excludere remotiorem in uno gradu exeuntem de primogenita Ad quae unanimiter Responderunt nidlo Reclamante vel contradicente Quod Remotior uno Gradu linealiter descendens de primogenita secundum leges consuetudines utriusque regni praeferendus est proximiori in Gradu exeunti de secundogenita in qualibet haereditaria successione That is Whether the more remote by one Degree in Succession coming from the Eldest Sister ought according to the Laws and Customs of both Kingdoms to Exclude the nearer by a Degree coming from the Second Sister Or Whether the nearer by a Degree coming from the Second Sister ought by the Laws and Customs of those Kingdoms to Exclude the more remote by a Degree coming from the Eldest Sister To which they unanimously answered without a Negative The more remote by one Degree lineally descending from the Eldest Sister according to the Laws and Customs of both Kingdoms is to be preferred to the nearer by one Degree coming from the Second Sister in every Hereditary Succession That the Reader may more clearly understand this Question and Answer it will be necessary to leave the Record a while and set forth the Pedigree of both these Noble Persons Henry Prince The Pedigrees of Robert Brus and John Baliol. of Scotland Son to David I. who died before his Father left Three Sons VVilliam called the Lyon Malcolm called the Maiden because never Married and David Earl of Huntington William the Lyon had Alexander the Second his only Son and Child and he had Alexander the Third his only Son and Child who Married Margaret Daughter to Henry the Third King of England and Sister to Edward the First by her he had Two Sons Alexander and David who died without Issue and one Daughter named Margaret Married to Eric King of Norwey by whom she had one only Daughter named also Margaret and called the Maid of Norwey and was Queen of Scotland who dying without Issue as was said before the whole Line of VVilliam the Lyon failed and the Crown reverted to David Earl of Huntington Heir to Margaret David Earl of Huntington had Three Sons Henry and Robert who both died young and Iohn Surnamed Scot Earl of Chester who died without Issue and three Daughters Margaret the Eldest Married to Alan Lord of Galloway by him she had one only Daughter Dergovilla Married to Iohn Baliol by whom she had Iohn Baliol one of the Competitors for the Crown in this Record so often mentioned His Second Daughter was Isabel Married to Robert Bruce by whom she had Robert her Son the other of the Two Competitors here also mentioned And Adama a Third Daughter Married to Henry Hastings from whence the Earls of Huntington By this Pedegree it appears That Robert Bruce Son to Isabel the Second Sister was a Degree nearer to his Mother and so in a Collateral Line to the Crown than Iohn Baliol who was Grandchild to Margaret the first begotten or Eldest Daughter in a Direct or Right Line to the Crown Which gives the meaning of the Question and Answer The Ground of which was a Controverted The meaning of the foregoing main Question Point amongst the Feudists Whether the next in Blood tho of a Collateral Line especially if a Male should not succeed before one more remote in the Right Line some holding one way some the other Upon the Answer above-mentioned 8 Rot. de superioritate Regis Angliae c. ut supra The Titles of John de Baliol and Robert de Brus Re-examined as 't is in the Record the King caused the Matter to be exactly Re-examined before the Prelates and Noblemen of both Kingdoms and Assigned to Robert de Brus and John de Baliol the 6th day of November to hear their Sentence Which was pronounced by the King Judicially by the Advice of the Noblemen and Prelates of both Kingdoms the Auditors aforesaid and others of the Council That Robert by his Petition should receive nothing concerning the Kingdom of Scotland Quod praedictus Robertus per Petitionem praedictam nihil capiat de Regno Scotiae And as to John Baliol there could nothing Robert de Brus Excluded be done upon his Petition until the other Competitors were heard When the King commanded John Baliol the other Demandants and the Auditors to go to the same place for the dispatch of their Petitions Amongst whom Robert de Brus personally appeared and protested he would prosecute his Claim John Baliol's Sentence deferred to the Kingdom of Scotland or a Third Part of it after another Form and Manner then he had done before Then also came 9 Ibm. John Hastings pretended the Kingdom of Scotland to be Partible and claimed a Third Part. John Hastings Son to Henry Hastings and claimed his Third part of the Kingdom of Scotland as of a Partible Inheritance because as he said the Right of the Inheritance descended to Margaret Isabel and Adama Daughters of David Earl of Hurtington as to one Heir and from them it ought to descend to John Baliol Robert de Brus and John Hastings as Heirs to the said Margaret Isabel and Adam and gave this Reason because all the Lands Tenements Fees Liberties Demeasns His Reasons why it was a Partible Inheritance and Honours that were holden of the Crown of England in Capite were Partible Then that the Homage and Service due from the King of Scotland to the King and Crown of England shew it to be under the Common Law and so Partible Robert Brus 1 Ibm. Robert Bruce made the same Claim and used the same Reasons his Arguments and Reasons were the same And he said further he claimed to hold his Third Part in Capite of his Lord the King of England Superior Lord of Scotland by Homage and Requests of his said Lord he may receive Justice according to the Common Law of England And altho their 2 Ibm. The King 's great Care before he gave Sentence Arguments and Reasons had been sufficiently answered in the Defence of John Baliol before the Auditors and related to the King yet willing to deliberate with his Council and the Auditors upon these things he Inquired of them Whether the Kingdom of Scotland was Partible who all answered it was not Upon which Answer the King appointed Monday next after the Feast of St. Martin as a peremptory day for all the Competitors to hear their Judgments in his Parlement at Berwick intending in the mean time to Deliberate and Examine things with Knowing Men of Both Kingdoms the Auditors and others of his Council that he might be fully informed what with Justice ought to be done On the 7th 3 Ibm. A. D. 1292. 20th of Edw. the First of November 1292 which was the Monday after the Feast aforesaid the Nobles and Prelates of both Kingdoms the Auditors other great Men and a great Multitude of the Populacy in the Hall of the Castle of Berwick the Publick Notary
and Arms 15 days after the King had begun and holden his Parlement when they made the Award against the Two Spencers and concealed it from the King who knew nothing of it until the Hour they came with it to Westminster with Force and Arms so as the King could not hinder the passing of it which was to this effect To the Honour of God and Holy Church and of our Lord the King for the Profit of him and his Realm and to maintain Peace amongst his People and the Estate of the Crown the Prelates Earls Barons and other Peers of the Land and Communes of the Realm do shew against Sir Hugh le Despenser Father and Son That whereas Sir Hugh the Son at the Parlement at York 7 3 Weeks after Michaelmas Claus 12 Ed. II. M. 28. in cedula was Named and it was there Agreed he should be Chamberlain to the King in which Parlement it was Agreed That certain Prelates and other Great Men should be with the King by turns at several Seasons of the Year the better to advise him without whom no great Business ought to pass The said Sir Hugh the Son drawing to him his Father who was not by Order of Parlement to be near the King or to be one of those Counsellors between them both have usurped Royal Power over the King and his Ministers and the Government of the Kingdom to the Dishonour of the King the Injury of the Crown and Destruction of the Kingdom Great Men and People and have done the Wickednesses under-written in contriving to turn the Heart of the King from the Peers of the Land that they may have the sole Government thereof 1. That Sir Hugh the Son made a Bill or Writing whereby he would have had Sir John Gifford of Brimmesfield Sir Richard de Greye and others entred into a Confederacy to have forced the King to do what he would have him and had almost done it The Tenour of the Bill is under written 2. Homage and the Oath of Allegiance is more by reason of the Crown than of the Person of the King and bound him more to the Crown than the Person and this appeared for that before the Crown descends there is is no Allegiance due to the Person Expectant Wherefore in case the King carries not himself by Reason in Right of the Crown his Lieges are bound by Oath made to the Crown to remove the King and the State of the Crown by Reason and otherwise the Oath ought not to be kept Then it was demanded whether the King was to be dealt with by Suit of Law or by Rigour par Suit de Loy ou par Aspertee By Suit of Law it could not be for he had no Judge In which case if the King 's will be not according to Reason and that he maintains nothing but Errour therefore to save their Oath and when the King will not redress what is injurious to the People they must proceed with Rigour for he is bound by Oath to Govern his Lieges and his Lieges are bound to Govern in Aid of him and in Default of him 3. Also upon the Application of the Great Men and People unto him his Answer was according to the Pleasure of these Two in turning the King from his Duty against his Oath and the Hearts of the Great Men and People against their Liege Lord. 4. Also by their evil Contrivance they will not suffer the Great Men of the Realm nor Good Counsellers to speak with or come near the King to advise him nor the King to speak to them unless in their presence and hearing or of one of them and when they please they usurping Royal Power and Sovereignty over the Person of the King to the great Dishonour and Peril of him the Crown and the Kingdom 5. Also to attain to their Wickedness Covetousness and Disinheriting the Great Men and Destruction of the People they put out Good and Agreeable Ministers placed by Assent and put in others False and Wicked of their Party who will not suffer Right to be done as Sheriffs Escheators Constables of Castles and make Justices not understanding the Law as Sir Hugh the Father Sir Ralph Basset Sir Ralph Camois and Sir John Inge and others their Friends who caused to be indicted by false Jurors of their Alliance the Peers of the Land as the Earl of Hereford Monsieur Giffard of Brimmesfield and Monsieur Robert de Monshall and other good People to get their Lands 6. Also they falsly and maliciously advised the King to raise Arms against his People in Glocestershire contrary to the Great Charter and the Award of the Peers of the Land and by their false and evil Counsel would have made War in the Land for their own proper Quarrel to the Destruction of Holy Church and the People 7. Also whereas the Earl of Hereford and the Lord of Wigmore i. e. Mortimer by the King's Command were assigned to make War upon Lheuelin Bren who had levied War against him in Glamorganshire when the Earl of Glocester's Lands by reason of his Death were in the King's hand and Lhewelin had rendred himself into the Lords hands to the King's Grace and Pleasure and upon that Condition delivered him to the King who received him accordingly but when these Lords were out of the Country these Two the Father and Son usurping Royal Power took Lhewelin and carried him to Cardiff after that Sir Hugh the Younger was seized thereof as of his Share of the Earl of Glocester's Estate one of whose Daughters and Heirs he had married pretending to a Jurisdiction where none was in this case and there caused him to be Drawn Hanged Beheaded and Quartered feloniously for things done in the time of King Henry And also took upon them Royal Power and Jurisdiction which was appendant to the Crown in Disheritance of the Crown and Dishonour of the King the said Lords of Hereford and Mortimer and in ill Example and great Peril in the like case in time to come 8. Also they ill advised the King to take into his hands the Lands and Goods of Sir Hugh Audely the Son who was fore-judged without due Process contrary to the Law of the Land by the Covetousness of the said Hugh to get some of those Lands and by other false Compassments contrived to have the Lands of Sir Roger Dammory and for having him attainted for entring into Glocestershire in Disheritance of the Peers of the Land 9. Also that whereas the King had granted by his Letters Patents to the Earl of Warwick in full Parlement at Westminster That after his Death his Executors should have his Lands until his Heir was of Age which Grant after the Earl's Death was confirmed by the King at Lincoln at the Request and Assent of the Peers of the Land in Parlement the said Sir Hugh the Father procured his Son to cause the King to repeal this Grant without cause and to give to the said Hugh the Father
Hugh Robert and Edmond Earl of Arundel did counsel him were it never so great Wrong During which Vsurpation by Duresse and Force against the Will of the Commons they purchased Lands as well by Fines levied in the Court of the said King Edward as otherwise And whereas after the death of the said Earl of Lancaster and of other Great Men our Sovereign Lord the King that now is and Dame Isabel Queen of England his Mother by the King's Will and Common Counsel of the Realm went over into France to Treat a Peace between the Two Realms of England and France upon certain Debates then moved the said Hugh and Hugh Robert and Edmond Earl of Arundel continuing their Mischief encouraged the said King Edward against our Sovereign Lord the King that now is his Son and the said Queen his Wife and by the Royal Power which they had to them encroached as afore is said procured so much Grievance by the Assent of the said King Edward to our Sovereign Lord the King that now is and the Queen his Mother then being beyond Sea that they remained as forsaken of the said King Edward and as exiled from this Realm of England Wherefore it was necessary for our Sovereign Lord the King that now is and the Queen his Mother being in so great Jeopardy of themselves in a strange Country and seeing the Destruction Damage Oppressions and Disherisons which were notoriously done in the Realm of England upon Holy Church Prelates Earls Barons and other Great Men and the Communalty by the said Hugh and Hugh and Robert Earl of Arundel by the encroaching of such Royal Power to them to take as good Counsel therein as they might And seeing they might not remedy the same unless they came into England with an Army of Men of War and by the Grace of God with such Puissance and with the help of Great Men and the Commons of the Realm they have vanquished and destroyed the said Hugh and Hugh Robert and Edmond Wherefore our Sovereign Lord King Edward that now is at his Parlement holden at Westminster at the time of his Coronation on the morrow after Candlemas in the First Year of his Reign upon certain Petitions and Requests made to him in the said Parlement upon such Articles above rehearsed by the Common Counsel of the Prelates Earls Barons and other Great Men and by the Communalty of the Realm there being by his Commandment hath Provided Ordained and Established in Form following First That no Great Man nor other of what Estate Dignity or Condition he be that came with the said King that now is and with the Queen his Mother into the Realm of England nor none other then dwelling in England that came with the said King that now is and the Queen in Aid of them to pursue their said Enemies in which Pursuit the King his Father was taken and put in Ward and yet remaineth in Ward shall not be Impeached Molested nor Grieved in Person nor in Goods in the King's Court nor other Court for the Pursuit of the said King taking and with-holding of his Body nor Pursuit of any other nor taking of their Persons Goods nor Death of any Man or any other things perpetrate or committed in the said Pursuit from the Day that the said King and Queen did arrive till the Day of the Coronation of the same King What follows in this Statute is not much to our purpose Those concerned in the Conspiracy against and Design upon the King thought them well covered by this Preamble and themselves well secured by this First Chapter After the end of this Parlement there were 3 Rot. Claus 1 Ed. III. M. 16. Dors The Scots refuse to treat of a Peace They break the Truce with England Commissioners sent to the Borders of Scotland to Treat of Peace but the Scots refused to Treat with them and not only so but brake the Truce which had been made with King Edward II. raised an Army and invaded England 4 Wals f. 127. n. 40. They make their escape from Stanhop-Park The Young King and his Mother raised an Army and with the Stipendiary Strangers marched against them and had almost inclosed them in Stanhop-Park in the Bishoprick of Durham yet in the Night they escaped and got into their own Country but threatned to return again Wherefore for the Defence of the Kingdom and other Matters there was a Parlement called to meet on the morrow of Holy Cross or 15th of September at Lincoln The 5 Rot. Claus ut supra Writ in which most of this Relation is contained bears Date at Stanhop Aug. 7. The English and Haynalters quarrel In their March towards the Scots the Haynalters Domineering over the English they Quarrelled at York where many were killed and the most English whether for fear of the English or 6 Knighton col 2551. n. 50. Wals ut supra The Haynalters c leave England for what other Reason the Haynalters and other Foreigners 7 Ibm. c. 2552. n. 40. left England not long after well Rewarded with Gold and Silver by the Queen and Mortimer and others of their Faction What was done in this Parlement I find not This Year there was another 8 Rot. Claus 1 Ed. III. M. 3. Dors Summoned to meet at York on the next Sunday after the Purification of the Virgin Mary to Treat of certain Articles propounded and declared between the Two Nations at Newcastle but nothing was done at this Parlement the Bishops and other Great Men not appearing and therefore as is expressed in the Writ 9 Rot. Claus 2 Ed. III. M. 31. Dors A Parlement at Northampton Dated March 5. next following he called another Parlement to meet three Weeks after Easter at Northampton In this Parlement 1 In A. D. 1327. A shameful Peace made with the Scots says Murymuth and Walsingham from him facta fuit turpis Pax inter Anglos Scotos there was made a shameful Peace between the English and Scots by the Direction and Contrivance of the Queen and Roger Mortimer by which David Son and Heir to Robert Brus King of Scotland was to Marry Joan King Edward ' s Sister both Children And he was also to release all his Right and Claim of Superiority that he and his Progenitors had in the Kingdom of Scotland and to deliver up all Charters and Instruments concerning the same Some great Matters having hapned after this Parlement that required great Advice there was a 2 Rot. Claus Ed. III. M. 15. Dors A Parlement at Salisbury Writ issued Aug. 28. for another to meet at Salisbury on the Sunday next after the Quinden of St. Michael In this Parlement 3 Wals f. 129. n. 10. Three new Earls made in this Parlement there were made 3 Wals f. 129. n. 10. Three new Earls made in this Parlement three Earls Iohn of Eitham the King's Brother Earl of Cornwal Roger Mortimer Earl
Person of the Kingdom Males and Females above the Age of Fourteen Years except very Beggers and desire to be excused they could give no greater Subsidy The Issue of Edward III. by Philippa of Haynalt HIS Eldest Son was Edward of Woodstock so called because born 1 Wals Hist f. 130. n. 40. Hypod. Neustr f. 510. n. 50. there June 15. 1329. or 1330. He was Prince of Wales and Married Joan Countess of Kent called for her great Beauty The Fair Maid of Kent She was Daughter to Edmond of Woodstock sixth Son of Edward I. but second by his Queen Margaret Sister to Edmond Son of Edmond of Woodstock and Sister and Heir to his Brother John who both died without Issue 2 Sandf Geneal Hist f. 184 215. She was first Married after the 25th Year of her Age and 26th of Edward III. to Sir Thomas Holland Knight of the Garter and in her Right made Earl of Kent by whom she had Issue two Sons Thomas Earl of Kent and John Duke of Excester He died Decemb. 26. in the 34th of Edward III. 1360. And her Second Husband was William Montague Earl of Salisbury from whom she was in a short time Divorced by Consent With this Lady the Prince fell in Love and was Married to her in the 31st Year of his Age and 35th of his Father's Reign 1361. By 3 Wals f. 180. n. 30. A. D. 1365. her he had first Edward of Engolesm so called because there born who died in the 7th Year of his Age. His second Son by her was Richard of 4 Ibm. f. 181. lin 5. A. D. 1366. Burdeaux so also called because born there succeeded his Father as Prince of Wales and his Grandfather in the Kingdom by the Name of Richard II. William of 5 Hypod. Neustr f. 512. n. 30. Hatfield Second Son of Edward III. born there 1336. in the 10th of his Father's Reign who died very young The Third Son of King Edward and Queen Philip 6 Ibm. f. 513. n. 30. was Livnell born at Antwerp Created Duke of Clarence and Married to Elizabeth de Burgh Daughter and Heir of 7 Sandf ut supra f. 219. 222. William de Burgh Earl of Vlster Lord of Clare Canaught and Trim by whom he had only one Daughter named 8 Ibm. Philippa She was by her Grandfather after the Death of her Father at the Age of 13 Years Married to Edmond Mortimer Earl of March and Lord of Wigmore in the 42d of Edward III. 1368. by whom she had Roger Mortimer their Eldest Son and Heir to both their Honours and Titles who left 9 Ibm. f. 225. Edmond Mortimer his Son and Heir Earl of March and Vlster Lord of Wigmore Clare Trim and Canaught and True Heir to the Crown of England after the Death of King Richard II. He died without 1 Rot. Parl. 39 Hen. VI. n. 18. Issue as also his Brother Roger and Sister Alianor leaving Anne their Sister sole Heiress to her Father Roger Mortimer and Brother to Edmond The Fourth Son of 2 Wals f. 148. n. 10. Edward III. and and his Queen Philip was John of Gaunt born there He was first Earl of Richmond and afterwards Duke of Lancaster He Married Blanch the Daughter and Coheir of Henry Duke of Lancaster with Maud her Sister by whom he had his only Son and Child Henry Earl of Derby Duke of Hereford and Lancaster called Henry IV. King of England After the Death of Maud without Issue he in Right of Blanch enjoyed all the vast Estate of her Father Henry Duke of Lancaster with his Titles and was then in the 36th of Edward III. advanced to the Title of Duke of Lancaster c. Dugd. Baron Tome II. Fol. 115. Col. 1. The Fifth Son of King Edward and Queen Philip was 3 Hypod. Neustr f. 514. n. 50. Edmond of Langley a Mannor near St. Albans in Hertfordshire where he was born by his Father made Earl of 4 Sandf ut supra f. 357. Cambridge and by King Richard II. 6 Ib. f. 358. was Created Duke of York He Married 7 Ib. f. 360. Isabel younger Daughter and Coheir of Peter King of Castile by whom he had Edward his Eldest Son who died 8 Ib. f. 365. without Issue He had also by her Richard Earl of Cambridge called of Coningsburgh a Town of that Name in Yorkshire 9 Brooks Catalogue of Hon. He Married Anne Mortimer above-mentioned by whom he had Richard Duke of York and Earl of Cambridge 1 Ibm. who Married Cecilie Nevil the youngest Daughter of Ralph Earl of Westmerland by whom he had Henry his Eldest Son who died young and Edward his second Son Duke of York and afterward King of England by the Name of Edward IV. William of 2 Sandf ut supra 178. Windsor a second of that Name William was their Sixth Son who died so young as there is nothing memorable left of him The Seventh and Youngest Son of Edward III. and Queen Philip was 3 Ibm. f. 227. Thomas of Woodstock there born Duke of Gloucester He Married Elianor the Eldest of the two Daughters and Heiress of Humphry de Bohun Earl of Hereford c. The Eldest Daughter of King Edward and Queen Philip was 4 Ibm. Isabel Lady Coucy and Dutchess of Bedford Married to Ingelram Lord of Coucy and Earl of Soyssons who by her Father was Created Earl or Duke of Bedford Their Second Daughter 5 Ib. f. 179. Joan had the Title of Queen of Spain she was by Proxy Married to Alphonso King of Castile and Leon and conveyed into that Country and not long after died of the Plague Their Third Daughter 6 Ibm. was Blanch de la Tour so named because born in the Tower of London she died an Infant Mary their Fourth Daughter 7 Ib. Hypod. Neustr f. 516. lin 9. Dutchess of Britan was Wife of John Montfort Duke of Britain in France Margaret their Fifth and 8 Sandf ut supra Youngest Daughter was Wife to John Hastings Earl of Pembroke A CONTINUATION of the Compleat History of England c. King RICHARD the Second KING Edward the Third 1 Rot. Clause 1 Ric. II. M. 45. A. D. 1377. died June 21st Anno Domini 1377 and this young King his Grandchild succeeded him in the Eleventh year of his Age when it King Richards Coronation was agreed he should be Crowned on the 16th of July following John King of Castile and Leon Duke of Lancaster came before King Richard and his Council and claimed as Earl 2 Ibm. Three Offices claimed by the Duke of Lancaster of Leicester the Office of Steward of England as Duke of Lancaster to carry the King 's principal Sword called Curtana on the day of his Coronation and as Earl of Lincoln to be the King's Carver the same day all these Offices he pretended to have in Right of his Wife Blanch then dead and
superioritat c. ut supra The same Roll. A. D. 1293. 21 Ed. I. Anno a Nativitate Domini 1293 incipiente Die Festi Stephani protomartyris Anno Regni Regis Angliae vicesimo primo ipso apud Novum Castrum super Tinam Existente c. He did Homage to him at Newcastle in this Form in French 5 Ibm. The Form of John Baliol's Homage My Lord Edward King of England Superior Lord of the Kingdom of Scotland I John King of Scotland become your Liege-man or Vassal for the whole Kingdom of Scotland with its Pertinencies and all what belongs to it which Kingdom I claim and hold and ought of right to hold for me and my Heirs Kings of Scotland Hereditarily of you and your Heirs Kings of England and shall bear Faith to you and your Heirs Kings of England of Life and Limb and Tenent Honor against all Men that may live and die And of this Homage he made his Letters Patents of the same Date Witnessed by Sixteen Bishops Judges and the greatest Men of England and Twenty of the same Quality of Scotland who at his Request put to their Seals Within four 6 Ibm. days after Homage done in this manner to King Edward on the last of December upon a Complaint made to him by Roger Bartholomew Burgess of Berwick against some of his Auditors or Judges by him deputed in Scotland He presently appointed his Justices there present Auditors of the Complaint Justiciarios ibidem praesentes hujusmodi Querelae constituit Auditores whereof Roger Brabazon Chief Justice of the King's-Bench was one strictly commanding them they should do quick Justice according to the Laws and Customs of his Kingdom before whom and others of the King's Council there was a Petition Exhibited A Petition exhibited that King Edw. would observe his Promises on behalf of the King of Scotland and by his Advice and Direction by William Bishop of St. Andrews John Earl of Boghan Patrick de Graham Thomas Randolph and other Great Men of Scotland That whereas the King of England and Superior Lord of Scotland had lately * In the 18th of his Reign in the Treaty of Marriage between his Son Edward and the Maid of Norwey Queen of Scotland promised to the Noblemen and Prelates of that Kingdom That he would observe the Laws and Customs thereof and that Pleas of things done there might not be drawn out of it They beseeched the King of England and his Council there present in the Name of the King of Scotland That he would please to observe his Promise and Command his Officers firmly to do the same Roger Brabazon 7 Ibm. The Petition answered answered this Petition Quod dicta petitio videbatur frustratoria c. That it seemed idle and not to the purpose for that it was manifest and ought to be so to all the Noblemen and Prelates of the Kingdom That the King had performed all his Promises and not acted contrary to any of them and as to the Complaints concerning his Judges and Officers lately deputed by him as Superior and Direct Lord of that Kingdom who then did Represent his Person the Cognisance of Complaints concerning them belonged only to him and no other and he had especially reserved it to himself and also that because in Judgments of the very Superior Lord or of those that Represented his Person no Subjects could pretend to it and further said That if the King of England had made any Temporary Promises when there was no King in Scotland he had performed them and that by such Promises he would not now be restrained or bound And the King of England made Protestation 8 Ibm. The King's Protestation concerning the Petition and his Promises before all the Noblemen and Prelates of both Kingdoms then present That notwithstanding his Temporary Promises and Concessions he did not take himself to be bound his Protestations otherwise publickly made remaining in force and that he intended and would admit and hear all Complainants whatsoever and all other Business touching the Kingdom of Scotland and its Inhabitants by reason of his Superiority and Direct Dominion which he had and of right ought to have in that Kingdom as his Progenitors in their times had if they Lawfully and for Just Causes came before him and upon those Complaints every where and at all times if he pleased to do them Justice and to Vse and Exercise his Superiority and Direct Dominion and to call the King of Scotland himself if it were necessary and the Quality of the Cause required it to appear before him in his Kingdom of England Upon this 9 Ibm. John King of Scotland c. acquaints K. Edward of all his Promises c. Resolution of King Edward and the Answer of the Justices to the Petition John King of Scotland acquitted him of all Promises Bargains Agreements and Obligations he had made to the Guardians and others of the Kingdom Custodibus Probis hominibus Regni while by reason of the Superiority of his Dominion he held the Kingdom of Scotland in his hands until he had done Justice to such as Demanded the Kingdom and especially the Grant and Instrument made at Northampton the 28th Day of August And Confesseth they had been performed in the 18th Year of his Reign in which the Promises and Grants set forth in the Petition were contained With Confession that they had been all performed when he had adjudged and fully Delivered the Kingdom to him 1 Ibm. which Release or Acquittance was Scaled with his own Seal and confirmed with the Seals of the Bishops Earls Barons and other Noblemen of his Kingdom and Dated the Second of January 1293. in the Twenty First year of King Edward's Reign and the First of King John of Scotland Within a short time after this Protestation and Release there happened a great Case in Scotland which was brought by way of Appeal unto King Edward by 2 Ibm. The E. of Fife Appeals the K. of Scotland before the K. of England Magdulph Earl of Fife against John King of Scotland To whom he Directed his Writ to appear 3 Ryley Placita Parl. f. 154. 155. He appears not and a Second Writ is directed to him before him on the Morrow of Holy Trinity where-ever he should be in England to answer what Magdulph had to say against him But then not appearing the King directed another Writ to Summon him to appear before him Fifteen Days after Michaelmas to answer as before 4 Ibm. f. 157. The E. of Fife's Complaint The Earl of Fife's Complaint was That when King Edward was last at Berwick he commanded William Bishop of St. Andrews and his Fellow Guardians of the Kingdom of Scotland That they should do Right to Magdulph concerning his Lands and Tenements of Rerys and Crey of which he had been Disseised by the said Bishop as Guardian of Fife Tunc Custodem Comitatus de Fife Of which according
and our Statute-Books goes by the Title of Confirmatione Chartarum was Sealed and Dated the 10th of October and is to be found upon the Statute Roll 25 Ed. 1. M. 38. with this Memorandum at the End of it that this very Charter or Confirmation The Confirmation of them Sealed in Flanders word for word was Sealed in Flanders with the King 's Great Seal at Gaunt the 5th Day of November in the 25th year of his Reign and sent into England a sure Sign Sir Edward Coke never saw the Original of this nor of the Statute de Tallagio non Concedendo who placeth them in the 34th of this King On the 8 Append. N. 34. The Earl-Marshal the Constable and Lord Ferrers Pardoned and by what Mediation Statute-Roll there is a Destinal Pardon for the two Earls the Lord Ferrers c. somewhat differing from that in the Printed Statutes Dated at Gaunt on the same Day procured at the special Prayer and Request of his Son Prince Edward his Lieutenant in England William Bishop of Ely William Bishop of Bath and Wells Richard Bishop of London Walter Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry Henry Elect of York Edmund Earl of Cornwall John Warren Earl of Surrey and Sussex William Beauchamp Earl of Warwick and the others of his Council with his Son in England 9 Registrum Winchelsey in Doctors-Commons fol. 227. a. b. and 228. a. b. This Pardon had been doubly granted before by the Prince and by his Council in two Instruments or as they are called Letters-Pattents one of the Prince the other of his Council Dated October 10. and Sealed with their own Seals because the Great Seal of England was with the King At the same time also they Vndertook and Bound themselves to secure them from any Dammage which might happen to them from the King and procure them this very Pardon Things thus compos'd in England there was a Truce or as 't is A Truce between the two Kings and their Allies for a short time called in the Instrument it self A 1 See Bundle of Writs of Privy-Seal in the Tower And Pryns Hist Ed. 1. f. 757. Sufferance or Forbearing all Acts of Hostility by Sea and Land between the King of England and his Allies on the one Part and the King of France and his Allies on the other until the Feast of Epiphany for the Duchy of Aquitain and for the Earldom of Flanders and all other Parts until the Octaves of St. Andrew or the 7th of December Dated on the Feast of St. Denis that is October 9th in the Year of Grace 1297. in which there are the Names of the English Confederates That is to say the King of Almayn or Emperor the Earl of Flanders the Earl of Savoy the Earl of Bar the Duke The King of England's Allies or Confederates of Brabant the Earl of Holland the Earl of Montbeliard John de Cholon Seigneur Darly John de Burgonig John Lord of Moamtfancon Walter his Brother the Lord of Newcastle the Lord Dosselier the Lord of Fanconby the Lord of Jour the Lord of Conkendary Simon de Montbeliard Lord of Montron Stephen Doissler Lord of New-Town de Ville Neove and many others of Burgoinge Almaigne Brabant Holland Gascoinge and Arragon and others of which the Names were not known And by this Sufferance all Trade or Commerce was to be Exercised as at other times This was inclosed in Letters 2 Ibm. and Pryns Hist f. 758. The Truce sent into England under Privy-Seal dated at Gaunt the 15th of October in the 25th of his Reign and sent to his Son enjoyning him to see it kept in all points through the Realm and 3 Claus 25 Ed. 1. M. 26. Dors in cedula to that purpose on the 20th of October he sent it to all Ports in England to be Proclaimed and strictly Observed in all its Articles On the next Day setting forth that the Scots despising their The Scots despise their Oaths of Homage and Fealty Oatbs of Homage and Fealty and not content to have Broken the Peace before to have Killed his Subjects and done many other great Mischiefs 4 Ibm. They enter England burn and waste all before them The King summons the Service of Earls Barons c. to suppress them had then Entered England Burning and Wasting the Country slaying his People and destroying all before them sent his Summons to 200 Earls Barons Knights Abbats and others to be ready at Newcastle upon Tine on St. Nicholas-Day or 6th of December with their Service of Horse and Arms to go with his Son against the Scots to suppress their Rebellion and defend his own Kingdom By Commissioners on both sides the Sufferance or forberance of Hostility was prolonged and continued until Lent then next coming the 5 Bundle of Writs Pryn ut supra f. 756 757. The Truce between the Two Kings prolonged Instrument whereof was sealed with their Seals and dated at Grolingues Abby near Courtray in Flanders Nov. 23. 1297. In this Instrument also are contained the Names of King Edward's Confederates as before In the 24th of this 6 Walsingh Hist f. 64. 1. 5 c. n. 10. King in the year 1296 the Cardinals of Albanum and Praeneste had been sent by the Pope first into France then into England whether they came about Whitsuntide to make Peace between the Two Kings and expected the Two Cardinals sent to persuade Peace or make a Truce for two years King's coming out of Wales until the first of August when they delivered their Message and persuaded to Peace or a Truce for Two years The King answered he could agree to neither without the Consent of the King of the Romans by reason of the League between them confirmed by Oath They Request the King to obtain his Consent which in Reverence to the Court of Rome he granted and they returned into France The King as they desired 7 Bundle of Letters and Writs in Jurie London 24 25 Ed. I. and Pryn Hist Ed. I. from fol. 748 â—0 fol. 764. wrote to the King of Almaign or Romans to send his Commissioners to Cambray to the Cardinals with Power before them to Treat of and Conclude a Truce Honourable and Beneficial for them both Many Commissions were granted and Commissioners 8 Ibm. Aâ— ways propounded for a Peace or Truce prove ineffectual appointed on both sides at several times and References made to the Pope But when all these Ways proved ineffectual the Pope by his own Authority took upon him to denounce and declare a Truce for Two years under pain of Excommunication to such as should not submit to it 9 Walsingh ut supra f. 69. n. 50. The Pope by his own Authority declares a Truce for two years This the Cardinals published without success as appears by their Letter or Manifesto published for the knowledge of all People in which are contained the Minutes or Heads of
about the Prices of Oxen Cows Sheep Geese Hens and other Victuals set the last Parlement should be revoked and that they should be sold as formerly at reasonable Rates The reason of this says Walsingham was 2 Hist f. 107. n. 20. because after the Price set in Parlement they were much dearer On Tuesday following the King by the Bishop of Norwich promised to 3 Rot. Par. ib. n. 1. The King promiseth to observe the Ordinances observe all the Ordinances formerly made by the Prelates and Great Men per Prelatos Proceres and also the Perambulations of the Forest made in his Father's time saving to the King his Reasons against them salvis Regi Rationibus suis contra Perambulationes and thereof Writs were made accordingly On the Friday next coming 4 Ibm. Soldiers how raised and paid against the Scâ—â—s the Great Men and Community of the Kingdom Magnates Communitas Regni Granted to the King in Aid of his War with Scotland of every Town in the Kingdom one Stout Footman except in Cities and Burghs and the King's Demeasns and these Footmen were to be armed and furnished with Swords Bows Arrows Slings Lances and other Armour fit for Footmen at the Charge of the Towns and their Expences to be paid until they came at the Place of Rendezvous and their Wages for 60 Days after and no longer if the King's Service required it at 4 d. the day and Market-Towns that were further able to be charged with Men were so to be charged the King promising to give his Letters to the Great Men and Community of the Kingdom Magnatibus Communitati Regni and to their Heirs That this Grant should be no Precedent nor drawn into Example for the future The same Day the King by Advice of the Prelates and Great Men Consilio Praelatorum Procerum ordered the 5 Ibm. whole Service due to him i. e. all the Horse of England to be Summoned for this cause to be at Newcastle upon Tine 15 Days after Midsummer The Citizens Burgesses and Knights 6 Ibm. n. 2. Cives Burgenses Milites de Comitatibus qui venerunt ad Parliamentum then Granted the King in Aid of this War and Expedition a 15th Part of all the moveable Goods 7 Ibm. Civium Burgensium Hominum de Civitatibus Burgis de Dominicis Regis of Citizens Burgesses and Men of Cities Burghs and the King's Demeasns which they had at Michaelmas then last past On Shrove-Tuesday in the Parlement 8 Ibm. n 3. The King had a sincere good will toward the Earl of Lancaster and other Great Men. the Bishop of Norwich on behalf of the King moved the Earl of Lancaster to put away all Doubting he might have of him for that he had a sincere Good-will towards him and the other Great Men erga ipsum alios Proceres Regni sui and held them to be his Faithful Liege-men and told him the King desired to have him the Chief of his Council requesting him 9 Ibm. ex parte Domini Regis Praelatorum ac Procerum Regni ibidem existentium on behalf of the King Prelates and Great Men there present to take upon him to assist and advise in the Affairs of King and Kingdom The Earl thanked the King and and humbly requested time to deliberate humiliter supplicavit quod ipse possit deliberare and then answer Which he did in a very short time and was Sworn of the King's Council in the Form following Whereas our Lord 1 Ibm. n. 4. King Edward by the Grace of God King of England hath with the Prelates Earls and Barons of the Land 2 Ibm. this number only in French upon the Roll. avesques Prelates Countes e Barons de son Terre in full Parlement requested his dear Cousin Monsieur Thomas Earl of Lancaster that he would be Chief of his Council in all Great and Weighty He requested the Earl to be Chief of his Council Affairs touching himself and his Realm with other Prelates Earls and Barons which may between the King and himself take care that he may be for the Profit of him and the Realm The said Earl for the great Love he had for his Lord the King and for the Common Profit of the Kingdom and the Ordinances 3 Ibm. The Earl complies upon such Terms as he might Govern the Kingdom qil ad sur merci enterement Grante a teniz which he had upon favour entirely granted to observe and the right Laws to maintain in all Points and in hope to make Amendments in such things as had been ill done in his Court and the Estate of his Realm did grant to be of the King's Council with the Prelates Earls Barons so as at the Hour the King shall not do according to his Directions and others of his Council concerning the Matters of his Court and Kingdom after such things have been shown him and he will not be Governed by the Council of him and others the Earl without Evil Will Challenge or Discontent may be discharged from the Council and that the Business of the Realm concerning him shall not be done or performed without the Assent of him and the other Prelates Earls and Barons which shall be ordained or appointed to advise him 4 Ibm. saunz Assent de luy des autres Prelatz Countes Barous qi de luy Conseiller serront ordenetz And if any of the Prelates Earls and Barons shall advise the King or do other thing which shall not be for the Profit of him and his Realm then at the next Parlement by the Advisement of the King and his Friends 5 Ibm. solone lavisement nostres Seigneur le Roy le seon they shall be removed and so it shall be from Parlement to Parlement as to them and every of them according to the Faults found in them In Witness whereof this Bill was to be entred on the Parlement-Roll ceste Bille entre en Rouelle de Parlement And then it follows Billae 6 Ibm. The Instrument by which he was made Chief of the Council entred upon the Parliament-Roll predicta formam continens supra scriptam liberata fuit Willielmo de Ayremin Clerico c. The foresaid Bill containing the Form above written was delivered to William Ayremin Clerc by the hands of the Lords Walter of Norwich and Bartholomew de Badlesmer commanding the said William by Order of the King to inroll it Word for Word Over the Army above-mentioned raised by the Parlement against the Scots the Earl of Lancaster was made 7 Rot. Scot. Ed. 2. M. 6. The Earl of Lancaster made General of the Army against the Scots and Lieutenant of Scotland General and the King's Lieutenant in Scotland but what great things he did with this Army or by his Lieutenancy it appears not in any History I have met with Next Year the Pope sent two 8 Rot. Claus 10 Edw. II. M.
and notwithstanding the King's Commissioners the Bishops of Winchester and Norwich and the Earl of Richmond by her Mediation the Bargain was made or they received a Form of Peace from the King of France That if King Edward would give his Right in the Dukedom of Aquitain and Earldom of Pouthieu to his Son Edward upon his doing She bargains with her Brother that if King Edward would give Aquitan and Ponthieu to the Prince upon doing his Homage he should have Seisin of them Upon that Agreement the Prince goes into France and does Homage Homage he would give him seisin of both These Things agreed on both sides the King of France sent his Letters of Safe-Conduct for the Prince and the King sent him with a Grant of those Lands to have and to hold them to himself and Heirs Kings of England adding That if the Son should die living the Father they should return to him and also other Conditions by which it should not be Lawful for the King of France to Marry him nor provide a Guardian for him against his Will 4 De la Moor Ut supra Walsing Ut supra A. D. 1324. 18 Ed. II. This Agreement was Confirmed by the Advice of the Prelates and other Noblemen at Dover the Day after the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in the Eighteenth of the King and on the Thursday following Edward the Son accompanied with the Bishop of Excester and other Noblemen went on Shipboard and afterwards about the Feast of St. Mathew did Homage to his Uncle of France under Protestations made on both sides the whole Affair being compleated for which the Queen was sent into France Soon after Michaelmas the King 5 De la Moor ut supra f. 589. lin 1. c. The K. wrote to the Queen to return with his Son into England She makes her Excuse having no Mind to return The Bishop of Excester removed from her secret Council wrote to her That she would speedily bring her Son into England She wrote back That the King of France her Brother out of great Affection would have them stay with him and sending back the greatest Part of their Families she employed the residue of the Year in prosecuting her own Designs The Bishop of Excester was sent over with the Prince but was now removed from the Queen 's Secret Council and Roger Mortimer and other Fugiâ—ibâ—s the King's Enemies were received into it 6 〈◊〉 â—6 Ed. 2. Part 1. M 34. Doâ—s And Roger Mortimer taken into it This Roger Mortimer the Younger upon Tryal for Treason had received Sentence to be Drawn and Hang'd the King out of his special Grace pardoned the Execution of that Sentence and willed that instead thereof he should be a perpetual Prisoner and assigned certain Justices to declare his Favour and adjudge him to Perpetual Prison and not long after the Time of the Queen's going over corrupting his Keepers he made his 7 De la Moor F. 596. N. 50. Escape out of the Tower of London and got into France The King much moved at the Queen's stay and Detaining his Son out of the Kingdom some 8 Ibm. â— 598. â— 10. Reasons why the Queen 〈◊〉 France to salve the Matter said they were unwillingly Detained others guessing that she was so bound by the Vnlawful Embraces of Mortimer that without him and the other Eugitives she would not return However it was The King 9 Claus 19 E. 2. M. 2. Dors The King sent and wrote often to the Queen to return out of France The fear of Hugh Spenser the Younger was her Chief Excuse The King answers all her Excuses sent and wrote to her oft times to return home Expressing great Kindness to her and grief of Mind for her absence many feigned Excuses she had for her not coming but the Chief was the Danger and Fear she was in of Hugh le Dispencer the Younger which she sent to him by the Bishop of Winchester with her Letters of Credence in answer to which the King wrote That he as much wonder'd as he could seeing and observing always in his Presence the Kind Deportment of her to him and of him to her and especially at her Departure declaring a perfect Amity and since by her Letters of a late Date to him which he had shewn unto the King attesting the same and therefore the Homage being done to his Brother of France and that they were in so fair a way of Affection one to another he Commanded and Charged her as much as he could That all And chargeth and commands her to come to him in all haste feigned Matters and Excuses laid aside she should come to him with all haste Par qui uous vous mandoms chargeoms en quanque nous pooms que totes tieles Enchesons feints autres choses lessees excusations cessantes reignes a nous od tote hast for that the Bishop had told him That his Brother the King of France in his Presence told her That according to the Tenor of her Safe-Conduct she should not be disturbed nor stayed from coming to him as to her Lord and as his Wife And then further writes to her When she came her Expences and way of Living should be such as should be neither to the Dishonour of him or her He also Willed and Commanded her to suffer his dear Son Edward He also Willed and Commanded her to send his Son to him to come to him as he had commanded him And whereas at the time Walter Bishop of Excester was lately with her he had been certainly informed That some of his Enemies and his Banished People waited to Destroy him if they had opportunity to a-avoid such Dangers and for other great Business he had with him he commanded him upon his Faith and Allegiance to come to him with haste leaving all other things in as much security as he could she was to excuse his sudden coming away it being for no other Cause Given at Westminster the First of December At the same time 1 Ibm. the King of France by the Bishop of Winchester wrote to him and sent a Message by word of Mouth That The King of France wrote the Queen dare not come to K. Edward for fear of her Life and Hugh Spenser he had been informed by Persons of Credit that the Queen dare not come to him for fear of her Life and Hugh le Despenser to which excuse he made the same answer he had done to his Queen and averred by Oath That if the said Hugh or any other Living in his Kingdom or in his power should offer any Ill to her and he could know it he would make them severe Examples to all others and beseeched him not to believe those that told him other King Edward's Answer to that and other things things for that he had and ought to have greater Reason to know and understand this Matter than any other and therefore
prays him to prevail with his Sister to come to him as soon as she could He prays him to send his Wife to him for the Honour of themselves and of her being much disturbed for want of her Company He also earnestly prayed him to dispatch his Son Edward and And to dispatch his Son's Business and suffer him to come to him deliver and surrender to him the Dutchy and Lands which he preserved out of affection to him that he might not be Disherited and further prayed him to suffer his Son to come to him with all the hast he could as he had commanded him it being always his Mind he should return the same hour he should command him so soon as he had done his Homage And then Excuseth the Bishop of Excester's sudden leaving France returning into England as he had done in the Letter to his Queen Dated as above at the same Place The 2 Ibm. like Letters were sent to His Friends and Peers of France The Arch-Bishop of Rhems The Bishop of Laon The Bishop of Beavois The Duke of Burgundy The Duke of Britan The Earl of Flanders The Earl of Valois The Abbot of St. Denis Peers of France The Arch-Bishop of Roan The Bishop of Langres Gaucher Chastillon Constable of France His Relations but not Peers The Lord of Cossi Lewes Earl of Clermont Robert de Artois E. of Beaumont The next day the King 3 Ibm. The K wrote to his Son to return without his Mother if she could not wrote to his Son that tho' he was young and of tender Age yet he might remember what he Commanded him and charged him with at his departure from him at Dover and also what Answer he made him then That when the King of France had received his Homage he should take his leave of his Uncle and return to him with his most Dear Companion the Queen his Mother if she could come so soon if not he should come without her and should not omit it any manner neither for his Mother or any other upon his Blessing Dated at Westminster the Second Day of December His Son wrote an Answer to this Letter as appears by 4 Ibm. The Prince answered his Father's Letter and he wrote a Second Letter to him another of his Father 's to him in March following wherein he acknowledges he did remember what he was charged with at Dover and especially not to marry without his Consent and what he said there to his Father at his Departure and promised in this Answer to do always his Commands and Pleasure to his power Whereupon the King in this second Letter strictly chargeth The Contents of the King 's second Letter him again well to remember those things and in no case to Marry or suffer himself to be Married without his assent nor before he should come to him nor do any thing that might turn to his Damage or Trouble of Mind and as to what his Son said in his answer That he could not come over so soon as he commanded him by reason of his Mother nor leave her being bound by Nature to perform his Duty to her to which he rejoin'd in these Words Beaufitz vous saves coment nous lavoms amee cherie verroiement si ele se eust portee vers nous come faire denst come bone feme vers son Seigneur c. Good Son you know how much I should have Loved and Cherished her and truly if she had carried her self towards us as she ought to have done and as a good Woman or Wife toward her Lord. But whereas she feigned an Occasion to withdraw from us ele se feigne encheson de se retrere de nous by reason of our Dear Nephew and faithful Hugh le Despenser who hath always loyally The Queen's Kindness to Mortimer served me You see and all the World may see that she openly notoriously and designedly against her Duty and against the Estate of our Crown which she is bound to favour and maintain hath drawn to her and retains in her Company and Council attrée a soi in sa compaignie reteint de son conseil le Mortimer c. Mortimer our Traitor and Mortal Enemy proved Attaint and in full Parlement so judged and keeps him Company every where in House and abroad in despight of us and our Crown and the Laws of the Realm Whom at another time your Vncle Banished his Kingdom at our Request as our Enemy and yet she doth worse if worse can be in bringing you into his Company and making him your Counsellor and She makes him her Son's Companion and Counseller making you adhere and stick to him openly and notoriously in the face of the World to the greatest Dishonour of us and you and in prejudice of our Crown and the Laws and the Vsages of the Laws of England the which above all things you are bound to Preserve and Maintain as queux vous estes sovereinment tenuz saves maintenir and therefore he Commands and Chargeth him upon his The King commands him to return notwithstanding any feigned Excuses Faith Amity and Legeance and his own Blessing that he come to him with what speed he can notwithstanding the foresaid Excuses or any other his Mother having wrote that if he would return she would not hinder him car vostre Meer nous ad Escrit que si vous voillez returner ele ne vous disturbereit pas and he could not understand his Vncle should hinder him against the Tenor of his Safe Conduct Given at Lichfield the 18th of March. At the same time King Edward 5 Ibm. King Edward Answers the King of France his Letter concerning his Queen wrote to his Dear Brother the King of France That he had considered his Letters wherein he signified to him he had seriously Discoursed his Sister about the Reason and Things to which he had Answered and that she had told him she desired only to be with him and in his Company as a good Wife ought to be with her Lord que ele vous ad dit qele desire tant de â—sire aâ—ez nâ—ue c. and that the seeming Amity between her and his Nephew Hugh le Despenser was only feigned yet it was convenient to keep it up to gain time and avoid worse things To disprove what she said to her Brother the King of France he reminded him of what great Amity and Kindness she often pretended to Hugh Despenser since her being there and repeats the Intimacy between Mortimer and his Wife and how she was wholly advised and directed by him and did whatever he advised in the same Words and Manner as in the last Letter to his Son and then desires him to restore the Dutchy of Aquitain c. to him without having regard to the wilful humour of a Woman and send him his Pleasure by the Bearer Given at Lichfield March 18. on the same day as before On the 15th
of April next following the King 6 Rot. Rom. 19 Ed. II. M. 3. He writes to the Pope about the Affair of his Queen wrote to the Pope and sent him a Transcript of what had passed between himself the King of France his Sister the Queen and his Son by way of Narrative and the Copies of the Letters he wrote them with his Answers to what was reported of him in France heartily beseeching him to read and consider them and apply such Remedy for the removing the Matter of Scandal and Dissention and the Dangers that might proceed from thence as he should think fit promising wholly to be directed by his Advice Given at Knelworth the 15th day of April All these Letters all these Mediators could not bring her into Neither Letters nor Mediators could bring the Queen into England until her Design was ripe England until her Design was Ripe and that she could come with Force yet in all probability they caused her either to quit or be thrust out of France Tho some of our Historians and the French Historian 7 Fol. 3â—â— 352. The Historians Account of the Transactions between the King and Queen at this time Mezeray who understood nothing of this Story as appears by his Writing and all from Froysard Report That by the Arts of the Spencers and the Money given to her Brother Charles the Fourth of France and scattered in his Court and to the Pope himself and distributed in his Court that made them their Friends so that her Brother forbad all Persons to assist her and commanded her to go out of his Dominions Take the Original from 8 F. 1. a. col 1. in the Prologue to the First Volume Printed at London 1520. Especially at Froysard Froysart who says he wrote his Chronicle from the Chronicles of Sir John la Bele Canon of St. Lambert's of Liege an Intimate and of the Secret Council of John of Haynault The Barons 9 could not bear or suffer Hugh Spenser's favour with the King any longer but sought each other amongst themselves 9 Ib. f. 3. a. col 1. c. 8. to be of a Peaceable Accord and sent secretly to the Queen who had been at Paris three years which was false by two parts of the time signifying to her if she could come into England with One thousand Men at Arms and bring her Son and Heir with her they would all come to her and her Son Edward She shewed these Letters to the King of France who promised such Assistance and to furnish her with Money She was providing for her Voyage of which Hugh Spencer had notice The King of France corrupted with Money who contrived with Gifts to Buy off the King of France and sent secret Messengers with plenty of Gold Silver and Jewels into France and especially to the King and his Privy Council insomuch as the King forbad under pain of Banishment That none of his Subjects should assist the Queen to go into England by force and further Hugh 1 Ib. col 2. Spencer out of his Malice to the Queen to get her under the King's Power and his caused the King to write to the Pope That he would write to the King of France to send his Wife again into England for he would acquit himself to God and the World that it was not his fault that she departed from him for he would nothing to her but all Love and good Faith such as he ought to hold in Marriage Also he sent 2 Ibm. The Pope and Cardinals corrupted with Gold and Silver Gold and Silver great plenty to divers Cardinals and Prelates who had most power with the Pope who lead the Pope by such-wise with their Gifts and subtle ways that he wrote to the King of France That on pain of Cursing he should send his Sister Isabel into England to the King her Husband These Letters were brought to the King of France by the Bishop of Xaints when he had read them they were shewed to the Queen his Sister and then commanded her speedily to avoid his Kingdom or he would make her to avoid it with shame By this means 3 Ib. cap. 9. Robert of Artois his Advice to the Queen all the Barons of France were withdrawn from the Queen except Robert of Artois her Dear Cousin who privately advised and encouraged her and gave her secret notice That her 4 Ib. f. 3. b. col 1. Brother would deliver her her Son and the Earl of Kent King Edward's Brother and Sir Roger Mortimer She goes out of France to William Earl of Haynault to the King and Hugh Spencer and advised her to go into the Empire to William Earl of Haynault and Sir John of Haynault his Brother The Earl received her with Joy at Valenciennes and 5 Ib. fol. 4. col 1. He received her kindly and brings forth his four Daughters The Prince likes Philip best brought forth his four Daughters Margaret Philip Jane and Isabell the Prince liked Philip best and she kept him Company during his stay there Walsingham 6 Fol. 123. lin 1 c. tells us that the King as 't was reported prout dicitur had procured the Death of his Wife and Son Edward and that John of Britania Earl of Richmond her Familiar was to have been the Executioner but that perceiving the Noblemen of France to have been corrupted by large Gifts and that there was no safety to be expected there she fled privately with her Son and Family or Followers to the Earl of Haynault of whom they were Honourably and Magnificently received Whether she was commanded by her Brother or fled privately out of France certain it is she 7 Ib. n. 20. And was contracted to her went to the Earl of Hanault and having Contracted her Son to his Daughter Philip 8 Fol. 598. n. 10. Sir Thomas de la Moor says Married him to her without the Advice of the Nobility by his Assistance who provided Men and Ships 9 Walsingh at supra The Earl of Haynault furnisheth the Queen with Ships and Forces to come for England she came for England with her Son then not Fourteen years of Age Edmond Earl of Kent the King's Brother Roger Mortimer and many others who were forced or fled out of England and with 2757 Men at Arms commanded by John of Hanault the Earl's Brother and landed at 1 Ibm. Anglia sacra parte prima f. 366. She lands at Harwich Harwich on Wednesday before Michaelmas-day where she was joined by the Earl 3 Walsing Ib. n. 30. Several Bishops Earls and Barons join with her Marshal the Earl of Leicester and other Barons and Knights cum Praelatis fere omnibus with almost all the Prelates but chiefly with the Bishops of Lincoln Hereford Dublin and Ely who together made her up a great Army 4 Ibm. which being refreshed at St. Edmunds-Bury she went forward to seek out her own and the Kingdom
Charles Earl of Blois and John Earl of Montfort about Succession to and Enjoyment of that Dukedom Their Titles were thus Arthur the second had 1 Ib. and Robert of Aversbury p. 98. b. c. 40. Competitors for the Dukedom Two Sons by his first Wife this Duke John and another who Married and had a Daughter only and died before the Duke his Brother This Daughter was Married to Charles Earl of Blois Nephew to Philip the French King by his Sister The same Arthur by a second Wife had a Third Son who did bear the Title of Earl of Montfort The Question was Whether the Wife of the Earl of Bloys or the Earl of Montfort was nearest in Blood to the late Duke Upon the Dukes Death Montfort went to Nantes the chief City in Bretagne 2 Froâ—ssard Ibidem The Citizens of Nantes and some others own Montfort where he was received by the Citizens and People of the Country thereabout as their Lord and as nearest of Blood to his Brother who did homage and sware fealty to him To this place he summoned in the 3 Ib. 65 66 67. The Nobility and best fort of People appear not upon his Summons Nobility and the best sort of People of the Country and good Towns of Bretagne who appeared not whereupon he raised an Army and took the Town and Castle of Brest the City of Rennes the Town and strong Castle of Hannybout the Town and Castle of Caraches Yet after all this the Earl 4 Ib. c. 68. He offers to hold the Dukedom of the King of England by Homage and Fealty King Edward accepts his offer and promiseth to defend him of Montfort fearing the Earl of Bloys by the power of France might drive him out of the Dukedom came into England and offered to King Edward to hold it of him by Homage and Fealty if he would defend him against the French King and all others who should give him Trouble in this Matter The King accepted his offer and thought he should have great advantage by it as not having a more commodious way of entring France than by Bretagne calling to mind that the Alemans or Germans and Brabanters had done little or nothing for him and only made their own advantage by spending him much Money After Homage done King Edward in the presence of the Lords of Bretagne and England that were present promised he would aid and defend him as his Liege-man against the French King and all others The Homage and Promises were written sealed and delivered interchangeably The French King observing what the Earl of Montfort had The French King summons him to Paris done in Bretagne and hearing he had done Homage to the King of England for that Dutchy at the Request of the Earl of Bloys he was summoned to appear at Paris before the King Twelve Peers and other great Lords of France He appeared according to Summons 5 Ib. c. 69 70. He denies he did Homage to the King of England and when the French King charged him with having done Homage to his Adversary the King of England he denied it He then commanded him by all he held of him that he should not depart from Paris in Fifteen days in which time the Twelve Peers and other Lords should judge of his Right But he suddenly and privately withdrew from Paris and returned into Bretagne Nevertheless the Peers and Lords on the 15th day gave their The Peers of France give the Title of the Dutchy of Bretagne to Mary the Wife of the Earl of Bloys Opinions concerning the Title and Inheritance of the Dutchy That it belonged to Mary the Wife of the Earl of Bloys and further their Opinions were That if ever the Earl of Montfort had any Right he had forfeited it two ways by doing Homage and receiving it from any other Lord than the King of France of whom he ought to have held it and by disobeying the King's The Earl of Bloys enters Bretagne Commands in going from Paris without his Leave No sooner was this Judgment passed for him 6 Ib. c. 71 72. Surprised and took Earl Montfort but the Earl of Bloys with great assistance from the King of France entered Bretagne and surprized and took the Earl of Montfort in the Town of Nantes by the Treachery of the Townsmen from whence he was sent Prisoner to Paris and there died This was done says Foissard 7 Ib. c. 72. A. D. 1341. Who died at Paris being there Prisoner in the year 1341 about the Feast of All-Saints which was in the Fifteenth year of Edward the Third after whose Death his Widow Sister to the Earl of Flanders a Princess of great Prudence and Courage 8 Ib. c. 79. and Du Chesne f. 656. B. His Widow maintains War against the Earl of Bloys maintained the War against the Earl of Bloys and kept possession of those Parts and Places of Bretagne as had not been brought under his power This was in the beginning of Winter when the French Nobility that came with the Earl of Bloys by the King of France his Command retired the fury of the War then ceasing but failed not to return in the Spring to attempt to take from the Countess of Montfort what remained in her possession So soon as she was informed of their return she sent 9 Ib. in both She sends to the King of England for assistance Emery de Clisson a Lord of Bretagne into England to Request Assistance of the King propounding her Son John Heir to the Earl of Montfort as a Husband to one of his Daughters who was afterwards 1 Sâ—â—df Genealog Hist f. 179. Which she received Married to Mary his fourth Daughter and she enjoyed the Title of Dutchess of Bretagne The Proposition was readily agreed to by the King and he sent Sir Walter Manny into Bretagne with as many Men 2 Frâ—iss Du Châ—sne â—t supra A. D. 1342. Upon the Marriage of her Son with the King 's 4th Daughter at Arms as Sir Emery desired and also 3000 Archers but these were not sufficient to defend the Country against the Force of the Earl of Bloys who had taken Rennes Vannes and other Places and would have conquered all Bretagne if not speedily opposed 3 Ib. Frâ—iss c. 86. 90. Du Cheâ—ne f. 657. B. This Account was sent to the King by Messengers from the Countess and Sir Walter Manny whereupon he sent Robert de Artois with more Men Arms and Archers to reinforce Sir Walter 4 Du Chesne Iâ—m C. D. Frâ—â—ss c. 92. This joint Force besieged and retook Vannes but not long after Vannes was recovered by assault made by the Forces and Friends of Charles of Bloys in the defence whereof 5 Ib. c. 9â— Du Châ—sne f. 658. B. C. Robert de Artois was much and dangerously wounded who not long after returned into England in hopes of better Chirurgeons and Medicines and died there The
Nobility Gentry and Citizens in all Places and their Violence exercised upon the Peasants the Practices of the King of Navarre against the Dauphin and Government of France by making Divisions amongst the People and driving them into Parties and Factions the Barbarity of the Plundering-People calling themselves Companions and of the Soldiers 5 Mezer. f. 76. both Foreign and Domestics who upon Truces made between the Parties were neither disbanded or paid All these robbed and pillaged one another committed Rapin without distinction wasted and burnt the Countries where they came until the Dauphin procured himself to be declared Regent of France by the Parlement at Paris 6 Ib. f. 377. in the Year 1358. and some little while after until the Nation was reduced to some sort of Settlement by that Regency and Compliance between the Regent and Parlement which had not been before The last-mentioned Truce being expired without hopes of Peace 7 Froys lib. 1. c. 201. the King of England and his Son the Prince of Wales the the King of France and James Earl of Bourbon only amongst A Peace concluded themselves Treated of and agreed upon a Peace and sent the Articles into France to the Duke of Normandy the Dauphin and Regent He assembled the Prelates Nobles and People of the Good Towns who upon debate of the Terms resolved to suffer The French refuse the Terms more than they had done and permit their King to remain Prisoner rather than to submit to such Articles as should so much lessen the Power of France King Edward at the Return of the Messengers understanding the Resolution of the French determined to enter France with such a Force as should make an end of the War or procure Peace according to his Desire K. Edward raiseth a mighty Army To put what he resolved on in execution he raised an Army such as had not been 8 Froys â— 1. c. 205. seen and sent the Duke of Lancaster before him to Calais 9 â— 174. li 5. a. 1100 Ships provided to transport that Army Walsingham says there was Eleven hundred Ships prepared at Sandwich to Transport this Army from which Port he set sail on the 28th of 1 Claus 33 Ed. III. M 9. Dâ—rs October taking with him his Four Sons 2 Froys ut sâ—pra c. 207. Prince Edward Lyonel John and Edmond 3 Wals f. 174. â—in 3 6. 7. with most of the Nobility fere Proceres omnes leaving his young Song Thomas of Woodstock not then four Years old Guardian of the Kingdom with a Council fit to perform that Charge Before his 4 Froys l 1. c. 206. The King of France and his Son sent to the Tower Passage he sent the King of France and his Son from their loose Confinement to the Tower or more safe Custody and the rest of the French Prisoners into Places of Security With this Army 5 Ib. c. 209 210 211. he marched into the middle of France laying all waste as he marched He was entring 6 Was f. 174. n. 10. K. Edward marches into the middle of France burns and wastes the Country The French sue for Peace Burgundy when the Duke met him and compounded with him for Seventy thousand Florens to spare his Country from Burning and Rapin. The French kept themselves within their Places of Strength and filled them with Armed Men and permitted the Country to be harassed and ravaged by this Army The Miseries and Desolation of the Kingdom of France at this time and in this manner urged the Duke of Normandy and Regent the Clergy Nobility and all sorts of People to be desirous of and sue for a Peace 7 Mezeray f. 380. Cardinal Simon de Langres the Pope's Legate the Abbot of Clugny and the Dauphin's Commissioners always followed King Edward's Camp and earnestly sollicited for Peace The 8 Duke of Lancaster and other Lords were inclinable K. Edw. averse to a Peace and pressed the King to hearken to it He was averse putting such Terms upon the French they could not submit to them until as 9 Lib. 1. c. 211. Was â—frighted into it by a Tempest Froysard tells the Story being before Chartres there suddenly happened such a Tempest of Thunder Lightning Rain Hail and Stones that it killed many of his Men and Horses when turning towards our Lady's Church there and stedfastly beholding it he made a Vow to her to Consent to Peace And being then Lodged in a Village called Bretigny near Chartres Commissioners were appointed on both sides to Treat there accordingly This Famous Treaty of Bretigny was managed by 1 Rot. Cales de negotiis comunibus 3. a. Ed. III. M. 6. the Prince of Wales and Charles Regent of France in the Names of both Kings Commissioners for the English were Sir Reginald de Cobham Sir Bartholomew Burghersh Sir Francis Hale Banerets 1 Rot. Fran. 34 Ed. III. M. 11. Dors The famous Treaty of Bretigny Sir Miles Stapleton Sir Richard la Vache and Sir Neel Loring Knights with others of the King's Council On the French Party were the Elect of Beauves the Chancellor Charles Lord Momerency Monsieur John de Meingre Marshal of France Monsieur Aynart de la Tour Lord of Vivoy Monsieur Ralph de Ravenal Monsieur Simon de Bucy Knights Monsieur Stephen de Paris and Peter de la Charite with many others of his Council named by King John himself These Commissioners on both sides 2 Mezeray f. 380. A Peace made in 8 days met the first of May at Bretigny aforesaid within a Mile of Chartres and concluded upon all the Articles of this Peace in eight Days time which do here follow Translated from the French with Notes where they were afterwards altered and corrected by the Two Kings at Calais Edward Eldest Son 3 Rot. de Tract at pacis Fran. 34 Ed. III. M. 10. See also Leibnitz Codex juris Gentium from f. 208 to f. 220. to the King of France and England Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwal Earl of Chester To all those who shall see these Letters Greeting We make you know That all the Debates and Disorders whatsoever moved or stirred between our Lord and Father King of France and England on the one Part and our Cousins the King his Eldest Son Regent of the Realm of France and all those it may concern on the other Part. For the Good of Peace it is Agreed the 8th Day of May 1360. at Bretigny near Chartres in the manner following 1. First 4 Ibm. That the King of England with what he holds in Gascogne and Guyen shall have for him and his Heirs for ever all those Things which follow to hold them in the same manner the King of France or his Son or any of his Ancestors Kings of France held them That is to say Those in Soveraignty in Soveraignty and those in Demain in Demain according to the time and manner
His Grants in Parlement repealed Fol. 397 C He is appealed of High Treason Fol. 405 A His Death at Calais Fol. 408 B Is adjudged a Traitor Fol. Ib. D His Confession before his death Fol. 409 D Godfrey of St. Omar Founder of the Order of the Templars Fol. 165 A Gournay Tho. one of the Keepers and Murderers of Edw. II. Fol. 164 C Judgment against him for the same Fol. 191 A Grievances of the Kingdom presented Fol. 57 D 58 Guardians of the Kingdom who Fol. 1 D They proclaim the King's Peace Fol. Ib. They do the same for Ireland Fol. 2 A Their Writ to assess Tallage and suppress Tumults Fol. Ib. C Guines surprized by the English Fol. 248 C Guy Earl of Flanders his Alliance with Edward I. Fol. 42 A H. HAles Sir Robert Beheaded by the Rebels Fol. 346 C Haynault Earl of furnisheth Queen Isabel with Ships and Forces Fol. 154 D Haxey Thomas his Bill in the House of Commons against the King's Royalty Fol. 396 A Is adjudged a Traitor Fol. Ib. D Hereford Henry Duke his Submission to King Richard Fol. 403 E He accused the Duke of Norfolk Fol. 404 F The Schedule of his Accusation Fol. 413 B The matter contained in it to be determined by Duel Fol. 414 D The King prevents the Battel and banishes him Fol. 415 B C He lands in England Fol. 419 B The Nobility and People join him Fol. Ib. C D His Obeisance to King Richard and Reception at London Fol. 420 A He claims the Crown Fol. 432 D His Speech to the Lords and Commons Fol. 433 D He summons a Parlement in his own Name to be returned in six Days Fol. 435 E His Eldest Son made Prince of Wales Fol. 438 A His Followers and Confederates pardoned Fol. 452 A Adam Bishop See Adam Nicholas a Professor of Divinity in Oxford a Wiclivite Fol. 459 F The Proceedings against him Fol. 460 461 Higden Ran. his Character of the Earl of Lancaster Fol. 139 C Holt Sir John impeached and his Answer Fol. 386 A E Sentence against him Fol. 387 A His Life spared Fol. 388 A He is banished into Ireland Fol. 389 C He is again recalled Fol. 396 F Hugo de Paganis one of the Founders of the Order of the Templars Fol. 165 A Hungerford Tho. Speaker of the Commons prays the reverse of several Impeachments Fol. 306 E I. JEws hanged for Clipping and Coining Fol. 8 C Maintenance allowed to the Converted Fol. Ib. The Obstinate are Banished Fol. 9 A John Duke of Bretagne died without Issue Fol. 224 The Competitors for his Dukedom Fol. Ib. C King of France Crowned Fol. 247 F He is Overthrown by Edward the Prince of Wales Fol. 257 He and his Son Philip taken Prisoners Fol. Ib. E They are brought to London Fol. 258 D And sent to the Tower Fol. 261 F He agrees to a Peace with Edward III. Fol. 262 E His return into England Errand and Death there Fol. 283 B Isabel Queen to Edward II. denied entrance into Leeds-Castle Fol. 134 A She writes to the Pope to Saint the Earl of Lancaster Fol. 138 E F She built a Chapel on the Hill where he was Executed Fol. 140 A She obtains Leave to get into France Fol. 148 E Her Excuse to the King for staying there Fol. 149 150 She takes Mortimer into her Service Fol. Ib. D Her Behaviour towards the King Fol. 152 A She leaves France and goes to the Earl of Haynault Fol. 154 A She lands at Harwich and is joined by the Nobility Fol. Ib. E F The Increase of her Army and her Cause carried on by false Reports Fol. 155 C D Her Care of Holy Church Fol. 157 E She takes Bristol and marches into Wales to find out the King Fol. 158 C D She held a Parlement with the Prince her Son Fol. 161 B Her seeming Sorrow for the King her Husband Fol. 163 A She and Mortimer hath the whole Government Fol. 186 A K. KEnt Edmund Earl of Vncle to Edward III. adjudged to death in Parlement and for what Fol. 185 D His Son restored to his Blood and Lands Fol. Ib. F Kilwardy Robert Elected Arch-Bishop of Canterbury without the King's Licence Fol. 93 B His Election protested against Fol. Ib. E Knights Four summoned for every County Fol. 10 B Knivet Sir John Chancellor his Declaration in Parlement of the Necessities of Edward III. Fol. 293 294 296 A Knolls Sir Robert Ravages and Burns the Country about Paris Fol. 290 A His great Care to suppress Tumults Fol. 361 A L. LAncaster Thomas Earl of resolved to defend Holy Church Fol. 114 E He demanded Gaveston of King Edward II. Fol. Ib. F He marched after the King and Gaveston Fol. 115 A A great Admirer of Robert Winchelsey Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Fol. 119 D He refused to serve the King against the Scots Fol. 120 A Is made Chief of the Council to Edward II. Fol. 122 E And General of the Army against the Scots Fol. 123 C The Agreement between him and the King Fol. 124 C He joins with the Earl of Hereford Fol. 134 F Is taken Prisoner Condemned and Executed Fol. 135 B Miracles done by him after his Death Fol. 136 A His Image adored at St. Paul's Fol. 138 A Queen Isabel writes to the Pope to Saint him Fol. Ib. D E The Arch-Bishop of Canterbury doth the same Fol. 139 A His Character by Higden Fol. Ib. C D Henry his Son shews Compassion to Edward II. Fol. 164 B His Submission to Edward II. and Queen-Mother Fol. 185 B He died of the Plague Fol. 282 D John Duke made Governour of Acquitain Fol. 290 C His Title to the Kingdom of Castile Fol. 292 A Is made the King's Lieutenant in France Fol. 295 A His ill Conduct in his Army Fol. Ib. C The three Great Offices he claimed at King Richard's Coronation Fol. 326 C His Retirement from Court Fol. 327 A His Challenge to his Accusers Fol. Ib He is chosen Head of the Committee for the Assistance of the Commons Fol. Ib. He sets out a Fleet and is beaten by the Spaniards Fol. 134 A B His Expedition against the Scots Fol. 342 F He concludes a Truce with them Fol. 350 F The Quarrel between him and Northumberland ended Fol. 351 A His Proposals to go into â—pain Fol. 355 A His Expedition against the Scots unsuccessful Fol. 361 B He is accused of Treason by a Fryer Fol. Ib. D His extravagant Expences in France Fol. Ib. E His Voyage into Spain and Claim of that Crown Fol. 364 C He is created Duke of Aquitain Fol. 392 C The Earl of Arundel asks his Pardon in full Parlement Fol. 394 A He is made Lord High Steward at the Trial of the Earl of Arundel and others Fol. 407 A He was First Commissioner in the Judgment given against his Son Henry Duke of Hereford 415 426 in the Margin Latimer impeached by the Commons Fol. 301 F Laws made in the First Purlement of Edward I. Fol. 4 C
THE Continuation of the Complete History of ENGLAND by Robert Brady D r. in Physic. 1700. Printed for S. Lowndes and A. I. Churchill A CONTINUATION OF THE Complete History OF ENGLAND CONTAINING The LIVES and REIGNS OF Edward I. II. III. AND Richard the Second By ROBERT BRADY Doctor in Physic In the SAVOY Printed by Edward Jones for Sam. Lowndes over-against Exeter-Exchange in the Strand and Awnsham and John Churchil at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row 1700. A CONTINUATION Of the Compleat History of England c. King EDWARD the First KIng Henry the Third died on the 16th of November 1272. and was buried at Westminster the 20th of the same Month and so soon as he was buried John Earl of Waren and 1 Mat. Westm fol. 401. n. 40. 50. A. D. 1272. The Nobility and Clergy swear Fealty to Edw. I. when beyond Sea after the Death of his Father and appoint Guardians of the Kingdom The Guardians Names They enter upon the Government all Writs and Instruments issued by them in the King's Name Gilbert Earl of Glocester with the Clergy and Laity went to the great Altar and sware Fealty to his First-born Son Edward who was then in the Holy Land not knowing whether he was living afterward the Nobility of the Nation met at the New Temple London and a new Seal having been made they appointed faithful Ministers and Guardians that might keep the King's Treasure and the Peace of the Kingdom Postmodum ad novum Templum Londini nobillores Regni pariter convenerunt facto sigillo novo constituerunt fideles ministros custodes qui Thesaurum Regis c. These Guardians were Walter Giffard Arch-Bishop of York Edmond Plantagenet Son to Richard Plantagenet Brother to King Henry the Third Earl of Cornwal and Gilbert de Clare Earl of Gloucester who entred upon the Exercise of the Government by the Advice and Appointment of the Nobility without any possible Privity or Knowledge of the King yet all the Writs Proclamations and Instruments concerning the Government were Issued in the King's Name as appears by the 2 Append. n. 1. A Writ to proclaim the King's Peace Writ directed to all the Sheriffs in England to proclaim the King's Peace throughout their whole Counties in all Cities Burghs Fairs Mercates and other Places Which was in this Form Edward by the Grace of God King of England Lord of Ireland and Duke of Aquitan c. Whereas our Father King Henry of Famous Memory being Dead the Government of the Kingdom is come to us by Hereditary Succession c. We command the c. Witness W. Arch-Bishop of York Ed. of Cornwall and G. of Glocester Earls at Westminster the 23d of November in the First Year of Our Reign But three Days after the Interrment of his Father There was also a Writ of almost the same Tenor in the King's Name directed to the Abbats of Dore and Hagenham to Receive the Oath of Fidelity from 3 Append. n. 2. Leulin Prince of Wales summon'd to take the Oath of Fealty Leulin Son of Griffin Prince of Wales Dated by the Hand of Walter de Merton then Chancellor and at least a great Assistant to the Guardians on the 29th of November in the First Year of Our Reign but he appeared not sent any answer to the Abbats as by the Return from them and the Constable of Montgomery Castle annexed to the Writ it self is manifest Writs likewise for keeping the Peace in Ireland were Directed 4 Pat 1 Ed. I. Part. 2. M. 20. De Conservatione pacis in Hibernia A Writ for the Conservation of the Peace in Ireland to Maurice Fitz-Maurice Justiciary of that Nation inhibiting all under the Pain of Life and Member and Disheriting That they presumed not to infringe the Publick or King's Peace with Promise to Maintain all People of that Land in their Rights Goods and Estates and do them full Justice against great and small 5 Ib. M. 20. De fidelitate Archiepiscopor Episcop c. Regi facienda With Command to the Arch-Bishops Bishops Abbats Priors Earls Barons Knights and Freemen of Ireland to take the Oath of Fealty before Commissioners there appointed Both these Records Dated by the Hand of Walter de Merton Chancellor on the 7th day of December at Westminster Besides these they Issued other Writs in the King's Name one for Assessing of 6 Append. n. 3. 4. A Writ to the Sheriff of Surry and Sussex to Suppress the Rabble and Plunderers Tallage dated Jan. 27. and to the 6 Sheriff of Surry and Sussex another to raise the Posse Comitatus for suppressing the Rabble who were up there Plundering Robbing and Murdering the King's Subjects dated the 6th of June both in his First Year so that they took upon them the Whole Administration of the Government in his absence and he was so far pleased with the Proceedings of his Chancellor especially against the Bishop of Carlisle for Excommunicating the Sheriff of Cumberland because he 7 Bundel Brov. 1 Ed. I. n. 14. in the Tower Distreined the Goods of an Abbat in his Diocese for the King's Debt prohibiting him to put in Execution the Excommunication or Prosecute him in Court Christian for that the Correction and Pleas concerning the Transgression of the King's Officers belonged to himself according to the Custom of the Kingdom that he wrote him a Letter of 8 Append. n. 5. Thanks when he was acquainted with them for his Diligence in the Dispatch of his and the Kingdom 's Business Directing and Incouraging him to go on as he had begun promising to Ratifie whatever he should do in Ways of Justice Commanding him not to spare any of what State or Condition foever but to proceed against them by Rigor of Justice if otherwise he could not restrain their Excesses This Letter is dated August the 9th in the First Year of his Reign at Melun upon the River Seyn in France Upon the News of his Father's Death he set all things in order and disposed them as well as he could and came from the Holy Land into Sicily and was received by the 9 Mat. West f. 402. n. 10 20 30 40 50. The King came from the Holy Land into Sicily from thence to Rome and so into France where he did Homage to that King for Aquitan King thereof with great Honour who Conducted him to the Roman Court where he spent some time with Pope Gregory the Tenth his Friend Familiar and Acquaintance in the Holy Land From thence he passed into Burgundy where at the foot of the Mountains some English Bishops Abbats Earls and Barons met him from whence he came into France where he was Honourably received by King Philip the Hardy his Cousin German and did Homage to him for the Hereditary Lands he held of him who thereupon granted him the possession of them After this he took his Leave of the King and Peers of France 1 Ibm.
delivered your Letters into his own Hands and having openly and plainly Expounded your Letters and Command to me and shewn the Authority of it before him and his Great Men I admonished the King to the performance of Three Things 1. That he should restore and cause to be carried to the Places from whence it was taken the whole Money of the Tenths with such readiness and alacrity as might expiate the Crime of taking it away 2. That for the future he should forbear such Actions adjoining That tho the Apostolic Elementy retained him in the number of her Dearest Sons yet if he should be afterwards found in such Offences she neither could nor would with-hold from him the Rod of Correction Non posse eam nec velle virgam ei Correctionis subtrahere lest sparing the Man it should assent to those Divine Affronts or Injuries it had not Corrected Ne parcendo homini Divinis Injuriis quas non corrigeret assentiret 3. That he should not trouble or prosecute those that had the Money in keeping Quibus silenter Reverenter auditis c. To which he having patiently and reverently heard them and having deliberated with those about him he thus answered To the First That there was no necessity of the Pope's sending his Letters or the Arch-Bishop to him in this Case when as he had Two Months since commanded the Money to be restored To the Second That he intended no undue thing nihil indebitum intendebat against the Church for the future To the Third He said he wondred why it should be put upon him not to Molest the Guardians of the Money when it was always his firm purpose not to do injury to any Innocent Person When he sent this Account of his Proceeding to the Pope he also advertised him That it was affirmed by such Testimony as ought to be believed that the King had restored the Money but of that he could not write him the precise Truth unless from those that knew the Weight Number and Measure of it Nisi per illos qui ipsius noverunt Pondus Numerum Mensuram This Answer of the Arch-Bishop to the Pope is dated the 29th of November While the King 3 Mat. West f. 411. n. 50 A. D. 1284. King Ed. II. Born remained in Wales for the Establishing and Settling his own and the Nation 's Affairs there his Son Edward who succeeded him was born at Caernarvon on St. Mark 's Day where he continued until toward the latter end of April the year following and then having finished his Work 4 Ib. f. 412. n. 30. A. D. 1285. he came into England and was received at London in great Triumph the last day of that Month. Matthew of Westminster Reports That the King of 5 Ibm. n. 40 50. France Philip IV. called the Fair not long after his Father's Death sent his Ambassadors to King Edward to come over into France and employ his Mediation for a Peace between himself and the Kings of Arragon and Spain He complied with his desire and on the 24th of June passed the Sea and was attended with many Bishops A. D. 1286. Earls and Barons and was received Honourably by the King and Nobles of France and Conducted to St. Germans where he staid some time and demanded the Lands which his Grandfather King John had lost and obtained Ten thousand Pounds Sterling of the King of France to be yearly paid at the Tower of London together with some Arrears for Normandy which was his Inheritance Mezeray's Story is otherwise he 6 F. 322. A. D. 1286. says ever since the Death of Philip III. Edward King of England had omitted no Endeavour to confirm the Treaties with his Successor In the year 1286 landing in France about Pontieu he was received at Amiens by several Lords sent from the King to meet him from thence he came to Paris where he was Magnificently Treated and was present at the Parlement which was held after Easter and went from thence to Bourdeaux The apparent Cause of his Voyage was the Desire he had to compose the Business of the King of Arragon with the King of France because Alphonso the Eldest Son and Successor of Peter had Married or Espoused his Daughter Elianor He forgot not likewise then to press earnestly he might have some Consideration for Normandy and those other Countreys which both his Father and himself had Renounced but could obtain nothing in either of these Points Being at Burdeaux he solemnly Received the Ambassadors of the Kings of Aragon Castile and Sicily all Enemies to France which gave no little Jealousie to King Philip Thus the French Historian And there is nothing to be found of his Mediation or what Effect it had He staid in France above Three years without doubt to Transact his own Affairs And at his 7 Mat West f. 414. n. 10. A. D. 1289. King Edward punished his Justices for Bribery Return Aug. the 4th he made a Progress through England and punished his Justices that had taken Bribes in his absence perverted Judgment and committed Errors according to the quantity of their Faults Alexander III. King of Scotland died 8 Buchan rer Scot. lib. 7. f. 85. a. n. 10. Printed at Edinburgh A. D. 1582. Alexander K. of Scots dies by a fall off his Horse on the 19th of March 1285 and before himself all his Children died his Daughter Margaret was Married to Eric King of Norwey who by him left one only Daughter named Margaret called the Maid of Norwey Heiress to the Crown of Scotland Alexander thus dead without Issue except this Grandchild and she then in Norwey with her Father there was a Convention of the States of the Kingdom at Scone in which they Treated of creating a new King and settling the State of the Kingdom 9 Ib. lib. 8. in mitio f. 86. a. n. 10. in quo conventu de novo Rege creando Statu Regni componendo ageretur which King 's creation as the Author expresseth it was only providing a Husband for the Maid of Norwey as appears by the following Story where were chosen Six Guardians Six Guardians or Governors of the Kingdom chosen Margaret the Maid of Norwey his Grandchild and Heir or Governors of the Kingdom to Rule it in the Name of Margaret the Maid of Norwey as will presently appear To whom King Edward knowing the Grandchild of his Sister King Alexander's Queen the only Child of the King of Norwey and sole Survivor of Alexander's Posterity to be the Lawful Heir of the Kingdom of Scotland sent Messengers thither to require her for a Wife for his Son 1 Ibm. n. 20. A Match propounded between her and Edw. II. Edwardus Anglorum Rex gnarus suae sororis neptem Regis Norwegiae filiam unam ex Alexandri posteris esse superstitent eandemque Regni Scotorum legitimam haeredem legatos ad eam deposcendam filio suo uxorem in Scotiam Misit To
intent upon this Business 5 Ibm. The King of Scots Confederates with the K. of France he had certain Information That the King of Scots with his Prelates Earls Barons and other Noblemen Communities of Cities and Towns and others of the Chief Inhabitants of the Kingdom had made a Confederacy and League with the King of France against him Sealed with both their Seals and Counter-changed 6 Ibm. For Dispatch whereof the King of Scots at the Instance of his Bishops Earls c. sent four Procurators or Commissioners William Bishop of St. Andrews Matthew Bishop of Dunkeld John de Soules and Ingram de Vmfreville the Sum of the League was First That Edward King John's Son should Marry the Daughter The Articles of the Confederacy of Charles of Valois Earl of Anjou the King of France his Brother Secondly That the King of Scotland in the present War should assist the King of France against the King of England and all Confederates as well by Sea as Land against the Emperor of Germany and others Thirdly That he should at his own Charges make War against the King of England when he was Employed in or Diverted by War in other Places Fourthly That as well the Earls 6 Ibm. Barons Prelates and other Noblemen as far as of right they might and also the Communities of ths Kingdom of Scotland should as soon as they could send him their Letters-Patents under their Seals of their Consent to these Things Fifthly That if the King of England Invaded Scotland the King of France was to make War upon him in other Parts to divert him or if required to send Forces into Scotland at his own Charges until they came there Sixthly That if the King of England went out of his Kingdom or sent many Forces abroad the Commissioners promised that especially in this Case the King of Scotland should enter England with his whole Power as far as he could making War in the Field besieging Towns wasting the Countries and by all possible ways Destroying England Sevently That they should not make Peace on either side without the Consent of the other The League it self and the Procuratory-Letters are to be found in this Record and in Hen. de Knighton Col. 2473. Toward the 7 Ibm. King Edward goes to Newcastle time appointed the King of England prepared for his Journey to Newcastle and sent before him the Abbots of Newminster and Wellebeck to the King of Scots to give him notice of the Adjornment and time of his coming by whom he also Demanded certain Castles in the Marches to be Delivered to him for his own and Subjects security from the present Dangers which when past he should Receive again and that he might so Receive them without Difficulty he sent by the Abbots his Obligatory-Letters for the Performance of his Promise On the First of 8 Ibm. The King of Scots came not March 1296 and the 24th of his Reign the King was at Newcastle and staid there many Days Expecting the King of Scots he came not the King of England moved nearer Scotland to Banburgh and War where he also Summoned and Expected him for some time yet he neither came nor sent to Excuse himself but Returned the Homage and Fealty for himself and all others of the Kingdom to King Edward and Defied him by the After a second Summons he Defies him Following Instrument or Writing TO the 9 9 Ibm. Hen. de Knighton Col. 2477. The Instrument by which he returned King Edward his Homage and Defied him Magnificent Prince Edward by the Grace of GOD King of England John by the same Grace King of Scotland Whereas you and others of your Kingdom you not being Ignorant or having cause of Ignorance by your violent Power have Notoriously and Frequently done grievous and intolerable Injuries Contempts Grievances and strange Damages against us the Liberties of our Kingdom and against God and Justice Citing us at your pleasure upon every slight Suggestion out of our Kingdom unduly Vexing us seising our Castles Lands and Possessions in your Kingdom unjustly and for no fault of ours taking the Goods of our Subjects as well by Sea as Land and carrying them into your Kingdom Killing our Merchants and others of our Kingdom carrying away our Subjects and Imprisoning them For the Reformation of which things we sent our Messengers to you which remain not only unredressed but there is every Day an addition of worse things to them For now you are come with a great Army upon the Borders for the Disinheriting us and the Inhabitants of our Kingdom and proceeding have inhumanely committed Slaughter Burnings and violent Invasions as well by Sea as Land We not being able to sustain the said Injuries Grievances and Damages any longer nor to remain in your Fealty or Homage extorted by your violent Oppression we Restore them to you for our Self and all the Inhabitants of our Kingdom as well for the Lands we hold of you in your Kingdom as for your pretended Government over us 1 Ibm. Knighton says this Letter was without Date 2 Walsingham 1 Ib. 2. f. 66 n. 20. says it was sent about the beginning of April when the Guardian and Lector of the Frior Minors of Roxburgh brought it to the King Before this Restitution of Homage and Fealty the Scots sent 3 Knighton ut supra col 2477. n. 20. to Rome to have Absolution from their Oaths and Homage and upon false Suggestions made to Pope Celestin they were absolved by his Bull. Deinde Scoti miserunt ad Curiam Romanam pro absolutione habendâ de Juramento suo praestito Regi Angliae de Homagio suo illi facto per falsam suggestionem factam Celestino Papae sunt absoluti per Bullam Papalem This is a true Abstract of the 4 In fine Rotuli Vide Rot. Scotiae 19 Ed 1. usaque 24. and with Chamberlains of the Exchequer in the 3d Treasury at Westminster in a long Painted Box in a great Wooden Chest the Original Roll or Record of the Superiority of the Kings of England over the Kingdom of Scotland and of the Homages and Fealties of the King and Kingdom of Scotland in the 19th 20th 21st 22d 23d of Edward the First A. D. 1291 1292 1293 1294 1295 containing 34 Membranes or Skins of Parchment drawn up by Andrew sometimes Clerk to William de Tang and Publick Notary by the Popes Authority who was present with the Witnesses to every Act who were the best Men of both Kingdoms heard and saw the things done and signed every Membrane with his usual Mark or Sign now remaining in the Tower of London and Printed at large from the Roll in Mr. Pryn's Second Volume of the History of King John Henry III. and Edward I. Not known to any of our Historians and therefore the Truth of these Transactions not understood which makes a considerable part of the History of his Reign And this Record
than Eternal Majesty they acquiesce in such Abuses without Authority from the Apostolic See We therefore desiring to obviate such Acts with Advice of our Brethren by Apostolic Authority do Ordain That those Prelates Ecclesiastics Religious or Secular of what State Order or Condition soever they be who shall Pay or grant to Pay any Taxes or Impositions an Half a Tenth Twentieth an Hundredth or any other Part or Portion whatever of the Revenues of their Churches or Goods to Lay-men under the Name of an Aid Assistance Lending or Gift or under any other Pretence or Colour whatsoever without the Authority of the same See Also those Emperors Kings Princes Dukes Earls Barons Great Men Captains Officers and Governors by what Names soever they are known or any other of what State or Condition soever that shall Impose Exact or Receive such things or shall Arrest Seize or presume to take the Goods of Ecclesiastics deposited and secured in Churches or that shall Command them to be Arrested Seized or Taken likewise all who Knowingly shall give any Advice Assistance or Favour in these Matters for that very Thing and in that Moment shall incur the Sentence of Excommunication The Communities or Vniversities or Bodies-Politick that shall be Guilty of these things we put under Ecclesiastic Interdict strictly commanding the Prelates and Church-men by Virtue of their Obedience and under pain of being Deposed that they acquiesce not in these things without Express Licence of the said See And that under Pretence of any manner of Obligation Promise or Concession now made before this Constitution Prohibition or Precept shall come to their Knowledge or afterwards they shall not Pay or the foresaid Seculars Receive any thing any manner of way And if they do Pay or the others Receive that very Moment in doing it they shall fall under the Sentence of Excommunication nor shall they be absolved from Excommunication or Interdict without special Licence and Authority from the Apostolic See unless at point of Death For we intend not by Dissimulation to pass by such an horrid Abuse of the Secular Powers Notwithstanding any Privileges under any Tenor Form or Conception of Words whatever Granted to Emperors Kings and others abovesaid which we will not shall any way help him or them against the Premisses Therefore no Man may lawfully Dare to do any thing contrary to this Constitution Prohibition or Precept Dated at St. Peter's in Rome the 6th of the Kalends of March in the Second Year of our Pontificate That is February 24th 1296 in the 24th of Ed. 1. Notwithstanding the Clergy denied the King an Aid according to this Papal Prohibition yet he proceeded in his War and made 6 Confederatio inter Regem Comitem Flandriae pat 25 Ed 1. Part. 1 M. 18. The Confederacy between K. Ed. and the E. of Flanders a Confederacy with the Earl of Flanders against the King of France Complaining That he being a Peer of France and in Homage to the High and Puissant King Philip he oppressed and used him according to his own Will contrary to Reason Justice and his own Desert and therefore because he was so Strong and Powerful not acknowledging any Superior by Advice of his Prelates Earls and Barons he made Alliances and Covenants with his Friends to endure from that time forward for Ever a touz jours perpetuelement and particularly with the Earl of Flanders First That if the King of France or his Heirs should make War The Articles upon him or his Heirs then the King of England should Aid and Assist him against the King of France and all his Assistants by his Allies beyond Sea and by his own Subjects Faithfully and according to his Power Secondly That the Earl of Flanders and his Heirs Earls of Flanders and their Allies should Aid the King of England his Heirs and Allies in the same manner and that within two Months after notice from the King of England in this present War he was to make upon the King of France Thirdly That neither the King of England nor his Heirs nor the Earl of Flanders and his Heirs should make Peace Truce or Sufferance i. e. Cessation of Arms with the King of France and his Heirs without the Assent Grant and Consent of each other Fourthly That the Earl of Flanders might better and more surely sustain and undergo so great an Affair and so great a War as he had Covenanted to do against the King of France his Allies and Assistants Et pur ceo que cuens de Flandres peust mieuz plus surement sustenir endurer si grant bensoign si grant fais de Guerre come il convendra contre le Roy de France é ses Alliez é ses Aidantz King Edward granted for him and his Heirs to the Earl of Flanders and his Heirs every Year during the War Sixty Thousand * Four of these Livres made a Pound Sterling so that this was the value of 15000 l. Sterling Livres of Black Turnois or other Current Money at Two Payments within the Earldom of Flanders Chescun an Durant le susdit Guerre seissante Mile Livres de Turnois Noirs c. at every Payment Thirty thousand Livres the First to begin at Christmas 1297. an Noel qui serra l'an de Nostre Seigneur Mil deux centz quatre vintz é Diseseptz and the Second at the Nativity of St. John Baptist following These Payments were to endure so long as the War should endure Fifthly That these Alliances made between them might no ways be defeated neither by the Command of or Purchase from the Pope or any other nor for any thing that might be any ways Obtained or Granted without their joint Consent Ne par Commandement ne par purchaz D'Apostoille ne d'autri ne pur choise qui sait impetree ne ottrogee c. and if any thing was obtain'd it was agreed on both Parts to Reject and not use it For the Faithful Performance of this Agreement King Edward solemnly Sware to the Earl of Flanders by his Proxies Monsieur Hugh le Despenser and Monsieur Walter Beauchamp Steward of his Houshold And by that Oath he further Agreed and Covenanted with the Earl of Flanders That his Son Edward when he was of Age should Grant Agree to and Confirm this Form of Alliance and Confederacy Which was Dated at Ipswich and Sealed with his Seal on the Morrow of Epiphany or the 7th of January 1296. in the 25th of his Reign Et pur ce totes ces choses soinet plus seurez tenuz Gardez mieux plus fermement nous en noun de sovenance de Tesmoignage avous cestes presentes Letters fait seale◠de nostre Seal Les queles jurent faites Donees a Gippewiz lendemain de la Epephany l'an de Grace Mil deux centz quatre vintz sesse de nostre Regne vintisme quint. The Record is long and Tautological but this is the very Substance of it
Besides 7 Ibm. the Annual Sum here granted for the further Support of Guy Earl of Flanders and Marquis of Namur in this great Undertaking against the King of France in another Instrument in the same Roll and Membrane and in Respect of the Alliance he had made with him and the Covenants and Alliances mentioned in his Letters aforesaid King Edward gave him Three hundred thousand Livres Turnois Noirs That is Seventy five thousand Pound Sterling to be Received by his own People without any Deduction That is to say 200000 Livres upon his Assent to the Covenants 6000 Livres at Christmas following 24000 at Candlemas following and 70000 Livres at Easter or Fifteen days after or at the farthest at Whitsunday This Sum is obscurely hinted in the preceding Confederacy and this Grant is Dated at Ipswich the same Day and Year Yet farther as Part of this Alliance in another Record in the same Roll and Membrane 't is agreed That Edward the King 's Eldest Son so soon as he was of Age should Marry Philippe Daughter of the Earl of Flanders if the Match was not †Guy Earl of Flanders with his Wife and Daughter Philippe had been allured to Paris above a Year before by seemingly very kind Letters from the King of France where they were all made Prisoners the Father and Mother were Released about Twelve Months after but the Daughter was kept with Design to prevent this Match which would have been very Disadvantageous to France Mezeray Hist Fol. 325. A. D. 1294. hindred by the King of France her Death or any other occasion that might happen si le dit Marriage naloit este accomplir par lempeechement du Roy de France ou par la mort de la dite Phelippe ou par autre occasion quele que Ele avenist but if so then he was to Marry his other Daughter Isabel And this was to be performed without any hindrance of King Edward or any other to which he was not to consent nor to any Absolution of the Pope or others against these things Nene consentiones a la absolucion Encontee ces chose ne autre Empeechment d'Apostoille ne d'autrui Dated at Ipswich the same Day and Year The Clergy * Walsingham F. 69. N. 30. The Clergy meet at London and deny the King Aid a Second time met the Second time at London according to the King 's Appointment on the morrow of St. Hilary that is the 14th of January when they continued their Resolution and Denied to give him an Aid or Subsidy for the Carrying on his War against France according to the Pope's Inhibition * Ibm. F. 69. N. 30. procured by the Archbishop with the Consent of the Clergy All our Historians report the Refusal of the Clergy but none The Reasons of this Denial of them is so Express in giving the Reasons for it as Knighton Col. 2491. N. 10. 20. where he tells us That after the Clergy had refused to give the King an Aid Robert Winchelsey Archbishop of Canterbury spake thus to the Bishops Satis vobis constat Domini mei nec latere potest quod sub Omnipotenti Deo duos etiam Dominos habemus Spiritualem Temporalem Spiritualem vero Dominum Papam Temporalem Dominum nostrum Regem quamvis utrique obedientiam debeamus Majorem tamen Spirituali quam Temporali c. My Lords You know well that under Almighty GOD we have two Lords a Spiritual and Temporal Lord the Spiritual the Pope and Temporal our King and altho' we owe Obedience to both yet greater to the Spiritual than Temporal but that we may please both we will send special Messengers at our own Charge to our Spiritual Father the Pope to have leave to Grant something or at least Direction what we ought to do in this Case Vt Licentiam aliquid concedendi habere possumus vel saltem Responsum habeamus ab ipso quid facere Debeamus Credimus c. for we believe the King as well as our Selves doth Fear and would avoid the Sentence of Excommunication After this Denial he went on Progress or Pilgrimage to visit his Tutelar 8 Ibm. f. 44. lin 8. The King goes on Pilgrimage Saint or Protectress in Dangers or Adversity the Lady of Walsingham in Norfolk where his Procurators 9 See a particular Instrument about this Matter in the Record above Hugh le Dispenser and Walter de Beauchamp Steward of his Houshold at his Command and in his Presence it not being the Usage for him any ways to Swear in his own Person did Swear en la Chapelle de nostre Dame a Walsingham in the Chapel of the Lady of Walsingham for him and his Heirs Kings of England and in his Name according to the Power given them which he acknowledged That they should Perform and Fulfill all Matters and Things contained in the Instrument of Alliance between him and the Earl of Flanders Nous qui de usage avoms que nous en propre Procurators to swear to the Articles of Confederacy on behalf of the King Persone ne jurromy reconissoms que le dit Monsieur Hue Monsieur Wautier fesoms nous Procureurs lour donans poer e mandement c. par le testmoign de cestes presentes Lettres c. by Witness of these present Letters Dated at Walsingham le jour de la Chandeleur on the Candlemas-Day in the Year of Grace 1296 and of our Reign the 25th Anthony 1 Ibm. in another Instrument Bishop of Duresm Walter Bishop of Chester and Hugh le Dispenser pur ceo que en sa propre Persone le Roy nad mie use a jurer for that the King uses not to Swear in his proper Person did in like manner by the Power and Authority given them The King's Proctors sworn to the Covenants of Marriage c. by the King Swear That he should Fulfill and Keep all the Articles of the Covenants of Marriage between his Son and the Earl of Flanders Daughters This Instrument is also dated at the same place on Tuesday after Candlemass Le Mardy apres le Chandeleur A few days after the Confirmation of this Confederacy the King The King moved at the unkindness of the Clergy being much moved at the Backwardness Unkindness and Stiffness of the Clergy to assist him in this War against France gave Command 2 Append. n 18. Ordered the Lay-fees c. of the Clergy to be seised That all the Lay Fees of the whole Clergy as well Arch-Bishops Bishops and Religious as of other Clercs whatever and of whatever State or Condition they were together with their Goods and Chattels found upon the same should be seised into his hands until the Sheriffs should receive other Commands from him Which Writs or Warrants to all the Sheriffs of England were dated at Ely in his return from Walsingham February the 12th This Writ was rigidly Executed as appears by the Protections hereafter mentioned and
should claim any Right therein Dated at Fulham May 15. in the 30th Year of Ed. I. The Reasons of these Grants and Restorings might be what The Reasons why the Earl-Marshal gave the King his Lands and parted with his Office and Honour Mat. Westminster reports tho' he mistakes the Year in the 33d of this King he says he then had a time of Speaking and that he warily convented the Earl-Marshal upon a Conspiracy which the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and many Earls and Barons had contrived against him while he was in Flanders who not being able to contradict what the King said begged his Pardon For obtaining of which he made the King Heir of all Things he had By which means he saved his Life and the King as a Reward added to his Life a Thousand Pounds Land by the Year Which might be the Mannors and Lands he had liberty to except 9 Mat. West f. 452. lin 2. He with the A. Bp. and others had conspired against the King Et aderat tempus loquendi Rex convenit cautè Comitem Mareschallium super quodam Dedecore Conspiratione quam Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis plures Comites Barones contra eum Machinaverant ipso tunc agente in Flandria qui nequaquam valens ista contradicere Gratiam Regis petiit Pro qua obtinenda constituit Regem haeredem suum universorum quae habuit sic mortem perdidit vitam invenit Rex Remunerans eum vitae Comitis mille libratas Terrae adaugendo concessit In like manner the King convented all the others one by one that were in this Conspiracy and fined or punished them in Sums of Money 1 Ibm. lin 8. Similiter Rex singulatim singulos conveniens qui huic facto consenserant pecuniaria poena mulctavit Yet within this very Year of his Reign the King 2 Rot. Cart. 30 Ed. I. n. 24. 28 29. Dugd. Baron vol. 1. f. 136. col 1. The King regrants his Lands Honor and Office to the Marshal regranted the Earldom and Marescalcie of England with all his Castles Mannors and Lands in England and Wales to him and his Issue lawfully to be begotten upon the Body of his Wife Alice and for want of such Issue to return to the King and his Heirs 3 Dugd. Bar. ib. He died without Issue in the 35th of this King and the Honour and Estate came into his hands Some great Business the King had at this time that he had fixed in his Mind and laid much to Heart for which he sent Peter de Dene Canon of London and Roger le Sanvage Knight to the Pope 4 Pat. 30. Ed. I M. 12. intus Pryn's Ed. I. f. 93 The King senâ—â— Messengeâ—s to Rome upon secret Service Dilectos Fideles nostros Petrum de Dene Canonicum Londinensem Rogerum le Sauvage Militem pro quibusdam negotiis nostris quae multum insident Cordi nostro Domini summi Pontificis praesentiam destinantes c. Joining with them 5 Iâ—m William de Geynsburgh his Lieger at the Court of Rome and 6 Ibm. writing to M. Cardinal Deacon of New St. Mary in the Porch or Gallery 7 Ibm. Sanctae Mariae novae in Porticu Diacono Cardinali to assist them and effectually promote his Business with the Pope and for so doing he should always find him ready 1 Pat. 30. Ed. I. M. 12. intus to do those things which were grateful to him The same Letters were wrote and directed to Six Cardinals more Four Deacon and Two Priest Cardinals This Letter is Dated June 13. at Chartham The Four Deacon Cardinals were his Pensioners Luke de Flisco Deacon Cardinal of St. Mary in the Broad way Sanctae Mariae in via lata Cardinalis Diaconus Peter Piperne Deacon Cardinal of New St. Mary Sanctae Mariae novae not in Porticu Diaconus Cardinalis William Cardinals the King's Pensioners of Pergamus Deacon Cardinal of St. Nicholas in the Tullian Prison a Parish in Rome as they all were Sancti Nicholai in Carcere Tulliano Diaconus Cardinalis Francis Deacon Cardinal of St. Mary in Cosmedyn Sanctae Mariae in Cosmedyn Diaconus Cardinalis 4 Ibm. Who had every one 50 Marks Sterling yearly paid out of the Exchequer by equal Portions at Easter and Michaelmas for their Diligence and Sincerity in Transacting his Business The King 's former Proctors having not done any thing concerning the Peace between the Two Kingdoms he sends others to the Pope viz. 3 Claus 30. Ed. I. M. 6. Dors New Procurators sent to the Pope for a final Conclusion of the Peace between the two Kingdoms William de Gainsburgh and H. de Hertpole Two Friers Minors and Two of his own Clerks John de St. Clare Cannon of London and Philip Martell Professor of the Civil Laws with William de Dene Knight or any Four or Three of them with full Power to give a final Dispatch to this Business according to the Form of his former Pronunciation or Decree 4 Pat. 30. Ed. I. M. 9. intus Without effect Giving them also in their Commission or Letters Procuratory full and free Power to Demand Hear and Receive a total Consummation of his Decree and the Peace to ensue thereupon Both these Records are Dated at Arundel Septemb. 9. A. D. 1302. in the 33th of this King Their Negociation proved also ineffectual As the Earl Marshal so Humphry de Bohun Son and Heir to that Humphry who opposed King Edward in the 25th of his Reign and doing Homage had 5 Dugd. Bar. f. 183. col 1. Rot. fin 27. Ed. I. M. 23. The Constable grants all his Lands Honours and Office to the King Livery of his Father's Lands in the 27th This Year also granted all his Castles Towns Mannors Lands and Tenements Knights Fees Advousons of Religious Houses and Churches Hundreds Honors Liberties and all their Appurtenances in England and Wales to the 6 Roâ— Claus 30 Ed. I. M. 5. Dors King and his Heirs for ever without any Exception or Reservation of any thing to himself 7 Ibm. The King regrants them upon Marriage with his Daughter And all his Right Honour and Dominion he had as Earl in the Counties of Hereford and Essex and the Constableship of England The Grant is dated at London the 8th of October in the 30th of Edw. I. Which upon the Marriage of Elizabeth 7th Daughter of Edward I. Widow of John Earl of Holland Zeland and Lord of Friseland were 8 Dugd. ut supâ—a Claus 32 Ed. I. M. 16. Cart. 32 Ed. I. n. 48. John de Seagrave made Guardian of Scotland Regranted to him about two years after After the Feast of All-Saints when the Truce with the Scots was expired the King sent 9 Wals f. 86. n. 30. John de Seagrave with an Army into Scotland 1 Pat. 30. Ed. I. M. 15. making him Governour of Berwick and Guardian of the
Abbots The Names of those Scots Commissioners of Cowper and Menros the Earl of Bohghan Monsieur John de Moubray Mons Robert de Keth Mons Adam de Gurdan Mons John de Inchemartin Earl Patrick who was chosen by the Commonalty to be the Tenth came not and therefore by Command of the King Monsieur John de Monteith was assigned in his stead 6 Ibm. The Settlement of Scotland by those Commissioners and 20 English These with Twenty English there named Treated about the Establishment of Scotland and settled the King's Lieutenant or Guardian the Chancellor Chamberlain Judges and Sheriffs all by Name as well of those that were born in Scotland as English They likewise settled the Coroners the Castles and Constables of Castles They also ordered all things concerning the Laws and Vsages of Scotland concerning the Peace and Disturbers of the Peace and concerning the whole Government And the Title to this Record is Ordinatio facta per Dominum Regem super stabilitate Terrae Scotiae The Ordinance made by the King for the Establishment oâ— Scotland King Edward thinking himself safe by this Establishment The King accuseth the Arch-Bishop c. of Treason thought he had now a time to speak with the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury 7 Chron. Will. Thorn c. 2004. n. 50 60 c. and Antiqâ— Eccles Britan. from the Annals of St. Augustins in Canterbury f. 207. n. 10 20. whom he accused of a Confederacy with certain Earls and Noblemen to Dethrone him and keep him in Prison and Crown his Son Edward which when he could not deny being severely rebuked by the King he fell down at his Feet with great howling and much weeping beseeching Pardon calling the King his Lord which he never did before â—n Speech or Writing 8 Ibm in both So this Proud Man hated of God and Men who with his Pride had Blackened the Priesthood and Clergy of all England Sacerdotium Clerum per totam Angliam sua superbia deturpavit and Exercised an unheard of Tyranny over the People now taken by the King in his own Wickedness conscious of it and affrighted with the fear of Punishment as he lay prostrate on the Ground before the King committed himself and his Goods to his Mercy The King 9 Rot. Rom. 34 Ed. I. M. 10. Walsingh f. 91. n. 50. Mat. Wâ—stm f. 454. n. 10. A. D. 1306. The King prosecutes him before the Pope who suspends him c. Complains of him to the Pope and prosecutes him before him for disturbing the Peace of the Kingdom and causing often Commotions in it defending and incouraging Rebels and intending to Disinherit him for which Crimes at the Instance of the King he was cited by the Pope to his Court and was there suspended from the Execution of his Office ab executione officii sui temporalium atque spiritualium administratione suspensus est whilst he should purge himself of what was objected to him by the King Upon this Suspension the 1 Rot. Rom. 34 Ed. I. M. 5. n. 9. Pope deputed certain Persons to administer the Spiritualities and Temporalities of the Archbishoprick and receive the Profits to his Use As to the last the King 2 Ibm. The same Letter dated at Brudele in Marchiâ— Scotiae Sept. 7. The King would not permit the Pope to re-appoint Receivers of his Temporalities during the Suspension of the Arch-Bishop wrote to him it was to the manifest prejudice of his Crown and Dignity and therefore he had caused them to be seised as he might lawfully and was bound to do by his Royal Right and according to the Custom of the Kingdom Yet tho' the Profits of the Temporalities belonged to the Crown during the Suspension for the particular Affection he had to his Person he was willing and granted that the Guardian thereof should pay them to such as he should assign to receive them Not long after the last Parlement and the Establishment of Scotland made therein and agreed unto by the Scots Commissioners the King made these his Letters Patents according to the former Covenants and Agreements made between Richard Earl of Vlster Aymer de Valence Henry de Percy John Benstede and John Comyn c. in February preceding EDward by the Grace of God King of England Lord of Ireland Râ—yley's Placita Parliam f. 366. Letters Patents for the Establishment of Scotland and Duke of Aquitain to all those that shall see or hear these Letters Greeting For the perpetual Memory of things under-written we let you understand That the People of Scotland after they were in our Homage and Ligeance and bound to us by Oath of Fealty and by their Charts or Writings as strongly as we or our Councel knew how â—â— order and direct by evil Counsel rose and made War against us committing Robberies Burnings Murders Felonies and many other Evils and Mischiefs according to their Power in Scotland and in England contrary to their Homages Fealties and Ligeances aforesaid And afterwards many of them returned to our Faith and Obedience and were received to our Peace and Will and at last John Comyn Lord of Badenagh and the others of his Party came also and were received a nostre pees a nostre foi to our Peace and Faith so as for their Ransoms and Amends for their Trespasses and Outrages only against us and for the Establishment of Scotland esteuessent a nostre ordinance a nostre volunte they should be at our Ordinance and Pleasure We notwithstanding these Contempts Trespasses Outrages and Disobediences of the People of Scotland towards us have been so great and heavy as there cannot sufficient Amends or due Satisfaction be made for them at any time as they themselves acknowledge tho we cannot suffer such Crimes to pass without some Punishment yet seeing those People have behaved themselves well and loyally since our last being in those Parts and for the Hopes we have of their good Behaviour and Service for the future willing to do them special Grace Have granted and do grant their Lives and Limbs shall be safe and that they shall be free from Imprisonment and not Disinherited saving to us always the Lands Tenements and Lordships the Demeasns and Appartenances of the Royalty of Scotland which John Baliol late King thereof gave away and alienated to do our Pleasure with them And we Pardon and Release to the People aforesaid that have submitted and received our Peace and our Faith the Crimes committed against us the Anger Rancour and all manner of ill Will we any ways had against them so as they shall be bound to pay what is ordered by us and our Council solonc nostre dit dictum nostre pronunciacion que sensuent en cest form according to our Decree and Determination which follow in this Form First We Order and Decree that John Comyn and the others The Articles of that Establishment with him which shall come to our Peace and
which Inhibition or Bull he caused to be published at this time in all the Cathedrals See more of this matter in the History In his 25th Year he had an Eighth of all the Laity and a Tenth of the Clergy for the Confirmation of the Great Charter and the Charter of the Forest Walsingham in his History says the Laity gave a Ninth which agrees not with the Close Roll which says an Eighth the Clergy of the Province of Canterbury gave a Tenth and the Clergy of the Province of York a Fifth In the 29th of his Reign upon his Confirmation of the Perambulations Rot. Peramb Forest 29 Ed. I. in Turre of the Forests the Laity gave them a Fifteenth of their Moveables in the Parlement held at Lincoln which they should have at Michaelmas next coming Robert Arch-Bishop of Canterbury would grant nothing for the Clergy without the special Licence of the Pope In the 32d of his Reign being then in Scotland as appears Pat. 32 Ed. I. in Xedula by the Dates of the Commissions at Dunfermlyn and Strivelin to several Commissioners to Tax or Talliate or assess Tallage in Cities Burghs and his Demeasns in Cities and Burghs either Ryley's Placita Parliament f. 246. 264 265. Capitation by Poll or in Common according to their Faculties and Wealth as it might turn most to his Advantage And in the 33d Year the Arch-Bishops Bishops Prelates Earls Barons and other Tenants of his Demeasns petitioned in the Parlement holden on Sunday next after the Feast of St. Matthew the Apostle at Westminster that they might have leave to Talliate their Tenants of the same Demeasns as he Talliated them and it was granted About this time he had a Fifteenth granted to him Ibm. f. 260. In the 34th Year the King intending to Knight his Son summoned Inter Comunia Brevia de Term. S. Trin. Anno R. R. Ed. I. 34. Rot. vel n. 40. penes Remem Regis in Scaccar the Arch-Bishops Bishops Abbats Priors Earls Barons and other Great Men to be before him and his Council on the morrow of Holy Trinity to Treat of and Grant an Aid upon that Occasion He also sent to all the Sheriffs of England to cause to come before him and his Council Two Knights of every County and of every City Two Citizens and of every Burgh One or Two Burgesses as the Burgh was greater or lesser c. These same Prelates Earls Barons and other Great Men and Ibm. also the Knights of Shires Treating deliberately upon this Matter and considering there was an Aid due as aforesaid and that many Burthens were incumbent upon the King by reason of his War in Scotland unanimously Granted to the King for themselves and whole Community of the Kingdom a 30th Part of all their Temporal moveable Goods c. for a competent Aid toward the Knighthood of his Son and also for an Aid toward his Expences which he was to be at in the War Also the Citizens and Burgesses of Cities and Burghs and others Ibm. of the King's Demeasens assembling together and treating about the Premisses considering the Burthens incumbent upon the King c. unanimously Granted unto him for the Causes abovesaid a 20th Part of their moveable Goods c. The Issue of Edward I. BY his First Wife 1 Sandford's Geneal Hist f. 130. 138. Elianor Sister to Alphonso King of Castile and Daughter of Ferdinand III. and only Child by Joan his Second Wife Daughter 2 Wals f. 48. n. 40. Mezeray f. 319. A. D. 1279. and Heir of John Earl of Pontive or Ponthien he had John his Eldest Son who died young By her also he had 3 Wals Hypodigma Nustriae f. 499 n. 20. Sandf ut supra f 138. Henry and Alphonso who both died young and before their Father His Fourth Son by her was Edward born at Caernarvon in Wales called therefore Edward of Caernarvon on St. Mark 's Day April 25. 4 Wals Hist 52. n. 10. in the 12th Year of his Reign A. D. 1284 who succeeded him by the Name of Edward II. By this Queen 5 Sandf ut supra f. 139 140 141 c. Wais Hypod. Neustr 499. he had Nine Daughters Elianor married to the Earl of Barr in France Johan of Acres or Acon in the Holy Land so called because there born first married to Gilbert of Clare Earl of Glocester and afterwards to Ralph Monthermer without her Father's Consent The Third Margaret married to John Duke of Brabant Berenger and Alice the Fourth and Fifth died in their Childhoods the Sixth Mary a Nun at Amesbury the Seventh Elizabeth married to John Earl of Holland Zealand and Lord of Friesland who died without Issue and she was afterwards married to Humphry de Bohun Earl of Hereford Beatrix and Blanch * Sandf ut supra f. 144. the Eighth and Ninth died in their Childhoods Issue by his Second Wife Margaret Sister to the King of France Daughter to Philip III. Surnamed the Hardy Thomas de Brotherton 6 Sandf ut supra f. 205. born at a small Village of that Name in Yorkshire from whence he was so called on the 1st of June A. D. 1300. he was created 7 Dugd. Bar. Part 2. f. 63. from Chart. 6. Ed. 21. n. 30 31 32. Earl of Norfolk by his Half-Brother King Edward II. Decemb. 16. in the 6th Year of his Reign and had then Granted unto him all the Castles Mannors and Lands in England Wales and Ireland which Roger Bigod lately possessessed except those his Widow had in Dower and in the 9th of the same King was 8 Ibm. from Cart. 9. Ed. II. n. 32. made Earl-Marshal of England Edmond 9 Ibm. f. 92. of Woodstock born there on the 25th of August A. D. 1301. and was created Earl of Kent in the 15th of Edw. II. Elianor his 1 Sandf ut supra Tenth and only Daughter by this Queen died in her Childhood A CONTINUATION Of the Compleat History of England c. King EDWARD the Second AFter the Death of Edward the First on the 7th of July 1307 his Son Edward the Second succeeded him being about the Age of Twenty three years and Seven Weeks after his accession to the Crown he summoned a Parlement by his 1 Cl. 1 Ed. II. M. 19. Dâ—rf A. D. 1307. Writs dated August 26th to meet at Northampton on the Quinden of St. Michael or 13th of October 2 Ibm. A Parlement summoned concerning the Burial of his Father his own Marriage and Coronation and other Arduous Business touching the State of the Kingdom but what was done in this Parlement more 3 Fol. 96. n. 10. Not well known what it did Walsingham tells us That the Money which would scarcely pass amongst the People in his Father's Life-time was made current after his decease under the Pain of Losing Life and Member and that the * Cl. 1 Ed. II. M. 12. intus Clergy Citizens
here following The Barons Kill and Imprison the Tenants and Servants of the Spensers This so provoked these Barons and especially the Earl of Hereford that he Complained of the Injury done him to Thomas Earl of Lancaster and they Two drawing a great number of the Barons to them made a Confederacy to live and dye for Justice and destroy Traytors and especially both the Hugh Despensers Father and Son In pursuance of this Confederacy the Earl of Hereford the Barons there named Monsieur Roger de Mortimer the Nephew and the Uncle Monsieur Roger Damory Monsieur John de Mowbray Monsieur Hugh de Audeley the Father and the Son Monsieur Roger de Clifford Monsieur John Giffard de Brimmesfield Monsieur Morice de Berkeley Monsieur Hen. de Tyes Monsieur John Maltravers and many others of that Alliance on the Feast of the Invention of Holy Cross or 3d of May entred into the Lands of Hugh the Younger in Wales while he was with the King doing his Office as Chamberlain by Force and Arms and killed 3 Ibm. They burn pulldown and destroy their Houses and Castles some of his Servants and Tenants others they kept in Prison and some they suffered to be Ransomed burnt pulled down destroyed or defaced all his Houses and Castles and took and carried away the Goods of all sorts which they found upon his Lands or in his Houses and Castles to a very great value 4 Ibm. They carry away their Goods of all sorts From hence they rambled up and down the Country and went into Glocestershire Wiltshire Hampshire and all Counties where Hugh the Father had Lands and begun their Work on Barnaby-day or 11th of June at his Mannor of Fastern in Wiltshire and in all his Lands Houses and Castles and in all things behaved themselves as they had done in those of the Son When they had done these Mischiefs they marched to Sherborn And enter into a Confederacy in Dorsetshire where was at that time Thomas Earl of Lancaster whose the Castle was and others and on Sunday after Midsummer-day they entred into a new or confirmed the old Confederacy The Confederacy of the Earls and Barons against Hugh and A. D. 1320. Hugh le Despenser This Indenture Witnesseth That on the Sunday next after the Feast From the French Copy in the Register of Christ-Church Canterbury f. 242. of St. John Baptist in the 14th Year of the King at Sherborn in Elemede in the presence of the Arch-Biship of York the Bishops of Durham and Carlisle the Earls of Lancaster and Aenegos it was considered That Hugh le Despenser the Father and the Son had ill counselled and moved the King to the Dishonour and Damage of him and of his Kingdom and having heard and understood the Reasons of the Earl of Hereford Roger de Mortimer the Nephew and Vnkle Note That the Addition of Monfieur is put before every of these Names Hugh de Audely the Father and Son Roger Dammory John de Mowbray Maurice de Berkeley Roger de Clifford Henry de Teys John Giffard Thomas Mauduit Gilbert Talbot and other Great Men and others of the Marches i. e. of Wales And notice of Information having been given to the Earls of Lancaster and Aenegos Monsieur Robert de Holland Fonk de Estrange Stephen de Here also the same Addition is put before every of their Names in the French Copy Segrave William le Latimer John Devery John de Harrington Adam de Swimnington William de Kyme Marmaduke de Tweng Richard Walleys Robert Pierpount Ranulph Dacre Edmund Deyncourt Thomas Willeby William de Penington Ralph de Nevill Giles de Trumpyton John de Beker Adam de Hodeleston Michael de Haverington Adam de Everingham William Trussel Robert de Rigate Robert de Richer John de Clifford Henry de Bradbourn Nicholas de Langeford John de Brekeworth Thomas Wycher John de Cliff Thomas de Longuevillers Edmund de Nevill Gaslelin Daniel That the Earl of Hereford Monsieur Roger de Mortimer and other Great Men of the Marches and others above-named have begun Quarrels and Complaints against Monsieur Hugh the Father and Son and that 't is done to the Honour of God the Honour and Profit of the King and of his Kingdom And it seemed to them all that the Oppressions could not be taken off from the People until they had Hugh the Father and Son in their possession or they were banished And it was with one Assent of them all there whoever they were That the Quarrels or Complaints before named should be maintained to the Honour of God and of Holy Church to the Profit of the King the Queen and their Children and the Safety of the Crown and People And so as the Earl of Lancaster and other Great Men which began this Quarrel will maintain it so the Earl of Aenegos and all named after him with them will maintain it with all their Power And whenever the Earl of Lancaster and other Great Men shall leave the Quarrel the Earl of Aenegos and all those named after him may leave it without being accused or questioned for it And to maintain these things the Earls of Aenegos and all others after him put to their Seals This was the part of the Indenture Agreed and Sealed to by the Earl of Aenegos From whence they march to St. Albans plundering Victuals 8 Wals Hist f. 114. n. 10 20 30 40. every where in their March and oppressing the Poor 5 Per viam diripientes ubique Victualia Pauperes Terrae Gravantes from whence they sent the Bishops of London Salisbury Ely Hereford and Chichester then at St. Albans to make Peace to the King at The Barons come to St. Albans and send 5 Bishops to the King to Banish the a Spensers The King's Answer to the Bishops London not only to send Hugh and Hugh the Two Traytors from his Court but also out of the Kingdom The King's Answer was That Hugh the Father was beyond Sea in his Service and Hugh the Son was at Sea for the Guarding of the Cinque-Ports according to his Duty and that according to Right and Custom they ought not to be Banished without answering for themselves The King had 6 Rot. Claus M. 5. Dors 14. Ed. II. He summons a Parlement The Barons came to London with Horse and Arms And keep a Council by themselves come not to the Parlement at Westminster And then made the Award against the Despensers as appears by the Revocation as above The Award made by the Barons against the Spensers fummoned a Parlement on the 15th of May to meet three Weeks after Midsummer or the 15th of July at Westminster The Barons upon the receipt of the King's Answer go to London with Horse and Arms notwithstanding the King had commanded them to come to the Parlement in due manner there they held a Council by themselves and came not to Westminster as they were summoned but remained in London with Horse
there was much Dispute amongst the Vulgar whether he was to be numbred among the Saints some asserting he His seeming Virtues ought for that he gave much in Alms honoured the Religious and contended to Death as it seemed ut videbatur in a just Quarrel Others thought the contrary That a Man who neglected his generous His Crimes and Character Wife and defiled innumerable Women innumeras mulierculas polluit That put to Death such as did but lightly offend him That cherished Renegado's from their Orders or Profession and Transgressors of the Law lest they might be punished by the Law That committed all things to the Direction of his Secretary That at the time of Contending to Death for the Maintaining of Justice basely fled ought not to be thought a Saint especially when he was unwillingly taken and suffered unwillingly But what Money might do or the Shadow of or counterfeit Miracles then celebrated at the place where he was beheaded what Issue they would have for the future after Ages would see Sed profecto oblationum dona miraculorum simulacra quae in loco suae decapitationis in praesentiarum celebrantur qualem in posterum habebunt exitum secula videbunt post futura However it was the Queen was not only pleased to have him a Saint but there must be a Chappel built upon 9 Append. n. 66. The Queen c. contrives a Chappel to be built on the Hill and Place of Lancaster's Execution the Hill where he was put to Death to which purpose there was an Accord made between the Prior and Convent Parsons of the Church of Pontfract and the Burgesses of the same Town before the King Queen and Henry Earl of Lancaster Brother to Thomas That John de Ypre an Hermit abiding upon the Hill where the Noble Earl of Lancaster was put to Death should procure and increase Alms and good Deeds to make a Chappel there That there should be a Clerk assigned by the Queen and Earl of Lancaster and a Monk whom the Prior should appoint to remain there to receive and lay out what should be received at the Hill for the Building of the Chappel and it was also agreed there should be a Trunk provided with Three Locks and Keys whereof the Clerk was to keep one the Monk another and a Burgess of the Town the third Which Trunk for the security of it was to be removed every night to the Priory and carried back to the Hill every day To be opened once or twice a week in the presence of the Three Key Keepers and the Money to be delivered to the Clerk to pay the Workmen c. The King's Confirmation of this Accord is Dated at York on the 5th of June in the First year of his Reign This was a fruitful Age of Miracles for within less then Two years after the Execution of the Earl of Lancaster 2 Append. n. 67. the King sent a Commission to Enquire after certain Persons that reported Miracles reported to be done by Two ordinary Men. These Two Persons were taken at Borough-Bridge Miracles to have been done at the place where Henry Montfort and Henry Wylington hung at Bristol who were Condemned to be Drawn and Hanged by the King's Court for Rebellion and afterwards their Bodies to remain upon Gibbets This Report brought much People thither to the Disturbance of the Peace and Alienation of their Affections from the King insomuch as by Force and Arms they defended their Idolatrous Cheats against such as were sent to disabuse the People preserve the King's Honour and keep the Peace On the 14th of March in the Fifteenth of his Reign just before A. D. 1320. the Barons Army was defeated and this Saint taken at Borough-Bridge in Yorkeshire the King at Derby issued his Summons for a Parlement to be holden at York three weeks after Easter next Easter-Day was April 11. this year 1322. The Process and Award against the Spencers brought into Parlement coming into which Parlement upon the Petitions of Hugh Despencer the Father and Son notwithstanding the Son 's had been Reversed before as above was brought before the King the Process and Award for their Disheritance and Exile and upon shewing the Errors in them they were both Revoked and made Null Which Revocations because they contain something of the History and much of the Practice of and Way of the Great Men's Living in those times I have with as much brevity as I could Translated from the Old French not being any where Printed or Published that I know of Whereas lately at our Parlement summoned at 1 Claus 15 Ed. II. M. 14. Dors in cedula This Writ dated at Westminster May 15. and 14th of Ed. II. A. D. 1320. The Petition of Hugh Spencer the Son to the King Westminster to meet Three weeks after the Nativity of St. John Baptist last past an Award was made against Sir Hugh le Despenser the Son and Sir Hugh le Despenser the Father by certain Great Men of the Realm and then after the Feast of St. Andrew next following Hugh the Son Petitioned Us shewing That while he was in our Service in the Office of Chamberlain and so appointed in full Parlement the Earl of Hereford Monsieur Roger de Mortimer the Nephew Monsieur Roger de Mortimer the Vncle Monsieur Roger Damory Monsieur John de Mowbray Monsieur Hugh d'Audele the Father Monsieur Hugh d'Audele the Son Monsieur Roger de Clifford Monsieur John Giffard de Brimmesfield Monsieur Maurice de Berkeley A Confederacy against the Spencers Monsieur Henry de Tyes Monsieur John Maltravers and many others made a Confederacy by Oaths and Writing to pursue and destroy him and upon this Agreement all the above-named with their May the â—d Retinues came the Wednesday after the Feast of the * Invention of Holy Cross in the 14th year of the King to Newport in Wales with Force and Arms that is to wit with 800 Men at Arms with the Banner of the King's Arms Displayed and with 500 Hobelors and 10000 Foot to enter upon all his Lands to destroy them and The Outragious Practices against them with the same Power and Force to besiege his Towns and Castles and took them by force and killed part of his People Sir John Iwayn Matthew de Gorges and about 15 other Welshmen and part they maimed as Sir Philip Joce and part they took and imprisoned as Sir Ralph de Gorges who was then in Prison Monsieur Philip Joce Sir John de Fresingfield Sir John de Dunstable William de Dunstable and many others which they freed upon Ransom and they took carried and drove away his Goods and Chattels found in his Towns and Castles That is to say 40 War Horses and Armor for 200 Men compleatly Armed and other Warlike Engines and Implements and Victuals Wheat Wine Honey Salt Flesh Fish and other Victuals to the value of 2000 l. and burnt all his Charters
at St. Pauls about sending some of their own Order to the King and Queen as Mediators of Peace between them The Bishop of Rochester dissuaded his going into the City or beyond the Thames to Treat being then at Lambeth telling him the Hearts of the People were against the Bishops and that they hated them imputing all the Evil that had happened in the Nation to their Sloathfulness Foolishness and Ignorance Next day they met at Lambeth and Resolved to send Two The Bishop of Winchester was willing to go for one but could not get a Companion 2 Ibm. All sorts of Citizens meet at Guildhall and contrive how to put to Death the Bishops of London and Excester and the King 's other Justices Die Mercurii proximo ante Festum St. Lucae convenerunt apud la Gyld-Hall c. On Wednesday before St. Luke the Citizens great and small majores minores met at the Guildhall where they contrived how they might take and put to Death the Bishops of London and Excester and the King 's other Justices and how they might Plunder the Merchants Mercatores in Civitate depraedarent taking the occasion of the Queen's coming 3 Ibm. The Queen comes to London All her Enemies that adhered not to her accepta occasione de adventu Reginae quod Reginae adhaerere noâ—entes proditores Regni publice censerentur because those that would not adhere to the Queen were publickly Reputed Traytors to the Kingdom The Justices were then met at the Friers Preachers and the Bishop of Excester was flying to St. Paul's Church they caught him at the Door beat and grievously wounded him and drew him through the Streets and Lanes to the Great Cross in Cheapside where the Sons of the Devil Filii Diaboli Virum fidelem providum discretum ac Regno valde necessarium truculenter decapitarunt Beheaded a Faithful Wise and Discreet Man and very useful to the Nation And further says Tunc conturbata est tota 4 Ibm. Those who were called the Queen's Enemies were plundered all the Nation over Terra in circuitu impii ambulantes animalia alia bona pacificorum quos hostes Reginae dixerant sub tali colore ubique depraedantes abduxerunt Then the whole Nation was in confusion and the Wicked calling peaceable Men the Queen's Enemies and under that colour took away and plundered their Goods The King not thinking himself safe there had left London before the Queen came thither and finding 5 De la Moor f 598 n. 50. The King goes into Wales by such as he had sent to make a Discovery that almost all the Nobility afrighted with false Reports tota fere Regni Communitas falsis territa rumoribus had come in to the Queen went in 6 Ibm. Sets H. Spenser the Father to defend the Town and Castle of Bristol Wales and having appointed Hugh Despenser the Father then Earl of Winchester to defend the Town and Castle of Bristol went with Hugh the Son then Earl of Glocester Robert Baldock and few others to 7 Ibm. Wals f. 125. n. 10. The King lay close in the Abby of Neath in Glamorganshire Chepstow and there took Ship intending for the Island of Lundy or Ireland but the Wind being cross he could make neither and having undergone much Hardship at Sea he landed and got to the Abby of Nethe in Glamorganshire where he lay close In the mean time the Queen followed him with her Army and sent these Letters abroad to command and draw in the People to her Assistance 8 Ibm. Append n. 69. The Queen's Letter by which she commanded and drew in the People to her Assistance Isabel by the Grace of God Queen of England Dame of Ireland Countess of Pontif or Ponthieu and we Edward Eldest Son to the Noble King of England Duke of Guyen Earl of Chester Pontif and Monstroil or Monstrevil and we Edmond Son to the Noble King of England Earl of Kent To all those to whom these Letters shall come Greeting Whereas 't is notoriously known That the State of Holy Church and the Realm of England are many ways blemished and abased by the Evil Counsel and Abett of Hugh le Despenser who by Pride and a Desire to Lord it and set himself over all others hath taken upon him Royal Power against Right Reason and his Allegiance and in like manner made use of all the Evil Counsel of Robert Baldock and others his Adherents so as Holy Church is reviled and shamefully put under great Subjection Her care of Holy Church and the Prelates of Holy Church and the Prelates of Holy Church spoiled of their Goods against God and Right Holy Church defamed and dishonoured many ways and the Crown of England destroyed in divers manners in Disheritance of our Lord the King and his Heirs the Great Men of the Realm by the Envy and wicked Cruelty of the said Hugh many of them without Fault and without Cause put to shameful Death some Disherited others Imprisoned Banished and Exiled Widows and Orphans wrongfully forejudged of their Right and the People of the Land by divers Tallages and undue Exactions very often burthened and by divers Oppressions grieved without Mercy By which Offences the said Hugh hath shewn himself an open Tyrant and Enemy to God and Holy Church to our most dear Lord the King and to the whole Realm And we and many others with us and in our Company who have long been estranged from the good Pleasure of our Lord the King by the false Suggestions and Evil Procurement of the aforesaid Hugh and Robert and their Adherents are come into the Land to raise the State of Holy Church and the Realm and to defend the People from these Mischiefs and grievous Oppressions and to maintain to our Power the Honour and Profit of Holy Church and our Lord the King and the whole Realm as abovesaid Wherefore we command and pray you for the Common Profit of you and every one of you to be Aidant to us at all times and in all places and by all the ways you know or can that the things abovesaid may be speedily brought to a good Effect and End For know certainly That all we and all those with us will not undertake any thing that shall not be for the Honor and Profit of Holy Church and of the whole Kingdom as in time you will see and find if God please Given at Wallingford the 15th Day of October in the Twentieth Year of the Reign of our most dear Lord the King From Wallingford she marched to Oxford and so in a short Bristol taken time to Bristol which she besieged and soon took and the next day after she came thither 9 De la Moor f. 599. n. 50. H. Despenser the Father drawn and hanged Hugh Despenser the Father Earl of Winchester was Drawn and Hanged upon the Common Gallows without Hearing or Trial on the 1 Aist Sacr.
vol. 1. f. 18. The Queen at Hereford a Month. Vigil of Simon and Jude or the 27th of October Then the Queen went into the Marches of Wales and staid at * Ib. f. 600. The Queen goes with her Army into the Marches of Wales to find out the King and takes him with H. Despenser the Younger and others Hereford a Month from whence she sent Henry Earl of Lancaster and Rhese ap Howel a Clerc and Welsh-man who knew those Parts well with part of her Army to find out the King and by Money corrupted the Welsh-men so as they discovered him to be in the Abby aforesaid where he was taken with Hugh Despenser the Younger Robert Baldock and Simon de Reding 2 Ibm. who were committed to the Custody of the Earl by the Advice of the Bishop of Hereford Before it was known where the King was it was supposed he had left 3 Append n. 70. It was supposed the King was out of England England and 4 quitted the Government whereupon on the 26th Day of October at Bristol the Arch-Bishop of Dublin the Bishops of Winchester Ely Lincoln Hereford Norwich and other Prelates and Thomas Earl of Norfolk Edmund Earl of Kent the King's Brothers Henry Earl of Lancaster and Leicester Thomas Wake Henry de Bello Monte or Beaumont William la Zouche de Ashby Robert de Monte alto or Montalt Robert de Morle Robert de Wattevile and other Barons and Knights in the Presence of the Queen and the Duke of Aquitan her Son by the Consent of the whole Community of England being then present unanimously chose the same Duke to be Guardian of the Kingdom so as the The Prince or Duke of â— Aquitan made Guardian of the Kingdom said Duke and Guardian should Govern the Kingdom in the Name and Right of the King his Father in his absence And he took the Government of the Kingdom upon him accordingly and passed all Matters under his Privy Seal not having any other Afterwards on the 20th of November when the Queen 's and Duke's Enemies were taken and the King was returned into his Kingdom the Queen Duke Prelates and Noblemen aforesaid with the Assent of the Community aforesaid then being at Hereford by reason that the Power of the Guardian ceased by the King 's coming into his Kingdom sent the Bishop of Hereford to The Great Seal sent to the Queen and her Son the King then at Monmouth to beseech him to Command That all things that might tend to the Peace of the Kingdom might be Sealed with the Great Seal then with him This was done in the presence of the Earl of Lancaster c. and the King was prevailed on to send the Seal to his Wife and Son to 5 Ibm. 6 Wals f. 125. n 30 40. The King carried to Kenelworth-Castle The Earl of Arundel and 2. others Heads struck off at Hereford Seal what they would with it Whilst the Earl of Lancaster was carrying the King through Wales 6 by Monmouth Lidbury and other Places to his Castle of Kenelworth in Warwickshire they sent Hugh Spenser the Son Robert Baldock and Simon Reding to the Queen at Hereford Before their coming the Earl of Arundel John Daniel and Thomas Micheldene had their Heads struck off by the Procurement and Hatred of Roger Mortimer who 7 Ibm. n 40 50. Mortimer the Queen 's most familiar Counsellor was at this time the Queen's most familiar Counsellor Consiliarius Reginae familiarissimus without whom the Queen did nothing 8 Ibm. n. 40 50. Those that brought Hugh Spenser for their Reward had Two thousand Pounds as she had promised And 9 Ibm. H. Despenser the Son drawn hanged and quartered soon after he was adjudged to Death without being put to answer sine Responsione and was Drawn and Hanged upon a Gallows 50 Foot high and then Quartered and his Head fixed upon London-Bridge 1 Ib f. 126. lin 3. Simon Reding drawn and hanged On the same Day Simon Reding was Drawn and Hanged for speaking hard things of the Queen Yet Knighton 2 Col. 2547. n. 10 20 c. Knighton's Relation of the Judgment of H. Despenser the Son reports Hugh Spenser the Younger was Arraigned before Sir William Trussel a Justiciary in the Form there mentioned which was by way of a Speech made against him as 't is here contracted Hugh le Despenser 3 Ibm. Sir W. Trussell's Speech against H. Despenser the Son in the Parlement at Westminster in the 15th of the King your Father and you Hugh were awarded Traytors and Enemies of the Realm and Banished as such never to return without the Assent of the King in full Parliament duely summoned Contrary to which Award your Father and you Hugh were found in the Court without Warrant And you Hugh as you returned into the Kingdom feloniously spoiled and robbed Two Domands Merchant-Ships so called of Goods to the Value of Forty thousand Pounds Hugh after this Felony you came to the King and caused him to go with Force against the Peers of the Realm and other his Liege People to destroy and disherit them contrary to the Great Charter And also taking upon you Royal Power you Hugh and your Assistants with Force and Arms robbed feloniously the good People of the Realm and by Andrew Harleye and other Traitors your Adherents Murdered the good Earl of Hereford Monsieur William Sullee and Monsieur Roger de Berfelde at Borough-Bridge and caused to be taken my most Honourable Lord Thomas the Good Earl of Lancaster and caused him to be Judged by a false Record against Law Reason and the Great Charter and also to be Murdered Martyred and put to a cruel Death Also in the same March in the French Journey to Borough-Bridge you caused many of my Lords the Earl of Lancaster Barons and Knights to be Drawn and Hanged by false Record against Law and Reason 4 Col. 2548. n. 10 20 30. and caused other Great Men to be put in Prison and Murdered to get their Estates as Roger Mortimer the Nephew and Vnkle Hugh Audeley Father and Son and the Earl of Hereford Hugh after this Destruction of the Nobility you Hugh your Father and Robert Baldock usurping Royal Power over the King led him and his People into Scotland against his Enemies where you Hugh by your Traiterous Conduct caused him to lose 20000 of his People to his great Dishonour and Damage of the Realm and to return without doing any thing Hugh 5 Ibm. n. 40 50 60. this Treason nor this Tyranny would satisfie you until by Royal Power gained over the King you destroyed the Franchises of Holy Church and the Prelates as the Bishops of Hereford Lincoln and Norwich taking their Goods out of their Churches And whereas you knew God had done great Things by my Lord the Earl of Lancaster you caused to be murdered you placed armed Guards and shut the Church-Doors that none should
enter to Honour God and his Saints Hugh after these Mischiefs you advised the King to give unto the false Traitor the Earl of Winchester Andrew Harkley and self Lands properly belonging to the Crown in Disherision thereof 6 Ibm. Col. 2549. n. 10 20. Hugh whereas the Queen and her Son passed beyond Sea by the King's Command to save the Country of Guyen in point to be lost by your Traiterous Counsel you sent over a great Sum of Money to some of your wicked Adherents to destroy the Queen and her Son qest Droit heir del Realm who is Right Heir of the Kingdom and to hinder their coming over 7 Ibm. Hugh your Father Robert Baldock and self and other false Traitors your Adherents taking upon you Royal Power made great and small by force to swear to and assure you to maintain you in your false Quarrels or Pretences en vouz faux Quereles not having regard that such Confederacies were False and Traiterous against Legience and the State of the King and his Crown 8 Ibm. n. 30 40. And forasmuch as you Hugh and other Traitors knew that the Queen and her Son were arrived in the Nation by your Evil Counsel you caused the King to withdraw himself and go from them and carried him out of the Kingdom to the Danger of his Body and Dishonour to him and his People feloniously taking with you the Treasure of the Realm contrary to the Great Charter Hugh 9 Ibm. The Judgment upon H. le Despenser the Son you are found Traitor wherefore all the good People of the Kingdom Great and Small Rich and Poor by Common Assent do Award That you are found as a Thief and therefore shall be Hanged and are found as a Traitor and therefore shall be Drawn and Quartered and for that you have been Outlawed by the King and by Common Assent and returned to the Court without Warrant you shall be Beheaded vous serrez decollez and for that you abetted and procured Discord between the King and Queen and others of the Realm you shall be Embowelled and your Bowels burnt 1 Ibm. n. 50. Withdraw Traitor Tyrant and so go take your Judgment attainted wicked Traitor He was at this time Earl of Glocester and I see no Trial by Common Jury or his Peers and the Attaint was only this Speech made against and most what was objected to him had been Pardoned by Act of Parlement Et sic 2 Ibm. His Executioc statim morte plexus est Octavo Kalendarum Decembris And so he was presently put to Death on the 8th of the Kalends of December or 24th of November The Earl of Lancaster made no great haste with his Prisoner the King to Kenelworth for in 13 Days time he was got no further from Monmouth than Lidbury in Herefordshire at which Place the 3 Append. n. 71. Writ for Proroguing a Parlement that was pretended to have been Summoned by the King to meet 15 Days after St. Andrew was Dated the 3d of December Teste Rege apud Lidbury tertio die Decembris 20 Ed. II. Witness the King at Lidbury the A Parlement to be holden by the Queen and her Son if the King not in England Prorogued to the morrow of Twelfth-day The King knew nothing of the Writ of Prorogation dated Decemb 3. 3d of December The Writ for this Parlement which was to meet 15 Days after St. Andrew I believe can no where be found which was to be holden by Isabel Queen-Consort of England and Edward his Eldest Son Guardian of England he then being out of the Kingdom as 't is said in the Writ Dated the 3d of December c. for Proroguing that Parlement to the morrow of Epiphany or Twelfth-Day To be holden by him if Personally present or in his absence by his said Consort and Son But the miserable King knew nothing of this Summons Dated at Lidbury on the 3d of December with his Teste for the Great Seal was that Day in the keeping of the Bishop of Norwich at Wodstock and the next Day delivered to Roger Mortimer and the Duke of Aquitan i. e. Edward the King's Son at the same Place as it most certainly appears by the Record in the Appendix The Parlement met according to the Prorogation 4 Hist Sacr. vol. 1. f. 367. The first thing moved in it was Whether the Father or Son should be King n. 70. The Parlement as 't is called met crastino Epiphaniae or 7th of January The first thing moved by the Bishop of 4 Hereford and many other Bishops joining with him was Whether King Edward the Father or his Son Edward should Reign over them They were not long before they Agreed the Son should have the Government of the Kingdom and be Crowned King 5 Append. n. 72. It was carried for the Son The Reasons why he was deposed for the Causes following 1. First For that the Person of the King was not sufficient to Govern for in all his time he was Led and Governed by others who gave him Evil Counsel to the Dishonour of himself and Destruction of Holy Church and all his People not considering or knowing whether it was Good or Evil nor would remedy these things when he was requested by the Great and Wise Men of his Realm or suffer them to be amended 2. Also In all his time he would not give himself to Good Counsel nor take it nor to the Good Government of his Kingdom but always gave himself to Works and Employments not Convenient neglecting the Business of his Realm 3. Also For want of Good Government he lost the Kingdom of Scotland and other Lands and Dominions in Gascoigne and Ireland which his Father left him in Peace and Amity with the King of France and many other Great Persons 4. Also By his Pride and Cruelty he destroyed Holy Church and the Persons of Holy Church putting some in Prison and others in Distress and also put to shameful Death and Imprisoned Banished and Disherited many Great and Noble Men of the Land 5. Also Whereas he was bound by his Oath to do Right to all he would not do it for his own Profit and the Covetousness of him and his Evil Counsellors which were with him neither regarded the other Points of the Oath which he made at his Coronation as he was obliged 6. Also He abandoned his Realm and did as much as he could to destroy it and his People and what is worse by his Cruelty and the Default of his Person he is found incorrigible without hopes of Amendment All which things are so notorious they cannot be gainsaid These Articles were Conceived and Dictated by John Stratford 6 Author Decemb col 2765. n. 40. Commissioners sent to the King at Kenelworth-Castle Bishop of Winchester and Treasurer of England and written by William Mees Clerc his Secretary and a Publick Notary Having Approved the Articles they were by Comune Agreement 7
Knighton col 2549. n. 50 60. sent to the King then Prisoner in Kenelworth-Castle Three Bishop's Two Earls Two Barons Two Abbots and Two Justices amongst whom was Sir William Trussell before noted Proxy to the whole Parlement to Resign their Homage and Fealty to the King which he did in this manner 8 Append. n. 73. Homage and Fealty resigned to K. Edw. I William Trussel Procurator of the Prelates Earls and Barons and other People in my Procuracy named having for this full and sufficient Power do Resign and Deliver up to you Edward King of England as to the King before this Hour the Homage and Fealty of the Persons in my Procuracy named and do Return them upon you Edward and make Quit or Free the Persons aforesaid in the best manner that Law and Custom may do it And do make Protestation in the Name of those that will not for the future be in your Fealty or Allegiance nor claim to hold any thing of you as King but shall hold you as a Private Person without any manner of Royal Dignity Sir Thomas de la Moor 9 f. 600. n. 40 50. tells us who the Three Bishops were John Straifort Bishop of Winchester Adam de Torleton Bishop of Hereford and Henry Burwash Bishop of Lincoln Three Principal Companions The Bishops of Lincoln and Winchester circumvent the King by Promises and Threats in transacting this Affair The Bishops of Winchester and Lincoln came before the rest to the King who with his Keeper the Earl of Lancaster persuaded him to resign his Crown to his Son and circumvented the King promising him as much Honour after his Resignation as before and on the other hand threatned him if he would not the People should yield up their Homage and Fealty and repudiate his Sons and Choose one not of Royal Blood With these and other importune Promises and Threats they obtained their Desires And then the Bishop of Hereford 1 Ib. f. 601. lin 4. c. brought in all the other Commissioners sent by the Parlement into the King's Chamber where the whole Matter they came for was dispatched not without great Grief and Reluctancy from the King Walsingham 2 f. 126. n. 20 30. reports all the Nobility met at London on the morrow of or day after Twelfth-day in Parlement and Judged the King Vnfit to Rule and for several Reasons to be Deposed and his Son Prince Edward to be chosen King Of which when the Queen had notice 3 Ibm. The Queen outwardly sorrowful she was full of Grief outwardly ut foris apparuit But the Prince affected with this outward Passion of his Mother would not accept the Title against his Father's Will and Consent Et 4 Ibm. n. 40 50. The Prince unwilling to receive the Crown juravit quod invito Patre nunquam susciperet Coronam Regni The King when he received this News by the Commissioners was much disturbed and said since it could be no otherwise he thanked them for choosing his First Born Son making his Resignation and delivering up the Royal Ensigns and Tokens of Sovereignty The Commissioners returning to the Parlement at K. Ed. resigns London with the King's Answer and the Royal Ensigns made the Rabble 5 Ibm. His Son made King rejoice and presently the whole Community of the Kingdom admitted Edward a Youth of Fourteen Years of Age to be their King on the 20th Day of January which they would have to be the First Day of his Reign And from that time he acted as King before his Coronation as may appear by the 6 Claus 1 Ed. III. Part. 1. M. 28. Append. n. 74. Writ to all the Sheriffs of England to proclaim his Peace The King to the Sheriff of Yorkshire Greeting Because Edward Note this Writ late King of England our Father by Common Council and Assent of the Prelates Earls Barons and other Great Men and also of the Communities of the said Kingdom of his own Free Will removed himself from the Government of the said Kingdom Willing and Granting That we as his First-Born and Heir of the Kingdom should take upon us the Rule and Government And we yielding to the Good Pleasure of our Father by the Counsel and Advisement of the Prelates Earls Barons Great Men and Communities aforesaid have taken upon us the Government of the said Kingdom and received the Homages and Fealties of the said Prelates and Great Men according to Custom Therefore desiring our Peace for the Quiet and Tranquillity of our People to be inviolably observed we Command That presently after sight of these Presents you cause our Peace publickly to be proclaimed through your whole Bailiwic forbidding all and singular under the pain of Disinheriting and losing Life and Member That they presume not to infringe or violate our Peace but that all Men do prosecute their Suits and Actions without violence according to the Laws and Customs of the Land c. Witness the King at Westminster the 29th of January On the First of February being Sunday he was Crowned In the time between his being declared King and his Coronation the Londoners fearing themselves for their Cruelty against the Bishop of Excester to palliate their Wickedness 7 Hist Sacr. f. 367. vol. 1. The Londoners sorce the Bishops to swear to maintain and desend all the Rights Liâ—e ries of the City interim Londinenses sibi metuentes de crudelitate Patrata in Episcopum Exoniensem ad palliandum iniquitatem eorum c. forced the Arch-Bishops of Canterbury York and Dublin and the other Bishops which came to the Parlement to come to their Guild-Hall where all the Bishops except the Arch-Bishop of York the Bishops of London and Carlisle Sware to maintain and defend the Rights and Liberties of the City in the presence of the Earl of Kent and an immense Multitude who came to see the Silliness of the Bishops how they Sacrificed to Mahomet 8 Ibm. In presentia Comitis Cantiae multitudinis immensae qui ad videndum fatuitatem Episcoporum quo modo Mahumeto Sacrificabant confluxerunt The Bishop of Rochester protested The Bishop of Rochester's Protestation before a Publick Notary and Witnesses especially called That it was not his Intention to Swear but saving his Order and saving all Things contained in Magna Charta The King was all this time 9 De la Moor f. 601 602 603. The Nation begins to be sensible of the King's Condition Prisoner in Kenelworth-Castle not knowing what further they were doing The Nation observing what had been done seeing the Queen engaged and the Prince carried along with them not then perhaps suspecting or in the least understanding the Designs of the Heads and Privado's of the Faction began to be sensible of the King's Condition and to consider the Pretences of his Enemies and to think how they might be kind to him and prevent further Mischief His Keeper the Earl
and of their Wives The Citizens Burgesses and Tenents of the ancient Demeasns of the Crown granted a Fifteenth part of their Moveables as also did the Clergy In his Second year at a Parlement holden at Westminster a Claus 3 Ed. II. M. 23. in Ced Month after Easter the Laity granted a Twenty fifth of their Moveables In the Seventh year in his Parlement at Westminster the Earls In Rot. Comp. ut supra Barons Knights Freemen and the Communities of Counties gave a Twentieth part of their Goods and the Citizens and Burgesses and Communities of Cities and Burghs gave a Fifteenth In his Eighth year he had a Twentieth part of the Moveables of Rot. Pat. 8 Ed. II. M. 12. Dors Part 2. the Laity granted by the Communities of Counties of the Kingdom per Communitates Comitatuum Regni in Parlement In his Ninth year he had granted a Fifteenth of Citizens Burgesses Rot. Parlem 9 Ed. II. n. 2. and Tenents in ancient Demeasns for his War with the Scots in the Parlement held at Lincoln the Community of the Kingdom or the Military Men being summoned to do their Service then In the Fifteenth year of his Reign the King * Rot. Claus 15 Ed. II. M. 16. Dors summoned a Parlement to meet at York three weeks after Easter and after the end of this Parlement and after the 7th of July next following he directed his Writs to the Prelates and Clergy to meet at a Provincial Council at Lincoln which the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury was immediately to summon to Treat of a Competent Ayd to be granted to him toward his Expedition against the Scots who had invaded England in which Writs as it were for a Direction he * Rot. Claus 16 Ed. II. M. 20. Dors recites what the Earls Barons Noblemen and the Communities of the Kingdom had done in the Parlement at York viz. That they had granted him a Tenth of the Goods of the Community of the Kingdom and a Sixth part of the Goods of Citizens Burgesses and Tenents of ancient Demeasns * Ibm. Praelati Comites Barones proceres necnon Communitates Dicti Regni apud Eborum ad tractandum super dictis negotiis aliis nos statum dicti Regni tangentibus nuper Convocati decimam de Bonis de Communitate ejusdem regni sextam de Civitatibus Burgis Antiquis Dominicis nostris nobis liberaliter concesserunt gratanter The Issue of Edward II. by Isabell Daughter of Philip the Fair King of France ON the Day of St. Brice or 13th of November his Eldest A. D. 1312. Ed. II. 12. Walsingh Hist f. 102. n. 30. Son Eoward who succeeded him by the Name of Edward the Third was born at Windsor In the year 1315 his Second Son John was born at Eltham Ibm. Hypodig Neutr f. 502. n. 30 40. from whence his Title on the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in the Eighth of his Father's Reign he was Created Earl of Cornwall and after several Matches propounded for him died unmarried about the 20th year of his Age. Joan his Eldest Daughter Married to David King of Scots Sandford Genealog Hist c. f. 155. when both Children and after being his Wife 28 years died without Issue Eleanor Dutchess of Gueldres his Second Daughter she Married Ibm. Reynald Second Earl of Gueldres who was Created Duke of Gueldres by the Emperor Lewis of Bavaria by her he had Two Sons Reynald and Edward who were both Dukes successively after him and died without Issue A CONTINUATION Of the Compleat History of England c. King EDWARD the Third THis Young Man at the Age of Fourteen Years being placed in the Throne of his Father then living and in Prison as hath been related in the latter end of the The young King managed by the Queen Mortimer c. The Adherents to Tho. Earl of Lancaster petition former Reign was with all the Affairs of the Nation managed by the Queen with the Advice of Roger Mortimer chiefly and other Privado's in their Designs who had been all Favourers and Abettors of the Cause and Quarrel of Thomas Earl of Lancaster whose Adherents being all Friends to and Assistants in this Revolution on the 3d of 1 Append. n. 82. to be restored to their Lands c. They were all Friends to and Assistants in this Revolution February two Days after the Coronation Petitioned the King and his Council in that Parlement which had Deposed his Father then Sitting at Westminster That being of the Quarrel of the Noble Earl of Lancaster estetent de la Querele le Noble Counte de Lancastre and therefore wrongfully Imprisoned Banished Disherited might be Restored to their Estates with the Issues of them from the time they had been wrongfully diseised And it was granted by the Assent of the whole Parlement That all the Lands and Tenements which had been seized by reason of that Quarrel or Contention which was affirmed to be good by the whole Parlement ia quele Querele par tot le Parsement est afferme bone as well in Ireland and Wales as in England should be Restored with their Issues and Arrears of Rent except those that had been Received to the King's Use On the same Day 2 Stat. at Large 1 Ed. III. The first thing printed f. 77. All that came over with the Queen her Son pardoned and those that joined them after their arrival all those that came over with the Queen and her Son and those that joined with them after their arrival were also pardoned c. The long Preamble to that Pardon Statute or Grant is worth notice as containing the Cover Pretences and Suggestions of all the Contrinances and Designs against Edward the Second in these Words Whereas Hugh Spenser the Father and Hugh Spenser the Son late at the Suit of Thomas Thun Earl of Lancaster and Leicester and Steward of England by the Common Assent and Award of the Peers and Commons of the Realm and by the Assent of King Edward Father to our Sovereign Lord the King that now is as Traitors and Enemies of the King and his Realm were Exiled Disherited and Banished out of the Relams for ever and afterwards the same Hugh and Hugh by Evil Counsel which the King had taken of them without the Assent of the Peers and Commons of the Realm came again into the Realm and they with others procured the said King to pursue the said Earl of Lancaster and other Great Men and People of this Realm in which Pursuit the said Earl of Lancaster and other Great Men and People of this Realm were willingly Dead and Disherited and some Outlawed Banished and Disherited and some Disherited and Imprisoned and some Ransomed and Disherited and after such Mischief the said Hugh and Hugh Master Robert Baldock and Edmond late Earl of Arundel usurped to them the Royal Power so that the King nothing did or would do but as the said Hugh and
of the Marches of Wales and the Butler of Ireland Earl of Ormond 4 Ibm. To this Parlement the Earl of Lancaster the Lord Wake and other Noblemen came not tho' they came armed near to the Place 5 Knighton col 2554 n. 10 20 c. They raise an Army for the Queen against the Earl of Lancaster These new Earls and their Adherents raised a great Army for Queen Isabel against Henry Earl of Lancaster and other Great Men who had not consented to their wicked Deeds and with a great Force of English and Welsh marched to Leicester and there plundered and spoiled the whole Country The Earl of Lancaster was then in the South parts of the Nation with great Force and marching toward Roger Mortimer and his Army encamped near Bedford intending to give him Battel where the King 's two Unkles 6 Ibm. â—â— 40 50. The King 's two Unkles leave the Earl of Lancaster Thus deserted he makes his Submission Thomas of Brotherton and Edmund Earl of Kent left him and submitted themselves to the Queen-Mother and Mortimer Seeing himself thus deserted he made his Submission to the King before the whole Army and was by the Mediation of Simon Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and other Bishops reconciled to him 7 Claus 3 Ed. III. M. 31. Dors making Oath with others in his Company and giving Security by Recognisances That he nor they should attempt any thing upon the Bodies of the King the two Queens nor of any others great or small of their Council or that were about them nor should do or procure to be done any Evil Injury or Damage unto them privately or openly nor Assent to the doing thereof On the 25th of 8 Claus 4. Ed. III. M. 41. Dors A. D. 1329. A Parlement at Winchester January the First Day of the Fourth Year of his Reign the King Summoned a Parlement to meet at Winchester on the Sunday before St. Gregory or 13th of March where on 9 Wals f. 129. n. 20 30. The Earl of Kent adjudged to death in that Parlement For intending to deliver his Brother K Ed. out of Prison the morrow of that Feast or 12th of that Month the Earl of Kent was seized and adjudged to Death 'T is not agreed amongst the Historians about the Cause of his Death Most report it was for his Designing to set his Brother King Edward II. at Liberty being then as was reported and by him supposed to be living and Prisoner in Corf-Castle In the Articles against Mortimer presently to be mentioned 't is urged upon him That he was the Author of the Report to the Earl of his Brother 's not being dead and that he invented it to trick him out of his Life Edmund Son and Heir to Edmund Earl of Kent and his Mother Margaret Countess of Kent * Rot. Parl. 4 Ed. III. n. n. 11 12. His Son restored to the Blood and Lands of his Father requiring the Record made against the said Earl might for the Errours therein be revoked set forth in their several Petitions That his Father and her Husband was informed by Roger Mortimer Sir John Maltravers and other his Accomplices That King Edward was alive after he was Murdered with design to deceive him into a pretended Contrivance with them to release and deliver him out of Prison for which he lost his Life and Estate in the Parlement at Winchester as Mortimer confessed to the People at his Death and that he died wrongfully Whereupon Edmund was Restored to the Blood and Lands of his Father and the Countess to her Dower might have hapned out of regard to the King departed and went toward their own Countries grieving that they might not speak with or advise their Liege Lord as they ought 4. Also The said Roger by the said usurped Power caused the King to march forcibly against the Earl and other Peers of the Land which were appointed to be with the King to Advise him and so prosecuted them with Force that the said Earl and some others of his Company that wished Good to the Kingdom submitted to the King's Grace saving to them Life and Member and that they might not be Disherited nor have too great a Fine set upon them yet he caused them to be Fined so grievously as half their Lands if sold right out would only pay it and the others he caused to be driven out of the Nation and their Lands to be seized against the Form of the Great Charter and Law of the Land 5. Also Whereas the said Roger knew well the King's Father was Dead and Buried he by others of his Party in deceivable manner informed the Earl of Kent that he was alive wherefore the Earl being desirous to know whether it was so or not used all the good ways he could to discover the Truth and so long as the said Roger by his usurped Royal Power caused him to be apprehended in the Parlement holden at Winchester and so pursued him as in that Parlement he procured his Death Also The said Roger by his usurped Royal Power caused the King to give to him and his Children and Confederates Castles Towns Mannors and Franchises in England Ireland and Wales in Decrease of the Revenues of the Crown 7. Also The said Roger in deceivable manner caused the Knights of Shires at the Parlement at Winchester to grant to the King one Man at Arms of every Town of England that answered in Eyre by Four and the Provost at their cost for a Year in his War in Gascoign which Charge he contrived for the Advantage of himself and Party in Destruction of the People 8. Also The said Roger by his Power caused Summons to be sent to many great Knights and others That they should come to the King where-ever he was and when they came he caused them to be charged to prepare themselves to go into Gascoign or Fine at his Pleasure which Fines were for the Benefit of him and his Party 9. Also The said Roger falsly and maliciously made Discord between the King's Father and his Queen and possessed her That if she went to him she should be killed with a Dagger or otherwise Murdered And by this way and his other Subtilties he so ordered it that she would not come at her Lord to the great Dishonour of her Son and self and great Damage to the whole Realm perchance in time to come which God forbid 10. Also the said Roger by his Usurped Royal Power had caused to be taken for him and his Party the King's Treasure as much as he pleased without Tale in Money and Jewels in destruction of the King so as he had not wherewithall to pay for his Victuals 11. Also the said Roger by the said Power caused to be shared by him and his Confederates the 20000 Marks which came out of Scotland for the Articles of Peace without any thing received by the King 12. Also the said Roger by his Royal Power received
at Berkele when he was Murdered The said Thomas saith That at the time of the Murder of the Murder of the said * Note That so often as Ed. the II. is any way mentioned in this Record he is acknowledged to have been King at the time of his Murder King he was sick at Bradelye without the said Castle and knew not what was done nor was consenting thereunto and thereupon put himself upon his Tryal by Twelve Knights named in the Record who found him Not Guilty nor that he fled or withdrew himself upon it but that he placed under him Thomas de Gurney and William de Ocle to keep the King by whom he was Murdered he had Day given him to hear his Judgment in next Parlement and the mean time was committed to Ralph Nevill Steward of the King's Houshold In this 4 Rot. Parl. 4 Ed. III n. 13. Richard Son to the Earl of Arundel restored to Blood Lands and Goods Parlement Richard Eldest Son to the late Earl of Arundel prayeth to be restored to Blood Lands and Goods seeing his Father was put to Death not being tried by his Peers according to the great Charter and the Law of the Land But because the Attainder was confirmed by Parlement at Northampton he mended his Petition and prayed to be restored of the King 's meer Grace and he was accordingly restored Also in the 5 Ib n. 14. A Thousand Pounds per Annum given to William Montacute for taking Mortimer without Bloodshed same Parlement the Prelates Earls and Barons pray and advise the King to give and grant 1000 l. per Annum to William Montacute and his Heirs for his Service in quietly taking Roger Mortimer Earl of March and his Confederates without Bloodshed a 1000 Marks whereof was to be out of the Lands of Mortimer Upon the same Prayer and Advice his Assistants 6 Ib. n. 15. His Assistants were likewise Rewarded Edward Bohun had 400 Marks per Annum to him and his Heirs Robert de Vfford 300 and John Nevill 200. In the 5th year of his Reign the King called a Parlement at A. D. 1331. Westminster to 8 Cl 5 Ed. III. M. 7. Dors Part. 1. meet on the morrow after Michaelmas The Bishop of Winchester being Chancellor 9 Rot. Parl. 5 Ed. III. n. 2. A Parlement called about the Business of France and Ireland And to ordain how the Peace might be kept declared the cause of Summons to be concerning the Dutchy of Aquitan and the King's Lands beyond Sea whether Peace should be made or other Issue put to the Dissentions between the King 's of England and France by reason of the said Lands and also about the Business of Ireland concerning the King's going thither to be advised by his Lieges in that Nation and likewise to ordain how the Peace might best be kept When also it was agreed That the King's Business ought to be dispatch't before any other auxint illoeques The King's Business in Parlement to be dispatch't before any other feust Accorde que les Busoignes le Roi deusseient primerement estre exploitez einz ce que Rien feust fait de nully autre Busoign The Chancellor further 1 Ib. n. 3. The Lords Advise the King to an Amicable Treaty with the King of France about the Dutchy of Aquitan c. applied himself to the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and all the other Prelates Earls Barons autres Grantz and other Great Men for their Advice whether they thought it best for the King to proceed with the King of France by way of Process or War or Amicable Treaty They all agree in the 3d way by amicable Treaty with the King of France for the Restitution of Aquitan seeing the two former might prove dangerous and to that purpose the Bishops of Winchester Worcester and Norwich two or one of them as the King pleased with the Lords Beaumont Percy and Montague Monsieur Geofry Lescrop and Maistre John de Shordich were to be sent to the King of France As to the Business 2 Ib. n. 4. The Lords Advise the King to go in Person to Ireland of Ireland it was agreed by the King Prelates Earls Barons and other Great Men in the same Parlement si est accorde par nostre Seigneur le Roi Praelates Countes Barons autres Grantz en Mesme le Parlement c. That the King should provide himself to go thither as soon as he could and that in the mean time he should send over some Great Men with Men at Arms to aid the Justices and other Liege People against such as opposed the Government In this Parlement 3 Ib. n. 9. The Queen Mother to have Lands and Rents of the value of 3000 l. a year assigned her the King by assent of the Prelates Earls Barons and other Great Men and at their Request granted That the Queen his Mother not being well paid according to her mind Three thousand Pounds trois mill livres yearly which she was to receive out of the Exchequer for her support should have Lands and Rents of the value assigned to her Then for keeping of the Peace it was 4 Ib. n. 10. An Agreement how the Peace was to be kept agreed in full Parlement by the King Prelates Earls Barons and other Great Men of the Kingdom par nostre Seigneur le Roi Praelat Countes Barons autres Grantz du Royalme en pleyn Parlement chescun des ditz Grantz eut especialment examine assentat c. every one of the said Great Men having been especially Examined and Assenting That no Great Man of the Land for the future shall retain maintain or avow openly or privately by himself or others any Robber Evil-Doer endicted of Felony or Fugitive for the same nor any sued to Exigend Common Transgression or of Evil fame and the said Great Men promised with all their Power to assist the Justices Sheriffs and other the King's Officers in the Execution of Judgments and other things that belonged to their Offices as well against Great Men as others of what Condition soevery they were On the 27th of January in the 6th of his Reign the King issued his 5 Rot. Claus 6 Ed. III. M. 36. Dors A. D. 1331. A Parlement called Writs for a Parlement to meet on the Monday after St. Gregory or 12th of March reciting in the Summons the Cause of calling it which the Chancellor more fully declared 6 Rot. Parl. 6 Ed. 3 n. 5. To advise the King whether he should go to the Holy Land with the King of France To wit That the King of France and many other Kings and Princes quamplures alii Reges Principes so in the Writ had ordered his going toward the Holy Land in that present Month of March and that it much pleased him to have the Company of the King of England for the greater performance against the Enemies of God and for
do the same The day of the Date and Month of this And promiseth his utmost Assistance Bull are not legible but the year is being the Fourth of his Pontificate which was the 19th of Edward III. Yet this he thought not sufficient to make his Case known to the World but first declaring his Title to the Crown of France the same as when he first claimed it he drew up what he had wrote King Edward again declares his Title to France to the Pope into a Manifesto and publisht it with this Title 9 Rex omnibus ad quod praesentes hae literae pervenerint salutem c. The King to all Men to whom these Letters or this Manifesto 9 Avesbury p. 103. a. c. 48. And put forth a Manifesto or Declaration shall come Greeting c. Which were dated at Westminster the 14th of June in the 19th year of his Reign over England and over France the Sixth Datae 1 Ib. p. 104. b. apud Westmonasterium 14 die Junii Anno Regni nostri Angliae decimo nono regni vero Franciae sexto About Michaelmas following 2 Ib. Du Chesne f. 661 662. He sends an Army into Gascony and takes 47 Towns great and small King Edward sent Henry Earl of Derby Son of Henry Earl of Lancaster with the Earl of Pembroke and Sir Walter Manny into Gascony with a considerable Force where he took the strong Town Bruggerac at the first assault and forty six other Towns great and small which Philip de Valois had injuriously taken and detained from the King of England the last of which was the Town and Castle of Auberoche After which the Earl of Derby with the Earl of Pembroke and Sir Walter Manny retired to Burdeaux upon notice whereof the Earl of Laille King Philip's Lieutenant in Gascogne brought together a great Force and besieged Auberoche To the Relief whereof the Earl of Derby coming he obtained a great Victory and took many Noblemen and great Officers After Easter 3 Avesbury p. 105. a. c. 50. Du Chesne f. 663. D. A. â— 1346. 20 E. III. next year John Duke of Normandy Son and Heir to Philip of Valois besieged the Town of Agâ—illon in Guien in which was a strong Garrison placed by the Earl of Derby and well provided For the relieving of this place and to reinforce King Edward the Prince of Wales and many Noblemen the Earl of Derby King Edward raised an Army and in Person with the Prince of Wales then Seventeen years of Age and many of the Nobility intended to pass into Guien but the Wind being cross and the Weather stormy he was persuaded 4 Ib. Du Chesne Aves by Geoffrey of Harcourt an Outlaw and Exile of France Lord of St. Saviours the Viscount in Constantin in Normandy and one of Land with an Army in Normandy his Marshals to land in Normandy and he did so on the 12th of July being Thursday land at La Hogue What he did after his landing and in his march toward Caen and of his taking of that City and other things Avesbury 5 Ib. p. 105. a. c. 51. hath delivered in a Transcript of the Journal of Michael de Northburg an able Clerk and one of King Edward's Counsellors who went and was with him all the while Where he landed 6 Ibm. What he did there after his Landing for the unshipping of his Horse and refreshing of himself and Army and baking of Bread he stay'd six days While he stayed there a Party went off to Barfleur and burnt the Ships in that Harbour Eight of which had Castles before and behind des queux huit avoient chastiel devant decere After the Party left the Town the Mariners burnt it The first of the King's March was to Valoignes where he stay'd only one night and found sufficient Refreshment From thence he marched to Carenten where were found plenty of Wine and Victuals Much of this Town was burnt notwithstanding the King did what he could to preserve it From hence he marched to St. Lo where the People with some Soldiers seemed to make resistance in this place he found a thousand Tun of Wine besides great store of other Goods Next night he lodged in an Abby and his Army was quartered about him in Field Villages son host as villes champestres entour luy which in Parties made inroads into the Country robbing and destroying five or six miles about every day and burning Towns in many places chivacherent les gentz del host robbantz destruantz cinque od sis lieus environ toutz les jours arderent en plusors lieus Three or four days after his removal from this Abby he came before Caen in which were the Constable of France and the Chamberlain of Tanquerville with a great Force for its defence The King took it by assault with a great slaughter of Knights Esquires and other People and made Prisoners the Constable and Chamberlain with 500 Knights and Six or sevenscore Squires In the Town were found Wine Victuals and other Goods and Chattels without number furent troue en la ville vines victualles autres biens chatieux santz nombre When the King removed from Hoges 7 Ib. in the same Journal Qu. whether not Rothness How he burnt and destroyed the Country there were about 200 Ships stay'd there which sailed to Rothmasse and went on Shore and burnt the Country two or three Leagues lieues within the Land and took much Goods and brought them to their Ships From whence they went to Cherburg a good Town where was a strong Castle and noble Abby all which were burnt as were all things and Towns upon the Sea Coasts from Rothmasse to Hostrem upon the Haven of Caen about Sixscore English miles There were then also burnt Sixty one Ships of War with fore-Castle and hind-Castle ount ars 61 niets de guerre od chastel devant derere with 23 Cayers and other small Vessels of about 30 Tuns From Caen he marched to Poissy upon 8 Avesb. p. 100. c. 54. the River Seyn where he repaired the Bridge that was broken down and passed the River on the morrow of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary or 16th of August after he had defeated several great and strong Parties who came to hinder his passage and killed many of them The Bridges were every where broken down and guarded to hinder his passage so that he could not march very fast and therefore he had time to plunder and ravage the Country to burn most of the good Towns and Villages he past thro or came near as may be seen in Froissard 9 L. 1. c. 122 123 124 125 126. and Du Chesne 1 F. 664 665. At length he came to the River Soam in Ponthieu and Picardy which he passed at a Ford called Blanchtaque between Abbeville and the Sea 2 Avesb. p. 109. a. c. 54. The Battel of
Cressy where was placed an Army to oppose him which he routed killed 2000 and took a great number of Knights and Esquires the rest fled to Abbeville From hence King Edward marched leisurely toward 3 Ibm. Cressy in Ponthieu his Army burning and harassing the Country where the King of France joined Battel with him on Saturday the 26th of August 4 Walsingh f. 166. n. 30. The Victory was obtained by the English There were slain on the French side 5 Avesb. ut supra What Great Men were slain the King of Bohemia the Duke of Lorrain the Earls of Alanson Flanders Lewis of Blois the Earl of Harecourt Geoffry of Harecourt's Elder Brother and his Two Sons the Earls of Albemarl and Savoy the Archbishop of Nismes and Bishop of Sens six German Earls and many other Earls Barons and Lords The 6 Froiss l. 1. c. 130. English Army was ranged in Three Battles the Prince of Wales headed the first the Earl of Northampton the second and the King himself the third 7 Ibm. The King of France fled only with five Barons Sir John of Haynault who had left King Edward's Service Sir Charles of Montmorancy the Lord of Beaujew the Lord Daubery and the Lord Montfort to Bray Castle and so to Amiens On Sunday morning came several 8 Ib. c. 31. The number of the slain Reinforcements and great Bodies of Frenchmen to their King's Army as they thought not knowing what had been done who were all routed many taken and great numbers stain That day in the afternoon King Edward sent to have the dead viewed and numbred 9 Ib. c. 32. In that Battel by Two Barons and Three Heralds At their return to the King they gave him an account of Eleven great Princes Fourscore Banners 't is Froissard's Word Twelve hundred Knights and more than Thirty thousand Ordinary Men. From Cressy the King marched to 1 Avesb. f. 109. b. c. 55. A Parlement called Calais and laid Siege to it on the Third of September Upon his last passage into France 2 Rot. Parl. 20 E. III. n. 6. the King and Lords that accompanied him and also the Great Men of his Counsel that were in England agreed and ordered there should be a Parliament summon'd to meet at Westminster on the Munday next after the Nativity of the Virgin Mary 3 Ibm. The King sâ—nds to inform the Parlement of his success and progress in France To this Parliament the King sent from the Siege of Calais Bartholomew Burghersse John Darcy his Chamberlain Mr. John de Thoresby Keeper of his Privy Seal and John de Carleton to inform them of the State of his Affairs and to propound and declare some things to them in that Parliament that concerned the Honour of God and the Church the Defence and Quiet of the Kingdom of England and his War in France and also other things that were to be done These Letters of Credence or this Commission 4 was dated before Calais on the 4 Ibm. 7th of September and directed to the Arch-Bishops Bishops Abbots Priors Earls Barons and other his faithful Subjects in Parliament aliis fidelibus suis in Parliamento suo c. which when read Bartholomew Burgersse for himself and Companions pur lui pur ses compaignons in presence of the Guardian of England Leonell the King's Son the Prelates and other Great Men there named 5 Ib. n. 7. shewed the Graces God had given to the King to the Great Men and others with him after their landing at La Hogue monstra les graces que Dieu avoit donez a nostre Sir le Roi c. by a short Account of his Progress and Success in Normandy the Battle of Cressy and his besieging of Calais from whence he resolved not to depart until he had taken the Town and that then he would draw toward his Adversary pursue his Quarrel and not return into England until he had ended the War beyond Sea with the help of God 6 Ibm. And to desire an Aid For the accomplishment of which things the said Messengers a queu chose pour faire les ditz messages prierent c. prayed the Prelats Great Men and Commons that they would Treat and Advise about an Aid and Means to perfect that which had been so graciously begun for that by common assent in Parliament at the time when the King 7 Ibm. undertook this War they all promised that they would assist him with their Bodies and Goods to their power touz lui promistrent qils lui eideroient de corps d'avoir a lour poair At the same time they produced an Ordinance 8 Ibm. The Ordinance of Normandy produced in Parlement or Agreement made by the King's Adversary and some Great Men of France and Normandy to destroy the whole Nation of England and the English Language And to put this Design in Execution the Earl of Eu then Constable of France and the Chamberlain of Tankerville were to raise a great Army for that purpose but as it pleased God they were both taken at Caen and many of their Men there killed and taken so as the intended destruction of the English was defeated This Ordinance is 9 Ib. n. 8. enter'd upon the Parliament Roll and there in the Todding called L'Ordinance de Normandie The Ordinance of Normandy 'T is pretty long but the most Material things were That the King of France his Eldest Son John Duke What it was of Normandy as General with the Nobles and others of that Dukedom should pass into England with Four thousand Men at The design to invade and conquer England Arms Knights Esquires and Men of good Estate and Forty thousand Foot And if this Invasion could not be made that year then it was to be the next year and so in any other year at a convenient time during the War Or if this Invasion should not be made the Country of Normandy was to serve him with the same number of Men at Arms and Twenty thousand Foot in any other place where the King Duke or either of them should be in Person It was 1 Ibm. How England was to be divided in case of Conquest also agreed That if by God's assistance England were Conquered the Conquest should be made in the Name and Honour of the Duke and that all that the King of England enjoy'd should be his as King and Lord with all his Rights and Honours And what the Nobles Barons and other Seculars possessed was to be enjoy'd by the Church Barons Nobles and Noble Towns of Normandy que les Nobles les Barouns autres Seculars y on t serra demorra as Esglises as Barouns Nobles as Noble villes de Normandie That the Pope and Church of Rome should safely enjoy what they had without diminution and that whatever had been taken from the Scots by War or otherwise should be restored fully and entirely without delay
what Cause soever except what by this Treaty ought to remain and be delivered to the King of England and his Heirs and one King shall part with Release and Transfer to the other perpetually all the Right which either of them hath or can have in all the things which by this Treaty ought to remain and be delivered to each of them and of the time and place where and when the said Renunciations shall be made the Two Kings shall agree and appoint when they meet at Calais This Article was intirely left out of the Treaty corrected at Calais when the Two Kings met there 13. Also it is agreed That to the end this Treaty may speedily be accomplished that the King of England shall bring the King of France to Calais within three weeks after Midsummer there being no just hindrance at his own Expence 14. Also it is agreed That the King of France shall pay to the King of England Three Millions of Crowns of Gold whereof Two shall be of the value of a Noble of English Money whereof 600000 Crowns shall be paid to him or his Deputies within four Months after the King of France shall arrive at Calais and within a year following 400000 Crowns to be paid at London and so every year 400000 Crowns to be paid there until the whole was discharged 15. It is also agreed That for the Payment of the 600000 Crowns at Calais and for the delivery of the Hostages hereafter named within four months after the King of France shall be come to Calais the Town Castle and Fortresses of Rochell the Castles Fortresses and Towns of the County of Guines shall be rendered to the King of England with all their Appertenences and Appendences and the Person of the King of France shall be delivered out of Prison but he is not to Arm himself or People against the King of England but is to accomplish what was to be done by this Treaty And the Hostages were the great Prisoners taken at the Battel of Poictiers and these following That is to say Monsieur Lewis Earl of Anjou Monsieur John Earl of Poicters the King's Sons the Duke of Orleans the King's Brother the Duke of Bourbon the Earl of Blois or his Brother the Earl of St. Paul the Earl of Alanâ—on or Monsieur Peter of Alançon his Brother the Earl of Harcourt the Earl of Portien the Earl of Valentiniois the Earl of Briene the Earl of Vaudemont the Earl of Forest the Viscount Beaumont the Lord of Coucy the Lord of Fienne the Lord of Preaux the Lord of St. Venant the Lord of Garencieres the Dauphin of Avergne the Lord of Hangest the Lord of Montmorency Monsieur William de Craon Monsieur Lewis of Harcourt Monsieur John de Ligny The Names of the Prisoners taken at Poictiers were these Monsieur Philip of France the Earl of Eu the Earl of Longueville the Earl of Ponthieu the Earl of Joigny the Earl of Sancene the Earl of Dammartin the Earl of Ventadour the Earl of Salbruche the Earl of Auxerre the Earl of Vendosme the Lord of Craon the Lord of Darnalt or Rual the Marshal of Danchan or d'Andeneham the Lord of Aubigny 16. Also it is agreed That the Prisoners aforesaid which come to remain in Hostage for the King of France shall therefore be delivered out of Prison without paying any Ransom according to Agreement made before the 3d of May last past and if any of them be out of England and not in Hostage at Calais within the first month after the said three weeks after Midsummer without just hindrance he shall not be quit of his Imprisonment but be forced by the King of France to return into England and there remain Prisoner or pay the Penalty by him promised and incurred for not returning 17. Also it is agreed That in stead of those Hostages which shall not come to Calais or shall dye or shall remove out of the Power of the King of England the King of France shall deliver others of the same Quality as soon as may be within four months after the Bayly of Amiens and the Major of St. Omer upon the King of England's Certificate shall have notice threof and the King of France upon his departure from Calais may have in his Company Ten of the Hostages such as the Two Kings shall agree upon so as Thirty may remain 18. Also it is agreed That the King of France within three months after he shall be gone from Calais shall send thither to remain in Hostage Four Persons de la ville de Paris of the Town of Paris and Two of every Town following of St. Omer Arras Amiens Beauvais Lisle Doway Tournay Remes Chaalons Troyes Chartres Tholouse Lyon Orleance Compiegne Roven Caen Tours Bourges The most sufficient of these Towns for the Accomplishment of this Treaty 19. Also it is agreed That the King of France shall be brought from England to Calais and remain there for four months but shall pay nothing the first month for his Guard and Keeping but for every one of the other months he shall remain there he shall pay 6000 Royals as they shall be then current in France before his departure from Calais and so afterwards for the time he stays there 20. Also it is agreed That as soon as may be within a year after the King of France is departed from Calais Monsieur John Earl of Montfort shall have the Earldom of Montfort with all its Appertenences doing Homage Liege to the King of France and his Devoir and Service in every Case as a good and Loyal Vassal Liege ought to do to his Liege Lord by reason of his Earldom and also his other Heritages shall be rendred to him that belong not to the Dutchy of Bretagne doing Homage and other Dues belonging to them And if he will demand any thing in any of the Heritages belonging to that Dutchy out of the Country of Bretagne he shall receive good and speedy Reason from the Court of France 21. Also upon the Question of the Demain of Bretagne which is between Monsieur John de Montfort and Monsieur Charles de Blois it is agreed That the Two Kings calling before them or their Deputies the Parties Principals they shall inform themselves of their Right and shall indeavour to make them agree about all that is in Debate between them as soon as they can And in case neither the Kings or their Deputies can make an Agreement within a year after the King of France shall arrive at Calais Friends on both sides may make the best Agreement between them they can and as soon as they can and if they cannot compromise the Matter within half a year they shall make Report thereof and what they find concerning the Rights of each Party and why the Debate remains between them to the Two Kings or their Deputies and then they as soon as may be shall make an Accord giving their final Sentence upon the Right of each
Comunes en pleyn Parlement Which Name of King of France he did retake and had his Great Seal and other Seals altered and that Title 8 Ibm. engraved upon them On the same 9 Day and Thursday the Estate of the King 8 Ibm. 9 10. was laid before the Great Men and Commons feust monstre as Grants Comunes lestat le Roy and because the War was open par cause de la Guerre queste overte he should be at great Charges as well by Sea and Land which he could not maintain without their Aid he requested them they would treat and advise how he might be best assisted to his greatest Profit and the least Charge and Damage to the People The Prelates Dukes Earls and Barons by themselves and then the Commons of one accord Granted les Prelates Ducs Barons par eux puys les Comunes A Subsidy of Wooll c. granted to maintain the War dun acord Granteront c. to the King a Subsidy of Woolls of every Sack 43 s. 4 d. and of the Woollfels every Twelvescore as much and of every Last of Leather 4 l. which passed beyond Sea for three Years besides the ancient Custom to begin at Michaelmas next coming of Denizons Of Strangers for every Sack of Wooll 4 Marcs of every Twelvescore Woollfels 4 Marcs and of every Last of Leather 8 Marcs He not only provided for Money this Parlement but 1 Ib. n. 25. K. Edward's Offer To all Persons whatever that would maintain his Quarrel against France declared That for the Compensation of such Lords or others of whatsoever Estate Degree Condition or Nation they were who would maintain his Party and Quarrel against his Enemies of France should hold Heritably what they should Recover and Conquer be they Dutchies Earldoms Vicounties Cities Towns Castles Fortresses or Lordships situate in France by what Name or Title they were called of him as of the King of France by the Services and Dues accustomed except and reserved expresly to him and his Heirs all his Demeasn Royalties Services Homages Dues Resorts and Soveraignties belonging to the Crown of France except also Church-Lands and the Lands of all such as without Force or Difficulty would obey adhere to and stay in Obedience to him on their own Good-will and him Aid Counsel and Comfort in his Quarrel c. This Year 2 Wals f. 184. n. 20. The Death of the Queen The Offer as above no advantage to K. Edward 3 Froys C. 272. Du Ches f. 704. D. He sends his Letters of Indemnity and Pardon into Aquitan on the Assumption of the Virgin Mary or 15th of August died Queen Philip Just and Sincere as the Historians say to the English Interest There is nothing extant which makes it appear that the Offer above-mentioned advanced King Edward's Cause and therefore next Year he sends his Letters of Indemnity and Pardon with great Promises of Reformation into Aquitan 3 That he being informed of certain Troubles Grievances and Molestations done or supposed to be done by his Dear Son the Prince of Wales in his Seigniory of Aquitan being obliged and desirous to remedy all things tending to evil Surmises Hatreds and Contentions between him and his Loyal Friends and Subjects did Announce and Pronounce Certifie and Ratifie of his meer Good-will and by great Deliberation of his Council to that purpose called and did Will and Command That the Prince of Wales should forbear and remit all manner of Actions done or to be done and restore to all such as had been grieved or molested by him or by any of his Officers and Subjects in Aquitan all their Costs Expences or Damages raised or to be raised in the Name of Aids or Chimney-Money And did further pardon all such as had revolted and forsaken his Homage and Fealty upon Condition that after the sight of these Letters within one Month they returned to their Obedience And if any Persons made any just Complaint against his Dear Son the Prince or any employed by him that in any thing they were grieved or oppressed or had been in times past he would cause them to have reasonable Amends for the maintaining of Peace Love Concord and Vnity between him and his People of the Dutchy And that all Men might be satisfied of the Truth of these Letters he willed they should have Copies of them and then declared he had Sworn to maintain and make them good by the Body of Jesus Christ in the Presence of his Dear Son John Duke of Lancaster the Earls of Salisbury Warwick Hereford and many other there named Dated at Westminster in the 44th Year of his Reign on the 5th of November in the Year of our Lord 1370. Mezeray 4 F. 389. The King of France joined Religion and Eloquence to his Arms And sent Preachers abroad to justifie his Cause taking notice of these Letters tells us That to the Force of Arms the King of France joined Religion and Eloquence which could do all things on the Hearts of the People He ordered Fasts and Processions to be made all over his Kingdom and sometimes went barefoot himself with the rest when at the same time the Preachers made out his Right and Title with the Justice of his Cause and the Injustice of the English Which had two Ends the one to bring back again those French Provinces which had been yielded by the Treaty of Bretigny the other to make those that were under him willing to suffer the Contributions and all other Inconveniencies of War The Arch-Bishop of Thoulouse alone by his Persuasions and Intrigues regained above Fifty Cities and Castles in Guien amongst others that of Cahors The King of England would have practised the same Methods on his part and sent an Amnesty or General Pardon to the Gascons with an Oath upon the Sacred Body of Jesus Christ to raise no more new Imposts but all this could not reclaim those Minds that had bent themselves another way King Edward 5 Ib. c. 249. 250. Forces sent into France to the Prince Some of the Companions joined with them sent Forces over to the Prince with Edmond Earl of Cambridge his own Son and the Earl of Pembroke his Son-in-Law who with a great number of Companions under the Command of Hugh Caverley an Experienced Officer which came from Aragon Rendezvoused at Angolesm and were put all under his Command by the Prince What things of Note they did I find not Before this time 6 Ib. c. 241 242. Henry the Bastard killed Peter King of Castile and fixed himself in the Throne Henry the Bastard had by the Assistance of Peter King of Aragon the King of France and the Power of Bertrand de Guesclin and his Companions seized the Kingdom of Castile and killed King Peter and fixed himself in that Throne The King of France wrote to Henry to 7 Ib. c 276. Bertrand de Guesclin and his Companions serve the K. of France against K. Edw.
not land Having kept the Sea about five weeks and the time limited for Relief or Surrender of the Town being past he returned to England in the beginning of October 2 Ib. c. 306. Poictou Xantogne and Rochelois lost This unhappy Voyage with the Disaster of the Earl of Pembroke lost all Poictou Xantogne and Rochelois On the very day 3 Pat. 46 Ed. III. Part. 2. M. 25. Richard Son to the Prince of Wales made Guardian and Lieutenant of England in his absence he put to Sea he made his Grandchild Richard Son to the Prince of Wales then scarce Seven years old Guardian and his Lieutenant of the Kingdom during his absence appointing him a Council fit for the Management of the Publick Affairs Two days after on the first of September 4 Clause 46 Ed. III. M. 11. Dors Summons of Parlement he issued Writs of Summons for a Parlement to meet 15 days after Michaelmass but before that time King Edward was come into England and by his 5 Ib. M. 10. Dors Which Prorogued by Writ Writs dated at Winchelsea on the 6th of October he prorogued this Parlement to the morrow of All-Souls or 3d of November Sir John Knivet 6 Rot. Parl. 46 Ed. III. 11. 1 2 3. Further Declaration of Summons declared in part the Causes of Summons the Parlement being adjourned until Friday after that Monsieur Hugh Bryan in the White Chamber acquainted 7 Ib. n. 7. The Revenues of Guien not sufficient to support the Government of it c. the Prelates Duke Earls Barons and Banerets les Prelates Dâ—â— Countes Barones and Banerets That the Prince who had the Principality of Guyen by the Grant of the King had often signified to him when there by Letters and Messengers That the Revenues and Profits arising from the Principality did not nor could suffice to maintain him and support the Government and Wars against their French Enemies and other necessary Charges without great assistance from the King and that the Prince having made these things appear to the King and Council when first he came into England had surrendred 8 Ib. n. 8. The Prince resigns it into the King's Hands into the King's Hands the Principality and all he could claim there by virtue of his Grant in the presence of the King's Council and some other Great Men. On the next day being 9 Ib. n. 9. Yet a further Declaration of Summons Saturday Sir Hugh Bryan before the Prince Prelates Dukes Earls Barons and Commons in the White Chamber more especially declared the Causes of Summons That the King by Advice of the Great Men des Grantz had ordered many Great Men plusours des Grantz with sufficient Power some into Gascoigne others to Calais to oppose the Malice of his Enemies and make War upon them by all the ways they could That afterwards for sudden News that came to the King he made ready with all his Power to put to Sea or go to Sea ove tout son poair daler sur la Meer against his Enemies to do what he could against them but by reason of the Wind being contrary and other Causes reasonable par contrariousete de vent autres causes reasonables he came back into England and caused to be summoned and prorogued this Parlement that the Great Men who were with him upon the Sea might be there that by the good Advice and Counsel of them and others and The French make themselves stronger by Sea and Land then ever they had done before also of the Commons anxi une la Coe he might do the best he could for the safety of the Nation and to resist and oppose the Malice of his Enemies who had made themselves much stronger by Land and Sea then ever they were before qui plus safforcent de guerer si bien par terre come par Meer que unques fesoient a devant And then 1 Ibm. beseecheth the Prelates Prince Dukes Earls Barons and Commons on behalf of the King supplia as ditz Prelates Prince Ducs Countes Barons as Coes de par le Roi that they would advise upon this Matter and give such Counsel donner tiel conseil and Ayd to the King as seemed to them best profitable for the Nation and to restrain the Malice of his Enemies Queux 2 Ib. n. 10. These Commons were the Knights of Shires Prelates Prince Ducs Counts Barons Coes eu sur les pointes de lour charge as dependantz dycelles plein deliberation c. which Prelates Prince Dukes Earls Barons and Commons having had full Deliberation upon the Points of their Charge and the Dependences thereon and also considering the great and outrageous Charges and Expence the King was to be at for the Defence of the Nation and Maintaining the War against his Enemies granted him the Subsidy of Wooll Leather and Wooll-fells A Subsidy upon Wooll c. for Two years to begin at Michaelmass last past of every Sack of Wooll which passed out of England 43 s. 4 d. of every Twelvescore Woollfells as much of every Last of Leather 4 l. of Denizens besides the old Custom and of Strangers or Forreigners four Marks of every Sack of Wooll as much of every Twelvescore Woollfells and Five Pounds six shillings eight pence of every Last of Leather And whereas 4 Ibm. A Fifteenth granted the Subsidy and Custom so granted could not be sufficient for the great Expence and Charge the King was to be at for the Causes abovesaid as it was openly shewed unto them the same Prelates Prince Dukes Earls Barons and Commons having regard thereto 5 Ib. n. 11. granted One Fifteenth for one year to be levied as the last was On the 23d of 6 Ib. n. 12. November the King Prelates Duke Earls Barons and Commons assembled in the White Chamber when the Chancellor declared to the King how kind the Lords and Commons had been to him in granting him the Subsidy and Fifteenth who much Thanked them for their great Ayd and and then the 7 Ib. n. 13. Petitions of the Commons were read and answered when the Knights of Shires had leave to depart 8 Ib. n. 14. and sue out Writs for their Wages or Expences pour lour depenses but the Citizens and Burgesses were commanded to stay 9 Ib. n. 15. The Grant of the Citizens and Burgesses who the same day assembled before the Prince Prelates and Great Men and for the safe coveying of their Ships and Goods granted 2 s. upon every Tun of Wine coming in or passing out of the Kingdom and 6 d. in the Pound of all Goods for a year The next Year the King 1 Rot. Fran. 47 Ed. III. M. 18. A. D. 1373. John Duke of Lancaster the King's Lieutenant in France and Aquitan made his Son John King of Castile and Leon and Duke of Lancaster his Lieutenant as well in the Kingdom of France as
Body Lands Tenements Goods and Chattels so as he was imprisoned and all his Lands Tenements Goods and Chattels seized into the King's Hands of which Lands and Tenements he gave some to the Earl of Cambridge and others to Thomas of Woodstocke then Earl of Buckingham for Term of their Lives All which Forfeitures and Imprisonment the King taking pity of the said Richard by the Perswasion of the said Alice and her singular Persuit and Procurement at his Court at Shene with the assent of his Council pardoned and also pardoned the said Richard 300 l. due from him in the Exchequer and further granted 1000 Marks of his Treasure as a Gift which things being contrary to the said Ordinance the Steward demanded of the said Alice how she would Excuse her self of the said Articles who answered she was not culpable Her Answer or guilty of these Articles which she was ready to aver and prove by the Witness and Testimony of John de Ipre at that time Steward of the King's House William Sheet Controller Sir Allen Buxhall Nicholas Carren Keeper of the Privy Seal and others of the Court of the said King and present at the time of the supposed Forfeiture Upon this Day 2 Ibm. was given her to Wednesday next after in the mean time it was ordered by the assent of the Lords That the Articles should be tried by Witness or by Inquest of such as were of the House of the said King and thereupon certain Persons were Sworn and Examined before the Duke of Lancaster the Earl of Cambridge the Earl of March the Earl of Arundel and the Earl of Warwick First Roger Beauchamp late Witnesses Sworn against Alice Perrers Chamberlain of the said King being Sworn said That in the presence of Alice Perrers a Bill was given him to carry to the King at his Court at Havering which Bill he took and as he understood it it contained the Revocation of Sir Nicholas Dagworth from Ireland because he was Enemy to Monsieur William de Windsore he refused to carry the Bill because the Council had ordered the contrary and the said Alice requested him to do it which he did and the King asked him what they talked about which when he informed him of the Contents of the Bill he answered the Petition was reasonable and when Monsieur Roger replied his Council had ordained to the contrary the King answered he was Soveraign Judge and it seemed to him the Bill was reasonable and commanded him to call back the said Nicholas which was done accordingly Concerning Richard Lyons he said he knew nothing The Duke of Lancaster Examined said That one day he came to Havering and found Dame Alice Perrers there when Roger Beauchamp shewed him a Bill containing as above about which he fell into Discourse with the King who concerning Sir Nicholas Dagworth going to Ireland said it was not reasonable one Enemy should Judge another and there he thought fit to countermand his Voyage in which having satisfied the King as done by his Consent in Council but the King not long after coming from Alice Perrer's Chamber came to the Duke and prayed him dearly he would not suffer Dagworth to go toward Ireland but the Duke could not comply by reason it was ordained by King and Council and on Monday morning when he took his Leave of the King in Bed he commanded him upon his Blessing he should not suffer Dagworth to go toward Ireland notwithstanding the Ordinance made the day before and also he was countermanded And to the Article of Richard Lyons he said in his Conscience he believed Alice Perrers was the chief Promoter of that Business but was not present Monsieur Philip de la Vache Sworn says nothing to the purpose Nicholas Carren Sworn says That he was commanded to come to Shene to the King where he found Richard Lyons and they were both commanded to come before the King in Bed where he found Dame Alice Perrers sitting at the King's Bed's Head where was shewed that the King would pardon the said Richard 300 l. due to the King upon Account in the Exchequer and also give him a Thousand Marks of his Treasure and restore him what was given him to his Sons the Earl of Cambridge and Tho. of Woodstock and commanded him the said Nicholas to let his Sons know so much and that the King rehearsed these Grants of his Grace c. before divers Knights and Esquires he called from behind the Curtains of his Bed to Witness the same Monsieur Alein Buxhall Swears the same except Alice Perrer's sitting at the King's Bed's Head and further That Alice desired him to acquaint the Earls of their Father's Pardon to Lyons which at her Instance the King commanded him to do There were more Sworn who said as they believed and much to this purpose and presently there were made to come before the Duke and other Earls Monsieur A Jury Sworn Roger Beauchamp Alein Buxhall John de Burle Richard Stury Philip de la Vage John de Foxle Tho. Garre Knights Nicholas Carren John Beauchamp of Holt John Beverle George Felbrigge John Salesbury William Street Piers Cornwall Tho. Londâ—n Helmin Leget Esquires of the King's House Sworn and charged to speak plain Truth whether the said Alice was culpable who They find her Guilty found her guilty and accordingly to the intent of the Statute made 50 Edw. III. considering the damages and villanies by her done she was sentenced by Parlement to be banished her Lands Her Sentence and Punishment Chattels Tenements in Demesn and Reversion to be forfeited and seized into the King's Hands And it was ordained by the King and Lords in that present Parlement That all her Land in Feoffees hands or purchased in Trust should be also forfeited But it was the Intention of the King and Lords and this Law made particularly Which was not to be made an Example for others for the prevention of such odious things should not be made use of or made an Example against any other Person or in any other Case The Commons 3 Ib. n. 49. pray for that King Edward was guided by unfit Counsellors par auscuns Conseillers nient Covenables as had been authentickly proved That they might be removed from all the King's Counsels and so as such nor other such should be King Edward guided by Evil Counsellors such to be removed from this Kings Counsels The King's Officers not to maintain Suits near him nor in office with him and that other fit Persons might be put in their places and that no Officers of the King's Court great or small do keep up Quarrels or Suits in the Country by Maintenance nor meddle with any thing but what belongs to his Office As to the first Request le Roy le voet the King willeth and as to the second Request touching Maintenance the King will straightly forbid any Counsellor Officer or Servant or others 4 Ib. Ro. The
quod Domini Magnates ac Comunitates Comitatuum Civitatum Burgorum concesserunt Domino Regi c. granted to the King for the Voyage of John King of Castile and Leon Duke of Lancaster into Spain and safe keeping of the Sea and Marches of Scotland a Tenth and Fifteenth and half a Tenth and Fifteenth the 10th and 15th to be paid at Candlemas and the half 10th and 15th to be paid at Midsummer for the receipt and expending whereof there were special Treasurers appointed in Parlement and Supravisors to see it done And this 2 Ibm. Voyage into Spain was agreed and granted by the King Prelates Noblemen Great Men and Communities aforesaid in full Parlement In the King's Entrance into 3 Knighton col 2675. n. 50. Scotland the King conferred several Honours upon the Persons following at Hounslow-Lodge in Tividale says the Record which were confirmed in this Parlement The King's Unkle 4 Rot. Parl. 9 Ric. II. n. 14. Several Titles and Honours confirmed in Parlement Edmond Earl of Cambridge being created Duke of York was confirmed in that Title and had from the King 1000 l. a Year to support his Dignity to be paid out of the Exchequer to him and his Heirs Male until the King could settle Lands upon him and his Heirs of the like Value Then also was 5 Ibm. n. 15. Thomas Earl of Buckingham and Essex the King's Unkle being created Duke of Gloucester confirmed in that Title with the like Gift and Settlement to support his Dignity Michael de la Pole 6 Ibm. n. 16. being created Earl of Suffolk was confirmed in that Dignity and had for the support of his Honour 20. l. a Year out of the Farm of the County and 500 l. a Year out of the Estate of the former Earl which had escheated to the King for want of Heirs after the Decease of the Queen and Isabelle Countess of Suffolk The Earl of 7 Ib. n. 17. Oxford being created Marquess of Dublin was confirmed in that Title by consent of the Prelates Lords and Commons and had by the same consent the Land and Lordship of Ireland c. except some Royalties belonging to the Crown paying 5000 Marks yearly into the Exchequer In this Parlement the 8 Ib. n. 32. The Commons Petition the King's Houshold might be viewed every year and if need were Regulated Commons Petition the King That the State of his Houshold might be viewed every year by the Chancellor Treasurer and Clerk of the Privy Seal and what was amiss to be mended at their Discretion And also That the Statutes of ancient time made concerning the Houshold might be kept and duely executed in all their Points As to the first Article of the 9 Ib. Ro. The King's Answer Petition The King will do it when he please As to the second Le Roy le Voet The King Willeth It was also then Enacted 1 Ib. n. 33. That all Lords and other Persons having any Lands on the Marches beyond Tine do dwell thereupon saving that the King may shew favour when he please The Commons desired to know 2 Ib n. 39. who should be the King 's Chief Officers and Governors of the State of the Kingdom The Answer 3 Ib. Ro. was The King hath enough sufficient Officers at present and will change them at his pleasure On Easter 5 Knighton col 2676. n. 30 40 50 60. A. D. 1387. The Duke of Lancaster's Day next following the Duke of Lancaster with his Wife came to take his Leave of the King to whom he gave a Crown of Gold and the Queen gave another to his Wife and the King commanded all about him to call and Honour him as King of Spain 6 Ibm. Voyage into Spain and what he did there On the 9th of July all things being prepared for the Expedition he set sail with 20000 Men for Spain whereof in the Marshall's Roll 2000 were Men at Arms and 8000 Archers in which Army several very great Men were the Chief Officers 7 Ib. col 2677. n. 10 20. He had with him his Wife Constance the Eldest Daughter of Peter King of Castile c. for his Tyrannies called the Cruel who died without Issue Male by whom he claimed that Kingdom and Katherin his only Daughter by her and Two Daughters by his first Wife Blanch Daughter and Heiress to Henry Duke of Lancaster Philip and Elizabeth Peter King of Castile was Son of Alphonso the Sixth King of Castile c. upon whom Henry II. a Bastard Son of Alphonso usurped the Kingdom He Married his Daughter Philip by his first Wife Blanch to the King of Portugal and his Daughter Katherin the true Heiress of the Kingdom of Castile by his Wife Constance to John the Son of Henry the Bastard and Usurper 8 Walsingh f. 342. n. 30 40. but so as if they had no Issue the Inheritance of the Crown was to be and remain to the Son of Edmond Duke of York Brother to the Duke of Lancaster who had Married Isabel the Younger Daughter of King Peter the Cruel Upon these Terms and a mighty Sum of Money paid by Henry the Bastard to the Duke and an Annuity of 10000 l. a year to him and his Dutchess Constance for their Lives a Peace was concluded between the Vsurper and the Duke and the Affair of Castile or Spain settled after which he went into Aquitan and stayed there and in Spain more then Two years and then returned into England in the beginning of November 1389. Knighton 9 Ut supra says the Money paid down to the Duke of Lancaster was an immense Sum and that he was told by one of his Family and Retinue in this Voyage that for the second Payment the King of Spain sent him Forty seven Mules laden with Gold in Chests 1 Walsingh f. 323. n. 60 c. Knighton ut supra n. 40 50 60. As he sailed into Spain he landed some Forces in Britany and relieved Brest that was then besieged by the Duke of that Country This year Writs were issued for calling a Parlement on the First of October at Westminster dated 2 Rot. Clause 10 Ric. II. M. 42. Dors The Duke of Suffolk Michael de la Pole Aug. 8. wherein Michael de la Pole Earl of Suffolk and then Chancellor of England was impeached by the Commons in several Articles 3 Rot. Parl. 10 Ric. II. n. 6. impeached by the Commons The first and chief Article was That he was Sworn as Chancellor to procure the Profit of the King That he purchased of the King Land Rents and Tenements to a great value contrary to his Oath not considering the Necessity of the King and Kingdom and that he being Chancellor at the time of the Purchase caused the yearly Rent of the Lands to be undervalued very much in deceit of the King The residue of the Articles were much of the same Nature for Deceiving
the beginning of December the King was at Reding 1 Ib. n. 40. He reconciles the King and Great Men. where he called a great Council The Duke of Lancaster being there reconciled the Mind of the King to the Great Men and their Minds to him and so as they seemed after the Dissolution of the Council to depart satisfied The King while he was at Reding issued his 2 Rot. Clause 13 Ric. II. M. 5. Dors A. D. 1390. A Parlement called The King declared to be of Age. Writs on the 6th of December for a Parlement to meet at Westminster on the Monday next after the Feast of St. Hillary William of Wickham Bishop of Winchester was then Chancellor who by the King's Command in opening the Cause of Summons before all the Estates declared the 3 Rot. Parl. 13 Rich. II. n. 1. And takes upon him the Government King of full Age and that he intended to Govern his People in Peace and Quiet and to do Justice and Right to all Men and that as well the Clergie as Layty should enjoy all their Liberties On the 20th of 4 Ib. n. 6 7. The Chancellor and Treasurer quit their Places as also all Privy-Counsellors January and Fourth day of the Parlement the Bishop of Winchester delivered the Seal to the King and the Bishop of St. David's being Treasurer delivered the Keys of the Exchequer to the King and all the Lords of the Council prayed the King to be discharged and that others might be put in their Places When they were discharged they required openly in Parlement That if any Person could he would Complain of any thing ill done by them both Lords and Commons affirmed all things well done Whereupon the King delivered the Seal again to the Bishop of Winchester and the Keys of the Exchequer to the Bishop of The King receives them again into their Places and the Privy-Council St. Davids and received those to be his Counsellors that were so before together with his Vncles of Lancaster and Glocester and made Protestation That for any thing then done he would at Pleasure retain or put out of their Offices those Counsellors In this Parlement 5 Ibm. n. 21 22. John Duke of Lancaster made Duke of Aquitan John Duke of Lancaster was made Duke of Aquitan by the King with Consent of the Prelates Lords Temporal and Commons to hold the Dukedom of the King as of the King of France saving only to him as to the King of France the Direct Dominion Superiority and Resort of the same Dutchy He there did Homage to the King and Humbly and Heartily Thanked him for it and the Honour he did him and declared That tho' he could not maintain the State of the Dukedom in time of War without the Ayd of the King and Realm yet he would do what he could to the utmost The King told him the Charges should be born as between the Duke and his Council should be agreed To which the Commons affented The King by assent of 6 Ib. n. 23. Edward Son to the Duke of York made Earl of Rutland The Two Arch-Bishops and Parlement created Edward the Eldest Son of the Duke of York Earl of Rutland and gave to him during the Life of his Father 800 Marks issuing out of the Castle Town and Dominion of Okeham in that Shire and the Office of Sheriff The Arch-Bishops of Canterbury and York for themselves and whole Clergy of their Provinces made their Protestation in open Parlement 7 Ib. n. 24. Clergy's Protestation not to assent to any Law made against the Pope they intended not nor would assent to any Statute or Law to be made against the Pope's Authority which at their Request was entered upon the Roll. In the 8 Rot. Parl. 14 Ric. II. n. 1. A. D. 1391. Parlement on the Morrow of St. Martin or 12th of November in the Fourteenth of this King the Bishop of Winchester Chancellor declaring the Cause of Summons took notice of the Truce with France and that about Candlemass the King would send to make a final Peace The Duke of 9 Ib. n. 12. The Dukes of York and Glocester desire 1000 l. a year to be settled on each of them York and Glocester desire the King's Assistance of a Thousand Pounds a year to each according to his Promise in Tale special He ordered the Justices to draw such Assurance and commanded they might be readily paid And it is to be remembred 1 Ib. n. 15. The Prelates Lords and Commons pray That if any thing had been done against his Prerogative it might be redressed Fait a Remember c. That the Prelates Lords Temporal and Commons prayed the King in full Parlement That the Royalty and Prerogative of him and his Crown might always be safe and preserved and that if any thing had been done or attempted contrary to them it might be Redressed and Amended and further That he should be as Free in his time as any of his Noble Progenitors Kings of England were in their times Which prayer seemed Honest and Reasonable to the King and therefore granted it in all points The Judgment against 2 Ib. n. 36. The Judgment against John of Northampton repealed John of Northampton late Major of London Repealed upon the Petition of the Commons and Oath made by the then Major and all the Aldermen of London That he was not guilty of the Treasons c. for which he was condemned These things done the Lords and Commons 3 Ib. n. 37. The â—ords and Commons Thank the King for his Good Government c. gave humble Thanks to the King for his good Government and his Zeal shewn to them and he gave them Thanks for the Grants to him made In the Parlement holden on the 2d of November in the 15th of King Richard the 4 Ibm. 15 Ric. II. n. 15. A. D. 1392. The Duke of Lancaster sent into France to Treat of Peace Commons propound to the King Monsieur de Guyen that is the Duke of Lancaster to go Treat with his Adversary of France about a Peace and it was granted The Commons Petition the King That no Native or 5 Ib. n. 39. The Commons Petition Villans may not purchase Land in sec nor send their Sons to School The King's Answer Villan of Bishops Abbats or other Religious Persons might purchase Lands in Fee and That no Villan might put his Son to School whereby he might obtain Learning and this for the maintenance and safety of the Honour of all the Freemen of England To this it was Answered Le Roy sad visera The King will Advise which was a Denial The Knights of Shires 6 Ib. n. 51. The Knights of Shires Petition Villans may not have the Privilege of Cities and Burghs The King's Answer Petition the King and Lords That such Lords whose Villans went from them into Cities and Burghs where they lived as Freemen
D. 1398. 22 Ric. II. Commissioners of England and Scotland to take care of the Articles of the late Truce for both Nations met For Scotland Sir William Bortwic Sir John of Remorgny Knights and Adam Forster Esquire For England John Bussy and Henry Green Knights William Feriby Clerc and Laurence Drew Esquire Their Business was to take care of the Release and Exchange of Prisoners that had been taken on both sides since the Truce of Leulingham in the Year 1389. and to regulate the Practices of the Borders on both sides and secure them from Rapin Thefts Robberies Burnings and taking and carrying away Prisoners into either Country during the time of the late Twenty Eight Years Truce between England and France which was effectually done in Eleven Articles The Instrument it self under the Seals of Scots Commissioners in true Scottish Language being with the Under-Chamberlains in the Exchequer in a little Box tituled Scotia About 2 Hypodig Neustr f. 553. lin 5. The Death of the Duke of Lancaster Candlemas next following John Duke of Lancaster died and the King with the Committee that had the Authority of Parlement met at Westminster on Tuesday the 8th Day of March when it was declared That Henry Duke of Hereford 3 Rot. Parl. n. 87 88. after the Judgment given against him at Coventry had procured Letters Patents from the King that during his absence by his Attorneys he might Sue and have Livery of any Lands descended to him and his Homage respited Which Letters Patents were declared to be against Law Whereupon the King by Advice of the Committee and Assent of Parlement Revoked those Letters Patents as also the like Letters Patents made to the Duke of Norfolk On 4 Placâ—â— Coron 21 Ric. II. n. Judgment against Sir R. Plesington the same Day Robert Plesington Knight though dead before was adjudged Traitor for being in the Action with the Duke of Glocester Earls of Arundel and Warwic at Haringey and all his Castles Mannors Lands Tenements Goods and Chattels to be forfeit After which many Bishops and Lords Temporal Sware as follows Which 5 Append. n. 113. The Oath of the Bishops Lords and Knights Judgments Ordinances and Establishments so Made Ordained and Agreed on the said Tuesday the 18th of March and all the Statutes Establishments Ordinances and Judgments Made and Rendred in the said Parlement or at Coventry or otherwhere by Virtue and Authority of the same Parlement firmly to hold and keep as well the Lords Spiritual as Temporal and certain Knights for Counties by Authority of Parlement there being the same Tuesday were Sworn in the Presence of the King upon the Cross of Canterbury de les tenir sustenir de esteer ove ycelles to hold uphold and stand with them without Fraud or Deceit according to the Form and Effect of the Oaths by them made before as contained in the Parlement-Roll The Names of the Bishops Lords and Knights do here follow The Arch-Bishop of Canterbury The Arch-Bishop of York The Bishop of London The Bishop of Winchester The Bishop of Ely The Bishop of Norwich The Bishop of Excester Chancellor The Bishop of Rochester The Bishop of Hereford The Bishop of Salisbury The Bishop of Lincoln The Bishop of St. Asaph The Bishop of St. Davids The Bishop of Chester The Bishop of Chichester The Bishop of Landaff The Abbat of Westminster The Abbat of St. Edmondsbury The Duke of York The Duke of Albemarle The Duke of Excester The Marquess of Dorset The Earl of Stafford The Earl of Salisbury The Earl of Northumberland The Earl of Glocester The Earl of Westmerland The Earl of Worcester The Earl of Wiltshire Treasurer The Earl of Suffolk The Lord Grey of Ruthin The Lord Ferrers of Groby The Lord Lovell The Lord Camoys Sir John Bussy Sir Henry Green Sir John Russell Robert Teye After this the Chancellor by the King's Command required openly all those that had been Sworn and would observe the Judgments Oath and Ordinances should hold up their Right Hands which was done by all the People in the King's Presence On the 23d of April 6 Placit Coron ut supra n. The Judgment of H. Bowet following the King and Committee that had the Authority of Parlement were at Windsor where Henry Bowet Clerc was brought before them where it was shewn the King That the Duke of Hereford since the Judgment given against him at Coventry had by Petition amongst other things obtained from the King Letters Patents That if any Lands of Inheritance descended or fell to him in his absence for which he ought to do Homage he might by his Attorneys Sue for and have Livery of them and his Homage and Fealty respited Which Letters Patents being granted by Inadvertency without due Advice or mature Deliberation as they ought to have been and being then viewed and diligently examined it was found that they were clearly against the said Judgment because the Duke of Hereford after that Judgment was not a Person capable to have or receive Benefit by the Leters Patents and for that they had been adjudged void as appeared by the Parlement-Roll And therefore because Henry Bowet Clerc had been the Chief Contriver and Manager of the said Petition the King by the Assent of the Committee who had the Authority of Parlement adjudged him Traitor and to be Drawn Hanged Headed and Quartered and all his Lands and Tenements as well in England as Gascony and all his Goods and Chattels to be forfeited But because he was the King's Chaplain he pardoned the Execution of the Judgment and granted him his Life with this That he should be Banished England for ever While these things 7 Hypodygâ—â— Neustr f. 552. n. 50. were doing here there came News from Ireland That Lieutenant Roger Earl of March was there slain by the Irish To Revenge whose Death and subdue the Irish the King levied a considerable Force and went into Ireland with The King goes into Ireland several Bishops and many of the Nobility Toward which Expedition he Raised Money by undue Ways and taking up Carriages Victuals and other Necessaries without paying for them by which and many other Imprudent Rash and Vnadvised Practices he had made himself and Government uneasie to the People The Duke taking advantage of King Richard's absence thinks of coming for England 8 Walsingh Hist fol. 358. n. 10 20 30. The Duke of Hereford lands in England to demand his Inheritance with Thomas Arundel Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and the Son and Heir of the Earl of Arundel and a small Company he took Ship in France and hovering a while about the English Coast to spie whether there were any ready to resist them at length landed at Ravenspur in Yorkeshire where there came into him Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland and Henry his Son Ralph Earl of Westmerland and other Lords so as in a short time he had an Army of 60000 Men They marched speedily to Bristol
DE His Excuse for not answering Fol. Ib. His Lands adjudged to be seized Fol. 148 A His Endeavours to incense the Nobility against the Spencers and the Queen against the King Fol. Ib. BC His motion in Parlement whether King Edward II. or the Prince his Son should Reign over them Fol. 161 D He with the Bishops of Winchester and Lincoln the Contrivers of King Edward's Deposition Fol. 162 E Adolphus the Emperor deposed and the manner of it Fol. 63 D The occasion of his being deposed Fol. Ib. F Alexander III. King of Scotland dies without Issue Male Fol. 14 F His Grand-daughter Margaret the Maid of Norwey his Heir Fol. Ib. Anglesey Isle when taken Fol. 7 F Appellant Lords in Richard II.'s Reign with their Protestation Fol. 371 C The Lords and Commons Oath to stand by them Fol. Ib. F Their Articles against several Lords and others Fol. 372 c. Their Impeachments exhibited Fol. 383 E They desire that what was done in Parlement 11th of King Richard might be revoked Fol. 401 F Appealed Lords and others refuse to appear Fol. 384 E Judgment pronounced against them Fol. 385 A None of them to be restored Fol. 390 C Ard betrayed to the French Fol. 333 D Articles of Peace between King Edward III. and John King of France Fol. 263 c. Artois Robert de his Advice to Edward III. to claim the Crown of France Fol. 198 E Arundel Richard Earl restored by Edward III. to the Blood Lands and Goods of his Father Fol. 191 C He is made Admiral and his great Success at Sea Fol. 367 DE One of the Appellant Lords in Richard II.'s Reign Fol. 371 C Is appealed of High Treason Fol. 405 A His Trial and Judgment Fol. 407 Thomas Bishop of Ely made Chancellor Fol. 366 E Is Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and Impeached of high Treason Fol. 397 B Is adjudged a Traitor and to be Banished Fol. 398 C His Preachment upon the Deposition of King II. Fol. 433 A His Speech at the opening the first Parlement of Henry IV. Fol. 436 A Ayston John a Wyclivite in Oxford Fol. 459 F Proceedings against him Fol. 460 461 His Confession and Recantation Fol. 462 B. Baliol John and Brus Robert their Titles to the Crown of Scotland how to be Examined the main Question and their Pedigrees Fol. 25 A C E John his Title adjudged good by Edward I. King of England Fol. 28 D Possession granted him by King Edward's Writ Fol. 29 A He swears Fealty to King Edward Fol. Ib. C The Form of his Homage and by whom Witnessed Fol. Ib. E He appears at London on the Earl of Fife's Complaint Fol. 31 E His Plea granted by King Edward Fol. 32 A He excuses his Appearance in the English Parlement Fol. Ib. F His Demands of Satisfaction for Injuries Fol. 33 A He Confederates with the King of France Fol. Ib. C He returns his Homage and defies King Edward Fol. 34 D He is beaten and submits He renounces all Confederacies against King Edward Fol. 36 C E He is committed to the Tower at London Fol. 38 A He is again released and on what Conditions Fol. 66 A His Character of the Scots Fol. Ib. C Edward his Son claims and recovers the Crown of Scotland Fol. 194 E F He does Homage and Fealty to Edward III. King of England Fol. 195 A B His Grant to King Edward for his Assistance Fol. 196 A B His ill Vsage by his Subjects and Grant of the Crown of Scotland to King Edward Fol. 256 BC Ball John his Speech to the Rabble Fol. 349 E Bannock-Bourn Battel Fol. 120 B Barons See Nobility Bateman William Bishop of Norwich his Death Fol. 253 B Beauchamp Sir John made Governour of Calais Fol. 246 F Belnap Robert and other Judges Opinions concerning the Statute and Commission Fol. 378 C The Witnesses to their Opinions Fol. 379 F They are accused of High Treason Fol. 380 A His Excuse Fol. 386 C Sentence against him Fol. 387 A His Life spared upon Mediation of the Bishops Fol. 388 A He is Banished into Ireland Fol. 389 C He is again recalled Fol. 396 F Bereford Simon adjudged a Confederate of Mortimer's and executed Fol. 190 BC Berkley Tho. acquitted of the Murther of Edward II. Fol. 191 B Bertrand de Guesclin made Constable of France Fol. 290 C Berwick surprized by the Scots and retaken by the English Fol. 256 A 339 A Bigod Roger Earl of Norfolk and Marshal grants his Lands c. to the King and his Heirs Fol. 74 D He surrenders his Earldom and Marshalship with the occasion of it Fol. 75 AB Regranted to him by the King Fol. Ib. C Bintly Sir Walter his Victory over the French Fol. 251 C Blake John Impeached with his Answer and Sentence Fol. 387 BD Bohun Humphrey grants his Lands Honours and Offices to the King Fol. 76 D He is restored upon Marriage of the King's Daughter Fol. ib. E Bouler Robert made Lord Chancellor Fol. 211 B The Arch-Bishops Letter to him to preserve the Liberties of the Church Fol. ib. C Bowet Henry adjudged a Traitor for his Advice to King Richard in favour of the Duke of Hereford Fol. 418 D Brabason Roger his Answer to the Scots Petition to King Edward Fol. 30 C Brember Sir Nicholas accused of Treason by the Lords Appellants Fol. 373 374 He pleads Not Guilty but is Condemned and Executed Fol. 385 BE Bristol taken by Queen Isabel Fol. 158 C Brittans offer to yield their Towns and Castles to the English Fol. 339 D Their Duke's Alliance with King Richard Fol. ib. E He sends to England for Assistance and makes a Peace with the French King Fol. 342 AD Bruce alias Brus Robert his Title to the Crown of Scotland Fol. 26 B He is excluded by King Edward I. Fol. ib. E He is made King of Scotland and Crowned Fol. 84 B He is put to flight by the English Fol. 85 A 92 C He reduced the greatest part of Scotland to obey him Fol. 119 E F He is Excommunicated but doth not regard it Fol. 123 E His Confederate Thomas Earl of Lancaster Fol. 135 E He obtains a Truce with England for 13 Years Fol. 147 A David his Son denies Homage to Edward III. Fol. 196 E He submits and owns him his Superiour Fol. 198 C Burgh Sir William impeached of High Treason Fol. 386 A His Excuse in answer to it Fol. ib. E He is condemned Fol. 387 A His Life spared Fol. 388 A He is banished into Ireland Fol. 389 C He is recalled Fol. 396 F Burley Simon and others impeached Fol. 388 He is found Guilty Condemned and Executed Fol. 389 A C. CAlais besieged by Edward III. King of England Fol. 237 E Is in great distress Fol. 241 E Is surrendred Fol. 242 D Cambridge Rioters their Practices against the Vniversity Fol. 354 A How punished Fol. Ib. E Edmund Earl the King's Vnkle created Duke of York Fol. 369 E Cardinals Pentionars to King Edward I. Fol. 76 A
Vsage of the Welch Fol. 7 A The Earldom of Poictou comes to him by his Queen Fol. 8 A He gives up his Right in Normandy Fol. 1b B His Summons to the several Counties Cities and Burghs Fol. 10 A He demands a Subsidy and injoins the Form of it Fol. 1b E F He undertakes the Croysado and forbids the sending the Money collected for it to the Pope Fol. 11 C D His Answer to the Pope's Letter Fol. 12 A His Son Prince Edward born in Wales Fol. 13 F He goes into France and stays there 3 years Fol. 14 E He punishes his Justices at his return for Bribery Fol. 1b F He demands Margaret Grand-daughter to Alexander III. King of Scotland for his Son Fol. 15 A His Concessions to the Scots for promoting the Match Fol. 16 F He appoints a Lieutenant in Scotland for Queen Margaret Fol. 17 C He Claims the Crown of Scotland on Queen Margaret's Death Fol. 18 A His Title Fol. 19 A He receives and restores the Guardianship of Scotland Fol. 22 F The Scots Swear Fealty to him Fol. 23 A His Sentence against Ten of the Competitors Fol. 27 E F He Adjudges the Right to John Baliol Fol. 28 D He grants him Possession and receives his Fealty Fol. 29 A D His Protestation to the Scots Petition Fol. 30 E He hears and grants the King of Scots Plea Fol. 32 He is Defied by the King of Scotland Fol. 34 D He Beats the Scots to a Submission Fol. 36 A He sends their King to the Tower and appoints them a Governour Fol. 38 A The Peace between him and the French broken Fol. 1b C His Alliance with the Emperor Fol. 1b F He shuts up the Barns and Granaries of the Clergy for refusing him a Subsidy Fol. 40 E His Alliance with the Earl of Flanders Fol. 42 A His Son Prince Edward to Confirm it when at Age Fol. 43 A He is angry with the Clergy Fol. 45 A His Pilgrimage to Walsingham in Norfolk Fol. 44 D His Writs to restore the Clergy that complied Fol. 46 And against Spreaders of False News and Publishers of Excommunications Fol. 47 57 His Orders for fitting out his Fleet Fol. 51 E All of 20 1. per Annum to provide to go with him Fol. 52 A His Summons to his whole Military Service Fol. 1b Several Lords refuse their Duty and Service Fol. 53 E His Grant of a general Protection to the Clergy Fol. 54 A His Vnwarrantable Ways to Raise Money Fol. 1b F His Declaration concerning such as refused their Duty and Service Fol. 55 They present him their Grievances Fol. 57 D He goes into Flanders and Promises Remedy at his Return Fol. 58 D He confirms the great Charter Fol. 59 F 64 65 A Truce between him and King Philip Fol. 60 C c. The Names of his Allies and Confederates Fol. 1b D He overthrows the Scots at Falkirk Fol. 64 B His Marriage with the French King's Sister Margaret Fol. 67 B He grants the Statute of Articles upon the Charters Fol. 68 B His march into Scotland with an Army Fol. 70 D His Answer to the Pope's Claim of the Kingdom of Scotland Fol. 71 C His Title to Scotland sent to the Pope with an Account of their Perfidiousness Fol. 73 C He grants a Truce to the Scots and returns into England Fol. 74 A His Messengers to the Pope Fol. 75 F He concludes a Peace with France Fol. 77 A B He accuses the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury of Treason Fol. 81 B His Ordinances for the Security of Scotland Fol. 85 F He Banishes Piers Gaveston Fol. 92 A His Death Fol. 1b D His Wives and Issue Fol. 98 99 Prince Edward Eldest Son to Edward I. made Guardian of England Fol. 59 A Is Contracted to Isabel Daughter to the French King Fol. 65 E Is made Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester Fol. 73 F Is Knighted with 300 more Fol. 84 F His Familiarity with Piers Gaveston displeased the King Fol. 92 A II. began his Reign Fol. 100 B His Marriage and Coronation and Favours to Gaveston Fol. 101 A Ordinances for the Government of his Houshold Fol. 102 103 His Confirmation of them Fol. 110 E He recalled Gaveston Fol. 112 E He appoints Commissioners to Correct the Ordinances Fol. 113 E He goes to Newcastle with Gaveston Fol. 114 F His Request to the Lords to spare Gaveston refused Fol. 115 D He Prohibits his Lords coming to him Armed Fol. 116 F He makes a Peace with them Fol. 117 D He is overthrown by the Scots Fol. 120 B His Promise to observe the Ordinances Fol. 121 E He Summons his whole Military Service against the Scots Fol. 122 A His good will towards the Earl of Lancaster Fol. 1b C His Indenture of Agreement with him Fol. 124 C He allowed the Lords Petition Fol. 125 F He Pardoned the Earl of Lancaster and his Followers Fol. 126 B And the Lords that Acted without Law against the Spencers Fol. 133 D He besieged Leeds Castle and takes it Fol. 134 A He revoked the Spencer's Banishment and marched with an Army against the Lords Fol. 1b D He made a Truce with the Scots for 15 years Fol. 147 A He excused his Homage to the French King and made a Truce Fol. 1b B C He quits Aquitain and Ponthieu to his Son Prince Edward Fol. 149 A His Message to his Queen and Son to return into England Fol. 150 151 His Queen's Behaviour towards him Fol. 152 A He writ to the Pope about the Affair of his Queen Fol. 1b F He Proclaims Mortimer a Traytor but without effect Fol. 154 F 155 B He retired into Wales Fol. 157 B He sent the Great Seal to the Queen and Prince Fol. 159 A He is carried Prisoner to Kenelworth Fol. 161 A He is Deposed and for what Reasons Fol. 1b E F His Resignation to his Son Prince Edward Fol. 163 C Is Inhumanely Treated and Murdered Fol. 164 C D E His Issue Fol. 181 C Prince Edward Eldest Son to Edward II. contracted to the Earl of Haynault's Daughter Fol. 154 D Is made Guardian of the Kingdom Fol. 158 F III. is declared King Fol. 161 D His unwillingness to accept the Crown Fol. 163 B His Affairs Managed by his Mother and Mortimer Fol. 182 C 186 A He Pardoned those that came over with the Queen Fol. 1b He sent Mortimer and his Adherents to the Tower Fol. 186 B He Tryed and Executed several of his Father's Murderers Fol. 190 191 The Reward he gave for taking Mortimer Fol. 191 D E He Propounds to his Parlement the Business of France and Ireland Fol. 1b F The Advice he received Fol. 192 A B 194 B C He assisted Edward Baliol to recover the Crown of Scotland Fol. 1b F He received his Homage and Fealty Fol. 195 A B And 2000 1. per Annum for Assistance Fol. 196 A B He besieged Berwick and beat the Scots Fol. 1b F He concludes a Peace with them Fol. 197 A He is advised to
claim the Crown of France Fol. 198 E F The Alliances he made in order to it Fol. 199 He appoints Commissioners to Treat of his Right Fol. 200 B He Constitutes the Duke of Lorrain Vice-Roy of France Fol. 1b C He is made Vicar-general of the Empire Fol. 201 D His Title to the Crown of France Fol. 1b F He enters the French Dominions Fol. 202 C He acquaints his Parlement with it and demands an Ayd Fol. 203 A His Debt to his Allies Fol. 204 C An Ayd granted to clear it and the Commons Request to him Fol. 1b D E His great Victory over the French Fleet Fol. 205 C His Letter to his Parlement for more Money which was granted Fol. 206 A E He Besieged Tournay and Challenged Philip of Valois Fol. 207 A B He concludes a Truce Fol. 208 B C At his return into England he sent several of his Council to Prison Fol. 209 E He is reproved by the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Fol. 210 D His Letter concerning the Arch-Bishop and his Crimes Fol. 212 E His Letter answered and called a Libel by the Arch-Bishop Fol. 215 B His Reply to the Arch-Bishop's Defence Fol. 218 B He presses for further Supplies Fol. 219 D His Answer to the Statutes and Conditions Fol. 220 A His Revocation of them confirmed in Parlement Fol. 222 C He refused the Emperor's Mediation for a Peace Fol. 223 E F He received the Homage of John Earl of Montfort for the Dukedom of Bretagne Fol. 224 E He Married his Daughter to the Duke's Son Fol. 225 E He enters Bretagne with an Army Fol. 226 A He agrees to a Truce with France for 3 years Fol. Ib. D He acquaints his Parlement with it and their Agreement to it Fol. 227 228 He appoints Commissioners to Treat of Peace without effect Fol. 229 A His Parlement prays an end of the War and grant an Ayd Fol. 231 E He again sent Defiance to Philip of Valois Fol. 232 C He Complains to the Pope against him and the Pope's Answer Fol. Ib. E F 233 C The Success of his Arms in Gascoigny Fol. 235 E He and his Son Prince Edward land in Normandy Fol. 236 A His great Successes there Fol. Ib. B c. His Victory over the French at Cressy and the Number slain Fol. 237 B c. His Answer to the Commons Petition in Parlement Fol. 240 A He beats the French Army and takes Calais Fol. 242 C D His Vsage of the Calesians Fol. Ib. E 243 A He agrees to a Truce Fol. 243 B The Number of his Army and their Pay Fol. Ib. C He refused the Offer of the Empire Fol. 255 F He prevents the betraying of Calais Fol. 246 D His Vsage of the French Prisoners Fol. Ib. E He Institutes the Order of the Garter Fol. 247 His Title to France set forth in Parlement Fol. 248 E He offered Terms of Peace to the French Fol. 252 His readiness to Remedy his Subject's Grievances Fol. 250 251 His Agreement to Peace refused by the French Fol. 253 A B 261 D His Expedition into France Fol. 254 F His Army wast and destroy the French Country Fol. 262 A He concludes a Peace with France Fol. Ib. C D The Articles of the Peace Fol. 263 c. He sent his Commissioners to take possession of what was granted him by the Peace Fol. 278 F Some French Lords refuse to become his Subjects but are forced to it Fol. 281 His Kindness to the French Hostages Fol. 283 A He assumed the Title of King of France by the Advice of his Parlement Fol. 287 E His Offer to such as would Maintain his Title Fol. 288 B His Letter of Indemnity sent into Aquitain Fol. Ib. D His Voyage into France unfortunate Fol. 293 A B He sent Assistance to his Son Prince Edward Fol. 289 C His Answer to the Commons Petition Fol. 292 A His Fleet beaten nigh Rochell Fol. Ib. D His Town in Aquitain Revolt Fol. 297 D He agreed to a Truce with the French King Fol. 298 A His Answer to the Commons and Londoners Petitions Fol. 302 303 305 306 His Death Fol. 308 B His Issue by Queen Phillippa Fol. 323 Prince Edward Eldest Son to Edward III. made Guardian of England Fol. 204 F His great Victory over the French at Cressy Fol. 237 C He prevents the betraying of Calais Fol. 246 C His Expedition into France and his Success Fol. 255 E His Victory over the French at Poicters Fol. 257 His Civilities to King John and his Son Philip Fol. 258 A He is made Prince of Aquitain Fol. 282 E He ayds the King of Castile and restores him Fol. 284 C His Illness and return to Aquitain Fol. Ib. D His Necessities for want of Money Fol. 285 A The Complaint of the French Nobility against him Fol. Ib. B His Answer to the French King's Summons Fol. Ib. D He taketh Limoges by Storm Fol. 290 A He returns ill into England Fol. Ib. B His Death Fol. 302 C Ellys William impeached for Extortion Fol. 302 B England's Superiority over Scotland Fol. 35 B How to be divided if Conquered by France Fol. 238 F English Women imitate the French in their Apparel Fol. 246 A F. FItz-Alan Richard Earl of Arundel Admiral of the English Fleet Fol. 367 D He takes above 100 of the Enemies Ships Fol. Ib. E Is one of the Appellant Lords Fol. 371 C Flint Castle when and by whom built Fol. 7 A French King's Charge against King Edward I. Fol. 38 D He seized on Gascony Fol. Ib. F He provides to invade England Fol. 39 D Fulthorpe Sir Roger impeached and his Answer Fol. 386 A E Sentence against him Fol. 387 A His Life spared Fol. 388 A G. GArter See Order Gascony restored to King Edward I. Fol. 77 C Gaston Vicount Bearn refused his Homage to Edward I. Fol. 3 A Gaveston Piers his Familiarity with Prince Edward Fol. 91 F Is banished by the King Fol. 92 A His return into England and is made Earl of Cornwal and Lieutenant of the Kingdom Fol. 100 D E His Destent and Marriage with the King's Neece Fol. 101 B Is made Lieutenant of Ireland Fol. Ib. E The Nobility contrive to destroy him Fol. Ib. F He fled out of the Kingdom and is recalled Fol. 112 D He yields himself to the Lords Fol. 115 D He is Executed without Judgment Fol. 116 A Gloucester Thomas Duke with other Lords march with great Forces towards London Fol. 368 A Their Letter to the Mayor and Sheriffs Fol. Ib. B C Their Approach to the King with the manner of their Address and Reception Fol. 369 A B C They are excused by Proclamation yet march on towards London Fol. Ib. F The Keys of the City-Gates delivered to them Fol. 370 A They go to the King and obtain what they asked Fol. Ib. B C He offers to purge himself and is declared Guiltless Fol. 371 A His desire to have 1000 l. per Ann. settled on him by the King Fol. 392 F
61 F He corrupts the German Princes Fol. 63 C Of Valois his Alliances against Edward III. Fol. 200 A His Commissioners appointed to Treat of Peace Fol. Ib. His Fleet beaten by the English Fol. 205 C His Answers to Edward III.'s Challenge Fol. 207 D He is overthrown by him at Cresly Fol. 237 B His attempt to relieve Calais unsuccessful Fol. 242 B His Death Fol. 247 F Philpot John set out Men of War at his own Charge Fol. 334 C Is questioned for it and discharged Fol. Ib. Pickering Sir James his Petition in behalf of the Commons Fol. 335 C Plesington Sir Robert adjudged a Traitor Fol. 407 D Pole Sir Michael made Lord Chancellor Fol. 359 D He accuseth the Bishop of Norwich Fol. 360 C His Sentence against Four Knights Fol. Ib. D Is made Earl of Suffolk Fol. 363 F He is impeached his Answer and Judgment Fol. 365 ACE Is accused of High Treason Fol. 372 D Pope prohibits the Clergy from paying Taxes to Secular Princes Fol. 41 A His Explanatory Bull Fol. 54 C He by his own Power declared a Truce for Two Years between England and France Fol. 61 D Protested against by the French King Fol. Ib. F Accepted as Mediator and not as Judge Fol. 62 His Award between the Two Kings Fol. 64 65 He sent a Nuncio to compleat it Fol. 66 E His Claim to the Kingdom of Scotland Fol. 70 E He suspended the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Fol. 81 C He appointed Receivers of his Temporalities but refused by the King Fol. Ib. F He absolved Edward I. from his Oath Fol. 84 C His Exactions in England Petitioned against by the Nobility Fol. 88 C He mediates a Peace between Edward III. and King Philip Fol. 200 F 202 D His Reservation of the Bishopric of Rochester to the Apostolic See Fol. 319 B Price of Provisions set by the King Fol. 120 C Revoked again by him Fol. 121 D Probi Homines in Scotland who they were Fol. 31 F R. Rapyngdon Philip Professor of Divinity in Oxford a Wyclivite Fol. 459 F Proceedings against him Fol. 460 461 Reading Sim. Executed for speaking ill of Q. Isabel Fol. 159 C Reynolds Walter Arch-Bishop of Canterbury writes to the Pope to Saint Tho. Earl of Lancaster Fol. 139 A Richard Eldest Son to Edward Prince of Wales Guardian of England Fol. 293 C Is Created Prince of Wales Fol. 302 D II. his Coronation Fol. 326 B His Command to his Parlement to dispatch their Business Fol. 337 D His Necessities forced him to Pawn his Jewels Fol. 343 A His Mercy to the Followers of Wat. Tiler Fol. 347 B He Knighted the Lord Mayor and other Citizens of London for their Services in Suppressing them Fol. 350 D His Grants of Liberties and Manumissions to Villans revoked in Parlement Fol. 351 B He appoints certain Lords to Examine into Mismanagements of his Affairs Fol. 352 A He Excepted several Towns and Persons out of his General Pardon Fol. 352 F His Offer to go in Person with an Army into France Fol. 356 E The Parlement Advise him to the contrary Fol. 357 C His intent to Arraign the Duke of Lancaster Fol. 362 A His Expedition into Scotland Fol. Ib. F His Answers to the Commons Petition about his Houshold Fol. 364 A He is sent for to Parlement by the Duke of Gloucester and Bishop of Ely Fol. 365 F He changed the Great Officers of State Fol. 366 E He appointed Commissioners to Govern the Kingdom Fol. Ib. F His Protestation in Parlement Fol. 367 C He questioned the Commission and Statute made in the last Parlement Fol. Ib. F His Judges Opinions of them Fol. 368 A His Reception by the Mayor and City of London Fol. Ib. He Excused the Duke of Gloucester and others by Proclamation Fol. 369 C He granted their Requests Fol. 370 C He sent the Judges taken off the Benches to the Tower Fol. Ib. E His grant of the Commons Petitions Fol. 390 D The Lords Spiritual and Temporal renew their Fealty and Homage to him and he his Coronation Oath Fol. Ib. F Is declared to be of full Age Fol. 392 A He seized and restored the Liberties of the City of London Fol. 394 A He concluded a Peace with France Fol. Ib. B He goes into Ireland Fol. 395 D His Kindness to several Lords Fol. 399 B C He made several Dukes and Earls Fol. Ib. D The Lords and Commons Oaths to him Fol. 400 401 He Pardoned the Duke of Hereford Fol. 403 F He appointed at the Commons Request certain Persons to determine Matters undispatched in Parlement Fol. 404 D He prevented Battle between Hereford and Norfolk and banished them Fol. 415 B Statutes and Ordinances made by him and others appointed Fol. 416 A He goeth again into Ireland Fol. 419 A His Nobility and People desert him and join Hereford Fol. Ib. D He offered to quit the Government Fol. Ib. E He is sent to the Tower and a Parlement summoned in his Name Fol. Ib. F The Process of his Renunciation and Resignation Fol. 420 421 Articles objected against him Fol. 423 c. William Thyrning's Speech to him in the Tower Fol. 434 E Bishop of Carlisle's Speech in his behalf Fol. 438 D He was removed to Ludlow and from thence to Pontfract Fol. 452 A The French King attempts his Relief but without effect Fol. Ib. B The manner of his Death uncertain Fol. Ib. D c. His Wives Fol. 467 Rickhill Sir William appointed to take the Confession of the Duke of Gloucester at Calais Fol. 409 A His Declaration of the same in Parlement Fol. 411 B Rioters how to be prosecuted Fol. 193 Rochellers declare for the King of France Fol. 292 F Roger Earl of March slain in Ireland Fol. 419 A Rushook Tho. Bishop of Chichester Confessor to Richard II. impeached by the Commons Fol. 388 A His Answer Fol. Ib. B Is found guilty and banished Fol. 389 C S. SCotland and Scots their Agreement with Edw. I. about Margaret King Alexander III's Grandchild and Heir Fol. 15 16 K. Edward's Concessions to them about the Match Fol. Ib. Their Nobility desire time to Consider of King Edward's Claim of the Crown of Scotland after Margaret's Death Fol. 18 D E The Competitors produce nothing against his Claim Fol. 20 Their Names and Submission to King Edward's Decision and how their Rights were to be tried Fol. 21 A B D The Guardianship of the Kingdom committed to King Edward Fol. 22 E They Swear Fealty to him Fol. 23 B How the Right of Succession to be determined Fol. 24 F The Kingdom not partible Fol. 27 B They send for Absolution to the Pope Fol 35 A They Command the English to quit Scotland Fol. Ib. D They enter England are beaten and then they submit Fol. Ib. 37 E 64 B They again Revolt and Submit Fol. 53 A They force the English out of Scotland Fol. 59 A They apply themselves to the Pope Fol. 70 E The Terms of Peace granted them by King Edward