Wherefore he exhorted them to addresse their helping hand towards the releefe thereof granting vnto all such as would enterprise to go thither in person to remaine there vpon defense of the countrie against the infidels great pardon as to those that did continue there the space of two yéeres pardon of penance for all their sins except theft extortion roberie and vsurie in which cases restitution was to be made if the partie were able to doo it if not then he should be absolued as well for those things as for other And those that remained one yeare in those parties were pardoned of halfe their whole penance due for all their sinnes And to those that went to visit the holie sepulchre he also granted great pardon as remission of their sinnes whether they came thither or peraduenture died by the waie He also granted his frée indulgence vnto those that went to warre against the common the professed and open enimies of our religion in the holie land as his predecessors the popes Urbanus and Eugenius had granted in time past and he receiued likewise their wiues their children their goods and possessions vnder the protection of S. Peter and the church of Rome The two kings hauing heard the popes letters read and taken good aduice thereof promised by Gods fauour shortlie to prouide conuenient aid for reléefe of the holie land and of the christians as yet remaining in the same This was the end of their line 10 communication for that time and so they departed the French king into France and the king of England into Normandie In the meane time by the king of Englands appointment William king of Scotland went ouer into Normandie and by the aduice and good admonition of king Henrie he granted licence vnto two bishops of his realme of Scotland to wit Aberdene and saint Andrewes to returne into Scotland whom he had latelie before banished and driuen out of his line 20 realme Moreouer as king Henrie laie at Harfléet readie to saile ouer into England discord fell betwixt the king of France and the erle of Flanders so that the king of England at desire of the French king returned backe and came vnto Gisors where the French king met him and so did the earle of Flanders betwixt whom vpon talke had in the matter depending in controuersie he made a concord and then comming downe to Chirburge he and the king of Scots in his companie passed ouer into England line 30 landing at Portesmouth the 26. of Iulie The king now being returned into England ordeined a statute for armour and weapon to be had amongst his subiects heere in this realme which was thus Euerie man that held a knights fée should be bound to haue a paire of curasses an helmet with shield and speare and euerie knight or man of arms should haue as manie curasses helmets shields and speares as he held knights fées in demaine Euerie man of the laitie hauing goods or reuenues to the line 40 value of sixteene marks should haue one paire of curasses an helmet a speare and a shield And euerie free man of the laitie hauing goods in value worth ten marks should haue an habergeon a steele cap a speare and all burgesses and the whole communaltie of frée men should haue a wambais a cap oâ— stéele and a speare Further it was ordeined that euerie man thus bound to haue armour should be sworne to haue thâ— same before the feast of S. Hilarie and to be true vnto line 50 king Henrie Fitz empres in defense of whome and of his realme they should kéepe with them such armour and weapon according to his precept and commandement thereof had and made And no man being furnished with such armour should sell pledge lend or otherwise alien the same neither may his lord by any means take the same from him either by waie of forfeiture by distresse or pledge nor by any other means and when any man died hauing such armour he shall leaue it to his heire and if his line 60 heire be not of lawfull age to weare it into the field then he that hath the custodie of his bodie shall haue the armour and find an able man to weare it for him till he come to age If any burgesse of any good towne haue more armour than he ought to haue by this statute he shall sell it or giue it to some man that may weare it in the kings seruice No Iew might haue armour by this statute but those that had anie were appointed to sell the same to such as were inhabitants within the realme for no man might sell or transport anie armour ouer the sea without the kings licence For the better execution of which ordinance it was ordeined that inquâ—sts should be taken by sufficient iurors what they were that were able to haue armour by their abilitie in lands and goods Also the K. would that none should be sworne to haue armour except he were a frée man of birth and bloud The same yeare the king being at Waltham assigned an aid to the maintenance of the christian souldiers in the holie land that is to wit 42. thousand marks of siluer and fiue hundred marks of gold Hugh Bosun otherwise called Keuelocke the sonne of Ranulfe the second of that name earle of Chester died this yeare and was buried at Léeke He left behind him issue by his wife the countesse Beatrice daughter of Richard Lacie lord iustice of England a sonne named Ranulfe who succéeded him being the first erle of Chester third of that name after the conquest Besides this Ranulfe he had foure daughters by his said wife to wit Maud married to Dauid earle of Angus Huntington and Galloway Mabell coupled with William Daubignie earle of Arundell Agnes married to William Ferrers earle of Derbie and Hauise ioined with Robert Quincie earle of Lincolne The 21. of Nouember Roger archbishop of Yorke died who when he perceiued himselfe in danger of death by force of that his last sicknesse deliuered great summes of monie vnto certeine bishops and other graue personages to be distributed amongst poore people but after his death the king called for the monie and seized it to his vse alleadging a sentence giuen by the same archbishop in his life time that no ecclesiasticall person might giue any thing by will except he deuised the same whilest he was in perfect health yet the bishop of Durham would not depart with foure hundred marks which he had receiued to distribute amongst the poore alledging that he dealt the same awaie before the archbishops death and therefore he that would haue it againe must go gather it vp of them to whom he had distributed it which he himselfe would in no wise doo But the king tooke no small displeasure with this vndiscréet answer insomuch that he seized the castell of Durham into his hands and sought means to disquiet the said bishop by diuerse maner of waies The king held
Nec sunt sub modio facta pudenda tuo Vernolium sumit testem fuga prima secunda Vindocinum noctem prima secunda diem Nocte fugam primam rapuisti manè secundam Prima metus vitio vÃque secunda fuit France twice thou fledst while Philip reignd the world dooth know thy shame For Vernueil witnesse beares of th' one next Vandosme knowes the same The first by night the next by day thy heart and force doo showe That first through feare and next by force was wrought thine ouerthrowe In this meane while certeine rebels in Guien as the lord Geffrey de Rancin or Rancon and the earle of Engolesme with their complices vpon confidence of the French kings assistance sore disquieted the countrie Howbeit the sonne of the king of line 10 Nauarre and brother to Berengaria the quéene of England entring into Guien with an armie wasted the lands of both those rebels till he was called home by reason of his fathers death which chanced about the same time Shortlie after Geffrey Rancin died and king Richard comming into his countrie wan the strong castell of Tailleburge by surrender which apperteined to the same Geffrey with others and then going against the other rebels he wan the citie of Engolesme from him by force of assault All line 20 which time the French king stirred not by reason that there was some communication in hand for a truce to be taken betwixt him and king Richard which by mediation of certeine bishops was shortlie after concluded to endure for twelue moneths The bishop of Elie was chéefe commissioner for the king of England and this truce was accorded about Lammas and serued to little purpose except to giue libertie to either prince to breath a little and in the meane time to prouide themselues of men munition line 30 ships monie that immediatlie after the terme was expired they might with greater force returne to the field againe for they had not onelie a like desire to follow the warres but also vsed a like meane and practise to leuie monie For whereas they had alreadie made the temporaltie bare with often paiments and calling them foorth to serue personallie in the warres they thought best now to fetch a fleece from the spiritualtie and churchmen considering also that they had béene by reason line 40 of their immunitie more gentlie dealt with and not appointed to serue themselues in any maner of wise To colour this exaction which they knew would be euill taken of manie they bruted abroad that they leuied this monie vpon purpose to send it into the holie land towards the paiment of the christian souldiers which remained there vpon the defense of those townes which yet the Saracens had not conquered King Richard therfore comming to Towrs in Touraine required a great summe of monie of the cleargie line 50 in those parts and the like request he made through out all those his dominions on that further side of the sea King Philip for his part demanded likewise intollerable tithes and duties of all the churchmen in his territories and those that had the gathering of that monie serued their owne turne in dealing most streightlie with sillie préests making them to paie what they thought good though sometime beyond the bounds of equitie and reason In September the iustices itinerants made their line 60 circuits thorough euerie shire and countie of this realme causing inquisitions to be taken by substantiall iuries of plées of the crowne both old and new of recognisances of escheats of wards of mariages of all maner of offendors against the lawes and ordinances of the relme and of all other transgressors falsifiers and murtherers of Iewes of the pledges goods lands debts and writings of Iewes that were slaine and of other circumstances touching that matter Likewise of the accompts of shiriffes as to vnderstand what had béene giuen towards the kings ransome how much had beene receiued and what remained behind to receiue Also of the lands that belonged to erle Iohn and what goods he had and what he held in demaine in wards escheats and in gifts and for what cause they were giuen Furthermore of his fautors and partakers which had made fines with the king and which not with manie other articles touching the same earle Also of vsurers and of their goods being seized of wines sold contrarie to the assise of false measures and of such as hauing receiued the crosse to go into the holie land died before they set forward Also of grand assises that were of an hundred shillings land or vnder and of defaults and of diuerse other things the iurats were charged to inquire and present the same The iustices also were appointed to cause the manours farmes and lands which the king held in demaine or by wards and escheats to be surueied by a substantiall iurie and to take order for the conuerting of them to such vse as the king might be answered of the gaines rising by the same at the farmers hands Also the Iewes were appointed to inroll all their debts pledges lands houses rents and possessions Moreouer inquisition was taken of iustices shiriffes bailiffes conestables foresters and other officers belonging to the king to vnderstand in what maner they had behaued themselues in taking and seizing of things into their hands and of all such goods gifts and promises had and receiued by occasion of leasure made of the lands of earle Iohn and his fautors and who receiued the same and what delaie was granted by commandement of Hubert archbishop of Canturburie then lord chéefe iustice In this meane time whilest these inquisitions were thus taken in England king Richard comming foorth of Poictou into Aniou caused all the bailiffes and officers of that countrie and also of Maine to fine with him for their offices After this when he came downe into Normandie he seemed in shew to be offended with his chancellour the bishop of Elie about concluding of the truce with the French king where as ye haue heard he was cheefe commissioner misliking greatlie all that was doone therein and therefore he tooke the seale from him and caused a new seale to be made commanding to be proclaimed thorough all his dominions that whatsoeuer had béene sealed with the old seale should stand in no force both for that his chancellor had wrought more vndiscreetlie than was conuenient and againe bicause the same seale was lost when Roger Malus Catulus his vicechancellour was drowned who perished among other by shipwracke néere to the I le of Cypres before the king arriued there being as then on his iournie into the holie land Therefore all men had commandement to come to this new seale that they might haue their charters and writings confirmed Furthermore whilest the truce yet lasted king Richard sailed ouer into England where he caused turneis to be exercised in diuerse places for the better training vp
Penbrochiae porrexit in curia quandam petitionem suam in haec verba A treshonore seigneur le duc de Lancast. senescall d' Angliter supplie Anne que fuit le femme Iohn de Hastinges nadgares countie de Penbroke qui come le mannor de Asheley in le com de Northfolke soit tenens de nostre seigneur le roy par le seruice de faire le office line 20 de napperie al coronement le roy quel mannor soel tient en dower del dowement son dit baron Ore plest luy accepter del faire son office person deputie a cestie coronement nostre seigneur le roye pernant les fees du dit office ceastascauoir les nappes quant il sont sustreytz Et quia post ostensionem verisimilium euidentiarum rationum ipsius Annae ac proclamationem in curia praedicta debitè factam in hac parte nullus huiusmodi clamor ipsius line 30 Annae contradixit consideratum fuit quòd ipsa ad officium praedictum per sufficientem deputatum suum faciendum admitteretur sic officium illud per Thomam Blunt militem quem ad hoc deputauit dicto die coronationis in omnibus perfecit peracto prandio mappas de mensis subtractis pro feodo suo recepit Thus this much touching this Iohn Hastings earle of Penbroke and dame Anne Mannie his wife line 40 Iohn hastings the sonne of Iohn Hastings last recited was earle of Penbroke lord Hastings Aburgauennie Weisford who being verie yoong at the time of his fathers death was ward first to Edward the third and then to Richard the second but neuer saw his full age of one and twentie yeares nor euer possessed the lands wherevnto he was borne for not long after that he had married Philip the second daughter of Edmund Mortimer earle of March Ulster and lord of Wigmore he was about the ninetenth line 50 yeare of his age the fiftéenth yeare of king Richard the second and the yeare of our redemption 1391 being a youthfull and lustie yoong gentleman but tender and slender in the Christmasse time when the K. held that feast at Woodstoke in Oxfordshire willing to learne to iust whervpon in the parke then incountring with a knight called Iohn saint Iohn a valiant and stout person he was slaine when they ran togither as the said knight did cast his speare line 60 from him and so the said earle receiuing this manner of death no man knew whether it happened by mishap or of purpose To which Iohn Hastings now slaine Margaret Segraue duchesse of Northfolke his grandmother by his mother the daughter of sir Walter Mannie was executrix and disposer of all his substance After his death his widow the ladie Philip was married to Richard earle of Arundell after that to Iohn lord saint Iohn being the same man as I suppose which slue hir first husband this Iohn Hastings But here before the death of this Iohn I must not forget that though he were within age at the coronation of Richard the second as not being past nine or ten yeares old he sued to execute at the said coronation the offices which his ancestors had afore performed But bicause his mother had the mannor of Ashley in dower as is before expressed he did not sue to serue in the pantrie but leauing that demandeth the carieng of the second sword and the golden spurs before the king The records of both which I haue here set downe The petition for the second sword which the earle of Arundell also claimed to beare was in this sort IOhannes de Hastings nuper comes Penbrochiae protulit quandam petitioneÌ„ in haec verba A treshonoree seigniour le duc de Lancastre seneschall d' Angleterre Iohn fitz heyre Iohn de Hastinges counte de Penbroke que coÌ„me il tient le Chastell de la ville de Tynbye le grange de Kingswood le coÌ„mote de Craytrath le mannor de Chastell Martin le mannor de Traygaire per seruice de porter le second espee deuant le roy a son coronement qui pleast a luy accepter a son dit office a faire ore a ceste coronement Et super hoc Richardus comes Arundell Surrey exhibuit in curia quandaÌ„ aliam petitioneÌ„ in haec verba A roy de Chastell de Lion duc de Lancastre senescall d'Angleterre supplie Richard counte de Arundell Surrey de luy receuer afaire son office a porter le sâ—condespee deuant le roy ore a son coronement que luy apperâ—ient de droit pur le countie de Surrey Quibus petitionibus intellectis auditis hinc inde dictorum â—omitum rationibus pro eo quod dictus Iohannes comes Penbrochiae qui infra aetaâ—eÌ„ in custodia regis existit ostendit curiae meliores verisimiliores rationes pro se quà m praedictus comes Arundell pro ipso monstrauit Dominus rex declarata coram eo materia praedicta praecepit Edmundo comiti mariscallo quòd ipse gladium praedictum ista vice in nomine iure praedicti comitis Penbrochiae deferret saluo iure alterius cuiuscunque Qui quidem mariscallus gladium illum ex hac causa die coronationis gestabat calcaribus deauratis The other bill exhibited for the golden spurs is registred in this order IOhannes filius haeres Iohannis de Hastings nuper comitis PeÌ„brochiae exhibuit in curia quandam petitionem in haec verba A treshonore seigneur le roy de Chastell c. Et seneschall d'Angâ—terre supplie Iohne fitz heyre Iohne Hastings nadgares counte de Penbroke de estre receue a son office de porter les grandes esperon d'oores deuant le roy nostre seigneur ore a son coronement en mannor coÌ„me William le marischall son ancester les porta il coronoment de roy Edw. audita intellecta billâ— praedicta pro eo quòd Iohannes est infra aetatem in custodia domini regis quanquam sufficientes ostendit curiae recorda euideÌ„tias quòd ipse seruitium praedictum de iure facere deberet consideratum extitit quòd esset ad voluntatem regis quis dictum seruitium ista vice in iure ipsius Iohannis faceret Et super hoc rex assignabat Edmundum comiteÌ„ mariscallum ad defereÌ„dum dicto die coronationis praedicta calcaria in iure ipsius haeredis Saluo iure alterius cuiuscunque sic idem comes mariscallus illa calcaria praedicta in dicto die coronationis coram ipso domino rege deferebat In this Iohn Hastings ended all the honorable titles of the Hastings bicause this man dieng without issue his inheritances were dispersed to diuerse persons for the honour of Penbroke came to Francis at court by the kings gift the baronies of Hastings and Weisford came to Reinold Greie of Ruthine the baronie of Aburgauennie was granted to William Beauchampe of Bedford for all which lands and
decrées of the old fathers that might be preiudiciall to the authoritie of the archbishop of Yorke at whose appointment those and the like things were accustomed to be doone In this controuersie or the like it is left written that in a court held at Rome the time is not mentioned the pope perceiuing the strife betwéene these two prelats to be but for the highest place or primasie in the church he solemnelie gaue sentence by decree that the sée of Yorke should haue in title Primas Angliae Canturburie Primas totius Angliae which titles doo yet remain to them both But to leaue this and to speake of other things which chanced in the meane time that this controuersie depended betwixt the two archbishops I find that Edwin and Marchar earles of Mertia and Northumberland hauing of late obteined pardon for their former misdemeanor reconciled to the king began now so much to mislike the state of the world againe as euer they did before For perceiuing how the Englishmen were still oppressed with thraldome miserie on ech hand they conspired began a new rebellion but with verie ill successe as shall herafter appeare The king vnderstanding of their dealings and being not onelie armed throughlie with temporall force but also endued with the spirituall power of his archbishop Lanfranke who aided him in all that he might for the suppressing of those rebels wasted the countries excéedinglie where he vnderstood that they had gotten anie releefe minding vtterlie to vanquish them with sword fire and hunger or by extreame penurie to bring them vnder They on the other part make as stout resistance and perceiuing that it stood them vpon either to vanquish or to fall into vtter ruine they raise a mightie strong host and make Edgar Etheling their capteine a comelie gentleman and a valiant in whome also the whole hope of the English nation was reposed as appeareth by this his accustomed by-word Edgar Etheling Englands dearling Amongst other noble men that were chiefe dooers in the assembling of this armie Frederike abbat of S. Albons a prelate of great wealth and no lesse puissance was a principall The king perceiuing his estate to be now in no small danger is in a great perplexitie what to doo in the end he counselleth with the said Lanfranke archbishop of Canturburie how he might remedie the matter who told him that in such a desperate case the best waie for him should be to séeke by faire words and friendly offers to pacifie the English Nobilitie which by all meanes possible would neuer ceasse to molest him in the recouerie of their liberties Wherevpon he made meanes to come to some agréement with them and so well the matter procéeded line 10 on his side that the Englishmen being deceiued through his faire promises were contented to common of peace for which purpose they came also vnder the conduct of the abbat Frederike vnto Berkamsted where after much reasoning and debating of the matter for the conclusion of amitie betwixt them king William in the presence of the archbishop Lanfranke and other of his lords tooke a personall oth vpon all the relikes of the church of S. Albons and the holie euangelists the abbat Frederike ministring line 20 the same vnto him that he would from thencefoorth obserue and keepe the good and ancient approoued lawes of the realme which the noble kings of England his predecessors had made and ordeined heretofore but namelie those of S. Edward which were supposed to be most equall and indifferent The peace being thus concluded and the Englishmen growne thereby to some hope of further quietnesse they began to forsake their alies and returned each one either to his owne possessions or to giue line 30 attendance vpon the king But he warilie cloking his inward purpose notwithstanding the vnitie latelie made determineth particularlie to assaile his enimies whose power without doubt so long as it was vnited could not possiblie be ouercome as he thought and being now by reason of this peace disseuered and dispersed he thought it high time to put his secret purposes in execution wherevpon taking them at vnwares and thinking of nothing lesse than warres and sudden inuasion he imprisoneth manie line 40 killeth diuers and pursueth the residue with fire and sword taking awaie their goods possessions lands and inheritances and banishing them out of the realme In the meane time those of the English Nobilitie which could escape this his outragious tyrannie got awaie and amongst other Edgar Etheling fled againe into Scotland but Edwin was slaine of his owne souldiers as he rode toward Scotland earle Marchar and one Hereward with the bishop of Durham named Egelwinus got into the I le of line 50 Elie in purpose there to defend themselues from the iniurie of the Normans for they tooke the place by reason of the situation to be of no small strength Howbeit king William endeuouring to cut them short raised a power and stopped all the passages on the east side and on the west part he made a causie through the fennes of two miles in length whereby he got vnto them and constreined them to yeeld But Marchar or as others haue Hereward foreséeing the imminent danger likelie to take effect made line 60 shift to get out of the I le by bote and so by spéedie flight escaped into Scotland The bishop of Durham being taken was sent to the abbey of Abingdon to be kept as prisoner where he was so sparinglie fed that within a short space he died for hunger In this meane time and whilest king William was thus occupied in rooting out the English Malcolme king of Scotland had wasted the countries of Theisedale Cleueland and the lands of S. Cutbert with sundrie other places in the north parts Wherevpon Gospatrike being latelie reconciled to the king made earle of Northumberland was sent against him who sacked and destroied that part of Cumberland which the said Malcolme by violence had brought vnder his subiection At the same time Malcolme was at Weremouth beholding the fire which his people had kindled in the church of Saint Peter to burne vp the same and there hearing what Gospatrike had doone he tooke such displeasure thereat that he commanded his men they should leaue none of the English nation aliue but put them all to the sword without pitie or compassion so oft as they came to hand The bloudie slaughter which was made at this time by the Scots through that cruell commandement of Malcolme was pitifull to consider for women children old and yong went all one way howbeit manie of those that were strong and able to serue for drudges and slaues were reserued and carried into Scotland as prisoners where they remained manie yeares after in so much that there were few houses in that realme but had one or mo English slaues and captiues whom they gat at this vnhappie voiage Miserable was the state of the English at that time
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
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
dealing was too manifest although indeed he abused his fathers patience for a while who was desirous of nothing more than to win his sonnes by some courteous meanes and therfore diuerse times offered to pardon all offenses committed by his enimies at the suit of his sonne the king who in déed offered himselfe now and then as an intreatour but that was onelie to win time that his brother with such Brabanders and other souldiers as he had with him in aid beside the forces of the barons of Guien might worke the more mischéefe against their father and their brother earle Richard in wasting and destroieng their countries that stood stedfast on their side In the meane time Richard the archbishop of Canturburie and diuerse other bishops and abbats both of England and Normandie assembled togither at Caen and in the abbeie church of S. Stephan pronounced the sentence of excommunication against all those that did hinder and impeach their purpose which was to haue peace and concord concluded betwixt the king and his sonnes the same sonnes onlie out of the said sentence excepted Diuerse shiftes were made by king Henrie the sonne and his brother earle Geffrey also to get monie for the paiment of their souldiers as spoiling of shrines and such like But at length when things framed not to their purpose and that the harme which they could doo against their father was much lesse than they wished if power had béene answerable to their wâ—â—es king Henrie the sonne through indignation and displeasure as some write fell into a gréeuous sicknesse in a village called Mertell noâ— farre from Limoges where his father laie at siege At the first he was taken with an extreame feuer and after followed a sore flixe Now perceiuing himselfe in danger of death and that the physicians had giuen him ouer he sent to his father better late than neuer confessing his trespasse committed against him and required of all fatherlie loueth 〈◊〉 sée him once before he died But for that the father thought not good to commit himselfe into the hands of such vngratious persons as were about his sonne he sent his ring vnto him in token of his blessing and as it were a pledge to signifie that he had forgiuen him his vnnaturall doings against him The son receiuing it with great humilitie kissed it and so ended his life in the presence of the archbishop of Burdeaux and others on the day of saint Barnabie the apostle He died as some write verie penitent and sorowfull And whereas in his life time he had vowed to make a iourneie into the holie land against Gods enimies and taken vpon him the crosse for that intent he deliuered it vnto his familiar freend William line 10 Marshall to go thither with it in his stead Moreouer when he perceiued present death at hand he first confessed his sinnes secretlie and after openly before sundrie bishops and men of religion and receiued absolution in most humble wise After this he caused his fine clothes to be taken from him and therewith a heare cloth to be put vpon him and after tieng a cord about his necke he said vnto the bishops and other that stood by him I deliuer my selfe an vnworthie and greeuous sinner vnto you the ministers of line 20 God by this cord beséeching our Lord Iesus Christ which pardoned the théefe confessing his faults on the crosse that through your praiers and for his great mercies sake it may please him to be mercifull vnto my soule wherevnto they all answered Amen Then he said vnto them Draw me out of this bed with this cord and laie me on that bed strawed with ashes which he had of purpose prepared and as he commanded so they did and they laid at his feet and at his head two great square stones Thus being prepared line 30 to die he willed his bodie after his deceasse to be conueied into Normandie and buried at Rouen And so after he had receiued the sacrament of the bodie and bloud of our Lord he departed this life as afore is said about the 28. yeare of his age His bodie after his death was conueied towards Rouen there to be buried accordinglie as he had willed but when those that had charge to conueie it thither were come vnto the citie of Mauns the bishop there and the cleargie would not suffer them to line 40 go any further with it but committed it to buriall in honourable wise within the church of saint Iulian. Whereof when the citizens of Rouen were aduertised they were sore offended with that dooing and streightwaies sent vnto them of Mauns requiring to haue the corps deliuered threatening otherwise with manie earnest oths to fetch it from them by force Wherefore king Henrie to set order in this matter commanded that the corps of his sonne the king should be deliuered vnto them of Rouen to be line 50 buried in their citie as he himselfe had willed before his death And so it was taken vp and conueied to Rouen where it was eftsoones buried in the church of our ladie ¶ Thus ended this yoong king in his floorishing youth to whome through his owne iust deserts long life was iustlie denied sith he delighted to begin his gouernement with vnlawfull attempts as an other Absolon against his owne naturall father seeking line 60 by wrongfull violence to pull the scepter out of his hand He is not put in the number of kings bicause he remained for the more part vnder the gouernance of his father so that he rather bare the name of king as appointed to reigne than that he may be said to haue reigned in deed So that héere by the waie a notable obseruation dooth occurre and offer it selfe to be noted of vs namelie that euen princes children though borne to great excellencie and in high degâ—eâ— of dignitie aâ—e to consider with themselues that notwithstanding their statelie titles of souereigntie they haue a dutie to discharge vnto their parents which if it be neglected and that in place thereof disobedience is substituted God himselfe when politike lawes prouide not to punish such offenses will take the cause in hand will powre vengeance vpon such vngratious children For he will be true of his word both in blessing and curssing in blessing the dutifull child with long life and happie daies and in curssing the obstinate and froward with short life and vnfortunate daies according to the tenure of his law If this man had liued in the old Romans time when aged persons were so reuerenced and honoured much more parents he had beene cut off in the prime of his disobedience and present death had beene inflicted vpon him as a due and deserued reward which Iuuenal noteth excellentlie well in these words Credebant hoc grande nefas morte piandum Si iuuenis vetulo non assurrexerat si Barbato cuicunque puer licèt ipse videret Plura domi farra maioris
the more assurance therof he renewed his fealtie in receiuing an oth vpon the holie euangelists Which doone king Henrie went into Britaine with an armie and woone the castell of Mountreleis by siege which one Henrie de Lions and one Guinemer his brother had gotten into their hands after the deceasse of Geffrey earle of Britaine line 50 This yeare the twentie of October the citie of Chichester was almost wholie consumed to ashes by mischance of fire The head church with the bishops palace and the houses of the canons were burnt euen downe to the ground After this king Henrie held his Christmasse at Caen from whence he went to Harfleet and there taking the sea passed ouer into England The French king hearing by and by of his departure assembled a great armie and threatned to destroie the countrie of Normandie and other line 60 lands on that side the sea except king Henrie would deliuer into his hands the towne of Gisors with the appurtenances or cause his sonne Richard earle of Poictou to take to wife his sister Alice according to his promise When king Henrie was aduertised hereof he turned with all speed into Normandie that he might prouide for timelie resistance if the French king came forward to inuade his dominions About the selfe same time came newes out of the holie land that Saladine after the winning of Ierusalem pursued his victorie with such successe that he had taken from the christians the more part of all other towns and strengths within the land These newes were nothing pleasant to the christian princes and namelie the two kings Henrie and Philip séemed sorowfull for the same and therefore came to an enterview togither on the 21. day of Ianuarie betwixt Trie and Gisors where the archbishop of Tire was present through whose earnest exhortation the two kings were made freends and the same day receiued the crosse at his hands in purpose to make a iourneie togither against those Saracens that had doone such iniuries to the christian name And for a difference that one nation might be knowne from an other the French king and his people tooke vpon them to weare read crosses the king of England and his subiects white crosses but the earle of Flanders and his men ware gréene Herewith they departed asunder each one repairing to their countries to prouide their armies and make them in a readinesse to set forward by a day towards this necessarie iournie King Henrie comming to Chinon by aduise of his councell ordeined that euerie one of his subiects should yeeld a tenth part of his reuenues and mooueable goods for that yeare towards the aid of them in the holie land corne of that yeares growth excepted and also all armour horsses bookes apparell ornaments of chappels and pretious stones which should not come in the rate of goods now taxed nor be charged with this paiment Moreouer those knights and men of warre that were appointed to go in this iourneie paied nothing but had that monie also towards their furniture which were gathered of their tenants and farmers howbeit burgesses and others that tooke vpon them the crosse without licence of their lords paied his tenth so that none of them went free There were also good orders deuised both for the aduancement of Gods glorie and the releefe of the common-wealth as that no man should sweare in any outragious maner that no man should plaie at cards dice or tables and that no maner of person after Easter should weare any costlie furs or cloth of scarlet nor that men should vse to haue their tables serued with more than two dishes of meat at one meale nor should haue their apparell cut iagged or laced and further that none of them should take any women foorth with them in this iourneie except such a landresse of whome there might not growe anie suspicion of wanton life It was also ordeined that the monie of such as died in this iournie should go towards the finding and maintenance of their seruants and of poore people and towards the aid of the christians in the holie land Moreouer the pope granted that all those that went foorth in this iournie repenting and confessing their sinnes should be absolued and pardoned of the same The king hauing thus taken order for his businesse in the parts on the further side the sea came now ouer into England againe landing at Winchelsey on a saturday the thirtith day of Ianuarie and calling a councell togither at Gaitington which is eight or nine miles from Northampton he there declared what orders he had taken for his iournie into the holie land Wherevpon the bishops of Norwich and Lincolne and a great number of other people tooke vpon them the crosse at the preaching of the archbishop of Canturburie and the bishop of Rochester This doone king Henrie tooke order also for the leuieng of the tenth as well here in England as he had doone in the parts subiect to him on the further side the sea He also sent Hugh bishop of Durham and other both spirituall and temporall persons vnto William king of Scots to gather the tenth likewise within his countrie but he met them betwixt Wâ—rk and Brightham and would not suffer them to enter into Scotland but he offered to giue vnto the king of England in recompense of the tenths and for to haue againe his castels the summe of 5000. marks of siluer which could not be accepted The French king likewise gathered the tenths in his countrie towards this intended iournie But by the working of some wicked spirit as we may well thinke which enuied the aduancement of the christian common-wealth that good meaning of the two kings was broken and disappointed for the peace latelie concluded betwixt them continued not long vnuiolated line 10 The French writers impute the fault thereof vnto English men and the English writers laie it to French men The French writers say that earle Richard the son of king Henrie in breach of the league made warre vpon Reimond earle of Tholouze The English writers reproue the French king as a wicked man in that he should of purpose breake the peace and moue warre against king Henrie to withdraw him from going to make warre against the Saracens to the which enterprise he was wholie line 20 bent and inclined Such is the maner of manie writers who more affectionat to the loue of their countrie than to the truth doo not obserue the law of histories in their writings but rather inueie one against another in a bralling and reprouing maner ¶ Examples hereof are more than by any possibilitie may be remembred and namelie for breuitie sake George Bucchanan in the 8. booke of his Scotish historie verie reprochfullie speaketh of Richard Grafton a right reuerend man whiles he liued and line 30 of entier name also being dead charging him with ignorance and the report of a shamelesse lier
place Afterward when the earle of Flanders and the earle of Blois with diuerse other earles and barons of the Realme of France laid their armor aside protesting openlie that they would not put on the same againe to make warre against any christian till they should returne from their iournie which they had vowed into the holie land the French king destitute line 30 of men to serue him made sute once againe to king Henrie that they might méet and talke of peace which was hardlie granted and so they met on the morrow after saint Faithes daie or the seauenth of October at Chatellon where they entreated of a forme of peace so that the French king should haue restored all that he had taken within the countries belonging to king Henrie and likewise Richard earle of Poictou should deliuer vp vnto the earle of saint Giles otherwise called earle of Tholouse line 40 all that he had taken from him since the breach of the last truce But when king Henrie would not deliuer the castell of Pascie in pledge to the French king they departed in sunder as before without any thing concluded The king of France after this tooke the castell of Paiuell Upon the eightéenth day of August the two kings came againe togither about a new treatie of peace betwixt Bonsemblance and Sukennie where the French king offered king Henrie to restore to him line 50 all that he had taken by his last warres if his sister Alice might be ioined in marriage with Richard erle of Poictou now eldest sonne aliue to king Henrie and that all king Henries subiects might doo homage and sweare fealtie to the same Richard But king Henrie after the old prouerbe Ictus piscator sapit hauing bought his experience with the féeling of smart bearing in memorie the iniuries done to him by his sonne Henrie after such his aduancement to kinglie degrée would not grant the French kings request line 60 herein Wherevpon a further mischeefe happened for his sonne earle Richard taking displeasure that his father should denie him that honour which made altogither for his more assurance to succeed him as king fell from his said father manifestlie and became the French kings man dooing homage to him also without consent of king Henrie for all those lands that belonged to his said father on that further side the sea The French king for his homage and fealtie gaue him Chateau Raoull and Ysoldun with all the honour thereto belonging ¶ Some write that the cheefest cause which mooued king Henrie to refuse to ioine his sonne earle Richard and the ladie Alice daughter vnto the French king in marriage togither was for that he was linked in the combersome chaine of hot burning loue with the same ladie and therefore he sought all the shifts of excuses delaies that might be imagined so that it appeared he had no mind to part with hir The truth was as writers affirme he had alreadie persuaded hir to satisfie his lust insomuch that he liked hir so well that he ment to be diuorsed from his wife quéene Elianor and to marrie this yoong ladie which if he might bring to passe and haue children by hir he purposed to disherit those which he had by Elianor and to make the other which he should haue by Adela his legitimat and lawfull heires Yet before they departed from this communication a truce was taken to endure till the feast of S. Hilarie And Henrie bishop of Alba a cardinall that was sent from the pope to end this controuersie betwixt these two mightie princes accursed Richard earle of Poictou for that by his meanes the troubles rose and were continued betwixt them The towne of Beuerley with the church of saint Iohn the archbishop was in maner wholie consumed with fire on the 20. of September Also the same yeare died William of Sempringham the author and first founder of the religious order of Sempringham Moreouer Gilbert de Ogerstan a knight templer put in trust by king Henrie with others to gather the tenths towards the reléefe of the holie land was prooued to vse falshood in the receipt and so was deliuered vnto the maister of the temple at London to be punished according to the statutes of his order Also this yere in the vigill of S. Laurence there was séene at Dunstable by diuerse persons a figure of the crosse verie long and large in the aire with the shape of a crucifix thereon and streames of bloud to their sight seemed to run out of the wounds of the feet hands and sides This strange appearance continued in sight from noone till almost night ¶ Some will déeme this a méere fable and saie it sauoureth of grosse superstition and idolatrie wherevpon they will conclude that no such fragments poudered with papistrie should be inserted into a chronicle But to auoid all suspicion of iustifieng the fansies of men note you this that in the ecclesiasticall historie no small number of things no lesse strange and true than this seemeth vaine and false are recorded yea euen touching the verie crosse But considering that this our age is verie nice and deintie in making choise of matter pleasing their owne humor we will not wade too farre in this kind of argument which we know may as soone offend as it is taken as a thorne may pricke or a netle sting when it is touched Neuerthelesse we would not wish that the forme of a thing should be quite condemned for some scandalous peoples pleasures whome nothing will please vnlesse it come out of their owne drieuat or casket of conceits King Henrie held his Christmas at Saumur in Aniou but manie of his earles and barons were gon from him and tooke part with the French king and with his sonne Richard earle of Poictou Now when the day was come in which the truce expired the Britains which had a charter of couenants of the French king and earle Richard that if they conclude◠any peace with king Henrie the Britains should be partakers in the same entred into the confines of those countries which still continued their due obedience towards king Henrie spoiling and wasting the same on each side with barbarous crueltie At which time also a legat came from the pope named Iohn de Anagnia who assaied both by courteous meanes and also by threats and menacings to reduce the parties vnto peace and concord insomuch that by his procurement they met this yeare after Easter néere vnto Fler◠Bernard twise within a few daies togither to trie if by talke they might sort to some reasonable conditions of agreement The last time of those their meetings was in the Whitsunwéeke at what time the French king required not onelie to haue his sister Alice deliuered vnto earle Richard for wife according to the former couenants but also some assurance giuen vnto the same earle Richard that he should inherit his fathers lands after his deceasse
awaie things that laie readie for them that the kings corps laie naked a long time till a child couered the neâ—her parts of his body with a short cloke and then it séemed that his surname was fulfilled that he had from his childhood which was Shortmantell being so called bicause he was the first that brought short clokes out of Aniou into England As his sonne Richard met the corps going towards the buriall suddenlie there issued bloud out of the dead bodies nosthrilles which was taken for a signification that it abhorred the presence of so wicked a son which in his life time had so persecuted the father His death was signified by a maruellous strange woonder line 10 for a few daies before he died all the fishes in a certeine méere or poole in Normandie leapt foorth on land in the night season and fought togither with such a noise that a great multitude of men came running thither to behold the woonder and could not find on fish aliue in the meere He had issue by his wife quéene Elianor as may appeare by that which alreadie is rehearsed foure sonnes Henrie Richard Geffrey and Iohn besides two other that died yoong as some authors haue recorded line 20 also three daughters Maud married vnto Henrie the duke of Saxonie Elianor the wife of Alfonse the eight of that name king of Castile and Ioane giuen in marriage vnto William king of Sicill He had also two bastard sonnes by a concubine the one named William the other Geffrey He was one of bodie fleshie and strong and could abide verie patientlie the displesures both of cold and heat he had a large head a broad breast a broken voice and was furthermore verie spare of diet cheefelie line 30 bicause he would not be too fat and therefore when he was at quiet without any trouble of warres he would exercise himselfe in hunting or trauelling abroad He was of a good stature and verie well formed of a comelie countenance partlie red heared with graie eies of wit quicke and of a perfect good memorie so that he would long remember those things which he had either read heard or seene He was stout of stomach and more constant in time of aduersitie than in time of prosperitie except at the line 40 time of his death when being destitute in maner of all hisfréends he shewed himselfe almost in despaire He was liberall towards all men oftentimes giuing rewards to his souldiers ouer and besides their wages Moreouer of nature he was pitifull towards the poore as it well appeared by diuerse his charitable deeds as for example When in the yeare 1176. there was a great dearth scarsitie of bread in the parts of Aniou Maine he fed euerie daie with sufficient sustenance line 50 ten thousand persons from the begining of Aprill till the time that new corne was inned and what prouision soeuer was laid vp in garners cellers and storehouses for the kings necessarie vses he caused the same to be imploied towards the reléefe of religious houses and poore people He tooke of his subiects but sildome times any great tributes He was verie expert in feats of warre and right fortunate therein He praised his capteins and men of warre line 60 when they were dead and lamented their losse more than he shewed to loue them when they were aliue And this did he of policie that they might vnderstand that they should be honoured after death and therefore feare it the lesse He was somwhat learned and also knowne to be wise His care to haue iustice dulie ministred in his realme was exceeding great insomuch that finding how the shirifes were rather inclined to seeke their owne gaine than to deale vprightlie with his subiects he appointed other officers to haue a regard to their dooings as if they had béene controllers that they knowing how there were such appointed to haue a sound ouersight in their dealings might be the more circumspect in their duties He ordeined also punishments for hunters in forrests and grounds of warren either by fining them or by imprisonment Moreouer he ordeined that murtherers should suffer death by hanging and so for other transgressours he appointed other kinds of punishments as some to be condemned to exile and other to losse of lims c according to the qualitie of the offense committed And to haue the lawes dulie executed and iustice vprightlie ministred on all hands he was so carefull that he tried all orders of men in placing them in roomes of iustice And lastlie trusting to find among the cleargie such as would not be corrupted with bribes nor for respect of feare or freendship decline from right iudgement he chose foorth the bishops of Winchester Elie and Norwich to be principall iustices of the relme so as they might end and determine all matters except in certeine cases reserued to the hearing of the prince himselfe His vices were these as they are remembred In time of aduerse fortune no man could shew himselfe more courteous gentle méeke and promising more largelie than he would But when fortune once began to smile no man was more sharpe hard to deale with nor more redie to breake his promise and faith He was also partlie noted of couetousnesse for although he was liberall towards souldiers and strangers yet was he streict inough towards his owne people and namelie towards his sonnes which caused them to estrange themselues and their good wils from him He was not so zealous toward the execution of right and equitie as to the furtherance of his owne priuat commoditie He was out of measure giuen to fleshlie lust and satisfieng of his inordinate concupiscence For not contented with the vse of his wife he kept manie concubines but namelie he delited most in the companie of a pleasant damsell whom he called the Rose of the world the common people named hir Rosamund for hir passing beautie propernesse of person and pleasant wit with other amiable qualities being verelie a rare and péerelesse péece in those daies He made for hir an house at Woodstocke in Oxfordshire like a labyrinth with such turnings and winddings in out as a knot in a garden called a maze that no creature might find hir nor come to hir except he were instructed by the king or such as were secret with him in that matter But the common re-report of the people is that the quéene in the end found hir out by a silken thread which the king had drawne after him out of hir chamber with his foot and dealt with hir in such sharpe and cruell wise that she liued not long after She was buried in the nunrie of Goodstow beside Oxford with these verses vpon hir toome Hîc iacet in tumulo Rosa mundi non Rosa munda Non redolet sed olet quaeredolere solet The meaning whereof may be found in Graftons large chronicle page 77. in an English septenarie
bishops sées are included Howbeit the truth is that the emperour neuer had possession of these countries cities and towns himselfe neither would line 40 the inhabitants receiue any person so by him appointed to their lord and gouernour wherefore the king made small account of that his so large grant But after he once vnderstood the certeintie of the summe that he should paie for his ransome which businesse he most attended he sent one with letters by and by and in great hast into England to his treasurers requiring them with all conuenient spéed to prouide monie and to send it to him by a day that he might be set at libertie with spéed line 50 These letters being come to the quéene mother and other that had charge in gouernance of the realme tooke order that all maner of persons as well spirituall as temporall should giue the fourth part of their whole reuenues to them for that yeare accrewing and as much more of their mooueable goods and that of euerie knights fée there should be leuied the sum of twentie shillings Also that the religious houses of the orders of the Cisteaux and Sempringham should line 60 giue all their wools for that yeare towards the kings ransome Now those that had commission to leuie this monie being poisoned with couetousnesse and incensed with a gréedie desire than the which as the poet saith nulla est hac maior Erinnys Hanc memorant Acheronte satam per tristia Ditis Regna truces agitare faces c. vsed much streightnesse in exacting it not onelie leuieng it to the vttermost value and extent of mens lands goods and possessions but after their owne willes and pleasures so that vnder colour of the kings commission and letters to them directed there séemed not a tribute or subsidie to be raised but by some publike proclamation all the goods and substance of the people to be appointed as a prey to the kings officers whereby it came to passe that not onelie priuate mens goods but also the chalices iewels and vessels belonging to the church were turned into monie and a farre greater summe made than was at the first commanded a great part of the ouerplus being conuerted to the vse of those through whose hands the receipt passed There was no priuilege nor freedome allowed to exempt any person or place for being contributorie towards the paiment of this monie The order of Cisteaux that were neuer charged with any paiment before were now assessed more déepelie than the rest The bishop of Norwich lamenting the iniurious dealings of the pettie officers and pittieng the people of the church collected halfe the value of all the chalices within his diocesse himselfe and to make vp the other halfe of the whole summe he spared not to giue a great portion of his owne treasure The abbat of S. Albons acquitted all those churches within the compasse of his iurisdiction by the gift of an hundred marks But the bishop of Chester had verie ill lucke with his collections for hauing gathered a great summe of monie to the kings vse he was spoiled thereof in one night as he lodged neere vnto Canturburie being vpon his iournie towards the king And bicause Matthew de Cléere that laie in the castell of Douer was knowne to aid those that robbed the said bishop the archbishop of Canturburie pronounced him accurssed About this time and on the morrow after the natiuitie of saint Iohn Baptist the bishop of Elie lord chancellour arriued in England not shewing himselfe in any statelie port for he tooke vpon him neither the dignitie of chancellour nor legat nor yet of iustice but onelie as a simple bishop and messenger sent from the king The quéene mother the archbishop of Rouen and such other as had gouernment of the land hearing of his comming met him at saint Albons where he shewed to them the emperours letters conteining the agreement made betwixt him and king Richard and withall appointed certeine lords barons to go with him at his returne backe to the king as Gilbert bishop of Rochester Sifrid bishop of Chichester Bennet abbat of Peterborow Richard earle of Clare Roger Bigot earle of Norfolke Geffrey de Saie and diuerse other It was also ordeined at this same time that the monie gathered towards the paiment of the kings ransome should remaine in custodie of Hubert bishop of Salisburie Richard bishop of London William earle of Arundell Hameline earle of Warren and of the Maior of London vnder the seales of the quéene mother and of the archbishop of Rouen ¶ But sée the hap of things whilest ech one was thus occupied about the aforesaid monie it chanced that king Richard was at the point to haue béene deliuered into the hands of his deadlie aduersarie the French king as hereafter you shall heare noting by the waie the dangerous estate of princes the manifold distresses whereinto by sinister fate as well as the inferior rascall rout of common drudges they be driuen For what greater calamitie what gréeuouser hartach what more miserable casualtie could haue happened vnto a bondman than to be deliuered to and fro from the hand of one enimie to another to be bought and sold for monie to stand to the courtesies of forren foes of a king to become a captiue whervnto the poet did right well allude when he said Saepius ventis agitatur ingens Pinus celsae grauiore casis Decidunt turres feriúntque summos Fulminae montes The emperour vpon displeasure conceiued against the bishop of Liege which latelie had atteined to that benefice contrarie to the emperours pleasure who wished the same rather to an other person hired certeine naughtie fellowes to go into France where the bishop remained for feare of the emperours malice and there to find meanes traitorouslie to slea him which they accordinglie did by reason whereof the duke of Louaigne that was brother to the bishop and other of his kinsmen vpon knowledge had line 10 thereof meant to haue made the emperour warre in reuenge of that murther insomuch that the emperour to haue the French kings aid against them was minded to haue deliuered K. Richard vnto him Howbeit after that the matter was taken vp and a concord made betwixt the emperour and his nobles he changed his purpose also touching the deliuering ouer of king Richard who perceiuing that till his ransome were paid which would amount to the summe of an hundred fiftie thousand marks he line 20 should not get libertie and putting great confidence in the dexteritie and diligence of Hubert bishop of Salisburie whome he sent as ye haue heard into England to deale for the leuieng of the same he thought good to aduance the same bishop to the metropolitane sée of Canturburie which had beene vacant euer sithence the decease of archbishop Baldwine that died as ye haue heard in the holie land Herevpon writing to the bishops of
she had issue a daughter named Deuorgoill which Deuorgoill was married to Iohn Balioll by whom she had issue Iohn Balioll that was afterward king of Scotland The second named Isabell was married to Robert le Bruis The third named Mawd died without issue And the fourth called Alda was married to Henrie Hastings But bicause the land perteining to the earledome of Chester should not go amongst rocks and distaues hauing such roiall prerogatiues belonging thereto the king seized them into his owne hands and in recompense assigned other lands to the forsaid sisters as it had beene by way of exchange Now sith the earles of Chester I meane those of the line of Hugh Lupus tooke end in this Iohn Scot I haue thought it not impertinent for the honor of so noble a linage to set downe the descent of the same earles beginning at the foresaid Hugh the first that gouerned after the conquest as I haue seen the same collected out of ancient records according line 10 to their true succession in seauen descents one after another as here followeth The true genealogie of the famous and most honourable earles of Chester HUgh Lou or Lupus first earle of Chester after the conquest nephue line 20 to William Conquerour by his sister Margaret wife to Richard Uicount of Auranches married a noble ladie named Armetruda by whom he had issue Richard that succeeded him in the earledome Robert abbat of saint Edmundsburie and Otuell He departed this life about the yeere of our Lord 1102 when he had beene earle about 40 yeeres 2 Richard Lupus eldest son to Hugh line 30 Lupus and second earle of Chester married Maud the daughter of Stephan erle of Blois Charters and Champaigne and sister to K. Stephan This Richard with his brother Otuell was drowned in the seas in the yeere of our Lord 1120 as before hath beene shewed after he had beene earle about ninteene yeares 3 Ranulfe or Randulfe the first of that line 40 name called Bohun and otherwise Mestheins the sonne of Iohn de Bohun and of Margaret sister to Hugh Lupus succeeded Richard as cousin and heire to him in the earldome of Chester and was the third earle in number after the conquest He married Maud the daughter of Auberie de Uere earle of Gisney and Oxenford by whome he had issue Ranulfe surnamed line 50 Geruous the fourth earle of Chester He died about the yere of our Lord 1130 after he had continued earle eight yeares 4 Ranulfe or Randulfe Bohun the second of that name and fourth erle in number after the conquest surnamed Geruous succeeded his father and married Alice daughter to Robert erle of Glocester base sonne to king Henrie the first by whome he line 60 had issue Hugh Keuelocke the fift earle of Chester He deceassed about the yeare of our Lord 1153 when he had beéne earle 29 yeares 5 Hugh Bohun otherwise Keuelocke the sonne of the said Ranulfe was the first earle of Chester after the conquest and second of that name He married Beatrice daughter to Richard Lucie lord cheefe iustice of England by whom he had issue Ranulfe the third of that name and foure daughters Mawd married to Dauid that was earle of Angus and Huntington and lord of Galloway Mabell maried to William Dalbegnie earle of Arundell Agnes maried to William Ferrers earle of Derbie and Hauisa ioined in marriage with Robert Quincie a baron of great honour This Hugh died about the yeare 1181 when he had beene earle eight and twentie yeares 6 Ranulfe Bohun the third of that name otherwise called Blundeuille the sonne of Hugh Keuelocke was the sixt earle of Chester after the conquest He was also earle of Lincolne as next cousine and heire to William Romare earle of Lincolne He had three wiues as before yee haue heard but yet died without issue about the yeare of our Lord 1232 after he had beene earle 51 yeares 7 Iohn Scot the sonne of Dauid earle of Angus Huntington was in the right of his mother the seuenth earle of Chester after the conquest He died without issue as before yee haue heard by reason whereof the erldome came into the kings hands in the yeare 1237. Thus much may suffice with that which is said before touching the descent of the earles of Chester And now to proceed The same yeare that Iohn Scot died cardinall Otho by some writers named Othobon about the feast of S. Peter and Paule came into England from pope Gregorie He was receiued with all honour and solemne reuerence as was decent yea and more than was decent the king meeting him at the sea side His comming was not signified afore to the nobles of the realme which caused them to mislike the matter and to grudge against the king seeing that he did all things contrarie to order breaking law faith and promise in all things He hath coupled himselfe said they in mariage with a stranger without consent of his freends and naturall subiects and now he bringeth in a legat secretlie who will take vpon him to make an alteration in the whole state of the realme But this legat shewed himselfe a verie sober and discréet person not so couetous as his predecessors in so much that he refused diuerse gifts which were offered vnto him though some he receiued and indéed commanded the other to be reserued for him He also distributed liberallie the vacant rents vnto such as he brought with him as well persons worthie as vnworthie and pacified such controuersies as were sproong betwixt the nobles and peeres of the realme so that he made them fréends ¶ An act memorable to be kept in record that the instrument and seruant of so bad a maister as he serued namelie the pope should be the procurer of so good a worke considering that from the sée of Rome full tides and violent streames of seditions haue flowed and verie sildome any occasion or means made to plant peace among men which is the daughter of loue and the worthiest thing that is as one saith verie well in these words Gignit amor pacem pax est dignissima rerum The bishop of Winchester the earle of Kent Gilbert Basset Stephen Siward others were by him accorded who had borne secret grudge ech to other a long time which hatred was at point to haue broken foorth and shewed it selfe in perilous wise at a tornie holden at Blie in the beginning of Lent where the Southernmen stroue against the Northerne men and in the end the Southerne men preuailed and tooke diuerse of their aduersaries so that it séemed not to be a triumphant iustes but rather a sharpe challenge and incounter betwixt enimies But amongst all others earle Bigot bare himselfe verie stoutlie After that the legat had thus agréed the noblemen he assembled a synod at London the morrow after the octaues of S. Martin wherein manie ordinances were newlie constituted for the state of the cleargie but not altogither verie acceptable
chapleine and sir Henrie de Lamere knight which were sent with the second letters deuised in the late parlement as you haue heard to be preferred vnto the pope and cardinals returned againe without obteining anie line 20 towardlie answer but rather as they declared they found the pope sharp and rough in spéech saieng The king of England which now kicketh against the church beginneth to plaie Frederiks part hath his counsell so likewise haue I which I intend to follow Other answer they cold not obteine Againe the Englishmen that were sutors in the court of Rome were strangelie vsed and could not get anie dispatch in their businesse but were rather put backe as schismatikes and with rebukes reuiled Herevpon the line 30 king called a parlement at Winchester to haue the aduise of his lords in this matter where how soeuer they agreed proclamation was immediatlie set forth and published in euerie shire countie through the realme that no man should consent to the popes contribution nor send anie monie out of the realme to his aid When the pope heard of this he wrote verie sharplie to the bishops commanding them on paine of excommunication and suspension to sasisfie his Nuncio remaining at the new temple in London line 40 before the feast of the Assumption of our ladie And whereas the king minded to haue stood in the matter through threats of his brother the earle of Cornewall and of certeine prelats namelie the bishop of Worcester who had authoritie as was said to interdict the land he yéelded and suffered the pope to haue his will to the great griefe and discomfort of manie On S. Margarets daie there fortuned a maruellous sore tempest of haile raine thunder and lightning line 50 which being vniuersall through the realme did much hurt continued the space of 16 houres togither without ceassing This yéere sundrie noble personages departed this world as Isabell the kings mother wife to the earle of March in Poictou Also the countesse of Albemarle the daughter of Alaine of Galloway and sister to the countesse of Winchester wherevpon a great part of Gallowaie that belonged to hir for that she died without issue remained to Roger de Quincie earle of Winchester that married line 60 the eldest sister Moreouer Iohn lord Neuill died this yeare which had béene chiefe forrester of England but he was not onelie put out of that office for certeine transgressions but also out of the kings fauor before he died where at first none was more esteemed in the court than he The bishop of Salisburie named master Robert de Bingham died also this yeare and sir Richard de Argenton knight a right noble personage which in the holie land had shewed good proofe of his high valiancie manhood prowesse likewise sir Henrie Bailioll of the north and diuerse other In the beginning of the one and thirtith yeare of king Henries reigne the pope sent into England to haue the third part of one yeares profit of euerie beneficed man that was resident and of euerie one not resident the one halfe The bishop of London should haue seene this aid and collection leuied but it would not be granted year 1247 And in a parlement called this yeare on the morrow after the Purification of our ladie it was ordeined that new letters sealed with the common seale of the citie of London should be sent by sufficient messengers from all the estates of the realme vnto the pope and cardinals requiring a moderation to be had in such exactions as were intollerable for the realme to beare Whilest this parlement yet lasted there came ouer the lord Peter of Sauoy earle of Richmond bringing with him certein yoong ladies and damsels to be bestowed in marriage on such yoong lords and gentlemen as were wards to the king On S. Ualentines euen a great earthquake happened here in England and namelie about London on the Thames side with the which manie buildings were ouerthrowen These earthquakes the seldomer they chance in England the more dreadfull the same are and thought to signifie some great alteration A litle before this earthquake the sea had ceassed from ebbing and flowing for the space of three moneths togither by a long tract neere to the English shore to the great maruell of many for either it flowed not at all or else so little that it might not be perceiued And after the earthquake there followed such a season of foule weather that the spring séemed to be changed into winter for scarse was there anie daie without raine till the feast of the translation of S. Benet There were at this time diuerse ordinances decréed and enacted by waie of prohibition to restreine the authoritie of spirituall persons as that no ecclesiasticall judge should determine in causes of anie temporall man except touching causes of matrimonie and testaments They were also prohibited to sue anie actions touching tithes before anie spirituall iudge and the writ whereby they were prohibited was called an Indicauit Sundrie other such ordinances were deuised which for breefenesse we omit What speed or answer so euer the messengers had that were sent to Rome with the letters deuised in the late parlement truth it is that the pope sent ouer into England such of his agents as gathered no small sums of monie amongst the cleargie as one Marinus and an other named Iohannes Anglicus a frier minor the which were not intituled by the name of legats to saue the priuileges which the king had that no legat might come into the realme without his licence The comming ouer of these men bicause it was to gather monie contented not manie mens minds as well appeared in a parlement called at Oxford about reformation thereof but yet notwithstanding it was there agreed that the pope should haue eleuen thousand marks to be leuied amongst them of the spiritualtie exempt persons and places reserued About the same time Baldwine naming himselfe emperour of Constantinople came againe into England to procure some new aid of the king towards the recouerie of his empire out of the which he was was expelled by the Greekes ¶ Also there arriued in England a cardinall that was bishop of Sabine hauing first receiued an oth that he came not for anie hurt to the king or his realme for otherwise being a legat he might not be suffered to enter the land he came this waie to passe ouer into Norwaie whither he went to crowne and annoint Hacon king of that realme There arriued here with him the thrée halfe brethren to the king Guy de Lucignan William de Valence Athelmare a préest with their sister Alice All these were begotten by Hugh 〈◊〉 earle of March of quéene Isabell the kings mother and were therefore ioifullie receiued of the king with faithfull promise that he would be to them a beneficiall good brother which his saiengs with effectuall
the kings enimies thorough the intelligence of some of the citizens of line 30 Baâ—on that fauoured not the king wrought so that certeine of his number entred that citie meaning to haue bereft the king of the dominion thereof But other of the citizins namelie those of the meaner sort which fauoured the king made such resistance that the eâ—imies which were entred were apprehended and diuerse of them suffered punishment as they had well deserued After this there chanced a mutinie in the English armie bicause the kings brethren and the bishop of Hereford tooke vpon them to punish line 40 certeine Welshmen for that without commission they had béene abrod to spoile within the French confines Therfore in asmuch as the punishment séemed to exceed the degrée and qualitie of the offense and againe for that the earle of Hereford being constable of the host by inheritance ought to haue had the order of all corrections in cases of such offenses the Englishmen were in mind to haue slaine all the Poicâ—ouins in despite of the kings brethren if the king had not in humble wise sought to haue appeased their line 50 furie The wind continuing this yeare for the space of thrée moneths and od daies northerlie did greatlie hinder the growth and increase of floures and fruits and about the first of Iulie there fell such a storme of haile and raine as the like had not béene seene nor heard of in those daies breaking downe the tiles and other couerings of houses with boughes of trées by the violent aboundance and force of the water and hailestones which continued aboue the space of an line 60 houre powring and beating downe incessantlie After this when the king had remained a whole yeare in Guien he returned homewards through France and comming vnto Charters was honorablie there receiued of Lewes the French king as then latelie returned out of the holie land and from thence he was roiallic by the same king Lewes brought vnto Paris The countesse of Cornewall went ouer with a noble traine of lords gentlemen and others to be present at the méeting of hir two sisters the queenes of England and France so that the roialtie of the assemblie on ech part was great After that king Henrie had continued there for his pleasure certeine daies year 1255 he returned to England landing at Douer in Christmasse weeke This iournie into Gascoigne was verie costlie and to small purpose as writers haue recorded for the kings charges amounted to the summe of 27 hundred thousand pounds and aboue except lands and rents which he gaue vnaduisedlie to those which lâ—ttle deserued but rather sought the hinderance both of him and his realme besides the gift of â—0 thousand marks which he bestowed vpon his halfe brethren by the mothers side not reckoning the lands nor rents neither yet the wards nor the horsses nor iewels which he gaue to them besides being of price inestimable Thus in two iournies which he made the one into Poictou which countrie he lost and the other into Gascoigne which he hardlie preserued he spent more treasure than a wise chapman would haue giuen for them both if they had béene set on sale as Matthew Parâ—â— writeth so that it might be verified in him that is meant by the old prouerbe Qui procul excurrit sed nil mercatur ibidem Sivia longa fuit rediens tristatur hic idem Moreouer to increase the kings vaine charges so it fell out that pope Innocent bearing grudge towards Conrade king of Sicill offered that kingdome as before is partlie touched to Richard duke of Cornewall who refused the offer aswell for other causes as chieflie for that the pope would not agrée to such conditions as earle Richard thought necessarie for his assurance Wherevpon the pope granted that kingdome vnto king Henrie with manie goodlie promises of aid to his furtherance for atteining the possession thereof King Henrie ioifullie receiued that grant and called his sonne Edmund openlie by the name of K. of Sicill and to furnish the pope with monie for the maintenance of his war against Conrade he got togither all such sums as he could make aswell out of his owne coffers and out of the excheker as by borrowing of his brother earle Richard and likewise what he could scrape from the Iewes or otherwise extort by the rapine of the iustices itinerants all which he sent to the pope who not content herwith when he began efâ—sâ—â—ns to want wrote againe to the king for more The king through the instinct of the diuell to answer the popes auarice sent him letters patents obligatorie signed with his roiall seale by which he might take by way of lone such summes of monie as would largelie serue his turne of the merchants Italians willing him not to sticke at the disbursing of treasure nor at the great quantitie of the interest rising vpon the vsurie for he would discharge all and herevnto he bound himselfe vnder paine to forfeit his kingdome and other his heritages The pope consenting herevnto accepted this large offer If he did well herein saith Matthew Paris the Lord the iudge of all iudges iudge it to whom apperteineth the care of all things To conclude much monie was spent for the pope spared not the king of Englands pursse though little good was doone therewith At length Conrade died not without suspicion of poison The pope being aduertised of his death reioised greatlie as he well vttered in plaine words saieng Let vs all that be the children of the Romish church reioise for now two of our greatest enimies are dispatched out of the waie the one a spirituall man that is to saie Robert bishop of Lincolne and the other a laie-man that is Conrade king of Sicill But yet the pope missed of his purpose for Manfred the bastard sonne of the emperour Frederike the second was shortlie after proclaimed king of Sicill and so the second errour was greater than the first About the quindene of Easter there was a parlement holden at London at the which were assembled all the states of the realme in greater number than had béene commonlie seene This parlement was chéefelie called to let them vnderstand the kings necessitie of monie for discharging of his debts and to require them of their aid towards the same But whereas he requested more than was thought stood with reason they would not agrée therevnto but desired that he would confirme and without all cauillation sweare to obserue the liberties which by the charter he had promised to hold Moreouer they required that by the common councell of the realme they line 10 might choose to them the cheefe iustice the chancellour and treasuror but they were answered plainelie by some of the priuie councell that this request would at no hand be granted Furthermore the prelats complained that they were driuen to paie the tenths which they promised conditionallie as it were now by constreint
Hugh Bigod his chéefe iustice to be good and grafious lord vnto the citie and to mainteine the liberties thereof vnhurt Herewith the people for ioy made a great shout The eight day line 30 of Nouember he rode through the citie towards the sea side and vpon the thirtéenth daie of Nouember he tooke the sea at Douer and arriued at Whitsand and so from thence he rode vnto Paris where of the French king he was most honorablie receiued The cause of his going ouer was chéefelie to conclude some assured peace with the French king that he should not néed to doubt any forren enimies if he should come to haue warre with his owne people whereof he saw great likelihoods year 1260 and therefore he line 40 made such agreement with king Lewes as in the French historie more at large appeareth which to be short I here omit This one thing is here to be noted that besides the monie which king Henrie had in hand amounting to the summe of an hundred and fiftie thousand crownes for his resignation then made vnto Normandie Aniou and Maine it was accorded that he should receiue yearelie in name of a tribute the sum of ten thousand crownes ¶ Others write that he had line 50 three hundred thousand pounds of small Turon monie which he receiued in readie paiment and was promised restitution of lands to the value of twentie thousand pounds of yearelie rent and that after the decease of the French king that then was the countrie of Poictou should returne vnto the English dominion Some write that immediatlie after king Henrie had concluded his agréement he began to repent himselfe thereof and would neuer receiue penie of the monie nor leaue out in his stile the title line 60 of duke of Normandie But it is rather to be thought that such an agreement was at point to haue béene concluded or at the leastwise was had in talke but yet neuer concluded nor confirmed with hands and seales as it ought to haue beene if they had gone through with it In the meane time that king Henrie was thus occupied in France dissention fell in England betwéene prince Edward and Richard earle of Glocester for the appeasing whereof a parlement was called at Westminster to the which the lords came with great companies and speciallie the said prince and earle They intended to haue lodged within the citie but the maior going vnto the bishop of Worcester to sir Hugh Bigod and to sir Philip Basset vnto whome and to the archbishop of Canturburie the K. had committed the rule of the land in his absence required to know their pleasure herein Wherevpon they thought it good to haue the aduise of Richard the king of Almaine and therevpon went to him where they concluded that neither the said prince nor earle nor anie of their partakers should come within the citie the gates whereof were by the maiors appointment closed and kept with watch and ward both day and night Soone after also for the more safegard of the citie the gates were by the maiors appointment closed and kept with diligent watch and ward both day and night Soone after also for the more safegard of the said citie and sure kéeping of the peace the king of Almaine with the said sir Hugh and sir Philip came and lodged in the citie with their companies and such other as they would assigne to strengthen the citie if need required Wherin their prouident consent to withstand so foule a mischeefe as sedition might haue bred in the citie deserueth high commendation for it was the next waie to preserue the state thereof against all occasions of ruine to vnite harts and hands in so swéet an harmonie which the law of nature teacheth men to doo and as by this sage sentence is insinuated and giuen to vnderstand Manus manum lauat digitus digitum Vir virum ciuitas seruat ciuitatem Shortlie after the king returned out of France and about the feast of S. Marke came to London and lodged in the bishops palace And bicause of certeine rumors that were spred abroad sounding to some euill meaning which prince Edward should haue against his father the king brought ouer with him a great power of men in armes being strangers howbeit he brought them not into the citie but left them beyond the bridge in the parts of Surrie notwithstanding being entred the citie he so kept the gates and entries that none was permitted to enter but such as came in by his sufferance The earle of Glocester by his appointment also was lodged within the citie and the prince in the palace at Westminster Shortlie after by the kings commandement he remooued to S. Iohns all the other lords were lodged without the citie and the king of Almaine remooued againe to Westminster In which time a direction was taken betweene the said parties and a now assemblie and parlement assigned to be kept in the quindene of S. Iohn Baptist and after deferred or proroged till the feast of saint Edward at the which time all things were paciâ—â—ed a while but so as the earle of Glocester was put beside the roome which he had amongst other the peeres and so then he ioined in fréendship with the earle of Leiscester as it were by way of confederacie against the residue and yet in this last contention the said earle of Leicester tooke part with the prince against the earle of Glocester This yeare the lord William de Beauchampe the elder deceassed ¶ The lord Edward the kings sonne with a faire companie of knights and other men of armes passed the seas to exercise himselfe in iusts but he himselfe and his men were euill intreated in manie places so that they lost horsse armour and all other things to his great griefe and disliking as may be estéemed yet as some write he returned home with victorie in the iusts This yeare at Teukesburie a Iew falling by chance into a iakes vpon the saturdaie in reuerence of his sabboth would not suffer any man to plucke him foorth wherof the earle of Glocester being aduertiseâ— thought the christians should doo as much reuerence to their sabboth which is sundaie and therefore would suffer no man to go about to take him foorth that day and so lieng still till mondaie he was there found dead Diuers Noble men departed this life in this yeare as the earle of Albemarle the lord William Beauchampe Stephan de Longespee lord cheefe iustice of Ireland and Roger de Turkeby one of the kings chéese councellors and iustices of the land William de Kickham bishop of Durham and Iohn de Crakehale treasurer of England a spirituall man but rich beyond measure also Henrie de Ba another of the kings iustices of the bench In the 45 yeare of king line 10 Henries reigne Alexander king of Scotland came to London anon after the feast of S. Edward with a
Longshanks the eldest sonne of Henrie the third EDward the first of that name after the conquest began his reigne ouer this kingdome of England the 16 day of Nouember in the yeere of the world 5239 of our Lord 1272 of the Saxons 814 after the conquest 206 the varation of the empire after the deceasse of Frederike the second as yet induring though shortlie after in line 10 the yeare next following Radulfe of Habspurge was elected emperour in the third yeare of Philip the third then reigning in France and Alexander the third yet liuing in gouernement of the Scotish kingdome This Edward the first when his father died being about the age of 35 yeares was as then in the holie land or rather in his iournie homewards but wheresoeuer he was at that present the nobles of the land after his father was departed this life assembled line 20 at the new temple in London and causing a new seale to be made they ordeined faithfull ministers and officers which should haue the treasure in kéeping and the administration of iustice for the maintenance of peace and tranquillitie within the land and on the 22 day of Nouember he was proclaimed king Who after he had remained a time in the holie land and perceiued himselfe destitute of such aid as he looked for at the hands both of the Christians and Tartarians he left in the citie of Acon certeine line 30 stipendarie souldiers and taking the sea sailed homewards arriuing first in Sicill year 1273 where of Charles K. of that land he was honorablie receiued and conueied till he came vnto Ciuita Vecchia in Italie where pope Gregorie as then laie with his court of whome as of his old fréend that had been with him in the holie land he obteined that earle Aldebrandino Rosso and Guy of Montfort that had murthered the lord Henrie eldest sonne to Richard king of Almaine might be sent for Earle Aldebrandino purged himselfe line 40 but Guy de Montfort was excoÌ„municated as a violator of the church a murderer and a traitor so as he was disherited euen unto the fourth generation till he had reconciled himselfe to the church as he was inioined After this it is woonderfull to remember with what great honor king Edward was receiued of the cities as he passed through Tuscaine and Lumbardie At his comming ouer the mounteins at Chalon in Burgundie he was at a iusts and tornie which then was there holden by the Frenchmen against line 50 the Englishmen the honor whereof remained with the Englishmen In this tornie the fight of the footmen was great for the Englishmen being sore prouoked slue manie of the French footmen but bicause they were but rascals no great accompt was made of them for they were vnarmed gaping for the spoile of them that were ouerthrowen K. Edward passing foorth came to the French court where of his coosine germane king Philip he was ioifullie receiued Here king Edward dooing homage to the French king for the lands which he ought to hold of him in France passed into Guien A tenth was granted of the cleargie to the K. and to his brother Edmund earle of Leicester and Lancaster by the popes appointment for two yeares a chapleine of the pope a Gascoine borne named Reimond being sent into England for that purpose who gaue part vnto them and part thereof he kept to himselfe towards his charges year 1274 but the most part was reserued to the popes disposing ¶ Whilest the king remained in Gascoigne he had somwhat to do against certeine rebels as Gaston de Bierne and other that were reuolted from him The castels belonging to the said Gaston he subdued but his person he could not meet with Finallie after he had set things in order aswell in Guien as in other places in the parts of beyond the seas he hasted homewards and came to London on the second day of August where he was receiued with all ioy that might be deuised The stréets were hanged with rich cloths of silke arras and tapestrie the aldermen and burgesses of the citie threw out of their windowes handfuls of gold and siluer to signifie the great gladnesse which they had conceiued of his safe returne the conduits ran plentifullie with white wine and red that ech creature might drinke his fill Upon the 19 day of August in this second yeare of his reigne he was crowned at Westminster togither with his wife quéene Elianor by the hands of Robert Kilwarbie archbishop of Canturburie At this coronation were present Alexander king of Scots and Iohn earle of Britaine with their wiues that were sisters to K. Edward The king of Scots did homage vnto king Edward for the realme of Scotland in like maner as other the kings of Scotland before him had doone to other kings of England ancestours to this king Edward At the solemnitie of this coronation there were let go at libertie catch them that catch might fiue hundred great horsses by the king of Scots the earles of Cornewall Glocester Penbroke Warren others as they were allighted froÌ„ their backs ¶ On S. Nicholas euen there chanced such an earthquake with lightning and thunder and therewithall the appearing of the burning drake and a blasing starre called a comet that the people were brought into no small feare vpon consideration thereof But now to the point of the historie King Edward at the first like a prudent prince chose the wisest and worthiest men to be of his councell to purchase the loue of his subiects whose minds were somewhat offended towards his father by reason that he refused to kéepe promise with them touching the restitution of gentle and fauourable lawes king Edward shewed himselfe so gentle towards all degrées of men that he séemed to exceed the reasonable bounds of courteous humanitie much more than became his roiall estate After this he reformed diuerse lawes and statutes and deuised some new ordinances greatlie for the wealth of the realme He held his first parlement at Westminster where the ordinances were made called the statutes of Westminster the first To this parlement was Leolin the prince of Wales summoned to come and doo his homage hauing line 10 béene requested first to come to the kings coronation but he refused and now hauing summons to come to this parlement he excused himselfe affirming that he durst not come for feare of certeine noblemen that laie in wait for his life requiring to haue pledges deliuered for his safe comming and going the kings sonne and Gilbert earle of Glocester with Robert Burneâ—l the lord chancelor The king was greatlie offended with such a presumptuous demand but passed it ouer till after the line 20 end of the parlement then repairing to Chester he sent eftsoones messengers to the said Leolin requiring of him to come doo his homage but he still detracted time so that in the end the king raised an armie meaning to recouer
means we haue at length by aduise of our peruerse counsell defied our said lord the K. of England and haue put our selues out of his allegiance and homage sent our people into England to burne houses to take spoiles to commit murther with many other damages and also in fortifieng the kingdome of Scotland which is of his fee putting and establishing armed men in townes castels and other places to defend the land against him to deforce him of his fee for the which transgressions our said souereigne lord the king entring into the realm of Scotland with his power hath conquered and taken the same notwithstanding al that we could do against him as by right he may do as a lord of his fee bicause that we did render vnto him our homage and made the foresaid rebellion We therfore as yet being in our full power and free will doo render vnto him the land of Scotland and all the people therof with the homages In witnesse whereof we haue caused these letters patents to be made Yeuen at Brechin the tenth day of Iulie in the fourth yeare of our reigne sealed with the common seale of the kingdome of Scotland After this king Edward went forward to see the mounteine countries of Scotland the bishop of Durham euer kéeping a daies iournie afore him At line 10 length when he had passed through Murrey land and was come to Elghin perceiuing all things to be in quiet he returned towards Berwike and comming to the abbeie of Scone he tooke from thence the marble stone wherevpon the kings of Scotland were accustomed to sit as in a chaire at the time of their coronation which king Edward caused now to be transferred to Westminster and there placed to serue for a chaire for the priest to sit in at the altar The king comming to Berwike called thither vnto line 20 a parlement all the nobles of Scotland and there receiued of them their homages the which in perpetuall witnesse of the thing made letters patents thereof written in French and sealed with their seales as the tenor here followeth The instrument of the homages of the lords of Scotland to K. Edward A Touz ceux que cestes lettres verront ou orront c. To all those that these present letters shall see or heare we Iohn Comin of Badenaw c. Bicause that we at the faith and will of the most noble prince and our dearest lord Edward by the grace of God king ofEngland lord of Ireland and duke of Aquitaine doo vow and promise for vs and our heires vpon paine of bodie and goods and of all that we may haue that we line 40 shall serue him well and trulie against all men which may liue and die at all times when we shall be required or warned by our said lord the king of England or his heires and that we shall not know of any hurt to be doone to them but the same we shall let and impeach with all our power and giue them warning thereof and those things to hold and keepe we bind vs our heires and all our goods and further receiue line 50 an oth thereof vpon the holie euangelists and after all we and euerie of vs haue done homage vnto our souereigne lord the king ofEngland in words as followeth I become your liegeman of life members and earthlie honour against all men which may liue and die And the same our souereigne lord the king receiued this homage vnder this forme of words We receiue it for the land of the which you be now seized the line 60 right of vs or other saued and except the lands which Iohn Balioll sometime king of Scotland granted vnto vs after that we did deliuer vnto him the kingdome of Scotland if happilie he hath giuen to you any such lands Moreouer all we and euerie of vs by himselfe haue done fealtie to our said souereigne lord the king in these words I as a faithfull liege man shall keepe faith and loialtie vnto Edward king ofEngland and to his heires of life member and earthlie honor against all men which may liue and die and shall neuer for any person beare armour nor shall be of counsell nor in aid with any person against him or his heires in any case that may chance but shall faithfullie acknowledge and doo the seruice that belongeth to the tenements the which I claime to hold of him as God me helpe and all his saints In witnesse wherof these letters patents are made and signed with our seales Yeuen at Warke the foure and twentith of March in the 24 yeare of the reigne of our said lord the king of England Then was Iohn Warren earle of Surrey and Sussex made by king Edward warden of Scotland Hugh Cressingham treasurer and William Ormesbie high iustice whome the king commanded that he should call all those before him which held any lands of the crowne and to receiue of them in his name their homages and fealties Iohn Balioll the late king of Scotland was sent to London and had a conuenient companie of seruants appointed to attend him hauing licence to go any whither abroad so that he kept himselfe within the circuit of twentie miles néere to London Iohn Comin of Badenaw and Iohn Comin of Lowan and diuerse nobles of Scotland were brought into England on the south side of Trent being warned vpon paine of death not to returne into Scotland till the king had made an end of his wars with France After this at his returne into England king Edward held a parlement at saint Edmundsburie which began the morrow after the feast of All saints in which the citizens burgesses of good townes granted vnto him an eighth part of their goods and of the residue of the people a twelfth part The cleargie by reason of a constitution ordeined and constituted the same yeare by pope Boniface prohibiting vpon paine of excommunication that no talages nor other exactions should be leuied or exacted of the cleargie in any manner of wise by secular princes or to be paid to them of things that perteined to the church vtterlie refused to grant any manner of aid to the king towards the maintenance of his wars Wherevpon the king to the intent they should haue time to studie for a better answer deferred the matter to an other parlement to be holden on the morrow after the feast of saint Hilarie This yeare after the feast of the Epiphanie Elizabeth the kings daughter was married vnto king Iohn earle of Holland Humfrey de Bohun earle of Hereford and Essex was sent to conueie them into Holland there to take possession of the earledome as then descended vnto the said Iohn by the death of his father latelie before slaine by his owne subiects bicause he would haue disherited this Iohn and made a bastard sonne which he had to be his heire ¶ The day appointed for the parlement to be
of Cornewall still increased the more indeed through the high bearing of him being now aduanced to honour For being a goodlie gentleman and a stout he would not once yéeld an inch to any of them which worthilie procured him great enuie amongst the chéefest peeres of all the realme as sir Henrie Lacie earle of Lincolne sir Guie earle of Warwike and sir Aimer de Ualence earle of Penbroke the earles of Glocester Hereford Arundell and others which vpon such wrath and displeasure as they had conceiued against him thought it not conuenient to suffer the same any longer in hope that the kings mind might happilie be altered into a better purpose being not altogither conuerted into a venemous disposition but so that it might be cured if the corrupter thereof were once banished from him Herevpon they assembled tâ—gâ—ther in the parlement time at the new temple on saturdaie next before the feast of saint Dunstan and there ordeined that the said Péers should abiure the realme and depart the same on the morrow after the Natiuitie of saint Iohn Baptist at the furthest and not to returne into the same againe at any time then after to come To this ordinance the king althoâ—â—â— against his will bicause he saw himselfe and the â—â—alme in danger gaue his consent and made his letters patents to the said earles and lords to witnesse the same The tenour of the kings letters patents NOtum vobis facimus per praesentes quòd amodò vsque ad diem dominus Petrus de Gaueston regnum nostrum est abiuraturus exiturus videlicet in crastino natiuitatis S. Iohannis Baptistae proximo sequenti nos in quantum nobis est nihil faciemus nec aliquid fieri permittemus per quod exilium dicti domini Petri in aliquo poterit impediri vel protelari quin secundum formam à praelatis comitibus baronibus regni nostri ordinatam per nos libero consensu confirmatam plenarie perficiatur In cuius rei testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes Datum apud Westm. 18 die May. Anno regni nostri primo These letters were read heard and allowed in the presence of all the Noble men of this land the day and yeare abouesaid ¶ The archbishop of Canturburie being latelie returned from Rome where he had remained in exile in the late deceassed kings daies for a certeine time did pronounce the said Péers accursed if he taried within the realme longer than the appointed time and likewise all those that should aid helpe or mainteine him as also if he should at any time hereafter returne againe into the land To conclude this matter was so followed that at length he was constreined to withdraw himselfe to Bristow and so by sea as a banished man to saile into Ireland The king being sore offended herewith as he that fauoured the earle more than that he could be without his companie threatned the lords to be reuenged for this displeasure and ceassed not to send into Ireland vnto Péers comforting him both with fréendlie messages and rich presents and as it were to shew that he meant to reteine him still in his fauour he made him ruler of Ireland as his deputie there A wonderfull matter that the king should be so inchanted with the said earle and so addict himselfe or rather fix his hart vpon a man of such a corrupt humor against whome the heads of the noblest houses in the land were bent to deuise his ouerthrow but the lesse line 10 maruell it is that the king bare him such a feruent affection and set his hart vpon him considering that vetus autorum sententia mores Quòd similes similé studium sunt fomes amoris Sic vanus vanum studiosus sic studiosum Diligit socios adeunt animalia coetus The lords perceiuing the kings affection and that the treasure was spent as lauishlie as before thought with themselues that it might be that the king would line 20 both amend his passed trade of life and that Peers being restored home would rather aduise him thereto than follow his old maners considering that it might be well perceiued that if he continued in the incouraging of the king to lewdnesse as in times past he had doone he could not thinke but that the lords would be readie to correct him as by proofe he had now tried their meanings to be no lesse Herevpon to reteine amitie as was thought on both sides Péers by consent of the lords was restored home againe the king meeting him at Chester to his great line 30 comfort and reioising for the time although the malice of the lords was such that such ioy lasted not long In the fourth yeare of king Edward was a councell holden at London against the templers the which councell indured from the beginning of Maie till Iune In this councell they confessed the fame but not the fact of the crimes laid to their charge except two or thrée ribalds that were amongst them but bicause they could not cleare themselues they were adiudged vnto perpetuall penance within line 40 certeine monasteries The king this yeare fearing the enuie of the lords against Peers de Gaueston placed him for his more safetie in Bambourgh castell bearing the prelats and lords in hand that he had committed him there to prison for their pleasures This yeare also there were ordinances made for the state and gouernement of the realme by the prelats earles and barons which were confirmed with line 50 the sentence of excommunication against all them that should go about to breake the same The king neither allowed of them nor obserued them although he had confirmed them with his seale and sent them to all cathedrall churches and counties to be registred in perpetuall memorie therof The king indeed was lewdlie led for after that the earle of Cornewall was returned into England he shewed himselfe no changeling as writers doo affirme but through support of the kings fauour bare himselfe so high in his line 60 doings which were without all good order that he seemed to disdaine all the peeres barons of the realme Also after the old sort he prouoked the king to all naughtie rule and riotous demeanour and hauing the custodie of the kings iewels and treasure he tooke out of the iewell-house a table a paire of trestels of gold which he deliuered vnto a merchant called Aimerie de Friscobald commanding him to conueie them ouer the sea into Gascoine This table was iudged of the common people to belong sometime vnto king Arthur and therefore men grudged the more that the same should thus be sent out of the realme year 1311 The king this yeare raised a great power to go into Scotland And about the feast of the Assumption of our ladie hauing with him Péers de Gaueston earle of Cornewall and the earles of Glocester and Warren he came to Berwike which towne
Winglesdon moore néere vnto Darington leading the bishop to Morpath and his brother the lord Beaumont vnto the castell of Mitford and so deteined them as prisoners till they had redéemed their libertie with great sums of monie Herewith the said sir Gilbert being aduanced line 60 in pride proclaimed himselfe duke of Northumberland and ioining in fréendship with Robert Bruce the Scotish king cruellie destroied the countie of Richmond Wiâ—â— such traitorouâ— parts Willâ—am Felton and Thomas Heton being not a little stirred first wan by force the castell of Mâ—â—ford and after apprehended sir Gilbert Middleton with his companion Walter Selbie and sent them vp to London where shortlie after they were drawne hanged and quartered Some write that the said sir Gilbert was put to death for robbing two cardinals to wit Gaucellino the popes chancellour and Lucas de Flisco that were sent from pope Iohn the two and twentith to consecrate the foresaid Lewes Beaumont bishop of Durham and to intreat a peace betwixt the realms of England and Scotland and also to make an agréement betwixt the king and the earle of Lancaster The which being met with vpon Winglesdon moore in Yorkeshire by the said Gilbert were robbed of such stuffe treasure as they brought with them but yet escaped themselues and came to Durham and from thence sent messengers to Robert Bruce to persuade him to some agreement But whereas he would not condescend to any reasonable conditions of peace at that time they determined to go into Scotland to talke with him themselues but before they came to the borders king Robert who iudged it not to stand with his profit to haue any peace in that season sent certeine of his people to forbid the cardinals the entrie of his realme The cardinals being thus iniuriouslie handled pronounced the Scots by their legantine power accursed and interdicted their whole realme And bicause they saw nothing lesse than any hope to doo good with king Robert touching any composition or agreement to be had they returned againe to the pope without any conclusion of that for the which they were sent After that Edward Bruce had atchiued such enterprises in other parts of Ireland as in the last yéere yee haue heard he went vnto Fenath and to Skeres in Leinister and there the lord cheefe iustice Edmund Butler rose against him with the lord Iohn fitz Thomas that was after erle of Kildare sir Arnold Power and diuerse other with a great armie But by reason of discord that chanced amongst them they scaled their armie and departed out of the field on the 26 daie of Februarie Edward Bruce then burned the castell of Leis and after returning into Ulnester he besieged the castell of Knockfergus and slue Thomas Mandeuile and his brother Iohn at a place called Down as they came thither out of England After this the foresaid Edward returned into Scotland In this season vittels were so scant and déere and wheat and other graine brought to so high a price that the poore people were constreined thorough famine to eat the flesh of horsses dogs and other vile beasts which is woonderfull to beléeue and yet for default there died a great multitude of people in diuers places of the land Foure pence in bread of the courser sort would not suffice one man a daie Wheat was sold at London for foure marks the quarter and aboue Then after this dearth and scarsitie of vittels insued a great death and mortalitie of people so that what by warre of the Scots and what by this mortalitie and death the people of the land were woonderfullie wasted and consumed O pitifull depopulation Edward Bruce before the feast of Easter returned againe into Ireland with the earle of Murrey and other noble men of Scotland hauing with them a great armie and besieged the castell of Knockfergus and after they went to another castell where they tooke a baron prisoner there Edward Bruce laie for a season Also Richard earle of Ulnester lay in saint Maries abbie by Dublin where the maior and communaltie of the citie tooke him and put him in prison within the castell of Dublin They also slue his men and spoiled the abbie After this the foresaid Edward Bruce went to Limerike after the feast of saint Matthew the apostle and there soiourned till Easter was past In the meane while Roger de Mortimer the kings deputie arriued at Waterford with a great armie by reason wherof Edward le Bruce for feare departed and got him into the vttermost parts of Ulnester and Iohn fitz Thomas was made earle of Kildare Also Occoner of Conneigh and manie other Irishmen of Cornagh and Meth were slaine néere to Aurie by the Englishmen of those parts There was a great slaughter also made of the Irishmen néere vnto Thistildermote by the lord Edmund Butler and an other also at Baliteham of Omorth by the same Edmund The lord deputie deliuered the earle of Ulnester out of prison and after Whitsuntide banished out of Meth sir Walter Lacie and sir Hugh Lacie giuing their lands awaie from them vnto his line 10 knights and they went ouer into Scotland with Edward Bruce who returned thither about that time The death still increased as by some writers it should appeare In the eleuenth yeare of king Edward the second his reigne vpon the saturdaie night before Midlent sundaie year 1318 the towne of Berwike was betraied to the Scots through the treason of Peter Spalding The castell held good tacke a while till for want of vittels they within were constreined to deliuer it into the Scotishmens hands who wan also the same time the line 20 castell of Harbotell Werke and Medford so that they possessed the more part of all Northumberland euen vnto Newcastell vpon Tine sauing that certeine other castels were defended against them In Maie they entred with an armie further into the land burning all the countrie before them till they came to Ripon which towne they spoiled and tarieng there thrée daies they receiued a thousand marks of those that were got into the church and defended it against them for that they should spare the towne and line 30 not put it to the fire as they had alreadie doone the townes of Northalerton and Bourghbridge as they came forwards In their going backe they burnt Knaresbourgh and Skipton in Crauen which they had first sacked and so passing through the middest of the countrie burning and spoiling all before them they returned into Scotland with a maruellous great multitude of cattell beside prisoners men and women and no small number of poore people which they tooke with them to helpe to driue the cattell line 40 In the 12 yeare of Edward the seconds reigne in August the king and the earle of Lancaster came to talke togither in a plaine beside Leicester where they were made freends to the outward shew so that in the yeare
Spensers and to the earle of Arundell so that there was line 30 cause whie they bare euill will to the Henuiers which had aided as yee haue heard to bring the said earle and Spensers to their confusion In this meane time the Scots being entred into England had doone much hurt and were come as farre as Stanop parke in Wiredale and though they had sent their ambassadours to treat with the king and his councell for peace yet no conclusion followed of their talke At the same time bicause the English souldiours of this armie were cloathed all line 40 in cotes and hoods embrodered with floures and branches verie séemelie and vsed to nourish their beards the Scots in derision thereof made a rime which they fastened vpon the church doores of saint Peter toward Stangate conteining this that followeth Long beards hartlesse Painted hoods witlesse Gaie cotes gracelesse Make England thriftlesse The king when he saw it was but a vaine thing to staie anie longer in communication with the ambassadors line 50 about peace departed from Yorke with his puissant armie and getting knowledge how the Scots were closelie lodged in the woods of Stanop parke he came and stopped all the passages so it was thought that he should haue had them at his pleasure but through treason as was after reported of the lord Roger Mortimer after that the Scots had béene kept within their lodgings for the space of fiftéene daies till they were almost famished they did not onelie find a waie out but about two hundred of line 60 them vnder the leading of the lord William Douglas assailing that part of the English campe where the kings tent stood in the night season missed not much of either taking the king or sleieng him and hauing doone hurt inough otherwise as in the Scotish chronicle is also touched they followed their companie and with them returned into Scotland without impeachment It is said that Henrie earle of Lancaster and Iohn the lord Beaumont of Heinault would gladlie haue passed ouer the water of Wire to haue assalted the Scots but the earle of March through counsell of the lord Mortimer pretending to haue right to the leading of the fore ward and to the giuing of the first onset would not suffer them Howsoeuer it was the king missed his purpose and right pensiue therefore brake vp his field and returned vnto London ¶ Walter bishop of Canturburie departed this life in Nouember and then Simon Mepham was aduanced to the gouernement of that sée The lord Beaumont of Heinalt was honorablie rewarded for his paines and trauell and then licenced to returne into his countrie where he had not beene long but that through his means then as some write the marriage was concluded betweene king Edward and the ladie Philip daughter to William earle of Heinault and neece to the said lord Beaumont who had the charge to sée hir brought ouer thither into England about Christmasse where in the citie of Yorke vpon the eeuen of the Conuersion of saint Paule being sundaie year 1328 in the latter end of the first yeare of his reigne king Edward solemnlie maried hir In the second yeare of his reigne about the feast of Pentecost king Edward held a parlement at Northampton at the which parlement by euill and naughtie counsell whereof the lord Roger Mortimer and the queene mother bare the blame the king concluded with the Scotish king both an vnprofitable and a dishonorable peace For first he released to the Scots their fealtie and homage Also he deliuered vnto them certeine old ancient writings sealed with the seales of the king of Scots and of diuerse lords of the land both spirituall and temporall amongst the which was that indenture which they called Ragman with manie other charters and patents by the which the kings of Scotland were bound as feodaries vnto the crowne of England at which season also there were deliuered certeine iewels which before time had béene woone from the Scots by the kings of England and among other the blacke crosier or rood is speciallie named And not onelie the king by his sinister councell lost such right and title as he had to the realme of Scotland so farre as by the same councell might be deuised but also the lords and barons and other men of England that had anie lands or rents within Scotland lost their right in like manner except they would dwell vpon the same lands and become liege men to the king of Scotland Herevpon was there also a marriage concluded betwixt Dauid Bruce the sonne of Robert Bruce king of Scotland and the ladie Iane sister to king Edward which of diuerse writers is surnamed Ione of the tower and the Scots surnamed hir halfe in derision Ione Make-peace This marriage was solemnised at Berwike vpon the daie of Marie Magdalen The quéene with the bishops of Elie and Norwich the earle Warren the lord Mortimer and diuerse other barons of the land and a great multitude of other people were present at that marriage which was celebrate with all the honour that might be After the quindene of saint Michaell king Edward held a parlement at Salisburie in which the lord Roger Mortimer was created earle of March the lord Iohn of Eltham the kings brother was made earle of Cornwall and the lord Iames Butler of Ireland earle of Ormond who about the same time had married the earle of Herefords daughter But the earle of March tooke the most part of the rule of all things perteining either to the king or realme into his owne hands so that the whole gouernment rested in a manner betwixt the queene mother and him The other of the councell that were first appointed were in manner displaced for they bare no rule to speake of at all which caused no small grudge to arise against the quéene and the said earle of March who mainteined such ports and kept among them such retinue of seruants that their prouision was woonderfull which they caused to be taken vp namelie for the queene at the kings price to the sore oppression of the people which tooke it displesantlie inough There was like to haue growen great variance betwixt the queene and Henrie earle of Lancaster by reason that one sir Thomas Wither a knight perteining to the said earle of Lancaster had slaine Robert Holland who had betraied sometime Thomas earle of Lancaster and was after committed to prison line 10 by earle Henries means but the queene had caused him to be set at libertie and admitted him as one of hir councell The quéene would haue had sir Thomas Wither punished for the murther but earle Henrie caused him to be kept out of the waie so that for these causes and other Henrie the earle of Lancaster went about to make a rebellion and the quéene hauing knowledge thereof sought to apprehend him but by the mediation of the
and Burbone the lord Lewes de Sauoie and the lord Iohn de Heinault otherwise called lord Beaumont on the French part and the earles of Derbie and Northampton the lord Reginald Cobham and the lord Walter de Mannie on the English part These commissioners and the legates as intreators betwéene the parties met and communed three daies togither but agréed not vpon anie conclusion and so the cardinals departed and the French king perceiuing he could not haue his purpose brake vp his host and returned to France bidding Calis farewell After that the French king with his host was once departed from Sangate without ministring anie succour to them within the towne they began to sue for a parlée which being granted in the end they were contented to yéeld and the king granted to receiue them and the towne on these conditions that six of the cheefe burgesses of the towne should come foorth bareheaded barefooted and barelegged and in their shirts with halters about their necks with the keies of the towne and castell in their hands to submit themselues simplie to the kings will and the residue he was contented to take to mercie This determinate resolution of king Edward being intimated to the commons of the towne assembled in the market place by the sound of the common bell before the capteine caused manie a wéeping eie amongst them but in the end when it was perceiued that no other grace would be obteined six of the most wealthie burgesses of all the towne agreed to hazard their liues for the safegard of the residue and line 10 so according to the prescript order deuised by the K. they went foorth of the gates and were presented by the lord Walter de Mannie to the king before whom they knéeled downe offered to him the keies of the towne and besought him to haue mercie vpon them But the king regarding them with a fell countenance commanded streight that their heads should be striken off And although manie of the noble men did make great intreatance for them yet would no grace be shewed vntill the quéene being great with line 20 child came and knéeled downe before the king hir husband and with lamentable cheere wéeping eies intreated so much for them that finallie the kings anger was aswaged his rigor turned to mercie for Flectitur iratus voâ—erogante Deus so that he gaue the prisoners vnto hir to doo hir pleasure with them Then the quéene commanded them to be brought into hir chamber and caused the halters to be taken from their necks clothed them anew gaue them their dinner and bestowing vpon ech of line 30 them six nobles appointed them to be conueied out of the host in safegard and set at libertie Thus was the strong towne of Calis yéelded vp into the hands of king Edward the third of August in the yeare 1347. The capteine the lord Iohn de Uienne and all the other capteins and men of name were staied as prisoners and the common soldiers and other meane people of the towne were licenced to depart and void their houses leauing all their armor and riches behind them The king would not line 40 haue any of the old inhabitants to remaine in the towne saue onlie a priest and two other ancient personages such as best knew the customes lawes and ordinances of the towne He appointed to send ouer thither amongst other Englishmen there to inhabit 36 burgesses of London and those of the wealthiest sort for he meant to people the towne onelie with Englishmen for the better and more sure defense thereof The king and quéene were lodged in the castell and continued there till the queene was deliuered line 50 of a daughter named Margaret The cardinals of whome ye heard before being come as legats from pope Clement to mooue communication of peace did so much in the matter that a truce was granted betwixt the realme of England France for the terme of twelue moneths or two yeares as Froissard saith But the English chronicle and Iacobus Meir seeme to agree that this truce was taken but for nine moneths though afterwards line 60 the same was proroged To the which truce all parties agreed Britaine excepted for the two women there would not be quieted but still pursued the war the one against the other After that this truce was accorded the king with the quéene his wife returned into England and left as capteine within Calis one sir Amerie of Pauie an Italian knight or as other bookes haue he was but capteine of the castell or of some one of the towers of that towne which séemeth more like to be true than that the king should commit the whole charge of the towne vnto his gouernement being a stranger borne and therefore Iacobus Meir is the more to be credited that writeth how sir Amerie of Pauie was left but in charge with the castell onelie and that the towne was committed to the kéeping of the lord Iohn Beauchampe and Lewes his brother But now that there was a peace thus concluded betwixt the two kings it seemed to the English people that the sunne brake foorth after a long cloudie season by reason both of the great plentie of althings and remembrance of the late glorious victories for there were few women that were housekéepers within this land but they had some furniture of houshold that had béene brought to them out of France as part of the spoile got in Caen Calis Carenien or some other good towne And beside houshold stuffe the English maides and matrones were bedecked and trimmed vp in French womens iewels and apparell so that as the French women lamented for the losse of those things so our women reioised of the gaine In this 22 yeare from Midsummer to Christmasse for the more part it continuallie rained so that there was not one day and night drie togither by reason whereof great flouds insued and the ground therewith was sore corrupted and manie inconueniences insued as great sickenes and other in somuch that in the yeare following in France the people died woonderfullie in diuerse places In Italie also and in manie other countries as well in the lands of the infidels as in christendome this grieuous mortalitie reigned to the great destruction of people ¶ About the end of August the like death began in diuerse places of England and especiallie in London continuing so for the space of twelue moneths following And vpon that insued great barrennesse as well of the sea as the land neither of them yéelding such plentie of things as before they had doone Whervpon vittels and corne became scant and hard to come by About the same time died Iohn Stretford archbishop of Canturburie after whome succéeded Iohn Ufford who liued not in that dignitie past ten moneths and then followed Thomas Bredwardin who deceassed within one yeare after his consecration so that then Simon Islep
citie towne and castell of Rodaix and all the countie and countrie of Rouergne and if there were in the duâ—â—ie of Guien any lords as the earles of Foiz Arminacke Lisle and Perigueux the vicounts of Carmain and Limoges or other holding any lands within the foresaid bounds it was accorded that they should doo homage and other customarie seruices due for the same vnto the king of England 2 It was also agreed that Calis and Guines with line 40 the appurtenances the lands of Montreuill on the sea with the countie of Ponthieu wholie and entirelie should remaine vnto the king of England All the which countries cities townes and castels with the other lands and seigniories the same king should haue and hold to him and his heires for euer euen as they were in demaine or fee immediatlie of God and frée without recognizing any maner souereingtie to any earthlie man In consideration whereof king Edward renounced all such claimes titles and interest line 50 as he pretended vnto any part of France other than such as were comprised within the charter of couenants of this peace first agréed vpon at Bretignie aforesaid and after confirmed at Calis as appeareth by the same charter dated there the foure twentith daie of October in the yeare of our Lord 1360. 3 It was also couenanted that the French king should paie vnto the king of England thirtie hundred thousanâ— crownes in name of his ransome for assurance of which paiment performance of all the line 60 couenants afore mentioned and other agreed vpon by this peace the dukes of Orleance Aniou Berrie and Burbon with diuerse other honorable personages as earles lords and burgesses of euerie good towne some were appointed to be sent ouer hither into England to remaine as hostages 4 It was further agréed that neither the French king nor his successors should aid the Scots against the king of England or his successors nor that king Edward nor his heirs kings of England should aid the Flemings against the crowne of France 5 And as for the title or right of the duchie of Britaine which was in question betweene the earles of Blois and Mountfort it was accorded that both kings being at Calis the parties should be called before them and if the two kings could not make them fréends then should they assigne certeine indifferent persons to agree them and they to haue halfe a yeeres respit to end the matter and if within that terme those that should be so appointed to agrée them could not take vp the matter betwixt the said earles then either of them might make the best purchase for himselfe that he could by helpe of freends or otherwise but alwaies prouided that neither of the kings nor their sonnes should so aid the said earles whereby the peace accorded betwixt England and France might by any meanes be broken or infringed Also to whether of the said earles the duchie of Britaine in the end chanced to fall by sentence of iudges or otherwise the homage should be doone for the same vnto the French king All these ordinances articles and agréements with manie mo which here would be too long to rehearse were accorded and ratified by the instruments and seales of the prince of Wales on the one part and of the duke of Normandie regent of France on the other part as by their letters patents then sealed further appeared bearing date the one at Loures in Normandie the sixteenth daie of Maie in the yeare of Grace 1360 and the other at Paris the tenth day of the same moneth and in the yeare aforesaid Ouer beside this both the said princes tooke on them a solemne oth to see all the same articles and couenants of agreement throughlie kept mainteined and performed This doone king Edward imbarked himselfe with his foure sonnes and the most part of his nobles at Hunfleu the twentith daie of Maie and so sailed into England leauing hehind him the earle of Warwike to haue the gouernement of all the men of warre which he left behind him either in Gaien or in any other place on that side the sea There died in this iournie diuerse noble men of this land as the earles of March and Oxford the lord Iohn Graie then steward of England and the lord Geffrie de Saie with diuerse other The eight of Iulie next insuing the French king hauing licence to depart landed at Calis and was lodged in the castell there abiding till the king of England came thither which was not till the ninth day of October next after On the foure and twentith daie of October both the kings being in two trauerses and one chappell at Calis a masse was said before them and when they should haue kissed the pax either of them in signe of greater fréendship kissed the other there they were solemnelie sworne to mainteine the articles of the same peace and for more assurance thereof manie lords of both parts were likewise sworne to mainteine the same articles to the vttermost of their powers Whilest these kings laie thus at Calis there was great banketting and chéere made betwixt them Also the duke of Normandie came from Bullongne to Calis to visit his father and to sée the king of England in which meane time two of king Edwards sonnes were at Bullongne Finallie when these two kings had finished all matters in so good order and forme that the same could not be amended nor corrected and that the French king had deliuered his hostages to the king of England that is to saie six dukes beside earles lords and other honorable personages in all to the number of eight and thirtie on the morrow after the taking of their oths that is to saie on the fiue and twentith daie of October being sundaie the French king was freelie deliuered and the same daie before noone he departed from Calis and rode to Bullongne The king of England brought him a mile foreward on his waie and then tooke leaue of him in most louing maner The prince attended him to Bullongne where both he and the duke of Normandie with other were eftsoons sworne to hold and mainteine the foresaid peace without all fraud or colourable deceit and this doone the prince returned to Calis Thus was the French king set at libertie after he had beene prisoner here in England the space of foure yeares and as much as from the nineteenth daie of September vnto the fiue and twentith of October When the king of England had finished his businesse at Calis according to his mind he returned into England and came to London line 10 the ninth daie of Nouember ¶ Thus haue yée hard the originall begining the processe and issue of sundrie conflicts and battels and speciallie of two one of Iohn the French king vnluckilie attempted against England the other of Dauid the Scotish king as vnfortunatlie ended For both kings were subdued in fight vanquished
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
Gascoigne where he remained steward vntill the comming of Henrie the third at what time the said Henrie surrendered his office but the king importunate with him still to reteine the same he flatlie denied it and would no longer remaine there suddenlie returning into England without licence line 50 or knowledge of the king for which contempt the king greeuouslie incensed in reuenge and for satisfaction of the same made the same lands to be extended by Thomas Paslew and others who by the kings processe extended part thereof to a â—reble value after which extent returned into the chancerie the king seized the manour of Bremesgraue Bolesoure Strattondale in Norton left in his hands the manours of Lierton Oswardbecke Cundoner Wourfeld and Wigutton whereof the said Henrie line 60 died seized Two yeares before which grant of the lands before said to this Henrie to wit in the twentith yeare of Henrie the third the said Henrie Hastings made his petition to serue in the pantrée as he was bound by tenure at the coronation of euerie prince the record whereof in the ancient written booke of the earls of Huntington is in these words following The record by which Henrie Hastings executed the office of the panteller VIcesimo Henr. tertij quo coronata fuit regina Elionara filia Hugonis comitis Prouinciae apud Westm. factae sunt contentiones magnae de seruitijs ministralibus de iuribus pertinentibus ad eorum ministeria sed respectuatur iuribus singulis saluis vt tumultus requiesceret vsque ad quindena Paschae sequeÌ„tis c. Et Henricus de Hastinges cuius officium seruiendi de mappis à veteri vendicauit officiuÌ„ illud habuit Nam quamuis Thurstanus vendicauit officium illud asserens suum esse debere à veteri tamen rex repulsat admisit Henricum de Hastinges ea die assignans eisdem diem de contentione finienda ad praedictum terminum Extractas verò post prandium mappas tanquam suas ad officium pertinentes recepit This Henrie had by Ada his wife his sonne heire Henrie Hastings from whome Buchanan dooth saie that Henrie Hastings now earle of Penbroke is descended whereof I will not now heere dispute Henrie Hastings knight sonne of Henrie after the death of his father finding himselfe greeued that the inheritance which should haue descended vnto him from his mother was so withholden from him for the offense of his father contrarie to law and iustice and without iudgement but by the kings power pursued a bill against the king therby to haue remedie and restitution for the supposed false returne of the extent which was made against his father and vpon the same bill this Henrie Hastings obteined a new writ to make a fresh extent directed to maister Thomas of Wimundham Robert de la Laie Robert de Solham Hugh Peeche Thomas de Braie to vnderstand if the remnant of the lands to him descended beside that by the king extended would counteruaile the value of such lands as he should haue by descent from and of the earle and earledome of Chester which maâ—ter neuer being ended in his time was afterward prosecuted of the Hastings from parlement to parlement vntill the thirtie fourth yeare of Edward the first as more plainelie shall after appeare Of this Henrie Hollingshed intreateth much in the reigne of Henrie the third this man being he that in the time of Edward the first made title to the crowne of Scotland maried Ione one of the daughters of William Cantulpe lord of Aburgauenie in the right of Eua one of the daughters and heires of William Bewsa or Brewcusa for I find both written of which Ione this Henrie had issue Iohn Hastings his sonne and heire Edmund which maried Isabell had great possessions in Wales Ada first maried to Robert de Champane Lora maried to sir Thomas the sonne of sir Iohn de Latimer and Ione which was a nun at Notingham Iohn Hastings knight sonne of the last Henrie was borne at Asleghe in the yéere of our Lord 1262 and in the six fortith yeare of the reigne of Henrie the third This man after his fathers death did in the yeare of our Lord 1274 and the second yeare of the reigne of Edward the first being the kings ward demand the execution of his office of the pantrie at the coronation of queene Elianor wife to Edward the first but could not execute the same by reason of his nonage and also for that he was in ward to the said king After when he was growne to full yeares there arose in the yeare of our Lord 1305 and in the thirtie third yeare of the reigne of Edward the first great contention betweene Antonie Beake bishop of Durham this Iohn Hastings Iohn Balioll and Robert Bruse for the manors of Penrith Castlesoure Salgkill regis Lange Worthbie Carlaton and of Werkine Tinehale whereof Henrie king of Scots kinsman of the said Robert Bruse Iohn Balioll and Iohn Hastings whose heire they were died seized in his demesne of fee. In which sutes after manie delaies made and manie summons against the said bishop the plée went without daie bicause the bishop must go to Rome But after his returne the sute being reuiued and continued it went once more without daie bicause the king seized the same into his hands and held it all the time of his reigne These things thus doone and Edward the first departed this Iohn Hastings as yet not hastie to renew his sute of the land but rather to execute his right of the pantrie did in the first yeare of Edward the second demand the executing of that office line 10 at the coronation of the said Edward the second and Isabell his wife at Westminster which he obteined and laid the clothes and napkins in the great hall by him and other his knights one the tables whereat the king the quéene and other great states should dine which according as I haue seene noted was in this sort The order and number of clothes laied line 20 at the kings table and how Iohn Hastings had them for his fee. AD altam sedem ipsius regis tres mappas super alias mensas in eadem aula 28 mappas vnde quaelibet pecia continebat 4 in parua aula coram regina alibi in illa parua aula 14 quaruÌ„ quaelibet pecia continebat 3. Et dum fueruÌ„t ad comestum mappas per se suos custodiebat line 30 post comestum illas trahebat deferre faciebat seruientes ad seruiendum istas cum suis loquelis â—abebat sine voluntate vel cum voluntate eas deâ—inebat per totum festum coronationis licèt petitae erant deliberatione primò à senescallo regis postea ab ipso rege per quod idem rex praecepit domino Willielmo Martin alijs senescallis suis quòd plenam celerem iusticiam ei facerent deliberationem de mappis praedictis
for the bearing of the armes of this same Iohn Hastings without difference great contention line 10 grew betwéene sir Edward Hastings knight descended of Isabell Spenser and Reinold Greie lord Greie of Ruthine sonne of Reinold Greie sonne of Roger Greie that married Elizabeth daughter of Isabell Ualence for both the said lord Greie and sir Edward Hastings were descended by two venters as partlie before and partlie hereafter shal be shewed from one man Iohn Hastings husband to both said Isabels For the explanation whereof and lineall descent to conueie the said sir Edward Hastings line 20 from the said Iohn Hastings first lord of Aburgauennie of that surname I must here repeat a little of that which I haue alreadie written which is that the said Iohn Hastings first lord of Aburgauennie hauing two wiues both Isabels by his first wife Isabell Ualence had Elizabeth maried to Roger Greie and by his second wife Isabell Spenser he had issue sir Hugh Hastings knight from whome we are to deduce the said sir Edward Hastings in this sort Hugh Hastings knight lord of Folliot in the right line 30 of his wife being sonne of the second wombe of Isabell Spenser and Iohn Hastings sonne of Henrie Hastings married Margerie the daughter and heire of sir Richard Folliot by whom he came to be lord of Folliot and alwaies bare the armes of Hastings with a difference of a second brother of a second venter This marriage was procured and made by Isabell his mother who purchased the said ward for him This Hugh died in the yeare of Christ 1347 in the one and twentith yeare of Edward the third and line 40 was buried in the church of Elsing in Elsrug in Northfolke which he builded his wife Margerie died in the yeare 1349 being the thrée and twentith yeare of Edward the third and was buried in the chappell of Fornewell This Hugh had issue by his wife Hugh Hastings his heire and a daughter married to sir Robert de la Mare Hugh Hastings knight the sonne of Hugh and Margerie Folliot did marrie the daughter of Adam de Eueringham by whom he had Hugh Hastings line 50 his sonne and heire and two daughters the one married to Winkfield and the other to a knight called Elmham This Hugh died at Calkewelhell or Gwines and was buried in the friers of Doncaster in the yeare of our Lord 1369 about the foure fortith yéere of Edward the third This man for him and his heires in difference from the other Hastings earles of Penkroke his kinsmen by the halfe blood did beare the Hastings armes with the labell quartered with the armes of Folliot Hugh Hastings line 60 knight the sonne of Hugh and Margaret Eueringham married Anne the daughter of Edward Spenser earle of Glocester by whom he had issue Hugh Hastings and Edward Hastings which contended with Reinold Greie lord of Ruthine This Hugh tooke his pilgrimage to Ierusalem died in Spaine after whose death dame Anne Spenser his wife was maried to Thomas lord Morleie Hugh Hastings eldest son of Hugh Hastings and dame Anne Spenser married the daughter of sir Wil. Blunt knight this Hugh died at Calis at the mariage of Richard the second to Isabell the daughter of the king of France about the 19 yeare of the reigne of the said Richard being the yeare of our redemption 1395 who dieng without issue all his right and title came to his brother Edward Edward Hastings knight brother of the last Hugh began the contention with Reinold Greie lord of Ruthine for the right of the lands honors and armes without difference of the last Iohn Hastings earle of Penbroke This sute began about the eight yeare of Henrie the fourth and continued at least vntill the fift yeare of Henrie the fift if not longer but in the end notwithstanding manie false pedegrees counterfeited by this Hastings and his vncle Henrie bishop of Norwich one of the house of the Spensers yet it was adiudged against the said sir Edward Hastings in the marshals court that the lands honors and armes without difference as the last Iohn Hastings earle of Penbroke did beare them with the armes of William Ualence earle of Penbroke should be onelie borne by the said lord Greie of Ruthine and his heires as being of the whole blood and next heire to the said last Iohn Hastings earle of Penbroke and that the said Edward Hastings should vtterlie be barred to beare the armes of Hastings but quartered with the armes of Folliot as onelie descending of the halfe blood to the said last earle of Penbroke of that name And that all other pedegrees what so euer except this are false and of purpose contriued as appeareth by a notable booke and monument thereof remaining in the hands of Henrie Greie now earle of Kent descended of the said Reinold Greie of Ruthine conteining all the processe examinations witnesses pedegrees iudgements thereof more plainelie maie appeare In which contention there was shewed a matter by the deposition of sir William Hoo knight not vnworthie to be remembred though it touch not the Hastings concerning armorie and bearing of differences in armes which was that the said sir William said on his oth in the tenth yeare of Henrie the fourth that before the times of Edward the third the labell of three points was the different appropriat and appurtenant for the cognizance of the next heire but the same king made his sons to beare the entire armes with labels of thrée points with certeine differences in the said labels to be knowen the one from the other except his sonne the duke of Glocester who bare a border about the armes of France and England And thus this much Francis Thin touching the name of Hastings In this yeare Thomas earle of Lancaster for the opinion which had béene conceiued of him by reason of miracles and other respects was canonized for a saint The mondaie next after the feast of saint Hilarie a parlement was begun at Westminster in which there was a bill exhibited by the commons that the lords and great men of the realme should not giue to their men badges to weare as their cognizances by reason that through the abuse thereof manie great oppressions imbraseries vnlawfull maintenances and wrongs were practised to the hinderance of all good orders lawes and iustice The lords would not consent altogither to laie downe their badges but yet they agreed that none should weare any such cognizance except their seruants of houshold and such as were in ordinarie wages by the yeare ¶ In the same parlement certeine persons that had gone about some new rebellion in Kent being apprehended were condemned and so were drawne and hanged ¶ There was also an act made against such as should passe the seas to purchase prouisions as they termed them in any church or churches And if any from thencefoorth attempted so to doo he should be reputed and taken as a rebell Also there was
well affected towards some good conclusion by treatie to be had of a full and perfect peace About the same time by the king with the aduise of his councell proclamation was made and published at London that all beneficed men abiding in the court of Rome being Englishmen borne should returne home into England before the feast of S. Nicholas vnder paine to forfeit all their benefices and such as were not beneficed vnder a paine likewise limited The Englishmen hearing such a thunder clap a farre off fearing the blow left the popes court and returned into their natiue soile The pope troubled with such a rumbling noise sent in all hast as abbat as his nuncio vnto the king of England as well to vnderstand the causes of this proclamation as of statutes deuised and made latelie in parlement against those that prouided themselues of benefices in the court of Rome by the popes buls which séemed not a little preiudiciall to the church of Rome in consideration whereof the said nuncio required that the same statutes might be repealed and abolished so farre as they tended to the derogation of the church liberties but if the same statutes were not abolished the pope might not said his nuncio with a safe conâ—â—ience otherwise doo than procéed against them that made those statutes in such order as the canons did appoint Moreouer the said nuncio declared to the king certeine dangerous practises betwixt the antipape and the French king as to make the duke of Touraine the French kings brother king of Tuscane and Lombardie and to establish the duke of Aniou in the kingdome of Sicile Moreouer he gaue the king to vnderstand that if the French king might compasse by the antipapes meanes to be chosen emperour he would séeke to vsurpe vpon ech mans right and therefore it stood the line 10 king of England chieflie in hand to prouide against such practises in time And as for the treatie of peace which the Frenchmen séemed so much to fauour it was to none other end but that vpon agreement once had they might more conuenientlie compasse their purpose in the premisses Furthermore the nuncio earnestlie besought the king of aid in the popes behalfe against the French king if as he threatned to doo he should inuade him in Italie with open force The king séemed to giue fauourable eare vnto line 20 the nuncio and after aduise taken appointed to staie till after Michaelmasse at what time a parlement was appointed to be assembled wherein such things as he had proponed should be weied and considered and some conclusion taken therein About this time or in the yeare 1391 according to Henrie Knightons account there was a prophane statute made against the church churchmen namelie that no ecclesiasticall person or persons should possesse manors glebeland houses possessions lands line 30 reuenues or rents whatsoeuer at the hands of the feoffer without the kings licence the chiefe lords And this statute extended it selfe as well to parish-churches chappels chanteries as abbeies priories other monasteries whatsoeuer likewise to citizens of cities to farmers burgesses hauing such rents or possessions for the common profit For men in those daies that would bestow land or liuelod vpon church fraternitie or conuent and were notable for cost and charges to procure a mortmane vnder the line 40 kings licence and chiefe lords were woont to feoffe some speciall men in whom they had confidence and trust vnder whose name and title churchmen or anie other fraternitie or conuent might inioy the profit of the gift and might haue the commoditie thereof in possession And it was prouided by that statute that all and euerie as well persons ecclesiasticall as parishioners both citizens burgesses and farmers or anie other whatsoeuer hauing such rents possessions manors or anie reuenues whatsoeuer in the hands line 50 of such feoffers without the licence of the king and chiefe lords that either they should obteine and get a licence of the king and the chiefe lords to make it a mortmaine or else set such things to sale raise profit of them on this side or before the feast of Michaelmasse next insuing or the said feast being past and expired that then the king and the chiefe lords in things not ordered and disposed accordinglie may enter and seize vpon the same and them haue and hold at his and their pleasure line 60 About the same time the duke of Glocester went into Prutzen land to the great griefe of the people that made account of his departure as if the sunne had beene taken from the earth doubting some mishap to follow to the common wealth by his absence whose presence they thought sufficient to stay all detriments that might chance for in him the hope of the commons onelie rested In his returne home he was sore tormented with rough weather and tempestuous seas At length he arriued in Northumberland and came to the castell of Tinmouth as to a sanctuarie knowen to him of old where after he had refreshed him certeine daies he tooke his iournie homewards to Plaschie in Essex bringing no small ioy for his safe returne to all the kingdome ¶ On the ninth of Iulie the sunne séemed darkened with certeine grosse and euill fauored clouds comming betwixt it and the earth so as it appeared ruddie but gaue no light from noone till the setting thereof And afterwards conâ—â—nualliâ— for the space of six weeks about the middest of the daie clouds customablie rose and sometimes they continued both daie and night not vanishing awaie at all ¶ At the same time such a mortalitie and death of people increased in Northfolke and in manie other countries of England that it seemed not vnlike the season of the great pestilence In the citie of Yorke there died eleuen thousand within a short space ¶ Henrie Persie earle of Northumberland lieutenant of Calis was called home from that charge and created warden of the marches against Scotland and Robert Mowbraie was sent to Calis to be the kings lieutenant there On friday next after All soules day the parlement began at London in which the knights would in no wise agrée that the statute made against spirituall men for the prouiding themselues of benefices in the court of Rome should be repealed but yet they agréed thus much that it should be tollerated so as with the kings licence such spirituall men might purchase to themselues such benefices till the next parlement ¶ In this parlement aforsaid there was granted vnto our lord the king one tenth of the clergie and one fiftéenth of the people towards the expenses of Iohn duke of Lancaster who in Lent next following went ouer into France to the citie of Amiens for a finall peace betweene the kingdoms of England and France where the king of France met him with a shew of great pompe and honor sending before him first of all to welcome him thither the citizens of
it was found how the earle of Warwike had confessed himselfe guiltie of treason line 30 and asked pardon and mercie for his offense but the earle denied that euer he acknowledged anie such thing by woord of mouth and that he would prooue in what manner soeuer should be to him appointed Therein was also the appeale found of the dukes of Aumarle Surrie and Excester the marquesse Dorset the earles of Salisburie and Glocester vnto the which ech of them answered by himselfe that they neuer assented to that appeale of their owne frée wils line 40 but were compelled thereto by the king and this they affirmed by their othes and offered to prooue it by what manner they should be appointed Sir Walter Clopton said then to the commons If ye will take aduantage of the processe of the last parlement take it and ye shall be receiued therevnto Then rose vp the lord Morlie and said to the earle of Salisburie that he was chiefe of counsell with the duke of Glocester and likewise with king Richard so discouered the dukes counsell to the king line 50 as a traitor to his maister and that he said he would with his bodie prooue against him throwing downe his hood as a pledge The earle of Salisburie sore mooued héerewith told the lord Morlie that he falslie béelied him for he was neuer traitor nor false to his maister all his life time and therewith threw downe his gloue to wage battell against the lord Morlie Their gages were taken vp and deliuered to the constable and marshall of England and the parties were arrested and day to them giuen till another time line 60 On mondaie following being the morrow after All soules day the commons made request that they might not be entred in the parlement rols as parties to the iudgement giuen in this parlement but there as in verie truth they were priuie to the same for the iudgement otherwise belonged to the king except where anie iudgment is giuen by statute enacted for the profit of the common-wealth which request was granted Diuers other petitions were presented on the behalfe of the commons part whereof were granted and to some there was none answere made at that time Finallie to auoid further inconuenience and to qualifie the minds of the enuious it was finallie enacted that such as were appellants in the last parlement against the duke of Glocester and other should in this wise following be ordred The dukes of Aumarle Surrie and Excester there present were iudged to loose their names of dukes togither with the honors titles and dignities therevnto belonging The marquesse Dorset being likewise there present was adiudged to lose his title and dignitie of marquesse and the earle of Glocester being also present was in semblable maner iudged to lose his name title and dignitie of earle Moreouer it was further decréed against them that they and euerie of them should lose and forfeit all those castels lordships manors lands possessions rents seruices liberties and reuenues whatsoeuer had beene giuen to them at or since the last parlement belonging aforetime to any of those persons whom they had appealed and all other their castels manors lordships lands possessions rents seruices liberties and reuenues whatsoeuer which they held of the late kings gift the daie of the arrest of the said duke of Glocester or at any time after should also remaine in the kings disposition from thencefoorth and all letters patents and charters which they or any of them had of the same names castels manors lordships lands possessions and liberties should be surrendred vp into the chancerie there to be cancelled Diuerse other things were enacted in this parlement to the preiudice of those high estates to satisfie mens minds that were sore displeased with their dooings in the late kings daies as now it manifestlie appéered For after it was vnderstood that they should be no further punished than as before is mentioned great murmuring rose among the people against the king the archbishop of Canturburie the earle of Northumberland and other of the councell for sauing the liues of men whom the commons reputed most wicked and not worthie in anie wise to liue But the king thought it best rather with courtesie to reconcile them than by cutting them off by death to procure the hatred of their freends and alies which were manie and of no small power After that the foresaid iudgement was declared with protestation by sir William Thirning iustice the earle of Salisburie came and made request that he might haue his protestation entered against the lord Morlie which lord Morlie rising vp from his seat said that so he might not haue bicause in his first answer he made no protestation and therefore he was past it now The earle praied day of aduisement but the lord Morlie praied that he might lose his aduantage sith he had not entered sufficient plee against him Then sir Matthew Gournie sitting vnderneath the king said to the earle of Salisburie that Forsomuch as at the first day in your answers ye made no protestation at all none is entered of record and so you are past that aduantage and therefore asked him if he would saie any other thing Then the earle desired that he might put in mainprise which was granted and so the earle of Kent sir Rafe Ferrers sir Iohn Roch sir Iohn Draiton knights mainprised the said earle bodie for bodie For the lord Morlie all the lords and barons offred to vndertake and to be suerties for him but yet foure of them had their names entered that is to saie the lords Willoughbie Beauchampe Scales and Berkelie they had day till the fridaie after to make their libell After this came the lord Fitzwater and praied to haue day and place to arreigne his appeale against the earle of Rutland The king said he would send for the duke of Norffolke to returne home and then vpon his returne he said he would proceed in that matter Manie statutes were established in this parlement as well concerning the whole bodie of the common-wealth as by the booke thereof imprinted may appeare as also concerning diuerse priuate persons then presentlie liuing which partlie we haue touched and partlie for doubt to be ouer-tedious we doo omit But this among other is not to be forgotten that the archbishop of Canturburie was not onelie restored to his former dignitie being remooued from it by king Richard who had procured one Roger Walden to be placed therein as before ye haue heard but also the said Walden was established bishop line 10 of London wherewith he séemed well content Moreouer the kings eldest sonne Henrie alreadie created as heire to his father and to the crowne prince of Wales duke of Cornewall and earle of Chester was also intituled duke of Aquitaine and to auoid all titles claimes and ambiguities there was an act made for the vniting of the crowne vnto king
procéeded doctor he was also confessor to the duke of Lancaster and to his wife the duchesse Constance a great setter foorth of pope Urbans cause against the other popes that were by him line 30 and those of his faction named the antipapes Thomas Maldon so called of the towne of that name in Essex where he was borne Iohn Edo descended out of Wales by linage and borne in Herefordshire a Franciscane frier Adde to the forenamed Nicholas Fakingham borne in Norfolke a greie frier procéeded doctor in Oxenford a great diuine and an excellent philosopher prouinciall of his order here in England Laurence Holbecke a monke of Ramsie well séene in line 40 the Hebrue toong and wrote thereof a dictionarie Iohn Colton archbishop of Ardmach Iohn Marrie so called of a village in Yorkeshire where he was borne a Carmelite of Doncaster Richard Chefer borne in Norfolke a diuine and an Augustine frier in Norwich Iohn Lathburie a Franciscane frier of Reading Nicholas Poutz Richard Scroope brother to William Scroope lord treasuror of England studied in Cambridge and proceeded there doctor of both the lawes became an aduocat in the court line 50 of Rome and afterwards was aduanced to the gouernement of the see of Couentrie and Lichfield and at length was remooued from thence and made archbishop of Yorke he wrote an inuectiue against king Henrie and at length lost his head as before ye haue heard Iohn Wrotham a Carmelite frier of London and after made warden of an house of his order in Calis Furthermore Iohn Colbie a Carmelite frier of Norwich William Thorpe a northerne man borne line 60 and student in Oxenford an excellent diuine and an earnest follower of that famous clearke Iohn Wickliffe a notable preacher of the word and expressing his doctrine no lesse in trade of life than in speech he was at length apprehended by commandement of the archbishop of Canturburie Thomas Arundell and committed to prison in Saltwood castell where at length he died Stephan Patrington borne in Yorkeshire a frier Carmelite prouinciall of his order through England of which brood there were at that season 1500 within this land he was bishop of saint Dauids and confessor to king Henrie the fift about the fift yeare of whose reigne he deceassed Robert Mascall a Carmelite frier of Ludlow confessor also to the said K. who made him bishop of Hereford Reginald Langham a frier minor of Norwich Actonus Dominicanus Thomas Palmer warden of the Blacke friers within the citie of London Boston of Burie a monke of the abbeie of Burie in Suffolke wrote a catalog of all the writers of the church and other treatises Moreouer Thomas Peuerell a frier Carmelite borne in Suffolke he was aduanced to the see of Ossorie in Ireland by Richard the second and after by pope Boniface the ninth remooued to Landaffe in Wales and from thence called by Henrie the fourth with consent of pope Gregorie the twelfe to gouerne the sée of Worcester and so continued bishop of that citie vntill he ended his life in the yeare of our Lord 1418 which was about the sixt yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the fift Iohn Purueâ—e an excellent diuine procéeded master of art in Oxenford he was apprehended for such doctrine as he taught contrarie to the ordinances of the church of Rome and was at length compelled by Thomas Arundell archbishop of Canturburie to recant at Paules crosse seuen speciall articles he wrote diuerse treatises was the second time committed to prison in king Henrie the fift his daies by Henrie Chichleie that succeeded Arundell in gouernement of the church of Canturburie William Holme a greie frier and a good physician for curing diseases of the bodie whatsoeuer his physicke was for the soule he liued vntill Henrie the fift his daies and deceassed about the fourth yeare of his reigne Nicholas Baiard a blacke frier a doctor of diuinitie professed at Oxenford Thomas Rudburne archdeacon of Sudburie and bishop of saint Dauids in Wales succéeding after Stephan Patrington he wrote a chronicle and certeine epistles as Iohn Bale noteth Finallie and to conclude Nicholas Riston who being sore greeued in mind as diuerse other in those daies to consider what inconuenience redounded to the church by reason of the strife and bralling among the prelats for the acknowleging of a lawfull pope two or thrée still contending for that dignitie wrote a booke intituled De tollendo schismate Iohn Walter an excellent mathematician being first brought vp of a scholer in the college of Winchester and after studied at Oxenford Thomas of Newmarket taking that surname of the towne in Cambridgeshire where he was borne he for his worthinesse as was thought was made bishop of Careleill well séene both in other sciences and also in diuinitie William Auger a Franciscane frier of an house of that order in Bridgewater Peter Russell a graie frier and of his order the prouinciall héere in England Iohn Langton a Carmelite Robert Wanâ—ham a moonke of Cernelie in Dorsetshire wrote a booke in verse of the originall and signification of words William Norton a Franciscane frier of Couentrie Hugh Sueth a blacke frier and a great preacher Richard Folsham a moonke of Norwich Robert Wimbeldon a singular diuine and an excellent preacher as appeareth by the sermon which he made vpon this text Redde rationem villicationis tuae Thus farre Henrie Plantagenet sonne to Iohn of Gaunt duke of Lancaster Henrie the fift prince of Wales sonne and heire to Henrie the fourth HEnrie prince of Wales son and heire to K. Henrie the fourth borne in Wales at Monmouth on the riuer of Wie after his father was departed tooke vpon him the regiment of this realme of England the twentith of March the morrow after proclamed king by the name of Henrie the fift in line 10 the yeare of the world 5375 after the birth of our sauiour by our account 1413 the third of the emperor Sigismund the thrée and thirtith of Charles the sixt French king and in the seuenth yeare of gouernance in Scotland vnder Robert brother to him that before entrance into his kingdome 1390 had Iohn to name which by deuise and order of the states was changed into Robert the third who at Rotsaie a towne in the Iland of Got 1406 deceassed by occasion thus As vpon hope in this gouernor to himselfe line 20 conceiued how to come to the crowne he at the castell of Falkland latelie had famisht his coosine Dauid the kings elder sonne and heire a dissolute yoong prince yet to his fathers excéeding sorrow at whose deceasse the father verie carefull and casting for the safegard of Iames his yoonger son and heire from Basse the rocke in a well appointed ship vnder charge of Henrie Saintcleere earle of Orkeneie into France to his old fréend king Charles for good education and safetie this yoong prince he sent who in the line 30 course whether for tempest or tendernes of stomach tooke
harme or diminution in person estate worship or goods but if they know anie such thing for to be cast or imagined against vs they shall let it line 60 to their power they shall doone vs to weeten thereof as hastilie as they maie by themselfe by message or by letters 17 Also that all maner of conquests that should be made by vs in France vpon the said inobedients out of the duchie of Normandie shall be doone to the profit of our said father and that to our power we shall doo that all maner of lands and lordships that béene in the places so for to be conquered longing to persons obeieng to our foresaid father which shall sweare for to kéepe this present accord shall be restored to the same persons to whom they long to 18 Also that all manner of persons of the holie church beneficed in the duchie of Normandie or any other places in the realme of France subiect to our father and fauouring the partie of the dukes of Burgognie which shall sweare to kéepe this present accord shall inioy peaceablie their benefices of holie church in the duchie of Normandie or in other places next aforesaid 19 Also likewise all maner of persons of holie church obedient to vs and beneficed in the realme of France and places subiect to our father that shall sweare to keepe this present accord shall inioy peaceablie their benefices of holie church in places next abouesaid 20 Also that all maner of churches vniuersities and studies generall and all colleges of studies and other colleges of holie church being in places now or in time comming subiect to our father or in the duchie of Normandie or other places in the realme of France subiect to vs shall inioy their rights and possessions rents prerogatiues liberties franchises longing or due to them in any maner of wise in the said relme of France sauing the right of the crowne of France and euerie other person 21 Also by Gods helpe when it happeneth vs to come to the crowne of France the duchie of Normandie and all other places conquered by vs in the realme of France shall bow vnder the commandement obeisance and monarchie of the crowne of France 22 Also that we shall force vs doo to our power that recompense be made by our said father without diminution of the crowne of France to persons obeieng to him and fauoring to that partie that is said Burgognie to whom longeth lands lordships rents or possessions in the said duchie of Normandie or other places in the realme of France conquered by vs hither toward giuen by vs in places and lands gotten or to be gotten and ouercome in the name of our said father vpon rebels and inobedients to him And if so be that such maner of recompense be not made to the said persons by the life of our said father we shall make that recompense in such maner and places of goods when it happeneth by Godsgrace to the crowne of France And if so be that the lands lordships rents or possessions the which longeth to such maner of persons in the said duchie and places be not giuen by vs the same persons shall be restored to them without any delaie 23 And during the life of our father in all places now or in time comming subiect to him letters of common iustice and also grants of offices and gifts pardons or remissions and priuileges shall be written and proceed vnder the name and seale of our said father And for somuch as some singular case maie fall that maie not be foreséene by mans wit in the which it might be necessarie and behoouefull that we doo write our letters in such maner case if any hap for the good and suertie of our father and for the gouernance that longeth to vs as is beforesaid and for to eschewen perils that otherwise might fall to the preiudice of our said father to write our letters by the which we shall command charge and defend after the nature and qualitie of the néed in our fathers behalfe and ours as regent of France 24 Also that during our fathers life we shall not call nor write vs king of France but verelie we shall absteine vs from that name as long as our father liueth 25 Also that our said father during his life shall name call and write vs in French in this maner Nostre treschier filz Henry roy d' Engleterre heretere de France And in Latine in this maner Praeclarissimus filius noster Henricus rex Angliae haeres Franciae 26 Also that we shall put none impositions or exactions or doo charge the subiects of our said father without cause reasonable and necessarie ne otherwise than for common good of the realme of France and after the saieng and asking of the lawes and customes reasonable approoued of the same realme 27 Also that we shall trauell to our power to the effect and intent that by the assent of the thrée estates of either of the realmes of France and England that all maner of obstacles maie be doone awaie and in this partie that it be ordeined and prouided that from the time that we or any of our heires come to line 10 the crowne of France both the crownes that is to saie of France and England perpetuallie be togither in one in the same person that is to saie from our fathers life to vs and from the tearme of our life thenceforward in the persons of our heires that shall be one after an other and that both realms shall be gouerned from that we or any of our heires come to the same not seuerallie vnder diuerse kings in one time but vnder the same person which for the time shall be king of both realms and our souereigne line 20 lord as it is before said kéeping neuerthelesse in all maner of other things to either of the same realmes their rights liberties customes vsages and lawes not making subiect in any maner of wise one of the same realmes to the rights lawes or vsages of that other 28 Also that thenceforward perpetuallie shall be still rest and that in all maner of wise dissentions hates rancors enuies and wars betweene the same realmes of France and England and the people of line 30 the same realmes drawing to accord of the same peace may ceasse and be broken 29 Also that there shall be from henceforward for euermore peace and tranquillitie good accord and common affection and stable friendship betwéene the said realmes and their subiects before said The same realmes shall kéepe themselues with their councell helps and common assistance against all maner of men that inforce them for to dooen or to imagine wrongs harmes displeasures or grieuances to line 40 them or either of them And they shall be conuersant and merchandizen fréelie and suerlie togither paieng the custome due and accustomed And they shall be conuersant also that all the confederats and alies of our said father and the realme
Scots receiued the towne and castell to the behoofe of his souereigne lord the king of England who during all the time of the siege laie at Moraumall The townesmen that would remaine still in their houses were sworne to be true subiects to the king and the other which refused departed with the souldiers The Englishman that was excepted was deliuered according to the couenants and after executed as he had deserued The earle of Worcester was made capteine of Dreux and sir Henrie Mortimer bailiffe there This doone the king hearing that the Dolphin should be at Baugencie assembling his power hasted thitherwards but at his comming into those parties he found no appearance of enimies in the field and so he remained there fiftéene daies In which meane while the earle of Suffolke was sent foorth to discouer the countrie and the king wan by assault the towne of Baugencie and after when vittels began to faile he marched forward meaning to pursue the Dolphin But the Dolphin douting the English puissance conueied all the vittels foorth of those quarters and retired himselfe to Burges in Berrie choosing that place as his first refuge therefore determined there to remaine till fortune turning hir whéele shuld looke on them with a more fauorable countenance hereof in scorne was he commonlie called king of Berrie The king of England followed till vittels and forrage began â—ore to faile on all sides and then returning passed towards Orleance taking the castell of Rouge Mont by assault He staied thrée daies before Orleance and from thence for want of vittels marched through Gastinois till he came to Uignie sur Yonne where he remained line 10 for a season to refresh his people that were sore trauelled in that painefull passed iournie in which the king lost not onelie manie of his men for lacke of vittels but also a great number of horsses and carriages Some haue written that about the same time he should win the citie of Sens otherwise called the kings new towne by surrender but after he had remained for a time at Uignie we find that he remoued to Paris where he was honorablie receiued ¶ For he came among them as one hauing line 20 empire and dominion in his hand so that to him they were no lesse forward in submission for feare of his indignation than readie to giue him all the interteinement that they could deuise for the keeping of his fauour the lacke whereof they knew stood with the hazard of their safetie as the contrarie tended to their welfare Shortlie after considering with himselfe that the towne of Meaux in Brie being replenished with enimies was not to be suffered to remaine in that line 30 state in the middes of his new gotten subiects he determined to take awaie the open scruple that might poison and infect the members dwelling hard by wherefore with a great number of earles and barons in his companie he came to besiege it This towne was no lesse well vittelled than manned and no better manned than fortified so that the king could neither haue it to him deliuered at his pleasure nor gaine it by assault without the great losse of his people yet neuerthelesse he determined not to depart line 40 till he had got it by one meane or other The riuer of Marne diuided this towne into two parts so that there was no enterie from the one into the other but by a bridge raised vp and made ouer the riuer susteined with manie arches The one part is called the citie and the other la March being the strongest and best fortified The king first lodged a mile off in a castell and sent the duke of Excester to begin the siege which he did according to his instructions vpon the sixt of October line 50 Shortlie after the king himselfe came and lodged in the abbeie of Pharon the duke of Excester in the abbeie de Chage the earle of March at the greie friers and the earle of Warwike directlie against that part that is called la March They within defended themselues right valiantlie so that the Englishmen were not all at their ease but specialie through lacke of vittels manie died and manie fell sicke by reason whereof no small number returned home into England where in the meane time on the first of December line 60 a parlement was called and holden at Westminster by the duke of Bedford gouernour of the realme in the kings absence ¶ In this parlement a fifteenth was granted to the king towards the maintenance of the warres the one moitie to be paid at Candlemasse and the other at Martinmasse of such monie as at the time of the grant was currant This yeare at Windsore on the daie of saint Nicholas in December the quéene was deliuered of a sonne named Henrie whose godfathers were Iohn duke of Bedford and Henrie bishop of Winchester and Iaquet or as the Frenchmen called hir Iaqueline of Bauieâ— countesse of Holland was his godmother The king being certified hereof as he laie at siege before Meaux gaue God thanks in that it had pleased his diuine prouidence to send him a sonne which might succeed in his crowne and scepter But when he heard reported the place of his natiuitie were it that he warned by some prophesie or had some foreknowledge or else iudged himselfe of his sonnes fortune he said vnto the lord Fitz Hugh his trustie chamberleine these words My lord I Henrie borne at Monmouth shall small time reigne much get and Henrie borne at Windsore shall long reigne and all loose but as God will so be it The king held his Christmasse at the siege before Meaux for he would not giue ouer that siege although his armie was greatlie diminished by reason of lacke of vittels extreame cold foule weather and other discommodities that bred great store of diseases and sickenesse among his people notwithstanding all the helps and means that might be he deuised to remedie the same so that beside such as died as well of sickenesse as by the enimies hand manie returned home into their countries year 1422 But yet he ceassed not to continue the siege beating the walles with his ordinance and casting downe bulworkes and rampiers on ech side the towne made approches as well by water as land with mightie engines deuised of boords to defend the Englishmen as they approched the walles and gaue assaults The walles also were in diuerse places vndermined After this the Englishmen found meanes by bridges made of boats to passe the riuer but yet the souldiers and other within defended their rampiers and breaches most stoutlie and with guns and quarrels still shot at the Englishmen of whome they slue manie and among other the earle of Worcester was slaine with a bullet of the great artillerie the lord Clifford with a quarrell of a crossebow yet the Englishmen still wan ground and got neerer and neerer to the walles They also woone the chiefest
intent to take his most aduantage either by assault or otherwise was quickelie espied and with the shot of a canon a trumpetter line 30 which rode next before him and thrée horsses in his companie were slaine out of hand The lord of Croie and a conuenient number with him was appointed to besiege the castell of Guisnes where he got little profit and did lesse harme Moreouer for the better aduancing of his enterprise the duke minded to stop vp the hauen so that no succours should enter there Herevpon he caused foure great hulkes to be fraught with great square stones cemented and ioined line 40 togither with lead to the intent they should lie still like a mount and not seuer in sunder These ships with the residue of the dukes nauie were conueied into the mouth of Calis hauen and at a full sea by craft and policie were soonke downe to the ground But whether God would not that the hauen should be destroied either the conueiers of the hulkes knew not the verie chanell these foure great ships at the low water laie openlie vpon the sands without hurting the rode or chanell Which when the souldiers perceiued they issued out of the towne line 50 brake the ships and caried both the stones and timber into the towne An other deuise the duke had which was the building of a strong bastile vpon a little mountaine which he furnished with foure hundred men and much artillerie that did impeach the Englishmen from issuing foorth of the towne to their great displeasure Whilest these things were adooing there came to the duke an herald called Penbroke belonging to line 60 the duke of Glocester who declared to the duke of Burgognie that the protector of England his maister if God would send him wind weather would giue him battell either there or in anie other place within his owne countrie where he would appoint and that with spéed if God vouchsafed him wind and weather The duke answered the herald Sir saie to your maister that his chalenge is both honorable and reasonable howbeit he shall not néed to take the paines to séeke me in mine owne countrie for God willing he shall find me heere till I haue my will of the towne readie to abide him and all the power he can bring After the herald had receiued this answer he was highlie chéered and had a cup and an hundred guildens to him giuen in reward and so he returned to Calis After whose departure the duke called a councell in the chéefe pauilion of the Gantois about this message of the English herald where it was determined with great courage that they would abide the battell if the duke of Glocester came to offer it Whilest this great matter was in consultation the Calisians not well content with the bastile which the duke had newlie builded issued out of the towne in great number part on horssebacke and part on foot The footmen ran to assault the bastile and the horssemen went betwéene the armie the assailants to stop the aid and succours that might come Upon the sounding of the alarme the duke himselfe in person was comming on foot to reléeue his men but being kept backe a space by the English horssemen in that delaie of time the bastile was woone by fine force and eight score persons of those that kept it slaine beside the residue which were taken prisoners and led to Calis with all the ordinance and artillerie to the high displeasure of the duke and his prudent councell The next daie after there sprang a rumor in the armie no man could tell how that the duke of Glocester with a great puissance was alreadie imbarked and would arriue at the next tide The same night the duke fled awaie and sent in all hast to the lord of Croie to raise his siege before Guisnes which tidings were to him verie ioious for he neither got nor saued So these two capteins departed leauing behind them both ordinance vittels great riches ¶ The French writers to saue the honor of the duke of Burgognie saie that there was a certeine discord and commotion amongst the Flemings and Duch nation affirming that the great lords and the Picards whome the Frenchmen greatlie extoll would betraie and sell the Flemings and their freends and that for the same cause in a great furie they cried Home home and would not tarrie for anie request that the duke could make and so by their misgouernance the duke was inforced to raise his siege and to depart The Flemish authors affirme the contrarie saieng that they were readie to abide the comming of the duke of Glocester but the duke of Burgognie fearing to be intrapped betwéene the English armie without and the garrison within the towne of Calis fled awaie in the night giuing to them no warning thereof before so that for lacke of time and conuenient space to lade and carrie their stuffe and being commanded vpon the sudden to dislodge with all spéed they left behind them their vittels tents and other things to their great losse and detriment Howsoeuer the matter was the truth is that he fled the six and twentith daie of Iulie in the night And the next daie in the morning the duke of Glocester landed in Calis hauen streight went into the campe where his enimies the night before were lodged and there he found manie faire peeces of ordinance and speciallie one called Digeon so named after the cheefe towne of Burgognie beside pauilions wine beere meale and innumerable vittels The duke of Glocester séeing his enimies reculed hauing in his companie fiue and twentie thousand men entered into Flanders burning houses killing such as made resistance destroieng the countrie on euerie part setting fire in the townes of Poperinch Bailleull and others Also they wasted the suburbes of diuerse closed townes and after passed by Newcastell Rimesture and Ualon chapell and then entering into Artois they came to Arques and Blandesques setting fire in euerie part where they came Thus they passed by saint Omers and finallie by Arde returned to Guisnes and so to Calis at the six wéeks end with great booties of cattell and riches In all this their iournie they had but small store of bread which caused much faintnesse and diuerse diseases in the armie whereof a greater number died than did of the enimies sword and yet the Flemings write that they of Bruges distressed to the number of two thousand Englishmen in this iournie â—â—â— Howbeit the French writers affirme that the Englishmen lost more of their companie in the marches about Ard than they did in all other places where they had béene before hauing passed through the parties line 10 of Flanders without incounter or any damage doone to them by the enimies After that the duke of Glocester returned into England where he was aduertised that Iames king of Scots had besieged the castell of Rockesburgh with thirtie thousand men but the
some other the like attempt they seâ—t thither sir William Woodâ—â—â—â— with eight hundred men to strengthen the frontiers and further set foorth a proclamation that all men which would transport anie corne chéese or other vittels thither should paie no maner of custome or tallage which 〈◊〉 caused the countrie of Aquitaine to be well furnished of all things necessarie About this season Iohn the valiant lord Talbot for his approued prowesse and wisdome aswell in England as in France both in peace warre so well tried was â—reated earle of Shâ—ewesburie and with a companie of three thousand men sent agaâ—ne into Normandie for the better defâ—nse of the same * This yéere died Lodowâ—ke 〈◊〉 â—ewes Lischburne bishop of Elie being the fiue anâ— twentith that inâ—oied that place year 1443 who came to the samâ— after this maner After the death of Philip Morgan bishop of that sée the moonks of Elie chose for their pastor Robert â—â—tz Hugh bishop of London but he dieng at saint Oâ—ees before his confirmation neuer possessed the honour thereof Wherevpon the king directed his letters to the couent of Elie to make election of Thomas Rudburne bishop of S. Dauids in Wales for their bishop But they contrarie therevnto taking it now for a custome hauing so often vsed it before as did well appeare made choise of Thomas Bourchier borne of a noble house sonne to the countesse of Stafford chancellor of Oxenford and bishop of Worcester to succeed Philip Morgan Which Bourchier the king offended with the moonkes for the little regard had to his request vtterlie refused and would not admit him vnto that place Wherevpon there were buls procured from Eugenius the fourth then bishop of Rome which were sent into England to confirme the election of the said Bourchier But he wiselie fearing to fall into the dangerous statute of Premumre durst not receiue or execute the tenor of the popes commandement By reason whereof least the see might otherwise remaine void if speedie remedie were not prouided the king did in commendam bestow the bishoprike of Elie vpon this Lodowike Lischburne archbishop of Rone by office Card. 4. Coronat Cancellar Franciae Normanniae and kinsman to the said king Which doone Eugenius when he saw no other remedie did reuoke his buls made before to Thomas Bourchier in the yeare of Christ 1437. This Lodowike remaining bishop six yeares and so manie moneths died in the yeare as before the eighteenth of September at his manor of Hatfield whose bowels were buried in the said church his hart was caried to Rone and there honourablie intoomed and his bodie was committed to the earth in the church of Elie betweene two marble pillors next to the altar of the relikes In this yeare died in Guien the countesse of Comings to whome the French king and also the earle of Arminacke pretended to be heire in so much that the earle entred into all the lands of the said ladie And bicause he knew the French king would not take the matteâ— well to haue a Rouland for an Oâ—â—uer he sent solemne ambassadours to the king of England offering him his daughter in mariage with promise to be bound beside great summes of monie which he would giue with hir to deliuer into the king of Englands hands all such castels and townes as he or his ancestors deteined from him within anie part of the duchie of Aquitaine either by conquest of his progenitors or by gift and deliuerie of anie French king and further to aid the same king with monie for the recouerie of other cities within the same duchie from the French king or from anie other person that against king Henrie vniustlie kept and wrongfullie withholden them This offer séemed so profitable and also honorable to king Henrie and the realme that the ambassadours were well heard honourable receiued and with rewards sent home into their countrie After whome were sent for the conclusion of the marriage into Guien sir Edward Hull sir Robert Ros and Iohn Gralton deane of S. Seuerines the which as all the chronographers agrée both concluded the mariage and by proxie affied the yoong ladie The French line 10 king not a little offended herewith sent his â—ldest sonne Lewes the Dolphin of Uienne into Rouergue with a puissant armie which tooke the earle and his yoongest sonne with both his daughters and by force obteined the countries of Arminacke Louuergne Rouergue and Moulessonois beside the cities Seuerac Cadâ—ac chasing the bastard of Arminacke out of his countries and so by reason hereof the concluded mariage was deferred and that so long that it neuer tooke effect as hereafter it may appeare line 20 ¶ In this yeare was an act made by authoritie of the common councell of London that vpon the sundaie no maner of thing within the franchises and liberties of the said citie should be bought or sold neither vittels nor other thing It was also enacted by the same common councell with full consent and ratified by the authoritie of the law-makers that no artificer or handicrafts man should bring his wares commodities or worke vnto anie person or persons to be worne or occupied on that daie bicause it was line 30 iudged a foule prophanation thereof And peoples minds giuen to couetousnesse make no exception of times or places in a case of aduantage and gaine In consideration whereof and for the suppressing of this abuse this law was ordeined and made the force whereof did principallie extend to tailors and shoomakers who as on that daie bring home their garments and shoos to the parties for whome they are made and likewise to all other occupations and trades But this ordinance saith mine author was line 40 too good for so bad an age and therefore died within a short time after the magistrate had giuen it life ¶ On Candlemasse éeue this yeere by lightning in a tempest that fell with claps of thunder at afternoone Paules steeple was set on fier in the middest of the speare or shaft in the verie timber worke which was quenched by the painfulnesse of diuerse persons and specialie by the diligent labour of a préest of Bow in Cheape Howbeit the same was thought vnpossible to be quenched but that the grace of God was line 50 chéefe worker in the same This stéeple hath diuerse times beene ouerthrowne and defaced partlie by winds and partlie by lightning as may be obserued in the reading of this volume yea when the same hath béene repared by the choisest workemen and of the substantiallest stuffe and all meanes that stood with the déepe deuise of man vsed to make it so sure that it might continue as a monument of perpetuitie for posteritie to woonder at and admire But to returne to the historie line 60 Whilest England was vnquieted as you haue heard and France by spoile slaughter and burning sore defaced a mischeefe in all places much lamented therefore to agrée the two puissant
to Iohn duke of Summerset which ladie was afterward moother to king Henrie the seauenth and besides that caused the king to line 50 create Iohn de Fois sonne vnto Gaston de Fois earle of Longuile and the Capdau de Beufe earle of Kendall which Iohn had married his néece and by his procurement the king elected to the order of the garter the said Gaston and Iohn his sonne giuing to the sonne towards the maintenance of his degrée lands and castels amounting to the summs of one thousand pounds which lands name and stile the issue and line of the said earle of Kendall at this daie haue and inioy line 60 These things being thus in dooing the French king seeing that the towne of Mans was not deliuered according to the appointment taken by force of the marriage raised an armie for to recouer the same Whereof the king of England being aduertised least the breach of the truce should come by him caused the towne to be deliuered without anie force This yeare was a great commotion in Norwich against the prior of the place At length the citizens opened the gates to the duke of Norffolke who came thither to appease the matter though at the first they would not suffer him to enter The chéefe offendors were according to their demerits gréeuouslie punished and executed and the maior was discharged of his office and sir Iohn Clifton was made gouernour there vntill the king had restored the citizens to their ancient liberties This commotion was begun for certeine new exactions which the prior claimed and tooke of the citizens contrarie to their ancient fréedome But herein a wrong taken for getting of right was worthilie corrected ¶ In the foure and twentith yeare of this kings reigne the prior of Kilmaine appeached the earle of Ormond of treason For triall whereof the place of combat was assigned in Smithfield the barriers for the same there readie pitcht Howbeit in the meane time a doctor of diuinitie named maister Gilbert Worthington parson of saint Andrews in Holborne and other honest men made such sute with diligent labour and paines-taking to the kings councell that when the daie of combat approched the quarell was taken into the kings hands and there ended ¶ In the same yeare also a certeine armourer was appeached of treason by a seruant of his owne For proofe whereof a daie was giuen them to fight in Smithfield insomuch that in conflict the said armourer was ouercome and slaine but yet by misgouerning of himselfe For on the morow when he should come to the field fresh and fasting his neighbours came to him and gaue him wine and strong drinke in such excessiue sort that he was therewith distempered and réeled as he went and so was slaine without guilt As for the false seruant he liued not long vnpunished for being conuict of felonie in court of assise he was iudged to be hanged and so was at Tiburne Whilest the warres betwéene the two nations of England France ceassed by occasion of the truce the minds of men were not so quiet but that such as were bent to malicious reuenge sought to compasse their prepensed purpose not against forren foes and enimies of their countrie but against their owne countrie men and those that had deserued verie well of the common-wealth and this speciallie for ouermuch mildnesse in the king who by his authoritie might haue ruled both parts and ordered all differences betwixt them but that in déed he was thought too soft for gouernor of a kingdome The quéene contrariwise a ladie of great wit and no lesse courage desirous of honour and furnished with the gifts of reason policie and wisedome but yet sometime according to hir kind when she had béene fullie bent on a matter suddenlie like a weather cocke mutable and turning This ladie disdaining that hir husband should be ruled rather than rule could not abide that the duke of Glocester should doo all things concerning the order of weightie affaires least it might be said that she had neither wit nor stomach which would permit and suffer hir husband being of most perfect age like a yoong pupill to be gouerned by the direction of an other man Although this toy entered first into hir braine thorough hir owne imagination yet was she pricked forward to the matter both by such of hir husbands counsell as of long time had borne malice to the duke for his plainnesse vsed in declaring their vntruth as partlie ye haue heard and also by counsell from king Reiner hir father aduising that she and the king should take vpon them the rule of the realme and not to be kept vnder as wards and mastered orphanes What néedeth manie words The quéene persuaded by these meanes first of all excluded the duke of Glocester from all rule and gouernance not prohibiting such as she knew to be his mortall foes to inuent and imagine causes and gréefs against him and his insomuch that by hir procurement diuerse noble men conspired against him Of the which diuerse writers affirme the marquesse of Suffolke and the duke of Buckingham to be the chéefe not vnprocured by the cardinall of Winchester and the archbishop of Yorke Diuerse articles were laid against him in open councell and in especiallie one That he had caused men adiudged to die to be put to other execution than the law of the land assigned Suerlie the duke verie well learned in the law ciuill detesting malefactors and punishing offenses in seueritie of iustice gat him hatred of such as feared condigne reward line 10 for their wicked dooings And although the duke sufficientlie answered to all things against him obiected yet because his death was determined his wisedome and innocencie nothing auailed But to auoid danger of tumult that might be raised if a prince so well beloued of the people should be openlie executed his enimies determined to worke their feats in his destruction yer he should haue anie warning For effecting whereof a parlement was summoned to be kept at Berrie year 1447 whither resorted all line 20 the péeres of the realme and amongst them the duke of Glocester which on the second daie of the session was by the lord Beaumont then high constable of England accompanied with the duke of Buckingham and others arrested apprehended and put in ward and all his seruants sequestred from him and thirtie two of the chéefe of his retinue were sent to diuerse prisons to the great admiration of the people The duke the night after he was thus committed to prison being the foure and twentith of Februarie line 30 was found dead in his bed and his bodie shewed to the lords and commons as though he had died of a palsie or of an imposteme But all indifferent persons as saith Hall might well vnderstand that he died of some violent death Some iudged him to be strangled some affirme that an hot spit was put in at his fundament
the readers it is necessarie to set downe the articles of the commons complaints touching the premisses line 10 whereof a copie was sent to the parlement then holden at Westminster with their bill of requests concerning abuses to be reformed The complaint of the commons of Kent and causes of their assemblie on the Blackheath line 1 INprimis it is openlie noised that Kent line 20 should be destroied with a roiall power made a wild forrest for the death of the â—uke of Suffolke of which the commons of â—ent thereof were neuer giltie 2 Item the king is stirred to liue onelie on his commons and other men to haue the reuenues of the crowne the which hath caused pouertie in his excellencie and great paiments of the people now late to the king granted in his parlement 3 Item that the lords of his roiall bloud beene line 30 put from his dailie presence and other meane persons of lower nature exalted and made chéefe of his priuie councell the which stoppeth matters of wrongs done in the realme from his excellent audience and maie not be redressed as law will but if bribes and gifts be messengers to the hands of the said councell 4 Item the people of this realme be not paid of debts owing for stuffe and purueiance taken to the vse of the kings houshold in vndooing of the said people line 40 and the poore commons of the realme 5 Item the kings meniall seruants of houshold and other persons asken dailie goods and lands of impeached or indicted of treason the which the king granteth anon yer they so indangered be conuicted The which causeth the receiuers thereof to inforge labours and meanes applied to the death of such people so appeached or indicted by subtill meanes for couetise of the said grants and the people so impeached or indicted though it be vntrue maie not be committed line 50 to the law for their deliuerance but held still in prison to their vttermost vndooing destruction for couetise of goods 6 Item though diuerse of the poore people and commons of the realme haue neuer so great right truth and perfect title to their land yet by vntrue claime of infeoffement made vnto diuerse states gentles and the kings meniall seruants in maintenances against the right the true owners dare not hold claime nor pursue their right line 60 7 Item it is noised by common voices that the kings lands in France béene aliened and put awaie from the crowne and his lords and people there destroied with vntrue meanes of treason of which it is desired inquiries thorough all the realme to be made how and by whome if such traitors maie be found giltie them to haue execution of law without anie pardon in example of others 8 Item collectors of the fiftéenth penie in Kent be greatlie vexed and hurt in paieng great summes of monie in the excheker to sue out a writ called Quorum nomina for the alowance of the barons of the ports which now is desired that hereafter in the lieu of the collectors the barons aforesaid maie sue it out for their ease at their owne costs 9 Item the shiriffes and vndershiriffes let to farme their offices and bailiwickes taking great suertie therefore the which causeth extortions doone by them and by their bailiffes to the people 10 Item simple and poore people that vse not hunting be greatlie oppressed by indictements feined doone by the said shiriffes vndershiriffes bailiffes and other of their assent to cause their increase for paieng of their said farme 11 Item they returne in names of inquests in writing into diuerse courts of the king not summoned nor warned where through the people dailie léese great summes of monie well nigh to the vttermost of their vndooing and make leuie of amercements called the gréene wax more in summes of monie than can be found due of record in the kings books 12 Item the ministers of the court of Douer in Kent vex and arrest diuerse people thorough all the shire out of Castle ward passing their bounds and libertie vsed of old time by diuerse subtill and vntrue meanes and actions falselie feined taking great fées at their lust in great hurt of the people on all the shire of Kent 13 Item the people of the said shire of Kent maie not haue their frée election in the choosing of knights of the shire but letters béene sent from diuerse estates to the great rulers of all the countrie the which imbraceth their tenants and other people by force to choose other persons than the coÌ„mons will is 14 Item whereas knights of the shire should choose the kings collectors indifferentlie without any bribe taking they haue sent now late to diuerse persons notifieng them to be collectors wherevpon gifts and bribes be taken so the collectors office is bought and sold extortionouslie at the knights lust 15 Item the people be sore vexed in costs and labour called to the sessions of peace in the said shire appearing from the furthest and vttermost part of the west vnto the east the which causeth to some men fiue daies iournie wherevpon they desire the said appearance to be diuided into two parts the which one part to appeare in one place an other part in an other place in reléeuing of the gréeuances and intollerable labours vexations of the said people The requests by the capteine of the great assemblie in Kent INprimis desireth the capteine of the â—ommons the welfare of our souereigne â—ord the king and all his true lords spiriâ—uall and temporall desiring of our said souereigne lord and of all the true lords of his councell he to take in all his demaines that he maie reigne like a king roiall according as he is borne our true and christian king annointed and who so will saie the contrarie we all will liue and die in the quarell as his true liege men Item desireth the said capteine that he will auoid all the false progenie and affinitie of the duke of Suffolke the which beene openlie knowne and they to be punished after the custome and law of this land and to take about his noble person the true lords of his roiall bloud of this his realme that is to saie the high and mightie prince the duke of Yorke late exiled from our said souereigne lords presence by the motion and stirring of the traitorous and false disposed the duke of Suffolke and his affinitie and the mightie princes dukes of Excester Buckingham and Norffolke and all the earles and barons of this land and then shall he be the richest king christian Item desireth the said capteine and commons punishment vnto the false traitors the which contriued and imagined the death of the high mightfull and excellent prince the duke of Glocester the which is too much to rehearse the which duke was proclamed as traitor Upon the which quarell we purpose all to liue and die vpon that that it is false Item the duke of Excester our
saint Albons In this parlement also the duke of Yorke was made protector of the realme and the earle of Salisburie was appointed to be lord chancellour and had the great seale to him deliuered and the earle of Warwike was elected to the office of the capteineship of Calis and the territories of the same and thus the rule of the realme rested in the orders of the duke and chancellour and all warlike affaires remained principallie in the earle of Warwike And so amongest them it was agréed that king Henrie should reigne still in name and dignitie but neither in déed nor in authoritie not minding to destroie him least they might suddenlie prouoke the furie of the common people against them bicause that of the simple sort of people he was for his holinesse of life and abundant clemencie much fauoured and highlie estéemed In this parlement also it was enacted that the king should resume take into his hands againe haue and reteine into his possession all honours castels lordships townes villages manours lands tenements wasts forests chases rents reuersions fées farmes seruices issues profits counties aduousons of priories churches hospitals and free chapels and all other reuenues with their appurtenances the which had passed from him since the first daie of his reigne vnto that present either by his letters patents or authoritie of parlement and manie other meanes whether by grant confirmation or release from him made in fée simple or fée taile for tearme of life or yeares to anie maner of person and persons in England Wales Scotland or the marches in Ireland or in the townes of Calis Guisnes the marches there And likewise all grants made of such things as are aboue mentioned being parcell of the duchie of Lancaster and further all grants of offices roomes fees wages or commodities not accustomed to belong to anie office or charge before the said first daie of the kings reigne were likewise reuoked Diuerse other things were also conteined within this reuocation and generall resumption with certeine exceptions yet and prouisoes had as were thought conuenient and as by the same act it dooth appeare Moreouer now that the duke of Yorke and his adherents had wrested the whole rule gouernement into their hands all such persons as the king either loued or the quéene fauoured were put beside the priuie councell and such put in their places as were knowne to fauour the house of Yorke Also the officers were changed thoroughout the realme at the will and disposition of the protector chancellour and capteine of Calis so that they constituted as it were a triumuirat ruling all things at discretion of these thrée And yet in all their rule I find not that anie mention is made of their deferring of iustice or of anie polling or briberie as was openlie prooued by such as gouerned before their time Onlie they were noted of diuerse spirituall persons and namelie of the abbat of Westminster and his moonks for a great offense bicause they tooke out of the sanctuarie at Westminster Iohn Holland duke of Excester all against the order taken in the last parlement and sent him to the castell of Pomfret But now the lord Henrie Beauford newlie duke of Summerset by the death of duke Edmund his father slaine at the battell of saint Albons as aboue is rehearsed and Humfrie duke of Buckingham who then there lost his sonne and heire and other of estate taking the part of king Henrie whose case line 10 they did much bewaile doubt as perceiuing whereto the courtesie of the duke of Yorke did draw they therefore thinking it necessarie to purueie for a remedie yer the mischeefe happened consulted with the quéene By whose aduise was a great councell called at Gréenewich where the duke of Yorke was discharged of his protectorship the earle of Salisburie depriued also of his office ¶ This sudden change amongst the nobilitie caused alterations and seditious attempts in the commonaltie and in especiall line 20 within London whereof this was one A yoong merchant year 1456 which before time had béene in diuerse cities of Italie and there forbidden by the magistrats as the law and maner is to weare anie weapon now challenged an Italian in Cheapside for wearing a dagger telling him it was against his owne countrie lawes whereto bicause the Italian answered somewhat disdainefullie the merchant not onelie tooke by force from him his dagger but also with the same brake his pate line 30 This Italian in great hast complained to the maior so that at the next court holden at the Guildhall the merchant was sent for and vpon charge of his offense he was commanded to ward Wherevpon diuerse other light persons within the citie assembled togither in great plumps by force constreined the maior to deliuer the prisoner out of Newgate and not so satisfied like mad men ran to the seuerall houses of diuerse Uenetians Lucases and Florentins and them spoiled robbed and rifled without reason line 40 or measure The maior perceiuing this enormious dooing assembled a number of substantiall and graue citizens who not without bloudshed and maiming of sundrie appeased the rage and caused the misruled people to depart to their houses The beginner of this vprore got him to Westminster and there registred himselfe for a sanctuarie man The quéene which now againe ruled all being aduertised of this vnlawfull misdemeanour sent the dukes of Excester and Buckingham with other line 50 noble men to London with a commission oier and terminer for the inquirie and punishment of so seditious an offense But when the maior the two dukes and the two cheefe iustices were set in the Guildhall vpon their commission intelligence was giuen that a number of light persons were approching in armor to rescue the prisoners apprehended for the late robberie and riot as they were caried to their arraignement The two dukes and the other commissioners quickelie thense departed and left their inquirie for line 60 that daie though in déed in no such danger as they doubted for certeine discréet and sage citizens so handled the matter that no misorder followed of that furie The maior on the next daie called a common councell whereof the number was an hundred fourescore and od who ordeined that all wardens of mysteries shuld assemble their companies in their halles where exhortation should be to the obseruation of peace and if they spied any man either readie to stirre a rumor or make to the deliuerance of such as were in prison their names should be secretlie written and so deliuered to the maior which policie well appeased this outrage Where vpon after the commissioners sat in Guildhall where manie of the robbers were attainted put to execution beside diuers great fines set on the heads of diuerse merchants paid for winking at the matter ¶ This yeare Iohn Kempe archbishop of Canturburie departed this life Thomas Burstlier bishop of Elie remooued to
inioied the flattering prosperitie of a king than afterwards to fall and neuer to recouer losse or ruine as is noted by the poet saieng Est melius nunquam felicia tempora nosse Quam post blanditias fortunae fata maligna Nec reparanda pati infortunia sortis iniquae ¶ In this yere 1483 died William Dudleie who by the translation of Laurence Booth bishop of Durham and chancellor of England from the sée of Durham to the citie of Yorke was made bishop of Durham in place of the said Laurence by the popes bulles For by vertue thereof Edward the fourth in the sixtéenth yeare of his reigne and in the yeare of Christ 1476 directed his letters patents to the knights and other free men of that bishoprike with all solemnitie to install the said William Dudleie borne of the honorable house of the lords Dudleies in the said bishoprike of Durham and to deliuer him quiet possession therof who was consecrated therevnto in the yeare of Christ 1477 in which he worthilie gouerned six yeares and died in this yeare as before Now of learned men that liued and wrote in the daies of this vsurper and his nephue king Edward the fift these we find recorded by Iohn Bale First Iohn Penketh an Augustine frier of Warington in Lancashire a right subtill fellow in disputation following the footsteps of his master Iohn Duns whome he chieflie studied he wrote diuers treatises and made that infamous sermon at Paules crosse in fauour of the duke of Glocester then protector to the disheriting of Edward the fift his lawfull king and gouernor Iohn Kent or Caileie borne in Southwales George Ripleie first a chanon of Bridlington and after a Carmelit frier in Boston a great mathematician rhetorician and poet Iohn Spine a Carmelit frier of Bristow that precéeded doctor of diuinitie in Cambridge and such like Thus farre Richard the vsurper vnnaturall vncle to Edward the fift and Richard duke of Yorke brethren Henrie the seauenth sonne to Edmund earle of Richmond which Edmund was brother by the moothers side to Henrie the sixt KIng Henrie hauing thus got the victorie at Bosworth and slaine his mortall enimie there in the field did send before his departure from Leicester sir Robert Willoughbâ—e knight to the manour of Sheriffehuton in the countie of Yorke for Edward Plantagenet earle of Warwike sonne and heire to George duke of Clarence line 10 then being of the age of fifteene yeares whome king Richard had kept there as prisoner during the time of his vsurped reigne Sir Robert Willoughbie receiuing the yoong earle of the constable of that castell conueied him to London wherâ— he was shut vp in the Tower for doubt least some vnquiet and euill disposed persons might inuent some occasion of new trouble by this yoong gentleman and therefore king Henrie thought good to haue him sure There was beside him in the castell of Sheriffehuton line 20 the ladie Elizabeth eldest daughter to king Edward the fourth whome king Richard as ye haue heard meant to haue married but God otherwise ordeined for hir and preserued hir from that vnlawfull copulation and incestuous bed Shortlie after she being accompanied with a great number as well of noblemen as honourable matrons was with good spéed conueied to London and brought to hir moother In the meane season king Henrie remooued forward by soft iournies towards London the people line 30 comming in from all sides to behold him and exceedinglie reioising at his presence as by their voices and gestures it well appeared At his approching néere to the citie the maior and his brethren with other worshipfull citizens being clothed in violet met him at Shordich and reuerentlie saluted him and so with great pompe and triumph he rode thorough the citie to the cathedrall church of S. Paule where he offered three standards In the one was the image of saint George in an other line 40 was a red fierie dragon beaten vpon white and greene sarcenet and in the third was painted a dun cow vpon yellow tarterne After his praiers said and Te Deum soong he departed to the bishops palace and there soiourned a season Anon aâ—ter he assembled togither the sage councellors of the realme in which councell like a prince of iust faith and true of promise to auoid all ciuill discord he appointed a daie to ioine in marriage with the ladie Elizabeth heire of the house of Yorke with his noble personage line 50 heire to the line of Lancaster Which thing not onelie reioised the hearts of the nobles and gentlemen of the realme but also gained the fauours and good wils of all the commons After this with great pompe he rowed vnto Westminster there the thirtith daie of October he was with all ceremonies accustomed annointed crowned king by the whole assent as well of the commons as of the nobilitie and called Henrie the seauenth of that name which was in the yeare of the world 5452 and after the birth of our Lord 1485 in the fortie and sixt yeare of Frederike the third then emperour of Almaine year 1485 Maximilian his sonne being newlie elected king of the Romans in the second yeare of Charles the eight then king of France and in the fiue and twentith of king Iames then ruling the realme of Scotland For the establishing of all things as well touching the preseruation of his owne estate as the commendable administration of iustice and preferrement of the common wealth of his realme he called his high court of parlement at Westminster the seauenth daie of Nouember wherein was atteinted Richard late duke of Glocester calling and naming himselfe by vsurpation king Richard the third Likewise there was atteinted as chéefe aiders and assistants to him in the battell at Bosworth aduanced against the present king Iohn late duke of Norfolke Thomas earle of Surrie Francis Louell knight vicount Louell Walter Deuereux knight late lord Ferrers Iohn lord Zouch Robert Harrington Richard Charleton Richard Ratcliffe William Berkeleie of Welete Robert Middleton Iames Harrington Robert Brakenberie Thomas Pilkington Walter Hopton William Catesbie Roger Wake William Sapcote of the countie of Huntington Humfrie Stafford William Clerke of Wenlocke Geffrie saint Germaine Richard Watkins herald of armes Richard Reuell of Derbishire Thomas Pulter of the countie of Kent Iohn Welsh otherwise called Hastings Iohn Kendall late secretarie to the said Richard late duke of Glocester Iohn Bucke Andrew Rat and William Brampton of Burford In which atteindor neuerthelesse there were diuerse clauses and prouisos for the benefit of their wiues and other persons that had or might claime anie right title or interest lawfullie vnto anie castels manours lordships townes towneships honours lands tenements rents seruices fée farmes annuities knights fees aduousons reuersions remainders and other hereditaments whereof the said persons atteinted were possessed or seized to the vses of such other persons with a speciall prouiso also that the said atteindor should not be
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
subscription vnder the picture of hir husband Francone or Francis was in this sort FRanciscus Dei gratia comes de Osteruant erfginocht in comitatibus Hollandiae Hannoniae Zelandiae Friselandiae dominus de Boursalia de Viorne Zuylen Hochstraten Kortkene de la Veer Flishing Zandenburge terrae Brilensis Sentmartinsdike quo loco fundauit coenobium canonicorum c regi Edwardo quarto fideliter assistebat necnon equestris ordinis diui Antonij Beside which also was this written in the Dutch toong Here vranck van Boselen graue van Osteruant starfe Anno Domini 1470. Thomas Beaufort duke of Excester appointed to that office by Henrie the fift on his death-bed was with Henrie Beaufort bishop of Winchester great vncle to king Henrie the sixt in the yéere of our redemption 1422 being the first yeere of the reigne of king Henrie the sixt then but nine months old made protector and gardian of the person of the yoong king to see him tenderlie and carefullie brought vp and instructed in all such parts as were to be required in the person of a monarch Which office he left about the fourth yeere of king Henrie the sixt and died on Newyéeres daie at his manor of Gréenwich in the said fift yéere of Henrie the sixt being the yeere of our redemption 1446 he married Margaret the daughter of Thomas Neuill of Hornesbie Richard Beauchampe earle of Warwike son of the former Thomas Beauchampe being beyond the seas and there deputie for Iohn duke of Bedford being regent of France did whilest the said regent was come ouer into England obteine manie castels in his deputieship who being thus imploied in the forren warres was in his absence out of his countrie for his singular wisdome and valor ordeined by the thrée estates of the realme of England in open parlement to be gouernor of the person of the yoong king Henrie the sixt in the place of Thomas Beaufort duke of Excester latelie deceased which Richard did not yet foorthwith hasten his returne into England but remained in France for a season inlarging the fame of his martiall exploits This his election to the protectorship of the kings person was in the fift yéere of Henrie the sixt being the yéere of our redemption 1426. He died in the yeere of our Lord 1439 being the seuentéenth yéere of the deposed king Henrie the sixt at Rone in Normandie the last daie of Maie as hath Iohn Stow and the fourth of October next following his corps was honorablie conueied as well by land as by water from Rone to Warwike and there honorablie buried in line 10 the college of our ladie church founded by his noble ancestors He maried two wiues the first Elisabeth daughter and heire of Thomas lord Barkleie by whome he had thrée daughters Margaret maried to Iohn lord Talbot earle of Shrewesburie Eleanor maried to Thomas lord Rosse and Elisabeth married to Gorge Neuill lord Latimer His second wife was Isabell the daughter and heire of Richard lord Spenser by whome he had issue Henrie duke of Warwike and Anne married to Richard Neuill line 20 earle of Salisburie Richard Plantagenet duke of Yorke sonne to Richard earle of Cambrige and father to Edward the fourth king of England notwithstanding that he made challenge to the crowne against Henrie the sixt then in possession thereof as heire to the house of Yorke and was to be preferred before the house of Lancaster and notwithstanding that he was by parlement appointed to weare the crowne after the death of Henrie the sixt yet after all this in the thrée line 30 and thirtith yeere of the same king being the yéere of our redemption 1455 such was the imperfection of the king to gouerne he was appointed protector of the realme ruling the same at his owne disposition Which office he did not long inioie and that most worthilie for the next yéere after being the foure and thirtith of king Henrie the sixt and the yeere of our redemption 1456 he was depriued from the same and queene Margaret wife to Henrie the sixt tooke againe the absolute regiment into hir line 40 hands which duke after in the nine and thirtith of king Henrie the sixt being the yéere of our redemption 1460 the thirtith daie of December being lord of Wakefield was there with his sonne the earle of Rutland slaine at the battell commonlie called the battell of Wakefield of which I haue read these verses in Whethamsted once abbat of saint Albons Anno milleno centum quater quoque seno Terdenóque die duodeno mense Decembre Infra Eboracensem nixta Wakefield comitatum line 50 Dux dominus villae fertur pugnans habuisse Conflictum grandem contra gentem borealem Ac proceres plures praeerant quae gentibus ipsis Quod docuit quia sors quod res fortuna secundas Vitat habere moras cecidit dux natus eius Ac comes insignis sors belli sors fuit ipsis Obuia sÃcque fatis regni fuerat breuis haeres Omen idlaetum tulerat mutamine meestum Deslendum multis ius regni ius fuit eius He maried Cicilie daughter to Rafe Neuill first line 60 earle of Westmerland by whome he had issue Edward duke of Yorke earle of March and after king of England by the name of Edward the fourth George Plantagenet duke of Clarence Richard Plantagenet duke of Glocester after king of England by the name of Richard the third thrée daughters Anne maried to Henrie Holland duke of Excester Elisabeth married to Iohn de la Poole duke of Suffolke and Margaret maried to Charles duke of Burgognie George Plantagenet duke of Clarence and conestable of England sonne of the foresaid duke of Yorke and brother to king Edward the fourth with Richard Neuill earle of Warwike who set vp and pulled downe kings at his pleasure were after the flight of Edward the fourth out of England into Burgognie to his brother in law in the tenth yeare of the reigne of the said king Edward being the yeare of our redemption 1470 when Henrie the sixt had by their means readepted the kingdome made gouernors of the land which office they inioied not long For the said Edward the fourth returning into England in the eleuenth yeare of his reigne being the yeare of our redemption 1471 reconciled to him the duke of Clarence did againe put downe king Henrie the sixt and slue the said earle of Warwike flieng awaie at Barnet field on Easter day by one of the men of his campe After this on the fiftéenth daie of Ianuarie began a parlement in the eightéenth yere of the reigne of king Edward the fourth being the yeare of our redemption 1478 where this duke of Clarence was atteinted of treason and the eleuenth of March following he ended his life in a but of malmeseie and was buried at Teukesburie beside his wife who being with child died by poison a little before him Of this man sée more in my discourse of
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
new fort where the valiant English souldiers shewed well the woonted valure of their woorthie ancestors giuing such an hardie onset vpon their aduersaries that greater manhood had not lightlie appeared in any incounter than was vsed by those martiall capteins and their warlike bands at that present to the high honor of their countrie insomuch that they beat backe their enimies slue and tooke of them to the number of foure hundred beside thirtie faire horsses and an ensigne which one Eastwike lieutenant to capteine Antwisell got Amongst the numbers of them that were slaine there were found aboue thirtie handsome gentlemen and verie well appointed To conclude the Englishmen behaued themselues so manfullie on each side that by plaine force of armes they droue the enimies quite out of the village after set it on fire bicause the enimies should not come to incampe therein as their purpose was to haue doone at that present The six and twentith of Maie the Frenchmen in number about thrée thousand horssemen and footmen came downe towards the windmils neere to the bulworke called saint Addresses against whom the English horsemen and footmen issued foorth of the towne giuing them a right hot skirmish which continued for the space of two houres insomuch that there were slaine of the French to the number of 200 beside an hundred and aboue that were hurt On the English side that daie were lost about a dozzen or thirtéene persons and amongst others was capteine Tremaine slaine and manie hurt To conclude the Englishmen like hardie and worthie souldiers wan and kept the field so as the Frenchmen in the end were driuen to retire and besides other losses which they receiued they had aboue fiftie of their horsses killed and hurt In this skirmish being one of the notablest that had béene lightlie séene manie a daie before capteine Horseie shewed woorthie proofe of his most valiant line 10 courage winning to himselfe such commemdation as the same will not be forgotten whilest anie shall remaine aliue that beheld his manfull dealings being such at that present as deserue to be registred in the booke of fame to continue with posteritie for euer On saturdaie the fift of Iune at seuen of the clocke at night the Reinsgraue hauing laid in the village of Lheure an ambush of six hundred horssemen and fiftéene hundred footmen there came downe also betwéene the abbeie and the village called Englefield line 20 towards the towne the number of a thousand footmen which began a verie hot skirmish first at the new fort comming euen hard to the ditches where the Englishmen manfullie incountered them Herewith also the Reinsgraue appointed other to come downe and approch the bulworks of saint Addresses saint Francis saint Michaell and to conclude round about the towne so that there were of them to the number of six thousand that were imploied in this skirmish which was mainteined right fercelie for the space of two hours with verie sharpe line 30 and cruell fight in the end the enimies were forced to giue place with the losse of fiue hundred of their men Almans Frenchmen Gascoignes and Spaniards The Englishmen verelie in this seruice shewed that they were nothing degenerat from the ancient race of their noble progenitors Besides those that were slaine on the French part amongst whom was one of their capteins of good account amongst them they tooke also Bassompeere an Almane coronell line 40 ouer ten ensignes of footmen The presence of the lord lieutenant was not wanting that daie both to incourage his worthie souldiers and also to sée them applied with weapon â—nd munition so as they should not be vnprouided of anie thing that was néedfull for seruice Of Englishmen there was hurt capteine Gilbert and capteine Pelham and about fiftéene other hurt and slaine The seuenth of Iune capteine Edward Dudleie arriued at Newhauen with an line 50 hundred souldiers The morrow after the first canon shot light within the towne of Newhauen néere to the bulworke of saint Addresses striking into the house where capteine Whéeler was lodged which shot being brought to my lord of Warwike by Blewmantell purseuant at armes his honor beholding it reioised thereat and said by Gods grace he would answer them againe The ninth of Iune arriued at Newhauen three capteins with their bands of an hundred a péece line 60 being of the garrison of Berwike to wit capteine Tremaine capteine Cornewall capteine Carew Edward Randoll also landed there the same daie appointed to be knight marshall For ye must vnderstand that sir Adrian Poinings being knight marshall vpon his returne into England was otherwise emploid and went not backe againe and then was sir Thomas Finch of Kent appointed to go ouer to supplie the roome of knight marshall who making his prouision readie sent ouer his brother Erasmus Finch to haue charge of his band and his kinsman Thomas Finch to be his prouost marshall whilest staieng till he had euerie thing in a readinesse to passe ouer himselfe At last he imbarked in one of the quéenes maiesties ships called the Greiehound hauing there aboord with him beside thréescore and six of his owne retinue fourtéene other gentlemen two of them being brethren to the lord Wentwoorth Iames Wentwoorth and Iohn Wentwoorth with diuerse others who in the whole accounting the mariners amounted vnto the number of 200 persons and vpward And as they were on the furthest coast toward Newhauen they were by contrarie wind and foule weather driuen backe toward the coast of England and plieng towards Rie they forced the capteine of the ship a verie cunning seaman named William Maline and also the maister and mariners to thrust into the hauen before the tide and so they all perished seuen of the meaner sort onlie excepted where of three died shortlie after they came to land The dead bodie of sir Thomas Finch amongst others was cast on shore being knowne was conueied home to his house and there buried in his parish church After this mischance and losse of that woorthie gentleman the said Edward Randoll was appointed knight marshall who ordeined a right sufficient personage capteine Iohn Shute to be his prouost marshall The fifteenth of Iune capteine Richard Sanders and capteine William Saule with their bands of an hundred souldiers a péece and capteine Drurie with two hundred arriued at Newhauen and the morrow after arriued capteine Roberts with another hundred of souldiers And on the seuenteenth of Iune being thursdaie sir Francis Knolles vicechamberleine of the quéenes maiesties house landed there béeing sent ouer by hir maiestie and hir councell to view the state of the towne On fridaie the eightéenth of Iune a sergeant of capteine Blunts band and a souldior of capteine Darcies band were executed in the market place of Newhauen for drawing their weapons against their capteins and forsaking their appointed places of warding
renounced forswore and abiured his opinions for erronious damnable promising neuer to returne line 50 to them and also willinglie to doo and performe all such penance as the bishop his ordinarie should inioine him The ninth of Nouember the said Peter Burchet was remoued from the Lollards tower to the tower of London where on the next morrow about noone whilest one that had kept him companie was gone downe and locked the doore after him leauing an other with him called Hugh Longworth who stood at the window reading in the bible the said Burchet line 60 walking vp and downe in the chamber tooke a billets end out of the fire and knocked the said Longworth on the head and left not till he had striken him starke dead for the which on the next morow he was arreigned condemned at Westminster and then returned to Summerset house where he remained that night and on the next morrow being the twelfe of Nouember he was brought to the gibet where after his right hand being striken off and nailed to the gibbet he was hanged nigh the place where hée wounded master Hawkins This yeare about Lammas wheat was sold at London for thrée shillings the bushell but shortlie after it was raised to foure shillings fiue shillings six shillings before Christmas to a noble and seuen shillings which so continued long after béefe was sold for twentie pence and two and twentie pence the stone and all other flesh and white meats at an excessiue price all kind of salt fish verie deare as fiue herings two pence c yet great plentie of fresh fish and oft times the same verie cheape pease at foure shillings the bushell otemeale at foure shillings eight pence baie salt at thrée shillings the bushell c. All this dearth notwithstanding thanks be giuen to God there was no want of anie thing to them that wanted not monie The fourth of Aprill being Paline sundaie there was taken saieng of masse in the lord Morleis house within Algate of London year 1574 one Albon Dalman priest and the ladie Morleie with hir children and diuerse others were also taken hearing of the said masse There was also taken the same daie and houre for saieng masse at the ladie Gilfords in Trinitie lane one Oliuer Heiwood priest and for hearing of the said masse the said ladie Gilford with diuerse other gentlewomen There was also taken at the same instant in the ladie Browns house in Cowlane for saieng masse one Thomas Heiwood priest and one Iohn Cowper Priest with the ladie Browne and diuers other were likewise taken being hearers of the said masse All which persons were for the same offenses indicted conuicted and had the law according to the statute in that case prouided There was also found in their seuerall chappels diuerse Latine bookes beads images palmes chalices crosses vestments pixes paxes and such like The ninth of Iulie at six of the clocke at night in the I le of Thanet besids Ramesgate in the parish of saint Peter vnder the cliffe a monstrous fish or whale of the sea did shoot himselfe on shore where for want of water beating himselfe on the sands he died about six of the clocke on the next morning before which time he roared and was heard more than a mile on the land The length of this fish was twentie two yards the nether iaw twelue foot the opening one of his eies being taken out of his head was more than six horsse in a cart could draw a man stood vpright in the place from whence the eie was taken The thicknesse from the backe whereon he laie to the top of his bellie which was vpward was fouretéene foot his taile of the same breadth betweene his eies twelue foot thrée men stood vpright in his mouth some of the ribs were six foot long his toong was fiftéene foot long his liuer two cart lode into his nosetrils anie man might haue crept the oile being boiled out of the head was parmasitie the oile of his bodie was whitish and sweet of tast The seuenth of August a solemne obsequie was kept in saint Paules church at London for Charles the ninth king of France who deceassed on the twentie day of Maie last before passed On the fiftéenth daie of August being sundaie Agnes Bridges a maiden about the age of twentie yeares and Rachell Pinder a wench about eleuen or twelue yeares old who both of them had counterfetted to be possessed by the diuell wherby they had not onelie maruellouslie deluded manie people both men and women but also diuerse such persons as otherwise séemed to be of good wit and vnderstanding stood before the preacher at Paules crosse where they acknowledged their hypocriticall counterfetting with penitent behauiours requiring forgiuenesse of God and the world and the people to praie for them Also their seuerall examinations and confessions were there openlie read by the preacher and afterwards published in print for the further posteritie hereafter to beware of the like deceiuers The fourth of September in the after noone such a storme of raine happened at London as the like of long time could not be remembred wherethrough the chanels of the citie suddenlie rising ran with such a forceable course towards the common sewes that a lad about the age of eightéene yeares minding to haue lept ouer the chanell neere vnto Dowgate was borne ouer with the streame and by the same caried from the conduit there towards the Thames with such a swiftnesse that no man with staues or otherwise could stay him till he came against a cart wheele that stood in the watergate afore which he was drowned line 10 and starke dead This yeare the maior of London went by water to Westminster and there tooke his oth as hath béene accustomed he kept no feast at the Guildhall although great prouision had béene made for that purpose but dined at his owne house with his brethren the aldermen the companies dined at their seuerall halles This was doone by the speciall appointment of the quéenes maiesties councell to auoid infection of the plague like to haue increased by line 20 comming togither of such a multitude This wéeke from the two and twentith vnto the eight and twentith of October deceased in the citie and liberties conteining an hundred and eight parishes of all diseases one hundred thréescore six of the which number thréescore and fiue were accounted to die of the plague Michaelmas tearme which had beene adiourned by proclamation began at Westminster on the sixt of Nouember The same sixt day in the morning there happened two great tides at London in the line 30 riuer of Thames the first by course the other within one houre following which ouerflowed the marshes with manie vaults and cellars neare adioining The fourtéenth of Nouember being sundaie about midnight following diuerse strange impressions of fire and smoke were séene in the aire to
not aboue thirtéene yeares vntill the one and twentith of the said king Henrie the eight being the yeare of our redemption one thousand fiue hundred twentie and nine During which time of his chancellorship in the ninetéenth yere of king Henrie the eight being the yere of Christ one thousand fiue hundred twentie and seauen he went into France representing the king of Englands person to set order for the deliuerie of pope Clement the seuenth and Francis the French king at what time he carried the great seale ouer the seas to Calis which seale he left with doctor Tailor maister of the rolles to kéepe the same at Calis vntill the cardinals returne out of the French dominions He died in Leicester abbeie not without suspicion of poison as was thought which he had prepared for himselfe and giuen to his apothecarie to deliuer when he called for it the two and twentith of king Henrie the eight in the yeare of Christ one thousand fiue hundred and thirtie Thomas Moore knight sometime vndershiriffe of London and chancellor of the dutchie of Lancaster was aduanced to the honor of chancellorship of England in the yere that the word became flesh one thousand fiue hundred twentie and nine being the one and twentith yéere of that king Henrie which expelled pope Clement the seauenth his authoritie out of his dominions in which office this rare witted knight to vse Erasmus his epitheton and learned chancellor continued not full thrée yeares but in the foure and twentith yeare of the reigne of the said king Henrie the eight with much labor and earnest sute he left his office Touching which it shall not gréeue me to set downe the words of Matthew Parker of the liues of the bishops of Canturburie in the life of Thomas Cranmer writing after this maner Intereà rex dum papae meditabatur excidium singulorum de papali auctoritate sensus iudicijs haud obscuris collegit Inter quos Thomas Morus quia regis conatus pontificijs valdè suspectus fuit cancellarij munere venia regis aegrè impetrata sese abdicauit Thomas Audleie attornie of the dutchie of Lancaster sergeant at the law as most affirme and speaker of the parlement was made knight and lord kéeper line 10 of the great seale the fourth of Iune in the foure and twentith yere of the reigne of the famous prince king Henrie the eight being the yeare of our Lord God one thousand fiue hundred thirtie and two not long after which he was indued with the title and honor of lord chancellor of England This man in the tenth yere of his chancellorship being the yere of our redemption one thousand fiue hundred fortie and two and the fiue and thirtith yeare of king Henrie the eight changing the name of Buckingham college line 20 in Cambridge did name it the college of saint Marie Magdalen and indued it with some possessions He died on Maie éeuen in the yeare of our saluation one thousand fiue hundred fortie and foure being the fiue and thirtith yeare of Henrie the eight Thomas Wriotheslie knight of the garter being created baron at Hampton court on the first of Ianuarie in the fiue and thirtith yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the eight in the yere of Christ one thousand fiue hundred fortie and three was after aduanced line 30 to the honor of the great seale and chancellorship of England about the beginning of Maie in the six and thirtith yeare of the reigne of king Henrie the eight being the yere of grace one thousand fiue hundred fortie and foure in which office he continued vntill the death of the said king Henrie the eight and in the beginning of the reigne of king Edward the sixt vntill for his obstinacie in the Romane religion he was the sixt of March remooued and the seale was deliuered to William Paulet lord Sent-Iohn of line 40 Basing This Wriotheslie being created earle of Southampton by king Edward the sixt died at his house of Lincolne place in Holborne the 30 of Iulie in the fourth yeare of the said king Edward in the yéere 1550 was buried at saint Andrews in Oldborne commonlie called Holborne William Paulet knight being first steward of the lands of the bishoprike of Winchester then treasuror of the houshold lord Sent-Iohn of Basing lord great maister of the kings house afterwards earle line 50 of Wiltshire marquesse of Winchester and treasuror of England being of the priuie councell to king Henrie the eight king Edward the sixt queene Marie and queene Elisabeth had the kéeping of the great seale committed vnto him the seuenth daie of March in the yeare that the second person in trinitie descended from the bosome of the father into the wombe of the mother one thousand fiue hundred fortie and seuen being the first yere of the reigne of the yoong king Edward the sixt which seale he had in custodie line 60 about seuen moneths vntill the thrée and twentith or foure and twentith of October following at what time sir Richard Rich was made lord chancellor Sir Richard Rich knight lord Rich was aduanced to the dignitie of lord chancellor of England about the 23 of October in the yere of our saluation one thousand fiue hundred fortie and seuen being the first yeare of the reigne of the noble king Edward the siâ—t in which place he remained about fiue yeers Thomas Goderich or Goderike being bishop of Elie had the great seale deliuered to him and was made lord chancellor of England the twentith of December as Iohn Stow hath noted in his chronicle in the yeare of our redemption one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and one being the fift yeare of the reigne of king Edward the sixt in whiâ—h office he continued all the life of the said king Edward which died in Iulie one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and thrée being the seuenth yeare of his reigne and about one moneth after vntill the thirtéenth or fouretéenth daie of August in which quéene Marie made Stephan Gardener hir chancellor Sir Nicholas Hare maister of the rolles had at the comming of quéene Marie to the crowne the keeping of the great seale after the death of king Edward as lord kéeper by the space of one fortnight and shortlie after was Stephan Gardener made chancellor Stephan Gardener bishop of Winchester was in August in the yeare of Christ one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and thrée being the first yeare of the reigne of the vnfortunat quéene Marie made chancellor of England This man going in ambassage vnto Calis left the great seale in the custodie of William Paulet marquesse of Winchester which bishop after his returne into England continued in that office all the time of his life which he ended the 19 of Nouember in the yeare that the word became flesh one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and fiue being the third yeere of quéene Marie After which the great seale lieng in the custodie of
the prince she on the new yeares daie following made a new chancellor Nicholas Heath bishop of Rochester almoner to the king ambassador into Germanie bishop of Worcester president of Wales and archbishop of Yorke was vpon new yeares daie in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and fiue being the third yeare of the reigne of quéene Marie aduanced to the honorable dignitie of the chancellorship But quéene Marie deceasing the seauentéenth daie of Nouember in the yeare of grace one thousand fiue hundred fiftie and eight and the sixt yere of hir gouernement this Heath vpon the placing of the worthie quéene Elisabeth vpon the throne of the English gouernment was remooued from his office and maister Bacon aduanced Sir Nicholas Bacon esquier attourneie of the court of wards was made knight and lord kéeper of the great seale the two and twentith of December in the yeare of our redemption 1558 being the first yeare of the now reigning Elisabeth the Saba of England Which name of lord kéeper he still kept during his life and the time of his office In whose time there was an act of parlement established to make the power of the keeper of the great seale equall with the authoritie of the chancellor This man continued in this office and woorthilie executed the same being a man of rare wit and déepe experience during the time of his life which continued vntill the twentith of Februarie in the yeare of our saluation 1578 after the account of England being the one and twentith yeare of the rare and singular gouernement of the worlds woonder the famous quéene Elisabeth which place this man kept eightéene yéeres being as I suppose double as long time as anie other chancellor or kéeper of the great seale possessed that place except Rafe Neuill bishop of Chichester and Iohn Stafford bishop of Bath and Wels both which held it equallie eighteene yeares with him a strange thing that in the course of almost 600 yeares no such officer might possesse that place by twentie years togither Thomas Bromleie the generall solicitor of quéene Elisabeth a councellor of the law and one of the inner temple was aduanced to the dignitie of lord chancellor on the fiue and twentith day of Aprill in the yeare of our redemption 1579 being in the one twentith yeare of the reigne of the said quéene Elisabeth which office at this daie he beareth Thus although I maie be a little wetshod in passing ouer the deepe sea of this difficultie of the chancellors in which I am sure I am not ouer head and eares I haue at length brought my chancellors to end a worke of some labour and difficultie of some search and charge which I haue doone onelie of my selfe without the furtherance or help of some others who more inconsideratlie than trulie doo disorderlie report that I haue atteined vnto this in obteining line 10 those names by some sinister means from the priuat bookes of them who haue trauelled in the same matter In which as I said in the begining so I saie againe if anie imperfection for hast by reason of the printers spéedie calling on me haue now fallen out of my pen it shall hereafter God willing be corrected in the large volume of their liues Wherefore as I neither estéeme nor feare the secret reports of some others so for their countries good it shall be well that they would deliuer something to the world line 20 to bring truth to perfection if other men haue vnwillinglie set downe error and not as they doo for a litle commoditie gaine to themselues neither benefit their countrie nor speake well of such as would and doo helpe posteritie Thus this much by Francis Thin touching the chancellors of England ¶ Here though somewhat out of place for it should haue béene entered in 1578 it were better to record the receiuing of the quéenes maiestie into Suffolke line 30 Norffolke than making no commemoration therof at all to let it perish in thréehalfepenie pamphlets and so die in obliuion It maie also serue for a rest of recreation after so long an introduction of serious matters as also and that most woorthilie maie remaine in record to signifie what well affected subiects the quéens maiestie hath within hir dominions to whome goods lands friends kindred or life none of these seuerallie nor all iointlie are so pretious and deere but for hir sake they can find in their hearts to line 40 esteeme them as doong And now to the matter The truth is saith one that wrote the whole interteinment that albeit they had but small warning certeinlie to build vpon of the comming of the queenes maiestie into both those shires the gentlemen had made such readie prouision that all the veluets and silks were taken vp that might be laid hand on and bought for anie monie and soone conuerted to such garments and sutes of robes that the shew thereof might haue beautified the greatest triumph that was line 50 in England these manie yeares For as it was said there were two hundred yoong gentlemen clad all in white veluet and three hundred of the grauer sort apparelled in blacke veluet cotes and faire chaines all readie at one instant and place with fiftéene hundred seruing men more on horssebacke well and brauelie mounted in good order readie to receiue the quéenes highnesse into Suffolke which surelie was a comelie troope and a noble sight to behold and all these waited on the shiriffe sir William Spring during line 60 the quéenes maiesties abode in those parties and to the verie confines of Suffolke But before hir highnesse passed to Norffolke there was in Suffolke such sumptuous feasting and bankets as seldome in anie part of the world haue béene seene before The maister of the rolles sir William Cordall was one of the first that began this great feasting and did light such a candle to the rest of the shire that manie were glad bountifullie and frankelie to follow the same example with such charges and costs as the whole traine were in some sort pleased therewith And neere Burie sir William Drurie for his part at his house made the quéenes highnesse a costlie and delicat dinner and sir Robert Germine of Roeshbrooke feasted the French ambassadors two seuerall times with which charges and courtesie they stood maruellouslie contented The shiriffe sir William Spring sir Thomas Kidson sir Arthur Higham and diuerse others of worship kept great houses and sundrie either at the quéenes comming or returne solemnelie feasted hir highnesse yea and defraied the whole charges for a daie or twaine presented gifts made such triumphs and deuises as indéed was most noble to behold and verie thankfullie accepted The Norffolke gentlemen hearing how dutifullie their neighbors had receiued the prince prepared in like sort to shew themselues dutifull and so in most gallant maner they assembled and set forward with fiue and twentie hundred horssemen
about ten yeares died and was buried in his owne church 6 Alfwoldus as Matthew Westminster writeth was next bishop after Algarus and consecrated by the aduise of Dunstane in the yeare 952. In this time Odogarus earle of Deuon and father in law to king Edgar builded the abbeie of Tauestoke and king Edgar called home all the monkes of saint Peters which were dispersed and without anie abbat and made Sidemannus abbat who was afterwards bishop This Alfwoldus after sixtéene yeares that he was consecraâ—eâ— died and was buried in his owne church 7 Alfwolfus as Dicetus affirmeth was consecrated bishop in the yeare of our Lord 969 and after nine yeares died and was buried in his owne church 8 Sidemannus of an abbat was made a bishop in the yeare 978. In this mans time the Danes ouerran and spoiled the whole countries of Deuon and Cornewall burned the towne of Bodmen and the cathedrall church of saint Petrokes with the bishops house Wherevpon the bishops sée was remoued from thense to saint Germans where the same continued vntill the remouing and vniting thereof vnto Crediton Sidemannus in the twelfe yeare after his consecration died and was buried at Crediton in his owne church 990. 9 Alphredus whome Dicetus calleth Alfricus abbat of Malmesburie was consecrated bishop and installed at Crediton he was taken for a learned man because he wrote two bookes the one intituled Derebus coenobij sui and the other De rerum naturis In this bishops time king Ethelred endowed the bishoprike of saint Germans with lands liberties and priuileges The Danes made a fresh inuasion in and vpon all Deuon and Cornewall burned and spoiled the abbie of Ordolphus at Tauestoke they besieged Excester and being remoued from thense were fought withall at Pinneho about thrée miles from the citie and ouerthrowne Alphredus after he had béene bishop about nine yeares died in the yeare 999 and was buried in his owne church 10 Alwolfus as Dicetus writeth was the next bishop In his time Sweno king of Denmarke by intisement of one Hugh then earle of Deuon came with a great host and besieged the citie of Excester tooke it and burned it and with great crueltie vsed the people vntill in the end Almarus then earle of Deuon and the gentlemen did yéeld and submit themselues and so obteined peace This Alwolfus about the fiftéenth yeare of his bishoprike in the yeare 1014 died and was buried in his owne church 11 Arnoldus by the report of the archdeacon of London succéeded Alwolfus and was installed at Crediton In this mans time king Canutus gaue to Athelwold abbat of S. Peters of this citie great gifts and sundrie priuileges in recompense of his fathers great iniuries Arnoldus in the fiftéenth yeare of his bishoprike 1030 died and was buried in his owne church 12 Leuigus or Leuingus abbat of Tauestoke and nephue to Brithwaldus bishop of Cornewall was chosen the next bishop and according to the orders then vsed consecrated and installed He was in great fauour and credit with king Canutus vppon whome he attended in pilgrimage to Rome and after his vncle the bishop of saint Germans being dead obteined of the king that the bishops sée was remoued from saint Germans vnto Crediton and both were thereby reduced and vnited into one bishoprike and so hath euer since continued Hée was after the death of Brithegus bishop of Worcester remoued to that church and there died and was buried as some suppose but some affirme that in the time of Hardicanutus the king at the accusation of Alfredus then archbishop of Yorke for that he should be consenting to the death of Alfredus the sonne of Etheldred that he should be deposed of his bishoprike there and so did returne vnto Tauestoke where he died But Dicetus affirmeth that he purged himselfe of this crime and by that meanes was restored both to the fauour of the king and to his bishoprike againe and died bishop of Worcester It is recorded that he was bishop of Crediton fiftéene yeares 13 Leofricus a man descended of the bloud and line of Brutus but brought vp in the land of Lothoringia or Loreine was so well commended for his nobilitie wisedome and learning that king Edward the Confessor had him in great fauour and made him first one of his priuie councell then lord chancellor of all England and lastlie the bishoprike line 10 of this prouince being void he was made consecrated and installed bishop of the same By him and by his meanes the bishops sée was remoued from Crediton vnto this citie of Excester for at his request king Edward togither with quéene Edith his wife came to Excester remouing the monkes from hense to Westminster did also remoue the bishops sée from Crediton vnto his citie and did put the bishop in possession For he conducting the bishop on the right hand and the quéene on the line 20 left hand brought him to the high altar of his new church and there placed him in a seat appointed for him He suppressed sundrie houses or cels of religion within his sanctuarie and appropriated and vnited them to his owne church as also by the good liberalitie of the king obteined great reuenues possessions priuileges and liberties to be giuen vnto the church In this mans time William duke of Normandie made a conquest of this whole realme as also in the yeare 1068 besieged this line 30 citie of Excester which after by composition he restored to his former estate againe Also in his time Richard de Brion a noble man of Normandie the sonne of Baldwin of Brion of Albred the néece to the Conqueror was made baron of Okehampton warden of the castell of Excester and vicount of Deuon This Leofricus after that he had well and worthilie ruled his church and diocesse by the space of three and twentie yeares he ended his daies in peace and died in the yeare 1073 and was buried line 40 in the cemiterie or churchyard of his owne church vnder a simple and a broken marble stone which place by the since inlarging of his church is now within the tower of the same where of late in the yeare 1568 a new monument was erected in the memorie of so good woorthie and noble a personage by the industrie of the writer hereof but at the charges of the deane and chapter 14 Osbertus or Osbernus a Norman borne and brother to an earle named William was preferred to this bishoprike and in the yeare 1074 was line 50 consecrated and installed to the same Polydorus writeth that one Galfrid who ioined with Odo earle of Kent and bishop of Baion against William Rufus should be bishop of Exon but it was not nor could not so be In this mans time William the Conqueror and William Rufus his sonne died This Osbertus or Osbernus after he had béene bishop thirtie yeares was blind and died and lieth buried in his owne church
Canturburie a vacant place hauing manie broken neere walles 〈◊〉 to the towne gate in Sandwich called Canturburie gate In which void toome adioining to the riuer of Delfe is now erected a faire schoolehouse for the schoolemaster vsher certen boording scholers framed all of bricke stone For perpetuall continuance of which schoole the said sir Roger Manwood now lord chiefe baron in this yeare of our Lord 1586 procured letters patents from the quéene for incorporating and assurance of the same schoole with other lands and reuenues thereto belonging to the maior and his brethren of Sandwich and to their successors for euer by the name of the gouernours of the frée grammar schoole of Roger Manwood in Sandwich assuring to the said gouernors of his owne land the cleere yearelie value of 22 pounds and more Further thervnto procuring of his brother Thomas Manwood sometime maior of Sandwich the cleere yearelie value of ten pounds of lands and tenements and also of one Thomas Tompson iurat of Sandwich eight pounds by yeere De claro of his owne lands and tenements in the grosse summe amounting to fourtie pounds by yeare which lands being sufficientlie assured to the said gouernours with conuenient dwelling for the master and vsher lodging for sixteene boording scholers and with some beneuolence of parents for the teaching of their children is a large endowment for perpetuall maintenance of the same grammar schoole Besides which for the further benefit of the same schoole the same sir Roger Manwood hath obteined two scholers roomes in Gonuile and Caius college in Cambridge and two other scholers roomes in Lincolne college at Oxford with pension of foure markes yearelie to euerie of the said foure scholers to be remooued from that schoole of Sandwich and to be placed in those colleges from time to time as often as anie of the same college scholers roomes shall be void and that anie scholer shall be méet to come from that schoole of Sandwich Beyond all which that he hath doone for recompense of his birth place with a frée grammar schoole for the education of the youth there he also for reliefe of age hath néere vnto his dwelling place of saint Stephans in Hackington parish adioining to Canturburie built in the yeare of our redemption 1573 a faire row of seuen almes houses of bricke placing in euerie of the same almes houses poore folkes such as are counted to be honest good For perpetuall maintenance of which almes persons he hath endowed that building with a yéerelie allowance of the value of foure pounds by yeare to euerie of the same almes men houses in monie bread fewell And in the same parish church néere to those almes houses he hath newlie erected an Ile where his toome is made and placed in that church a new roome of seuen pewes and seates for the almes people to be bestowed in togither by themselues Likewise for setting to worke of middle age whereby they may eschew idlenesse this sir Roger Manwood did in the yeare of Christ one thousand fiue hundred seuentie and eight build a new house of correction in the Westgate street in the suburbs of Canturburie And moreouer whereas Rochester bridge standing on the riuer of Medweie being famouslie built of stone in the time of king Richard the second as is most likelie though some attribute the same to the time of Edward the third by one sir Robert Knolles knight with the helpe of Iohn lord Cobham of Cobham and Margaret Courtneie his wife being two of the principall benefactors therevnto after the decaie of a woodden bridge first erected ouer the same riuer some hundred yeares before that of stone had for the perpetuall maintenance of the same stone bridge the ancient contributarie lands giuen for the support of the woodden bridge after the ruine of the same woodden bridge reduced by act of parlement holden in the one and twentith of Richard the second to the maintenance of the same new stone bridge and that sundrie manors lands tenements rents in Kent London Essex were by deuise of sundrie persons assured for the vpholding of the same new stone bridge yet by want of due circumspection this new stone bridge became in so great decaie that in the latter time of quéene Marie and beginning of hir maiestie now reigning line 10 collection was made vpon all horssemen carriages passing ouer that bridge in manner of a tole or tax and more by reason of the queenes commission an vniuersall taxation was made in nature of a tenth and fiftéenth ouer all the countrie of Kent and the citie of Canturburie for and towards the reparations of the same bridge All which being an vnwilling burthen griefe to the people togither with the reuenues of the bridge lands did not yet suffice to saue the ruine of that famous line 20 stone bridge vntill by the carefull trauell of the said sir Roger Manwood then a iustice in the common plées a remedie was sound therefore without iniurie to anie person and without exaction of anie passenger Which remedie was that all the manors lands tenements and rents belonging vnto the bridge should be fréed from all leases thereof made at small rents and the same lands so let to be dulie improoued to a higher rate the same being a matter answerable to right and reason considering line 30 the cause of the first gift of those lands then sufficient and the now dearth of things which made it insufficient to support the said bridge the stone timber and other stuffe for repare of the same bridge with the works wages and carriages concerning it being now growne to farre greater prices than in old time they were Which deuised remedie to vndoo the old leases was much impugned by manie persons of wealthie hauior receiuing great profit by those old vnder rented leases line 40 All which notwithstanding this Roger Manwood prosecuted the same to a good successe for he making to appeare before the lords of the councell and the rest of the iudges of the realme in the presence of such as inioied these old leases and of their learned councell and other fauourers that the said manors lands and tenements belonging to the said bridge were giuen to the wardens communaltie owners of the contributorie lands and that their old leases line 50 made by the wardens onelie without consent of the communaltie were not good in law the farmers submitted themselues to surrender their old insufficient leases and to take such as might be auailable in law of the same lands Whereby the yearelie reueneues of the bridge lands grew to be of more value than triple that which they were before and yet the old farmers had new leases vnto their owne contentation bicause the same are not so improoued but that they are as reasonablie letten as other priuat line 60 mens lands be To which deuise a further remedie was then
of the wall it selfe which neuer left sinking till it came to the foundation of the rocke except by some ouersight of the workemen some part thereof were set vpon the beach which should by order haue béene first remooued in that case they benched it digging a trench at the foot of that part of line 10 the wall and filling the same with earth they made it verie tight and so might anie such place be perfected and amended if need should require But at this houre there leaketh not a drop of water vnder or through anie part of the wall that anie man maie perceiue or see so as a full pent shrinketh not anie whit at all betwixt tide and tide whereas the allowance of one foot leakage or fall at the least was required of them which exhibited the plot of the woodden line 20 wall which being measured from the top or face of the high pent diminisheth almost one quarter thereof And thus betwixt the first of Maie and midst of August this pent which was thought vnpossible to be doone in three yeares was perfectlie finished in lesse than thrée months and remaineth in so good and sure state as the longer it standeth the better and tighter it will be If neuer anie thing should be added herevnto this pent by reason of the abundance of water reteined therein and issuing out of the sâ—use would mainteine line 30 a good hauen in that place for the violent course therof will alwaies open the hauens mouth and make a fret there euen downe to the rocke although it be distant from the same threescore rods in so much as at this instant there maâ—e come in at quarter floud a barke of fortie or fiftie tun and at full sea a ship of thrée hundred tun and vpwards But when the two iustie heads are once finished which are now in hand so as the hauens mouth be perfected anie ship what soeuer maie enter in thereat line 40 and remaine within that rode in good safetie But as at manie other times heretofore there hath béene sure triall had of the good effects of this pent so now in this last moneth of October one thousand fiue hundred fourescore and six one gate of the sâ—use being by mischance broken so as by the space of foure daies there could be no water reteined within she pent to scowre the mouth of the hauen the same was so choked and swarued vp with sand and beach line 50 in that space as no bote could enter in or passe out of the same insomuch as Edward Wootton esquire being then at Douer to passe thense in an ambassage from hir maiestie to the French king was forced to send to Sandwich for a craier to transport him to Calis because no bote of Douer lieng within the rode could passe out at the hauens mouth But assoone as the said gate of the sluse was repared euen the next tide following a vessell of thrée hundred tun might and did easilie passe in and out thereat line 60 one pent of water had so scowred and depthened the same Whereby it maie appeare that neither the cost bestowed nor the worke performed hath béene vnprofitablie imploiâ—d or vnnecessarilie vndertaken Now you shall vnderstand that the small sluse which was first made and laied in the crosse wall in such sort and for such purpose as hath béene declared was taken vp after the said walles were finished and a sluse of far greater charge was made by the aforesaid Peter Pet who vndertooke to doo it by great and had for the same foure hundred pounds the laieng whereof did cost two hundred pounds more at the least This sluse conteineth in length fourescore foot in bredth sixtéene foot in depth thirtéene and hath in it two draw gates It was one whole moneth in laieng all which time the said lord Cobham made his abode there and kept a most honorable and costlie table furthering those works not onelie with his continuall presence and countenance but also with his good direction and that not at starts but from morning till night and from daie to daie vntill the full accomplishing thereof And in the meane time sir Francis Walsingham hir maiesties principall secretarie was not vncarefull of this action as being the man without whom nothing was doone directing the course and alwaie looking into the state thereof and gaue continuall life thervnto by prouiding monie for it whereof when anie want approched he neuer failed to see or rather to send a sure supplie Since the finishing of these wals and sluses there hath beene much worke and charge imploied about one of the iuttie heads and beautifieng of the harborough wherin one George Carie of Deuonshire esquire and one Iohn Hill an auditor haue béene the principall directors But because that worke remaineth as yet vnperformed the report thereof shall also remaine to be made by others that shall hereafter haue occasion to write of such affairs ¶ At the assises kept at the citie of Excester the fourteenth daie of March in the eight and twentith yeare of hir maiesties reigne before sir Edmund Anderson knight lord chiefe iustice of the common plees and sargeant Floredaie one of the barons of the excheker iustices of the assises in the countie of Deuon and Exon there happened a verie sudden and a strange sickenesse first amongst the prisoners of the gaole of the castell of Exon then dispersed vpon their triall amongst sundrie other persons which was not much vnlike to the sickenesse that of late yeares happened at an assise holden at Oxford before sir Robert â—ell knight lord chiefe baron of the excheker and iustice then of that assise and of which sickenesse he amongst others died This sickenesse was verie sharpe for the time few escaped which at the first were infected therewith It was contagious and infectious but not so violent as commonlie the pestilence is neither dooth there appeare anie outward vlcer or sore The origen and cause thereof diuerse men are of diuerse iudgements Some did impute it and were of the mind that it procéeded from the contagion of the gaole which by reason of the close aire and filthie stinke the prisoners newlie come out of a fresh aire into the same are in short time for the most part infected therewith and this is commonlie called the gaole sickenesse and manie die thereof Some did impute it to certeine poore Portingals then prisoners in the said gaole For not long before one Barnard Drake esquier afterwards dubbed â—â—ight had béene at the seas and meeting 〈◊〉 certeine Portingals come from New found land and laden with fish he tooke them as a good prise and brought them into Dartmouth hauen in England and from thense they were sent being in number about eight and thirtie persons vnto the gaole of the castell of Exon and there were cast into the deepe pit and stinking dungeon These men had béene before a
108 a 40. Boniface of Canturburie vncle to quéene Elenor 225 a 60. Described and how he came to be aduanced 226 a 60. He deceaseth 767 a 30. Courtneie of Canturburie his visitation 483 b 60. He excommunicateth the Wiclenists note 484 a 10. Authorised by the pope to leuie foure pence of the pound c note 485 a 20. Cranmer of Canturburie 929 b 30. ¶ Sée Cranmer Edmund of Canturburie getteth him to Pontneie to remaine in voluntarie exile 224 b 60. What caused him to depart England his death and surname reputed a saint 225 a 10 20. Grindall of Canturburie elected 1262 a 30. Deceaseth 1354 a 20. Heath of Canturburie his words vttered in the parlement house touching the proclaming of quéene Elisabeth 1170 a 40. Lord chancellor 1130 b 40. Hubert elected of Canturburie lord chéefe iustice 140 a 30 145 b 30. Complained of to the pope 153 a 20. His words at the coronation of king Iohn 158 b 60. Lord chancellor to the mislike of some note 159 b 30. Deceaseth 169 a 50. Lanfranke ¶ Sée Lanfranke Langton of Canturburie elected whiles two others were striuing for it 171 a 10. Neuill of Canturburie commended 213 a 60. His conditions b 10 c. Parker of Canturburie deceaseth 1261 a 10. His commendation 20. A benefactor diuerse waies 40 50 60 ¶ Sée Parker Rafe of Canturburies returne into England out of Normandie 41 a 10. Dieth 42 a 60. Reignolds election of Canturburie bred much discord 169 a 60. Richard of Canturburie elected receiueth his pall 37 b 20. His consecration disturbed 85 b 60. His death and conditions note 108 a 40. Robert of Canturburie accused by Edward the first to the pope suspended 313 b 50. Roger of Canturburie 64 b 20. Sauage of Canturburie deceaseth 795 b 30. Stephan of Canturburie deceaseth 210 a 10. Stigand ¶ Sée Stigand Stratford of Canturburie in Edward the thirds displesure he writeth vnto him refuseth to come to the court 361 a 10 30 60. Sudburie of Canturburie made lord chancellour 424 b 50. Theobald of Canturburie consecrated 50 a 60. Deceased 68 b 60. Thomas 9 a 20. ¶ Sée Thomas Wethersheid elected to Canturburie 210 a 10. Whitegift doctor of diuinitie thankfull for his aduancements the armes of both sées which he inioied blasoned his posie answerable to his propertie 1355 b 30 c. Made of the priuie councell 1434 b 60. William of Canturburie 42 a 60 Archbishop of Canturburie primat of Ireland 22 b 50. Made the popes legat 147 b 50. Besieged Marleburgh castell 142 a 40. Flieth out of the realme 59 a 60. Goeth to Rome 39 b 60. Hath power legantine 69 a 10. He and king William at contention and whie 24 a 20 Capteine of an armie 2 a 10. Put by from crowning the king 1 b 20. Accused of treason by the speaker in parlement 490 b 40. Condemned to perpetuall imprisonment 491 a 50. His words at a parlement in the behalfe of the clergie that would be exempted from paieng of subsidies c 301 b 60. His goods confiscat his obstinacie 302 a 20 50. Purchaseth a grant of the pope to leuie monie 238 a 60. Restored to his sée 514 a 10 His cursse 241 a 60. He and Winchester made fréends 247 b 10. Standeth against Henrie the third in defense of his clergie at contention with the earle of Kent appealeth to Rome dieth in his returne from thense 213 a 30 c. Readie to broch new contention 204 b 60 Legat and lord chéefe iustice of England 147 b 60 Archbishops at contention for primasie note 9 a 30. Decided by the king and bishops of the lands 9 a 60. Sentenced by decrée of the pope 9 b 40. Go both to Rome and whie 31 b 20. At strife 35. all For the primasie note 37 b 40. Thorough ambition 39 b 60. Sue both personallie for their consecration to the pope 40 a 10 c. At strife for a peece of seruice about king Henrie the first 43 a 40. At strife for carrieng of their crosses 142 b 20. At strife in king Henrie the eights time 919 b 30. Of Canturburies sée void foure yeares and in Henrie the first hands 37 a 60 Archbishops of Canturburie from the first to the last their names and liues c set downe in a collection 1435 a 10 c. Archbishop Geffreie bastard of Yorke 119 b 10. Obteineth his pall 130 b 20 Committed to prison note 130 b 60. Depriued and whie 161 b 60. Restored to all his dignities 163 b 20 Stealeth out of the realme 170 b 50. Deceasseth 176 b 10. Gerard of Yorke consecrateth the bishops of Henrie the firsts inuesting 31 b 10. Receiueth his pall 31 b 60. Deceaseth 35 a 10. Greie of Yorke 182 a 60. Gréenewich and what summes of monie the pope had of him 315 a 20. Neuill 969 b 10 Roger sent to the pope 72 a 60. Forbidden the vse of the sacraments 76 b 10. Deceaseth 105 b 20. Sands 1145 b 50. ¶ Sée Sands Thomas sometimes Henrie the firsts chapleine and much a doo about his consecration 35 a 10. c. Refuseth to come to Canturburie to be consecrated 35 a 50. Suspended c. 35 b 60 36 a 10. Hath his pall sent him from the pope 36 a 50. Submits himselfe to Canturburie note the forme 36 b 30. Dieth 37 b 40. Thurstane of Yorke 37 b 40. Restored vpon condition 40 b 60. Made lieutenant of the north parts 49 a 20. In armes against the Scots 49 a 50. Deceaseth 1211 a 50 Archbishop of Yorke acknowleged primat of all Scotland 9 b 20 His subiection to the archbishop of Canturburie note 9 b 10. Sent ouer to Guisnes to be kept in safe custodie 693 b 10. Inconstant and variable note 683 a 20 60 b 10. A conspirator he is in armes 529 b 10 20. Forbidden to be at Richard the firsts coronation 143 b 30. The estimation that was had of him his protestation whie he put on armes b. 60. He and others arrested put to death reputed a martyr 530 a 30 60 a 10. Of counsell with the Persies conspiracie 522 a 10 20. Made cardinall resigneth his archbishoprike 279 b 20. Crowneth Henrie the first and whie 28 a 20. Depriued of his crosse 257 b 50. Accurssed by the pope his constancie note 256 b 40. Gouernour of the realme 229 b 10. Proud deposed and out of fauour with Richard the first 147 b 40. Accused but to no purpose 143 a 10. His presumptuous demeanor 98 a 30. He and Elie reconciled by Richard the firsts means 144 a 60. He and Durham at strife 133 a 60. Sicke and his place supplied 49 a 60 Archbishop of Cullen visiteth Beckets toome 107 b 60. Of Rome chéefe gouernour of England 132 b 30. Of saint Andrews in Scotland receiueth his staffe from an altar 41 a 50. A deadlie enimie to Henrie the eight 959 b 10. Of Uienna the popes legat not receiued as legat and whie 29 a 40 Archbishops of England are in
with Henrie thirds sister 222 ball Maketh his possessions into monie and goeth into the holie land 224 a 60 b 10 225 b 40. Fled ouer into France 223 b 30. Stanlie of Derbie deceaseth his life death and qualities 1257 a 60 b 10. Stephan of Bullongne sworne to the succession of the crowne 43 a 10. ¶ Sée Stephan Strangbow marieth Dermutius his daughter 81 a 50. Confined séeketh king Henrie the seconds fauor and is pardoned 81 a 50 60. He maketh surrender to king Henrie the first b 20. Strangbow of Straguill 81 a 10. Summerset of Worcester sent into France robbed vpon the sea 1257 b 40 50 60 Erle Talbot of Shrewesburie and his son manfullie slaine 639 a 60 b 50. Sent into France with an armie 817 840. Theobald of Champaigne his descent in armes against the French king 39 b 20. His countrie inuaded by the French king 40 b 20. Theodorike of Flanders 66 b 60. Tiptoft of Worcester beheaded 678. Turketillus ¶ Sée Turketillus Erle Ualeran of saint Paule put to flight 528 b 20. Uéere of Oxford his charge to his bands of men his valiantnesse 759 a 10 20. Yéeldeth himselfe to king Edward the fourth sent ouer sea and kept prisoner twelue yeares 693 b 20. Made marquesse of Dublin 448 a 60. Created duke of Ireland 451 b 60. Duke of Ireland to be safelie conducted to the kings presence by the shiriffe of Cheshire 460 b 60. Deceaseth in miserable necessitie note 479 b 60. His corps conueied from Louaine into England and there roiallie buried 485 a 60. Séeketh to be diuorced from his lawfull wife note 458 a 10. Sent ouer into Gascoigne 294 b 60. His valiantnesse 684. b 20. Geiteth out of prison and he with others go to the erle of Richmond 749 a 10 20. He liuieth a power commeth into England his valor and chiualrie a 50 60. He submitteth himselfe and yéeldeth to the king b 50. The erle of Richmond is glad of him and his companie b 60. Deceaseth 950 a 60. Erle Walter of Essex saileth into Ireland 1258 b 60. Deceaseth 1263 a 40. The place of his birth 60. His praise in sundrie respects b 20. Disposed to inlarge his nobilitie 60 ¶ Sée Erle of Essex Waltheof ¶ Sée Waltheof Warren 51 b 60. Warren of Surreie his words to Edward the first 280 b 10. Of Shrewesburie warden of the Welsh marches 42 a 40. William of Arundell ambassador to the French king 72 a 50. Dieth 98 b 20. William of Kent William de Ypresse 54 a 30. William sonne to duke Robert erle of Flanders 43 a 50. Dieth of wounds 43 b 20. Duke Robert of Normandies son by Sibill 34. a 10. William named de Longspée with others go into the holie land 241 b 50. William of Mortaigne and Bullongne 68 a 20 66 b 50. A factious man 32 a 60. His wilfulnesse and malcontentment b 10. William of Salisburie inuadeth the countries about London 89 b 30. Erle of Albemerle 52 a 10 52 b 10. Whie supposed to betraie the towne 88 b 30. Of Aluergnes lands spoiled 75 a 40 Of Aniou 55 a 20 ¶ Sée Normandie Departeth this life 58 b 20. Of Arminacks daughter affâ—ed to Henrie the sixt he his ladie sonne two daughters taken 624 a 10. An open enimie to England note 636 b 10. Of Arundels fréendlie spéech to ladie Elisabeth 1154 a 50. His exploits in France note 609 a 10. His death 610 a 20. Goeth to sea with fiue hundred men of armes and a thousand archers 454 a 50. His liberalitie note 454 b 50. Saileth into Britaine with a great power 455 a 10. Returneth into France 465 b 10. Sent to the sea with a great nauie in aid of the duke of Britaine 465 a 50. Ioineth with the lords in conspiracie 458 a 60. To be apprehended by the earle of Northumberland 60. Answer to his indictment he is condemned 491 b 10 50 60. Executed 492 a 10 20. Ouerthrowne in the middest of a water 56 a 30. Professeth himselfe sorie that he goeth not with the duke of Northumberland against the ladie Marie 1086 b 10. Apprehended 489 b 20. Arreigned 491 a 60 Erle of Bedford and his sonne the lord Russell deceaseth 1413 b 10. Of Blois his son made bishop of Winchester 42 a 60. Of Britaine assisted against the French king he submitteth himselfe 219 a 10 20. Of Buckingham sent into Britaine to and the duke against the French king 425 b 60. He maketh knights at his entrance into France 426 a 30. Displeased with the duke of Britaine returneth into England 427 b 60. Oâ— Bullogne prepareth six hundred ships to inuade England 75 a 50 Erle of Caerleill raiseth an armie put to death for treason 333 a 10 b 20. His iudgment and constancie at his death 334 a 60. Of Cambridge returneth out of Portingale 441 b 20. His sonne affianced to the king of Portingals daughter 441 b 20 40. He and other lords apprehended for treason 548 b 10. Executed 50. The effect of his indictment 549 a 30 c. Of Chaster described 53 a 10. His exploits being the kings lieutenant 212 b 20. Withstood the gathering of tenths for the pope 211 a 50. Bare S. Edwards sword before Henrie the third at his mariage 219 b 40. His oration to the erle of Glocester 52 a 10. His right and title thereto and priuileges his foure barons vnder him note 20 a 20. Dieth 60 b 10. Of Cornwall marrieth the countesse of Glocester 213 b 50. Elected emperour 254 b 10. Stands against the K. his brother for grant of a subsidie 251 b 40. He lendeth the king monie 252 a 20. Elected king of Almaine taketh his leaue of the king his brother 256 a 20. And king of Almaine his protestation to the English ambassadors he commeth ouer into England receiueth an oth not to infringe the statuts of Oxford 261 a all An intercessor for peace to be had betwixt the pope and the emperour 226 b 10 Erle of Derbies exploits in France and his taking of townes 368 b 40 c 369 a 10 c. Assembleth an armie winneth townes and is victorious 375 a 30 c. His exploits against the infidels 473 b 10. Kéepeth Newland bridge 377 b 20. Ambassador into France his interteinement 1380 a 50 60 c 1381 all 1382 a 10 c. Of Desmond a rebell and others brought to order by the earle of Surrie his power 855 b 60. His strange and miserable end 1365 b 60. His head set on London bridge 1356 a 20 Erle of Essex capteine generall of Uister in Ireland 1259 a 20. How he spent his youthfull yeares 1264 a 10. Perfect in the scriptures 1264 a 30. I fauourer of preachers 40. Expert in chronicles histories c 50. Indued with martiall knowledge and prowesse b 20. His humanitie affablenesse c 1265 a 10. His â—quanimitie 40. He could not awaie with swearing chasing c 50. His deuotion in licknesse 60. Heauenlie contemplation toward his death b
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
Frieries suppressed Bloud of Hales shewed at Pauls crosse Anabaptists The lord marques executed Sir Nicholas Carew executed Creation of new officers Bulworks blockhouses builded Anno Reg. 31 A parlement Attaindors Execution The statute of the six articles An inquest of inquirie The extreme procéeding in execution of the six articles Prouision for defense of the realme Preparation in London for a muster to be made and shewed before the king The wiflers The minstrels Euerie alderman with his ward in order oâ— battell The order of the Londoners in their musters The king taketh view of the Londoners in their musters The number of Londoners in this muster Iohn Stow. Uicar of Wandsworth and other executed Clerkenwell and other suppressed The Palsgraue other strangers come ouer into England The mariage concluded betwixt king Henrie the ladie Anne Cleue I. Stow pag. 1016. Thom. Huntlow his charitie Pensioners instituted Ladie Anne of Cleue is receiued into Calis She landeth in Kent The king commeth to see hir at Rochester The order of receiuing hir on Blackeheath The ladies that receiued hir on Black-heath The kings maiestie on horssebacke Who followed the king The méeting of the king the ladie Anne of Cleue on Blackeheath The kings trumpets and the ladie Anne of Cléeues The king and the ladie Anne ride togither Hir chariot wherein she rode all hir iourneie The king welcommeth hir to Greenwich The mariage is solemnized betwixt king Henrie the ladie Anne of Cleue Iusts and tornements The king and the ladie Anne remooue to Westminster The duke of Norffolke ambassador into France S. Marie Oueries made a parish church Iohn Stow. Erle of Essex deceassed Earle of Oxford deceassed Priests at Calis executed D. Barnes Sir Iohn Shelton sir Nicholas Hare sir Humfreie Browne fraudulent lawiers punished Aduancâ—ment of Thomas Cromwell Sir Iohn Dudleie ouerthrowne â—â—â—rnieng Bâ—rriâ—rs The order of the Rhodes dissolued I S. pag 1019. Saint Iohns in Smithfield suppressed The bishop of Chichester doctor Wilson committed to the Tower Abr. Fle. ex Ed. Hal. Ccxlij The lord Cromwell committed to the Tower Sée Iohn Fox in the Acts Monuments A description of the birth of Thomas Cromwell and other circumstances Thomas Cromwell in most authoritie vnder the king Iohn Fox in the Acts and Monuments Friscobald an Italian sée Iohn Fox in the Acts and Monuments The mariage betwixt the king and the ladie Anne of Cleue adiudged vnlawful The lord Lâ—â—â—onard Grâ—â—â— committed the Tower The prince 〈◊〉 Salerne The lord Hungerford executed for buggerie Execution of Barnes and others Thomas Empson 〈◊〉 obstinate moonke Execution 〈◊〉 treason Pâ—â—lots cause 〈◊〉 murâ—â—â—rs â— death and 〈◊〉 â—â—ought I. 〈◊〉 A Castell built 〈◊〉 Ard. Guisnes fortified The earles of Surrie and Southamton sent to Calis Richard Mekins burnt Sée Iohn Fox in the Acts Monuments Anno Reg. 33. A new rebellion practised in Yorkshire Sir Iohn Neuill executed The countesse of Salisburie beheaded Execution of two of the gard Abr. Fl. ex I. S pag. 1020. Sir Edmund Kneuet arreigned for striking in the court The order of euerie officer about that execution Iudgement vpon Kneuet to lose his hand He is pardoned The lord Leonard Greie beheaded The true report of the cause wherevpon the murther of Iohn Busbrig insued The lord Dacres arreigned before the lord Audleie Lord Dacres executed at Tiburne The king â—â—eth in progresse into Yorkeshâ—re Gifts giueâ— to him by them of Lincolneshire Gifts giuen him by them of Yorkeshire Hull fortifieâ— Diram and Culpeper quéene Katharins paramours At Lincolne saith Hall in August wher she gaue to him a rich cap and a chaine Quéene Katharine detested of incontinent liuing Culpeper and Diram executed Attaindors A parlement The petitioÌ„s of the lords commons of the parlement iâ— the king The quéene and other attainted by parlement The quéenâ— sent to the towre She is beheaded The king proclamed king of Ireland The occasion of sir Arthur Plantagenets trouble The lord Lisle dieth thorough immoderate ioy George Ferrers a burges of the parlement arrested and what mischiefe insued The shiriffes and officers denie the deliuerie of the burgesse The speaker of the parlement declareth all the matter to the lords The shiriffes deliuer the burgesse and are charged to appéere before the speaker The shiriffes committed to the Tower An act passeth for George Ferrers Priuilege of a burgesse of the parlement or of anie seruant to such like officers belonging The king counted it presumption to arrest the burgesse Sir Edward Montacute lord chiefe iustice Anno Reg. 34. A lone Submission of the Irish nobilitie The causâ—s of the wars betwixt England Scotland The wilfull obstinatnesse of the Scotish coÌ„missioners Iames Leirmouth King Henrie forced to take armes against the Scots The double dealing of the Scots in the negotiation about an agréement The English armie entreth into Scotland The earle of Southamptons standard An armie of Scots inuade England The error of the Scots The Scots flie Scotish lords taken at Solem Mosse The number of prisoners and 〈◊〉 taken The death of the king of Scotland Foure and twentie hath Hall Scots prisoners brought to London The Scots prisoners before the councel in the Sâ—aâ— chamber A motion of a marriage betweene prince Edward and the yong Scotish queene The Scots depart into their owne countrie The munifâ—cense of king Henrie to the earle of Angus Archbishop of S. Andrew deadlie enimie to K. Henrie The earle of Arraine Sir Robert Bowes deliuered Ambassadors from Scotland A dearth A necessarie wholsome ordinance for moderation in diet Anno. Reg. 35. A league betwixt the king of England and the emperour Abr. Fl. ex I. S. pag. 1016. Whit meats licenced to be eaten in Lent and noble men punished for breaking the law Summerset an herald killed the offendor dieth as a traitor First iron péeces cast Creations of earles and barons The king marieth the ladie Katharine Par. Corporations fraternities coÌ„munalties paid more as well of their lands as goods as appeareth by the statute Articles demanded of the French king Landerseie besieged The French king commeth to the rescue of Landerseie The French king retireth backe with his armie The emperor breaketh vp his campe A great death in London I. Stow pag. 1â—27 Ambassadors from the emperour The lord Par created earle of Essex The lord Wriothesleie Abr. Fl. ex I S. pag. 1027 Foure Eâ—lipses Germaine Gardner and other executed I Stow 1005. Charitable déeds of sir Iohn Allen. Shiriffes put awaie their officers The earle of Hertford lieutenant of the north The lord admerall Dudleie setteth foorth from London towards Scotland Anno Reg. 36. The armie setteth forward by sea towards Scotland The number of the English armie The English armie landeth in Scoâ—land The Scots offer to impeach the Englishmens passage The Scots flie to Edenburgh The English armie entreth into Lith The prouost of Edenburghs request The earle of Hertfords answer Sir Christopher Morice Edenburgh entered by
gentlemen and lords seruants in euerie part with the citizens they were greatlie incouraged to withstand their enimies Yet the rebels vnder the leading of one Spising bare themselues so stoutlie at Algate that they wan the bulworks there and droue the citizens backe within the portculice entered with them to the number of six or eight but some of them were slaine with the fall of the portculice that was let downe vpon them to kéepe the residue line 50 out and those that were entered within the gate were suddenlie dispatched Héerewith they lashed freelie the one part at the other with guns and bowes although no great hurt was doone with shot till at length Robert Basset alderman that was appointed to the kéeping of this gate with the most part of the citizens and the recorder named Ursewike either of them being well armed in strong iackes commanded the portculice to be drawen vp and maintenantlie rushed foorth vpon line 60 their enimies putting them backe vnto saint Bothulpes church At the same instant the earle Riuers hauing got togither a foure or fiue hundred men well chosen and apparelled for the warre issued foorth at the posterne by the Tower and assailing the Kentishmen euen vpon the point as they were thus put backe mightilie laid vpon them And first he plaged them with the swift and thicke flight of his arrowes and after ioining with them at handstrokes slue and tooke manie of them prisoners so that the rebels were fullie put to flight and followed first to Mile-end and from thense some vnto Poplar some to Stratford and Stepnith and in maner each waie foorth about that part of the citie the chase being followed for the space of two miles in length Manie of them were of Essex and so made their course homewards but the more part of them fled to the water side and getting to their ships passed ouer the Thames to the rest of their companie The other likewise that were busie to assault Bishops gate when they vnderstood that their fellowes were discomfited and fled from Algate they likewise flipped awaie and made the best shift they could to saue themselues There were a seauen hundred of them that fled from Algate and other places flaine outright beside the prisoners And yet there were fiers burning all at once at Algate Bishops gate on the bridge and manie houses consumed with the same fiers But now the bastard vnder whome that companie was directed that had set fire on the bridge when he saw that he might not preuaile and vnderstood the euill succes of those which he had set ouer the Thames he withdrew also and left the bridge Here the hardie manhood of Rafe Iosselin alderman is not to be passed with silence who after he had valiantlie resisted the bastard his band that assaulted the bridge vpon their retire sallied foorth vpon them and following them in chase alongst the water side till they came beyond Ratcliffe slue and tooke verie manie of them The bastard notwithstanding gathered his companies togither and with such as were willing to remaine with him incamped on Blackeheath by the space of thrée daies next insuing to wit the sixteenth seauentéenth and eightéenth of Maie vtterlie despairing of his wished preie sith he had béene repelled from London to his vtter confusion And now to conclude hearing that king Edward was comming with a right puissant armie the said bastard and his people durst no longer abide but brake vp and dispersed themselues some one waie and some an other They of Calis got them thither againe with all spéed and such as were of other countries repaired likewise to their homes and manie of the Kentishmen went also to their houses The bastard with his mariners and such riotous rebels robbers and wicked persons as sought nothing but spoile got them to shipboord and with all their vessels drew downe to the coast King Edward hauing assembled an armie of thirtie thousand men as some write and accompanied in maner with all the great lords of England came to London the one and twentith of Maie being tuesdaie where he was honourablie receiued by the maior aldermen and other worshipfull citizens where euen vpon their first meeting with him he dubbed diuerse of them knights as the maior the recorder other aldermen and worshipfull commoners of the citie which had manfullie and valiantlie acquit themselues against the bastard Fauconbridge his wicked companie of rebels Moreouer here is to be remembred that poore king Henrie the sixt a little before depriued as ye haue heard of his realme and imperiall crowne was now in the Tower spoiled of his life by Richard duke of Glocester as the constant fame ran who to the intent that his brother king Edward might reigne in more suertie murthered the said king Henrie with a dagger Howbeit some writers of that time fauoring altogither the house of Yorke haue recorded that after he vnderstood what losses had chanced vnto his fréends and how not onelie his sonne but also all other his chéefe partakers were dead and dispatched he tooke it so to hart that of pure displeasure indignation and melancholie he died the three and twentith of Maie The dead corps on the Ascension euen was conueied with billes and glaues pompouslie if you will call that a funerall pompe from the Tower to the church of saint Paule and there laid on a beire or coffen bare faced the same in presence of the beholders did bléed where it rested the space of one whole daie From thense he was caried to the Black-friers and bled there likewise and on the next daie after it was conueied in a boat without priest or clerke torch or taper singing or saieng vnto the monasterie of Chertfeie distant from London fiftéene miles and there was it first buried but after line 10 it was remooued to Windesor and there in a new vawt newlie intoomed He reigned eight and thirtie yeares six moneths and od daies and after his readeption of the crowne six moneths He liued two and fiftie yeares hauing by wife one onelie sonne called Edward prince of Wales He was of a seemelie stature of bodie slender to which proportion all other members were answerable his face beautifull wherein continuallie was resident the bountie of mind with the which he was line 20 inwardlie indued Of his owne naturall inclination he abhorred all the vices as well of the bodie as of the soule His patience was such that of all the iniuries to him doone which were innumerable he neuer asked vengeance thinking that for such aduersitie as chanced to him his sinnes should be forgotten and forgiuen What losses soeuer happened vnto him he neuer esteemed nor made anie account therof but if anie thing were doone that might sound as an offense towards God he sore lamented and with line 30 great repentance sorowed for it So then verie vnlike it is that he died of anie wrath indignation and displeasure bicause
his businesse about the kéeping of the crowne on his head tooke no better successe except peraduenture ye will saie that it gréeued him for that such slaughters and mischéeues as had chanced within this land came to passe onelie through his follie and default in gouernment or that more is for his fathers his grandfathers and his owne vniust vsurping and deteining line 40 of the crowne But howsoeuer it was for these before remembred and other the like properties of reputed holinesse which was said to rest in him it pleased God to worke miracles for him in his life time as men haue listed to report By reason whereof king Henrie the seauenth sued to Pope Iulio the second to haue him canonized a saint But for that the canonizing of a king séemed to be more costlie than for a bishop the said king left off his sute in that behalfe thinking better to saue his monie than to purchase a new holie daie of line 50 saint Henrie with so great a price remitting to God the iudgement of his will and intent ¶ But bicause princes princelie qualified can not be too highlie praised I will here record a collection of his commendable conditions dooings and saiengs as I find them set downe to my hand to his perpetuall renowme and right worthie of imitation not onelie of such as are singled out from among infinite thousands to be magnified with roialtie but also of priuat line 60 and meane men that conuerse and liue one with an other in the world This king hauing inioied as great prosperitie as fauourable fortune could afoord as great troubles on the other side as she frowning could powre out yet in both the states he was patient and vertuous that he maie be a patterne of most perfect vertue as he was a worthie example of fortunes inconstancie He was plaine vpright farre from fraud wholie giuen to praier reading of scriptures and almes-deeds of such integritie of life that the bishop which had béene his confessour ten yeares auouched that he had not all that time committed anie mortall crime so continent as suspicion of vnchast life neuer touched him and hauing in Christmasse a shew of yoong women with their bare breasts laid out presented before him he immediatlie departed with these words Fie fie for shame forsooth you be too blame Before his marriage he liked not that women should enter his chamber and for this respect he committed his two brethren by the moothers side Iasper and Edmund to most honest vertuous prelats to be brought vp So farre he was from couetousnesse that when the executors of his vncle the bishop of Winchester surnamed the rich cardinall would haue giuen him two thousand pounds he plainelie refused it willing them to discharge the will of the departed and would scarselie condescend at length to accept the same summe of monie toward the indowing of his colleges in Cambridge Eaton He was religiouslie affected as the time then was that at principall holidaies he would weare sackecloth next his skin Oth he vsed none but in most earnest matters these words Forsooth and forsooth He was so pitifull that when he saw the quarter of a traitor against his crowne ouer Criplegate he willed it to be taken awaie with these words I will not haue anie christian so cruellie handled for my sake Manie great offenses he willinglie pardoned and receiuing at a time a great blow by a wicked man which compassed his death he onelie said Forsooth forsooth yée doo fowlie to smite a king annointed so An other also which thrust him into the side with a sword when he was prisoner in the Tower was by him pardoned when he was restored to his state and kingdome Not long before his death being demanded whie he had so long held the crowne of England vniustlie he replied My father was king of England quietlie inioieng the crowne all his reigne and his father my grandsire was also king of England and I euen a child in my cradell was proclamed and crowned king without anie interruption and so held it fortie yeares well-neere all the states dooing homage vnto me as to my antecessors wherefore I maie saie with king Dauid The lot is fallen vnto me in a faire ground yea I haue a goodlie heritage my helpe is from the Lord which saueth the vpright in heart This good king being of himselfe alwaies naturallie inclined to doo good and fearing least he might séeme vnthankefull to almightie God for his great benefits bestowed vpon him since the time he first tooke vpon him the regiment of his realme determined about the six and twentith yeare of his reigne for his primer notable worke as by the words of his will I find expressed to erect and found two famous colledges in the honor and worship of his holy name and for the increase of vertue the dilatation of cunning and establishment of christian faith whereof the one in Cambridge to be called his colledge roiall of our ladie and saint Nicholas and the other at Gaton beside Windsore to be called his colledge of our blessed ladie And for the performance of this his deuout purpose he infeoffed certeine bishops with other noble and worshipfull personages by his letters patents with lands and possessions parcell of his inheritance of the duchie of Lancaster to the cleare value of well néere foure thirtie hundred pounds by yéere Which letters patents he after confirmed by his act of parlement declaring also by his will vnto his said feoffées his intent and meaning how the same shuld be imploied vpon the edifications of his said two colledges Whereof in my iudgement the deuise is so excellent and the buildings so princelie and apt for that purpose as I cannot omit to set foorth vnto you the verie plot of the whole colledge in Cambridge euen as I find mentioned almost verbatim in his will supposing that if the rest of the house had procéeded according to the chappell alreadie finished as his full intent and meaning was the like colledge could scant haue béene found againe in anie christian land The words of the will are thus As touching the dimensions of the church of my said colledge of our ladie and S. Nicholas of Cambridge I haue deuised and appointed that the same church shall conteine in length 288 foot of assise without line 10 anie Iles and all of the widenesse of fortie foot And the length of the same church from the west end vnto the altars at the quiere doore shall conteine an hundred and twentie foot And from the prouosts stall vnto the gréece called Gradus chori ninetie foot for thirtie six stalles on either side of the same quiere answering to threescore and ten fellowes and ten priests conducts which must be De prima forma And from the said stalles vnto the east end of the said church threescore two foot of assise Also a reredosse bearing the line 20 roodloft departing the quiere
flieth into England 518 a 60. Gospatrike ¶ Sée Gospatrike Guido ¶ Sée Guido Erle Hastings of Penbroke as he was learning to iust is wounded to death 467 b 20. Helias ¶ Sée Helias Henrie of Essex dishonoured 67 a 10. Henrie of Huntington his valiantnesse 50 a 10. Herbert of Penbroke prepareth against the earle of Warwike 672 a 60 b 10. Holland of Huntington 465 b 60. A great exploit doone by him against the French 558 b 50 c. Holland of Kent in fauour with Henrie the fourth he marrieth a daughter of a lord of Millain 532 a 40 50. Sent to the sea with an armie 534 b 20. Hugh of Chester deceseth 105 b 10. Hugh of March commeth ouer to Henrie the third and offereth him seruice 209 a 10. Worketh to induce the Normans and Poictouins to fauour king Henrie the third 210 a 40. Hugh of Montferrat taken prisoner 42 b 20. Hubert de Burgh created earle of Kent and whie 209 b 60. In Henrie the thirds displeasure note 211 b 10. Escapeth out of prison and taketh sanctuarie 217 a 30 c. He is brought backe restored to sanctuarie rescrued conueied into Wales discharged of his office of chéefe iustice taks sanctuarie reléeued by the Londoners apprehended cast in prison and banished 215 a 50 c. Hubert of Morienne and his daughter sold for monie 84 a 60 b 10 Erle Iasper of Penbroke 678 a 60. Beheadeth Roger Uaughan passeth ouer into Britaine with his nephue 693 a 50 60. Iohn of an ambitious nature 132 a 40. No fréend to the bishop of Elie 132 a 10. In armes to vsurpe the kingdome 137 b 60. Purposed to seize vpon the kingdom in his brothers absence 134 b 50. Submitteth himselfe to his brother Richard the first and craueth pardon for his offense 146 b 60. Pardoned of all his rebellions 147 a 10. Iohn Scot of Chester poisoned by his wife his foure sisters 220 b 60. Iohn of Mortaigne licenced to returne into England 121 b 10 Erle Lambert ¶ Sée Lambert Lacie of Lincolne deceaseth his buriall his request on his death bed 320 b 30 Erle Mandeuill of Essex licenced to go into the holie land 101 a 10. William of Essex taken 56 a 20. Marchar of Mercia ¶ Sée Marchar Marshall of Penbroke his oration in the assemblie of péeres 197 a 40 Recouereth his castelles taken by the prince of Wales 205 a 30. Killed with a fall from his horsse 228 b 60. Deceaseth his buriall 202 a 60 213 b 60 Mathew of Bullongne 87 b 10. Wounded and dieth 88 b 40. Montacute of Salisburie a politike man and valiant 598 b 60. Miles of Hereford 51 b 10. Deceaseth 56 a 10. Mortimer of March his good seruice in Ireland 440 a 30. Slaine by the wild Irish his issue 448 b 10. Last erle of March of that name deceseth without issue note 590 a 10. Montgomerie ¶ Sée Montgomerie Mowbraie ¶ Sée Mowbraie Mulbraie ¶ Sée Mulbraie Erle Neuill of Westmerland c Prepareth to resist the kings enimies his subtill policie 529 b 40 50. Persuadeth king Henrie the fift vnto the conquest of Scotland 546 a 40. Neuill of Salisburie his issue 641 b 60 Erle Patrike of Salisburie slaine 75 b 30. Persie of Northumberland created 1133 a 60. Warden of the whole marches 875 b 50. Sent to the seas 455 a 50. Lieutenant of Calis 475 b 10· Conspireth with Owen Glendouer 521 b 50 522 523. Restored 545 a 20. Beheaded at Yorke 1257 a 20. Murthered himselfe in the Tower 1403 b 50 A quest of inquirie vpon the fact 50 1404 all Buried in the Tower b 20. The whole maner of killing himselfe b 40 c to 1419 a 10. Persie of Worcester leaueth the king and flieth to the duke of Lancaster 500 a 10. Sent ouer into Gascoigne to appease the people 518 a 10 20. Petwike of Perch 67 b 10. Philip of Flanders 87 b 10. A meane to make peace betwene the kings of England France 114 a 60. His deuotion at Thomas Beckets toome 100 b 60. Doth homage to the king of England 103 b 60. His release made at Henrie the seconds request 95 a 60. Plantagenet of Warwike son and heire to George duke of Clarence committed to the Tower 762 a 10 Erle Rafe ¶ Sée Rafe Raimond of Barzelon 67 b 10. Of Tripolis 129. Ranulph of Chester taketh his wife the duchesse of Britaine prisoner 150 b 20. Laieth séege to Montsorell castell 199 a 60. He raiseth his séege 199 b 20. Returneth from the holie land 202 b 20. Goeth into the holie land 202 b 40. Deceaseth thrise married the partition of his lands his exploits 215 b 40. Reinold of Cornwall base sonne to king Henrie the first departed this life 95. b 40. Reinold Greie of Kent 1227 b 40. Deceaseth 1258 a 20. Richard obeieth his father Henrie 109 a 60. Seizeth vpon his father Henrie the seconds treasure 111 a 30. Is rebelled against he inuadeth the earle of Tholous lands 112 a 60. Reuolteth from his father vnto the French king 113 a 50. Richard of Chester vnder king Henrie the firsts tuition 32 b 10. He his wife drowned 41 b 10. Richard of Clares submission 92 b 20. Richard of Cornwall returneth out of Gascoigne 209 a 40. Departeth from the court secretlie ioineth himselfe with the erls of Chester and Penbroke 209 a 60. King of Almaine deceaseth his buriall and issue 275 a 60. His sonne murthered b 20. Richard of Essex 961 a 60. Richard of Glocesters submission 92 b 20. Richard of Glocester dieth 95 b 50. Richard of Poitow king Henrie the seconds son his victorie against the Brabanders 98 b 50. His sharpe assalt of Talburgh 104 a 10. Robert of Derbie 92 a 20. Robert of Glocester Henrie the firsts base sonne 37 a 50. An enimie to king Stephan 48 b 50. Described 53 a 10. Commeth to Glocester 51 a 60. Father in law to Iohn king Richards brother 117 a 30. Taken prisoner 54 a 50. Dieth 56 b 50. Robert of Lecester famous and valiant 134 a 50 60. Put to flight 89 a 30. Taken prisoner 144 b 40 90 a 40. Offer for his ransome 146 b 40. Robert Dudleie created baron and erle 1207 a 60 b 10. Inuested into the order of saint Michaell 1209 a 20. ¶ Sée Erle of Leicester Robert of Mellent rebelleth against king Henrie the first 42 b 10. Robert of Richmond against the Frenchmen his martiall acts in danger to be slaine 359 b 10 c 60. Robert de Belesme of Shrewesburie rebelleth 30 a 30. Robert de Uéere owner of Hidingham castell 190 b 50. Robert passeth ouer into Normandie 55 a 20. Roger Fitzmiles of Hereford 66 a 10 Erle Saier de Quincie of Winchester 199 a 60. Seimor of Hereford lieutenant of the North goeth against the Scots 961 b 30. His answer to the prouost of Edenborough 962 a 30. Simon of Hampton 51 b 60 52 b 20. Dieth 60 b 10. Simon of Huntington dieth 108 a 20. Simon of Leicester maried