to know his gracious pleasure what Fine he would demand of the whole City for their offences against him The King at length signified unto them that the summe of fifty thousand Marks should be their Fine Whereto the Londoners return this humble answer They had been of late by this unhappy War so exceeding impoverished that a summe so great as it was in those times could not possibly be raised amongst them wherfore they humbly beseeched his Princely compassion might be so far extended towards them as to require and accept according to their abilities At length after much suit and submission and a Fine of twenty thousand Marks the King received them to mercy and sent them under his great Seal a generall Pardon those onely excepted whose Estates were already bestowed granting and allowing that their former Charter ancient Priviledges should be restored unto them notwithstanding all the transgressions they are the words of the Pardon and Trespasses done to us to our Queen to our noble brother Richard King of Almain and the Prince our first begotten sonne And here was the first pacification betwixt the King and the Londoners for whom we say thus much That their foul Rebellion against their Soveraigne was not more detestable than their humble submission to their Soveraign was commendable And therefore in the Ordinance called Dictum de Kenelworth made for the settling of the Kingdome we find them notwithstanding all their disloyalty commended as shall be seen in the ensuing Story After the proud stomack of this City was brought down and all tumultuous spirits quelled the King calls his Parliament in festo sancti Edvardi Regis to Westminster wherein those that aided and assisted the Earl were all excepting the Londoners attainted and that all their Lands and Goods were forfeited But this sentence though it was lesse than they deserved yet was more than they would endure and therefore the fire that was not yet quencht but smothered breaks forth again Some flie into the Isle of Ely and fortifie that Some into the Isle of Axholm in Lincolnshire Another party possesse themselves of Killingworth Castle Another under the command of the Lord Ferrers in the Northern parts And amongst others one Adam Gurdon lived as an Outlaw in Hampshire a tum rarus aut nullus locus in Anglia fuit tutus eò quod terra erat vespilionibus plena Now scarce any place in England free from plunderers To reduce these to obedience the King undertakes Killingworth Castle The Prince was sent against Adam Gurdon Lord Edmond the Prince's brother against those in Axholm and Lord Henry King of Almains sonne against the Lord b Ferrers To the Rebells in Killingworth Castle the King sent first a gracious Message willing them to desist and to return to their obedience But they contrary to all Law of Arms contrary to natural civility cut off the Messengers hand and sent him back with an uncivil answer Then the King marcht to Killingworth and sate down before it upon Midsummer Eve During the siege which lasted six moneths Clerus populus convocantur duodecim eliguntur de potentioribus Procerum prudentioribus Praelatorum quibus datur potestas ordinandi super Statutum exhaeredatorum c. The Clergie and Laity are assembled and out of the chiefest of the Peerage and wisest of the Prelates were chosen twelve to whom power was given to pronounce sentence against the Rebels and to settle the Peace of the Kingdome they first taking an Oath de utilibus ordinandis to decree nothing but what should be for the good of the common weale Then the people take a solemn oath Quod dictum ipsorum inviolabiliter observarent that they would stand to their Decree which to this day by our Lawyers is called Dictum de Kenelworth a severe yet a good and wholsom course without effusion of blood to punish Rebellious Subjects The Decree was as followeth In nomine sanctae individuae Trinitatis Amen Ad honorem gloriam Omnipotentis Dei Patris filii Spiritus sancti c. Et ad honorem bonum prosperum pacificum statū Christianissimi I rincipis Domini Henrici Regis Angliae illustris totius Angliae Ecclesiae Nos Wilielmus c. In English thus In the name of the holy and individuall Trinity Amen For the honor 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. S. Davids Bishops Gilbert de Clare Earl of Glocester Humphrey Earl of Hereford Philip Basset John Bailof Robert Wallop Alan de la Souch Roger de Somerie and Warren de Basinghorn 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 Chester-field against our Soveraign Lord the King Item All those that by force of arms impiously kept Northampton against the King Item Those that gave the King battel at Lewes 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 K. 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 refusal 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 term 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 assoon 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 Bailiffe to see it sold and those two Bailiffes shall as fast as the money is made pay it to whom the Fine
affront was punctually remembred in the first fight as you shall hear anon Besides this main armie under the Earl of Leicester they had another armie under the command of the Lord Ferrers of whom descended the late Lord of Essex who behaved himself insolently towards the King in destroying his Parks as he marcht c. which in the conclusion cost him dear yet to delude the people the main army bore before them the Kings arms and to shew they were for the King when they had displaced the old Governors of the Kings Castles and Forts and placed in such as they could confide in they gave them an Oath to be true to the King and to keep those Holds to the use and benefit of the King and State yet when the King demanded entrance at one of his Forts wherein they had placed a Governour he was kept out At Sea the Barons of the Cinque-ports seised the Kings ships took great Prizes but they that sate at the Stern upon Land shared in those Prizes as the fame then went By this time the King began to rouze himself and finding nothing now left him but a good Cause and the hearts of his wiser subjects yet by that and these and the assistance of his Brother Richard King of the Romanes in a short space he had raised a considerable Army A King can never be so down but he will rise again with these he marcht and like a snow-ball encreased by motion plundering the Rebels lands as he went to Northampton which was fortified against him by some of the chiefest of the Rebels yet by a furious assault he soon gained it Thence continuing his march into Sussex near Lewes he received a Message from the Earl the tenor wherof was That as for his Majesty they intended no harm against him but onely desired that he would remove his evil Counsellours that did advise his Majesty against them against the honour of the King and welfare of the Kingdome The King in his Answer charges them with Rebellion and disloyalty and commands them to lay down their arms and to return to their obedience that they might be received to mercy but the Earl rejecting the offer * when Subjects have once broken their fealtie and trust to their Soveraign they never dare trust their Soveraign again resolves to give the King battel Near Lewes both Armies meet One wing of the Earls Army was made up of London troops which the Prince being then Generall of the Kings horse observing and remembring not without indignation the abuse offered by the Londoners to the Queen his Mother he claps spurs to his horse and all his Cavalry after him crying Here here my brave Cavaliers are the main contrivers of all Rebellions and mischief Now now if ever charge home and so fell on with that fury that they presently flie the Prince in an eager and hot pursuit does great execution upon them for four miles But this prosperous beginning of the fight on the Kings side was the utter overthrow of the Kings forces for when the Earl perceived that the Prince a young fiery spirit with all the Kings horse was gone so far in pursuit of the Londoners he fell violently on the Kings foot soon routed them took the King his horse being slain under him prisoner The Prince at length retreating when he saw all lost surrendered himself There were taken in this fight besides those royall prisoners the King the Prince the Kings brother and his eldest Sonne above twenty Noblemen that were for the King and slain about * 3400. The Earl having thus gotten a compleat victory forth with endeavours to seise all the Militia and power of the Kingdome for which end he carries the King about with him to countenance his actions but the rest of the royall prisoners he disposes in severall Garisons And now the Earl believes all his own and the people dream of nothing but Peace but alas the warre was not begun till now For when the torn remainder of the loyall army that escaped at Lewes now keeping Garison in Bristow and other noble spirits saw how insolently the Earl dealt with his and their Soveraign in barring him of his liberty c. They soon raised a considerable power under the command of Roger Mortimer Earl of March unto whom many flockt out of Shropshire Cheshire Herefordshire and Worcester that were well affected to the King Moreover the Queen who was a French woman got over beyond Sea to try her friends for their asistance to restore her husband to his former liberty and authority Quod ad laudem magnificentiam Aelionorae Anglorum Reginae libet intexere saith one of that age quod Domino suo Edvardo filio tam strenuè tam viriliter tanquam virago potentissima succurrendis fortiter insudaverit But before these Forces were well united the Rebels Forces were as well divided for debate arising as is usuall in all confederations where all parties must be pleased or else the knot will dissolve between his Excellency the Earl of Leicester and the Earl of Glocester because his Excellency minding his own private more than the publick good of his fellow Rebels without any respect had to his adjutants ingrosses all to himself disposes of the royall prisoners at his own pleasure seised on the revenues of the Crown and composition of dilinquents for his own use whereas they had privately agreed before Ea omnia aequâ sorte inter eos dividenda fore In brief he shared all places of power and profit between himself his sonnes and his allies Whereat Glocester as good a man as he stomackt and fell off with his followers to the Prince who by this time disponente Domino clavigero carcerum every thing working for the King had made his escape out of prison at Hereford for being allowed by his keepers to aire himself sometimes on horse back in the town Meadow after he had tyred two or three at length he mounts a speciall flight Nag and putting spurs Custodibus valedixit and came safe to Wigmore Castle where the Lord Mortimer lay with his Forces raised for the King so marcht on with a great prwer taking in as they went some strong Garisons of the Rebels plundered their houses drave their Cattell c. Here the war grew hot each side fortifying towns plundering and driving all round about to store the Garisons Mens houses which were wont to be their own Castles were now made Castles but the owners were least masters all left to the mercy of the rude souldier the poor Countreymans dwelling house pillaged every where and searcht * usque ad lectorum stramentum to the very bedstraw nor onely mens houses but even Gods houses the very Churches were not free from the prophane hands of plunderers the high-wayes lay unoccupied no passing from Town to Town without danger of robbing When the Prince the Earl of Glocester the Earl
of March with the reliques of the Royall Army were united and well ordered they resolved to give his Excellency the Earl of Leicester battel At Evesham in Worcestershire by a speedy and unexpected march they came upon him The Earl seeing himself engaged to fight gave order that his own coat-armour should be put upon the King who was then a prisoner in the Army and that the King for the safety of his person forsooth should be placed in the front of the battel that so if the battel went against him the King might be aimed at as Generall and his Excellency thereby make his escape But the King at the first Charge called out to the loyall Army that he was their King and so was preserved yet not without the losse of some of his own being wounded by a javelin as well as his subjects blood the battel was very violent and went sore against the Rebels at length the Earl himself the head of this Rebellion was cut off at the instant of whose death there hapned such extraordinary lightning and thick darknesse that it struck a generall horrour and amazement into the hearts of the Rebels as if the King of Kings would now at last visibly revenge the Kings quarrell or as if they had seen Gods immediate hand against them as once against Corah and the 250 Assembly men Num. 16. v. 35. for the like rebellious practises In this signall Battel were slain besides the Earl and his son sixteen Lords and Knights and about ten thousand more of the Rebells part The Earls Corps was strangely though not undeservedly handled by the people who were so inraged against him the chief actour and authour of their so much mischief and misery that in dispight of him they lopt off his head hands feet and privy members and sent them in scorn for tokens to severall places his body was buried in Evesham Church Notwithstanding this there were many ignorant people who had been by specious pretences abused and seduced to that side that were of opinion for a long time after that he dyed a Martyr because it was in defence of their holy as they thought but indeed impious Covenant Oath Two of the Earls sons were at the same fight taken prisones not long after they made an escape out of Prison but cold not escape Gods vengeance on Rebels for in France In miseriis dies suos finiverunt The Countesse being banished died a Nunne in France All the Earls Honours and Possessions were conferred upon Edmond Earl of Lancaster the Kings second son And thus ended this great fiery Meter in a stench Thus fell our English Cataline as M. Cambden styles him a man in shew fair and honest but indeed Vir pravo ingenio profundâ perfidiâ of a perverse disposition and treacherous beyond any mans suspition after his Soveraign had heaped upon him many high favours as the Earldome of Leicester and that high and honourable office of Lord high Steward and to endear him the more had given him his own Sister in marriage in token of thankfulnesse he doth his utmost endeavour to diminish the Kings known authority to subject him to the wills of his Subjects to pull down Monarchicall government and set up a factious Oligarchy and all under that fair common pretence of restoring Religion to its purity and the People to their liberty The K. thus happily preserved almost miraculously all things considered set at liberty about a Month after calls a Parliament at Winchester no more at London untill it was more loyall and lesse tumultuous where by a full Convention it was enacted That all Statutes and Ordinances made by the former Parliament called the wood or mad Parliament should be repealed and all writings and bonds then sealed by the King for observing the same should be cancelled and made void· That the City of London ob suam Rebellionem for this her Rebellion should be deprived of all her ancient Priviledges and Liberties and the Ringleaders of them Iuxta voluntatem ipsius Regis plecti to suffer such punishment as his Majestie was pleased to inflict Et ditiores Civitatis in carcerem truderentur saith Matth. Westm. Pro eo quod Simoni in Regis contemptum etiam damnum Regni fortiter adhaeserint that the wealthier Citizens should be cast in Prison because they had in contempt of his Majestie and great dammage and mischief of the Realme assisted the Earle Furthermore it was there enacted that all such as had favoured the Rebels were they now in Prison or at large should forfeit all their estates Afterward the King marcht with a great power to Windesore resolving as the fame then went to destroy the whole City of London many of the Rable and wild Commonars saith Fabian were as resolved to defend the City against him but the wiser sort thought better to become humble Petitioners for their padon of what was past then to incense his Majestie any farther and to that end drew up an humble Petition and presented it to the King but their late rebellious carriage had so farre provoked his Majesties patience that he would not so much as admit of their Petition or hearken to any that endeavoured to mediate for them Hereupon they were advised to draw up an instrument or writing whereby they should yield themselves wholly both bodies and goods to the Kings mercy which was done accordingly and sealed with the common Seal of the City His Majesty upon earnest suit unto him accepted hereof giving present expresse command that all the chains and Posts which they had placed at every street and lanes end should be forthwith carried to the Tower and that the Mayor and fourty of the chief Citizens should repair unto him the next day and confirm their said writing this was done and they all came accordingly but contrary to their expectation though not deserts were all delivered into the custody of the Constable of Windesore Castle and shut up there in a large Tower where they had small chear and worse lodging The next day toward night all but five whereof the Mayor was one had their enlargement Those five their bodies and goods were as a boon bestowed on the Prince the rest were commanded to attend at Windesore for a long time after Sixty or seventy wealthy Citizens with all their Land Goods and Chattels did the King dipose to his houshold servant For the Government of this unruly City the King appointed one Oâ—hon a forreigner or stranger first Constable of the Tower and then Custos or Warden of the City to pull down their haughty spirits and that his Peace for the future might be surely kept he required the best mens sonnes in the City for Hostages these he clapt up in the Tower and caused them to be there kept at the cost and charges of their Parents Daily suit was made unto his Majesty for his Pardon and Favour but in vain then they petition the King
a fine according as his Majesty shall impose upon them c. 19. That all such as are acquitted so it be by those that have authority to acquit them remain and stand in such a condition as they are put into and that all that have paid their Fines shall not be responsible for dammages and trespasses committed by them upon those against whom they fought in the time of the late troubles but that all dammages and trespasses be forgiven on both sides provided that the Church may have her dues 20. That because it may be of dangerous consequence that any Castles should remain in the power of those who were in actuall Rebellion against the King We therefore decree and ordain that for the Castles of Hardley Bytham and Chertley there be given a reasonable exchange 21. As for the Earl Simon Monfort his Countesse and his sons we decree nothing because our Soveraign Lord the King hath referred them and their offences to the King of France 22. As for the City of London taking notice it seems of their humble Submission we commend it and do make this motion to our Soveraign Lord the King that by the advise of his Privy Councel he take order for reforming the state of the City and settle their Lands Revenues Buildings and Liberties and that this Order be presently debated 23. For the L Ferrers we decree that he be fined seven years revenues of all his estate 24. That all that now keep Killingworth Castle be pardoned except Henry Hastings and those that had any hand in cutting off the Kings Messengers hand all which shall be Fined seven years revenues of all their estates or else submit themselves to the Kings mercy 25. That all men whatsoever endeavour to keep the peace of the Kingdome that none presume to commit any outrages firings murders robberies or by any other means break the Peace Which if any shall be so hardy as not to observe and be thereof lawfully convicted let him have sentence according to the Laws of the Land 26. Item That all whom it may concern take their oaths upon the holy Gospel of God that they will never take any revenge be accessory or consenting to take any revenge nor will suffer as much as in them lies that any revenge should be taken against any one for any injury suffered in the late times of trouble and if any one shall presume to revenge himself We decree that punishment be inflicted upon him in the Kings Bench Court 27. That the Holy Church receive full satisfaction from those that have injured her 28. But if there be any that will not submit to this Ordinance or refuse to be tryed by their Peers before our Soveraign Lord the King let them forfeit their estates for ever And if there be any that have gotten possession of the Rebels Lands and were himself a Rebel he is thereby uncapable of challenging any right to the Land or to have any title to the fine by the Kings Majesties gift 29. Whosoever will not submit to this Ordinance let him be accounted a profest enemy to our Soveraign Lord the King and to his sons and to the whole Realm and let all the Laity and Clergie as far as the Canon Laws and Common Laws will reach prosecute such an one as an enemy to the Peace of Church and State 30. Lastly that all those that 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 Camp before Kenelworth the last day of September * in the year of our Lord God 1266. 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 About two Moneths 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 Countrey to march away with their goods to undergo no Fine for taking up arms This Castle had the K. bestowed upon the Earl of Leicester in frank marriage with his sister Aelionor but when the Earl by his Rebellion had forfeited and the King had now won it he gave it to his own son Edmund Earl of Lancaster who by this time had reduced the Isle of Axholm 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 Hamshire robbing and spoiling the adjacent parts praeoipuè terras eorum qui parti Regiae adhaerebant 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 assured 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 But 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 than one as they did now the neighbouring Counties robbing and pillaging Norfolk Suffolk 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 allegeance 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 their lands without paying any Fine In brief they require Hostages into the Island and that they might hold it five years peaceably till they saw how the King would perform 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 years 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 that the fire was quite out But there were yet some live embers which the Earl of Glocester upon some distast blowing suddenly flamed out again in London where the Commons of
the City forgetting their late punishment and as men saith mine authour without dread of God or the King drew up in arms again flock to the Earl of Glocester plundered the well affected to the King sequestered their estates brake the prisons chose a new Mayor and Sheriffes made Bulwarks and Barbicans and fortified the City wonderously and were so confident of their strength and cause that they durst bid the King battel appointing Hounsloe-heath 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 tumultuous manner Some to Westminster and there plundered the Kings Palace fenestras ostia fregerunt saith M. Weston vix manus à combustione totius Palatii cohibentes brake the doores 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 Strafford three miles off the City the rest of the 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 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 Killingworth should be razed and the Trenches filled up lastly that one thousand marks dammages should be paid down to the Kings brother for his Mannour of Isleworth fired by them long before Also his Majesty for some years following chose the Mayor and Sheriffes himself but toward the latter end of his Reign being fully reconciled he restored them their often forfeited * 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 cloathed with shame and upon himself his Crown flourisheth again And now after this furious dreadfull Tempest after so many storms and showres of blood began a joyfull long-expected Calm which that they might enjoy without any intervening of more storms and for the better setling and quieting the Kingdome 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 lived 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 alway assist the Sheriffe for the taking and punishing all stragling reliques of the late Armies and high-way robbers wherewith the Kingdom did abound at that time no place free from them In some places also Ruricolae saith Rishanger the Countrey 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 near St. Albans in Hartfordshire Besides the King Proclamari fecit contra pacem Regni disturbantes set forth a Proclamation against all such as should any way disturb the quiet of the Realm by plundering or stealing c. And that if any man should presume to steal but a Cow or a Sheep vel aliquid aliud saith mine Authour he should be surely put to death These were the petty devises of that age to pump and drain the huge sink of the Kingdome but the Staple policy was by a Forreign expedition like a wide sluce to let out all the filth at once for which purpose therefore among others it was resolved upon that a great Army should be raised under the command of the Prince for a voyage to Palestine And by this course especially did his Majesty soon spend the insolencies of his own and the Rebels Souldiers made Lawlesse by the late unavoidable Liberty of civil Arms And here was an end of this wasting groundles unnatural war wherein the subject having strugled and wrestled with Soveraignty till they had wasted the Kingdome and wearied themselves at last are content to sit down by the losse to let the King have his own Rights again and some of theirs according to the usuall event and issue of such imbroylments FINIS * The Earl of Strafford * Pointing at Doctour Juxon * Turning to some Gentlemen who took his Speech in short writing * Pointing at Dr. Iuxon It is thought to be delivered to the Prince * Antiently called the wood or mad Parliament ordinarily in History stiled iâ—sanum Parlimentum Fabian * Chron. Norwic. * Like the Remonst of Decem. 15. 1641. Matt. West Mat. Paris Mat. West Chron. orig. sub sigillo Nil nisi pro umbra a nominis habebatur Mat. West Mat. West Regist. Roffen M. Westm. Preaching that Religion could never be throughly reformed or the differences fully composed sine gladio materiali and that all that should lose their lives in this cause were Martyrs Rishang Chr. Dunst * Rishanger * Cotton Hollinsh * Rishanger For disswading the King to stand to the aforesaid Ordinance of Parliament Rishanger Dover chron. Dunst * Cambdens Observation in the case of Robert Earl of Essex Equites haec haec seditionum scelerumque omnium capita sunt nunc nunc fortiter adjicite tela * Southwel Rishang * Rishanger Fabian Rishanger a Rishanger b This Lord Henry the Kings Nephew was a valiant Souldier and having found out the L Ferrers at Chesterfield gave him battel and overthrew him and because he had been pardoned once before it was decreed that he should be degraded and depriv'd of the Earldome for ever fined fifty thousand pounds Dictum de Kenelworth 〈…〉 thoâ— pounds * About the end of October the King assembled all the Lords spirituall and temporall Knight of Shires to Northampton where this Decree was confirmed by Act of Parliament The Barons of Cinque Ports seeing the King prosper made their peace with the King Rishanger Fabian * Then did the King command that peace should be proclaimed all the Kingdome over which was received with joyfull acclamations So at a late Dyet or Parliament in Germany after they had undutifully strived with the Emperour and wasted the Empire it was concluded that all should be reduced to the same state as it was in the year 1618.