kyng that is to say the .vii. daye of y e moneth of Nouembre the corps of y e excellent prynce kyng Henry the fyft was wyth great solempnyte and honour brought vnto the monastery of westmynster and there at the fete of saynt Edward wyth due reuereÌ„ce enterred to whose soule Iesus be mercyfull And vpon the .ix. day of y e sayd moneth was a parlyament called at westmynster By reason whereof the kynges gouernaunce durynge hys nonage was prouyded for wyth all the rule of bothe realmes of EnglaÌ„d and of Fraunce And by auctoryte of the same the duke of Glouceter syr Humfrey was ordeyned protectoure of England and duke IohnÌ„ of Bedforde regent of Fraunce And durynge the parlyament was grauÌ„ted vnto y e kyng for a subsydie for .iii. yeres v. nobles of euery sacke of wolle that shulde passe out of the lande And the fyrste daye of Marche after was of hys preestehode deregraded and heretyke named wyllyam Tayllour and breÌ„t to asshes in smythfeld whose opynyons for the herynge of them shulde be tedious and vnfrutefull I therfore wyll nat wyth theym blot my boke In thys moneth of Marche also was the town of PouÌ„t Melane deliuered by apoyntmente vnto the regent of Fraunce Of the whych apoyntemeÌ„t one artycle was that all horses abylmeÌ„tes of warre harneys and other shulde be lefte within the sayd place and also golde and syluer and other iewelles there to remayne hooly And yf that any persone were within y e holde founde whiche before tyme had ben gylty or consentynge to the dethe of the duke of Burgoyne that he shulde be delyuered to the regent and not to take any benefyte or pryuylege by that appoyntment And this yere the west gate of the cytye called Newgate was newly buylded and repayred by the executours of Rycharde whytyngton late mayre of LondoÌ„ And this yere after mydsomer fyll great water or rayne so that for the more party euery daye atwene the begynnynge of Iuly and ende of Septembre it rayned lytell or moche and yet that not withstandynge that yere was coÌ„uenyent plentye of al grayne so that whete passed not eyght shyllynges at LoÌ„don and malte fyue shyllynges Anno dnÌ„i M. CCCC.xxiii  Anno dnÌ„i M. CCCC.xxiiii  Nycholas Iames.  wyllyam Crowmer draper  Anno .ii.  Thomas wadeforde  THis yere that is to meane in the begynnge of this mayres yere and .xiii. day of Nouembre the kynge and the quene his mother remoued from wyndesore towarde LoÌ„don and came that nyght vnto Stanys and on the moâ—owe beynge sonday whan he was borne towarde his mothers chare he shyrled and cryed so feruently that the noryce with her brestes nor nothynge elles that the quene coude deuyse myght contente hym wherfore the quene beyng fered that he had ben dyseased retourned agayne to her chambre where anone he was in good rest and quyet This of some wryters is noted for a dyuyne monycyon y t he wolde not trauayle vpon the sonday But how it was the quene taryed with hym ther that nyght on the moâ—owe he was borne to y e chare with glad semblant mery chere and so came to Kyngeston that nyght and vpon y e morow vnto his manour of Kyngeston Upon wednysday the quene syttynge in her chare and he vpon her lappe passed with great tryumphe thorughe the cytye and so vnto westmynster where than was holden his parlyament there set in his kyngly mageste within the parlyameÌ„t chambre amonge all his lordes where the speker of the parlyament made a famous preposicion wherof the effecte was of the grace y t god had endewed the realme with for the presence of so toward a prynce and soueraygne gouernour as he was with many other wordes of commendacyon which I passe ouer The .xxvi. day of the same moneth of NoueÌ„bre the kynge with y e quene remoued from westmynster vnto waltham holy crosse And after he had there a season soiourned here moued vnto Hertford where he held his Crystmasse and y e kyng of Scottes with hym And y e foresayd parlyameÌ„t was iourned vnto y e .xx. daye of Crystmas In y e whiche parlyament amonge other actes was ordeyned y t what prysoner y t for grauÌ„d or pety treason was coÌ„mytted to warde after wylfully brake the same it shulde be demed pety treason and that the goodes of hym so escapynge shulde be forfeyted to the lorde of that soyle that they were founde in In the moneth of Februari syr Iames steward kynge of Scottes maried in the face of the churche of saynt mary Ouereys in Southwerke dame Iohane y e duchesse doughter of Clarence whiche was doughter vnto the erle of Somerset fyrste husbande vnto the sayde duchesse And the feest was holden in the bysshop of wynchesters place by And soone after vpon the xiii day of February the foresayde parlyament beynge agayne holden at westmynster for brekynge of the foresayde acte of brekynge of pryson syr Iohan Mortymer was accused by a yoman named wyllyam Kynge and seruaunt vnto syr Robert Scot knyght and keper of y e towre of London of dyuers poyntes of treason as folowen Fyrst he couÌ„seyled with the sayd wyllyam Kynge to the ende to breke out of pryson and promysed to hym for the same the yerely value of xl li. lande in processe an erledome Also the sayd Mortymer shulde saye that he wolde go into wales vnto the erle of the Marches and there he wolde rayse .xl. M. meÌ„ and with that power he wolde entre this lande and stryke of the heddes of the lorde protectour and of the bysshop of wynchester to the entent that he myght tell or play with some of his money And ferthermore he accused hym that the sayde Mortymer shulde say that the erle of Marche shulde be kynge by ryght enherytaunce that he hymself was nexte ryghtfull heyre to the sayd crowne after the sayd erle of Marche wherfore yf the sayde erle wold not take vpon hym y e crowne rule of y e lande he sayde that he elles wolde And ouer this the sayd wyllyam alledged to the sayde syr Iohan Mortymer that he shulde say that yf he fayled of his purpose and myght not wynÌ„e vnto the erle of Marches that than he wolde sayle vnto y e Dolphyn and ayde and take his partye where he wyst well he shuld be accepted and haue good ayde of hym to brynge aboute his purpose All whiche maters were duely approued by the sayde wyllyam agayne the sayde syr Iohan before the lordes and comons of the sayde parlyament for y t whiche treasons he was after drawen and hanged In this yere also the duke of Bedforde beynge in Fraunce as regene warred strongly vpon y e Dolphyn wanne from hym many stronge holdes and townes as Crotey Basyde Ryol Rulay GyrouÌ„de Basyle MermouÌ„de Mylham Femel Seintace Iensak Mauron Duras Mountsuer La venak Palageeu Cerneys Noelam Cusak and Doual with dyuers other and so contynued tyll he came vnto Uerneyll in Perche
abbot and to haue the rule of so holy a charge and so he gaue vnto hym that benefyce wythout takynge any peny Thys kynge wyllyam vsed alway lemmans wherfore he dyed without yssue legyttymat when he had reyned as before is sayde fully .xii. yeres and odde dayes THE CCXXVI CHAPITER HEnry the .iii. son of wyllyam Cōquerour fyrste of y t name whyche for his connynge was surnamed beuclerk began hys reygne and domynyon as kynge of Englande the .v. daye of August in the yere of our lorde .xi. hundred one and the .xliii. yere of the fyrste Phylyppe then kynge of Fraunce was crowned at westmynster ryght shortly after of Thomas archebyshoppe of yorke and Morys byshoppe of London This Henry in his youth plyed him to such studye that he was instructe in the .vii. artes lyberall Anon he made holy chyrche free vsed saynt Edwardes lawes wyth the amendemēt of them He put out of his courte nyce and wāton men and closed Ranulphe byshoppe of Durham in the towre of Lōdon y e which as ye before haue harde was so great wyth wyllyam his brother and sent for Anselme archebyshoppe of Caunterburye whyche before was fledde fro the tyranny of wyllyam Rufus This Henry chastysed the olde vntrewe mesure and made a yerde of y e length of hys owne arme wyth dyuers other thynges reformyng that longe before his days had ben mysse vsed and abhorred excesse of metys and drynkes vsed to fyght more wyth coūsayll then wyth sworde In the seconde yere of his reygne Robert hys brother that by all thys season hadde ben occupyed in warres vppon Cristes enymyes hauyng worde of the deth of hys brother wyllyam and howe his brother Henry hadde taken vpon hym as kynge returned into Normandy and there made preparacyon for to come into Englande In this season also was brokē out of pryson Ranulfe byshoppe of Durham and comen to the sayde Robert into Normandy The whych excyted duke Robert in all that he myght to warre vppon hys brother Henry so that he assembled a stronge armye of knyghtes and toke shyppynge and landed in processe of tyme at Portysmouth But by medyacyon a peace was made and that in suche condycion that he shuld haue .iii. thousand markes yerely as before was promysed vnto hym by willyam Rufus his brother wyth other condycyons of successyon and other thynges the whyche I ouerpasse for length of tyme. Thus Robert beynge contented contrary to the myndes of his lordes after he a season hadde dysported hym in Englande retourned into Normandy where of his lordes he was for thys other dedes before done as after is shewed lytle or lesse and lesse setby For all be yt that by hys fathers lyfe he hadde vyctorye and vtterly dyspleased hym as some deale before ys touched yet by hys manhode and manfull dedes he fell into the fauoure of the people and dyd many and great notable actes and specyally at the wynnyng of the cytye of Acon vppon the myscreauntes and turkes For the whyche dedes yt apperyth by the sequele of the storye that he was also in the fauour of god For when the eleccyon shuld be made for the kynge of Hierusalem and certayne prynces and prynces peeres by ordynaunce made stode wyth theyr tapers abydynge the dyuyne purueyaunce that whose taper were fyrst wyth heuenly fyre lyghtened shulde be admytted for kynge the taper of thys duke Robert was fyrste onely wherfore by dyuyne purueyaunce he was then chosen kynge of Hierusalem The whyche he refused for the payne and trauayle that he shuld haue wyth all also for the couetyse of the crowne of Englande For as soone as he hadde knowlege of the deth of his brother willyam anon he parted the coūtrey and sped hym homewarde in all that he myght For the whych dede as affermeth myne authour he spedde the worse in all his dedes after Thys Robert was wyse in counsayll stronge in batayll and also ryght lyberall and in hys retourne from Hierusalem maryed the doughter of wyllyam de Auersana lorde of Apulia wyth whome he receyued grete sōmes of money for her dower the whych by meane of his liberalyte he spent shortly after Then fortune beganne to frowne vppon duke Robert and sette his owne lordes so agayn hym that they sent vnto kyng Henry hys brother wyllynge hym to come into Normandye and they wolde delyuer the coūtrey vnto him and holde hym for theyr chefe lorde and ruler wherunto as sayth the englyshe cronycle kynge Henry soone cōsented But or euer thys warre betwene the sayde duke Robert kyng Henry beganne thys Henry maryed Mawde or Molde the doughter of Malcolyne kyng of Scotlande and of Margarete hys wyfe doughter of Edwarde the outlawe as in the begynnyng of wyllyam Conqueroure is thouched Of the whyche Molde thys Henry receyuyd after some wryters two sonnes and .ii. doughters y t is to saye wyllyam and Rycharde Mawde Mary And also the sayd authour wyth other saye that Robert duke of Normandye came into Englande in the fourth yere of the reygne of kynge Henry and hadde good chere of his brother and syster For the which he at the request of his sayde syster released to his brother y e forenamed trybute of .iii. thousand markes But by yll tale tellers couetous of signory this broderly loue was after dissolued in such wise that the kynge with a strong army sayled into Normandy and held his broder Robert with so sharpe warre that he chased hym from one countrey to another and wanne from hym Roan Caan Faloys and all the good townes of Normandye and lastely constrayned hym to aske helpe of Phylyppe kyng of Fraunce after of the erle of Flaūdres but he fayled helpe of them both Then wyth such power as he could make he gaue batayll vnto his brother kynge Henry In the whyche he was taken and sent ouer into England and put into the castell of Cardyffe in walys where he remayned as prisoner whyle he lyued And when he was dede he was buryed at Glowcester In this tyme and season as it were in y e .iii. yere of kyng Henry y e chyrch of saynt Barthelmew in Smythfeld of London was begonne to be founded of a mynstrell of this kyng Henry named Rayer and after perfourmed and ended by good and well disposed cytezens of the citye of Lōdon This place of Smythfelde was at y e day a lay stowe of al ordure or fylth and the place where felons and other transgressours of the kynges lawes were put to execucyon THE CCXXVII CHAPITER SO as kynge Henry hadde fynyshed his warre in Normandye was returned into Englande Robert de Bolesyn which was the eldest sonne of Roger de mount Gomeryk erle of Shrewesburye arose agayne the kynge and manned his castellys of Shrewesbury of Brugg◠of Arundell and of Tekynhyll and incoraged the walshmen agayne the kyng But the kyng pursued so cruelly the sayd Robert y t wythin .xl. days he wan all thoses castellis
whyche was consentyng to the same murder was hanged vppon a galos by the waste and armys and by hym amastyfe or great curre dogge the whyche as soon euer he was smytten bote vppon the sayde Bartopus so that in processe he all to rent hym dyd to hym so great payne that lastely he endyd his lyfe in great mysery In the time of y e reygn of this Lewys the bishop of Clermōde was voyded his see by the cruelnes of the erle of Auerne wherfore the kyng assembled his knyghtes and by strength set the byshoppe in hys place agayne maugry his enymyes And agayne the second tyme when he was eft put out by the sayde erle the kynge restoryd hym and toke suche pledges of the erle that he remayned after in good quyet In y e later dayes of this Lewys his eldest sonne named Phylyppe wyth a conuenyent company vppon a daye for his dysporte rode about certayne stretys of the cytye of Parys and as he rode an hogge sodeynly starte amonge the horse fete of the chylde wherwyth the horse beynge frayde lepte sodeynly and cast the chylde to the grounde wyth so great vyolence that he dyed y e nyght folowynge For this myssehappe the kynge toke great heuynesse so that he waxed dayly more feble And for he was vnweldly by reason of ouer ladynge of fleshe and myghte not well trauayll he therfore by the aduyce of hys lordes admytted hys seconde sonne named Lewys to the rule of the realme and hym he crowned by his lyfe tyme and also maryed hym vnto Elynoure the doughter of the duke of Guyan by whych he was inherytoure vnto her father And shortely after the kynge sykened and to hys great payne in an horse lytter was brought vnto saynt Denys where he lyenge a season syke and knew that the owre of deth was nere commaunded suche as were aboute hym that they shulde spredde a tapytte vppon the ground and then laye hym vppon the sayde tappette and vppon hym to be made a crosse of asshes whyche all was done accordynge to his commaundement And there he so laye tyll he dyed in the yere of hys reygne to reken from the deth of his father to his owne endynge daye .xxx. yeres so that he reygned .xxix yeres full and odde monethes and was buryed in the monastery of saynte Denys with great pompe wyth thys scrypture folowynge vppon his tombe Illustris genitor Lodouict rex Lodouicus Vir clemens Christi seruorum semper amicus Institui fecit pastorem canonicorum In sella veteri trans flumen Parisiorum Hane vir magnanimus asmi victoris amore Auro reliquijs ornauit rebus honore Sancti Dionysi qui seruas corpus humatum Martyr antisles Lodouici solue reatum whyche versys may be expowned in our vulgar as foloweth The noble father of Lewys Lewys the kynge To Crystes seruauntes ryght meke and louynge Caused to be made of chanons an howse In a selle of Paris where the streme flowes whyche this man myghty for loue of saynte Victor wyth golde an relyquys enorued with great honor wherfore saynte Denys whyche kepest hys body graued Martyr and bishoppe pray that his soule be saued Angsia THE CCXXXII CHAPITER STephan erle of Boloyn and son of the erle of Blesence and of the wyues syster of Henry the fyrst named Mary beganne his reygne ouer the realme of Englande in the yere of our lord .xi. C.xxxvi the first yere of Lewes y e .viii. of y t name then kyng of Fraunce This was a noble man and hardy But contrarye hys othe after the affyrmaunce of some wryters that he made to Molde the empresse he toke vpon hym y e crowne and was crowned vppon saynte Stephans daye in the Crystemasse weke at westmynster of the archbisshoppe of Caunterbury the whyche in lykewyse had made lyke othe vnto the sayde empresse in presence of her fader as before is touched In punyshment wherof as men denied the sayde archbyshoppe dyed shortly after And many other lordes whyche dyd accordyng lyke went not quyte wythout punyshement A great causer of this periurye as rehersyth one authour was this one Hugh Bygot stewarde somtyme wyth Henry the fyrste immedyatly after the deceace of the sayde Henry came vnto England and before the sayde archbysshop and other lordes of the lande toke wyllfully an othe sware that he was present a lytle before the kynges deth when kynge Henry admytted chase for hys heyre to be kynge after hym Stephan hys neuewe for so myche as Molde his doughter had dyscontented hym wher vnto the archbyshoppe wyth the other lordes gaue to hasty credence But this Hugh scaped not vnpunyshed for he dyed myserably in a shorte tyme after when kyng Stephan was crowned he sware before the lordes at Oxynforde that he wolde not holde in hys hand the benefyces that voyded and that he wold forgyue the Dane gelt as kyng Henry before hym had done wyth other thynges whyche I passe ouer And for this Stephan drad the cōmynge of the empresse he therfore gaue lycence vnto his lordes y t euery of them myght buylde a castell or strong fortres vpon his own groūd And soone after he agreed wyth Dauyd kynge of Scottes receyued of hym homage after he had from hym wonne some townes and holdes The towne of Exetoure rebellyd agayne the kynge in the seconde yere of hys reygne But he in the ende he subdued theym And wyllyam archbyshoppe of Caunterburye dyed the same yere whose benefyce was after gyuen to Thibaude abbot of Becco in Normandye About the fourth yere of his reygne Dauyd kynge of Scottys repentynge hym of hys former agrement made wyth the kynge entred of newe the boundes of Northumberlande aboute the ryuer of Theyse towarde the prouynce of yorke and brent and slewe the people in moste cruell wyse not sparynge man woman nor chylde Agayne whome Thurstone by the kynges cōmaundement was sent The whych wyth his power quytte hym so knyghtly that he ouer threwe the hoste of Scottes and slewe of theym a great nomber and compellyd theym to wythdrawe agayne into Scotlande In the which passetyme y e kyng layde syege to the castell of Bedforde and wanne yt And that done he then made a vyage into Scotlande where he dyd lytle to hys pleasure or profyte Then in his retourne homewarde he toke Alexaunder byshoppe of Lyncolne and helde hym in duresse tyll he hadde yelded or gyuen vnto hym the castell of Newerke And then he chased Nygellus byshop of Ely Also in thys furye he toke suche displeasure with his louynge frende Roger byshop of Salysburye that he caste hym in bondes tyll the sayde Roger hadde rendred vnto hym the two castellys of Uyes and Shyrburne For the whyche thys Roger in remembrynge the great ingratytude of the kynge toke such thought that he dyed shortely after and left in redy coyne .xl. thousande marke whyche after hys deth came to the kynges cofers One cronycle sayth that kynge Stephan obteyned these foresayde castellys
hys reygne ouer England the xvii daye of Nouembre the morowe after saynt Edmond the archbisshop in the yere of our lorde M.CC lxxii the .ii. yere of the .iii. Phylype than kynge of Fraunce reygned nobly yeres .xxxiiii. fo lv Elyanoure mother to kyng Richard was enlarged fo iiii Edmounde Crouchbak was maried to the doughter of y e erle of Amnarle as apereth in fo xliiii EdmouÌ„d wodstocke wroughte treason fo lxxxviii Edward the sonne of Henry foresayd distressed the barons as it is shewed folio xxxix Edwarde forsayd dystressed the Barons the seconde tyme as is shewed folio xxxix Edwarde the holy kyng and confessour was translated as it shewed in folio xliiii Edwarde was crossed into the holy lande and of hys feates there done folio xlv Edwarde of Carnaruan as apereth folio lviii Edward the second called Edwarde Carnaruan the sonne of the fyrst Edwarde began hys domynyon ouer Englande in the moneth of Iuly and yere of our lorde god M.iii. C. vii and the .xxi. yere of the .iiii. Phylyppe or Philip the fayre than kynge of Fraunce and reygned yeres full xix fo lxxiiii Edwarde the fyrst maryed to hys .ii. wyfe the Frenche kynges syster folio lxv Edwarde the .iii. of that name sonÌ„ of Edwarde the secoÌ„de and of dame Isabell the doughter of Philippe le Beawe or the .iiii. Phylyp late kyng of Fraunce whych Edwarde aboute the age of .xv. yeres began hys reygn ouer the realme of England the .xxv. daye of Ianuary in the yere of grace M.iii. C. .xxvi and the .iiii. yere of Charles the fayre thaÌ„ king of FrauÌ„ce the whyche reygned yeres .li. folio lxxxvi Edwarde Carnaruan was myserably slayne as is shewed fo lxxxvii Edwarde Bayloll was made kynge of Scottes fo lxxxviii Edwarde the .iii. sayled into Braban wyth hys wyfe loke in fo xci Edward the .iii. chaleÌ„ged y e hole kingdome of Fraunce fo xciii Edward the eldest sonÌ„ of the duke of yorke was electe for king of EnglaÌ„d loke in fo cc.vi. Edwarde the .iiii. of that name and eldest sone of Rychard duke of yorke whych was proclaymed heyre paraÌ„t to the crowne began hys domynyon ouer the realme of Englande in the iiii day of Marche in y e yere of grace M.iiii C.lx the .ii. yere of the .xi. Lowys than kyng of FrauÌ„ce reygned at that tyme .viii. monethes yeres viii fo cc.xiiii Edwarde the .iiii. beforenamed wan the felde of Barnet vpon Ester daye agayne kyng HeÌ„ry the .vi. in the yere of grace M.iiii C.lxxi yere of Lowys the French kyng aforesayd and reygned after that day .x. monethes and yeres .xii. So that fyrste laste he reygned ouer .vii. monethes assygned to Henry the .vi. dayes .xxxvi. monethes yeres .xxi. or wyth the sayde monethes of Henry the .vi. set to Edwardes reygne make .xxii. yeres and odde dayes fo cc.xx. Edwarde the .v. of that name sonne of Edward the .iiii. of the age of .xiiii. yeres and lasse began to reygne as kyng of EnglaÌ„d the .x. daye of Apryll yere of our lord M. iiii.lxxxiii the xxxv yere of the .xi. Lowys thaÌ„ kyng of Fraunce and reygned tyll the .xx. day of Iuly next folowyng in which season passed dayes .lxxii. folio cc.xxiiii Elizabeth the holy womaÌ„ doughter of the kyng of Hungery fo xxi Eleanoure quene of her progenye loke in fo lxi Emperoure of Almayne came into England fo c.lxvii Emperour forsayd came agayn into thys lande fo c.lxxii Enuye of Frenchmen fo v Enguerram was put to deth folio lxxxiii Epytaphye of Rychard the fyrste as apereth in fo x Epytaphye of Frederyke the emperour fo xxv Epytaphye of Edward the fyrst loke in fo lxviii Epytaphye of Edward the .iii. folio cxvi Epytaphye of kyng Rycharde the .ii. loke in fo clxvi Erthquake fell in EnglaÌ„d fo xxv Erle of Penbroke was ouerset with Frenchmen other fo cxiii ExpressemeÌ„t of the grudges atwene kyng Rychard the fyrst the FreÌ„che kynge fo iiii Eugeny pope and of hys actes folio clxxxvii FAlse Cryst was crucyfyed as is shewed in fo xix False clerke of Oxenforde whych fayned hym selfe madde came to wodstocke enteÌ„dyng to haue slayne king Henry the .iii. fo xxii Faytes or actes of warre done at DoÌ„stable fo xcvi Fysshes wonderfull takeÌ„ in the .xxxv yere of kyng HeÌ„ry the .vi. fo cci FlorenÌ„ of golde was made by kynge Edward the .iii. fo xcvii Fryers mynors came fyrst into Englande loke in fo xix Fryers Augustynes in the .xxxv. yere of kynge HeÌ„ry the .iii. buylded theyr house in a place in walys called wodhous as is shewed fo xxvi Fryers were put to deth loke in folio clix Frenche kyng sent for hys doughter that was kynge Rychardes wyfe folio clix FreÌ„ch nauy dyscoÌ„fyted fo clxxiiii Froste excedyng loke in fo clxviii GAscoynes make warre agaiÌ„st FrenchmeÌ„ borderers in kyng Charles the .v. days as is shewed in folio lxxxvi Gabell or taxe reysed vppon salte in Fraunce loke in fo cxix Guynes castell was yoldeÌ„ to Englishmen loke in fo ci Grudge betwene Baldwyn and his monkes fo vii Grudge arose betwene kyng IohnÌ„ hys lordes fo xvi Grudge and dyspleasure betwene y e bysshop of wynchester and the duke of Glouceter it is shewed in folio clxxxi Grudge and murmure toke place amonge the nobles of Fraunce as appereth fo cc.xxviii HArme done by thonder as appereth in fo cvii Hawâ—e wythout reuerence of the sacrament was slayne in the churche folio cxli Hastynges lord Chamberleyne was sodeynly put to deth fo ccxxiiii Henry the thyrd of that name sonnÌ„ of king IohnÌ„ a chyld of .x. yeres began to reygne ouer EnglaÌ„de in the moneth of Octobre and yere of oure lorde M.CC. .xvii and the .xxxvii. yere of Phylype thaÌ„ kyng of FrauÌ„ce and reygned yeres .lvi fo xviii Henry Bolyng broke y e .iiii. of y e name and sonne heyre of IohnÌ„ of Gaunt duke of LaÌ„castre the whyche IohnÌ„ was secoÌ„d sonne of Edwarde the .iii. lyuyng after theyr father or the .iii. sonne to rekyn prynce Edward this Henry after the deposicioÌ„ of Rychard in the ende of the moneth of SepteÌ„bre begaÌ„ to reygne ouer EnglaÌ„de in the yere of our lorde M.iii. C.lxxx xix and the .xix. yere of Charles y e .vii than kyng of Fraunce and reygned yeres .xiii. fo clxiii Henry the .vi. of that name sonnÌ„ of Henry the .v. of y e name sonne of HeÌ„ry the .iiii. began hys reygne ouer the realme of EnglaÌ„d vppon the morne after saynt Cuthbertys day or y e â—xi day of Marche in the ende of y e yere of grace M.iiii C. .xiii and y e â—xxii yere of Charles the .vii. than kyng of FrauÌ„ce and reygned yeres .ix. fo .clxx HeÌ„ry the .v. dame Kateryne doughter of Charles the .vi. or .vii. a chylde of halfe yere of age begaÌ„ hys reygne ouer EnglaÌ„d FrauÌ„ce in the ende of the moneth of Iuly and yere
by ordre of lawe or iustyce In thys yere also floured y e holy man called Robert a chanon of the house of Brydlyngtone the whyche of some wrytters is accompted for a prophete for verses that he made of thynges to come after in Englande whyche I passe ouer at thys tyme. Anno domini M.CCC.viii  Anno domini M.CCC.ix  wyllyam Basynge  Nycholas Faryngdone  Anno .ii.  Iohn̄ Butler  IN thys .ii. yere kyng Edward callynge to mynde the dyspleasure done vnto hym and to hys famulyer Pyers of Gauestone by the bysshoppe of Chester mayster walter Lanton as before is towched in the xxviii yere of the reygne of Edwarde hys father commaunded hym vnto the toure of London where he was streyghtely kepte many dayes after Than the lordes of the lande and specyally syr Henre Lacy syr Guy syr Aymer de Ualance erle of Lyncolne of warwyke of Penbroke to whome y e noble prince Edwarde y e .i. had gyuē so great charge y t Pyers of Gauestone shuld no more come into Englande sawe the rule of the lāde and howe the kynges treafoure by meane of the sayd pyers was wasted assembled them in counsayll of one assent with ayde of other lordes of y e realme spake so with the kynge that contrary hys pleasure he was auoyded the lande and banisshed into Irelande for that yere But the kynge sent vnto hym oftentymes secret messangers and comforted hym wyth many ryche gyftes or made hym hys chyef ruler of the countre Anno domini M.CCC.ix  Anno domini M.CCC.x.  Iamys of saynt Edmunde  Thomas Romayne  Anno .iii.  Roger Palmer  IN thys .iii. yere dyuers grudges began to moue sprynge betwene the kyng and his lordes for the exilynge of Pyers of Gauestone wherfore to contente amyte betwene hym them the sayd Pyers about y e feast of the natiuite of our Lady was fette home agayne and so contynued to the more myschyef of y e realme About thys tyme as testifyeth Cronica Cronicarum other the knyghtes of the ordre of saynte Iohn̄ Baptyste called saynt Iohn̄ of Hierusalē by theyr knyghtly manhode put out of the I le of Rodes or Rodhis y e Turkys and infidelis that to that day occupyed the sayd I le after that wanne vpon the sayd Turkys dayly and yerely so that at thys day they haue in theyr domynyon moche of the landes whyche at that day and longe after was in the power of the sayd Turkes Thys relygyō also was greatly preferryd by the fall of the templers whose possessyons and lādes were to them gyuen as it is before expressed in the thyrde chapytre and .xxi. yere of Phylyp the fayre Thys yere also after some wryters the crowched freres came fyrste into Englande Anno domini M.CCC.x.  Anno domini M.CCC.xi  Symon Croppe  Rycharde Roffham  Anno .iiii.  Petyr Blacnay  IN thys fourthe yere the rule and power of Pyers of Gaue stone more and more encreasynge in so moche that he hauynge the guydynge of all the kynges iewellys and treasoure yode vpon a day vnto west mynster and there out of the kynges iewell house toke a table a payre oftrestyllys of golde and conueyed them wyth other iewellys oute of the lande to the greate inpouerysshyng of the same and ouer that broughte the kynge by meane of hys wanton condycyons to manyfolde vyces as auoutry and other wherfore the foresayde lordes seynge the myschyefe that dayly encreased by occasyon of thys vnhappy man toke theyr counsayll togyther at Lyncolne and there concluded to voyde hym agayne out of Englande so that shortly after he was exyled into Flaunders to the kynges great dyspleasure Anno dn̄i M.CC.xi  Anno dn̄i M.CC.xii.  Symon Merwode  Iohn̄ Gysours  Anno .v.  Rycharde wylforde  IN thys .v. yere vpon the day of saynt Bryce or the .xiii. daye of Nouembre was borne at wyndesore the fyrst or eldest sonne of kyng Edwarde y t after hys father was kynge of Englande and named Edwarde the thyrde And this yere was agayn reuoked by the kynge Pyers of Gaueston out of Flaunders the whych after hys agayne commyng demeaned hym worse than he before dyd In so moche that he dysdayned the lordes of Englande and of them had many dyspytous and sclaunderouse wordes wherfore the lordes of one mynde assented to put this Pyers to deth soone after assembled theyr powers and besyeged hym in the castell of Scarburgh in proces wan that castell toke hym and brought hym vnto Gauersede besyde warwycke and there the .xix. daye of Iunu smote of hys hede wherof whan the kynge hadde knowlege he was greuously dyspleased agayne the sayd lordes and made hys auowe y e hys deth shuld be reuenged By meane of thys the rancoure that before betwene the kynge and hys lordes was kendeled now began further to sprede so that after thys day the kyng sought occasyō agayn hys lordes howe he myght put theym to greuaunce and dyspleasure In thys whyle dyed syr Henry Lacy erle of Lyncolne the whych lyeng vpon his dethe bedde requyred syr Thomas erle of Lācastre that had maryed hys doughter that he wolde stande with the other lordes in theyr defence for the weale of Englande The whyche request the sayd erle graunted and so fermely kepte or obserued it that at length he wyth many other loste theyr lyues as after in the story shall be shewed Anno dn̄i xiii C.xii.  Anno dn̄i xiii C.xiii.  Iohn̄ Lambyn  Iohn̄ Pontenay  Anno .vi.  Adam Lutekyn  IN thys .vi. yere the kyng held hys great court or counceyl of parlyamēt with the lordes spirituall temporall at London where by the aduyces of theym many good ordenaunces and statutes were made to oppresse the ryottouse and other myscheues that at those days were vsed Than the kyng was sworne to kepe those ordenaunces and after all his lordes to theyr powers After the whyche othe so takyn Robert archebysshope of Caunterbury blessed all theym that vphelde the sayde statutes and accursed all such as attēpted to breke any of the same It was nat longe after that worde was broughte vnto the kynge howe Robert le Bruze was retourned into Scotlande and hadde caused the Scottes to rebell of newe ye haue before harde in the .xxxiiii. yere of Edwarde the fyrste howe the sayd Edward chased the forenamed Roberte le Bruze oute of Scotland into Normandy But whenne he had harde of the mysguydynge of the realme of Englande and specially of the dyuysyon betwene the kynge and hys lordes he anone wyth a small ayde of the Norgans or Norwayes retourned into Scotlande where he demeaned hym in suche wyse to the lordes of Scotlāde that he in shorte processe was agayne made kynge of that realme and warred strongely vppon the kynges frēdes and wanne from theym castelles and strōge holdes and wrought vnto Englysshe men moche sorowe and
y e other syde laye in howge nombre for to defende the passage of the Frenchmen In whyche tyme season fell suche plenty of rayne that the ways waxed noyous foule in all that countrey By reason whereof vytayll whyche thā was as aboue is sayd scant was than more scars And ouer y e the feelde where the hoste laye was so wete myry that men and beastes were to greuously noyed wherefore in conclusyō y e kyng consyderyng those great hynderaunces harmes to hys lordes comōs that he myght in no maner wynne ouer to hys enemyes he retourned as other before times had done with lytell honour into Fraūce to y e great losse of y e kynges ordenaūce other stuffe that myght nat be caryed thēs by reason of depenes of the way For whych cause causes the kyng was so soore displeased y t he made then a great othe that yf he myght lyue tyll the yere folowyng y t he shuld be sette so the Flemynges y t they shuld nat escape hys daūger y t he shuld neuer take treatye nor ende with thē except they wolde fully holy put thē in his grace mercy But in the yere folowynge about y e feest of Pentecoste whē the sayd Lewys had scantly reygned ii yeres he dyed at Boys in Uyncent the .vi. daye of Iunii honorablye was buryed at saynt Denyse leuyng after hym none issue male wherfore hys brother Phylype succeded hym in the kyngdome Francia PHylyp the .v. of that name and brother of the forenamed Lewys whyche for his heygth was surnamed Phylyp the longe began hys reygne ouer y e Frēchmē in y e yere of our lorde M.CCC and .xvii and the .x. yere of Edwarde the seconde than kynge of Englande But fyrste he reygned but as regent of Fraūce for so moche as Clemence the wyfe of kynge Lewys was left of her sayd husbande with chylde The whiche in processe of tyme was delyuered of a man chylde named Iohan that dyed shortly after After whose dethe y e sayd Phylyp was forthwith proclaymed kynge of Fraunce and crowned at Parys aboute Chrystmas folowynge al be it y t the duke of Burgoyn with other for a whyle with sayd that coronacyon and wolde haue preferred the doughter of Lewys last deed But other of the lordes and nobles of Fraunce wolde not be agreable y t a woman shulde enheryte so great a kyngdome By meane wherof vnkyndnes kyndled atwene the kynge and the sayd duke But by wyse medyatoures they were after acorded in suche wyse that the sayd duke maryed the eldest doughter of y e kynge In this passe tyme suche meanes were made by the Flemynges that an vnyte and accorde was stablysshed atwene Fraunce and them for y e tyme that it helde whiche peace as testyfyeth the Frenche cronycle was laboured and ended by a cardynall named Iosselyn sent frome y e .xxii. Iohan than pope so that by medyacyon of the sayd cardynall the erle of Flaūdres was receyued vnto y e kynges grace and at Parys dyd vnto y e Frenche kynge his homage sware vnto hym feawtye In the thyrde yere of the reygne of this Phylyp the prouost of Parys hauyng in his pryson a Pycarde a man of great rychesse whiche for felony or lyke cryme was iudged to be hanged The sayd prouoste for great benefyte to hym doone and payment of great summes by y e sayd Pycarde toke an other poore innocent man put hym to dethe in stede of the sayd Pycarde Of the whiche offence whā due profe of it was made before the kynges counceyll the sayd prouoste for the same dede was put vnto lyke iudgment In the fyfth yere of the sayd Phylyp all the lazaryes of the countrey of Langadocke were brente for so moche as they were accused of theyr owne confessyon proued that they had poysoned and entended to haue poysoned all the welles of that countrey And for many Iewes were vnto them consentynge therfore many of them suffered lyke iudgment In this yere also for somoche as in those dayes in dyuers places of Fraunce a fonde prophecy was broughte vp amōge the comune people that shepherdes and herdes shulde wynne the holy lande Than they assembled thē selfe in dyuers places and companyes and lastly came togyder at Parys where they were so many in nombre by reason of other of the comune people that fell vnto them that the Prouost of Parys was not of power to withstande thē so that they brake prysones and toke out suche persones as them pleased and from thens wente beggynge and robbynge tyll they came into Langedocke where they fel vpon the Iewes and robbed theym of all suche mouables as they myght fynde and slewe of theym also wherfore the other of the Iewes ferynge the sayd comunes gathered them with theyr wyues chyldren to the noūbre of .v. C. into a towre and thought to defende them theyr wyues and chyldren from the sayd herdes But anone as they hadde wyttynge therof they assawted the sayd towre so egerly that in the ende seynge they myght not escape for very despyte they threwe theyr chyldren downe at theyr hedes after slewe eyther other for they shulde not fall in the handes of theyr enemyes or elles to auoyde y e peynes of the fyre whiche the herdes hadde begunne to fasten vpon the sayd towre whā the sayd Herdes hadde thus robbed and slayne y e Iewes of Langdocke they departed thens and yode towarde a a countrey called Carcasson entendynge lyke robbery as they before had vsed wherof y e countrey beynge warned stopped kepte so the passages withstode them with suche power and strengthe that they dysseuered thē selfe by small companyes so that many of them were taken and hanged the other fled in saue gardynge them selfe and so this folysshe prophecy was ended with synne and shame Kynge Phylyppe by meane of yll coūseyle sette a great taske vpon his comunes that is to meane the fyfth parte of theyr mouable goodes For the whiche consyderynge he had no charg of warres ī no place they murmured grudged wonder sore But how it was or this taxe was leuyed he fell in a feuer quarteyne a great flyx whiche sekenesse fell vpon hym by prayer of the comunes after the Frenche boke for leuyenge of y e sayd greuous taxe Than for hym was made many solempne processyons other prayers How be it in lōge processe he dyed whan he had languysshedde from the begynnynge of August tyl the .viii. day of Ianuary Upon whiche day he dyed whan he had reygned .iiii. yeres .vii. monethes odde dayes leuynge after hym none heyre male wherfore the crowne dyscēded vnto his brother Charles erle of the Marches Francia ¶ Charles the fyfth CArolus the fyfth or Charles the yongest of the thre bretherne or sonnes of Philyppe le Bewe begāne his reygne ouer y e Frenchmē in y e moneth of Ianuary yere of our lorde M.CCC and .xxii and the .xv. yere of
y e secōde Edwarde yet kynge of Englande was crowned at Raynes the .xii. day of February nexte ensuynge After whiche solempnyte fynysshed ended he in short proces of tyme after sent vnto the .xxii. Iohan than pope assertayned hym of y e gossyprede y t was atwene hym and Blanche his wyfe wherof the examynacyon by y e sayd pope was commytted vnto the bisshoppes of Paris of Beauuais mayster Godfrey de Blessys prothonotayr of the countre of Rome The whiche after due and perfyte examinacyon in that mater made they founde that Mawde countesse of Artoys and mother to the fore named quene Blanche was godmother vnto kynge Charles her husbande Of the whiche whan they had made reporte vnto the pope he gaue sentēce that the sayd matrymony was not legyttymat and cōmaunded a deuorce and a separacyon to be made atwene those .ii. persones The whiche was shortly after executed In the seconde yere of this Charles dyed Robert erle of Flaūdres without yssue wherfore the sayd erledam fell into y e Frenche kynges handes so that of it he was in processe by thagrement of the lordes of the same put in peasyble possessyon all be it the erle of Neuers made therunto a pretēce tytle And in this yere kynge Charles about the feest of saynt Mathewe in Septēbre maryed his seconde wyfe named Mary the syster of the kynge of Bohemy or Beme and doughter of Henry erle of Lucenbourgh and late emperoure of Almayne named in the lyne of the emperours Henry the .viii or after some wryters y e .vii. Also in y ◠sayd yere one named Iourdan of the I le a Gascoyne borne a man of noble lynage but lowe vyle of condycyons to whom the foresaid pope Iohn̄ in maryage hadde gyuen hys nyese for reuerence of his byrth thys season by the meane of his vyle condycyons and suche dyshoneste cōpanye as he drewe vntyll hym he fell into many sclaūderous vyces so that lastly he was accused of rape murder and of felony Of the whych he was at length in .xviii. artycles by due profe made cōuycte by the lawe and iudged to be hanged But the kynge at the request of the pope and for the honoure of hys blode graunted to hym a charter and pardoned hym of all former transgressyons But that not wythstandynge he in processe of tyme fell or retourned vnto hys olde accustomyd condicyons And among other greate crymes by hym executed he slewe a sergeaunt of armys belongynge to the kynge that to hym was sent in message For whyche murder and other detestable dedys he was newely accused and vppon that somonyd to apere at Parys before the kynge and hys counsayle At whych day of apparence he came to the sayde cytye wyth a great companye and some noble men whiche were to hym nere of kynne and excused him to the vttermost of theyr powers But agayne hym and to accuse hym came many other lordes barons Of the whyche the marques of Ampton or Dampton wyth hys sonne were chyefe that put causes of complaynt agayne hym The which made suche prouys and declaracyōs agayne the sayde Iourdan that he was cōmytted vnto the chastelet of Parys there to remayne as a prysoner And in processe of tyme suche maters and trespaces were prouyd vpon hym that he by authoryte of a parlyament holden at Compeyng was lastly iudged to dye And soone after that is to meane the .vii. day of Maye he was drawyn to the gybbet of Parys and there hanged In the thyrde yere of his reygne thys Charlys gaue vnto the erle of Neuers y t before tyme hadde made clayme to the erledome of Flaunders y ◠sayde erledom the whyche of the Flemynges and inhabytauntes of that coūtrey was wel and ioyously receyued Than he in shorte whyle after gaue vnto the townes of Gaunt Brugys Ipre and other dyuers pryuyleges and grauntes to theyr great auauntage profyte But it was not longe after that he wanne of them as mych grudge and hatred as he to fore had loue good wyll And all for a taxe y t he set vpon the dwellers of Brugys and the coūtrey nere there vnto and specyally of them that dwelled in the countrey For they thought y t theyr charge exceded farre the charge of y e dwellers within the towne wherfore by secrete meanys they appoynted a daye of assemble amonge them selfe and sodeynly well armed entred the towne of Brugys and slewe therin dyuers of the erles seruauntes and some of the borough maysters of the sayde towne suche as they suspected to be of counseyle of the leuyenge of the sayd taske In the .iiii. yere of his reygne thys Charlys after the dethe of Mary hys seconde wyfe by dyspensacion of the pope the .xxii. Iohn̄ he maryed Iane his cosyn Germayn the doughter of Lewys erle of Euroux and vncle vnto thys kynge Charlys or brother to hys father Phylyppe le Beawe IN this abouesayd .iiii. yere the quene of Englande and syster vnto thys kyng Charlys of Fraūce to treate an vnite and peace bytwene hyr lorde and hyr brother for the warre made in Gascoyne as before is towched in the .xv. yere of Edward the seconde hyr lorde and husbande and there taryed and retourned as aboue in the sayde yere is expressed In thys yere also the erle of Flaūders fore named for suspeccyon that he hadde to Robert of Flaūders hys vncle leste he for hys synguler auaūtage wold supplant hym of that erle dome he made letters vnto the gouernours of the towne where y e sayd Robert was resyaunt and abydyng that they shulde put hym to dethe But by the warnyng of his olde and trusty frende the erlys chaūcellour he was warned and so auoyded that towne For thys greate malyce and rancoure arose bytwene this Robert and the erle whyche was not shortly pacyfyed But it was not longe after that a nother taske or imposycyon was leuyed of the townes of Gaunt Brugys Ipre and other townys of Flaunders The whyche taske was leuyed in recompensemēt of suche warres made vpon Flaunders by Phylyp le Beawe or more dyrectely for paymēt of twelue thousand pownde awardyd by Ioselyn the cardynall as before is shewed in the seconde yere of the .v. Phylyppe that the Flemynges shulde paye to the French kyng for byenge of theyr peace Of thys taske to be leuyers or gaderers was assygned the pryncypall men of the sayde townes y t whiche by theyr demeanure in the leuyenge therof demeaned them in suche wyse that they ranne in great hatred of the comon people In so myche that they accusyd theym and sayde that they hadde leuyed or gatheryd moche more than the sayde taske amounted wherfore they desyred of the erlys counsayle that the sayde persons myghte be called to accoūpt But thys requeste myght not be opteyned whyche caused the comons to runne in further grudge and murmure An other thynge also caused suspeccyon for the erlys counsayle and the sayde collectours hadde so
FrauÌ„ce and after maryed vnto Charlys son and heyre to the duke of Orleaunce as before I haue shewed in the .xxii. yere of hyr sayde fathers reygne Than it foloweth in the story of kynge Henry whan he hadde fermely consydered the greate conspyracy agayne hym by the forenamed lordes and other persons entendyd and imagyned to hys distruccyon and releuynge of Rycharde late kynge he in auoydynge of lyke daunger prouyded to put the sayde Rycharde out of thys present lyfe and shortely after the opynyon of moste wryters he sente a knyghte named syr Pyers of Exton vnto Pountfreyte castell where he wyth .viii. other in hys companye fell vppon the sayde Rycharde late kynge and hym myserably in hys chaumber slewe but not wythout reuengemente of hys dethe For or he were felled to the grounde he slewe of the sayde .viii. foure men with an axe of theyr own But lastely he was wounded to deth by the hande of the sayde syr Pyers of Exton and so dyed After execucyon of whyche dedely dede the sayde syr Pyers toke great repentaunce in so myche that lamentably he sayde alas what haue we done we haue now put to deth hym that hath ben our souerayne drad lorde by the space of .xxii. yeres by reason wherof I shall be reproched of all honoure where so I after thys daye become and all men shall redounde thys dede to my dyshonour and shame Other opynyons of the dethe of thys noble prynce are lefte by wryters as by waye of famyne and other But thys of moste wryters is testyfyed and alleged whan the deth of this prynce was publyshed abrode he was after opeÌ„ vysaged layed in y e mynster of PouÌ„frayt so y t all men myght know and se that he was dede And the .xii. daye of Marche folowynge he was wyth great solempnyte brought thorough the cytye of London to Paules and there layed open vysaged agayne to the ende that hys deth myght be manyfestly knowen whyche was doutfull to many one specyally to suche as ought to hym fauoure And than after a fewe days the sayd corps was caryed vnto the freers of Langley there entred But after he was remoued by kynge HeÌ„ry the .v. in the fyrst yere of hys reygne wyth great honoure and solempnyte coÌ„ueyed vnto the monasterye of westmynster and there wythin the chapell of saynt Edwarde honourably buryed vppoÌ„ the south syde of saynt Edwardes Shryne wyth hys epytaphy vppon hys toumbe as foloweth Prudens mundus Richardus iure secundus Per fatum victus iacet hic sub marmore pictus Verax sermone fuit plenus ratione Corporae procerus auimo prudens vt omerus Ecclesiam fauit elatos subpeditauit Quemuis prostrauit regalia qui violauit ¶ whyche verses are thus to be vnderstande in our vulgare Englysh tonge as foloweth Parfyght and prudent Rycharde by ryghte the seconde Vaynquysshed by fortune lyeth here nowe grauen in stone Trewe of hys worde therto well resounde Semely of persone lyke to omer as one In wordely prudence euer the churche in câ—ie Vphelde fauoured castyng the proud to grouÌ„d And all that wolde hys royall state confounde But yet alas though that this metyr or ryme Thus doth enbelysshe this noble princes fame And that some clerke whiche fauoured hym some tyme Lyst by hys connynge thus to enhauÌ„ce his name â–ª Yet by his story apereth in hym some blame wherfore to princes is surest memory Theyr lyues to exercyse in vertuous constancy whanne thys mortall prynce was thus dede grauen kyng HeÌ„ry was inquyet possessyon of the realme and fande great rychesse y t before tyme to kynge Rycharde belonged For as wytnesseth Polycronycon he fande in kyng Rychardes tresoury .iii. hundreth thousande li. of redy coyne besyde iewelles and other ryche vessels whyche were as moche in value or more And ouer that he espyed in the kepyng of the tresourers haÌ„des an C. and .l. M. nobles and iewels and other stuffe that cuÌ„teruayled the sayd value And so it shulde seme y e kynge Rycharde was ryche whan hys money iewelles amuÌ„ted to .vii. C.M. li. And in the moneth of Octobre and ende of thys mayers yere was brent in smythfelde of LondoÌ„ a preest named syr wyllyam Sawtry for certayne poyntts of heresy Anno dnÌ„i M. CCCC  Anno dnÌ„i M. CCCC.i Goldsmyth IohnÌ„ wakele  IohnÌ„ Fraunces  Anno .ii.  wyllyam Ebot  IN thys seconde yere of kynge Henry and moneth of Frebruary were drawen and hanged for treason a knyghte named syr Roger Claryngeton at tybourne wyth two of hys seruauntes the pryour of LaÌ„de and eyghte freres mynours of gray freres of the whyche some were bachelers of dyuynyte And in thys yere began a greate dyscencion in walys betwene y e lorde Gray Ryffyn a welsheman named Howen of Glendore whyche Howen gathered to hym greate strenghte of welshemen and dyd moche harme to that couÌ„trey nat sparynge the kynges lordshyppes nor hys people and lastlye toke the sayd lorde Gray prysoner helde hym prysoner tyll contrarye hys wyll he hadde maryed the sayde HoweÌ„s doughter After which matrymony fynysshed he helde the sayde lorde styl in walys tyll he died to the kynges great dyspleasure wherfore the kynge wyth a stroÌ„ge army spedde hym into walys for to subdue the sayde HowenÌ„ hys adherentes But whan the kyng wyth his power was entred y e couÌ„tre he with hys fawtours fledde in to the mountaynes helde hym there so that the kyng myght nat wynne to hym with out dystruccion of hys hoste wherefore fynally by the aduyce of hys lordes he retourned into Englande for that season In thys yere also whete other graynes beganne to fayle so that a quarter of whete was solde at London for .xvi. s derer shuld haue beÌ„ had nat ben the prouysyon of marchauÌ„tes that brought rye rye floure out of Spruce wherwyth thys laÌ„de was greatly susteyned and eased Anno dnÌ„i M. CCCC.i  Anno dnÌ„i M. CCCC.ii  wyllyam Uenour  IohnÌ„ Shadworth  Anno .iii.  IohnÌ„ FremynghmÌ„  IN thys yere the coÌ„duyte standyng vpon cornhylle in London was begon to be made And in the somer folowynge syr Thomas Percy erle of worceter and syr HeÌ„ry Percy sonne heyre vnto the erle of Northumberlande gadered a greate power and vppoÌ„ the daye of saynte Praxede the vyrgyne or the .xxi. daye of Iuly mette wyth the kynge nere vnto Shrowysbury and there gaue vnto hiÌ„ a cruell batayll but to theyr owne confusion For in that fyght y e sayd syr Thomas Percy was taken and hys neuew the foresayde syr Henry wyth many a stronge man vppon theyr partye was there slayne And vpoÌ„ y e kynges partie the prynce was wouÌ„ded in the hed the erle of Stafforde wyth many other slayne And the .xxv. daye of Iuly folowynge at Shrowysbury the sayd syr Thomas Percy was beheded and after hys hed caried to London there set vpoÌ„ the brydge In thys
repeÌ„ted hym of that hasty iugement without auctoryte of the churche And soone after god shewed many myracles for the sayde bysshop whyche called the kynge vnto the more repentaunce Anno dnÌ„i M. CCCC.v  Anno dnÌ„i M.iiii C.vi  Henry BartonÌ„  IohnÌ„ woodcok Mercer  Anno .vii.  wyllyam Crowner  IN thys yere dame Lucye the duke of Myllanys syster came into Englande and was maryed vnto syr Edmunde Holande erle of Kent in the churche of saynte Mary ouerey in Southwarke vppon the xxiiii daye of Ianuary where the kyng was present and gaue her that daye vnto the preest And after the solempnyzacion of the maryage was fynysshed she was wyth greate honour conueyed vnto the bysshoppe of wynchesters palays there fast by where that daye for her was holden a sumptuous and pumpous feaste And in the same yere and moneth of May dame Phylyppe the yongeste doughter of kynge Henry accompanyed wyth dyuers lordes spyrytuall and temporall was shypped in the Northe and so conueyed into Denmarke where in a towne or cytye called London she was maryed vnto y e kynge of the sayde countre In thys yere also syr Thomas RamstonÌ„ than constable of y e towre by ouersyghte of hys botemen as he wold haue passed the brydge toward the sayde towre was drowned And in the same yere for the greuous coÌ„playntes that before tyme hadde ben shewed and euydently proued before the kynges counsayl and also before the mayre and hys bretherne of the great dystruccion of frye and yonge fysshe by reason of werys standynge in dyuers places of the ryuer of Thamys wherby the fysshe of the sayde ryuer was greately mynysshed and wasted and that also yf the sayd werys so contynued the sayde ryuer shuld in shorte processe be dystroyed wherfore the mayre hys bretherne the aldermen as conseruatours of y e ryuer made suche laboure vnto the kynge and hys counsayll that they opteyned commyssyon to pull vp all the werys that stode betwene LondoÌ„ and .vii. myles beyoÌ„de KynstonÌ„ and in lykewyse for suche other as stode betwene London and Grauysende aswell crekes or seuerall groundes and other the whyche commyssyon by the sayde mayre and hys offycers was thys yere putte in execucyon And in thys yere syr Robert Knolles knyght the whyche in Fraunce and Brytayne hadde before tyme done so many victorious actes as in y e .xxxiii yere of Edward the thyrde and other yeres of hys reygne is somdele towched made an ende of hys werke at Rochester brydge and chapell at the sayde brydge fote and dyed shortely after whanne he hadde newe reedyfyed the body of the whyte fryers churche standynge in Fletestrete done to that house many notable benefytes where after he was buryed in the body of the sayde churche whyche churche and place was fyrste founded by the auncetoures of the lorde Gray Cotnore Anno dnÌ„i M. CCCC.vi  Anno dnÌ„i M. CCCC.vii  Nycholas wotton  Rycharde whytyngtonÌ„ Mercer  Anno. viii  Godfrey Brook  IN thys yere moneth of Nouembre one named the walche clerke apeched a knyghte called syr Perâ—yuall Sowdan of treason for tryall wherof daye was gyuen to theÌ„ to fyght in smythfylde the day aboue sayde At whych daye eyther apered and there faught a season But in the ende the clerke was recreauÌ„t wherefore immedyately he was spoyled of hys armour layde vpoÌ„ an hardyl and so drawen to tyborne and there hanged And in thys yere also syr Henry erle of Northumberlande the lorde Bardolf commyng out of ScotlaÌ„de wyth a stronge company to the dyspleasure hurt of the kynge as they entended were met and encountred wyth the gentylmen and comons of the northe and foughten wyth and dystressed and after strake of theyr heddes and sente theym to London whyche thanne were pyghte vppon the brydge amonge many other Anno dnÌ„i M. CCCC.vii  Anno dnÌ„i M.iiii C.viii.  Henry Ponfreyt  wyllyam StondonÌ„ Grocer  Anno. ix  Henry Halton  IN thys yere and moneth of Decembre begaÌ„ a frost the which contynued by the space of .xv. wekes after or therupoÌ„ so that byrdes were woÌ„derly famysshed and dystressed by violence of the same And in the same yere syr EdmoÌ„de of Holande erle of Kente was by the kynge made admyrall of the see The which scowred skymmed y e see ryght well and manfully lastly landed in the coost of Brytayne besieged there a castell named Briak and wan it by strength But in the wynnyng therof he was so dedely wounded wyth an arowe in the hede that he dyed shortly after And than hys corps was brought agayn into EnglaÌ„de buryed amoÌ„ge his auÌ„cetours And in the begynnyng of thys yere was slayne murdered the duke of OrleauÌ„ce in Parys lyke as before it is more at leÌ„gthe shewed in y e .xxviii. yere of Charles y e .vii. kyng of frauÌ„ce Anno dnÌ„i M. CCCC.viii  Anno dnÌ„i M.iiii C.ix.  Thomas Duke  Drewe Barentyne Goldsmyth  Anno. x.  wyllyam NortonÌ„  IN thys yere the seneshal of Henaude came into thys lande wyth a goodly companye of Henauders other straungers for to do parfourme certayne faytes of armes agayne dyuers nobles gentylmen of thys laÌ„de And fyrste the sayd Seneshall chalenged the erle of Somerset and other of hys company other geÌ„tylmen of thys laÌ„de as after shall apere For executyng of whyche dysporte the place of smythfelde by the kynge was appoynted and barred fensed for the same entent and daye set for euery maÌ„ to be redy by the .xi. daye of At whych daye the seneshall as chalenger entred y e felde pompously And after with a goodly company of men of honour was the erle of Somerset broughte into the same where they ranne togyder certayne courses and executed other faytes of armys wherof the pryse honour was gyuen by the herawdes vnto the erle so that he wanne that day great honour Than the seconde daye came in a knyght Henauder as Chalengeoure To whome as defendaunt came syr Rycharde of Arundell knyghte the whyche ranne certayne courses on horsebak after went togyder with axes on fote where syr Rychard was putte to the worse for the Henauder brought hym vpoÌ„ hys kne Than the thyrde daye came in an other knyght of Henaude ChaleÌ„ger To whome as defendaunte came in syr IohnÌ„ Cornewayl knyght and so well bare hym that he put the straunger to the worse Upon the .iiii. daye came into the felde an esquyre Henauder Agayne whome ranne the sonne of syr Iohan Cheyny The whych at the seconde course sette hys stroke so egerly that he ouer threw the Henauder horse and maÌ„ for whyche dede y e kyng dubbed hym forthwith knight Upon the .v. day played togyder an Henauder and a squyre called IohnÌ„ Stewarde whyche daye also the Englyssheman wan the worshyp Upon the .vi. daye skyrmysshed there togyder an Henauder and an Englysshe esquyer named wyllmÌ„ Porter the whyche gatte suche
y e kyng in mynde to clayme his right in Fraunce And for the exployte thereof they offcede vnto hym great and notable summes By reason whereof the sayde byll was agayne put by and the kynge set hys mynde for the recouery of the same so that soone after he sente hys letters vnto the Frenche kynge concernyng that mater and receyued frome hym answere of dirision as affermeth the Englysshe boke And Gaguynus sayeth in hys Frenche cronycle that kynge Henry sente hys oratours vnto Charles the vii thanne kynge of Fraunce for to haue dame Katheryne hys doughter in mariage with other requestes touchynge hys ryght and enherytaunce whereunto it was answered by the counsayll of Fraunce that the kyng hadde no leyser to entende suche idelnesse wherupon kynge Henry made quycke prouision for to warre vpon the Frenche kynge as after appereth In thys yere also by procuremeÌ„t of Sigismunde thanne Emperour a greate counsayll or synod of bysshoppes were assembled at a cytye in hygh Almayne called constaunce for the vnion of the churche And for to auoyde the Scisme whyche began in the .xiiii. yere of Charles the .vi as before in the sayde .xiiii. yere is touched In the sayd synode or generall counsayll was the .xxiii. IohnÌ„ than pope put downe or resygned by hys volunte And by auctoryte of y e same couÌ„sayll the opynyons and heresy of wyklyf were vtterly anulled dampned and two of hys disciples there presente named IohnÌ„ Hus or Husse and Ierom the herytyke were there brente And many notable actes for the we le of y e church there were enacted And fynally whan the sayde couÌ„sayl had endured nere vpon the terme of iiii yeres they there by an hole asset chase a newe pope and named hym the .v. Martyne whyche occupyed Peters chayre .xiiii. yeres and odde monethes as indubitat pope and so other after hym Anno dnÌ„i M. CCCC.xiiii  Anno dnÌ„i M. CCCC.xv  IohnÌ„ Mychell  Thomas Fawcomer Mercer  Anno .iii.  Thomas Aleyn  IN thys yere after the kynge had made suffycient prouision for all thynges coÌ„cernyng his warre to be made vpon the Frenche kyng he wyth hys lordes honourably accoÌ„panyed rode thorugh London vpon the .xviii. daye of Iuny towarde the porte of SouthamtonÌ„ where he had appoynted hys hoste to mete wyth hym And whyle the kyng there was shyppynge of hys people dyuers of hys lordes that is to say syr Richard erle of Cambrydge and brother vnto y e duke of yorke whyche syr Rychard beryng the name of Langley hadde wedded dame Anne the doughter of syr Roger Mortymer erle of March and wolster by whome he had yssue Isabell whyche after was maryed vnto the lorde Boucher erle of Essex Rycharde whyche after was duke of yorke father to kynge Edward y e iiii To whome also wasasseÌ„tyng syr Rycharde Scrop than treasourer of Englande and syr Thomas Graye knyght were there arrestyd for treason and areygned and so examyned vppon the same that the .xxix. day of Iuly folowynge they were all thre behedyd After whyche execucyon so done the kynge vpon the morowe or shortely after wyth hys lordes toke shyppynge there landed at a place called Kydcaus in Normandy And the .xvi. daye of Auguste he sayde syege vnto the towne of Harflew assayled them by land and by water and contynued so hys syege vnto the xxii daye of September At whyche daye as sayth the French Gaguinê° it was delyuered by Albert thaÌ„ there capytayne vppon condycyon that kynge Henry myghte sauely wynne or passe to Calayes and so he beyng there the towne to be yolden vnto hym But the Frenche wryter Gaguinus vpholdeth the honour of the Frenchemen in all that he maye and boroweth of hys conscyence for sparynge the trouth in reporte of many thynges For after moste wryters y e sayde towne after sondry appoyntementes of rescouse was delyuered vnto the kynge wythout any condycyon the daye aboue sayde where after the kynge had ordeyned syr Thomas Beauforde hys vncle and erle of Dorser capytayne of that towne he spedde hym towarde Calays Than the dolphyn with other lordes of Fraunce whyche at that tyme hadde the realme of Fraunce in gouernaunce for so moche as the Frenche kynge was vysyted wyth suche malady as before I haue shewed brake the brydge to let y e kynge of his passage ouer y e water of Sum. wherfore he was coÌ„strayned to draw towarde Pycardy so passe by y e ryuer of PeronÌ„ wherfore the FreÌ„chmeÌ„ beynge ware assembled and lodged theÌ„ at certayne townes named Agyncourt Rolandcourt and Blangy wyth all the power of Fraunce And whan kyng Henry sawe that he was so besette wyth hys enemies he in the name of god saynt George pyght hys felde in a playne betwene the sayd townes of Agyncourte and BlaÌ„gy hauyng in hys companye of hoole men that myght fyght nat passyng the nombre of .vii. M. But at those dayes the yomen hadde theyr Lymmes at lybertye for theyr hosyn were than fastened wyth one poynt and theyr iackes were loÌ„ge easy to shote in so that they myghte drawe bowes of great strength shote arowes of a yerde longe besyde the hedde Than the kyng consyderynge the great nombre of hys enemyes that the acte of FrenchmeÌ„ standeth moch in ouer rydyng of theyr aduersaryes by force of speremeÌ„ he therfore charged euery boweman to ordeyne hym a sharpe stake to pytche it a slope before hym and whaÌ„ y e sperys came somdeale to drawe bak so to shote at the horsemen And at the proper requeste of the duke of yorke he ordeyned hym to haue y e vawewarde of y e felde And whaÌ„ kyng HeÌ„ry had thus prouydently ordered for hys batayll ouer night vpon the morowe beyng the .xxv. daye of Octobre and y e daye of the holy martyrs Cryspyne Cryspinian the kyng caused dyuers masses to be songen And where that nyghte before the Englysshe hoste was occupyed in prayer and confessyon he thanne caused the bysshoppes and other spyrytuall men to gyue vnto theym generall absolucyon And that done wyth a comfortable chere ordered hys people as they shuld fyght hauyng vnto theÌ„ good comfortable wordes so abode y e commynge of theyr enemyes whych of dyuers wryters were and are remembred to be about .xl. thousande fyghtynge men The whyche aboute .ix. of y e cloke in the mornynge wyth greate pryde set vppon the Englysshe hoste thynkynge to haue ouer ryden them shortely But the archers lyke as before they were taught pyght theyr sharpe stakes before them And whan they sawe the French galantes approche they a lytell yode backe receyued them as here after ensueth The batayll of Agyncourt THat is to meane they shotte at theym so feruently y t what wyth the shotte and goryng of theyr horses wyth the sharpe stakes they tumbeled one vpon an other so that he or they which ranne formest were the confusyon of hym or them that folowed so y t in a shorte
that tyme. Anno domini M.iiii C.lxvi  Anno domini M.iiii C.lxvii  Iohn̄ Browne  Syr Iohn̄ yonge Grocer Henry Bryce Anno .vi.  Iohn̄ Stokton  IN thys yere and moneth of dyed the forenamed Hēry Bryce and for hym was chosen immedyatly a sheryfe for thys yere Iohn̄ Stokton And in the moneth of Iuny folowynge were certayne actes and feates of warre doone in Smythfeld betwene syr Antony wy deuyle called lorde Scalys vpō that one partye and the bastarde of Burgoyne chalengour on that one partye Of whych the lord Scalys wan the honour for the sayd bastard was at the fyrste course rennynge wyth a sharpe sperys ouerthrowen horse man whyche was by the rage of the horse of the sayd bastarde and nat by violence of the strokē of hys enemy by a pyke of iron standyng vppon foreparte of the sadell of y e lord Scalys wherwyth the horse beyng blynd of the bastarde was stryken into the nose thrylles and for payne thereof mounted so hyghe vpon the hynder fete that he fyll bakwarde Upon the seconde daye they met there agayne vpon fote and faughte wyth theyr axes a fewe strokes But whan the kynge sawe that the lorde Scalys had auauntage of the bastarde as y e poynt of hys axe in the vysour of his enemyes helmet and by force therof was lykely to haue borne hym ouer the kyng in hast cryed to such as had the rule of the felde that they shulde departe them and for more spede of the same caste downe a warderer whych he than helde in hys hande so were they departed to the honour of the lorde Scalys for bothe dayes Upon the morow folowynge the other dayes were certayne actes of warre done betwene dyuers gentylmen of thys lande and certayne of the sayd bastardes seruauntes Of the whyche also the Englyshmen wan the honour In thys yere also one named Iohn̄ Derby alderman for so moche as he refused to cary or to paye for the caryage awaye of a dede dogge lyenge at hys dore for vnsittynge langage whyche he gaue vnto the mayre he was by a court of aldermen demed to a fyne of .l. poūde whyche he payde euery peny Anno dn̄i M.iiii C.lxvii  Anno dn̄i M.iiii C.lxviii  Humfrey Heyforde  Thomas Owlegraue  Anno .vii.  Thomas Stalbroke  IN thys yere of the mayre and in the begynnynge of the .viii. yere of thys kyng Edwarde that is to meane vpon saterday next ensuīg the feest of corpus christi dame Margarete syster vnto the kyng rode thorugh London towarde the sees syde to passe into Flaunders there to be maryed to Charlys duke of Burgoyne before named in the story of y ◠xi Lowys kyng of Fraūce After whose departure syr Thomas Cook late mayre which before was peched of treason by a seruaūt of the lordes wenlokkes called Hawkyns and at the request of the sayd lady Margarete vppon suertie suffered to go at large than was arrested sent vnto the towre his goodes seased by the lorde Ryuerse than tresourer of Englande and hys wyfe put oute of hys house and cōmytted to the charge of the mayer in whose place she laye a season after And after the sayde syr Thomas had lyen a tyme in y e towre he was brought vnto the Guyldhal and there areygned of the sayde treason and quyt by sondry enquestes after that commytted vnto the countour in Bradstrete and frome thens to the kynges bēche in Southwark where he laye wythin the sayd prysō tyll hys freendes agreed wyth syr Iohn̄ Brandon than kepar of y e sayd prysō to take hym home to hys place where to hys great charge he remayned as prysoner longe after In whych tyme and season he lost moch good for bothe hys places in the countre and also in London were vnder the gydynge of the sayde lordes Ryuers seruauntes and of the seruauntes of syr Iohn̄ Fogge than vndertresourer the whych spoyled dystroyed moche thynge And ouer that moche of hys iewelles and plate wyth great substaunce of the marchaundyse as cloth of sylkes and clothes of aras were dyscouered by suche persones as he hadde betaken the sayd goodes to kepe came to y e treasourers handes which to the sayd syr Thomas was a great enemye And fynally after many persecucyons and losses was compelled as for a fyne sette vppon hym for offence of mysprysyon to paye vnto the kynge .viii. thousand poūd And after he hadde thus agreed and was at large for the kynges interest he was thanne in newe trouble agayne the quene The whyche demaunded of hym as hys ryght for euery thousande .li. payde vnto the kyng by way of fyne an hundreth marke For the whiche he had after longe sute and greate charge and in conclusion was fayne to agre and to gyue to her a greate pleasure besyde many good gyftes that he gaue vnto her counsayll Anno dn̄i M.iiii C.lxviii  Anno dn̄i M.iiii C.lxix  Symonde Smyth  wyllyam Taylour Grocer  Anno .viii.  wyllyam Haryot  THys yere and .xxi. day of Nouēbre a seruaunt of the dukes of Exceter named Rychard Sterys after hys iugement was drawen thorugh the citie vnto the towre hyl and there parted in two pesys that is the hede from the body And vpon the daye folowynge two persones beyng named the one Poynys that other Alforde were drawē west ward to tyborne and there whā they shuld haue ben hanged there chartours were shewed and so preserued And about thys season or soon after was the erle of Oxenford which before tyme was taken by a surmyse in ielosy of treason awayted for and after deliuered In the latter ende of this mayres yere .ix. yere of y e king the marchauntes eesterlynges were condempned vnto the marchauntes auenturers Englyssh after longe sumptuous exspences in the lawe before the kynges counsayll in .xiii. M.v. C. and .xx. li. whereof the payment was kept secret frome wryters In thys yere the dyssymuled fauoure whiche betwene the kyng and the erle of warwyke had styll contynued syne the maryage of the quene beganne to appere in so moche that the erle wythdrewe hym frome the kynge and confedered vnto hym the duke of Clarence that before hadde maryed hys doughter whereupon the commons of the north beganne to rebell and chase theym a capytayne whome they had named Robyn of Ryddysdale The whyche dyd many feates and lastly bare hym so wysely that he hys cōpany were pardoned of the kyng In the which rumour and styrryng the lord Ryuers and syr Iohn̄ hys sonn̄ that before had maryed the old duchesse of Northfolke lyenge at a place by Charynge crosse called the Muys were taken by Lyncoln̄shyre men and brought vnto Northamtō and there beheded Anno domini M.iiii C.lxix  Anno domini M.iiii C.lxx.  Rycharde Gardyner  Rycharde Lee Grocer  Anno .ix.  Robert Drope  THys yere soone after Alhalowen tyde proclamaciōs were made
Scotland for terme of both kynges lyues And in December a carpenter called Godfrey toke downe the wedercok of Poulys slyple set it vp agayne And this yere in Crystmas weke was a part of the kinges palayes of RychemouÌ„t brent And this yere vppon the .ix. daye of Iuny the forenamed Parkin beyng at large in the kynges court went secretely awaye and lastly went to the fader of Syon And after the second pardon to hym by the kynge graunted he was shewed at westmynster in Chepys syde with moch wonderment and fynally had to the Towre and there keped Anno dnÌ„i M.iiii C.xcviii  Anno dnÌ„i M.iiii C.xcix  Thomas Bradbery  Syr IonÌ„ Percyuale  Anno .xiiii.  Stephyn Ienyns  IN thys yere vpoÌ„ the .xxx. daye of Octobre came my lord price through y e cytye wyth an honorabell coÌ„pany toward westmynster And vppon shroue tuysdaye was put in execucioÌ„ at saynt Thomas warrynge a strepelyng of .xx. yeres of age whych had auauÌ„ced hym selfe to be the sonnÌ„ or heyre to the erle of warwykes landes was the sonne of a cordyner of LondoÌ„ And thys yere mayster IohnÌ„ Tate aldermaÌ„ begaÌ„ y e new edefyinge of saynt Anthonies church And this yere vpoÌ„ the .xvi. day of Iuly beynge sonday vpoÌ„ the sonday folowyng stode .xii. heretykes at Poules crosse shryned wyth fagottes Anno dnÌ„i M.iiii C.xcix  Anno dnÌ„i M.v. C.  Iamys wylforde  Nycholas Alwyn  Anno .xv.  Rychard Brond  IN this yere the .xvi. day of NoueÌ„ber was areyned in y e whyte halle at westmynster the forenamed Parkyn .iii. other The whych Parkyn and one IohnÌ„ Awatyr were put shortly after in execucioÌ„ at Tyborne And soone after was the erle of warwyke put to deth at the towre hylle one Blewet Astwood at Tyborne And thys yere in May the kyng the quene sayled to Calays And thys yere was BabraÌ„ in Northfolke breÌ„t And in Iuly was an olde heretyke breÌ„t in Smythfelde And thys yere was a great deth in LondoÌ„ whereof died ouer xx M. of all ages And this yere dyed doctour MortoÌ„ cardynall and chaunceler of Englande in the moneth of October Anno. dnÌ„i M.v. C.  Anno dnÌ„i M.v. C.i.  IohnÌ„ Hawys  wyllyam Remyngton  Anno .xvi.  wyllyam Stede  IN this yere the .xxi. daye of DeceÌ„ber in the nyght was an hydyous thuÌ„der And this yere was the name of the kyngê palays of Shene chauÌ„ged called after y e day RychemouÌ„t And this yere in August departed secretly out of this laÌ„de the duke of Suffolke And the .iiii. daye of October laÌ„ded at Plymmowth KaterynÌ„ doughter of y e kyng of Spayn And thys yere was fynysshed by mayster Tate the church of saynt Anthony Anno domini M.v. C.i.  Anno domini M.v. C.ii.  Syr Laurence Aylemer  Syr IohnÌ„ Shaa  Anno .xvii.  Henry Hede.  IN this yere began the mayre hys bretherne to ryde to the barge other places UpoÌ„ sait ErkeÌ„waldes day was my lord prince maryed to the kyng of Spaynes doughter And this season the duke of Bukkyngham wyth other was chief chaleÌ„geour at a royall iustyce turney holdeÌ„ in the palays of westmynster And thys yere came a greate ambassade out of ScotlaÌ„d by reason wherof coÌ„clusion of maryage was made betwene the king of Scottes dame Margarete eldest doughter to oure soueraygne lord Also thys yere was an excedyng great fysshe taken nere vnto Quynbourgh And in Marche syr wyllyam of Deuynshyre syr Iamys Tyrell his eldest sonÌ„ one named welborne were arested for treason And in Apryll â—olowyng dyed y e noble prynce Arthur in the towne of Ludlow And upoÌ„ y e last day of April were set vpoÌ„ y e pyllory .ii. yoÌ„gmen for defamyng of y e kynges couÌ„sayll and there erys cut of Also aboute thys tyme y t gray fryers were coÌ„pelled to take theyr old habit russet as y e shepe doth dye it And the .vi. day of Maye Iamys Tyrell syr IohnÌ„ wyndhmÌ„ knyght were beheded at y e towre hyl And a shypmaÌ„ for the same treason was the same day draweÌ„ to tyborne there haÌ„ged quartered And soone after a purseuauÌ„t named Curson a yoman called Mathew Ionys were put in execucioÌ„ at Guynys all was for aydyng of syr EdmoÌ„d De la pool Also thys yere about mydsomer was takeÌ„ a felowe whych hadde renewed many of RobiÌ„ hodes pageÌ„tes which named him selfe Greneleef And this yere begaÌ„ the new werke of y e houses offyce wythin the Guyldhall of London And in the ende of October was proclaymed a peas betwene the king the archeduke of Burgoyne And y e sonday before saint SymoÌ„d Iude was shewed a bull by vertue wherof were denouÌ„ced at Poules crosse as accursed syr EdmoÌ„d de la pool late duke of Suffolke syr Roberte Curson knyght .v. other persones And all such as ayded any of theÌ„ agaiÌ„ y e king Anno domini M.v. C.ii.  Anno domini M.v. C.iii. Goldsmyth Henry Kebyll  Bartholmew Rede  Anno .xviii.  Nycholas Nynys  IN this yere begaÌ„ the new werk of the kynges chapell at westmynster And vpoÌ„ the .xi. daye of February dyed quene Elizabeth within the towre lieng in chyldbed And vpoÌ„ the fyrst sonday of leÌ„t was solemply accursed at Poules crosse wyth bel candell syr EdmoÌ„d de la pool syr Robert Curson other all y t the ayded agayn the kyng And in th eÌ„de of the moneth of marche was y e pryour of y e Charterhous at Shene sinfully murdered wyth an other muÌ„k of the same house by synyster meanes of a munk of the same place named Good wyne other mischeuous ê‘sones And this yere the felisshyp of tayllours of LoÌ„don purchased a grauÌ„t of the king to be called marchauÌ„t tayllours And y e viii day of August was the kynge of Scottes maried vnto y e eldest doughter of y e kyng Also in Iuly were areyned at the Guyldhall Olyuer saynte IohnÌ„ Robert Simpson wellysâ—orfi before named Pool bayly of Thorok amp .iiii. other all beyng cast for treason whereof the sayde Olyuer and Pool wyth hyppemen were putte in execucion at Tyborne and the other were pardoned Anno. dnÌ„i M.v. C.iii.  Anno dnÌ„i M.v. C.iiii. Draper Chrystoffer Hawys  Syr wyllyam Capell Robert wattes Anno .xix.  Thomas Granger  IN thys yere the .xiii. day of NoueÌ„ber in the palays of y e archebysshop of CauÌ„terbury at LaÌ„behyth was holdeÌ„ the sergeauÌ„tes feest And the .xxi. day of NoueÌ„ber in the begynnyng of y e nyght was a dredeful fyre vpoÌ„ the north ende of LondoÌ„ brydge And vppoÌ„ the .vii. daye of Ianuary were certeyne houses coÌ„sumed wyth fyre agayn saynt Botulphis churche in Thamys strete UpoÌ„ the .xxv. daye of Ianuary begaÌ„ a parliameÌ„t at westmynster And y e .xxvii. day of March was an house breÌ„t agayn saynt Mattyus le grauÌ„t And the same day was hurt
in hys .xx. yere reygned after .xv. yeres they haue accoūted the .xv. yere whyche he reygned as crysten kynge and haue lette passe the other .xx. yere And so is it to be thought that the forsayd auctour Peter pictauiens dyd whych reason beynge alowed the sayde table maye agre wyth the sayd Peter wythoute any greate dyfference whyche testyfyeth y e sayd Lucius to reygne .lxxvii yere as kynge After whose deth in so moche that he dyed wythout any lawfull heyre a great contēcion sprange amonge the Brytons that endured by .xv. yeres as shall apere by the sequel Trouth it is after all histories that Seuerus a Romayne succeded Lucius in Brytayne But because y e tyme is nat certaynly sette whan the sayd Seuerus subdued the Brytōs therfore it is to noted that whanne it was shewed to the Romaynes of the sedicion and discorde of the Brytōs of the sleyng of the Romayns than beyng in Brytayn the senate sentte thyder the forsayd Seuerus wyth .ii legions of men whych bare thē selfe so manfully that in shorte whyle he compelled the Brytons to obey to the senate whyche Policronicon affermeth to be about the yere of our lord C.xcv. In whyche yere as hath Iacobus Philippus the sayde Seuerus began to raygne ouer the Romayns But that dysagreeth from other Cronycles For Eutropius Matheolus the forsayde Iacobus Philippus sayth that whan the sayde Seuerus had subdued the Arabyes Parthys and Gallys after many battayls he came into Brytayn where he beynge troubled wyth dyuers chaunces at laste died in y e towne of yorke where by it is to be supposed that in y e ende of hys reygn he came hether about the .xii. yere of hys reygne ouer the Romayns which was the yere of our lorde .ii. C.vii. and that after he reygned ouer the Brytons .v. yere wherefore it euydētly apereth that the forsayd dyscord dured .xv. yeres whych tyme Brytayne was wythoute a kynge Thus endeth the thyrde parte which conteyneth CC.lvi yeres SEuerus emperour of Rome as before is shewed in the .xii. yere of hys empyre and yere of oure lord .ii. C. .vii beganne hys reygne ouer the Brytōs and yere of y e world and reygned as kynge yeres .v. The fyrst persecucyon of the chrysten men was vnder this Seuerus about the yere of our lord .ii. C.x ca. lxi fo xxii Bassianus the sonn̄ of Seuerus began hys reygne ouer the Brytons in the yere of our lorde .ii. C.xii the yere of the worlde and reygned yeres .vi. ca. lxii folio xxii Carassius a yonge and lusty Brytayne of vnknowē blode by meanes as in hys story sheweth began hys domynyon ouer the Brytons in the yere of our lorde .ii. C. and .xviii. and yere of the worlde ruled yeres .viii. ca. lxiii fo xxiii Here agayn authours forget y e yeres of the kynges folowyng Of whyche I nat greatly maruyll For in thys tyme muche discencyon was among the Romayne prynces also amonge the Brytons cyuyll warre ceased nat For they were so styrred wyth dyscencyon and warre y t none coulde occupy the kyngedome any determynate tyme. For whyche cause and suche lyke authours coude nat assyne any certeyne tyme to the prynces as me semeth But that we maye come to some knowlege Policronicon sheweth that constantius y t was father to Constantine the great was sente by the senate into Brytayne about the yere of our lord .ii. C.lxxix and in the seconde yere of Probrus emperour that he shuld subdue to y e Romayns Coelus than there kyng From the whych tyme of the coming of the sayde Constantius vntyll the last yere of Bassianus accountynge bakwarde there passed .lxi. yeres In the tyme of whych yeres there reygned in thys Ilelande these .iiii. kynges that is to say Carassius Alectus Asclepiodotus and Coelus Allectus a duke or senatour of Rome began hys domynyon ouer the Brytons in the yere of oure lorde .ii. C.xxvi of the worlde reygned yeres .vi. ca. lxiiii fo xxiii Asclepeodotus or after the Englysshe boke Asclepades began hys reygne ouer the Brytons in the yere of our lorde god CC.xxxii And the yere of the worlde and reygned yeres .xxx. The syxt persecucyon of crysten men was about the yere of our lorde CC.xxxviii vnder Maximian The .vii. persecucyon was in y e yere of oure lorde CC.lv. vnder Decius In y e whych pope Fabyan was martyred The .viii. persecucion was in the yere of our lord CC.lx. vnder Ualeryan whych was the .xviii. yere of thys Asclepiodotus ca. lxv folio xxiiiii Coelus or Coyll erle of Colchester by exytyng of the Brytōs was made kyng of Brytayne in the yere of oure lord CC.lxii reygned yeres .xxvii. Thys kyng after most wryters made the towne of Colchester in Essex ca. lxvi fo xxiiii Constancius a senatoure of Rome by reason of maryage knyt wyth Eleyn doughter of Coelus beganne to reygne as kyng of Brytayne in y e yere of our lord CC.lxxxix and of y e worlde and reygned yeres xxx The .ix. persecucyon of the crystēmen was vnder Aurelianus Saint Albon prothomartyr in the tyme of thys Constancius as some haue in y e x. persecucyō whych was vnder Dioclesian and Maximian was martyred ca. lxvii fo xxiiii Constancius surnamed the great sonn̄ of Constancius and of the holy Heleyne began his reygne ouer Brytayne in the yere of oure lorde .iii. C.xix and of the worlde and reygned as kyng yeres .x. ca. lxviii folio xxv Octauius duke of Iesses or Iewesses and after named westsaxōs by extorte power began hys reygne ouer the Brytons in the yere of oure lorde .iii. C. .xxix. and of the worlde and reygned yeres .liiii ca. lxxi fo xxvii Of thys kynge folowynge called Maximius or after some Maximianus wryters dyuersly speke so that some say he raygned few yeres But in the concordaunce of cronycles it playnly apereth that the sayd Maximis began to reygn ouer the Brytōs in the yere of our lord .iii. C.lxxxii that he was slayn of Theodosius the elder in the thyrd yere of his reygne whych began to reygne in the yere of our lord .iii. C.lxxxviii And so it appereth playnly that he reygned ix yeres Maximius or Maximianus the son̄ of Leonyne brother to Trahern̄ vncle to Helcyne began hys reygne ouer Brytayn in the yere of our lord iii. C.lxxxii and reygned yeres .ix ca. lxxii fo xxvii Saynt Ursula wyth her felowes in thys kynges tyme were martyred of Enanus and Melga Gracianus an offycer or feede knyght of Maximius began to oppresse the Brytons in the yere of our lorde .iii. C.xc and tyrannysed yeres iiii ca. lxxiiii fo xxviii The storyes agre that after that Gracian was slayne Brytayne was vexed a longe whyle wyth oftē dyscēsions cyuyll warre But how longe thys dyscord dyd last authours trete diuersly for some say it lasted .l. yere some .xl. some .xxx. Therfore to know y e certeynty it is requisite that we dylygently serche howe many yeres passed frō the
Gaufryde and beraft hym the gouernaunce of the land vppon certayne coÌ„dycyons to be contynued for terme of lyfe the whyche in processe of tyme more and more were minyshyd as well by Maglaunus as by HeÌ„ninus husbaÌ„des of the forenamed Gonorild Ragan But moste dyspleased Leyr the vnkyndnesse of his two doughters consyderynge theyr wordes to hym before spoken and sworne and now founde prouyd them all contrarye For the whyche he beyng of necessyte constrayned fledde his lande sayled into Gallia for to be comforted of his doughter Cordeilla wherof she hauyng knowlege of naturall kyndnesse coÌ„forted hiÌ„ after shewynge all the maner to her husbande by his agrement receyuyd hym his to her lordes courte where he was cherished after her beste maner Longe yt were to shew vnto you y e circumstaunce of y e vtterans of the vnkyndnesse of his two doughters and of the wordes of comfort gyuen to hym by Aganippus and Cordeilla or of the couÌ„saile and purueyauÌ„ce made by the sayde Aganippus his lordes for restorynge of Leyr agayn to his dominyoÌ„ But fynally he was by the helpe of the sayde Aganippus restored agayne to his lordshyp and so possessed lyued as ruler gouernour therof by the space of .iii. yeres after In whych season dyed Aganippus And when this Leyr had ruled this lande by the terme of .xl. yeres as affermeth dyuerse cronycles he dyed and was buryed at his towne of Caerleir or Leycestre leuynge after hym for to inheryte the lande his doughter Cordeilla THE XVI CHAPITER COrdeilla the yongeste doughter of Leyr was by assente of the Brytons made lady of Brytayn in the yere of y e world .iiii. thousande iii. hundred lxxxxviii the whyche guyded the lande full wysely by the tyme or space of .v. yeres complete The whyche tyme expyred and roÌ„ne her .ii. neuewes called Margan and Cunedagiê° sonnes of her .ii. susters came vpon her land and made therin great waste and destruccyon and at the laste toke her and cast her into a stronge pryson where she beynge dyspayred of y e recouery of her estate as testyfyeth Gaufryde slewe her selfe whenne she hadde reygned as before is declared by the terme of fyue yeres THE XVII CHAPITER CUnedagius and Marganus neuewes as before is sayde of Cordeilla departyd this lande of Brytayne betwene them in the yere of the worlde .iiii. thousand .iiii. hundred and .iii. That is to wyt the couÌ„trey ouer and beyond Humber fyll to Margan towarde Catenessey and the other parte of the lande towarde weste as reherseth Gaufride fyll to Cunedagius After two yeres were ronne ended some euyll dysposyd came vnto Margan and sayde that to hym yt was great reproche and dyshonour consyderynge that he was comen of Gonorilla the elder suster of Maglaunus her husbande Cunedag was descended of Ragan the yonger and Hemnius her husbande that he had not y e rule of all y e land to which sedycyous ê‘sons Margan gyuynge credence was supprysed with pryde and couetyse and anon by theyr couÌ„sayle assembled a great hoste made warre vpon his sayde brother brennynge and destroyeng his land with out mercy wherof Cunedag beynge ware in all hast gaderyd his people after certayne message sent to hym of the reconcylyacyon seynge there was no peace to be made but by the iudgement of batayll he mette wyth his brother in playne felde where y e goddes were to hym so fauourable that he slewe myche of the people of his brother and coÌ„pellyd hym to fle After whyche vyctory thus had he pursued Margan from couÌ„tre to couÌ„tre tyll he came wythin the countre or prouynce of Cambria or walys in the whyche couÌ„tre the sayde Margan gaue one other batayll vnto his brother Cunedag but for he was farre the weker he there was ouercomen and slayne in the felde whyche felde or couÌ„tre where the sayd Margan fought was slayne is to thys daye called Glaumargan whych is to meane in our vulgare tung Margan lande And thus was Margan slayne whan he hadde regned wyth his brother two yeres THE XVIII CHAPITER CUnedagius before named the sonne of Hemnius and Ragan yoÌ„ger doughter or myddell doughter of Leyr was made ruler and lorde of all Brytayne in the yere of the worlde .iiii. thousande .iiii. hundred .v. Of the whyche is nothyng worthy memorye lefte in wrytyng but that he guyded y e lande after the deth of his brother well and honorably by the terme of .xxxiii. yeres After which terme ended he dyed and was buryed at Troynouant or London leuynge for his heyre a sonne as testyfyeth Gaufryde named Riuallo or Rinallo or after some wryters Reyngnolde THE XIX CHAPITER BIuallus the sonne of Cunedagius was made gouernoure of the Brytons in the yere of the world .iiii. thousand .iiii. hundred and .xxxviii the whyche of wryters is called fortunat and restfull This Riuallus ruled y e BrytoÌ„s with great sobernesse kepte the lande in great welthe and prosperyte all be yt that of hym is lefte no specyall memorye of acte done in his tyme except myn authour sayth that in y e tyme of his reygne yt reyned blood by the space of .iii. days contynually wythin the lande of Brytayne After the whych reyne ensued so great excedynge noÌ„ber of multitude of flyes the which were to the people so noyous and coÌ„tagyous that they slewe myche people And after that as sayth an olde authour whose name is vnknoweÌ„ ensued great sykenesse and mortallytie to the great desolacyon of thys sayde lande Then yt foloweth in the story wheÌ„ this Riuallus hadde reygned after moste coÌ„cordaunce of writers by the terme of .xlvi. yeres he dyed was buryed as testyfyeth the sayde olde authour at Caerbrank or yorke leuynge after hym a sonne as wytnessyth Gaufride named Gurgustius In the tyme of the reygne of thys kynge after moste concorde of wryters y e famous cytye of Rome shuld be buylded as is shewed more playnly in the treatyse in the begynnyng of this warke THE XX. CHAPITER GUrgustius the sonne of y e fore named Riuallus was made ruler of Brytayne in the yere of the worlde .iiii. thousane .iiii. hundred lxxxiii This in y e cronicle of EnglaÌ„d is named Gorbodiam sonne of Reygnold Of the which is lytell memory made other of his regne or of his dedes by any authours or wryters of y e hystorye of Brytayne excepte the aboue named olde authoure and the authoure called the floure of hystoryes wytnessyth that he reygned xxxviii yeres leuynge after hym none heyre of his bodye begotten and lastely dyed and was buryed by his fader at Caerbrank or yorke Rome as aboue ys towched was fyrst buylded edyfyed in the tyme of Riuallus and after moste writers In the yere of the worlde .iiii. thousande .iiii. hundred .lxx after the buyldyng of TroynouaÌ„t or London .iiii. huÌ„dred .vii. yeres whych folowyng that accompte shulde be in the .xxxii. yere of the forsayde Riuallus THE XXI CHAPITER SIsillius or after
and retourned vnto Rome where after he had a season restyd he was by the senate of Rome assygned for his sternesse vnto the rule of Brytayne wyth the ayde of .iii. legyoÌ„s of knyghtes And so beynge garnyshed wyth all abyly mentes of warre entred this yle of Brytayne and wyth great trauayle subdued them to the empyre and so contynued the lyues tyme of the emperour Bassianus But so sone as he was assertayned that y e emperour was slayne at Edessa as before in the story of Bassianê° is shewed thynkynge that amonge the Romaynes shuld growe stryfe dyssencyon for the electyon of a new emperour by reason of whych stryfe he myght the rather lyue so farre froÌ„ them wythout any correctyon confederyd wyth the Scottes and certayne other of the Britons and slew many of the Romaynes suche of theÌ„ as he thought wolde not consent to his treason and by that meane fynally was made kynge of Brytayne And so contynued as affermeth the sayde authour to accompte from his fyrst hauyng rule vnder the Romaynes vnto the tyme y t he was slayne of Alectus .viii. yeres not wythout exercysynge of his olde accustomed tyrannyes and other vnsyttynge condycyons THE LXIIII. CHAPITER ALectus a duke or consull of Rome sent as before is sayd from the senate begaÌ„ne to rule the Brytons in the yere of our lorde .ii. hundred .xxvi. This in the englysh cronycle is named Allec whych wheÌ„ he had restoryd the lande to the subieccyon of Rome he theÌ„ pursued certayne of the BrytoÌ„s that had fauoured Carassiê° agayne the Romayns And in that doynge vsed and exercysyd many tyrannyes and exaccyons by reason wherof he fyll in greate grudge of y e Brytons wherfore they entendynge to oppresse and subdue the power of the Romaynes purchasyd and excyted a noble man of y e Britons called Asclepiodotus and duke of Cornewayle The whyche gatheryd a great hoste of the Brytons and made warre vppon the Romaynes and chasyd them from couÌ„tre to couÌ„tre from towne to towne and lastly Alectus wyth his Romayns drew hym to London and there kept hym for his most suertye wherof beynge warned Asclepiodotus he with his Brytons came nere vnto the sayde cytye where by meanes of prouocacyon on eyther partye vsed lastely y e Romaynes issued oute of the cytye gaue batayll to the Brytons In the which fyght many fyll on eyther partye but y e more on the party of y e Romaynes amonge the whyche was also slayne Alectê° wherfore a captayn of the Romaynes called Liuius Gallus aduertysynge this myschyef the great dauÌ„ger that the Romayns were in drewe backe into the cytye with the Romaynes that were lefte on lyue and defendyd yt wyth theyr powers Thus then appereth that Alectus was slayne of the Brytons whyche was by most accorde of writers wheÌ„ he had ruled this lande vnder y e Romaynes by the terme of .vi. yere THE LXV CHAPITER ASclepiodotus duke of Cornewayle as sayth Gaufryde but after the sayeng of Eutropius and Beda he was presydente of the Pretory of Rome began his domynyon ouer the Brytons in the yere of our lorde two hundred and .xxxii. The whych as before is sayde wyth his Brytons gyrt the cytye of London wyth a stronge syege and kepte the forsayde Liuius Gallus and his Romayns in streyte holde finally as affermyth myne authour Gaufride with knyghtly force violeÌ„ce entred the sayde cytye and slewe y e forenamyd Liuius Gallus nere vnto a broke there at that daye rynnynge and hym threwe into the sayd broke By reason wherof long after yt was called Gallus or wallus broke And at this day y e strete where some tyme ranne the sayde broke is nowe called walbroke And after he hadde thus venquyshed the Romayns he helde this lande a certayn of tyme in peasyble wyse and ruled the BrytoÌ„s wyth good iustyce in rewardynge exaltynge the good men and punysshynge of the euyll In this whyle by styrynge of dysclaunderous dyuylyshe persons a grudge was arreryd attwene the kynge and a duke of his land called Coill or Coillus the whyche was duke or erle of Kaercolym or Colchester wherof the cause is not apparaunt But how it was great people were assembled on both parties and fynally mette in the feld where was faughteÌ„ a great and stronge batayll In the whyche Asclepiodotus was slayne when he had reygned to the concordaunce of other histories and after the affermaunce of the olde cronycle by the space of .xxx. yeres THE LXVI CHAPITER COelus erle of Colchester began hys domynyon ouer the Brytons in the yere of the incarnacyon of Cryste .ii. houÌ„dred .lxii. This in the englyshe boke is called Coyll the whiche guyded the lande to the pleasure of the Brytons a certayne tyme. But as wytnesseth Gaufryde when the senate of Rome had vnder standynge of the deth of Asclepiodotus they were ioyous of the deth of hym for so myche as he hadde euer ben an enemye to y e empyre But for so mych as at that dayes was great dyssencyon amonge them selfe as wytnesseth y e cronycle of Rome they coude not conuenyently sende any armye of knyghtes for to warre vppon this Coelus wherfore he contynued y e longer in reste good peas After the cronycle regestred within the monastery of saynt Alboon the sayd holy martyr suffered his passyoÌ„ in the yere of our lorde .ii. houndred lxxx .vi whych shulde be the .xxiiii. yere of this present kynge But thys dyscordeth from suche wryters as affermen the holy man to be martyred in the .x. persecucyon vnder Dioclesian and Maximian emperours Neuerthelesse at length was sente from y e senate a noble wyse man called Constancius the whiche as affermeth the forenamed auctour had before tyme subdued to the empyre a great part of the couÌ„tre of Spayne But that sayenge dysagreeth to the wrytynge of Eutropius For the couÌ„tre of Spayne was not subdued by hym tyll after y t he was emperour Than it foloweth whan this Constancius was arryued in Brytayne with his army anone Coelus assembled his Brytons But for he dredyd the strength and fame of thys ConstaÌ„cius he sent to hym an enbassad affyrmynge vnto hym coÌ„dycyons of peace wyth graunte of paymentes of the trybute whych before was denyed or ellys as meaneth Polycroniâ—a wythin a moneth after the landynge of this Constancius Coelus was dede wherfore the Brytons to haue the more peace wyllyd this knyghte to take to wyfe Heleyn the doughter of Coelus wyth the possessyon of the lande of Britayne which by hym was graunted Then as before is sayde Coelus dyed when he had ruled the Brytons after most accorde of wryters .xxvii. yeres THE LXVII CHAPITER COnstancius a senatoure of Rome as sayth Policronica beganne to rule the Brytons in the yere of oure lorde two hundred .lxxx. and .ix. This as before is shewed maryed Heleyn the doughter of Coelus last kyng of Brytayne But ye shall vnderstande that this Constancius was fyrste maryed vnto Theodora
the stepdoughter of Herculeus Maximianê° and had by her syx sonnes So that this Heleyn was his secoÌ„de wyfe whyche was fayrest of all maydens and therewyth lerned and suffycyenly lettred She is also noted of many writers to be a captyue or a prysoner to the Romaynes Of this Constantius lytell memorye is lefte in the bretyshe or englishe cronycles excepte that he receyued of the foresayde Heleyn a sonne named Constantinus the whyche after for his knyghtly marcyall dedys was called Constantyne the great But for the noble dedys of so vyctoryous a duke shuld not be hydde as was this CoÌ„stantius therfore I shall now folowe the story of Rome whych sayth that for so myche as in the tyme of Dioclesianus and Maximianus beynge emperours many couÌ„tres rebellyd agayne the empyre therfore the sayde emperoures admyttyd this Constantius and one Galerius as cesars whych was a dignyte next of authoryte to the emperours And so y e empyre was at those dayes guyded by two emperours by two cesars This ConstaÌ„tius as wytnessyth Policronica made subiecte to the empyre the Almaynes slewe of theym in one daye .lx. thousande And after other many vyctoryous dedys when the sayde .ii. emperours had of theyr free wylles resygned and gyuen ouer all imperiall dygnyte thys sayde Constantius with his forenamed felowe Galeriê° were made emperours y t is to wytte Galerius was emperour of all Iliricum whyche now is named Grecia or Grece wyth all the eest laÌ„des and CoÌ„stantiê° hadde to hym all the west landes But he helde hym contente wyth Gallia or Fraunce Spayne with Britayn graunted Italia vnto Galerius afore sayd Then he subdued the countre of Spayne as before is touched in the storye of Coelus and a parte of Gallia and after soiourned and abode in this lande of Brytayne in guydynge rulynge the same wyth great sobernesse and ordeyned his sonne gotten vpon Helayne to rule Gallia and Spayne But for to make this story more apparant open to y e readers and also to y e herers it is here to be noted that Dioclesianus or Dioclesian beganne his empyre ouer the Romaynes after moste wryters in the yere of our lorde two hundred .lxxx. and .vii. and he was emperour .xx. yeres And this CoÌ„stantius was sent into Brytayne from the senate as before is sayde in the seconde yere of y e sayde Dioclesian or the yere of oure lorde two hundred .lxxx. and .ix. whyche Constancius after he had in due maner spedde the nedes of the empyre as in subduynge this land of Brytayne as before is sayde he retourned agayn to Rome where he was shortely after made cesar and so contynued his lyfe as before ys touchyd And in the tyme of his beyng thus cesar and ruleâ— of Brytayne vnder y e emperour the blessyd and holy prothomartyr of Brytayn saynt Alboon at Uerolan was martyred in the .x. persecucyon of the chyrche as wytnessyth Policronicon whyche persecucyon beganne as testyfye Eusebiê° and Beda the .xviii. yere of the forenamed emperours Dioclesian Maximyan and endured .x. yeres that is to say in y e eest vnder Dioclesian and in the weste vnder Maâ—â—â—yan The whyche was so sharpe and feruent that wythin y e space of one moneth in dyuers places of the worlde were .xvii. thousande holy men and women martyred for Crystes fayth And when the sayde emperours left or resygned theyr imperyall dygnytye and â—adde a pryuate lyfe this sayde Constancius wyth his felowe Galerius departyd the empyre betwene them as before is touched so that he reygned as ruler of Brytayn by the terme of .xvii. yeres and more or he were emperoure And after as emperour of the weste partye of the empyre â–ª and kynge of Brytayn .xii. yeres and more And so in all y e sayd CoÌ„stantius reygned ouer Brytayne xxx yeres And lastely dyed and was buryed at yorke leuyng after hym y e foresayd son called CoÌ„stantinê° without mo that any meÌ„cyon is made of THE LXVIII CHAPITER COnstantinus the sonne of CoÌ„stancius and of Heleyne doughter of kynge Coelus in the yere of our lord .iii. huÌ„dred .xix. was made kynge of Brytayne Antoninus archbyshop of Florence wryter of hystoryes sheweth in the fyrst chapiter of the .ix. tytle of his worke called Sâ—â— Antonini that this CoÌ„stantine was made emperour or beganne to rule the empyre in the yere of our lordes incarnacyon .iii. hundred and .ix. which sayeng also affermeth UynceÌ„t historyall and other authours wherof the cause is y t the sayde authours accoÌ„pt not the yeres of the reygne of Constancius but folow the accoÌ„pte of Galerius felowe of Constancius whych reygned as emperour but .iii. yeres After the which rule yt muste nedis folowe that this Constantyne began his empyre as the sayd Antoninus wytnessyth and folowynge y e other accompt yt shulde varye Then to pursue or contynue y e storye of this Constantyne yt foloweth y t at the tyme of the decease of Constancius his fader he was occupyed in warres in Gallia those ê‘ties After whose deth he by a certayn terme ruled Brytayne the other landes the whyche his fader before helde in due maner And all be yt y t at y e daye he was a mysereant pagan yet he vsed no tyrannyes nor compelled not the Brytons to refuse the lawe and to worshyppe idollys as other tyrauntes at those dayes vsed In this whyle that Constantyne ruled thus the weste parte of this empyre one Maxentius whych was the son of Herculeus Maximianê° somtyme felowe in the empyre with Dioclesian as before is shewed was of the knyghtes of the pretory declared emperour This Maxentius was there worste of all men And as testyfyeth Eusebius other he fyrst began mekely to wynne therby loue fauour But when he was stablysshed in authorite he exercysed all tyraÌ„ny pursued all crystyens wyth all kynde of torment Also he expulsed and putte out from Rome all honour hys fader Herculeê° Maximianê° y t enteÌ„dyd agayne to haue ben emperour Of y e tyranny of this MaxeÌ„tius when CoÌ„stantyne had wyttyng he assembled a great hoste of Brytons and Gallis for to oppresse the malyce of the sayde Maxentius And for to rule and guyde this laÌ„d of Brytane in his absence he deputed and ordeyned a maÌ„ of myght called Octauius the whych Polycronica nameth duke of Iewessis that after were named west Saxons And when the sayde Constantyne had all peparyd for his voyage he betoke the lande of Brytayne vnto the sayd Octauius and after spedde hym vppon his iourney And as he was towarde his sayde iourney he sawe in his slepe the sygne of the crosse shynynge in the fyrmament as yt hadde ben a brennyng lyght of fyre and an aungell standynge therby and sayenge Constantyne toicanata which is to meane Constantyne by this token thou shalte wynne vyctorye when he awoke he called this vysyon to mynde and tolde vnto his secretes by whose counsayll he commaunded the sygne of the crosse to
kynge thus beyng asserteyned of the maner of these strauÌ„gers and that they were of the gentyle of pagan law sayde he was very heuy sory that they were myscreantes But he was ioyous glad of theyr commynge for so myche as he had nede of suche sowdyours to defende hym and his lande agayne his enymyes And so receyued them to hys wages and seruyce as is wytnessed of Gaufryde and other mo wryters THE LXXXIII CHAPITER BEda the holy man sayth that Uortyger sent for the SaxoÌ„s stronge men of armes that hadde no lande to dwelle in The whych came in thre longe shyppes called Obylas and receyued a place of hym to dwell in in the Eest syde of Brytayne called the yle of Tenet besyde Kent Guillelmus de regibus a writer of hystoryes â—ayth that the Saxons came oute of Germany by wyll to wynne worshyppe lande and not by lotte or compulsyon And also that they worshypped at that dayes a god named woden and a goddesse named Frya In the worshyppe of the whyche god the thyrde feryall daye in the weke they named wodnesd aye whyche at this daye we call wednysdaye And in worshyppe of the sayde goddes they called the fyfth daye friys daye the whyche we call now frydaye Of these foresayde people came thre maner of people or thre maner of names that is to say SaxoÌ„s Anglys and Iewetes Of the Saxons came the eest Saxons westsaxons the south Saxons Of y e Anglys came the eest Anglys the myddell Anglâ—s or Merceys whyche helde myddell England that stretcheth westwarde toward the ryuer of Dee besyde Chestre and to SeuernÌ„ besyde Shroysbury and so forth to Brystowe and eestwarde toward the see and southwarde to Thamys and so forth to London and northwarde to Humber and tourned downewarde and westward to the ryuer Mercea and so forth to the weste see And of the Iewetys come the Kentyshmen men of the yle of weyght Of the fyrst coÌ„myng of these SaxoÌ„s into great Britayn authours in party varrey wherfore in the table before named it shall appere vnder correccyon that the forenamed Hengistus and Horsus wyth theyr company fyrst landed in the foresayde yle of great Brytayne in the yere of our lorde .iiii. hundred and .l the thyrd yere of Uortiger Then yt foloweth these Saxons wyth the kynges power bete downe the enymyes before sayde and defendyd the land in most knyghtly wyse so that the kyng hadde the Saxons in great loue and fauour whyche fauour Hengistus wel apperceyuyng vpon a season when he sawe conuenyent tyme he axed of the kynge so myche grounde as the hyde of a bull or other beste wolde compare which the kynge to hym graunted After whyche graunt the sayde Hengyste to the ende to winne a large grouÌ„de causyd the sayd bestes skyn to be cut into a small and slender thonge And with the same mette out a large and great circuyte of grounde vpon the whyche he shortly after buylded and sette a large and stronge castell By reason of whych thonge the sayd castell was loÌ„g afternamed Thonge castell whyche was sette by the agrement of all wryters in the countre of Lyndesey After thyse tydynges sprange into Germania of the plentye and fatnes of the lande of Brytayne wyth other commodytyes perteynyng to the same By meane wherof the Saxons dayely drewe to the sayde lande and conuenauÌ„ted with the Brytons that the Britons shuld entende theyr worldlynes and other necessaryes and y e Saxons as theyr sowdiours shulde defende the land from incursyon of all enymyes For the whych the Brytons shulde gyue to them competent mete and wages Then by the sonde of Hengiste came wyth .xvi. sayles Ronowen the doughter of the sayd Hengist which was a mayden of excelleÌ„t beaute After whose commyng Hengiste vpon a daye besought the kyng y t he wold se his castell whyche he had newely edyfyed To whose request the kyng was agreable at the day assygned came to y e sayd castell where he was ioyously receyued And there amoÌ„ge other passetymes the sayde RonoweÌ„ wyth a cuppe of golde full of wyne presentyd the kynge salutynge and sayeng wassayle The kynge whych before that tyme had herd no lyke salutacyon nor yet vnderstode what she ment axed of her fader what she mente by that worde wassayle To whom yt was answered by Hengistê° that yt was a salutacyon of good gladnesse and that the kynge shuld drynke after her ioynynge there vnto this answere drynke haylâ— wherfore the kyng as he was enfourmed toke the cuppe of the maydens hand and drank after beheld the weÌ„che in suche maner that he was wounded with the darte of the blynde god Cupide that neuer after he coude wythdrawe his loue from y e wenche but lastely by instygacyon of the deuyll axed her in maryage of her fader And by force therof as wytnessyth Policronica he put from hym his laufull wyfe of the whyche he had before tyme receyued .iii. noble sonnes called Uortimerus Caâ—agrinus and Pascentius Then the kyng gaue vnto Hengistus the lord shyppe of Kent though Garangonus then erle therof therat grudged wyth many of his Brytons For this and for that that y e kynge had maryed a woman of vncought beleue well nere all the Brytons forsoke hym and his workes Neuerthelesse some there were as well nobles other that coÌ„forted the kynge in his euyll doyng By whych meane and other vnlefull dedys then dayly vsyd the fayth of Cryste began sore to apalle And ouer that an heresye called Arianes heresy began then to sprynge in Brytayn For the which two holy byshoppes named Germanus and Lupus as of Gaufryde is wytnessyd came into Brytayne to refourme the kynge and all other y t erred from the waye of trouth Of this holy man saynt Germayn Uincent historyall sayth that vpon an euenynge when the weder was passynge cold and the snowe fyll very faste he axed lodgyng of the kyng of Brytayne for hym and his comperys whych was denyed Then he after syttyng vnder a bushe in the feld the kynges herdmen passyd by and seynge this byshop wyth his company sittyng in the weder desyred hym to his house to take there such poore lodgynge as he had â–ª wherof the bysshoppe beynge glad and fayne â—yode vnto the house of the sayd herdman the whyche receyued hym wyth glad chere And for hym and his company wysled his wyfe to kyll his onely calfe and to dresse yt for his gestes souper y e which was also done when the holy man had souped he called to hym his hostes wyllynge and desyrynge her that she shulde dylygently gader to gyder all the bones of the deed calfe and them so gaderyd to wrappe to gyder wythin the skynne of the sayde calfe then it lay in the stall before the racke nere vnto the dame whych done accordyng to the commaundement of the holy man I shortly after the calfe was restoryd to lyfe and forth wyth eâ—e haye wyth the dame at y e racke
was named or nowe is named Soisons whaÌ„ thys Gilf was stablyssed in his authoryte the forenamed Guynemeus behauyd hym in suche wyse towarde thys Gylf that he had hym in specyall fauour aboue all the nobles of Fraunce and wolde execute no thynge of charge wythout hys and counsayll wherof the sayd Guynemeus beynge ware and remembrynge how he myght restore Chylderych to his former dygnyte aduysed the sayde Gill to sette more greuous taskys vpon the Frenschmen enfourmynge hym further that yf any grudged there at that he shuld punyshe some of the myghtyeste of them by reason wherof he shulde fere the other whyche thus done accordynge to the forsayde counsayll shortely after to brynge his purpose the better about the sayde Guynemeus accused certayne rulers of Fraunce suche as he well knewe were great enymyes vnto Chylderych the whych he caused to be taken and sent vnto Gill Gill vpon them dyd sharpe execucyon In the whyche he so perseuered that the Frenschmen for remedy complayned theym to Guynemeus To whom it was by hym answered that he greatly meruayled of theyr vnstastablenesse that they hadde chosen to them a kynge and now so sodaynly wolde haue hym deposed shewynge furthermore that other they must cal agayn Childerich that exercysyd his lyfe in voluptuousnesse of lyuynge or ellys they muste dwell vnder the kynge whyche is cruell and full of blood shedynge wyth dyuerse other exhortacyons coÌ„cernynge the agayn callynge of Childerych to his fourmer dygnyte whyche for length I omytte and passe ouer By meane of whyche exhortacyon Childerich was secretly sent for and receyued from his trustye frende the foresayde pece of golde and spedde hym hastely into Fraunce Agayne whom the foresayde Guynemeus in lykewyse sped hym so that they met at a castell in the countre of Champion where they wyth other to them allyed gaderyd a great hoste and made towarde the foresayde Gill or Gillion The whych hauynge knowlege of the sayde conspyracye ordeyned an armye of knyghtes and yode agayne his enymyes But he was ouerset and compelled for his sauegarde to fle into the countre of Soisons beforenamed where he after endyd his naturall lyfe Childerych was agayne restoryd made kynge Childerych then thus restoryd vnto his regally subdued soone after a Saxon prynce named Onager besegyd the cytye of Orleaunce and yt receyued vnto his subieccyon and after passyd the ryuer of Leyr subdued to his sygnory the countre of Angeo and Mayne when the fame of Childerich was brought vnto Basyna the wyfe of Besygne kyng of Turryngê she anon forsoke her owne lorde and sped her into Fraunce and so to the presence of Childerich whom he receyued wyth all gladnes And when he had of her frayned the cause of her commynge she answeryd for that that she knewe and vnderstode to be in hym more vertue and honour theÌ„ in any other maÌ„ at y e day lyuyng she was therefore comyn vnto hym to contynue the remanaunt of her lyfe in his coÌ„pany addyng also therunto that yf in any countre she knew his better she wolde then serche see and lande to haue hym to her lord or husbande But for she was assured that he had no pere she besought hym to accepte her in his company THE LXXXVII CHAPITER THen Childerych puttynge a parte and forgettynge kyndenesse to hym before shewyd by her housbande Besynge maryed the sayde Basina yet beynge a pagan And when the fyrste nyght was comen that they shulde go to bedde she exorted hym y t he shulde y t nyght absteyn froÌ„ all fleshly lykyng watche the gates of his paleys and to make reporte to her of suche vysyons as he sawe there y t nyght To the which he was agreable where he so standynge sawe fyrst a multitude of vnycornes lyons and lybardes passyng foreby the paleys gate And wythin a shorte space of tyme after he sawe a great company of berys wolues reÌ„nyng after the other And thyrdly lastly he sawe a multytude of dogges other small rauenous bestes the whyche in hys syghte fyll vppon the other .ii. companyes and vtterly deuoured them all when he hadde sene the fyne of his vision not a lytell astonyed he returned to hys wyfe shewynge to her what he hadde sene To whom she sayd syr of me ye shal receyue a son the whyche in all hys dedes shall be noble and honourable lyke to y e vnycornes and lyons shewyd to you in y e fyrst vysyon Of the whyche shall discende one other sonne the whyche shall be rauenous and shall set hys mynde all to pyllage rauyne lyke vnto the rauenous wolfe and here And after hym shall come a chylde or chyldern that shall be of suche insolency and wastynge that lyke as the rauenous hounde stroyeth and wastyth all that he maye tere wyth hys teeth so shall these persons wast and destroye by theyr folyes all that other noble men hath purchased to theyr handes And the multytude whyche that ye sawe of other small rauenous bestes betokeneth the comon people whyche in those dayes for lacke of a good and wyse prynce shall renne eyther vppon other and robbe and sâ—e eche other Of thys exposycyon the kyng was somdele troubled But yet he reioysed of the issue that shuld come of his body Then it foloweth whan thys Chylderych hadde ouercomen some baytayles in Almayne and them subdued to hys empyre he lastly dyed when he had reygned wyth the .viii. yeres allowed to hys reygne for the tyme that he was exyled and wyth the resydue that he reygned before after in all .xxiiii. yeres leuyng after hym a sonne begotten vpon the forenamed Basina called Clodio or after moste wryters Clodoueus Anglia THE LXXXVIII CHAPITER UOrtimerus the eldest sonne of Uortiger was by assent of the BrytoÌ„s made kyng of Brytayn in the yere of our lorde .iiii. hundred lxiiii and the .iiii. yere of Chyldericê° than kynge of Fraunce The whych in all hast pursued the Saxons and gaue vnto them a great batayle vppon the ryuer of Darwent where he hadde of them vyctory And secundaryly he faught wiâ—h them vppon the foord called Epiâ—â—ord or Agliffhorp In the whych fyght Catrignus the brother to Uortimer Horsus brother to Hengyst or Cosyn after long fyght attwene them .ii. eyther of theÌ„ slewe other in whyche fyght also the Brytons were vyctours The thyrd batayle he faught with them nere vnto the see syde where also the Brytons chasyd y e SaxoÌ„s and compelled them to take the yle of wyghte for theyr suertye This batayle as wytnesseth Alfredus was more wonne by vertue of the prayers of the holy byshop saynt Germayne than by myght of y e Brytons For when the holy man sawe y e Brytons gyue backe he helde hys handes towarde heuen and cryed thryse alleluya whyche is to our vnderstaÌ„dyng as mych to saye as saue vs good lorde Thorough whyche prayer the Britons by dyuyne helpe obteyned y e victory of theyr enimyes The fourth batayll was
.iiii. huÌ„dred .lxxvi. And the fyfte yere of Uortygers last reygne But Denys and other that accoÌ„pt this kyngdome to begynne in the yere of our lord foure hundred and .lv. allowe the begynnynge therof to be when Hengistus had fyrst gyft of the same by reason that Uortyger maryed his doughter This lordeshyppe conteyned the countre that stretcheth from eest Occean vnto the ryuer of Thamys and had vpon the southeest Southerye and vppon the weste London vpon the northeest the Thamys aforesayd and Eestsaxon nowe Essex And this lordshyppe conteyned also the yle of Thanet whyche lordshyppe or kyngdome endured after moste wryters from the tyme of the fyrste yere of the reygne of Hengiste tyll the .xxv. yere of Egbert before named by the terme of .iii. hundred and .xlii. yeres folowynge that accompte At whyche season the sayde Egbert then kynge of westsaxons subdued Baldredus theÌ„ kynge of Kent and ioyned yt to hys owne kyngdome Al be yt that the authoure of Policronica affermeth yt to endure by the space of thre hundred and .lxviii vnder .xv. kynges wherof Baldredus was the laste whyche folowyth nere vnto the accompt of Denys before named The fyrste crysten kyng of this lordshippe was Ethelbertus or Ethelbert the whyche receyued the fayth of Cryste by that holy man saynt Austayne or Augustayne nere about the yere of our lordes incarnacyon foure hundred .lxxx. and .xvi. The whyche Ethelbert caused soone after to be edyfyed the monastery of saynt Peter and Paule in the eestsyde or ende of the cytye of Dorobernia now Caunterbury He gaue vnto this Austayn and his successours byshoppes of Caunterbury a place for the byshoppes see at Chrystes chyrche wythin the sayd cytye endowed it with many ryche possessioÌ„s This Hengiste and all the other Saxons whyche ruled the .xvii. pryncypates of Brytayne as after shall be shewed are called of moste wryters reguli whyche is to meane in oure vulgare or speche as small or lytell kynges So that this Hengist is accompted a lyttell kynge The whyche when he hadde thus rule of the foresayde .iii. prouynces he sent for mo Saxons gatheryd them y t were sparkled abrode so y t in these prouynces the fayth of Chryste was all quenchyd and in slepe Then Hengist wyth Octa his son gaderyd a great streÌ„gth of SaxoÌ„s and faught wyth the Brytons and ouercame the Brytons and chasyd them in suche wyse that Hengiste kepte his lordesshyppe in peace and warre by the space of .xxiiii. yeres as moste wryters testyfye THE XCII CHAPITER NOwe then lette vs retourne agayne to Uortiger y e which when he sawe the Saxons in suche wyse encrease theyr strength and the Brytons dayly dyscreace for as writeth myne authour Gaufryde y t Saxons had the rule of London yorke Lincolne or LindecolnÌ„ and KaergueÌ„t that is wynchester wyth other good townes wherfore as affermeth the sayd Gaufryde the kyng for fere of y e SaxoÌ„s also for that y â— he was some deale warned of the commyng of the .ii. bretherne Aurely and Uter sonnes of Constantyne he therfore consyderynge these many and great daungers fledde into Cambria or walys and there helde hym for the more suertye where as wytnessyth the sayde Gaufryde he then buylded the castel before mynded Of y e which buyldynge and impediment therof and also of the gettynge or byrthe of Merlyne and of his prophecyes he made a longe worke the whyche I passe ouer for dyuerse consyderacyons retourne agayne to Uortiger Trouth yt is that whyle Uortygernus was thus besyed in walys the forenamed brethern Aurely and Uter preparyd theyr nauy and men of armys and passed the see and landed at Totnesse as sayth the englysh cronycle wherof when the Brytons were ware that were disparklyd and seueryd in many couÌ„tres they drewe to them in all hasty wyse The which sayde bretherne when they sawe that they hadde a competent nomber of knyghtes they made towarde walys to dystresse Uortyger wherof he beynge warned for so myche as he well knewe y t he myght not make sufficyeÌ„t defence by streÌ„gth of knyghtes he therfore garnyshed his castell wyth strength of men and vytayll entendynge to sauegarde hym selfe by that meane but all in vayne For the sayde two bretherne wyth theyr armye besegyd the sayd castell and fynally after many assautes wyth wylde fyre consumed the sayde castell wyth Uortiger and all that was therin Of hym yt is redde that he shulde lye by his owne doughter in truste y e kynges shulde come of his blood For the whyche dede he was accursyd of saynte Germayne and lastely ended his lyfe as hefore is expressed when he hadde reygned nowe laste ix yeres THE XCIII CHAPITER AUrelius Ambrosius the seconde sonne of CoÌ„stantyne and brother to Constancius slayne by the treason of Uortyger was kynge made of the Brytons in the yere of oar lorde .iiii. hundred .lxxx. one and the .xxi. yere of Childericê° then kynge of Fraunce Of thys yt is sayd that when he hard of the dyuysion that was in the land of Brytayne betwene Uortiger and the Saxons and in what maner the SaxoÌ„s had subdued the Brytons he in all goodly haste wyth ayde of the kynge of lytell Brytayne spedde hym into thys lande where after the aboue sayde vyctory hadde of Uortiger he spedde hym towarde yorke as affermeth Gaufride and there chasyd the Saxons that helde the cytye wyth Octa or Osca sonne of Hengist and toke the sayde Octa kepte hym as a prysoner somwhat of tyme. But howe so yt was by treason of his keper or otherwyse he brake pryson And he wyth his fader gaderyd after a great hoste and mette Aurelius his Brytons at a place called Crekynford where was foughten a stronge myghty batayll to y e losse of both partyes but the more losse fyll to the SaxoÌ„s For of them was slayne foure dukes and .iiii. thousande of other men that other dele chasyd to theyr great daunger yet this not wytstandynge Hengiste contynued his lordshyppe in Kent and Aurelius Ambrose whyche the englyshe cronycle nameth Aurilambrose kepte the countre called Logiers or myddell Englande wyth walys and chasyd the Saxons y â— dwelled in y e .ii. forsayd prouynces of eest Saxon and eest Anglis out of those countres The seconde kyngdome THE XCIIII CHAPITER IN this passe tyme a SaxoÌ„ named Ella wyth his thre sonnes called Symen or Symon Plettynger and Cissa came wyth thre shyppes called Obilas and landed in the south parte of Brytayne and slewe many Brytons at a place that then was named Cuneueshore chased many vnto a wood theÌ„ called Andresleger and after occupyed y e countre inhabyted hym his Saxons wythin the sayde prouynce makyng hym selfe kyng and lorde therof By reason wherof by his might power the sayd prouynce or countre was after named y e kyngdome or lordshyp of Southsaxons The whyche after most concorde of wryters shuld haue his begynnyng y â— .xxxii. yere after the fyrst coÌ„myng of HeÌ„gist which
the more honoure conferme her own childe And the quene trustyng her counsayle supposynge her counsayle hadde ben for the beste confermed her owne chylde THE CXIII CHAPITER IN this whyle the kynge wyth his brother occupyed in warre agayne y â— Suytzers or men of Sweuy bare them so knyghtly that they subdued theyr enymyes and after retourned into theyr countres wherof when Fredegunde was ware she in secrete maner mette with the kynge shewyd to hym all the demeanure of his wyfe but nothyng of her own crafty workyng wherewyth kyng was greuously dyscontente in shewynge of his outwarde contenaunce and sayd yf that were true she shuld from hym be deuorcyd and that she shulde be quene in her stede After this the kynge commynge to his paleys the quene to the enteÌ„t to be the more accepted in his presence not knowynge of the malicyous workynge of FredeguÌ„de brought in her armes the yonge baby to the whych she was moder bothe naturally and spirytually and welcommed y e kyng her lorde in ryght humble maner salutynge hym wyth wordes of all coÌ„forte But the kyng beynge warned of her symple demeanure as some authours wryte glad that he hadde occasyon to fynde mater to her of displeasure blamed her in greuous maner and commaunded her out of his presence for that tyme after by couÌ„sayle of spyrytuall men causyd her from hym to be deuorcyd her wyth her yonge doughter to be put into an house of relygyon to the whyche he gaue possessyons for the fyndyng of her and of her yonge doughter named Childeynda And when Chilpericê° hadde thus fynyshed this foresayde besynesse he shortely after toke to wyfe the fornamed FredeguÌ„d not without grudge of some of hys lordes and other It was not longe after this maryage that stryfe and discencyon fell betwene this Chilpericus and Sigebert hys brother the whyche grewe for certayne lande that Chilpericus claymed to haue of hys brother afore sayde Then Chilpericus assembled hys knyghtes and made warre vppon the lande of hys brother Sigebert the whyche then was besyed in lyke warre agayne a people called Hunes by reason wherof Chilpericê° hadde the more fordell and wan by strength the cytye of Reynys But yt was not longe after or Sigebert was warned of his brothers vnkyndnesse wherfore he after hys enymyes were by hym somdele subdued went wyth hys armye into the countre of Soysons belongynge to his brother Chilpericê° and warred in lykewyse in that lande as hys brother dyd in his and at length toke y e cytye of Soysons and therin the eldest son of Chilpericê° named Theodobert and helde hym as his prysoner Then Chilpericus herynge of the scomfyture of his people and takynge of his sonne was agayne hys brother more feruently amoued and caste in his mynde all wayes meanes howe he myghte reuenge hym vppon hys brother But yt was in vayne For his brother at that tyme had such auauntage of hym that he well apperceyuyd that he had no better meane then a treaty of peace by meane wherof he shortly after obteyned his sonne out of daunger wyth other thynges concernynge his profyte assurynge to hys sayde brother by solemne othe that after that daye he shuld neuer were armes nor yet warrey his brother This coÌ„corde and vnite in due maner fynyshed suffycyently by both counsayles stablysshed yet Chilpericus beynge alwayes mynded to be reuengyd vpon his brother Sigebert sent his yongest sonne named Clodoueus and caused hym to warre vpon a cytye called Burdeaux in the pronice of Neustria now called NormaÌ„ dye But by the manhode of a captayne of Sigebert named Singulphus the sayd Clodoueus was ouer comen and compelled to voyde the countre and so fledde to Paris For thys happe Chilpericus was fyryd with all malyce and in all hast commaunded hys forenamed sonne Theodobert wyth a great armye to inuade the sayd couÌ„trey of Neustria or Normandye The whyche accordynge to hys fathers commaundement spedde him thyder and there by hys extorte myghte and power toke many cytyes and stronge holdes not sparynge chyrches howses of relygyon as nunnes and other and robbed and spoyled the countre in moste cruell wyse Lastly this persecucion thus done a cheuetayne or duke named Gundoaldus of the erldome of Poitowe assembled a great power and wythstode Theodobert and fynally slew hym in playne batayll and a great parte of hys people wherof herynge Chilpericus gatheryd a great hoste and yode into the countrey of Champayne wastynge and destroyenge the countrey wyth fyre and iron to the vttermoste of hys power and at length toke the cytye of Reynes and spoylyd yt wythout mercy THE CXIIII CHAPITER SIgebertus aduertysynge and castynge in hys mynde the innaturall dysposycyoÌ„ of his brother perceyuyng well that he entendyd hys vtter destruccyon ê“uyded in his beste maner for to wythstande his malyce And for to brynge his continued malyce to a fynall ende he gatheryd to hym a puysant power and after sped hym towarde his sayd brother wherof Chilpericus beynge aduertysed by hys couert meanes sought ways of entreaty and peace in suche wyse that or the hostes mette a peace was concluded Then these two bretherne thus accordyd condescendyd in shorte tyme after to make warre vppon theyr brother Gunthranus then lorde of Orleaunce the whyche sygnory at that daye belonged to the countrey or prouynce of Burgoyne The cause of this warre is not expressyd except y t they enuyed theyr brother to haue so great lordshyp But by medyatours on both partes after great aray purueyed on all sydes a concorde and peace was concludyd in the temple of saynt Lowpe at y e cytye of Trois in Uyncent when this sayd peace was fynyshed the sayd .iii. brethern in syght departyd as frendes eyther of theym from other But as peace somtyme contentyth not saudyours specially such as delyte them in pyllage and robbery ryght so amonge the knightes of Sigebert was spronge a great rumoure sayeng that they were not coÌ„tente and rewardyd for theyr great laboure and trauayle accordynge to theyr desert and specyally for y e fyrst iourney of these .ii hadde agayne his brother Chilpericus thynkynge the peace wyth hym made was nothyng honorable consyderyng y e great doublenesse and vntrouth that in hym was prouyd For the whyche they excytyd Sygebert in all that in theym was to breke those bouÌ„des of peace and to make newe warre vpon hym And in lyke maner some euyll dysposyd persons were more agreable to warre then to peace vppon the party of Chilpericus and murmured in lykewise And for they thought to haue ben better rewarded of Sygebert then they were of theyr own maister they therfore lefte hym and yode to y e hoste of Sygeberte By whose eueytynge report Sygebert was more kyndelyd to sette vppon his brother Chilpericus hauynge notycyon of hys brothers purpose wyth also the murmoure and departynge of hys knyghtes and hauynge in the other somme mystruste he anon wyth his wyfe and chyldren and chefe
entende in the declarynge of thys story of Clothayre to expresse the remanaunte in as shorte wyse as I goodly may And fyrst ye shall vnderstaÌ„d that after thys fredegunde had as before is shewed causyd her lorde to be slayne she ferynge that at length her vntrouth shulde be dyscoueryd wyth all her goodes in shorte tyme after yode vnto Paris and there in the monasterye or house of our ladye held her And for she wold be in more suerty and also her son the sayd Clotharius shuld be the streÌ„ger in his domynyon and kingdome therfore she sent messengers vnto Gunthranus kynge of Orleaunce brother to her lorde Chilperich requyryng hym of fauoure and ayde that he wolde of his goodnesse be tutour defendour of her yonge sonne Clotharius The whych not denyenge the requeste of Fredegunde spedde towarde Paris in all haste where wyth the assent of other nobles of the realme he toke the gydynge of the yonge kynge By whose aduyse and coÌ„maundement the sayde Clotharius was conueyd shewyd thorough many of the chefe cytyes of his lande But in lykewyse as Gunthranus wyth other bysyed theym selfe to strength Lotharius in hys ryghte euen so were other of the nobles of FrauÌ„ce by the meanes of Brunechyeldis wyfe some tyme of Sygebert yongest sonne of Lothayre the fyrst the whyche Sygebert receyued of hys sayde wyfe two sonnes named Chilperich and Chyldebert of the whych two Chilperich suruyued the other that dyd all theyr entent to promote Chyldebert to the porcyon of hys father that Chilpericus father of Lotharius occupyed after the deth of Sigebert forenamed Here dyscordeth the frenche cronycle froÌ„ myne authour Gagwyne For there yt is sayd y e Brunechield with the other of her assent wold then by theyr meanes haue pÌ„ferred a bastard son of the forenamed Sygebert called Theodoricê° to the kyngdome of FrauÌ„ce An other authour sayth that this Theodorich was the son of Childericê° afore named whyche was the sonne of Sygebert But to folowe mayster Gagwyne This Childebert whych by y e former sayeng rehersyd in y t C. and .xiiii. chapiter of this treatyse was delyueryd from y e handes of Chilperich his vncle by meanes of the erle of Poytow named GuÌ„debald this with a small coÌ„pany came vnto Paris where of y e cyteseÌ„s he was kept out For y e which soon after he sent a noble man of his named Gillon with other as ambassadours vnto GuÌ„thranê° And where among other thynges of hym requyred they axed of him FredeguÌ„d to suffer deth for y â— she had by her subtylty caused to be murdred bothe Sygebert father to theyr kynge and also Chilpericus her owne husbande yt was of him vtterly denyed Wherfore this sayd Gyllon sayd vnto GuÌ„thranus syr kynge knowe thou for certayne synnes thou haste refused this peace to the offeryd of thy neuewe that the deth of thy brother shall cleuâ— to thy hedde wyth these wordes the kynge beynge greatly amoued commaunded the ambassadours to be putte oute of his court and when they were in the strete all fylthe and ordoure to be caste vppon theym as enymytyes And varyaunces thus kyndelyng betwene these two kinges Gunthranus soone after sent Fredegunde into Neustria or Normandy caused her there to be kepte not farre from y e citye of Roan whyther to her came many noble men of FrauÌ„ce in coÌ„fortynge her and also mouynge her for the trouble she was in promysynge to her ayde to the vttermoste of theyr power But when that Fredegunde apperceyuyd the great fauoure that Brunechyelde stode in of the nobles of Orleaunce or Fraunce she enuyenge her welth and honoure called to her an homycyde a felon called Holderyche to whom the sayde FredeguÌ„de pmysyd great treasour yf he coude by venyme or otherwyse brynge to deth the sayde Brunechieldis By meane of whych promyse he grauÌ„ted to brynge her entent about shortely after drewe vnto the court of the sayde Brunechyeldis where he fyll in suche famylyaryte wyth dyuerse of her courte that he came many seasons to the pÌ„sence of y e quene But by what happe I can not saye lastely he was taken in suspeccyon and so tormentyd pyned that he coÌ„fessyd y e cause of his thyder coÌ„myng and by whom he was sent with all y e other cyrcuÌ„staunce of the matter After whych coÌ„fessyon so made he was to betyn arrayed in moste vyle maner and so sent agayn to FredeguÌ„d And when he was comen to her presence and shewed what tourment he had suffred for her cause she incontyneÌ„t in fulfyllyng of her malycyous purpose commaunded that his handes and fete shulde be stryken of and so lette go to the ende that yt shulde be thought that she had not desyred hym to that besynesse Aboute thys tyme season arose a yonge maÌ„ in a corner of Fraunce the whych by his subtyle wytte named hym selfe to be the sonne of the fyrst Lotharius and brother vnto Gunthranê° The which by synystre meanes and crafty gatte the fauoure of the lordes of Guyan and by theyr assystence held and occupyed a great parte therof And after somdele of hys counsay les to Gunthranus by hys espyes disclosyd this sayde yonge man beyng named GuÌ„doaldus sent vnto Gunthranus an ambassade and requyryd hym to be restoryd to a porcyon of hys faders goodes Addyng therto that yf he denyed the sayde Gundoaldus wolde wyth a strong armye repayre out of Gwyan and get hys ryght wyth strength that to bryng about he shulde also haue great ayde of Chyldebert his neuewe aboue named whan kynge Gunthranus had at leyser herde the message he in dysdaynyng the same coÌ„maunded them to be sette vppon horse backes theyr facys towarde the tayle and so with betynge and vylanye to be dryuen thorough the town It was not long after that a daye was appoyntyd betwene Gunthranus and Childebert at whych day both prynces met with great companyes lordes And wheÌ„ they were sette in theyr counsayll Gunthranê° coÌ„maunded the foresayd messyngers of Gundoaldus to be brought to fore them there agayne to recyte theyr foresayde message whych done he shewyd furthermore that the sayd Gundoalde had before tyme dispoyled the doughter of I hil peryche named Rygonde of all such rychesse as she wyth her conueyed when she went towarde Spayne to be maryed of the whyche some lordes of Childebert were of counsayll whyche vnto the sayde two prynces was thought trewe for so myche as the sayde lordes then accusyd were absent from that great counsayll THE CXXIII CHAPITER AFter many and great actes concludyd by thys counsayll betwene these two foresayd prynces Gunthranus in open audyence admytted hys neuewe Chyldebert for his heyre for so mych as he had none heyre of hys bodye commyttynge the rule therof to hym before all that were there And after toke hym aê‘te and shewyd to hym whych of his nobles he shulde take to counsayll and whyche he shuld refuse And specyally he warnyd hym to be well ware
the premysses for a reformacyon of the same sent hys ambassade to the pope then beynge zacharye before named askyng hys aduyse whether yt was more necessary or welfull for the realme of FrauÌ„ce that he shulde be admytted for kyng that dyd nothynge but applye hys mynde to all pleasure of hys bodye wythout cure or charge takynge vppon hym for the guydynge of the lande and the people of the same or he that toke upon him all the charge and payne in defence of the lande and kepynge of the people in due subieccyon To this the pope answeryd and wrote vnto Pepyn that he was beste worthy and moste profytable for the realme to be admyttyd for kynge that ruled well the comynaltye by iustyce and prudence and the enymyes therof defendyth and subdueth by his polycy and manhode The whyche answere thus receyued frome the pope and declared vnto the lordes and barons of the realme anone they of one assente and mynde procedyd and went to the deposynge and puttynge downe of theyr kynge and gouernour Hylderyche And in shorte space after closyd hym in a monastery or house of relygyon when he hadde ben occupyer of a kynges rome by the name onely .x. yeres And that done the Frenche men electyd and chase Pepyn for theyr souerayne and kynge In the whyche Hilderyche or Childerych endyd the lyfe or progeny of Meroneus of whome the Frenche kynges lynyally descendyd by contynuaunce of tyme as foloweth Meroneus x. yeres Childericus xxiiii yeres Clodoueus xxx yeres Dagobertus xiiii yeres Clodoueus xvi yeres Clotharius iiii yeres Theodoricus iii. yeres Childericus ii yeres Lotharius l. yeres Chilpericus xxiiii yeres Lotharius xliii yeres Clodoueus iii. yeres Childebertus xvii yeres Dagobertus xi yeres Danyel v. yeres Theodoricus xiiii yeres Theodoricus xix yeres Hildericus x. yeres Anglia THE CL. CHAPITER SIgebertê° or Sigbertus the cosyne of Cutbert laste kynge of the westsaxons beganne his reygne ouer y e sayd Saxons in the yeres of y e incarnacyon of Cryst .vii. huÌ„dred and xlv and the .v. yere of Hildericê° then kyng of Fraunce He was cruell and tyrannous to his subiectes turnyd theyr lawes and customes of his fore fathers after his owne wyll and pleasure And for y e one of the noble men of his dominyon somdele sharply aduertysed him to chauÌ„ge his maners and to behaue hym more prudently towarde his pleople he therfore malycyously caused hym to be putte to cruell deth About this tyme Egbertus after the yonger wylfryde was made archbyshoppe of yorke The whyche brought agayn thyther the pall that his predecessours hadde forgone syns the tyme that the fyrst Paulinê° had lefte that see and fled to Rochester in Kent and there lefte the sayd pall This Egbert was brother vnto Egbert kyng of NorthumberlaÌ„d by whose assystence and comforte he dyd many thynges for the weale of y e see made there a noble library Then yt folowyth for so myche as the kyng Sygebert contynued in his malyce cruell condycyons his subiectes conspired agayn hym and putte hym from all kyngely dygnyte So y t he fell after to great desolacyon mysery in such wyse y t he was founden after in a wood or desolate place wandryng alone without coÌ„forte where he beyng so foundeÌ„ by a swyne herd or vylayne some tyme belongyng to the erle CoÌ„branê° y t he before tyme wyckydly had slayn in auengement of his sayd lordes deth slew hym in y e sayd place which sayd Sigebertus was thus depryued froÌ„ al houour wheÌ„ he after most writers had reygned or tyrannysed .ii. yeres THE CLI CHAPITER KEnulphus of the lyne or blode of Cerdicus fyrst kyng of westsaxons began hys domynyon ouer the sayde westsaxons in the yere of grace .vii. hundred .xlviii and the vii yere of Hildericus then kynge of Fraunce The vertue of thys man passyd his fame For after he hadde with the agrement of the westsaxons depryued Sygebert theyr kynge froÌ„ his authorite and regally he fyrst appeasyd dyuers murmurs and grudgis that kyndelyd among his subiectes set his lordshyp in great quyetnesse and rest touchynge theyr ciuyle dyscorde About the .viii. yere of the reygne of this Kenulphus Offa slewe a tyraunt named Beoruredus y t before had slayne Ethelwald kyng of Mercia After whose deth the sayde Offa as neuew to the sayd Ethelwald reygned as kynge of that prouynce Of this Offa is tolde many notable dedes wherof somwhat I entende to shew He hadde warre wyth the Northumbres theÌ„ for a tyme subdued He also had warre wyth Etheldrede kynge of eest anglys and wyth Egbert otherwyse called Pren kynge of Kent whome he toke prysoner and led hym bounden wyth hym into Mercia Then after these vyctoryes Offa buylded the chyrch of wychcom In tyme of the whyche buyldynge in presens of .xiii. byshoppes and many other great estatys kynge Offa enlargyd the sayde Egbert of imprysonement In token wherof the people beynge there present made such an exclamacyon of ioye and gladnesse that the chyrche therof range Thys kynge Offa hadde suche dyspleasure vnto the cytyzens of Caunterburye that he remoued the archbyshoppes see by the agremente of the fyrste Adryane then pope vnto Lychefelde He also chased the Brytons or welshmeÌ„ into walys made a famouse dyke betwene walys and the vtter bondys of Mercia or mydle Englande the whyche to this day is named Offedyche And after he buyldyd there a chyrch whych longe tyme after was called Offekyrke This Offa also by angelycall inspyracyon translatyd the holy prothomartyr saynt Albone and was fyrst founder of that famous monasterye ouer that holy bodye The whyche syns the fyrste foundacyon hath by sondry tymes ben perished and hurt by Danys other and newely syns that tyme reedyfyed This holy Albon was martyred as before apperyth in the .lxvii. chapyter and storye of CoÌ„stantius about the yere of our lorde two hundred .lxxx. and .xvii. By whych reason he shuld lye or he were translatyd ouer foure hundred and lx yeres This Offa also maried one of hys doughters to Bryghtricus y â— was kynge of westsaxons And for that in his tyme was varyaunce betwene hym and the FreÌ„che men that passage of marchauntes was forboden therfore he sente that famouse doctour Anselmus vnto Charlis the great then kynge of Fraunce to comon the meanes of a peace whyche Charlis hadde after thys Anselmus in suche fauour that he became hys discyple Then retourne we to Kenelphus y t whyche before tyme had had often warre wyth Offa and with hym many conflyctes and lastely agreed About the .xi. yere of thys Kenelphê° Egbert kynge of Northumbres renouncyd his kyngly dignyte and became a munke And lastely the sayde Offa when he had reygned ouer Mercia .xxxix. yeres as sayth Guydo he lefte the kyngdome to hys sonne also named Kenelphus and yode to Rome And this Kenulphê° kynge of westsaxon kepte strongely hys lordshyp agayn y e power of all his enymyes hadde his subiectes in due order of
empyre and sette suche a man of myghte in the rome therof Thys Charlis had dyuers wyues But of the seconde named Eldegard he receyued .iii. sonnes that is to say Lewys Pepyn Charlis y e whyche Pepyn he made kynge of Longobardes or Italy as before is shewyd Of thys great conqueroure what shulde I holde lenger processe For lyke as I before shewyd of his notable dedys myght I make a great volume yf I shuld of them shew the clerenesse and the circuÌ„staunce of euery coÌ„quest that he in his tyme acheuyd But deth that is to all ê‘sones egall lastly toke him in his dymme dauÌ„ce when he had ben kynge of Fraunce with his brother alone .xlvii. yeres Of the whyche he ruled the empyre as before is shewyth .xiiii. yeres in y e yere of his age as sayen the frenche cronycles .lxxii and was buryed at Aquisgrany wyth great pompe in y e yere of our lordes incarnacyon .viii. hundred and .xv. wyth this superscripcyon vppon his toumbe Caroli Magne christianissimi imperatoris RomanoruÌ„ corpus sub hoc sepulchro condituÌ„ est which may be englished as folowith Of Charlis the great and emperour moste crysten Of Rome the bodye is hyd thys toumbe wythin Of the forenamed sonnes of Charlys suruyued y e eldest Lewys by name and the other two Pepin Charlys dyed before theyr father Anglia THE CLVII CHAPITER BRigthricus of the blood of Cerdicê° fyrst kyng of westsaxons desceÌ„dyd beganne hys reygne ouer the sayd Saxons in yere of oure lorde .vii. hundred and .lxxviii and the .x. yere of Charlis the great then kynge of Fraunce This before tyme hadde maryed one of the doughters of Offa kynge of Mercia as before is touchyd by whose ayde and power he put out of hys rule Egbert the sonne of Alcumundus the whyche Egbert at that daye was an vnder kynge or ruler in the lordshyppe of westsaxon whyche Egbert was descendyd of y e blood of the holy Genulphus of whome som parte of the storye ys declared in the .xxv. chapyter of the .v. boke of Policronica And after he was thus of Brigthricus expulsyd he saylyd into Fraunce and there exercysyd hymselfe in featys of warre wyth the knyghtes of Charlys courte durynge the lyfe of the sayde Brigthricus About the .ii. yere of thys Brigthricus was sene in great Brytayne a wonder syghte For sodeynly as men walked in y e strete crossys lyke vnto blood fell vppon theyr clothes and blood fell from heuen lyke droppes of rayne This after some exposytours betokened the commynge of the Danes into this lande the whyche entryd shortely after For as wytnessyth Polycronica aboute the .ix. yere of Brigthricus the Danys fyrste entryd this lande In defence wherof thys sayde kynge sent forth hys stewarde of housholde wyth a smalle company whych shortly was slayn But by the strength of Brygthricus and the other kynges of Saxons they were coÌ„pellyd to voyde the land for that tyme and season Brigthricus thus well knyghtly rulynge his land his wyfe named Ethelburga not wyth hym coÌ„tentyd as she oughte to be soughte dyuerse wayes and meanes how she myghte brynge her lorde oute of lyfe so that fynally she poysoned hym wyth many other of hys housholde meyny wherfore she ferynge punyshement fledde into Fraunce and by suche freÌ„dshyppe as she there hadde was well cheryshed in Charlis courte surnamed the great Of her yt is told that whan he had hadde some informacyon of the vnstablenes of this womans condycyons he at that season beynge a wydowar vppon a season in passynge of the tyme wyth her sayde nowe I put to youre choyse whyther ye wyll haue me vnto your wedded lorde or ellys my sonne staÌ„dyng here in your presence And hym that you chose hym shall you haue and enioye for your husbande But she chase y e son and lefte the father Then sayde the kynge yf thou haddest chosen me thou shuldest haue hadde my sonne But for thou haste forsaken me thou shalt haue nother of vs. And after he closyd her in an abbey where in processe a lewde man kept with her such company that she was voydyd that place and after demeaned her so vycyously that in processe of tynie she fell in such pouerte that she dyed in great penurye and myserye For the whyche mysse demeanure of this woman that she had innaturally slayne her lorde and husbande the kyng of Anglis and specially of westsaxons wolde not suffer the wyues to be callyd Sueuys nor yet suffer them to sette by them in places of great honour or kyngely sete by a long tyme after Thus as before is shewyd by the impoysonynge of his own wyfe dyed y e kynge Brigthricus when he had ruled y e westsaxoÌ„s after most concorde of writers by the terme of .xvii. yeres THE CLVIII CHAPITER EGbertus the sonne of AlcumuÌ„dê° as before is shewyd began hys reygne ouer the westsaxons in y e yere of grace .vii. hundred .lxxx. and xv and y e .xxvii. yere of Charlis the great then kynge of Fraunce Thys as before is sayde was dryuen oute of the lande of Britayne by y e streÌ„gth of Brigthricus But he hauynge knowlege of hys deth spedde out of Fraunce and in so knyghtely wyse hym demeaned that he obteyned the regiment and gouernaunce of the aboue sayde kynge Bernulphus kynge of Mercia had this Egbert in derysyon and made therof dyuerse scoffys iapynge rymes y t which he susteyned for a time But when he was somdeale stablysshed and hadde prouyd the myndes and hartis of his subiectes he lastly assembled his knyghtes and gaue to hym a batayll in a place called Elyndome in the prouynce of Hampton And all be yt that in that fyght was great dyuersyte of nomber as .vi. or viii agayne one yet Egbert had the victory For his knyghtes were lene megre pale and longe brethed so that they myghte endure to fyghte But Bernulphus knyghtes were fatte corpulent shorte brethed so that they were soone ouercome with swet and shorte labour Here is to be noted that after the deth of Offa kyng of Mercia or middell Englande of whome somwhat is touched in the story of Kenulphê° reygned his son Egfertê° after Egfertê° reygned Kenulfus or KeÌ„wolfus y e which Kenwolphus was father to y e holy martyr Kenelme to .ii. fayre vyrgyns Ouindred and Burgenulda or Ermenilda And after Kenwolfus succedyd the foresayd Kenelme and after Kenelme reygned Colwolphus and after hym succedyd Bernulphus before named Then to retourne agayne to Egbert the whych when he had as before is sayd ouercome Bernulphus he seasyd that lordshyppe into hys hande And that done he made war vppon the Kentyshe Saxons and at leÌ„gth in lyke wyse of them obteyned vyctorye And as wytnessyth Polycronica he also subdued the Northumbrys and caused the kynges of these thre kyngdomes to lyue vnder hym as trybutaryes or ioyned them to hys kyngedome as testyfyeth the authour of the Floure of hystories Thys Egbert also wanne from y e
sayd Policronica sayth And for this Lewys was mylde he was often troubled of hys own men and of other tyll he delte wyth them more sharpely and wysely and ruled the people more straytly It is there also shewyd that when this Lewys had promotyd a yonge man named Frederyke to the see of Utryke and to hym hadde gyuen sadde and good exhortacyon that he shuld folowe the stablenes of hys antecessours and that he shulde purpose the sothe and trouth wythoute excepcyon of persones and punyshe mysdoers as well the ryche as the poore the sayde byshoppe shulde answere to hym and saye I beseche thy magestye syr emperour to take in pacyence that I maye dysclose to the that thynge that hath long walowed turned in my mynde Say thy plesure sayd the emperour I praye thy syr emperour shewe me thy mynde whyther is more accordynge to attame thys fyshe here presente fyrste at the hedde or at the tayle The emperour answered shortely and sayd at the hedde the fyshe shall be fyrste attamyd So yt is lorde emperoure sayd the byshoppe that crysten fayth maye cause the to cease of thyne erroure that thy subiectes be not boldyd to folowe thy mysdoynge wherfore fyrste forsake thou thy vnlawefull wedloke that thou haste made wyth Indyth thy nere kynnes woman By meane of those wordes the kyng was reconcylyd and lefte the company of his wyfe tyll he hadde purchasyd a lycence of the pope And the emperour forgaue the sayde byshop all trespassys but the woman hyred two knyghtes that slewe hym in his vestymentes when he hadde ended hys masse After thys the empresse was falsely accused of wronge cryme and made a menchon But the same yere the emperoure delyueryd her from that habyte when he hadde suffycyently prouyd the sayde cryme to be false Then to retorne where I lefte whā this Lewys had longe lyen in thys agonyous sykenes and knewe well that he amendyd nothynge but feblyd more and more he commaundyd his iewellys to be broughte before hym wherof by hys owne hand he haue a parte vnto the chyrche of Rome and to Lotharius his sonne there presente he gaue his crowne his sworde commaundynge hym straytly vppon his blessynge that he shuld haue in honour hys moder Indith that to Charlis his brother he shulde owe true loue amyte that he shuld hym his lādes deffende to the vttermoste of his power Then the lordes spirituall and temporall and specyally the archebysshoppe of Meaws made a lamentable requeste to the emperoure for his sonne Lewys that he wolde accepte hym to his grace and mercye and to forgyue hym hys insolente and wanton wylde dedys wherof when the emperour harde he fell in suche wepynge that he myghte not speke of a good whyle after And when he hadde refrayned hym therof he remembryd to y e lordes the many and great benefytes y t he had done to hym and the innaturall vnkyndnes that the sayd Lewys had agayn shewyd vnto hym how often tymes he had perdoned his vnkynd sonnes trespasse And finally all this not wythstandyng he was at y e oure in perfyte charite wyth hym and forgaue hym as he trusted to be forgyuen prayenge the lordes there present and specyally chargynge y e sayd byshop that he wold shew vnto hys sayd son that great daunger that he was in agaynst god for the dyspleasures done to him and specially that he was a cause of the abrygement or shortynge of hys dayes Then to brynge this story to effect wherof yf I shuld declare the special tyes therof wolde aske a longe tyme for ye shall vnderstand that these .ii. storyes of the great Charlis and of this Lewys occupye in Frenche of leuys of great scantelyn ouer .lxiiii wherfore I conclude y t he dyed lyke a good crysten prynce when he had ben emperour of Rome and kynge of Fraunce by the terme of .xxvi. yeres and was buryed wyth great solemnyte at Meaws or at Mettis by hys mother Hyldegarde as sayth mayster Robert Gaguyne in the yere of hys age .lxiiii leuynge after hym the foresayde thre sonnes Lothayre Lewys and Charlys the Ballyd Anglia THE CLXII CHAPITER ADeulpus or Ethelwolphus the son of Egbertus beganne hys reygne ouer the westesaxons or Anglys in the yere of oure lordes incarnacyon .viii. hundred and .xxxii and the xvii yere of Lewys the mylde then kynge of Fraunce Thys in his youth was wyllynge to be a preste and was enteryd the order of subdeacon But there after by dyspensacyon of Pascall the fyrst of that name pope he was maryed to Osburga a woman of lowe byrthe By whome he hadde foure sonnes that is to meane Ethelwalde Ethelbert Etheldrede and Alurede the whyche after theyr father reygned as kynges of Englād that one after that other as after shall appere This Adeulphus after he hadde a certayne tyme ben kyng he went to Rome and toke wyth hym his yongest sonne Alurede or Alphrede and taryed there by the space of a yere In the whyche season he repayred the Saxon scole the whyche before tyme was there founden by Offa kynge of Mercia as Guydo sayeth and other but more veryly of Iue kynge of westsaxons as sayth the authoure of the Floure of historyes And for that he graunted of euery house of his kyngdome a peny as in his storye is before shewyd But thys scole was sore decayed and the house therof lately brent the whyche thys Adeulphus newely repayred and sette yt in better order then yt before was vsyd Thys kynge also to refourme the greuouse correccyons that he sawe there executyd to Englyshe men for spyrytuall offensys as in werynge of irons and guyues he graunted of euery fyre house of hys lande .i. d as Iue foresayde hadde done By the whyche sayenge yt shulde seme that by these two kynges shuld be grauntyd vnto Rome .ii. d. of euery fyre house thorough theyr lande But that maye not be so vnderstande for thys Rome scot ys gaderyd of euery house a peny wythout more wherfore yt muste folowe that yt is mysse taken of wryters that allege this dede to that one kynge for that other How be yt yt maye stande by reason that Iue made the fyrste graunte and this kynge after confermyd the same But the authoure of Cronica cronycarum sayth that thys Adeulphus graunted to saynte Peter these sayde Peter pens and spekyth no word of Iue nor of none other It is also shewyd of this kynge by Policronica that he shulde for the acquytynge of the chyrches of Englād of all maner of kynges trybute payed yerely to Rome thre hundred markes That ys to meane to saynte Peters chyrche a hundred markes to the lyghte of saynt Paule a hundred marke and to the popys treasorye a hundred marke And ouer all thys of hys pure deuocyon he offred to god to saynte Peter the .x. parte of hys moueable goodes And also one cronycler sayth that thys kynge founded fyrste the vnyuersytye of Oxynforde whyche was lykely to be
entred the boundes of Italy wherof herynge y e pope and the emperour than as before is sayd beynge at Papye busyed in a great counceyle dissoluyd the same And the pope incontyneÌ„tly toke leue of the emperour departyd agayne to Rome And Charlys wyth a great power that he had gaderyd as well of Italyans as of hys owne people made towarde hys neuewe wherof herynge the sayde Charlone turned agayne by the waye that he had comen tyll he came to hys owne countrey as sayth myne authour also y e French boke But more verely Charlone kepyng togyther hys hoste and hauynge fauour of dyuers lordes of Italye the emperoure Charlys remouyd to y e cytye of Mantue where he was grudged wyth a feuer For remedy wherof he toke a pocyon of a physycyon Iewe named Sedechias whyche was intoxicat by meane of whych venemous pocyon he dyed shortly after whan he hadde reygned as kynge emperoure after moste accorde of writers by y e space of .xxxvii. yeres wherof he reygned as emperoure .iii. yeres leuynge after hym a sonne named Lewys whyche as before is shewed was ruler of the couÌ„trey of Austracy or Lorayne whan thys Charlys was dede hys frendes entendynge to haue caryed the corps into Fraunce causyd it to be seryd and enoynted wyth ryche and precyous bawmes and other oyntmentes and aromatykes But all myghte not stoppe the intolerable ayre of hys body so that they were fayne to bury hym at Uercyle wythin the monastery of saynt Euseby where he laye ouer .vii. yeres after and then taken vp and conueyed to saynt Denys in FrauÌ„ce and there honorably buryed THE CLXVI CHAPITER IN the tyme of thys Charlys the Ballyd as wytnessen many wryters began the erledome of Flaunders the whyche euer before these dayes the ruler therof was called the forester of the kynge of FrauÌ„ce whyche erledome had hys begynnynge by thys meane ye haue harde before in the story of Adeulphus kynge of westsaxons how in hys retornynge from Rome he maryed the doughter of Charlys y e Ballyd named Indith The which Indyth after the deth of her sayde husbonde retornyd by Flaunders towarde Fraunce thynkynge to passe wythout daunger bycause the sayde countrey was vnder the obedyence or her father But at those dayes was ruler or forester in that partyes a noble yonge amerous man callyd Bawdewyne the whyche herynge of the great beautye of thys Indith gaue attendaunce vppon her And receyued her in hys best maner makyng to her all the chere that to hym was possyble and fynally cast to hyr suche loue that whan she supposed to departe and to haue gone into Fraunce he delayed the mater in suche curteys and wyse maner that he wan such fauour of her that she made no greate haste to departe frome hym all be it that moste authours agre that he kepte hyr perforce whan Charlys hadde wyttynge that Bawdewyne thus helde hys doughter Indith he sent to hym straytly chargynge hym to sende home hys doughter but that holpe not the mater ThaÌ„ he purchasyd agayn hym the censures of holy chyrch and accursed the sayd Bawdewyne But whan the kynge conceyued that the yonge man hadde suche loue to Indyth that he sette not by that punysshement and also was certeynly enformed that hyr harte was gyuen vnto hym he in processe by y e meane of some bysshoppes and frendes of the sayd Bawdewine agreed that he shulde take hyr to wyfe and in the name of hyr dowar he shulde holde and enioye the sayd countre of FlauÌ„ders And for he wolde haue hys doughter to be the more honoured he creatyd the sayde Bawdewyne an erle and commaunded hym to be called after that daye erle of FlauÌ„ders It is also shewyd in the Frenche cronycle and of other wryters that thre dayes before hys deth hys spiryte shulde be rauysshed from hys body and vnto places of payne and turment where thys Charlys by the ledynge of an aungell shulde se hylles and mountaynes brenne pyttes full of sulphyr pytche and hote boylynge lede In whyche paynes the sayde Charlys shulde se many of hys progenytours and bysshoppes that counceyled prynces to debate or stryfe or gaue counceyle to them to rayse of theyr subiectys vnlefull taskys or imposycyons wyth many other thynges whyche I passe ouer for length of the mater Anglia THE CLXVII CHAPITER EThelwaldus or Ethelwoldus y e eldeste sonne of Adeulphus began hys reygne ouer the westesaxons or ouer y e more partye of Englande in the yere of our lorde viii hundred and .lv and the .x. yere of Charlys the Ballyd than kynge of Fraunce The whyche became so vnhappy that he maryed y e woman whyche hys father hadde somtyme kepte or holden for hys concubyne as wytnessyth y e authour of y e Floure of hystoryes But Polycronycon sayth that he wedded his stepmoder whyche dysaccordyth wyth the sayenge of other wryters which testifye his stepmoder to be maryed to Bawdewyn erle of FlauÌ„ders as in y e story of Charlys last before is shewyd Thys Ethelwolde though it be not expressyd by what hap he dyed whan he hadde reygned one yere as sayth Polycronyca But another cronycle beryth wytnesse that he was slayne as a martyr of Hungar and Hubba prynces of Danys About thys tyme the holy kynge saynt Edmund coÌ„tynued his reygne ouer the Eest Anglis or Norfolke THE CLXVIII CHAPITER EThelbertus the seconde sonne of Adeulphê° began his reygn ouer the more partye of Englande in the yere of our lorde .viii. hundred lvi the .xi. yere of Charlis y e Ballid then kynge of Fraunce In whose tyme the Danys wyth more strengthes entred y e west part of this land and robbed and spoyled the couÌ„trey before theym tyll they came to wynchester toke the cytye by strength and dyd therin what they wold But the kynge made suche prouysyon that by hym his dukes they were forcyd to forsake the cytye And as they yode toward theyr shippes they were fought wyth and a great parte of theym slayne and taken Of this kynge is nothynge ellys lefte in memory more then before is shewyd but that he dyed when had reygned after moste wryters .vi. yeres and was buryed at Shyrborne leuynge after hym none yssu of hys body wherfore the rule of the lande fell to his brother Etheldrede THE CLXIX CHAPITER ETheldredus the thyrde sonne of Adeulphus beganne hys reygne ouer the west Anglis and the more parte Englande in the yere of our lorde .viii. hundred .lxiii the xviii yere of Charlis y e Ballyd then kynge of Fraunce In the begynnyng of this kynges reygne the Danes landed in eest England or Norff. and Suff. But they were compellyd to forsake that countrey and so toke agayne shyppynge and saylyd northwarde and landed in Northumberlande where they were mette wyth of the kynges then there reynynge callyd Osbryghte and Ella whyche gaue to theym a stronge fyghte But that not wythstandynge the Danys wyth helpe of suche as enhabyted y e countrey wan the
the cytye made vpon the Danys a great scomfyture So that by the prowesse of the foresayde two temporall lordes and assystens of this spyrituall man Rollo was compelled to fle and forsake his siege not without huge slaughter Rollo then hauynge greate dysdayne and dyspleasure of thys ouerthrowe and scumfyture of hys Danys reassembled them that were abrode scatered and coÌ„maunded theÌ„ to ouer ryde the countre and to destroye it in all that they myght After whych coÌ„maundement thus to them gyuen this cruell people slewe man women chylde that were not apte to do to them seruyce and brent the chyrches and temples and rauyshed virgyns as well religious as other So that miserable it was to beholde the greate abhomynacyon of these tyrannous Danys that brent robbed and slewe that innocent people wythout mercy The lordes and comons thus beset with cruell fury of theyr enmyes assembled them by sondry coÌ„panyes and went vnto the kynge shewynge vnto hym theyr mysery and blamed as they durste hys ferefulnesse and negligence that he nor none for hym otherwyse wythstode the crueltye of the Danys that hadde destroyed a greate parte of hys lande THE CLXXXII CHAPITER CHarlys herynge this exclamacyon of hys subgettes and coÌ„syderyng hys lacke of power to withstande that malyce of hys enemyes was ryght pensyfe and heuy in hys herte and castynge in hys mynde many sondry wayes he lastly determyned to sende agayne the aboue named Frank byshop of Roan vnto Rollo prynce of Danys shewynge hym that yf he wolde renye hys pagan lawe and become a crysten man he wolde to hym gyue in maryage Gylda his doughter wyth the hole countre of Neustria for her dowar whan Rollo had receyued this tydynges from the kyng by the mouth of his frende Frank he somwhat attempred hys fury and crueltye and condescended to a trewe by the counsayle of hys lordes for y e terme of .iii. monethes in the whyche tyme he myghte haue some coÌ„munycacyon wyth the kynge for ferther processe of thys mater So that after it was concluded by the counsayle of bothe prynces that theyr metynge shulde be vpon y e ryuer or flode named Ept. where shortly after the sayd prynces had coÌ„munycacyon the one wyth the other theyr people standynge vpon eyther syde of the sayd ryuer where it was concluded that Rollo shulde forsake hys pagan lawe and take vppon hym the lyuerey of Crystes baptym and after to marye the forenamed Gylda and to receyue wyth her as is aboue shewed whyche conclusyon thus taken eyther fro other departed and shortly after at the cytye of Roan all the foresayd couenauÌ„tes were executed and fulfylled And whan the sayd Rollo was crystened his name was chaunged and called Robert after the erle of Poytowe whyche receyued hym at the fonte stone Of thys Rollo or Robert dyscended lynyally duke wyllyam of Normandy whych conquered England as after shal be more clerely shewed Than this Robert thus crystened was seased of the couÌ„tre of Neustria whom the kynge created duke and named hym duke of Neustria But it was not longe after y t this name of Neustria was chaunged called Normandye after the name of Normayns or men commyng out of the North or of Nor that is to meane North and men whyche two syllables togyder make Norman or a man of the North. whyche Normans or Danys after the exposycyon of mayster Gagwyne shulde be descended of the nacyon called the Gothes whyche Gothes of the cytye or men of Sithica ben descended The whyche Gothys in the dayes of the grete CoÌ„stantine for theyr feersnesse and cruelty were dryuen from theyr countre then by them inhabyted nere vnto the ryuer called Thamys in y e North partyes of Europe and nowe ben inhabyted in Dacia whych in our speche is called DeÌ„marke And where some men holde an opynyon that Danys and Saxons shulde be one maner of people it may congruly folowe For Saxons ben of the couÌ„tre of Germany and contayne the lande after the sayenge of Strabo in the west parte of Germania From the flode called Uistergus or wysera vnto the famous ryuer called the Ryne And Dacia or Denmarke is in the North partyes Than to retorne to thys Rollo or Robert the story sayth y t he became a good crysten man In token wherof as affermeth the French boke he gaue vnto dyuers chyrches and monasteryes of Fraunce greate gyftes as well of possessions as of mouable goodes contynued hys pease with the kyng as he before had promised After whyche pease thus stablysshed bytwene the kynge and the Danys Robert brother vnto Eudo last kyng of FrauÌ„ce contrary hys trouth and allegyaunce seased certayne cytyes and other holdes of the kynges enherytaunce wherfore the kynge seynge that he coude not refourme hym of that errour by no meanes of entreaty or other lyke wayes assembled an hoste and met wyth hym in playne batayle in the whych y e sayde Robert was slayne Thys Robert hadde a suster whyche was maryed vnto Hebert erle of Uermendoys whyche erle herynge of the deth of his brother in lawe by enticement of hys wyfe as the story demeth mette the kynge at the retorne of the felde and requyred hym in moste humble wyse that he wolde vouchesafe to lodge wyth hym in hys manour called the castell of Perone The kynge castynge no parell thanked hym of hys kynde request and grauÌ„ted to go wyth hym where he was receyued and fested wyth all honoure But whan thys erle hadde conueyed the kynges frendes and strength from hym he thaÌ„ kepte him there as a prisoner or murdred hym so that he neuer came at large after whyche tydynges certaynly knoweÌ„ Algina wyfe vnto the sayd Charlys the symple mystrustynge the Frenchmen wyth fewe accoÌ„panyed toke secrete shyppyng and wyth her yonge sonne named Lewys sayled into Englande there to be comforted of her fader Edwarde surnamed the elder And thus ended the reygne of thys Charlys the symple whan he hadde reygned after the sayeng of Uynsent hystoryall and other by the terme of xvi yere full leuynge after hym the foresayde chylde named Lewys THE CLXXXIII CHAPITER RAdulphus the sonne of Rycharde duke of Burgoyne began his reygne ouer the FreÌ„chmen in the yere of our lorde .ix. hundred xxii and the .xxi. yere of Edwarde y e elder than kynge of Englande Here is to be noted that for so mych as Algina wyfe vnto Charlys the symple was thus secretly voyded y e lande of Fraunce wyth her sonne Lewys and that the lande myghte not be wyth out a ruler the lordes assembled at Parys and there toke theyr counsayle for the admyssyon of an hed or kyng of the lande which lordes after longe debatynge of this mater fynally agreed that thys abouerâ—amed Radulphus or Rauf son of the duke of Burgoyne as aboue is sayd as nexte heyre to the crowne shulde be admytted for kynge and so was admytted Of the whyche lytell of hys dedes are put in memory except that in the tyme of hys
theyr enemyes Of thys message the kynge was ryght fayne and forthwith sped him tyll he came to Roan wher he was accordynge to hys honour receyued For the whyche cause he sent in all hast vnto Arnulfe erle of FlauÌ„ders monassynge hym that he sease of his warres in Bayon tyll he receyued farther knowlege The kyng thus restyng in Roan deuysed hys maters at hys pleasure so that the Normayns obeyed them to all hys requestes And for y e good aberynge that Barnarde the Dane was of agayne the kynge he graunted to hym the gydynge of the yonge duke And whan he shulde departe he ordeyned as hys deputye one named Raoull or Rauf The whyche after the kynges departure behaued hym so cruelly to the Normans that they were very irke of hym And ouer thys the foresayd Barnard ferynge the kynges retorne and other more greuous punysshement than they before hadde susteyned sent his messengers vnto Grolle kynge of Denmarke than beynge at Chyerbourk wyllyng hym to assemble his people and to make of them two hostes wherof to sende y e one by lande and that other by water so to entre the couÌ„tre of Normandy in wastyng and spoylynge it by reason wherof he myghte brynge the kynge to some coÌ„munycacyon whych all was done as the sayd Barnarde had deuysed whan the kynge had wyttyng of the Danys that wyth so grete a multytude were entred the prouynce of Normandy he assembled hys hoste and sped hym thytherwarde and in processe of tyme came vnto the cytye of Roane where by hys counsayle it was condyscended that a metynge and frendly communycacyon shulde be had bytwene the kynge the sayd Grolle at a place called in Frenche Herlycum where at the day appoynted bothe prynces mette wyth bothe hostes standynge or hauynge a lytell dystauÌ„ce of And whyle the two prynces were there in communycacyon of the deth and murder of duke willmÌ„ a Dane markynge Herloyne For whose causes as before is shewed duke willmÌ„ was slayne with a spere wounded hym so greuously that he dyed forthwyth whych dede hys brother called Lambert wyth other of y e Frenchmen entendynge to reuenge wyth theyr wepons fylle vppon the Danys whyche them receyued with greate vyolence So that of that a fraye ensued a skyrmysshe and after the skyrmysshe a sore batayle For bothe hostes ioyned on bothe sydes and faught cruelly eyther with other a longe whyle But in the ende the Frenchmen had the worse and were compelled to flee And the kynge to saue hys lyfe fledde also whyche by reason of hys vntrusty horse was taken and kepte secrete a certayne of tyme by his taker But lastly he was discouered and brougth to the cytye of Roane as a prysoner The kynge thus beynge in holde vnder the kepynge of the Danys Engeberge hys wyfe makynge for hym grete dole and sorowe toke her iourney to the kynge of Germany whose doughter she was besechyng hym to prouyde for the delyuerye of her lorde and husbande But of hym had she no socour but rather dyscoÌ„fort shewyng to her that the trowble that her husbande susteyned he had well deserued for his vnstedfastnesse that he agayne wyllyam the duke Rycharde hys sonne had vsed wherfore the quene beynge thus answered of her father rode vnto Hugh le graunde besechyng hym of helpe in this greate nede The which at the request of the quene sent vnto Barnard erle of Senlys requiryng to moue some wayes to the Danys for the enlargynge of the kynge By whose labour and meanys lastely a counsayle was kepte at saynt Clere vpon the ryuer of Ept. where after many argumentes reasons made fynally it was agreed that the kyng shulde be enlarged tyll an other day of coÌ„munycacyon layenge for pledges hys sonne and heyre named Lothayr the bysshop of Senlys and y e bysshop of Beauuayze whyche done the kynge was set at large and forth wyth rode vnto the cytye of Laon. where he abode the other daye of coÌ„munycacyon whyche after was holden at y e foresayd ryuer of Ept. And concluded a peas whyche lasted but a shorte whyle after Thys peas thus confermed Grollo the kynge of Danys wyth greate gyftes was retorned from whens he was desyred And Richarde the yonge duke toke vpon hym the rule of hys owne Signory and grewe and encreased forthwardly wherof Hugh the graunde takyng hede and beholdynge hys wyse demeanure and conuersacyon made suche labour and meanes vnto Barnarde erle of Senlis y t he maried to him his doughter named Emmacet wherof beynge enfourmed the French kynge caste in hys mynde thys greate alyaunce bytwene the yonge duke and two grete perys of hys lande and thoughte y t these .iii. knâ—t in amyte and alyaunce shulde dysturbe hym whan them lyked wherof he called to hym Arnold erle of Flaunders by whose counsayle he sent the sayde Arnolde vnto Ottho kynge of Germany requyrynge hym of ayde to warre vpon y e Normayns and to breke thys affynyte of thys yonge duke of Hugh le graunde and of Barnarde erle of Senlys and for his labour he shuld haue to hym and to hys heyres the prouynce or lordshyp of Lorayne Ottho wyth thys couetous promesse deceyued asseÌ„bled his knyghtes and at the day and place appoynted met wyth the kynge and wyth theyr people sped them to Roan and layde siege vnto y e cytye And whyle the kynges were occupyed in wastynge and brennynge the vylages nere vnto the cytye to put the Normans in the more fere Ottho sent hys neuewe wyth a certayne of hys people in secrete wyse to the gates of the cytye But whan he was comen to the gate that opened towarde the ryuer of SaynÌ„ and thoughte there to wynne hys enterpryse y e cytesyns issued out vppon hym sodeynly and gaue to hym batayle and slewe hym and many of hys company and the remenaunt they chased froÌ„ the walles of the cytye whan Ottho had wyttyng of the ouerthrowe of hys men and deth of his neuew whom he entyrely loued he made inward heuynesse and caste in his minde how he myght reuenge the deth of hys neuewe But whan he approched the cytye and behelde the strength therof wyth also the fyersnesse of the NormaÌ„des he repented hym of enterprysyng of that iourney and torned all hys hatered vnto Arnolde erle of Flaunders by whose sterynge and counsayle that vyage was fyrste begon in so mych that he sought the meanes to brynge y e sayd Arnolde into the handes of the Normans wherof Arnolde beynge warned trussed his stuffe and harneys secretly and in the nyght stale away and so retorned into Flaunders with his retynew The whych thyng knowen to the two kynges in as secrete wise as they myghte departed also from y e siege But yet therof theyr enmyes beynge ware pursued them slewe many of theyr company And or the yere that thys was done in had roÌ„ne hys full compas Lewys the kynge dyed and was buryed in the temple of the holy bysshoppe saynte Remygius wythin the cytye of
Policronycon The which I passe ouer for length of the mater THE CXCIII CHAPITER EDgar thus rulynge the lande after the deth of his fyrst wyfe Egelfleda worde was broughte to hym of y e beaute of Alfrida or Estrild doughter of Orgarus erle of Deuenshire wherfore he sent a knight of his court named Ethelwold to espy whether the mayde were of such beautye as she was reported of or not chargynge hym yf she were so beautyous that then he shulde aske her to wyfe for the kynge But this knyght hauyng syght of this mayden was so wounded wyth the darte of the blynde god Cupyde that he forgate his trouth and allegiaunce y t he shuld owe to his mayster and souerayne and retourned shewynge to the kynge that she was nothynge of the beaute that she was reported of but of meane fayrenesse as other women were wherfore he besought the kynge consyderyng she was her fathers heyre a good maryage that he wolde be so good lord to hym as to wryte vnto her fader y t he myght haue her to wyfe The why the grace he obteyned and at length was maryed vnto her In processe of tyme the fame of the beaute of thys woman sprange so wyde that lastly yt came to the erys of Edgar wherwyth the kynge in mynde beynge sore dyscontentyd wyth Ethilwolde whyche hym had dysceyued yet kepte good countenaunce and made semblaunte as though he hadde nothynge forced y t mater And vpon a tyme as yt were in game warned this Ethilwolde y t then was an erle by reason of hys wyfe or otherwyse that he wold lodge one nyght in his house appoynted the daye when yt shulde be wyth thys monyssyon the erle beynge nothynge contented ranne home nygh deed for fere and prayed his wyfe of helpe in that tyme of nede and y t she wold in all that she myght make her self as fowle and as vnsemely as she coude and shewed to her all the resydue of y e mater Then y e woman cast in her mynde the great dyspleasure y t might ensue toward her agayn god to make that fowle whych he hadde made goodly and fayre and also to her lorde and husbande agayne the kynge thynkyng that he shuld cause her thus to do to the ende to mocke and dysceyue hym wherfore in consyderacyon of the premysses she enourned her in moste costly and shewynge aparayll And ouer y t yf dame nature hadde had any thynge forgoten or mysprinted in her she left not that by womaÌ„s helpe might be amended or refourmed and at the kynges coÌ„mynge receyued hym wyth all ioy and gladnesse By whyche meanes this yonge amorous kyng was soon caught in the dyuylles snare so that he sette reason a parte and folowed his own sensualyte And for to bryng his purpose the better about he kept forth a countenaunce as he had ben well contentyd wyth all thynge and desyred the erle that he wolde wyth hym ryde on huntyng into the wood of welwerley that now is called hore wood where he awaytynge his season tyme strake the erle thorough the bodye wyth his shafte so that he dyed soon after And then he maryed this Elfryda or Estrylde shortely hadde by her Egelredus as before I haue shewyd For the whyche dede sayth Ranulf this Elfrida buylded an house of nunnes at warwell But other authours saye yt was for the slayeng of her stepson Edwarde Also the englyshe cronycle sheweth that this Ethilwolde was slayne by an other meane and not by the kyng About this tyme dyed Oddo archbyshoppe af Caunterbury that was of the nacyon of Danys Of hym is tolde a longe processe in the .x. chapyter of the .vi. boke of Polycronycon And after hym Bryglinus that then was byshoppe of wynchester was made hys successour But for he was not suffycyent for so great a charge he went agayne to wynchester And holy Dunstane byshop of London of worceter was sacryd archbysshoppe of Caunterbury and went to Rome and receyued the palle of pope IohnÌ„ the .xiii. of that name This Dunstane was fyrste abbot of Glastynbury and byshoppe of London worceter and lastely archbyshoppe of Caunterbury In his dayes the order of munkes was religyous and Full of vertues For it hadde relygyous rulers clere of scyence and of clergy so that then men were lad as mych wyth other dedes and good examples of vertuous lyuynge as by theyr famous vertuous prechyng Than Edgare as before ys sayde was crowned kynge at the cytye of Bathe of Dunstane archbysshop of Caunterbury and Oswolde archbysshop of yorke whan he hadde ruled thys lande .xii. yeres The cause why it was so longe or this Edgar were enoynted was as testyfyeth Guydo for hys vnlefull Lechery and specyally for the offence done wyth wylfryde For the whyche dede he was of Dunstane ioyned to .vii. yeres penaunce The whyche penaunce durynge he was kept from the sayd enoyntement as affermeth the sayde Guydo But for what cause so euer it was by agrement of dyuers wryters he was not crowned tyll he had reygned .xii. yeres It is also tolde of thys Edgare that he beynge vpon a season at the towne of Andâ—uyr he was enamoured vpon a noble mannes doughter whyche was of passynge beautye made suche meanes by force or other wyse that the parentes were agreed that the kynge shulde haue hys pleasure But the moder subtyll of wytte bethoughte her of a whyle and sent a seruaunt of hers whych was both comely and fayre to the kynges bed In the mornynge whan the daye began to waxe clere the woman began to styrre and wolde haue departed from the kynge But the kynge refrayned her and asked the cause of her so hasty departyng For I muste be at my worke wyth my felowes sayde the woman at myne houre to kepe my taske And whan the kynge had questyoned wyth her further he lerned that she was a bonde woman and asked of the kynge fredome for y â— nyghtis seruyce The kyng at this had good game and cherysshed that damosell so after that he made her lady of Lordes For these insolent wanton dedes it is sayde that by the counsayle of the holy Dunstane he buylded repayred so many abbeys and houses of relygyon as aboue is rehersed Thus thys noble Edgare passyng his tyme in vertue medled with vyce lastly had wyttynge of the rebellyon of y e Brytaynes or walshmen wherfore he assembled hys knyghtes and entred the lande and dyd them grete harme and waste And among other prayes spoyled the countre of GlamorganÌ„ and also toke or spoyled the countre of Ono and toke the bell of saynt Eltutus which serued for hys chyrche that was taken by vyolence wyth other stuffe hanged it about an horse necke In puttynge it to teÌ„porall seruyce to the dyspleasure of that saynte But for the vyolent takynge therof as Ranulf expresseth in an vndertyde whan kyng Edgar was layde to take hys reste the sayd Eltutus apered and smote the kyng
were not of that blode as Eudo and Radulphus but admytted of the barony of Fraunce to rule the lande tyll two of that progeny that is to meane Charlys the symple and Lewys the .v were comen to theyr lawfull age So that from the fyrst yere of Pepyn whyche began his reygne in the yere of grace .vii. hundred .l. to the fyrst yere of Hugh Capet that began hys reygne in the yere of our lorde god .ix. hundred and lxxxix expyred or passed .ii. hundred .xxxix. yeres Pypyn the fader of Charlys the greate Charlys the great emperour Lowys the fyrste emperour The kynges of Germany Lothayre emperour and the sonne of Lewys the fyrst Lowys emperour the sonne of Lothayre Lothayre the seconde the son of Lothayre Charlys the .iii. and sonne of Lothayre Lewys kyng of Germany and broder vnto the sayd Lothayre Lewys the sonne of Lewys whyche was broder vnto Charlys grossu◠emperour Lewys the son of Lewys which of some ys compted emperour Arnusphus the sonne of Lewys emperour Lewys the sonne of Arnulph last emperour of Fraunce The kynges of Fraunce Charlys the ballyd the sonne of Lewys the fyrst of hys .ii. wyfe emperour Lewys Balbus the son of Charlys the Ballyd Lewys Charlys sonnes of Lewys Balbus Lewys the .iiii. and son of the foresayd Charlys Charlys the symple the sonne of Lewys the forth Lewys the .v. and the sonne of Charlys the symple Lothayre the sonne of the foresayde Lewys Lewys the sonne of Lothayr and the last kyng of that flock THE CCII. CHAPITER HUgh the sonne of Robert the tyraunt descended of Hugh legraunde beganne to take the rule or to vsurpe the crowne of Fraunce in the yere of our lorde .ix. hundred and .lxxxix and the .viii. yere of Egelredus than kynge of Englande Thys as wytnessyth the Frenche Cronycle was erle of Parys and marshall of Fraunce And as sayth Antoninus he maryed one of the doughters of Edwarde the elder Thys also was named Capet for so myche as in hys youth he vsed in game to laye asyde hys felowes hodes In whose begynnyng Charlys that was the brother to Lothayre and vncle vnto Lewys the .vi. laste kynge herynge of the deth of hys neuewe Lewys wythout issue as nexte heyre wyth ayde of some lordes of Fraunce and also of Loreyn the whyche than he was lorde of gadered an army and entred Fraunce and than came to the cytye of Laone wythin whyche cytye he wyth hys wyfe and people by the treason of the bysshoppe of the same cytye was taken and delyuered wyth hys wyfe and chylder into the handes of hys enemyes the whyche sent them to Orleaunce there sauely to be kept Than thys Hugh was crowned in the cytye of Rayns and welded the lande wyth more suerty How be it the erle of Flaunders named Arnulphus or Arnolde before spoken of wolde not be vnder hys obedyence wherfore thys Hugh assembled hys kynghtes and by hys strength toke from hym the coutre of Artoys wyth many stronge holdes and castels and lastly forced the sayd Arnolde to fle into Normandy to aske ayde of Richarde the fyrste of that name before spoken of in the story of the .vi. Lewys By whose meanes after some wryters wyllyam Longa Spata fader to y e sayd duke Richarde was slayne But that not wythstandynge by frendshyp of the sayde duke Richarde thys Arnolde was reconcyled vnto the kynge and contynued after as hys subiecte In the cytye of Rayns was arch bysshoppe at thys daye a noble prelate named Arnolde sonne of baste of Lothayre and neuewe to Charlys than prysoner as before is touched The whyche for malyce that the kynge bare vnto hym for cause of the forenamed Charlys called a counsayle of the clergy of hys lande and layde agayne hym suche obieccyons that he by theyr assent was putte from that benefyce and sente hym to Orlyaunce there also to be kepte in pryson And set in hys place one Gylberte or after the Frenche boke Gerbres a connynge man in phylosophy whiche had before tyme ben tutor or mayster to Robert sonne of the sayde Hugh But after .iii. yeres pope Iohn̄ the .xvi. of that name sent downe hys maundement vnto Guyan archebysshop of Sens chargynge hym that he sholde remoue y e sayde Gerbers and restore the sayde Arnolde to hys proper see whyche was done shortely after and y e sayde Gerbers was after this preferred by one of the Othons emperour vnto y e chyrche of Rauenne and contynued there tyll the deth of the .xvii. Iohn̄ After whose deth he was electe pope of Rome and was named the secōde Siluester lyued as pope .iiii. yeres Than it followeth in the story whan thys Hugh had reygned full viii yeares and more he dyed in the yere of our lorde .ix. hundred .xciii. and was buryed at saynte Denys leuynge after hym a sonne named Robert THE CCIII CHAPITER RObert the sonne of Hugh Capet beganne his reygn in the yere of our lord .ix. hundred .xcviii and the .xvii. yere of Egelredus then kynge of Englande This was cōnynge in many scyences and a man of good maner vertue He made dyuers hymnes sequences respondes as O Iuda et Hierusulem O cōstantia martyrum As sit nobis scti spūs gratia or more cōgruely Sancti spiritus assit nobis gratia wyth dyuers other In y e beginnyng of his reygn while Bowcharde erle of Meleon̄ was at the kynges court Galtyer or walter a knyghte and seruaunt of the sayde Bowcharde to whom the sayd Bowcharde hadde delyuered his castell of Meleon̄ to kepe in his absence for great gyftes the sayde walter hadde delyuered the sayde castell unto Eudo erle of Carnotens wherfore the kyng at the request of the sayd Bowcharde sente streyghte commaundement vnto the sayd Eudo chargyng hym in all goodly wyse to restore the sayde castell vnto Bowcharde The whyche commaundement he vtterly refused to obey For y e whych ȳe kyng beyng so amoued sent for Rycharde the seconde of that name then .iiii. duke of Normandy and wyth theyr both armyes besyeged the castell vppon euery parte and at length wan yt and toke the sayd walter wythin the same whom the kinge for his vntrouthe commaunded soone after to be hanged vppon a gybet and the castell to be restored vnto y e forenamed Bowcharde and after returned euery man to his owne In the tyme of the reygne of thys Robert dyd Henry then duke of Burgoyne The whyche for lacke of yssue of his body bequethed his dukedome vnto kynge Robert But the Burgonyons wythstode that legacy and drewe to theym for an hed captayne Lawdry erle of Neuers and wyth hym helde by strength or for a strength the cytye of Anxerre wherof herynge kyng Robert sente for the foresayde duke of Normandye and so spedde theym towarde Burgoyne and besyeged the forsayd cytye But at length y e cytye was yolden and Lawdry put at the kynges grace And that done the kyng with his hoste besyeged a
accepted the foresayde wyllyam to theyr lorde and souerayne Of thys wyllyams procreacyon yt is wytnessed of Uyncent hystory all and other that his father passynge by the cytye or towne of Faloys in Normandy he sawe a company of maydens daunsynge by the strete Amonges the whych was one of passynge beautye called Arlet and doughter to a skynner To y e which duke Robert caste vnlefull loue in suche wyse y t he caused her to be broughte to his bed the nyght folowyng and helde her to his concubyne a certayn of tyme after begat on her this wyllyam whē his moder was wyth him cōceyued she dremed that her bowel lys were sprad ouer all Normandye and Englande And when he was borne of his moders wombe he fyll to the groūde and closed his handes wyth powder of the flore or pauement Therfore the mydwyfe made and exclamacyon and sayd this chyld shall be a kynge Then yt foloweth when thys wyllyam was thus admitted duke some of his lordes by the meane of y e kyng of Fraūce began to wythdraw them from hym In so myche y e erle Gylbert to whome duke Robert had betaken hys ponge sonne to gyde was slayne and other that were especyall frendes to the chylde There was fyghtyng and manslaughter and the countrey fowle faren with by reason of the opynyons that were amonges them selfe wherof Guy a Burgoyn was one of the chefe causers For he with his adherentes sayde alwayes that they wolde haue no bastarde to be ruler of them This Guy as saith the frēche boke was nere kynnesman vnto y e yonge duke descendyd of the doughter of the seconde Rycharde and entended to haue ben duke hym selfe For the which he ensensed y e kyng of Fraūce agayn hym in all that he myght but at length duke wyllyam toke hym and put hym to deth Thus the Frenche kynge forgettynge y e kyndnesse shewyd to hym by duke Robert hys father toke partye agayne hym to the vttermoste and ordeyned hym .ii. hostes wherof one he delyueryd to his brother Almaryk and warned hym to eutre y e countrey of Caus and he hym selfe ladde that other and entred with it the coūtrey of Eurour But wyllyam not ferynge the kynges great power beynge growen wele towarde mannes stature lyke a luste yonge knyght made towarde the kynges brother gaue to hym batayll hym ouercame and chased the Frenchemen to theyr great bylany wherof heryng the Frenche kyng wyth his people spedde hym toward wyllyam to reuenge the shame done to his men But in cōclusyon he wan there no honoure Then peace was made betwene the kyng and y e duke and the Frenche prysoners were delyueryd But this peace enduryed not long for the Frēch kyng callynge to remēbraūce the losse of hys men at Mort mere or dede see wyth other dysauauntages by hym sustayned of the sayde duke wyllyam called to hys ayde Geoffrey erle of Aungiers And whan hys hoste was assembled they entred y e prouynce of Normādy cōtynued theyr iourney tyll they came to an arme of the see where the hoste shulde passe ouer Of thys new warre duke wyllyā beynge warned in all haste assembled hys Normans and sped hym y e next waye to mete the Frenchemen In thys meane whyle the Frenche kynge had passed the water wyth certayne of hys hoste trustyng that the remenauaūt shulde haue folowed But soone after the water flowed so faste that hys people myghte not passe And in thys whyle came the duke and set vpon the kynges hoste and bet theym downe cruelly so that at length the kynge was compelled to flee and loste a great nomber of his knyghtes to consyder them y e were slayne wyth the other that were taken prysoners whan kynge Henry had well dysgested in hys mynde the wrongfull trouble that he by enuyous persons hadde put the duke vnto and remēbred the yll expedycyon that he had in that warre he recōsyled hym selfe and made meanes that the duke and he myghte be agreed and accorded The whyche by dyscrete solycytours was shortely after brought to good effecte so that they contynued as frēdes durynge theyr lyues after Than Henry abstayned hym from all warre vsed the reste of hys lyfe in peas and quyetnesse Thys Henry had two wyues and of the laste whyche was doughter to the kynge of Russy he had .iii. sonnes that is to say Phylyp y ◠whych he made kyng of Fraunce by hys lyfe Robert that was after duke of Burgoyne and Hughe that was after named Hugh le graunde and was fader to Raufe erle of Uermendoyse And in thys kynges dayes Burgoyne that had ben vnder y e Frenche kynges obeysaunce ouer a hundred and .xxx. yeres refused the Frenche kynge aparte of them torned vnto Conradus the seconde of that name than emperour So that that parte whyche stretched to Champayne belonged to Fraunce and that other parte whyche stretched toward Basaynz belonged to the Almayns And that yere that the kynge had admytted hys sonne Phylyp to the gydynge of the realme he dyed and was buryed at saynt Denys leuyng after hym the issue forenamed whan he hadde reygned after moste wryters .xxxi. yeres Anglia THE CCVIII CHAPITER HArold the sonne of Canutus of Elgma y e erlys doughter of Hampton begā his reygne ouer Englande in y e yere of our lordes incarnacyon M. xxxix and the x. yere of Henry thā kyng of Fraūce Thys for his delyuernesse swyftenesse was surnamed Harefote In whose begynnynge stryfe was amonge the lordes for so myche as of hys byrthe shulde be doughte whyther he were the kynges son or not and specyally erle Goodwyne that dyd the vttermoste of hys power to sette hym by and put Hardykynitus his brother to that honour But Leo frycus that Canutus so mych loued and trusted wyth the ayde of the Danes wythstode so myghtely Goodwyne and hys sonnes that they fayled of theyr purpose Anone as thys Harold was crowned kynge he banysshed hys stepmoder Emma and toke from her suche goodes and iewelles as she had The whych Emma sayled than into Flaūders and there of Bawdewyne the erle was reuerently receyued there abode durynge the lyfe of thys Harolde The whyche contynued hys lyfe to lytell fruyte or profyte of the land nor yet of the subiectes so that of hym other for y e vyce that clerkes lyste nat to put in memory other for the rudenesse whyche is worthy no memory nothynge of hym is put in remembraunce but that he dyed at London or after some at Oxenford was buryed at westmynster when he had reygned as moste wryters agreen .iii. yeres and odde monethes leuynge after hym none heyre wherfore hys brother kyng of Denmarke was next kynge after hym THE CCIX. CHAPITER HArdikynytus the sonne of Canutus of Emma was made kyng of England in the yere of our lordes incarnacyon M.xli and the xii yere of Henry than kyng of Fraūce Thys of some wryters is named Hardykynytus and Hardyknough
Uincencius hystorialis Antoninus Iacobus Philippus and other wherfore it can not stande wyth reasoÌ„ y t they shulde slepe vpon y e other syde after y e tournyng .lxxiiii. yeres as is aboue sayd nor that they shulde sterue in y e tyme of thys holy kynge and confessoure For hys tyme of reygne was after y e tyme of Theodociê° aforesayd more than .vi. hundred yeres But yf it be ment by some other For there are vii other slepers spoken of in y e .xxvi. chapyter of the fyrste boke of Polycronycon that hath slepte in a nother caue many yeres wherfore I remytte thys vnto other and folowe the order of the story wherein it is founde that whan this blessed kyng Edwarde had receyued by dyuyne monycyon that he shulde chaunge thys transitory and bryckell lyfe for the lyfe euerlastynge he sykened in the Crystmasse weke In tyme of whych sykenesse was shewed to hym a vysyon that he after shewed vnto suche as were about hym and sayde two men of relygion came to me that I somtyme was famylyer wyth in Normandye and shewed that they were sent from god vnto me to gyue vnto me warynynge of such thynges as foloweth And fyrste they sayde that for the dukes bysshoppes and abbotes of Englande be not goddes seruauntes but the deuyllys god hath taken thys kyngdome into the handes of enemyes for a tyme and fendes shall walke and destroble the people Than I besought god that the people myghte haue warnynge and do penaunce and be delyuered as the people were of the cytye of Ninyue Nay sayde they for these men be so indurate of harte y e they shulde do no worthy penaunce nor to them god shall shewe hys mercy nor forgyuenesse Than I asked of them whaÌ„ myghte be hope of mercy and pardoÌ„ They answered whan a grene tree is hewen downe and a parte therof cut from the stocke and layde .iii. fourlonge from the stocke and wythout mannes helpe or hande shall retourne to his stocke or rote and take agayne hys shappe and than flouryshe and brynge forth fruyte whan thys is done than maye be hope of comforte and of remedy In the tyme that this blessyd man shewed thus thys vysyon was present there wyth other Stygandus archebysshoppe of Caunterbury The whyche sayde vnto the other that the kynge raued or ellys doted for age and sykenesse as olde men done and accompted these wordes for foly and vanyte But not longe after Englande felte and conceyued thys prophecye whan it was in subieccyon of straungers and alyauntes as after shall be shewed Than who that is desyrous to knowe the exposycion of the prophecye of the grene tree lette hym rede in the ende of the lyfe of thys gloryous kynge and confessoure translated by wyllyam Caxton in the boke called the Legende of sayntes and there he shall fynde it All be it that in other places I haue sene it otherwyse interpreted the whyche I remytte to them that haue experyence in suche facultye And to conclude thys storye trouth it is that this blessyd kynge dyed the .iiii. daye of Ianuary whan he hadde reygned .xxiii. yeres vii monethes and odde days and was buryed in the monastery of westmynster y â— whych he before had gretly augmeÌ„ted repayred but nat in that maner and fourme that it is nowe in For the chyrche that nowe there standeth was so reedyfyed and buylded newe of Henry the thyrde and sonne of kynge IohnÌ„ The whiche also after some wryters translated thys blessyd kynge Edwarde from the lower parte of y e chyrche and shryned hym there he now lyeth And this kynge Edwarde laft after hym no chylde for he was accompted for a vyrgyn whan he dyed Francia THE CCXV CHAPITER PHylyp the fyrst of that name son of Henry began his dominioÌ„ ouer the Frenchemen in the yere of our lorde M.lviii the .xvi. yere of Edwarde the confessour than kynge of Englande And of thys Phylyp it is radde that he maryed a wyfe named Berta the doughter of Baldewyne erle of Holland and of Fryce Of the whyche Berta this Philyp receyued a sonne and named hym Lewis and a doughter y e was called CunstauÌ„ce But in processe of tyme he haunted so myche the company of a woman named Bertande that he hated hys laufull wyfe and at length helde her in pryson and kept that other in her stede and gatte vppon the sayd Bertrande two sonnes named Phylyp Florys and a doughter which myne authour nameth not For thys aduoutry he was often monysshed of y e pope that he shulde leue the companye of that yll woman and take to hym hys lawfull wyfe y t he so longe had holden in pryson within hys castell of Monsfruell And for he wolde not be obedyent vnto the popes couÌ„sayll he was fynally accused of pope Urbane the seconde of that name By meane wherof he was reconcyled and restored agayne to his wyfe and refused hys concubyne And in the tyme of thys Phylyp Godfrey de BollioÌ„ with many other crysten prynces at the exortacyon of Peter the heremyte sayled into the holy lande and wanne the cytye of HierusaleÌ„ out of the Sarasyns handes whyche prynces lastly crowned the sayd Godfrey kynge of the sayde cytye And after it so contynued in possessyon of crysten men by y e terme of foure score and tenne yeres vnder ix crysten kinges and lenger myght haue endured hadde not discencyon fallen amonges them selfe And so by Antoninus Peter Disrey and other it is manyfestely shewed Thys vyage after moste accorde of wryters begaÌ„ in the yere of grace M.lxxxvi and the .xxvii. yere of thys Phylyp And the sayd Godfrey was crowned kynge of the sayde cytye of Hierusalem after the affyrmaunce of y e sayde wryters in the yere of grace a thousande and foure score and .xix. Of thys Phylyp lytell worthy memory is lefte in wrytynge For lyke as hys fader Henry made hym kyng by his lyfe and suffered hym to haue the rule of the lande ryght so thys Phylyp after a certayne of tyme coÌ„mytted the rule of the lande vnto Lewys his sonne And he sette hys mynde to huntynge and other dysportes and so ladde hys lyfe in all slowthe and idelnesse Than Lewys takynge vppon hym the charge of the realme subdued the erle of Mounte Merusy other that laboured to take from the chyrche of saynt Denys certayn preuyleges and also constrayned them to restore and satysfye all hurtes and harmes to the sayde chyrche by them done Thys Lewys as affermeth the Frenche cronycle maryed the doughter of Guy erle of Cotcheforde the whyche after for nerenesse of kynne was deforced from the sayde Lewys to the greate dyspleasour of the sayde erle Guy wherfore he moued warre agayne the sayd Lewys and toke from hym certayne holdes and castelles of the whyche the castell of Gurney was one But at length Lewys had y e better of that warre and recoueryd diuers of the sayd holdes And amonges other prysoners by hym and his knyghtes takeÌ„
neuew vnto Edward the confessour as before is shewed beganne hys domynyon ouer thys realme of Englande the .xv. daye of October in the yere of our lordes incarnacyon a thousand .lxvii and y e ix yere of the fyrste Phylyppe then kyng of Fraunce and was crowned kynge of the same vppon Crystmas daye nexte folowynge of Aldredus archbyshoppe of yorke for so myche as at that tyme Stigandus archbysshoppe of Caunterbury was then absent or durste not come in the pÌ„sence of the kynge to whome he ought no great fauour as in the sequele shall appere when wyllyam had sette in quyet a great parte of thys lande he betoke the gydyng therof to his brother the byshop of Bayon and in lent folowynge sayled into Normandye and led wyth hym the chefe rulers of England for doute of sturryng in tyme of his absence Amonge the whyche the two erles Marcarê° and Edwyne rulers of Northumberlande Mercia were two wyth also Stigandus and Edgare Ethelynge To the why the Stigandus wyllyam shewed great reuerence and couÌ„tenaunce of fauoure But all proued to great dissymulacyon after as was shewed by the depryuynge of the sayd Stigandus and prysonment of hym in wynchester towne by a longe terme and season In the next wynter whan wyllyam had sped hys besynesse in Normandy he retourned into England wyth greate pompe and sette a greuous trybute vpon the Englyshmen By reason wherof some partyes of the lande rebelled agayne hym and specyally the cytye of Excetour the whyche defended hym for a certayne of tyme. But lastly by force he wanne the sayde cytye and punysshed the cytesyns greuously For thys and other sterne dedes of wyllyam Marcharus erle of Northumberlande wyth Edgare Athelynge and dyuers other as hys moder and two systers Margarete and Crystyan sayled into Scotlande But another cronycle telleth y t Edgare entendynge wyth Agatha hys moder and hys two systers to haue sayled into Almayne where he was borne was by tempest of the see dryuen into Scotlande where of Malcolyne than kynge of Scottes they were ioyously receyued And in processe of tyme the sayde Malcolyne caste suche loue vnto the sayd Margaret that he toke her to wyfe as before is touched in the fyrste chapyter of the story of Canutê° Of the which Margaret the sayde Malcolyne receyued .ii. doughters and .vi. sonnes wherof thre named Edgare AlexauÌ„der Dauyd were kynges of Scotlande nexte folowynge theyr fader And Molde one of y e foresayd doughters was after maryed vnto the fyrst Henry kynge of Englande And the other doughter Mary was maryed to Eustace erle of Bolongii Of Molde the fyrste doughter Henry receyued .ii. sonnes named wyllyam and Rychard the whych bothe dyed before theyr fader as after in y e story of the sayd Henry shall appere And he receyued also two doughters named Molde and Mary whych Molde or Mawde was maryed to y e fyfte Henry emperour of Almayne After whose deth she was agayne maryed to Godfrey of Geoffrey PlaÌ„tagenet erle of Aungeowe Of whom descended Henry surnamed shorte mantell and kynge of Englande called Henry the seconde And the other doughter Mary was maryed vnto the erle of Blaynes of whoÌ„ descended Molde or Mawde that was wyfe vnto kynge Stephen Than it foloweth that thys wyllyam after thys foresayd trybute so leuyed of the Englysshemen and knowynge of the depertynge of the lordes foresayde kepte the other the streyter But it was not longe after that Marcharus was reconsyled to the kynges grace and fayled agayn as folowynge shall be shewed For thys and other causes whyche were tedyous to shewe wyllyam exalted the Normans and gaue vnto them the chyefe possessyons of the lande so that they dayly encreased in great honour and welth and the Englysh men as faste decayed Kynge wyllyaÌ„ also made .iiii. stronge castels where of two be sette at yorke the thyrde at Lyndetyngham or Notynghm and manned them wyth Normans and the .iiii. at Lyncolne About the thyrde yere of his reygne Harolde Canutus sonnes of Swanus kynge of Denmarke came on lande in the North of Humber wyth a stronge nauy and in all haste drew them towarde yorke Than the Normans whyche hadde the rule of the towne and castelles feryng that the Englysshemen wolde ayde the Danys and wyth the houses of the suburbes of the towne haue fylled the towne dyches sette the suburbes on fyre wherof y e flame was so bygge and wyth the wynde so stronge that it toke into the cytye brent a parte therof wyth the mynster of saynt Peter In tyme wherof the Danys by fauour of some of the citesyns entred the cytye and slewe more than thre thousande of the Normans But it was not longe or kynge wyllyam chased the Danys to theyr shyppes and toke so greate dyspleasure wyth the inhabytauntes of that prouynce that he destroyed the land lyenge bytwene yorke and Durham in suche wyse that .ix. yeres after or there about the lande laye vnlabored vntylled onely out taken saynt IohnÌ„s lande of Beuerley the which was for borne by reason of a wreche done by dyuyne power vpon one of kynge wyllyams knyghtes The whych as he was besyed in wastyng and spoylynge of the sayde countre fyll sodeynly wyth hys horse so that hys horse brake hys necke and the knyghtes face was turned to his backe And of the famyne that the people of that countre susteyned wonders are reported that they shuld eate all maner of vermyn as cattes rattes dogges other so harde they were kepte by the warre of the kyng And in that yere also Molde or Mawde the wyfe of kynge wyllyaÌ„ was crowned quene of England of Aldredus archebysshop of yorke In the .iiii. yere of the reygne of thys kynge the Scottes with Malcolyne theyr kynge entred Northumberlande and wasted and destroyed sore that countre and slewe there in myche people and many they toke prysoners helde theÌ„ as bonde men But in the .vi. yere of hys kyngdome wyllyam made such warre vppon the Scottes that he lastely forced the sayde Malcolyne to swere to hym bothe homage and feauty as it is wytnessed of wyllyam of Malmesbery and other wryters THE CCXX CHAPITER Kynge willyam by counsayle of the erle of Hortford and other caused the abbeyes of Englande to be serched And what money in them at that season was founde he caused it to be brought to hys treasour For the whyche dede after the exposycyoÌ„ of some authours the sayd erle was punysshed as after shall be shewed Soone vpon thys in the tyme by twene Easter and wytsontyde was holden a solempne counsayle at wynchester of the clergy of Englande At the whyche counsayle were presente two cardynalles sent from y e second Alexaunder than pope In thys couÌ„sayle Stygandus archebysshop of CauÌ„terbury was depryued from his dygnytye and that for thre skylles The fyrste was for that he had holden wrongfully that bysshopryche whyle Robert the archebysshop was lyuynge The seconde cause was for that he hadde receyued the Paule
in lawe wyllyam son of kynge Henry whyche hadde maryed hys doughter About the .xx. yere of the reygne of kyng Henry quene Molde or Mawde hys wyfe dyed in Normandy the whyche in her youthe was set by her father kyng of Scottes into a nunry and there ware vsed the vayle and habyte of a nunne For the whiche cause when kynge Henry was agreable to take her vnto wyfe thys mater fell in great despucyon Anselme then archebyshop of Caunterbury was sore agayne that maryage a season of tyme. But at length yt was suffycyeÌ„tly proued that she was there as a fygure a woman worynge that habyte wythoute professyon of order And this was thus ordered by her father to the ende to put by vnworthy wowers Thys of wryters was reputed for a blessyd and holy woman after the lyuynge of a worldly woman when kynge Henry had contynued in Normandy vppon the season and terme of .iii. yeres he toke shyppyng at Haterflete in Normandy and sayled happely into Englande the same day that is to meane y e .xxiiii. day of Nouember as sayth some wryters And shortly after willyaÌ„ duke of Normandy wyth Rycharde his brother Notha the countesse of Persye Rycharde erle of Chester with his wyfe the kynges nyce and the archdekyn of Herforde and other to the nomber of a hundred .lx. persones toke shyppynge at the sayde porte were all drowned a bocher onely excepte whyche mysfortune fell by the ouersyght of the maister and other which fell at a dyssencyon in the nyghte amonge them selfe by reason wherof they ranne vppon a rocke as shewed the foresayde bocher From this dauÌ„ger wyllyam duke of NormaÌ„dy was escaped and was in the shyppe bote nere vnto the lande But when he harde the lameÌ„table crye of the CouÌ„tesse Notha he commaunded the rowers to returne and saue the sayd Countesse whych done by what mysfortune I can not saye after she was receyued into the bote were it by tempeste or ouer chargynge of the bote or otherwise they were all swalowid of the see so that none of them was after fouÌ„de but ê‘te of theyr goodes Of this duke wyllyaÌ„ some desclaunderous wordes are lefte in memory both in the englyshe cronycle and also of other wryters the whyche I ouerpasse THE CCXXIX CHAPITER IN the .xxi. yere of hys reygne kynge Henry made y e parke of wodestoke be syde Oxenforde with other plesures to the same And Fouques erle of Angiers returned out of the holy land and maryed the syster of her that before he had maryed vnto wyllam duke of Normandye vnto the son of Robert Curthose and gaue wyth her the erledome of Conomanna And stryfe began to kyndell betwene kynge Henry the sayd Fouques for the wytholdyng of the dowre or ioynture of hys fyrste doughter maryed wnto wyllyam the kynges sonne In the .xxiii. yere of kynge Henry dyed Raufe archbyshoppe of Caunterbury and one named wyllyaÌ„ was set in y e see after hym And the kynge in thys yere beganne the foundacyon of y e abbay of Redyng And IohnÌ„ a cardynall of Rome was sente from Calyxte the seconde of that name theÌ„ beynge pope for certayne maters coÌ„cernynge the pope In the tyme of whyche hys so beynge here the cardynall made sharpe processe agayne prestes that norysshed Crysten moyles and rebuked them by open publyshement and otherwyse so that he wan hym here but small lytle fauoure But this dyssymuled doctour toke so great feruence in the correccyon of the iudgement of prestes of Englande that he forgate the lore and couÌ„sayll of his famous pope Caton whyche in the boke of his counsayll or of wysedome thus sayth Quae cuspare soses ea tu ne feceris ipse Turpe est doctori cum cuspa redarguit ipsum The whyche two verses maye be englyshed as foloweth Auyse y e well let reason be thy guyde when other folke thou arte aboute to blame That suche defaute in the be not espyed For yf there be then shalt thou haue the shame A mannes honoure suche thynges woll reclayme It ys full foule when that a man woll chese If that hys dede agayne hys wordes preche This couÌ„sayll was not remembred of the sayd Cardynall For in the euenynge after he had lewdely blowen his horne and sayde it was a detestable synne to aryse from the syde of a strumpet sacre the body of Cryste he was taken wyth a strumpet to his open shame and rebuke In the .xxv. yere of kynge Henry was called a counsayll at London where the spyrytualty condescended that the kynges offycers shulde punyshe prestes that cheryshed the foresayde mulys But the sayd offycers toke money and sufferyd the prestes to spurre theyr mulys at theyr pleasure whyche offyce at this daye is so clerely renouÌ„ced of al spyritual men y t neyther kyng nor bishop taketh for yt any synes nor yet correccyon necessarye to be done for the same In the .xxvii. yere of his reygne as reporteth an olde Cronycle the gray freres by procuryng of y e kyng came fyrste into Englande and had theyr fyrst house buylded at Caunterbury And aboute this tyme by moste accorde of writers dyed Henry the .iiii. emperour of that name whyche as before is touched maryed Molde the doughter of kyng Henry After whose deth the sayde empresse came vnto her father into Normandye when kyng Henry was ascertaynted of the deth of Henry the emperour for so myche as he hadde none heyre male he caused soone after the more party of hys lordes of England as well spirytuall as temporall to swere in his presence that they shuld kepe y e land of Englande to the vse of Mawde y e empresse yf he dyed wythoute yssue male and she then suruyued In the .xxviii. yere of kyng Henry Geffrey PlaÌ„tagenet erle of Angeou maryed Molde the empresse Of the whyche two descended Henry the second that after Stephan was kyng of Englande In this yere also the kynge had dyuers monycyons and vysyons For amonge other ferefull dremys he saw a great company of clerkys with dyuerse wepons whyche manassed hym for dette that he shuld owe vnto them And when they were passed he thought y t he was manassed to deth of his own knyghtes And lastely apperyd to hym a great company of byshoppes whych thretened hym and wolde haue smytten hym wyth theyr crosses By this monicyon he toke remorce in his conscyence and dyd great dedes of charyte in Normandye where he hadde sene these visyons And after his coÌ„myng then into Englande in satysfaccyon of wronges done to the chyrche as affermeth Guydo he then founded the abbay of Redynge before spoken of And ouer that he releasyd vnto Englyshe men the Dane gelt that was by his father his brother renewed In the .xxx. yere of this kyng Henry dyed the erle of Flaundres and kynge Henry as sayth Ranulfe was by agrement of Lewys the Frenche kyng made erle as next heyr enherytour to the sayde erledome But it is not there expressed by
what maner of tytle or successyon In the .xxxii. yere of the kyng dyed Robert Curthose the kynges broder the whyche he hadde kept as prysoner in the castell of Cardyfe from the iiii yere of his reygn or there about whose corps as before is shewed was buryed at Glouceter before the hyghe alter And aboute this tyme was founded the pryorye of Norton in the prouynce of Chester by one wyllyam the sonne of Nychelle And the abbay of Combremer in the same prouynce was also founded aboute the same tyme. In the .xxxv. yere of kynge Henry was borne of Molde the empresse Henry shorte mantell or Henry the seconde The whyche as after shall be shewed was consentynge to the martyrdome of saynt Thomas of Caunterburye Kynge Henry beyng in Normandy after some writers fell from or wyth hys horse whereof he cought hys deth But Ranulphe sayth he toke a surfet by etynge of a lamprey ther of dyet when he hadde reygned full xxxv yeres and odde monethes Then y e kynges bowellys were drawen out of hys body and then salted wyth myche salte And for to auoyde the stenche whych hadde infected many men the body was lastely closed in a bulles skynne and yet yt was not all stynted He that clensed the hed dyed of the stenche of the brayn Then lastely the body was brought into England buryed in the abbay of Redynge that he had before founded Then y e fame of hym was blowen abrode as yt is blowen of other prynces and sayde y t he passed other men in .iii. thynges In wytte in eloquence and fortune of batayll And other sayde he was ouercomen wyth iii. vyces wyth couetyse wyth cruelty and wyth luste of lechery One other made these verys of hym as folowen Kynge Henry is dede bewte of the world for whom great dole Goddes now maken for theyr kynde brother For he is sole Mercurius in speche Marce in batayll harte stronge Appollo Iupiter in hest egall with Saturne and enymye to Cupido Kyng he was of right man of most myght and glorious in raynyng And when he left his crowne theÌ„ fell honour downe for mysse of suche a kynge Normandy than gan lowre for losse of theyr floure sange wel away Englande made mone Scotlande dyd grone for to se that daye Francia THE CCXXX CHAPITER LEwys the sonne of the fyrste Phylyp beganne hys reygne ouer the Frenchemen in the yere of our lorde .xi. hundred .vii. to reken his begynnynge from the deth of his father and the .vi. yere of the fyrste Henry then kyng of England This Lewys as before is touched was admytted to the rule of the land certayn yeres or hys father dyed and was surnamed Lewes the great for grossenesse of his body Anon as this Lewys had fynyshed the obsequy of the funerallys of hys father he wythoute taryenge called a counsayll of hys lordes spyrytuall and temporall at the cytye of Orleaunce where of the byshoppe of the same see wyth other adioynynge he was solemnly anoynted crowned But not wythout grudge of the archbyshoppe of Raynes for so mych as of custome the Frenche kynges vsed there to be crowned Soone after the coronacyon of Lewys Guy le Rous and Guy de Cressy his sonne whych before tyme hadde ben at debate and warre with Lewys and Lewys had from them taken y e castel of Gurnaye this Guy le Rous wyth hys sonne seynge they might not preuayle agayn the kyng awayted theyr tyme and season and espyed when Endo hys owne broder and erle of Corbueyll went forth on huntynge and toke hym as a prysoner kept hym in the castell of Bawdum whereof the cause was for so myche as the sayde Endo wolde not assyste nor ayde y e sayd Guyle Rous his brother agayne the kynge when thys was knowen anon the frendes and tenauntes of the sayde erle shewyd this mater vnto the kynge besechynge hym that he wolde ayde and assyste theym to recouer theyr naturall lorde wherunto the kynge granÌ„ted and forth wyth sent a knyght or captayn of his named Auncelyne accompanyed with .xl. horsmen before for so myche as yt was shewyd vnto the kyng y t such as had y e rule of the castell wolde receyue suche persones as were sent from hym and delyuer the castell wyth the prysoner vnto them Uppon whyche appoyntemeÌ„t thys Ancelyne as before is sayd was sent to entre this castell But all contrary to the former ê“mise made this Auncelyne was betrayed and taken and many of his men slayne hym selfe set in prison where the sayd erle of Corbuayll was wherof when the kynge was enfourmed he was passynge greuously dyscontent wherfore in all haste he sped him thyther compassed y e castell wyth a stronge syege and those that were wythin defended them manfully In the tyme of the whyche syege nother Guy the fader nor Guy hys sonne were with in the sayde castell of Baudum But Guy y e son as a lusty and iuperdous knyght put hym self in aduenture dyuers wayes and tymes to haue entred the sayde castell for comfort of his men but all was in vayn Fynally the kynge made so sore and cruell assautes that he wan the fyrst warde wyth great dyffycultye and after the hole and delyueryd the erle and Auncelyn his stewarde y e which were in great doute of theyr lyues And such as he toke prysoners of the soldyours some he put to deth and some he prisoned to theyr lyues ende to the terrour and fere of other In processe of tyme after at a place called the Roche of Guy whych one Guy of olde tyme had buylded dwel lyd at this daye one of that stocke named also Guy the whyche hadde to wyfe a fayre and good woman the doughter of one wyllyaÌ„ a Norman whyche wyllyam entendynge to dysheryte the sayde Guy and to be lord of that stronge place vppon a tyme when the sayde Guy was in y e chyrch or chapell to here his dyuyne seruyce entred the chyrche wyth a certayn of harnessed knightes vnder theyr man tellys and fell vppon hym and all to hewe hym wherof herynge the wyfe ranne as a madde woman and fell vppon her husbande to the enteÌ„t to saue hym from the strokes But the tyrauntes were so cruell y t they forbare nothynge of theyr cruel tye but wounded her wyth her husbande so that both were slayne and that done entred the castell and slew all suche as they found therin when this willyam fader to y e wife of Guy or broder to her as affermeth maister Robert Gagwyne was possessed of y e castell of Guyon he thought therby to rule all the countrey enuyron But the gentylles and commons he rynge of thys shamefull murder assembled theÌ„ to gither of one mynde whyle some of them yode to the kyng to enfurme hym of that cruell dede the other prepared abyllementes of warre and layde syege to the sayde castell The kynge Lewys herynge of this shamfull dede and the wynnynge of so stronge
abbot and munkes of the same wherfore the kynge spedde hym thyther in all haste But for theyr sauergarde the munkes were compelled to fortyfye the chyrche and to defende them by force of armys so that betwene them and the Burgonions many an arbalaster and stone was shot cast And for the kynge myght not so hastly furnyshe hym of his soldyours he therfore sent vnto the erle of Neuers by whose meane as to the kyng was shewed this ryot began commaundynge hym that he shuld se this ryot appeased and that the chyrch of Uerdeley were restored of suche harmys as to theym was done by the inhabytauntes of the towne But of thys cōmaundement the erle set but lytle so that the burgeses perseuered in theyr erroure wherfore the abbot sente agayne to the kynge besechyng hym of his moste gracyouse ayde and socoure Then the kynge herynge of the erles dysobedyence was therwyth greatly dyspleasyd and suspected y e erle to be partye in the cause sped hym y e faster thetherwarde But when the erle was enfourmed of the kynges cōmynge he somdeale feryd and mette wyth the kynge at a place called Moret and there demeaned hym in suche wyse that the kyng forgaue his offense Then he promysed that the kynges pleasure shulde be fullfylled in all thynge as he hadde before cōmaunded wyth more as yt lyked hym to dyuyse Uppon whych promyse so made he commaunded that the Burgonyons shulde fyrste refrayne theym of that rebellyon agayn the chyrch and that they shuld newly be sworne to be obedient vnto the abbot and vnto hys successours as theyr p̄decessours had ben ouer that for the hurtes harmys y t they had done to the place at that season they shulde paye to the sayde abbot and couēt .lx. thousand sous A sous is in value after sterlyng money i. d. ob so that .lx. thousand sous amounteth in sterlyng money .iii. hundred lxxv pounde After whych ende thus made the kynge retourned into Fraunce It was not longe after that y e kyng receyued of quene Alys hys wyfe a sonne and named yt Phylyppe But for y e kyng Lewys had made many pylgrymages and vsed many ways of charyte in gyuynge of almes and otherwyse for to haue a sonne to be his heyre therfore he surnamed this chylde A dieu done a chyld gyuen of god Then thys Lewys for the intollerable dedes of the Iewes whiche in these dayes had great inhabytynge wyth in the lande of Fraūce vsed vsery sleynge of Crysten chyldren he ponyshed many by deth and many he banyshed his lande but yet many remayned Of this Lewys dedes is lytle more cronacled excepte when his son Philyppe was of the age of .xiii. yeres his fader caused hym to be crowned and resygned to hym all the rule of the lande and dyed the yere folowynge at Parys in the moneth of October in the yere of grace .xi. hūdred and .lxxix. By whyche reason he reygned to reken from his faders deth to his owne vppon .xliii. yeres and was rychely enterred by y e meane of his last wife at the monastery of Barbell the whyche he founded in hys yonge days After whose deth y e sayd quene Alys adorned his sepulture in the moste rychest maner wyth gold syluer and precyous gemmys vppon whose tombe was grauen these two versis folowyng as a counsayll left vnto his sonne Phylyppe 〈◊〉 superos tu qui super es successor honoris Degener es si degeneris a laude prioris whyche versys are to be vnderstanden as after foloweth Nowe take good hede thou that doest ouer lyue Hym that in honoure and vertue dyd excelle Se thou alter not nor thy selfe depryue But folowe hym which was of honoure the well For yf thou do not men shall of the tell Thou arte degenerate and growen out of kynde Thy progenytours laude hauynge nothynge in mynde Anglia THE CCXXXVI CHAPITER HEnry the second of that named sonne of Geffrey Plātagenet erle of Angeou and of Molde y e empresse doughter of Henry y e first began hys reygn ouer the realme of England in the moneth of October the yere of our lorde god .xi. hundred and .lv and. y e xix yere of Lewys the viii then kynge of Fraunce Thys Henry was somdeale redde of face brode of breste shorte of body therwyth fatte the whych to aswage he toke the lesse of metes and drynkes and exercysed myche huntynge He was resonable of speche and well lettered orped and also noble in knyghthode wyse in counsayll and dred to myche distenyes He was also free and lyberall to straūgers and harde and holdynge from hys famylyers seruauntes And whome he loued enterely or hated harde it was to turne hym to the contrary He was slowe of answere vnstedfaste of promyse gylefull of dede open spouse breker hamour of holy chyrch and alwayes vnkynde to god He also loued reste and peace to the ende he myghte the more folowe hys delectacyon pleasure wyth mo vyces rehersed by Gyralde the whyche for length I passe ouer This Henry yet as wytnessyth Ranulfe was not all bareyn of vertues For he was of so gret courageousnes that he wolde often say that all the world suffysyth not to a coragyous harte And he encreasyd hys herytage so myghtyly that he wanne Irlande by strength and toke wyllyam kynge of Scottes and ioyned that kyngdome to his owne From the suthe Occean to the north ylandes of Orkeys he closed all the landes as yt were vnder one pryncypate and spradde so largely hys empyre that men rede not of none of hys progenytours that hadde so many prouynces and countreys vnder theyr domynyon and rule For besyde the realme of Englande he hadde in hys rule Normandy Gascoyn and Guyan Angeou and Chynon And he made subiecte to hym Aluerne and other landes And by hys wyfe he obteyned as her ryghte the mountes and hyllys of Spayne called montes Pyrany Of the whyche wyfe Elynoure by name deuorced as before ys sayde from the viii Lewys kynge of Fraunce he receyued .vi. sonnes and thre doughters Of the sonnes fyue were named wyllyam Henry Rycharde Godfrey and Iohn̄ The eldeste of the maydens hight Molde or Maude and was maryed to the duke of Saxon the seconde Elyanoure to the kynge of Spayne and the thyrd named Iane to wyllyam kynge of Scycyle Thys Henry was prosperouse in hys begynnynge and vnfortunate in hys ende and specyally in the last fyue yeres of hys reygne For in the fyrst of those fyue yeres his strength beganne to mynyshe the seconde yere he loste a vyage in Irlande the thyrde he loste Aluerne agayne the kynge of Fraunce the fourth yere he loste Butyrycan and the fyfte yere he loste the cytye of Cenomenea and Turon wyth many holdes to theym belongynge Thys Henry the seconde ascertayned of the deth of Stephan spedde hym into Englande and was crowned the sondaye before Crystemasse daye of Theobalde archbyshoppe of Caunterbury in westmynster chyrch
e sayd ryght and tytle But yt was not longe or she were frō hym deuorced for cause of alyaūce of gossypred or otherwise Howe be yt in processe of tyme after the said Iugebert was to him agayn ioyned by the authoryte of Pope Innocent the thyrd of that name in the yere of grace .xii. hūdred and .ix. and yere of reygne of this Philyppe .xxx so that the sayde Iugebert was deuorced frome her lorde by the terme of .xvii. yeres or theruppon In whych tyme and season the sayd Phylyppe had maryed the doughter of Phylyppe duke of Sweuy that then was returned vnto her father THE CCXLIII CHAPITER Kynge Phylyp for dyspleasure whych he bare towarde kyng Rycharde made sharpe and cruell warre vpon the Normans and wan therein dyuerse holdes and townes and fynally layde syege vnto the cytye of Roan wherof herynge Iohn̄ erle of Huntyngeton or after some erle of Oxenforde brother to kynge Rycharde whome the Frenche boke nameth Iohn̄ withoute lande wyth the erle of Arundell and other noble men spedde hym into Normandye and so ayded the cytezens and the soldyours of Roan that as testyfyeth the frēche cronycle the French kyng was so moued wyth the warre and defence of the same towne that in a passynge fury consyderyng the wynter season drewe vppon and that he myght not carye awaye his gunnes and other great ordynaunces he set all vppon a fyre and so wyth great agony departed And within thre monethes after he layde syege vnto the castell of Uernyel where whē he had lyen .iii. wekes or more a messynger came vnto hym and sayde that the cytye Euroux was taken of the Normans and the people therof taken prysoners wherfore in all haste he departed and rescued the sayd cytye and prysoners and that done retourned to the foresayde syege and assyeged yt so strōgely that lastely he had yt delyueryd by appoyntement By thys season was kynge Rycharde delyueryd out of the handes of the duke of Ostryge And then beganne the warre to be more cruell whych here I passe ouer for so mych as I entende to shew the effecte therof in the storye of kynge Rycharde folowynge Aboute the .xviii. yere of the reygn of thys Phylyppe fell such plenty of water that the groūde was therwith so bucked and drowned that corne other frutes by reason therof greatly decayed and scanted in such wyse that whete was shortly after at .xx. s a quarter after sterlynge money In the .xx. yere of the reygn of this Phylyppe dyed Rycharde kynge of England to whom was heyre Iohn̄ before named his brother The whyche cōcluded a trewce wyth this Philyppe for certayne yeres as after in the storye of this Iohn̄ shall more clerely appere And soone there after meanes were made to kyng Phylyp that he shuld receyue agayne vnto his company Iugebert hys wyfe and to renounce Mary doughter of the duke of Sweuy or after some authours the doughter of the duke of Bohemy But the kynge wyth this mocyon was nothynge contentyd nor yet agreable to folow any such mocion or request wherfore the prelasy of the lande assemled theym in counsayll and by a full and hole authoryte seynge they myghte not induce the kynge to no conformyte or agrement to resume hys lawfull wyfe and to refuse that other they denounsed hym and hys realme accursed wherwith the kyng was so amoued and vexed that he depryued certayne bysshoppes from theyr sees and also toke in hys possessyon the spyrytuall goodes and prysoned many prestes and other relygyous men and ouer that closed the sayde Iugebert wythin the castell of Sampys and forthermore greued hys comons wyth greuous exaccyons and taxys Than wythin a shorte terme after Iohn̄ de saynte Poule cardynall and Athā or Othemon bysshoppe of Osty and legate of the pope of Rome wyth the archebysshoppe of Burdeaux and other by the commaundement of the pope than Innocent the thyrde kepte a greate counceyle in the cytye of Sorsore where the kynge was monysshed to apere for so mych as before he hadde graunted to be reconcyled vnto hys fyrste wyfe where thys mater hynge in argument before the spyrytuall iudges by y e space of .xv. dayes wythout sentence gyuynge wherfore the kynge beynge wyth the delayes dyscontented sodenly wyth hys wyfe departed wythout takynge of them any congye or leue sendynge them vnderstandyng that as yet he wolde be aduysed or he were dysseuered from hys wyfe wherof whan the sayd Iohn̄ cardynall and the other bysshoppes hadde wyttynge accomptynge theyr laboure loste they retourned shortely after vnto Rome and shewed vnto the pope all as they hadde done And soone there after kyng Iohn̄ was honorably receyued of thys kynge Phylyppe as in the story of the sayd Iohn̄ shall be more playnly shewed And in the yere folowynge which shulde be in the begynnynge of the xxiii yere of thys Phylyppe dyed Mary hys wyfe whyche he wrongfully had holden cōtrary to the law of the chyrche by the terme of tenne yeres or there vppon Of the whyche Mary he hadde receyued a man chylde and a doughter the whyche after were made legyttymate by Innocent the thyrde though some noble men of Fraunce there agayne grudged THE CCXLIIII CHAPITER IT was not longe after that y e kyng assembled greate people and entendyd to haue entred the landys of the erle Rossell o◠Roger de Rose of the whyche he hadde broughte before hym many greuous complayntes of greate extorcyons and exaccyōs that the sayd erle and Roger hadde executed and done vppon the chyrches nere to the valey of Soysons and wolde not refrayne for all the kynges cōmaundement wherfore he rygged hys armye and drewe towarde them But as soone as they were aduertysed of the kynges comynge anone they submytted them to the kynges grace oblygynge them selfe to make restytucyon accordynge to the kynges pleasure to all suche places and persons as they hadde offended And thys acte thus fynysshed kyng Phylyppe returned vnto a place bytwene Uerdon and the I le Audely in the whyche place the kynge hadde appoynted a great counsayle or parlyament where amonge other maters yt was concluded that Iohn̄ kynge of Englande shulde be somoned to appere as the Frenche kynges lyege man at the same parlyament to be holden at parys wythin xv dayes of Ester to answere suffycyently to the kyng vppon such questyons as there shulde be purposed vnto hym for the duchy of Normandye for the coūtrey of Aungeou and of Poytyers But for y t kynge John̄ came not at that day appoynted nor none for hym accordynge to the monyshement to hym gyuen therfore thys kynge Philypppe not withstandynge the amytye and trewce before confermed assembled hys hoste and entred the duchye of Normandye and made therin sharpe and cruell warre and wanne a castell therein named Bonte or Bowte and brused or crased the castellys of Gentylyne and Gurney and seased all y e landes whyche Hugh de Gurney helde and gyue theym vnto the duke of Brytayne And also he gaue vnto hym the
erledome of Aungeou and two hundred knyghtes prysones of Normans and Englyshe wyth a great summe of money It was not longe after that the duke of Brytayne was departyd from the kynge but that he wyth suche power as he myght make entred the countrey of Aungeou to take therof possessyon where in shorte space he was encountred of kynge John̄ and fought to geder a cruell batell In the whyche in the ende the duke was put to the worse for the more parte of hys people were slayne and hym selfe wyth Hugh le Bruns Godfrey de Lesygnan and many other nobles of Fraunce and also of Brytayne were taken prysoners wyth whyche tydynges the Frenche kyng was greuously dyscontentyd And where as at that tyme he had becleped y e castell of Arches wyth a strong syege he remoued from thens and and yode to the citye of Towres and brent a part therof But as testifyeth the frenche cronycle he taryed not the commynge of kynge Iohn̄ But for that wynter was commynge towarde he ceasyd of hys warrys for that yere and so drewe hym into Fraunce ⸫ In the yere folowynge whyche was the yere of this Phylyp .xxiiii of kynge Iohn̄ the .iiii. yere y e warre newely began whyche I ouer passe for as mych as yt shall be shewyd in the storye of kynge Iohn̄ In the .xxvi. yere thys Phylyppe Almaricus a studyent of Paris held certayne opynyons of heresye Of the whyche when he was abiured he toke suche thought that he dyed shortely after It was not longe after but that other clerkys and studyauntys helde an other erronyous opynyon cōcernynge y e vnyon of the trynyte Of the whyche nomber Peter byshoppe of Parys and one Garyne a man of great connynge were two the whyche were degraded after cōsumyd wyth fyre and the body of the forenamed Almaricus was agayne taken oute of the erthe and after brent Nere about the .xxx. yere of the reygne of thys Phylyppe for consyderacyon as sayth the frenche boke that Iohn̄ kynge of Englande had exylyd dyuerse of hys byshoppes and taken from them theyr possessyons and goodes the whyche to this kynge Phylyp were comen for ayde and socour he therfore mouyd with pytye assembled a great hoste and entendyd to haue sayled into Englande to haue refourmed these maters wyth the whyche hoste he passed tyll he came to Grauenynge by lande where he appoynted hys nauey to mete wyth hym And to the same place also Ferrande then erle of Flaundres had affermely promysyd to come wyth the ayde of hys Flemynges where the kynge for hym taryed a certayne of tyme. But shortely after the kynge was ascertayned that the sayde erle was alyed wyth kynge Iohn̄ hys enymye and purposed to ayde hys partye in all that he myghte wherof the occasyon was as affermeth the sayde Frenche cronycle for so myche as Lewys eldest sonne of kynge Phylyppe helde from the sayde Farrande two castellys or townes named saynte Omer and Are. when kynge Phylyppe apperceyued that he was thus of the erle dyspoynted he by coūsayll of his Baronye putte by hys iourney into Englande and assayled the countrey of Flaundres and so yode vnto Cassyle a lytell from Grauelynge wyth sharpe assaute wanne the sayd towne and so from thens to Brugys and commaunded hys nauy to be brought vnto the hauē of Sluse whyche is wythin shorte waye of Brugys And when he hadde executed hys pleasure at Brugys leuyng a certayn of his peple for to strength hys Nauy he yode vnto Gaunte and there rested hym and hys people In whyche season Regnolde erle of Boleyne Guyllyam longe Espe or Guyllyam wyth the longe sworde wyth a crewe of Englyshe men aryued in Flaundres to whom shortely drewe Ferraunde the erle wyth a great power of Flemynges The whyche shypped theym in small caruyles and barkes and other shyppys of aduaūtage and wyth a fyerse corage sette vppon the Frenche kynges nauey lyenge at Sluse as before is shewed where was foughten a stronge and cruell batayll But in the ende the Flemynges hadde the vyctorye and hadde the rule of all the frenche flote the whyche in nomber as testyfyeth the sayd frenche cronycle were a thousande ten sayle The whyche for nomber and greatnesse myghte not all lye wythin the hauyn but spradde a great parte of the ryuer besyde whyche so lyenge wythout the hauen the Flemynges conueyed thens and after layde ordinaunce to the towne of Sluse and assyeged yt Kynge Phylyppe herynge of the losse of hys nauye and of the assautynge of the towne of Sluse in all haste spedde hym thyther and there in suche wyse resysted hys enymyes that he slew of them vpon two thousande and toke of theym dyuerse prysoners and rescued the towne But for he sawe he myght not recouer hys shyppes beynge wythin the hauyn he causyd theym to be dyscharged of vytell and other necessaryes and after set them on fyre and the towne also and that done toke certayne hostages of Brugis of Gaunte and of Ipre and so retourned into Fraunce THE CCXLV CHAPITER WHen kynge Phylippe was returned into Fraunce yt was not longe after that by the meanes of some well dysposyd persones he was reconcyled and toke to hym his lawfull wyfe Ingeberta or Ingebert doughter of the kynge of Denmarke whyche was great comforte to all hys people And thys yt nowe apperyth that the sayde Ingebert was from her lorde or husbande by the terme of .xvi. yeres and more as before yt is touched in the seconde chapyter of thys storye In the yere of grace .xii. hūdred .xiiii. as sayth the frenche boke whyche maketh the yere of the reygne of this Philyppe .xxxv Otho the .iiii. of that name and duke of Saxony whyche of some of the electours was chosen for emperour in the quarell of kyng Iohn̄ intred y e prouince of Henaude and there beynge accompanyed with Reygnolde erle of Boleyne Farraunde erle of Flaundres and dyuerse other nobles as well of Englande Saxonye and other places made prouysyon to fyght wyth kynge Phylyppe whyche then warred in Flaūdres so that the Frenche kynge was at the castell of Peron and Otho was at the castell of Ualensyens or Ualenseus About Mary Madgdaleyns tyde the Frenche kynge in wastyng y e coūtrey of Flaūdres came vnto the town of Turney and Otho returned from the foresayde castell and came vnto the castell or towne named Mortenge the whyche was but .vi. myle from Turney wherof herynge the kynge entendyd to haue set in shorte tyme vppon hys enymyes But by the aduyse of hys barons he was letted for so myche as the wayes and places were streyghte and narowe towarde hys enymyes For the whyche consyderacyon by counsayll of hys sayde barones he was letted and retourned towarde Henawde for to haue more larger playnes So that after saynte Iamys daye he retourned purposynge that nyghte to haue lyen and also his hoste at the castell called Lylly But he was letted of hys purpose For Otho whych was warned of hys remouynge demed
of our lord M.iiii C. .xxii and y e fyrst yere of Charles the .vii. or viii y e thaÌ„ne amonge the FrenchemeÌ„ was allowed for kyng and reygned yeres .xxxix. folio clxxix Henry of Derby wyth other landed at RaueÌ„spore as is shewed fo cli Henry the fyfte foresayd sayled into Fraunce loke in fo clxxii Henry Derby forenamed and of hys issue is shewed fo cxliiii Henry the .iiii. aforesayd maryed the duchesse of Brytayne fo clxvi Heresye of IohnÌ„ wyclyf apereth folio cxlvii Heretykes taken in saynt Gyles feld and after brent fo clxxi Homage done by lordes of Almayne to Rycharde erle of Cornewayll brother to kyng Henry the thyrde folio xxxviii Homage done by the kyng of Scottes to kyng E. the .iii. fo lxxxix Hughe holy bysshoppe of Lyncolne dyed fo xi IohnÌ„ brother to Rycharde the fyrste was ordeyned kynge of Englande in the moneth of Apryll yere of our lord M.C.xcix the .xx. yere of the second Phylyp than kyng of Fraunce and reygned yere .xvii. The interdiccion of thys lande begaÌ„ in the .vi. yere of thys kynge endured tyll the .xiii. yere Henry the sonne of Alwyn in the .x. yere of thys kynge was admytted for the fyrste mayre of LoÌ„doÌ„ And in the sayd .x. yere of king IohnÌ„ London brydge was begon to be made of stone fo x IohnÌ„ the fyrst in Fraunce of that name sonne of Phylyp de Ualoys began hys reygne ouer the lande of Fraunce in the moneth of August yere of our lord M.iii. C. .l and the xxxiiii yere of y e thyrd Edward kyng of England reygned yeres xiiii Thys kynge was taken prysoner of Edwarde the prynce of Englande at the batayll of Poytyers in FrauÌ„ce folio cxxiii Iaphet was gotten by kynge Rychard fo v Iakys de Artyuyle fauoured the Englysshe partye fo xciii Iacke Strawe wyll waw made an insurreccyon fo cxlii Iacke Sharpe was taken and putt to deth folio clxxxv Iacke Cade and hys felowes folio cxcvi Iacke Cade wroughte moche of hys wyll in London after robbed so slayne fo cxcvii Iewes were banysshed thys lande folio lx Iewes were spoyled slayne fo clv. IohnÌ„ brother of kyng Rychard was prowd fo iii IohnÌ„ reconcyled to hys brother apereth in fo viii IohnÌ„ duke of Lancaster dyed as is shewed fo c.l. IohnÌ„ duke of Bedforde dyed folio clxxxviii Inquysycyons were made vpon the rulers of London as is shewed in folio xxix Iordan of the I le of Gascoyne grewe out of kynde fo lxxxv Inglysshe lordes wanne fyrst vppon Frenchmen fo xcviii Inglysshe soudyours slayne vnder safe conduyt fo cxxii Itenerarii plees were holden in South werke fo xxxi Ile of Ely holdeth banysshed men folio xlii Ile of Rodes fyrst wonne fo lxxv Isabell late wyfe vnto kynge Rycharde was maryed to the eldest sonÌ„ of the duke of Orleaunce fo clx Issue dyssent of syr Roger Mortymer fo cxliiii Iustyces or iuges punysshed fo lx Iustes holden in Smythfelde folio cxliiii KInge IohnÌ„ and hys laÌ„de was enterdyted fo x Kynge IohnÌ„ was reconcyled to the churche fo xvi Kyng Henry the .iii. sayled into Normandy fo xxiiii Kynge Henry the .iii. in proper ê‘sone sat in iugement fo xxix Kynge IohnÌ„s fury serche in fo xiiii Kynge IohnÌ„ of Fraunce was taken prysoner folio ciii Kyng IohnÌ„ was delyuered fo cvii Kyng IohnÌ„ dyed in Englande folio cviii Kyng Rychard sought many prouysyons folio iiii Kynge Rycharde sayled into y e holy lande folio iiii Kynge Rychard was takeÌ„ prysoner folio vi Kyng Rychard was delyuered folio vii Hynge Rycharde sayled into Normandy folio ix Kynge Rycharde assayled the castell of Gysors folio x Kynge Rycharde was slayne fo x Kynge Henry the thyrd frayneth couÌ„sayll of the mayre folio xxxiiii Kynge Henry sayled into Fraunce to be presente at the Frenche kynges parlyament folio xxxv Kynge Henry was taken of hys barons folio xxxvii Kynge Henry layd hys syege to London as it is shewed folio xliii Kynge Henry chosed shyrefes folio xliii Kynge Lowys toke vppon hym the crosse folio xlviii Kynge Edwarde the fyrst buylde castelles in walys folio lviii Kynge Edwarde sayled into FrauÌ„ce folio lix Kynge Edwarde the .ii. was taken also resygned the crowne fo lxxxii Kynge Edward the .iii. came secretly to London folio xcvi Kynge Edwarde warred sharply in Fraunce folio xcvii Kynge Edwarde chased the Spanyardes from the see fo ci Kynge Edwarde yode into Scotlande fo cii Kynge of Scottes was delyuered folio ciiii Kynge Edward spedde hym toward Parys fo cv Kynge of Nauerne was sodaynly taken as it is shewed fo cxxiii Kynge of Nauerne was set at large folio cxxvii Kynge Edwarde warred newly in Fraunce fo cxxxv Kynge Iohan was receyued into Fraunce fo cxxxv Kynge of Nauerne became feodory vnto the French kynge fo cxxxvi Kynge of Ermonye asked ayde of kynge Rycharde the .ii. fo cxliii Kyng Rychard ayded the Ianuayes folio cxlv Kyng Rychard maryed the Frenche kynges doughter fo cxlvii Kyng Richard sayled into Irelande folio cli Kyng Richarde was myserably put to dethe fo clxv Kyng Henry the .iiii. maryed the duchesse of Brytayne fo clx Kyng Henry the .v. sayled into Normandy fo clxxiii Kynge Henry maryed the Frenche kynges doughter fo clxxv Kynge Henry was receyued into LoÌ„don fo clxxvi Kyng Henry and hys wyfe sat crowned in Parys fo clxxvii Kyng Henry the .vi. shewed hys vertue beholde fo clxxix Kyng Henry was dubbed knyghte folio clxxxii Kinge HeÌ„ry was crowned fo clxxxiii Kynge Henry was crowned at Parys fo clxxxv Kynge of Scottes was murdered folio cxc Kyng HeÌ„ry the .vi. was taken fo ccv Kyng Edward the .iiii. was receyued into London fo ccvii Kynge Edwarde ayded the duke of Burgoyne fo ccxiii Kyng Edwarde spoused dame Elizabeth Graye fo ccxvi Kynge Edwarde fledde thys lande folio ccxviii Kynge Henry was taken oute of the towre fo ccxviii Kynge Edwarde was proclaymed vsurper fo ccxix Kynge Edwarde landed at Rauynspore fo ccxix Kynge Edwarde repossessed as apereth folio ccxx Kyng HeÌ„ry the .vi. dyed in the towre of London fo ccxx Kyng Edwardes chyldren were takeÌ„ out of seyntwary fo ccxxiiii LAzars of Languedok were brent fo lxxxiiii Letter sente by the barons to kynge Henry fo xxxvii Lewelyn prynce of walys rebelled folio lvi Lewelyn was slayne as appereth folio lvii Letter takked vpoÌ„ the crosse in chepe folio lxxxi Lordes assemble at Arundell as apereth folio cxlix Lordes put to deth fo clxxii Lordes fledde from Lodlowe feelde folio cciii Lordes proclaymed traytours as is shewed folio cciiii Lordes came to London fo cciiii Lordes of Fraunce warre vpoÌ„ theyr kynge fo ccx Lordes contynue theyr malyce as is shewed fo ccxi Lordes dyscorde wythin them selfe folio ccxii Lorde Morley appeled the erle of Salysbury as it is shewed in folio clxv Lorde Straunge and syr Iohanne Trussell fyghte in the churche for cause
Saynte Mychaell there Crepelgate warde xxv Saynte Mary magdaleyn in mylke strete Saynt Mary in Aldermanbury Saynt Mychaell in Hogynlane Saynt Albons in woodstrete Saynt Alphy by Crepulgate Saynt Olaff in Syluer strete Saynt Gylys wythout the gate The summe of the paryshe chyrches wythin London C.xiii. HEre after ensue the howsys of relygyon monasteryes colleges chapellys and other beynge no paryshe chyrches wythin the cytye The cathedrall chyrch of saynt Poule in the ende of Chepe The pryory of saynte Barthelmewe in Smythfelde The hospytall or spytyll a cell of the sayde pryory The charter house standyng wythin the warde of Crepulgate Elsynge spytall wythin the sayde warde The chapell of our Lady of Bedlem in Byshoppes gate warde The house of saynt Elyne in y e same warde of nunnys The pryory of Crystes chyrche with in Algate Saynte Anne abbaye wythin Portsokyn warde of whyte munkys The howse of y e Meneressys of close nunnys wythin the same warde The chapel of our lady of Barkyng in the towre warde An howse of crossed frerys in the same warde A colege of saynt Antony in y e warde of Bredstrete A colege of saynte Thomas called Acrys standynge in Chepe An house of frere Augustynes in Brode strete warde An house of gray frerys standyng in the warde Faryngedon wythin An house of blacke freres standynge by Ludgate within y e foresaid warde An house of whyte freres standynge in Flete strete A chyrche or college called the Temple standynge at Temple barre A chapel standyng in pardon chyrch yarde wythin Poulys A chapell standyng in y e chirch yarde at Poulys ouer the charnell house A chapell standynge wythin Crepell gate saynt Iamys in the wall A chapell called Pappey staÌ„dyng besyde Bishoppes gate founded by the prestes of that fraternyte A chapel of corpê° Cristi in y e Pultry A chapell of saynt Thomas of CauÌ„terbury staÌ„dyng vpon LoÌ„donbridge A chapell standynge in yelde Hall yarde of our Lady A colege of prestes standynge by Poulys called saynte Martyne le graunde The summe of housys of relygyon chapellys and other .xxvii. westmynster The abbbaye of westmynster The kynges newe chapell Saynte Stephans chapell Saynt Margaretes chyrche A chapell at Totehyll A chapell of saynt Anne in Totehyll strete Saynte Iamys in the felde A chapell at Rauncyuale A paryshe chyrche therby of saynte Martyne A chapell of our lady of Pewe Chyrches monasteryes chapellys and other housys wherin god is dayly seruyd standynge in the cyrcuyte of the cytye wythoute the wallys and fyrste wythoute Algate A paryshe chyrche of our ladye standynge wythoute the barrys called whyte chapell A colege of saynte Katheryne standynge on the eest ende of the towre of London A paryshe chyrch or chapell wythin the sayde towre of saynte Peter Southwarke The monastery of Bermundsey A paryshe chyrch of Mary Magdaleyne standynge faste by A paryshe chyrche of saynt George A paryshe chyrch of saynt Magaret An hospitall or college of saynt Thomas A paryshe chyrche of saynte Olas A monastery of chanoÌ„s callyd saynt Mary Ouereys and with a paryshe chyrche of saynt Mary Magdaleyn standynge faste thereby wythout the Temple barre A paryshe chyrch of saynte Clement A chapell of saynte Spyryte Saynte Ursula at strande wythoute Smythfelde The pryorye of saynte IohnÌ„ in Hierusalem A house of nuÌ„nys named ClerkeÌ„wel A a chapell in pardon chyrche yarde wythout Byshoppes gate Shordyche paryshe chyrche Saynte Mary spytell A house of nunnys callyd Halywell And of the dyuyne houses without the cytye .xxviii. The summe of all the dyuyne houses wythin the cytye and wythoute is a hundred and .lxviii. RIcharde the fyrst of that name and seconde sonne of Henry the second beganne hys reygne ouer EnglaÌ„d in the moneth of Iuly and yere of our lorde .x. hundred .lxxx. and .x and the .xi. yere of the seconde Phylyppe then kynge of Fraunce Thys Rycharde prouyded besely to sette good rule in NormaÌ„dy when he hadde harde of hys fathers deth and after spedde him into England where he was ioyously receyued in the moneth of September folowynge and thyrde daye he was crowned at westmynster of Baldwyn archbyshoppe of Caunterburye Uppon the whyche daye the Iewys of Englande and specyally suche as dwellyd within London and nere about assembled of them a certayn nomber and presumyd farther then requyred for theyr authoryte For whyche presumpcyon they were fyrste rebuked after one of theÌ„ strykeÌ„ which thyng sene of the coÌ„mon people supposyd that to be done by the kynges commaundement wherfore in a fury as those that they hated as the deuyll for theyr vsury other vnhappy condycyons they fell vppon theym and chased them to theyr houses them robbed and spoyled wythout pytye and brent some of theyr housis wher of the rumour ranne to westmynster to y e kynges audyeÌ„ce wherfore in all haste he sent downe gyuyng strayte coÌ„maundement that they shuld cease of that ryot But the people were in suche ire and wodenesse that they refrayned not for all the kinges sonde tyll they hadde executed the fyne of theyr malyce And all be yt that thys ryot was after greuously shewyd agayne the commons of the cytye yet yt passed vnpunyshed for the great nomber of the transgressours And the sayde daye of coronacyon all prysoners that lay in any pryson aboute London at the kynges sute or for other small or fayned accyons were frely delyueryd Soone after the kynge gaue many dygnytyes and to hys brother IohnÌ„ he gaue the prouynces of Notyngham Deuonshyre and Cornewall and creatyd hym erle of Lancaster And then the kynge ordeyned the cytye of London to be ruled by two baylyues whose names were as foloweth Anno domini M.C.xc.  Anno domini M.C.xci.  Henry of Cornehyll  Balliui  Anno primo  Rycharde fyz Ryuer  IT was not longe after that y e the kynge hadde thus exalted hys brother IohnÌ„ as before is shewwyd but that he also preferryd hym to the maryage of the erle of Glouceters doughter by reason wherof he was lorde of that erledome These great auauÌ„cementis made him after vnkynde to his broder and by pryde therof to coueyt afterwarde the hole kyngdome Thys yere kynge Rycharde was assoyled of the offence that he had vsyd in rebellyon agayne hys father In recompeÌ„sacyon wherof as testyfyeth the authour Guydo he voluntaryly toke vppon hym and promysed to warre vppon Crystes enymyes All be yt that other wryters shewe that yt was for that that hys father had so wylled hym by hys lyfe But for what cause so yt was preparacyon and prouysyon for that iourney was made from that daye forthwarde Thys yere also the kynge enlarged Elyanoure hys moder whyche long before at the commaundement of his father her husbande was as a prysoner kepte in secrete kepynge After whych enlargyng y e land was mych guydyd by her counsayll And thys yere as sayth Ranulfe kynge Rycharde gaue ouer the castellis of Barwyke and Rochysburghe to y e Scottyshe kyng for the summe
wretched nygh all the lande But so faste as thys innaturall or euyll dysposyd man besyed hym to vex and greue the crysten men in England so fast besyed this good kyng Rycharde to vexe dere the infydels of Sury So y t dayly he wanne of theym or at the leste putte theym from the wynnynge of suche townes and holdes as they by theyr great strength entendyd to haue wonne Anno domini M.C.xciiii  Anno domini M.C.xcv.  Roger Duke  Balliui  Anno quinto  Rycharde fyz Aleyn  IN the ende of September and begynnynge of the fyfte yere of kynge Rycharde Guy de Lesyngeman laste crysten kynge of Hierusalem dyed Choras a noble Crysten man captayne of a towne called Sur was shortly after slayne by the Turkes whose wyfe for as mych as she was ryghtfull enherytour of the crowne of HierusaleÌ„ the kyng gaue her in maryage vnto y e erle of Champayne And for kynge Rycharde perceyued well yÌ„e cristen hoste mynyshed dayly as well by infyrmytyes as lacke of vytayll and otherwyse he sought meanes of a peace or trewce for a tyme and had yt graunted for thre yeres The whyche peace stablyshed and proclaymed in the hoste and countrey nere about kynge Rycharde betoke the rule and guydyng of the Cristen vnto the erle of Champayne promysynge hym or y e trewce were endyd to come wyth a stronger hoste and wyth goddes myght to set hym in possessyon of the cytye of Hierusalem as the ryght of his wyfe Then Hubert byshop of Salysbury yode forth hym selfe from y e kyng to the holy citye and offeryd there an hoste and retourned agayne to the kynge After whose returne y e kynge takynge leue of the erle of Champayne and other toke his shyppyng at Acrys or Acon whyche ys named Tholomayda also and so returned to the yle of Cypre or Cyprys Thens the kynge sent the quene hys wyfe and her syster wyth y e more parte of hys people vnto Scycyll and he wyth a small company for he myghte not endure the softenesse of the see toke his shyppynge in the moneth of September and sayled wyth a stronge wynde towarde a couÌ„trey callyd Histria But he was dryuen by force of wederynge betwene Uenyse and Aquinilia or Aquilegia and houyd there a season and costed hyther and thyther so that lastely he was espyed and taken of the duke of Ostrychys men Anno domini M.C.xcv.  Anno domini M.C.xcvi  wyllyam fyz Isabell.  Balliui  Anno sexto  wyllyam fyz Arnolde  ABout the moneth of October .vi. yere of hys reygne thys good kynge Rycharde was taken in fourme folowynge As he lay thus as before is sayde betwene Uenyce and Aquilegia a ê“uynce of the duke of Ostrych one Meynart of Gorezeyn ruler of that countrey vnder the foresayde duke made out certayne souldyours for to haue taken hym But he by hys prouydence and manhode escapyd y e sayd Maynarde or Maynart how be yt that some of hys knyghtes were there takyn Then kynge Rycharde passed y e couÌ„trey secretly tyll he came to a towne named Frysake In thys towne was then prouoste or ruler a knyght called Frederyk de saynt Soom y e whyche also dyd hys deuoure to take the kynge and toke .vi. of his knyghtes prysoners but hym selfe wyth the remenaunt of hys company escaped Then the kynge seynge that he was in daunger of hys enymyes drewe more into the way towarde Almayn But thys was soone knowen of hys enymyes so that by the meanes of one called Duke of Lymple and cosyn to the emperoure all the wayes were closyd in suche wyse that in the ende kynge Rycharde was taken by the seruauntes of the sayd duke nere vnto a citye or towne called Menne or Meune wythin the lande or terrytory of the emperoure and after brought vnto the sayde duke Lymple or after some to the duke of Ostriche y e which spoyled hym of all y t he hadde and after caste hym in prison and there streyghtely kepte hym by the space of a moneth and at the monethes ende sente hym vnto Henry the .vi. of that name or after some wryters the .v. sonne of the fyrst Frederyke then emperour of Almayne the whyche helde hym in more vyle pryson from that tyme tyll lent after and couenauntyd wyth the duke of Ostryche to haue the thyrde parte of the profyte that came of kynge Rycharde About the sonday of Palmys the emperour brought forth the kynge before the lordes of Almayne there to gyue answere vnto suche thynges as shuld be layde vnto hym where he came forth wyth so good a couÌ„tenaunce also answered so dyscretely and dyrectely to all maters layde vnto hys charge that the emperoure was not alonely bende to shewe to hym mercy but also he dyd to hym honour and worshyppe and helde hym at more libertye after that daye It is redde of thys Rycharde that durynge the tyme of hys imprysonement he shuld sle a lyon and tere the harte oute of hys bodye where thorough he shulde deserue the name of Rycharde Cure de Lyon and y t he shuld wyth a stroke of his fyst sle the emperours sonne and also deflorysh the emperours doughter But these are fablys ymagined by englysh tale tellers to auaunce theyr kynge Rycharde as the Brytons by theyr fayned talys auaunced theyr kynge Arture In this passetyme wyllyam Longeshamp byshop of Ely contynuynge his crudelyte and tyrannye wythin Englande was lastely by strength of the lordes put oute of the lande Then he came to the kynge beynge prysoner shewyd for hym self the beste he coude But when he saw he myght not begyle the kynge wyth his sugryd wordes he hadde small truste of the kynges fauour returned into Fraunce to tarye there the kynges commynge Thys yere IohnÌ„ the kynges brother by excityng of the French kyng when he harde of the takyng and imprisonynge of hys brother began to make warre within y e lande toke by strength y e castelles of wyndesour and of Notyngham other And the frenche kyng vpon his partye made strong warre in NormaÌ„dy as it is before shewed in the story of the second Phylyppe than kynge of Fraunce Anno domini M.Cxcvi  Anno domini M.C.xcvii  Robert Besaunt  Balliui  Anno .vii.  Iokell Iosne  IN the .vii. yere of kynge Rycharde Hubert byshoppe of Salysbury the whych hadde accompanyed the kynge in that voyage and was sente wyth the quene into Scycyll retourned or came to the kyng where he was prysoner whom the kynge sente soone after into Englande to haue the guydynge therof and also to treate wyth the lordes and commons of hys realme howe he myghte be sette at lybertye It was not long after the coÌ„myng home of this Hubert but the muÌ„kes of the house of Cristes chyrch of CauÌ„terburye chase hym to the archebysshoppes see and hadde the palle and was stallyd soone after This was easy to the muÌ„kes how well y e
wasted and mysspent by the alyaunt byshoppes and clerkes of this lande Of the whych straungers one named mayster Martyne and nere kynnysman of Innocent the thyrde late pope was one The whyche the kynge by helpe of the Englyshe bysshoppes auoyded wyth other lyke offendours out thys realme Also in thys yere the patryarke of Hierusalem sente vnto the kynge a neume of bloode whych was kepte at saynt Thomas of Acris in LoÌ„don tyll the yere folowynge Anno domini M.CC.xlvi  Anno domini M.CC.xlvii  Symonde fyz Mary  IohnÌ„ Gysors  Anno .xxx.  Lawrence Frowyke  IN this yere theneume of blood sent before to the kynge was wyth moste solemne processyon the kynge wyth great noumber of hys lordes beynge presente conueyed from saynt Thomas fore sayd vnto westmynster in ryght solemne wyse wyth processyon other acccordyng obseruaunces to suche a relyke apperteynynge And in this yere dyed Frederike the emperour of Almayn whyche as before is touchyd in the xviii yere of this kyng maryed Isabell syster vnto the kynge The whyche for his rebellyon agayn y e chyrch of Rome was accursyd fyrste of the ix Gregory and lastely of InnoceÌ„t the .iiii. he was agayne cursyd and depryued of his imperyall dygnyte gyuynge commyssyon lyceÌ„ce to the electours of the emperoure to chose a new The whyche were of so many myndes in theyr eleccyon that some chase the duke of Thoryng some the erle of Holande and some chase the kynges brother Richarde erle of Cornewayll whyche causyd stryfe that enduryd longe after so that the onely emperoure of Almayne was not of all men alowyd tyll Radulphus duke or erle of Habspurghe in Almayne was chosen by one assente to that dygnyte and therunto admittyd by Gregory the .ix. of that name in the yere of our lorde .xii. hundred and .lxxiii. And so that varyaunce enduryd vppon .xxvii. yeres to y e great impoueryshyng of Italy and the landes of the empyre Then as before is sayd this Frederyk dyed vnassoyled was buryed in a cytye called Ferenciola wyth thys superscrypcyon vppon hys toumbe Si probitas sensus virtutis gratia census Nobilitas orti possent refistere morte Non foret extinctus Fredericus qui iacet intus whyche versys are thus myche to meane in Englyshe If excellente of wytte or grace of good vertue Or nobylnesse of byrth myght vnto deth resyste Then shuld thys Frederyke mortall fate exchewe whych hym hath closyd here now in hys chyste But none of these maye erthly man assyste To stryue wyth deth but all muste pay hym dette Noble and innoble there nothynge maye lette An other versyfyoure made these .ii. versys folowynge of the interpretacyon of this name Frederyke Frefremit in mundo de deprimit alua profundo Re res rimatur cus cuspide cuncta minatur The whyche may in this maner of wyse be englyshed Fre fretyth thys worlde and de confoundyth all Hyghe thynges of honoure into depenesse darke Râ—sercheth besyly y e goodes generall Of thys worlde both of the laye and clerke Makynge no questyon in hys moste cruell werke And cus with sworde all thyng doth manace And thys is Frederyke all deuoyde of grace Anno domini M.CC.xlvii  Anno domini M.CC.xlviii  IohnÌ„ Uoyle  Pyers Aleyne  Anno .xxxi.  Nycholas Batte  IN thys .xxxi. yere of the reygn of kyng Henry Lewys which is surnamed saynt Lewis then kyng of Fraunce with a conuenyent hoste sayled into the holy lande and there warred vpon Crystes enymyes and wanne the cytye of Damas at hys fyrste landynge after taryed there froÌ„ y e begynnynge of y e moneth of Iuny to the .xxii. day of Nouember and after departyd thens towarde Babylon entendynge to haue layde syege to the cytye But fortune was to him so coÌ„trarye that by sykenesse other casueltyes he loste myche of his people and in the ende was hym selfe taken prisoner of the Turkis as more playnely shall be shewed in the story of the sayde Lewys folowynge And in this yere was a myghty erthquake in Englande that the lyke to yt was not sene many yeres before Also thys yere the kynge seasyd the fraunchyse of the cytye of London vppon the euen of saynte Bartholomew for a iudgement that was gyuen by the mayre and aldermen agayne a wedowe named Margaret Uyell and commyttyd the rule of the cytye to wyllyam Haueryll and Edwarde of westmynster tyll our ladye daye nexte folowynge At whyche season the mayre and shryues were agayne to theyr offyces admyttyd Anno domini M.CC.xlviii  Anno domini M.CC.xlix  Nycholas Ioy.  Mychaell Tony.  Anno .xxxii.  Geffrey wynton  IN thys .xxxii. yere of the kyng the wharfe of London callyd quene hythe was taken to ferme by the comynaltye of the cytye to paye yerely therefore .l. pounde The whyche was then commytted to the shryues charge and so hath contynuyd euer sen that tyme to thys daye whereof the profytys and tollys are so sore mynyshed that at thys daye yt is lytle worth ouer .xx. marke or xv pounde one yere wyth a nother And thys yere fell great dystemperaunce of wether in suche wyse that the grounde was bareyne vppon the same and other myshappys folowyd anon theurppon And thys yere when the mater aforenamed of Margarete Uyell wydow was well examyned the iudgement therof was founden good and trewe wherfore the cytezens enioyed the lybertyes wythoute interrupcyon all be yt the kynge was wyth theym some what agreuyd for so myche as they at his requeste wolde not exchaunge wyth the abbot of westmynster suche lybertyes as they hadde in Myddelsex of the kynges graunte for other to be hadde in other places Anno domini M.CC.xlix  Anno domini M.CC.l.  Rafe hardell  Roger fyz Roger.  Anno .xxxiii.  IohnÌ„ Tosalane  IN the .xxxiii. yere of kyng Henry in the moneth of October dyed Robert Grosthede byshoppe of Lyncolne He was the maker of the boke callyd Pety Caton and many other This Robert for so mich as y e .iiii. Innocent pope greuyd y e chyrch of EnglaÌ„de with taskis paymeÌ„tes agayn reason he therfore sente vnto hym a sharpe pystle This pope than gaue vnto a chylde a neuew of hys a chanonry whych fell voyde in the chyrch of Lyncolne and sent the chylde vnto the byshoppe chargynge hym to admytte the sayd chylde and to sette hym in hys place But thys bysshoppe boldely denyed the resceyt of the chyld wrote vnto the pope y t he wold not nor shuld receyue such to y e cure of soule y t could not rule the self Therfore this Robert was somoned to apere before y e pope therupon accursyd TheÌ„ he appealyd froÌ„ InnoceÌ„tis courte vnto Crystes owne trone Then after the deth of thys Robert as the pope laye in hys bedde at hys reste one aperyd to hym in clothyng of a byshoppe and sayde to hym aryse wretche and come to thy dome and
of theyr pryncys y t is to mene the corps of Lewys and theyr naturall prynce Phylyppe hys son and of the obseruaunces done and great assembles of the lordes spirytuall and temporall to welcome theyr prynce and doynge of theyr duties euery man according to honour But after al these ceremonies in due order fynyshed prouysyon was made for the coronacyon of the kynge The whyche was crowned at the cytye of Raynes vppon the daye of the assumpcyon of our lady in the yere of grace .xii. hundred .lxxi. SHortely after that the solempnyte of this coronacyon was passed kynge Phylyppe for his recreacyon rode into the countrey of Uermendoyse where after he had derestyd hym a season Robert erle of Artoys requyred hym to vysyte hys countrey where he was receyuyd of the burgeysys of Artoys wyth great honour and gladnes and there was feastyd with all disport and gladnes by a certayne of tyme after The whiche expyryd he returned into FrauÌ„ce About the thryde yere of his reygne the erle of Foys contrary y e kynges pleasure toke partye agayn Getarde a knyght lorde of the castell of Casseboun or Tasseboun y e which before had slayn y e brother of the erle of Armenac specyall freÌ„d of the sayd erle of Foyz whyche sayde two erles to reuenge the deth of theyr sayd brother pursued the sayde Gerarde so narrowly that for his sauegarde he refused his owne castell and fled vnto a castell of the kynges and there helde hym wyth his wyfe chyldren and substauÌ„ce But when the two erles were ware therof they sped them thyder wyth theyr powers and layd syege to the castell and in the ende threwe it downe to the grounde and slewe all the souldyours that they there founde as well the kynges seruauntes as other hopynge to haue founde theyr enymye Gerarde the whyche was escapyd thens secretly when the rumour of this dede came vnto the kynge he dysdayned sore that dede and toke yt ryght grevously In so myche that he called hys lordes and by theyr counsayll assembled hys knyghtes and entred wyth force the prouince of the erle of Foyz The whyche herynge of the kynges great dyspleasure fortyfyed hys castell and there helde hym The which was so besette wyth rokkes of stone that the kynge myght not wynne to yt wyth ease wherfore the kynge coÌ„maunded the rokkes to be cutte with masons and other worke men made a solempne othe that he wold not depart thens or he hadde the erle and his castell at his pleasure when the erle hadde beholden the great power of his enymyes and the prouysyon of the kyng to wynne his castell wyth other ieopardyes he made meanes to the kynge for grace and fynally putte hym and his into his mercy Then the kynge commauÌ„ded hym to be bounde and so to be conueyed to the casrell of Beauquesu where he was imprysoned by an hole yere after And the kyngâ—â—eased all hys landes and set a certayne of hys knyghtes to kepe hys castell and caryed hys wyfe and chyldren wyth hym into Fraunce But after a yere runne the kynge was so laboured to by the frendes of the sayd erle that he was eularged from pryson and vppon suertye suffred to serue in the kynges courte where he bare hym so well y t fynally the kyng made hym knyght restored hym to all his laÌ„des But what fyll of y e erle of Armenac the story sheweth not Aboute the .vi. yere of his reygne kynge Phylyppe maryed Mary the doughter of the erle of Burbon or after some the doughter of Iohan the duke of Braban the whych he loued entyerly wherof Peter de Broshe then beynge lorde chamberlayne hauynge enuy and disdayn sought the wayes and meanes to mynyshe the great loue betwene her lord and her and fonde by his meane that a sonne of y e kynges named Lewys was prysoned the whyche dede he by subtyle secrete meanes as though yt had nothyng comen of hym layde yt to y e charge of the quene For this y e kyng made many maner of inquysycyons as well by sorcery as other But in al his workes he found his quene gyltlesse wherfore he sufferyd the mater to passe tyll he myght haue more assured profe in that mater Aboute thys season Ferdinandus kynge of Castyle that before tyme hadde maryed Blanche doughter of saynt Lewis dyed leuyng after hym two sonnes borne of y e sayd Blanch named Ferdinande and Alphons whych by couenaunt at the mariage made shulde be heyres vnto the kyngdome of Spayne and Castyle But the father of this Ferdinande so beynge dede contrary hys honour and promise wrote vnto the lordes of Castyle amonestynge theym that they shulde admytte for theyr kynge hys seconde son named SaÌ„xyon or Sanxio and swere to hym both feautye homage The whyche was all done accordyng to hys commaundement so that Blanche was dyspoynted of her dower and her chyldern of theyr ryght and enherytauÌ„ce For y e which kyng Phylyppe her brother was greuously dysconteÌ„tyd and for reforma cyon therof sente vnto the kynge of Spayn his chefe boteler wyth other desyryng hym to perfourme all such couenauÌ„tes as betwene hym and his fader were coÌ„cluded at the maryage of his syster Blanche or at the laste yf that he refusyd y t to do y t he wold sende hys sayde syster wyth her two chyldern sauely into Fraunce In coÌ„clusyon y e mother wyth her two chyldern were brought by the sayde boteler vnto the kynge wythoute other pleasure other in worde or in dede For the whyche he the yere folokyng gaderyd a stronge hoste and passed wyth theym by Poyteau and Gascoyne tyll he came vnto a towne ioynynge to the border of Spayne named Sainterre where the kyng met another party of his hoste There by counsayll of some of his lordes the kynge concluded to retourne into Fraunce for daunger of wynter that was coÌ„mynge and other hyd causes But the rumour in the hoste went y t some of the kynges counsayll hadde receyued rewardes of the kynge of Spayn By meane wherof the kyng loste that iourney and returned into Fraunce to his great dyshonour and damage In tyme of kynge Phylyppes returne into Fraunce tydynges were broughte to hym that Eustace de Beau Marche whom the kyng had appointed to haue the gydyng of the countrey or kyngdome of Nauarye was besyeged in the citye of Pampulyne wherfore y e kyng coÌ„maunded y e erle of Artoys to spede hym thyder to rescowe the sayde Eustace The whyche behauyd hym so manfully that he rescowed the sayde Eustace and chasyd Garsymerans chefe styrrer of that rebellion and brought the people of that countrey agayne to due subieccyon whyle the erle of Artoys was thus occcupyed in the sayd countrey messangers came to hym from the kynge of Spayne requyrynge hym sene that he was so nere that he was so nere y t he wold come disport him there for a season wher of y e erle of Artoys sent kyng Philip worde hauyng of hym
payd in one yere but by deuided porcions in .iii. yeres ensuyng And of the lay fee or temporall men of EnglaÌ„de he had grauÌ„ted to hym the .x. peny of theyr mouables the which was payd in .ii. yeres next ensuyng And thys yere in y e moneth of Marche was drawen hanged at London for treason done in Fraunce a knyghte called syr Thomas Turbeuyle And aboute y e tyme of Easter whan Charlys de Ualoys as ye before in that other yere haue harde had lyen longe at the castell of Ryon myght nothyng wynne vpoÌ„ the Englyshmen but dayly loste of the best of hys knyghtes he sent for more ayde and socoure At whyche tyme came vnto hym syr Rauffe Nele constable of Fraunce with a fressh company and thaÌ„ assawted it of new But whan they had lyen there a season sawe they preuayled nothynge agayn theyr enemys they yode vnto an holde there by named Poudency and it assauted for so moche as the more nombre of the sowdyours there were Normans and after .viii. days by appoyntemente or otherwyse gat the sayd holde so that all the Englisshemen had theyr lybertye goodes and the Normans taken as prysoners the whyche they brought after vnto the castell of Ryon and there in syghte of the sowdyours hanged al or the more partye of the sayde Normans whan the Gascoynes beynge wythin the towne and castell of Ryons sawe then theyr cosyns and couÌ„trey men hanged before theyr eyen they caste in theyr myndes that yt was done by treason of the Englysshmen and that they wolde at length deale wyth them in lyke maner By reason wherof stryfe and varyauÌ„ce arose betwene the EnglysshemeÌ„ and the Gascoygnes so that eyther of theym feryd the treason of the other For the whyche cause syr Iohan Seyn Iohan syr IohnÌ„ de Britayn syr Robert Typtoft syr Rauffe TaÌ„ny syr Hugh Bardolfe syr Adam Cretynge with dyuers other fledde by see and in that maner saued them selfe and soone after the sayd towne and castell of Ryons was wonne by the Frenchemen and the inhabytauÌ„tes of the same sworne vnto the freÌ„ch kynge ye haue harde before in the .xxii. yere of thys kynge howe after the dethe of Alexander kyng of Scottes many questyons fyll amonge y â— sayd scottes who by ryght of enherytauÌ„ce shulde be kynge of that lande consyderynge that the sayde Alexander had lefte after hym thre doughters the whyche lyuyng theyr father were maryed The fyrste to syr Iohan Bayloll the seconde to Roberte le Bruze and the thyrde to one named Hastynges Many of the lordes of Scotlande wolde haue crowned syr Iohan Bayloll by reason that he maryed the eldest of the doughters But the frendes of Robert le Bruze withstode it with all theyr power And other there were that heâ—de with Hastynges so that after greate stryfe and longe varyaunce the matter was broughte before kynge Edwarde as chyef lord and soueraygne of that lande promysinge to hym to abyde all suche determynacyon and iugemente as he shulde sette therin Than kynge Edwarde to the ende that the scottes shulde knowe perfytely that the kyng of EnglaÌ„de ought of ryghte to be there chyefe hede and soueraygne shewed vnto theym suche olde wrytynges as he lyttell tofore had caused to be serched and founde in the whyche it was conteyned by the auctorytye of olde cronycles and wryters as Maryanus y e scotte wyllyam of Malmesbury Roger of Huntyngdon and other that in the yere of our lorde .ix. C.xx kynge Edwarde the elder made subget vnto hym the kynges of Cumbrys and scottes Also in the yere of grace .ix. C. and xxi the foresayd scottes Cumbrys chase the sayd Edwarde the elder to be theyr chyefe lord and patron And in y e yere of our lord .ix. C.xxvi Ethelstane than kynge of Englande subdued constantyne than kyng of scottes and after admytted the sayd Constantyne to reygne as kynge vnder him by othe of obeysauÌ„s with feaute and homage Also Edredus brother to the sayde Ethelstane subdued of newe the scottes with the Northumbrys and receyued of them agayne othe and homage And ouer that it is founde in the sayd cronycles that Edgar ouercame Alphunius the son of Kynadus kynge of Scottes and receyued of hym feawty homage and helde hym vnder hys obeysauÌ„ce as he had done hys father Kynadus before tyme. Moreouer it is there wytnessed that Canutus in the .xvi. yere of hys reygne subdued Malcolyne than kyng of scottes and receyued of hym feawty and homage Furthermore wyllyam Conquerour in the .vi. yere of his reygne subdued Malcolyne kyng of Scotlande the whyche before tymes had receyued the sayde kyngdome of the gyfte of Edwarde kynge and confessoure And wyllyam the rede dyd in lykewyse vnto the sayde Malcolyne and vnto hys two sonnes that reygned in Scotlande the one after the other Also Dauyd kynge of scottes dyd homage vnto Stephane than kyng of Englande And wyllyam kynge of scottes dyd homage vnto Henry the thyrde at the tyme of hys coronacyon and after came vnto hys father Henry the seconde whan the forenamed HeÌ„ry was deed in Normandy made hys homage to hym agayne Thys Henry that was sonne vnto Henry the seconde is of many wryters named Henry the thyrd for so moche as he was the .iii. kyng that was crowned of that name But for he dyed before hys father hys dedes ben lytell spoken of so that of some wryters he is nothyng mynded And it foloweth in the story howe that AlexaÌ„dre kyng of Scottes in y t .xxxv. yere of HeÌ„ry the thyrd or son of kyng IohnÌ„ maryed at yorke Margarete doughter of the sayd Henry and dyd vnto hym homage for the realme of Scotlande and bouÌ„de hym and hys heyres kynges of Scotlande by hys letters patentes to be trewe vnto the sayd HeÌ„ry vnto his heyres kynges of Englande lyke as before tyme wyllyam kyng of Scottes had oblyged hym vnto the seconde Henry as before in the .xxii. yere of hys reygne is more manyfestly shewed And more to them was shewed y â— popes bulles the whych were sent before tymes into Scotlande by auctoryte wherof the kynges of ScotlaÌ„de were accursed for they wolde nat be obedyent to theyr lordes kynges of Englande WHan all these presedentes were sene by y e Scottes a day was assygned of metyng at NorhmÌ„ in the marches betwene Englande and Scotlande whyther vnto the kyng came the chief rulers of the Scottes where they excused them to be bouÌ„de vnto the kyng for the obseruynge of the kynges ordenaunce for so moche as they lacked a kynge an hede by whome all suche ordenaunces shuld be maynteyned and holdeÌ„ But after by aduyce of bothe parties agremeÌ„t was made by the scottes that they shuld be bounde to obey the kynges iugement wheruppon bondes were made vpon bothe partyes that is to meane the kyng was bounde to theÌ„ in an hondreth thousande pounde y t within .ii. monethes after he had receyued the possessyon of the lande he shulde gyue it vnto
appeled the prynce of walys in the Frenche kynges courte that he hadde broken the peace and wronged theym contrary the peace stablysshed betwene Englande FrauÌ„ce requyred the FreÌ„ch kyng y t the sayd appeale myght haue due processe agayne the sayd prynce The whyche as sayth the French cronicle kynge Charles deferred for certayne causes there towched whyche were to longe to reherce Anno dnÌ„i xiii C.lxvii  Anno dnÌ„i xiii C.lxviii  Adam wymbynghmÌ„  Symon MordonÌ„  Anno .xlii.  Robert Gyrdeler  IN thys .xliii. yere or more certaynly in the ende of the precedynge yere one walter Bernes mercer was vpon the day of y e traÌ„slation of saynt Edwarde kyng and confessoure or the .xiii. daye of Octobre chosen by the mayre aldermen mayre of the cytye of London But howe it was for lacke of substaunce or by other impedymente which is nat noted the sayd walter vpon the daye of Symonde Iude folowynge whaÌ„ he shulde haue taken hys othe at Guylde halle apered nat wherfore in hys rome by eleccyon of the foresayde mayre and aldermen was admytted for that yere folowynge Symonde MordonÌ„ fysshmonger mayre of that cytye And in thys yere and moneth of Marche Peter kynge of Castyle whyche by the ayde of the Sarazyns dwellyng in the borders of Spayn hadde wonne and recouered somme parte of the lande of Castyle encountrede wyth hys bastarde brother Henry beforesayde and gaue vnto hym batayll nere to a towne called Sybylle where after longe fyght the sayde Peter was scomfyted and moche of hys people slayne and hym dryuen vnto a castell oute of the whyche he was shortly after by treason gotteÌ„ presented vnto hys brother forenamed by whose senteÌ„ce he was iÌ„medyatly byheded After whose deth the sayd Henry enioyed the hole lande of Castyle whych infortunytie myschauÌ„ce fylle to thys Peter after dyuers wryters for so moche as he cruelly slew hys owne wyfe y e doughter of the duke of BurbonÌ„ And in thys yere and moneth of Maye the kynge of Fraunce in hys hyghe court of parlyamente holdeÌ„ at Parys proceded in iugemente vpon the appellacyons before made by the erle of Armenak the lorde of Bret and erle of Perogort agayne prynce Edward as before is towched in the precedynge yere wherupon dyscorde and varyaunce began to take place betwene the .ii. kynges in so moche y t by meane of the sayd .iii. lordes natwythstandyng that they were before sworne to be to the kyng of EnglaÌ„de trewe lyege men dyuers townes of the countre of Poyteaw yelded them to the Frenche kynge as Albeuyle Rue the more partye of the sayde townes of the sayd countre wherupoÌ„ ambassades were sente vppon bothe partyes dyuers meanes of treaty were comoned whyche conteyneth a longe werke wyth resonynge made vpon the same But in conclusyoÌ„ all came to none effecte So that breche of the peace whych before betwene y e ii kynges was so substaÌ„cially concluded was brokeÌ„ eyther kyng for his partye made prouysioÌ„ for the warre In so moch y e kynge Charles spedde hym to Roan in Normandy there in y e moneth of Iuly rigged his nauy to set theym forewarde for to warre vpon Englande In whyche tyme season y e kyng Charles was thus occupyed in NormaÌ„dy the duke of LaÌ„castre laÌ„ded at Caleys with a stroÌ„ge company of archers other warryours froÌ„ thens passed to ThoroueÌ„ne so to Ayre in wastyng the countre with irne fyre as he went wherfore y e French kyng in defence of those partyes sente the duke of Burgoyne with a puyssaunt armye to withstaÌ„de the sayde duke of LaÌ„castre The whych duke of Burgoyne sped hym iÌ„ such wyse y t about y e .xxiiii. day of August he lodged hys hoste vpon the mouÌ„tayne of Turnehan nere vnto Arde. And the English hoste was lodged betwene Gygowne Arde so that y e frountes of both hostes were within a myle Betwene whome were dayly skyrmysshes and small bykerynges without any notarye batayll And whaÌ„ the sayd duke of BurgoynÌ„ had thus kept the sayde mount froÌ„ the .xxiiii. day of Auguste vnto the .xii. day of SepteÌ„bre he remoued hys hoste yode vnto HesdeÌ„ For the whych dede he was after blamed of kyng Charles hys brother After whych departure of the FreÌ„chemen the duke of Lancastre with hys hoste tooke y e waye towarde Caus or Caux passed the ryuer of SuÌ„me so rode toward Harflew entendynge as sayth the FreÌ„che boke to haue fyred the Frenche kynges nauy But at theyr coÌ„myng thyder y e towne was so stroÌ„gly maÌ„ned y t they dyd there lytell scathe wherfore the sayd duke departed shortly thens and spedde hym into the countrye of Poyteau and so came vnto the towne of Albeuyle where wythout the Frenchemen encountred hym and gaue vnto hym batayll In the whych was taken syr Hugh ChastelonÌ„ knyght with other knyghtes esquyres burgeyses of the towne and vpoÌ„ .xvi. score FreÌ„chmen slayne whyche sayde prysoners to the nombre of fyue fourty were sent vnto Caleys y e duke with hys company yode vnto Burdeaux in spoylyng of the FreÌ„chmeÌ„ as he went Anno dnÌ„i xiii C.xlviii  Anno dnÌ„i xiii C.lix  IohnÌ„ Pyell  IohnÌ„ Chychester  Anno .xliiii.  Hugh Holdyche  IN thys .xliiii. yere and moneth of Ianuary dyed the erle of warwyke at Caleys after he was retourned from the duke of Lancastre whyche was a man of great fame And in y e moneth of August dyed that noble woman quene Phylype wyfe vnto Edwarde the thyrde The whyche was a greate benefactoure vnto the chanoÌ„s of saynt Stephans chapell at westmynster And soon after dyed dame BlauÌ„ch somtyme the wyfe of Henry duke of Lancastre was buryed at Poules vpon the noâ—thsyde of the hyghe aulter by her husbande where she ordeyned for hym and her .iiii. chauÌ„tres for euer an annyuersarye yerely to be kept At the whych ouer great thynges be set vnto the deane chanons of the churche she ordeyned that the mayre beynge presente at the masse shuld offre .i. d. and take vp .xx. s the shyryffes eyther of them a peny and to receyue eyther of them a marke y e chaÌ„berlayn of the cytie .x. s the sword berer .vi. s. .viii. d and euery officer of the mayres there present .xxii. d and to euery offycer to the nombre of .viii eyther of theym .viii. d. admytted for the shyreffes The whyche obyte at thys daye is holden But by reason that the lande is decayed these forenamed summes ben greately mynysshed so that the mayre at thys daye hath but .vi. s. viii.d bothe the shyreffes syxe s. eyghte d and other after that rate In thys yere also the kynge helde hys parlyament at westmynster In the whych was graunted vnto hym iii. fyftenes to be payde in .iii. yeres folowynge And by a conuocacyon of the clergye was also grauted vnto hym .iii. dysmes to be payde in lyke maner And in thys yere
Flemynges helde on theyr waye tyll they came nere vnto the kynges tent which thaÌ„ was also vnarmed But by the noyse crye he beynge warned â–ª in all haste armed hym In the whyche season as god wolde for the Frenche hoste certayne Marshallys of the Frenche hoste wyth a stronge company retorned from y e assaute of an holde therby and encountred the Flemynges and helde wyth them batayll whyle the kynge and his lordes made them redy So that in processe the Flemynges were closed wyth theyr enemyes and had a sharpe and cruell fyghte wherin they defended theym vygorously But in the ende the losse of y â— felde iourned vpon the Flemynges so y t the capytayne named 〈◊〉 was slayne wyth many other to the nombre of .xviii. M. aboue as wytnesseth the Frenche boke ouer many whyche were there taken prysoners of poore men and artyfycers for the multitude of the gentylmeÌ„ were vpoÌ„ the erles partye After whyche victorye thus opteyned by the kynge anone he caused y e sayde towne of Cassell to be set vpon a fyre after yode vnto Bruges and had it yolden vnto hym And in lyke wyse was Ipre Poperynge Fournays Tournaye Terrouer many other good townes yoldeÌ„ vnto hym Amonge the whyche GauÌ„t is nat named wherfore it is to deme that it was none of those townes y t at thys season rebelled ThaÌ„ in short proces folowynge the kyng had the rule of the hole erledome of Flaunders and delyuered the possessyon therof vnto Lowys the foresayde erle of that couÌ„tre and after retourned into FrauÌ„ce wyth pompe leuynge the erle in hys countye of Flaundres TheÌ„ whyche dyd after so cruell iustyce vppon hys subiectes that he put to deth by dyuerse tourmentes as rakkynge heddynge hangynge in sondry townes places of hys lordshyppes vpoÌ„ the noÌ„bre of .x. M ouer aboue many dyuers whych were banysshed som for fewe yeres some for many som for euermore IN the secoÌ„de yere of thys kyng Phylyp lyke as before is shewed in the thyrde yere of kynge Edwarde the sayd Edwarde made hys homage vnto the sayde Phylyp in y e towne of Amyas for the duchy of Guyon countye of Poytyers And soone after thys Phylype sente into Flaundres dyuers bysshoppes and other noble men by whose meanes y e gates of Brugê of Ipre of Courtray and of other townes were abated throwen downe for fere lest the sayde townes wolde oft rebell agayne hym or theyr erle In thys yere also syr Roberte de Artoys began hys plee in parlyameÌ„t agayne Iohan countesse of Artoys for that erledome in claymynge the ryght therof by certayne endentures of couenauÌ„tes of maryage betwene syr Phylype de Artoys hys father dame BlauÌ„che of Brytayne hys mother whyche wrytynges had ben by longe tyme kept from hym and now newly founden And for to haue the better expedicion in hys matter he brought vnto the kynge the erle of Alenson the duke of Brytayne with dyuers nobles the whyche made request for hym to the kyng y t he might haue iustyce And with the countesse came the duke of Burgoyne Lowys erle of Flaundres and dyuers other noble men makynge lyke request for her and for her ryght Than syr Robert shewed forth a wrytynge sealed wyth the seale of armys of the erle of Artoys conteynynge that whan the maryage was soleÌ„pnysed of syr Phylyp de Artoys father to the sayd Robert of dame Blaunche doughter vnto the duke of Brytayne and mother vnto the sayd Robert it was accorded that the sayd syr Phylyp hys father gaue vnto y e sayd dame BlauÌ„che and to her heyres the erledome of Artoys whiche wrytynges at the instaunce prayer of the countesse of Artoys were than delyuered into y e court to be kept sayeng that the sayd wrytynges were vntrewe couÌ„terfeted Upon the whych the sayde countesse brought suffycient prouffe that the sayd wrytynges were falsely made sealed by a gentylwomaÌ„ doughter vnto the lorde of Dygnon of the castell of Bethune y t whyche was so lerned in Astronomy y t she toke vpon her to shew thynges to come wherin somtyme she happed vpon the soth but more oftener she fayled By meanes of whyche womaÌ„ an olde chartre sealed wyth the seale of the forenamed syr Phylip was fouÌ„d the whych she craftely toke of set it vpon a new writyng made to y e auauÌ„tage of the sayd syr Robert of Artoys after presented them vnto the sayd syr Robert sayenge y t she had founde theÌ„ in the town of Acras The which he ioyfully receyued and made hys tytle and clayme vpoÌ„ the same This matter thus haÌ„gyng before the kyng and hys lordes in the .iii. yere of hys reygne in y e cytye of Parys after due prouffe made vpon the same the sentence was gyuen agayne syr Robert of Artoys to hys great dyspleasure In so moche that he sayd openly by me he was made a kynge and by me he shal be dysmyssed yf I maye And for he fered to be caste in pryson by y e French kyng he therefore conueyed hys horse and goodes secretely vnto Burdeaux vpon GerouÌ„de and there toke shyppyng and so passed into Englande hys sayd horses and treasour hym selfe yode vnto hys cosyne the duke of BrabaÌ„t with whome he bode a certayne of tyme after passed into EnglaÌ„de and excyted kyng Edward hougely for to make warre vpon the Frenche kynge In the .iiii. yere of y e reygne of this Phylip the sayd syr Robert was proclaymed open enemy to the crown of Fraunce and hys landes seased into the Frenche kynges handes and he banysshed the lande for euer excepte that he within a moneth after Easter next ensuyng wolde come into y e kynges court submyt hym hooly vnto the kynges grace whyche senteÌ„ce passed agayne hym for so moche as he apered nat In y e .vi. yere of the reygne of this Philip the wyfe of syr Robert of Artoys y t whych was syster vnto kyng Philip was accused to be a great occasioner of the offence of her husbaÌ„d For y e which she with her childer was sent into Gastenoys there holden in strayte pryson In y e .viii. yere of hys reygne kyng Philip vysyted diuers parties of his realme in y e doynge vysyted many places of pylgrymages which before he had promysed to seche for the restitucioÌ„ of helth to his eldest sonnÌ„ IohnÌ„ thaÌ„ duke of NormaÌ„dy whych y e yere before my meane of sekenes was in great ieopardy of lyfe coÌ„tynuynge the sayd iourney rode vnto AuygnoÌ„ and vysyted there y e pope than beyng Benet the .xii. of y e name And whaÌ„ he had sped hys nedes wyth hym he yode into the prouynce of Mercyle for to se there his nauy and after retourned by Burgoyne where of the duke he was royally receyued and feested In which season of his there tarieng a coÌ„playnt was brought before hym by y e sayd duke agayne syr IohnÌ„ de Chalon for clayme of
about Dunkyrke they gaue vnto hym suche assaute that he was constrayned to gyue backe And for the said shippes and goodes shulde nat come vnto the possessyon of his enemyes he sette them on fyre within the hauen and so was wasted bothe shyppes and goodes And all be it that after this mysse happe he recouered his strengthe layed syege vnto y e towne of Ipre and wrought the flemynges moche care and trouble shortely after suche syckenesses fell amonge his people as the flyre and other that his souldyours dyed of them great noumbre for the whiche he was compelled to leaue hys iourney and to retourne into EnglaÌ„de In this yere also was a batayle or feates of armes done in the kynges palays of westmynster atwene one called Garton Appellaunt and syr IohnÌ„ Ansley knyght defendauÌ„t of whiche fyght at length the knight was vyctor and caused his enemye to yelde hym For the whiche the sayd Garton was from that place drawen vnto Tyburne and there hanged for his false accusacyon and surmyse Anno dnÌ„i M.CCC.lxxxiii  Anno dnÌ„i M.CCC.lxxxiiii Grocer Symonde wynchecombe  Nycholas Brembre  Anno. vii  IohnÌ„ more   Anno dnÌ„i M.CCC.lxxxiiii  Anno dnÌ„i M.CCC.lxxxv  Nycholas Exton  Nycholas Brembre  Anno. viii  IohnÌ„ Frenshe  THis yere king Rycharde holdynge his Christmas at Eltham thyther came vnto hym the kynge of Ermony whiche was chased out of his lande by the Infydels and Turkes and required ayde of y e kynge to be restored vnto his dominyon The kynge fested and comforted him according to his honour after couÌ„sell taken with hys lordes concerninge that mater he gaue vnto him great sommes of money and other ryche gyftes with the whiche after he had taryed in Englande vpoÌ„ ii monethes he departed with glad countenaunce And soone after Ester the kynge with a greate armye yode towarde ScotlaÌ„de But whan he drewe nere vnto the borders such meanes were sought by the Scottes that a peace was concluded atwene bothe realmes for a certayne tyme. After whiche conclusion so taken the kynge returned vnto yorke and there restyd hym a season In which tyme varyaunce fell atwene IohnÌ„ HolaÌ„de brother to the erle of Kent and the erles sonne of Stafforde by reason of whiche varyaunce in conclusion y e sayd sonne of the erle was slayne of the hande of the same syr IohnÌ„ HolÌ„ade for the whiche dede the kynge was greuously amoued departed shortely after with his company toward London Anno dnÌ„i M.CCC.lxxxv  Anno dnÌ„i M.CCC.lxxxvi Grocer IohnÌ„ Organ  Nycholas Brembre  Anno. ix  IohnÌ„ Chyrcheman  THis yere kynge Rycharde assembled at westmynster hys highe court of parliameÌ„t Durynge the whiche amonge other many actes in the same counsell concluded he created .ii. dukes a marques and .v. erles Of the whiche firste syr Edmonde of Langley the kynges vncle and erle of Cambrydge was created duke of yorke syr Thomas of woodstoke his other vncle erle of Buckyngham was create duke of Gloucester syr Lyonell Uere y t was erle of Oxenforde was made marques of Deuelyn sir Henry Bolingbrooke sonne and heyre of IohnÌ„ of GauÌ„t duke of Lancastre was made erle of Derby syr Edwarde sonne heyre vnto the duke of yorke was made erle of Rutlande syr IohnÌ„ Holande brother to the erle of Kent was made erle of Huntyngdone syr Thomas Monbraye was made erle of Notyngham and Marshall of Englande and syr Mychaell de la Poole was made erle of Suffolke ChauÌ„celler of EnglaÌ„de And by auctoryte of the same parlyamente syr Roger Mortymer erle of the Marche and sonne and heyre vnto syr Edmonde Mortymer and of dame Philyppe eldest doughter and heyre vnto syr Lyonell y e seconde sonne of Edward the thyrde was soone after proclaymed heyre paraunt vnto the crowne of Englande The whiche sir Roger shortely after sayled into Irelande there to pacifye hys lordeshyppe of wulster whiche he was lorde of by his foresayde mother But whyle he was there occupyed aboute the same the wylde Irysshe came vpon hym in noumbre and slewe him and moche of his company This sir Roger hadde Issue Edmonde and Roger Anne Alys and Elynoure that was made a nunne The .ii. foresaid sonnes died without issue and Anne eldest doughter was maryed to Rycharde erle of Cambrydge whiche Rycharde was sonne vnto syr Edmonde of Langley before named The which Rycharde hadde issue by the sayde Anne Isabell ladye Bouchier Rycharde that after was duke of yorke father to kynge Edwarde the .iiii. whiche sayd Richarde erle of Cambridge was put to deth by Henry the .v. as after shall appere In this yere also syr HeÌ„ry Bolingbroke erle of Derby maryed the Countesse doughter of Herforde by whome he was lorde of that countrey And by her he had issue Henry that after him was kynge Blaunche duches of Barre and Philippe that was wedded to the kynge of Denmarke Also Thomas duke of Clarence IohnÌ„ duke of Bedforde Humfrey duke of Gloucester Anno domini M.CCC.lxxxvi  Anno domini M.CCC.lxxxvii Goldesmythe wyllyam Stondon  Nycholas Exton  Anno. x.  wyllyam More  IN this .x. yere the erle of Arundell was sent into the duchye of Guyan for to strengthe suche soudyours as the king at that tyme had in those parties or after some wryters to scoure the see of rouers enemyes The whiche erle in kepynge his course or passage encountred a myghtye flote of Flemynges laden with Rochel wyne set vpon them and distressed them theyr shyppes and so broughte them vnto dyuers portes of EnglaÌ„de By reason wherof the sayde wyne was so plenteous in Englande that a tonne thereof was solde for a marke and .xx. s. the choyse And amonge other in that flote was taken the Admyralle of Flaunders whyche remayned here longe after as prysoner Anno domini M.CCC.lxxxvii  Anno dnÌ„i M.CCC.lxxxviii Goldesmythe wyllyam Uenour  Nycholas Exton  Anno. xi  Hughe Fostalfe  THis .xi. yere of kyng Rycharde syr Thomas of woodstocke duke of Gloucester the erle of Arundell with the erles of warwyke of Derby and of Notyngham consyderynge howe the king and hys lande was mysse ladde by a fewe persones aboute the kynge entendyng reformacion of the same assembled them to haue a counsell at Radecoke brydge and after arrered great people so with a stronge power came to London there caused y e king to call a ê‘liament wherof herynge maister Alexander Neuyle than archebysshop of yorke sir Lyonell Uere marques of Deuelyn and syr Mychaell de la Poole Chaunceller and erle of Suffolke fearyng punisshement fledde the lande and so died in straunge countreys Than the kynge by counsell of the other aboue named lordes durynge the parlyament caused to be taken syr Roberte Treuylian chefe Iustyce of Englande syr Nycholas Brembre late mayre of the cytie of London sir IohnÌ„ Salysbury knyghte of housholde sâ—r IohnÌ„ BeauchaÌ„p stewarde also of the kynges house
they entended theyr diuyne seruyce praied more specyally for hym as they were bounde of duety whereunto it was after pardon requyred lastely by the sayde father answered that in conuenyent wyse they naturally might nat praye for hym and hys good spede consyderynge that he dayely warred vpon theyr fathers and kynnesmen and slewe of theym and spoyled theÌ„ dayly and enpouerysshed that laÌ„de whyche they of very kynde ought to loue and praye for After whyche answere thus by them made the kynge auoyded the hous of them and turned the lande thereof to suche vse as hym best lyked and suffred the hous to fall in ruyne And ouer thys great acte of fouÌ„dyng of these .ii. religious houses he ordeyned at westmynster to brenne perpetually wythoute extinccion iiii tapers of waxe vppon the sepulture of kyng Rychard and ouer that he ordeyned therto to be continued for euer one day in y e weke a solempne Dirige to be songe vppon the morowe a masse after which masse ended certayn money to be gyueÌ„ as before is expressed with other thynges in y e begynnyng of this kynges reygne And ouer thys his great besynesse in warre natwithstaÌ„dyng this most cristeÌ„ priÌ„ce by his lyfe chase his place of sepulture within the foresayd monastery there ordeyned for hym to be songe .iii. masses euery day in the weke whyle the world lasteth in maner and forme as by these verses folowyng doth appere Henrici missae quinti sunt hic tabulatae Quae successiue sunt per monachos celebratae ¶ Prima fit Assumptae de festo virginis almae Poscit pusiremam Christus de morte resur gens Dominica ¶ Prima salutate de festo virginis extat Nunciat angelicis laudem postrema choreis â—unc ¶ Esse deum natum de virgine prima fatetur Commemora natam sic vltima missa Mariam Martis ¶ Prima celebretur ad honorem neupmatis almi Vltima conceptam denunciat esse Mariam Mercurij ¶ Semper prima coli debet de corpore Christi Vltima fit fata de virgine purificata Iouis ¶ Concedet vt prima celebretur de cruce sancta Atque salutate fiet postrema Mariae Veneris ¶ Omnes ad sanctos est prima colenda supernos Vltima de requie pro defunctis petit esse Sabati ¶ Semper erit media de proprietate dei Omni die ¶ Missa Assumptionis Mâ—tiae Missa dnÌ„ieae resurrectionis 1 ¶ Missa salutationis Mariae Missa annuÌ„ciatioÌ„is Mariae 2 ¶ Missa natiuâ—tatis Christi Missa natiuitatis Mariae 3 ¶ Missa sancti spiritus Missa conceptionis 4 ¶ Missa corporis Christi Missa purificationis 5 ¶ Missa sanctÌ„ae crucis Missa salutationis Mariae 6 ¶ Missa omnium sanctorum Missa de requie 7 ¶ Missa diei quotidie ¶ whyche verses may thus to vnletteryd be englysshed Loo here is noted and put in memory That ouer these actes noble and Marcyall Thys excellent prynce thys fyfte kyng Henry Hys soule to endowe he was memoryall For wyth suffrages whyche euer laste shall Of masses thre that folowe ceryously At westmynster he ordeyned to be sayde dayly Upon sondaye the fyrste masse to begynne Deuoutly to be sayd of the Assumpcion Of our blessed Lady and nat thereafter blynne But than the latter of the resurreccion And on the mondaye of the Uisitacion The fyrste masse after ordeyned is Of the Annunciacion the latter masse sayd is Upon the tuysday to kepe the ordre iust The fyrste to be sayd of crystes Natiuite Than of our Lady byrth the latter folow muste On wednysdaye the holy ghost halowed to be And of the Concepcion the thyrd wylled he The thursday to synge the fyrste of Corpus xpÌ„i Of the Purificacion the laste of our Lady Upon the frydaye a masse of crystes crosse And of the Salutacion the latter for to synge And for of daye or tyme shuld be no losse Upon saterdaye the fyrste of that mornynge A masse of all sayntes to pray for the kynge Than masse of Requiem to be laste of all And euery day the day masse amyd these masses to fall ¶ Lenuoy ¶ O mercifull god what a prynce was this Whiche his short lyfe in marciall actes spent In honour of conquesi that wonder to me it is Howe he myght compasse suche dedys excellent And yet for that his mynde nothynge detent Alâ— ghostly helthe for his soule to prouide Cut of his world or he fatally shulde slyde So that though I had Tullyes eloquence Or of Sâ—â—ek the great moralyte Or of Salomon the perfyght sapience Or the swete dyties of dame Caliope Yet might I nat in prose or other dytte Accordyngly auaunce this princes fame And with due honour to enhaunce the same Consideringe his actes wherof percell appere In this rude wâ—rke with many mo left out The tyme also whiche was lesse than ten yere That he so shortly brought all thynge about By diuine grace forthryd without doute That myghtfull lorde he halâ—e his ghostly knyght With grace honour to passe this worldes sight And to haue rewarde dowble condigne And first for marciall actes by hym doone To be auaunced amonge the worthys Nyâ—e And for his vertues vsed by hym efte soone With many good dedes which he in erth had done Aboue the Hierarches he is I trust now stalled That was on erth kyng of kynges called Anglia ¶ Henry the syxte HEnry the .vi. of y e name and onely sonne of Henry the .v of quene Kathryn doughter of Charles y e seuenth kyng of Fraunce began hys reygne ouer the realme of Englande the fyrst day of September in the yere of our lorde M.iiii C. .xxii. and in the ende of the laste yere of the reygne of the foresayde .vii. Charles than kyng of Fraunce Thys Henry for the insufficience of hys age whyche as before ys shewed was but of .viii. monethes and odde days was commytted vnto the rule of hys vncles the dukes of Bedforde and of Glouceter The whyche durynge hys none age ruled the realmes of Englande of Fraunce honourably as the duke of Glouceter protectour of Englande and duke of Bedforde regent of Fraunce Than vpon the .xxi. day of October duryng thys mayres yere Robert Chyceley dyed at Parys the aboue named vii Charles kynge of Fraunce By reason of whose deth by force of appoyntemeÌ„t before made betwene HeÌ„ry the .v. and hym as before is towched in the seuenth yere of the sayde Henry the realme of Fraunce right thereof fylle vnto the yonge kynge Henry To whose vse the nobles of Fraunce excepte a fewe of suche as helde wyth the Dolphyne delyuered the possession therof vnto the duke of Bedforde as regent therof durynge that nonage of thys kynge Anno dnÌ„i M. CCCC.xxii  Anno dnÌ„i M. CCCC.xxiii  wyllyam Estfeylde  wyllyam walderne  Anno primo  Robert Tatersale  IN the begynnyng of thys mayres yere and fyrste yere of the
The whiche he helde so streyght that lastly Gyrande the captayne therof agreed to delyuer it by a certayne day excepte he were rescowed After whiche appoyntment so taken the sayde Gyrande as wytnesseth Gaguinus sent worde to Charles the .viii. of y e name or y e .vii. after dyuers wryters which of his fautoures was than accōpted for kyng of Fraūce And he in all possyble hast sent thyder y e duke of Alanson y e erle of Turon̄ or of Douglas of Bowgham or Boucam of Daumayll y e vicoūt of Nerbon̄ with a strōg power of Armenakkes scottes Frēchemē y e which host or it myght approch to y e sayd towne to make rescouse y e day expired it vnto y e duke deliuered whā y e duke of Alāsō was asserteyned of y e deliuere of y e towne he toke his aduise of y e other capitaynes whether it was better to retourn consyderyng the towne was yolden or to gyue batayll vnto the Englishe men But fynally for no reproche shuld be to them arected as they had fled for fere they kept on theyr iournany pyght theyr felde in a playne nere vnto the sayd town of Uernoyl where they beynge strongely enbataylled vpon the .vii. day of the moneth of August the duke of Bedford wyth hys retynue gaue to thē sharpe and cruell batayll the whyche endured longe wythoute knowlege of vyctory But fynally by goddes ordenaūce and power the vyctyry fyl to the Englysshe partye to the greate losse of theyr enemyes For in the fyghte was slayne as testyfyeth the French Gaguyne the erles of Turon and Boucam of Daumayle wyth the Uycounte of Narbon̄ and dyuers other men of name And of the commons were slayne to the nombree of fyue thousande And there was taken the duke of Alanson the Marshall of Fraunce and other But y e englysshe wryters affermeth .x. M. to be slayne and mo Anno dn̄i M. CCCC.xxiiii  Anno dn̄i M. CCCC.xxv  Symonde Seman  Iohn̄ Mychell  Anno .ix.  Iohn̄ Bywater  THys yere after Easter y e kynge helde hys parlyamente at westmynster the whych began vpō the daye of Etkenwalde or the laste daye of Apryll And .ii. dayes before the kynge wyth the quene his moder came thorugh the cytye from wyndesore And whan he came at the west dore of Poulys the lorde protectour toke him out of the chare and so was ladde vpon hys fete betwene y e sayde lorde Protectour and the duke of Exceter vnto the steppes goyng into y e quyer Fro whēs he was borne vnto the hygh aulter and there kneled in a trauers purueyed for hym And whan he had be there he yode to the rode of y e north dore and there made hys offerynges And thenne was he borne into the churche yerde there set vpon a fayre courser and so conueyed thorugh chepe and the other stretes of the cytye vnto saynt Georges barre and so helde hys iournay to hys Manour of Kenyngton̄ And contynuyng the foresayd parlyamēt the kyng was sondry tymes cōueyed to westmynster and wythin the parlyament chāber kept there his royall astate By auctoryte whereof to hym was graunted a subsidye of .xii. d. in the .li. of all maner marchaundyse cōmyng in or passing out of this realm and .iii. s. of a tunne of wyne for y e terme of .iii. yeres to be holden And ferthermore it was enacted that all marchaunt straungers shuld be set to an Englysshe hoste wythin .xv. dayes of theyr commyng to theyr porte sale to make no sale of any marchaundyse or they were so lodged theym wythin .xl. dayes folowynge to make sale of all that they brought And yf any remayned vnsolde at the sayde xl dayes ende that than all such marchaundyse beyng than vnsolde to be forfayted vnto the kyng Also that all straungers that caryed any wolles out of thys lande shuld pay .xliii. s. iiii d. for a sakke custome where y e Englysshe marchaunte and denyzen payde but .v. nobles wyth many other condycyons and penaltyes as well for Englysh as the other marchauntes whyche wolde are longe leysour to shewe enacted and passed durynge thys sayde parlyamente And the seconde daye of the moneth of Auguste was yolden vnto the erle of Salysbury appoynted wyth other by the regent the cytie of Mans vnder appoyntemente comprysed in .ix. articles wherof one specyall was that yf any persones were founde wythin the cytye whyche had ben consentyng vnto the dukes deth Iohan late duke of Burgoyne that they shulde stande at the grace of the sayde regent Also thys yere the duke of Glouceter lord protectour whiche lately before hadde maryed the duchesse of Holande a woman a greate possesiō for cause of rule wherof to haue domynyō of the same he wyth the sayd duchesse sayled towarde that coūtre and thereof her subgectes was peasybly and wyth honour receyued But fynally he had suche chere y t he was gladde to retourne into Englande leuynge hys wyfe therein a towne of her owne named Mounse But after hys departynge the duke of Burgoyne so demeaned hym to the rulers of that towne were it by batayll or otherwyse that they deliuered her to the sayde duke and he forthwyth sente her vnto Gaunte there to be kepte as prysoner But by the Frenshyppe of one named syr Iaques de la Grayll a Burgonyon knyghte her owne polecy she escaped thens in a mannes clothynge and came to a towne in zelande named zyryxe and frome thens to an other towne in zelande called Ghwode or Ghow-Ghowde where she wythstode the dukes power Than the duke of Glouceter heryng of the escape of his wyfe and of the malyce of the duke foresayde in all haste prouyded a stronge company of soudyours and archers and cōmytted them vnto that rule of y e lord Fitzwater The whych in processe of tyme landed wyth them at a place in zelande called Brewers hauē where of theyr ēnemyes they were encountred and dryuē backe so retourned into Englande wythoute any greate fete doynge leuynge the duchesse behynde them for that season Thys yere about Myghelmasse y e prynce of Portyngale came into Englande was honourable receyued and fested of the kynges vncles and taryed here the tyme of thys mayres yere This yere also began a grudge to kyndle betwene the lorde protectour and hys halfe brother the bysshoppe of wynchester the whyche after grewe to a greate dystourbaunce of the cytie of London as in the next mayres yere shal be shewed And in the ende of thys yere were many honeste men of the cytye apeched of treason by a false and malycyous persone belongynge vnto the sayde bysshoppe and putte theym vnto greate vexacyon and trouble whych was done by the procurement of the sayde bysshoppe as the comon fame than wente And nat alonely men of the cytie were thus vexed but also other burgeyses of dyuers good townes as Leyceter Caūterbury Northampton and other Anno dn̄i M. CCCC.xxv  Anno dn̄i M.
Theodalde Guyllyam Rychauyll knyghtes The whyche rescous nat wythstandynge the sayde lorde Talbot well maÌ„fully coÌ„tynued hys syege assawted the towne in ryght cruell maner so that they were fayne to call for more ayde whereof the lord Talbot beyng ware thynkynge that shortly the Frenchmen shuld be constrayned to gyue ouer the towne left the gydyng of the syege vnto syr wyllyam Poyton syr IohnÌ„ RyppelaÌ„d or Tryppelande knyght after departyd After whose departyng with in short whyle y e Dolphyn of UyeÌ„ne Lowys by name and sonne vnto the forenamed Charles Frenche kynge accompanyed wyth the erle of saynte Paule other to the nombre of .xvi. C. knyghtes came vnto the rescous of the sayd towne And after he had a day rested hym and hys sowdiours he sente the forenamed Theodalde wyth a strength of .iiii. C. men for to assayle the forsayde towre of tymbre but lytell hurt dyd they therunto Than the sayd Dolphyn sente an other strength of .vi. C. men to assayle it but the Englyshemen quyt theym so manfully that they slew .viii. score Frenchmen wouÌ„nded ouer .iii. C. wherwyth the Dolphyn beynge greuously amoued assembled the vttermost strength he myght make aswel of the towne and other and set vpon the Englysshe men whiche were â—ore brused with dayly fyght and fewe in nombre and fynally scomfited them and slewe of theym vpon CCC and toke y e rest prysoners Amonge y t whiche the foresayd two Englysshe capitaynes were taken and a kynnesmaÌ„ of the lorde Talbottes or more veryly one of his baste sones And thus was Depe rescowed the Englysshmen dyscomfyted after they had maÌ„fully maynteyned that syege by the space of .ix. wekes and odde dayes Also this yere in y e moneth of August was a great affray iÌ„ Fletestrete atwene the getters of the ynnes of courte and the inhabytauntes of the same strete whiche affray began in y e nyght and so contynued with assawtes and small by kerynges tyll y e next day In whiche season moche people of the cytie thyder was gadered and dyuers men of bothe partyes were slayne and many hurte But lastly by the presence dyscrecyon of y e mayer and shyreffes this affraye was appesed Of the whiche was chyfe occasyoner a man of Clyfforde ynne named Herbotell In this yere also by certayne ambassadoures y t were sente out of EnglaÌ„d into Guyon a maryage was coÌ„cluded in the begynnynge of the yere folowynge atwene the kynge and y e erles doughter of Armenak whiche conclusion was after dysalowed and put by by the meanes of the erle of Suffolke whiche kyndled a newe brande of brunynge enuy atwene y e lorde protectour and hym and toke fyre in suche wyse that it lefte not tyll bothe partyes with many other were consumed and slayne wherof ensued moche myschefe within the realme and losse of all Normandy as after to you shall appere Anno dnÌ„i M.iiii C.xlii.  Anno dnÌ„i M.iiii C. xlili  Thomas Beaumount  IonÌ„ Athyrley Irenmonger  Anno .xxi.  Rycharde Nordon  IN thys .xxi. yere the foresayde erle of Suffolke whych as before is touched had fordon the coÌ„clusyon of the maryage takeÌ„ by the ambassadours betwene the kyng and y e erle of Armenakes doughter wente ouer hym selfe wyth other vnto hym assygned there in FrauÌ„ce concluded a mariage betwene the kyng and dame Margarete the kynges doughter of Cecyle and of Hierusalem as sayth the Englyshe cronycle And for that mariage to brynge about to the sayd kyng of Cecyle was deliuered y e duchye of Angeou and erledome of Mayne whych are called the keyes of Normandy But the FreÌ„che wryter Gaguyne sayth in hys latyne cronycle y t about thys tyme the erle of Suffolke came vnto Charles the Frenche kyng to a towne in Lorayn named Naunce or NauÌ„t axed of hym his doughter to be quene of England but he gyueth to her no name The whyche request of the sayd Charles to the sayde erle was grauÌ„ted Also he affermeth lytel tofore that season a peace betwene bothe realmes was concluded for the terme of .xxii. moneths whych peace endured but a whyle after And thys yere vpon Candelmas euyn the steple of sait Poules church in LondoÌ„ was set on fyre by tempest of lyghtnynge and lastly queÌ„ched by greate dylygence and laboure of many persones But of all that there laboured the morowe masse preeste of Bowe church in chepe was moste commended and noted Anno dnÌ„i M. CCCC.xliii  Anno dnÌ„i M. CCCC.xliiii  Nycholas wyfforde  Thomas Catworthe Grocer  Anno .xxii.  IohnÌ„ Norman  THys .xxii. yere y e erle of Stafforde was made or created duke of Bukkyngham the erle of warwyke duke of warwyke the erle of Dorset marques of Dorset and the erle of Suffolke marquys of Suffolke The whyche marquys of Suffolke soone after wyth hys wyfe and other honourable personages aswell of men as of women with great apparayl of chayres and other costyous ordenaunce for to conuey the forenamed lady Margarete into England sayled into FrauÌ„ce where they were honourably receyued and so taryed there all thys mayres yere In thys yere was also an acte made by auctoryte of the common couÌ„sayll of London that vppon the sondaye shuld no maner of thynge with in the fraunchyse of y e citie be bought or solde nother vytayll nor other thynge nor none artyfycer shulde brynge hys ware to any man to be worne or occupyed that daye as tayllours garmentes or cordewayners shoys and so in lykewyse of all other occupacyons The whyche ordenaunce helde but a whyle Anno dnÌ„i M.CCC.xliiii  Anno dnÌ„i M. CCCC.xlv  Stephyn Foster  Henry Frowyke Mercer  Anno .xxiii.  Hughe wyche  THys .xxiii. yere and moneth of the foresayd lady Margarete came ouer into EnglaÌ„d and in the moneth folowynge she was maryed vnto kyng HeÌ„ry at a towne called Sowthwyke in the countre of Hamshyre And froÌ„ thens she was honourably conueyed by the lordes and estates of thys laÌ„d whyche mette wyth her in sondry places wyth greate retynewe of men in sondry lyueryes wyth theyr sleuys browdered and som betyn wyth gold smythes werkes in moste costly maner And specyally the duke of Glouceter mette wyth her wyth fyue hundreth men in one lyuerey And so she was conueyed vnto Blacke heth where vppon the .xviii. day of May she was mette with the mayre aldermen and sheryfes of the cytye and the craftes of the same in brown blewe wyth brawderyd sleuys That is to meane euery mystery or crafte wyth conysaunce of hys mystery and red hoodes vppon eyther of theyr heddes and so the same daye broughte her vnto London where for her were ordeyned sumptuous and costly pageÌ„tes and resemblauÌ„ce of dyuerse olde hystoryes to y e great comforte of her and suche as came wyth her y e maner whereof I passe ouer for lengthynge of the tyme. And so wyth great tryuÌ„phe she was broughte vnto westmynster where vppon the
.xxx. daye of the moneth of Maye that was the sondaye after Trynyte sondaye she was solemply crowned After whyche feeste iustes were there holden by thre dayes continual within the seyntwary before y e abbey Of thys maryage are of dyuers wryters lefte dyuers remembraunces sayenge that thys maryage was vnprofytable for the realme dyuerse wayes For fyrste was gyuen vp for her oute of the kynges possession the duchye of Angeou and the erledome of Mayne And for the costes of her conueynge into thys lande was axed in playne parlyamente a fyftene and an halfe by the marquys of Suffolke By reason whereof he grewe in such hatered of the people that fynally it coste hym hys lyfe And ouer that it appered that god was nat pleased wyth that mariage For after thys day the fortune of the worlde beganne to fal from y e kyng so that he loste hys frendes in Englande and hys reuenewes in Fraūce For shortly after all was ruled by the quene and her counsayl to the great dysprofyte of the kyng hys realme and to the greate maugre and obloquy of the quene The whych as syn that tyme hath ben well prouyd had many a wrong and false reporte made of her whych were to longe to reherse All whyche mysery fyll for brekynge of the promyse made by the kyng vnto the erle of Armenakkys doughter as before in the .xx. yere of the kyng is touched as agreeth moste wryters whyche mysery in thys story shall somdeale appere as fyrst by the losyng of Normandy the deuisiō of the lordes within thys realme the rebelliō of y e cominaltye agayne theyr prynce soueraygne fynally the kynge deposed and the quene wyth the prynce fayne to fle the lande loste the rule thereof for euer Anno. dn̄i M.iiii C.xlvi  Anno dn̄i M.iiii C.xlvii  Robert Horne  Iohn̄ Olney Mercer  Anno .xxv.  Godfrey Boloyne  THys .xxv. yere was a parlyament holdē at saynt Edmondes Bury in Suffolke To y e whiche towne all the cōmons of that coūtre were warned to come in theyr moste defēcyble aray to gyue attendaunce vpō the kyng And so soone as thys parlyamēt was begō and the lordes assembled syr Hūfrey duke of Glouceter and vncle vnto y e kyng shortly after was arrested by the vycounte Beawmōde thā hygh cōstable of Englande whome accompanied y e duke of Bukkynghm̄ other And after this arest was executed all his owne seruaūtes were put from him .xxxii of the pryncypall of theym were also put vnder arest sente vnto dyuers prysons whereof arose a great murmour amonge the people Than thus cōtynuyng thys parlyament wythin .vi. dayes after the duke was arrested he was founde dede in hys bedde beynge the .xxiiii. daye of February Of whose murdre dyuers reportes at made whyche I passe ouer Than hys corps was layd opyn y t all mē myght se hym but no wonde was founde on hym Of the honourable fame of thys man a longe style I myght make of y e good rule that he kepte thys lande in durynge the none age of the kynge and of hys honourable housholde libertye which passed all other before hys tyme and trewe of hys allegeaunce that no mā coude with ryght accuse hī but malycyous persones whych hys glorious honour fame lafte nat to maligne agayne hym tyll he were put frome all wordly rule and specyally for it was thought that durynge hys lyfe he wolde withstāde the delyuery of Angeou Mayne before promysed Thys for hys honourable and lyberall demeanure was surnamed the good duke of Glouceter Than after he had lyen opyn a season y t all men myghte be assured of hys dethe the corps was honourably prouided for and so cōueyed vnto saynt Albonys there buryed nere vnto the shryne of saynt Albone to whose soule god be mercyfull Amen And whan this noble prynce was thus enteryd fyue persones of hys housholde that is to saye syr Roger Chamberlayne knyght Myddelton Herbarde Arthur esquyers one Rycharde Nedā yeman were sente vnto Londō there arayned and iuged to be drawē hāged and quartered Of the whych sentēce drawynge hāgynge were put in execuciō But whā they were cut downe to be quartered y e Marquys of Suffolke there beyng presēt shewed y e kynges chartour for thē so were deliuered to the great reioysyng of y e multytude of y e people there beyng present But for thys the grudge murmour of y e people ceased nat agayne the Marquys of Suffolke for the deth of the good duke of Glouceter of whose murdre he was specyally suspected Anno dn̄i M.iiii C.xlvii  Anno dn̄i M.iiii C.xlviii  Wyllyam Abraham  Iohn̄ Gedney Draper  Anno .xxvi.  Thomas Scot.  IN thys .xxvi. yere after concordaūce of moste wryters or nere there about y e .xxiii. scisme of y e church ceased that before had cōtynued betwene Eugeny the .iiii. Felix the .v. vpon .xvi. yeres Thys scisme as before is touched began by reason of the deposycyō of the sayde Eugeny at the coūsayll of Basile for that that he wolde nat obserue the decrees before made in the coūsayll of Cōstaūce other causes to hym layde But yet that deposyng natwythstandynge perforce he cōtynued pope by the terme of .xiiii. yeres after And the sayde Felix at the sayd coūsayll admitted in lyke maner cōtynued as pope by all that sayde season lyke as before to you I haue shewed in the .xvii. yere of thys kynge And as now by exortacyon of crysten prynces as the kynge of England whose messangers in y e behalfe were the bysshoppe of Norwyche and the lord of saint Iohn̄s other princes the sayd pope Felix to sette a perfyte vnyon in the churche in thys yere of hys owne volūte resigned hys auctorytie of papacy and submytted hym vnto the obediēce of Nicholas the .v. of that name nat wythstandynge that the sayde Felix was a man of great byrthe allied to the more partye of all crysten prynces And thys Nycholas a mā of lowe byrthe of vnknowē kynred wythin the cytie of Ieane Than was Felix made legate of Fraunce cardynal of Sauoye and lyued after a blessed holy lyfe so ended And as some wryters testifye god for hym hath shewed dyuers miracles syns he dyed And for thys scysme thus gracyously was ended a vercyfyer made thys verse folowynge ¶ Lux fussit mundo cessit Felix Nicholao The whych verse is thus to meane in Englyshe ¶ Lyght into the worlde now dothe sprynge and shyne ¶ For Felix vnto Nicholas all frely doth resyne Also as testifieth Gaguyne also some englyshe wryters y t trewys betwene Englād Fraūce cōtynuyng a knyght of y e Englysh partie named syr Fraūceys Arrogonoyse toke a town vpō the borders of Normādy belōgyng vnto y e duke of Brytayne For y t which he cōplayned hym vnto Charles the Frēch kyng he at the sayd dukes request sent
nere vnto y e cytie So that vpon the fyrste day of Iuly he entred the bourgh of Southwarke beynge than wednesday lodged hym there that nyght for he myght not be suffered to entre the cytie And vpon the same day the commōs of Essex in great nombre pyght theym a felde vpon the playne at myles ende And vpon the seconde daye of the sayd moneth the mayre called a common counsayle at the Gyldhall for to puruey the withstandynge of these rebelles and other matyers In whiche assemble were dyuers opinions so that some thought good that the sayde rebelles shulde be receyued into the cytie and some otherwyse Amonge the whiche Roberte Horne stok fysshmonger than beynge an alderman spake sore agayne them that wolde haue them entre For y ◠whiche sayenges the cōmons were so amoued agayn hym that they ceased not tyll they had hym cōmytte to warde And the same afternoone aboute v. of the clok the capytayne with his people entred by y e brydge And whā he came vpon the drawe brydge he hewe the ropes y t drewe the brydge in sondre with his swerde and so passed into y e cytie and made in sondry places therof proclamacyons in the kynges name that no man in peyne of dethe shulde robbe or take ony thyng parforce without payeng therfore By reason wherof he wanne many hertes of the cōmons of the cytie but all was done to begyle with the people as after shall euydently appere For he rode thorough dyuers stretes of the cytie and as he came by London stone he strake it with his swerde and sayd now is Mortymer lorde of this cytie And whan he had thus shewed hymselfe in dyuers places of the cytie shewed his mynde to y e mayre for y e ordrynge of his people he returned into Southwarke and there abode as he before hadde done his people cōmynge goynge at lawfull houres whan they wolde Than vpon the morne beynge the thyrde daye of Iuly and frydaye the sayd capytayne entred agayne the cytie and caused the lorde Sey to be fet frome the tower and ladde vnto the Guyldhall where he was areygned before the mayre other of y e kynges iustyce In whiche passe tyme he entended to haue brought before y e sayd iustyces the foresayd Robert Horne But his wyfe and frendes made to hym suche instaūt labour that fynally for .v. C. marke he was set at his lybertye Than the lorde Sey beynge as before is sayde at Guyldhall desyred y t he myght be iudged by his peers wherof herynge the capytayne sent a company of his vnto the hall the whiche parforce toke hym from the offycers and so brought hym vnto the standarde in the Chepe where or he were halfe shryuen they strake of his hed y t done pyght it on a lōg pole so bare it aboute with them In this tyme and season had the capytayne caused a gentylman to be taken named Cromer whiche before had ben shyreffe of Kent and vsed as they sayde some extorcyons For which cause or for he had fauoured the lorde Sey by reason that he had maried his doughter he was haryed to Myles ende and there in y e capitaynes presence byheded And y e same tyme was ther also byheded a man called Baylly y e cause of whose dethe was this as I haue herd some men reporte This Baylly was of y e famylyer and olde acqueyntaunce of Iak Cade wherfore so soone as he espyed hym cōmynge to hym warde he cast in his mynde that he wolde dyscouer his lyuyng olde maners and shewe of his vyle kynne and lynage wherfore knowynge y t the sayd Baylly vsed to vere scrowes and prophecyes aboute hym shewyng to his cōpany y t he was an enchaunter and of yll dysposycion and y t they shulde well knowe by such bokes as he bare vpon hym and bad them serche and yf they founde not as he sayde y t thā they shuld put hym to dethe whiche all was doone accordynge to his cōmaundment whan they had thus be heded these .ii. men they toke the hede of Croumer pyght it vpon a pole and so entred the cytie with the hedes of the lorde Sey and of Croumer And as they passed the stretes they ioyned the poles togyder caused eyther deed mouthe to kysse other dyuers and many tymes And the capytayne the selfe same daye wente vnto the house of Phylyppe Malpas draper and and alderman and robbeb and spoyled his house and toke thens a great substaunce But he was before warned and therby conueyed moche of his money and plate or elles he had ben vndone At whiche spoylynge were present many poore men of the cytie whiche at suche tymes ben euer redy in all places to do harme where suche ryottes ben doone Thā towarde nyght he returned into Southwarke vpon y e morne reentred y e cytie and dyned that daye at a place ī saynt Margaret Patyns parysshe called Gherstys hous And whan he had dyned lyke an vncurteyse gest he robbed hym as the daye before he had Malpas For which .ii. robberyes all be it that the porayll nedy people drewe vnto hym were partyners of that yll the honest and thryfty comoners cast in theyr myndes the sequele of this matyer and fered leste they shulde be delte with in lyke maner by meane wherof he lost the peoples fauour and hertes For it was to be thought yf he had not executed that robbery he myghte haue gone ferre and brought his purpose to good effecte yf he hadde entended well But it is to deme and presuppose that the entent of hym was not good wherfore it myght not come to ony good conclusyon Than y e mayre and aldermen with assystence of the worshypfull comeners seynge this mysdeanour of y e capytayne in sauegardynge of themselfe and of the cytye toke theyr counsayles how they myght dryue the capytayne and his adherētes from y e cytie wherin theyr feare was the more for so moche as the kynge and his lordes with theyr powers were farre from theym But yet in aduoydynge of apparēt peryl they condyscended that they wolde withstande his any more entre into the cytie For the performaūce wher of y e mayre sent vnto the lorde Scales and Mathewe Gowgth than hauynge the tower in gydynge had of them assent to perfourme y e same Than vpon the .v. day of Iuly y e capytayne beynge in Southwarke caused a mā to be heded for cause of his dyspleasure to hym doone as the fame went so kepte hym in Southwarke all y e day How be it he myght haue entred the cytie yf he had wold And whan nyght was comynge the mayre and cytezyns with Mathewe Gowth lyke to theyr former appoynmtent kepte the passage of y e brydge beynge sonday and defended the Kentysshe mē whiche made great force to reenter the cytie Than the capytayne seynge this bykerynge begon yode to harneys and called his people aboute hym and set so
retourne to thys Charlys lykely it is that he was nat y e naturall sonne of the forenamed Charlys for as moche as hys sayd father ordeyned and wylled the realme of FrauÌ„ce vnto Katheryne hys doughter and wyfe vnto kynge HeÌ„ry the .v and agreed wyth the consente of the more parte of y e lordes of hys realme bothe spyrituall temporall that duryng hys lyfe the sayd kynge Henry shuld be regeÌ„t of FrauÌ„ce after hys deth to be kyng of the sayd regâ—oÌ„ as more at lengthe before I haue shewed vnto you in the .vii. yere of the sayd Henry the .v. But whether he be hys legyttymat sonne or nat where uppoÌ„ I purpose no leÌ„ger to stande trouth it is that he was by his father admitted made dolphyne of Uyen by reason wherof he was in a greate auctoryte wan to hym fauoure of som lordes of FrauÌ„ce whych stroÌ„gly maynteyned hys partye durynge the lyfe of kyng HeÌ„ry the .v after all y t season whyle the duke of Bedforde occupyed there as regent of that regyoÌ„ was of some parties of FrauÌ„ce reputed for kyng Howe be it he was neuer crowned so loÌ„ge as the sayde duke of Bedforde lyued Neuerthelesse he by meane of polycy hys freÌ„des so defended hym selfe that lytle by the EnglyshemeÌ„ was wonne vpoÌ„ hym of suche laÌ„des as he fyrste was in possessyon of But polytykely he defended theym lytle and lytle so preuayled agayne them that in the ende he all onely wanne nat to hym the possessioÌ„ of that prouince y t which is named FrauÌ„ce but also he wanne to hym in the ende the kynge of Englandes olde enherytaunce that is Normandy wyth all domynyons to the same apperteynynge The maner of wynnynge of them I woll nat in thys story speke of for so moche as in the former yeres of kynge Henry the .vi. I haue there expressed the maner of somme parte therof But that I shall speke of theÌ„ shal be of thynges done betwene hym other prynces And for that I before in the .viii. yere of HeÌ„ry the vi promysed in the .vi. yere of thys Charles to shewe vnto you som what of the maydeÌ„ or pucel which y e FreÌ„ch men named la pucelle de dieu her for a messenger from god to be sente reputed I shall here folow y e saying of Gaguyne whyche sayeth as foloweth In the .vi. yere or there aboute to rekyn from the deth of thys Charles father a weÌ„che or mayden beyng bred in a strete or vyllage called in latyne Ualli color in thys tyme beynge sproÌ„ge to the age of .xx. yeres or there about hauing to father a poore man named Iakes Delarch and hyr mother Isabell she also berynge the name of Iane or Iohan required by dyuers sundry tymes an vncle of hyrs beyng prefecte of the foresayde vyllage that he wolde presente hyr vnto the FreÌ„che kynge for thynges coÌ„cernyng greatly the weale of hym of hys realme whyche sayd prefect after many delayes for so moche as in hyr wordes he had lytle truste yet at leÌ„gthe hyr sayd vncle beynge named Robert Baudryncourt sent hyr wyth a coÌ„uenyent company vnto the kyng wyth letters certyfyenge hym of all the maner of thys mayde wherof the sayd Charles beynge asserteyned thought he wold vse som meane to knowe the vertue of thys wenche And for he had perfyghte experyence that before tymes thys woman had neuer sene hys persone he thoughte he wolde chaunge hys rome and habyte to se whether she by hyr vertue coulde knowe hym frome other and that done he standynge amonge other of his familiers as one of them she was called into the chaumber demaunded yf euer before tyme she had sene the kynge And after she hadde answered nay she was byddeÌ„ to espye oute the kynge whych there stode amonge that companye The whyche anone wythout dyfficulte him fande and saluted as king And all be it that he refused hyr reuereÌ„ce sayd y t she erred in hyr choyse yet she parseuered kneling at his fete and sayde that by goddes purueyauÌ„ce she was taught that he was hyr very soueraygn prince none other wherfore the kynge all hys lordes had in hyr the more affyauÌ„ce that by hyr the laÌ„de shulde be releuyd whych at that daye was in passyng mysery Than after dyuers questyoÌ„s to hyr made what was the cause of hyr thyther commynge she answered sayd that she was sent frome god to stablisshe the kynge in hys realme and that by hyr she beynge leder capytayne of hys people by dyuine grace onely the kynge shulde shortely subdue hys enemyes By reasoÌ„ of which wordes the kyng wyth hys lordes were somedeale comforted Upon thys armour sword was sought for this maydeÌ„ the whych as sayeth my sayd auctour was fouÌ„den myraculously wherof the processe to me appereth so darke faÌ„tastycall y t therewith me list nat to blot my boke but suffre it to passe by Than thys weÌ„che being purueyed of all thinges necessary to the warre a company of knyghtes soudyours to hyr by the kynge was assygned And so she rydynge as a man in maÌ„nes habyte contynued by the space of .ii. yeres more and dyd many wonderful feates and gat from the Englysshemen many stroÌ„ge townes and holdes wherefore amonge Frenchemen she was wordshypped for an auÌ„gell or a messynger sent frome god to releue theyr great myserye And as affermeth the sayd auctour she by hyr prouydence caused the sayd Charles as kynge of Fraunce to be crowned at Raynes in the yere of oure lord M. foure hundreth and .xxix. All be it nouther the Frenche cronycle nor other whyche I haue sene testyfyeth that but affermyn that he was nat crowned duryng the lyfe of the duke of Bedforde But almyghty god whyche for a season suffereth suche sorcery and deuelyssh ways to prospere reygne to the correccyon of synners lastely to shewe hys power and that good men shuld nat fall into any erroure he sheweth the clerenesse of suche mystycall thynges and so he dyd in thys For lastely she by a knyghte Burgonyon was taken after sent to Roan and there breÌ„t for her demerytes as in the .viii yere of Henry the .vi. is more at leÌ„gth shewed ThaÌ„ the tyme forth passyng and coÌ„tynuall warre betwene Englande FrauÌ„ce contynuyng among many trybulacions by thys Charles susteyned one that was hys owne sonnÌ„ named Lewys comforted and assysted by the dukes of BurboÌ„ and AleÌ„son wyth other meÌ„ of name rebelled agayne hys father and warred vppon hym and by strengthe wan frome hym certeyne townes strong holdes For remedy whereof the sayde Charles made warre vppon the forenamed duke of Burbon and wasted wyth iron and fyre the countreyes of the sayde duke of Burbon By meane whereof after thys vnkyndely warre hadde duryd by the space of syxe monethes or more a peace and vnyte betwene the father sonne was treated by meanes of the erle of Ewe a coÌ„corde vnite betwene
ryght well the state whan thou by meanes whyche were inordynat Put vnto deth many an innocent man By cruell malyce and well remembred than That of lowe byrth Flaundres thy mother the fledde And taught the a crafte the here well to shaue Lutecia that cytye where thou thy lyfe ledde wytnesseth the a seruaunt therin thy lyuynge to craue And for thy dayes an honest lyfe to haue But whan thou were in Lowys court vp brouht Than had thou no mynde that thou were come of nought But lyke the helle hounde thou waxed full furyous Expressynge thy malyce whan thou to honour styed Thynkynge for so moche as that prynce bounteuous Hys hed and berde to the he nought denyed And wyth all worldly pleasure he also the allyed The before hys prynces makynge hys gouernour Thy selfe thou blyndest wyth wordly vayne honour whyche made the so proude thou sonne of harde Neron That none myght lyue that thou accused of cryme No man was cursed nor none had punyssyon That wolde thy hande wyth golde of gyftes lyme And who that nat hys gyfte offred in tyme Other deth or exyle to hym was soone applyed For as iuge and hangman thou all thynge excercysed Thou reygned longe ynough but now are sprongeÌ„ newe Sterrys to the worlde and fled is nowe clerely The scelerat flokke wherfore thou barbour yet rewe Thyne odyous actes whyche haue the sodaynly Cast downe from welth in snares vytterly For also Daniell thy moste odyous fere Dampneth the of cryme whyche wyth the dyeth here I knowe nat what of the the vpper bodyes aboue Haue defyned whether by sworde or by gybet Thou shuld ende the lyfe But one thynge I approue The sentence hooly of the people is sette That on a galowe thou shuld paye deth hys dette Inwardly therfore bewayll so thyne offence That by thys deth to god thon mayste make recompence THus execucyon of thys Damman hys felowe ended and fynysshed to the lytell compassion of the people wythin fewe dayes after another of the affeccionat seruauÌ„tes of kyng Lowys named IohnÌ„ Doyacon for trespasse and hatered by hys occasyon and deserte vnto the common people was wyth all shame brought vnto y e market place of Parys there beraft of bothe hys erys After whych vylony to hym done he was there ryght banysshed the court for euer And thus two of the moste special and derest beloued seruauntes and counsayllours of kyng Lowys were shortly after hys deth broughte vnto confusyon By reason wherof as affermeth myne auctoure Gaguyne arose a prouerbe among the Frenche men sayeng Principibus obsequi haereditariuÌ„ non esâ—e The whyche is to meane the seruyce of princes is nat hereditable Thys tyme thus passed wyth many other matyers whych I ouer passe the season approched that variaunce and â—nny began to moue amoÌ„g some nobles of the laÌ„de in so moche that y e duke of Orleaunce dysdayned that Anne syster to the kynge wyth suche as she wolde call to counsayll hadde all the rule about the kyng wherfore he entendyng to haue the sayde rule for so moche as he had maryed that other doughter of Lowys gadered vnto hym strength of knyghtes purposely to remoue from the kyng such as he lyked and to sette aboute hym suche persones as he thought conuenyente But how it was for lacke of wyse orderynge of hys people or other neglygence at a place called saint Albynys he was taken of hys aduersaryes so by the kyng commaunded to pryson to the castel of ByturiceÌ„ce where he remayned loÌ„ge tyme after It was nat longe after that Marymylyan the whych had maryed duke Charles doughter of Burgoyne gathered hys soudyours to haue releued the foresayd duke of Orleaunce out of pryson but he preuayled nat Durynge whyche warre Fraunceys duke of Brytayn dyed whose doughter named Anne enherytour of that duchye Maxymylyan hadde before trouth plyted for hys lawfull wyfe wherfore he herynge of the deth of y e sayd Fraunceys shortely entred the terrytory of Brytayne and seased it for hys But Charles with his FreÌ„chmen wythstode hym by suche force y t he was constrayned to axe helpe of our soueraygne lord kynge Henry y e vii The whyche in moste bounteous maner ayded assysted hym bothe wyth men and money to the kynges excedyng great charge and coste Howe be in the ende the French kyng had his entent than maryed y e said Anne duchesse of Brytayne and refused Margarete y e doughter of Maâ—imylyan whyche he before had maryed at Ambasy as before I haue shewed to you in the ende of the story of hys father Lowys After whych vyctory thus opteyned by thys Charles in Brytayn he made clayme and pretence vnto the lande of Scicilia or Scicilie And by the exortacion and styrryng of the pope AlexaÌ„der the .vi. he wyth a strong hoste entred y e same bothe by lande and by water To whome was a great ayde the duke of Mylayne by whose meanes he shortly wan a stroÌ„ge citie or towne named Campania and diuers other townes and in processe Naples the chyef citie that belonged vnto the kyng of Naples In so moche that he constrayned Alphounce that than was kynge of Naples and of Scicile to forsake that countre and so had the dominioÌ„ of the more parte of bothe the sayde countrees The whyche when he had set in suche order as he thoughte conuenyent he toke hys iournaye home warde into FrauÌ„ce thorough Italy In whyche passage thys Charlys was beset of the Uenecyans other Italyans the whyche entendyd to haue stoppyd hys waye and metyng wyth hym at a place called in latyne Fornouiences gaue vnto hym batayle wherof as sayth myne authour he wan the vyctory to hys greate honour consyderynge his fewe sowdyours agayne theyr multytude and strength But to thys sayenge repugne the Italyans dwellyng in London and say that yf the sayd Charlys had not spedde hym fastly into Fraunce he had not comen there that yere But how so it was he eetourned home in sauete And soone after pope AlexaÌ„der foresayd toke such dyspleasure agayne y e sayd Charlys that he styrred almost all crysten prynces of the worlde agayne hym he hadde such hatred to the great honoure of y e FreÌ„che kynge as sayth myne authour Gagwyne y t whyche in all hys werkes extolleth the dedes of Frenchemen forther thaÌ„ maye be veryfyed in moch of his wrytynge But what so he wryte of the pope it is to be demyd that he wolde not take so great partye agayne this Charlys and exite other prynces to do the same excepte it hadde ben for great and vrgeÌ„t causes and not for malyce as he affermeth onely And thus the sayde Gagwyne endeth the story of the sayd Charlys in the yere of our lorde god M.iiii C. xcv and the .xi. yere of the reygne of the same Charlys thanne presently reygnynge and guydyng the realme of Fraunce whyche was the .x. yere of our most redoutyd prynce kynge Henry the .vii. Henry the seuenth HEnry the
yere was syr Iamys Parker knyght slayne in iustynge at Rychemont with a gentylman named Hugh Uaghan Also in the moneth of September the kynge toke hys vyage towarde Fraunce Anno domini M.iiii C.xcii  Anno domini M.iiii C.xciii  wyllyam purchase  wyllyam Martyn Skynner  Anno .viii.  wyllyam welbek  IN thys yere vpon the .ix. daye of Nouember was red a letter in the Guyldhall y t shewed of a peas cōcluded bytwen the kynges of England of Fraūce And the .xvii. day of December folowynge the kynge landed at Douer And the saterdaye before Cristmas he came to westmynster Uppon the .xvii. daye of Maye were .iiii. men put to deth at Tyborn for treason And thys yere in the moneth of October and ende of thys mayres yere was the fray made vppon the Eesterlynges by the comons of the cytye and specyally mercers seruauntes Anno dn̄i M.iiii C.xciii  Anno dn̄i M.iiii C.xciiii  Robert Fabyan  Rafe Astry Fysshemonger  Anno .ix.  Iohn̄ wyngar  IN this yere in y e beginnyng an enquery was made for y e ryot forenamed for the which many yong men were punysshed by long imprysonment Also vpō the .xxii. day of February were regnyd at y e Guyldhall iiii persons named Thomas Bagnall Iohn̄ Scotte Iohn̄ Heth and Iohn̄ Kenyngton which were taken out of saynte Martyns seyntwary wherof .iii. were put to deth at Tyborne Thomas Bagnall was had vnto the towre of London And the xxvi day of the sayd moneth with y e foresayd .iii. persons was put in execyon willyā Bulkley a yoman of the kynges chāber and a duche man Thys yere whete was at .vi. d. a busshell and bay salt at .iii. d. ob And thys yere doctor Hylle bysshop of Lōdon pursued greuously Persy than pryour of Crystes chyrch in Londō And in thys yere was the royall feste kept in westmynster halle by y e kyng This yere in the ende of Apryll was brent in Smithfelde an olde woman for heresye whych was called moder to the lady yonge And thys yere the xv day of August were reyned at the Guyldhalle one named Iohn̄ Norfolk an other named Iohn̄ white cōuict for baudry set vpō y e pillory Anno dn̄i M.iiii C.xciiii  Anno dn̄i M.iiii C.xcv.  Nycholas Alwyn  Rycharde Chawry Salter  Anno .x.  Iohn̄ warner  THis yere the daye that y e mayre toke hys charge in y e afternone came thorugh the cytye Henry duke of yorke a chylde about .iiii. yeres of age towarde westmynster rydynge vppon a courser with many goodly gentylmen to conuey hym And vpon the .ix. daye of Nouember folowyng was holden a goodly iustyse within the paleys of westmynster wherof were chalengeours syr wyllyā de la Pool then duke of Suffolk therle of Essex syr Robert Curson Iohn̄ Pechy esquyre Also this yere about Cristmas sir Robert Clifford whych before was fled the land came agayne appechyd syr wyllyā Stanley than chamberlayne to the kynge of treason which syr wyllyam vpon the .xvi. day of February folowynge for the sayd treason was behedyd at the Tower hylle And y e same season was adiudged to deth at the Guyldhall the deane of Poulys a famous doctour precher the prouyncyall of the blak freres and y e pryour of Langley the person of saynt Stephyns in walbroke named doctour Sutton syr Thomas Thwatys knyght Robert Ratclyffe wyllyam Dawbeney willyā Cressener esquire with syr Simond Moūford knight mo other wherof y e more part was pardoned And this yere was whyte heryng at .xl. d. a barel And this yere began the fyrst trouble of syr wyllyā Capell alderman And in Iuly Perkyn with his rebelles ariued in Kent which named hym selfe Rychard seconde sonne of Edward the .iiii. And in y e same moneth was doctour Draper perforce borne out of Poulys so ladde to Lābehyth for varyaunce that than was bytwene the bysshoppes of Can̄terbury and Londō And soone after was hanged in sundry costes of Englande an C. and odde persons of the forenamed rebellys And thys yere was a perlyamente holden at westmnynster Also in the moneth of October was an excedynge thunder Anno dn̄i M.iiii C.xcv.  Anno dn̄i M.iiii C.xcvi  Thomas Kneysworth  Syr Henry Colette Mercer  Anno .xi.  Henry Somyr  IN thys yere in the .xvi. daye of Nouēber was holden the sergeaūtes feste within the bysshop of Elyes place This yere was the body of Rychard Hakendyes wyfe takyn vp in saynt Mary hyll chyrche hole y t had lyen in the groūd ouer C. .xx. yeres And thys yere was great bysynesse for the entercourse bytwene England and Flaunders And this yere the kynge of Scottes made sharp warro vppon the marches And this yere many lollers stode wyth fagottes at Poulys crosse Anno domini M.iiii C.xxvi  Anno domini M.iiii C. cxvii  Iohn̄ Shaa  Iohn̄ Tate Mercer  Anno .xii.  Rycharde Haddon  THe latter ende of October by great coūsayll holden at westmynster was graunted to the kynge fer the defence of the Scottes C.xx M. li. The .xviii. daye of Nouember was Poulys chyrch suspendyd by a fraye of two yonge men And in the same moneth was graūted to y e kyng a prest of the cytye of .iiii. M. li. And the same moneth at Calys was behedyd the lord Fitzwater The .xxi. day of Ianuary a parlyament beganne wherby was graunted two dymes a halfe two aydes and two fyftenys to leuy the foresayd C.xx M. li. And in the moneth of Iuny and .xvii. day were the Cornyshmen dyscōfyted at Blakheth And vpon the .xxviii. daye of Iuny the Smyth a gentylman named Flāmok two capytaynes of y e sayd rebelles were put in execucyon at Tybourne And shortely after the lorde Audeley which was hed capytayne of the sayd rebelles was put to deth at y e Towre hylle And this yere was concluded a maryage bytwene my lorde prynce the kynges doughter of Spayne Thys yere also the kynge sent into Scotland an army vnder y e guydyng of the erle of Surrey and the lord Neuyle the whyche made sharpe warre vpon y e Scottes And ī y e moneth of October Perkyn landed in Cornwayle and assayled the towne of Exceter other townes But fynally he toke the seyntwary of Beawdely and after was pardoned of hys lyfe Anno dn̄i M.iiii C.xcvii  Anno dn̄i M.iiii C.xcviii  Bartholomewe Rede  wyllyam Purchace Mercer  Anno .xiii.  Thomas wyndowght  IN this yere vpō the .xxviii. day of Nouēber the sayd Parkyn was brought thorugh the cyty vnto the Towre there left as prysoner And with hym a tall yomā somtyme sergeaūt ferrour to the kyng whych ferrour one named Edwarde were shortely after put to deth at tibourn Upon saynte Nycholas daye was a proclamacyō made thorugh y e cytye of a peas bytwene the realmes of England