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

to be the greatest Malediction that could befal them so that the Priests to strengthen their Masters Power and make him more dreadful to the World lay idle for the space of six years and fourteen Weeks in which time there was neither publick preaching nor praying no Administration of the Sacrament Burial or Christning by which we may plainly see whatever the Papists pretend as to the Sanctity of their infalible Father how much he prefered his private revenge before the Service of God and this he denyed not to Hereticks but to Papists so that the people being greatly discouraged many parts of the Kingdom lay untilled and became as it were desolate when the King on the other hand prescribed the disloyal Clergy confiscated their Temporalities as also their Bishopricks Abbies and Priories puting them into the hands of Lay-men suffering the Clergy to be oppressed without taking notice of it or righting them by civil Justice declaring they had by obliging the Pope put themselves out of hi● protection yet some of the more prudent as the Bishop of Durham and his Successor the Bishops of Winchester and Norwich incouraged the King not to regard the Papal Curse as being weak and insignificant like wise the Abbots of Cistercian Order took no notice o● it but went on as before till such time as the Pop● suspended them for that contempt and the more t● shew his spleen Anathamatized the King by name whereupon some as well Nobles as Plebeans diserte his service for which in a stout resolution he b●nished and fined them but wearied out with th● practices of the Clergy against him and the Rebellio● of his Nobles he concluded it was better to give wa● to the humour of a petish Pope than to live in di●quiet and daily hazard his Kingdom whereupon Langton was offered to be confirmed the other Bishops and Clergy restored and that the Churches should have its Franchises as in the time of Edward the Confessor but not being willing as indeed he was not at that time in a condition to restore the Monies received for Ecclesiastical confiscations the Legate sent by the Pope would not come to a conclusion This being the state of Affairs and the Pope desirous to humble the King discharged his Subjects from their fealty and Allegiance to him which some taking as a good warrant utterly disowned him for their King and the Welsh thereupon took up Arms which so inraged the King that he caused the 28 Hostages which they had given for the security of their good behaviour to be hanged up at Notingham but by this time the Barons had invited Lewis Dauphin of France to invade the Kingdom promising to set the Crown upon his Head when in the mean time while Stephen Langton and other Bishops implored the Popes assistance to settle the Church which must otherways fall into ruine whereupon he decreed that King John must be deposed ere it could be settled sending to Philip the French King to take upon him the Crown and Kingdom offering him a pardon for all his sins in case he effected it King John upon notice of the spightful proceedings prepared to oppose the French or any other Invader by Sea or Land but in the mean time Pandulph the Pope's Legate came into England and so wrought with the King that he suffered himself to prevent the storm conditionally to be deposed and at the Knight Templers house at Dover he surrendred his Crown into the hands of the Legate some say whilst he kneeled the proud Priest kicked it off with his foot for the use of the Pope and to be disposed as he thought fit laying his Scepter Sword and Ring at the Legates feet and subscribed a Charter whereby he resigned his Kingdom to the Pope professing but how sincerely I suffer the Reader to judge he did it not through fear or force but of his own voluntary accord as having no other way to make satisfaction to God and the Church for his offence and from that time forward he would hold his Crown and Kingdom in fee of the See of Rome at the A●●al pension of 1000 Marks for England and Ireland a very hard case but necessity it seems has no Law so that the Legate having gained his ends more favourable than he could reasonably expect passed over for France to put a stop to King Philip's preparations but he declared that seeing the Pope had been the main Instrument in seting him on and that the charge was already very great he would not desist though the Pope should Excommunicate him and calling a Council of Peers all but Ferdinand Earl of Flanders approved his intentions and the Barons denied to aid him till he was Assailed of the Excommunication and that all their Laws and Liberties granted by Henry the First were restored which obliged the King to send divers rich Presents to Rome thereby to allure the Pope who upon the Receipt sent the Bishop of Tusculum who would have perswaded him to have made over the Kingdom of England but not only the Arch-bishop but all the Peers of the Kingdom opposed it so that in Parliament it was Enacted That since the King could not without the consent of Parliament bring his Kingdom and People to such a Thraldom therefore if the Pope should in the future attempt any such thing they with their Lives and Fortunes were ready to oppose it So that the Pope finding there was no good to be done this way sent his Authentick Letters for the repealing the Edict yet not without the restitution of 1300 Marks to the Clergy most of which came to his Coffers so that the King passed into his Transmarine Territories but before he could quiet the disturbances news came that the English Barons had bound themselves at the high Altar of St. Edmundsbury by Oath to pursue the King with Arms till he had granted them their Charter of Liberties granted in the Reign of Henry the First whereupon he found himself necessitated to return and finding they had not only seized London but were otherways very formidable a Council to reconcile differences was held in Runing Marsh between Stains and Windsor since called Council Mead and there he granted them Magna Charta and Charta Forestae and consented that 25 select Peers should command the rest who were bound by Oath to be obedient but the King long dijested not this abating of his Power but withdrawing himself he sent to complain of it to the Pope as likewise to his Friends abroad for Aid and was in both successful for at Rome by a definitive Sentence the Barons Charters were made void and both they and the King accursed if either of them observed the conclusion of the Treaty in Council Mead he likewise had considerable Forces sent him from Gascoin Brabant and Flanders so that he again took the Field dividing his Army in two parts when himself marching Northward and the Earl of Salisbury Southward they brought all into subjection and

another it was carried to VVinchester ●…nd buried in the Cathedral Church but since the ●…ones have been removed to and laid with those of ●…anute the Danish King This was the King who built VVestminster Hall ●…inety yards in length and twenty four yards two ●…eet in breadth yet when he came to see it he complained it was too little by half and therefo●… he would reserve it for a lodging Room He w●… slain as you have heard in the thirteenth year his Reign and the sorty sourth of his Age being t●… one and twentieth sole Monarch of England Thus Second William by misfortune's hand Drop'd in the Grave and left the wealthy Land Two Sons of the Great Conqueror met their fate VVhere he had laid the Country desolate The Reign ●and Actions of Henry the First King England c. HEnry the First English Monarch of that Nam● who for his great Abilities in Learning w● called Beau-clark or good Scholar upon the une● pected death of his Brother VVilliam and his Broth● Robert's being in the Holy Land waring again the Infidels upon many fair promises to the Nobl● and Commons procured himself to be accepted King and was Crowned at VVestminster Anno 11● Anselm being Archbishop of Canterbury and at fi● made it hisstudy to please all sorts striving to ma● his House and Court a pattern of Virtue and go● Living to the rest of his Subjects permiting the Pe● ple to have Fire and Candle in their Houses at the own discretion which under severe penalties had be● prohibited by his Father freeing the Churches fro● reservations upon vacancies allowing the Heirs Noblemen to possess their Fathers Lands without Redemption ingaging the Nobles to do the like by the Tenants allowing so it were not to his Enemies t● Gentry to marry their Daughters and Kinswomen whom they pleased and that the Widow enjoyi● Joynter should be at liberty to ma●●y whom 〈◊〉 ●…ased That the Mother and nearest Relations ●…ould be Guardians to Fatherless Children during ●…ir Minority That such as coyned false Money ●…ould loose their Right Hand And if Men be de●…ved of their Genitals he ordained a certain Mea●…e to be a Standard Measure of Commerce accord●…g to the length of his Arm which is our Yard For●…ing all Debts due to the Crown before be came to ●… Renewing the Laws of Edward the Confessor And ●…e better to strengthen his Title he married Maud ●…ughter to the King of Scots by Margaret Sister to ●…gard Atheling joyning in Succession to the Saxon ●…ngs But by this time News came that Robert his ●…der Brother after refusing the Scepter of Jerusalem which for his Valour and Conduct upon taking ●…t City from the Insidels was offered him by all the Western Princes that commanded the numerous Army of Christians in that glorious Expedition was ●…nd●d with an Army at Portsmouth and that many ●… the English sided with him which put the King to no small consternation however having got by ●…s lenity and fair pretences the hearts of the greater ●…rt of the People he resolved not to forgo what ●… had gotten and thereupon tried so far the good ●…mper of his Brother that by Presents and large ●…omises he worked upon him to remit his Claim ●…ein of which he was to have three thousand Marks ●…id him yearly and gave him six Months Royal En●…tainment The Sunshine of Peace lasted not long before Be●…isine Earl of Shrewsbury and Roger Montgomery ●…ith divers other r●…d but being vanquished ●…ey sled to Normandy however he was perplexed ●…the Arch-Bishop who influenced by the See of ●…ome contended to regulate the Clergy and dispose ●… Ecclesiastical promotions as he pleased refusing Consecrate such Bishops as the King was desirous to advance yet the King fearless of what migh● happen in England upon notice his Brother at th● instigation of some English Fugitives was preparin● for a second Invasion He resolved to prevent it by carrying the War into Normandy which he effected with such precepitation that he overthrew Robert took him Prisoner and sent him to Cardr● Castle where at first he was only Prisoner at large having the priviledge of the Medows and Parks under a slender Guard but as some will have it at tempting his escape but others the People too much pittying his condition and the apprehensions i● wrought made the King confine him a close Prisoner and the better to secure himself against any attempts this poor Prince might make cause th● Twinkles of his Eyes to be put out or clouded i● darkness by burning Glasses and not long after h● lost his Life some say by a voluntary starving himself out of a disdain he took that the King his Brother sent him a Suit of his old cast Clothes with a● addition That they were good enough for a Prisoner however this unnatural act greatly eclipsed the glory o● this King and too plainly shewed that Crowns know● no Kindred when they stand in competion The Duke being dead King Henry seized upon his Dutchy of Normandy so that England may now be said to conquer Normandy though indeed it was unhappy for the English whom he began to restrain with a harder hand seeing he had removed the danger that threatned him banishing the Flemings who were desirous to instruct us in the Wollen Trade retracting many Grants he had passed and to strenghen his Alliance abroad he married Maud his Eldest Daughter to Henry the Fourth Emperor of Germany or the Romans and the Welsh promoting some disorders he forced them to obedience A● likewise these in Normandy where new trouble● arose and that which gave him hopes of the settlement of Affairs was the death of the Arch-Bishop who to raise the Popes Power had opposed ●im in his important proceedings and was a great Enemy to the Married Priests who were tolerated ●n this Kings Reign The High Court of Parliament some Authors will have to be constituted in his Reign Anno 1116. William Eldest Son to Robert the deceased Duke of Normandy being alive Lewis King of France toge●her with the Earls of Flanders and Anjou laboured ●o fix him in the Dukedom but were frustrated ●nd a great Battle Anno 1119 was fought between ●he two Kings wherein Baldwin Earl of Flanders with divers other Nobles and some thousands of Common Soldiers were slain and the Victory falling ●o the English occasioned great loss and dishonour ●o the French and the Earl of Anjou upon King Henry's return to Roan with Palms of Triumph gave his Daughter and Heiress in Reversion of that Province to William the Kings Eldest Son whose Nuptials were solemnized with great joy and hope of future happiness But all things are unstable in this World for the King setting sail for England and the Prince with his Bride his Brothers Sisters and other great Personages staying six hours sail behind ●o take leave of their Friends resolved notwithstanding to come up with the King before he landed 〈◊〉 that the Marriners running a desperate course