â—aruus Iohn Taxtor Gerua Doro. Canturb recordes Gual Couent euill fauoured of shape but yet verye eloquent moued the common people to séeke libertie and fréedome and not to bée subiect to the rich and mightie by which meanes he drewe to him many great companies and with all his power defended the poore mens cause against the riche 52000. Londonors he allured to him to be at his deuotion and commandemeÌ„t The king being warned of this tumult coÌ„manded him to cease from those attemptes but the people still followed him as they before had done he made to them orations taking for his theame this sentence Haurietis aquas in gauâ—io de fontibus saluatoris whiche is to say Ye shal draw in ioy waters forth of the wels of your sauiour And to this he added I am sayd he y e sauiour of poore men yée be poore haue assayed long y e hard hands of rich meÌ„ Now draw yée holsome water forth of my Wels that w e ioy for the time of your visitatioÌ„ is come This WilliaÌ„ was coÌ„maunded to appeare before the kings counsell to aunsweare for himselfe in suche causes as shoulde be layde against him where he appeared but wyth 1196 such a multitude of people that the Lordes were afrayde and remitted him with pleasaunte wordes for the time appointing some priuliy when he was alone to apprehende him He sooke the stéeple of Bow Church in Chope and fortified it with munition and victuals The Archbishop of Canturburie then being at LondoÌ„ with other Iustices sent to him and willed him to come forth of the Church he should haue his life saued but he refused to come forth wherfore y â— Archebishop talking with the Citizens of London called togither a great number of armed area least any stur should be made The Saterdaye therefore being the Passion sondaye euen the stéeple and Church of Bowe were assaulted and William with his complices taken but not without bloudshed for hée was forced by fire and smoke to for sake the Churche he was brought to the Archbishop in the Towre where he was by y e Iudges condemned and by the héeles drawn from thence to a place called the Elmes and ther haÌ„ged with nine of his fellowes This counterfaite friende to the poore who named hymselfe A false accuser of his elder brother in the ende vvas hanged to be the sauiour perswading them against the riche was a man of an euil life a murderer who slew one manne with his owne handes a fornicatour who poluted Bowe church with his Concubine and amongst other his detestable facts one that hadde falsely accused his elder brother of treason whyche elder brother hadde in hys youthe Anno reg 8. broughte him vppe in learning and done manye things for his preferment Yet after the death of this wicked malefactor the simple people honoured him as a martyre in so much that they stale awaye the gibbet whereon he was hanged and pared away the Earth that was be-bled with hys bloude and kepte the same as holye reliques to heale sicke men King Richard graunted licence vnto Phillip Bishoppe of Durham to coyne mony in his Citie of Durham which libertie Roger Houeden none of his predicessours had enioyed of long tyme before Sherifes Gerard de Anteloch Robert Durant Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne The Walchmen brake forth and did muche hurt by spoyling 1197 of the Marches The Archbishop of Canturburie callyng togither an army hasted thyther besieged the Castel of Polie and toke it and chased the enimies established peace and returned Rise the Walch king departed this life King Richard and the Earle of Flaunders confedered togither Anno reg 9. The French King entring vnwarely into Flaunders was intercepted and taken by the Earle of Flaunders but giuing pledges vpon couenaunt to make peace he was suffered to depart The viij day of September they met at Liste where by mediation of the Archbishop of Canturburie they toke a truce The Archbishop of Roane returned from Rome where he had complayned on King Richard for taking from him a plot of ground whereon he builded a strong Castell but at the request of the Archbishop of Canturburie the Kyng gaue him in recompence the towne of Deep Sherifes Roger Blunt Nicholas Ducket Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne The Walchmen on the Marches toke booties did much 1198 Geruasius hurt but Hubert the Archbishop of Canturburie being Lorde thiefe Iustice Lieuetenaunt or Warden of England found meanes to resist them so that they being fought with were ouerthrowen and fiue thousand of them slaine The Archebishop hauing got this victorie returneth to London where calling togither a great number of the Nobles of the lande he resigned his office of being head ruler in whose place the Anno reg 10 Lord Geffrey Fitz Peter succéeded in August King Richard toke of euery Carucata plough land or hid of land through England fiue shillings The French king was intercepted by the army of King Richard so that with much adoe he escaped into Cipres his army was dispersed and almost an hundred Knightes taken beside other common soldiours without number The Charters which the king had Mathew Paris before made with his new seale were chaunged Sherifes Constantine Fitz Arnolde Robert de Beaw Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne Hubert Archebishop of Canturbnrie through the procurement of the Monks of Canturburie and by the coÌ„mandement of the Pope brake downe euen with the ground the Chapel Colledge at Lambeth or Colledge at Lambeth which his predecessors had founded and he had finished in the honor of Thomas Archbishoppe of Canturburie King Richard tourned his armye against the Barons of 119â— K. Richaad vvoÌ„ded to death Paulus Aemeleus Gualterus Couen Ralph Cogshal Poictow that rebelled against him he set their Cities towns on fire spoyled their Countrey flew many of his aduersaries cruelly at the laste came to the Dukedome of Aquitaine and besieged the Castel of Chalne and brought it to that that they within offered to yéeld vpon conditions but he woulde not so receiue them but would haue them by force whervpvn a certain yong man named Bertram de Gordon standing on y e Castel wall leuelled a quarell out of a crosse bowe and smote him with a venomed Darte which stripe the king little regarded but inuading the castel wan it and put the soldiours in prison Of this wounde aforesayde he dyed the sixth day of Aprill in the yeare of our Lord. 1199. When he had raigned ix yeres and ix monthes and was buried at Fonteuerard at his fathers féete whom he confessed he had betrayed his heart was buried at Roane and his bowels at the foresayde Chalne ¶ King John IOHN brother to Richard aforenamed beganne his raigne ouer the Realme Anno reg 1 of Englande the vj. daye of April in the yeare of our Lord 1199. Of person he was indifferent but of melancholie and angrie complexion He being now in Normandie
sailed ouer into England was crowned at Westminster on y ◠Ascention daye And at Midsomer Ralphe Cogshall he returned again into Normandie with a great army which al the Sommer season contending against y ◠French proued the worthynesse of y e enimies to be sufficient ynough Consuetud de Lō for Phillip king of Fraunce in the quarrell of Arthur the son of Geffrey Iohns eldest Brother duke of Brytaine made war vppon King Iohn in Normandie and toke from him diuerse Castels and townes King Iohn granted the Shirifewike of London and Midlesex Sherife vvike of London let to ferme to the Citizens thereof for 300 pound yerely to be paid for that of auntient time it had bene so accustomed to be fermed as king Henrie the first before he had graunted to the same Citizens for 300. pounde yearely Also he gaue them full aucthoritie to chose and depriue their Sherifes at theyr pleasure Sherifes Arnolde Fitz Arnolde Richard Fitz Barthelmew Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne King Iohn made a lawe that no tunne of Wine of Poiters 1200 Price of vvines Gual Couen should be solde dearer than twentie shillings of Anioye foure and twentie shillings and of French wine fiue twentie shillings vnlesse the same French wine were so good that some woulde giue for it sixe and twentie shillings eyghte pence but not aboue A sexter of wine of Poiters no dearer than twelue pence nor white wine aboue sixe pence King Iohn hauing made peace beyonde the sea he required Annoreg 2 Taske aide of his Realme of xxx M. markes wherefore an edict was made that euery plow land should pay thrée shillings which troubled the lande very sore considering the escuage that went afore for euery Knights fée two markes whiche before neuer payde aboue twentie shilling The king being deuorced from his wife Isabel the Earle King Iohn deuorsed Mathew Paris Ypodigma Radul Cogshal of Glocesters daughter he passed ouer the sea paide thirtie M. markes to the French King vanquished his enimies and returned into Englande with Isabel his wife daughter to the Earle of Angolesme and crowned hir Quéene at Westminster on the eight of October Sherifes Roger Dorset Iames Bartelmew Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne King Iohn went to Lincolne where he met with William King of Scottes did homage King of Scottes Rotland Lorde of Galloway and many other noble men who did to him homage on the one and twētith day of Nouember A noble man of Aquitaine named Hugh Brune rebelling 1201 Hugh Brune rebelled against King Iohn inuaded diuers parts of the prouince bicause the King had maried the daughter of the Earle of Angolesme whom the sayd Brune had affied and had in his custodie wherefore the passed ouer and restrained the rebels from their attemptes The 25. of June there arose a cruell Tempest of thunder Ypodigma Annoreg 3. Tempestes lightning and hayle with a vehemente raine that destroyed corne cattell menne and houses by brenning them c. The 10. of July another Tempest much like to the former hapned so that the Medowes could not be mowed and the hay that was downe was carried away by the outragious course of waters that ouerflowed the grounde greate numbers of fishes through the corruption of the waters dyed many bridges borne downe corne and hay caried away many men drowned so that al men thought a new deluge had bene come Sherifes Walter Fitz Alis. Simon de Adermanbury Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne King Iohn sharplye warred vppon the Earle of March 1202 Radulphu◠Cog. Hugh Brune and the Earle of Eue hys brother who béeing not able to resist they complayned to Phillip king of France as to their soueraigne and chiefe Lorde who sent ofttimes to King Iohn mouing him to cease from vexing them but that woulde not serue wherefore he was sommoned by the Annoreg 4. Nobles of Fraunce as Duke or Earle of Aquitaine and Anioy to come vnto the Courte of the Frenche King and to stande to the iudgement of hys Péeres all which Kyng Iohn denyed K Iohn sōmoned to the French Kings Court wherevpon the same Courte adiudged hym to be depriued of all his landes which he or his predecessours helde of the king of Fraunce c. King Phillip forth with assembled an armye and inuaded the Castel of Buteuant in Normandie which King Richard had buylded he rased it to the ground He tooke the land of Hugh Gorney and all the Castels there about He tooke the Castell of Albomarle with the County of Eue and all the land to Arches none resisting him Also Arthure Earle of Britayne being made Knight by the French King whose Arthure Earle of Britayne taken yonger daughter he had fianced he being but sixtéene yeres olde wente to Hugh Brune and Geffrey of Lucingnam and with 250. Knightes beséeged the Castell of Mirable in which Quéene Eleanor his Aunte was enclosed but King Iohn came with a power and deliuered his mother from daunger He tooke there his Nephew Arthure William de Brawsa Geffrey de Lucingham Hugh Brune Andrew Caueny Saluaricus de Mauleon and diuers others Great thunder and lightning with hayle as bigge as Hennes egges c. Sherifes Normand Brundell Iohn de Ely Maior Henry Fitz Alwyne The waters encreased and did much hurt in Englande 1023 Mathew Paris Annoreg 5. Earle of Britaine murthered Radul Cogshal Arthure Earle of Britaine from Falaise was broughte to Roane and put in the Tower vnder the custody of Robert de Veypont where shortly after he was dispatched of his life some say by the hands of his Uncle Iohn The King of France inuaded the Castels of Normandy tooke Lisle Dandely with the Castell and the Vale de Ruell in the whiche were Robert Fitz Water Sayer de Quincy and many other He toke the strong Castell vpon Seyne builded by King Richard which had bin valiantly kept by the Connestable of Chester Sherifes Walter Browne William Chamberlayne Maior Henry Fitz Alwyne King Iohn doubting treason in his owne men in December retourned into Englande where he gathered greate aydes of money Elianor daughter to the Earle of Poyters that had bin 1204 Ralph Cogshal Anno reg 6. wife to Lewes King of France and after to King Henry the seconde of Englande departed this life and was buryed in Westminster King Iohn sente Embassadoures to treate a peace with the King of France but he bycause the worlde wente with him woulde not agrée in any wise except Arthure mighte be deliuered to him aliue or if he were dead he woulde haue his Sister in mariage with all the lands on that side the Seas Shortly after he tooke Falaise Caen and so forth all the Countrey to Barflot Charburgh and Dunfront Roane Vernoll and Arches and so proude Normandy Angiow Briteyne Mayne Poitow and Thoraigne were within a short time deliuered to King Phillip King Iohn marryed Iane hys Bastarde Daughter to Lewlin Prince of Wales and gaue with hir
and so to the Castel and cast him in prison whereof wheÌ„ the Barons vnderstoode they sent Roger Clifford and Sir Iohn Gifford with a great power to Glocester who beséeging the Castell Clocester Castell taken by the Barons brent the bridge and entred at the last where they tooke the said Macy with all his company and for that a Carpenter froÌ„ the Castell with a quarell had slaine an Esquier of the Barons partie Sir Iohn Gifford made the same Carpenter to leape from the top of the Castell where-through he was crushed to death Sir Roger Clifford tooke the kéeping of that Castell vpon him and sente Macy into the March Sir Iohn Gifford tooke all Macies goodes at Sherestone and elsewhere Peter de Egblonuch a Frenchman Bishop of Hereford Bishop of Hereford a French man was drawne out of his Cathedrall Churche by Thomas Turberuill and other and sent to the Castel of Erdesley where he and Sir Macy were both committed to safe ward his treasure was spoyled and his Chanons sent to prison and thus were Frenchmen serued through the Land where they mought be founde by them that were on the Barons part Simon de Mountfort with the Barons pitched theyr Tents in Istleworth Parke The Manor of Istleworth beloÌ„ging Tho. Wikes to Richard King of Almayne was burnt by y â— Londoners They also burned another house of his néere to Westminster In this meane while the King and Quéene remained The Queene chased Nicho. Triuet in the Tower of London and when y â— Quéene would haue gone by water vnto Windesore the Londoners getting them to the Bridge in great numbers vnder the which she must passe cried out on hir vsing many vile and reprochful words threw durt and stones at hir that she was constreyned to returne againe to the Tower The Citizens fortified the Citie with iron Chaynes drawne ouerthwart their Streetes of LoÌ„don chayned Annales of Hyde stréetes munited the Citie and did maruellous things There was a peace concluded betwixte the King and the Barons with these conditions that Henry sonne to the Kyng of Almayne that tooke the Barons parte and was in prison shoulde be deliuered that all the Kings Castels through England should be put into the Barons hands that the prouisions of Oxford shoulde be kept and that all Strangers within a certaine time should depart the land those except whose abode the faithfull persons of the Realme with one assent shoulde accept lastly that the Englishmen borne and such as were faithfull men to the Kingdome shoulde order and rule the businesse of the land vnder the King But this notwithstanding certayne Knightes of the Kings part fortified the Castel of Windesore with vittayles and armour Edward the Kings sonne came to Bristow where discorde rose betwixte his Knightes and the Townesmen so that the Townesmen were minded to haue beséeged the Castell whiche when Edward vnderstoode he sent for Walter Bishop of Winchester that tooke the Barons part that in his company he might go to the Court of his father promising to perswade his father to peace HéerevpoÌ„ going forth with y â— Bishop til they came to Windsore he entred the Castell to the great misliking of the Bishop but Edward shortly returned and wente to méete Simon Earle of Leicester that he with his adherents were coÌ„ming to beséege Windesore Castell Edward the Kings sonne met with y â— sayd Simon about Kingston and offered meanes of peace but Simon trusting to Bishop Walters counsell deteyned Edward with him and woulde not suffer him to depart till the Castell was yéelded they that were within hauing libertie to departe whither they woulde and the Strangers that minded to passe the Seas had safeconducts granted them Lewlin Prince of Wales confederate with Earle Simon in the meane time wasted the Countrey of Chester and the Marches of the same and ouerthrew to the grounde the Castles of Diffard and Gannoke After this a Parliament was holden at London in the which many that had held with the Earle went to the Kings part as Henry of Almaine sonne to Richard King of Romaynes and other The Kings partie being encreased he wente to Douer and endeuoured to haue gotte that Castell out of the Earles Anno reg 48 hands but he trauelled in vayne Robert Mountpiler Osbert Suffolk the. 28. of September Sherifes Maior 1264 Thomas Fitz Thomas Fitz Richard the. 28. of October Lewes King of Fraunce throughe procuring of Boniface Archbishop of Canturburie who in politicke Sermons at Paris as well at the Friers Prechers as Minors declared the doings betwixt the King of Englande and the Earle of Leicester toke vpon him to make a peace betwixte them wherevpon the King of Englande with his sonne Edwarde and diuerse other of the English nobilitie came to Paris aboute the xxij of Januarie but the Earle of Leicester fearing y e French Kings displeasure for his mothers sake or some other cause not knowen stayed at home in England and procéeded in hys businesse wherefore Roger Mortimer began to destroye the possessions which the Earle uf Leicester helde againste whoÌ„ the Prince of Wales went and besieged the Castel of Radnore and brought it to yéelde Edward the Kings sonne after his returne from Paris about Lent toke his iourney toward the March and passing The Schollers and Burgesses of Oxforde the one spoyle the other by Oxford the Burgesses shut vp their gates againste hym whereby he was forced to lye at the kings Hall without the towne till the next morrowe and then departed The schollers of Oxford being shut within the Towne brake vppe the gate that leadeth toward Beaâ—monte for which déede the Maior sent some of them to prison and not long after whyle the Schollers were at dinner the Maior and Commons wyth banners displayde thoughte to haue spoyled the Clearkes ere they had bin aware but being espied the Schollers ran togither and with bowes and other weapons slewe and wounded the Burgesses and Commons brake vp manye houses spoyling the goods and set the houses of the Portriues William Spicer and Geffrey Hencley on Fier on the South side of the towne Moreouer bycause the Maior Nicholas Kingstone was a Uintener they brake vp the Uintry Clarkes of Oxforde banished dranke the Wines and spoyled them for the which facte the King caused the Clearkes and Schollers to be banished the Uniuersitie Edward the kings sonne toke the Castels of Hay Huntington belonging to the Earle of Hereforde and the Castel of Brecon being also rendered to him he deliuered to Roger Mortimer to kéepe with the teritorie adiacent Robert Ferrers Earle of Darbie who toke part with Erle Simon besieged VVorcester besieged Worcester and entring by the olde Castel spoyled the Citizens of their goods and compelled the Jewes to be christened Glocester besieged The towne of Glocester that before was taken by the BaroÌ„s was now assailed by Edward the kings son who entred y e castel by great force in the
Philippe de Labeche Iohn de Becke Henry de Laybourne these tenne and thrée score and twoo Knightes more were bestowed in dyuers prisons The Justiciers of Trailebaston in Essex sate vppon all Cron. of Dunsta Iustices of Trailebaston complayntes excepte Assises touchyng pleas of féed landes and others in the Kyngs Benche to bée pleaded who dydde abstaine theyr handes from all kindes of giftes And they dydde not onely refuse the giftes but also woulde not be called to the feastes and bankets of any man The thirde Wéeke after Easter a Parliament was Tho. de la Mâ—â—â— gathered at Yorke where Hughe Spencer the father was made Earle of Winchester vnto whome the Kyng gaue the Castell and Honour of Dunnington whiche was parcell of the Earledome of Lincolne Aboute the feast of Saint Iames the King wyth a great T. de la More Hen. Elanforde armye entred Scotland but the Scottes hauing destroyed all aâ—ore were retyred beyond the Scottishe Sea So that the King beyng oppressed bâ—â—â—mine retourned into Englande Addictions to Nich. Triuet Anno reg 15 whome the Scottes foll 〈…〉 and in a place of the Forrest of Blackamore they â—et 〈…〉 ng so that he hardly escaped There were taken the Earle of Richemond and the Lorde of Silicico the Frenche Kings Embassador and many other where vppon the Scottes spoyling al the Couâ—â—â—â— and brenning euen to Yorke they brent Ripon slew many Priests of the Colledge there but in Beuerley they hurte not a man for the Burgesses and Cannons dydde redéeme the same wyth foure hundreth poundes of sterling money And so the Scottes by reason of Winter made retourne being laden with spoyles Thys yeare the Kyng made Syr Andrewe Herkley Earle of Carlile and gaue hym landes in the Marches of Scotlande Richard Constantine Richard Hackeney the. 28. of Sept. Sherifes Maior Hamond Chickwell Peperer the 28. of October Aboute the feaste of the Purification of our Lady Andrewe de Herkeley late made Earle of Carlile vnder colour of peace fayned that he woulde marry Robert Bruis his sister Wherevppon the King reputing him a Traitor caused him to be taken by hys trusty friende Syr Anthony de Lucy and after he was disgraded of the Earledome by the taking away froÌ„ him the sword cutting off his spurs 1322 then hanged quartred at Carlile also the third of March his head was sent to London and his four quarters to foure seueral parts of this land The. xxx of May Aymer de Valence Earle of Penbroke Hugh Spencer the yonger Robert Baldocke Archdeacon of Midlesex sir William Herle Knight William de Aizewine Cannon of Yorke Galfride de Scrope were for King Edwarde of England sent to Newcastel vpon Tiâ—e where they met with William Bishop of Saint Andrewes Thomas Raâ—â—dâ— â—â— Earle of Mourt Iohn de Meteâ—h Robert de Lowther the Father Knights and maister Walter de Tromant Clearke for the King of Scottes there to talke of a final peace but when that wold not be they â—et to a truce which they agreed vpoÌ„ for xiij yeres which was proclaimed about the xj of June dated at Anno reg 16 Thorpe néere vnto Yorke Thys yere Phillip King of Fraunce dyed and his brother Charles succéeded him About the beginning of Auguste king Edwarde being at Pikering there came Ambassadors from the new French king the Lorde Benuille and sir Andrew de Florentia to cite the King to come to doe homage for â—â—yon Aquitaine and other lands which he helde of him and though Hugh Spencer the sonne Lorde Chamberlayne and Roberte Baldocke Lorde Chauncellour had procured the sayde Ambassadours not to declare theyr message to the King yet when they shoulde depart they did it admoniâ—hing him to come And the sayd syr Andrew de Florence being a Notarie made a publike instrument of the sayde Citation and admonition Iohn Grantham Richard of Ely the. 28 of Septem Sherifes Maior Tho. de la More Hamond Chickwel Peperer the. 28. of October The Frenche King made a processe againste the King of Englande And Charles de Valoys vncle to king Charles of Fraunce a most deadly enimy to Englishmen did seaâ—e on the Dukedome of Angue and the Countie of Portowe vnto the vse of his nephew the King At the length going forward to the towne of Ryall he founde it wel defended by Edmond of Woodstocke Earle of Kent betwixte whome a finall truce being taken to continue vntill suche time as it coulde be determined betwéene both the Kings as concerning peace and the towne being yelded vp both the armies departed home The next Lent in a Parliament holden at London Adam Tarleton Bishoppe of Hereforde was accused of treason but Henrie Blanford 1323 by the Archbishops of CaÌ„terburie Yorke and Dubline and their suffragan Bishoppes he was taken from the Barre and had away notwithstanding inquisition being made by lawefull men of that Country they founde y â— he had ayded the Mortimers with horsse and armour against the King wherevppon all hys Temporalities were seased into the kings hands In this Parliament the king graunted at petition of y â— Prelate that all the bodies of the noble men that were hanged on gallowes shoulde be taken downe and buried in ecclesiasticall Anno reg 17 sepulture The King also asked a subsidie of the cleargie and people for the redéeming of Iohn Britaigne Earle of Richmonde Adam Tarleton Bishop of Hereford being depriued of all hys temporall goods did hate the Spencers deadlye so dyd Henrie Burwashe of Lincolne and their friendes who withhelde Tho. de la More their handes only for reuerence of the King On Lammas daye Roger Mortimer of Wigmore by Henrie Blanford giuing to his kéepers a sléepe drinke escaped out of the Tower breaking through the wal and comming into y â— Kitchin neare adioyning to the Kings lodgings and getting out of the toppe thereof came to a Warde of the Tower and so with cordes knitte ladder-wise prepared afore hande by a friende of hys got to another Warde and so with greate feare got to the Thamis and with his helper and two moe of his counsell passed the riuer and auoyding the high wayes came to the sea and there finding a shippe passed ouer into Fraunce Adam of Salisburie Iohn of Oxforde the 28. of Septem Sherifes Maior 1324 Tho. de la More Anno reg 18 Nicholas Farendon Goldsmith the. 28. of October The Kyng sente Ambassadours to the French Kyng the Byshoppes of Winchester and of Norwiche with Iohn of Brytaine Earle of Richmonde to take order for the Dukedome of Brytaine who after long debatings toke a certayne forme of peace with the King King Edwarde sente the Quéene hys wife vnto hyr brother The QueenseÌ„tâ— into Fraunce the French Kyng to establishe the peace who went ouer with a small company By hyr mediation a peace was fullye finished to witte that the Kyng of Englande should giue to his eldest sonne Edwarde the Dukedome of
Gillemehelmach Ocadeci Ocaruell with other Princes and the Bishops submitting themselues and theirs to the King of Englande and his successors builded for him a greate Pallace at Dublin where he helde hys Christmas The Church of Norwich with the houses thereto belonging was brent and the Monkes were dispercled The King returned into England on Monday in the Easter 1172 wéeke about the Ascention tide sayled into Normandy At Andouer a Priest praying before the Altare was striken with thunder and slayne Likewise one Larke and his brother was brent to death with the lightning Cro. Colâ—estre King Henry the sonne with his wife the French Kings daughter were both togither Crowned at Winchester the seauen and twentith of August by the handes of Rotrod Archbishop of Roane King Henry the elder was assoyled of the death of Thomas Geruasius Anno reg 19. the Archbishop vpoÌ„ his oth made that he was not priuie to it King Henry married the eldest daughter of Hubert 117â— Ypodigma Earle of Morton vnto his sonne Iohn surnamed without land He also made Mary the sister of Thomas Becket Abbesse of Berking Henry the yonger rebelling in Normandy against King Henry the yonger rebelled Henry his father many Earles and Barons fledde ouer to him whereby diuers strong battayles were fought as well in England as in Normandy Poytow Guyen and Britaine There tooke part against the father Lewes King of France William King of Scottes Henry Geffrey and Iohn his sonnes Robert Earle of Leycester Hugh of Chester and others Robert Earle of Leycester with thrée thousand Flemings comming into England ariued at Walton and after were receyued by Earle Hugh into Framilingham Castell They brent the Castell of Hagoneth the Citie of Norwich c. but by Iohn Taxtor Anno reg 20 Richard de Lucy the Kings Justice both he his wife and as many Normans and Frenchmen as were with him were taken but the Flemings were all slayne or drowned This battayle was fought without the Towne of S. Edmondsburie néere to a place called S. Martins of Farneham William King of Scottes with many Flemings entring into England wan the Castels of Appleby Brough and Pridehoâ— King Henry the elder returning into England in shorte time subdued his Rebels The Citie of Leycester by his 1174 Leycester brent commandement was brent the walles and Castell raced and the inhabitants sparcled into other Cities Robert de Scoteuile Radulph de Mandeuile Barnard Bayllole of whome Baynards Castell tooke the name and William de Vescy came to Newcastell and after tooke King William King of Scottes taken prisoner Ger. Dorobor Baynardes Castell Sca. Cron. prisoner and sent him to London from whence King Henry tooke him and the Earle of Leycester with him into Normandy and there imprisoned them at Roane where King William compounded for his ransome and after was deliuered at Yorke for 4000. pound The Nobles of Scotlande came no néerer than Pembles in Scotland to méete with their King wherefore he tooke with him many of the yonger sonnes of noble men in England that bare him good wil and gaue them landes in Scotland which he tooke from suche as were Rebels to him there The names of those Gentlemen that he toke with him were Baylliol Brewle Soully Mowbrey Saintclere Hay Giffard Ramesey Lanudell Bisey Berkeley Wellegen Boys Montgomery Valx Celenille Friser Grame Gurlay and diuers other The v. day of September Christes Church in Canturburye Geruasius Doro. Wil. Thorne Canturbury brent was burned with certayne houses of Office in the court King Henry the sonne with his bréethren other were reconciled to King Henry the father The Archbishop of Canturbury held a Counsell in S. Peeters Anno reg 21 1175 at Westminster on Sunday before the Ascention day at which Counsell were present all the suffragan Bishops of his Prouince Worcester except that was sicke and so excused himselfe and y â— Bishop of Norwich which was deceased A brother of the Earle Ferrers was in the night priuily Roger Houed slayne at London which wheÌ„ the King vnderstoode he sware that he would be auenged on the Citizens for it was then a common practise in the Citie that an hundred or more in Night vvalkers in London did murther all they met a company of yong and old would make nightly inuasions vpon the houses of the wealthy to the intent to robbe them and if they found any man stirring in the Citie within the night they would presently murther him in so much that when night was come no man durst aduenture to walke in the Stréetes When this had continued long it fortuned that as a crew of yong and wealthy Citizens assembling togither in the night assaulted a stone house of a certayne rich man and breaking through the wall the good man of that house hauing prepared himselfe with other in a corner when he perceyued one of the Théeues named Andrew Bucquinte to leade the way with a burning brand in the one hand and a potte of coales in the other whiche he assayed to kindle with the brand he flew vpon him and smote off his right hande and then with a lowde voyce cryed Théeues at the hearing whereof the Théeues tooke their flight all sauing he that had lost his hande whome the good man in the next morning deliuered to Richarde de Lucy the Kings Justice This Théese vpon warrant of his life appeached his confederates of whome many were taken and many were fledde but among the rest that were apprehended a certayne Citizen of greate countenance credite and wealth surnamed Iohn the olde when he coulde not acquite himselfe by the waterdome offered the King for his life fiue hundred Markes but the King commaunded that he shoulde be hanged which was done Gualter Couen and the Citie became more quiet The Kings of England both father and sonne did eate Anno reg 22 1176 and drinke at one Table lay in one Chamber and wente togither to visite the Tombe of Thomas late Archbishop of Canturburie accomplishing indéede the peace whiche they had promised The King caused to be razed and ouerthrowne the Castels of Huntington Walton Groby Tutsburie Hay and Trest Castels razed with many other in reuenge of the harme the Lordes of them had done to him This yeare 1176 after the foundation of Saint Mary Redulphus de diceto Oueryes Church in Southwarke the stone bridge ouer the The stone bridge at London begon to bée buylded Ex recordis SaÌ„ctae Mariae de Southwarke Iohn Leyland Thamis at London was begonne to bée founded A Cardinall and the Archbishop of Canturburie gaue a thousande Markes toward the same foundation In March the King called a Conuocation of the Cleargie at London when the Popes Legate was set and the Archbishop of Canturbury on his right hande as primate of England the Archbishop of Yorke disdeyning to sitte on the lefte hande came and swapt him downe to haue thrust
reg 4 Then the Archebishoppe of Rhoane wyth the consente of Earle Iohn toke vpon him the rule of the lande as Uiceâ— Chauncellour Sherifes Nicholas Duke Peter Newlay Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne King Richarde hauing knowledge that Phillip of 1193 Fraunce inuaded Normandie and that Iohn his brother hadde made himselfe King of Englande made peace with the Saladine for thrée yeares and wyth a small companye retourning homewarde was taken prisoner by Leopolde Duke of Austria who broughte hym to Henrie Anno reg 5. King Richarde taken prison the Emperour and there kepte hym in prison a yeare and fiue monthes He was enuyed for hys valiauncie in that he hadde shewed more proofe of hys prowes than all the other had Wolfangus Lazius in hys booke de Romano Imperio affirmeth that Leopolde of Austria when he hadde taken king Richard for some iniurie done to the house of Austria hée King Richard of England builded the vvals of Vienna compelled hym to builde the walles aboute Vienna the chiefest Cittie of Austria the whyche Wals wythin oure memorie defended all Germanie from the inuasion of the Turke The rumor being spredde that King Richarde was taken Earle Iohn rebelled against King Richard as yée haue hearde forth wyth the Frenche King and Erle Iohn made a greate conspiracie togyther meaning to take the Kingdome of Englande herevppon a greate number of Flemmings were assembled at Witsaâ—â—e and an innumerable multitude of Flemmings readye to come ouer but theyr messengers being taken their treason was bewrayed Elianor the olde Quéene caused the Sea coastes to bée watched ouer against Flaunders but notwithstanding Erle Iohn came secréetely into Englande to rayse the Walchmen and Scottes but the King of Scottes woulde not ayde hym The Walchmen in the partes about Kingstone and Windsore toke prayes abrode The Frenche King entred Normandie founde small resistaunce wanne diuerse Townes Gisors was deliuered to him then he hasted towards Roane besieged it but through the great industrie of Robert Earle of Leicester he profited little there and so returned into Fraunce Earle Iohn perceiuing his treason was discouered fortifyed hys Castels and passed ouer into Fraunce and ioyned with the Frenche King Sherifes Roger Duke Richard Fitz Alwyne Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne King Richard sent for his mother and the Archebishop of Rhoane to come vnto hym into Almayne being nowe in greate hope to bée deliuered and in the meane tyme the Archbishoppe of 〈◊〉 was made regent of England The Kings friendes entreating for his deliueraunce his The Kings raunsome Geruasius Doro. Radul Cogshal ransome was set at 100000. pound to wit to the Emperour 100000. markes to the Empresse 30000. markes and to y â— Duke of Austrich 20000. markes wherevpon commaundemeÌ„t was directed from the kings Iustices that al Bishops Prelates Earles Barons Abbots and Priors should bring in the fourth parte of theyr reuenewes towardes the kings raunsome and besids this the cleargie brought in their golden and siluer chalices and fléeced their shrines all whiche was coyned into money The order of the Cestercencies did giue theyr wool for one Mathew Paris Roger Houeden yeare c. all the money gathered for the Kings raunsome to remaine in the custodie of Hubert Archbishoppe of Canturburie Richarde Bishoppe of London William Earle of Arundel Hameline Earle of Warren and the Maior of London The King was restored to libertie the most parte of hys raunsome being paide and pledges left for the residue In the mean time letters were intercepted of Erle Iohn which he had sent into EnglaÌ„d touching treason one Adam of Saint Edmund Cleark being sent by Erle Iohn to prouide that his Castel might be fortified against King Richard came to London and dyned with Hubert Archbishoppe of Canturburie where he bragged of Earle Iohns prosperitie and familiaritie Recardâ—â— caâ—â—â—â— with the French king for y â— which being suspected he was after dinner appreheÌ„ded by the Maior of LondoÌ„ who toke froÌ„ him his letters and deliuered them to the Archbishoppe of Canturburie who on the next morrow called a CouÌ„sel of the Earles and Barons and shewed them the letters wherevpon they al câ—nsented that Erle Iohn should be dispossessed of all his lande in England and that his Castels should be besieged The same day the same Archbishop and Bishoppes excommunicated Earle Iohn and all his fauourers whiche troubled the peace of the kingdome And forth with the Archbishop 1194 besieged the Castel of Marleborough which belonged to Earle Iohn and toke it After this he besieged Notingham Castell The King taking ship at Antwerpe landed aâ— Sandwich on Godâ—â—â— vâ—â—â—â—alfe Gerua Doro. K. Richard the second time Crovvned Anno reg 6. the. 12. of March shortly after he besieged the Castell of Notingham and wan it and after that the Castel of Tikehil and then rode to Winchester wher he was again solemnly crowned on the xvij of April After this he called into his hands all such thing as hée had eyther giuen or sold by patentes or otherwise by whiche meanes he got a great sum of money and sayled into Normandie the xij of Maye where hauing a great army he tooke Taileburge and the countie of Angolesme Shortly after a peace was taken betwéene the two kings of England and Fraunce the xiij of June and also by meanes of Elianor the old Quéene Earle Iohn was reconciled to hys brother King Richard gaue to him the Erledomes of Morton Cornewal Dorset Somerset Notingham Darby Lancastre y â— Castels of Marleborough Luthegarshal with the forrests and Gual Couen appurtinaunces the honor of Wallingford Tikehil and Eye the Earledome of Gloucester with the Earles daughter Isabel though she were a kin to him but he kept certaine Castelles belonging to the said Earldâ—mes in his owne handes he remoued from him hys Concubines and toke to him his own wife which he had not knowen of a long time before Sherifes William Fitz Isable William Fitz Arnolde Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne King Richard sent messengers to the Pope complayning vpon the Duke of Austrich for misusing of him and his as they came by distresse of weather throughe his Countrey wherevpon the Pope excommunicated the Duke and enioyed him to release the â—â—uenaunts that he constrayned the King to make and to sende home the pledges but the Duke refused this order contempning the Popes authoritie who shortly after dyed and was kept vnburied til his son had released the English pledges that lay in hostage for the mony behinde of K. Richards caâ—nsome and further sware to staÌ„d to the iudgement of the Church for that offence of his father Hugh Bishoppe of Lincolne gaue to the king a thousande Anno reg 7. markes for his mantell of Sables which his predecessours were wont yearely to haue giuen them by the King Sherifes Robert Beasaunt Ioke de Iosue Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne William Fitz Osbert a Citizen of London poore in degrée VV. vvith the â—earde Roger Houed Wil.
he forthwith fell on the Subprior and smote him on the face with his fiste saying indéede indéede doth it become you English Traytors so to answere me Thus raging with othes not to be recited he rent in péeces the rich Coape of the Subprior trode it vnder féete and thrust him against a Piller of the chancell that he had almost killed him but y e Chanons séeing that their Sub-prior was almost dead they ranne and plucked off the Archbishop with such a violence that they ouerthrew him backwards whereby they might sée that he was armed and prepared to fight The Archbishops men séeing their mayster downe being all Strangers and their maysters countreymen borne in Prouance fell vpon the Chanons beate them tare them and trode them vnder their féete at length the Chanons getting away as well as they could ranne bloudy and mirie rent and torne to the Bishop of London to complayne who bade them go to the King at Westminster and tell him thereof wherevpon foure of them went thither the rest were not able they were so sore hurt but when they came at Westminster the King woulde neyther heare nor sée them so they returned without redresse In the meane season the whole Citie was in an vprore and readie to haue rong the common bell and to haue hewed the Archbishop into small péeces but he was secretly gotte away to Lambeth The Friers of the order of Preachers through Christendome and from Hierusalem were by a common conuocation assembled togither at their house in Holborne by London to entreate of their estate to the number of foure hundreth The King taking inestimable summes of money of all the rich meÌ„ in his Realme tooke of one Aaron a Jew borne in Yorke 14000. markes for himselfe and 10000. markes for English Ievves A marke of gold or of siluer vvas eight ounces the Quéene and before he had taken of the same Jew so much as amounted altogither to 30000. markes of Siluer and two hundred markes of golde to the Quéene In October the Sea flowing twice without ebbe made Tempestes so horrible a noyse that it was heard a great way into the land Besides this in a darke night the sea séemed to be on a light fire and the waues to fight one with another so that the Mariners were not able to saue their Shippes and to omitte to speake of other in one Hauen called Hureburne besides small vessels thrée noble and famous Ships were swalowed vp of the waues And at Winchelsea besides cotages VVinchelsea drovvned for salte fishermens houses bridges milles aboue 300. houses in that Towne with certayne Churches through the violent rising of the Sea were drowned A great Earthquake at Saint Albons on Saint Lucies day Anno reg 35 Sherifes Maior 1251 Maior of London svvorne Anno reg 36 Humfrey Beas William Fitz Richard the 28. of Septem Iohn Norman the 28. of October King Henry granted that where before time y e CitizeÌ„s of London did present their Maior before the King wheresoeuer he were so to be admitted now he should come only before the BaroÌ„s of y e Eschequer they should admit him Lawrence Frowike Nicholas Bat the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Adam Basing the 28. of October A great drought from Easter to Michaelmas for from the first of March til the Assumption of our Lady there fell Nicho. Triuet not so much as one drop of raine The Shepeheards of France England tooke their iourney towards the holy land 1252 Shepheards assembled W. Packington Anno reg 37 Sherifes Maior 1253 Iohn Taxtor to y e nuÌ„ber of 30000. but their nuÌ„ber vanished in short time King Henry made Alexander King of Scottes Knight at Yorke and gaue him his daughter Margaret to wife William Durham Thomas Wymborne the 28. of Sept. Iohn Toloson Draper the 28. of October The King tooke 40. s of euery Knightes fée to make his eldest son knight He purchased the tenthes of all spirituall liuings at the Popes hands for fiue yeares as it had bin in ayd of the holy land but in déede it was to make his sonne Edmond King of Naples and Sicill The Liberties of London were seased by the meanes of Richard Earle of Cornewal who charged the Maior that he looked not to the Bakers for Liberties of London seased their sises of bread so that the Citie was forced to please the Earle with 600. markes and were restored The King emprisoned the Sherifes of London in the Tower a moneth and more and after deposed them of their office bycause of the escape of Iohn Offrom that was vnder their warde in Newgate for the death of a Priour that was the Kings ally Ypodigma A great Floud hapned in Holland Lindsey and Holdernes Great floud Anno reg 38 Countreys of England the tenth of October which came vnto Alnigham where through a great portion of land with houses and people were drowned Robert Grosted Bishop Robert Grostede of Lincolne in Gréeke Latin and other languages did by an Epistle reproue Pope Innocent affirming that the Nicholas Triuet W. Sheepeshed Preaching Friers minorite Friers were infected with heresies This Robert Grostede borne in Suffolke this yeare deceased he gaue al his bookes to y e friers Minors at Oxford Iohn Northampton Richard Pickard the 28. of Septem Sherifes Maior 1254 Edvvard prince of VVales Richard Hardell Draper the 28 of October Edward y t Kings eldest sonne wedded the Kings daughter of Spayne Elianor his father gaue him the Earledome of Chester and the gouernance of Guyen and Ireland The Bishop of Hereford in the Court of Rome feigning himselfe Procuratour for the Cleargy of England bound the small houses of Religion in 100. or 200. markes the péece Rodul de Diceto the greater houses in 300. or 500. markes the péece Saint Edmondsburie was bound in 700 markes to be paide to certayne Taxtor Anno reg 39 Merchant strangers and all this money was collected to expulse Manfred out of Naples Ralph Ashwye Robert of Limon the 28. of September Sherifes Maior 1255 Mathew Paris Anno reg 40 Ievves hanged Nicholas Triuet Richard Hardell Draper the 28. of October Cxlij Iewes were brought to Westminster which were accused of y e crucifying of a child named Hugh at Lincolne xviij of theÌ„ were drawne through the stréetes at Lincolne and after hanged y e other remained long prisoners The Earles Barons of England with assent of the Prelates caused proclamatioÌ„ to be made through all England that the Charters of liberties forests should be kept at their instance Boniface Archbishop of Canturbury accursed all those that shuld breake theÌ„ Lewlin Prince of Wales gathering a mighty â—aÌ„d of meÌ„ inuaded Cheshire which y e King had lately giueÌ„ to his son Edward and destroyed all things with fire sword till he came to the gates of the Citie of Chester to represse whose violeÌ„ce a valiant
next morning by meanes of the Bishop of Worcester and Reignald Abbot of Glocester a truce was taken betwixt the Barons in the town and the Kings sonne in the Castell but shortly after the Barons fled and the Burgesses submitting themselues were some of them hanged the residue cast in prison grieuously raunsomed and the towne destroyed from whence the Kings sonne departed spoyling and wasting the Country contrarie to his othe made to the Barons till he came to Oxforde where he lodged in the house of the Frier Prēchers and ioyned his power with the King his Father who was lately come thyther to make his offering to Saint Friswide not fearing the superstitious opinion y t if any King entred y e town the Uirgin there would be auenged on him The Kyng hauing now with him his brother Richard king of Almaine his sonne Edward William de Valence his brother on the mothers sidē and Iohn Cumyn of Scotland with a multitude of Scottishmen Iohn de Bailliol Lord of Galoway Robert le Bruse lord of Anandale Roger de Clifford Phillip de Marmiō Iohn de Vallibus Roger de Laborne Henrie Percy Phillip Basset Roger de Mortimer with an army went and besieged Northampton Nothamton besieged and the fourth of Aprill breaking the Wall toke y e towne and in it fiftéene Knightes bearing Banners Simon Mountfort the yonger William de Ferrers Peter de Mountfort Baldwine Wake Adam de Newmarche Roger Bartrandi Simon Fitz Simon Berengario de Wateruile Hughe Cubion Thomas Maunsell Roger Bonteuileyne Nicholas Wake Robert de Newenton Phillip de Derby Grimbald de Paunsevent of whom Simon the yonger was sent to Winchester the residue to other places to be safely kepte Other Knightes of meaner degrée were taken to the number of xl and not a fewe Esquires from thence the king wente towardes Notingham wasting with fire and sworde the maner places of the Barons and there he gathered his Lordes and great men Earle Simon went to London and from thence to Rochester Rochester besieged whiche Iohn Earle Warren defended the bridge and first gate wherof when he had wonne being informed that the king was comming towards London he lefte the siege went backe to méete hym but the king turning his waye from London toke the Castel of Kenington Kingston which was Castel at Kingstone taken the Erle of Glocesters then going to Rochester chased away some that remayned at the siege but slewe many moe from thence he went to Tonbridge the Castel whereof he toke and the Counties of Glocester within it leauing a garrison there Castel of Tonbridge taken he went to Winchester where he receiued thē of the v. Portes to his peace passing further to Lewes was receiued into y e Priory his son into the Castel wher whiles he remained the Barons writ to him letters as ye may read in Mathew Paris Nicholas Triuet but they taking no effect y e Barons in armes approched towards Lewes inuading y e kings people Battel at Levves y ◠wer gone forth for forrage wherof the king being warned he goeth forth to méete thē with his army deuided into thrée sorts The first was led by Edward the kings son hauing with him William de Valence Erle of Penbroke Iohn de Waren Earle of Surrey and Sussex The seconde was guided by Richard K. of Almain w t his son Henrie The third the K. himself had in gouerning The Barons army was deuided into four wardes The first led Henrie de Mountfort w t the Erle of Hereford The seconde led Gilbert de Clare wyth Iohn Fitz Iohn Williā de Moūtchance The third in which the Londoners were Nicholas Segraue The fourth Erle Simō himself led with Thomas de Pelueston Edwarde the Kings sonne with hys battayle brake on his enimies that he made them to giue backe of whom many were drowned The Londoners were put to flyghte whom whilest the kings sonne pursued for the space of foure miles he made great slaughter but being separate frō the rest of the army he weakened his part sore In the meane time manye of the Kings battayle were slaine and the King of Almaine taken in a Windmil by Syr The King of Almaine taken Iohn de Beuis so was Robert le Bruis and Iohn Commyne which had brought the Scottes King Henrie also hauing hys horsse slaine vnder him yéelded to the Earle of Gloucester King Henrie taken who sent him prisoner to the Priory Edward returning is receyued with sharpe battayle and the Earle Waren William de Valence Grey de Lesmute the Kings halfe brethren Hugh Bigod with mē of armes to the nūber of 400. Haberions gotte then the Castel of Pemsey and when many were slayne on eyther side the Lorde Edwarde ryding aboute the towne sound his father in the Priorie In the meane time an assault being giuen to the Castle which was valiauntly defended the Barons withdrew thē wherevpon the Lord Edward being greatly incouraged and hauing gathered his people about him woulde haue made a new battayle so that the Barons sued for peace whiche by y e meanes of the Friers Preachers and Minors was brought to passe that on the Friday following the Lords Edwarde Henrie for theyr Fathers of England and Almayne kings deliuered themselues to Earle Simon vpon hope of quietnesse Edvvard the Kings son taken and peace that might be concluded On the Saterdaye the king licenced them that were aboute him to depart to theyr houses writ vnto thē that were in Tonbridge Castel that they shoulde not molest the Barons as they returned homewardes but they notwithstanding being in armes when they heard that the Londoners which were fled from the battaile were receiued into Croydon they hasted 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈…〉 the kings sonne was deliuered There was slain in the battayle at Lewes which was fought on the xij of May aboute Robert of Glocest VVestchepe in London brent 4500. men About that time a gret part of Westcheape in London was brent by treason Erle Simon led the K. his son Edward about with him W. Pakenton Chro. Glaston till he had gotte all the strong Castels of the lande into hys hands and then put Richard King of Almaine in y e tower of London and Edwarde the Kings sonne in Douer Castle In the mean time Roger Mortimer Iames Audeley Roger Leyborne Roger Clifforde Haymo Lestrange Hugh de Turberuile with many other rose against Simō who to restrayne theyr boldnesse associating to him the Prince of Wales entred the Castell of Hereforde and caused Edward the Kings sonne to be brought thyther from Douer after thys he wanne the Castell of Hey whiche belonged to the Earle of Hereforde and toke the Castel of Ludlow and after wastyng y e Castel of Ludlovv taken landes of Roger Mortimer goeth towardes Mountgomerie there taking pledges of peace of y e sayd nobles he turneth to the south parts to méete thē power which was sayd to come
of the Citie of London Gilbert Earle of Glocester dyed leauing issue thrée 1294 daughters and one sonne within age begotten of Iane his wife Robert Rokesley the yong corder Martin Ambresbery Sherifes Custos Ralph Sandwich the 28. of Sep. The thirtenth of October being Sonday all the Cleargie of England granted a Subsedie of the one halfe of their fruites and reuenues for one yeare to the King In the quindene of S. Martin the Justices Itinerants sate Anno reg 23 W. Packington without London in the Bishop of Couentries house at y â— stone Crosse Roger Pine esden Captain to the WelchmeÌ„ spâ—â—led burned the Marches Great Snowes winds did great harme in England The water of Thamis ouerflowed the 1295 bankes a great breach at Rotherheath besides London and y e low grounde about Bermondsey and Tothill was ouerflowed Henry Box Richard Glocester the 28. of September Sherifes Custos Anno reg 24 Castel of Bevv marish Iohn Rouse Ghro Dun. Sir Ralph Sandwich The King passing y â— water of Conoway and so forth into Wales with an army against the Welchmen builded the Castell of Beawmarish in the Isle of Anglesey The Welchmen were coÌ„sumed by famine their woods were felled and many Castels fortified their Captayne was taken brought to London and so for that time the warres seased The Frenchmen arriued at Douer spoyled the Towne 1296 Douer spoyled and brente a great parte thereof amongst other they slewe Thomas of Douer a Monke of great holynesse The King caused all the Monasteries in England to bée Wil. Paken Monasteries searched W. Sheepeshed searched and the money in them to be broughte vp to London He also seised into his hands all their lay fées bycause they refused to pay to him suche a Taxe as he demanded Moreouer he caused the wooll and leather to be stayed in England and there followed great dearth of corne and wine There rose a greate discorde at Oxforde betwéene the Discord betvvixte the Clearkes and Tovvnesmen of Oxforde Clearkes and Lay men and all bycause of two varlets of diuers Countreys which fell out about a small matter for vpon that occasion some tooke one part and some another and so all were deuided into partes in somuch that learned and lewde by flockmeale ranne to the fight and when the Schollers or Clearkes were gone out of their Hostles the Laitie perceyuing either none or else very fewe to be remaining at home entred the Clearkes lodgings and caryed away a great deale many kinds of stuffe to the great vnrecouerable damage of the Schollers In this skirmish was slayne Sir Fulke of Neyrmouth parson of Pichelesthorne and many other on eyther side The King hearing thereof sente Justiciaries to restore the peace and to condemne the murtherers which wheÌ„ they came forced the Townesmen to pay the Scholers two hundreth poundes for domages done to them Iohn of Dunstable Adam de Halingbery the 28. of Sep. Sherifes Custos Anno reg 25. Sir Iohn Breton Was made Custos of London by the King Ralph Sandwich being remoued and the morrow after Saint Barnabes day all the Liberties were restored to the Citie of London the Mairaltie excepted Iohn Baliol King of Scottes contrary to his alegiance rebelled Wil. Packington Tho. Walsing wherefore King Edward hasted him thither and wonne the Castels of Berwike and Dunbarre he slewe of the Scottes fiue and twenty thousand he conquered Edenborough 1297 King Edvvarde vvon Bervvike Regalles of Scotland where he found the regall ensignes of Scotland as Crowne Scepter and cloth of estate c. In his returne he called a Parliament at Berwike where he receiued the fealties of all the great men of Scotland and their homages Thomas of Suffolke Adam of Fulham the 28. of Septe Sherifes Custos Anno reg 26. Sir Iohn Breton King Edwarde offered to Saint Edwarde at Westminster the Chayre Scepter and Crowne of Golde of the Scottish King The King encreased the tribute of the woolles talking for euery Sacke fortie Shillings where before that time they payde but halfe a marke The Scottes by the instigation of William Walleis rebelled and put the Englishmen to much trouble and losse of many men King Edward sayled into Flanders to rescue Guy their Earle which was gréeuously ouerset by the French King so 1298 that he had wonne muche of his landes but shortly after a peace was concluded for two yeares The Eschequer and the Kings Bench was remoued froÌ„ London to Yorke King Edward wanne the battell of Fankirke in Scotland vpon Saint Mary Magdalens day in whiche battell was Nicholas Triuet Tho. Walsing Scala Croni Battell at Faulkirke in Scotland slayne more than twentie thousand Scottes and William Walleis their Captayne fledde Anthony Beke Bishop of Duresme had at this battell such a retinue that in his company were two and thirtie Banners At this time the Towne of Saint Andrewes was destroyed no man there resisting The Citizens of London hearing of the great victorie Chro. Dun. obteyned by the King of Englande against the Scottes made great and solemne triumph in their Citie euery one according to their craft especially the Fishmongers which with solemne Procession passed through the Citie hauing amongst other Pageants and shewes foure Sturgeons gilded caryed on foure Horses then foure Samons of Siluer on foure Horsses and after sixe and fortie Knightes armed riding on Horsses made like Luces of the Sea and then Saint Magnus with a thousand HorsemeÌ„ this they did on Saint Magnus day in honor of the Kings great victorie and safe returne This yeare the King payde to the Marchants of Gascoigne 150000. pounds sterling for his brothers expences there Richard Reffeham Thomas Sely the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Chro. Dun. Anno reg 27 Henry Waleis the 28. of October King Edward helde a great Parliament or counsell at Stepenheath by London in the house of Henry Waleis Maior of London Certayne persons of the Citie of London brake vp the Tonne in Cornehill and tooke out certayne prisoners for the whiche nine of them were punished by long emprisonment and great fines It cost the Citizens more than 1299 20000. markes to purchase the Kings fauoure and confirmation of their liberties The xxix of March a vehement fire being kindled in the lesser hall of the Pallace at Westminster the flame thereof VVestminster and the Kings Pallace consumed vvith fire Radul Baldoke Saint Martins in the Vintrie nevv builded being driuen with winde fired the Monasterie adioyning which with the Pallace were both consumed Saint Martins Church in the Uintrie at London was new builded by the executors of Mathew Columbers The king went to Yorke and so into Scotland with a great power A certayne rich Citizen of London deceasing a great nuÌ„ber Io. Euersden of poore people were assembled to receiue his charitable doale amongst whome suddaynely rushed in the sonnes of 150. Beggars murthered at
Walling ford there to bée shut vppe in prison and his goods confiscate bycause in hys fathers life time he had reproued him of his insolent life c. He also called out of exile Pierce of Gauaston a straunger borne whiche lately in his Fathers dayes had for certaine causes bene banished this land He gaue to the sayde Pierce the Earledome of Cornewal the Isle of Man and the Lordeshippe Cro. Hâ—ntenpries W. Paking Sherifes Maior of Wallingforde otherwise assigned to Quéene Isabel Nicholas Pigot Nigellus Druâ—y the 28. of September Sir Iohn Blunt the. 28. of October A Parliamente was holden at Northampton wherein it was ordayned that his Fathers coyne which was counted bace should not be refused vpoÌ„ paine of life and lim and that a fiftéenth of the Cleargie twentith part of the goods of the Layetie should be giuen to the king The. 27. of October King Edward the first was buryed at Westminster at the heade of Henrie the third his Father vnto the which Church he had giuen lands to the value of one hundred pound by yeare twentie pounde thereof yearely to be distributed to the poore Anthony Becke Patriarke of Ierusalem and Byshoppe of Durham doing the exequies After the Ephiphanie of our Lorde all the Templers Adam Merimo Knightes of the temple apprehended Tho. de la More in Englande were apprehended and committed to prison in diuerse places The King went ouer into France and married Isabel the French kings daughter at Bolloigne y â— xxij of Januarie There were present at that marriage Phillip king of Fraunce hys sonne King of Nauar the King of Almaine and the King of Cicile with many other And on the xxiiij day of Februarye King Edward with his Quéene were crowned at Westminster by Henrie Bishop of Winchester being admitted so to do by Robert Archbishop of Canterburie The King offered firste a pounde of Golde made like a King holding a ring in his hande and after he offered a marke of Golde whiche is eight ounces made like a Pilgrime putting forth his hande to receyue the ring Sir Iohn Bachauell Knyghte was thruste to deathe at hys Coronation The King gaue vnto Pierce of Guaston all such giftes and Ghro Dâ—n Jewels as had bin giuen to him with the Crownes of hys Father his ancestours treasure and many other things affirming that if he could he should succéede him in the Kyngdome calling him brother not granting any thing without his consent The Lords therfore enuying him told the king that the Father of this Pierce was a Traytour to the King of Fraunce and was for the same executed that his mother was burned for a Witch and that the said Pierce was banished for consenting to his mothers witchcraft and that hée had now bewitched the King himselfe They besought the Kyng to heare therefore their petitions whiche shoulde be both for his owne Honoure and for the wealth of his people First that he woulde confirme and vse suche auntiente 1 Lawes and customes as are contayned in the Charters of the Kyngs hys predecessonrs and for that they woulde graunt him the twentith part of their goods and be his true subiectes Secondly that he woulde take nothyng of any man but 2 at the price of the owner the same to be payde for to the vttermost Thyrdlye that what soeuer was alyenated from the 3 Crowne since hys Fathers death might be restoared therevnto again Fourthly that he would obserue the oth he made before 4 his Father as of the reuoking of Peter Gauaston the prosecuting of the Scottish Warre and that all that was amisse shoulde be amended leaste hys enymies reioyce at it c. That iustice and iudgemente mighte be done in the 5 Lande as well to the ryche as to the poore accordyng to the auntiente and olde approued Lawes and Customes of Englande and that no man shoulde bée restrayned by the Kyngs writte from prosecuting hys ryghte or to defend himselfe by Law Then the king taking counsell of Pierce Hugh Spencer the Treasurer y â— Chancellour and others he appointed to answere the Barons at the ParliameÌ„t on Hocday The Barons being departed out of London the Citie gates were shut vp and chayned great watch kept and Hugh Spencer made Conestable of London The king with Peter of Gauaston weÌ„t towarde Wallingford Castel wyth a great company of souldiours as well straungers as English and Hugh Spencer taried still at London The Parliament on Hocday was kepte the Kyng Barons being there when they decréed the same Pierce shoulde be banished the lande to departe on the morrowe after Midsommer day neuer to returne agayne The King gaue him two and thirtie townes and so manye Pierce of Gauastone banished Castels in Gascotgne and great summes of money out of his Earledome of Cornwall during his life the king accompanyed him to Bristow seÌ„t him into Ireland assigning him y â— who le gouernment and reuenewes of that Countrey The king sente William Lorde Latimer with a hundred horssemen to fetch Henrie Lacy Erle of Lincoln but he being forewarned kept himselfe in his Castell and so preuented theyr purpose onely the Lord Latimer and he talked and so departed The king entended to giue Gascoigne to the French King Scotland to Robert Bruis Ireland and Wales to others hoping thereby to haue ayde against his Barons Robert Archbishoppe of Canturburie returned from Rome and was restored to all his goods Anno reg 2. Sherifes Maior 1309 Tho. de la More Iohn Troklowe Anno reg 3. William Basing Iames Botener the. 28. of September Nicholas Faringdon Goldsmith the. 28. of October The king sent for Pierce of Gauaston out of Ireland he laÌ„ded at Kerneruan on the euen of Saint Iohn Baptist he Kyng mette him at the Castel of Flint with great ioy and gaue to him the Earle of Glocesters sister in marriage they were maried at Barkamsteed which caused him again to rise in pride scorning the Nobles of the Realme and to abuse the Kyng as before he had done in conuaying the treasure of the Anno reg 3. Realme into forraine countreys amongst the which treasure he conuayed the table and trestles of golde from the treasurie of Westminster and deliuered them to one Armery of Frisconband to be coÌ„uayed into Gascoigne The Barons Cro. pet Coledge therefore declared to the King that except he would expell the sayd Pierce from his company they would rise agaynst him as against a periured Prince wherevpon by the aduice Chro. Dun. of Pierce of Gauaston the King sent for ayde into Gascoigne to the Earle of Foys and y â— Uicount of Henoy and they came with thrée hundred horsemen through France but Phillip the French King emprisoned the chiefe and slew and hanged the other Also the King of England had word from Robert Bruse of Scotland from Robert Fitz Thomas of Ireland that they woulde not take part with the King against his Barons wherevpon the King being wroth fortifyed Windsore Castell and beganne to build Towers and other strange things The Abbot of Saint Denis in France béeing sent Legate from the Pope to demaund the legacie that King Edwards father gaue to the holy land did earnestly request King Edward
to remoue from him Peter Gauaston with whose conuersation all the world was as it were infected Then the King appoynted a Parliamente at North-hampton determining from thence to passe into Scotland the Barons came to this Parliament well furnished but the King sente them worde he woulde not come there yet at the last he came to Stony Stratford whither were sente to him by the Barons the Earles of Warwike and Clare who requested him to come for his owne profite and the commoditie of the Realme at length he went in the habite of a Squire and the Barons met him without armour and in the ende louingly embraced and were made friends and the voyage to Scotland was reiourned til another time After Michaelmas the Parliament was holden at London vnto the whiche Parliamente came Lewes the French Kings brother with the Bishop of Poytow from the Kyng of Fraunce to entrenie vnitie betwixt the King and his Lordes and there were diuers get ordinaunces made And once agayne though sore agaynst the Kings mind he caused Pierce to obiure with condition added by the Barons that if he were founde agayne in any lande subiecte to the Kings dominion he shoulde be taken as a common enimy and condempned This beyng doneâ— he passed into Flanders and from thence to other Countries séeking reste which he coulde not finde Iames of Saint Edmond Roger Palmer the 28. of Sept. Sherifes Maior 1310 Anno reg 4. Thomas Romaine the 28. of October Pierce of Gaueston conceyuing a trust in the friendshippe of the King and the Earle of Gloucester whose sister he had marryed taking with him many straungers returned into Englande And a little before Christmas he came to the Kyngs presence who foâ— ioy of his comming forgettyng all othes and promises receyued hym as a heauenly gift The King kept his Christmas at Windsore where Walter Langton Bishop of Chester and the Bishop of Saint Andrews in Scotland were released out of prison The seconde daye of September at night an horrible tempest of thunder happened so that Hedges and Trées loste their gréenenesse and the Church of Middleton in Dorcetsnire wyth the Stéeple Belles Ornamentes and all other monuments of that place were consumed wyth the lightning the Monkes being at Mattins Henry Lacy Earle of Lincolne and Conestable of Chester W. Shep. dyed at London and was buryed in the newe worke of Paules Simon de Coâ—pe Peter Blackney the 28. of September Sherifes Maior 10. Rouse Richard Râ—â—â—am Mercer the 28. of October Blâ—ckeney deceassed in whose place succeeded Iohn â—â— Combridge A Prouinciall Counsell was holden at London agaynste Templers condempned Thomas Dele the Templers in England vppon Heresie and other articles where of they were accused who denyed the facte sauing one or two of them â— notwithstanding all did confesse that they coulde not purge themselues and therefore were condempned to perpetuall penuance in seuerall Monasteries where they be haued themselues very well At Paris in Frauuoe liiij of the Templers were brent by 1311 iudgement of the French King Thomas who had maryed the daughter of Henry late Earle of Lancaster hel de in hys handes the Earledomes of Lancaster Lincolne Salisbury Leyoester Ferraâ—s the Libertie of Pickering and the Honoure of Cokermore besides greate landes in Wales and in the Earledome of Arthoys in France King Edwarde wyth Peter Gauaston hys companion went to Yorke where the King was lodged in the Palace of the Archebyshoppe and Peter in the Castle they caused the Citie to be fortified and the walles to be repayred and sent to Robert Bayliol of Scotlande for ayde againste his Lordes but Robert made answeare he woulde not forth of Scotland neyther woulde he disquiet any man the lyke aunsweare was made by the Welchmen The Earles assembled at Bedford Gilber Earle of Glocester being one of them they came to London and ordayned the Seas to be kept leaste straungers shoulde enter to ayde the Kyng After Easter the brother of Pierce of Gauaston was taken with greate treasure whiche he hadde conueyed oute of the Kyngs Treasurie his shippe beyng tossed wyth tempeste on the Sea was driuen where it was taken and the treasure was brought to London in Carles About this time King Edward for his recreation tooke the Sea leauing Peter of Gauaston at Yorke where vpon the Barous brought their power entred the citie of Yorke but Peter fled to Scarborough then the Barons besieged Scarborough where they took him and committed him to y e custody of Aymerde Valence Erle of Penbroke who brought him to the Manor of Dedington which is betwixt Oxford Warwike â— there left him to be kept sâ—fer but y e next day in y â— morning Guy Earle of Warwike with a company of armed men took him from thence and brought him to Warwike Castell after deliberation taken the Earles of Lancaster of Warwike and Iohn Treklow Pierce of Gauaston beheaded Anno reg 5. of Hereford caused in their presence in a place called Gauesice or Blacke Lowe the xix of June his head to be stricken off his body by the Frier Preachers was conuayed to Oxford and there kept more than two yeares till the King caused the same to be translated to his manor of Langley and there in the Friers Church which he had builded to be buryed Simon Merwood Richard Wilford the 28. of Septemb Sherifes Maior 1312 Tho. de la More The Roades vvonne by the Christians Sir Iohn Gisors Peperer the 28. of October Quéene Isabell was deliuered of hir first sonne named Edward at Windsore the xiij day of Nouember The Knightes of the order of Saint Iohn Baptist called Saint Iohn of Hierusdlem put the Turkes out of the Isle of Roades and after that wan vpon the sayde Turkes dayly for a long time after This Religion was greatly preferred by the fall of the Templers whose possession was giuen to them by a Counsell holden at Vienna Anno reg 6. Robert de Bruce gote againe almost all Scotland the Castels with munitions the English Garrisons being cast out he tooke agayne into his power This yeare therefore Tho. de la More Hugh Spencer the yonger by consent of the Prelates and certayne nobles Hugh SpeÌ„cer the sonne was appoynted the Kings Chamberlayne in place of Peter of Gaueston whome they the rather preferred bycause they knew the King hated him neuerthelesse not long after by his great diligence he brought himselfe into the Kings fauour The Father of this Hugh béeing olde was yet liuing a Knight of great vertue in counsell wiâ—e in armes valiant whose confusion and shamefull end he wanne vnto himselfe by naturall loue though disordinate towardes hys sonne who was
leÌ„gth one Robert Venâ—â—e Knight a Nonffolke man requesting licence of the King being armed with his sword drawne marcheth toward the Champion méeting by the way a certayne blacke mastife Dogge Turnebull a callenger ouercome in combate which wayted on the Champion whome with his sworde he suddaynely strake and cut him off at his loynes at the sight whereof the mayster of the Dogge slayne was much abashed and in his battayle more warie and fearefull whose left hande and head also afterwarde this worthye Knight cut off After this Combate both the armies met but they fighting scarce halfe an houre certayne of the Scottes béeing slayne they closed their armie which was in thrée all into one battayle but at length fléeing the King followed them taking and chacing them into lakes and pittes for the space of fiue miles There were slayne of them eyght Earles 1300. Horsemen and of common Souldioures 35000. at a place by Berwike called Bothull néere vnto Halidon In the meane season the Scottes had beséeged the Castell of Kambrugh in which at that time the Quéene was but when they heard of the victorie aforesaid they lefte the séege and fledde The Townesmen of Berwike yéelded to the King Edvvarde vvan Barvvike King of England both the Castell and the Towne who placing garrisons there he sent Edward Baylioll and other nobles to kéepe the Realme of Scotland Earle Patritius in the next Parliament holden at Yorke made fealtie and did homage vnto the King by oth who receyued of the King for yéelding vp of Berwike vnto him many honors and preferments notwithstanding this Earle returned againe to Rebellion who holding Dunbar against the King was beséeged by William Mountacute Earle of Salisburie This yeare William Elsing Mercer of London obteyning Rising Spittle 1. Leyland the Kings licence made a new Hospitall of an olde house of Nunnes by Creeplegate within the wall of London â—iber trinitate and placing Chanons Regular there he became their first Priour endowing the same with Lands for the reléefe of the poore and impotent Nicholas Pike Iohn Husband the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Iohn Preston Draper the 28. of October Adam Tarleton first Bishop of Hereford then of Worcester Anno reg 7. is now translated to Winchester Edward Bayholl King of Scottes held a Parliamente at 1333 Gallowey to the which came the noble men of Englande and made clayme for their landes and possessions whiche they had in Scotland and so returned peaceably into their Countrey King Edward kept his Christmas at Wallingford The Quéene was deliuered of a daughter named Isabell at Wodstoke The King sommoned a Parliamente to be holden at Yorke the same to begin on Monday the seconde wéeke of Lent to the which Parliament the King of Scottes called Conquerour although he were warned to be there yet he came not but sent messengers to excuse him to wéete Henry de Bellemount and William Montacute Earles certaine other Barons and Knightes who signified that the King of Scottes Conquerour coulde not be there withoute great danger for that certaine Scottes lay in the Ilands ready to do him domage At the feast of Saint Iohn Baptist the said King of Scottes King of Scottes did homage Conquerour did his homage to King Edward of England at Newcastell vpon Tine and not long after that King Edward tooke homage of the Duke of Briteine for the Earledome of Richmont In a Parliament at London it was tolde the King that the Scottes had taken Richard Talbot sixe other knightes and had slayne many footemen wherefore the King tooke a fiftéenth of the Laytie and a tenth of the Cleargie to the intente the malice of the Scottes mought bée brideled Iohn Hamond William Hausard the 28 of September Sherifes Maior Sir Iohn Poultney Draper the 28 of October King Edwarde wente toward the Marches of Scotland and wintered in those coastes but vnderstanding that the Earle Dassels was trayterously turned to the Scots Henry Bellemount beséeged by the Scottes he entred Scotland and reysed the séege and then kept his Christmas at Roxborow Anno reg 8. Presently after the feast of the Epiphany the French King sente messengers to King Edward to wéete the Bishop of Aur enges and certayne Lordes to treate a peace for the Scottes who wayted for an answere in Englande till Midlent and then at Nottingham a truce was granted vnto them vntill the feast of Saint Iohn next comming that in the meane time a Parliament might be holden of matters 1334 concerning peace and the state of both the Kingdomes in which Parliament holden at Yorke it was decréed that the King shoulde passe with his armie through Scotlande beyond the Scottish Seas the which thing was quickly performed and done but the Scottes desirous to fight a fielde they fayned that they woulde haue peace to obteyne the which many came aboute the feast of Saint Michaell and chiefely the Earle of Dascels wherevpon it came to passe that afterward the Earle of Morefe being taken prisoner at Edenborough was sente to be kept prisoner in England and Richard Talbot was ransomed for two thousand fiue hundred Markes but the Earle of Dascels willing to shew that he was truly reuolted to the King of England rode againste the Scottes at the séege of a certayne Castell and falling into the hands of his enimies bycause he woulde not yéeld he was slayne with thirtéene of his men After the feast of Saint Michaell the King continuing still in the Marches of Scotlande was dayly entreated by messengers from the French King concerning some peace to be made About the feast of Saint Martine Edwarde Bohune a noble man was drowned in the marches of Scotland for as he was driuing a bootie of Cattell ouer a Riuer he felte himselfe in danger causing his guide to ride before hym through the water where through the smoothnesse of the stone whereon the water ranne his guide not being able to take sure footing fell downe with his mayster being armed and before any help could come they were drowned in the bottome of the Channell Iohn Archbishop of Canterburie went ouer the Sea to Phillip de Valoys King of France requesting of him the continuance of peace and amitie betwixt the two Kingdomes to be mainteyned Secondly that all Townes and Castels taken before time by his father should be restored to the King of England Thirdly that the sayde French King should sweare neuer to giue ayde to the Scottes agaynst the King of Englande vnder which conditions the two Kings of both Realmes shoulde prepare to trauell towardes the holy lande and to fight agaynst the enimies of Christ But the French King accompted the King of Englande not worthie of his friendship so long as he continued warres against the Scottes his friendes whome he sayde were iust men Unto the seconde petition he woulde not otherwise consente therevnto than if all charges were repayde agayne which his father Charles de
Base court in the parish of Saint Giles without Cripplegate of Baâ—bican at London London commonly called to this day the Barbicane bycause in old time y e same had bin a Burgekening or watchtower for the Citie The same day the King made twentie Knightes to Wil. Shepeshead wéete Sir Edward Mountacute Thomas Somarton Sir Isle Sir Darcy Richard Sir Damuory Sir Iohn Poultney Sir de Mere Roger Banant Roger Hilary Sir Bolingbroke Sir Butterell Sir Simon Swanland William Scotte William Basset Robert Sodington William Zoustes Sir Cogshall Roger Sangrauile Thomas de la More mine Authoure Tho. de la More and Iohn Strache In the same Parliament it was enacted that no wooll growing within the Realme of England should be transposed VVooll forbidden to be conuayed ouer the Seas out of the same but that it should be made into cloth in England and that all Fullers Weauers and Clothworkers of euery degrée being sufficiently instructed and cunning Priuiledges giuen to Clothvvorkers in their arte from what Countrey so euer they came into England should receyue and enioy certayne priuiledges yea and moreouer should liue at the Kings charges out of the Exchequer vntill they had prouided commodiouslie to liue by their art Although this Statute séemed at the beginning to be nothing profitable yet in short time the arte of clothing increased so much thereby that it was twentie times more vsed than before Also it was enacted that no man should after that time buy any cloth that was made beyond the Sea and that none should weare any Furres but such as might dispend one hundred pound by yeare Iohn Clarke William Curteis the 28 of September Sherifes Maior Sir Iohn Poultney Draper the 28 of October After the feast of Saint Michaell a Parliament was holden Tho. de la More Anno reg 11 1337 at London and a Connocation was assembled by the Archbishop wherein the Cleargie graunted a tenth for thrée yeares and the commons a fiftenth in consideration of the Kings warres which was hote in Scotlande and also to resist the French King who made great bragges and shewed great crueltie for he outlawed slew and emprisoned all Englishmen and confiscated the goodes and Cattayles of all that were found in his Kingdome of France threatning that he would be reuenged for his friendes the Scottes Moreouer he left not so muche as one Towne or Castell in the Counties of Aquitayne or of Poyters that was not seized into his handes wherevpon King Edward sente into Brabant to take vp all the woolles whiche Merchants had brought thither and made sale thereof for readie money He also wrote Letters to the French King exhorting him that he woulde continue his olde amitie Sir Walter Many béeing the Embassadour for the King of Englande and desirous to reuenge the bloud of two Englishmen that were slayne comming a lande for freshe water in a certayne Islande called the I le of Agnes nigh vnto Flanders he caused all that hée founde in the sayde Island to be put to the sworde and tooke prisoner the Earle of Flanders brother who was Captayne of the I le Certayne of the Island men béeing fled into a Church Tho. Walsâ—â—g were brent to the number of thrée thousande with the Church and all by the Welchmen The warres bâ—eing thus as aforesayde begonne betwixte the two Kingdomes the rumour thereof came vnto the Court of Rome wherevpon the Pope sent two Cardinalles for the reformation and ordering of the peace betwixte the two Kingdomes who comming to Westminster declared before the King the cause of their comming wherevnto the King answered that although without all reason they dyd séeme to restreyne hym of right and equitie for that hée ought to succéede into the Kingdome of hys forefathers the whyche hys aduersarie Phillip de Valoys dyd denye hym expelling murthering and emprisoning hys people and taking away the Dukedome of Aquitayne and Earledome of Poyters without cause maynteyning the Scottes and other Rebelles agaynste hym yet these iniuries notwithstanding hée was contented if they coulde take order for the quiet enioying of Aquitayne and other fées belonging vnto hym whiche hys predecessoures did enioy Moreouer for the dismissing of all ayde that the French King shoulde gyue vnto the Scottes at any tyme of Rebellion for the which he offered his money and also the mariage of his eldest sonne and also to resigne all suche rites and interest that he hadde to the Kyngdome of France The Cardinalles béeyng greately comforted with this aunswere departed hoping that all warres were nowe ended They tooke with them Iohn the Archbishoppe of Canterburie Richarde Bishoppe of Durham and Geffrey Lorde Scrope who altogyther wente on message with the Kynges aunswere to the Frenche Kyng hauing full authoritie to treate and conclude à peace These béeing so reasonable offers coulde not pacifye the furious minde of the Frenche King who reposed greate trust in the Scottes hopyng by them and through theyr meanes quite to dispossesse and to disherite the King of England of all the title he had Walter Neale Nicholas Crane the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Henry Darcy the 28. of October The King caused to confiscate all the goodes of the Lonibards and also of the Monkes of the order of Cluny and Cisteaux through the whole Realme The King tooke wooll to a certaine number of Sackes Anno reg 12 at a low price in euery Countrey the number that was set vpon Staffordshire was sixe hundred sackes price nine markes the sacke of good wooll but nothing was payde First the wooll was vniuersally taken Secondly for the halfe in whose hands soeuer it were founde as well MerchaÌ„ts as other And the third time the King tooke a fiftenth of the comminalty to be payde in wooll price of euery stone contayning fourtéene pound two shillings The King appointed also all the Corne and glebe lands 1338 to serue for his warres About Saint Margarets day King Edward with Quéene Ro. Auesbery Philip his wife and a great army passed the Seas with a Nauie of 500. sayle of Shippes into Flanders and â—â— to Cullen The fourth of October fiftie Galleys well manned and South-hampton sacked and breÌ„t by the French â—irats furnished came to Southampton about nine of the clocke and sacked the Towne the Townesmen running away for feare by the breake of the next day they which fledde by helpe of the Countrey there about came againste the Pirats and fought with them in the whiche skirmish were slayne to the number of thrée hundred Pirates togither with their Captayne a yong Souldioure the King of Sicils sonne To this yong man the French King had giuen whatsoeuer he got in the Kingdome of England but he béeing beaten downe by a certayne man of the Countrey cried Rancon notwithstanding the husbandman layde him on with his clubbe till he had slayne hym speaking these words yea quoth he I know well ynough thou art a Franâ—on
and therefore shalt thon dye for he vnderstoode not his spéech neyther had he anye skill to take gentlemen prisoners to kéepe them for their raunsome wherfore the residue of those Gennowayes after they had set the towne a fire and brent it vp quite fledde to their Galleyes and in theyr fléeing certaine of them were drowned After this the inhabitantes of the towne compassed it about with a strong and great Wal. The King still mayntayning his warres in Fraunce on the euen of the Annuntiation of our Lady â—j galleyes approching to the towne of Harwich they cast fire therein the force whereof by a contrarie winde was stayd so that no gret harme was done thereby Furthermore in the same yeare about the feaste of Pentecost certaine Pirates of Normandie and Genoâ— shipped in Gallenes and Pinaces made a shew on the sea about Southampton as they woulde haue come alande and threatned sore to spoyle the towne againe but perceyuing the townesmen ready to resist them they returned to the I le of Wight but entred not being put backe by the inhabitauntes wherevppon they sayled about the sea coastes séeking to lande in places lesse defended and after came to Hastings where they brente fishers cotages with theyr boates and slewe many men Also they made greate shewes many times against the I le of Thanet Douer and Fulkestone but in those places they did little harme excepte to poore fishermen thence they sayled about to the hauens of Cornewall and Deuonshire doing in all places much harme to the fisher men and suche shippes as they founde vnmaÌ„ned they fiered At length they entred Plimouth Hauen where they brent certain great shippes and a great parte of the towne these were met by Hugh Curtney Earle of Dâ—â—onshire a knight of foure scoure yeares olde being accompanyed with manye souldiours of his Countrey who hauing lost at the firste fronte a fewe of his men whiche were slaine by the quarrels of the French ioyned to fighte wyth them hande to hande and slaying many of the Pyrates vpon drye lande chased the residue which fled to take their Galleys and being not able to come nigh them by wading they â—â—ere drowned in the â—ea to the nuÌ„ber of fiue hundred Newâ—s being brought to the King lying in Brabant that diuers Parts of Englande were spoyled with the Pirates hée declared to his friends to wit the Marques of Iultâ—cence and a cerâ—â—â—â—e Cardinall what great causes he had to reuenge himself vpon them and in the end was aunswered by the Cardinal as followeth The kingdome of Frâ—â—â—â— sayde he is compassed about with â— thrâ—ed of â—â—lke whiche can not be broken by all the strength of the kingdome of Englande wherefore my Lorde king you must stay for the comming of the Dutchmen and other your friendes and confederates the greater part wherof you now â—aâ—lâ—â— The King raking great disdaine hereat staying nothing at alâ— said that he woulde ride into the land of Fraunce with Banner displayed and y â— ther he wold lâ—ke for that mightie power of the French men and that hée woulde eyther winne the same against any man that should with 〈…〉 〈…〉 or else â—â—nestly dye in the fielde 〈…〉 Poâ—â—â—â—et Hugh Mâ—betel the 28. of Septem Sherifes Maior Hence Darâ—â— the â—8 of October King Edward wintereâ— at Antwerp where Quéene Philip was deliuered of hir thirde son Lionel after Erle of Vlâ—â—er The king toke vppon him to be lieuetenauute of the King Edvvarde made vicegereÌ„â— of the Empire Empire from the Dâ—â—â— of Bauare who helde himselfe as Emperour A sodaine inundation of Water at Newcastle vpon Tine Richard South Nevvcastel drovvned 1339 bare downe a péece of the Towne Wall a sixe pearches in length neare to a place called Walkenew where â—20 men women were drowned In the Uâ—gâ—â—â—â— Saint Matthy king Edwarde beganne to ryde with Banner displayed and twelue thousand men of armes against the Frenche King burnyng Townes and Castels wheresoeuer he came In the first night being verye darke Geffrey Lord Scrope one of the Kings Justices led one of the Cardinals to wit Bertrand de Mount Faâ—â—ntyne of the title of our Ladie vp into an high Tower shewing hym the whole lande about towarde Fraunce for the compasse of fiftéene leagues to be in euery place on â—re saying these wordes sir doth not this siâ—â—en threed wherwith Fraunce is compassed seme to you to be broken the Cardinall aunswering nothing fel downe as deade for sorowe and feare In thys sort king Edward made â—ourneyes into France dayly continuing the space of fiue wéekes and caused â—yâ— armye to trauell in such sort that they destroyed the whole Countrey of Cambray Tourney Vermodeâ— and Landenewe excepting those Cities which wer sword to him w t churches and Castels The inhabitauntes of the Countrey fledde neyther was there anye man that durst resist his enterpryses althoughe the Frenche King had gathered greate armies within the Walled Cities himself lying in the stroÌ„g Towne of Saint Quintines what time the Brabanders had determined to returne home againe and were entred into theyr iourney being forced there vnto partlye by wante of victuals and partlye by the coldnesse of Winter whyche grew on fast The French king vnderstanding thereof beganne to moue himselfe with hys armye towarde the campe of the king of England who gladly loking for his comming called back again the Brabanders hauing receyued letters froÌ„ the Frenche King that he woulde ioyne battayle against hym he sent him worde back againe that he woulde stay for him thrée dayes wherefore on the fourth daye the Kyng loking for the Frenche Kings comming whiche woulde come no nearer them than two miles off breaking bridges and felling of trées that the King of Englande mighte not followe hym he fled to Paris wherevpon king Edwarde returned by Hanonia in Brabrant where he continued almost the whole Winter William Thorney Roger Frosham the. 28. of Septeâ— Sherifes Maior Andrewe Awbery Grocer the. 28. of October In this Winter time king Edwarde grewe into greate friendshippe with the Flemmings who prepared themselues at all times to shewe their selues as good subiectes vnto him swearing to doe homage and fealtie vppon condition that he would call himselfe King of Fraunce and in token thereof would from thence forth giue armes with Flouredeluces for otherwise they durste not obey him for feare of the Popes curse which was to be layde vppon them if at any time they rebelled against the King of Fraunce Wherefore by the coâ—â—â—â—ll of his friends the Flemmings and consent of his noble men he agréed there vnto and tooke vppon him both the name and armes of the King of France He also toke Flaunders vnder his gouernement the people wherof long after in all matters were to him obedient as vnto the King of Fraunce Conquerer As touching the title and and armes aforesayde the Frenche king sayde to certayne Englishmen sent vnto him our cousin quoth he doth wrongfully beare quartered armes of England
Scotlande where most victoriouslye he conquered it and the same Ile being called the I le of Man the kyng gaue it to the Conquerour franckelye and fréely to be possest and caused hym King of Man to be called and crowned king of that I le Then King Edward returning towards the south parts kept solemn torneymentes at Dunstable beyng accompanyed wyth 230. Knightes The same yeare was a Parliamente at Westminster wherein the Archbishoppe of Canterburie was reconcyled to the King before whom the Archbishoppe sware that althoughe the Kyng by hys counsell and consente hadde done homage to the French King for the Dukedome of Aquitaine and the Earledome of Poytowe yet he neuer consented therto as to be anye hurte or preiudice to the Kyng or that by hys counsel he myghte incurre fauoure or séeke to please the French King but for that presente tyme he thoughte it beste to be done both for the obtayning of peace and also for the profit of the Kyng and Realme After this Parliament the king commaunded Florences of golde to be made at the Tower of London that is to saye the peny of the value of sixe shillings eight pence the halfe penye of the value of thrée shillings foure pence a farthing worthe twentye Florences of golde Sherifes Maior Anno reg 17 pence Iohn Louekyn Richard Rifling bury the. 28. of Septem Simon Fraunces Mercer the. 28. of October In a Parliament at Westminster in the moneth of May the religious men that were possessours of Lands graunted to the king towards the maintenaunce of his warre al their iewels and plate as wel siluer as gold horsses carts wagons whervpon the kings treasure was notably enriched The same yeare auctoritie was giuen to the kings escheters 1343 to enquire and certifye the Counsell of al such persons which helde of the King any landes in Capite or by any A general suruey of the vvhole realme of England other fée to the value of one hundred shillings and that the names of all suche shoulde be enrolled and giuen vp for recorde Also certaine other were put in aucthoritie to signifie howe many sufficient and able bow-men were in euerye shire also what other sufficient men were able to beare armour for the defence of theyr Country and to sée them practised with suche kinde of weapon wherein they had beste skill and being thus assembled in all parts of the Realme speciallye suche as were of lawfull age commaundemente was giuen out that they shoulde be readye at the Kyngs commaundemente to fyghte agaynste theyr enimies King Edwarde and his nobles perceyuing the derogation Ro. de Auesbury Gual Homingford that was done to the realme by such reseruations prouisions and collations of benefices as the Pope practised here in England wrote to him requiring him that sith the Churches of Englande had bene founded and endued by noble and worthy men to the ende the people might be instructed by people of their owne language and that he beyng so farre off coulde not vnderstande the defaultes yet hys predecessours and he more than had bene vsed by diuerse reseruations prouisions and collations made to diuerse persons some straungers yea and some enimies to the Realme whereby the money and profits were carried forth theyr cures not prouided for according to the founders mindes they therefore vpon due considerations therof signifyed to him that they coulde not suffer such enormities any longer and therefore besought him to reuoke such reseruations prouisions and collations wholy to auoyde suche slaunders mischieues and harmes as mighte ensue and that the cures might be committed to persons méet for the exercises of the same beséeching him further wythout delay to signify his intention sith they ment to bestow their diligence to remedie the matter and sée that redresse might be had Giuen in ful Parliament at Westminster the xviij of May in the yeare 1343. Iohn Steward Iohn Aylesham the. 28. of September Sherifes Maior Iohn Hamonde the. 28. of October Many being called to ayde the King against the Scots but not being ready they contributed their money wherewith the king might hyre souldiours in place of them that remayned at home King Edward caused to be called togither a great many Anno reg 18 Tho. Walsing 1344 Round Table at VVindsore of Artificers to the Castell of Windsore and began to builde an house whiche was called the Rounde Table the floure wherof from the Center or midde point into the compasse was an hundred foote and the whole Diameter 200. foote the Circunference thereof is 600. foote and thrée quarters The same time Phillip de Valoys king of Fraunce buylded Round Table in Fraunce Scala Croni a Rounde Table in his Countrey to the ende he mighte allure the menne of Warre of Germanie and Italie and so to kéepe them from the Kyng of Englandes Rounde Table Kyng Edwarde in succour of Iohn Mountfort Duke of Th◠de la More Brytaine and of his wife and children who then remayned in the kings custodie sent the Earles of Northampton and of Oxforde Hugh Spencer and Richard Talbot Knightes and maister William Kilesby Clearke euerye one of them hauing vnder them many mē of armes and archers into Britaine who entred there-into in despight of al theyr enimies whych resisted them making many conflictes They toke as well walled Townes as other with diuerse Fortresses and Castelles both by assaulte and surrender by whiche meanes they had the whole Countrey vnder theyr subiection conquering till they came to the Towne of Morleis where Charles de Bloys mette them wyth a greate armye Therfore in the Champion grounde nygh vnto Morleys the Battayle as Morleys two armyes made greate and moste stoute battayle wherin the worthinesse of both sortes dyd full well appeare for they fought so stout on both sides that in the first conflict it chaunced as the like had not bene séene for the chiefe Captaines Charles de Bloys to whom the Frenche king hadde giuen the Dukedome of that Countrey and William de Bohune Earle of Northamton who for the defence of y e right of Iohn de Mountfort naturall heire and Duke of that lande the king of Englande had made a generall ouer the army of the English men who foughte so long wyth hande strokes in the fielde that daye that no manne but a lyar coulde giue more prayse to the one than to the other Thrée tymes that daye they beyng wearied on both sides wythdrewe themselues to take breathe and then fell to it again with Speare and shielde and sworde and Targe but in y e ende the right worthy and stoute Charles de Bloys his men fléeing away was also forced to flée himselfe wherevppon after many slaine on both sides the victorie fell to the Englishmen Geffrey Wichingham Thomas Legge the. 28. of Sep. Sherifes Maior Iohn Hamond the. 28. of October King Edwarde sente ouer Henrie Earle of Darbie son to the Earle of Lancaster his cousin
with more than fiue hundered men of armes amongst whom was the Earle of Ro. Auesbery Anno reg 19. Penbroke and Walter de Many with manye Archers into Gascoigne with Ralph Baron of Stafforde Seneshal of Gascoigne who being come thyther the sayde Earle made fiftie Knightes of his armye and after wanne manye walled Townes and Castelles making many worthy skirmishes and at length won the towne of Daguâ—lown by assaulte to the kéeping wherof they appointed Ralph Stafford afterward they appointed thrée iourneys toward other townes as especially to Brigerecke so called for the strength thereof and also called the Chamber of Fraunce and also to y e town of Saint Iohn de Laruel and to many other greate and strong townes well fortified which with great toyles and diuerse daungerous assaultes they wan where the Earle of Darbie and his souldiours vndermining the Towers and Wals of the sayde towne were very sore assaulted by them whiche defended Thus he Conquered Cities Townes Castelles and Fortresses to the number of one hundred and fiftie bringing a greate parte of Gascoigne vnder subiection euen to Tolouse vnto the whiche Citie he did no domage neyther to the inhabitantes therof but that he made them wonderfully afrayde as certaine of them tolde me sayeth my aucthour their fear was such that the religious people were constrayned to beare armour and the Prior of the Carmelite Tho. de la More Friers of our Lady of Tolouse hauyng a Banner of our Ladye in Golde set in a fielde of siluer displayed the same prouoking thereby many to take armour About the second sonday in Lent the Earles being fully fraught with bootie prisoners gold and siluer they returned towardes Burdeaux where Iohn de Valoys eldest sonne to the French king being accompanyed with a great number of hyred Dutche souldiours besieged the Towne of Agnlowne and the Captaines thereof the Earle of Stafforde and other so entrenched the same Towne that without greate daunger the Englishmen coulde haue no accesse vnto them but the Earle of Darby bet awaye them that besieged the Citie and eâ—t soones new victualled the same notwithstanding they were not able to raise the siege bycause they hadde so entrenched themselues without the towne who refusing to fight in the fielde would aunswere that they came not to pitch a fielde but to besiege a Town wherefore they continued the same siege vntil the decollation of Saint Iohn but vnderstanding then that the King of England chaced his Father Phillip very sore at Grecie and fearing that he shoulde come verye late to the ayde of hys Father he gaue vppe the siege setting all his tentes on fire and fled in the darke but the Earle of Stafforde wyth hys power pursued them cut off theyr tayle tooke a greate manye of theyr horsses and prisoners and retourned After this certaine bowmen are mustered in England appointed to be sente ouer sea who commyng ouer are layde in garrison fordefence of the Countrey Also twenty thousande sackes of Wooll are graunted to the king Moreouer Geffrey de Harecourte a Norman came to the King requiring ayd against the French king who wrongfully withhelde hys landes from him at his first comming he did fealtie and sware homage to king Edward but afterward he reuolted Thomas of Hatfielde the Kings Secretary by meanes of Tho. Walsing the Kyngs letters to the Pope was admitted Byshoppe of Durham and when certaine of the Cardinalles sayde that the sayd Thomas was a light person and a lay man the Pope answered truly if the king of England at this time Ansvvere of the Pope had made his request for an Asse he should haue obteined it The same yeare dyed Adam Tarleton Bishop of Winchester that had bin long time blind after whome succéeded William Edendon Treasourer of England This man founded the Monasterie of Edendon the religious Liber Edendon bréethren whereof were called Bonhomes The same yeare dyed Henry Earle of Lancaster father to Henry Earle of Darby and was buryed at Leycester in the Monasterie of Channons the King and both the olde and yong Quéenes being present with Archbishops Bishops Earles and Barons in manner of all the lande whose sonne was then in Gascoigne doing chiualrous actes This yeare the Scottes to the number of thirtie thousande William Dowglas being their leader entred into Westmerland and brent Carelile Penreth with many other Townes wherefore the Bishop of Carelile with Thomas Lucy Robert Ogle and a great number compassed them in the night season and with lightes and noyse so disquieted them that they neuer durst go out for victuals nor giue their bodyes to sléepe but at the last Alexander Stragan stoutely prepared to go out for victualles whome the Bishop Scots ouercome and Robert Ogle mette and with a speare thrust him through the body so that the Scottes were soone after ouercome and slayne Edmond Hemenhall Iohn of Glocester the 28. of Sept. Sherifes Maior Richard Laget the 28 of October This yeare was the first coÌ„gregating and first Custos or gardian of the fraternitie of the Grocers in the Citie of London elected The Earle of Northampton and the other Lordes in Briteine Anno reg 20 committed certayne Castels wonne by them in Briteine to the safekéeping of faithfull Captaynes and Souldioures and then returned into England King Edward prepared to make a voyage into Normandy 1346 his Nauie being readie to transport him from Portesmonth King Edvvard sayled into Normandy and Porchester with the Earles of Northampton Arundell Warwike Harecourt Huntingdon Oxenforde and Suffolke the Bishop of Durham and Mayster William Killesby Clerke euery one of these leading a great armie of Souldioures well appoynted were embarqued and wayted for the winde from the first of June to the fifth of July and then Tho. de la More Tho. Walsing Ro. de Aâ—esbury hauing a good winde they beganne to make Sayle with the number of one thousande Shippes of burthen and Pinaces and on the thirtéenth day of July they landed at Hogges in Normandy where on the shore of the Sea King Edwarde made his eldest sonne Knighte and also Prince of Wales and immediately the Prince made Knightes Mortimere Montacute Rose and other That night the King lodged in the Towne of Hogges and the next day the Towne was brent by the Armie Hogges in Normandy brent The night following King Edward lodged in Mercels where he stayde fiue dayes during whiche time all the Countrey with the Towne of Barbefleete was by his men consumed with fire From thence they departed to Veloygus which they set a fire then they went to Senet combe de Mount whiche is nigh the Sea and to Garantam thence to Serius and to Saint Lewes passing along vnto the Towne of Turney wasting all with fire and that night the Kyng lodged at Carmalin then to Gerin being a Religious house belonging vnto Cane leauing nothing behinde them vnspoyled Afterward they made an assaulte and entred the Citie Cane
of the couenants Embassadoures are sente to the Sea of Rome from eyther Realme On the King of Englands Anno reg 28. behalfe went the Bishop of Norwich the Duke of Lancaster the Earle of Arundell and other knightes who going to Auinion there came to them the Archbishop of Rohan the Duke of Burgoigne Geffrey Charney and other of the French Kings Counsell all these were receyued in great honor many Cardinalles and Bishops met the Duke of Lancaster who brought him for the space of two miles vnto Auinion and to the Popes Pallace at length in the Consistorie of the Pope he with the Cardinalles and Embassadoures being present the causes of their message was declared and the Embassadoures of England requested to haue the couenants coÌ„firmed which had bin concluded at Caleis to whom the FrenchmeÌ„ answered that gladly they would haue peace but touching Aquitaine and the foresaid Countreys as they sayde the French King could not nor they might giue their assents that the same shoulde be alienated from the entire body of the Kingdome to the which as well the King as they had taken an oth to maynteyne but yet they could be contented that the profitable dominion of the sayd Duchy and Countreys should be deliuered and come to the King of England as his auncesters had Aquitayne but so yet as the regalitie of the Crowne of France should euer be reserued The Englishmen requested that these sayd dominions should 1354 be absolutely and without any condition restored to the King answere also was made to the reason of the Frenchmen touching the oth of their King and themselues whereby they were bound to conserue the integritie of the honour of their Kingdome to wéete that the Pope for the benefite of peace might assoyle them from the saide othe and this as to certayne articles premitted it shoulde be very well done but yet nothing was done that might be offorce to the furthering of the peace And so the Embassadoures without effect returned home the Bishop of Norwich excepted that deceassed and was buried there to whome succéeded Thomas Percy The King of Nauarre through a brawle raysed slewe Charles de Spayne Marshall of France wherevpon to auoyd the displeasure and punishment of the French King he fled into his owne Countrey sending his Unckle vnto the Duke of Lancaster with Letters humbly besieching him that he woulde come into Normandie to his ayde and defence and to receyue an oth of fidelitie and amitie of hym against all men The Duke therefore getting licence of the King assembled togither a great Nauie at Southampton where when the Duke was readie to haue made Sayle Knightes that he had sente into Normandie came backe to view the truth of this businesse by whome it was notifyed to the Duke that the sayde King of Nauarre hys Cousin was reconciled to the King and so the Dukes voyage was stayde The Friers Augustines Church in London was reedified by Humfrey Bohun Earle of Hereford and Estsex whose Frier Augustines Church in London Ro de Auesberie Dissention at Oxford â—isto Auria body was buryed in the Quire of the same Church A great dissention fell in Oxford betwéene a Scholler and a Uintner for a quart of Wine so that the Scholler poured the Wine on the Uintners head brake his head with the potte by reason whereof a great conflict was made betwixt the Schollers of the Uniuersitie and the Lay men of the Towne in the which many Lay men were wouÌ„ded and about twentie slaine These troubles continued the space of two dayes and then the Religious men of the Towne labouring to make peace the Lay men pursued a Scholler and wounded him to death yet that day the tumult was appeased but on the morrow the people of the Uillages about Oxford being coÌ„federate with the Lay men of the Towne came with great force and erected a blacke Banner whervpon the Schollers fled to their Colledges but the Lay meÌ„ breaking vp the dores slew many of them and threw them into their priuies they cut and rent their Bookes and bare away what they listed By this meanes the Uniuersitie was dissolued the Schollers sauing of Marton Colledge went to their friends so continued more than a yeare Many both Schollers and Lay men were endited Citizens of Oxford endited by y â— Kings Justices amoÌ„gst y â— which four burgesses y â— had bin Maiors of Oxford were sente to the Tower of London William Totingham Richard Smelt the 28. of Septem Sherifes Maior Thomas Leggy Skinner the 28. of October About the xx of Nouember K. Edward held a ParliameÌ„t Ro. Auesbery at Westminster in the which was granted towards the recouerie of his title in France fiftie Shillings of euery sacke of wooll to be transported ouer the Seas for the space of sixe yeares then next following by meanes whereof the King might dayly dispend during the said sixe yeares more than 1000. markes sterling for by the coÌ„mon opinion ther were more thaÌ„ an 100000. sackes of wooll yearely into foraigne lands transported so that during those sixe yeares the sayd grant extended to fiftéene huÌ„dred thousand pounds sterling King Edward helde a great Justing at Wodstoke for honour Anno reg 29 Iusting at VVodstock of the Quéene who was then purifyed of hir sonne Thomas After Gaster in a Parliament at Westminster the King 1355 tooke the quarell of Oxford into his hands and sauing euery mans right he forgaue the Schollers all the whole trespasse Ro. de Auesburie so that in the Sommer following the Uniuersitie beganne Vniuersitie of Oxford restored agayne to flourish and the King gaue to the Chancellour of Oxford the only view of the assise of Bread Ale and Wine and all other victualles excluding the Maior vtterly from that office The communaltie of the Towne gaue to the Uniuersitie 250. poundes for amends sauing vnto them neuerthelesse the actions which they had vnto euery singular person of the Towne In this Parliament the processe of the iudgement made against Roger Mortimer Earle of March was reuoked so Ex Recordis that the yong Roger Mortimer sonne to Edmond Mortimer was restored to the title and possessions of the Earledome of March as Cousin and heire to his Grandfather King Edward being about Sandwich on his iourney towardes King Edvvardâ— sayled into France France and the Prince of Wales at Sutton in Deuonshire on hys voyage towardes Aquitayne looking for a prosperous winde by the space of fortie dayes or more all things else being readie the French King had his armieâ— deuided in sundrie places about in the Hauens of Normandie and other partes to empeach the landing of the King and Prince and so long they lay there that the Frenchmen with their hired Souldioures did fowly wast their owne Countrey and consumed so many thousands of Crownes out of the French Kings coffers vaynely that in the ende he being néedie payde not his people and so
touching these matters aforesayd and for other considerations also caused a newe coyne of golde to be made in Gascoigne being busied himselfe aboute the repayring of such things as were decayed and throwen downe And in this season there sprang vp a foolish fantasie in the French mens heades that the King of Englande was come into Normandie the cause of which rumour rose vppe for that the Duke of Lancaster after that he had fortifyed the strong places belonging to the King of Nauar whiche were in the I le of Constance and other places did direct his iourney towardes Brytaine whereof he was newly made chiefe Captaine Another cause was this Phillippe brother to 1356 the King of Nauar came into England and earnestly craued ayde of the King against the Frenche King who kept hys brother in prison that he mighte by force of armes restoare all such lands vnto him as were wrongfully withholden from him wherevpon hée offeryng to doe homage and fealtie he hadde of the Kings appoyntmente Miles Stapleton a manne of great integritie and in martiall affayres very skilful him I say the king appointed to be his faithful felow These men with two thousande men well appoynted trauelling throughe Normandie toke townes and Fortresses burning diuerse of them passing along tyll they came to a Castell nine leagues distaunte from the Citie of Paris neyther did they aâ—lake theyr trauayle vntil they hadde forced theyr enymies to enter into a yearelye truce By this meanes a great report and no lesse fear filled the heartes of all French men whiche report at length came to the eares of the Prince lying at Regla wherefore he gathering all the power he had with him in hys Dukedome to the intent to méete hys Father whiche he muste doe by trauelling through Fraunce he came at length to Brugetat where he was certifyed that the Earle of Armenia woulde after his departure haue spoyled the Countrey and for that intent had prouided a greate bande of men wherefore hée sent backe to the gouernour of Gascoigne vnto Barnarde de Libret and other From thence the prince went into France through the coastes of Barny and Lymon stil encouraging his men against their enimies sending before him Iohn Chandos Iames Dawdeley and other complices to trye out the state of their enimies countrey least perhappes some crafty ambushment might sodainely assaulte our men afore they were ware He himself remouing his campe euery day and now being entred into Pictauia his espies broughte worde that the French king had gathered a greate armye beyng now in Aurelian who also knewe of the Princes comming for he sente out espies to discouer our armye amongst whoÌ„ Griffin Micco of Chambly petie Captaine of two hundered men méeting with other espies came to his coaste for oure espies toke thirtie of theÌ„ and slew the residue so that there was not one of them lefte to carrye worde what was become of theyr fellowes Our espies procéeded towardes Romerentine where méeting with the Lord Crone and Lord Brisgande they sette vppon them and slew them their chief Captaines being forced to flée to a castle and hauing taken their lodging in a town the prince commanded that on the morning a great assault should be giuen to theÌ„ of y e Castell The day folowing our men being al armed passed through the ditches came vnto y e wals of the Castel some applied to scale y e wall with ladders some burne the gates and entring slew a gret many of the chief men but y e Lords before named fled vnto the principal tower of y e castel but y e prince determined not to depart til they that were besieged were eyther taken or yéelded at length the Castell being vndermyned the men besieged with all humilitie yéelded vp the Castell After this the spies declared that the Frenche King was come downe to Turon to prouide armies to go against the Prince of the which tydings the Prince being gladde he pighte his tentes againste the Frenche King but could not passe the riuer of Leger by reason of greate floudes and the Frenche King hadde broken all the bridges to the intent there shoulde be no passage betwixte the Prince and the Duke of Lancaster whose armyes might wel euerye nyght perceyue eache others fiers in the Campes but the Prince folowing alongst the riuer of Legers Eastwarde he pyghte hys tentes neare vnto Turon where loking for the Frenche Kyng foure dayes hoping to fighte with him for that hée was distaunte but one league off he vnderstoode that the Frenche King was retyred backe to Blamia ten leagues off passing ouer by a Bridge the Riuer of Legers at a place vsed betwixt two strong Townes and so towarde Poyters This retyring of the Frenche king certifyed the Prince returned backe intending to haue mette him in his waye whych he coulde not doe yet crossing ouer all as he imagined the nerer way he sette vpon the tayle of his enymies and cut froÌ„ them the Earles of Inyni and Winters and also the Marshall of Burgonie these being takeÌ„ died as was thought through the great toyle they had taken night drawing on our men gaue themselues to reste in a wood intending the next day to take theyr iourney towarde Poiters and by the waye they were certifyed that the Frenche King with greate prouision prepared himselfe to battayle and drew nigh to our tents The Batayle of Poyters the Prince therefore committed the vawarde of the armye to the Earles of Warwick and Oxford the middle ward was guided by the Prince and the rerewarde was led by the Earles of Salisburie and Suffolke In all the whole armye of the Prince there was not aboue foure thousande menne of armes one thousande armed souldiours and two thousand Archers The pompous nobilitie of the French men drewe nygh greatly disdayning the small company of the Englishe men for they had in number eight thousande fighting souldiours they had also seuen auntients At this matter a gret many of our men murmured bycause of late a great part of our army was sent to defende Gascoigne There was among the French men a certaine Scotte called William Douglas a man of great force and practise in the Warres this manne did the French king make Knight and bycause he knewe he woulde be a deadly enimie to the English men he gladlye hearkned to his aduices This William was Captain ouer two hundred Scottes these men vnderstoode wel that it was the custome of the Englishe men in those dayes to fighte on foote in which point they followed the Scottes and the Scots also prouoked the French king and other French men to fight in like maner The French king obeying his foolish counsel gladly agréed vnto his sayings wherevpon he sente lighte horssemen into the Cittie that they shoulde suffer no man to make any chase but only 500. horssemen well appointed to come out againste the Archers in the beginning of the conflict and to runne them ouer and to treade them vnder
fifth of May and the. 24. of Maye entred London with them where he was receyued with greate honour of the Citizens and so conuayed to the kings pallaice at Westminster where the King sitting in his estate in Westminster Hall receyued them and after conueyed the French King to a lodging where he lay a season and after the sayde French King was lodged in the Sauoy which then was a pleasant place belonging to the Duke of Lancaster In the Winter following were gret and royal iustes holden in Smithfielde at London where many knightly sights of armes wer done to the gret honour of the king realm at the which were present the Kings of England Fraunce and Scotlande with many noble estates of all those Kingdomes wherof the more part of the strangers were prisoners Henrie Picarde Uintener Maior of London in one day dyd sumptuouslye feaste Edwarde King of Englande Iohn King of Fraunce the King of Cipres then arriued in England Dauid king of Scottes Edward Prince of Wales wyth many noble men and other and after the sayde Henrie Picarde kepte his Hall against all commers who soeuer that were willing to play at Dice and Hazard In like maner the Lady Margaret his wife did also kéepe hir Chamber to the same intente The King of Cipres playing wyth Henrie Picarde in hys Hall dyd wynne of hym 50. markes but Henrie being verye skilfull in that arte altering hys hande did after win of the same king the same 50. markes and 50. markes more which when the same king began to take in ill parte although he dissembled the same Henrye saide vnto him my Lord and King be not agrieued I couet not your golde but your play for I haue not bid you hyther that I might grieue you but that amongst other things I might trie your playe and gaue hym his money agayne plentifully bestowing of his owne amongst the retinue besides he gaue many riche giftes to the King and other Nobles and Knightes whiche dyned wyth hym to the greate glorie of the Citizens of London in these dayes Stephen Candish Barthelmew Frostling the. 28. of Sep. Sherifes Maior Sir Iohn Stody Vintener the. 28. of October This sir Iohn Stody gaue vnto the Uinteners of London all the quadrant wherein the Uinteners Hal now standeth with the tenements round about from the lane yet called Studis Lane where is founded thirtéene houses for xiij poore people whiche are there kept of charitie rent frée About Halowntide Dauid le Bruce king of Scots was deliuered from the long imprisonmēt of a. xj yeres in the castel of Oldiham his raunsome being set a 100000. markes to be payde the next ten yeares following Normandie and Brytaine were soare spoyled and wasted Tho. Walsing Anno reg 32 Rob. Knovvles by Phillippe the King of Nauers brother Iacob de la Pipe and Roberte Knowles wyth manye other Englishe menne whyche were Captaynes of that companye who raged in warlike sorte in these Countryes the space of thrée yeares and more contrarye to the Kyng of Englandes pleasure Thys Roberte Knowles béeyng a meane man of birth became Captaine of many souldiours and did manye maruellous actes Isabel daughter to Phillippe the fayre king of Fraunce 1358 now wife to King Edward the second deceased apnd Risinges Registrum fratrum minorum iuxta London the. xxij of August and was buried in the Grey Friers Quire at London in a Tombe of Aliblaster Iohn Barnes Iohn Buris the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Anno reg 33 Iohn Louekinstoke Fishmonger the 28. of October Iohn of Gaunt the Kings sonne by dispensation tooke to wife Blaunch dauhter of Henry Duke of Lancaster his kinswoman The French King vnder coulour of peace offered to King Edward Flanders Picardie Aquitayne and other lands which the Englishmen had ranged through and spoyled for the perfourmāce wherof messengers were sent into France but the Frenchmen would not perfourme the offer wherfore King Edward being angrie with a Nauie of Shippes passed the Sea to Caleis wherefore deuiding his armie into thrée partes committed one companie vnto Henry Duke King Edvvarde inuaded Burgundie of Lancaster another to Prince Edward and the third he reserued to himselfe and so passed into Burgundie In the meane season the Normans with a small Nauie 1359 Frenchmen arriued at VVinchelsea arriued at Winchelsey and partly brent the Towne and slew such as did withstand them wherefore the Prelates of England assembled from all partes in armour to withstande them but when they had prepared themselues to battayle the French were gone Simon of Benington Iohn of Chichester the 28. of Sept. Sherifes Maior Anno reg 34. 1360 Simon Dolseby Grocer the 28. of October King Edward with his power rode through France by Picardie Artois Roan Champaine and so to Briteine destroying the Countrey before him And héere is to be noted that the fourtéenth day of Aprill and the morrow after Easter day King Edward with his host lay before the Citie of Paris which day was full darke of mist and hayle and so bitter colde that many men died on their Horsse backes with the cold wherefore vnto this day it hath bin called the blacke Monday The King of Nauarre vexed sore the marches of Normandie Thus was the Realme of France miserably beset on all sides At the last a finall peace was concluded on Peace vvith France this condition that King Edward should haue to his possession the Countreys of Gascoine Gwyen Poytiers Limosin Baleuile Exantes Caleis Gwisnes and diuers other Lordships Castels Townes and all the Landes to them belonging Tho. Wals without knowledge of any soueraigntie or subiection for the same This peace being confirmed by writing and by oth King Edward came into England and so streight to the Tower to sée the French King where he appoynted his raunsome to be thrée millions of Florences and so deliuered French King releassed him of all imprisonment and brought him with great honor to the Sea who then sayled ouer into France Iohn Denis Walter Berney the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Iohn Wroth Fishmonger the 28. of October King Edward the 24. of Januarie beganne a Parliament at Westminster where the forme of the agréement was redde and allowed of all estates where the King on the last of Januarie caused his Nobles to sweare to holde and Anno reg 35 1361 kéepe the sayde agréement especially those as well Prelats as other that were not at Caleis where he sware and other that were there with him A great dearth pestilence hapned in England which was called the second pestilence in which died Henry D. of Lancaster The seconde mortalitie in March at London and was buryed at Leycester in the colegiate Church which he had founded with a Deane twelue Chanons Prebendaries as many Uickers and other ministers accordingly There dyed also Reginald Lord Cobham and Walter Lib. Lichfield Fitz Waren valiant and famous
the other an Italian chalenged to fighte within listes against sir Iohn Cornewall and Iames of Artois which two straungers were ouercome in battaile and Chalenge of coÌ„bat at Yorke sir Iohn Cornewal obtaining the Kings fauour maried the kings sister that had bin wife to sir Iohn Holland Earle of Huntingdon The Welchmen taking occasion by the Kings absence The VVelchmen rebel when he was in Scotlande beganne to rebel by the settyng on of OweÌ„ Glendouerdew son to Griffyth VichaÌ„ an esquier of Wales so called Glendour bicause his dwelling was in a place called GleÌ„dordwy for Glyn in Welch is a vale and Dor is water bycause the place was in a dale at the side of y e water or Riuer of Dew in the Parish of Corwrn in the Countie of Merâ—â—neth in Northwales He serued King Richarde at the tyme of his oppression by Henrie Duke of Lancaster at Flint Castell The first cause of this stirre was about a péece of land in controuersie betwixte him and the Lord Reignolde Gray of Ruthiue for when he saw his cause not fauoured firste hée began to spoyle the landes of the sayde Lord Gray whereof the king being certified went with an army into Wales but the Welchmen fledde to the mountaines the King brente the Countrey slew the people with whom he mette and returned with a great pray of Cattaile Iohn Wakel William Ebot the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Anno reg 2. Geffrey Chavvcer chief Poet of Brytaine Sir Iohn Frauncis Goldsmith the. 28. of October Geffrey Chawcer the most excellent Poet of Englande deceased the xxv of October who was buried at Westminster where of late at the charges of one maister Bridgeham is made ouer him a faire monument on the Southside of the Quire his workes for the most part are published in print by sir Iohn Thinne Knight and somewhat increased by my trauell in the last impression Not long after deceased the like famous Poet Iohn Gower Iohn Govver a most excellent Poet of EnglaÌ„d who lyeth buried in Sainte Marie Oueries Church in Southwarke He new builded a great part of that Church and coÌ„piled thrée famous bookes The first in Latine Vox ClamaÌ„tis The second in French Speculum Meditantis The third in Englishe Confessio Amantis which last booke is in Print the other hard to come by of the first I haue séen thrée very faire copies but of the seconde I neuer sawe any one The Emperour of Constantinople came into Englande to requyrs ayde agaynste the Turkes whome the King wyth sumptuous preparation mette at Blacke Heath vpon Saint Thomas daye the Apostle and brought him to London and paying for the charges of his lodging presented him with giftes worthy for one of so high degrée Soone after came newes that the King of Leto had â—lain in battayle Bassacke the sonne of the noble Balthazardan â— destroyed Ierusalem and all the Countrey rounde aboute And bycause he had by Gods grace so ouercome contrarye to his opinion he became christened and 60000. men of his secte The Emperour of Constantinople hearing this was very 1401 The Emperour returned gladde and departed out of Englande being honored by the King with precious giftes The fiue and twentith day of July Isabel late wife to K. Isabel late vvife to K. R. returned into Fraunce Richarde not yet twelue yeares of age departed from Douer towardes Caleis and so into Fraunce to hyr Father Owen Glendouerdew w e his Welchmen did much harme to the Englishmen and returned There was founde in the Kings bedde clothes an yron K. H. escapeth â— great daunger with thrée sharp pikes slender and round standing vpright layde there by some Traytour that when the Kyng should haue layde him downe he might haue thrust himselfe vpon them This time was vsed excéeding pride in garmentes gownes with déepe and broade sléeues commonlye called poke sléeues the seruauntes ware them as well as theyr Tho. Wals Aditions to polic maisters whiche mighte well haue bene called receptacles of the Diuel for what they stole they hidde in their sléeues whereof some hung downe to the féete and at leaste to the knées ful of cuttes and iagges whervpon were made these Anno reg 3 verses Now hath this lande little neede of Bromes To sweepe away the filth out of the streete Thâ— Hocâ—liâ—â— Sen side sleeues of pennilesse gromes will it vp licke be it drie or weete O England stand vpright on thy feete so foule a waste in so simple a degree Banish or it shal â—ore repent thee William Venor Iohn Fremingham the. 28. of Septem Sherifes Maior Sir Iohn Chadworth Mercer the. 28. of October The Conduit vpon Cornehil in London was made which before time had bene a prison called the Tunne in Cornehill wherevnto nightwalkers that were taken in suspition of fellonie or other trespasses were committed In the moneth of March appeared a blasing starre first betwixt the East and the North and last of all putting firie beames towards the North foreshewing peraduenture the effusion of bloud about the partes of Wales and Northumberlande Owen Glendouerdew with his Welchmen wasted y â— lands 1402 of the Lord Reignalde Gray tooke him prisoner and slewe many of his people Certaine men affirmed King Richarde to be aliue and Conspiracie against K. Henrie that he should shortly shew himself openly reward them y â— wer faithful vnto him But after a certain priest was taken at Warwike who had written y e names of many which were the aucthours of these troubles both the hope and feare of this conspiracie vanished The Priest was drawen hanged and quartered Also Walter Waldocke late Priour of Lande a Priorie in Leicestershire bycause he confessed he knew euill against the king and did conceale it was likewise hanged and headed Moreouer certaine gray Friers were taken of the whiche one Richard Friseby doctour of Diuinitie being A stout Frier executed asked what he would do if K. Richard were present answered that he woulde fight in his quarrel against any man euen to the death wherfore he was condemned drawen and hanged in his religious habit and wéede At Daneburie in Essex vpon Corpus Christi day the Diuell appeared in likenesse of a Gray Frier who entring the Church raged insolentlye to the greate feare of the Parishioners and the same houre with a tempeste of whyrlewinde and thunder the toppe of the Stéeple was broken downe and halfe the Chauncel scattered abrode Shortlye after sir Roger Claringdon Knighte a bastard sonne to Edward the blacke Prince and wyth him a Squire and a yeomanne were beheadded and eyghte Graye Friers hanged and beheaded at London and two at Leicester all whiche hadde published King Richard to bée aliue Owen Glendouerdew with a company of Welchmen inuaded all the shires that bordered neare vnto hym wherefore sir Edmund Mortimer wyth manye Knightes and Esquiers wente out to encounter with Owen stronger than he was of the
Towne of Mounâ—iour de Villers the towne of Ewe the Towne of Gurney the newe Castle and generallye all the places in that part This yere Quéene Iane the Kings stepmother being deâ—amed by certaine persons of some wicked practice by witch craft or 〈…〉 that she had deuised against the 〈…〉 the counsell of 〈…〉 dolph a Doctour of Diuinitie hir Confessor 〈…〉 ing all hir seruaunts put from hir was committed to the custody of Iohn Wellam who appoynted nine seruaunts to attend hir brought hir vnto the Castell of Pemsey to be gouerned vnder his prouidence Frier Randolph â—â—â— sent to the Tower where at length to wéete in Anno. 〈…〉 the fifte of June he was slaine by the Parson of the Tower falling out at wordes with him And after Quéene Ioane was deliuered Kyng Henry sente his brother Humfrey Duke of Gloucester accompanyed wyth the Earle Marshall and a greate power of armed men to laye siege afore the Towne and Castell of Yuory which Town after many assaâ—â—ts and battayles the Duke tooke by force But the Castel thereof was not yelded til the thirtéenth of May. The King also sent the Earle of Huntington wyth a power from Maunt to the Towne of Pontois by which if it were taken he might haue the more sure and easie passage to Paris Those whyche were sent at the entry of the night were come nygh vnto Pontois where in a Wood they lefte their horses and that done in the darkenesse of the night they went on foote to the ditches of the Towne whych then were drye where parte of them lay on the banks of the ditches with their Ladders in their handes ready to scale the walles when time shoulde serue and the residue hyd them in the Uines where they might be ready to enter the town at the opening of the gates At the breake of the daye they of the towne changed their Watche at the whych change the â—â—â—â—es were lefte without Watches for the time But the Englishmen séeyng time to accomplishe their intent â—aysed their Ladders and scaled the walles and by that meanes entred the Towne where some of them forthwyth brake the gate and made entry for the reste of their company whiche when the garrisons of the Town perceyued as meÌ„ amazed they turned themselues to flight But not long after they armed them and assayled their enimies but to the Englishmens great auayle the Earle of Huntingdon w t his company set spurres to theyr horsses and hasted them to the succour of their first company whereby the Frenchmen as al discouraged and in dispaire to saue the Towne at the sight of these newe rescues that came to the Englishmen leauing behinde them all their riches and substaunce endeanoured themselues to escape by flighte and so the towne of Pointois auoyded of all Frenchmenne was lefte frée to the English After these enterprises thus atchieued the king with all his company came to this Towne of Pointois where he aboade a certaine time from whence he sent the Duke of Clarence w t a chosen power of men to Paris to view y e scituation and strength thereof before which Citie when he had tarried certaine dayes and had séene all that him liked and that none of the Frenche men woulde issue out of the Citie to fight with him he returned to the King and assertayned him of al that he had séene On the. xviij of August King Henrie with all his hoste departed from Pointois And bycause the Castell of Bokinvillers Bokinvillers yeelded had done certaine inhumane cruelties to the Kings landes that bordered thereabout to the intente to represse theyr malice the King lodged himself not far from thence and sent certaine to assault the same Castle where both the inhabitants and garrisons feared so much the King that as men desperate of all succours they yéelded both Castel and goods And then all the townes Castels and holdes within a great circuite without abyding battaile yéelded them to the King but that strong and mightie town of Gysors wherof the Castel is much more defensible than the Town would not submit to the King wherefore on the last day of August the King with all his host toke his iourney thyther and enclosed the Towne with his pauilions and tentes Betwyxt him and them of the Towne were many sharpe battayles and cruell assaultes but at all times the Englishmen put the Frenchmen to flight wherfore the inhabitantes and garisons of the towne and Castel deliuered the same to the King in the xxiiij of September Richard Whitingham Iohn Butler the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Richard Whitington Mercer the. 28. of October King Henrie returned with his army to Maunt where he deuided his host into thrée battayles whereof he deliuered the one to the Duke of Glocester whome he sente to subdue the Towne of Saint Germaines which after manye battayles and assaultes in short time was yéelded to him the seconde battayle he sent to the Castell of Mount Oye which in like manner was yéelded with the thirde battayle the King in hys owne perfom went to besiege Mewlance which aboue al other was most strong The situation of this town was in a plenteous I le betwixte two armes of the sea c. notwithstanding when the inhabitauntes and Garisons sawe the great prouision of the King they yéelded the town on the last day of October from thence the Kyng returned againe to Maunt and sente the Duke of Excester to besiege the Castle of Gâ—â—â—arde whiche to him was yéelded the xx of December King Henrie kept his Christmasse in the Citie of Roane he sent the Earle of Salisburie to take the Towne of Fresvey which in shorte time he toke The Earle Marshal and the Earle of Huntington were sente by the Kyng to subdue the Prouince of Shenon where the Dolphin had deputed a Captaine with a strong power whiche Captaine mette the two Earles and gaue them battayle but the Englishmen remayned conquerors And thus those two Earles subdued the prouince of Shenon without any other great resistaunce Whilest these and many other victories wer atchieued the King continuing in the Citie of Roane the ambassadors of Charles the French King of the Duke of Burgoigne came to the King to treate of peace where of the King they were right honourably recoyued and sent with him to the French King and the Duke of Burgoigne hys ambassadours wyth full aucthority to conclude this long soughte peace the principall ambassadour was the Earle of Warwicke in company of certaine Bishops and other discrete men accompanyed with a strong power of armed men These ambassadors were first brought to the Duke of Burgoigne bycause hée was next vnto them and after they toke their iourney vntil they came to the Citie of Troys where they founde King Charles Anno reg 8. 1420 of Fraunce with the Quéene his wife and that beautifull Lady Katheren theyr daughter And entring into communication of peace with the Kings counsell of Fraunce the
and Katherin and of the Duke of Burgoigne departed from Troys and toke his iourney to Paris and from Paris not many dayes after they all went to laye siege to the Citie of Sens whiche was to them contrarie but before the whole hoste were setled in their places the Captaine Citizens and Garisons submitted their bodyes and Citie with all that they had to the King Then they hasted to Monstrean which Towne they toke by force On the xv of July they went to the Citie of Melune and inuironed the same with a strong siege for there were the Kings of Englande of France and Scotlande the Duke of Burgoigne Tho. Wals Bauier Clarence Bedforde and Excester the Earles of March Warwicke Huntington and Somerset c. This siege coÌ„tinued xiiij wéekes and odde dayes from the feast of Mary Magdalen to the feaste of All Saintes not without in a maner euery day a conflict and sore skirmishe but at length for wante of victualles the besieged yéelded themselues to the Kyngs of Englande and Fraunce from whence the forsayde Kyngs with a greate parte of theyr armye wente to Paris Iohn Butler Iohn Wels the. 28. of September Sherifes Maior William Cambridge Grocer the. 28. of October King Henrie kept hys Christmasse in the Citie of Paris in the Castle of Saint Anthony And after he had holden a Parliamente there he went to Roane and therewith hys Titus Liuius Normans and Englishmen helde a Parliament And theÌ„ when he had established sure guarde for this Realme of Fraunce Dutchie of Normandie he passed throughe Picardie to Caleis and so to Douer where with his Quéene he landed on Candlemasse day The fourtéenth of Februarie Quéene Katherin was Crowned at Westminster vnto whom the King assigned to hir dowrie 10000. markes also he consented to the deliuerie of the King of Scots who had bin long prisoner in Englande with condition that before his departure out of Englande he shall take to wiâ—e the Duke of Somersets sister niece to the Cardinal of Winchester Anno reg 9. 1421 The. xxij of March the duke of Clarence with many other Lords were slaine beyond the Water of Leire in Fraunce many Lords were taken prisoners of the which the Earle of Huntington and the Earle of Somerset were principal In a ParliameÌ„t at Westminster it was ordayned that no man should profer gold in payment but if it helde waight wherfore was ordayned Balances and weightes The king suppressed the French houses of religious Monkes and Friers and such like in Englande bycause they thought ill of the Conquest ouer Fraunce theyr lands were giuen by him and Henrie the sixth to Monasteries and Colledges of learned men In this Parliament was demaunded subsidie The Bishop of Winchester lent the king â—0000 pounde to straine y â— matter The King hauing disposed all thing in order coÌ„cerning the realme of England and the wars in Scotland leauing in Englande his Quéene with a greate power to the number after Enguerant of thirtye thousande returned into Fraunce where after he hadde visited the King and Quéene of Fraunce at Paris he tooke the Castell of Dâ—wex by assault And when he heard that his enimies prepared themselues to battaile he approched the floude of Loyre aboute whyche Titus Liuius floud it was said his enimies were but against him came no man Wherfore the Kyng ledde his hoste to laye siege to the City of Sens commonlye called the Kings new Town whiche Towne for lacke of victualles yéelded themselues and the Town to the King Iohn Mortimer brake foorthe of the Tower of London and beyng afterwards taken hée was drawen and hanged Richarde Gosselin William Weston the 28. of Septemb. Sherifes Maior Sir Robert Chicheley Grocer the 28. of October This Syr Robert Chicheley when he deceased in Anno 1439. willed in his Testament that vppon his mind day a competent dinner should be ordained for 2400. pore men housholders of the Citie and twenty pounde in mony to be distributed amongest them whyche was to euery man two pence He also with his brother William Chicheley Alderman of London gaue liberally to the Almes houses founded by his brother Henrie Chicheley Archebyshop of Canterbury at Higham Ferrers in Nothamptonshire in whych Towne they were borne In the Moneth of October when King Henry had deliuered Tiâ—us Liuius the Citie of Paris from all annoyaunces he with his hâ—ste went to besâ—ege the Citie of Meaulx in Brye to whych City nigh adioyning is a place called y â— Market of Meaulx betwixt which two places floweth the riuer of Marne whiche also enuironeth bothe the same places Thys Citie was besieged all the Winter wherein were so manye and so greate stormes and flouds of raine that the kings host was often annoyed with huÌ„ger colde The sixth of December Lady Katherine Quéen of Englande broughte forth hir firste begotten sonne in the Castell of Windsore and his name was gyuen him Henry for there receyued hym at the Fonte Iohn Duke of Bedford hys vncle Lord Warden of England and Henrie the Kings vncle B. of Winchester and Iaquelyn dutches of Holland that remained then in England Henry Archbishop of Canterburie doing the office of Baptisme In the moneth of Februarie the Knights that were in Garison and the principall of y â— Citie of Mealx perceyuing that the Sommer comming shoulde cause the siege to be more light and lesse painefull to the Englishmen and difficil vnto themselues departed the Citie and wente into that Anno reg 10 1422 place that is called the Market of Mealx as to the more defensible holde after whose departing the coÌ„mon people hauing none ability to resist the Kings power yéelded themselues and the Citie to the King After this in the moneth of May when the King had sore beaten the forsayd Market of Meaulx he constrayned the Frenchmen that were besieged to condescende vnto certaine couenauntes and to deliuer the place vnto him and shortly after were deliuered to the King the towne of Orepy in Valois the Castle of Pier Pountmeralaw OffemouÌ„t and many others After the rendering of these Townes and Castles the King returned to Paris In the moneth of Aprill Katherin Quéene of Englande shipped at Hampton and sayled ouer into Fraunce with a strong power vnder the conducte of Iohn Duke of Bedforde y â— kings brother Humfrey Duke of Glocester being appointed Warden of England in the Duke of Bedfordes place wheÌ„ the comming of Quéene Katherin was knowne to Kyng Henry hir husband and to Charles king of France both these Kings and with them the Quéene of Fraunce accompanyed with many great Lordes and estates as well of Englande as of Fraunce went to méete hir at Boys de Viscenne wher she was ioyfully receyued of them as if she had bin an Angell sente from God The. xxx day of May the two Kings of Englande and Fraunce with theyr Quéenes departed from Bois de Viscenne and went to Paris the king of
Burgoigne with many other great Lordes alied with hym sought to conquere all for the yong King Henry of Englande who claymed then to be King of France and likewise in all Henry King of England and of France the money that was coyned the Axmes of both Realmes were quartered The Crownes that were stamped in the tyme of Charles and all other money more were forbidden to be currant and called to the Minte King Henry caused a péece to be stamped called a Salus worth two and twentie Shillings and Blans of eyghtpence a péece and so in no place of France where King Henry was obeyed any other money was receyued but suche as had the Armes of France and England stamped on it Charles Duke of Tourayne the Dolphin sonne to King Charles le biew ame clayming to be right inheritor to the Dolphin of France proclaymed King of France Realme of France by the auntient Edictes and customes of the sayde Realme as was alledged proclaymed himselfe King after the deceasse of hys father notwithstanding by the agréement made at the marriage of his Sister to the King of England it was otherwise concluded as before is recited and so there were two Kings in France Henry and Charles both which striuing for the Crowne the Realme Tvvo Kings of France Henry and Charles was in way of perdition A Parliament at London began the ninth of Nouember Parliament at London wherin was granted to the King a subsedie for thrée yeares fiue nobles of euery sacke of wooll that should passe out of the land This yeare the Weast Gate of London sometime called Nevvgate of London nevv builded Aâ—i S. Paul Lon. 1423 Chamberlaine Gate was begon to be new builded by the executors of Sir Richard Whitington late Maior of London King Charles of France began now to aduance himselfe into the D. of Burgoignes lands and the Connestable of Scotland accompanied with many Lords and men of war of K. Charles side layd séege to the towne of Carnens but the Marshall of Burgoigne assembled men of warre to raise the séege with whome went the Earle of Salisburie a valiant maÌ„ and The Earle of Salisburie vvan diuers holds in France and rased them now being come togither fought with their enimies wan the field tooke the Connestable whose sonne was slayne in the field Many of K. Charles men were slayne and taken to the number of tenne or twelue hundred good men of warre After whiche victorie the Earle of Salisburie layde séege to Montaguillon in Champeigne and continued there an eyght monethes before he could haue it rendred and then caused the same to be rased and throwne downe Then the Earle of Salisburie beséeged the Castell of Monnes which at length Anno reg 2. was yéelded to him this Castell he also rased bet downe which was the strongest place in all Champaigne it was after repaired by King Charles Nicholas Iames Thomas Wanford the 28. of Septemb Sherifes Maior Duke of Bedford married the Duke of Burgoignes daughter William Crowmar Draper the 28. of October About the same time the Duke of Burgoigne gaue his sister the Lady Anne in marriage to the Duke of Bedford and so the alliance was made more strong betwixt the English the Burgonians Phillip de Comines writeth that Iohn D. of Bedford was Phi. Comi Regent in France for the Englishmen his monethly allowaÌ„ce in that office amounting to 20000. Crownes at the least Also y â— Dukes of Burgoigne Bedford Britein met in y e town of Amiens there was also the Earle of Richmont brother to the Duke of Briteine and many other great Lordes whiche Earle of Richmont had married the Duke of Briteines eldest sister Margaret sometime wife to the Duke of Guyen and Dolphin of France These thrée Dukes were fiue or sixe dayes togither in Amiens in great friendship and reuerence each to other promising perpetuall amitie to continue After this the Duke of Briteine returned into his Countrey the Duke of Bedford Regent of France to Paris and the D. of Burgoigne to Arras but within a while after the Earle of Richmont reuolted to King Charles vpon some misliking he had conceyued against the Duke of Bedford King Charles receyued him ioyfully made him Connestable of France About the same time the Duke of Bedford caused Crotoy to be beséeged both by water and by land which after foure or fiue monethes séege was both Towne and Castell deliuered to the Duke where he ordeyned Ralph Butler to bée Captayne At that time the Duke of Bedford was obeyed as Regent in all places through Vimeu Pontieu and Picardy from Paris to Reins Chalons Troyes vp to the water of Loyre About the feast of Saint Andrew the Captaynes of King Charles assembled their forces about Le Fere and Nelle and tooke by night the Towne of Campeigne and spoyled the inhabitants of all their goodes Shortly after came the Duke of Bedford to Mondidier with twelue hundreth fighting meÌ„ and requested the Lord of Sanenses to lay séege to Campeigne and he woulde finde him men and money to wage them wherevnto he graunted and after fiftéene dayes séege had the same deliuered In the moneth of February Iames Steward the yong King of Scottes who was taken by the Englishmen in the King of Scottes releassed of imprisonment eyght yeare of King Henry the fourth and had remayned in England prisoner till this time was now deliuered and married in Saint Mary Oueryes Church in Southwarke to the Lady Iane daughter to Iohn Earle of Somerset Cousin to King Henry Sir Iohn Mortimer Knight was drawne to Tiborne and there hanged and quartered but his body was buryed in Saint Iohns Church at Clarkenwell King Henryes people beséeging the Castell of Dinry in 1424 the marches of Normandy they within compounded to yéeld at a day assigned if the Englishmen were not fought withall before the same day by the Frenchmen wherevpon as well King Charles as the Duke of Bedford made great leuies of men to kéepe the day appoynted and héerewith they drew both towards Yury but when King Charles heard how the The Battell of Vernole in Perche Duke of Bedford was comming towardes him with such a puissance he was counselled to draw backe and so he did towards Vernole in Perche whome the Duke of Bedford followed so that he found his armie néere to Vernole And when eyther armie was in sight of the other they put themselues in order of battell and the Englishmen made an hedge of their Horsse behind their battell bycause the French shoulde not strike in among them on the backes and the Frenchmen ordered themselues in battell array making a great battell of footemen in the which they put the floure and chiefest men They appoynted their Horssemen to set on the Englishmen a trauerse the battayles on foote came vpon and ioyned where was a sore fight betwixt them continuing two houres togither that no
against the Kings Regalitie and his Lawes and nought setting by the Kings Grace and pardons grauÌ„ted not onely to him but to al the Kings subiectes the which by his deceyt haue assembled with him the which he with great reuerence receiued on Munday last passed and so did all that were assembled with him not withstanding al this he laboureth now of newe to assemble the Kings people againe to that intent beareth them on hand that the Kings letters of pardon graunted to him and them be not auaileable nor of none effect without authoritie of Parliament wheras the contrarie is true as it is openly knowen by that that the King grauntes from tyme to tyme his Charters of Pardon to such as him lyst of all manner of crimes and offences both generall and speciall The King therfore willeth and commaundeth that none of his subiectes giue fayth nor credence to the said falsâ— Informations of the sayde false â—raylor nor accompany with him in any wise nor comfort nor sustaine him nor his with victuall nor with any other things But will whosoeuer of the Kings subiectes may take him shall take him and that who so euer taketh him and bringeth him quicke or dead to the King or to his CouÌ„sel shal haue a thousand markes for his labour truely payde him without faile or delaye by the prouision of the Kings Counsell And who so euer taketh any of those that from this day forth accompany with him shal haue v. marke for his reward truely to be paide in maner and forme aboue saide And ouer this commaunding all Constables Ministers Officers of the said Shire that none of them on paine of death take vpoÌ„ them to execute any coÌ„mandement by word or writing sent or made vnto them by the said Cade calling himselfe Mortimer Captaine be it to rere any people or to any other intent but to arest and make to be arested such as take vpoÌ„ them to bring any such coÌ„maundemeÌ„t by writing or by word Et hoc nullatenus omittatis Teste me ipso apud Westminster x. die Iulij anno regni 28. After which Proclamation Captaine of Kent taken and beheaded thus published a Gentleman of Kent named Alexander Eden awayted so his time that he tooke the sayde Cade in a Garden in Snssex And there he was slaine at Hothfield and brought to LondoÌ„ in a cart there quartered his head set on LondoÌ„ bridge and his quarters sent to diuers places in Kent This done y â— King sent his CoÌ„missioners into Kent rode after himself caused inquiry to be made of this riot in CauÌ„terbury where for y â— same vitj. meÌ„ were iudged executed in other townes of Kent Sussex was dane y â— like execution This yeare the Commons also in diuers partes of England and in Sussox Salisbury Wilshire and other places didde much harme to many persons among the which on the xxix of June William Ascoth Bishop of Salisburie after he had sayde Masse at Edington was by his owne tenauntes drawen from y e Altar in his Albe with his Stole about his necke to the toppe of an hill and there by them shamefully murthered and after spoyled to the naked skynne they renting Bishop of Salisburie murdered his bloudy shirt tooke euery man a péece made boast of their wickednesse The day before his Chariot was robbed An. reg 29. to the value of x. thousand markes Iohn Middleton William Deere the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Fray in LondoÌ„ against the Maior Nicholas Wilforde Grocer the 28. of October Souldiours made a fraye against the Maior of London the same day he tooke his charge at Westminster at nyght comming from Saint Thomas of Acres after he had bene at Paules The. vj. of Nouember began a Parliament at Westminster and the first of December the Duke of Somerset which was newly come out of Normandie was put vnder arest 1451 and his goods by the Commons was foulely despoyled and borne away from the Blacke Eryers After which ryot on the nexte morrowe Proclamation was made through the Cittie that no man should spoyle or robbe vpon paine of death and the same day at the Standard in Cheape was a man beheaded for doyng contrarie to the Proclamation And thus beganne malice to spring between the Lordes of the Lande and specially against the Duke of Somerset and other of the Quéenes Counsell for the léesing of Normandie whereof the chiefe Cittie of Roane was lost or giuen vp by appoyntment the yeare procéeding as witnesseth Gagwyne vpon condition that the Duke of Somerset Robert Gagwyne with his wife English souldiours shoulde with such goods as they might carrie depâ—rte fréely from the Cittie For which frée passage he shoulde paye vnto the French king lvj M. Scuâ—s which amount to fourtèene thousand marks sterling And also he was bounde to deliuer into the French Kings possession all Townes and Castels that at that day were in the possession of Englishmen wythin the Dutchie of Normandie for performaunce of whiche couenauntes the Lord Talbot was sent for one of the pledges and so by one Floquet all the Townes and Castelles were to the Frenche Kyngs vse receyued Harfleete onely excepted whereof the Captaine named Curson with the assistance of sir Thomas Auringham in despight of al the French Kings power laide both by Sea and lande helde the same a full moneth or more and then for lacke of rescue gaue it vppe by appoyntment An. reg 30. Matthew Phillip Christopher Warton the 28. of Sep. Sherifes Maior William Gregorie Skinner the 28. of October The sixtéenth of Februarie King Henrie accompanyed with the Duke of Somerset and many other Lords tooke towardes the Marches of Wales for as muche as he was credibly informed that the Duke of Yorke assisted wyth diuerse other Lordes and men of name had in those partes gathered a strong power of people and with them was entring the land and so helde on his iourney towarde him but wheÌ„ the Duke had witting of the Kings greate power he returned from the way which was taken by the Kings hoste and hasted towardes London and when he had receyued knowledge from the Citie that he might not there be receyued he went ouer Kingstone Bridge and so into Kent and there vpon Brent Heath neare vnto Dertforde he pight his fielde wherof the king hauing knowledge sped him after lastly came vnto Blacke Heath and there pighte hys fielde When both the hostes were thus embattelled mediation of peace was made betwéene them for furtheraunce whereof to the Duke were sente the Bishops of Winchester and of Ely with the Earles of Salisburie and Warwicke To whom it was answered by the Duke that he nor none of his company entended any hurt to the Kings person nor to any of hys couÌ„sayle beyng louers of the Common wealth and of him and hys land but his intent and purpose was to remoue from the King a
Captayneshyp but the Earle for as muche as he was made by Parliament he woulde not obey the Priuie Seale but continued forth in the sayd office The Noble Science of Printing was about this tyme 1459 Printing first inuented founde in Germanie at Magunce by one Iohn Cuthembergus a Knight One Conradus an Almaine brought it into Rome William Caxton of London Mercer brought it into England aboute the yeare a. 1471. And fyrst practised the same in the Abbay of Saint Peter at Westminster after which tyme it was likewyse practised in the Abbayes of Saint Augustine at Caunterburie Saint Albons and other Monasteries of England In a lyttle Towne in Bedfordshire there fell a bloudie It raigned bloud rayne whereof the red drops appeared in shéetes the which a woman had hanged out for to dry In this tyme the Realme of Englande was out of good order as it had bene of long tyme for the King béeyng symple and pitifull was ledde by couetous Counsell The King grewe in debte dayly but payment was not made All the possessions and Lordshippes that pertayned to the Crowne the King had giuen some to Lordes and some to others such as would begge them so that himselfe had almost nothing lefte to lyue on but such impositions as were put to the common people as Taxes Tallages Quinzimes all which was spent in vayne for he helde no houshold nor maintayned no warres for which misgouernaunce the heartes of the people were turned from them that had the Land in gouernaunce The Quéene with such as were of hir affinitie ruled the Realme as hir lyked gathering riches innumerable The Officers of the Realme especially the Earle of Wilshire Treasurer of England for to enriche himselfe pilled the poore people disherited rightfull heyres and did many wrongs The Quéene was defamed and sclaundered that the young Prince was not hir sonne but a Bastard gotten in adulterie wherefore she dreading that he shoulde not succéede his father in the Crowne of Englande allyed vnto hir all the Knightes and Esquiers of Chestershire for to haue theyr fauour she helde open housholde among them and made hir sonne the Prince to giue a liuerie of Swannes to all the Gentilmen of the Countrey and to many other through the land trusting through their strength to make hir sonne King making priuie meanes to some of the Lordes of England for to stirre the King that he should resigne the Crowne to her sonne but she could not bring their purpose about The. xxj day of September Richard Earle of Salisburie hauing An. reg 38. gathered a well appoynted armie for dread of his enemies especially of the Quéene tooke his way towarde Ludlowe where at that time the Duke of Yorke lay to the intent that they both together would haue rydden to the King to Colshull in Staffordshire to haue excused them of certaine articles layd against them by malice of their enemies as they sayd Wherevpon those that were about the King and also the Quéene who laye at Eglishall moued him to assemble a great powre whereof Iames Twichet Lorde Awdley was made chiefe and had the leading of them into the fielde called Bloreheath néere vnto Mucklestone by the which the sayde Bloreheath fielde Duke and the Earle must néedes passe there both hostes mette and fought a mortall battaile wherin the Lord Audley was slaine with Hugh Venables of Kinderton Thomas Dutton of Dutton Richard Mollynes William Trowtbek Iohn Legh del Bothes Iohn Donne of Vtkinton and Iohn Edgerton of Edgerton Knightes Richard Donne of Croton Iohn Duttes Esquiers and many other of Chestershire that had receyued the Princes liuerie of Swannes and there were takeÌ„ prisoners the Earle of Salisburies ij sonnes Thomas and Iohn and sir Thomas Harington which were sent to Chester but soone after deliuered After this discomfiture the Earle of Salisburie passed forth to Duke Richard to Ludlowe and thether came to them for Calleis the Earle of Warwike which all thrée writ a letter vnto King Henry whereof the tenure is this MOst Christian King right high and mighty Prince our most dread Soueraigne Lord after as humble recommeÌ„dations to your high excellencie as will suffice Our true intent to the prosperitie augmentation of your high estate and to the commoÌ„ Weale of this Realme hath beâ—â—â— shewed vnto your highnesse in such writing as wée make thereof And ouer that an Indenture signed by our hands in the Churche Cathedrall of Worcester comprehending y â— proofe of the truth duetie that God knoweth we beare to your saide estate and to the preheminence and prerogatiue thereof we sent vnto your good Grace by the Prior of the sayde Churche and diuers other Doctors and among other by M. William Lynwood Doctor of Diuinitie which ministred vnto vs seuerally the blessed Sacrament of the body of Jesus wherevppon we and euery of vs deposed for our sayde trueth and duetie accordyng to the tenor of the sayde Indenture And sith that time we haue certified at large in writing and by mouth by Garter King of Armes not onely to your said highnesse but also to the good worthie Lordes beyng about your most Noble presence the largenesse of our sayde trueth and duetie and our intent and disposition to serche all the motions that might serue conueniently to the affirmation thereof and to our perfect suerties from suche inconuenient and vnreuerent ieopardies as wée haue béene put in diuers tymes here before Whereof we haue cause to make and ought to make suche exclamation and complaint not without reason as is not vnknowen to all the sayde worthie Lordes and to all his land and wil offer vs to your high presence to the same intent if we myght so doe without sayd suertie which onely causeth vs to kéepe suche fellowshippe as we doe in our léefull manner And hereto we haue forborne and auoyded all thinges that might serue to the effusion of Christian bloud of the dreade that we haue of God and of your Royall Maiestie and haue also eschued to approche your sayde most Noble presence for the humble obeysaunce and reuerence wherein we haue and during our lyfe will haue the same And yet neuerthelesse we heare that we be proclaimed and defamed in our name vnrightfully vnlawfully and sauing your high reuerence vntruely and otherwise as God knoweth than we haue giuen cause knowing certainely that the blessed and noble intent of your said good grace and the righteousnesse thereof is to take repute and accept your true and lawfull subiectes and that it accordeth neyther with your sayd intent nor with your wyll or pleasure that we shoulde be otherwise taken or reputed And ouer that our Lordshippes and tenantes bene of high violence robbed and spoyled agaynst your peace and lawes and all ryghteousnesse Wée therefore as we suffice beséeche your sayde good Grace to take repute and receyne therevnto our sayde trueth and intent which to God is knowne as wée shewe it by the sayde tenor
in their hands that haue bene destroyers of his sayd estate and of the sayde common Weale 3 Item how his Lawes be partially and vnrightfully guided and that by them that should most loue and tender his said Lawes the said oppression and extortion is most fauored and supported and generally that al righteousnesse and Justice is exiled out of the sayde land and that no man dreadeth to offend against the said Lawes 4 Item that it will please his saide good Grace to liue vpon his owne liuelode wherevpon his noble Progenitors haue in dayes heretofore lyued as honorably and as worthily as any Christian Princes and not to suffer the destroyers of the sayde land and of his true subiectes to lyue thervpon and therfore to lacke the sustenances that should be belonging to his sayd estate and finde his sayd houshold vpon his poore commons without payment which neyther accordeth with Gods nor mans lawe 5 Item how oft the said commons haue bene greatly maruellously charged with taxes tallages to their great empouerishing whereof little good hath eyther growne to the king or to the said land and of the most substance thereof the King hath left to his part not half so much and other Lordes and persons enimies to the sayd common Weale haue to their owne vse suffering all the old possessions that the King had in Fraunce Normandy Aniow Maine Gascoyn Gwiene won gotten by his father of most noble memory other his noble progenitors to be shamefully lost or sold 6 Item how they can not cease therwith but now begin a new charge of imposition and tallages vpon the said people which neuer afore was séen that is to say euery towne ship to finde men for y e Kings Gard taking ensample therof of our enimies aduersaries of Fraunce which imposition and tallage if it be continued to heire heires and successors will be the heauiest charge and worst ensample that euer grewe in Englande and the foresayde subiectes and the sayde heires successors in such bondage as their auncetors were neuer charged with 7. Item where the King hath now no more liuelode out of his Realme of Englande but onely the Lande of Ireland and the towne of Calleis and that no King Christened hath such a Lande and a Towne without his Realme diuers Lordes haue caused his highnesse to write letters vnder his Priuie Seale vnto his Irishe enemies which neuer King of Englande did here to fore whereby they may haue comfort to enter into the conquest of the sayde Lande which letters the same Irishe enemies sent vnto me the sayde Duke of Yorke and maruelled greatly that any such letters shoulde be to them sent speaking therein great shame and villanie of the sayd Realme 8 Item in like wise the King by excitation and labour of the same Lordes wrote other letters to his enemies and aduersaries in other lands that in no wise they should shew any fauour or good will to the towne of Calleis whereby they had comforte ynough to procéede to the wynning thereof Considered also that it is ordayned by the labour of the sayd Lords that no where victuall nor other thing of refreshing or defence should come out of Englande to the succour or reliefe of the sayde towne to the intent that they woulde haue it lost as it may openly appeare 9 Item it is déemed ought greatly to be déemed that after that the same Lordes would put the same rule of England if they might haue their purpose and intent into the handes and gouernaunce of the sayd enemies 10 Item howe continually sithe the piteous shamefull and sorrowfull murther to all Englande of that Noble worthie and Christian Prince Humfrey Duke of Glocester the Kings true vncle at Burie it hath bene laboured studyed and conspired to haue destroyed and murthered the sayde Duke of Yorke and the yssue that it pleased God to sende me of the Royall bloud and also of vs the saide Earles of Warwike Salisburie for none other cause but for the true hart that God knoweth we euer haue born and beare to the profite of the Kings estate to the Common Weale of the same Realme and defence thereof 11. Item howe the Earles of Shrewsburie and Wilshire and the Lord Beaumount our mortall and extréeme enemyes nowe and of long tyme past hauing the guiding aboute the most Noble person of our sayde Soueraigne Lorde whose highnesse they haue restrayned and kepte from the libertie and fréedome that belongeth to his sayde estate and the supporters and fauourers of all the premysses woulde not suffer the Kings sayde good grace to receyue and accepte vs as he would haue done if he might haue had his owne will into his sayde presence dreading the charge that woulde haue bene layde vppon them of the miserie destruction and wretchednesse of the sayde Realme whereof they becauses and not the King which is himselfe as noble as vertuous as rightuous and blessed of disposition as any Prince earthly 12. Item the Earles of Wilshire and Shrewsburie and the Lorde Beaumount not satysfyed nor content with the Kings possessions and his goods stirred and excited his sayd highnesse to holde his Parliament at Couentrie where an Acte is made by their prouocation and labour agaynst vs the sayde Duke of Yorke my sonnes Marche and Rutlande and the Earles of Warwike and Salisburie and the Sonnes of the sayde Earle of Salisburie and many other Knightes and Esquiers of diuers matters falsely and vntruely imagined as they will answere afore almighty God in the day of Dome the which the sayde Earles of Salisburie and Wilshire and the Lorde Beaumount prouoked to be made to the intent of our destruction and of our yssue and that they myght haue our lyuelode and goods as they haue openly robbed and dispoyled all our places and our tenementes and manye other true men and nowe procéede to hangyng and drawing of men by tyrannie and will therein shewe the largenesse of their violence and malice as vengeably as they can if no remedie be prouided at the Kings highnesse whose blessednesse is neither assenting nor knowing thereof We therefore séeyng all the sayde mischiefes hearing also that the Frenche King maketh in his lande great assembly of his people which is greatly to bée dreade for many causes purpose yet agayne with Gods grace to offer vs to come agayne to the sayde presence of our sayde Soueraygne Lorde to open and declare there vnto hym the mischiefes aboue declared and in the name of the land to sue in as reuerent and lowely wise as wée can to his sayde good Grace to haue pittie and compassion vppon his sayde true subiectes and not to suffer the same mischiefes to raygne vppon them Requiring you in Gods behalfe and praying you in our owne therein to assist vs doyng alway the duetie of liege men in our persons to our sayd Soueraigne Lord to his estate prerogatiue and preheminence and to the suertie of his most Noble person
King Edward with great triumph rode through the Citie of London 1461 to Bishops Gate and so toke his iourney towarde the Northe where betwéene Shirburne in Elmet and Todcaster all the Northe partye mette hym and on Palme Sondaye the. xxix of Marche fought a greate battaile betwéene Towton and Saxton in which were slaine Henrie Percy Erle of Northumberlande Iohn Lorde Clifforde Iohn Lord Neuil Leo Lorde Welles Ranulph Lorde Dacre and many other on both parties to the number of fiue and thirtie thousand seauen hundred and eleauen persons but King Edwarde gatte the fielde Many of the Bones of these men were buried Iohn Leyland in the Churchyard of Saxton they were firste buryed in fiue pittes halfe a mile off by North in Saxton fielde yet appearing Towton village is a mile from Saxton where a gret Chappell was begonne by Richarde the third but not finished in whiche Chappel were buried also many of the men flaine at Palmsonday fielde This fielde was as muche in Saxton Parishe as in Towton yet it bare the name of Towton The Duke of Excester the Duke of Somerset the Lorde Roos the Hungerford and many other fled to Yorke to king Henrie and then they with the King Quéene and Prince King Henry fled into Scotlande fled towarde Scotlande to Barwicke and so to Edenborough King Edwarde wente to Yorke and then to Durham and when he had quieted the Countrey returned Southwarde Thomas Courtney Earle of Deuonshire was taken and beheaded in Yorke Castell Iames Butler Earle of Wilshire was beheaded at Newcastell the Lord Fitz Walter was drowned at Ferybridge The town of Barwicke was deliuered to the Scots by king Henrie the sixth on Saint Markes daye The. xxvj of June the Mayor of London with the Aldermen in Scarlet and the Commons in gréene broughte King Edwarde from Lambeth to the Tower of London where he made eight and twentie Knightes and on the morrowe he dubbed foure mo and on the eight and twentith of June he was crowned at Westminster with greate solempnitie of Bishops and other temporall Lordes And on the morow after the King was crowned againe in Westminster Abbay in the worship of God Saint Peter and on the next morow he went Crowned in Paules Church of London in the honour of God and Saint Paule there an Angell came downe censed him at which time was so great a multitude of people in Paules as euer was séene in any dayes And soone after his Coronation the King made his States created brother George Plantagenet Duke of Clarence and his other brother Richard duke of Glocester WilliaÌ„ Stafford Esquier Lord Stafford of Southwike sir William Hebert Lorde Herbert and after Earle of Penbroke and the sayd Lord Stafford Earle of Deuonshire After this he made Edward Lord Grey of Ruthen Earle of Kent Henrie Lorde Bourcher Earle of Essex Iohn Lorde of Buckingham Lorde of Mountioy sir Iohn Heyward Lord Heyward William Hastings Lord Hastings and after that great Chamberlaine Richard Woodvile Lord Riuers Denham Esquier Lord Denham c. Not long after Iohn Dauy had his hand striken of in Cheape the Coronation of King Edward one Iohn Dauy had his hand striken off at the Standard in Cheape because he smote a man before the Judges in Westminster Hall contrarie to the Lawe George Ireland Iohn Locke the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Hughe Wiche Mercer the 28. of October The. iiij of Nouember began a Parliament at Westminster wherein King Henrie his Quéene and his sonne were disherited of the Crowne Henrie Duke of Excester Henrie Duke of Somerset Thomas Earle of Deuonshire c. to the nuÌ„ber of 140. were attainted disherited Shortly the Earle Anno. reg 2. of Oxford and Awbrey his sonne sir Thomas Tudenham Knight William Tirrell and Iohn Mongomerie Esquiers 1462 were detect and at seuerall times beheaded at the Towre hyll and after that many other The. xxvij of Marche King Edward went Northwarde so farre as Stamforde where he was informed that King Henrie had procured the Frenchmen and Scots to enter this land in resisting whereof King Edwarde sent his Priuie Seale through England to moue men to giue him a certaine suÌ„me of money which they graunted liberally The Lord Fauconbridge Earle of Kent was appointed to kéepe the Seas with the Lorde Audeley Lorde Clinton Sir Iohn Heyward sir Richard Walgraue and other to the number of ten thousand which landed in Britaine and wanne the towne of Conqnet with the Isle of Reth c. In Michaelmas Terme king Edward sat in the Kings bench thrée dayes together in open court to vnderstande how his lawes were executed William Hampton Barthelmew Iames the 28. of Sep. Sherifes Maior Thomas Coke Draper the 28. of October Quéene Margaret wyfe to Henrie the sixt landed in the North where hauing but small succour and euill fortune she was faine to take the Sea againe by tempest of weather was driuen to Barwicke where she landed but lost hir shippes and goods In December King Edwarde laide siege to the Castels of Bambrugh Dunstonbrugh Alnewike Henrie Bowfort Duke of Somerset sir Ralph Percie and other yéelded Bambrugh on Christmas euen and were taken to the Kings fauour King Edward graunted to the Duke of Somerset a. 1000. marks by the yéere where of he was neuer paid the Earle of Penbroke sir Thomas Fyndern and other went into Scotland On S. Iohns day Dunstonburgh was yéelded On y â— Twelfe euen Peirsâ—e Brasile the great warrior of Normandie came to helpe the Quéene Margaret with Frenchmen xx thousande Scots to remoue King Edwardes men from Alnewike siege and the residue of other Castels there By whose comming King Edwardes men were afearde of the Scottes as reculing from the siege and the Scottes afearde of Edwardes men least they had reculed to bring them into a trap And Henries meÌ„ issuing out of too much boldnesse gaue Edwards meÌ„ opportunitie to enter into the Castle on the morow after the Twelfe day the Earle of Warwike made xv knights Anno reg 3. these iij. Castels were committed to y e kéeping of sir Ralph Grey and after againe King Henrie with his Quéene and 1463 their felowship entred them and kept them About Midsomer the Scots with many French Englishmen laid siege to the Castle of Norham but were forced to leaue it as they found it The Earle of Warwike wan the towne of Barwike where he made fiue Bannertes xxij knights and went into Scotland where he burnt Lawghmaban Iedeworth Galowey and many other Townes and returned to Barwike The Minster of Yorke the stéeple of Christes Church in Norwiche were brent Robert Basset Thomas Muschampe the 28. of Sept. Sherifes Maior Mathew Phillip Goldsmith the 28 of October In the moneth of Aprill King Edwarde made great Anno. reg 4. 1464 preparation against King Henrie and on Saint Markes day Ralph Percie Lorde Hungerforde with a great power purposing
busynesse betwéene the two mothers so the Ladye Margaret Countesse of Richemond brought to a good hope of the preferment of hir sonne made Reynold Bray chiefe solicitor of this conspiraoie geuyng hym in charge secretely to inuegle suche persons of Nobilitie to ioyne wyth hir and take hir parte as he knewe to be faythfull This Reynold Bray within fewe dayes broughte to his lure sir Gyles Daubeney sir Iohn Châ—nie Richard Guilford and Thomas Rame Esquiers others In the meane season the Countesse of Richemond seat Christopher Vrfwike into Britaine to the Erle of Richmond to declare to him all agréementes betwéene hir the Quéene agréed but she rementbring that the Duke of Buckingham was one of the first inuentors of this enterprise sent Hugh Conway Esquier into Britaine with a great sum of money to hir sonne giuyng him in charge to declare to the Earle the great loue that y e most part of the nobilitie of the Realme bare toward him wylling him not to neglect so good an occasion offered but with all spéede to fettle his minde how to returne into Englande giuing him Counsell to take land in Wales When y e Earle had receyued this ioyfull message he brake to the Duke of Britayne all his secretes aduertising hym that he was entered into a sure and stedfast hope to obtayne the Crowne of England desiring hym of helpe towarde the atchieuing of his enterprise which the Duke promised and after performed Whervpon the Earle sent into England Hugh Conway and Thomas Ram to declare his comming shortly into England In the meane season the chiefe of the conspiracie in England beganne many enterprises which beyng neuer so priuely handled yet knowledge thereof came to Kyng Richard and because he knewe the Duke of Buckingham to bée the chiefe heade and ayde of this commination he thought it most necessarie to plucke hym from that parte where vppon he adressed his louing letters to the Duke to exhorte the Duke to come to the Courte but the Duke required the Kyng to pardon hym excusing himselfe that he was not well King Richard not content wyth this excuse directed to the Duke other letters wyth checkyng wordes commaunding hym wythout delaye to repayre to hys presence The Duke made to the messenger a determinate aunswere that he woulde not come to his mortall enemye and immediatelye prepared warre agaynste hym and by this meanes Thomas Marques Dorset came out of Sancturie gathered a great bande of men in Yorke shire syr Edwarde Courtney and Peter his brother Byshoppe of Excester raysed an other armie in Deuonshire and Cornewall In Kent â—ir Richard Calfortle and other gentlemen rayses a comparrie But King Richarde in the meane tyme had gotten together a great strength with whom he remoued from London towarde Salisburie to the entent he myght set on the Dukes army the King was starce two dayes tourney from Salisburie when the Duke of Buckingham accompanyed with a great powre of wilde Welchmen which in the ende forsooke him The Duke with his powre marched through the forest of Dene intending to haue passed the ryuer of Seuerne at Glocester and there to haue ioyned in armie with the Courtneys other Westerne men which if he had done no doubte but King Richard had béene in great ieoperdie But before he could attayne to Seuerne syde by force of continuall raine the riuer rose so high that it ouerflowed all the countrey adioyning which rage of water lasted x. dayes by which inundacie the passages were so closed that neyther y e Duke could come ouer Seuerne to his complices nor they to hym dâ—wing which time the Welchmen lyngering ydle and wythout money or victuall sodainly scaled and departed The Duke thus left almost alone was of necessitie compelled to flie and conueyed himselfe into the house of Humfrey Banister his seruaht beside Shrewesburie whom he had tenderly brought vp which wheÌ„ it was knowne to his adherents euery man shifted for himselfe and fled And some of them sayled into Britaine among the which were Peter Courtney Byshop of Excester and sir Edward Courtney his brother Thomas Marques Dorset Iohn Lord Welles sir Iohn Bourchier sir Edmond Woodvile brother to Quéene Elizabeth sir Robert Willoughbie sir Gyles Daubney sir Thomas Arundale sir Iohn Cheynie and his two brothren sir William Barkerley sir William BrandoÌ„ and Thomas his brother sir Richard Edgecombe and Iohn Halwell Edwarde Pownyngs c Proclamation was made and a thousande pound promised to who so coulde bring out the Duke of Buckingham where vpon Humfrey Banister bewrayed his guest and Humfrey Banister betrayeth his maister maister to Iohn Mitton then Sherife of Shropshire whiche with a stronge powre apprehended the Duke in a little groue adioyning to the manors of Humfrey Banister and in great haste conueyed him to the Citie of Salisburie where King Richard than kept his housholde This Banister after Banister that be trayed his maister miserably plagued let the like traitors looke for the like or vvorse to them and theirs vvithout speedie repentance he had betrayed his maister his sonne and heire waxed mad and dyed in a Bores stye his eldest daughter was sodainely striken with a foule leperie his seconde sonne maruellously deformed of his lymmes and made lame his yonger sonne in a small puddle was drowned and he himselfe being of extreme age arraygned and found guiltie of a murther and by his clergie saued And as for his thousande pounde King Richarde gaue him not one farthing saying that he which woulde be vntrue to so good a maister would be false to all other The Duke after he had confessed all the whole conspiracie Duke of Buckingham beheaded vpon the second of Nouember without araignement or iudgement was at Salisburie beheaded Whilest these things were thus handled in England Henrie Earle of Richmond prepared an armie of fiue thousand Britons and fortie wel furnished shippes When al thyngs were prepared and the day of setting forward was appoynted which was the. xij of October the whole armie hoysed vp sayles and tooke the sea but toward night the wind turned and so huge a tempest arose that the ships were dispersed a sunder some driuen into Normandie some againe into Britaine In the morning after when the tempest was asswaged the Earle approched to the South parte of England at the mouth of the Hauen of Pole in Dorcet where he might sée all the bankes full of men of warre appoynted to defend his arriuall wherfore he gaue charge that no man shoulde lande vntil such tyme as the whole Nauie were assembled but after that he perceyued none of his ships to appeare he hoysed vp Ankers and away where he arriued safe in Normandie and returned by lande into Britaine where he was soone aduertised that the Duke of Buckingham had loste hys head and that the Marques Dorcet and a great number of Noble men of England had a little before enquired for hym there In the meane season King Richarde apprehended in
diuers partes of this Realme certaine Gentlemen of y e Earle of Richmondes faction amongst whom sir George Browne sir Roger Clifford and iiij other were put to death at London y â— iij. of December Sir Thomas Sentlegar which had marryed the Duches of Excester the Kings owne sister and T. Rame with diuers other were executed at Excester The. xxx of December was a great fire at Leaden hall in Fire at Leaden hall in London London where through was brent much housing and all the stocks for gunnes other like prouision belonging to y e citie After this King Richard called a Parliament in y â— which 1484 he attainted the Earle of Richemond and all other persons which were â—led out of the Realme for feare or any other cause as enemyes to him and to their natural countrie and all their landes and goods was confiscate to the Kings vse and yet notwithstanding he laid on the people a great taxe In this troublesome season nothing was more maruelled Anno. reg 2. at than that the Lorde Stanley had not bene taken considering the working of the Lady Margaret his wyfe mother to the Earle of Richemond but for as muche as the enterpryse of a woman was of hym reputed of no regarde or estimation and that the Lorde Stanley hir husband had purged hym selfe to be innocent of all attemptes by hir committed it was giuen him in charge to kéepe hir in some secrete place at home without hauing any seruaunt or company so that from thence forth shée shoulde neuer send letter to hir sonne or to any of his friendes by the which the Kyng myghte bée molested which commaundement was a whyle put in execution This yéere King Richard began the high towre at Westminster which remaineth yet vnfinished Also he caused the K. Henry the sixt remoued to VVindsoâ— body of King Henry the sixte to be remoued from Chertesey Abbey in Surrey and to be buried at Windsor where he nowe resteth on the. xij of August Richard Chester Thomas Britaine the 28. of September Sherifes Ralph Austry the 6. of Februarie Tho. Hill Grocer the 28. of October W. Stocker draper the Maiors 24. of Sep. in anno 1485. Iohn ward grocer the 29. of Sep. William Collingborne made a Ryme of iij. of King Colingborne executed Richards CouÌ„sellers the Lord Louell sir Richard Ratclife and sir William Catesby which was The Ratte the Catte and Louell our dogge Rule all England vnder the hogge For the which he was drawne froÌ„ Westmin to the Towre of London and there on y â— hyll hanged headed quartered King Richard considering y â— aâ—ities concluded betwéene Princes are the cause that their Realmes are fortified with a double power that is to say with their owne strength the ayde of their friendes practised a league with the King of Scots which not long before had made diuers incursions roades into the Realme of Englande and therefore sued to haue a truce or peace concluded Wherfore Commissioners were appointed which met at Notingham there in the end concluded for iij. yéeres on certaine articles xv in number Truce vvith Scotland for three yeeres This peace thus concluded King Richard nowe doubtyng his owne people was continually vexed with feare of the returne of the Earle of Richmond and his complices Wherfore nothing was for his purpose more then once agayne with price prayer to attempt the duke of Britaine in whose territorie y â— Erle then abode to deliuer him into his hands wherfore incontinent he sent certaine Ambassadors to the Duke of Britaine which tooke vpon them that King Richard shoulde yéerely pay and aunswere the Duke of Britaine of al the reuenewes rentes and profites of the landes possessions as well belonging to the Earle of Richmond as to any other noble or gentlemaÌ„ which then were in the Erles companie if he after that time would kéepe them in continuall prison and restrayne them from libertie The orators furnished with these other instructions ariued in Britaine but could not speake w t the duke by reason y â— he being weakned by a long and dayly infirmitie began to waxe ydle of his remembraunce for whiche cause Peter Landoyse his chiefe Treasurer ruled all things at his pleasure vnto whom the English Ambassadors moued to him their message offering to him the same rewardes and lands that they should haue offered the Duke This Peter faythfully promised to accomplishe King Richardes request so that he kept promise wyth him but fortune was so fauourable to the publike Weale of England that this deadly compact tooke none effect for Iohn Morton Byshop of Elie soiourning then in Flaunders was of al this craftie deuise certified wherfore he sent Christopher Vrswike to declare to the Earle of Richemond all the deceyt giuing him charge in all hast possible with his company to retire out of Britaine into Fraunce When these newes came to the Earle he incontinent sent to Charles the French king requiring that he and his myght safely passe into Fraunce which desire was graunted and the Earle with the rest dispatched as priuily as mought be into Fraunce no man susspecting their departure After this the Erle tooke his iourney to Charles the Frenche King to whoÌ„ after great thanks giuen he disclosed the occasion of his accesse to his person After that he required of him helpe and succour to the intent he myghte returne to the Nobilitie of his Realme of whoÌ„ he was generally called to take vpoÌ„ him the Crowne King Charles promysed him ayde and bad hym be of good comforte for he assured him that he woulde gladly shewe to 1485 him his bountifull liberalitie Whiles the Earle of Richemond thus attended on the Frenche Court Iohn Vere Earle of Oxforde so perswaded Iames Blonte Captaine of Hames Castle and sir Iohn Forteskewe Porter of the Towne of Calleis that he him selfe was not only set at libertie but they also leauing their fruitfull offices condescended to goe with him into Fraunce to the Earle of Richemond In the meane season King Richard was credibly aduertised what promises and othes the Earle and his confederates had made and sworne and how by the Erles meanes all the English men were passed out of Britaine into Fraunce Wherefore being in manner desperate imagining howe to infringe the Earles purpose by an other meane so that by the mariage of Lady Elizabeth his niece he should pretend no clayme to the Crowne there came to his minde a thing not onely detestable but much more cruell to be put in execution for he cléerelye determined to reconcile to his fauour his brother wife Quéene Elizabeth and so by that meanes the Earle of Richemond of the affinitie of his Nice shoulde bée vtterly defrauded and if no ingenious remedie coulde bée otherwyse inuented if it shoulde happen Quéene Anne hys wyfe to departe out of this worlde then he himselfe woulde rather take to wyfe hys cosin and Nice
a platter with porage and four pencâ— in money The xiiij of Nouember Hugh Ferringdon Abbot of Abbots of Reading Glastonbâ—â—y executed Reading and two Priests named Ruge and Onyon for denying the Kings Supremacie were hanged and quartered at Reading The same day was Richard Whiting Abbot of Glastonburie hanged and quartered on Torre hill beside his Monasterie for the same cause The first of December Iohn Beach Abbot of Colchester was likewise executed In December were appoynted to wayte on the Kings Pencioners appoynted highnesse person fiftie Gentlemen called Pencioners or Speres vnto whome was appoynted fiftie pound the péece pearely The third of January was the Lady Anne of Cleeue receiued King Henry married Lady Anne of Cleue at Blacke heath and brought to Greenewich with great triumph and the sixth day of y e same moneth she was maryed to King Henry After Christmas the Priorie Church of Saint Mary Ouery Saint Mary Oueryes made a parish Church in Southwarke was purchased of the King by the inhabitants of the Borow Doctor Gardener Bishop of Winchester putting to his helping hand they made thereof a parish church and the little Church of Mary Megdalen ioyning to the same Priorie was made all one Churche and Saint Margarets in Southwarke a parish was admitted to the same parish The xij of March Henry Bowrcher Earle of Essex riding Earle of Essex deceassed a yong Horsse was cast and brake his necke at his Manour in Essex He was the eldest Earle in England The xix of March Iohn Vere Earle of Oxforde high Earle of Oxford deceassed chamberlayne of Englande deceassed at his Manour in Essex Ther. of Aprill Sir William Peterson Priest late commissarie 1540 of Caleis and Sir William Richardson Priest of Saint Maryes in Caleis were both there drawne hanged Priests at Caleis executed and quartered in the Market place for the Supremacie The 18. of Aprill Sir Thomas Cromwell Lorde priuie Cromvvell Earle of Essex Seale was created Earle of Essex and high Chamberlayne of England Also Gregory hys sonne was made Lorde Cromwell In a Parliament which began the xviij of Aprill was Subsedie and four fifteenes graunted to the King a subsedie of two shillings the pound Lands and twelue pence goodes and four fiftéenes The xxiiij of Aprill Thomas Lord Audley Chancellor Anno reg 32 of England with Sir Anthony Browne Maister of the Kingâ— Lord Audley Knight of the Garter Horsse were made Knightes of the Garter On May day was a great triumph of Justing at Westminster which Justes had bin proclaymed in France Flaunders Iusting of challengers Scotland and Spayne for all commers that woulde against the challengers of Englande which were Sir Iohn Dudley Sir Thomas Seymer Sir Thomas Poynings Sir George Carew Knightes Anthony Kingston and Richarde Cromwell Esquiers which sayd challengers came into the listes that day richly apparelled and their Horsses trapped all in white Ueluet with certayne Knightes and Gentlemen riding afore them apparelled all in white Ueluet and white Sarsenet and all their seruants in white dublets and hozen cut after the Burgonion fashion and there came to Just against them the sayd daye of defendants xlvj the Earle of Surrey being the formost Lord William Heyward Lord Clinton and Lord Cromwell sonne and heire to Thomas Cromwell Earle of Essex and Chamberlayne of EnglaÌ„d with other which were all richly apparelled And that day Sir Iohn Dudley was ouerthrowne in the fielde by mischance of his Horsse by one Mayster Breme defendant neuerthelesse he brake diuers Speares valiantly after that and after the saide Justes were done the sayde challengers rode to Durham place where they kepte open housholde and feasted the King and Quéene with hir Ladyes and all the Court. The seconde of May Anthony Kingston and Richarde Cromwell were made Knightes at the sayd place The third of May the sayde challengers did turney on Tournying horssebacke with swords and against them came xxix defendants Sir Iohn Dudley and the Earle of Surrey running first which the first course lost both their gauntleâ—s and that day Sir Richard Cromwell ouerthrew Mayster Palmer in y e field off his Horsse to the great honor of the challengers The v. of May she said challengers fought on foote at the Barriers against theÌ„ came xxx defendants which â—ought Barriers valiantly but Sir Richard Cromwell ouerthrew that day at the Barriers Mayster Culpeper in the field and the sixth of May the sayd chalengers brake vp their houshold The vij of May Sir William Weston Knight Lorde Saint Iohns in Smithfield suppressed Prior of Saint Iohns without Smithfield dyed and the King tooke all the Lands that belonged to that order into hys hands to the augmentation of his Crowne and gaue vnto euery of the Chalengers aboue written for a rewarde of their valiantnesse a hundred Markes and a house to dwell in of yéerely reuenues out of the sayd lands for euer The 26. of May was sent to the Tower Doctour Wilson and Doctour Sampson Bishop of Chichester for reléeuing certayne prisoners which denyed the Kings Supremacie for the same offence Richard Farmer Grocer of London a rich Richard Farmer in the Premunire and wealthy man was committed to the Marshalsea and after arraigned and attaynted in the Premunire and lost all his goodes Also the kéeper of Newgate was sent to the Marshalsea for giuing libertie to Doctor Powell and Doctour Abell his prisoners The ninth of July Thomas Lord Cromwell Earle of Thomas Lord Cromvvell beheaded Essex béeing in the Counsell Chamber was sodeinly apprehended and committed to the Tower of London The ninetéenth he was attainted by Parliament of heresie and high Treason and y e xxviij of July he was beheaded on the Tower hill with the Lord Walter Hungerford of Heitisburie In this moneth of July King Henry by authoritie of King Henry deuorced from Lady Anne of Cleeue Parliament and Conuocation was deuorced from Lady Anne of Cleeue The xxx of July Robert Barnes Thomas Gerrard William Sixe Priestes three brent three hanged Ierome Priests were burned in Smithfield The same day Thomas Abell Edward Powell and Richarde Fetherstone all thrée Doctours were hanged and quartered for denying the Kings supremacie of the Church The fourth of August were drawne to Tiborne sixe persons Seauen executed at Tiborne and one ledde Lawrence Cooke Prior of Dancalfe William Horne a lay brother of the Charterhouse Giles Horne Gentleman Clement Philpot Edmond Bromham Darby Kenham Robert Birde Iaruis Carrow all put to death for Treason The Ditches about London were clensed The eyght of August Lady Katherine Haward daughter to Edmond Lord Haward was shewed opeÌ„ly as Quéene King Henry married at Hampton Court The xj of September was hanged in Moore field a StraÌ„ger Harlots cause many murthers named Iames Rinatian who had slayne his Maister one Capon a Florentine in a Garden for his Harlot The later end
and desire the to take these my trauell in good parte like as I haue painefully to my greate costes and charges out of manye olde hidden Histories and Recordes of antiquitie broughte the same to light and fréely for thy great commoditie bestowed them vpon thée The seauen ages of the Worlde THe first age from the creation of Adam to the floud of Noe which continued yeares 1659 2 The second from Noe to Abraham 292 3 The third from the birth of Abraham till the departing of Israel out of Aegipt 503 4 The fourth from the departing of Israel out of Aegipt till the building of the Temple 482 5 The fift from the building of the Temple til the Captiuitie of Babilon 414 6 The sixth from the captiuitie of Babilon till the byrth of our Sauiour Iesus Christ 614 7 The seauenth beginning at the birth of our Sauiour Iesus Christ hath continued till this present yeare of our Lorde 1580 and shall last to the worlds ende  ⧠The age of the Worlde at the birth of our Sauiour Christ was 3962. The age of the worlde this presente yeare of our Lord. 1580. is 5542. ¶ Of the vniuersities in England and Colledges in the same vvith the founders and principall benefactours I Haue before time reioyced sayeth Erasmus Roterdam that England was so wel furnished with so many men of excellent learning but now I begin to enuie hir felicitie for that she so florisheth with all kind of literature that by taking the commendation therof from the other Regions she doth as it were maruellously obscure them And yet this commeÌ„dation is not as now first due to England in the whiche it is well knowen haue bene of long time men of greate learning The vniuersities proue this to be true which haue for their antiquities and worthynesse contended with the most auntient and worthy vniuersities in the worlde Cambridge as some learned writers doe affirme was Cambridge first frequented with Philosophers and Astronomers procured from Athens by Cantaber a Spaniarde in the time of Gurguntius who was King of Brytaine before the byrthe of Christ yeares 375 Peter Colledge was erected of two auntiente Hostelles Peter Colledge sometime belonging vnto the Brethern de paenitentia Iesu Christi by Hughe Balesame sometyme Pryor of Elye Anno. 1256 This Hugh was afterwarde the tenth Byshop of Elye and finished this Colledge in Anno. 1284 Clare Hall was firste builded by Richarde Badowe then Clare Hall Chauncellour of the students there and the same was called Vniuersitie Hall 1326 It was since that enlarged by Gualter Thacsteede Mayster of the said Hall who with consent of the saide Richarde Badow resigned the foundation thereof to Elizabeth Ladye of Clare thirde daughter of Gilbert and sister and one of the heyres of the laste Gilbert de Clare Earle of Gloucester who was firste married to Iohn Burgh Earle of Vlster in Ireland after to Theobald of Verdon and thyrdly to sir Roger Damarie and hadde issue by them all she I saye named it Clare Hall Pembrooke hall was founded by Marie of Valentia daughter Pembrooke hall to Guydo Erle of Saint Paul in France wife to Adomare de Valentia Earle of Pembrooke she obtained of King Edwarde the thyrde whose cousin she was to found this Colledge in hir owne grounde with purchasing two or thrée tenements there by and named it Aulade Valence Mariae Anno. 1343. Corpus Christi Colledge was firste begunne to be buylded Corpus Christi Colledge by the Alderman and brethren of Corpus Christi Guild This Colledge was brought so farre forth the rather by the help of Saint Maries Guilde and fraternitie newly adioyned to the other Guilde 1344. In the yere 1353. they did elect Henrie Erle of Darby and Lancaster who shoulde obtaine them fauour for the purchasing of Mortmaine for suche landes and tenementes as after manye did sell them This Earle of Darby in the eyghte and twentith yeare of Edwarde the thyrde was created the firste Duke of Lancaster and then they elected hym their Alderman who recognised theyr statutes not by the Dukes Seale but by the Seale of the Aldermen of that Guilde Trinitie hall was first an Hostell purchased by Iohn Cranden Trinitie hall sometime Prior of Ely who procured it for his brethren the Monkes of that house to be Students there in y â— tyme of Edwarde the thyrde whyche Hostell was afterward purchased by William Bateman Bishoppe of Norwich who builded this Colledge of Trinitie hall vpon the saide grounde being the firste Founder thereof he deceassed in the yeare of Christe 1354. Gunuile and Caius Colledge was first founded by Edmund Gunuile and Caius Colledge Gunuile sometime Parson of Terington in Norffolke he gaue it to name Gunuile hall as appeareth by his statute 1348. At his deceasse he leauing a good masse of money commended the further finishing of the same Hall to William Bateman Bishoppe of Norwiche who with the assent of the Aldermen and brethren of the Guildes of Corpus Christi our Lady changed with them the said house with their house called the Stone hall where nowe Gunuile and Caius Colledge standeth 1353. Iohn Caius Doctoure in Phisicke sometime fellow and late Maister of the saide Colledge hath enlarged the house and nowe made a second foundation with gyuing certaine Manours and lands to the same 1557. Kings Colledge was first founded by King Henrie the sixth Kings Colledge in the yeare of Christ 1441. The same King altered the forme of hys firste foundation in the yeare of Christe 1443. Edwarde the fourth in displeasure of the firste foundation wythdrewe from the Colledge so muche lande as the firste Founder hadde gyuen them but afterwardes hée restored them to the inheritaunce of fyue hundreth markes â—â—â— After hym Henrie the seauenth finished that notable Chappell begonne by Henrie the sixth to the glazing stalles and pauing with Marble whych was done by king Henrie the eight Queenes Colledge Queenes Colledge was begonne by Lady Margaret wife to Kyng Henry the sixth 1446. Shée procured Mortmaine of an hundred pound by yere Anno. 1448. At the intercession of Andrew Ducket sometime principall of Barnarde Hostell whiche Hostell he gaue to the saide Colledge He was Parson of Saint Buttolphs in Cambridge who by his owne money and help of others purchased certaine tenementes and builded his Colledge beyng the first President of the same who gaue as well by hys life as by hys Testament dyuers summes and parcels of lande and also procured certayne gyftes of the Duke of Clarence of Cicelie Dutchesse of Yorke of Richarde Duke of Gloucester of Anne Dutchesse of the same of Edwarde Earle of Salisburie Maude Countesse of Oxforde and Marmaduke Lumley Bishop of Lincolne with diuers other Elizabeth wife to King Edwarde the fourth finished that whyche Quéene Margaret hadde begonne in the yeare 1465. Katherine hall was founded by Robert Woodlarke Doctor Katherine hall of Diuinitie and Prouost of the Kings Colledge
Glastenburie brent Pag. 213 Gorbodug king Pag. 24 Gorbomanus king Pag. 29 Gorbonian king Pag. 30 Gospell preached in England Pag. 57 Godwin Sands Pag. 173 Good Parliament Pag. 467. euil Parliament Pag. 519. lay mans Parliament Pag. 559 Golden Rose sent from Rome Pag. 933 Gold enhaunsed Pag. 941 Grantham builded Pag. 29 Grantbridge or Cambridge Pag. 122 Grey Friers in England Pag. 259 Grifithe of Wales brake his necke out of the Tower of London Pag. 269 Grauesend Bishop of London Pag. 315 Groates halfe groates coyned Pag. 420 Grey Friers in LondoÌ„ an Hospital Pag. 1053 Great and wonderful tempestes Pag. 1106 Gardner made Lord Chauncellour Pag. 1071 deceased Pag. 1099 Great Hary a slip brent Pag. 1071 Great seale taken from the Lord Riche page Pag. 1050 Greenewich Towne builded Pag. 240 Giles Church brent Pag. 1032 Great flouds Pag. 1099 Great fishes Pag. 1053 Great muster in London Pag. 1015 Gwindolen Queene Pag. 19 Gurgustus king Pag. 23 Gurgustius King Pag. 28 Guinthelinus king Pag. 28 Gurguinus king Pag. 30 Guinouer wife to Arthur Pag. 81 Gurmondchester builded Pag. 88 Guy Earle of Warwicke slew Colbronde Page 131 Guisnes gotten by the English Pag. 421 Gunnes muented Pag. 480 Guilde Hall in London builded Pag. 573 Gunne shot at the Preacher Pag. 1091 H. HAdrianus a Romaine Pag. 54 Hadley in Essex Pag. 124 Harold a Dane King Pag. 141 Hardicanutus king Pag. 142 Harold king Pag. 146. slaine Pag. 147 Hartes leapt into the Sea Pag. 240 Hales Owen reedified Pag. 251 Halfepence and farthings round Pag. 299 Handes of men cut of for rescuing of a prisoner Pag. 306 Hastings brent Pag. 472 Harlow Castel wonne Pag. 721 Hayle stones Pag. 18. ynches about Pag. 870 Hayle in Northamptonshire did muche harme Pag. 1174 Hailestones figured like meÌ„ heads Pag. 103 Hangman hanged Pag. 1013 Helius king Pag. 31 Helen mother to Constantine Pag. 69 Hengest Saxon. Pag. 80. king of Kent Pag. 83 Hengest first king of Kent Pag. 190 Hereforde Bishoppes Sea founded Pag. 106 Hereford brent Pag. 164 Henâ—ie the first Pag. 176 Hereford brent Pag. 189 Henrie the seconde king Pag. 200 wenteagainst the Welchmen Pag. 201 Hergelius Patriarke Pag. 214 Hedges burned Pag. 237 Henrie the third King Pag. 252 Herdesmen go toward Ierusalem Pag. 340 Hugh Spencer executed Pag. 349 350 Henrie Percy created Erle of Northumberland Pag. 471 Henrie bastard of Spaine Pag. 475 Herfleete besieged Pag. 589 Henrie sonne to Iohn of Gaunt created Duke of Hereforde Pag. 527 accufeth the Duke of Norffolke Pag. 528 banished Pag. 529 returneth into Englande Pag. 532. chosen king Pag. 540 crowned â—42 conspiracie againste him Pag. 544. entreth Scotlande Pag. 547. in great daunger Pag. 549 marieth the dutches of Brytaine Pag. 553. conspiracie against him Pag. 563. writeth to the Pope Pag. 571. ended his life Pag. 576 Henrie Beauchamp created duke of Warwicke Pag. 648 Henrie Lord Bourcher made Earle of Essex Pag. 713 Henrie son to Henrie the seauenth borne Page 865 Henrie sonne to Henrie the fourth made prince of Wales Pag. 541. his demean of at his fathers deathe Pag. 576. crowned king Pag. 583. entreth Normandie Pag. 588. Pag. 599. returneth home Pag. 597. deceased Pag. 614 Henrie the sixth borne at Windsor Pag. 612 King of England and of Fraunce Pag. 618 crowned Pag. 633. at Paris Pag. 635. fled into Scotlande Pag. 712. disherited Pag. 713 taken Pag. 717 â—estored Pag. 725. sent to the Tower prisoner Pag. 727. murdered Pag. 729. his coÌ„mendation Pag. 730 his Colledge Pag. 731. his death Pag. 756. buried at Windsor Pag. 84â— Edward Prince borne in Sanctuarie Pag. 726 Pag. 807. King of Englande Pag. 7â—â— his aunswere to his mother Pag. 805 murdered Page 828 Henrie Earle of Richmonde landed at Mylford hauen Pag. 851. proclaymed king Pag. 858 drowned Pag. 861. besieged Buloigne Pag. 866 builded a Chapple at Westminster Pag. 875. Hospitall of the Sauoy Pag. 891. deceased ibidem his sepulchre Pag. 892 Hingwer the Dane slayne Pag. 123 Honorius Emperour Pag. 73 Hokenorton a towne Pag. 129 Houndsdich Pag. 139 Hofen a payre for a king three shillings Page 168 Howses blowne down in Cheape Pag. 170 Hospital of Saint Leonard at Yorke fouÌ„ded Pag. 175 Hospitall of Saint Giles Pag. 183 Hospital of Saint Crosse builded Pag. 185 Hospital of s Thomas in Southwark Pag. 244 Hospitall at Oxford Pag. 263 Hospital of Saint Marie at London Pag. 265 Hospital at Lecester founded Pag. 365 Hogges in Normandie brent by Edward the third Pag. 394 Hospitall at Kingston founded Pag. 461 Housekeeping of the Earle of Warwike Page 722 House at London bridge fell into the Thames Pag. 748 Humber a Riuer Pag. 18 Humfrey Duke of Glocester chalengeth to coÌ„bat with Philip D. of Burgoign Pag. 625. marieth Elianor Cobham Pag. 631. dyed at Bury Pag. 650. debate betwene the D. of Glo. and the Bi. of Winchester Pag. 627 I. I Ago King Pag. 23 Saint Iames in Bristowe builded Pag. 181 Iames Churche at Garlike Hithe builded Pag. 349 Iaqueline Dutchesse of Henalt Pag. 623 married to the Duke of Gloucester Pag. 624 Iames son to the King of Scottes taken Pag. 567. released of his imprisonment Pag. 629 Iacke Cade a rebel Pag. 652. Pag. 653 entred London Pag. 659. pardoned Pag. 661. beheaded Page 663 Iames house purchased by the king Pag. 798 Ida firste King of the Northumbers Pag. 107 Iewels haÌ„ged and left in the high wayes not touched but of the owners Pag. 127 Iewes robbed Pag. 220. imprisoned Pag. 238. spoyled Pag. 246. their Synagogue Pag. 262 Iewes borne in Englande Pag. 273. hanged Page 275 Iewe drowned Pag. 277. Iewes spoyled Pag. 278 Iewes executed Pag. 298. their Synagogues destroyed Pag. 301. banished Pag. 304 Iewes and Leapers poysoned waters Pag. 341 Iedworth in Scotland brent Pag. 933 Iewels and Church Plate called into the Kings hande Pag. 10â—7 Ioseph of Aramath â—7 Iohn the Kings sonne made Lord of Irelande Pag. 294 Iohn the Kings brother rebelled Pag. 221. 223 Iohn King Pag. 230. diuorced Pag. 231. sommoned to the Frenche Courte Pag. 232. resigned the Crowne and absolued Pag. 243. crossed to Hierusalem Pag. 245. fled Pag. 249. hys treasure drowned Pag. 250 Iohn Eure helde landes in Scotlande Pag. 319 Iohn Kirby hanged Pag. 480 Iohn Ball hanged Pag. 489 Iohn Wraw hanged Pag. 491 Iohn Philpots worthinessâ— Pag. 476. Pag. 479. deceassed Pag. 495 Murder in Westminster Church Pag. 477 Iohn Northamptons sedition Pag. 493 Iohn Holand created Erle of HuntingtoÌ„ Page 507 Iohn Duke of Lancaster entreth Spaine Pag. 500. made Duke of Aquitaine Pag. 510 marryeth Katherine Swinford Pag. 518. dyeth Pag. 530 Iohn Gower Pag. 548 Sir I. Oldeastel coÌ„uict Pag. 584. executed Pag. 599 Iohn Beaufort made Duke of Somerset Page 647 Iohn Dauy loste hys hande in Cheape Page 713 Iohn Duke of Bedford regent of France married Anne daughter to the Duke of Burgoigne Pag. 619 Saint Iohns in Smithfielde suppressed Page 1019 Ione Butcher brent Pag. 1047 Ile of Shepey Pag. 115 Ile of Wight
After them Awburie de Vere Portgraue and Robert de Barquerel Prouost In the time of King Stephen Gilbert Becket Portgraue and Andrew Buchennet Prouost In the time of King Henrie the second Peter Fitz Walter Portgraue After him Iohn Fitz Nigelly Portgraue After him Ernulfus Buchel Portgraue After him William Fitz Isabel Portgraue These Portgraues are also in diuerse Recordes called Vicecomites or Sherifes for that they then farmed the Sherifwike of the King as the Shirifes of London doe at this day Iohn Beuar and some authors as Iohannis Beuar and other do cal them Domes men or Judges of the Kings Court. This yeare the Citizens of London obtayned to be gouerned Baylifes by two Baylifes whiche in diuerse auntiente records are also called Sherifes for that they like as the Portgraues farmed the Sherifewike They also obtained to haue a Maior to be their principal gouernour and lieuetenaunte of the Citie as of the Kings Chamber The names of the first Baylifes or Shirifes who entred at the feast of Saint Michael the Archangell were as followeth Sherifes Henrie Cornehil Richard Reinery Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne Fitz Leofstan Goldsmith The first maior firste Maior of London and continued Maior during his life that was foure and twentie yeares as appeareth by a very antient Recorde sometime pertayning to the Nunrye of Clerkenwel contayning as a perfite register all such Register of Clerkenvvel grauntes of landes as was made to them by anye which hath diuerse déeds where vnto Henrie Fitz Alwyne first Maior of London is a witnesse dated the 1. 2. 3. 4. c. of Richard the first And for a more proofe I finde recorded in the Guilde Hal Consuetud de LoÌ„ in a booke called the Customes of London a constitution or order howe Citizens shall procéede in buildings betwéene Citizen and Citizen whyche constitution begynneth thus In the yere of our Lord. 1189. the first yere of the raigne of king Richard Henry Fitz Alwyne being Maior who was the first Maior of London it was prouided and ordayned c. Other proofes might be shewed out of diuerse auntiente Recordes but these are sufficient King Richard betooke the guiding of this land to William 1190 Gouernour of Englande VVilliam Bishop of Ely King Robert toke his voyage ouer to Ierusalem Geruasius Ypodigma Longshampe Bishop of Ely Chauncellour of England and y â— foure and twentith daye of Februarie he tooke his scrip and staffe at Canturburie and the sixth of Marche toke the Sea at Douer and transported ouer The second of July the two Kings of England of France met at Towers and from thence set forward on their iourney towards Ierusalem The towne of Mawling in Kent with the Nunry was coÌ„sumed with fire The Jewes in the townes of Norwich Saint Edmunds Burie Lincolne Stamforde faire and Linne were robbed and spoyled Ievves slevv themselues And at Yorke to the number of 500. besides women and children entred a tower of the castel which the people assailing the Jews profered money to be in safetie of their liues but the Christians would not take it wherevpon their men of law sayde to them it is better for vs to die for our lawe than to fall into the handes of our enimies and they all agréeing to that Counsell cut the throtes of their wiues and children and cast them ouer the walles on the Christians heades the residue they locked vp in the kings lodging and burnt both the house and themselues Geffrey Archebishoppe of Yorke retourning from Rome Archbishop of of Yorke dravven from the Alter to prison Ralphe Cogshall and now consecrated arriued at Douer with his traine whoÌ„ Matthew de Clare by the commaundemente of the Kings chaunceller entring with violence into the Church of Saint Martins le Grande in London drew from the Alter and so caried him to prison William Bishoppe of Ely builded the vtter wall aboute Anno reg 2. W. Diâ—â—thorne A ditch made about the tovvre of London Richarde Sothwel the Tower of London and caused a déepe ditche to be made about the same thinking he coulde haue caused the riuer of Thamis to goe rounde aboute it but he bestowed great cost in vainâ— Sherifes Iohn Herlion Roger Duke Maior Henrie Fitz Alyne King Richarde subdued the I le of Cipers and then ioyning Mathew Paris Rog Houed Galfâ—idâ—â— Vinisâ—l his power with Phillip the French Kings in Asia conquered Acon where there grewe betwéene the two Kings a gréeuous displeasure for which cause Phillip shortly departed thence and comming into Fraunce inuaded the Country of Normandie Iohn brother to King Richard toke on him the kingdom Arbor Successiâ—nis of England in his brothers absence Robert Earle of Leicester dyed in his iourney to Ierusalem King Richard restored to the Christians the Cittie of Ioppa and in manye battayles putte the Turkes to greate sorrow The bones of the most famous King of Brytaine Arthur 1191 were found at Glastenburie in a goodly olde seâ—ulchre about the which stoode two pillers in which were letters written which by reason of the great barbarousnesse of the laÌ„guage and the foulenesse no body coulde reade vpon the sepulture was a crosse of leade whereon was written here lyeth the Anno reg 3. noble king of Brytains Arthur Sherifes William Hauerell Iohn Bucknote Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne William Bishoppe of Ely did commonlye ride with 500. Iohn the kings brother rebelled horsses and gréeued Abbayes by meane of his lodging wyth them he withstoode Iohn the Kings brother who sayde hée wist not if his brother Richard were aliue or not To whom the Bishop aunswered if King Richard be yet liuing it were vntrueth to take from him the Crowne If he be deade Arthure the elder brothers sonne muste enioye the same King Richarde exchaunged Cipres wyth Guy of Lesingham 1192 Ex anniles â—lieâ— Vita Gâ—â—ngâ— câ—â—â— for the Kingdome of Ierusalem wherefore the King of Englande a long time after was called King of Ierusalem The Bishoppe of Ely legate to the Pope Chauncellour Rogeâ— Houed The Bishoppe put to his shifts Geruasius Doro. of Englande and gouernour of the Realme was forced to take the Tower of London for hys refuge wherein Earle Iohn besieged him at lengthe the Bishoppe getting licence to depart went to Douer but he was there forced to sweare that he woulde not departe the Realme yet béeing in a maruellous disquietnesse of minde he putte off hys mannes apparell put on womans meanyng so to escape whylest hée goeth vppe and downe on the shore bearing a webbe of clothe on hys arme as hée woulde sell it styll wayting for a shippe a sorte of women pulled off his kerchiefe and threwe him to the grounde and after beate hym and drewe hym along the sandes wherevpon great crye beyng made the Burgesies ranne and with muche a doe gotte hym from among them and kepte hym strayghtlye tyll he hadde obtayned licence to departe the Realme Anno
HEnrie born at Winchester the eldest sonne of Iohn of the age of ix yeares began Anno reg 1. his raign the xix of October in the yeare 1216. he was crowned at Gloucester on the xxviij day of October by Peter Bishoppe of Winchester and Iocelyne Byshoppe of Bathe in the presence of Walo the Legate Siluester Byshop of Worcester Ranulph Earle of Chester William Marshall Erle of Penbroke William Erle Ferrers Iohn Marshal Mathew Paris and many other being crowned remained in the custodie of William Marshal Earle of Penbroke by whose meanes al the nobles serued King Henrie much more faithfully than they had his father Bennet Seinturer William Bluntiuers the. 28. Sept. Sherifes Maior Iames Alderman the. 28. of October for part of the yeare and Salomon Basing for the residue Lewes toke the Castels of Berkhamsteede and Heneforde 1217 after returned into Fraunce to fetch more succour and at hys returne besieged Douer in vaine for the Barons of England that had taken part with him going to Lincolne with a great Liber Barnwel army were there taken on the xx day of June which misfortune Liber Col. S. Peter Scala Crom. when Lewes vnderstoode he raised his siege from Douer and came to London and shutte vp all the gates saue one but the Londoners at the comming of king Henries hoste yéelded the Citie to him wherefore he confirmed all the liberties that the Londoners had or were méete to haue at lengthe the barons of Fraunce with one Eustace le Moyne a gret man of Fraunce hauing prepared a nauie of lx ships set forward to come into EnglaÌ„d to y â— aide of Lewes but Hubert de Brugh Conestable of Douer Castel with a multitude of armed men and the ships of y â— fiue Portes met them on the Sea where they slew Eustace their leader there escaped but fiftéen ships al the other wer taken and drowned When Lewes heard this he wist not what to doe wherevppon compelled by necessitie he sued for peace at length the Legate Bishops and nobles of Englande méeting in an I le néere vnto Kingstone they had a treatie of peace togither where the sayde Lewes in presence of them all was released of the excommunication and he renounced she Realme of England and so peace was restored the thirtéenth day of September Lewes returned Levves returned into France FroÌ„ the benefit of the absolution and peace wer exempted Bishops Abbots Pryors and of al y e cleargy whyche had borne any fauour or good will to Lewes and the Barons were al depriued from the benefices by the Legate Hugh Bishoppe of Lincolne gaue a thousande marke to the Pope and an hundred marke to the Legate whose example Anno reg 2. many other did follow Thomas Bokerel Ralphe Elland the. 28. of September Sherifes Maior Searle Mercer the. 28. of October Simon de Montfort died at y â— siege of Tholouse being hurt Lib. Barnewel Gualters Coro 1218 with the stroke of a stone Randulph Earle of Chester Saâ—r de Quincie Erle of Winchester William de Albeneto Erle of Arundel William Erle Ferrers with the Barons Robert Fitz Walter Iohn Conestable of Chester and William Harcourt with a greate traine toke their iourney toward Ierusalem Walo the Legate departed toward Rome and Pandolph elected Bishop of Norwich succéeded Legate Anno reg 3 Sherifes Maior 1216 Crom. â—â—iter Nicholas Triuet Earle Marshall dyed Anno reg 4. Iohn Viell Iohn le Spicer the 28. of September Searle Merceâ— the 28 of October William Marshal the elder Earle of Penbroke gouernor of the kings person and of the realme died and was buryeâ— at London in the New Temple the xv of Apryll after whose death the kyng was gouerned by Peter Byshop of Winchester Richard Wimbledon Iohn Viell the 28. of Septemb. Sherifes Maior King Henry câ—ovvned Searle Mercer the 28. of October King Henry was crowned at Westminster by Stephen Langton Archbyshop of Canturbury on the. xvij daye of May Hubert de Burgo was made the kings chiefe Justice The new worke of our Ladies Chappell at Westminster Nevve vvorke of VVestminster Straungers banished was begunne by kyng Henry Proclamation was made that all straungers shoulde â—â—oyde the realme except such as came with Marchaundise and to make sale of them vnder the kings safeconduct Ranulphe the thirde Earle of Chester Lincolne and Richmond Castels of Chart ley and Bestrne buylded Abbey of Delacrosse Annoreg 5. Sherifes Maior 1231 Nicho. Treâ— Antiq. Calend. in Bristollia and Lorde of Little Brytaine came out of the holy land into England and builded the Castels of Carteley Bestone and the Abbey of Delacrosse Richard Renger Iohn Viell the 28. of Septemb. Searle Mercer the 28. of October The Frier Preachers thirtéene in number were sente into Englande and hauing to their Prior Gilbert de Fraxineto in company of Beter de Roche Bishop of Winchester came to Canturbury and there presenting themselues before the Archbishoppe Stephen he commaunded the saide Prior tâ— preach before him and lyked him so well that he euer aâ—â—â— loued their order On Saint Laurence day they came to London and so to Oxford on the day of the Assumption in whose hoâ— or they builded an Oratorie and also those Schooles which since were called Saint Oxwards schooles in whose parishe they tooke a place and there for a time remayned and after that remoued to the place without the walles whyche the king assygned them King Henry subdued the Welchmen which rebelled The Noblemen graunted to the king twoo Markes of 〈…〉 of euery hide of lande Isabell the kyngs mother without making hir sonne or Nicho. Triuet his Counsell priuy to hir purpose wente ouer into Fraunce and there married with the Erle of March Hugh Bronne King Henry gaue his sister Iane to Alexander k. of Scots who married hir at Yorke and Hubert de Brugh married the king of Scots sister William de Albeneto Erle of Arundel â—yed comming from the holy Land who was conueyed into England and buried at Wimondham a Priory of his fouÌ„dation Anno reg 6 Sherifes Maior 1222 Prouinciall Counsell Radulphus Cog. Gual Couen Lib. Bermond Richard Renger Thomas Lambert the 28. of Septemb. Searle Mercer the 28. of October A Prouinciall Counsell was holden at Oxforde by Stephen Langton Archbishop of Canturbury and his Suffâ—agan Byshops and others in the conuentuall Church of Osney xv days after Easter wher wer degraded a Priest a Deacon the Priest for homicide the Deacon for sacriledge and theft committed An other Deacon offending more déepely denyed the profession of Christian Religion and for the loue hée â—are fo a Jewish woman caused himselfe to be circumcised folowing the Jewish rytes and customes he was degraded An Apotestate brent A counterfaite Christ and beyng left as a lay person and Apostata was condemned and committed to the fyre by the seruaunts of Falcatius wherein he miserably ended his life
Valoys layde out in the warres of Gascoigne Thirdly he sayde that he was a friend and louer of iustice and equitie whiche he woulde neuer swarue from neyther for friendship nor affinitie but he woulde by all meanes he could molest and vex all breakers of the peace of the Kingdome of Scotland for saith he there shall neuer be perfecte peace and quietnesse among Christians before the King of Fraunce sitte in place of Judgement for the right of the Kingdomes of France England and Scotland Iohn Kingston Walter Turke the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Reignald at Conduct Vintner the 28. of October Part of the Uniuersitie of Oxford wente to Stamforde Ro. de Auesbery bycause of a variance that fell betwéene the Northerne and Southerne Schollers Upon Saint Clements night through abundance of waters Anno reg 9. but specially in the Thamis all the Cattell and beastes néere therevnto were drowned and the land made 1335 vnfruitefull by salte waters King Edwarde had a tenth of the Cleargie and also â—â— the burgesses and a fiftéenth of the commons About the feast of Pentecost he helde a Parliament at Parliament at Northampton Tho. de la More Northampton where leauing the Prelates states and commons debating about matters himselfe secretely rode to Berwike and there taking with him a few men of armes he went to Saint Iohns Towne whiche he strengthned wyth trench and rampire and sente his Earles with the King Conquerour to make an inrode vpon the Countrey and to sée what Scottes they could finde would resist them but Ro. de Auesbery none durst abide their comming but hidde themselues in hilles wooddes and marishes and in the meane tyme many Earles and Barons came and submitted themselues to King Edward vpon conditions as followeth These be the poyntes agréed betwixt the counsell of the Kings of England and Scotland on the one partie and Alexander Mowbrey Geffrey Mowbrey Godfrey de Roos William Bulloke and Eustace de Loreyne hauing full power from Dauid Stravulgi Earle of Dassels and Robert Steward of Scotland to treate accorde and affirme all poyntes enterparled and to be enterparled betwixt the sayde Kings and the Earle and Stewarde as appeareth by their letters patents of eyther partie First it is accorded that the sayd Earle Dassels the great men and all other of the communaltie of Scotlande whiche shall come in the same conditions shal haue life and member lands and tenements fées and offices within Scotland which they ought to haue by inheritance or right those except which shall be surprised by common assent Item that they shall be pardoned of emprisonmente and of all manner trespasses by them done in the Realmes of England and Scotland from the beginning of the world vnto the date of these presents Item the Earle Dassels and Alexander Mowbrey shall haue landes tenementes possessions and fées in Englande which they had at their departure after the homage done at Newcastell vpon Tine Item that the franchises of the Churche in Scotlande shall be mainteyned after the auntiente vsage of Scotlande Item that the lawes of Scotland in Borough Townes Shriuewikes within the landes of the King of Scotlande be vsed after the antient vsages and custome of Scotland as they were vsed in the dayes of King Alexander Item that the offices of Scotland be ministred by people of the same Nation yet notwithstanding that alwayes the king of Scotland may put such officers in as shal please him of what nation soeuer they be Item that all those that within the conditions of the Earle Dassels haue landes within the landes of the King of England in Scotland shall haue agayne the same landes tenements possessions offices and fées as they had them at their departure after their homage done at Newcastell vpon Tine except those that shall be forprised by common assent Item that if they be empleded for their landes and tenements aâ—oresayd that they haue their defences and recoueries in Court where they ought to haue Item as touching the demaund which the Earle Dassels claymeth that the King of England ought to acquite his lands in England which he hath in gage for eyght hundred markes the King neyther ought nor will do it but as touching the Manour of Byphingdone which the said Earle layd to pledge for two hundred and fiftie poundes it is accorded that if the sayde Earle do come within one yeare after the date of these presents and will acquite the Manoure the King shall cause that hée haue the same Manoure Item as touching the Castell and Lands of Chilham it is accorded that the sayde Earle be in the same point that hée was before at hys departure and haue hys recouerie by lawe and the Kyng promiseth in good fayth that he will cause that he may haue the land without delaying eyther partie And touching the lands which the sayde Earle claymeth to haue in Norffolke of the which he hathe Charters it is accorded that hys Charteâ—â— béeyng séene of the Kinges Counsell he wyll doe reason â—â—em that in case any man surmise treason vpon the sayd Earle he may defend himselfe by his body according to the lawes and vsages of Scotland and on the marchâ—â— and that all those that be within these conditions haue the like graunt Item as to the pardon which William Ramsey Knight demandeth for the trespasse by him done to William Lorde Mountagew to wéete for beating downe his Castell of Haghtordone the same William shall be readie to do according to that that shall be aduised by the Kings of England and Scotland Item that the sayd Stacie de Lorayne haue his landes and tenements which he ought to haue within the Realme of Scotland and if any man haue trespassed towardes him he shall haue his recouerie by law Written at S. Iohns Towne in Scotlande the eightéenth of August Anno 1335. Walter Mordon Richard Vpton the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Nicholas Wutton the 28. of October Phillip Quéene of England did beare hir second sonne named Wyllyam at Hatfielde who shortlye after dyed Aboute the feast of the Epiphany the King and the Anno reg 10 Archbishoppe returned out of Scotland to the buryall of Iohn of Eltham Earle of Cornewall brother vnto the King who deceassed at Berwike in the moneth of October and was buryed at Westminster At whiche time 1336 Parliament at London Duke and Erles created W. Sheepeshed the King kepte a Parliamente at London whiche beganne on the Monday after Saint Matthies day and on the firste Sundaye in Lente hée made hys eldest sonne Edwarde Earle of Chester and Duke of Cornewall Tho. de la More He made also sixe other Earles Henry of Lancaster sonne to Henry Earle of Lancaster Earle of Darby Hugh Audley Earle of Glocester William Bohune Earle of Northhampton William Montacute Earle of Salisburie William Clinton Earle of Huntingdon Robert Vffurd Earle of Suffolke to the which Robert he at that time gaue the manor of
theyr horsse féete but these performed not that whiche was commaunded them as it appeared by the sequele thereof The armies being set in a readinesse on both sides for to fighte early on Sonday in the morning which was notable fayre beholde there came the Cardinall of Petragoren and charged the prince in the name of God who was crucified that it mighte please him to deferre the warre for a tyme both for ecclesiasticall peace and also for the sparing of Christian bloud and to the ende there might be a treatie had of peace the whiche he promised shoulde be performed wyth great honour on both sides The Prince neyther feared nor refused peace but modestly agréed to the request of this Father All this day nowe being appointed for the obtaynyng of peace the army of the French men encreased by the number of a thousande men of armes and also of other On the morrowe after the Cardinall came againe from the Frenche king in his behalfe to request a truce which should endure for one whole yeare the whiche the Prince denyed yet at the importunate sute of that Cardinal he graunted a truce to continue till Christmasse next comming Therefore the Cardinall returning to the Frenche King requested him of pledges for the truce but the Marshall Dawdenam Geffrey de Charney Douglas the Scot perswaded him that by common reason it coulde not come to passe that the English men shoulde at that time preuayle and especially bycause they were but fewe and in a straunge Countrey wearyed out miserably with their toyle in trauel therefore not ableto indure so great a number of the French men of Fraunce who stood in defence of theyr own lande The Prince of Wales being certified that the Captaines of the French wold haue no kind of peace but such as they could get by force of armes calling his men togither he made to them an Oration first in generall and then to his Archers as followeth your māhoode saith he hath bin alwayes known to me in great dāgers which sheweth y t you are not degenerate frō true sons of English men but to be descended from the bloude of them which heretofore were vnder my fathers dukedome his predecessors kings of Englande vnto whome no labour was paineful no place inuincible no ground vnpassable no Hil wer it neuer so high inaccessible no tower vnscaleable no army inpenitrable no armed souldiour or whole hostes of men was formidable Their liuely couragiousnesse tamed the French men the Ciprians the Siracusians the Galabrians the Plestinis and brought vnder the stiffe necked Scottes and vnruely Irish men yea and the Walsh men also which could wel indure all labour Occasion time and daungers maketh of feareful verye strong and stoute and doeth manye times of dull witted men make wittie honour also and loue of the Countrey and the desire of the rich spoyle of the French men doth stirre you vp to follow your fathers steps Wherefore follow your auntients and wholy be intentiue to follow the commaundement of your Captaines as well in minde as in body that if victorie come with life we may still continue in firme friendship togither hauing alwayes one will and one minde but if enuious Fortune whych God forbidde shoulde let vs at this presente to runne the race of all fleshe and that we ende both life and labour togither be you sure that your names shall not want eternall fame and heauenly ioy and we also with these gentlemen our companions wyll drinke of the same cuppe that you shal doe vnto whom it shal be an eternal glorie and name to haue wonne the nobilitie of Fraunce but to ouercome as God forbid is not to be ascribed vnto the daunger of time but to the courage of the men Hauing spoken these words he perceyued that there was a Hill harde by whiche was planted on the toppe with hedges and ditches the inside whereof was very playne and a pasture fielde on the one side thereof with manye roughe bushes and on the other side it was all planted with vines and the residue was playne in the top wherof he did imagine the armye of the French to lye betwixt our men and the Hil. There was gret and lowe vallyes and a péece of marish ground One company of the Prince finding out a narrowe passage entred the valley and toke the Hyll where among the bushes they hidde themselues taking the aduantage of the place The fielde wherein our men laye to witte the vawarde and middle warde was deuided from the playne where the Frenche armye laye with a long hedge and ditche the one ende whereof dyd reache downe to the Marishe aforesayde that of the Hyll nexte the Marishe the Earle of Warwicke kept Captaine of the vawarde In the vpper part of the hedge toward the hanging of the Hil there was a gret gap from the whiche a stones cast stoode our rereward ouer the whiche the Earle of Salisburie was Captayne Oure enymies perceyuyng oure Princes auntiente to bée displayed and ofttymes to bée remoued from place to place and by reason of the Hill to be some time quite out of sighte they iudged that the Prince fledde yet Douglas the Scotte and Marshal de Clarimount sayde that it was not so but Marshal Dawdenam being deceiued in his owne opinion thought otherwise crying out still to followe and chase the Prince now fléeing and with him also Douglas to the intēt to get preferment and a worthy name of his new warfare but Clarimount to washe awaye the euill opinion whiche was conceyued of him touching his fidelitie was the more vehement to perswade them forwarde for vnto them the charge of the vawarde was deputed before these went out as the fashion was certaine to chase and to iuste againste whom certain that wer vnder the Hill of our vaward came to méete Marshal Dawdenam who staying to sée the end of the iusting kept himselfe from encountring In the meane time Clearimount thinking to come out by the gap in the hedge and so to come at the backe of our vawarde and to compasse them in met with the Earle of Salisburie who perceyuing his comming and purpose suspected his whole intent and so they whiche gouerned our rereward making haste to take the gap and kéepe the enimie from passing that way sustayned the first charge of the battayle Then began a terrible méeting betwixte the armed menne who laide on loade with swordes and speares neyther dyd the Archers slacke theyr duetie but lying in safe trenches start vp aboue the ditche and shot ouer the hedge preuayling more with their arrowes than they did that fought in armes thus our rerewarde slaying the enimies who came stragling to the gap and the vawarde which lay on the hanging of the Hil towarde the Marish being gouerned by the Earle of Warwicke were alwayes readye and met with the French men beating them downe The Archers of the vawarde were placed in the Marishe out of daunger from
the horssemen yet for al that they did preuaile there somewhat for y e horsemen were appointed to no other purpose but to ouerrunne the Archers The Earle of Oxforde considering the discommodity that might ensue therof departed from the Princes ward and leading with him the Archers sette them on the one side of the French men commaunding them to shoote at y t hinder partes of the horsses by meanes whereof the horsses being gauld and wounded fel to tumbling with them that sat on their backes or else turned backe and ran vpon them that followed after making great slaughter vpon their own maisters The horssemen being thus beaten backe the Archers retyred towardes the place from whence they came shooting gauling the sides of the French men which fought right ouer against them by this time the force and heate of the battayle beganne to be in prime when as the Earles of Warwicke and Salisburie like fierce Lions endeuored of purpose which of them shold dung the land of Poyters most with French mens bloud Nether was the wise Counseller Thomas Dassord of Suffolke ydle at that season who righte worthylie in all his actes behaued himselfe being experte and skilfull in actiuitie For he continually running from ward to warde and into all troupes and companies comforted styrred them vp with good words to doe well hauing a gret regarde that the youthfull sorte of lustie souldiours beyng to bolde vppon their good heartes and courage shoulde not without regarde go out too farre and placed the Archers at sundry times to great aduantages and oftentimes as leasure would suffer him he woulde encorage vp the minds of the souldiours Clarimount was slaine William Dowglas also being wounded fledde hauing with him a fewe Scots of hys bande with Archebald Dowglas hys brother our men retiring put themselues in good array and our vaward and midle-warde ioyned themselues togither by and by there marcheth forth a newe armye of the French men the whiche the eldest son of the French king Dolphin of Vienna brought forth The order and array of this army was more terrible fierce than the shewe of that which was last oppressed yet for al that coulde not it make our men afrayde who were sharp set and very desirous of honor also of reuenge both for themselues their fellowes whiche a little before were slayne and wounded And therefore boldely they goe to it on both sides makyng showts and noyses crying out Saint George to borrow or Saint Denis be for vs. Within a while they were come to fight man to man euery man readye to dy fight now to saue theyr lyues neither doth y e Lion make the Wolf afraid or the Tegre is more terrible to the simple beast than our lusty gentlemen were to their enimies who chaced them slew them like as the Wolues chace kil Shéepe And though that this battel withstood our men more than the firste yet after they had lost a great many of their men they had suche a deuise that they saued manye and yet not by running away but by a faire retreate whiche the Frenchmen are accustomed to vse But our men considering that the victorie of the field was doubtful as long as the French King mighte be in presence wyth his armye who lay there halfe hid in a Ualley they woulde not afterward when they had chaced any that fled go out of the field but the worthy man Maurice Barkley son of Thomas Barkley had no regard there vnto who for y e space of two houres togither with his men neuer spared but wold be stil in the forefront of the battayle inuading his enimies w t the firste This Maurice being in y e midst of y â— Dolphens guard sowed blowes among them first with a speare than with a sword at length he being al alone compassed w t the multitude forely wounded he was taken prisoner In the meane time our meÌ„ carryed those which were wounded of their camp laide theÌ„ vnder bushes hedges out of y â— way other hauing spent their weapons toke y â— speares swords froÌ„ them whoÌ„ they had ouercome the Archers lacking arrowes made hast to draw them froÌ„ pore wretches y â— were but halfe dead there was not one of theÌ„ all but eyther he was wounded or quite wearied with gret labor except 400. meÌ„ who kéeping y t chief standart wer appointed to méete y â— French king The Dolphin being thus put to flight one came to y â— Frenche K. sayd my Lord K. the field is fallen to the English men and your eldest son hath withdrawen himself vnto whoÌ„ y â— FreÌ„ch King answered with an othe y â— he would not y â— day forsake y â— field vnlesse he were taken or slain so by y â— means carried away by force wherfore the auntiente bearers are coÌ„maÌ„ded to march forwards after whoÌ„ followed two gret coÌ„panyes of armed meÌ„ into a wide fielde shewing themselues to our men struck a gret feare into their heartes in so much y â— they were out of hope to conquire any more The whyche thing a maÌ„ of great wisedome standing by y e prince signified w t a howling voyce saying alas we poore wretches are ouercome but the prince hauing a great trust and saith in Christ checked him saying thou liest thou dastardly fellow for thou canst not say y t we can be ouercome as loÌ„g as I liue Captain de la Buche a noble man in al affayres as soone as he perceyued the armes of the French King marching forth of their tentes asking licence of the Prince departed awaye with lx souldiours and a hundred Archers whom many of our men thought to haue fled away wherfore our souldiors excepting the chiefe Captaines being quite out of hope of victorie committed theÌ„selues wholy to the mercie of God Then the Prince coÌ„manded his Auntient bearer sir Walter Woodland to march foreward toward his enimies and w t aâ—ew fresh men he ioyned battayle with y e gret army of the French king by by they sounde their trumpets one giuing answere to another they made suche a noyse y â— the Wals of Poyters souÌ„ded w t the Eccho therof like a wood in such sort y â— a man would haue thought y â— the hils had bellowed out to y e valleys that y e clouds had giueÌ„ forth a most terrible thuÌ„der to y e which ther waÌ„ted no cruel lightnings whylest the ayre shone on y e bright armour spears dashing against shining harneis TheÌ„ came on the cruel coÌ„pany of crosbowmeÌ„ making a darknesse in y â— sâ—ies with y t multitude of quarels which they shot against whoÌ„ came a worthy coÌ„pany of English bowmen out flyes also Darts of Ashe which met w t the enimy afar off but y e FreÌ„ch army being ful of diuers troups many armed meÌ„ defeÌ„ding their brests with their shields procéede forwarde againste their enimies wherefore oure Archers hauing
from his subiectes by such petitions or demaundes but liue of his owne and continue his warre for as it was aunsweared there his owne goods pertayning to the crowne sufficed both to the finding 1378 of his house and mayntayning of his warres of the same were bestowed by fitte ministers and for the kéeping of the money two Citizens of London were appointed William Walworth and Iohn Philpot. The English men hearing of a number of Spanishe shippes to remayne at sluce for wante of winde assembling a great companye of armed men and a great nauie meant to take the seas their chiefe Captaynes were Thomas of Woodstocke Erle of Buckingham the duke of Brytaine the Lord Latimer the Lord Robert Fitz Walter sir Robert Knowles and many other valiaunt personages who being entred the Sea tasted Fortune disfauourable for by a tempestuous winde that rose theyr shippes were scattered in sunder theyr mastes are broken downe theyr sayles rent and many of the small vessels that were victuallers were drowned at length the shippes got togither againe and arriued in Englande and being nowe rigged are eftsoones freight with men and to the Sea they go About y â— same time sir Hugh Caluerley making a iourney towards Bulloign found a Barge in y â— hauen of y e town y â— bare y e name of the towne another that was the French Kings a xxvj other vessels more and lesse all the which with a great part of the suburbes of Bulloigne he caused to be dispoyled taking with him whatsoeuer was there to be desired with certayne prisoners he droue afore him also a gret bootie of shéepe and beastes whiche he founde pasturing néere the towne which might well serue to victuall Caleis for a great time he recouered the same day the castel Marke of which through negligence before had bin lost The English fléete whereof we spake returned without any great good successe they toke an eyght Spanish shippes in the Brytish coastes neare to Brest and more had takeÌ„ if there businesse had bin so well done as was pretended and therefore the fléete returned home so tossed with stormes and contrarie weather and after with intestine discorde that it séemed there wanted among them gods fauour The Lorde Percy this fléete remaining for the mending of his shippes whilest the other were abrode went now to the sea wyth a great ship and some smaller vessels and méeting with fiftie ships laden with French wares and marchandize of whiche some were of Flaunders some of Spaine he set on them al who beholding his bolde enterprice and thinking that he hadde some ayde at hande gaue ouer to make resistaunce and so xxviij escaping by flight xxij yéelded themselues to the sayd Thomas Lord Percy Sir Hugh Caluerley with a power secretly armed wente to the towne of Staple where the fayre was then to the which were come manye Merchauntmen from Bulloigne Mutterel Amience and Paris where he falling on them that were vnarmed slewe many toke many to be put to their ransomes sacked al the goods and set fire in the town so that it was wholy consumed few places excepted This done he returned to Caleis with his men in safetie bringing from that faire wares which turned to the greate profit of the Calisians many yeares after The men of Winchelse and Rie gathered a gret number of people togither and imbarqued themselues towardes Normandie desirous to requite y e losses which before they had receiued and so in the night arriuing in a Town called Peters Hauen entred the same slaying so many as they met those whom they thinke able to pay raunsome they carry to their shippes they spoyled the houses with the Churches where they founde many rich spoyles which sometime had bin by the French men fet from Ric and especially the belles and such like which they shipped set the rest on fire and theÌ„ they land at Wilet not far from thence wher they practised y e like cheuance so with theyr riche spoyle returned home About the same time Iohn duke of Lancaster requested y e y e mony granted to the K. by y e cleargie laitie might be coÌ„mitted to his custodie affirming y t he would kepe y e enimies of from the coastes of England by the space of one yeare with y t mony moreouer bring to passe some further great commoditie to whose importunate petitioÌ„ the Lords although against theyr willes agréed They appoint therfore y e firste day of Marche to méete in counsel in which euery of those shold go forth on this iourney least y e sea should in y e mean time want those y â— shold kéepe it there wer ix ships hired of theÌ„ of Baion to defend y e sea land froÌ„ incursions of the FreÌ„ch others These ships being furnished with sufficieÌ„t nuÌ„bers of armed meÌ„ w ein a short time coasting y e seas met the nauy marchandice of y e Spaniards entring battayle with them in short time take xiiij of their ships laden w t wines other marchandize returne to England ioyfully vnto sir Robert Knowles captain of Brest they giue the firste fruites of theyr pray an C. tunne of their beste wines as they passed by him homewardes In the meane time Henrie y e bastard calling himself King of Spain hearing y â— they of Baion had done such harme vnto his people that the D. of LaÌ„caster had prepared a gret nuÌ„ber to enter y e sea he was sore afraid thinking y e he minded not only to defeÌ„d the sea but rather to séeke his kingdome which by right of his wife y e lawful inheritour of Spaine he ment to chalenge wherfore y e said Henrie coÌ„manded a nauie to be prepared of al his land y t he might stay the said D. from entring his country if he might to take him prisoner which happily they had done if y e king of Portingale w t almost an inumerable nuÌ„ber had not entred y e kingdome of Spain y e self same time y t the bastard Henrie prepared him selfe against y e D. but the D. deferring his iourney from day to day they y â— wer appointed captains ouer the nauie w e certain meÌ„ of war got theÌ„ to y e sea there to stay for the Dukes comming estéeming it more glorious to liue on the sea by prayes taking froÌ„ the enimies than to liue by spoile of their owne countreymen at home When they had certain dayes waâ—ted vp downe the Seas the Spaniardes met with them with an armed company of men so that either part in hope of pray ioyned togyther in fighte but oure menne hauyng the winde and weather contrary to them lost the victory to theyr enimies some escaping by flight and some being taken amongst the which sir Hugh Courtney a noble Knight was one About the same time Iohn Mercer a Scotte gathering togither no small number of French men Scots and Spaniards set vpon certaine ships of Scaborow
fewe euill disposed persons by whose meanes the common people was gréeuously oppressed and the communaltie greatlye impouerished of whome he named the Duke of Somerset to be the principal c. And further to vnderstande of the Dukes meaning by this his forcible entring of the Realme as himselfe pretended may appeare by certaine letters by him written to the King and also the Kings aunsweares to the same both whiche I thinke good here to set downe as I finde them recorded PLease it your highnesse to coÌ„ceiue that sith my departing Richard Duke of Yorke his letter to King Heâ—rie out of this your Realm by your commandement and being in your seruice in your land of Ireland I haue bin informed that diuerse language hath bene sayde of me to your moste excellente estate whiche shoulde sounde to my dishonour and reproch and charge of my person howe be it that I aye haue bene and euer will be your true liegeman and seruaunt and if there be any man that wyll or dare say the contrarie or charge me otherwise I beséech your rightwisenesse to call him before your high presence and I wyll declare me for my discharge as a true Knighte ought to do and if I doe not as I doubt not but I shall I beséech you to punishe me as the poorest man of your lande And if hée bée founde vntrue in his suggestion and information I béeséech you of your highnesse that he be punished after his desert in example of all other Please it youre excellence to knowe that as well before my departyng out of thys your Realme for to goe into your Lande of Irelande in your full noble seruice as sith certaine persons haue lyne in awayte for to hearken vppon me as Syr Iohn Talbot Knighte at the Castell of Holte Syr Thomas Stanley Knighte in Cheshire Pulforde at Chester Elton at Worcester Brooke at Gloucester and Richarde grome of your Chamber at Beaumarres whyche hadde in charge as I am enformed for to take me and putte me into youre Castell of Conway and to strike of the heade off Syr William Oldehall Knighte and to haue put in prison Sir William Deuereux Knight and Sir Edmond Malso Knyghte withouten enlarging vntyl the time that your highnesse had appointed theyr deliueraunce Item at such tyme as I was purposed for to haue arriued at youre hauen of Beaumarres for to haue come to youre noble presence to declare me your true man and subiecte as my duetie is my landing was stopped and forbarred by Henrie Norres Thomas Norres William Bulkeley William Grust and Bartholmew Boulde your officers in Northwales that I should not lande there nor haue victuall nor refreshing for mée and my fellowshippe as I haue written to your excellence here before so farre for the that Henrie Norres deputye to the Chamberlayne of Northwales sayde vnto me that hée hadde in commaundemente that I shoulde in no wise haue landing refreshing nor lodging for men nor for horsse nor other thyng that myghte turne to my worshippe or ease puttyng the blame vppon William Saye Usher of your Chamber saying and affyrmyng that I am against youre intente and as a Traytoure as I am informed and moreouer certaine letters were made and delyuered vnto Chester Shrewesburie and to other places for to lette myne entrye into the same Item aboue all wrongs and iniuries aboue-sayde done vnto me of malice wythout any cause I beyng in your lande of Irelande in youre honourable seruice certayne commissions were made and dyrecte vnto diuerse persons whiche for the execution of the same satte in certayne places and the Juries empaneled and charged to the whiche iniuries certayne persons laboured instauntlye to haue me endited of treason to the intente for to haue vndone me and myne issue and corrupted my bloude as it is openlye publyshed beséeching your Maiestie Royall of your ryghteousnesse to doe examyne these matters and therevppon to doe suche Iustice in his behalfe as the cause requyreth for mine inteÌ„t is fully to pursue to your highnesse for the conclusioÌ„ of these matters COosin we haue séene the byll that yée tooke vs late and Ansvvere of King Henric to the Duke of Yorke also vnderstand y â— good huÌ„ble obedience that yée in your selfe shewe vnto vs as well in worde as in déede wherfore our intente is the more hastily to ease you of suche things as were in your sayde Bil. How be it that at our more leysure we might aunswere you to your sayde Byll yet we let you wit that for the causes aforesayde we will declare you now our intent in these matters sith it is that a long time among the people hath bene vpon you many straunge language and in especial anone after your disordinate and vnlawfull slaying of the Bishoppe of Chester diuerse and manye of the vntrue shipmen and other sayde in their maner words against our estate making manace to our own person by yoursayings that yée shoulde be fetched with many thousandes and yée should take vpon you that whiche yée neyther oughte nor as we doubt not yée will not attempt so farre forth that it was sayde to our person by diuerseâ— especiallye we remember of one Wasnes whyche hadde like words to vs. And also ther was diuerse of such false people that went on had like language in diuerse of our townes of our lande whiche by our subiectes were taken and duely executed wherefore we sente to diuerse of our Courtes and places to hearken and to take héede if any such manner coÌ„myng were and if there had bin for to resist it but comming into our lande our true subiecte as yée did our intente was not that ye nor lesse of estate of our subiectes nor none of youre seruauntes shoulde not haue bin letted nor warned but in goodly wise receyued howe be it that peraduenture your sodaine comming without certayne warnyng caused oure seruauntes to do as they dyd considering the causes aboue sayde And as to the enditement that yée spoke of we thinke verily and holde for certaine warning caused our seruaunts to doe as they did considering the causes aboue sayde And as to the enditemente that yée spoke of we thinke verylye and holde for certaine that there was none suche And if ye maye truely proue that any person was thereaboutes the matter shall be demeaned as the case shall require so that he shall know it is to our greate displeasure Upon thys for the easing of your hearte in all such matters we declare repute and adnâ—tte you as our true aud faythful subiecte and as your faythfull Coosin PLease it your highnesse tenderly to consider that greate Richard Duke of Yorke to K. Henrie againe murmur grudging is vniuersally in this your realm in that Iustice is not duely ininistred to suche as trespasse offende against your lawes and in especial of them that be endited of treason and other being openly noised of y â— same whereby greate inconueniences haue fallen and greate is like
of the same Indenture And not apply your sayde blessednesse ne the great righteousnesse and equitie wherewith God hath euer endued your high nobilitie to y e importune impacience and violence of such persons as intende of extreme malice to procéede vnder the shadowe of your high might and presence to our destructioÌ„ for suche inordinate couetise wherof God is not pleased as they haue to our Landes Offices and goods not letting or sparing therefore to put suche things in all lamentable and too sorrowfull ieoperdie as might in all wyse take effecte by the mysterie of Gods will and power nor not hauing regarde to the effusion of Christian bloud ne any tendernesse to the noble bloud of this Land such as serue to the tuition and defence thereof ne not waying the losse of your true liege men of your saydo Realme that God defend which knoweth our intent and that wée haue auoyded there from as farre as we may with our suerties not of any dreade that wée haue of the sayde persons but onely of the dreade of God of your said highnesse and will not vse our sayde defence vntil the time that wée be prouoked of necessitie whereof wée call heauen and earth vnto witnesse and recorde and therein beséeche God to be our Judge and to delyuer vs according to our sayde intent and our sayde trueth and duetie to your said highnesse and to the sayde Common Weale Most Christian King right high and mightie Prince and most dread Soueraigne Lorde wée beséeche our blessed Lorde to preserue your honour and estate in ioye and felicitie Written at Ludlowe the. x. day of October R. Yorke R. Warwike R. Salisburie After their excusation contayned in this letter sent to the King they withdrewe them and went into diuers partes beyond the Seas for the more suertie of their persons The Duke of Yorke went into Ireland where he was honorably receyued the Earle of Marche Salisburie and Warwike not without great ieoperdie and perill as well on the lande as on the sea went to Calleis and abode there Then was a Parliament holden at Couentrie wherein Parliament at Couentrie were attaint of treason Richard duke of Yorke Edward Erle of Marche his sonne and heire Richard Earle of Warwike Edmond Earle of Rutlande Richard Earle of Salisburie Iohn Duke of Yorke other attaint Lorde Clifford Lorde Clinton sir Thomas Harington sir Iohn Wenlocke Thomas Neuill Iohn Neuill sonnes of the Earle of Salisburie Iames Pickering Iohn Conyers Thomas Par William Oldhall and Henrie Ratforde Knightes Iohn Bowser Thomas Cooke Iohn Clay Richard Gyton Robert Browne Edward Bowser Thomas Vaughan Iohn Roger Richard Grey Walter Deuorux Walter Hopton Roger Kynderton William Bowes Foulke Stafforde the Lorde Powys and Alice Countesse of Salisburie their goods and possessions escheted and their heires disherited vnto the 9. degrée their tenauntes spoyled of their goods bemaymed Ludlovv spoyled and slayne the towne of Ludlowe longing to the Duke of Yorke was robbed to the bare walles and the Dutches of Yorke spoyled of hir goods The Earle of Warwike hauing a great Nauie kepte the Earle of VVarvvike fought vvith the Spaâ—â—â— ardes narrow seas and sought with the Spanyards kylled many of them tooke their great vessels with one Carrake of Iene and got in them great riches Iohn Plummer Iohn Stocker the 28. of September Sherifes Maior William Hulin Fishmonger the 28. of October In this moneth of October Henrie the yong duke of Somerset Henry Lorde Roos and Lorde Audley with men of Armes sailed toward Calleis to the intent the Duke shoulde haue bene Captaine there but when he came to lande they Duke of Somerset fled to Gvvynes The Lord Audley taken into Calleis The lord Roos fled into Flaunders of Calleis would haue taken him so that he hardly escaped to the Castle of Gwines his souldiors were stripped out of their harnesse and let go The Lord Audley was taken into Calleis and the Lord Roos fled into Flaunders and after returned into England Not long after Richard Lord Riuers was sent to SaÌ„dwich to kéepe the towne and certaine great ships which lay there at Anker but when the Earle of Warwike sawe time conuenient The Lord Riuers and the Lord VVoodvile by force caried from Sandvvicke he sent some of his men to Sandwich by night y e which tooke the Lorde Riuers and Antonie Wooduile his sonne in their beds led them ouer to Calleis with al the great ships saue one called Grace de Dieu the which might not be had away bicause she was broke in the bottome Sir Baudwyne Fulford vndertooke on paine of loosing his head y t he woulde 1460 Sir Baudvvin Fulford his enterprise destroy y t Earle of Warwike but when he had spent y e King a thousand markes in money he returned againe Then was the Duke of Excester Admirall sent to the sea with a great The Duke of Excester sent to the Seas Nauie for to distresse the Earle of Warwike and his Nauie he sailing from Sandwiche to Dertmouth for lacke of victuals and money his Souldiours forsoke him there And betwéene Sandwiche and Dertmouth he met the Earle of Warwike comming out of Ireland that had bin there for to speake with the Duke of Yorke and brought with him his mother that was sled thither for dread and led hir to Calleis but the Duke of Excester durst not set vppon the Earle of Warwike nor the Earle woulde not distresse him because he was Admirall and of the Kings bloud but let him passe by In y e moneth of June 500. men were sent to conduct the duke of Somerset froÌ„ Gwynes into England but abiding y e wind in y e port of Sandwich y e Earle of Warwikes men spoyled them of their harnes killed their captain MouÌ„ford many other The Earles at Calleis sent to the Archbishop of Caunterburie Captaine MouÌ„t sort slaine and at large to the commons of England certaine Articles in writing beginning thus Worshipful sirs we the Duke of Articles sent froÌ„ the Duke of Yorke and the Barles to the Archbishop of Caunterburie and to the commons Yorke the Earles of March Warwike and Salisburie sewed offered to haue come vnto the King our Soueraigne Lords most noble presence to haue declared there asore him for our dutie to God to his highnesse to the prosperitie and welfare of his noble estate and to the Common Weale of all his Lande as true liege men the matters following that is to say In primis the great oppression extortion robberie murther and other violences done to Gods Church and to his ministers thereof against Gods and mans law 2 Item the pouertie miserie that to our great heauinesse our Soueraigne Lord staÌ„deth in not hauing any liuelode of the Crowne of England whereof he may kéepe his honorable housholde which causeth the spoyling of his sayde liege men by the takers of his sayde housholde which lyuelode is
the Ladye Elizabeth than for lacke of that affinitie the whole Realme shoulde runne to ruyne Wherefore hée sent to the Quéene being in Sanctuarie diuers and often messengers whiche shoulde excuse hym of all things before agaynst hir attempted and after shoulde so largelye promyse promotions not onely to hir but to hir sonne Thomas Marques Dorset that they shoulde bryng hir if it were possible into some wan hope The Messengers so perswaded the Quéene that shée beganne somewhat to reâ—ent in so muche that shée faythfully promysed to yéelde hir selfe to the Kyngs wyll and pleasure And so shée first delyuered vnto Kyng Richardes handes hir fyue daughters Afterwarde shée sent letters to the Marques hir sonne beyng then at Paris wyth the Earle of Richemond wylling hym in any wyse to repayre into Englande where for him were prouided great honours assertayning hym that all offences on both parties were forgiuen and forgotten After that King Richarde hadde thus pleased the mutable mynde of Quéene Elizabeth he caused all hir daughters to bée conueyed into his Palace with solempne receyuing Nowe nothing was contrarie to his purpose â—ut that his mansion was not voyde of a wyfe and first 〈…〉 abstayned both from the bedde and companye of hys wyfe after he complayned to many of the infortunate barrennesse of his wife After this he procured a common rumor to be published among the common people that the Quéene was dead When the Quéen heard tell that so horrible a rumor of hir death was sprong amongst the communaltie she sore suspected the world to be almost at an ende with hir and not long after howsoeuer it fortuned the Quéene departed out of this life and was with due solemnitie buryed at Westminster The King thus losed out of the bonds of Matrimony began to cast a fancie to Lady Elizabeth hys Néece making much suite to haue hir ioyned with him in lawfull Matrimonie but bycause all men and the Mayden hir selfe most of all detested thys vnlawfull copulation hée determined to deferre the matter till he were in a more quiet case for all thys season he was oppressed with weighty affayres on euery syde considering that dayly parte of the Nobilitie sayled into France other priuily fauoured the Earle of Richmond amongst the noble men whome hée most suspected these were the principall Thomas Lorde Stanley Sir Wyllyam Stanley hys brother Gilbert Talbot and sixe hundred other of whose purpose though King Richard were ignorant yet he gaue no credence to any one of them and least of all to the Lord Stanley bycause he was ioyned in Matrimonie wyth the Lady Margaret mother to the Earle of Richmond for when the sayde Lorde Stanley would haue departed into hys Countrey the King in no wyse woulde suffer hym to departe before he had lefte as in hostage Anno reg 3. in the Courte George Stanley Lord Strange his first begotten sonne and heire Whyle Kyng Richarde was thus troubled sodeynely hée hearde newes that the Castell of Hames was delyuered into the handes of the Earle of Richmonde by the meanes of the Earle of Oxford and that not onely he but also Iames Blunt Captayne of the Castell were fledde into France to ayde the Earle of Richmond Henry Earle of Richmond obteyning of King Charles a small crue of men and borowing certayne summes of money of hym and of dyuers other hys priuate friendes hée departed from the French Court and came to the Citie of Roane Whyle he taryed there making prouision at Harefleete in the mouth of the Riuer of Seyne for all things necessarye for hys Nauye tydings were broughte to hym that Kyng Richarde béeyng wythout Children and a Widdower intended shortly to marrye wyth Lady Elizabeth hys brothers daughter whyche newes hée tooke of no small momente for thys thyng onely tooke away from all hys companyous theyr hope to obteyne an happye enterprise by reason whereof hée iudged that all hys friendes in Englande woulde shrinke from him yet notwithstanding Earle Henry of Richmonde bycause he woulde no longer linger and wéerie hys friendes lyuing betwéene hope and feare determined in all hast conuenient to sette forwarde and caryed to hys Shippes armour weapons vitiayle and all other ordinances expedient for warre which béeyng done onely accompanyed wyth two thousande men and a small number of Shyppes weyed vp hys Anckers and in the kalendes of August hée sayled from Harefleete wyth so prosperous a wynde that the seauenth day after Henry Earle of Richmond landed at Milford Hauen hée arriued in Wales in the euening at a Port called Milford Hauen and incontinente tooke lande and came to a place called Dale and at the Sunne rising remoued to Hereford West where he was receyued of the people wyth great ioy From thence he remoued to Cardigan fiue mile from Hereford West whether came to the Earle Richard Griffith with all his men and power After him the same day came Iohn Morgan wyth hys men Then the Earle aduanced forwarde making no abode in anye place and sodeynly hée was ascertayned that Sir Walter Harbert and Rice appe Thomas were in harnesse before hym readye to encounter wyth hys Armye and to stoppe theyr passage Wherefore he first determined to set vpon them and eyther to destroye or to take them into his fauour and after with all hys power to gyue battayle to King Richarde But to the intent his friendes shoulde knowe with what deâ—teritie he attempted his enterprise forwarde he sent messengers with letters and instructions to the Ladye Margaret his mother to the Lorde Stanley and his brother to Talbot and to other declaring to them that he holpe with the ayde of his friendes intended to passe ouer the riuer of Seuerne at Shrewsburie and so to passe directly to the Citie of London requiring them as his speciall trust was in the hope of their fidelitie that they woulde méete him by the waye with all diligent preparation When these messengers were departed he marched forward towardes Shrewsburie in his passage there mette and saluted him Rice ap Thomas with a goodly band of Welchmen which submitted himselfe whole to his order and commaundement In the meane tyme the messengers laden with rewardes returned to him the same daye that he entred into Shrewsburie and made relation to him that his friendes were readie in all poyntes to doe all things for him which they myghte doe The Earle Henrie continued his iourney and came to a little towne called Newporte and pitched his campe on a little hyll adioyning reposing himselfe there that nyghte In the Euenyng of the same day came to him sir George Talbot with the whole power of the young Earle of Shrewsburie then beyng in warde which were accounted ij thousand men And thus his power increasing he arriued at the Towne of Stafforde and there paused To whome came sir William Stanley accompanyed with a fewe persons After that the Earle departed from thence to Lytchfield and lay without the walles in campe all that night The
at sixe pence the bushell Anno reg 10 Bay Salte for thrée pence halfe peny the Bushell Naâ—â—wiche Salte was solde for syxe pence the Bushell white hearring nine shillings the barrel red hearring at thrée shillings the cade red sprots sixe pence the cade and Gascoine wine for sixe poundes the tunne Nicholas Alwine Iohn Warner the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Richarde Chawry Salter the 28. of October Sir Robert Clifford bearing fauor to the house of Yorke had long since sayled ouer to the Lady Margaret Dutchesse of Burgoigne by whome he was there persuaded and broughte in beliefe that one Perken Werbecke a Fleming born was the verye sonne of King Edwarde the fourth but afterwarde béeyng sente for by King Henry and pardon promised him he returned into Englande and comming to the Kings presence in the Tower of London hée on hys knées moste humblye crâ—â—ed pardon which shortely he obtained and after accused manye amongest whome he accused sir William Stanley whome the Kyng hadde made his chiefe Chamberlaine and one of hys priuie Counsaile The reporte is that this was hys offence When communication was had betwéene him and Sir Robert Clifforde as concerning Perken Werbecke sir William Stanley affirmed there y â— he would neuer fight nor beare armor agaynst the yong man if he knowe of a trueth that he was the vndoubted sonne of King Edward the fourth For this offence sir William Stanly was apprehended araigned and on the xvj day of February beheaded on the Tower hill This sir William Stanley was the chiefest helper of King Henrye to the Crowne at Bosworth fielde againste King Richard the thirde He was a man of greate power in his Country and also of great wealth insomuch as the coÌ„mon fame ran that there was in hys Castell of Holâ—e founde in readye coyne plate and Jewels to the value of fortie thousand markes or more and his lande and fées extended to thrée thousand poundes by yeare In Lent white hearring being good were sold for iij. â— 1495 iiij â— the barrell at London Sir W Capel AldermaÌ„ of London was condemned to the king in xxvij C. and xliij pound sterling Croniclâ— of Lond. for the breaking of certain statuts made before times for the which he made his end with the King for xvj C. and fiftéene pounde sixe shillings eight pence Pierce or Perken Werbecke which by the counsaile of Margaret Dutches of Burgoigne named himselfe Richarde of Yorke King Edwards seconde sonne arriued at Deale in KeÌ„t the thirde daye of July where when he and his companye sawe they coulde haue no comforte of the Countrey they withdrewe to their shippes againe at which so withdrawyng the Mayor of Sandwich with certaine commons of the countrey bickered with the residue that were vpon land toke aliue of them an hundred thrée score and nine persons among the which were fiue captaines Mountford Corbert Anno reg 11 Whitbelt Quintine and Gemâ—â—e And the xij of July Iohn Peche Esquier Shriue of Kent brought vnto London bridge thosâ— 169. prisoners where the Shriues of London receiued them and conueyed them in cartes and long ropes vnto the Tower of London and to Newgate who were shortly after to the number of 150. hanged in Kent Essex Sussex and Norfolk the residue were executed at Tiburne Wapping in the Wose besides London Thomas Kneisworth Henry Sommer the. 28. of Septemb. Sherifes Maior Sir Henry Colet Mercer the. 28. of October The. xvj of Nouember was holden the Serieants feast at the Bishops place of Ely in Holborne where dined the King Quéene and all the chiefe lordes of England The new Serieants names were maister Mordant Higham Kingsmill Conisby Butler Yakesley Frowicke Oxenbridge and Constable In digging for to lay a new foundation in the Church of S. Mary hill in London the body of Alice Hackeney which had bene buried in the Church the space of 175. yeares was â—â—â—ud whole of skinne and the iointes of her armes pliable whiche corps was kepte aboue grounde foure dayes without anoyance and then buryed againe In Aprill was concluded an amitie and entrecourse betwéene this lande and the Countrey of Flaunders c. In September the Scots entred England by the setting on of Perkin Werbecke and did much harme to the borders but when they hearde of the Lorde Neuels commyng against them they sped them away Iohn Shawe Richard Haddon the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Iohn Tate Mercer the 28. of October This Iohn Tate newly builded and enlarged Sainte Anthonies Churche in London a goodly foundation with a Fréesâ—hoole and certaine almes houses for poore men Iasper Duke of Bedforde vncle to King Henry the seauenth dyed the eightéenth daye of December and was buried at Kensham By meanes of a payment that was granted to the king 1497 a new commotion was made by the commons of Cornewal whiche vnder the leading of Iames Tuchet of Audley Lorde Audley with Michaell Ioseph a horse farrer or Blacksmith of Bodman and other came to Blackeheath where the Kyng met with them and discomfited the rebels and tooke their Captains the two and twentith of June where were slain of the rebels about 300. and taken aboute 1500. the Kyng gaue to them that tooke them their goodes The Lord Audley was beheaded on the Tower hill the xxviij of June The blacke Smith and Flamoke a lawyer were hanged headed and quartered at Tiburne In July the King sente an army into Scotland vnder the guyding of the Earle of Surrey and the Lorde Neuell which made sharpe warre vppon the Scots At Bartholmewtide in Bedfordshire at the Towne of Haile stones hightene ynches aboute Saint Needes fell haile stones that were measured eightéene ynches aboute Perkin or Pierce Werbecke landed at Whitsondbay in Anno reg 13 Cornewall the seauenth of September hauing in his company not paste a hundred and twentie persons hée wente to Bodman where beyng accompanyed wyth a thrée or foure thousand rascalles and almoste naked men he proclaymed himselfe King Richarde the fourth second sonne to Edward the fourth from thence he wente to Excester and besieged it which Citie was valiantly defended by the inhabitants the Earle of Deuonshire being their Generall who hymself was hurt in the arme with an arrow of the rebels but many of the rebelles béeyng slaine they wythdrewe them to Taunton but sir Giles Dawbeney Lorde Chamberlaine approching with an armye the people fledde and Perkin got him to Beudley where he tooke Sanctuary but vppon couenauntes offered he came to the King and was pardoned his life Bartholomewe Rede Thomas Windought 28. of Sep. Sherifes Maior William Purchas Mercer the 28. of October The eight and twentith of Nouember Perkin Werbeck Perkin VVerbecke broughte vp to London was conueyed vppon horse backe through Cheape and Cornhill vnto the Tower of London and from thence back againe through Candleweeke streate to Westminster with many a cursse and muche wondering The one and twentith
reg 7. the North partes of the Element séemed to be couered wyth flames offyre procéeding towards the middle of the firmament where after it had stayed nigh one houre it descended West and all the same night being the next after the chaÌ„ge of the Moone séemed as light as it had bin daye Sir Richard Mallery Mercer the 28. of October Maior The twentith of Nouember in the morning throughe negligence of a Maiden with a Candle the snuffe falling in an hundred pounde waighte of gunne poulder thrée houses in Bucklerslourie werefore shaken and the Maide dyed two dayes after The dâ—e and twentith of December begasâ—e a Froâ—e The Thaniâ—â—â—rosen ouer whyche â—â—◠〈…〉 so extreamly that on Neweyeres euen people weÌ„t ouer and along the Thamis on the Ice from London bridge to Westminister some played at foote ball as boldely there as if it had bin on the dry land diuers of the Court being then at Westminster shotte dailye at prickes sette vpon the Thamis â— And the people both men and women went on the Thamis in greater number than in anye stréete of the Citie of London On the thirde daye of January at night it beganne to thawe and on the fifth daye was no Ice to bée séene betwéene London bridge and Lambeth whyche caused greate â—loudes and highe waters that bare downe Bridges and houses and drowned manye people in Englande especially Ovves bridge borne dovvne in Yorkeshire Owes bridge was borne away wyth other The thyrde daye of February Henry Stuarte Lord Darloâ—â— Henry Stuarte marryed the Quene of Scots aboute the age of ninetéene yéeres eldest sonne of Mathew Earle of Leunex who wente into Scotlande at Whitsontide before hauing obtayned licence of the Quéenes Maiestie tooke his iorney towarde Scotland accompanied with â—iue of his fathers men where when he came was honorablye receyued and lodged in the Kings lodgings and in the Sommer following marryed Marie Quéene of Scotlande Aboute this time for the Quéenes Maiestie were chosen and sent commissioners to Bruges the Lorde Montacute Knight of the honorable order of the Garter Doctour Wotton one of his Maiesties honorable Counsell Doctor HaddoÌ„onâ—â—â— the Maisters of 〈…〉 to hir highnesse with other 1565 Maister Doctor Aubrey was for the Merchant Aduenturers of Englande They came to Bruges in Lent Anno. 1565. continued there till Michaelmasse followyng and then was the diet prolonged till March in 1566 and the Commissioners returned into Englande The two and twentith of Aprill the Ladye Margaret Lady Liunex sente to the Tovver Countesse of Liunex was commaunded to kéepe hir Chamber at the White hall where she remayned till the xxtj. of June then conueyed by sir Frauncis Knolles the Guard to the Tower of London by water On Midsomer day Donell Mac Cartie More was created Baron of Valencia and afterwarde the same daye Earle of Glankerre at White hall On S. Peters euen at night was the like standing watch VVatche at Midsoâ—uer in London as hadde béene on the same nighte twelue moneths The xvj of July about nine of the clocke at night began Tempest at Chelâ—â—forde a tempest of lightning and thunder wyth showres of haile whyche continued til thrée of the clocke the nexte morning so terrible that at Chelmsforde in Essex 500. acres of corne were destroyed the Glasse windowes on the East side of the Towne and of the Weast and South sides of the church were beaten downe wyth also the tiles of their houses beside dyuers Barnes Chimneys and the battlements of the Churche whiche were ouerthrowen The like harme was done in manye other places as at Leedes Cranebrooke Douer c. Christopher Prince and Margraue of Baden wyth Cicelie Margraue and Marques of Baden his wyfe sister to the King of Swethlande after a long and daungerous iorney wherein they had trauelled almoste xj moneths sayling from Stokeholme crossing the Seas ouer into Lifeland from whence by land they came aboute by Polland Pruscy Pomerland Meckeburge Friseland and so to Antâ—arpe in Brabant then to Callais at the laste in September 〈…〉 at Douer and the xj day of the same they came to London and were lodged at the Earle of Bedfordes place neare vnto Iuie bridge where wythin foure dayes after that is to â—aye the xv of September she trauelled in childe bed and was delyuered of a man childe whyche childe the laste of September was christned in the Quéenes Maiesties chappell of White hall at Westminster the Quéenes Maiestie in 〈…〉 owne person being Godmother the Archebyshoppe of Canterburie and the Duke of Norffolke Godfathers at the câ—riâ—â—â—ing the Quéene gaue the childe to name Edwardus Fortunatus for that God had so gratiously assisted hys mother in so long and daungerous a iourney and brought hir so safe to lande in that place whyche she moste desired and that in so shorte time before hir deliueraunce Iohn Riuers Iames Hawes the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Mariage of the Earle of VVarvvike Sir Richarde Champion â—rapeâ— the 28. of October The eleauenth of Nouember the right honourable Ambrose Earle of Warwike marryed Anne eldest daughter to the Earle of Bâ—dforde for the honor and celebration of whiche noble marriage a goodlye chalenge was made and obserued aâ— â—estminster at the Tâ—â—â— with ech one sixe courses at the Tourney twelue strokes with the Sword thrée pushes wyth the punchion staste and twelue blowes with the Sworde at Barâ—iars or twentie if any were so disposed At tenne of the clocke the same daye a valiant seruiâ—eable Robert Thomas slaine man called Roberte Thomas Maister Gunner of Englande destrous also to honour the feaâ—â— and marriage day in consideration the saide Earle of Warwike was Generall of the Ordinaunce wythin hir Maiesties Realmes and Dominions made thrée traines of great Chambers which terribly yéelded forth the nature of their voyce to the greate astonishment of diuers who at the fyring of the seconde was vnhappilye staine by a péece of one of the Chambers to the greate sorrowe and lameâ—â—ation of many The foure and twentith of December in the mornyng Anno reg 8. there rose a greate storme and tempest of winde by whose rage the Thames and Seas ouerwhelmed many persons and the greate Gates â—â— the Weaste ende of Paules Church in London betwéene the whyche standeth the Brazen Piller Paules Gate blovven open were throughe the force of the winde then in the weasterne parte of the worlde â—loâ—en open In January Mâ—nsâ—eur Raâ—buley â— Knight of the Order Order of Sainte Michaell in Fraunce was sent ouer into Englande by the French King Charles the ninth of that naâ—â—e wyth the Order who â—â— Windsore was stalled in the behalfe of the saide French King wyth the Knighthoode of the moste honorable order of the Garter and the four and twentith of January in the Chaâ—pell of hir Maiesties Pallaice of White â—all the saide Monsieur Rambuley inuested Thomas Duke of Norffolke and Robert Earle of
beheaded Pag. 1165 Earle of Worcester sent into Fraunce robbed on the Sea Pag. 1163 Earle of Essex with others sayled into Ireland Pag. 1174. Captaine general Pag. 1175 Ebbe Abbesse of Coldingham Pag. 121 Edenbourgh builded Pag. 20. yeelded to the Englishmen Pag. 1173. brent Pag. 1029. Edmond King of Eastangles martired by the Danes Pag. 97 Edmond Ironside king Pag. 137 Edrike of Statun the Traytour Pag. 137. 138 Edwine of the West SaxoÌ„s a vicious king depriued Pag. 132 Edgar K. crowned at Bath Pag. 132. restored Monasteries Pag. 133. eyghte kings rowed him Pag. 133 Edwarde sonne to Edgar murthered by his stepmother Pag. 134 Edmonds Burie builded Pag. 140 Edwarde Confessour Pag. 142 Edmonds Burie brent Pag. 245 Edward the first king Pag. 296 Edward the second king Pag. 325. imprisoned Pag. 349. deposed Pag. 350. murdred Pag. 357. Edwardle Bruse beheaded Pag. 338 Edward the third king Pag. 352. elected King of Almaine Pag. 404. dyed Pag. 469 Edwarde the seconde bruted to be aliue Page 359 Edendon founded Pag. 393 Edward Earle of March Pag. 711. crowned Pag. 712 martired Pag. 715. taken prisoner Pag. 723. escaped ibid. fledde Pag. 724. returned Pag. 726. made knightes at London Pag. 735. banqueted the Maior of LondoÌ„ Pag. 749. ended his life Pag. 750. his description Pag. 752. Oration at his death Pag. 758. his Concubines Pag. 799 Edward Lord Grey made Earle of Kent Page 713 Edward the sixth borne Pag. 1011. beganne to raigne Pag. 1035. made knight ibid. decesed Pag. 1058 Eguesham Pag. 114 Egelburge Pag. 114 Egbrightstone Pag. 123 Elanius king Pag. 28 Elidurus king Pag. 29 Eldrea king Pag. 30 Eliud king Pag. 30 Elye minster founded Pag. 97. Pag. 111. a Bishops sea Pag. 180 Elder brother seeketh fauour of the yoÌ„ger brother but it would not be obtayned Pag. 179 Elsing spittle founded Pag. 366 Elianor Cobham apprehended Pag. 644. indited of treason Pag. 645. did penance Pag. 646 Elizabeth now Queene of England hyr birth Pag. 999. hir christning Pag. 1000 Lady Elizabeth sent to the tower Pag. 1090 Emerianus king Pag. 30 Emperour came to London Pag. 930 England first so called Pag. 118 Ensigne of the Danes Pag. 123 Englishmen besieged the Castel of Argilla in Barbarie Pag. 128 England deuided Pag. 138 Englande conquered by woodden bowes Pag. 46 England interdicted Pag. 236. released 244 English ships ouercome by Spaniar Pag. 475 Entercourse with Flaunders Pag. 870 Englishmen sent to Saint Quint. Pag. 1104 Englishmen sent to Vlstar in IrelaÌ„d Pag. 1163 Epistle of Elutherius Pag. 55 Epistle of Boniface to king Ethelbald Pag. 102 Erchenwine first king of East SaxoÌ„s Pag. 98. Essendune in Essexe Pag. 138 Exchequer at Northampton Pag. 237 Exchequer at Yorke Pag. 306 Exchequer at Yorke Pag. 340 Ethelbert king of Kent Pag. 90. christened Pag. 91 Ethelburge poysoned hir husband Butricus king of West Saxons Pag. 118. hir miserable end ibid. Ethelingey the noble Iland Pag. 123 Etheldred king of West Saxons Pag. 134 Euesham founded Pag. 102 Excester builded Pag. 34 Excester the Danes wintered there Pag. 122 Excester a Bishops Sea Pag. 135 Excester besieged Pag. 160. 188 ExecutioÌ„ in Pauls churchyard Pag. 1015. 1083 F. FAmine Pag. 166. 172 Fals accuser of his elder brother hanged Pag. 227 Farendon founded Pag. 251 Fat Cow xvj pence Pag. 420 Fall of money Pag. 1049. second fall of money ibid. Pag. 1115 False Christ whipped Pag. 1116 Faelix Bishop of Donwich Pag. 96 Fernehame in Southsex Pag. 125 Feuersham in Kent founded Pag. 195 Feete and hands of many meÌ„ cut of Pag. 257 Feast of Saint George at Windsâ—r Pag. 415 Free Schoole at Bedford founded Pag. 1117 Felton arraigned and executed Pag. 1148 Fire-light forbidden to the English Pag. 153 Fish like a man Pag. 214. like armed knights Pag. 245. monstrous Pag. 268 Fikets felde Pag. 585 Fire at Baynardes Castle Pag. 652 Fitz Water drowned Pag. 636 Fire nigh Ludgate of London Pag. 674 Fire at Leaden Hal. Pag. 846. in Breadstreete Pag. 859. in Roode lane Pag. 1013. at Temple barre Pag. 1003. at Broken wharfe Pag. 1040 Friste fruites and tenthes giuen to the King Pag. 1003. restored to the Cleargie Page 1099 First shew of children in Christs Hospitall Pag. 1055 Fifteenes granted at a Parliament Pag. 1017 Fiue persons of the familie of loue stode at Paules Crosse Pag. 1184 Flyes venomous Pag. 23 Florianus Pag. 64 Flauius Pag. 64 Flemmings sent into Wales Pag. 180 Floudes of water Pag. 269. 272. 274. 1123. 276 Flint Castell builded Pag. 297. rased to the ground Pag. 299 Fleete dike at London which sometime bare shippes sore decayed Pag. 322 Florences of Gold Pag. 388 Flemmings robbed by the keÌ„tishmen Page 724 Ferrex and Porrex kings Pag. 24 Forest in Hampshire Pag. 166 Fodringhey Colledge founded Pag. 574 Foure Eclipses Pag. 1027 Foxley of the Tower Potmaker slept Pag. 14. dayes and as manye nightes without waking Pag. 10â—3 Frawe a riuer Pag. 122 Frost great Pag. 172. Pag. 234. Pag. 293. Pag. 299. Pag. 194. Pag. 638. Page 923 Free Schoole and almes houses at Ratcliffe Pag. 1014 Frier Forrest brent Pag. 1012 Free Schoole at Drayton in Shropshire Page 1032 Free Schole at Tonbridge Pag. 1048 Frenchmen landed in the I le of Wight Pag. 1032. at Newhauen in Sussex ibid Frenchmen attached Pag. 930 Frenchmen arriued in Sussex Pag. 1031 Friers houses suppressed Pag. 1003. againe Page 1014 Free Schole at Walthamstow Pag. 903 Fray in Saint Dunstans Church of London Pag. 568 Frier tormented to death Pag. 494 Friers of the sacke Pag. 316 French nauie taken Pag. 501 Fray against the stilyarde men Pag. 867 Fier at the starre in Breadstreete Pag. 643. on London bridge Pag. 877 Frier Randulph slayne Pag. 632 French men land in Wales Pag. 565 Fraunce Pag. 390 Frier Randulph sent to the Tower Pag. 604 Fray at Wrestling Pag. 673 Fulgen king Pag. 30 Fullenham or Fulham Pag. 124 Foure children borne at one burdeÌ„ Pag. 1183 Flyes in Februarie in greate number Page 1180 Frobishers first voyage to Cataya Pag. 1186 Frost and a sharp winter Pag. 1165 G. GAlley halfepence forbidden Pag. 597 Gardiner hrent Pag. 640 Gascoigne wine sold for fortie shillings the tun Pag. 873 Garnodo won from the Turke Pag. 866 Gardins about Londo stroyed to make Rome for Archers Pag. 872 Gatehouse of the middle Temple newe built Pag. 905 Gambo and another Captaine murdedered Pag. 1045 Germany toke the name Pag. 20 Gernucius king Pag. 30 Germanus and Lupus Bishops Pag. 77 Gerend on â—ourded Pag. 206 Geffrey Chaucer Pag. 548 George Plontagenet made Duke of Clarence â—13 Geffrey whipped for heresie Pag. 1116 Gifford Angolisme created Earle of Huntington Pag. 471 Gilbert Pot punished in Cheape Pag. 1059 Glamorgan Pag. 23 Glastenburie Pag. 58 Glocester founded Pag. 102 Glocester Pag. 114. brent Pag. 177. burned Pag. 183 Glocester Castle take by the Baros Pag. 279 Glocester Church brent Pag. 310 Glocester besieged Pag. 282 Glamorgan and Morganocke wonne Pag. 170 Glastenburie builded Pag. 116
reg 2. 1068 Ypodigma Mathild wife to King William came forth of Normandie and on Whitsonday was consecrated Quéene by Aldred Archebyshop of Yorke After this Marleswin Gospatricke and other noble menne of Northumberlande to auoyde king Williams roughe and boysterous dealings taking with them Edgar Etheling and his mother Agatha with his two sisters Margaret and Christian wente by sea into Scotlande where they were receiued and well entertayned of Malcoline king of Scottes who tooke Margaret the sister of Edgar to wife Iohn Rouse King William with his armye wente to Notingham and Castel at Notingham Yorke and Lincolne builded there builded a Castel he went to Yorke and made there two Castels and put in them garisons he coÌ„maunded also Castels to be made at Lincolne and other places This yere Henrie the kings sonne was borne in EnglaÌ„d T. Rudborne Earle of Northumberlande slaine for his eldest sons Robert and William Rufus were borne in Normandie before he Conquered England King William gaue to Robert Commin the Earledome Liber Dunelme Anno. reg 3. of Northumberland who entred by force into Duresme but for his outrages there done he and 900. of his men were slaine by the men of that Countrey in the Bishoppes palace that Sea Cro. had himselfe receyued him honourablye and king William came Afterward vpon them and slewe them euery one Agelricus bishop of Durham being accused of treason was 1069 imprisoned at Westminster And his brother Egelwine being made Bishop there was soone banished The Englishmen that were fledde out of Englande hauyng Edgar to be their Captaine returned out of Scotlande and sodainely set vpon the garisons that King William had sette at Yorke put them to flighte slewe them possessed the Citie and pronounced Edgar to be King but not long after King William came with a great armye and recouered thr Citie constrayning Edgar to retourne into Scollande Edgar seeing he coulde not make his partye good with king William adioyned vnto hym Canutus king of the Danes promising hym halfe of the kingdome Thus they entred Englande and came to Yorke The Normaines that were left to defende the Citie sette Yorke brent their suburbes on fire that their enimies shoulde haue no commoditie of it but the winde droue the fire on high and set all the Cittie on fire so that the garisons were forced to flée into their enimies hands In the â—kirmish were slaine 3000 Normans wherevppon all the North parte of England fell from William to Edgar When William had word of the slaughter of his men hée with great trauel came to Yorke where he fought with hys enimies and put them to flighte Canutus with a few Danes got to their shippes but Edgar and the Englishmen which escaped retourned into Scotland King William spoyled all the Countrey beyonde Humber Such a dearth was in England that men did eate horsses Anno reg 4. Mans flesh good meate Ioh Taxtor 1070 Monasteries rifled cattes dogges and mans flesh King William bereaued all the Monasteries and Abbayes in Englande of theyr golde and siluer sparing neyther chalice nor shrine appropriating the sayd Monasteries and Abbayes to himselfe he also brought vnder Knightes seruice all those Bishoprickes and Abbayes that held Baronies which had bin frée from all secular bondage appointing them howe many souldiours they should finde him and his successours in time of warre In a counsel at Winchester Stigand was deposed as an Ypodigma Stigand deposed Apostata Archebishop who for money got his Bishopricke and Lanfranke was chosen Archbishop of Canturburie Anno. reg 5. 1071 Edwine Earle of Mercia Marcherus Earle of NorthuÌ„berlande and Swardus an Earle with Egelwine Bishop of Durham and many other of the cleargie and laitie kéeping the Noble men fled wooddes for that they were not able to abyde the Kings displeasure at the last came into the I le of Elie Herewarde being their Captaine who sore afflicted that Countrey but king William besieging the I le they all sauing Herewarde submitted them to his plesure who committed some to perpetual prison some he put to death and some he ransomed but Hereward by strong hande broughte his men out of the I le and escaped The Castell of Ledes in Kent was builded by Creueken Anno. reg 6. Ex libro Norâ— Castel of Leder and of Oxforde builded Iohn Rouse 1072 Mathew Paris Yorke subiect to Canturburie Anno reg 7. 1073 Anno reg 8. and the Castel of Oxforde by Robert de Olly two noble men that came into England with William Conquerour In a Counsel holden at Windsore the primacie of y â— church of Canturburie ouer the Churche of Yorke being examined it was founde by good aucthoritie of olde writings that the Church of Yorke ought to be subiect to the Church of Canturburie and faithfully to obey the same King William with a great power inuaded Scotland and forced Malcoline to do him homage and fealtie King William with a greate power of Englishmen wente into Normandâ—e which rebelled and subdued it spoyling the Cities townes vineyardes corne c. Gregory the seauenth Pope excommunicated all committers 1074 Maried priestes remoued Ypodigma Mathew Paris of Simony and remoued maried Priestes from executing of deuine seruice whereof rose greate troubles in England Ranulph Erle of y e East-English by y â— counsel of the Erles Woltheopus Roger trauelled to expel K. WilliaÌ„ out of his kingdome The coÌ„spiracie was concluded at a mariage in y â— Conspiracie Citie of Norwich forthwith they sente to the King of Denmarke desiring his ayde and hauing confederated with the Walchmen euerye one where they came robbed the Kyngs townes King William came sodainly out of Normandie and toke the Earles committing them to prison but the Walchmen he caused to haue theyr eyes put out and some to be hanged Kanut the sonne of Swayne and Hacon the Earle came Anno reg 9. out of Denmarke with 200 saile but when they heard y â— theyr fautors were ouercome they tourned into Flaunders King William caused a castell to be builded at Dirham 1075 Ypodigma commaunded Waltheothus Earle of Northampton and of Huntindon son to Siward duke of Northumberland to be beheaded at Winchester who was buried at Crowland The king sayled into Brytaine and besieged the Castel of Dolens but preuayled not Walter Bishoppe of Durham bought of king William the Bisshop murdered Anno. reg 10 Earledome of Northumberlande wherin he vsed such cruelty that at the length the inhabitants slewe him and an hundred of his men by the riuer of Tine where the Bishop helde his courtes The Earth was harde frozen from the Calendes of Nouember 1076 T. Castleforde Iohn Leyland Anno. reg 11 till the middest of Aprill King William gaue the castel with the town of Pontfrait with land lying there about to Hilbert Lacy a Norman The castel town laÌ„ds about Pontfraite longed before y â— CoÌ„quest to
one Richard Ashnalde who had issue Ailricke who had Swane who had Adam of whom came two daughters one of them maried to Gaulfride Neuile the other to Thomas Burgh but neyther of them had anye part of the Towne or lands about Pontfrait Robert sonne to Hildebert Lacy founded the Priory of Pontfraite Robert the first sonne of King William bycause he could not possesse Normandie which his father had giuen him before his coÌ„ming into England in the presence of Phillip king of Fraunce he went into Fraunce and through ayde of Kyng Phillip he fetched prayes in Normandie brent townes slewe men and brought his father into no small perplexitie Upon Palme sondaye aboute noone appeared a Blasing 1077 Anno. reg 12 1078 Ypodigma starre neare vnto the sunne Malcoline King of Scots wasted Northumberland slew many and toke a great pray with him into Scotland The Cathedral Church of Hereford was brent by Grifin and Algare sonne to Leof icke Earle of Merce While King William gaue battayle vnto his eldest son Robert before the Castell of Kerbothead which King Philip King VVilliam vvounded had lent him he was wounded by hym in hys arme and caste besides his horsse but as soone as Robert knew him by his voyce he straight alighted and required his Father to mount on his horsse and suffred him to depart many of king Anno. reg 13 Williams men were slaine and his son William with many other sore wounded Trustin Abbot of Glastenbury committed a filthy acte in his 1379 Murder Mathew Paris Church for he caused thrée Monkes to be slaine which were layde vnder the Altare and xviij men to be wounded that their bloud ran from the Alter down y â— steps to y â— pauement This yeare was a great wind on Christmas daye And Anno. reg 14 1080 Anno. reg 15 1081 Anno. reg 16 Tutsbury Liber Tutsbury 1982 Bermondsey Anno. reg 17 1083 a greate Earthquake and roarings out of the earth the vj. of Aprill Henry Erle Ferrers founded a Priory within hys Castel of Tutsbury the late new Church was builded in Anno. 1407. when the Normans were put out Alwin Child a Citizen of London founder of the Monasterie of S. Sauior at Bermondfeey in Surrey gaue vnto the Monkes there dyuers rents in the Cittie of London Matild the Quéene daughter to Baldwin Earle of Flaunders and wife to King William died and was buryed at Cane in the Monastery of Nunnes whych she had builded Richard sonne to King William died in the new Forrest and was buryed at Winchester King William caused inquirie to be made howe manye Acres of land numbred â—â— Rouse Anno. reg 18. 1084 A greate taxe acres of lande were sufficient for one ploughe by the yeare howe many beastes to the tilling of one hide how many Cities Castels Farmes Oranges Townes Riuers Marshes and Woods what rent they were by yeare and howe many Knightes or Souldiors were in euery shire all whych was put in writing and remayneth at Westminster King William tooke homage and othe of allegiaunce of all Englande of what tenor or fée soeuer they were and tooke Anno. reg 19 of euery hide of land sire shillings and then fayled into Normandy When the Normans had accomplished their pleasure vpon 1085 the Englishmen so that there was no noble man of that nation left to beare any rule ouer theÌ„ it became a reproch to be Nevâ—â—â—â—rrest called an Englishman Wicked customes sprang vp and the more the people spake of equitie the more wroÌ„g was done the Justiciers were the authors of al vnrighteousnes Who so did take a Deare or a Goate had hys eyes putte oute It was broughte to passe that for the space of more than xxx Mathew Paris Bishop at Lincolne miles good profitable corne ground was turned into a chace for wilde beastes Remingus Bishop of Dorchester remoued his Sea to Lincolne Anno reg 20. where he buâ—lded a new Church to be his seate King William kept his feast of Christmas at Gloucester Flori. Wigmore where to thrée of his Chaplaines he gaue thrée Bishoprikes to Mawrice the Bishopricke of London to William that of Thetford and to Robert that of Chester There was a greate water floude so that hils were made 1086 VVater floude softe and consumed with their fal ouer whelmed many villages King William founded the Abbeys of Battel where hée ouercame Harolde of Selbe in Yorkeshire and of Cane in Normandy Battell Abbey in the which he was buried He founded the Priory of Saint Nicholas at Excester He gaue greate Priuiledges to Saint Martins le Graunde Liber S. Mar. Anno reg 21 Saint Martins le grand in London which Church was founded before the Conquest by Ingelricus and Ewardus his brother cousins to king Edward the Confessor he also gaue to y e Chlledge as appeareth by his Charter in these words I do giue Creeplesgate of London but a Posterne and all the grounde adioyning vvas a Doore or Marishe and graunt to the same Church al the land and more without the Posterne which is called Criplesgate on either parte of the posterne that is to say from the North corner of the wall as the riuer of the Wells there running departe the same more from the wal to y e ruÌ„ning water which entreth the Citie c. This yere was a great death of Cattel and sore distemperancie 1087 of ayre many dyed first of feuers and after of famine In the mean time a deuouring fire spread ouer al the principall Famine and Pestilence Cities of Englande The Church of Saint Paule in London was brent with the more part of the Citie which fire began London and Poules Churche brent 〈…〉 Erkenwaldi at the entry of the West gate consumed so y e East gate Mawrice then Bishop of London began the foundation of the new Church of Paules Richard his successor did wonderfully encrease the walles of the said Church and of his owne cost Floria Wig. purchased y â— large stréetes about it where were wont to dwel many laye men and compassed it with a strong wall In a prouince of Wales called Rose was found the sepulchre of Gawen vpon the sea shore who was sisters sonne to Wil. Malme Mens bones of large sixe Arthur king of the Britaines being xiij foote of length King William being at Roane in Normandie Philip king of Fraunce saide that he kept his Chamber as women do in childbed nourished his fat belly but when he is churched I will offer a thousand candles with him King William hearing of these scornes went with a great army into Fraunce spoyling al things as he passed Last of al he burned the Citie of Meanx with our Lady Churche and two Anchers that were enclosed there who perswaded themselues they ought not to forsake their house in such extremitie whereat the King reioysing cheared his men to féede the fire came