Mind might be known had conceal'd him at the Lady Vesci his sister's House The Lord Richard Talbot was now also restored to the Lands which he claim'd in right of his Lady h Dugd. 1 Vol. p. 326. Elisabeth another of the Cosins and Coheirs of the said Lord John Cumin of Badenagh Earl of Buquan as David Strabolgi Earl of Athol in Right of his Mother i Dudg 1 Vol. p. 96. Joan the other Cofin and Coheir whose Name Others reckon to be Katherine had Livery of his Lands at the same time Besides these King Bailiol gave to the Lord k Dugd. 1 Vol. p. 274. Henry Percy of Alnwick Castle in Northumberland a Grant of the Inheritance of the Pele of Loughmaban as also of Anandale and Mossetdale with all the Knights Fees and Advowsons of Churches within those Valleys in as full and ample Manner as the Lord Thomas Randulph sometime Earl of Murray ever had them And moreover of divers Lands in that Realm which had belonged to other Men of the Brucean Party The like Grants were given to Ralph Lord Nevil of Raby John Lord Moubray and Sr. l Dugd. 1 Vol. p. 184. Edward Bohun Brother to John Earl of Hereford and Essex and Constable of England all Men of great Nobility and Valour These with some few more came to this Parliament held by King Bailiol as Peers of Scotland and as owing Homage for their respective lands held of him partly to settle their own Affairs and partly m Rot. Sâ—oc 7. Ed. 3. m. 2. as Commissioners from the King of England to see those Agreements ratified and confirmed that had been made between the two Kings And in this Parliament n Holinsh Eng. Chren p. 896. were revoked and made null and void all Acts Statutes and Ordinances which the late Kings of Scotland Robert or David had made and it was enacted That all such Lands and Possessions as either of the said Bruces had given granted or confirmed to any Person or Persons whatsoever should be now taken away and restored to the former and true Inheritor Thus was David seemingly unking'd and Bailiol to all appearance fixed in the Scottish Throne but we shall quickly see him at the bottom of the Wheel again and once more King David must be lifted up thô to his greater loss and trouble But now we must shut up this Active year with a few Memorandums of Mortality For Lewis Beaumont Bishop of Durham o Gedwins Cata. Bps p. 661. departing this life in September on the 19 of December following Dr. Richard Bury formerly the Kings Tutor was consecrated Bishop in his stead in the presence of the King and Queen of England and of King Bailiol of Scotland besides 2 Archbishops 5 Bishops 7 Earls and many other Noble Personages both Lords and Ladies So obligingly Gracious was this Mighty Monarch to the Man that taught him as indeed for his great Learning and Abilities he did well deserve Also on the 12 of October following p Gâ—dâ—ins Catal. Bps p. 132. Therne's Chron. p. 2066. Dr. Simon Mepham Archbishop of Canterbury deceased at his Mannor of Magfield and was succeeded in that See by Dr. John Stratford Bishop of Winchester a Man of great Learning Judgment and Loyalty And on the 13 of the same Month Sr. Hugh Poynz q Dugd. 2 Vol. p. 2. a noble and valiant Knight and Baron of this Realm went the way of all Flesh leaving behind him Nicholas his Son and Heir from whom many worthy Branches are descended CHAPTER the SEVENTH The CONTENTS I. A Parliament held at York II. Edward Bailiol King of Scotland renders Homage to King Edward of England whereby the Scots begin first to be distasted again John Duke of Bretagne likewise renders Homage to the King of England for his Earldom of Richmond III. A Council at Nottingham which produces a Parliament at Westminster Wherein King Edward shews his Resolution to go with the French King to the Holy Land Vpon which he sends Ambassadors to the Pope and King Philip but that Design is broke IV. King Bailiol causes a disgust among his Friends whereat his Enemies take Advantage till being reconcil'd again he grows stronger However his Enemies get to a Head again and for a while prosper V. King Edward startled at the News prepares for another Expedition to Scotland in Person He arrives with his Army at Newcastle The Lord Edward Bohun Brother to the Earl of Hereford and Essex unfortunately drowned I. KING Edward of England in his March toward Scotland AN. DOM. 1334. An. Regni VIII which as we have observed he began in the November foregoing a Fabian p. 200. Grafton p. 229. stay'd to keep his Christmas at the City of York Thence he went and laid Siege to the Castle of Kilbridge which he presently took by fine force and thereupon having confer'd with King Bailiol and pretty well settled Affairs in those parts he return'd again after Candlemas b Holinshead p. 896. B. Dom. Lit. Pasc 27 Martii to York in order to hold his Parliament which he had summon'd to meet him there the next day before St. Peter in Cathedrâ being the 21 of February and a Monday the second Week in Lent. Here it was c M.S. Rec. Par l. p. 20. 21. §. 1. c. Sr. Rob. Cotton p. 15 §. 1. c. Enacted that the Great Charter of the Forest and other Statutes should be observed and that what Clauses therein were obscure should be by good Advice more fully Explain'd It was also petition'd that in every County one Justice of the Peace Learned in the Law should be appointed as Chief over the Rest before whom all Offences should be sued to the Outlawry And that these were yearly to make an Account of their Doings before the King. To which the King replying he would be advised granted that they should yearly send up an Extract of their Proceedings into the Treasury and to Encourage them the more herein undertook to d Ibid. § 4 provide that each of them should have certain and limited Fees allow'd him To the Petition that no Pardon be granted to any Outlawed by any suggestive means but only by Parliament his Majesty answer'd that the Statutes made should be observed and whereas it was Requested That Sheriffs might continue but one Year according to the Statute of Lincoln and Woodstock he told them that the Statutes made should stand and that the Chancellour and others who were appointed to make Choice of Sheriffs should name Able Men who were to continue One Year or longer according to their Demeanour It was now Enacted that the Justices of the Kings Bench and the Common Bench Justices of Assise and of the Peace in every County should Determine of false Jurors and Maintainers Moreover the King by his Letters Patents charged all Archbishops and Bishops to cause Excommunication weekly in every Parish to be Denounced against all such Offenders
us any agreeable Method of Peace to which the said Philip shall consent presently when we shall be once assured thereof we will take Deliberation thereupon and with all speed return such an Answer as ought to seem reasonable and acceptable to your Holiness and to All that have a solid right and ordinate Reason And if perchance in the foresaid Method of Treating the Consent of our Friends and Allies should seem requisite to be obtain'd We our selves will put too all possible Diligence insomuch that it shall appear not to be our Fault that a firm Peace doth not follow thereupon if the other Party will but condescend to Reason We therefore heartily beseech your Clemency that if it please you you would duly weigh our Justice and Intention founded upon Truth and incidently cherish Us who continue in all fulness of Devotion to You and the Holy Roman Church with the favour of solid Love and Charity esteeming of Us as of a most Devout Son. For God the Lord of Consciences is our Witness that We desire to augment the Honours and Liberties of the Church and if God shall grant us to prosper with devout and humble Affection we aspire to fight his Battles against the Enemies of his Faith. God preserve your Holiness c. Given c. XI Before this there were two Parliaments this Year held at Westminster One being called by the Duke of Cornwall who had Commission thereto from the King his Father The Other by the Archbishop of Canterbury and Others who in the Absence of the King and his Son Prince Edward Duke of Cornwall had the same Commission The First was held on the Quindene of St. Michael or the 13 of October * C. Lit. Dom. which then fell on a Wednesday At the Opening h M.S. Rot. Parl. p. 23. Sr. Rob. Cotton p. 17. §. 1 2 3. c. whereof its Causes were declared to be Three First to take care for a strict Observation of the Kings Peace Secondly to provide for Defence of the Marches toward Scotland For that People being thereto instantly urged by their Kings Letters from France and the promised Assistance of the French King began to stir again notwithstanding the Truce And the Third and last Reason was for the better keeping the Sea To all which was added a Demand of a Supply for the King in his Wars After this the Archbishop of Canterbury who together with Dr. Richard Bury Bishop of Durham and Sr. Michael de la Pole came from beyond the Seas as the Kings Messengers to the Parliament made a Narration of the Kings Exploits which he had atchieved in those Parts at that time and the present Hazards both He and his Men were exposed to without liberal and speedy Supplies out of England The King as then lay near St. Quintin accompanied with 15000 Men of Arms and of Archers and Others more than 30000 as appeared by his Letters to the Lord William Clinton Earl of Huntington who was then i Dugd. 1 Vol. p. 531. Admiral of the River Thames and Warden of the Cinque-Ports and to the Merchants at Pearch besides what we have related before of this Expedition It was also further declared that the King and Others about him for the procuring of his Allies to assist him thus far and for his own necessary Expences in this War stood bound in Three hundred thousand Pounds which in Honour he could not but pay before he left those Parts Wherefore the Result was he wanted liberal Contributions Hereupon the Young Prince Edward Duke of Cornwall and Warden of England with the other Lords granted unto the King the Tenth Sheaf of all the Corn of their Demesnes except of their bound Tenants the Tenth Fleece of Wooll and the Tenth Lamb of their own Store to be paid for two Years Desiring withall that the Maletoste or Wrong set upon Wooll be revoaked and that this Grant turn not into a Custom All which was allow'd by the Prince in the Kings Name For he had full Commission by the Kings Letters Patents to grant what should appear reasonable to the Lords and Commons The Lords demand that the Keeping of the Kings Wards Lands may be committed to the next of Kin to the said Ward And that Remedy be provided against those who dying pass away their Lands to defraud the Lord of the Wardship or the King himself To this the Commons answered that as they knew well so they heartily tendred the Kings Estate and were ready according to their Duty to maintain the same But this being a new Point they durst not determin about it till they had further conferred with their Counties that sent them And so desiring Respite till another time they promise to travel and enquire throughout their several Counties To the Three Causes of their Assembling at this time the Commons answer'd thus First as to the Keeping of the King's Peace that would be kept sacred if good and couragious Justices were appointed in every County and such as were permitted to Main-prise do put in good Sureties as Esquires or Gentlemen and if no Pardon were granted but by Parliament These Matters once established they humbly conceive the Peace could not be violated Then as to the Defence of the Northern Marches they thought that would best be performed if all who had Lands in those Parts were obliged to live upon them As for the Keeping of the Seas they proposed that the Cinque-Ports or other Haven Towns which are discharged of all other Contributions should look to that especially and also that those who had Lands either there or elsewhere upon the Sea coasts should repair thereto and dwell upon them Then the Commons demanded a few things First that the King will pardon all Felonies Escapes Trespass for the Forests and otherwise all Aids to make the Kings Son a Knight or to Marry his Daughter That all Purveyors as well with Commission as without shall be arrested if they make not present Pay. That the King would pardon old Debts and Duties from any time to before his Coronation That all Customs of Wooll and Lead may be taken as they have been and not as lately enhanced with Common Assent and that if they be Resistance may be made And lastly that knowledge may be had how these things may be assured But their Art to provide against the Scarcity of Mony was this that every Merchant for every Sack of Wooll exported should be obliged to bring in at least 40 s. of Bullion to be coined within the Realm For the upholding the Kings Navy it was Enacted that the Navy of the whole Realm except what should be Actually in the Kings Service for the time being should remain in some certain place without any scattering by any private Men till further Order be taken 'T is agree'd that the Archbishop of Canterbury and other Nobles should by their Letters require the Archbishop of York and his Clergy largely to contribute for the
shall receive yearly 20000 l. sterling saving the Rights of his Holiness And that hereupon Surrender be made unto the Scots of whatsoever hath at any time been taken from them and annexed unto the Crown of England This being read the said Messengers by the Mouth of Sr. Bartholomew Burwash required to know what aid they thought fit to grant to the King toward the furtherance of his Enterprises and the Defence of the Realm In Answer to which the Commons having desired respite for their Answer till the Thursday next ensuing declared on the said Thursday by a schedule at large the sundry particular former Aids the Imposition of 40 s. Custom of Wooll extorted of them against Law besides the Arraying of Men and common taking of Purveyors Notwithstanding which they freely Grant the King Two Fifteens in two Years so as that if within two Years the Wars do cease then the latter fifteen to cease also After this follow the Petitions of the Commons with their Answers made by Prince Lionel by Commission from the King in the Kings Name in Manner following viz. Pet. That all Acts of Parliament not repealed may be fully and entirely observed so as there pass forth no Commissions of Array Resp The first Point the King Grants of the Rest he will be Advised Pet. That such as were fined for not Arraying of Men may be discharged Resp The King will take Advice Pet. That all within six Miles of the Sea may have a Supersedeas for Arraying of Men. Resp Only such as keep the Sea-coasts shall have a Supersedeas It is Enacted that the Coynage in all places shall be open as heretofore Item that those who import false Money into the Realm shall forfeit Life and Limb and that the Justice of Assise and of the Peace shall enquire thereafter Pet. That the Kings Receivers may receive as well Gold as Silver and that the Changers thereof be not without Parliament Resp The first is Granted the other Respited Pet. That the Fourty shillings Subsidy of every sack of Wooll may cease Resp The Kings mind must be known first Pet. That Payment may be made for the last taking up of Victuals Resp Order shall be taken for that Pet. That the Chief of every County may be Justices of the Peace and that they may Determine all Felonies Resp The first is Granted For the second the King will appoint Justices learned in the Laws Pet. That the keeping of the Sea be at the Kings Charge thenceforward Resp The Sea shall be kept as it hath been heretofore Pet. That Sheriffs in every County may have sufficient in their Counties and that none of those Offices be granted for Life or in Fee Item that Purveyors who have not the Constables with them according to the Statute of Westminster may be look'd on as Thieves and that Justices of the Assise and of the Peace may enquire of the same Resp The Statute made shall be observed Pet. That the Fifteens in Towns and Ancient Demesnes be levyed as in the Bodies of Counties without encrease Resp They shall be levyed after the accustomed manner Pet. That all Justices of the Inquest may be sworn as Justices of the Bench and that the Chief of them may have Power to swear the Rest Resp Such Justices shall be sworn as ought to be so as they take nothing but Meat and Drink and that of small Value And the Chief shall be impowred to swear the Rest Pet. That the Fifteenths beyond the Trent be employ'd only for Defence of the North. Resp The King will provide for Defence of those Parts Pet. That Strangers Enemies of the Realm who remain now in Newgate may be adjudged during the Parliament Resp They shall remain there till further Order Pet. That no Charter of Pardon be granted since the Kings last Expedition Resp Advice shall be taken It is Enacted that Lombards and other Merchants shall receive Gold for their Ware without any Compact on pain of Fine and Imprisonment Pet. That all Alien Monks do avoid the Realm by Michaelmas and that their Livings be disposed of to young English Scholars And that such Aliens Enemies as are advanced to Livings they being in their own Countries but Shoemakers Taylors or Chamberlains to Cardinals may depart the Realm before Michaelmas and their Livings be bestowed on poor English Scholars Resp To these two Petitions this One Answer was given that the Persons being Spiritual were not to be tryed by Parliament and that their Livings being in the Kings hands were not without him to be disposed of Pet. That the King may take the Profits of all other Strangers Livings as Cardinals and others during their Lives Resp The King doth take their Profits and the Council have sent their Petition to his Majesty Pet. That no Payment be made to any Cardinals living in France to treat either of War or Peace Resp This is granted as Reasonable Pet. That Foreign Provisors or Aliens buying Provisions do quit the Realm by Michaelmas on peril of being Outlawed Resp The Statute heretofore made shall be observed and the King shall signifie the same to the Pope Pet. That the annual Advancement of 2000 Marks granted out of the Province of Canterbury may be restrained and that those who sue for Recovery thereof may be Outlawed Resp The Lords think the same Reasonable and it is further commanded that no such be from henceforth received It is Enacted that whosoever shall bring into the Realm any Aliens the Vessel wherein they are brought shall be forfeited to the King and the Body of the Bringer shall lye at the Kings Discretion It is Enacted that during the Wars no Person do send or transport any Money to the Pope or to any Bishop or other Alien whatsoever for any Duty whatsoever Pet. That no Englishman do Farm any thing of any Alien Religious nor buy any of their Goods nor be of their Counsel on pain of perpetual Imprisonment Resp This is against the Kings Profit who reaps benefit by such Farmers Pet. That all Fryers Aliens should depart the Realm never to return hither again Resp Order shall be taken with every General of all the Houses of Fryers so to look to all Fryers Aliens under their several Charges as that they shall not be able to disclose the Secrets of the Realm Pet. That the annual Pension of 7 shillings which Sr. Raimond Peligrue received of every Religious House within the Realm may henceforward cease Resp The said Sr. Raimond is the Kings Liegeman born in Gascogne and sworn of the Kings Council by whose Command he receiveth the same Pet. That the annual Pension of 2000 pounds paid to the Abbot of Clugny may cease for ever Resp The same is paid there Pet. That the Statute made that the King should present unto any Church of his Gift falling void at any time within three Years so as if the Parson had continued therein for three Years that he should not be turned out may
wholly acquitted thereupon As indeed by this time both his Father and Grandfather too might have been had not the too speedy violence of their Enemies taken them both out of the way Yet 't is observable by this Sr. Hugh the younger whose Manuprizors were Sr. Ebulo le Strange and eleven other Knights as also by Thomas Lord Barkley who had as many Manuprisors thô he was acquitted the last year that it was a custome to say no more in those days when any one had been tryed as an Offender against the King thô he were thereof acquitted or had his Pardon yet ſ M. S. p. 15. 16. Sr Rob. Cotton p. 10. notwithstanding he was to provide Twelve of his Peers to be Sureties for his Forth-coming during the Kings pleasure The Discontinuance of which custom has been too usefull to Traytors in our days It was also here moved by the whole Parliament either in compassion of Innocence or because all their Rancour was satisfied in the execution of Mortimer that the King's Majesty would be graciously pleased to extend some Favour to Sr. Edmund Eldest Son to the late Earl of March. At which bold request the King being offended as imagining they petition'd for his full Restoration to his Fathers Lands and Honours asked them with some Emotion What they would have since the King his Father had been murder'd by the procurement of the said Earl The Parliaments Answer was they only spake in the Young Man's behalf for some certain Lands Intail'd to which the King replied That he himself would do what to him should seem best at his Pleasure Which severity went so near to the heart of the young Lord that before the end of the Year t Dugd. 1 Vol. p. 147. he died in the Flower of his Age leaving behind him Roger his Son and Heir then but three Years of age which Roger three and twenty Years after was fully restor'd to all the Lands and Honours of his Grandfather It is u M.S. p. 14. §. 5. Sr Rob. Cotton p. 10. §. 5. c. agreed that all Feats of Arms shall be defended as well by the Justices as Others untill the King and his Council do otherwise appoint It is agreed that Queen Isabell the King's Mother shall have yearly four thousand Pounds in Rents or Lands All the Estates in full Parliament do agree that none of them shall retain sustain or avow any Felon or other common Breaker of the Law. It is enacted that no Purveyance be made but for the King Queen and their Children and that by good Warrant and ready Payment The King shall appoint certain Persons to determine the Office of Thomas de Ferrers and Other his Brethren of the Parsonage of Marleston in the County of Leicester Commandment is given to the Abbot of Crowland and Thomas Lord Wake of Lidel between whom there had been debate to keep the Kings Peace The like command was given to Sr. William de la Zouch of Ashby and Sr. John Grey of Rotherfield Stephen Gravesend Bishop of London was taken into the Kings Privy Council and took his Place at the Board accordingly At the request of the whole Estate the King now at last dischargeth the Lord Thomas Barkley of his Mainprisors day being given to him to appear at the next Parliament Whereas Sr. Henry Percy for the Yearly Fee of 500 Marks stood bound to serve the King with a certain number of Men as well in Peace as in War The King in release of the said Fee granteth to the said x In my M.S. and Sr. Rob. Cotton too he is here called an Earl thô the First Percy Earl of Northumberland was not till the Coronation of King Richard the Second An. 1377. vid. Mills Catal. He p. 718. Sr. Henry in Fee the Castle of Workworth in Northumberland and the Mannor of Rochbury In this Parliament Sr. Robert y Dugd. 2 Vol. p. 154. Benhale who was then or soon after a Baron of the Realm and a most noble and couragious Knight in his time as we shall have Occasion to see hereafter with William Clopton and John Clopton all young spritely Gentlemen having been convicted before the Justices of Assize in Norfolk and Suffolk of certain Ryots and other youthfull Extravagancies were brought to appear in full Parliament with several Knights and Esquires their Sureties where each of them was fin'd and further bound with other Sureties for his good Behaviour For at this time Justice being provok'd by the Insolence of those who took too great liberty during the Kings Minority was every where severely administred as in the next years Parliament we shall see more particularly Sundry Merchants of Brabant having been arrested by English Merchants for Wools taken up to the use of the Duke of Brabant upon the said Duke's request the King commands all the said English Merchants to appear before the Council and abide further Order therein About this time King Edward z Dugd. 2 Vol. p. 148. confer'd on the young Sr. Walter Manny Carver to his Queen the Honour of Knighthood here in England by Bathing and other sacred Ceremonies with allowance of Robes for that Solemnity out of the Kings Wardrobe as for a Baneret And in the Sequel of this History we shall see how worthily he behav'd himself in this Honour VII There a Mill's Catal. Hener p. 683. departed this life on the 19 of April this Year the Lord Robert Vere called the Good Earl of Oxford Lord of Bolebec Samford and High-Chamberlain of England So Valiant that King Edward the First often employ'd him in his greatest Affairs with equal success so Temperate that he had the common Repute of a Saint He was solemnly interred at the Priory of Colne and because he left no Issue of his Body was succeeded in his Honours by his Nephew Sr. John Vere son of his Brother Alphonso who was now about Nineteen years of Age The Arms of this Honourable Family are Quatterly Gules and Or in the First a Mullet Argent which have belonged to the Earls of Oxford of that House and Name from the Year of our Lord 1140 even down to our days In these days John of Luxemburgh Son and Heir to Henry of Luxemburgh once Emperour of Germany the most valiant King of Bohemia * Lanquets Chread hunc annum invading Italy brought under his subjection Brescia Bergamo Lucca Parma Reggio and Modena of whose noble Exploits and Death we shall have Occasion to speak hereafter But the Occasion of his Wars in Italy may be seen in the Writers of that Nation and no where more particularly than in Odoricus Rainaldus his Continuation of Baronius his Annals of the Church at the Year of our Lord 1330 and after CHAPTER the FIFTH The CONTENTS I. A Parliament at Westminster II. The true Grounds of the Scotch War enquired into III. A Recapitulation of the Scotch Affairs from the first Invasion of Bailiol to this time IV.
have been conspicuous for Miracles even after his Death so that Pope Boniface IX gave order for an Inquisition to be made thereafter designing thereupon to Canonize him as 't is generally believ'd he deserved IX But yet among these frequent Funerals there was a Glorious Torch of Hymen lighted up at Court this Year For the most Heroick Prince of Wales who was all along unconquerable in War laid aside now his Lions skin and began to be soften'd with the warm Fires of Love. The Object of his Affections was that Incomparable Paragon of Beauty the Lady Joan commonly called the Fair Countess of Kent at this time a Widow And yet neither in Age much unequal to this Great Prince nor in Vertue or Nobility thô a subject unworthy of him She was now in the 33d Year of her Age and the Prince in the One and Thirtieth of his He being Great Grandchild to King Edward the First and she Grandchild to the said King by a second Venture He the Glory of his Sex for Military performances and other Princely Vertues and She the Flower of hers for a Discreet and Honourable Mind sweetned with all the Delicacies of a most surprizing Beauty However 't is u Joh. Harding c. 185. f. 186. said the Prince only intended at first to endeavour to encline her to the Love of a certain Knight a servant of his whom he design'd to advance thereby but that after sundry Denials with which he would not be put off she told him plainly how when she was under Ward she had been disposed of by others but that now being at Years of Discretion and Mistress of her own Actions she would not cast her self beneath her Rank but remembred that she was of the Blood Royal of England and therefore resolved never to Marry again but to a Prince for Quality and Vertue like Himself The Black-Prince was a Passionate Admirer of every Gallant Spirit how then could he do otherwise but take satisfaction from so obliging a Declaration when he well knew that all she said was true and beheld her still Mistress of such Graces and agreeable Qualities as might worthily recommend her to the Love of the Greatest Prince on Earth He presently therefore returns her Compliment with an Affectionate Kiss and from that instant resolved to become her servant Soon after which having easily obtain'd the Consent of the King his Father and an especial Dispensation from the Pope not only because he was so near of Kin unto her but had x Ashmole p. 676. also stood Godfather for her Eldest Son Thomas he was solemnly Married unto her to the great satisfaction of the King and the whole Court. X. Much about this time also his Brother Prince Lionel one of the Loveliest shape in the World being about Twenty three Years of Age is y Dugd. 2 Vol. p. 167. said to have taken to Wife the Lady Elizabeth sole Daughter and Heiress of William de Burgo alias Burgh alià s Burke once Earl of Vlster in Ireland in whose Right and Title he became Earl of Vlster But here we must excuse or at least explain Sr. William Dugdale Whose Words run thus z Id. ibid. that in the 35 of this King to wit this very Year being made Lieutenant of Ireland he took to Wife Elizabeth c. Which Words naturally seem to imply that he was not Married till this Year unto the foresaid Lady And yet this account is evidently too late by almost seven Years for it appears that his Daughter Philippa which he had by this Lady a Sandford's General Hist p. 221. was born no less than six Years before Ano. 1355 or the 29th of Edward the Third and that seven Years hence namely Ano. 1368 b Id. ibid. p. 222. Dugd. Use Bar. 2 Vol. p. 168. she was 13 Years of Age and that 3 Years after viz. c Monast Angl. 2 Vol. p. 228. a. Ano. 1571 She brought forth her First-born Daughter Elizabeth unto her Husband Edmund Mortimer Earl of March. Otherwise She must have been a Mother at Nine Years of Age which is impossible But to proceed Prince Lionel her Father d Dâ—gd 2 Vol. p. 167. Holinsh Chron. Irel. p. 72. was this Year made Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to which Charge he repaired immediately And upon his Coming thither published an Inhibition to all Irish-born not to dare once to approach his Court nor to take up Arms or to follow the Wars thô in his Service upon any account After which he vanquished Obrian the Rebel and yet once on a sudden thô all things were quieted he lost an Hundred of his Men no Man could tell how while they lay in their Quarters Which secret Mischief was judg'd to have been occasioned by that unpleasant Decree aforesaid Whereupon Prince Lionel taking better Advice began to receive the Natives of Ireland into the same degree of Favour as other Lieutenants had formerly held them in shewing a Princely Candour and tender Concern for their Welfare by which means he wan the Hearts of that stubborn People and ever after prosper'd in his Affairs relating to that Country He advanced to the Honour of Knighthood several of their most forward Gentlemen among whom were these Preston which Family was since better known by the Name of Gormanston Holywood Talbot Cusac Delahide alià s Hide Patrick Robert and John de Fraxinis all Persons of great Fame in the Wars And during his Stay in those Parts he removed the Exchequer to Catherlagh and bestow'd on Defence of that Town 500 l. Sterling XI Now that the Wars between England and France were ended King Edward was pleased to restore unto the Priors Aliens their Houses Lands and Tenements which e Vid. hujus Hist l. 1. c. 10. §. 5. p. 113. 23 Years before he had confiscated to his own Use letting them out to Farm as by his Letters Patents may appear f Weevers Faner Monuments p. 339. the Tenor whereof followeth viz. EDWARD by the Grace of God King of England Lord of Ireland and of Aquitaine to all who shall see or hear these Presents Greeting Whereas the Priory of Montacute in the County of Somerset by reason of the Wars between Us and France with all the Lands Tenements Fees Advousons together with the Goods and Chaâ—els belonging to the same hath been of late taken into our Hands and by Us farmed and rented forth as appeareth by divers Patents Now therefore since Peace is betwixt Us and the Noble Prince our most Dear Brother King of France We for the Honour of God and Holy Church restore unto the said Prior the Priory with all the Lands Tenements Fees Advousons and whatsoever else belonging to the same the same to hold in as free manner as they held it before And withall We forgive and Release all Arrearages of Rents which might be due unto Us by reason of any former Grants In Witness whereof We have made these our Letters Patents Dated
at Westminster the Sixth of February in the Thirty Fifth Year of our Reign The like Letters of Restitution were granted to all the rest of the Houses of Aliens thrô England All which Priories Aliens were many Years after g Weevers Fun. Monum p. 339. utterly suppressed and dissolved by another Martial King Henry the Fifth and their Lands given by him and his Son Henry VI to Colleges of Learned Men in Cambridge and Oxford and to other Monasteries CHAPTER the EIGHTH The CONTENTS I. An Embassy from the Kings of Armenia and Cyprus whom King Edward entertains with Justs and Tourneaments II. King Edward creates his Eldest Son Prince of Aquitain with the Copy of his Charter III. The Prince prepares to go over with his Family An occasional Prophecy concerning the next Successor to the Crown after King Edward The Prince's Reception in Aquitain he creates Officers and settles his Court at Bourdeaux IV. A Parliament at Westminster the Jubilee of King Edwards Age He creates his Sons Prince Lionel Duke of Clarence John Duke of Lancaster and Edmund Earl of Cambridge and bestows many large Favours upon his People V. The King holds a solemn Hunting with great Royalty The Lord Faulconberg dies Sr. John Copland murthered I. AN. DOM. 1362. An. Regni Angliae XXXVI IN the beginning of this Year there came into England an Honourable Embassie of Gallant Knights of Armenia and of Cyprus sent from the two Kings of those Countries who were now engaged hotly in a War with the Saracens to request the King of England for his Aid either in Men or Money or in both towards the carrying on of those Holy Wars or at least-wise to prepare the Kings Mind against the time that the King of Cyprus should come hither for that purpose which he did not long after The King received them graciously and they were in a fair way to succeed with him according to their desire and he for his Part as well to entertain these Gentlemen Strangers as to divert the Princes and Lords of France now in Hostage with him began a Walsing Hist p. 172. Stews Survey of London p. 421. on the First of May to solemnize a Royal Justs and Tourneament in Smithfield which was held with great Honour for Five Days together the King himself the Queen and their Children being present with the most Part of the Nobility of England and those Noble Guests of France Spain Cyprus and Armenia II. A while after King Edward advised with his Council about the better Establishing of his Affairs and it was resolved b Frois c. 216. that since the Prince of Wales was now upward of Thirty and a Married Man the King his Father should give unto him the whole Dutchy of Aquitain to hold by Homage of the Crown of England Especially because the Lords and Knights of those Parts althó the Lord Chandos was not only blameless but dear among them did perpetually importune the King to send his Son the Prince unto them It is easily remembred that in the late Treaty of Peace among other things it was agreed and sworn to both by the French King and his Eldest Son afterwards called Charles V that all the Dutchy of Aquitain should from that time forward for ever remain to King Edward of England and his Heirs and Successors in such manner as that they should not owe or pay any Homage or Resort unto the King or Crown of France therefore but to be held by Them with all Freedom and Liberty perpetual as Sovereign Lords Allies and Neighbours to the King and Realm of France without acknowledging any kind of Superiority or making any Obedience Homage or Subjection and without yielding in time to come any Service or Recognisance to the King or Crown of France for either the Whole or any Part of those Lands whether Cities Earldoms Castles Countries Lands Isles Places or Persons named in the Articles of the said Treaty Now therefore King Edward having a full and peaceable Possession of the said Dutchy of Aquitaine according to the Tenor of the said Agreement c M. S. â—et Ang. in Bibl. C.C.C. Cantab. c. 232. Historici omnes resigns and gives unto his Son the Black-Prince by his Royal Charter all the Land of Guienne and Gascogne by the Name of a Principality for his Life in which Charter he created him Prince of Aquitain and Gascogne and also granted unto him those other Castles Towns and Counties of Poictou Saintogne Angoulesmois Agenois Limosin Quercy Rovergue and all other Places on the Borders of Gascogne which by Vertue of the Peace were to fall to King Edward reserving to himself Power of Erecting Guienne into a Kingdom and retaining also to himself the Resort and Sovereignty both over the Principality and the Rest that went with it And this Charter was Dated the 19 of July 1362 being the 36 of Edward the Third But besides this Charter of Donation and Creation there was another bearing Date the same Day of Explanation whereby the King more particularly declared the Sense of his Reservation of the Resort and Sovereignty and besides of an Ounce of Gold Yearly payable unto him by the Prince at his Palace of Westminster on Easter-Day The Charter of Creation is incorporated in that of Explanation the Margin of the d Ret. Vascen 36 Ed. 3. m. 18. n. 17. Roll being Pro Edvardo Principe Aquitaniae Walliae i. e. For Edward Prince of Aquitain and of Wales The Charter of Explanation is French and that of Creation Latine in the Originals which the Reader may find in e Seldens Titl Honor. Part. 2. ch 3. p. 487. c. Mr. Selden I shall here take leave to render the whole in English The King to all those who shall see or hear these Letters Greeting Whereas this present Day We have given to our Right Dear Eldest Son Edward Prince of Wales the Name Renown and Title of the Principality of Aquitain transferring unto his Person for his Life only all the Cities Counties Castles Lands Countries Towns Forts Isles Provinces and Places which We have and ought to have by Vertue of the Peace last made between Vs and our Right Dear Brother the King of France in the Country of Aquitain and also those which We have and hold or ought to have and hold in all Gascogne together with the Homages Allegiances Honours Obeisances Vassalages Fees Arreer-fees Services Recognisances Rights Meer and Mixt Empire and Jurisdictions High Mean and Low Safeguards Advousons and Patrenages of Churches Metropolitan and Cathedral Abbies Priories Monasteries Hospitals both Secular and Regular and of other Benifices of the Church appertaining unto Vs by Cause or on Occasion of the Premises the Duties Cens Rents Confiscations Emoluments Profits Reversions and all manner of Rights and all other Appurtenances and Appendages as entirely and perfectly as We hold them or as any of our Progenitors have held them in any time past to hold under Vs
his stead for the Remainder of the Year The Commons request that the King would appoint two Earls and two Barons to receive as well their Subsidy as the Subsidy of the Clergy and the Subsidy of Woolls granted in the last Parliament so as the same may be imploy'd upon the Wars and that the High Treasurer do in no wise intermeddle therewith But when afterwards it was made appear to how great a Sum the Wages of these Four Treasurers would amount then the Commons changed their Mind and required that the High-Treasurer might be the sole Menager thereof for the use of the Wars Afterwards viz. on the 22d of February certain Bishops and secular Lords and also the Chancellour Treasurer and Keeper of the Privy Seal by the Kings appointment went all to Sheen in Surrey where the King then lay sick and there in presence of them all the Articles of the Kings General Pardon were read with the Answers made to the Petitions of the Commons to which the King agreed willing that they should be read in the House the next day on which day he order'd them to be dissolved And so it was done the next day being the Twenty-third of February by Authority of the King and Prince Richard the President Petitions of the Commons with their Answers That all Persons and Corporations may have the Pardon freely without paying any thing for the Great Seal Such as for Felony are to sue shall do the same before the Nativity of St. John and pay the Fees only The Prelates Dukes Earls Barons Commons Citizens Burgesses and Merchants of England in this Parliament Å¿ Vid Mr. William Prinne in his Edition of S. Rob. Cotton's Abridgm p. 152 Petition the King not only for a Pardon in General and of Fines and Amerciaments before the Justices of the Peace not yet levied in special but they also subjoyn thereto this memorable Request That in time to come Your said Prelates Earls Barons Commons Citizens and Burgesses of your Realm of England may not be henceforth Charged Molested nor Grieved to make any Common Aid or sustain any Charge unless it be by the common Assent of the Prelates Dukes Earls and Barons and other People of the Commons of your Realm of England and that in full Parliament And that no Imposition be put upon their Woolls Wooll-Fells and Leather above the Ancient Custom that is to say of One Sack of Wooll Half a Mark and of One Last of Skins One Mark of Custom only according to the Statute made the Fourteenth Year of your Majesties Happy Reign saving unto Your Majesty the Subsidy granted unto You the last Parliament for a certain time and not yet levied To all which the King then gave Answer As to that That no Charge be laid upon the People but by common Assent The King is not at all Willing to do it without great Necessity and for the Defence of the Realm and where he may do it with Reason And as to that That Imposition be not laid upon their Woolls c. without the Assent of the Prelates Dukes Earls Barons and other People of the Commons of his Realm There is says He a Statute already made which the King wills to stand in its full force That such as owe unto the King may upon their Account be allowed of all such Laones as are due to them or to any of their Ancestors The Treasurer and Barons shall make allowance of due Debt That title of Prescription of any Liberties may as well be allowed as if it were by Grant and that Prescription may be from the Coronation of the King. The King by Advice will do herein as he shall think best That the Justices of the Peace do not enquire into any Articles which are to be redressed in any Lords Leet but only concerning the Peace and Labourers and that they hold their Sessions Four times a Year The Statutes heretofore made cannot stand if this be granted That the Patent of Reynold Chambers for being Water-Bayliff of the Thames may be revoked because on that pretence he suffereth Kiddles Trinks and other unlawfull Nets to be laid and cast in the said River of Thames The Chancellour calling unto him the Citizens of London the Constable of the Tower and Reynold Newport shall take Order therein The Citizens of London pray that the King will confirm unto them their Liberties for punishing all Misdemeanors in Southwark and that Commandment be given that the Marshal do not intermeddle within the part of Southwark which is called Gildable The King cannot do it without doing wrong to others The Citizens of London require Confirmation of the Kings Letters Patents made to them that no Stranger should sell any Merchandise or Ware to any other Stranger to the end that the same should be sold again Then follow the very Words of the Patent The King will be thereof informed The same Citizens pray that they may place and displace Coroners among themselves answering unto the King what belongeth thereto The King will not depart from his Ancient Right That no Alien do remain within the Realm during the Wars unless he be a Merchant or Artificer and that no Englishman become any Farmer to any Alien without Licence In which Act they protest that of Temporal things they owe Obeisance to none but to the King. The King by Advice will take Order therein That all Provisors of things from Rome and their Ministers may be out of the Kings Protection The Pope hath promised Redress the which if he do not the Laws therein shall stand That new Perambulations of the Forest be made according to the old Bounds out of which if any Forester do attache a Man that the attached may have his Writ of false Imprisonment Many Counties are not grieved wherefore let such as be shew their Complaint and they shall be heard That it may be declared what Pleas the Marshal shall hold and that Prescription may be as well allowed before the Marshal as before others the Kings Justices They shall hold such as have been in the times of the Kings Progenitors That no Man be impeached for hunting within the Purlieu or without the bound of the Forest and that there be levied no t Vid. Semneri Glessar in Assartari c. Assartments The Charter of the Forest shall be kept and as to the Assart the Demand is unreasonable That as well the Priest that taketh unreasonable Wages as the Giver thereof may either forfeit double to the King and that the same may be tryed before the Kings Justices The Statute therefore made shall be executed That the next Heirs of the Kings Wards may have the Wards Lands in Farm. There is a Statute therefore made That none of the Kings Officers be maintainers of any Quarrels within their Countries on pain to lose their Offices and to answer doubly to the Party grieved The King hath forbidden his Officers so to do and if any be grieved he