynge whom she besprent with many a salt tere And as she was enfourmed of the messenger as he dyed she buryed hym ryghte there And more ouer as saith my sayd authour he monyshed her by the sayd messenger that she shulde prouyde for her selfe for she shuld also alter her mortall lyfe the .xv. day folowyng which also she obeyed and made suche prouisyon that she was in that place buryed by hym All whyche mater the sayde Dane IohnÌ Lydgate affyrmeth that he toke out of the boke of Gerarde CambresÌ whyche wrote mych of the dedes and storyes of the prynces of Englande as Policronica and other authour testyfyen and as the sayde Lydgate in the ende of his sayde treatyse wytnessyth as by the mater folowynge appereth For more authorite as of this mater This translacyon such as in senteÌce Out of laten made by the cronycler Called of old Gerardus CambreÌce whyche wrote the dedes wyth great dylygence Of them that were in weste Saxon crowned kynges Greatly coÌmendyd for theyr knyghtly excellence Guy of warwyke in hys famouse wrytynges AL whyche sayde treatyse is shewyd at length in meter of viii stauys after the maner of the precedentes by the dylygent labour of the sayde Dane IohnÌ Lydgate The whyche I haue here sette in for so mych as yt concernyth mater that was done in the tyme of the reygne of thys Ethylstane The whyche after the accorde of moste wryters ⪠broughte thys lande agayne to one monarchye and reygned as kynge therof by the full terme of .xvi. yeres and was buryed at the monastery of Malmysbury leuynge after hym no chylde wherfore the rule of the land fyll vnto Edmunde his brother Francia THE CLXXXVI CHAPITER LEwys the sonne of Charlis y e symple beganne hys reygne ouer the Frenchmen in y e yere of our lorde ix hundred and xxxiiii and the .ix yere of Ethelstane then kynge of Englande ye haue harde before in the ende of the storye of Charlys y e symple how Elgina the quene wyth Lewys her yonger sonne was fledde into England to her father Edward the elder wherfore y e lordes of FrauÌce not knowynge where she with the Chylde was gone chose the forenamed Rauf for theyr kynge After whose deth the said lordes of FrauÌce beynge ascertayned of the beynge of the sayd Lewys in England sent vnto hym the archbyshop of Senys Hughe surnamed le graunde desyrynge hym to restore into Fraunce and take therof possessyon Then Elgina herynge the message of the lordes and trustyng vnto theÌ by counsayll of her frendes made her redy wyth her son sayled shortly after into Fraunce where she was receyued wyth myche honour shortly after crowned her sonne Lewys kynge at the cytye of LaonÌ This Lewys is named y e .v. Lewys In the thyrde yere of whose reygne fyll a scarcytye of corne vytayll by reason wherof ensued a great famyn in so myche that people voyded the realme many dyed for defaut For as wytnesseth the frenche cronycle a quarter of whete was then worth .xx. pouÌde of y e money which is of value after sterlynge money .l. s. or there about This kyng beryng in mynd the murder and treason done agayn his father by Hebert as before in the storye of Charlis the symple is declared cast and ymagined in his mynde how he myght wythout shedynge of blood reuenge the deth of his fader and after many ymagynacyons and thought is reuolued in his mynde he lastely dyuysed a letter the whych he charged a seruaunt of his to brynge to hys presence when he was sette amonge his lordes in counsayll when kynge Lewys hadde compassed this in hys mynde he for nedes of hys realme called a great couÌsayll of his barony at LaonÌ whyther amonges the other the sayde Heberte erle of Uermendoys was warned to come And when the kynge was ascertayned of theyr commynges he apoynted a secrete coÌpanye in harnes to be in a secrete chamber nere vnto the place of the sayde counsayll and at conuenient tyme after yode vnto the same and all his lordes wyth hym And when he hadde a season commoned wyth hys lordes of suche maters as hym lyked sodeynly came one to hym and sayd that a man was coÌmen wyth a letter dyrected to hys grace oute of Englande the whych he commaunded to be broughte vnto hys syghte when the kyng hadde vnfolde the letter and radde a parte therof he smyled whereof the lordes beynge ware purposed the kynge to haue receyued some iewyllys or ioyous nouellys oute of Englande whyle the kynge was aboute to delyuer this letter to his scribe or secretory one of hys lordes sayde vnto hym Syr we truste ye haue some iocande mery tydynges oute of EnglaÌde that ye haue cause of smilyng I shall shewe the cause to you sayde the kyng There is dwellyngin England a kynnesman of myne named Harman the whych is a man of gret myghte and myne especyall frende He shewyth me by this letter that an husbandeman or a vyleyne badde or requyred hys lorde vnto his howse to dyner and vnder the coloure therof he slewe hys sayde lorde And for the sayde Harman thynketh the law of that lande to fauourable for such an haynous dede hetherfore writeth to me to haue myne aduyse in thys mater wherfore sens ye be all present I praye you shewe to me your opynyons in this mater whych with one voyce sayde y t the murderer was worthy to suffer the moste shamefull and cruell deth to be hanged and strangled in a rope But for y e kynge wolde be certaynely enfourmed of the consentes of theym all he began at the hygest and so pursued theym tyll he came to Hebert erle of UermeÌdoys the whych alowed the senteÌce as the other hadde done Then the kynge made a token to y e walshemen betwene hym them before appoynted so y e anon they were present sette sure hold vppon the sayde Hebert To whom the kynge sayd Hebert thou art the husbondman or vilayne y t I haue spoken of whych slew his lord vnder colour of byddynge or gestynge hym in hys house For traytoursly thou dydeste requyre my lorde and father vnder thyne house or castell of PeronÌ and there not remembrynge the kyndnes to the by hym before dayes shewyd nor thyne allegyauntes and trouthe that toward hym thou shuldest haue borne kept hym lyke a prysoner and lastely murderyd hym to the greate daunger agayne god to the world shame wherfore accordynge to thy desert and after thyne own sentence and iudgemeÌt take now
Raynys whan he had reygned in great trouble .xxi. yeres leuynge for hys heyre a sonne named Lothayr Anglia THE CLXXXVIII CHAPITER EDmunde y e brother of EthelstanÌ and sonne of Edwarde the elder of Ethelwyda the thyrde wyfe of the sayd Edwarde begaÌ hys reygne ouer Englande in the yere of our lorde .ix. hundred and .xl and the .vii. yere of the .v. Lewys thaÌ kynge of Fraunce In the fyrste yere of hys reygne the Danys of Northumberland rebelled agayne hym And for to make theyr party the stroÌger they sent for a prynce of Danys named Aulaffe than beynge in Irlande The which brought wyth hym an other prynce or ruler of Danys named Reygnald wyth a great hoste of Danys other strauÌge nacyons and entred the foresayd countre and warred vppon the next borders in wastynge and spoylynge the inhabytauÌtes of the same wherof whan kyng Edmund was warned anone he assembled his people and sped hym toward y e countre and lastly faught wyth the two sayd prynces of the Danys or at the leest chaced them from towne to towne tyll he forsyd them wyth all theyr coÌpany of straunge nacyons to forsake vtterly that prouynce and bet down that countre of Cumberlande y t had mych fauoured and ayded the sayde enmyes agayne hym and toke therin greate prayes and deuyded them amoÌges hys knyghtes And y e done other for the good seruyce that MalcolynÌ kynge of Scotlande hadde in thys vyage done vnto the kynge or for the trowth and allegyaunce that he in tyme folowyng shulde bere vnto hym or for bothe the kynge gaue there to the sayd MalcolynÌ the countre of Cumberlande and seased all y e resydue of the kyngdom or lordshyp of Northumberlande and ioyned it vnto hys owne kyngdome But yet y e Danys retorned agayn in the tyme of Edredus the nexte kynge as after shal be shewed so that as yet the fyne or ende of thys kyngdome is not accompted In thys Edmundus dayes the authour of Polycronyca sayth that whan Edmunde hadde ended hys iourney and set that countree in an order he toke wyth hym the bones of the holy abbot Colfrydus and of that holy abbesse Hylda brought theym vnto Glastenbury and there shryned theym This Colfryde was abbot of Bedas abbey or of the abbey of Gyrwye Hilda was abbesse of Stenshalt or whytby And as affermeth y e sayd authour both places ben in y e North partyes of England Thys kynge Edwarde had a noble woman to wyfe named Elgina of whom he receyued two sonnes named Edwyne and Edgar And as testyfyeth Henry archedekeÌ of Huntyngdon thys Edward had ofte warre wyth the Danes the whyche as he affermeth helde than many good townes in myddle England as LyncolnÌ NothinghmÌ Derby Stafforde Laycetour y e which by his knyghtly manhode he wanne from them And by the helpe of holy Dunstan he ameÌded many thynges within his realm y t had beÌ loÌge tyme misordered by meane of y e Danys Of the ende or fyne of thys Edmunde dyuers opynyons there be For Marianus the Scot sayth that whyle thys kynge Edmunde endeuered hym selfe to saue his sewer froÌ the dauÌger of hys enemye that wold haue slayne hym at Pulkerchyrche the kynge in ryddynge of the fraye was wounded to the deth and dyed shortly after But wyllyam de regibus sayth that the kynge beynge at a feest at y e foresayd towne or place vppon the daye of saynte Augustyne espyed a felon syttyng in y e halle named Leof whych he before tyme for hys felony hadde exyled and lept ouer the table and plucked that thefe by the here of the hedde to the grounde In whych doynge the sayd felon wyth a knyfe wounded the kynge to the deth and also wyth the same knyfe wounded many other of the kynges seruauntes and at length was all to hewen dyed forthwyth If this be trewe it shulde seme that kynges at those dayes vsed not the honour that they nowe haue and exercyse But whych of these two meanes was vsed in the kynges deth by agreemeÌt of all wryters thys kynge dyed whan he had reygned .vi. yeres and more was buryed at Glastenbury the whyche before he hadde sumptuously repayred and lafte after hym two yonge sonnes as before is remembred Edwyne and Edgar But for they were to yonge to rule the lande therfore y e rule therof was coÌmytted to Edredê° theyr vncle brother to theyr fader THE CLXXXIX CHAPITER EDredus y e brother of EdmuÌde and sonne of Edwarde the elder and of Ethylswyda hys thyrde wyfe began his reygne ouer the realme of Englande in the yere of our lorde .ix. hundred and .lxvii and the xiii yere of the fyfte Lewys thaÌ kyng of Fraunce The whych as before is towched was admytted kyng by authoryte of hys barony For so myche as the two forenamed chylderne of Edmunde Edwyn and Edgar were thought to yonge and insuffycyent to take vpon them so great a charge The whyche Edrede was enoynted kynge of Oddo archbyshop of CauÌterbury in y e towne of Kyngestowne And soone after he warred vpon the Danys that then were reentred into Northumberland or after some wryters there dwellynge vnder trybute of the kynge subdued before of Edmunde hys brother and bette theym downe and caused theym to holde and obeye vnto theyr former couenauntes And the Scottes than began to varye which he also brought vnto due obedyence After a certayne terme y e Danys of Northumberlande whyche euer contynued full of gyle and dowblenesse not beyng content to holde the couenauÌtes before made promisses vnto Edredus the kynge called vnto theym theyr olde accessaryes and helpers and bereuyd from the kynges subiectes the cytye of yorke and other stronge townes and castelles to the great hurte of the couÌtrey and vtter dyspleasure of the kynge wherfore he beynge therof aduertysed in goodly and conuenyent haste assembled hys people and spedde hym thyther and destroyed myche of the lande And in that fury brent the abbey of Rypon whyche the Danys kept for a fortresse and strength and wan from them myche of the strengthes that they to fore had woÌne and broughte theym agayne vnder hys subieccyon when this kynge Edrede had thus spedde hys iourney and was retournynge into Englande nothynge suspectynge the sayde Danys a company of them by the excytyng of Hyrcus a kyng or prynce of the Danys theÌ folowyd the kinges hoste and on thys halfe yorke fyll vppon the kynges rerewarde and destroyed slew many a man For the whyche doyng the kynge was sore amoued tourned hys people agayne entendynge to haue destroyed y e countrey vtterly wherof the Danys beynge ware so lowely meked theym vnto hym gaue to hym suche gyftes that the kyng refrayned hym of the great yre that he had purposed to theym But amonges other articles y t he bounde them vnto one was that they shuld banyshe and vtterly refuse theyr fore sayde duke or kynge called Hyrcus whyche thynge with dyuers and many other graunted
suche doynge for the ensample that therof myght ensewe The monkes sayde yetCryste alowed nother the olde dweller nor yet the persone But who so wolde take the crosse of penaunce vppon hym and folow Cryste in vertuous lyuynge he shulde be hys dyscyple For thys was holden a generall counsayle of bysshoppes and all the clergy of the land at wynchester where holy DuÌstane helde wyth the vertuous And whyle they were there in greate argument for thys mater as dyuers wryters testyfyeÌ a rode there beyng or standynge in the wall spake myraculously and sayd that Dunstanes wayes was good and trewe But for all thys the stryfe seased not In so mych that a new assemble of the clergye and other was appoynted after at a place called the strete of Calue where the counsayle was kept in an vpper lofte In thys counsayle DuÌstane was greuously despysed and rebuked of some vnskylfull meÌ But yet he kept hys opynyon grounded vpon iustyce and vertue And whyle they were there in thys greate dyuysyon and argument whyche waye shulde be admytted and alowed sodeynly the ioystes of the lofte fayled and the people fell downe so y t many were slayne greuously hurte But holy Dunstane escaped wyth fewe other that toke hys partye vnhurte This wonder with the other caused sylence amonges them that enteÌded to maynteyne this foresayd quarell so that Dunstane had all hys wyll Thus passynge the tyme of the reygne of Edwarde the kynge he came vppon a season from huntyng in the forest or woode after some wryters nere to the castell of Corfe in y e west countre where he losynge hys company and seruauntes resorted vnto the castell before sayd where at that tyme hys moder with her sonne Egelredê° kept her housholde whan the quene was warned of hys commynge anone she called to a seruauÌt of hers whych she mych trusted and tolde to hym all her counsayle shewynge to hym forther how he shulde behaue hym in accomplysshynge of her wyll and mynde And that done she went towarde the kynge and receyued hym wyth all outwarde gladnesse and desyred hym to tary wyth her that nyght But he in curteyse maner excused hym selfe for spede desyred to drynke vpon hys horse syttyng y e whych was shortly brought And whyle the cuppe was at hys mouth the seruaunt before of the quene enfourmed strake hym to the herte wyth a sworde or a longe dagger sharpe on both sydes After whiche stroke by the kynge receyued he toke the horse wyth the spores and ranne towarde the place that he was comen fro or ellys suche waye as he supposed to mete of hys company But he bled so sore that for fayntnes he fyll from hys horse hys one fote beynge faste in the styrroppe By reason wherof he was drawen of y e horse ouer wayes and feldes tyll he came to a place named than Corysgate where he was founden dede And for y e maner of hys deth was vnknoweÌ âª and also he for kynge not knowen he was buryed vnworthely at the towne of warehmÌ and there rested by the terme of .iii. yeres after In whyche tyme and season god shewed for hym dyuers myracles as syghte to the blynde helthe to the syke and herynge to y e defe wyth dyuers other whyche I ouer passe wherof herynge hys stepmoder began to take repentaunce and entended to vysyte hym by way of pylgrymage But how or for what cause she entended inwardly I can nat saye but the horse or beest y t she rode vpon myght not nyghe y e place by a certayne space for betynge or any other thynge that to hym myght be done by man But after this by her meanes he was translated from theÌs to SeptonÌ that now is called Shaftesbury there buried with great honour But syn that tyme parte of his bodye was translated to the abbaye of Leof besyde Hereforde in the edge of walys and some parte therof to AbyndonÌ And yt is reported that at Shaftesbury remayne hys lunges and ben shewed in the place that is called Edwardysstowe For the murder of this blessed man yt is sayde as before is shewed in the story of Edgar that his stepmother fouÌded two monasteryes of women y e one at Ambrisbury and that other at warwell In the whyche place of warwell in her latter dayes she refusynge the pompe of the worlde helde there a solytary and strayte lyfe and ended her lyfe wyth great penaunce and repentaunce and was there buryed when she dyed Thus as ye haue harde was this vertuous yonge kynge Edwarde martyred wheÌ he had reygned after most wryters .iiii. yeres leuyng none yssue wherfore the rule of the lande fyll to Egelredus his brother THE CXCVII CHAPITER EGelredus the sonne of Edgar and Alfrida or Estryld his last wyfe beganne his reygne ouer Englande in the yere of our lorde .ix huÌdred .lxxxi and the .xxvi. yere of Lothayre then kynge of Fraunce This is named of some wryters Etheldredus and in the englyshe cronycle Eldrede In whose begynnyng the grounde waxed bareyne and all myseryes before bodyd by the apperynge of the blasynge starre in the dayes of Edwarde the martyr nowe beganne to take place and encreace vppon the erth This as the other of his êgenytours was crowned kyng at Kyngestone of the holy archbysshoppe Dunstane and of Oswalde archebyshop of yorke To whome as yt is redde in the lyfe of saynt Dunstane amonges his prophecyes that in the day of his coronacyon he sayd vnto the kynge for thou comest to this kingdome by the deth of thy brother in whose deth Englyshemen coÌspyred with thy wykked moder they shall not be wythout blood shedynge and sworde tyll there come people of vnknowen tunge and brynge them into thraldome And thys trespace shall not be clensyd wythoute longe vengeaunce Of this Egelredê° wryters agreen that he was goodly of shappe and of vysage but that was mynged wyth lechery and cruelty It is also redde that when holy Dunstane shuld crysten hym as he helde hym ouer the fonte he felyd the holy lyker wyth y e fruyte of his wombe wherfore holy Dunstane sware by god and by hys mother this shal be vnkynde to god and his chyrche whych fayled not in his forth goynge for he was vngracyous in his begynnynge wretched in y e myddell of his lyfe and hatefull to men in the ende therof In the seconde yere of his reygn a cloude was sene in Englande the whyche appered halfe lyke blood the other halfe lyke fyre and chaunged after into sundry colours dysaperyd at the laste In the thyrd yere of his reygn y e Danys aryued in sundry places of his lande as in the yle of Thanet besyde Kente in Cornewayll and Sussex and dyd in those costes myche harme And after some of theym came to London but there they were put of How be yt they destroyed a great part of Chestershyre And in the ende of the same yere a great parte of the cytye of London was wasted with fyre
kynge after hym To the whyche questyon was answered by Peter the kyngedome of Englyshemen is the kyngedome of god wherfore the kynges therof shall stande at goddes puruyaunce And also a nother doctour called Henry of Huntyngdon shewyd that an holy man warned Englyshe men y â a lorde whyche they thought nothynge vppon shulde come out of Fraunce brynge them ryght lowe In the tyme also of thys Canutê° by agrement of many wryters fyll one thynge worthy mynde and memory In a town of Saxony named Calbis in y e dyocesys of Magburgh and parysshe of saynt Magii xviii men and .xv. women vppon the euen of the Natyuyte of our lorde began a daunce about the chyrche yarde of saynt Magu afore sayd the person or other prestes beyng than at masse wythin y e same chyrche which beyng troubled wyth the noyse of the mynstrellys also the dynne of the sayde men and women sent vnto them in monysshynge them to seace of that doynge But all was in vayne for they wolde not seace of theyr dysport for any commauÌdement y t to theÌ was gyuen wherwyth the preste beynge dyscontented that they none other wyse reuerenced y e sacrament noryed that solempne season besought god and saynte Magii that they shulde contynue theyr daunce by the space of an hole yere The whyche prayer was harde in suche wyse that they contynued the same songe daunce tyll that daye twelue monethes and neuer eate nor dranke nor rested theÌ in all y e season And moreouer dewe nor rayne fyll vppon them in all that yere nor garment nor no thyng that was about them was impayred shoo nor other At the yeres ende Horobertus archbysshop of that dyocesys came vnto y e sayde place and lowsed them of that bonde whych the preste had bounde them in and before the awlter of the chyrche them reconsyled Of the whyche a prestes doughter and two other dyed forth wyth and the remenaunt yode to reste and slepte by the space of .iii. dayes and iii. nyghtes folowynge where after some of them dyed and suche as lyued fell lame of theyr lymmes And one of the same .xviii. men beyng named Ubertus or Hupertus wrote thys wonder wyth hys owne hande for a more recorde of the trowth Then let vs retorne to Canutus of whom it is redde that after hys coÌmyng from Rome he beganne somdele to presume in pryde set more by hym selfe than good wysdome wolde In tyme of whyche exaltacyoÌ of hys mynde he went vnto the Tamys syde and behelde howe the water swelled or flowed And so standynge nere the water the water touched hys fete Than he charged the water that he shuld flowe no hygher and that in no wyse he shulde to wche hys lordes clothes But the water kepte his course and wette at length the kynges thyes wherewyth y e kyng abasshed sterte backe and sayde all erthly kynges may know that theyr powers be vayne and that none is worthy to haue the name of a kynge but he that hath all thynges subiecte to hys hestes as here is shewed by worchynge of hys treature by thys water And for thys as wytnesseth Polycronycon and other he offered hys crowne to y e rode of wynchester and neuer bare it vpon his hed after It is also wytnessed of the sayde authour that Canutus maryed hys doughter hadde by hys laste wyfe vnto Henry sonne of Conradus the emperour the seconde of that name as also it is testyfyed of the authour of Cronica cronicarum And he repayred many monasteryes and specyally suche as before tyme were hurte or throwne downe in the tyme of hys fathers persecucyon And began and ended the monastery of saynt Edmundes Bury endowed it wyth ryche possessyons as before is towched And dyed fynally at Shaftesbury and was buryed at wynchester whan he hadde reygned .xix. yeres leuyng after hym two sonnes of hys wyues the eldest was named Harolde and the yonger Hardykynytus the whyche lyuyng hys fader was made kynge of Denmarke Francia THE CCVII. CHAPITER HEnry the sonne of Robert begaÌ hys domynyon ouer the French men in the yere of our lord M.xxix and the .x. yere of Canutus than kynge of Englande To the whyche Henry CoÌstantyne the moder was so vnkynde that she by her meanes wolde haue preferred her yonger sonne Roberte duke of Burgoyne to the rule of the lande before thys Henry so that by her meanes bothe cytyes and castels were wyth holden from hym and was by her suche other as toke her parte so ouer lad that he was forced to resorte to Robert than duke of Normandy for to aske helpe of hym to wythstande hys enemyes ye shall vnderstande that this Robert was the .vi. duke of Normandy and sonne of Richarde the seconde and also father vnto wyllyaÌ bastard that conquered Englande Thys Roberte was lyberall and noble of condycyon but defamed of y e deth of hys elder brother Rychard the thyrde For the whyche murder as wytnessyth dyuers authours the vii yere of hys dowchery he went to Iherusalem and dyd in that pylgre mage many honourable and liberall actes the whyche in good order ben remembred in the .xix. chapyter of the vi boke of Polycronicon This Robert receyued kyng Henry wyth all honour and gaue vnto hym greate and ryche gyftes sent for hys frendes and knyghtes so y e the kynge had by hys ayde a greate myghty hoste And retorned agayn into Fraunce and in short whyle after recouered from hys sayde moder bothe cytyes townes and castelles that she and her fautours from hym wythhelde And fynally agreed so wyth her that he and she contynued frendes theyr lyfe tymes enduryng After whyche accorde about the .v. yere of hys reygne he made warre vppon Eudo erle of Champayne vppon Baldewine erle of FlauÌders and in processe of tyme wan froÌ them certayne cytyes and castelles the whyche Constance his moder hadde before tymes gyuen to them in tyme of dyscencyon In thys warre was slayne Eudo erle of Champayne wherfore hys .ii. sonnes Stephen Thybaud maynteyned the warre agayne the kynge but to theyr bothe harmes in y e ende For Stephen loste therby the cytyes of Chartres and towers and Thybaude y e cytyes of Troyes Maulx wyth other whan Henry hadde ended thys warre set hys lande in some quyetnesse he thaÌ buylded a monastery of saynt Martyne called Des ChaÌps besyde Parys and set therin seculer prestes In thys passetyme Robert duke of Normandy moued in conscyence to vysyte the holy sepulture of oure lorde called before hym hys lordes of hys lande wyllynge and coÌmaundynge them to owe theyr trewe allegaunce vnto hys yonger sonne wyllyam and to take hym for theyr lord and duke yf he retorne not agayne And to thys he caused to swere Robert than archbysshop of Roan with the other of hys lordes and after departed vppon the sayd iourney and dyed in the cytye of Bethenia as he was coÌmynge homewarde wherof y e lordes of Normandy beynge assertayned
he toke a myghty and stronge captayn of the sayde erle Guy named Hombolde the whyche he sente to the castell of Stampes there sauely to be kepte Durynge whyche warre Philyppe the kynge sykened and dyed the yere of grace M. a hundred .vi when he hadde rygned full .xlviii. yere and was buried at saint Benet sur Loyt THE CCXVI CHAPITER HArolde y e second son of erle Goodwyne and laste kynge of Saxons began to rule the realme of Englande y e v. daye of Ianuary and the yere of our lorde M. and .lxvi and the .viii. yere of Phylyp the fyrst then kynge of Fraunce This as moste myghty for so myche as the blessyd kynge Edwarde dyed wythout yssue not myndyng the promysse of hym before made vnto wyllyam duke of NormaÌdy as before I haue shewed toke vpoÌ him as kyng and was crowned of Aldredus then byshoppe of yorke All be yt as affermeth Guydo and other some of the lordes entended to haue made Edgare Adelynge kynge whyche Edgare as affermeth y e sayde authours was sonne to Edwarde that was the sonne of Edmund Ironsyde and named of some Edwarde the outlawe But for this Edgare was yong and specyally for Harolde was strong of knightes and rychesse he wanne the reygne Howe be yt Marianus sayth that kyng Edwarde ordeyned before his deth that Harolde shuld be kyng after hym By reason wherof the lordes crowned hym therupppon at westmynster Anon as he was crowned he beganne to fordoo euyll lawes and customes before vsed and stablysshed the good lawes and specyally suche as were for the defence of holy chirch and punyshed the euyll doers to the fere and example of other In shorte tyme after that Harolde was thus made kynges Tosty or Costy hys brother whyche as before is sayde was of the Northumbers chased into Flaundres made hym a nauy of .lx. small sayles and sayled about the I le of wyght toke prayes wythin the sayd yle and other places of Kent And from thens he sayled in to Lynsey dyd there myche harme both with fyre and sworde But soon after he was chased thens by EdwynÌ and Malcharus erles of Mercia of Northumberlande And then he sayled into Scotland taryed there tyll the somer after when Tostius was thus wyth hys robbers chased then Harolde Harfagar kynge of Northganys or Norways wyth a great nauy of .iii. hundred shyppes or mo entred y e mouth of the ryuer of Tyne Thys Harolde Harfagar as sayth Guyde was the sonne of Canutus and kyng of Denmarke and of Norway The whych heryng of the deth of holy Edward purueyed y e sayd great armye to wyn Englande as his ryghtfull enherytaunce when Harolde was warned of thys great flote of Danys he sent vnto the forenamed erles or dukes of Mercia and of Northumberland commaundyng them to wythstande theyr landrynge whyle he gadered hys strength Then the foresayde dukes spedde theym towarde the Danys and gaue vnto them a sharpe stronge fyght But in conclusyon the Englyshemen were put to the worse and were fayne to gyue backe so y t the enymyes entred farther into the lande The kyng herynge of the scoÌfyture of hys people made the more haste towarde hys enymyes so that the .vi. day after he came to Stemysforde brydge In thys whyle was Tostius before named come oute of Scotlande and gone to the partye of the Danys agayne hys owne brother In thys foresayde place bothe hostes ioyned and faught then there a sharpe cruell batayll wherin fyll many a sturdy knyght vppon the englyshe partye but mo vppon the Danys syde so that in the ende Harolde theyr kynge was slayne and that of the hande of Harolde kynge of Enlande as sayth Guydo and Tostius was also slayne in the same fyghte Olanus broter to the sayth Harolde Harfagar with Paulus duke of the yles of Orkeys were there taken prisoners The whyche the kynge caused to hym to be sworne to kepe such promises as they to hym there made and toke good pledges for performaunce of the same and after suffred theym to retourne from thens they were comen It ys also specyally remembred of the sayd authour that one knyght stode vppon the foresayde brydge and wyth his axe defended the passage maugre the hole hoste of y e Englyshemen and slew .xl. Englyshmen or mo wyth hys axe and myght not be ouercomen tyll an Englysheman went vnder the brydge and stycked hym vpwarde wyth hys spere thorough an hole of the brydge For thys vyctory Harolde was suppressed wyth pryde and also wyth couetouse so that he dyuyded not the prayes of hys enymyes amonge hys knyghtes but kepte theym to hym selfe or gaue parte vnto suche ânyghtes as he fauoured and spared to them that had well deserued by reason wherof he loste the fauour of many of hys knyghtes In thys passetyme the doughter of duke wyllyam the whych Harold shuld haue maried dyed within age wherfore Harold thought hiÌ y e more discharged of his êmise before made to her fader But duke willyam warned Harolde of couenauntes broken and medled menasses wyth prayers by sondry tymes wherunto Harolde answered that a nyce folyshe couenaunte ought not to be holden namely y e behest of other mennys ryght and kyngdome wythout the hole assent of the senatours of y e same land And farthermore a lewde othe might and ought to be broken and specyally when yt is compelled to be sworne for nede or for drede Uppon these answers receyued by duke wyllyam from Harolde in the whyle that messangers went came duke wyllyam gadered hys knyghtes and prepared his nauy and all other thinges necessary to the warre had assent of the lordes of his land to ayde and assyste hym in his iourney And ouer that he in such wise enformed the pope then beynge named Alexander the second y t he coÌformed hym in takynge of that vyage and sent vnto hym a banner the whyche he willed hym to bere in the shyp that he hym self shuld sayle in And so beynge purueyed of all thynges concernyng his iourney he sped hym to the see syde toke shyppynge in the hauen of faynt Ualery where he taryed a longe tyme or he myght haue a couenable wynde For y e whych his soldyours murmured grudged and sayd it was a woodnesse great dyspleasynge to god to desyre an other mannâs kyngdome by strength namely when god wythsayde yt by the workynge of his element At the laste when duke wyllyam had longe bydden and houed for the wynde he commaunded to brynge forth y e body of saynt Ualery and to be sette vppon the see stronde The whyche done the wynde shortely after came about and fylled the sayles Then wyllyam thanked god saynt Ualery and toke shortely after shyppynge and helde his course to warde Englande vppon thys grounde tytle folowynge The fyrste and pryncypall was to chalenge his ryghte and to haue the domynyon of the lande that to hym was gyuen as he affermed of kyng
slew many of his men and gat the fauour of the walshmen by gyftes and plesauÌt wordes and also compelled the sayd Robert to forsake EnglaÌd The whyche then sayled into a corner of NormaÌdye kept him there secretely tyll such tyme as to hym was thyther comen willyaÌ erle of Cornewall which wyllyam was also erle of Nortom in Normandye when these two erles were assocyat they gaderyd to them a great strength of Normans dyd great harme wythin the prouynce wherfore the kynge sayled thyther made sharpe warre vppon them In the whych he loste many of his men But in y e ende he put froÌ them theyr strength and toke theym both prysoners and so helde them y e terme of theyr lyues And that done he sette that couÌtrey in good reste and peace and after retourned into Englande After whyche returne kynge Henry made sharpe lawes agayne theues and other that vsed vnleful meanes In whyche lawes was conteyned losynge of lyfe of eyes of stones and other members of man as the gylte requyred And soone after Anselme archbysshoppe of Caunterbury assembled a great couÌsayll at London of the clergy of England By authoryte of the which couÌsayll dyuers abbotes and other were put from theyr dygnytie for that they had taken before tyme theyr abbayes by vnlefull meanes And amoÌges all other decrees one was y e prestes shulde forgo theyr wyues Then strife fell betwen y e kyng Anselme for that that he wold not sacre the prestes that hadde taken inuestyture of lewde mennys handes whyche before was forboden vppon payne of cursynge But Gyralde archebyshoppe of yorke for the pleasure of the kynge sacred suche bysshoppes wherfore Anselme beynge dyscoÌtent departed y e land and yode to Rome to shewe thys wyth other thynges to the pope whyche at that daye by moste accorde of wryters shulde be Pascall the seconde In the .vi. of the kynge the countrey of FlauÌdres was sore blemyshed and hurte by meane of the see so that the Flemynges yode aboute to haue socoure of dwellynge and requyred of the kyng to haue lycence that they might inhabyt them in the eest parte of the ryuer of Twede the whych to them was graunted But after a certayn of yeres they were remoued ito westwalys where they remayned a longe whyle but after they sprad all Englande ouer In the .vii. yere of thys kynge vppon a frydaye at nyghte in the fyrste weke of clene lent was sene an vncouth starre betwene y e south and the weste the whyche nyghtely appered at one howre and coÌtynued so by the space of .xxv. days And fore agaynst that oute of the eest parte appered a great leuyn or beme of bryghtnes whyche stretched towarde the sayde starre And vppon shere thursdaye nexte ensuynge were sene two monys that one in the eest and that other in the weste And in thys yere Anselme by the kynges agrement returned agayne from Rome and shortely after called a conuocacyon at London In the whyche by the popes authoryte yt was newely conformed and enacted that no temporall man after that daye shuld make inuesture with crosse or wyth rynge In the .viii. yere of the reygne of kynge Henry the fourth Henry emperour of Almayne the whyche had maryed Molde the eldeste doughter of kynge Henry when she was of the age of .v. yeres prysoned pope Pascall and dyuerse of the cardynallys This Henry also warred agayne his father Henry the .iii and lastely caste hym in stronge pryson For the whyche dede as assermeth Ranulphe he wylfully when he had ruled the empyre .xx. yere resygned hys dygnyte into the handes of Calixtus y e secoÌde of that name then pope after came secretely into England vnto Chester vnwyttynge hys wyfe or any of hys frendes where he lyued longe after a strayte lyfe and was buryed there at laste But to this sayeng dysagreeth the wryters of the storyes of emperours For of them yt is wytnessed that this Henry the emperour after he had ruled the empyre as before is sayd .xx. wynter he dyed at a place in Almayn called Spyre and there was buryed wyth this scrypture vppon his toumbe Filius hic pater hic auus hic preauus iacet hic whyche is to meane in our vulgare tunge as foloweth The son here lyeth with also y e fader The belsyre for y e great grauÌfader when Henry the emperour was thus dede as after yt shal be shewed when conuenyency of tyme requyreth what became of his wife it shall there be declared In the .ix. yere of y e reygne of kyng Henry the archebyshoppe Anselme professed Gerarde archbyshoppe of yorke to the yoke of hys obedyence as he was before taught by the lore of Lamfranke his predecessour And the .x. daye of Auguste folowynge he sacred .v. byshoppes at one tyme as of wynchester of Salysbury of Exeter of Herforde and of Glamurgan And kynge Henry ordeyned a byshoppes see at Ely and ordeyned there Henry that hadde ben bishoppe of Bangor and besette Cambrydgeâshyre to the see of Ely And to the bisshoppes see of Lyncolne he gaue his owne towne of Spaldynge for he hadde mynyshed that see by the preferment of Ely In the .x. yere dyed Anselme archbyshop of Caunterbury After whose deth that see was voyde .v. yeres the goodes of the chyrch spent to the kynges vse And wheÌ he was prayed to helpe y e chyrch that was wythout an hedde and a pastor he vsed to answere that his fader and also his brother had accustomed to set there the beste proued men y t they might fynd And to the entente that he myght do the same he toke the more tyme laysure wyth suche mylde answeres he so put of the tyme that be fylled hys cofers wyth the great sommes of y e benefyce And who that is desyrous to knowe of the great vertue of thys byshoppe Anselme lette hym rede in the .xiiii. chapyter of the .vii. boke of Polycronycon there he shall fynde a parte therof About this tyme as wytnesseth the frenche cronycle a coÌtrauersy began betwene the kyng and Lewys kyng of Fraunce son to Phylyp the fyrste This Lewys was surnamed Lewis the great other for hys bygnesse of person or ellys for greatnesse of hys dedes This Lewys sent vnto kyng Henry beynge in Normandy gaue vnto hym monycyon of homage for the duchy of Normandy also that he shulde restore vnto hym or bete down to the grouÌde the castell of Gysours also to recompence and restore for hurtes and harmes that his Normans hadde done in those partes But all this of kyng Henry was denyed and shortely after skyrmysshes and cocke fyghtes beganne betwene the sayde two prynces kynge Henry lyenge at the sayde castell of Gysours and Lewys at a place called mounte Calue But thys encreased in suche wyse that after eyther prynce soughte more rome places whose knyghtes sundry tymes met But of any notable batayll I fynde no remembraunce all be yt that the
whyche was consentyng to the same murder was hanged vppon a galos by the waste and armys and by hym amastyfe or great curre dogge the whyche as soon euer he was smytten bote vppon the sayde Bartopus so that in processe he all to rent hym dyd to hym so great payne that lastely he endyd his lyfe in great mysery In the time of y e reygn of this Lewys the bishop of ClermoÌde was voyded his see by the cruelnes of the erle of Auerne wherfore the kyng assembled his knyghtes and by strength set the byshoppe in hys place agayne maugry his enymyes And agayne the second tyme when he was eft put out by the sayde erle the kynge restoryd hym and toke suche pledges of the erle that he remayned after in good quyet In y e later dayes of this Lewys his eldest sonne named Phylyppe wyth a conuenyent company vppon a daye for his dysporte rode about certayne stretys of the cytye of Parys and as he rode an hogge sodeynly starte amonge the horse fete of the chylde wherwyth the horse beynge frayde lepte sodeynly and cast the chylde to the grounde wyth so great vyolence that he dyed y e nyght folowynge For this myssehappe the kynge toke great heuynesse so that he waxed dayly more feble And for he was vnweldly by reason of ouer ladynge of fleshe and myghte not well trauayll he therfore by the aduyce of hys lordes admytted hys seconde sonne named Lewys to the rule of the realme and hym he crowned by his lyfe tyme and also maryed hym vnto Elynoure the doughter of the duke of Guyan by whych he was inherytoure vnto her father And shortely after the kynge sykened and to hys great payne in an horse lytter was brought vnto saynt Denys where he lyenge a season syke and knew that the owre of deth was nere commaunded suche as were aboute hym that they shulde spredde a tapytte vppon the ground and then laye hym vppon the sayde tappette and vppon hym to be made a crosse of asshes whyche all was done accordynge to his commaundement And there he so laye tyll he dyed in the yere of hys reygne to reken from the deth of his father to his owne endynge daye .xxx. yeres so that he reygned .xxix yeres full and odde monethes and was buryed in the monastery of saynte Denys with great pompe wyth thys scrypture folowynge vppon his tombe Illustris genitor Lodouict rex Lodouicus Vir clemens Christi seruorum semper amicus Institui fecit pastorem canonicorum In sella veteri trans flumen Parisiorum Hane vir magnanimus asmi victoris amore Auro reliquijs ornauit rebus honore Sancti Dionysi qui seruas corpus humatum Martyr antisles Lodouici solue reatum whyche versys may be expowned in our vulgar as foloweth The noble father of Lewys Lewys the kynge To Crystes seruauntes ryght meke and louynge Caused to be made of chanons an howse In a selle of Paris where the streme flowes whyche this man myghty for loue of saynte Victor wyth golde an relyquys enorued with great honor wherfore saynte Denys whyche kepest hys body graued Martyr and bishoppe pray that his soule be saued Angsia THE CCXXXII CHAPITER STephan erle of Boloyn and son of the erle of Blesence and of the wyues syster of Henry the fyrst named Mary beganne his reygne ouer the realme of Englande in the yere of our lord .xi. C.xxxvi the first yere of Lewes y e .viii. of y t name then kyng of Fraunce This was a noble man and hardy But contrarye hys othe after the affyrmaunce of some wryters that he made to Molde the empresse he toke vpon hym y e crowne and was crowned vppon saynte Stephans daye in the Crystemasse weke at westmynster of the archbisshoppe of Caunterbury the whyche in lykewyse had made lyke othe vnto the sayde empresse in presence of her fader as before is touched In punyshment wherof as men denied the sayde archbyshoppe dyed shortly after And many other lordes whyche dyd accordyng lyke went not quyte wythout punyshement A great causer of this periurye as rehersyth one authour was this one Hugh Bygot stewarde somtyme wyth Henry the fyrste immedyatly after the deceace of the sayde Henry came vnto England and before the sayde archbysshop and other lordes of the lande toke wyllfully an othe sware that he was present a lytle before the kynges deth when kynge Henry admytted chase for hys heyre to be kynge after hym Stephan hys neuewe for so myche as Molde his doughter had dyscontented hym wher vnto the archbyshoppe wyth the other lordes gaue to hasty credence But this Hugh scaped not vnpunyshed for he dyed myserably in a shorte tyme after when kyng Stephan was crowned he sware before the lordes at Oxynforde that he wolde not holde in hys hand the benefyces that voyded and that he wold forgyue the Dane gelt as kyng Henry before hym had done wyth other thynges whyche I passe ouer And for this Stephan drad the coÌmynge of the empresse he therfore gaue lycence vnto his lordes y t euery of them myght buylde a castell or strong fortres vpon his own grouÌd And soone after he agreed wyth Dauyd kynge of Scottes receyued of hym homage after he had from hym wonne some townes and holdes The towne of Exetoure rebellyd agayne the kynge in the seconde yere of hys reygne But he in the ende he subdued theym And wyllyam archbyshoppe of Caunterburye dyed the same yere whose benefyce was after gyuen to Thibaude abbot of Becco in Normandye About the fourth yere of his reygne Dauyd kynge of Scottys repentynge hym of hys former agrement made wyth the kynge entred of newe the boundes of Northumberlande aboute the ryuer of Theyse towarde the prouynce of yorke and brent and slewe the people in moste cruell wyse not sparynge man woman nor chylde Agayne whome Thurstone by the kynges coÌmaundement was sent The whych wyth his power quytte hym so knyghtly that he ouer threwe the hoste of Scottes and slewe of theym a great nomber and compellyd theym to wythdrawe agayne into Scotlande In the which passetyme y e kyng layde syege to the castell of Bedforde and wanne yt And that done he then made a vyage into Scotlande where he dyd lytle to hys pleasure or profyte Then in his retourne homewarde he toke Alexaunder byshoppe of Lyncolne and helde hym in duresse tyll he hadde yelded or gyuen vnto hym the castell of Newerke And then he chased Nygellus byshop of Ely Also in thys furye he toke suche displeasure with his louynge frende Roger byshop of Salysburye that he caste hym in bondes tyll the sayde Roger hadde rendred vnto hym the two castellys of Uyes and Shyrburne For the whyche thys Roger in remembrynge the great ingratytude of the kynge toke such thought that he dyed shortely after and left in redy coyne .xl. thousande marke whyche after hys deth came to the kynges cofers One cronycle sayth that kynge Stephan obteyned these foresayde castellys
Andrewe Trollop dysceyued the lordes folio cciii A letter sent by Edward the .iii. vnto the kyng of Fraunce fo xciiii Agrement was made with the Scottes folio lxiii Answere made by the French kynge to kyng Edwardes letter fo xcv Answere made by the French kynge to kynge Henry fo clxxi Ambassade sent by the French kynge into Englande fo lxxxix Ambassade sent agayne by the sayde kynge folio lxxxix Ambassade sent into FrauÌce fo lxxxix Ambassade sent froÌ the pope fo ccviii A parte of London brydge fylle into Thamys fo lxxxix Ayde graunted by kynge Iohan. folio cxxiii Ayde was graunted by the inhabytauntes of the countre of Languedok folio cxxiiii Archebysshoppe of Orleaunce was slayne fo lxx Archbysshop of Caunterbury was slayne folio cxlii Archebysshop of Caunterbury maketh a collacyon folio cliiii Archebysshop of yorke wyth other was taken in batayle fo clxvii Artycles of treason layde agayne syr Roger Mortymer fo lxxxviii Artycles of peace ratyfyed bytwene kynge Edwarde and kynge IohnÌ folio cvi Artycles of dyspleasure shewed in wrytynge by the duke of Glocester agayne the bysshop of wynchester folio clxxx Archebysshop of yorke ouerturneth the Scottes folio xcix Artycles of peace concluded bytwen the erle of Flaunders and hys subiectes folio cxxxix Assembles made by lordes fo cxliiii Annyuersary honourable was fouÌden in Poulys chyrche fo cxi Auoutry was espyed fo ccxiii BArons warre began to grow in the .xli. yere of kyng Henry the thyrde folio xxx BaroÌs warre receyued and of newe kyndeled in the .xliiii. yere of Henry the thyrde folio xxxiii Barons assembled theyr companyes in the marches of wales in the .xlvi yere of the sayd kynge fo xxxiiii Barons entred the cytye of London folio xxxv BaroÌs dyscorded among them selfe folio xxxviii Barons were chasyd the .xiiii. yere of Edwarde the seconde fo lxxix Batayle of Lewys bytwene kynge Henry the .iii. the barons fo xxxvii Batayle called the whyte batayle loke in the .xi. yere of Edwarde the seconde folio lxxvii Batayle of Burbrydge bytwen king Edwarde the seconde and the baroÌs in hys .xiiii. yere fo lxxix Batayle very cruell agaynste the Scotte called Halydon fo lxxxix Batayle of Swyn or Sluce vppon the see bytwene the Frenchmen and Edwarde the thyrde in the .xv. yere of hys reygne fo xciii Batayle of Cressey in the .xxi. yere of Edwarde the thyrde fo xcviii Batayle of Potyers bytwene kynge Edwarde the thyrde and the French kynge folio ciii Batayle bytwene kynge Phylyp of Fraunce and the towne of Cassile in Flaunders fo cxvii Batayle of Shrowysbery in the .iii. yere of Henry the fourth fo clxvii Batayle at Blak pole in the .vi. yere of Henry the .iiii. fo clxvii Batayle of Agyncourt in the thyrde yere of Henry the .v. fo clxxii Batayle of saynte Albons fyrste the xxxiii yere of Henry the .vi. fo cc. Blore heth felde apperys in y e .xxxvii yere of kynge Henry the .vi. fo cciii Batayle of Ludlowe as it doth appere in folio cciii Batayle of Northamton as appereth in folio cciiii Batayle of wakefelde apperys and the batayle of sayn Albons fo ccv Batayle of yorke or Towton or Shyrborne fo ccvi Barnet felde fo ccxix Batayle of Tewkesbury fo ccxx BartraÌ de CleycoÌ warred in Spayn and chasyd the kynge fo cix Blasynge sterre apperys in folio .xc. and fo cxviii and fo clix Blanke charters vses in Eng. fo cli Brekyng of peace bytwen England and Fraunce loke in the .xliii. yere of kynge Edwarde the .iii. fo cxi Brest a stronge towne of Brytayne besyeged fo cxiii Benyuolence was fyrste fouÌded and grauÌted in Edwarde the .iiii. dayes folio ccxxv Bysshop Groostehede and of his actes apperyth in y e .xxxiii. yere of kyng Henry the thyrde folio xxvi Bysshop of Exceter was beheded apperyth in the .xviii. yere of Edwarde the seconde folio lxxxii Bysshop of Norwyche made warre in Spayne by the popes coÌmaundement in the .vi. yere of Rycharde the seconde folio cxliii Bysshop of London hath a memory of the cytesyns of London fo cxlvii Bysshop of wynchester lent to kyng Henry the fyfte .xx. thousand pouÌde folio clxxvii Bysshop of wynchester foresayd created cardynall folio clxxx Bysshop of Salysbury was slayne in the ende of .xxviii. of Henry the .vi. as more playnly is shewed fo cxcviii Bysshop of Chychester called Reynolde Pecok was abiured of heresye folio ccii Boke of prophecy was founden by a Iewe in Spayne folio xxiiii Blode of Cryste was broughte into westmynster by kynge Henry the .iii. folio xxv Bonifacius pope of hys coÌdycyons folio lxxi Bull of the pope manyfested at Poulys crosse folio xxxiii Busshe Baggot and Grene and of theyr actes folio cli BrytoÌs resyst y e FrenchmeÌ fo xxxix CHarles the .v. of that name surnamed the fayre and brother to Phylyp surnamed the longe sonne of the .iiii. Phylyp began hys reygne ouer the realme of Fraunce in the yere of grace M.iii. hundreth and .xxii and the .xv. yere of the secoÌd Edwarde kynge of Englande and reygned yeres .vi. folio lxxxiiii Cardynalles that were sent into Englande from the pope were robbed appereth in the .ix. yere of Edwarde the seconde folio lxxvi Caen a stronge towne in Normandye besyeged by kynge Edward the thyrde and won it folio xcviii Calys besyeged and gotten by kyng Edwarde the thyrde folio xcix Cardynall sent from the pope laboured for peas folio ciii Castell of Pount was yolden vp by appoyntement folio cxxv Careckes .iii. were taken by the duke of Clarence and the erle of Kente folio clxvii Charyte of kynge Lewys folio i. Charles de Ualoys brother to Phylyppe le Beawe vncle vnto Charles the .v. foresayd dyed folio lxxxvi Charles de Bloys was slayne in the batayle bytwene syr IohnÌ Mountforte and the sayd Charlys fo cix Charles the .vi. of that name sonne of IohnÌ beÌganne to rule the French men in the yere of our lorde M.iii. C.lxiiii .xxxviii. yere of the thyrde Edwarde kynge of Englande and reygned yeres .xvi. folio xxxvi Charles the .vii. of y e name a yonge chylde and sonne of the .vi. Charlys began hys reygne ouer Fraunce in the moneth of september and yere of our lorde a thousand .iii. huÌdreth and lxxx and the thyrde yere of the secoÌde Rycharde then kyng of Englande reygned yeres .xlii. folio clv. Charles the .viii. of that name and sonne vnto Charles the .vi. as sayen the Frenche authours but the Englysshe wryters sheweth the coÌtrary as in the story of thys Charles shall appere thys began to reygne ouer y e Frenchmen in the yere of our lorde thousande .iii. huÌdreth and .xxii and the laste yere of Henry the .v. thenne kynge of England reygned yeres xxxvi folio ccvii Chauntryes fouÌded in Poulys churche in London fo cxi Cerymonyes for the coronacyon of kynge Henry the .iiii as appereth folio clxiii CreacyoÌ of dukes by kyng Rychard the .ii. fo cxliii Clement pope
dyspleased for that he myght gyue no bysshopryches withiÌ the realme of Englande in the .xviii yere of kyng Edwarde the .iii. as apereth fo xcvi Cytezyns of London are tolle free folio xx Cytezyns of Londn were arrested folio xxx Clerkes of Orleaunces wythstande the kynge of Fraunces commaundement fo cxix Churche or monastery of westmynster was ended of buyldyng as apereth fo lviii Condycions made by the borough-maysters of the towne of Burgys agaynst theyr erle fo lxxxvi Constable of Fraunce was murdred by the aduyse of Charles kyng of Nauerne fo cxxii Constable of the towre of London was drowned whose name was called syr Thomas RamstonÌ as appereth folio clxviii Constantynoble was wonne by the Turkys as it is shewed in folio cxcix Colacyon made by the archebysshop of Caunterbury to the lordes for the deposycyon of kyng Rycharde the .ii. folio cliiii Conclusyon of maryage by kynge Henry the .vi. fo cxcii Condycyons of kynge Lowys as is shewed fo ccxxii Commynge of the emperoure into Fraunce and of hys honourable receyte folio cxxxvii Composycyon was made betwene kynge Henry the syxte and the duke of yorke as appereth folio ccv Copy of a letter sent from Edwarde the .iii. vnto the Frenche kynge and answere to the same made loke in folio xcv Copy of an instrument made for deposyng of kyng Rycharde as is shewed folio cliii Copye of a byll put into the parlyament house for the temporaltees as is shewed fo clxix Copy of a letter sent by the bysshope of wynchester vnto the duke of Bedforde folio clxxxi Copy of a pardon made by the kyng vnto the cytezyns of London as apereth fo xli Correccyon of aduoutry as is shewed folio lxxiii Coronacion of quene Katheryne as appereth fo clxxvi Courses of seruyce for the feest of the sayd coronacyon fo clxxvi Corps of kynge Henry the .v. was with great solempnite brought vnto the monastery of westminster as apereth fo clxxi Countesse of Henawde laboured to make a peace betwene kyng Edward the thyrd kynge Phylyp of FrauÌce folio xcv Couenauntes betwene the regente the kynge of Nauerne are expressed and shewed folio cxxxi Couenauntes of maryage betwene kynge Henry the .v. and the Frenche kyng beholde in fo clxxv Crossed treers came fyrste into EnglaÌde in the .iii. yere of kyng Edward the .ii. folio lxxv Crucyfix of golde belongyng to sait Denys church in Fraunce was axed by the kyng of the monkes for ayde folio cxx DAme Blaunche was ayded by Phylip the French kynge as appereth folio lii Dame Elynour Cobham was arrested of treason as it is shewed in folio cxci Dauyd brother of Lewyn prynce of walys wrought treason as it is shewed in fo lvii Dauyd aforesayd was taken folio lviii Daunsynge wonderfull beholde folio lix Derthe of corne folio lx Dede knyght apered to one mayster Morres in walys fo xiii Derknesse intollerable fylle in Paulys churche the bysshoppe beynge at masse folio xxi Deuorce betwene Charlys y e French kynge and BlauÌche as it is shewed folio lxxxiiii Dede corpsys what noumbre in one yere were buryed in London fo c Depe a towne in Normandy was strongly assayled by the lord Talbot folio cxcii Denham esquyer toke the lorde Ryuers at Sand wyche folio cciiii Dyscencyon amonge the lordes of Englande fo xxxii Dyscencion fyll amoÌge the lordes in Normandy fo cxix Dyscencion grewe betwene y e FreÌche kynge and the kynge of Nauerne folio cxxii Dyscencyon fylle amonge the FreÌch men for cessynge of an ayde folio cxxiii Dyscencyon grewe amonge the thre astates of the realme of Fraunce folio cxxvi Dyuers inconuenyences fyll in Englande and in Fraunce as is shewed folio c Dyuerse vysyons and meruayles were sene in the ayer as it is shewed folio cviii Duke of Ostryche dyed and the hostages of kynge Rycharde were free delyuered folio ix Duke of Lancasters actes folio ciii Duke IohnÌ of LaÌcastre made warre in Fraunce folio cxi Duke of Lancastre passed thorugh Fraunce wythoute fyghte folio cxiii Duke of Burgoyn complayneth vppon syr IohnÌ Chalous knyghte folio cxviii Duke of Normandy maketh hys oracion to the cytesyns of Parys folio cxxviii Duke foresayde was proclaymed regente of Fraunce as it is shewed folio cxxx Duke of Lancastre reentred FrauÌce folio cxxxvi Duke of LaÌcastre warred in SpaynÌ folio cxlv Duke of Glouceter spake sharpe wordes to kyng Rycharde the secoÌd folio cxlix Duke of Glouceter was arested and murdered folio cxlix Dukes of Herforde and of Northfolke fyll at dyscencyon for cause shewed folio cl Duke of Lancastre claymed the crowne folio cliii Duke of Orleaunce laboured agaiÌst the vnyuersyte of Parys folio clx Duke of Orleaunce was slayne folio clx Dukes of Orleaunce of Burgoyn maketh new warre fo clx Duke of Burgoyne was slayne folio clxiii Dukes and barons were put to deth for treason folio clxv Duke of Clarence was slayn folio clxxvii Duke of Glouceter was made protectour of Englande in the fyrste yere of the reygne of kynge Henry the syxte and the duke of Bedforde regente of Fraunce as it is shewed in fo c.lxxix Duke of Bedforde wynneth holdes in Fraunce se in fo clxxx Duchesse of HolaÌd was taken prysoner loke in fo clxxxi Duke of Alenson was delyuered for hys raunsom fo clxxxii Duke of Northfolke was in greate ieopardy of drownyng fo clxxxiii Duke of Burgoyne turned from the Englysshe partye to y e French partye as is shewed in fo clxxxviii Duke of Burgoyn layde syege to Calays fo clxxxix Dukes erles were created as apereth in fo cxciii Duke of Suffolke was arrested folio cxcv Duke of Somerset was arrested as sheweth in fo c.xcviii Duke of yorke gathered people as apereth in fo cxcviii Duke of yorke dyscharge of hys protectourshyp fo cci Duke of yorke and othe were attaynted as apereth in fo cciiii Duke of Bukkyngham many other were slayne fo cciiii Duke of yorke taketh the kynges royall see fo ccv Duke of yorke with other was slayn folio ccv Duke of Burgoyne assisteth y e FreÌch kynges sonne agaynst hys father as is shewed in fo ccix Duke of Brytayn other conspyred agayne theyr kyng fo ccix Duke of Somerset wyth other put to deth fo ccxv Duke of Clarence wyth other laÌded at Dartmouh fo ccxviii Duke of Exceter was founde dede in the see folio ccxxi Duke Clarence was drowned in wyne fo ccxxii Duke of Glouceter was made protectour fo ccxxiiii Duke of Bukkyngham sheweth the tytle of kyng Rychard fo ccxxv Duke of Glouceter taketh possessyoÌ at westmynster as appereth folio ccxxv Duke of Bukkyngham coÌspyreth agaynst kyng Rychard was taken beheded at Salysbury fo ccxxv Duke of OrleauÌce was taken in batayll as is shewed fo ccxxviii Duke of Brytayne dyed whereby great warre foloweth as it is shewed fo ccxxviii EDwarde the fyrste of that name sonne of Henry y e thyrde surnamed Edwarde Longe shanke began
of .x. thousande pounde for the exployte of his voyage And farther more he sold to the olde byshoppe of Durham hys owne prouynce for a great summe of money and creatyd hym erle of the same wherfore the kynge sayde after in game I am a wonders crafty man for I haue made a new erle of an old byshop By suche meanes the kyng emptyed many byshoppes and ryche prestys bagges and fylled hys cofers And ouer that he graunted oute annuytyes and fees oute of the crowne as though he roughte nothynge of hys retournynge For this dede some of hys famylyers as they durste blamed hym But he sayde to theÌ y t in tyme of nede it was good polycy for a man to ayde hym wyth his owne And more ouer he ioyned ther to that yf London were hys at that tyme of nede he wolde sell yt yf he myght gete a conuenyent marchauÌt that for yt were able to paye An other waye he hadde also to gather money for he hadde lycence of pope Innocent the thyrd of that name to dyspence wyth suche as hym lyked wythin his realme for takyng vppon theym the crosse Anno domini M.C.xci.  Anno domini M.C.xcii  IohnÌ Herlyon  Balliui  Anno secundo  Roger duke  IN the seconde yere in the moneth of October kynge Rycharde betoke the guydynge of the lande vnto the byshoppe of Ely then chaunceller of Englande and sayled into Normandye where settynge the couÌtrey vnder sadde guydyng shortly after mette with the Frenche kyng Phylyp the second the whych ioyntly yode to Turon and there ouer passyd the shortnesse of wynter In whyche passe tyme makynge eyther wyth other assuraunce for contynuaunce of so great a iourney at the sprynge of y e yere these two princes toke theyr voyage towarde the holy lande that is to meane kyng Rycharde by y e see and knnge Phylyppe by the lande and appoynted to mete agayn in the land of Scicilia or Scycyll In this meane tyme in England the Iewes in dyuers places of y e realme as Lyncolne Staunforde and Lynne were robbed and spoyled and at yorke to the nomber of foure hundred mo cutte theyr mayster veynes and bled to deth The two kynges accordynge to theyr appoyntemeÌt met in Scycyll where grudge beganne to kyndle betwene theym for correccyon of theyr souldyours Then the French kyng departyd agayne from kynge Rycharde the whyche there made certayne ordynaunces for warre as a towre or castell of tymber whyche he named Mategryffons and also prouyded for vytayll for both hostes In thys tyme also the kynge of Cyprys hadde taken two shyppes of kynge Rycharde and denyed the delyuery of theym wherfore the sayde Rycharde entryd the land of Cypris makynge therin sharpe warre chasyd so the kynge from cytye to cytye that lastely he yelded him vnto kyng Rycharde vppon condicyon that he shulde not be throwen in bondes of iron wherof kynge Rycharde in kepynge of hys promyse caste hym in bondes of syluer when kynge Rycharde hadde dwellyd there vppon two monethes and hadde taken his pleasure of that couÌtrey and taken amendes at his own wyll for hys shyppes then he departed from the sayde yle of Cypris and sayled towarde Acon or Acris In whyche course so kepynge towarde Acris he encountred a great shyppe of the Soudans of Sury fraughte wyth great ryches and toke yt and so came at length to y e cytye of Acris where at that tyme lay before y e sayd towne the Frenche kynge wyth hys hoste and had lost a lytle before two thousande of hys men whyche were partyd from hys hoste to haue done an enterpryse vppon the Turkes but they were layde for dystressed Then as testyfyeth Peter Dysroy kynge Rycharde was ioyously receyued of the Frenche kynge After whose commynge yt was not longe that the sayd cytye was gyuen vp by appoyntement as foloweth and as affermeth the sayde Peter and also the cronycle of Fraunce Fyrste that the Sarasyns shulde departe out of the cytye leuynge behynde theym horse harneys vytayll and all other thynge belongynge to warre Also they shulde cause to be restoryd all such prysoners of crysteÌ men as they had vnder theyr kepyng wyth other couenauntes whyche I passe ouer And thus was the cytye of Acris yelden into the crysten mennes handes in the moneth of Auguste the yere of our lorde .xi. hundred .lxxx. and xii But when yt came to the partyng of the praye of the cytye there beganne malyce to kyndle hys bronde whych was not lyghtly after quenchyd Of thys varyance betwene these two kynges of England of FrauÌce dyuers maners are shewyd For Polycronica sayth that yt beganne by reason that kynge Rycharde denyed vnto kynge Phylyp halfe hys wynnynges in Cypris accordyng to the couenauntis betwene theym assured at Turon But kyng Rychard sayd that the coÌuencyon there made stretched no forther then to suche goodes as was wonne wythin the lymytes or boundes of the holy lande Another grudge was by reason that the French kyng ayded not y e erle of Champeyne beynge in dystresse of nede wherfore the sayde erle beynge discontent sayde to the FreÌche kyng Syr hytherto I haue done accordynge to my dutye but hereafter I shall do as I am compellyd be nede For your grace hath hytherto cherysshed me but for myn but now I shal go to hym y t is more redy to gyue theÌ to take and so departed to kyng Rycharde of the whyche he had all hys pleasure The thyrde cause was as sayth Ranulph for as mych as kyng Rycharde at hys begynnyng in Scycyll maryed the syster of the kynge of Nauerne where before he hadde promysed to mary the syster of the sayde kynge Phylyppe But of these artycles speketh nothyng the french cronycle all be it he layeth greate defaute vnto kynge Rycharde sayeng in sedycyous and vyle wordys that kyng Rycharde falsly brake hys appoyntmentes and kepte no promesse that by hym was made Moreouer the sayd cronycle sayth that he solde the ile of Cyprys vnto the Templers for .xxx. thousande marke and after toke it agayne froÌ them by strength and delyuered it vnto Guy de Lesygnan that was the laste crystened kynge of Hierusalem And ouer this the sayde frenche cronycle sayth that he toke from a knyght of the duke of Ostrych the sayd dukes banner and in despyte of the sayde duke trade it vnderfote and dyd vnto it all the despyte he myghte And ouer all thys where as Conradus Markes of Tyre was traytorously slayn by two of his owne seruauntes that kyng Rycharde shulde laye the charge therof vnto the frenche kynge For these grudges and sykenesse wyth also fere of treason to be wrought bytwene Saladyne the SoudaÌ and kynge Rycharde as affermeth or allegeth the foresayde authoure kynge Phylyppe wyth a small company of shyppes departed from AcoÌ or Acris sayled to Puyll or Poyll and there restynge hym a season coÌtynued hys iourney vnto Rome and so lastely into hys owne prouynce of Fraunce
sore warreyd of the Frenche kynge in somoche that he hadde wonne the towne of Margquet and the countre theraboute And for to put the sayde Guy vnto the more trouble the sayd Frenche kynge caused Robert erle of Artoys to inuade the couÌtre of FlauÌdres toward Pycardy encountred with y e sayd Guy nere vnto a towne called Furnes wher atwene y e said .ii. erles was foughteÌ a sharpe bataâl so that many men were slayne vpon bothe partyes After whiche fyght the Erle of Flaunders spedde hym towarde Gaunt where as kynde Edwarde than soiourned the erle of Artoys drewe hym towarde y e FreÌche kynge the whiche shortly after was receyued into the towne of Bruges In whiche tyme and season whyle y e sayd .ii. kynges laye thus at eyther towne a meane of peas was there treated of so that fynally a peas was coÌcluded atwene the .ii. kynges and atwene the Frenche kynge and Guy erle of FlauÌders vnto the feest of all sayntes than next ensuenge And froÌ that day vnto the feast of all sayntes thaÌ .ii. yeres folowyng After whiche peas so stablysshed kynge Edwarde departed from the towne of Gaunte yode to Burdeaux And y e Frenche kynge retourned into Fraunce And prysoners were delyuered on bothe partyes In this tyme and season whyle kynge Edwarde was thus occupyed in FlauÌders the Scottes by the entysement of the Frenche kynge to the entent to cause kynge Edwarde to kepe his countre that he shulde nat ayde the erle of Flaunders beganne to make warre vpon the kynges soudyours whiche y e kynge had lafte there in dyuers holdes And also entred vpon y e borders of NorthuÌberlande made sharpe warre vpon the inhabytauntes of that countre And for that syr IohnÌ Bayloll theyr kynge after some wryters was at y â tyme prysoner in the towre of London or els voyded the couÌtre for fere of the kynge of Englande therfore the sayde Scottes made them a capytayne the whiche was named wyllyam waleys a man of vnknowen or lowe byrth to whom they obeyed as vnto theyr kynge Anone as y e kynge herde of the rebellyon of the Scottes which to hym was no great wonder consyderynge theyr greate vnstedfastnesse he wrote his letters vnto syr HeÌry Persy erle of NorthuÌberlande to syr wyllyam Latymer and to syr Hugh Cressyngham than tresourer of Englande and to other that they in all goodly haste shulde make prouysyon to withstande the Scottes The whiche persones after receyte of the kynges letters spedde them all in spedy maner so that they entred Scotlande shortly after and coÌpelled y e Scottes to returne backe vnto a towne named Streuelyn where iÌ a skyrmyssh foughteÌ atwene the Englysshe and the Scottes syr Hugh Cressyngham forenamed with dyuers Englysshemen was slayne But yet the Scottes were holden so strayte of the Englysshe hoost that after that skyrmysshe they wolde nat of a certayne tyme come in playne felde but kepte theym within theyr castelles and stroÌge holdes And this yere atwene Easter and wytsontyde certayne êsones of LondoÌ brake vp the tunne in the warde of Cornhyll and toke out certayne persones that thyder were commytted by syr IohnÌ Bryton then custos or gardeyn of the cytie for nyght walkynge For y â whiche ryot the sayde persones that is to meane Thomas Romayne and viii other were afterwarde greuously punysshed as fyrst by prysonmeÌt and after by fynes And this yere the kynge in y e moneth of October came into EnglaÌde and so to wynchester where the cytezyns of London made suche laboure vnto his grace that shortly after they opteyned graunte of theyr lyberties and fraunchyses that had in some parte be kepte from them by y e terme of .xii. yeres more So that vpon the daye of the translacyon of saynt Edwarde kynge and confessour next folowyng they chase them a mayre of them selfe where by all the foresayd tyme theyr custos or gardeyn was appoynted by y e kyng or by suche as y e kyng wold assygne But ye shall vnderstande that this was not redemed without great summes of money For after some wryters the cytezyns payde for it to the kynge .iii M. marke Also this yere kyng Edwarde put out of his proteccyon certayne Alyauntes whiche were rychely benefyced in England The cause was for the sayd alyauntes wolde nat ayde y e kynge with theyr goodes as y e other of his lande dyd but purchased an inibicyon of pope Boniface the .viii that they and theyr goodes shulde be fre from all the kynges dymes or taskys Therfore y e kyng ceased theyr temporaltyes and suffered theÌ with theyr spyritualtes tyl they were agreed with the kynge Anno domini M.CC.xcviii  Anno domini M.CC.xcix  Richarde Reffham  Henry waleys  Anno .xxvii.  Thomas Sely.  IN this .xxvi. yere after Chrystmasse certayne persones made a dyggyng and a serche in y e churche of saynt Martynes le grauÌde in LoÌdon for certayne tresoure that there shulde be hydde as it was reported of a gardiner But theyr labour was in vayne for nothynge was there founde For the whiche dede y e deane of Poules the seconde sonday of lent folowynge denounced all theÌ accursed that were at that dede doynge or consentynge to the same In this yere aboute y e begynnyng of Aprell the kynge rode towarde Scotlande and appoynted his lordes with theyr companyes to mete with hym at yorke where with hym met a great hoost y t whiche he ladde into Scotlande and brent and spoyled the countre as he went and taryed a season at Barwyke And from thens he spedde hym in wynnynge of the townes and castelles as he went tyll he came nere to a towne named Fawkyrk or Fankyrk where vpon y e day of mary Magdaleyne or y e .xxii. day of Iulii met with hym y e power of Scotlande and gaue vnto hym a sore fyght But in the ende the vyctory fyll vnto the EnglysshmeÌ so that of the Scottes were slayne in y e felde as affyrme dyuers wryters ouer the nombre of .xxxii. M. and of Englysshmen but barely .xxviii. persones After whiche scomfyture the Scottes yelded to the kynge the more partye of the stronge holdes castelles that they tofore had holden agayne hym and made vnto hym newe othe and promysse and yelded them selfe vnto his grace and mercy And whan he had set that countre in an ordre and rule he thaÌ retourned into EnglaÌde and so to LoÌdon where by y e aduyce of some of his counsayll he sodeynly daÌpned certayn coynes of money called pollardes crocardes rosaries caused theÌ to be broughte to newe coynage to his great aduauÌtage ye haue before herde in that other yere how that a truce or a peas was stablysshed at wene the kynge and y e kynge of Fraunce for the space of .ii. yeres and more the whiche fynally was concluded this yere that kynge Edwarde for a peas to be had bytwene both regyons shulde take vnto wyfe Margarete the suster of Philip
tene Anno dnÌi M.CCC.xiii  Anno dnÌi M.CCC.xiiii  Adam Burden  Nicholas Faryngdon  Anno .vii.  Hugh Gayton  IN this .vii. yere for to oppresse y e malice of y e Scottes y e kyng assembled a great power and by water entred the realme of Scotlande and destroyed suche vyllages townes as lay or stode in his waye wher of heryng Robert le Bruze with the power of Scotlande costed towarde the Englysshe men and vpon y e day of the natyuyte of saynt Iohan the Baptyst mette with kynge Edwarde his hoste at a place called of Estryuelyn nere vnto a FreÌche ryuer that than was called Bannockysbourne where atwene the Englysshe and the Scottes that daye was foughten a cruell batayle But in the ende the Englysshe men were constrayned to forsake the felde ThaÌ the Scottes chased so egerly the Englysshe men y e many of theÌ were drowned in the fore named ryuer and many a noble man of Englande that day was slayne in that batayll as syr Gylbert de Clare erle of Gloucestre syr Robert Clyfforde syr Edmunde of Maule the kynges stewarde with other lordes barones to the noumbre as wytnesseth Guido de Columpna of .xlii of knyghtes and baronettes to the noumbre of .lxvii ouer .xxii. meÌ of name which that day of the Scottes were taken prysoners And the kynge hym selfe from that batayll scaped with great dauÌger so with a fewe of his hoste y t with hym escaped came vnto Berwyke and there rested hym a season Than the Scottes enflamed with pryde in derysyon of the Englysshe men made this ryme as foloweth Maydens of Englande sore may ye morne For your lemmans ye haue loste at Bannockysborne with heue a lowe what weneth the kynge of Englande So soone to haue wonne Scotlande with rumbylow THis songe was after many dayes songe in daunces in y e carolles of the maydens mynstrels of ScotlaÌde to y e reprofe dysdayne of Englysshe men with dyuers other whiche I ouerpasse And whan kyng Edwarde had a season taryed in Berwyke and sette that towne in suche suerty as he than myght he retourned with smal honour into EnglÌade came secretely to westmynster vpon the daye of saynt Magne or the xix day of August Anno dnÌi M.CCC.xiiii  Anno dnÌi M.CCC.xv  Stephan of Abyngdone  Iohan Gysours  Anno .viii.  Hamonde Chykwell  IN this .viii. yere of kynge Edwarde a vylayn called Iohan Tanner yode aboute in dyuers places of Englande named hymselfe to be the sonne of Edwarde the fyrst sayd y t by meane of a falce noryce he was stolne out of his cradell and Edward whiche was a carters sonne was layde in y e same cradel for hym he hym selfe was after hardly fostred and brought vp in the northe parâyes of walys But whan this by layne was layde for to be taken for fere he fled to the churche of the frere Carmes or the whyte freres of Oxynforde where he thynkynge to be in a suertye because kyng Edward y e fyrst was theyr founder rehersed agayne the former sayenge addynge more there vnto that it appered well that y e kynge was a carters sonne for his condycyons were accordynge to the same as by many famylier examples and customes in hym dayly were apparent whan he had thus contynued a season not without some rumoure in the lande lastely he was takeÌ out of that place caryed as a felon vnto Northampton and there reygned and iuged for his falsenes so drawen hanged The whiche at y e houre of dethe coÌfessed that he had a fende in his house in the symylytude of a catte the whiche amonge other promessys to hym made hadde assured hym that he shulde be kynge of Englande And Guydo sayth that he confessed that he had serued the fende .iii. yeres before to brynge his peruerse purpose aboute Thus kynge Edwarde beset with many aduersytes kepte a counsayll at London for reformacion of y e warre in Scotlande and other thynges for the welfare of EnglaÌde TheÌ was syr Peter Spaldynge knyght sente vnto Berwyke with a crewe of sowdiours for to fortyfye that towne for somoche as the kynge had certayne vnderstaÌdynge that Robert le Bruze entended hastly to laye his syege to that towne Anno dnÌi M.CCC.xv  Anno dnÌi M.CCC.xvi  Hamonde Goodchepe  Stephan Abyndon  Anno .ix.  wyllyam Redynge  IN this .ix. yere vpon mydlente sonday was the towne castel of Berwyke yelden or loste by treason of the fore named Peter Spaldynge as the coÌmune fame went vnto Robert le Bruze kynge of Scottes This yere also the derth of corne that had encreasyd yerely more and more from the .xvi. yere of Edwarde the fyrste was this yere at London solde for .iiii. s. a busshell And therwith also fyll suche a morayne of bestes that al vytayle waxed scant and dere as after shull be shewed In this yere also .ii. cardynalles y t were sent into EnglaÌde from the .v. Clement than pope to set an vnyon a peace atwene the kynges of EnglaÌde and of Scottes were met with vpon the moore of wygylsdone in yorke shyre there robbed of suche stuffe and tresure as they with theym broughte For the whiche robberye great enquery was made so y e lastly a knyght callyd syr Robert Gylbert Myddelton was accused and sent to prison for that felony and after at London drawen and hanged for the same and his heed set vpon LondoÌ brydge But the cardynalles receyued of the kynge dowble the value of theyr harmes In this yere also fyl so excedynge rayne in the monethes of Iulii and August that husbandes myght not brynge in theyr lytle store of corne that than stode vpon the grounde so that where before was great scarcyte of whete now by this was more and beues and motons were at excedyng pryces by reason of the morayne before spoken of Anno dnÌi M.CCC.xvi  Anno dnÌi M.CCC.xvii  wyllyam Caston  Iohan wengraue  Anno .x.  Raufe Palmer  IN this yere y e Scottes entred the borders of Northumberlande and robbed and brent the couÌtrey moste cruelly in somoche y â they brent the howses that women at that tyme laye in chylde bedde and spared nother man woman nor chylde nother relygyous nor other and dyd so great harme that y e countrey by it was greatly impouerysshed To this myschefe was ioyned another mysery For as before is sayd vytayll by reason of the morayne was so scante and dere and whete and other graynes so hyghe prysed that poore people ete horse flesshe dogges flesshe and many other vyle bestes whiche wonder is to byleue And yet for defaute dyed great multytude of people in sundry places of the laÌde And whete was solde this yere and y e next folowynge at LondoÌ for .iiii. marke a quarter and aboue And after this derthe scaresytye of vytayle ensued mortalytye of
meÌ by goddes haÌde and punysshment so that what with warre of the Scottes and for hungre and deth by mortalite and syckenesse the people of y e lande was wonderslye wasted and perysshed But al those monycyons amended not the kynge of his inordynate lyuynge Anno dnÌi M.CC.xvii  Anno dnÌi M.CC.xviii  Iohan Pryoure  Iohan wentgraue  Anno .xi.  wyllyam Furneux  IN this .xi. yere y e kynge assembled a newe host and went into NorthuÌberlaÌde to resyste the malyce of the Scottes whiche dayly made assawtes vpon the bordours and entred ferre within the lande wherfore for great dystresse nede of fyghting men the kynge had moch people out of y e southe and east partyes of Englande Amonge the whiche contrary to theyr lybertye the cyte of London was constrayned to fynde at theyr costes and charge CC. men and so sent theym to yorke whan the kynge at yorke hadde receyued his people frome sundry countrees and good townes of Englande he with a conuenyent noumbre rode towarde Berwyke so sped his iournayes that at lengthe he came nere vnto Berwyke and layde his syege aboute y e fame But whyle the kynge was besyed in assawtynge of the towne the Scottes brake ouer the water of Swale in great noumbre leuynge the cooste where the kynges people laye in secrete wyse came downe into the marchis of yorke shyre and there slewe the people and robbed them in moost cruell wyse wherefore y e arche bisshop of yorke constrayned of pure necessyte to defende that countre gathered vnto hym an vnredy dispurueyed hoost for y e warre as pryours clerkes chanons and other spyrituel men of the churche wyth husbande men and other vnapte people and so with great nombre of men and fewe warly or discrete cheuetaynes yode agayne y e Scottes and them encouÌtred at a place called Mitton vppon Swale the .xii. day of the moneth of Octobre and gaue vnto theÌ batayle But for lacke of wyse and warely prouysyon the EnglysshemeÌ were beset of theyr enemyes vpon euery side so that of them was slayne a great multytude the remenaunt shamefullye put to flyghte by reason wherof the sayde archebisshop with the abbot of Selby and other were preseruyd And for so many spyrytuell meÌ were slayne in thys batayl therfore it was after named of many wrytters the whyte batayll whan the kynge was enfourmed of this ouerthrowe of the Northyrne men and for it drewe towarde wynter he therfore brake vp hys siege and retourued vnto yorke and soone after forther into EnglaÌd Than was nothyng done without y e aduyces and couÌceylys of syr Hughe the speÌcers the father and the sonne By whose entysemeÌt many thynges were done in Englande to the great grudge as well of the noble men of the realme as of the commons of the same so y t they were had in as greate hatred and indygnacyon as before tymes was Pyers of Gaâeston And many euyll reportes and great extorcyoÌs were of theÌ reported as lightly men shall do that ben oute of the fauoure of the common people Anno domini M.CCC.xviii  Anno dnÌi M.CCC.xix  IohnÌ Pontenay  IohnÌ wengraue  Anno .xii.  IohnÌ Dallynge  IN this .xii. yere the kyng helde hys greate counceyll at yorke where coÌtrary the mynde of y e lordes syr Hughe Spencer the sonne was made hyghe chaumberlayne of EnglaÌde By reason wherof he bare hym so hawtely and so prowde that no lorde of thys lande myght gaynsaye hym in any thynge that he thoughte good wherof grewe the occasyon of the barons warre as after foloweth In thys passetyme for asmoche as y e foresayd cardinalles might nothyng do concernyng the peace betwene Englande and Scotlande the kynge purchased a curse of the .xxii. Iohan then pope to accurse Robert le Bruze and all suche as wyth hym helde or maynteyned and it to stande so in strenght tyll the sayd Robert had recompensed kynge Edwarde for all suche harmys as hys lande had by hym receyued also tyl he had reedifyed the monasteryes and churches by hym and hys caste downe in Englande and restored to them suche spirytuell goodes as the Scottes had reued and taken from them But all thys auayled nothyng but putte the kyng and the realme to great coste charge so that y e comons were vexed and trowbled many maner of ways and theyr possessyons and moueable goodes taken from them vpon surmysed feyned causes so that many were vtterly vndoon and a fewe synguler mysguyded persones auauÌced whan the more partye of the barones of Englande behelde this mysery of the people how they were punyshed by the hande of god and also by the ygnoraunce of the kynge they in secrete maner assembled them togyder at a towne called ShyrbornÌ in ãâã and there condisceÌded for a reformacyon of this myschefe to remoue from the kynge the sayd SpeÌsers bothe the father and the sonne And this to brynge aboute syr Thomas erle of Lancastre syr Humfrey Bohum erle of Hereforde syr Iohan Moubray baroÌ syr Roger Clyfforde baroÌ syr Goselyn Danyell baroÌ syr Roger Toket Roger Benefeelde syr Roger Mortymer Syr whyllyaÌ SullaÌde syr wyllyam Elmynbrydge syr Iohan Gyfforde and syr Iohan Tyers barons and knyghtes with dyuers other sware eche of theÌ to staÌde by other tyll they had amended the state of the realme And soone after by theyr aduyce and agrement syr Iohan Moubraye syr Roger Clyfforde and syr Goselyn Danyel with a stronge company entred vpon the manours and castelles of the sayde Spensers standynge in the marche of wales and them spoyled and destroyed Of the whiche ryot the SpeÌsers complayned them to the kynge In punysshent wherof the kynge callynge to hym dyuerse of his couÌceyll at wyndsore there determyned that the sayde syr Iohan Moubraye syr Roger Clyfforde syr Goselyn Danyell with other theyr assystentes shulde appere before the kynges counsayle shortly after and there to make answere vpon that ryot And yf they refused that to do that than they shulde auoyde the lande shortly after as banysshed men But no day of apparence by theym was kepte wherfore proclamacyons were made in dyuers placys of the realme and at London the .xvi. daye of Marche that the sayde syr Iohan Moubray syr Roger Clyfforde and other shuld auoyde the lande within .x. dayes folowynge vpon payne of dethe wherof herynge y e lordes and barones before named assembled theym a more strenger power and vpon that sent a messynger vnto y e kynge besechynge hym humbly to remoue frome his persone and couÌseyle the Spensers y e which dayly dyd vnto hym great dyshonour and to the comune weale of the realme great hynderauÌce The kynge herynge this humble request nothynge with it beynge contente but ferynge greatly the destruccyon of his owne persone assembled his couÌfeyle for reformacyon of this mater where it was concluded that the kynge shulde call a parlyamente at London there to be holden in the ãâã folowynge And
other and there was taken the erle of Lancastre syr Roger Clyfforde syr Iohan Moubraye syr Roger Tuckettes syr wyllyam Fyzwyllyam with dyuerse other ladde vnto porke And thys feelde was foughten as wytnesseth Polycronycon the .xv. daye of Marche in the ende of y t yere of oure lorde a thousande thre hundreth twenty It was nat longe after that syr Hugh Daniell and syr Barthew de Bladysmoore were taken And syr Thomas erle of Lancastre was brought agayn to his owne towne of Pountfret where he was broughte in iugement before syr Aymer de Ualaunce erle of Penbroke syr Iohan Brytayne erle of Rychemounde syr Edmunde of woodstoke erle of Kent syr Hughe Spenser the father ⪠and syr Roberte Malmestorp iustyce wyth other and before them fynally adiuged to haue hys hedde stryken of whereof execucyon was done the twelef daye of Aprell in the begynnyng of the yere of grace after the rekenynge of the chyrche of EnglaÌde M.CCC.xxi Of this erle Thomas are dyuerse opynyons For some wryters shew of hym to be a seynt But PolicronicoÌ in y e .xlii. chapytre of hys .vii. boke sheweth otherwyse But what so euer erthlye men in such thynges deme it is farre frome the secrete iugemente of god so that to hym and hys sentence such thynges are to be referred From thys tyme forthwarde by y e terme of .v. yeres ensuyng y t fortune of the Spensers hugely encreased And as faste the quenes dyscreased tyll she was releued by the kynge of of Fraunce than Charles the .v. of y e name and brother vnto hyr as after shal be shewed Than to retourne vnto oure former mater vpon the foresayde daye that erle Thomas was thus put in execucyon syr Roger Tutkettes syr wyllyam FizwyllyaÌ syr waren of Iselde or Isell syr Henry of Bradborne syr willyaÌ Cheyny Barones knyghtes were drawen hanged theyr hedes smytren of and sent vnto London whyche all were putte to deth at PouÌtfrete foresayd with an esquyre called Iohan Page And at yorke soone after was drawen heded syr Roger Clyfford syr IohnÌ Moubray syr Goselyne Danyell Barons And at Brystowe syr HeÌry womyngton syr Henry Monforde Banerettes at Glowceter syr IohnÌ Giffard syr wyllyaÌ Elmyngbrydge knyghtes and at London syr IohnÌ Tiers or Tryers baron and at wynchelsâe syr Thomas Culpepyr knyght and at wyndesore syr Fraunceys walden ham baron and at Caunterbury syr Barthew de Bladismoore syr Bartholl de Asbornham baronys And at Cardeeffe in walys was putte to lyke execucyon syr wyllyaÌ Flemyng knyght vpon whose soules and all crysten Iesus haue mercy whan the kyng had thus subdued his barons he soone after aboute the feast of the assencyon of oure Lorde kepte hys parlyamente at yorke Durynge whyche parlyament syr Hugh Spenser the father was made erle of wynchester and syr Andrew of Harkeley erle of Carleyle or after some wryters Cardoyll and dysheryted all suche as before hadde holden wyth the erles of Lancastre and of Hereforde except syr Hugh Dandell and fewe other the whych syr Hugh was receyued to grace by reason that he had maryed a kynneswoman of the kynges There was also ordeyned or soone after that mayster Roberte Baldok a man of euyll fame shuld be chauÌceler of EnglaÌde Than forfaytes tynes were gathered into the kynges treasoury without sparyng of pryui leged places or other so that what myght be fouÌde all was seased for y e kyng By reason wherof moche treasoure was brought vnto the kynges coffers besyde great thynges y t were brybed and spoyled by the officers of dyuers shyres Anno domini M.CCC.xxi  Anno dnÌi M.CCC.xxii  Rycharde Constantyne  Hamonde Chykwell  Anno .xv.  Rychard Hakeney  IN thys .xv. yere the kyng gadered the .vi. peny of temporall mennes goodes through Englande Irelande walys that to hym was graunted at the foresayd parlyameÌt for the defence of the Scottes which was payed wyth great murmoure grudge consyderyng the manyfolde myseryes that the common people at those dayes were wrapped in This yere also the sone appered to mannes syght as blode and so continued by the space of .vi. houres that is to meane in the moneth of Octobre and laste daye of the sayde moneth from vii of the clocke in the mornyng tyll one of the same day After some wryters about thys tyme y e Scottes entendyng to wynne an enterpryse in Irelande and for to wynne that contrey to theyr obeysaunce entered it with a stronge hoste vnder theyr capytayne Edwarde le Bruze brother to the Scottisshe kyng But howe it was by ayde of Englysshe men or of them selfe the Irysshe quyt them so well and bare theÌ so manfully that they vaynquysshed the Scottes and chased theÌ out of that countrey In y e whych chase fyght y t sayd Edward le Bruze many of the noble men of Scotlande were slayne Anno dnÌi xiii C.xxii.  Anno dnÌi xiii C.xxiii  IohnÌ Grantham  Hamonde Chykwell  Anno .xvi.  Rycharde of Ely  IN this .xvi. yere y e kyng made greate prouysyon for to make a voyage into Scotland so y t about the begynnyng of August he entred that countrey But the Scottes consyderyng the great multytude of his hoste drewe them into the mountaynes other places where as the Englysshemen myght nat wynne to theÌ and all to the entent for to wery and tyre the kynges great hoste Than diâerse maladyes fell amonge the Englysshmen so that many of theÌ dyed and were loste in that iournay aswel for lacke of vytayl as by infyrmyte sykenesse so that the kyng for theyse causes other was constrayned to retourne into Englande about y e natyuyte of our Lady where of the scottes beynge enfourmed syr Iamys Dowglas with other capytayns of y e Scottes wyth a stronge hooste folowed or costed y e kyng in suche wyse that about the feest of saynte Luke they had almooste taken the kynge at dyner at an abbey called Bella Launde or Beyghlande Thant he kynge of pure constraynte defended hym and withstoode the Scottes as he myghte But after shorte and weke fyghte the kynge was compelled to flee by that meane to saue hym selfe In thys skyrmysshe was taken syr Iohan Brytayne erle of RychemoÌde and the kynges treasoure was there spoyled and borne away and the ordenaunce belongynge to the hoste great parte of it was by the Scottes conueyed into Scotlande Than the Scottes in theyr retournyng homewarde wan the castell of Norham robbed the towne of Northallerton and other Of thys losse and harmes way syr Andrewe of Harkeley put in wyte by mysledynge of the kynges hoste as in the nexte yere shal be shewed Anno dnÌi M.CCC.xxiii  Anno dnÌi M.CCC.xxiiii  Adam Salesbury  Symon Franceys  Anno .xvii.  IohnÌ of Oxynforde  IN thys .xvii. yere the kyng beynge enfourmed that he hys people were so put vnto dyshonoure as in the precedyng yere is touched
be socoured kyng Edwarde for the same entent wyth a stronge power persed the realme of Scotlande after layde hys syege vnto the towne of Berwyke Uppon the .xix. daye of the foresayd moneth of Iuly the Scottes wyth a greate power purposyng to remoue y e sayde syege came towarde the sayd towne wherof kyng Edward beyng enfourmed made towarde theÌ ar a place called Halydone hyll gaue to y e sayd Scottes batayll of them had triuÌphaunte vyctorye in so moche that he slewe of them as testifyen dyuerse wryters viii erles ix huÌdreth knyghtes banerettes iiii C. esquyres and vpon .xxxii. M. of the comon people of Englysshe men were slayne but onely .xv. persones After whych victory thus by the kynge opteyned the capitayne of Berwyke vpoÌ y e morew folowynge beyng saynt Margarettes day yelded to the kyng the sayde towne with the castel And that done kyng Edward betoke the guydyng therof with all other castelles townes within that lande vnto the forenamed syr Edward Baylol as kyng of Scottes shortly after retourned into Englande Than Dauyd the sonne of Robert le Bruze beynge as before is sayd kyng of Scottes was constrayned with hys wyfe secretely to sayle into Fraunce thyder was brought by a Flemyng named Marcuell as testyfyeth the Frenche cronycle where of Phylyppe de Ualoyes than Frenche kyng the sayd Dauyd with Iane of the towre his wyfe was receyued And for theyr comforte the sayde Frenche kyng gaue vnto them the castell of Gaylarde tyll fortune to them wolde be more frendelye Thys yere also as wytnesseth y e sayd frenche cronycle the Frenche kynge sente vnto the kynge of Englande y e bysshop of Beauuays and the hyghe constable of FrauÌce whych shewed vnto kynge Edwarde that theyr soueraygne lorde entendyd a voyage into the holy laÌde and requyred hym of hys ayde and coÌpany for perfourmaunce of the sayd iournay whereunto the kynge gaue answere vnto that request than whan the Frenche kynge had perfourmed all suche condycions as he before tymes had promysed to do than he sayd he shuld be conteÌted to gyue suche answere vnto y t request by theÌ in hys name made as theruÌto shulde be coÌuenient And more he added to the same y t he maruayled greatly that the sayd Frenche kynge entended any suche voyage tyll he had clerelye acquyted hym of the sayd promysse couenaunt with whyche answere the Frenche kynge was nothynge contented so that malyce and murmour grewe and encreased betwene them dayly after And an occasyon of thys sharpe answere was for so moche as kynge Edward was credyble enfourmed that the Frenche kynge had vytayll and manned .x. greate shyppes to haue saylled into Scotlande and there to haue warred the whyche by tempest were wedyr dryuen into Flaunders so sore betyn with the see that after they had sold moch of theyr stuffe at y e hauyn of Sluce they were coÌpelled of necessyte to retorne without worship into Fraunce Thys with other kyndelyd suche a dedely hate betwene these .ii. crysten prynces y â moche crysten blode in êcesse of tyme folowing was for theyr quarelles shadde Anno dnÌi xiii C.xxxi  Anno dnÌi xiii C.xxxii  Nycholas Pyke  IohnÌ Preston  Anno .vii.  IohnÌ Husbande  IN thys .vii. yere in the wynter season and as sayeth Guydo in the moneth of NoueÌbre the kynge yode agayne towarde ScotlaÌde and helde hys Crystmas at yorke And after the solempnytie of that hyghe feast ended he sped hym into ScotlaÌde where her layde siege vnto y e castel of Kylbrydge lastely wan it by strengthe set the countrey in some quyetnesse And after retourned vnto Newe castel vpon Tyne and taryed there a certayne of tyme and helde there hys feaste of Pentecoste wyth great royalte whyther within shorte space after came syr Edward Baylol kyng of Scottes and vpon the day of saint Geruasi Prothasi or y â .xix. day of Iune made his homage vnto kynge Edwarde and in presence of many other noble meÌ of bothe laÌdes sware vnto hym feawty or fydelyte And y e done he retourned into Scotlande kyng Edward vnto yorke so vnto wyndesore TheÌ were al such lordes of Englande as before tyme were in Edward the secondes dayes disseased of suche landes as they had in ScotlaÌd restored agayne to theyr sayd possessions for theym made theyr homage vnto y e kyng of Scottes sauynge theyr allegeaunce vnto theyr naturall soueraygne lorde Anno dnÌi M.CCC.xxxii  Anno dnÌi M.CCC.xxxiii  IohnÌ Hamonde  Iohan Ponteney  Anno .viii.  wyllyam Hansarde  IN thys eyghte yere certayne ambassadours were sent from Philip de Ualoyes kyng of FrauÌce as the bysshop of Thuroyn and the lorde of Ferry and Peynguy for to coÌclude certayn artycles of variauÌce betwene theyr lord the kyng of England But theyr purpose toke none effecte except that the kyng grauÌted to sende vnto the FreÌch kyng shortly after a certayn of hys lordes to haue forther comunycacion with hym towchyng the sayd artycles The whych promyse he fulfylled as appereth in he next yere ensuyng Anno domini M.CCC.xxxiii  Anno domini M.CCC.xxxiiii  Iohan. Hynkstone  Reynolde at Cunduyte  Anno .ix.  walter Turke  IN thys .ix. yere fell excedynge plente of rayne therupoÌ ensuyed great moreyne of beestes And in the moneth of Decembre the kyng entred agayne into Scotlande and helde hys Crystmas at the castell of Rokkysborough the whyche he caused to be newly repayred And after thynges there ordered to hys pleasure he retourned into Englande And soone after he sent the archebysshoppe of Cauntorbury syr Phylip de MouÌtague syr Geffrey Scrope vnto the Frenche kynge to the entent to haue concluded an amyte betwene hym and the sayd french kyng whych before was moued by y e freÌch ambassade as before is shewed in the eyghte yere of hys reygne But whaÌ these sayde lordes were landed in Fraunce they were longe delayed or they myghte come to the kynges presence in so moche that they sayd playnly vnto suche lordes of FrauÌce as were assygned by y e Frenche kyng to passe the tyme wyth theym that they supposed that it was nat the kynges pleasure to speke with them By meane of whyche wordes they were shortly after broughte vnto the kynges presence of whome they were receyued wyth ioyous countenaunce and so contynued by a certayne of tyme in furtheryng of theyr ambassade so y t in processe of tyme a conclusyoÌ of peas to be had betwene Englande and Fraunce was accorded and so ferfourth spedde that proclamacioÌ therof shuld haue beÌ made in Parys and the countrey there aboute vppon the morowe folowynge But how it came in y e kynges mynde the Englysshe ambassadoures were scantlye retourned to theyr lodgynges whan they were agayne sente fore and farther enfourmed thanne that the kynges pleasure and mynde was to haue Dauyd late kynge of Scottes to be included wythin the same peace
whiche was repayred in so stronge wyse that he hys hoste passed there ouer withoute parell Howe be it that in the tyme of repayrynge of it the French kyng sent thyder .ii. M. men to let the sayde werke But the archers kept theym of wyth theyr shot in so sharpe maner that y e more partye of them was slayne and the werke êfyghted as aboue is sayd Than kyng Edwarde entred the couÌtrey of Pycardy the French kynge remoued frome saynte Denys vnto saiÌt Germains froÌ thens to a town called Aubeuyle in Poyteau from thens to Antoygne In thys whyle kyng Edward with baner dysplayed came vnto the cytye of Beauuayze assayled the towne But the towne was wel garnisshed with soudyours which defeÌded theyr enemyes vygourously wherfore kynge Edwarde coÌsyderynge he myghte nat lyghtely wynne that towne sette the bulwerkes on fyre and so departed thens yode vnto a place called in Frenche Soygnouile or BlaÌke Tache where he passed the water of Sum vpon a frydaye the .xxv. daye of August and lodged hym hys people nere vnto a forest called Cressy or Crecy wherof whan the French kyng was ware anone he sped hym frome the fore named towne of Antoygne vnto Aubeuyle agayne where after he hadde refresshed hym and hys people he rode vnto an abbey faste by the forenamed towne of Cressy In thys passe tyme IohnÌ duke of Normandy and sonne of Phylyp de Ualoys whyche as in the precedyng yere is towched layd hys syege vnto the castell of Aguyllon herynge that hys father was thus warreyed wyth the kyng of Englande brake vp his syege and came with hys strengthe vnto hys father THese .ii. greate hostes thus lodged within lytle compasse nere vnto the forenamed towne of Cressy vpon the saterdaye folowyng the feaste of saynt Bartholmewe beynge the .xxvi. day of the monethe of August eyther cruelly assayled other and foughte there a mortall sharpe batayll whereof in the ende kynge Edwarde gloryouslye was victoure and chaced the Frenche kynge and slewe in that fyght after the sayenge of moste wryters the kynge of Bohemy or Beame sonne of Henry y e Emperoure vii or the. eyght the duke of Loreyne the erle of Alenson brother vnto the FreÌche kynge Charles erle of Bloys the erles of Flaunders of Sancer of Narcourt and of Fyennes wyth dyuerse other to the noumber of eyght bysshoppes and erles xvii lordes of name and of banerettes knyghtes and esquyers beyoÌde the noumber of .xvi. huÌdreth so that as concludeth the Frenche hystorye in that batayll was slayne the floure of the Chyualrye of Fraunce and of the coÌmons vpoÌ .viii. M. men that the realme of FrauÌce that day susteyned such confusioÌ that the lyke therof had nat be sene many yeres passed and y t be people and men of no reputacyon as archers by the vyolence of theyr importune shot whych hors nor man myght stande agayne ThaÌ the Frenche kyng with a small company fledde sore hurte vnto a towne called Broy lodged there y e nyght folowynge And kyng Edwarde beynge warned that an other hoste of enemyes was commynge towarde hym abode styll in the same feelde set good watches made great fyres thorough the hoste and so coÌtynued tyll the monday folowynge Upon whyche day in the mornynge apered to them a new hoste of Frenche men to the whych they gaue batayle and slewe of them more in noumbre thaÌ was slayne vpoÌ the saterday before But of capytaynes or men of name the auctor reherseth none Than kyng Edwarde gaue great thankes vnto god of his tryumphaÌt vyctory and after departed froÌ that towne of Cressye and toke hys waye towarde Moustruell and from theÌs to Boleyne and lastlye to Caleys wherof than was capytayne vnder y e Frenche kyng a BurgonyoÌ knyght named syr IohnÌ de UyeÌne to whom kyng Edwarde sent that he shuld delyuer vnto hym the sayde towne of Caleys But for the kynge receyued from hym no comfortable answere he immedyatly layde hys syege vnto the sayd towne whych was vpon the thyrde day of the moneth of SepteÌbre there abode a certayn of tyme in makynge of assautes to the same In whyche tyme and season the erle of Derby lyenge at Burdeaux and hauynge the rule of Gascoyne and Guyan wan dyuerse townes holdes from the Frenchemen as the townes called Sayntez in Poyteaw saynt IohnÌ de Angely and y e towne of Poytyers In the whyche he had excedyng treasoure and rychesse soo that he hys sowdyours were greatly enryched by the pyllage that they wan in those townes and couÌtrey to them adioynaunt And whaÌ the sayd erle had spoyled the sayd townes brent a greate parte of the foresayde cytye of Poytyers and the kynges palays within the same he than at hys pleasure retourned vnto Burdeaux In thys passe tyme also the FreÌch kyng to the entente to haste kyng Edwarde into Englande sent Dauyd le Bruze some tyme kynge of Scottes into y e lande with a stroÌge army The which gathered vnto hym such lordes and knyghtes of Scotlande as before tymes fauoured hys party and with them entred the boundes of Northumberlande spoyled that countrey without pyte But it shall apere by other auctoures that thys Dauyd le Bruze at thys daye hadde recouered the crowne of Scotlande and that Edwarde de Bayloll was than dede whych before was kynge Than it foloweth whan the archebisshop of yorke with other lordes than lefte in Englande herde tell that the Scottes were thus entred the lande anone the sayd archebysshppe with syr Henry Perse syr Rafe Neuyle syr Gilbert Umfreyle knyghtes and other gentylmen aswell spyrytuall as other apparayled theyin in theyr best maner and sped them towarde y e Scottes so that they mette with theÌ and gaue vnto them batayll vpon y e euyn of saynt Luke or the .xvii. daye of Octobre in a place faste by DurhaÌ called at that daye Neuyles crosse where god shewed to the Englysshe men suche grace that they scoÌfyted y e Scottes and slew of them great foyson and toke prysoners the sayd Dauid le Bruze syr wyllyam Dowglas syr ThoÌlyn Fowkys with other of y e nobles of Scotlande the whyche shortely after were surely conueyed vnto the towre of London and there kepte as prysoners whaÌ kynge Edward from the .iii. day of Septembre as before is sayd hadde by sondry tymes assayled the towne of Caleys and sawe well he he might nat shortly wynne it he prouyded for hiÌ hys people to lye there all y e wynter folowynge so y t for the lodging of hym his hoste he made so many houses lodges that it semed an other Caleys wherfore in êces of tyme duryng y t syege of the vytelers suche as dayly resorted vnto y e kynges hoste it was named newe Caleys where y e kyng in proper persone abode al the wynter folowyng the more parte of the next somer as after shall apere Anno dnÌi xiii C.xlvi  Anno
protectoure of the realme of FrauÌce in the begynnynge of the moneth of February And vpoÌ Trynite sonday next ensuyng he with hys wyfe were crowned at Raynes in y e yere of our lord god a M.iii. C.xxviii the .ii. yere of kyng Edward the .iii. thaÌ beynge in possessioÌ of the crowne of Englande Betwene thys Philip the sayd Edward kyng of Englande as some deale before in the story .iiii. yere of Charles the .v. is towched great disputacions argumentes arose betwene theyr couÌsayles for the right tytle to the crowne of FrauÌce For it was thought by the couÌsayl of EnglaÌde for so moche as Edwarde was cosyn to Philip le Beaw sonnÌ of y e sayd Philippes doughter which had no mo chylder but Edwardes mother that he shuld rather be kyng of FrauÌce than Philip de Ualoys that was but cosyn germayn to Philip le Beaw sonne of hys brother Charles Of whych dispucioÌs argumentes the fynall coÌclusion was y â for an olde decre law by auctoritye of parlyament loÌge before made was enacted that no womaÌ shuld enheryte the crowne of FrauÌce therfore y e tytle of Edward by myght of the FreÌchemen was put by thys Philip admytted to the gouernauÌce of the same After whych direccioÌ thus takeÌ specially by y e meanes of syr Robert erle of Artoys thys Philip anone was proclamed regeÌt of FrauÌce vnto such tyme as the quene wyfe of Charles the .v. whych thaÌ was wyth chylde were delyuered so receyued the rule of the lande as regeÌt In tyme wherof Peter Remy principall tresorer of kyng Charles last dede whyche Peter lyuyng the sayd Charles was accused of myspeÌdyng of y e kynges tresoure enrychyng of hym selfe coÌtrary to ryght reason so y t his goodes shuld be estemed at .iiii. C.M. li. after Parys money wherof y e value is set out in diuers places before in this werke was takeÌ out of pryson areygned at Parys there conuict adiuged vpoÌ the .xxiiii. day of Marche draweÌ thorugh the cytie hanged vpon the comoÌ gybet at Parys And vpoÌ the fyrst day of Apryll folowyng the old quene wyfe of Charles laste kyng was lighted of chyld brought forth a doughter at Boys in UinceÌt which after was named Blanche wherfore where before the sayd Philip de Ualoys ruled before but as regeÌt nowe he was allowed takeÌ for kyng and crowned as before is sayd at the citie of Raynes with y e quene his wyfe vp on Trinite sonday And whaÌ y e soleÌpnyte of hys coronacioÌ was ended he then assembled before hym hys couÌsayll Lowys the erle of FlauÌdres receyued of hym homage for the sayd erledom And that done he besought the kyng of ayde to oppresse certayn townes of hys couÌtre whych rebelled agayne hym wherunto y e kyng grauÌted by counsayll exortacion of syr Gautyer or walter de Crecy than coÌstable of Fraunce the kyng sent oute hys commyssioners chargynge hys lordes with theyr assygnes sowdyours to mete with hym in dyffeÌsyble arraye at the cytie of Arras by mary Magdaleyne day next ensuyng At whyche day the kyng with his lordes and people there meting toke forewarde vpon hys iourney sped hym toward Cassyle a town of FlauÌdres where within lytell space of the towne he pyght hys pauylyons and teÌtes wasted and pylled the couÌtre thereabout But the Flemynges kepynge within the sayd towne fered nothyng the French kyng but in dyrision of hym and of hys lordes they caused a red cok to be paynted vpoÌ a whyte cloth wrote in greate letters in y e sayd clothe thys tyme folowynge haÌged it out ouer the walles Quant ce quoc iây chantera âe roy troue ca entrera ¶ whych is thus to meane in our vulgare speche whan that thys cok lo here doth synge than shall thys founde kynge hys hoste in brynge WHaÌ thys was redde of the FreÌch men and report made therof vnto the kynge he was therwyth sore amoued and specyally for that y t they named hym the foundeÌ kyng Therfore they assayled them stroÌgly vppon all partyes But they of the towne defended theym manfully so that theyr enemyes had of them none aduauntage Than the kynge sente syr Robert de Flaundres a knyghte of the erles with a certayne sowdyours commaundyng hym to assayle the Flemynges toward saint Omers And the erle he monysshed y t he with hys people shuld assayle theÌ towarde the yle Than the comoÌs of Bruges Ipre of Tourney of Fourneys and of all Cassyle assembled theym and prouyded that a certayne of theÌ shuld kepe the mount of Cassyle and another company shulde kepe the couÌtre towarde Tourney and the thyrde hoste shulde fortyfye the countre towarde the yle The whiche people ordered euery hoste hys lymit to hym assigned and dayly skyrmysshed wyth the Frenche men so that betwene them men were slayne vpon bothe partyes whan the kyng had thus lyen before the towne a certayn season the Flemynges nat feryng theyr enemyes issued oute of the towne and pyght theyr teÌtes vppon the mounte of Cassyle shewed them boldly vnto theyr enemyes thaÌ kyng Phylyp seynge the boldnesse of the Flemynges and howe lytell they fered hym toke couÌsayll of hys lordê how he myght cause them to dysceÌde the hylle for so longe as they kepte y e hyll it was iuperdous perylous to stye towarde theym Lastly it was agreed by the kynge and hys lordes that syr Robert de Flaundres wyth other shuld assayle an holde or town thereby called Terroner de Bergner by meane wherof the kyng thoughte that they wolde discende the mount to rescue the sayd towne which accordyng to y e kynges mynde was done and a bulwerke set vppon a fyre But the kynge had neuer the rather hys entent For they kepte them and theyr gates in so sure wyse that the French kyng for al hys great power myghte to theym do no scathe In so moche that the kynge consyderynge theyr strength was condyscended to famysshe them by hunger that they myght nat wynly streÌgth for that toke y e lesse watche or regarde to hys people but suffered them to play and dysport them out of theyr harneys eche of theÌ in others tente thynkyng hym sure of hys enemyes for any assaute or warre by theym to be procured or attempted agayne hym or hys lordes But whether it were that hys enemyes of this were warned or that of theyr owne courage and pryde they wolde assayle the frenche hoste vpon the .xxiiii. daye of Auguste towarde y e nyght the sayde hoste of Flemynges aualed the mount in as secrete wyse as men of watre myght drewe theÌ towarde the French men whych thaÌ were vnarmed and in theyr disportes of dysynge and playeng at the chesse other games Uppon whome the Flemynges came so sodaynly y t they slewe many of theyr enemyes and forced many to fle toward saynt Omers for theyr sauegarde And so the
about Dunkyrke they gaue vnto hym suche assaute that he was constrayned to gyue backe And for the said shippes and goodes shulde nat come vnto the possessyon of his enemyes he sette them on fyre within the hauen and so was wasted bothe shyppes and goodes And all be it that after this mysse happe he recouered his strengthe layed syege vnto y e towne of Ipre and wrought the flemynges moche care and trouble shortely after suche syckenesses fell amonge his people as the flyre and other that his souldyours dyed of them great noumbre for the whiche he was compelled to leaue hys iourney and to retourne into EnglaÌde In this yere also was a batayle or feates of armes done in the kynges palays of westmynster atwene one called Garton Appellaunt and syr IohnÌ Ansley knyght defendauÌt of whiche fyght at length the knight was vyctor and caused his enemye to yelde hym For the whiche the sayd Garton was from that place drawen vnto Tyburne and there hanged for his false accusacyon and surmyse Anno dnÌi M.CCC.lxxxiii  Anno dnÌi M.CCC.lxxxiiii Grocer Symonde wynchecombe  Nycholas Brembre  Anno. vii  IohnÌ more   Anno dnÌi M.CCC.lxxxiiii  Anno dnÌi M.CCC.lxxxv  Nycholas Exton  Nycholas Brembre  Anno. viii  IohnÌ Frenshe  THis yere king Rycharde holdynge his Christmas at Eltham thyther came vnto hym the kynge of Ermony whiche was chased out of his lande by the Infydels and Turkes and required ayde of y e kynge to be restored vnto his dominyon The kynge fested and comforted him according to his honour after couÌsell taken with hys lordes concerninge that mater he gaue vnto him great sommes of money and other ryche gyftes with the whiche after he had taryed in Englande vpoÌ ii monethes he departed with glad countenaunce And soone after Ester the kynge with a greate armye yode towarde ScotlaÌde But whan he drewe nere vnto the borders such meanes were sought by the Scottes that a peace was concluded atwene bothe realmes for a certayne tyme. After whiche conclusion so taken the kynge returned vnto yorke and there restyd hym a season In which tyme varyaunce fell atwene IohnÌ HolaÌde brother to the erle of Kent and the erles sonne of Stafforde by reason of whiche varyaunce in conclusion y e sayd sonne of the erle was slayne of the hande of the same syr IohnÌ HolÌade for the whiche dede the kynge was greuously amoued departed shortely after with his company toward London Anno dnÌi M.CCC.lxxxv  Anno dnÌi M.CCC.lxxxvi Grocer IohnÌ Organ  Nycholas Brembre  Anno. ix  IohnÌ Chyrcheman  THis yere kynge Rycharde assembled at westmynster hys highe court of parliameÌt Durynge the whiche amonge other many actes in the same counsell concluded he created .ii. dukes a marques and .v. erles Of the whiche firste syr Edmonde of Langley the kynges vncle and erle of Cambrydge was created duke of yorke syr Thomas of woodstoke his other vncle erle of Buckyngham was create duke of Gloucester syr Lyonell Uere y t was erle of Oxenforde was made marques of Deuelyn sir Henry Bolingbrooke sonne and heyre of IohnÌ of GauÌt duke of Lancastre was made erle of Derby syr Edwarde sonne heyre vnto the duke of yorke was made erle of Rutlande syr IohnÌ Holande brother to the erle of Kent was made erle of Huntyngdone syr Thomas Monbraye was made erle of Notyngham and Marshall of Englande and syr Mychaell de la Poole was made erle of Suffolke ChauÌceller of EnglaÌde And by auctoryte of the same parlyamente syr Roger Mortymer erle of the Marche and sonne and heyre vnto syr Edmonde Mortymer and of dame Philyppe eldest doughter and heyre vnto syr Lyonell y e seconde sonne of Edward the thyrde was soone after proclaymed heyre paraunt vnto the crowne of Englande The whiche sir Roger shortely after sayled into Irelande there to pacifye hys lordeshyppe of wulster whiche he was lorde of by his foresayde mother But whyle he was there occupyed aboute the same the wylde Irysshe came vpon hym in noumbre and slewe him and moche of his company This sir Roger hadde Issue Edmonde and Roger Anne Alys and Elynoure that was made a nunne The .ii. foresaid sonnes died without issue and Anne eldest doughter was maryed to Rycharde erle of Cambrydge whiche Rycharde was sonne vnto syr Edmonde of Langley before named The which Rycharde hadde issue by the sayde Anne Isabell ladye Bouchier Rycharde that after was duke of yorke father to kynge Edwarde the .iiii. whiche sayd Richarde erle of Cambridge was put to deth by Henry the .v. as after shall appere In this yere also syr HeÌry Bolingbroke erle of Derby maryed the Countesse doughter of Herforde by whome he was lorde of that countrey And by her he had issue Henry that after him was kynge Blaunche duches of Barre and Philippe that was wedded to the kynge of Denmarke Also Thomas duke of Clarence IohnÌ duke of Bedforde Humfrey duke of Gloucester Anno domini M.CCC.lxxxvi  Anno domini M.CCC.lxxxvii Goldesmythe wyllyam Stondon  Nycholas Exton  Anno. x.  wyllyam More  IN this .x. yere the erle of Arundell was sent into the duchye of Guyan for to strengthe suche soudyours as the king at that tyme had in those parties or after some wryters to scoure the see of rouers enemyes The whiche erle in kepynge his course or passage encountred a myghtye flote of Flemynges laden with Rochel wyne set vpon them and distressed them theyr shyppes and so broughte them vnto dyuers portes of EnglaÌde By reason wherof the sayde wyne was so plenteous in Englande that a tonne thereof was solde for a marke and .xx. s. the choyse And amonge other in that flote was taken the Admyralle of Flaunders whyche remayned here longe after as prysoner Anno domini M.CCC.lxxxvii  Anno dnÌi M.CCC.lxxxviii Goldesmythe wyllyam Uenour  Nycholas Exton  Anno. xi  Hughe Fostalfe  THis .xi. yere of kyng Rycharde syr Thomas of woodstocke duke of Gloucester the erle of Arundell with the erles of warwyke of Derby and of Notyngham consyderynge howe the king and hys lande was mysse ladde by a fewe persones aboute the kynge entendyng reformacion of the same assembled them to haue a counsell at Radecoke brydge and after arrered great people so with a stronge power came to London there caused y e king to call a êliament wherof herynge maister Alexander Neuyle than archebysshop of yorke sir Lyonell Uere marques of Deuelyn and syr Mychaell de la Poole Chaunceller and erle of Suffolke fearyng punisshement fledde the lande and so died in straunge countreys Than the kynge by counsell of the other aboue named lordes durynge the parlyament caused to be taken syr Roberte Treuylian chefe Iustyce of Englande syr Nycholas Brembre late mayre of the cytie of London sir IohnÌ Salysbury knyghte of housholde sâr IohnÌ BeauchaÌp stewarde also of the kynges house
or stroÌge holde gotten with great difficulte by maÌhode of your noble progenitours To this y e kyng with chauÌged countenauÌce answered sayd Uncle how say ye thoses wordes Than y e duke boldelye recyted y e foresayd wordes wherunto the king beynge more discontented said wene ye y t I be a marchauÌt or fole to sell my laÌde by saynt IohnÌ baptist nay But trothe it is y t our cosyn the duke of Brytaine hath rendred vnto vs al such suÌmes of money as our progenitours lente vnto him or his auncetours vpon the said towne of Brest For the whiche reason good conscience will y t he haue his towne restored agayne By meane of whiche wordes thus vttred by the duke suche rancoure and malyce kyndelyd atwene the kinge hym y t it ceased nat tyll the sayde duke was put to dethe by murdre vnlefully Than the duke apperceyuynge the kinges misledynge by certayne persones about him entendyng thereof reformacion for y e weale of the kinge and his realme called vnto him the abbot of saynte Albons the abbot pryour of westmynster and shewed to them his secrete mynde By whose counselles he made assemble shortely after at Arundell to which assemble came at the day appoynted dyuers lordes bothe spirituall temporall as him selfe the erle of Arundell and other Also thyther came the erle of Notyngham than marshall of Englande the erle of warwyke of spirituall lordes the archebisshoppe of Caunterbury the abbottes of saynte Albones and of westmynster with other After whyche assemble thus made and eueryche of theym to other sworne within the castell of Arundel the .viii. day of August they toke there theyr counsell and condiscended yts dyuers lordes about the king as the duke of Lancastre the duke of yorke and other shulde be putte from suche auctoryte and rule of the lande as they than bare and other offycers suche as were thought preiudicial vnto the weale of the lande shulde be dyscharged and punisshed for theyr demerytes whan this with many other thynges was amonge them concluded eueryche of theym departed tyll the tyme of an other metynge atwene theym appoynted But the erle of Notyngham contrarye his othe and promyse fearing the sequell of the matter yode shortely after vnto the kynge and dyscouered vnto hym all the premisses wherefore the kynge in all haste called a secrete counsell at London in the said erle of Notynghames place or after some at the place of the erle of Huntyngdone where it was concludyd y t the sayd erle of Huntyngdone other shulde by strengthe fetche vnto the king the erles of Arundell and of warwyke And in the meane whyle the kynge in propre êsone arested his vncle syr Thomas of woodestoke at Plasshy in Essex as sayeth the Englysshe cronycle All be it an other wryter in laâyne saythe that kyng Rycharde in propre persone rode vnto the Manoure of Grenewyche in the nyghte tyme there toke hym in his bedde commauÌded hym vnto the Towre of LoÌdon whiche shortely after was conueyed vnto Calays and there pyteously murderyd And soone after were the foresayd erles of Arundell warwyke brought vnto the towre of London with also syr IohnÌ Cobham syr IohnÌ Cheynye knightes But the erle of Arundell was taken to bayle and wente at large vnder suertie tyll the begynnynge of the parlyament In whiche season dyuers other were brought to sondrye prysones Than the kynge sente out his commissyoners vnto the lordes of his realme for to come vnto hys parliament which began after vpon the .xvii. day of Septembre in the begynninge of the .xxi. yere of y e kynge and later ende of thys mayres yere Here it is to be noted that Adam Bame mayre dyed in the begynning of the moneth of Iune For whome was after chosen and admytted the viii day of y e sayd moneth for mayre Rycharde whytyngton to occupye the full of that yere that is to meane tyll the feest of Symonde and Iude. But vpon saynt Edwardes day folowyng whan the newe mayre is accustomed to be chosen Than was he electe agayne for that yere folowynge And so he stode in the offyce of mayraltye an hoole yere and .v. monethes Than to returne to our fyrst mater whan the kyng hadde assembled his lordes y t whiche came with so stronge and myghtie companyes that the cytie suffysed nat to lodge the people but were fayne to be lodgyd in small townes and vyllages nere vnto y e same within short tyme after the sayde parlyamente was begonne the erles of Arundell and of warwyke were broughte before the lordes of the parlyamente holden at westmynster and there fynally iudged as foloweth the erle of Arudell to be ladde on fote from westmynster and place of his iugemeÌt thoroughe the highe stretes of the cytie vnto the towre hylle where hys hede to be stryken of and the erle of warwyke was also iudged to dethe But for his great age by meane of hys frendes his iugemente was pardoned and altered to perpetuall prison where as the kyng wolde coÌmaunde hym whiche after was had vnto y e Ile of Man in Lancasshyre where he consumed the resydue of hys olde dayes And the erle of Arundelle accordinge to the sentence vpon him gyuen vpon the morowe folowyng the feest of saynte Mathewe beynge saterday the .xxii. day of Septembre was ladde on fote vnto y e towre hyll beyng accompanyed with great strengthe of men for so moche as it was demyd y t he shuld haue ben rescued by the waye how be it none suche was attempted but peasably he was brought vnto the sayde place of execucyon and there pacientlye mekely toke his dethe whose body after was by the freres Augustynes borne vnto theyr place within the warde of Bradestrete of London there in the northe syde of the quyer solempnely buryed and after vpon his graue a sumptuous toumbe of marble stone sette and edifyed And by auctoryte of the said parlyament the archebysshoppe of Caunterbury was exyled the realme And vpon the monday folowynge beynge the xxiiii daye of Septembre syr IohnÌ lord Cobham and sir IohnÌ Cheyny knyght were iudged to be drawen hanged and quarteryd But by instaunce and labour of their frendes that iugement was chaunged vnto perpetuall prison And thys done y e kynge ordayned a royall feeste and helde open housholde for all honeste comers For as affirmeth Peter Pyctauyence a wryter of historyes this prynce kynge Rycharde passed all other of his progenytours in lyberalytie and bounâie The whiche feest and also parlyament yet holdynge the kynge created .v. dukes a marques and .v. erles As fyrste the erle of Derby syr HeÌry of Bolygbrooke sone and heyre of IohnÌ of Gaunte duke of LaÌcastre was created duke of Herforde The secoÌde whiche was erle of Rutlande was created duke of Amnerle The thyrde beynge erle of Kent was created duke of Surrey The fourthe beynge erle of Notyngham was created duke of Norfolke And the fyfte was the erle of
y t whiche shortely after was vsed thoroughe all countreys of Englande Anno domini M. CCC.lxxxxviii  Anno dnÌi M. CCC.lxxxxix Goldesmythe IohnÌ wade  Drewe Barentyne  Anno .xxii.  IohnÌ warner  IN this .xxii. yere of kynge Rycharde y e coÌmon fame ranne y t the kyng had letton to ferme y e realme of Englande vnto sir wyllyam Sâope erle of wylshyre than treasourer of EnglaÌde to sir IohnÌ Busshey syr Iohn Bagot and syr Henry Grene knightes y e whyche returned shortly after to their great coÌfusyoÌs This yere also Thomas y e son and heyre of y e erle of Arundell lately beheded y e whiche Thomas nat all to his pleasure was kepte in y e house of the duke of Exceter passed y e see by y e meanes of one wyllyaÌ Scot mercer yode vnto his vncle y t archebisshop of CauÌterbury so contynued with him in the cytie of Colayne than beynge In this pastyme great purueyaunce was made for y e kynges iourney into IrelaÌde so y t whan all thinges necessarye to the honoure nede of the kynge his people was redy he set forthwarde vpon his iourney in the moneth of Apryll leauyng for his leutenaunt in Englange sir Edmonde of Langley his vncle duke of yorke and after toke shippyng at Brystowe and sayled with a mighty stronge hoste into Irelande where he had so prosperous spede that in processe of tyme with manhode and good polycie he subdued to him that couÌtrey In the whiche voyage were it for acte that he dyd or of y e kynges bounte Henry sone and heyre of the duke of Herforde than exiled was of y e kyng made knyght This Henry was after his father crowned kynge of Englande named Henry the .v. Kynge Richarde thus beynge occupyed in Irelande and receyuynge of the capytaynes of the wylde Irysshe into his subieccyon and orderyng of that countrey to set in an ordre and rule Henry of Bolyngbroke duke of Herforde before exyled with the archebysshoppe of Caunterbury and Thomas of Arundel and other landed with a small company at Rauyns spore in the Northe countrey in the moneth of August and vnder colour of the clayme of his ryghtfull enherytaunce ceysed the people as he wente to whome in short processe great multytude of the people drewe and gatherd Of this landyng king Rycharde beynge warned for hasty spede of returnyng into Englande left in IrelaÌde behynde hym moche ordenauÌce and landed at Mylforde hauen in the begynnyng of Septembre begynnynge also of the .xxiii. yere of his reygne so yode vnto the castell of Flynte in wales and there rested him and his people and entended there to gather vnto hym more strength In the whiche meane tyme the foresayd Henry that than hadde proclaymed him selfe duke of Lancaster in the ryght of IohnÌ of GauÌte his father was comyn to Brystowe and there without resystence toke sir wyllyam Scrope erle of wylshyre treasourer of Englande syr IohnÌ Busshey and syr Henry Grene. Also there was taken sir IohnÌ Bagot but after he escaped and fledde into Irelande Than were the other thre there iuged put in execucyon And kinge Rycharde styll beynge at the castell of Flynte herynge of the great strengthe y t was about y e duke fearyd sore of him selfe And in lyke wyse so dyd all suche as were about hym wherfore syr Thomas Percye erle of worcetyr and than stewarde of the kynges housholde contrarye his allegeaunce brake openly the whyte rodde in the hall commaundyd euery man to shifte for him selfe By reason whereof the people voyded and the kynge lefte without coÌforte so that he was shortly after taken and presented vnto the duke The whyche put hym vnder safe kepynge shortly after spedde him toward LoÌdon And whaÌ he came nere vnto y e cytie he sente king Rycharde with a secret coÌpany vnto y e Towre there to be safely kepte tyll his commyng wherof many euyll disposed persones of the cytie beyng warned assembled them in great noumbre entended to haue mette him without the towne there to haue taken him from such as ladde him so to haue slayne him for the great cruelte that he before tyme had vsed vnto the cytie But as god wolde the mayre rulers of the cytie were enfourmed of theyr malycyous purpose and gathered to theym the worshypfull commoners and sadde men by whose polycyes nat without great diffyculte they were reuoked frome theyr euyll purpose all be it that lastynge that rumoure they yode vnto westmynster and there toke mayster IohnÌ Slake deane of the kinges chapell and frome thens broughte him vnto Newgate and there caste on hym yrons Shortly after the duke came vnto London there by the consent of kyng Rycharde a êlyament was begone vpon the .xiii. day of y e moneth of Septembre Endurynge whiche êlyament many accusacyons artycles of mysrulynge of the lande were layed vnto the charge of thys noble prince kyng Rycharde whiche be engroced at length in .xxxviii. artycles For the which voluÌtarely as it shuld seme by y e copy of an instrumeÌt here after shewed he shulde renounce wylfullye be deposed from all kynglye mageste the monday beynge the xxix day of Septembre and the feest of saynt Myghell the archaungell in the yere of our lordes incarnacyon after the accomâte of the churche of Englande M. lxxxxix and the xxiiii yere of the raygne of the sayde Rycharde The copye of whiche instrumente here vnder ensueth THis present instrumente made the mondaye the .xxix. daye of Septembre and feeste of saynt Mychaell tharchaungell in the yere of our lorde god M.CCC.lxxx and xix and in the .xxiii. yere of kynge Rycharde the seconde wytnesseth that where by the auctoryte of the lordes spirytuall and temporall of this present parlyament and coÌmons of the same the ryght honorable and dyscrete êsons here vnder named were by the sayde auctoryte assygned to go vnto the towre of London there to here and testifye suche questyons and answeres as than there shude be by the said honorable and discrete persones harde knowe all men to whome these presente letters shall come that we sir Richarde Scroope archebysshoppe of yorke IohnÌ bisshoppe of Herforde Henrye erle of Northumberlande Rafe erle of westmerlande Thomas lorde of Barkeley wyllyam abbot of westmynster IohnÌ pryour of Caunterbury wyllyam Thyrnynge and Hughe Burnell knyghtes IohnÌ Markeham Iustyce Thomas Stowe IohnÌ Burbage doctours of the lawe Cyuyle Thomas Feryby and Denys Lopham notaryes publyke the day yere abouesayd atwene the houres of .viii. .ix. of y e clocke before noone were present in the chyefe chaumber of the kynges lodgynge within the sayde place of the towre where was rehersed vnto the kynge by y e mouth of the forsayde erle of Northumberlande that beforetyme at Conwey in Northwalys the kynge beynge there at hys pleasure and lybertye promysed vnto the archebysshop of Caunterbury than Thomas of Arundell and vnto the
wysedome the whych forecastynge the great shedynge of chrysten mannes blode with many other inconuenyences lykely to haue ensued of this varyaunce atwene these two dukes made suche affectuous labour that with great diffyculte he pacifyed them agayne for that tyme and brought them to personall communicacyon and lastely to amyable and frendely departynge After whiche concorde and amyte thus agayn concluded the duke of Burgoyne departed into Pycardy leauynge behynde him the fore named Peter Essayr to rule the cytie of Parys The whiche shortely after drewe to hym suche persones as before tyme had vexed and distourbed y e duke of Orleyaunce frendes seruauntes with in that cytie By whose meanes the sayd Peter sought fyrste occasyon agayne a knight named Uenyt Thorney and by false suggestyon smote fyrste of his hede and after dyd hys body to be hanged vpon the coÌmon gybet of Parys in dyspyte of y e sayd duke as testifyeth myne Auctoure wherwith y e duke beynge wondersly amoued resembled his knyghtes spedde hym towarde a towne named And for to strengthe another towne named he sente a certayne nombre of his knyghtes chargyng them with the dwellers to withstande the force of his enemies Of this hearynge the duke of Burgoyne anone gathered vnto him the noumbre of .xvi. M. flemynges and Pycardes and sped hym vnto the sayde towne of And so with his instrumentes of warre assayled the gate of the sayde towne whyche leadeth towarde saynt Quintyne y t in shorte space the sayde Flemynges wan the entre of the towne In whyche meane season the dwellers wyth the other soudyours by a backe way or water wherof the maner by thys auctoure is nat expressyd lefte the towne yode vnto the duke of Orleyaunce beynge as yet at the foresayde towne of whan the Flemynges were entered the towne fouÌde it deserte of people and pillage were it for that they lacked theyr praye or for other cause here nat shewed they toke suche vnkyndenes agayne the duke that for prayer nor yet for manasses they wolde nat with hym any lenger tary but returned them home in all hastely spede towarde theyr owne countrey So that the duke was fayne to withdrawe and for the more suretie to aske ayde and helpe of Englysshemen and so was holpen by the prynces comforte Henrye sonne of Henry the .iiii as after shall be touched in the .xii. yere of the .iiii. Henry IN the .xxxi. yere of thys kynge Charles whiche was the .xii. yere of the .iiii. Henry than kynge of Englande the duke of Orleyaunce seynge his enemye was turned from Parys caused suche Brydges as before by his said enemye were broken to be reedyfyed By the whyche he passed the ryuer tyll he came to saint Denys where as than he fande a capytayne a noble man named syr IohnÌ Cabylon of the dukes of Burgoyne there lefte by hym to strength the towne The whiche syr IohnÌ coÌsideryng y e wekenes of y e said towne with also his lacke of streÌgth yelded him the towne vnto the duke swerynge to him by solempne othe that after y e daye he shulde neuer bere armes agayne hym In this pastyme an other capytayne of the Burgonyons called Gancourt secretely by night wan vpon the frenche men the brydge of saynte Clodalde But nat longe after the duke of Orleaunce sent thyther certayne Brytons the whiche agayne recouered the sayde brydge helde it vnto y e sayd dukes vse In whyche tyme and season the duke of Burgoyne recouerynge hys strength passed the brydge of Melent so came vnto the cytie of Parys and the daye folowynge wyth helpe of the cytesyns recouered the abouesayd brydge of saynt Clodald and dystressed vpon a M. Brytons whyche had the warde of the same Then the duke of Orleaunce made out of saynte Denys ouer Sayne brydge towarde Parys wherof that other duke beynge warned refused the cytye and with the kynge than there beynge present remouyd wyth the Dolphyne to the towne called Stamps and sent y e erle of Marche named Iamys wyth a certeyne knyghtes to a towne named to strength it ageyne the duke of Orleaunce The whyche of the sayde dukes knyghtes was encountred with and taken and so sent to pryson wherof herynge the duke of Burgoyne in shorte processe after retourned vnto Parys wyth the kyng and dolphyne and the duke of OrleauÌce yode to a towne called Seyntclowe And in the .xxxii. yere of thys sayd kynge Charles by counceyll of the duke of Berry and other seyng that the sayde cytye of Parys was so let agayne hym wyth also the kynge the dolphine sent a noble man of his hoste named Alberte vnto Henry the iiii yet kynge of Englande to requyre hym of ayde to withstande the tyrannye of the duke of Burgoyne that wyth hys complyces entendyd to subuerte the realme of Fraunce To this requeste kynge Henry gaue good eare and lastely graunted to hys petycyon sent thyder as sayth the Frenche cronycle Thomas hys sonne duke of Clarence also y e duke of yorke wyth IohnÌ erle of Cornewayle accompanyed wyth .viii. C. knyghtes and sowdyours a thousande archers The whych company when they were landed in Fraunce herde y t the French lordes were in treaty of peace no man to theÌ gaue wages as they tofore were êmysed fell vpon a towne called and it ryffled therin toke as prysoners the abbot of that monastery wyth other and coÌueyed theÌ to Burdeaux and after into Englande where for theyr fynaunce other money due of olde by the Frenche kynge as affermeth Gagwyne they remayned many yeres after And that the Englysh men were thus departed albeit that in the Englysshe cronycle and .xiii. yere of the forenamed kynge Henry of them is other report made the lordes of Fraunce retourned to theyr olde disceÌcyon contynued in longe stryfe wherof the cyrcuÌstaunce were longe and tedyouse to tell to shewe the vnstablynesse of them how some whyle the duke of Orleaunce was fauoured of the kynge and the dolphyne and there agayne the duke of Burgoyne cleyne out of conceyte The which coÌtencyoÌ thus enduryng kyng Henry y e iiii dyed and Henry his son y e .v. Henry was admitted for kyng of Englande after hym that shortly after sent his ambassadours vnto the Frenche kynge arynge of him his doughter Katheryne in maryage as affirmeth the frenche boke But dyuers other wryters shewe y t he asked the hoole landes due to him within the realme of FrauÌce by reason of the composicion made in tyme passed atwene his progenytour Edwarde the thyrde IohnÌ than king of Fraunce And for he was dysdeynously answered he therfore made vpoÌ them sharpe warre as in the .iii. yere of y e sayd HeÌry after some deale dothe appere By reason of whyche warre the cyuyle batayle or stryfe y e longe whyle had coÌtynued amonge the frenche men than dyd aswage For in the .iii. yere of this Henry whiche was the .xxxv. yere of this Charles the said Henry inuaded y e
realme of Fraunce had at Egyncourte a tryumphant victory as in the sayde thyrde yere of HeÌry the .v. is more at lengthe declared Than it foloweth in the story after many townes and stronge holdes by the englysshe men in sondry places of FrauÌce opteined in y e .xxx. .viii. yere of this Charles a frenche man named y e lorde of the I le of Adam IohnÌ Uyllers in proper name gatheryng to hym a company of tyrauntes to the nombre of CCC or mo wherof many were old seruauÌtes of the kynges housholde than put out by y e Dolphyn other that than had the rule of the kynge by treason of a clerke opteyned the keyes of one of the Gates of Parys and so entred the cytie by nyght by a watche worde amonge them deuysed assocyate to them many Burgonyons and so beynge stronge yode where the kyng was and gate y e rule of his êsone And that done all suche as they myght fynde that than bare any rule they slewe by one meane other so that vpon y e day folowyng was nombred of dede corfes wythin the cytie vpon .iiii. M. Amonge the whiche of noble men was Henry de Marle than Chaunceller of FrauÌce Graunâpre with many other And for to haue the more assystence of the coÌmon people the sayd Uyllers set y e kyng vpon an horse and ladde hym about the cytie as he that had small reason to guyde hym selfe so ruled all thyng as he his coÌpany wolde wherfore the Dolphyn feryng to fall in the daunger of so wylde a coÌpany yode to Meldune or and there called to hym suche as then were lefte on lyne to withstaÌde these tyrauntes and y e duke of Burgoyne than beynge within the cytie compasser of all thys myschefe as some construed and demed After whyche company to hym gathered he returned to the cytie of Parys and assayled one of the gates But whanne he sawe y e cytezens toke partye agayne hym he thoughte his trauayle loste wherfore without great assaute makyng he called thence his knightes and so departed agayne to the place whiche he came fro and from thens vnto Thuron in appeasynge the countreys townes as he went whiche at those dayes were farre out of frame And than in the .xxxix. yere of the sayd Charles king Henry the .v. landed with a stroÌge power at a place called Touke in Normandy and after layde syege to manye stronge holdes and townes them wanne as Cane Phaleys Roan and other as in the .vi. yere of the sayd Henrye folowynge is more at lengthe declared In tyme of whyche warre thus made by kynge Henry the Dolphyn and the duke of Burgoyne eyther of them prouyded to defende the malyce of the other in so moche that as testyfyeth the frenche cronycle the duke was aduysed to haue taken partie with the Englisshemen This sayeng as wytnesseth an auctour named Floure of hystoryes which toucheth in laten many gestes dedes done by kynges of EnglaÌde sayeth that the Frenche men bryng in that for to excuse theyr infortune cowerdyse by reason whereof they loste nat all onely theyr lande but also the honoure name of the same Than lastely the duke beynge of mynde by exortacyon of Phylyppe Iosquyne and IohnÌ de TolongnÌ with also a lady called the countesse of Grat the duke was reconsyled vnto the Dolphyne and a day of metynge apoynted at Monstruell where eyther of them shulde be accoÌpanyed with .x. lordes onely without mo At whyche day the sayd prynces with theyr assygned lordes beynge assembled many reasons and argumeÌtes were layde and replyed vpon bothe sydes By occasyon wherof one of the Dolphyns company sodainly drewe hys knyfe and strake the duke vnto the harte so that he dyed soone after whyche murder was supposed to be done by a knyght called Tanguyde de Chastell whyche oftyme passed had ben famylyer seruaunt with the duke of OrleyauÌce before slayne by meanes of the sayde duke of Burgoyne After whiche murder thus commytted the lande of Fraunce was broughte in moche more stryfe varyaunce in so moche that Phylyppe the sonne of the sayde IohnÌ duke of Burgoyne beynge than in Parys hauynge the rule of y e kynge and the cytie toke partie with the Englysshe men agayne y e Dolphyn By reason wherof as sondry wryters agre king Henryes êtie was greatly augmented holpen so that fynally kynge Henry opteyned moche of his wyll shortly after maryed dame Katheryne doughter of Charles kynge in the .xli. yere of his reygne with assuraunce promyse of the inherytauÌce of the realme of Fraunce to him and his heyres after the dethe of the said Charles as to you more plainly shal be shewed in the .viii. yere of the said Henry the fyfte After whyche maryage concluded and fynysshed yet y e Dolphyn ceased nat to make newe mocyons sterynges Durynge the whiche kynge Charles dyed in Octobre and was buryed at saynt Denys whan he had reygned in greate trouble vpoÌ the poynt of .xlii. yeres leauyng after hym as is affirmed by the forenamed auctour Gaguyne a sonne Dolphyn of Uyenne called Charles whiche after was kyng of Frenchemen and was named Charlys the .vii. or the .viii. after some wryters Henry the .iiii. Anglia HEnry the .iiii. of that name and sonne of IohnÌ of Gaunte late duke of LaÌcaster toke possessyon of the domynion of y e realme of Englande as before in the ende of the story of the seconde Rycharde is shewed vpon the laste daye of Septembre in the yere of our lorde a M. CCC.lxxxxix and in the .xix. yere of Charles y e .vii. than kyng of FrauÌce After whyche possessyon so by hym taken anone he made newe officers As the erle of Northumberlande he made Constable of Englande the erle of westmerlaÌde was made Marshall syr IohnÌ Serle Chaunceller IohnÌ Newebery esquyer tresorer and syr Rycharde Clyfforde knyght keper of y e priuey signet And y t done prouysyon was made for hys coronacyon agayne the day of translacyoÌ of saynt Edwarde the confessour nexte than commyng And the parlyament was prolonged tyll the tuysdaye folowynge the sayd daye of coronacyoÌ Than vpoÌ the euyn of the sayd daye of coronacyon the kynge wythin the towre of LondoÌ made .xli. knyghtes of the bate wherof .iii. were hys owne sonnes .iii. erles .v. lordes And vpon mondaye beynge the sayd daye of saynt Edwarde the .xiii. daye of October he was crowned at westmynster of the archebysshop of CauÌtorbury After whych solempnyte fynysshed an honorable feest was holden wythin the greate halle of westmynster where the kyng beyng set in the mydde see of the table the archebisshop of CauÌtorbury with .iii. other prelates were set at the same table vppon the ryght haÌde of the kyng the archebysshoppe of yorke wyth other iiii prelates was set vpoÌ that other haÌde of the kyng HeÌry the kynges eldest sonne stoode vppoÌ the ryghte hande wyth a poyntlesse
batayl was many a noble man slayne vpoÌ eyther partye And it was the more to be noted vengeable for there the father was slayn of the sonne the son of the father and brother of brother neuewe of neuewe And in the moneth of August folowynge the duchesse of Brytayne landed at Fulmouth in the prouince of Cornwayll from theÌs was conueyed to wynchester where in shorte tyme after kyng HeÌry maryed her in the cathedrall churche of the sayde cytye And soone vpoÌ was the eldest doughter of kyng HeÌry named dame BlaÌche maryed at Coleyn to the dukes sonne of Bayer Anno dnÌi M. CCCC.ii  Anno dnÌi M. CCCC.iii  Rycharde Merlewe  IohnÌ walcot Draper  Anno .iii.  Robert Chichele  IN this yere and .xiiii. day of the moneth of Septembre was y e foresayd duchesse of Brytayne and wyfe of y e kyng receyued wyth great honour into the cytye of London so by the mayre and the cytezyns conueyed vnto westmynster where vpoÌ the morowe folowyng she was crowned quene of Englande wyth greate honoure and solempnite the cyrcumstaunce wherof I passe ouer In this yere also Rupertus which after the deposynge of wessenselans was by the electours of the empyre and by auctoryte of Bonyface theââr ⪠than pope admytted for Emperoure of Rome and came into Englande wyth a goodly companye onely to se the countre and commodytyes of the same The whyche of the kynge was honourably receyued and fested and lastely conueyed by the kynge towarde the see syde where eyther departed from other wyth exchaunge of ryche and precious gyft For thys Rurpartus was named of wryters a man of excellente bounte and largesse And he gaue more lyberally for so moche as all the tyme of hys beynge in EnglaÌde he laye here at the kynges costes And whyle he was at LondoÌ he was lodged at the house of saynte Iohannâs in smythfelde Thys yere also vpoÌ saiÌt LaureÌce euyn or the .ix. day of August a lorde of Brytayne named the lorde of Castyle in Frenche laÌded within a myle of Plymmouth wyth a great coÌpany of NormaÌs and Brytons and came vnto the sayd town and lodged there all night and spoyled and robbed the sayd towne And vpon the day folowynge whan they had done what they wolde they retourned agayne to theyr shyppes with plente of pyllage and prysoners suche as they fande Anno domini M. CCCC.iii  Anno domini M. CCCC.iiii  Thomas Fawconer  wyllyam Askam  Anno .v.  Thomas Pooll  IN thys yere soone after CaÌdelmasse the foresayd lorde of Castyle trustynge to wynne a lâke enterpryse as in the yere passed he hadde done he beynge accompanyed wyth a stronge nauy of FreÌche men Brytons was encountred wyth the Englyshe floot within .ii. myles of Deermouth at a place called Blakâpooll ⪠where after loÌge and cruell fyghte y e sayd lord was slayne wyth the more partye of the people and dyuers of hys shyppes takeÌ as wytnesseth the Englysshe cronycle wyth dyuers other Englysshe auctours But the FreÌche boke excuseth thys scomfyture of FreÌchmen and sayeth that by treason oâ a Gascoyne named Peâyâ or Perot de Languyle whyche shewed vnto the sayd lorde Castyle that he had espyed certayne Englysshe shyppes in a Greke lyghtly wythout resystence to be takeÌ caused the sayd lorde to make sayle towarde the sayd towne of Dartmouthe where after he had contynued a certayne tyme hys course he espyed the hotefloâe of Englyshe men whyche made toward hym and so at the sayde Blake pool encountââd and faughte and lastely escaped the daunger of hys enemyes as testyfyeth the sayde French cronycle ⪠but âatte unhurt for he was so wouÌded in that fyght that he dyed shortly after And the moneth of Apryll folowynge the duke of Clarence wyth the erle of KeÌt many other lordes toke shyppynge at Meregate so sayled vnto Scluce in FlauÌders And after the sayde duke had there refresshed hym hys company he toke shyppynge agayne and holdynge hys course towarde SwynÌe he was encouÌtred wyth .iii. greate carykes of Ieane the whyche he assayled and after longe bekerynge them toke beynge laden wyth marchauÌdyse so wyth that pray retourned to Cambre before wynchelsee in the whyche hauen the sayd goodes were caÌted and shared But how it was by varyauÌce amonge them selfe or otherwyse one of the sayde carykes was sodeynly fyred so coÌsumed For restytucyon of whyche goodes shyppes y e marchauÌtes IanueÌce made after great longe sute to the kyng his couÌsayl in whyche passetyme they borowed cloth wolle other marchaundyses amountyng vnto great and notable sommes of dyuers marchauntes of Englande And whanne they sawe that they myghte haue none hope of recouery of theyr loste they sodeynly auoyded the laÌde and lafte y e foresayde notable summes vnpayde to the great hynderaunce and vtter vndoynge of many Englysshe marchauntes In thys yere a yoman named wyllyam Serle somtyme yomaÌ of kyng Rychardes Robys was takeÌ in the marches of ScotlaÌde and broughte vnto LondoÌ there in the guildhall areygned for the murder of the duke of Glouceter at Calays UpoÌ which murder he was attaynt conuyct vppoÌ the .xx. daye of Octobre he was draweÌ from the towre vnto tyborne and there haÌged and quartred hys hed was after set vpoÌ LondoÌ brydg hys .iiii. quarters were sent to .iiii. sondry good townes Anno domini M. CCCC.iiii  Anno domini M. CCCC.v  wyllyam Lowfte  IohnÌ Hyende Draper  Anno .vi.  Stephen Spylman  IN thys yere and moneth of Ianuary were certayne courses of warre ron in smythfelde betwene syr EdmuÌde erle of Kent the lorde Moryfa BaroÌ of ScotlaÌde vppoÌ y e chaleÌge of the sayd scottysshe lorde But the erle of KeÌt bare hym so valy auntly that to hym was gyueÌ y e price of that iourney to hys great honour And in the same yere syr Rycharde Scrope than archebisshop of yorke and y e lorde Moubraye thaÌ marshal of EnglaÌd with other to them allied for grudge that they bare agayn the kynge gadered vnto theym greate streÌgth enteÌdyng to haue put downe the kynge as the âame than wente wherof the kyng beyng enfourmed in all haste sped towarde theym and met wyth them on thys syde yorke where after askyrmysshe by the sayd lordes made they were thaÌ takeÌ and after presented vnto y e king at yorke where they were bothe demed to suffre deth for theyr rebellyoÌ Than whan the bysshoppe came vnto the place of execucion he prayed y e bowcher to gyue to hym .v. strokes in the worshyp of christes fyue woundes for hys more penauÌce At eueryche of whyche .v. strokes kynge Henry beynge in hys lodgyng had a stroke in hys necke in so moch that he demed that some persone there beynge with hym present hadde stryken him And forthwyth he was stryken wyth the plage of lepyr so that than he knewe it was the hande of god and
whyche thynge no man than lyuynge cowde remembre that lyke to be sene And in thys yere was the lorde Thomas sonne to the kynge created duke of Clarence And in thys yere the kynge at the requeste of the duke of Orleaunce sente ouer the forsayd duke his sonne to ayde the sayd duke of OrleauÌce agayn the duke of Burgoyne Of whose actes and hys company I haue before made report in the story of Charles the .vii. kynge of Fraunce And in thys yere the kyng caused a newe coyne of nobles to be made whyche were of lesse value than the olde noble by .iiii. d. in a noble In thys yere also the kynge created IohnÌ hys son duke of Bedforde And hys other sonne Humfrey duke of Glounceter He made also syr Thomas Beauforde erle of Dorset and the duke of Anmarle he created duke of yorke Anno domini M. CCCC.xi  Anno domini M. CCCC.xii  Rauffe LeuenhmÌ Â wyllyam waldrenÌ Mercer  Anno .xiiii.  wyllyam Seuenok  IN thys yere and .xx. daye of the moneth of Nouembre was a great counsayll holden at the whyte freers of London By the whyche it was amonge other thynges concluded that for the kynges greate iournay that he entended to take in vysytyng of the holy sepulcre of our lord certayne Galeys of warre shulde be made and other purueaunce concernynge the same iournay whereupon all hasty possyble spede was made But after the feaste of Crystemasse whyle he was makynge hys prayers at saynte Edwardes shryne to take there hys leue and so to spede hym vpoÌ hys iournay he became so syke that suche as were aboute hym fered that he wolde haue dyed ryght there wherfore they for hys comforte bare hym into the abbottes place and lodged hym in a chambre and there vpoÌ a paylet layde hym before the fyre where he laye in greate agony a certayne of tyme. At length whaÌ he was commyn to hym selfe nat knowynge where he was he freyned of suche as than were aboute hym what place y t was The whych shewed to hym that it belonged vnto the abbot of westmynster and for he felte hym selfe so syke he commaunded to aske yf that chaÌbre had any speciall name where unto it was answered that it was named Hierusalem Than sayd y e kyng Louyng be to the father of heueÌ For nowe I knowe I shall dye in thys chambre accordynge to y e prophecye of me beforesayd that I shuld dye in HierusaleÌ And so after he made hym selfe redy dyed shortly after vppoÌ y e daye of saynt Cuthbert or the .xx. day of Marche whaÌ he had reygned .xiii. yeres v. monethes .xxi. dayes leuynge after hym .iiii. sonnes that is to meane HeÌry that was kyng Thomas y e was duke of Clarence IohnÌ duke of Bedforde and HuÌfrey duke of Glouceter and .ii. doughters that one beyng quene of Denmarke and that other duchesse of Barre as before is shewed whan kynge Henry was deed he was conueyed by water vnto Feuersham and from thens by lande vnto Caunterbury and there entered by y e shryne of saynt Thomas Anglia ¶ Henrici quinti. HEnry the .v ⪠of y e name and sonnÌ of Henry the .iiii begaÌ his reygne ouer this realm of England the xxi day of y e moneth of Marche In the yere of our lorde ende of the same .xiiii. C. xii And in the .xxxii. yere of Charles the .vii. yet kynge of FrauÌce And the .ix. daye of Apryll folowynge whych was that yere passioÌ sondaye beyng a day of excedyng rayne he was crowned at westmynster Thys man before the deth of hys father applyed hym vnto all vyce insolency drewe vnto hym all riottours wyldly dysposed êsones But after he was admytted to y e rule of the lande anon sodaynly he became a new maÌ tourned all that rage wyldnes into sobernes wyse sadnes the vyce into coÌstaÌt vertue And for he wolde coÌtinewe y e vertue and nat to be reduced thereunto by the famylyarytye of hys olde nyse company he therfore after rewardes to them gyuen charged them vppon payne of theyr lyues that none of theÌ were so hardy to come wythin .x. myle of such place as he were lodged after a daye by hym assygned In thys begynnyng of thys kyng Henry the olde mayre and shryues continued theyr offices to the termes accustomed Anno dnÌi M. CCCC.ii  Anno dnÌi M. CCCC.iii  Rauffe Leuyngham  wyllyam waldern Mercer  Anno .i.  wyllyam Seuenok  ANone as kynge Henry was crowned and the solempnyte of the feest of Eester was passed he sent vnto the fryers of LaÌgley where the corps of kynge Rycharde was buryed and caused it to be takeÌ oute of the erth so wyth reuerence and solempnyte to be coÌueyed vn to westmynster vppon the southe syde of saynt Edwardes shryne there honourably to be buryed by quene Anne his wyfe ⪠whyche there before tyme was enterred And after a solempne interment there holden he prouyded that .iiii. tapers shulde breÌne day and nyght about hys graue whyle the world endureth and one daye in the weke a solempne Dirige and vppon the morowe a masse of Requiem by note after whyche masse ended to be gyuen wekely vnto poore people .xi. s. viii d. in pens And vpon the daye of hys annyuersary after y e sayd masse of Requiem is songe to be yerely destrybuted for his soule .xx. li. iii. d. And about Heruest tyme was syr IohnÌ Oldcastell knyghte appreched for an heretyke coÌmitted to pryson But howe it was he escaped for that tyme out of the towre of LondoÌ and so yode into walys where he lyned ouer .iiii. yeres after Anno dnÌi M. CCCC.xiii  Anno dnÌi M. CCCC.xiiii  IohnÌ SuttonÌ Â wyllmÌ Crowmer Draper  Anno .ii.  IohnÌ Mycoll  IN thys yere and moneth of Ianuary certayne adherentes of the forenamed syr IohnÌ Oldcastell entendynge the dystruccion of thys lande subuercioÌ of the same assembled them in a felde nere vnto saynte Gyles in great nombre wherof the kynge beyng enfourmed toke y e felde before theym so toke a certayne of them Amonge the whyche was syr Roger ActonÌ knyghte syr IohnÌ Beuerley preest and a squyer called syr IohnÌ Browne The whyche wyth xxxvi mo in nombre were after conuycte of heresy and treason and for the same hanged and brent wythin y e sayd felde of saynt Gyles And in the same yere IohnÌ Claydon skynner Rycharde Turmyne baker were for heresy brente in Smythfelde And thys yere the kyng helde his parlyamente at Leyceter where amonge other thynges the foresayd bylle putte vp by the commons of the lande for the temporaltyes beynge in y e churche as it is before touched iÌ the .xi. yere of y e .iiii. HeÌry was agayne mynded In fere wherof lest the kyng wolde thereunto gyue any coÌfortable audyence as testyfye some wrytters certayne bysshoppes and other hede men of the churche putte
y e kyng in mynde to clayme his right in Fraunce And for the exployte thereof they offcede vnto hym great and notable summes By reason whereof the sayde byll was agayne put by and the kynge set hys mynde for the recouery of the same so that soone after he sente hys letters vnto the Frenche kynge concernyng that mater and receyued frome hym answere of dirision as affermeth the Englysshe boke And Gaguynus sayeth in hys Frenche cronycle that kynge Henry sente hys oratours vnto Charles the vii thanne kynge of Fraunce for to haue dame Katheryne hys doughter in mariage with other requestes touchynge hys ryght and enherytaunce whereunto it was answered by the counsayll of Fraunce that the kyng hadde no leyser to entende suche idelnesse wherupon kynge Henry made quycke prouision for to warre vpon the Frenche kynge as after appereth In thys yere also by procuremeÌt of Sigismunde thanne Emperour a greate counsayll or synod of bysshoppes were assembled at a cytye in hygh Almayne called constaunce for the vnion of the churche And for to auoyde the Scisme whyche began in the .xiiii. yere of Charles the .vi as before in the sayde .xiiii. yere is touched In the sayd synode or generall counsayll was the .xxiii. IohnÌ than pope put downe or resygned by hys volunte And by auctoryte of y e same couÌsayll the opynyons and heresy of wyklyf were vtterly anulled dampned and two of hys disciples there presente named IohnÌ Hus or Husse and Ierom the herytyke were there brente And many notable actes for the we le of y e church there were enacted And fynally whan the sayde couÌsayl had endured nere vpon the terme of iiii yeres they there by an hole asset chase a newe pope and named hym the .v. Martyne whyche occupyed Peters chayre .xiiii. yeres and odde monethes as indubitat pope and so other after hym Anno dnÌi M. CCCC.xiiii  Anno dnÌi M. CCCC.xv  IohnÌ Mychell  Thomas Fawcomer Mercer  Anno .iii.  Thomas Aleyn  IN thys yere after the kynge had made suffycient prouision for all thynges coÌcernyng his warre to be made vpon the Frenche kyng he wyth hys lordes honourably accoÌpanyed rode thorugh London vpon the .xviii. daye of Iuny towarde the porte of SouthamtonÌ where he had appoynted hys hoste to mete wyth hym And whyle the kyng there was shyppynge of hys people dyuers of hys lordes that is to say syr Richard erle of Cambrydge and brother vnto y e duke of yorke whyche syr Rychard beryng the name of Langley hadde wedded dame Anne the doughter of syr Roger Mortymer erle of March and wolster by whome he had yssue Isabell whyche after was maryed vnto the lorde Boucher erle of Essex Rycharde whyche after was duke of yorke father to kynge Edward y e iiii To whome also wasasseÌtyng syr Rycharde Scrop than treasourer of Englande and syr Thomas Graye knyght were there arrestyd for treason and areygned and so examyned vppon the same that the .xxix. day of Iuly folowynge they were all thre behedyd After whyche execucyon so done the kynge vpon the morowe or shortely after wyth hys lordes toke shyppynge there landed at a place called Kydcaus in Normandy And the .xvi. daye of Auguste he sayde syege vnto the towne of Harflew assayled them by land and by water and contynued so hys syege vnto the xxii daye of September At whyche daye as sayth the French Gaguinê° it was delyuered by Albert thaÌ there capytayne vppon condycyon that kynge Henry myghte sauely wynne or passe to Calayes and so he beyng there the towne to be yolden vnto hym But the Frenche wryter Gaguinus vpholdeth the honour of the Frenchemen in all that he maye and boroweth of hys conscyence for sparynge the trouth in reporte of many thynges For after moste wryters y e sayde towne after sondry appoyntementes of rescouse was delyuered vnto the kynge wythout any condycyon the daye aboue sayde where after the kynge had ordeyned syr Thomas Beauforde hys vncle and erle of Dorser capytayne of that towne he spedde hym towarde Calays Than the dolphyn with other lordes of Fraunce whyche at that tyme hadde the realme of Fraunce in gouernaunce for so moche as the Frenche kynge was vysyted wyth suche malady as before I haue shewed brake the brydge to let y e kynge of his passage ouer y e water of Sum. wherfore he was coÌstrayned to draw towarde Pycardy so passe by y e ryuer of PeronÌ wherfore the FreÌchmeÌ beynge ware assembled and lodged theÌ at certayne townes named Agyncourt Rolandcourt and Blangy wyth all the power of Fraunce And whan kyng Henry sawe that he was so besette wyth hys enemies he in the name of god saynt George pyght hys felde in a playne betwene the sayd townes of Agyncourte and BlaÌgy hauyng in hys companye of hoole men that myght fyght nat passyng the nombre of .vii. M. But at those dayes the yomen hadde theyr Lymmes at lybertye for theyr hosyn were than fastened wyth one poynt and theyr iackes were loÌge easy to shote in so that they myghte drawe bowes of great strength shote arowes of a yerde longe besyde the hedde Than the kyng consyderynge the great nombre of hys enemyes that the acte of FrenchmeÌ standeth moch in ouer rydyng of theyr aduersaryes by force of speremeÌ he therfore charged euery boweman to ordeyne hym a sharpe stake to pytche it a slope before hym and whaÌ y e sperys came somdeale to drawe bak so to shote at the horsemen And at the proper requeste of the duke of yorke he ordeyned hym to haue y e vawewarde of y e felde And whaÌ kyng HeÌry had thus prouydently ordered for hys batayll ouer night vpon the morowe beyng the .xxv. daye of Octobre and y e daye of the holy martyrs Cryspyne Cryspinian the kyng caused dyuers masses to be songen And where that nyghte before the Englysshe hoste was occupyed in prayer and confessyon he thanne caused the bysshoppes and other spyrytuall men to gyue vnto theym generall absolucyon And that done wyth a comfortable chere ordered hys people as they shuld fyght hauyng vnto theÌ good comfortable wordes so abode y e commynge of theyr enemyes whych of dyuers wryters were and are remembred to be about .xl. thousande fyghtynge men The whyche aboute .ix. of y e cloke in the mornynge wyth greate pryde set vppon the Englysshe hoste thynkynge to haue ouer ryden them shortely But the archers lyke as before they were taught pyght theyr sharpe stakes before them And whan they sawe the French galantes approche they a lytell yode backe receyued them as here after ensueth The batayll of Agyncourt THat is to meane they shotte at theym so feruently y t what wyth the shotte and goryng of theyr horses wyth the sharpe stakes they tumbeled one vpon an other so that he or they which ranne formest were the confusyon of hym or them that folowed so y t in a shorte
whyle a great multytude of horse men were layd vpon the grounde And after theyr shotte spent they layde aboute them with theyr glaynes and axes that by the greate grace of god and comfortable ayde of the kynge the vyctory fell that daye to the Englysshemen and with lytell losse of theyr coÌpany For after the opynyon of sondry wryters were slayne y t daye of Englishemen the dukes of yorke and of Suffolke not ouer .xxvi. parsons moo But of Frenchmen were slayne that daye after Englysshe wryters ouer the nomber of .x. thousande Albeit y e French Gaguinus sayth that of the Englyshe hoste were slayne the duke of yorke and with hym .iiii. hundreth men and of the French hoste .iiii. M. men of name besyde other whiche he numbreth not Also he affermeth to be horsmen at that felde vppon the Frenche partye .x. thousande ouer and besyde the fotemen and that the Englyshemen were nombred at .xv. C. spere men xviii M. of yomen and archers At thys sayde batayle was taken prysoners the duke of OrleauÌce the duke of BurbonÌ y e erle of UeÌdosme of Ewe of Rychemount and Bursigaunt thanne marshall of Fraunce wyth many other knyghtes esquyres whych were tedyous to name to the noÌber of .xxiiii. huÌdreth aboue as wytnesseth the boke of mayres And in thys batayle were slayne of the nobles of Fraunce the dukes of Barre of Alanson and of BrabaÌ viii erles and barons aboue .lxxx. wyth other gentylmen in cote armours to the nomber of .iii. thousaÌde and aboue By reason of whyche pyllage the Englysshemen were greatly auaunced For the Frenchmen were so assuryd of vyctory by reason of theyr great noÌber that they brought the more plenty of rychesse wyth theÌ to the ende to bye prysoners eyther of other and also after the victory by them opteyned to shewe vnto Englysshemen theyr pryde pompous araye But god whyche knewe the presumpcion and pompe tourned all thynge contrary to theyr myndes ententes whan the kynge by grace and power of god more thaÌ by force of man hadde thus gotten this tryumphauÌt vyctorye and retourned hys people frome the chase of theyr enemyes tydynges were brought vnto hym that a newe hoste of FreÌchmen were comynge towarde hym wherfore he anone commaunded his people to be enbatayled and that done made proclamacions thorough the hoste that euery man shulde slee hys prysoner By reason of whych proclamacyon the duke of Orleaunce and the other lordes of Fraunce were in such fere that they anone by lycence of y e kyng sent such worde vnto the sayd hoste that they wythdrewe them And the kynge wyth hys prysoners vpon the morow folowyng toke hys waye toward his towne of Caleys where he rested hiÌ duryng this mayres tyme. Anno dnÌi M. CCCC.v  Anno dnÌi M. CCCC.vi  wyllyam Cambrydge  Nycholas wotton Draper  Anno .iii.  Aleyn Euerarde  THys yere and .xxix. daye of Nouember as the mayre rode towarde westmynster for to take hys charge a pursyuauÌt of y e kynges came wyth letters vnto the mayre gyuyng to hym knowlege of the kynges good spede wherfore the byshop of wynchester than chauÌceller of England hauynge lyke wyttynge came that daye to Poulys and there caused Te deum to be songeÌ wyth great solempnyte And in lyke wyse was lyke obseruaunce done in y e parysshe chyrches and other relygyous houses thorough the cytye of London And at Poulys by the sayd chauÌceller standyng vpon the steppes at the quyerdore were the sayd tydynges denounced vnto the people And vpon the morow folowynge y e sayd chaunceller wych other bysshoppes and teÌporall lordes wyth a generall procession of the mayre and comynaltye of the cytye yode from Poulys to westmynster on fote and offered at saynt Edwardes shryne so retourned to theyr owne houses Thanne kyng HeÌry wyth hys prysoners shypped at Calays and so landed at Douer And after he had ben at Caunterbury and there made hys offerynge vnto saynt Thomas he than spedde hym on hys iournay tyll he came vnto Eltham where he rested hym a season Upon the .xxiii. day of Nouembre he was met with the mayre hys bretherne vpoÌ the Blak heth so conueyed wyth all honour thorugh the cytye vnto westmynster wherein dyuers places of the sayd cytye as the brydge crosse in chepe were ordeyned certayn pagentes to the kynges great comforte The maner wherof with all processyons and other seremonies I passe ouer for letthyng of the tyme. In thys yere also Sigismunde Emperour of Almayn came into England And in the moneth of May by the kynges coÌmaundement .vii. daye of the sayd moneth the mayre and bretherne mette hym vpoÌ Blakheth And at saynt Georges met hym the kyng and hys lordes in great noÌbre and so conueyed hym vnto westmynster with great honour lodged hym in hys own palays And shortly after was the feast of saynte George holden at wyndesore whyche before was deferred for hys coÌmyng In tyme of whyche solempnyte durynge y e dyuyne seruyce the kynge kepte the astate But in syttyng at the feest ⪠the Emperour kept y e astate The seruice sotyltees of whiche feeste with syttynge of y e lordes after theyr degrees I passe ouer And shortly after came the duke of Holande into this lande for certayne causes concernynge the Emperour whome the kynge honourably receyued and lodged hym in the bisshoppes palays of Ely in Holbourne And so the kynge entreated and chered these straungers that for the season that they taryed in Englande they laye here at the kynges coste and charge And y e emperoure and he were made knyghtes of the garter and also a greate duke of y e emperours named duke of Bryga And whan the emperour hadde taryed vpoÌ .vii. wekes and odde dayes in Englande which after some wryters was to th entent to set an vnyte and reste bytwene the Frenche kynge and kynge Henry he after toke mynde to retourne into Almayne ⪠whom the kynge for hys comforte and nedes that he had to do at Caleys accompanyed hym thyder where eyther wyth gyftes thankes departed from other And the duke of Hollande went wyth the emperour into Hollande and other countrees whyle the kynge was thus at Calys to hym came thyder vnder saufe conduyt the duke of Burgoyne and hadde wyth the kynge dyuers communycacyons and after retourned to hys owne And soone after y e kyng retourned into Englande and came to westmynster vpon saynte Lukes euyn or the .xvii. daye of October Thys yere and season whyle the kynge was at Calayes y t is to mene vppon the daye of Assumpcyon of our blessed lady the duke of Bedforde accompanyed wyth the erle of Marche and other lordes hadde a greate conflycte and batayle wyth dyuers carikkes of Ieane and other shyppes where after longe and sore fyght y e honour fyll to hym and hys Englysshemen to the greate losse of the straungers bothe of theyr men and also of theyr shyppes
thynges concernynge his estate and to be lodged in notable places of his realme wher the people to hym shulde be moste obedyent After whiche artycles by the consentes of bothe prynces well and nobly ratysfyed and confermed and solempnyzacion of the foresayd maryage ended kyng Henry with his people sped hym towarde Parys where he was honorably receyued And whan he had with his newe wyfe rested hym there a season he than with the duke of Burgoyne and dyuers other lordes of Fraunce layde seyge vnto dyuers townes whiche helde vpon the Dolphyns partye them wanne by strengthe or by appoyntment and lastly layde syege and his ordenaunce aboute a stronge towne named Meldune or Meleon wherof was capytayne a noble warryour named Barbasan the whiche defended that towne manfully Than the kynge seynge the foresayde sternesse of y e capitayne beclipped that towne with a stronge syege lyenge hymselfe on that syde towarde the wood and the duke of Burgoyne vpon the other syde agayne the temple or monastery of saynt Peter whiche syege so conââued durynge this mayres yere Anno dnÌi M. CCCC.xix  Anno dnÌi M.iiii C.xx  Robert whytyngham  Richarde whytyngham Mercer  Anno .viii.  Iohan Butler  THis yere continued styll the former syege aboute Meleon tyll aboute the mydle of Nouembre At whiche tyme the fore named capytayne sore famysshed sought me anes of treaty By meane wherof it was agreed that he with all other shulde sauely auoyde by a daye lymyted excepte all suche persones as before tyme had ben consentynge vnto the dethe of IohnÌ lateli duke of Burgoyne For the whiche cryme the forenamed capytayne named Barbasan was after accused with many other and sent vnto Parys and there holden in pryson And that done kynge Henry layde his syege vnto a towne called Melden The whiche fynally was also gyuen vp by a lyke apoyntment wherin were founden certayne persones detected of y e foresayde murther for the whiche after due examynacyon made they were hanged vpon an elmen tree standynge by y e way ledynge vnto Parys whan kynge Henry had thus wrouthte moche of his wyll in Fraunce he toke leue of his father the Frenche kynge with the quene his wyfe sayled into Englande landed at Douer vpon Candelmas day leuynge in Fraunce for his deputye his brother the duke of Clarence Than the kynge sped hym on his iournay towarde London came thyder on the .xiiii. daye of February And the quene came thyder vpon the .xxi. day of y e same moneth But here for lengthe of tyme I wyl passe ouer the great and curyous ordynaunce prouyded by the cytezyns for the receyuynge of the kynge and quene aswell of theyr ordinate metynge wyth theym vpon horsebacke as the sumptuous and honourable dyuyses prepayred wythin the cytye to the kynges and quenes greate reâioysynge And forthe I wyll procede to shewe vnto you some parte of the greate honour that was vsed and exercysed vppon the daye of the sayde quenes coronacyon whyche was after solempnysed in saynte Peters churche of westmynster vppon the daye of saynte Mathy the apostle or the foure twenty day of February After whyche solempnysacyoÌ in that chyrche endyd she was conueyed in to the greate halle of westmynster and there set to dyner Upon whose ryghte hand satte at the ende of the same table the archebysshop of CauÌtorbury and Henry surnamed the ryche cardynall of wynchester And vppon the lefte hande of the quene satte the kynge of Scottes in hys astate the whyche was seruyd wyth coueryd messe lyke vnto the forenamed bysshoppes but after them And vppon the same hande and syde nere to the bordes ende satte the duchesse of yorke and the countesse of Huntyngdon The erle of y e Marche holdynge a ceptre in hys hande knelyd vppon the ryght syde The erle marshall in lyke maner knyled vppon the left hande of the quene The couÌtesse of Kente satte vnder the table at the ryght foote and the countesse Marshall at the left foote The duke of Glouceter syr Humfrey âas that daye ouerloker and stode before the quene bare heded Syr Rychard Neuyll was that day caruer to y e quene y e erles brother of Suffolk cupberer syr IohnÌ Steward Sewar the lord Clyfford panterer in stede of the erle of warwyk the lord wyllughby boteler in stede of the erle of AruÌdell The lord Gray Ruthyn or Ryffyn naperer The lord of Awdeley amner in stede of the erle of Cambrydge The erle of worceter was that daye erle Marshall in absence of the erle Marshall the whyche rode about the hall vpon a great courser wyth a multytude of typped staues about hym to kepe the roume in the hall Of the which hall the barons of the .v. portes begaÌ the table vpon the ryght hande towarde saynt StepheÌs chapell beneth theÌ at the table sat the bowchyers of the chauncery And vpon the lefte hande next vnto the cupborde sat the mayre and hys bretherne aldermeÌ of LoÌdoÌ The bysshops began the table foreagayne the barons of the .v. portes the ladies the table agayn the mayre Of whyche .ii. tables for the bysshoppes began y e bysshop of London and the bysshop of Durham and for the ladyes the countesse of Stafforde the couÌtesse of Marche And ye shall vnderstande that thys feast was all of fysshe And for the orderyng of the seruice therof were diuers lordes appoynted for hede offycers as stewarde controller surueyour and other honourable offyces For the whyche were appoynted the erles of Northumberlande of westmerland the lorde Fitz Hughe the lorde Furneuall the lorde Gray of wyltonÌ the lorde Ferers of Groby the lord Ponynges the lorde HaryngtonÌ y e lord Darcy the lorde Dacre and the lord Delaware The whyche wyth other orderyd the seruyce of the feest as foloweth thus for the fyrst course Brawne and mustarde Dedellys in Burneux Frument wyth Balien Pyke in Erbage Lamprey powderyd Trought Codlyng Playes fryed Marlyng fryed Crabbys Leche lumbarde florysshed Tartys And a sotyltye called a Pellycane syttyng on hys nest with her byrdes and an image of saynte Katheryne holdyng a boke and dysputyng with the doctours holdynge a reason in her ryghte hande saynge Madame le Royne and y e Pellycan as an answere Ce estia signe et du roy pur tenir ioy et a tout sa gent esse mete sa entent The seconde course Gely coloured wyth columbyne floures whyte potage or creme of almandes Breme of the see Counger Solys Cheuen Barbyll wyth Roche Fresshe Samon Halybut Gurnarde Rochet broyled Smelth fryed Creuys or lobster Leche Damask witw the kynges worde or prouerbe flourysshed Vne sanz plus Lamprey fresshe baken Flampeyne flourisshed wyth a scochonÌ royall and therin .iii. crownes of golde plantyd with floure delyce and floures of camemyll wroughte of confeccions And a sotyltye named a Panter wyth an image of saynte Katheryne wyth a whele in her hande a rolle wyth a reason in that other hande
And fynally by the prouydent counsayle of the lorde regent al the sayd artycles and matiers of varyaunce atwene the sayd two lordes hangynge were put to the examynacyon and iudgmente with the assystence of y e lordes of the parliameÌt of Henry the archebysshop of Caunterbury of Thomas duke of Exceter of IohnÌ duke of Northfolk Thomas bysshop of DurhmÌ of Phylype bysshop of worceter or IohnÌ bysshop of Bathe of Humfrey thaÌ erle of Stafforde of Rauffe lorde Cornewell of mayster wyllyam Alnewyke than keper of the preuy seale The whych lordes wyth assystence of the other lordes of the parlyament made a decre and a warde so that eyther party toke other by the hande wyth freÌdly louyng wordes none hauyng ameÌdes of other except the bysshope had wordes of submyssyoÌ vnto the duke in requyryng hym of hys fauoure good lordshyp And y e accorde thus fynysshed the parlyament was adiourned tyll after Easter Uppon whytsondaye folowynge was a solempne feest holden at Leyceter forsayde where the regente dubbyd kynge Henry knyghte And than forthwyth the kynge dubbyd Rycharde duke of yorke that after was father to kynge Edwarde Also he dubbyd knyghtes the sonne and heyre of the duke Iohan duke of Northfolke and the erles of Oxenforde and westmerlande wyth other lordes and gentylmen to the noumbre of .xxxiiii. And after that feeste wyth all honour was endyd the kynge wyth the regente and other of hys lordes drew towarde London And so the regente contynued wyth the kynge in Englande by the full terme of thys mayres yere Anno. dnÌi M.iiii C.vi  Anno dnÌi M.iiii C.vii.  IohnÌ Arnolde  IohnÌ Raywell Fysshmonger  Anno .v.  IohnÌ HyghthmÌ Â IN thys .v. yere and moneth of February the regent with hys wyfe housholde meyny passed the see vnto Calays and so thorugh Pycardy into Fraunce But or he departed thens that is to meane vpon the daye of annuncyacion of our Lady the bysshop of wynchester within the churche of our Lady of Calays was created cardynall by auctoryte of y e bulles of pope Martyne the .v. of y e name And after that soleÌpnyte don the regente toke hym on hys ryghte hande so conueyed hym vnto hys lodgynge Thys yere was vnresonable of wederyng for it reyned moste part contynually frome Easter to Myghelmasse where thorugh hay and corne was greatly hyndered And in thys yere the duke of AleÌson that before was taken prysoner at the batayll of Uernell in Perche was delyuered for a raunson of .ii. C M. scutes of golde as testyfyeth Gaguinus whyche is fyfty M. marke sterlyng money In thys yere also the erle of Salysbury whych of dyuers wryters is named the good erle accompanyed wyth the erle of Suffolke the lorde Talbot and other layde a stronge syege vnto the cytye of Orleaunce helde the cytezyns very streyght and maugre the duke of Orleaunce and the Marshal of Fraunce thanne named Boussaak the Englysshemen wanne from theym dyuers stronge holdes adioynynge to the cytye and forced them to brenne a greate parte of the subbarbes of the cytye But sorowe it is to tell and doolfull to wryte whyle one day the sayd good erle syr Thomas Mountagu rested hym at a bay wyndow and be helde the compas of the cytie and talked with his familiers a gonne was leueyled out of the cytie from a place vnknowen whiche brake the tymbre or stone of the wyndowe with suche vyolence that the pecys therof all to quasshed the face of the noble erle in suche wyse that he dyed within thre dayes folowyng Upon whose soule all crysten Ihesu haue mercy AmeÌ This after dyuers wryters was initium malorum For after this myshappe the Englysshmen loste rather ther than wanne so that lytell and lytell they loste all theyr possessyon in FrauÌce And all be it that somewhat they gate after yet for one that they wanne they loste thre as after shall appere Anno dnÌi M.iiii C.xxvii  Anno dnÌi M. iiii.xxviii  Henry Frowyk  Iohan Gedney draper  Anno .vi.  Robert Otley  IN this .vi. yere begynnynge of the same the kyng helde his parlyament at westmynster By auctoryte wherof was graunted to hym a subsydye in maner as foloweth Fyrst of euery tonne of wyne y t came into this lande from y e feest of saynt Ambrose or the fourth day of Apryll tyll the ende of that yere the kynge shulde haue .iii. s. belongynge to a denyzyn or the kynges lyege man Also of all marchaundyse passynge or coÌmynge into this laÌde shypped by denyzon the kynge to haue of euery xx s. .xii. d. excepte woll fell clothe Also to hym was graunted that of all parysshens thorughout his realme beynge the benefyce of the valewe of .x. marke that .x. of the sayde parysshons shulde paye of theyr mouables syxe shyllynges eyght peÌs after y e rate of eyght pens euery maÌ And of all benefyces that were of .x. li. x parysshons to paye .xiii. s. and iiii d. all cytyes and borowes to be excepted And so rate rate lyke from the lowest benefyce to the hyghest And for the inhabytauntes of cyties boroughes it was enacted that eueman beynge it valewe of .xx. s. aboue his stuffe of houshold his apparayl and his wyfes shulne paye iiii.d so after the rate vnto the rychest In this yere also and day of saynt Gyles or the fyrste day of SepteÌbre the cardynall of wynchester was met by the mayre and his bretherne and certayne cytezyns on horse backe without the cytie and so broughte vnto his palays in southwerke Aboute the same tyme a Bryton that a good wydow and honeste woman hadde cherysshed and brought vp of almes dwellynge in whyte chapell paresshe without Algate murdred the sayde woman in a nyght slepynge in her bedde and after conueyed suche iewelles and stuffe as he myght carye But he was so pursued vpon y e for fere he toke a churche in Estsex there forsware y e kynges lande And y e constables caused hym be brought to London and so entended to haue coÌueyed hym westward But so soone as he was commen in to the parysshe where before he had commytted the murther the wyfes caste vpon hym so moche fylthe and ordure of the strete not withstandynge the resystence made by the coÌstables they slewe hym there out of hande Anno dnÌi M.iiii C.xxviii  Anno dnÌi M.iiii C.xxix  Thomas Dushous  Henry Barton skynner  Anno .vii.  Raffe Holande  THis yere vpon the .viii. daye of Nouembre the duke of Norffolke accompanyed with many gentylmen toke his barge at saynt mary Ouereys entendynge to haue passed thoroughe the brydge and so vnto Grenewytche But by the mysgydynge of the sterysman he was set vpon the pyles of the brydge and y e barge whelmed so y t all were drowned excepte the duke and a fewe persones that lepte vpon the pyles whiche after were drawen vp with ropes and so
saued And in the moneth of Iâny folowynge the cardynall of wynchester with a warly company passed the see entendynge to haue made warre vpon the heretykes or lollers inhabyted in the countre of Prage But how it was for nede of men that the regeÌt hadde in FrauÌce the cardynall chauÌged his purpose and taryed there a season with the sayde regent After some wryters it was for to strengthe and replenysshe certayne holdes that weked by reason of a coÌflycte that the Englysshemen hadde with the Frenchemen At the whiche the lorde Talbot was taken prysoner and the lorde Scalys with many other to the nombre of .iii. M. Englysshe men were slayne and taken But after the opynyon of the FreÌche cronycle this vyctorye shulde be opteyned by Iane or Iohan called in Frenche la puzele de dieu in the .xi. yere of this kynge Of y e forsayd heretykes of Prage speketh somdeale the auctour of Cronica Cronicarum and sheweth that the chyef capytaynes of theym were named Procapius Saplicius and Lupus a preest with other bothe lerned and vnlerned And PolicronicoÌ sheweth in y e .xix. chapyter of his laste boke that in the twelfe yere of kynge Henry the foresayd thre capytaynes were slayne with one mayster Peter clerke beynge an Englyssheman taken on lyue with dyuers other and of y e sayd heretykes slayne at .ii. iournayes ouer two and twenty thousandes Anno dnÌi M.iiii C.xxix  Anno dnÌi M.iiii C.xxx  wyllyam Ruffe  wyllyam Estfelde mercer  Anno .viii.  Raffe Holande  IN this eyght yere vpon y e day of saynt Leonarde the .vi. day of Nouembre kynge Henry beynge vpon the age of nyne yeres was solemply crowned iÌ saint Peters churche of westmynster At whose coronacyon were made syxe thyrty knyghtes of the bathe And after that solempnyzacyon in the sayde churche fynysshed an honorable feest in the great hal of westmynster was kepte where y e kynge syttyng in his astate was serued with .iii. courses as here vnder ensueth Frument wyth venyson Uyand royall planted losynges of golde Bore hedes in castelles of golde and enarmed Befe wyth motten boylyd Capon stewyd Sygnet rosted Heyron rosted Great pyke or luce A rede leche wyth lyons coruyn therein Custarde royall wyth a lyoparde of golde syttyng therin and holdyng a floure delyce Frytour of sunne facyon wyth a floure delyce therein A sotyltye of saynt Edwarde and saynt Louys armyd vppon eyther hys cote armoure holdyng betwene them a fygure lyke vnto kyng HeÌry standynge also in hys cote armoure and a scrypture passyng from theym both sayeng beholde .ii. parfight kynges vnder one cote armour And vnder the fete of the sayde sayntes was wryten thys balade Holy sayntes Edwarde and saint Lowice Conserue this braunche borne of your blessed blode Lyue amonge cristen moste soueraygne of price Enheritour of the flouredelice so gode This sixt Henry to reygne and to be wyse God graunt he may to be your mode And that he may resemble your knightehude and vertue Pray ye hertely vnto our lord Jesu Uiand blank barred wyth golde Gely party wryten noted wyth Te deum laudamus Pygge endored Crane rosted Byttore Conyes Chekyns Partryche Pecok enhakyll Great Breme A whyte leche planted wyth a rede antelop wyth a crowne aboute hys necke wyth a chayne of golde Flampayne powdered wyth leopardes floure delyce of golde A frytoure garnysshed wyth a leopardes hede .ii. Estryth feders A sotyltie an emperour a kynge arayed in maÌtelles of garters which fygured SigismuÌde y e emperour and HeÌry the .v. And a fygure lyke vnto kyng HeÌry y e .vi knelyng tofore them wyth this balade takkyd by hym Agayne miscreauÌtes the emperour SigismuÌde Hath shewed his myght which is imperiall And Henry the .v. a noble knyght was founde For Christes cause in actes marciall Cherysshed the churche to lossers gaue a fall Gyuyng example to kynges that succede And to theyr braunche here in especiall Whyle he doth reygne to loue god drede Quynces in compost BlauÌd sure powderyd wyth quarter foyles gylt Uenyson Egrettes Curlew Cok and partryche Plouer Quayles Snytes Great byrdes Larkys Carpe Crabbe Leche of .iii. colours A bake meate lyke shylde quartered red whyte set wyth losynges gylt floures of borage A frytour cryspyd A sotyltie of oure Lady syttynge wyth her chylde in her lappe and she holding a crowne in her haÌde Saint George saynt Denys knelynge on eyther syde pÌsented to her kyng Henryes fygure beryng in haÌde thys balade as foloweth O Blessed lady Christes mother dere And thou saynt George that called art her knight Holy saint Denys o marter moste entere The sixt Henry here present in your syght Shedeth of your grace on hym your heueÌly lighte His tender youth with vertue doth auaunce Borne by discent by title of right Iustly to reygne in Englande in Fraunce THis soleÌpne coronacyon with all honour and ioye finysshed prouycyon was made for the kynges iournay into Fraunce In whyche passetyme that is to meane vpon y e xxiii daye of Ianuary an heretyke was brent in Smythfelde And vpon the morowe next folowynge was in that felde foughten a stronge fyght betwene IohnÌ UptonÌ Appellant IohnÌ Downe Defendant But for they quyt theym bothe so manfully the kynge at length relesed theyr quarell and pardoned theÌ of theyr trespas Than vppon saynt Georges day folowyng or the .xxiii. day of Apryll the kynge toke shyppynge at Douer and landed the same daye at Calays hauynge in hys company .ii. dukes of yorke and Northfolke thre bysshoppes of Bathe Ely and Rochester eyght erles that is to meane of Huntyngdon Stafforde warwyke Orenforde Deuynshyre Morteyne of Ewe and of Urmund and .xi. barons that is to saye lord Bowchier Beawmounde Typtost Fytzwater Roos Arundell Awdeley Fawcunbrydge Gray Codnoor the lorde Scroope and the lorde wellys In thys tyme and season that the kynge laye thus at Calays many skyrmysshes were foughten betwene the Englysshemen and the Frenchemen in dyuers partyes of Fraunce And greately the Frenchemen preuayled by y e helpe of a woman which they as before is touched named the Mayden of god So that lastly she wyth her company came to a towne called Compeyne to the entent to remoue the syege layde thereunto by y e duke of Burgoyne and other of the Englysshe capytaynes And theruppon the .xxiii. daye of May she gaue batayll vnto Englysshmen and Burgonyons and faughte wyth theym longe tyme. But in the ende by the manhode of a Burgonyon knyghte named syr IohnÌ Luxemburghe she was taken on lyue and her company dystressed and she caryed to the citie of Roan and there kept a season for so moch as she feyned her with child But whanne the contrary of it was knowen she was there foriuged and brente Of thys woman Gaguynus maketh a great processe of her parenty and of her fyrste takynge vppon her whereof a parte I entende to shewe after in the .vi. yere of Charles nexte folowynge kynge of
CCCC.xxxv  Thomas Bârnwell  Robertr Oâlay grocer  Anno .xiii.  Symonde Eyre  IN this .xiii. yere and euen of saint Katheryne began a frost that endured vnto the feast of saynt Scolastica or the .x. daye of February the whiche frase the Thamys so feruently that shyp nor bote myght come with vytayle to London wherfore suche shyppes as came this yere to Thamys mouthe from Burdeux were dyscharged there and the wyne and other marchaundyse by theym brought caryed by laÌde to the cytie And in the latter ende of Decembre this yere ended the parlyamente holden at westmynster begon at Myghelmas terme before passed This yere also by meanes of the pope than Eugeny the .iiii at Aras in Pycardy was holden a great couÌsayle for to conclude an vnyon and peas atwene the two realmes of Englande and Fraunce To the whiche couÌsayle by the sayd popes coÌmauÌdment came as a persone indyfferent Nicholas cardynall of y e holy crosse with syxe Romayne bysshoppes to hym assygned And for the kynge of Englandes partye was there assygned the cardynall of wynchester the archebysshop of yorke the erles of HuntyngdonÌ and of Suffolke with dyuers other And for the Frenche kynge was there the duke of BurbonÌ the erle of Rychemount y e archebysshop of Raynys chaunceler than of FrauÌce the deane of Patys with many other whiche I passe ouer There were also as fortherers of the matyer the cardynal of Cyprys And for the duke of BurgoynÌ was there the bysshop of Cambray and Nycholas Raulyn the sayd dukes chaunceler with dyuers erles and barons of that duchy And for the duke of Brytayne were ther the erles of Alenson and of Barre with other ouer and aboue dyuers oratoures appoynted for the countye of Flaundres At whiche assemble and counsayll thus holden as testifieth dyuers wryters many great offers by meane of y e aboue named cardynal of holy crosse or âaiÌâ crosse to the Englysshe lordes were offered But as sayth Gaguinus the EnglysshemeÌ were so obstinately set on warre y e reason myght not coÌteÌt By reason of whiche obstinaci y e couÌsayll was deferred tyll an other day At whiche day the Englysshemen entendynge the coÌtinuaunce of warre absentyd theym selfe wherwith the sayd cardynall beynge dyscontented made meanes of an entreaty of peas atwene Charles that toke vpon hym as Frenche kynge and Phylyp duke of Burgoyn wherof the sayd Charles was so fayne y e for stablysshynge of the peas and to satysfye hym for y e murther of his father he gaue vnto hym all the vtter boundes of ChampeynÌ marching vpon Burgoin with dyuers cyties as seynt Quyntyne Corbie PeronÌ Abbeuyle and other with the countie of Poytyaw lordshyp of MaconÌ And as wytnesseth y e foresayde Gagwyne many mo thynges were vnto the duke by the sayde Charles êmysed whiche after theyr bothe dethes were broken and stode for nought After whiche peas thus atwene them confermed and proclaymed the sayd duke became vtter enemye to the kynge of Englande as after shall appere And soone after the sayd duke began his ordre of the lyle and the golden flese and ordeyned certayne knyghtes of that ordre and made therunto many statutes and ordenaunces wherof dyuers were lyke vnto the statutes of the garter And in the ende of this yere and .xiiii. day of Septembre at RoanÌ in Normandye died the noble prynce IohnÌ duke of Bedforde and regent of Fraunce and was after with great solempnytie buryed within the churche of notir Dame of the same cytie where for hym are founded wonderfull thynges after some meÌnes reporte But for I fynde therof in wrytynge nothynge I passe it ouer Anno. dnÌi M.iiii C.xxxv.  Anno dnÌi M.iiii C.xxxvi  Thomas Catworth  Henry Frowyk mercer  Anno .xiiii.  Robert CloptonÌ Â IN the .xiiii. yere begynnynge of the same the duke of Barre accompanyed with BurgonyoÌs and Frenchemen wanne y e towne of Harflewe with dyuers other vyllages And in Apryll folowynge the sayde duke accompanyed with y e lorde Teruan and the mayster of the kynges chyualry toke the towne of saynt Denys and slewe therin aboue .iiii. C. Englysshemen toke prysoner Thomas Beleamounde theyr capytayne with many other And than y e FreÌche men assawted a towre therby called Ueuen and toke it by appoyntment ThaÌ one named Notyce a knyght of OrleauÌce with a streÌgth of Knyghtes drewe hym nere the cytie of Parys and there at a house of relygyon of y e charterhouse ordre lodged hym beyonde saynt Denys ouer the water of SaynÌ and coÌfedered with certayne cytezen of the cytie named Michaell Laylery Iohan Frountayne Thomas Pygacen Iohan de saynt Benoit Nicholas LorueynÌ and Iaques Bergery for to betraye the cytie to brynge it out of y e Englysshe possessyon The whiche persones beynge hedes of the cytie coÌueyed theyr purpose in suche wyse that they turned the coÌmons of the cytie vpon the Englysshe men and sodeynly arose agayne them and by force slewe of them a great nombre and there they dyd take many prysoners And as the Englysshe men fledde or faughte by the stretes the women and other feble persones cast vpon them stones and hoâe lycoures to theyr great confusyon so y t the Englysshe men were in passynge mysery and desolacyon In this tyme of persecucion the bysshop of Morââ whiche than was named chaunceler of Englysshe men in those partyes with other hardly escaped and toke the towre of saynt Denys whiche as yet rested in the Englysshe possessyon Than the other hoste of Frenchemen herynge of this rumour in the cytie anone drewe nere entred by saynt Iames gate without moche resystence and so enioyed the cytye at theyr pleasure Than the Englysshemen beynge in the towre of saynt Denys feryng that they myght not longe holde the sayd place agayne theyr enemies fyl to a treaty and coÌdyscended to passe fre with theyr lyues The which whaÌ they shuld passe vpon theyr iournay were diâided and scorned of y e FreÌchenacyon out of all mesure And whan the cytye of Parys was thus subdued to the Frenche dominion anone y e Englyssh people that there abode vnder fyne and raunsom were sworne to Charles the seuenth than takynge vpon hym as Frenche kynge And anone after were wonne from y e Englyssh power the holdes named Creoll and saynt Germayne In whiche passe tyme and season for to streÌgthe and haue the gydynge of NormaÌdy the duke of yorke encompaned with the erle of Salysbury and the lorde of FawcouÌbrydg sailed into FrauÌce And the erle of MorteynÌ beynge thaÌ at Calays made a vyage into Flaundres and skyrmysshed with them y e bordred vpon Pycardy and slewe of them ouer CCCC and gate a great droue of beestes and brought them vnto Calays And for that certaynte was had that Phylyp duke of Burgoyn enteÌded to lay his syege aboute Calays therfore London and all the good townes of EnglaÌde were charged to sende thyder certayne men wel and suffycyently
the southe syde of the quyer buryed full honorably This yere also was great derthe of corne in EnglaÌd also in FrauÌce in somoche y t a busshell was solde at LoÌdon for .iii. s. iii. s. iiii d. And in FrauÌce iÌ Parys it was at lyke value And there also they dyed sore of the sekenesse of ipidimie For this scarcyte of whete in Englande in many places the people made them breed of fetches pesyn and benes And after some wryters for lacke of these foresayd graynes some poore people made them breed of Feânecotes But yet by the prouydence of Stephen Browne this yere Mayre many shippes were freyghte with rye out of Pruce and dyscharged at London that eased the people nere to the cytie greatly This of many wryters is named the seconde dere yere In this yere ended the counsayle or synode holdeÌ at Basyle begon as before is sayde in the .xi. yere of this kynge By auctoryte of whiche couÌsayle Eugeny the .iiii. was deposed Amedeus a duke and prynce of Sauoy was chosen for pope in the place of the forenamed Eugeny But yet he had suche ayde that he contynued in Rome as pope all his lyues tyme. And that other whiche was named of his ayders Felix the .v contynued his dygnyte in other places so that thaÌ arose a great scisme in y e churche whether of these .ii. was indubitat pope For some countrees vphelde y e one and some that other so that therwere alowed none of them both and that was called y e neutralytie This scysine contynued vpon .ix. yeres the terme whyle Eugeny lyued After whose dethe was chosen a cardynall named Thomas Sarazan and after was named Nycholas the .v. To whome the sayde Felix after that he was admitted for Peters successour of his owne good mynde renounced his dygnyte of papacy and submytted hym to the rule and obedyence of theÌ sayd .v. Nycholas thaÌ beynge indubitat pope And thus cessed y â scysme in the churche whiche had contynued by the terme aboue specyfyed This Felix was a deuoute prynce sawe the sones of his sones and after lyued a deuoute and holi lyfe and lastly was chosen pope as before is shewed for the which he is of dyuers wryters accompted for happy But and he hadde not medled with the tytle of the churche and therwith blotted his olde age he had after the opynyon of other wryters be named or alowed moche more blessed happy And this yere in the moneth of August in LoÌdon were two bawdes punysshed with werynge of ray hodes after .xl. dayes enprysonment they were banysshed the towne and dryuen out with most shame In this yere also the conduyte in Fletestrete was begonne by syr wyllyam Estfelde knyghte and late mayre and so fynysshed of his good disposicion without cost or charge to the cytie And he with syr Lewes and Iohan of Estsex were made knyghtes of the Bathe in the same yere And in this yere dyed Robert Chicheley grocer twyes mayre of London the whiche wylled in his testament that vpon his mynde daye a good and competent dyner shulde be ordeyned for .xxiiii. C. poore meÌ and that of houssholders of the cytye yf they myght be fouÌde And ouer that was xx.li destrybuted amoÌge them whiche was to euery man two pens Anno dnÌi M. CCCC.xxxix  Anno dnÌi M. CCCC.xl  Robert Marchall  Robert Large mercer  Anno .xviii.  Phylyp Malpas  THis .xviii. yere vpon the daye of saynt Botolph or .xvii. day of Iuny a preste after he was degrated of his prestly dygnyte named syr Rycharde was brent for heresye at y e towre hyll how wel in his latter day he toke great repentaunce and dyed goddes man and in the faythe of the churche This for wordes spoken by his lyfe that the posterne of y e towre shulde synke as after it dyd other fantastycall dedes or wordes he of many lewde folkes was accompted for an holy man wherfore after his dethe they came to his place of execucyon and there made theyr oblacyoÌs and prayers and arered a great hepe of stones and pyght there a crosse by nyght so that âi this meanes a great dysclaunder ran vpon the churche specially vpon suche as had put hym to dethe But to cease that rumoure coÌmauÌdment was sent from y e kynge to punysshe all suche as thyder went on pylgrymage By vertue whereof y e mayre and shyreffes dyd suche dylygeÌce that shortly after all y e sekyng and offeryng was fordone and layde aparte This yere also y e shyreffes of London fette out of saynt Martynes legraunt .v. persones beynge there in sayntwary and ladde theym to the countre in bred strete where they remayned certayne dayes But those daies expired they were by y e kynges Iustyces restored vnto sayntwary In this passetyme the warre atwene Englande FrauÌce endurynge in a wynter season whan the grouÌde was couered with a myghty snowe and therewith all a great frost hadde hardened the pondes and dyches the EnglysshmeÌ whiche laye in a stroÌge holde nyghe vnto a towne called Pountlarge arayed them in whyte clothes ouer theyr harneys and so in great nombre approched the dykes and passed vpon the yse to y e walles and them scaled and the watche of y e towne slepynge toke the towne and distressed therin myche people From the whiche daunger escaped ryghte hardly .ii. capytaynes of that towne named Iohan de Uyllers and NarabonÌ a knyghte Burgonyon The countre aboute Parys was also sorevexed with y e rauyne of wolues that proclamacyon was made that euery grene or newe flayn skynÌe of a wolfe that was brought vnto Parys y e prouost shulde gyue to the brynger .xx. shelynges or .xx. sous of that countre money whiche amouÌteth to .ii. s. vi d. sterlynge It was not longe after or Charles the Frenche kynge layde vnto y e foresayd towne a stroÌg siege But it by y e duke of yorke the lorde Talbot was well and knyghtly defended in somoche y e one tyme they put the Frenchemen to rebuke and were lykely to haue takeÌ theyr kyng âe had be the soner rescous Lastly y e duke of yorke and the sayd lord Talbot for vrgent causes departed theÌs to Roan and betoke the towne to y e rule of syr Gerueys of CliftoÌ knyght and other hauynge with them to the nombre of a thousande sowdyours But the thyrde daye after the dukes departynge the Frenche kynge so fyersly assayled the towne that in the ende he wanne it by strengthe and slewe therin many an Englyssh maÌ toke many prysoners And soone after was the townes of Meleon of Corbeyll and of the Ebreouse loste from the Englysshmen For ye shall vnderstande that sondry and many tymes y e townes holdes in FrauÌce were lost and efte wonne But euer y e more losse turned to the Englysshe partye tyll all Normandy were lost and all other landes of Fraunce appartynynge to the kynge of
fyersly vpon the cytezyns that he draue theÌ backe from y e stulpes iÌ Southwarke or brydge fote vnto y e drawe brydge In defendynge wherof many a man was drowned and slayne Amonge y t whiche of men of name was Iohan Sutton aldermaÌ Mathewe Gouth gentylman and Roger Heysande cytezyn And thus contynued this skyrmysshe all nyght tyll .ix. of the clocke vpon the morne so that somtyme the cytezyns had the better thus soone the Kentysmen were vpon the better syde But euer they kepte them vpon the brydge so that the cytezyns passed neuer moche the bulwarke at the byrdge fote nor y e KentysshmeÌ moche ferther thaÌ the drawe brydge Thus coÌtynuyng the cruel fyght to the dystruccyon of moche people on bothe sydes lastly after the Kentysshmen were put to the worse a trewe was agreed for certayne houres Duryng the whiche trewe the archebysshop of Cantorbury than chaunceler of Englande sent a generall pardon to the capytayne for hymselfe and an other of hys peple By reason wherof he hys company departed the same nyght out of Southwarke so retourned euery man to hys owne But it was nat longe after that the capytayne wyth hys coÌpany was thus departed that proclamacyons were made in dyuers places of Kent of Southsex and Sowtherey that who myghte take the foresayde Iak Cade other on lyue or dede shulde haue a M. marke for hys trauayle After whych proclamacion thus publisshed a geÌtylmaÌ of KeÌt named Alexander IdenÌ awayted so hys tyme that he toke hym in a gardyn in Sussex where in the takyng of hym the sayd Iak was slayne so beynge dede was brought into Southwarke the daye of the moneth of there left in the kynges benche for that nyght And vpon y â morowe the dede corps was drawen thorugh the hyghe stretes of the cytye vnto New gate there heded and quartered whose hede was than sent to LondoÌ brydge his .iiii. quarters were sent to .iiii sondry townes of Kent And thys done the kyng sent hys commissions into Kent rode after hym selfe and caused enquery to be made of thys riot in Caunterbury where for the same .viii. men were iuged put to deth And in other good townes of Kent Southsex dyuers other were put in execucyon for the same ryot In thys yere also in the west couÌtree was slayne the bisshop of Salysbury by the commons of that couÌtre wherfore after the kyng had sped his besynesse in Kent Sussex he rode thyder to se also those malefactours punysshed Anno dnÌi M.iiii C.l.  Anno dnÌi M.iiii C.li.  IohnÌ Myddylton  Nycholas wyfforde Grocer  Anno .xxix.  wyllyam Dere  IN thys .xxix. yere vpoÌ sait Leonardes daye or the .vi. daye of Nouembre began the parlyamente at westmynster And the fyrste day of DeceÌbre folowyng the duke of Somerset whyche newly was commyn out of Normandy was putte vnder arest and his goodes by the coÌmons were fowly dyspoyled borne a waye out of the blak fryers For at this season was moche people in the cytie by reason of the parlyament specially of lordes seruauntes whyche were awaytynge vppon theyr lordes and maysters in great multytude For ye shall vnderstande y e temporall lordê in those dayes kepte other maner of housholdes other maner of reteyndour of housholde seruauntes and other nombre ferre excedynge that the lordes at these dayes done wherefore at parlyament tymes and other great counsayles the cytyes or townes where they assembled were hougely stuffed wyth people Than after thys ryot thys commytted vpon the morowe folowynge proclamacyon was made thorugh the cytye that no man shulde spoyle or robbe vppon payne of dethe And the same day at the staÌdarde in Chepe was a maÌ beheded for brekyng of the sayd proclamacioÌ And thus begoÌ rumour malyce to spryng betwene y e lordê of the laÌde And specially y e duke of Somerset other of y e quenes couÌsayll were had iÌ great hatered for y e losiÌg of NormaÌdy wherof y e chief citie of RoaÌ was lost or gyue vp by apointemeÌt y e yere precedyng as witnesseth Gaguynus vpon coÌdycyon that the duke of Somerset with his wyfe and Englyssh sowyours shulde with suche goodes as they myghte cary departe frely from y e cytie For whiche fre passage he shulde pay vnto y e Frenche kynge lvi M. scutes which amouÌte to .xiiii. M. marke sterlyng And also he was bounde to delyuer into the Frenche kynges possession all townes and castelles that at that daye were in the possessyon of Englysshemen within the duchy of Normandy For performaunce of whiche couenauntes the lorde Talbot was set for one of the pledges and so by one Floquet before named all the sayd townes and castelles were by hym to the Frenche kynges vse receyued Harflete onely excepted wherof y e capytayne named Cyrson or Curson denyed the delyuery with assystence of one named syr Thomas Auryngham The whiche in despyte of all the Frenche kynges power layde bothe by see and lande helde it from the begynnynge of Decembre tyll the moneth of Ianuary and than for lacke of rescouse gaue it vp by appoynment in y e begynnynge of this mayres yere For this yeldynge vp of Normandy moche dyspleasure grewe vnto the quene and her counceyll in so moche y t the duke of yorke father vnto kyng Edwarde the .iiii. with many lordes with hym allyed toke partye agayne hyr and her counsayll so that mortall warre therof ensued as here after in this story wall appere Anno dnÌi M.iiii C.li.  Anno dnÌi M.iiii C.lii  Mathewe Phylyp  wyllyam Gregory skynner  Anno .xxx.  Chrystofer warton  IN thys .xxx. yere .xvi. daye of February the kynge beyng accompanied with the duke of Somersette and many other lordes toke theyr iournay towarde the marchys of walys for so moche as he was credibly assertayned y t the duke of york assysted with dyuers other lordes meÌ of name had in those partyes gathered great strengthe of people and with them was entrynge the lande and so helde on his iourney towarde hym But whan y e duke had wytyng of the kynges great power he swaued the way from the kynges hoste and toke the way towarde London And for he had receyued knowlege from the cytie y t he myght not there be receyued to refresshe hym and his people he therwith went ouer Kyngstone brydge and so into Kente and there vpon an hethe called Brente heth he pyght his felde wherof the kynge houynge knowlege sped hym after and lastly came vnto Blacke hethe there pyght his felde where bothe hostes beynge thus enbatayled meidacioÌ was made of peace by twene both hostes For furtheraunce wherof to the duke were sente y e bysshoppes of wynchester and of Ely with the erles of Salysbury and of warwyke To whome it was answered by the sayd duke y t he nor none of the company entended none hurte vnto the kynges persone
nor to any of his counsayll beynge louers of y e coÌmon weale and of hym and of his lande but his enteÌt purpose was to remoue from hym a fewe euyll disposed persones by whose meanes y e coÌmon people was greuously opressed and the comynaltye greatly enpouerysshed Of y â whiche he named for principall the duke of Somerset Of whome it was fynally agreed by the kyng ⪠that he shulde be coÌmytted to warde there to abyde answere vnto suche artycles as the duke of yorke wolde lay agayne hym Upon whych promesse so made by the kyng the fyrst day of Marche beyng thursdaye the duke brake vp hys felde so came vnto y e kynges tente where coÌtrary the former promyse made he faÌde the duke of Somerset as chefe awayter next vnto the kyng And thaÌ was y e duke of yorke sence before to LondoÌ was holden somedeale in maner as prisoner more streyghter shuld haue ben kepte ne had ben tydynges whych dayely spraÌge that syr Edwarde hys sonne thaÌ erle of y e March was commyng toward London wyth a stronge power of welche men March meÌ whych fered so the quene and hyr counsayl that y e duke was lyberted to go where he wolde And so after he departed vnto hys owne countrey and peace was dyssymuled wyth feyned loue for a whyle Ann odnÌi M.iiii C.lii  Anno dnÌi M.iiii C.liii.  Rychard Lee.  Godfrey Feyldynge  Anno .xxxi.  Rychard Alley  IN thys .xxxi. yere y e kynge helde a solempne feest at westmyster vpon the .xii. day of Cristmas where he created .ii. erles the whyche were hys bretherne vpoÌ the mothers syde quene Katheryne that after the deth of kynge Henry the .v. was maryed vnto a knyghte of walys named Dwayne the whych begate vpoÌ hyr these forsayd .ii. sonnes wherof that one thys sayd daye was created erle of RychemouÌt which was named sir Edmonde the yoÌger called syr Iasper was creat the erle Penbroke The whych lastly was created duke of Bedforde by our souerayne lorde kyng HeÌry the .vii. so dyed And in Marche folowyng as witnesseth Gaguyne was the towne of Herfâewe wonne by the FreÌchmen And soone after the cytye of Bayons was gyueÌ vp by appoyntment so that the souldyours shuld leue theyr armoure behynde them And for euery woman there beyng was grauÌted an horse to ryde vpon to euery horse maÌ .x. scutes to pay for theyr costes to euery fote man .v. wythout more by theym to be taken And thys yere the kynge laye longe syke at Claryngdowne was in great ieopardye of hys lyfe And in y e ende of thys mayres yere begynnynge of the .xxxii. yere of the kyng that is to meane vpon the day of traÌslacyon of saynt Edwarde or y e xiii day of Octobre y e quene at westmynster was delyuered of a fayre prynce For the whyche greate reioysyng and gladnesse was made in sundry places of Englande and specyallye wythin the cyâye of London where of the expressemente of the cyrcumstaunce wolde are longe leysoure to vtter Thys prynce beynge wyth all honour and reuerence sacred and crystened was named Edwarde and grew after to perfight and good lye personage and lastly of Edward the fourthe was slayne at Tewkysburye feelde as after to you shall be shewed whose noble mother susteyned nat a lytle dysclaunder obloquy of the coÌmon peple sayeng that he was nat the naturall sonne of kynge Henry but chaunged in the cradell to hyr greate dyshonour heuynesse which I ouer passe Thys yere also whyche was the yere of grace M.iiii C.liii. Mahumet thaÌ prynce of Turkes in the moneth of Iuny and .iiii. daye of the sayde moneth beynge the thyrde yere of hys empyre or reygne after .l. dayes of coÌtynuall assaute by his innumerable multytude of Turkes to the cytye of ConstaÌtyne the noble with excedyng force and crueltye made and excercysed wan and opteyned the domynyoÌ and rule of the same to the greate hynderauÌce and shame of all crystendome and enhauÌcynge of the power and myghte of the sayd Turkes Of the excedynge noumber of men women and chyldren that in that cytye at that daye were slayne I wyll not speke of for the great dyuersyte that I haue seen of wryters Amonge the whyche the emperour named Paleogolus with many other nobles of the cytye beynge taken on lyue were thaÌ behedyd and many a preste and relygyous man put vnto deth by sundry cruell turmentes After whych great crueltye wyth many other longe to reherce put in execucyon a commauÌdement passed from the sayde emperoure of Turkes that all chyldren beynge aboue the age of .vi. yeres as well men as women kynde shulde be streyght put vnto deth the whyche after some wryters excedyd the nomber of .iiii. M. Here for tydeousnesse and lamentable processe whyche I myghte shewe in the rehersall of the abomynacyon of the moste dampnable and accursyd Turkys by theÌ done vnto the crucyfyxe and other images of the chyrches and temples wythin the cytye I cease For paynefull it were to rede more paynefull and sorowfull to here that the fayth of Chryst shulde in so vyle maner be dyspysed Anno dnÌi M.iiii C.liii.  Anno dnÌi M.iiii C.liiii Draper IohnÌ walden  IohnÌ Norman  Anno .xxxii.  Thomas Cooke  IN thys .xxxii. yere IohnÌ Norman foresayd vpoÌ the morowe of Symonde and Iudys day the accustomyd day whan the newe mayre vsyd yerely to tyde wyth greate poÌpe vnto westminster to take his charge this mayre fyrste of all mayres brake that auncyent and olde coÌtynued custome and was rowed thyther by water for the whiche y e watermen made of hym a roundell or songe to hys great prayse y t whiche began Rowe y e bote Norman rowe to thy lemmaÌ and so forth wyth a longe processe ye haue in your remeÌbraunce how I before in the .xxx. yere of thys kyng shewed to you of the apoyntement taken bytwene the sayd kyng y e duke of yorke at Brent heth which apoyntement as before is sayde was soone broken and set at nought By reason wherof greate enuye and dyscencyon grewe bytwene y e kynge and dyuers of hys lordes and most specyally bytwene the quenes counseyll and the duke of yorke and hys blode For all contrary y e kynges promyse by meanes of the quene whiche than bare y e cure and charge of the land the duke of Somerset was sette at large and made capytayne of Caleys and had as greate rule about the kynge as he before dayes hadde wherwyth not onely some of the nobles of the land grudgyd but also the comons whyche by hys counsayll and other than rulers as the fame went susteyned many greuous imposycyons charges Thys fyre rancour and enuye by y e space of .xvii. or .xviii. monethes smokynge and brennynge vnder couert dyssymulacyon now at this day brake out in greate and hote flamys of open warre and wrath in so mych that the duke
of yorke beynge in the Marches of walys called to hym y t erlys of warwyke of Salysbury wyth other many honorable knyghtes and esquyres gathered a stroÌge hoste of people and than in the moneth of Apryll toke his iourney towarde London the kynge there thaÌ beynge wyth a greate retynewe of lordes wherof when the quene and the lordes were aduertysed that the duke was comynge with so greate power anone they cast in theyr myndes that it was to none of theyr profytes And for y t in all possyble haste as they myght they gathered by the authoryte of the kynges coÌmyssyons such strength as they coulde haue entended to haue conueyed the kyng westwarde and not to haue encountred the duke of yorke And for the execucyon of this purpose the kynge accoÌpanyed with hym the dukes of Somerset of Buckyngham y e erlys of Stafforde of Northumberlande with the lorde Elyfforde and other many noble men of the realme departed vpon the .xx. daye of Maye from westmynster and so helde hys iourney towarde saynte Albonys Then the duke of yorke hauynge knowlege of the kynges departynge from London costed the countrees and came vnto the ende of saynt Albons vppon the .xxiii. daye of Maye foresayde then beyuge the thursday before whytsondaye where whyle meanes of treaty and peace were comonyd vppon that one party y e erle of warwyke wyth his Marche men entryd the towne vppon that other ende foughte egerly agayne y e kynges people so contynued the fyght a longe season But in conclusyon y e vyctory fell to the duke of yorke and his party in so myche that there was slayne that duke of Somerset the erle of Northumberlande and the lorde Clyfforde wyth many other honoââble men of knyghtes esquyers whose names were tedious to write After whyche victory thus opteyned by the duke he with honour and reuerence vpon the morne folowynge conueyed the kynge agayne to London and there lodged hym in the bysshoppe of Londons palays And soone thereupon was called a parlyament and holden at westmynster by authoryte wherof y e duke of yorke was made protectour of Englande the erle of Salesbury chauncellour and the erle of warwyke capytayne of Caleys And all suche persons as before were in authoryte and nere aboute the kynge were clerely amoued and putte by and the quene and hyr counsayle that before dayes ruled all vtterly sette a parte concernynge the rule of the kynge and of y e lande whych contynued for a whyle as after shall apere In this yere also as affermeth the Frenche cronycle this mysery and vnkyndnesse thus reygnynge in Englande the lord Talbot than beyng in Normandy and in defendynge of the kynges GarysoÌs was beset with French men at a place named Castillyon and there strongely assayled where after longe and cruell fyghte he with hys sonne and to the nomber of .xl. men of name and .viii. huÌdreth of other Englysshe soudyours were myserably slayne and many mo taken prysoners Anno dnÌi M.iiii C.liiii  Anno dnÌi M.iiii C.lv.  IohnÌ Felde  Stephan Forster  Anno .xxxiii.  wyllyam Taylour  IN thys .xxxiii. yere of Henry y e vi certayne euyll dysposed persones beynge sentuary men within saynt Martens the graunde issued out of y e sayde place and frayed with some cytesyns and of them hurt and maymed and that done reentred the seintuary wherewyth the commons beyng amoued with certeyne rulers of the cytie entred the sayd sayntwary by force and pulled out the occasyoners of the sayde fraye and commytted them to prysone Of this mater by the deane of saynte Martens and suche as fauoured hym was a greuous complaynt made vnto the kynge and hys counsayle of y e mayre and the cytesyns For dyscharge wherof the recorder of the citie wyth certeyne aldermen to hym assygned were sente vnto the kyng then lyeng at y e castell of Egle in Herford shyre where after the mater duly debated before y e kynges couÌsayll they were with letter of commendacyon retournyd vnto the mayre wyllynge hym to kepe the sayde persons sauely tyll the kynges comynge to London at whyche season he entended to haue y e mater more clerely examyned Anno domin M.iiii C.lv.  Anno domini M.iiii C.lvi. Grocer IohnÌ yonge  wyllyam Marowe  Anno .xxxiiii.  Thomas Dulgraue  IN this yere moneth of May an Italyans seruaunt walked thorough Chepe wyth a dagger hangynge at hys gyrdell wherof a mercers seruaunt that before tyme had ben in Italy and there chalengyd or punysshed for werynge of a lyke wepen chalenged the straunger questioned with him how he was so bold to bere such a warrely wepyn consyderynge he was a straunger and out of his natyue countrey also knowynge that in his countre no straunger shuld be suffered to bere any lyke wepyn To whyche questyon suche answere was made by the Italyan that the mercer toke his dagger froÌ hym and brake it vppon his hede The strauÌger thus beyng delte with complayned hym vnto the mayre y t whiche vpon the morowe folowyng kepynge a court at the Guyldhall sent for the yonge man and after his answere made vnto this complaynt by agrement of a full courte of alder men sent the sayde mercer vnto pryson And after thys court was fynysshed for rumour that he harde of to be amonge the seruauntes of y e mercery he with the two sheryffes toke his way homeward thorough chepe But whan he was nere vnto th ende of saint LawreÌce lane toward chepe he was met wyth suche a multytude of mercers seruauÌtes and other that he coulde not passe for ought that he myghte do or speke tyll he hadde coÌtrarye hys wylle and mynde delyuered the yonge man that before was commytted by hym and his brethern to warde and so was he forthwith delyuered Thys thus done rumour sprange therof lyghtely aboute the town in so mych that amonge many cytesyns it was construed that thys was done by the assent of the maysters and housholders of the mercery to y e enteÌt to haue the straungers punysshed for so myche as they toke from them greate lyuynge by reason of theyr vtteraunce of cloth of golde and sylkes to the estates and lordes of the realme But how so it was vnto men of honeste to vacaboÌdes and other that loked for pylfry and ryfflynge it was a great occasyon and styrynge And that appered well for the same afternone sodeynly was assembled a multytude of rascall and poore people of the cytye whyche wythout hede or guyde ranne vnto certayne Italyans places and specyally vnto the Florentynes Lukessys and Uenicyans and toke and spoyled what they in theyr places myghte fynde and dyd greate hurte in sundry places but moste in .iiii. houses staÌdyng in Bredstrete ward wherof thre stode in saynt Barthelomewys parysshe the lytle and one in saynte Benettes parysshe and moch more wolde haue done had not bene the spedy ayde of the mayre and aldermen and worshypfull comoners
of the cytye whyche wyth all dylygence resysted them and of theÌ toke dyuers that robbed and sent theym to Newgate And fynally not wyth out shedyng of blode and maymyng of dyuers cytesyns the rumour and people were appeasyd whan the yonge man begynner of all thys busynesse sawe this inconuenyence ensue of hys wantonesse were it by counsayll or otherwyse feryng the sequell of the mater yode streyght vnto westmynster and there taried as a sayntwary man tyll all the mater were endyd It was not longe after or the duke of Buckyngham with iustyces and other noble men was sent down from the kynge into the cytye charged the mayre by vertue of a commyssyoÌ y t an enquery shulde be made of this ryot And so by vertue of the sayde coÌmyssyon called an Oyer determyner a day was kepte at Guyldhall vpon the day of the moneth of where the sayde daye sat for iudges y e mayre as the kynges lyeutenauÌt y e duke of Buckyngham vpoÌ his ryght hande y e chyefe iustyce vppon y e lefte hande wyth many other men of name whyche I passe ouer whyle the mayre and the sayd lordes were callyng of the panels of the enquestes at y e Guyldhall the other comoners of the cytie not beyng coÌtent with the order many of theÌ secretely armed them in theyr houses and enteÌded as the comon fame after went to haue ruÌge Bow bell so to haue reysed gathered y e comynalty of the cytye and by force to haue delyuered such persons as before for y e robbery were commytted to warde But thys mater was so discretely handeled by the couÌsayll and labour of some dyscrete comoners whyche appeased theyr neyghbours in such wyse that all this fyry haste was quenchyd came to none effecte sauyng y e word was brought vnto the duke of Buckyngham that the comynalty of the cytye were in harnysse yf he taryed longe there he with the other lordes shuld be in great ieopardy with whyche vntrew tidinges he beyng fered hastely toke leue of y e mayre so deêâted vnto hys lodgyng and so ceasyd y e enquery for y e day UpoÌ the morow for so much as y e mayre had vnderstaÌdynge of y e secrete murmur he commauÌded the comoÌ counsayle with all wardeyns of felysshyppys to apere vpoÌ the morow at Guyldhall where by the recorder in the kinges name the mayers as hys lyeutenaunt was coÌmauÌded to euerych wardeins that in that after none folowynge eyther of them shuld assemble hys hoole felisshyp at theyr propre hallys there to gyue euery cytezyn streyght commaundemente that euery man see entende to see the kynges peace with in the cytye And yf they fynde any person that maketh any reasonynge wherby they myght coÌceyue or espye that he fauoured any gatherynge of companyes or the delyuerey of suche persones as were in warde that the sayd wardeyns shuld with fayre wordes exorte hym to the beste and with out sygne or token therof shewynge secretly co bryng the name or names of hym or them vnto the mayre By meane of whych polycy good order the cytesyns were brought in suche a quyetnes that after that day the foresayd enquery was duely pursued iii. persones for the sayde ryot put in execucyon and hanged at tybourne whereof .ii. after some wryters were seyntwarye men of saynt Martyns and the thyrd was a shypmaÌ or boteman The quene wyth certeyne lordes whyche fauoured her partye dysdayned sore the rule whyche the duke of yorke bare and other specyally for that that the sayde duke bare y e name of protectour whych argued that the kynge was insuffycyent to gouerne the realme whyche as she thoughte was a great dyshonour to the kynge and to all the realme wherefore she made suche meanes and wan by hyr polycy such frendshyp of diuerse of y e lordes bothe spyrytuall and temporall that she caused y e duke of yorke to be dyscharged of hys protectourshyp the erle of Salysbury of hys chauncellershyp which was cause of newe warre as after shall appere Anno. dnÌi M.iiii C.lvi.  Anno dnÌi M.iiii C.lvii Grocer IohnÌ Stewarde  Thomas Canynges  Anno .xxxv.  Raufe Uerney  IN thys yere and begynnynge of the same the quene suspectynge the cytye of London demyd it to be more fauourable vnto y e duke of yorkes partye than hyrs caused y e kynge to remoue from LoÌdon vnto Couentre and there helde hym a loÌg season In whyche tyme the duke of yorke was sent for thyther by pryuey seale with also the erle of Salesbury the erle of warwyke where by couyne of the quene they were all .iii. in great daunger Howe be it by monys shemeÌt of theyr frendes they escaped And soone after the sayd duke or erle went into the Northe and the erle of warwyke wyth a goodly companye sayled vnto Calays And shortly after were taken at Eryth wythin .xii. myles of London .iiii woÌderfull fysshys whereof one was called Mors Maryne the secoÌde a Sword fisshe the other .ii. were whalys whyche after some exposytours were pronostycacyons of warre trouble to ensue soon after In this yere also was a great fray in the Northe countrey betwene the lord EgremoÌde and the sonnes of the erle of Salysbury and diuers meÌ maymed slayen betwene them But in the ende the lord Egremonde was taken howe it was by the dome of the kynges counsayll or otherwyse the sayd lorde EgremoÌde was founden in suche defaute that fynally he was condempned in great summes of money to be payed vnto the sayd erle of Salysbury For lack of payment whereof or of puttynge suertye for the same the sayde lorde Egremonde was coÌmytted to Newgyte where after he had contynued a certayne of tyme he brake the prysone and escapyd with thre other prysoners to the greate charge of the sheryffes It was not longe after that dyscencyon vnkyndnesse fell bytwene the yonge duke of Somerset and syr IohnÌ Neuyll sonne vnto the erle of Salysbury beynge than bothe lodged wythin the cytye wherof the mayre beyng warned ordeyned such watches and prouysyoÌs that yf they had any thynge styrred he was able to haue subdued bothe partyes and to haue put theÌ in warde tyll he had knoweÌ the kynges farther pleasure wherof the frendes of bothe partyes beynge ware laboured such meanes that they agreed them for that tyme. In thys also as testyfye the Englyshe cronycle and also the French a nauye or flote of Frenchemen landyd at Sandwyche and spoyled and robbed the towne excercysed there greate crueltye Of whych flote was capytayne a Frenche knyght named after the French boke syr Guyllyain de Pomyers And thys yere after the opynyon of dyuers wryters began in a cytye of Almayne named Magounce the crafte of enprentynge of bokes whyche sen that tyme hath had wonderfull encreace as experyence at thys daye proueth In this yere also the prysoners of Newgate by neglygence of theyr kepers brake out
of theyr wardes and toke the ledys of the towre and it defendyd a longe whyle agayne the sheryffes all theyr offycers in so myche that they were forced to call more ayde of the cytesyns of the cytye by whose ayde they lastly subdued them and put y e sayd prysoners in more streyghter kepyng Cronica cronicaruÌ sayth that about thys tyme was suche an erthquake in y e prouynce of Naples that byforce therof there were perysshed ouer .xl. M. crysten soulys Of the abouesayde spoylynge of Sandwyche speketh Polycronycon and sayeth that syr Pyers de Bresy senes shall of Normandy wyth the capytayne of Depe and many other capytaynes of Fraunce came wyth a greate stronge nauy into the Downys by nyght and vpon the morowe came certeyne of them vnto Sandwych and there spoyled and robbed the towne and toke with them great prayes and many ryche prysoners wherby or by whych sayenge appereth some dyuersyte bytwene the Englysshe wryters and the Frenche Anno dnÌi M.iiii C.lvii  Anno dnÌi M.iiii C.lviii Mercer wyllyam Edwarde  Godfrey Boleyn  Anno .xxxvi.  Thomas Reyner  IN thys yere the thyrde daye of December Reynolde Pecoke than beynge bysshoppe of Chychester at Lambyth by the archebysshop and by a Cot of diuyns was abiured for an heretyke and hys bokes after brent at Poulys crosse hym selfe kepte in mewe euer whyle he lyued after And soone after for to appease thys rancoure and malyce bytwene the quene and the tother lorder a daye of metynge was appoynted by the kyng at London whyther the duke of yorke wyth the other lordes were commaunded to come by a certayne daye In obeynge of which commaundement the duke of yorke came vnto London the .xxvi. daye of Ianuary and was lodged at Baynardes castell And before hym the xv day of Ianuary came the erle of Salysbury to LondoÌ was lodged at hys place called the Erber And soone after came vnto LoÌdon the dukes of Somerset of Exetyr were lodged bothe without temple Barre And in lykewyse the erle of NorthuÌberlande the lorde Egremonde the yoÌge lorde Clyfforde came vnto the cytye and were lodged in the subbarbes of the same And the .xiiii. daye of February came the erle of warwyke from Calays wyth a great bande of men all arayed in rede iakettes with whyte ragged staues vpon theym was lodged at y e gray freres And lastly that is to saye the .xvii. daye of Marche the kyng the quene wyth a great retynewe came vnto LondoÌ and were lodged in the bysshoppe of LondoÌs palays And ye shall vnderstaÌde that wyth these foresayd lordes came greate companyes of meÌ in so moche that som had .vi. C. some .v. C the leest .iiii. C. wherfore the mayre for so longe as the kyng the lordes lay thus in the citie had dayly in harnesse .v. M. cytesyns and rode dayly about the citie subbarbes of y e same to se the kynges peace were kept And nyghtly prouyded for .ii. M. meÌ in harnesse to gyue attendauÌce vpon iii. aldermen and they to kepe the nyghte watche tyll .vii. of the clocke vppon the morowe tyll the day watche were assembled By reason whereof good ordre and rule was kepte and no man so hardy ones to attempte the brekynge of the kynges peace Durynge thys watche a great counsayl was holdeÌ by y e kyng and hys lordes By reason wherof a dyssymuled vnyte and concorde betwene them was concluded In token and for ioy wherof the king the quene and all y e sayd lordes vpon out Lady day annuciacion in lent at Poulys wente solemply in processyon and soone after euery lorde departed where hys pleasure was And in the moneth of folowynge was a greate fray in flete strete betwene the meÌ of courte and the inhabytauntes of the sayd strete in whyche fray a gentylman beyng y e quenes attourney was slayne Vpon the thursdaye in whytsonweke the duke of Somerset with Antony Ryuers and other .iiii kepte iustes of peace before the quene within the towre of London agayne thre esquyers of the quenes and in lyke maner at Grenewych the sonday folowynge And vpon Trynyty sonday or the monday folowynge certayne shyppes apperteynyng vnto the erle of warwyke mette wyth a floote of Spanyardes and after long cruel fyghte toke .vi. of theym laden wyth iron and other marchaundyse and drowned and chased to the noumber of .xxvi nat without shedyng of blod on bothe partyes for of the Englyshmen were slayne an C. and many mo wounded and sore hurt In thys yere after some auctours a marchaunte of Brystowe named Sturmyn whyche wyth hys shyppe had trauayled in dyuers partyes of Leuaunte and other partyes of the Gest for so moche as the same ranne vpon hym that he had gotten grene pepyr and other specys to haue sette and sowen in Englande as the fame wente therefore the Ianuayes wayted hym vppon the see and spoylyd hys shyppe and other But this is full lyke to be vntrew that the Ianuayes shulde spoyle hym for any suche cause for there is no nacyon in Englande that delyth so lytle wyth spycys But were it for thys cause or other trouth it is that by that nacyoÌ an of feÌce was done for the whyche all the marchauntes Ianuayes in London were arested and coÌmytted to y e flete tyll they had found en suffycyent suer tye to answere to the premysses And fynally for the harmys whyche theyr nacyon had done to the sayde Sturmyn to thys realme vi M. marke was sette to theyr payne to paye But howe it was payed no mencyon I fynde In thys yere also was made an ordynaunce by auctorytie of y e kynge and hys counsayll for the orderynge of the seyntwary men wythin saynte Martyns the graunde whereof the artycles are at length sette oute in y e boke of K. wythin the chaumbre of guylde hall in the leefe CC.xcix wherof the execucyon of obseruynge were necessary to be vsed but more pyte it is fewe poyntes of it ben exercysed Anno. dnÌi M.iiii C.lviii  Anno dnÌi M.iiii C.lix Draper Rafe Iosselyn  Thomas Scotte  Anno .xxxvii.  Rycharde Nedeham  THys yere aboute the feeste of Candelmasse the forsayd dissymulyd loueday haÌgyng by a small threde betwene the quene and y t fore named lordes expressed in the precedynge yere the kynge and many lordes thanne beynge at westmynster a stray happened to fall betwene a seruaunt of the kynges a seruaunt of the erles of warwyke the which hurt the kynges seruaunt after escaped wherefore the kynges other meynial seruauntes seynge they myghte nat be auenged vpoÌ the partye that thus had hurt theyr felowe as the sayde erle of warwyke was commynge froÌ the couÌsayll was goynge towarde hys barge the kynges seruauÌtes came vnwarely vppon hym so rabbysshely that the cookys with theyr spyttys other offycers wyth other wepyns came runnyng as madde men entendynge to haue slayne hym so y t he escaped wyth
greate daunger toke hys barge so in all haste rowed to London nat wythout great maymys hurtys receyued by many of hys seruauntes For thys the old raÌcour malyce whyche neuer was clerely cured anon begaÌ to breke oute in so moche that the quenes couÌsayll wolde haue had the sayd erle arested and committed vnto the towre wherfore he shortly after departed toward warwyke and by polycy purchased soone after a commyssioÌ of the kyng and so yode or sayled vnto Calays Thanne encreased thys olde malyce more more in so moche that where the quene and hyr couÌsayll sawe that they myght nat be auenged vppoÌ the erle that so vnto Calays was departed than they malygned agayne hys father the erle of Salysbury imagened how he myght be brought out of lyfe And in processe of tyme after as he was rydynge towarde Salysbury or after som from hys lodgyng towarde London the lorde Audeley wyth a stroÌg company was assygned to mete wyth hym as prysoner to bryng hym vnto LondoÌ whereof the sayde erle beynge warned gathered vnto hym the mo men kepyng hys iourney mette wyth the sayd lord Audeley at a place called Bloreheth where both companyes ran together had there a stroÌge by keryng wherof in the ende the erle was vyctoure and slewe there the lorde Audeley many of hys retynew At thys skyrmys she were the .ii. sonnes of the sayd erle sore wouÌded named sir Thomas and syr IohnÌ the whyche shortly after as they were goynge homeward were by some of the quenys party taken as prysoners sente vnto Chestry whan thys was knowen vnto y e duke of yorke and to the other lordes of hys party they knewe understode that yf they êuyded nat shortly for remedy for them selfe they shulde all be destroyed And for that they by one assent gathered to them a stroÌge hoste of men as of Marche men and other in the moneth of Octobre y t was in the begynnyng of the .xxxviii yere of the reygne of kynge Henry the later ende of thys mayres yere they drewe them towarde the kynge to the entent to remoue froÌ hym such persones as they thought were enemyes vnto the commoÌ weale of Englande But the quene and hyr counsayll heryng of the entent strength of these lordes caused the kyng in all haste to sende forthe coÌmyssyons to gather the people so that in shorte whyle the kyng was strongely accoÌpanyed so spedde hym vppon hys iourney to warde the duke of yorke hys company wherof heryng y e sayd duke thaÌ beyng wyth hys peple nere vnto the towne of Ludlowe pyghte there a sure stroÌge feelde that none of hys foes myght vppon any parte entre where he so lyeng came to him frome Calays the erle of warwyke wyth a stronge bande of meÌ amonge the whyche was Andrewe Trollop and many other of y e best souldiours of Calays The duke thus kepynge hys feelde vpon that one party and the kyng wyth hys people vpon that other vpon the nyght precedyng the daye that bothe hostes shulde haue met the forenamed Andrewe Trolloppe wyth all the chefe soudyours of Calays secretly departed frome y e dukes hoste and wente vnto the kynges where they were ioyously receyued whaÌ thys thynge to the duke and the other lordes was asserteyned they were therewhyth sore dysmayed and specyally for the sayd lordes had to the sayd Andrew shewed the hoole of theyr ententes whych thanne they knewe well shuld be clerelye dyscouered vnto theyr enemyes wherfore after couÌsayll for a remedye taken they concluded to flee to leue the feelde standyng as they had ben presente and styll abydyng And so incontynently the sayd duke wyth hys twoo sonnes a few other persones fledde towarde walys and from thens passed sauely into Irelande And the erles of Salysbury of Marche of warwyke and other wyth a secrete company also departed and toke the waye into Deuonshyre where a squyer named Iohan Dynham whyche after was a lorde and hyghe tresourer of Englande so lastlye in Henry the .vii. dayes and xvi yere of hys reygne dyed bought a shyp for a C. .x. markes or a leuen score nobles and in the same shyppe the sayd lordes went so sayled into Gerneley And whaÌ they had a seasoÌ there soiourned and refresshed them selfe they departed thens as in the begynnyng of the nexte mayres yere shal be clerely shewed Uppon the morowe whan all thys couyne was knowen to the kynge and the lordes vpon hys party there was sendynge and ruÌnynge wyth all spede towarde euery cooste to take these lordes but none myght be fouÌde And forthwith the kyng rode vnto Ludlowe dyspoyled the towne and castell sente the duchesse of yorke wyth hyr chyldren vnto the duchesse of BuckynghaÌ hyr syster where she rested loÌge after Anno. dnÌi M. CCCC.lix  Anno dnÌi M. CCCC.lx Fysshemonger HohnÌ Plummer  wyllyam Hulyn  Anno .xxxviii.  IohnÌ Stocker  THys yere that is to meane vppon the fryday next ensuyng Alhalowen day after the sayde erles of Salysbury of Marche of warwyke had as before is said refresshed them in the I le of Gernesey they vpoÌ the fryday foresayd laÌded at Calays and there were at a posterne by theyr freÌdes ioyously receyued ThaÌ anon vpon this these foresayd lordes were proclaymed rebellys traytours the yonge duke of Somerset was made capitayne of Calays wherfore in all haste he made purueyaunce saylyd thyther to take possessyon of y e town But he fayled of hys purpose for the foresayde erles there beynge kept so y e towne that there he myght haue no rule natwythstandyng that he shewed the kynges letter pateÌtys wyth many other strayght commauÌdementes of the kynge For whyche cause the sayd duke yode vnto Guynys and there helde hym for a seasoÌ And anone as the sayd duke was laÌded some of the shypmen which had brought hym thyther for good wyll that they owed vnto the erle of warwyke coÌueyed theyr shippes streyght into Calays hauen brought wyth them certayne persones named Genyn Fenbyll IohnÌ Felowe Kayles and Purser whyche were enemyes vnto the sayde erle of warwyke the whyche were presented vnto the lordes and soone after wythin the sayd towne of Calays they were beheded Thys rumoure thus contynuynge dayly came vnto these lordes greate socoure out of EnglaÌde And vppon that other partye the duke as before is sayd lyeng in the castel of Guynes gate vnto hym ayde and strengthe of souldyours made out and skyrmysshed wyth them of Calays many and sundry tymes In whych assautes many meÌ were slayen hurte vppon both partyes but moste wekyd the dukes partye For all be that the lordes lost many men yet they dayly came so thycke to them out of dyuers partyes of EnglaÌde that theyr losse was nat espyed so that they wantyd no meÌ but money to maynteynÌ theyr dayly charge with For remedy wher of they shyfted wyth the staple of
Calays for .xviii. M. li. whyche summes of money whan they had receyued y e sayd lordes of one assent made ouer y e forenamed mayster IohnÌ Dynham wyth a stronge company sent hym vnto Sandwyche to wynne y e kynges nauye than there lyenge and other thynges for theyr nedes necessary The whyche sped hym in suche wyse that he toke the lord Ryuers in hys bedde wanne the town toke the lord Scalys sonne vnto the sayd lord Riuers with other ryche prayes and after tooke of the kynges nauy what shyppes them lyked and after retourned vnto Calays nat without consent agremeÌt of many of y e mariners whych owyd theyr synguler fauours vnto the erle of warwyke In thys iourney was the sayde Iohan Dynham sore hurt that he was may med vpon the legge haltyd whyle he lyued after Than after this iourney thus acheuyd the sayd lordes by tayled and maÌned the sayd shyppes sent wyth them as chefe capytayne the erle of warwyke into Irelande to speke wyth the duke of yorke and to haue hys counsayll for maters coÌcerning theyr charge as reentre into this lande and other where whaÌ he had happelye sped hys nedys he retourned towarde Calays bryngyng wyth hym hys mother the couÌtesse of Salysbury also kepte hys course tyll he came into the west couÌtrey where at that tyme was the duke of Gretyr as admyrall of the see wyth a competeÌt nouÌber of shyppes well maÌned in so moche that the erle of warwyke prouyded to haue gyuen batayll vnto âhe sayd duke yf he hadde made any couÌtenaunce toward him But the duke harde suche murmure speche amoÌge hys owne company whych fouÌded vnto the erle of warwykes fauoure that he thoughte it was more vnto hys profyte to suffre hym to passe than to fight with him But were it for thys cause or for other which y e commoÌ fame ruÌneth vppoÌ which were loÌge to wryte certayn trouth it is that the sayd erle passed wythout fyghte came in sauete to Calays In thys passe tyme a parliament or great couÌsayll was holdeÌ at Couentre By auctoryte whereof the duke of yorke and all the other foresayde lordes wyth many other were attaynted and theyr laÌdes goodes seased to the kynges vse And for the more surer defeÌce that they shuld nat efte lande in KeÌt prouisioÌ was made to defende the haueÌs portys vppon the sees syde And at Sandwyche was ordeyned a new streÌgthe wyth a capitayn named syr SymoÌde MouÌforde And ouer thys prouision was ordeyned that no marchauÌt passyng into the costys of FlauÌders shulde passe or go by Calays for fere that any shuld come to y e ayde of the sayd lordes But thys prouysyon natwythstandyng comfort to them was sent dayly out of EnglaÌd Than these lordes herynge of all thys prouysyon made vppoÌ the sees syde to wythstaÌde theyr laÌdynge sent out an other company vnto SaÌdewyche the whych there skyrmysshed wyth the sayd syr SymoÌde Mountforde in the ende toke hym broughte hym vnto Ryse Banke there smote of hys hede The foresayd lordes than coÌsyderynge the strengthe whych they had wyth them and manyfolde frendes hartys which they had in sundry places of EnglaÌd condysceÌded for to sayle into Englande so to bryng about theyr enteÌt purpose whych was as the coÌmon fame went to put a parte frome the kynge all suche persones as were enemyes to the coÌmon weale of the laÌde And thys to bryng aboute after they had set the towne of Calays in an order sure kepyng they toke shyppynge so sayled into EnglaÌde landed at Douer and from theÌs helde on theyr iourney thorughe Kente so that they came to LondoÌ the .ii. daye of Iuly And after they had there refresshed theym and theyr people they departed thense sped theym towarde the kynge which at y e same tyme of theyr laÌdynge was at Couentry and there gathered his people so came vnto Northampton where he pyght hys felde wherof the sayd lordes beynge enfourmed sped them thytherward so that vpoÌ the .ix. day of Iuly bothe hostys there mette foughte there a cruell batayll But after long fyght the victory fell vnto the erle of Salysbury and the other lordes vpoÌ his partye the kynges hoste was sparcled chased many of hys noble men slayen AmoÌge the whyche was the duke of Buckynghan the erle of Shrowsbury y e vycouÌt BeaumouÌd the lorde EgremoÌde wyth many other knyghtes and esquyers and the kyng taken in the felde After whych victory thus by these lordes opteyned they in goodly haste after retourned vnto LondoÌ and broughte wyth them the kynge kepyng hys estate lodged hym in the bysshop of LondoÌ palays And after spedye knowelege sent of all the premysses vnto y e duke of yorke yet beyng in IrelaÌde a parlyameÌt in the name of the kyng was than called holden at westmynster Durynge whych parlyament y e duke of yorke came vnto westmynster vpoÌ the frydaye before saynte Edwardes day or the .x. day of October and lodged hym in the kynges palays wherof anone arose a noyse thorugh the cytye that kynge Henry shuld be deposed the duke of yorke shulde be kynge UppoÌ thys this parlyamente thus contynuynge the duke came one daye into the parlyament chaumber there boldely beyng the lordes present sette hym downe in the kynges sete so there sittynge made a pretence and clayme vnto the crown affermyng it to be hys ryghtfull enherytauÌce had there certayn bolde wordes in iustyfyenge of the same wherewyth all the lordes presente were greatly dysmayed For thys great many opynions were moued among the lordes Howe be it aswell dyuers of hys frendes as other were of the mynde that he shuld nat be admytted for kynge duryng the lyfe of kyng Henry For appeasynge wherof many great couÌsayles were kepte aswell at the blacke freres as at westmynster In all whych tyme and season the quene wyth suche lordes as were of hyr affynyte helde them in the north couÌtrey assembled to theym greate strengthe in the kynges name to the ende to subdue as she sayde the kynges rebelles and enemyes Thus contynuynge thys vnkyndenesse betwene the kynge and the duke all be it that at that season bothe the kynge and he were bothe lodged within the palays of westmynster yet wolde he natte for prayer nor instaunce ones bysyte the kynge nor see hym tyll the counsayll were concluded vppon some fynall ende concernyug thys greate matter the whyche so continued the full terme of this mayres yere Anno dnÌi M.iiii C.lx.  Anno dnÌi M.iiii C.lxi. Grocer Rycharde Flemynge  Rycharde Lee.  Anno .xxxix.  IohnÌ Lambarde  THys yere whyche was in the begynnynge of the xxxlx yere of kyng Henryes reygne that is to meane vpoÌ the euyn of all sayntes or the laste day of October it was condyscended by the lordes spyrytuall temporall by the hole auctoryte of the sayd parliament that
kyng HeÌry shuld coÌtynue reygne as kynge durynge hys naturall lyfe after hys deth hys sonne prynce Edwarde to be sette a parte the duke of yorke hys heyres to be kynges incontynentely the duke to be admytted as protectour and regeÌt of the laÌde And yf at any tyme after the kynge of hys owne free wyll and mynde were dysposed to resygne gyue vp the rule of the laÌde that thaÌ he shulde resigne vnto the duke yf he than lyued and to none other to hys heyres after hys dayes wyth many other maters and coÌuencyoÌs whyche were tedious to wryte All whyche conclusyons as than by mannes wytte myght be assuryd for the parfourmaunce of theym whanne tyme requyred parfyghted the kynge wyth the duke many other lordes thaÌ there present came that nyght to Poulys there harde euynsong vppon the morow came thyther agayn to masse where the kyng yode in procession crowned wyth great royalte so lay styll in y e bysshoppes palays a season after And vppon the saterdaye folowynge beyng the .ix. daye of Nouember the duke was proclaymed throughe the cytye heyre paraunt vnto the crowne of EnglaÌde all hys progeny after hym Than for as moche as quene Margarete accompanyed with price Edwarde hyr sonnÌ the dukes of Somerset of Excetyr and diuers other lordes helde hyr in the northe as aboue is sayd and wolde nat come at the kynges sendyng for therefore it was agreed by the lordes thaÌ at London presence that the duke of yorke shulde take wyth hym the erle of Salysbury wyth a certayne people to fetche in the sayde quene lordes abouesayde The whyche duke erle departed from LondoÌ with theyr people vpon the secoÌde daye of December so spedde theym northwarde wherof the quene with hyr lordes beynge ware and hauyng wyth theym a greate strength of Northernemen mette wyth the duke of yorke vppon the .xxx. daye of December nere vnto a towne in the northe called wakelfeld were betwene them was foughten a sharpe fyght In the whych the duke of yorke was slayne wyth hys sonne called erle of Rutlande and syr Thomas Neuyll sonne vnto the erle of Salysbury wyth many other and the erle of Salysbury was there taken on lyue wyth dyuerse other whanne the lordes vppon the quenes partye had gotten thys vyctory anone they sente theyr prysoners vnto Pountfreyte the whyche were after there behedyd that is to meane the erle of Salysbury a man of London named IohnÌ Narowe and an other capytayne named HaÌson whose heddes were sente vnto yorke and there sette vppon the gates And whan the quene hadde opteynyd thys vyctory she wyth her retynewe drewe toward London where at that tyme duryng this troublous season greate watchys were kepte dayely and nyghtelye and dyuerse opynions were amonge the citesyns For the mayre and many of the chefe comoners helde vppon the quenes partye but the comynaltie was with the duke of yorke hys affynyte whanne tydynges were broughte vnto the cytye of the commynge of the quene wyth so greate an hoste of Northernemen anone suche as were of the contrary partye broughte vp a noyse thoroughe the cytye that she brought those Northernemen to the entente to ryfle and spoyle the citye where thoroughe she was encreasyd of enemyes But what so hyr entente was she wyth hyr people helde on hyr waye tyll she came to saynte Albons In the whyche meane tyme the erle of warwyke and the duke of Northfolke whyche by the duke of yorke were assygned to gyue attendaunce vppon the kynge by consent of the kynge gathered vnto theym strengthe of knyghtes and mette wyth the quenes hoste at saynt Albons foresayde where betwene them a stroÌge fyght was foughten vppon shroue tuysday in the mornyng At y t whych the duke of Northfolke the sayd erle in the endewere chased and kyng Henry takeÌ efte vpoÌ the felde brought vnto the quene And y e same after noone after some wryters he made his sonnÌ price Edward knyght whych than was of the age of .viii. yeres wyth other to the noubre of .xxx. persones whan quene Margaret was thus commen agayne to hyr aboue anon she sente vnto the mayre of London wyllyng commaundynge hym in y e kynges name that he shuld in all spedy wyse sende to saynt Albonys certayne cartes wyth lentyn stuffe for y e vytaylyng of her hoste whyche commaundement the mayre obeyed and wyth great dylygence made prouysyon for the sayd vytayll and sent it in cartys towarde Crepylgate for to haue passed to the quene where whaÌ it was coÌmyn the commons many there beynge whych had harde other tydynges of the erle of Marche as after shal be shewed of one mynde with stode the passage of the sayd cartes sayde it was nat behouefull to fede theyr enemyes whyche entended the robbyng of the cytye And nat wythstandynge that the mayre wyth hys bretherne exorted the people in theyr best maner shewyng to theym many great daungers whyche was lyke to ensue to the cytye yf the sayd dytayll went nat forthe yet myghte he nat tourne them from theyr obstynat errour but for a coÌclusyon was fayne to apoynt the recorder wyth hym a certayne of aldermeÌ to ryde vnto the kynges couÌsayll to Barnet and to make requeste vnto theym that the NortheÌ meÌ myght be retorned home for fere of robbynge of the cytye and ouerthys other secrete frendes were made vnto the quenes grace to be good gracyouse vnto the cytye Duryng whych treaty dyuers cytesyns auoyded the cytye and lande AmoÌge the whych Phylip Malpas whych as before is shewed in the .xx. and .viii. yere of thys kynge was robbed of Iacke Cade whyche Malpas other was mette vpoÌ the see wyth a FreÌchman named Columpne and of hym takeÌ prysoner after payed .iiii M. marke for hys raunsome Thus passyng the tyme y e tydynges which before were secrete now were bloweÌ abrode and openly was tolde that y e erles of Marche of warwyke were mette at Cottyswolde and had gathered vnto theÌ great strength of Marchemen were wel spedde vpoÌ theyr waye to warde London For knowelege whereof the kynge and y e quene wyth theyr hoste were retourned Northwarde But or they departyd from saint Albonis there was beheded the lord Bonuyle syr Thomas Teryll knyghet whyche were taken in the forenamed felde ThaÌ the duchesse of yorke beyng at LoÌdon herynge the losse of thys felde sent hyr two yonger sonnes that is to meane George whyche after was duke of ClareÌce and Rychard that after was duke of Glouceter into Utrych in Almayne where they remayned a whyle ThaÌ the foresayd erles of March and of warwyke sped them towarde LondoÌ in suche wyse that they came thydervpon the thursday in the fyrst weke of lent To whome resorted all the geÌtylmen for the more partye of the south eest partye of EnglaÌd And in thys whyle that they thus rested at London a great couÌsayl was called
of all lordes spyrytuall temporall that than were there aboute By the whyche fynally after many argumentes made for so mothe as kynge Henry contrary hys honoure and promysse at the last parlyament made and assured and also for that y â he was reputed vnable and insuffycyent to rule the realme was than by theyr assentes deposed and dyscharged of all kyngely honoure and regally And incontinently by auctoryte of the sayde counsayll and agrement of the commons there present Edwarde the eldeste sonne vnto the duke of yorke thaÌ was there elected and then chosen for kynge of Englande After whyche eleccyon and admyssyon the sayde erle of Marche gyuyng lawde and preyse vnto god vpoÌ the .iiii. day of Marche accompanyed wyth all the foresayde lordes multytude of comons was coÌueyed vnto westminster and there toke possessyon of the realme of EnglaÌde And syttynge in hys astate royall in the great halle of the same wyth hys sceptre in hand a question was axed of the people than presente yf they wolde admytte hym for theyr kynge soueraygne lord the whyche wyth one voyce cryed ye ye And thaÌ after y e accustumed vse to kynges to swere and after the othe takeÌ he went into the abbey where he was of the abbot munkys mette wyth processyon conueyed vnto saint Edwardes shryne and there offered as kyng that done receyued homage feaute of all suche lordes as there than were present And vpoÌ y e morowe folowynge were proclamacyoÌs made in accustomat places of the cytye in the name of Edwarde the .iiii. thanne kynge of Englande VpoÌ whych day the kyng came vnto the palays at Poulys there dyned and there restyd hym a season in makynge prouysyon to go Northwarde for to subdue hys enemyes Than vpon the saterdaye folowynge beyng the daye of Marche the erle of warwyke with a great puyssaunce of people departed oute of London northwarde And vppon wednysdaye folowynge the kynges fotemen wente towarde the same iourney And vppon frydaye nexte folowynge the kynge tooke hys voyage through the cytye wyth a great haÌde of men and so rode forth at Bysshop pesgate In whych selfe same day whyche was the .xii. daye of Marche a grocer of London namyd walter walker for offence by hym done agayne the kynge was behedded in Smythfelde But hys wyfe whyche after was maryed to IohnÌ NorlaÌde grocer lastely alderman had suche frendes aboute the kynge that hyr goodes were nat forfayted to y e kynges vse The kyng than so holdyng his iourney mette wyth his enemies at a vyllage .ix. myles on thys halfe yorke called TowtoÌ or Shyreborn and vpon Palme sonday gaue vnto theym batayll The whyche was so cruell y t in the felde and chace were slayne vppoÌ .xxx. thousande meÌ ouer the men of name of the whyche here after some ensue That is to saye the erle of Northumberlande the erle of westmerlande the lorde Clyfforde y e lorde Eyromonde syr IohnÌ syr Andrewe Trollop and other to the noumber of .xi. or mo And among other at the same felde was taken the erle of Deuonshyre after the erle of wylshyre whych said erle of Deuonshyre was sente vnto yorke and there after beheded HeÌry than whyche lately was kynge with the quene theyr sonne syr Edward the duke of Somerset the lord Rose and other beynge than at yorke herynge of the ouerthrowe of theyr people and greate losse of theyr men in all haste fledde towarde Scotlande And vppon the morowe folowynge the kynge wyth moche of hys people entred into yorke and there held hys Easter tyde And vpon Easter euyn tydynges were broughte vnto London of the wynnynge of thys felde wherfore at Poulys Te deum was songeÌ wyth greate solempnyte so thorugh the cytye in all paryssh churches And thus thys goostly man kynge HeÌry lost all whaÌ he had reygned ful .xxxviii. yeres .vi. monethes odde days And y e noble moste bouÌteous princesse quene Margarete of whome many an vntrew surmyse was imagened tolde was fayne to flye comfortlesse and lost all that she had in EnglaÌde for euer whan that kyng Edwarde with greate solempnyte had holden the feest of Easter at yorke he than remoued to Durham And after hys busynesse there fynysshed he retourned agayne Southwarde lefte in those partyes y e erle of warwyke to se the rule guydyng of that countrey Than the kyng coosted and vysyted the couÌtreys Southwarde Eestwarde that about the begynnyng of the moneth of Iuny he came vnto hys manour of shene now called RychemouÌt In all whych pastyme purueyauÌce was made for the kynges coronacyoÌ In accoÌplysshyng whereof the kyng vpoÌ the .xxvii. day of Iuny beyng fryday departed from y e sayde manour rode vnto the towre of LoÌdon UpoÌ whome gaue atteÌdaunce y t mayre hys bretherne all cladde in scarlet and to the noumbre of .iiii. C. coÌmoners well horsed cladde all in grene And vpon the morne beynge saterday he made there .xxviii. knightes of the bath after that .iiii. moo And the same after noone he was wyth all honour coÌueyed to westminster the sayd .xxxii. knyghtes rydyng before hym in blewe gownes hoodes vpon theyr shulders lyke to prestes with many other goodly and honourable ceremonyes y t whych were longe to reherse in due order And vpon the morne beyng sonday sait Peters day he was wyth great tryuÌphe of the archebysshop of Caunterbury crowned enoynted before the hygh aulter of saynt Peters churche of westmynster And after thys soleÌpnysacyon of the crownyng of y e kyng wyth also the sumptuous honorable feest holdeÌ in westminster hall was fynysshed the kynge soone after created George hys brother duke of Clarence And in the moneth of Iuly folowynge at the staÌdarde in chepe y e haÌde of a seruaunte of the kynges called IohnÌ Dauy was stryken of for that he had stryken a man wythin the palays of westmynster Francia ¶ Carolus .viii CArolus or Charles the .vii. of y e name after the accompte of this boke or the vii after the FreÌch hystory sonne of Charlys the .vii. or .vi beganne hys reygne ouer the FrenchmeÌ in the moneth of October in the yere of oure lorde M.iiii C. .xxii and in the begynnyng of Henry the .vi. than kyng of EnglaÌde Of thys Charlys sundry wryters sunderly wryte in so moche as some afferme hym to be the naturall sonne of Charles the .vii some afferme hym to be the sonne of the duke of Orleaunce borne of the quene and some there ben that name hym the sonnÌ of Charles fore named gotten in the baste vppon hys mooste beauteous paramour named Agnes the whych as testyfyeth Gaguynus excelled all other women in feture beaute and for the same to be surnamed the fayer Agnes Thys in hyr myddell age dyed was so ryche y t hyr testameÌt amouÌted to .ix. M. scutes in golde the whyche in sterlynge money amouÌteth to the summe of .x. M. li. ThaÌ to
he enteÌded to haue folowed to haue made warre vpon the Scottes But he was than vysyted with the sykenes of pockes y t he was forced to leue that iournay In the weke of Crystemas folowynge the Scottes wyth a stroÌge power perced the lande entendynge to haue rescowed certayne castelles in the north But they retourned shortly wythout harme doynge And shortly after the duke of Somerset and syr Rauffe Percy submitted them to the kynges grace whanne the kynge was cured retourned southwarde the Scottes aboute the tyme of lent entred agayn into Englande layde a syege vnto Banbourth castell and wanne it wherfore the kynge in the moneth of Auguste folowynge rode agayne northewarde wyth hys power and ouer that vytayled certayne shyppes in the west countre manned them sent them thyder to make warre vppon the see coost And in the latter ende of this mayres yere the duke of Somerset herynge that kynge Henry was commynge into the lande wyth a newe strength departed secretly wente agayne to hym Anno. dnÌi M.iiii C.lxiii  Anno dnÌi M.iiii C.lxiiii  Robert Basset  Mathewe Phylyp Goldsmyth  Anno .iii.  Thomas Muschampe  IN this yere moneth of May whyche was in the begynyng of the .iiii. yere of kyng Edwarde the lorde IohnÌ of Mountagu hauynge than the rule in the northe partyes beynge warned of the commynge of Henry late kynge wyth a greate power out of Scotlande assembled the Northynmen and mette wyth hym about ExhmÌ and there skyrmysshed wyth y e Scottes at length wan y e vyctory of hys enemyes and chased Henry so nere that he wan from him certayne of hys folowers trapped wyth blewe veluet and hys bycoket garnysshed wyth two crownes of golde and fret wyth perle and ryche stone He also toke at the sayd iourney y e duke of Somerset the lorde Hungerforde the lorde Roos whych sayde duke was shortly after put to deth at the sayd towne of ExhmÌ the other ii lordes were soon after beheded at new castell And other whyche were after that fyght taken in a wood fast by as syr Phylyp weÌtworth syr Edmond Fiz knyghtes Blacke Iaquis IohnÌ Bryce Thomas Hunt were also put to deth at ExhmÌ foresayd or Myddelham after some wryters syr Thomas Husey knyght was beheded at yorke And in the moneth of Iuly next folowyng the sayde lorde Mountagu wyth ayde of hys brother erle of warwyke wan by streÌgth the forenamed castel of Bamburgth wherin as one of the said capitaynes was taken wyth other syr Rauffe Gray whyche shortly after at yorke was drawen hanged quartered In such passe tyme in moste secret maner vpon the fyrste daye of May kynge Edwarde spoused Elizabeth late the wyfe of syr Iohan Graye knyghte whyche before tyme was slayne at Toweton or yorke felde whych spousayles were solempnised erely in the mornynge at a towne named Graston nere vnto Stonyngestratforde At whyche maryage was no persones present but the spouse the spousesse the duches of Bedford her mother the preste two gentylwomen a yong maÌ to helpe the preeste synge After whyche spousayles ended he weÌt to bedde so taried there vpon .iii. or .iiii. houres and after departed and rode agayne to Stonyng stratforde and came in maner as though he had ben on huntyng and there went to bedde agayne And wythin a daye or .ii. after he sente to GrastonÌ to the lorde Ryuers father vnto hys wyfe shewyng to hym that he wolde come and lodge wyth hym a certayne season where he was receyued wyth all honoure so taryed there by the space of foure dayes In whyche season she nyghtely to hys bedde was brought in so secrete maner that almooste none but her mother was of counsayll And so thys maryage was a season kepte secrete after tyll nedely it muste be dyscouered dysclosed by meane of other whyche were offered vnto the kyng as the quene of Scottes other what oblyquy ran after of thys maryage howe the kyng was enchaunted by the duchesse of Beforde and howe after he wolde haue refused her wyth many other thynges concernynge thys matyer I here pauÌe it ouer And thys yere was kynge Henry taken in a wood in the north countre by one named Cantiowe and presented to the kynge and after sente to the towre where he remayned longe after Anno dnÌi M.iiii C.lxiiii  Anno dnÌi M.iiii C.lxv.  IohnÌ Tate  Rauffe Iosselyne Draper  Anno .iiii.  IohnÌ Stone  IN this yere was a new coyne ordeyned by y e kyng y t whyche was named y e Royall was yet is in value of .x. s. the halfe royal .v. s the ferthyng .ii. s. vi d. And ouer y t he ordeyned y e secoÌd coyne of golde named it y e angel which was yet is in value of .vi. s. viii. d the half angel iii. s. iiii d. He ordeyned also a newe coyne of grotes halfe grotes pens whych were of lasse weyght than the olde grote was by .viii. d. in an vnce And thaÌ was fyne gulde auauÌsed froÌ s. to .xl. s an vnce other baser goldes after y e rate And syluer that before was at .viii. grotes and .xxx. d. an vunce was hyghed to .xl. d. an vunce and .iii. s. ii d. And in thys mayres yere and begynnyng of the .v. yere that is to say the .xxvi. day of May that yere whyt sonday quene Elizabeth was crowned at westmynster wyth great soleÌpnytie At the whyche season at the towre the nyghte before the coronacyon amonge many knyghtes of the bathe there made was as of that coÌpany syr Thomas Cooke syr Mathewe Phylyp syr Rauffe Iosselyne and syr Henry wauyr cytezyns of LoÌdon thanne and there made knyghtes Anno dnÌi M.iiii C.lxv.  Anno dnÌi M.iiii C.lxvi  Syr Henry wauyr  Rauffe Uerney Mercer  Anno .v.  wyllyam Constantyne  IN thys yere that is to saye the xi daye of the moneth of February was Elizabeth pryncesse and fyrste chylde of kyng Edward borne at westmynster whose crystenynge was done in the abbaye wyth moste solempnyte And the more bycause the kynge was assured of hys physycyons that the quene was conceyued wyth a prynce and specyally of one named mayster Dominyk by whose counsayll greate prouysyon was ordeyned for crystenynge of the sayde prynce wherfore it was after tolde that thys mayster Domynyk to the entente to haue greate thanke and rewarde of the kynge he stode in the second chamber where the quene trauayled that he myghte be the fyrste that shulde brynge tydynges to the kynge of the byrth of the prynce And lastly whan he harde the chyld crye he knocked or called secretly at y e chaÌber dore and frayned what the quene had To whome it was answered by one of the ladyes what so euer y e quenes grace hathe here wythin suer it is that a fole standeth there wythout And so confused wyth hys answere he departed wythoute saynge of the kynge for
thorugh the cytye of London that the kynge hadde pardoned the NorthyrnmeÌ of theyr ryot aswell for the deth of the lorde Ryuers as all dyspleasures by them before that tyme done And soone vppon thys a new styrryng begaÌ in LyncolnÌ shyre whereof the occasyoner was the lorde wellys as the fame than went For whome the kynge sent by fayre meanes promysyng hym to go safe and come safe as it was sayd But trouth it is after hys commyng to the kyng had he before suche promyse or nat he was shortly after beheded Than in February folowyng by medyacyon of lordes a treatye of vnytie and concorde was laboured betwene the kyng hys brother and the erle of warwyke For whyche cause the sayd erle came thanne vnto London And shortly after came the sayd duke as vpon shrouesonday folowyng And vpon the thuysday folowyng the kynge the sayde duke mettte at Baynardes castell where y e duchesse of yorke theyr mother than laye In the whyche passetyme y e erle of warwyke was retourned to warwyke and there gadered to him such streÌgth as he myght make as it was reported And in LyncolnÌshyre syr Robert wellys sonne vnto the lorde wellys before put to deth in thys whyle had also assembled a greate bend of men purposed to gyue the kyng a felde Of all whyche tydynges whaÌne the kynge was assertayned he wyth his sayd brother the duke spedhim north warde and in that whyle sente to the sayd syr Robert wellys wyllyng him to sende home hys people come to hym and he shulde haue hys grace But that other answered that by like promysse hys father was dysceyued and that shulde be hys example But in conclusyon whan the kynge wyth hys power drewe nere vnto hiÌ he toke suche fere that he fledde and soone after was taken and with him syr Thomas Dymmok knyght and other the whyche were shortly after put to deth In thys season was the duke of Clarence departed frome the kynge and was gone vnto the erle of warwyke to take hys parte To whome the kynge in lykewyse sente y t they shuld come to hys presence wythout fere where vnto they made a fayned answere And than consyderynge theyr lacke of power agayne y e kyng departed and wente to the see syde so sayled into Fraunce and requyred the .xi. Lowys than kyng of that regyon that he wolde ayde and assyste them to restore kynge Henry to hys ryghtfull enherytaunce wherof the sayd Lowys beyng gladde grauÌted vnto them theyr requeste helde theÌ there whyle they wyth the counsayll of quene Margarete prouyded for theyr retourne into Englande whan the sayde lordes were thus departed the lande the kyng coÌmauÌded them to be proclaymed as rebelles and traytours thorugh oute hys realm And in the Easter weke folowynge syr Geffrey Gate one named ClaphaÌ whyche entended at South ampton to haue taken shyppynge to haue sayled to the sayde lordes were there taken by the lorde Hawarde and sente vnto warde whych sayde Clapham was beheded soone after and the sayde syr Geffrey Gate fande suche frendshyp that lastly he escaped or was delyuered so that he yode after to seynt wary Thanne was the lorde of saynte IohnÌs arrested But at instaunce of the archebysshop of Caunterbury he went a season at large vnder suerty and was fynally commytted to the towre In whych passetyme the erle of Oxenforde gat ouer vnto the foresayd lordes Thus enduryng thys trouble a stirrynge was made in the north partyes by the lord Fitz Hugh wherfore the kyng sped hym thyderwarde But so soone as the sayd lord knewe of the kynges coÌmyng anone he lefte hys peple fledde into Scotlande And the kyng whych thaÌ was commyn to yorke rested hym a season there and there about In the moneth of Septembre .x yere of the kyng the forsayd duke of Clarence accoÌpanyed wyth the erles of warwyke of Penbroke of Oxenforde other many gentylmen landed at Dartmouth in Deuynshyre there made theyr proclamacyons in the name of kyng Henry the .vi and so drewe ferther into the laÌde wherof herynge the commons of that couÌtre other drewe vnto theym by greate companyes Than the Kentyshemen beganne to were wylde assembled theym in great companyes and so came vnto the out partyes of the cytye of London Radâlyffe saynte Katherynes and other places robbed and spoyled the Flemynges and all the bere houses there as they came ThaÌ the foresayde lordes holding on theyr iournaye drewe towarde y e kynge beyng in the northe as aboue is sayde wherof he beyng warned and hauyng wyth hym as than but small strength wherof some to hym were nat very trusty he wyth a secret company toke the next waye toward the wash in Lyncolneshyre and there passed ouer wyth great daunger nat wythout losse of dyuers of hys company and so passed the couÌtrees into Flaunders and stynted nat tyll he came to Charles hys brother thanne duke of Burgoyne wyth whome he rested a season whaÌ the quene which than was in the towre harde of the kynges auoydynge anone she departed frome thens and yode vnto westmynster and there regystred her selfe for a seyntwary woman and in lyke wyse dyd many of kynge Edwardes frendes And than about the begynnynge of Octobre syr Geffrey Gate that till that tyme had holden the sayde seyntwary and other wyth hym wente vnto the prysons aboute London all suche as they had fauoure vnto toke them out and sette them at lybertye And than shypmen other euyll dysposed persones as than drewe to the sayd Geffrey Gate robbed agayn the berehouses set some of them in fyre and after resorted vnto the gates of the cytye there wolde haue entred by force But the cytezeyns wythstode theym wyth suche force that they were compelled to departe thens Upon the .xii. day of October the towre was gyueÌ vp by appoyntmeÌt kyng Henry was takeÌ from the lodgyng where he before laye and was than lodged in the kynges lodgyng wythin the sayde towre In whyche passetyme the duke the forsayd lordes drewe nere vnto the cytye And vpon saterday than nexte folowyng the sayd duke accompanied wyth y e erles of warwyke of Shrowysbury and the lord Stanley rode vnto the towre and there wyth all honour and reuerence fet out kynge Henry conueyed hym to Poulys there lodged hym in the bysshoppes palays so was thaÌ admytted taken for kyng thorugh all the lande Readoptio Henrici .vi. HEnri y e .vi. of that name before by Edwarde y e .iiii. put down was agayne restored to the crowne of Englande the. daye of Octobre in the yere of grace M.iiii C.lxix and the .x. yere of Edwarde y e iiii the .xii. yere of the .xii. Lowys than kynge of Fraunce In whose begynnyng of readopcyon the erle of worceter whych for hys cruelnesse was called the bochier of England was taken and putte in streyght pryson And vppon the xv daye of October was the sayde
erle aregned at westmynster in the whyte hall and there endyted of treason and vpon the moÌdaye folowyng adiuged that he shulde go frome the same place vnto the towre hylle and there to haue hys hede smytten of But as he was commynge from the sayde place of iugemente toward his execucyon the people presyd so inportunatly vpon hym for to se beholde hym that the sheryfes were fayne to tourne into the Flete and there to borowe gayoll for hym for that nyght And vpon the morowe after at afternoone beynge saynt Lukys day and xviii daye of Octobre he was ladde to the towre hylle where he toke his deth full paciently whose corps was after borne wyth the hedde vnto the blacke freres and there honourably buryed in a chapell standynge in the body of the churche whych he before tyme had founded And than was dayly awaytynge vpon the see syde for the landyng of quene Margaret and prynce Edwarde her sonne and also prouysyon made for the defence of landynge of kynge Edwarde and hys company Anno domini M.iiii C.lxx.  Anno domini M.iiii C.lxxi  IohnÌ Crosby Anno Henrici .vi. primo IohnÌ StoktonÌ mercer    IohnÌ warde Anno Edwardi iiii.x IN thys yere whyche was in y e ende of the .x. yere of kyng Edwarde and beginnyng of the readopcion of kyng Henry that is to meane the thyrde daye of Nouembre quene Elizabeth beynge as before is sayde in westmynster seyntwary was lyghted of a fayre prynce And wythin the sayd place the sayd chylde wythout poÌpe was after crystened whose godfathers were the abbot pryour of the sayd place the lady Scrope godmother And the .xxvi. daye of the sayd moneth folowyng began a parlyament frome thens proroged to Paulys where it coÌtynued tyll Cristmas In the parlyamente syr Thomas Cooke before trowbeled as I haue shewed in the .vii. yere of kynge Edwarde put in a byll into the common house to be restored of the lorde Ryuers landes other occasyoners of hys trowble to the summe of .xxii. M. marke Of the whyche he hadde good comforte to haue ben allowed of kynge Henry if he had prospered and the rather for that that he was of the commoÌ house and therwyth a man of great boldnesse in speche and well spoken syngulerly wytted well reasoned Than durynge thys parlyament kyng Edward was proclaymed vsurper of the crowne and the duke of Glouceter hys yonger brother traytour both attaynted by auctorytie of the sayd parlyament And vppon the .xiiii. daye of February came the duke of Exceter to London And the .xxvii. daye of y e sayde moneth rode the erle of warwyke thorugh y e citie toward Douer for to haue receyued quene Margarete but he was dyspoynted For the wynde was to her contrary that she laye at the see syde taryeng for a conuenyent wynde from Nouember tyl Apryll And so the sayde erle after he had longe taryed for her at the see syde was fayne to retourne without spede of hys purpose Thus duryng thys queysy seasoÌ the mayre ferynge the retourne of kynge Edwarde fayned hym syke so kepte hys house a great season All whych tyme syr Thomas Cooke whyche than was admytted to hys former rome was sette in his place and allowed for hys deputye whych tourned after to hys greate trowble and sorowe Than fynally in the begynnynge of the moneth of Apryll kynge Edwarde landed in the north at a place called Rauynspore wyth a small coÌpany of Flemynges and other so y t all hys company exceded nat the noÌber of M. persones so drewe hym towarde yorke makyng hys proclamacyons as he wente in the name of kyng Henry and shewed to the people that he came for none entent but onely to clayme hys enherytaunce y â dukedome of yorke so passed the countres tyll he came to the cytye of yorke where the cytezyns helde hym oute tyll they knew hys entent And whan he had shewed vnto theym as he before had done vnto other confermed it by an othe he was there receyued and refresshed for a certayne tyme so departed helde his waye towarde London and passed by fauoure fayer wordes the dauÌger of the lorde Marquys Mountagu whyche in that costes laye than in awayte for hym purposely to stoppe hys way had people dowble of noÌbre that kyng Edwarde had of fyghtynge men whaÌ kyng Edwarde was thus passed the sayd Marquys and sawe that hys strength was greatly amended that also dayly the peple drewe to hym he than made proclamacyons in hys owne name as king of Englande so helde on hys iournay tyll he came vnto London In whyche passetyme that is to meane vpon sherethursdaye the archebysshoppe of yorke beynge than at LondoÌ wyth kyng Henry to the entent to moue the peoples hertes towarde y e kyng rode about the towne wyth hiÌ and shewed hym to the people the whyche rather withdrewe meÌnes hertes than other wyse And in thys season also syr Thomas Cooke before-named auoyded the lande enteÌdyng to haue sayled into Fraunce But he was taken of a shyp of Flaunders hys sonne heyre wyth hym and so sette there in pryson many dayes lastly was delyuered vnto kyng Edwarde Than vpon sherethursdaye at after noone kynge Edwarde was receyued into the cytye and so rode to Poulys and there offered at y e roode of the north dore and that done yode incontynently into the bysshoppes palays where he fande kynge Henry almoste alone For all such lordes and other as in the mornynge were about hym whan they harde of king Edwardes commynge anone they fledde and euery man was fayne gladde to saue hym selfe Than king Edwarde lodged hym where kynge Henry laye put hym vnder safe kepynge and soo rested hym there tyll Easter euyn Upon the whyche euyn heryng of hys brothers coÌmynge y e other lordes wyth hym wyth a stroÌg hoste vnto saynt Albonis sped hym thyderward lay that nyght at Barnet In whyche season the duke of Clarence contrary hys othe and promyse made vnto the Frenche kynge refused the tytle of kyng Henry and sodaynly wyth the strengthe that he hadde rode streyghte vnto hys brother kynge Edwarde wherwith the other lordes were somdeale abasshed The whyche not wythstandynge the sayd lordes by the specyall comforte and exortacyon of the erle of Oxenforde as it was sayde helde on theyr iournay toward Bernet the sayd erle of Oxenford beyng in the vawarde and so came vnto y e playne without Bernet and there pyght theyr felde Then vpon y e morowe beynge Easter daye the .xiiii. daye of Apryll very erly both hostes mette wherupoÌ that one party were two knyges present as HeÌry the .vi. whych kynge Edward had brought thyder with hym and kyng Edward the .iiii. And vpon that other partye was the duke of Exceter the lorde Marquys Mountagu and the two erlys of warwyke and of Oxenford wyth many other men of name There the sayd erle of Oxenforde
and his company quyt them so manfully that he bare ouer that parte of the feeld whyche he sette vppon so ferforthly y e tydynges came to London that kynge Edwarde had loste the felde And yf hys men had kepte theyr araye not fallen to ryfflyng lykely it hadde bene as it was after tolde that the vyctory hadde fallen to that partye But after longe and cruell fyght in conclusyon kyng Edwarde optayned the vpper hande slewe of hys ennemyes the marques Mountagu and the erle of warwyk hys brother wyth many other And vppon the kynges party was slayne the lorde Barnes And of the comoÌs vppon bothe partyes were slayne vpon .xv. C. men and mo Of the mystes and other impedymentes whyche fyll vpon the lordes party by reason of the incantacyons wrought by fryer BuÌgey as y e fame weÌt me lyst not to wryte But trouth it is that after thys vyctory thus wonne by kynge Edwarde he sente the dede corps of the sayd Marquys and erle of warwyke vnto Poulys chyrche where they laye two dayes after naked in .ii. coffyns that euery man myghte beholde and se theym And the same after none came kyng Edwarde agayn vnto London and offered at y e roode of the North dore at Poulys and after rode vnto westmynster and there lodgyd hym And soone after that the kynge was thus passed tho ⪠ough the cyty was kyng Henry brought rydynge in a longe gowne of blewe veluet and so conueyed thoroughe Chepe vnto westmynster and frome thens vnto the Towre where he remayned as prysoner all hys lyues tyme after The repossessyon of Edwarde the .iiii. EDward the .iiii. before named began agayne his domynyon ouer the realme of England the .xiiii. daye of Apryll in y e begynnyng of the yere of our lord M.iiii C.lxxi the .xii. yere of Lewys the Frenche kynge and reposseded all thynges as he before hadde done And when the sayde two corps hadde lyen in Poules openly from the Sondaye tyll the Tuysdaye they were hadde from thens buryed where y e kynge wolde assygne them The kynge then beynge in authoryte made prouysyon for the defence of the landynge of quene Margaret and hyr sonne the whyche all thys whyle laye at the see syde taryenge the wynde and so lastely landed at and came with a strength of FrenchmeÌ other as farre within theÌ lande as to a vyllage in called Tewkysbury where the kyng mette wyth her and hyr dystressyd chasyd her company and slewe many of them In the whyche batayle she was taken syr Edward her sonne and so brought vnto the kynge But after the kynge had questyoned with the sayd syr Edwarde and he hadde answered vnto hym coÌtrary his pleasure he thenne strake hym wyth hys gauntelet vpon the face After whiche stroke so by hym receyued he was by the kynges seruauntes incoÌtynently slayne vpon the .iiii. daye of the moneth of May. whan kynge Edwarde had thus subdued hys enemyes anone he sent quene Margarete vnto London where she restyd a season and fynally she was sent home into her countre And the goodes of syr Thomas Cook were agayne ceasyd and hys wyfe put forth and commaunded to be kepte at the mayers Uppon the .xiiii. daye of May folowynge the bastarde of Fawconbrydge that vnto hym had gaderyd a ryottous and euyll dysposyd companye of shypmen and other wyth also the assystence of y e comons both of Essex and of Kent came in greate multytude vnto the cyty of London And after that the sayd coÌpany was denyed passage thorough the cytye they set vpoÌ dyuers partyes therof as Bysshoppes gate Algate LondoÌ brydge and alonge the waters syde and shotte gonnes and arowes and fyred the gates wyth cruell malyce as Bysshops gate and Algate and faught so fyersly that they wanne y e bulwerkes at Algate and entred a certayne wythin the gate But the cytesyus wyth comfort and ayde of Robert Baset alderman assygned to the gate wythstode the sayd rebelles so manfully that they slewe all such as entred the gate and compellyd y e other to drawe a backe and forsoke the gate Uppon whom the cytesyns pursued and chased theym vnto the forther Stratforde and slewe toke many of them prysoners wherof herynge the other whyche assayled the other partes of the cytie fledde in lyke wyse whom the other cytesyns pursued as farre as Depforde in sleynge and takyng of them prysoners in great nomber and after them raunsomed as they hadde ben Frenchemen And the bastarde with hys shypmeÌ were chasyd vnto theyr shyppes lyenge at Blackwall and there in the chase many slayne And the sayde bastarde the nyghte folowynge stale out hys shyppes out of y e ryuer and so departed and escaped for the tyme. Than vpon Assencyon euyn next ensuynge the corps of Henry the .vi. late kynge was brought vnreuerently from the tower thorough the high stretes of the cyty vnto Poulys chyrche and there lefte that nyght and vppon the morowe conueyed wyth gleyuys and other wepens as he before thyder was brought vnto Chertyssey and there was buryed Of the deth of this prince dyuers tales were tolde But the moste comon fame went that he was stycked wyth a dagger by the handes of the duke of Glouceter whyche after Edwarde the .iiii. vsurped the crowne and was kyng as after shall appere Than kyng Edwarde after thys victory thus hadde at Tewkesbury retourned vnto London and vpon the mondaye folowynge Assencyon daye he toke hys iournay into Kent hauyng with hym a strength of people and there sette hys iustyces and made inquysycyons of the ryot before done by the bastarde and hys accessaryes For the whyche at Caunterbury and other good townes in Kent dyuers were put in execucyon Of whom the hedes were sent vnto London and set vpon the brydge And in lyke maner inquysycioÌs were made in Essex and some also of them put in execucyon Of whyche a capytayne named Spysynge was hanged and hys hede set vpon Algate And many of the ryche commons of Kent were set at greuous fynes both for them selfe and for theyr seruauntes And when the kyng hadde thus spedde his iournaye he retourned came to LondoÌ vpon whytson euyn And that done soone after was bysshop Neuyll archebysshop of yorke sent vnto Guynes and there kepte as prysoner longe after Thys was brother to the lorde marquys MouÌtagu and to the erle of warwycke Also in the ende of thys mayers yere was the forenamed bastarde of Fawconbrydge taken about Southamton and there put to execucyoÌ whose hed was sent to London and pyght vpon London brydge among other Anno dnÌi M.iiii C.lxxi  Anno dnÌi M.iiii C.lxxii  IohnÌ Aleyn  wyllyam Edwarde Grocer  Anno .xi.  IohnÌ Chelley  IN thys yere the erle of Oxenforde whych syn the season of Barnet felde hadde holden saynte Myghellys mounte was by an appoyntement taken thens and shortely after sente to the castell of Guynes where he remayned prysoner tyl the last yere of Rycharde
of hys brotherne to come to gyue attendauÌce vppon hym wyth certayne comeners of the cytye where when they were comââ the kynge caused the game to be brought before them so y t they sawe course after course and many a derâ bothe rede falowe to be slayne before them And after that goodly dâspoâtâ was passyd the kynge commaunded hys offycers to brynge the mayre and hys company vnto a pleasauÌt lodge made all of grene bowys and garnysshed wyth tables other thynges necessary where they were set at dyner and serued wyth many deynty dysshes and of dyuers wynes good pleynty as whyte rede and claret and caused them to be set to dyner or he were seruyd of hys owne ouer that caused the lorde chamberlayn wyth other lordes to hym assygned to chere the sayde mayre and his company sondry tymes whyle they were at dyner at theyr departynge gaue vnto them of venyson greate pleynty And in y e moneth of August folowynge the kynge of hys greate bounte sente vnto the mayresse and her systers aldermennes wyfes two hartes and .vi. buckes wyth a tonne of wyne to drynke wyth the sayd venyson The whyche venyson wyne was hadde vnto the drapers halle to whych place at a day assygned the mayre desyred the aldermeÌ and theyr wyfes wyth sondry comoners and there the venyson wyth many other good dyshes were eryn and the sayd wyne merely dronken The cause of whyche bounty thus shewed by the kynge was as moste men toke it for that that the mayre was a marchauÌt of wonderous auentures into many and sondry countrees By reason wherof the kynge had yerely of hym notable summes of money for hys customes besyde other pleasures y t he hadde shewed to the kynge before tymes Anno dnÌi M.iiii C.lxxxii  Anno dnÌi M.iiii C.lxxxiii  wyllyam whyte  Edmonde Shaa Goldsmyth  Anno .xxii.  IohnÌ Mathewe  THis yere that is to meane of y e mayre and begynnynge of the xxiii yere of the kynge at westmynster vppon the .ix. daye of Apryll dyed the noble prynce Edwarde the iiii late kynge of Englande whose corps was after conueyed wyth due solemnyte vnto wyndsore and there honourably buryed when he hadde reygned to reken hys begynnynge out of the lande with all other tyme full .xxii. yeres and as moch as from the .iiii. daye of Marche vnto the .ix. daye of Apryll leuynge after hym .ii. sonnes that is to say prynce Edward hys eldest sonne and Rycharde duke of yorke and .iii. doughters as Elysabeth that after was quene Cecyle and Katheryne Edwarde the .v. EDward the .v. of that name sonnÌ vnto Edwarde y e iiii beganne hys reygne ouer the realm of EnglaÌd y e .xi. day of Apryl in the beginnyng of the yere of our lord god M.iiii C.lxxxiii and the .xxiiii. yere of the .xi. Lewys than kynge of Fraunce Anone as kynge Edward the .iiii. was dede grudge and vnkyndnesse beganne to take place bytwene the kynges and the quenes allye For y e lorde marquys of Dorset brother vnto the quene and other of hys affynytye hadde then the rule kepyng of thys yonge kynge whyche at the tyme of hys fathers deth was of the age of .xi. yere or there about and so beyng in hys guydyng in y e Marche of walys coÌueyed hym toward London and there to make prouysyoÌ for hys coronacyon and for other necessary thynges for hys weale But the duke of Glouceter brother vnto Edward the .iiii. entendynge otherwyse as after shall appere wyth a competent noÌber of gentylmeÌ of the North all clad in blacke met with y e kynge at Stonyngstratforde there after dyssymuled countenaunce made bytwene hym the forsayd Marquys dischargyd him of the rule of y e king and toke vpon hym the rule so froÌ thens beynge accompanyed with the duke of Buckyngham broughte the kynge with all honour toward LondoÌ wherof heryng quene Elysabeth moder vnto the kyng feryng the sequele of thys besynesse went or toke sentwary within westmynster wyth her yonger sonne Rycharde the duke of yorke And the kynge drawynge nere vnto the cytie vpon the .iiii. day of Maye was of the mayre and hys cytesyns mette at Harnesey parke y e mayre and hys bretherne beynge clothed in scarlet the cytesyns in vyolet to the noÌber of .v. hondred horses and than from thens conueyed vnto the cytye the kynge beynge in blewe veluet and all hys lordes and seruauÌtes in blacke clothe and so after coÌueyed vnto the byshoppes palays of London and there lodgyd And shortely after the sayd duke of Glouceter inueleged so the archbisshop of CauÌterbury named Bowchyer that he went wyth hym to the quene Elysabeth and there made suche assured promyse to the sayde quene that she vppon the sayd archbyshoppes promyse delyuered vnto them her yonger sonne duke of yorke And than the sayde duke caused the kynge to be remoued vnto the towre and hys brother with hym But the quene for all fayre promyses to her made kept her and her doughters wythin the foresayde seyntwary and the duke lodged hym selfe in Crosbyes place in Bysshoppesgate strete Than prouision was made for the kynges coronacyoÌ In whyche passe tyme the duke beynge admytted for lorde protectour caused syr Antony wydyuyle called lorde Scalys brother vnto y e quene a vertuous knight wyth the lorde Rycharde the quenes sonne syr Rycharde Hawte and syr Thomas UaghanÌ knyghtes to be beheded at Pountfreyt more of wyll than of iustyce Than the lorde Protectour in furtheryng of his purpose and cuyll entent sente for the more partie of the nobles of the laÌde and behaued hym so couertly in all hys matyers that fewe vnderstode hys wykked purpose And so dayely kepynge holdynge the lordes in counsayll and felynge theyr myndes sodaynly vppoÌ the .xiii. daye of Iuny beynge wythin the towre in the counsayll chambre wyth dyuerse lordes wyth hym as the duke of Bukkyngham the erle of Derby the lord Hastynges thaÌ lord ChaÌberlayne wyth dyuerse other an owte crye by hys assent of treason was made in the vtter chambre wherwyth the sayd lorde Protectour beyng warned roose vp and yode hym selfe to the chaumber dore and there receyued in such persones as he before had appoynted to execute hys malycious purpose The The whych incontynently set hande vpon the forenamed lord Chamberlayne and other In the whyche styrrynge the erle of Derby was hurt in the face and kept a whyle vnder the holde Than by coÌmaundemente of the sayd lorde Protectour the sayde lord Chamberlayne in all haste was ladde in the court or playn where the chapell of the towre staÌdeth there wythout iugemeÌt or loÌge tyme of coÌfessyon or repentauÌce vpoÌ an ende of a loÌge great tymber logge whyche there laye wyth other for the repayrynge of the sayd towre caused hys hedde to be smyten of and all for he knewe well that he wolde nat assente vnto hys wycked entent whose body wyth the hed was after caryed vnto wyndesore
and there buryed by the tombe of kyng Edwarde After whyche cruelte thus done he shortely after set in sure kepynge suche persones as he suspected to be agayne hym wherof the bysshoppes of yorke of Ely were .ii. as it is said And the erle of Derby for fere of hys sonne the lord Strange lest he shuld haue arered Chesshyre Lancastershyre agayne hym was set at large Than began the loÌge couert dyssymulacion whyche of the lord Protectour had ben so craftly shadowed to breke out at large in so moche that vppoÌ the sondaye folowyng at Poules crosse hym selfe wyth the duke of Bukkyngham other lordes beyng present by the mouth of doctor Rafe Shaa in the tyme of hys sermon was there shewed openly that y e chylderne of kynge Edward the .iiii. were nat legytymat nor ryghtfull enheritours of the crowne wyth many dyslaunderous wordes in preferryng of the tytle of the sayd lord Protectour and in dysanullynge of the other to the greate abucion of all the audieÌce excepte suche as fauoured the mater whyche were fewe in noumbre yf the trouth or playnesse myghte haue ben shewed Of the whyche declaracyon as the fame wente after the sayde doctour Shaa toke suche repentaunce that he lyued in lyttell prosperytie after And the more he was wondered of that he wolde take vppon hym suche a besynesse consyderynge that he was so famous a man bothe of hys lernynge and also of naturall wytte Than vppon the tuysdaye folowynge an assemble of the coÌmons of the cytye was appoynted at the Guyldhalle where beynge present the duke of BuckynghaÌ wyth other lordes sente downe frome the sayde lorde protectour and there in the presence of the mayre and comynaltye rehersed the ryght and tytle that the lorde Protectour hadde to be preferred before hys of hys brother kynge Edwarde to the ryght of the crowne of Englande The whyche processe was in so eloquent wyse shewed and vttred wythout any impedyment of spyttynge or other countenaunce and that of a longe whyle wyth so great sugred wordes of exhortacyon and accordynge sentence that many a wyse man that day merueyled and commended hym for the good orderynge of hys wordes but not for the entent and purpose the whyche theruppon ensued Uppon the Thursdaye than next ensuynge beynge the .xx. daye of Iuny the sayde Protectoure takynge then vppon hym as kynge and gouernour of the realme went wyth great pompe vnto westmynster and there toke possessyon of the same where he beynge sette in the greate halle in the See royall wyth y e duke of Norffolke before called the lorde Hawarde vppon the ryght hande the duke of Suffolke vppon the left hande after the royall othe there taken called before hym the iudges of the lawe gyuynge vnto them a long exhortacyon and streyght coÌmaundemeÌt for y e mynystryng of hys lawes and to execute iustyce and that with out delaye After whyche possessyon takynge and other ceremonies there done he was conueyed vnto the kynges palays wythin westmynster and there lodgyd In whyche passe tyme the prynce or of ryght kynge Edwarde the .v. wyth hys brother the duke of yorke were put vnder suer kepynge wythin the towre in suche wyse that they neuer came abrode after And thus ended the reygne of Edwarde the .v when he had borne the name of a kynge by the space of two monethes and .xi. dayes And vppon the Frydaye beynge the .xxii. daye of Iuny was the sayd lord Protectour proclaymed thorough the cyty kyng of England by the name of Rychard the thyrde Then soone after for fere of the quenes blode and other whyche he had in ielousy he sent for a strength of men out of the North. The which came shortely to London a lytell before hys coronacyon and mustred in the More feldes well vppon .iiii. M. men in theyr beste iackes and rusty salattes wyth a fewe in whyte harneys not burnysshed to the sale and shortely after hys coronacyon were countermaunded home wyth suffycyent rewardes for theyr trauayll In whyche foresayd passe tyme y e Marquys of Dorset brother vnto quene Elysabeth y t before was fled escaped many wonderfull daungers bothe about London Ely and other places wherof ⪠to wryte the maner cyrcumstaunce wolde aske a longe and great leysour Rycharde the thyrde RIcharde y e thyrde of that name son to Rycharde late duke of yorke yongeste brother vnto Edwarde y e iiii late kynge began his domynyoÌ ouer the realme of Englande the .xx. day of mydsomer moneth in the yere of our lorde god M. CCCC.lxxxiii the .xxv. yere of the .xi. Lewys than kynge of FrauÌce Of whom tedyous it is to me to wryte the tragedyous hystory excepte that I remeÌber that good it is to wryte and put in remeÌbrauÌce the punyshement of synners to the ende that other may exchew to fall in lyke daunger Than it foloweth anone as thys man had taken vpon hym he fyll in great hatred of the more party of the nobles of hys realm in so mych that suche as before loued and praysed hym and wolde haue ieoparted lyfe and good wyth hym yf he hadde remayned styll as êtectour now murmured and grudged agayne hym in suche wyse that fewe or none fauoured his partye except it were for drede or for the great gyftes that they receyued of hym By meane wherof he wanne dyuers to folow hys mynde the whiche after deceyued hym And after his coronacyon soleÌpnysed whyche was holden at westmynster the .vi. daye of Iuly where also y e same daye was crowned dame Anne hys wyfe he then in shorte processe folowynge rode Northward to pacyfye that countre and to redresse certayne ryottes there lately done In the passe tyme of which iournay he beynge at yorke created hys legyttymat sonne prynce of walys ouer that made hys bastarde sonne capytayne of Caleys whyche encreaced more grudge to hymwarde as after shall appere Anno. dnÌi M.iiii C.lxxxiii  Anno dnÌi M.iiii C.lxxxiiii  Thomas Norland  Rober Byllysdon Haberdassher  Anno .ii.  wyllyam Martyn  IN this yere y e foresayd grudge encreasynge and the more for as myche as the comon fame wente that kynge Rycharde hadde within the towre put vnto secret deth y e two sonnes of hys brother Edwarde the iiii For the whych and other causes hadde within the breste of the duke of Buckyngham the sayde duke in secrete maner conspyred agayn hym and allyed hym with dyuers gentylmen to the ende to brynge hys purpose about But how it was his entente was espyed and shewed vnto the kynge and the kynge in all haste sent for to take hym he then beynge small accoÌpanyed at hys manour of Brekenok in the Marche of walys wherof the sayd duke beynge ware in all hast he fled froÌ hys sayd manour of Brekenok vnto the house of a seruaunt of hys owne called Banaster and that in so secret maner that fewe or none of his housholde seruauntes knewe where he was become In the whyche passe tyme kynge Rycharde
entred the boundes of Italy wherof herynge y e pope and the emperour than as before is sayd beynge at Papye busyed in a great counceyle dissoluyd the same And the pope incontyneÌtly toke leue of the emperour departyd agayne to Rome And Charlys wyth a great power that he had gaderyd as well of Italyans as of hys owne people made towarde hys neuewe wherof herynge the sayde Charlone turned agayne by the waye that he had comen tyll he came to hys owne countrey as sayth myne authour also y e French boke But more verely Charlone kepyng togyther hys hoste and hauynge fauour of dyuers lordes of Italye the emperoure Charlys remouyd to y e cytye of Mantue where he was grudged wyth a feuer For remedy wherof he toke a pocyon of a physycyon Iewe named Sedechias whyche was intoxicat by meane of whych venemous pocyon he dyed shortly after whan he hadde reygned as kynge emperoure after moste accorde of writers by y e space of .xxxvii. yeres wherof he reygned as emperoure .iii. yeres leuynge after hym a sonne named Lewys whyche as before is shewed was ruler of the couÌtrey of Austracy or Lorayne whan thys Charlys was dede hys frendes entendynge to haue caryed the corps into Fraunce causyd it to be seryd and enoynted wyth ryche and precyous bawmes and other oyntmentes and aromatykes But all myghte not stoppe the intolerable ayre of hys body so that they were fayne to bury hym at Uercyle wythin the monastery of saynt Euseby where he laye ouer .vii. yeres after and then taken vp and conueyed to saynt Denys in FrauÌce and there honorably buryed THE CLXVI CHAPITER IN the tyme of thys Charlys the Ballyd as wytnessen many wryters began the erledome of Flaunders the whyche euer before these dayes the ruler therof was called the forester of the kynge of FrauÌce whyche erledome had hys begynnynge by thys meane ye haue harde before in the story of Adeulphus kynge of westsaxons how in hys retornynge from Rome he maryed the doughter of Charlys y e Ballyd named Indith The which Indyth after the deth of her sayde husbonde retornyd by Flaunders towarde Fraunce thynkynge to passe wythout daunger bycause the sayde countrey was vnder the obedyence or her father But at those dayes was ruler or forester in that partyes a noble yonge amerous man callyd Bawdewyne the whyche herynge of the great beautye of thys Indith gaue attendaunce vppon her And receyued her in hys best maner makyng to her all the chere that to hym was possyble and fynally cast to hyr suche loue that whan she supposed to departe and to haue gone into Fraunce he delayed the mater in suche curteys and wyse maner that he wan such fauour of her that she made no greate haste to departe frome hym all be it that moste authours agre that he kepte hyr perforce whan Charlys hadde wyttynge that Bawdewyne thus helde hys doughter Indith he sent to hym straytly chargynge hym to sende home hys doughter but that holpe not the mater ThaÌ he purchasyd agayn hym the censures of holy chyrch and accursed the sayd Bawdewyne But whan the kynge conceyued that the yonge man hadde suche loue to Indyth that he sette not by that punysshement and also was certeynly enformed that hyr harte was gyuen vnto hym he in processe by y e meane of some bysshoppes and frendes of the sayd Bawdewine agreed that he shulde take hyr to wyfe and in the name of hyr dowar he shulde holde and enioye the sayd countre of FlauÌders And for he wolde haue hys doughter to be the more honoured he creatyd the sayde Bawdewyne an erle and commaunded hym to be called after that daye erle of FlauÌders It is also shewyd in the Frenche cronycle and of other wryters that thre dayes before hys deth hys spiryte shulde be rauysshed from hys body and vnto places of payne and turment where thys Charlys by the ledynge of an aungell shulde se hylles and mountaynes brenne pyttes full of sulphyr pytche and hote boylynge lede In whyche paynes the sayde Charlys shulde se many of hys progenytours and bysshoppes that counceyled prynces to debate or stryfe or gaue counceyle to them to rayse of theyr subiectys vnlefull taskys or imposycyons wyth many other thynges whyche I passe ouer for length of the mater Anglia THE CLXVII CHAPITER EThelwaldus or Ethelwoldus y e eldeste sonne of Adeulphus began hys reygne ouer the westesaxons or ouer y e more partye of Englande in the yere of our lorde viii hundred and .lv and the .x. yere of Charlys the Ballyd than kynge of Fraunce The whyche became so vnhappy that he maryed y e woman whyche hys father hadde somtyme kepte or holden for hys concubyne as wytnessyth y e authour of y e Floure of hystoryes But Polycronycon sayth that he wedded his stepmoder whyche dysaccordyth wyth the sayenge of other wryters which testifye his stepmoder to be maryed to Bawdewyn erle of FlauÌders as in y e story of Charlys last before is shewyd Thys Ethelwolde though it be not expressyd by what hap he dyed whan he hadde reygned one yere as sayth Polycronyca But another cronycle beryth wytnesse that he was slayne as a martyr of Hungar and Hubba prynces of Danys About thys tyme the holy kynge saynt Edmund coÌtynued his reygne ouer the Eest Anglis or Norfolke THE CLXVIII CHAPITER EThelbertus the seconde sonne of Adeulphê° began his reygn ouer the more partye of Englande in the yere of our lorde .viii. hundred lvi the .xi. yere of Charlis y e Ballid then kynge of Fraunce In whose tyme the Danys wyth more strengthes entred y e west part of this land and robbed and spoyled the couÌtrey before theym tyll they came to wynchester toke the cytye by strength and dyd therin what they wold But the kynge made suche prouysyon that by hym his dukes they were forcyd to forsake the cytye And as they yode toward theyr shippes they were fought wyth and a great parte of theym slayne and taken Of this kynge is nothynge ellys lefte in memory more then before is shewyd but that he dyed when had reygned after moste wryters .vi. yeres and was buryed at Shyrborne leuynge after hym none yssu of hys body wherfore the rule of the lande fell to his brother Etheldrede THE CLXIX CHAPITER ETheldredus the thyrde sonne of Adeulphus beganne hys reygne ouer the west Anglis and the more parte Englande in the yere of our lorde .viii. hundred .lxiii the xviii yere of Charlis y e Ballyd then kynge of Fraunce In the begynnyng of this kynges reygne the Danes landed in eest England or Norff. and Suff. But they were compellyd to forsake that countrey and so toke agayne shyppynge and saylyd northwarde and landed in Northumberlande where they were mette wyth of the kynges then there reynynge callyd Osbryghte and Ella whyche gaue to theym a stronge fyghte But that not wythstandynge the Danys wyth helpe of suche as enhabyted y e countrey wan the
and was anone after the deth of hys brother sent for into Denmarke and receyued ioyously and crowned at LondoÌ of Ethelnotus than archybysshop of Caunterbury But this was of suche cruelty that he sent Alfrycus archbysshoppe of yorke and erle Goodwyne vnto westmynster commaundynge them for the iniury by hys brother Harolde before done vnto his moder Emma that they shuld drawe the corps out of y e place where it was buryed and to be throwen into the ryuer of Thamys which was done accordynge to hys wyll whych corps after as testyfyeth Guydo and other was founden by a fyssher and buryed vnreuerently within the chyrcheyarde of saynt Clement standyng wythout the Temple barre of London And as Polycronycon sayth for a more curelty he caused fyrst the hed of hys sayd brother to be smyten from the body and than throwen in to the sayd ryuer Lette the herers to thys gyue credence as them lyke for to me it semeth though the kyng had ben of suche cruelty that the bysshop forenamed wolde not haue ben the executour of so fowle a dede Thys kyng also leuyed the forenamed trybute named Dane gelt spent it to the lytell comforte of the realme but gaue vnto shypmen and maryners and other lewde persons greate and vnsyttynge fees and wages and was of suche prodegalyte that his bourdes and tabelles of his courte were spred .iiii. tymes in the daye and the people serued of great excesse both of mete also of drynke wyth leuyeng of the foresayd try bute the comons greatly grudged so that in worceter two of hys seruauntes whyche were assygned to gader that money were there slayne For the whyche dede the kynge was so sore dyspleased y t he brent a great parte of that towne Thys Hardykynutus after some authours maryed hys syster named Gunylda vnto the thyrde Henry emperour The whych was of passyng beaute and was the doughter also of Emma laste wyfe of Canutus But in processe of tyme thys Gunylda was falsely accused of spowsebrech for tryall wherof she was put to her champyon wherfore she beynge in greate agony lastely trustyng to god and knowyng her selfe without gylte of that offence putte a chyld that she wyth her had brought out of Englande in stede of the champyon The whyche fought wyth a man of geauntes stature and fynally hym slew and broughte vnto confusyon when Gunylda by dyuyne power hadde thus clered her selfe she vtterly refused the emperours company and ended her lyfe in the seruyce of hym the onely god that so hadde defended her ryght But yt shulde appere by Polycronycon and also by Antoninus that thys mayden was maryed to y e sayde Henry by the lyfe of her father Canutus and also durynge the lyfe of the sayde Henryes father named Conradus the second as before is touched in the storye of the sayde Canutus and not by thys Hardykinytus her brother It is rad that the kynge betoke all the rule of the lande vnto hys moder and erle Goodwyn the whyche had maryed as wytnessyth the englyshe cronycle the doughter of Canutus gotten vppon hys fyrste wyfe Elgina By whome many thynges were mysse orderyd and specyally by the subtylyte of this erle Goodwyn This erle had many sonnes as wytnesseth Polycrony con in the .xxv. chapyter of hys .vi. boke By his fyrste wyfe that was kynge Canutus syster not hys doughter as is aboue sayde he hadde one sonne The whyche by vndyscrete strykynge of an horse was throwen into the Thamys and drowned And the mother was lastely smytteÌ wyth lyghtenyng and so dyed Of whome yt is there remembred that she was so vngracyous and of so vyle condycyon that she set yonge womeÌ to horedome for to gader by that vnlefull meane ryches After the whyche wyfe so dyed he maryed the seconde of whome he receyued .vi. sonnes That is to wyt Swanus Harolde Tostius wylnotus Sirthe or Surthe and Leoffricus and a doughter named Goditha whych after was maryed to Edwarde the confessour The two sonnes of Egelredus Alphredus and Edwarde whych as ye before haue hard were sent into NormaÌdy by Emma theyr mother came in y e tyme of the reygne of thys kyng into Englande for to vysyte and se theyr mother brought wyth them a great nomber of Normans Then thys Goodwyne ymagyned in hys mynde howe he myght preferre hys doughter Godyth to one of these bretherne and thoughte in his mynde y t the eldest wold dysdayne that maryage And for he thought to ioyne her vnto the yonger and to make hym kynge and her quene he compassed the deth of y e elder And by this mean Goodwyn warned the lordes of Englande and sayde yt was a great ieoperdye for the lande to suffer so many straungers to entre the land without lycence wherfore yt were necessary that they were punyshed to the example of other By whych meanes he gat authoryte to order that mater as to hym semed beste or of his owne power because he was of moste myght nexte the kynge wherfore he yode and mette wyth the sayde Normans and slewe of theym the moste nomber For vppon Guylde downe he slewe alway .ix. saued the .x. And yet for he thoughte to many by that meane lefte a lyue he eft agayne tythed agayne the sayd tythe and slew euery tenth knyght of them and that by cruell deth as wyndynge theyr guttes out of theyr bodyes as sayth Polycronycon and amonge other put out the eyen of the elder brother Alphredus sent hym to Ely where he dyed in short tyme after all be it y e englyshe boke sayth y t he was slayne by the forenamed tormente And Edwarde was conueyed and by some other waye broughte to hys mother But she ferynge the treason of Good wyne sente hym soone ouer the see agayne Howe be yt the ynglyshe cronycle telleth all otherwyse when Goodwyne was after accused for thys cruell dede he sware depely y t he was forced of the kynge so for to do But in one cronicle I fynde that thys dede was executed by Goodwyne in the tyme of Harolde Harefote beynge kynge Then yt foloweth in the story this kynge Hardykynytus beynge at a feste at Lambehyth besyde London mery and iocande whyle he stode drynkynge he fyll downe sodaynly and dyed or waxed dumbe and lay tyll the .viii. daye after the whyche was the .viii. daye of the moneth of Iune and then dyed when he hadde reygned after moste wryters two yeres leuynge after hym none yssue of his bodye lawfull and was buryed by his father at wynchester Thus here endeth the lyne or ofsprynge of Swanus and all other Danys so that after thys kynge the blood of Danys was clerely extyncte and putte oute from all kyngly dygnyte wythin thys realme of Englande And also the persecution of theÌ seased clerely after thys kynges deth The whyche had contynued to rekeÌ from theyr fyrst landynge in tyme of Brightricus kyng of west Saxon the .ix. yere of his reygne as in y e storye
pytye that he suffered hym to be at hys lybertye whyche after the opynyon of wyllyam de regibus was done more of pryde than of compassyon THE CCXXV. CHAPITER IN the .xi. yere of the reygne of thys wyllyam the rede at a towne called Fynchanster in the couÌtrey of Barke shyre a welle caste out blode as before it hadde done water And after by the space of .xv. dayes great flames of fyre were sene in the elemeÌt in sundry places and tymes Thys yere also y e two erles of Shrewesbury and of Chester eyther named Hugh by the kynges commauÌdement entred wyth theyr knyghtes the I le of Man or Anglesaye slewe therin many welshemen and gelded many moo Amonge the whyche a preste named Kynredus was draweÌ out of a chyrch and serued of y e same wyse and also cut hys tunge out of hys hed and put out hys one eye But this preste was of such vertue that by myracle he was restored to helthe within .iii. dayes ensuynge In the whyche season and tyme the kynge of Northganys or Norwaye wan the iles called than Orcades and now Orkeys after came wyth hys strength into the foresayd ile of Man where at the same season were the sayde two erles Than bytwene them was mortall fyght in y e whyche Hugh erle of Shrewesbury was stryken with an arowe in y e eye and dyed wythin .viii. dayes after But as sayth Guydo the Danys were chased and the Englysshemen hadde the vyctory Kyng wylliam was mych in Normandye for so myche as Robert his brother was all thys season in the holy land of whose actes shall some deale be towched in y e story of Henry the fyrste And wyllyam had myche payne to rule the Normans for they rebelled often agayne hym In the .xii. yere of hys reygne he came out of Normandye and when he saw the hall of westmynster y t he had caused to be buylded he was therwyth dyscontented that it was so lytell wherfore as it is rehersed of some wryters he entended yf he had lyued to haue made a larger and y t to haue serued for a chaumber Robert Losaunge that somtyme had ben abbot of Ramsey and than bysshop of Thetforde by gyfte of a thousand pounde to the kyng repented hym after and bewept that vnskylfull dede and toke hys waye to Rome and dyd for it hys enioyned penaunce and after retorned into Englande and turned hys see from Thetforde to Norwyche founded there a fayre monastery of hys owne goodes not of the patrymony of crystes chyrch But therin is a dowt to consyder For he was fyrste an abbot and after a bysshop About thys tyme by the meanes of one Stephen Hardynge a munke of Sherbourne an Englyshman of y e order of Sisteaux or whyte muÌkes had hys begynnynge in the wyldernesse of Cystery within the prouynce of Burgoyne as wytnesseth Ranulf munke of Chester But other wryters as Jacobus Phylyppus the authour of Cronica cronicaruÌ Matheolus wyth other sayen that this Stephen was the second abbot of y e place y t it was fyrste fouÌded by the meanes of one Robert abbot of MolyneÌse in the yere of grace M.xcviii whyche to folow theyr sayeng shuld be in the .ix. yere of the reygne of this kyng This order was after brought into Englande by one called walter Espeke that fouÌded the fyrste abbay of that relygyon at Ryuall about y e yere of grace .xi. C.xxxi The whyche shulde be about the .xxxi. yere of the fyrste Henry than kyng of England Somwhat of theyr relygyon is towched in the .x. chapyter of the .viii. boke of Polycronycon After that kynge wyllyam as before is sayde was retourned out of Normandy many wonderfull prodygyes and tokyns were shewed in England as the swellyng or rysyng of y e water of Thamys in suche wyse that it drowned dyuers townes and dyd mych harme by out passyng his boundys in dyuers places about LoÌdon and ellys where Also the deuyll was sene walke in mannes lykenesse wyth dyuers other thynges whyche I ouerpasse The kyng was warned of this and tolde by his famylyers y t god was not coÌtent with his lyuing But he set all at nought and made of it a scoffe or a iape In the .xiii. yere of his reygne and begynnynge thereof as the thyrde daye of Auguste after the sayenge of Ranulfe thys kyng wyllyam beyng at hys dysporte of huntynge wythin the newe forest by glaunsynge of an arowe shot of a knyght named walter Tyrell was wounded to the deth in the .xliiii. yere of hys age After whyche dede the sayde walter escaped and saued hym self for few there were that hym pursued And so the kynge thus wounded was layde vppon an horse lytter and so conueyed to wynchester where shortly after he dyed and was buryed Of this man myghte be made a myche lenger story yf all hys dedes shulde be towched The whych toke vpon hym great thynges and mych gretter enteÌded yf he myght haue lyued The daye before he was slayne one axed of hym where he wold kepe hys Crystmasse At Poytiers sayde the kynge for the erle entendeth to go towarde Hierusalem and I woll assaye to haue hys erledome in morgage for well I knowe he must cheuyche for money to perfourme that iourney The day that wyllyaÌ dyed he helde in his haÌdes the .iii. bysshopryches of CauÌterbury of winchester and of Salysbury and dyuers abbayes of the whyche he let some to terme Also he refrayned y â money y â of olde tyme was payed to Rome called Rome scotte Of this wyllyaÌ reportyth Henry of HuÌtyngdoÌ sayth y t though this maÌ were lyght of som thynges yet he was stedfast stable of his promyse so y t what he êmysed good or euyll shuld be êformed And though he were named couetous yet it shuld seme y t he was liberall as sheweth by this narracyoÌ folowyng Upon a season when the abbot of a place in Englande was dede two munkes of the same place the which before hadde gatheryd money made theyr frendes to kynge willyam and offered large offers eyther of them to be promoted to that dygnyte There was also a thyrde munke the which of mekenesse of humylyte folowed the other two to the entent that vppon hym that the kynge had admytted for abbot he wolde haue gyuen attendaunce and as his chapelayn to haue wyth hym returned The kynge called before hym the .ii. munkys seuerally and eyther out profered other And as he caste hys eye asyde he espyed the thyrd the whych he demed hadde comen also for the same cause Then the kynge called hym and asked yf he wold geue any more then his bretherne had offered to be abbot But he answered to the kynge and sayde that he wolde nother offer nor yet gyue for yt one peny nor wold haue so great a charge by any meane wrongefull when the kynge had well vnderstanden thys thyrde munkes answere he sayde that he was best worthy to be