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
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
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
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
Silver to be paid in Nine Years by equal Payments the first whereof to begin at the Purification of the Virgin next coming after the Date of the Treaty or within Fifteen days after and to be made at Berwic if in the hands of the English otherwise at Norham-Castle in Northumberland not far from thence 2. That there should be a Truce upon sufficient Security by Instruments and Oaths between King Edward and all his People of England Scotland and the Isle of Man and David de Bruys and all the other People of Scotland and their Adherents by Land and by Sea in all Places without Fraud or Deceit until the said Sum was fully paid and that Edward de Baliol and other his Allies and Adherents should be comprised within the Truce 3. That all People of one Part and the other during the Truce A Truce for 9 years between England and Scotland with the Articles might Negociate and have intercourse one with another by Land and by Sea except Castles and Fortified Towns and Places And that if during the Truce any Country Town Land Burgh Possession Castle or Person of what Estate or Condition soever he was at the Day of making this Agreement should be taken or received into the Faith or Peace of one Party from the other soit pris ou receu de une Foi ou Pees a lautre that full Restitution should be made without Delay Contradiction or Fraud the same Hour they were demanded 4. That for the Payment of the Money according to the Agreement David was to send Twenty Hostages into England who were Twenty of the Eldest Sons and Heirs of the Earls and Best Men of Scotland named in this Article to remain there until the Money was paid c. 5. That the said David and the other Great Men of the Kingdom of Scotland as well Bishops and Prelates as other Lords of the Land should be bound by Letters and Oaths in the best manner and form could be devised for the Payment of the Money and Observation of the Truce And that the Merchants and Comunes of Aberdeen Dundee Perth and Edinburgh should be bound accordingly for themselves and all other Merchants of that Kingdom for the Performance of the Payment and Truce 6. That if the said David or others that should be bound for the Payment of the Money should fail of Payment of any of the Terms then the Body of David was to be re-entred into the Castle of Norham within three Weeks after every Failure there to remain until the Sum was paid 7. That if there should be any Rebels in Scotland against David item in cas que auscuns Rebelx Descoce soient contre le dit David they should not be received maintained ir supported by any in the Faith of King Edward Or if any in the Faith of King Edward should rise or rebell against him or his Officers he should not be received maintained or supported by the said David or any in his Faith or Legiance 8. By the Advice and Assent of the Prelates Great Men and Sages of the Kingdom King Edward accepted the Treaty and promised and granted in Good Faith That if David the Prelates Great Men and others of Scotland of his Party would observe and perform as much as belonged to them the Things treated and agreed upon That he would also keep and perform and cause to be observed the same without Fraud or Deceit according to the Purport of the Treaty In Witness and Confirmation whereof King Edward made his Letters Patents Dated at Westminster on the 5th of October This Treaty and all others before proved ineffectual 2 Hect. Boeth f. 326 b. n. 50. A new Treaty because the Scots would not consent to the Terms and Conditions of the Release Yet the Endeavours and Mediation before mentioned were continued and on the Third of October this Year Commissioners on both sides met at Berwic for King Edward 3 Rot. Scot. 31 Ed III. M M. 2. Dors A. D. 1357. The Commissioners on both sides John Arch-Bishop of York Thomas Bishop of Duresme Gilbert Bishop of Carlisle Henry de Percy Ralph Neville Henry le Scrope and Thomas Musgrave For Robert Steward Guardian of Scotland and the Prelates Lords and Commons of that Kingdom William Bishop of St. Andrews Thomas Bishop of Catness Patrick Bishop of Brechin Chancellor of Scotland Patrick Earl of March Robert de Irskin and William de Levington Knights When it was Agreed 1. That King David should be Released set Free and Ransomed for The Articles of a 10 years Truce K. David to be released an Hundred thousand Mercs Sterling Money to be paid yearly by Ten thousand Mercs the first Payment to begin at Midsummer then next following 2. That there should be a Truce kept and observed in England Scotland and the Isle of Man until the Money was paid And That Edward de Baliol and all King Edward's Allies should be included in this Truce 3. That for Payment of his Ransom Twenty Hostages should be delivered by King David there named in the Conditions of their Delivery 4. That King David the Prelates and Peers of Scotland should This and the former Truce to be observ'd be bound by Writing and Oath for Payment of the Money and Observation of the Truces 5. That if the Money was not paid as agreed they should be obliged to return the Body of King David who was to remain Prisoner while it was paid according to every Term of Payment These and some other Articles were the Conditions upon which he was released after more than Eleven Years Imprisonment King David was no sooner returned into Scotland after his Deliverance but he began to chastise 4 Hect. Boeth ut supra n. 60 70 80. K. David punished such as deserted him at the Battel of Durham such as deserted him and left the Field at the Battel of Durham And first he deprived Robert Stewart of the Right of Succession and declared Alexander Sutherland who was his own Sister's Son his Successor Robert Stewart being Son to the Daughter of the First Wife of Robert Brus and caused all the Nobility of Scotland to Swear Fealty to him But Alexander dying soon after he established Robert Stewart in the Succession according to his Right and caused the Nobility again to Swear Fealty to him He took away part of the Earl of the Marches Estate another Great Officer in the Army and punished others according to their Deserts It is not much to the Purpose of this History what the Troubles The Troubles and Confusions in France during King John's absence and Confusions were in France and the Miseries of that Nation during King John's Captivity or rather his Absence only from the French People they may be seen in the French Historians by such as desire to know them The bold Behaviour of the Provost of the Merchants and Parisians against the Dauphin the Insolence of the Rustics against the
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
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
Fifteenth The Lords and Commons also grant until Whitsunday next coming Ibm. n. 12. 3 s. per Tun upon Wine and a Shilling in the Pound upon Goods also they grant the Subsidy of Wooll Leather and Woollfells for the same time as it was last paid The Lords and Commons then likewise grant to the King 43 s. Ibm. n. 16. 4 d. the Sack upon Wooll above the ancient Custom upon Denizens and 46 s. 8 d. upon Strangers upon every Two hundred and forty Woollfells or Woollskins the same Duty upon both Denizens and Strangers as upon Wooll Upon every Last of Leather Six Marks and 6 s. 8 d. upon Denizens besides the ancient Custom and upon Strangers Seven Marks besides the ancient Custom from Whitsunday which was this year the 23d of May until Midsummer and from thence to Midsummer next following The Lords and Commons grant a Subsidy of Wooll Transported Rot. Parl. 13 Ric. II. n. 20. c. 33 s. 4 d. the Sack upon Denizens and 36 s. 8 d. the Sack upon Aliens In the Fourteenth of Richard the Second the Lords and Commons Ib. n. 14 Ric. II. n. 16 17. grant the King for Three years a Subsidy of Wooll c. Three Shillings upon every Tun of Wine and Twelve Pence upon every Pound of Merchandise as in the Eleventh year so as the same may be only employed for the defence of the Realm c. In the Fifteenth of Richard the Second the Lords and Commons Ib. 15 Ric. II. n. 10. grant Half a Fifteenth and Half a Tenth if the King went into France in his own Person to Treat of Peace or Truce and besides a whole Fifteenth and Tenth if there should be War In the Sixteenth of Richard the Second the Commons by assent Ib. 16 Ric. II. n. 11. of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal grant to the King for Three years the Subsidy upon Wooll c. Three Shillings the Tun upon Wine Twelve Pence per Pound upon Merchandise In the Seventeenth of Richard the Second the Lords and Commons Ib. 17 Ric. II. n. 12. grant to the King for Three years Six Pence upon every Pound of Merchandise and One Shilling and six pence upon every Tun of Wine In the Eighteenth of Richard the Second the Lords and Commons Ib. 18 Ric. II. n. 6. grant to the King a Tenth and a Fifteenth for the Conquest of Ireland The Commons by assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Ib. 20 Ric. II. n. 18. granted to the King Twelve Pence in the Pound of all manner of Merchandises and Three Shillings of every Tun of Wine for Three years The Commons on the last day of the Parlement at Shrewsbury Ib. 21 Ric. II. n. 75. which was Thursday the last of January by assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal granted to the King the Subsidy of Wooll Leather and Woollfells during his Life and One Tenth and One Fifteenth and Half a Tenth and Half a Fifteenth His Wives THE First was 1 Walsingh f. 281. n. 40. Ann Daughter to Charles the Fourth Emperor of Germany who having been his Wife 2 Ib. f. 350. n. 40. Twelve years died without Issue His Second was 3 Ib. f. 353. n. 30. Isabell Eldest Daughter to Charles the Sixth King of France to whom he was Married the 28th of October 1396 being then not above Seven or Eight years of Age and therefore never Bedded her having been Dethroned and Murthered about Three years after FINIS The Authors and Records from whence the Materials are taken NIcholas Trivet a Monk of Bridlington wrote the Life of Edward the First and lived in or about the time a Manuscript in the Norfolk or Arundell Library in Gresham-College London N. 220. the second Treatise pag. 52. This is Transcribed by Walsingham Adam Murimoth was a Canon of London and as he writes of A Manuscript in the Prologue to his History himself was of sufficient Age to consider what Authors wrote and to write himself he begins his History in A. D. 1303. and the first Three years Story he had out of the Chronicles of Westminster The residue he wrote was what he saw and heard in his own time which was to the Twenty first of Edward the Third in the Custody of Dr. Covell Master of Christ's College in Cambridge Much of him also Transcribed by Walsingham Robert of Avesbury wrote the Life of Edward the Third and P. 76. in the Rubrick to the first Chapter Pitsaeus P. 899. as he Reports of himself was Keeper of the Registry of the Court of Canterbury he lived in the time of Edward the Third a Manuscript in Sir Simmonds Dewes's Library at Stow Lanthorn in Suffolk Thomas de la More Kt. Servant to Edward Second and out-lived him Printed at Francfort A. D. 1603. Frier John Trokelow's Annals of Edward the Second a Manuscript in the Cotton Library Claudius D. 6. Puteanus or Monsieur Dupuy Counseller and Library Keeper to the King of France wrote the History of the Condemnation of the Templars from the great Register of the Process against them in the French King's Treasury of Records from Page 113 to Page 222 and out of the Inventory of the King's Papers and Instruments concerning the same Matters from Page 70 to Pag. 111. Froysard was a Clerk in King Edward's Court and Servant to Queen Philip and often in King Richard's Court as he says of himself in the last Chapter of his Second Volume Ranulph Higden or the Monk of Chester Mathew of Westminster and Walsingham are known Authors and mentioned before in my First Volume of this History The Close and Patent Rolls the Rolls of Rome France Gascoign Scotland the Parlement Rolls and others in the Tower of London Advertisements to the Candid READER THE Church-Affairs are mostly such as hapned and were Contested inter Regnum Sacerdotium between the Ecclesiastic and Secular Government relating to the Politic State of the Kingdom or indeed between our Kings and the Popes For certainly all our Intestin Troubles Commotions and Wars in some of the Former Reigns and in These were Fomented Managed and Carried on in a great measure by the then Clergy and even those called the Barons Wars who to make their Own Advantage and repair their Fortunes when reduced to a low Condition by their own Vanity and Profuseness were their great Assistants with Religion and Holy Church in the Front of their Designs That the Translations of the Latin and French are Literal and Verbal as near as might be according to the very Meaning of the Words And That some particular Parts of the Citations in Latin and French are more frequent than they might have been because many Men without the Words of the Authors themselves are loth to understand or believe such things as are delivered by them The INDEX A. ABbeys in England to pay no Taxes to foreign Houses Fol. 87 D Adam Bishop of Hereford accused of High Treason Fol. 147