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A78527	The late warre parallel'd. Or, A brief relation of the five years civil warres of Henry the Third, King of England, with the event and issue of that unnatural warre, and by what course the kingdom was then setled again. / Extracted out of the most authentick historians and records, by Edward Chamberlain Gentleman, in the time of the late civil wars in England.	Chamberlayne, Edward, 1616-1703.	1660 (1660)	Wing C1843; Thomason E1026_3; ESTC R210378	19,221	24

are imprisoned or any way debarred of their Liberty upon reasonable and competent security shall have their inlargement by putting in Sureties or such other way as the King hath allowed Dated and set forth from the Campe before Kenelworth the last day of September in the year of our Lord God 1●66 and of the reign of the most renowned King Henry the third 51. Thus endeth that Famous Ordinance called to this day * Dictum de Kenelworth wherein are comprised the wisest rules that the wisest men of those times could possibly devise to uphold compose and recover a tottering distracted dying Kingdome The Barons of Cinque Ports seeing the King prosper made their peace with the King About two months after the publication of this Ordinance viz. upon Saint Thomas Eve the Castle was delivered up upon conditions too good for those that had so barbarously used the Kings Messenger contemned the King and impoverished the Country to march away with their goods and to undergo no fine for taking up Arms. This Castle had the King bestowed upon the Earle of Leicèster in franke marriage with his sister Elionor but when the Earle by his Rebellion had forfeited and the King had now won it he gave it to his own Sonne Edmund Earle of Lancaster who by this time had reduc'd the Isle of Axholme and all those rude ignorant people that flockt thither pillaging and plundering the Kings friends round about The Prince also met with Adam Gurdon a famous sturdy Rebell that lay lurking in Aulton Wood in Hampshire robbing and spoyling the adjacent parts Precipuè terras eorum qui parti Regiae adhaerebant Rishanger the Prince upon his approach hearing of his valour sent him a Challenge for a single Combate Gurdon accepts it and performed it so gallantly that the Prince assur'd him of his life and estate if he would submit which he did and was received into great favour with the Prince but divers of his men were there executed Now the Isle of Ely was strongly fortified by a great multitude got together that refused to submit to the Ordinance of Kenelworth Upon the naturall strength of this Isle and the plenty of all provision therein seditious Rebels have often presumed and from hence have molested more Kings then one as they did now the neighbouring Counties robbing and pillaging Norfolk Sussolk and Cambridgeshire plundering the City of Norwich and carrying away the richest Citizens made them redeem themselves at length a message was sent unto them requiring them to submit to the Ordinance of Killingworth to leave off robbing their fellow subjects and to return to their allegiance Hereto they return this insolent answer That they had taken up arms to defend the good of Church and State and therefore ought to be restored to the●r lands without paying any fine In briefe they require hostages into the Island and that they might hold it five years peaceably till they saw how the King would performe his promises perfidious subjects ever suspect their Princes fidelity which high insolency of theirs unheard of till our times so exasperates the King that he resolves to try the utmost to reduce them to their obedience for that purpose marches with a mighty Army against them the Prince also joyns with a considerable power after many assaults at length after they had held it above two yeers by the help of new made bridges and boats they stormed it on every side that they were forced to yield And now men thought the fire was quite out But there were yet some live embers which the Earle of Glocester upon some distaste blowing suddenly flamed out again in London where the Commons of the City forgetting their late punishment and as men saith mine Author without dread of God or the King drew up in arms again flock'd to the Earle of Glocester Fabian plundered the well-affected to the King sequestred their estates brake the Prisons chose a new Mayor and Sheriffes made Bulwarks and Barbicans and fortefied the City wonderously and were so confident of their strength and cause that they durst bid the King battell appointing Hounsloe-health for the field The King by a speedy march came to the place at the time appointed but they instead of meeting his Majesty ran about the City in a tumultuos manner Some to Westminster and there plundered the Kings Pallace fenestras ostia fregerunt saith Mat. W stm vix manus a cembustione totius Palatii cohibentes brake the doors and windows hardly forbearing to set it all on fire Then the King removed his camp to the other side of the City and had his head quarters at Stratford three miles off the City the rest of his Army lay at Ham a village hard by The wiser Citizens foreseeing the danger that hung over them desired a treaty with the King whereunto though they were most unworthy of so much clemency his Majesty was graciously pleased to condescend and upon these easie terms they were again received to mercy Imprimis Salvo in omnibus dicto Killingworthi that the Ordinance of Kill●ngworth should be observed in all points then that the fortifications should be razed and the trenches filled up lastly that 1000. Marks dammages should be paid down to the Kings brother for his Mannor of Isleworth fired by them long before Also his Majesty for some years following chose the Mayor and Sheriffs himselfe but toward the latte end of his Reign being fully reconciled he restored them their often forfeited * Then did the ●ing command that Peace should be proclaim'd all the Kingdome over which was received with joyful acclamations Priviledges Thus after the Almighty whose judgements are unsearchable had suffered crafty seditious spirits to seduce a whole Nation to trample upon his Anointed and to tread his Honour in the very dust for a time yet at length all his enemies are clothed with shame and upon himself his Crown flourisheth again And now after this furious dreadfull tempest after so many storms and showers of blood began a joyful long-expected Calm which that they might enjoy without any intervening of more stormes and for the better setling and quieting the Kingdom the King gives expresse command for the razing of divers in-land Castles as Farnham c. That so if another Rebellion should be begotten it might no where find a Nurse and then it could not be long-liv'd Also for the more quiet and secure travelling of his Subjects he appoints a Captain in every County who with a Troop of Horse should alwaies assist the Sheriff for the taking and punishing all stragling reliques of the late Armies and high-way robbers wherewith the Kingdome did abound at that time no place free from them In some places also Ruricolae saith R●shanger the Country people would generally rise against them as against Wolves or Bears and at one time they took and kill'd fifty of them that were got together neer St Albans in Hartfordshire Besides the King Proclamari

the good of the Common weale Then the people take a solemne oath Quod dictum ipsorum inviolabiliter observarent that they would stand to their Decree which to this day by our Lawyers is called Dictum de Kenelwor●h a severe yet a good and wholesome course without effusion of blood to punish Rebellious Subjects The Decree as followeth Dictum de Kenelworth In nomine sanctae individuae Trinitatis Amen Ad honorem gloriam Omnipotentis Dei Patris Filii Spiritus Sancti c. Et ad honorem bonum prosperum pacificum statum Christian ssimi Principis Domini Henrici Regis Angliae Illustris totius Angliae Ecclesiae Nos Willihelmus c. In English thus In the name of the holy and individuall Trinity Amen For the honour and glory of Almighty God the Father Son and Holy Ghost c. And for the honour prosperity and peace of the most Christian Prince our Soveraign Lord Henry the most renowned King of England and of the whole Church of England We William Exon William Bath and Wells Henry Worcester and T. St. Davids Bishops Gilbert de Clare Earl of Glocester Humphry Earl of Hereford Philip Basset John Bailof Robert Wallop Alan de la Souch Roger de Somerie and Warren de Basingborn providing for the welfare of the Land c. have thought fit to order as followeth 1. That the Rebels be not wholly deprived of their estates but shall have liberty to redeem their Lands by fines in manner following 1. That those that were in the fight at Chesterfield against our Soveraign Lord the King Item All those that by force of Armes impiously kept Northampton against the King Item Those that gave the King battell at Lewis Item Those that were taken prisoners at Kenelworth Item Those that came to pillage Winchester or were elsewhere against the King whom the King hath not pardoned Item Those that gave the King battel at Evesham Item All those that freely and voluntarily and without any compulsion have contributed to the War against the King or Prince Item The Officers and Servants of the Earl of Leicester that pillaged their neighbours or were the cause of any murders firings or other enormities that all these be fined five years revenues of all their Estates respectively and that if they pay down their Fines presently they may enjoy their Lands presently but if the Land must be sold for the payment of the Fine he on whom the King bestowed it shall have the refusall if he will give as much as any other And if the originall owner will pay down the whole Fine he shall have the whole Land and likewise if he will pay the moity or third part he shall have the moity or thirds of the Land And if at the end and terme appointed the owner doth not pay for the other moity it shall be clearly theirs on whom the King was pleased to bestow it And as soon as any one hath paid down his whole Fine such shall have liberty to let or set or sell his land within the prefixed time Those that have Woods and would willingly make sale of them for the payment of their Fines He on whom the King bestowed and the originall owner shall have each one his Bailiff to see it sold and those two Bailiffs shall as fast as the money is made pay it to whom the Fine was given by our Soveraign Lord the King this payment must be made within three years at the farthest All Officers and Reformadoes that were known to be common plunderers and made it their businesse to plunder if such have no Land but onely Goods they shall be fined one moity of all their Goods and shall find sufficient sureties that they shall keep the peace of our Soveraign Lord the King for the time to come They that have nothing shall be sworn upon the holy Gospel and find sufficient sureties that they will keep the Kings peace for the time forward and shall make such satisfaction and do such penance as the holy Church shall censure excepting onely banished persons who are wholly left to the will and pleasure of the King 2. Moreover as for Wards or young Hei●s that were in actuall Rebellion against the King during their minority their Guardians shall pay their Fines and the said Wards when they come to age shall pay back the same to their Guardians within two or three years so that the Gardians shall have the Wardship and their marriages without disparagement even till they be come to full age and all Wards shall pay their Fines after the same manner as those of full age Onely the Kings own Wards shall be in the hands of those to whom the King shall give them until they come to years and then they shall pay down their Fines according to the same manner as those of full years Provided alwais than there be no wast made by the Guardians upon their estates If there be then the Guardians to be punished according to Law 3. If any that were for the King before and since the battel at Lewes be now fined for not assisting the Prince when he was raising forces to rescue his Father we leave him to the King to be censured or pardoned as he shall think fit 4. That there be no sale or waste made of any Woods by those on whom they were bestowed unlesse the Fine be not pai'd within the time limited Onely it is allowed that they shall cut so much wood as is necessary to keep the houses in reparations and if they shall exceed this allowance to be severally punished 5. If any be thought to be dangerous persons and that they are like to move sedition and to revive the Wars let the King secure their persons as he shall think fit either by sending them into forreine parts for a time or what other way shall be thought expedient provided alwaies that if they be thereby hindred from paying their Fines they shall not forfet their estates 6. That if any will not submit to this Ordinance he be left to be censured at the Kings-bench-bar before the feast of St. Hillary next coming All those that live in forreine parts shall find sureties according to the Laws and Customs of those States to live peaceably otherwise that they shall not be received in a peaceable manner 7. Whereas the King's Majesty is ingaged to many that served him in his Wars and faithfully stuck to him who he hath not yet sufficiently rewarded and some have been rewarded above their deserts we desire that the King take speciall care that out of Delinquents estates they may be all rewarded to the full lest otherwise a new War should be occasioned 8. That the Kings Majesty be graciously pleased to make choice of twelve able Men that may be authorized to see this punctually and faithfully performed and that the Kings Majesty his Heirs or Successors take care that it be all firmly observed and