This Earle of good meaning Pierce Butler and Margaret Fitz Girald espoused to vnite the houses in friendship matched his sister Margaret Fitz Giralde with Pierce Butler Earle of Ossorie whome he also help to recouer y e Erledome of Ormond into the which after the deceasse of the Earle Iames a Basterde Butler had by abatement intruded Greate and manifolde were the miseries the Lady Margaret susteyned hir husband Pierce Butler beeing so egrely pursued by the vsurper as hee durst not beare vp head but was forced to houer and lurke in Wooddes and Forrestes The noble woman being great with childe and vppon necessitie constreyned to vse a spare dyet for hir onely sustenaunce was milke she longed sore for wine and calling hyr Lorde and a trusty seruaunte of hys Iames White Iames White vnto hir shee requested them both to helpe hyr to some Wyne for shee was not able any longer to endure so streight a life Truely Margaret quoth the Earle of Ossorie thou shalt haue store of Wine within thys foure and twentie houres or else thou shalte feede alone on milke for me The nexte daye following Pierce hauyng intelligence that hys enimie the bace Butler woulde haue trauayled from Donmore to Kilkennie notwithstanding hee were accompanyed with syxe horsemenne yet Pierce hauyng none but hys Lackey did forstalle hym in the way and with a couragious charge The Basterde Butler slayne◅ gored the Basterd through with his speare Thys prosperous calme succeeding the former boysterous storme the Lady Margaret began to take hearte hir naturall stoutenesse floted as well by the remembraunce of hir noble birth as by the intelligence of hir honorable match Kildare all this while kept in authoritie notwithstanding the pushes giuen againste him by secrete heauers that enuyed his fortune and sought to nourish the olde grudge was at lēgth by their priuie packing Kildare sent for into England fetched vp to the Court of Englande by commission and caused hym to bee examined vppon dyuers interrogatories touching the affayres of Irelande Maurice Fitz Thomas Lord Iustice Hee left in hys roomth Maurice Fitz Thomas of Lackragh Lorde Iustice and shortly after came ouer Lorde Lieutenaunt Thomas Howarde Earle of Surrey who was after Duke of Northfolke Surrey Lord Lieutenant of Irelande 1521 Grandfather to the last Duke accompanyed with two hundred yeomen of the Crowne before whome shortly after his repaire thither there was a Parliamente holden at Dublin A Parliamente holden at Dublin in whiche there past an acte that al wilful burning of corne as wel in reekes in the fields as in Villages and Townes shuld be high treason Item an acte agaynste lodyng wolles and floxe vppon payne of forfayture of the double value of the same the one halfe to the Kyng and the other halfe to him that will sue therefore Item that any person seised of lands rentes or tenementes in possession or in vse vnto the yerely value of tenne markes aboue the charges in fee simple fee tayle or for tearme of lyfe copy holde or aunciente demeane shall passe in euery attaint While the Lord Lieutenante sate at dynner in the Castle of Dublin The Moores in Rebellion hee hearde newes that the Moores with a mayne army were euen at the entrie of the bordures readye to inuade the English pale Immediately menne were leuyed by Iohn Fitz Simons Iohn Fitz Simons then Maior of Dublin and the nexte morrowe ioyning them to his hande the Lieutenant marched towardes the Frontiers of Leixe The Moores vppon the Lieutenant hys approche seuered themselues into sundry companies and vnderstandyng that the carriage was dragging after the army and slenderly māned certayne of them charged the Lieutenante hys seruauntes and suche of the Citizens as were appoynted to guarde the carriage Patricke Fitz Simons a strong sturdy yonker Patricke Fitz Simons kept the enimies such tacke as he seazed part of them away rescued the carriage slewe two of the Rebelles and broughte their heads wyth him to maister Maior his tent The next morning two of the Lieutenaunte his men that slunke away from Fitz Simons thinking that the carriage had bin lost aduertised their Lorde that Fitz Simons fledde away and the Moores were so many in companie as it had bin but folly for two to bicker with so great a number The Lieutenante posted in a rage to the Maior his pauilion telling hym that his man Fitz Simons was a cowardly Traytor in rūning away when hee shoulde haue defended the carriage What am I my Lord quoth Patricke Fitz Simons skipping in his shirt out of the tente with both the heads in his hand My Lorde I am no cowarde I stoode to my tacklings when your men gaue me the slippe I rescued the carriage and haue heere sufficiente tokens of my manhoode tumbling downe both the heads Saist thou so Fitz Simons quoth the Lieutenant I crie thee mercie and by this George A valiant wish I woulde to God it had bin my good bap ▪ to haue bin in thy companie in that skirmish So drinking to Fitz Simons in a bolle of wine and honorably rewarding him for his good seruice he returned to his pauiliō where hauing knowledge of Omore his recule he pursued him with a troupe of horsemen The Lieutenant thus passing forward The Earle of Surrey in daunger to haue bin slai◅ was espyed by a gunner of Omores who lodged close in a woodde side and watching hys time hee discharged his peece at the verye face of the Lieutenante strake the viser off hys helmet and pierced no further as God would This did he retchlesse in manner what became of himselfe so hee might amaze the armye for a time and surely hereby he brake the swiftnes of their following and aduantaged the flight of his Captaine which thing hee wanne with the price of his owne bloud For the Souldyers would no further till they hadde ransackt all the nookes of thys woodde verily suspecting some ambush thereabout and in seueral knottes ferretted out thys gunner Fitz Williams Bedlowe whome Fitz Williams and Bedlowe of the Roche were fayne to mangle and hew in peeces bycause the wretche would neuer yeelde In the meane whyle 1523 Surrey sent for home defyance was proclaymed with Fraunce and Scotlande both at once whiche moued the Kyng to call home Surrey out of Irelande that hee myghte employ hym in those warres Hys prowesse integritie good nature and course of gouernement the Countrey muche commended Piers Butler Earle of Ossory Piers Butler Earle of Ossorie Lord Deputie was appoynted Lorde Deputie In the meane time Kildare attending the King his pleasure for his dispatche recouered fauoure through the instance of the Marques Dorset whose daughter dame Elizabeth Grey he espoused and so departed home 1524 Robert Talbot of Belgard Now was partaker of all y e Deputies counsell one Roberte Talbot of Belgarde whome the Giraldines deadly hated him they procured to keepe a Kalender of all
kingdoâ—â— And hauing ruled his subiects with great iustice by the space of .xl. yeres or therabout he died after whose deceasse succeeded Fandufus Fandufus who had issue Ethion and he â—â—gat Glancus whiche Glancus begat Noitafilus â–ª the father of Rothsay all of them raigned successiuely 〈◊〉 the Scotish men in Irelande as in the description of that land more plainly may appeare Rothsay This Rothsay perceyuing the Scottish nation encreased to a greater multitude in Ireland than the country was wel able to sustaine transported ouer certaine numbers of them into the Iles aunciently called â—…boâ—â—es The Scottes â—…erie ouer into the westerne Isles afterwards Hâ—…bâ—…ides but now by the Scottes the western Iles bycause they lie on the west halfe of Scotlande and there they placed them to inhabite They inhabite the Isle of Rothsay He named also that Isle which he first beganne to possesse Rothsay after his owne name Which translation of these Scottish men into those Isles was 133. yeares after the â—…oroâ—…ation of Brechus This Rothsay had not beene long in those Isles but that hearing of his fathers deceasse he returned into Irelande to succede in his place Where the Scottish men pâ—â—â—eyuing the fertilitie of the Isles and how the same serued wel for the breeding of cattel became so desirous to inhabite the same that they went ouer thither dayly ingreate numbers with their wiues children and whole families so that within a â—…horte time they multiplied in such wise that the Isles were not large ynough to finde them sustenauce The Scottes inhabite the maine lande of Scotlande by reason wherof diuerse companies of them got them ouer into the maine lande of the North part of this our Bryâ—…taine called as then Albion where they first inhabited a waste and desert portion thereof lying to waste 〈◊〉 west neuer against the foreremembred Isles by â—…heâ—… alreadie inhabited Anno mundi 338â—… 4617. H.B. They inhabite the countrey called Arguile That part where they first beganne to 〈◊〉 themselues they named Arguelâ—…lia after the name of their first Captain and guide Gathelus but the Inhabitantes at this day call it Arguyle They make lawes and ordinances At their first comming because they perceyued they coulde not liue without lawes and 〈◊〉 gouernment they seuered thereof 〈◊〉 into â—…thâ—â— or as it were into hundreds 〈◊〉 wee pertaken euery of the same hauing a speciall gouernmentâ—… see their lawes ministred Gouernours had in reuerence and iustice 〈◊〉 whiche gouernours were had in suche reuerence that they were as â—â—ch afrayde to sweare by the name of any one of them as they 〈◊〉 the Goddes In this state they continued many 〈…〉 They liue in peace encreasing in pubcâ—â—â— of 〈…〉 mightie motion and liued in good 〈◊〉 ouâ—… trouble of watres or 〈…〉 vpon 〈◊〉 any â—…raine 〈◊〉 In this meane time also The Pictes came into Scotland one of Germanie the Pictes whiche were 〈◊〉 people of Germanie as most writers do agree came 〈…〉 also in 〈◊〉 part of Brytayne which nowe is comprehended likewise within Scotlande Some say that they came forth of the hyther part of Scithia and other there be whiche holde opinion that they discended of the people named in olde time Agathirsi whiche inhabited in a part of Sarmatia were called Pictes bycause they vsed to paynt and colour theyr faces or as some suppose for that they vsed gay apparell of dyuerse and sundrie colours but the same wryters generally confesse that they first came into Germanie or hyther Scithia that is to meane Denmarke many yeares before they entred into Brytaine Pictes came out of Denmarke The Pictes came first into Orkney chaunging their seates came into the maine lande of Scotlande Pictlande Firth Truth it is that they first came out of Germanie into the Isles of Orkeney and there inhabiting for a season feryed ouer into Cathenese whereof it came to passe that the streyte there at this present is called Pictland firth and so in coÌ„tinuance of time encreasing in number they passed further into the lande and got possession of Rosse Murray land Merne and Anguse and after that entring into Fiffe and Lowthian they droue such Brytaynes from thence as inhabited there before whiche were but a simple kinde of people as those that applyed nothing but onely nourishing and breeding of cat-cattaile These Pictes as by conference of tymes may appeare entred first into Scotlande aboute the yeare after the creation of the worlde 3633 and being once ariued 4867. H.B. they began to erect and builde certaine fortes The Pictes make strong holdes wherein they might defend themselues if any force of enimies shoulde chaunce to put them vnto such shiftes but perceyuing they could not continue any time without wiues to mainteyne their stock and progenie by bringing forth issue they thought it expedient to require of the Scottishe men some number of women to marrie with The Pictes require womeÌ„ of the Sottes that thereby a sure alliance might be had betwixt both nations and that if neede requyred they might the better defende them from their common enimies the Brytaynes whome they knewe woulde be lothe to see the encrease of eyther Scottes or Pictes as those that were straungers to them and vsurpers vpon theyr confines â–ª A league made This request was graunted and a ful league ratifyed betwixt the Scottishe men and Pictes with couenauntes â–ª that neither of them shoulde seeke to vsurpe anye peece of that whiche the other helde but â—â—ntent themselues wyth theyr owne marckes And further hee that attempted to wrong the onâ—… shoulde bee accompted an enimie to bothe â–ª and agaynste whome they shoulde bee readie to ioyne theyr powers in eyther others defence The succession of the gouernment Also it was accorded that if at any tyme it were doubtfull who ought to succeede in the gouernment of the Pictishe kingdome some oâ—…e discended of those Scottish women should be admitted to the throne This allyaunce was euen at the first mislyked of the Brytaynes Their alliâ—â—â—â— misliked who doubted that if these two Nations shoulde once bee ioyned inseparatly togyther they might in tyme to come â—…ncrease to greater puissaunce than should stand well with the suretie of their estate Therefore studying howe to preuent that daunger Dissâ—â—tiâ—â— a present destroyer they thought the readyest meane to destroy both those Nations was if they might bring it to passe to sette them firste togither by the eares amongest themselues that afterwardes when their powers were by suche meanes sorâ—… abated they might the more easily subdue them at their pleasures This deuise the Brytaynes kept secrete for a time till occasion serued to worke theyr intent In whiche meane while the affinitie betwixt the Scottes and Pictes increased to the welth of both nations and for the issue sake great loue and friendshippe was mainteyned amongst them the Pictes applyed themselues to tylling the grounde and buylding of
rested a while there to refreshe them Braunches of trees hee commaunded euerye man to get a bough of some tree or other of that wood in his hand as bigge as he might beare and to march forth therwith in such wise that on the next morow they might come closely and without sight in thys manner within viewe of hys enimies On the morow when Makbeth beheld them comming in this sort hee first marueyled what the matter ment but in the end remembred himselfe that the prophecie which he had hearde long before that time of the comming of Byrnane wood to Dunsinnane Castell was likely to bee now fulfilled Neuerthelesse he brought hys men in order of battell Makbeth setteth his men in order of battel Makbeth fleeeth and is pursued of Makduffe and exhorted them to doe valiantly howbeit his enimies had scarcely cast from them their boughes when Makbeth perceiuing their numbers betook him streight to flight whom Makduffe pursued with great hatred eueÌ„ till he came vnto Lunfannain where Makbeth perceiuing that Makduffe was hard at his back leapt beside his horse saying thou traytor what meaneth it that thou shouldest thus in vaine follow me that am not appoynted to be slain by any creature that is borne of a woman come on therefore and receyue thy rewarde which thou hast deserued for thy paynes and therewithall he lyfted vp his sworde thinking to haue slaine him But Makduffe quickly auoyding from his horse ere he came at him answered with his naked sworde in his hande saying it is true Makbeth and now shall thine insatiable crueltie haue an ende for I am euen he that thy wysards haue tolde the of who was neuer borne of my mother but ripped out of hir wombe therewithall he stept vnto him slue him in the place Makbeth is slaine Then cutting his heade from the shoulders hee set it vpon a poll and brought it vnto Malcolme This was the end of Makbeth after he had raigned .xvij. yeares ouer the Scottishmen In the beginning of his raigne he accomplished many worthie actes right profitable to the common wealth as ye haue heard but afterwarde by illusion of the diuell he defamed â—…he same with most terrible crueltie He was slaine in the yeare of the incarnation 1057. and in the .xvj. 1057. Io. Ma. 1061. H.B. 8. H.B. yeare of king Edwardes raigne ouer the English men MAlcolme Cammore thus recouering the realme as ye haue hearde by support of king Edward in the .xvj. Malcolme yeare of the same Edwards raign he was crowned at Scone the .xxv day of April in the yeare of our Lorde .1057 Immediately after his coronation he called a Parliament at Forfair A Parliament at Forfair in the which he rewarded them with landes and liuings that had assisted him agaynst Makbeth aduauncing them to fees and offices as he saw cause and commaunded that specially those that bare the surname of any office or landes shoulde haue and enioye the same He created many Earles Lordes Barons and Knightes Thanes changed into Earles Many of them that before were Thanes were at this time made Earles as Fife Menteth Atholl Leuenox Murray Cathnes Rosse and Angus These were the first Earles that haue beene heard of amongest the Scottishe men as their hystories make mention Many new surnames were takeÌ„ vp at this time amongst them Surnames as Cauder Lokart Gordon Seyton Lauder Wawane Meldrun Schaw Leirmouth Libertoun Strachquhen Cargill Rattrey Dundas Cockbourne Myrtoun MenÈeis Abercrummy Lesly with many other that had possessions giuen to them which gaue names to the owners for the time Others got their surnames by offices as Stewarde Durwarde and Banerman Also the proper names of many valiant captaynes were turned into generall surnames as Kennedy Graham Hay with dyuerse other to long here to rehearse So that it came to passe then as it hath done many tymes sithence that new surnames haue worne the olde out of vse In the foresayde Parliament thus holden at Forfair in the beginning of his raign there were many holesome ordinances established both apperteyning to ciuill administration and also to the ecclesiasticall iurisdiction In rewarde also of Makduffes seruice Makduffes Earle of Fife his aduauncement who as ye haue heard chiefly ayded him to the atteyning of the crowne he honoured him and his posteritie with three sortes of priuiledges Fyrst that the Earle of Fife for the tyme being Priuiledges graunted vnto Makduffes lynage at the coronation of a king should by his office set the crowne on the kings head The second was that when the king should giue battaile to his enimies the same Earle should leade the vauntgard of his host The thirde that the lynage of Makduffe should enioy regall authoritie and power within al their lands roomthes as to appoynt officers and iudges for the hearing and determining of all matters and controuersies treason onely excepted and that if any of their men or tenants were called to answere in any Court out of their circuit they might appeale to their owne iudges to bee appoynted as before is expressed Iohannes Maior wryteth in his Chronicle Iohannes Maior that the thirde priuiledge which Malcolme graunted vnto this Makduffe and his posteritie was this that for euery Gentleman that any of theÌ„ should hap to kill by chaunce medley and not vpon pretensed malice for the summe of .xxiiij. markes he should redeeme his punishment due for the same for the casuall slaughter of a meaner person he should be fined at .xij. Markes so that murtherers were wont to say that if they were able to pay that summe vnto the Kynboc then ought to be released of further punitian by Makduffes priuiledge But this third priuiledge togither with the other two former grauntes the sayde Maior sore reproueth and not without cause as maye appeare considering the naturall inclination of that people vnto murther which by this meanes nourishing secrete hatred and malice in theyr heartes might vnder the clokeÌ„ of casuall falling out slea whom they lusted It was ordeyned also at this Parliament that Barons which had liberties within theÌ„selues Gybets and draw welles should make gybbets whereon men that deserued death shoulde suffer execution and also draw Welles wherein women that were condemned should be drowned according to the order of the ciuill lawes vsed in Scotland Makbethes lawes abrogated Moreouer all the lawes that Makbeth had ordeyned were abrogate at this Parliament Thus whilest Malcolme was busied in setting orders amongst his subiects tydings came that one Lugtake surnamed the foole Luktake being eyther the sonne or as some write the cousin of the late mentioned Makbeth was conueyed wyth a great number of such as had taken part with the sayde Makbeth vnto Seone Lugtake crowned at Scone and there by their support receyued the Crowne as lawfull inheritor thereto To appease this businesse was Makduffe Earle of Fife sent with full commission in the kings name Lugtake
the trauel of those that wente too and fro betwixte the Bishop and the kinnesfolkes of Liulfe a daye was appoynted on the which the Bishop should come to a farther communication with them at Gates head Thus may wee see what followed of the neglecting of iustice in the Byshoppe for if he hadde eyther banished Gilbert and other hys complices in the murther accordingly as hee pretended to doe or otherwise haue seene due punishmente executed agaynste them the peoples rage had neuer proceeded so farre as it dyd for they coulde not perswade themselues to thynke but that the Bishoppe was giltie and priuie to Liulfes death sith he hadde receyued the murtherers into hys house the same nyghte in whiche the facte was done and kepte them still about hym whyche hys â—…earing with them cost hym hys owne lyfe as before yee haue hearde whereby it appeareth that it is not inough for a gouernoure to bee cleere from the knowledge of euill before the factâ—… and at the tyme in which it is done by others if hee see not them that do it duly punished for their offences bycause that when iustice is suppressed and hathe not hir due course those that susteine iniurie are euer desirous of reuenge beeing ready to attempte it by vnlawfull meanes of themselues in priuate sorte when through lacke of ordinarie course of lawes they are debarred from it But nowe to the purpose of the Historie When Bishoppe Odo was come into those partice to reuenge the Bishops death with an army as we haue sayde hee sore afflicted the countrey by spoyling it on euery side with great crueltie Heere yee shall vnderstand that King William placed and eftsoones remoued dyuers Rulers ouer the Northumbers for firste hee appointed one Copsius to haue the rule of that countrey in place of Markar that before had helde the same Sim. Dunel This Copsie expulsed Osulfe the sonne of Earle Edulfe that was brother to Earle Aldred whiche Osulfe was substitute vnto the Earles Edwyne and Morkar who although hee was dryuen out of hys gouernamente by Copsi yet recouering his forces againe hee slewe the same Copsie as hee entred into the Churche of Newburne but within a fewe monethes after the same Osulfe as hee ranne with hys Horse againste a Theefe hee was thrust through the body with a Speare whyche the Theefe helde in his hande and so dyed Then Gospatrike that was sonne to Aldgitha the daughter of Vthred sometyme Earle of Northumberlandâ—… was assigned by Kyng William the Conquerour to haue the gouernemente there Hys mother Aldgitha was daughter to Vthred sometyme Earle of Northumberlande begote vpon Elfgina the daughter of Kyng Egelred Some write that Gospatricke purchased the Earledome of Kyng William and so helde it for a tyme till the same Kyng tooke it from him agayne and then gaue it vnto Earle Walteife or Waldeue and then nexte after hym the foresayde Bishoppe of Durham Walcher hadde the whole administration committed to hym but after hys decesse hee beeyng slayne as yee haue hearde one Albericke ruled that countrey and lastly Roberte Mulbray a ryghte noble personage and for hys wisedome and valiauncie highly renowmed with all men was created Earle of Northumberlande and gouerned the people of those parties in suche politique and wise order The foundation of Vniuersitie colledge in Oxforde An. Reg. 15. 1081 that during hys tyme it is hard to say whether hys quietnesse or the obedieÌ„ce of hys people was lykely to be the greater In like manner after the foresayde Walcher one William was created Bishop of Durham who was the originall founder of the Vniuersitie Colledge in Oxford and by whose asistance the Monkes gaping both for riches ease and possessions founde the meanes to displace the secular Priestes of the Colledge of Durham An. Reg. 16. 1082 that they mighte get into theyr roomes as they did indeede soone after to thiâ—…e greate lucre and aduantage But to returne againe to the course of the historie Shortly after the reuenge of the deathe of Walcher the Bishop of Durham the forenamed Bishop Odo the Kyngs brother was suspected of some vntroth and sinister dealing and therevpon was sent as a banished man into NormaÌ„dy or rather as other write committed to prison An. Reg. 17. 1083 where hee remayned not as a Clearke but as a Baron of the Realme for he was both Bishoppe and Earle of Kente The Kyng hauyng at length obteyned some rest from warres dothe practise by sundry meanes howe to enriche hys coffers and therefore hee raysed a tribute thorough out all the Kyngdome for the better leuying whereof hee appoynted all the subiectes of hys Realme to be numbred also all the Cities and Townes Villages and Hamlets Abbeys Monasteries Priories to bee registred Moreouer hee caused a certificate to be made of euery mannes substaunce and what hee myghte dispende by yeare and caused theyr names to bee written whyche helde Knyghtes fees and were bounde thereby to serue hym in the warres Likewise hee tooke the tale of euery yoke of Oxen and what number of plough landes and how many bondmen were within the Realme whereby the certificate thereof beeyng once made and broughte vnto him hee came to full vnderstandyng what wealthe yet remayned among the Englishmenne and therefore hee raysed hys tribute so muche the more Plow lande taking sixe Shillings for euery hyde of land through out his Realme whyche amounted to an inestimable summe when it was all broughte togither into his Exchequer Heere note by the way Geruasius Tilberensis The true definition of a hide of lande that an hyde of lande includeth an hundred acres and an acre conteyneth fortie perches in length and foure in bredth the length of a pearch conteyning sixteene foote and an halfe so that the common acre shoulde conteyne .240 perches and eyght hydes or .800 acres is a Knyghts fee after the best approoued Writers and playne demonstration Those are therefore deceyued that take an hyde of lande to conteine twentie acres as William Lambert hath well noted in his treatise de priscis Anglorum legibus where hee expoundeth the meaning of the olde Saxon tearmes perteyning to the lawes but to proceede and come alittle after temporals dealing to some of the spirituall affayres It hapned about the same time y t K. WilliaÌ„ had finished y e rating of his subiects that theâ—… râ—…se a strife betwixt Thurstan Abbot of Glastenburie a Norman and the Monkes of that house Regni 18. 1084 VVil. Mal. Simon Dun. Thurstan Abbot of Glastenburie William of Festampe 〈◊〉 thereof was for that the Abbot woulde haue compelled them to haue left the plaine song or note for the seruice which Pope Gregorie had set forth and to haue vsed an other kinde of 〈◊〉 deuised by 〈◊〉 William of Fescampe 〈…〉 this the saydâ—… Abbot spent and wasted the goodes that belonged to the house in ryot lecherie and by such other insolent meanes withdrawing also from the Monkes their olde 〈…〉
euer that whensoeuer he or any of them should come by summons of the K. of England vnto his Court the Bishop of Durham and the Sherif of Northumberland should receyue him at the water of Tweede and safe-conduct him vnto the water of These and there should the Archbishop of Yorke and the Sherife of Yorke be ready to receyue him of thē and from thence to giue their attendaunce vpon him vnto the borders of the next shire and thus shoulde he be attended from shire to shire by Prelates and Sherifes till he came to the kings Court also from the time that the king of Scotland shoulde enter this realm of England he should haue dayly out of the kings pursse for his liuerey an hundred shillings and after he came to the Court he should haue of allowance dayly for his liuerey so long as he there remained .xxx. shillings and .xij. manchet Wastels .xij. manchet Symnels foure gallons of the best wine .viij. gallons of houshold wine two pound of pepper foure pounde of cumin two stone of wax or else foure Links and xl great and long colpones of such candels as are serued before the king and .xxiiij. colpones of other candels that serue for the houshold And when he shoulde returne into his Countrey againe then shoulde he be conuayed with the Bishoppes and Sherifes from Countie to Countie tyll he come to the water of Tweede hauing an hundred shillings a daye of lyueray c. as is before appoynted The charter of this graunt was deliuered vnto William King of Scottes in the Towne of Northampton in Easter weeke by the handes of William Bishop of Ely Lorde Chancellor in the yeare of our Lorde .1194 and in the fifth yeare of king Richard his raigne Thus was the King etfsoones Crowned the seconde time at Winchester the .xvij. of Aprill Parliament ◅lled After this he called a Parliament by vertue whereof he reuoked backe and resumed into hys handes all patentes annuities fees and other grauntes before his voyage into the holy lande by him made or otherwise graunted or alienated and bycause it shuld not seeme that he vsed a mere extort violence herein he treated with euerie one of them in most curteous wise bearing them in hand that he knew wel they ment not to let forth theyr money to him vpon vsurie but woulde be contented with such reasonable gain and profits as had bene raysed to their vse in tyme of his absence of those things which they helde of him by assignation in way of lone so that now the same might be restored to him againe sith he ment not to sell them but to let them forth as it were to ferme for the time as all menne might well vnderstande considering that he coulde not mainteyne the porte of a king without receipt of those profits which he had so let forth With these gētle wordes therefore mixed with some dreadful allegations he brought them al into such perplexitie that not one of them durst withstand his request The bold courage of the Bishop of Lincolne nor alledge that he had wrong done to him except Hugh the Bishop of Lincolne who sticked not to say that the king in this demaunde did thē and the rest open iniurie The Bishop of Durham lost his Erledome The Bishop of Durhā lost his Erledome and was constreined to cōtent himselfe with his olde Bishoprike and to leaue the dignitie of an Earle or at the leastwise the possessions which hee had bought of the king before his setting forwarde into the holy lande Thus the king recouered againe those things for the which hee had receyued great summes of money without making any recompence where the most part of the occupiers had not receyued scarcely a thirde part of the principall which they had layde forth For no sufficiencie of graunt patent or other wryting to any of thē before made did any thing auaile them Moreouer where he had borrowed a great summe of money of the Marchāts of the Staple K Richardes practises he wrought a feat with the Monkes of the Cisteaux order to discharge that debt The Monkes Cisteaux He told these Monkes that being constrayned with vrgent necessitie hee had borowed that money of the Marchantes beyonde the sea vpon confidence of their good beneuolence and therfore he required them to extend their liberality so farre towarde him as to delyuer so much wool in value as shoulde discharge that debt To bee short the Monks being ouercome with the kings wards threatning kindnesse vpon them fulfilled his request Moreouer not satisfied herewith he leuyed a taske throughout the Realme exacting of euerie hyde of lande two shillings according to the graunt made to him at Notingham and the same was generally gathered as well of the spirituall mens landes as of the temporall Rog. Houed The king of Scots maketh suite for Northumberland The king of Scottes vnderstanding that the Bishop of Durham had giuen ouer and resigned the Earledome of Northumberlande into the kings handes thought good once againe to assay if he might compasse his desire and herewith hee beganne his former suyte afresh offring to king Richarde fiftene thousande Markes of Siluer for the whole Earledome of Northumberlande with the appurtenances as his father Erle Henry did hold the same before The king taking counsell in the matter agreed that he should haue it for that mony excepting the Castels but the king of Scottes woulde haue Castels and all or else hee would not bargaine Finally after he had sundry times moued this suyte for the hauing of those landes vnto whiche he pretended a title and could get nothing of K. Rich. but fayre words putting him as it were in hope to obtein y t he requyred vpō his next returne out of Fraunce vpon the .xxij. day of Aprill being Fryday he tooke leaue of the king and returned towardes his Countrey not verye ioyfull in that hee coulde not obteyne his suyte King Richarde in this meane while caused all those prisoners that were taken in the Castels of Notingham Tickill Marlebourgh Lancaster S. Michaels mount which were of any welth to be put in prison Mainprise that they might fine for their raunsōs The residue he suffred to depart vpō sureties that were boūd for thē in an C. marks a peece to be forth cōming when they should be called And now at lēgth the king after he had gathered some greate portion of money and ordeyned diuerse things for the behoofe of the common welth therby to satisfie the harts of the people he prepared himselfe to saile ouer into Normandie But first he made the Archbishop of Yorke Rog. Ho◅ the Bishop of Ely Lord Chancellor friendes aswell for the apprehension imprisoning of the Archb. at Douer as for the dishonourable expulsion of the Chancellor out of Englād in such wise that the Chācellor shuld vpō reasonable summōs giuē to him by the Archbishop sweare with the hands of an
the kings letters were enclosed and appoint me sayth he vnto some corner of the wall trie whether I can handle a Crossebowe or not to defend it againste youre aduersaries Heere when other woulde haue opened the boxe and haue red the letters the captaine would in no wise consent thereto but going into a turret called to the Englishmen belowe and willed them to signifie to the K. that one of his seruants being fled to him sought to bewray his secretes wherevnto he would by no meanes agree therefore meant to restore both the traytor and y e letters Herevpon the Lord Iohn Spencer coÌ„ming to heare what the matter might meane the Captaine caused Lewine to be let downe to hym togither with the letters safe and not touched by hym at all whiche thing when the Kyng vnderstood he muche commended the honest respect of the Captaine and where he had caused engynes to be reised to annoy theÌ„ within as ye haue heard he commaunded the same to ceasse and withall vpon their captaynes sute he granted them libertie to sende vnto their K. Iohn Ballioll â—…elchman â—…ed to gyue him to vnderstand in what sort they stood Touching the Welchman he was drawen and hanged on a paire of high galowes prepared for hym of purpose as he had well deserued And whylest the messengers were on their way towards Forfair where the Scottish K. then lay K. Edward with a parte of his army went vnto Striueling â—…ling â—…l left â—… where he found the Castel gates set open and the keyes hanging on a naile so that hee entred there without any resistance for they that hadde thys Castel in gard were fledde out of it for feare before his comming The messengers that were sent from them within Edenburgh Castel comming to their king declared to him in what case they stoode that were besieged King Iohn for that hee was not able to succour them by anye manner of meanes at that presente sente them worde to take the best way they could for theyr owne safetie with whiche aunswere the messengers returning the Castell was immediately deliuered vnto the Lorde Iohn Spencer Edenburgh Castel deliuered to the K. of England that was left in charge with the siege at the Kings departure towards Striueling with the like conditioÌ„s as the Castell of Rockesburgh had yeelded alittle before And thus was that strong Castell of Edenburgh surrendred by force of siege to the kyng of Englands vse the fiftenth daye after hee hadde firste layde his siege aboute it A place of suche strength by the height of the grounde whereon it stoode that it was thought impregnable and had not bin wonne by force at any time sith the firste buylding thereof before that presente so farre as any remembraunce eyther by writing or otherwise could be had thereof Heere at EdeÌ„burgh or rather at Rockesburgh as Abingdon hathe a greate number of Wicelche footemen came to the Kyng who sente home the lyke number of Englishe footemen of those that seemed most wearie Moreouer at Striueling there came to the Kyng the Earle of Vlster with a greate number of IrishareÌ„ TheÌ„ passing ouer y e riuer of Forth Saint Iohns towne the Kyng came vnto Saint Iohns Towne aboute Midsommer and there tarried certayne dayes Whilest these things were a doing Iohn K. of Scotlande perceyuing that he was not of power to resist Kyng Edwarde The King of Scottes sueth for peace sente Ambassadors vnto him to sue for peace King Edwarde was content to heare them and therevpon appointed that King Iohn should resorte vnto the Castell of Brechin there to commen with suche of hys councell as hee woulde sende thither within fifteene dayes nexte ensuing The Bishop of Durham to treate of an agreemente King Edwarde sente thither Anthony Byshoppe of Durham with full commission to conclude all things in his name And within the appoynted tyme came Kyng Iohn and dyuers of his nobles vnto him the whiche after manye and sundry treaties holden betwixt them and the sayde Byshoppe The King of Scottes submitteth hymselfe vnto the K. of England at length they submitted themselues and the Realme of Scotland simply and purely into the handes of the Kyng of England for the which submission to be firmely kept and obserued kyng Iohn deliuered hys sonne in hostage and made letters thereof written in French conteyning as followeth JEhan per la grace de Dieu Rey de Escoce á touez ceulxs quae cestes praesentes lettes verront ou orront Saluz c. The instrument of the submission IOhn by the grace of God King of Scotland to all those that these present letters shall see or heare sendeth greeting Bicause that we through euill counsell and oure owne simplicitie haue greuously offended oure soueraigne Lorde Edwarde by the grace of God Kyng of Englande Lorde of Irelande and Duke of Aquitayne in many thynges that is to saye in that whereas wee beeyng and abidyng vnder hys faithe and homage haue bounde oure selues vnto the Kyng of Fraunce whyche then was hys enimie and yet is procuring a marriage with the daughter of hys brother Charles au Valoys and that wee myghte greeue our sayde Lorde and ayde the Kyng of Fraunce with all oure power by warre and other meanes we haue at length by aduice of oure peruerse counsell defied oure sayde Lorde the Kyng of Englande and haue putte oure selues out of hys allegiance and homage and sente oure people into Englande to brenne houses to take spoyles to committe murther with many other domages and also in fortifying the Kyngdome of Scotlande whiche is of hys fee puttyng and establishing armed menne in Townes Castels and other places to defende the lande agaynste hym to deforce hym of hys fee for the whyche transgressions oure sayde soueraigne Lorde the Kyng entring into the Realme of Scotlande with hys power hathe conquered and taken the same notwithstandyng all that wee coulde doe agaynste hym as by right he maye doe as a Lorde of hys fee bycause that we did render vnto hym oure homage and made the foresayde Rebellion Wee therefore as yet beeing in our full power and free will doe render vnto hym the lande of Scotland and all the people thereof with the homages In witnesse wherof wee haue caused these letters patentes to made Yeuen at Brechin the tenth daye of Iuly in the fourth yeare of oure raigne Sealed with the common seale of the Kyngdome of Scotlande King Edward passeth foreward through Scotland After thys Kyng Edwarde wente forwarde to see the Mountayne countreys of Scotlande the Byshoppe of Durham euer keepyng a dayes iorney afore hym At length when hee hadde passed through Murrey lande and was come to Elghin perceyuing all thynges to bee in quiet hee returned towardes Berwike and commyng to the Abbey of Scone he tooke from thence the Marble stone King Edward bringeth the Marble stone out of Scotlande wherevppon the Kynges of Scotlande were accustomed to sitte as in
a chayre at the tyme of their Coronation whyche Kyng Edwarde caused nowe to be transferred to Westminster and there placed to serue for a Chayre for the Priest to sit in at the Aulter The Kyng comming to Berwike called thither vnto a Parliament all the Nobles of Scotlande and there receiued of them their homages The 〈◊〉 of Scoâ—… feâ—…â—…selues 〈◊〉 King the whyche in perpetuall witnesse of the thyng made letters patents thereof written in French and sealed with their seales as the tenor him followeth A Touz ceux que cestes lettres verront uront c. TO all those that these present letters shall see or heare we Iohn Comin of Badenaw The iâ—…meâ—… of 〈◊〉 homâ—… the lanâ—… Scotlandâ—… K. Eâ—… c. Bycause that wee at the faithe and will of the most noble Prince and our dearest Lorde Edwarde by the grace of God Kyng of England Lorde of Irelande and Duke of Aquitaine doe vowe and promise for vs and our heires vppon payne of body and goodes and of all that wee may haue that wee shall serue him well and truly against all men whiche maye liue and die at all tymes when we shall bee required or warned by our said Lord the Kyng of Englande or hys heires and that wee shall not know of any hurte to bee done to them but the same wee shall lette and impeach with all our power and giue them warning thereof and those things to holde and keepe wee binde vs our heires and al our goodes and further receyue an oth thereof vpon the holy Euangelistes and after all wee and euery of vs haue done homage vnto oure soueraigne Lorde the King of Englande in wordes as followeth I become your liegeman of life members The sâ—… their lâ—… and earthly honor against all men which maye lyue and die And the same oure soueraigne Lorde the King receyued this homage vnder thys forme of wordes The 〈◊〉 King 〈◊〉 accepâ—… We receyue it for the land of the whiche you bee nowe seased the righte of vs or other saued and excepte the landes whiche Iohn Ballioll sometime Kyng of Scotland graunted vnto vs after that we did deliuer vnto him y e kingdome of Scotlande if happely hee hathe giuen to you any suche landes Moreouer all wee and euery of vs by hymselfe haue done fealtie to oure saide soueraigne Lord the Kyng in these wordes I as a faythfull and liege man shall keepe faith and loyaltie vnto Edward Kyng of England and to his heires of life member and earthly honor againste all men whiche may liue and die and shall neuer for anye person beare armour nor shall be of councell nor in ayde with anye person againste hym or hys heyres in any case that maye chaunce but shall faithfully acknowledge and doe the seruice that belongeth to the tenementes the which I claime to holde of hym as God me helpe and all hys Saintes I witnesse whereof these letters pattentes are made and sygned with our seales Yeuen at Warke the foure and twentith of Marche in the yeare of the reigne of oure sayde Lord the Kyng of Englande â—…ficers apâ—…ynted in â—…tlande by â—…ng Iohn Then was Iohn Warren Earle of Surrey and Sussex made by Kyng Edward warden of Scotlande Hugh Cressingham Threaforer and William Ormesdy high Iustice whome the King commaunded that hee shoulde call all those before him whyche helde any landes of the Crowne and to reteyne oâ—… them in hys name theyr homages and fealties Iohn Ballioll the late Kyng of Scotlande was sent to London Iohn Ballioll sent to London and had a conâ—…nt company of seruauntes appoynted to aâ—…de hym hauyng licence to goe anye whether abroade to that hee kepte hym selfe wâ—…hâ—… the 〈◊〉 of twentie miles neere to London Iohn Câ—… of Badenaw and Iohn Edmni of Lowan and diuers otheâ—… nobles of Scotlande were brought into Englande on the South side of Ticut being warned vpoÌ„ payne of death not to returne into Scotlande till the King â—…d made an ende of his warres with Fraunce The Cleargie by reason of a coÌ„stitution ordeyned and constituted the same yeare by Pope Boniface â—…e pretenâ—… excuse of 〈◊〉 Cleargie prohibiting vpon payne of excommunication that no â—…asages nor other exactions should beleiued or exalted of the Cleargie in any manner of wise by secular Princes or to be paid to them of things that perteyned to the Church vtterly refused to graunte any manner of ayde to the King towardes the manie gâ—…aunce of hys warres Wherevppon the Kyng to the intent they shoulde haue tyme to study for a better aunswer deferred the matter to an other Parliamente to bee holden on the morrowe after the feast of Saint Hillarie This yeare after the feast of the Epiphany An. reg 25. 1297. The Earle of Holland married Elizabeth the kings daughter Elizabeth the Kings daughter was married vnto Iohn Earle of Holland Humfrey de Bohun Earle of Hereford and Essex was sente to conuey them into Hollande there to take possession of the Earledome as then discended vnto the said Iohn by the death of his father lately before slayne by his owne â—…usheâ—…s by cause he woulde haue disinherited this Iohn and made a bastarde sonne whiche hee hadde to be his heire The daye appoynted for the Parliamente to bee holden at London bring coâ—…e and the Cleargie continuing in their deâ—…an to graunt anye subsedy the King exluded them out of his protection for the redeeming whereof many by themselues and many by mediators did afterwardes giue vnto the King truth parte of all their goodes The Archbishop of Caunterbury being found stiffe in the matter the Kyng seased all his landes and commaunded all suche debtes as were founde of his in the rolles of the Exchequer to bee leuied with all speede of his goodes and cat-cattayle Abingdon The Archbyshoppe his wordes Some write that when the Archbishop of Caunterburie in name of all the residue hadde declared to them whome the Kyng had appoynted commissioners to receyue the aunswere that whereas they of the Cleargie hadde two soueraigne Lordes and gouernoures the one in spirituall matters and the other in temporall they ought yet rather to obey theyr Spirituall gouernoure than their Temporall Neuerthelesse to satisfye the Kynges pleasure they woulde of theyr owne charges sende to the Pope that by hys licence and permission they myghte graunte the Kyng some aide or else receyue some aunswere from hym what to doe therein for sayeth the Archbyshoppe wee beleeue that the Kyng feareth the sentence of excommunicatioÌ„ and would be as glad to auoyde it as we When the Commissioners hearde this aunswere they required that they woulde appoynte some of theyr owne company to beare this message vnto the Kyng for they durst not reporte it vnto hym which being done as the Commissioners had required the Kyng in his furie proceeded agaynste them in suche rigorous manner as yee haue hearde The declaration of the Lord chiefe Iustice in so muche that
the which many things were in talke about the honest demeanor of Churchmen whiche seldome is obserued as the addition to Nicholas Triuet saith â—…oigne â—…nged About the feast of the Assumption of our Lady the King disanulled the Florens to y e greate commoditie of his Kingdome ordeyning a greater Florene of halfe a marke and a lesser of three shillings four pence and the least of all of twentie pence and these were called Nobles and not without cause for they were a noble coigne faire and fine golde This yeare the seuententh day of Nouember the Pope in Auinion created the Lord Lewes de Spaine Ambassador for the Frenche K. Prince of the Isles called Fortunatae for what purpose it was not knowen but it was doubted not to be for any good meaning towardes the kingdome of Englande the prosperitie whereof the same Pope was suspected not greately to wish 1345 An. reg 19. About the beginning of Lent the same yeare the sayde Pope had sente an Archbyshoppe and a Byshoppe Ambassadors to the King who meete them at Ospring in Kente and to the ende they shoulde not linger long within the Realme hee quickly dispatched them withoute effect of theyr message This yeare shortly after Easter the Duke of Britaine that had bin deteyned prisoner by the Frenche King and escaped out of prison came ouer into England And about the same time the King ordeyned the exchange of moneys at London Caunterbury and Yorke to y e greate commoditie of his people â—…burie Ad. Meri â—…lichron About Midsomer or as other bane Michaelmas the Erle of Derby with the Erle of Pembroke the Lorde Raufe Stafford the L. Walter de Manny the L. Iohn Grey of Codnore and diuers other Lords â—…e hundred â—…en of armes and two thousand archers hath Froissart Knightes and Esquires to the number of fiue or sixe hundred men of armes and as many archers sailed ouer into Gascoigne to aâ—… the Kinges subiectes there agaynste the Frenchmen This Earle of Derby being generall of the army after hys arriuall in Gascoigne about the beginning of December wanne the Towne of Bergerat by force Bergerat won hauing putte to fight the Erle of Lesse as then the French kings Lieutenant in Gascoigne who lay there with a greate power to defende the passage but beeyng drawen into the Towne Froissart and hauing lost the Sâ—…thes to the Englaâ—… 〈◊〉 hee fledde out in the night and so left the Towne withoute anye Souldiers to defende it so that the Townesmen yeelded it vnto the Earle of Deâ—… and â—…ware themselues to be true siege men vnto the Kyng of Englande After this the Earle of Derby passed further into the Countrey and wanne diuers Castels and Townes as Lango le Lacke Moâ—…rat Mongâ—…e Punach Laâ—…ew Forâ—…th Pondair Beaumount in Layllois Bodnall Abberoch and Liâ—…orne part of them by assaulte and the residue by surrender This done he returned to â—…urdeaux hauing left Captaines and Souldiers in suche places as he had wonne This yeare the King sent forth a commission vnto certaine persons in euery countie within this Realme to enquire what landes and tenementes euery man aboue fiue poundes of yeerely reuenewes bring of the lay fee myght dispend bycause he had giuen order that euery man whiche myghte dispende fiue poundes and abdue vnto tenne pounde of suche yeerely reuenewes in lande of the ley fee shoulde furnishe hymselfe or finde an archer on horsebacke furnished with armour and weapon accordingly Hee that might dispende tenne pounde should furnishe hymselfe or fynde a demilaunce or a light horseman if I shall so tearme hym beeyng then called an Hobeler with a launce and hee that myghte dispende fiue and twentie pounde shoulde furnishe hymselfe or finde a man at armes And hee that myghte dispende fiftie poundes shoulde furnishe two men at armes And hee that myghte dyspende an hundred poundes shoulde fynde three men at armes that is hymselfe or one in his steede with two other And suche as myght dispende aboue an hundred poundes were appoynted to fynde more in number of menne at armes accordingly as they shoulde bee assessed after the rate of theyr landes whyche they myghte yearely dispende beeyng of the lay fee and not belonging to the Church About this season the Duke of Britayne Additions to Triuet hauing w t him the erles of NorthaÌ„pton Oxford Sir William de Killesby one of the Kings secretaries and many other Barons and knightes with a greate number of men of armes passed ouer into Britaine againste the Lord Charles de Bloys where they carried a long time and dyd little good to make anye accompte of by reason that the Duke in whose quarrell they came into those parties The Duke of Britayne departed this life shortly after his arriuall there departed this life and so they returned home into England But after their comming from theÌ„ce Sir Thomas Dagworth Knighte that hadde bin before and nowe after the departure of those Lordes and Nobles still remayned the Kyngs Lieutenant there so behaued himselfe againste both Frenchmen and Britaines that the memorie of his worthy doings deserueth perpetual coÌ„mendation The Lorde Beaumount of Heynault forsaketh the K. of England his seruice The king goeth ouer into Flaunders Sir Iohn de Heynault Lorde Beaumont about the same time changed his coate and leauing the King of Englandes seruice was reteyned by the French Kyng In this nineteenth yeare of King Edwarde I finde that about the feast of the Natiuitie of Saint Iohn Baptist he sayled ouer into Flaunders leauing his sonne the Lord Lionell warden of the Realme in his absence He tooke with him a great number of Lords Knightes and GeÌ„tlemen with whome hee landed at Sluse The cause of his going ouer was to further a practise whiche he hadde in hande with them of Flaunders the which by the labor of Iaques Arteueld meant to cause their Earle Lewes eyther to do homage vnto Kyng Edward or else if hee refused then to disinherite him and to receyue Edwarde Prince of Wales for theyr Lorde the eldest sonne of King Edwarde Ia. Meir King Edwarde promising to make a Dukedome of the Countie of Flaunders for an augmentation of honor to the countrey there came vnto Sluse to the King Froissart Iaques van Arteueld and a great nuÌ„ber of other appointed as counsellors for their chiefest Townes The King with all his nauie 〈…〉 of Englâ—… shippe lay in the Hauen of Sluse where in his great Shippe 〈◊〉 the Catherine a Counsell was holden vpon thys foresaid purpose but at length those of the Counsels of the chiefest Townes misliked the 〈◊〉 so much that they would conclude nothing 〈◊〉 required respite for a moneth to consult with all the communaltie of the Countreys and to 〈◊〉 and as the more part should be enclined so shâ—… the King receyue aunswere The King and Iaques Arteueld would fayne haue had a 〈◊〉 daye and a more towardly aunswere but 〈◊〉 other could be
and Aunay but wanne little and so retourned agayne to the siege of Blaues When the moneth was expired that they of Angolesme shoulde yeelde the Earle sente hys two Marshals thither who receyued the homage and fealtie of the Citizens in the King of Englands name and so they were in peace and receiued againe their hostages At length when the Earle of Derby sawe that he did but lose his time in the besieging of Blaues whiche sir Guischart Daugle and Sir Guilliaume de Rochfort being Captains within did so valiantly defende that he could obteyne no aduantage of them hee reysed hys siege and returned vnto Burdeaux hauing furnished suche Townes as hee hadde wonne in that iourneye wyth conueniente garnisons of men to defende them agaynste the enimyes and to keepe frontier warre as they shoulde see cause Froyssart saith they were in huÌ„dred thousand Gio. Villani writeth that they were a sixe thousand horsemen and fiftie thousande footemen of Frenchmen Gascoignes Genewayes Lombardes The Frenche Kyng being sore moued at the conquests thus atchieued by the Earle of Derby raysed a mightie army and sent the same foorth vnder the leading of his sonne the Duke of Normandy into Gascoigne to resist the saide Earle and to recouer agayne those Townes which hee had wonne in those partes The Duke of NormaÌ„dy being come to Tholouz where his general assembly was appoynted set forwarde with his army and winning by the way MiremouÌ„t and Ville Franche in Agenois at length came to the Citie of Angolesme whych hee enuironed about with a strong siege continuing the same till finally the Captayne named Iohn Normell Annales de Burgoigne 1346 An. reg 20. required a truce to endure for one daye which was graunted and the same was the daye of the purification of our Ladye on the which the same Captayne with the souldiers of the garrison departed and lefte the Citie in the Citizens handes Angoulisme recouered by the FrenchmeÌ„ The Frenchmen bycause they had graunted the truce to endure for that day withoute exception permitted them to goe theyr wayes without lette or vexation The Citizens in the morning yeelded the Citie to the Duke After this Daâ—… Thâ—… he wanne the Castell of Daâ—…sen Thonins and Port S. Mary Thonius by surreÌ„der the other two by force of assaultes Then hee came to the strong Castell of Aiguillone which he besieged Aiguillon bâ—…ged and lay thereat a long season Within was the Earle of Pembroke the Lorde Walter de Manny Sir FraÌ„ke de 〈◊〉 and dyuers Knightes and Captaines which defended themselues and the place so stoutely that the Frenchmenne coulde winne little aduauntage at theyr handes Sir Godfrey de Harcourt being constreyned to flee out of France to auoyde the French kings displeasure came ouer vnto the king of England who receyued him right ioyfully for hee was knowne to bee a right valiaunt and a wise personage He was brother to the Earle of Harecourt Lorde of Saint Sauiour le Vicount and of dyuerse other townes in Normandie A little before that hee fell into the Frenche kings displeasure he might haue done wyth the king of France more than any other Lord within that Realme â—…tices About the same time he caused all the Iustices within his dominions to renounce and giue ouer all their Pencions fees and other vyding benefites or rewardes which they vsed to receiue of the Lordes and great men of the lande as well prelates as of them of the temporaltie to the end that their handes beeing free from gyftes Iustice might more freely haue course and bee of them duly and vprightly ministred Parliament Also this yeare in the lent season the King helde a Parliament at Westminster and toke into his handes all the profites â—…dinals reuenues and emoluments which the Cardinals helde within thys land for he thought it not reason that they which fauoured the Pope and Frenche king beeing hys aduersaries should enioy such coÌ„modities within his realme â—…roissard The king pasâ—…th ouer into Normandie After this in the Moneth of Iuly following he tooke shipping and sayled into Normandie hauing established the Lord Porcie and the Lord Neuile to be wardens of his realme in hâ—…s absence with the Archbishop of Yorke the Bishop of Lyncolne and the Bishop of Duresme 〈◊〉 Villani â—…yth there â—…ere 2500. â—…rsemen and 30000. footmeÌ„ and archers that passed ouer with the king But wheÌ„ he commeth to speake of the battail he seemeth to encrease the number The army which he had ouer with him was to the number of foure thousande men of armes and ten thousande archers beside Irish men and Welchmen that followed the host asoote The chiefest Captains that went ouer with him were these First his eldest sonne Edwarde Prince of Wales being as then about the age of .xiij. yeres the Earles of Hereford Northampton Arundel Cornwal Huntingdon Warwike Suffolk and Oxforde of Barons the Lorde Mortimer who was after Earle of Marche the Lordes Iohn Lewes and Roger Beauchamp also the Lords Cobham Mounbray Lucy Basset Barkcley Wyllonghbie with diuerse other Lordes besides a greate number of knightes and other worthie Captaynes They landed by the aduice of the Lorde Godfrey of Harecourt in the Isle of Constantine at the port of Hague Saint Wast nere to Saint Sauiour le Vicount The Earle of Huntingdon was appoynted to be gouernour of the fleet by Sea hauing with him a hundred men of armes and foure hundred archers After that the whole armie was landed the king appoynted two Marshals the Lord Godfrey of Hâ—…court and the Earle of Warwike and the Erle of Arundell was made Conestable There were ordeyned three battayles The ordering of the kings armie one to goe on his right hande following by the most of the Sea and another to March on his left hande vnder the conduct of the Marshals so that hee himselfe went in the middest with the maine armie and in this order forwarde they passed towardes Caen lodging euerie night togither in one fielde They that went by the Sea tooke all the shippes they founde in theyr way and as they marched forth thus Harflew what by water and lande at length they came to a towne called Harflewe whiche was giueÌ„ vp but yet neuerthelesse it was robbed and much goodes found in it Chierburg After this they came to Chierburg whiche towne they wanne by force robbed it and burnt part of it but the Castle they coulde not winne Then came they to Mountburge Mountburge and tooke it robbed it and burnt it cleane In this manner they passed foorth and burnt many townes and villages in all the Countrey as they went Carentine The towne of Carentine was deliuered vnto them agaynst the will of the souldiers that were within it The souldiers defended the Castel two dayâ—… and then yeelded it vppe into the English 〈◊〉 handes who burnt the same and caused the Bâ—…gesses to enter into theyr Shippes All
bring it to a good conclusion bycause Kyng Edwarde beganne to frame his imaginatioÌ„ more to accorde with his aduersaries than he had done of late chiefly for that the Duke of Lancaster with courteous wordes and sage perswasions The Duke of Lancaster persvvadeth the King to agree aduised him not to forsake suche reasonable conditions as the frenchemenne were contented nowe to agree vnto sith that by making suche manner of warre as hee hadde attempted hys souldiours only gained and hee hymselfe loste but time and consumed his treasoure and further hee might warre in this sorte all the dayes of his life before hee coulde attaine to his entent and leese perhaps in one day more than he had gained in twentie yeares Suche wordes spoken for the welthe of the K. and his subiects conuerted the kings minde to fancie peace namely by the grace of the holy Ghost chief worker in this case for it chaunced one daye as hee was marching not farre from Chartres An hideous storme and tempest of vvether there came suche a storme and tempest of thunder lightning hayle and raine as the like had neuer bene seene by any of the Englishe people This storme fell so hideous in the kinges hoste that it seemed the worlde shoulde haue ended for suche vnreasonable great stones of haile fell from the skie that men and horses were slayne therewyth so that the moste hardyest were abashed There perished thousandes therby as some haue written The Kyng then remembring what reasonable offers of agreement hee hadde refused vppon a remorse in conscience as by some writers it shoulde appeare asked forgiuenesse of the damage done by sworde and sâ—…in 〈◊〉 partes and fully determined to graâ—… indifferent articles of peace for reâ—… christian inhabitants of that land Kyâ—… 〈◊〉 câ—… and so â—…lie after by the good diligence of the commissioners on bothe partes an vnitie aâ—… 〈◊〉 peace was accorded the articles whereof were comprised in fortye and one articles the chiefe whereof in effect were these Firste that the Kyng of Englande shoulde haue and enioye ouer and beside that whiche hee helde alreadie in Gascdigne and Gayâ—… the Castell Citie and Countie of Poictiers The aâ—… Fabian Froissart and all the landes and countrey of Poyctâ—… with the fee of Touars and the landâ—… of Beâ—…enille the Citie and Castell of Xainctes and 〈◊〉 the Lands and countrey of Xainctonge on both sides the riuer of Charent wyth the towne and fortresse of Rochell wyth theyr appurtenaunces The Citie castel of Agent and the countrey of Agenois The Citie and Castell at Piergort and all the land and countrey of Pâ—…rigueux The Citie and Castell of Lâ—…ges and all the landes and countrey of Lâ—…nosâ—… The Citie and Castell of Cahors and the lordeshippe of Cahorsin the castell and countrey of Tarbe the landes countrey and countie of Bigorre The countie countrey and landes of Gaure The citie and castell of Angolesme and the countie land and countreâ—… of Augolesmois The citie Towne and castell of Rodaix And all the countie countrey of Rouergue And if there were in the Duchâ—… of Guyenne any Lords as the Earles of foiz Armin acke Lisle and Perigueux the Vicountes of Carmain and Limoges or other holding any landes within the forsaid houndâ—… Hoâ—…e and sâ—…ces it was accordes that they shoulde doe homage and other customarie seruices due for the same vnto the King of Englande It was also agreed that Callais and Guisnes wyth the appurtenances the landes of NoÌ„treull on the sea with the Countie of Ponthieu wholy and entirelye should remaine vnto the king of Englande All the whiche countries cities towâ—… and castelles with the other landes and Seigniories the same King should haue and holde to him his heires for euer euen as they were in demaiâ—… or fee immediatly of God and free without recognizing any maner of Soueraintie in any earthelie man In consideration whereof King Edward renounced all suche claimes titles and interest as hee pretended vnto any parte of Fraunce other than suche as were comprised within the charter of couenauntes of this peace firste agreed vppon at Bretigny aforesayde and after confirmed at Callais as appeareth by the same charter dated there the four twenty day of October in the yeare of our Lorde .1360 The â—…e of â—…e charter of â—…e peace It was also couenanted that the Frenche King shoulde pay vnto the Kyng of England thyrtie hundreth M. The Frenche â—…gs raunsome crownes in name of his raunsome For assurance of whiche payment and performaunce of all the couenauntes afore mentioned and other agreed vppon by this peace the Dukes of Or. â—…aâ—…ce Aniou Berry and Burbon â—…ages with diuers other honorable personages as Earles Lordes and Burgesses of euerie good Towne some were appointed to be sente ouer hither into Englande to remaine as hostages The Frenche 〈◊〉 to aide the â—…cottes It was farther agreed that neyther the frenche Kyng nor his successours shoulde â—…ide the Scottes againste the King of Englande or his successors nor that King Edwarde nor his heyres Kings of Englande shoulde ayde the Flemmings against the crown of France And as for the title or right of the Duchie of Britaine Britaine whiche was in question betweene the Earles of Bloys and Mountfort it was accorded that both Kinges beeing at Callais the parties shoulde bee called beefore them and if the twoo kyngs could not make them frends then shulde they assigne certain indifferent persons to agree them and they to haue halfe a yeares respite for to ende the matter and if within that terme those that should bee so appointed to agree them coulde not take vp the matter betwixte the saide Earles then eyther of them might make the best purchase for hym selfe that hee coulde by helpe of friendes or otherwise but alwayes prouided that neither of the Kinges nor their sonnes shoulde so aide the saide Earles whereby the peace accorded betwixte Englande and Fraunce myght by any meanes bee broken or infringed Also to whether of the saide Earles the Duchie of Britaine in the ende chaunced to fall by sentence of Iudges or otherwise the homage shoulde bee done for the same vnto the Frenche King All these ordinaunces articles and agreementes with many mo whiche here woulde bee to long to rehearse were accorded and ratified by the instrumentes and seales of the Prince of Wales on the one parte and of the Duke of Normandie Regent of Fraunce on the other parte as by their letters patentes then sealed further appeared bearing date the one at Loâ—…res in Normandie the sixteenth day of Maye in the yeare of Grace 1360. and the other at Paris the tenthe daye of the same monethe and in the yeare aforesaide and ouer and beside this both the saide Princes tooke on them a solempne othe to see all the same articles and couenauntes of agreement throughlye kept mainteined and performed This done Kyng Edwarde embarqued hymselfe with his foure sonnes and the moste part
the Kings enimies were vanquished and put to flight The erle Do◅glas takē prisoner in whiche flighte the Earle of Dowglas for hast falling from the cragge of a mountaine brake one of his genitalles and was taken and for his valiantnesse of the King frankely freely deliuered The Earle o◅ Worcester taken There was also taken the Earle of Worcester the procurer and setter forthe of all thys mischiefe Sir Richard Vernon and the Baron of Kynderton with diuers other There were slayne vpon the Kings part beside the Earle of Stafford Knights slaine on the kynges parte to the number of tenne Knightes Sir Hugh Shorly sir Iohn Clifton sir Iohn Cokayne sir Nicholas Gausell sir Walter Blunt sir Iohn Caluerley sir Iohn Massy of Podington sir Hugh Mortimer and sir Roberte Gausel all the which receyued the same morning the order of Knighthoode sir Thomas Wendesley was wounded to death and so passed out of this life shortly after There dyed in all vpon y e kings side sixteene C. and foure M. were greeuouslye wounded On the contrarie side were slaine besides the L. Percy the most part of the knights and esquiers of the countie of Chester The slaughter of Cheshire-men at this battayle to y e nūber of two C. besides yeomen and footemē in all there dyed of those that fought one y e Percies side about fiue M. This battell was fought on Mary Magdalene euen being Saterday Vpon the Monday following the Earle of Worcester the Baron of Kinderton and sir Richarde Vernon knightes The Earle of Worcester other beheaded were condemned and beheaded The Earles head was sent to London there to be set on the bridge The Earle of Northumberlande was now marching forward with a greate power which he had got togither either to ayde his sonne and brother as was thought or at y e least towardes the King to procure a peace but the Earle of Westmerlande and sir Roberte Waterton knight The Earle of Westmerland reyseth a power agaynste the Earle of Northumberlande had got an army on foote meant to meete him The Earle of Northumberlande taking neither of them to bee his friende turned suddainely backe and withdrewe himselfe into Warkeworth Castell The King hauing set a stay in things aboute Shrewesburie wente straight to Yorke The K. goeth to Yorke from whence hee wrote to the Earle of Northumberland willing him to dismisse his companies that hee had with him and to come vnto him in peaceable wise The Earle of Northumberland commeth to the king The Earle vpon receipt of the kings letters came vnto him the morrow after Saint Laurence day hauyng but a few of his seruauntes to attend him and so excused himselfe that the King bycause y e Erle had Berwike in his possession and further had his Castels of Alnewike Warkeworth and other fortified with Scottes dissembled the matter gaue him faire wordes and suffered him as saith Hall to departe home although by other it shoulde seeme that hee was committed for a time to safe custodie The King returning forthe of Yorkeshire determined to goe into Northwales to chastise the presumptuous doings of the vnruly Welchmen The Welchmen molest the Englishe subiectes who after his comming from Shrewsburie and the marches there had done much harme to the English subiects But now where the K. wanted money to furnishe that enterprice and to wage his Souldiers there were some that counselled hym to be bolde with the Bishoppes and supply his wante of their surplusage but as it fortuned the Archebyshoppe of Caunterburie was there presente who in the name of all the rest boldly made aunswere that none of hys prouince shoulde bee spoyled by anye of those naughtie disposed persons It wa◅ spoken like a Prelate but that firste with harde stripes they shoulde vnderstande the price of theyr rashe enterprice But the King neuerthelesse so vsed the matter with the Byshoppes for their good willes that the Archebyshoppe at length to pleasure hym calling the Cleargie togither gote a graunte of a tenth A tenth le◅ied of the Cleargie towards the kings necessarie charges The Britaine 's vnder the conduct of the Lorde of Cassils spoyled and brente the Towne of Plimmouth and returned without receyuing anye domage but immediately therevppon the Westerne men manning forthe a fleete vnder the gouernemente of one William Wilforde Esquier Wil. Wilford made saile ouer to the coastes of Britaine where they tooke aboue fortie Shippes laden with oyle sope Ships taken and Rochel wine to the quantitie of a thousande tunne In returning homewardes they brente fortie other vessels and landing at Pennarch they brente townes and villages sixe leagues within the Countrey togither with the Towne of S. Mathewe and all the buildings there three leagues round about the same towne About the feast of all Saincts a Parliament beganne at Couentrie An. reg 5. A Parliament at Couentrie and continued there tyll Sainte Andrewes tyde but at length bycause vittailes waxed deere and lodging was steight it was adiorned from thence vnto London Adiurned to London there to begin againe in the Octaues of the Epiphanie The same time A pardon a pardon was graunted and proclaymed for all suche as hadde taken parte with the Percies againste the Kyng and lykewise for all other offendors those excepted that hadde consented to betraye Calais whome the King sente thyther to suffer for theyr offences A little before Christmas the Frenchmenne meante to haue robbed and spoyled the I le of Wight Frenchmē inuade the Isle of Wight but when a thousande of them were set on lande and had gote togither a great bootie of Cattell suddainely there came vpon them suche number of people that they were constreyned to withdrawe to their Shippes leauing their pray behinde them and no small number of theyr mē to pay for theyr shotte They are repused so that they wanne little by that iourney returning home with shame and dishonor 1404 The Parliament beginneth againe The Earle of Northumberland restored This yeare in the Parliament holden at Lōdon beginning the morrow after the feast of S. Hillarie and continuing twelue weekes the Erle of Northumberlād was restored vnto his former dignities lands and goodes the I le of Man only excepted which by reason of the forfeyture made by the Earle of Salisburie the King had first giuen vnto hym The I le of Man and now depriued him thereof where all his other landes possessions and liuings were wholly to hym and hys heyres restored by authoritie of the same Parliamente A subsidie A subsedie was also graunted to the Kyng of euery Knightes fee twentie shillings whether the same were holden of hym by menaltie or otherwise Moreouer euery man and woman that myghte dispende in landes the valew of twentie shillings and so vpwarde aboue the reprices whether the same landes belonged to the laye fee or to the Churche payed for euery pounde
twelue pens and those that were valued to bee worth in goodes twentie poundes and vpwards payd also after the rate of lands y t is twelue pēce for euery pounde The Frenchemen demaūd of the Isle of Wight The Frenchmen aboute the same time came before the Isle of Wighte with a greate nauie and sent certaine of theyr men to the shore to demaunde in name of King Richarde and of hys wife Queene Isabell a tribute or a speciall subsedie in money of the inhabitantes of that I le who aunswered that King Richard was dead and Queene Isabell sometime his wife The answere ◅f the Ilande ◅es hadde bin sent home to hir parents and countrey without condition of any dower or tribute wherfore they aunswered reasonable that none they woulde giue but if the Frenchmen hadde desire to fighte they willed them to come on land and there shoulde bee none to resist them and after they were a lande they promised to giue them respite for sixe houres space to refreshe themselues and that tyme beeyng once expired they should not fayle to haue battell When the Frenchmen hearde of this stoute aunswere made by the Ilandmen they had no lust to approch neerer to the lande but returned without further attempt About this season the Duke of Orleaunce brother to the Frenche Kyng a man of no lesse pride than hawtinesse of courage The duke of Orleance his chalenge wrote lettres to Kyng Henry aduertising him that for the loue he bare to the noble feates of Cheualrie hee coulde imagine nothyng eyther more honorable or commendable to them both than to meete in the fielde eache parte with an honored Knyghtes and Esquiers all beeyng Gearlemenne bothe of name and armes armed at all poyntes and furnished with Spears axes swordes and daggers and there to fyghte and combate to the yeeldyng and euery person to whome God shoulde sende victorie to haue hys prisoner and hym to raunsome at hys pleasure offeryng hymselfe with hys companye to come to hys Citie of Angulesme so that the Kyng woulde come to the laundes of Burdeaux and there defende this chalenge The Kyng of Englande grauely aunswered heerevnto The answere of king Henrye that hee maruelled why the Duke vnder couloure of doyng deedes of armes for a vayne glory woulde nowe seeke to breake the peace betwixte the Realmes of Englande and Fraunce hee beeyng sworne to mayneteyne the same peace sithe hee myghte further vnderstande that no Kyng annoynted of verie duetie was bounde to aunswere any chalenge but to his peere of equall state and dignitie and further declared that when oportunitie serued hee woulde passe the Sea and come into hys Countrey of Gascoigne with suche companie as hee thoughte con◅eniente and then myghte the Duke sette forwarde with hys bande for the accomplishing of hys couragious desire promising hym in the word of a Prince not thence to depart til the Duke eyther by fulfulling his owne desyre in manner aforesayde or by singular combate betweene them two onely for auoyding of more effusion of Christian bloud shoulde thynke hymselfe fully satisfyed To this and muche more conteyned in the Kynges aunswere the Duke replied and the Kyng agayne reioyned not withoute tauntes and checkes vnfitting for theyr estates The Duke of Orleaunce offended hyghly as hee myghte seeme agaynste the Kyng of Englande The duke of Orl◅ance besiegeth Vergi in Guyenne with an armye of sixe thousande menne entred into Guyenne and besieged the Towne of Vergy whereof was Capitaine Sir Roberte Antelfielde a right hardye and valiante Knyghte hauyng with hym onely three hundred Englishmenne whyche defended the fortresse so manfully that the Duke after hee hadde layne there three monethes and lost many of his men without honor or spoyle returned into Fraunce After this the Admirall of Britaine highly encouraged for that the last yeare he had taken certaine English Shippes laden with wines acompanyed with the Lord du Chastel a valiant Baron of Britaine and twelue hundred men of armes sayled forth with thirtie Shippes from Saint Malos and came before the Towne of Dartemouth and woulde haue landed but by the puissance of the Townesmen and ayde of the countrey they were repulsed in the whiche conflict The Lord du Chastel slaine the Lorde du Chastel and two of his breethren with foure hundred other were slayne and aboue two hundred taken prisoners and put to their raunsomes amongst whome the Lorde of Baqueuille the Marshall of Britaine was one Owen Glendouer wasted the English marches All this Sommer Owen Glendouer and his adherents robbed brent and destroyed the Coūtreys adioyning neere to the places where hee haunted and one while by sleight and guilefull policie an other while by open force he tooke and slew many Englishmen brake downe certaine Castels which hee wanne and some he fortified and kept for his owne defence Iohn Trenor Byshop of Assaph considering with himself how things prospered vnder the hāds of this Owen fledde to him and tooke his parte againste the King About the same tyme the Britaines and the Flemings tooke certayne Shippes of ours laden with merchandice Crueltie of the Britaines and Flemings and slewe all the Marriners or else hanged them The Countes of Oxforde Also the olde Countesse of Oxford mother to Robert Vere late Duke of Ireland that dyed at Louaine caused certain of hir seruaunts and other suche as she durst trust to publish and brute abrode K. Rich. once againe aliue through all the parties of Essex that Kyng Richarde was aliue and that hee woulde shortlye come to lighte and clayme hys former estate honor and dignitie She procured a greate number of Hartes to be made of siluer and golde suche as King Richarde was wonte to giue vnto his Knightes Esquiers friendes to weare as cognisances to the ende that in bestowing them in King Richardes name shee might the sooner allure men to further hir lewde practises and where the fame wente abroade that King Richarde was in Scotlande with a great power of Frenchmen and Scottes readie to come to recouer his Realme many gaue the more lightly credite vnto this brute thus sette forth by the said Countesse Serlo one of K. Richardes chamber The perswasions also of one Serlo that in times past was one of king Richards chamber greatly encreased this error for the same Serlo hearing in Fraunce whither he was fledde that his master King Richarde was in Scotland aliue conueyed himselfe thither to vnderstand the troth of that matter and finding there one indeede that greatly resembled him in all liniaments of body but yet was not the man himselfe as he well perceyued vppon malice that hee bare to King Henry aduertised by letters sente vnto diuers of King Richards friendes that hee was aliue indeede and shortly woulde come to shew himselfe openly to the world when he had once made his way ready to recouer his Kingdome to the confusion of his enimies and comfort of his friends These forged