they were ready to haue tryed it and were on horsebacke with their speares in hand within y e listes at poynte to haue runne togither the Frenche King caused them to stay and taking on hym the matter made them friendes and agreed them Auesburie Tho. Wals affirmeth that this remouing of the staple of woolles was the 28. yeare of King Edwards raigne This yeare the King by aduice of his counsell remoued the marte or staple of Woolles from the Townes in Flaunders and caused the same to be kept at Westminster Chichester Lincolne Bristowe Canterbury and Hulle This was done in despite of the Flemings bycause they helde not the couenauntes and agreementes which they had made with the king in the life time of Iaques Arteuelde by whose prouision Fabian the sayde mart or staple had bin kept in sundry townes in Flaunders to their greate aduauntage and commoditie Sir Walter Bentley committed to the Tower Sir Walter Bentley vppon his commyng ouer foorthe of Britaine where he hadde bene the Kings Lieutenant was committed to the Tower where he remayned prisoner for the space of twelue monethes bycause hee refused to deliuer vp the Castels within his gouernemente vnto sir Iohn Auenell Knighte beeing appoynted to receyue the same to the vse of the Lord Charles de Bloys at the same time when the treatie of agreement was in hande betwixte the Kyng and the sayd Lord Charles But after when it was perceyued what damage mighte haue ensued by deliuery of those Castels Sir Walter was set at libertie vpon sureties yet that were bound for his forth comming and that he shoulde not departe the Realme at length he was receyued agayne into the Kings fauoure A greate drought In the Sommer of this .27 yeare was so great a drought that froÌ„ the latter end of March fell little raine till the latter ende of Iulye by reason whereof manye inconueniences ensued and one thing is specially to be noted A deaâ—… that corâ—…e the yeare following waxed scant and the price began this yeare to be greatly enhaunced Also beeues and muttons waxed deere for the want of grasse and this chaunced both in Englande and Fraunce so that this was called the deare sommer The Lorde William Duke of Bauiere or Bauarie and Earle of Zelande Caxton Corne â—…ghâ—… cut of Zelande broughte many Shippes vnto London fraught with Rie for reliefe of the people In the eight and twentith yeare of King Edwards raigne 1354 An. reg â—… Tho. VVâ—… Aneston vpon a treatie that was holden by commissioners appoynted by the two Kings of Englande and Fraunce after Easter they were in manner fully agreed vpon a peace so that nothing wanted but putting vnto their seales In the articles whereof it was conteyned that the King of England should enioy all his landes of his Duchie of Aquitaine withoute holding the fame of any by homage or resort and in consideration thereof he should resigne all his clayme to the Crowne of Fraunce Heerevpon were Ambassadors sent from eyther King vnto the Pope and a truce taken A truce betwixt Englande and Fraunce to endure till the feast of Sainte Iohn Baptist in the yeare next following Ambassadors for the King of England Ambassador to the Pope were these Henry Duke of Lancaster Iohn Earle of Arundell the Byshoppes of Norwich and London and the Lorde Guy de Brian For the Frenche King the Archbyshoppe of Rouen Lord Chancellor of Fraunce the Duke of Burbon and others but when the matter came to be heard before the Pope about Christmas all went into smoke that had bin talked of for the Frenchmen denyed that the articles were drawen according to the meaning of their commissioners and the Pope also winked at y e matter so that the Englishe Ambassadors when they sawe that nothing would be concluded returned home all of them the Bishoppe of Norwich excepted who departed this life there and so their iourney came to none effect This yeare the tenth of February 1355 An. reg â—… Debaâ—… betwixt the â—…lers 〈◊〉 men of Oxforde there rose a sore debate betwixt the Scholers and Townesmen of Oxforde The occasion rose by reason of the falling out of a Scholler with one that solde wine for the Scholler perceyuing hymselfe euill vsed poured the wine on the drawers head knocking the potte about hys pate so as the bloud ranne downe by his eares Heerevppon beganne a sore fray betwixte the Schollers and Townesmenne whych continued for the most part of two dayes togyther There were slayne a twentie Townesmenne besyde those that were hurte but at length there came a greate number of countreymen foorth of the villages next adioyning to ayde the Townesmenne entring the Towne with a blacke banner and so fiercely assayled the Scholers that they were constreyned to flee to theyr houses and hostelles but their enimies pursuing them brake vp theyr dores entred their chambers slewe dyuers of them and threwe them into priuies tare their bookes and bare away theyr goodes The Scholers heerewith tooke suche displeasure that they departed the Vniuersitie those of Merton colledge and other the like colledges only excepted The Byshoppe of Lincolne inhibited Priests to celebrate diuine seruice in presence of anye lay man within that Towne of Oxforde and the King sending his Iustices thither to take knowledge of this disorderly riot there were diuers both of the Townesmen and Scholers endited and certayne of the burgesses coÌ„mitted to warde This yeare the firste Sunday in Lente the King helde a royall Iustes at Woodstocke for ioy of the Queenes purifying after the birthe of hir sixth sonne the Lorde Thomas whome the Bishoppe of Durham named Thomas helde at the fontstone Hee was borne the seuenth of Ianuary last past â—…ho VVals â—…uesburie â—…he quarrell â—…peâ—…ed beâ—…ixt the cholers and â—…wnesmen of â—…xforde In the Parliamente holden at Westminster this yeare after Easter the Kyng tooke vppon him to make an ende of the quarrell betwixte the Schollers and Townesmen of Oxforde and sauing to euery man his right pardoned y e Scholers of all transgressions and this he signifyed into euery shire by writtes directed to the Sherifs they to proclayme the same for more notice of the thing And so in the sommer following the Vniuersitie began agayne to flourishe studentes resorting thither from each side In this Parliamente the processe of y e iudgement had and made against Roger Mortimer late Earle of Marche was reuoked adnichilate and made voyd so that the Lord Roger Mortimer was restored to the title and possessions of the Earledome of Marche as cousin and heire to his grandfather the sayd Earle of Marche â—…bassadors 〈◊〉 the Pope Moreouer to this Parliament came the Byshop of Carpentras and the Abbot of Clugny beeing sente from Pope Innocente the sixth to make sute to haue the truce proroged betwixte the two Kinges of Englande and Fraunce to whome the King himselfe in person made this resolute answere that
no ende made betwixt these two Lords touching their title vnto the Duchie of Britaine they renued the warres right hotely in that countrey Froissart and procured all the ayde they might from eache side The King of Fraunce sent to the ayde of his Cousin Charles de Blois a thousande speares and the Erle of Mountford sent into Gascoigne requiring sir Iohn Chandos and other Englishmen there to come to his succour Sir Iohn Chandos gladly consented to this request and therevppon got licence of the Prince and came into Britaine wher he found the Erle of MouÌ„tforde at the siege of the foresaide Castell of Aulray In the meane time the Lord Charles de Blois being prouided of men and all things necessary for to giue battaile came and lodged fast by his enimies The Earle of Mountford aduertised of his approche by the aduice of sir Iohn Chandos and other of his Captaines had chosen out a plotte of grounde to lodge in and meant there to abide their enimies With y e lord Charles of Blois was that valiant Knight sir Berthram de Cleaquin or Gueselin as some wryte him by whose aduice Three thousand and sixe hundred fighting men as Wals hath there wer ordeined three battailes and a reregard and in eche battaile were appointed a M. of good fighting meÌ„ On the other part the Erle of Mountford deuided his men likewise into three battailes and a reregarde The firste was led by sir Roberte Knolles sir Walter Hewet and Sir Richarde Brulle or Burley The seconde by Sir Oliuer de Clisson Sir Eustace Daubreticourt and sir Mathew Gourney The thirde the Earle of Mountforde hymselfe guided and with hym was sir Iohn Chandos associate by whome he was muche ruled for the King of England whose daughter the Earle of Mountforde shoulde marrie hadde written to Sir Iohn Chandos that he shoulde take good heede to the busines of the saide Earle and order the same as sagelie as he might deuise In eche of these three armies were fiue hundreth armed menne and foure hundreth archers In the arreregard were appointed a fiue hundred men of warre vnder the gouernaunce of sir Hugh Calverley Beside sir Iohn Chandos and other Englishmenne recited by Froissarte there was the Lorde William Latimer as one of the chiefe on the Earle of Mountfordes side They were not past sixteene hundreth good fighting men on that side as Thomas Walsingham writeth When the hostes were ordered on bothe sides as before we haue saide they approched togither the Frenchmenne came close in theyr order of battaile and were to the number of fiue and tweÌ„tie hundreth men of armes after the manner of that age beside others Euery man hadde cutte his speare as then they vsed at what time they shoulde ioyne in battaile to the lengthe of fiue foote and a short axe hanging at his side At the firste encounter there was a sore battaile and truelie the archers shotte right fiercelie howbeit their shotte did little hurte to the Frenchemenne they were so well armed and pauesshed The 〈◊〉 acâ—… the Engliâ—… 〈◊〉 the archers perceiuing that being bigge men and 〈◊〉 cast away their bowes and entred in amongst the Frenchemenne that bare the axes and plucked them out of theyr handes wherewith they fought after right hardely There was don many a noble feate of armes many taken and rescued againe Againste the Earle of Mountfords battaile fought the battaile which the Lord Charles de Blois ruled and at the firste the Earle of Mountfords part was sore oppressed brought out of order in suche sorte that if sir Hugh Calverley hadde not in time relieued them the losse hadde runne on that side but finallie so long they fought that all the battailes assembled and ioyned eache to other except the reregarde of the Englishmen Sir Hugh Caluerley whereof as is said Sir Hugh Caluerley was chiefe He kepte alwayes his battayle on a wing and euer succoured where hee sawe neede At length the Frenchmen not able to endure the valiant doings of their aduersaries began to breake Firste the Earle of Auxerres battaile was discomfited and put to flighte and the saide Earle sore wounded and taken prisoner The Earle of Auxerre 〈◊〉 Prisoner but the battaile of sir Berthram de Cleaquin as yet stoode manfully at defence howbeit at leÌ„gth the Englishmen perforce opened it and then was the said Sir Berthram taken prisoner Sir Berthram de Cleâ—… vnder the banner of sir Iohn Chandos Heerewith also all the other battailes of the Frenchmen and Brittaines on the part of the Lord Charles de Blois were cleane discomfited and put out of array so that suche as resisted and stoode at defence were slayne and beaten downe and amongst others the Lord Charles was there slaine himselfe and all other either taken or slayne except those that escaped by flight amongst the which there were not many of y e nobilitie For as Thomas Walsingham saith there were slaine about a thousand men of armes and there were taken two Earles seuen and twentie Lordes and fifteene hundred men of armes The chase was followed to the Citie of Raynes an eight greate leagues from the place where the battaile began After this victory the Earle of Mountforde conquered many Townes and Castels in Britayne whereof the French Kyng being aduertised sente hys brother the Duke of Aniou vnto the wife of the Lord Charles of Bloys now deceassed to comfort hir in such an heauie case and to take order for things as shoulde bee thoughte expediente till further prouision might be made Also shortly after there were sent vnto the Earle of Mountforde Ambaâ—… lent to the 〈◊〉 of Moâ—… the Archebyshoppe of Reimes the Marshall Bouciquault and the Lord of Cran as coÌ„missioners to coÌ„â—…e â—…ith him of a finall agreement The variance for Britayne â—…compounded Whervpon after hee had signifyed the matter vnto the King of England and vnderstoode his pleasure therein thys treatie was so handled Fabian 1365 that peace thereof followed and the parties were agreed in the moneth of Aprill next ensuing An. reg 39. This yere as some haue written K. Edwarde finished his warres vpon S. Stephensday began the foundation of S. Stephens chappell at Westminster in memorie thereof Fabian which Chappell was afterwards finished by King Richarde the second that succeeded him Tho. VVals In the .39 yere of K. Edwards raigne and in the moneth of Februarie in the Citie of Angolesme was borne the firste sonne of Prince Edward and was named after his father but he departed this life in the seuenth yeare of his age The Lorde Couâ—…y maryâ—… the king of â—…nglandes â—…aughter Palithron Also this yeare the .27 of Iuly Ingeram de Guynes Lord de Coucy a Frenchman married y t Lady Isabel daughter to King Edward The solemnization of the marriage feast was kept at Windsor in most royall and triumphant wise The said Lord Coucy was created Earle of Bedford with an yeerely annuitie
treatises of hystoricall matters the oâ—…e intituled Chronicon 40 annorum the other Chronicon 60. an Simon Bredon borne in Winchcombe a doctor of Phisicke and a skilfull Astronomer Iohn Thompson borne in Norffolk in a village of that name and a Carmelite frier in Blackney Thomas Winterton borne in Lincolnshyre and an Augustine Frier in Stamford William Packington Secretarie sometime to the blacke Prince an excelleÌ„t historiographer Geffray HinghaÌ„ a ciuilian Iohn Botlesham borne in Cambridgeshire a black Frier William Badby a Carmelite frier Bishop of Worcester and confessor to the Duke of Lancaster William Folleuille a Frier minor borne in Lincolnshire Iohn Bourgh parson of CollinghaÌ„ in NotinghaÌ„shire a doct of diuinity and Chancellor of the vniuersitie of Cambridge William Sclade a Monke of Buckefast Abbay in Deuonshire Iohn Thoresbie Archbishop of Yorke and Lord Chauncellor of England was admitted by Pope Vrbane the fifth into the Colledge of Cardinals but he died before K. Richard came to the Crowne aboute the .xlviij. yeare of king Edwarde the thirde in the yeare of our lord 1374. Thomas Ashborne an Augustine Frier Iohn Astone an earnest follower of Wicklifes doctrine and therefore condemned to perpetuall prison Casterton a Monke of Norwiche and an excellent diuine Nicholas Radclife a monke of S. Albones Iohn Ashwarby a diuine and a fauorer of Wicklifs doctrine Richard Maydston so called of the towne in Kent where hee was borne a Carmelite Frier of Aylefford Iohn Wardby an Augustine Frier and a great diuine Robert Waldby excellently learned as well in diuinitie as other artes Adunerfis Episcopus for the which he was first aduaunced to a Bishoprike in Gascoigne and after he was admitted Archbishoppe of Dubline William Berton a doctor of diuinitie and ChaÌ„cellor of the Vniuersitie of Oxford an aduersarie to Wicklif Philip RepingtoÌ„ Abbot of Leycester a notable diuine defeÌ„der of Wicklife Thomas Lombe a Carmelite Frier of Lynne Nicholas Hereford a secular priest a doctor of diuinitie and scholer to Wicklife Walter Britte also another of Wicklifs scholers wrote both of diuinitie and other arguments Henry Herkley Chauncellour of the vniuersitie of Oxford an enimie to Wicklife and a great Sophister Robert Iuorie a Carmelite Frier of London and the .xx. prouinciall of his order here in Englande Lankine a Londoner an Augustine Frier professed in the same Citie a doctor of diuinitie an aduersarie to Wicklife Wil. Gillingham a Monke of Saint Sauiours in Canterburie Iohn Chilmarke a fellow of Marton Colledge in Oxford a great Philosopher and Mathemetician Iohn Sharpe a Philosopher and a diuine wrote many treatises a great aduersarie to Wicklife Richard Lauingham borne in Suffolke and a Frier of Gipswich an excellent Logitian but a sore enimie to theÌ„ that fauored Wicklifes doctrine Peter Pateshull of whom ye haue heard before it is sayde that hee was in the ende constrayned for doubt of persecution to flie into Boheme William Woodforde a Franciscane Frier a chosen champion agaynst Wicklife beeing nowe dead procured thereto by the Archbishop of Canterburie Thomas Arundell Iohn Bromyard a Dominicke Frier both a notable lawyer and a diuine a sore enimie also to the Wicklinistes Marcill Ingelne an excellent Philosopher and a diuine one of the first teachers of the Vniuersitie of Heydelberg which Robert duke of Baniere and Counte Palatine of the Rhine had instituted about that season Richarde Northall sonne to a Maior of London as is sayd of that name he became a Carmelite Frier in the same Citie Thomas Edwardson Prior of the Frier Augustines at Clare in Suffolke Iohn Sommer a Franciscan Frier at Bridgewater an enimie to the Wickliuistes Richard Withe a learned Priest and an earnest follower of Wicklif Iohn Swafham a Carmelite Frier of Linne a student in Cambridge and became bishop of Bangor a great aduersarie to the Wickliuists William Egumonde a Frier Ermite of the sect of the Augustines in Stamford Iohn Tyssington a Franciscane Frier a mainteyner of the Popes doctrine William Rymston or Rimington a Monke of Salley an enimie also to the Wicklinistes Adam Eston well seene in the tongues was made a Cardinall by Pope Gregorie the xi but by Pope Vrban the sixt he was committed to prison in Genoa but at the contemplation of king Richarde he was taken out of prison but not fully delyuered till the dayes of Boniface the ix who restored him to his former dignitie Iohn Beaufu a Carmelite of Northamton proceeded doctor of Diuinitie in Oxforde and was made Prior of his house Roger Twiford alias Good-luck an Augustine Frier Iohn Trenise a Cornish man borne and a secular Priest Vicar of Berkley he translated the Byble Bart. de Propriâ—…tatibus Polichron of Ranulfe Higeden and diuerse other treatises Raufe Spalding a Carmelite Frier of StaÌ„ford Iohn Moone an Englishman borne but a student in Paris who compyled in the Frenche tongue the Romant of the Rose translated into English by Geffrey Chaucer William Shirborn Richard Wichingham borne in Norffolke and diuerse other King Henrie the fourth H. the fourth WHen king Richarde had resigned as before is specified the scepter crown HeÌ„rie PlaÌ„tagenet borne at Bullingbroke in y e countie of Lincolne duke of Lancaster Heref. erle of Derby Leycester Lincolne son to Iohn of Gant duke of Lancaster with generall consent both of the lords commons was published proclamed and declared king of England and of France lorde of Ireland the last day of September in the yeare of the world .5366 of our Lord .1399 of the raigne of the Emperor Wenceslaus the .22 of Charles the sixt king of Fraunce the .xx. and the tenth of Robert the third king of Scottes 〈◊〉 officers 〈◊〉 Forthwith he made certaine new officers And first in right of his Erledome of Leicester he gaue the office of high steward of England belonging to the same Erledome vnto his second sonne the Lord Thomas who by his fathers coÌ„maundemeÌ„terexercised that office being assited by reason of his tender age by Thomas Percy Earle of Worcester The Erle of Northumberland was made Conestable of England sir Iohn Scyrley Lord Chauncellor Iohn Norburie Esquier L. Treasorer sir Richard Clifford lord priuie seale Forasmuch as by king Richards resignation the admitting of a newe king all pleas in euery Court and place were ceassed and without daye discontinued now writtes were made for summoning of the Parliament vnder the name of king Henrie the fourth â—…e parliameÌ„t â—…mmoned the same to be holden as before was appointed on Monday next ensuing â—…d Turris Vpon the fourth day of October the Lorde Thomas seconde Sonne to the King satte as Lorde high stewarde of Englande by the kings commaundement in the Whitehall of the kings Palace at Westminster and as belonged to his office he cause inquitie to be made what offices were to be exercised by any maner of persons the day of the kings coronation and what fees were belonging to the same causing proclamation to be made
more shall bee sayd heereafter The domage that the Realme of Englande receyued by the losse of thys noble man manifestly appeared in that immediately after hys death the prosperous good lucke whiche had followed the English nation began to decline and the glory of their victories gotten in the parties beyond the Sea fell in decay Though al men were sorowful for his death yet the Duke of Bedford was most striken with heauinesse as he that had lost his only right hād and chiefe ayde in time of necessitie But sith that dead men cannot helpe the chances of men that be liuing he like a prudent gouernour appointed the Earle of Suffolke to be his Lieutenante and Captaine of the siege and ioyned with him the Lord Scales the Lord Talbot sir Iohn Fasto◅ diuers other right valiant Captaines These persons caused ◅astilles to bee made rounde about the Citie and left nothing vnattempted whiche mighte aduaunce their purpose 1429 In the Lent season vittaile and artillerie began to waxe seant in the English camp wherefore the Earle of Suffolke appoynted Sir Iohn Fastolfe sir Thomas Rampston and sir Phillip Hall with their retinues to ride to Paris to the Lord Regent to enforme him of their lacke who incontinently vpon that information prouided victuall artillerie and munitions necessitie and loded there with many chariots carte◅ horsses and for the sure conueying of the same hee appointed Sir Simon Morhier prouost of Paris with the guard of the Citie and diuers of his owne houshold seruants to accompany Sir Iohn Fastolfe and his complices to the armie lying at the siege of Orleans They were in all Enguer◅t to the number of fifteene hundred men of the which there were not past a fiue or sixe hundred Englishmen the whiche departing in good order of battell out of Paris came to Genuille in Beausse and in a morning carely in a great frost they departed from thēce towarde the siege and when they came to a Towne called Rowray in the lāds of Beausse they perceyued their enimies comming towards them beeing to the number of nine or tenne thousand of Frenchmen and Scottes of whom were Captaines Charles of Cleremont sonne to the Duke of Bourbon then being prisoner in England Sir William Steward Connestable of Scotland a little before deliuered out of captiuitie the Earle of Perdriacke the Lorde Iohn Vandosme y e Vidame of Chartres the Lorde of Toures the Lord of Lohar the Lord of Eglere the Lorde of Beaniew the basterd Tremoile and manye other valiant Captaines wherefore sir Iohn Fastolfe set all hys companye in good order of battell and pitched stakes before euery archer to breake the force of the horsemen At their backes they sette all the wagons and carriages and within them they tyed all their horses In this manner stoode they still abiding the assault of their enimies In this conflict were slaine the Lorde William Steward Connestable of Scotland his brother the L. Dorualle the L. Chateaubriā sir Iohn Basgot and other Frenchmen and Scots to the number of .xxv. hundred and aboue .xj. C. taken prisoners although the French wryters affirme the number lesse After this fortunate victorie sir Iohn Fastolfe and his companie hauing lost no one man of any reputation wyth all theyr caryages vytaile and prysoners marched forth and came to the English campe before Orleans where they were ioyfully receyued and highly commended for theyr valiauncie and worthie prowes shewed in the battaile The battel of the herrings the which bycause most part of the caryage was Herring and Lenton stuffe the French men call it the battaile of Herrings The Earle of Suffolke being thus vytayled continued the siege and euery day almost skirmished with the Frenchmen within who at length being in dispayre of all succours offred to treate and in conclusion to saue themselues and the Citie from captiuitie of theyr enimyes they deuised to submit the Citie themselues and all theirs vnder the obeysance of Philip duke of Burgoign bycause he was extract out of the stock and bloud royall of the auncient kings of Fraunce thinking by this means as they did in deed to break or diminish the great amitie betwene the Englishmen and him This offer was signifyed by them vnto the Duke of Burgoigne who with thankes certified them againe that he would gladly receyue them if the Lord Regent woulde therewith be contented Herevpon he dispatched Messengers to the Duke of Bedforde who though some counselled that it should be verie good and necessarie for him to agree to that maner of yeelding yet hee and other thought it neither cōuenient nor honourable that a Citie so long besieged by the king of England his power shuld be deliuered vnto any other foreyne prince or potentate than to him or to hys Regent and that bycause the example mighte prouoke other townes hereafter to seeke the lyke agreement Herevpon the Regent answered the Burgonian Ambassadors that sith the king of England had beene at all the charges aboute the besieging and winning of the Citie it was not consonant to reason that the Duke shoulde enioy the fruites of an other mans labour Hereof folowed a double mischief to the English proceedings in the realme of France for both the Duke of Burgoigne conceyued an inwarde grudge agaynst the Englishmen for that hee suspected them to enuy his glory and aduancement and againe the Englishmen left the siege of Orleans which by this treatie they might haue recouered out of theyr enimies hands and put their friendes in possession of it But mortall men can not foresee all things and therefore are guided by fortune which ruleth the destinie of man and turneth hir wheele as shee lysteth While this treatie was in hand the Dolphin studied dayly how to prouide remedie by the deliuerie of his friendes in Orleans out of present danger And euē at the same time that mōstrous womā named Ioan la Pucell de Dieu Ione la Pucell de Dieu was presented vnto him at Chinon where as then hee soiourned of whiche woman yee maye finde more written in the French historie touching hir birth estate and qualitie But briefly to speake of hir doings so much credite was giuen to hir that she was honoured as a Saint and so she handled the matter that she was thought to be sent from god to the ayde of the Dolphyn otherwise called the French king Charles the seuenth of that name as an Instrument to deliuer Fraunce out of the Englishmens handes and to establish him in the kingdome Herevpon she being armed at all poyntes lyke a iolye Captaine roade from Poictiers to Bloys and there founde men of warre vytaile and munitions readie to be conueyed to Orleans Here was it known that the English men kept not so diligent watch as they had beene accustomed to doe and therefore this Mayde with other Frenche Captaynes comming forwarde in the deade tyme of the nyghte and in a greate rayne thunder they entred
An. reg 22. slaughter and brenning sore defaced all Christendome lamented the continuall destruction of so noble a realme and the effusion of so muche christen bloud wherfore to agree the two puissant Kings all the Princes of Christendome trauayled so effectuously by their oratours and Ambassadors The dyet at To◅ or a peace to bee ◅d betvvene Englande and Fraunce that a dyet was appoynted to be kept at the citie of Tours in Tourayne where for the king of Englande appeared William de la Poole Earle of Suffolke doctour Adam Molyns keeper of the Kings priuie seale also Sir Robert Ros and diuers other And for the French king were appointed Charles duke of Orleans Lewes de Bourbon earle of Vandosme greate Maister of the Frenche Kynges householde Piers de Bresse Stewarde of Poyctowe and Bertram Beaunau Lorde of Precigny There were also sente thyther Ambassadours from the Empire from Spayne from Denmarke and from Hungarie to bee mediatours betwixte the two Princes The assemble was greate but the coste was muche greater insomuche that euerye parte for the honour of theyr Prince and prayse of theyr countrey sette foorth themselues as well in fare as apparell to the vttermoste Many meetings were had and many things moued to come to a fynall peace but in conclusion by reason of many doubtes whyche rose on both parties no finall concorde coulde be agreed vppon but in hope to come to a peace a certayn truce as well by sea as by lande A truce for .18 moneths was concluded by the Commissioners for eyghteen Moneths 1444 whyche afterwarde agayne was prolonged to the yeare of our Lord .1449 if in the mean time it had not bene broken In the treatyng of this truce the Earle of Suffolke extending his commission to the vttermost without the assent of his associates imagined in his fantasie that the next way to come to a perfecte peace was to moue some marriage betwene the Frenche Kinges kinsewoman the Ladye Margarete daughter to Reynet Duke of Aniou and hys Soueraygne Lorde Kyng Henrye This Reyner duke of Aniou named himselfe king of Sicile Naples and Ierusalem hauing only the name and stile of those realmes without any penie profite or foote of possession This mariage was made straunge to the erle at the first and one thyng seemed to bee a greate hinderaunce to it whiche was bicause the kyng of Englande occupyed a greate parte of the Duchye of Aniowe and the whole Countie of Mayne apperteyning as was alledged to king Reyner The Earle of Suffolke I can not saye eyther corrupted with brides or too muche affectioned to thys vnprofytable mariage condescended and agreed that the Duchie of Aniowe and the Countie of Mayne should be deliuered to the King the brydes father demaunding for hir marriage neyther pennye nor farthyng as who woulde say that this newe affinitie passed all riches and excelled bothe golde and precious stone And to the intent that of this truce might ensue a finall concorde a daye of enterview was appointed betwene the two kings in a place conuenient betwene Chartres and Roan When these thyngs were concluded the earle of Suffolke wyth his companie retourned into Englande where he forgat not to declare what an honourable truce he hadde taken out of the whyche there was a greate hope that a fynall peace myght growe the sooner for that honourable marryage whyche hee hadde concluded emittyng nothyng that myght extoll and ◅te foorth the personage of the Ladye or the nobilitie of her kinne But although this mariage pleased the kyng and dyuers of hys Counsell yet Humfrey duke of Gloucester protector of the realme was much agaynste it alledging that it should be both contrarie to the lawes of God and dishonorable to the Prince if he shoulde breake that promise and contract of mariage made by ambassadors sufficiētly therto instructed with the daughter of the Erle of Arminack vpon conditions both to him and his realme as much profitable as honorable But the Dukes wordes coulde not be heard for the Earles doings were only liked and allowed So that for performance of the conclusions the Frenche king sent the Erle of Vandosme great maister of his house and the Archebishop of Remes fyrst peere of Fraunce and diuers other into Englande where they were honorably receyued and after that the instrumentes were once sealed and deliuered on both partes the sayd ambassadors retourned into their countreys with greate giftes and rewardes When these things were done the king both for honour of his Realme Creations of estates and to assure to himselfe mo frends he created Iohn Holland Earle of Huntington Duke of Excester as his father was and Humfrey Erle of Stafford was made duke of Buckingham Henry erle of Warwike was erected to the title of duke of Warwike to whom the K. also gaue the castell of Bristowe with y e Isle of Iernesey and Garnesey Also the erle of Suffolk was made Marques of Suffolk which Marques with his wife and many honorable personages of men and women richely adorned both with apparell iewels hauing with them many costly chariots gorgeous horslitters sailed into France for the conueyance of the nominated Queene into the realm of England For king Reigner hir father for all his long stile had too short a purse to send his daughter honorably to the King hir spowse This noble copany came to the citie of Tours in Tourayne An. reg 23. 1445 where they were honorably receiued both of the French K. and of the K ▪ of Sieil The Marques of Suffolke as procurator to K. Henry espoused the sayd Lady in the churche of S. Martins At the whiche mariage were presente the father and mother of the bryde the Frenche Kyng himself which was vncle to the husband and the French Queene also whiche was Aunt to the wyfe There were also the Dukes of Orleans of Calabre of Alanson and of Britayne vij Erles .xij. barons xx Bishops beside knightes and Gentlemen When the feast triumph bankets and iustes were ended the Lady was deliuered to the Marques which in great estate he conueyed through Normandie vnto Diepe and so trāsported hir into Englande where shee landed at Portesmouth in the moneth of Aprill This woman excelled al other aswel in beautie and fauor as in wit and policie and was of stomacke and courage more lyke to a man than a woman And furthermore the Earle of Arminacke tooke suche displeasure with the Kyng of Englande for thys marryage that hee became vtter enemye to the Crowne of Englande and was the chiefe cause that the Englyshemen were expulsed oute of the whole Duchie of Aquitayne But moste of all it shoulde seeme that God was displeased wyth this marriage For after the confirmation thereof the Kings friends fell from hym bothe in Englande and in Fraunce the Lordes of his Realme fell at diuision and the commons rebelled in suche sorte that fynally after many fieldes foughten and many thousands of men slayn the
Cornehill But to speake of al y e solemne shew set forth that daye how y e crafts Aldermen and Lord Maior stoode in their appointed places or of the rich sumptuous apparel which not only y e K. and Quene ware that day but also other estates whiche dyd attēd their maiesties it would aske a long time yet I shoulde omit many things faile of the nūber The trappers rich furnitures of horses palfreys charets were wonderfull Of cloth of tissew golde siluer embroderies goldsmithes worke there was no want beside the great number of chaynes of gold handerikes both massy greate righte gorgeous to behold And thus w t great ioy and honor they came to Westminster The morrow following being Sunday also Midsomer day that noble Prince w t his wife Q. Katherine wente from the Palaice to the Abbey of Westmin where according to the ancient custome The coronation of Kyng Henry and Q. Katherine they were annointed Crowned by the Archb. of Cant. with other Prelates of the Realm there present the nobilitie and a greate multitude of the cōmons After with the solemnity of y e said coronation according to the sacred obseruances vsed in that behalf ended the Lords Spirituall and temporall did to him homage Homage done to the King as his coronatiō by the lordes spirituall and temporall and then he returned to Westminster Hall with the Queene where they dined all the solemne customes and seruices being vsed done whiche in such cases apperteined euery L. other noble manne according to their tenures before claymed viewed seene and allowed entring into their roomths and offices that day to execute the same accordingly When the feast or diner was ended and the tables auoyded the King and the Quene went vnto their chambers For the more enobling of this coronation there was prepared both iustes and tourneys whiche within the palaice of Westminster were performed and done with great triumph and royaltie The enterprisers of which martiall feats wer these persons whose names ensue Thomas Lord Howard sonne and heire apparant to the Erle of Surrey sir Edward Howard Admirall his brother the Lorde Richarde Gray brother to the Marques Dorset sir Edmunde Howarde sir Edmunde Kneuet and Charles Brandon Esquier And on the other side as defendauntes were these eight persones Sir Iohn Pechye sir Edwarde Neuill sir Edwarde Euilforde sir Iohn Carre Sir Willyam Parre Sir Giles Capell Sir Griffeth Doun and Syr Roulande The King pardoned the Lorde Henrye brother to the Duke of Buckingham committed to the Tower as yee haue heard vppon suspition of treason But when nothyng coulde bee proued agaynste hym hee was sette at libertie and at the Parliament after created earle of Wilshire Also this yeare the kyng ordeyned fifty Gentlemen to bee speares euerye of them to haue an Archer a Demylaunce and a Custrell and euerye speare to haue three great horses to be attendaunt on his person of the whiche bende the earle of Essex was lieutenaunt and Sir Iohn Pechy Capitaine Thys ordynaunce continued but a while the chardges was so greate for there were none of them but they and their horses were apparayled and trapped in clothe of golde siluer and Goldsmithes worke A great plague ◅o Calais This yeare also was a greate pestilence in the Towne of Calais so that the King sente one Syr Iohn Pechie wyth three hundreth men to tarrye there vppon the defence of that Towne til the sickenesse was ceassed Furthermore A parliament this yeare the King sommoned his Parliament in the Monethe of Nouember to begin in the Monethe of Ianuarye nexte ◅syng Wherof Sir Thomas Ingleflelde was chosen speaker At this Parliament Syr Rycharde Empson Knight Empson and Dudley attainted of treason and Edmond Dudly esquier late counsellours to Kyng Henrye the seuenthe were atteynted of highe treason They were chardged with many offences cōmitted in the late kings dayes as partely beefore you haue hearde and being broughte before the counsell Polidor as they were graue and wise personages and bothe of them learned and skilfull in the lawes of this realm they alledged for themselues right constantlye in their owne defences muche good sufficient matter in so muche that Empson being the elder in yeres had these words I know right honorable that it is not vnknowne to you how profitable and necessarie lawes are for the good preseruation of mans lyfe withoute the which neither house town nor citie can long continue or stand in safetie which lawes herein Englande thorough negligence of magistrates were partly decayed and partely quite forgotten and worne out of vse the mischief wherof dayly increasing Henry the .vij. a most graue and prodent Prince wished to suppresse therfore appointed vs to see that suche lawes as were yet in vse might continue in three ful force and such as were out of vse might againe be reuiued and restored to their former state and that also those persons which transgressed the same mighte bee punished according to theyr demerites wherein we discharged oure dueties in moste faythfull wyfe and beste manner we coulde to the greate aduauntage and cōmoditie no doubt of y e whole common wealthe wherefore wee most humbly besiech you in respect of your honours courtesie goodnesse humanitie and iustice not to decree any greeuous sentence against vs as though wee were worthy of punishmente but rather to appoint how w t thankefull recompence our paines and trauaile may be worthily considered Many of the counsell thoughte that hee had spoken well and so as stoode with greate reason but yet the greater number supposing that the reuiuing of those lawes had proceeded rather of a couetous meaning in the King and them than of anye zeale of Iustice and hauing also themselues felte the smart lately before for their owne offences and transgressions hadde conceiued such malice towardes the men that they thoughte it reason that suche as hadde bene dealers therein were worthy to lose their heads in like sorte as they had caused others to lose their money Heerevppon their accusers were maynteyned and many odde matters narrowly sought out against thē as by two seuerall inditementes framed against Sir Richarde Empson the copies whereof I haue seene it may well appeare In the one hee is charged that to winne the fauoure and credite of the late King not waying hys honour nor the prosperitie of him or wealthe of his Realme hee hadde in subuersion of the lawes of the lande procured dyuers persons to be endited of diuers crimes and offences surmised agaynste them and therevpon to bee committed to prison without due processe of lawe and not suffered to come to theyr aunsweres were kept in durance till they had compounded for their fines to their great importable losses and vtter empouerishment Also diuers vntrue offices of intrusions and alienations made by sundrye the late Kyngs liege people into manors lands and tenements were found it being
by reason that an Englishmen would haue had for his money a lofe of bread from a mayd that had bin at the Bakers to buybread nor to sell but to spende in hir mistresse house The coÌ„mon beâ—… was roong and all the Towne wente to harneys and those few Englishmenne that were a lande wente to there vowes The Spanyardes cast dartes and the Englishmen shotte but the Captaynes of England and the Lordes of the Counsell for their parte tooke suche payne that the fray was ceassed and but one Englishman slayne though diuers were hurte and of the Spaynardes dyuers were stayne After this vppon request made by the Lordes of Spayne the Lord Darcy and all his men the same night went aborde their Shippes but HeÌ„ry Guilforde Weston Browne and William Sidney yong and lusty Esquiers desired licence to set the Courte of Spayne which being granted they wente thyther where they were of the King highly enterteyned Henry Guilford and Weston Browne were made Knightes by the King who also gaue to Sir Henrye Guilforde a Canton of Granado and to Sir Wolston Browne an Egle of Sycill on a chiefe to the augmentation of theyr armes William Sidney so excused hymselfe that he was not made Knight When they had soiourned there awhile they tooke theyr leaue of the King and Queene and returned through Fraunce into England The Lorde Darcy returneth out of Spayne During which season the Lord Darcy made sayle towarde England and arriuing at Plimmouth came to the King at Windesore and so this iourney ended During the time that the Lorde Darcy was in Spaine the Lady Margaret Duches of Sauoy and daughter to Maximilian the Emperoure and gouernour of Flaunders Brabante Holland Zeland and other the low Countreys apperteyning to Charles the yong Prince of Castile sent in the ende of May to the Kyng of Englande to haue fifteene hundred archers to aide hir againste the Duke of Gelders whiche sore troubled the countreys aforesaid The kyng tenderly regarding the request of fumoble a Ladie most gently granted hir request and appointed sir Edwarde Poynings Knighte of the garter and comptroller of his house a valiant Captayne a noble warriour to be Lieutenant and leader of the said fifteene C. archers whiche accompanyed with his son in law the Lord Clinton sir Mathew Browne sir Iohn â—…goy Io. WetroÌ„ Richard Whethrill and Shrelley Esquiers with other Gentlemen and yâ—…omen to y e foresayd number of fiftene C. tooke theyr shippes a mâ—…e beside SaÌ„dwich the eightenth day of Iuly and landed at Armew the ninetenth daye not without some trouble by reason of a litle â—…orâ—…e From thence they were conducted to Barowe whether the Lady RegeÌ„t came to welcome theÌ„ On the Sunday being the .27 of Iuly they departed to Rossindale on Thursday the last of Iuly they came to Bulduke And the nexte day the whole army of Almaynes Flemings and other appetteining to the said Lady mette with the Englishmen without Bulduke where they set forth in order the Lady Regente beeing there present which tooke hir leaue of all y e Captaines and departed to Bâ—…ke The army to the nuÌ„ber often M. beside the fifteene C. Englishe archers passed forwarde and the tenth day of August being S. Laurice day came before a little Castel standing on the higher side of the tâ—… Mase called Brimuoist beloÌ„ging to y e basterd of Geldeâ—…land The same nighte Tho. Hert chiefe gouernoure of the ordinance of the Englishe parte made his approch and in y e morning made battetie so that the assault therevpon being giuen y e fortresse was wonne and the Captaine and .80 and oddemen were slaine and nineteene taken of y e which eleuen were hanged Iohn Morton Captaine of C. Englishmen and one Guyot an Esquier of Burgoigne crying S. George were the firste that entred at which assault there was but one Englishman slaine On Thurseday the fourtenth of August the army feryed ouer the riuer of Mase into Gelderland The next day they came to a little Towne called Ayske The people were fled but there was a little Castell rased and cast downe which was newly builte vppon the side of the sayd riuer Vpon the twentith day of August they brent y e foresaid towne of Aiske and al the couÌ„trey about it and came at the last to a towne called Straulle beyng very strong double diked and walled Within it were three C. 60. good men of warre beside the inhabitants At the first they shewed good countenance of defence but when they sawe their enimies approch neere vnto them with rampiers and trenches they yeelded by composition so that the soldyers might depart with a little sticke in their handes But the townesmen rested prisoners at the will of the Prince of Castile And so on S. Bartholmewes day the Admirall of Flanders and Sir Edwarde Poynings entred the Towne with great triumph The sixe and twentith day the army came before Veniow and sent an Herraule called Arthoys to sommon the Towne but they within would not heare but shotte gunnes at him The eyghte and twentith daye the army remoued vnto the Northe side of Venlowe and part went ouer the water and made trenches to the water and so besieged the towne as straightly as theyr number would giue them leaue but yet for al that they could doe without they within kept one gate euer open At length the English Captaines perceiuing that they laye there in vayne considering the strength of the towne also how the army was not of nuÌ„ber sufficient to enuiron y e same on each side wrote to the K. who willed them with all speede to returne and so they dyd Sir Edwarde Poynings went to y e court of Burgogne where he was receiued right honorably of y e yoÌ„g prince of Castel of his aunt y e lady Margaret Iohn Norton Iohn Fogge Io. Scot Tho. Lynde were made knightes by the Prince And y e Lady Margarete perceiuing the souldiors coates to be worne foule with lying on the ground for euery man lay not in a tent gaue to euery yee man a cote of wollen cloth of yealowe red white and grene colors not to hir litle land praise among the EnglishmeÌ„ After y e sir Edw Poynings had bin highly sâ—…ted more praised of al meÌ„ for his valiant men good order of his people Sir Edwarde Poinings he returned w t his crue into EnglaÌ„d had lost by war sickâ—…es not fully 〈…〉 WheÌ„ y e EnglishmeÌ„ wer departed the Gelders 〈◊〉 out of the gates of Venlord daily skirmished with y e Buigoâ—…gnions a sked for their authors herewith winter began sharply to approch the riuer of Maâ—… by a hirdauce of rain rose so high that it drowned vp the terenehes so that all things considered the captaines without determined to raise their siege and so they did and after they had wasted al the countrey aboute Venlowe they returned euery man to his home All this while was the
capitains in other vessels And the K. made them a bankette before their setting forward and so committed them to God The Kings nauye setteth out They were in number .xxv. faire shippes of greate burdeyne well furnished of all thinges necessarye The Frenche king in this meane whyle had prepared a Nauie of .xxxix. sayle in the haâ—…en of Brest and for chiefe hee ordeyned a greate Carrike of Brest apperteyning to the Quene his wife called Cordelier a verie strong ship and well appointed This nauie set forwarde out of Brest the tenth of August The Englishe nauye encountreth vvith the Frenche vpon the coaste of Britaine and came to Britayne Bay in the which the same day was the Englishe fleet arriued When the English men perceiued the Frenchmen to be issued forth of the hauen of Brest they prepared themselues to battail made foorth toward their enimie whiche came fiercely foreward and comming in sight eche of other they shotte of their ordinaunce so terribly together that all the Sea coast sounded of it The Lord Admirall made with the great shippe of Depe and chased hir Sir Henry Guylforde and Sir Charles BraÌ„don made with the great Carricke of Breste beyng in the Soueraine and layde stemme to stemme to the Carrike but by negligence of the maister or else by smoke of the Ordinance or otherwise the Soueraigne was cast at the Verne of the Carrike wyth whyche aduauntage the Frenchmen shouted for ioy but when Sir Thomas Kneuet whyche was readye to haue bourded the greate shippe of Deepe sawe that the Soueraigne missed the Carricke sodeynly he caused the Regent in the whiche he was aboord to make to the Carricke to craple with hir a long boorde and when they of the Carrike perceyued they coulde not departe they set slippe an ancre and so with the streame the shippes tourned and the Carrike was on the weather syde A cruell fight betvvixt the tvvo Nauies and the Regente on the lye side The fight was cruell betwixt those two shippes the Archers on the Englishe side and the Crossebowes on the Frenche parte doyng theyr vttermost to annoy eche other but finally the Englishmen entred the Carricke whyche being perceiued by a Gunner The Englishe â—…geâ—… and the Frenche Carricke brent togâ—…ther he desperatly set fyre in the gunpowder as some saye thoughe there were that affirmed howe sir Anthonye Oughtred following the Regent at the sterne bowged hir in diuers places and set hir pouder on fire But howe soeuer it chanced the whole ship by reason of the powder was set on fyer and so both the Carrike the Regent being crappled togyther so as they coulde not fall off were bothe consumed by fier at that instant The Frenche nauie perceiuyng this fled in al hast some to Brest and some to the Aâ—…es adioyning The Englishmen made out boates to helpe them in the Regent but the fire was so terrible that in maner no man durst approche sauing y t by the Iames of Hull certain Frenchemen that could swim were saued Captain of this Carrike was sir Piers Morgan with him he had in the same ship .ix. C. men with sir Thomas Kneuet and sir Iohn Carâ—…we were .vij. C. al drowned and brent The englishmen that might lay in Berthram Bay for the Frenche fleete was disparpled as ye haue heard The L. Admirall after this mischaunce thus hapned to these two worthy ships made agayn to the sea and skoured all alongest the coastes of Britayne Normandie and Picardie taking many Frenche ships and brenning suche as they could not well bring away wyth them The K. of England hearing of the losse of the Regent caused a great ship to be made such one as the like had neuer bin sene in EnglaÌ„d named hir Henrie grace de dieu Henry grace de Dieu The Frenche Kyng aboute the same tyme sent to a Knighte of the Rhodes called Prione Iehan a Frenchman borne of the countrey of Guyenne requiring him to come by the straytes of Marrocke into Britaine the whiche he did bringing w t him .iij. Galeis of force with diuers foists rowgaleys so wel ordinanced trimmed as the like had not bin seene in these parties before his coÌ„ming He had layn on the coasts of Barbarie to defend certeine of the religion as they came from Tripolie 1513 After that this Parliament was ended the king kept a solemne Chrisâ—… 〈…〉 with daunces and mummeries in must princely maner After Candelmasse the King 〈◊〉 sir Charles Brandon vicounts â—…e In Marche following Sir Charles Brandon created Viscount â—…le was the king nauie of shippes royall and other see foorth to the number of .xlij. beside other balengers vnder the conducte of the Lorde Admirall accompanied with sir Water Deurreux The nauie setteth out againe Abyd Fecites sir Wolâ—…tan Browne Sir Edward Ichyngham sir Anthony Peâ—… sir Iohn Wallop Sir Thomas Wyndam Syr Stephen Bull William Fitz William Arthur Plantaginet William Sydney Esquiers and diuers other noble and valiant capitains They sayled to Portesmouth and there laye abyding wynde and when the same serued their towne they weyed anker and makyng sayle into Britayne came into Berthram Bay and there laye at anker in sight of the French nauie which kept it selfe close within the hauen of Breste wâ—…yâ—…out proferyng to come abroade The Englishe nauie purposing to see vpon the Frenche in the hauen are defeated by a â—…ischaunce The Englishmen perceyuing the manner of the Frenchmen determined to set on them in the haueÌ„ and making forward in good order of battayl at their first entrie one of their ships wherof Arthur Plantagenet was captain fell on a blind rock and brast in sunder by reason wherof all the other stayed and so the english captains perceyuing that the hauen was dangerous to enter without an expert lodesman they caste aboute and returned to their harborough at Berthram Bay againe The Frenchemen perceyuing that the Englishmen meant to assayle them moored their ships so neere to the castell of Brest as they coulde and placed bulwarkes on the land on euery side to shoote at the Englishmen Also they trapped togither .xxiiij. greate hulkes that came to the Bay for salte and set them on a rowe to the intent that if the Englishmen hadde come to assault them they would haue set those hulks on fire and haue let them driue with the streame amongest the English shipps Priour Iehan also lay still in Blank sable Bay and plucked his galeys to the shore setting his basiliskes and other ordinance in the mouth of the Bay which baye was bulwarked on euery syde that by water it was not possible to be wonne The L. Admirall perceiuyng the French nauie thus to lye in fear wrote to the king to come thyther in person and to haue the honour of so high an enterprise whiche writing the kings counsell nothing allowed for putting the king in icopardie vpon the chance of the sea Wherefore the kyng
wrote to hym sharply againe commaundyng him to accomplishe that which appertained to his dutie which caused hym to aduenture thyngs further than wâ—…â—…dÌ„ 〈◊〉 he should as â—…eer ye then heare Prioue Iehan keping 〈◊〉 within hâ—… hold as a priâ—… a dungeon An. reg 5. did yet somtime send out his cause ioyâ—…s to make a shewe before the English nauie which caused them to their Bay but bicause the English ships were myghtie vessells they coulde not enter the Bay and therfore the L. Admiral caused certain boates to be manned 〈◊〉 which took one of the best Foysts that Prior. Iehan had and that with great daunger for the galeys and bulwarks shot so freshly al at one instant that it was maruel how the englishmen escaped The L. Admirall perceiuing that the Frenchmen would not come abroade called a counsel wherin it was determined y e first they would assaile Prior Iehan and his galeys lying in Blanke sable Bay after to set on the residue of the French fleete in the hauen of Brest Then first it was appointed that the Lord Ferrers sir Stephen Bull and other should go a land with a conueniente member to assault the bulwarkes while the Admirall entred with row barges and little Galeys into the Baye and so shoulde the Frenchmen be assayled both by water and land The Lord Admirall by the counsel of a Spanishe knight called Sir Alfonse Charant affirming that he might enter the Bay with litle icopardie called to him William Fitz William William Cooke Iohn Colley and sir Wolstan Browne as his chiefe and most trustie frendes making them priuie to his intent which was to take on him the whole enterprise with their assistance and so on Saint Markes day whiche is the .xxv. of Aprill the sayde Admirall put hymselfe small rowe barge appoynting three other small rowing shippes and his owne shypboate to attend him and therwith vpon a sodain rowed into the Bay where Prior Iehan hadde moored vp his galeys iust to the grounde whiche galeys with the bulwarkes on the lande shot so terribly that they that folowed were afrayd but the Admirall passed forwarde and as soone as he came to the Galeys he entred droue out the Frenchemenne William Fitz William within his shippe was sore hurt with a quarell The Bay was shallow and the other ships could not enter for the tyde was spent Which thyng the Frenchmen perceyuing they entred the galeys agayn with Moris pikes and foughte with the Englishemen in the galeys The Admirall perceyuing their approche thought to haue entred agayne into his rowe barge whiche by violence of the tide was dryuen downe the streame and wyth a pike hee was throwen ouer the boorde Sir Edvvarde Lord Admiral drovvned and so drowned and also the forenamed Alfonse was there stayne All the other boates and vesselles escaped verye hardlye awaye for if they had taryed the tyde had fayled them and then all had bin lost The Lord Fâ—…ers and the other captaines were right sorowfull of thys chance but when there was no remedy they determined not to attempte anye further till they might vnderstand the kings plesure and so they returned into England The Frenchmen perceyuing that the English flete departed from the coasts of Britayne and drewe towardes Englande they came foorth of their hauens and Prior Iehan set foorth his galeys and foysts and drawing alongst the coasts of Normandie and Britayn coasted ouer to the borders of Sussex with all his company The Frenche gallies land in Sussex and brent certayne cotages there landed and set fire on certaine poore cotages The Gentlemen that dwelte neere reysed the countrey and came to the coast and drone Prior Iehan to his galeys The King was right sory for the death of his Admirall but sorrowe preuaileth not when the chaunce is past Therfore the king hearyng that the French nauie was abrode called to hym the lord Thomas Howard eldest brother to the late Admirall and sonne and heire apparante to the Erle of Surrey The Lorde Thomas Havvarde made Admirall whom he made Admiral willing him to reuenge his brothers death The lord Howard humbly thanked his grace of the truste that he put in him and so immediatly wente to the sea and skoured the same that no Frenchman durst shew himself on the coast of EnglaÌ„d for he fought with them at their owne portes The king hauing all his prouisions ready for the warre and meaning to passe the sea in hys owne person for the better taming of the loftye Frenchemen appoynted that worthy counsellor and right redoubted chieftayne the noble George Talbot erle of Shrewesburie The Earle of Shâ—…evvesbury sent into FraÌ„ce vvyth an army hygh Steward of his household to be capitayn generall of his foreward and in his companie were appoynted to goe the Lord Thomas Stanley erle of Derby Lorde Decowrey Prior of Saint Iohans sir Robert Ratcliffe Lorde Fitzwater the Lorde Hastings the Lorde Cobham sir Rice ap Thomas sir Thomas Blunt sir Richarde Sacheverell Sir Iohn Digby sir Iohn Askewe sir Lewes Bagot sir Thomas Cornwal and many other knights and esquiers and souldiors to the number of eight thousande men These passed the sea and came to Caleys about the middle of May. The Lorde Herbert called sir Charles Somerset Lorde Chamberlayn to the kyng in the ende of the same moneth folowed the sayd earle of Shrewesbury with sixe thousande menne in whose companie were the Earles of Northumberlande Percye of Kent Graye of Wylshyre Stafforde the Lorde Dudley the Lorde Delaware and his sonne Sir Thomas Weste Syr Edwarde Hussey sir Edwarde Dynmacke sir Dany Owen with many other knights esâ—…yâ—…s and Gentleman After they had soiorned certayne days in Ealâ—…ys and that all their necessaries were â—…adye they issued forth of the towne so to begin their camp And first the erle of Shrewesburie his coÌ„pany toke the fielde after hâ—…s the Lord Heâ—…bert with his retiâ—…es in maner of a reâ—…ward Then folowed that valiant knight sir Ryâ—…cap Thomas with .v. C. light horsmen and archers on horsbacke who ioyned himself to the forewarde These two Lordes thus embâ—…tailed did remoue the .xvij. of Iune to Saâ—…field and on the .xviij. they came to Marguyson on the further side of the water The Englishe armie marcheâ—… vnto Tervvys as though they woulde haue passed streight ways to Bolongne but they meaning an other thing the next day toke an other way and so coasted the countrey with suche diligence that the .xxij. of Iune they came before the strong citie of Terrouanne and â—…ight theyr tents a mile from the town The same night as certain captains were in counsell within the lord Hâ—…berts tent the baron of Carew was slayne with a bullet shotte oute of the towne The Baron of Carevv slayne whyche sodain aduenture muche dismayed the assemble but the lord Herbert comforted them with manly words and so his death was passed ouer All the countrey of Arthoys
bin fought for safegard of the ordinance The body of the King of Scottes was not fouÌ„d til the next day The body of King Iames found and then being founde and knowen by the Lord Dacres there appeared in the same diuers deadly woundes and especially one with an arrow and an other with a bill The same day there appeared some Scottes on an hill but one William Blacknall that had the chiefe rule of the ordinaunce caused suche a peale to be shot off at them that the Scots fled or else the L. Admiral which was come to view the fielde had bin in great daunger as was supposed but now that the Scottes were fled and withdrawen all the ordinance was broughte in safetie to Eytil and there remayned for a tyme. After that the Earle of Surrey had taken order in al things and set the North parts in good quiet he returned to the Queene with the dead body of the Scottish King cired When the King was returned into EnglaÌ„d from his conquest made in Fraunce of the Cities of Tirwine and Tourney hee forgate not the good seruice of those that hadde bin with the Erle of Surrey at the battaile of Bramxton wherefore hee wrote to them hys louing letters with such thankes and fauourable wordes that euery man thought himselfe well rewarded 1514 And on the day of the purification of our Lady at Lambeth the K. created the Erle of Surrey Duke of Norffolke with an augmentation of the armes of Scotlande sir Charles Brandon vicount Lisle he created Duke of Suffolke and the Lord Howard high Admirall he created Earle of Surrey and sir Charles Sommerset Lord Herbert his chief Chamberlaine he created Erle of Worcester and after this hee also made sir Edward Stanley for his good seruice shewed at Bramxston field Lorde Mountaigle and in Marche following was maister Tho. Wolsey the Kings Almoner consecrate Byshop of Lincolne Wolsey described This man was borne at Ypswich was a good Philosopher very eloquent ful of witte but passingly ambitious as by his doings it wel appeared In y e time of K. Henry the seauenth it was agreed betwixt the said K. and Philip K. of Castile that Charles King Philips eldest son shoulde marrie the Lady Mary daughter to the said K. Henrye with a dower to hir appoynted but for want of sufficieÌ„t assurance of the dower the rest of the couenaunts were made voyd and yet had the K. highly prouided for the sending of hir ouer now after his coÌ„ming from Tourney This yeare the Citizens of London finding themselues greeued with the inclosures of y e coÌ„mon fields about Islington Enclosures of the fields about London cast downe ouerthroweÌ„ Horston Shordich other places neere to the Cities whereby they could not be suffered to exercise their bowes nor other pastimes in those fields as before time they had bin accustomed assembled themselues one morning and wente with spades and shouels vnto the same fields and there like diligeÌ„t workmen so bestirred themselues that within a short space al the hedges about those townes wer cast downe and the ditches filled The kings counsaile comming to the grey Friers to vnderstand what was meant by this doing were so answered by the Maior counsaile of the citie that the matter was dissimuled and so when the workemen hadde done their worke they came home in quiet maner the fields were neuer after hedged In the moneth of May An. reg â—… the K. and the newe D. of Suffolke were defenders at the tilte against al commers At those iustes were broken a C. and .14 speares in a short season A cap of mâ—…tenance seâ—… the king 〈◊〉 the Pope The ninetenth day of May was receiued into London cap of maintenance sent from Pope Iuly with a great company of nobles Gentlemen whych was presented to the K. on the sonday theÌ„ nexte ensuing with great solemnitie in the Cathedrall Churche of S. Paule About the same time the warres yet continuing betwene Englande and France Prior Iehan of whome ye haue hearde before in the fourth yeare of this Kings raigne greate Captaine of the Frenche nauie with hys galeis foistes charged with great basilisks and other artillerie came on the bordure of Sussex in the nighte season Brighthelmston in Sâ—… brent at a poore village there called Brighthelmston brente it taking suche goodes as he found But when people began to gather by firing the beacons Prior Iehan sounded hys trumpet to call his menne aboorde and by that time it was day Then certain archers that kept the watch followed Prior Iehan to y e sea shot so fast y t they bet the galey men from the shore wounded many in the foist to the whiche Prior Iehan was coÌ„streined to wade Prior Ieâ—… Captaine oâ—… the French galleys shâ—… into the eyâ—… with an arrâ—… and was shot in the face with an arrow so that he lost one of hys eyes was like to haue died of the hurt therefore he offered his image of waxe before our Lady at Bulleine with the Englishe arrow in the face for a miracle The L. Admiral offended w t this proude parte of the french men in makyng such attempt on y e English coastes sent sir Iohn Wallop to the sea with diuers shippes whyche sayling to the coasts of Normandie laÌ„ded there Sir Iohn Wâ—…lop in Normandy brente .21 villages townes with diuers ships in y e haueÌ„s of Treaport Staples other where Men maruelled greatly at the manfull doyngs of sir Iohn Wallop considering he had not past an eight C. men and tooke land there so often In Iune Sir Tho. Louel was sent ouer to Calais with sixe hundred meÌ„ to strengthen that towne other the fortresses within the English pale for doubt of any suddaine attempte to bee made by the Frenchmen bycause Monf de PoÌ„tremie with a mighty army great ordinance was come downe neere to Arde howbeit he tarried not long but reised his camp within a while after his coÌ„ming thither and returned without any more doing The freÌ„ch K. perceiuing what losses he had susteined by y e warres against EnglaÌ„d 〈◊〉 French procuâ—… the Pope 〈◊〉 a mene â—…eace beâ—… king 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 and doubting least one euil luck should still followe in the necke of an other determined to make sute for peace and first agreing with Pope Leo desired him to bee a meane also for y e procuring of some agreement betwixte him and the K. of England HerevpoÌ„ the vessell of amitie being first broched by the Popes letters the french K. by an Herrault at armes sent to the King of England required of him a safeconduit for his Ambassadors which should come to entreate for a peace atonement to be concluded betwixt theÌ„ and their realmes Vpon grant obteined thereof the french K. sent a commission with the presideÌ„t of Roan and others to intreate of peace and aliance betwixte
iâ—…uiâ—â—aâ—…le consent amongest those foure people Albian his Oration whiche at this daye haue theyr habitations within the boundes of Albion or that the English men shewe what it were to stande and abide by fayth and promises made a giuen we woulde not denie but that those considerations and aduises which Colman hath her vttered ought to be followed bycause that then there should be no occasion at all why we should conclude any league with any forraine nation The English Saxons breakers of promise But forsomuche as there was neuer man that founde more vntruth and breache of promise in any Nation than hath beene founde in these Saxons the which hauing got the rule in Albion are nowe called Englishe men as th Scottes Pictes and Brytaynes haue by tryall sufficiently prooued I suppose it is euidently knowne vnto you that either we must of necessitie fight and stand at defence against the English men readie to assayle vs both with open force and secret crafte eyther else linke our selues with suche allyes and confederates as by theyr support we may be the better able to withstande the malice of such vnfaythfull people Call ye this fayth or treason I pray you The Saxons in tymes past beeing requested of the Brytaynes to ayde them agaynst their enimies were most louingly receyued and highlye rewarded for theyr seruice but they contrarily in recompence of such kindnesse shewed themselues in steade of ayders enimies in steade of defenders destroyers turning their weapon poynts against the Brytains by whom they had beene so sent for to theyr ayde And how haue not onely destroyed a great number of them by fire and sworde but also they haue spoyled them of their kingdome libertie What league or truce haue they at any time kept you your selues are not ignoraunt of this whiche I speake where eyther they sawe occasion to vexe theyr neighbours or hoped to gaine any thing by falsifying theyr faythes as they that haue neuer beene ashamed so to do where hope to haue commoditie if I maye so call it hath at any hande beene offered Into what sundrie and most miserable calamities hath the treacherie of the Saxons brought the sillie Brytaynes How oftentimes haue they broken the peace established with vs and also with the Picts Euen when we least thought vpon any such thing Yea and that more is amongst themselues at this season the English men warre one agaynst another more with craftie traines than with open force in such wise that in Northumberland so many kings so many noble meÌ„ haue bin traterously murthered made away that vneth maye there be any founde that will take vpon him she supreme gouernment of that countrey To induce others to his purpose he taketh the aduauntage of casual happes charging the whole nation with the faults of a few perticular persons It is not many yeares agone since Oswin king of that countrey was ryd out of the waye through treason of Oswey that succeeded him in the kingdom and was after depriued both of life and kingdome by Osrike whome Egbert desirous to raigne in his place founde meanes by trayterous practise to dispatche Egbert was slaine by Mollo and Mollo by Alfred which Alfred was after slaine by the guilefull craft of Ethelbert Neyther had Ethelbert any better successe in the ende for nowe of late betrayed by his owne subiects he was by them shamefully slaine and murthered Neyther wyth lesse trayterous shiftes and deuyses doe the Englishe men maintaine theyr warres in all places where they are inhabiting within Albion The reuerende Fathers of the spiritualtie and other godly men addict to vertue vnto whome the setting forth of Gods worde hath beene committed aweeryed and abhorring this woode madnesse rage and wicked misdemeanour of that Nation haue left theyr Byshoprykes Abbeys Monasteryes and Celles and from thence haue remoued into forrayne Regions Therfore where the English meÌ„ do abstaine at this present froÌ„ making vs warres it is not to be imputed to any reuerence they haue to faith equitie or respect of the league which they haue made with vs but only vnto such ciuil sedition discord as now doth raigne amongst them Neither ought any of vs of right to doubt but that when the same once ceasseth they wil immediatly take weapon in hand against vs notwithstanding all leagues or couenants of peace coÌ„firmed to the contrarie To represse therefore and abate their subtile practises I can finde no redier meane than to enter into friendship and conclude a league with that people whiche beeing ioyned with vs maye chastice suche outragious furie of this wicked nation as cause and oportunitie shall require Fortune hath offred vnto vs a conuenient meane and occasion herevnto For here be at this present y e French kings ambassadors offring that vnto vs which being so great a benifit we might vneth wish for That is they require to haue vs to ioyne in league against the Englishmen The Frenche mâ—… 〈◊〉 those days possessed not onely that put of Gallia which we now cal France but also the most part of the couÌ„treys now inhabited by the Teuâ—…shmen or Germaines namely on this side the ryuer of Rheine with their king whom Fraunce Spaine and no smal part of Germanie do acknowledge for theyr soueraine Ought this to bee despised of men that haue their perfect senses Ought the societie of the French nation to be refused of vs inhabiting here in the vttermost partes of the earth the same being freely offered by them vnto whom for their sincere fayth both towardes God and man the large Empyre of the worlde is graunted So that if wee shall thankefully receyue thys moste notable benefite the same shall purchase vnto vs the friendship of the Spaniardes French men Germanes and all those nations which acknowledge king Charles for their head and soueraine Lord. Hereupon also free passage for marchantes shall be open to passe to and fro vnto vs with all kind of marchandise wares of traffike I trust therefore that euery one of you so that he wey the thing with himselfe throughly will easily iudge that the friendship and societie of the French men right puissant both by sea and land and thereto of approoued fayth and stedfastnesse in promise ought more to be esteemed and is more beneficial to the Scottish common wealth then the vnstedfast promises and great disloyaltie of the SaxoÌ„s To which of you is it vnknowne that the English nation studieth no lesse to bring vs vnder the yoke of seruitude than they doe the Welchmen if their force mighte answere directlye to theyr willes Therefore if we desire to auoyde the violent power of most cruell enimies if wee meane to auoyde theyr craftie practises if we regard the Christian Religion for the whiche the Frenche men are continually in armure if we set more by vertue and constancie than by vnfaythfulnesse breach of couenants and promises if wee labour for the glory and honor of our nation if we
couet to aduaunce our Countrey our owne rest and quietnesse and to be briefe if we passe vpon life and libertie the moste dearest things that maye happen to man let vs with ioyfull heartes establish this league with the French men and firmely continue in the same vppon assured trust and confidence that it shall bring perpetuall commoditie and renowne vnto vs both for the safegarde of our realme and restraynt of the English mens vnlawfull attemptes wrongfull iniuries which hereafter they either shall or may at any time enterprise agaynst vs. By this Oration Albian drew the multitude easily vnto his purpose Then Achaius vnderstāding how the minds of all his subiects were in maner wholy inclyned to the league cōmaunded al the cōpany to be ther in the same place againe the next day And so breaking vp their assembly for y t time the king made the French Ambassadors y e night a costly supper with a banket The league with the French men agreed vpon and after hauing cōference w t his nobles lords of the counsel it was agreed by general cōsent amongst thē that for the solemne ratifying of this league with king Charles according as he had requyred there should go with his Ambassadors at their returne the Lord William the brother of king Achaius with foure other honorable learned personages being men of perfite knowledge skil and such as were esteemed most meete for such a purpose Also y t they should take iiij M. men ouer with thē to serue against the infidels enimies of the christian religion where in such sort as king Charles should appoint thē Hereupon the next day going first to Church and there making their common supplications vnto almightie God The league is encluded according to the rytes and auncient customes they after resorted vnto the councell chamber where Achaius opened and declared vnto the French Ambassadors al that was concluded by him and other estates of hys realme touching the message whiche they had brought from king Charles Who reioysing as should appeare greatly hereat gaue most hartie thankes vnto him and to all the residue for theyr beneuolent willes herein shewed towardes king Charles their maister all the French Nation After this remayning certaine dayes with Achaius who made them all the cheare that might be imagined Hungus king of the Pictes they departed towardes Hungus king of the Picts vnto whom at their cōming to his presence they made y e like request on their masters behalfe whiche they had made before vnto Achaius It is sayd that Hungus gaue the French men most hartie thankes for their good willes Hungus refused to cōclude any league with the French men but yet he would not graunt to cōclude any league with thē at that time for that as he alledged the matter being weightie and of great importaunce required no small time to deliberate and take aduice for a full resolution therein The Ambassadors hereupon returned vnto Achaius without speed of their purpose with Hungus The French Ambassadors returned home and the second moneth after all things being readie for their returne and the passage of those that should go with them the Lord William the kings brother togither with the same Ambassadors and such foure persons as the king had chosen forth amongst all the learned Cleargie of his realme whose names were Clement Claudius Clement Iohn Maesbel Raban Alcuine Iohn Raban and Alcuine and also hauing with him those foure M. men of warre which were at the first apoynted to goe with him passed forth towardes France where he with all the whole cōpanie landed within few dayes after in saftie according to their owne wished desires At their comming into Fraunce The Scottish men are honorably receyued of Carolus the French king Charles the Emperor receiued them in most gladsome wise doing them all the honor that might be deuised the souldiers which were come to serue him vnder the leading of the foresayd William he retayned in wages vsing them after the same sort and rate as he did his own naturall people the French men The league is published by Heraldes Shortly after also at the request of the Scottish orators according to y e charter signed by Achaius and confirmed by consent of king Charles the league betwixt the French men and Scottes was solemnely published by Heraldes at armes according to the maner in those dayes vsed the same to endure betwixt those two nations and their posterities for euer The chiefest articles comprised in this league were as followeth The articles of the league The amitie and confederation betwixte the French men and Scottes to be perpetuall firme to endure betwixt them the posterities of both the nations for euer The iniuries and warres which the English men should attempt against either nation should be accounted as common to them both The French men being assayled by warres of the English men the Scottes should sende theyr ayde of souldiers hauing their charges borne by the French men as well for furniture as wages and all other things necessarie The French men shoulde contrariwise ayde the Scots in time of warres against the English men at their owne proper costes and charges Whatsoeuer he were priuate person or publike of these two confederate nations that against eyther of them should ayde the English men wyth armor counsell vitailes or in any other maner of wise the same should be reputed for a trayter vnto both their Princes and countreys Neither might either of them conclude a peace or take any truce without consent of the other These were the principall Articles of the league as then confirmed betwixte the Scottes and Frenchmen indited in Latine and fayre ingrossed in parchment reserued as a monument in both realmes for a witnesse vnto such as shuld come after of this friendship thus begunne as the Scottes Chronicles affyrme And for a further memorie of the thing The armes of Scotlande Achaius did augment his armes being a red Lion in a field of golde with a double trace seamed wyth floure de Lyces signifying thereby that the Lion from thencefoorth shoulde bee defended by the ayde of the Frenche men and that the Scottishe Kings shoulde valiauntlye fight in defence of theyr Countrey libertie Religion and innocencie whiche are represented by the Lylies or Floure de lyces as Herauldes doe interprete it The Lord William the sayd Clement and Iohn remayned stil with king Charles but Raban and Alcuine returned into their countrey In all such warres and iourneyes as Charles afterwardes made agaynste any of his enimies The valiantnes of William the sayde Lorde William was a chiefe doer in the same so that his fame and authoritie dayly grew in all places where the came His seruice stoode King Charles in notable stead in his expeditions agaynst the Saxons Hungarians other but namely his estimation in Italy was most highly aduāced at what time the
fayre promises perceyued the same to tende only to this ende that the league betwixt the French men and Scottes might be once clearly broken and then to vse the matter as occasion shoulde serue their turne This matter therefore being proponed before the Counsell it was concluded that in no wyse the sayde league betwixt the Frenche men and Scottes should be dissolued and so therevpon the English Ambassadors were dispatched without more talke concerning that matter In the same yeare that is to wit .1433 1433 George Erle of March arested and put in warde the king caused George Dunbar Earle of March sonne to that Erle which rebelled agaynst his father King Robert the thirde to be arested and put in safe keeping within the Castell of Edenbourgh He sent also the Earle of Angus with his Chauncellor William Creichtoun and Adam Hepborne of Hales to the Castell of Dunbar deliuering them letters signed with his hande and directed to the keepers of the sayde Castell that they should deliuer vp the house immediatly vpoÌ„ sight of those his letters vnto the bringers of the same The keepers durst not disobey his commaundement but suffered them to enter according to theyr commission A Parliament at Perth Within a tweluemonth after a Parliament was holden at Perth where the foresayd George Earle of March was disinherited of al his landes and liuings for his fathers offence committed agaynst king Robert the thirde The Erle of March disinherited Thus the house of the Dunbars lost the Erledome of March wherein the same had flourished so many yeares togither to the great defence and safegarde of the realme of Scotland on that side against both ciuill and forraine enimies The Erledome of Buchquhan giuen to George Dunbar The king yet moued with some pitie toward so noble a linage within short time after gaue the Erledome of Buchquban to the said George and after the Kings deceasse the Lordes of the Councell thinking the same to little assigned forth to him and to his sonne Patrike the summe of foure hundred markes yearely to be receyued out of a parcell of his owne auncient inheritance of the Erledome of March to enioy the same till Iames the second came to full age 1435 The death of Alexander Stewarde Earle of Mar. In the yeare .1435 Alexander Steward Erle of Mar departed out of this life This Alexander was a Bastard sonne of the Erle of Buchquhan that was one of the sonnes of king Robert the seconde He was a man of right singular prowes and in his youth following the warres was with Philip Duke of Burgoigne at the siege of Liege or Luik Leodiuâ—â— where he bare himselfe so manfully that few wanne the like honor at that iourney Not long after to his high aduauncement he got in mariage the Ladie Iacoba Countes of Hollande Notwithstanding he continued but a while with hir being enforced to forgo hir companie eyther for that she had an other husband either for that the inhabitants woulde not suffer a straunger to raigne ouer them After his returne into Scotlande he sent messengers into Hollande Warres betwixt the Erle of Mar and the Hollanders requyring to haue the issues and profites of such lands as were due vnto him in right of the sayde Countesse his wife but receyuing nought but a frowarde answere hee prouided him of shippes and made sore warres on the Hollanders by sea first being put to the worse but at length he tooke a nuÌ„ber of their ships laden with Marchandize as they were returning homewardes from Dantzicke Truce betwixt the Scots and Hollanders for terme of one hundred yere The Mariners were drowned and the ships burnt Through which losse the Hollanders being sore abashed fell to a composition wyth him and tooke truce with the Scottes for an hundred yeares This Earle of Mar so long as he lyued had the gouernaunce of the North partes of Scotlande vnder king Iames the first for he was a right prudent person aswell in warlike enterprises as in ciuill administration Stood Mares brought out of Hungarie into Scotlande for breede He brought forth of Hungarie sundrie great Horses and Mares for generation that by suche meanes the countrey might be prouided of great horses of their own race where til that time there was none bred within Scotland but smal nags more meet to serue for iourneying hackneis than for any seruice in the warres Not long before this time Ambassadors out of Denmarke there came an Ambassade from the King of Denmarke vnto king Iames requiring him to make payment of such yearely tribute as was due to the sayde king of Denmark being also king of Norway Their request for the westerne Iles according to the promise and agreement made by Alexander sometime king of Scotland the thirde of that name vnto his predecessor Magnus at that time king of Norway The Ambassadours that came with this message were honourably receyued and in like sort enterteyned by king Iames who at their departure gaue to theÌ„ sundry rich gifts and appointed sir William Creichtoun to goe with them into Denmarke Sir William Creighton sent into Denmark Ambassadour from him to the king there who vsed himselfe so sagely in this businesse which he thus went about that renuing the olde league betwixt the two Realmes of Denmarke and Scotlande Peace and amitie betwixt Scotland and Denmarke stedfast peace and assured amitie without any more ado thereof ensued Much what about the same time there came Ambassadors from the French king Charles the vij Ambassadours â—â—th of France not onely desiring to haue the olde league betwixt France and Scotland to be ratified at that present by a new confirmation The old league â—…erâ—…ed betwixt France and Scotland but also to confyrme the same with better assurance Margaret eldest daughter to King Iames at request of the sayde King Charles The Dolphin marieth Margaret daughter to K Iames. was giuen in mariage vnto Lewes the Dolphin and eldest sonne to the sayde king Charles Many great Lordes of Scotlande were appoynted to haue the conueyaunce of hir into Fraunce and great prouision of shippes made for that voyage English men â—… in awayte for the Scottish fleete bycause the king was aduertised that the English men had a fleete abrode on the seas to take hir if they might meete with hir by the way But as the hap fel it chaunced the same time as the Scottish shippes shoulde passe there appeared on the coast of England a great fleete of Spaniardes The English men encounter a fleet of Spaniardes which the English men supposing to be the Scots they came vpon them with lxxx vessels of one and other thinking verely to haue had theyr wished pray euen according to theyr expectation but beeing receyued with as hote a storme as they brought they quickly vnderstoode how they were in a wrong boxe and so shrewdly amazed as Hector Boetius hath they susteyned
the same ouer boorde The Hollanders ships are taken For reuenge whereof Androw Barton tooke many shippes of the Hollanders and filled certaine Pypes with their heades whiche he sent vnto the king for a witnesse how he had sped A starre like a Comet appeared the .x. of August A bright starre appeareth in the Skie giuing great light in the night season lyke to the Sunne beames A Frenche man named sir Anthonie Darcie knight called afterwarde Le sire de la Bawtie Anthonie Darcy came through Englande into Scotland to seeke feates of armes And comming to the king the xxiiij of September the Lorde Hamilton fought with him in armor right valiantly and so as neither of them lost any peece of honour This yeare Iames Prince of Scotlande and of the Iles was borne in the Abbey of the holye Rood house the .xxj. of Ianuarie 1507 Prince Iames is borne on the .xxiij. of y e same Moneth he was baptised in y e sayd Abbay Church His Godfathers were these Robert Bishop of Glasgew Patrike Erle Bothwell and the Countesse of Huntley was his Godmother The Queene after shee was brought to bed was verie weake and troubled with great sickenesse so that she lay in great danger for recouerie of whose health the king went a foote vnto Saint Ninians in pilgrymage The K. went â—…n pilgrimage and afterwards in Iuly both the King and the Queene went thither to visite that Saint The Pope deâ—…ared K. â—…aâ—…es protector â—…f the faith Pope Iulius the second sent an Ambassador vnto king Iames declaring him protector defender of the fayth and in signe thereof sent vnto him a purpure diademe or crowne wrought with floures of gold togither with a sword hauing the hylts skabbert of gold set with precious stones which were presented vnto him by the saide Ambassador and the Abbot of Dunfermling within the Abbay Church of holy Roode house at what time the peace contracted betwixt the two kings of Scotland and England was there confirmed The Lorde of Terueer or Camfire in Sealande whose auncesters not long agone came forth of Scotland sent his messenger the Baylife of Terueer to the king Horses presenâ—…d vnto the â—…ing who presented vnto him certaine great horses and other riche presentes in remembrance that he came of the Scottish race and the king in recompence thereof sent vnto the said Lorde his order and made his Ambassadour knight rewarding him at his departure whiche was in August with right honorable gyftes â—…eace and quiâ—…nesse in â—…cotlande The whole Realme remayned in such peace and quietnesse in these dayes that the king rode one day himselfe alone in post from Sterling by Saint Iohns towne and Aberden vnto Elgin and reposing a little part of the night in the house of maister Thomas Leslie then parson of Angus went to horse againe and came to Saint Duthois in Rosse by that tyme they were readie to goe to Masse This was on the .xxxj. day of August About the latter ende of September the Archbishop of Saint Androwes and the Erle of Arrane â—…n Ambassage â—…nto France were sent Ambassadors into France They tooke ship the .xxvij. of September The .xvij. of Februarie Iames prince of Scotlande departed this life at Striueling and the Bishop of Galoway also who was appoynted to be his gouernor 1508 An Ambassade â—…ent vnto the â—…ing The .ix. of May in the yeare next ensuing the Lord D'obigny and the president of Tholous came from Lewes the Frenche king as Ambassadors to declare vnto king Iames that he ment to matche his eldest daughter in maryage wyth Frances de Vallois Dolphin of Vien and Duke of Angolesme notwithstanding that Charles K. of Castel that was after Emperor made suite for hir Bycause therefore he ment not to conclude any thing in suche a weightie matter withoute consent of his confederates of which he esteemed king Iames as chiefe he required him of his aduise and counsell therein who after aduisement taken made answere The kings answere that albeit the King of France had sufficient Counsell about him yet sith he had desired his aduise he would friendly giue the same which was that he should rather marie his daughter within his owne Realme vnto suche one as shoulde succeede him than to bestowe hir vpon any forrayne Prince sithe otherwise some clayme myght bee made in tyme comming vnto the Crowne by suche as shoulde match with hir And so with this answere the president of Tholous departed reporting y e same at his coÌ„ming home vnto the French king who thervpon folowed his own determination therin confirmed and allowed thus by his confederate the king of Scotland The Lord D'obigny tooke a sicknesse and died thereof at Corstorphyn in the Moneth of Iune The Lorde Obignie died and caused his heart to be sent vnto Saint Ninians in Galloway bycause he had vowed a pylgrimage thither whilest he remayned the French kings lieutenant in Naples where he had atchieued many high enterprises agaynst his enimies His name was Bernard Steward lieutenant of those men of warre whiche Charles the .viij. of that name king of Fraunce did send with Henrie Erle of Richmond into England when y e same Erle came against king Richard whom he vanquished and therby got the Crowne And so after many noble victories and valiant acts atchieued this Lorde D'obigny ended his life in his owne countrey of Scotland where he was borne This yeare also in May and Iune This was the king himselfe there was kept great Iustes and tourneys in Edenbourgh by one calling himselfe the wilde knight who counterfeyted the round table There were diuers Ambassadors sent forth this yeare also Ambassages sent as the Archdeacon of Saint Androws and sir Anthonie Darcie into France and the Bishop of Murrey into England The .xv. of Iuly the Queene was deliuered of a daughter which shortly after she had receyued baptisme deceassed and the Queene in that child-bed was againe in great perill of death The Bishop of Glasgew died this yeare in his iourney to Ierusalem the .xxix. of Iuly The Archbishop of Glasgew died Iames Beton succeded him in that sea The .xxx. of Iuly A bickering there was a great fray betwixt the Lord Maxwel the lord Creichton of Sanchar where the Lord Creichton was chased with his company from Dunfreis the Laird of Daliel and the yong Laird of Crauthlay with diuerse other were slaine The .xix. An earthquake of SepteÌ„ber was a great earthquake in many places both in England and Scotland namely the same was perceyued in Churches The king of England sent a Gentlemen with horses trymly trapped with bandes of stocâ—… to be presented to king Iames Horses sent vnto king â—…ames who thankfully receyued theÌ„ right honorably rewarded y e messenger The Archdeacon of S. Androwes came 〈◊〉 of France The Archdeacon of Saint Androweâ—… returned forth of Fraunce in a greate
of nations vncertaine 1 Orlasius 13 Ororicke king of Meth assaulteth Dublin 29. is slaine 32 Oscheles 49. Otadhesi 29 Othurtheli 29. Otothell 59 Othaell breaketh his othe 70 Oute Richard 44 Outlaw Roger Prior of Kilinaynam Lord Iustice accused of heresie 58. maketh his purgation 59 P. PAladius 10 Parese Christopher betrayeth Maynoth 97. is beheaded 91 Parliament at Kildare 51. at Kilkenny ibi at Dublin 60.61.62 at Kilkenny 64. at Balidoill ibid. at Dublin 66 c. Patricke Saint his whole life 10 Patricius 20. Pederton Walter 50 Poet what it is 11 Perkin Warbecke 75 Pestilence great whereof it came 3. agayne 64. againe ibid. Peter pens 38. Phelanes 41 Phelin Oconher 44 Picts arriue in Ireland 6. plant themselues in the Bles of Orkeney 7. When they first came to inhabite Brytaine ibid. their couenants with the Irishe for the succession of their kings ibid. they fall out with the Scottes 8 Piphard Raufe 45. Plebs towne burut 57 Poetes fables how they haue bene taken ◅ Poole Cardinall 103 Power Dominicke sent to the Emperour Charles the first 101 Power 39. Power Walter 48 Power Eustace his voiage into Scotlād 48 Preston 64 Prior of Kilmaynain 71.69 Prior of Conall 67 Prouinciall Councell 20 Pulle Walter 57 Q. QVestions propounded by the Nobles of Ireland to king Edward the third 61 Quinio and Liuerey 74 R. RAndon Castle destroyed 45. burnt 5◅ Randoll Coronell of the English bands his monument 46 Rebellion when first attempted in Ireland 19. moued by marchaunt straungers ibid. the ende thereof 92. moued by Thomas Fitz Girald 91 Reguli or Reges what they are taken to bee amongst the Irish 20 Reynold Charles sent to the Pope from the Lorde Fitz Giralde 101 Reymond le Grace is sent ouer into Irelād from Erle Strangbow with a power 25. buildeth a fort at Dundenolf is resisted by the Citizens of Waterforde and discomfiteth them ibid. is sent into France to king Henry the seconde 26 is infierly beloued of the souldiour 33. discomfiteth the king of Desmond ibid. as ioyned in commission with Erle Strangbow in the gouernment of Ireland 32. returneth into Walts 33. is sent for into Irelande by Earle Strangbow and marieth the Ladie Basil sister to the Earle 34. subdueth Donalde King of Limericke and taketh the Citie 35. is enuied for his glorious victories and suspected of king Henry ibid. rayseth the prince of Thomond frō the siege of Limerick 36 is made Lieutenaunt of Ireland his description 37 Richard the seconde king of Englande goeth ouer into Irelande 65. taketh homage of diuerse Lords and Princes of Vlster ibi returneth into Englande ibid. passeth the second time ouer into Irelād with a great nauy 65 commeth to Dublin ibid. returneth ibid. Richard Archbishop of Dublin resigneth by reason of a vision he saw in his sleepe 50 Richarde Duke of Yorke his Letter to the Erle of Salisburie 73 Roche Lord of Poole Castell his yearely reuenues in Henry the fourth his dayes 68. Rodorick a Scithiā prince arriued with his people in Ireland 6. his oration to the K. of Ireland ibid. he sayleth with his people into Scotland and is there slaine ibid. Roe Roger. 73 ◅okesbye Thomas Lorde Iustice his worthy saying 63 ◅osglas Abbey founded 39 Roscoman castell destroyed 45. repayred and fortified ibid. won by the Irish ibid. Rothericke Ochonor king of Connagh and Monarke of Irelande 21. his agreement with King Dermote 23. he causeth Dermotes sonnes head to bee striken off 26. hee submitteth himselfe to Henrie the seconde 30. hee ouerrunneth Meth and razeth the Castels 36 Roukes Edward a Captaine rebell 93. taketh and English Barke 96. is hanged 99. Ruanus how long he liued 3 Rutheranius 3 Ruthurgus Bartolenus his sonne the first finder out of Ireland 2 Ruthurgi stagnum Ruthargus his Poole 2 S. SAgandus 3 Saint Bride and saint Colme 11 Saint Patrikes in Dublin founded 40 Saint Dominicks hill 2 S. Marie Abbey beside Dublin erected 24 Saints in Ireland 11.12 Saint Patricke his life 10 Sayling vnknowne before Noes floud 1 Salanus one of the first finders out of Irelande 2. Salisburie Captaine 96 Sanforde Iohn Archbishop of Dublin 46 Sauage Robert his prayseworthie answers and exploytes 63 Sauage Patricke 67 Scithians lande in Ireland and with great outrage spoyle the Countrey 4 Scligath Castel builded 44. destroyed 45 Scorch William whereof it came 44 Scottes inuade Irelande 52. they are vanquished in battaile 57 Scottes when they first entred Brytayne 7 expulsed thence 9 Scotland inuaded by the Citizens of Dublin 67. by the marchants of Drodagh and prayes and pledges taken ibid. by the Irish 48. by Darcie Lord Iustice 61 Scotia maior and Scotia minor 9 Scrope Stephen Lorde Deputie to Thomas of Lancaster lieutenant 66. his wiues vow and his good chaunge therevpon ibi inuadeth Mac Murches land 67. dieth 69 Saint Paule Iohn Archb. of Dublin 63 Sidney Henry knight Lorde deputie repayreth Erle Strangbowes tombe and erecteth a monument for captaine Randoll 46 Silken Thomas 83. Simond Ric. priest 74 Sketffington William knight L. deputie his answer to the Recorder of Dublin his Oration 34. discharged and againe made lord Deputie 96. besiegeth the castell of Maynoth kept by the rebels winneth it 97. dyeth at Kilmaynam 100 Slanius the first Monarke of Ireland 3 Slane destroyed by the Scottes 55 Suibdanus 17 Sunne is thought to stande still 67. another time 71 Spaniardes first arriuall in Ireland 4. they conquer it 5 Stanton Philip. 46 Stanton Dick his good seruice when the rebels besieged Dublin 95 Stercater a Giaunt with the Danes inuadeth Ireland 17 Starius 3 Staples Edward Bishop of Meth. 84 Statutes of Kilkenny and Dublin confyrmed by Parliament 67.68 Steney Lord of Baltmore his yerely reuenues in Henrie the fourth his dayes 68 Stephē de LOng Espee Lord Iustice 45 Stoning Nicholas Archb of Ardmagh 66 Stragnus 2 Strangbow Rich. Erle of Pembroke one of the chief conquerors of Ireland his couenants with Dermot K. of Lemster 22. his request to Henry the second 24. his voyage itno Ireland with an army and his victories and proceedings there 25.26.27.28 is made the first Lord deputie of Ireland 32 his death and description 33 Subsidies graunted 64.70.71.72 Sutton Gilbert steward of Wexfor slain by the Irish 48 Sutton Herbert knight a worthy captain 57 T. TAffy Richard 46. Talbot 64 Talbot Iohn Lord Furniuall 70 Talbot Richarde Alderman of Dublyn deliuered to the rebels for an hostage 96 Talbot Robert a right noble man walleth the suburbes of Kilkenny 70. 70 Talbot Robert of Belgard 81 Teling Nicholas 46 Teling Iohn a captaine rebell 92.93 Temples when they beganne and how they were suppressed 50 Tenthes of the spirituall liuings in Ireland damaunded by the Pope 4◅ Tardienatus Monarke of Ireland 20 Thira Q. of Denmark hir policy in discouering to the King the death of his sonne 13 Thomas of Lancaster son to K. Henrie the fourth cōmeth into Irelād 69. putteth the erle of Kildare vnder arrest ibi is woūded and hardly
Admirall of the Seas which thing brought to passe be would deliuer the English Nauie into the hands of the sayde King Philippe Herevpon was he set at libertie and ouer hee commeth into Englande And for as muche as he was knowne to bee a manne of syngular and approoued valyauncye King Edwarde receyued hym verye courteously who remembring hys promysed practise to the Frenche King fell in hande by procuring friendes to bee made Admirall of the Seas But King Edwarde as God woulde haue it denied that sute The French king sendeth forth a fleet against englaÌ„d Abingdon The French king in the meane time hauing prepared his nauie coteining three hundred saile what with the Gasleys and other Ships for hee had got diuerse doth fro Merselles Genoa sent the same forth to the seas that vpon such occasion the king of Englande might also sende forth his Fleete But the Frenche name comming neare to the coast of Englande and lying at Ancre certaine dayes looking for sir Thomas Turberuile when hee came not at the day prefixed the Captaynes of the Frenche fleete appoynted one of theyr Vesselles to approche neare to the shore and to sette a lande certaine persons that knewe the Countrey to vnderstande and learne the cause of suche stay They beeing taken of the Englishe men and examined coulde make no direct answere in theyr owne excuse and so were put to death Abingdon Some write that they sent fiue Galleys towards the shore to suruey the coast of the which Galleys one of them aduauncing forth afore hir fellowes arriued at Hide neare to Rumney hauen where the English men espying hir to draw the French men a lande feigned to flie backe into the Countrey but returning sodainly vppon the enimies French men slaine A Gally burnt they slue the whole number of them being about two hundred and fifty persons They set fire on the Galley also and burned hir The Admirall of the French fleete kindled in anger herewith sayled streight vnto Douer and there landing with his people Douer robbed by the French robbed the towne and Priorie The townesmen being striken with feare of the sodaine landing of their enimies fled into the Countrey and raysed people on 〈◊〉 side the which being assembled togither in 〈◊〉 numbers towards euening came to Douer 〈◊〉 inuading such French meÌ„ as were strayed abroâ—â— to seeke prayes slue theÌ„ downe in suâ—… 〈◊〉 places The French Admiral which had bene 〈◊〉 at the day in pâ—…ring the towne The 〈…〉 hearing the noyse of those Frenchmen that came running towardes the sea side streight ways getteth him to his shipâ—… with such pillage as he could take with him The other French men whiche were gâ—…e abrode into the Countrey to fetche prayes and coulde the come to theyr shippes in tyme were statue euery mothers sonne Some of them hid themselues in the corne fieldes and were after slaine of the Country people Frenchâ—… 〈…〉 Douer There was little lesse than .viij. hundred of them thus slaine by one meane and other at that time There were not manye of the men of Douer slain for they escaped by â—…ight at the first entrie made by the Frenchmen But of women and children there dyed a great number for the enimyes spared none There was also an olde Monke slaine named Thomas a man of suche vertue as the opinion went 〈◊〉 after his deceasse many myracles through 〈◊〉 were shewed Sir Thomas Turberuile being troubled in his minde that he could not bring his trayterous purpose to passe beganne to assay another way which was to procure Iohn Ballioll King of Scotlande to ioyne in league with the Frenche K. but ere any of his practises coulde be brought aboute his treason was reuealed Sir 〈…〉 and he coâ—…st thereof was put to execution Nic. Triuet Nich. Tri. saith y t he had promised the French king to cause Wales to reuolt froÌ„ K. Edwarde and that by procurement of the Prouost of Paris he consented to worke such treason And as some write Caxton hee did not onely homage vnto the FreÌ„ch K. but also left two of his sonnes in pledge for assurance to worke that which he had promised His secretarie that wrote the letters vnto the French K. coÌ„teining his imagined treasons Abingâ—… with other aduertisements touching king Edwardes purposes fearing least the matter by some other meanes might come to light as well to his destruction as his maisters for concealing it disclosed the whole to the king He hauing knowledge that he was bewrayed by his seruant fled out of the Court but such diligence was vsed in the pursute of him that he was taken within two dayes after and brought backe agayne to London where he was conuicted of the treason so by â—…yâ—… imagined and therfore finally put to death This yeare the Cleargie gaue to the king the tenth part of their goodes the Citizens a sixt part and the commons a twelfth part or rather â—…s Euersden hath the Burgesses of good towâ—…s gaue the seueÌ„th and the commons abrode the .xj. peny â—…e death of â—…ble men The same yeare died Gilbert de Clary Earle of Gloucester which left issue behinde him be got of his wife the Countesse Ioan the kings daughter beside three daughters one yong sonne named also Gylbert to succeede him as his he yâ—…e The Countesse his wife after hir husbandes decease maried a knight of meanâ—… estate borne in the Byshoprike of Dâ—…resme 〈◊〉 Raule â—…uthermer â—…dded the â—…tesse of â—…ucester named Sir Raâ—…e Monthermer that that 〈…〉 Earle â—…ee fyrst husbande in hys lyfe tyme. The king at the first tooke displeasure herewith but at length thorow the high valiantie of the knight diuerse tymes shewed and apparantly approued the matter was so well taken that he was entituled Erle of Glocester and aduanced to great honor 〈…〉 Iohn Romain Archbishop of Yorke also this yeare died after whom one Henry de Newinarke dâ—…aue of the Colledge there succeded Moreouer the same yeare William de Valence Earle of Pembroke departed this life and lyeth buryed at Westmynster and then Aimer his sonne succeeded him â—…e king of 〈◊〉 concluâ—… a league â—…h the FreÌ„ch 〈…〉 Iohn king of Scotlande â—…anceth his sonne Edwarde Ballioll with the daughter of Charles on Valâ—…ys brother to the French king and conchideth with the sayde Frenche king a league against the king of England Nothing moued the Scottishe king so much hereto as the affection which he bare towards his natiue Countrey for he was a French man borne lord of Harecourt in Normandie which sâ—…gnorie was after made an Earledome by Philip du Valoys King of Fraunce â—…at VVest The Scottishmen had chosen .xij. Peeres that is to say foure Bishops foure Earles and foure Barons by whose aduise and counsayle the King shoulde gouerne the Realme by whom he was induced also to consent vnto such accorde wyth the French men contrarie to his promised fayth giuen to king
the kings letters were enclosed and appoint me sayth he vnto some corner of the wall trie whether I can handle a Crossebowe or not to defend it againste youre aduersaries Heere when other woulde haue opened the boxe and haue red the letters the captaine would in no wise consent thereto but going into a turret called to the Englishmen belowe and willed them to signifie to the K. that one of his seruants being fled to him sought to bewray his secretes wherevnto he would by no meanes agree therefore meant to restore both the traytor and y e letters Herevpon the Lord Iohn Spencer coÌ„ming to heare what the matter might meane the Captaine caused Lewine to be let downe to hym togither with the letters safe and not touched by hym at all whiche thing when the Kyng vnderstood he muche commended the honest respect of the Captaine and where he had caused engynes to be reised to annoy theÌ„ within as ye haue heard he commaunded the same to ceasse and withall vpon their captaynes sute he granted them libertie to sende vnto their K. Iohn Ballioll â—…elchman â—…ed to gyue him to vnderstand in what sort they stood Touching the Welchman he was drawen and hanged on a paire of high galowes prepared for hym of purpose as he had well deserued And whylest the messengers were on their way towards Forfair where the Scottish K. then lay K. Edward with a parte of his army went vnto Striueling â—…ling â—…l left â—… where he found the Castel gates set open and the keyes hanging on a naile so that hee entred there without any resistance for they that hadde thys Castel in gard were fledde out of it for feare before his comming The messengers that were sent from them within Edenburgh Castel comming to their king declared to him in what case they stoode that were besieged King Iohn for that hee was not able to succour them by anye manner of meanes at that presente sente them worde to take the best way they could for theyr owne safetie with whiche aunswere the messengers returning the Castell was immediately deliuered vnto the Lorde Iohn Spencer Edenburgh Castel deliuered to the K. of England that was left in charge with the siege at the Kings departure towards Striueling with the like conditioÌ„s as the Castell of Rockesburgh had yeelded alittle before And thus was that strong Castell of Edenburgh surrendred by force of siege to the kyng of Englands vse the fiftenth daye after hee hadde firste layde his siege aboute it A place of suche strength by the height of the grounde whereon it stoode that it was thought impregnable and had not bin wonne by force at any time sith the firste buylding thereof before that presente so farre as any remembraunce eyther by writing or otherwise could be had thereof Heere at EdeÌ„burgh or rather at Rockesburgh as Abingdon hathe a greate number of Wicelche footemen came to the Kyng who sente home the lyke number of Englishe footemen of those that seemed most wearie Moreouer at Striueling there came to the Kyng the Earle of Vlster with a greate number of IrishareÌ„ TheÌ„ passing ouer y e riuer of Forth Saint Iohns towne the Kyng came vnto Saint Iohns Towne aboute Midsommer and there tarried certayne dayes Whilest these things were a doing Iohn K. of Scotlande perceyuing that he was not of power to resist Kyng Edwarde The King of Scottes sueth for peace sente Ambassadors vnto him to sue for peace King Edwarde was content to heare them and therevpon appointed that King Iohn should resorte vnto the Castell of Brechin there to commen with suche of hys councell as hee woulde sende thither within fifteene dayes nexte ensuing The Bishop of Durham to treate of an agreemente King Edwarde sente thither Anthony Byshoppe of Durham with full commission to conclude all things in his name And within the appoynted tyme came Kyng Iohn and dyuers of his nobles vnto him the whiche after manye and sundry treaties holden betwixt them and the sayde Byshoppe The King of Scottes submitteth hymselfe vnto the K. of England at length they submitted themselues and the Realme of Scotland simply and purely into the handes of the Kyng of England for the which submission to be firmely kept and obserued kyng Iohn deliuered hys sonne in hostage and made letters thereof written in French conteyning as followeth JEhan per la grace de Dieu Rey de Escoce á touez ceulxs quae cestes praesentes lettes verront ou orront Saluz c. The instrument of the submission IOhn by the grace of God King of Scotland to all those that these present letters shall see or heare sendeth greeting Bicause that we through euill counsell and oure owne simplicitie haue greuously offended oure soueraigne Lorde Edwarde by the grace of God Kyng of Englande Lorde of Irelande and Duke of Aquitayne in many thynges that is to saye in that whereas wee beeyng and abidyng vnder hys faithe and homage haue bounde oure selues vnto the Kyng of Fraunce whyche then was hys enimie and yet is procuring a marriage with the daughter of hys brother Charles au Valoys and that wee myghte greeue our sayde Lorde and ayde the Kyng of Fraunce with all oure power by warre and other meanes we haue at length by aduice of oure peruerse counsell defied oure sayde Lorde the Kyng of Englande and haue putte oure selues out of hys allegiance and homage and sente oure people into Englande to brenne houses to take spoyles to committe murther with many other domages and also in fortifying the Kyngdome of Scotlande whiche is of hys fee puttyng and establishing armed menne in Townes Castels and other places to defende the lande agaynste hym to deforce hym of hys fee for the whyche transgressions oure sayde soueraigne Lorde the Kyng entring into the Realme of Scotlande with hys power hathe conquered and taken the same notwithstandyng all that wee coulde doe agaynste hym as by right he maye doe as a Lorde of hys fee bycause that we did render vnto hym oure homage and made the foresayde Rebellion Wee therefore as yet beeing in our full power and free will doe render vnto hym the lande of Scotland and all the people thereof with the homages In witnesse wherof wee haue caused these letters patentes to made Yeuen at Brechin the tenth daye of Iuly in the fourth yeare of oure raigne Sealed with the common seale of the Kyngdome of Scotlande King Edward passeth foreward through Scotland After thys Kyng Edwarde wente forwarde to see the Mountayne countreys of Scotlande the Byshoppe of Durham euer keepyng a dayes iorney afore hym At length when hee hadde passed through Murrey lande and was come to Elghin perceyuing all thynges to bee in quiet hee returned towardes Berwike and commyng to the Abbey of Scone he tooke from thence the Marble stone King Edward bringeth the Marble stone out of Scotlande wherevppon the Kynges of Scotlande were accustomed to sitte as in
Gourney who â—…ing 〈◊〉 Marcels three yeares after â—…g known 〈◊〉 and brought toward Englande was deheaded on the sea least hee shoulde â—…se the 〈…〉 as the Bishop and other Iohn Muttinees repenting himselfe lay long hidden 〈…〉 manie and in the ende died penitently Thus was king Edwarde â—…thered in the yeare 13â—…7 on the .xxij. of September The â—…e 〈◊〉 that by this Edwarde the seconde The fond opinion of the ignoraÌ„t people after his death manye myâ—…ses were wrought So that the like opinion of him was â—…eryâ—…s as before had beene of Earle Thomas of Lancaster namely amongst the common people He was knowne to bee of a good and â—…teons nature though not of moste pregnant 〈◊〉 The nature disposition of king Edwarde the seconde And alâ—…eâ—… 〈◊〉 youth 〈…〉 into certaine light â—…rymes 〈…〉 by the companie and counsaâ—…e of euill â—…on was â—…ndâ—…ed vnto more heyâ—… 〈…〉 thought that he purged the 〈◊〉 by repentance and paciently suffered many reproâ—…s and finally death it selfe as before yee haue hearde after a most cruell maner Hee had surely good cause to repent his former trade of syuing for by his indiscreete and wanton â—…uernance there were headed and put to death during his raigne by iudgement of law to the nuÌ„ber of .xxviij. barons and knights ouer and beside such as were slaine in Scotlande by hys infortunate conduct And all these mischiefes and many mor happened not only to him but also to the whole state of the realm in that he wanted iudgement and prudent discretion to make choyse of sage and discrete counsaylers receyuing those into his fauour that abused the same to their pryuate gaine and aduantage not respecting the aduancement of the common wealth so they themselues might attaine to riches and honour for which they onely sought insomuch that by theyr couetous rapine spoyle and immoderate ambition the heartes of the common people and nobilitie were quite estraunged from the dutifull loue and obedience which they ought to haue shewed to their soueraigne going about by force to wrasâ—… him to follow theyr willes and to seeke the destruction of them whom he commonly fauoured wherein surely they were worthie of blame and to taste as manye of them did the deserued punishment for theyr disobedient and disloyall demeanors For it was not the way whiche they tooke to helpe the disfigured state of the common wealth but rather the readie meane to ouerthrow all as if Gods goodnesse had not beene the greater it must needs haue come to passe as to those that shall well consider the pitifull tragedie of this kings tyme it may well appeare But now to proceed with that which remaineth touching this infortunate Prince â–ª Hee had issue by his wife Queene Isabell His issue two sonnes Edward which was made king whilest he was yet aliue and Iohn whiche dyed yong also two daughters Eleanore which died before she came to yeares able for mariage and Ioan which was after giueÌ„ in mariage vnto Dauid king of Scotlande He was indifferently tall of stature strong of bodie and healthfull neither wanted there in him stoutnesse of stomake if his euill counsaylers had bene remoued that he might haue shewed it in honourable exploytes which being kept backe by them he coulde not doe so that thereby it appeareth of what importance it is to be trayned vp in youth with good and honest companie It is sayd that he was learned insomuch that there remaine verses which as some haue written he made whilest he was in prison Certaine it is he fauoured learning as by the erection of Oriall Colledge in Oxford Oryall and S. Marie hall in Oxford and S. Maries Hall which were of his foundation it may well bee gathered Ex centuria 4. Bale Learned men we finde recorded by Bale to liue in this kings time these as follow Iohn Dâ—…ns that subtill Logitian borne as Lelande hath gathered in a village in Northumberlande called Emyldun three myles distant from 〈◊〉 wike although other hold the coÌ„trarie 〈…〉 clayming him for theyr countreymen 〈…〉 Irishe men for theirs Robert Waâ—… 〈◊〉 Eâ—…lite Frier that wâ—…iâ—… diuerse 〈…〉 Wilton an Augustine Friers 〈…〉 borne Raâ—…fe Locksley Nicholas 〈…〉 William Whitley Thomas Ioyâ—… 〈◊〉 Ioyceâ—… William Gaynesburg â–ª Robert Bâ—… borne not farre from Notingham 〈…〉 Frier of Scarbourgh the same whome king â—…warde tooke with him into Scotlande to 〈◊〉 some remeÌ„brances of his victories although being taken by the Scottes Soâ—… in Sâ—…lande Pâ—… he was constrâ—… 〈◊〉 Robert Brâ—… to frame a dittie to 〈…〉 time Iohn Horminger a Suffolke was 〈◊〉 William Rishanger a Monke of S. 〈…〉 Historiographer â–ª Ranfe Baldocke 〈◊〉 London wrote also an Historie which was 〈◊〉 â—…tuled Historia Anglica Richard Bâ—… 〈◊〉 â—…colnshire man borne a Carmelite Frier 〈◊〉 Walsingham borne either in Walsingham 〈◊〉 Brunham as Bale supposeth a Carmelite 〈◊〉 also and wrote diuerse treatises Thomas â—…ham a Cauoâ—… Salisburie and a 〈…〉 â—…initio Robert Plunpton borne in 〈◊〉 a regular Chanonâ—… Thomas Caâ—… 〈◊〉 of Pontfret William Mansfield Iohn 〈◊〉 Robert 〈◊〉 William Askattle of Beâ—… Gaffrey of 〈◊〉 Iohn Gatisdene â–ª Tâ—… Angliens StepheÌ„â—…ton or Edâ—… Iohn â—…stone borne in Yorkeshire Iohn Wâ—… Nicholas de Lira Iewe by byrth of those 〈◊〉 had their habitatioÌ„s in England who 〈◊〉 â—…ree many treatises to his great commeÌ„dation for his singuler knowlege and zeale which 〈…〉 in disprouing the Rabines that styll sought to keepe the Iewish nation in blindnesse and 〈◊〉 hope in looking for another Messias Raâ—…â—…ton an excellent diuine Iohn Dumbleton a â—…gitian Thomas Langford borne in Mâ—… Essex Osbert Pyckertam a Carmelite Frier of Lyn in Norffolke Nicholas Oheâ—… 〈…〉 Frier William Ocham a Frier Minor 〈◊〉 wrote diuerse treatises namely against Iohn Duns and likewise against Iohn the 〈…〉 of that name in fauour of the Emperour Lewes of Bauier Richard Walingford Thomas â—…wood a CanoÌ„ of Leedes in Kent wrote a Chronicle called Chronicon CampendiariuÌ„ Robert â—…rew Robert Perserutator borne in Yorkeshire a black Frier a Philosopher or rather a Magâ—… Richarde Belgrane a Carmelite Brinkley a minorite and others King Edward the thirde â—…dward â—…e 3. EDwarde the thirde of that name the sonne of Edwarde the seconde and of Isabell the onelye daughter of Philip le Beau and sister to Charles the fifth king of Fraunce began his raigne as king of England his father yet liuing the .xxv. day of Ianuarie after the creation .5292 in the yeare of our Lorde .1327 after the account of them that beginne the yeare at Christmasse 867. after the comming of the Saxons 260. after the conquest the .13 yeare of the raigne of Lewes the fourth then Emperor the seuenth of Charles the fift king of Fraunce the secoÌ„d of Andronicus Iunior Emperor of the East almost ended and about the end of the .22 of Robert le Bruce king of Scotland as Wil. Harison in his Chronologie hath diligently recorded He was crowned at Westminster on the day of
it of hym as of the soueraigne Lorde thereof so that he would promise to defende hym and that Duchie against his aduersaries whyche the Kyng promised him to do After this the French K. made such warres against this Earle of Mountfort that he was at leÌ„gth taken prisoner in the towne of Nauntes committed to safe keeping within the Castell of the Lovre at Paris but his wife being a stoute woman and of a manly courage stoode vp in the quarrell of hir husbande and presented a yong son which she had by him vnto such Captaines men of warre as serued hir husbande requiring them not to bee dismayd with the infortunate chance of hir husbaÌ„ds taking but rather lyke meÌ„ of good stomackes to staÌ„d in defence of his right sith whatsoeuer happened to hym the same remayned in that yong Gentleman his sonne Ia. Meir This Countesse of Mountfort was sister vnto Lewes Earle of Flaunders and named Margaret and not Claudia as some write She was very diligente in hir businesse and spared no trauaile to aduaunce hir cause so that she wanne not only the heartes of the men of warre but also of the people of Britaine the whiche fauoured hir husband and lamented the mishap of his taking She firste furnished suche Cities Froissard Townes Castels and fortresses as hir husband had in possession with men munition vittayles as Renes Dynaunt Guerand Hanibout and others This done she sente ouer into England sir Emerie de Câ—…sson a noble man of Britaine to require the King of Englande of succours with condition that if it pleased him hir sonne Iohn should marrie one of his daughters The King of Englande glad to haue suche an entrie into Fraunce as by Britaine thought not to refuse the offer therevpon graunted to ayde the Countesse forthwith reysing a power sente the same ouer him Britaine vnder the conduct of the Lord Walter of Manny and others the which at length after they had continued long vpon the sea by reason of contrary windes arriued in Britaine in whiche meane time a great army of FrenchmeÌ„ were entred into Britaine and had besieged the Citie of Renes and finally wonne it by surrender and were nowe before the Towne of Hanibout whiche with straite siege and sore brusing of the walles they were neere at poynt to haue taken and the Countesse of Mountfort within it if the succours of England had not arriued there euen at suche time as the Frenchmenne were in talke with them within about the surrender But after that the English fleete was seene to approch the treatie was soone broken off for they within had no lust then to talke any further of the matter The Lorde of Manny and the Englishmen arriuing at Hanibout thus in time of imminent daunger wherein the Countesse and the other within that Towne were presently beset The Engliâ—… succour â—…â—…ed in good time greatly recomforted the saide Countesse as she well shewed by hir cheerefull countenance in receyuing them Shortly after their arriuall Archers a certaine number of the Englishe archers issuing forthe beate the Frenchmen from an engine which they hadde reared against the walles and set fire vppon the same engin To conclude the Frenchemen lyked the Englishmen so well that shortly after being wearie of their companie they raysed their siege to get themselues further from them and in an other parte of the countrey endeuoured themselues to winne Townes and Castels as they did indeede Charles de Blois hauing their army deuided into two partes the Lord Charles de Bloys gouerning the one parte and a Spanyarde called the Lorde Lewes de Spaine the other which was the same that thus departed from the siege of Hanibout Lewes de Spaine after the arriuall of the Englishmenne and then winning the townes of Dinant and Guerand Britaine Britonaâ—… passed into the countrey of Britaine BritonauÌ„t and there not farre from Quinpercorentine were discomfited by the Englishmenne who followed them thither Of sixe thousande Genewaies Spanyardes and Frenchmenne whiche the Lorde Lewes of Spayne had there with him there escaped but a few away A nephewe which he hadde there with him named Alfons was slaine howbeit he himselfe escaped though not without sore hurtes This yeare Edmond of Langley that was after Duke of â—… is borne Fabiaâ—… the fifth of Iune Queene Phillip was deliuered of a sonne at the towne of Langley the which was named Edmond and surnamed Langley of the place where hee was thus borne â—…ustes and â—…urney at â—…nstable Also about the same time was a great iustes kept by King Edwarde at the Towne of Dunstable with other counterfeyted feates of warre at the request of diuers yong Lords and Gentlemen whereat both the King and Queene were presente with the more parte of the Lordes and Ladies of the lande The Lorde Charles de Blois hauing in the meane time wonne Vannes and other townes brought his army backe vnto Hanibout â—…anibout â—…sieged and eftsoones besieged the same and the Countesse of Mountfort w tin it but for somuch as it was wel fortifyed prouided of all things necessarie to defend a siege the Englishemen being returned thyther agayne after the ouerthrowe of the Lord Lewes de Spayne it could not be easily wonne At length 1342 An. reg â—…6 â—…he CouÌ„tesse 〈◊〉 Richmont â—…mmeth oâ—… into Engâ—…de 〈◊〉 army sente â—…o Britaine by the labor of certayne Lords of Britaine a truce was taken for a tyme during the whiche the Countesse of Richmond came ouer into England to coÌ„mune with King Edward touching the affaires of Britaine who appoynted sir Robert Dartois Earle of Richmond the Earles of Salisburie Pembroke and Suffolke the Lordes Stafford Spencer and Bourchier with other to goe with hir ouer into Britaine who made their prouision so that they mighte take the sea to come thither against the time that the truce betwixte the Countesse and the Lorde Charles de Bloys should expire â—…dditions to â—…dam Meriâ—…outh and â—…uet There bee that write how the Lord Walter de Manny tooke a truce indeede with the Lorde Charles de Bloys to endure till Alhallowneâ—…de next ensuing but with condition that if the king of Englande were contented therewith then the same to be firme and fully ratifiede otherwise not Wherevpon when about the beginning of Iuly the sayd Lord Walter came ouer into England bringing with him the Lord of Lions and other such prisoners as he had taken and signified to King Edward what he had coÌ„cluded touching the truce the King liked not thereof and so sente ouer the Earles of Northampton and Deuonshire the Lord Stafford The Earle of Northampton and Deuonshire and sir William de Killesby his Chaplayne and one of his Secretaries with fiue hundred men of armes and a thousand archers whiche taking Shippe the vigill of the Assumption of our Lady sayled forthe towards Britaine The frenchmen therefore vnderstanding that this succour was
comming appointed the Lord Lewes of Spaine sir Charles Grimaldo and sir Antony Doria with three thousand Genewes Genewes reteined in the French kings wages and a thousande menne of armes embarqued in two and thirtie great Shippes to lie on the sea in awayte to encounter the Englishe fleete as the same should approch towards Britaine They began to fighte about euensong tyme and continued till that nighte parted them and had gone togither againe in the morning if by a tempest that rose about midnighte the same night they had not bin scattered in sunder Additions to Triuet Other write otherwise both of the landyng and also concerning the misfortune of the Lorde Spencer alledging letters sent from the Earle of Northampton whome the same authors repute as generall of that army into Britaine directed to the Kyng in whiche was signified howe that within the octaues of the assumption of our Lady they arriued on the coast of Britaine neere to the Towne and Castell of Brest in the whyche the Duchesse of Britaine with hir children were of the enimies besieged both by sea and lande by sea with thirteene greate galleys by lande by the Lorde Charles de Bloys the Earles of Sauoy and Foiz But the galleys perceyuing the Englishe fleete to bee approched vpon them ere they were aware so that they were compassed in to their great danger three of the same galleys fled and so escaped the residue got vp into a riuer of the same hauen where they that were aboorde left their vessels and fledde to the lande and as wel they as the other that held siege before Brest and suche as kept a Castell there not farre off called Goule Forrest packed away without any more ado The english marriners following the galleies that were withdrawen vp the riuer with theyr small boates and barges set fire on the same galleys and so brent them Thus all the EnglishmeÌ„ came a lande and leauing the Lorde Say Captain in the said Castel of Gouleforrest they passe forward into y e countrey comming to a Castel coÌ„monly called Monsieur Relix gaue an assault thereto where many of their men of warre were wouÌ„ded and sir Iames Louel slaine After this staying a time for y e coÌ„ming of their coÌ„federates whiche after a fortnightes space came to them on y e monday being the morrow after Michaelmas day they hearde that the Lorde Charles de Blois was comming in al hast with a power of three M. meÌ„ of armes twelue C. Genewayes a greate multitude of coÌ„mons to reyse the siege WherevpoÌ„ y e Erle of NorthamptoÌ„ with his army marched softly towards theÌ„ chosing a plot of ground conuenieÌ„t for his purpose fought with his enimie slew and tooke of them at y e least three hundred men of armes The Erle of Northampton lost not any noble man in this fight excepted onely the Lord Edwarde Spencer But nowe as touching the Earle of Richmont Froissart sayth y t he coÌ„ming to Hanibout after he had thus lost Vannes tooke the Sea and sailed into England but by reason of beeing tossed on the seas his wounds rancled so that shortly after his comming to London hee dyed and was buried in the Church of Saint Paule The King of Englande was sore displeased with hys deathe â—…he Kyng â—…eth ouer â—…o Brytayn and immediately after passed ouer hymselfe into Britaine with a greate army and landing there the nine and twentith of Nouember at the same place where the Earle of Richmont did land at his arriuall there not farre from VaÌ„nes â—…nnes beâ—…ed he went straight and besieged Vannes but perceyuing that it woulde not bee wonne but by long siege he left the Erle of Arundell and y e lord Stafford to continue the siege whilest he wente to Rennes to aide his people which still lay at the siege therof Before the kings arriual in Britain those y t were there vnder the Erle of Northampton â—…ditions to 〈◊〉 as the Lord Hugh Spencer the L. Richard Talbat with their retinewes foughte with the Frenchmen neere to Morleis where a few Englishmen vnneth fiue huÌ„dred discomfited a mighty power of Frenchmen 〈◊〉 army of â—…enchmen comfited a few Enâ—…shmen estemed to be aboue fiftie thousand of whome some they slewe some they tooke Among other was taken the L. Geffrey de Charny accompted for one of the best and sagest Knightes in Fraunce whome the Lorde Richard Talbot tooke and sent into Englande But nowe as touching the Kings doings wee finde that whilest hee remayned for this winter season in Britaine his people forreyed y e Countrey a four dayes iorney in length and two days iorney in bredth After his comming to Rennes hee stayed not past fiue dayes but leauing them whome he found there to continue the siege hee went himselfe to Nauntes where he had knowledge that the Lorde Charles de Blois was At his comming thither hee enuironed the Citie about with a strong siege Nauntes besieged and made many fierce assaultes to walles and gates but could not preuayle then leauing certaine of his Lords there to continue the siege hee raysed with the residue and went to Dinan whiche Towne with sore and fierce assaultes hee lastly wonne and after that drew againe towards Vannes for that he was enformed howe the Duke of Normandy was comming downe towards him with an army of fortie thousand men The King of England supposing he shoulde haue battell sente vnto those whiche lay at siege before Rennes commanding them to come from thence vnto him so that by this meanes all the powers both of the King of Englande and of the Duke of Normandie generall to his father the Frenche Kyng in those warres of Brytaine beeing assembled before Vannes hande foughten some great and bloudy battell as was supposed for the whole triall of the right of Britaine if the Cardinals of Cleremount and Preâ—…stâ—… as Legates from Pope Clement the sixth hadde not taken vp the matter by concluding a deale betwixte them for the tearme of three yeares Additions to Triuet Commissioners for the King of Englande Commissioners appoynted to treate with these Cardinals on the behalfe of the Kyng of Englande were these Henry of Lancaster Earle of Derby William Bohun Earle of Northampton William Mountagew Earle of Salisburie Raufe Lord Stafford Bartholmewe Lorde Burgherse Nicholas Lorde Cantelow Reginald Lorde Cobham Walter Lord of Manny Maurice Lord Berkeley and Master Iohn Vfford Archdeacon of Elie. Commissioners for the french king For the Frenche King Odo Duke of Burgoigne and Piers Duke of Burbon were deputed Commissioners and such diligence was vsed by the parties 1343 that finally they agreed vpon thys truce of three yeares A truce for three yeares with certayne articles for meane to conclude some final peace as that there should be sent from eyther Kyng some personages of their bloud and others vnto the Courte of Rome with sufficient authoritie to agree confirme and establishe vpon all
endured more than a great league Caxton The number slaiâ—…e Froissart There were slaine in all to the number of two thousande When the king of Englande had thus passed the riuer hee acquit Gobin Agace and all hys companie of their raunsoms and gaue to y e same Gobin an hundred nobles Crotay burnt and a good horse and so the king roade foorth as he did before His marshals roade to Crotay by the Sea side and burnt the towne and tooke all such wines and goodes as were in the Shippes and Barkes which lay there in the hauen One of the Marshals road to the gates of Abuile and from thence to S. Richier and after to the towne of Rue saint Esperite This was on a Fryday and both the Marshals returned to the kings host about noone and so lodged all togither about Cressy in Ponthieu where hauing knowledge that the French king followed to giue 〈◊〉 battaile he commaunded his marshals to câ—…plot of ground somewhat to his aduantage 〈◊〉 he might there abide his aduersaries In the 〈◊〉 time the French king being come with at his â—…issance vnto Abuâ—…e and hearing hâ—… the 〈◊〉 EnglaÌ„d was passed ouer the riuer of Sâ—… 〈◊〉 dâ—…comfited sir Goâ—… dâ—… Foy he was 〈…〉 pleased in his minde but when he vnderstood 〈◊〉 his enimies were lodged at Cressy and meâ—… 〈◊〉 to abyde him he caused all his people to 〈…〉 of Abuâ—…e and early on the Saterday in the â—…ning anon after Sunne rysing he departed 〈◊〉 of the towne himselfe and marched towards his enimies The king of England vnderstanding that his aduersarie king Philip stil followed 〈◊〉 to giue him battaile and supposing that the 〈◊〉 Saterday he would come to offer it â—…oâ—…e 〈◊〉 in the morning and comaunded euery man 〈◊〉 to call vpon God for his ayde theâ—… to be â—…ed and to draw with speede into the field thâ—… the place before appoynted they might be set â—…der of battail Beside this he caused a pâ—…e to 〈◊〉 and closed by the woodde side behinde 〈…〉 in the which he ordeyned that all the Caâ—…tes aâ—…ges shoulde be set with all the horses 〈◊〉 eueryâ—… was on foot Then he ordeyned three 〈◊〉 in the first was the prince of Wales with him the Earle of Warwike the Lord Godfrey of Harecourt the Lord Stafforde the Lord de la Waâ—… the Lord Bourchier the lord Thomas Clifford Gâ—… 〈…〉 sayth that when they should inâ—… 〈…〉 English 〈◊〉 were yâ—… archeâ—… English de Welâ—…men beside â—…ther 〈◊〉 with 〈…〉 Ianâ—…ies and not â—…ully 400â—… 〈◊〉 the Lord Reginald Cobham the Lord Thomas Hollande sir Iohn Chandos sir Bartilâ—…w de Browash sir Rob. Neuil They were an vâ—…j C. men of armes and two M. archers a. M. of other with the Welchmen In the second bâ—…taile was the Erle of Northamton the Erle of Arundell the Lords Ros and Willowbie Baâ—…et S. Albine Multon and other The third battaile the king led himselfe hauing with him .vij. C. men of armes and two thousande Archers and in the other battayles were to the number of right hundred men of Armes and twelue hundred Archers Thus was the English armie marshalled according to the report of Froissart When euery man was gotten into order of battaile the king leapt vpon a white Hobbie Froissâ—…t The 〈◊〉 meâ—… 〈◊〉 the â—…e and rode from ranke to ranke to viewe them the one Marshall on hys ryght hande and the other on hys lefte desiring euerie manne that daye to haue regarde to hys ryght and honour Her spake it so courteously and wyth so good a countenaunce that euen they whiche before were discomforted tooke courage in hearing him speake suche sweete and louing woordes amongest them It was nine of the clocke or euer is 〈◊〉 â—…ed all his battayles and thervpon it caused euerie man to eate and drinke a little which they did at theyr ley sure This was a perillous battaile and sore foughten there were few taken to mercie for the English men had so determined in the morning Certaine French men and Almaines perforce opened the archers of the Princes battaile The princes battail pierced and came to fight with the men of armes hand to hand Then the seconde battaile of the Englishe men came to succor the Princes battaile and not before it was time for they of that battail had as then ynough to do insomuch that some which were 〈…〉 as the Erle of Northampton The 〈◊〉 Northamâ—… sendeth 〈◊〉 king and other 〈◊〉 the king where he stood aloft on a Wâ—… requiring him to aduaunce forward and 〈◊〉 their ayde they being as then sore layde tâ—… enimies The king here vpoÌ„ demaunded if 〈◊〉 were slaine hurt or felled to the earth 〈◊〉 the knight that brought the message The kings answere but 〈…〉 matched well sayd the king returne to him 〈◊〉 them that sent you and say to them that they send no more to me for any aduenture that â—…leth so long as my sonne is aliue for 〈◊〉 that this iourney be his with the honor theâ—… 〈◊〉 this answere the knight returned which 〈◊〉 encouraged them to do their best for to 〈◊〉 theyr spurres beeing halfe arashed in that they hâ—… sent to the king for ayde At length when it deâ—… toward euening that the Frenchmen wâ—… beâ—…ten downe slain on eche hand The French king depaâ—… out of the 〈◊〉 king Philip as it were by coÌ„straint departed out of the field not â—…uing as then past .lx. persons about him of whoÌ„ the L. Iohn of Heynâ—…ult was one by whose perswasion be chiefly consented to ride his way for his owne safegarde when hee sawe the losse was such as on that day it could not be recouered The slaughter of the Frenchmen was great and lamentable Great slaughter of Frenchmen Caxton Iames Mâ—… Polidor Froissâ—…rt Noble mâ—…n â—…aâ—… namely for the losse of so many noble menne as were slaine at the same battaile fought betwene Cressy Broy on that Sâ—…terday next following the feast of S. Bartholomew being as that yeare fell the .xxvj. of August Among other which died that day these 〈…〉 registred by name as chiefest Iohn king of Boheme Raufe Duke of Lorraine Charles of Alanso brother germaine to king Philip Charles Erle of Bloys Lewes Erle of Flanders also the Earle of Harecourt brother to the Lord Geâ—… of Harecourt with the Earles of Aussere Anmerle and Saint Poule beside diuers other of the nobilitie The English men neuer brake out of their battails to chase any man but kept themselues togithers in their wards and ranks defended themselues euer agaynst such as came to assayle them This battaile ended about euening When the Frenchmen were clearly ouerâ—…e and those that were left aliue fled gone so that the Englishmen heard no more noyse of them The king of England commeth downe from the hâ—… king Edwarde came downe from the hyll on the which hee had stood all that day with his helmet still on his head
seruaunts and rested not till he came to his owne Castell where he dwelled being .xxx. mile distant from the place of the battaile There was taken also beside him Hec. Boetius Southwell Fabian Froissart the Erles of Fife Sutherlande Wighton and Menteth the Lorde William Dowglas the Lord Vescie the Archb. of S. Andrewes and another Bishop wyth Sir Thomelyn Fowkes and diuerse other men of name There were slaine of one and other to the number of .xv. M. This battaile was fought beside the citie of Durham Neuils crosse at a place called Neuils crosse vpon a Saterday next after the feast of S. Michaell See in Scotlād Pag. 350. 351 in the yeare of our Lorde .1346 He that will see more of this battaile may finde the same also set forth in the Scottishe hystorie as theyr writers haue written thereof And forsomuch as by the circumstances of their writings it shoulde seeme they kept the remembraunce of the same battaile perfitely registred wee haue in this place onely shewed what other wryters haue recorded of that matter and left that which the Scottishe Chronicles write to be seene in the life of king Dauid without much abridging thereof Hec. Boetius Counttreys of Scotland subdued by the Englishmen Froissart The English men after this victorie thus obteyned tooke the Castels of Roxburgh and Hermitage and also without any resistance subdued the Countreys of Annandale Galloway Mers Tiuidale and Ethrike Forest extending theyr marches forth at y e time vnto Cokburnes Peth and Sowtray hedge and after vnto Trarlinlips and crosse Cane The Queene of England being certainly enformed that the king of Scottes was taken and that Iohn Copland had conueyed him out of the field no man vnderstood to what place she incōtinently wrote to him Iohn Copland refuseth to deliuer the king of Scottes commaunding him forthwith to bring his prisoner king Dauid vnto hir presence but Iohn Copland wrote to hir againe for a determinate answere that he would not deliuer his prisoner the sayde king Dauid vnto any person liuing man or woman except onely to the king of England his soueraigne Lord maister Herevpon the Queene wrote letters to the king signifying to him both of the happie victorie chanced to his people against the Scots also of the demeanor of Iohn Coplande in deteyning the Scottish king King Edwarde immediatly by letters commaunded Iohn Coplande to repaire vnto him where hee laye at siege before Calais which with all conuenient speede he did and there so excused himselfe of that which the Queene had found hirselfe grieued with him for deteyning the king of Scots from hir that the king did not ◅ly pardon him but also gaue to him .v. C. Iohn C◅ rea◅ pounds sterling of yearely rent to him and to his hey◅ for euer in reward of his good seruice and valiant prowes and made him Esquier for his bodie cōmanding him yet vpō his returne into England to deliuer king Dauid vnto the Queene whiche he did and so excused himselfe also vnto hir that she was therwith satisfied and content The Queene then after she had taken order for the safe keping of the king of Scots and good gouernment of the realme toke the sea and sayled ouer to the K. hir husband stil lying before Calais Whilest Calais was thus besieged by the king of Englande the Flemings which had lately before besieged Betwine Iames M◅ The Fle◅ had raysed from thence about the same time that the battaile was fought at Cressy nowe assemble togither againe and doing what domage they mighte agaynste the Frenche men on the borders they lay siege vnto the towne of Ayre Moreouer Froissart they wrought so for the king of England earnestly requiring their friendship in that behalfe that their soueraigne Lorde Lewes 1347 An. reg ◅ Earle of Flaunders being as then about fiftene yeares of age fianced the Ladie Isabel daughter to the king of England The Earle of Fla◅ders ◅strayned to promise ◅riage to the king of Englāds d◅g◅ more by cōstraint in deed of his subiects than for any good wil he bare to the king of England for he would often say that he would neuer mary hir whose father had slain his but there was no remedie for the Flemings kept him in maner as a prisoner till he graunted to folow their aduice But the same weeke that the mariage was appoynted to bee solemnized the Earle as he was abrode in hawking at the Hearon stale away and fled into France not staying to ride his horse vpon the spurres till he came into Arthois and so dishonourably disappoynted both the king of England and his owne naturall subiects the Flemings to their high displeasure There were taken beside the Lorde Charles de Bloys naming himselfe Duke of Brytayne diuerse other Lordes and men of name as Monsieur Guy de la Vaal sonne and heyre to the Lorde la Vaal which dyed in the battayle the Lord of Rocheford the Lorde de Beaumanour the Lord of Loyack with other Lordes knights and Esquiers in great numbers There were slaine the sayde Lorde de la Vaall the Vicounte of Rohan the Lorde of Chasteau Brian the Lorde de Mailestr◅ite the Lorde de Quintin the Lord de Rouge the Lord of Dereuall and his sonne Sir Raufe de Montfort and many other worthie men of armes Knightes and Esquiers to the number betwixt sixe and seuen hundred as by a letter wrytten by the sayde sir Thomas Dagworth and regystred in the Hystorie of Robert de Auesburie it doeth appeare In this meane while King Philip hauing daylye worde howe the power of his enimie king Edwarde dyd encrease by ayde of the Easterlings and other nations Fabian whiche were to him allyed and that his menne within Calais were brought to such an extreame poynt that wythout speedie reskue they coulde not long keepe the Towne but muste of force render it ouer into the handes of hys sayde enimye to the great preiudice of all the Realme of Fraunce Thē French king assembleth an army Froissart after greate deliberation taken vpon this so weightie a matter hee commaunded euerie man to meete hym in theyr best array for the warre at the feast of Pentecost in the Citie of Amiens or in those marches At the day and place thus appoynted there came to him Odes Duke of Burgoigne and the Duke of Normandie eldest sonne to the King the Duke of Orleaunce his yongest sonne the Duke of Burbon the Earle of Fois the Lorde Lois de Sauoy the Lorde Iohn of Heynault the Erle of Arminacke the Earle of Forrest and the Erle Valentinois with many other These noble men being thus assembled they tooke counsayle which way they myght passe to gyue battayle to the Englishe menne It was thought the best way had beene through Flaunders but the Flemings in fauour of the king of Englande denyed The Fleming a besiege Ayre not onely to open theyr passages to the
mentioned betwixt the King of Englande and Fraunce at the sute of the Pope so that K. Edwarde shoulde haue resigned hys title and clayme to the Crowne of Fraunce and y e FreÌ„ch King should haue giuen ouer vnto him y e whole Duchie of Guyenne to holde the same freely without knowledging of resort or superioritie or doing any manner of homage for the same but suche delayes were made and the sute so prolonged by the Pope that the Earle of Derby whiche with others were sente to him aboute thys matter returned withoute speede of his purpose for the whych he went The same yeare in October an Englishe archer of the gaâ—…ison of Caleis named Iohn of Dancaster by licence of the Lord deputie of Caleis tooke with him threescore persons menne of armes and archers and in the nighte that goeth before the feast day of Saint Vincent in the last quarter of the same nighte hee commyng to the Castell of Guynes founde as well the watch as other fast a sleepe wherevpon hee passed a water that adioyned to the Castell wading vp to the girdell and so came to the wall where he and hys company rearing vp ladders mounted by y e same so secretely that slaying the watche beeing not past three or four persons that were on y e walles they entred the Castell The Castell of Guynes wonne and finding the Frenchmen a sleepe sleWe those that vppon their wakening made anye defence and tooke the residue whome they suffered to departe and by thys meanes they wanne the Castell finding greate store of vittayles within and so as they founde it they kepte it to the Kyng of Englande vse The French histories declare that one GuilliaÌ„ de Beauconroy that was Captayne of this Castell betrayed y e place to y e englishmeÌ„ for a suÌ„me of money and when the Frenche King required restitution â—…lidor bycause the truce was not yet expired he was shifted off with this forged answer y e nothing was excepted by the assurance of the truce concerning things that shoulde be bought and solde The Frenchman that betrayed it was shortly after put to execution at Amiens â—…otes and â—…e grotes â—…st coigned In this yeare were the first peeces of siluer called groates and halfe groates of foure pence and two pence the peece stamped by the Kinges appoyntment through the counsell of William de Edington Byshop of Winchester Lorde Treasorer Before that time there were no other coignes but the Noble halfe noble and quarter noble with the peeces of siluer called sterlings Bycause these newe peeces wanted of the weight of the olde sterling coigne the prices as well of vittayles as of other wares did dayly rise and seruauntes and workemen waxing more craftie than beforetime they had bin demaunded greater wages This yeare 1352 An. reg 26. vpon the euen of the Assumption of our Lady Sir Iohn Bentley Knight as theÌ„ Lord warden of Britaigne fought with the L. Guy de Nealle Marshall of Fraunce lately ransomed out of captiuitie in the parties of Britaine neere to a place called Movron Movron betwixte Rennes and Pluremell where the sayd Marshal was slayne togither with the Lorde of Briquebeke the Chateline of Beauvais and dyuers other both Britons and Frenchmen 135â—… An. reg 27. â—…ho VVals 〈◊〉 the printed â—…ooke of staâ—…tes it should â—…peare that â—…is ParliameÌ„t â—…s rather â—…olden in the â—…5 yeare of â—…his Kings â—…oigne In the seuen and twentith yeare of his raigne King Edwarde helde a Parliamente at Westminster after the feast of Easter in which an ordinance was deuised what wages seruauntes and labourers should be allowed prohibiting theÌ„ to receyue aboue the rate whiche they were accustomed to take before the yeare of the great mortalitie Seruantes and labourers were in deede growen to bee more subtill than before time they had bin but by reason that the prices of thinges were enhaunced it is like they demaunded greater wages than they hadde done before time and one cause of the dearth was imputed to the newe coigne of money beeing of lesse weight in the alley thereof than before it had bin so that the Bishoppe of Winchester being Lord Treasorer who hadde counselled the king to ordeine those groates and halfe groates was euill spoken of amongest the people In this Parliament there were statutes also made â—…tatutes for â—…aking of â—…othes that clothes should in length and breadth through the Realme beare the same assise as was ordeined in the ParliameÌ„t holden at Northampton Also that all weares milles Weares and â—…illes and other lettes should be remoued forth of riuers that might be any hinderance for ships botes or lighters to passe vp and down the same But these good ordinaunces tooke little or none effect by reason of bribes that walked abroad and friendshippe of Lordes and greate men that sought rather their owne commodities than the common wealthes Shortely after the feaste of Pentecoste Creations of noble men the Earle of Derbie and Lancaster was made Duke of Lancaster and Raufe Lord Stafforde was created Earle of Stafforde Whereas there had bin a treatie betwixte the lordes of Britaine and the king of Englande not onely for the deliueraunce of the lorde Charles of Bloys The Lorde Charles of Blois but also for the matching of his eldest sonne in marriage with one of king Edwards daughters and so to enioy the Dukedome in peace This matter was so farre forewardes that in the yeare last passed the said lorde Charles leauing two of his sonnes and a daughter in pledge for the paymeÌ„t of .xl. M. florens agreed vpon for his raunsome hee was permitted to retourne into Britaine to prouide that money and withall to procure a dispensation that his eldest sonne might marrie with one of king Edwards daughters notwithstanding that otherwise they were within the degrees of coÌ„sanguinitie prohibiting them to marrie Heerevppon this yeare about Michaelmas hee retourned into Englande with the same dispensation but bycause aboute the same time the Britons had taken by stelth an Ilande wyth a Castell therein that the Englishmen had kepte and put all those whiche they founde therein to the sworde the saide Lorde Charles otherwise Duke of Britaine lost the Kings fauour so that he woulde heare no more of any suche aliance by way of marriage as had bin coÌ„muned of before by reason wherof the Brittish lords that were in great number come ouer with the lorde Charles de Blois were coÌ„streined to returne home without atchieuing any part of their purpose leauing the saide lorde Charles and his children behinde them still here in Englande Debate betwixt the Dukes of Brunswike Lancaster The fourth daye of September the Duke of Brunswicke and the Duke of Lancaster should haue fought a combate in Paris about certayne wordes that the Duke of Lancaster shoulde speake in derogatioÌ„ of the Duke of Brunswikes honor for the which the sayd Duke had appealed him in the Court of Fraunce but when
of armes and archers a greater number than in Parliamente was firste to hym assigned hee sette from Plimmouth on the daye of the natiuitie of oure Lady They were in all three hundred sayle and finding the winde prosperous they passed ouer into Gascoigne where of the Gascoignes they were ioyfully receyued In August the Englishmen that were in Britaine warring agaynste the Frenchmenne that tooke parte with the Lorde Charles de Bloys slewe many of them and tooke the Lorde of Beaumanor the vicount of Roan and dyuers other This yeare also aboute Michaelmas the King hauing sommoned an army to be ready at Sandwich passed ouer to Caleis with the same There wente ouer with him his two sonnes Lionell of Andwerp Earle of Vlster and Iohn of Gant Earle of Richmont He found at Caleis a thousand men of armes that came to serue hym for wages forthe of Flaunders Brabant and Almaigne so that hee had about three thousand men of armes and two thousand archers on horsebacke beside archers on foote in great number â—…e Citie of â—…don The Citie of London had sente to hym fiue and twentie men of armes and fiue hundred archers all in one sute or liuerti at their owne costes and charges The second of Nouember he set from Caleis marching foorthe towardes Saint Omers wasting the Countrey by the way as he passed The Frenche Kyng beeyng the same tyme within the Towne of Sainte Omers â—…e king inâ—…eth France â—…e lord Bouâ—…t sente the Lord Bousicant vnto the Kyng of Englande that vnder colour of communication hee might viewe the Kyngs power who made such reporte thereof vppon hys returne backe to the Frenche Kyng that he determined not to fighte with the King of Englande but rather to passe before hym and so to destroy vittayles that for wantâ—… thereof the Kyng of Englande shoulde hee constreyned to returne And as he determined so it came to passe for the vittayles were so cutte off that the Englishmenne for three dayes togither dranke nothing but water â—…oissart â—…e Kyng for â—…t of victuâ—… returneth When therefore Kyng Edwarde had followed his enimies so farre as Heyden where hee brake the Parke and brents the houses within and about the Parke although he entred not into the Towne nor Castell at length for defence of vitrayles he returned backe and came agayâ—… to Caleis on Saint Martins day Auesburie being the teÌ„th after his setting foorth from thence The morrow after beeing Thursday and the twelfth of Nouember 〈◊〉 CoÌ„nestable of FraÌ„ce â—…e Conestaâ—… of France â—…mmandeth â—…tayle and other Frenchmenâ—… came to the ende of the caulsey of Caleis with letters of credeneâ—… offering battaile the twesday nexte following vnto the King of Englande in presence of the Duke of Lancaster the Earles of Northampton and the Lord Walter de Manne who in the Kings behalfe declared to the Câ—…nnestable that the King of Englande â—…e answere â—…de to him to eschew shedding of bloud woulde fight with the French King body to body so to â—…ie their right and if he liked not of that matche then if hee woulde choose three or foure Knightes to him that were neerest to hym is bloud hee shoulde choose the like number but when this offer would not be accepted the English Lordes offered battell the next day beeyng Fridaye or else on Saterday following at the Frenchemennes choyce but the Connestable of Fraunce and his company continuing on theyr first oâ—…r refused both those dayes Then the Englishe Lordes accepted the days by â—…hâ—…th assigned with condition that if they be ougthe not King Edwarde to giue that â—…yle that daye they woulde 〈…〉 prisoners so that the Frenchmenne woulde â—…wise vndertake for theyr Kâ—…ng The Contestable 〈◊〉 no aunswere ready stayed a â—…hile and after flatly refused to make any such couenaunt Finally when the English Lordes perceyued there aduersaries not to â—…e battayle as theyr wordes of the first pretended they brake ast and both parties returned home The King of Englande stayed till the twesday and payd the straungers their wages and so came backe into England The sixth of Nouembre whilest the Kyng was thus abroade in Picardy Berwike taken by Scottes the Scottes very earely in the morning of that daye came priuily to Berwike entred by fleâ—… into the towne and sâ—…eaing there or foure Englishmenne tooke it with all the goodes and persons within it those excepted which got to the Castell In a Parliamente summoned this yeare A parliament the Monday after the feast of Saint Edmonde the King the Lords and commons graunted to K. Edward 50. ss of euery sacke of woolle that shuld be carried ouer the sea for the space of sixe yeares next ensuing By this grant it was thoughte y e the K. might dispeÌ„d a M. markes sterling a day such went of woolles had the English merchants in that season The Parliament being ended the K. about S. Andrews tide set forward towards Scotland held his Christmas at new Castell About which time by letters seat froÌ„ y e Prince y e K. was aduertised of his proceedings after hys arriuall in Gascoigne wher being ioyfully receiued of the nobles other y e people of that couÌ„trey as before ye haue heard he declared to them the cause of his thither coÌ„ming tooke aduice with them how to proceede in his businesse and so about y e truth of October he set forward to passe against his enimies first entring into a countrey called Iuliake which to get her with the fortresses The procedinges of the prince of Wales in Aquitayne yeelded whom witholde any great resistaÌ„ce TheÌ„ he rode through y e countrie Armignac wasting spoiling the countrey and so passed through the landes of the vieountes de la Riuiere and after entred into the countie de l Eseraâ—… and passing through y e some came into the countie of Commyges finding the Towne of Saint Matan voyde being a good towne and one of the best in that countrey After this he passed by the lande of the Earle of â—…le till hee came within a league of Tholouse where the Earle of Armignac beeyng the French Kings Lieutenaunt in those parties and other great Lords and nobles were asseÌ„bled The Prince with his army carried there a two dayes and after passed ouer riuer of Garonne after ouer an other riuer thereaboutes a league aboue Tholouse lodging that nighte a league on the other side of Tholon seâ—… and so they passed through Tholouzaine taking daylye Townes and Castels wherein they found great riches for the countrey was very plentifull Vpon Alhallowen euen they came to Castell Naudarie and from thence they tooke the way to Carcasson Carcasson into the whiche a greate number of men of armes and commons were withdrawen But vpon the approch of the Englishmen they slipt away and got them to a strong Castell that stoode neere at hand The thirde daye after the Englishmen brente the Towne and passing foorth
a strong castell called Issoldon they fiercely assayled it but coulde not winne it The Gentlemenne within defended the walles and gates so manfully Vierzon vvonne Then passed they forewarde and came to Vierzon a greate towne and a good Castell but it was nothyng strongly fortifyed and therfore was it wonne perforce the people wythin it beyng not sufficient to resist the valyant puissance of the Englishemen Heere they founde wyne and other victuals in great plentie and therevpon they taryed there three dayes to refreshe themselues at ease But before they departed the Prince had aduertisement gyuen hym that the Frenche Kyng was come to Chartres wyth an huge assemble of menne of warre and that all the Townes and passages aboue the ryuer of Loire were closed and kepte Then was the Prince counsayled to retourne and passe by Touraynne Poictou The passages stopped and so that waye to Burdeaux The Prynce returnethe The Prince followâ—…ng theyr aduice that thus counselled hym sette forwarde towarde Remorentine The Frenche Kyng hadde sente into that Countrey to keepe the Frontiers there the Lord of Craon the Lord Bouciquault and the Hermyte of Chaumount the which with three hundred men of armes had followed the Englyshemenne sixe dayes togyther and coulde neuer fynde any conuenient occasion to sette vpon them for the Englishemen gouerned themselues so sagely that theyr enimyes coulde not lightly assaile them but to theyr owne disaduantage One daye the Frenchemen layde themselues closely in an ambush neere to the Towne of Remorentin at a meruaylous strayte passage by the whyche the Englishemenne muste needes passe The same daye there were departed 〈◊〉 Princes battaile by licence of the Marshals â—…tayne Capitaynes Englishemen and Gascoignes as the Lorde Bartholmew de Burghersce or Burwasche as some wryte hym the Lorde of Mucident Gascongne Monsieur Petiton de Courton the Lorde de la Ware the Lord Basset sir Danel Passelew sir Richarde PonchardoÌ„ sir Noel Loring y e yong lord Sâ—…eÌ„cer and two of the Daubreticouites Sir Edwarde and an other who hauyng wyth them two hundred men of armes wente foorthe so renne beefore Remorentin Remorentin that they myghte viewe the place They passed foorth alongest by the Frenchemen whyche lay in embushe as ye haue hearde and they wer not aduised of them and they were no sooner passed but that the Frenchemen brake out and gallopped after the Englishmen with greate randon hauyng theyr speares in theyr restes The Englishemen and the Gascoyns hearyng horsses to come gallopping after them tourned and perceyuyng them to bee their enimies stoode styll to abyde them The Frenchemen couragiously gaue the charge Aâ—…iâ—… and the Englishemen as valyantly defended them so that there ensewed a great skirmishe whyche continued a long whyle so that it coulde not be easyly iudged who had the better tyll that the battayle of the English Marshalles approched the whyche when the Frenchemen sawe commyng by a wood syde they fledde streyghte wayes towardes Remorentine The French 〈…〉 and the Englishmen folowed in chase so faste as their horsses myghte beare them and entred the towne with the Frenchemâ—…n but the frenche Lordes and the one half of their companye gotte into the Castell and so saued themselues The Prince hearing what had hapned The Prynce â—…e at the 〈…〉 came into the Towne and there lodged that nyghte sendyng Sir Iohn Chandos to talke wyth the Capitaynes of the Castell to knowe if they woulde yeld and bycause they refused so to do on the nexte morrowe hee caused his people to giue an assaulte to the place whiche continued the moste parte of the day but yet missyng their purpose he commanded that they should draw to their lodgyngs and rest them for that night In the morning as soone as the Sunne was vp The Castelle Reâ—… euen assaulted the Marshalles caused the Trumpets to sounde and those that were appoynted to gyue the assaulte agayn prepared themselues to it The Prince himselfe was presente personally at thys assaulte so that the same was enforced to the vttermoste But when they sawe that by assaultes they coulde not wynne the Castell It is set on fier they deuised engines wherewith they cast wylde fyre into the base Courte and so sette it on fyre whiche encreased in suche vehemente sorte that it tooke into the coueryng of a great tower which was couered with reede and then they wythin perceyuyng they must eyther yelde or perishe with fyre came down submitted themselues to the Prince who as prysoners receyued them They vvithin â—…tted themselues The Castell of Remorentine beeyng thus wonne and defaced with fyre the Prince lefte it voyde and marched foorthe wyth his armye as before destroying the countrey and approched to Aniou and Touraine The Frenche â—…ng folovveth the prince of VVales The Frenche King came forwarde towarde the Prince and at Ambois heard how the Prince was in Tourayne meanyng to returne through Poictow He was dayly aduertised of the Princes doings by such as were appoynted to coaste hym euer in his iourney Then came the king to Hay in Tourain and his people were passed the ryuer of Loire at sundrye passages Froissart Seuen thousaÌ„d chosen meÌ„ hath Tho. VValsin where moste conuenientely they myghte They were in number twentie thousande men of armes of noble menne there were sixe and twentie Dukes and Earles besyde a greate number of other Lordes and Barons the foure sonnes of the Kyng were there as the Lorde Charles Duke of Normandie the Lord Lewes after Duke of Anion the Lorde Iohn after duke of Berry and the Lorde Philip whiche was after Duke of Burgongne The Frenche king doubtyng least the Prince shoulde escape by speedye iourneyes oute of his countrey before he coulde come to giue him battayle remoued to Chauuignie and there passed the ryuer of Creuse by the bridge supposing that the Englishmen hadde bene before hym but they were not Some of the Frenchemen taryed behynde at Chauuignie for one nighte Chauuignie and in the morning followed the king They were aboute two hundred menne of armes vnder the leading of the Lorde Craon the Lorde Raoull de Concye and the Earle of Ioigny They chaunced to encounter with certain of the auaunt currours of the Englishe armie which remoued that day from a little village fast by Those Englishmen were not past threescore men of armes but well horsed and therefore perceyuing the greate number of the Frenchemen they fledde towarde the Princes battayle whiche they knewe was not farre off Capitaines of the Englishemen were two knyghtes of Heynault the Lorde Eustace Dambreticourt the Lord Iohn of Guistelles The Englyshe eurrours retournyng to the Prince declared what they had seene and done So that nyghte the two armyes beeing lodged wythin a small distaunce eyther of other kepte strong and sure watche aboute theyr campes On the morrowe after beeing Sundaye and the eyghteenth daye of September the Frenche Kyng caused hys hoste to be
off in many yeres before It beganne about euensong time in the South A mighâ—… vvinde and that with suche force that it ouerthrewe blew down strong and mighty buildings as towers steeples houses and chimneis This outrageous winde continued thus for the space of sixe or seuen days whereby euen those buildyngs that were not ouerthrowen and broken downe were so shaken yet that they without repairing were not able long to stande After this followed a very wette season An. reg â—… namely in the Sommer time and haruest so that muche corne and hay was loste for want of seasonable weather to gather the same The Lorde Lionell the Kynges sonne went ouer into Irelande to be deputie to his father there and was created Duke of Clarence and his brother Eadmunde was created Erle of Cambridge Creations of the Kinges sonnes to degrees of 〈◊〉 Hen. Maâ—… Also Edwarde Prince of Wales was by his father Kyng Edwarde inuested Duke of Guyenue and did homage vnto his father for the same in lyke maner and forme as his father and other Kynges of Englande were accustomed to doe for the saide Duchie vnto the Kynges of Fraunce And afterwardes about the feaste of Candlemasse nexte ensuing the said Prince sayled into Gascoigne The Prince 〈◊〉 Wales pasâ—…eth ouer into Guyenne Tho. VVals â—…dditions to â—…d Merimuth 〈◊〉 â—…ustes in â—…hfielde The Staple of rolâ—…es remoâ—…ed to Caleis A parliament and arriued at Burdeaux taking vpon him the gouernement and rule of the countrey Moreouer this yeare the fiue firste dayes of May were kept royall Iustes in Smithfielde by London the King and Queene beeing presente with a great multitude of the nobles and GeÌ„tlemen of both the Realmes of England France at whiche time came hither Spanyards Cipriottes and Armenians requiring ayde of the K. against the Infidels that sore molested theyr coÌ„fynes The staple of woolles was this yeare remoued to Calais Also the sixteene of October a Parliament began that was called at Westminster whych coÌ„tinued til y e feast day of S. Brice on which day the K. that time fiftie yeres then past was borne wherevpon as it were in the yeare of his Iubilei he shewed himselfe the more gracious to his people A pardon granting pardon to offendors releassing prisoners and reuoking outlawes Moreouer it was ordeined in this ParliameÌ„t that no maner of person of what estate or degree so euer hee was 〈◊〉 statute aâ—…ainst pâ—…â—…yoâ—…rs the K. the Q. and Dukes onely excepted should haue any purueyers of vittailes nor should take vp any thing without ready paiment and those that from thencefoorth did contrary to this ordinance should bee extremely punished 〈◊〉 Subsidie There was granted to the K. in this Parliament .26 ss eight d of euery sacke of woolle y t was to be transported ouer to the Sea for three yeres next ensuing Furthermore at the sute of the commons it was ordeyned and established by an acte in thys Parliament deuised that meÌ„ of law shuld pleade their causes â—…awyers to â—…leade theyr â—…es in Englishe Caxton Scholemaisters to teache scholers to coÌ„strue their lessons in Englishe and write their actions and plaintes in the Englishe tong and not in the Frenche as they had bin accustomed to doe euer since the coÌ„querors time It was ordeined also that Scholemaisters should teache their scholers to construe their lessons in English and not in french as before they had bin vsed The king shewed so much courtesie to the french hostages that he permitted them to goe ouer to Calais and there being nere home to purchase friendshippe by oft calling on their friends for their deliuerance They were suffered to ryde too and fro about the marches of Calais for the space of foure dayes togyther so that on the fourth day before sunne setting they returned into Calais againe The Duke of Anion turning this libertie to serue his owne turne departed from thence went home into France w tout making his fellowes priuie to his purpose 1262 An. reg 37. 〈◊〉 VVals This yeare a Parliamente was called by the Kyng whiche began the ninth of October from the whiche none of the noble men could obteyne licence to be absent In this Parliament all riche ornamentes of golde and siluer vsed to be worne in knyues Addi to Adam Merimuth A statute of atay agaynste costly apparel girdles duches rings or otherwise to the settyng foorth of the body were prohibited except to suche as might dispende tenne pound by yeare Moreouer that none should weare any ryche clothes or furres except they myght dispende an hundred pound by yeare Moreouer it was enacted that labourers and husbandmeÌ„ should not vse any dayntie dishes or costly drinkes at their tables But these suche other actes as were deuised established at this Parliament toke non effect as after it appeared In this yeare Three kinges come into England aboute businesse with K. Edward there came into Englande to speake with Kyng Edwarde concerning theyr waightie affaires three Kyngs that is to witte the Kyng of Fraunce the Kyng of Scotlande and the Kyng of Cypres They were honorably receiued and highly feasted The K. of Scotlande and the K. of Cipres after they had dispatched theyr businesse for the which they came returned backe againe but the Frenche Kyng fell sicke and remayned heere till hee dyed as in the nexte yeare yee shall heare He arriued heere in Englande about the latter ende of this yeare and came to Eltham where King Edward as then lay on the four and twentith day of Ianuary and there dyned 1364 After dyner hee tooke his Horse and rode towarde London and vppon blacke heath the Citizens of London cladde in one kynde of liuerie and very well horsed met him and conueid him from thence thorough London vnto the Sauoy where his lodging was prepared About the beginning of Marche in this eight and thirtith yeare An. reg 38. the forenamed Frenche Kyng fell into a greuous sicknesse of the whiche he dyed the eight day of Aprill folowing The death of the French K. His corps was conueyed into Fraunce and there buryed at S. Denice his exequies were kepte heere in Englande in diuers places right solemnely Fabian by Kyng Edwards appoyntment This yere by reason of an extreme sore frost continuing from the seauen and twentith daye of September last passed vnto the beginning of Aprill in this eight and thirtith yeare or rather from the seauenth day of December till y t ninetenth day of Marche as Walsingham and other olde writers do write the ground lay vntilde to the greate hinderaunce and losse of all growing things on the earth This yeare on Michaelmas day The battayle of Aulroy before y e Castel of Aulroy not farre distant from the Citie of Vannes in Britaine a sore battell was foughte betwixt y e Lord Charles de Blois and the Lord Iohn of Mountford For when there coulde bee
captayne was taken and shortly after put to deth as diuerse other were which the Burgonians bought of the English men that had taken them prisoners The Tower that stoode at the ende of the Bridge coulde not bee woonne At an other bickering also it chaunced that the Englishe men vnder the leading of the Earle of Augus or Kyme had the vpper hande Harding and tooke many prysoners which the Duke of Burgoigne woulde that they shoulde haue beene lykewise put to death as traytors to theyr Countrey but the sayd Earle of Angus answered for himselfe and the residue of the Englishmen that they woulde rather dye all in the place than suffer theyr prysoners to be vsed otherwyse than as men of warre ought to bee that is to haue their laies saued and to be raunsomed according as the law of Armes requyred and by that meanes they were preserued The Duke of Burgoigne hauing the worlde at will for the Duke of Orleans immediatelye after the losse of Saint Clou departing from S. Deuys got him into the highe Countryes sent home the Englishmen with heartie thanks and great rewardes This yeare Recor. Turris Creations of noble men the king created his brother Thomas Beauford Erle of Dorset and his sonne the Lord Thomas of Lancaster that was Lord stewarde of Englande and Erle of Aubemarle hee created duke of Clarence Iohn duke of Burgoigne Hall hauing now the gouernance both of the French king and his realme so persecuted the Duke of Orleauns and hys complyces The Orliancial faction sueth to the k. of England for ayde that finally they for theyr laste refuge requyred ayde of King Henrie sending ouer vnto hym certayne persons as theyr lawfull procuratours of the whiche one hight Alberte Aubemont a manne of greate witte learning and audacitie to offer in name of the confederates vnto the sayde Kyng Henrye and to hys sonnes certayne conditions whiche were made and concluded the yeare of our Lord .1412 the eight of May. The confederates of the Orleancial faction The names of the chiefe confederates were these Iohn duke of Berrie and Erle of Poictou Charles Duke of Orleans and Valois Earle of Blais Beamound Lorde of Coucie and Ach Iohn Duke of Bourbon and Auvergne Earle of Clearmont Forest and Lysle Lorde of Beauieu and Casteau Chinou Iohn Duke of Alanson Bernarde Earle of Arminacke and others The Articles of couenants which they offered to the k. of Englande The effect of the Articles which these confederates were agreed vpon touching their offer to the king of England were as followeth 1 First they offred their bodies finances and landes to serue the king of Englande his heyres and successors in all iust causes and actions sauing alwayes their allegiances knowing that he would not further enquire of them 2 Secondly they offred their sonnes daughters neces and nephewes and al other their kinsfolke to bee bestowed in mariages according to the pleasure of the king of England 3 Thirdly they offred their Castels townes treasures and all their other goodes to serue the foresayde king 4 Fourthly they offered theyr friendes allies and well wyllers to serue hym beeing the moste part of all the Nobles of Fraunce Churchmen Clearkes and honest Citizens as it should well appeare 5 Fiftly they offred to put him in possession of the Duchie of Guienne which they were ready to protest to belong to the king of Englande in lyke and semblable wyse in lybertie and franchises as any other king of Englande his predecessor had held and enioyed the same 6 Sixtly that they woulde bee readie to recognise the landes whiche they possessed within that Duchie to hold the same of the king of England as of the verye true Duke of Guienne promising all seruices homages after the best maner that might be 7 Seuenthly they promised to deliuer vnto the king as much as lay in them all townes and Castels apperteyning to the royaltie and seigniorie of the king of England which are in number xx townes and Castels and as to the regarde of other townes and fortresses whiche were not in their handes they would to the vttermost of their powers help the king of England his heyres to win them out of his aduersaries handes 8 Eightly that the duke of Berrie as vassall to the king of Englande and likewise the duke of Orleans his subiect and vassall should holde of him by homage and fealtie the landes and seigniories hereafter following that is to say the Duke of Berrie to holde onely the Countie of Ponthieu during his life and the Duke of Orleans to holde the Countie of Angulesme during his life and the Countie of Perigourt for euer and the Earle of Arminacke to holde foure Castels vpon certaine sureties and conditions as by Indenture should be appoynted For the which offers couenants and agreements they requested of the king of England to condiscend vnto these conditions ensuing 1 First that the king of England The condition which they ret◅ quested of the k. of England as Duke of Guienne shoulde defende and succor them as hee ought to do against al mē as their very lord and soueraigne and specially vntil they had executed iustice fully vpon the Duke of Burgoigne for the crime which he committed vpon the person of the Duke of Orleans 2 Secondly that hee shoulde assyst them agaynst the sayde duke of Burgoigne and his fautors to recouer againe their goodes which by occasion of the sayd duke and his friendes they had lost and bene depriued of 3 Thirdly that he shoulde likewise ayde them in all iust quarelles for recouering of domages done to their friends vassals and subiects 4 Fourthly to helpe and assyst them for the concluding and establishing of a firme peace betwixt both the realmes so farre as was possible And further they besought the king of England to send vnto them .viij. M. men to ayd thē agaynst the Duke of Burgoigne and his complices whiche dayly procured the French king to make warre vpon them seeking by al wayes and meanes how to destroy them The king of Englande louingly enterteyned the Messengers and vpon consideration had of their offers as wel for that he detested the shamefull murther of the Duke of Orleans which remayned vnpunished by support of such as mainteyned the duke of Burgoigne who as it appeared woulde keepe promyse no longer than serued his owne turne as also for that the same offers seemed to make greatly both for hys honour and profite thought that by the office of a King hee was bounde in duetie to succour them that cryed for Iustice and coulde not haue it and namely sithe in right they were his subiectes and vassalles hee oughte to defende them in mayntenaunce of his superioritie and Seigniorie Herevpon as Duke of Guienne he tooke vpon him to succour and defend them against all men The king of Englande taketh vpon him to defend the Orleantial faction as their verie Lorde and soueraigne and so
apparell other things as the englishmen had left for they took nothing but gold siluer iewels riche aparell and costly armour but the ploughmeÌ„ peasaÌ„ts lefte nothing behinde neither shirt noâ—… 〈◊〉 so that the bodies lay stark naked till 〈…〉 day on the whiche day diuers of the noble 〈◊〉 were conueied into their countries 〈…〉 mainaunte were by Phillip Earle Charâ—… 〈◊〉 sore lamenting the chaunce moued with â—…ty at his coste and chardge buried in a 〈◊〉 plot of grounde of .xv. C. yardes in the 〈◊〉 he caused to be made .iij. pittes wherein 〈◊〉 buried by accompte .v. M. and viii C. 〈◊〉 beside theÌ„ that were caried away by their 〈◊〉 and seruants and other which being 〈◊〉 died in hospitaries and other places 〈…〉 dolorous iourney and pitifull slaughter 〈◊〉 clerks of Paris made many lamentable 〈◊〉 complaining that the king reigned by will 〈◊〉 that counsellors were parciall affirâ—… 〈◊〉 noble men fled agaynst nature and that the â—…mons were destroied by their prediâ—… declaring also that the Clergie were 〈…〉 durste not saye the truthe and that the 〈◊〉 commons duly obeied and yet euâ—… 〈◊〉 â—…nishemeÌ„t for which cause by deuine 〈◊〉 on the lesse nuÌ„ber vanquished the greter â—…fore they concluded that al things went out of order and yet was there no man that 〈◊〉 to bring the vnruly to frame it was no 〈◊〉 thoughe this battaile was lamentable 〈◊〉 french nation for in it were taken and 〈…〉 flower of al the Nobilitie of Fraunce Noble and 〈◊〉 â—…wer taken prisoners Charles duke of 〈◊〉 nephew to the freÌ„ch K. Io. duke of Boâ—… the Lorde Bouciqualt one of the marshals of FrauÌ„ce which died in England wyth a mâ—…der of other lords knightes and esquieâ—… 〈…〉 leaste .xv C. beside the common people The 〈…〉 on the frenche 〈◊〉 Engliâ—… slains There were slaine in al of the frenche parte to the â—…ber of .x. M. men where of were Princes and noble men bearing baners Exxvj. of 〈◊〉 esquiers gentlemen in the whole were 〈◊〉 viij M.iiij C. of the whiche .v. C. were â—…bed knights the night before the battail 〈◊〉 of other the meaner sorte there died not 〈◊〉 xvj C. Amongest those of the Nobilitie that were slain these were the chiefest Charles lord de la Breth high constable of Fraunce Iâ—… of ChatiloÌ„ L. of DaÌ„pierre Admiral of France the L. Rambures master of the crosbowes de Guischard Dolphin greate master of Fraâ—… Io. duke of Alanson Anthony duke of Bâ—…baÌ„t brother to the duke of BurgoiÌ„ne Edward duke of Bar the erle of Neuers another â—…ther to the duke of Burgoine with the 〈◊〉 of Marle Vaudemont Beaumont Graâ—… Roussi Fanconberg Fois and Lesâ—…rake beside a greate number of Lords and Barons of name Of englishmeÌ„ there died at this battayâ—… Edward duke of Yorke the earle of Suffolke Sir Richard Kikeley Englishmen â—…yne and Dauy Gaâ—…e Esquier and of all other not aboue .xxv. persons if you will credite such as write miracles but other Writers of greater credite affirme that there were slaine aboue fiue or sixe C. persons Titus Liuius sayeth that there were slaine of Englishmen beside the Duke of Yorke and the Erle of Suffolke an C. persons at the first encounter Titus Liuius the Duke of Gloucester the kings brother was sore wouÌ„ded about the hippes borne downe to the ground so that he fel backwards with his feete towards his enimies whome the K. bestriâ—â—â— and like a brother valiantly rescued him from his enimies and so sauing his life caused him to be conueyed out of the fight into a place of more safetie Hall After that the K. of England had refressed him selfe and his people at Calais and that such prisoners as he had left at Harflew as yee haue heard were come to Calais vnto him the sixth daye of NoueÌ„ber he with all his prisoners tooke shipping the same day laÌ„ded at Douer hauing with him the dead bodies of the Duke of Yorke of the Earle of Suffolke caused y e Duke to be buried at his colledge of Fodringhey the Earle at new Elme In this passage the Seas were so rough troublous that two ships belonging to sir Iohn Cornewall Lorde Fanhope were driuen into Zeland howbeit nothing was lost nor any person perished The Maior of London and y e Aldermen apparelled in oryent grained scarlet and four C. commoners clad in beautifull murrey well mounted and trimly horsed with rich collers and greate rhaines met the K. on black heath reioicing at his returne And the Clergie of London with rich Crosses sumptuous copes and massie censers receiued him at S. Thomas of Waterings Titus Liuius with solemne procession The K. like a graue and sober personage and as one remembring from whome al victories are sent seemed little to regard suche vaine pompe shewes as were in triumphaÌ„t sort deuised for his welcomming home from so prosperous a iourney The great modâ—…e of the K. in so much that he would not suffer his helmet to be caried with him and shewed to the people that they might behold the dintes and cuttes whiche appeared in y e same of such blowes and stripes as hee receiued the daye of the battell neyther woulde he suffer any dities to be made song by minstrels of his glorious victorie for that he would whollie haue the praise and thankes altogither giuen to God The newes of thys bloudy battell being reported to the French K. as then soiourning at Roan filled the Courte full of sorrowe but to remedie suche danger as was like to ensue it was decreed by counsel to ordeine newe officers in places of theÌ„ that were slaine and firste hee elected his chiefe officer for the warres called the Connestable the Earle of Arminacke a wise and politike Captaine and an â—…tiâ—…te enimie to the Englishmen Sir Iohn de Corsey was made master of the crossebowes Shortly after other for melancholy that he had for the losse at Agiâ—…court or by some â—…odayne disease Lewes Dolphin of Vlennoyes The death of the Dolphin of France heiâ—… apparant to the Frenche King departed this life without issue which happened well for Robynâ—… of Bouenâ—… and his fellowes as yee haue hearde before for his death was theyr life and his life would haue bin their death After that the French King had created new officers 1416 in hope to relieue the state of his realme and countrey sore â—…aken by the late greate ouerthrowe it chanced that Thomas Duke of Exeter Captaine of Harflewe accompanyed with three thousand EnglishmeÌ„ made a great roade into Normandie almost to the Citie of Roan in whiche iourney he got greate abundance both of riches and prisoners but in hys returne the Earle of Arminacke newly made Connestable of France intending in his fyrste enterprice to winne his spurres hauing with him aboue fiue thousand horsemen A sore conflicte encountred with the Duke the fight was handled on both partes very hotely but bycause the
duke of Burgoigne and a great number of other Princes and Nobles which were present receiued an othe Titus Liuius the tenor whereof as the Duke of Burgoigne vttered it in soleÌ„ne wordes thus ensueth accordingly as the same is exemplifyed by Titus Liuius de Fruloxisijs In Latine The oth of the D. of Burgoigne EGo Philippus Burgundiae dux perme meosque haredes ad sacra dei Euangelia domino regi HeÌ„rico Angliae Franciaeque pro Carâ—…lo rege regenti iuro quod humiliter ipsi Henrico fideliterqueâ—…unctiâ—… in rebus qua remp spectant FraÌ„cia coronâ—… obediemus statim post morteÌ„ Caroli domâ—… wyn domino Herico regi suisque successoribus in perpâ—… ligei fideles erimus nee alium quempiaÌ„ pro doâ—… nostro supremo Franciae rege quaÌ„ HenrituÌ„ suis haredes habebimus neque patiemur No cremâ—… pratereae in consilio vel coÌ„sensu cuiusquà m damâ—… regis HeÌ„rici suorum ve successoruÌ„ vbi quicquam decrimeti patiantur capit is sâ—…ue meÌ„bri vel vitaÌ„ perdaÌ„t fed praedicta quaÌ„ruÌ„ in nobis fuerit quà m titeâ—… literis vel nuntijs vt sibi melius prouidere valeant eis significabimus The same is englished thus I Philip duke of Burgoigne for my selfe and for mine heires do here sweare vpon the holy Euangelist of God vnto Henry K. of England regeÌ„t of France for K. Charles y t we shal huÌ„bly faithfully obey the said HeÌ„ry in al things which concerne the coÌ„mon welth crowne of France immediatly after the decease of our soueraign L. king Charles we shal be faithful liegemeÌ„ vnto y e said K. Henry to his successors for euer neither shal we take or suffer any other for our soueraign Lord supreme K of France but the same Henrie his heires neither shal we be of counselor coÌ„sent of any hurt towards the said K. Henry or his successors whereby they may suffer losse detrymeÌ„t of life or limme but that the same so farre as in vs may lie wee shall signifie to them with all speed by letters or messengers that they may the better prouide for themselues in such cases The like othe a great number of the Princes and Nobles both spirituall and temporall which were present receyued the same time This done the Morrow after Trinitie Sunday being the thirde of Iune the mariage was solemnized and fully coÌ„summate betwixt the K. of England and the said Ladie Katherine The articles and appointments of peace betwene the realmes of England and France HEnrie by the grace of God K. of Engl. heire and regent of France lord of Ireland to perpetuall mind to christen people all those that be vnder our obeysance we notifie and declare that though there hath bin here before diuerse treaties betwene the most excellent prince Charles our father of France and his progenitors for the peace to be had betwene the two realmes of France and Englande the whiche heretofore haue borne no fruit we considering the great harmes the which hath not onely fallen betwene those two realmes for the great diuision of that hath beene betweene them but to all holy Churche Wee haue taken a treatie with our sayde father in whiche treatie betwixt our sayde father and vs it is concluded and accorded in the forme after the maner that followeth 1 First it is accorded betwixte our father and vs that forasmuch as by the bond of matrimonie made for the good of y e peace betwene vs and our most deare beloued Katherine daughter of oure sayde father and of our most deare mother Isabell his wife the same Charles and Isabell beene made our father and mother therfore them as our father and mother we shall haue and worship as it fitteth and seemeth so worthie a Prince and Princesse to be worshipped principally before all other temporall persons of the worlde 2 Also we shall not distrouble diseason or lette oure father aforesayde but that hee holde and posseede as long as hee lyueth as he holdeth and possedeth at this tyme the Crowne and dignitie royall of Fraunce and rentes and profites for the same of the sustenaunce of his estate and charges of the realme And our foresayd mother also hold as long as shee liueth the state and dignitie of Queene after the maner of the same realme with conuenable conuenient parte of the sayde rentes and profites 3 Also that the foresayde Ladie Katherin shal take and haue Dower in our realme of England as Queenes of Englande here a fort were â—…one for to take and haue that is to say to the sâ—…mme of .lx. thousand Sentes of the which two algaâ—… shall be a noble English 4 And that by the wayes maners meanes that we without transgression or offence of other made by vs for to speake the lawes customes vsages and rightes of our sayde Realme of Englande shall done one labour and pursuâ—…e that the sayde Katherine all so soone as it may be done be made sure to take and for to haue in oure sayde Realme of Englande from the tyme of oure death the sayde dower of .xl. thousande Sentes yearely of the whiche â—…ine algate bee worth a noble English 5 Also if it happe the sayde Katherine to ouerliue vs wee shall take and haue the Realme of France immediately from the tyme of our death dower to the summe of .xx. thousande frankes yearely of and vpon the landes places and lordshippes that helde and had Blaunche sometyme wyfe of Philip Bosecle to our sayde Father 6 Also that after the death of our sayde father aforesayde and from thence forwarde the crowne and the realme of Fraunce with all the ryghtes and appurtenaunces shall remayne and abyde to vs and bene of vs and oure heyres for euermore 7 And forasmuche as our sayd father is withholden with diuerse sicknesse in such maner as he maye not intende in his owne person for to dispose for the needes of the foresayde Realme of Fraunce therefore during the life of oure foresayde father the facultyes and exercise of the gouernaunce and disposition of the publique and common profite of the sayd Realme of Fraunce with Counsayle and Nobles and wife men of the same Realme of Fraunce shall bee and abyde to vs so that from thenceforth wee may gouerne the fame Realme by vs. And also to admitte to our Counsayle and assystaunce of the sayd Nobles suche as wee shall thinke meete the whiche faculties and exercise of gouernaunce thus being toward vs we shall labor purpose vs speedfully diligently and truly to that that may be ought for to be to the worship of God and our sayd father and mother and also to the common good of the sayde realme and that realme with the counsaile and helpe of the worthie and great nobles of the same realme or to be defended peased and gouerned after right and equitie 8 Also that we of our owne power shal do the court of the Parliament in France to be kept and obserued
his Church and iurisdiction After all the ceremonies were finished the K. returned toward the Palace hauing one crowne on his head and another borne before him one scepter in his hande and the second borne before him This high and ioy and 〈◊〉 passed not wythout 〈…〉 of displeasure amongst the English nobilitie for the Cardinall of Winchester which at this time would he 〈…〉 all wâ—…th kind commaunded the Duke of Bedford to leaue off the name of Regent during the time that the king was in France affirming the chiefe ruler being in presence the authoritie of the substitute to be elect vnderâ—…gate according to the coÌ„mon saying In y e presence of the higher power the â—…ler giueth place The Duke of Bedford tooke such a secrete displeasure with the doing that 〈◊〉 after faâ—…â—…d them 〈…〉 but stoode by â—…ste him in all thinges he woulde haue forwarde This was the 〈…〉 same haue thought of that diuision amongest the Englishe Nobilitie where through theyr glorie within the realme of France began first to decline The nexte daye after the solemne feast of the kings coronation were kept 〈◊〉 iustes and iourneys in the 〈◊〉 the Erle of Arumpell and the bashed of S. Poll by the iudgement of the Ladies wan the price The King kept open house the space of xx dayes to all commers and after bycause the ayre of Paris secured contrary to his pure 〈…〉 by the aduiâ—â— of his counsail he remoued to 〈◊〉 where he kept his Christmasse But before his departure from Paris the noble men as well of Fraunce and Normandie did to him homage the common people sware to him feaultie In this meane time sir Frances called the Aragoignois a noble captaine of the English part in Normandie tooke by force and policie the towne of Montargis Montargis recouered by the Englishmen with a great pray of treasure and prisoners and put therin a garnison leauing it wel furnished with vitails and munition About the same time the Earle of Arundel being truly enformed that the Lord Bousac Marshall of Fraunce was come to Beauuoys entending to do some feate in Normandie asseÌ„bled the number of .xxiij. hundred meÌ„ and comming nere to the sayde towne of Beauvays sent a greate number of lighte horsemen to runne before the towne to trayne out the Frenchmen within the whiche issuing out and following the Englishe horsemen vnto their stale were so enclosed and fought with that in maner al the number of them saue a fewe which fledde backe into the Towne wyth the Marshall were slaine or taken Amongest other of the chiefest prisoners that valiaunt Captaine Ponton de Santrailles was one and without delay was exchaunged for the Lorde Talbot before taken prisoner at the battaile of Patay There was also taken one called the shepherd The holy sheppard a simple man and a sillie soule but yet of suche reputation for his supposed holynesse amongest the French men that if hee touched the Wall of any of theyr aduersaryes townes â—…y â—…eleeâ—… it would incontinently fall downe This chaunce succeeded not fortunately alone vnto the Englishe nation for Richarde Beauchampe Earle of Warwicke had a great skyrmishe before the towne of Gourney where hee discomfited and repulsed his enimies and besyde those that were slaine he tooke .lx. horsmen all being gentlemen of name and armes Like chaunce happened to the friendes of king Charles Vaudemount besieged toward the marches of Lorraine where Reigner Duke of Bar besieged the Towne of Vaudemont perteining to the Erle therof â—…med Anthonie cousin to the same duke Reigner This Erle before the dukes approching left a conuenient 〈◊〉 within the towne to defende it and with all speede rode to the Dukes of 〈…〉 â—…gotgaâ—… being then at the foresâ—… 〈…〉 at Paris where as purchased such 〈…〉 haâ—…s bycause hee haâ—… 〈…〉 that not onely sir Iohn â—…aâ—…e wâ—… 〈…〉 to groweth haâ—… â—…gâ—… his 〈…〉 â—…d â—…chers buâ—… also doe Duke of 〈◊〉 Marshall 〈◊〉 Anthonie Toâ—… 〈…〉 â—…panied with .xv. Câ—… 〈…〉 When the duke of 〈…〉 â—…mies were thus comming towardes 〈…〉 harde captaine he raysed his siege 〈…〉 fare with the erle and 〈…〉 was â—…uell and mortaâ—… The 〈◊〉 the Fâ—…ch side endured long but of 〈…〉 English archers so galled their 〈…〉 â—…ded the men that the Barâ—… 〈…〉 of duke Reigners side were â—…se 〈…〉 The Duke of Bar taken In the chase was taken the Duke of Bar the Bishop of Mitz the lord of Roquedemaque sir Euerard of Salâ—…eburg the Viconte Darcie and two hundred other beside three thousande which were slaine In this luckie time also no lesse occasion of victorie was offred to the English men in an other part if they could haue vsed it with such cercumspect warinesse as had beene expedient for Robert Lord Willoughby Mathew Gough a valiant Welchman with .xv. hundred English men Saint Seuerine besieged laid siege to a town in Anion called S. Seuerine whereof Charles the Frenche king beeing aduertised sent with all speede the Lord Ambrose de Lore with many noble men to the succors of them within the towne whereof the same Lorde Ambrose was captaine and therefore made the more hast to relieue his deputie and the other being straytly besieged but yet stayed at the towne of Beaumont till his whole power might come to him The Englishmen aduertised of this incent of the captaine came vpon 〈◊〉 â—…ight and found the FrenchmeÌ„s watch 〈…〉 that a. M. men were entred into the campe helpe they were espied by reason whereof the Englishe men found small resistance But when the day began to appeare and that the Saâ—… sette forth his bright beames a bronde that yâ—… thingâ—… might be seene the Englishmen giuen â—…y to spoyle followed not their enimies 〈◊〉 but being contented with their pray and gaine began to retreyt toward the siege againe which 〈◊〉 Willoughbie still mainteyned wyth depart of the armie But see the chaunce the Frenchmen whiche were comming after heard by the noyst of the people that some fray was in hande put spuâ—… to their horses and set on the English men pestered with bagge and baggages of the spoyle and pray which they had gotten in the French camâ—… The other of the Frenchmen which before had fled returned againe and ayded their fellowes so that the Englishmen beeing taken oute of order were compelled to flee of whoÌ„ Mathew Gough and diuerse other were taken prisoners and yet of the other part many were slaine and a great nuÌ„ber taken amongst whome was the L. de Lore who for all that the French men coulde doe was kept not deliuered The L. Wiâ—…oughby hearing of this mishap raysed his siege and departed verie fore displeased in his minde but coulde not remedie it About this season Nicholas the Cardinall of the holy Crosse â—…egate from Rome sent to 〈◊〉 of peace 〈◊〉 the English and â—…nch was sent into France as a Legate from Eugeny the fourth as then Bishoppe of Rome to treate a peace betweene the Englishe
lay aside all rancor malice displeasure so that in concluding a godly peace they might receyue profit and quietnesse here in this worlde and of God an euerlasting rewarde in heauen After this admonition thus to them giuen after diuerse dayes of communication euery part brought in their demaunds which were most cōtrarie and farre from any likelyhood of comming to a good conclusion The Englishmen required that K. Charles should haue nothing but what it pleased the king of England that not as dutie but as a benefite by him of his mere liberalitie giuen and distributed The Frenchmen on the other part woulde that king Charles shoulde haue the Kingdome frankly and freely and that the king of England shoulde leaue the name armes and tytle of the King of Fraunce and to bee contente with the Dukedomes of Aquitaine and Normandie and to forsake Paris and all the townes whiche they possessed in France betwene the ryuers of Some and Loyr being no percel of the Duchie of Normandie To bee briefe the pride of the one part and the ambition of the other hindered concorde peace and quietnesse The Cardinals seeing them so farre in sunder mynded not to dispute theyr tytles but offred them reasonable conditions of truce and peace for a season which notwithstanding either of frowardnesse or of disdeyne vpon both partes were openly refused Insomuch that the Englishmen in great displeasure departed to Calays and so into England One Writer affyrmeth that they being warned of a secrete conspiracie moued agaynst them sodainly departed frō Arras and so returned into their Countrey Whiles this treatie of peace was in hande the Lorde Talbot the Lorde Willoughbie the Lorde Scales with the Lorde Lisle Adam and fiue thousande men of warre besieged the towne of Saint Denys with a strong hand The Erle of Dunoys hearing thereof accompanied wyth the Lorde Lohac and the Lorde Bueill wyth a great companie of horsemen hasted thitherwards to rayse the siege and by the waye encountred with sir Thomas Kiriell and Mathew Gough ryding also towarde Saint Denys betweene whom was a great conflict and many slaine on both partes but sodainly came to the ayde of the Frenchmē the garnison of Pont Meulan which caused the Englishmen to returne withoute any greate harme or domage sauing that Mathewe Gough by foundering of his horse was taken and caryed to Pont Meulan Saint Denise taken by the Englishemen In the meane time was the towne of Saint Denise rendred to the Englishmen the which razed the walles fortifications sauing the walles of the Abbey and of the tower called Venin Shortly after the towne of Pontoyse where sir Iohn Ruppelley was captaine rebelled and by force the Englishe menne were expulsed the Inhabitantes yeelding themselues to the French King This towne was small but the losse was greate bycause it was the Key that opened the passage betwixt the Cities of Paris and Roan But nowe to returne to the communication at Arras which after the departure of the English Commissioners held betwixt the Frenchmen and Burgonians till at length a peace was concluded accorded and sworne betwixt K Charles and Duke Philippe of Burgoine vpon certaine cōditions as in the French hystories more plainly appeareth The superscription of this letter was thus To the high and mightie prince Henrie by the grace of God King of Englande his welbeloued cousin Neither naming him king of Fraunce nor his soueraigne Lorde according as euer before that time he was accustomed to do This Letter was much marueyled at of the Counsayle after they had throughly considered and pondered all and singular the contentes therof and as reason moued them they could not but be muche disquieted therewith so farre forth that dyuerse of them stomaked so muche the vntruth of the Duke that they coulde not temper theyr passions nor brydle their tongues but openly called him traytor But when the rumor of the Dukes reuolting was published amōgst the people they left words and fell to bestowing of strypes for being pricked with this euill tidings they ranne in great outrage vppon all the Flemings Hollanders and Burgonions which thē inhabited within y e Citie of London and the Suburbes of the same and slue and hurt a great nūber of them before they by the kings proclamation coulde be stayed from such iniurious doing for the king nothing more mynded than to saue innocent bloud and to defend them that had not offended The officer at armes was willed to tell hys maister that it stoode not with his honor to bee enimye to the Englishe Nation and that his dutie was all things considered to keepe hys auncient truth and olde allegiance rather than to bee the occasion of newe warre And further it was not the point of a wise man to leaue the certaine for the vncertaine and trust vpon the vnstedfast holde of a newe reconciled enimie When the Messenger with thys aunswere was dispatched and sent awaye the King of Englande and his Counsayle purposed to worke the Duke of Burgoigne some displeasure and therevpon by rewardes corrupted certaine rulers of Cityes and Townes within his Dominions to moue some rebellion agaynst hym which indeede sore troubled the Dukes wittes and a great while disquieted his minde by their disobedyent conspiracie An. reg 14. The death of the Duke of Bedford Regent of France This yeare the .xiiij. day of September dyed Iohn Duke of Bedforde Regent of Fraunce a man as politike in peace as hardie in warre and yet no more hardie than mercifull when hee had the victorie whose bodie was with all funerall pompe and solemne Exequies buryed in the Cathedral Church of our Lady in Rouen on the North syde of the highe Aulter vnder a sumptuous and costlye monument whiche Tombe when King Lewis the eleuenth by certayne vndiscreete persones was counsayled to deface affyrming that it was a greate dyshonour both to the King and to the Realme to see the enimye of hys father and theyrs to haue so solemne and riche memoriall A worthy saying of a wise Prince He aunswered saying what honour shall it bee to vs or to you to breake this monument and to pull out of the grounde the deade bones of him whome in hys lyfe tyme neyther my father nor your progenitours wyth all theyr power puissaunce and friendes were once able to make flee one foote backewarde but by hys strength wytte and policie kept them all oute of the principall Dominions of the Realme of Fraunce and out of thys Noble and famous Duchie of Normandie Wherefore I say fyrst God haue his soule and let hys bodie nowe lye in rest whiche when hee was alyue woulde haue disquieted the prowdest of vs all and as for the Tombe I assure you is not so decent nor conuenient as his honour and actes deserued although it were much rycher and more beautifull The frost was so extreme thys yeare begynning about y e .xxv. daye of Nouember Great frost and continuing tyll the tenth of
Februarie that the Shippes wyth Marchandice arryuing at the Thames mouth coulde not come vppe the Riuer by reason it was so frozen and so their lading being there discharged was brought to the Citie by lande After the death of that Noble Prince the Duke of Bedforde the bright Sunne that in Fraunce commonly shone moste fayre and beautyfull vppon the Englishe menne beganne to be clowdie and daylye to waxe more darke for the Frenchmenne beganne not onely to wythdrawe theyr obedyence whiche they had by oth promysed to the King of England but also tooke sword in hande and openly defyed the Englishmenne but yet coulde not all these mishappes any thing abashe the valiaunt courages of the Englishe people for they hauing no mystrust in God and good fortune sette vppe a newe sayle The Duke of Yorke made Regent of France beganne the warre agayne afreshe and appoynted for Regent in Fraunce Richard Duke of Yorke sonne to Richard Erle of Cambridge Although the Duke of Yorke was worthye both for byrth and courage of this honor and preferment yet hee was so disdeyned of Edmonde Duke of Sommerset being cousin to the King that by all meanes possible hee sought hys hynderaunce as one glad of hys losse and sorye of his well doing by reason whereof ere the Duke of Yorke coulde gette hys dispatche he was constrayned to lynger tyll Paris and dyuerse other of the chiefest places in Fraunce were gotten by the French king The Duke of Yorke perceyuing his euil wil openly dissembled that which he inwardly mynded and thus eyther of them wrought things to the others displeasure till through canered malice and pestiferous diuision continuing in the heartes of these two Princes at length by mortall warre they were both consumed wyth almost all theyr whole lynes and offsprings The Normans of the Countrey of Caux beeyng heartened by the death of the Duke of Bedforde beganne a new rebellion fiue diuerse Englishmen robbed many Townes that were vnder y e English obeysaunce and tooke the towne of Herflew by assault and dyuerse other townes But the Lorde Regent beeing aduertised sente forth the Lorde Scales sir Thomas Kiriel and the Lorde Hoo whiche so afflicted those rebels of Caux y t they slue aboue .v. M. persōs burnt all the Townes and villages in the Countrey not being walled so that in that parte was neyther habitation nor tillage for all the people fled into Britaine and all the beasts of the Countrey were broughte to Caudebecke where a good sheepe was solde for an English peny a Cow for twelue pence Dayly was skirmishing and fighting in euery part in so much that the Lord Scales discomfited at the Rye beside Roan the Hire and fifteene hundred valiant Frenchmen of the whiche aboue three hundred were taken prisoners beside seauen goodly faire coursers Amongst other of the prisoners were sir Richard Reignold de Fountaynes sir Alayne Gerond Alayn de Monsay and Geoffrey Grame capitayne of the Scottes But yet this victorie and others the lyke stayed not the Frenchemen from working treason dayly in somuche that diuers townes turned to the part of K. Charles and some were taken by practise as Dieppe Boys de Vincennes and other Heere is one chiefe pointe to be noted that eyther the disdeyne among the chiefe peeres of the realme of England as ye haue heard or the negligence of the Kings counsell whiche did not foresee daungers to come was the losse of the whole dominion of France betweene the ryuers of Soane and Marne and in especiall of y e noble Citie of Paris For where before there were sent ouer thousands for defence of the holdes and fortresses now were sent hundreds yea and scores some rascalles and some not able to drawe a bowe or carrie a bill for the Lord Willoughby and the Bishop of Terrouanne whiche had the gouernaunce of the great Citie of Paris 1436 had in their company not two thousand Englishmen which weakenesse King Charles wel perceiued and therefore he appointed the Connestable Arthur of Britaigne the Earle of Dunoys the Lords de la Roche and Lisle Adam with other valiant Captaines and men of warre as well Burgonions as Frenche to goe before Paris trusting by fauoure of certaine Citizens with whome he had intelligence shortly to bee Lorde of the Citie without great losse or battell So these Captaines came before the Citie of Paris but perceiuing y t all things succeeded not according to their expectatiō they returned to Mont Martir and the next day suddainely set on the Towne of Saint Denis and constreyned the Englishmen that kept it to flee into the Abbey and into the tower Venin In this conflict two hundred Englishmen were slayne and the residue vppon a reasonable composition rendred vp the place and departed to Paris Thomas Lorde Beaumonte whiche of late was come to Paris with eight hundred men issued foorth of the citie with .vj. C. souldiors only intending to view the doings and number of the Frenche armie but he was sodeynly espyed and compassed aboute so that within a small space he was discomfited and taken and wyth him .lxxx. prisoners beside .ij. C. which wer slain in y e field the remnant chased to the very gates of the citie The Parisians especially y e master of y e Halles and some of the Vniuersitie Michael Lallier and many notable burgesses of the Citie which euer with an Englishe countenāce couered a French heart perceiuing the weaknes of the Englishmen and the force of the Frenchmen signified to the Frenche Capitaynes their myndes and intentes willing them with all diligence to come that they myght receyue so riche a pray to them without any difficultie ready to be giuen and deliuered into their handes The Constable delaying no time came with his power and lodged by the Charter house and the Lord Lisle Adam approching to the walles shewed to the Citizens a Charter sealed with the great seale of King Charles by the whiche he had pardoned them their offences and graunted to them all their olde liberties The treason of the Parisians and auntient priuiledges so that they would heereafter be to him true and obedyente whiche thing to them declared they ranne aboute the towne crying Saynt Denis liue King Charles The Englishmen perceyuing this determined to keepe the gate S. Denis but they were deceiued for the cheynes were drawen in euery streete and women and children cast downe stones scalding water on the Englishmens heads and the Citizens in armour fought with them and chased them from streete to streete and from lane to lane and slew and hurt diuers and many of them The Bishop of Tyrwine Chancellor there for King Henry the Lord Willoughby and Sir Simon Moruiher tooke great payne to appease the people but when they saw that all auailed not they withdrewe into the Bastell of Saint Anthony whiche fortresse they had well vittailed and furnished with men and munitions Whilest this rumor was in the
power dislodged from Poyssi and came to Maunte and soone after to Roan An. reg 20. When the Regent and the lord Talbot were returned agayne into Normandie the Frenche K. considering howe muche it shoulde redounde to his dishonor to let rest the town of Ponthoyse in his enimies hāds Po◅thoyse gotten by the Frenche sith he had bin at such charges and trauaile aboute the winnyng therof hee eftsoones assembled all his puissance and retourning sodeinly again vnto Ponthoyse he firste by assault gat the church and after the whole town toke the captain and diuers other Englishmen and slewe to the number of .iiij. C. whiche solde their lyues dearely for one French writer affirmeth that the French king lost there .iij. M. men and the whole garnison of the Englishmen was but only a thousand Enguerant Sir Nicholas Burdet flayne Among other that were slayne here of the defendants was sir Nicholas Burdet knight chief Butler of Normandie After this hotte tempeste the weather began somewhat to waxe more calme for king Henry and kyng Charles agreed to sende Ambassadours to commen of some good conclusion of peace So that King Henry sente the Cardinall of Wynchester wyth dyuers other noble personages of his counsel to Caleys with whom was also sent Charles duke of Orleans yet prisoner in England to the intent that he might be both author of the peace and also procurer of his owne deliueraunce The French king sent the Archbishop of Reimes and the Erle of Dunoys and the Duke of Burgongne sent the Lord de Creuecueur dyuers other All these mette at Caleys where the Duke of Orleans curteously receiue the Earle of Dunoys his bastarde brother thanking him greatly for his paynes taking in gouerning hys landes and countrey during the time of his captiuitie and absence Diuers cōmunications wer had as well for the deliueraunce of the Duke as for a fynall peace but nothyng was concluded sauyng that an other meetyng was appoynted so that in the meane season the demaundes of eyther partie mighte be declared to their Soueraigne Lordes and Maisters And herevpon the Commissioners brake vp their assemble and returned into their countreys The Englishmen as the Frenche writers recorde required not only to possesse peaceably the two Duchies of Aquitayne and Normandie discharged of al resort superioritie and soueraintie againste the Realme of Fraunce the Kings and gouernors of the same but also to be restored to al the towns cities and places which they within .30 yeres nexte before gone and past had conquered in the realme of Frauce Whiche request the Frenchmen thought very vnresonable and so both parts minding rather to gain or saue than to lose departed for y t time as ye haue heed After this meting thus proroged Philip D. of Burgogne partly moued in conscience to make amends to Charles duke of Orleans as yet prisoner in Englād for the death of duke Lewes his father whom duke Iohn father to this D. Philip cruelly murthered in the Citie of Paris and partly intending the aduancement of his neece y e Lady Marie daughter to Adolfe duke of Cleue by the which aliāce he trusted that al old rā◅ shuld ceasse contriued ways to haue the sayd D. of Orleans set at libertie vpon promise by hym made to take y e said lady Mary vnto wife This Duke had bin prisoner in Englande euer sith the bataile foughten at Agincourt vpon the daye of Crispyne and Crispynian in the yere 1415. and was set now at libertie in the moneth of Nouember in the yeare .1440 paying for his raunsome .iiij. C. thousand crowns though other say but .iij. hundred thousande The cause that he was deteined so long in captiuitie was to pleasure thereby the Duke of Bourgongne For so long as the Duke of Burgongne continued faithfull to the King of Englande it was not thought necessarie to suffer the duke of Orleans to be caunsomed least vpon his deliuerance hee would not ceasse to seeke meanes to be reuenged vpon the duke of Burgongne for the old grudge and displeasure betwixt their two families and therfore suche ransome was demaunded for him as he was neuer able to paye but after that the duke of Burgongne had broken his promise and was turned to the French part the counsell of the king of England deuised how to deliuer the duke of Orleans that thereby they might displeasure the duke of Burgoygne Whych thing the duke of Burgogne perceyuing doubted what mighte followe if he were deliuered without his knowledge and therfore to hys greate coste practised his deliuerance payde his raunsome and ioyned w t him amitie aliance by mariage of his niece The Duke of Orleans deliuered This Duke being nowe deliuered and speaking better English than Frenche after his arriuall in France repaired to the Duke of Burgogne and according to hys promise and conuention maryed the Ladie Mary of Cleue in the towne of Saint Omers on whome he begat a sonne whiche after was Frenche Kyng and called Lewes the twelfth Yet here is to be noted that olde rancour sodainly appeased cōmonly springeth out againe for although the vnhappie deuision betwixte the two families of Orleans Burgogne were by benefyte of this mariage for a tyme stayed and put in forgetfulnesse for the space of twenty yeres and more yet at length it brake out betwene their children and Cousins to the great vnquietyng of the more parte of the Christian world specially in the tymes of Kyng Frauncis the fyrste and hys sonne Henry the seconde very heyres of the house of Orleans For Iohn erle of Angolesme vncle to this Duke Charles begatte Charles father to the sayde King Francis whyche Earle Iohn had bene as pledge in England for the debt of Lewes Duke of Orleans sith the last yere of K. Henry the fourth till that nowe his nephewe beyng deliuered made shifte for money and raunsomed hym also and at length restored him to his countrey In the begynnyng of thys twentieth yeare Richarde Duke of Yorke Regent of Fraunce and gouernour of Normandie determined to inuade the territoryes of his enimyes both by sundrye Armyes and in seuerall places and there vppon without delaying of tyme he sente the Lord of Willoughby wyth a great crew of Souldiours to destroye the countrey of Amyens and Iohn Lorde Talbot was appoynted to besiege the Towne of Dieppe and the Regent hym selfe accompanyed wyth Edmunde Duke of Somerset set forward into the Duchy of Aniow The Lorde Willoughdy◅ accordyng to hys Commissyon entred into the countrey of hys enimyes in suche wyse vppon the sodayife that a great numbre of people were taken ete they coulde withdrawe into any place of safegarde or foreclet The Frenchemenne in the garnysons adioyning astonyed wyth the clamoure and crye of the poore people issued out in good order and manfully foughte wyth the Englyshmen but in the end the Frenchmen seyng theyr fellowes in the forfront slayn down kyld without mercie tourned their backes and fled the
Kyng to enter into this Realme and to leauie warre againste the King and his people to the intent to destroy the K. and his frendes and to make Iohn his son King of this realm marying him to Margaret sole heire to Iohn Duke of Somerset pretending and declaring hir to be nexte heire inheritable to the crowne for lack of issue of the kings body laufully begotten 2 Item the saide Duke being of the Kings priuie and neare counsaile allured by greate rewards and faire promisses made by the forsaid Earle of Dunois caused the King to delyuer and sette at libertye Charles Duke of Orleans ennemy to the King and the Kings noble father whiche delyueraunce was prohibited by expresse words in the laste will of the kings moste victorious father 3 Item that beefore the departure of the saide Duke of Orleans the aforenamed Duke of Suffolke trayterouslye faste cleauyng to Charles called the Frenche King counsailed prouoked and entised the saide Duke of Orleans to moue the same Kyng to make warre againste England both in Fraunce and Normandie according to which procurement and counsayle the saide Frenche King hathe recouered the whole Realme of Fraunce and all the Duchie of Normandie and taken prisoners the Earle of Shrewesoury the Lorde Fauconbridge and many other valiant Capitaines These three Articles aforenamed he denyed eyther for facte or thought 4 Farther it was alledged that he beeyng ambassador for the K. of England to Charles calling hymselfe Frenche King promysed to Reyner king of Sicile and to Charles Dangiers his brother ennemies to the king the release of Aniow wyth the deliueraunce of the Countie of Maine and the citie of Mawnt or Mauns wythout the knowledge of the other Ambassadours which him accompanied which promise after his return he caused to be performed to the kings disinheritance and losse irrecuperable and to the strengthe of his enemies and feeblishement of the Duchie of Normandie To this article he answered that his commission was to conclude and doo all thinges accordyng to his discretion for the obteynyng of a peace and bycause wythout deliuerye of those countreys hee perceyued that truce coulde not bee obteyned he agreed to the release and deliueraunce of them 5 Also they surmised that the saide Duke beeing in Fraunce in the Kings seruice and one of the priuiesie of his counsaile there traiterouslye declared and opened to the Capitains and Conduiters of warre apperteyning to the Kinges enemies the Kinges counsaile purueyance of his armies furniture of his towns and all other ordynaunces whereby the Kings enemies enformed by hys trayterouse information haue gotten Townes and fortresses and the king by that meane depriued of his inherytaunce 6 Item the sayde Duke declared to the Earle of Dunoys to the Lord Presigny and Wyllyam Cosinet ambassadors for the french king lying in Londō the priuities of the kings counsaile bothe for the prouision of further warre and also for defence of the Duchie of Normandye by the disclosing whereof the Frenchemenne knowing the Kinges secretes preuented the tyme and obteyned theyr purpose 7 Item that the saide Duke at suche time as the King sent Ambassadours to the French King for the intreating of peace tr◅cou◅y beefore their comming to the Frenche Courte certified king Charles of their commission authoritie and instructions by reason whereof neither peace nor amitie succeded the kings inheritaunce loste and by hys enemyes possessed 8 Item the same Duke sayde openly in the starre chamber before the lords of the counsaile that hee had as highe a place in the counsaile house of the French king as hee had there and was aswell truffed there as here and could remoue from the French king the p◅iest man of his counsaile if hee would 9 Item when armies haue bene p◅ared and souldiours readie waged to passe on◅ the Sea to resiste the Kings enemies the sayde duke corrupted by rewards of the french king hathe restrayned and stayed the saide armies to passe any farther 10 Item the said Duke being Ambassador for the King comprised not in the league as the kings alies neyther the king of Arragon neyther the Duke of Britaigne but suffred them to bee comprised on the contrarie parte by reason wherof the olde amitie of the king of Arragon is estranged from this Realme and the Duke of Britaine became enemie to the same Giles his brother the Kinges sure freinde caste in strong prison and there like to ende and finishe his dayes All these obiections hee vtterly denyed or faintly auoided but none fully excused Diuers other crimes were layde to hys charge as enriching hymselfe with the Kynges goodes and lands gathering togither and making a Monopolie of offices fees wardes and Farmes by reason wherof the Kings estate was greatly minished and decayed and he and his kinne highely exalted and enriched with many other pointes which bycause they be not notable nor of greate force or strengthe I omitte and ouerpasse The Quene which entierly loued the duke doubting some commotion and troudle to arise if hee were let go vnpunished The Duke of Suffolke committed to the Tovver caused him to be committed to the tower where he remained not paste a Moneth but was agayne deliuered and restored to the Kynges fauour as muche as euer hee was beefore This dooing so much displeased the people that if politike prouision hadde not bin greate mischiefe had immedyatly ensued for the commons in sundry places of the Realme assembled togyther in greate companyes and chose to them a Capitaine whome they called Blewberde Blevvberde Capitaine of the Rebe◅ but ere they hadde attempted any enterprise their leaders were apprehended and so the matter pacified without any hurte committed After this little rage thus asswaged the parliament was adiourned to Leicester whyther came the King and Queene in great estate and wyth them the Duke of Suffolke as chiefe counsellors The commons of the lower house not forgetting their olde grudge besought the King that suche persons as assented to the release of Aniow and delyueraunes of Mayne might bee duely punished and to bee priuie to that sake they accused as principall the Duke of Suffolke with Iohn Bishop of Salisbury and Sir Iames Fines Lord Day and diuers other When the king perceiued that there was ◅o remedy to appease the peoples fury by any dissembling wayes to beginne a shorte way to pacifie so long an hatred hee fyste sequestred the Lorde Saye being Threasourer of England and other the Dukes adherems from their offices and toomthes and after banished the Duke of Suffolke as the abhorred tode and common noysaunce of the realme for the terme office yeares meaning by this exile to appease the furious rage of the people and after when the matter was forgotten to reuolte hym home againe but fortune woulde not that to vngracious a person shoulde so escape for when hee shipped in Suffolke intending to transporte ouer into Fraunce hee was encountred with a shippe of warre apperteyning to the Duke of Exceter Connestable of
or malice that he bare to the Erle of Richmond for as you haue heard before he deliuered him from the perill of death at S. Malos when he was in great doubt of life and ieopardyâ—… but as cause riseth we euer offende and that cursed hunger of golde and execrable thyrst of lucre and inwarde feare of losse of authoritie driueth the blinde mindes of couetous men and ambitious persons to euilles and myschiefes innumerable not remembring losse of name obloquie of the people nor in conclusion the punishment of God for their merites and deserts But fortune was so fauourable to the publique wealth of the Realme of Englande that this deadly and dolorous compact tooke none effect or place For while Postes ranne and letters were sent to and fro for the finishing of this greate enterpryce betweene King Richarde and Peter Landoyse Iohn Morton Bishop of Ely soiourning then in Flaunders was of all this craftie conueyaunce certifyed by hys secrete and sure friendes Wherefore hee sent Christopher Vrswike whiche at that verie season was come out of Brytayne into Flaunders to declare to the Earle of Richmonde howe all the deceyte and craftie working was conueyed and compassed giuing him in charge to counsayle and aduise the Earle in all haste possible with all his companie to retire out of Brytayne into Fraunce When these newes were brought to the erle he then kept house in Vannes and incontinent dispatched again Christofer Vrswike to Charles the French king requiring him that hee and his might safely passe into Fraunce which desyre being obteyned the messenger shortly returned to his Lorde and Prince The Erle well perceyuing that it was expedient and necessarie wyth all speede and diligence to looke to this weighty matter calling verie fewe to counsaile hee made inquirie and searche of all secrete and bywayes and sent before all his noble men as though for a certaine familiaritie and kindnesse they shoulde visite and comfort the Duke which then for recreation and chaunge of ayre lay on the borders and confines of Fraunce And secretely hee gaue charge to the Earle of Pembroke whiche was the leader and conductor of his companie that when they approched the Marches and limittes of Brytayne they shoulde diuert and take the next way into Fraunce The noble menne somewhat suspitions of things newly imagined withoute any tarying skouring the wayes as fast as theyr horses could runne came out of the Duchie of Brytayne into y e Duchy of Aniou in the dominion of France where they taryed the Earles comming which two dayes after departed out of Vannes onely accompanied with fiue seruitours as though hee had gone secretly to visite a familiar friend of his in a small village adioyning No man suspected that he would depart considering that a great multitude of Englishe men were left and continued in the Citie but after that he had passed directly fiue miles forwarde he sodainly turned into a solitarie woodde next adioyning where clothing himselfe in the simple coate of his poore seruant made and appoynted his sayd minister leader and maister of his small companie and he as humble page diligently followeth and serueth his counterfeyte gouernour neyther resting nor themselues refreshing except the bayting of their horses tyll they by wayes vnknowne now thys way now turning that way came to their companie abiding them in Angiers The fourth day after the Erle of Richmonde was thus departed that craftie marchant Peter Landoyse thrusting still after his pray promised by king Richarde was readie to set forward hys crew of souldiors which he priuily had consigned with certaine trustie captaines for that only purpose appoynted and elected to performe and atchieue his pretensed enterprise dissembling and feyning them to be conducted and hyred by hym to serue the Earle of Richmonde and hym to conduct in hys returne towarde his natiue countrey meaning none other thing but to apprehende him and the other noble men in hys continue which no suche fraude suspected nor 〈◊〉 any treason ymagined vnware and vnprouided and destitute of al ayde and them to cast and commit sodainly into continuall captiuitie and bondage to the intent that by this his wretched naughtie acte he myght satisfie the charitable request and louing desire of good king Richarde more for his owne profite than king Richardes gaine But when this craftie dissembler Peter Landoyse which was no wilier than an olde Foxe perceyued that the Earle was departed thinking that to bee true that he ymagined Lorde howe currours ranne into euery coast how light horsemen galloped in euery streete to follow and deteyne him if by any possibilitie he could be met with and ouertaken and him to apprehende and bring captiue into the Citie of Vannes The horsemen made suche diligence and with suche celeritie set forwarde theyr iourney that nothing was more likely than they to haue obteyned yea and seased theyr pray For the Earle of Richmonde was not entered into the Realme of Fraunce scarce one houre but the folowers came to the limits and confines of Brytaine and durst aduenture no further but vainly without their desire sorrowfully returned At which season were left at Vannes aboute the number of three C. English men which not being called to counsaile vnware of this enterprise but knowing of the Earles sodaine departure were so incontinently astonied that in maner they were al in dispayre both of him and their owne suretie and sauegarde But fortune turned hir saile and otherwise it happened than their feare them encombred For the Duke of Brytayne nowe being somewhat recouered was sore displeased and nothing contented that the Earle of Richmond was in his dominion so vncourteously tracted and entreated that he shoulde be by fraud and vntruth compelled to leaue and flie out of his Duchie and Countrey contrary to his honour Wherefore he tooke great displeasure with Peter Landoyse his Treasorer to whome although he knew not and was ignoraunt that all the drift was driuen and deuised by him he layde the fault and imputed the crime Wherefore he sent for Edward Wooduile and Edwarde Ponings valiaunt Esquiers of Englande and delyuered vnto them money sufficient for theyr conduct willing them to coÌ„uey the rest of the English men being in Brytaine to the Erle of Richmonds presence When the Erle was thus furnished and appoynted with his trustie companie was escaped all the daungers Lobâ—…inthes and snares that were set for him 〈◊〉 â—…taruayle though hee were â—…d and glad of the prosperous successe that happened in his affaynes Wherefore least hee should seeme to be blotted with the note of ingratitude 〈◊〉 sent diuerse of his Gentlemen to the Duke of Britayne the which should publish and declare to him on the behalfe of the Earle that he and his were onelye by his benefite and honour conserued and deliuered from the 〈…〉 â—…â—…er that they were lyke to be trapped in Wheâ—…fore at that time he rendred to him his 〈◊〉 â—…râ—…tâ—…e thankes in wordes trusting 〈…〉 â—…ng but in time to
to proâ—…raâ—… and deferre the tyme but wyth all diligence and celeritie to attempt hys begonne enterprice and so obteyning of King Charles a small 〈◊〉 of men and borrowing certaine summes of money of him and of dyuerse other hys pryuate friendes for the whiche hee left as debter or more likelyer as a pledge or hostage Lord Thomas Marques Dorset whome he halfe â—…aâ—… rusted and sir Iohn Bourchier hee departed from the Frenche Courte and came to the Citie of Roan While he taried there making prouision at Harflete in the mouth of the riuer of Seyne for all thinges necessary for his nauye tidinges were brought to him that king Richarde being without children and now Widower entended shortly to marye the Ladie Elizabeth his brothers daughter and to preferre the Ladie Cicile hir sister to a manne founde in a Clowde and of an vnknowne lynage and familie Hee tooke these newes as a matter of no small moment and so all things considered it was of no lesse importaunce than he tooke it for For this thing onely tooke away from him and al his Companions theyr hope and courage that they had to obteyne an happie enterprise And therefore no marueyle though it nipped him at the verie stomacke when he thought that by no possibilie hee might attaine the maryage of any of King Edwardes daughters whiche was the strongest foundation of his buylding by reason whereof he iudged that al his friendes in England would abandon and shrinke from hym Wherefore making not many of his counsaile after diuerse consultations he determined not yet to set forwarde but to tary and attempt howe to get more ayde more friends and more stronger succors And amongst all other it was thought most expedient to allure by affinitie in his ayde as a companion in armes sir Walter Herbert a man of an auncient stocke and great power amongst the Welchmen whiche had with hym a fayre Lady to hys syster of age ripe to be coupled with him â—…mâ—…imonie And for the atchieuing of this purpose messengers were secretly sent to Henrie erle of Northumberlande which had before maried another sister of sir Walter Herbertes to the intent that he should set forward all this deuice and purpose but the wayes were so narowly watched and so many spyes â—…ayed that the Messenger proceeded not in his iourney and businesse But in the meane season there came to the Earle a more ioyfull message from Morgan Kidwelly learned in the temporall law whiche declared that Rice an Thomas a man of no lesse valiauntnesse than affinitie and Iohn Sauage an approued Captaine woulde with all theyr power be partaker of his quarell And that Reignoâ—…de Breâ—… collected and gotten togither no small summe of money for the payment of the wages to the Souldiours and men of warre admonishing him also to make quicke expedition and to take his course directly into Wales The Earle of Richmonde bycause he would no longer lynger and wearie his friendes liuing continually betweene hope and feare determined in all conuenient hast to set forwarde and caused to his ships armor weapons vitaile and al other ordinances expedient for warre After that all thing was in a readinesse the Earle being accompanied onely with two thousande men and a small number of shippes weyed vp his Ancors and halfed vppe his sayles in the Moneth of August and sayled from Harfleete with so prosperous a winde that the seuenth day after his departure hee arriued in Wales in the Euening at a place called Mylforde Hauen Mylford Hauen and incontinent tooke lande and came to a place called Dalle where he heard say that a certaine companie of his aduersaries were layde in garrison to defend his arriuall all the last winter And the Earle at the Sunne rising remoued to Herford west being distant from Dalle not fully ten myles where he was ioyfully receyued of the people he arriued there so sodainly that he was come and entred the Towne at the same time when the Citizens had but knowledge of hys comming Here he herd newes which were as vntrue as they truely were reported to him in Normandy that Rice ap Thomas and Iohn Sauage with bodie and goodes were determined to ayde king Richard While he and his companie were somewhat astonied of these newe tydyngs there came such message from the Inhabitauntes of the towne of Pembrooke that refreshed and reuiued theyr frozen heartes and daunted courages For Arnolde Butler a valiaunt Captaine whiche fyrst asking pardon for hys offences before tyme committed agaynst the Earle of Richmonde and that obteyned declared to hym that the Pembrochians were readie to serue and gyue theyr attendaunce on theyr naturall and immediate Lorde Iasper Earle of Pembrooke The Earle of Richmonde hauing his armie thus encreased departed from Herford well to the 〈◊〉 of Cardigan beeing fiue miles distance from thence And euen at the same time the whole armie was greatlye recomforted by reason that the comming of Richarde Griffyth a man of great nobilitie the which notwithstaÌ„ding that he was confederate with sir Walter Herbert and Richarde ap Thomas yet at that verie instant he came to the Erle of Richmond with all his companie whiche were of no great number After him the same day came Iohn Morgan with hys men Then the Earle aduaunced forward in good hast making no repose or abode in any one place And to the entent to passe forward with sure and shorte expedition he assaulted euerie place where his enimies had set any men of warre whiche with smal force and lesse difficultie he briefly did ouercome and vanquishe And sodainly he was by his espials ascertayned that sir Walter Herbert and Rice ap Thomas were in harnesse before him readie to encounter with his armie and to stoppe theyr passage Wherfore like a valiant Captain he first determined to set on them and eyther to destroy or to take them into his fauour and after with all his power and paissance to giue battaile to his mortal enimie K. Richard But to the intent his friendes shoulde knowe in what readinesse he was how he proceeded forward he sent of his most secret faithfull seruaÌ„ts with letters and instructions to the Ladie Margaret his mother to the lord Stanley his brother to sir Gilbert Talbot and to other his trusty friends declaring to them that he being succored and bolpen with the ayd and reliefe of his friends intended to passe ouer the Riuer of Seuerne at Shrewesburie and so to passe directly to the Citie of London requiring them as his special trust and confidence was fixed in the hope of their fidelitie that they woulde meete him by the way with all diligent preparation to the entent that he and they at time and place conuenient myght communicate togither the deepenesse of all hys doubtfull and weyghtie businesse When the Messengers were dispatched with these commaundements and admonitions hee marched forward towarde Shrewsburie and in his passing there met and saluted him Rice ap Thomas
to bee of his fathers right deare and famyliar friendes whose names were as followeth William Warham Archebishop of Canterburie and Chauncellour of Englande Counsailers to king Henry the eight Richard Foxe Bishop of Winchester Thomas Howarde Earle of Surrey and Treasorer of Englande George Talbot Earle of Shrewesburie and Lorde steward of the kings householde Charles Somerset Lorde Chamberlaine Sir Thomas Louell sir Henrie Wâ—…at doctor Thomas Ruthall sir Edward Poynings These graue wise counsailors fearing least such aboundance of riches and wealth as the king was nowe possessed of might moue his yong yeres vnto riottous forgetting of himselfe for vnto no King at any time before was 〈◊〉 greater or the â—…e â—…iches as well in readie come as in â—…wels and other moueable 〈…〉 as 〈◊〉 to him by his father And therefore hys saide counsaylers trauayled in such prudent â—…with him that they got him to bee present with them 〈◊〉 they saâ—…e in counsaile so to â—…ynt hym with matters pertaining to the politike gouernement of the Realme that by little and little then might applie himselfe to take 〈◊〉 him the 〈◊〉 and administration of publike affayres with the whiche at the first he coulde not wâ—… endure to be muche troubled being rather inclined to 〈◊〉 suche pleasaunt pastimes as his youthfull 〈◊〉 yeares did more delight in â—…d therefore 〈…〉 verie wel contenâ—… that other grâ—… 〈…〉 should take paines therein The same day also that the king came to the Tower the Lorde Henrie Sufâ—… brother to the Duke of Buckingham was arrested and admitted to the Tower and 〈◊〉 day also dâ—…ctor Ruthaâ—… was named 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 The xxvâ—… day of Aprill was 〈…〉 the kings grace 〈◊〉 all the 〈…〉 by his father and also pardoned at suche persons as were then infuâ—…te for any offence whatsoeuer it was treason â—…ther and fellonie 〈◊〉 excepted And nowe wheras the perfourmance of the deceassed kings will was thoughte right expedient with aâ—… speede to be perfourmed A proâ—… a Proclamation was also 〈…〉 and published throughe the Realme that if any man coulâ—…e proue himself to he â—…t and depriued of his goods wrongfully by the Commissioners of the forfeytures he shoulde come and present his plaint to the king being redie to satisfie euerie one of all iniuries sustained After this Proclamation was notified abrode all suche as had beene constrained eyther by right or wrong as Polidor sayth to pay any thing for anye forfeytures of lawes and customes by them transgressed came flocking to the Court there declared their griefs in what sort they had wroÌ„gfully bin compelled as they â—…urmiled to pay this or that summe The counsaile heard euery mans complaint suche as were founde to haue paide any thing without plaine proof of iusticauâ—… they tooke such order for them that they had ther money again Which being once knowen it was a strange thing to see how thick other came in yea euen those that had bin worthily fined punished for their disorderly transgressions making erâ—…est suit for restitutioÌ„ feining forging many things to make their cause seme good and to stand with equitie and the better to be hearde in their suyte they made friends as wel with brybes and large giftes as otherwise leauing no wayes vnassayed to compasse their desires whiche greedinesse in such multitude of futers brought the commissioners and other that had delt in the forfeytures into daunger and did themselues no good for the counsell perceyuing that it was not possible to satisfie them all refused to heare anye further complayntes or suites for restitution but thought it best to committe those to prison by whom the compleynantes preteÌ„ded themselues to haue bin wroÌ„ged herevpon was sir Rich. Empson knight Empson and â—…ey committed to the 〈◊〉 and Edmonde Dudley Esquier great counselloures to the late Kyng attached and broughte to the Tower thereby to quiet mens myndes that made suche importunate suite to haue their money agayne restored whiche in the late Kynges dayes they hadde beene compelled to disburse through the rigorous proceedings as they alledged of the sayd two counsellours and others Truely greate exclamation was made agaynst them as it often happeneth that where anye thyng is doone contrarye to the lykyng of y e people those that be dealers vnder the Prince by hys commaundemente proceede in the execution thereof runne in hatred of the multitude But howe so euer it was theyr apprehension and committyng to prison was thoughte by the wyse to bee procured by the malice of them that in the late Kynges dayes were offended with theyr authoritie Shortely after as Edwarde Halle sayeth were apprehended dyuers other persones that wer called promoters as Canby Page Smith Derbye Promoters perished Wrighte Symson and Stocton of the whyche the more parte ware papers and stoode on the Pillorie When all things were prepared ready for the funeralles of the late Kyng his corps with all sumptuous pompe and solemne Ceremonyes was conueyed from Richmont to Saint Georges fielde where the Clergie of the Citie mette it and at the Bridge the Mayre and hys brethren wyth many Commoners all cloathed in blacke lykewyse mette it and gaue theyr attendaunce on the same thorough the Citie to the Cathedrall Churche of Saincte Paule where was song a solemne Dirige and Masse and a Sermon made by the Bishoppe of Rochester Iohn Fysher The nexte daye the corps was had to Westminster and there the daye followyng put into the earth wyth all due solemnities as apperteyned After that the funeralles of the sayde laâ—…e Kyng were once ended great preparation was made for the Coronation of thys new King whiche was appoynted on Midsomer daye next ensuyng Duryng the tyme of whyche preparation the Kyng was aduysed by some of his counsell to take to wyfe the Ladye Katherine late wyfe to hys brother Prince Arthur least she hauing so greate a dowrie as was appoynted to hir might marrye out of the realme whiche should be to his hinderaunce The Kyng beeyng hereto perswaded Lady Katherin Prince Arthure his widow maried to his brother King Henry the eyght espoused the sayd Ladye Catherine the thirde daye of Iune the whyche maryage was dispensed with by Pope Iuly at the suite of hir father kyng Ferdinando On the eleuenth day of this moneth of Iune the King came from Greenewiche to the Tower ouer London bridge and so by Gracechurche with whome came many a Gentleman rychely apparelled but specially the Duke of Buckingham whiche had a gowne all of Goldesmithes worke very costly On Friday the two and twentith daye of Iune the Kyng with the Queene being in the Tower of London made foure and twentie knightes of the Bath And the morrowe following being Saterday the 24. of Iune his grace with the Queene departed froÌ„ the Tower thorough London the streetes beeing hanged with tapestrie cloth of arras very richly And a great parte of the South side of Cheape with clothe of gold and so was some part of
leaste hee myght hynder hys purpose when he shoulde goe aboute to wreake his malice agaynste the Duke of Buckingham and therefore he pike a quarell to hym for that hee seased vpon certaine Wardes which the Cardinall saide apperteyned of ryghte to the Kyng The Earle of Northumberland committed to pris◅ and bycause the Earle woulde not gyue ouer hys title hee was also commytted to prison and after tooke it for a greate benefyte at the Cardinalles handes that hee myghtee be delyuered out of his daunger Nowe in this meane whyle the Cardinall ceassed not to bryng the Duke oute of the kings fauoure by suche forged tales and contriued surmises as he dayly put into the kings head The Duke comming to London with hys trayne of men to attende the King into France went before into Kēt to a Manour place which hee had there And whilest hee stayed in that Countrey tyll the Kyng set forwarde grieuous complayntes were exhibited to him by hys Fermours and Tenauntes agaynste Charles Kneuet his Surueyour for suche brybing as he had vsed there amōgst thē wherevpon the duke toke suche displeasure agaynst hym that hee depriued hym of his office not knowing how that in so doing he procured his owne destruction as after it appeared An. reg 12. The king ser◅ forward ◅rd France The Kings Maiestie perseuering in purpose to meete with Fraunces the French King remoued with the Queene and all his Court the .xxj. day of May being Monday from his Manour of Greenewiche towards the Sea syde and so on the Fryday the .xxv. of May hee arriued at the Citie of Canterburie intending there to kepe his Whitsuntide On the morrow after the Emperour being on the Sea returning oute of Spaine arryued wyth all hys nauie of shippes royall on the coast of Kent direct to the Porte of Hyeth the sayde day by Noone where hee was saluted by the Viccadmirall of Englande sir William Fitzwilliam with sixe of the Kings greate shippes well furnished which lay for the safegarde of passage betwixte Calays and Douer Towardes Euening the Emperour departed from his shippes and entred into his Boate and comming towardes lande was met and receyued of the Lorde Cardinall of Yorke wyth suche reuerence as to so noble a Prince apperteyned The Emperor Charles the .v. landeth in England Thus landed the Emperour Charles the fifth at Douer vnder his clothe of estate of the blacke Eagle all spredde on riche cloth of golde He had with him many noble men and many fayre Ladyes of his bloud When he was come to lande the Lord Cardinall conducted him to the Castell of Douer whiche was prepared for him in moste royall maner In the morning the king rode with all hast to the Castell of Douer to welcome the Emperor and entring into the Castell alighted The meeting of the Emperor and king Henrie at Douer Castel of whose comming the Emperor hauing knowledge came out of his chamber and met him on the stayres where either of them embraced other in most louing maner and then the king brought the Emperor to his chamber The Emperor and K. Henrie keepe Whit◅tide at Canterburie On Whitsunday early in the morning they tooke theyr horses and rode to the Citie of Canterburie the more to keepe solemne the feast of Pentecost but specially to see the Q. of England his aunt was the Emperor his intent of whō ye may bee sure he was most ioyfully receyued and welcomed Thus the Emperour and his retinue both of Lords and Ladies kept their Whitsuntide with the king and Queene of Englande in the Citie of Canterburie with all ioy and solace Polidor The Emperor yet himself seemed not so much to delite in pastime and pleasure but that in respect of his youthfull yeres there appeared in him a great shewe of grauitie for they coulde by no meanes bring him to daunce amongst the residue of the Princes but onely was contented to be a looker on Peraduenture the sight of the Ladye Marie troubled him whom he had sometime loued and yet through fortunes euill happe might not haue hir to wife The chiefe cause that moued the Emperour to come thus a lande at this tyme was to perswade that by worde of mouth which he had before done most earnestly by letters whiche was that the King shoulde not meete the French king at anye enteruiew for hee doubted least if the King of England and the French King shoulde growe into some greate friendshippe and faythfull bonde of ametie The emperor laboureth to hinder the purposed enteruiew it might turne him to displeasure But nowe that he perceyued howe the king was forwarde on his iourney hee did what he coulde to procure that no trust should be committed to the fayre wordes of the French men and that if it were possible the great friendshippe that was nowe in breeding betwixte the two kings might be dissolued And forasmuch as he knewe the Lorde Cardinall to be wonne with rewardes as a fish with a bayte he bestowed on him greate gyftes and promysed him much more so that he woulde be his friende and helpe to bring hys purpose to passe The Cardinall not able to susteyne the laste assault by force of such rewardes as hee presently receyued and of suche large promises as on the Emperours behalfe were made to him promised to the Emperour that he woulde so vse the matter as his purpose should be spedde onely hee required him not to disallow the Kings intent for enteruiew to be had which he desired in any wise to goe forwarde that hee myght shewe hys high magnificence in Fraunce according to his first intention The Emperour remayned in Canterburie til the Thursday being the last of May Hall and then taking leaue of the King and of hys Aunte the Queene departed to Sandwich where hee tooke his ships and sayled into Flaunders The same daye the King made sayle from the Porte of Douer The king landeth at Calais and landed at Calays aboute eleuen of the Clocke and with him the Queene and Ladies and many Nobles of the Realme his grace was receyued into the checker and there rested The fourth of Iune the King and Queene with all their trayne remoued from Calays to his princely lodging newly erected beside the towne of Guisnes This princely Palayce was buylt quadrant euerie square conteyning three hundred .xxviij. foote long of a sise The descriptiō of the new palace before Guisnes so that the compasse was .xiij. hundred and .xij. foote about The same Palayce was set on Stages by great cunning and sumptuous worke most gorgeously decked trymmed and adourned both within and without with such sumptuous and royall furniture of all sortes necessarie for the receyuing of such highe estates that the like might vneth bee ymagined or deuised by the wytte of man The French king was likewise come to the Towne of Arde neare to the which his lodgyng was also prepared but not fully finished And
commyng to Rychemonts where the Kyng then laye the laste of September In October there came Ambassadoures from the French King into England the lord Annas de Montmorancy great Master of the said French kings house the Bishoppe of Baâ—…onne chiefe presidente of Roan and Monsieur de Humieres accompanied wyth 〈◊〉 Gentlemen well appointed These Ambassadors were receyued with all honor â—…ght be deuised On 〈◊〉 daye the Kyng commyng to the Cathedrall Church of Saint Paule where the Cardinall â—…ng Masse sware deâ—… the high 〈◊〉 in the presente of the French Ambassadors to keepe and performe the league On Sunday the xâ—… of Noueâ—…ber the king being 〈◊〉 knight of the order of Saint Michaell The K. of Englande receyâ—… the order of S. Michaell receiued 〈◊〉 Grieâ—… with the saide order by the hands of the greate maister of Fraâ—… and Monsier Humiâ—…res that wer companions of the same order in like case as the French K. the same day at Paris receiued the order of the Garâ—…r by the hands of the lorde Lisle Doctor Taltor maister of the Rolls sir Nicholas Carew knight maister of the kings horses sir Antony Brown knight The Frenche K. receyueth the order of the garter sir Thomas Wriothestey Knight otherwise called Garter Kyng of armes the whiche were sente thither wyth the whole habite roller and other habillements of the order as appertained After that the French Ambassadors had ben highly feasted banqueted entertained with al honor pastime conuenient the great maister and all his company tooke leaue of the king wyth great rewardes returned into Fraunce leauing the Bishop of Bawnne behind them who abode ambassador legier in EnglaÌ„d In this Moneth of NoueÌ„ber Arthur Biluey â—…ey and other abiured Geffrey Lome one Garret y e spake against the Popes auctoritie were abiured by the Cardinall By reasoÌ„ of the gret weet that fell in the sowing time of the corne in the beginning of the laste yeare now in the beginning of this corne so failed that in the citie of LondoÌ„ for a while breade was scant by reason that commissioners appointed to see orders taken in shires aboute ordeined that none shuld be coÌ„ueied out of one shire into an other which order had like to haue bred disorder for y e euery cuntry place was not prouided a like and namely London that maketh hir prouisioÌ„ out of other places felte great inconuenience hereby Deâ—…th of corn till the marchants of the Stiliarde and other out of the Theutsch countryes broughte such pieÌ„tie y t it was better cheap in London 〈◊〉 in any other part of England for the king also releeued the citizens in time of their nede with a M. quarters by way of lone of his own prouision The scarcetie at the first was more than the derth for in the beginning of their wante wheate was only at .xv. s shillings a quarter and from thence it rose to .xx. s shillings after to xxvj s shillings v d. pence the quarter till remedy by outward prouision was procured and had In this meane while y e Lorde Lauâ—…ter with his army was entred into Italy where howe he sped and what came of that expeâ—…ion ye shall finde in the histories of Fraunce and Italy and therefore in this place I passe it ouer Sir Francis Poâ—…nes knighte in 〈◊〉 of Ducâ—…her returned out of Spain into England leauing Clarenceaux behind him to â—…ng further answer The Emperor at the requeste of this sir Frauncis Polties who made y e â—…aâ—… in â—…ame of his maister the K. of England was contended to release â—… articles whiche weâ—… reputed most preiudiciall to the French king only to gratiâ—…e the king of England but the Cardinall kepte the kyng still in displeasure towarde the Emperor for the fauor whiche hee dare to the French king whose only purposes he sought to aduaunce The articles whiche were draweÌ„ at Amiâ—…s wheÌ„ the Cardinal was there were exhibited to y e Emperor by the FreÌ„ch Ambassadors bycause he refused the same worde was set to Clarenceaux king of arms to make destaunce to the Emperor Wherevpon on the Wednesday the .xxij. of Ianuarie Guyenne king of arms to the French king and ClareÌ„ceaux king of arms to the king of England being in the citie of Bourgues in Spain came to the Court of Charles the elect Emperor aboue 9. of the clocke in the morning and there dâ—…d request of his maiestie that it wold please him to appoint theÌ„ an houre of audsence The lord de Chaâ—…ux by ordinaunce from hys maiestie gaue them answer that it shuld be about x. of y e clocke before noone the same daye And at the same houre his Maiestye came into the greate hall of his Courte accompanyed wyth diuers Prelats Dukes Marquises Erles Barons other great lords and good personages of diuers nations of his kyngdome seigniories in great number The Emperour sittyng in a chayre prepared accordyng to his dignitye the twoo kinges of armes of Fraunce and Englande being in the nether end of the hall holdyng vpon their left arms eche one his coate of armes did make .3 solemne reuerences accustomed wyth knee to the ground And wheÌ„ they were at the lowest steire before hys Emperiall Maiestie Clarenceaux king of armes of Englande hauing the words in bothe their names spake as followeth Sir following the three Edictes inuiolably kept and obserued by your predecessours Emperours of Rome Kings Princes and Captaynes Guyenne Kyng of armes of the moste Christened Kyng and also Clarenceaux King of armes to the Kyng of Englande one soueraigne and naturall lords wee presentyng our selues before your sacred maiesty for to declare certaine things from the saide kings our maisters beseching your maiestie that hauing regarde vnto the saide laws according to your benignitie and mercy that it would please you to gyue vs sure accesse and good intreatyng in your countreis lands and seigniories atteÌ„ding your aunswere with sure conducts to reâ—…oueâ—…e vnto the couÌ„treis lands and seigniories of our saide soueraigne Lordes The Emperour then had them saye on whatsoeuer the Kyngs your maisters haue giuen you in chardge your priuiledges shall be kepte none shall do you any displeasure within my kingdomes or territories After thys Guyenne read in writyng that whych followeth signed wyth y e hand of y e said Guienne king of armes Sir the most christned Kyng my soueraigne and naturall Lorde hathe commaunded me to saye to you that hee hath conceyued a maruellous griefe and displeasure of that that in place of amitie whiche hee so muche desired to haue with you the former enmytie in full force still remaineth By the whiche he seeth and perceyueth that the euils and inconueniences long since begon shal continue and augment not only vnto you and vnto him your vassals subiects but also vnto all Christendom and that the forces youths whyche the one and the other oughte to employ against the enimyes of the faith shall bee spent to
me and nowe I pray you that be here to beare me recorde I die in the Catholike faith not doubting in anye article of my faith no nor doubting in any sacrament of the church Many haue standred me and reported that I haue bin a bearer of such as haue mainteined euil opinions which is vntrue but I confesse y e like as God by his holy spirite doth instruct vs in the truth so the deuil is ready to seduce vs and I haue bin seduced but beare me witnesse that I die in the Catholike faith of the holy Churche and I hartily desire you to pray for the kings grace that hee may long liue with you in health and prosperitie and after him that his sonne prince Edward that goodly impe may long raigne ouer you And once againe I desire you to pray for me that so long as life remaineth in this fleshe I wauer nothing in my faith And then made he his prayer which was long but not so long as godly and learned and after committed his soule to the hands of God so patiently suffered the stroke of the axe by a ragged and butcherly miser which euil fauouredly performed the office This man beeyng borne in Putney a village in Surrey by the Thaimes side four miles distant from London was sonne to a Smith after whose deceasse hys mother was maried to a Shereman but notw tstanding the basenesse of his birth and lacke of maintenance was at the beginning as it happeneth to many other a great let and hinderance for vertue to shew hir selfe yet through a singular excellencie of wit ioined with an industrious diligence of mind and bely of knowledge gathered by painefull trauaile and marking the courses of states and gouernements as wel of his natiue countrey at home as in foraine parties abroade hee grewe to suche a sufficient ripenesse of vnderstaÌ„ding skill in ordering of weightie affaires that hee was thought apt and fitte to anye roomth or office wherevnto hee should be admitted which being apperteined of the Cardinall of Yorke Wolfey he tooke him to his seruice and making him his solicitor imployd him aboute busines oftentimes of most importance wherein he acquit himselfe with suche dexteritie as aunswered alwayes the credite committed to hym After the Cardinals fall he was aduanced to y e Kings seruice behauing himselfe so aduisedly in matters whiche hee tooke in hande that within a small time hee rose to high authoritie and was admitted to bee of the priuie Counsell bearyng most rule of all other vnder the king as partely ye haue hearde so that by him it well appeared that the excellencie of beroy call vertues whyche aduance menne to fame and honour resteth not only in birth and bloud as a priuilege appropriate and all onely annexed to noble houses but remaineth at the disposition of the Almightye God the giuer and disposer of all giftes who reyseth the poore many times from the basest degre and setteth him vp with Printes The .iiij. of August Thomas Empsam somtime a Monke of Westminster whiche had bin in prison for treason in Newgate nowe for the space of .iij. yeares and more came before the Iustices of Gaole deliuerie at Newgate and for that he would not aske the Kings pardon nor bee sworne to be true to hym his Monkes garment was plucked from his backe and he repriued till the king were enformed of his malicious obstinacie Thomas Empsam an obstinate Monke this was the last Monke that was seene in his clothing in England till Queene Maries dayes The .iiij. of Auguste were drawen from the Tower of London vnto Tiborn Giles Heron Gentleman ClemeÌ„t Philpot gentleman late of Calais and seruaÌ„t to the lorde Lisle Darby Gennyng Edmund Brindholm priest chapleyne to the saide lorde Lisle WilliaÌ„ Horne late a laye brother of the Charterhouse of London and an other offendour which .vj. persons were there hanged quartered had bin attainted of treasoÌ„ by parliament The same daye also was one Charles Carow gentleman hanged for robbing of the Lady Carow The .8 of August was the Lady Katherin Howarde neece to the duke of Norfolke daughter to the lorde EdmuÌ„d Howard shewed openly as Queene at HaÌ„pton courte A death and droughte Stow. In y e later end of this sommer was vniuersally through y e most parts of this realme great death by a strange kinde of hot agues fluxes some pestileÌ„ce in whiche season was such a drought y e welles small riuers were clean dried vp so that much cattel died for lack of water the Thames was so shallow and the freshe water of so small strength y e the salt water flowed aboue London bridge til the rain had increased the fresh waters On the .22 of September Rafe Egerton seruant to the Lord Audley lord Chancellor one Tho. Harman were drawne hanged and quartered y e one for counterfaiting of y e kings seale in a signet wherw t he sealed licences for denizens vnder the name of the clerkes of y e chancerie and the other y t is to say Harman for writing them In the ende of this yeare the Frenche Kyng made a strong Castel at Arde Castel built â—…e and also a bridge ouer into the Englishe pale whiche bridge the crew of Calais did beate downe and the French men builte it vp agayne and the English men beate it downe agayne After this the King sente a fiftene C. workemen to fortifie the Towne of Guisnes â—…es forâ—… and sente with them a fiue C. men of war to gard them It was reported in Fraunce that a mightie armye was come ouer forthe of EnglaÌ„d with great ordinance which brute caused the Frenche K. to send to the fronters of Picardie the D. of Vandosme and other captaines with all speede to defend the same The Kyng of Englande hearing thereof 〈◊〉 Earles of â—…ey and â—…hampâ—…â—…o â—…s sente the Earles of Surrey and Southhampton and the Lorde Russell high Admiral into the Marches of Calais to set order there and after them he lykewise sent two C. light horsemeÌ„ of y e borders of Scotland whome the Frenchmen called Stradiotes The Lordes hauing set order in things shortly returned â—…ard Meâ—… brent Aboy one Richarde Mekins not past a fifteene yeres of age was brent in Smithfield for speaking against the Sacramente and contrary to the statute of the sixe articles The Byshoppe of London was thoughte in great fault for procuring that terrible executioÌ„ seeing the yong fellowe was but an ignoraunce foole without learning and gladly recanted that which he was charged with 1541 About the later ende of this yeare Doctor Sampson Byshoppe of Chichester and Doctor Wilson whiche had bin committed to the Tower as before ye haue heard were now pardoned of the King had set againe at libertie An. reg 33. A new rebelâ—… practised in Yorkeshire In the beginning of this yeare fiue priestes in Yorkeshire began a newe rebellion with the assente of
hauen Yet the twentith of Iuly the whole nauie of the Englishemen made out and purposed to sette on the Frenchmē but in setting forward through to much follye The Marye Rose drovvned by negligence one of the Kings shippes called the Marye Rose was drowned in the myddest of the hauen by reason that she was ouer laden with ordinaunce and had the Portes lefte open whiche were very lowe and the great artillerie vnbreeched so that when the ship shold tourne the Water entred and soddainely shee sunke In hir was sir George Carewe knight and foure hundreth souldioures vnder his guidyng There escaped not paste fortie persons of all the whole number The morrowe after aboute two thousand of the Frenchmen landed in the Isle of Wight where one of their chiefe Capitaynes named le Che◅alier Daux Frenchmen distressed in the Isle of VVight a Prouancoys was slayne with manye other and the residewe wyth losse and shame driuen backe agayne to their galleyes The King perceyuyng the greate Armada of the Frenchmen to approche caused the beacons to be fiered by letters sent into Hampshire Sommersetshire Wi◅shire and into diuers other countries adioining gaue knowledge to suche as were appointed to bee ready for that purpose to come with all speede to encounter the ennemies Wherevpon they repaired to his presence in great numbers well furnished with armour weapon bictualles and all other things necessarie so that the Isle was garnished all the fronters alongst the coastes fortified wyth exceedyng greate multitudes of men The Frenche Capitaynes hauyng knowledge by certaine Fishermen which they tooke that the king was present and so huge a power readie to resiste them they disancred and drew along the coaste of Sussex and a small number of them landed againe in Sussex of whom fewe retourned to their Shyppes for dyuers Gentlemen of the countrey as Sir Nicholas Pellham and others with such power as was reysed vpon the suddayn tooke them vp by the way and quickly distressed them When they had searched euery whereby the coaste and saw men still readie to receiue them with battaile they tourned sterne and so gotte them home agayne wythout any acte atchieued worthie to be mencioned The number of the Frenchmen was greate so that diuers of them that were taken prisoners in the Isle of Wyght and in Sussex The number in the Frenche nauie dyd reporte that they were three score thousande The Frenche King aduertised the Emperour moste vntruely by letters that his armye had gotten the Isle of Wight with the Ports of Hampton and Portesmouth and diuers other places In Auguste following The Earle of Hertford forrayeth the middle marches of Scotlande the Earle of Herteford entred againe into Scotland with twelue thousande men and destroyed all the Towns in the myddle Marches brente Coldyngham Abbey and passed to the Weaste Marches sore annoying and endomagyng the Scots and yet neither they nor the Frenchmen that were sente into Scotlande this yeare to the ayde of y e Scots vnder y e ledyng of Monsieur de Lorges Montgomerie his father durst once come forth into the field to encounter with him Also in the beginnyng of this Moneth the Citie of London set forthe a thousande Souldiors of archers harquebusiers pikes and bills The Londoners set foorth a povver into Fraunce whiche went to Douer and so passed ouer vnto Callais to serue the King in his warres on that side the seas The same Moneth that valiant Capitaine Sir Thomas Poinyngs Knyght The death of the valiaunt L. Poynings Lorde Poinings and the kings lieuetenant of his town Marches of Bolongne departed this lyfe after hee hadde to hys great honour atchieued many worthye enterprises in seruyce of hys Prynce agaynste the ennemyes so that hys deathe was muche lamented A Gentleman vndoubtedlye deseruing to bee hadde in perpetuall memory and pitie it is that diuers suche valiant feates as he in his life time atchieued were not committed to writing to remain for examples sake to posteritie Also the same moneth at Guilford died the noble and valiaunt Duke of Suffolke Charles Brandon Lorde greate Maister of the Kings housholde The death of the Duke of Suffolke a ryght hardie Gentleman and yet not so hardye as almoste of all estates and degrees of men hygh and lowe ryche and poore hartely beloued and his deathe of them greatly lamented His iust commendations Hys body was honorably buryed at Windsore at the Kyngs costes This man in his daies had done to the king and Realme ryght agreable seruyces as well in peace as in warres both in England France Scotland and Irelande he died the kyngs generall lieuetenaunt of his armye then appoynted to resiste the Frenchemen if they durste haue landed But nowe wheras in this meane time we haue spoken nothing of the dooings in Scotlād where the warre was still continued the King of France sent thither certain hands of Frenchmen Monsieur de Lorges sente into Scotlande vvith certayne be◅ch bandes vnder the gouernement of Monsieure de Lorges to aide the Scottes againste the Englishemen and the Kyng of Englande waged many strangers and sent them wyth certayne Englishemen to the borders for defence of the same againste the inuasions of the enemies For after the arriuall of the Frenchmen a great armye of Scots was reised and approched neare to the borders where for a certayne tyme they encamped so that many thought some notable enterprice would haue ben attempted But after they had laine in campe a certaine time they brake vp departed without attempting any further exploite Shortely after the Earle of Hertforde lying on the borders as lieuetenaunt of the Northe partes of Englande callyng to hym an armye of .xij. M. men or thereabouts what of Englishmen and straungers The Earle of Hertforde in ◅adeth scotlād entred Scotland with the same and brent a greate parte of the Mers and Teuidale as Kelsay Abbey and the town Melrose Abbey and Driborn Abbey also Iedworth Abbey and diuers other places towns and villages to the number of fiue score Kelsay abbey was defended a while by three hundred Scottes but in the ende the most part of them were slaine and taken by the strangers and other that gaue the assaulte Thus the erle of Hertforde sore endomaged the Scots by this inuasion and yet neither they nor the Frenchmen theyr asistantes durst come forth into the fielde once to encounter with hym On the sixteenth of September a number of Scots and Frenchemen attempted to enter into Englande on the Easte borders But the Englishemen perceyuyng them aboute to passe by a certayne straite sette vppon them and slewe and tooke of them to the number of seuen score Among the prisoners that were taken the lorde of Humes sonne and a French Captaine were accompted chiefest Also in an other roade made into the West borders the Lorde Maxwels sonne dyuers other were taken But at an other time aboute the same season
of EnglaÌ„d and Irelande the Supremehead he beyng yet but nyne yeares and odde Monethes of age Hee was thus proclaymed the .xxviij. of Ianuarie 1547 in the yeare of the worlde .5513 and after the birth of our Lord .1547 accordyng to the accompt of them that beginne the yeare at Christmasse but after the accompte of the Churche of England in the yere .1546 about the xxix yere of the Emperor Charles the fift the .xxxiij. of Frauncis the firste of that name king of Fraunce and in the fifthe yeare of the reigne of Mary Queene of Scotland Shortely herevpon the Earle of Hertforde with other of the Lordes resorted to Hatfield where the yong King thou laye from whence they conducted him with a great and right honorable companie to the Tower of London During the tyme of hys aboade there for the good gouernement of the realme the honoure and suertie of his Maiesties person his Vncle Edward Earle of Hertforde was by order of the Counsell The Earle of Hereford chosen protector and the assente of hys Maiestie as one moste meetest to occupye that roomthe appoynted gouernoure of hys royall persone and protectour of his realmes dominions and subiectes and so proclaymed the fyrste of Februarye by an Heraulte at armes and sounde of Trumpette thorough the Citie of London in the vsuall places thereof as it was thoughte expediente The sixthe daye of Februarie the Earle of Hertforde Lord Protectour adorned king Edwarde with the order of knighthoode remayning then in the Tower and therewyth the Kyng standing vp called for Henry Hubblethorne Lorde Maior of the Citie of London who commyng before hys presence the Kyng tooke the sworde of the Lorde Protectour and dubbed the sayd Hubblethorne knight he being the fyrst that euer be made The .xvij. of Februarie the Lorde Protectour was created Duke of Somerset the erle of Essex was created Marques of Northampton The Lorde Lisle high Admirall of Englande was created Earle of Warwike and hygh Chamberlayne of Englande Sir Thomas Wriothesley Lorde Chauncellour was created Erle of Southampton â–ª Syr Thomas Seymer was aduaunced to the honoure of Lorde of Sudley and high Admirall of Englande whyche office the Earle of Warwike then resigned Syr Rychard Riche was made Lorde Riche Syr William Willoughby was created Lord Willoughby of Parrham Sir Edmund Sheffield was made lord Sheffield of Butterwike The same tyme greate preparation was made for the Kynges Coronation The Kyng rydeth through London to VVestminster and so the foure and twentieth of Februarie next ensewing his maiestie came from the Tower and so rode thoroughe London vnto Westminster with as greate royaltie as myght be the streetes beyng hoong and Pageantes in dyuers places erected to testifye the good willes of the Citizens reioycing that it had pleased God to deale so fauourably with the Englishe nation to graunt them suche a towardly yong Prince to their king and soueraigne thus to succede in place of his noble father The morrowe after being Shroue Sunday and .xxv. of February King Edvvard crovvned his coronation was solemnized in due forme and order wyth all the royaltie and honoure whyche therevnto appertayned Shortly after the Coronation to witte the sixte of Marche the Earle of Southampton Lorde Chauncellour of Englande for his too muche repugnancie as was reported in matters of counsell to the residue of the Counsellours about the Kyng The L. Chancellor discharged of his roomth was not onely depriued of hys office of Chancellour but also remoued from his place and authoritie in counsell and the custodie of the greate Seale was taken from him and deliuered vnto Sir William Paulet Lord Saint Iohn that was lord great maister of the kings housholde 〈…〉 Also shortly after his Coronation the kinges Maiestie by the aduice of hys Vncle the Lorde Protectoure and other of hys pryuie counsell myndyng fyrste of all to seeke Gods honour and glorie and thervpon intending a reformation did not only set foorth by certain Commissioners sundrye Iniunctions for the remouyng of Images out of all Churches to the suppressing and auoydyng of Idolatry and superstition within his realmes and dominions â—…lies but also caused certayne Homilies or Sermons to bee drawen by sundrye godly learned men that the same myght bee redde in Churches to the people whythe were afterwardes by certayne of these Commissioners sent forth as visitours accompanyed with certayn Preachers throughout the Realm for the better instruction of the people published and putte in vre At Easter nexte followyng he sette out also an order thorough all the Realme The comâ—…â—… in bothe sides that the Supper of the Lord should be ministred to the lay people in both kindes These thinges done the Lorde Protectour and the reste of the Counsell calling to mynde the euill dealyng and craflye dissimulation of the Scottes concerning the matter of marriage beetwixte the Kynges Maiestye and the Queene of Scotlande whyche marryage as ye haue hearde in the fyue and thirtith yeare of King Henry the eygthe was by authoritie of Parliamente in Scotlande fully concluded thought it not to stande wyth the Kings honour to be in suche manner by them deluded and withall considering howe greatly it shuld tourne to the quietnesse and safetie of bothe Realmes to haue these two Princes conioyned in Matrimonie they dydde deuise sundry wayes and meanes howe the same myghte bee brought to passe Grafton and the rather as some doe write for that Kyng Henry before his death hadde giuen them in speciall charge by all indeuours to procure that the sayde marriage myghte take place but the Lordes of Scotlande were so inueygled and corrupted by the French Kyng and abused by Cardinall Beton Archebishoppe of Saincte Andrews and other of theyr Clergie that they not onely shranke from that whyche they hadde promysed but also sought to destroye those that fauoured the kyng of Englandes parte wherevppon a great and puissaunt armye was now prepared to passe by lande into Scotland and lykewyse a Nauie to passe by sea to attende vppon the same Whereof the greate Galeye and foure and twentie tall shippes were thorougly furnyshed with menne and munitions for the warre besides many merchantes shippes and other smaller vesselles whiche serued for carrynge of victualles and other necessities But nowe to shewe what noble men and other were ordeyned officers and assigned to haue the conduction as well of the ariuye by lande as of the fleete by sea Ye shall vnderstande Chieftaynes in the armye the firste the Duke of Somersette Lorde Protectour tooke vpon hym to goe him selfe in persone as generall of the whole Armie and Capitayne also of the battayle or middle warde wherein were foure thousande footemenne The Marsiall Earle of Warwike appoynted Lorde Lieutenaunt of the same army ledde the foreward conteyning three thousande footemenne The Lord Dacres gouerned in the rereward wherin were other three thousande footmenne The Lorde Grey of Wilton was ordeyned hyghe Marshall of the sayde armye and
which seconde session were confirmed and made diuerse and sundrie Statutes concerning religion whereof some were restored and other repealed At this time many were in trouble for religion and among other Sir Iames Hales Knight Sir Iames Hales in trouble for religion one of the Iustices of the Common place whiche Iustice being called among other by the Counsayle of King Edwarde to subscribe to a deuise made for the disinheriting of Queene Marie and the Ladie Elizabeth hir sister woulde in no wise assent to the same though most of the other did yet that notwithstanding for that he at a quarter Sessions holden in Kent gaue charge vpon the Statutes of King Henry the eyght and King Edwarde the sixth in derogation of the Primacie of the Church of Rome abolished by King Henrie the eight he was first committed prisoner to the Kings bench then to the Counter and last to the Fleete where whether it were through extreeme feare or else by reason of such talke as the warden of the Fleete vsed vnto him of more trouble like to insue if he persisted in his opinion or for what other cause God knoweth he was so moued troubled vexed that he sought to ryd himselfe out of this life whiche thing he first attempted in the Fleete by wounding himselfe with a Penknife well neare to death Neuerthelesse afterwarde being recouered of that hurt he seemed to be verye comformable to all the Queenes proceedings and was therevpon deliuered of his imprisonment and brought to the Queenes presence who gaue him words of great comfort neuerthelesse his mynde was not quiet as afterwarde well appeared for in the end he drowned himself in a riuer not half a mile from his dwelling house in Kent He drowneth himselfe the riuer being so shalow that he was faine to lye groueling before he coulde dispatche himselfe whose death was much lamented For beside that he was a man wise vertuous and learned in the lawes of the Realme he was also a good and true minister of Iustice whereby he gate him great fauor and estimation among all degrees A publike disputation During the aforesayde Parliament aboute the xviij daye of October there was kepte at Paules Church in London a publike disputation appoynted by the Queenes commaundement aboute the presence of Christ in the sacrament of the Aultar which disputation continued sixe dayes Doctor Weston then being Prolocutor of the Conuocation who vsed many vnseemely checkes and tauntes against the one part to the preiudice of their cause By reason whereof the disputers neuer resolued vpon the article proponed but grewe daily more and more into contention without any frute of their long conference and so ended this disputation with these wordes spoken by Doctor Weston Prolocutor It is not the Queenes pleasure that we shoulde herein spende anye longer time and ye are well ynough for you haue the word and we haue the sworde But of this matter ye may reade more in the booke of the Monuments of the Church At this time was Cardinall Poole sent for to Rome by the Queene Cardinall Pole sent for home who was very desirous of his comming as well for the causes afore declared as also for the great affection that shee had to him being hir neere kinseman and consenting with hir in religion This message was most thankfully receyued at Rome and order taken to sende the sayde Cardinal hither with great expedition but before his comming Queene Marie had maried Philip Prince of Spaine as after shall appeare But here to touche somewhat the comming of the sayde Cardinal When he was arriued at Caleys there was conference had amongst the Counsaylors of the Queene for the maner of his receyuing The Counsell deuided about the receyuing of the Cardinall some woulde haue had him very honorably met and intertayned as he was in all places where he had before passed not onelye for that he was a Cardinall and a Legate from the Pope but also for that he was the Queenes neare kinseman of the house of Clarence Neuerthelesse after much debating it was thought meetest first for that by the lawes of the realme which yet were not repealed he stoode attainted by Parliament also for that it was doubtfull how he being sent frō Rome should be accepted of the people who in xxv yeares before had not bene muche acquainted with the Pope or his Cardinals that therefore vntill all things might be put in order for that purpose he shoulde come without any great solemnitie vnto Lambeth where in the Archbishoppes house his lodging was prepared The thirde of Nouember nexte following Thomas Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury notwithstāding that he had once refused plainly to subscribe to King Edwardes will in the disinheriting of his sister Marie and alledging many reasons and arguments for the legittimation of both the Kings sisters was in the Guild-hall in London arreygned and attainted of treason namely for ayding the Duke of Northumberlande with horse and men against the Queene as aforesayde and the same time also the Ladie Iane of Suffolke who for a whyle was called Queene Iane and the Lorde Guilforde hir husbande the Lorde Ambrose and L. Henrie Dudley sonnes to the Duke of Northumberlande were likewise arreygned and attainted and therevpon led backe agayne to the Tower In the beginning of Ianuarie next following Ambassadors from the Emperour Charles the v. Emperor sent into Englande an honorable ambassade amongst whom was the Conte de Ayguemont Admirall of the low countries w t Charles Conte de la Laing Iohn de Montmorancie Lorde of Curriers and the Chauncellour Nigre with full Commission to conclude a mariage betwene Philip Prince of Spaine his sonne and heyre and Queene Marie as you haue hearde which ambassade tooke suche place that shortlye after all things were finished accordinglye But this mariage was not well thought off by the Commons nor much better lyked of many of the nobilitie who for this and for the cause of religion conspired to rayse warre rather than to see such chaunge of the state of the which conspiracie though there were many confederates yet the firste that shewed force therein was one Sir Thomas Wyat a knight in Kent who in very deede was driuen to preuent the time of the purposed enterprise by this happe Diuerse of the partakers in this conspiracie being withdrawne from London where they had deuised their drift home into their countries amongst whom the sayd Sir Thomas Wyat was one it fell out that whylest he was returned into Kēt where his lands and liuings chieflye laye a Gentleman of that shire one to the sayde Sir Thomas Wyat most deare was by the Counsell for other matters committed to the Fleete wherevpon he verily suspecting that his f◅r is were bewreyed had no other shift as he tooke it but to put on armour and to begin the attempt before the time appointed with his complices and herevpon giuing intelligence of his determination to his associates
and North with many other Noblemen and Gentlemen and their traynes to the number of two thousande horses At his comming to the Churche in Winchester the Lorde Chauncelour accompanied with the Bishops of Duresme Elye London Lincolne Chichester and diuerse other Prelates were readie to receiue him After he had made his prayers he was conueyed to his lodging prepared for him in the Deanes house The Queene hir selfe was lodged in the Bishops pallace whither his highnesse the next day came and was receyued by hir in the hall in most courteous and louing maner And after such salutatioÌ„s and talke ended as was thought conuenient for the time he returned to his lodging where hee continued all that night and the next daye being the xxv of Iuly the mariage was openly solemnised The mariage solemnised At the which were present the Ambassadors of the Emperour the King of Romaynes the King of Boheme of Venice Florence Ferrare and Sauoye with certaine agents of other states in Italy As for the shotte of ordinaunce the diuerse kyndes of musicke the sumptuous and costlye apparell trappers and other furniture readye prouided against the receyuing of him with other ceremonies vsed aswell about the mariage as in other places where he was to be receyued were surely such and euery thing done in suche good order as better for such a purpose might not lightly be deuised The names of the Noble men that came ouer from Spaine with the Prince were as followeth The Duke of Alua. The Duke of Medina celi The Admirall of Castilla The Marques of Bergues The Marques of Piscara The Marques of Saria The Marques of Valli The Marques of Aguillar The Earle of Egmonde The Earle of Horne The Earle of Feria The Earle of Chinchon The Earle of Oliuares The Earle of Saldana The Earle of Modica The Earle of Fuentesalida The Earle of Landriano The Earle of Castellar Don Ruigomes The Bishop of Cuenca Don Iohn de Benauides And diuerse others But nowe forasmuch as some woulde happily be desirous to knowe the conditions of this memorable mariage betwixte these two highe Princes the consequence whereof might haue proued of so great importance although by the Queenes decease the effect was made voyde I haue thought good to recite in briefe the chief articles thereof First it was couenanted that he shoulde enioye the title and name of King during the matrimonie and shoulde ayde hir highnesse being his wife in the administration of hir Realmes and dominions but yet he shoulde permit and suffer hir to haue the whole disposition of all benefices and offices landes reuenues fruites of the sayde Realmes and dominions and that the same shoulde be bestowed vpon such as were hir naturall borne subiectes and that all matters of the sayd Realmes and dominions should bee treated and mayned in the same tongues wherein of old they haue ben wont to be treated That the Queene by vertue of the sayde mariage shoulde bee admitted into the 〈◊〉 of the Realmes and Dominions of the sayde Prince of Spaine as well such as he nowe presently hath as suche other also as during the matrimonie may come to him And for hir dower in case shee ouerliued him she was appointed to receyue yearely three score thousande pounde after the value of fortie groates Flemmishe money the pounde to be allotted vpon all the Realmes landes and Patrimoniall dominions of his father the Emperour that is to saye fortie thousande pounde to be assigned vpon the Realmes of Spaine Castile and Arragon according to the custome of those Realmes The other twentie thousande poundes were appointed vpon the Dukedomes Earledomes and dominions of Brabant Flanders Henault Hollande and other patrimoniall landes and inheritaunce of the sayde Emperour in the lowe Countries of Germanie in like maner as the Ladie Margaret of Englande sometime wife and widowe of the Lorde Charles sometime Duke of Burgongne had and receyued of the same And if anye parcell or parcels thereof be alienated then in lieu thereof other landes shoulde bee in due forme assigned forth for hir to enioy lying neare to the residue of hir dower The issue that shoulde chaunce to come of this mariage touching the right of the mothers inheritance in the realme of Englande and the other Realmes and dominions depending of the same aswell the males as females shoulde succeede in them according to the lawes statutes and customes of the same And as touching the landes that the sayde Prince of Spaine shall leaue behinde him first there shoulde bee reserued vnto his eldest sonne the Lord Charles of Austrich infant of Spaine and to the children and heyres of him descending as well females as males all and singular their rights which to the sayde Prince doe eyther then or thereafter shuld belong or should at any time be deuolued to him in the Realmes of Spaine of bothe the Sicilles in the Dukedome of Millaine and other landes and dominions in Lumbardie and Italie whiche neuerthelesse shall be burdened and charged with the foresayde dower of fortie thousande pounde And if it fortuned the sayde Lorde Charles to die and the issue of his bodie to sayle then the eldest sonne of this matrimonie should succeede and be admitted vnto the sayde right according to the nature lawes and customes of those Realmes and dominions The same eldest sonne shoulde also succeede in all the Dukedomes Earledomes Dominions and patrimoniall landes belonging vnto the sayde Emperour father to the sayde Prince of Spaine as well in Burgongne as in the lowe countries in the Dukedomes of Brabant Luxenburgh Gelderland Zutphane Burgongne Frezeland in the counties of Flaunders Aâ—…thoys Holland Zelande Naniure and the lande beyonde the Isles and all other whatsoeuer therevnto belonging But if the sayde Lord Charles or they that shoulde come of him remayne in life and that there be any male childe by this matrimonie the sayde Lorde Charles and his descendentes shoulde then bee excluded from the sayde landes and patrimoniall dominions of the lowe countries and of Burgongne and the same shoulde discende vnto the sayde eldest sonne borne of this matrimonie And to the other children borne thereof as well males as females a conuenient portion and dower shoulde bee allotted in the Realme of Englande and Dominions depending of the same and in the sayde landes and patrimoniall dominions of the lowe countries and neyther the eldest sonne of this matrimonie nor the sonnes begotten in the same should pretende anye right in the Realme of Spaine or the dominions of the same and reserued to the sayde Lorde Charles the infant otherwise than by their fathers and Grandfathers disposition Moreouer if it fortune no issue male to bee borne of this matrimonie but onely females in that case the eldest female shoulde with full right succeede in the sayde landes and dominions of the lowe Countries so as neuerthelesse she being minded to choose to husbande any noble manne not borne in Englande or in the lowe Countries without consent of the sayde
Lorde Charles the infant in that case the right of the succession shoulde remayne to the sayde Lorde Charles in the sayde dominions of the lowe Countries Burgongne and their appurtenances And yet neuerthelesse in that case both she and the other daughters also descending of this matrimonie shall bee endowed of their fathers landes and possessions aswell in Spaine as in the lowe countries And for want of the sayde Lorde Charles and issue of him and none but daughters remayning of this mariage the eldest daughter in that case shoulde succeede not onelye in the landes of the lowe Countries but also in the Realmes of Spaine Englande and the rest after the nature lawes and customes of the same Herewith was a Prouiso accorded that what soeuer he or she shoulde bee that shoulde succeede in them they shoulde leaue to euery of the sayde Realmes landes and Dominions whole and entire their priuiledges rightes and customes and gouerne the same by the naturall borne of the same Realmes Dominions and landes c. Finally that betweene the sayde Emperor the Prince and his successors their Realmes and the sayde Queene it was concluded that from thenceforth there shoulde bee an intire and sincere fraternitie vnitie and most straite confederacie for euer c. so as they shoulde mutuallye ayde one another in all things according to the strength forme and effecte of the later treatie of a streite amitie bearing date at Westminster in the yeare 1542. the declaration of whiche treatie beareth date at Vtreight the xvj of Ianuarie in the yeare 1546. In another treatise were these articles following comprised First that the Prince of Spaine shoulde not promote admitte or receyue to any office administration or benefice in the Realme of Englande or Dominions to the same belonging any straunger or persons not borne vnder the subiection of the saide Queene That he shoulde receyue into his housholde and Courte Gentlemen and yeomen of the sayde Realme of Englande in a conuenient number esteeming interteyning and nourishing them as his proper subiectes and bring none with him in his retinue that will doe any wrong to the subiectes of the sayde Realme and if they doe hee to correcte them with condigne punishment and to see them expelled his Courte That hee shall doe nothing whereby anye thing bee innouated in the state and righte eyther publicke or priuate or in the lawes and customes of the sayde Realme of Englande or the dominions therevnto belonging But shall keepe to all estates and orders their rights and priuiledges That he shall not leade awaye the Queene oute of the borders of hir Graces Realme vnlesse she hir selfe desire it or carie the children that maye bee borne of this matrimonie out of the same realme vnlesse it be otherwise thought good by the consent and agreement of the Nobilitie of Englande And in case no children being left the sayde Queene do die before him he shall not chalenge anye righte at all in the sayde kingdome but without impediment shall permit the succession thereof to come vnto them to whome it shall belong by the right and lawes of the Realme Item that hee shall not beare nor carye ouer oute of the sayde Realme the iewels and precious things of estimation Neyther shall he alienate or doe away any whit of the appurtenances of the sayde Realme of Englande or suffer anye parte of them to bee vsurped by his subiectes or anye other But shall see that all and singular places of the Realme and speciallye the fortes and frontiers of the same bee faithfully kept and preserued to the vse and profite of the sayde Realme and by the naturall borne of the same He shall not suffer any shyppe gunnes ordinaunces whatsoeuer of warre or defence to be remoued or conueyed out of the same realme but shall contrariwise cause them diligently to be kept and vewed when neede requireth and shall so prouide that the same maye be alwayes readye in their strength and force for defence of the Realme Item the Realme of Englande by occasion of this matrimonie shall not directly nor indirectly bee intangled with the warre that is betweene the Emperour father to the sayde Prince of Spayne and Henrie the Frenche King but he the sayde Prince as muche as in him maye lie on the behalfe of the sayde realme of Englande shall see the peace betweene the sayde Realmes of Fraunce and Englande obserued and shall giue no cause of any breach by which couenant the later treatise of a strayte amitie shoulde not bee in anye poynt derogated but the same still to remayne in the foremer force c. But nowe to returne where wee left At the time of the solemnization of the foresayde mariage holden at Winchester as before yee haue hearde the Emperours ambassadours beyng present openlye pronounced that in consideration of that mariage the Emperour had giuen and graunted to the sayde Prince hys sonne the Kingdome of Naples Hierusalem with diuerse other seates and seigniories The solemnitie of that marriage ended the King of Heraultes called Garter openlye in the Churche in the presence of the King the Queene the Lordes as well of Englande as Spayne and all the people being presente solemnelye proclaymed the Tytle and style of those twoo Princes as followeth Philip and Marie by the grace of God Their title King and Queene of Englande Fraunce Naples Hierusalem and Irelande Defenders of the fayth Princes of Spayne and Scicilie Archedukes of Austriche Dukes of Millayne Burgundie and Brabant Counties of Haspurge Flaunders and Tyroll The Proclamation being ended the trumpettes blewe and the King and the Queene came forthe of the Churche hande in hande and two swords borne before them and so returned to their pallace And assoone as the feasting and solemnitie of the saide marriage was ended the King and Queene departed from Winchester and by easie iourneyes came to Windsore castell where the v. of August being Sundaye King Philip â—â—â—led at Windsore hee was stalled according to the order of the Garter and there kept Saint Georges feast himselfe in hys royall estate and the Earle of Sussex was also the same time stalled in the order The vij of Auguste was made a generall huntyng with a toyle raysed of foure or fiue myles in lengthe so that many a Deare that day was brought to the quarrie The xj of August they remoued to Richemonde and from thence the xxvij of the same moueth by water they came to London landing at the Bishop of Winchesters house thorowe which they passed both into Southwarke Parke and so to Suffolke place where they lodged that night and the next daye being Saterday and the xix of August they being accompanied with a great number of Nobles and gentlemen roade from thence ouer the bridge and passed thorough London vnto Westminster the Citie being beautified with faire and sumptuous pageantes and hanged with riche and costly silkes and clothes of golde and siluer in most royall wise At their passing ouer the bridge there
this Realme and the Lady his wife one of the Queenes maiesties priuie Chamber now in the Moneth of Aprill 1566. departed the same againe the Marques a few dayes before his wife being both conducted by a lyke personage the Lord of Aburgueuenny to Douer Certayne houses in Cornehill being fyrst purchased by the Citizens of London The Burse in Cornhill were in the Moneth of Februarie cryed by a Belman and afterwarde solde to such persons as shoulde take them downe and carie them from thence which was so done in the Monethes of Aprill and May next following And then the ground beeing made playne at the charges also of the Citie possession thereof was by certayne Aldermen in the name of the whole Citizens gyuen to the right worshipfull sir Thomas Gresham knight agent to the Queenes highnesse there to buylde a place for Marchantes to assemble in at his owne proper charges who on the seuenth day of Iune layde the first stone of the foundation beeing Bricke and forthwyth the woorkemenne followed vppon the same with such diligence that by the Moneth of Nouember in Anno .1567 the same was couered with slate The Commissioners before named appoynted for the matters of Flaunders keeping theyr diet at Bruges agreed to referre the whole matter to the Princes on both sides and if they could not agree then the Marchants to haue .xl. dayes to repayre home with their marchandise and in the meane tyme all things to stande as they were then Our Commissioners departed from Bruges about the .xxvj. of Iune The .xxxj. of August the Queenes maiestie in hir progresse came to the Vniuersitie of Oxforde The Queenes progresse to Oxforde and was of all the studentes which had looked for hir comming thither two yeares so honourably and ioyfully receiued as eyther their loyalnesse towardes the Queenes maiestie or the expectation of their friends did require Concerning orders in disputation and other Academicall exercises they agreed much with those which the Vniuersitie of Cambridge had vsed two yeares before Comedies also and Tragidies were played in Christs Church where the Queenes highnesse lodged Among the which the Comedie entituled Palemon Arcit made by maister Edwardes of the Queenes Chapel had such tragicall successe as was lamentable Misfortune Oxforde For at that time by the fal of a wall and a paire of staires and great presse of the multitude three men were slaine The fifth of September after disputations the Queene at the humble suyte of certaine hir Nobilitie and the king of Spains Ambassador made a briefe Oration in Latin to the Vniuersitie but so wise and pithie as England may reioyce that it hath so learned a Prince and the Vniuersitie may triumph that they haue so noble a Patronesse The .vj. of September after dinner hir grace comming from Christs church ouer Carfox and so to Saint Maries the scholers standing in order according to theyr degrees euen to the East gate certaine Doctours of the vniuersitie did ride before in their skarlet Gownes and hoodes and masters of arte in black gownes and hoodes The Maior also wyth certaine of hys brethren did ryde before hir in skarlet to the ende of Magdalen Bridge where their liberties ended but the doctours and maisters went forwarde still to Shootouer a mile and more out of Oxforde bycause their liberties extended so farre and there after Orations made hir highnesse with thanks to the whole Vniuersitie had them farewell and rode to Ricote The valiaunt Captaine Edward Randolfe Esquire Lieutenaunt of the Ordinaunce Souldiours transported into Irelande and Colonell of a thousande footemen in September last past was wyth hys hande embarked at Bristow and within fewe dayes after landed at Knockfergus in the North partes of Irelande and from thence by water to a place called Derrie by whiche passeth the Ryuer of Longfoyle there the sayde Colonell in shorte space fortifyed to the greate annoyaunce of Shane Oneyle and by greate foresyght and experience garded himselfe and his charge till the sayde Oneyle to hinder and disturbe his aboade there the .xij. of Nouember arriued with a great army of Kerne Galawglasses horsemen with whom the sayde Captaine Randall encountered and him there so discomfited as after y e conflict he durst neuer approch the Queens power and to his perpetuall fame the sayde Captaine by reason of his bolde and hardie onset that day lost his life â—…ng prince Scottes â—…ened Charles Iames the sixt of that name sonne to Henrie Stuart Lorde of Darnley and Marie King and Queene of Scottes was borne in Edenbourgh Castell An. Reg. 9. the .xix. of Iune last past and the .xviij. of December this yeare solemnly christened at Sterling whose Godfathers at the Christning were Charles king of Fraunce and Philibert duke of Sauoy and the Queenes Maiestie of England was the Godmother who gaue a font of golde curiously wrought and enameled waying .333 ounces amounting in value to the summe of .1043 pounde .xix. shillings â—…g of Scots â—…thered 1567 The tenth of Februarie in the morning Henrie Stuart Lorde of Darneley before named King of Scottes by Scottes in Scotlande was shamefully murthered the reuenge whereof remayneth in the mightie hande of God The .xxij. of Februarie the Ladie Margaret Dowglas Countesse of Lineux mother to the sayde King of Scottes was discharged out of the Tower of London â—…een Alderâ—…en deceassed 〈◊〉 London Within the space of ten Monethes last past dyed seuen Aldermen of London the first Edwarde Bankes deceassed the .ix. of Iuly Anno 1566. Richarde Chamberlaine late sherife sir Martin Bowes sir Richard Mallorie sir William Hewet and sir Thomas White late Maiors then Richarde Lambert one of the Sherifes for that yeare the fourth of Aprill .1567 The towne of â—…nistry burnt wife in thirty â—…es The .xxij. of Aprill by great misfortune of fire in the towne of Ossestrie in Wales twelue myles from Shrewsburie to the number of two hundred houses to say seuen score within the walles and three score without in the suburbs besides cloth corne cattell c. were consumed which fire began at two of the clocke in the after noone and ended at foure to the great maruaile of many that so great a spoyle in so short a time should happen Two long streetes with great ryches of that Towne was burnt in Anno 1542. And lykewyse or worse in .1564 Sergeants feast The .xxiiij. of Aprill the Sergeants feast was kept at Grays Inne neare vnto Holborne and there were at that time made seuen newe Sergeants of the law Milnal in Sufrike burnt The .xvij. of May in the towne of Milnall in Suffolke .viij. miles from Newmarket .37 houses besides Barnes stables and suche lyke were consumed with fire in the space of two houres Shane Oneyle who had most trayterously rebelled agaynst the Queenes Maiestie in Irelande and had done many great outrages in the partes of Vlster was this yeare with his great losse manfully repelied from the siege of
Dundalke by the garnison thereof and afterwarde through the great valiance and foresight of sir Henrie Sidney knight of the order Shane Oneyle discomsited Statuta regni Hibernie Campion and lord deputie of Irelande he was so discomfited in sundrie cōflicts with the losse of three thousand fiue hundred of his men that now foreseeing his declination to be imminent he determined to put a coller about his necke and disguising himselfe to repayre to the Lorde Deputie and penitently to requyre his pardon to haue his life But Neyl Mackeuer his Secretarie who had incited him to this rebellion perswaded him fyrst to trie and treate the friendship of certaine wylde Scottes that then lay encamped in Clan Iboy vnder the conducting of Alexander Oge and Mac Gilliam Buske whose father and vncle Shane Oneyle had lately killed in an ouerthrow giuen to the Scottes neuerthelesse he wel lyking this perswasion went to the sayde campe the seconde of Iune where after a dissembled enterteynment and quaffing of Wine Gilliam Buske burning with desire of reuenge for his fathers and vncles death and ministring quarelling talke issued out of the tent and made a fray vpon Oneyls men and then gathering togither his Scottes in a throng sodainly entred the tent againe who there with their slaughter swordes Shane Oneyle slaine hewed in peeces Shane Oneyle his Secretarie and all his companie except a verie fewe which escaped by flight On Saint Iohns euen at nyght Watch at mid sommer was the lyke standing watche in London as had beene on Saint Peters euen in the yeare laste before passed This yeare the Emperour Maximilian the seconde of that name being elected into the most honourable order of the Garter the right honourable Thomas Erle of Sussex c knight of the same most noble order was appoynted by the Queenes Maiestie to go vnto the sayde Emperour with the sayde order of the Garter according to his sayde election who being honorably accompanied with the Lorde North sir Thomas Mildmay knight Henrie Cobham esquier one of the Pensioners and others departed from London the .xxv. of Iune .1567 vnto Douer and there embarked landed at Calays and his trayne at Dunkerke and so passed through the low countreys to Andwerpe in Brabant where hee was honourably receyued by the Englishe Marchants and others and being there went to visite Madame de Parma Regent of the sayde Countreys then resident within y e same towne And from thence passed vnto Coleyn where as his Lordship and traine mounted the Riuer of the Rhine and by sundrie continual dayes iourneys passed by the citie of Ments or Magunce vnto Oppenham and there taking his way by lande passed through the Countrey by the Cities of Wormes and Spires til he came to Vlmes standing on the riuer of Danow where he arriued the .xxj. of Iuly and the .xxiij. his Lordship road in post to Anspurge called in Latine Augustia Vindelicorum nine Duche miles from Vlmes From thence hee departed the .xxv. of Iuly and met with his traine at Donewert being come thither vpon slottes downe by the sayd ryuer of Danow From thence he kept vpon his iourney by Ingolstat Reinspurg in Latin Katisbena by Passaw and other townes till he came to Linz where his Lordship stayed the first seconde and thirde of August by reason of the high waters And departing from thence the fourth of August passed by Stoanne and Cremz by the sayde Riuer of Danow and so arriued at the Citie of Vienna the fift of August in in this foresayde yeare .1567 where hee was receyued of the Lorde Smeckouites hauing twelue horses readie with theyr foote clothes for his Lordship and the most respected of his traine and so brought him to the presence of the Emperour at that present within his Castell there in that Citie by whom hee was right honourabl◅ receyued and afterwarde conducted to his assigned lodgings where as all prouision was prepared and made at the Emperors charges Here his Lordship continued till the .xiiij. of Ianuarie In which meane time the Emperour very often as tyme serued had the sayde Earle forth with him vnto such pastimes of hunting the Hart Boare and such lyke as the plentifulnesse of that Countrey yeeldeth Moreouer during the time of his Lordships abode there at Vienna Charles Archeduke of Austria Carinth arriued in that Citie whom my Lorde went to salute After this vppon the Queenes Maiesties letters brought out of Englande by maister Henrie Brooke alias Cobham one of hir Maiesties Gentlemen Pencioners the sayde Earle of Sussex vpon Sunday the fourth of Ianuarie in the after noone 1568 presented and delyuered vnto the Emperors Maiestie in his Chamber of presence the habiliments and ornamentes of the most noble order of the Garter sir Gylbert Dethicke knight alias Garter principall king of Armes and officer for the sayde order and William Dethick then Rouge Crosse also officer of Armes giuing their attendance in theyr coates of Armes And the Emperor at his inuesture of the sayde habiliments gaue vnto the sayd Garter his short Gowne and vnder garment fureed throughout with Luzerns and then proceeded thence into a great Chamber adorned in forme of a Chapell where as all the other Ceremonies belonging to the sayd noble order were there obserued and accomplished And the same night the sayde Earle supped with the Emperours Maiestie both being in theyr Robes of the sayd order And shortly after his Lordship with certain of his cōpanie taking leaue of the Emperor departed from Vienna the .xiiij. of Ianuarie aforesayde vnto Newstat and so through the Countrey of Styre vnto Gratz the chiefe Citie of Carinthie where hee tooke also leaue of the sayde Archeduke Charles and from thence returning passed those partes of the Alpes vnto Saltzburgh where he met with the other part of his trayne and so by continuing iourneys came againe into England vnto the Queenes Maiestie towardes the latter ende of March. After a drie Sommer Stowe An. reg 10. followed and extreeme sharpe Winter namely the latter part thereof with such great scarcitie of fodder and bay that in diuerse places the same was solde by weight as in Yorkshyre and in the Peake of Darbyshyre where a stone of hay was solde for fiue pens There followed also a great death of cattell namely of horse and sheepe This yeare in the Moneth of Ianuarie the Queenes Maiestie sent into the narrowe Seas three of hir shippes Grafton and one barke named the Anthelop the Swallow the Ayde and the Phenix the which were manned with fiue hundred men And hir highnesse appoynted the charge of the sayde shippes and men to hir trustie seruant William Holstocke of London esquire Comptroller of hir highnesse shippes who had cōmaundement to stay the subiects of king Philip. And according to his dutie he vsed such diligence as one hauing care to his charge in garding as well the Frenche as the Englishe coastes did the .xj. day of March next folowing meete with a .xj.
gather togither such numbers of men as they could The .xv. day the Erles parted of Northumberland to Richmond then to Northallerton and so to Borowbridge of Westmerland to Ripon and after to Borowbridge where they both met againe An. Reg .12 On the .xviij. day they went to Wetherby and there taryed three or foure dayes and vpon Clifford Moore The number of Rebels nigh vnto Bramham moore they mustered themselues at which time they were about two thousande horsmen and fiue thousand footmen which was the greatest number that euer they were From whence they intended to haue marched towarde Yorke but theyr myndes being sodainly altered they returned Bernardâ—… Castel besieged The .xxiij. of Nouember they besieged Bernardes Castell which Castell was valiantly defended by sir George Bowes and Robert Bowes his brother the space of .xj. dayes and then deliuered with composition to depart with armor munition bag and baggage In which time the Queenes Maiestie caused the sayde Erles of Northumberland and Westmerland to be proclaymed traytors The Earles proclaymed traytours with all their adherents and fauourers the .xxiiij. of Nouember The Lorde Scrope warden of the West Marches calling vnto him the Earle of Cumberlande and other Gentlemen of the Countrey kept the Citie of Carleil The Earle of Sussex the Queenes Lieutenant generall in the North The Earle of Suslex went agaynst the Rebels published there the like Proclamations in effect as had beene published by hir Maiestie agaynst the sayd rebels and also sent out to all suche gentlemen as hee knewe to be hir Maiesties louing subiects vnder his rule who came vnto him with such number of theyr friends as he was able in fiue dayes to make aboue fiue thousand horsemen and footemen and so being accompanied with the Earle of Rutland his Lieutenant the Lorde Hunsdon general of the horsmen sir Raufe Sadler Treasorer the Lord William Eures that was after appoynted to lead the rerewarde and dyuerse other that with theyr tenants and seruants were come to him remayning as then within the Citie of Yorke He set forward from thence the fift of December being Sunday and marched with his power which he had thus got togither towards the enimies Sir George Bowes hauing surreÌ„dred Bernards Castell as before ye haue heard met the Erle of Sussex thus marching forward with his armie at Sisay from whence they kept forward to Northallerton and resting two nights there they marched on to Croftbridge then to Akle and so to Durham and after to Newcastell and the .xx. of December they came to Hexam from whence the Rebels were gone the night before to Naworth where they counsayled with Edwarde Dakers concerning theyr owne weaknesse and also howe they were not onely pursued by the Erle of Sussex and other with him hauing a power with them of seuen thousand men being almost at theyr heeles but also by the Earle of Warwike and the Lorde Clynton high Admyrall of Englande wyth a farre greater armie of .xij. thousande men raysed by the Queenes Maiesties Commissions out of the South and middle parties of the realme In which armie beside the Erle of Warwike The Earle of Warwike and the Lord Admirall ClintoÌ„ sent agaynst the rebels Lorde Admirall chiefe gouernours in the same there was also Walter Deuereux Vicounte Hereforde high Marshall of the field wyth the Lord Willoughbie of Parrham Master Charles Howarde nowe Lorde Howarde of Effingham generall of the horsmen vnder the Erle of Warwike yong Henrie Knolles eldest sonne to sir Frauncis Knolles his Lieutenant Edw. Horsey Captaine of the Isle of Wight wyth fiue hundred Harquebusiers out of the same I le and captaine Leighton with other fiue C. Harquebusiers Londoners and many other worthie gentlemen and valiant captaines The comming forward of these forces caused the rebels so much to quaile in courage that they durst not abyde to trie the matter with dint of sworde For whereas the Erle of Warwike and the Lord Admyrall being aduaunced forwarde to Darington ment the next day to haue sent Robert Glouer then Portculeys and now Somerset Herault who in this iourney attended on the Lorde Admyrall as Norrey king of Armes did vpon the Earle of Warwike vnto the rebels vpon such message as for the time state of things was thought conuenient The same night aduertisements came from the Erle of Suffer vnto the Erle of Warwik and to y e Lorde Admirall that therâ—…o Earles of Northumberlande and Westmerlande were sledde as the truth was they were indeede firste from Durham whether the saide Glouer should haue bene sent vnto them and now vpon the Erle of Sussex his comming vnto Erham The Barles of the chumber â—…i Weit husband she â—…n Scotland they shrank quite awaye and fled into Scotlande without bidding their companie farewel The Earle of Warwike and hys power marched on to Durham But the Earle of Sussex pursuyng those other Rebelles that had not meane to flie out of the Realme apprehended no small number of them at his pleasure withoute finding anye resystance among them at al. The fourth and fifth of Ianuarie did suffer at Durham to the number of .lxvj. Conestables and other 1569. â—…ls execuâ—… DurhaÌ„ amongst whom the Alderman of the towne and a Prieste called parson Plomtree were the most notable TheÌ„ Sir George Bowes bring made Marshall finding many to be fautors in the foresaid rebellion did set them executed in diuerse places of the Countrey The .xxi. of Ianuarie a Prentise of London was hanged on a Gibbet at the north end of Finke lane in London to there sample of other for that hee the .xiij. of December had steyken his maister with a knife 〈◊〉 of the dyed 1570. â—…nard Daâ—…retelleth About the latter ende of Ianuarie Lenarde Dacres of Harle say began to rebel in Cumberberland and vpon a sodaine â—…ased vpon diuerse houses belonging to his nephew the L. Dacres then in possession of the D. of Norffolk raised a power of his pretended tenaunts and frends to the number of 2000. The L. Honâ—…stoâ—… a poinâ—… to take him footemen and 1600. horse of whose attemptes the Queenes maiestie being aduertised directed hir letters to the lord Hunnesdon Lord gouernour of Barwike and Lord WardeÌ„ of the east Marches fore aneinst Scotland coÌ„manding him to apprehend y e said Leonarde Dacres where vppon he taking with him three hundred souldiers of Barwike and Sir Iohn Forster Lord WardeÌ„ of the middle Marches with sixe hundred horsemen of Northumberlande and two hundred horse of Yorkshire men set foreward and comming to Hexam the xvi â—… of February rested there that night and y e daye following being Sunday and the nexte night he marched forwarde towards Naworth Castel where Leonarde Dacres being within toked to haue bin besieged but perceiuing that y e Lorde Honnesoon toke an other course in passing by the Castel towards Cartile he sent presently xv hundred footemen a sixe hundred horsemen to stoppe his passage ouer
Archbishop of Canterburie 349.2 Byshops through all Britaine forbiddē to consecrate Thomas the elect of Yorke 349.65 Byshops See of Ely erected 349.90 Biham Castle holden agaynst Kyng Henry the third 618.35 Byshops of Englād complaine to the Kyng of the extreame dealyng of the Archbyshop Thomas Becket 415.18 Byshop of Durham made an Earle 478.67 Byshops See erected at Carleil 362.82 Byshops that accursed Kyng Iohn and the Realme fledde out of the Realme 566.24 Byshop of Londons Palace builded 33.105 Bigot Hugh fleeth ouer sea into Fraunce after the discomfiture of Robert Earle of Leycester 432.71 Byshop of Salisburie murdered pag. 1281. col 1. lin 16. Byshop of Erceter being blind sent in Ambassade to Rome 352.5 Bayot Francis knight eftsones rebelleth 1569.27 Bisi Byshop of East Angles 179.90 Byshopriekes openly bought and sold for money 330.27 Byshops haue none aucthoritie to iudge of an Archbyshops cause 331.53 Byshoprickes let out to ferme 333.60 Byshops and Nobilitie forsake Northumberland 202.2 Byshops and nobilitie of England enuyng one another refuse to make an Englishman their Kyng and receiue a stranger 291.50 Bilney Thomas Bacheler of lawe brent 1557.40 Bigot Hugh conspireth against king Henry the second 426.113 Byshops dueties to care for the health of mens soules 353.77 Byshops See translated from holy Iland to Chester in the Streete 219.51 Byshop of Carlest bolde and faythfull pag. 1123. col 1. lin 47. attached pag. ibidē col 2. lin 19. dyeth through greefe of mind pag. 1129. col 1. lin 44. Byshops allowed of for their pompe not for their learnyng 274.66 Byshops refuse simply to obey the Kinges lawes 403.9 Biham Castle yeelded to Kyng Henry the third 618.66 Byshops Sees remoued from lesse renowmed to more famous places 303.62 Byshops See ordeined at Dunwich 162.60 Byll agaynst the Clergie pag. 1155. col 2. lin 36. Byll against the Clergie pag. 1168. col 1. lin 48. Byshops and Abbots of England not y e ministers of God but of the diuell 279.115 Bigod Roger in armes against King William Rufus 318.57 Bickncle Iohn knight 1450.17 Bishops forbidden to be iudges in secular causes 198.97 Byshops See of Westes translated to Salisburie 188.29 Bigod Roger made Erle Marshall 715.95 Byshops See of West Saxons placed at Winchester 180.71 Byshops take an othe simply to obey the Kings lawes 403.69 Byshop of Beaunoys taken prisoner 531.59 Byshops shrinke from the Pope for money sake 740.18 Bintre William 1463.2 Bigot Hugh suborned to periure himselfe 365.72 Byshopricke of London bought 171.78 Bylney Arthur abiured 1541. Byshoprickes vnder the dioces of Cantorburie 195.10 Byrth of Henry the thyrd 565.61 Byshoprickes vnder the dioces of Litchfield 195.15 Biligelhage 276.53 Brunan bright 226.27 Byshops wyll rather dye then part frō money 740.12.22 Bigot Hugh Earle of Norfolke a valiant chiefteine 367.43 Bigod William drowned 357.112 Bigod Rafe Knight 1448.47 Blasing starre seen before King Edwardes death the confessour 280.39 Blasing star appeering before the comming of Duke Williā of Normandie into England 284.5 Blecca gouernour of Lincolne conuerted to the faythe of Christ 162.67 Bloud rayneth in the I le of Wight 449.62 Blederike Duke of Cornwall slayne 154.73 Blasing star appeering in England 309.47 Blackamore supposed to bee Badon hyl 128.65 Bleothgent King of Wales 297.26 Blackwell hall in London supposed to be buylded for the temple of peace 23.30 Blauke Charters 1102.20 a. 1103.17 a. Bluet Robert made Byshop of Lincolne 323.104 Blasing star appeereth in England 182.6 Blasing starre appeering bringing famine among men murreys among cattel 235.75 Charles Earle of Bloys slayne at Cressy 934.32 b. Blanch King Iohns Neece promised in marriage to Lewes the French Kings son 548.28 Blaunche daughter to Henry y e fourth marryed to William Duke of Bauer pag. 1134. col 2. lin 48. Bleugent and Riuall sonnes to Griffin made gouernors of Wales 277.76 Charles de Bloys taken prisoner 940.50 b. raunsomed 947.40 b. Blind man restored to his sight by Augustine 151.31 Bladulfe brother to Colgerne 132.49 Bladulfe slayne by the Brytaines 133.25 Charles De Bloys wynneth townes in Britaine 916. 38. b. ouercome by y e Earle of Northampton 918.50 b. Blockhouses and bulworkes buylte along the sea coast 1572.40 Charles de Bloys slaine 970.36 b. Blasing starre pag. 1133. col 2. lin 32. Bloud of Hayles brought into England 781.100 Blanch sent into Fraūce 548.70 Blewberde a rebel pag. 1278. col 2. lin 56. Blackney William 1463.26 Blunt William Lord Mōtiny almost slaine by the mutining souldiours at Tourney 498.10 Blederike Duke of Tornewall 154.66 Blacke Crosse of Scotlande 891.47 b. Blacknesse yeelded to y e French King 1697.54 Blorehatha pag. 1295. col 2. lin 4. Blanche daughter to King Edward the third borne 915.16 b. Blasing starre 786. lin 10. a. 854.40 a. Boniface Archbyshop of Cantorburie departeth this lyfe 782.35 Bonifacius Archby of Mentz reproueth certain offences in Ethelbaldus 190.9 Bookes translated out of latine into Englishe by King Alured 217.78 Boues Hugh drowned together with a great armie of men vpon the sea as they were cōmyng into England to ayde King Iohn agaynst the Barons 593.65 Bodumni a people in Britaine 49.10 Bourgh Castle taken by the Scots 433.113 Bosa ordeined Bishop of Yorke 182.14 Boniface de Sauoy elect Archbyshop of Cantorburie 659.5 Iames Botiller created Earle of Ormond 892.14 a. Bouchier Thomas Archbyshop of Cantorburie dieth 1431.38 Bouchier Henry Earle of Essex 1447.1 Bowes Rafe Knight 1448.48 Bohun Iohn marrieth Margaret sister to Hugh Lupus Earle of Chester 323.65 Bohun Randulfe 323.66 Humfrey Bohun Earle of Herford dyeth 838.55 a. Bosworth feeld pag. 1416. col 2. lin 56. pag. 1422. col 1. lin 57. Bonner doctor restored to the Byshoprick of London 1721 16. Boallogie slayne 1604.40 Bokingham Iohn 1463.25 Boates might haue ben rowed in Westminster hall 649.4 Booke of Common prayer corrected 1708.24 Henry Bolinbroke created Erle of Derbie 1050.5 b. Boulbeck Isabel Countesse of Oxford dyeth 714.12 Bouencort Peter hanged vpō despite 502 45 Boucher Thomas Cardinal 1463.13 Bohom pag. 1243. col 2. lin 37. pag. 1244. col 2. lin 16. Bologne and Bolognous surrendred vnto the Frenche King 1703.50 Bologne besieged by Henry the seuenth 1439.41 Iohn King of Boheme slaine at Cressy 934.32 b. Boetius Hector cited 3.75 Boun Humfrey high Constable of England 431.64 Bond men and women in Sussex made free 182.86 Bolton Prior of Saint Bartholmew his madnes 1531 47. Boune Henry Earle of Herford 552.92 The Lord Boinren high admirall of France Ambassadour with a trayne of 1200.1505.47 Boune Henry Earle of Herford deceasseth 618.18 Bowes Robert knight fighteth vnfortunately 1637.8 Humfrey Bohun Earle of Herford slayne 866.30 b. Both parties to be heard before sentence be geuen 271.3 Boniface Archbyshop of Cantorburie intronizated 729.50 Wylliā Bohun created Earle of Northampton 900.13 b Henry Bolinbroke Earle of Derby married 1050.44 b. Boucher Thomas Knight 1447.21 Booke of Common prayer set foorth 1640.32 Boiac Almiramumoli kyng of the Sarasins 486.8 Bodinus Cited 1.93 and .4.80 and .4.92
feast of Easter 151.23 Bruydon Monasterie 191.105 Bristow Castle besieged 763.90 Breuse William and hys wyfe and children flye the realme for wordes the Lady Breuse spake of king Iohn 566.67 Brabanders famous in skill practise of warre 445.61 Brightwoulf King of Mercia chased by the Danes 206.113 Broc Philip Canon of Bedford arreigned of murder banished the land 402.47 Bridges Agnes doth penance for faining to be possessed by the diuell 1870.46 Broc Raynulfe accursed by Archbyshop Thomas Becket 409.79 Bray wonne 1528.10 Bristow Castle fortifyed by the byshop of Constans 318.55 Brenne Iohn King of Ierusalem commeth into England 622.74 Brian sonne to Robert Earle of Gloucester 379.37 Britaine Dukedome obtayned by Guy sonne to the viscount of Touars husband to Constance Arthures mother 555 84. Bristow castle builded 351.54 Brecknock battell fought by the Englishmen agaynst the Welchmen 324.36 Brereton captaine of the aduenturers slaine 1531.30 Breuse Lady and her sonne takē and sent to prison 570.15 Bridgnorth castle fortifyed against King Henry the first 339.59 Bryson Castle taken by y e Englishmen 524.23 Brimsbery bridge repayred 222.5 Brun hugh Earle of March 560.14 Barnes Doctor burnt 1580.4 Britaines ouerthrowne by the Saxons at Bedford 142.105 Briake in Britaine assaulted by Englishmen pag. 1154. col 1. lin 20. taken col 2. lin 2. Brennus marryeth the Prince of Norway Elsung or Elisings daughter 23.99 Brendholme Edmunde put to death 158.32 Broc Roger seruant to Archbishop Thomas Becket 406.29 Brun Hugh Earle of Marche dyeth 729.46 Brecknock in wales takē 222.18 Britaine holdes furnished with French souldiours 543.51 Brest deliuered to the Duke of Britaine 1090.2 b. Britaine the lesse through ciuil dissention of a fruitfull soyle becommeth a wylde desarte 410.19 Braybroke Henry taken prisoner 624.67 Bridgewater pag. 1321. col 1. lin 15. Brute Greeneshield dyeth and is buried at Yorke 18.60 Bromierd Philip. 1463.18 Brigantes reuolt from the Romanes to Venutius 58.95 Brute encountred by Giauntes in Britaine 15.74 Britaine at the first creatiō was part of the continent 1.28 Britaine Britonant 916.44 b. Duke of Britaine commeth into England 924.46 a. Britons brene the town of Plimouth pag. 1140. col 2. lin 28. woulde haue landed at Dartmouth pag. 1142. col 1. lin 1. their crueltie lin 29. Battell of Graueling 1780.40 Thomas of Brotherton borne 835.45 b. Brute searcheth this land from one end to another 15.68 Bridge of London begun to be made of stone 566.84 Duke of Britaine dyeth 916.7 a. Brightrick put to death 260.44 Nicholas Brembre executed 1071.37 b. Brent Marche pag. 1321. col 1. lin 14. Duke of Britaine aydeth Henry Duke of Lancaster 1105.12 Bristow Castle 371.21 Bromeley towne 277.14 Bricennamere 222.19 Britaine wasted by the Constable 993.33 b. Britaine of the Samothei called first Samothea 2.76 Breause William his craftie dealing with the Welchmen 439.103 Brandon Henry sonne to Charles Duke of Suffolke by the Frenche Queene Created Earle of Lincolne 1526.13 British Monkes and Priestes slaine by Edelfred 154.10 Brighthelme succeedeth Alfin in the Archbyshoprick of Cātorburie 233.82 Bridgnorth Castle surrendred to the King 396.13 Broughty crag wonne by y e Lord Clinton 1630.17 besieged in vaine by Monsieur de Chapell 1635. wonne by Monsieur de Chermes 1702. Bulleyne Thomas Knight sent Ambassadour into France 1506.26 Bulleyne Thomas treasurer of the kynges house created Viscont Rochefort 1536.19 Butler Piers created Earle of Ossory 1550.15 Bulleyne Anne daughter to the Earle of Wylshyre is created Marchionesse of Penbrok 1558.33 goeth w t the Kyng to Calice ead 44. is married to the kyng 1559.33 is crowned Queene 1560.50 is committed to the Tower 1565.5 is beheaded and her speache before 1565.18 Bussey Roger. 391.21 Bussey Iordaine 391.22 Burthred succeedeth Bertwolf in the kyngdome of Mercia and marrieth Ethelswida sister to Ethelwolfus 207.110 Burialles found of late vppon Ashdone in Essex 256.1 Burcher Peter his manifold madnesse desperate deedes and shamefull death 1869.44 Bulgarie in olde time called Mesia 103.31 Bunghey Castle made playne with the ground 445.22 Buly king of Powsey in Wales 122.58 Burthred constrained to forsake his countrey goeth to Rome and there dyeth 212.24 Bunghey castle 436.5 Bury Abbey spoyled by the Danes 249.75 Buren Count at the siege of Muttrel 1594.45 Burthred Kyng of Mercia expulsed out of his kingdome by the Danes 218.89 Buckinghamshyre wasted by the Danes 245.71 Burnyng feuers reignyng in England 314.26 Bunduica looke Voadicia Buckingham Castles builded 221.45 Burgenild daughter to Kyng Kenvulf of Mercia 205.40 Bullenberg assaulted by Chastillion and valiantly defended 1640.40 Buying and selling of men in England prohibited 341.34 Bulmer Wylliam knight 1448.46 Philip Duke of Burgoigne marrieth the Earle of Flanders daughter 976.45 b. Buckenburne Robert attainted 1425.45 Duches of Burbon taken prisoner 979.20 a Bucke Iohn attainted 1425.51 Burwham 1463.24 Boyham castle wonne 1529.35 The Burse built 1836.30 proclaimed by Herought Trumpetter the Royall Exchange 1857.44 Bulles agaynst breakers of statutes 1098.1 b Bullocke Martin hanged 1862.13 Robert Burnel bishop of Bathe 791.58 a. Burthred Kyng of Mercia marrieth kyng Ethelwolfus daughter 206.9 Burgh Hubert marryed to Margaret the king of Scotlands sister 619.73 Burdee pag. 1381. col 1. lin 14. Bulleyne Thomas Viscont Rochefort created Earle of Wylshyre 1553.10 Burton vpon Trent 583.64 Bulmer Iohn knight put to death 1570.10 Bulleyne besieged 1595.8 yeelded 1796.40 Bulles from the Pope agaynst Wicliffe 1008.20 b. Burgoigne spared for money 965.49 a. A Bull from Rome hanged on the byshop of Londons gate 1852.27 Burdiaur yeelded to the Frēch pag. 1285. col 2. lin 14. Burials of traytours and felous permitted 874.40 a. Bury Abbay spoyled 885.20 b. Bu◅yris slayne by Hercules in Egypt 5.106 Burgh Hubert created Earle of Kent 630.103 Simon Burleis lyfe and erecution 1072.16 a. Burgh Hubert appoynted warden of the Marches betwixt England and Wales 551.110 Brumpton Wylli of Burford attainted 1425.55 Bulmer Wylliam knyght discomfiteth the Lord Hume 1487.34 C. Castles in England commaunded to be rased 389.63 Castles suffred to stand contratrarie to couenaunt 392.59 Cartbridge Castle vppon Seuerne builded 216.75 Carausius slayeth Bassianus the King 78.58 Carausius a Britaine getteth together a great armie of Britaines to expell the Romanes out of Britaine 78.64 Cadwallo slayne and his huge armie vanquished 165.19 Cadwalloes Image set vp for a terrour 165.26 Cadwallo beginneth to ◅eygne ouer Britaine 165.81 Cadwallo vanquished by Edwine fleeth into Scotlande Ireland and Armorike Britaine 166.37 Cadwallo departeth this lyfe 167. Cadwalloes body enclosed in an Image of brasse and set ouer Ludgate in Londō 167.41 Caerlton now called Gloucester 51.53 Cangi now the inhabitants of Denbighshyre in Wales 54.7 Cangi or Denbighshyre men vanquished by the Romanes 54.16 Camulodunum peopled wyth bandes of olde souldiers 54.38 Camulodunum where it standeth 54.49 55.15 Cadwallan Prince of Wales traytrously slayne 453.25 Cadwalline looke Cadwallo Cadwallo King of Britaynes rebelleth against Edwyne 163.45 Crueltie of Cadwallo Penda in their victorie ouer the Northumbers 164.1 Cary castle 368.75
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Ceadda ordeined Archbishop of Yorke 177.71 Ceadda remoued from the see of Yorke 178.69 Ceadda made Byshop of Mercia 179.47 Ceadda departeth this lyfe 179.61 Ceadda brother to Cedda gouerneth Lestinghem Monasterie 175.29 Ceadwalla banished out of his owne countrey 184.20 Ceadwalla returneth with an army into his owne countrey 184.34 Ceadwalla baptized at Rome and there dyeth 185.4 Ceadwalla voweth vnto God 184.52 Ceoluolf succeedeth Osrick in the kingdome of Northumberland 190.83 Ceoluolf renounceth hys kyngdome and becommeth a Monke 190.87 Cedda and his .iii. brethren all Priestes 175.32 Cheuling succeedeth Kenricus his father in the kyngdome of the west Saxons 142.85 Ceaulinus looke Chauling Cerdicus beginneth the kingdome of the West Saxons 127.10 Cenulfe ordeyned Byshop of Dorchester 223.60 Centwine maketh warre vpon the Britaines ouerthroweth them 183.44 Cellach second Bishop of Mercia 176.19 Cenwalch vanquished by Wolsihere and his countrey spoyled 176.86 Celricus or Ceolrick Nephew to Cheuling reigneth ouer the West Saxons 145.63 Celtike and British language al one 4.93 Celby Abbey in Yorkeshyre buylded 315.90 Cewolfe succeedeth Burthred in the kingdome of Mercia 218.95 Cearlus K. of Mercia 162.1 Cesar looke Iulius Cesar Ceouulf or Ceoloulph begynneth his reigne ouer the west Saxons 152.72 Certicestshore called in old time Nazaleoy 131.18 Certaine Gentlemen of meane calling appoynted to gouern the Romane armie in Brytaine 77.12 Charter of agreement between King Henry the seconde of England and Willyam of Scotland 440.51 Charter of agreement between King Henry the seconde of England and Roderike king of Connagh 442.11 Christian blood no dearer to the Pope then the bloud of Infidels 739.90 Chester besieged by the Saxons 153.65 Charles Earle of Flaunders murdered traytrously by hys owne people 360.64 Churches are the Popes to defende and not to robbe and spoyle 741.68 Christian religion in Britayne restored 125.48 Chester see remoued to Durham 241.25 Children not begotten in lawfull Matrimonie to bee no heires 198.103 Chealred king of Mercia 187 103. Chirchedune Adam shamefully whipped about Poicters 446.72 Church goods layd out to gage to helpe the Pope with money 633.20 Charter of King Williā graunted to the citie of London 316.94 Chiefe Iustice wordes agaynst the clergie 824.30 a. Charles the fift Emperour arriueth at Douer 1509.20 seemed not much to delyte in pastyme 1509.54 wynneth Cardinall Wolsey by riche rewardes large promyses eadem 30. commeth eftsons into England 1520 20. is Knight of the Garter and setteth in his owne stall at Windsor eadem 35. entreth into league with Kyng Henry eadem 55. Charles King of Fraunce sendeth an erronious booke into England 199.47 Chichester citie consumed with fire 465.35 Charles Simplex King of Fraunce marryeth Egditha daughter to King Edward 223.11 Chester citie builded 58.5 73.77 Chorthmond slayeth Aldred murderer of King Ethelbert 201.69 Chesterfield battaile fought by the Lord Henry against the Barons 777.16 Chester citie besieged by the Danes and taken 216.42 Chester citie left by the Danes 216.47 Chitrey castle burnt 385.39 Chalus Cheuerell besieged and taken by King Richarde the first 539.88 Chester made a principalitie 1097.20 b. Chifi William hanged for robbing of Pilgrimes 484.31 Chaunteries al committed to y e kings disposition 1604.55 Chester citie by whom builded 18.75 and. 18.82 Chester citie repaired by Liel 18.74 Chester citie builded before Brutes comming into this land 18.77 Christes Churche in Cantorburie repayred 320.67 Church of England fore greeued and bereaued of her wealth 321.6 Churchmen of England complaine of kyng Wylliam Rufus to the Pope 321.11 Chereburg in Normādy 321 73. Chester Wylliam knight his woorthy woorkes 1714.40 Calthrop Iohn his woorthy woorkes 1714.40 Cheeke Iohn knight his booke agaynst rebellion inserted 1677. Children foure liuing and in good likyng borne at one burthen 1872.12 Cheyney Henry knyght is made Lord Cheney of Toddington 1862.55 Christerne kyng of Denmarke commeth into England 1525.56 returneth ead 20. Charles Earle of Charoloys pag. 1317. col 2. lin 6 married Margaret-sister to Edward the fourth pag. 1318. col 2. lin 21. Duke of Borgongne pag. 1318. col 2. lin 3. Charles bastard of Henry Duke of Somerset Lord Herbert captaine of the rereward in the voiage to Turwin 1478.51 Tholmeley Roger knight is one of the kinges Executors 1611.50 is excepted out of the generall pardons why 1722.1 Charles doctor counsellor to Prince Arthur and after Byshop of Hereford 1456.58 The still Christmas 1536.28 The Chappel of our Lady in Westminster Abbey built 1457.40 Cheuling sonne to Kenricus kyng of West Saxons 142 55. Charles Bastard of Henry Duke of Somerset created Earle of Worcester 1494 31. Chierburghe yeelded to the French pag. 1277. col 1 lin 16. Chabor Wylliam Lord Admirall of France made knyght of the Garter 1559.11 Chester citie repayred fortified and inlarged 222.9 Christin mother to Edgar Edeling professeth her selfe a Nunne in Scotland 298.75 Chippingnorton by Cotfold pag. 1306. col 1. lin 10. Charter of kyng Iohns submission to the Pope 576.12 Channel cast from Torksey to Lincolne 359.11 Christe our Sauiour borne 46 7. Cherburgh deliuered to the Englishmen 1009.58 b. Chinon taken by force of assault by the French kyng 562.39 Charles the Emperour marrieth Isabel daughter to the king of Portugal 1537.20 Chancerie court instituted 303.52 Charles the nienth the French kyng is knight of the Garter 1834.36 Christian fayth receiued by the Englishmen 148.17 Chesterby Philip a knight of Lindesey admonisheth kyng Henry the second of his euill l◅fe 422.21 Christes Church in Cantorburie erected and restored 150 33. Chartley castle founded by Ranulph Earle of Chester 618 11. Chichester made a Byshoppes See 309.64 Churches builded in Northūberland 168.80 Church landes to be free from all tributes and seruices regall 207.39 Church goodes stolen to be restored 149.33 Children to be baptised with three dippinges into fayre water 420.101 Children to be baptised by any person where danger of death is feared 420.105 Charter of king Henry the first 586.66 Free Chappels all geuen vnto the kyng 1634.8 Christian religion in Britayne decayeth 119.21 Cheyney Frances knight 1450.18 Chertsey Abby in Southerie builded 181.19 Chateau de Leire rendred to the English pag. 1234. col 2. lin 47. Charteries taken from y e Englishe pag. 1249. col 1. lin 24. Charles the great his speare sent to kyng Adelstane 227.20 Chaunteries all geuen vnto the kyng 1634.8 Charters graunted by Henry the third are cancelled by hym 629.16 Charterhouse Monke apprehended at Cambridge 657.77 Charing Crosse builded 800.3 a. Charles y e fifth kyng of France dyeth 1020.15 b. Charles the great and Offa reconciled 195.36 Charles the .9 King of Fraunce dyeth hys obsequies kept 1870.40 Chamber Iohn a rebel 1434.135 is hanged 1434.20 Charles French King pag. 1412. col 2. lin 26. Chandew a Lorde of Brytaine created Earle of Bathe 1426.35 Charleton Richard attainted 1425.42 Charles the .8 King of France maketh warre on Fraunces Duke of Britaine 1431. desireth King Henrie to ayde him or to be menter ibidem ouerthrowen by the power of
Cunidagâ—…us with an armie 21.13 Margan with his armie discomfited and slayn 21.24 Maesbell battaile fought against the Saxons 122.94 Mariguane Charles ambassadour from the French king 1436 55. Martinus Lieutenant of Britaine defendeth the innocencie of the Britaines against Paulus the Notarie 94.77 Martinus the LieutenaÌ„t slayeth himselfe 95.11 Maximianus beginneth hys reigne ouer Britayne 95.34 Maximianus cousin to the Emperour Constantinus sent for into Britayne from Rome 93.27 Maximianus commeth into Britayne and marryeth Octauius daughter 93.53 Maserfield field fought by the Mercians agaynst the Northumbers 170.7 Maximinianus goeth about to depose his sonne Mareutius and to take himselfe the Empire vpon him 91.11 Maximinianus fleeth vnto Constantinus into Fraunce 91.30 Maximinianus practiseth CoÌ„stantinus destruction 91.23 Maximinianus fleeth from Constantinus vnto Marsiles 91.42 Maximinianus strangled to death 91.46 Maximinus Lieutenant in Britaine vnder Constantinus 92.53 Maurice sonne to Conan Meridock sent to Rome for Maximianus 93.37 Maude Empresse disherited for marrying out of the Realme 365.55 Malcolme Camoir established in the Crowne of Scotland 275.61 Marshal Richard dyeth of a fall from his horse 701.5 Manlius younger brother to Mempricius rebelleth 17.72 Manlius slaine 17.76 Malcolme commeth into England to see King William Rufus 324.53 Malcolme inuadeth England with aâ—… armie 324.63 Malcolme slaine 324.67 Marcharus or Malcherus sonne to Earle Algar made Earle of Northumberland 279 25. Marcharus and Edwyn discomfited by the Norwegians neere to Yorke 284.65 Marcharus submitteth himselfe to King William 291.59 Malus Catulus Roger Vice chauncellour drowned 522.111 Mat. Westm reproued of errour 323.9 Maude wyfe to King William crowned Queene of England 299.18 Margaret Countesse of Salisbury attainted 1570.50 Marshâ—…ll William buryed in the new Temple Church at London 617.23 Mascutius an Archpirate sweareth to be true to King Edgar 231.78 I le of Man conquered 923.10 a. Malgo Nephue to Aurelius Canonus beginneth to raigne ouer Britaine 141.69 Malgo renoumed for beautie and courage 141.74 Malgo dyeth 140.90 Malgo defyled with incest and Sodomitrie 141.84 Maglocunus looke Malgo. Matt. Westin cyted 143.23 and. 153.17 and. 180.78 and. 192.95 and. 213.62 Malesert Castle taken 433.31 Malorie Aukctille 435.21 Malcolme King of Scottes doeth homage to king William of Englande for the Realme of Scotland 307.61 and. 322.53 Malelot 1038.7 b. Marleswyn fleeth into Scotland 298.64 Marshal William Earle of Pembroke dyeth 638.3 Margaret y e Scottish Queene fleeth into England with her newe husband the Earle of Angus 1498.40 returneth into Scotland 1503.30 Maydes drowned or slayne as they were sayling into lytle Britaine 95.104 Mare Tyrrhenum taken for Pyreticum 13.44 London Maior keepeth no feast at the Guild Hal. 1870.21 and. 1872.34 Magdalen a Priest like to king Richard the secoÌ„d pa. 1126. col 1. lin 36. counterfeited to be K. Richard pag. 1127. col 1. lin 19. fleeyng into Scotlandâ—… was taken and brought to the Towre of London pag. 1129. col 1. lin 24. beheaded at London pag. ibidem col ibidem lin 30. Margaret daughter to Henry the seuenth affâ—…ed to Iames the fourth king of Scotland 1456.38 is maryed to the king of Scots 1458.24 Martia wyfe to Guintolinus 28.99 Martia gouerneth Britayne in her sonnes nonage 29.23 Martian lawes first deuised 29.31 Mary daughter to Henry the seuenth promised to Charles king of Castill 1461.10 Maruey Henry knight Vice Chamberlaine made Lorde priuie seale and Lord Maruey 1524.15 Margaret daughter vnto Margaret the Scottishe Queene borne 1498. Matthew Cardinall of Sion Ambassadour from the Emperour 1499.51 Mandubracius sonne to Imanuentius fleeth to Cesar for succour 42.59 Margaret daughter to the French king affianced to Henry sonne to king Henrye the second 398.21 399.71 Marion Henry Counsellour to Prince Arthur 1456.56 Manswetus the Popes Nuncio sent to Henry the thyrde 750.18 Marueilous tempest of wynde on Christmas euen 199.61 Marishe William conspireth the kings death 654.46 Maior and Aldermen of London sworne to be true to king Henry the thyrde 761.58 Marshal William made Erle of Chepstow 475.51 Madoc of Wales taken prisoner 811.57 b. Marble stone brought out of Scotland 822.51 a. Magna Carta confirmed 830.50 a 834.30 b. Maximilian the Emperour elected knight of the Garter 1837.40 Magna Carta confirmed 914.35 b. Manus Citie and Castle taken and throwen downe 543.58 Marlbrough Castle rased by the friendes of king Henrie the third 611.67 Mathew Gourney pag. 1124 col 2. lin 55. Maior of London imprisoned 1081.50 a. Manner of fasting in the olde tyme. 175.7 Maldon battayle fought by the Danes against the Englishmen 238.54 Marshal William created Erle of Striguile and girded with the Swoorde of the same 545.37 Maluoylim Castle builded 326.13 Marchants sustayne great losses 1872.51 Machaire Castle in Fraunce wonne 627.10 Marke Castle betrayed and recouered agayne 1008.2 b. Earle Marshall giueth his inheritance to the king 839.39 a. Eustace Marwell reuolteth 901.13 a. Marius erecteth a stone in token of victorie ouer the Picts 67.73 Marius dyeth and is buried at Caerleil 68.10 Malcolne king of Cumberland sweareth to be true to king Edgar 231.78 Maundeuile Geffray 377.42 Marriage of Priestes absolutely forbidden in England 340.43 Marchenelaghe 29.38 Earle Marshal aydeth the Queene 877.55 b. Maunt taken by the English pag. 1198. col 2. lin 10. Marmion Robert slaine 380.60 Margerie Iordaine witch pa. 1268. co 2. lin 1.9 William Marques of Gulike made Earle 903.50 a. Manâ—…el Iohn Person of Maydstone 660.84 Mategriffon Castle in Sicile buylded by king Richard the first 489.17 Maior and AldermeÌ„ of London made knights 1033.16 a. Matt. Westmin cited 131.59 and. 140.54 Marie Countesse of Perch drowned by shipwracke 357 107. Maundeuile William Earle of Albemarke dyeth 480.44 Mansell Iohn Chaplein to Henrie the thyrd feasteth two kings and two Queenes 743.32 Mary daughter to Henry the seuenth married to Lewes the French king 1495.37 is crowned Queene of Fraunce 1496.29 married to Charles Duke of Suffolke 1497.58 and. 7. Manleon Sauary Lâ—â—utenant in Guyeâ—…ne 619.47 Malmesburie Castle besieged and deliuered 386 65. Marchaâ—…us released out of prison 315.17 Maude the Queene wife to king William dyeth 315.92 Marriage concluded betwixt the Prince of Rothsâ—…y and the Duke of Suffolkes daughter pag. 1407. col 1. lin 3. Marcell or Marcell William taken and kept prisoner in Wallingfoord Castle 380.8 Madan sonne to Lâ—â—â—â—us vndertaketh the gouernment of Britaine 17.52 Madan deuoured by wylde beastes 17.57 Madan Caister or Dancaster builded by Madan 17.60 Mariage concluded to be had betweene the French kings sonne and king Iohns neece 548.27 Maus deliuered to the English pag. 1225. col 2. lin 21. lost by the English pag. 1238. col 1. lin 40. agayne recouered by the English pag. 1238. col 2. lin 40. Maximianus persecuteth the Christians 95.42 Maximianus proclaimed Emperour in Britayne 95.60 Maximianus goeth ouer into Fraunce with an armie 95. Maximilian Duke of Burgoin imprisoned by the Citizens of Bruges 1435.4 subdueth the Rebels 1438.20 defrauded of the heyre of Britayne 1439.4 Maglanus Duke of Albania marrieth Regan
brought into England 178.114 Perthelmus byshop of Whiterne 192.26 Iohn Pecham made Archbyshop of Canterburie 788.46 b. dyeth 806.13 a. Peter Archbyshoppe of Tarensasia 423.112 Petilius Cerialis appoynted Leutenante of Britaine 66.68 Pecham Henry executed for treason 1766 40. Peter Bahuchet hanged at Sluce 909.50 a. Poter dwelling in Red Crosse streete pag. 1358. col 1. lin 47. Iohn Pouderhams knauery 856.33 Peace concluded betweene King Iohn and the king of France with a maryage and other agreementes 548.27 Peace concluded betweene the Erle of Flaunders the French king 548.77 Peace concluded vppon conditions betweene Edmond king of England and Aulafe king of Danes 227.64 Periurie neuer left vnpunished 286.37 Peter pence first payd in England to y e Byshop of Rome 189.1 Peter Byshop of Winchester made gouernour to king Henry the third 617.33 People at Canterbury tithed by the Danes 246.22 Pelagius Heresie renued among the Scots 163.35 Henry Lord Percy put to flight by the Scots 843.10 b. Peace concluded betweene King Edward and Earle Godwin 273.90 Peace breakers betweene king Henry the second and his sonnes excommunicated 457.80 Percie Henry the fourth Earle of Northumberland slayne 1434.40 The Pencioners muster in armour before her Maiestie 1839.42 A lotterie held 1839.46 Percie Henry the first Earle of Northumberland Warden of the whole Marches sueth to be discharged of his office 1522. much mislyked therefore of al men ibidem Peace proclaimed betweene king Henry the third and the Barons 770.28 Petitur and Higanius looke Peredurus and Vigenius Peace between England and Fraunce 966.10 b The Pencioners ordeyned 1574.40 Percie Erle of Worceter breaketh the staffe of his office 1108.13 a. People in al England numbred 312.79 Peter Bressie Captayne of Alnewike Castle pa. 1313. col 2. lin 54. pag. 1315. col 1. lin 24. Percie Thomas made knight after Lord and the next daye Earle of Northumberland 1767.28 rebelleth 1839. his attemptes there afterward fleeth into Scotland 1841.12 is brought out of Scotland and beheaded 1865. Peace concluded betweene William of England and king Malcolme of Scotland vpon conditions 307.60 Peith Iohn 1447.21 Pente Riuer 174.45 Perkin Werbecke pag. 1389. col 2. lin 42. Petronius Turpilianus appointed Lieutenant of Britaine 66.9 Henry Lord Percy sent to the Sea 1058.30 b. Peace concluded betweene K. William Rufus of England and his brother Duke Robert of Normandie vppon conditions 321.68 and. 325.85 Henry Lord Percie created Earle of Northumberland 1006.8 b. Peter the Apostle ware a shauen Crowne 178.30 Peredurus reigne and deth variable among writers 332.1 Peace concluded at Stanes betwixt Henry king of England and Lewes the kings sonne of Fraunce 616.46 Peace with the Scottes pag. 1249. col 2. lin 6. Pestilence pag. 1350. col 2. lin 55. Penius Posthumus slayeth himselfe 65.43 Peter Landeyse pag. 1407. col 2. lin 12. lin 20. lin 50. pag. 1408. col 1. lin 50. col 2. lin 13. lin 47. Petteham Manour made ouer to the Church of Canterbury 327.56 Peace betweene England and Scotland 873.30 a. Pence of the value of two pences coyned 1459.17 Perrottus Nicholas cited 5.42 Thomas Percie created Earle of Worceter 1097.30 b. Alice Perers Concubine to king Edward the third 997 27. a. banished the Realme 1008.45 a. Periurie reuenged by euyl death and affliction 365.48 Perambulations of Forrestes 834.50 a. Peter pence in Ireland to be payed to the Pope 420.112 Peter Courtney byshop of Exceter pa. 1402. col 2. lin 15 Penerel William of Nottingham 369. Pensey Castle deliuered to the king 397.19 Pencaire Dauid cited 7.5 Earle of Penbroke put to flight by Scots 845.16 a. Perdir the wisehard flourisheth 21.65 Penwithstreete 241.40 Peter pence payment confirmed by Ethelwolfus 207.49 Periurie horribly punished 224.20 Pegnalech Abbey 177.49 Peace dishonorable with the Scots 891.47 a Philip K. of France returneth home from the siege of Acres 500.113 practiseth falshode against king Richard the first in his absence in the Holy land 503.5 prouoketh Earle Iohn to forsake his alleageance vnto king Richard the first his brother 509.47 entreth into Normandie with an armie 510.34 Philip Prince of Spayne marrieth Queene Mary 1756.54 his trayne eadem 12. is made knight of the Garter 1759.10 goeth to the Parliament house in his Roabes 2759.36 goeth into Flaunders vnto his father 1764. taketh possession of the lowe Countreys then returneth into England 1766.53 passeth into Flaūders 1767.2 winneth Saint Quintins concludeth peace with the French king 1801.18 Philip the Archduke of Austrich marrieth the heyre of Hispayne 1459.50 cast on the coast of England by storme and saued ead 1. dieth 1460.58 is described 1460.1 Philip king of Fraunce in danger of drowning by fal of a bridge vnder him 527.25 Philips Dauie knight counselour to prince Arthur 1456 52. Philippes Rouland vicar of Croyden famous preacher 1524.44 Philip Byshop of Beauoyes taken prisoner 531.59 Phightiaid the name of the Pictes in British Scottish and Pictish 68.50 Philpot Clement put to death 1580.30 Philip Earle of Flaunders taketh vpon him to goe to the Holy land 439.7 Philip king of Fraunce departeth frō the battaile of Cressey 934.20 b. Philip Duke of Burgongne pag. 1317. col 2. lin 7. dyed pag. 1318. col 1. lin 47. Philip the French king twice in great daunger of taking by Richard the first 111. almost drowned in the riuer of Gethe 536.12 Philip king of Fraunce dyeth 347.106 Philip the French king dyeth 623.4 Philip K. of Fraunce cōmeth to Sangate 942.16 a. sendeth to king Edward to haue an indifferent place for battaile 942.58 a. breaketh vp his armie 942.30 b. Philip Earle of Flaunders made Erle of Kent 327.10 Philip the French king iesteth at king Williams sicknesse 314.54 Philip de Commins pa. 1323. col 1. lin 22. Philip Queene of England dyeth 980.2 a. Philo cited 101.78 Pilgremages abolished 1571.24 Piemont the Prince Emanuell Philibert commeth into England 1762.38 ouerthroweth the French power neare to Saint Quintins 1768.20 marryeth Margaret the French kings Sister 1802.47 Piers of Erton knyght murdered king Richard the second pag. 1129. col 2. lin 54. Pinder Rachel-dooth penance for fayning to bee possessed by the diuel 1870.48 Piers of Gaueston banished 841.1 b. called home and made Earle of Cornewale 847.10 b. marryeth the kings Neece 847.46 b. banished agayne 879.20 a. taken and beheaded 851.20 a Pirats taken by ships of Rie Picts Saxons and Scots inuade the Romane prouince in Britayne 106 60. Pictes and Scots vanquished by the Saxons 112.22 Picts ouerthrowen betweene Lyene and Cere by the Northumbers 190.68 Piers a Legh beheaded 1108.13 b. Picts in league with the English men become Christians 192.39 Pilkinton Thomas attaynted 1425.45 Picts and Scots slayne and chased out of Britayne 100 36. Picts and Scots when first they came to inhabite Brytayne 102.15 Picts require wyues of the Irish Scots 67.55 Picts the first strangers that came into Brytayne to inhabite next after the Romanes 67.65 Peuenessey or Pemsey place in Sussex where Duke william of Normādie landeth his armie 285.65
Sigebald receyueth the christian fayth 174.9 Sigibert murthered by his Kinsmen 174.52 Sichrike slayeth his brother Nigelius 223.101 Sithrike marieth Editha daughter to King Edwarde 224.49 Sithrike marrieth Beatrite daughter to King Edward 224.66 Sithrike poysoned by hys wife Beatrice 224. â—…6 Sithrike becoÌ„meth a christian for the loue of Editha 224.113 Sithrike renounceth christianitie and miserably endeth his life 224.116 Simon Richard a Priest practiseth to make hys scholer king 1428.10 sayleth with him into Irelande where hee bruteth him to bee the Earle of warwike procureth many friendes in Irelande England and Fâ—â—nders 1429.3 taken prisoner â—… committed too perpetuall prison 1431.24 Silures prepare too make warre agaynst the Romaines 54.28 Silures where they inhabite 54.60 and. â—…9 2â—… Silures conceyue an extreeme hatred agaynste the Romains and why 57.64 Sigibert succedeth Cuthred in the Kingdome of the westsaxons 19â—… 10â—… Sigibert for his crueltie expuisel out of his estate 194.7 Sigibert slain by a Swine heard 194.16 Sinobe holden at Hatfield 182.113 Siwarde reioyceth at the honourable death of hys sonne 275.84 Sindhelme dieth 178.2 Sigefmonde Emperour came into England pag. 1183. col 2. li. 57 in league with Henrie the fifth pa. 1185. col 1. lin 38. Sixe Articles ordeyned 1573.1 Sigefero a Dane murthered at Oxford 2â—…1 51 Simon Dunelm cited 214.100 and. 216.62 and 220. â—…5 and. 221.54 Sighelmus Bishoppe of Shireborne sent 〈◊〉 presentes vnto Rome and into India 217.45 Siwolfe slaine 200.47 Simonte and ambition in two Monks reproued by King William Riâ—…us 321.26 Simon Dane â—…cited 222 40. and 239. 47. Sinode holden of winchester 235.110 Sinode holden at Galhe 236.21 Sithrike succeedeth his father Gathâ—… for the Kingdome of the Northumders 2â—â— 7â—… Siricius Archbishoppe of Canterburie 239.64 Simon Dunelmen cyted 291.39 and. 30â—… 19 and 34â—… 89 and. 354.79 Simon Sudburie made Archbishop of Canterburie 995.23 a Siluester Prior of Canterburie deposed from his priorship 383.28 Simon Dunelm in what time he liues 394.44 Simon Dunelmen cyted 387.11 Simon Erle of Northamton 374.13 Simon Dunelmen cyted 258.15 and. 260.32 Stafford Richarde slaine 1048.55 â—… Simon Erle of Aranges deliuereth Fortresses to king Henrie the seconde 399.60 Siward causeth himself to be armed before his death 276.63 Siwarde Earle of Northumberlande inuadeth scotlande with a greate power 275.56 Siwarde Earle of Northumberland 271.30 Sinode at Reading 789. â—â— a Sinode at Lambeth 790.22 a Sixe Articles repelled 164.10 Simon MouÌ„tford knight pag. 1298. col 2. lin 6. taken at Sandwich lin 18. beheaded lin â—…2 Sinode at LoÌ„don 892.13 b Singleâ—… or Sigbelitie slaine â—â—0 47 Sighere King of Eastsaxons dieth â—â—â— 36 Sigharde and Sewfrede succeede Sebby euen father in the kingdom of the Eastsaxons â—â—â— 42 Simon Earle of Northampton falleth madde and miserably enâ—â—ith his life â—â—7 96 Sigibert murdered for obseruing the commaundements of the gospell 174 Sigibert reproued for keping companie with an excommunicate person 174. â—…3 Sigharde and Seâ—…ffred kings of Eastsaxons depart this life â—…90 36 Siga chiefe murthered of Aswald 19â—… â—â— Simon Dunelhen cyted 〈◊〉 Sinode holden at Herford 79 SignificatioÌ„ of two sunnes in the skie 541.106 Sigibert or Sibert a christian king of the Estangles 162.42 Siluer mines 845. â—â— b Sidrack a Danish Earle slaine 210.4 Sidroe a Dane slaine 210 36. Sistllius brother to Gurgustius chosen to the gouernance of Britaine 21 90. Sinode holden at Danstable 523 6â—… Simon Zelotis commeth into Britaine 31.20 Sighere his people â—…uoir from the Christian fayth 179 1â—… Sighere hys people reduced too the Christian fayth 179.23 Simonie consisteth as wel in giuing money after promotion receyued as in brybing afore hande 336.48 Sigebettus cited 11â—… 41 Sicilius sonne to Guintolinus admitted King â—…f Britaine 89.12 Situations for Churches or Monesteries first too be consecrated â—…5 14 Sidius Geta his valiancie agaynst the Britaines 49.34 Sibell sister to the Erle of Conuersans in Pugita maried to Robert Duke of Normandie 346.72 Singing in Churches first vsed in Kent of all England 17â—… 76 Singyng in Churches brought into vse ouer all England â—…70 76 Sildius called also Sildius 21.86 Simon Erle of Huntington dieth 459.82 Silures vanquished land brought too the Romenâ—…e subiection 66.80 Siege of Badon hâ—… 115 32. Simon vseth and in buried at London â—… 49 Sighere son too Sigibert the litle and Sebby succeede Sindhelme in the Kingdome of the Eastsaxons 179.2 Sisillius dieth and is buried at Bathe 21.98 Sizil called also Sisillius 21.96 Simon Digby knight pa. 1416. col 2. lin 42. Simon Langton made Chauncellour to Lewes 600.39 he is excommunicate by Gualo wyth booke bell and Candell 600.62 Sitomagus a citie in Britaine by whome buylded 2.95 Shireborn made a bishops sea 191.10 Siward dieth 276.62 Sidonius Appolinaris cited 107.75 Skirmishe betweene English meÌ„ and Henoays at Yorke â—…90 17 b Sledda second king of the East saxons 152.34 Slaughter of Saxons at Badon hill 129.11 Sleforde Castell buylded 371.75 Slouth engendreth lecherie 17.79 Smyth William Doctour president of Prince Arthures counsaile and after Bishop of Lincolne 1456.57 Smith Thomas leadeth a colonie intoo Irelande 1864.35 Smith Thomas knight made principall secretary 186.41 Smith William founded Brasennose Colledge in Oxforde 1463.22 Smithfield a laystall and place of execution 341.56 Snowden Castell taken 793.8 a. Snow of a maruelous coÌ„tinuance 270.2 Snowdune 276.42 Souch Iohn Lorde attainted 1425.41 Somerset William Earle of worcester goeth Ambassadour into Fraunce and is robbed vpon the sea by Pyrates 1864.53 Somerset Charles of the priuie counsaile and lord Chamberlaine to Henry the eight 1464.52 Sonnes to the Earle of March taken forth of windsore Castell pag. 1145. col 1. lin 50. Souldiours called the coÌ„panions 968.55 a South part of scotland giuen to the Picts 81.63 Sorcerie and witchcrafte punished 395.96 Sobrietie of the NormaÌ„s the night before the battaile against the English men at Hasting 286.77 Sunnes twaine appeare at one time 541.89 Southwales spoyled by the Danes 21â—… 69 Southsaxons put too the woorse by the westsaxons 155.49 Southwell Manour belonging to the Archbishop of Yorke 349.4 Southampton spoyled by Frenchmen 904.20 b Souldiours put into sacks and throwne intoo the Thames 779.11 Souldiours offer themselues to serue king Iohn 546.22 Southampton towne spoiled by the Danes 238.35 Somersetshire men ouerthrowne by the Danes at Pentho 241.70 Sodomites accursed by the decree of westmynster 341.77 Spising beheaded pa. 1345 col 1. lin 22. The battayle of Spurres 1484. â—… Spirites seene in the aire 556.30 Spaniardes ouercome the English nauie 1010.19 a Spencer Hugh the elder created Earle of winchester 869.3 a. hanged 880.4 a Spencer Edward lord taken in Britain 918.45 a Speares ordeyned soone discontinued 1466.43 Sheffield Edmond knight made Lorde Sheffielde 1614.27 is slain 1665.47 Spencer Bishop of Norwich goeth ouer sea with an army 1041.44 a. inuadeth Flaunders 1042.24 b. ouercommeth the Flemings 1043.20 a. returneth into England 1045. 50. a. Lewes of Spaine created Prince 924.30 a Spencer Bishop of Norwich armes 1043.27 a Spiritual promotions
France Where the Londoners would not permitte the Kinges Iustices to fitte within the Câ—… London contrary to their liberties the King â—…poynted them to sitte in the Tower and 〈◊〉 they would not make any aunswer there a 〈◊〉 tumulte was reysed by the commons of the Citie so that the Iustices beeing in some perilles they thoughte feygned themselues to sitte there till towardes Easter Wheervpon when the K. coulde not get the names of them that reysed the tumult no otherwise but that they were certaine light persons of the common people he at length pardoned the offence After this those Iustices neyther sate in the Tower nor else where of all that yeare The Emperor won from the King of Englands friendshippe In the meane whyle the French King had with bribes wonne Lewes of Bauaria that named himselfe Emperour from further fauouring the King of Englande in so muche that vnder a colourable pretence of finding him selfe greeued for that the King of England had without his knowledge takeÌ„ truce with the French king he reuoked the dignitie of being vicar in the Empire from the King of England but yet signified to him that where the Frenche Kyng had at hys request put the matter in controuersie betwixte him and the Kyng of England into his handes to make an ende thereof if it so pleased the Kyng of England The Empeâ—… offereth 〈◊〉 a meane 〈◊〉 concludâ—… peace that hee should treate as an indifferent arbitrator betwixt them he promised to doe his endeuor so as he doubted not but that by hys meanes he shoulde come to a good agreement in his cause if he wold follow his aduice and to receyue aunswere hereof he sente his Letters by a chaplayne of his one Eberhard the reader of the Friers hermites of Saint Augustines order requesting the King of England to aduertise hym by the same messenger of his whole minde in that behalfe The Kyng for aunswere signifyed againe by his letters vnto the Emperoure The Kyngs aunswere that for the zeale whiche he hadde to make an accorde betwixt him and his aduersarie Phillippe de Valoys that named himselfe French King he could not but muche commend him and for his parte hee had euer wished that some reasonable agreement mighte bee had betwixt them but sith hys right to the Realme of France was cleere manifest inough hee purposed not to committe it by writing vnto the doubtful iudgement or arbitrement of anye and as concerning the agreemente which the Emperor had made with the Frenche Kyng bycause as he alledged it was lawfull for him so to do sith without the Emperors knowledge hee had taken truce with the same Frenche King he said if the circumstances were wel considered that matter could not minister any cause to moue him to such agreement for if the Emperor remembred he had giuen to him libertie at all times to treate of peace without making y e Emperor priuie thereto so that without his assent he concluded not vppon any small peace which hee protested that he neuer meant to do till he might haue his prouidente aduice counsell and assente therevnto And as concerning the reuoking of the vicarshippe of the Empire from him hee tooke it done out of tyme for it was promised that no such reuocation should be made till he had obteyned the whole Realme of France or at the least the more part thereof These in effect were the poyntes of the Kyngs letters of aunswere vnto the Emperor Dated at London the thirtenth of Iuly in the second yeare of his raigne ouer Fraunce and fifteenth ouer England This yeare about Midsommer The deceasse of the Lorde Geffrey de Scrope and of the Byshop of Lincolne The Queene brought to bedde or somewhat before at Gant in Flanders dyed the Lorde Geffrey Scrope the Kings Iustice and Henry Byshoppe of Lincolne two chiefe counsellors to the King The Queene after hir returne into EnglaÌ„d was this yeare brought to bed in the Tower of London of a daughter named Blanch that dyed yong and was buried at Westminster In this meane while during the warres betwixt France and Englande the Frenche Kyng in fauour of Dauid king of Scotland had sente menne of warre into Scotlande vnder the conduit of Sir Arnold DaÌ„dreghen who was after one of the Marshals of France and the Lorde of Garentiers with other by whose comfort help the Scottes that tooke parte with King Dauid did endeuor themselues to recouer out of y e English mens handes suche Castels and fortresses as they helde within Scotland as in the Scottishe historie ye shall finde mentioned and how aboute this time their King the foresaide Dauid returned foorth of France into Scotland by the french kings help who hauing long before concluded a league with him thought by his friendshippe to trouble the King of England so at home that he shoulde not bee at great leysure to inuade hym in France But now to tell you what chanced of the meeting appoynted at Arras The commissioners that met at Arras for the commissioners that should there treate of the peace when the day assigned of their meeting was come there arriued for the King of EnglaÌ„d the Bishop of Lincolne the Bishop of Duresme the Earle of Warwike the Earle of Richmond Sir Robert Dartois sir Iohn of Heynault otherwise called Lord Beaumont and sir Henry of Flaunders For the french King there came the Earle of Alaunson the Duke of Burbon the Earle of Flaunders the Earle of Blois the Archbyshoppe of Sens the Bishop of Beaunoys and the Byshop of Auxerre The Pope sente thither two Cardinals Naples and Cleremont these commissioners were in treatie fifteene dayes during the which many matters were putte foorth and argued but none concluded for the Englishmen demanded largely and the Frenchmen woulde departe with nothing sauing with the Countie of Pontieu the which was giuen with Queene Isabell in marriage to the King of Englande This truce was prolonged about the feast of the decollation of Saint Iohn to endure til Midsomer then next following as the addition to Adam Mâ—…rimouth hath The occasion of the warres of Britaine So the treatie brake the commissioners departed and nothyng done but onely that the truce was prolonged for two yeres further Thus were y e warres partly appeased in some part of Fraunce but yet was the truce but slenderly kept in other partes by reason of the deathe of the Duke of Britaine For whereas contentioÌ„ rose betwixte one Charles de Blois and Iohn Earle of Mountfort about the right to the Duchie of Britaine as in the historie of Fraunce it may more plainely appeare The Erle of MouÌ„tfort thinking that he had wrong offered him at the French Kings hands who fauoured his aduersarie Charles de Blois alyed himselfe with the King of Englande And as some write after he had wonne diuers Cities and Townes within Britaine he came ouer into England and by doing homage to King Edward acknowledged to holde
and that same daye in the Parliamente by the Queenes Maiesties Writtes Barons made Sir Henry Compton Knight Lorde of Compton in the hole Sir Henrye Cheyney Knyght Lorde of Todington Sir William Paulet Knyghte of Basing and Sir Henrye Norres Knyght Lorde of Ricote were called Barons into the higher house In this Parliament Roages brent through the eare for somuch as y e whole Realme of Englande was exceedingly pestered with Roges Vagabonds and sturdy Beggers by meanes whereof dayly happened diuers horrible murthers theftes and other greate outrages it was enacted that all persons aboue the age of fourteene yeares beeyng taken begging vagrant and wandring misorderly shoulde bee apprehended whipped and brente through the gristle of the right eare with a hote yron of one ynch compas for the first time so taken The foure and twentith of May Martin Bullocke hanged at the well with two buckettes Martin Bullocke was hanged on a Gibbet by the well with two buckets in Bishoppes gate streete of London for robbing and most shamefully murthering of a Merchant named Arthur Hall in the Personage of S. Martin by the saide well This Martin had procured the said Arthur Hall to come to the saide Personage to buy of hym certaine plate but after the said Arthur had wel viewed the same he said this is none of your plate it hathe Doctor Gardners marke and I knowe it to be his That is true saide Martin Bullocke but he hath appointed me to sell it c. After this talke whilest the saide Arthur was waying the plate the same Martin set out of the Kitchen a thicke washing beetle and comming behinde him strake the said Arthur on the head that he felled him with the first stroke and then strake him againe and after tooke the sayde Arthurs dagger and sticked him with his knife cutte his throte and after woulde haue trussed him in a Danske chest but the same was too shorte wherevppon hee tumbled him downe a paire of staires and after thinking to haue buried him in the seller his legges being broken with the first fall and stiffe he coulde not drawe hym downe the seller staires being winding wherefore he cut off his legges with an hatchet and in the ende trussed him with strawe in a drye fat and saying it was his apparell and Bookes caused the same to be caried to the water side and so shipped to Rie but as God would haue it there was suspition gathered against the murtherer whereby hee was examined before Alderman Branche then one of the Sheriffes of London but so small likelihoode appeared that he shoulde be giltie that there was an honest man dwelling in Saint Laurence Pontney named Roberte Gee a Clothworker supposing the offendor to bee cleere in the matter vndertooke for hys forthe commyng wherevppon Bullocke beeyng suffered to goe at libertie slipte away fyrste to Westminster and there takyng boate passed vppe the Riuer and commyng a lande beyonde Kyngston passed forthe tyll hee came to Okingham in the forest of Windesore an eyght myles beyond the Towne of Windesor and from thence what moued hym I leaue to the secret iudgemente of God hee came backe againe vnto London lodging at the redde Lion in Holborne In the meane time the foresayd Gee vppon knowledge hadde that Bullocke was withdrawen out of the way was not only hadde in some suspition but also committed to warde albeit so as hee hadde libertie to take order to sende abroade suche as shoulde make sute after Bullocke And amongst other that went forth one of hys seruauntes was sent to Rie whither the drie fatte was conueyd and comming thither the same drye fat was opened where the mangled corps of Hall was found whereby the trouth of the matter came to lighte and by the good prouidence of God the reuealet of suche euill factes Bullocke was at the very same tyme discouered at the place in Holborne aforementioned and there apprehended did receyue as ye haue hearde due punishmente for hys heynous and most wicked offence Earle of Lin◅olne and other Ambassadors into France The sixe and twentith of May the right honorable Earle of Lincolne departed from London towards France Embassador being accōpanied with the L. Dacres the Lord Riche the Lord Talbot the Lord Sands and the Lorde Clinton Sir Arthur Chambernowne Sir Hierome Bowes and Sir Edward Hastings Knightes with diuers other Gentlemen who taking Shippe at Douer cut ouer to Bulloine where they were very honorably receyued and from thence conueyed by iourneys to Paris where they were lodged in a house of the kyngs named Le chasteau de Louure being attended on of the Kings officers Fiue dayes after they went to the King at a house called Madrill where the King with hys two breethren the Admirall and the most parte of the nobles of Fraunce mette them a distance from the place and brought them into the house where they dyned and remayned tyl Sonday following from whēce the King and his nobles with the nobles of Englande came to Paris the King hys two breethren and our Ambassadour riding in one Couche togither and the nobles of Englād and Fraunce beyng so placed also in Couches came to the sayde Castell of Louure and there dyned After dynner the Kyng oure Ambassadoure with the nobilitie of both Realmes went to a Churche named Sainte Germaine where the French Kyng hys breethren and nobilitie heard Euensong the noble men of Englande withdrawing them into a Chappell till Euensong was done were then fetched thence by the nobles of Fraunce to the King and hys breethren that awayted theyr commyng League with Fraunce confirmed in Fraunce where was confirmed the league which had bin concluded at Blois the ninetenth of April deputies being there for the French party Francis M◅morēcy Rainold Birago Sebastian de Laubespine and Paule de Foix. And for the Queene of England Sir Thomas Smyth and Maister Walsingham Embassadors This being done they departed withoute the walles of Paris to a gardeine of pleasure where they supped After supper the King departed to his place of Madrill and the Nobles of England to the Castell of Loure On Monday the Admirall feasted the Nobles of Englande On Tewsday the Duke of Aniou the Kings brother and on Wednesday the Duke of Alanson his yonger brother and so passed in feasting and banquetting with riche giftes on both partes On Friday the Nobles of Englande tooke leaue of the King and on Sonday came to S. Denis and after to Boloine where they tooke Shyppe and returned into England the fourth of Iuly The seconde of Iune in the morning beetweene the houres of seauen and eight Duke of Norffolke beheaded Thomas Howard Duke of Northfolke was beheaded on a Scaffold new set vp on the Tower hill Aboute the ninth of Iune French Ambassadors Francis Duke of Mōtmorency chiefe marshal of France gouernour and Lieutenant of the Isle of France generall to Charles the ninth K. of Fraunce and Paule de Foix of
the priuie Counsell to the sayd King and Bertrand de Saligners Lorde de la Mothefenelon Knightes of the order of Sainte Michaell Ambassadors for the same King arriued at Douer The .xiiij. day they shot London bridge towardes Somerset house at the Strand where they were lodged The .xv. daye being Sonday the saide Ambassadors repaired to the white hall where they were honorably receiued of the Queenes Maiestie with hir nobilitie and there in hir graces Chappell about one of the clocke in the after noone y e articles of treaty league or confederacy and sure friendshippe concluded at Bloys the .xix. of Aprill as is aforeshewed betwixt the Queenes Maiestie League with France confirmed at Westminster and the French K. beeing read the same was by hyr Maiestie and his Ambassadors confirmed to be obserued and kept without innouation or violation c. The rest of that day with great parte of the night following was spente in greate triumph with sumptuous banquets The eyghtenth of Iune Saint Georges feast at Windesore the feast of Sainte George was holden at Windesore where the Frenche Ambassadors were royally feasted and Fraunces Duke of Mōtmorency was s◅aulled Knight of the most honorable order of the Garter The eyghte and twentith daye of Iune the forenamed Ambassadors departed from London towards Fraunce The fourteenth of Iune Thomas Lorde Wharton deceassed in his house of Chanō row at Westminster Lord Treasorer Lorde priuie seale Lord Chamb◅rl◅yne with other officers The thirtēth day of Iuly the Queenes Maiestie at White Hall made sir William Cicill Lorde of Burghley Lord high Treasorer of England Lorde William Howard late Lorde Chamberlaine Lord priuie seale The Earle of Sussex L. Chamberlaine sir Thomas Smith principall Secretary and Christopher Hatton Esquier Captaine of the garde c. Englishmen sent to Vlstar in Irelande In thys moneth of August Sir Thomas Smith one of the Queenes Maiesties priuie Counsell carefully tendering the reformation of Irelande sente hys sonne Thomas Smith Esquier thither with a certayne number of Englishmenne to inhabite the Ardes in Vlster after the manner of a Colonie vsed by the Romaynes An. reg 51. A strange Starre appeared The .xviij. of Nouember in the mornyng was seene a Starre Northward very bright cleere in the constellation of Cassiopeia at the backe of hir Chaire which with three chiefe fixed starres of the said constellation made a Geometrical figure losengewise of the learned men called Rombus This starre in bignes at y e first appearing seemed bigger than Iupiter and not much lesse than Venus when she seemeth greatest also the sayde Starre neuer changing hys place was carried about with the dayly motion of Heauen as all fixed Starres commonly are and so continued by little and little to the eye appearing lesse for the space of almost sixteene Monethes at what time it was so small that rather thought by exercises of oft viewing moughte imagine the place than any eye could iudge y e presence of the same And one thing is heerein chiefely to bee noted that by the skyll and consente of the best and most experte Mathematicians whyche obserued the state propertie and other circumstaunces belongyng to the same Starre it was founde to haue bin in place Celestiall farre aboue the Moone otherwise than euer anye Comete hathe beene seene or naturally can appeare Therefore it is supposed that the signification thereof is directed purposely and specially to some matter not naturall but celestiall or rather supercelestiall so strange as from the beginning of the worlde neuer was the like The four and twentith of Nouember Earle of Derby deceassed Edwarde Earle of Derby Lorde Stanley and Strange of Knocking Lord and gouernour of the Isles of Man Knyghte of the noble order of the Garter and one of the Queenes Maiesties priuie Counsell deceassed at hys house called Latham in Lancashire Hys lyfe and deathe deseruing commendation and crauyng memorie to bee imitated was suche as followeth Hys fidelitie to two Kynges and two Queenes in daungerous tymes and great Rebellions in whyche tyme and alwayes as cause serued hee was Lieutenaunt of Lancashire and Cheshire and lately offered tenne thousande menne to the Queenes Maiestie of hys owne charge for the suppression of the last rebellion His godly disposition to his tenants neuer forcing anye seruice at theyr handes but due payment of theyr rent His liberalitie to strangers and such as shewed themselues gratefull to him His famous houskeeping and .xj. score in checkrol neuer discontinuing the space of twelue yeare His feeding especially of aged persons twice a day .lx. and odde besides all commers thrice a weeke appoynted for his dealing dayes and euery good Fryday these .xxxv. yeares one with another two thousande seuen hundred with meate drinke money and money worth There was neuer Gentleman or other that wayted in his seruice but had allowance from him to haue as well wages as otherwise for horse and man His yearely porcion for the dispences of his house foure thousand pounde His cunning in setting bones disioynted or broke his chirurgerie and desire to helpe the poore His deliuerie of his George and Seale to the Lord Straunge with exhortation that he might keepe it so vnspotted in fidelitie to his Prince as he had and his ioy that he dyed in the Queenes fauour Hys ioyfull partyng this worlde his taking leaue of all his seruantes by shaking of handes and his remembrance to the last day The .xxviij. of Nouember Iohn Hall late of Battell in Sussex Gentleman Hall and Wilkinson executed and Oswolde Wilkinson late of Yorke and Gallour of York Castel being before arraigned and condemned of treason were drawne from the Tower of London to Tiburne and there hanged bowelled and quartered Great frost a sharpe winter This yeare a greate and sharpe frost almost continually lasted from before the feast of all Saintes till after the feast of the Epiphanie of our lord with somtime great and deepe snowes and sometymes raines which freesed as fast as the same fell to the grounde wherethrough at Wrotham in Kent and many other places the armes and boughes of Trees being ouercharged with Ice brake off and fell from the stockes of the same Trees Also the wynde contynued North and East till after the Ascention day with sharpe frostes and snowes whereby followed a late spring 1573 L. priuie seale deceassed The twelfth of Ianuarie William Lorde Howarde Baron of Effingham Lorde priuie seale knight of the noble order of the Garter and one of the priuie Counsaile deceassed at Hampton Court Erle of Worcester sent into Fraunce The .xviij. of Ianuarie William Lord Somerset Earle of Worcester began his iourney toward Fraunce to the Christning of the kings daughter there in stead of the Queenes Maiestie of Englande who sent with him a Font of Golde for that purpose weying .326 ounces The sayde Earle with many of his companie were robbed vpon the sea by Pirates of muche of