William de Breause hauing got a great number of Welshmen into the castell of Abergauennie vnder a colourable pretext of communication proponed this ordinance to be receiued of them with a corporall oth That no traueller by the waie amongst them should beare any bow or other vnlawfull weapon Which oth when they refused to take bicause they would not stand to that ordinance he condemned them all to death This deceit he vsed towards them in reuenge of the death of his vncle Henrie of Hereford whom vpon easter euen before they had through treason murthered and were now acquited with the like againe The same yeare died Reignold earle of Cornwall bastard sonne to king Henrie the first without heirs male by reason whereof the king tooke into his hands all the inheritance of lands and liuings which he held within England Normandie and Wales except certeine portions which the daughters of the same earle had by assignement allotted to them Also Richard earle of Glocester deceassed this yeare and his sonne Philip succeeded him The same yeare was a synod of the cleargie kept at Westminster wherein many things were decréed for the conseruation of religion Amongst other things it was prouided that those abbeies and churches which were void of gouernours and could haue none placed in them by the time of the late ciuill warres should now be committed vnto men worthie to enioy the same for the reformation of disorders growne and plentifullie sproong vp in time of the vacations The realme now brought into good order and deliuered from the troubles of warre as well at home as abroad the king being at good leisure determined to ride about a great part of the realme and comming to Yorke sent for the king of Scots to come and doo his homage Now the king of Scots according to couenants before concluded came vnto Yorke in the moneth of August where dooing his homage about the twentith day of the same moneth in S. Peters church the king granted further by his letters patents that he and his successours kings of Scotland should doo homage and fealtie to the kings of England so often as they should be necessarilie required therevnto In signe and token of which subiection the king of Scots offered his hat and his saddle vpon the altar of S. Peter in Yorke which for a remembrance hereof was kept there many yeares after that day The charter conteining the articles of the peace and agreement concluded betwixt the two kings which was read in S. Peters church at the same time exemplified as followeth line 10 WIlhelmus rex Scotiae deuenit homo ligius domini regis Angliae contra omnes homines de Scotia de alijs terris suis fidelitatem ei fecit vt ligio domino suo sicut alij homines sui ipsi facere solent Similiter fecit homagium Henrico filio regis salua fide domini regis patris sui 2 Omnes vero episâ— abbates clerus terrae Scotiae successores suifacient domino regi sicut ligio domino fidelitatem de quibus habere voluerit sicut alij episcopi sui ipsi facere solent line 20 Henricâ— filio suo Dauid haeredibus eorum 3 Concessit autem rex Scotiae frater eius barones alij homines sui domino regi quòd ecclesia Scotiae talem subiectionem amodò faciet ecclesiae Angliae quâ—lem facere debet solebat tempore regum Angliae praedecessorum suorum 4 Similiter Richardus episcopus Sancti Andreae Richardus episcopus Dunkelden Gaufridus abbas de Dunfermlin Herbertus prior de Coldingham concesserunt vt ecclesia Anglicana illud habeaâ—ius in ecclesia Scotiae quod de iure debet habere quod ipsi non erunt contraius Anglicanae ecclesiae line 30 Et de hac concessione sicut quando ligiam fidelitatem domino regi domino Henrico filio suo fecerint ita eos inde assecurauerint 5 Hoc idem facient alij episcopi clerus Scotiae per conuentionem inter dominum regem Scotiae Dauid fratrem suum barones suos factam comites barones alij homines de terra regis Scotiae de quibus dominus rex habere voluerit facient ei homagium contra omnem hominem fâ—delitatem vt ligio domino suo sicut alij homines sui facere ei solent Henrico filio suo haeredibus suis salua fide domini regis patris line 40 fui Similiter haeredes regis Scotiae baronum hominum suorum homagium ligiantiam facient haeredibus domini regis contra omnem hominem 6 Praeterea rex Scotiae homines sui nulluÌ„ amâ—â—o fugitiuum de terra domini regis pro felonia receptabunt vel in alia terra sua nisi voluerit venire ad rectum in curia domini regis stare iudâ—io curiae Sed rex Scotiae homines sui quà m citius poterunt eum capient domino regi reddent vel iusticiarijs suis aut balliuis suis in Anglia line 50 7 Si autem de terra regis Scotiae aliquis fugitiuus fuerit pro felonia in Anglia nisi voluerit venire ad rectuÌ„ in curia domini regis Scotiae stare iudicio curiae non receptabitur in terra regis sed liberabitur hominibus regis Scotiae per balliuos domini regis vbi inuentus fuerit 8 Praeterea homines domini regis habebunt terras suas quas habebant habere debent de domino rege hominibus suis de rege Scotiae de hominibus suis. Et homines regis Scotiae habebunt terras suas quas habebant habere debent de domino rege hominibus suis. Pro ista vero conuentione line 60 fine firmiter obseruando domino regi Henrico filio suo haeredibus suis à rege Scotiae haeredibus suis liberauit rex Scotiae domino regi castellum de Roxburgh castellum Puellarum castellum de Striueling in manu domini regis ad custodienda castella assignabit rex Scotiae de redditu suo mesurabiliter ad voluntatem domini regis 9 Praeterea pro praedicta conuentione fine exequendo liberauit rex Scotiae domino regi Dauid fratrem suum in obsideâ— comitem Duncanum comitem Waldenum similiter alios comites barones cum alijs viris potentibus quorum numerus 18. Et quando castella reddita fuerint illis rex Scotiae Dauid frater suus liberabuntur Comites quidem barones praenominati vnusquisque postquam liberauerit obsidem suum scilicet filium legitimum qui habuerit alij nepotes suos vel propinquiores sibi haeredes castellis vt dictum est redditis liberabuntur 10 Praeterea rex Scotiae barones sui praenominati assecurauerunt quòd ipsi bona fide sine malo ingenio sine occasione facient vt episcopi
deuise The newes whereof being spred abrode euerie good man reioised thereat Thus through the great mercie of God peace was restored vnto the decaied state of this relme of England Which things being thus accomplished with great ioy and tokens of loue king Stephan and his new adopted sonne duke Henrie tooke leaue either of other appointing shortlie after to méet againe at Oxenford there to perfect euerie article of their agréement which was thus accorded a little before Christmas ¶ But by the way for the better vnderstanding of the said agreement I haue thought good to set downe the verie tenor of the charter made by king Stephan as I haue copied it out and translated it into English out of an autentike booke conteining the old lawes of the Saxon and Danish kings in the end whereof the same charter is exemplified which booke is remaining with the right worshipfull William Fléetwood esquire now recorder of London and sargeant at law The charter of king Stephan of the pacification of the troubles betwixt him and line 10 Henrie duke of Normandie STephan king of England to all archbishops bishops abbats earles iusticers sherifes barons and all his faithfull subiects of England sendeth greeting Know yee that I king Stephan haue ordeined Henrie duke of Normandie after me by right of inheritance to be my successour and heire of line 20 the kingdome of England and so haue I giuen and granted to him and his heires the kingdome of England For the which honour gift and confirmation to him by me made he hath doone homage to me and with a corporall oth hath assured me that he shall be faithfull and loiall to me and shall to his power preserue my life and honour and I on the other side shall maineteine line 30 and preserue him as my sonne and heire in all things to my power and so far as by any waies or meanes I may And William my sonne hath doone his lawfull homage and assured his fealtie vnto the said duke of Normandie and the duke hath granted to him to hold of him all those tenements and holdings which I held before I atteined to the possession of the realme of England wheresoeuer the line 40 same be in England Normandie or elsewhere and whatsoeuer he receiued with the daughter of earle Warren either in England or Normandie likewise whatsoeuer apperteineth to those honoures And the duke shall put my sonne William and his men that are of that honour in full possession and seizine of all the lands boroughs and rents which the duke thereof line 50 now hath in his demaine and namelie of those that belong to the honour of the earle Warren and namelie of the castels of Bellencumber and Mortimer so that Reginald de Warren shall haue the keeping of the same castels of Bellencumber and of Mortimer if he will and therevpon shall giue pledges to the duke and if he will not haue the keeping of those castels line 60 then other liege men of the said erle Warren whome it shall please the duke to appoint shall by sure pledges and good suertie keepe the said castels Moreouer the duke shall deliuer vnto him according to my will and pleasure the other castels which belong vnto the earledome of Mortaigne by safe custodie and pledges so soone as he conuenientlie may so as all the pledges are to be restored vnto my sonne free so soone as the duke shall haue the realme of England in possession The augmentation also which I haue giuen vnto my sonne William he hath likewise granted the same to him to wit the castell and towne of Norwich with seauen hundred pounds in lands so as the rents of Norwich be accounted as parcell of the same seauen hundred pounds in lands and all the countie of Norfolke the profits and rents which belong to churches bishops abbats earles excepted and the third pennie whereof Hugh Bigot is earle also excepted sauing also and reseruing the kings roiall iurisdiction for administration of iustice Also the more to strengthen my fauour and loue to himwards the duke hath giuen and granted vnto my said sonne whatsoeuer Richer de Aquila hath of the honour of Peuensey And moreouer the castell and towne of Peuensey and the seruice of Faremouth beside the castell and towne of Douer and whatsoeuer apperteineth to the honour of Douer The duke hath also confirmed the church of Feuersham with the appurtenances and all other things giuen or restored by me vnto other churches he shall confirme by the counsell and aduice of holie church and of me The earles and barons that belong to the duke which were neuer my leeges for the honour which I haue doone to their maister they haue now doone homage and sworne fealtie to me the couenants betwixt me the said duke alwaies saued The other which had before doone homage to me haue sworne fealtie to me as to their souereigne lord And if the duke should breake and go from the premisses then are they altogither to ceasse from dooing him any seruice till he reforme his misdooings And my sonne also is to constreine him thereto according to the aduice of holie church if the duke shall chance to go from the couenants afore mentioned My earles and barons also haue doone their leege and homage vnto the duke sauing their faith to me so long as I liue and shall hold the kingdome with like condition that if I doo breake and go from the premitted couenants that then they may ceasse from dooing me any seruice till the time I haue reformed that which I haue doone amisse The citizens also of cities and those persons that dwell in castels which I haue in my demaine by my commandement haue doone homage and made assurance to the duke sauing the fealtie which they owe to me during my life time and so long as I shall hold the kingdome They which keep the castle of Wallingford haue doone their homage to me and haue giuen to me pledges for the obseruing of their fealtie And I haue made vnto the duke such assurance of the castels and strengths which I hold by the counsell and aduice of holie church that when I shall depart this life the duke thereby may not run into any losse or impeachment wherby to be debarred from the kingdome The tower of London and the fortresse of Windsor by the counsell and aduice of holie church are deliuered vnto the lord Richard de Lucie safelie to be kept which Richard hath taken an oth and hath deliuered his sonne in pledge to remaine in the hands and custodie of the archbishop of Canturburie that after my decease he shall deliuer the same castels vnto the duke Likewise by the counsell and aduise of holie church Roger de Bussey keepeth the castell of Oxford and Iordaine de Bussey the castell of line 10 Lincolne which Roger Iordaine haue sworne and thereof haue deliuered pledges into the
sée which line 20 was brought to passe according to the kings desire at Westminster Afterward he was ordeined at Canturburie on saturdaie in Whitsunwéeke by Henrie bishop of Winchester although there be that write how Walter bishop of Rochester did consecrate him which consecration was in the 44. yeare of his age year 1162 and in the fift yere after his first aduancement to the office of Lord chancellor so that he was the eight and thirtith archbishop which gouerned in that see line 30 Toward the end of the same yeare Henrie the kings sonne receiued homage of the barons first in Normandie and after in England In the yeare ensuing the king his father committed him to archbishop Becket that he might sée him brought vp and trained in maners and courtlie behauiour as apperteined to his estate wherevpon the archbishop in iest called him his sonne This yeare Quéene Elianor was brought to bed at Rohan of a daughter named Elianor In like maner the kings of England and France line 40 receiued pope Alexander the third at Cocie vpon Loire with all honor and reuerence insomuch that they attended vpon his stirrup on foot like pages or lackies the one vpon his right side and the other on his left ¶ Note here the intollerable pride of this antichristian pope in assuming and the basemindednesse of these two kings in ascribing vnto that man of sinne such dignitie as is vtterlie vnfit for his indignitie line 50 But what will this monster of men this Stupor mundi this Diaboli primogenitus haeres not arrogate for his owne aduancement like yuie climing aloft choking the trée by whose helpe it créepeth vp from the root to the top But the end of this seauen horned beast so extolling and lifting it selfe vp to heauen is Erebo miserè claudetur in imo Atque illic miris cruciatibus afficietur In Ianuarie ensuing the king returned into England and the same yeare the king of Scots did line 60 homage vnto Henrie the yonger and deliuered his yonger brother Dauid to the king his father with diuerse other the sonnes of his lords and barons in pledge for assurance of a perpetuall peace to be kept betweene them with some such castels as he required In the meane time archbishop Thomas went to the councell holden by pope Alexander at Tours in the Octaues of Pentecost where he resigned his bishoprike into the popes hands as the â—ame went being troubled in conscience for that he had receiued it by the kings preferment The pope allowing his purpose committed the same pastorlike dignitie to him againe by his ecclesiasticall power whereby the archbishop was eased verie well of his greefe and shortlie after his returne from his councell seemed desirous to reduce cause to be restored such rights as he pretended to belong vnto the church of Canturburie whereby he ran into the displeasure of manie and namelie of the mightiest Moreouer he required of the king the kéeping of Rochester castell the custodie of the tower of London He alledged also that Saltwood Hith belonged peculiarlie to the seigniorie of his see He called Roger earle of Clare vnto Westminster to doo his homage vnto him for the castell of Tunbridge but the earle denied it through the setting on of the king alledging all the fee thereof to apperteine rather to the king than to the archbishop Thus was the archbishop troubled and he grew dailie more and more out of the kings fauour For yee must vnderstand that this was not the first nor the second but the eight time that the king had shewed tokens of his displeasure against him After this vpon the first day of Iulie Rice prince of Southwales with diuerse other lords and nobles of Wales did homage both to the king and to his sonne Henrie at Woodstocke Hamline the kings bastard brother married the countesse of Warren the widow of William earle of Mortaigne bastard sonne to king Stephan This countesse was the sole daughter and heire of William the third earle of Warren year 1164 which went with Lewes king of France into the holie land and there died Soone after the Welshmen rebelling with their prince Rice and his vncle Owen did many mischéefes on the marshes and by the death of Walter Gifford earle of Buckingham who deceased this yeare without heire that earledome came to the kings hands On the 20. daie of September were three circles seene to compasse the sun and so continued the space of thrée houres togither which when they vanished awaie two sunnes appeared and sprang foorth after a maruellous maner Which strange sight the common people imagined to be a signe or token of the controuersie then kindling betwixt the king and the archbishop About this time the king called a parlement at Westminster to treat of matters concerning the commonwealth wherein great discord arose betwixt the king archbishop Becket about certeine points touching the liberties of the church For the king hauing an earnest zeale vnto iustice and commanding the iudges to punish offenders without respect vnderstood by their information that manie things by them of the spiritualtie against whome their authoritie might not be extended were committed contrarie to common order as theft rapine murther and manslaughter in so much that in his presence it was made notorious that sith the beginning of his reigne aboue an hundred manslaughters had béene committed within his realme of England by préests and men of religious orders Herevpon being mooued in mind he set forth lawes against the spiritualtie wherein he shewed his zeale of iustice For as the cause procéeded from the bishops of that age so did the fault also sith contrarie to their owne canons they permitted préests to liue ouer licentiouslie without due correction studieng onelie to mainteine the liberties and immunities of the church and not to reforme the irregularitie of the regulars Of this crew was one Philip de Broc a canon of Bedford who being arreigned before the kings iusticer for a murther vttered disdainefull words against the same iâ—sticer which when he could not denie before the archbishop he was depriued of his prebend and banished the land for two yeares space These things troubled the king who therefore hauing alreadie set downâ— such 〈◊〉 as should bridle the spiritualtie from their wicked dooings thought that if he might get them confirmed in parlement by consent of the bishops and clergie 〈◊〉 the same should take place and be receiued for 〈◊〉 Wherefore he earnestlie required at this parlement â—haâ— it might be enacted against all such of the spiritâ—altie as should be taken and conuicted for 〈…〉 offense they should loose â—he priuiledge of the church and be deliuered vnto the ciuill magistrate 〈◊〉 line 10 should see them â—uffer execution for tâ—eir 〈◊〉 in like maner as he might any of the kings 〈◊〉 being laie men For otherwise the
with himselfe in that he had doone vndiscréetlie yet now when that which was doone could not be vndoone he caused all the Nobles and lords of the realme togither with the king of Scots and hiâ— brother Dauid to doo homage vnto his said sonne thus made fellow with him in the kingdome but he would not release them of their oth of allegiance wherein they stood bound to obeie him the father so long as he liâ—â—d ¶ Howbeit some write that he renouncâ—â— his estate first before all the lords of the land and after caused his sonne to be crowned but in such vncerteine points set foorth by parciall writers thaâ— is to be receiued as a truth which is confirmed by the order and sequele of things after doone and put in practise For true it is that king Henrie the father so long as his sonâ—e liued did shew himselfe 〈◊〉 as fellow with his sonne in gouernment and sometime as absolute king and after his sons decease he continued in the entier gouernment so long as he liued But to procéed The French king hearing that his sonne in law was â—hus crowned and not his â—aughter the wife of Henrie the sonne was highlie offended therewith and threatned to make war against king Henrie the father except 〈◊〉 daughter Margaret might 〈…〉 crowne also as quéene immediatâ—â—e The French king 〈…〉 homewards and king Henrie returning came to Uernon where he fell into so great a sicknesse that anon it was noised ouer all the countrie Insomch that he was in such despaire of life that he made his testament wherein he assigned his sonne Richard the dutchie of Aquitaine and all those lands which came by quéene Elianor the mother of the same Richard And to his sonne Geffrey he bequeathed Britaine with the daughter of earle Conan which he had purchased to his vse of the French king And to line 10 his sonne king Henrie he gaue the dutchie of Normandie and all those lands which came by his father Geffrey earle of Aniou And to his yoongest sonne Iohn he bequeathed the earledome of Mortaine And finallie appointed where he would haue his bodie to be buried In the meane time Henrie the sonne remaining at home in England fell from all good order of measure kéeping and gaue himselfe to all excessiue riot spending and wasting his reuenues inordinatelie line 20 Of which behauiour his father being aduertised returned into England where he taried not long but passed ouer againe into Normandie hauing his said sonne in his companie meaning thereby to remooue him from the companie of those that were verie like to corrupt his nature and frame the same to all lewdnesse for he knew that commercia turpia sanctos Corrumpunt mores multi hoc periere veneno Labimur in vitium facilè ad pâ—iorâ— mouemur line 30 In this meane while Thomas the archbishop of Canturburie remained in exile almost six yeares and could not be restored till partlie by swelling threats of the pope and partlie at the earnest suit of Lewes the French king Theobald earle of Blois and others king Henrie began somewhat to shew himselfe conformable towards an agréement Wherevpon the two kings met diuerse times and the archbishop Thomas comming with the French king at one time humbled himselfe so to the king of line 40 England that knéeling downe at his féet he said My souereigne liege lord I commit the whole cause of the controuersie betwixt your grace and me vnto your maiesties order Gods honour onelie reserued The king offended with that ambiguous exception said to the king of France Whatsoeuer displeaseth this man is taken as he interpreteth it contrarie to Gods honour and so by that shift will he chalenge to himselfe all that belongeth vnto me But bicause line 50 you shall not thinke that I go about to resist Gods honour or him in any reasonable order looke what the greatest and most holie of all his ancestors haue doone vnto the meanest of mine ancestours let him doo the same vnto me and I am contented therewith All the companie present cried that the king humbled himselfe enough My lord archbishop said the French king will you be greater than saints and better than saint Peter Wherof stand you in doubt line 60 Behold your peace is at hand The archbishop made answer in commendation of the present state of holie church as thus My holie predecessours in their time although they cut not all things away that extolled it selfe against God yet did they cut off diuers but if they had plucked vp all by the hard roots which might offend who should now haue raised the fire of temptation against vs We are in much better case thanks be to God and as we haue laboured in their lot and number so are we partakers of their labour and reward What if any of them had béene defectiue or excessiâ—e in any point are we bound to â—ollow the example of their defection or excesse We blame Peter for his denieng of Christ but we praise him in reproouing of Neros violence with danger of his life The church hath risen and increased out of manie dangerous oppressions our fathers haue suffered manie things bicause they would not forsake the name of Christ and ought I to suppresse his honour to be reconciled vnto any mans fauour God forbid God forbid When the Noble men present heard this answer of a subiect against his souereigne they all held against him imputing the fault to the archbishops arrogancie that the peace was not made betweene the king and him insomuch that there was an erle which openlie said Sith he resisteth the will of both the realmes he is not worthie to be succoured by either of them from hencefoorth and therefore being cast out of England let not France receiue him The councell then being broken vp the kings departed without bidding the archbishop farewell and such as were mediatours for peace in departing from this meeting spake manie reprochfull words to him alledging that he had béene euer stout and wise in his owne conceit and a folower of his owne will and opinion adding that it was a great hinderance to the church that he was ordeined archbishop and that by him the church was alreadie in part destroied and would shortlie be altogither brought to vtter ruine But the archbishop setting a watch before his mouth kept silence as though he had not heard and folowed the French king with his people Manie said by the waie as they iourneied Behold the archbishop yonder which in talke the last night would not for the pleasure of the king denie God nor kéepe his honor in silence After this when the archbishop was come to Sens and aduised with himselfe whether it should be best for him to go at length he said God is able in the last point of miserie and distresse to helpe those that be his Herewith came a messenger from the French king to bring him to the
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
ploughland three shillings In the Lent following year 1200 he went to Yorke in hope to haue met the king of Scots there but he came not and so king Iohn line 50 returned backe and sailed againe into Normandie bicause the variance still depended betweene him and the king of France Finallie vpon the Ascension day in this second yeare of his reigne they came eftsoones to a communication betwixt the townes of Uernon and Lisle Dandelie where finallie they concluded an agréement with a marriage to be had betwixt Lewes the sonne of king Philip and the ladie Blanch daughter to Alfonso king of Castile the 8 of that name néece to K. Iohn by his sister Elianor line 60 In consideration whereof king Iohn besides the summe of thirtie thousand markes in siluer as in respect of dowrie assigned to his said néece resigned his title to the citie of Eureux and also vnto all those townes which the French king had by warre taken from him the citie of Angiers onelie excepted which citie he receiued againe by couenants of the same agréement The French king restored also to king Iohn as Rafe Niger writeth the citie of Tours and all the castels and fortresses which he had taken within Touraine and moreouer receiued of king Iohn his homage for all the lands fees and tenements which at anie time his brother king Richard or his father king Henrie had holden of him the said king Lewes or any his predecessors the quit claims and marriages alwaies excepted The king of England likewise did homage vnto the French king for Britaine and againe as after you shall heare receiued homage for the same countrie and for the countie of Richmont of his nephue Arthur He also gaue the earledome of Glocester vnto the earle of Eureux as it were by way of exchange for that he resigned to the French king all right title claime that might be pretended to the countie of Eureux By this conclusion of marriage betwixt the said Lewes and Blanch the right of king Iohn went awaie which he lawfullie before pretended vnto the citie of Eureux and vnto those townes in the confines of Berrie Chateau Roux or Raoul Cressie and Isoldune and likewise vnto the countrie of Ueuxin or Ueulquessine which is a part of the territorie of Gisors the right of all which lands townes and countries was released to the king of France by K. Iohn who supposed that by his affinitie and resignation of his right to those places the peace now made would haue continued for euer And in consideration thereof he procured furthermore that the foresaid Blanch should be conueied into France to hir husband with all spéed That doone he returned into England ¶ Certes this peace was displeasant to manie but namelie to the earle of Flanders who herevpon making no accompt of king Iohns amitie concluded a peace with king Philip shortlie after and ment to make warre against the infidels in the east parts wherby we may see the discontented minds of men and of how differing humors they be so that nothing is harder than to satisfie manie with one thing be the same neuer so good ô caecis mortalia plena tenebris Pectora ô mentes caligine circumseptas But by the chronicles of Flanders it appeareth that the earle of Flanders concluded a peace with the French king in Februarie last past before that king Iohn and the French king fell to any composition But such was the malice of writers in times past which they bare towards king Iohn that whatsoeuer was doone in preiudice of him or his subiects it was still interpreted to chance through his default so as the blame still was imputed to him in so much that although manie things he did peraduenture in matters of gouernement for the which he might be hardlie excused yet to thinke that he deserued the tenth part of the blame wherewith writers charge him it might seeme a great lacke of aduised consideration in them that so should take it But now to procéed with our purpose King Iohn being now in rest from warres with forren enimies began to make warre with his subiects pursses at home emptieng them by taxes and tallages to fill his coffers which alienated the minds of a great number of them from his loue and obedience At length also when he had got togither a great masse of monie he went ouer againe into Normandie where by Helias archbishop of Burdeaux and the bishop of Poictiers and Scone he was diuorsed from his wife Isabell that was the daughter of Robert earle of Glocester bicause of the néerenesse of bloud as touching hir in the third degrée After that he married Isabell the daughter of Amerie earle of Angolesme by whome he had two sonnes Henrie and Richard and thrée daughters Isabell Elianor and Iane. Moreouer about this time Geffrey archbishop of Yorke was depriued of all his manours lands and possessions by the kings commandement directed to the shiriffe of Yorkeshire for diuerse causes for that he would not permit the same shiriffe to leuie the dutie called Charugage that was thrée shillings of euerie ploughland within his diocesse rated and appointed to be leuied to the kings vse throughout all parts of the realme Secondlie for that the same archbishop refused to go ouer with the king into Normandie to helpe to make the marriage betwixt the French kings sonne and his néece Thirdlie bicause he had excommunicated the same shiriffe and all the prouince of Yorke wherevpon the king tooke displeasure against him and not onelie spoiled him line 10 as I said of his goods but also banished him out of the court not suffering him to come in his presence for the space of twelue moneths after In this yeare also Hubert archbishop of Canturburie held a councell at Westminster against the prohibition of the lord chiefe iustice Geffrey Fitz Peter earle of Essex In the which councell or synod diuerse constitutions were made and ordeined for orders and customes to be vsed touching the seruice and administration of sacraments in the church and line 20 other articles concerning churchmen and ecclesiasticall matters About the same time king Iohn and Philip king of France met togither néere the towne of Uernon where Arthur duke of Britaine as vassall to his vncle king Iohn did his homage vnto him for the duchie of Britaine those other places which he held of him on this side and beyond the riuer of Loir and afterward still mistrusting his vncles curtesie he returned backe againe with the French king and would not commit himselfe to his said vncle line 30 who as he supposed did beare him little good will These things being thus performed king Iohn returned into England and there caused his new married wife Isabell to be crowned on the sundaie before the feast of S. Denise the eight of October At the same time he gaue commandement vnto Hugh Neuill
Iohn Ufford archdeacon of Elie. For the French king Odo duke of Burgogne and Piers duke of Burbon were deputed commissioners Such diligence was vsed by the parties that finallie they agréed vpon this truce of thrée yeares year 1343 with certeine articles for meane to conclude some finall peace as that there should be sent from either king some personages of their bloud and others vnto the court of Rome with sufficient authoritie to agree confirme and establish vpon all controuersies and dissentions betwixt the said kings according to the agreement of the pope and such as should be so sent to treat thereof It was further agréed that they should haue libertie to declare and pronounce their arguments and reasons before the pope but not to haue power to decide and giue sentence but onlie by waie of some better treatie and order of agréement to be made And these commissioners were appointed to appeare before the pope afore the feast of saint Iohn Baptist next insuing and the pope to dispatch the businesse before Christmasse after if by consent of the said nobles the terme were not proroged And if it so were that the pope could make no agréement yet should the truce indure the prefixed terme to wit till the feast of S. Michaell the archangell and for the space of thrée yeares then next insuing betwixt the kings of France England and Scotland the earle of Heinault and their alies as the dukes of Brabant and of Gelderland also the marques of Gullikerland the lord Beaumont otherwise called sir Iohn de Heinault and the people of Flanders in all their lands and dominions from the date of the charter made hereof by all the said terme aforesaid to be obserued holden and kept Also the king of Scots and the earle of Heinault were appointed to send certeine persons as commissioners for them vnto the said court of Rome This truce was also accorded to be kept in Britaine betwixt the said kings and their adherents in which countrie as well as in Guien and other places euerie man should remaine in possession of that which he held at the time of concluding this truce saue that the citie of Uannes should be deliuered into the hands of the cardinall to be kept by them in the popes name during the truce and then to dispose thereof as should séeme to them good Manie other articles were comprised in the charter of this truce too long héere to rehearse all the which were confirmed with the oths of the said dukes of Burgoigne line 10 and Burbone on the French kings behalfe and of the earles of Derbie Northampton and Salisburie the lord Burghersts and the lord of Mannie for the king of England In witnesse whereof the said cardinals caused the charter to be made putting therevnto their seales the ninetéenth daie of Ianuarie in the yeare 1343 in presence of diuerse prelats and of the earles of Bullongne Ausserre Sancerre Iuignie and Porcien the lord Miles de Nohers the lord Ingram de Coucie and the foresaid lords Cantelowe line 20 Cobham and Berkeley with manie other lords barons nobles and gentlemen When this truce was thus confirmed manie of the English armie returned home through France so to passe ouer by the narrow seas into England but the king himselfe with a few other taking their ships to passe by long seas were maruellouslie tormented by tempest so that their ships were scattered and driuen to take land at diuerse hauens The dutchesse of Britaine with hir sonne and daughter came line 30 on land in Deuonshire Sir Peers de Ueele and his sonne sir Henrie Uéele and sir Iohn Raine knights were drowned togither with the ship in which they passed The king escaping verie hardlie landed at Weimouth and on the fift day of March came to London to the queene In the quindene of Easter he held a parlement at Westminster in which he created his eldest sonne Edward prince of Wales In this parlement were diuerse matters talked of and speciallie concerning wools and of the assessement of a certeine price of them more and lesse according line 40 to the seuerall parts of the realme and of the customes to be made of them to wit thrée marks and an halfe for euerie sacke to be transported foorth of the realme Also in the same parlement were ambassadors appointed foorth such as should go to the pope to treat of peace as in the charter of the truce among other articles it was conteined whose names follow Iohn bishop of Excester Henrie de Lancaster earle of Derbie Hugh le Dispenser lord of Glamorgan line 50 cousins to the king Rafe lord Stafford William de Norwich deane of Lincolne William Trussell knight and master Andrew de Ufford a ciuillian These persons were sent with commission to the pope to treat with him not as pope nor as iudge but as a priuat person and a common fréend to both parts to be a meane or mediator to find out some indifferent end of all controuersie betwixt the parties The date of their commission was at Westminster the foure and twentith of Maie in this seauenteenth line 60 yeare of the kings reigne Moreouer in this parlement a gréeuous complaint was exhibited by the earles barons knights burgesses and other of the commons for that strangers by vertue of reseruations and prouisions apostolike got the best benefices of this land into their hands and neuer came at them nor bare any charges due for the same but diminishing the treasure of the realme and conueieng it foorth sore indamaged the whole state The bishops durst not or would not giue their consents in exhibiting this complaint but rather seemed to stand against it till the king compelled them to giue ouer Herevpon a letter was framed by the lords of the temporaltie and commons which they directed vnto the pope in all humble manner beseeching him to consider of the derogation doone to the realme of England by such reseruations prouisions and collations of benefices as had béen practised here in England And therefore sith the churches of England had béene founded and endowed by noble and worthie men in times past to the end the people might be instructed by such as were of their owne language and that he being so farre off and not vnderstanding the default had like as some of his predecessors more than in times past had beene accustomed granted by diuerse reseruations prouisions and collations the churches and spirituall promotions of this land vnto diuerse persons some strangers yea and enimies to the realme whereby the monie and profits were carried foorth the cures not prouided for almes withdrawne hospitalitie decaied the temples and other buildings belonging to the churches ruinated and fallen downe the charitie and deuotion of the people sore diminished and diuerse other gréeuous enormities thereby growne cleane contrarie to the founders minds wherefore vpon due consideration therof had they signified to him that they could not suffer such
and required the gates to be opened and to giue him entrance or els he would with sword and fier destroie the same The maior and his brethren being in great perpleâ—ities and hauing to answer not onelie the lords within and the knight without but most of all doubting the common people within who being impatient of penurie were deafe to all persuasions and listen to any counsels did so order and handle the matter as that by good spéeches and courteous vsages euerie partie was stopped and staied vntill by means and mediations of certeine good and godlie men an intreatie was made the matter was compounded and the siege raised and euerie man set at libertie The next daie after which conclusion the gates being opened to wit the third of Aprill 1470 the earle of Warwike and the duke of Clarence came to this citie and here rested and soiorned themselues vntill sufficient shipping was prouided for their passage ouer the seas and then they all imbarked themselues and passed ouer to Calis The king in this meane time mustered his armie and prepared with all spéed all things necessarie to follow and pursue his said aduersaries and came to this citie thinking to find them here the fouretéenth of Aprill being saturdaie 1470 with fortie thousand fighting men but the birds were fled awaie before his comming Neuerthelesse the king came and entred into the citie being accompanied with sundrie noble men namelie the bishop of Elie then lord treasuror the duke of Norffolke earle marshall the duke of Suffolke the earle of Arundell the earle of Wilshire sonne to the duke of Buckingham the earle of Worcester constable of England the earle of Shrewesburie the earle Riuers the lord Hastings the lord Graie of Codnor the lord Andelie the lord Saie the lord Sturton the lord Dacres the lord Montioie the lord Stanleie the lord Ferris and the baron of Dudleie Before whose comming the maior being aduertised thereof tooke order and gaue commandement to euerie citizen and inhabitant being of abilitie to prouide and prepare for himselfe a gowne of the cities liuerie which was then red colour and to be in a readinesse for receiuing of the king which was accordinglie doone And when the king was come neere to the citie the maior being verie well attended with foure hundred persons well and séemelie apparelled in the cities liuerie went to the south gate and without the same attended the kings comming Who when he was come the maior did his most humble obeisance and therewith Thomas Dowrish then recorder of the citie made vnto his grace an humble oration congratulating his comming to the citie which ended the maior deliuered vnto the king the keies of the gates and the maces of his office and therewith a pursse of one hundred nobles in gold which his grace tooke verie thankfullie The monie he kept but the keies and the maces he deliuered backe to the maior and then the maior tooke the mace and did beare it through the citie bare-headed before the king vntill he came to his lodging The next daie following being Palmesundaie the king in most princelie and roiall maner came to the cathedrall church of saint Peters to heare the diuine seruice where he followed and went in procession after the maner as was then vsed round about the churchyard to the great ioy and comfort of all the people he continued in the citie thrée daies vntill the tuesdaie then following who when he had dined tooke his horsse and departed backe towards London and gaue to the maior great good thanks for his interteinement About foure moneths after this in August the duke of Clarence and the erle of Warwike returned againe from Calis with all their retinue landed some at Plimmouth some at Dartmouth and some at Exmouth but all met in this citie and from hence they all passed towards London and at euerie place they proclamed king Henrie the sixt Which when king Edward heard he was very much troubled therewith and not able then to withstand their force he passed the seas to his brother in law the duke of Burgognie This yeare also being verie troublesome and the gouernement vncerteine men were in great perplexities wist not what to doo And among manie there was one speciallie to be remembred who to rid himselfe out of these troubles did deuise this practise his name was sir William Haukesford knight a man verie well learned in the lawes of the realme and one of the chiefe iustices at the law he dwelled at Annorie in Deuonshire a gentleman of great possessions and hauing neuer a sonne the lord Fitz Warren sir Iohn Sentleger sir William Bulleine line 10 who maried his daughters were his heires This man being one of the chiefest lawiers in the land was dailie sought to and his counsell asked and he considering that when the sword ruled law had a small course and finding by experience what fruits insue such counsell as dooth not best like the parties was verie heauie sorrowfull and in great agonies Herevpon suddenlie he called vnto him the keeper of his parke with whom he fell out and quareled bicause as he said he was slouthfull and careles and line 20 did not walke in the nights about the parke but suffered his game to be spoiled and his deere to be stolen wherefore he wiâ—led him to be more vigilant and carefull of his charge and also commanded him that if he met anie man in his circuit and walke in the night time and would not stand nor speake vnto him he should not spare to kill him what so euer he were This knight hauing laid this foundation and minding to performe what he had purposed for the ending of his dolefull daies did in a certeine darke line 30 night secretlie conueie himselfe out of his house and walked alone in his parke Then the kéeper in his night walke hearing one stirring and comming towards him asked who was there but no answer was made at all Then the keeper willed him to stand which when he would not doo the kéeper nocked his arrow and shot vnto him and killed him who when he perceiued that it was his maister then he called to remembrance his maisters former commandement And so this line 40 knight otherwise learned and wise being affraid to displease man did displease God and verie disorderlie ended his life It is inrolled amongst the records of this citie of a commission directed to Iohn earle of Deuonshire from him sent to the maior of the citie of Excester to be proclamed The words be these Decimâ—quarto die Aprilus vz. in vigilia Paschae An 49. Hen. 6. commissio domini regis directa Iohanni comiti Deuon missa est maiori vt proclamaretur And likewise in an other place Quatuor marcae sunt solutae Iohanni comiti Deuon line 50 ex assensa maioris Howbeit certeine it is there was no such earle of that name onelie there was Iohn Holland then
well of the earledome as otherwise whereby he was in time following also constable of England and as it is most probable restored to that office by Henrie the second for that he was a great enimie to king Stephan He went amongest others with Henrie Fitz Empresse to Dauid king of Scots who knighted the said Henrie in the fouretéenth yeare of king Stephan he married Cicilie the daughter of Iohn Fitz Paine and died without issue Walter second sonne to Milo after the death of his brother Roger was earle of Hereford constable of England and lord ouer Gwenthie or Wenthie he builded in the time of Henrie the first the castels of Glocester Bristow and Rochester with the Tower of London he held the land of Wenthie by long time who hauing no heire of his bodie gaue the same land to Henrie of Hereford and for saking the world tooke monasticall habit on him at Lanthonie where he was buried dieng without issue Henrie of Hereford the sonne of Milo after the enterance of Walter his brother into religion was earle of Hereford constable of England and lord of Breckenocke and Deane who was in Wenthie at a conflict slaine by his owne men and buried at Lanthonie with Walter the constable after whose death Henrie the second deputed Iago ap Seisell to the custodie of the land of Wenthie William the sonne of Milo and brother to Henrie of Hereford was constable of England after the death of his brother and died without issue Mahaell the yoongest sonne of Milo after the death of William was constable of England who died without issue whome I feare not to place as constable since all histories agrée that all the sons of Milo did successiuelie inioie that office after whome the inheritance comming to their sister whereof the eldest called Margaret or Margerie was married to Humfrie Bohuno which line of the Bohunes became afterwards constables of England by inheritance Humfrie de Bohune steward to Henrie the first the sonne of Humfrie de Bohune steward in house to William Rufus sonne to Humfrie de Bohune that came in with the Conquerour was in the right of his wife Margerie one of the daughters and heire of the foresaid Milo constable of England he had issue Humfrie de Bohune Humfrie de Bohune constable of England married Margaret sister to William king of Scots and daughter to the earle of Huntington moother to line 10 Conon earle of Britaine he had issue Henrie This Margaret died the third of king Iohn being the yeare of Christ 1201. And this Humfrie also died in the time of king Iohn as some haue or rather as others haue in the time of king Richard the first Henrie de Bohune the sonne of the said Humfrie and Margaret was the first earle of Hereford of that name of the Bohunes contrarie to that receiued error which hitherto hath made the other Bohunes earle of Hereford and contrarie to the printed pedegrée of the deceassed father of the earle of line 20 Essex now liuing For this man being the first erle of the Bohunes was made earle of Hereford in the first yeare of king Iohn as the charter dooth witnesse He was also constable of England and married Mawd the daughter and heire of Geffrie lord Ludgarsall sometime earle of Essex in whose right hir husband was intituled to that honor of the earledome of Essex by whome he had issue Humfrie his heire He died about the fourth yeare of Henrie the line 30 third being the yeare of our redemption 1220 in his iournie as he went to Ierusalem with other noblemen Humfrie de Bohune sonne of Henrie being the second of that name that was erle of Hereford was also earle of Essex and constable of England being by all men termed La bone counte de Hereford He married Mawd the daughter of the earle of Oxie in Normandie he had issue Humfrie de Bohune that was taken in the yeare of Christ 1265 being the fortie line 40 ninth of king Henrie the third at the battell of Euesham and died in the life of his father leauing behind him a sonne called Humfrie heire to him and to his father which Humfrie the father died in the yeare of our redemption 1275 being the third yeare of king Edward the first Humfrie de Bohune the third earle of Hereford of that name the sonne of Humfrie Bohune slaine at the battell of Euesham was after the death of his grandfather erle of Hereford and Essex and constable of England he married Mawd de Ferens or line 50 Frenis and had issue Humfrie this earle died in the yeare of our redemption 1298 being the twentie sixt of Edward the first was buried at Walden with his wife Mawd. Humfrie de Bohune the fourth erle of Hereford of that name was earle of Hereford Essex and constable of England he married Elizabeth the daughter to king Edward the first and widow to Iohn earle of Holland he had issue Iohn erle of Hereford Humfrie earle of Hereford and William earle of line 60 Northhampton This Humfrie taking part with Thomas earle of Lancaster was slaine at Borrobridge by a Welshman standing vnder a bridge that thrust him thorough with a speare in the fouretéenth yeare of the reigne of king Edward the second being the yeare of our redemption 1321. Iohn de Bohune the eldest sonne of this Humfrie being the fiâ—t earle of Hereford was after the death of his father earle of Hereford Essex and constable of England he married the daughter of Edmund Fitz Alen earle of Arundell and died without issue in the yeare of Christ 1335 being the ninth yeare of king Edward the third He was buried in the abbeie of Stratford besides London Humfrie de Bohune sixt earle of Hereford being brother to Iohn de Bohune whome he succeeded was after the death of his brother earle of Hereford and Essex and constable of England he died without issue in the yeare of our Lord 1361 being the thirtie fift of king Edward the third and was buried at the Augustine friers in London William de Bohune seuenth erle of Hereford of that surname being the sonne of the other Humfrie and brother to the last Humfrie was at a parlement holden in the tenth yeare of the reigne of king Edward the third being in the yeare of our Lord 1336 created earle of Northhampton and after the death of his brother Humfrie he was earle of Hereford and Essex and constable of England He was in the eighteenth yeare of Edward the third being the yere of Christ 1344 sent into Britaine as generall ouer the English armie to restore Iohn de Montford to the dukedome of Britaine which he did putting Charles de Blois to flight He married Elizabeth some saie Eleanor one of the daughters and heires of Bartholomew Bladesmere baron of Bedes in Kent by whome he had issue Humfrie Humfrie de Bohune the eight last
20 kingdome at the castell of Tunbridge in Kent and Rigate in Surrie which Gilbert with the other péers of the land immediatlie after the death of king Henrie the third assembling at the new temple brake the old seale of king Henrie made a new seale in the name of king Edward and appointed faithfull officers for the sure kéeping and obseruing of the treasure the riches the peace and the lawes of the kingdoms This Gilbert had two wiues his first wife was line 30 Alice the daughter of Hugh le Brune erle of March by whom he had issue a daughter that was countesse of Fife in Scotland his second wife was Ione the daughter of king Edward the first called Ione of Acres by whome he had one sonne called Gilbert the third earle of Glocester and Hertford who married Mawd the daughter of Richard earle of Ulster in the yeare of Christ 1308 at Waltham by whome he had issue a sonne Iohn borne in the yeare of Christ 1312 being in the sixt yeare of Edward the second that died without issue after the death of which Gilbert line 40 the third his lands and earldomes of Glocester and Hertford came to the sister of the said Gilbert the third who was slaine in the battell of Striueling against the Scots in the seuenth or as others haue the eight yeare of king Edward the second whome the Scots would gladlie haue kept for ransome if they had knowne him but he had forgotten to put on his cote of armes to shew what he was after which he was brought into England and was buried line 50 at Tewkesburie vpon whose death the two earledomes of Glocester and Hertford were so dispersed that there was neuer anie to this daie that iointlie succéeded or possessed them both Thus hauing digressed from Gilbert the second in treating of his sonne Gilbert the third let vs againe returne to him He besides his sonne Gilbert the third had by his wife Ione thrée daughters Elenor first married to Hugh Spenser second sonne to Hugh Spenser earle of Glocester and after his death to William Zouch Margaret married to Piers de Gaueston earle of line 60 Cornewall and after to Hugh Audeleie and Elizabeth or Isabell married in the yeare of our Lord 1308 being the first yeare of Edward the second to Iohn the sonne of Richard earle of Ulster This Gilbert the second before the marriage of his second wife was on the fiftéenth kalends of August diuorsed from Alice his first wife in the yeare of our redemption 1271 being the six and fiftith yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the third and after in Westminster church the last of Aprill married his second wife about the eightéenth yeare of Edward the first being the yeare of Christ 1290 which Gilbert the second being taken awaie by vntimelie death departed this world in the yeare of our redemption 1195 being the thrée and twentith of the reigne of the said Edward the first who was in word déed in commandement and authoritie the greatest person of the kingdome next to king Edward the first for which cause he well deserued to haue his sepulture among his worthie ancestors Edmund earle of Cornewall of whome there is somewhat spoken before being the sonne of Richard king of Almaine and earle of Cornewall brother to Henrie the third married Margaret the daughter of Richard de Clare erle of Glocester he was made protector of the Realme by Edward the first in the fouretéenth yeare as some saie or in the fifteenth as others saie for there is so much disagréement amongst authors for the accounts of yeares as it passeth anie one man to reconcile them in all points when the said king went into Aragon to reconcile the two kings of Arragon Naples He continued in this office in the yeare of Christ 1287 or 1228 as hath Treuet being the sixteenth yeare of Edward the first in which he subdued Rise ap Merdach the Welsh prince rebelling against Edward the first and ouerthrew the castell of Druffillane as hath the said Nicholas Treuet he was lord of Wallingford did much cost therevpon and died without issue as hath Matthew Westminster in the yeare of Christ 1300 but as hath Thomas Walsingham 1301 leauing the king of England his heire Yet are there some pedegrées and other authors and those not the meanest which saie that he had a daughter Isabell married to Morice Fitz Harding lord Barkleie so that these authors which saie that he died without issue are to be vnderstood of the issue male not of the heire generall for they account him to die without issue which leaueth no posteritie to continue his title of honor The which their meaning they make more plaine in that they saie that after his issulesse death the earledome came to the crowne And here bicause there is mention made of Wallingford I will set downe what Leland hath written touching the same bicause I desire to make common and to preserue all whatsoeuer monuments of Leland that come vnto my hands thus therefore he writeth of Wallingford in his commentaries of England written in the yeare of our redemption 1542 being the foure and thirtith yeare of king Henrie the eight in these words The towne of Wallingford hath béene a verie notable thing and well walled The dich of the towne and the crest wherevpon the wals stand be yet manifestlie perceiued and begin from the castell going in compasse a good mile and more and so continueth to Wallingford bridge a large thing of stone ouer the Thames There remaine yet the names of these stréets amongst others Thamesstréet Fishstréet Woodstréet Goldsmiths row And by the patents and donation of Edmund earle of Cornewall and lord of the honour of Wallingford it appeereth that there were fourtéene parish churches in Wallingford and there be men yet aliue that can shew the places and churchyards where they stood at this time there are but thrée parish churches The towne and the castell was sore defaced by the Danes warres yet they méetlie florished in the time of Richard king of the Romans earle of Cornewall and brother to Henrie the third he did much cost vpon the castell which ioineth to the north gate of the towne and hath thrée diches as vpon the crests of the same may appéere large and déepe about each of the two first diches on the crests of the ground cast out runneth an embatteled wall now sore in ruine and for the most part defaced All the goodlie buildings with the tower and dungeon be within the third dich There is also a collegiat chapell amongest the buildings within the third dich Edmund earle of Cornewall son to Richard king of Romans was the first founder and indower of this college Prince Edward the blacke as one told me augmented this college There is a deane foure priests six clerkes and foure choristers The late deane before doctor London that now is builded a faire stéeple of stone at the west
end of the collegiat chapell to the making whereof he defaced as it is said without licence a peece of the line 10 kings lodging on the east end of the chapell The deane hath a faire lodging of timber within the castell and to it is ioined a place for the ministers of the chapell Thus much Leland for Wallingford thus much I for Edmund earle of Cornewall and lord of Wallingford Edward of Carnaruan prince of Wales sonne to Edward the first was in the yeare of our redemption 1295 being the fiue and twentith yeare of Edward the first protector of England in the absence of his father in Flanders who because he was line 20 of tender yeares had as tutors and gouernours appointed vnto him Richard bishop of Durham Eulogium hath the bishop of London William Montacute with diuerse other knights as Reignold Greie Iohn Giffard Alane Plunket being wise discreet and expert soldiers Piers or Peter de Gauestone a Gascoine borne whome king Edward the second so tenderlie loued as that he preferred him before all men was appointed gardian of the realme in the first yeare of the line 30 said king Edward the second being the yeare of our redemption 1308 when the king went into France and there aboad to marrie Isabell daughter to Philip king of France before that the said Edward was crowned king of England as hath Radulphus Higden Of this Piers I will here saie litle bicause I haue spoken more largelie of him in my pantographie of England Iohn de Drokensford bishop of Bath and Wels was in the yeare of our redemption 1313 being the line 40 sixt yeare of king Edward the second made protector of the realme in the absence of the said king Edward the second and his wife quéene Isabell who went into France to solemnize the coronation of Philip sonne to Philip king of France who was at that instant created king of Nauarre This Drokensford was the fourtéenth bishop of Bath Wels. Great contention was there betwéene him and the deane and priests of that church He succéeded in the bishoprike Walter Houelshaw This Drokensford line 50 held the bishoprike about ninetéene yeares he beautified the same with manie goodlie buildings procured manie priuileges vnto it and greatlie exalted his kindred He was buried at Welles before the high altar of saint Iohn Baptist. Henrie Lascie or Lacie earle of Lincolne and of Salisburie baron of Halton and of Pontfrait corruptlie called Pomefret and constable of Chester was made protector of the realme in the fift yeare of Edward the second being the yeare of our redemption line 60 1310 whilest the king remained in the warres of Scotland Which Henrie died shortlie after in the same yeare and was buried in the new worke of Paules who carried for his armes the purple lion cōtrarie to the cote his ancestors had borne before This man had doone great seruice in the warres in the time of Edward the first he married Margaret the daughter and heire of William Longespée earle of Salisburie and had by hir a daughter named Alice married to Thomas Plantagenet earle of Lancaster Leicester and Darbie This Henrie as I haue learned of other and read in Leland had issue a bastard sonne and hauing amongst manie other lordships the manour of Grantcester besides Cambridge he gaue the same with other lands vnto that bastard and commanded that the same Lacie so set vp in Grantcester should for himselfe and his successors euer name their sonnes and heires by the names of Henrie which hitherto hath béene religiouslie obserued amongst them And this was the originall of the houses of the Lacies in Grantcester as Leland learned of him which was then heire of those lands Gilbert de Clare the third earle of Glocester of that name after the death of Henrie Lacie was chosen gouernour of the realme the king being still in Scotland during the time that the king shuld make his abode in that countrie Of this man see before in the discourse of his father Gilbert the second earle of Glocester and Hertford and protector of the realme Edward prince of Wales and duke of Aquitane comming out of France with Isabell in the second yeare of Edward the second his father was after his landing in England and the taking of his father made gardian of England vnder his father which office he did not long continue for deposing his father from the kingdome in the yeare of Christ 1326 he assumed the crowne himselfe in his fathers life Walter Reinolds archbishop of Canturburie was with others appointed gardian of England on this sort Edward the third as before atteining to the crowne in the yeare of our redemption 1327 or as some others more trulie saie 1326 being fourteene years of age did then begin his reigne But bicause he was so yoong not being of power or policie to weld so great a charge it was decréed in this first yeare of his reigne that twelue gouernors of the greatest lords within the realme should possesse the gouernement vntill he came to riper yeares whose names were as insueth Walter archbishop of Canturburie the archbishop of Yorke the bishop of Winchester the bishop of Hereford Henrie earle of Lancaster Thomas Brotherton earle marshall Edmund of Woodstocke earle of Kent Iohn earle of Warren the lord Thomas Wake the lord Henrie Persie the lord Oliuer de Ingham and the lord Iohn Rosse who were sworne of the kings councell and charged with the gouernement of the kingdome as they would answere for the same But this ordinance continued not long for in the second yeare of this king Isabell the kings mother and the lord Roger Mortimer tooke the whole rule into their hands in such sort that the king and his councellors were in all affaires of state and otherwise onelie gouerned by their direction Of this Walter Reinolds the archbishop bicause he was sometime chancellor and sometime treasuror is more mention made in the large volume of the liues of the chancellors Iohn of Eltham earle of Cornewall sonne to Edward the second had in the fourth yeare of king Edward the third being the yeare of our redemption 1330 the gouernement of the realme committed vnto him whilest king Edward the third had passed the seas onelie fiftéene horsses in his companie apparelled in clokes like vnto merchants which office the said Iohn of Eltham executed vntill the returne of the said king and before that also when the said Edward the third in the second yeare of his reigne did before this time go into France to doo his homage He was made earle of Cornewall in the second yeare of king Edward the third being the yeare of Christ 1328 and died at Barwike others saie at S. Iohns towne in Scotland in the moneth of October 1336 being the tenth yeare of Edward the third and was honorablie buried at Westminster for the solemnization of whose buriall the king came out of Scotland
he had made his praiers he was conueied to his lodging prepared for him in the deans house The quéene hir selfe was lodged in the bishops palace whither his highnesse the next daie came and was receiued by hir in the hall in most courteous louing maner And after such salutations talke ended as was thought conuenient for the time he returned to his lodging where he continued all that night and the next daie being the fiue and twentith of Iulie the mariage was openlie solemnized At the which were present the ambassadors of the emperor the king of Romans the king of Bohem of Uenice Florence Ferrare and Sauoie with certeine agents of other states in Italie As for the shot of ordinance the diuerse kinds of musicke the sumptuous and costlie apparell trappers and other furniture readie prouided against the receiuing of him with other ceremonies vsed aswell about the mariage as in other places where he was to be receiued were suerlie such and euerie thing doone in such good order as better for such a purpose might not lightlie be deuised Nobles of Spaine were the duke of Alua the duke of Medina celi the admerall of Castilla the marques of Bergues the marques of Piscara the marques of Saria the marques of Ualli the marques of Aguillar the earle of Egmund the earle of Horne the earle of Feria the earle of Chinchon the earle of Oliuares the earle of Saldana the earle of Modica the earle of Fuentesalida the earle of Landriano the earle of Castellar Don Ruigomes the bishop of Cuenca Don Iohn de Benauides and diuerse others An abstract of the conditions of this mariage betweene both the princes BUt now forsomuch as some would happilie be desirous to know the conditions of this memorable mariage betwixt these two high princes the consequence wherof might haue prooued of so great importance although by the quéens decease the effect was made void I haue thought good to recite in briefe the chiefe articles thereof 1 It was couenanted that he should enioy the title and name of king during the matrimonie and should aid hir highnesse being his wife in the administration of hir realmes and dominions but yet he should permit and suffer hir to haue the whole disposition of all benefices offices lands reuenues and fruits of the said realmes and dominions and that the same should be bestowed vpon such as were hir naturall borne subiects and that all matters of the said realmes and dominions should be treated and handled in the same toongs wherein of old they haue béene woont to be treated 2 That the quéene by vertue of the said mariage should be admitted into the societie of the realities and dominions of the said prince of Spaine as well such as he now presentlie hath as such other also as during the matrimonie may come to him 3 And for hir dowrie in case she ouerliued him she was appointed to receiue yéerlie thrée score thousand pounds after the value of fortie groats Flemmish monie the pound to be allotted vpon all the realms lands and patrimoniall dominions of his father the emperor that is to saie fortie thousand pounds to be assigned vp on the realms of Spaine Castile and Aragon according to the custome of those realms The other twentie thousand pounds were appointed vpon the dukedoms earledoms and dominions of Brabant Flanders Henalt Holland and other patrimoniall lands and inheritances of the said emperor in the low countries of Germanie in like maner as the ladie Margaret of England sometime wife and widow of the lord Charles sometime duke of Burgogne had and receiued of the same And if anie parcell or parcels thereof be alienated then in line 10 lieu thereof other lands should be in due forme assigned foorth for hir to enioy lieng neere to the residue of hir dower 4 The issue that should chance to come of this mariage touching the right of the mothers inheritance in the realme of England and the other realmes and dominions depending of the same aswell the males as females should succeed in them according to the laws statutes and customs of the same 5 And as touching the lands that the said prince line 20 of Spaine shall leaue behind him first there should be reserued vnto his eldest sonne the lord Charles of Austrich infant of Spaine and to the children and heires of him descending as well females as males all and singular their rights which to the said prince doo either then or thereafter should belong or should at anie time be deuolued to him in the realmes of Spaine of both the Sicils in the dukedome of Millaine and other lands and dominions in Lumbardie and Italie which neuerthelesse shall be burdened line 30 and charged with the foresaid dower of fortie thousand pounds And if it fortuned the said lord Charles to die and the issue of his bodie to faile then the eldest son of this matrimonie should succeed and be admitted vnto the said right according to the nature lawes and customs of those realmes and dominions The same eldest son should also succéed in all the dukedoms earledoms dominions and patrimoniall lands belonging vnto the said emperor father to the said prince of Spaine as well in Burgogne line 40 as in the low countries in the dukedoms of Brabant Luxenburgh Gelderland Zutphane Burgougne Fréeseland in the countries of Flanders Arthois Holland Zeland Namure and the land beyond the Isles and all other whatsoeuer therevnto belonging 6 But if the said lord Charles or they that should come of him remaine in life and that there be anie male child by this matrimonie the said lord Charles and his descendents should then be excluded from line 50 the said lands and patrimoniall dominions of the low countries and of Burgongne and the same should descend vnto the said eldest son borne of this matrimonie And to the other children borne thereof as well males as females a conuenient portion and dower should be allotted in the realme of England and dominions depending of the same and in the said lands patrimoniall dominions of the low countries and neither the eldest sonne of this matrimonie nor the sons begotten in the same should line 60 pretend anie right in the realme of Spaine or in the dominions of the same and reserued to the said lord Charles the infant otherwise than by their fathers and grandfathers disposition 7 Moreouer if it fortune no issue male to be borne of this matrimonie but onelie females in that case the eldest female should with full right succéed in the said lands and dominions of the low countries so as neuerthelesse she being minded to choose to husband anie noble man not borne in England or in the low countries without the consent of the said lord Charles the infant in that case the right of the succession should remaine to the said lord Charles in the said dominions of the low countries Burgongne and their
appurtenances And yet neuerthelesse in that case both she and the other daughters also descending of this matrimonie shall be indowed of their fathers lands possessions aswell in Spaine as in the low countries 8 And for want of the said lord Charles and issue of him and none but daughters remaining of this mariage the eldest daughter in that case should succéed not onelie in the lands of the low countries but also in the realmes of Spaine England and the rest after the nature the lawes and customs of the same 9 Herewith was a prouiso accorded that what soeuer he or she should be that should succéed in them they should leaue to euerie of the said realms lands and dominions whole and entire their priuileges rites and customs and gouerne the same by the naturall borne of the same realmes dominions and lands c. 10 Finallie that betwéene the said emperor the prince and his successors their realmes and the said quéene it was concluded that from thenseforth there should be an entire sincere fraternitie vnitie and most strict confederaâ—ie for euer c so as they shuld mutuallie aid ech other in all things according to the strength forme effect of the latter tretise of a strict amitie bearing date at Westminster in the yéere 1542 the declaration of which treatie beareth date at Uteright the sixtéenth of Ianuarie in the yeare 1546. In another treatise were these articles following comprised FIrst that the prince of Spaine should not promote admit or receiue vnto anie office administration or benefice in the realme of England or dominions to the same belonging anie stranger or persons not borne vnder the subiection of the said quéene 2 That he should receiue into his houshold and court gentlemen and yeomen of the said realme of England in a conuenient number estéeming interteining and nourishing them as his proper subiects bring none with him in his retinue that will doo anie wrong to the subiects of the said realme if they doo he to correct them with condigne punishment and to see them expelled his court 3 That he shall doo nothing whereby anie thing be innouated in the state and right either publike or priuat or in the lawes and customs of the said realme of England or the dominions therevnto belonging but shall kéepe to all estates and orders their rights and priuileges 4 That he shall not leade awaie the quéene out of the borders of hir graces realme vnlesse she hir selfe desire it or carrie the children that may be borne of this matrimonie out of the same realme vnlesse it be otherwise thought good by the consent and agréement of the nobilitie of England 5 And in case no children being left the said queene doo die before him he shall not challenge anie right at all in the said kingdome but without impediment shall permit the succession therof to come vnto them to whome it shall belong by the right and lawes of the realme 6 Item that he shall not beare nor carrie ouer out of the said realme the iewels and pretious things of estimation Neither shall he alienat or doo awaie anie whit of the appurtenances of the said realme of England or suffer anie part of them to be vsurped by his subiects or anie other But shall see that all and singular places of the realme and speciallie the forts and frontires of the same be faithfullie kept and preserued to the vse and profit of the said realme and by the naturall borne of the same 7 He shall not suffer anie ship guns ordinance whatsoeuer of warre or defense to be remooued or conueied out of the same realme but shall contrariwise cause them diligentlie to be kept and viewed when need requireth and shall so prouide that the same maie be alwaies readie in their strength and force for defense of the realme 8 Item the realme of England by occasion of line 10 this matrimonie shall not directlie nor indirectlie be intangled with the warre that is betwéene the emperor father to the said prince of Spaine and Henrie the French king but he the said prince as much as in him maie lie on the behalfe of the said realme of England shall sée the peace betwéene the said realmes of France and England obserued and shall giue no cause of anie breach by which couenant the latter treatise of a strict amitie should not be in anie point derogated but the same still to remaine in line 20 the former force c. But now to returne where we left At the time of the solemnization of the foresaid marriage holden at Winchester as before ye haue heard the emperors ambassadors being present openlie pronounced that in consideration of that marriage the emperor had giuen and granted to the said prince his sonne the kingdome of Naples and Ierusalem with diuerse other seats and segniories The solemnitie line 30 of that marriage ended the king of heralds called Garter openlie in the church in the presence of the king the quéene the lords as well of England as Spaine all the people being present solemnelie proclamed the title and stile of those two princes as followeth Philip and Marie by the grace of God king and queene of England France Naples Ierusalem and Ireland defendors of the faith princes of Spaine and Sicilie archdukes of Austrich dukes of Millaine Burgundie and Brabant counties of line 40 Haspurge Flanders and Tiroll The proclamation being ended the trumpets blew and the king with the queene came forth of the church hand in hand and two swords borne before them and so returned to their palace ¶ By this time report had sufficientlie sounded abrode all that happened speciallie the solemnities executed about this roiall marriage whereby some supposed that this land would haue become a golden world and that such amitie would haue insued betweene both nations as nothing should dissolue But line 50 others were of a contrarie opinion supposing as it came to passe indéed that the peoples minds would be alienated and estranged from the disposition whereto they were addicted in king Edwards daies and that manie would become heauie hearted vpon heare-saie of this coniunction much more pensife grieued at the meditation of the miseries which were like immediatlie to follow as C. O. noteth in discoursing on this matter saieng as here follo weth line 60 Succedit regi defuncto sceptra capescens Foemina cui nomen Maria est soror vna duarum Ex stirpe Henrici quae paucis nupta diebus Post homini externo consanguineóque Philippo Coniugio talisubtristes reddidit Anglos Námque duas gentes rarò coalescere cernas Vnanimes patria plerunque amore diremptas Of this marriage saith maister Fox as the papists chieflie séemed to be verie glad so diuerse of them after diuerse studies did shew foorth their inward affections some made interludes and pageants and some drew foorth genealogies deriuing his pedegrée
the yeare of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and one Sir William Paulet knight marquesse of Winchester was made lord treasuror vpon the death of the duke of Summerset in the fift yeare of king Edward the sixt and the yeare of Christ one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and one which office he kept by the space of twentie yeares and more a longer time than euer anie other treasuror had done before except the two last dukes of Norffolke This man being a man of extreme age as atteining to the yeares of ninetie seuen died lord treasuror of England the tenth of March in the yeare of our saluation one thousand fiue hundred seuentie and one being the fourtéenth yeare of the reigne of the famous queene Elisabeth at his manor of Basing He in his life time did sée the children of his childrens children growne to the number of one hundred and thrée a rare blessing of God to men of his calling He married Elisabeth the daughter of sir William Capell knight by whome he had issue Iohn marquesse of Winchester Thomas Chidiocke and Giles Alice married to Richard Stowell Margaret married to sir William Berkeleie Margerie married to Richard Waller and Eleanor married to sir Richard Peckshall Sir William Cecill knight of the garter and lord Burghleie was aduanced to the honorable place of lord treasuror of England on the thirtéenth daie of Iulie in the yeare of our redemption one thousand fiue hundred seauentie and two being the fouretéenth yeare of the reigne of our gratious quéene Elisabeth This man was descended of the honorable familie of the Sitsylts of Wales sometime lords of Beauport in the daies of Henrie the first as appeareth by this pedegrée here inserted 1 In the yeare of Christ one thousand ninetie and one Robert Sitsylt came with Robert Fitzhamon to the conquest of the countrie of Glamorgan and after wedded a ladie by whom he had Halterennes and other lands in Hereford and Glocestershires he had a sonne called Iames Sitsylt 2 Iames Sitsylt tooke part with Mawd the empresse against king Stephan and was slaine at the siege of the castell of Wallingford Anno quarto Stephani hauing then vpon him a vesture whereon was wrought in néedle worke his armes or ensignes as they be made on the toome of Gerald Sitsylt in the abbeie of Dore which are afterward trulie blazed in a iudgement giuen by commission of king Edward the third for the ancient right of the same armes This Iames had a sonne called Iohn Sitsylt and foure daughters 3 Iohn Sitsylt the sonne of Iames was after the death of his father in the same warres with Roger earle of Hereford and constable of England and being taken prisoner at the siege of Lincolne Anno. 6. Stephani he paid for his ransome foure hundred marks and therefore sold his lordship of Beauport and all his lands in the countie of Glocester he tooke to wife a ladie called Mawd de Frenes and had issue Eustace 4 Eustace Sitsylt the son of Iohn was wedded to Elianor the daughter of sir Walter Pembridge knight and had by hir Baldwin and Iohn and foure daughters whereof one of them was the wife of sir Thomas Fitzneale knight 5 Baldwin Sitsylt the sonne of Eustace was made knight by king Henrie the second in the warres that the king had against the Welshmen he was also killed in the same warres at the siege of the castell of Cardiffe his father being aliue he tooke to wife the daughter of Maurice de Brompton and had by hir Gerald Sitsylt Eustace Sitsylt Henrie Sitsylt Iohn Sitsylt and Walter Sitsylt and two daughters Catharine and Elianor Catharine was the wife of Hugh Muredake and Elianor was the wife of Walter Wallis This Baldwin Sitsylt knight tooke to his second wife Margerie the daughter of Stephan Radnor knight and had by hir Stephan Sitsylt Roger Sitsylt Hugh Sitsylt and Dauid Sitsylt and thrée daughters the first was Mawd and she was a Nun the second was Ione and she was the wife of Iohn de line 10 Solers the third daughter Anne was the wife of Owen ap Meredith This man gaue certeine lands in the towneship of Kigestone vnto the moonks of Dore and granted vnto the same moonks fréedome of common and pasture and other liberties in his woods 6 Gerald Sitsylt the first sonne of Baldwin Sitsylt knight tooke to wife Mabill the daughter of Sir William Moigne knight and had by hir three sonnes Gerald Sitsylt that died a child Robert line 20 Sitsylt that married and had children and Owen Sitsylt a moonke of the abbeie of Dore. He had also three daughters Catharine that was wedded to sir Griffin ap Yoreford and after to Dauid ap Euan and the third time to Geffreie de Bret sonne of sir Walter Bret knight Anne the second daughter of Gerald Sitsylt was wedded to Robert the sonne of Richard Bromewich And Ellen the third daughter of Gerald Sitsylt was the wife of Iohn Abrahall father of sir Iohn Abrahall line 30 knight 7 Robert Sitsylt the sonne of Gerald tooke to wife Alicia daughter of sir Robert Tregois knight and had by hir Iames Sitsylt his first sonne Gerald the second sonne Thomas the third sonne and Baldwin the fourth sonne and Margaret the first daughter and Elisabeth the second daughter 8 Iames Sitsylt the sonne of Robert tooke to wife Isabell the daughter of sir Iohn Knell knight and had by hir Iames and Gerald twins Iames line 40 died yoong he had also Robert Sitsylt and Iohn Sitsylt and fiue daughters that is to saie Alicia wedded to Walter Monington Grace wedded to Roger sonne of William Blunt Elianor wedded to Thomas Paine Margerie wedded to Morgan ap Meredith and Sislie married to Howell ap Blethin and after to sir Hugh Bruge 9 Gerald Sitsylt sonne of Iames tooke to wife Margaret daughter of Stephan Dalaber and by hir had Iohn Sitsylt and after he wedded Bridget line 50 the widow of sir Simon Ward knight and had by hir Iames Sitsylt and the third time married the daughter of Martine Hopton and had by hir Martine Sitsylt Henrie Sitsylt and Dauid Sitsylt and Ione a daughter And the fourth time the same Gerald Sitsylt tooke to wife Iane the daughter of Robert Emerton and had by hir one sonne named Stigand Sitsylt that was slaine in the warres of Striuelin in the time of king Edward the second and had no issue as the register of the abbie of Dore maketh mention line 60 10 Iohn Sitsylt the sonne of Gerald tooke to wife Sibill the daughter of Robert of Ewyas and had by hir sir Iohn Sitsylt knight George Sitsylt and a daughter named Margaret that was the wife of sir Robert Baskeruile knight who had by hir sir Iohn Baskeruile knight and by his second wife he had sir Richard Baskeruile knight that tooke to wife Iane the daughter and heire of George Sitsylt second sonne of
death bed 708 b 30 50 c. Deceaseth his issue male and female 710 a 20 c. Edward the fift his comming to London 716 b 50. He and his brother murthered in the Towre note 734 b 20 c 735 all Edward the sixt borne 944 a 10 Proclamed king of England rideth through London to Westminster crowned 979 a 10 b 10 30. His letter to the citizens of London 1059 a 10. He rideth through London 1060 b 40. His princelie spéech to doctor Ridleie after his sermon made of mercie charitie 1081 b 60. His message to the rebels of Cornewall and Deuonshire 1003 b 60 1004 a 10. Founder of the hospitals in London 1082 b 30. His victories against the Scots 1161 b 10. His feare and mistrust of thrée mariages which fell out to be true he falieth sicke dieth 1083 b 20 30 60. His praiseworthie qualities and death reuealed 1084 a 30 c b 10. His buriall 1089 a 50. Counterfeited and the partie executed 1127 a 40 c b 10 Edward created prince 365 a 40. Made knight 660 b 60. Setteth forward into the holie land 274 b 60. Traitorouslie wounded 275 a 20 Getteth diuerse castels 266 a 60. Escapeth a danger 269 b 50. He and the earle of Glocester not suffred to come within the citie of London 262 b Euill intreated in manie places 262 b 60. Goeth against the Welshmen 264 a 10. Receiueth the crosse 274 a 40. Taketh monie out of the treasurie of the temple 264 a 60. Arriueth at Acres in danger to be slaine by treason 275 a 20. Hath the rule of London he appointeth the maior shiriffes 274 b 20. Sent to the king of Castile 249 b 50. He marrieth the ladie Elenor daughter to king Aâ—fonse b 60. Created prince of Wales 250 a 10. His wife commeth to London 252 a 50. Pursueth the Londoners 268 a 10. Imprisoned for riot 313 b 30. Made knight and sent into Scotland 314 a 30. Goeth ouer into Gascoigne 382 b 50. His procéedings in Aquitane 383 b 20 c. Two bishops sent vnto him from the pope 383 b 50 c 384 a 10 c. His first sonne borne 397 a 60. And duke of Aquitaine 332 a 40. Sent into France 336 a 60. Inuadeth the French dominions 387 a 10 His order where he came his feats of armes the passages stopped against him he returneth lodgeth in the towne of Remorentius he is followed by the French king 387 all Contenied to come to a parlée his offer his exhortation to his soldiors when he saw he must néeds fight 388 a 60 b 10 60. Noblemen that were with him the number of his armie both powers ioine issue 389. He obteineth the victorie his méeke oration to the French king his prisoner he returneth to Burdeaux bringeth the French king ouer into England 390 a 10 b 20 60. Made lord warden of the realme 339 b 20. Setteth forward into Spaine 398 a 20. He passeth into Guien 395 b 60. Put to his shifts for default of monie he returneth into Gascoigne constreined to burden his subiects with a sore subsidie 400 a 10 30 b 30. Appealed to appéere before the French king 401 a 10. His answer a letter published by him to appease the Gescoignes b 40. Diseased with sicknesse 402 b 20. Deceaseth buried at Canturburie his death grieuouslie taken 410 b 50 60. Returneth out of France into England 406 a 60. Married to the erle of Warwikes daughter 674 b 60. Taken in flight he is murthered 688 a 60 b 20 Edward called the Blacke prince borne 348 b 20 Edward the third son of Henrie the seuenth christened 788 a 10 Edwin earle of Northumberland withdraweth from the battell against duke William 1 a 30. His lands giuen to Alane earle of Britaine 7. Reconciled to king William 9 b 40. He and Edgar Etheling resist duke William and his Normans 6 a 10. He Marchar submit themselues to duke William 1 a 50. Slaine of his owne soldiors 10 a 50. ¶ Sée Marchar Egelsin abbat ¶ Sée Stigand Egelsin abbat of S. Augustine his martiall mind vnpatient of forced seruitude 1 b 50 2 a 10 Egelwine abbat of Euesham â— warrior 11 a 50 Egelwinus bishop of Durham flieth from Durham note 7 b 60. In armes against duke William taken prisoner and famished to death 10 a 40 50 Egmond countie lieutenant generall for king Philip in the low countries his valiant onset vpon the French 1150 a 60 b 20 Egremond knight a capteine rebell 769 b 50. Flieth into Flanders 770 a 10 Egremond lord Persie 647 b 30 committed to Newgate his escape 645 b 60 Election choise of thrée things 284 b 60 Elenor countesse of Britaine deceaseth 228 b 60 Elenor prince Edwards wife commeth to London 252 a 60 Elenor K. Henrie the seconds daughter married to the king of Castile 98 b 30 Elenor Cobham accused of treson note 622 b 60 623. a 10. ¶ Sée Marriage and Quéene Elephant sent to Henrie the third from the French king 252. a 30. Two presented to the pope note 837 b 10 Elie held against Henrie the third 273 a 50. Spoiled the church note 190 a 40 Elisabeth second daughter to king Henrie the eight prisoner in the Towre she hath heauie enimies of the clergie 1101 b 10 c 1102 a 10 20 c. Hir bloud thirsted after by Gardiner hir life preserued by master Briges lieutenant of the Towre 1130 b 20 30. The whole storie of hir troubles in the daies of quéene Marie and how she was preserued notable to read 1151 b 50 60 1152 1153 1154 1155. Deliuered out of the Towre hir words to Beningfield knight hir kéeper in the time of durance 1117 b 40. Proclamed quéene the same daie that Marie died 1160 a 40. And the ladie Anne of Cléeue ride togither in a rich chariot 1091 a 30. ¶ Sée Quéene Elisabeth wife to Henrie the seuenth hir birth 668 b 50 Elisabeth Barton hir practises discouered with hir adherents she is attainted becommeth a nun 936 a 20 b 10 60. Bishops giue credit to hir hipocriticall dooings she is executed hir confession at hir death 937 a 10 20 30 Emmanuell college at Cambridge founded 1396 a 10 c. Emperor Adulfe breaketh promise with the king of England and the earle of Flanders 304 b 60 Emperor of Constantinople commeth into England 239 b 60 519 a 20 Emperor Ferdinand deceaseth foretelleth the vttermost daie of his death his goodlie issue male and female 1208 a 10 20 30 Emperor Charles preparation for receiuing of him into England 853 a 50. Landeth in England méeteth with Henrie the eight at Douer laboureth to hinder the purposed interuiew betwéene Henrie the eight and the French K saileth into Flanders 856 a 40 b 60 a 20. Commeth to Calis to K Henrie the eight 861 b 20. His interteimnent note b 30 c. And the French king at wars 781 a 10 Landeth at Douer he and Henrie the eight sweare each to other
Normans at Yorke he shewed proofe of his prowesse in striking off the heads of manie of them with his owne hands as they came foorth of the gates singlie one by one yet afterwards when the king had pardoned him of all former offenses and receiued him into fauour hee gaue to him in mariage his néece Iudith the daughter of Lambert earle of Lens sister to Stephenerle of Albermare and with hir he had of the kings gift all the lands and liberties belonging to the honor of Huntingdon in consideration whereof he assigned to hir in name of hir dower all the lands that he held from Trent southward Shée bare by him two daughters Maud and Alice We find that he was not onlie earle of Northumberland but also of Northampton and Huntingdon The countesse of Cambridge or Northfolke as other haue wife of earle Rafe being fled into the citie of Norwich was besieged in the same by the kings power which pressed the citie so sore as it was forced for verie famine to yéeld but yet by composition namelie that such as were besieged within should depart the realme as persons abiured and banished the land for euer This was the end of the foresaid conspiracie At this verie time the Danes being confederate with these rebels and by them solicited set forth towards England vnder the leading of Cnuto sonne to Sueno and earle Haco and vnlooked for arriue here in England with two hundred sailes But hearing that the ciuill tumult was ended and seeing no man readie either to countenance or encourage them in their enterprise they sailed first into Flanders which they spoiled and after into their owne countrie with little desire or will to come againe into England King William also vnderstanding that they were thus departed passed ouer into Britaine and there besieged the castell of Doll that belonged to Rafe earle of Cambridge or Northfolke but by the comming of Philip the French king king William being vnprouided of sufficient vittels for his armie was constreined to raise his siege although with great losse both of men and horsses On the 27. daie of March was a generall earthquake in England and in the winter following a frost that continued from the first of Nouember vntill the middle of Aprill A blasing starre appeered on palme sundaie beeing the sixteenth daie of Aprill about six of the clocke when the aire was faire and cleere About the same season pope Gregorie perceiuing that married préests did thoose rather to run into the danger of his câ—â—sse than to forsake their wiues meaning to bridle them by an other prouiso gaue commandment by his bull published abroad that none should heare the masse of a married prâ—est King William after his comming from the siege of Doll remained a certeine time in quiet during which season Lanfranke the archbishop called a synod or councell of the cleargie at London wherein amongst other things it was ordeined that certeine bishops sees should be 〈…〉 small townes to cities of more fame whereby it came to passe that Chichester Exceter Bath Salisburie Lincolne Chester were honored with new sees and palaces of bishops whereas before they kept their residence at Sellewey Kirton Welles Shireborne Dorchester and Lichfield At this synod also Woolstan bishop of Worcester was present whom Lanfranke would haue deposed for his insufficiencie of learning as he colourablie pretended but indeed to pleasure the king who faine would haue placed a Norman in his roome but as they saie by a miracle which he presentlie wrought in causing his crosier staffe to sticke fast in the toome line 10 of saint Edward to whom he protested and said he would resigne it for that he obteined the same by his gift he did put the king and the archbishop into such feare that they suffered him still to enioy his bishopprike without any further vexation These things with other touching a reformation in the church and cleargie being handled in this councell it was soone after dissolued In the yeare following king William led a mightie armie into Wales and subdued it receiuing of line 20 the rulers and princes there their homages and hostages About the same time Robert the kings eldest sonne a right worthie personage but yet as one of nature somewhat vnstable entred into Normandie as a rebell to his father and by force tooke diuers places into his hands Which he did by the practise of Philip the French king who now began to doubt of the great puissance of king William as foreseeing how much it might preiudice him and the whole line 30 realme of France in time to come Wherefore to stop the course of his prosperous successe he deuised a meane to set the sonne against the father True it is that king William had promised long afore to resigne the gouernment of Normandie vnto the said Robert his sonne Wherevpon the yoong man being of an ambitious nature and now pricked forward by the sinister counsell of his adherents seeketh to obteine that by violence which he thought would be verie long yer he should atteine by curtesie King William hereof aduertised was not a little mooued line 40 against his disobedient sonne and curssed both him and the time that euer he begat him Finallie raising an armie he marched towards him so that they met in the field Assoone as the one came in sight of the other they encountred at a place called Archenbraie and whilest the battell was at the hottest and the footmen most busied in fight Robert appointed a power of horssemen to breake in vpon the réereward of his enimies he himselfe following after line 50 with all his might chanced among other to haue a conflict with his owne father so that thrusting him through the arme with his lance he bare him beside his horsse and ouerthrew him to the ground The king being falne called to his men to remount him Robert perceiuing by his voice that it was his father whom he had vnhorssed spéedilie alighted and tooke him vp asking him forgiuenesse for that fact and setting him vp on his owne horsse brought him out of the prease and suffered him to depart in safetie line 60 King William being thus escaped out of that present danger and séeing himselfe not able to resist the puissance of his enimies left the field to his son hauing lost many of his men which were slaine in battell and chace besides a great number that were hurt and wounded among whom his second sonne William surnamed Rufus or Red was one and therefore as some write he bitterlie curssed his son Robert by whom he had susteined such iniurie losse and dishonor Howbeit other write that for the courtesie which his sonne shewed in releeuing and helping him out of danger when he was cast off his horsse he was mooued with such a fatherlie affection that presentlie after they were made friends the father pardoned his
world hath sufficientlie appeared Thus far Stephan of Bullongne Henrie the second the second sonne ofGeffrey Plantagenet HEnrie the second of that name a French man borne the second sonne of Geffrey Plantagenet earle of Aniou begotten of Maud the empresse daughter to Henrie the first began his reigne ouer England the fiue and twentith of October in the yeare after the creation of the world 5121. year 1154 and in line 10 the yeare after the incarnation of our sauiour 1154. about the beginning of the third yeare of the emperour Frederike the first the second of pope Anastasius the fourth the seuenteenth yeare of Lewes the seuenth king of France and second of Malcolme then king of Scotland Immediatlie after he was aduertised of the death of king Stephan he came ouer into England landing at Ostreham about the seuenth day of December After he had got his companies togither which by tempest were scattered in his passage he came first to Winchester where he line 20 receiued homage and fealtie of the Nobles of the realme resorting vnto him This doone he set foorth towards London where he was crowned king by Theobald archbishop of Canturburie the twentith daie of December The archbishop of Rouen with thrée of his suffragans the archbishop of Yorke and manie other bishops of England Theodorus the earle of Flanders with a great number of other earles lords and barons were present there at his coronation He line 30 was at that time about the age of three and twentie yeares and to win the peoples loue he spake manie comfortable words vnto them to put them in hope as the manner is that they should find him a louing prince He vsed the lords also verie coueteouslie And first of all after his atteining to the crowne he chose to him councellers of the grauest personages and best learned in the lawes of the realme with whose prudent aduice be perused those lawes and amended line 40 them where he thought necessarie commanding chieflie that the lawes established by his grandfather Henrie the first should be obserued and in manie things he relied vpon the aduice of Theobald archbishop of Canturburie at whose suâ—e he admitted Thomas Becket to be his chancellour which Becket the said archbishop had made archdeacon of Canturburie the yeare before Moreouer by the sentence and doome of his councellers to the intent that peace and quiet order might take place and be the better mainteined he commanded by waie of publishing a proclamation that all strangers which to get somwhat by the wars had flocked into the realme during the time of the ciuill discord betweene him and king Stephan shuld depart home without further delaie wherefore he appointed them a daie before the which they should auoid vpon perill that might insue It was a worlds woonder to sée and marke how suddenlie these aliens were quite vanished as though they had béene phantasmes Their abiding here was nothing profitable to the subiects of the realme as they that were accustomed to attempt one shrewd turne vpon an others necke and thought it lawfull for them so to doo Amongst them was a great number of Flemings whom the king hated more than the residue By vertue also of this edict William of Ypres whom king Stephan as ye haue heard had made earle of Kent was constreined with others to depart the realme king Henrie seizing all his possessions into his owne hands Diuerse castels were throwne downe and made plaine with the ground at the kings commandement which priuate men by king Stephans permission had builded or else for that they stood not in such places as was thought meet and expedient yet some he caused to be fortified and furthermore tooke into his hands againe such lands and possessions as apperteined to the crowne and were alienated vnto any manner of person of what degrée so euer he was This wounded the minds of many with an inward grudge as well enough perceâ—uing that the king would looke so néere to his owne commoditie that nothing should be left for them that might any way be recouered and gotten to his vse In this yere queene Elianor being then in the citie of London on the last of Februarie was deliuered of hir second sonne named Henrie About the same time also William Peuerell of Notingham a noble man and of great possessions was disherited by the king for sorcerie and witchcraft which he had practised to kill Ranâ—â—fe earle of Chester as it was reuealed openlie and brought to light In accomplishing of which hainous crime and detestable act many others were of counsell and found giltie with him which escaped not vnpunished On the tenth of Aprill king Henrie assembled the péeres great lords of his realme togither at Wallingford and caused them to sweare allegiance vnto his eldest sonne William prouiding that if he chanced to die then they should doo the like vnto his brother Henrie Also whereas Hugh de Mortimer had fensed his castels against king Henrie he besieged the same and taking the castell of Cleberie he destroied it Wherevpon the foresaid Hugh shortlie after was at peace with the king and surrendred to him the two castels of Wigmore and Bridgenorth line 10 which hitherto he had holden Moreouer whereas there was variance kindled betwixt the king and Roger Fitz Miles of Glocester who was earle of Hereford for the lands of Glocester that variance was also quenched for after the same Roger was dead his brother Walter succeeding him in the earldome of Hereford was constreined to depart with the citie of Glocester which the king held and reteined in his owne hands In the second yeare of his reigne king Henrie line 20 went to Yorke and in that countrie tooke into his hands diuers castels which had béene long in possession of priuate men namelie the castell of Scarborrough which William earle of Albemarle held and now was constreined to resigne it vp full sore against his will This yeare William the kings eldest sonne departed this life and was buried at Reading The realme of England was brought on all sides into verie good quiet but yer long word came to K. Henrie that his brother Geffrey had begun a line 30 rebellion on the other side of the sea For their father Geffrey when he died left thrée sonnes behind him Henrie Geffrey and William ordeining by his testament when Henrie should haue gotten possession of England and Normandie that then the countrie of Aniou should remaine vnto Geffrey and in the meane time he to haue these three townes Chinon Lodun and Mirabell to mainteine his estate and when the time came that the whole heritage should fall vnto him he â—ight by possession of these thrée line 40 haue a readier meane to come by all the rest Furthermore fearing least his eldest sonne Henrie who as then was absent would not consent to the performance of this his will
This yeare was Thomas Becket preferred to be the kings Chancellor The king holding his Christmas at Worcester in great royaltie year 1158 sat in the church at seruice with his line 40 crowne on his head as the kings vsed in those daies to doo on solemne feasts but as soone as masse was ended he tooke his crowne from his head and set it downe vpon the altar in signe of humblenes so that he neuer after passed for the wearing of a crowne The same yeare also the king altered his coine abrogating certeine peeces called basels In the moneth of August he went ouer into Normandie and came to an enteruiew with the French king neere to the riuer of Eata where they intreated line 50 of a league and of a marriage which was after agréed vpon betwixt Henrie the sonne of king Henrie and the ladie Margaret daughter to the French king at which time Thomas Becket then being the kings chancellor was sent to Paris in great araie to fetch hir who among other furnitures had nine long charrets as Matthew Paris writeth Now when this ladie was deliuered to Thomas Becket the lord chancellor and brought from Paris she was appointed from thencefoorth to remaine in the house line 60 of Robert de Newburge a Noble man of great honor vntill such time as the mariage should be solemnized After the two kings were departed in sunder K. Henrie prepared an armie against Conan duke of Britaine who had seized the citie of Naunts into his hands after the decease of Geffrey the kings brother who was earle of Naunts At length the same Conan perceiuing himselfe not able to resist the king of England vpon the daie of the feast of saint Michael the archangell came to king Henrie and surrendred the citie of Naunts into his hands with all the whole countrie therevnto belonging Soone after which resignation and vpon the 24. of August Geffrey the kings fourth sonne was borne of his wife queene Elianor In December following Theobald earle of Blois was accorded with king Henrie to deliuer to him two of his castels Likewise Petroke earle of Perch surrendred two castels vnto king Henrie which he had vsurped of the demeanes of Normandie in the daies of king Stephan one of which castels the king gaue him againe receiuing homage of him for the same Moreouer king Henrie and Raimond earle of Barzelone met togither at Blaime where they concluded a league by waie of allegiance so that Richard the sonne of king Henrie should take to wife the daughter of the said Raimond in time conuenient and that the king of England should giue vnto the said Richard the duchie of Aquitane the countie of Poictow This earle Raimond had married the daughter and heire of the king of Aragon In the meane time a secret grudge that had long depended betwéene king Henrie and king Lewes of France did still continue and though there was a friendship agreed betweene them as ye haue heard to haue extinguished the same yet was it but a fained friendship for vpon euerie new occasion they were readie to breake againe as it came to passe shortlie after William duke of Aquitane grandfather to queene Elianor married the daughter and heire of the earle of Tholouze and going vnto the warres of the holie land he engaged that earledome vnto Raimond the earle of saint Giles and died before he could returne His sonne William father to quéene Elianor suffered his earledome to remaine still vnredéemed either for want of sufficiencie or through negligence and carelesnesse so that the earle of saint Giles kéeping possession thereof vnto his dieng daie left it to his sonne Raimond who inioyed it likewise Now when king Lewes hauing married the foresaid Elianor demanded restitution as in the right of his wife earle Raimond flatlie at the first denied to restore it but after considering his lacke of power to resist the kings puissance he plied the K. with humble petitions and so preuailed by faire words that in the end king Lewes granted him his sister Constance in marriage which Constance as ye haue heard was married before vnto Eustace the sonne of king Stephan with hir granted him libertie to reteine the earldome of Tholouze as it were by waie of endowment whereto the other accorded Howbeit king Henrie hauing maried the foresaid quéene Elianor after the diuorse had betwixt hir and king Lewes made claime to the said countie of Tholouze in the right of his wife Herevpon earle Raimond trusting now to the aid of his brother in law king Lewes denied to restore it so that king Henrie determined to recouer it by force and entring by and by into Gascoine with an armie he drew towards the countrie of Tholouze began to inuade the same with great force and courage Diuers great lords of those parties ioyned with king Henrie in his war which he attempted against the earle of saint Giles as the earle of Barzelone and the lord William Trencheuile a man of great power in those quarters hauing vnder his rule manie cities castels and townes notwithstanding that he had of late lost many of them by violence of the foresaid earle of Tholouze but now by the aide of king Henrie he recouered them all Malcolme also king of Scotland came vnto king Henrie whilest he was foorth in this iournie to associate him in this businesse The earle hearing of king Henries comming with an armie was put in great feare and therevpon wrote letters to his brother in law king Lewes requiring him with all spéed possible to come vnto his aid King Lewes vpon receipt of the letters vnderstanding the present danger of the earle made such hast in continuing his iournie both daie and night that he came to Tholouze before king Henrie could arriue there Which when king Henrie vnderstood and perceiued how he was preuented he changed his purpose of besieging the citie and fell to spoiling of the countrie thereabouts at which time he line 10 recouered certaine places that latelâ—e before had reuolted from his gouernment amoâ—gst the rest the citie of Cahors which he furnished with men 〈◊〉 on and vittels appointing his chancellor Thomas Becket to the custodie and keeping thereof he forâ—â—fied other places also which he had gotten placing capteines and men of warre to looke vnto the defense of the same Whilest the king was thus abrode on his iournie in the parties of Aquitaine William earle of Bullongne and Mortaine the sonne of king line 20 Stephan and Hannon earle of Glocester departed this life which two earles went thither with him Finallie when he had set things at a staie in those parties he returned towards Normandie and comming to the citie of Toures he gaue the order of knighthood vnto Malcolme king of Scotland and so in the moneth of October he came backe into Normandie and there augmenting his armie with new supplies entred
other bishops his complices The ambassadours being brought to a streict issue herewith by helpe of some of the cardinals found meanes to haue it put into the popes head how the English ambassadours had commission to vndertake that the king of England should obeie in all things what order soeuer it pleased the pope and his court to award him Herevpon they tooke their oth that it should so be and by that meanes they auoided the interdiction The messengers of the archbishop of Yorke the other bishops vsed the like shift but yet the same daie the pope did excommunicate the knights that had murthered the archbishop Thomas and all those that had procured aided succoured or abetted them therein Some write that those ambassadours which the king sent to the court of Rome could not be suffered to come to the popes presence till according to the fashion they had giuen 500. marks in reward and so at length were admitted to his presence Howsoeuer that matter passed the king stood in great feare least his land should be interdicted in so much that he commanded the wardens of the ports both on this side the sea and beyond to take good héed least any coÌ„ming with letters of interdiction should passe into England but if any such came that the bringer should be arrested and committed to prison Also he commanded that no clearke were suffered to come ouer into England except he first tooke an oth that he came about no businesse that might turne to the preiudice of the king or his realme This commandement he set forth at what time he transported ouer into England himselfe where he landed this yeare at Portesmouth the third daie of August About which time it came into the kings mind to make a conquest of Ireland vpon this occasion It chanced whereas diuerse rulers or as we may call them petie kings reigned the same seson in that Iland which was diuided into seuerall estaâ—es or kingdomes that continuall strife and dissention remained amongst them so that oftentimes they made sore war after the manner of their countrie one against an other for Nulla fides regnisocijs omnisque potestas Impatiens consortis erit Herevpon it fortuned that one of those kings or rulers about the 14. yeare of this kings reigne was sore afflicted and oppressed by his neighbours wherevpon taking aduice what he might best doo for remedie in that case at length he sent his son into England to reteine souldiours and men of warre and to bring them ouer vnto his aid in hope of gaine such commodities as he assured them of Now it came to passe that by the assistance of such Englishmen as then came ouer the foresaid Irish king began to recouer his losses and in the end waxed so strong that he subdued all his enimies When he had thus obteined the victorie he did not onelie not send backe his aiders but so liberallie reteined them still with him that they had no hast to returne home but setled themselues in that countrie where they liued a pleasant and verie licentious life For this cause also the stoutest lords and rulers of and Irish nation began sore to stomach the matter against him that had thus brought the English nation into their countrie in so much that the Englishmen perceiuing their malice and therewithall hauing some feare of themselues bicause of their small number they sent ouer into England for such as wanted liuing and were willing to seeke for it in other countries of which sort great numbers went ouer thither within a short space whereby the multitude of the English greatlie increased but for as line 10 much as they had no ruler to gouerne them they procured Richard Strangbow earle of Struguille alià s Chepstow in Wales to come ouer thither and to receiue the souereigne gouernement with such honorable prouision for maintenance of his estate as should séeme requisit ¶ Some write that this earle Richard being also earle Marshall of England for a rebellion moued against king Henrie had before this time forfeited all his lands but others affirme that through riot and line 20 more sumptuous port than his abilitie might beare he had made awaie and consumed the most part of his liuing and was run so far in debt that he knew not how to satisfie his creditors and therefore was he the readier to incline to their request which made labour vnto him to come ouer into Ireland to haue the gouernance of such English people as had alreadie planted themselues there to inhabit remaine Herevpon he prepared a nauie and assembled togither a great number of such as lacked liuing and shortlie determined to passe ouer into Ireland But line 30 euen as he was readie to set forward there came vnto him messengers from king Henrie commanding him to staie and not to take that iournie in hand Howbeit the earle hauing nothing in England whereof to make anie great accompt notwithstanding the kings commandement tooke the sea and passed ouer into that countrie where he greatlie delited such Englishmen as dailie had looked for his repaire and comming thither line 40 Shortlie after ioining those which he brought ouer with him with the other that were there before his comming he thought to worke some feat whereby he might make his name famous cause the Irishmen to haue him in feare Wherevpon he first assailed the citie of Dublin and by force wan it He likewise wan Waterford diuerse other townes neere vnto the sea side Also to haue some freendship amongst those barbarous people he maried the daughter of the confederate king and so grew into verie line 50 great estimation in that countrie and region Howbeit with these and the like dooings of the earle king Henrie tooke such displeasure but chéeflie for disobeieng his commandement that he confined him the realme seized his lands as forfeited and by proclamation restreined all his subiects from passing into Ireland with any kind of merchandize prouision of vittels or other commodities whatsoeuer By reason whereof earle Strangbow partlie by constreint and partlie in hope to returne into fauour line 60 with king Henrie and for other respects as may be coniectured aduertised him of the whole state of the countrie of Ireland promising him that if it would please his grace to come ouer thither he would so worke that he should be admitted souereigne lord of all the land Heerevpon king Henrie pardoned him of all former trespasses and restored vnto him all his lands and inheritances within England and Normandie and further confirmed to him such liuings abroad in Ireland out of the walled townes as he held alreadie in right of his wife and furthermore ordeined that he should be high steward of Ireland vnder him King Henrie then returning out of Normandie into England about the sixt day of August as is aforesaid caused a nauie of 400. ships to be made readie and
Richard to marrie his daughter Alice howbeit at this entervew line 10 of the two princes by the helpe of the cardinall and other Noble men of both sides they agreed to be freends and that if they could not take order betwixt them to end all matters touching the controuersies depending betwixt them for the lands in Anuergne and Berrie and for the fée of Chateau Raoul then should the matter be put to twelue persons six on the one side and six on the other authorising them to compound and finish that controuersie and all other which might rise betwixt them For the French line 20 king these were named the bishops of Claremount Neuers and Trois and three barons erle Theobald Robert and Peter de Courtneie the kings bretheren For the king of England were named the bishops of Mauns Peregort and Naunts with three barons also Maurice de Croume William Maigot and Peter de Mountrabell At the same time also both these kings promised and vndertooke to ioine their powers togither and to go into the holie land to aid Guido king of Ierusalem whome the Saracen Saladine king of Aegypt line 30 did sore oppresse with continuall and most cruell war This doone the French king returned home and king Henrie came to Uernueil where he made this ordinance that no man should trouble the vassall or tennant as we may call them for his lords debt After this king Henrie went into Berrie and tooke Chatean Roux or Raoul and marching towards Castre the lord of that towne came and met him on the waie surrendring into his hands the line 40 daughter of Rafe de Dolis latelie before deceassed whome the king gaue vnto Baldwine de Riuers with the honour of Chateau Roux or Raoul Then went he vnto Graundemont where Audebert earle of March came vnto him and sold to him the whole countrie of March for the summe of fifteene thousand pounds Anionin twentie mules and twentie palfreis The charters of this grant and sale made and giuen vnder the seale of the said earle of March bare date in the moneth of September Anno Christi line 50 1177. Then did the king receiue the fealtie and homages of all the barons and knights of the countrie of March after he had satisfied contented and paid the monie vnto the earle according to the couenants The king this yeare held his Christmas at Angiers year 1178 and meaning shortlie after to returne into England he sent to the French king for letters of protection which were granted and sent to him in forme as followeth line 60 The tenour of the French kings letters of protection LVdouicus rex Francorum omnibus ad quos praesentes literae peruenerint salutem Nouerit vniuersitas vestra quòd nos recipimus in protectione custodia nostra totam terram Henrici regis Angliae charissimi fratris nostri in cismarinis partibus sitam si contigerit eumin Angliam transfretare vel peregrè proficisci Ita planè vt quaÌ„do balliui sui de terra transmarina nos requisierint bona fide sine malo ingenio eis consilium auxilium praestabimus ad eiusdem terrae defensionem protectionem Actum apud Nicenas The English wherof is thus Lewes king of France to all those to whom these present letters shall come greeting Know all ye that we haue receiued into our protection custodie all the lands of Henrie king of England our deare brother lieng and being in the parts of this side the sea if it chance him to passe ouer into England or to go any waie foorth from home so that when the bailiues of his lands on this hither side the sea shall require vs we shall helpe them and counsell them faithfullie and without male-engine for defense and protection of the same lands Giuen at Nicens Shortlie after king Henrie returned into England from Normandie and at Woodstocke made his sonne Geffrey knight This yeare pope Alexander sent into all parts legats to summon the bishops and prelates to a generall councell to be holden at Rome in the beginning of the Lent in the yere next following Whereabout two legats came into England the one named Albert de Suma who had in commission to summon them of England and Normandie and the other called Petro de Santa Agatha who was appointed to summon them of Scotland Ireland and the Iles about the same wherevpon obteining licence to passe through the king of Englands dominions he was constreined to sweare vpon the holie euangelists that he should not attempt any thing in his legatship that might be hurtfull to the king or his realme and that he should come and visit the king againe as he returned homewards This yeare on the sundaie before the natiuitie of S. Iohn Baptist being the 18 of Iune after the setting of the sunne there appeared a maruellous sight in the aire vnto certeine persons that beheld the same For whereas the new moone shone foorth verie faire with his hornes towards the east streightwais the vpper horne was diuided into two out of the mids of which diuision a burning brand sprang vp casting from it a farre off coles and sparks as it had beene of fire The bodie of the moone in the meane time that was beneath séemed to wrest and writh in resemblance like to an adder or snake that had béene beaten and anon after it came to the old state againe This chanced aboue a dozzen tiâ—es and at length from horne to horne it became blacke In September following the moone being about 27. daies old at six of the clocke a partile eclipse of the sunne happened for the bodie thereof appeared as it were horned shooting the horns towards the west as the moone dooth being twentie daies old The residue of the compasse of it was couered with a blacke roundell which comming downe by little and little threw about the horned brightnesse that remained till both the hornes came to hang downe on either side to the earthwards and as the blacke roundell went by little little forwards the hornes at length were turned towards the west and so the blacknesse passing awaie the sunne receiued his brightnesse againe In the meane time the aire being full of clouds of diuerse colours as red yellow greene and pale holpe the peoples sight with more ease to discerne the maner of it The king this yeare held his Christmasse at Winchester at which time newes came abroad of a great wonder that had chanced at a place called Oxenhale year 1179 within the lordship of Derlington in which place a part of the earth lifted it selfe vp on high in appearance like to a mightie tower and so it remained from nine of the clocke in the morning till the euen tide and then it fell downe with an horrible noise so that as such as were thereabout were put in great feare That péece of earth with the fall was swallowed vp leauing a great déepe pit in
Long time after the death of this damsell in the said abbeie was shewed a cofer that sometimes was hirs of the length of two foot in the which appeared giants fighting startling of beasts swimming of fishes and flieng of foules so liuelie that a man might woonder at the fine deuise thereof Moreouer king Henrie was noted not to be so fauourable to the liberties fréedoms of the church as he might haue béene For besides the persecuting of the foresaid Thomas archbishop of Canturburie he would not suffer the legats sent from the pope to enter within the bounds of his dominion till they had sworne that they should doo nothing preiudiciall to the customs of his kingdome neither by prescribing orders nor any other maner of act or meanes He was thought to be negligent in aiding the christian common-wealth in the holie land For though he had appointed twice or thrice to go thither in person yet being letted by light occasions he staied at home and sent small reléefe thither though he was earnestlie called vpon for the same His estimation was such amongst forren princes that Philip king of France being newlie entred into the gouernement of that realme after his fathers deceasse committed line 10 himselfe and his kingdome to the disposition and order of king Henrie as if he had béene regent of his realme and gouernour of his person There liued in the daies of this king Henrie the second diuerse honourable personages and capteins of great fame for their approoued valiancie and experience in warlike enterprises as Robert earle of Leicester Hugh Bigot earle of Northfolke Reignold earle of Cornewall Robert Ferreis earle of Darbie Richard Lacie Roger Mowbray Rafe de Fulgiers Humfrey Bohun conestable of England line 20 Ranulfe Glandeuille William Uesey Bernard de Ballioll Also there flourished in his time here in this land men of singular learning in arts and sciences as Nicholas Breakespeare Serlo surnamed Grammaticus William Rheualensis Adam de Euesham Thomas of Munmouth Adelbertus Leuita Geruasius Cicestrensis Odo Cantianus Ealred Rhieuellensis Iohannes Sarisburiensis Clemens Lanthoniensis Walter Daniell Robert line 30 Knought alià s Camtus Robert Folioth William Ramsey Senatus Brauonus Robert the Scribe Odo Miremuth Hugh of Reading Richard of Douer William of Peterburough Cicerciensis Bartholomew Iscanus and Gilbert de Sempringham with others ¶ And here to make an end with this high and mightie prince Henrie the second I haue thought good to make you partaker of an epitaph which we find in Matthew Paris and others written of him as line 40 followeth Epitaphium in Henricum secundum regem mortuum hîc sepultum REx Henricus eram mihi plurima regna subegi MultiplicÃque modo dúxque comésque fui Cui satis ad votum non essent omnia terrae Climata terra modò sufficit octo pedum Qui legis haec pensa discrimina mortis indè line 50 Humanae specula conditionis habe Quod potes instanter operare bonum quia mundus Transit incautos mors inopina rapit Aliud TVmuli regis superscriptio breuis exornaâ— Sufficit hic tumulus cui non suffecerat orbis Res breuis est ampla cui fuit ampla breuis An epitaph vpon king Henrie the second dead and heere intoomed OF late king Henrie was my name which conquerd manie a land And diuerse dukedoms did possesse and earledoms held in hand And yet while all the earth could scarse my greedie mind suffice Eight foot within the ground now serues wherein my carcase lies Now thou that readest this note well my force with force of death And let that serue to shew the state of all that yeeldeth breath Doo good then here foreslowe no time cast off all worldlie cares For brittle world full soone dooth faile and death dooth strike vnwares An other SMall epitaph now serues to decke this toome of statelie king And he who whilome thought whole earth could scarse his mind content In little roome hath roome at large that serues now life is spent ¶ Here may be thought that the reigne of the Normans and French men ouer the realme of England tooke end a hundred twentie two yeares after the comming in of the Conquerour for those that reigned after this Henrie the second we may rightlie estéeme to be Englishmen bicause they were borne in England and vsed the English toong customes and maners according to the nature and qualitie of the countrie Thus farre the succession and regiment of the Frenchmen ouer this Iland namelie Stephan of Bullongne and Henrie the second Richard the first second sonne to Henrie the second RIchard the first of that name and second sonne of Henrie the second began his reigne ouer England the sixt day of Iulie in the yere of our Lord 1189. year 1189 in the seauen and thirteeth yeare of the emperour Frederike the first in the eleuenth yere of the reigne of Philip the second king of France and king William surnamed the Lion line 10 as yet liuing in the gouernement of Scotland This Richard immediatlie after the solemnities of his fathers funerals were ended made hast to Rouen where he was ioifullie receiued and proclamed duke of Normandie receiuing the inuesture according to the custome on the twentith day of Iulie Then studieng to set all things in good order on that side the sea he made search where his fathers treasure was preserued and therevpon attached Stephan de Turnham who was seneschall or gouernour as we line 20 may call him of Aniou and committing him to prison compelled him to make deliuerie of all such summes of monie as he had hid and laid vp in certeine castels by the commandement of the late king his father Whilest he was thus occupied his brother Iohn came to him to whom he ioifullie gaue the welcome and besides all other things which his father had bequeathed vnto him by his testament in England amounting to the value of foure thousand pounds of line 30 yearelie rent with the earledome of Mortaigne he procured a marriage for him being now a widower for his further aduancement with the ladie Isabell daughter to Robert earle of Glocester which earle had appointed the said Iohn to be his heire as before is mentioned although Baldwine the archbishop of Canturburie forbad the mariage bicause they were coosens in the third degree of consanguinitie To Robert earle of Leicester also he restored all his lands which had béene taken from him and such persons line 40 as his father had disherited he restored likewise to their former rights and possessions howbeit those had forsaken his father and taken part with him against his said father he séemed now so much to mislike that he remooued them vtterlie from his presence and contrariwise preferred such as had continued faithfull vnto his father in time of the troubles At length king Richard remembring himselfe of his mother quéene Elianor who had béene separated
line 50 from the bed of hir husband for the space of sixtéene yeares and was as yet deteined in prison in England wrote his letters vnto the rulers of the realme commanding them to set hir againe at libertie and withall appointed hir by his letters patents to take vpon hir the whole gouernment of the kingdome in his absence The quéene being thus deliuered and hauing now the cheefe authoritie rule in hir hands rode in progresse about the realme to sée the estate thereof and as she passed from place to place she shewed gladsome countenance to the people wheresoeuer she came dooing also what she could to pleasure them that she might thereby win their good willes to hir and to hir sonne but speciallie remembring by hir late experience and tast thereof what an irksome most gréeuous thing imprisonment was she caused the gailes to be opened and foorthwith set no small number of prisoners at libertie by the way as she passed through the countries according to the verse of Virgil Non ignara mali miseris succurrere disco In the meane time king Richard concluding a league with Philip king of France receiued all those places againe which were taken from his father by the same Philip togither with his wife Adela whom vpon suspicion that she had beene dishonested in hir person before without anie sufficient proofe thereof had he forsooke sent hir home with hir dowrie and otherwise with great and princelie gifts most bountifullie inriched hauing alreadie concluded a marriage with the ladie Berengaria daughter to Garsias king of Nauarre who was sent into Sicill vnto hir sister Ioane that he might marrie hir there as he passed that waie towards the holie land Whilest these things passed thus in these parties the christians in the holie land dailie sent hither for aid wherevpon the two kings of France and England tooke counsell togither and determined with all conuenient speed to ioine their powers with ships prepared for that purpose to saile into Syria Hauing thus concluded they went about to prepare themselues of necessarie prouision for so long a iournie Now when king Richard had set in order his affaires in Normandie and France he came ouer into England landing at Portesmouth the 13. of August With him also came his brother Iohn vnto whom he assigned the castels of Marlebridge Lutegareshall Peake Bollesour the honor of Wallingford Tikehill and Eie with the earledoms of Mortaigne Dorset Sumerset Notingham Derbie Deuonshire and Cornewall with the earledome of Lancaster intituling him earle of the same whereby he was so exalted in state and degree that he séemed in manner of a tetrarch hauing as it were a fourth part of the realme in gouernance but yet the king held some of the castels in those counties and honors thus giuen to his brother in his owne hands Moreouer vnto William Marshall he gaue in marriage the daughter of Richard earle of Chepstow togither with the earledome which hir father possessed and to Gilbert Fitz Roger the sonne of Rainfrey he gaue the daughter of William de Lancaster After he was landed as before ye haue heard he hasted to Winchester where his mother quéene Elianor with the most part of the English nobilitie had laine a good space to attend his comming and there on the euen of the assumption of our ladie the king was by them receiued with great ioy and triumph ¶ Here is to be noted that whilest the quéene and lords laie in Winchester waiting for the kings arriuall Geffrey Riddle the bishop of Elie departed this life He is named by Geruasius Dorobernensis the proud bishop of Elie but he might rather haue named him the rich bishop for he left in his cofers no small quantitie of treasure of the which thrée thousand and two hundred marks came to the kings part towards the charges of his coronation No maruell though Geruasius spake somewhat in his dispraise for as he himselfe confesseth he was no fréend but an enimie to moonks line 10 But to let this passe soone after the kings comming into England he was informed that the Welshmen had broken into the English marshes and destroied certeine townes to represse whose presumptuous attempts he made towards them but was yet staied for that time reuoked by his mother At Salisburie he found his fathers treasure highlie reioising for that the summe was far greater than he thought it would haue prooued for besides the pretious stones apparell and iewels it was reported he line 20 had there the sum of nine hundred thousand pounds in readie coine With this good hap king Richard not a little aduanced came to London on the first of September where he had appointed prouision to be made for his coronation and so calling a councell of the Nobles of the realme he receiued the crowne with all due and accustomed solemnitie at the hands of Baldwin the archbishop of Canturburie the third daie of September At his coronation first the archbishops of Canturburie line 30 Roan Trier and Dublin which were present with all the other bishops abbats and cleargie apparelled in rich copes and hauing the crosse holie water and censures carried afore them came to fetch him vnto the doore of his priuie chamber and there receiuing him they led him vnto the church at Westminster till he came before the high altar with a solemne procession In the middle of the bishops and cleargie went foure barons bearing candlesticks with tapers after whom came Geffrey de Lucie bearing line 40 the cap of maintenance and Iohn Marshall next to him bearing a great and massiue paire of spurs of gold then followed William Marshall earle of Striguill aliàs Pembroke who bare the roiall scepter in the top wherof was set a crosse of gold and William de Patrike earle of Salisburie going next him bare the warder or rod hauing on the top thereof a doue Then came thrée other earles Dauid brother to the king of Scots the earle of Huntington Iohn the kings brother earle of Mortaigne and line 50 Robert earle of Leicester ech of them bearing a sword vpright in his hand with the scabberds richlie trimmed and adorned with gold The earle of Mortaigne went in the midst betwixt the other two After them followed six earles and barons bearing a checker table vpon the which was set the kings scochens of armes and then followed William Mandeuill earle of Albemarle bearing a crowne of gold a great heigth before the king who followed the same hauing Hugh bishop of Durham line 60 on the right hand and Reignold bishop of Bath on the left ouer whom a canapie was borne and in this order he came into the church at Westminster where before the high altar in the presence of the cleargie the people laieng his hand vpon the holie euangelists and the relikes of certeine saincts he tooke a solemne oth that he should obserue peace honour and reuerence to
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
demanded of him to the kings vse ran so farre into his displeasure that he durst not abide his sight line 50 but for safegard of himselfe got him to the abbeie of Merton and there tooke sanctuarie The king hearing of this his demeanor was so highlie offended withall that he sent to the Londoners willing them to go thither and fetch him to his presence The Londoners which in no wise loued him bicause of the death of their citizen Constantine were verie readie to accomplish this commandement insomuch that where the maior ouernight late declared to them the effect of the kings commission there were line 60 twentie thousand of them in armor gotten forward earlie in the morning towards Merton in full hope now to be reuenged of him for the small good-will that he had borne vnto their citie heretofore But the king being informed by the earle of Chester and others that if the Londoners being thus in armor and in so great a number should commit any other outrage by the way the matter might grow to some such inconuenience as would not easilie be staied he sent to them a countermand to returne backe to the citie againe which they did though sorie in their hearts that they might not go through with their desired enterprise Furthermore sée héere the mutabilitie of fortune and hir inconstancie whereof complaint hath béene made by our forefathers time out of mind saieng Passibus ambiguis fortuna volubilis errat Et manet in nullo certa tenáxque loco Sed modò laeta manet vultus modò sumit acerbos Et tantùm constans in leuitate sua est now that the erle of Kent was thus out of the kings fauour there were few or none of those whome he had before beene beneficiall vnto that shewed themselues as fréends and louers vnto him but all forsooke were readie to saie the worst of him the archbishop of Dubline excepted who yet obteined of the king respit for him to make answere vnto such things as should lawfullie be obiected against him both for the debt which should be due to the king and also vpon points of treason which were now laid to his charge ¶ Wherin we may see what hath béene the course of the world in former ages touching fréends who in the spring of a mans felicitie like swallowes will flie about him but when the winter of aduersitie nippeth like snailes they keepe within their shels wherevnto the poet verie well alluding saith diffugiunt cadis Cum faece siccatis amici Ferre iugum pariter dolosi After this as the said Hubert would haue gone to S. Edmundsburie in Suffolke where his wife as then remained he was apprehended at Burntwood in Essex within a chappell there as saith Fabian But as Matthew Paris saith sir Robert de Cranecombe with thrée hundred armed men was sent to apprehend him by the kings commandement and so he was taken in a village belonging to the bishop of Norwich in Essex and by the kings commandement cast into prison but yet afterwards he was reconciled to the kings fauor when he had lien foure moneths in prison and thirtéene moneths banished the court In this yeare on the exaltation of the crosse at Lambeth in the assemblie of the states there a subsidie was granted to the K. of the fortith part of euerie mans goods towards the discharge of his debts which he owght to the earle of Britaine Also in the beginning of the seauentéenth yeere of his reigne Ranulfe earle of Chester and Lincolne departed this life the six and twentith day of October whose bodie was buried at Chester and his bowels at Wallingford where he died This earle Ranulfe was thrice married first to Constance daughter and heire to Conan earle of Britaine and Richmund and so in right of hir was intituled earle of those two places which Constance had beene first married vnto Geffrey the third sonne of king Henrie the second by whom she had issue Arthur as before yée haue heard But by earle Ranulfe she had no issue at all but was from him diuorced and afterwards married vnto Guy vicount de Towars Then after earle Ranulfe was so diuorsed from the said Constance he married a ladie named Clemence and after hir deceasse he married the third time the ladie Margaret daughter to Humfrey de Bohun earle of Hereford and Essex constable of England Howbeit he neuer had issue by any of those his wiues so that Iohn Scot his nephue by his sister Mawd succéeded him in the earldome of Chester and William Dalbenie earle of Arundell nephue to him by his sister Mabell had the manour of Barrow and other lands that belonged to the said Ranulfe of the yerelie value of fiue hundred pounds Robert Quincie he that married his sister Hauise had the earledome of Lincolne and so of a baron became an earle who had issue by his wife Margerie countesse of Lincolne that was maried to Edmund Lacie earle of Lincolne William earle Ferrers and of Darbie that had married Agnes sister to the said Ranulfe had the castell and manour of Chartley togither with other lands for his pourpart Here is also to be remembred that the afore mentioned earle Ranulfe or Randulfe whether ye list to call him atchiued manie high enterprises in his time as partlie in this booke ye haue alreadie heard he held sore warres against the Welshmen till at length an agréement was concluded betwixt him line 10 and Leolin prince of Wales I remember I haue read in an old record that vpon a time as this earle passed into Wales with an armie his chance was to be ouerset by the Welshmen so that he was driuen to retire into a castell wherein the Welshmen did besiege him And as it fortuned at that time Roger Lacie the constable of Chester was not then with him but left behind at Chester to see the citie kept in order for as it should séeme their solemne plaies which commonlie are vsed at Whitsuntide line 20 were then in hand or else their faire which is kept at Midsummer Wherefore the earle sent a messenger in all possible hast vnto his constable praieng him with spéed to come to his succour in that extreame point of necessitie Lacie made no delaie but assembling all the forreners plaiers musicians and others which he could find within that citie fit to weare armor went foorth with them and in most speedie maner marched toward the castell where the Welshmen kept the line 30 earle besieged who now perceiuing such a multitude of men comming towards them incontinentlie left the siege and fled awaie The earle then being thus deliuered out of that present danger came foorth of the castell returned with his constable vnto Chester and in recompense of that seruice gaue vnto his said constable Roger Lacie the rule order and authoritie ouer all the forreners plaiers musicians and other strangers resorting to Chester at the time
vnder interdiction To conclude through threatning of excommunication to be pronounced against the king and other for this fact by the legat and the bishops of the realme as namelie Canturburie and London the king was compelled to release and set at libertie the foresaid Ranulfe Finallie the prisoner that had accused the said Ranulfe and other being one of the kings purseuants when for his wicked dooings he came to suffer death openlie confessed how he had accused those persons onelie in hope to deferre his owne execution being conuicted as accessarie to the treason of the clearke that suffered at Couentrie the last yeare He had accused not onelie the said Briton but diuers of the nobilitie also to be priuie and giltie of the same conspiracie ¶ This yeare for the space of foure moneths togither fell excéeding great raine yet at length it began to hold vp about Easter In this while the lords of the realme practised sundrie drifts likewise as men that would faine haue béene rid of the legats companie but the king did what he could on the otherside by sending to the pope line 10 for licence to haue him remaine still here who began now indeed to looke to his owne profit as by way of procuracies and other meanes so that he got togither great summes of monie although in the beginning he séemed to forbeare and not to séeke for anie such gaine Also he tooke vpon him to bestow benefices without consent of the patrones that were temporall men wherevpon complaint was made to the pope namelie by one sir Robert de Twing who claimed line 20 as patrone the presentation of the rectorie of Luthun in Yorkeshire and could not be permitted to inioy it by reason of the popes prohibition but vpon the hearing of his title in the popes consistorie he obteined letters â—â—om the pope to be restored and also an inhibition that from thence foorth no person should be promoted to anie spirituall benefice or church without consent of the patrone The king and the péeres of the realme vnderstanding themselues to be touched in this wrong offered to this knight had written in line 30 his fauour to the pope so that his suit had the better successe Moreouer the Iewes in this yeare for a murther which they had secretlie committed were gréeuouslie punished namelie by the pursse to buy their peace they were glad to giue the king the third part of all their goods The legat also assembled a synod of the clergie at London vpon the last of Iulie in the which he demanded procuracies but the bishops vpon deliberation had in the matter answered that the importunatnes line 40 of the Romane church had so often consumed the goods of the English church that they could no longer suffer it and therefore said they Let them giue you procuracies which vnaduisedlie haue called you into the realme if they will for of vs you shall be sure to come by none at all howbeit he got his demand of the abbats and other religious men About the feast of the assumption of our ladie Thomas earle of Flanders vncle to the quéene arriued at Douer and was receiued of the king with great line 50 ioy and gladnesse who rode thitherward to méet him and so brought him to London where the citizens came foorth also and meeting him in the waie brought him into the citie with all honour that might be deuised He did homage to the king as authors write and at his departure had in reward fiue hundred marks and a pension assured him of as much yearelie out of the escheker of the kings frée gift This earle Thomas was sonne to the earle of Sauoy and a little before his comming into England he had married line 60 Ione countesse of Flanders which had first beene coupled in marriage with Ferdinando as in the life of king Iohn may further appeare In the 24 yeare of his reigne king Henrie held his Christmasse at Winchester where he made Baldwine de Riuers knight and inuested him with the right of the earledome of the I le of Wight in the presence of the earle of Cornewall who procured him this honour bicause he had the wardship of him and married him to his daughter in law the ladie Amicia that was daughter to his wife the countesse of Glocester by hir former husband The earle of Leicester also meaning to go into the holie land returned out of France where he had remained a certeine time as an exile but was now receiued honorablie of the king and other péeres of the realme and after that he had séene the king and doone his dutie as apperteined he went to his possessions to make monie for his furniture necessarie to be had in that iournie for the which he sold at that time his woods about Leicester vnto the knights of the Hospitall and to the canons of Leicester receiuing of them for the same about the summe of a thousand pounds About the same time to wit the 14 of Aprill died Leolin prince of Wales and then followed contention betwixt his sons Griffin and Dauid for the principalitie which at length Dauid obteined through king Henries support though he were the yoonger brother bicause he was begot in lawfull bed on the sister of king Henrie The whole countrie of Wales was maruellouslie in trouble about their quarels At length a daie of méeting was appointed betwixt them to grow by waie of talke vnto some quiet end and Griffin meaning no deceit came in peaceable wise with Richard bishop of Bangor and others to the place assigned where they should haue met But Dauid by a traine tooke Griffin and committed him to prison wherevpon afterwards the yeare insuing by continuall plaint and earnest sute of the bishop of Bangor king Henrie entred Wales with an armie and constreined Dauid to submit himselfe and to deliuer the said Griffin into his hands and further also to put in suerties to appeare at London there to receiue such order in the kings courts as to him by law should be orderlie awarded Griffin ap Maddocke and diuerse other great lords of Wales ioined with the king in this iournie against Dauid as in the next yeare ye shall further heare About the same time there was great strife and contention still remaining betwixt the emperour Frederike and pope Innocent the fourth that succéeded Celestine the fourth in somuch that sore and mortall warre followed But king Henrie by the procurement of the legat Otho aided the pope with monie though he was somewhat loth to doo it bicause the said emperour had married his sister Indéed the emperour wrote to the king to staie his hand but the diligence of that legat was such in furthering his masters businesse that the monie was gone ouer yer the emperours letters came At this time also Edmund the archbishop of Canturburie greatlie disalowed the often exactions and subsidies which the legat caused
peace When Griffin saw how all things went and that he was not like to be set at libertie he began to deuise waies and meanes to escape out of prison Wherefore deceiuing the watch one night he made a long line of hangings couerings and shéets and hauing gotten out at a window let downe himselfe by the same from the top of the towre but by reason that he was a mightie personage and full of flesh the line brake with the weight of his bodie and so falling downe headlong of a great height his necke and head was driuen into his bodie with the fall whose miserable carcasse being found the morow after was a pitifull sight to the beholders The king being certified thereof commanded Griffins sonne to be better looked vnto and punished the officers for their negligence About the same time there chanced a controuersie to rise betwixt the king and the bishop of Lincolne for the bestowing of the benefice of Thame the which Iohn Mansell the kings chapleine had gotten in possession by the kings fauour through prouision granted of the pope where the bishop alleging priuileges to the contrarie had granted it to an other At length the king hauing his fathers trouble before his eies and doubting the bishops words threatning some euill mishap to follow if he should stand long in the matter against the said bishop gaue ouer his tenour and therewithall prouided Iohn Mansell of a farre more rich benefice that is to saie of the personage of Maidstone whereinto the bishop spéedilie inuested him This yeare manie noble men ended their liues as well such as were gone with the earles of Cornewall and Leicester into the holie land and others remaining still at home Amongst which number were these William Fortz earle of Albemarle Walter Lacie one of the chiefest nobles in all Ireland Stephan de Segraue Gilbert de Basset and his sonne and heire named also Gilbert Moreouer Iohn Biset high iustice of the forrests and Peter de Mallow Hugh Wake Robert Marmion Peter de Bruis Guischarde Laidec Eustace Stoutuill Eudo Hamon surnamed Peccham Baldwin de Betun Iohn Fitz Iohn steward in household to earle Richard Iohn de Beauliâ—â— Gerard de Furniuall There died also the ladie Elianor the countesse of Britaine wife vnto Geffrey that was sometime earle of Britaine which countesse had béene long kept prisoner at Bristow with diuerse other Moreouer there died this yeare Roger bishop of London and Hugh bishop of Chester Also Gilbert Marshall earle of Penbroke in a torneie which he had attempted at Hereford against the kings licence was by an vnrulie horsse cast and so hurt that immediatlie he died thereof Neither was this yeare onelie mournefull to England for the losse of such high estates but also in other places manie notable personages departed out of this transitorie life As two popes Gregorie the ninth and his successour Celestine the fourth besides cardinals amongst the which Robert Somercotean English man was one ¶ About the later end of this 25 yeare the sixt daie of October there appeared a right sore eclipse of the sunne verie strange to the beholders ¶ In the 26 yeare died the empresse Isabell wife vnto Frederike the emperour line 10 In this yeare also began the wars againe betwixt king Henrie and Lewes the king of France for the quarell of Hugh earle of March who refused to doo homage vnto Alfonse the brother of king Lewes which Alfonse had married the onelie daughter and heire of Raimund earle of Tholouse and therefore should succéed the same earle in his estate and inheritance year 1242 His brother king Lewes had also giuen vnto him the earledome of Poictou with all the lands of Aluergne and bicause the earle of March would not doo homage vnto him king Lewes made warre line 20 vpon the earle of March who thervpon sought to procure king Henrie whose mother he had married to come ouer with an armie vnto his aid King Henrie being sollicited with letters not onelie from his father in law but also from diuerse other noble men of Poictou who willinglie would haue beene vnder his gouernement asked aduise of his councell what he ought to doo in the matter Some were of opinion that sith there had béene a truce taken betwixt the kings it were not reason in anie line 30 wise to breake the same but some other thought that sith the Frenchmen in times past had taken from king Iohn his lawfull heritage in Normandie and Poictou and wrongfullie deteined the same still in their possession without restitution it could not be at anie time vnlawfull vpon occasion giuen to recouer the same out of their hands This opinion was allowed for good and the best that might be both of the king also of the earle of Cornewall who was line 40 latelie returned from his iournie which he had made into the holie land But now all the staie rested in gathering of monie which being earnestlie demanded in a parlement begun at Westminster the tuesdaie before Candlemasse was as stifflie denied alledging in excuse their often paiments of subsidies and reléefes which had béene gathered sith the comming of the king to his crowne as the thirtéenth fiftéenth sixteenth and fortieth parts of all their mooueable goods besides line 50 charugage hidage and sundrie escuages namelie the great escuage granted for the marriage of his sister the empresse and also beside the thirtieth within foure yeares last past or thereabouts granted to him which they thought remained vnspent bicause it could not be vnderstood about what necessarie affaires for the common-wealth it should be laid foorth and imploied whereas the same was leuied vpon condition that it should remaine in certeine castels and not to be expended but by the aduise of foure line 60 péeres of the realme as the earle of Warren and others Moreouer they alledged that the escheats and amercements which had béene gathered of late were such as must néeds fill the kings coffers so to conclude they would not consent to grant any subsidie Howbeit the king so handled the matter with the richer sort and namelie those of the spiritualtie that partlie by gift and partlie by borrowing he got togither a great masse of treasure and so prepared an armie and ships to passe ouer into Gascoine with all conuenient speed In the meane time bicause he would leaue things in more suertie at home he sent the bishop of Durham into Scotland by whose diligence a marriage was concluded betwixt the lord Alexander eldest sonne to the king of Scots and the ladie Margaret daughter to king Henrie Moreouer the marshes of England adioining to Scotland were committed to the king of Scots as warden of the same to kéepe and defend whilest king Henrie should abide in the parts beyond the seas The archbishop of Yorke in the kings absence was also appointed chéefe gouernour of the realme When this prouision was once readie about
déeds he 〈◊〉 fullie performed The cardinall hauing saluted the king tooke leaue of him and came to Lin where he staied at the point of thrée moneths making such purchase amongst religious men that what by procuraries and other shifts he got as was thought a foure thousand marks towards line 10 his charges and so departed Edmund Lacie earle of Lincolne and Richard de Burgh as then wards to the king were married vnto two of those yoong ladies of Prouance which Peter de Sauoy earle of Richmond brought ouer with him whereat manie of the English nobilitie grudged Also about the thirtéenth of August the ladie Ione daughter to the lord Guarine de Monchencâ—e was married vnto William de Ualence the kings halfe brother The same ladie was heire to hir fathers line 20 lands by the death of hir brother the sonne of the said lord Guarine Sir William de Bueles knight a Norman borne was made seneshall of Gascoigne about this season and was sore vexed with wars by Gaston the sonne of the countesse of Bierne and others which Gaston shewed himselfe verie vnthankefull for the king had giuen both to him and to his mother a woman of a monstrous stature verie large interteinement to serue him in his wars at his last being in that countrie as before ye haue heard The line 30 archbishop of Canturburie suspended the préests of his prouince bicause they would not consent according to the grant which he had purchased of the pope that he should haue the first fruits for one yeare of euerie benefice that chanced to be vacant within the same prouince The earles of Cornewall and Penbroke got much monie by waie of a collection towards the reliefe of the warres in the holie land hauing purchased of the pope certeine buls of indulgence for the same Sir Fouke de Newcastell a valiant knight and coosen germane to the king on the line 40 mothers side died at London during the time of the parlement On the thirtéenth of October was a portion of the holie bloud of Christ as it was then supposed shewed in most reuerent wise in a solemne procession for the king comming to the church of S. Paule in London receiued there the same bloud conteined in a christalline glasse the which he bare vnder a canopie supported with foure staues through the stréets vnto the abbeie church of Westminster His armes were line 50 also supported by two lords as aids to him all the waie as he went The masters of the Templers and Hospitallers had sent this relike to the king To describe the whole course and order of the procession and feast kept that daie would require a speciall treatise But this is not to be forgotten that the same daie the bishop of Norwich preached before the king in commendation of that relike pronouncing six years and one hundred and sixtéene daies of pardon granted by the bishops there present to all that came to line 60 reuerence it Also the same daie and in the same church the king made his halfe brother William de Ualence and diuerse other yoong bachelers knights Unto the said William de Valence for his further aduancement and maintenance he gaue the castell of Hertford and the honor therto belonging with great treasure to the elder brother Guy de Lucignan which about the same time returned into France he gaue verie great and honorable gifts lading his sumpters with plate and treasure of sterling monie which in those daies in all countries was verie much esteemed The earle of Winchester remaining in Gallowaie where he had faire possessions in right of his wife was besieged of his owne tenants within a castell wherein he lodged and being in danger either to die through famine or else at the discretion of the enimies he burst forth and making way with his sword escaped and comming to the king of Scots complained of the iniurie doone to him by his people wherevpon the king tooke such order that the rebels were punished and the earle set in quiet possession of his lands againe Toward the latter end of Nouember William earle Ferrers of Derbie departed this life a man of great yeares and long troubled with the gout a iust man and a peaceable The same moneth the countesse his wife died also a woman of yeares vertue and fame like to hir husband Thomas Becket the archbishop of Canturburie did minister the priests office at their marriage Their eldest sonne William succéeded his father in the earledome a good man and a discreet but vexed with the gout verie pitifullie hauing that disease also as it were by inheritance from his father There died likewise other of the nobilitie as Richard de Burgh and William Fitz Ham. Beatrice the countesse of Prouance mother to the queene year 1248 and Thomas de Sauoy late earle of Flanders came into England to visit the king and queene and were honorablie receiued and at their departure backe towards home richlie rewarded This yeare in the octaues of the Purification a parlement was holden at London where all the nobilitie of the realme in manner was present There were nine bishops as the archbishop of Yorke with the bishops of Winchester Lincolne Norwich Worcester Chichester Elie Rochester and Carlell with the earls of Cornewall Leicester Winchester Hereford Northfolke Oxford Lincolne Ferrers and Warwike with Peter de Sauoy earle of Richmond besides lords and barons The archbishop of Canturburie was at the court of Rome the bishop of Duresme was lefted by sickenesse In this parlement king Henrie earnestlie required a subsidie in reliefe of the great charges which he had diuerse waies susteined wherevpon he was streightwaies by the péeres of the realme noted both of couetousnesse vnthankfulnesse and breach of promise bicause he neuer ceassed gathering of monie without regard had to his people and where he had promised manie things as that he would not be burdenous vnto them and such like he had performed verie little of those his gaie promises Manie misdemeanors and wrongfull doings to the gréeuance of his people were opened and laid before him as cherrishing and inriching of strangers vsing his prerogatiues too largelie to the great decaie hinderance of the common-wealth The king abashed herewith and supposing that the confession of his fault should make amends aswage the displesure which his Nobles and other had conceiued at his misgouernance to content them all with one answer he promised that he would reforme all that was amisse and so quieting the minds of his barons the parlement was proroged till the quindene of the natiuitie of S. Iohn Baptist. Wherein his prudence and wisedome was to be commended but his patience deserueth exceeding great praise whereby he shewed himselfe princelike-minded in that he could tollerate the exprobration and casting of his faults in his face euen by such as should rather haue concealed than disclosed them
that by force which otherwise he could not obteine by quiet meanes ¶ This yéere the people paid a fifteenth to the king of all their temporall goods which was said to be granted first to his father The same yeere departed this life Iohn Breton line 30 bishop of Hereford who being verie expert in the lawes of the land compiled a booke of them called Le Breton The 11 of September a generall earthquake chanced betwixt the first houre and the third of the same daie the church of S. Michaell on the hill without Glastenburie was therwith throwne down to the ground After this it rained bloud in the countrie of Wales as a prodigious euill token to that nation with whose bloud shortlie after that region was in manie places moistened and stained For as line 40 it chanced shortlie after Leolin the sonne of Griffin came to haue the gouernment of Wales who partlie to raise new seditions in England and partlie to purchase him friendship and aliance in France sent vnto king Philip requiring of him that he might haue in marriage the ladie Eleanor daughter to Simon Montfort earle of Leicester the which togither with hir mother and brother Emerike remained as banished persons in France The French king granted his request and sent hir vnder the conduct of line 50 hir said brother to be conueied into Wales vnto Leolin who had promised to marrie hir But yer they approched to Wales at the I le of Sillie both the brother sister were taken by foure ships of Bristow the owners whereof that so tooke them sent them vnto king Edward When Leolin vnderstood that his wife was taken from him by the waie as she was comming he was not a little wroth and incontinentlie began to make warre vpon king Edwards subiects that bordered neere vnto Wales killing the line 60 people spoiling their goods and burning vp their townes and houses on each side Herewith the king of England was so mooued that although the said Leolin made sute for peace and offred no small sum of monie to haue the daughter of the earle of Leicester his fianced wife deliuered to him yet would not the king by any meanes consent to that marriage nor receiue any monie of him except he would restore vnto the right owners such lands as he had inuaded and got into his possession and further repaire such castels as he had destroied Herevpon grew no small grudge betwixt the Welshmen and Englishmen so that to represse the inuasion of the enimies in the parts towards Bristow Mountgomerie and Chester the king sent three hundred men in armes on horssebacke In the quindene of Easter the king departing from Westminster hasted towards Wales with a mightie power and caused the courts of the excheker and of his bench to remooue vnto Shrewesburie that they might be néere vnto him making forward with all conuenient speed to come to the aid and succour of his liege people Hervpon entring into Wales he tooke the castell of Rutland and sent into Westwales a valiant capteine named Paine de Camureâ—js who with fire and sword wasted that countrie so that the people offering themselues to the kings peace deliuered vnto the said Paine the castell of Stridewie with the countrie adioining Then Leolin the prince of Wales perceiuing that he was not able to resist the kings power and knowing that if he did attempt the conflict against him the danger would redound to himself his traine did as th' old verse counselleth Peruigili cura semper meditare futura and therefore made suit for peace in so much that finallie it was agreed that commissioners for both parts should talke concerning certeine articles and whatsoeuer they concluded aswell the king as the said Leolin should hold the same for firme and stable The king appointed one of his commissioners to wit the lord Robert de Tiptost to take an oth for him authorised the said Robert Anthonie Beke and frier William de Southampton prior prouinciall of the friers preachers commissioners nominated on his behalfe to receiue the like oth of the said Leolin Which Leolin appointed commissioners for his part Tuder ap Edeuenet and Grono ap Helin the which commissioners with good deliberation concluded vpon certeine points and articles of which the principall were as followeth First that the said Leolin should set at libertie all line 1 prisoners which he held in captiuitie for the king of Englands cause freelie and without all challenge Secondlie that to haue peace and the kings of line 2 Englands fauour he should giue vnto the said king fiftie thousand pounds sterling the daies of the paiment whereof to rest in the kings will and pleasure Thirdlie that the land of the foure cantreds without line 3 all contradiction should remaine for euer to the king and his heires with all lands conquered by the king and his people the I le of Anglesey excepted which I le was granted to the prince so that he should paie for the same yearelie the summe of one thousand marks and fiue thousand marks for an income Prouided that if the prince chanced to die without issue then the said Ile to reuert againe into the kings hands Fourthlie that the prince shall come to Rothelan line 4 or Rothland as it is commonlie called there to doo fealtie to the king and before his comming thither he should be absolued and haue the interdiction of his lands released and at his being at Rothelan a daie shall be appointed him by the king for his comming to London there to doo his homage Herevpon was order taken for his safe conduct aswell in his comming to Rothelan as to London There be that write that he was appointed to come vnto London at the feast of the natiuitie of our Lord. Fiftlie it was couenanted that all the homages line 5 of Wales should remaine to the king except onelie of fiue barons which inhabited néere vnto the castell of Snowdon for otherwise the said Leolin could not conuenientlie call himselfe prince except he haâ— some barons vnder him Sixtlie that he should receiue the title and name of line 6 prince so long as he liued and after his deceasse the homages of those fiue barons should reuert to the king and to his heires foreuer line 7 Seuenthlie the king granted vnto the said Leolin the lands that belonged 〈◊〉 his brother Dauid for â—â—arme of the said Leolins life and in recompense thereof was contented to saâ—â—fie the said Dauid with other lands in some other place the which after the decease of the said Leolin 〈◊〉 Dauid should reuert to the king and his heires For the assurance of which articles and couenants the prince deliuered for hostages ten persons of the best in Wales which he could get without imprisonment line 10 disheriting or terme of deliueraâ—â—e and of euerie cantred twentie persons of the best and most sufficient to be chosen by such
armie of men with the which he approched néere to saint Iohns towne into the which the earle of Penbroke was a little before entred to defend it with thrée hundred men of armes beside footmen Then R. Bruce sent to the earle to come out and giue battell the earle sent line 50 vnto him word againe that he would not fight that daie being sundaie but vpon the next morow he would satisfie his request Robert Bruce herevpon withdrew a mile backe from the towne determining to rest himselfe and his people that night About euening tide came the earle foorth of the towne with his people in order of battell and assailing his enimies vpon a sudden slue diuerse yer they could get their armour on their backs Robert Bruce and others line 60 that had some space to arme themselues made some resistance for a while but at length the Englishmen put them to the worse so that they were constreined to flee The earle following the chase pursued them euen into Kentire not resting till he vnderstood that a great number of them were gotten into a castell which he besieged in hope to haue found Robert Bruce within it but he was fled further into the countrie Howbeit his wife and his brother Nigell or Neall with diuerse other were taken in this castell and sent in safetie vnto Berwike Also shortlie after the earle of Atholl was taken being fled out of the same castell ¶ But some write that this earle was taken in the battell last remembred after long fight and great slaughter of Scots to the number of seuen thousand and also that in the chase the lord Simon de Friseill was taken with the bishops of saint Andrews and Glasco the abbat of Scone and the said earle of Atholl named sir Iohn Chambres The bishops and abbat king Edward sent vnto pope Innocent with report of their periurie but others write that the foresaid bishops and abbat being taken indéed the same yeare were brought into England and there kept as prisoners within sunbrie castels The wife of Robert le Bruce being daughter to the earle of Ulster was sent vnto the manour of Brustwike and there honorablie vsed hauing a conuenient number of seruants appointed to wait on hir The earle of Ulster hir father in the beginning of these last wars sent vnto king Edward two of his owne sonnes to remaine with him in such wise as he should thinke conuenient to assure himselfe of him that he would attempt nothing against the English subiects Also it was said that the ladie hir selfe the same daie hir husband and she should be crowned said that she feared they should proue but as a summer king and quéene such as in countrie townes the yoong folks choose for sport to danse about maipoles For these causes was she the more courteouslie vsed at the kings hands as reason no lesse required It should appeare by Robert Fabian that the king was present himselfe at this battell but other affirme that prince Edward was there as generall and not his father and that the battell was fought at Dunchell vpon the riuer of Tay. But neither the Scotish chronicles nor Nicholas Triuet whom in the historie of this king Edward the first we haue most followed make any mention that either the king or prince should be at the foresaid battell but that the earle of Penbroke with Robert lord Clifford and Henrie lord Percie were sent before as ye haue alreadie heard with an armie by whome as appeareth this victorie was obteined at a place called Methfen After this was the castell of Lochdore taken and within it Christopher Seiton that had married the sister of Robert le Bruce and bicause he was no Scot but an Englishman borne the king commanded that he should be led vnto Dunfrise where he had killed one of the kings knights and there to be hanged drawen and quartered The wife of this Christopher Seiton he appointed to be kept in the monasterie of Thixell in Lindsey and the daughter of Robert le Bruce which was also taken about the same time was sent to the monasterie of Waiton Moreouer the manour of Seiton in Whitebestroud he gaue vnto the lord Edmund de Mauley and those other lands that belonged vnto the said Christopher Seiton in Northumberland he gaue vnto the lord William Latimer The lands that belonged to the new Scotish king he bestowed in this wise to Henrie Bohun earle of Hereford which had married one of king Edwards daughters he gaue the lordships of Annandale Hert Hertnes he gaue vnto the lord Robert Clifford sauing alwaies the right yet that belonged to the church of Durham Totenham and Totenhamshire and the maner of Wrothell in the south parts he gaue to other noble men and the earledome of Carrike which R. Bruce had holden as by inheritance from his mother the king gaue to the lord Henrie Percie the earledome of Atholl he gaue to Rafe de Monthermer earle of Glocester who had also married as before yee haue heard an other of the kings daughters after the decesse of hir first husband Gilbert de Clare earle of Glocester About the feast of saint Michaell the new Scotish king Robert le Bruce returned foorth of the Iles into the which he had fled with manie Irishmen and Scots in his companie and remained a certeine time in Kentire he sent certeine of his officers to leuie and gather vp the rents of the fermes due at the feast of saint Martine for such lands and possessions as they held in that countrie wherof the lord Percie being aduertised hasted thither but the new king comming vpon him slue certeine of his men tooke his horsses and plate with other things and droue him into a castell within the which he besieged him line 10 till at length by a power sent from king Edward Bruce was constreined to depart The king in this meane time was come to Lauercost néere to Carleill and there remained a long time From thence he sent his iustices vnto Berwike where they sate in iudgement vpon Nigell Bruce and the other prisoners taken with him which were condemned to die and so they were hanged drawen and quartered The earle of Atholl was conueied to London and although he sued for pardon in respect of that he was line 20 of kin to the king yet was he hanged vpon a gibbet higher than all the residue his bodie burned vnder the same gibbet and his head first cut off was set vpon a pole ouer London bridge for example sake that traitors should looke for no pardon The elect archbishop of Yorke William Gréenefield was confirmed this yeare by pope Clement the fift at the citie of Lions in France where the same pope was crowned about the same time and held his court there liuing cheeflie by the monie which he got line 30 of bishops that came to him for their confirmations
and indignation sith liuor non deerit iniquus Dulcibus laetis qui fel confundat amarum both of the lords and commons as euer in times past was Peers de Gaueston the late earle of Cornwall But the lords minded not so much the destruction of these Spensers but that the king ment as much their aduancement so that Hugh the sonne was line 40 made high chamberleine of England contrarie to the mind of all the noblemen by reason whereof he bare himselfe so hautie and proud that no lord within the land might gainsaie that which in his conceit seemed good In this thirteenth yeare of his reigne in Iune king Edward went ouer into France year 1320 where at Amiens he found the French king of whome he receiued the countie of Pontieu which the said French king vpon his comming to the crowne had seized into line 50 his hands bicause the king of England had not doone to him his homage due for the same Also this yeare the pope granted to the king of England the tenth of ecclesiasticall reuenues for one yeare as before that time he had likewise doone ¶ About this season pope Iohn being informed of the great destruction and vnmercifull warre which the Scots made vpon the Englishmen and namelie for that they spared neither church nor chapell abbeie nor priorie he sent a generall sentence vnder his bulles of line 60 lead vnto the archbishop of Canturburie and Yorke appointing them that if Robert le Bruce the Scotish king would not recompense king Edward for all such harmes as the realme of England had by him susteined and also make restitution of the goods that had béene taken out of churches and monasteries they should pronounce the same sentence against him and his complices Wherevpon when the Scots tooke no regard to the popes admonition the archbishop procéeded to the pronouncing of the foresaid sentence so that Robert Brâ—ce Iames Dowglas and Thomas Randulfe earle of Murrey and all other that kept him companie or them in any wise mainteined were accurssed throughout England euerie day at masse three times Howbeit this nothing holpe the matter but put the king and the realme to great cost and charge and in the meane season the commons of the realme were sore oppressed by sundrie waies and means diuerse of them lost their goods and possessions being taken from them vpon surmised and feined quarels so that manie were vtterlie vndoone and a few singular and misordered persons were aduanced After the Epiphanie year 1321 when the truce failed betwixt the two realmes of England and Scotland an armie of Scots entred England and came into the bishoprike of Durham The earle of Murrey staied at Darington but Iames Dowglas and the steward of Scotland went foorth to waste the countrie the one towards Hartlepoole and Cleueland and the other towards Richmond but they of the countie of Richmond as before they had doone gaue a great summe of monie to saue their countrie from inuasion The Scots at that time remained within England by the space of fiftéene daies or more The knights and gentlemen of the north parts did come vnto the earle of Lancaster that laie the same time at Pomfret offering to go foorth with him to giue the enimies battell if he would assist them but the earle séemed that he had no lust to fight in defense of his prince that sought to oppresse him wrongfullie as he tooke it and therefore he dissembled the matter and so the Scots returned at their pleasure without encounter About this season the lord William de Bruce that in the marches of Wales enioied diuerse faire possessions to him descended from his ancestors but through want of good gouernement was run behind hand offered to sell a certeine portion of his lands called Gowers land lieng in the marches there vnto diuerse noble men that had their lands adioining to the same as to the earle of Hereford and to the two lords Mortimers the vncle nephue albeit the lord Mowbraie that had maried the onelie daughter and heire of the lord Bruce thought verelie in the end to haue had it as due to his wife by right of inheritance But at length as vnhap would Hugh Spenser the yoonger lord chamberleine coueting that land bicause it laie néere on each side to other lands that he had in those parts found such means through the kings furtherance and helpe that he went awaie with the purchase to the great displeasure of the other lords that had beene in hand to buie it Hereby such hartburning rose against the Spensers that vpon complaint made by the erle of Hereford vnto the earle of Lancaster of their presumptuous dealing by ruling all things about the king as séemed best to their likings it was thought expedient by the said earles that some remedie in time if it were possible should be prouided Wherevpon the said earls of Lancaster and Hereford with the lords Roger Tuchet Roger Clifford Iocelin Deieuille Roger Bernsfield the two Mortimers Roger the vncle and Roger the nephue William de Sullie William de Elmbrige Iohn Gifford of Brimesfield and Henrie Tieis all barons the which with diuerse other lords and knights and men of name assembling togither at Shierborne in Elmedone sware each of them to stand by other till they had amended the state of the realme But yet notwithstanding this their oth the most part of them afterwards forsaking the enterprise submitted themselues to the king Neuerthelesse whether for that the king by a proclamation set foorth the sixteenth of March had commanded as some write that the lords Mowbraie Clifford and Deieuille for disobeieng to make their personall appearance before him should auoid the land within ten daies next insuing or for that they meant with all speed to put their enterprise in execution we find that the earle of Hereford the lords Mortimer the vncle and nephue the lord Roger Damorie the lord Iohn Mowbraie the lord Hugh Audelie and his sonne named also Hugh the lord Clifford the lord Iohn Gifford of Brimesfield the lord Morice Berkeley the lord Henrie Tieis the lord Iohn Matrauers line 10 with manie other that were alied togither hauing the consent also of the earle of Lancaster on the wednesdaie next after the feast of the Inuention of the crosse hauing with them to the number of eigth hundred men of armes fiue hundred hoblers and ten thousand men on foot came with the kings banner spread vnto Newport in Wenloks lands where they tooke the castell that belonged vnto the lord chamberleine Hugh Spenser the yoonger They also tooke Kaerdie Kersillie Lantrissane line 20 Taluan Lamblethian Kenefegis Neoth Druffelan and Diuenor part of his men which in the foresaid places they found they slue as sir Iohn Iwain and sir Matthew de Gorges knights with 15 other of his men that were Welshmen part they tooke and put them in prison as sir Rafe or Randulfe de Gorges being
arriued at length in Scotland where he atchiuing great victories as in the Scotish chronicle yée may read more at large was finallie crowned king of that realme It may séeme a woonder to manie that the king of England would permit Edward Balioll to make his prouision thus in England and to suffer his people to aid him against his brother in law king Dauid that had married his sister as before ye haue heard Indéed at the first he was not verie readie to grant their suit that mooued it but at length he was contented to dissemble the matter in hope that if Edward Balioll had good successe he should then recouer that againe which by the conclusion of peace during his minoritie he had through euill counsell line 10 resigned out of his hands The Scots neuerthelesse in December chased their new king Edward Balioll out of Scotland so that he was faine to retire into England and celebrated the feast of the Natiuitie at Carleill in the house of the friers minors and the morrow after being S. Stephans day he went into Westmerland where of the lord Clifford he was right honorablie receiued to whome he then granted Douglas Dale in Scotland which had béene granted to the said lord Cliffords grandfather in the daies line 20 of king Edward the first if he might at anie time recouer the realme of Scotland out of his aduersaries hands year 1333 After this he went and laie a time with the ladie of Gines that was his kinsewoman Finallie about the téenth day of March hauing assembled a power of Englishmen and Scotishmen he entred Scotland and besieged the towne of Berwike during the which siege manie enterprises were attempted by the parties and amongst other the Scots entred line 30 England by Carleill dooing much mischiefe in Gillesâ—and by burning killing robbing and spoiling The king aduertised hereof thought himselfe discharged of the agréement concluded betwixt him and Dauid Bruce the sonne of Robert Bruce that had married his sister therfore tooke it to be lawfull for him to aid his coosen Edward Balioll the lawfull K. of Scots And herewith assembling an armie came to the siege of Berwike togither with his brother Iohn of Eltham earle of Cornewall and other noble men séeking line 40 by all meanes possible how to win the towne and finallie discomfited an armie of Scots which came to the rescue theerof vpon Halidon hill in sleaing of them what in the fight and chase seuen earles nine hundred knights and baronets foure hundred esquiers and vpon 32 thousand of the common people and of Englishmen were slaine but 15 persons as our English writers make mention The Scotish writers confesse that the Scotishmen lost the number of 14 thousand line 50 On the morrow following being S. Margarets day the towne of Berwike was rendered vnto king Edward with the castell as in the Scotish chronicle ye may read with more matter touching the siege and battell aforesaid and therfore here in few words I passe it ouer King Edward hauing thus sped his businesse left a power of men with Edward Balioll vnder the conduct of the lord Richard Talbot and returned himselfe backe into England appointing the lord Percie to be gouernor of the towne of Berwike line 60 and sir Thomas Grey knight his lieutenant The lord Iohn Darcie lord chéefe iustice of Ireland leauing the lord Thomas Bourgh his deputie in that countrie passed ouer with an armie into Scotland to aid the king who as ye haue heard was there the same time in person And so by the king on one side and by the Irishmen on an other Scotland was subdued and restored vnto Balioll who the morrow after the octaues of the Natiuitie of our ladie held a parlement at saint Iohns towne in the which he reuoked and made void all acts which the late king of Scots Robert Bruce had inacted or made and further ordeined that all such lands and possessions as the said Bruce had giuen to any maner of person should be taken from them and restored to the former and true inheritour In this yeare about the twelfth of October Simon Mepham archbishop of Canturburie departed this life in whose place succeeded Iohn Stretford being remooued from the see of Winchester whereof he was bishop before that he was thus called to the see of Canturburie After Candlemas the king of England repaired towards Yorke there to hold a parlement to the which beginning on the mondaie in the second wéeke in Lent when Edward Balioll doubting to be surprised by his aduersaries could not come yet he sent the lord Henrie de Beaumont and the lord William de Montacute to make excuse for him The king of England passing further into the north parts held his Whitsuntide at Newcastell vpon Tine with great roialtie and shortlie after Edward Balioll king of Scots came thither and vpon the nintéenth daie of Iune made his homage vnto the king of England and sware vnto him fealtie in the presence of a great number of Nobles and gentlemen there assembled as to his superiour and chiefe lord of the realme of Scotland binding himselfe by that oth to hold the same realme of the king of England his heires and successors for euer He also gaue and granted vnto the king of England at that time fiue counties next adioining vnto the borders of England as Berwike and Rocksburgh Peplis and Dunfres the townes of Hadington and Gedworth with the castell the forrests of Silkirke Etherike and Gedworth so as all these portions should be cléerelie separated and put apart from the crowne of Scotland and annexed vnto the crowne of England for euer And these things were confirmed and roborated with oth scepter and witnesse sufficient Which things doone in due order as was requisite the king of England returned home and the kings went backe into Scotland And then were all such lords restored againe to their lands and possessions in Scotland which in the daies of Edward the second had béene expelled from the same and now they did their homage vnto the king of Scotland for those lands as apperteined ¶ Immediatlie after the king of England called a councell of his lords spirituall and temporall at Notingham commanding them to meet him there about the thirtéenth daie of Iulie there to consult with him of weightie causes concerning the state of the realme This yeare on saint Clements daie at night which fell on the thrée and twentith of Nouember through a maruellous inundation rising of the sea all alongst by the coasts of this realme but especiallie about the Thames the sea bankes or walles were broken and borne downe with violence of the water and infinite numbers of beasts and cattell drowned fruitfull grounds and pastures were made salt marishes so as there was no hope that in long time they should recouer againe their former fruitfulnesse In this meane time the French king was
this truce it seemeth that this was some second truce and not the first truce which included onelie the marches of Calis and those parts vp to the water of Some But howsoeuer it was the duke of Britaine being in a great forwardnesse to haue recouered his duchie out of the Frenchmens hands and to haue reduced his rebellious subiects vnder due obeisance againe was now by this truce concluded out of time greatlie disappointed and so brake vp his siege from before Campellie and sent home the English armie He went himselfe to Aulroie where his wife was and taking order for the fortifieng and keeping of those places which were in his possession he came backe againe into England and brought his wife with him A litle before the concluding of this truce the Englishmen and others within the fortresse of saint Sauiour le vicount in the I le or rather Close as they call it of Constantine which had beene long besieged made a composition that if they were not rescued by a certeine daie then should they yéeld vp the place to the Frenchmen Now bicause this truce line 10 was agréed before the daie appointed for the rescue of that place with condition that either part should inioy and hold that which at that present they had in possession during the terme of the truce the Englishmen thought that saint Sauiour le vicount should be saued by reason of that treatie but the Frenchmen to the contrarie auouched that the first couenant ought to passe the last ordinance So that when the daie approched the French king sent thither six thousand speares knights and esquiers beside other people line 20 and bicause none appeared to giue them battell they had the towne deliuered to them ¶ In this 49 yeare of K. Edwards reigne a great death chanced in this land and in diuerse other countries so that innumerable numbers of people died and perished of that contagious sickenesse Amongst other the lord Edward Spenser died the same yeare a man of great renowme and valiantnesse Also the earle of Penbroke hauing compounded for his ransome as he was vpon his returne from Spaine line 30 comming homewards through France he fell sicke and being brought in an horsselitter to Arras he died there on the 16 daie of Aprill leauing a sonne behind him not past two yeares of age begot of the countesse his wife called Anne daughter vnto the lord Walter de Mannie Polydor mistaking the matter saith that Marie the countesse of Penbroke who builded Penbroke hall in Cambridge was wife to this Iohn Hastings earle of Penbroke whereas in deed she was wife to his ancestor Aimer line 40 de Ualence earle of Penbroke as Iohn Stow in his summarie hath trulie noted She was daughter to Guy earle of saint Pole a worthie ladie and a vertuous tendering so much the wealthfull state of this land a great part wherof consisteth in the good bringing vp of youth and training them to the knowledge of learning that for maintenance of students she began the forsaid commendable foundation about the yeare of Christ 1343 vpon a plot of ground that was hir owne hauing purchased licence thereto of line 50 the king to whom she was of kin During that greeuous mortalitie and cruell pestilence before remembred the pope at the instant request of the English cardinals granted vnto all those that died in England being shriuen and repentant of their sinnes cleane remission of the same by two buls inclosed vnder lead The duke of Lancaster about the feast of All saints met with the French commissioners againe at Bruges There was with him the duke of Britaine the earle of Salisburie line 60 and the bishop of London For the French king there appeered the duke of Burgognie the earle of Salebruch and the bishop of Amiens And at saint Omers laie the duke of Aniou the archbishop of Rauenna and the bishop of Carpentras tooke great paine to go to and fro betwéene the parties but they were so far at ods in their demands and as it were of set purpose on the French behalfe that no good could be doone betwixt them The French king required to haue Calis raced and to haue againe fourtéene hundred thousand franks which were paid for the ransome of king Iohn The king of England demanded to haue all the lands restored to him in Gascoigne and Guien cléerelie exempt of all resorts So when nothing could be concluded touching a finall peace the truce was renewed to indure till the feast of S. Iohn Baptist next insuing which should be in the yeare 1376. In this fiftith yeare king Edward assembled his high court of parlement at Westminster in the which was demanded a subsidie of the commons for the defense of the kings dominions against his enimies Wherevnto answer was made by the common house that they might no longer beare such charges considering the manifold burthens by them susteined in time past And further they said it was well knowne the king was rich inough to withstand his enimies if his monie and treasure were well imploied but the land had béene of long time euill guided by euill officers so that the same could not be stored with chaffer merchandize or other riches The commons also declared whom they tooke and iudged to be chéefe causer of this disorder as the duke of Lancaster the L. Latimer lord chamberleine to the king also dame Alice Perers whom the king had long time kept to his concubine and also one named sir Richard Sturrie by whose sinister meanes and euill counsell the king was misled and the land euill gouerned Wherefore the commons by the mouth of their speaker sir Peers de la Mere required that those persons might be remooued from the king and other more discreet set in their roomes about his person and so put in authoritie that they might sée to his honour and weale of the realme more than the other had doone before them This request of the commons by support of the prince was allowed and granted so that the said persons and other of their affinitie were commanded to depart the court and other such as were thought méet by the prince and the sage péeres of the realme were placed in their stéeds ¶ Shortlie after the commons granted to the king his whole request so that he had of euerie person man and woman being aboue the age of fourtéene yeares foure pence poore people that liued of almesse onelie excepted ¶ Likewise the cleargie granted that of euerie beneficed man the king should haue twelue pence and of euerie priest not beneficed foure pence the foure orders of friers onelie excepted But yer this monie could be leuied the king was constreined to borrow certeine great summes in sundrie places and therefore he sent to the citie of London for foure thousand pounds And bicause Adam Staple the maior was not diligent in furthering that lone he was by the kings
calling such images as the people had in most veneration as that at Walsingham and the rood of the north doore at Paules in London rotten stocks and worme eaten blocks through which the vnskilfull people being mocked and deceiued were compelled most manifestlie to commit idolatrie The bishops saith Thomas Walsingham hearing beholding and knowing these things with much more to line 60 be true did little or nothing to redresse the same saue onlie the bishop of Norwich who stirred coles swearing and staring that if anie of that sect presumed to preach anie peruerse doctrine within his diocesse he would cause them either to hop headlesse or to frie a fagot for it he was therefore not a little praised and extolled by the moonks and other religious men as should appeare for that his zeale In Nouember the duke of Lancaster came foorth of Gascoigne into England after he had remained first in Spaine and after in Gascoigne thrée yeares togither Of his successe in Spaine is spoken before likewise of the agréement betwixt the king of Castâ—le the said duke which was not in all points confirmed till a little before his returne now into England About the same time the king had called a councell of his nobilitie at Reading to the which the duke of Lancaster made the more hast to come bicause he knew that the king would shew no good countenance to some of the noblemen and therefore he doubted least malicious offenses might arise betwixt them which to appease he meant the best he could and his trauell came to good effect for he did so much that as well the king as the lords departed from the councell as freends the lords taking their leaues of him in louing maner and he courteouslie bidding them farewell and so each of them resorted vnto their homes well pleased for that present ¶ The king held his Christmasse this yéere at Woodstoke and the duke of Lancaster laie at his castell of Hertford At the same time the lord Iohn de Hastings earle of Penbroke as he was practising to learne to iust year 1390 through mishap was striken about the priuie parts by a knight called sir Iohn S. Iohn that ran against him so as his inner parts being perished death presentlie followed The losse of this earle was greatlie bemoned by men of all degrees for he was liberall gentle humble and courteous to each one aboue all the other yoong lords in the land of his time Of this earles ancestors this is reported for a thing strange and maruelous that from the daies of Aimer de Ualence earle of Penbroke that was one amongst other that sat in iudgement of Thomas earle of Lancaster there was not anie earle of Penbroke succéeding the same Aimer de Ualence vnto the daies of this yoong earle by misfortune thus slaine that euer saw his father nor yet anie of their fathers might reioise in the sight of anie of their sonnes being still called hence before the time came for them so to doo ¶ Now héere bicause this Iohn Hastings being the last of that surname and armes of the whole blood which of that line inioied anie title of honor I thinke it not vnfit for this place since other occasion will not be giuen therefore to talke of the Hastings somwhat higher than this man though not from the shell to perpetuate the memorie of them the which I haue now doone least otherwise by ingrate obliuion it might neuer hereafter come to light In which I will not begin from the first honourable Hastings whose bloud by manie descents continued is thought by most ancient monuments which I haue séene and read to haue béene a baron before the conquest in this land and to haue borne the same cote in the field which this now slaine earle of Penbroke did whereof hereafter in my descriptions and lines of the earles of Penbroke I will make more ample discourse in a new booke if God giue good successe therein onelie at this time making some small repetition from that Henrie Hastings from whome the Hastings in respect of the mariage of Alda daughter to Dauie earle of Huntington brother to William king of Scots did descend who amongst others in the reigne of Edward the first made title to the kingdome of Scotland The originall of which name in this treatise I will neither flatteringlie defend nor obstinatlie reiect to haue growne from Hastings the Dane who in the reigne of Alured long before the conquest about the yeare of our redemption 890 came with Rollo into England and for a certeine space infesâ—ed this nation departing aside to France And now to the purpose Henrie lord Hastings who bare for his armes gold a manche gules married Alda or Ada the fourth daughter of Dauid earle of Huntington she being one of the heires to Iohn Scot earle of Chester of Huntington which died without issue son of the said Dauid and brother to the said Ada. To this Henrie and Ada did Henrie the third king of England in the two twentith of his reigne in place of the portion of hir brothers lands which should haue descended to hir as parcell of the earledome of Chester for that the king would not haue the said earledome diuided amongst distaues giue in exchange certeine lands mentioned in this déed following The grant of Henrie the third to Henrie Hastings and Ada his wife for the exchange of lands for hir part of the line 10 earledome OMnibus ad quos c salutem Sciatis quòd concessimus pro nobis haeredibus nostris Henrico de Hastings Adae vxorieius pro rationabili parte sua qùae praedictam Adam contingent de haereditate Iohannis quondam comitis Cestriae fratris ipsius Adae in Cestershire facieÌ„do eis rationabile excambium ad valentiam praedictae partis ipsam line 20 Adam contingentis de praedicto com Cestershire Et ad maiorem securitatem coÌ„cessimus eidem Henrico Adae manerium nostrum de Bremesgraue cum pertinentibus in comitatu Wigorniae manerium nostrum de Bolisoure cum castris pertinentibus in com Derby manerium nostrum de Mountesfeld cum Soka cuÌ„ pertinentibus in comitatu Notingham manerium de Worsfeld cum pertinentibus in com Salop. manerium line 30 de Stratton cum pertinentibus in eodem com manerium de Wiggutton cum pertinent in com Stafford maneriuÌ„ de Woluerhamton cuÌ„pert in eodeÌ„ com in tenentiam Tenendum eisdem Henrico Adae haeredibus ipsius Adae quo vsque praedicta pars ipsam Adam contingens de praedicta haereditate extenta fuerit rationabile excambium in praedictis terris vel alias eis assignauerimus In cuius c. Teste rege apud Ditton 11. Innij anno line 40 regni nostri 22. The which manours the said Henrie and Ada did hold during the life of the said Ada in peaceable and quiet possession After hir death the said Henrie goeth into
he tormenteth where he vanquisheth what the will and power of a souereigne ouer a subiect may force in cases of iniquitie where by vertue and grace he be not restrained line 40 the zeale of a parent the pangs of a child but chéeflie the verie plague of Gods wrath and indignation vpon wilfull and obstinate offendors all which at those daies though touched in Naples yet at all times and euerie where so well seruing for example and warning it hath beene thought verie conuenient the same in our stories also héere to be noted which was thus At this time newes were brought into France how king Lancelot the aduersarie to Lewes king of Sicill was departed and in manner line 50 thus It hapned that he fell in loue with a yoong damosell his owne physicians daughter a puzell verie beautifull and he in hope to inioy hir the easilier caused hir father for his consent to be talked withall in the matter which he vtterlie refused to grant and shewed foorth manie reasons for him but at last all causes excuses reiected sith though constreined he must néeds assent feined himselfe willing and content And forceing talke with his daughter vpon his mind in the matter cheeflie how méet it were line 60 she vsed his counsell how best with the king to keepe hir still in grace he gaue hir a little box of ointment and instruction withall that when the king should come to haue his will she should afore with that balme annoint all hir wombe the damosell on good obseruation did after at oportunitie as hir father taught hir Héerevpon so pittifullie came it to passe that the verie same night the king laie with hir his bellie and hirs were by and by set as it were all on a sindging fier with torments of such vnquenchable scorching and burning euen into the verie entrailes that he of his kingdome his life his loue and she of hir princelie promotion thus soone both togither made a sorrowfull end After the plaie of this lamentable tragedie the physician fled for his safetie and straight vpon the newes king Lewes gathered a great assemblie wherewith to passe towards Naples and sent before a good companie vnder the lord Longnie marshall of France In the second yeare of his reigne king Henrie called his high court of parlement the last daie of Aprill in the towne of Leicester in which parlement manie profitable lawes were concluded and manie petitions mooued were for that time deferred Amongst which one was that a bill exhibited in the parlement holden at Westminster in the eleuenth yeare of king Henrie the fourth which by reason the king was then troubled with ciuill discord came to none effect might now with good deliberation be pondered and brought to some good conclusion The effect of which supplication was that the temporall lands deuoutlie giuen and disordinatlie spent by religious and other spirituall persons should be seized into the kings hands sith the same might suffice to mainteine to the honor of the king and defense of the realme fiftéene earles fiftéene hundred knights six thousand and two hundred esquiers and a hundred almesse-houses for reliefe onelie of the poore impotent and needie persons and the king to haue cleerelie to his coffers twentie thousand pounds with manie other prouisions and values of religious houses which I passe ouer This bill was much noted and more feared among the religious sort whom suerlie it touched verie neere and therefore to find remedie against it they determined to assaie all waies to put by and ouerthrow this bill wherein they thought best to trie if they might mooue the kings mood with some sharpe inuention that he should not regard the importunate petitions of the commons Wherevpon on a daie in the parlement Henrie Chichelie archbishop of Canturburie made a pithie oration wherein he declared how not onelie the duchies of Normandie and Aquitaine with the counties of Aniou and Maine and the countrie of Gascoigne were by vndoubted title apperteining to the king as to the lawfull and onelie heire of the same but also the whole realme of France as heire to his great grandfather king Edward the third Herein did he much inueie against the surmised and false fained law Salike which the Frenchmen alledge euer against the kings of England in barre of their iust title to the crowne of France The verie words of that supposed law are these In terram Salicam mulieres ne succedant that is to saie Into the Salike land let not women succeed Which the French glossers expound to be the realme of France and that this law was made by king Pharamond whereas yet their owne authors affirme that the land Salike is in Germanie betwéene the riuers of Elbe and Sala and that when Charles the great had ouercome the Saxons he placed there certeine Frenchmen which hauing in disdeine the dishonest maners of the Germane women made a law that the females should not succéed to any inheritance within that land which at this daie is called Meisen so that if this be true this law was not made for the realme of France nor the Frenchmen possessed the land Salike till foure hundred and one and twentie yeares after the death of Pharamond the supposed maker of this Salike law for this Pharamond deceassed in the yeare 426 and Charles the great subdued the Saxons and placed the Frenchmen in those parts beyond the riuer of Sala in the yeare 805. Moreouer it appeareth by their owne writers that king Pepine which deposed Childerike claimed the crowne of France as heire generall for that he was descended of Blithild daughter to king Clothair the first Hugh Capet also who vsurped the crowne vpon Charles duke of Loraine the sole heire male of the line and stocke of Charles the great to make his title seeme true and appeare good though in déed it was starke naught conueied himselfe as heire to the ladie Lingard daughter to king Charlemaine sonne to Lewes the emperour that was son to Charles the great King Lewes also the tenth otherwise called saint Lewes being verie heire to the said vsurper Hugh Capet could neuer be satisfied in line 10 his conscience how he might iustlie keepe and possesse the crowne of France till he was persuaded and fullie instructed that quéene Isabell his grandmother was lineallie descended of the ladie Ermengard daughter and heire to the aboue named Charles duke of Loraine by the which marriage the bloud and line of Charles the great was againe vnited and restored to the crowne scepter of France so that more cléere than the sunne it openlie appeareth that the title of king Pepin the claime of Hugh line 20 Capet the possession of Lewes yea and the French kings to this daie are deriued and conueied from the heire female though they would vnder the colour of such a fained law barre the kings and princes of this realme of England of their right and lawfull inheritance The archbishop
conquerour When his realme was thus brought into a good quiet estate it was thought méet by him and those of his councell that a marriage were prouided for him in some conuenient place and therefore was the earle of Warwike sent ouer into France to demand the ladie Bona daughter to Lewes duke of Sauoie and sister to the ladie Carlot then quéene of France which Bona was at that time in the French court The earle of Warwike comming to the French king then lieng at Tours was of him honourablie receiued and right courteouslie interteined His message was so well liked and his request thought so honourable for the aduancement of the ladie Bona that hir sister quéene Carlot obteined both the good will of the king hir husband and also of hir sister the foresaid ladie so that the matrimonie on that side was cleerelie assented to and the erle of Dampmartine appointed with others to saile into England for the full finishing of the same But here consider the old prouerbe to be true which saith that mariage goeth by destinie For during the time that the earle of Warwike was thus in France and according to his instructions brought the effect of his commission to passe the king being on hunting in the forrest of Wichwood besides Stonistratford came for his recreation to the manor of Grafton where the duchesse of Bedford then soiourned wife to sir Richard Wooduile lord Riuers on whome was then attendant a daughter of hirs called the ladie Elizabeth Graie widow of sir Iohn Graie knight slaine at the last battell of saint Albons as before ye haue heard This widow hauing a sute to the king for such lands as hir husband had giuen hir in iointure so line 10 kindled the kings affection towards hir that he not onelie fauoured hir sute but more hir person for she was a woman of a more formall countenance than of excellent beautie and yet both of such beautie and fauour that with hir sober demeanour sweete looks and comelie smiling neither too wanton nor too bashfull besides hir pleasant toong and trim wit she so allured and made subiect vnto hir the heart of that great prince that after she had denied him to be his paramour with so good maner and words so well set line 20 as better could not be deuised he finallie resolued with himselfe to marrie hir not asking counsell of anie man till they might perceiue it was no bootie to aduise him to the contrarie of that his concluded purpose sith he was so farre gone that he was not reuocable and therefore had fixed his heart vpon the last resolution namelie to applie an holesome honest and honourable remedie to his affections fiered with the flames of loue and not to permit his heart line 30 to the thraldome of vnlawfull lust which purpose was both princelie and profitable as the poet saith Vtile propositum est saeuas extinguere flammas Nec seruum vitijs pectus habere suum But yet the duchesse of Yorke his moother letted this match as much as in hir laie when all would not serue she caused a precontract to be alleged made by him with the ladie Elizabeth Lucie But all doubts resolued all things made cléere and all cauillations auoided priuilie in a morning he married line 40 the said ladie Elizabeth Graie at Grafton beforesaid where he first began to fansie hir And in the next yere after she was with great solemnitie crowned queene at Westminster Hir father also was created earle Riuers and made high constable of England hir brother lord Anthonie was married to the sole heire of Thomas lord Scales sir Thomas Graie sonne to sir Iohn Graie the quéenes first husband was created marques Dorset and married to Cicelie heire to the lord Bonuille The French king line 50 was not well pleased to be thus dallied with but he shortlie to appease the gréefe of his wife and hir sister the ladie Bona married the said ladie Bona to the duke of Millan Now when the earle of Warwike had knowledge by letters sent to him out of England from his trustie friends that king Edward had gotten him a new wife he was not a little troubled in his mind for that he tooke it his credence thereby was greatlie minished and his honour much stained namelie line 60 in the court of France for that it might be iudged he came rather like an espiall to mooue a thing neuer minded and to treat a marriage determined before not to take effect Suerlie he thought himselfe euill vsed that when he had brought the matter to his purposed intent and wished conclusion then to haue it quaile on his part so as all men might thinke at the least wise that his prince made small account of him to send him on such a sléeuelesse errand All men for the most part agrée that this marriage was the onlie cause why the earle of Warwike conceiued an hatred against king Edward whome he so much before fauoured Other affirme other causes and one speciallie for that king Edward did attempt a thing once in the earles house which was much against the earles honest is whether he would haue deflourâ—d his daughter or his néece the certeintie was not for both their honours openlie reuealed for suerlie such a thing was attempted by king Edward which loued well both to behold and also to féele faire damsels But whether the iniurie that the earle thought he receiued at the kings hands or the disdaine of authoritie that the earle had vnder the king was the cause of the breach of amitie betwixt them truth it is that the priuie intentions of their harts brake into so manie small peeces that England France and Flanders could neuer ioine them againe during their naturall liues But though the earle of Warwike was earnestlie inflamed against the king for that he had thus married himselfe without his knowledge hauing regard onelie to the satisfieng of his wanton appetite more than to his honour or suertie of his estate yet did he so much dissemble the matter at his returne into England as though he had not vnderstood anie thing thereof but onelie declared what he had doone with such reuerence and shew of fréendlie countenance as he had béene accustomed And when he had taried in the court a certeine space he obteined licence of the king to depart to his castell of Warwike meaning when time serued to vtter to the world that which he then kept secret that is to saie his inward grudge which he bare towards the king with desire of reuenge to the vttermost of his power Neuerthelesse at that time he departed to the outward shew so farre in the kings fauour that manie gentlemen of the court for honours sake gladlie accompanied him into his countrie ¶ This yéere it was proclamed in England that the beakes or pikes of shooes and boots should not passe two inches vpon paine of cursing by the cleargie and forfeiting
had shewed and begun But although monsieur de Uauclere sware in the said Philips presence trulie to take king Edwards part yet he sent priuilie to the earle of Warwike lieng at Whitsanbaie that if he landed hee should be taken and lost for all England as he said tooke part against him the duke of Burgognie and all the inhabitants of the towne with the lord Duras the kings marshall and all the retinue of the garrison were his enimies The earle hauing this aduertisement from his feigned enimie with his nauie sailed toward Normandie and by the waie spoiled and tooke manie ships of the duke of Burgognies subiects and at the last with all his nauie and spoiles he tooke land at Diepe in Normandie where the gouernor of the countrie friendlie welcomed him and aduertised king Lewes of his arriuall The French king desirous of nothing more than to haue occasion to pleasure the erle of Warwike of whom the hie renowme caused all men to haue him in admiration sent vnto him requiring both him and his sonne in law the duke of Clarence to come vnto his castell of Ambois where he men soiourned The duke of Burgognie hearing that the duke and earle were thus receiued in France sent a post with letters vnto king Lewes partlie by waie of request and partlie by way of menacing to dissuade him from aiding of his aduersaries the said duke and earle But the French king little regarded this sute of the duke of Burgognie and therefore answered that he might and would succour his friends and yet breake no leage with him at all In the meane time K. Edward made inquirie for such as were knowne to be aiders of the earle of Warwike within his realme of whom some he apprehended as guiltie and some doubting themselues fled to sanctuarie and other trusting to the kings pardon submitted themselues as Iohn marques Montacute whom he courteouslie receiued When quéene Margaret that soiourned with duke Reiner hir father heard tell that the earle of Warwike was come to the French court withall diligence shée came to Ambois to sée him with hir onelie sonne prince Edward With hir also came Iasper earle of Penbroke and Iohn earle of Oxford which after diuerse imprisonments latelie escaped fled out of England into France and came by fortune to this assemblie These persons after intreatie had of their affaires determined by meanes of the French king to conclude a league and amitie betweene them And first to begin withall for the sure foundation of their new intreatie Edward prince of Wales wedded Anne second daughter to the earle of Warwike which ladie came with hir mother into France After which mariage the duke and the earles tooke a solemne oth that they should neuer leaue the warre till either king Henrie the sixt or his sonne prince Edward were restored to the crowne and that the quéene and the prince should depute and appoint the duke and the earle to be gouernors conseruators of the common wealth till time the prince were come to estate Manie other conditions were agréed as both reason the weightinesse of so great businesse required Whilest these things were thus in dooing in the French court there landed a damsell belonging to the duchesse of Clarence as she said which made monsieur de Uaucléere beleeue that she was sent from king Edward to the duke of Clarence and the line 10 earle of Warwike with a plaine ouerture and declaration of peace Of the which tidings Uaucléere was verie glad for the earles sake But this damsell comming to the duke persuaded him so much to leaue off the pursute of his conceiued displeasure towards his brother king Edward that he promised at his returne into England not to be so extreme enimie against his brother as he was taken to be and this promise afterward he did kéepe With this answer the damsell returned into England the earle line 20 of Warwike being thereof clearelie ignorant The French king lent both ships men and monie vnto quéene Margaret and to hir partakers and appointed the bastard of Burbon admerall of France with a great nauie to defend them against the nauie of the duke of Burgognie which he laid at the mouth of the riuer Saine readie to incounter them being of greater force than both the French nauie and the English fléet And yet king Reiner did also helpe his daughter with men and munition line 30 of warre When their ships and men were come togither to Harflue the erle of Warwike thought not to linger time bicause he was certified by letters from his friends out of England that assoone as he had taken land there would be readie manie thousands to doo him what seruice and pleasure they could or might And beside this diuerse noble men wrote that they would helpe him with men armor monie and all things necessarie for the warre and further to aduenture their owne bodies in his quarell line 40 Suerlie his presence was so much desired of all the people that almost all men were readie in armour looking for his arriuall for they iudged that the verie sunne was taken from the world when hée was absent When he had receiued such letters of comfort he determined with the duke and the earles of Oxford and Penbroke bicause quéene Margaret and hir sonne were not yet fullie furnished for the iournie to go before with part of the nauie and part of the armie And euen as fortune would the nauie of the duke of Burgognie at the same time by a tempest line 50 was scattered driuen beside the coast of Normandie so that the earle of Warwike in hope of a boune voiage caused sailes to be halsed vp and with good spéed landed at Darmouth in Deuonshire from whence almost six moneths passed he tooke his iournie toward France as before ye haue heard When the earle had taken land he made proclamation in the name of king Henrie the sixt vpon high paines commanding and charging all men able to beare armor line 60 to prepare themselues to fight against Edward duke of Yorke which contrarie to right had vsurped the crowne It is almost not to be beléeued how manie thousands men of warre at the first tidings of the earles landing resorted vnto him King Edward wakened with the newes of the earles landing and the great repaire of people that came flocking in vnto him sent foorth letters into all parts of his realme to raise an armie but of them that were sent for few came and yet of those few the more part came with no great good willes Which when he perceiued he began to doubt the matter and therefore being accompanied with the duke of Glocester his brother the lord Hastings his chamberlaine which had maried the earles sister and yet was euer true to the king his maister and the lord Scales brother to the quéene he departed into Lincolneshire And bicause he vnderstood that
number of six hundred horsses was come on his waie to London-ward after secret méeting and communication had eftsoones departed Wherevpon at Northampton the duke met with the protector himselfe with thrée hundred horsses line 20 and from thense still continued with him partner of all his deuises till that after his coronation they departed as it séemed verie great fréends at Glocester From whense as soone as the duke came home he so lightlie turned from him and so highlie conspired against him that a man would maruell whereof the change grew And suerlie the occasion of their variance is of diuerse men diuerselie reported Some haue I heard say that the duke a little before line 30 his coronation among other things required of the protector the duke of Herefords lands to the which he pretended himselfe iust inheritor And forsomuch as the title which he claimed by inheritance was somwhat interlaced with the title to the crowne by the line of king Henrie before depriued the protector conceiued such indignation that he reiected the dukes request with manie spitefull and minatorie words Which so wounded his heart with hatred and mistrust that he neuer after could indure to looke line 40 aright on king Richard but euer feared his owne life so far foorth that when the protector rode through London toward his coronation he feined himselfe sicke bicause he would not ride with him And the other also taking it in euill part sent him word to rise and come ride or he would make him be caried Wherevpon he rode on with euill will and that notwithstanding on the morow rose from the feast feining himselfe sicke and king Richard said it was doone in hatred and despite of him line 50 And they said that euer after continuallie each of them liued in such hatred and distrust of other that the duke verelie looked to haue beene murthered at Glocester from which nathelesse he in faire maner departed But suerlie some right secret at that daie denie this and manie right wise men thinke it vnlikelie the déepe dissembling nature of both those men considered and what néed in that gréene world the protector had of the duke and in what perill the duke stood if he fell once in suspicion of the tyrant line 60 that either the protector would giue the duke occasion of displeasure or the duke the protector occasion of mistrust And verelie men thinke that if king Richard had anie such opinion conceiued he would neuer haue suffered him to escape his hands Uerie truth it is the duke was an high minded man and euill could beare the glorie of another so that I haue heard of some that say they saw it that the duke at such time as the crowne was first set vpon the protectors head his eie could not abide the sight thereof but wried his head another way But men say that he was of truth not well at ease and that both to king Richard well knowne and not euill taken nor anie demand of the dukes vncourteouslie reiected but he both with great gifts and high behests in most louing and trustie maner departed at Glocester But soone after his comming home to Brecknocke hauing there in his custodie by the commandement of king Richard doctor Morton bishop of Elie who as ye before heard was taken in the councell at the Tower waxed with him familiar whose wisedome abused his pride to his owne deliuerance and the dukes destruction The bishop was a man of great naturall wit verie well learned and honorable in behauior lacking no wise waies to win fauour He had béene fast vpon the part of king Henrie while that part was in wealth and nathelesse left it not nor forsooke it in wo but fled the realme with the queene the prince while king Edward had the king in prison neuer came home but to the field After which lost and that part vtterlie subdued the other for his fast faith and wisedome not onelie was content to receiue him but also wooed him to come and had him from thencefoorth both in secret trust and verie speciall fauour which he nothing deceiued For he being as yée haue heard after king Edwards death first taken by the tyrant for his truth to the king found the meane to set this duke in his top ioined gentlemen togither in the aid of king Henrie deuising first the mariage betwéene him king Edwards daughter by which his faith he declared the good seruice to both his masters at once with infinit benefit to the realme by the coniunction of those two blouds in one whose seuerall titles had long disquieted the land he fled the realme went to Rome neuer minding more to meddle with the world till the noble prince king Henrie the seuenth gat him home againe made him archbishop of Canturburie and chancellor of England wherevnto the pope ioined the honour of cardinall Thus liuing manie daies in as much honor as one man might well wish ended them so godlie that his death with Gods mercie well changed his life This man therefore as I was about to tell you by the long often alternate proofe as well of prosperitie as aduerse fortune had gotten by great experience the verie mother and mistresse of wisedome a déepe insight in politike worldlie drifts Whereby perceiuing now this duke glad to commune with him fed him with faire words and manie pleasant praises And perceiuing by the processe of their communications the dukes pride now and then belking out a little breath of enuie toward the glorie of the king and thereby feeling him easie to fall out if the matter were well handled he craftilie sought the waies to pricke him forward taking alwaies the occasion of his comming and so kéeping himselfe so close within his bounds that he rather séemed to follow him than to lead him For when the duke first began to praise and boast the king and shew how much profit the realme should take by his reigne my lord Morton answered thus Suerlie my lord follie were it for me to lie for if I would sweare the contrarie your lordship would not I weene beléeue but that if the world would haue gone as I would haue wished king Henries sonne had had the crowne and not king Edward But after that God had ordered him to léese it and king Edward to reigne I was neuer so mad that I would with a dead man striue against the quicke So was I to king Edward a faithfull chapleine glad would haue béene that his child had succéeded him Howbeit if the secret iudgment of God haue otherwise prouided I purpose not to spurne against a pricke nor labour to set vp that God pulleth downe And as for the late protector and now king And euen there he left saieng that he had alreadie medled too much with the world and would from that daie meddle with his booke and his beads and no further Then longed the duke sore to heare what he
gaue the pope to drinke of the same wine which Ualentinois had sent who arriuing while his father was drinking drunke also of the same wine being but iust that they both should tast of the same cup which they had brued for the destruction of others All the towne of Rome ran with great gladnesse to saint Peters about the dead bodie of the pope their eies not satisfied to sée ded and destroied a serpent who with his immoderate line 50 ambition and poisoned infidelitie togither with all the horrible examples of crueltie luxurie and monstruous couetousnesse selling without distinction both holie things and prophane things had infected the whole world And yet was he accompanied with a most rare almost perpetuall prosperitie euen from his yoong age to the end of his life desiring alwaies great things and obteining most often that he desired An line 60 example of much importance to confound the arrogancie of those men who presuming to know and sée perfectlie with humane eies the depth of Gods iudgements doo assure that what happeneth either good or ill to mortall men procéedeth either of their merits or faults as though we saw not dailie manie good men vniustlie tormented wicked persons aboue their deseruings liue in case and honour wherein who makes an other interpretation derogates the iustice and power of God the greatnesse of which being not to be conteined within any scripts or tearms present knoweth how well and largely to discerne in an other time and place the iust from the vniust and that with rewards and eternall punishments In the meane time he powreth out his vengeance vpon the imaginers of mischéefe in this life so prouiding as that they are caught in their owne snares and ouertaken with such destruction as they had prepared for others according to that saieng of the Psalmist Effodit puteum foueámque eduxit ab imo Et miser in latebras incidit ipse suas In verticem ipsius recurrit Pernicies recidúntque fraudes At the same time died Giles lord Dawbenie the kings chéefe chamberleine whose office Charles bastard sonne to Henrie last duke of Summerset occupied and enioied a man of good wit and great experience Soone after the king caused Guidebald duke of Urbine to be elected knight of the order of the garter in like maner as his father duke Frederike had béene before him which was chosen and admitted into the order by king Edward the fourth Sir Gilbert Talbot and the other two ambassadors being appointed to kéepe on their iournie vnto pope Iulie the second elected after the death of the said Pius the third bare the habit and collar also vnto the said duke Guidebald which after he had receiued the same sent sir Balthasar Castalio knight a Mantrian borne as his orator vnto king Henrie which was for him installed according to the ordinances of the order This yeare that worthie prelate Thomas Sauage archbishop of Yorke departed this life at his castell of Cawood a man beside the worthinesse of his birth highlie estéemed with his prince for his fast fidelitie and great wisedome He bestowed great cost in repairing the castell of Cawood and the manor of Scrobie His bodie was buried at Yorke but he appointed by his testament that his hart should be buried at Macclesfield in Cheshire where he was borne in a chapell there of his foundation ioining to the south side of the church meaning to haue founded a college there also if his purpose had not béene preuented by death After him succeeded doctor Benbridge in the archbishops sée of Yorke being the fiftie and sixt archbishop that had sat in that see About this same time Lewes the French king the twelfe of that name who succéeded Charles the eighth that died at Amboise the night before the eighth daie of Aprill of a catarrhe which the physicians call an apoplexie the same rising in him with such aboundance as he beheld a match plaied at tennisse that in few houres he ended at the same place his life during the which he had with greater importunitie than vertue troubled the whole world with great apparance of danger to kindle eftsoones new fiers of innouation and troubles maried his eldest daughter named Clare vnto Francis de Ualois Dolphin of Uienne and duke of Angolesme which ladie was promised vnto Charles the king of Castile wherevpon by ambassadors sent to and fro betwixt king Henrie and the said king of Castile a mariage was concluded betwixt the said king of Castile and the ladie Marie daughter to king Henrie being about the age of ten yeares For conclusion of which mariage the lord of Barow other ambassadors were sent into England from the emperor Maximilian which with great rewards returned ¶ William Browne mercer maior of London this yeare deceassed year 1508 and foorthwith sir Laurence Ailmer draper was chosen and sworne and went home in a graie cloake with the sword borne before him on the eight and twentith daie of March. Item he tooke his oth at the Tower and kept no feast William Capell was put in sute by the king for things by him doone in his maioraltie Also Thomas Kneisworth that had beene maior of London and his shiriffes were sent to the kings Bench till they were put to their fines of foureteene hundred pounds In the moneth of Iune the citie of Norwich was sore perished neere consumed with fier that began in a Frenchmans house named Peter Iohnson a surgian in the parish of saint George Stephan Genings merchant tailor maior of London founded a free grammar schoole at Wlfrunehampton in Staffordshire with conuenient lodgings for the maister and vsher in the same place where he was borne He gaue lands sufficient line 10 for the maintenance leauing the ouersight thereof to the merchant tailors in London who haue hitherto iustlie dealt in that matter and also augmented the building there Maister Nichols who maried the onelie daughter and heire of the aforesaid Stephan Genings gaue lands to mainteine the pauements of that towne Also Iohn Leneson esquier about Anno 1556 gaue lands whereof foure pounds should be dealt euerie yeare on good fridaie to the poore people of Wlfrunehampton and six and twentie line 20 shillings eight pence yéerelie towards the reparation of the church there Moreouer about Anno 1566 sir Iohn Ligh a préest which had serued in that church there the space of thréescore years for fiue pounds six shillings eight pence the yeare without anie other augmentation of his liuing who would neuer take anie benefice or other preferment gaue twentie pounds to purchase twentie shillings the yeare lands the same to be giuen yearelie for euer to the poore of Wlfrunehampton line 30 vpon good fridaie twelue pounds thirteene shillings foure pence to purchase a marke a yeare lands the same to be giuen to the poore of Chifnall in the countie of Salope where the said Ligh was borne This man liued
excuse of their pouertie he thus replied vnto them that forsomuch as they were so bare in their apparell and so sparing of their expenses it must néeds be that they saued their pursses and had monie and therefore they must néeds paie and so adiudged them to lend vnto the prince Now as he arose by learning so he was a great fauorer and furtherer of learning and for the good increase of the same he builded and founded Corpus Christi college in Oxenford In his latter daies he waxed and was blind and dieng in Winchester he was there buried in his owne church after that he had beene bishop of Excester six yéers he was remoued to Bath in the yeare of our Lord one thousand foure hundred ninetie and two 38 Oliuer King immediatlie vpon the transferring of bishop Fox was consecrated bishop of this church in Februarie one thousand foure hundred ninetie and two Iohn Morton then archbishop of Canturburie This Oliuer was chapleine to king Henrie the seuenth and deane of Windesor and register of the order of the garter In his time were the rebellions of Ioseph the blacke smith in Cornewall and of Perken Warbecke This bishop after that he had occupied this sée about fiue yeares he died in the yeare of our Lord one thousand foure hundred ninetie and seuen and as some suppose he was buried at Windesor 39 Richard Redman immediatlie vpon the death of bishop Oliuer King was translated from his bishoprike in Wales to this citie but after fiue yeares he was remooued vnto the bishoprike of Elie and installed there in September in the yeare of our Lord one thousand fiue hundred and one He was a gentleman borne and descended of a verie worshipfull house which ioined with his wisedome and learning did much increase his credit and good report line 10 40 Iohn Arundell next after the translation of bishop Redman was remooued from Couentrie and Lichfield vnto this citie and was installed the fifteenth of March one thousand fiue hundred and one Wherein he sought not the preferment for anie liuelihoods but rather desirous to be a dweller and resiant in his countrie where he was borne for he was descended of the Arundels of Lanherne in Cornewall a house of great antiquitie and worship line 20 He long inioied not his new bishoprike for after two yeares after his installing he had occasion to ride vnto London and there died and was buried in S. Clements church without Templebar in the yeare one thousand fiue hundred and three 41 Hugh Oldham vpon the death of Arundell by the preferment of the countesse of Richmond and Derbie vnto whom he was chapleine was preferred vnto this bishoprike and installed in the same He was a man hauing more zeale than knowledge line 30 and more deuotion than learning somewhat rough in spéeches but friendlie in dooings He was carefull in the sauing and defending of his liberties for which continuall sutes was betwéene him and the abbat of Tauestoke he was liberall to the vicars chorall of his church and reduced them to the kéeping of commons and towards the maintenance thereof he gaue them certeine reuenues and impropriated vnto them the rectorie of Cornewood He albâ—it of himselfe he were not learned yet a great fauourer and a line 40 furtherer of learning and of learned men Notwithstanding he was sometime crossed in his honest attempt therein He first was minded to haue inlarged Excester college in Oxford as well in buildings as in fellowships but after being a requester to the fellowes for one Atkins to be a fellow in whose fauour he had written his letters and was denied he changed his mind and his good will was alienated About the same time doctor Smith bishop of Lincolne was building of the college named Brasen nose and was verie willing and desirous to ioine line 50 with him but being denied to haue the nomination of a founder his mind was changed Not long after being aduertised that bishop Fox of Winchester was minded to erect found a new college he ioined with him and contributed vnto him a great masse of monie and so a college was builded for scholars and great liuelihoods prouided for them then the house was named Corpus Christi college Whereof the one of them bare the name of a founder and line 60 the other of a benefactor Howbeit some diuersitie was betwéene these two bishops at the first to what vse this college should be imploied For the founder was of the mind that he would haue made it for a house of moonks but the benefactor was of the contrarie mind and would haue it for scholars alleging that moonks were but a sort of buzzing flies whose state could not long indure wheras scholars brought vp in learning would be profitable members to the commonwealth and good ornaments to the church of God and continue for euer The founder being a wise man and of a déepe iudgement when he had paused and considered hereof yeeldeth herevnto and so it was concluded betweene them to make and build a college for scholars And forthwith for the good direction guiding and gouernement of the said college and scholars such wise good politike statutes and ordinances were by good aduise and counsell deuised established and ordeined as whereby the said college hath beene and yet continueth one of the best nursseries for training and instructing of good scholars in learning within that vniuersitie This bishop and the abbat of Tauestoke did still contend and continue in law during their liues and during which sute this bishop died being excommunicated at Rome and who could not be suffered to be buried vntill an absolution from Rome was procured for him After that he had béene bishop about sixteene yeares he died the fiue and twentith of Iune one thousand fiue hundred and ninetéene and was buried in his owne church 42 Iohn Uoiseie otherwise Harman succéeded Oldham by the preferment of king Henrie the eight whose chapleine he then was and deane of his chapell as also of this church he was doctor of the lawes verie well learned and wise and in great fauour with the king who sent him sundrie times in ambassages to forreine princes he was lord president of Wales had the gouernement of the kings onlie daughter ladie Marie princesse of Wales Of all the bishops in the land he was accounted the court likest and the best courtier And although he were well reported for his learning yet better liked for his courtlike behauiour which in the end turned not so much to his credit as to the vtter ruine and spoile of the church for of two and twentie lordships and manors which his predecessors had and left vnto him of a goodlie yearelie reuenue he left but three them also leased out And where he found fouretéene houses well furnished he left onelie one house bare and without furniture and yet charged with sundrie fées and annuities and by these means
the duchesse of Suffolke attached by bishop Gardiner note 1142 b 10 c. ¶ Sée duchesse Katharine of Suffolke Berwike fortified 320 b 10 Taken by the Scots 383 a 60. Besieged 350 a 30. Surrendred 350 a 50. Betraied to the Scots 324 a 20. Summoned and woone by Edward the first 298 a 20 50. Fortified by Edward the first 299 a 30 Chéeflie regarded 881. b 40. Yéelded to Henrie the fourth 530 b 50. The castell woone by the Scots recouered by the earle of Northampton 446 b 20. Woone by the Scots 421 a 60. Recouered by the earle of Northumberland 421 b 10. Woone by the Scots recouered by the English 418 a 60. The capteine thereof will not suffer the duke of Lancaster to enter 439 a 10. Deliuered to the French king and of him possessed 665 a 60. Woone by the Englishmen 705 b 60. Deliuered to the lord Stanlie c 706 b 60 Betrice Henrie the thirds daughter borne 230 b 10 Beuchamps iournie to the holie land against the Saracens 22 a 60. His valiantnesse 88 a 10 Beuclerke Henrie why so called 1â— a 60 Beuer castell to whom it apperteined 189 a 30 Beuerleie towne burned 113 b 20 Beumont vicount his daughter married vnto the Scotish king 110 a 60. Discoâ—fited by the Scots 323 a 40 Beaumont lord of Heinault note 337 a 60 346 b 60 347. Forsaketh the king of Englands seruice 367 b 50 Lord high constable of England 627 a 20 Bible in euerie church commâ—nded to be read 945 b 40. The necessarie vse and benefite thereof 1042 b 50. Presented to quéene Elisabeth which she promiseth the citie often to read ouer 1175 b 60 Bigod Roger his spoiles and booties 17 a 50. Hugh sometime steward to Henrie the first 46 b 40. Knight procureth a commotion 943 b 60. Apprehended and executed 944 a 10 b 10 Bilneie burned 928 a 10 Bishop Adrian an Italian of Hereford Bath and Wels 771 a 40. Agelmarus ¶ Sée Agelmarus AlexaÌ„der ¶ Sée Alexander Anthonie of Durham his great reuenues kept out of the abbeie of Durham summoned to appeare before Edward the first refuseth the conclusion of the strife betwéene him and the moonks 315 a 40 c. Athelmarle Henrie the thirds halfe brother bishop of Winchester 243 a 10. Beauchampe of Salisburie is sent to the duke of Yorke c to know the lords meaning that were vp in armes 649 b 60. Beaufort of Winchester sonne to Iohn duke of Lancaster 590 b 60 591 a 10 c. Otherwise called the rich cardinall deceased and described 627 b 60 628. Christianus ¶ Sée Christianus Cox of Elie deceaseth his epitaph 1321 b 60. Egelwinus ¶ Sée Egelwinus Ermenfred ¶ Sée Ermenfred Fisher of Rochester complained of to king Henrie the eight 911 b 40 50. Beheaded 938 a 60. Foliot of London embassador to the French king 72 a 50. For of Durham owner of Norham castell 782 b 50. Of Excester ambassadour into Scotland 767 b 50. Of Winchester 839 b 50 60. ¶ Sée Corpus Christi college His wisedome in procuring the clergie to be contributors of monie for Henrie the seuenths behoofe 792 a 50 60. Gardiner bishop of Winchester ambassador into France 939 a 60. ¶ Sée Gardiner Geffreie of Lincolne king Henries base sonne 99 b 60. His letter to the archbishop of Canturburie be resigneth his bishoprike 104 b 10 40. Gifford of Winchester refuseth to be consecrated at the archbishop of Yorks hands and therefore banished and depriued 31 b 10. ¶ Sée Gifford Godfreie of Winchester sonne to the lord Richard de Lucie deceaseth 168 b 30. Graie of Norwich lord lieutenant of Ireland 174 b 30. Graie of Norwich president of the councell 169 b 10 Grosted of Lincolne deceased his praise 249 a 10 Haruie first bishop of Elie 36 a 30. Horne of Winchester deceaseth 1299 b 60. Hugh of Lincolne his bold courage to king Richard the first 143 b 60. Deceaseth a description of â—is dooings and life presumpâ—uous 162 b 30. Admitted into the number of seints 163 a 10. Of Couentrie resâ—ored to his sée 147 b 30 Iewell of Salisburie deceaâ—eth 1226 b 30. Lisâ—e of Elie and the ladie Wake at variance 392 a 10. Longchampe of Elie the popes legat his statelie port 129 a 10 Depriueth bishops meaneth to kéepe earle Iohn low besiegeth the castell of Lincolne raiseth his siege with dishonour breaketh agréements concluded 129 all Lord chancellor of England 121 a 10. Morton of Elie commended 791 a 10 Buildeth vpon the dukes ambition 737 b 10. Deuiseth to be at his owne libertie in his bishoprike of Elie he satieth into Flanders to the earle of Richmond 741 a 60 b 10. What pagents he plaid the high honour wherein he was placed his subtill vndermining of the duke of Glocester 736 b 10 30 50. Defeated the practises of king Richard the third and Peter Landoise 747 b 60. Adiureth duke Richard to release the realme by some deuise from the present euill estate 738 a 60. A new conference betwéene them b 20 Made archbishop of Canturburie cardinall and lord chancellor 767 a 30. Odo ¶ Sée Odo Osmond ¶ Sée Osmond Pecocke of Chichester abiured at Paules crosse note 646 a 20. Peter of Winchester gouernor of king Henrie the third 202 a 60. Rafe of Durham his warlike exhortation 49 a 60â— Ralegh of Winchester consecrated by the pope he stealeth out of the realme he giueth to the pope six thousand marks 231 b 60. Ranulfe ¶ Sée Ranulfe Remclid of Hereford inuested by the king note 31 a 50 Remigius ¶ Sée Remigius Richard of London translated to the archbishoprike of Canturburie 37 b 10. Roger of Salisburie put in trust with the gouernement of the realme 45 b 50. Ruthall of Durham one of king Henrie the seuenths priuie councell his booke of priuat affaires vnaduisedlie deliuered in stéed of the kings disaduantageable to himselfe 796 b 60. He dieth with griefe 797 a 10. Samson of Worcester the mouth of the bishops 36 a 60. Tunstall ¶ Sée Tunstall Wainsléet of Winchester founder of Magdelene college in Oxford 628 b 10 c. Walkhelme ¶ Sée Walkhelme Walkher ¶ Sée Walkher Walter of Alba bringeth Anselme his pall 25 b 60. ¶ Sée Walter 1 a 50. Waltham of Salisburie buried of Westminster among the kings 485 a 40. Warlewaâ—ts words to pope Paschall in behalfe of Henrie the first 31 b 40. Watson of Winchester deceaseth 1368 b 60. Wickham of Winchester remembred and commended note 526 b 60 527 a 10 c. Made lord chancellor 466 b 50. William ¶ Sée William Wolstane ¶ Seée Wolstane Bishop of Beauuois taken prisoner 150 b 50. An aduersarie to Richard the first two of his chapleins come to Richard the first to intreat that they might wait vpon their maister but are denied 151 a 10 Bishop of Carleill bold and faithfull commended 513 b 40. The first was a prior and the kings consellor 44 b 20. Of Constance with others taketh Bath 17 a 40. Of Couentrie committed to prison
Deceaseth hir praise 285. b 30. Hir buriall 288. b 20 Queene Elisabeth crowned and annointed queene 768. a 60. Deliuered of hir first sonne 769. b 10. Forward and redie to further the vniting of the two houses of Lancaster and Yorke 742. a 10 20.30 Taketh sanctuarie 715. b 60. Hir desolut estate 716. a 30 Queene Elisabeth late wife to Edward the fourth 615. b. 30 Adiudged to forfeit all hir lands for promise breaking 765 b 40. She liueth a miserable and wretched life she erected a college in Cambridge b 50.60 Inconstant she allureth hir sonne the marquesse Dorsset home out of France 750 b 20.30 The cardinall thought the fittest man to deale with hir for the surrendring of hir sonne reasons whie it was thought meet to fetch him out of sanctuarie the duke of Buckinghams words vnto hir 717. a 40. b 10.40 Hir answers to the persuaders she is loth to part with hir sonne hir mistrust of the lord protector she faleth to a resolution touching hir sonnes deliuerie 719. a 60. b 10.30 Queene Elisabeth Greie wife to Edward the fourth 668. a 40. Hir father and brother beheaded note 673. a 30. Deliuered of a prince the same christened like a poore mans child 677. b 10 Queene Elisabeth surnamed the good deceaseth 791. a 10 Queene Elisabeth of Castile dieth with issue male 792. b 20 Queen Elisabeth second daughter to Henrie the eight borne and christened the statelie order thereof note 934. b 20. Proclamed queene the beginning of hir reigne hir remooue from Hatfield the flourishing estate of this land vnder hir reigne 1170 b 10.20.40.50 Hir remooue to the Tower to Summerset house 1171. a 10.20 Hir praier as she went to be crowned 1180. a 10. Crowned 1180. a 30. Desirous to know the meaning of the representations of the pagents 1173. b 30. Listeneth to a childs oration 1174. b 40. Hir promise with thanks to the citie of London 1175. a 20. b 60. Remooueth from Westminster to the Tower by water from thense to Westminster through London saluteth them that salute hir pagents and shewes of reioising 1172. all Hir words vnto the lord maior of London 1176 a 30. She receiueth Verbum Dei kisseth it and laieth it in hir lap b 50. She thinketh vpon the cities charge how willing she was to heare a childs speach 1177 b 20. The cities farewell vnto hir going out at Temple barre 1178 b 60. Hir last words to the citie by waie of promise 1178 a 30. Notes of hir mercie c. a 60. Hir humilitie in receiuing verie trifles thankfullie b 30. Not forgetfull to glorifie God who glorified hir b 60 A motion made to hir in the parlement house touching mariage with hir answer therto hir promise 1181 a 20 40. c. b 20. Determineth to aid the Scots suing for aid 1186 b 40.1187 a 10. Sued vnto out of Denmarke about mariage 1185. b 10 20. Furnisheth hir land with armor and munition 1193. b 60. Greeued with the losse of Paules steeple hir beneuolence towards the reparing thereof 1194 a 40. And what causes mooued hir to send a power into France 1195. a 30. b 10.30.40 Hir progresse to through Cambridge hir oration to the vniuersitie 1206. b 20 c. To Oxford she maketh an oration to the vniuersitie 1209. a 60. b 10. Hir owne words importing how deerelie she loueth hir people 1221. b 30. Hir manifold vertues b 50. Goeth to the Bursie being finished nameth it the Roiall exchange 1224. a 60. Hir destruction deuised to be practised ¶ See Priests seminarie and note it well Hir answer to the maior of Norwich his oration 1289. a 20. Incouraging words vnto Stephan Lambert redie to make an oration vnto hir 1294. b 30. She highlie commendeth â— 1296. a 20. Hir behauiour â—fter all hir welcomming 12â—7 a 20. Hir departure from thâ— citie heauilie taken 1298. a 10 20. Hir words at hir 〈◊〉 with water in hir eies b 40 Hir progresse into Suffolk and Northfolke with th whole manner of the sumptuous sights and whatsoeueâ— else was deuised for pleasur and delight 1287. a 30. 128â— c to 1299. In dâ—nger of gunshot being in he priâ—ie barge 1310. b 10. The pâ—ace of hir abode during he time of hir tarriance in Norwich 1291 a 60. Accomâ—â—nieth the duke of Alanson tâ— Canturburie 1330 a 30. â—0 An intention to murtherhir and the partie executo 1356. a 50. She giueth ad to the defense of the low countries whie so mooued to doo 1414. a 50. c. to 1419. a 10. Shamefullie slandered by hir enimies and the same answered note 1418 a 30. c. Hir oration to the pâ—rlement house note 1396. a 50. c. Hir magnanimitie knowing Parries vowed treasons against hir yet concealing it 1391 a 60. Parries treasonable practises to kill hir and vndoo the whole realme note well 1382. a 50. 60. c. to 1385. Hir magnanimitie in suffering a knowne and sworne traitor against hir to haue accesse vnto and talke with hir 1383. a 20. Conspired against and hir depriuation sought by traitors note 1370. a 40.50.60 b 10. c. to 1375. ¶ See Elisabeth and Babington Queene Iane proclamed with sound of trumpet queene of England 1084. b 10. ¶ See Iane. Queene Iane deceseth 544 b 40 Queene Ione late wife to king Henrie the fourth arrested by the duke of Bedford and committed 568. b 10 Queene Isabell the wife of king Edward the second 318. b 60 319. a 10 Queene Isabell the second wife of king Iohn 162. a 30 Queene Isabell wife vnto king Richard the second transported into France 519. a 60. And conueied to Paris hir second marriage b 10.20 Queene Isabell married vnto Hugh Brune erle of March 202. a 60 Queene Katharine hir coronation the wife of king Henrie the fift 578. b 60. Solemnitie there â—9 a 10 Saileth into Fâ— 581 b 60 Queeâ—â—atharines coronation traiâ— and sumptuousnesse 80â— c. Deliuered of hir 〈…〉 named Henrie 807. a 2 Chooseth lawiers in hir 〈◊〉 to iustifie hir mariage 〈…〉 speech in 〈◊〉 of the court she auouchâ—â—e coniunction good she â—â—â—â—rteth out of the court 〈◊〉 againe 907 a 10.50 〈◊〉 Procureth a cursse 〈◊〉 king Henrie the eight 〈◊〉 his realme from the pope â—â—6 a 60. Hâ—r words vpon 〈◊〉 motion of a diuorse standâ—th stiffe in the lawfulnesse of â—ir mariage 927. a 10. c b 60 Accuseth cardinall Woolseie hath communication with the cardinall in hir priuie chamber refuseth to make sudden answer to a diuorse 908. a 30. b 10.20 Is diuorsed from king Henrie the eight 929. b 60 930. a 10. Princesse Dowiger 929. b 30. Deceaseth 939. b 20 Queene Katharine hir parames detected of incontinent liuâ—g 954. b 30.40 c. She is attinted by parlement sent to theTower and beheaded 955. 30.40 c. 50 Queâ—e Marie commeth vnto Lâ—don 1088. b 50. Proclamâ— queene 1088. a 30. Hir cornation pompe and traine 10â— a 20. Hir mariage diueâ— diuerslie affected theraboâ— and what
archb of Yorke is forbidden the vse of the sacraments Matt. Paris Polydor. The king became seruitor to his sonne Honours change maners Yong men set vp in dignitie easilie forget themselues The French king offended An 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 R. Houed He made his testament Rog. Houed Polydor. â—ing Henrie the sonne his misorder Anno Reg. 16 1170 Ex Quadrilogio The king and the arch Becket met togither in presence of the French king The present state of the church in Beckets daies The archb Becket blamed of arrogancie Archb. Becket wilfull in his owne opinion The French K. receiueth the archbishop Becket againe into fauour The archb is reconciled to the king â—umen sat 15. The king would not kisse the pax with the archbishop Matt. Paris The honor of Saltwood The French kings aduice to the archbish Becket Matth. Paris The archbishop Becket returneth into England The archbish of Yorke and other go ouer to the king to complaine of the archbishop Becket Ger. Dor. The occasion of the kings words that cost bish Becket his life The knights that slue the archbishop Becket Reignold Fitz Urse Thâ—t is betwéene 4. and 5. in the euening An oth required of him for his baronie The knights command the moonks to sée the archbishop kept safe Iohn de Salisburie the archb Beckets chancellor The archbishops resolution The knights put on their armor The moonks with force bring the archbishop into the church The knights enter the church As though archbishops can be no traitors The courage of the archb Edward of Cambridge The archbish is slaine The murtherers come to an euill end Matth. Paris W. Paruus Anno Reg. 17. â—â—ter their account that begin the yere on Christmas day Robert de Broc Hâ—si in lib. cui tit op dies King Henrie sorie for the archb Beckets death Polydor. King Henrie sendeth ambassadours to the pope Matth. Paris Ger. Dor. The ambassadours were glad to vse a shift by briberie Sundrie rulers in Ireland Luc. lib. 1. Matth. Paris W. Paruus Sée more hereof in Ireland Erle Strangbow N. Triuet N. Triuet Wil. Paruus Strangbow contermanded Dublin won Additions to Iohn Pike Strangbow marrieth Dermutius his daughter Strangbow confined He séeketh to procure the kings fauour The king pardoneth him N. Triuet Rog. Houed Milford hauen King Henrie landeth in Ireland Crowch The surrender made by erle Strangbow Sundrie rulers in a land what weakenes it causeth Ouid. li. 3. de â—rr Siat 1. Th. Roderike K. of Connagh Matth. Paris Polydor. The nature of the countrie of Connagh The allegation of the Irishmen A councell at Cassill R. Houed The archdeacon of Landaf Anno Reg. 18. Matth. Paris Matth. West A sore tempest Lightning Polydor. Pub. 〈◊〉 The kings gift vnto Hugh Lacie The king râ—turneth into England Ger. Dor. The popes legats Ger. Dor. R. Houed Rog. Houed A strange apparition Ex. G. Buch. paraph. in psal 2. R. Houed Ger. Dor. King Henrie purgeth himselfe of the archbishop Beckets death O vile subiection vnbeséeming a king The French king séeketh to sow sedition betwixt the father and the sonne Sen. in Agam. Rog. Houed Anno Reg. 19. 1173 Hubert earle of Morienne A marriage contracted Comitatus bellensis The countie of Granople The earles of Mandeuille and Arundell The earle of S. Giles Nic. Triuet Tribute for Tholouze Ger. Dor. Matth. West N. Triuet Matth. Paris A councell holden at westminster A collect deuised in honor of the archbishop Becket M. Uaghâ—n at Spitle the tuesdaie in Easter wéeke 1585. Ger. Dor. The archbishops consecratioÌ„ disturbed by the yoong king Wil. Paruus Astulfe de S. Hilarie a counsellor or rather corrupter of king Henrie the sonne Polydor. King Henrie the sonne fled to the French king W. Paruus M. Pal. in virg sag. King Henrie the father knoweth not whome he may trust Polydor. Richard Bart chancellor to the yoong king also his chaplaine sir Walter Ailward with others Rog. Houed Hesiod in lib. cui tit op di TweÌ„tie thousand Brabanders were reteined by king Henrie the father as saith R. Houed Wil. Paruus N. Triuet Polydor. N. Triuet Polydor. The French king taketh an oth to aid king Henrie the sonne Rog. Houed Ger. Dor. Philip earle of Flanders Matthew erle of Bullongne Chateau Reignold Earle Dauid Hugh Bigot Polydor. The confederats inuade â— dominions of king Henrie the father The king of Scots inuadeth Cumberland Wil Paruus Uernueil besieged R. Houed Hugh Beauchampe The French king requireth to taâ—ke Rog. Houed The ninth of August being thursdaie saieth R. Houed king Lewes fleeth awaie in the night Pub. Mim Danuille Gilbert de Tileres Wil. Paruus K. Henrie his short answere to the French kings messengers Albemarle woon by the earle of Flanders R. Houed Ia. Meir Ger. Dor. The earle of Bullongne wounded and diâ—th Plâ—nt in C◠〈◊〉 Houed The earle of Leicester put to flight Matth. Paris Leicester was by force The king of Scots inuadeth Northumberland He retireth The English spâ—â—le Louthian A truce Rog. Houed A treatie of peace Rog. Houed The offer of K. Henrie the father to his sonnes Pub. Mim The earle of Leicester offred to strike the king Additions to Iohn Pike Rog. Houed Rog. Houed Rog. Houed The earle of Leicester taken prisoner Rog. Houed Polydor. Wil. Paruus â—atth Paris R. Houed The towne of Uandosme woone Sée his letter before in page 86. Matt. Paris * Which was fought on the 17. of October Anno. Reg. 20. 1174 Ger. Dor. The oth of the earle of Flanders Additions to Iohn Pike Matth. Paris Ger. Dor. Additions to Iohn Pike The king of Scots inuadeth England Castels woon by the Scots Polydor. Duncane a Scotish capteine wasteth Kendall Wil. Paruus R. Houed Sen. in The. Bernard de Balliolle The king of Scots taken Ger. Dor. Wil. Paruus Matt. Paris Matth. West Wil. Paruus Ger. Dor. Polydor. This chanced a little after Whitsuntide Rob. Ferreis Polydor. Rog. Houed Notingham taken Wil. Paruus Polydor. Wil. Paruus Huntington castell woone R. Houed Matth. Paris Earle Bigot is accorded with the K. The Flemings sent home R. Houed The king of Scots presented to the king of England The earle of Glocester The earle Richard of Clare Pub. Miâ— Quéene Elianor is committed to close prison Polydor. Rouen besieged by the FreÌ„ch king Wil. Paruus Rog. Houed King Henrie returneth into Normandie The Frenchmen assault the citie without commandement of their king Two préests The Frenchmen are repelled Polydor. Matt. Paris R. Houed The Welshmens good seruice Nic. Triuet Rog. Houed The French king maketh an ouerture for peace N. Triuet A truce The French king leaueth his siege Richard the kings sonne prepareth to resist his father He beginneth to despaire of good successe Polydor. The son submitteth himselfe to the father Ger. Dor. The father sonnes are accorded The conditions of the agréement R. Houed R. Houed Richard Geffrey Iohn A marriage concluded Wil. Paruus R. Houed Wil. Paruus saieth that he did homage also Willi. king of
apperance in the aire Anno. Reg. 35. 1189 A legat Matth. Paris R. Houed King Philip entereth the countrie of Maine The words of king Henrie in his displeasure towards earle Richard Mauns yéelded to the French king Wil. Paruus Polydor. The earle of Flanders séeketh to agrée the parties Matth. Paris A peace concluded Thirtie thousand to the 〈◊〉 and twentie 〈◊〉 the barons 〈◊〉 France 〈◊〉 Ger. Dor. Rog. Houed It Gisorâ— saith Ger. Dor. Strange thunder lightning King Henrie departeth this life His surname whereof it came A strange maner of fight betwixt fishes The issue of Henrie the second His sonnes His daughters His base sons The constitution of his bodie His stature His qualities and conditions of mind Radulphus de Diceto Radulphus de Diâ—eto Bishops chosen principall iustices The vices of K. Henrie His incontinencie Rosamund his concubine Ran. Higd. Hiâ— negligeÌ„ce in aâ—ding the Christians against the Saraceâ—s Bale Anno Reg. 1. Wil. Paruus Matt. Paris Stephan de Turnham committed to prison Matth. Paris Polydor. Isabell daughter to the earle of Glocester married to Iohn the kings brother She is named by diuerse authors Haâ—isia Matth. Paris R. Houed Matt. Paris The kings mother set at libertie The 2. kings of England France determine to go into the holie land At South-hampton the 21 of August saith Ger. Dor. Rog. Houed Matth. Pariâ— His fathers treasure R. Houed Gau. Vinsaf Nic. Triuet The second of September saith Ger. Dor. The order of his coronatioÌ„ Matth. Paris Rog. Houed Rog. Houed The king his oth Wil. Paruâ—s The Iewes meant to present him with a rich gift Matt. Paris A Iew striken The people fall vpon the Iewes and beat them Their houses are set on fire Iewes burnt to death Pal. in suo sag. A councell at Pipewell Wil. Paruus The bishop of Whitherne consecrated Rog. Houed Matt. Par. Wil. Paruus The bishop of Durham Sadberge The bishop of Durham made an earle The citizens of London present monie to the king Polydor. Liberties granted to London Two bailiffes Port Greues Apprentises Fréemen Wards The Maior K. Richard setteth things on sale Ran. Higd. Wil. Paruus R. Houed William king of Scots A councell câ—lled at Canturburie Polydor. An oth Matth. Paris Matth. Paris Polydor. Restitution made to the K. of Scots Wil. Paruus Rog. Houed N. Triuet Matth. Paris Hugh bishop of Durham gouerneth the north parts Matth. Paris William LoÌ„gchampe bishop of Elie. R. Houed King Richard passeth ouer in to Normandie Vadum sancti Remegij A league betwixt the kings of England and France R. Houed Contention betwixt two ambitious bishops M. Palâ—n sua vâ—â—g Earle Iohn licenced to returne into England The bishop of Elie returneth Polydor. W. Paruuâ— The hatred borne to the Iewes Iohn Textor Five hundred saith Houeden and Textor The slaughter made of the Iewes at Lin. The citizens of Yorke put to their fine for slaughter of the Iewes Matt. Wesâ— The bishop 〈◊〉 Durham restreined of libertie William de Chisi The kings nauie is set foorth Baion Sablius or Sabuille Polydor. Sleiers of men Brallers Punishment for bloud-drawers Reuilers Theft and pickerie Wil. Paruus Polydor. King Richard set forward on his iourneie Rog. Houed Anno Reg. 2. The English fléet staied by contrarie winds Twentie gallies twelue other vessels saith Houed Upon the seauenth day of August saith Houeden Rog. Houed King Richard blameth the court of Rome for couetousnesse The king of Portingale Almiramumoli king of the Saracens Robert de Sabuuille Richard de Camuille A mutinie betwixt the Englishmen and the townsmen of Lisbone Englishmen committed to prison The English ships méet togither They arriue at Messina K. Richard arriueth at Messina A chaire of gold K. Richards demands for the dowrie of his sister wife to K. William k. Richard assalteth and entreth the citie by force The two kings of England and France receiue a solemne oth Ordinances deuised Plaie forbidden Borrowing Souldiers or mariners departing from their masters Uittelers Polydor. The French king setteth foorth from Messina towards the holie land Quéene Elianor returneth by Rome Matth. Paris 150. ships and 53. galies saith Rog. Houed The Englishmen take land chase their enimies King Richard with a camisado vanquiâ—heth the Cypriots chaseth them out of their campe Iohn Textor The K. of Ierusalem and other noble men doo fealtie vnto king Richard The offers of the king of Cypres The king of Cypres submitteth himselfe Robert de Turneham The king of England marieth the ladie Berengaria She is crowned quéene Castels deliuered to the king of England The king of Cypres again submitteth himselfe to the king of England Rafe Fitz Geffrey He arriued there on the saturdaie in Whitsunwéek being the saturdaie also next before the feast of S. Barnabie Galfridus Vinsant Pisans and Geneuois Matt. Paris Nic. Triueâ— Saphaldine the brother of Saladine Matth. Paris N. Triueâ— An eclipse of the sunne The seuenth houre of the daie saith Matth. Paris Richard de Camuille deceasseth Polydor. The Lord chancellor called the popes legat in England The statelie port of the lord chancellor Ran. Higd. A conuocation Moonks of Couentrie displaced Polydor. Ran. Higd. Wil. Paruus The occasion Ran. Higd. Wil. Paruuâ— Ran. Higd. Polydor. The L. chancellors reason The bishop of Durham The bishop of Winchester The lord chancellors meaning to kéepe earle Iohn lowe Palâ—in suo cap. Walter the archbishop of Rouen sent into England He is little regarded of the lord chancellor The lord chancellor besiegeth the castell of Lincolne Earle Iohn winneth the castels of Notingham and Tickhill The chancellor raiseth his siege with dishonor The lord chancellor and earle Iohn are agréed The chancellor breaketh the agréement The lord chancellor and earle Iohn make another agréement Castels deliuered in trust to the keeping of certeine persons Anno Reg. 3. Matth. Weâ—â— Polydor. Geffrey the archbishop of Yorke Rog. Houed Matth. Pariâ— Polydor. The death of the archbiâ—hop of Canturâ—â—rie Io. Textor The arcâ—bishop arriued and is committed toward R. Houed The chancellour summoned to appeare The chancellour retireth to London A declaration made against the lord chancellour The tenor of this leter shall héereafter appeare The citizens of London The chancellour yéeldeth vp the tower The print of the legats crosse The bishop of Elie late lord chancellour disguiseth himselfe in womans apparell He is bewraied Earle Iohn not the bishops fréend Ouid. lib. â— de rem am Matth. Paris The bishop of Elie complaineth of his wrongs receiued The popes letters vnto the archbishop and bishops of England Note how the pope defendeth his chaplins The archâ—ishop of Rouen chéefe gouernour of England R. Houed Wil. Paruus Fiftene saith Functius but others agrée with Houed as Gerardus Mercator citing Albericus a moonke The citie of Acres The French K. returneth home Saladine causeth the christian prisoners to be beheaded R. Houed Ger. Dor. Strife betwixt the archbishop of York and the bishop of Durham Roger Lacie conestable of Chester The euill
〈◊〉 wedder some saie A not committed vnder pretense of wrestling Robert Serle maior of London Constantâ—ne a citizen of London procureth the citizens to reuenge their cause by waie of rebellion Matth. Paris The lord chéefe iustice taketh inquisition of the riot Constantine apprehended He is executed Great tempeâ—â— A generall thunder Great dearth of corne In other tempest of thunder Polydor. A comet or blasing star The losse of the citie of Damieta William de â—â—benie earle of Arundell departed this 〈◊〉 Anno Reg. 7. Iohn Scot marrieth the daughter of Leolin prince of Wales A councell 〈◊〉 London Note the redinesse of the bish to 〈◊〉 new contention The answer of William Brewer to the archbishops demand Ahab accuseth Helias An inquisition Matth. Paris The earle of Penbroke recouereth his castels taken by the prince of Wales The prince of Wales discomfited A conspiracie against the lord chiefe iustice Matt. Paris The king of Ierusalem commeth into England The death of the French king Ambassadors sent into France Anno Reg. 8. Polydor. The king giueth a gentle answer to his lords The king demanded restitution of parcels of inheritance belonging to the crowne Discord betwixt Sauerie de Mauleon and the earle of Salisburie Sauerie de Mauleon reuelâ—â—th to the French king Matth. Paris Matt. Westm. Fouks de Brent an enimie to rest and quietnesse Matth. Paris Henrie Braibroke taken by Fouks de Brent and imprisoned Bedford castell besieged He was in the borders of Wales where the earle of Chester was lord The end of Fouks 〈◊〉 Brent Plaut in Pâ—â—sa Dunstable The Poictouins send to king Henrie Rochel woon Matth. Paris Anno Reg. 9. A parlement A fiftéenth granted to the king Magna Charta and Charta de Forresta confirmed Forrests Matth. Paris Polydor. Thrée hundred saâ—th Gaguin Towns woon by the Englishmen The earle of Marsh saith Matth. Paris The Frenchmen taken at aduantage The earle of Cornewall raiseth his siege from the Rioll The death of the earle of Salisburie Matth. Paris Préests concubines forbidden christian buriall Anno Reg. 10. A legat from the pope Matth. Paris A parlement called The king to sicke Matt. Westm. Matth. Paris The cardinals request The answer of Iohn the archdeacon of Bedford Fabian A grant to the citizens of London Matth. Paris Anno Reg. 11. 1227 A parlement at Oxford The king at lawfull age Matth. Paris Polydor. The charters cancelled The death 〈◊〉 Lewes the French king The earle of Marsh commeth ouer to the king and offereth him his seruice Polydor. Matth. Paris Ambassadors sent into France Polydor. The earle of Cornewall returneth home Matth. Paris The earle of Cornewall He departeth from the court secretlie He wineth himselfe with the earles of Chester and Penbroke and others They meét at Stamford with an armie A day appointed to meét at NorthamptoÌ„ for a treatie of pacification The kings grant to his brother Val. Flac. lib. 4. The pope exhorteth the christians to make a iournie against the Saracens Matth. Paris sixtie thousaÌ„d Polydor. Anno Reg. 12. 1228 Matth. Paris Weights and measures Polydor. Hubert de Burgh created earle of Kent Stephan archbishop of Canturburie departed this life Richard Wethersheid elected in his place Matth. Paris Walter Helmesham A new trouble about the election of the archbishop of Canturburie Fabian Polydor. The earle of March worketh to induce the Normans Poictouins to fauour the king of England The Normans write to the king of England Matt. Paris The WelshmeÌ„ 〈◊〉 the castell of Montgomerie The king with an armie commeth to the succour of them 〈◊〉 the castell The abbeie 〈◊〉 Cride burnt The king â—â—â—ginneth to build a castell Pe is coÌ„stâ—â—â—ned to agree with the Welshmen The lord WilliaÌ„ de Breuse taken prisoner Matt. Paris Strange sights in the aire Polydor. Anno. Reg. 13. 1229 A parlement or a councel holden The temporal lords refuse to â—â—d the pope with monie Stephan de Segraue The tenths of the spiritualtie granted to the pope Usurers Matth. Paris The earle of Chester wold not permit the tenths to be gathered with in his land King Henrie prepareth to passe ouer into France The earle of Kent fallen in to the kings displeasure Henrie earle of Britaine The kings iournie deferred Anno Reg. 14. 1230 Matth. Paris The king of Scots kept Christmasse with the king of England at Yorke Matth. Paris A strange tempest at London Sée Iohn Stow pag. 261. of his large collectioÌ„ printed 1580. Matth. Paris The king gathereth monie towards his iournie into France Matth. Paris The Lord W. de Breuse hanged The king saileth ouer into France A fifteénth and tenth granted to the king Polydor. Englishmen sent to Spain against the Saracens Matth. Paris Escuage demanded The archb of Canturburie standeth against the K. in defense of his cleargie Contention betwixt the archb and the earle of Kent Matth. Paris Ralfe Neuill elected arch of Canturburie SimoÌ„ Langtons report of the conditions of Ralfe Neuill Sée before in pag. 177 178. The pope maketh void the election The earle of Cornewall marrieth the countesse of Glocester The earle of Penbroke departed this life Polydor. Leolin prince of Wales inuadeth the English borders The Welshmen put to flight The king goeth against the Welshmen Matt. Paris The English men distressed Mawds castell repaired Matth. Paris Hâ—nrie earle of Britaine and the earle of Chester distresse the French kings cariages A truce taken Anno Reg. 16. 1232 Matth. Paris An vnorderlie presumptuous attempt The superscription of their letters Masking threshers The pope coÌ„plaineth to the K. in blaming him The pope coÌ„mandeth the offendors to be accursed Inquisition taken The earle of Kent put in blame Sir Robert de Twing Polydor. A parleâ—â—â—â— subsidie demanded and denied A subsidie demanded and denied The bishop of Winchesters counsell giuen to the king The king followeth the bishop of Winchesters counsell Matth. Paris Ranulfe Briton Peter de Riuales The earle of Kent discharged of his office of cheéfe iustice Matth. Paris The earle of Kent taketh sanctuarie The citizens of London their good deuotion towards the earle of Kent Ouid. lib. 2. de trist 5. Hor. lib. car 1. od 35. Matth. Paris A subsidie granted in a parlement holden at Lambeth Anno Reg. 17. Matth. Paris Ranulfe earle of Chester departeth this life Erle Ranulfe thrice maried This Clemence was daughter to erle Ferrers The partition of his lands This Roger Lacie is surnamed Helie The earle of Kent kept in prison within the castell of Uées Matth. Paris A great thunder A wet summer Foure summer beside the accustomed sun Matth. Paris Matth. Paris A strange woonder Polydor. The king beginneth to fauour strangers The bishop of Winchester The earle of Penbroke Strangers alwaies odious to the hours borne The lords that withdrew into Wales Matth. Paris Polydor. The king proclaimed them traitors Strangers sent for Matth. Paris The earle of Kent escapeth and taketh sanctuarie He is fetcht out He is restored to sanctuarie Anno Reg. 18.
The earle of Kent rescued and conueied into Wales Polydor. The king entreth into Wales with an armie Polydor. The king returneth out of Wales The earle of Penbroke in danger He is rescued The Poictouins discomfited Dearth Tempests An earthquake A death Matth. Paris Iohn Monmouth receiueth an ouerthrow Polydor. Matth. Paris A part of the towne of Shrewsburie burnt Polydor. Matth. Paris Matth. Paris The earle of Penbroke passeth ouer into Ireland He is taken prisoner Geffrey Maurish The death 〈◊〉 the earle of Penbroke Polydor. Matth. Pariâ— Gilbert Marshall earle of Penbroke Officers called to accounts The truce ended Welshmen sent ouer to the aid of the earle of Britaine The earle of Britaine submitteth himselfe to the French king Anno Reg. 19. 1235 Polydor. Fabian * Sée the like in pag. 56. col 1. Matth. Paris The emperor Frederike marieth the king of Englands sister A great and sumptuous feast Matth. Paris Usurers called Caorsini of whome sée more in pag. 211. col 1. The bishop of London his doctrine Anno Reg. 20. King Henrie marrieth the ladie Elianor daughter to the earle of Prouance Matth. Paris The earle of Chester The constable of Chester The earle of Penbroke The wardeÌ„s of the cinque ports The earle of Leicester Erle Warren The earle of Hereford Lord William Beauchampe The citizens of London The citizens of Winchester A parlement at London Polydor. Strange sights Matth. Paris Great raine Matth. Paris Matth. West A great thunder A drie summer Gilbert Norman founder of Merton abbeie Anno Reg. 21. High tides Matth. Paris Wisbech people perishing by rage of waters A subsidie Matth. Paris Iohn Scot earle of Chester departed this life Ran. Higd. His sisters Cardinall Otho or Othobon The lords grudge at the king for receiuing the cardinall without their knowledge The legat praised for his sober behauiour A tournie at Blie Earle Bigot Anno Reg. 22. The legat holdeth a synod at London The legat coâ—meth to Oxford A fraie betwixt the legats men and the scholers of Oxford A cookes almes The legats cooke slaine The legat complaineth to the king The earle Waren sent to apprehend the offendors The legat cursseth The regents of yâ— Uniuersitie absolued Polydor. Matth. Paris The emperor of Constantinople coÌ„meth into England The countesse of Peâ—broke sister to the king married to Simon de Montford Polydor. The archbishop of Canturburie displeased with the marriage He goeth to Rome to coÌ„plaine of the king The earle of Cornewall â—â— also offended for the same marriage Matth. Paris The earle of Leicester gathereth 〈◊〉 He goeth to Rome to get â— dispensation or rather confirmation of his marriage Aid sent forth of England â—â— the emperour Henrie Trubleuille Iohn Mansel Wil. Hardell The bishop of Winchester departeth this life Matth. Paris A naughtie wretch meant to haue destroied the K. * Sée his end in pag. 230. Seneca in Octa Hippol. Anno Reg. 23. 1239 Matth. Paris Uariance betwixt the king and the earle of Penbroke Simon earle of Leicester fled ouer into France The birth of king Edward the first Polydor. A strange star Matth. Paris Ranulfe Briton taken out of his house and led to the tower Great raine The legat beginneth to looke to his owne coÌ„moditie Sir Robert de Twing The Iewes punished by the pursse A synod holden at London Anno Reg. 24. 1240 Matth. Paris Matth. West Baldwin de Riuers earle of the I le of Wight The woods about Leicester féeld Leolin prince of Wales departeth this life Griffin ap Maddockeâ— King Henrie aided the pope with monie against the â—â—â—perour Complaint to the king of the collections made for the pope The answer of the king Polydor. The causes that mooued archbishop Edmund to depart the realme Matth. West Matth. Paris Polydor. The death of Edmund archbishop of Canturburie surnamed of Pontney A Charterhouse moonke apprehended Iustices itinerants William de Yorke Robert Lexinton iustices The earle of Cornewal goeth into the holy land The earle of Leiceâ—ster goeth thither also The earle of Albemarle The dedication of the church of S. Paule in London The death of Isabell the countesse of Cornewall The lord Iohn Fitz Robert A comet A battell betwixt fishes Matth. Paris The kings manour at Mortlake A great wind An oth receiued The seneshall of Aquitaine Peter Rosso Peter de Supino got a vintiesme that is the 20 part of préests benefices Anno Reg. 25. 1241 Boniface de Sauoie elected archb of Canturburie Matth. Paris The earle of Cornewall 〈◊〉 intercessor 〈◊〉 a peace to be had betwixt the pope and the emperour He returneth into England Warres betwéene the Welshmen King Henrie goeth into Wales with an armie Dauid driuen to his wits end Dauid deliuereth his brother to the K. Matth. Pariâ— page 765. Matth. Paris page 830. Iohn Maâ—â—sell Death of â—â—â—ble men Lacie lâ—ft 〈◊〉 issue maâ—e behind him so that his daughters inheritâ—â— his lands Cardinall Somercotean Englishman An eclipse Anno Reg. 26. The death of the empresse Isabell. Wars renued betwixt the kings of England France The earle of March Gaguinus Matth. West Sundrie opinions in the kings councellers Charugage a certeine dutie for euerie Plowland The bishops of Durham sent into Scotland The king of Scots warden of the English marshes The archbishop of Yorke gouernor of the realme Thirtie barrels of English coine The king passeth ouer into France The French king inuadeth the earle of Marches land The number of the English armie Tailborge Xainctes An encounter betwixt the English and French The valiancy of the earle of Leicester and others Iohn Mansell Sir Iohn Barris Wil. de Sey. Gilbert de Clare slaine The earle of March is reconciled to the French king Matth. Paris The countesse of Bierne The reuolting of other French lords Sée pag. 42 43 44. pag. 152. of the historie of England Death in the French camp Truce 〈◊〉 betwixt the two kings Polydor. The queen 〈◊〉 England deliuered of a daughter William Marisch executiâ— Sée pag. 223. The seas trâ—ebled with men of warre Escuage gathered 20 shillings of euerie knights fée Matth. West Death of noble men Anno. Reg. 27. The earle of Cornwal and other returne home Prouision of graine and victuals taken vp and sent to the king The king led by strangers He is euill spoken of A truce taken for fiue years Nicholas de Mueles his lieutenant in Gascoigne Death of Noble men Hugh Lacie Fabian Matth. Paris Stars fallen after a strange manner Anno Reg. 28. The countesse of Prouance mother to the quéene commeth ouer into England The earle of Cornewall maried to the ladie Sanctia William Ralegh bishop of Norwich He is consecrated bish of Winchester by the pope He steleth out of the realme He giueth to the pope 6000 marks Martine the popes collectour Antichasis de Christi papae facinorb sub authore anâ—nymo The nobles complain◠〈◊〉 the king 〈…〉 popes 〈◊〉 The king writeth to the pope Polydor. The king asâ—keth counsel how to procâ—â— in
the two 〈◊〉 They had with them 600 men of armes and 10000 〈◊〉 as Abingâ—â—â— saith Battell betwixt the 〈◊〉 of Lincoln and the earle of Arthois who had 〈◊〉 him 1500 〈◊〉 of armes 〈◊〉 AbingtoÌ„ 〈◊〉 Matth. West Abington The earle of Lincolne escaped He commeth home He inuadeth the countrie about Tholouse The custome of wool raised Abington Euerâ—den Prouision for the kings iournie into France Ia. Meir The French king inuadeth Flanders Lisle besieged The earle of Arthois vanquisheth the Flemings in battell N. Triuet A rebellion in Scotland by the means of one William Waleis Englishmen slaine in Scotland The vnfaithfull dealing of the Scots Abington Robert Bruce Thomas Beckets sword Robert Bruce reuolteth to the rebels N. Triuet Three hundreth men of armes and fiftie thousand footmen saith Abington Henrie Percie sent before Irwin Discord in the Scotish armie Sir Richard Lundie The Scots sue for peace The bishop of Glasco and William Douglas Abington The archbish of Canturburie receiued into fauour Nic. Triuet Gardians appointed to the kings sonne in his fathers absence Earles Marshall and Hereford refuse to go ouer with the king into Flanders Sir Rafe Monthermer released Scotishmen released The lord Berkley A libell deliuered to the king from 〈◊〉 earles oâ— Hâ—reford and Marshall The kings answer The king 〈…〉 ouer 〈…〉 Flanders Abington Debate 〈…〉 fighting 〈…〉 the 〈…〉 of 〈…〉 and 〈…〉 la. Meiâ— Lisle 〈…〉 to the 〈…〉 king Charle◠〈…〉 Ualois 〈…〉 to 〈…〉 The 〈…〉 Adulâ—◠〈…〉 The pride of Hugh Cressingham The Scots assaile the Englishmen Abington The valiancie of sir Marmaduke Thweng The Englishmen discomfited The earle of Surrey returneth in hast to Berwike The Scots enter Berwike The castell holdeth tacke against them The Scots inuade Northumberland and spoile the countrie The forest of Inglewood The towne of Riton burnt Anno Reg. 26. The Scots returne home The lord Clifford inuadeth Annandale Annankirke Scots slaine Annankirke burnt N Triuet The froward dealing of the erles of Hereford Marshall Abington A subsidie granted A parlement at Yorke Magna charta Debate betwixt the kings men and the Gantners The â—â—â—mings set 〈◊〉 the Englishmen in their lodgings The earle of Flanders pâ—cifieth his people Nic. Triuet An armie aâ—sembled at Yorke The Scots besiege Roâ—kesborough The earle of Surrey entreth Scotland K. Edward returneth homewardâ— The Scots sâ—mmoned to the parlement at Yorke refused to come An armie raised Abington The number of men armed in this armie Welshmen and Irishmen Gascoins N. Triuet The earles of Hereford and Marshall mistrust the king Castels woon by the bishop of Durham Abington A fraie betwixt the Welsh and Englishmen The Englishmen stand in doubt of the Welshmen N. Triuet The battell of Foukirke Abington The order of the Scotish battels The earles Marshall Hereford and Lincolne led the fore ward The bishop of Durham led the second ward The lord Basset of Draitons words to the bishop of Durham The Scotish horssemen flée Their archers slaine These Scotish spearemen were of Gallowaiâ— as Eueriden saith Nic. Triuet Matth. West saith fourtie thousand Polydoâ— N. Triuet The towns of S. Andrews The castell of Aire Abington Irish lords The I le of Araine Thomas Biset requireth the I le of Araine The euill opinion of the earles Marshall Hereford towards the king The kings liberalitie towards his nobles Anno Reg. 27. Cotingham A parlement Abington The lords call vpon the king to performe promise His answer The 〈◊〉 put in the â—â—â—clusion of 〈◊〉 articles The articles red in Paules churchyard The perâ—â—bulations of forrests A bishop senâ— from the pope The popes decrée of peace betwixt the kings of England France Nic. Triuet The popes request for the releasing to libertie of Iohn Balioll Iohn Balioll deliuered out of prison at the popes 〈◊〉 Polydor. He departetâ— this life N. Triuet The king marieth the FreÌ„ch kings sister A parlement at Yorke The deceasse of the archbishop of Yorke Anno Reg. 28. 1300 Abington A proclamation for monie Forren monies forbidden to go as currant Abington The king goeth with an armie into Scotland Thomas of Brotherton borne the first of Iune Antith Christ. Antichrist pag. 24. Euersden Anno Reg. 29. Matth. Westm. Croxden Pope Boniface prohibiteth the king of England further to vex the Scots N. Triuet Hastings I take it Whiteminsâ—â— I thinke Thus far 〈◊〉 of M Parkins of the inner temple Out of maister Fox pag. 427. The K. goeth to Scotland Anno. Reg. 30 1302 I truce granted to the Scots The king returneth into England The pope exhorteth the K. of England to make war against FraÌ„ce The deceasse of the earle of Hereford Re. Tur. Tournies prohibited Townes restored to the k. in Gascoine Polydor. The lord Segraue seÌ„t with an armie into Scotland Abington Polydor. The English men vanquished by the Scots Abington Rafe CoÌ„freie was slaine at this incounter as Abington saith N. Triuet The earle Marshall resigneth his lands vnto the king A subsidie The king goeth in person into Scotland Cathnes The Scots submit themselues to the king Abington William Waleis Polydor. Hect. Boetius Ia. Meir Anno Reg. 32. Striueling castell besieged Abington 1â—04 Engins to cast stones Polydor. Tho. Wals. The earle of Penbroke lord Wardeâ— of Scotland N. Triuet Polydor. A fiftéenth granted The deceaâ—â—â— of the archbishop of Yorke Wil. Gréenefield made archbishop of Yorke Robert Bruce earle of Carrike departeth this life N. Triuet Inquisitions taken of the misdemeanors of iustices Caxton Iustices fined Matth. Westm. Intrusions punished and other offenses against the kings peace and iustice Forfeits Nic. Triuet Traile bastoâ— Anno Reg. 33. 1305 Prince Edward coÌ„mitted to ward Caxton Fabian William Waleis taken put to death Rich. South N. Triuet Flemings banished the land at contemplation of the king of France Abington The archbishop of Canturburie accused by the K. Nic. Triuet He is suspended Anno Reg. 34. 1306 Iohn lord Comin slaine by Robert Bruce The countesse of Boughan set the crowne on Robert Bruce his head She is taken Hir punishment An armie sent into Scotland Prince Edward made knight Thrée hundred saith Matth. West Prince Edward sent into Scotland Robert Bruce Abington It was the next sundaie after midsummer daie Rob. Bruce out to flight by the earle of Penbroke Rob. Bruce fled into Kentire His wife and brother are taken The earle of Itholl taken Fabian Nic. Triuet Matth. West Bruces 〈◊〉 whose daughter she was The saieng of Robert Bruces wiâ—e Polydor. Nic. Triuet Matth. West Methfen The castell of Lochdore taken and Christopher Seiton within it Nic Triuet He is executed His lands giuen awaie by the king The lands 〈◊〉 Rob. Bruce giuen awaie The earle of Hereford Lord Clifford The lord 〈◊〉 Percie Rafe de MoÌ„therâ—â—â— The L. Percie put to flight by the Scotish king Bruce Nigell or Neall Bruce condemned and executed The earle of Atholl executed The summes of monie which the pope had of the archbish of Yorke The great reâ—â—nues of Anthonie B.
Sebastian Gabato his discouerie of â—n Iland of rich commodities Anno Reg. 14. England and Scotland liklie to go togither by the eares aâ—resh The bishop of Durham asswageth the kings displeasure by leters The bishop of Durham goeth into Scotland The Scotish king desireth the ladie Margaret eâ—dest daughter of K. Henrie the seuenth to be his wife Pâ—râ—in Warbecke escapeth from his keepers Perkin maketh an anatomie of his descent or liâ—age Perkins education or bringing vp Perkin a notable land-loper The Irish would haue Perkin takâ— vpon him to be the duke of Clarences sonne They bearâ— Perkin downe with oths that he is king Richards bastard They call hiâ— duke of yorke â— Paâ— in Virg. Anno Reg. 15. Patrike an Augustine Frier Rafe Wilford the counterfeit earle of Warwike The counterfeit earle is executed Abr. Fl. ex Eâ—â— Hall in Hâ—n 7. fol. lj The cause why the clergie neuer so heinouslie oâ—fending was so â—auoured Burning in the hand when enacted Perkin corrupted his keepers Edward Plantagenet earle of Warwike a verie innocent Perkin and Iohn Awater executed at Tiburne Edward Plantagenet the yoong earleÌ„ of Warwike beheaded A great plague Edward the kings third sonne christened The manour of Shéene burnt Richmond built in place thereof I. S. pag. 874. King Henrie the seuenth â—aileth to Calis The king of England and the duke of Burgognie méet at saint Peters church without Calis Abr. Fl. ex Edw. Hall in Hen. 7. fol. lij Anno Reg. 16. A yeare of Iubile Pope Alexander maketh profit of his great pardon or heauenlie grace as he termeth it Abr. Fleâ— Antith 〈◊〉 papâ— pag 31 40. Thrée bishâ—â—â— dead in one yeare Two notabâ—e mariages Katharine daughter to Ferdinando K. of Spaine affiâ—d to Arthur prince of Wales Anno Reg 1â— The fourth 〈◊〉 October as Stow hath noted Abr. Flem. ex Edw. Hall fol. liij The solemnization of the mariage betweene Arthur prince of Wales Katharine daughter to the king of Spaine Edw. Hall fol. liij Margaret eldest daughteâ— to king Henrie affied to Iames king of Scots Prince Arthur is sent into Wales Iohn Stow pag. 874 875. The maiors feast first kept at Guildhall Woollen cloth of two shillings the brode yard Dikes of LoÌ„don clensed Men brought from the new found Ilands Edmund erlâ— of Suffolke flieth into Flanders The discontented mind of the earle of Suffolke The kings woonted policie now againe practised Tirrell and Windam beheaded 〈◊〉 restrained The death of Arthur prince of Wales Edw. Hall iâ— Hen. 7. fol. â—â— Anno Reg. 1â— 1503 King Henrie the seauenthâ— chapell at Westminster first builded Abr. Fl. ex 〈◊〉 pag. 876. Six kings of England brethren with the tailors companie in Loâ—don before they were eâ—tituled mâ—rchant tailors Prior of Shene mâ—â—thered A drie sâ—â—mer Sir Reginald Braie his 〈◊〉 Iuâ—t coÌ„menâ—â—tions of Morton archâ—â—â—â—op of Cantâ—rburie and â—ir Reginald Braie Cassimire â—â—baâ—sadour from the empâ—rour Maxâ—â—â—lâ—an The sumptuâ—â—s araie of tâ—e earle of Northumbâ—rland The mariage 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 of Sâ—â—ts 〈◊〉 Margaret king Henries eldest daughter Anno Reg. 19. The king coueâ—ous in his old age Richard Empson Edmund Dudleie Promoters Abr. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 876 Sergeanâ—s feast whereat were the king and all his nobles at dinner Fire on London bridge Fire Parlement Anno reg 20. The king of 〈◊〉 intertâ—ined honorablie Prodigious tokens or accidents haue their issue in truth Sée pag. 657. Abr Flerâ— eâ— Guic. pag. 4â— Thrâ—â— sâ—nneâ— séene at once in the night Abr. Fl. ex Guic. pag. 355. King Philip saileth out of Flanders into Spaine King Philip cast by casualtie of sea vpon the coasts of England Philip promiseth to redeliuer to king Henrie the duke of Suffolke Anno Reg. 22. The sweting sicknesse eftsoones returneth Ed. Hall in Hen. 7. fol. 53. Abr. Fl. ex Guic. pag. 31â— Pag 31â— Pag 3â—7 A practisâ— of â—word by 〈◊〉 to an 〈◊〉 purpose 〈◊〉 â—xpope 〈◊〉 with the 〈◊〉 that his 〈◊〉 son had 〈◊〉 poison 〈◊〉 cardinall 〈◊〉 Cornette Eâ—b Hâ—ss G Buch. in Psal. 7. The lord Daubenie dieth Anno Reg 23. Guidebald duke of Urbin in Italie made knight of the garter Thomas Sauage archbishop of Canturburie deceassed Abr. Fl. ex Guic. pag. 18â— Abr. Fl. ex I.S. pag. 879. William Capell sued by the king Tho. Kneisworth imprisoned Norwich on fier Frée schoole at Wlfrunehampton Iohn Ligh of WlfrunehaÌ„pton his rare example of charitie WlfrunehaÌ„pton corruptlie called Wolnerhampton Excharta Regia Smart Hospitall of the Sauoie Rec. of Canturb church Fr. Thin Thomas Ruthall bishop of Durham The 〈◊〉 of Ciâ—â—ster The bishop was one of K. Henrie the rights priuie councell The king coÌ„mandeth hiâ— to write a booke of the whole estate of the kingdoâ— The bishops booke of his priuat 〈◊〉 vnaduisedlie deliuered instead of the kings The bishops owne booke disaduantagâ— able to himselfe The bishop 〈◊〉 of a 〈◊〉 and 〈…〉 150◠〈…〉 24. The death of King Henrie the seuenth â—hat children he had The description of king Henrie the seuenth Iustice mingled with mercie Out of the bishop of Rochesters funerall sermon preached in Paules church at London Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 892. Sepulture of Henrie the seuenth Executors to Henrie the seuenth 1509 Anno Reg. 1. Henrie the â—ight proclaâ—â—â— king Polydor. Councellors to king Henrie the eight King Henries â—â—â—hes â—is councellâ—â—s good 〈◊〉 A proclamation Multitudes of suters what shifts they made to be heard Empson and Dudleie committed to the Tower Promoters punished I.S. pag. 893. The funerall pompe and solemnitie of Henrie the seuenth Edw. Hall in Hen. 8. fol. j. The corps put into a charriot sumptuouslie garnished The order of the pompe and mourners The charriot brought into Paules church Description of the curious hearse at Westminster The bodie oâ— the dead king interred The duke of Buckinghams rich 〈◊〉 A 〈◊〉 sight 〈◊〉 virgins in white with branches of white wax K. Henries apparell at his coronatioÌ„ The kings traine and the 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 The quéenes traine and the sumptuousnesse of the same The coronation of king Henrie and quéene Katharine Homage doone to the king at his coronatioÌ„ both of the lords spirituall temporall Sir Robert Dimmocke the kings champion The knights anâ—wer to the king of heralds The maner of the same knights tenure Sir StephaÌ„ Genings maior of London Iusts and turnementâ— The enterprisers of the 〈◊〉 iusts Goodlie sheâ—â— delightfull Pallas knights the defendants Another band of horssemen richlie 〈◊〉 Eight knights armeâ— at all paints * From head 〈◊〉 Dimas knights A conceipt or deuise of a pâ—rke with 〈◊〉 c. The kings wisedome in preuenting an inconuenients Henrie the duke of Buckinghams brother created erle of Wilshire A great plague in Calis A parlement Empson and Dudleie atteinted of treason Polydor. Most of the 〈◊〉 of the coâ—â—cell against Empson Matters obiected against Empson Wrong mainteined against the kings liâ—ge people Iniurie doone to the kings wards A charge of manifest oppression and extortion Empson
father had doon So that Lanfranke could not well haue beene spared in the time of the rebellion line 50 without great danger of subuerting the state of the commonwealth He builded two hospitals without the citie of Canturburie for the releefe of poore people and strangers the one of S. Iohn the other at Harbaldowne He aduanced the church of Rochester from foure secular clerkes to the number of fiftie moonkes he repaired Christes church in Canturburie and the abbey of S. Albons whereof he made one Paule that was his nephue abbat which Paule gouerned that house by his vncles assistance greatlie line 60 to the aduancement thereof as well in temporall as spirituall preferments as it was then iudged Likewise the said Lanfranke was verie fortunate in the gouernement of his church and sée of Canturburie recouering sundrie portions of lands and rents alienated from the same before his daies insomuch that he restored to that sée 25. manors For amongst other whereas Odo the Bishop of Baieux who also was Earle of Kent bearing great rule in England vnder his nephue king William the Conquerour had vsurped diuerse possessions which belonged to the sée of Canturburie and had seized the franchises apperteining to the same Lanfranke into his owne hands by sute and earnest trauell he recouered the same and being impleaded about that matter by the said Odo he so defended his cause that in the end though with much 〈◊〉 he had his will and so remained in quiâ—t possession â—f his right after that so long as he liued without any trouble or vexation concerning the said possessions and liberties Whereas also not onelie Walkhem the bishop of Winchester but diuerse other bishops in England were in mind to haue displaced moonks out of their cathedrall churches and to haue brought canons into their roomes Lanfranke withstood them and would tollerate no such dislocation an act at that time so well liked that he was highlie commended for the same After Lanfrankes death the king began greatlie to forget himselfe in all his dealings insomuch that he kept many concubines and waxed verie cruell and inconstant in all his dooings so that he became an heauie burthen vnto his people For he was so much addicted to gather goods that he considered not what perteined to the maiestie of a king insomuch that nothing tending to his gaine and the satisfieng of his appetite was estéemed of him vnlawfull sith he measured all things by the vncontrolled rule of his roialtie and considered nothing what so high an office required He kept the sée of Canturburie foure yeares in his hands to sée who would giue most for it in the meane time taking the profits thereof and making the vttermost of the same that by any meanes could be deuised The like he vsed when other benefices and abbeies were vacant and furthermore that little which the prince spared his officers and farmers no lesse couetous than he conuerted to their aduantage so that what by the king and what by his procurators the church of England was now sore charged and fléeced of hir wealth Diuerse of hir prelates in like maner were not a little offended to sée their mother so spoiled of hir treasure and liuelihood insomuch that they practised a redresse and to begin withall complained of the king to pope Urban but he was so busied with other troubles of his owne néerer home that he could haue no time to séeke meanes how to redresse enormities a far off whereby the lands and goods belonging to the church here in England were still wastfullie spent and consumed by the king and others to whome he gaue or let them foorth to farme at his owne pleasure and to his most commoditie But albeit the prince was of such a disposition by nature yet there is one thing written of him which ought not to be forgotten to admonish vs that there is no man of so euill an affection but that sometime he dealeth vprightlie though it be by hap or other extraordinarie motion It chanced that an abbeie was void of an abbat wherein were two moonkes verie couetous persons aboue the rest and such as by scraping and gathering togither were become verie rich for such saith Polydor in those daies mounted to preferment These two appointed to go togither to the court ech hoping at their comming thither to find some meanes that he might be made abbat of that house Being thus agréed to the court they come and there offer verie largelie to the king to obteine their sute who perceiuing their gréedie desires and casting his eies about the chamber espied by chance an other moonke that came to beare them companie being a more sober man and simple after his outward appearance whom he called vnto him and asked what he would giue him to be made abbat of the foresaid abbeie The moonke after a little pause made answere that he would giue nothing at all for anie such purpose since he entred into that profession of méere zeale to despise riches all worldlie pompe to the end he might the more quietlie serue God in holinesse puritie of conuersation Saiest thou so quoth the king then art thou euen he that art worthie to gouerne this house and streightwaie he bestowed the house vpon him iustlie refusing the other two to their open infamie and reproch But to returne to our historie After the expulsion of the bishop of Durham and other of his adherents the king passed ouer into Normandie purposing to depriue his brother of that dukedome and being arriued there he besieged and tooke S. Ualerie Albemarle and diuerse other townes and castels line 10 wherein he placed a number of his best souldiers the better to mainteine warre against his foresaid brother Herevpon also the said Robert sent vnto the French king for aid who came downe at his request with a noble armie and besieged one of those castels which king William had latelie woone howbeit by such meanes as king William made in sending to the French king an huge summe of monie he raised his siege shortlie returned home againe At length a peace was concluded betwixt king William and line 20 the duke his brother but yet verie dishonorable to the said Robert for it was accorded that king William should reteine still inioy the countie of Ewe with Fescampe the abbasie of mount S. Michell â—hersburg and all those other places which he had woone gotten out of his hands in this his late voiage On the other side it was agréed that king William should aid the duke to recouer all other places beyond the seas which belonged to their father Also that such Normans as had lost anie of their lands liuings in England for taking part with the duke line 30 in the late rebellion should be restored to the same And furthermore that whether soeuer of both should die first the suruiuer should be his heire and
succeed in his dominions This peace was concluded at Caen and that by procurement of the French king at what time king William was verie strong in the field neare vnto Ewe After which conclusion they vnited their powers and besieged their yoongest brother Henrie line 40 in the castell of mount S. Michell which being situat in the confines of Normandie and Britaine he had stronglie fortified not long before for feare of after-claps But when they had lien about it by the space of all the Lent season and had made manie bickerings with his mâ—n more to their losse than lucre they raised their siege and voluntarilie departed Not long after this king William depriued Edgar Etheling of his honor which duke Robert had assigned vnto him banishing him out of Normandie for euer line 50 Shortlie aâ—ter also the aforesaid Henrie wan a strong towne called Damfront and furnishing it at all points he kept the same in his possession as long as he liued mauger both his brethren Thus the war waxed hot betwéene those three howbeit suddenlie I wot not vpon what occasion this Henrie was reconciled with king William and his brother Robert so that all debates being quieted on euerie side they were made friends and welwillers King William also returned into England hauing his brother Robert line 60 in his companie all men reioising at their pacification and amitie which happened in the yeare 1091. and fourth of the reigne of the king Toward the end whereof and vpon the fift daie of October a maruellous sore tempest fell in sundrie parts of England but especiallie in the towne of Winchcombe where by force of thunder and lightning a part of the steeple of the church was throwne downe and the crucifix with the image of Marie standing vnder the rood-lost was likewise ouerthrowne broken and shattered in péeces then folowed a foule a noisome and a most horrible stinke in the church On the 17. daie of the same moneth much harme was doone in London with an outragious wind the violence whereof ouerturned and rent in péeces aboue fiue hundred houses at which time and tempest the roofe of S. Marie bowe church in cheape was also ouerthrowne wherewith two men were slaine Moreouer at Salisburie much hurt was doone with the like wind and thunder for the top of the stéeple and manie buildings besides were sore shaken and cast downe But now we will speake somewhat of the doings of Scotland as occasion moueth Whilest as yée haue heard variance depended betweene king William and his brother duke Robert the Scotish king Malcolme made sore wars vpon the inhabitants of Northumberland carrieng great booties and preies out of that countrie which he inuaded euen to Chester in the street Wherefore king William soone after his returne gathered his power togither and sped him northwards But king Malcolme hearing of his puissance great strength sent to him for peace which was granted in the end Some writers affirme that king William prepared a great armie both by sea and land against Malcolme and that his nauie being abroad on the seas was lost by tempest and the most part of his ships drowned that the armie by land entring into Scotland suffered manie damages through want of vittels and so recoiled finallie that duke Robert lieng on the borders with an armie in his brothers name wherby it should appeare that the king himselfe was not there by the helpe and furtherance of Edgar Etheling who then serued K. Malcolme in his wars concluded a peace betwixt his brother and the said Malcolme vpon certeine articles by vertue wherof certeine places in Northumberland were restored vnto Malcolme which he had held in William Conquerours daies Some other write in like maner that king Malcolme did homage to king William and duke Robert that brought the said Edgar Etheling into the fauour of the king Howsoeuer the truth of the storie dooth stand in this behalfe certeine it is that the king returned out of Northumberland into the west parts of the realme reteining still with him duke Robert who looked dailie when he should performe such couenants as were concluded vpon betwixt them in their late reconciliation But when he saw that the king meant nothing lesse than to stand to those articles and how he did onlie protract and delaie the time for some other secret purpose he returned into Normandie in great displeasure and tooke with him the said Edgar Etheling of whom he alwaies made verie great account Soone after king William returned into the north parts and as it chanced he staied a few daies about Carleil where being delited with the situation of the towne which had beene destroied by the Danes two hundred yeares before he set workemen to repaire the same meaning to vse it in steed of a bulworke against the Scots on those west borders which when he had fensed with walles and builded a castell in the most conuenient place thereof he caused churches and houses to be erected for the benefit of such people as he had determined to bring vnto the same This being doone he placed a colonie of southren men there with their wiues and children and gaue large priuileges vnto the towne which they inioy at this daie ¶ Here haue I thought good to aduertise you of an error in Matth. West crept in either through misplacing the matter by means of some exemplifier either else by the authors mistaking his account of yeares as 1072. for 1092. referring the repairing of Carleil vnto William Conquerour at what time he made a iournie against the Scots in the said yeare 1072. And yet not thus contented to bewraie the error more manifestlie he affirmeth that the king exchanged the earledome of Chester with Rafe or Ranulfe de Micenis alià s Meschines for the earledome of Carleil which the said Meschines held before and had begunne there to build and fortifie that towne whereas it is certeine that Ranulfe de Meschines came to enioy the earledome of Chester by way of inheritance as after shall appeare For better proofe whereof ye shall vnderstand that we find by ancient records how one Hugh Lou or Lupus enioied the earledome of Chester all the daies of the Conqueror and long after which Hugh was sonne to Richard line 10 earle of Auranges and the countesse Emma daughter of a noble man in Normandie named Herlowin who maried Arlet the daughter of a burgesse in Falois and mother to William Conquerour So that the said Hugh being sisters sonne to the Conqueror receiued by gift at his hands the earldome of Chester to hold of him as fréelie by right of the sword as he held the realme of England in title of his crowne For these be the words Tenendum sibi haeredibus ita liberè ad gladium sicut ipse Rex totam tenebat line 20 Angliam ad coronam Earle Hugh then established in possession of this earledome with most large priuileges and fréedoms for the