Henrie the fourth and to the heires of his bodie lawfullie begotten his foure sonnes Henrie Thomas Iohn and Humfrie being named as to whom line 20 the right should descend successiuelie by waie of intaile in case where heires failed to any of them By force of this act king Henrie thought himselfe firmelie set on a sure foundation not néeding to feare any storme of aduerse fortune But yet shortlie after he was put in danger to haue béene set besides the seat by a conspiracie begun in the abbat of Westminsters house which had it not béene hindred it is doubtfull whether the new king should haue inioied his roialtie or the old king now a prisoner restored to his line 30 principalitie But God of whome the poet saith humana rotat Instar volucris pulueris acti Turbine celeri mobilis aurae had purposed a disappointment of their coniuration and therefore no maruell though the issue of their labours were infortunat by their flattering hope But now to make an end with this parlement After that things were concluded and granted so as was thought to stand with the suertie of the king and line 40 good quiet of the realme the king granted a free pardon to all his subiects those excepted that were at the murther of the duke of Glocester and such as had committed wilfull murther or rape or were knowne to be notorious théeues And those that were to take benefit by this pardon were appointed to sue foorth the charters therof betwixt that present and the feast of All saints next insuing and so was this parlement dissolued Immediatlie after the king according to an order taken in the same parlement to giue to vnderstand line 50 vnto all princes and countries about him by what title and occasion he had taken to him the kingdome sent ambassadors vnto them to signifie the same Into Rome were sent Iohn Treneuant bishop of Hereford sir Iohn Cheinie knight Iohn Cheinie esquier Into France master Walter Skirlow bishop of Durham and Thomas Persie earle of Worcester Into Spaine Iohn Trenour bishop of saint Asaph and sir William Parre knight Into Almanie the bishop of Bangor and two others line 60 The Scots in time of the late parlement taking occasion of the absence of the northerne lords and also by reason of great mortalitie that afflicted the northerne people that yeare inuaded the borders tooke the castell of Warke that was assigned to the safe kéeping of sir Thomas Greie knight who then was at the parlement as one of the knights of the shire by meanes of whose absence the enimies the sooner as is to be thought obteined their desire and so kept that castell a certeine time and finallie spoiled it and ouerthrew it to the ground Besides all this they did manie other mischeefes in the countrie to the vndooing of manie of the kings subiects This yeare Thomas Mowbraie duke of Nâ—â—ffolke died in exile at Uenice whose death might haue béene worthilie bewailed of all the realme if he had not béene consenting to the death of the duke of Glocester The same yeare deceassed the duchesse of Glocester thorough sorrow as was thought which she conceiued for the losse of hir sonne and heire the lord Humfrie who being sent for foorth of Ireland as before ye haue heard was taken with the pestilence and died by the waie But now to speake of the conspiracie which was contriued by the abbat of Westminster as chéefe instrument thereof Ye shall vnderstand that this abbat as it is reported vpon a time heard king Henrie saie when he was but earle of Derbie and yoong of yeares that princes had too little and religious men too much He therfore doubting now least if the king continued long in the estate he would remooue the great beame that then greeued his eies and pricked his conscience became an instrument to search out the minds of the nobilitie and to bring them to an assemblie and councell where they might consult and commen togither how to bring that to effect which they earnestlie wished and desired that was the destruction of king Henrie and the restoring of king Richard For there were diuerse lords that shewed themselues outwardlie to fauor king Henrie where they secretlie wished sought his confusion The abbat after he had felt the minds of sundrie of them called to his house on a day in the terme time all such lords other persons which he either knew or thought to be as affectioned to king Richard so enuious to the prosperitie of king Henrie whose names were Iohn Holland earle of Huntington late duke of Excester Thomas Holland earle of Kent late duke of Surrie Edward earle of Rutland late duke of Aumarle sonne to the duke of Yorke Iohn Montacute earle of Salisburie Hugh lord Spenser late earle of Glocester Iohn the bishop of Carleill sir Thomas Blunt and Maudelen a priest one of king Richards chappell a man as like him in stature and proportion in all lineaments of bodie as vnlike in birth dignitie and conditions The abbat highlie feasted these lords his speciall freends and when they had well dined they withdrew into a secret chamber where they sat downe in councell and after much talke conference had about the bringing of their purpose to passe concerning the destruction of king Henrie at length by the aduise of the earle of Huntington it was deuised that they should take vpon them a solemne iusts to be enterprised betweene him and 20 on his part the earle of Salisburie and 20 with him at Oxford to the which triumph K. Henrie should be desired when he should be most busilie marking the martiall pastime he suddenlie should be slaine and destroied and so by that means king Richard who as yet liued might be restored to libertie and haue his former estate dignitie It was further appointed who should assemble the people the number and persons which should accomplish and put in execution their deuised enterprise Hervpon was an indenture sextipartite made sealed with their seales and signed with their hands in the which each stood bound to other to do their whole indeuour for the accomplishing of their purposed exploit Moreouer they sware on the holie euangelists to be true and secret each to other euen to the houre and point of death When all things were thus appointed the earle of Huntington came to the king vnto Windsore earnestlie requiring him that he would vouchsafe to be at Oxenford on the daie appointed of their iustes both to behold the same and to be the discouerer and indifferent iudge if anie ambiguitie should rise of their couragious acts and dooings The king being thus instantlie required of his brother in law and nothing lesse imagining than that which was pretended gentlie granted to fulfill his request Which thing obteined all the lords of the conspiracie departed home to their houses as they noised it to set armorers on
time 1186 b 40 c. 1187 1188. 1189. The French men driuen into it 1188 b 10. A fire in it and augmented with shot of ordinance and windie wether 1190 a 50. Maipoles set vp therein on Maie daie b 10. Whie the describing of the siege thereof is so largelie set downe 1193 a 20. Peace concluded thereabouts a 40 c. Burned to the ground 963 a 20 Leofwins malicious mind against Liuifus note 12 b 30 Leolin prince of Wales summoned to come and doo his homage 278 a 10. And the Welsh rebels accurssed 281 a 20. His wife taken from him he beginneth to make wars maketh sure for peace 278 a 50 60. Restored to hir husband 279 b 10. He sueth for peace 278 b 10. Beginneth new warres 279 b 60. Inuadeth Edward the firsts fréends 281 b 10. Discomfited 205 a 30. Inuadeth the English borders 213 b 60. His courage 214 a 10. Spoileth the marches of England 217 a 20. Made cuckold and how he reuenged it 211 b 60. Wasteth and spoileth all the marches betwixt Wales and Shrewesburie 218 a 30. Deceaseth 224. Slaine his head presented to Edward the first 281 b 40 60 Leopald ¶ Sée duke of Austrich Lerning in the earle of Mellents sonnes note 44 a 60 Letter of king Iohn to his nobles of England touching his victories and taking of duke Arthur prisoner 165 â— 10. Of the proud bishop of Elie to the shiriffe of Kent 130 b 30. Of the pope to the cleargie of England for the celebrating of a holie daie 85 b 10. Of king Richard the first to the states of England for the deposing the bishop of Elie 132 a 30. Of the emperor to the states of England touching his deliuerance 140 b 20. Of Richard the first to the archbishop of Canturburie touching his deliuerance out of prison 140 a 50. To the duke of Austrich cléering Richard the first of the death of the marquesse of Montferrat 136 a 50. Of Henrie the fourth to pope Gregorie and the cardinals 535 a 40 c. Of William Northbourgh the kings confessor describing the kings voiage into France 373 b 50 c. Seditious of a préest 437 b 30. Of E. W concerning the earle of Essex Walter Deuereux 1266 a 60 b 10 c. Of cardinall Como to Parrie for resolution to kill quéen Elisabeth 1388 b 10. Of Creitchton to sir Francis Walsingham touching Parries intended murthering of the quéene 1388 a 10. Of Boner vnâ—o cardinall Poole concerning persecution 1164 a 10. Of the councell to Edmund Boner as touching quéene Marie conceiued with child 1123 b 60. Of the ladie Marie touching hir chalenge vnto the crowne 1084 b 50. With an answer of the lords 1085 a 40. Of the king to the lord Cheinie at his going into France note 1123. Right excellent of the duke of Summerset to the Scotish nobilitie touching the marriage betwéene Edward the sixt and the quéene of Scots 998 b 10 c. 999 1000 1001 a 10. Of defiance from the Scotish K. to Henrie the eight 820. Of the French king prisoner to his mother the regent of France 884 b 50 60. Of Gefferie the kings base sonne to Richard archbishop of Canturburie 104 b 10. Of Gardiner to Boner touching the celâ—brating of pope Iuâ—ies funerals 1128 a 60 b 10. Of yoong king Henrie touching the disappointment of archbishop Richards consecration 86 a 10. Of Henrie the second touching the pacification betweene him and Thomas Becket 78 a 20. Of the popes ¶ See Pope Letters of the duke of Summerset and the lord Russell 1057 a 60 b 20. Of Henrie the sixt to the duke of Yorke 638 a 60. Of the duke of Yorke to Henrie the sixt 637 b 60 638 a 10 c. Of the duke of Gâ—lderland to Richard the second note 475 b 60 c. 476 a 10 c. Concerning prince Edwards dooings and proceedings beyond sâ—a 384 a 10 c. Of Parrie to quéene Elisabeth lords of the councell after his voluntarie confession note 1387 a 20 b 10. Of submission and sute of one Francis Throckmorton traitor against quéene Eâ—isabeth and the realme 1373 a 60 b 60 1374. He is executed 1375 b 30. Missiue taken from the quéenes ambassadors seruants 1195 b 20. Seditious of a bishop sent into a forren realme note 17 a 10. Treasonable 428 a 60. Of protection from the French king to the king of England 102 a 60 Letters intercepted 329 b 10. Letters patents reuoked 526 b 50 Lewin a Welshman hanged note his treacherie 299 b 60 300 a 10 c Lewis the French king inclineth to peace with Henrie the third 201 b 10. Deceaseth 208 b 60 209 a 10. His sons intituled to the kingdome of England 201 b 20. Sendeth to his father for aid 200 b 60. An armie prepard in France to succour him 201 a 10 His faire 200 b 10. Mainteineth his title pretended to the crowne of England 191 a 50 ¶ Sée French king Lewis le grosse 34 b 60 Lewis ¶ Sée Physician Libell against cardinall Woolseie 895 a 30. Seditious against Henrie the seuenth and the libellors executed 778 a 60. Causing losse of life 746 b 10 Set on the duke of Northfolks gate forewarning him of trecherie against Richard the third and of his owne safetie 759 b 10. Against the quéene and realme are false 1363 a 40. Published in Italian against quéene Elisabeth and the same answered 1418 a 40. Printed against quéene Elisabeth 1370 b 60. Against the cleargie 558 b 20. ¶ Sée Bookes seditious Liberalitie of Richard the first woonderfull 126 b 30. Of the earle of Arundell noâ—e 454 b 50. Of Edward the first to his nobles 308 a 40. Of sir Thomas Sackuill to the French 1224 b 60 1225 a 10. Of William Rufus 27 a 20. Repented note 20 b 10. In a prince commended 16 b 10 Libertie preferred before a kingdome 726 b 60. Obteined by gentle language 673 a 60 b 10. Bought with monie 140 a 20 b 60. ¶ See Ransome Obteined by great words and proud brags 23 b 60 24 a 10. Desired aboue all things note 1046 a 30 60 Liberties ¶ Sée Lawes Londoners Priuileges and Southworke Licence to build castels 47 a 30 Of king Richard the first to gather riches 120 a 60. For the English iusts and turme note 145 b 60. Asked of Henrie the third of the commonaltie to passe ouer sea 262 a 30. To burie the bodies of the rebels 335 a 60. And that without it none should depart the realme 20 b 40. To depart the realme sought and obteined 14 b 10 Liâ— how dangerous to credit note 587 a 50 Life to saue what shifts noblemen can be content to make 460 b 30 Lightening ¶ Sée Thâ—nder Limerike a kingdome 101 b 10 Limoges besieged taken by force 406 a 10 40. Rendered to king Henrie the second 107 b 20 Lincolne besieged 56 b 10. Taken 272 a 10. Wooâ—e oâ— the French 192 b 60 Lincolne castell 6 a 40 Lincolne Iohn the author
person qualities I will referre you to that which sir Thomas More hath written of him in that historie which he wrote and left vnfinished of his sonne Edward the fift and of his brother king Richard the third which we shall God line 40 willing hereafter make you partaker of as we find the same recorded among his other workes word for word when first we haue according to our begun order rehearsed such writers of our nation as liued in his daies As first Nicholas Kenton borne in Suffolke a Carmelit frier in Gippeswich prouinciall of his order through England Henrie Parker a Carmelit frier of Doncaster preached against the pride of prelats line 50 and for such doctrine as he set foorth was imprisoned with his fellow Thomas Holden and a certeine blacke frier also for the like cause Parker was forced to recant thrée speciall articles as Bale noteth out of Leland Iohn Harding an esquier borne in the north parts wrote a chronicle in English verse and among other speciall points therein touched he gathered all the submissions and homages had and made by the Scotish kings euen from the daies of king Athelstan whereby it euidentlie may line 60 appeare how the Scotish kingdome euen in manner from the first establishing thereof here in Britaine hath beene apperteining vnto the kings of England and holden of them as their chéefe superior lords William Iue a doctor of diuinitie and prebendarie of saint Paules in London Thomas Wilton a diuine and deane of the said church of Paules in London Iulian Bemes a gentlewoman indued with excellent gifts both of bodie and mind wrote certeine treatises of hawking and hunting delighting greatlie hir selfe in those exercises and pastimes she wrote also a booke of the lawes of armes and knowledge apperteining to heralds Iohn Stamberie borne in the west parts of this realme a Carmelit frier and confessor to king Henrie the sixt he was also maister of Eaton colledge and after was made bishop of Bangor and remooued from thence to the sée of Hereford Iohn Slueleie an Augustine frier prouinciall of his order Iohn Fortescue a iudge and chancellor of England wrote diuerse treatises concerning the law and politike gouernement Rochus a Chaterhouse moonke borne in London of honest parents and studied in the vniuersitie of Paris he wrote diuerse epigrams Iohn Phreas borne also in London was fellow of Balioll colledge in Oxenford and after went into Italie where he heard Guarinus that excellent philosopher read in Ferrara he prooued an excellent physician and a skilfull lawier there was not in Italie whilest he remained there that passed him in eloquence knowledge of both the toongs Gréeke and Latine Walter Hunt a Carmelit frier a great diuine and for his excellencie in learning sent from the whole bodie of this realme vnto the generall councell holden first at Ferrara and after at Florence by pope Eugenius the fourth where he disputed among other with the Gréekes in defense of the order and ceremonies of the Latine church Thomas Wighenhall a moonke of the order called Premonstratensis in the abbie of Durham in Norffolke Iohn Gunthorpe went into Italie where he heard that eloquent learned man Guarinus read in Ferrara after his comming home into England he was deane of Welles and kéeper of the priuie seale Iohn Hambois an excellent musician and for his notable cunning therein made doctor of musicke William Caxton wrote a chronicle called Fructus temporum and an appendix vnto Treuisa beside diuerse other bookes and translations Iohn Miluerton a Carmelit frier of Bristow and prouinciall of his order through England Ireland and Scotland at length bicause he defended such of his order as preached against endowments of the church with temporall possessions he was brought into trouble committed to prison in castell S. Angelo in Rome where he continued thrée yeares and at length was deliuered thorough certeine of the cardinals that were appointed his iudges Dauid Morgan a Welsh man treasuror of the church of Landaffe wrote of the antiquities of Wales a description of the countrie Iohn Tiptoff a noble man borne a great traueller excellentlie learned and wrote diuerse treatises and finallie lost his head in the yeare 1471 in time of the ciuill warre betwixt the houses of Yorke and Lancaster Iohn Shirwood bishop of Durham Thomas Kent an excellent philosopher Robert Huggon borne in Norffolke in a towne called Hardingham wrote certeine vaine prophesies Iohn Maxfield a learned physician William Gréene a Carmelit frier Thomas Norton borne in Bristow an alcumist Iohn Meare a moonke of Norwich Richard Porland borne in Norffolke a Franciscane frier and a doctor of diuinitie Thomas Milling a moonke of Westminster a doctor of diuinitie and preferred to the bishoprike of Hereford Scogan a learned gentleman and student for a time in Oxford of a plesant wit and bent to merrie deuises in respect whereof he was called into the court where giuing himselfe to his naturall inclination of mirth pleasant pastime he plaied manie sporting parts although not in such vnciuill maner as hath beene of him reported Thus farre the prosperous reigne of Edward the fourth sonne and heire to Richard duke of Yorke The historie of king Edward the fift and king Richard the third vnfinished written by maister Thomas More then one of the vnder shiriffes of London about the yeare of our Lord 1513 according to a copie of his owne hand printed among his other workes KIng Edward the fourth of that name after that he had liued fiftie three yeeres year 1483 seuen moneths and six daies and thereof reigned two and twentie yeares one moneth eight daies died at Westminster the ninth daie of Aprill the yeare of our redemption a thousand foure hundred fourescore and thrée leauing much faire issue that is to wit Edward the prince a thirtéene line 10 yeares of age Richard duke of Yorke two yeares yoonger Elizabeth whose fortune and grace was after to be quéene wife vnto king Henrie the seuenth and mother vnto the eight Cicilie not so fortunate as faire Briget which representing the vertue of hir whose name she bare professed and obserued a religious life in Dertford an house of close nunnes Anne that was after honorablie married vnto Thomas then lord Howard and after earle of Surrie and Katharine which long time tossed in either fortune sometime in wealth oft in aduersitie at the line 20 last if this be the last for yet she liueth is by the benignitie of hir nephue king Henrie the eight in verie prosperous estate and worthie hir birth and vertue This noble prince deceassed at his palace of Westminster and with great funerall honor and heauines of his people from thence conueied was interred at Windsor A king of such gouernance behauior in time of peace for in warre each part must néeds be others enimie that there was neuer anie prince of line 30 this land atteining the crowne by battell so heartilie beloued with the
of Hales dedicated The charges of the building of the church of Hales Tournies and iusts in those daies were handled in more rough manner than is vsed in our tune The house of Coucie The king of Scots did homage to the K. of England Sir Robert Norice and sir Stephan Bausan An excéeding great wind The bishop of Rochest bull The Gascoignes make warre against the English subiects The earle of Leicester danteth his enimies Mal. Pal. in suo cap. A strange wonder of the new moone A great drought Manie diseases reigned A murren of cattell The cause of the death of cattell The bishop of Lincolne The Gascoigns meane to complaine of the earle of Leicester The earle disproueth the allegations of his accusers The bishop of Lincolns authoritie to institute vicars in churches impropriate The earle of Leicester sent eftsoones into Gascoigne Rusteine taken The kings eldest son Edward creates duke of Aquitaine Sir Arnold de Monteinie slaine The church of Elie dedicated A parlement The king demandeth the tenths of the spiritualtie The bishops refuse to yeild to the popes grant The king highlie offended with the bishops The king assaieth to get monie of the lords temporall The Londoners helpe at a pinch The death of sir Nicholas Samford The countesse of Winchester departeth this life Matth. Paris The deceasse of the countesse de Lisle de Wight Anno Reg. 37. The pope offereth the kingdome of Sicill vnto the earle of Cornewall The archb of Canturburie and the bishop of Winchester made fréends William de Ualence and Iohn de Warren The value of spirituall liuings in strangers hands The new moone appeared before hir time Running at the quintine The Londoners called Barons The earle of Leicester resigneth his gouernment of Gascoigne The Rioll S. Millâ—on townes in Gascoigne Knights to be made An ordinance against robbers The cause that mooued the Gascoignes to rebellion A parlement A tenth granted of the spiritualtie Escuage granted Magna charta Godlie counsell no doubt The king pâ—â—â—poseth to go himselfe into Gascoigne He taketh the sea He arriueth at Burdeaux Ambassadors sent into Spaine A marriage concluded betwixt the K. of Englands sonne the K. of Spaines daughter A dearth in the kings campe The Gascoigns begin to humble themselues The bishop of Chichester Richard Witz and Grosted b. of Lincolne depart this life The praise of Grosted Leo papa The L. Wil. Uescie departeth this life Great wet Great drout Anno Reg. 38. The ladie Katherin the kings daughter borne Winter thunder The quéenes liberalitie towards the K. A strang sight in the aire Redborne A death of sheepe The king demandeth a subsidie The king offended with them that refused to helpe him with monie Edward the kings sonne is sent to the K. of Castile He marrieth the ladie Elenor daughter to K. Alfonse Ran. Higd. Polydor. Gaston de Biâ—â—n◠〈◊〉 to take 〈◊〉 of Bâ—â—â—n A 〈◊〉 in the English aâ—â—â—e A mightie storme of haile Anno Reg. 39. The king returneth homwâ—rds thorough France The countesse of Cornewall The pope offereth the kingdome of Sicill vnto the king of England The K. maketh great shift for monie to send to the pope He sendeth to the pope a warant to take vp monie Matth. Paris The pope is liberall of an other mans pursse Manfred proclaimed king of Sicill A parlement The states refuâ—e to grant a subsidie The parlemeÌ„t adiourned Rob. de Ros Iohn Bailioll accused Reignold de Bath a physician An eclipse The earle of Glocester Iohn Mansell sent into Scotland Robert de Ros summoned to appeare A shift to get monie of the bishops deuised by the bish oâ— Hereford A parlement Richard earle of Cornewall standeth against his brother for the grant of a subsidie The liberties of London seized into the kings hands The shiriffes of London imprisoned The king demandeth monie of the Iewes The kings debt 3000000 marks The earle of Cornewall lendeth the king monie Hor. lib. 2. serm An elephant sent to the K. An ewer of pearle peraduenture an agat Strange wonders High tides A comet The decease of Walter archbishop of Yorke Elianor the wife of prince Edward coÌ„meth to the citie The liberties of the citie restored to the Londoners A legat from the pope named Ruscand a Gascoigne Tenths gathered for the pope The crosse preached against Manfred A councell called at London by the legat Matth. Paris The churchmen being pinched by their pursses fret and fume against the popes procéâ—dings in that behalfe The bishops would rather become martyrs than lose their monie Ruscand coÌ„plaineth to the king of the frowardnesse of the prelats The bishop oâ— London his saiengs Anno Reg. 40. Edmund the kings sonne inuested king of Sicill and Naples Chro. Dun. The councell proroged The K. lieth in wait for mens goods Matth. Paris The Lord Gray forsaketh the court Iewes accused executed for crucifieng a child at Lincolne named Hugh Eighteene Iews hanged The prolocutors answer to the popes legat The prelats appeale Marke the cause of martyrdome The deane of saint Paules sent to Rome on the behalfe of the prelats Mens deuotion towards the pope waxeth cold Antith de prâ—cl Chrisâ—i c. The b. of Salisburie departeth this life Suit of court when it was first receiued for a law Matth. Paris Magnus king of Man A proclamation for knighthood A sore tempest of wind and raine The king of Scots commeth into England Iohn Mansell trusted the two kings Orders deuised for the appearance of shâ—riffes The shiriffes fined The king of Scots 〈◊〉 into his countrie Anno Reg. 4â— Richard earle of Cornewâ—â—â— elected emperour The great treasure of Richard king of Almaine The Welshmen choose them a gouernour anâ— rebell agaiâ—â—â— the king The king wanteth monie Sir Geffrey de Langlies hard dealing cause of the Welshmens rebellion Matth. Paris The number of the Welshâ—enimies The Welshmen diuide their power into two parts Nic. Treuet Stephan Bauzan 〈◊〉 Baucan Englishmen ouerthrowne Northwales and Southwales ioined togither in league The king passeth himselfe in person into Wales The lord Mortimer the kings lieutenant in Wales Polydor. A legat from Rome Matth. Paris A new order of Friers A parlement Matth. Paris The lord Edmund the kings sonne A subsidie demanded The offer of the spiritualtie The archbish of Cullen and other ambassadors of Almaine Six archbish present at London in time of the parlement The elect K. of Almaine taketh his leaue of the king his brother He landeth at Dordreigh A synod Matth. Paris A decrée made by the pope Matth. Paris The moonks of Durham that were excoÌ„municated are now absolued Matth. Paris Fabian An informaâ—â—â—on against the lord maior of London The lord 〈◊〉 and shiriffes of London discharged The lord maior and shiriffes finâ— Matth. Paris The archbisâ—â—â— of Yorke accursed The constancie of the archbishop of Yorke The lord Audelie warreth vpon the Welshmen Ambassadors sent into France The marshes of Wales sore impouerished A great dearth Matth. Paris The gréedie
of Waterford as bishop This was dâ—one at Canturburie the 28. day of October Rafe bishop of Chichester and Gundulfe bishop of Rochester helping Anselme in the consecration as ministers vnto him in that behalfe The said Malchus was a monke and sometime vnder Walkhelme bishop of Winchester But to the purpose king William after his returne into England remembring what damage he had susteined two yéeres before at the hands of the Welshmen determined eftsoones to inuade their countrie and therefore doubling his power commeth into the marshes pitcheth his field and consulteth with his capteines what order he were best to vse in that his enterprise for the taming of his enimies line 10 The Welshmen hearing of the kings approch and that his armie was farre greater than the last which he brought into their countrie fell to their woonted policie and got them into the woods there to lie in wait trusting more to the aduantage of starting holes than to their owne force puissance When the king vnderstood their practise he set armed men in diuers places and builded towers and fortifications to defend him and his bicause he durst not assaie to enter into wild and wast grounds where line 20 he had béene hindred and damnified before that time hoping by this meanes in stopping vp the waies and passages of the countrie to bring the rebels to more subiection But when this policie was found by proofe to wearie the kings souldiors rather than to hurt the enimies which straieng vp and downe in the woods intrapped oftentimes the Normans and English in taking them at aduantage the king without bringing his purpose to any good effect departed home into England After this he sent Edgar Etheling line 30 with an armie into Scotland that he might place his coosine Edgar the sonne of king Malcolme in the gouernement of that kingdome and expell his vncle Duffnald who had vsurped the same King William being still inflamed with ire for that he could not haue his will determined with continuall warres to wearie the rebellious stomachs of the Welshmen and therefore was fixed first to set vpon them of Anglesey which being an I le enuironed with the sea was euer a refuge for them when line 40 they were sharpelie pursued This enterprise was chéeflie committed vnto Hugh earle of Shrewsburie and Arundell and to Hugh earle of Chester who at their first comming wan the I le and tempered the victorie with great crueltie and bloudshed putting out the eies of some cutting off the noses the armes or hands of others and some also they gelded Moreouer as authors write the said earle of Shrewesburie made a kenell of the church of Saint Fridancus laieng his hounds within it for the night line 50 time but in the morning he found them all raging wood How true so euer this report is I wote not but shortlie after they had executed in maner as before is said such strange kinds of crueltie in that I le it chanced that a nauie of rouers came thither from the Iles of Orkney whose chéefe admirall was named Magnus who incountring with the said earle of Shrewesburie shot him into the eie with an arrow which part of his body remained bare and vnarmed so that by by he fell downe dead out of his ship into line 60 the sea When Magnus beheld this he said scornefullie in the Danish toong Leit loupe that is Let him leape now the English neuerthelesse had the victorie at that time as some write and ouercame their enimies with great slaughter and bloudshed Not long after the earle of Chester going ouer to Wales with long and continuall warres tired and tamed the wild Welshmen who for a good while after durst not shew their faces The king being thus at quiet and without warre in all places began now to set his mind on building and first causes new walles â—o be made about the tower of London and also laid the foundation of Westminster hall which though it be a verie large and roomthie place yet after it was finished at his returne out of Normandie he came to view it and held his court therein with great pompe and honor He repented that he had made it no larger saieng it was too little by the halfe and therefore determined to haue made a new and that this other should haue serued but for a dining chamber A diligent searcher saith Matthew Paris might yet find out the foundation of the hall which he had purposed to build stretching from the Thames side vnto the common street But though those his buildings were great ornaments to the realme yet bicause he tooke vp monie by extortion of his subiects towards the charges of the same he was euill spoken of the report being spred that he should take them in hand but onelie vnder a colour to spoile his subiects in gathering a far greater summe than the expenses of them did amount vnto About the same time that king William beganne these buildings he went ouer into Normandie to vnderstand in what state that countrie stood About the same time also or rather two yéere before to wit 1097. néere to Abington at a towne called Finchamsteed in Barkshire a well or fountaine flowed with bloud in maner as before it vsed to flow with water and this continued for the space of three daies or as William Malm. saith fifteene daies togither After the king had dispatched his businesse in Normandie was returned into England as he was making prouision to ride foorth on hunting a messenger came suddenlie vnto him bringing word that the citie of Mans was besieged and like to be surprised The king was then at dinner meaning first to make an end thereof and after to take aduice in that matter but being reprooued by the messenger for that to the great danger of his subiects which were besieged he passed not to make delaies rather than to go and succour them with all spéed he taketh the mans blunt spéech in so good part that he called straightwaie for masons to breake downe the wall to the end he might passe through the next way and not be driuen to step so farre out of his path as to go foorth by the doores and so without any long aduisement taken in the cause he rode straightwaie to the sea sending his lords a commandement to follow who when they came in his presence counselled him to staie till his people were assembled Howbeit he would not giue eare to their aduice in that point but said Such as loue me I know well will follow me and so went a shipboord setting apart all doubts of perils and yet was the weather verie darke rough and cloudie insomuch that the maister of the ship was afraid and willed him to tarrie till the wind did settle in some quiet quarter but hee commanded to hoise vp sailes and to make all spéed that could be for
had taken from the bishop bicause he had shewed himselfe an vnstedfast man in the time of the ciuill warre and therfore to haue the kings fauour againe he gaue to him two line 20 thousand marks with condition that his castels might stand and that his sonne Henrie de Putsey aliàs Pudsey might enioy one of the kings manor places called Wighton After this the king went to Oxenford and there held a parlement at the which he created his sonne Iohn king of Ireland hauing a grant and confirmation thereto from pope Alexander About the same time it rained bloud in the I le of Wight by the space of two daies togither so that linen clothes that hoong line 30 on the hedges were coloured therewith which vnvsed woonder caused the people as the manner is to suspect some euill of the said Iohns gouernement Moreouer to this parlement holden at Oxenford all the chéefe rulers and gouernours of Southwales and Northwales repaired and became the king of Englands liege men swearing fealtie to him against all men Héerevpon he gaue vnto Rice ap Griffin prince of Southwales the land of Merionith line 40 and to Dauid ap Owen he gaue the lands of Ellesmare Also at the same time he gaue and confirmed vnto Hugh Lacie as before is said the land of Meth in Ireland with the appurtenances for the seruice of an hundred knights or men of armes to hold of him and of his sonne Iohn by a charter which he made thereof Also he diuided there the lands and possessions of Ireland with the seruices to his subiects as well of England as Ireland appointing some to hold by seruice to find fortie knights or men line 50 of armes and some thirtie and so foorth Unto two Irish lords he granted the kingdome of Corke for the seruice of fortie knights and to other three lords he gaue the kingdome of Limerike for the seruice of the like number of knights to be held of him his sonne Iohn reseruing to himselfe to his heires the citie of Limerike with one cantred To William Fitz Adelme his sewer he gaue the citie of Wesseford with the appurtenances and seruices and to Robert de Poer his marshall he gaue the citie line 60 of Waterford and to Hugh Lacie he committed the safe keeping of the citie of Diueline And these persons to whome such gifts and assignations were made receiued othes of fealtie to beare their allegiance vnto him and to his sonne for those lands and possessions in Ireland in maner and forme as was requisite The cardinall Uiuian hauing dispatched his businesse in Ireland came backe into England and by the kings safe conduct returned againe into Scotland where in a councell holden at Edenburgh he suspended the bishop of Whiterne bicause he did refuse to come to that councell but the bishop made no account of that suspension hauing a defense good inough by the bishop of Yorke whose suffragane he was After the king had dissolued and broken vp his parlement at Oxenford he came to Marleborrough and there granted vnto Philip de Breause all the kingdome of Limerike for the seruice of fortie knights for Hubert and William the brethren of Reignold earle of Cornewall and Iohn de la Pumeray their nephue refused the gift thereof bicause it was not as yet conquered For the king thereof surnamed Monoculus that is with one eie who had held that kingdome of the king of England being latelie slaine one of his kinsemen got possession of that kingdome and held it without acknowledging any subiection to king Henrie nor would obeie his officers bicause of the losses and damages which they did practise against the Irish people without occasion as they alleadged by reason whereof the king of Corke also rebelled against the king of England and his people and so that realme was full of trouble The same season quéene Margaret the wife of king Henrie the sonne was deliuered of a man child which liued not past thrée daies In that time there was also through all England a great multitude of Iewes and bicause they had no place appointed them where to burie those that died but onelie at London they were constreined to bring all their dead corpses thither from all parts of the realme To ease them therfore of that inconuenience they obteined of king Henrie a grant to haue a place assigned them in euerie quarter where they dwelled to burie their dead bodies The same yeare was the bodie of S. Amphibulus the martyr who was instructor to saint Albone found not farre from the towne of S. Albones and there in the monasterie of that towne buried with great and solemne ceremonies In the meane time king Henrie passed ouer into Normandie hearing that the old grudge betwixt him king Lewes began to be renewed vpon this occasion that whereas king Henrie had receiued the French kings daughter Alice promised in mariage vnto his sonne Richard to remaine in England with him till she were able to companie with hir husband king Henrie being of a dissolute life and giuen much to the pleasure of the bodie a vice which was graffed in the bone and therefore like to sticke fast in the flesh for as it is said Quod noua testa capit inueterata sapit at leastwise as the French king suspected began to fantasie the yoong ladie and by such wanton talke and companie-kéeping as he vsed with hir he was thought to haue brought hir to consent to his fleshlie lust which was the cause wherefore he would not suffer his sonne to marrie hir being not of ripe yeares nor viripotent or mariable Wherefore the French king imagining vpon consideration of the other kings former loose life what an inconuenience infamie might redound to him and his bethought himselfe that Turpe senex miles turpe senilis amor and therefore déemed iustlie that such a vile reproch wrought against him in his bloud was in no wise to be suffered but rather preuented resisted withstood Herevpon he complained to the pope who for redresse thereof sent one Peter a preest cardinall intituled of saint Grisogone as legat from him into France with commission to put Normandie and all the lands that belonged to king Henrie vnder inderdiction if he would not suffer the mariage to be solemnized without delaie betwixt his sonne Richard and Alice the French kings daughter The king aduertised hereof came to a communication with the French king at Yurie vpon the 21. of September and there offered to cause the mariage to be solemnized out of hand if the French king would giue in marriage with his daughter the citie of Burges with all the appurtenances as it was accorded and also vnto his sonne king Henrie the countrie of Ueulgesine that is to say all the land betwixt Gisors and Pussie as he had likewise couenanted But bicause the French king refused so to doo king Henrie would not suffer his sonne
reckoning neuer to returne againe in so much that some of his councellours told him plainelie that he did not well in making things awaie so freelie to the dishonoring of his maiestie and preiudice of his successour vnto whom he answered that line 50 in time of néed it was no euill policie for a man to helpe himselfe with his owne and further ioined hereto these words that if London at that time of néed would be bought he would surelie sell it if he might méet with a conuenient merchant that were able to giue him monie inough for it Another way he had also to gather riches and that was this He had a licence of pope Innocent the third to dispense with such as pleased him within his realme for their vowes made to go into the holie line 60 land although they had taken on them the crosse for that purpose namelie such as he should appoint to remaine behind him for the defense of his countrie and of these also he tooke abundantlie and diuerse other he compelled to fine namelie to the end that he might get their monie likewise that hereby he obteined no small summe toward the furniture of his iournie But both pope prince forgat in the meane while that Boni pastoris est tondere pecus non excoriare This yeare also in the moneth of Nouember as Matthew Paris saith Iohannes de Anagnia a cardinall and legat from the pope arriued here in England comming on land at Douer and bicause the king was as then in the north parts the same cardinall was prohibited on the behalfe of the kings mother queene Elianor to passe any further without the kings commandement And so he staied there thirtéene daies at the charges of the archbishop of Canturburie till the king came to those parties by whose wisedome a direction was taken for the quieting of the controuersie betwixt the archbishop and the moonkes of Canturburie for the chappell church of Hakinton now called S. Stephans In the same moneth of Nouember by the kings appointment Geffrey the elect of Yorke who was the kings brother with other barons and lords of Yorkeshire receiued William king of Scotland at the water of Tweed and from thence with all due reuerence and honour they brought him vnto Canturburie where the king had called a councell of the lords of his realme both spirituall and temporall in the which euerie of them tooke an oth to be true to the king and to continue in due obedience vnder him and his lawes which oth also the king of Scots receiued being there present and likewise king Richards brethren earle Iohn and Geffrey the archbishop of Yorke The king of Scots therefore hauing receiued this oth and thinking the time to serue his purpose for redéeming of those castels which were deliuered to king Henrie as gages for his ransome paid now vnto king Richard ten thousand markes and had restitution of the same that is of Berwike Roxburgh Sterling and Edenburgh But William Paruus saieth that Edenburgh was restored to him in the daies of king Henrie by reason of his wife which he tooke in the parties beyond the seas and herewith agréeth the Scotish chronicle King Richard also assigned to queene Elianor his mother the accustomed dower with manie lordships and honours beside as an augmentation thereof About which time died William de Mandeuille earle of Albemarle at Rouen and Hugh de Putsey the nephue of the bishop of Durham died at Acâ—et and was buried at Durham Also Formalis archbishop of Trier died at Northampton and was there buried in the church of S. Andrews In the meane time king Richard still desirous to furnish himselfe with monie deuised yet another shift and feigned that he had lost his seale wherefore he commanded a new to be made which being doone he caused it to be proclaimed and published in euerie countrie that those to whome he had granted any thing by his déed or charter meaning to inioy the same in suertie should not thinke it much to come and haue it confirmed by his new seale least afterward the other being lost their lawfull titles might be called into question Wherevpon manie that could not come to him whilest he was in England were glad to follow him and saile ouer into Normandie and there to fine at his pleasure for the new seale to the end that their writings might be confirmed thereby and made so much the more sure to them and their successours For the same businesse also Remigius the prior of S. Albons and manie other went ouer to their great costs charges and trauell after he was transported into France I find moreouer about the same time that the kings brother earle Iohn exhibited a sore complaint against the Romane legat and other bishops for that the archbishop of Canturburie after the appeale made vnto the apostolike seaâ— had put his lands vnder interdiction for his mariage made with the earle of Glocesters daughter which when the legat heard he foorthwith confirmed the appeale and released the earles lands of the aforesaid interdiction The same time also the tenth part of all the mooueable goods thorough the realme of England was leuied to the aid of the warres in the holie land And this collection passing vnder the name of an almes was extended vpon the goods as well of the spirituall men as temporall After all this K. Richard desirous to set order in the gouernment of his realme appointed Hugh bishop of Durham to haue the rule of the north parts as cheefe iustice from Humber northwards toward Scotland deliuering vnto him also the kéeping of line 10 Winchester castell the residue of the kingdome with the custodie of the towre he assigned to the gouernance of William Longchampe bishop of Elie whome he had made cheefe iustice of that part and chancellour of the realme a man of great diligence and knowledge in the administration of things but verie factious and desirous of rule honour and riches farre aboue all measure And with these two he ioined in commission Hugh Bardulfe William Marshall earle of Chepstow or rather Penbrooke Geffrey Fitz Peter William Brewer men of great line 20 honour wisedome and discretion On the fift day of December he departed from Canturburie and went to Douer there to take water and so on the eleuenth day of December he passed ouer vnto Calice where he found Philip earle of Flanders readie to receiue him who attended vpon him till he came into Normandie where the king held his Christmas at Burun and immediatlie he came to an enteruiew with the French king at Gue S. Remige year 1190 where they concluded peace togither to line 30 be kept betwixt them their countries on ech part the which was put in writing and confirmed with their oths and seales in the feast of saint Hilarie Furthermore about the purification of our ladie Elianor the quéene mother and the
to the whole estate of the spiritualtie which he would not suffer in any wise to be suppressed Wherefore he decréed with speed to deuise remedie against that large increasing mischéefe And though there was no speedier waie to redresse the same but by excommunication yet he would not vse it at the first towards so mightie a prince but gaue him libertie and time to consider his offense and trespasse so committed ¶ These things being brought to this issue the further narration of them shall staie for a time till I haue told you of a little trouble which about this time happened in London For vpon the seauenth of Iune the bailiffes of London Roger Winchester and Edmund Hardell were discharged and Serle the mercer and Hugh of saint Albons chosen in their roomes The two former bailiffes were discharged and committed to prison by the kings commandement vpon displeasure taken against them bicause they had resisted his purueier of wheat and woâ—lâ— not suffer him to conueie anie of that kind of graine out of the citie till the citie was stored The thirtie fiue rulers of the citie hauing fulfilled the kings commandement to them directed for the discharging of those bailiffes and imprisoning them did after take aduice togither and appointed a certeine number of themselues with other to ride vnto the king as then being at Langley to obteine pardon for the said bailiffes and so comming thither they made such excuse in the matter shewing further that at the same season there was such scarsitie of wheat in the citie that the common people were at point to haue made an insurrection about the same By which means and through freendship which they had in the court the king was so satisfied that he released them from prison and pardoned their offenses Also vpon the first of October Henrie the sonne of king Iohn begotten of his wife quéene Isabell was borne at Winchester who after succeeded his father in the kingdome But now againe to our purpose year 1208 The pope perceiuing that king Iohn continued still in his former mind which he called obstinacie sent ouer his bulles into England directed to William bishop of London to Eustace bishop of Elie and to Mauger bishop of Worcester commanding them that vnlesse king Iohn would suffer peaceablie the archbishop of Canturburie to occupie his see and his moonks their abbie they should put both him and his land vnder the sentence of interdiction denouncing him and his land plainelie accurssed And further he wrote expresse letters vnto all the suffragans of the church of Canturburie that they should by vertue of their obedience which they owght to the â—postolike sée receiue and obeie the archbishop Stephan for their father and metropolitane These bishops with other to them associate made instant request and suit to the king for the obseruing of the popes commandement and to eschew the censures line 10 of the church but that was in vaine for the king in a great rage sware that if either they or any other presumed to put his land vnder interdiction he would incontinentlie therevpon send all the prelats within the realme out of the same vnto the pope and seize all their goodâ— vnto his owne vse And further he added that what Romans soeuer he found within the precinct of any his dominions he would put out their eies and slit their noses and so send them packing to Rome that by such marks they might be line 20 knowne from all other nations of the world And herewith he commanded the bishops to packe out of his sight if they loued their owne health and preseruation Herevpon the said bishops departed and according to the popes commission to them sent vpon the euen of the Annuntiation of our Ladie denounced both the king and the realme of England accursed and furthermore caused the doores of churches to be closed vp and all other places where diuine seruice line 30 was accustomed to be vsed first at London and after in all other places where they came Then perceiuing that the K. ment not to stoope for all this which they had doone but rather sought to be reuenged vpon them they fled the realme and got them ouer vnto Stephan the archbishop of Canturburie to wit William bishop of London Eustace bishop of Elie Malger bishop of Worcester Ioceline bishop of Bath and Giles bishop of Hereford The king taking this matter in verie great displeasure seized vpon all their temporalties and conuerted line 40 the same to his vse and persecuted such other of the prelacie as he knew to fauour their dooings banishing them the realme and seizing their goods also into his hands Howbeit the most part of the prelats wiselie prouided for themselues in this point so that they would not depart out of their houses except they were compelled by force which when the kings officers perceiued they suffered them to remaine still in their abbies and other habitations bicause they line 50 had no commission to vse any violence in expelling them But their goods they did confiscat to the kings vse allowing them onelie meat and drinke and that verie barelie in respect of their former allowance ¶ It was a miserable time now for preests and churchmen which were spoiled on euerie hand without finding remedie against those that offered them wrong It is reported that in the borders of Wales the officers of a shiriffe brought before the king a fellow which had robbed and slaine a préest desiring to line 60 vnderstand his pleasure what should be doone with that offender vnto whome the king made this answer He hath slaine mine enimie and therefore set him at libertie The king also doubting least the pope should proceed further and absolue all his subiects of their allegiance which they owght to him and that his lords would happilie reuolt and forsake him in this his trouble tooke hostages of them whom he most suspected And as the messengers which were sent abroad for that purpose came vnto the lord William de Breuse requiring to haue his sonnes for the said purpose his wife like a quicke and hastie dame taking the word out of hir husbands mouth made this round answer that she would nâ—t â—â—liuer hir sonnes vnto King Iohn who alreadie ha◠〈◊〉 his 〈…〉 Arâ—â—ur 〈◊〉 he ought râ—â—her honourablie to haue loued and â—â—â—serued These words being signified vnto the 〈…〉 at against hir husband 〈…〉 â—hat â—he 〈◊〉 was glad togither with his â—ife and 〈…〉 of the realme into Ireland for safegard of their liues Whereas before this 〈◊〉 London bridge was made of timber and was ruled guided repaiâ—eâ— by a fraternitie or colledge of priests this yéere by great aid of the citizens of London and others 〈◊〉 that waie the same bridge was begâ—n to be 〈◊〉 of â—one And in the same yeare 〈◊〉 Marie Ouerâ—es in Southwarke was begun to be repaired The same yeare also the citizens
default so imbezelled that a small remanent became his in right when by open hostilitie and accurssed papasie the greater portion was pluckt out of his hands Here therefore we sée the issue of domesticall or homebred broiles the fruits of variance the gaine that riseth of dissention whereas no greater nor safer line 30 fortification can betide a land than when the inhabitants are all alike minded By concord manie an hard enterprise in common sense thought vnpossible is atchiued manie weake things become so defended that without manifold force they cannot be dissolued From diuision and mutinies doo issue as out of the Troiane horsse ruines of roialties and decaies of communalties The sinewes of a realme is supposed of some to be substance and wealth of other some policie and power of other some conuenient line 40 defenses both by water and land but a most excellent description of a well fortified countrie is that of Plautus set downe in most pithie words and graue sentences no lesse worthie to be written than read and considered The description is this Si incolae bene sunt morati pulchrè munitū regnū arbitror Perfidia peculatus ex vrbe auaritia si exulent Quarta inuidia quinta ambitio sexta obtrectatio Septimum periurium octaua indulgentia Nona iniuria decima quod pessimum aggressu scelus line 50 Haec nisi inde aberūt cētuplex murus reb secundis parū est And therefore no maruell though both courtiers and commoners fell from king Iohn their naturall prince and tooke part with the enimie not onelie to the disgrace of their souereigne but euen to his ouerthrow and the depopulation of the whole land sith these maine bulworks and rampiers were wanting and the contrarie in most ranke sort and detestable manner extended their virulent forces But we will surceasse to aggranate this matter line 60 sith the same is sufficientlie vrged in the verie course of the historie concerning his acts and déeds continued to the verie day of his death and the verie time of his buriall whereof I saie thus much that whether it was his will to be interred as is aforesaid or whether his corpse being at the disposing of the suruiuers to elect the place as a conuenient storehouse for a princes bones I leaue it as doubtfull and therfore vndetermined esteeming the lesse to labour therein bicause the truth can hardlie by certeintie be winnowed out but by coniecturall supposals aimed and shot at Notwithstanding in my poore iudgement it is verie likelie first in respect of the time which was superstitious and popish secondlie by reason of the custome of funerall rites then commonlie vsed that he was buried in the said place for order sake his bodie if I may presume so farre by warrant of mine author wrapped in a moonks cowle and so laid in his graue or toome For the manner was at that time in such sort to burie their Nobles and great men who were induced by the imaginations of moonks and fond fansies of fréers to beleeue that the said cowle was an amulet or defensitiue to their soules from hell and hellish hags how or in what soeuer sort they died either in sorrow and repentance for sinne or in blasphemie outrage impatiencie or desperation This forme of funerals was frequented in Wales hauing béene first brewed and broched in England from whence if we may giue credit to our late Chronographers as from a poisoned spring it spred it selfe into Wales For the first abbeie or frierie that is read to haue béene erected there since the dissolution of the noble house of Bangor which sauoured not of Romish dregs was the Twy Gwyn which was builded in the yeare 1146. Afterwards these vermine swarmed like bées or rather crawled like lice ouer all the land and drew in with them their lowsie religion tempered with I wot not how manie millians of abhominations hauing vtterlie forgotten the lesson which Ambrosius Telesinus had taught them who writ in the yeare 540 when the right christian faith which Ioseph of Arimathia taught the I le of Aualon reigned in this land before the proud and bloodthirstie moonke Augustine infected it with the poison of Romish errors in a certeine ode a part whereof are these few verses insuing Gwae'r offeiriad byd Nys angreifftia gwyd Ac ny phregetha Gwae ny cheidw ey gail Ac efyn vigail Ac nys areilia Gwae ny theidw ey dheuaid Rhae bleidhie Rhiefeniaid Ai ffon grewppa Wo be to that preest yborne That will not cleanelie weed his corne And preach his charge among Wo be to that shepheard I saie That will not watch his fold alwaie As to his office dooth belong Wo be to him that dooth not keepe From rauening Romish wolues his sheepe With staffe and weapon strong This as not impertinent to the purpose I haue recorded partlie to shew the palpable blindnes of that age wherein king Iohn liued as also the religion which they reposed in a rotten rag estéeming it as a Scala coeli or ladder to life but speciallie inferred to this end that we may fetch some light from this cléere candle though the same seeme to be duskish dim whereby we may be lead to conceiue in reason and common sense that the interrement of the king was according to the custome then in vse and request and therefore by all likelihoods he was buried as the péeres and states of the land were woont to be in those daies after the maner aboue mentioned But to let this passe as a cold discourse of a coffen of bones couered with clods of claie you shall vnderstand that he left behind him posteritie of both sexes For he had issue by his wife queene Isabell two sonnes Henrie who succéeded him in the kingdome and Richard thrée daughters Ioane married to Alexander king of Scotland Isabell coupled in matrimonie with the emperour Frederike the second and Elianor whome William earle of Glocester had to wife He had also another daughter as some haue left in writing called Elianor He was comelie of stature but of looke and countenance displeasant and angrie somewhat cruell of nature as by the writers of his time he is noted and not so hardie as doubtfull in time of perill and danger But this séemeth to be an enuious report vttered by those that were giuen to speake no good of him whome they inwardlie hated Howbeit some giue line 10 this witnesse of him as the author of the booke of Bernewell abbeie and other that he was a great and mightie prince but yet not verie fortunate much like to Marius the noble Romane tasting of fortune both waies bountifull and liberall vnto strangers but of his owne people for their dailie treasons practised towards him a great oppressour so that he trusted more to forreners than to them and therfore in the end he was of them vtterlie forsaken ¶ Uerelie whosoeuer shall consider the course of the line 20
destroied them all but in the end the Englishmen were distressed line 50 through the valiancie of Dauid one of the sonnes of the great Leolin and other capteines of the Welsh nation Neuerthelesse Matthew Westminster saith brieflie that the English men were treasonablie slaine so that it séemeth that Matthew Paris speaketh rather of an affection and good will which he bare to the Welsh procéedings in those daies than otherwise For who so marketh the course of his historie shall line 60 perceiue that he had no good liking of the state in those daies neither concerning the ecclesiasticall nor temporall policie in somuch that he sticketh not to commend the Welshmen greatlie for their holding togither against the oppression as he meaneth it of the English gouernement and no doubt there was cause that mooued him to such misliking namelie the often paiments and collections of monie by the popes agents and other such misorders as dailie were permitted or rather mainteined to the impouerishing of both estates spirituall and temporall Godfrey de Kinton was consecrated archbishop of Canturburie at Rome about the feast of Christmasse last past and so returned from thence home to his cure There was an ordinance made about this time for punishment to be had of the extortion of shiriffes so that aswell the receiuer as the giuer of bribes was punishable Which law if it were now executed vpon all officers occupiers whatsoeuer there would not be so much wealth and substance so great riches and treasure raked vp togither in the possession of some few men as the old sage saieng importeth Quisquis ditatur rapidos miluos imitatur The bishops of Worcester and Lincolne with the earles of Norfolke and Leicester were sent ouer in ambassage vnto a councell holden at Cambrey for a league and peace to be concluded betwixt the kingdoms of England and France and also the empire but bicause the French king looked to haue the king of England there when he heard that the same king came not he also staied at home and so no conclusion followed at that assemblie Ione countesse of Penbroke the wife of William de Ualence the kings halfe brother demanded hir right of dower in such lands as belonged to hir by title of inheritance At length she had to the value of fiue hundred marks assigned hir of the same lands notwithstanding hir heritage amounted to the sum of a thousand marks and aboue of yearelie reuenues but for that she should not aid hir husband with part thereof the one halfe was thought sufficient for hir maintenance About Aduent next insuing she went ouer vnto hir husband either for the desire she had to inioy his personall presence or for that she thought hirselfe not well dealt with to be abridged of those reuenues which by right of inheritance were hir owne In the first night of December there chanced a maruellous sore tempest of lightning and thunder with mightie winds and raine as a token and signe of the troubles that after followed the more noted for that thunder in the winter season is not commonlie heard of Guy de Rochford a Poictouin to whom about two yeares before the king had giuen the castell of Rochester was now banished the realme and depriued of all that he held in this land About this season there rose great variance amongst the scholers of Oxford being of sundrie countries as Scotishmen Welshmen Northern men and Southern men who fell so farre at square that they raised baners one against an other and fought togither in somuch that diuerse were slaine and manie hurt on both parties ¶ The Welshmen this yeare notwithstanding their good successe had in these late wars considered with themselues that if the barons of England did once ioine in one knot of fréendship they would with maine force easilie subdue them wherefore to preuent that which might chance vnto them by stubborne resistance they made suit to be receiued into the kings peace offering to giue vnto him the summe of foure thousand markes and to his sonne the lord Edward thrée hundred marks and to the queene two hundred marks Yet the king would not accept those offers and so the matter depended in doubtfull balance a certeine time The Welshmen in the meane season attempted not any exploit but rather sate still in hope to come at length to some reasonable agreement ¶ The moonks of Winchester meaning to prouide themselues of a bishop now that Athelmare aliàs Odomare the kings halfe brother was banished the realme elected one Henrie de Wingham the kings chancellor in hope that the K. would be contented with his election and so he was but yet conditionallie that if the pope would allow his said halfe brother for bishop then should the other giue place About the feast of S. Hilarie when knowledge was giuen that king Richard of Almaine meant to returne into England year 1259 there were sent ouer vnto him the bishop of Worcester the abbat of saint Edmundsburie Peter de Sauoy and Iohn Mansell as ambassadours from the baronage and communaltie of the realme to require of him an oth to stand vnto and obeie the ordinances of the late parlement holden at Oxenford When the said ambassadors came before his presence and declared to him the effect of their message he beheld them with a sterne looke and frowning countenance saieng and binding it with an oth that he would neither be sworne line 10 nor kéepe any such ordinances as had beene made without his consent neither would he make them of counsell how long his purpose was to staie within the realme which the ambassadours required also to vnderstand Herevnto he further added that he had no péere in England for he was the sonne of the deceased king and brother of the king that now reigned and also earle of Cornewall and therefore if the barons of England ment to reforme the state of the kingdome their duetie had beene first to haue sent line 20 for him and not to haue proceeded so presumptuouslie in such a weightie cause without his presence or consent When one of the ambassadours was about to haue made answer somewhat roundlie and also nippinglie vnto this spéech vttered by the king of Almaine he was staied by one of his associats And so the ambassadours vnderstanding his mind returned with all conuenient speed The king of Almaine had assembled a great host of men on the further side the sea meaning with all line 30 expedition to haue passed hither into England but when he had aduertisement giuen that there was a power raised in England and bestowed both by sea and land to resist him he changed his purpose by aduise of his freends so that he consented to receiue such manner of oth as the barons required and herewith taking the sea he arriued at Douer on saint Iulians daie with his owne houshold-seruants bringing with him no traine of strangers
that diuerse of those mariners which dealt so wickedlie against the Iewes were hanged for their wicked practise and so receiued a iust reward of their fraudulent and mischéeuous dealing But now to the purpose In the foresaid parlement the king demanded an aid of monie of the spiritualtie for that as he pretended he meant to make a iournie into the holie land to succour the christians there whervpon they granted to him the eleuenth part of all their mooueables He receiued the monie aforehand but letted by other businesse at home he went not foorth vpon that iournie In the ninetéenth yeare of king Edward quéene Elianor king Edwards wife died vpon saint Andrews eeuen at Herdebie or Herdelie as some haue neere to Lincolne the king being as then on his waie towards the borders of Scotland but hauing now lost the iewell which he most estéemed he returned towards London to accompanie the corps vnto Westminster where it was buried in S. Edwards chapell at the féet of king Henrie the third She was a godlie and modest princesse full of pitie and one that shewed much fauour to the English nation readie to releeue euerie mans greefe that susteined wrong and to make them fréends that were at discord so farre as in hir laie In euerie towne and place where the corps rested by the waie the king caused a crosse of cunning workmanship to be erected in remembrance of hir and in the same was a picture of hir ingrauen Two of the like crosses were set vp at London one at Charing and the other in Westcheape Morouer he gaue in almes euerie wednesday wheresoeuer he went pence a péece to all such poore folkes as came to demand the same About the same time bicause the king should be the more willing to go into the holie land as he had promised to doo hauing monie to furnish him foorth year 1291 the pope granted vnto him the tenth of the church of England Scotland and Ireland according to the true value of all the reuenues belonging vnto the same for six yeares He wrote to the bishops of Lincolne and Winchester that the same tenth should be laid vp in monasteries and abbeies till the king was entred into the sea called Mare Maggiore forwards on his iournie eastwards and then to be paid to his vse But the king afterwards caused the collectors to make paiment to him of the same tenth gathered for three yeares and laid vp in monasteries although he set not one foot forward in that iournie as letted through other businesse Also by reason of the controuersie which depended as then betwixt diuerse persons as competitors of the crowne of Scotland he went into the north parts and kept his easter at Newcastell and shortlie after called a parlement at Northampton where by the aduise of the prelats and other of his councell learned in both the lawes vpon knowledge had by search of records and chronicles of ancient time he caused all the prelats and barons of Scotland to be called afore him and there in the parish-church of Norham he declared vnto them his right to the superioritie of the kingdome of Scotland and requiring of them that they would recognise the same protesting that he would defend the right of his crowne to the shedding of his owne bloud that a true certificat and information might come to light of his title and rightfull claime vnto the direct and supreme dominion ouer the realme of Scotland He had caused verelie all the histories chronicles and monuments that were to be found within England Scotland and Wales to be sought vp and perused line 10 that it might be knowen what right he had in this behalfe Wherevpon it was found by the chronicles of Marianus the Scot William of Malmesburie Roger Houeden Henrie Huntington Rafe de Diceto and others that in the yeare of our Lord 910 K. Edward surnamed Senior or the elder subdued to him the kings of Scots and Welshmen so that in the yeare 921 the same people chose the said Edward to be their king and patrone And likewise in the yeare 926 Athelstan king of England vanquished line 20 Constantine king of Scotland and permitted him yet to reigne vnder him Moreouer Edred the brother of Athelstan and king of England ouercame the Scots and Northumbers the which submitted themselues to him and sware him fealtie Also Edgar king of England vanquished Kineth the son of Alpine king of Scotland who sware fealtie to him Likewise Cnute king of England and Denmarke in the 16 yeare of his reigne ouercame Malcolme king of Scots so became king of foure kingdoms line 30 England Scotland Denmarke and Norwaie Furthermore that blessed king S. Edward gaue the kingdome of Scotland vnto Malcolme the sonne of the king of Cumberland to hold the same of him Againe William Bastard the Norman conqueror in the sixt yeare of his reigne vanquished Malcolme king of Scotland and receiued of him an oth of fealtie Also Will. Rufus did the like vnto Malcolme king of Scots and two of his sonnes that successiuelie reigned ouer that realme Also Alexander succeeded line 40 his brother Edgar in the kingdome of Scotland by consent of K. Henrie the first Also Dauid king of Scotland did homage to K. Stephan William K. of Scots did homage to Henrie the son of K. Henrie the second when in his fathers life time he was crowned and againe to Henrie the father in the 20 yeare of his reigne as by an agreement made betwixt them two it dooth appeare Also Roger Houeden saith that William king of Scotland came to his souereigne lord king Henrie into Normandie and likewise to king Richard and moreouer to king line 50 Iohn at Lincolne dooing to them his homage Also in the chronicles of S. Albons it is found that Alexander king of Scotland married at Yorke Margaret the daughter of king Henrie the third in the 35 yeare of his reigne and did to him homage And further when king Edward himselfe was crowned at Westminster in the yeare of our Lord 1274 being the second of his reigne the last deceassed K. of Scotland Alexander the third of that name line 60 did homage vnto him at Westminster the morrow after the coronation All which homages and fealties thus done by sundrie kings of Scotland vnto sundrie kings of England were directlie and most manifestlie prooued to be doone for the realme of Scotland and not onelie for the lands which they held of the kings of England within England as the Scotish writers would séeme to colour the matter But things being then fresh in memorie no such cauillation might be auerred And so herevpon king Edwards title being substantiallie prooued he was recognised superiour lord of Scotland of all them that pretended title at that time to that kingdome by writings thereof made and confirmed vnder their seales the which being written in French conteined matter as here followeth The copie of the charter
line 20 with their goods but also with their persons in great dangers and ieopardies whilest the spiritualtie sat at home and holp the king nothing at all Thomas Arundell archbishop of Canturburie stoutlie answered herevnto that the cleargie had alwaie giuen to the king as much as the laitie had doone considering they had oftener giuen their tenths to him than the laitie their fiftéens also that more of their tenants went forth into the kings warres than the tenants of them of the laie fée beside this they praied line 30 day and night for the kings good successe against his enimies When the speaker named sir Iohn Cheinie in replieng by plaine speach séemed little to esteeme such praiers of the church the archbishop was set in a great chafe and with sharpe words declaring what he thought must needs follow both of the king and kingdome when praiers and suffrages of churchmen came to be so little set by he grew to such impatiencie that he flatlie told the speaker that although he line 40 séemed little to estéeme of the religion of the cleargie he would not haue him to thinke that he should take awaie the possessions of the church without finding such as would seeke to withstand him for if said he the archbishop of Canturburie maie liue thou shalt haue hot taking awaie any manner of thing that is his After this when the archbishop perceiued that the king winked at these matters he rose from his place and comming before the king knéeled downe and besought him to consider how through the fauour line 50 and grace of the almightie God he had atteined to the kingdome and therefore he ought to remember his first purpose and intent which was to saue vnto euerie man his right so far as in him saie He willed him likewise to haue in consideration the oth which he willinglie had receiued that is that he should aduance the honor of the church and the ministers thereof cherish and mainteine Also to haue in mind the danger and dishonour that redounded to such as brake their othes so that he besought him to line 60 permit and suffer the church to inioy the priuileges and liberties which in time of his predecessors it had inioied requesting him to stand in awe of that king by whom all kings did reigne and to feare the censures and condemnation that those incurred which tooke and bereft from the church any good or right belonging to it who most certeinelie said he are accursed When the archbishop had vsed this or the like speach the king commanded him to go to his seat againe assuring him that his intent and purpose was to leaue the church in as good state or better than he found it The archbishop herewith turning to the knights and burgesses of the parlement said vnto them You and such other as you be haue giuen counsell vnto the king and his predecessors to confiscate and take into their hands the goods and possessions of the celles which the Frenchmen and Normans possessed here in England and affirmed that by the same he and they should heape vp great riches and indéed those goods and possessions as is to be prooued were worth manie thousands of gold and yet it is most true that the king at this day is not halfe one marke of siluer the richer thereby for you haue begged and gotten them out of his hands and haue appropriated the same vnto your selues so that we may coniecture verie well that you request to haue our temporalties not to aduance the kings profit but to satisfie your owne greedie couetousnesse for vndoubtedlie if the king as God forbid he should did accomplish your wicked purposes and minds he should not be one farthing the richer the yeare next after and trulie sooner will I suffer this head of mine to be cut off from my shoulders than that the church should lose the least right that apperteineth to it The knights said little but yet they procéeded in their sute to haue their purpose forward which the archbishop perceiuing as an other Argus hauing his eie on each side to marke what was doone laboured so to disappoint their dooings that he wan the fauour of certeine of the temporall lords to assist him who constantlie auouched by their consents that the church should neuer be spoiled of the temporalties and herein they acquited the archbishop and prelats one pleasure for an other which they had doone for them before when the commons in this parlement required that all such lands and reuenues as sometime belonged to the crowne and had béene giuen awaie either by the king or by his predecessors king Edward and king Richard should be againe restored to the kings vse vnto which request the archbishop and other the prelats would in no wise consent thus by the stout diligence of the archbishop Arundeâ—â— that petition of the commons touching the spirituall temporalties came to none effect Yea the knights themselues who verie instantlie had stood in this error acknowledging their maliciousnes guiltinesse herein besought the archbishop of Canturburie to pardon them and gaue thanks that by his couragiousnesse the church in this so troublesome a time reuiued calling to mind the saieng of an ethnike by way of application to the said archbishops hie praise sub principe duro Temporibúsque malis aâ—sus es esse bonus Two fiftéenes were granted by the commons with condition that the same should be paid vnto the hands of the lord Furniuall who should sée that monie imploied for maintenance of the kings warres Moreouer at the importunate sute of the commons the letters patents that had béene made to diuerse persons of annuities to them granted by king Edward and king Richard were called in and made void not without some note of dishonor to the king The cleargie granted to the king a tenth and a halfe notwithstanding that the halfe of one tenth latelie granted was yet behind and appointed to be paid vpon saint Martins daie now next comming About this season great losse happened in Kent by breaking in of waters that ouerflowed the sea banks as well in the archbishop of Canturburies grounds as other mens whereby much castell was drowned Neither did England alone bewaile hir losses by such breakings in of the sea but also Zeland Flanders Holland tasted of the like damage William Wickham bishop of Winchester being a man of great age deceassed this yeare leauing behind him a perpetuall memorie of his name for the notable monuments which he erected in building two colleges one at Winchester for grammarians and the other at Oxenford called the new colledge purchasing lands and reuenues for the maintenance of students there to the great commoditie of the commonwealth for from thence as out of a good nursserie haue come foorth diuerse men in all ages excellentlie learned in all sciences ¶ And héere I haue not thought it impertinent to speake somewhat
himselfe as king had it shewed vnto him that he should not reigne but his vncle shuld haue the crowne At which word the prince sore abashed line 30 began to sigh and said Alas I would my vncle would let me haue my life yet though I leese my kingdome Then he that told him the tale vsed him with good words and put him in the best comfort he could But foorthwith was the prince and his brother both shut vp all other remooued from them onelie one called Blacke Will or William Slaughter excepted set to serue them and sée them sure After which time line 40 the prince neuer tied his points nor ought rought of himselfe but with that yoong babe his brother lingered with thought and heauinesse vntill this traitorous death deliuered them of that wretchednesse For sir Iames Tirrell deuised that they should be murthered in their beds To the execution whereof he appointed Miles Forrest one of the foure that kept them a fellow fleshed in murther before time To him he ioined one Iohn Dighton his owne horssekéeper a big broad square and strong knaue line 50 Then all the other being remooued from them this Miles Forrest and Iohn Dighton about midnight the séelie children lieng in their beds came into the chamber suddenlie lapping them vp among the clothes so to bewrapped them and intangled them keeping downe by force the fether-bed and pillowes hard vnto their mouths that within a while smoothered and stifled their breath failing they gaue vp to God their innocent soules into the ioies of heauen leauing to the tormentors their bodies dead in the line 60 bed Which after that the wretches perceiued first by the strugling with the paines of death and after long lieng still to be thoroughlie dead they laid their bodies naked out vpon the bed and fetched sir Iames to sée them which vpon the sight of them caused those murtherers to burie them at the staire foot meetlie déepe in the ground vnder a great heape of stones Then rode sir Iames in great hast to king Richard and shewed him all the maner of the murther who gaue him great thanks and as some saie there made him knight But he allowed not as I haue heard the burieng in so vile a corner saieng that he would haue them buried in a better place bicause they were a kings sonnes Lo the honourable coucourage of a king Whervpon they saie that a priest of sir Robert Brakenberies tooke vp the bodies againe and secretlie interred them in such place as by the occasion of his death which onelie knew it could neuer since come to light Uerie truth is it and well knowne that at such time as sir Iames Tirrell was in the Tower for treason committed against the most famous prince king Henrie the seauenth both Dighton and he were examined and confessed the murther in maner aboue written but whither the bodies were remooued they could nothing tell And thus as I haue learned of them that much knew and little cause had to lie were these two noble princes these innocent tender children borne of most roiall bloud brought vp in great wealth likelie long to liue reigne and rule in the realme by traitorous tyrannie taken depriued of their estate shortlie shut vp in prison and priuilie slaine and murthered their bodies cast God wot where by the cruell ambition of their vnnaturall vncle his despiteous tormentors Which things on euerie part well pondered God neuer gaue this world a more notable example neither in what vnsuertie standeth this worldlie weale or what mischeefe worketh the proud enterprise of an high heart or finallie what wretched end insueth such despiteous crueltie For first to begin with the ministers Miles Forrest at S. Martins péecemeale rotted awaie Dighton in déed yet walketh on aliue in good possibilitie to be hanged yer he die But sir Iames Tirrell died at the Tower hill beheaded for treason King Richard himselfe as ye shall hereafter heare slaine in the field hacked and hewed of his enimies hands haried on horsse-backe dead his haire in despite torne and tugged like a curre dog and the mischéefe that he tooke within lesse than three yeares of the mischeefe that he did and yet all in the meane time spent in much paine trouble outward much feare anguish and sorow within For I haue heard by credible report of such as were secret with his chamberleine that after this abhominable déed doone he neuer had a quiet mind Than the which there can be no greater torment For a giltie conscience inwardlie accusing and bearing witnesse against an offendor is such a plague and punishment as hell it selfe with all the féends therein can not affoord one of greater horror affliction the poet implieng no lesse in this tristichon Poena autem vehemens ac multo saeuior illis Quas Caeditius grauis inuenit Radamanthus Nocte diéque suum gestare in pectore testem He neuer thought himselfe sure Where he went abroad his eies whirled about his bodie priuilie fensed his hand euer vpon his dagger his countenance and maner like one alwaies readie to strike againe he tooke ill rest a nights laie long waking and musing sore wearied with care and watch rather slumbered than slept troubled with fearefull dreames suddenlie sometime start vp lept out of his bed and ran about the chamber so was his restlesse heart continuallie tossed and tumbled with the tedious impression and stormie remembrance of his abhominable déed Now had he outward no long time in rest For herevpon soone after began the conspiracie or rather good confederation betweene the duke of Buckingham and manie other gentlemen against him The occasion where vpon the king and the duke fell out is of diuerse folke in diuerse wise pretended This duke as I haue for certeine béene informed as soone as the duke of Glocester vpon the death of king Edward came to Yorke there had solemne funerall seruice for king Edward sent thither in the most secret wise he could one Persall his trustie seruant who came to Iohn Ward a chamberer of like secret trust with the duke of Glocester desiring that in the most close and couert maner he might be admitted to the presence and spéech of his maister And the duke of Glocester aduertised of his desire caused him in the dead of the night after all other folke auoided to be brought vnto him in his secret chamber where Persall after his maisters recommendations shewed him that he had secret sent him to shew him that in this new world he would take such part as he would wait vpon him with a thousand good fellowes if need were line 10 The messenger sent backe with thanks some secret instruction of the protectors mind yet met him againe with further message from the duke his master within few daies after at Notingham whither the protector from Yorke with manie gentlemen of the north countrie to the
offendors person the kings fauor dispensed with the rigor of iudgement so that he was beheaded onelie and his bodie not dismembred ¶ This duke had begun a great and sumptuous building at his manor of Thornburie but left the same vnfinished He made a faire parke hard by the same building for the which he tooke in much and fruitfull ground Also another parke at Eastwood one mile off he inlarged at two times to the compasse of six miles for the which déed and such like he had manie a cursse of the poore tenants At the time of his death no doubt his conscience giuing in greater euidence than 10000 witnesses told him whether he was justlie condemned or no for a mans dieng day is as a bill of information putting him in mind of his life well or ill spent as one saith Pectora terribili cùm mors ferit horrida telo Quomodo vita tibi sit priùs acta scies A conuenient collection concerning the high constables of England which office ceassed and tooke end at the duke of Buckingham aboue mentioned THe death of this duke of Buckingham being the last constable of England dooth present apt place to me wherein to insert the names of all such honorable persons as haue béene inuested with that title of the constableship of England an office of great account such as sometime was the chéefest place of a temporall subiect in the relme the high steward excepted whose power did extend to restreine some actions of the kings Wherefore being now no such office for ther◠was neuer anie aduanced therevnto since the beheading of this duke I thinke it not vuméet to make some memorie of those persons possessing so high a place least both they and their office might hereafter grow in vtter obliuion these therefore they were line 10 Alfgarus Stallere constable to Edward the Confessor of whome thus writeth the historie of Elie in the second booke written by Richard of Elie a moonke of that house in the time of Henrie the second whose words although they be somewhat long I shall not gréeue to set downe in this sort De famosa villa Estre alio nomine Plassie vocata dicendum est quà m miserè ab Elie est destracta Alfgarus quidem Stallere quod Latinè dux dicitur eam inuasit vsus estea Abbas verò Wolfricus fratres cùm sedulò frustra requirerent Edwardum Confessorem adeunt cui rex mandauit vt restitueret line 20 sed ille regijs iussis nequaquam obtemperanit Fratres autem cùm nec prece nec precio eius animum flectere potuissent anathematizant eum nec sententiam super eum vllo dic praetermittebant Quod ille diutiùs paruipendens licèt magnus potens in regno esset vti regis constabularius ab ecclesia eliminatus fidelium consortio ad correptionem vix iam cunctis detestabilis effectus compulsus peruenire tandem plurimùm obiurgatus correptus à rege reuersus est in se prece tandem nititur obtinere quod iniqua manu cunctatus non est line 30 Illi verò hoc cognoscentes illi annunt demiserúntque ei quamuis ad suum incommodum ita vt iureiurando postipsius vitam ab omni suorum inquietudine libera ad ecclesiam possessio rediret Quod quidem factum est scripto Anglici sermonis designatum Testes rex Edwardus regina c. Which man after the death of king Edward the Confessor and Harold the vsurper was when the Normans entered England as saith the said historie In ergastulo plurimis alijs ferro astrictus vsque ad mortem line 40 Walter constable of England in the time of William the Conquerour and of William Rufus succeeded Alfgarus Here before I saie anie more I thinke it not amisse to set downe somewhat touching William Fitz Osberne or Osbert earle of Hereford whome manie will haue to be constable in the time of the Conquerour which truelie I can not as yet be led to beleeue For although that this William was the onelie man who both persuaded incouraged and procured aid of others to assist William Conquerour for the obteining of England and that line 50 this man was as we commonlie saie the onelie right hand chéefe compeller and disposer of the kingdome after that William the Conquerour had obteined the same being also Tribunus militum of all the armie that William Conquerour led into England and the man that persuaded the bishop of Samborrow to compound for the title of the king of Denmarke made vnto England yet I suppose him not to be constable but onelie marshall of England or line 60 at the least if he were it could not be verie long For that this earle was extreame old departed the realme and disposed all the affaires of the Norman bastard beyond the seas and died about the yeare of our redemption 1072 being about the eight yeare of the reigne of William Conquerour Milo the sonne of the said Walter an enimie to king Stephan who yet confirmed him in his fathers inheritance was aduanced first to great honors by Henrie the first who méeting Mawd the empresse at Bristow and taking hir for lawfull quéene did continuallie follow hir faction for which she in the sixt yeare of king Stephan to honour him for his good seruice as appeareth by the charter thereof gaue him the earledome of Hereford constableship of Enggland the castell of Bironell the forrest of Deane He was lord also of Breckenocke He translated the chanons of the monasterie of saint Iohns of Lanthonie in the yeare of our redemption 1103 being the fourth yeare of king Henrie the first to a place néere Glocester then called Hide and since Lanthonie as Iohn Stow hath well noted out of other authors He married Sibilla the daughter of Bernard Newmarch a nobleman of Normandie who obteined by conquest the lordship of Breckenocke by whome he had issue fiue sonnes and thrée daughters The sonnes were Roger Walter Henrie William and Mahaell His three daughters were Margaret married to Humfreie Bohune Bertha the second was married to Philip Bruse created by king Stephan lord of Bruse Gower Bauld Brimble and in his wiues right lord of Breckenocke Lucia married to Herebert the sonne of Herebert base sonne to Henrie the first who was in hir right lord of the forrest of Deane he died in the eight or as others haue the ninth yeare of king Stephan being the yeare of our redemption 1143. William the sonne of Walter Beauchampe shiriffe of Worcester was made high constable of England by king Stephan in the fift yeare of his reigne being in the yeare of our redemption 1139 when the king was at Worcester which honour he tooke from Miles of Glocester as saith that painefull antiquarie Iohn Stow in his chronicle printed in the yeare of our Lord 1580 fol. 191. Roger the sonne of Milo succéeded his father in all his inheritance as
sixt He was not onelie courteous wise and gentle being dailie attendant at the court but forward and fortunate in seruice abroad as may well appeare in his sundrie voiages both into France and Scotland He was of nature verie gentle and pitifull not blemished by any thing so much as by the death of the admerall his naturall brother which could not haue beene brought to passe in that sort without his consent But of this good duke to let passe multitude of words maister Fox hath written no lesse trulie than commendablie no lesse commendablie than deseruedlie and no lesse deseruedlie than profitablie in his historie whereto I refer the reader for further knowledge Neuerthelesse of this vertuous duke by waie of application I saie as somtime one said verie aptlie as some thinke of the gratious ladie An Bullen Discite vos viui quid dira calumnia possit Inuidia alterius vitae comes arcta beatae Et falsis linguae commista venena susurris The protectors of England collected out of the ancient and moderne chronicles wherin is set downe the yeare of Christ and of the king in which they executed that function VPon the death of this duke of Summerset protector of England it shall not be vnsitting in this place to set downe all the protectors whereof I can as yet haue intelligence and who haue béene gouernors regents gardians or deputies of the realme and of the kings person during his minoritie and time of his insufficiencie of gouernement or else of his absence being out of the realme whereof I haue made an especiall title in my Pantographie of England in which this my collection of the protectors although perhaps I shall not set downe all for Barnardus non videt omnia yet it is better to haue halfe a loafe than no bread knowledge of some than of none at all Thus therefore I begin Guendoline the daughter of Corineus duke of Cornewall after the procurement of warre against hir husband wherein he was slaine was by common consent for that hir sonne Madrane which she had by Locrine was insufficient by reason of his minoritie to gouerne the kingdome made by the Britons ruler of the I le in the yeare of the world 2894 and so continued the same by the space of fiftéene yéeres vntill hir sonne came to lawfull age Martia the widow of Guenteline the king by reason that Sicilius hir sonne was not of age conuenient to weld the scepter as one being but seuen yeares old obteined the gouernement both of the realme and of hir sonnes person which she most worthilie deserued being a woman of rare vertue and iudgement Eldred Ethelred or Edred for all these diuersities are found in authors brother to Edmund king of England while the sonnes of Edmund Edwine and Edgar were for their minorities insufficient to dispose the kingdome was appointed protector to his nephues in the yeare of Christ 940 who about six or seuen yeares after his protectorship tooke on him the kingdome at Kingstone on Easter daie in the yeare of Christ as hath Iohn Stow 946 as others haue nine hundred fortie seuen Emma the quéene of England the widow of king Etheldred and of Canutus both kings of England iointlie with Goodwine earle of Kent had the gouernement of the realme vnder Hardiknute king of England who began his reigne in the yeare of Christ 1041. Harold the sonne of Goodwine at the death of king Edward the Confessor which fell in the yeare of Christ 1066 and the three and twentith yeare of the same king was by the testament of the said king Edward appointed regent of the yong Edgar Atheling named heire in the life of the said Edward and of the kingdome after the death of king Edward during the minoritie of the said Edgar Beside which the like commending of the kingdome to this Harold line 10 in respect of the quéenes honour as that before of the successours right is set downe by one that liued at that time and wrote the life of king Edward of erle Goodwine and of his children in these words Porrectáque manu meaning king Edward lieng on his death bed and speaking in the behalfe of Editha the quéene sister to this Harold ad praedictum nutricium suum fratrem Haroldum Hancinquit cum omni regno tutandam tibi commendo vt pro domina sorore vt est fideli serues honores obsequio vt quoad vixerit à me adepto non line 20 priuetur honore debito Commendo pariter etiam eos qui natiuam terram suam reliquerunt causa amoris mei mihÃque haectenus suleliter sunt obsequuti vt suscepta ab eis siita volunt fidelitate eos tuearis retineas aut tua defensione conductos cum omnibus quae sub me acquisiuerunt cum salute ad propria transfretari facias c. But he when king Edward was dead vsurped the crowne to himselfe and shortlie after lost both his life and his kingdome Odo bishop of Baieux and William Fitzosborne the first being earle of Kent and chiefe iustice line 30 of England and the second being earle of Hereford were gouernours of the realme in the yeare of our Lord 1067 and the first yeare of William the Conquerour when he went into Normandie after the conquest and indifferent quieting of the realme Lanfranke archbishop of Canturburie as appeareth by Matthew Parker writing in this sort in the life of the said Lanfranke Absente Gulielmo omnia Lanfranco mandabantur qui summa prudentia cunctae moderatus line 40 proceres plebem in officio tranquillè sine vlla motu atque tumultu continebat adeò vt si quae defectionis suspicio nascebatur ad eam illicò compescendam maximus potentissimus quisque opem adiumentum illi imperantipraestitit Sir Richard Lucie knight chiefe iustice of England was protector of the realme in the twelfe yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the second being the yeare of our Lord 1166 in the absence of the king when he was in Normandie and in the parts beyond the seas Which Lucie in the thirteenth yeare of the same king being the yeare of our redemption line 50 1167 did valiantlie resist and politikelie driue backe the earle of Bullongne inuading the realme Hée built the abbeie of Leosnes or Westwood in the parish of Erith in Kent and not in Southfléet as some haue written in the yeare of Christ 1178 being about the foure and twentith yeare of king Henrie the second and further built the castell of Angier in Essex in the diocesse of the bishop of London He had issue Godfreie bishop of Winchester and thrée daughters who after the death of Godfreie their brother line 60 were his heires the eldest daughter of which sir Richard Lucie was maried to Robert the first called Fitzwater the second daughter Auelina was maried to Riuers of whome issued Iohn de Riuers the third daughter Rose was
of England This Geffreie Fitzpeter died in the yeare of our redemption 1212 being about the fourtéenth yeare of the reigne of the said miserablie afflicted king Iohn who died in the yeare of Christ 1216 whose death I haue beene the willinger here to mention because I would set downe his epitaph not else before set downe in our English line 60 chronicles as I find the same of ancient report Hoc in sarcophago sepelitur regis imago Qui moriens multum sedauit in orbe tumultum Et cui connexa dum vixit probra manebant Hunc mala post mortem timor est nefata sequantur Qui legis haec metuens dum cernis te moriturum Discito quid rerum pariat tibi meta dierum This Geffreie Fitzpeter maried Beatrice daughter and heire of William lord Saie by whom he had issue Geffreie Mandeuile earle of Essex Mawd maried to Humfreie de Bohuns by whome the Bohunes became earles of Essex William Marshall surnamed the great being erle of Penbroke was made protector of the realme person of the king after that the king being nine yeares of age was crowned in the yeare of our Lord 1216. Which office this William being also marshall of England vsed so honorablie that he recouered a great part of the nobilitie which tooke part with Lewes son of the French king against king Iohn father to this Henrie to assist the yoong king Henrie against the said Lewes who in the time of the said Iohn had obteined a great part of the kingdome of England By which meanes the said Lewes was expelled and the kingdome wholie recouered to the vse of the said yoong king Henrie the third This William Marshall maried Isabell daughter and heire to Richard Strangbow earle of Penbroke who made him a happie father in the multitude of his children For by hir he had fiue sonnes all which were in succession marshals of England and earles of Penbroke and fiue daughters The sonnes were William Richard Gilbert Walter and Anselme who all dieng without issue the inheritance was deuolued to the fiue sisters which were Mawd the eldest maried to Hugh Bigod in hir right earle marshall Ione the second maried to Waraine Monthensie in hir right also earle of Penbroke as hath Nicholas Triuet Isabell the third maried to Gilbert de Clare earle of Glocester Sibill the fourth maried to William Ferrers erle of Darbie Eue the fift daughter maried to William de Berehuse or de Brause This William the great died in the yeare of our redemption 1219 being the third as hath Nicholas Triuet or the fourth as hath Matthew Westminster yeare of the reigne of the said king Henrie the third and was buried at the new temple on Ascension daie being the seuenteenth calends of Aprill of whome was made this epitaph by Geruasius Melckeleie taking vpon him the person of the earle marshall Sum quem Saturnum sibi sentit Hibernia Solem Anglia Mercurium Normannia Gallia Martem Which signifieth that he was a sharpe corrector and ruler of the Irish an honor glorie to the English a councellor and dispatcher of the affaires of Normandie a warlike knight and inuincible capteine against the Frenchmen Petrus de rupibus or Peter of the Roch being bishop of Winchester was after the death of William Marshall earle of Penbroke aduanced to the protectorship of the king because that the yoong king was almost destitute of anie of his owne kindred that might woorthilie haue the rule of his person For his mother quéene Isabell was newlie maried to Hugh Brune earle of March in France This bishop of Winchester who was both a wise and a stout prelat being now in possession of the king and mistrusting that he had entred into a more weightie office than he might well discharge if all things were not doone according to the fansie of the nobilitie procured diuerse graue and honorable men to be preferred to the kings councell and to be associats to him in the administration of the weale publike and so entred into the administration of his new atchiued honor Which yet he did not long inioie But as the bishop was at the first carefull to plant such of the nobilitie about the king for the support of the realme so yet himselfe being a Gascoine did after in the riper yeares of the king prefer to offices about the king such Gascoins as both were of his owne bloud and kindred and by their extraordinarie dealing procured the nobilitie with an hard and vndutifull course to oppose themselues against the king This Peter was aduanced to the seat of Winchester in the yeare of our redemption 1204 being about the sixt yeare of king Iohn After which he went to Rome and being a prelat more fit to fight than to preach for Mars than for the muses did returne from Rome in the yeare of Christ 1205 being about the seuenth yeare of king Iohn He remained bishop about two and thirtie yeares and died at his manour house of Fernham on the fift ides of Iune in the yeare of our Lord as haue Matthew Paris and Matthew Westminster 1238 being the two twentith yeare of Henrie the third Who somewhat before his death about the one and line 10 thirtith yeare of his bishoprike went into the holie land with the bishop of Excester He builded and indued with possessions manie religious houses amongst which he founded Tichfield in Hampshire of which Peter de la Roches or of the rocks Matthew Paris maketh a more large discourse Hubert de Burow conestable of Douer castle earle of Kent and chiefe iustice of England being of great account in the realme for his probitie and goodnesse was made protector of the king and kingdome line 20 in the yeare of our redemption 1221 being the fift yeare of king Henrie the third This man in the yeare of Christ 1221 being the same yeare in the which he was made protector maried at Yorke Margaret sister to Alexander king of Scots And here I thinke it not amisse to saie somewhat touching the issue of this Hubert of Burow who in a certeine namelesse booke caried about in the hands of all men treating of the nobilitie created since the inuasion of William Conqueror is said to die without issue which cannot possiblie be so if that be line 30 true which I haue séene which I am led by manie reasons to beléeue to be most true For I haue read of two children which this Hubert had whereof the one being a sonne was called Richard de Burow who was knighted by Henrie the third as it séemeth to me after the death of his father if this Richard be not the same Iohn of whome Matthew Paris writeth that in the yeare of Christ 1229 Rex Anglorum Henricus in die Pentecostes Iohannem filium Huberti Angliae iusticiarij cingulo militari line 40 donauit tertio nonas Iunij The other child was a daughter called Margaret maried to Richard heire to the
earle of March Rafe Ergume bishop of Salisburie and William lord Latimer with others of whome for the most part the people had conceiued a good opinion yet bicause the said bishop of Salisburie and the lord Latimer were associat to the rest and of equall authoritie with them the commons murmured greatlie against them The cause for which they so misliked the lord Latimer was for that he had sometimes bin too much fauouring to dame Alice Piers concubine to king Edward the third to whome the said lord Latimer was chiefe chamberleine therefore was of him best be loued which two persons the lord Latimer and dame Alice were by parlement in the fiftith yeare of Edward the third remooued from the king for that they miscounselled him but especiallie sith much mischiefe grew in the realme by the same Alice Piers. For she being now exalted in pride by ouermuch loue of K. Edward the third would beyond the modestie and maner of women sit in iudgement with the kings iustices be with the doctors in the consistorie turne sentences to what side she would and require manie things dishonest in themselues and dishonourable to the king Of line 10 which woman an old written chronicle belonging to the house of Euesham hath deliuered to me these words Alicia Piers regis concubina supra modum mulierum nimis supergressa sui etiam sexus fragilitatis foemineae immemor nunc iuxta iusticiarios regios nunc in foro ecclesiastico iuxta doctores sedendo pro defensione causarum suadere etiam contra iura postulare minimè verebatur vnde propcer scandalum-petierunt ab illo which was the king penitùs amoueri in parlemento tento anno Domini 1376 50 Ed. 3. Thus that author line 20 And here before I go anie further with my protectors bicause some curious heads that find not all these matters in the records of the tower which they dailie turne with a churlish hand or else thinke that nothing maie be knowne out of the walles of their office will séeme to séeke a knot in a rush and saie that I in compasse of some few lines haue written a contrarietie in saieng that Iohn of Gaunt thirsted after the kingdome and for that cause hastened the death of his elder brother prince Edward the blacke line 30 as Richard the third did the death of his brother George duke of Clarence which intent could not possiblie be in Iohn of Gaunt as appeareth by my owne following words where I saie that he gaue ouer the protectorship of his nephue bicause he would auoid all suspicion of euill gouernement which hée would neuer haue doone if he had so ment that place being so apt for the execution of his purpose and might giue occasion to him that neuer ment anie such matter before to attempt it being in that place line 40 as Richard duke of Yorke did attempt but not performe it in the time of Henrie the sixt and as Richard duke of Glocester being in the same office of protectorship did not onelie attempt it but brought to perfection Wherevnto I answer that all this is no contrarietie but onelie a manifest shew and confirmation the one part of my words to the other For sith he could not in the life of his father Edward the third before the crowning of king Richard the second as Richard the third did atteine the crowne he line 50 would not now attempt it the king being once crowned and in full possession of the kingdome so rashlie and vnaduisedlie as did Richard duke of Yorke against Henrie for which he was in the end slaine least that thereby his part might séeme to carie the face of a rebellion as in truth it should haue doone For whosoeuer either for colour of God benefit to their countrie or for whatsoeuer cause lift vp the sword against a crowned king sitting at the sterne of gouernement being one of the gods of the line 60 earth the same must needs tend vnto a rebellion which Iohn of Gaunt would not seeme to execute for that cause leauing off his purpose at that time he did in the end also leaue the whole matter to his son to performe especiallie sith he afterward perceiued Richard the second so much to fauor and further him with monie munition and men to recouer the kingdome of Castile Arragon in Spaine in the right of the wife of the said Iohn of Gaunt To whom and to his wife as hath Henrie Knighton king Richard the second gaue a seuerall crowne of gold to honour them withall to shew how intierlie he loued them when they both went into Spaine And for these causes the said Iohn of Gaunt refused the oportunitie of time place in the king his nephues minoritie to execute it But did he cease it so No. For that sparke although it were a litle cooled was not vtterlie quenched bicause he hastened the same in his son whom he not onelie persuaded but furthered after the banishment of his said sonne Henrie of Bullingbrooke by Richard the second in the life of said Iohn of Gaunt to returne into England and after his death to chalenge by sword the earldome of Lancaster his right inheritance and vnder the same to reuenge the death of the duke of Glocester and others and by that means when Richard the second was out of the realme of England in Ireland the said Henrie Bullingbrooke sonne of Iohn of Gaunt entered the realme put downe the king and got the crowne which his father sought Thus this much digressing from the protectors and to returne to that course which I haue in hand I will leaue the discourse of policies to obteine kingdoms bicause they be no balles for me to bandie and follow on my former intent as meeter for my simplicitie Thomas Beauchampe earle of Warwike was in the third yeare of Richard the second being the yeare of our redemption 1380 made protector in this sort In the parlement holden the same yeare at the speciall sute of the lords and of the commons the bishops and barons chosen as you haue heard before by Iohn of Gaunt to be protectors of the realme were remoued and the earle of Warwike especiallie elected to that function to remaine continuallie with the king as chéefe gouernor of his roiall person one that should giue answer to all forreners repairing thither vpon what cause soeuer their comming were hauing further as ample gouernment of the kingdome giuen vnto him as the other remoued gouernors had Being placed in that office by the duke of Lancaster he died the sixt ides of Aprill in the yeare of Christ 1401 being the third yeare of Henrie the fourth He maried Margaret the daughter of William lord Ferrers of Grobie by whome he had issue Richard earle of Warwike Thomas Fitzalane otherwise called Arundell bishop of Elie the two and twentith that inioied that seat being two and twentie yeares of age and the son of Richard
England Which error I suppose they haue commited in that they finding him chancellor at the time of the building of his college in the said fiue and twentith yeare of king Henrie the sixt haue taken him to be chancellor of England when he was then but chancellor of Oxford although in deed afterward he was chancellor of England in the fiue and thirtith yeare of the said king as after shall appeare Iohn Kempe bishop of Yorke and cardinall was the second time made lord chancellor in the eight and twentith of king Henrie the sixt being about the yeare of our redemption one thousand foure hundred and fiftie in which oâ—â—â—ce he died being bishop of Canturburie in the yeare of our redemption as saith Matthew Parker one thousand foure hundred fiftie and thrée being the two thirtith yeare of the reigne of the simple king Henrie the sixt This man was first bishop of Rochester next of Chicester thirdlie of London then of Yorke where he sat eight and twentie yeares and lastlie he was archbishop of Canturburie Richard Neuill earle of Salisburie the sonne of Rafe Neuill earle of Westmerland and father to the valiant Richard Neuill earle of Warwike was line 10 after the death of Iohn Kempe by parlement made lord chancellor in the two thirtith yeare of K. Henrie the sixt though others make it to be in the three thirtith yeare of the same king in which place he continued not long For in the yeare following an other was substituted and he remoued Thomas Bourchier brother to Henrie Bourchier earle of Essex bishop of Elie and bishop of Canturburie was made chancellor in the three thirtith yeare of the gouernement of king Henrie the sixt in which he remained much about two yeares In line 20 whose time as saith Matthew Parker about the yeare of our redemption one thousand foure hundred thréescore and one was the art of printing inuented at the citie of Argentorat in Germanie About the which matter and especiallie for the exact certeine time thereof manie writers although their count about one time doo disagree yet at the inuention of that woorthie thing were these verses composed in the commendation of the same most excellent art line 30 O foelix nostris memoranda impressio tectis Inuentore nitet vtraque lingua tuo Desierat quasi totum quod fundis in orbe Nunc paruo doctus quilibet esse potest Omnes te homines igitur nunc laudibus ornent Te duce quando ars haec mira reperta fuit William Patan or Paten borne of gentlemanlie familie being commonlie called William Wanfled of the place of his birth and being prouost of Eaton and bishop of Winchester was lord chancellor line 40 in the fiue and thirtith six and thirtith and the seuen and thirtith yeare of the vnfortunat king Henrie the sixt as haue the records of the excheker By which appeareth the error of those as I haue before noted that mistaking the fiue and twentith of king Henrie the six in which time he was but chancellor of Oxford for the fiue and thirtith of the said king in which he was chancellor of England George Neuill the sonne of Richard Neuill earle of Salisburie and brother to Richard Neuill line 50 earle of Warwike being made bishop of Excester came to that sée in the yeare of our redemption one thousand foure hundred fiftie and fiue in which sée he continued ten yeares and was remoued to Yorke in the yeare that God became man one thousand foure hundred three score and fiue he was made lord chancellor in the eight thirtith yeare of the reigne of the after deposed K. Henrie the sixt in which office he remained about eight yeares then was remoued in the seuenth yeare of the woorthie K. Edward line 60 the fourth being the yeare that the word became flesh one thousand foure hundred thréescore seuen He was a great friend to saint Albons procured Edward the fourth in the fourth yeare of his reigne to giue confirme to Iohn Whethamsted abbat of saint Albons the priorie of Penbroke This bishop Neuill did after in the thirtéenth yeare of king Edward the fourth grow in such disgrace with the king that he was spoiled at one time of twentie thousand pounds as in his life shall be more at large declared To this man did Hugh Ueine giue the manour of Hener Cobham and Hener Brokas in Kent in the fourth yeare of king Edward the fourth He died at Blithlaw comming from Yorke being almost fortie yeares old and was buried at Yorke And heere I thinke it not amisse to note the mistaking of time of such historiographers as haue set downe that Edward the fourth did in the fourth yeare of his reigne take the chancellorship from the bishop of Excester brother to the earle of Warwike which must néeds be this George Neuill gaue the same to the bishop of Bath For by that which I haue seene this Neuill liued vntill the seuenth yeare of Edward the fourth and that for this time I suppose to be the truest Robert Kirkeham maister of the rolles was made lord kéeper of the great seale vppon the remouing of George Neuill in the moneth of Iulie in the said yeare of Christ one thousand foure hundred threescore and seuen being the seuenth yeare of king Edward the fourth Robert Stillington doctor of the lawes kéeper of the priuie seale in the third yeare of Edward the fourth bishop of Bath Wels being made chancellor in the seuenth yeare of king Edward the fourth did still so continue as I gather vntill the thirtéenth yeare of the said king Henrie Bourchier earle of Essex and first aduanced to that title of honor by Edward the fourth came in place of the last chancellor about the fourtéenth yeare as some vntrulie haue noted of Edward the fourth But in my poore opinion the same was in the thirtéenth yeare of the said Edward the fouth in which place he remained not much more than one Trinitie terme For in the said thirtéenth yeare about the moneth of August was Booth lord chancellor of England Laurence Booth sometime maister of Penbroke hall bishop of Durham and after of Yorke was made lord chancellor about August or rather before betwéene that and Trinitie terme after Henrie Bourchier in the said thirteenth yeare of the valiant king Edward the fourth after his redemption of the kingdome of England This bishop being brother to William Booth sometime bishop of Yorke did build the bishop of Yorks house at Baterseie which manour he before bought of Nicholas Stanleie whome Leland the minser and refiner of all English names dooth most curiouslie in Latine call Nicholaum Stenelegium He continued in the sée of Yorkâ— thrée yeares nine moneths and died at Southwell in the yeare of our redemption one thousand foure hundred and foure score being the twentith yeare of king Edward the fourth Thomas Scot surnamed
words in writing sent to the K. 642 a 50 b 20 c 643 a 10. His comming against the K. iustified he is made protector of the realme 644 b 20. Discharged of his office 645 a 10 20. Assembleth an armie 649 b 30. CoÌ„meth out of Ireland his strange demenors bold spéech and oration to the lords of parlement 655 a 30 c. Crowned with sedge or bulrushes in derision 659 b 50. He and his complices flie 650 b 20. He and others atteinted 652 a 10 c. Articles that he and the other earles sent to the archbishop of Canturburie and the commons 652 b 10 c. Articles of peace and agréement betwéene him and Henrie the sixt his claime to the crowne 657 b 20 c. Proclamed heire apparant to the crowne he is slaine 659 a 30 b 10. Tempering about his title to the crowne 627 b 40. Reconciliation to Henrie the sixt he accuseth the duke of Summerset of treason 639 a 40. Set at libertie and whie his submission to king Henrie the sixt vnder his oth 639 b 50. Maketh claime to the crowne 637 a 50. Raiseth a great power to recouer it his letter to Henrie the sixt 637 a 50 b 10 50 638 a 10 c. Fauourers executed and spoiled 653 b 20. Séekes the destruction of the duke of Summerset banded himselfe with Neuils 641 b 60. Slaine in Agincourt field 555 b 60. Buried at Fodringhaie castell 556 a 20. Taketh indenture sextipartite of the conspired noblemen out of his sonnes bosome note 515 a 20 Deceaseth 520 b 30. Accused by his sister the ladie Spenser 527 b 30. His head set on a poâ—e at Yorke 659 b 60. ¶ See Richard the third Dukes of Glocester infortunate note 627 a 50. Of Normandie were the kings of Englands eldest sons 38 a 30. Of Yorks honorable emulation 776 a 50 Dukes and earles c created 537 b 60 546 b 30 625 a 10 702 a 60 1081 a 60 b 10 c 1066 b 60 492 b 40 448 a 60 395 b 50. Depriued of their titles 513 b 10. Of England from the first to the last all set downe in a collection 1230 b 30 c to 1238 a 10. Duncane a Scot wasteth Kendall 91 b 10 Dunkirke woone sacked by the English 442 b 50. Taken and burnt by the French 1150 a 40 E. EAdmer ¶ Sée Archbishop Eclipse of the sunne strange 102 b 50 348 b 30 212 b 40 229 a 10 Eclipse of the moone 241 a 50. At thirtéene daies old 212 b 40. Of foure houres continuance 251 a 50. Of the sunne and moone extraordinarie 44 a 40. Uerie strange note 128 b 50. Eclipses foure in a yere 961 a 60 Edenburgh castell besieged 353 b 40. Entred forceablie by the English 962 a 60. Deliuered to Edward the first 300 a 60. Burnt by Richard the second 447 b 10. Left desolate 445 b 10 Edgar Etheling where borne 6 a 30. Pursueth the Normans 6 b 40. Flieth into Scotland 7 a 50. Ioineth forces with Osborn against the Normans 6 b 50. Should haue béene made king of England 1 a 40. And whie he was not aduanced to the crowne of England 1 a 50. Sent into Scotland with an armie and whie 23 a 30. The sonne of king Malcolme to be placed in the kingdome 23 a 30. In seruice at the warres vnder the Scotish king 19 b 30. In great account with Robert duke of Normandie 19 b 50. Depriued of his honor by William Rufus 19 a 50. Obteineth licence of duke William to depart the realme 14 b 10. Groweth in fauour honor with duke William 10 b 60 11 a 10. Capteine in rebellion against duke William after a reconcilement and pardon described note 9 b 60. Second flight into Scotland 10 a 40. ¶ Sée Edwin Edgar the K. of Scotlands sister wise to Henrie the first 29 a 10 Edmund son to Henrie the third 236 a 60. Shewed in parlement as K. of Naples 255 b 10 Inuested king of Sicill Naples 252 b 60. Created duke of Lancaster 249 a 10 Edmund of Langlie borne afterwards duke of Yorke 363 a 30 Edmund the great sonne to Harold his exploits 6 a 60 Edrike Syluaticus rebelleth in the absence of duke William 5 a 10 Edward the first proclaimed king of England his coronation and beginning of regiment 277 all He entreth into Wales to rescue his people against the Welsh 281 a 20. Goeth ouer into France 279 b 20. His fauour and good-will to the princes of Wales 279 a 10 c. Dauid of Wales preferreth him in marriage 279 a 20 c. Commeth to Chester 278 a 20. Surnamed Longshankâ— and whie borne 223 b 40. Sendeth an armie into Scotland 314 a 20. His prouision for his iournie into France 303 a 50 Putteth prince Edward in prison 313 b 30. Answer to pope Boniface prouing the right of Scotland to belong to him 309 b 60 310 a 10 c. Entreth into Scotland to reuenge the death of his people 312 a 40. Goeth with an armie into Scotland 309 a 50. Uexeth them c b 30. Goeth to Scotland 311 a 50. Married to the French kings sister 309 a 10. His liberalitie towards his nobles 308 a 40. Earles Marshall and Hereford refuse to go ouer with him into Flanders 304. Gardians appointed ouer his sonne in his absence he passeth ouer into Flanders b 20. Taketh vpon him the crosse 284 a 20. Passeth ouer into France 283 b 30. Recognised for superior lord of Scotland note 286 all Summoned to appeare at Paris 290 b 50. Condemned in the French court 291 b 20. His request made to the Scots denied 296 a 30. Entreth into Wales 293 b 30. Shift to get monie 280 a 50. Goeth about to purchase his peoples good-will 277 b 50. Renounceth the French king his shift for monie an excuse that he vsed 292 b 10 60. Concludeth a league with the erle of Flanders and the earle Bar 296 b 50. Fortifieth Berwike 299 a 30 Summoneth and winneth Berwike 298 a 20 50. Planteth his siege about Edenburgh castell 299 b 60. Passeth forth through Scotland bringeth the marble stone from thense the nobilitie submit themselues vnto him the forme of their homage his words accepting it 301 a all Meant to haue made a full conquest of Scotland as he had doon of Wales 317 a 10. The forme of fealtie that Balioll king of Scots did to him 289 b 60. Appointeth wardens for the realme of Scotland beareth swaie in the election of their chancellor the nobilitie sweare feâ—â—tie to him note 288 a 30 c. Sickeneth dieth is buried at Westminster his issue his stature and forme of bodie his vertues and vices 316 a 60 b 10 c. Edward the second borne 282 b 20. When he began his reigne 318 a 10. He the erle of Lancaster made fréends 324 a 40. Goeth into Scotland what he did there his entrance 320 b 10. Hath his nobles in no regard note 318 b 10. Deposed by act of
560 b 60 566 a 60. A notable example of Edward the first vpon his son 313 b 30. Mingled with mercie 797 a 60. And the commendable care of K. Henrie the second thereof note 115 a 60. Without regard of kinred 315 a 20. And what folowed vpon the neglect of the same 13 a 10. Partlie pretended 734 a 60. Peruerted when one is hanged for another 1007 a 20. In warre note the force therof 552 a 30. Corrupted ¶ Seé Bribes Iustices of peace when whie instituted 8 a 60. Itinerants the diuision of their circuits 97 b 60. Thâ—ir oth 98 a 10 Die of infection 1547 b 40. 1548 a 40. Chéefe of England elected others deposed 119 b 10. Itinerants cause inquisitions to be made in their circuits 145 a 60. Abuse iustice note 225 b 20. Keépe the terme for pleés at S. Sauiors 259 b 30. Begin to go their generall circuits 282 b 20. ¶ Seé Sicknesse at Excester and Oxford Complained of to Edward the first punished note 284 b 60. 285 a 10 c. Fined 312 b 50. Sat neither in the tower nor elsewhere for a whole yeare 361 b 20 Restreined from feés briberie gifts c note 369 b 20 Iurors c brought to blockham feast by the rebels 430 a 60. Compelled to subscribe 458 b 10 Iusts at Blie where P. Edward began to shew proofe of his chiualrie 254 a 20. At Brackleie 242 a 10. In Cheapside 348 b 50. At Chalons where prince Edward behaued himselfe Worthilie 276 a 20. At Dunstable where king and quéene were present 363 a 40. At Gréenewich with goodlie shews 815 a 10. At Greenwich before the emperor Charles 873 b 10. Where sir Francis Brian lost one of his eies 892 b 60. At London the maior and aldermen chalengers c 392 a 40 50. In the Tower of London Gréenewich 646 b 60. Roiall in Tuthill field for the space of eight daies 220 a 10. Deuised to be holden at Oxford where Henrie the fourth should haue béene murthered 514 b 50.60 Within the kings palace of Shine for the space of a moneth 774 a 30. In Smithfield 366 a 10 395 b 60 Roiall 473 b 30 40 c 474 a 10 c 535 b 60. At Westminster with the shews and triumphs there 807 a 50 60 c And some hurt done 940 b 60 1225 a 30. And much hurt doone among the people 1315 a 60. By gentlemen of name to delight nobles of France note 1316 1317 1318 1319 1320 1321. At Windsore 366 a 50. Against all commers 497 a 10 It turnie appointed by the lords and by Henrie the third disappointed 236 b 60. Handled in a rougher manner than in these daies 245 a 10. Wherat sir Arnold Montensie was slaine note 246 b 20. Prohibited by proclamation 311 b 10. Betwixt the bastard of Burgogne the lord Scales 669 a 20. With manie a proper deuised shew 802 b 10 c 803 a 10 c. Solemne wherin Henrie the eight himselfe was a chalenger 835 b 10. Kept for honor of his sister the French quéene 838 a 60 b 10 c Betweéne Henrie the eight and others 844 b 10 950 a 30 850 a 60. Proclamed in sundrie nations 950 b 60 951 a 10 c Roiall in France note 858 a 60 b 10 c 859 a 10 c 860 a 10 c. At Paris the nobles go thither decrées for the same how long they lasted with the maner thereof note 833 all At Tornaie for disport of the prince of Castile the duchesse of Sauoie 825 a 20 ¶ Sée Tilt and Turnies K. KAlendar ¶ Sée pope Gregorie Katharine daughter to the earle of Huntleie maried to Perkin the rebell 780 a 40. Presented to Henrie the seuenth 784 b. 10 Katharine the daughter of Ferdinando sent ouer into England out of Spaine 788 b 40 c. Married to king Henrie the eight 801 a 10. ¶ Sée quéene Katharine Henrie the eight Kelwaie Thomas ¶ Sée Iusts triumphant Kendall wasted 91 b 10 Kentishmen doo lie in wait in woods for the comming of duke William 2 a 10 Cannot awaie with bondage and determine to fight with duke William for their lawes and liberties 2 a 10. The keie of England 2 b 10. Send a message to duke William 2 b 10. Had duke William at aduantage 2 a 20 b 10 c. Make an hurlie burlie and commit much mischéefe 677 b 10. Executed for rebellion 693 a 60. Haue thanks of Henrie the seuenth for their good seruice 780 a 10 Rebellion vnder Iohn Tiler ¶ Sée Tiler Ket his rebellion a capteine there 1028 b 50 60 to 1042 c. He meant to haue talked with the earle of Warwike 1037 a 60. Power increaseth 1032 b 60. Apprehended examined 1039 50 60. Both brothers executed 1240 a 50 60. Killingworth castell beséeged deliuered to Henrie the third 272 b 10. Fortified against Henrie the third 272 a 30. Holden against Edward the second 329 b 10 King of Armenia ¶ Sée Armenia Of Cipriots ¶ Sée Cipriots Of France ¶ Sée French king Of Ireland ¶ Sée Ireland Of Portingall ¶ Sée Portingall Of Spaine ¶ Sée Spaine c. King can abide no péere in his owne realme note 25 a 50. In name but not in fame note 465 a 40. What kind of person he is or should be 910 b 40. Office hard to discharge 740 a 40. Best kind of gouernment 1052 b 30. Iurisdiction absolute in their owne realmes that the pope hath nothing there to doo 24 b 20 c. Election aduancement referred to the people 1 a 40. Oth at his coronation 1 b 30. Kings college in Cambridge founded note 691 b 40 c. Kingdome to obteine what promises are made but not kept ¶ Sée Promises People Kingston knight is sent to fetch vp Woolseie arested of treason to Henrie the eight talke betwixt the said sir William and him 916 b 30 50. Prouost marshall execution of marshall law note 1006 b 60 his ill iustice 1007 a 10. Accused of treason his decease 1132 a 40. Kiriell sir Thomas a valiant capteine 630 a 20. Kisse the pax would not the K. with Becket 78 a 10. ¶ Sée Reconciliation Knâ—uet surueior depriued of his office note 856 a 10. An instrument to bring the duke of Buckingham to destruction 862 b 60 Kneuet knight arreigned for striking in the court iudged to loose his hand he is pardoned 953 b 10 c. Kneuet sir Henrie knight deceseth 974 b 60. Kneuet Edmund knight his seruice in Norffolke rebellion 1031 b 30. Knewstub ¶ Sée Sermon Knights of the Bath 511 a 10.733 a 20.931 a 50. Knights order of the Rhodes dissolued 951 a 40. Knights of the round table first founded ¶ Sée Order of the garter Knights templers apprehended and what laid to their charge 319 a 10 c Knights thrée hundred of men of armes to be found 153 a 10 Two hundred fiftie and two besides demilances taken prisoners by king Iohn 165 a
nephues 734 b 20 30 c. Proclameth promises of rewards for the apprehending of the duke of Buckingham sendeth foorth a nauie to scowre the sea ouer against Britaine 744 a 10 40. Commeth to Excester and is receiued with presents 746 a 10 Attempteth the duke of Britaine to deliuer the earle of Richmond into his hands 747 a 60. His deuise to infringe and defeat the earle of Richmonds purpose his leud practise to beguile him 750 a 20. Casteth his loue on his néece purposing to marie hir 751 a 50 60. What noble men he most mistrusted whie he gaue licence to all in Hames castell to depart in safetie with bag and baggage b 30 50. His offenses and euill qualities summarilie touched a notorious tyrant 758 a 10 20. Contemneth the erle of Richmond and his power sendeth to his fréends for chosen men the ordering of his armie 754 a 20 50 b 10 His forged complaint against his wife to be rid of hir 751 a 10. His purpose in the case of coniuration against him his drift in disposing his armie he preuaileth 743 a 10 60 b 10 c. Calleth home his ships of war from the narrow seas his pretended mariage offensiue to the erle of Richmond 752 a 10 b 50. The principals of his power fall from him his dreame foretels him of his end bringeth all his men into a plaine his oration to the chieftens of his armie 755 a 30 40 b 10. His vaine confidence and bootlesse courage 757 a 10. His armie discomfited fléeth what persons of name were slaine on his side he himselfe taken and how he might haue escaped 759. The shamefull cariage of his bodie to Leicester his badge and cognisance euerie where defaced the description of his person and certeine of his behauiors 760 b 20 40 50. Honor doone him after his deth by the erle of Richmond his enimie 761 a 20 Râ—chard the second sonne of K. Iohn 173 a 10 Richard the base sonne of king Iohn beheadeth moonke Eustace 201 a 60 Richard Henrie the second his sonne affianced to earle Raimonds daughter 67 b 20. Prepareth to resist his father 94 a 10. Despaireth of good successe 94 a 10. Submitteth himselfe to his father 94 a 10 Richard king Henrie the third his brother maried 231 b 50 ¶ Sée Archbishop of Canturburie Riches and what means king Richard the first had to gather them 120 a 50 60. Of London great what then of all England 141 b 60. They and inheritance from whom to whom and to what end giuen 1043 b 10. The right waie therunto b 50. Of Henrie the eight 799 a 50. ¶ Sée Monie Richmond built and whie so named 788 a 10. On â—ire 792 b 20 Richmont castell néere Gillingham when built 7 b 10. ¶ Sée Erle Ridlie doctor persuadeth the people in a sermon at Paules crosse in the title of quéene Iane 1087 a 40. He and Latimer examined for their doctrine 1129 b 60.1130 a 10. Whie he was more rigorouslie handled than the residue of the bishops 1089 a 40. His sermon of mercie and charitie before Edward the sixt how effectuall note 1081 b 20 Rie burnt by the Frenchmen 417 b 50. The ships thereof win a good prise 440 a 60 Riot at king Richard the first his coronation 118 b 40 c. By the Suffolkmen note 343 b 10.344 all 345. Of the people against the Iewes note 121 b 50.122 all Of the Kentishmen note 677 b 30. In the citie of London betwéene strangers of diuers nations and the Londoners 645 a 30. Made on the Easterlings by the Londoners 778 a 40. Of prince Edward punished by imprisonment 313 b 30. Of the Londoners vpon the bishop of Salsburie his men 478 a 20. Betwixt the earle of Warwike and the tenants of the abbat of Euesham 411. a 30. At Calis vpon the cutting of a pursse 879 b 10. Committed vnder pretense of wrestling 204 a 20. Toward in west Smithfield and the principals punished 1321 b 30 40. Brought within the compasse of treason by a statute 842 b 50 c. ¶ See Frate Rebellion Rithwall king of Wales partaker with a rebell 5 a 20 Riuer that suddenlie ceased his course 493 b 60 Riuers that â—bbed and flowed became shallow 38 a 40. Ouerflowing and drowning the land 20 b 30. ¶ Seé Thames Riuers lord and others beheaded 715 b 40.725 b 10 Riuers Richard ¶ See Mellent Robert generall of the Normans slain by the Northumbers and whie 6 b 30 Robert rebelleth against his father duke William and how it came to passe 12 a 20. Duke of Normandie solicited to come into England to claime the crowne 29 b 20. Arriueth at Portsmouth his mild nature 29 b 60. Commeth into England to visit his brother Henrie the first 32 a 50. Proclamed after the deceasse of his father 16 b 20. Arriueth at Southhampton 17 b 50. How he might haue easilie recouered England from his brother 17 b 60. Returneth out of the holie land and laboureth to recouer England from Henrie the first 29 a 60 Ingageth a part of his dukedome for monie and whie 17 a 30. His valiantnesse in fight 33. a 10. Maketh earnest sute to his brother Henrie for peace 32 b 40 Prisoner in Cardiff castell and there â—ieth 33 b 30 More credulous than suspicious 30 a 20. In disfauour with the English nobilitie and commons 28 a 20. Chasen K. of Ierusalem by reason of a miracle 29 a 60. Morgageth his duchie of Normandie to his brother William Rufus 22 a 60. It was he whome the nobles would haue had for king being the elder brother 16 a 30. Returneth into Normandie displesed with his brother William Rufus 19 b 40. At discord afresh with his brother William 21 a 40. His deuise and desire to bereaue William Rufus his brother of the kingdome of England 16 b 40. To whome married and his issue 34 a 10. Taken prisoner 33 a 40. Described and his lamentable end 33 b 40.60 Robert earle of Northumberland refuseth to come to king William Rufus 21 b 30. Inuironeth king Malcolme 20 b 60 Taketh sanctuarie 21 b 60. Prisoner in Windsor castell and the cause of his conspiracie 22 a 10 Robert the base sonne of Henrie the first married made earle of Glocester 37 a 50. ¶ Sée Erle Robert the onelie sonne heire of Robert earle of Leicester deceaseth 1375 b 40 Robbers ¶ Sée Théeues Roch knight sent to the Fléet note 968 a 40 Rochester besieged 267 a 60. The castell fortified and by whom 17 a 30. Besieged by K. Rufus 18 a 10. Besieged yéelded to king Iohn 188 a 10 40 Restored to the archbishop of Canturburie 186 b 10. The bridge when builded and by whom 1377 b 60. How it began to decaie means to kéepe it repared by act of parlement 1378 a 10 c Rochford lord condemned and beheaded with others 940 a 50 Rockesburgh and the situation thereof in what sort to bée fortified 991 a 10 30 b 10. The same burned
dealing breach of promise of the French king Wil. Paruus Enuious discord among the christians K. Richard discomfiteth the Saracens néere to Port Iaph Rog. Houed The names of such noble men as were famous for their valiant dooings in this voiage De Poole 〈◊〉 de Stagno Galf. Vinsaâ— The marques of Montferrato murthâ—â—â— by the Assassini Earle Iohn purposed to seize vpon the kingdom in his brothers absence William de Poicters K. Richards chapleine Anno Reg. 4. Wil. Paruus K. Richard rescueth Port Iaph Rad. Niger Matth. Paris Cephas K. Richard fell sicke A peace concluded betwixt the Christians Saracens Hubert bishop of Salisburie K. Richard taketh his iornie homewards K. Richard slandered for the death of the marques of Montferrato W. Paruus Erle of Gorze Saltzburge K. Richard commeth to Uienna Polydor. Ra. Niger K. Richard submitteth himselfe to the duke of Austrich N. Triuet Polychron The cause of the displeasure betwixt the duke of Austrich king Richard Ger. Dor. Rog. Houed line 50 The king is deliuered to the emperor Matth. Paris Ouid. lib. Fast. 1. Rog. Houed Two legats from the pope Normandie interdicted The earle of Pieregort others wast the K. of Englands lands The seneschal of Gascoigne reuengeth iniurie The king of Nauars brother The abbats of Boxley and Roberts-bridge Ger. Dor. The French king counselleth K. Iohn to vsurpe against his brother Ger. Dor. The archbishop of Yorke Hugh Bardolfe William de Stuteuille Wil. Paruus Rouen besieged The earle of Leicester Polydor. Michaelmas saith Ger. Dorob Wil. Paruus The emperour chargeth king Richard with iniuries doone to the Sicilians W. Paruus Matth. West The kings wisedome in making his answere Polydor. The bishop of Salisburie sent into England Ger. Dor. Rog. Houed The bishop of Elie commeth to the king The emperor agréeth with king Richard for his ransome N. Triuet Matt. Paris R. Houed Lands assigned to king Richard Polydor. Rog. Houed Order taken for leuieng monie to paie the kings ransome The hard dealing of officers in the collection Church iewels The bishop of Norwich The abbat of saint Albons The bishop of Chester Matthew de Cléere R. Houed The bishop of Elie. Anno Reg. 5. Wil. Paruus Hor. lib caer 1. ode 10. The bishop of Liege murthered Wil. Paruus Hubert bishop of Salisburie elected archbishop of Canturburie Hubert archbishop of CaÌ„turburie lord chéefe iustice The kings commandement not obeied R. Houed King Richard released out of captiuitie R. Houed The offers of the French K and erle Iohn to haue the K. of England kept still in prison The princes that had vndertaken for the emperor to performe the couenants Robert de Nouant Yéerelie pensions giuen by the king â—o certeine princes of the empire Memburge Wil. Paruus The French king inuadeth Normandie R. Houed He landed the 20. of March being sundaie as R. Houeden and Rafe de Diceto write Rog. Houed Diuerse sieges held at one time S. Michaels mount The king goeth to Notingham and winneth the castel Rog. Houed The forrest 〈◊〉 Shirewood The castell of Tickhill yeeâ—ded Rog. Houed Strife betwixt the archbishops for carieng of their crosses Officers discharged Lieutenantships set on sale The archbishop of Yorke offer The bishop of Chester A subsidâ—â— The archbishop of Yorke accused Gerard de Camuille charged with felonie and treason The king of Scots commeth to sée the king of England A parlement A grant made to the king of Scots what allowance he should haue when he came to England A councell holden at Winchester The king crowned anew R. Houed The king of Scots beareth one of the swords before the king of England The citizens of London A parlement called The bold courage of the bishop of Lincolne The bishop of Durham lost his earldome K. Richards practises The moonks Cisteaux Rog. Houed The king of Scots maketh suit for Northumberland Mainprise Rog. Houed The king transporteth ouer into France The French king raiseth his siege from Uernueil N. Triuet Rog. Houed The earle of Leicester taken prisoner Geffrey de Rancon The earle of Engolesme The king of Nauars brother Anno Reg. 6. Engolesme woone Polydor. Wil. Paruus Polydor. Great exactions The colour pretended in leuieng of monie Rog. Houed Inquisitions taken by a iurie of sundrie matters Usurers Iewes Iustices shiriffes and other officers Hubert archbishop of Canturburie lord chéefe iustice Officers driuen to fine for their offices The king offended with the lord chancellor A new scale Matth. Paris The king returneth into England He granteth the English men licence to iournie Rog. Houed Fines paid for licence to exercise turnements Mâ—l Pal â—n suo cap. Bishops towne I thinke he came not ouer at all into England at this time but rather sent his mind vnto the archbishop Messengers from the pope Isoldune Nouencourâ— yeeldeth to K. Richard Albemarle besieged Matt. West Polydor. Rog. Houed The earle of Leicesters offer for his ransome Million 〈◊〉 and rased A motion for peace Earle Iohn returneth to the king his brother and is pardoned Wil. Paruus R. Houed Matth. Paris Rog. Houed R. Houed Rog. Houed Wil. Paruus Matth. Paris Polychron Baldwin de Betun Duke Leopold catcheth a fall beside his horsse and dieth of the hurt White monks Rog. Houed Hugh NouaÌ„t bishop of Couentrie restored to his sée The archbishop of Yorke M. Pal. in suo sag. Pope Celestine The archbish of Canturburie is made yâ— popes legat A trinitie of offices in vnitie of person A synod holden at Yorke The emperor sendeth to the king Anno Reg. 7. The bishop of Elie is sent to the emperour The 2 kings talke togither The emperor dissuadeth the king from agréeing to the peace The warre 〈◊〉 begun afresh The hasâ— which king Richard made The 2 kings againe talke togither of peace The conditions of peace concluded betwixt the two kings Matth. Paris Matth. West Matth. West Matth. Paris Rog. Houed The earle of Albemarle departed this life Otho sonne to the duke of Saxonie Lawnes Wil. Paruus Ran. Higd. The abbat of Caen sent into England Fraudulent dealing in officers Fabian Wil. Paruus Matt. Paris Ran. Higd. William Fitz Osbert The â—oule disorder in the citizens of London The vnnaturall ingratitude of Fitz Osbert Why he ware his long berd Matth. Paris Fabian His oration to the people Ger. Dor. He is called before the archbishop of Canturburie lord chéefe iustice or president of the realme He fléeth inâ—o the church of S. Marie Bow His concubine He is executed Wil. Paruus Matth. Paris The archbish of Canturburie euill spokeÌ„ of for the death of William Fitz Osbert An old whormonger and a new saint The erledome of Poictou Iohn Bouchet his douâ— Ranulph erle of Chester tooke his wife the dutchesse of Britaine prisoner A dearth The death of the earle of Salisburie R. Houed Matth. Paris Marchades Lupescaro The bishop of Beauuois taken prisoner Genes 37. Anno Reg. 8. Normandie interdicted by the archbishop of Rouen The bishop of Elie departed this life Rog.