the whole Parliament thrée Bishoppes Iohn K. Edvvard the second deposed Stratforde Bishoppe of Winchester Adam Tarleton Byshoppe of Hereforde and Henrie Byshoppe of Lincolne two Earles two Abbottes foure Barons and euery Countie thrée Knightes c. vnto the Kyng at Kenilworthe Adam de Tarleton Byshoppe of Hereforde being the chiefe in malice dyd the message with many greate threates declaring vnto hym theyr election and required him to renounce the Kyngly dignitie and Crowne to hys sonne the Kyng aunsweared with teares that hée was very sorie that hée hadde behaued hymselfe so euill towardes the people of hys Kingdome but séeyng the matter was so vnrecouerable he prayed them all to forgiue hym and thanked them that they had chosen his eldest sonne The messengers renounce all homages and dueties due to Edwarde of Carnaruan late King and Thomas Blunte Knight stewarde of housholde brake hys rodde resigned hys office and shewed that the Kyngs housholdehad frée libertie to departe and then returned with the Kings aunswere and made the people ioyfull He was thus deposed when he had raigned nintéene yeares sixe monethes and odde dayes He was deliuered to the custodie of Henrie Earle of Leicester and one hundred markes the moneth allowed for his charges in Kellingworth Castell ¶ King Edward the thirde EDvvarde the thirde borne at Windsor abonte the age of xiiij yeares after the deposing of hys Father beganne his raigne the Anno reg 1 xxv day of Januarie in the yeare of our Lorde 1326. He was crowned at Westminster on the first day of February by Walter Reignalds Archbishoppe of Canturburie This Prince was endued with passing beautie and fauour of wit prouident circumspect and gētle of nature of excellent modestie and temperaunce He aduaunced such persons to dignities as did most excel other in innocencie of life In feates ◠de la More Gual Baker of Swinbroke of armes he was very expert as the noble enterprises by hym atchieued doe well declare At the beginning of hys raigne he was chiefely ordered by hys mother Isabel vnto whome was assigned so greate a Dowrie that the thyrde parte of the Kyngdome didde scantelye remayne to hyr sonne The inhabitauntes of the Towne of Burie in Suffolke Regester of Burie Iohn Prigton The Abbay of Burie spoyled assembled themselues in warlike manner on Saint Lukes daye last before passed in the twentith yeare of Edward the seconde and besiged the Abbey of Burie brent the gates bet wounded y ◠Monkes bare out of the Abbey al the Gold siluer ornamentes bookes Charters and other writings with the assay of their coyne stampes and all other thyngs pertayning to their minte and all other goods as Brasse Pewter Iron Leade c. They also brent many houses about the Abbey and in the Town pertayning to the Abbot with his manours in Berton Packenham Rugham Oldhaw Hernigesburie Newton Whipsted Westle Riseby Ingham Ferneham Redwel Haberdon and others with all the corne in the same manours and droue awaye the horsses oxen kine swine shéepe c. They drewe y e monks out of theyr Abbey put them in prisons and after brought them againe to theyr Chapter house where they forced them to search Charters at theyr pleasure c. For the whiche factes the malefactours were this yeare by vertue of the Kings commission directed to Thomas Earle of Norffolke Commons of Burie executed Marshall of Englande Thomas Bardolfe and others apprehēded and conuicted nintéene of them wer hanged and one pressed to death After this the whole inhabitauntes of the Towne for that they had not stayde the malefactours of their enterprise in y ◠beginning as they might haue done wer amerced to pay y e Abbot toward his damages 140000. pounde Neuerthelesse the Abbot and Couent at the kings request who was there present with his nobilitie forgaue and remitted to them 122333. pounde sixe shillings eight Burie amerced perice of the summe and for the rest vsed suche fauour that if they truely payde 2000. markes in twentie yeares following and obserued their couenaunts for good order and quietnesse they forgaue them all the rest About thys time the like stir was made againste the Record ecclesia Christi Cantu Monkes of Canterburie whereof I fynde recorded as followeth King Edward preparing an army into Scotland commāded the Baylifes and Citizens of Canterburie to furnish him twelue horssemen and sende them to Nowcastel towarde which charge the Citizens required ayde of the Monkes who aunswered them that without the assent of the Kyng and theyr Archbishoppe they would not agrée therevnto for so much as the Kings of Englande had founded theyr churche in frée and perpetuall almes Wherevpon William Chilham Baylife and many commons of the Citie assembled themselues in the Preaching Friers Churchyarde conspired and sware against the Monkes as followeth 1 That they would ouerthrow the pentises windowes and milne belonging to the Monkes 2 That no Citizen should dwell in any house belonging to the Monks 3 That all rents belonging to the Monkes of Canterburie should be gathered to the vse of the commons 4 That no man shoulde sende or sel to the Monkes anye victuals 5 That they should sell all the horsses and beasts y ◠came into the Citie with cariage to the Monkes 6 That al such Monks as came forth of their house shold be spoyled of their garments 7 That a trench shoulde be cast to stop all men from going in or comming out 8 That euery Pilgrime shold at his entring swere that he should make no offering 9 Also that euerye of those commons aforesayde should weare on their finger a ring of golde of those that belonged to Thomas Becket Syr Iohn the Earles brother of Henalt came to helpe Cro. Pet. Coledge Edwarde the thirde againste the Scottes with fiue hundred men of armes whiche Henawders and the Englishmen fell out by chaunce on Trinitie Sonday at Yorke where 80. of the Lincolnshire men were slaine and buried vnder a stone in S. Clements Churchyarde in Fosegate The King wente againste the Scottes that were entred Iourney tovvards scotland Englande as farre as Stanhope Parke in Wardale where they were besieged thrée dayes but they escaped Iames Douglas one night secretly entring the English campe came néere to the kings tent to haue taken or slain him but his Chaplein being a bolde man and well armed with some other beyng slaine he with much adoe got backe vnhurte Isabel the Quéene being perswaded that the Earle of Leicester too muche fauoured the olde King hyr husbande Tho. de la More Walter Barker of Swinebroke through the subtile deuise of hyr scholemaster Adam Tarleton Bishop of Hereforde appointed that Thomas Gornay and Iohn Maltrauers Knightes hauing receyued him into theyr custody should carrie him about whether they would so that none of hys well willers shoulde haue accesse vnto him or vnderstand where he made any long abode These brought him out by nighte from Kenilworth and
and Townes in the like order as afore and thus to continue for euer as in the indentures tripartite more playnely may appeare Cardinall Poole who had long time bin forth from this Cardinal Poole Realme and now in great estimation in the Court of Rome was sent for by Quéene Mary to returne into his Countrey of England The third of Nouember the weathercocke of Paules was set vp which cocke wayed fortie pound his length VVeathercock of Paules from the bill to the tayle was four foote and his breadth ouer the wings thrée foote and a halfe the which cocke béeing of copper was ouer gilt The thirtéenth of Nouember Doctor Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury Lady Iane that was before proclaymed Quéene and the Lord Guilford hir husband were arraigned at the Guild hall of London and condemned of Treason The Parliament was dissolued on the sixth of December And on the one and twentith of December beganne Latine seruice in the Church throughout England the Church seruice to be done in Latine as was enacted by the last Parliamente and as the same had bin left in the last yeare of King Henry the eyght In the beginning of the moneth of January the Emperour sent a noble man called Ecmondane and certayne other Embassadors into England to conclude a marriage betwéene King Phillip his sonne and Quéene Mary of Englande The fourtéenth of January D. Stephen Gardener Bishop of Winchester Lord Chancellour of England in the Chamber of presence at Westminster made to the Lordes Nobilitie and Gentlemen an Oration very eloquent wherein hée declared that the Quéenes Maiestie partly for amitie and other waightie considerations had after muche suite on the Emperours and Prince of Spaynes behalfe made determined by the consent of the Counsell and Nobilitie to match hir selfe with the sayde Prince in most godly and lawfull matrimonie and declared further that she should haue for hir ioynter thirtie thousand Duckets by the yeare with all the lowe Countrey of Flanders and that the issue if there happened any betwéene them two lawfully begotten should bée heire as well to the Kingdome of Spayne as also to the sayde lowe Countrey He sayde therefore that they were all bound to thanke GOD that so noble worthy and famous a Prince would vouchsafe so to humble hymselfe as in thys marriage to take vppon hym rather as a Subiect than otherwise for the Quéene and hir Counsell shoulde rule all thynges as â—â—e dyd before and that there shoulde bée of the Counsell no Stranger neyther to haue the custodie of anye Fortes or Castels c. nor beare anye rule or office in â—he Quéenes house or else-where in all Englande with â—yuers other Articles there by hym rehearsed whereâ—â—e hée sayde the Quéenes pleasure and request was â—â—at lyke good Subiectes for hir sake they woulde most â—â—â—inglye receyue him with reuerence ioy and honoure The next day the Lord Maior of London with his bréethren the AldermeÌ„ were sent for to the Court and to bring with them fortie of the head commoners of the Citie vnto whome before the Counsell the Lord Chancellour made the like Oration desiring them to behaue themselues like good subiects with all humblenesse and reioycing The purpose of this marriage was so gréeuously taken of diuers men that for this and for Religion they in such Conspiracy sort conspired against the Quéene that if the matter had not broken out before the time by them appoynted men thought it would haue brought much trouble and daunger The xxv of January Sir Iohn Gage Lord Chamberlayne certified the Lord Maior of London that Sir Thomas Commotion in Kent by Sir Thomas VViat Wyat with certayne other Rebels were vp in Kent aboute Maydestone wherevpon great watche was kepte and that night the Lord Maior rode about to peruse the same and euery night after two Aldermen did the like in the day time the gates of the Citie were warded by substantiall CitizeÌ„s The xxvij of January the Lord Treasurer came to the Guild hall from the Counsell to request the Citizens to prepare fiue hundred footemen well harnessed to go agaynste Wyat which was granted and made ready the same night and on the morrow were deliuered to their Captaines and sent to Grauesend by water The xxix of January the Duke of Norffolke with the Captayne of the Gard and other souldiers The Duke of Norffolke sente against VVyat and the Captaine and Souldiers that were sent from London minded to assault Rochester Castell where Wyat and his people lay but before the setting forward of these VVyat strengthened vvith the Queenes Ordinance men the Duke sent Mayster Nory an Herault vnto Rochester with the Quéenes Proclamation of pardon to all such as would desist from their purpose who comming to the bridge woulde haue gone through into the Citie but they that kept the bridge would not suffer him till that the Captayne came who at the last granted the same to be read â—â— the Citie but holding a Dagge against him cryed speakâ—â— softly or else they would shoote him thorough so that they would not suffer the people to heare the Proclamation which béeing ended each man cryed they had done nothing wherefore they should néede any pardon and in that quarrell which they had taken in hande they would lyue and dye neuerthelesse at the last Sir George Harpar receyued the pardon outwardly and béeing receiued vnder the Duke of Norffolkes protection came on forwarde againste the Kentishmen and euen as the company were set in a readinesse and marched forward toward the Bridge Brette béeing Captayne of the fiue hundred Londoners of which the more parte were in the fore-ward turned himselfe aboute and drawing out his sword sayd these or like words Maysters we go about to fight against our natiue Countreymen of England and our friends in a quarrell vnrightfull and partly wicked for they considering the great and manyfolde miseries which are like to fall vpon vs if we shall be vnder the rule of the proude Spanyards are héere assembled to make resistance of their comming for the auoyding of so great mischiefes and inconueniences likely to light not only vpon themselues but on euery of vs and the whole Realme wherefore I thinke no English heart ought to say against them much lesse by fighting to withstande them and therefore I and others meaning such as were in that ranke with hym will spende our bloud in the quarrell of this worthy Captayne Mayster Wyat and other Gentlemen héere assembled which words once pronounced each man turned their Ordinance agaynst their folowers and therevpon cryed a Wyat a Wyat of which sodeyne noyse the Duke the Captayne of the Gard and other béeing abashed fledde forthwith immediatly came in Mayster Wyat and hys company on horssebacke rushing in amongst as well the Garde as the Londoners and sayde so many as wyll come and tarrye wyth vs shall be welcome and so many as wyll departe good leaue haue they and so
feaste was kepte at Greis Inne neare vnto Holborne and there were at that time Sergeants feaste made seauen newe Sergeants of the lawe The xxvij of May in the towne of Milnal in Suffolke eight Milnal in Suffolke brent myle from Newmarket 37. houses besides barnes stables such like were coÌ„sumed with fire in the space of two houres Shane Oneale who had most trayterously rebelled against Shane Oneale discomfited Statuta Regni Hiberniae Edmond Campion the Quéenes Maiestie in Ireland had done manye greate outrages in the partes of Vâ—ster was this yeare wyth hys greate losse manfully repelled from the siege of Dundalke by the garrison thereof and afterward through the great valiancie of sir Henrie Sidney Knight of the order Lord Deputie of Irelande he was so discomfited in sundry conflictes with the losse of 3500. of his men that nowe foreséeyng hys declination to be iminant he determined to put a colleâ— about his necke disguising himselfe to repayre to the Lord Deputy patiently to require his pardon to haue his life But Neil Maâ—keuer hys Secretary who had incited him to this rebellion perswaded hym firste to trye and treate the friendship of certaine wilde Scots that then say 〈…〉 in Clan Ibon vnder the conducting of Alexander Oge and Mec Gilliam Buske whose father and vncle Shane Oneale hadde lately kylled in an ouerthrow giuen by the Scots neuerthelesse he wel liking this perswasion went to the saide camp the second of June where after a dissembled entertainment and quaffing of Wine Gilliam Buske burning wyth desire of reuenge of his fathers and vncles death and ministryng Shane Oneale slayne quarrelling talke issued out of the Tent and made a feay vppon Oneales men and then gathering togither hys Scots in a throng sodainely entred the Tent againe who there wyth their slaughter Swordes hewed in péeces Shane Oneale hys Secretarie and all hys company excepte a verye fewe whych escaped by flyght The 8. of June sir Thomas Sackuile Knight was created Baron of Buckhurst at Westminster in the Quéenes Palaice On Saint Iohns euen at nighte was the like standyng VVatche at Midsomer watche in London as had béene on Saint Peters euen in the yeare before passed The xxix of July Charles Iames the yong Prince of Creation in Scotlande Scotlande after a Sermon made by Iohn Knokes was crowned King of Scots at Sterling Churche where were read certaine Commissions wyth the Quéenes priuy seale at them for the establishing of the same The first for hir resignation of the Crowne and gouernement of the yong Prince hir sonne The seconde to aucthorize the Earle of Murrey to be Regent during his minoritie The thirde to gyue authoritie and power to seauen other ioyning with the sayde Erle of Murrey in case he shoulde refuse to exercise the same alone that is to saye the Duke of Chaâ—â—leroy the Earles of Leunex Argyle Athelmorto â—lencarne and Marre the commissions béeing ended the Byshoppe of Akelley wyth twoo Superintendents procéeded to the Coronation the Earle Morton and Lorde Hume tooke â—the for the King that hée shoulde rule in the faith feare and loue of God to maintaine the Religion then preached in Scotlande and persecute all aduersaries to the same c. The whole ceremony of the coronation was done in their mother tongue and at that time the Quéene of Scottes was prisoner at Loughleuen Thomas Ramsey William Bonde the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Sir Roger Martin Mercer the 28. of October After a drye Summer followed a sharpe Winter wyth suche a scarcitie of Fodder and Hay that in dyuers places the same was solde by waighte as in Yorkeshire and in the Peake Haye was solde for fiue pence the stone there followed also a greate death of cattel especially of horse shéepe In the moneth of January the Quéenes Maiestie sente into the narrow seas thrée of hir ships named the Antelope the Swallow and the Aide and one Barke named the Phoenix the whiche were manned with v. C. men and hir Highnesse appointed the charge of those ships and men to Mayster William Holstoke Esquier Comptroller of hir Highnesse shippes who had commaundement to stay the subiects of King Philip and according to hys duetie and charge hée vsed suche diligence that on the eleauenth of Marche nexte following he mette with eleauen saile of Flemishe Hoyes vppon Bolongne whyche came from Roanâ— and in them foure hundred and odde Tuunes of Gascoigne and French Wines whyche they intended to haue conueyed into Flaunders but William Holstoke stayed al the saide Hoyes sent them to London where they made their discharge and the Flemings disappointed Moreouer on the eight and twentith of March the said William Holstoke seruing in the Antelope at that present Admirall in his company being William Winter the yonger at that time Uizadmirall seruing in the Ayde and â— Basing Capitaine of the Sâ—â—llowe and Thomas Generley Captaine of the Phoenix meâ—te in the narrowe Seas wyth fouretéene sayle of greate Hâ—lkes whych were come out of Portingale and bounde to Flaunders theyr chiefe lading béeyng Portingale Salte and yet hadde good store of Spanishe Rialles of Plate and also greate store of Spices the which fourtéene Hulkes did mainteyne their fight for the space of two houres and after that they did perceyue that they could not preuayle the sayd W. Holstoke and hys company tooke eyght of the same Hulkes whereof sixe were sent into the Riuer of Thamis and the Admirall and Uizadmirall of the sayd Hulkes being two great Shippes which W. Holstoke himselfe did take were conuayed to Harwich and there discharged The xxviij of March through vehement rage and tempest Great vvinds of windes many vessels in the Thamis with two Tiltebeates before Grauesend were sunke and drowned The xxvj of June deceassed Thomas Yong Archbishop Archbishop of Yorke deceassed of Yorke at his manour of Shefield and was honourably buryed at Yorke This yeare Carâ—â—nall Odet Chastilion fléeth out of Peter Ramâ—â— France into England where he remayned till the yeare of our Lord 1570 and then dyed at Canterbury and was there bâ—ryed in Christes Church Iohn Oleph Robert Harding the 28. of September Sheriffes The xj of October were taken in Suffolke at Downam bridge â—éere vnto Ipswich eyghtéene monstrous fishes some Monstrous fishes of them conteyning xxvij foote in length the other xxiiij or xxj foote a péece at the least Sir Thomas Roe merchant Taylor the 28. of October Maior Sherife Iames Bacon the 26. of Nouember At the costes and charges of the Citizens of London a new Conduit was builded at Walbrooke corner néere to Nevv Conduit at VValbroke Anno reg 11 Downegate which was finished in the moneth of October the water whereof is conuayed out of the Thamis The xvij of January Philip Mestrell a Frenchman and A Frenchman executed two Englishmen were drawne from Newgate to Tiborne and there hanged the Frenchman quartered who
Pag. 1040 Charitable deedes of sir Rowland Hill Page 1044 Charitable deeds of George Barnes Pag. 1054 Charitable deedes of sir Thomas White Page 1075 Church Images brent Pag. 1113 Churches in London striken and broken by Tempest Pag. 1113 Charitable actes of Maister William Lambe Pag. 1188 Cilicester a Citie Pag. 84 Cicester brent Pag. 88 Cirencester Pag. 114 Citizens of Canterburie againste the Monkes of Christs Church Pag. 354 Citizens of Norwich against the Prior. Page 647 Claudius a Romaine Pag. 37. 39 Clearkenwel Pag. 177 Clearkes of Oxford banished Pag. 281. discord betwixte the Clearkes and laye men Pag. 307 Cleargies landes required Pag. 499 Clopton Maior of London Pag. 865 Cleargie cōdemned in premunire Pag. 978 Cleargie sworne to the King Pag. 979 Counties or shieres in England Pag. 1 Cornewal described Pag. 12 Cordila Queene Pag. 22 Crowne of gold first worne in Eng. Pag. 24 Conspiracy in Ireland against King Herie the sixth Pag. 862 Coronation of Q. Anne Bulleine Pag. 916 Coilus King Pag. 30 Coilus King Pag. 54 Colchester builded Pag. 54. besieged spoiled repayred again Pag. 129. besieged Pag. 248 Comodus Emperour Pag. 57 Coil King Pag. 67 Constantius Emperoure Pag. 67. dyed at Yorke Pag. 68 Constantine the great Pag. 68 Constantinus Emperour Pag. 69 Constance Pag. 70 Constantius Pag. 70 Constantine King Pag. 86 Comet appeared Pag. 135. 180 Couentrie priuiledged Pag. 146 Comen Earle of Northumberland slaine Page 161 Conspiracie against William Conqueror Page 165 Cogshall in Essex Pag. 199 Conestable of Colchester lost his owne life to saue the Kings life Pag. 205 Colledge at Lambeth Pag. 229 Corne full of vermine Pag. 264 Corne deare Pag. 234. 276. 300. 641 Corne cheape Pag. 867 Constantine hanged Pag. 257 Coyne bace Pag. 271 Conuerts their house founded Pag. 863 Colledge of Saint Laurence Poultney founded Pag. 364 Comodities of peace Pag. 404 Cobham Colledge Pag. 460 Counsellers bannished the Court Pag. 506 Counsel of Constance Pag. 5 Colledge and Hospital at Higham Ferres Pag. 630 Conspiracie disclosed Pag. 588 Conspiracie of Abingdon Pag. 634. at Couentrie Pag. 933 Colledge at Tateshal Pag. 640 Cooke Maior of London Pag. 720 Coyne enhaunced Pag. 716. newe Pag. 717. 877. Colingborne beheaded Pag. 847 Combat for the kingdome Pag. 138 Combat at Reading Pag. 204. betwene two Dukes Pag. 528. at Westminster Pag. 479 Combat foughte at Westminster betwixt Iohn de Viscount born at Cipres and Thomas Delamarch bastard sonne to Philip king of France before king Edwarde the thirde Pag. 428 Combat Pag. 496. in Smithfielde Pag. 633. 643. at Tothil Pag. 644. in Smithfield Pag. 647. 649. at Tothill Pag. 1151 A Cooke boyled in Smithfielde Pag. 978 Coyners and clyppers executed Pag. 980 Conduite in Lothburie Pag. 1034 Commotion in Somerset and Lincolne shires Pag. 1040. in Cornewall and Deuonshire Pag. 1040. in Yorkeshire Pag. 1042 in Somersetshire and other places Pag. 1009. 1110. 1111. Coronation of Queene Marie Pag. 1072 Counter remoued into Woodstreete first Pag. 1098 Coronation of Queene Elizabeth Pag. 1111 Conference of religion at Westminster Page 1111 Creda first King of Mertians Pag. 101 Criklade a towne Pag. 128 Criples gate of London Pag. 166 Crockard and Pollard false moneys Pag. 310 Creation of Dukes and Erles Pag. 500. 527. degraded Pag. 543 Crosby Sherife of London his gift to the Citie Pag. 725 Criples gate of London builded Pag. 749 Crosse in Cheape builded Pag. 862 Creations at Bridewel Pag. 940. of the Erle of Leicester Pag. 1123 Croomewell maister of the Rolles beheaded Pag. 1003 1019 Cranmer brent Pag. 1100 Cunobelinus King Pag. 35 Cups of brasse by the high wayes Pag. 109 Custos of London Conestable of the Tower Pag. 303. 305 Conduit in Cheape builded Pag. 302 Conduite in Cornehill builded Pag. 550 Conduite in Cheape builded Pag. 748 Conduite in Fleetestreete builded Pag. 640 Conduite in Grassestreete builded Pag. 865 Conduit at Bishops gate builded Pag. 878 D. DAunce of Paules Pag. 567 Daunsey in Essex Pag. 99 Danes arriued in Englande Pag. 117. at Lindsfarne Pag. 118. Portland an Ile Pag. 117 Danes spoyled London Pag. 119 Danes spoyled Winchester Pag. 120 Danes had a victorie at Reading Pag. 120 Danes in England murdered Pag. 135 Danes destroyed Canterbury and murdered their Archbishop Pag. 135. their tyrannie Pag. 136 Danes possesse all Englande Pag. 139 Dane gilte Pag. 142 Danes Church without Temple bar Pag. 142 Darkenesse in Paules Church Pag. 262 Dauid king of Scots taken Pag. 399 Dampot and Chapman two of the Guarde hanged Pag. 1020 Dakers of the North arraigned Pag. 1022 Daunce of Paules pulled downe Pag. 1040 Dagger throwne at a Preacher Pag. 1060 Denmarke contributorie to Brytayne Page 27. 28 Dedantius king Pag. 30 Detonus king Pag. 30 Decius Pag. 64 Deorham Pag. 114 Dearth in England that mens flesh was eaten Pag. 162 Delacrase Abbey Pag. 254 Delapoole Duke of Suffolke murdered Page 651 Death in London Pag. 874 Dearth without scarcitie Pag. 1176 Disputation at Christs Hospital Pag. 1098 Disputation at Oxford Pag. 1091 Description of Englande Pag. 1 Dinellus king Pag. 31 Ditch about London Pag. 137. Pag. 244. cleansed Page 875 Ditche aboute the Tower of London Page 220 Dissention at Oxforde the Citizens indited Pag. 430. 505. 510 Diuell in likenesse of a Frier Pag. 550 Domitianus Emperour Pag. 54 Doncaster Pag. 19 Douer Castel builded Pag. 34. besieged Pag. 250 spoyled by Frenchmen Pag. 307 Dorchester a Bishop Sea Pag. 114 Donemouth Pag. 117 Downmowin Essex Pag. 178 Donwich spoyled Pag. 300. by Tēpest Pag. 302. Dogges flesh good meate Pag. 336 Dragons seene Pag. 263. 297 Durham a Bishops Sea Pag. 135 Ducket hanged in Bow Church Pag. 301 Dukes banished Pag. 529 Duke of Burgoigne enamored on the Countesse of Salisburie Pag. 622 Drie Sommer Pag. 1020 Duke of Buckingham accused of Treason Pag. 928. beheaded Pag. 929 Duke of Norffolke sent into Scotland Page 1114 Duke of Norffolke and Earle of Surrey sent to the Tower Pag. 1034 Duke of Somerset brought to the Tower Pag. 1044 arained Pag. 1050. beheded Pag. 1052 Duke of Northumberlande and others beheaded Pag. 1070 Duke of Suffolke beheaded Pag. 1090 Duke of Norffolke sent to the Tower Pag. 1154. araigned Pag. 1155. beheaded Pag. 1162 E. EBranke king Pag. 19 East Saxons Pag. 88. 98 East Angles Pag. 84. 96 Earthquake Pag. 133. 165. 169. 180. 182. 185. 202. 205. 212. 214. 270. 271. 274. 297. 491. 497. 630. 1049. 1121. 1210. Earle Waren excommunicate for aduoutry Pag. 337 Earle of Northumberland slaine by the commons there Pag. 864 Earle of Deuonshire created Pag. 1072 Earle of Warwicks mariage Pag. 1128 Earle of Warwick sente against the Rebels Pag. 1140 Earles of Northumberlande and Westmerland fledde Pag. 1140 Earle of Deuonshire executed Pag. 1015 Earle of Surrey beheaded Pag. 1034 Earle of Hertforde made Lord Protector Pag. 1035 Erle of Deuonshire to the Tower sent to Fodringay Pag. 1090 1071 Earle of Kent restored Pag. 1154 Earle of Darby deceased Pag. 1164 Earle of Northūberland
of vertuous liuing of the posteritie to be embraced of wise handling of weighty affaires diligently to be marked and aptly to be applied what incouragement of nobilitie to noble feates what discouragement of vnnaturall subiects from wicked treasons pernitious rebellions and damnable doctrines to conclude what perswasion to honestie godlynesse and vertue of all sorts what dissuasions from the contrary is not plentifully in them to be found So that it is as hard a matter for the Readers of Chronicles in my fansie to passe without some colours of wisedome inuitements to vertue and loathing of naughtie factes as it is for a welfauoured man to walke vp and downe in the hot parching Sunne not to be therewith sunburned They therefore which with long studie earnest good will to their great costes and charges haue brought hidden Histories from duskie darkenesse to the sight of the world and haue bin diligent obseruers of common wealthes and noted for the posteritie the fleeting manners of the people and accidents of the times deserue at the least thankes for their paines and to be misreported of none seeing they haue laboured for Note that the backebiter slayeth three at once himself by his ovvne malice hym that crediteth hys false tales and him that he backebiteth all I write not this to complayne of some mens ingratitude towardes me although iustly I might but to shewe the commodities which ensue of the reading of Histories that seeing they are so great and so many all men would as they ought imploy their diligence in the honest fruitefull and delectable perusing of the same and so to accompt of the Authors as of men carefull for their Countrey and to confesse if neede require by whome they haue taken profite It is now seuentene yeres since I seing the confuse order of our late English Chronicles and the ignorant handling of auntient affaires leauing myne owne peculiar gaines consecrated my selfe to the search of our famous Antiquities What I haue done in them before time the former editions of my Summarie of Chronicles maye wel testifie but howe farre be it spoken without arrogancie I haue laboured for the truth more thā some other this last edition wil euidently declare wherein that I differ from the inordinate and vnskilful collections of other men it is no maruel seeing that I doe not fully agree with my selfe as some malitious persons haue fondely charged me but lette it be considered that there is nothing perfect at the first and that it is incident to mankinde to erre and slippe sometime but onelye the point of fantasticall fooles to perseuer and continue in their errors Wherfore seeing that the perusing of auncient Records and best approued Histories of all times not without great difficultie obteined doe not onely moue me but for their aucthoritie driue me to acknowledge both mine and other mens errors and in acknowledging to correct them I truste to obtaine thus muche at your handes that at the leaste you wil call to remembraunce a moste gentle and wise lawe of the politike Persians wherein it was enacted that a man accused to bee in their lawes a trespasser and founde guiltie of the crime should not straight waye bee condemned but after a diligent enquirie and searche of his whole life and conuersation no slaunder imputed vnto him as of importaunce if the number of his laudable factes didde counteruaile the contrarie he was full quit of the trespasse The same lawe do I wishe the readers of these my Chronicles to put in vre that if the errors be not so plentiful as Histories truely alleadged they wil beare with them for as I promised so haue I tried all matters worthie of immortalitie by the certaine Touchstone of best allowed Historiographers and yet notwithstanding some faults by misprinting haue escaped the correction whiche easily may be seene and amended by the diligent Reader ⧠A briefe Description of Englande Scotlande VVales and Cornvvall BRitaine or Brutanne which by two names is called England and Scotland is an Ilande in the Ocean Sea scituate right ouer against France one parte of which Isle Englishmen do inhabite another parte Scottes the thirde parte Walshmē and the fourth part Cornishmen All they eyther in language conditions or lawes do differ among themselues England so called of Englishmen whiche did winne the same is the greatest parte and is diuided into xl Counties xl Counties or Shires which we call Shires whereof ten that is to say Kent Sussex Surrey Southampton Barkeshire Wiltshire Dorsetshire Somersetshire Deuonshire and Cornwal doe conteyne y e first part of that Iland which part bounding toward the South standeth betwéene the Thames and the Sea From thence to the riuer of Trent which passeth through the middest of England be xvj shyres wherof the first sixe stāding Eastward are Essex Middlesex Hartfordshire Suffolk Northfolke and Cambridgeshire the other ten whiche stande more in the middle of the Country are these Bedforde Huntingdon Buckingham Oxforde Northampton Rutland Leicester Notingham Warwike and Lincolne After these there be vj. which border westwarde vppon Wales as Gloucester Hereford Worcester Shropshire Stafford Chester and Monmouth About the middle of the Region lie Darbishire Yorkshire Lancashire and Cumberlande On the left hand toward the West is Westmerland Against the same is the Bishoppricke of Durham and Northumberlande whiche boundeth vpon the North in the Marches of Scotland These shyres be diuided into xxij Bishoprikes which by a Gréeke worke be called Dioceses Of whiche Dioceses Canterburie hath Kent Rochester hath part of Kent London hath Essex Middlesex and part of Hartford Chichester hath Sussex Winchester hath Hampshire Surrey and the Isle of Wight Salisburie hath Barkeshire and Wiltshire Exceter hath Deuonshire and Cornwal Bath and Welles hath Sommersetshire Worcester hathe Worcestershire and parte of Warwickshire Gloucester hath Gloucestershire Hereforde hath part of Shropshyre and Herefordshyre Couentrie and Lichfield hath Staffordshyre Darbishire part of Warwickshyre and part of Shropshyre Lincolne which is the gretest lying betwéene the Thames and Humbre hath Lincolne Leycester Huntington Bedforde Buckingham and the residue of Hartfordshire Ely hath Cantabridgeshire and the Isle of Ely Norwich hath Suffolke and Northfolke and part of Cantabridgeshyre Oxforde hath Oxfordeshire Peterborow hath Northamptonshire and Rutlande Bristowe hath Dorsetshire And this is the prouince of the Archbishop of Canterburie whych is the Primate of all England wyth Wales The Archbishop of Yorke hath Yorkeshire Notinghamshire and a piece of Lancashire The Bishop of Durhā hath the Bishoprike so commonly called and Northumberlande Chester hath Chesshire most part of Lancashire Richmonde part of Flintshire and part of Denbighshire Carlile conteyneth Cumberlande and Westmerlande and thys is the other Prouince of the Archbishoppe of Yorke whiche is another primate of England and was of long time also primate of al Scotland but these Dioceses take their names of the Cities where those Seas be placed the chiefe whereof is London where in the beginning was
Gillemehelmach Ocadeci Ocaruell with other Princes and the Bishops submitting themselues and theirs to the King of Englande and his successors builded for him a greate Pallace at Dublin where he helde hys Christmas The Church of Norwich with the houses thereto belonging was brent and the Monkes were dispercled The King returned into England on Monday in the Easter 1172 wéeke about the Ascention tide sayled into Normandy At Andouer a Priest praying before the Altare was striken with thunder and slayne Likewise one Larke and his brother was brent to death with the lightning Cro. Colâ—estre King Henry the sonne with his wife the French Kings daughter were both togither Crowned at Winchester the seauen and twentith of August by the handes of Rotrod Archbishop of Roane King Henry the elder was assoyled of the death of Thomas Geruasius Anno reg 19. the Archbishop vpoÌ„ his oth made that he was not priuie to it King Henry married the eldest daughter of Hubert 117â— Ypodigma Earle of Morton vnto his sonne Iohn surnamed without land He also made Mary the sister of Thomas Becket Abbesse of Berking Henry the yonger rebelling in Normandy against King Henry the yonger rebelled Henry his father many Earles and Barons fledde ouer to him whereby diuers strong battayles were fought as well in England as in Normandy Poytow Guyen and Britaine There tooke part against the father Lewes King of France William King of Scottes Henry Geffrey and Iohn his sonnes Robert Earle of Leycester Hugh of Chester and others Robert Earle of Leycester with thrée thousand Flemings comming into England ariued at Walton and after were receyued by Earle Hugh into Framilingham Castell They brent the Castell of Hagoneth the Citie of Norwich c. but by Iohn Taxtor Anno reg 20 Richard de Lucy the Kings Justice both he his wife and as many Normans and Frenchmen as were with him were taken but the Flemings were all slayne or drowned This battayle was fought without the Towne of S. Edmondsburie néere to a place called S. Martins of Farneham William King of Scottes with many Flemings entring into England wan the Castels of Appleby Brough and Pridehoâ— King Henry the elder returning into England in shorte time subdued his Rebels The Citie of Leycester by his 1174 Leycester brent commandement was brent the walles and Castell raced and the inhabitants sparcled into other Cities Robert de Scoteuile Radulph de Mandeuile Barnard Bayllole of whome Baynards Castell tooke the name and William de Vescy came to Newcastell and after tooke King William King of Scottes taken prisoner Ger. Dorobor Baynardes Castell Sca. Cron. prisoner and sent him to London from whence King Henry tooke him and the Earle of Leycester with him into Normandy and there imprisoned them at Roane where King William compounded for his ransome and after was deliuered at Yorke for 4000. pound The Nobles of Scotlande came no néerer than Pembles in Scotland to méete with their King wherefore he tooke with him many of the yonger sonnes of noble men in England that bare him good wil and gaue them landes in Scotland which he tooke from suche as were Rebels to him there The names of those Gentlemen that he toke with him were Baylliol Brewle Soully Mowbrey Saintclere Hay Giffard Ramesey Lanudell Bisey Berkeley Wellegen Boys Montgomery Valx Celenille Friser Grame Gurlay and diuers other The v. day of September Christes Church in Canturburye Geruasius Doro. Wil. Thorne Canturbury brent was burned with certayne houses of Office in the court King Henry the sonne with his bréethren other were reconciled to King Henry the father The Archbishop of Canturbury held a Counsell in S. Peeters Anno reg 21 1175 at Westminster on Sunday before the Ascention day at which Counsell were present all the suffragan Bishops of his Prouince Worcester except that was sicke and so excused himselfe and y â— Bishop of Norwich which was deceased A brother of the Earle Ferrers was in the night priuily Roger Houed slayne at London which wheÌ„ the King vnderstoode he sware that he would be auenged on the Citizens for it was then a common practise in the Citie that an hundred or more in Night vvalkers in London did murther all they met a company of yong and old would make nightly inuasions vpon the houses of the wealthy to the intent to robbe them and if they found any man stirring in the Citie within the night they would presently murther him in so much that when night was come no man durst aduenture to walke in the Stréetes When this had continued long it fortuned that as a crew of yong and wealthy Citizens assembling togither in the night assaulted a stone house of a certayne rich man and breaking through the wall the good man of that house hauing prepared himselfe with other in a corner when he perceyued one of the Théeues named Andrew Bucquinte to leade the way with a burning brand in the one hand and a potte of coales in the other whiche he assayed to kindle with the brand he flew vpon him and smote off his right hande and then with a lowde voyce cryed Théeues at the hearing whereof the Théeues tooke their flight all sauing he that had lost his hande whome the good man in the next morning deliuered to Richarde de Lucy the Kings Justice This Théese vpon warrant of his life appeached his confederates of whome many were taken and many were fledde but among the rest that were apprehended a certayne Citizen of greate countenance credite and wealth surnamed Iohn the olde when he coulde not acquite himselfe by the waterdome offered the King for his life fiue hundred Markes but the King commaunded that he shoulde be hanged which was done Gualter Couen and the Citie became more quiet The Kings of England both father and sonne did eate Anno reg 22 1176 and drinke at one Table lay in one Chamber and wente togither to visite the Tombe of Thomas late Archbishop of Canturburie accomplishing indéede the peace whiche they had promised The King caused to be razed and ouerthrowne the Castels of Huntington Walton Groby Tutsburie Hay and Trest Castels razed with many other in reuenge of the harme the Lordes of them had done to him This yeare 1176 after the foundation of Saint Mary Redulphus de diceto Oueryes Church in Southwarke the stone bridge ouer the The stone bridge at London begon to bée buylded Ex recordis SaÌ„ctae Mariae de Southwarke Iohn Leyland Thamis at London was begonne to bée founded A Cardinall and the Archbishop of Canturburie gaue a thousande Markes toward the same foundation In March the King called a Conuocation of the Cleargie at London when the Popes Legate was set and the Archbishop of Canturbury on his right hande as primate of England the Archbishop of Yorke disdeyning to sitte on the lefte hande came and swapt him downe to haue thrust
leÌ„gth one Robert Venâ—â—e Knight a Nonffolke man requesting licence of the King being armed with his sword drawne marcheth toward the Champion méeting by the way a certayne blacke mastife Dogge Turnebull a callenger ouercome in combate which wayted on the Champion whome with his sworde he suddaynely strake and cut him off at his loynes at the sight whereof the mayster of the Dogge slayne was much abashed and in his battayle more warie and fearefull whose left hande and head also afterwarde this worthye Knight cut off After this Combate both the armies met but they fighting scarce halfe an houre certayne of the Scottes béeing slayne they closed their armie which was in thrée all into one battayle but at length fléeing the King followed them taking and chacing them into lakes and pittes for the space of fiue miles There were slayne of them eyght Earles 1300. Horsemen and of common Souldioures 35000. at a place by Berwike called Bothull néere vnto Halidon In the meane season the Scottes had beséeged the Castell of Kambrugh in which at that time the Quéene was but when they heard of the victorie aforesaid they lefte the séege and fledde The Townesmen of Berwike yéelded to the King Edvvarde vvan Barvvike King of England both the Castell and the Towne who placing garrisons there he sent Edward Baylioll and other nobles to kéepe the Realme of Scotland Earle Patritius in the next Parliament holden at Yorke made fealtie and did homage vnto the King by oth who receyued of the King for yéelding vp of Berwike vnto him many honors and preferments notwithstanding this Earle returned againe to Rebellion who holding Dunbar against the King was beséeged by William Mountacute Earle of Salisburie This yeare William Elsing Mercer of London obteyning Rising Spittle 1. Leyland the Kings licence made a new Hospitall of an olde house of Nunnes by Creeplegate within the wall of London â—iber trinitate and placing Chanons Regular there he became their first Priour endowing the same with Lands for the reléefe of the poore and impotent Nicholas Pike Iohn Husband the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Iohn Preston Draper the 28. of October Adam Tarleton first Bishop of Hereford then of Worcester Anno reg 7. is now translated to Winchester Edward Bayholl King of Scottes held a Parliamente at 1333 Gallowey to the which came the noble men of Englande and made clayme for their landes and possessions whiche they had in Scotland and so returned peaceably into their Countrey King Edward kept his Christmas at Wallingford The Quéene was deliuered of a daughter named Isabell at Wodstoke The King sommoned a Parliamente to be holden at Yorke the same to begin on Monday the seconde wéeke of Lent to the which Parliament the King of Scottes called Conquerour although he were warned to be there yet he came not but sent messengers to excuse him to wéete Henry de Bellemount and William Montacute Earles certaine other Barons and Knightes who signified that the King of Scottes Conquerour coulde not be there withoute great danger for that certaine Scottes lay in the Ilands ready to do him domage At the feast of Saint Iohn Baptist the said King of Scottes King of Scottes did homage Conquerour did his homage to King Edward of England at Newcastell vpon Tine and not long after that King Edward tooke homage of the Duke of Briteine for the Earledome of Richmont In a Parliament at London it was tolde the King that the Scottes had taken Richard Talbot sixe other knightes and had slayne many footemen wherefore the King tooke a fiftéenth of the Laytie and a tenth of the Cleargie to the intente the malice of the Scottes mought bée brideled Iohn Hamond William Hausard the 28 of September Sherifes Maior Sir Iohn Poultney Draper the 28 of October King Edwarde wente toward the Marches of Scotland and wintered in those coastes but vnderstanding that the Earle Dassels was trayterously turned to the Scots Henry Bellemount beséeged by the Scottes he entred Scotland and reysed the séege and then kept his Christmas at Roxborow Anno reg 8. Presently after the feast of the Epiphany the French King sente messengers to King Edward to wéete the Bishop of Aur enges and certayne Lordes to treate a peace for the Scottes who wayted for an answere in Englande till Midlent and then at Nottingham a truce was granted vnto them vntill the feast of Saint Iohn next comming that in the meane time a Parliament might be holden of matters 1334 concerning peace and the state of both the Kingdomes in which Parliament holden at Yorke it was decréed that the King shoulde passe with his armie through Scotlande beyond the Scottish Seas the which thing was quickly performed and done but the Scottes desirous to fight a fielde they fayned that they woulde haue peace to obteyne the which many came aboute the feast of Saint Michaell and chiefely the Earle of Dascels wherevpon it came to passe that afterward the Earle of Morefe being taken prisoner at Edenborough was sente to be kept prisoner in England and Richard Talbot was ransomed for two thousand fiue hundred Markes but the Earle of Dascels willing to shew that he was truly reuolted to the King of England rode againste the Scottes at the séege of a certayne Castell and falling into the hands of his enimies bycause he woulde not yéeld he was slayne with thirtéene of his men After the feast of Saint Michaell the King continuing still in the Marches of Scotlande was dayly entreated by messengers from the French King concerning some peace to be made About the feast of Saint Martine Edwarde Bohune a noble man was drowned in the marches of Scotland for as he was driuing a bootie of Cattell ouer a Riuer he felte himselfe in danger causing his guide to ride before hym through the water where through the smoothnesse of the stone whereon the water ranne his guide not being able to take sure footing fell downe with his mayster being armed and before any help could come they were drowned in the bottome of the Channell Iohn Archbishop of Canterburie went ouer the Sea to Phillip de Valoys King of France requesting of him the continuance of peace and amitie betwixt the two Kingdomes to be mainteyned Secondly that all Townes and Castels taken before time by his father should be restored to the King of England Thirdly that the sayde French King should sweare neuer to giue ayde to the Scottes agaynst the King of Englande vnder which conditions the two Kings of both Realmes shoulde prepare to trauell towardes the holy lande and to fight agaynst the enimies of Christ But the French King accompted the King of Englande not worthie of his friendship so long as he continued warres against the Scottes his friendes whome he sayde were iust men Unto the seconde petition he woulde not otherwise consente therevnto than if all charges were repayde agayne which his father Charles de
who hyred ships for them of his owne charges and with his own money released the armour which the souldiours had gaged for their victuals more than a thousand in number The Scottes entred Comberlande Westmerlande and y e forrest of Engelwood slewe the inhabitauntes droue away the Cattle and robbed the Market and Towne of Penreth and whiles the Earle of Northumberland prepared to haue bene reuenged the king sent letters to the contrarie Iohn Vian Anno reg 4. French men tooke VVinchelsey knight with the French kings galyes toke the town of Winchelsea put the Abbot of Battaile to flight and toke one of his Monkes He also brent the Townes of Apledor and Rie about the least of Saint Laurence The eight of September foure Galeys of Fraunce came to Grauesende and burnt a great part of the Towne Walter Ducket William Knighthoode the. 28. of Sept. Sherifes Maior Guns inuented Polidor Sebastian Munster William Walworth Fishmonger the. 28. of October About this time the making of Gunnes was founde by a certaine Almaine who hauing the pouder of Brimstone in a Morter which he had beaten for a medicine and couered with a stone as he stroke fier a sparke chaunced to fal into y e ponder wherby a flame out of the morter raised the stone a great height whiche after he had perceyued made a Pype of yron and tempered the ponder with other and so finished that deadly engine as reporteth Blondus and R. Volaterianus the first that vsed shot to their behalfe and profit were the Venetians againste the inhabitauntes of Genoa During the Parliament at Northampton beginning the first of Nouember was haÌ„ged Iohn Kirby that slue the merchaÌ„t of Genoa whom he spake of before In this Parliamente an excéeding greate Taxe was demaunded 1381 Great Taxe which afterwardes was cause of greate disturbaunce Of all religious persons men and women sixe shyllings eight pence secular priests as muche and euery person man or woman foure pence to the King whiche was payde It was also ordayned that euery couple wedded should paye two shillings for euery foote of Beast and also homegilde but this was neuer asked By means of which payment in y e Sommer following the commons of Kent and Essex sodainely rebelled they being Commons rebelled Iohn Bal his Sermon Tho. Walsing animated therevnto by Iohn Ball a seditious Prieste who in hys sermons vsed to take for his Theame When Adam dalfe and Eue spanne who was then a Gentleman c. Affirming that al men were made a like by nature and therefore ought to laye away the yoke of bondage that they might enioye the wished libertie c. too shamefull sedicious and damnable to bée taughte whyche neuerthelesse so pleased the common people that they cryed hée should be Archbishoppe of Canterburie and Chauncellour of England This rebellion began at Dertford in Kent in manner as Rebellion begaÌ„ at Dertford Cro. S. Albons followeth The Collectours appointed to gather the foresayd groats or pole mony comming into the house of Iohn a Tiler demanded y e same for him his wife hys daughter other hys family but the Tilers wife denied to pay for hir daughter saying she was vnder age TheÌ„ sayd y t Collector that shal I soone wit and toke the mayde violently and dishonestly searched whether she were of age or no wherwith the mother made an outcry hyr husbande being in y e towne at worke When tidyngs came to him he caughte his lathing staffe in his hande and ranne réeking home where he reasoning with the Collectour who made him so bolde the Collectour being a proude fellow let flye at the Tiler but the Tiler voyding the stroke smote the Collectour on the heade wyth his lathing staffe that the braynes fell out where throughe great noyses arose in the streates and the poore people being glad euerye man arrayed hym to support this Iohn Tyler Thus the commons drewe togither and went to Maidstone from thence backe againe to Blacke Heath and so forth to London and entred the Citie on Corpus Christs day where they destroyed many goodly places of the Rebels entred London Sauoy S. Iohns Highburi brent nobles and other as the Sauoy Saint Iohns by Smithfielde the Manour of Highburie by Yseldon and the Temple where the Prentises of law were lodged for the encrease of theyr studie They set out of the Tower of London where the King was then lodged Simon Sudburie Archbishoppe of Canterburie The Archb. of Canterburie The priour of S Iohns a Frier Iohn Legge beheaded Lorde Chauncellour of Englande Robert Halles Priour of Saint Iohns and Treasurer of England William Apeltoâ— a Frier Minor the Kings confessour and Iohn Legge a Sergeaunt of the Kings and beheaded them on the Tower hill they beheaded diuerse other in manye places as sir Iohn Cauendishe Lorde chiefe Justice of Englande the Priour of Sainte Edmundesburie and other Rychard Lions a famous Lapidarie of London was drawen out of his house and beheaded in Chepe They beheaded all men of Law as wel prentices and vtter Baresters as Justices and al Jurers that they might get into their hands they spared none whom they thought to be learnes were it neuer so little especiallye if they founde anye to haue penne and ynke they pulled of hys whoode and all with one voyce of trying out as they had bin so many Diuels hale him into the stréetes and cut of his head They also beheaded all Flemmings not sparing anye Flemmings beheaded for reuerence of the church or other place where they found them they set thirtéene forth of the Frier Austines Church and seauentéene out of another Church in London they tooke two and thirtie in the Vintrie and many other here there in the Citie and Southwarke all whiche if they coulde not plainly pronounce Bread and Chéese but Brot and Caus lost their heades They spoyled all bookes of law recordes and monuments they coulde méete withall and set al prisoners at libertie The king to pacifie their furie offered them peace on Essex men pacified condition they woulde cease from burning of houses and slaughter of men whiche the Essex men toke and returned home but the Kentishe men remayned burning and slaying as afore Wherevppon the King sent sir Iohn Newton The K sent to VVat Tiler Knight to Wat Tiler their Captaine to intreate him to come and talke with him about his owne demaundes the Knight doing his message Wat Tiler aunswered that hée woulde come at hys owne pleasure neuerthelesse he followed softly and when he came neare Smithfielde where the king aboade his comming the same Knighte was sent againe to méete hym and to knowe his requestes but Wat Tiler séeing the knight come néere vnto him on horsseback sayde it hadde become hym better to bée on foote in his presence the Knighte aunswered that it was no harme â—ith himselfe was also on horssebacke therewith Watte Tyler drewe his dagger and offering to strike called
the number of thréescore and foure The tenth of September Iohn Claydon Skinner and A Skinner a Baker brent Richard Gurmonfrench Baker in Lombardstreeâ—e of London were brent in Smithsield Iohn Michelâ— Thomas Allin the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Mooregate first made in the vvall of LoÌ„don Thomas Fawconar Mercer the 28. of October This Thomas Fawconar Maior caused to breake the wall of London néere to the ende of Colmanstreete and made there a Gate vpon the moore side where was none before He also caused the ditches of the Citie to be cleansed and a commâ—â— priuie that was on the moore without the wall to be taken downe and another to be made within the Citie vpon Walbrooke into the which brooke he caused the water of citie to be turned by grates of iron in diuers places Our Embassadors the Bishops of Durham Norwich returning now the second time out of France declared to the King that the Frenchmen did but vse fraude and deceiptes wherefore the King being stirred vp vnto anger determined to aâ—atâ— their â—â—â—rninâ—â—â— and to teach them to vnderstaÌ„d their fully in â—â—aking of a â—â—éeping Dogge and forth with the King commanded all the Preâ—â—tes and Nobles of the Realme to come to London there to intreate of waightâ— affaires coÌ„cerning y â— Realme at y â— which time the Archbishop of Canterbury held a great counsayle in y â— which were chosen 〈◊〉 of the Cleargie of England to go to the generall Counsell that should be holden at Constance a Citie of Germâ—â— and so there were sent the Bishops of Salisburie Bath and Hereford and with them the Abbot of Westminster and the Prior of Worcester and many other wise men in coâ—â—â—â—â—â— of the Earle of Warwike whose presence did theÌ„ much honour This yeare the order of Church seruice throughout Anno reg 3. 1415 Order of Church seruice in England altered England was changed from the vse of Saint Paule to the vse of Salisburie which was to the great disliking of many men in those dayes When King Henry perceyâ—ed that the Frenchmen had with deceite entreated him with fayned promises and faire words he gathered his â—aâ—y togither apointed his bowmeÌ„â— men of armes prepared his engins all things necessary â—or y â— warres coÌ„manding all y â— should go w e him to be ready against the feast of Saint Iohn Baptist and to mâ—eâ—e him at Hampton The eyghtenth day of â—â—â—e King Henry with many Lords and others rode from London toward South-hampton the Maior 〈◊〉 and Craftes of the Câ—tle 〈…〉 ing him on his â—â—â—y to â—he â—owne of Kingston vpon Thamis whileâ—â— the King 〈◊〉 â—◠〈◊〉 〈◊〉 where he abode for his reliâ—â—â—â— and â—â—â—ffe â—â—nging to the warres On the last â—â— July was discouered a great conspiracie Conspiracy disclosed Tho. Wals Regist Maior against him by three 〈…〉 is 〈◊〉 of all the rest he pat greatest trust and confidâ—â—â—◠〈…〉 of them was Henry Scrope Lord Treasours the second Richard â—aâ—â—e of Cambridge brother â—o Edward Duke of Yorke and Sir Thomas Grey a Knight of the North these had made Edmond Earle of Maâ—â—h 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vpon a Booke not to dâ—â—â—â—ose their counsell and then â—â—lâ—â— him that they thought to 〈◊〉 the King and to 〈◊〉 the sayd Edâ—â—oÌ„â—â— King the which â—â— he refused to take vpon him they would â—â—ey him where vppon the Earle prayse them to giue him one houâ—es spaâ—e to take â—â—uiseâ—ent what was best to doe whiche being granted the Earle went secretly and â—olâ— the Kingâ— therâ—â—â— who caused them forthwith â—o be apprehended and brought before him where they confessed the â—â—â—ason for the which on the sixth of August they were arâ—â—â—gned in y â— Kings presence and the same day all three beheaded The Earle was buried head and all buâ— the other heaâ—â— were â—eâ—â—â— the one to Yorke the other to Newcastell vpon Tine and there seâ— vp On the eleuenth of August the King tooke shipping and entred the Sea with a thousand Sayle Enguerant sayth King Henry sayled into Normandy Tho. Wâ—â—s Titus Liuius Enguerant 1600. Sayles and the third night after arriued at Kedecaâ—x in Normandy whiche is betwixte Hereflete and â—imflete of whose comming all the Cities and States of thâ—â—â— partes being aduertised were striken with great feare The King the Dukes of Clarence and of Glocester his bréethren the Duke of Yorke his Unkle the Earles Barons Knightes Gentlemen and Souldiours 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 anâ—â—â—â— â— there and tooke land without any resistance and the King forthwith falling to the ground vpon his knées deuoutely prayde to God that to his honor he would giue him iustice of his enimies He had at his landing in his host sixe thousande Speares and xxiiij thousand footemen besides Gunners and other enginars artificers and labourers of whome the King had great abundance The King gaue to diuers Gentlemen the order of Titus Liuius Knighthoode and assigned the bearing of his Standarts and Banners to such meÌ„ as he knew to be of great strength and prowesse All thing being set in good order and array the King with all his host ascended to the toppe of an high hill there nigh and there he rested the next day On the sixtéenth day of August the Duke of Clarence leader of the foreward in good ordinance entred his iourney towarde a Towne called Herefleete distant from Kedecamp scarcely thrée leagues where he lodged his host in a field before the towne The King at his comming lodged himselfe nigh to the first warde not farre from the Towne The Earle of Suffolke Michaell at Poole Chiefetayne of the rereward lodged on the other side before the Towne Other noble men that had the conduct of the two wings lodged them one on the right haÌ„d the other on the left Forthwith were sent to the Towne men of armes in great number to sée the scituation thereof who shortly returned with a great pray of Cattell and enformed the King of all his demaundes Hereflete is the key of the sée of all Normandy and is scituate Enguerant Description of Herefleete vpon the Sea side by the Riuer of Seene betwixte two hilles and through the middle thereof runneth a Riuer whiche not farre from the same Towne entreth into the Seane and from thence both those Riuers in one descende into the Sea where as a great and goodly Hauen is belonging to the same Towne which Hauen is garnished with the defence of two faire and strong Towers and in the same Hauen a right great Nauie of Shippes may ride in safetie and if the inhabitants of this Towne enclose and képe within the Towne the course of the foresayd Riuer by their sluces as they may right well do then the Riuer riseth without the Towne so high that it forecloseth all entries to the walles so that no man may approch the towne on that part This Towne is also defended with high and thicke walles and towers and is also enuironed with broade
Maiestie at which time the King gaue the Almoner the Bishoprike of the same Sea Thomas VVolsey Bishop of Turney towards hys paynes and diligence susteyned in that iourney and when the King had established all things agréeable to his will and pleasure and furnished the same with noble Captaynes and men of warre for the safegard of the Towne hée returned agayne into Englande taking with him diuers noble personages of France being prisoners as the Duke of Longuile and Uicount Clarimont with other whiche were taken there in a Skirmishe after whose returne immediately the Sea of Lincolne fell voyde by the death of Doctor Smith late Bishop there the which Benefice his Grace gaue to his Almoner late Bishop of Turney elect who was not negligent to take possession thereof and Thomas VVolsey Bishop of Lincolne made all the spéede he could for hys consecration the solemnization whereof ended he found the meanes that he gate the possession of all his predecessors goodes into his hands It was not long after that Doctor Bambridge Archbishop of Yorke dyed at Rome being there the Kings Embassador vnto the which Sea the King immediately presented hys late and newe Bishop of Lincolne so that he had thrée Bishoprickes in his hands in one yeare giuen hym then prepared he for his translation from the Sea of Lincolne vnto Thomas VVolsey Archbishop of York the Sea of Yorke after whiche solemnization done he béeing then an Archbyshop Primas Angliae thought himselfe sufficiente to compare with Canterbury and therevppon erected hys Crosse in the Court and euery other place as well within the precinct and iurisdiction of Canterbury as in anye other place And for as muche as Canterbury claymeth a superioritie ouer Yorke as ouer all other Bishoprikes within Englande and for that cause claymeth as a knowledge of an aunciente obedience of Yorke to abate the aduauncing of hys Crosse in presence of the Crosse of Canterburie notwythstanding Yorke nothing minding to desiste from bearing thereof in manner as I sayde béefore caused hys Crosse to be aduaunced as well in the presence of Canterburie as elsewhere wherefore Canterburie being moued therewith gaue vnto Yorke a certayne checke for hys presumption by reason whereof there engendred some grudge betwéene Yorke and Caunterburie Yorke intending to prouide some suche meanes that hée woulde bée rather superior in dignitie to Canterburie than to be eyther obedient or equall to hym wherefore hée obtayned to be made Prieste Cardinall and Legatus de Latere vnto whome the Pope sente a Cardinals Hat wyth Thomas VVolsey Cardinall certayne Bulles for hys aucthoritie in that behalfe Yet you shall vnderstande that the Pope sente hym thys worthye Hatte of dignitie as a Iewell of hys honoure and aucthoritie the whych was conueyed in a varlets budget who séemed to all menne to bée but a person of small estimation Wherfore Yorke beyng aduertised of the basenesse of this messenger and of the peoples opinion thought it méete for hys honour that this Iewell should not be conueyed by so simple a person therefore caused him to be stopped by the way immediatly after his arriualin England where he was newly furnished in all manner of apparell wyth all kynde of costlye silkes whyche séemed decent for suche an hyghe Embassador and that done he was encountred vppon Blacke heath and there receyued wyth a greate assemblye of Prelates and lustie gallant Gentlemen and from thence conducted throughe London with greate triumph Then was greate and spéedie preparation made in Westminster Abbey for the confirmation and acceptance of thys hygh order and dignitie the whyche was executed by all the Byshoppes and Abbots aboute or nyghe London wyth theyr rych Myters and Copes and other ornaments which was done in so solempne a wise as had not bene séene the like vnlesse it had bin at the Coronation of a myghty Prince or King obtayning thys dignitie He thoughte himselfe méeâ—e to beare aucthoritie among the temporall power as among the spirituall iurisdiction wherefore remembring as well the tawntes sustained of Canterburie as hauing a respecte to the aduauncement of worldlye honor and promotion found the means with the King that he was made Lord Chancelour Thomas VVolsey lord ChaÌ„celour of Englande and Canterburie whiche was Chanceloure dismissed who had continued in that roume since long before the deceasse of Henrie the seauenth Nowe being in possession of the Chancelorshippe and endued wyth the promotions of the Archebyshoppe and Cardinall de Latere hauyng power to correcte Canterburie and al other Byshops and spirituall persons to assemble hys Conuocation when he would assigne hée tooke vpon hym the correction of matters in all their iurisdictions and visited all the spirituall houses hauing in euerye Diocesse all maner of Spirituall Ministers as Commissaries Scribes Apparators and al other officers to furnish hys Courts and presented by preuention whom he pleased vnto al benefices throughout all thys Realme And to the aduauncing further of his legantine iurisdiction and honor he hadde Maisters of his Faculties Maisters Ceremontarum and suche other to the glorifying of his dignitie Then had he his two great Crosses of Syluer the one of hys Archebyshopricke the other of hys Legacie borne before him whyther so euer he wente or rode by two of the tallest Priestes that hée coulde gette wythin the realme And to encrease his gaines he had also the Byshopricke of Durham and the Abbey of Saint Albons in commendation And after when Doctor Foxe Byshop Thomas VVolsey Byshoppe of VVinchester of Winchester dyed he surrendred Durham into the Ryngs handes and tooke to him Winchester Then had he in hys hande as it were in Firme the Bishoprickes of Bathe Worcester and Hereforde sorasmuch as the Incumbents of them were strangers and made their abode continually beyond the Seas in their owne Countries or else at Rome from whence they were sente in Legation to thys Realme vnto the King and for their rewarde at their departure Kyng Henrie the seauenth gaue those Bishoprickes and they béeing strangers thoughte it more méete for the assuraunce to suffer the Cardinal to haue their benefices for a conuenient summe of mony payd them yearely where they remayned than either to be troubled with the charges of the same or to be yearely burdened with the conueyance of theyr reuenues vnto them so that al the spiritual and presentations of these Byshoprickes were fully in hys disposition to prefer whom he listed He had also a greate number daylye attending vpon hym both of Noble men and worthye Gentlemen with no small number of the tallest Yeomen that he coulde gette in all the Realme insomuche that well was that Nobleman and Gentleman that coulde prefer a tall Yeoman to his seruice Ye shal vnderstande that he had in his Hall The order of the Cardinalies house continually thrée boordes kepte with thrée seueral principall officers that is to say a Stewarde whych was alwayes a Priest a Treasourer a Knight and a Comptroller
Wednesday following Upon whiche daye â—â—e Maior sir Stephen Pecocke in a gown of Criniosin Uelâ—â—t wyth his collar of Esses and al the Aldermen in Scarâ—â—â— with collars and chaines and all the Counsell of the Ci 〈…〉 with them tooke their Barge at one of the clocke and the 〈…〉 had another Barge and so rowed to Greenewiche where were manye Lordes Knightes and Gentlemen assembled al the walles betwéene the Kings palace and the Friers were hanged with Arras and all the way strewed with gréeue rushes The Friers Church was also hanged wyth riche Arras the Font was of siluer and stoode in the middest of the Churche thrée steppes highe whiche was couered with a fine cloth and diuers Gentlemen with aproâ—â—â— and towels aboute their neckes gaue attendance aboute it that no filth shoulde come to the font ouer it hung a square Canapie of Crimosin Sattin friuged with Golde aboute it was a rayle couered with red Say betwéene the Quéere bodye of the Church was a close place with a panne of fyrâ— to make the childe ready in when all these things were â—â—dered the childe was brought to the Hall and then eueryâ— man set forwarde firste the Citizens twoo and two then Gentlemen Esquiers and ChaÌ„plaines nexte after them the Aldermen and the Maior alone and nexte the Kingâ—â— Councell then the Kings Chappell in Coapes then Barons Bishoppes Earles the Earle of Essex bearing the couered Basons guilte after him the Marquesse of Excestâ—â— with a Taper of Uirgin Ware nexte him the Marquesse Dercet bearing the Salte behinde him the Ladye Mary of Norffolke bearing the Crisoâ—e whyche was verye â—â—â—he of Pearle and Stone The olde Dutchesse of Noâ—ffolke 〈…〉 the childe in a Mantle of purple Uelâ—eâ— wyth a long traine surred wyth Ermin The D. of Norffolke with his Marshals rod went on the right hand of the said Dutches the Duâ—â—â— of Suffolke on the left hand and before them went officers of Armes y e Countesse of Kâ—â—â— bare the long traine of y â— childes Mantle and meane betwéene the childe the Countesse of Kent went the Earle of 〈…〉 the Earle of Darby on eyther side supporting the said traine in the middest ouer the child was borne a rich Canapieby the Lord Rochforde the Lord Husse the Lord William Howard the Lord Thomas Howard the elder After the child followed manyâ— Laâ—yâ—s â— GentlewomeÌ„ When y e child was come to the Church dore the Bishop of London met it with diuers Bishops Abbots mytered began the obseruaunces of the Sacrament The Godfather was Lord Thoâ— Archbishoppe of Canterburie the Godmothers were the olde Dutchesse of Norffolke the olde Marchionesse of Dorcet widows and the childe was named Elizabeth and after that al things were done at the Church dore the child was broughte to the Font and Christened that done Garter chiefe King of Armes cryed aloude God of hys infinite goodnesse send prosperous life and long to the highe mightie Princesse of England Elizabeth and then the Trumpets blewe then y e child was brought vp to y e Aultar the Gospel said ouer it After that immediatly the Archebyshop of Canterburie confirmed it the Marchionesse of Excester being Godmother then the Bishop of Canterbury gaue vnto the Princesse a standing Cuppe of Gold the Dutchesse of Norffolke gaue to hir a standyng Cuppe of Golde fretted wyth Pearle y e Marchionesse of Dorcet gaue 3. guilt bolles pounsed with a couer the Marchionesse of Excester gaue 3. standing boules grauen al guilt with a couer Then was brought in Waffers Confects I pocrase in such plenty y â— euery man had as much as he would desire then they sette forward y e Trumpets afore going in the same order toward the kings palace as they did when they came thitherward sauing that y e gifts that y e Godfather Godmothers gaue were borne before the child by 4. persons that is to say first sir Iohn Dudley bare the gift of the Lady of Excester the L. Thomas Howard the yoÌ„ger bare the gift of the Lady Dorcet the Lord Fitz Walter bare the gifte of the Lady of Norffolke and the Lorde of Worcester bare the gifte of the Archebyshop of Canterburie and al the one side as they went was full of staffe-torches to the number of fyue hundreth borne by the Guarde and other of the Kings seruantes and aboute the childe were manye other proper Torches borne by Gentlemenne And in this order they brought the Princesse to the Quéenes Chamber dore and then departed The â—aior wente to the Kings Chamber and tarryed there a whyle wyth his bréethren the Aldermen and at the laste the Dukes of Norffolke and Suffolke came out from the King and reported to the Mayor and his brethren that the King thanked them hartily and commanded them to giue them thankes in his name and from thence they were had to the Seller and dranke and so went to their Barge The xxiij of Nouember béeyng Sonday on a Scaffolde Holy Mayde of Kent before the Crosse at Paules there stoode a Nunne professed in the Priorie of Saint Sepulchre in Caunterburie named Elizabeth Barton with sundry other persons and the Bishop of Bangor late Abbot of Hyde there preaching shewed their offences from whence they were committed to the Tower of London The xxviij of Januarye a great fish was taken at Blacke wall called a Whale whyche was broughte to Westminster to the King and so backe to Broken Wharfe and there cut out The firste of Aprill Woolfe and his wife were hanged 1534 VVoolfe and his vvife haÌ„ged on two Gibbets at the turning trée in Lambeth Marshe for murthering the two Merchant strangers aforesaide The xx of Aprill Elizabeeh Barton a Nunne professed at The holy Maid of Kent and other hanged and headed Saint Sepulchres in Canterburie Edward Bocking Iohn Deering two Monks of Christs Church in Canterburie Hughe Riche warden of the Friers Obseruants in Canterburie and Richard Risbe and another of his fellows of the same house Richarde Maister Parson of Aldington in Kent and Henrie Golde Pryest were drawn from the Tower of London to Tyborne there hanged headed c. for sundry conspiracies in the matter of diuorce betwéene the Kynges Maiestie and Quéen Katherine At which time were also attainted of misprision by acte of Parliament for the same matter Iohn Fisher Bishop of Rochester Iohn Adeson his Chaplain Tho. Abell Priest Thomas Gold Gentleman and Thomas Laurence Anno reg 26 Register to the Archdeacon of Canterburie The ninth of July Lorde Dacres of the North was arraigned Lord Dacres of the North arraigned at Westminster of high treason where he so wittily confuted his accusers that to their great shame he was fouÌ„d not guiltie The eleauenth of August was all the places of the Obseruant Friers houses suppressed Friers as Grenewich Canterbury Richmont Newarke and Newcastell putte downe and Austen Fryers set in their places and the Obseruants were
y e Empire gouerned 139 Capitelinus this prouince by Lollius Vrbicus who ouercame the Brytaines and raysed another wall of turffes to kéepe oute the inroades the Northern Brytaines ANtonius Philosophus now ruled the Romaine Empire 162 and Calphurnius Agricola was sent hyther with authoritie against the Britaines then repining at the Romaines but with what successe it is not specified LVcius y e son of Coilus was ordained King who in all hys 179 Florent Vigâ—râ—â— acts déeds followed the steps of hys forefathers in such wise as he was of al men loued dread He seÌ„t his two Ambassadors Eluanus Meduuinus twoo learned meÌ„ in y t scriptures with his louing letters to Elutherius Bishop of Rome England receyued the faith â—eda Asser Flores HistoriaruÌ„ Record of Saint Asaphs Church Iohn Capgraue Marianus Scotus desiring him to sende some deuout learned men by whose instruction both he his people might be taught y e faith religioÌ„ of Christ wherof Elutherius being very glad baptized these two messeÌ„gers making Eluanus a Bishop Meduuinus a teacher sent also with theÌ„ into Brytaine two famous Clarks Faganus Deruuianus by whose diligence Lucius his people of Brytaine were baptized instructed in y e faith of Christ 28. Temples were made Cathedral churches Byshops placed where Flamins before had bin at LoÌ„don Yorke Carlein which is now S. Dauids in Wales were placed Archbishops London Yorke and Carlein Archbishops The Epistle of Eleutherius to Lucius King of Brytaine Lib. constitut Lon. now foloweth an Epistle of Elutherius sente to Lucius K. of Brytain as I find y e same recorded in a Booke of y e Constitutions of London pertaining to y e Guild Hall of London The yeare after Christs birth 202. Pope Elutherius did write to Lucius king of Brytaine for y e amendment of y e kings the nobilitie of Brytaine as foloweth You required that we should send you the Romain Imperial laws y e you might vse theÌ„ in your kingdom of Brytaine but those laws we may disproue not the lawes of God You haue receiued lately through Gods goodnes in your kingdom y e faith and law of Christ you haue there in your kingdom both Testaments out of theÌ„ by Gods grace the aduice of your realme take a law thereby patiently gouern y e kingdom You are y e Uicar of God in your kingdom according to y e kingly prophet The earth is y e Lords his fulnesse is y e whole world al y t Psalm 45. dwel therin again Thou hast loued righteousnes hated iniquitie wherfore God eueÌ„ thy God hath annoynted thée with y â— â—ile of gladnes aboue thy fellows They are y e kings children christian nations people of your kingdome that liue consist vnder your protection peace kingdom according to the Scripture as an Hen gathereth chickens vnder hir wings the people nations of the kingdome of Brytaine is youres suche as are diuided you shoulde gather them togither to the lawe of Christe his holy Churche to peace concorde and cherishe maintaine protect gouerne and defend them from the iniurious malicious and their enimies Woe be to that kingdome the King whereof is a childe and the Princes eate earely in the morning I doe not call a King a child for his youth or minoritie but for his follie iniquitie Psalm 55. and madnesse according to the Kingly Prophet The bloud-thirsty and deceitfull menne shall not out-liue halfe their dayes By eating we shall vnderstande Gluttonie by Gluttonie Luxurie by Luxurie all filth wickednesse and mischiefe according to King Salomon Wisedome will not Sapience â— enter into a spitefull soule nor inhabite in a body subiecte to sinne A King hathe his name of gouerning and not of hys Kingdome so long you shall be a King as you rule well otherwise you shall not be so named and lose that name which God forbid God graunt that you maye so rule your Realme of Brytaine that you may raigne wyth hym euerlastingly whose Uicar you are in the saide Kingdome To whome with the father c. There remayneth in the Churche of Saint Peter vpon Cornhil at London a Table wherein is written that Lucius fouÌ„ded the same Church to be an Archbishops sea and made it the Metropolitane and chiefe Churche of hys Kingdome whych so endured the space of 400. yeres vnto the comming of Saint Augustine Ioseline of Fornes in his booke that he wrote of the Brytish Ioseline of Furneys Bishops saith that Thean who was first Archbishop of LoÌ„don in the time of Lucius builded the said Church of S. Peter Archbishops of London 13. in a place called Cornhil in London by the aide and help of Ciran chief Butler to King Lucius also that Clauus the secoÌ„d Archbishop there builded a Librarie to the same church adioyning conuerted many of the Erwydes learned men in the Pagan Law to the Christian faith The third Archbyshop was named Cadar the fourth Obinus the fift Conan y â— sixt Paladius the seuenth Stephan the eighte Iltut the ninth Dedwin the tenth Thedred the eleuenth Hillary y â— twelfth Guidilinus the thirtenth Vodinus who was slain of the Sarons that came first into this lande Lucius raigned 12. yere and was buryed at Gloucester COmodus after his father Antonius Philosophus succeded 181 Dion in the Empire with most cruel tyranny In his time the Northerne Britains burst in through the wall forrayed the Countrey and slew the Romaine Generall with his souldiours wherfore Vlpius Marcellus was appointed here a careful vigilant Captaine he sore annoyed the Brytains which were enemies to the Romain state and purchasing enuie by his vertue was shortly dismissed Then Ceronnis who ruled all vnder Comodus appointed Lampidiâ—â— Dion certaine men of base estate to gouerne the Romain enemies here wherewith the souldiours being gréeued sent 1500. chosen men out of theyr number to Rome who accusing hym before Comodus to compasse the Empire for his sonne was deliuered vnto them who immediatelye mangled hym and slew his wife with his two sonnes Comodus theÌ„ sent Holnius Pertinax into Brytain and surnamed Lampridiâ—â— himselfe Brytanicus thervnto perswaded by flatterers when the Brytaines were so euill affected toward him that they woulde haue nominated some other Emperour against Capitolinus him and namely Pertinax but these tumults were appeased by the Wisdome of Pertinax to his great danger for he was wel-nere slaine in tumulte and left among the dead whiche iniurie he after seuerallye reuenged sued for his discharge being afterwarde preferred to the Empire Clodius Albinus was then sente hyther by Comodus who Capitolinus at the first so greatlye estéemed of him that he honored hym with y â— title of a Caesar which Clodius refused but afterwards when a false rumor was dispersed y t Comodus was slain he made an OratioÌ„ to the legions of
rage of the Saxons and reduced his Countrey to quietnesse he constituted the order of the Round Table round Table into which order he only receyued such of his nobilitie as were most renowmed for vertue and chiualrie This round Table he kept in diuers places but especially at Cairleon Winchester and Camalet in Somerset-shire There is yet to be séene in Denbigh shire in the parish of Leyland Llansanan in the side of a stonie hill a place compasse wherein be foure and twentie seates for men to sit in some lesse and some bigger cut out of the maine Rocke by mans hand where children and yong men comming to séeke their Cattell vse to sitte and play they commonly call it Arthures round Table So hauing established all things well at home he with his nobilitie made an expedition into Norway where he atchieued Norway subdued sundry notable and maruellous exploytes and subdued the same with all the Regions thereabout to Russia Leges S. Edwardi placing the limite of his Empire in Lapland He caused the people of those Countreys to be Baptised and receyne the Christian Religion He also obtayned of the Pope to haue Norway confirmed to the Crowne of this Realme calling it the Chamber of Britaine Norway the Chamber of Britaine Then sayling into France he forced Frolo Gouernoure there for the Romaynes to flighte and afterward in Combate manfully slew him Shortly after he addressed deadlye Warre againste Gaufridus Lucius Hiberus who claymed a Tribute of Arthure for Britaine and had assembled greate powers to ouercome Arthure but Arthure encountring with him after a long and bloudye fighte discomfited his Armie killed him and sente his body to the Senate of Rome for the Tribute While Arthure was thus valiantly occupyed in his warres beyond the Seas and had conquered thirtie Kingdomes Flores Historiar such as they were in those days Mordred to whome he had committed the gouernement of Britaine confederating himselfe with Cerdicus first King of the Weast Saxons trayterously vsurped the Kingdome of which treason when Battayle at Douer relation came to Arthure he spéedily returned into Britaine and at Richborow néere to Sandwich gaue battell to him and wanne the fielde Anguisell of Scotland Gawin and Cador were there slayne then pursuing him into Cornewall gaue him battell there agayne by the Riuer of Alaune of some histories called Cablan where Mordred was slayne Wal. Conuâ—â— Mordred slayne Ann. Glasco And Arthure béeing deadly wounded was conueyed to Glastenburie where he dyed and is buryed after he had most victoriously gouerned this Realme sixe and twentie yeares COnstantine kinsman to Arthure and sonne to Cador Duke of Cornewall was ordeyned King of Britayne and 542 Bâ—â—te Booke raigned thrée yeares Thys man was by the two sonnes of Mordred gréenouslye vexed for they claymed the Lande by the righte of theyr Father but after many Battayles they fledde the one to London the other to Winchester whyche Cities they obteyned and tooke them but Constantine Mordreds children slayne followed and subdued and tooke the foresayde Cities and one of the yong men hée founde in an Abbey at London and slewe hym néere the Aulter cruelly and buried hym nigh Vter Pendragon at Stonehinge The other Gildas Arbor successio young manne hée founde at Winchester and slewe hym flying into the Churche of Saincte Amphibalus Aurelius Conanus a Britayne raysed mortall warre against Constantine the King and after sore fight slew him in the field when he had raigned thrée yeares and was buryed at Stonehinge A Vrelius Conanus Nephew to Arthure was Crowned 545 King of Britaine He cherished such as loued strife and dissention within his Realme â— and gaue light credence to them which accused other were it right or wrong He emprisoned by strength his Uncle whiche was right heyre to the Crowne He raigned thrée and thirtie Flores HistoriaruÌ„ yeares The Kingdome of Northumberland began first in Britaine The fifth Kingdome of the Saxons 578 Gildas Gaufrid vnder a Saxon named Ida. VOrtiporus the sonne of Conanus was ordeyned King of Britayne a vicious King and cruell tyrant who put from him his Wife and kept hir daughter for his Concâ—bine In diuers battels he discomfited the Saxons He raigned foure yeares MAlgo pulcher Canonus of Northwales beganne his 581 raigne ouer the Britaynes and gouerned them fiue yeares This Malgo was in proportion of body greater than all the Dukes of Brytaine but he delighted in the soule sinne of Sodomie He slewe his first wife and then tooke to wife his Gildas owne brothers daughter CAreticuâ— began to rule the Brytaines This man loued ciuill 586 Warre and was odible both to God and to his subiects They moued the Saxons being accompanied with Gurmunduâ— King of Ireland to make warre vpon Careticus in such wise that he was sayne to take the Towne of Cicester where they assaulted him so sore and fired the Corne by tying fire to the wings of Sparrowes that he with his men fledde from thence into Wales by whiche meanes he lefte a great part of his dominion and ended his life when he had raigned thrée yeares Sea Cro. This Gurmund burned vp the land of Britaine from Sea to Sea and the more part of that I le called Leogrea he gaue to y e Saxons The Britaines gaue place and fled into the Weast parts of Cornewall and Wales Theanus Archbishop of LoÌ„don Thadeocus Archbishop of Yorke wheÌ„ their Churches were al destroyed to the ground they with their Cleargie fledde into Wales many of them into little Britaine This plague came on the Britaines for their couetousnesse cauine and â—echerie Gurmund builded Gurmondchester Gurmunchester buylded 61â— Paulus Diaconus CAdwane Duke of Northwales was made soueraigne of the Britaines who gaue strong battell to Ethelfride King of Northumberland and forced him to intreate for peace After which concord being made they continued al their life time louing friends He raigned xxij yeares The Kingdome of the East Saxons beganne vnder Erchenuinâ—s Sixt Kingdome of Saxons about the yeare of Christ 614. The Kingdome of Mercia or middle England began vnder Seauenth Kingdome of Saxons 635 Penda 626. CAdwalin the sonne of Cadwane raigned ouer y e Britaines he warred strongly vppon the Saxons and made Penda King of Mercia tributarie to him He raigned xlviij yeares and was buryed at London in a Church of S. Martine néere vnto Ludgate whiche Churche was then new founded and buylded by the Britaynes in Anno. 677. CAdwalladar was ordayned king of the Brytaines and 685 ruled only thrée yeares he vanquished and slew Lothier king of Kent and Athelwold king of south Saxons and theÌ„ forsaking his kingly authoritie he went to Rome there to be christened who after became a Monke and was buried in S. Peters Church at Rome He was laste king of Brytain After which time the Brytaines were called Walshmen whiche name was
hys Dominion He granted the Priuiledge vnto Saint Edmund in which the limits of the Towne of Edmundes Burie are conteyned On Saint Austins day in the kings town named Puckelchurch W. Malme the King whilest he woulde haue saued his Sewar from the handes of a wicked théefe called Leofe was slayne when he had raigned fiue yeares and. vij monthes and was buried at Glastenburie ELdrede succéeded Edmunde his brother for hys sonnes 946 Spâ— Histo Rich. Ciren Edwyne and Edgar were thoughte too yong to take on them so great a charge He tooke on him but as protector but afterwardes he was crowned at Kingstone This Eldred had the earnest fauour of the commons bycause he was a great maintayner of honestie and also most abhorred naughty and vnruely persons for his expertnesse in feates of armes he was much commended whereby he quieted and kepte in due obeysaunce the Northumbers and Scottes and exiled the Danes He placed the Bishoppe of Cornewal at Saint Germaines where it continued tyll the time of Edward nexte before the conquest in whose time it was translated to Excester In the yere 951. he committed to prison Wolstan Archbyshoppe Maâ—â—â—nus Canturb recordes of Yorke in Luthaberie bycause he often had bene accused to haue commaunded manye Citizens of Thetforde to be slaine in reuenge of the Abbot Adelme vniustly by them slaine he was a yeare after released and restoared to hys sea King Eldred builded Mich at Abindone gaue gret laÌ„ds Asses and confirmed them Charters with seales of golde He raigned ix yeares and was buried in the Cathedrall Church at Winchester in the old Monasterie EDwyn succéeded his vncle Eldred in the kingdome He 955 was crowned at Kingstone of whom is left no honest memorie for one heynous acte by him committed in the beginning of his raigne In the selfe daye of hys coronation he sodainely wythdrewe A vicious king W. Malme Speculum Hist â—i Cirecest himselfe from his Lordes and in the sight of certaine persons rauished his owne kinswoman the wife of a noble man of his realme and afterwarde slewe hir husband that he might haue the vnlawfull vse of hir beautie For whyche acte and for bannishing Dunstane he became odible to hys subiectes and of the Northumbers and people of middle Englande that rose against him was depriued when he had raigned The king depriued four yeres He dyed and was buried in the new Abbey of Winchester EDgar the peaceable brother to Edwyne was crowned at 959 King Crovvned at Bathe Bathe He was so excellent in iustice and sharpe in correction of vices as wel in his magistrates as other subiects that neuer before his dayes was vsed lesse fellonie by robbers or extortion or briberie by false officers He chastised y e Alfridus Beuerla great negligence couetousnesse and vicious liuing of the clergie and broughte them to a better order Of stature hée was but little yet of minde valiaunt and hardie and verye Marinus Alredus Riual expert in martial pollicie He prepared a gret nauie of 3600. ships which he deposed in thrée parts of his realme and had souldiours alway prest and readie against the incursions of forrain and strange enimies King Edgar hauing restored new founded xlvij Monasteries which before his time had bin destroyed and intending to continue that his intent tyll the number of 50. were accomplished he confirmed the Monasterie of Worcester whiche Oswalde then Bishop of Worcester VVorcester nuâ—ster restored Ex charta regia by the kings consente and leaue had enlarged and augmented and made it the Cathedrall Churche of that shire The Princes of Wales payde to him yearely in name of Tribute VVolues destroyed 300. Wolues by meanes whereof within thrée yeres in England and Wales might scarcely be found one Wolef The Danes and all other people in England vsed the vice Against quaâ—â—ing of great drincking The king therefore put downe many alehouses and would suffer but one in a village or Towne except it were a great borough he ordayned certaine Cuppes Lavvs against dronkardes with pinnes or nayles and made a lawe that who soeuer dranke paste that marke at one draughte shoulde forfayte a certaine payne Alwynus Alderman earle of East-angle kinsman to king Edgar founded the Abbey of Ramsey King Edgar confirming Ramsey fonÌ„ded Ex charta regia the same on Christmasse daye 974. in the presence of all the Nobilitie The same yere was an Earthquake through al England Edgar being at Chester entred the riuer of Dee hée tooke Eight kings rovved K. Edgar Horiacensis Iohn Pike Eulogium W. Malme Alfridus Beuerla Speculum histo the rule of the Helme and caused eyght kings to rowe hym vnto Saint Iohns Church and from thence vnto hys Palaice in token that he was Lord and King of so many Prouinces The names of the eight Kings were Rinoch king of Scottes Malcoline of Cumberland Macone king of Man and of many Ilands Dufnal King of Demecia or South Wales Siferth and Huwall kings of Wales Iames king of Galaway and â—i Cirâ—â—â—st Rog Hâ—â—ed Flores HistoriaruÌ„ Râ—yâ—â—lf Hygden HeÌ„rie Bradshaw Edmerus 〈…〉 Osbernus Autonius Archi. Marianus Scotus Iukil of Westmerlande King Edgar raigned sixetéene yere was buried at Glastenburie By his first wife Egelslede as some doe write or by a religious votarie as some other doe write he hadde issue Edward surnamed the martyr who succéeded after his Father Of his wife Elfrith daughter to Ordgarus Duke of Deuonshire he receyued another son named Ethelrede a daughter named Wolfrith EDward the sonne of Edgar was crowned at Kingstone by y â— 975 The king crovvned at Kingstone Iohn Pike Wâ—l Malme Alfridus Peuerl Speculum histo Ri. Ciren Flores HistoriaruÌ„ The king murthered by his step mother handes of Dunstan Archbishoppe of Canturburie and Oswalde Archbishoppe of Yorke This man might well be compared to his Father for his modestâ—e and gentlenesse so that he was worthyly fauoured of all men except onely of hys stepmother and other of hir aliaunce whyche euer bare a grudge against him for so muche as she desired to haue y â— gouernaunce of the realme for hir owne sonne Ethelred This Edward while he was huÌ„ting in a forest by chaÌ„ce lost his companie and rode alone to refresh himselfe at the Castell of Corffe where by Counsayle of his stepmother Elfrede he was traytorouslye murthered as he satte on hys horsse when he had raigned thrée yeares He was buried at Warham and after at Shaftesburie Elphred did after take great penaunce and builded two VVarvvel and Almesbury built monasteries of Nuns Almesburie Warwel in which Warwel the after liued a solitarie life till she dyed ETheldrede commonly called Unready the sonne of King 978 W. Malme Speculum Hist Ricâ— Ciren Edgar by his seconde wife Elphrede was crowned at Kingstone But bycause he came to the Kingdome by wicked meanes and by killing his brother he coulde neuer
whence they were driuen by the King who taking the foorde of Brentford before them put them to flight and slew a great number of them The sixt and last battell was at Essendone in Essex néere to Rochford in which battell Edmond had gote the victorie Cogshal Sca. Cro. but Edrike agayne playing the Traytor greate slaughter of the Englishmen was made there the honor of Englande was ouerthrowen and Edmonde wente almost alone on foote to Glocester where hée gathered a newe force to set vpon his enimies but Cnute pursued him as he fledde and hauing prepared their armies both the Kings themselues attempted to fight hand to hand for the right of the Combate for the Kingdome kingdome in the I le of Olania in Seuerne in the which Combate they both being wéeryed fell to a couenant to deuide the same so that the one halfe of the Kingdome shoulde be England deuided vnder Canutus and the other halfe vnder Edmond which Edmond not long after dyed at Oxford whereas it is saide he was slayne by the treason of Edrike of Straton and was buryed at Glastenbury leauing Edmonde and Edwarde his children very yong This Edrike was not long vnrewarded according to his desertes for hymselfe making vaunt thereof vnto Canutus then being at Baynardes Castell in London sayde in this wise Thus haue I done Canutus for the loue of thée Edrikus a Traytor to whome he answered saying and thou shalt dye as well thou art woorthy bycause thou art giltie of Treason against God and me in that thou hast slayne thine owne Lord and King which was ioyned to me in league as a Brother his bloud be vpon thine owne head and straight wayes least there should be any tumulte the Traytor was in the same Speculum histo Ri. Cirecest Chamber tormented to death with firebrands and linkes and then his féete being bounde togither he was drawne through the Stréetes of the Citie and cast into a ditch called Houndes ditch for that the Citizens there cast their dead Hunsditch Treason revvarded Dogges and such other filth accompting him woorthy of no better buriall These Princes raigned togyther two yeares CAnutus the Dane taking an occasion bycause in the couenant 1018 that was coÌ„cluded concerning y e deuiding of the Realme no assurance was made for the Children of Edmond The Danes possessed all England he chalenged all England to himselfe alone by law as they call it of growing to which was a most easie thing for him to do bycause there was no man that durst erect himselfe as patrone to defend the childrens right and title and by this suttle and craftie interpretation of the couenant the Dane gote the Monarchie of England and slew the brother of Edmond and conueyed the children farre away out of England least they should at any time be brought againe and receiue their right Some say they were sent to a certayne The Kings children conueyed into Svvethen man that was a Prince in Swethland there to be dispatched out of the waye and that the Prince vnderstanding they were Kings children spared them coÌ„trarie to the credit and trust that was committed vnto him which appeareth to be true in that the same foraigne Lord kept and brought vppe the children honourablye the yongest of whiche whose name was Edwarde did afterwardes marrie Agatha the Agatha the Emperors daughter the vvife of Edvvarde daughter of Henry the fourth Emperour of Rome of whome he had many children of whiche we shall speake héereafter And the other which was y e elder brother whose name was Edmond dyed without children In the meane season Canutus bycause he had no heire that lawfully might succéede him in his kingdome for Harold Swaine were begotteÌ„ of Harolde and Svvayne concubines children a Concubin partly that he might establish in time to come the kingdome that he had gotten vnto his owne kindred y t came by lawfull succession and partly that he might purchase to himselfe the friendship of the Englishmen and of the Normans procured to haue giuen him in marriage Emma the widow of King Etheldred who at that time was with Edward and Alured hir sonnes in exile with Duke Richard in Normandy whiche mariage séemeth to be made euen by Gods prouidence who had determined to restore the common wealth in England whereby as by the law and title of recouerie and returne out of exile the monarchie of all England which the Danes had taken from the Englishmen and had possessed sixe and twentie yeares and more did returne againe to the Englishmen that were the right heires For Emma concluded mariage with the Dane vpon condition Mariage made vpon conditioÌ„ that the Kingdome of England should remayne vnto none other but to the Children that were begotten of hir if any of them did remaine aliue by reason of this mariage shortly after she did beare Canutus a sonne of his owne name commonly called Hardycanutus This second name was giuen him bycause of his great Hovv tvvo names vvere giuen to Kings courage like as his brother Harold was named Harefoote that is to say lightfoote bycause of his notable swiftnesse of foote By this affinitie and aliance the Danes became of the more strength and power He kept Englishmen in his seruice so long as he liued He subdued the Scottes whereby he was King of England Canutus King of foure Kingdomes Scotland Denmarke and Norway After that he went to Denmarke and so to Rome and returned againe into England where he kept good iustice all his life and did many charitable déedes He made a faire Church at Ashendume in Essex He founded a-new the Monasterie of Saint Edmondesbury Saint Edmundsbury buylded Ex charta regia Marianus restoring the donation which Edmond King of the West Saxons had giuen to Saint Edmund the King and Martyr who lyeth there buryed He appoynted to be King of Norway Swanus his sonne Marianus as was sayde by Alfgine daughter to Althelme Duke of Northampton and his Lady Vulfrune but other said he was a Priests sonne c. He also appoynted his sonne Hardycanutus by Emma to be King of Denmarke and deceassed at Shaftesburie when he had raigned twentie yeares and was buried in S. Swithens at Winchester HArold for his swiftnesse called Harefoote whome Canutus 10â—8 had by a Concubine Alice of Hampton a Shomakers daughter affirming himselfe to be sonne of Canutus and Peter de Ichâ—â—â— Marianus Floriacen Alfgina the Earle of North-hamptons daughter slept not vppon the occasion and oportunitie offered but vsing the force of the Danes that dwelt in England inuaded the Realme while his brother Hardycanute gouerned in Denmarke He tooke from his mother in law Emma the most parte of the riches and treasure that Canute his father had left hir and then with consent of the great Lords began to raigne but not so mightily as his Father Canutus did for a more iust heire Hardycanutus was
looked for wherevpon the Kingdome was deuided the North part to Harold and the South to Hardycanute Edward and Alfred sonnes to King Ethelred with many Knightes came out of Normandy to sée their mother at Winchester whiche sore troubled the mindes of many greate men who bare more fauour to King Harold Especially Godwine Earle of Kent feigning to receiue Alfred as a friend came to méete him but in the end put him in prison parte of his companye he put in fetters and after put out their eyes Of some he caused their skinne to be plucked ouer their eares chopping off their hands and féete Some he commanded to be solde and diuers were murthered at Gilforde Quéene Emma hearing of this dealing she sent hir sonne Edward backe againe into Normandy After this Alfride was conueyed to the I le of Eely where his eyes being firste plucked out he was deliuered to the Monckes to be kept prisoner there where shortly after hée departed this life and was buryed in the South I le of the West part of the Church Bycause Hardycanutus delayed to come ouer being sent for he was vtterly reiected and Harold who before was King of the Mercies and Northumbers was chosen King of all England who shortly after expelled his mother in law Emma out of the Realme He raigned thrée yeares dyed at Oxford and was buryed at Westminster and after at Saint Clements without Templebarre at London HArdycanutus the lawfull begotten sonne of Canutus and 1041 Emma as soone as he had gotten his fathers Kingdome fetched home his mother out of exile and in reuenge of displeasure that was done to hir and of the murther of his brother Alured he commanded the carkas of Harold to be digged out of the earth and to be throwen into the Riuer of Thamis where by a Fisher it was taken vp and brought to the Danes who buryed it in a Church yard which they had This is supposed to be S. Clements Church vvithout Temple barre at London Which done the King appoynted eyght markes to be payde to euery Sayler in his name twelue markes to euery Pilote or Maister which tribute was to be payd of al England so gréeuous that scarce any was able to beare it Shortly after he sent for Edward the sonne of Etheldred his brother of the mothers side to come into England and embraced him with all loue and fauour Being at a mariage feast pleasantly drincking with the Bride other persons in the middest of his cups he fell suddaynely downe to the ground so remaining dumbe departed this life the third yeare of his raigne was buried by his father at Winchester EDward borne at Islip besides Oxford the sonne of Etheldred 104â— Alfridus Beuerla Io. Rouse whom Hardycanutus had sent for into England was Crowned at Winchester This Edward for his excelleÌ„t holynesse is vntill this day called Saint Edward who so soone as he had gotten his fathers kingdome of his owne frée will released the tribute of 40000. pound called Dane gelt which Dane gelt the English people euen from the very beginning of the reigne of the Danes was compelled to pay to their Kings euery The first comâ—â—ing vp of the common Lavv. yeare He was also the chiefe author and cause that the law which we call the common Law was first brought vp being gathered togither out of the lawes and ordinaÌ„ces of four nations which were receiued when the Island was subiect to diuers regiments gouernances to witte of the Mercies of the West Saxons of the Danes of the Northumbers Mercies vvest Saxons Danes and Northumbers He was hard to his mother bycause she was hard to him in his minoritie and also suspected with Alwine Bishop of Winchester whome he put in prison by counsell of Roberte Archbishop of Canturbury but after his mother had purged hirselfe Alwine was deliuered and Robert the Archbishop conueyed himselfe out of England He tooke to wife Edgitha Sea Cron. the daughter of Earle Godwine who bycause she brought Edgitha vvas barreyne him forth no children neyther was there any hope that she should beare any wheÌ„ he did sée that many did gaye after y â— kingdome he began to be carefull for one that should iustly succéede him and therfore following the reason of y â— commoÌ„ law he sent for home into England his Nephew Edward the sonne of king Edmond his brother who by reason of his loÌ„g absence out of the Countrey was coÌ„monly called y e outlaw This is that Edward the sonne of King Edmond surnamed Ironside which remained aliue whome Canutus when he had gotten England had sent into Swethen with his brother He knowing the aduise of his Uncle came againe into England and brought with him Agatha his wife Edgar Margaret and Christian his children borne in Panonia in hope of the kingdome where he liued but a while Thus S. Edward being disappoynted both of his Nephew and his heire for that Edward the outlaw was both by néerenesse of bloud and by lawfull succession right heire vnto the Kingdome withoute delaye pronounced Edgar the outlawes sonne and his greate Nephew to bée heire of the Kingdome and gaue him to surname Adeling which name in those dayes was peculiar onely to Kings Children which were borne in hope and possibilitie of the Kingdome for thys worde Adeling in the English tong is as much to say as Prince or Lorde the contrary of which word is Vnderling that is The signification of the vvord Adeling to say a seruanâ—â—or or bondman or according to the Walche spéech Adeling signifieth heire but bycause this Edgar was but yong of yeares and within age by his testamente he made Harold the sonne of Godwine a stoute man both in warre and peace Regent vntill the yong Edgar should be of age to receyue the Kingdome and that then he should be made King which thing Harold with a solemne oth promised to sée so performed and done Notwithstanding he like a Traytour by force of armes immediately after y â— death of Edward refused the name of Regent and pronounced himselfe Alfridus Beuerl Speculum histo Râ— Cirecest Flores histo King whiche thing shortly after brought destruction both to himselfe and to all England Anno 1051. Eustace Earle of Bullogne which had to wife Floriacen Goda sister to King Edward arriued at Douer where one of his men quarelling aboute his lodging slewe one of the Townesmen in reuenge whereof not only the quareller but other of his company and many of the Towne were slayne whiche doing so muche offended Godwine Earle of Kent that he assembled a great power wherewith he marched toward Glocester where the king then lay vnto whome he sent messengers to denounce warre except he would deliuer Eustace and his fellow Normans and Bolognians which held a Castell in the dominions of Kent After this Godwins armie entered into Glocester but it was there agréed that at a day
themselues to drinking and gulling and spent both day and night in such exercises till they vomited The Saxons ware their garmentes to the midde knée their heare rounded and their beardes shauen all saue the ouerlip their armes adorned with golden bracelets and W. Malme their skinne paynted and printed c. ¶ Thus endeth the Reigne of the Saxons who were first sent for by Vortiger about the yeare of our Lord. 450. and had nowe continued sometimes in warres with the Britaines then with the Danes and now with the Normans the space of sixe hundred yeares Verses A thousand sixe and sixtie yeare it vvas as vve do reade When that a Comete did appeare and Englishmen lay dead Of Normandie Duke William then to Englandvvard did sayle And conquerde Harold vvith his men and brought this Land to bale ¶ King VVilliam Conquerour WIlliam Duke of Normandie Anno. reg 1. surnamed Conquerour Bastarde sonne of Robert the sixte Duke of that Duchie and Coosin germane vnto King Edward on the mothers side beganne his dominion ouer the Realme of England the fourtéenth day of October being Saterday in the yeare of our Lord 1066. After the battayle at Hastings Duke William came to London where with great ioy he was receyued both of the Cleargie and people and was proclaymed King When the Citie of London was thus yéelded vnto him he tooke his iourney towardes the Castell of Douer to subdue that and the rest of Kent also which when the Archbishop Stigand and Egelsin the Abbot of Saint Augustines being as it were the chiefest Lords and gouernours of all Kent did perceyue and consider that the whole Realme was in an euill state and that whereas in this Realme of England before the comming of the foresayd Duke William there were no bondmen now all as well noble men as the common people were without respect made subiecte vnto the perpetuall bondage of the Normans taking an occasion by the perill and danger that their neighbors were in to prouide for the safegard of themselues and their Countrey they caused to assemble at Canterbury all the people of the Countie of Kent and declared to them the perils and dangers imminent the miserie that their neighbours were come into the pride and insolencie of the Normans and the hardnesse and griefe of bondage and seruile estate wherevpon all the people rather choosing to end their vnfortunate life than to submit themselues to an vnaccustomed yoke of seruitude and bondage with a common consent determined to méete Duke William and to fight with him for the laws of their Countrey And y ◠foresayd Stigand the Archbishop and the Abbot Egelsin choosing rather to die in battell than to sée their nation in so euill an estate being encouraged by the examples of the holy Machabees became Captayne of the armie And at a day appoynted all the people met at Swanescombe two miles west from Graues-end and being hidden in the woods lay priuily in wayte for the comming of the foresayd Duke William And bycause it can not hurt to be very wary in such cases they agréed before hande that when the Duke was come and the passages on euery side stopped to the end he should no way be able to escape euery one of them as well Horsemen as footemen should beare boughes in their hands The next day after whē the Duke was come into the fields and territories néere vnto Swanescombe and saw all the Countrey set and placed round about him as it had bin a stirring mouing wood and that with a meane pace they approched and drewe néere vnto him with great discomfiture of mind he wondered at that sight And as soone as the Captaynes of the Kentishmen sawe that Duke William was enclosed in the middest of their armie they caused the trumpets to be sounded their banners to be displayed and threw downe their boughes and with their bowes bent their swords drawne and their speares and other kinde of weapons stretched forthe they shewed themselues readie to fight Duke William and they that were with him stoode as no maruell it was sore astonied and amazed and he which thought that he had already all England fast in his fist did now dispaire of his owne life Therefore on the behalfe of the Kentishmen were sent vnto Duke William the Archbishop Stigand and Egelsin Abbot of Saint Augustines who told him their message in this sort My Lord Duke behold the people of Kent commeth forth to méete you and to receiue you as their liege Lord requiring at your hands the things which pertayne to peace and that vnder this condition that all the people of Kent may enioy for euer their antient liberties and may for euermore vse the lawes and customes of the Countrey otherwise they are ready presently to bidde battell to you and them that be with you and are minded rather to die héere altogither than to departe from the lawes and customes of their Countrey and to submit themselues to bondage whereof as yet they neuer had experience The Duke séeing himself to be driuen in such a straight and narrow pinch consulted a while with them that came with him prudently considering that if he should take any repulse or displeasure at the hands of this people which be the key of England all that euer he had done before should be vndone againe and of no effect and all his hope and safetie shoulde stande in danger and ieopardy not so willingly as wisely he granted the people of Kent their request So when the couenant was established and pledges giuen on both sides the Kentishmen being ioyfull conducted the Normans who also were glad vnto Rochester and yéelded vp to the Duke the Earledome of Kent and the noble Castell of Douer Thus the antiente liberties of Englande and the lawes and customes of the Countrey whiche before the comming of Duke William out of Normandy were equally kept throughout all England do through this industrie and earnest trauell of the Archbishop The antient liberties and lavves of England remayne in Kent only Thomas Sprot Wil. Thorne Stigand and Egelsin Abbot of Saint Augustines remayne inuiolably obserued vntill this day onely in the Countie of Kent Thus farre Thomas Sprot after him William Thorne After this Duke William wasted Sussex Hampshire Southery Marianus Floriacen Wigor Middlesex and Hertfortshire not ceassing to burne Townes and sley the people till he came to Barkehamsteed where the Archbishop Alredus Wolstan Bishop of Worcester Wilferus Bishop of Hereford Clito Edgar the Earles Edwine and Morcare and euery one of the noble men about London came to him and giuing pledges submitted themselues and sware fealtie to him with whome also he made a league neuerthelesse permitted his army still to burne Townes and to take spoyles Chro. S. Albani There was at that time an Abbot of Saint Albons called Frederike Abbot of S. Albons his policie against Duke VVilliam Fretherike who hearing of the comming of Duke William
reg 2. 1068 Ypodigma Mathild wife to King William came forth of Normandie and on Whitsonday was consecrated Quéene by Aldred Archebyshop of Yorke After this Marleswin Gospatricke and other noble menne of Northumberlande to auoyde king Williams roughe and boysterous dealings taking with them Edgar Etheling and his mother Agatha with his two sisters Margaret and Christian wente by sea into Scotlande where they were receiued and well entertayned of Malcoline king of Scottes who tooke Margaret the sister of Edgar to wife Iohn Rouse King William with his armye wente to Notingham and Castel at Notingham Yorke and Lincolne builded there builded a Castel he went to Yorke and made there two Castels and put in them garisons he coÌ„maunded also Castels to be made at Lincolne and other places This yere Henrie the kings sonne was borne in EnglaÌ„d T. Rudborne Earle of Northumberlande slaine for his eldest sons Robert and William Rufus were borne in Normandie before he Conquered England King William gaue to Robert Commin the Earledome Liber Dunelme Anno. reg 3. of Northumberland who entred by force into Duresme but for his outrages there done he and 900. of his men were slaine by the men of that Countrey in the Bishoppes palace that Sea Cro. had himselfe receyued him honourablye and king William came Afterward vpon them and slewe them euery one Agelricus bishop of Durham being accused of treason was 1069 imprisoned at Westminster And his brother Egelwine being made Bishop there was soone banished The Englishmen that were fledde out of Englande hauyng Edgar to be their Captaine returned out of Scotlande and sodainely set vpon the garisons that King William had sette at Yorke put them to flighte slewe them possessed the Citie and pronounced Edgar to be King but not long after King William came with a great armye and recouered thr Citie constrayning Edgar to retourne into Scollande Edgar seeing he coulde not make his partye good with king William adioyned vnto hym Canutus king of the Danes promising hym halfe of the kingdome Thus they entred Englande and came to Yorke The Normaines that were left to defende the Citie sette Yorke brent their suburbes on fire that their enimies shoulde haue no commoditie of it but the winde droue the fire on high and set all the Cittie on fire so that the garisons were forced to flée into their enimies hands In the â—kirmish were slaine 3000 Normans wherevppon all the North parte of England fell from William to Edgar When William had word of the slaughter of his men hée with great trauel came to Yorke where he fought with hys enimies and put them to flighte Canutus with a few Danes got to their shippes but Edgar and the Englishmen which escaped retourned into Scotland King William spoyled all the Countrey beyonde Humber Such a dearth was in England that men did eate horsses Anno reg 4. Mans flesh good meate Ioh Taxtor 1070 Monasteries rifled cattes dogges and mans flesh King William bereaued all the Monasteries and Abbayes in Englande of theyr golde and siluer sparing neyther chalice nor shrine appropriating the sayd Monasteries and Abbayes to himselfe he also brought vnder Knightes seruice all those Bishoprickes and Abbayes that held Baronies which had bin frée from all secular bondage appointing them howe many souldiours they should finde him and his successours in time of warre In a counsel at Winchester Stigand was deposed as an Ypodigma Stigand deposed Apostata Archebishop who for money got his Bishopricke and Lanfranke was chosen Archbishop of Canturburie Anno. reg 5. 1071 Edwine Earle of Mercia Marcherus Earle of NorthuÌ„berlande and Swardus an Earle with Egelwine Bishop of Durham and many other of the cleargie and laitie kéeping the Noble men fled wooddes for that they were not able to abyde the Kings displeasure at the last came into the I le of Elie Herewarde being their Captaine who sore afflicted that Countrey but king William besieging the I le they all sauing Herewarde submitted them to his plesure who committed some to perpetual prison some he put to death and some he ransomed but Hereward by strong hande broughte his men out of the I le and escaped The Castell of Ledes in Kent was builded by Creueken Anno. reg 6. Ex libro Norâ— Castel of Leder and of Oxforde builded Iohn Rouse 1072 Mathew Paris Yorke subiect to Canturburie Anno reg 7. 1073 Anno reg 8. and the Castel of Oxforde by Robert de Olly two noble men that came into England with William Conquerour In a Counsel holden at Windsore the primacie of y â— church of Canturburie ouer the Churche of Yorke being examined it was founde by good aucthoritie of olde writings that the Church of Yorke ought to be subiect to the Church of Canturburie and faithfully to obey the same King William with a great power inuaded Scotland and forced Malcoline to do him homage and fealtie King William with a greate power of Englishmen wente into Normandâ—e which rebelled and subdued it spoyling the Cities townes vineyardes corne c. Gregory the seauenth Pope excommunicated all committers 1074 Maried priestes remoued Ypodigma Mathew Paris of Simony and remoued maried Priestes from executing of deuine seruice whereof rose greate troubles in England Ranulph Erle of y e East-English by y â— counsel of the Erles Woltheopus Roger trauelled to expel K. WilliaÌ„ out of his kingdome The coÌ„spiracie was concluded at a mariage in y â— Conspiracie Citie of Norwich forthwith they sente to the King of Denmarke desiring his ayde and hauing confederated with the Walchmen euerye one where they came robbed the Kyngs townes King William came sodainly out of Normandie and toke the Earles committing them to prison but the Walchmen he caused to haue theyr eyes put out and some to be hanged Kanut the sonne of Swayne and Hacon the Earle came Anno reg 9. out of Denmarke with 200 saile but when they heard y â— theyr fautors were ouercome they tourned into Flaunders King William caused a castell to be builded at Dirham 1075 Ypodigma commaunded Waltheothus Earle of Northampton and of Huntindon son to Siward duke of Northumberland to be beheaded at Winchester who was buried at Crowland The king sayled into Brytaine and besieged the Castel of Dolens but preuayled not Walter Bishoppe of Durham bought of king William the Bisshop murdered Anno. reg 10 Earledome of Northumberlande wherin he vsed such cruelty that at the length the inhabitants slewe him and an hundred of his men by the riuer of Tine where the Bishop helde his courtes The Earth was harde frozen from the Calendes of Nouember 1076 T. Castleforde Iohn Leyland Anno. reg 11 till the middest of Aprill King William gaue the castel with the town of Pontfrait with land lying there about to Hilbert Lacy a Norman The castel town laÌ„ds about Pontfraite longed before y â— CoÌ„quest to
one Richard Ashnalde who had issue Ailricke who had Swane who had Adam of whom came two daughters one of them maried to Gaulfride Neuile the other to Thomas Burgh but neyther of them had anye part of the Towne or lands about Pontfrait Robert sonne to Hildebert Lacy founded the Priory of Pontfraite Robert the first sonne of King William bycause he could not possesse Normandie which his father had giuen him before his coÌ„ming into England in the presence of Phillip king of Fraunce he went into Fraunce and through ayde of Kyng Phillip he fetched prayes in Normandie brent townes slewe men and brought his father into no small perplexitie Upon Palme sondaye aboute noone appeared a Blasing 1077 Anno. reg 12 1078 Ypodigma starre neare vnto the sunne Malcoline King of Scots wasted Northumberland slew many and toke a great pray with him into Scotland The Cathedral Church of Hereford was brent by Grifin and Algare sonne to Leof icke Earle of Merce While King William gaue battayle vnto his eldest son Robert before the Castell of Kerbothead which King Philip King VVilliam vvounded had lent him he was wounded by hym in hys arme and caste besides his horsse but as soone as Robert knew him by his voyce he straight alighted and required his Father to mount on his horsse and suffred him to depart many of king Anno. reg 13 Williams men were slaine and his son William with many other sore wounded Trustin Abbot of Glastenbury committed a filthy acte in his 1379 Murder Mathew Paris Church for he caused thrée Monkes to be slaine which were layde vnder the Altare and xviij men to be wounded that their bloud ran from the Alter down y â— steps to y â— pauement This yeare was a great wind on Christmas daye And Anno. reg 14 1080 Anno. reg 15 1081 Anno. reg 16 Tutsbury Liber Tutsbury 1982 Bermondsey Anno. reg 17 1083 a greate Earthquake and roarings out of the earth the vj. of Aprill Henry Erle Ferrers founded a Priory within hys Castel of Tutsbury the late new Church was builded in Anno. 1407. when the Normans were put out Alwin Child a Citizen of London founder of the Monasterie of S. Sauior at Bermondfeey in Surrey gaue vnto the Monkes there dyuers rents in the Cittie of London Matild the Quéene daughter to Baldwin Earle of Flaunders and wife to King William died and was buryed at Cane in the Monastery of Nunnes whych she had builded Richard sonne to King William died in the new Forrest and was buryed at Winchester King William caused inquirie to be made howe manye Acres of land numbred â—â— Rouse Anno. reg 18. 1084 A greate taxe acres of lande were sufficient for one ploughe by the yeare howe many beastes to the tilling of one hide how many Cities Castels Farmes Oranges Townes Riuers Marshes and Woods what rent they were by yeare and howe many Knightes or Souldiors were in euery shire all whych was put in writing and remayneth at Westminster King William tooke homage and othe of allegiaunce of all Englande of what tenor or fée soeuer they were and tooke Anno. reg 19 of euery hide of land sire shillings and then fayled into Normandy When the Normans had accomplished their pleasure vpon 1085 the Englishmen so that there was no noble man of that nation left to beare any rule ouer theÌ„ it became a reproch to be Nevâ—â—â—â—rrest called an Englishman Wicked customes sprang vp and the more the people spake of equitie the more wroÌ„g was done the Justiciers were the authors of al vnrighteousnes Who so did take a Deare or a Goate had hys eyes putte oute It was broughte to passe that for the space of more than xxx Mathew Paris Bishop at Lincolne miles good profitable corne ground was turned into a chace for wilde beastes Remingus Bishop of Dorchester remoued his Sea to Lincolne Anno reg 20. where he buâ—lded a new Church to be his seate King William kept his feast of Christmas at Gloucester Flori. Wigmore where to thrée of his Chaplaines he gaue thrée Bishoprikes to Mawrice the Bishopricke of London to William that of Thetford and to Robert that of Chester There was a greate water floude so that hils were made 1086 VVater floude softe and consumed with their fal ouer whelmed many villages King William founded the Abbeys of Battel where hée ouercame Harolde of Selbe in Yorkeshire and of Cane in Normandy Battell Abbey in the which he was buried He founded the Priory of Saint Nicholas at Excester He gaue greate Priuiledges to Saint Martins le Graunde Liber S. Mar. Anno reg 21 Saint Martins le grand in London which Church was founded before the Conquest by Ingelricus and Ewardus his brother cousins to king Edward the Confessor he also gaue to y e Chlledge as appeareth by his Charter in these words I do giue Creeplesgate of London but a Posterne and all the grounde adioyning vvas a Doore or Marishe and graunt to the same Church al the land and more without the Posterne which is called Criplesgate on either parte of the posterne that is to say from the North corner of the wall as the riuer of the Wells there running departe the same more from the wal to y e ruÌ„ning water which entreth the Citie c. This yere was a great death of Cattel and sore distemperancie 1087 of ayre many dyed first of feuers and after of famine In the mean time a deuouring fire spread ouer al the principall Famine and Pestilence Cities of Englande The Church of Saint Paule in London was brent with the more part of the Citie which fire began London and Poules Churche brent 〈…〉 Erkenwaldi at the entry of the West gate consumed so y e East gate Mawrice then Bishop of London began the foundation of the new Church of Paules Richard his successor did wonderfully encrease the walles of the said Church and of his owne cost Floria Wig. purchased y â— large stréetes about it where were wont to dwel many laye men and compassed it with a strong wall In a prouince of Wales called Rose was found the sepulchre of Gawen vpon the sea shore who was sisters sonne to Wil. Malme Mens bones of large sixe Arthur king of the Britaines being xiij foote of length King William being at Roane in Normandie Philip king of Fraunce saide that he kept his Chamber as women do in childbed nourished his fat belly but when he is churched I will offer a thousand candles with him King William hearing of these scornes went with a great army into Fraunce spoyling al things as he passed Last of al he burned the Citie of Meanx with our Lady Churche and two Anchers that were enclosed there who perswaded themselues they ought not to forsake their house in such extremitie whereat the King reioysing cheared his men to féede the fire came
himselfe so neare y â— with the heate of his harneys he got a disease to the encrease of his sicknesse Also the kings horsse leaping ouer a ditch did burst the inner parts of the K. with the pain wherof he was sore afflilcted and retourned to Roane wher shortly after he ended his life The. ix day of Septem in the yere of King VVilliam dyed our Lord. 1087. when he had rained xx yeres xj monthes lacking fine days his body being brought w t great soleÌ„nitie in Cane in Normandie there to be buried in a Church whiche he had founded a certaine knight boldly forbod the burial of W. Malme him in that place affirming that by title of inheritaunce the ground was his that king William ought not to be buried Burial forbiddeÌ„ to VVilliam Conquerour in the ground which by violence he had obtayned wherfore by consent of Henry his son this reproch was appeased with the payment of an hundred pounde of siluer He had issue by Matild his wife daughter to Baldwin Erle of Flaunders Robert Curthose vnto whom he gaue Normandie Richard that Issue of VVilliaÌ„ Conquerour dyed yong William Rufus vnto whom he gaue England and Henry to whoÌ„ he gaue his wiues inheritance treasure hée had daughters Cicily Abbesse of Cane Constance marryed to Alane Earle of Brytain Adale wife to Stephen Earle of Bloyse Margaret promised to Harold king of EnglaÌ„d Alianor betrothed to Alfonse King of Galicia King WilliaÌ„ commanded all prisoners to be released his tresure to be distributed vnto churches ¶ King William Rufus WIlliam le Rovvse or Rufus the thirde sonne of William Conquerour beganne his raigne the Anno reg 1. ninthe daye of September in the yeare of our Lorde 1087. and was crowned at Westminster by Lanfranke Archbishop of Canturburie y â— first day of October He was variable inconstant couetous cruel hée burdened his people with vnreasonable taxes pylled the ryche and oppressed the poore and what he thus got he prodigally spent in great banqueting and sumptuous apparel for he woulde neyther eate drinke or weare any thing but W. Malme Robert of Glocest S. Albons Cronicl that it coste vnmeasurably déere As for example it was in those dayes written and for vs now to be noted that in a mornyng hys Chamberlayne bringing him a newe paire of hosen he demaunding what they coste and the Chamberlaine The best paire of hose three shillings answering thrée shillings the king being wroth said away begger that thou art are those méete hose for a King to weare bring me a paire of a Marke or thou shalte sore repent it then his Chamberlaine fette another paire that were much worse than the first and sayd â—hâ—y cost a Marke wherewith King William was well pleased Thus farre haue I noted the saying of King William bycause it importeth the simplicitie of apparell in those dayes vsed so farre different from the excesse of this present time Odo Bishop of Bayon and Earle of Kent with his brother 1088 The Nobles â—ebesâ— Robert Earle of Mortaigne and Hereford and almost all the Nobles of England raysed warre against King William and would haue had Robert his eldest brother to be King but King William by fâ—irs words pacifying some of the principall conspirators beséeged the residue in the Castell of Rochester W. Malme and with muche labour lastly ouercame them An Earthquake ouerturned many houses and churches An Earthquake in England Lanfranke Archbishop of Canturbury deceassed He renued Anno reg 2. 1089 the great Church of Canturbury restoring xxv manors to the same He repaired the walles of that Citie builded two Hospitals the one of Saint Iohn the other at Harbaldowne Hospitall of Saint Iohn and Harbaldovvne He restored the Church of Rochester from four secular Clarkes to fiftie Monkes He alwayes attended his booke and trauelled to correct the corruption of Writers When Lanfranke was dead King Wilham kept in his owne hands the Churches and Monasteries of England after Mathew Paris G. Lilly their pastours were dead making great spoyle and lotting them out to ferme King William making warre against his brother Robert Anno reg 3. 1090 King VVilliam made vvarre on his brother Duke of Normandy tooke the Castels of Wallarroke and of Albemarle making great spoyle in his brothers Countrey but at length agréemente was made betwéene them that Robert should giue vp into the Kings hands the Castels that he had gotten of him and the King shoulde helpe him to get all that his father had England only excepted and also if one of them dyed without issue the other should succéede in the inheritance to which couenant were sworne twelue Princes of the Kings side and twelue Barons on the Dukes side Malcoline King of Scottes did homage and fealtie to King of Scots did homage Mathew Paris Great tempest King William of England A great tempest sell on Saint Lukes day in â—imdry places of England specially in Winchcombe where a great part of the Stéeple was â—uerthrowne with thundering and lightning and in London the winde ouerturned 606. houses and 606. houses ouerturned the rouâ—e of Bow Church in Cheape wherewith some persons were slayne foure of the â—afters of 20. foote in length were with such violence pitched into the stréeâ—e that scantly Wil. Malme Gualter Couen foure foote of them remayned aboue grounde whiche were fayne to be â—â—t euen with the same grounde bycauâ—e they could not be plucked out About this time one Iustinus sonne to Gurguntus Earle Anno reg 4. of Glamorgan and Morgannoke refusing to obey Rhesus sonne to Theodore Prince of South-wales sente Aeneas The vvinning of Glamorgan and Morganoke out of the VVelchmens hands sonne to Gediâ—orus sometyme Lorde of Demeâ—ia into England to take muster of Souldioures and there receyued a great Armie vnder the conduct of one Robert Fitzhamon and ioyning with other tables out of Went and Breciniâ— met with Rhesus in Blacke hâ—ll and there â—â—ewe him and sâ— paying the Englishmen their wages discharged them But they taking regard vnto the goodnesse of the soyle and the great variance which was then amongst the Welchmen as in foretime the Saxons had done they turned their force of armes against those which had entertayned them and soone displaced them wholly of all the Champion and the best of the Countrey which Robert Fitzhamon diuided amongst twelue Knightes whiche he broughte with him reseruing the better parte to hymselfe who building there certayne Castels and ioyning their power togither defended their Farmes and Lordships whiche they had taken and possessed whose heires peaceably enioy the same vnto this day but Iustinus scarsely reserued to himselfe and his the hilly Countrey The names of the twelue Knightes were these 1 William Lowdon 2 Richard Granuille 3 Paganus Turberuille 4 Robert Saintquiâ—tiâ—â— 5 Richard Siward 6 Gilbert Vmfreuill 7 Roger Berkerowle 8 Reynald Sully 9 Peeter Soore
10 Iohn Fleming 11 Oliuer Saint Iohn 12 WilliaÌ„ Easterling now for shortnes called Sâ—radling Thus was the Lordship of Glamorgan Morgannoke wonne out of the Welchmens hands whiche Lordship conteyned in length from Râ—mid bridge on the East side to Pallekinan in the West side 27. miles The breadth from the Hauen of Aberthaw on the South side to the confine of Breknokeshire about Morleys Castell is 22. miâ—â—â— In this Prouince are neath vpon a Riuer of the same name Pontfaine that is to say Stone bridge sometimes called Cowbridge Lantwid Wenny Dinwid Townes and Castels besides Caer Phili a most antient Castell fortresse which by reporte was erected by the Romanes and Caerdid the Humfrey Lâ—â—yd principall Towne of the Shire standing vpon the Riuer Tafe Englishmen tearme it Cardid or Gardife Also within the body of the said Lordship were eightene Castels and â—6 Knightes fées and a halfe that helde of the same Lordship by Knights seruice besides a great number of frée holders Also the saide Lordship being a Lordship Marcher or a Lordship Royall and holden of no other Lordship the Lordes thereof euer since the winning of the same owing their obedience only to the Crowne haue vsed therein Iura regalia with the triall of all actions as well reall as personall and pleas of Crowne with authoritie to pardon all offences Treason only excepted King William W 〈…〉 Northumberland where he repaired 1091 Nevv Castell Sarisburie Anno reg 5 such Castels as the Scottes had impayred and builded the newe Castell on Tine Osmond Bishop of Sarisburie founded the Cathedrall Church of old Sarisburie and on the morrow after the dedication thereof the Stéeple was fiered by lightning In England fell wonderfull abundance of rayne and after 1092 Great Frost Mathew Paris Wil. Malme ensued so great frost that horsses and cartes passed commonly ouer great Riuers which when it thawed the Yse brake downe many great bridges Hugh Lupus Earle of Chester sente into Normandy for Abbey of Chester Anselme by his counsell to builde an Abbey at Chester of Saint Werbridge King William lying sicke at Glocester for feare of death Mathew Paris promised to correct the wicked Lawes He gaue the Archbishoprike of Canturbury to Anselme Anselme Archbishop and to his Chancellour Robert Bloet the Bishoprike of Lincolne but when the King had recouered his health he was sorie that he had not sold the Bishoprike of Lincolne Malcolme King of Scottes comming into Englande was King of Scottes flayne met withall and sodeinly â—â—ayne with his sonne and heire also by Robert Mowbray Earle of Northumberland Iohn Bishop of Welles by noynting the Kings handes Bishopricke at Bathe Levves in Suffex Anno reg 6. 1093 Carelile repayred and the Castell builded Famine â—â— Beuerla Thomas Rudburn transposed his Bishops seate to Bathe William Waren first Earle of Surrey and Gundred his wife founded the Abbey of Lewes in Sussex King William builded againe the Citie of Carelile which was destroyed by the Danes 200. yeares before He also builded a Castell there and out of the South parts of England sent men to inhabit This yeare was a great famine and after so great a mortalitie that the quicke were scant able to bury the dead King William made great warres in Normandy against his brother Robert through the whiche both England and Normandy were fore oppressed with exactions Exactions VVâ—lâ—chmen vvon Angleâ—ey The Welchmen spoyled the Citie of Glocester with a part of Shrewsburie and woonne the Isâ—e of Anglesey The Bishopricke of Thetford was translated to Norwich Bishopricke at Norvvich Anno reg 7. 1094 Northumberland spoyled by Herbert Losing Bishop there King William sent his brother Henry into Northumberland with a great power bycause Robert Mowbrey Earle of that Countrey refused to come to the Kings Court the Countrey was spoyled the Earle was taken and many were disherited Some had their eyes put out c. King William with a great power entred Wales but not King VVilliam inuaded vvales being able to followe the Welchmen among the hilles he builded two Castels in the borders and returned Great preparation was made by the Christians to goe Anno reg 8. 1095 〈…〉 to Hierusalem against the Infidels at Hierusalem Peter the Hermite being their first leader and after Godfrey of Lorraine called Godfrey of Bolleine Robert Duke of Normandy tooke his iourney towards Anno reg 9. 1096 Normandy pavvned An. reg 10. 1097 Nice and Antioch vvoon Hierusalem and layde Normandy to gage to his brother King William for 6666. poundes of siluer The Dukes Godfrey Beamonde and Robert beséeged the Citie of Niece with 6000. horsemen and 10000. footemen and tooke the same with the wife of Soliman and his sonnes They also tooke the Citie of Antioch King William with an armie of horsemen and footemen wente the seconde time into Wales meaning to kill all the male kinde there but he could vnneth kill or take any one of them All the lands in Kent that sometime belonged to Earle Hector Boetius Godvvin sands Godwine by breaking in of the Sea were couered with Sands and therefore is yet called Godwine Sands King William was in Normandy and gaue himselfe to Exactions An. reg 11. 1098 An. reg 12. 1099 Hierusalem vvonne warres there so that with exactions and tributes he did not only shaue but flea the people of England Hugh Earle of Shrewsburie was slayne in Anglesey by the Irishmen The Christians tooke the Citie of Hierusalem and placed there a King and a Patriarche After King Wilham was come out of Normandy he kept his Courte at Westminster in the new Hall which he had then caused to be builded the length whereof is 270. foote VVestminster Hall P. Patauiensis and the breadth 74. foote and hearing men say it was too bigge he answered this Hall is not bigge ynough by the one halfe and that it was but a Chamber in comparison Io. Euersden of that he was about to make A diligent searcher might Mathew Paris Io. Rouse yet find out the foundation of the Hall which he had purposed to builde stretching from the Thames side vnto the common strééte King William being a hunting in the new Forest word was brought him that his people were beséeged in Mayne he forthwith tooke shipping though he were vehemently perswaded to the contrary for that there was at that time a great tempest to whome he answered he neuer heard that any King was drowned At this time he gote more honor VVord of VVilliam Rufus Mathew Paris than euer he did in all his life for he chased his enemies and returned with victory In this Sommer bloud sprang out of the earth at Finchamstede Anno reg 13 in Barkeshire King William on the morrow after Lammas day hunting 1100 There standeâ—â— a Chappell King VVilliam slayne Wil. Malme Mathew Paris Radulphus Niger in the new Forrest of Hampshire in a
place called Chorengham Sir Walter Tirell shooting at a Déere vnawares hitte the King in the brest that he fell downe starke dead and neuer spake worde his men specially that Knighte gate them away but some came backe agayne and layde his body vpon a Colyars Cart whiche one sillie leane beast did draw vnto the Citie of Winchester where he was Radul Cogshal buryed on the morow after his death at whose buryall men could not wéepe for ioy This King was taken out of the world in the middest of his vnrighteousnesse who being wicked to his owne people and to strangers was most wicked to himselfe The Countreys about him he prouoked with warres and England was so miserably oppressed vnder him that it Io. Rouse could not recouer for he and his trayne spoyled and subuerted all things He reigned twelue yeares and eleuen monethes lacking eyght dayes He gaue vnto the Monkes called De Charitate in Southwarke Register of Bernaâ—dsey the great newe Church of Saint Sauioure of Barmonds eye and also Barmonds eye it selfe He also founded of an olde Monasterie of Monkes a Ex Câ—â—â— goodly Hospitall in the Citie of Yorke called Saint Leonards for the sustentation and finding of the poore as well men as women He gaue the Churche of Saint Peeter in the Citie of Bathe to be a Bishops Sea and the mother Church of Somersetshire ¶ King Henry Beawclerke HEnry brother to William Anno reg 1. Io. Rouse Rufus and y â— first of that name for his learning called Beawclearke brought vp in the studie of the liberall artes at Cambridge chieflye through the trauell of Henrye Nowborough Earle of Warwike who appeased all debates of that time to the The. Râ—dborne W. Malme contrarie obteyned the dominion ouer this Realme of Englande and beganne his raigne the first day of August in the yeare oâ—â—ure Lorde 1100. and was crowned at Westminster on the fifth day of August by Mawrice Bishop of London bycause at that time Geâ—â—â— Dorâ— Anselme Archbishop of Canturburie was by persecution of William Rufus exiled This Henry borne at Selbe in Englande was a noble Prince strong and mightie of body high of stature and amiable of countenance He was excellent in wit eloquent and fortunate in battaile and for these thrée he had thrée notable vices couetousnesse crueltie and lecherie He maryed Mawde the daughter of Malcoline King of Scottes of whome he begate William and a daughter named Mawde At the beginning of his raigne he restored the state of the Cleargie aswaged the gréeuous payments reduced againe Saint Edwards lawes and amended them He put out of his Court all nice and wanton persons He reformed the olde vntrue measures and made a Measures reformed W. Malme Vlno novv called a yard W. Malme measure by the length of his owne arme whiche was then called Vlno an Elle and now the same is called a yarde or metewand c. He restored to his Subiects the vse of lights in the night Vse of light in the night permitted which lightes and also fire had him forbidden by his father to be vsed after the ringing of a Bell at eyght of the clocke at night Edgar King of Scottes did homage to this Henry This yeare Iordan Briset Baron the sonne of Raufe the Saint Iohns by Smithfielde sonne of Brian Briset founded the house of Saint Iohn of Hierusalem néere vnto London by Smithfield The same Iordan gaue fourtéene Acres of ground lying Clarken vvell Register of Clerken well Ex Carta in the field next adioyning vnto Clarken well to build therevpon a house of Nunnes wherein he with Murioll hys wife were both buryed in the Chapter house Robert Shorthose Duke of Normandy the Kings eldest 1101 Anno reg 2. brother whiche was nowe returned from Hierusalem made warre vpon his brother Henry for the Crowne of England who assembled a strong armie and landed at Portesmouth but by mediation a peace was made on condition that Tribute to Robert Shorthose VVinchester and Glocester brent Liber Glocestr Tevvkesbery builded Cronica de Theoksbery Henry should pay thrée thousand markes yearely to Duke Robert and if the one dyed without issue the longer liuer should inherit Winchester was brent the xvij of May and Glocester was brent the twentith of May Robert Fitzham who came with the Conquerour out of Normandy with Sibell his wife founded a new the Church of Theukesbery and was there buryed Robert de Belasine Earle of Shrewsburie eldest sonne to 1102 Robert de Belasme rebelled Wâ—l Malme Floriacensâ—s Roger Mountgomery strengthned the Towne and Castell of Shrewsbury so did he the Castels of Bridgenorth Tichile and Arundell with viâ—â—uals and armed men against King Henry but the King being warned thereof he gathereth his power and beséegeth Bridgenorth whiche Towne was yéelded vnto him And this being knowne to them of Arundell they forthwith submitted themselues with condition that their Lorde Robert de Belasme might be permitted fréely to passe into Normandy Also they of Shrewsbury sent the keyes of their Castell and pledges of their obeysance and then Robert with his brother Ernulfus and Roger of Poytiers abiured this land for euer The Cathedrall Churche of Norwich was founded by Minster of Norvviche Anno reg 3. Register of Saint Barthelmew Hospitall of S. Barthelmevv 1103 Anno reg 4. Herbert Bishop of Norwich The Priorie and Hospitall of Saint Barthelmewe in Smithfield was founded by a pleasant I ester or Minstrell of the Kings named Reior who became first Prior there Before this time Smithfield was a laystow of all drdure and filth and the place where fellons and other transgressors were put to execution Roberte Duke of Normandy comming into Englande through the subtelty of King Henry his yonger brother released The yonger brother begyleth the elder to him the tribute of thrée thousand Markes of Siluer Hugh Lacy founded the Monasterie of Saint Iohn at Ex libre Lanthony Mathew Paris Lanthony founded Chro. Donmow Lanthony the Chanons of which place were since translated by Miles high Connestable and Earle of Here ford to a place néere vnto Glocester then called Hide since called Lanthony Iuga Baynard Lady of little Donmow caused Maurice Bishop of London to dedicate the Church of Donmow which the Priorie of Donmovv in Essex founded by the VViddovv of Baynard that buylded Baynards Castell in London had founded and the same day she gaue to it halfe a hide of land This Lady Iuga was late wife to Baynard that firste buylded Baynards Castle in London Great malice was kindled betwéene the two bréthren 1104 Anno reg 5. Robert and Henry wherevpon deadly warre ensued There appeared about the Sunne foure circles and a blasing Starre King Henry remayned in Normandy making strong 1105 Anno reg 6. Saint Iohns in Colchester warres vpon his brother Robert and Rorsia his wife Eudo Dapifere or sewer to King Henry founded the Monasterie
of Saint Iohn in Colchester of blacke Channons and those were the first in England Simon Earle of North-hampton and Mawde his wife Saint Andrevve in North-hampton Ex Carta â—o Rouse 1106 Anno reg 7. Elder brother seeketh fauour of the yonger founded the Monasterie of Saint Andrew in North-hampton Robert Duke of Normandy came to his brother at Northhampton and friendly desired him to beare brotherly loue foward him but King Henry féeling his conscience accusing him for obteyning the Kingdome by defrauding of his elder brother and fearing men more than God first he reconciled the Nobles of the Realme with faire promises thinking afterwards to make amende for his great wrongs by founding of an Abbey The Duke returning into Normandy the King followed with a great power where betwéene them were many sore battayles fought but at the last the valiant man Roberte was taken This yeare appeared a blasing Starre from thrée of the A Blasing Starre Mathew Paris clocke till nine And on the Maundy Thursday was séene two full Moones one in the East and another in the West The first Chanons entred into the Church of our Lady T Rudborne Saint Mary Ouery Liber Roffensis â—o Reuerla 1107 Anno reg 8. in Southwarke called Saint Mary Ouery fouÌ„ded by William Pountlarge Knight and Wiliam Daneys Normans Aigedus was first Prior there WheÌ„ King Henry had set in order Normady according to his pleasure he returning into England brought with him his brother Robert Wâ—rlham of Morton put them in perpetuall prison froÌ„ wheÌ„ce shortly after Duke Robert deceiuing The yonger brother puttetâ— out the eyes of his elder his kepers sought to escape but he was takeÌ„ as he fled by his brothers coÌ„mandement had his eies put out kept streighter till his dying day This yeare the Priorie of the holy Trinitie within 1108 Priorie of the Trinitie in London Liber trini Aldgate of London was founded by Matild the Quéene in the Parishes of Mary Magdalen Saint Michael Saint Katherine and the holy Trinitie all whiche are nowe but one Parish of Christ Church in old time called holy Roode parish W. Dunthorne She gaue to the same Priorie the port of Aldgate with the stocke therevnto beloÌ„ging which was of hir demaynes and is now called Aldgate Warde King Henry with sundry expeditions brought vnder him the Welchmen and to pull downe their stoutenesse he Anno reg 9. Wâ—it Malme Gerua Doro Flemings sent into VVales sent all the Flemings that inhabited England thither which of late were come hither when great part of Flanders was drowned and also in time of his father by aliance of his mother in so muche that through their greate multitude they séemed gréeuous to the Realme wherefore he sente them ali with their substance and kindred into Rose a CoÌ„untrey of Wales aâ— into aâ— stucke that he mighte clense the Realme of them and also suppresse the wildnesse of the enimie and not long after he made expedition thither compelling the Welchmen to giue him for pledges the sonnes of the Nobilitie with some money and much Cattell and returned Henry Emperour of Rome sente messengers into England requiring to haue Mawde the Kings daughter giuen 1109 Anâ— reg 10. him in mariage which was granted by the King who then tooke thrée Shillings of euery hide of lande through England The King translated the Abbey of Eoly into a Bishopricke A Taxe Iohn Taxtor EelyÌ„ a Bishoprick Mathew Paris â—ibermoÌ„n Elie. and made Haruey Crust Bishop of Bancor Bishop there A Comete appeared after a strange fashion for it was risen out of the East and astended vpwards A great Earthquake was at Shrewesburie and the water 1110 Anno reg 11 A Comete Trent dried vp Floria censis of Trent at Nottingham was dryed vp from one of the clocke till thrée King Henry maryed Robert his bastard son to Mawde Floriacen daughter and heire to Robert Fatzham and made him the first Earle of Glocester who after builded the Castels of Bristow Castels at Bristovv and Cardife Saint Iames at Bristovv Kensham 1111 Anno reg 12 Mathew Paris and Cardeffe with the Priorie of S. Iames in Bristowe where his body was buryed And his sonne Earle William began the Abbey of Kensham King Henry went into Normandy to make war against the Earle of Angiew whiche kept Maine againste the Kings will and spoyled the whole Countrey William Baynard vnder whome Lady Iuga helde the Cro. Dun. title of Dunmow by misfortune lost his Barony and King Henry gaue it wholly to Robert the sonne of Richard the Robert Fitâ—â— Richard sonne of Gilbert Earle of Clare and to his heires togither with the honor of Baynards Castell in London and the appurtenances This Robert was Cupbearer or Butler to the King Aboute this time Gefferey Clinton Treasourer and 1112 Anno reg 13 Kenelvvorth Priory and Castell founded Lib. Ken. Chamberlayne to King Henry the first founded the Priorie at Kenelworth of regular Chanons Geffery Clinton the yonger confirmed to the Chanons all which Geffery his father gaue them except those landes which his father reserued to make his Castell and Parke on in Kenelworth This yeare was a great mortalitie of men and moreine Mathew Paris of Beastes The Citie of Worcester the chiefe Church the Castell 1113 Anno reg 14. Floriacen Cro. Hautenprice and all other buildings one of the Monkes with two seruants and fiftéene CitizeÌ„s were all brent the twentith day of July The King subdued the Walchmen The King caused all his Nobles to sweare to William his sonne The tenth of October the Riuer of Medway by no small 1114 Anno reg 15 Thames and Medvvay dried vp number of miles did so fayle of water that in the midst of the Chanell the smallest Uessels and Boates coulde not passe The selfe same day the Thamis did suffer the like lack of water for betwéen the Tower of London and the bridge and vnder the Bridge not only with Horse but also a greate Thomas de Wike Walter Couen Iohn Taxtor William Sheepehead Liber Roffensis Chichester brent A blasing starre 1115 Anno reg 16 Liber trinitatis number of men and children did wade ouer on foote whiche defecte of water did endure the space of two dayes Chichester with the principall Monasterie was brent There was many stormes and a blasing Starre This yeare through an hard Winter almost all the bridges in England were borne downe with Yse Edgar sometime King of England granted vnto thirtéene Knightes a portion of grounde without the walles of the Citie of London lefte voyde in the East part of the same Citie Knighten Gild novv Portsoken vvard togither with a gilde which he named Knighten Gild that now is called Portsoken warde and now the Church of the holy Trinitie being founded within Aldgate of London by Mathild then Quéene as is afore shewed The successors of those Knightes to
wéete Radulphus fitz Algede Winiard le Douershe c. gaue the foresayde Lands called Knighten Gild to the same Church but Othowerus Accolinillus Otto and Gefferey Earle of Estsex Constables of the Tower of London by succession with-helde by force a portion of the same lande that is to say East Smithfield néere to the Tower to make a Uineyard and would not depart from it by any meanes till the seconde yeare of King Stephen when the same was adiudged and restored to the Church of the holy Trinitie King Henry hauing greate warres with Lewes King 1116 Anno. reg 17 Cro. Peter of France the Realme of England was sore oppressed with exactions The Towne of Peterborow with the stately Churche there was burned downe to the ground In March was excéeding lightning and in December 1117 Anno. reg 18. Tempest and Earthquake thunder and hayle and the Moone at both times séemed to be turned into bloud This yeare in Lumbardy was an Earthquake continued fortie dayes whiche ouerthrewe many houses and that Floriacen whiche was maruellous to be séene a Towne was moued from his seate and set a good way off Mathild the Quéene wife to King Henry of Englande 1118 Anno reg 19. Mathew Paris deceassed at Westminster and was there buryed in the Reuostrie She founded the Priorie of Christes Church within the East gate of London called Aldgate and an Hospitall of Mathilds Hospitall Saint Giles in the fielde without the Weast part of the same Citie The order of the Templers began Knightes of the Temple Many sore battayles were fought in France and Normandy betwéene the King of England and of France 1119 Anno reg 20 1120 Anno reg 21. The Kings children drovvned W. Malme Mathew Paris King Henry hauing tamed the Frenchmen and pacifyed Normandy returned into Engalnde in whiche voyage William Duke of Normandy and Richard his sonnes and Marye his daughter Richard Earle of Chester and his wife with many noble men and to the number of one hundred and sixtie persons were miserably drowned the Sea being calme King Henry marryed Adelizia the Duke of Louans 1121 Anno reg 22. daughter at London from thence the King with a great armie wente towarde Wales but the Welchmen met him humbly and agréed with him at his pleasure The Citie of Glocester with the principall Monasterie was brent againe as before and Lincolne was burned 1122 Anno reg 23 Glocester brent Lib. Glocest Mathew Paris 1123 Anno reg 24. VVarvvike vvith the Colledge King Henry sayled into Normandy where he remayned long trauelling to quiet that Countrey Henry Earle of Warwike and Margaret his wife founded the Colledge of Saint Mary in y â— towne of Warwike And Roger de Belemound his sonne Earle of Warwike and Aeline his wife translated the same Colledge into the Castell of Warwike in Anno 1123. At that time were nine parishes in Warwike Saint Sepulcre Saint Hellens of these twayne were made one Priorie of Saint Sepulchre Alhalowes Saint Michaell Saint Iohn Saint Peter Saint LawreÌ„ce Saint Iames these fiue last Liber Warwicâ—â— Io. Rouse were ioyned to Saint Maryes in Anno 1367. Saint Nicholas Waleran Earle of Mellent is takeÌ„ in Normandy by King 1124 Anno reg 25 1125 Anno reg 26 Mathew Paris Taxtor Coyners punished Henry and he with many other are imprisoned at Roane Iohn Thremensis Cardinall came into England who inueying sore against Priestes Concubines was himselfe detected of whoredome The King caused all the Coyners of England to haue their priuie members cut off and also their right hand bycause they had corrupted the Coyne Henry the fourth Emperour being dead as it was said 1126 Anno reg 27. The Empresse returned into England Giraldus Cambr. and Mawde the Empresse returning into England dwelte with the Quéene in hir Chamber bycause she was suspect of hir husbands death but some affirmed him to be long after in England lyuing as an Hermite and in the end to be buryed at Chester King Henry held his Courte with great magnificence Floriacen in his Castell of Winsore and there assembled all the nobilitie of his Realme where when the Archbishop of Yorke woulde haue Crowned the King equally with the Archshop of Canturbury by the iudgement of all menne he Archbishop of Yorke vvith his Crosse cast out of the Kings Chappell was repulsed the bearer of his Crosse togither with the Crosse was throwne out of the Kings Chappell for it was affirmed that no Metropolitane out of his owne Prouince might haue any Crosse borne before him The feast being ended the King with all the States of the Realme togither came to London and there at the Kings commandement William the Archbishop and the Legate of the Romish Churche and all other Bishops of the English Nation with the Nobilitie tooke an othe to defend against all men the Kingdome to his daughter if she suruiued hir father except that before his deceasse he begate some sonne to succéede him The King also granted to the Churche of Canturburie and to William and his successors the custodie and Constableship of the Castell of Rochester for euer The Archbishop of Canturbury assembled a counsell of Bishops 1127 Anno reg 28. Abbots and other Prelates at Westminster where they determined many causes concerning Ecclesiastical businesse and the King with his counsell confirmed them King Henry went with a warlike army into Fraunce bycause 1128 Anno reg 29 Lodowike the French King defeÌ„ded the Erle of Flaunders the Kings Nephew and enimy At this time men had such a pride in their haire that they Men vveare haire like vvomen W. Malme 1129 Anno reg 30 Mathew Paris contended with women in length of haire King Henry helde a Counsell at London wherein it was graunted him to haue the correction of the Cleargie whiche came to an euill purpose for the King tooke infinite summes of mony of Priests and suffred them to do what they would Robert Deolley Knight great Conestable of England was the first founder of Osney King Henry gaue his daughter the Empresse to Geffrey 1130 Anno reg 31 1131 Anno reg 32 Rochester brent Richard Diuiensis 1132 Anno reg 33 Carleil a Byshopricke Geruasius Gualter Couen London brent Geruasius Doro. Thomas Wikes Plantagenet Earle of Angiou In the Moneth of May the King beyng present the Citie of Rochester was sore defaced wyth fire The King made a Bishopricke at Carleil Mawde the Empresse did beare to Geffrey Plantagenet Earle of Angiou a sonne and named him Henry which when the King knewe hée called hys nobles togyther and ordayned that his daughter and the heires of hir body should succéede him in hys Kingdome In Whitsonwéeke a great fire beginning at Gilbert Beckets house in Weast Cheape consumed a greate parte of London from thence to Algate with the Priorie of Channons of the holy Trinitie and many houses of Office thereto
belonging An Earthquake in England Earthquake Henry Bloys Bishop of Winchester builded the Hospitall Liber canonitrinitatis of Saint Crosse neare vnto Winchester The same hadde béene a Hospitall in the Saxons time but after spoyled by the Danes There was greate darkenesse in England and the Sunne 1133 Anno reg 34. VVorcester brent became like the Moone in the thyrd quarter Worcester as it had oft before chaunced was sore defaced with fire Mawde the Empresse brought forth a sonne named Geffrey for which cause King Henrie went ouer into Normandie Robert Shorthose King Henries brother died in the Castel 1134 Anno reg 35 Robert Shortâ—ose died 1135 Anno reg 36 Death of King Henrie Mathew Paris of Cardife and was buried at Glocester King Henrie remayning in Normandie vpoÌ„ a day did eat Lampraies wherof he toke a surfeite and deceased the firste day of December Anno. 1135. when he had raigned 35. yeres 4. monthes his bowels braynes and eyes were buried at Roan the rest of his bodie was pondered with salt and wrapped in Bulles hydes bycause of the stincke which poysoned them that stood about him The Phisition which being hyred with a great reward to cleaue his heade to take out y e brain with the stinck therof died so that he enioyed not the reward that was couenaunted Thus among a gret many that king Henrie slew this Phisition was the last King Henrie was buried at Reding which he had foundeâ— He also founded the Priorie of Dunstable he conuerted a rich Colledge of Prebends in the Towne of Cirencester into an Abbay of Chanons regular he also builded â— Leyland there an Hospitall of Saint Iohn and newe builded the Castel of Windsor with a Colledge there ⸪ ¶ King Stephen STephen Earle of Morton Anno reg 1 W. Malme Floriacencis Gernasius Do. Ypodigma and of Boloigne sonne to the Earle of Bloys Adela William Conquerours daughter and nephew to king Henrie the firste claymed the kyngdome the seconde daye of December Anno. 1135. He comming into Englande was repulsed by them of Douer shutte out by them of Canturburie but receiued of y e Londoners and Péeres of the land admitted king and crowned at Westminster on Saint Stephens daye by William Archbishop of Canturburie This was a noble man and hardy of passing comely fauour and personage he excelled in martiall pollicie gentlenesse and liberalitie toward all men especially in the beginning and although he had continuall warre yet did he neuer burden his commons with exactions But vniustly and contrarye to his othe made to Mawde the Empresse daughter Fire at London to King Henrie he toke on him the crowne of England Fire which began in the house of one Ailward neare LoÌ„don Liber trinitatis London Thomas Wikes 1136 Excester besieged Ger. Dorobor stone consumed Eastward to Algate and Westwarde to Saint Erkenwalds shrine in Poules Church King Steuen assembling a great armye of Englishmen and Flemmings entred into Deuonshire and besieged the Castell of Excester a long time whiche Baldwine de Riuers helde against him but at length when they within the Castel wanted necessarie things to liue by they compounded Baldwine with hys wife and children are disherited and expulsed the lande A battayle was fought at Goher betwixte Normans and Walshmen where a hundred and. xvj persons on bothe sides Battaile against the vvalchmen were slaine whose bodies laye in the fieldes and were horribly torne and deuoured of Wolues After this was made greate eruptions by the Walchmen who destroyed Churches Townes Castels corne cattayle slewe men women and children riche and poore or solde theÌ„ in forraine countries In October a sore battayle was fought at Cardigan in the which such slaughter of men was made that the men except which were led awaye captiue there were of women taken and ledde away that there remayned to the tenth a thousaÌ„d their husbands with their small children partelye drowned partly brent partly slaine so that the bridge being broken ouer the riuer of Tinde there was a bridge made of mens bodies Anno reg 2. and horsses drowned In March King Steuen passed the Sea to subdue NormaÌ„die 1137 Ypodigma Rochester Richard Diuiensis where he toke many Cities and strong Castels The thirde of June Sainte Andrewe in Rochester was brent with all the Citie and the Bishoppes and Monkes houses The fourth of June Saint Peters the Archbishops sea in Saint Peters in Yorke Yorke Saint Maries without the wals and an Hospital whiche the Archbishoppe Thrustoâ— had builded with 39. other Churches also the Trinitie Church in the suburbes of the same Citie within a small time after were brent Also Saint Peters Church at Bathe and all the Citie the The Citie of Bath brent Liber Roff. Geruasius Dorâ— Floriacensis Anno. reg 3. 27. of June was brent And the same moneth the citie of Leogere was consumed with fire England began to fall into great troubles whych caused King Steuen to returne out of Normandy before he had finished his businesse there Kyng Stephen besieged Bedford and wonne it then he weÌ„t 1138 Bedford besieged Floriacencis Geruasius with a strong power into Northumberlande where he stayed not long but went to Glocester where the Citizens receyued him with greate reioycing Miles the Kings Conestable broughte him into the Kings Pallace there where all the Citizens were to him sworne From thence he wente to Hereford bicause that he heard the Castel was holdeÌ„ against him and on Whitsonday he sate crowned in the Churche of Hereford When they that kept the Castell sawe the Kyngs power to encrease they yéelded themselues The King tooke also the Castell of Webheleyge whych Geffrey Talbot hadde helde agaynste hym The same day that the Kyng departed Hereford brent out of Hereforde all beyond the Ryuer of Wye was brente by the saide Geffrey The King returned to Oxforde where he tooke Roger the Bishop of Sarum with the Byshop of Lincolne and his sonne Roger the Bishop of Eely escaping went to the Castell of Vies and kept it against the King but at lengthe it was deliuered The same time Robert Earle of Gloucester renounced his allegeaunce to King Stephen fortified Bristow and other Castells Also Miles the Kings Conestable reuolted Wherfore Bristovv besieged the Kyng besieged the Castell of Bristow but at length being wearyed he tourned to other of the Earles Castels and séeing hys enimyes still encreasing he called out of Flaunders Anno reg 4. Ypodigma men of warre wyth Wylliam de Ypers their leader whose counsell he chiefly followed The same yeare Roger Byshop of Salisbury a great builder Geruasius Doâ—o of Castelles and Houses departed this life There was founde in hys Coffers fortie thousande Markes of siluer besides much golde and dyuers Jewels that came to the kings hande so that he hadde gathered treasure but wist not for whom The Nobles sent for Mawd the Empresse promising hir
Mathew Paris Geruasius Battaile of the standarde Cro. Hautenprice the possession of the realme according to their othe made to hir In the meane time Dauid king of Scots promising to recouer the crowne of England for the Empresse Mawde hys Néece in most cruell wise inuaded Northumberland where by Thrustone Archbishop of Yorke the Scottes had an ouerthrow at Conton more than foure myles Northweast from Alnertâ—â— and were slaine aboue x. thousand In the moneth of July Robert Earle of Glocester retourned 1139 The Empresse returned into England Geruasius into England with his sister the Empresse and a gret armie which arriued at Portesmouth The Empresse was receiued into Arundel castel by Adelize late wife to king Henry as then wife or Concubine to William Earle of Arundel Earle Robert wente to Wallingforde and thence to Glocester and raised those Countries The king helde his siege before Marleborough but aduertised Marleborough besieged of the Empresse arriuall he hasted towardes Arundel where being by faire spéech pacified he commanded his brother Bishoppe of Winchester to bring the Empresse vnto Bristowe and he himself followed Earle Robert with his army The Empresse stayed at Bristow till October and then went to Glocester hir comming thither being knowen Miles the high Conestable and many other nobles toke part with hyr against king Stephen The king besieged Wallingforde Castell but profited not VValingford castel besieged Floriacensis and therefore raysing a Tower of woodde before it stuffed it with men of warre and went to win the Castell of Malmesburie The armye of Earle Robert wanne the Citie of Worcester brent the moste part of it and laden with the spoyle departed thence The Shirife of that Citie in reuenge hereof destroyed the towne of Sudley and with the spoyle thereof retourned to Worcester After this the King with a great army came from Oxford to Worcester where he gaue the honour of high Conestableship Anno. reg 5. being taken from Miles of Glocester vnto William the sonne of Walter Beauchampe Shirife of Worcester and then retourned to Oxforde and so to Salisburie The King went to Reading and after with hys army towardes 1140 Notingham spoyled Geruasius Doro. Ely but the Bishoppe fledde to Gloucester to Earle Robert and the King wanne the Castell of Ely Robert Earle of Glocester with a gret power inuaded the towne of Notingham and spoyled it the townes men were taken slaine or brent in the Churches wherevnto they fled One of them more rich than the others was taken and led Anno. reg 6. NotinghaÌ„ brent to his owne house by his takers to shewe them where hys treasure lay he bringing them into a low seller whilest they were busie to break open lockes Coffers he conueyed him self away shutting the doores after him set sire on y e house and soothe théeues to the number of thirtie were brent and by reason of this fire all the towne was set a fire and brent Kyng Stephen besieged Lincolne againste Ranulph Earle of Chester but Roberte Earle of Glocester came with a great 1141 Lincolne besieged King Stephen taken power and rescued the same chased the Kyngs armye and tooke him prysoner on Candlemas day firste he was had to Glocester and after to Bristowe there committed to prison The Empresse reioycing at this hir good happe departed from Glocester and came to Ciceste r with Byshops Barons and other in greate number from thence she went to Winchester where mette hir Lordes spirituall and temporall in great number the Citie with the tower and Crowne of the Realme was deliuered into hir hands The Bishop of Winchester that was king Stephens brother The Empresse obtayneth thè Crovvne accursed al that stoode against the Empresse and blessed those that tooke hir part From thence she departed to Wilton where the Archbishoppe of Canturburie came and saluted hyr When Easter was paste she went to Reding where she was receiued with all the honour that mighte be thence she went to Oxforde where the Castell was deliuered vnto hyr by Robert de Olly then went she to Saint Albons and was receyued with all honour Here the Citizens of London came and yéelded their Citie to hir wherevpon she went to London and so to Westminster where she being receyued with procession remained certain dayes taking order for the state of the Realme King Steuens wife and many Péeres of the realm made Ypodigma Geruasius Do. Floriacensis suite to the Empresse to haue the King restored to libertye and not to the kingdome promising to perswade with hym to become a Monke but she woulde not heare The Bishop of Winchester requested hir to giue vnto Eustace his nephew King Steuens sonne his fathers Earledome but it woulde not be The Citizens of London required hir to restore Kyng Edwardes lawes but she being puffed vp with pride would not graunte theyr requeste wherevppon they conspired to take hir prisoner but she aduertised hereof fled with shame The Empresse fledde leauing behinde hir all hir furniture of housholde and apparell Henrie Bishop of Winchester casting which way to deliuer his brother perswaded the Londoners to ayde him The Empresse got hir to Oxforde and froÌ„ thence to Gloucester and Ypodigma Floriacences Geruasius theÌ„ with hir assured friend Miles again to Oxforde bycause she trusted most in him she to do him honour gaue him the Earledome of Heneforde and now hauing got a great army about Lammes wente againe to Winchester and lodged in the Castel there The Bishop abashed of hir sodayn coÌ„ming departed out at one gate as she came in at another he getting a great army with the help of the Londoners besieged the Citie and the seconde of August committed the Citie to the VVinchester brent Geruasius Floriacensis fire with the whiche the Nunry and houses of office with more than twentie Churches some write xl and a greate part of the Citie with the Monasterie of Saint Grimbald the houses thereto belonging were brought to ashes About the exaltation of the crosse the Empresse being wearied of long siege got hir to horssebacke with hir brother Reginalde Earle of Cornewal and many other Earle Robert followed with a great number of Lords knights but the Bishops men setting on them slewe tooke a great number The Empresse fled to the Castel of Lutegershal heauy and The Empresse fled almost deade for feare from thence she was brought to the Castell of Vies and from thence to Glocester bound in a horse-litter like a deade carcasse Earle Robert being pursued was taken at Stobbridge w e Earle of Gloster taken Erle Waren and many other and presented to the Quéene as then new entred into Winchester Earle Robert was deliuered to William de Ypers who put him in prison in the Castel of Rochester Myles Erle of Hereford hardly escaped and came to Glocester Earle of Hereforde fled almost naked The Bishops men brent the Monasterie of Nuns at
his Christmas at Bermonsey where hauing conference Geruasius Doro. with his Nobles for the state of the Kingdome he 1155 promised to banish all Strangers Wherevpon William of Ipres and all the Flemings that had flocked into England fearing the indignation of the newe King departed the land And the Castels that had bin builded to pill the riche and spoyle the poore were by the Kings commandemente and counsell of his Chancellor throwne downe In March Quéene Elianor did beare a sonne at London called Henry after his father King Henry was sonne to Mawde the Empresse whose Line of the Saxons restored Gerua Doro. Radulphus de decâ—te mother was Mawde Quéene of England wife to King Henry the first and daughter to Margaret Quéene of Scottes who was daughter of Edward which he begat of Agatha the sister of Henry the Emperoure Edwarde was the sonne of King Edmond named Ironside whose father was King Etheldred whose father was the peaceable King named Edgar the sonne of Edmond the son of Edward the seigniour the sonne of Alured c. A counsell was holden at Wallingford where the Nobles Anno reg 2. Ger. Dorobor were sworne to the King and his issue King Henry went ouer into Normandy where with long 1156 Anno reg 3. séege he tooke diuers Castels of Mirable Chinon and other and obteyned the homage and pledges of all Aquitaine and Gascoyne William the Kings eldest sonne died and was buryed at Reding King Henry returned into England and then with an armie 1157 King Henry vvent against the VVelchmen Reedifyed Castels Henry of Essex went against the Welchmen where he felled their wods fortified the Castell of Rutland and recouered many strong holdes He reedifyed the Castell of Basingwirke c. but he lost many of his men for Henry of Essex that bare the Kings Standerd as he was assayled amongst his enimies let fall the Standerd to the ground which encouraged the Welchmen and put the Englishmen in feare supposing that the King Iocelyn of â—racland had bin slayne The King notwithstanding got of a certayne King of Anno reg 4. Wales and other Barons homage and hostages and so rereturned Quéene Elianor brought forth a sonne named Richard at Oxford in the Kings Pallace there William Earle of Glocester was taken by the Welchmen Giraldus Cambre in the Castell of Cardife On Christmas day King Henry ware his Crowne at 1158 Winchester where after celebration of diuine seruice he set his Crowne vpon the Altar and neuer ware it after King Henry went into France and at Paris was ioyfully receyued of King Lewes who required to haue his daughter Margaret to be maryed to his sonne Henry which suite he obteyned and King Henry obteyned that as Seneshall to the French King he might enter into Britaine and call afore him suche as made warre one against another to appease them whereby he brought the Citie of Naunts to his dominion An Earthquake happened in many places Earthquake through England and the Riuer of Thamis was dryed vp that at London men might walke ouer the same dryshod Quéene Elianor brought forth a sonne named Geffrey Anno reg 5. Ypodigma A new Coyne was made in England King Henry tooke esâ—uage of the Englishmen the summe 1159 Geruasius whereof grew to 12400. pounds of siluer Of other Countreys subiect to him he gathered also an infinite exaction then passed towards Tholouse with an huge army and beséeged that Citie from Midsomer til Hallontide There were with him Malcoline King of Scottes and a certaine King of Wales and all the Earles and Barons of England Normandy Aquitaine Angeow Gascoyne but Lewes the French King so defended that Citie that the Kings purpose was frustrate and the séege raysed King Henry returned from Tholouse and Henry y â— King Anno reg 6. 1160 of Englands sonne not seauen yeares olde maried Margaret the French Kings daughter that was not yet thrée yeares Gerua Dorâ— Anno reg 7. 1161 Anno reg 8. Thomas Wikes â—â— Beuâ—â—la old Mathew Earle of Bolonia married Mary Abbesse of Rumsey daughter to King Stephen Theobald Archbishop of Canturbury deceassed and the Churche of Canturbury was voyde one yeare one moneth and fourtéene dayes King Henry caused all his subiects to sweare fidelitie to 1162 Mathew Paris his sonne Henry concerning his inheritance Thomas the Kings Chancellour tooke his othe first sauing his fidelitie to King Henry the father so long as he liued This Thomas was elected Archbishop of Canturbury and when he was consecrated he forthwith refused to deale any more with matters of the Court renouncing the Chauncellorship c. There came into England xxx Germaynes as well men as women who called themselues Publicanes their head and Wilbel Nouobur Ralphe Cogshall ruler named Gerardus was somewhat learned the residue very rude They denyed Matrimony and the Sacraments of Baptisme and the Lords Supper with other Articles They being apprehended the King caused a Counsell to be called at Oxford where the sayd Gerard answered for all his fellowes who being pressed with Scriptures aunswered concerning their faith as they had bin taught and woulde not dispute thereof After they coulde by no meanes be brought from their errors the Bishops gaue sentence against them and the King commanded that they should be marked with an whote Iron in the forehead and whipped and that no man should succour them with houserome or otherwise they tooke their punishment gladly their Captayne Publicans vvhipped going before them singing Blessed are ye when men do hate you they were marked in the forehead and theyr Captayne both in the forehead and the chinne Thus being Anno reg 9. whipped and thrust out in the winter they dyed with cold no man reléeuing them Robert de Mountfort accused his néere kinsman Henry 1163 Iocâ—lin of Bracland of Essex of high treason before the Nobilitie affirming that he in an expedition into Wales in a narrow and hard passage at Colleshele most fraudulently threwe away the Kings Standard and with a lowde voyce pronounced him to be dead and turned backe those that came to y â— Kings succour Indéede the foresayde Henry of Essex was perswaded that King Henry was slayne whiche vndoubtedly had come to passe if Roger Earle of Clare had not with quicke spéede come to with his retinue and raysed agayne the Kings Standarde to the encouraging of the whole army Henry withstoode the foresayd Robert and denyed all his accusations whereby in processe of time the matter came to be tryed by Combate They met at Reding to fight in an Iâ—e Combate at Reading néere to the Abbey Thither also came much people to sée what ende the matter woulde come to And it chanced that when Robert had manfully powred out many and heauie strokes Henry turning reason into rage tooke vpon him the part of a challenger and not a defender who whilest he
his tayle betwixte the Legate and the Archbyshop of Canturburie whiche Archbishop of Canturburie béeing lothe to remoue the other set his buttocke in his lappe but he had vnneath touched hym with his bumme when the Bishops and other of the Cleargie and Laytie stepte to hym pulled hym threwe hym to the grounde and beganne to lay on hym with fistes and battes so that the Archbishop of Canturburie yéelding good for euill was fayne to defende the other Archbishop who with his rent Coape gote vppe and away straight to the King with a greate complaynte but when the trueth of the matter was once knowen hée was well laughed at for hys remedye Richard Strangbow Earle of Chepstow deceassed and was Iohn Beuer. buryed at Dublin in Ireland William Earle of Arundell also deceassed and was buryed at Wimondham William Earle of Glocester bycause he had no sonne to Anno reg 23 Ypodigma inherite his landes and béeing loth to distribute them amongst his daughters he made Iohn the Kings sonne his successor A showre of bloud raigned in the Isle of Wighte two Cron. Tinmouth houres space The Church of secular Channons at Waltam was by 1177 Ypodigma Geruasius the Kings commandement newe builded and regular Channons placed there After the death of Rosamund the Faire daughter of Walter Rosamund Lord Clifford Concubine to Henry the second at Woodstoke he tooke priuily King Lewes daughter of France that was marryed to his sonne Richard Earle of Poytow for his Leman and had practised for a diuorce betwixt him and his Quéene Eleanor wherevpon followed great discord betwixt the Kings of England and France but méeting togither they agréed vpon peace for a time Richard Lucy the Kings Justiciar layde the foundation of the couentuall Church in the honor of Saint Thomas in 1178 a place which is called Westwood otherwise Lesnes in the territorie Lesnes Geruasius Walter Couen Gerua Tilberien of Rochester in the new Parish of Southfleete This Richard Lucy builded the Castell of Anger in Estsex in the diocesse of the Bishop of London The Citie of Yorke was brent On Christmas day at Oxenhall in the territorie of Derlington Anno reg 25. 1179 Cron. vinmouth in the Bishopricke of Duresme the earth lifted vp it selfe in the manner of an high Tower and so remayned from the spring of the day vnmoueable vntil the euening and then fell with so horrible a noyse that it feared the inhabitantes thereabout and the earth swallowed it vp and made there a déepe pitte which is séene vntill this day For a testimonie thereof Leyland sayth he saw the pittes there Iohn Leyland commonly called Helkettles The tenth day of Aprill the Church of Saint Andrewe in Rochester was consumed with fire Richard Lucy departed this life in the Abbey of Lesnes hauing changed his habite The Usurers in England were gréeuously punished for Anno reg 26 1180 Vsuters punished Gerua Dorâ— corrupting the Coyne the whiche besides other vexations were fettered two and two togither and carryed in Cartes to the Kings Court. A new Coyne was ordeyned in England Geffrey the Kings Bastarde sonne resigned the Byshopricke Anno reg 27 1181 of Lincolne and was made the Kings Chancellour This yeare Giraldus Cambrensis wrote his booke of the Itinerarium Cambriâ— Giraldi description of Wales wherein he noteth to haue happened in his time in the Prouince of Kemmeis a yong man borne in those partes to be persecuted with Toades as all within that Countrey had come crawling togither to vexe him A man deuoured by Toades and when innumerable numbers of them were killed by those that kept him and other of his friends and kinsmen Geruasius de mappa mundi yet came they still as if they had sprong like Hydraes head numberlesse at length when his friends were wéeried with watching they caused him in a Coffin to be hoysed vp into an high trée that was shred of all the boughes and made smooth but there was he not preserued from his venemous enemies which assaulted him créeping vp into the trée till they had eaten him to the bones that he dyed his name was Seisillus Elker her that is long legge Barnewell with the Priorie néere vnto Cambridge was fired Anno reg 28 1182 and brent Robert Harding a Burgesse of Bristow to whome King Henry gaue the Barony of Barkeley builded the Monasterie Saint Austins in Bristovv Anno reg 29 1183 of Saint Augustines in Bristow King Henry the elder went into France and there made his testament They of Aquitayne hated their Duke Richard for his crueltie and were minded to driue him out of the Earledome of Poytow and Dukedome of Aquitayne and to transpose those estates to his brother King Henry the yonger but when all men looked for victory to the yong King he King Henry the yonger deceassed Giraldus Cambr 〈…〉 1184 Gualterus Couen fell miserably sicke and dyed in the Castell of Limouicen about the beginning of June and was buryed at Roane King Henry returned into England and sent many men of warre into Wales for the Welchmen emboldned by the Kings absence had broken forth and slayne many Englishmen The Abbey of Glastenbury was brent with the Church of Glastenbury brent Saint Iulian. Heraclius Patriarch of Hierusalem came to King Henry Anno reg 31. desiring him of ayde agaynst the Turkes but the King bycause 1185 Heracâ—â—us the Patriarke Gerua Doro. of the crueltie of his sonnes was counselled not to leaue his Dominions in hazard and to goe so farre off wherefore he promised the Patriarke 50000. Markes of Siluer This Patriarke dedicated the new Temple then builded Nevv Temple in the West part of London King Henry sente his sonne Iohn into Ireland that he Iohn the kings sonne Lord of Ireland Ypodigma might be made Lorde thereof The Pope sente him a Crowne of Peacocks feathers brayded with Golde This yeare dyed Hugh Mortimere founder of Wigmorâ— Abbey Mawde the Empresse Mother to King Henry the second The Empresse deceased deceassed she founded the Abbey of Bordesley Geffrey Earle of Britayne the Kings sonne of England dyed Anno reg 32 1180 Geffrey Earle of Britayne dyeth Giral Cambr. Mathew Paris Roger Houeden Iohn Taxtor at Paris about the beginning of August and was there buryed He left issue two daughters which he had by Constance daughter to Conan Earle of Britaine who also at the time of his death was great with childe and after brought forth a sonne named Arthur A great Earthquake threw downe many buildings amongst the which the Cathedrall Church of Lincolne was rent in péeces the fiue and twentith of Aprill The Cathedrall Church of Chichester and all the whole Chichester brent Citie was brent the twentith of October Néere vnto Orford in Suffolke certayne Fishers of the Anno reg 33 1187 A Fish like a man Ralphe Cogshall Monument in Colchester Sea tooke in
their nettes a Fish hauing the shape of a man in all poyntes whiche Fishe was kepte by Barthelinew de Glaunuile Custos of the Castell of Orford in the same Castell by the space of sixe monethes and more for a wonder he spake not a word All manner of meates he gladly did eate but most gréedily raw fishe after he had crushed out all the moysture Oftentimes he was brought to the Churche where he shewed no tokens of adoration At length when he was not well looked to he stale away to the Sea and neuer after appeared The Kings of Englande and of France mette betwixt Gisors Anno reg 34 1188 and Trye where they tooke on them the Crosse and dyuers other with them The King of England landing at Winchelsea hasted towards North-hampton where at Gedington Richarde Sothwel Rog Houed â—nâ—iqâ—â—â—â—erl Gual Coueâ—â— about eight or tenne miles from North-hampton he helde a Parliamente aboute the voyage into the holy land where many Articles concerning that voyage were concluded and the whole Realme troubled with paying of tithes towarde that voyage The Christians were appoynted to pay aboue lxx thousand pound and the Iewes lx thousand without any delay but by meanes of a discorde that fell betwixt the two Kings that voyage was stayed The Towne of Beuerley with the Church of Saint Iohn Beuerley brent Anno reg 35 Geruasius 1189 there was brent the twentith of September The Kings of England and of France with Richard Earle of Poytow the Legate and the Archbishops of Canturbury Roane Rhenes and Burges mette at Naunts the ninth day of June There Philip the French King required that his sister which had bin kept in England a two and tweÌ„ty yeares â—odouicus viâ—es Death of King Henry the second mighte be restored vnto Earle Richard as his wife and Earle Richard desired the same but King Henry denyed this request and so they departed a sunder and got them to armour The French King and Earle Richard pursued the King of England so hard that he was forced to yéelde to Richardus Cambr. all the requestes as wel of the French King as of his sonne Richard This was done at Gisors and so departing came to Azai where he fell sicke and departed this life the sixth day Ypodigma of July in the yeare of our Lord 1189. when he had raigned xxxiiij yeares ix monethes and xij dayes and was buryed at Fonteuerard in the Monasterie of Nunnes by hym founded He founded the Priories of Douer and of Stoneley and Basingwarke and the Castell of Rudlan He also began the stone Bridge ouer the Thamis at London He left issue Richard and Iohn ¶ King Richard Cuer de Lion RIchard the first borne at Oxford for his valiantnesse surnamed Anno reg 1. Cordelion or with the Lions heart the seconde sonne of Henry the second began his raigne the sixth day of July in the yeare of oure Lorde 1189. He was bigge of stature with a merrie countenance To his Souldyoures fauourable bountifull to his friends to Strangers a gréeuous enimie hard to be pleased desirous of warre abhorring ydlenesse enclined to pride lechery and auarice He comming from beyonde the Seas landed at South-hampton Geruasius Do. Mathew Paris the twelfth day of August and was Crowned at Westminster on the third day of September by the hands of the Archbishop Baldwine He commanded that no Iewes nor women shoulde be at his Coronation for feare of enchantmentes whiche were wont to be practised for breaking of whiche commmandement many Iewes were slayne the same day Elianor the olde Quéene who at the commaundement of hir husbande had bene long kept close prisoner was now set at libertie The Archbishop of Canturburie being sore offended wyth Erle Iohn the kings brother for takyng to wife Isabel countesse of Glocester his coosin in the thirde degrée wrote a threatning letter to the same Iohn commanding him not to touch the virgine and to appeare at a peremptory day before him to aunswere the matter King Richard gaue the Castels of Berwike and Rokesburgh to the Scottish king for the summe of x. M. pound he also sold to Hugo de Puteaco Bishoppe of Durham his own prouince for a great péece of mony and created him Erle of the same and then sayde in game I am a wonderous craftesman I haue made a newe Earle of an olde Bishoppe He solde the Priorie of Couentrie to Hugh Bishoppe of Chester for iij. C. markes which Hugh with a power of armed men inuaded the Priory chased the Prior away beat the Monkes lamed some cast some into prison and spoyling the other droue theÌ„ away brake the Hutches of the Churche brente their Charters and priuileges The King also fayned to haue lost his signet and made a newe and then caused to be proclaymed that who so euer woulde safely enioy those things which before time they had inrolled shoulde come to the newe seale wherby it came to passe that many which could not finde him in England went ouer sea to fine with him at his plesure He gaue his brother Iohn the prouinces of Notingham Deuonshire and Cornewal In this time were many robbers and out-lawes among Iohn Maior Outlavves in England the whiche Robert Hoode little Iohn renowmed théeues continued in woods despoyling and robbing the goods of the rich They killed none but such as would inuade them or by resistance for their own defence The sayde Robert entertayned an hundred tall men and good Archers with such spoyles and theftes as he got vppon whome foure hundred were they neuer so strong durste not giue the onset He suffered no woman to be oppressed violated or otherwise inolested poore mens goods he spared aboundantlye relieuing them with that whiche by theft he gotte from Abbayes and the houses of rich Carles whome Maior blameth for his rapine and thefte but of all théeues he affirmeth hym to be the Prince and the moste gentle théefe Till this firste yeare of King Richard the firste the Citizens Magistrates of the Citie of London since before the Conquest Robert Fabian of London hadde bene gouerned by Portgraues as Fabian sometime an Alderman of London in his Chronicle affirmeth whose names with the lawes and customes of the Cittie then vsed he sayeth were recorded in an olde booke written in the Saxon tongue called Domes daye sometime remayning in the Guilde Hal of London but now embezeled To this accordeth the Charter of the same Citie granted by William the Conquerour and diuerse other Records wherein I finde that the chiefe Magistrate of the Citie of Portgraue London in the time of king Edward last before the Conquest called the Confessor was called Portgraue whose name was Wolfgare In the time of William Conquerour and William Rufus Liber trinitatis W. Dunthorne Prouost Godfrey Mandeuile or Magnauile was Portgraue Richarde de Pare Prouost In the time of King Henrie the first Hugh Bouch Portgraue and Leofstanus Goldsmith Prouost
reg 4 Then the Archebishoppe of Rhoane wyth the consente of Earle Iohn toke vpon him the rule of the lande as Uiceâ— Chauncellour Sherifes Nicholas Duke Peter Newlay Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne King Richarde hauing knowledge that Phillip of 1193 Fraunce inuaded Normandie and that Iohn his brother hadde made himselfe King of Englande made peace with the Saladine for thrée yeares and wyth a small companye retourning homewarde was taken prisoner by Leopolde Duke of Austria who broughte hym to Henrie Anno reg 5. King Richarde taken prison the Emperour and there kepte hym in prison a yeare and fiue monthes He was enuyed for hys valiauncie in that he hadde shewed more proofe of hys prowes than all the other had Wolfangus Lazius in hys booke de Romano Imperio affirmeth that Leopolde of Austria when he hadde taken king Richard for some iniurie done to the house of Austria hée King Richard of England builded the vvals of Vienna compelled hym to builde the walles aboute Vienna the chiefest Cittie of Austria the whyche Wals wythin oure memorie defended all Germanie from the inuasion of the Turke The rumor being spredde that King Richarde was taken Earle Iohn rebelled against King Richard as yée haue hearde forth wyth the Frenche King and Erle Iohn made a greate conspiracie togyther meaning to take the Kingdome of Englande herevppon a greate number of Flemmings were assembled at Witsaâ—â—e and an innumerable multitude of Flemmings readye to come ouer but theyr messengers being taken their treason was bewrayed Elianor the olde Quéene caused the Sea coastes to bée watched ouer against Flaunders but notwithstanding Erle Iohn came secréetely into Englande to rayse the Walchmen and Scottes but the King of Scottes woulde not ayde hym The Walchmen in the partes about Kingstone and Windsore toke prayes abrode The Frenche King entred Normandie founde small resistaunce wanne diuerse Townes Gisors was deliuered to him then he hasted towards Roane besieged it but through the great industrie of Robert Earle of Leicester he profited little there and so returned into Fraunce Earle Iohn perceiuing his treason was discouered fortifyed hys Castels and passed ouer into Fraunce and ioyned with the Frenche King Sherifes Roger Duke Richard Fitz Alwyne Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne King Richard sent for his mother and the Archebishop of Rhoane to come vnto hym into Almayne being nowe in greate hope to bée deliuered and in the meane tyme the Archbishoppe of 〈◊〉 was made regent of England The Kings friendes entreating for his deliueraunce his The Kings raunsome Geruasius Doro. Radul Cogshal ransome was set at 100000. pound to wit to the Emperour 100000. markes to the Empresse 30000. markes and to y â— Duke of Austrich 20000. markes wherevpon commaundemeÌ„t was directed from the kings Iustices that al Bishops Prelates Earles Barons Abbots and Priors should bring in the fourth parte of theyr reuenewes towardes the kings raunsome and besids this the cleargie brought in their golden and siluer chalices and fléeced their shrines all whiche was coyned into money The order of the Cestercencies did giue theyr wool for one Mathew Paris Roger Houeden yeare c. all the money gathered for the Kings raunsome to remaine in the custodie of Hubert Archbishoppe of Canturburie Richarde Bishoppe of London William Earle of Arundel Hameline Earle of Warren and the Maior of London The King was restored to libertie the most parte of hys raunsome being paide and pledges left for the residue In the mean time letters were intercepted of Erle Iohn which he had sent into EnglaÌ„d touching treason one Adam of Saint Edmund Cleark being sent by Erle Iohn to prouide that his Castel might be fortified against King Richard came to London and dyned with Hubert Archbishoppe of Canturburie where he bragged of Earle Iohns prosperitie and familiaritie Recardâ—â— caâ—â—â—â— with the French king for y â— which being suspected he was after dinner appreheÌ„ded by the Maior of LondoÌ„ who toke froÌ„ him his letters and deliuered them to the Archbishoppe of Canturburie who on the next morrow called a CouÌ„sel of the Earles and Barons and shewed them the letters wherevpon they al câ—nsented that Erle Iohn should be dispossessed of all his lande in England and that his Castels should be besieged The same day the same Archbishop and Bishoppes excommunicated Earle Iohn and all his fauourers whiche troubled the peace of the kingdome And forth with the Archbishop 1194 besieged the Castel of Marleborough which belonged to Earle Iohn and toke it After this he besieged Notingham Castell The King taking ship at Antwerpe landed aâ— Sandwich on Godâ—â—â— vâ—â—â—â—alfe Gerua Doro. K. Richard the second time Crovvned Anno reg 6. the. 12. of March shortly after he besieged the Castell of Notingham and wan it and after that the Castel of Tikehil and then rode to Winchester wher he was again solemnly crowned on the xvij of April After this he called into his hands all such thing as hée had eyther giuen or sold by patentes or otherwise by whiche meanes he got a great sum of money and sayled into Normandie the xij of Maye where hauing a great army he tooke Taileburge and the countie of Angolesme Shortly after a peace was taken betwéene the two kings of England and Fraunce the xiij of June and also by meanes of Elianor the old Quéene Earle Iohn was reconciled to hys brother King Richard gaue to him the Erledomes of Morton Cornewal Dorset Somerset Notingham Darby Lancastre y â— Castels of Marleborough Luthegarshal with the forrests and Gual Couen appurtinaunces the honor of Wallingford Tikehil and Eye the Earledome of Gloucester with the Earles daughter Isabel though she were a kin to him but he kept certaine Castelles belonging to the said Earldâ—mes in his owne handes he remoued from him hys Concubines and toke to him his own wife which he had not knowen of a long time before Sherifes William Fitz Isable William Fitz Arnolde Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne King Richard sent messengers to the Pope complayning vpon the Duke of Austrich for misusing of him and his as they came by distresse of weather throughe his Countrey wherevpon the Pope excommunicated the Duke and enioyed him to release the â—â—uenaunts that he constrayned the King to make and to sende home the pledges but the Duke refused this order contempning the Popes authoritie who shortly after dyed and was kept vnburied til his son had released the English pledges that lay in hostage for the mony behinde of K. Richards caâ—nsome and further sware to staÌ„d to the iudgement of the Church for that offence of his father Hugh Bishoppe of Lincolne gaue to the king a thousande Anno reg 7. markes for his mantell of Sables which his predecessours were wont yearely to haue giuen them by the King Sherifes Robert Beasaunt Ioke de Iosue Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne William Fitz Osbert a Citizen of London poore in degrée VV. vvith the â—earde Roger Houed Wil.
â—aruus Iohn Taxtor Gerua Doro. Canturb recordes Gual Couent euill fauoured of shape but yet verye eloquent moued the common people to séeke libertie and fréedome and not to bée subiect to the rich and mightie by which meanes he drewe to him many great companies and with all his power defended the poore mens cause against the riche 52000. Londonors he allured to him to be at his deuotion and commandemeÌ„t The king being warned of this tumult coÌ„manded him to cease from those attemptes but the people still followed him as they before had done he made to them orations taking for his theame this sentence Haurietis aquas in gauâ—io de fontibus saluatoris whiche is to say Ye shal draw in ioy waters forth of the wels of your sauiour And to this he added I am sayd he y e sauiour of poore men yée be poore haue assayed long y e hard hands of rich meÌ„ Now draw yée holsome water forth of my Wels that w e ioy for the time of your visitatioÌ„ is come This WilliaÌ„ was coÌ„maunded to appeare before the kings counsell to aunsweare for himselfe in suche causes as shoulde be layde against him where he appeared but wyth 1196 such a multitude of people that the Lordes were afrayde and remitted him with pleasaunte wordes for the time appointing some priuliy when he was alone to apprehende him He sooke the stéeple of Bow Church in Chope and fortified it with munition and victuals The Archbishop of Canturburie then being at LondoÌ„ with other Iustices sent to him and willed him to come forth of the Church he should haue his life saued but he refused to come forth wherfore y â— Archebishop talking with the Citizens of London called togither a great number of armed area least any stur should be made The Saterdaye therefore being the Passion sondaye euen the stéeple and Church of Bowe were assaulted and William with his complices taken but not without bloudshed for hée was forced by fire and smoke to for sake the Churche he was brought to the Archbishop in the Towre where he was by y e Iudges condemned and by the héeles drawn from thence to a place called the Elmes and ther haÌ„ged with nine of his fellowes This counterfaite friende to the poore who named hymselfe A false accuser of his elder brother in the ende vvas hanged to be the sauiour perswading them against the riche was a man of an euil life a murderer who slew one manne with his owne handes a fornicatour who poluted Bowe church with his Concubine and amongst other his detestable facts one that hadde falsely accused his elder brother of treason whyche elder brother hadde in hys youthe Anno reg 8. broughte him vppe in learning and done manye things for his preferment Yet after the death of this wicked malefactor the simple people honoured him as a martyre in so much that they stale awaye the gibbet whereon he was hanged and pared away the Earth that was be-bled with hys bloude and kepte the same as holye reliques to heale sicke men King Richard graunted licence vnto Phillip Bishoppe of Durham to coyne mony in his Citie of Durham which libertie Roger Houeden none of his predicessours had enioyed of long tyme before Sherifes Gerard de Anteloch Robert Durant Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne The Walchmen brake forth and did muche hurt by spoyling 1197 of the Marches The Archbishop of Canturburie callyng togither an army hasted thyther besieged the Castel of Polie and toke it and chased the enimies established peace and returned Rise the Walch king departed this life King Richard and the Earle of Flaunders confedered togither Anno reg 9. The French King entring vnwarely into Flaunders was intercepted and taken by the Earle of Flaunders but giuing pledges vpon couenaunt to make peace he was suffered to depart The viij day of September they met at Liste where by mediation of the Archbishop of Canturburie they toke a truce The Archbishop of Roane returned from Rome where he had complayned on King Richard for taking from him a plot of ground whereon he builded a strong Castell but at the request of the Archbishop of Canturburie the Kyng gaue him in recompence the towne of Deep Sherifes Roger Blunt Nicholas Ducket Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne The Walchmen on the Marches toke booties did much 1198 Geruasius hurt but Hubert the Archbishop of Canturburie being Lorde thiefe Iustice Lieuetenaunt or Warden of England found meanes to resist them so that they being fought with were ouerthrowen and fiue thousand of them slaine The Archebishop hauing got this victorie returneth to London where calling togither a great number of the Nobles of the lande he resigned his office of being head ruler in whose place the Anno reg 10 Lord Geffrey Fitz Peter succéeded in August King Richard toke of euery Carucata plough land or hid of land through England fiue shillings The French king was intercepted by the army of King Richard so that with much adoe he escaped into Cipres his army was dispersed and almost an hundred Knightes taken beside other common soldiours without number The Charters which the king had Mathew Paris before made with his new seale were chaunged Sherifes Constantine Fitz Arnolde Robert de Beaw Maior Henrie Fitz Alwyne Hubert Archebishop of Canturbnrie through the procurement of the Monks of Canturburie and by the coÌ„mandement of the Pope brake downe euen with the ground the Chapel Colledge at Lambeth or Colledge at Lambeth which his predecessors had founded and he had finished in the honor of Thomas Archbishoppe of Canturburie King Richard tourned his armye against the Barons of 119â— K. Richaad vvoÌ„ded to death Paulus Aemeleus Gualterus Couen Ralph Cogshal Poictow that rebelled against him he set their Cities towns on fire spoyled their Countrey flew many of his aduersaries cruelly at the laste came to the Dukedome of Aquitaine and besieged the Castel of Chalne and brought it to that that they within offered to yéeld vpon conditions but he woulde not so receiue them but would haue them by force whervpvn a certain yong man named Bertram de Gordon standing on y e Castel wall leuelled a quarell out of a crosse bowe and smote him with a venomed Darte which stripe the king little regarded but inuading the castel wan it and put the soldiours in prison Of this wounde aforesayde he dyed the sixth day of Aprill in the yeare of our Lord. 1199. When he had raigned ix yeres and ix monthes and was buried at Fonteuerard at his fathers féete whom he confessed he had betrayed his heart was buried at Roane and his bowels at the foresayde Chalne ¶ King John IOHN brother to Richard aforenamed beganne his raigne ouer the Realme Anno reg 1 of Englande the vj. daye of April in the yeare of our Lord 1199. Of person he was indifferent but of melancholie and angrie complexion He being now in Normandie
the Castell and Lordshippe of Elingsmore in the Marches of South-Wales Robert Fitz Parnell Earle of Leycester dyed without issue Liber Bernewell and then Simon de Mountford and Sayer de Quincy deuided the Earledome betwixt them bycause that Sayer de Quincy and the Father of Simon Mountford had marryed the sisters of the sayd Robert Sherifes Thomas Hauerell Hamond Bronde Maior Henry Fitz Alwyne The fourtenth day of January beganne a Frost whiche continued till the two and twentith day of Marche so Great Frost 1205 that the grounde coulde not bée tilled whereof it came to passe that in Sommer folowing a quarter of Wheate was solde for a Marke of Siluer in many places of Englande Dearth of corne whiche for the more parte in the dayes of King Henry the seconde was solde for twelue pence a Quarter of Beanes or Pease for halfe a Marke a Quarter of Otes for forty pence that were wont to be solde for foure pence Also the nno A reg 7. money was so sore clipped that there was no remedie but to haue it renued King Iohn gathered greate armyes of menne to haue gone ouer the Seas but béeing sayled onwarde of his voyage hée returned againe and tooke escuage two markes and a halfe of euery Knightes fée through Englande pretending a quarrell agaynste hys Barons bycause they Iohn Taxtor would not follow hym into the partes beyond the Seas Sherifes Iohn Walgraue Richard Winchester Maior Henry Fitz Alwyne The Earle of Salisburie the Kings brother Geffrey the Kings sonne begot on a Concubine and many other 1206 Ralph Cogshall Anno reg 8. Knightes were gone ouer before but all in vayne the charges was inestimable that had bin layde out aboute the preparation made for this iourney Greate Thunders and Lightnings brusting out of the Great Thunders Lightnings and hayle Cloudes were séene so that men thought the day of Dome had bin come many men and women were destroyed beside Cattell and houses that were ouerthrowne and burned The Corne in the fieldes was beaten downe with haylestones as bigge as Goose egges Aboute Maydestone in Kente a certayne Monster was A strange Monster founde stricken with the Lightning whiche Monster had an head like an Asse a belly lyke a man and all other partes farre discordante from any one liuing thing This deade body no man might vnneath come néere vnto for stenche Sherifes Iohn Holyland Edmond Fitz Garrard Maior Henry Fitz Alwyne King Iohn tooke the thirtenth parte of all mouable goodes both of lay and religious through England at which all men murmured The seauen and twentith day of January a great winde 1207 ouerthrew many houses and trées and a great Snow destroyed many beastes The Monkes of Canturbury by the aduise of the Pope elected Stephen Langton to be their Archbishop and then Anno reg 9. Mathew Paris Pope Innocent intending to obteyne the fauour of King Iohn towardes this election bycause he knewe that he did make diligent search for precious stones sent him an eloquent Epistle with diuers precious iewels which were of King Iohn well accepted and Stephen Langton was consecrate at Rome Then the Pope sent Letters to King Iohn humbly exhorting him to receyue the sayd Stephen Archbishop of Canturburie being therevnto canonically elected the rather bycause he was an Englishman borne and a Doctour of Diuinitie c. but King Iohn being greatly offended with the promoting of the sayde Stephen sent men in armour to expell the Monkes of Canturburie to the number of lxiiij out of the Realme and condemned them of Treason the Monkes went into Flanders and their goods and landes of their Churche was confiscate Also King Iohn sent threatning letters to the Pope whervnto the Pope made a large answere Quéene Isabell was deliuered of hir first sonne at Winchester and named him Henry Sherifes Roger Wincher Edmond Hardell Maior Henry Fitz Alwyne The xxiij of March William Bishop of London Eustachius Bishop of Ely and Malgor Bishop of Winchester by the 1208 England interdicted Nicholas Triuet Mathew Paris Ralphe Cogshall Popes commandement executed the interdiction vpon the whole Realme and they ceased through all England from ministring of Ecclesiasticall Sacraments sauing to them that were in perill of death and Baptisme to Children All the bodyes of them that dyed were buryed like Dogges in ditches and corners Many Bishops especially they that pronounced the interdiction fledde the Realme The King Anno reg 10 set all the Bishoprickes and Abbeys in the Realme into the custody of lay men and commanded all Ecclesiasticall reuenues to be confiscated Also doubting least the Pope should excommunicate him by name or discharge the Nobles of England of their allegiance towards him he laid holde vpon them specially such as he had in suspition and tooke pledges of them This yeare was graunted to the Citizens of London by Maior of London yearely chosen the Kings letters patents that they shoulde yearely choose to them a Maior Sherifes Peter Duke Thomas Neale the 28. of Septem Maior Henry Fitz Alwyne the 28. of October Richard the Kings second sonne by Isabell his wife was 1209 Wil. Packington borne By the procurement of Stephen Langton Archbishop of Canturburie licence was graunted to the conuentual Churches in Englande to celebrate diuine seruice once euery wéeke but the white Monkes had not this priuiledge bycause they had disobeyed the interdiction The Eschequer was remoued froÌ„ Westminster to Northhampton Eschequer at Northhampton by the Kings commandement He also gathered a great armie and wente towarde Scotland as farre as the Castell of Norham where the King of Scottes came to him and treated a peace for the which he gaue 11000. Markes of Siluer and deliuered his two daughters for a pledge By the Kings commandement through out all the Forestes of England all the ditches were made playne ground Cro. Dâ—â— Hedges breute Homage of freeholders VVelchmen did homage and the hedges brent After this he tooke homage of all fréeholders and sware all men to his allegiance from twelue yeares old vpward The Welchmen came to Woodstocke and did homage A Clarke of Oxford by chance killed a woman and then Anno reg 11 Oxford forsaken ranne away wherefore his thrée chamber fellowes whiche knew nothing of the matter were hanged at the Townes end which caused thrée thousand Maysters and Schollers to forsake the Uniuersitie of Oxford so that there taryed not one A prodigeous sight was séene one morning in the beginning Radulphus Cog. of Lent the Clowdes séemed to fighte with the Sunne from the Sunne rising till one of the clocke of that day The Arches and stone bridge ouer the Thamis at London London bridge builded of stone Fx libro pontis â—ondinensis S. Mary Ouery was this yeare finished by the worthie Merchants of London Serle Mercer William Alman and Bennet Botewright Mayster Fowle a learned man last Prior of Saint Mary Oueryes Church
in his life time reported that at the first being no Bridge at London but a Ferie the Feryer and his wife deceasing lefte the same Ferie to their Daughter a mayden named Mary who with the goods lefte by hir Parents 1. Leyland and the profites which came by the sayd Ferie builded a house of Sisters which is the vppermost end of Saint Maryes Church aboue the Quier where she lyeth buryed vnto the which house she gaue the ouersight and profite of the same Ferie but afterwarde the same house of Sisters was conuerted vnto a Colledge of Priestes who builded the Bridge of Timber and from time to time kepte the same in reparations but considering the great charges in repayring lastly by the great ayd of the Citizens of London others they builded y e same of stone King Iohn gaue certayne vacant places in London to build on for building and reparation of London Bridge A Mason being Mayster of the Bridge house builded from the foundation the Chappell on London Bridge of his owne proper expences Peter le Iosue William Blund the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Henry Fitz Alwyne the 28. of October The King commaunded all the Iewes both men and women Ievves ransomed to be imprisoned and gréeuously punished bycause he would haue all their money some of them gaue all they had and promised more to the ende they mighte escape so 1210 many kindes of torments amongst whome there was one which being tormented many wayes would not raunsome himselfe till the King had caused euery day one of his great téeth to be pulled out by the space of seauen dayes and then he gaue the King tenne thousand Markes of Siluer to the ende they should pull out no more In the moneth of June the King leadeth an Armie into Anno reg 12 Ireland expulseth Hugh Lacy and brought all Ireland vnder his subiection He caused the Lawes of England to bée executed there and money to be coyned according to the waight of Englishe money and made there both halfepence A mint in Ireland and farthings he returneth with great triumph in the moneth of September and then raysed a great Taxe Taxe Nic. Triuet vpon all the religious in England whome he caused to pay suche a raunsome and to spoyle theyr Churches that the summe came to an hundred thousande pounde besides fortie thousand poundes of the white Monkes Another fight betwixt the Sunne and the Clowdes was séene Matild a noble woman wife to William de Brawse and Iohn Beuer-Ral Cog shall his sonne and heire William perished miserably with famine at Windsore William hir husband changing his apparell passed ouer the Sea at Shoram and shortly after dyed at Paris Adam Whetly Stephen le Grace the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Henry Fitz Alwyne the 28. of October The Bishop of Londons Castell called Stortford is ouerthrowne Stortford Castel 1211 Army into VVales Mathew Paris and the Kings house builded at Writle The King went into Wales agaynst Lewlin his sonne in lawe that had maryed his bastard daughter with a greate force euen to Snowdon and subdued all the Princes and nobles without any gainesaying He tooke xxviij Pledges for their subiection and returned When he came at Northhampton there met him messengers from the Pope Pandolph Legates from Rome Anno reg 13. and Durand which came to make an vnitie betwixte the King and the Bishop of Canturbury with the Monckes which were banished but the King granting their returne dented to make theÌ„ any ameÌ„ds for their losse which they had susteyned or to restore their goodes which he had coÌ„fiscated so that y e Embassadors returned without any end coÌ„cluded After this the King tooke of euery Knight which was A great Taxe not with him in Wales two Markes of siluer of euery shield Pope Innocent absolued all both Princes and other which pertayned to the Crowne of England from their fide litie and subiection to King Iohn and commanded them to eschue his company A heard of Harts comming forth of the Forest lept all Gual Couent into the Sea at the mouth of Seuerne Sherifes Iohn Fitz Peter Iohn Garland the 28. of Sep. Maior Henry Fitz Alwyn the 28. of October William King of Scotland being aged was not able to â—â—ber Bernewell quiet the inner partes of his Realme troubled with sedition wherefore he fledde to the King of England and committed himselfe his Kingdome and only sonne vnto his prouision who making the yong man Knighte wente into those partes with an armie and sending forth his men into the inner partes of that Kingdome he tooke Cuthred Mac William Captayne of the sedition and hung him on a paire of Gallowes for he was of the old antient race of the Scottish Kings who assisted with the ayde of the Irish and Scottes did exercise long enmitie against the moderne Kings of Scotland as his Father Donald had done before him sometime secretely sometime openly for the moderane Kings of Scotland confesse themselues to be rather Frenchmen as in stocke or lignage so also in manners language and apparell and hauing brought the Scottes vnto extreme seruitude they admitte onely Frenchmen into familiaritie and seruice The Welchmen tooke diuers Castels of the King of Englands VVelchmen inâ—aded England 1212 cut off the heads of all the Souldioures burned many Townes and with a great pray returned The King gathered a great armie minding vtterly is destroy all the coastes of Wales but when he came to Notingham he caused the xxviij pledges of the Welchmen to be Pledges hanged hanged and for feare least his nobles should rebell he returned to London An Hermite in Yorkeshire named Peter prophesied openly Peerce of Pomfreâ— of King Iohn and sayd that vpon the Ascention day next comming he should be no King but the Crowne should be transposed to another this Peter was apprehended and put in prison The tenth of July at night a maruellous and terrible Anno reg 14. London bridge perished vvith fire Ex recordis SaÌ„ctâ— Mariae de Southwarke chance happened for the Citie of London vpon the South side of the Riuer of Thamis with the Church of our Lady of the Chanons in Southwarke being on fire and an excéeding great multitude of people passing the Bridge eyther to extinguish and quench or else to gaze behold suddaynely the North part by blowing of the South winde was also set on fire and the people whiche were euen now passing the Bridge perceyuing the same would haue returned but Arbor successic Gualterus Couen Wil Packington were stopped by fire and it came to passe that as they stayed or protracted time the other ende of the Bridge also namely the South ende was fired so that the people thronging themselues betwixt the two fires did nothing else exspect or looke for than death then came there to ayde them many Shippes and Uessels into the which the multitude so vndiscretly
pressed that the Shippes being drowned they all perished it was sayde through the fire and the Shipwracke that there were destroyed aboute thrée thousand persons William Packington writeth that there were founde in parte or halfe brente thrée thousande boydes besydes those that were quite brente that coulde not bée founde Randolph Eiland Constantine Iosue the 28. of Septem Sherifes Maior Henry Fitz Alwyne the 28. of October King Iohn being now in extremitie and minding to impute the faulte to them that would not appease his furor aforetime reprehended sometimes one and sometimes another Liber Roffensis Gualter Couen of his Nobilitie as Traytors calling them iealous whose beddes as he bragged he had defiled and desâ—ourâ—â— their daughters The Chronicle of Dunmow sayeth this discord arose betwixte Chr. of Dun. the King and his Barons bycause of Mawde called the Faire daughter to Robert Fitz Water whome the Mavvde the faire daughter to Robert Fitz VValter King â—oâ—â—â—d but hir father woulde not consente and there vpon ensued warre throughout England The King spoyled especially the Castell of Baynard â—â—â— London and other Baynards Castell throvvne dovvne holdes and houses of the Barons Robert Fitz Walter Roger Fitz Robert and Richard Mount Fichet passed ouer into France some also went into Wales and some into Scotland Robert Fitz VValter fledde into France and did great domage to the King Whitest Mawde the Faire remayned at Dunmow there came a messenger vnto hir from King Iohn about his suite in Loue but bycause she would not agrée the messenger poysoned a boyled or poâ—ched egge against she was hungrie whereof she Mavvde the Faire poysoned dyed and was buryed in the Quier at Dunmow About thys tyme the King of France wasted the King of Englandes landes beyonde the Seas and the King of Englande 1213 likewise wasted his but at the length a truce was taken and an aâ—ne of the Sea being betwixte eyther host there was a Knight in the English host that cryed to them of the other side willing some one of their Knightes to iust a course or twayne wherevpon without stay Robert Fitz Walter made himselfe ready terried ouer and gotte on hys Horsse withoute any manne to helpe hym Robert Fitz VValter his â—alâ—anâ—ie and béeing readie agaynste the face of his enimie at the first course he stroke the other so harde with hys greate Speare that Horsse and Man fell to the grounde and when hys Speare was broken hée wente backe agayne to the King of France by Gods tooth quoth King Iohn he were a King indéede that had suche a Knighte Robertes friendes hearing that knéeled downe and sayde O King hée is youre Knighte it is Robert Fitz Walter and the Robert Fitz VValter restored to the kings fauour nexte day he was sente for and was restored to the Kings fauoure and by hys meanes peace was concluded and he receyued his liuings and had leaue to repaire his Castels â—â— Thrée the moste for 〈…〉 and valiaunte Knightes of Englande in those dayes were Roberte Fitz Walter Roberte Fitz Roger and Richarde Mount Fichet Pandolph the â—â—gaâ—â—â—ame to Douer and admonished Mathew Parâ—s Nic. Triuet the King to restore Stephen Langton to his Sea of Caunturburie and the Monkes vnto their Abbey the King calling to minde the manyfolde daungers he was in made promis by othe to be obediente to the Court of Rome This was done the Monday before the Ascention dayâ— Pandolph â—al Cogshall King Iohn resigned the Crovvne with the Nobles of the Realme came togyther at the house of the Templers by Douer vpon the Ascention euen where the King according as sentence was giuen at Rome did resigne his Crowne with the Realmes of England and Irelande into the Popes handes whose Uicegerent was Pandolph aforesayde and confirmed hys gifte with a Charter dated the xv of May in the viiij yeare Peter of Pomfret Anno reg 15 of his raigne When the Ascention day was past he commanded the foresayde Peter the Hermite to be fette out of the Castell of Corfe to be bound to a Horse tayle drawne through the Stréetes to Warham and there both he and his sonne to be hanged The seauententh of August Stephen Langton Archbishop Stephen Langton returned of Caunturburie and all the other that were banished arriued at Douer and wente to Winchester to the King who méeting them in the way fell flatte vpon the earth before their féete and with teares beséeched them to take pitie on hym and of the Realme of Englande The Archbishops and Bishops likewise with teares tooke him vp from the ground and brought him vnto the doâ—eâ— of the Cathedrall Church with the Psalme of Miseâ—ere absolued The King abâ—solued him then the King tooke an othe to call in al wicked lawes and to put in place the Lawes of King Edwards Deuine Seruice being ended the King the Archbishop Bishops and Nobles dyned albat one Table Richard Prior of Bermondsey builded an house againste Lib. Bermondsey Saint Thomas Hospitall the wall of the saâ—â— house of Bermondsey called the Almorie or Hospitall of conuerts and children in the honor of Saint Thomas Gilo de Brawse the sonne of William de Brawse receyued all his Fathers inheritance into his custodie togither with his Nephew till the childe came to lawfull age Henry Fitz Alwyne Fitz Leofstam Maior of London deceassed who had continued Maior of London four and twentie Henry fitz Alvvin Maior of London xxiiij yeares Wil. Packington yeares since the first of King Richard the first he was buryed in the Priorie of the holy Trinitie néere vnto Aldgate Martin Fitz Alis Peter Bate the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Lib. Bermond A ditch about London Chr. of Dunstable Roger Fitz Alwyne the 28. of October The fiftenth of October was begonne by the Londoners the Ditche withoute the Walles of London of two hundreth foote broade causing no small hinderance thereby to the Channons of Christes Church néere vnto Aldgate for that it passed through their ground Geffrey Fitz Peter dyeth chiefe Justice of Englande and Bishop chiefe Iustice 1214 the Bishop of Winchester in that office is placed the Nobles of Englande murmuring that a Stranger borne shoulde be made Ruler ouer them Pope Innocent sent his Letters to Nicholas Bishop of Interdiction releassed Nic. Triuet Tuscâ—land his Legate to release the interdiction whiche had continued sixe yeares thrée monethes and fourtéene dayes The seconde day of July King Iohn sayled towarde Britâ—ne intending to beséege Naunts in the whiche warres he had the aide of Othe the Emperour and of the Dukes of Loâ—â—ine Brabant and Holland of Reignold Earle of Roloigne and Ferrandis Earle of Flanders so that there was a great fielde foughte in whiche the Frenche King escaped narrowly but béeing rescued hée tooke the foresayde Earles put Hugh de Bones to flighte and droue the Emperoure out of the Fields and then a truce was taken
There was also a yong man and two women broughte before them the yong man would not come in any Church nor be partaker of the Sacraments but had suffered himselfe to be crucified in whom y â— scars of al y e wouÌ„ds were to be séene in his haÌ„ds head side Radulphus Cog. fâ—et he reioiced to be called Jesus of these women other One of the women being olde was accused for beâ—â—â— ching Radulphus Cog. Wal. Couentren Nicholas Triues the yong man vnto such madnesse and also altering hir owne name procured hirself to be called Mary the mother of Christ They being coÌ„uict of these crimes and other were adiudged to be closed vp betwéene two wals of stone where they ended their liues in miserie The other woman Counterfaite Marie and Christ being sister to the yong man was let go bycause she reueâ—led the wicked fact On Saint Iames day the Citizens of London kept gameâ— of defence and wrestling néere vnto the Hospital of Matild VVrestling Mathew Paris where they got the maisterie of the menne of the Suburbes The Baylife of Westminster deuising to be reuenged proclaymed a game to be at Westminster vppon Lammas daye wherevnto the Citizens of London repayred and when they had played a while the Baylie with the men of the suburbs harnised themselues and fell to fighting that the Citizens being foully wounded were forced to runne into the Citie where they rang the common Bel and assembled the Citizens in gret number and when the matter was declared euery man wished to reuenge the fact The Maior of the Citie being a wise man and a quiet willed them firste to moue the Abbot of Westminster of the matter and if he wold promise to sée amendes made it were sufficient but a certaine A tuâ—ult in London Citizen named Constantine Fitz Arnulâ—e willed that all houses of the Abbot and Baylie should be pulled downe whiche word being once spoken the common people issued out of the Citie without anye order and fought a ciuil battaile for Constantine the firste pulled downe many houses and ofâ—times with a loude voyce cryed in prayse of the sayd Constantine the ioye of the mountaine the ioy of the mountaine God helpe and the Lord Lodowike A fewe dayes after this tumult the Abbot of Westminster Cro. Dâ—n Abbot of VVestminster pat to his shifts came to London to Phillip Dawbney one of the kings counsel to complaine of the iniuries done to him which the Londoners perceyuing beset the house aboute and tooke by violence twelue of the Abbots horsses away cruelly beating of his men c. But whiles the foresayde Daubney laboured to pacifie the vprore the Abbot gotte out at a backe dore of the house and so by a boate on the Thamis hardlye escaped the Citizens throwing stones after him in great aboundaÌ„ce These things being thus done Hubert de Burgo Justiciar Chief Iustice en tred the Citie of London vvith an army of England with a great armye of men came to the Tower of London and sent for the Maior and AldermeÌ„ of whom he enquired for the principal aucthours of this faction Then Constantine who was constaunt in the sedition was more constante in the aunsweare affirming that he had done it and that he hadde done muche lesse than he ought to haue done The Justiciar tooke him and two other with him and in y â— morning earely sent them to Falcatius by water with a gret number of armed men who brought Constantine to the gallowes CoÌ„staÌ„tine vvith other hanged and when he sawe the rope about his necke he offered for his life 15000. marks but that would not saue him so he was hanged with Constantine his nephew Galfride that proclaymed his proclamation on the sixtéenth of August Then the Justiciar entring the City with a great army Mathew Paris Feete handes of many cut of caused to be apprehended as many as he coulde learne to be culpable whose féet and hands he caused to be cut off which crueltie caused many to flée the Citie The King toke of the Citizens 60. pledges which he seÌ„t to diuers Castelles he desposed the Maior appointing a Gardien or kéeper ouer the Citie and caused a greate gybet to be made and after heauie threatnings the Citizens were reconciled paying to the king manye thousande Anno reg 7 Tempestes and dearth markes On holy Rode daye was great Thunder and lightning throughout all England and such great flouds of water followed with great windes and tempest which continued tyll Candlemasse that the yeare following wheate was sold for xij shillings the quarter Richard Renger Thomas Lambert the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Searle Mercer the 28. of October On Saint Andrewes daye a great Thunder ouerthrewe Great tempests Churches Castels and houses so that scantly any body escaped frée from harme by this Tempeste A Knight and hys wife and eyghte menne of hys housholde with the fall of his house were slaine in Pilardestune a villedge of Warwickeshire In a Counsel holden at London the Archbishop of Canturburie 1223 and other the nobilitie and Barons of the Realme required the king to confirme the liberties for the whiche the warre was moued against his Father and that himselfe at the departing of Lewes out of Englande sware to obserue where vppon forthwith the King sente his letters to all the Sherifes of the realm commanding them to inquire by the othes of twelue lawfull men in euery Countie what liberties were in England in the time of King Henrie his grandfather and to send the inqusition so made to London fiftéene dayes after Easter Iohn de Brennes king of Ierusalem and chiefe maister of K. of Ierusalem the Hospital there came into England and required ayde to winne Ierusalem but he returned with smal comfort Leolyn Prince of Wales founded the Castell of Mountgomerie Tho. Wikes and therewith certaine Englishmen in despighte of the King attempted to constraine William Marshall Earle of Penbroke and other to yéelde to them but the whole Countrey Anno reg 8. Sherifes Maior 1224 Mathew Paris rose in armour and ouercame them Iohn Trauers Andrew Bokerel the. 28. of September Richard Renger the. 28. of October The Earle of Chester and other rose against the king and hys Justiciars for the custodyes of the Castelles and landes whyche the Kyng demaunded of them Wherefore the Archbishop of Canturburie and the Byshops excommunicated al the perturbers of the king and the Realme The Earle of Chester and his complices perceyuing that the King had a greater number of men of armes then they and also fearing the excommunicatioÌ„ came to the king at Northampton yéelding their castels honors which appertayned to the Crowne Then the king layed siege about the Ral. Cogshall Bedford castel besieged Castel of Bedforde that Falcatius had long kepte by strength which siege he continued by the space of eight wéekes and toke the
famous Knight called Stephen Bancan was sent of the K. with an army who entring y e lands of a noble maÌ„ of Wales called Rise surnamed Vaghan y e is little being circuÌ„vented beset of his enimies in marish grouÌ„ds was slain the remnaÌ„t of his army likewise eyther slaine or taken aliue put in bands few excepted y t escaped by flight Stephen Do Henry Walmond the 28. of September Sherifes Maior 1256 Anno reg 41 Richard Hardell Draper the 28. of October The Maior and diuers AldermeÌ„ of London and the Sherifes were depriued of their offices and the gouernance of the Citie committed to other The new worke of S. Paules Church in LondoÌ„ was begon Michael Bokerell Iohn the Minor the 28. of September Sherifes Maior 1257 Tpodigma Richard Hardell Draper the 28. of October Hugh Bigot chiefe Justice of England Roger Thurkelby kept their Courtes in the Guild Hall of London and punished the Bakers vpon the Tomberell and did many other things against the lawes of the Citie Richard Earle of Cornewall went ouer into Almayne and was there Crowned King of Almayne at Aquisgrayne King of Almayne The sixth day of July fell such abundance of rayne that many houses bridges and trées were borne downe The Bridges borne dovvne Taxtor VValles of LoÌ„don repayred Anno reg 42 Sherifes Maior 1258 King caused the walles of the Citie of London whiche were sore decayed and destitute of Bulwarkes to be repaired in more séemely wise than afore they had bin Richard Owell William Ashwye the 28. of September Richard Hardell Draper the 28. of October For so much as the King had oftentimes promised the restitution of certaine antient lawes which he neuer performed the Lords murmuring against him held a Parliament at Oxford which was after called the madde Parliament bycause many things were there enacted which turned Madde Parliament Tpodigma Tvvelue Peeres to the death of many nobles In confirmation of these actes were chosen twelue Péeres whiche had authoritie to correct y e breakers of them the King his bréethren the noble men and Barons taking their oth to sée the same obserued Shortly after they banished William of Valence Galfrede Strangers banished Gwydon and Aylmer the elect of Winchester all foure bréethren to the King on the mothers side and other strangers Great dearth followed the wet yeare passed A Quarter Dearth of Corne. of Wheate was solde for fiftéene Shillings and twenty Shillings but the worst was there could be none found for money where-through many poore people were coÌ„strayned to eate Horse flesh and barkes of trées but many starued Cro. â—ouesham for want of foode twentie thousand in London as it was sayd A Iew at Tewkesburie fell into a priuie vpon the Saterday A Ievv drovvned and woulde not for reuerence of his Sabboth be plucked out wherefore Richard of Clare Earle of Glocester kept him there till Munday at which time he was founde Anno reg 43 Ex record Tho. Wâ—keâ— dead Richard Clare Earle of Glocester dyed and also his brother William by poyson as was thought Robert Cernehull Iohn Adrien the 28. of September Sherifes Maior 1259 A â—uâ—ke more Richard Hardell Draper the 28. of October The King commanded a generall assembly at Powles Crosse in London where he in proper person commaunded the Maior that the next day following he should cause to be sworne before the Aldermen euery stripling of twelue Oth to the King yeares of age or vpwardes to be true to the King and hys heires Kings of Englande and that the Gates of the Citie should be kept with harnessed men Two Romaynes striuing for prebends in Powles Church Anno reg 44 at London the one killed the other there Iohn Adrian Robert Cornehill the 28. of September Sherifes Maior 1260 Iohn Gysors Peperer the 28. of October Iohn Duke of Briteine married Beatrice King Henry the thirds daughter and was made Knighte and with him Baldwine Earle of the Isle of Wight This yeare was Sir Hugh Dispencer made chiefe Justice Hugh Bigot chiefe Iustice Wil Packington of England and Nicholas of Ely Chancellour to y e King and the Abbot of Peterborow Treasourer of the Eschequer by ordinance of the Barons The King repenting that he had at Oxford granted such large Lawes and Liberties to the Nobles and people of the Realme by counsell of Edward his sonne and Richarde his brother he sente to the Court of Rome to be absolued of his oth The Barons and Nobles of the Realme helde a Parliament Parliament at London in the new Temple and the King held himselfe in the Tower of London Reignold de Moun Earle of Somerset Lord of Dunstere Anno reg 45 Nevvham founded the Abbey of Newham in Deuonshire Adam Browning Henry Couentry the 28. of Septem Sherifes Maior 1261 King Henry absolued William Fitz Richard the 28. of October King Henry published at Powles Crosse the Popes abslution for him and all his that were sworne to maynteyne the articles made in the Parliament at Oxford and then he with the Quéene sayled into France to make a finall concord betwéene him and the King of France for Normandy where the composition was that Normandy should remaine to the French King paying to the King of England and his 3000. pound sterling Anno. reg 46 Sherifes Maior 1262 The Barons in armoure heires yearely thirtie thousand pounds Turnoys which is 3000. pound sterling Iohn Northampton Richard Pickard the 28. of Septem William Fitz Richard the 28. of October The Barons of Englande Simon de Mountfort béeing their chiefe armed themselues against the King all this yeare houered about London and other places without any notable acte of Rebellion sauing that they robbed aliants and suche other persons as they knewe to be againste their purpose especially they slew the Iewes in all places There was slayne Iewes at London to the number of 700. the rest Ievves spoyled for Vsurie were spoyled their sinagogue defaced bycause one Iewe would haue forced a Christian man to haue payde more thaÌ„ two pence for the Usurie of twentie Shillings a wéeke Richard of Clare Earle of Glocester son of Gilbert of Clare Wil. Packington Anno reg 47 being with King Henry in France deceassed was buryed at Tewkesburie and Gilbert his sonne succéeded him Iohn Taylor Richard Walbroke the 28. of September Sherifes Maior 1263 Macy a French man Connestable of Glocester Robert of Glocest Thomas Fitz Thomas Fitz Richard the 28. of October Sir Macy de Bescile a Frenchman was by the King made Sherife and Connestable of Glocester wherwith the BaroÌ„s being offended they chose to be Sherife and placed there a Knight of that Countrey called Sir William Tracy which Sir William kéeping Court vpon a day in the Towne of Glocester Macy the Frenchman with a number of armed men came sodeinely vpon him drew him to the ground
and so to the Castel and cast him in prison whereof wheÌ„ the Barons vnderstoode they sent Roger Clifford and Sir Iohn Gifford with a great power to Glocester who beséeging the Castell Clocester Castell taken by the Barons brent the bridge and entred at the last where they tooke the said Macy with all his company and for that a Carpenter froÌ„ the Castell with a quarell had slaine an Esquier of the Barons partie Sir Iohn Gifford made the same Carpenter to leape from the top of the Castell where-through he was crushed to death Sir Roger Clifford tooke the kéeping of that Castell vpon him and sente Macy into the March Sir Iohn Gifford tooke all Macies goodes at Sherestone and elsewhere Peter de Egblonuch a Frenchman Bishop of Hereford Bishop of Hereford a French man was drawne out of his Cathedrall Churche by Thomas Turberuill and other and sent to the Castel of Erdesley where he and Sir Macy were both committed to safe ward his treasure was spoyled and his Chanons sent to prison and thus were Frenchmen serued through the Land where they mought be founde by them that were on the Barons part Simon de Mountfort with the Barons pitched theyr Tents in Istleworth Parke The Manor of Istleworth beloÌ„ging Tho. Wikes to Richard King of Almayne was burnt by y â— Londoners They also burned another house of his néere to Westminster In this meane while the King and Quéene remained The Queene chased Nicho. Triuet in the Tower of London and when y â— Quéene would haue gone by water vnto Windesore the Londoners getting them to the Bridge in great numbers vnder the which she must passe cried out on hir vsing many vile and reprochful words threw durt and stones at hir that she was constreyned to returne againe to the Tower The Citizens fortified the Citie with iron Chaynes drawne ouerthwart their Streetes of LoÌ„don chayned Annales of Hyde stréetes munited the Citie and did maruellous things There was a peace concluded betwixte the King and the Barons with these conditions that Henry sonne to the Kyng of Almayne that tooke the Barons parte and was in prison shoulde be deliuered that all the Kings Castels through England should be put into the Barons hands that the prouisions of Oxford shoulde be kept and that all Strangers within a certaine time should depart the land those except whose abode the faithfull persons of the Realme with one assent shoulde accept lastly that the Englishmen borne and such as were faithfull men to the Kingdome shoulde order and rule the businesse of the land vnder the King But this notwithstanding certayne Knightes of the Kings part fortified the Castel of Windesore with vittayles and armour Edward the Kings sonne came to Bristow where discorde rose betwixte his Knightes and the Townesmen so that the Townesmen were minded to haue beséeged the Castell whiche when Edward vnderstoode he sent for Walter Bishop of Winchester that tooke the Barons part that in his company he might go to the Court of his father promising to perswade his father to peace HéerevpoÌ„ going forth with y â— Bishop til they came to Windsore he entred the Castell to the great misliking of the Bishop but Edward shortly returned and wente to méete Simon Earle of Leicester that he with his adherents were coÌ„ming to beséege Windesore Castell Edward the Kings sonne met with y â— sayd Simon about Kingston and offered meanes of peace but Simon trusting to Bishop Walters counsell deteyned Edward with him and woulde not suffer him to depart till the Castell was yéelded they that were within hauing libertie to departe whither they woulde and the Strangers that minded to passe the Seas had safeconducts granted them Lewlin Prince of Wales confederate with Earle Simon in the meane time wasted the Countrey of Chester and the Marches of the same and ouerthrew to the grounde the Castles of Diffard and Gannoke After this a Parliament was holden at London in the which many that had held with the Earle went to the Kings part as Henry of Almaine sonne to Richard King of Romaynes and other The Kings partie being encreased he wente to Douer and endeuoured to haue gotte that Castell out of the Earles Anno reg 48 hands but he trauelled in vayne Robert Mountpiler Osbert Suffolk the. 28. of September Sherifes Maior 1264 Thomas Fitz Thomas Fitz Richard the. 28. of October Lewes King of Fraunce throughe procuring of Boniface Archbishop of Canturburie who in politicke Sermons at Paris as well at the Friers Prechers as Minors declared the doings betwixt the King of Englande and the Earle of Leicester toke vpon him to make a peace betwixte them wherevpon the King of Englande with his sonne Edwarde and diuerse other of the English nobilitie came to Paris aboute the xxij of Januarie but the Earle of Leicester fearing y e French Kings displeasure for his mothers sake or some other cause not knowen stayed at home in England and procéeded in hys businesse wherefore Roger Mortimer began to destroye the possessions which the Earle uf Leicester helde againste whoÌ„ the Prince of Wales went and besieged the Castel of Radnore and brought it to yéelde Edward the Kings sonne after his returne from Paris about Lent toke his iourney toward the March and passing The Schollers and Burgesses of Oxforde the one spoyle the other by Oxford the Burgesses shut vp their gates againste hym whereby he was forced to lye at the kings Hall without the towne till the next morrowe and then departed The schollers of Oxford being shut within the Towne brake vppe the gate that leadeth toward Beaâ—monte for which déede the Maior sent some of them to prison and not long after whyle the Schollers were at dinner the Maior and Commons wyth banners displayde thoughte to haue spoyled the Clearkes ere they had bin aware but being espied the Schollers ran togither and with bowes and other weapons slewe and wounded the Burgesses and Commons brake vp manye houses spoyling the goods and set the houses of the Portriues William Spicer and Geffrey Hencley on Fier on the South side of the towne Moreouer bycause the Maior Nicholas Kingstone was a Uintener they brake vp the Uintry Clarkes of Oxforde banished dranke the Wines and spoyled them for the which facte the King caused the Clearkes and Schollers to be banished the Uniuersitie Edward the kings sonne toke the Castels of Hay Huntington belonging to the Earle of Hereforde and the Castel of Brecon being also rendered to him he deliuered to Roger Mortimer to kéepe with the teritorie adiacent Robert Ferrers Earle of Darbie who toke part with Erle Simon besieged VVorcester besieged Worcester and entring by the olde Castel spoyled the Citizens of their goods and compelled the Jewes to be christened Glocester besieged The towne of Glocester that before was taken by the BaroÌ„s was now assailed by Edward the kings son who entred y e castel by great force in the
also after the death of Simond Mountfort and Robert Ferrers the Erledomes of Leicester and Darbie and two daughters Beatrice and Margaret ¶ King Edward surnamed Longshanks EDvvarde the firste after the Conquest son to Henrie the third Anno reg 1 surnamed Longshanke beganne hys raigne the sixtéenth day of Nouember in the yeare 1272. being then in y â— parts beyond the sea towarde 1273 Ierusalem Of stature he was tall and mighty of bodye nothing grosse his eyes soméwhat blacke and in time of anger fierce of suche noble and valiaunt courage that he neuer fainted in most dangerous enterprices of excellent witte and greate towardnesse he was borne at Westminster Iohn Horne Walter Potter the. 28. of September Sherifes Maior Anno reg 2. 1274 Sir Walter Haruy Knight the. 28. of October This yeare fell a great variaunce at Oxforde betwéene the Northren and Irishmen wherein manye Irishmen were slaine The second day of August King Edward came into England from the Holy Lande and on the fiftéenth of Auguste hée with Elianor his wife were Crowned at Westminster by Robert Kilwarby Archbishop of Canturburie At this Coronation fiue hundred great Horsses were turned loase catch them who could Alexander King of Scottes did homage to King Edward The King caused Leolin Prince of Wales to be sommoned to his Parliament at Westminster but he would not come saying he remembred the death of his father Griffen Nicholas Winchester Henry Couentry the 28. of Sept. Sherifes Maior Anno reg 3. Henry Welles the 28. of October On Saint Nicholas euen was great Earthquakes lightnings and thunder with a huge Dragon and a blasing Starre which made many men sore afrayde In a Parliament at Westminster Usury was forbidden Vsury forbidden Io. Rouse to the Iewes and that they might be knowne the King commanded them to weare a Tablet the breadth of a palme vpon their outmost garments He also ordeyned that Bakers making bread lacking weight assigned after the price of Corne should first be punished by losse of their bread the second time by emprisonment and thirdly by the Pillory millers for stealing of corne to be chastised by y e Tumberel A rich man of France brought into Northumberland a Spanish Ewe as bigge as a Calfe of two yeares which Ewe being 1275 First rotte of Sheepe Hen. of Leycester Tho. Walsing rotten infected so the Countrey that it spread ouer all the Realme This plague of moren coÌ„tinued xxviij yeares eare it ended and was the first rot that euer was in England Lucas Batecourt Henry Frowike the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Gregory Rokesley Goldsmith chiefe mayster of y e Kings Mintes the 28. of October King Edward builded the Castell of Flint strengthned Io. Rouse Castell of Flint Anno reg 4. Bocland the Castell of Rutland and other against the Welchmen Amicia Countesse of Deuonshire and Lady of the Isle founded the Abbey of Bocland for Gilbert of Clare Earle of Glocester and Hereford hir Father Isabell hir mother and Baldwine Earle of Deuonshire The eleuenth day of September there was a generall 1276 Earthquake by force whereof the Church of Saint Michael of the Mount without Glastonburie fell to the ground and péeces of many famous Churches in England fell by force of the same Earthquake Gregory Rokesley and the Barons of London granted Canter Record Ex Carta Preaching Friers Church founded by Bainards Castell before vvhiche time their Church vvas in Holborne and gaue to the Archbishop of Canturburie Robert Kilwarby two lanes or wayes next the Stréete of Baynards Castell and the Tower of Mountfichet to be destroyed in the which place the sayd Robert builded the late newe Churche of the Blacke Friers with the rest of the stones that then were left of the sayde Tower for the best and choyse stones the Bishop of London had obteyned of King William Conquerour to reedifie the vpper part of Saint Paules Church that was then by chance of fire decayed Iohn Horne Ralph Blunt the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Anno reg 5. 1277 Iohn Euersden Sherifes Maior Anno reg 6. 1278 Gregory Rokesley Goldsmith the 28. of October The Statute of Mortmaine was enacted Michaell Tony was hanged drawne and quartered for Treason Robert de Arar Ralph Feuto the 28. of September Gregory Rokesley the 28. of October King Edward gaue vnto Dauid brother to Leolin Prince of Wales the Lordship of Fredisham which Dauid attended in the Kings Court and did him pleasant seruice c. Michaelmas tearme was kept at Shrewsburie Iohn Adrian Walter Langley the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Anno reg 7. 1279 Gregory Rokesley the 28. of October The King builded a strong Castell in Weast Wales at Llhampaterne vaier Reformation was made for clipping of the Kings coyne Ievves executed for which offence 267. Iewes were put to execution The worthie Souldiour Roger Mortimer at Killingworth Round Table at Killingvvorth Io. Rouse appoynted a Knightly game which was called the Round Table of an hundred Knightes and so many Ladyes to the which for the exercise of armes there came many warlike Knightes from diuers Kingdomes Robert Basing William Mazaliuer the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Anno reg 8. First halfe pence and farthings round 1280 Piâ—rce Longtofe Gregory Rokesley the 28. of October Where as before this time the peny was wont to haue a double crosse with a creast in suche sorte that the same might be easily broken in the midst or into four quarters and so to be made into halfe pence or farthings it was now ordeyned that pence halfepence and farthings shoulde be made rounde wherevpon was made these Uerses following Edward did smite round peny halfepeny farthing Robert Brune The crosse passes the bond of all throughout the ring The Kings side was his head and his name written The crosse side what Citie it was in coyned and smitten To poore man ne to priest the peny frayses nothing Men giue God aye the least they feast him with a farthing A thousand two hundred fourescore yeares and mo On this money men wondred when it first began to go At this time twentie pence wayed an ounce of Troy Regist of Eâ—â—ry weight whereby the peny halfepeny and farthing were of good quantitie Thomas Boxe Ralph de Lamere the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Anno reg 9. Wilhel Rishanger Gregory Rokesley the 28 of October Dauid the brother of Lewlin Prince of Wales rose against the King and in the night season brake into the house of Roger Clifford when he was in his bed a sléepe on Easter day at night and sent him fettered in yrons as a théefe vnto Snowdon to his brother Lewlin He also rased and laid flatte on the grounde the Castell of Flint belonging to the King 1281 Sherifes Maior Anno reg 10 Great Frost and Snovv Liber Roffensis Rochester Bridge and fiue arches of London bridge borne dovvne William
Valoys layde out in the warres of Gascoigne Thirdly he sayde that he was a friend and louer of iustice and equitie whiche he woulde neuer swarue from neyther for friendship nor affinitie but he woulde by all meanes he could molest and vex all breakers of the peace of the Kingdome of Scotland for saith he there shall neuer be perfecte peace and quietnesse among Christians before the King of Fraunce sitte in place of Judgement for the right of the Kingdomes of France England and Scotland Iohn Kingston Walter Turke the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Reignald at Conduct Vintner the 28. of October Part of the Uniuersitie of Oxford wente to Stamforde Ro. de Auesbery bycause of a variance that fell betwéene the Northerne and Southerne Schollers Upon Saint Clements night through abundance of waters Anno reg 9. but specially in the Thamis all the Cattell and beastes néere therevnto were drowned and the land made 1335 vnfruitefull by salte waters King Edwarde had a tenth of the Cleargie and also â—â— the burgesses and a fiftéenth of the commons About the feast of Pentecost he helde a Parliament at Parliament at Northampton Tho. de la More Northampton where leauing the Prelates states and commons debating about matters himselfe secretely rode to Berwike and there taking with him a few men of armes he went to Saint Iohns Towne whiche he strengthned wyth trench and rampire and sente his Earles with the King Conquerour to make an inrode vpon the Countrey and to sée what Scottes they could finde would resist them but Ro. de Auesbery none durst abide their comming but hidde themselues in hilles wooddes and marishes and in the meane tyme many Earles and Barons came and submitted themselues to King Edward vpon conditions as followeth These be the poyntes agréed betwixt the counsell of the Kings of England and Scotland on the one partie and Alexander Mowbrey Geffrey Mowbrey Godfrey de Roos William Bulloke and Eustace de Loreyne hauing full power from Dauid Stravulgi Earle of Dassels and Robert Steward of Scotland to treate accorde and affirme all poyntes enterparled and to be enterparled betwixt the sayde Kings and the Earle and Stewarde as appeareth by their letters patents of eyther partie First it is accorded that the sayd Earle Dassels the great men and all other of the communaltie of Scotlande whiche shall come in the same conditions shal haue life and member lands and tenements fées and offices within Scotland which they ought to haue by inheritance or right those except which shall be surprised by common assent Item that they shall be pardoned of emprisonmente and of all manner trespasses by them done in the Realmes of England and Scotland from the beginning of the world vnto the date of these presents Item the Earle Dassels and Alexander Mowbrey shall haue landes tenementes possessions and fées in Englande which they had at their departure after the homage done at Newcastell vpon Tine Item that the franchises of the Churche in Scotlande shall be mainteyned after the auntiente vsage of Scotlande Item that the lawes of Scotland in Borough Townes Shriuewikes within the landes of the King of Scotlande be vsed after the antient vsages and custome of Scotland as they were vsed in the dayes of King Alexander Item that the offices of Scotland be ministred by people of the same Nation yet notwithstanding that alwayes the king of Scotland may put such officers in as shal please him of what nation soeuer they be Item that all those that within the conditions of the Earle Dassels haue landes within the landes of the King of England in Scotland shall haue agayne the same landes tenements possessions offices and fées as they had them at their departure after their homage done at Newcastell vpon Tine except those that shall be forprised by common assent Item that if they be empleded for their landes and tenements aâ—oresayd that they haue their defences and recoueries in Court where they ought to haue Item as touching the demaund which the Earle Dassels claymeth that the King of England ought to acquite his lands in England which he hath in gage for eyght hundred markes the King neyther ought nor will do it but as touching the Manour of Byphingdone which the said Earle layd to pledge for two hundred and fiftie poundes it is accorded that if the sayde Earle do come within one yeare after the date of these presents and will acquite the Manoure the King shall cause that hée haue the same Manoure Item as touching the Castell and Lands of Chilham it is accorded that the sayde Earle be in the same point that hée was before at hys departure and haue hys recouerie by lawe and the Kyng promiseth in good fayth that he will cause that he may haue the land without delaying eyther partie And touching the lands which the sayde Earle claymeth to haue in Norffolke of the which he hathe Charters it is accorded that hys Charteâ—â— béeyng séene of the Kinges Counsell he wyll doe reason â—â—em that in case any man surmise treason vpon the sayd Earle he may defend himselfe by his body according to the lawes and vsages of Scotland and on the marchâ—â— and that all those that be within these conditions haue the like graunt Item as to the pardon which William Ramsey Knight demandeth for the trespasse by him done to William Lorde Mountagew to wéete for beating downe his Castell of Haghtordone the same William shall be readie to do according to that that shall be aduised by the Kings of England and Scotland Item that the sayd Stacie de Lorayne haue his landes and tenements which he ought to haue within the Realme of Scotland and if any man haue trespassed towardes him he shall haue his recouerie by law Written at S. Iohns Towne in Scotlande the eightéenth of August Anno 1335. Walter Mordon Richard Vpton the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Nicholas Wutton the 28. of October Phillip Quéene of England did beare hir second sonne named Wyllyam at Hatfielde who shortlye after dyed Aboute the feast of the Epiphany the King and the Anno reg 10 Archbishoppe returned out of Scotland to the buryall of Iohn of Eltham Earle of Cornewall brother vnto the King who deceassed at Berwike in the moneth of October and was buryed at Westminster At whiche time 1336 Parliament at London Duke and Erles created W. Sheepeshed the King kepte a Parliamente at London whiche beganne on the Monday after Saint Matthies day and on the firste Sundaye in Lente hée made hys eldest sonne Edwarde Earle of Chester and Duke of Cornewall Tho. de la More He made also sixe other Earles Henry of Lancaster sonne to Henry Earle of Lancaster Earle of Darby Hugh Audley Earle of Glocester William Bohune Earle of Northhampton William Montacute Earle of Salisburie William Clinton Earle of Huntingdon Robert Vffurd Earle of Suffolke to the which Robert he at that time gaue the manor of
Scotlande where most victoriouslye he conquered it and the same Ile being called the I le of Man the kyng gaue it to the Conquerour franckelye and fréely to be possest and caused hym King of Man to be called and crowned king of that I le Then King Edward returning towards the south parts kept solemn torneymentes at Dunstable beyng accompanyed wyth 230. Knightes The same yeare was a Parliamente at Westminster wherein the Archbishoppe of Canterburie was reconcyled to the King before whom the Archbishoppe sware that althoughe the Kyng by hys counsell and consente hadde done homage to the French King for the Dukedome of Aquitaine and the Earledome of Poytowe yet he neuer consented therto as to be anye hurte or preiudice to the Kyng or that by hys counsel he myghte incurre fauoure or séeke to please the French King but for that presente tyme he thoughte it beste to be done both for the obtayning of peace and also for the profit of the Kyng and Realme After this Parliament the king commaunded Florences of golde to be made at the Tower of London that is to saye the peny of the value of sixe shillings eight pence the halfe penye of the value of thrée shillings foure pence a farthing worthe twentye Florences of golde Sherifes Maior Anno reg 17 pence Iohn Louekyn Richard Rifling bury the. 28. of Septem Simon Fraunces Mercer the. 28. of October In a Parliament at Westminster in the moneth of May the religious men that were possessours of Lands graunted to the king towards the maintenaunce of his warre al their iewels and plate as wel siluer as gold horsses carts wagons whervpon the kings treasure was notably enriched The same yeare auctoritie was giuen to the kings escheters 1343 to enquire and certifye the Counsell of al such persons which helde of the King any landes in Capite or by any A general suruey of the vvhole realme of England other fée to the value of one hundred shillings and that the names of all suche shoulde be enrolled and giuen vp for recorde Also certaine other were put in aucthoritie to signifie howe many sufficient and able bow-men were in euerye shire also what other sufficient men were able to beare armour for the defence of theyr Country and to sée them practised with suche kinde of weapon wherein they had beste skill and being thus assembled in all parts of the Realme speciallye suche as were of lawfull age commaundemente was giuen out that they shoulde be readye at the Kyngs commaundemente to fyghte agaynste theyr enimies King Edwarde and his nobles perceyuing the derogation Ro. de Auesbury Gual Homingford that was done to the realme by such reseruations prouisions and collations of benefices as the Pope practised here in England wrote to him requiring him that sith the Churches of Englande had bene founded and endued by noble and worthy men to the ende the people might be instructed by people of their owne language and that he beyng so farre off coulde not vnderstande the defaultes yet hys predecessours and he more than had bene vsed by diuerse reseruations prouisions and collations made to diuerse persons some straungers yea and some enimies to the Realme whereby the money and profits were carried forth theyr cures not prouided for according to the founders mindes they therefore vpon due considerations therof signifyed to him that they coulde not suffer such enormities any longer and therefore besought him to reuoke such reseruations prouisions and collations wholy to auoyde suche slaunders mischieues and harmes as mighte ensue and that the cures might be committed to persons méet for the exercises of the same beséeching him further wythout delay to signify his intention sith they ment to bestow their diligence to remedie the matter and sée that redresse might be had Giuen in ful Parliament at Westminster the xviij of May in the yeare 1343. Iohn Steward Iohn Aylesham the. 28. of September Sherifes Maior Iohn Hamonde the. 28. of October Many being called to ayde the King against the Scots but not being ready they contributed their money wherewith the king might hyre souldiours in place of them that remayned at home King Edward caused to be called togither a great many Anno reg 18 Tho. Walsing 1344 Round Table at VVindsore of Artificers to the Castell of Windsore and began to builde an house whiche was called the Rounde Table the floure wherof from the Center or midde point into the compasse was an hundred foote and the whole Diameter 200. foote the Circunference thereof is 600. foote and thrée quarters The same time Phillip de Valoys king of Fraunce buylded Round Table in Fraunce Scala Croni a Rounde Table in his Countrey to the ende he mighte allure the menne of Warre of Germanie and Italie and so to kéepe them from the Kyng of Englandes Rounde Table Kyng Edwarde in succour of Iohn Mountfort Duke of Th◠de la More Brytaine and of his wife and children who then remayned in the kings custodie sent the Earles of Northampton and of Oxforde Hugh Spencer and Richard Talbot Knightes and maister William Kilesby Clearke euerye one of them hauing vnder them many mē of armes and archers into Britaine who entred there-into in despight of al theyr enimies whych resisted them making many conflictes They toke as well walled Townes as other with diuerse Fortresses and Castelles both by assaulte and surrender by whiche meanes they had the whole Countrey vnder theyr subiection conquering till they came to the Towne of Morleis where Charles de Bloys mette them wyth a greate armye Therfore in the Champion grounde nygh vnto Morleys the Battayle as Morleys two armyes made greate and moste stoute battayle wherin the worthinesse of both sortes dyd full well appeare for they fought so stout on both sides that in the first conflict it chaunced as the like had not bene séene for the chiefe Captaines Charles de Bloys to whom the Frenche king hadde giuen the Dukedome of that Countrey and William de Bohune Earle of Northamton who for the defence of y e right of Iohn de Mountfort naturall heire and Duke of that lande the king of Englande had made a generall ouer the army of the English men who foughte so long wyth hande strokes in the fielde that daye that no manne but a lyar coulde giue more prayse to the one than to the other Thrée tymes that daye they beyng wearied on both sides wythdrewe themselues to take breathe and then fell to it again with Speare and shielde and sworde and Targe but in y e ende the right worthy and stoute Charles de Bloys his men fléeing away was also forced to flée himselfe wherevppon after many slaine on both sides the victorie fell to the Englishmen Geffrey Wichingham Thomas Legge the. 28. of Sep. Sherifes Maior Iohn Hamond the. 28. of October King Edwarde sente ouer Henrie Earle of Darbie son to the Earle of Lancaster his cousin
fact he was drawne hanged and quartered To this Counsell came two Earles and two Clearkes sente from the Princes electours signifying that their election was made to the King for the dignitie of the Kingdome of Almayne These messengers the Kyng receyued King Edvvard elected King of Almayne with due honour but aunswered them that hée woulde not take so great honour vppon hys shoulders vntill hée had the Crowne of France due vnto him in peaceable possession A little after Easter there were great Justings holden Iusting at Lincolne at Lincolne by the Duke of Lancaster where were presente many Ladyes with the Countesse and also certayne messengers sente from the King of Spayne for the Lady Ioane daughter to the King that should be maryed to their Mayster the Kings sonne whome hir husbande méeting she dyed of the great Pestilence so that he followed hir to the graue The same yeare King Edward with his eldest sonne the Earle of Warwike and the Bishop of Winchester went to Caleis from whence the King sente the Duke of Lancaster to Denemere to receyue in his behalfe fealtie and homage of the Earle of Flanders â—hich thing was by the sayd Earle perfourmed Henry Picard Simon Dolseby the 23. of September Sherifes Maior Tho. de la More Great PestileÌ„ce Tho. Waâ—sing Iohn Loueken Fishmonger the 28. of October There beganne amongst the East Indians and Tartarians a certayne Pestilence which at length waxed so generall infecting the middle region of the ayre so greatly that it destroyed the Sarasins Turkes Sirians Palestinians and the Gretians with a wonderfull or rather incredible death in so much that those peoples béeing excéedingly dismayde with the terrour thereof consulted amongst themselues and thought it good to receyue the Christian Faith and Sacramentes for they had intelligence that the Christians whiche dwelte on this side the Gréekish Sea were not so greatly more than common custome was troubled wyth sicknesse and mortalitie At length this terrible slaughter passed ouer into those Countreys which are on this side the Alpes and from thence to the partes of France which are called Hesperia and so by order along into Germany and Dutchland And the seauenth yeare after it beganne it came into England and first beganne in the Townes and Ports ioyning on the Sea coastes in Dorsetshire where euen as in other Countreys it made the Countrey quite voyde of inhabitantes so that there were almost none left aliue From thence it passed into Deuonshire and Somersetshire euen vnto Bristowe and raged in suche sort that the Glocestershiremen woulde not suffer the Bristowmen to haue anye accesse vnto them or into their Countrey by anye meanes but at length it came to Gloceâ—â—or yea and to Oxforde and London and finally it spread ouer all England and so wasted and spoyled the people that scarce the tenth person of all sortes was lefte aliue when Church yardes were not sufficiente and large ynough to burie theyr dead in they chose certayne Fields appoynted for that purpose Gualter Mayny Lord of Mayny borne in Cambray who serued in company of Henry Duke of Lancaster in his great Records of the Garter actes of Gaseoyne and Gâ—ien after this time made Knight of the Garter in England hauing a respect to the danger that might fall in time of this Pestilence then begonne in England if the Churches and Church-yardes in London might not suffise to bury the multitude he purchased a péece of ground called Spittle Croft for that it belonged to the Mayster and bréethren of Saint Barthelmewes Spittle conteyning Register of the Charterhouse Ex Carta thirtéene acres and a rodde without the barres of Weast Smithfield and caused the same to be enclosed and dedicated by Ralph Bishop of London in the which place in the yeare Charterhouse Church-yard by London following was buryed more than fiftie thousand persons as is affirmed by the Kings Charters which I haue séene and also by an inscription fixed on a stone crosse in the same place And in memorie thereof the same Gualter Mayny caused vpon the same grounde a Chappell to be builded Anno reg 23. and after founded the same to be an house of Charterhouse Roâ—de Auesburie Charterhouse at London founded Monkes Also about the same time one Iohn Cory procured of Nicholas Prior of the Church of the Holy Trinitie néere vnto Alâ—gate one tost of ground néere vnto East Smithfield for the buriall of them that dyed that it mought be called the Church yard of the Holy Trinitie which ground he caused to be enclosed and dedicated by Nicholas Northbroke Bishop of London in the which place King Edward the third by consent of the sayd Prior and Couent founded the Abbey Nevv Abbey by the Tovver of London founded Liber trinita Lond. Lib. Eastminster of Saint Mary of Grace in the yeare 1359. placing therein an Abbot and Monke of the order of Cisteaux whiche were white Monkes and named the place Eastminster All sutes and pleading in the Kings Bench and other places for a season ceassed Uery fewe noble men dyed among whome departed Iohn Mountgomery and his Lady the Lord Clisteles Captayne 1349 of Caleis dyed at Caleis and was buryed in the white Friers at London Of the common people togither with Religious and Clearkes there dyed an innumerable sorte for no man but God onely knewe how many There dyed from the first of January to the first of July in the Citie of Norwich 57374. persons besides Ecclesiasticall Mendicants Norvvich Regist of Norwich Anâ—â— ecclesi â—â—â— Yermouth and Dominikes There was buryed in the Church and Church-yard of Yermouth in one yeare 7052. men and women before which time the Personage there was worth 700. markes by yeare and afterwardes was scarse worth fortie pounde the yeare This note was certified to King Henry the seauenth in the â—â— of his raigne and the same is written on the gates of the Church of Yermouth This great Pestilence began at London about the feast of All Sainctes in y â— yeare 1348. What time this Pestilence had wasted all England y e Scots greatly reioycing mocked sware oft-times by the vile death of y â— Englishmen but y â— sword of Gods wrath departing froÌ„ thence slew coÌ„sumed the Scots in no lesse nuÌ„bers than it did the other It also wasted the Welchmen and within a while passed ouer into Ireland where it destroyed a great nuÌ„ber of English people that dwelt there but suche as were right Irishmen borne y â— dwelt in the hilly countreys it scarcely touched so that few of theÌ„ died therof This plague coÌ„tinued sometime in one place sometime in another vntill the yeare of our Lord 1357. The same yeare for a truce or finall peace to be concluded the B. of Norwich the Earle of Northampton the Earle of Stafford Richard Talbot Walter Mayny Knightes sayled ouer the Sea into France whom y â— Frenchmen met peaceably but they would not agrée to a
fifth of May and the. 24. of Maye entred London with them where he was receyued with greate honour of the Citizens and so conuayed to the kings pallaice at Westminster where the King sitting in his estate in Westminster Hall receyued them and after conueyed the French King to a lodging where he lay a season and after the sayde French King was lodged in the Sauoy which then was a pleasant place belonging to the Duke of Lancaster In the Winter following were gret and royal iustes holden in Smithfielde at London where many knightly sights of armes wer done to the gret honour of the king realm at the which were present the Kings of England Fraunce and Scotlande with many noble estates of all those Kingdomes wherof the more part of the strangers were prisoners Henrie Picarde Uintener Maior of London in one day dyd sumptuouslye feaste Edwarde King of Englande Iohn King of Fraunce the King of Cipres then arriued in England Dauid king of Scottes Edward Prince of Wales wyth many noble men and other and after the sayde Henrie Picarde kepte his Hall against all commers who soeuer that were willing to play at Dice and Hazard In like maner the Lady Margaret his wife did also kéepe hir Chamber to the same intente The King of Cipres playing wyth Henrie Picarde in hys Hall dyd wynne of hym 50. markes but Henrie being verye skilfull in that arte altering hys hande did after win of the same king the same 50. markes and 50. markes more which when the same king began to take in ill parte although he dissembled the same Henrye saide vnto him my Lord and King be not agrieued I couet not your golde but your play for I haue not bid you hyther that I might grieue you but that amongst other things I might trie your playe and gaue hym his money agayne plentifully bestowing of his owne amongst the retinue besides he gaue many riche giftes to the King and other Nobles and Knightes whiche dyned wyth hym to the greate glorie of the Citizens of London in these dayes Stephen Candish Barthelmew Frostling the. 28. of Sep. Sherifes Maior Sir Iohn Stody Vintener the. 28. of October This sir Iohn Stody gaue vnto the Uinteners of London all the quadrant wherein the Uinteners Hal now standeth with the tenements round about from the lane yet called Studis Lane where is founded thirtéene houses for xiij poore people whiche are there kept of charitie rent frée About Halowntide Dauid le Bruce king of Scots was deliuered from the long imprisonmēt of a. xj yeres in the castel of Oldiham his raunsome being set a 100000. markes to be payde the next ten yeares following Normandie and Brytaine were soare spoyled and wasted Tho. Walsing Anno reg 32 Rob. Knovvles by Phillippe the King of Nauers brother Iacob de la Pipe and Roberte Knowles wyth manye other Englishe menne whyche were Captaynes of that companye who raged in warlike sorte in these Countryes the space of thrée yeares and more contrarye to the Kyng of Englandes pleasure Thys Roberte Knowles béeyng a meane man of birth became Captaine of many souldiours and did manye maruellous actes Isabel daughter to Phillippe the fayre king of Fraunce 1358 now wife to King Edward the second deceased apnd Risinges Registrum fratrum minorum iuxta London the. xxij of August and was buried in the Grey Friers Quire at London in a Tombe of Aliblaster Iohn Barnes Iohn Buris the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Anno reg 33 Iohn Louekinstoke Fishmonger the 28. of October Iohn of Gaunt the Kings sonne by dispensation tooke to wife Blaunch dauhter of Henry Duke of Lancaster his kinswoman The French King vnder coulour of peace offered to King Edward Flanders Picardie Aquitayne and other lands which the Englishmen had ranged through and spoyled for the perfourmāce wherof messengers were sent into France but the Frenchmen would not perfourme the offer wherfore King Edward being angrie with a Nauie of Shippes passed the Sea to Caleis wherefore deuiding his armie into thrée partes committed one companie vnto Henry Duke King Edvvarde inuaded Burgundie of Lancaster another to Prince Edward and the third he reserued to himselfe and so passed into Burgundie In the meane season the Normans with a small Nauie 1359 Frenchmen arriued at VVinchelsea arriued at Winchelsey and partly brent the Towne and slew such as did withstand them wherefore the Prelates of England assembled from all partes in armour to withstande them but when they had prepared themselues to battayle the French were gone Simon of Benington Iohn of Chichester the 28. of Sept. Sherifes Maior Anno reg 34. 1360 Simon Dolseby Grocer the 28. of October King Edward with his power rode through France by Picardie Artois Roan Champaine and so to Briteine destroying the Countrey before him And héere is to be noted that the fourtéenth day of Aprill and the morrow after Easter day King Edward with his host lay before the Citie of Paris which day was full darke of mist and hayle and so bitter colde that many men died on their Horsse backes with the cold wherefore vnto this day it hath bin called the blacke Monday The King of Nauarre vexed sore the marches of Normandie Thus was the Realme of France miserably beset on all sides At the last a finall peace was concluded on Peace vvith France this condition that King Edward should haue to his possession the Countreys of Gascoine Gwyen Poytiers Limosin Baleuile Exantes Caleis Gwisnes and diuers other Lordships Castels Townes and all the Landes to them belonging Tho. Wals without knowledge of any soueraigntie or subiection for the same This peace being confirmed by writing and by oth King Edward came into England and so streight to the Tower to sée the French King where he appoynted his raunsome to be thrée millions of Florences and so deliuered French King releassed him of all imprisonment and brought him with great honor to the Sea who then sayled ouer into France Iohn Denis Walter Berney the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Iohn Wroth Fishmonger the 28. of October King Edward the 24. of Januarie beganne a Parliament at Westminster where the forme of the agréement was redde and allowed of all estates where the King on the last of Januarie caused his Nobles to sweare to holde and Anno reg 35 1361 kéepe the sayde agréement especially those as well Prelats as other that were not at Caleis where he sware and other that were there with him A great dearth pestilence hapned in England which was called the second pestilence in which died Henry D. of Lancaster The seconde mortalitie in March at London and was buryed at Leycester in the colegiate Church which he had founded with a Deane twelue Chanons Prebendaries as many Uickers and other ministers accordingly There dyed also Reginald Lord Cobham and Walter Lib. Lichfield Fitz Waren valiant and famous
the glorie of the world vnto Douer many both of hir Countrey and also of England attending on hir After the feast of the Epiphany all the Nobilitie of the 1382 Realme assembled at London to be present at the Kings mariage and to do their seruice according to the custome of euery one in auntient time vsed This Uirgin named The King maried Anne the daughter of Veselaus King of Boheme is at Westminster consecrate to the Kings wife and by the Archbishop of Canterburie is Crowned Quéene There were Iustes kept for the honor of such a solemâ—â—â—ation certayne dayes togither in which both the Englishmen shewed their force and the Quéenes Countrey men their proâ—esse In this Quéenes dayes began the detestable vse of piked shoes tied to their knées with cheines of siluer and gilt Also Piked shoes high heads and long tayled govvnes vvith vvomen riding aside first vsed in England noble women vsed high attire on their heads piked like hornes with long trayned Gownes and rode on side Saddles after y e example of the Quéene who first brought that fashion into this Land for before women were vsed to ride astride like men The solemnitie of the mariage being ended the Parliament is now begon againe in which many articles are proponed and decréed to wéete of admitting Strangers to sell personally their wares without impeachment of the Merchants of Englande of the abrogating of Fiâ—â—res and siluer garnishing of girdles c. of the price of Wines that is that the Tonne should not excéede sixe Markes c. William Vfford Earle of Suffolke in this Parliament â—â—ing elected by the Knightes of the Shires to pronounce on their behalfes the businesse of the Realme the very day and houre in which he should haue executed the businesse he had taken in hand as he was going vp the staires that ledde vp into the Chamber where all the Nobilitie of the Realme sate he sodeinly fell downe and among his mens handes that were about to holde him he yéelded vp the ghost although being very merie and féeling no euill a little before as euen at that instant he had entred Westminster Hall of whose sodeine death not onely all the Nobles of the Realme were greatly amazed but all the meaner sort for in all his life time he had shewed himselfe amiable to al men After his death the Parliament was ended after the Merchants of England had granted to the King a subsedie the Custome of vvoolles customes of wooll for foure yeares next ensuing whiche the commons called Le Mâ—â—tot In this ParliameÌ„t the Lords and commons requesting it Sir Richard Scrope Knight was ordeyned as the man which in excellent knowledge and inflexible iustice had not his like for his calling in this realm Sir Hugh Segraue Knight was made L. Treasourer Edmond Mortimer Earle of March departed this life in Anno reg 6. Irelande after he had brought that land all in manner vnto peace quietnesse hauing gouerned it most nobly wisely About the feast of S. Iohn Ante port latine all the nobles of the Realme were called to London and other that of custome were wont to be called although y â— Lent before ther had bin another Parliament as before we haue shewed in which by the petition of the Knightes of the Shires Iohn Iohn VVravv hanged Wraw Priest that was leader of them that did rise at Mildenhaâ—e and Burie was adiudged to hanging and drawing though many beléeued that he woulde haue bin redéemed with money The xxj of May was a great Earthquake in Earthquake England at nine of the clocke fearing the hearts of many but in Kent it was most behement where it soncke some Churches and threw theÌ„ downe to the earth There followed also Histo Auriâ— another Earthquake the xxiiij of May in the morning before the Sunne rising but not so terrible as the first Sir Richard Scrope is depriued of the ChaÌ„cellorship which he had gouerned lawdably Rob. Braybroke B. of London is made Chancellor There arriued in a great tempest a Shippe called a Carike at Sandwich an huge vessell and so fraught with riches that she might haue furnished the want of al the land if the enuie of the inhabitants would haue permitted but y â— MerchaÌ„ts of LoÌ„don hauing much old wares as frutes spices oyles such like they coÌ„pounded with y e Ienewayes to forsake y â— Hauen to passe ouer into Flanders so for y â— couetousnes of a few y â— who le Realm susteined great hinderaÌ„ce Adam Bawme Iohn Sely the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Iohn Northampton Draper the 28. of October About the feast of S. Thomas the Apostle great raynes and inundations of waters chanced so that the water rose foure times more in heigth than before drowning vp Uillages and Cattell destroying Bridges and Milles. The Fishmongers in London through y e counsell of Iohn Northampton then Maior William Essâ—x Iohn More and Stirre against Fishmongers Richard Northburie were greatly troubled hindred of their liberties and almost destroyed by congregations made against them but in a Parliament at London by the Kings 1383 Charter patent they were restored to their liberties About the moneth of May the Bishop of Norwich sayled ouer the Seas into Flanders with a greate power where he wanne the Townes of Graueling Brugh Dunkerke and Newport Whilest these things are thus doing in Flanders the King of England and his Quéene with their Bohemians visited the Abbeys of this Realme to the whiche their comming was very chargeable for they came with an excessiue number all which came to take but not to giue The Scottes taking occasion of the time for that a great Anno reg 7. number were gone ouer with the Bishop of Norwich entred into Northumberland and did much hurt to the inhabitants taking prayes in euery place and leading away the people prisoners and carying them into Scotland they tooke the Castell of Warke vpon the Riuer of Twede and brent it Simon Winchcombe Iohn Moore the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Parliament at London Sir Nicholas Brembar Grocer the 28 of October About the feast of All Saincts a Parliament was holden at London in which the halfe fiftéenth was granted to the King by the Laytie and shortly after the halfe of a tenth by the Cleargie a portion of which money the Lords of the North demaunded bycause in this Parliament they were appointed to defende those partes against the irruptions of Scottes to whome answere was made by Sir William Wikeham Bishop of Winchester that they were made for that cause of poore men rich meÌ„ and Lords that they might the more franckly kéepe the Scottes and that the King and Lords of the South partes should be the lesse troubled And bycause the Scottes came not to this Parliament according to couenant and beside that did displeasures vnto the inhabitants of the North parts it was decréed by this Parliament that
little talke with the King they recited the conspiracie wherby they had bin indited and they shewed forthe also thâ— letters which he had sente to the Duke of Irelande that he shoulde assemble an armye to their distruction c. in the ende the King promised on the nexte morrow to come to Westminster and there to intreate at large for reformation of all matters In the morning the King came to Westminster wher after a little talke the Nobles sayde that for his honour and commoditie of his Kingdome it was behouefull that the traytours whisperers flatterers and vnprofitable people were remoued out of place and that other mighte be placed in theyr roomes which when the King had graunted they iudged that Alexander Neuell Archbishoppe of Yorke Iohn Forde Bishoppe of Durham Frier Thomas Rushoke the Kings Confessour Bishoppe of Chichester shoulde be banished They expulsed also the Lorde Souch of Haringworth Burnel and of Beamount Albery de Vere Baldwine de Bereforde Richard Aderburie Iohn Worth Thomas Clifford and Iohn Louel knights not as altogither dismissed but to appeare at the next ParliameÌ„t there were certain Ladyes also expelled the Courte as vnprofitable They arrested Simon Burley William Elmham Iohn Beauchamp of Holte stewarde of the kings house Iohn Salisburie Thomas Treuet Iames Barnes Ni. Dagworth and N. Brember Knightes They toke also the Chaplens Richarde Clifforde Iohn Lincolne Richard Mitforde Nicholas Slake Deane of y â— kings Chapel Iohn Blake an Aprentice of the lawe all whyche was sent to diuerse prisons The thirde day of Februarie a Parliament was begon at Westminster to y â— which the Lords came with a sufficiente army this Parliament continued vntil the feast of Pentecost 1388 The xj of Februarie was Robert Tresilian Justice of y â— Kings Bench a Cornishman arested at Westminster wher he had laine hid in sanctuarie and was the same day drawn from the Tower of London to Tiborne and there with a great adoe was hanged consequently by iudgemente of the Lords Nicholas Brembar Knight was put to the like execution After which Iohn Salisburie Iames Barnes knights were by iudgement of the Parliament drawn and hanged then Iohn Beauchampe of Holt the Kings stewarde whome the King purposed to haue made Baron of Bridgenorth was drawen and hanged Iohn Blake Esquire was hanged and drawne and Iohn Vske a Sergeaunt at armes was drawn and haÌ„ged Lastly on the fifth of May sir SimoÌ„ Burley Lord Chamberlayne to the King and Conestable of Douer was beheaded although the Earle of Darbie did what he coulde to saue him for the which great dissention rose betwixt hym and the Duke of Glocester There was condemned also in the same Parliamente these Justices Roberte Belknape Iohn Holte Roger Fulthorpe and William Brough Iohn Locton Richarde Graye Justices with the Lordes before fledde were all banished There was granted to the King of the Cleargie half a tenth and of the Laytie half a fiftéenth and of the MarchaÌ„ts twelue pence of the pounde thrée shillings of the Tunne liij shillings foure pence of the sack of Wool The Duke of Glocester and sir Iohn Cobham asked pardon of the Abbot of Westminster for violence done in y e sanctuarie of Westminster in the taking of the Justice Trisilian The laste saue one of May there were deliuered out of the Tower W. Elmhame T. Treuet and Nicholas Dagworth Knights Also the first of June Iohn Holand the Kings brother was created Erie of Huntington The thirde of June the king in the Church of Westminster renewed the othe which he toke when he was crowned and all the Lordes sware homage and fealtie to him and all the Bishoppes did excommunicate all those that would go about to hinder the statutes of this last Parliament or y â— Anno reg 12 great Charter After Whitsontide Richarde Earle of Arundale with a companye of valiaunte men wente to the sea and foughte with certain ships of his enemies taking drowning or breÌ„ning lxxx shippes he entred into the I le of Beas which he spoyled and brent The same yeare the Scottes prepared themselues that as soone as the truce was exspired they mighte be readie to inuade the North partes and with a great army entred Englande committing gret slaughters of people and toke booties in euery place and ledde away manye prisoners and burned Townes and approched to Newcastel vpon Tyne and picht theyr Tentes not farre from thence There was then in the same Towne sir Henrie Percy the yonger and Syr Ralph his brother both desirous of warlike renowme and sore enimies to the Scottes Thys sir Henrie came vpon them on the sodayne and assayled them in the campe making greate slaughter of them William Douglas also chiefe Captaine of the Scottes beholding the thing that a thousande times he hadde wished that is sir Henrie Percy within his Campe rydeth againste him but was slayne by the sayde Henrie and then commeth the Earle of Dunbar with an excessiue number of Scottes and toke the sayd Henrie with his brother Ralphe slaying many Englishe menne in that place but yet the Scottes loste manye of theyr beste men Thys battayle was at Otterborne the soarest fought that Battaile at Otterborne Iohn Belandine Iohn Maior â— Frosert â—â—h Rudborae Parliament at Cambridge euer was betwéene Englishe menne and Scottes sayeth Froysert The seauenth of September a Parliament was holden at Cambridge in which were newe statutes ordayned for seruauntes wages for beggers for weapons not to be born of playes or games none to be vsed but shooting of the staple to be brought from Middleborow to Caleis c. and in the ende a tenth of the Cleargie and a fiftéenth of the Laytie Thomas Austine Adam Carlehul the. 28. of September Sherifes Maior Sir Nicholas Twyforde Goldsmith the. 28. of October The sixth of October as sir Iohn Treuet rode wyth the King to the kings lodging whiche was at Bernewel as he forced his horsse too much with the spurres the horsse falleth and breaketh the inner parts of the rider who liued tyl the next day King Richard discharged the olde officers of his Courte 1389 and also his Counsellours appointing other at his pleasure he toke the Seale from Thomas Arundale Archbishop of Yorke and deliuered it to William Wickam Byshoppe of Winchester and made him Chauncellour the Bishoppe of Excester his Treasurer and Edmund Stafford Kéeper of the priuie Seale A truce was graunted for thrée yeares betwixt Englande and Fraunce A fighting among Gnats at the Kings maner of Shine where they were so thicke gathered that the ayre was darkned with them they fought and made a great battaile Two partes of them being slayne fel downe to the grounde the thirde part hauing got the victorie flew away no maÌ„ knew whether The number of the deade was such that mighte bée swepte vppe wyth Besomes and Bushels filled wyth Anno reg 13 them Michael at Pole sometime Earle of Suffolke and Chauncellour of England deceased at
any of them had of y â— said names Castels Dominions possessions and liberties shold be surrendered vp into y e Chancerie there to be canceled and that they stand in state whiche they had in name and possession before the saide daye â—f the sayde arrest The King to shew to all men in all Countries about by what right and title he had taken vpon him the crowne and realme sent Ambassadours to Rome Iohn Treneuant Byshop of Hereforde Iohn Cheyne Knighte and Iohn Cheyne Esquire Into Fraunce he sent Walter Tricklowe Byshop of Durham Thomas Percy Erle of Worcester and William Heron Into Spaine Iohn Trenor Bishop of Saint Dauids and fir William Pâ—t Knight Into Almaine the Bishoppe of Bangor with other The Scots in time of the Parliament taking occasion by the absence of the Northren Lordes and bycause the same tyme the North parts were sore oppressed by a great Peâ—â—â—lence entred as enimies into those parts and toke the Costell of Warke and kept the same a certain time but at leÌ„gth spoyled and â—â—terly ruinated it and many other mischients they did in the Country Thomas Manbery duke of Norffolk which was exiled dyed at Venide in his returne from Ierusalem Also the Duches of Glocester dyed and hir sonne heirâ— Humfrey dyed of the pestitence when hée was sent for forth of Irelande The King helde his feast of Christmasse in his Castel of Windsor where Iohn Holland late Duke of Excester Erie of Huntington Thomas Holand late Duke of Surrey Earle of Kente Edwarde late Duke of Aumerle and Earle of Rutlande sonne to the Duke of Yorke Iohn Mountacute Eriâ— iâ— Sabsburie Thomas Spencer sir Ralph Lumley sir Thomas Blunt sir Benedict Cely Knights with other that fauoures King Richarde conspired against King Henrie and appointed priuily to murder him vnder the colour of Justing and other pastimes pretended And the time approching of theyr purpose they sent messengers to London with letters to the Duke of Aumerle that he shoulde not fayle to come at y e day appointed with his company to helpe to do the feate whervnto he was sworne but his minde being altered hée bare the letters streighte to his Father the Duke of Yorke who caused a number of his men forthwith to carrye his son to the King where he shewing his letters the King woulde not beléeue them but the same morning came the Maior of London to the Court and informed him of the matter whervpon the King made no tariance but got him forth toward London in companye of the Maior and other But before the King coulde gette London on his backe his enimies were come to Windesore and entred the Castell with an armed band of 400. meÌ„ on the fourth of Januarie at night where vnderstanding that the King was escaped theyr hands being sore amazed they withdrewe from Windesore vnto Sunning a certaine manour neare to Reading where the Quéene wife to King Richarde then lay where they persuaded hyr houshold that King Richarde was escaped out of Romfrete â—astel and they would go to him from thence they went to Walling forde and after to Abingdon mouing the people to take armes vppon them and to goe méete their King Richarde After this they came to Farindon in the vale of White Horsse in Barkeshire and the same daye to Circester on the xij day late in the eneniâ—g and there harbored with a greate number of men of arâ—es and many Archers ther they bruted that K. Richard was escaped forth of prison and that hée was there with them and to make their words toÌ„ haue the more credite they had got a Chaplaine of King Richardes called Madeleine so like to hym in all proportion and fauor that one could vnneth be descerned from the other many times sayth mine aucthour I haue séene him in Ireland ride with the King his Master so faire a Priest and goodly a person he had not lightly séene They put him in armoure with a Crowne on his Helmet so as all men mighte take him for King Richard On the morrow being Wednesday the people of that towne misliking of their procéedings fought against them and at length toke the chiefest of them and ledde them to the Abbay there and put them in a fayre chamber vnder safe custody And on the Thursday the said Lordes fearing the people imagined howe to escape out of theyr handes and caused some of their seruauntes to sette fire on certaine houses in the Towne thinking that therevppon the people woulde departe from them and séeke to staunche the fire but it chaunced contrarie for the people turned into a maruellous rage against them ranne vppon them with great violence and drew them into the market place and there they beheaded the Duke of Excester the Duke of Surrey and the Earle of Salisburie the thirde day after the Epiphanieâ— their seruauntes that were with them were by and by taken and as prisoners bound and brought to Oxforde and on Monday following were beheaded in the Castell there to the number of .xxvj. persons Also sir Thomas Blount Knight was beheaded with them The wéeke nexte following was beheaded Thomas Spencer Earle of Glocester at Bristow and about the same time was beheaded Iohn Holland Earle of Huntington brother to King Richard on the mothers side at Plashy in Essex not long after was sir Barnarde Bâ—ocas beheaded at London and a Prieste named Iohn Maudelen that was like King Richarde and another Priest called William Feribe The Bishoppe of Carlile was impeached and condemned of conspiracie but was pardoned The sixth day of Februarie King Henrie caused y e blank Charters made to king Richard to be brent at the standert in Cheape of London King Richard was imprisoned in Pomfrait Castel where xv dayes and nightes they vexed him with continuall hunger thirste and colde and finally bereft his life with suche a kinde of death as neuer before that time was knowen in EnglaÌ„d He dyed the xiiij day of Februarie whose body was brought to the tower of London and so through the Cittie to Paules Church bare faced where he stoode thrée dayes for all beholders and had seruice where king Henrie was present From thence he was carryed to Langley and there buried in the church of y e Friers Preachers UpoÌ„ his death the famous and excellente Poet Iohn Gower wrote certaine verses which may be englished thus O Mirrour for the world meete which shouldst in Golde be bette By which all wise men by foresight their prudent wittes may whette Lo God doth hate such rulers as here vitiously do liue And none ought rule that by their life doe ill example giue And this King Richarde witnesseth wel his ende this plaine doth shew For God allotted him such ende and sent him so great woe As such a life deservde as by the Cronicles thou mayst know The King with a great armye went into Scotlande spoyled 1400 the Country and returned to Yorke wher two Knights the one a Frenchman
the other an Italian chalenged to fighte within listes against sir Iohn Cornewall and Iames of Artois which two straungers were ouercome in battaile and Chalenge of coÌ„bat at Yorke sir Iohn Cornewal obtaining the Kings fauour maried the kings sister that had bin wife to sir Iohn Holland Earle of Huntingdon The Welchmen taking occasion by the Kings absence The VVelchmen rebel when he was in Scotlande beganne to rebel by the settyng on of OweÌ„ Glendouerdew son to Griffyth VichaÌ„ an esquier of Wales so called Glendour bicause his dwelling was in a place called GleÌ„dordwy for Glyn in Welch is a vale and Dor is water bycause the place was in a dale at the side of y e water or Riuer of Dew in the Parish of Corwrn in the Countie of Merâ—â—neth in Northwales He serued King Richarde at the tyme of his oppression by Henrie Duke of Lancaster at Flint Castell The first cause of this stirre was about a péece of land in controuersie betwixte him and the Lord Reignolde Gray of Ruthiue for when he saw his cause not fauoured firste hée began to spoyle the landes of the sayde Lord Gray whereof the king being certified went with an army into Wales but the Welchmen fledde to the mountaines the King brente the Countrey slew the people with whom he mette and returned with a great pray of Cattaile Iohn Wakel William Ebot the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Anno reg 2. Geffrey Chavvcer chief Poet of Brytaine Sir Iohn Frauncis Goldsmith the. 28. of October Geffrey Chawcer the most excellent Poet of Englande deceased the xxv of October who was buried at Westminster where of late at the charges of one maister Bridgeham is made ouer him a faire monument on the Southside of the Quire his workes for the most part are published in print by sir Iohn Thinne Knight and somewhat increased by my trauell in the last impression Not long after deceased the like famous Poet Iohn Gower Iohn Govver a most excellent Poet of EnglaÌ„d who lyeth buried in Sainte Marie Oueries Church in Southwarke He new builded a great part of that Church and coÌ„piled thrée famous bookes The first in Latine Vox ClamaÌ„tis The second in French Speculum Meditantis The third in Englishe Confessio Amantis which last booke is in Print the other hard to come by of the first I haue séen thrée very faire copies but of the seconde I neuer sawe any one The Emperour of Constantinople came into Englande to requyrs ayde agaynste the Turkes whome the King wyth sumptuous preparation mette at Blacke Heath vpon Saint Thomas daye the Apostle and brought him to London and paying for the charges of his lodging presented him with giftes worthy for one of so high degrée Soone after came newes that the King of Leto had â—lain in battayle Bassacke the sonne of the noble Balthazardan â— destroyed Ierusalem and all the Countrey rounde aboute And bycause he had by Gods grace so ouercome contrarye to his opinion he became christened and 60000. men of his secte The Emperour of Constantinople hearing this was very 1401 The Emperour returned gladde and departed out of Englande being honored by the King with precious giftes The fiue and twentith day of July Isabel late wife to K. Isabel late vvife to K. R. returned into Fraunce Richarde not yet twelue yeares of age departed from Douer towardes Caleis and so into Fraunce to hyr Father Owen Glendouerdew w e his Welchmen did much harme to the Englishmen and returned There was founde in the Kings bedde clothes an yron K. H. escapeth â— great daunger with thrée sharp pikes slender and round standing vpright layde there by some Traytour that when the Kyng should haue layde him downe he might haue thrust himselfe vpon them This time was vsed excéeding pride in garmentes gownes with déepe and broade sléeues commonlye called poke sléeues the seruauntes ware them as well as theyr Tho. Wals Aditions to polic maisters whiche mighte well haue bene called receptacles of the Diuel for what they stole they hidde in their sléeues whereof some hung downe to the féete and at leaste to the knées ful of cuttes and iagges whervpon were made these Anno reg 3 verses Now hath this lande little neede of Bromes To sweepe away the filth out of the streete Thâ— Hocâ—liâ—â— Sen side sleeues of pennilesse gromes will it vp licke be it drie or weete O England stand vpright on thy feete so foule a waste in so simple a degree Banish or it shal â—ore repent thee William Venor Iohn Fremingham the. 28. of Septem Sherifes Maior Sir Iohn Chadworth Mercer the. 28. of October The Conduit vpon Cornehil in London was made which before time had bene a prison called the Tunne in Cornehill wherevnto nightwalkers that were taken in suspition of fellonie or other trespasses were committed In the moneth of March appeared a blasing starre first betwixt the East and the North and last of all putting firie beames towards the North foreshewing peraduenture the effusion of bloud about the partes of Wales and Northumberlande Owen Glendouerdew with his Welchmen wasted y â— lands 1402 of the Lord Reignalde Gray tooke him prisoner and slewe many of his people Certaine men affirmed King Richarde to be aliue and Conspiracie against K. Henrie that he should shortly shew himself openly reward them y â— wer faithful vnto him But after a certain priest was taken at Warwike who had written y e names of many which were the aucthours of these troubles both the hope and feare of this conspiracie vanished The Priest was drawen hanged and quartered Also Walter Waldocke late Priour of Lande a Priorie in Leicestershire bycause he confessed he knew euill against the king and did conceale it was likewise hanged and headed Moreouer certaine gray Friers were taken of the whiche one Richard Friseby doctour of Diuinitie being A stout Frier executed asked what he would do if K. Richard were present answered that he woulde fight in his quarrel against any man euen to the death wherfore he was condemned drawen and hanged in his religious habit and wéede At Daneburie in Essex vpon Corpus Christi day the Diuell appeared in likenesse of a Gray Frier who entring the Church raged insolentlye to the greate feare of the Parishioners and the same houre with a tempeste of whyrlewinde and thunder the toppe of the Stéeple was broken downe and halfe the Chauncel scattered abrode Shortlye after sir Roger Claringdon Knighte a bastard sonne to Edward the blacke Prince and wyth him a Squire and a yeomanne were beheadded and eyghte Graye Friers hanged and beheaded at London and two at Leicester all whiche hadde published King Richard to bée aliue Owen Glendouerdew with a company of Welchmen inuaded all the shires that bordered neare vnto hym wherefore sir Edmund Mortimer wyth manye Knightes and Esquiers wente out to encounter with Owen stronger than he was of the
Countrey but when it came to martial affayres their owne Archers turned theyr handes againste them whome they shoulde haue defended There were flayne aboue eleauen hundred of our men Sir Edmunde Mortimer was taken and the Welchwomen when y e battayle was done vsing the deade carcasses to shamefullye to bée spoken woulde not suffer them to be buryed without great raunsome The Kyng went wyth a greate power into Wales to pursue OweÌ„ Glendouerdew where he profited nothing but loste muche for the Welchmen conuayed themselues into vnknowen places wherefore the King constrayned by necessitie returned into Englande after he had spoyled brent the Countrey The same time the Scottes cruelly entred into England for they supposed all the Lords beyond Humber to be occupyed in the parties of Wales but the Erles of Northumberlande Henrie Percie and his sonne Henrie with the Earle of Dunbarre that a good whyle agone hauing forsaken the Scottes had sworne to be true to the King of England with a number of armed men plentie of archers sodainly came to resiste the Scottes as they woulde haue retourned home after they hadde spoyled and brente the Countrey but nowe vppon a sodayne theyr waye was forelayde so that they muste néedes abyde and take a place to fighte vppon they chose therefore a mountaine neare to the Towne of Wollor called Halydowe Hill in the whiche they place themselues wyth theyr armed men and Archers which when our men beheld leauing the way in which they stoode against the Scottes they clynie the hill that stoode ouer against the Scottes and without delaye of time our Archers placed in the valley set their arrowes against the Scottes battayle that they might by some means force them to come downe on the other side the Scottishe Archers let flye at our men who yet after they felt the grieuous waighte and as it had bin a shower or tempest of the arrowes shotte by the Englishmen they fledde The Earle Dowglas perceyuing his men so to flée for he was their generall leader tooke hys Speare and manfullye wyth a multitude came down the Hyll trusting doubtlesse in his armour and y e armour of hys complices that hadde bin thrée yeares in makyng and forced himselfe to runne vpon the Archers whiche when the Archers sawe they stepped backe and shotte so fiercely that they pierced the armed mens bodies stroke throughe theyr Helmets ryued their Speares and rente theyr armoure wyth lyghte adoe Earle Dowglas hymselfe was wounded in fiue places the residue of the Scottes that were not come beside the Hyll turnyng backe from the arrowes that flewe fledde awaye but theyr flyghte nothing auayled them whilest the Archers followed them but that they were compelled to yéelde themselues Earle Dowglas also was taken and manye drowned in the Riuer of Tweede whylest they knewe not the Fourdes to the number of fiue hundered as was sayde In thys battayle no Lorde no Knighte nor Squire gaue anye stroke to the enimyes but onely God gaue the victorie to the Englishe Archers the Lordes and armed menne béeyng onelye lookers on That daye the flower of the Scottishe Chiâ—alrye was taken to witte the Earle Dowglas Murdake the eldest sonne of the Duke of Albanie that was heyre apparente to the Realme of Scotlande The Earles of Murrey Angus and Orkeney the Lordes of Mountgomorie Erskin and Gram with manye other Knyghtes to the number of fourescore besides Esquires Yeomen whose number was not knowne There were slayne of Barons the Lord Gordon the Lord Iohn of Swinton that was false to both the Realmes c. This battayle was fought on the fourtéenth of September Richard Marlow Robert Chicheley the 28. of Septemb. Sherifes Maior Anno reg 4. Sir Iohn Walcot Draper the 28. of October Edmond Mortimere which before was taken by Owen Glendouer dewe now professed to take Owens part against King Henry and did contract mariage with the daughter of the sayd Owen In a Parliament at London which beganne the morrow after Michaelmas day and lasted seauen wéekes there was granted to the King a tenth and a halfe of the Cleargie a tenth of the borough townes and a fiftéenth of the commoÌ„s through the Realme The messengers that had bin sent for Ioane late wife to Iohn of Mountfort Duke of Briteyne returned with hir into England and landed at Falmouth in Cornewall The King met with hir at Winchester the seauenth of February where they were married in the Churche of Saint Swithen The sixe and twentith of February she was Crowned at Westminster In the Sommer following by the Townes of Bedforde 1403 and of Broklesward Monsters were séene oft-times mornings and euenings to come out of the woods vnder diuers coulours in the likenesse and similitude of meÌ„ of warre which met one with another and séemed to fight cruell battayles which although they that were a farre off might sée yet they that were néere hande could not sée nor finde whiche thing deceyued many that coueted to approch come néere Henry Percy the yonger did sodeinly shew himselfe to be the Kings enimie vnto whome ioyned Thomas Percy Earle of Worcester Unkle to the sayde Henry and to make their conspiracie excusable they did write vnto the Shires Battayle at Shrevvsburie about that they pretended nothing against the alleageance nor fidelitie which they ought to the King neyther to gather to any other ende an armie but only for the sauing of their persons and for the better gouernement of the common wealth bycause the payments and taskes graunted to the King for the safe custodie of the Realme were put to such vâ—es as they ought not to be and were vnprofitably consumed and wasted Moreouer they complayned that bycause of the euill slanders which their enimies had made of them they durst not personally appeare in the Kings presence vntill the Prelates Barons had intreated for them that they might be permitted to purge themselues before the King and bée lawfully iudged by their péeres so that many that saw these letters did praise their diligence extoll their fidelitie towards the common wealth But the King being disquieted with these doings that he might appease the communaltie he wrote to them that he maruelled much that séeing the Earle of Northumberland Henry his son had receiued the most part of the paymeÌ„ts summes granted to him by the Cleargy coÌ„munaltie for y â— defence of the Marches of Scotland what occasion they had to make such manifest slanders c. but the yong Henry Percy puting his coÌ„fidence in the ayd of Owen Glendouerdew and Edmond Mortimer Earle of March with the Welchmen and men of Cheshire published that King Richard was aliue and was with them whom if any maÌ„ would sée they should without delay come in armour to y â— Castell of Leycester which declaration made diuers variable motioÌ„s in the hearts of many caused theÌ„ to wauer King Henry considering all things wisely gathered togither as many as he could and came
Shippes of oures laden with Merchandizes and slew or hanged all the marriners The olde Countesse of Oxforde mother to Robert de Vere Duke of Ireland who as we sayde before died at Louaine did cause suche as were familiar with hir to brute throughout all the parts of Estsex that King Richard was aliue and that he should shortly come and chalenge his old estate and dignitie She caused many Harts of Siluer and some of Gold to be made for badges such as King Richarde was wont to bestow on his Knightes Esquires friends that distributing them in the Kings name she might the sooner allure the Knightes and other valiant men of the Countrey to be at hir will and desire Also the fame and brute whiche dayly was blazed abroade by one William Serle sometimes of King Richards Chamber that the same King Richard was in Scotland and tarried with a power of French and Scottishmen caused many to beléeue that he was aliue This William Serle had forged a priuie Seale in the said King Richards name and had sent diuers comfortable letters vnto such as were familiar with King Richarde by which meanes many gaue the greater credite to the Countesse in so much that some religious Abbots of that Countrey did giue credite vnto hir tales who afterward were taken af the Kings commandement and emprisoned bycause they did beléeue and giue credit to the Countesse in this behalfe and the Countesse had all hir goodes confiscate was coÌ„mitted to close prison and William Serle was drawne froÌ„ Pomfret through the chiefest Cities of England put to death at London About the feast of S. Iohn Baptist at the Kings commandement the Earle of NorthumberlaÌ„d came to Pomfret brought with him his Nephues nephues sonnes by which doing he mitigated the mindes of many whiche thought that he had giuen the yong men counsell to rebell There came also with him William Clifford Knight who brought with him that William Serle K. Richards chamberlain whom we spake of before who by a wile he had caught Anno reg 6. and apprehended by which doing the King held him excused and pardoned him for that he had kept the Castell of Berwike against the Kings will and pleasure William Louth Stephen Spilman the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Sir Iohn Hinde Draper the 28. of October About the feast of Saint Faith the King called a Parliament at Couentry and sent processe to the Sheriffes that they should choose no Knights nor burgesses that had any knowledge in the lawes of the Realme by reason wherof it was called the Lay mans ParliameÌ„t These piked out Knights Lay mans Parliament and Burgesses could deuise none other way to reléeue the Kings lacke of money but to depriue the Cleargie of their temporall lands and goodes but Thomas Arundell Archbishop of Canterbury made answere that the Cleargie did alwayes giue the King as much as the Lay people did considering that they did ofâ—â—er giue the King tenthes than the laytie gaue fiftéenes and moreouer that more of their Tenants did serue the King in his warres thaÌ„ of the Tenants of the lay fée and besides this they prayed for the prosperitie of the King and of all them that faithfully serued him And wheÌ„ the speker of y e ParliameÌ„t said with a loud voice that he little regarded y e prayers of the Church the Archbishop of CaÌ„terbury answered then quoth he I know to what end the fortune of the Realme will come wheÌ„ the suffrages of y e Church are not set by wherwith y e Godhead is wont to be appeased surely that Kingdome neuer coÌ„tinueth stable y â— is voyde of prayer deuotion notwithstanding thinke not that thou shalt without punishmeÌ„t take away the possessioÌ„s of the Church for if the Archbishop of Canterburie liue thou shalte haue euill taking of any thing that is his Then the Archbishoppe rose vppe and knéeled downe before the Kyng desiring hym to consider howe gratiouslie and by Gods fauour he had atteyned to the Kingdome that he would coÌ„sider his first promis which was that he would preserue vnto euery man their right and title so farre as lay in him He also willed him to remember the oth which he voluntarily made which was that he would honor and defend the Church and Ministers thereof wherefore he desired him to permit and suffer the Church to enioy the priuiledges and liberties which in time of his predecessors it did enioy and to feare that King by whome all Kings doe raigne When the Archbishop had said these and like words the King commanded him to go to his seate againe and sayde that his intent and purpose was to leaue the Church in as good state or better than he found it And then the Archbishop speaking to the Knightes and burgesses sayde you and such like as you be haue giuen such counsell vnto our King and to his predecessors to confiscate the goodes of the In Edvvard the thirds time Celles whiche the Frenchmen and Normans did possesse in England and sayd that by them he should heape vp great riches as in déede they were woorth many thousands of gold notwithstanding it is most true that the King at this day is not the richer thereby of halfe a Marke for you haue extorted or at the least begged them out of his handes and haue appropriated the saide goodes vnto your selues so that it may be coniectured that your request to haue our temporalities is not for the Kings profite but for your owne couetousnesse for without doubt if the King as God forbid he should fulfill your wicked purpose he should not be one farthing the richer the next yeare following and surely I will sooner let my head be cut off than that the Churche should be destitute of the least right that perteyneth to it c. The Cleargie granted a tenth and a halfe and the commons two fiftéenes on condition the Lord Furniuall should receyne it to spend in the Kings warres The same time such abundance of water brake sodeinly ouer the bankes in Kent as was neuer séene the like in those partes whereby were drowned Beastes and Cattell without number neyther did England only bewayle theyr losses but also Zeland Flanders and Holland susteyned the like by the great excesse of waters This yeare died William Wikeham Bishop of Winchester Colledge at Oxford by whose charges and trauell the Cleargie of England was much encreased for he builded a notable Colledge in Oxford for the encrease of learning where he placed the Warden and his company to the number of lxx besides children seruants and tenne Priestes to kéepe dayly seruice enduing the sayd company with sufficient lands He beganne the foundation of a new Colledge at Winchester Colledge at VVinchester and in sixe yeares finished the same where he placed the like number of Schollers to learne their GraÌ„mer and other principles to be sent afterward to his other Colledge at Oxford These two
to be made to any Prince of England The King gaue them all generallye thankes for theyr good mindes towardes hym and therewyth exhorted them to the zeale of the publike prosperitie and honoure of the Realme If anye man hadde offended hym he pardoned theyr trespasse and desyred heartily of GOD that if hée shoulde rule and doe all things well to the honoure of GOD and the prosperous commoditie of the Realme that then God woulde suffer him to be Crowned But if hys fortune shoulde bée to doe otherwyse that then GOD shoulde take hym to hys mercye and suffer hym rather to be buried than to enterprise the charge of the Realme The ninth day of April he was crowned at Westminster by Thomas Arundell Archebyshoppe of Canterburie after whyche Coronation he called vnto hym all those young Lords and Gentlemen that were the folowers of his yong actes to euerye one of whome he gaue rich and bounteâ—â—s giftes and then commanded that as many as would chaÌ„ge their maners as he intended to doe should abide with him in his Courte and to all that woulde perseuer in theyr former light conuersation he gaue expresse commaundemente vpon paine of their heades neuer after that day to come in his presence About this time Thomas Duke of Clarence the Kings brother came from the coastes of Aquitaine who as we said before was sent to ayde the Duke of Orleaunce againste the Duke of Burgoine A great part of the Citie of Norwich was brent with all Tho. Wals the house of the Frier Preachers and also two Friers of that order Sir Iohn Oldcastle at that time Lorde of Cobham for diuerse pointes touching the Sacrament before the Archebyshoppe of Canterburie the Bishops of London Winchester other was conuict and committed to the Tower of London out of the which he brake ouer the walles in the night and escaped about the feast of Simon and Iude. Iohn Stutton Iohn Michel the. 28. of September Sherises Maior Sir William Cromer Draper the. 28. of October Richard the second somtime king of England which was at the first enterred in the church of the preaching Friers of Langley was takeÌ„ vp and royally buried at Westminster with no small charges to the King The K. kéeping his Christmasse at his manour of Eltham vij miles from London was warned y â— certain had conspired against him eyther to haue taken or sodainly slain him his brethren on Twelfth day â—t night whervpon the king sent word to the Maior of LondoÌ„ y t he should arrest all suspitious persons wherevpon the Maior forthwith caused euery AldermaÌ„ in his ward to kéep great watch and about tenne of the clocke at nighte wente hymselfe wyth a strong power to the signe of the Are wythoute Byshoppes Gate where they apprehended the man of the house called Iohn Burgate Carpenter and vij other sent them to Eltham where they confessed before the Kyng that they were confederate with Sir Iohn Oldcastell to fight against him and his Lords in Saint Giles fielde aboue Holborne On the morrow after the Twelfth day the King King Henry kept the field by S. Giles vvithout Holborne reâ—â—â—ued priuily to Westminster and with a greate armie kept the fielde of Sâ—â—â—t Gâ—les for he was warned that Sir Iohn Oldcastell and Sir Roger Acton woulde be in the same field on the next day following with fiue and twentie thousand people and the same night were taken more than fourescore men in armour of the same faction Also the King being told of an amâ—â—shment gathered in Harengay Parke â—â—nte thither certayne Lordes who tooke many among whome was one William Murlâ— a rich â—aultmaÌ„ or Bruer of Dunstaple who had his two Horsses trapped with Golde following him and a paire of gilt Spurres in his bosome for he thought to haue bin made Knight on the morrow by the handeâ—â—â— Sir Iohn Oldâ—â—stell The twelfth of January thréesâ—â—râ— and nine of them were condemned of treafoâ—â— Many men hanged and some brent in Ficketâ— field at Westminster and on the morrow after seauen and thirtie of thâ—â— were drâ—â—â—â—â— from the Tower of London to Newgate and so to Saint Gâ—â—â—â— and there in a place called Fickets fielde were all hanged and â—eâ—â—ien of them brent Gallowes and â—â— The xix of January were drawne and hanged Sir Iohn Beâ—erley Priest Iohn Bâ—â—gate Carpenter a Text writer in Sâ—â—â—â— Iohns stréete and a Glouer on London bridge and shortly after Sir Roger Aâ—â—on Knight was taken who on the tenth of February was drawne hanged and buryed vnder the Gallâ—wes The twentith of February deceassed Thomas Arundell Archbishop of Conterburie Anno reg 2. The King taking compassion vpon Henry Percy a yong 1414 man who by his Grandfather Henry Percy Earle of Northâ—â—â—â—erland was caryed into Scotland after the death of his father who was sâ—aine in the battell of Shrewsburie when this yong man was then but a child commanded theÌ„ that were of his kindred and néerest friends to solicite for his reclayming home agayne out of Scotland minding not only to honor him by calling him home agayne but also to â—â—â—â—â— him Earle of Northumberland In the moneth of May a Parliament was begon at Leycester Parliament at Leycester Porter of the Tovver executed and there was a Porter of y â— Tower of LoÌ„don drawne hanged and headed whose head was sent to London and set ouer the Tower gate for consenting to one that brake out of the Tower named 〈◊〉 In this Parliamente Iohn the Kings brother was made Duke of Bedford Humfrey Dukes created his brother Duke of Glocester and Richard brother to the Duke of Yorke was made Earle â—â— Cambridge To this Parliament came the Embassadors of the French King and also of the Duke of Bâ—â—gâ—â—dy but not with like inâ—â—â—te and purpose for the D. of â—â—â—gâ—ndy desired ayde against the â— of Orleance promising as men layd more than he was able to perfourme wherefore the King of England â—â—â—◠〈◊〉 Embassadors to them both amongst whome were the Bishops of Durham and Norwich as chiâ—f 〈…〉 were oft times sent into France and the French Kings Embassadors were sente hither with great cost on both â—â—â—â—s but no hope of peace to be had On Mary Magdalens day in London Iohn â—â—â—nser Esquire with mine of his men set vpon and â—lew The Queenes Chancellour flayne Iohn Tâ—â—bey Clearke Archdeacon of Hunâ—â—â—gâ—â— and Chancellour to Quéene Ioane late wife to Henry the fourth for the which fact the sayd Esquire and foure of his men fled to Saint Annes Church within Aldersgaiâ— where they were mured vp with boord and watched day and night till the xxj of August on the which day they forsware the lande Men foresvvare the land and passed through the Citie towards Caleis in their shirtes and bréeches eache of them hauing a Crosse in hys hand This yeare dyed the â—oalours of Newgate and Ludgate Prisoners dyed of London and many prisoners in Newgate to
fiftéene dayes they were not deliuered from thys séege they should deliuer to the King the Towne and Castell and when the day was come they perfourmed promise and this was the first Bridge ouer the Riuer of Seene that the King subdued to his power After the King had thus obteyned that Bridge ouer the Riuer of Seene and that there was none other Riuer or floud mighte lette his iourney with all the hast he might he entred hys iourney towardes Roane The Citizens hearing the approche of their enimies and fearing least they shoulde bée lodged in the Suburbes whiche were muche larger than the Citie was within the walles and was also muche replenished with Monasteries Churches and Towers burned the same and made all euen with the grounde To this Citie on the thirtith day of Julye thys victorious King approched agaynste whome came the Citizens with theyr Garrisons and men of warre where the more parte of all that day they continued in battell and fought sore on both partes but the Frenche were forced to séeke their succour within the walles of the Citie whome in theyr recoyle the King pursued still before the Citie where hée ordered his séege in this maner First the King with a noble company of yong hardy men lodged himselfe before the gate of Saint Hillarie The Duke of Clarence with his power was lodged before the gate of Caulx The Duke of Excester after he was câ—me to the king was lodged with his people before the gate of y e Castel called Beanuice Erle Marshal was lodged before y e gate called Markeuile The Earle of Warwicke after he was come from the Castle of Donfrounte was lodged vpon the Hil where the strong Monasterie of Saint Katherie was The Erles of Salisburie and Huntingdon were lodging ther vpon the other side of the Riuer of Seene vpon whom their enimies made many assaults and bycause the Riuer of Seene diuided the English hoaste in two partes the King caused to be made a strong bridge of Tymber ouer the same Riuer that when néede shoulde require they might haue frée passage on foote and horsse and bycause their enimies shoulde not approch vnto it w t their ships or Galleys the K. caused to be made a great cheyne to be drawen ouer the Riuer betwixt the citie and the Bridge At that tyme the King of Portingale coâ—â— to the King of England sent a nauie of shippes wel manneâ— into the Kings ayde whom the King commaunded to lye betwixte the Citie and the sea to enclose the Citie from all succours by Water The towne of Caudbeke fearing the daunger of the time couenaunted with the King of England that when the Citie of Roane were taken and deliuered into the Kings obeysaunte they in like manner woulde yéelde them to him without any assaulte and vnder the same appointed according with the King xiiij other defensible Townes and Castels that were nigh borderers vnto Roane After many cruell battayles and assaultes the Citizens fearing at leÌ„gth to be famished dayly put out of the Citie gret number of poore people and other but the hunger encreasing they were forced to eate their horsses dogges cattes rattes and mise and these and other like things were consumed eaten Then the plague of famine entred the Citie so that the people for defaulte of reliefe dyed that the liuing might scarcely burie the deade whereby that noble Citie was brought into so muche miserie that it is not lesse maruayle than pitiful to heare In this mean time during this siege of Roane The duke of Excester besieged the Citie of Eneroys also about the xx of August king Henrie had thrée maruellous victories in Normandie The first was that one hundered Englishmen take iij. great Lords at a place called Kilbuife and put to flight thrée hundred and fourescoure persons besides The second was foure hundered of his enimies entred within the suburbes of the Towne of Ebroicens and eleauen Englishmen chased them away and toke foure of them and slew twelue tooke 40. of their horsses The thirde was the enimies would indéede haue taken the town which was called Leuers but the Captaine of the same with an hundered of our men wente out against a thousand of them and ouercame them toke 180. gentlemen of the enimies Aboute thys tyme also Captaine de la Bouche toke the Towne of Pontoys by Paris The Parson of Wrotham in Norffolke whiche haunted New market Heath and there robbed and spoyled many was with his Concubine brought to Newgate of London where he dyed in prison Iohn Brian Ralphe Barton the. 28. of Sep. Iohn Parnesse Sherifes the. 28. of October This Iohn Brian Sherife as he came one a time from Wapping in the Woose thinking to haue eased himselfe beyond Saint Katherines Mill fell into the Thamis and was dragged vp againe by his men and the Miller but dyed therof within a seauen-night in whose place was chosen Iohn Parnesse William Seuenoke Grocer the. 28. of October Maior This William Seuenoke when he was a newe borne babe was founde at a Town called Seuenoke in Kent where by charitable people he was christened by the name of William and for that hys father or mother could not be known they gaue him to surname Seuenoke being by theÌ„ broughte vp till he was able to serue they then bounde him prentise with a Citizen of London where after his good seruice God indued him with such wisedome and wealthe that he came to be Maior of that Citie who being not vnthankefull to God and the common wealth among other his charitable workes founded in the Towne of Seuenoke where he hadde bin nourished a Frée schole and thirtéene almes houses When the Citizens of Roane perceyued themselues maruellously afflicted by famine as is before shewed and also to be in dispaire of succour from the Frenchmen nowe after halfe a yeares siege and more vpon certaine conditions they deliuered to the king of England their Citie castle Tower Abbayes Churches houses Citizens Captaynes Garisons and generallye all things that were within the Citie whatsoeuer they wer The xix day of Januarie there had dyed within this Citie as was sayde for defalt of victuals during this siege mo than xxx thousand people This Anno reg 7. 1419 noble King the rather to relieue this oppressed Citie ordayned the same to be the chiefe Chamber of all Normandie and ordayned hys exchequer hys Treasurie and hys coynage to be kepte in the same he also â—dified a strong tower behinde the Castle Whilest the King ordered his businesse at Roane he sente diuerse Lordes with strong puissaunce of people to receyue the Castelles of Townes borderyng vppon Roane amongst whom the Duke of Clarence in short tyme redused to the King the mightie Castell of Galiarde the Towne of Vernon the Towne of Naunte the Castall of Bandmounte and manye other strong places and holdes The Earle of Salisburie wyth the Garrison to hym assigned tooke the Town of Hounslowe the
England and his Quéen were lodged in the Castell of Lowre and the King of France and his Quéene were lodged in the pallace of Saint Paule King Henrie hearing that the Dolphen with a great power besieged the Towne of Guisney he determined to goe himselfe to the raysing of the siege and so came to the town of Corbeil and so to Senlis where he waxed so sicke that hée was constrayned to tarry and send his brother the Duke of Bedforde to rescue theÌ„ of Cosney but the Dolphin raysed hys siege and departed thence King Henrie his disease increasing he departed this life in the Castell called Boyes de Visceme not far from Paris on the last of August in the yeare 1422. when he had raigned nine yeares fiue monethes and odde dayes There was present at his death King Charles of Fraunce and the two Quéenes but before his death this most prudent King disposed the guarde of the yong Prince his sonne and the defence of the realme of Englande to hys brother Humfrey Duke of Glocester but the custodie of the body of this yong Prince the King committed to his vncle the Duke of Excester and the reuenues of the Dutchie of Normandie he bequethed to his brother Iohn Duke of Bedforde for the gouernaunce of the same Dutchy and of the Realme of France In his life time he reedified his royall manour that then was called Shine nowe Richmount hée founded two Monasteries vpon the Thamis not farre from Richmount the one of Carthusians whiche he named Bethlem the other of religious men and women of Saint Bridget and that he named Sion He founded Gartar principal Kyng at armes of all Englishmen and also the brotherheade of Sainte Gyles without Creple Gate of London Shortlye after hys departing his bowels were enterred in the Church of Sainte More de Fosses and his corps well enbaulmed and seared was closed in leade and accompanyed with all the Lords Enguerant estates and commons of England that were there presente with also many Lords and great estates as well of France Normandie Burgondie and Picardie was brought with greate honour to Paris and set in the Churche of our Ladie where were done for him right solemne exequies with distributioÌ„ of mony and great almes to the poore From thence he was broughte to Roane where he aboade long When all things necessarie were prepared for the conueyaunce of the deade King into Englande hys body was layde in a Chariot whiche was drawen by foure great horsses and aboue the dead corpes they layde a figure made of boyled hydes or leather representing his person as nyghe to the semblaunce of him as could be deuised painted curiously to the similitude of a liuing creature vpon whose heade was set an Emperiall Diadem of golde and precious stones and in his right hand he helde a Scepter royall and in his lefte hand a ball of gold And in this manner adorned was this figure layde in a bedde in the sayde Chariot with hys vnsage vncouered toward the heauens and the couerture of hys bedde was of red silke beaten with golde and besides that when the body shoulde passe through anye good Town a Canapie of maruaylous great value was borne ouer the Chariot by men of great worshippe In this manner accompanyed of the King of Scottes and of all Princes Lordes and Knightes of hys house he was broughte from Roane to Abeuile where the corpse was set in the Churche of Sainte Offrâ—ne From Abuile he was broughte to Hedin and from thence to Menstreull so to Bulloigne and to Caleis In all thys iourney were many men about the Chariot clothed al in white which bare in theyr handes torches burning after whom followed al the housholde seruauntes in blacke and after them came the Princes Lordes and estates of the Kyngs bloud adorned in vestures of mourning and after all thys from the sayde Corpse the distaunce of two Englishe myles followed the Quéene of Englande righte honourably accompanyed In thys manner they entred Caleis from whence after a fewe dayes they departed and continued theyr iourneys by water and lande vntyll they came to London where they arriued about the tenth of Nouember so were conuaied by London bridge through Cheap to the Cathedrall Churche of Saint Paule vppon the couering of the for moste of the foure horsses that conuayed the Chariot wer imbrodered the auntient armes of EnglaÌ„d vpon the couerture of the seconde horsse were the armes of England and Fraunce in one shielde quarterly vppon the couerture of the thirde horsse was imbrodered the armes of Fraunce without any maner of difference and on the fourth horsse were the armes of King Arthur When his exequies were solemnized at Saint Paules Church in London hée was brought from theÌ„ce to be enterred in the Abbay of Saint Peter at Westminster amongst hys noble auncestoures Thus thys most victorious and renoumed Kyng entred the way decréed for euery creature in the floure most lustie time of hys age to witte but sixe and thirtie yeares olde ⸪ ¶ King Henry of Windsor HEnrie the sixth being an infant of eight moneths old beganne Anno reg 1. Titus Liuius his raigne the last of August in the yeare 1422. Continuing the time of his youth the gouernance of the Realme was committed to y e Duke of Glocester and the gard of his person to the Duke of Excester and to the Duke of Bedford was giuen the regiment of France who right wisely and nobly ruled the same so long as he liued This Henry was of witte and nature simple gentle and méeke he loued better peace than warre quietnesse of mind than businesse of the world honestie than profite rest and â—ase than trouble and care all iniuries that euer happened to him which were many he suffered patiently and reputed them to be worthely sent of God for his offences William Gastfield Robert Tatarsale the 28. of Septem Sherifes Maior William Walderne Mercer the 28. of October The xxj of October Charles King of France passed out of this world and was buried at S. Denis in France after he haâ— History of Loys Duke of Orleance Charles le bievv King of France dyed bin Crowned King 46. yeares He was greatly beloued of his people all his life time and therefore was called Le Roy Charle le biew ame but yet he had a sicknesse the more part of his raigne that being out of his witte he woulde strike all that came néere him it tooke him first in the Citie of Mans shortly after he had bin in Flanders to reduce the Flemings to obedience There was by reason héereof great trouble in France bycause those that were néere to him in lignage sought euery one to haue the chiefe gouernement in theyr hands When he thus dyed the Realme was left in miserable state for people of each strange nation were gouernoures in the Realme First the Englishmen had conquered a great parte and sought to haue the rest and the Duke of
Burgoigne with many other great Lordes alied with hym sought to conquere all for the yong King Henry of Englande who claymed then to be King of France and likewise in all Henry King of England and of France the money that was coyned the Axmes of both Realmes were quartered The Crownes that were stamped in the tyme of Charles and all other money more were forbidden to be currant and called to the Minte King Henry caused a péece to be stamped called a Salus worth two and twentie Shillings and Blans of eyghtpence a péece and so in no place of France where King Henry was obeyed any other money was receyued but suche as had the Armes of France and England stamped on it Charles Duke of Tourayne the Dolphin sonne to King Charles le biew ame clayming to be right inheritor to the Dolphin of France proclaymed King of France Realme of France by the auntient Edictes and customes of the sayde Realme as was alledged proclaymed himselfe King after the deceasse of hys father notwithstanding by the agréement made at the marriage of his Sister to the King of England it was otherwise concluded as before is recited and so there were two Kings in France Henry and Charles both which striuing for the Crowne the Realme Tvvo Kings of France Henry and Charles was in way of perdition A Parliament at London began the ninth of Nouember Parliament at London wherin was granted to the King a subsedie for thrée yeares fiue nobles of euery sacke of wooll that should passe out of the land This yeare the Weast Gate of London sometime called Nevvgate of London nevv builded Aâ—i S. Paul Lon. 1423 Chamberlaine Gate was begon to be new builded by the executors of Sir Richard Whitington late Maior of London King Charles of France began now to aduance himselfe into the D. of Burgoignes lands and the Connestable of Scotland accompanied with many Lords and men of war of K. Charles side layd séege to the towne of Carnens but the Marshall of Burgoigne assembled men of warre to raise the séege with whome went the Earle of Salisburie a valiant maÌ„ and The Earle of Salisburie vvan diuers holds in France and rased them now being come togither fought with their enimies wan the field tooke the Connestable whose sonne was slayne in the field Many of K. Charles men were slayne and taken to the number of tenne or twelue hundred good men of warre After whiche victorie the Earle of Salisburie layde séege to Montaguillon in Champeigne and continued there an eyght monethes before he could haue it rendred and then caused the same to be rased and throwne downe Then the Earle of Salisburie beséeged the Castell of Monnes which at length Anno reg 2. was yéelded to him this Castell he also rased bet downe which was the strongest place in all Champaigne it was after repaired by King Charles Nicholas Iames Thomas Wanford the 28. of Septemb Sherifes Maior Duke of Bedford married the Duke of Burgoignes daughter William Crowmar Draper the 28. of October About the same time the Duke of Burgoigne gaue his sister the Lady Anne in marriage to the Duke of Bedford and so the alliance was made more strong betwixt the English the Burgonians Phillip de Comines writeth that Iohn D. of Bedford was Phi. Comi Regent in France for the Englishmen his monethly allowaÌ„ce in that office amounting to 20000. Crownes at the least Also y â— Dukes of Burgoigne Bedford Britein met in y e town of Amiens there was also the Earle of Richmont brother to the Duke of Briteine and many other great Lordes whiche Earle of Richmont had married the Duke of Briteines eldest sister Margaret sometime wife to the Duke of Guyen and Dolphin of France These thrée Dukes were fiue or sixe dayes togither in Amiens in great friendship and reuerence each to other promising perpetuall amitie to continue After this the Duke of Briteine returned into his Countrey the Duke of Bedford Regent of France to Paris and the D. of Burgoigne to Arras but within a while after the Earle of Richmont reuolted to King Charles vpon some misliking he had conceyued against the Duke of Bedford King Charles receyued him ioyfully made him Connestable of France About the same time the Duke of Bedford caused Crotoy to be beséeged both by water and by land which after foure or fiue monethes séege was both Towne and Castell deliuered to the Duke where he ordeyned Ralph Butler to bée Captayne At that time the Duke of Bedford was obeyed as Regent in all places through Vimeu Pontieu and Picardy from Paris to Reins Chalons Troyes vp to the water of Loyre About the feast of Saint Andrew the Captaynes of King Charles assembled their forces about Le Fere and Nelle and tooke by night the Towne of Campeigne and spoyled the inhabitants of all their goodes Shortly after came the Duke of Bedford to Mondidier with twelue hundreth fighting meÌ„ and requested the Lord of Sanenses to lay séege to Campeigne and he woulde finde him men and money to wage them wherevnto he graunted and after fiftéene dayes séege had the same deliuered In the moneth of February Iames Steward the yong King of Scottes who was taken by the Englishmen in the King of Scottes releassed of imprisonment eyght yeare of King Henry the fourth and had remayned in England prisoner till this time was now deliuered and married in Saint Mary Oueryes Church in Southwarke to the Lady Iane daughter to Iohn Earle of Somerset Cousin to King Henry Sir Iohn Mortimer Knight was drawne to Tiborne and there hanged and quartered but his body was buryed in Saint Iohns Church at Clarkenwell King Henryes people beséeging the Castell of Dinry in 1424 the marches of Normandy they within compounded to yéeld at a day assigned if the Englishmen were not fought withall before the same day by the Frenchmen wherevpon as well King Charles as the Duke of Bedford made great leuies of men to kéepe the day appoynted and héerewith they drew both towards Yury but when King Charles heard how the The Battell of Vernole in Perche Duke of Bedford was comming towardes him with such a puissance he was counselled to draw backe and so he did towards Vernole in Perche whome the Duke of Bedford followed so that he found his armie néere to Vernole And when eyther armie was in sight of the other they put themselues in order of battell and the Englishmen made an hedge of their Horsse behind their battell bycause the French shoulde not strike in among them on the backes and the Frenchmen ordered themselues in battell array making a great battell of footemen in the which they put the floure and chiefest men They appoynted their Horssemen to set on the Englishmen a trauerse the battayles on foote came vpon and ioyned where was a sore fight betwixt them continuing two houres togither that no
man might iudge which way the victorie would encline but at length the men of King Charles began to breake and then the Englishmen began to thrust in among them and did so much that they discomâ—â—ted their enimies There were slayne the Earle Dowglas Duke of Turon Iames Dowglas Earle of Wighton Iohn Earle of Boughan with the Uicount Nerbon and many other to the number of tenne thousand sayth Fabian foure Robert Fabian thousande sayeth mine Author a Frenchman who sayeth that the Duke of Bedford bare himselfe most valiantly fighting with an axe so fiercely as he had the prayse of all other The Earles of Salisburie and Suffolke gouerned themselues also right valiantly The Lord of Torsy and other Lords of Normandy which before had taken part with the Englishmen this day turned to the French hoping that the Englishmen shoulde haue lost the battell True it is that the Frenchmen would neuer suffer their King Charles to be present in person at any battayle but when they thought to pitch a fielde they sent him into some strong Towne By the losse of this battayle fought on the seauentéenth of August before Vernole in Anno reg 3. Perche King Charles was put to great hinderance so that he was not able in puissance to giue the Englishmen any battayle hauing ynough to defende and kéepe his Townes and fortresses against them The Duke of Bedford returned into Normandy where he punished many that fledde from him the day of the battayle Then went he to Paris where he found the Duke of Burgoigne who receyued him and the Dutches of Bedforde The Duke of Burgoigne enamored vvith the Countesse of Salisburie vvhere of came great displeasure and losse to England by the breach of amity betvvixt the English and the Burgonions his wife the sayde Duke of Burgoignes Sister right ioyfully and made to them great feast at whiche feast also were the Earles of Salisburie and Suffolke the olde Quéene of France mother to King Charles and many other greate estates of diuers nations amongst the whiche the Duches of Bedford was holden for the most gallantest Lady of all other and with hir the Countesse of Salisburie a very faire Lady The Duke of Bedford that had neuer iusted before iusted there The Duke of Burgoigne was a very goodly amiable maÌ„ of personage doing excellently well whatsoeuer he tooke in hand and especially in dansing and iusting he excéeded all other of his Countrey At this feast he became desirous of the Countesse of Salisburie and some messages passed betwixt them which came to the Earle of Salisburies eare whereof he was nothing contented with the Duke and therfore sought to do him displeasure afterward This feast being ended the Duke of Burgoigne went into his Countrey of Burgoigne and there tooke to wife the Duches of Neuers which had bin wife to his Unkle the Duke of Neuers and had by hir two Children She was halfe sister to the Duke of Burbon but she liued not long with him The D. of Burgoigne also gaue his sister the yongest named Agnes The second cause of breach of amitle betvvixt England and Burgoigne in marriage vnto Charles de Barbon Earle of Cleremont for the which the Duke of Bedford and other Englishmâ— were wroth for that he made suche alliance with the enimies without their accord This yeare the Frenchmen repaired the Castell of Mouns in Champaigne which had bin a little before destroyd by the Englishmen and now it was well stuffed with victuals and men which began to make sore war to the Countrey but shortly after the Earle of Salisburie beséeged theÌ„ and with him Messire Iohn de Luxenburg who did so much that the Castell was yéelded to him The D. of Bedford with his wife the Duches lay for the most parte in Paris leading there a pleasant life with the Lady whom he greatly loued and was lodged in y e house of the Tournels â—éere to the Castel Saint Anthony where he made faire buildings and his men still made sore warres againste the French towards the Riuer of Loyre and other places vpon base Normandy and toward the Duchie of Alanson This yeare in Englande Edmond Mortimere Earle of March with many other Lords a great retinue were sent Earle of March sent into IrelaÌ„d into Ireland where the sayd Earle of March ended his life Simon Seman Bythewater the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Iohn Michaell Stockfish monger the 28. of October This yeare 1424. the warres began in Henault by reason of Iaqueline Duches of Henault daughter to Duke William Iaqueline Duches of Henault of Henault Unkle to Phillip Duke of Burgoigne and also daughter to Duke Iohn of Burgoignes sister wife to the â—â—renamed William and so double Cousin german to Philâ—â—p Duke Phillip now liuing This Iaqueline was married â—â— Iohn Duke of Brabant hir Cousin german Cousin gerâ—â—n also to Duke Philip of Burgoigne and before that she â—â—s married to the Earle of Pontioue son to King Charles le â—â—â—n aime eldest Brother to King Charles now liuing â—â—t notwithstanding that she was thus married to the Duke of Brabant yet was she conuayed by Sir Robersart Knight and brought into England to the Duke of Glocester and there married to the sayd Duke of Glocester and so she Iaqueline married to the D. of Glocester had two husbandes aliue at once Brabant and Glocester â— thing thought vnreasonable both against God the world and the Church for she had bin four or fiue yeares in companie with the Duke of Brabant but there had fallen some variance betwixt them and so she was come from him into Henault About the last of Aprill began a Parliament at Westminster wherein was graunted a Subsedie of twelue in the Robert Fabian Parliament at London First Subsedie payde pound of all manner Merchandize comming in or passing out of this Realme thrée Shillings of a Tunne of Wine for the tearme of thrée yeares to be holden And furthermore it was enacted that all Merchant strangers should be set to an English host within fiftéene dayes of their comming to their port sale and to make no sale of any Merchandize ere All Strangers to be lodged vvithin English hostes they were so lodged then within fortie dayes following to make sale of all they brought and if any remayned vnsold at the sayd fortie dayes end that then all such Merchandize vnsold to be forfeyted Also that all Strangers that caried any woolles out of this land should pay xliij shillings four pence for a sacke custome where the English Merchants and Denisons payde but fiue nobles c. After the marriage had bin solemnized betwéene the Duke of Glocester and Iaqueline Duches of Holland as is aforesayde The Duke of Glocester goeth into Holland within a moneth after the Duke of Glocester assembled an armie of twelue hundred fighting men at the least all Englishmen and taking the Duches with him in coÌ„panie
and she was conuicte of the sayde Articles then was it asked if she woulde saye anye thing agaynste the witnesses wherevnto she aunsweared nay but submitted hyr selfe The seauen and twentith daye of October she abiured the Articles and was adioyned to appeare again the ninth of Nouember In the meane time Thomas Southwel dyed in the Tower of London as himselfe had prophesied that hée shoulde neuer dye by Justice of the Law William Combis Richarde Riche the. 28. of September Sherifes Maior Elianor CobhaÌ„ did penaunce Robert Clopton Draper the. 28. of October The ninth of Nouember Dame Elianor appeared béefore the Archbishoppe and other in the sayde Chappel and receyued hyr penaunce which she perfourmed On Monday the. xiij of Nouember she came froÌ„ Westminster by water and landed at the Temple Bridge from whence with a taper of waxe of two pounde in hir hande she went throughe Fleetestreete hoodlesse saue a kerchefe to Paules where she offered hyr Taper at the high Aulter On y e Wednesday next she landed at y e Swan in Thamis stréete then went through Bridgestreet Grace Church Streete streight to Leaden Hall and so to Christ Church by Aldegate On Fryday she landed at Queene Hiue and so went through Cheape to Saint Michels in Cornehil in fourme aforesayd at all which times the Maior Sherifes and Craftes of London receyued hir and accompanyed hir This being done she was committed to the ward of sir Thomas Stanley wherein she remayned duryng hyr life in the castel of Chester hauing yerely an hundred marks assigned for hyr finding whose pride false couetise and lecherie were cause of hir confusion The xviij of NoueÌ„ber Roger Bolingbroke with sir Iohn Hum Priest and William Woodham Esquire was arraigned in the Guild Hall of London where the sayde Iohn and William had their Charters but Roger Bolingbroke was condemned had iudgemeÌ„t of sir Iohn Hody chief Justice of the Kings Bench and the same day he was drawen froÌ„ the Tower to Tiborne there hanged and quartered when y e said Roger shold suffer he said y t he was neuer guilty of any treason against the kings person but he hadde presumed too far in his cunning whereof he cryed God mercie and the Justice that gaue on him iudgemente liued not long after Henrie Beauchampe succéeded in hys fathers inheritaÌ„ce who being kept two yeares in the Kings hands was restored to al his liuings with greate glory for he was crowned King of Wight by the kyngs owne handes and nominated chiefe Earle of England A challenge was done in Smithfield within listes before 1442 A Combat in Smithfielde the King by the Lorde Beawfe of Aragon and Iohn Ansley Esquire of the Kings house whiche Ansley hadde the fielde and at the Kings hande was made Knight and the Anno. reg 21 Lord Aragon offered his harneis at Windsor In the moneth of August was a great fray in Fleetstreete betwéene the yong Studentes of the Innes of Courte and the inhabitauntes of the same stréete whiche Fray began in the night and so continued the assaultes and bickeryngs till the next day in whiche season muche people of the Cytie was thyther gathered and diuerse men on both partes slaine and many hurte but lastly by the presence of the Maior and Sherifes this Fray was appeased of whiche was chiefe occasioner one of Cliffords Inne named Herbotel Thomas Beaumount Richard Norden the 28. of Sept. Sherifes Maior Iohn Athirle Ironmonger the. 28. of October Iohn Beaufort Earle of Somerset was made Duke of Somerset and Lord Talbot Earle of Shrewesburie The stéeple of Waltham Holy Crosse in Essex was brente with lightning on Candlemasse day The Citizens of Norwiche rose against the Priour of 1443 Christes Churche wythin the same Citie and would haue fiered the priorie they kept the towne by strength againste the Duke of Norffolke and all his power wherefore the Kyng sente thyther the chiefe Judge Iohn Fortescue wyth the Earles of Stafforde and of Huntington who indicted many Citizens and the Priour also The Liberties of the Citie were seysed into the Kings hand and Sir Iohn Clifton made Captaine there and manye of the Citizens fledde ouer the seas c. Anno reg 22. Sherifes Maior Nicholas Wilforde Iohn Norman the. 28. of September Thomas Catworth Grocer the. 28. of October Iohn Earle of Huntington at Windsore was made Duke of Excester Iohn Beauforde Duke of Somerset deceased and was buryed at Wimborne The Earle of Stafforde was created Duke of Buckingham Henrie Beauchampe Earle of Warwicke Duke of Warwicke 1444 Cro. of â—ewx vnto whom the King gaue the Castell of Bristowe with all the appurtenances which King Iohn had kept in his haÌ„ds he gaue vnto him also the Isles of Garnsey and Iarnsey The Earle of Dorset was made Marques of Dorset and the Earle of Suffolke Marques of Suffolke King Henrie sent into Fraunce Ambassadours William de la Pole Marques of Suffolke Adam Molens Bishoppe of Chichester and kéeper of the priuie seale sir Roberte Roos and other to treat of a marriage betwéene King Henrie and Margaret the kings daughter of Scicil which was concluded in the Citie of Towres in Touraine Anno reg 13 Sherifes Maior Stephen Poster Hugh Wich the. 28. of September Henrie Frowike Mercer the 28. of October In the moneth of Nouember William de la Pole Marques of Suffolke with other went againe into Fraunce for to conduct the sayd Lady Margaret into England On Candlemasse euen in diuerse places of England was heard terrible thunders wyth lightning wherby the church of Baldoke in Hertfordshire the Churche of Walden in Essex diuerse other were sore shaken And the stéeple of Saint Pauls in London about two of the clocke in the after noone was set on fire in the middest of the shaft but by the labour of many well desposed people the same was quenched and no man perished The stéeple of Kingstone was likewise fiered by the same lightnings Ladie Margaret landing at Portchester went from thence 1445 by water to Hampton rested there in a place called Gods house from thence she went to the Abbay of Tychfielde and Quene Margaret crovvned was there wedded to King Henry y e xxij of April She was receyued at the Blackeheath by the Citizens of London ryding on horsebacke in blewe gownes with brodered sleues and red hoods the 28. of May and on the 30. of May she was crowned at Westminster hir badge was the Daysie With the fall of Kingstone steple one man was slaine Kingston steple fell An reg 24. Sherifes Maior Leaden hall in Lon. builded and many sore hurt Iohn Darby Godfrey Filding the 28. of September Simon Eyre draper the 28. of October This Simon Eyre builded the Leaden hall in London to be a store house for graine and fewell for the poore of the Citie also a beawtifull Chappel in the East end of y e same ouer the gate whereof he
caused to be written Dextera Domini A notable example exaltauit me that is to say The Lordes right hand hath exalted me Whereby he doing so notable a worke for the common weale also left example to other Citizens comming 1446 Cronicle of Thevvkesbury Iohn Rovvse Duke of vvarvvik King of vvight died after him whoÌ„ God likewise exalteth with such temporall blessings that they be not vnthankfull to God and their common weale wherein they haue receiued them Henrie Duke of Warwike chiefe Erle of England Lorde Spencer and Aburgaueny King of the Isle of Wight Garnsey and Iarnsey and Lord of the Castell of Bristow died without issue and was buried at Tewksburie Iohn Dauid appeached his master William Catur an Armorer CoÌ„bat betvven a master the seruaunt dwelling in S. Dunstones Parish in Fletestreete of treason and a day being assigned them to fight in Smithfield the maister being wel beloued was so cherished by his friends and plied with wine that being therewith ouercome was also vnluckily slaine by his seruaunt An. reg 25. Baylifes Custos Robert Horne Godfrey Boleine the 28. of September Iohn Olney Mercer the 28. of October Pope Eugenius sent a golden Rose to the King of England expressing the propertie and aplicatioÌ„ of the same with the ceremonie that is yéerely vsed on Palme Sonday touching Record Ecclesi Canta the same Rose exhorting the Kyng agaynste the Turkes Which Rose Lodouicus Cordona Doctor of Diuinitie did present to the King in S. Stephens Chappell at Westminster vpon S. Andrewes day in presence of the Dukes of Yorke Excester Cardinall Kempe Archbishop of Yorke Iohn Stafford Archbishop of Caunterburie Chauncellor of England The x. of Februarie beganne a Parliament at Saint Edmondesburie Parliament at Burie in Suffolke at which time al the wayes about the same Towne were kept with armed men both daye and night so that many dyed with colde and waking Humfrey The Duke of Glocester arested sone after dyed Duke of Glocester being at the castell of the Vies in Wilshire came from thence to the Parliament and was lodged in the Hospitall where shortly after he was arrested by Iohn Lord Beaumount high Constable the Duke of Buckingham the Duke of Somerset and other who appointed certaine of the Kings housholde to waite vpon him but on the. xxiiij 1447 day he died for sorrow as some said that he might not come to his aunswere he was buryed at Saint Albons xxxij of his principall seruauntes were arrested and sent to diuers prisons and fiue of them were arraigned at London and condemned v. â—â—n hanged after pardoned whose names were sir Roger Chamberlain knight Middleton Herbert Arteyse Esquiers and Richard Nedam gentleman which were al fiue drawne from the Towre of London to Tiborne and there hanged letten downe quicke stript naked marked with a knife for to be quartered and then a charter shewed for their liues but the yoman of the crowne had their liuelode and the hangman had their clothes Henry Beauford Cardinal of Winchester deceased after him W. Wainflete Prouost of Eaton was made Bishop of Winchester The v. of August died Iohn HollaÌ„d duke of Excester An. reg 16. was buried at S. Catherins nygh the Towre of London William Abraham Thomas Scot the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Iohn Gidney Draper the 28. of October This yéere during y â— peace betwéene England Fraunce â— knight of the English part named sir Frances Aragonoyse toke a towne named Fogars vpoÌ„ the borders of NormaÌ„die belonging 1448 to y â— duke of Britaine For the which he complained him to y â— French king he at y e said dukes request sent vnto y â— king of England to aske restitutioÌ„ of the harme The which messengers were answered of y e kings CouÌ„sell that y â— déede was right displeasant vnto y e king that sir Francis Aragon had enterprised y â— feate of his owne presumption WhervpoÌ„ it folowed shortly after that y e French by like policie toke y â— towne castle of Pountallarche after that many other so y â— the taking of y â— foresaid towne of Fogiars by y e English men An. reg 27. was y â— occasion by y e which the French after gat al NormaÌ„dy William Catlow William Marow the 28. of September Sherifes Maior 1449 Roane yeelde â— to the French Steuen Browne Grocer the 28. of October This yéere the FrenchmeÌ„ got many townes in NormaÌ„dy out of the possession of y e EnglishmeÌ„ Also y â— citie of Roane was yéelded to the French with condition that the Captaines garrisons might depart with armour goods not long after was rendered with the like coÌ„ditioÌ„ as of Roane the towns of Harflewe Hounflewe A knight of France called sir Lewes de Breyll challenged an Esquier of England named Ralph Chalons of certaine feates of Warre the which to proue a day to them was giuen to méete at a towne in France named Maunce where y â— French king at that day was present But Chalons canne the French knight through the body with his An. reg 28. speare whereof the said Lewes dyed William Hulin Thomas Cannings the 28. of September Sherifes Maior B. of Chichester murdered Thomas Chalton Mercer the 28. of October The 9. of Januarie AdaÌ„ Molins Bishop of Chichester kéeper of the kings priuie seale through y â— procurement of Richard duke of Yorke was by shipmen slaine at Portesmouth The 9. of Februarie Thomas Thany otherwise Blewberd Blevvberd hanged 1450 a Fuller was taken beside Caunterburie for raising a rebellion who was hanged and quartered WilliaÌ„ Delapole duke of Suffolke was banished y e land for v. Duke of Suffolk murdered yéeres to appease y e rumor of y e coÌ„mons of England who taking ship at Ipswich the 3. of May sailed toward Fraunce but was mette on the sea by a ship of warre named Nicholas â—â— the Towre and beheaded and his corps was cast vp at Douer and buried in the Charter house at Hull This William de la pole Duke of Suffolke and Alice his wife daughter to Thomas Chawcer sonne to Geffrey Chawcer the famous Poet translated and increased the manner place of Eweline in Oxfordshire they builded a newe the parishe Churche of Gods house at nevv Evveline in Oxfordshire Eweline a comely péece of worke standing on a hyll and also hard adioyning to the West end of Eweline parishe Church they founded a pretie Hospitall or almes house for ij priests â—iber fundationis and xiij poore men to dwell and be sustained in for euer one of the priestes to be maister of the almes house the other priest a scholemaster fréely to teache the children of the tenaunts of the sayd Lordship of Eweline and other Lordships pertaining to the said almes house their GraÌ„mer eyther of those ij priests to haue x. pound the yeare One of
to fall hereafter in your sayde Realme which God defende but if by your highnesse prouision couenable be made for due reformation and punishment in this behalfe Wherfore I your humble subiect true leigeman Richard Duke of Yorke willing as effectuallye as I can and desiring the suretie and prosperitye of your moste royall person and the welfare of thys your noble Realme counsell and aduertise your excellency for the conuersation of good tranquility and peaceable rule among all other subiectes for to ordain and prouide that true iustice be had against all such that so bée endited or openly named wherin I offer my selfe and wil put my endeuour for to execute youre commaundemente in the premisses for the punishing of suche offendours and redresse of the sayde misrules to my might and power And for the hastie execution hereof like it your highnesse to addresse these letters of priuie seale and writs to your officers and ministers to doe take and arrest all suche persons so noysed and endited of what estate degrée or condition soeuer they be and them to committe to the Tower of London and to other of your prisons there to abyde without Bayle or mayne prise vntil the tyme they be vtterly tryed and determined termined after the course of your lawes COosin as touching your Bill last put vp to vs we vnderstande Aunsvvere of K. Henrie to the Duke of Yorke well that yée of good harte counsayle and aduertice vs to y â— setting vp of Justice and to the spéedy punishing of some persons endited or noysed offering your seruise to bée readie at commaundemente in the same sithe it is that for manye causes mouing vs to haue determyned in our soule to stablishe a sadde and a substancial counsell giuing them more ample aucthoritie and power than euer we did afore this in the whiche we haue appointed you to be one but sithe it is not accustomed sure nor expedient to take a conclusion and conduct by aduise or counsell of one Person by hymselfe for the conseruation it is obserued that the greatest and the beste the riche and the poore in libertye Uertue and effect of your voyces be equall we haue therefore determyned wythin our selfe to sende for our Chauncellour of England and for other Lords of our Counsel yea and al other togither within short time ripelye to common these and other our greate matters in the whiche communication suche conclusion by the grace of God shal be takeÌ„ as shal sound to his pleasure the Weale of vs and our land as well in these matters as in any other At length it was agréed by the King that the Duke of Somerset shoulde be committed to warde there to abyde and answere suche Articles as the Duke of Yorke would laye against him vpon which promises so made by the Kyng to the Duke who sawe that the people of Kent and of other places came not to him as they had promised and that they were not strong ynough for the Kings part was much more than his he brake vp his fielde on the first of Marche and yéelded himselfe to the King at Dertforde where contrarie to promise before made he founde the Duke of Somerset chiefe about the King Then was the Duke of Yorke sent before to London and holden partly as prisoner and streighter shoulde haue bene kepte but it was noysed that sir Edward Earle of March sonne to the sayde Duke of Yorke was comming towarde London with a strong power of Welchmen whych feared so the Quéene and Counsell that the Duke was set at full libertie And on the tenth of March the saide Richarde Duke of Yorke made his submission and toke hys othe to be true faythfull and obedient subiect to King Henrie the sixth King of England in Saint Paules Church at London there being present the King and most of his nobilitye that is to saye the Dukes of Buckingham Northampton and Somerset the Earles of Warwicke Arundale Salisburie Shropshire Deuonshire Wiltshire Northumberlande Stafford and Dorset viconnts of Beaumount and Welles Barons Fitz Warren Sainmounde Cobham Douglas and others Bishoppes the Cardinall Archbyshoppe of Yorke and Canterburie Winchester Ely and London in these wordes following I Richard Duke of Yorke confesse and beknowe that I am and oughte to bée humble subiecte and liegeman to you my soueraigne Lorde King Henrie the sixth and owe therefore to beare you Fayth and trueth as to my soueraigne liege Lorde and shall doe all dayes vnto my liues ende shall not at any time wyll or assente that any thing attempted or done againste your moste noble person but where so euer I shall haue knowledge of anye suche thing imagined or purposed I shall with all spéede and diligence possible to mée make that youre hyghenesse shall haue knowledge thereof And ouer that doe all that shall be possible to me to the withstanding and lette thereof to the vttermoste of my lyfe I shall not anye thing take vppon me agaynste youre royall estate or obeysaunce that is due thereto nor suffer anye other man to doe as farre forthe as it shal be in my power to let it And also shall come at youre commaundemente whensoeuer I shall be called by the same in humble and obeysaunte wise but if it be letted by any sicknesse of impotence of my person or by such other cause as shal bée thoughte by you my soueraigne LORD reasonable I shall neuer hereafter take vpon me to gather any rowâ—e nor to make any assembly of your people without your coÌ„maundement or licence or in my lawfull defence in interpretation or declaration of the which my lawfull defence I shall reporte me at all times to your highnesse and if the case require to my péeres nor any thing attempt againste any of your subiects of what estate degrée or condition y e they be But when soeuer I finde my selfe wronged and agréeued I shal sue humblye for remedie to your highnesse and procéede after the course of your lawes and in none otherwise sauing in mine owne lawfull defence in manner aboue saide and otherwise haue to your highnesse as an huÌ„ble and true subiecte oughte to haue him to his soueraigne Lorde All these things aboue sayde I promise you truely to obserue and kéepe by the holy Euangelistes contayned in the booke that I laye my hande here vpon and by the holye Crosse I here touch and by the blessed Sacrament of oure Lordes bodye that I shall nowe with hys mercye receiue And ouer I agrée me and wil that if I any tyme hereafter as by the grace of our Lord God I neuer shall any thing attempt by waye of feate or otherwyse againste your royall Maiestie and obeysaunce that I owe thereto or any thyng take vppon me otherwise than is aboue expressed I from that tyme forth be vnabled helde and taken as an vntrue and openly foresworne man and vnable to all manner of worship estate and degrée be it such as I now occupye or any other that
of the same Indenture And not apply your sayde blessednesse ne the great righteousnesse and equitie wherewith God hath euer endued your high nobilitie to y e importune impacience and violence of such persons as intende of extreme malice to procéede vnder the shadowe of your high might and presence to our destructioÌ„ for suche inordinate couetise wherof God is not pleased as they haue to our Landes Offices and goods not letting or sparing therefore to put suche things in all lamentable and too sorrowfull ieoperdie as might in all wyse take effecte by the mysterie of Gods will and power nor not hauing regarde to the effusion of Christian bloud ne any tendernesse to the noble bloud of this Land such as serue to the tuition and defence thereof ne not waying the losse of your true liege men of your saydo Realme that God defend which knoweth our intent and that wée haue auoyded there from as farre as we may with our suerties not of any dreade that wée haue of the sayde persons but onely of the dreade of God of your said highnesse and will not vse our sayde defence vntil the time that wée be prouoked of necessitie whereof wée call heauen and earth vnto witnesse and recorde and therein beséeche God to be our Judge and to delyuer vs according to our sayde intent and our sayde trueth and duetie to your said highnesse and to the sayde Common Weale Most Christian King right high and mightie Prince and most dread Soueraigne Lorde wée beséeche our blessed Lorde to preserue your honour and estate in ioye and felicitie Written at Ludlowe the. x. day of October R. Yorke R. Warwike R. Salisburie After their excusation contayned in this letter sent to the King they withdrewe them and went into diuers partes beyond the Seas for the more suertie of their persons The Duke of Yorke went into Ireland where he was honorably receyued the Earle of Marche Salisburie and Warwike not without great ieoperdie and perill as well on the lande as on the sea went to Calleis and abode there Then was a Parliament holden at Couentrie wherein Parliament at Couentrie were attaint of treason Richard duke of Yorke Edward Erle of Marche his sonne and heire Richard Earle of Warwike Edmond Earle of Rutlande Richard Earle of Salisburie Iohn Duke of Yorke other attaint Lorde Clifford Lorde Clinton sir Thomas Harington sir Iohn Wenlocke Thomas Neuill Iohn Neuill sonnes of the Earle of Salisburie Iames Pickering Iohn Conyers Thomas Par William Oldhall and Henrie Ratforde Knightes Iohn Bowser Thomas Cooke Iohn Clay Richard Gyton Robert Browne Edward Bowser Thomas Vaughan Iohn Roger Richard Grey Walter Deuorux Walter Hopton Roger Kynderton William Bowes Foulke Stafforde the Lorde Powys and Alice Countesse of Salisburie their goods and possessions escheted and their heires disherited vnto the 9. degrée their tenauntes spoyled of their goods bemaymed Ludlovv spoyled and slayne the towne of Ludlowe longing to the Duke of Yorke was robbed to the bare walles and the Dutches of Yorke spoyled of hir goods The Earle of Warwike hauing a great Nauie kepte the Earle of VVarvvike fought vvith the Spaâ—â—â— ardes narrow seas and sought with the Spanyards kylled many of them tooke their great vessels with one Carrake of Iene and got in them great riches Iohn Plummer Iohn Stocker the 28. of September Sherifes Maior William Hulin Fishmonger the 28. of October In this moneth of October Henrie the yong duke of Somerset Henry Lorde Roos and Lorde Audley with men of Armes sailed toward Calleis to the intent the Duke shoulde haue bene Captaine there but when he came to lande they Duke of Somerset fled to Gvvynes The Lord Audley taken into Calleis The lord Roos fled into Flaunders of Calleis would haue taken him so that he hardly escaped to the Castle of Gwines his souldiors were stripped out of their harnesse and let go The Lord Audley was taken into Calleis and the Lord Roos fled into Flaunders and after returned into England Not long after Richard Lord Riuers was sent to SaÌ„dwich to kéepe the towne and certaine great ships which lay there at Anker but when the Earle of Warwike sawe time conuenient The Lord Riuers and the Lord VVoodvile by force caried from Sandvvicke he sent some of his men to Sandwich by night y e which tooke the Lorde Riuers and Antonie Wooduile his sonne in their beds led them ouer to Calleis with al the great ships saue one called Grace de Dieu the which might not be had away bicause she was broke in the bottome Sir Baudwyne Fulford vndertooke on paine of loosing his head y t he woulde 1460 Sir Baudvvin Fulford his enterprise destroy y t Earle of Warwike but when he had spent y e King a thousand markes in money he returned againe Then was the Duke of Excester Admirall sent to the sea with a great The Duke of Excester sent to the Seas Nauie for to distresse the Earle of Warwike and his Nauie he sailing from Sandwiche to Dertmouth for lacke of victuals and money his Souldiours forsoke him there And betwéene Sandwiche and Dertmouth he met the Earle of Warwike comming out of Ireland that had bin there for to speake with the Duke of Yorke and brought with him his mother that was sled thither for dread and led hir to Calleis but the Duke of Excester durst not set vppon the Earle of Warwike nor the Earle woulde not distresse him because he was Admirall and of the Kings bloud but let him passe by In y e moneth of June 500. men were sent to conduct the duke of Somerset froÌ„ Gwynes into England but abiding y e wind in y e port of Sandwich y e Earle of Warwikes men spoyled them of their harnes killed their captain MouÌ„ford many other The Earles at Calleis sent to the Archbishop of Caunterburie Captaine MouÌ„t sort slaine and at large to the commons of England certaine Articles in writing beginning thus Worshipful sirs we the Duke of Articles sent froÌ„ the Duke of Yorke and the Barles to the Archbishop of Caunterburie and to the commons Yorke the Earles of March Warwike and Salisburie sewed offered to haue come vnto the King our Soueraigne Lords most noble presence to haue declared there asore him for our dutie to God to his highnesse to the prosperitie and welfare of his noble estate and to the Common Weale of all his Lande as true liege men the matters following that is to say In primis the great oppression extortion robberie murther and other violences done to Gods Church and to his ministers thereof against Gods and mans law 2 Item the pouertie miserie that to our great heauinesse our Soueraigne Lord staÌ„deth in not hauing any liuelode of the Crowne of England whereof he may kéepe his honorable housholde which causeth the spoyling of his sayde liege men by the takers of his sayde housholde which lyuelode is
owne table to the Lord Riuers praying him to be of good cheare all should be well ynough And he thanked the Duke and prayed the messenger to beare it to his nephew the Lord Richard with the same message for hys comforte as one to whome such aduersitie was strāge but himselfe had bin all his dayes in vre therewith therfore could beare it the better But for all this cōfortable curtesie of the Duke of Glocester he sent the Lord Riuers the The death of the L. Riuers and others Lord Richarde with sir Thomas Vaughan into the Northe Countrey into diuerse places to prison and afterwarde all to Pomfraite where they were in conclusion beheaded In this wise the Duke of Glocester toke vppon hymselfe the order and gouernaunce of the yong King whom with muche honoure and humble reuerence hée conueyed vpward toward the Citie But anone the tydings of this matter came hastily to the Quéene a little before the midnighte following and that in the sorest wise that the King hir son was taken hir brother hir sonne and other friends arrested and sente no man wist whether to bée done with God wot what With which tydings the Quéene in great flight and heauinesse bewayling hir childes raigne hir friendes mischaunce and hir owne infortune damning the time that euer she disswaded the gathering of power aboute the Kyng gatte hyr selfe in all the haste possible wyth hir yōger Sonne and hyr daughters out of the Pallaice of Westminster in whiche she then laye into the Sanctuarie The Qu. taketh Sanctuarie lodging hyr selfe and hyr companye there in the Abbots place Now came there one likewise not long after midnighte from the Lorde Chamberlayne vnto the Archbishoppe of Yorke then Chancellour of Englande to his place not far frō Westminster And for that he shewed his seruauntes that hée had tydings of so great importaunce that hys maister gaue him in charge not to forbeare his reste they letted not to wake him nor he to admitte this messenger into his bedde side Of whome he hearde that these Dukes were gone backe wyth the Kings grace from Stonie Stratforde vnto Northampton Notwythstanding Syr quoth he my Lorde sendeth your Lordshippe worde that there is no feare for he assureth you that all shall be well I assure him quoth the Archebishoppe be it as well as it will it wyll neuer be so well as we haue séene it And therevpon by and by after the messenger departed he caused in all the haste all his sernauntes to be called vp and so with his owne housholde about him and euerye man weaponed he tooke the greate seale with him and came yet before daye vnto the Quéene About whom he founde much heauinesse rumble hast and businesse cariage and conueyaunce of hyr stuffe into Sanctuarie chestes coffers packes fardels trussed all on mens backes no man vnoccupied some lading some going some discharging some comming for more some breaking down the walles to bring in the next way and some yet drewe to them to helpe to carry a wrong way The Quéene hir selfe sate alone alowe on the rushes al desolate and dismayde whome the Archebishoppe comforted in the beste manner he coulde shewing hir that he trusted the matter was nothing so sore as she toke it for and that he was putte in good hope and out of feare by y e message sent him from the Lord Chamberlaine Ah wo worth hym quoth she for he is one of them that laboureth to destroye me and my bloud Madam quoth he be yée of good chéere for I assure you if they Crowne any other King than your son whom they nowe haue with them we shall on the morrowe Crowne hys brother whom you haue here with you And here is the greate seale whyche in likewise as that noble Prince your husbande deliuered it vnto me so héere I deliuer it vnto you to the vse and behoofe of your sonne and therewith he betooke hir the greate seale and departed home againe yet in the dawning of the daye By whiche time he mighte in his chamber windowe sée all the Thamis full of boates of the Duke of Glocesters seruauntes watching that no man shoulde go to Sanctuarie nor none could passe vnsearched Then was there great commotion and murmur as well in other places about as specially in the Citie the people diuersly diuining vpō this deling And some Lords Knightes and Gentlemen eyther for fauour of the Quéen or for feare of themselues assembled in sundry companies and wente flockmeale in harneys and manye also for that they reckoned thys demeanour attempted not so speciallye against the other Lords as against the King himselfe in the disturbaunce of his Coronation But then by and by the Lordes assembled togither towarde whiche méeting the Archbishoppe of Yorke fearing that it woulde be ascribed as it was indéede to his ouermuch lightnesse that he so suddainely hadde yéelded vppe the greate seale to the Quéene to whom the custodie thereof nothing perteyned wythout speciall commaundement of the King secretely sent for the seale againe and brought it with him after the customable manner And at this méeting the Lorde Hasting whose trouth toward y e king no man doubted nor néeded to doubt perswaded the Lordes to beléeue that the Duke of Glocester was sure and fastly faithfull to his Prince that the Lord Riuers and Lorde Richarde with the other Knightes were for matters attempted by them against the Dukes of Glocester and Buckingham put vnder arest for their suretie not for the Kings ieopardie and that they were also in safegarde and there no longer shoulde remayne than till the matter were not by the Dukes onely but also by all the other Lords of y e Kings counsayle indifferently examyned by other discretions ordered and eyther iudged or appeased But one thing he aduised them beware that they iudged not the matter too farre forth ere they knew the trueth nor turning theyr priuate grudges into the common hurte yrking and prouoking men vnto anger and disturbing the Kings coronation toward which the Dukes were cōming vp that they might peraduenture bring the matter so farre out of ioynte that it shoulde neuer be broughte in frame againe Whiche strife if it should happe as it were lykely to come to a fielde though both parties were in all things equal yet shoulde the aucthoritie be on that side where the King is himselfe With these perswasions of the Lord Hastings whereof part himselfe beleeued of parte he wist the contrarie these commotions were somwhat appeased but specially by that that the Dukes of Glocester and Buckinghā wer so néere and came so shortly on with the king in none other manner with none other voyce or semblance than to his coronation causing the fame to be blowen about that these Lords and Knights which were taken had contriued the destruction of the dukes of Glocester and Buckingham and of other the noble bloud of the Realme to the end that thēselues would alone demeane
and gouern the King at their pleasure And for the coulourable proofe therof such of the Dukes seruauntes as rode with the cartes of their stuffe that were taken among which stuffe no maruel thoughe some were harneys which at the breaking vppe of the housholde must néedes eyther be brought awaye or cast away they shewed vnto the people all the wayes as they went loe héere be the â—â—rels of harneys that these Traytours hadde priuilye conueyed in theyr carriage to destroy the noble LORDES withal This deuise albeit that it made the matter to wise men more vnlikely well perceyuing that the intendours of such a purpose would rather haue hadde theyr harneys on their backes than to haue bound them vppe in barrels yet much part of the commoÌ„ people were therwith very wel satisfied and sayd it were almoyse to hang them When the King approched néere to the Citie Edmonde Shaa Goldsmith then Maior with William White Iohn Matthew Sherifes and al the other Aldermen in Scarlet with fiue hundered Horsse of the Citizens in violet receyued him reuerently at Harnesey and ryding from thence accompanyed The Kings coÌ„ming to LondoÌ„ him into the Citie whiche he entred the fourth daye of Maye the first and laste yeare of his raigne But the Duke of Gloucester bare hym in open sight so reuerently to the Prince with all semblaunce of lowlinesse that from the great obloquie in which he was so late before he was sodainly fallen in so gret trust y e at the counsel next asseÌ„bled he was made the only maÌ„ chose and thought most méete to be Protector of y e King and hys Realme so that The protectour made were it destenie or were it follie the Lambe was betaken to the Woolfe to kéepe At whych Counsayle also the Archbyshop of Yorke Chauncelor of Englande whyche hadde delyuered vppe the greate Seale to the Quéene was thereof greately reprooued and the Seale taken from hym and delyuered to Doctor Russell Byshoppe of Lincolne a wise The Bishop of Lincolne made Lord Chauncellour man and a good and of muche experience and one of the beste learned menne vndoubtedly that Englande had in hys time Dyuers Lordes and Knightes were appointed vnto dyuers roumes The Lorde Chamberlaine and some other kepte still theyr offices that they had before Nowe all were it so that that the Protector so sore thirsted for the finishing of that he had begunne that thought euery daye a yeare till it were atchéeued yet durste hée no further attempte as long as he had but halfe hys pray in his hande well witting that if he deposed the one brother all the Realme woulde fall to the other if hée either remaynèd in Sanctuarie or shoulde happily be shortelye conueyed to hys fathers libertie Wherfore incontinent at the nexte méeting of the Lordes at the Counsaile he proposed vnto them that it was a hainous déede of the Quéen The protectours oration and procéeding of greate malice towarde the Kyngs Counsailours that she shoulde kéepe in Sanctuarie the Kings brother from hym whose speciall pleasure and comforte were to haue his brother with hym And that by hir done to none other intente but to bring all the Lordes in obloquie and murmure of the people As thoughe they were not to be trusted with the Kings brother that by the assente of the Nobles of the lande were appointed as the Kings nearest friendes to the tuition of hys owne royall person The prosperitie whereof standeth quoth he not all in kéeping from enimies or ill vyande but partly also in recreation and moderate pleasure whiche he cannot in hys tenuer youth take in the companye of auncient persons but in the familiar conuersation of those that be neither far vnder nor farre aboue his age and naythelesse of estate conuenient to accompanye hys noble Maiestie wherefore with whome rather than wyth hys owne brother And if anye man thinke this consideration whyche I thinke no manne thinketh that loueth the King let him consider that sometyme wythout small things greater cannot stande And verilye it redoundeth greatlye to the dishonour both of the Kings hyghnesse and of all vs that bene aboute his grace to haue it runne in euerye mans mouth not in this realme only but also in other lands as euil words walke far y e the kings brother shold be fain to kepe SaÌ„ctuary For euery maÌ„ wil wéene y e no maÌ„ wil so do for nought And such euil opinioÌ„ once fastned in mens hearts hard it is to wraste out may grow to more grief thaÌ„ any maÌ„ can here deuine Wherfore me thinketh it were not worst to send vnto y â— Q. for the redresse of this matter some honorable trustie man suche as both tendereth the Kyngs weale and the honoure of hys counsayle and is also in fauour and credence wyth hyr For all which considerations none séemeth me more méetely than our reuerende Father héere present my Lord Cardinall who maye in this matter doe most good of any man if it please him to take the payne which I doubt not of hys goodnesse he will not refuse for the Kings sake and ours and wealth of the yong Duke himself the kings most honorable brother and after my soueraigne Lord himselfe my most déere nephew considered that thereby shal be ceassed the slaunderous rumor and obloquie nowe going and the hurtes auâ—yded that thereof mighte ensue and muche reste and quiet growe to all the Realme And if she be percase so obstinate and so precisely set vpon hir own wil that neyther his wise and faithful aduertisement can not moue hir nor anye mannes reason contente hir then shall we by mine aduise by the Kings authoritie fetche him out of that prison and bring hym to hys noble presence in whose continuall companye he shall be so well chéerished and so honorablye intreated that al the world shal to our honor and hir reproche perceyue that it was onely malice frowardenesse or follie that caused hir to kéepe him there this is my minde in this matter for this time except any of your Lordshippes any thing perceiue to the contrarie for neuer shall I by Gods grace so wedde my selfe to mine owne wil but that I shal be readie to change it vpon your better aduises When the Protectoure hadde sayde all the Counsayle affirmed that the motion was good and reasonable and to the King and the Duke his brother honorable and a thing that should cease greate murmure in the Realme if the mother mighte be by good meanes enduced to deliuer him Which thing the Archbishop of Yorke whom they all agréed also to be thereto most conuenient tooke vpon him to moue hir and therin to doe his vttermost deuoire Howbeit if she coulde be in no wise intreated with hyr good will to deliuer him then thought he and such other as were of the Spiritualtie present that it were not in any wise to be attempted to take him out against hir wil. For it would be
at sixe pence the bushell Anno reg 10 Bay Salte for thrée pence halfe peny the Bushell Naâ—â—wiche Salte was solde for syxe pence the Bushell white hearring nine shillings the barrel red hearring at thrée shillings the cade red sprots sixe pence the cade and Gascoine wine for sixe poundes the tunne Nicholas Alwine Iohn Warner the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Richarde Chawry Salter the 28. of October Sir Robert Clifford bearing fauor to the house of Yorke had long since sayled ouer to the Lady Margaret Dutchesse of Burgoigne by whome he was there persuaded and broughte in beliefe that one Perken Werbecke a Fleming born was the verye sonne of King Edwarde the fourth but afterwarde béeyng sente for by King Henry and pardon promised him he returned into Englande and comming to the Kings presence in the Tower of London hée on hys knées moste humblye crâ—â—ed pardon which shortely he obtained and after accused manye amongest whome he accused sir William Stanley whome the Kyng hadde made his chiefe Chamberlaine and one of hys priuie Counsaile The reporte is that this was hys offence When communication was had betwéene him and Sir Robert Clifforde as concerning Perken Werbecke sir William Stanley affirmed there y â— he would neuer fight nor beare armor agaynst the yong man if he knowe of a trueth that he was the vndoubted sonne of King Edward the fourth For this offence sir William Stanly was apprehended araigned and on the xvj day of February beheaded on the Tower hill This sir William Stanley was the chiefest helper of King Henrye to the Crowne at Bosworth fielde againste King Richard the thirde He was a man of greate power in his Country and also of great wealth insomuch as the coÌ„mon fame ran that there was in hys Castell of Holâ—e founde in readye coyne plate and Jewels to the value of fortie thousand markes or more and his lande and fées extended to thrée thousand poundes by yeare In Lent white hearring being good were sold for iij. â— 1495 iiij â— the barrell at London Sir W Capel AldermaÌ„ of London was condemned to the king in xxvij C. and xliij pound sterling Croniclâ— of Lond. for the breaking of certain statuts made before times for the which he made his end with the King for xvj C. and fiftéene pounde sixe shillings eight pence Pierce or Perken Werbecke which by the counsaile of Margaret Dutches of Burgoigne named himselfe Richarde of Yorke King Edwards seconde sonne arriued at Deale in KeÌ„t the thirde daye of July where when he and his companye sawe they coulde haue no comforte of the Countrey they withdrewe to their shippes againe at which so withdrawyng the Mayor of Sandwich with certaine commons of the countrey bickered with the residue that were vpon land toke aliue of them an hundred thrée score and nine persons among the which were fiue captaines Mountford Corbert Anno reg 11 Whitbelt Quintine and Gemâ—â—e And the xij of July Iohn Peche Esquier Shriue of Kent brought vnto London bridge thosâ— 169. prisoners where the Shriues of London receiued them and conueyed them in cartes and long ropes vnto the Tower of London and to Newgate who were shortly after to the number of 150. hanged in Kent Essex Sussex and Norfolk the residue were executed at Tiburne Wapping in the Wose besides London Thomas Kneisworth Henry Sommer the. 28. of Septemb. Sherifes Maior Sir Henry Colet Mercer the. 28. of October The. xvj of Nouember was holden the Serieants feast at the Bishops place of Ely in Holborne where dined the King Quéene and all the chiefe lordes of England The new Serieants names were maister Mordant Higham Kingsmill Conisby Butler Yakesley Frowicke Oxenbridge and Constable In digging for to lay a new foundation in the Church of S. Mary hill in London the body of Alice Hackeney which had bene buried in the Church the space of 175. yeares was â—â—â—ud whole of skinne and the iointes of her armes pliable whiche corps was kepte aboue grounde foure dayes without anoyance and then buryed againe In Aprill was concluded an amitie and entrecourse betwéene this lande and the Countrey of Flaunders c. In September the Scots entred England by the setting on of Perkin Werbecke and did much harme to the borders but when they hearde of the Lorde Neuels commyng against them they sped them away Iohn Shawe Richard Haddon the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Iohn Tate Mercer the 28. of October This Iohn Tate newly builded and enlarged Sainte Anthonies Churche in London a goodly foundation with a Fréesâ—hoole and certaine almes houses for poore men Iasper Duke of Bedforde vncle to King Henry the seauenth dyed the eightéenth daye of December and was buried at Kensham By meanes of a payment that was granted to the king 1497 a new commotion was made by the commons of Cornewal whiche vnder the leading of Iames Tuchet of Audley Lorde Audley with Michaell Ioseph a horse farrer or Blacksmith of Bodman and other came to Blackeheath where the Kyng met with them and discomfited the rebels and tooke their Captains the two and twentith of June where were slain of the rebels about 300. and taken aboute 1500. the Kyng gaue to them that tooke them their goodes The Lord Audley was beheaded on the Tower hill the xxviij of June The blacke Smith and Flamoke a lawyer were hanged headed and quartered at Tiburne In July the King sente an army into Scotland vnder the guyding of the Earle of Surrey and the Lorde Neuell which made sharpe warre vppon the Scots At Bartholmewtide in Bedfordshire at the Towne of Haile stones hightene ynches aboute Saint Needes fell haile stones that were measured eightéene ynches aboute Perkin or Pierce Werbecke landed at Whitsondbay in Anno reg 13 Cornewall the seauenth of September hauing in his company not paste a hundred and twentie persons hée wente to Bodman where beyng accompanyed wyth a thrée or foure thousand rascalles and almoste naked men he proclaymed himselfe King Richarde the fourth second sonne to Edward the fourth from thence he wente to Excester and besieged it which Citie was valiantly defended by the inhabitants the Earle of Deuonshire being their Generall who hymself was hurt in the arme with an arrow of the rebels but many of the rebelles béeyng slaine they wythdrewe them to Taunton but sir Giles Dawbeney Lorde Chamberlaine approching with an armye the people fledde and Perkin got him to Beudley where he tooke Sanctuary but vppon couenauntes offered he came to the King and was pardoned his life Bartholomewe Rede Thomas Windought 28. of Sep. Sherifes Maior William Purchas Mercer the 28. of October The eight and twentith of Nouember Perkin Werbeck Perkin VVerbecke broughte vp to London was conueyed vppon horse backe through Cheape and Cornhill vnto the Tower of London and from thence back againe through Candleweeke streate to Westminster with many a cursse and muche wondering The one and twentith
familie of Franciscane Friers which are called conuentuals at Canterbury Newcastell and Southhampton This noble Prince King Henry dyed at Richmond the Smart Henry the vij deceassed â—â—ij of Aprill when he had reigned thrée and twenty yeares and eyght monethes and was buryed at Westminster in the 〈◊〉 Chappell which he had caused to be builded on the eleuenth of May. He left issue Henry Prince of Wales which succéeded in the Kingdome Lady Margaret Quéene of Scottes and Lady Mary promised to Charles King of Castile The Altare and Sepulture of the same King Henry the Sepulture of Henry the seauenth seuenth wherein he now resteth in his new Chappell at Westminster was made and finished in the yeare of ours Lorde 1519. by one Peter T. a Paynter of the Citie of Florence for the which he receyued one thousande pounde sterling for the whole stuâ—â—e and workemaÌ„ship at the hands of the Kings exequetors Richard Bishop of Winchester Richard Exequetors to Henry the seauenth Fitz Iames Bishop of London Thomas Bishop of Duresme Iohn Bishop of Rochester Thomas Duke of Norffolke Treasurer of Englande Edwarde Earle of Worcester the Kings Chamberlayne Iohn F. Knighte chiefe Justice of the Kings Benche Robert R. Knight chiefe Justice of the Common Place c. King Henry the eyght HEnry the eyght at the age Anno. reg 1. of eyghtéene yeares begaÌ„ his raigne the xxij of Aprill Anno. 15â—9 Of personage he was tall and mighty in witte and memorie excellent of suche maiestie with humanitie as was comely in such a Prince The The King married The King and Queene crovvned third of June he marryed Lady Katherine his first wife who had bin late the wife of Prince Arthur deceassed The sixth of June Iohn Darby â—owyer Iohn Smith Carpenter Iohn Sâ—mpson â—ulleâ—â—â—ingleaders of false â—nesâ—es in London râ—de about the Citie with their faces to the Horsse taytes and papers on their heads and were set â—â— the Pillorie in Corâ—ehill and after brought agayne to â—awgate where they dyed all within seauen dayes after for very shame On Midsomer day the King and Quéene were crowned â—â— Westminster The nine and twentith of June the most noble and verrtuous Princesse Margaret Countesse of Richmond â— Darbye mother to King Henry the seauenth and Grandmother to King Henry the eyght dyed at Westminster whose noble Actes and most charitable déedes all hir life executed can not be expressed in a small volume The seuentéenth of July Edmond Dudley was arraigned at the Guild Hall of London and after Michaelmas Sir Richard Empson was arraigned and condemned at Northhampton and sent agayne to the Tower of London George Monex Iohn Doget Mer Taylor the 28. of Sept. Sherifes Thomas Bradbury Mercer the 28. of October Sir William Capell Draper the 12 of Ianuary Maiors The one and twentith of January began a Parliament at Westminster In February was a great fire in Thames streete néere vnto Wooll Key which began in a Flaxe wiues house and did much harine The xx of Aprill a peace was proclaymed betwixte England and France during the â—â—ues of Henry the eyght King of England and Lewes the French King but it lasted not loâ—â— Doctor Colet Deane of Paules erected a frée Schoole in 1510 Paules Church yard in London and committed the ouersight thereof to the Mayster and Wardens of the Mercers Paules Schoole Anno. reg 2. bycause himselfe was â—oâ—â—e in London and was sonne to Henry Colet Mercer sometime Maior of London On Midsomer â—ighâ— the King came peâ—â—â—ly into Cheape in one of the â—oates of his 〈◊〉 and on Saint Peters night the King and Quéene came riding royally to the Kings head in Cheape there to behold the watch of the Citie oâ— Sir Richard Empson Knight and Edmond Dudley â—â—â—uier Empson and Dudley beheaded Edward Hall who had bin grâ—â—â—â— Câ—â—â—â—ay 〈◊〉 â—â— the late Kyng Henry the seauenth were beheaded at the Tower hill the seauenth of August Richarde Empson was buryed at the White Friers and Edmonde Dudley at the Blacke whose attachemeâ—â—â—â— was thoughte â—◠〈◊〉 procured by the malice of the 〈◊〉 â—hâ—â—wytâ— they 〈◊〉 â—â—â—e were offended or else to shift the noyse of the streight execution of penall Statutes in the late Kings dayes This Edmond Dudley in the tyme of his emprisonmeÌ„t in the Tower of London compiled one notable Booke whiche he entituled The Tree of common wealth a coppye whereof The tree of common vvelth a Booke I haue giuen to the right honourable Earle of Leycester now liuing The xxâ— of September William Fitz Williams MerchaÌ„t Election of a Sheriffe Taylor was agayne the seconde time chosen Sheriffe for the yeare following whereof the sayde William hauyng knowledge absented himselfe and woulde not be founde wherevpon the time drawing néere that presentation must be made of the newe Sheriffes they in a full Court of the Maior and Aldermen with assent of the common Counsayle being present in solemne and due forme caused him to be thrice called and commanded to appeare vpon payne that should fall thereof but he would in no wise appeare nor any other for him wherefore in auoyding the ieoperdie of forfeyture of their liberties if they should not prepare an hable man of themselues to be Sheriffe with that other which the Maior yéerely chooseth they called a new assemble of the commons and then chose Iohn Rest Alderman Nevv election of a Sheriffe and Grocer for the other Sheriffe the whiche with Iohn Milborne his fellow before chosen by the Maior was presented before the Barons of the Kings Exchequer and there admitted and shortly after for so much as the sayde William Fitz William would not submit himselfe to the authoritie of the Citie he was disfranchised and dismissed of VVilliam Fitz VVilliams disfranchised his Aldermanship and â—ined at a thousand Markes to bée leâ—yed of hys goodes and Cattayles within the Citie Iohn Milborne Iohn Rest the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Henry Kebell Grocer the 28. of October The eyghtenth of Nouember was holden the Seriants feast at the Bishop of Elyes in Oldborne the new Seriants Seriâ—ants Feast were Mayster Newport Newdigate Fitzherbert Iohn Brooke Pigote Cariell Brooke of Bristow Palme Senior and Mayster Roo Henry the Kings first sonne was borne on New yeares Prince borne day but dyed on Saint Mathies day next following In the monethes of June and July the Scottes made sundrye 1511 Anno reg 3. entryes vpon the borderes of England with Shippes well manned and victualled who kept the narrow Seas against the Portingales as they sayd wherevpon Sir Edward Haward Lord Admirall of England and Lord Thomas Haward sonne and heyre to the Earle of Surrey wente to Andrevv Barton a Scottish Pirate the Seas by the King of Englands commaundement wyth certayne Shippes who about the end of July mette with the sayde Scottes and gaue vnto them a sharpe battayle wounded theyr Captayne Andrew Barton
his traine came to the Kings Campe the thirtéenth of August and there was receyued wyth greate magnificence The thrée and twentith of August the towne of Turwine Turvvine yeelded to K. Henry was giuen ouer vnto the Kyng of England wyth condition that all men in the Towne mighte safely passe wyth horsse and harnesse and so on the foure and twentith of Auguste there came oute of the towne foure thouâ—and men of warre and moewell appointed whereof sixe hundred were well horsed theyr standardes borne before them The sixe and twentith of August the King remoued to Singate and there it was agréed that the walles gates bulwarkes and towers of Turwine shoulde be defaced razed and caste downe of whyche conclusion the Emperoure Turvviue raced and brent sent word to Saint Omers and to Aire whych being ioyous of that tydings sente thither Pioners and so they and the Englishe Pioners brake down the wals gates and towers and filled the ditch and fiered the towne except the Cathedrall Churche and the Palaice and all the ordinaunce was by the King sente to Aire to be kept to his vse After this it was concluded that the King in person shoulde laye hys siege to the Citie of Turney wherefore hée sente forwarde thrée goodly battayles the firste was conducted by the Earle of Shrewsburie the seconde battell led the King hymselfe wyth whome was the Emperour The rerewarde was conducted by the Lorde Harbert and so the firste nyghte they laye in campe beside Aire The fourtéenth of September the King and hys armye came to Beatwin and on the morrowe passed forwarde and came to a straite where was a Forde whiche with greate difficultie they passed and the next day they passed a bridge called Fount Anandiew c. The one and twentith daye of September the Kyng remoued hys Campe towarde Tourney and lodged wythin thrée myles of the Citie the whyche nighte came to hym the Emperour and the Palsgraue the people about King Henry beâ—ieged Turney Tourney were with theyr gòodes fledde to the Citie and yet the Citie hadde no menne of warre to defende it but wyth multitude of Inhabitantes the Citie was well replenished The Kyng came in aray of battell before Tourney planted his ordinaunce rounde abonte the Citie dyuers frenches were caste and rampiers made so that no Citizens coulde issue oute nor no ayde come to them Wherevpon at length to wéete on the nyne and twentith of September the Citie was yéelded Then the King appointed the Lorde â—isle the Lorde Burgeyny and the Lorde Willoughby to take possession whyche wyth sixe thousande menne entered the Citie and tooke the market place and the walles and then Mayster Thomas Wolsey the Kings Almoner called before him all the Citizens and sware them to the Kyng of Englande the number of whiche Citizens were four score thousande On the seconde daye of October the King entred the citie of Turney and there ordayned sir Edwarde Poynings Knight of the order of the Garter to be hys Lieuetenaunt wyth Captaines horsemen archers and artillerie conuenient hée made hys Almoner Thomas Wolsey Byshoppe of Tourney and then returned to Callaice and sayled Thomas VVoolsey Bishop of Turney from thence to Douer on the foure and twentyth of October In this meane tyme Iames King of Scottes notwithstanding he was sworne to kéepe the peace inuaded this lande with a mightye armye but by the good dilligence of the Quéene with the pollicie and manhoode of the Earle of Surrey the Kings Lieuetenannt he himselfe was slaine at Bramstone vpon Piperd hill with thrée Byshoppes two Abbots twelue Earles seuentéene Lords besides Knights and Gentlemen and seauentéene thousande Scottes and all the ordinaunces and stuffe taken the ninth of September there were slaine of the Englishe men aboute fiue thousande The dead body of the King of Scottes was broughte vp to London and so conueyed to Sheene where I haue séene the same lapped in Lead lye in an olde house vnburyed Iohn Dawes Iohn Bridges the 28. of September Sherifes Roger Bafford William Browne Mercer the 28. of October Iohn Tate Maior Mercer On Candlemasse daye the Kyng made Thomas Howard Earle of Surrey Duke of Norffolke Thomas Lorde Howard Earle of Surrey Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolke Charles Somerset Earle of Worcester at Lambeth in the Archbishop of Canterburies palace and not long after he maoe sir Edward Stanley Lorde Mountegle In March folowing Thomas Wolsey the Kings Almoner 1514 T. VVolsey B. of Lincolne Anno reg 6 Hedges plucked vp ditches filled and Bishoppe of Tourney was consecrate Byshoppe of Lincolne as successour to William Smith late deceassed All the hedges wythin one myle and more euery waye aboute London were pulled downe and the ditches fylled vp in a morning by a number of yong men Citizens of London bycause those enclosures hadde bin hinderaunce to their shooting The ninetinth of May was receyued into London a Cap of Maintenance and a sworde sente from Pope Iulie the seconde which was presented to the King on the Sonday nexte with greate solempnitie in Saint Paules Churche The seauenth daye of August a peace was proclaimed betwixte the Kings of England and of Fraunce duryng theyr lyues In October a marriage was made betwéene Lewis the twelfth King of Fraunce and Ladye Mary the Kyngs sister of England Iames Yarford Iohn Mundy the 28. of September Sherifes Maior George Monox Draper the 28. of October This George Monox Mayor of London of his godly disposition reedified the decayed stéeple of the parishe Churche of Waltham Stowe in the Countie of Essex adding thereunto a side I le with a Chappel where he lyeth buryed And on the North side of the Churchyarde there he founded a fayre large Almose house for an Almose Prieste or Schoolemaywomenster and thirtéene poore almes folke eight men and fiue women appointing to the sayde almes Priest or Schoolemayster for his yearely wages 6. l. 13. sÌ„ 4. d. and to euerye one of y e almes folke 7. d. a wéeke 5 l. to be bestowed yéerely 1515 among them in coles And ordeyned that the sayd almes Priest should on Sondayes and festiuall dayes be helping assistant to the Uicar or Curate there in the celebration of Anno reg 7. diuine seruice and on the wéeke dayes fréelie to apply and teache yong children of the saide parishe to the number of Free Schoole at VValtham Stovv thirtie in a Schoolehouse by him there builded for that purpose Moreouer he gaue to the parish Clearke there for the time being a yearly stipend of 26. sÌ„ 8. d. for euer a Chamber by the sayde Almes house to the intent he should helpe the sayd Schoolemayster to teach the said children And hath giuen faire lands and tenements in the Citie of London for the perpetual maintenance of the premisses to Gods glory foreuer He also for the great commoditie of trauellers on â—â—â—e made a continuall cawsey of Timber ouer the marâ—â—â—s from
Waltam-stow to Locke bridge towards London The vij of August a peace was proclaymed betwixt the Mary sister to King Henry married to the French King Kingdomes of England and of France And on the ninth day â—â— October King Lewes of France marryed the Lady Mary sister to King Henry the eyght in y e great Church of Abvile Richard Hunne hauged in Lovv lards Tovver Richard Hunne a Merchant Taylor of London dwelling â—â— the Parish of Saint Margaret in Bridgestreate who for deâ—â—ing to giue a mortuarie such as was demaunded by the Parson for his childe being buryed had bin put in the Lowâ—â—ds Tower about the ende of October last before passed was â—â—we the fift of December found hanged with his owne â—irâ—le of silke in the sayd Tower and after he was burned â—â— Smithfield This yeare dyed at Rome the Archbishop of Yorke Cardinall called Doctor Banbredge which was the Kings Embassador there And King Henry gaue the said Archbishopâ—â—ke to Thomas Wolsey then Bishoppe of Lincolne who â—â—rtly after gate to be Cardinall and Lord Chancellour On Newyeares euen dyed the French King Lewes the 1515 twelfth and the ninth of Aprill a new peace was concluded betwéene the King of England and Francis the new King of Anno reg 7. France In the moneth of May Charles Duke of Suffolke wedded Duke of Suffolke married he Kings sister the Lady Mary the Kings sister late Quéene of Fraunce And héere I thinke good to set downe some part of the procéedings of this so oft named Thomas Wolsey Archbishop his ascending vnto honorious estate and sodeiue falling againe from the same as I haue bin enformed by persons of good credite This Thomas Wolsey was a poore mans sonne of Ipswich The ascending of Thomas VVolsey 1516 in the Countie of Suffolke and there borne and being but a child very apt to be learned by the meanes of his parents he was conuayde to the Uniuersitie of Oxford where he shortly prospered so in learning as he was made Batcheler Anno reg 8. Batcheler of Art xv yeares old of Art when he passed not fiftéene yeares of age and was called most commonly through the Uniuersitie the boy Batcheler Thus prospering in learning he was made fellow of Maudelin Colledge and afterward appoynted to be Schoolemayster of Maudelin Schoole at which time the Lorde Marques Dorcet hadde thrée of his sonnes there aâ— Schoole committing vnto him as well their education aâ— Schoolemayster to the Marques Dorcets Children their instruction It pleased the sayde Lorde Marquesse a gainst a Christmas season to send as well for the Schoolemayster as for his children home to his house for their reâ— creation in that pleasant and honourable feast Then béeing there the Lorde their father perceyuing them to 〈…〉 right well employed in learning for their time he hauing a Benefice in his gift being at that time voyde gaue thâ— same to the Schoolemaister in reward of his diligence at his Thomas VVolsey gate a Benefice departure after Christmas to the Uniuersitie and hauing the presentation thereof repaired to the Ordinarie for hyâ— induction and being furnished of his instruments madâ— spéede to the Benefice to take possession and being there foâ— that intent one Sir Iames Paulet Knight dwelling there about tooke occasion against him and set the Schoolemayster Thomas VVolsey set in the stockes by Sir Iames Paulet by the héeles during his pleasure which after was neyther forgotten nor forgiuen for when the Schoolemayster mounted the dignitie to be Chancellour of England he sente for Mayster Paulet and after many sharp words enioyned him to attend vntill he were dismissed and not to depart out of London without licence obteyned so that he continued therewith VVolseys imprisonment reuenged in the middle Temple the space of fiue or sixe yeares who lay then in the Gate house next the stréete which hée reedifyed very sumptuously garnishing the same all ouer Gatehouse of the middle Temple nevv builded the outside with the Cardinals Armes with his hatte cognisances and other deuises in so glorious a sorte that he thought thereby to haue appeased his olde displeasure Now after the deceasse of the Lorde Marquesse thys Schoolemayster considering with himselfe to be but a simple beneficed man and to haue lost his fellowship in the Colledge which was much to his reliefe thought not long to be vnprogided of some other help and in his trauell thereabout he fell in acquayntance with one Sir Iohn Naphant Sir Iohn Naphant Treasurer of Caleis Thomas VVolsey his Chaplayne a very graue and auntient Knight who had a great â—â—me in Caleis vnder King Henry the seauenth this Knight hée serued and behaued hymselfe so discretely that he obteyned the especiall fauour of his Mayster in so muche that he committed all the charge of hys office vnto hys Chaplayne and as I vnderstand the office was the Treasureship of Caleis who was in consideration of hys greate age discharged of hys roome and returned agayne into Englande and through hys instant labour hys Chaplayne Thomas VVolsey vvas Chapleyne to Henry the vij was promoted to bée the Kyngs Chaplayne and when hée had once cast Ancker in the porte of promotion how he wrought I shall somewhat declare He hauing there a â—ust occasion to be in the sight of the King dayly by reason hée sayde Masse before hym in hys Closet and that béeâ—ng done he speÌ„t not the day in ydlenesse but would attend vpon those whome he thought to beare most rule in the Counsell the which at that tyme was Doctor Fox Bishop of Winchester Secretarie and Lord of the priuie seale also Sir Thomas Louell Knight a sage Counsellor Mayster of the Wardes and Connestable of the Tower these graue Counsellors in proces of time perceyued this Chapleyne to haue a very fine witte and thought him a méete person to be preferred to wittie affaires It chanced at a certayne season that the King had an vrgent occasion to send an Embassador vnto the Emperour Maximilian who lay at that present in the low Countrey of Flanders not farre from Caleis The Bishop of Winchester and Sir Thomas Louell whome the King counselled and debated with vppon this Embassage saw they had a conuenient occasion to preferre the Kings Chapleyne whose witte eloquence and learning they highly commended to the King the King commanded them to bring his Chapleyne before his presence with whome he fell in communication of great matters and perceyuing his witte to be very fyne thoughte hym sufficiente commaunding hym therevpon to prepare hymselfe to hys iourney and hauing hys depeach tooke hys leaue of the King at Richmond about noone and so came to London about four of the Clocke where the Barge of Graues ende was ready to launch forth both with a prosperous Thomas VVolsey Embassadour to the Emperour tyde and winde without any abode he entred the Barge and so passed foorth with suche spéede that hée arriued
Castell where they firste called before them the Mayor and Alderman c. And bycause Richard Read Alderman would not agrée to pay as they set hym he was commaunded vpon paine to serue the King in hys wars of Scotlande who departed from London the thrée and twentith of January Also sir William Roâ—â—â— Alderman for words â—â— displeasure taken by the Kings Councell was by them sent Sir VVilliam Roche sente to the Fleete to the Fleete where he remayned till Passion Sondaye The sixe and twentith of January there camped on the Weast side of Boloigne beyond the Hauen an army of French to the number of eightéene thousand where they laye tenne dayes and the sixth of February were put to flight by the Earle of Hartford and sir Iohn Dudley Lord Admiral then being Deputie of Boloigne The thirtéenth of February a Priest was set on the Pillorie in Cheape burnt in both chéeks with the letters F A. a paper on his heade wherein was written For false accusing whyche iudgement was giuen by the Lorde Chancelor in the Starre Chamber a notable example of Justice great cause haue I to wishe the lyke to the lyke accuser who neuer yet repented but coÌ„trariwise sweareth and forsweareth that he neuer did any suche acte againste his brother In the beginning of March a roade was made into Scotlande towarde Gedworth by the Englishemen who at the firste gote greate praise but they were so gréedy and went so far that a greate army of Scottes beset them with thrée battels where the Englishemen for the moste part were slaine and taken at Panyer Howghe among whome sir Ralph Eure Lorde Alderman of London taken prisoner Eure and Warden of the East Marches was slayne and Richard Read Alderman of London wyth other taken prisoners by the Scots Trinitie Terme was adiorned bicause of the warres 1545 Anno reg 37 About the xxv of June was great tempest of wind in Darbishire where through trées were ouer-turned and dyuers Churches Chappels and houses were vncouered Also in Hailestones fâ—gured lyke menâ— heades Lancashire there fell hailestones as big as mens fists which had diuers printes in them some like mens faces some like Gunne holes c. The ninetéenth of July the French kings nauy comming Frenchemen arryued in Susseâ— out of Newhauen and Deepe arriued on the coaste of England in Sussex afore Bright Hamsteade where they sette certaine of their souldiours alande to burne but the Beacons were fyted and the men came downe so thicke that the French men fledde and did little hurte The xix of July by misfortune of shooting a Gun in one of Men brent in the 〈…〉 y â— Hedgehogs a ship afore Westminster a â—irken of gun-poulâ—â—â— fyred slew 7. men and the eight leaped into the Thamis and was drowned The xx of July the king being at Portsmouth a goodly ship Mary Rose vvas drovvned of Englande called the Mary Rose with sir George Carrowe the Captaine and manye other Gentlemen were drowned in the middest of the Hauen by greate negligence The xxj of July the French Galleis nauye came afore Frenchmen landed in the I le of VVight Portsmouth Hauen and landed certaine of their army in the I le of Wight at Saint Helens Point there burned encamped about two thousande men but they were soone driuen away with losse of their Captaine many souldiors Within few dayes after the whole fléete remoiâ—ed from the Wight Frenchmen landed at Nevvhauen in Sussex to a place in Sussex called Newhauen four miles from Lewes and there landed many Captaines souldiors who by the valiantnesse of the Gentlemen and Yeomen of Sussex were slaine and drowned in the Hauen a great number of them the reste hardly recouered their shippes and Galleis In the moneth of August deceassed at Guilforde Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolke and Lorde greate Maister of the Kings housholde who was honorably buryed at Windsore In August the Earle of Hereforde was sent into Scotland Erle of Herford sent into Scotl. with an armye of 12000. menne where he destroyed dyuers Townes and greatly endaâ—uaged the Scottes The ninth of September sir Iohn Dudley Lorde Lisle Lorde Admirall brene Treyport Lorde Adinirall of Englande landed with 6000. men at Treyport in Normandie and there brente the Towne and Abbey with other houses about it and thirâ—â—e ships with a Barke that laye in the Hauen with losse of fourtéene Englishmenne and so reâ—urned The twelfth of September the Churche of Saint Giles S. Giles churche brent without Criplegate of London was brent The eightéenth of October the Procession was firste begon in Paules Church to be sung in English and so commanded by Iniunction through the whole realme George Barnes Ralphe Allen the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Sir Martin Bowes Goldsmith the 28. of October The xxliij of Nouember began a Parliament wherein was graunted to the Kyng a subsedie of two shillings eight Chauntres Colledges and hospitals giuen vnto the King pence of the pound in goods four shillings of the pound in lands Also at Colledges Chauntries and Hospitalles were committed to the Kings order to alter and transpose whyche he promised to do to the glorie of God and the common profite of the Realme In the latter ends of March the Stewe in Southwarke was put down by the Kings commandement In May the kings 1546 The Stevves put dovvne Anno reg 38 VVilliam Foxley slepte more than fourteene dayes and as many nightes vvithout vvaking ships tooke one of y e French Kings Galleis with gret riches The xxvij of Aprill being Tuisday in Easter wéeke William Foxley Potte maker for the Mint in the Tower of London fell asléepe and so continued sléeping and coulde not be wakened with pricking cramping or otherwise burning whatsoeuer till the firste day of the nexte Tearme whyche was full fouretéene dayes and as many nights or more for that Easter Terme beginneth not afore seauentéene dayes after Easter The cause of his thus sléeping could not be knowen thoughe the same were diligently searched for by the Kings Phisitions and other learned menne yea the King himselfe examining the saide William Foxley who was in all pointes found at his wakening to be as if he had slept but one night and is yet liuing in the Tower of London this present yeare of oure Lorde God 1579. The thirtéenth of June being Whitsonday a peace was proclaymed betwéene the Kings of England and France with a generall Procession in London The seauen and twentith of June Doctour Crome recaÌ„ted at Paules Crosse The xvj of July were burned in Smithfied for the Sacrament Anne Askevve and other brent Anne Askew alias Keime Iohn Lassels Nicholas O 〈…〉 tleâ— Priest Iohn Adlam Tailour and Doctour Shaxton 〈…〉 time Bishop of Salisburie preached at the same fire and 〈…〉 erecanted perswading them to doe the lyke but they â—oulde not The xxj of August came
downe the Roode in Paules Church with Marie and Iohn all other Images in y e Church then y e liâ—e was done in al Churches in England Also Easter folowing began the Communion and confession in Englishe but no manne constrained thereto excepte Anno reg 2. 1548 they woulde but after Easter beganne the Seruice in Englishe in dyuers Parishe Churches and at Whitsontide at Paules by the commandement of the Deane Barking Chappell nighe the Tower of London and Saint Martins Le Graund nigh the Shambles were pulled down Also the parish Churches of Saint Nicholas in the Shambles and Saint Ewyns within Newgate were pulled downe and the Parishioners appointed to the late dissolued Grey Friers Churche whyche is now named Christes Church founded by King Henrie the eight The watche whiche hadde béene accustomed in London at Midsommer of long time laide downe was nowe againe vsed both on the euen of Saint Iohn and of Saint Peter in as comely order as it had béene accustomed whych watch was greately beautified by the number of more than thrée hundred Dimilaunces and light horsemen that were prepared by the Citizens to be sent into Scotlande for the rescue of the Town of Hadington and other kept by Englishmen in Scotland On Saint Peters euen Monsieur Dassey Lieuetenant to The siege of Hadington the French King and the Reingraue of Fraunce wyth the number of x. thousand French and Almaines besides Scots besieged the Towne of Hadington in Scotlande defended by the Englishmen vnto whose aide shortly after came from Barwike iij. E. horsemen which were 700. men of armes and Dimitances the Captaines whereof were sir Robert Bowes and sir Thomas Palmer whych horsemen not long after by the Frenchmen were enclosed and the moste part either slaine or taken with their Captaines before named neuerthelesse our Englishmen defended the Town often skirmishing wyth the French and putting them to the worse vntill the twentith daye of August and then came an army out of Englande of sixetéene thousande of the whiche foure thousande were Almaines the Kyngs Lieuetenant was the Earle of Shrewsburie the General of the Almaines was Captaine Courtney At the comming of this armie the Frenchemenne and Scottes in peaceable manner departed from before Hadington giuing our Captaynes and Souldiers great commendation for their seruice Francis Earle of Sâ—râ—wshurie after he had séene the Towne victualled and stored with fresh Souldiers and munitions departed into England and our meÌ„ kept the Towne of Hadington oftentimes skirmishing with the Frenchmen and Scottes till the twentith day of September Hadington rased by Englishe men and then came with the Earle of Rutland with thrée thousand Almaynes and as many Borderers who caused the Toâ—ne to be razed and so brought their Ordinance and carriage to Berwike and returned without battayle On Saint Peters day Stephen Gardiner Bishop of Winchester Bishop of VVinchester sent to the Tovver preached at Westminster in the Courte before the King for the which Sermon he was on the morrow after sent to the Tower of London The vij of July a Priest was hanged and quartered in A Priest of Cornevvall executed Smithfield for that he and other in Cornewall had slayne Mayster Body one of the Kings Commissioners the others of his societie were put to death in diuers other partes of the Realme This yeare a great mortalitie by the pestilence was in Great Pestileuce in London London wherefore commaundement was giuen to all Curates and other hauing to do therwith that no corps should be buried before sixe of the clocke in the morning nor after sixe of the clocke at night and that there should at the buriall of euery corpse be rong one bell at the least by the space of thrée quarters of an houre In September dyed Quéene Katherine late â—â—â—s to King Queene Katherine dyed Henry and after marryed to Sir Thomas Seymer Lorde Admirall William Locke Iohn Aâ—liâ—e the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Sir Henry Aâ—â—ots Fishmonger the 28. of October The xvj of Nouember Saint Annes Church within Aldersgate Saint Annes Church brent Anno reg 3. Lord Thomas Seymer beheaded of London was brent The xvj of January Thomas Seymer Lord Admirall and brother to the Lord Protector was sent to the Tower of London the xx of March he was beheaded on the Tower hill The â—â—â—th o◠〈◊〉 Proclamation was made for the 1549 â—â—â—â—e to be put downe through the whole 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tenth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the â—loysten of Paules Church in 〈◊〉 â—alâ—â—â— Pardon Churchyard with the Daunce of Death commonly called the Daunce of Paules about the Daunce of Paules pulled dovvâ—â—e same Cloyster costly and cunningly wrought and the Chappell in the midst of the same Church-yard were all began to be pulled downe Also the Chernill house of Paules with the Chappell Charnill house of Paules there after the Tombes and other Monuments of the dead were pulled downe and the dead mens bones buryed in the fields were conuerted into dwelling houses shoppes About the same time the Stéeple and most part of the Church of Saint Iohn by Smithfield blovvne vp Church of Saint Iohn of Hierusalem néere vnto Smithfield was vndermined and ouerthrowne with Gunne powlder the stone whereof was applyed in the building of the Lorde Protectors house at the Strand The xxiij of Aprill sixe houses at Broken Wharffe were Fire at Broken VVharffe brent In the moneth of May by meanes of a Proclamation for eâ—â—losuâ—es the Commons of Somersetshire and Lincolneshire made a Commotion and brake vp certayne Parkes Commotion in Sommersetshire and Lincolneshire of Sir William Herberds and Lord Sturtons but Sir William Herberd â—lew and executed many of those Rebels In July the Commons of Essex and Kent Suâ—â—â—ke and Norffolke rose agaynst inclosures and pulled downe dyuers Parkes 〈◊〉 Also the Commons of Cornewall and Deuonshire rose against Commotion in Cornevvall and Deuonshire the Nobles and Gentlemen and required not only that the inclosures might be disparked buâ—â— also to haue their old Religion and Acte of sixe Articles restored these â—â—sée god the Citie of Excester which was valiantly defended Against these Rebels was sent Iohn Lord Russell Lord priuie Seale with a number of Souldyers who entred the Citie of Excester the fifth of August where they â—lew and â—ooke prisoners of the â—â—eâ—â—â—s more than four thousand and Rebels subdued after hanged diuers of them in the Towne and Countrey about The Lorde Gray was also sente with a number of Strangers horssemen who in diuers conflictes sâ—ew many people and spoyled the Countrey The last of July William Lorde Marques of Northhampton Commotion at Norvvich Lord Sheffield slayne Marciall Lavv. entred the Citie of Norwich and on the next morning the Rebels also entred the Towne burned part thereof put the Lorde Marques to flighte and sâ—ewe the Lorde Sheffeld In this meane time diuers persons were apprehended as ayders of the foresayde
execution and therefore to crie away away wherevpon the people ranne some one way some another many fell into the Tower Ditch and they which â—arried thought some pardon had bin brought some sayd it thundered some that the ground moued but there was no such matter The xvij of February on which day was receyued the Bookes of the reliefe of all the wardes of London towardes the new Hospitals by the Kings commissioners the Counsell dined aâ— Mayster Cowpers the Sheriffe and after dinner Mayster Thomas Curteys Alderman came thither to speake with the Lord Chancellour for a matter he had depending afore him in the Chancerie but for his misdeâ—â—â—â—oâ—r in words and â—â—gnes to the Lord Chancellour at that time the sayde Mayster Curteys was committed to warde in the Fleete The sixe and twentith of February Sir Ralphâ—a Vane Anno reg 6. Sir Ralpha Vane and other executed and Sir Miles Partridge were hanged on the Tower hill Sir Michaell Stanhope with Sir Thomas Arundell were beheaded there The last of Aprill through negligence of the Gunnepowlder 1552 makers a certayne houâ—e néere to the Tower of London with thrée Last of Powlder was blowne vp and House blovvne vp vvith Gunpovvlder brent the Gunpowlder makers being fiftéene in number were all slayne The xvj of May was a goodly muster of Horssemen made before the King in the Parke at Greenewich Under the Kings Banner his band of Pencioners in Muster of Horssemen number 15â— euery Pencioner two great Horsses and a Gelding the Lord Bray their Lieuetenaunt The Lord Marques of Winchester high Treasurer vnder his Banner the 〈…〉 one C men The Duke of Northâ—â—berlande greate mayster of the Kings honshold vnder the white Lion and the ragged staffe fiftie The Duke of Suffolke vnder the Unicorne in the Starre C. x. The Earle of â—â—â—forâ—â— Lorde Priâ—ie Seale vnder the Goate C. The Marques of Northumpton high Chamberlayne vnder the Mayden head C. The Earle of Warwike mayster of the Kings horses vnder the white Lion fifty The Earle of Huntington vnder his Banner fifty The Earle of Ruâ—laâ—d vnder the Peacocke fifty The Earle of Pembroke vnder the gréene Dragon fifty The Lord Darcy vnder the Maydens body fifty The Lord Cobham vnder the Sarizens head fifty The Lord Clinton Lord Admirall vnder y e Anker fifty The Lord Wâ—rden of the fiue Portes vnder the Rose in the Sunne bâ—â—â—â—es â— The xxvj of July began the preparing of the Grey Friers Grey Friâ—â—â— in London aâ— Hospiâ—allâ— house in London for the poore father â—esse Children and also in the later end of the same moneth began the repayring of Saint Thomas Hospitall in Southwarke for poore impotent and lame persons The iâ—j of August at Middleton xj miles from Oxford a A Monster woman brought fâ—â—th achild which had two perfect bodyes from the naâ—ell vpward and were so ioyned togither at the naâ—ell that when they were layd in length the one head body was Eastward and the other West the legges for both the bodyes grew out at the midst where the bodyes ioyned and had but one issue for the excrements of both bodyes they liued xviâ—j dayes and were women children The viâ—j of August were taken at Queeneborough iâ—â— great Great Fishes Fishes called Dolphins and the â—éeke following at Blacke Wall were vj. more taken and brought to London the least of them was more than any Horâ—â—e This moneth of August began the great prouiuÌ„on for the poore in London towardes the which euery man was contributorie and gaue certaine money in hand and coâ—enanted to giue a certayne wéekely The commons of the Citie of London being assembled in Four electione for one Sheriffe their Guild hall on the first of August elected Iohn Grimes Clothworker to be Sheriffe for the yeare following who refused and payd his fine of two hundred pound The vj. of August the commons chose Thomas Clayton Baker who likewise refused and payde his fine The xv of August the commons chose Iohn Browne Mercer who also refused and payde his fine The xix of August the commons chose Iohn Maynard Mercer who tooke the same in good part and serued William Garrard Iohn Maynard the 28. of September Sherifes Great Fisheâ— taken The seauenth of October were thrée great Fishes called Whirlepooles taken at Grauesend which were drawne vp to the Kings Bridge at Westminster In this moneth of October the King demaunded of the Merchant AdueÌ„turers by way of prest of euery broad cloath then shipped to Bawmes â—art twentie Shillings sterling to A preâ—t by the Merchant Aduenturers be payde at Antwarp for certayne dette there and they to haue the Kings band for the repayment thereof which did at that time amount to more than xlviiij thousand pound The xvij of October the Sergeants feast was kept at Sergeants feast Greys Inne by Oldborne Mayster Robert Brooke Recorder of London being the principall of the new Sergeants and sixe more besides him the Lorde Maior and Aldermen béeing bidden to the sayde feast rode from the Lord Maiors house vp Friday stréete through Cheape and out at Newgaâ—e all in their Scarlet Gownes to the said Greys Inne Sir George Barne Habeâ— dasher the 28. of October Maior This Sir George Barne gaue a Windâ—â—ill in Finsâ—â—r is Charitable deedes of Sir George Barne Field to the Haberdasherâ— of London the profites thereof to be distributed to the poore Alâ—es people of the same company Also to the parâ—â—â— Church of S. Barthelmew the little certayne tenements for the which the Parson and Church-wardens be bounde to distribute to the poore people of the same Parish xviâ—j pence in bread euery Sonday for euer The first of Nouember being the feast of All Saintes Booke of common Prayer the new Seruise Booke called Of common Prayer begonne in Paules Church and the like through the whole Citie the Bishop of London Doctor Ridley executing the seruice in Paules Church in the foreâ—â—â—ne in his Rochet only without Coape or Uestment preached in the Quire and at after nâ—â—ne he preached at Paules Crosse the Lord Maior Aldermen and Craftes in their best Liueries being present which Sermon tending to the setting forth the sayde late made Booke of common Prayer continued till almost fiue of the clocke at night so that the Maior Aldermen and companyes entred not into Paules Church as had bin accustomed but departed home by Torchlight By this Booke of common Prayer all Coapes and Uestments were forbidden through Englande and Prebendes of Paules left off their hoods the Bishops left their Crosses c. as by an Acte of Parliament more at large is set out After the feaste of all Saints the vpper Quéere in Saint Paules Churche in London where the highe Aâ—ltare stoode was broken downe and al the Quéere thereabout and the table of the CoÌ„munion was set in the lower Quéere where the Priests sing The thrée and twentith of Nouember the children were
First children in Christes hospital taken into y e hospital at the Grey Friers called Christes Hospitall to the number of almost foure hundred And also sâ—eke and pore people into the Hospital of Saint Thomas in Southwarke in whiche two places the children and pore people shoulde haue meate drinke lodging and cloth of the almes of the Citie On Christmasse daye in the afternoone when the Lorde Firste shevve of the children in Christs hospital Maior and Aldermen rode to Paules al the children of Christes Hospitall stoode in array from Saint Laurence Lane in Cheape toward Paules al in on Lyuerie of Russet Cotten the men children with red Caps the women children kerchiefs on their heades all the Maisters of the Hospitall foremost nexte them the Phiâ—â—tions and four Surgeons and betwéen euery twentie children one woman kéeper whych children were in number 340. The King kept his Christmasse with open housholde at Lorde of merry disportes Greenewiche George Ferrers Gentleman of Lincolns Inne being Lorde of the merry disportes all the twelue dayes who â—â—â—pleasantly and wisely behaued himselfe that the King had greate delight in his pastimes On Monday the fourth of January the saide Lorde of The Sherifes â— of Misrulâ— mery disportes came by water to London and landed at the Tower Wharffe entred the Tower and then rode through Tower streete where he was receyued by Vawce Lorde of Misrule to Iohn Mainaâ—d one of the Sheriffes of London and so conducted throughe the Citie with a great company of yong Lordes and Gentlemen to the house of sir George Barne Lorde Mayor where he with the chiefe of his company dyâ—ed and after had a greate banquet and at his departure the Lorde Mayor gaue him a standing Cup with a couer of siluer and guilt of the vale â—â—â— of ten pounde for a rewarde and also set a Hogâ—â—â—ad of 〈…〉 and a Barrel of Béere at hys Gate for his traine that folowed hym the residue of his Gentlemen and sâ—rn aâ—ntes dyned at other Aldermens houses and with the Sheriffes and so departed to the Tower Wharffe againe and to the Courte by water to the great commendation of the Maior and Aldermen and highly accepted of the King and Counaell In the moneth of January the King fell sicke of a cough Anno reg 7. at Whitehall whyche gréeuouslye encreased and at the laste ended in a Consumption of the Lights The firste of Marche beganne a Parliament at Westminster A Parliament and all the Lordes Spiritual and temporall assembled that daye in the Whitehall in their Robes where a Sermon was preached in the Kings Chappell by Doctor Ridley Bishoppe of of London and his Maiestie with diuers Lords receyued the Communion Which being done the King with the Lordes in order went into the Kings greate Chamber 1553 on the Kings side which that day was prepared for the Lordes house the King sitting vnder his cloâ—h of Estate and al the Lordes in their degrées the Bishoppe of Ely Doctor Godrike Lorde Chauncollor made a Proposition for the king whyche being ended the Lordes departed This was done bycause the King was sickly The 〈…〉 after the Burgesses sate in the Common house at Westminster and chose for their Speaker Maistâ—â— Diar one of the late made Sergeants at the lawe The â—1 of Marche being good Friday the Parliament brake vppe and was clearely dissolued at the Kinges Pallaice of White hall at seauen of the clocke at night The thirde of Aprill being Monday after Easter daye the children of Christs Hospitall in London came from theÌ„ce thorough the Citie to the Sermon kepte at Saint Marie Spittle all clothed in plonket Coates and red Cappes and the maiden childreÌ„ in the same Lyuerie with kerchefs on their heades all whiche with their matron and other 〈…〉 were there placed on a Scaffolde of eight Stages and there sate the same time whiche was a goodly shewe The tenth of Aprill the Lorde Mayor of London was sent Bridevvell gyuen to the Citie of London for to the Courte at White hall and there at that time the Kings Maiestie gaue to him for to be a wâ—rkâ— house for the â—â—re and ydle persons of the Citie of London â—â—â—◠〈…〉 of Bridewel and seauen hundred marke land of the Sauoy rents wyth all the beds and bedding of the Hospitall of the Sauoy towardes the maintenaunce of the saide work-house of Bridewell The eleauenth of Aprill the Lord Maior was presented to the King in his Pallaice of White hall at Westminster and was made knight by his Maiesty and the same day the king remoued in the afternoone to Greenewiche In this Moneth of April and in May commissions were Ievvelles and Church plate called into the Kings handes directed throughe Englandes for all the Churche goods remaining in Cathedrall and parishe Churches that is to saye Jewels of Golde and Siluer Crosses Candlestickes Senâ—â—â—â— Chalices and all other suche like with their readye money to be deliuered to the Maister of the Kings Jewels in the Tower of London all Coapes and Uestmentes of cloth of Gold cloth of Tissewe and Siluer to the Maister of the kings Wardrobe in London the other Coaps UestmeÌ„ts and ornaments to be solde and the money to be deliuered to the Kings Treasurer reseruing to euerie Churche one Chalice or Cuppe with Table clothes for the CommunioÌ„ board at the discretion of the Commissioners The twentith of May by the encouragement of one Sebastian Voyage to Moscouy Cabotte thrée great ships wel furnished were sette â—â—â—th for the aduenture of the vnknowen voyage to Muscoâ—â—â— and other easte partes by the North Seas diuers Merchants and other being frée of that voyage yéelded towards the charges of the some fiue and twentie pounds apéece â—â—â— George Barnes 〈…〉 William Garrard being y â— principall 〈…〉 there in About the same time two other ships were sent séeke aduentures Southwards Whiles King Edward lay dangerously sicke Lord Gilforde Three notable marriages at Dâ—rham place the Duke of Northumberlandes fourth sonne marryed Lady lane the Duke of Suffolkes daughter whose mother being then aliâ—e was daughter to Mary King Henries sister whiche was firste marryed to the Frenche King and after to Charles Duke of Suffolke Also the Earle of Pembrookes eldest son marryed Lady Katherine the said Dukes second daughter and the Erle of Huntingtons sonne called Lord Hastings marryed the Dukes yongest daughter King Edward being about the age of sixetéene yeares ended King Edvvarde deceassed his life at Grenewich on the sixth of July when he hadde raigned sixe yeares fiue moneths and odde dayes and was buried at Westminster He was in this his youth a Prince of such towardnesse in vertue learning and al godly gifts as seldome hath bin séeâ—â— the like The eight of July the Lorde Maior of London was sente King Edvvards death opened for to the Courte then at Greenewich and to bring with him fiâ—e Aldermen as many Merchaunts of the Staple an 〈…〉
this Maiors yeare Corne rose to fourtéene shillings the quarter and wood waxed scant in London and was sold for thirtéene and fourtéene shillings the thousand of â—illets and coles at tenpence the sacke by reason of the great death and sicknesse the last Sommer for lacke of heÌ„lp and carriage King Philip being absent out of the Realme and Quéene Mary being dangerously sicke ended hir life at hir Manour of Saint Iames by Charing crosse the xvij of Nouember in the yeare 1558. when she had raigned fiue yeares four monethes and odde dayes The same daye deceassed Cardinall Poole at Lambheath and a little before two of hir Phisitions besides diuers Bishops and noble men Quéene Mary was buryed at Westminster and Cardinall Poole at Canterbury ¶ Queene Elizabeth ELizabeth our most gratious Anno reg 1. and soueraigne Lady second daughter to King Henry the viij to the great comfort of Englande was with full consent proclaimed Quéene of England France and Irelande Defender of the Fayth c. on the xvij of Nouember in the yeare of oure Lorde God 1558. Forthwith the Portes and Hauens were stopped and none suffered to passe out of the Realme without licence Proclamation was made forbidding all men to Preach saue such as should be appoynted also to alter any rytes or Ceremonies vsed in the Church saue as it was in hir graces Chappell The xxiij of Nouember Quéene Elizabeth came from The Queene commeth from Hatfild Bishops Hatfield in Hertfordshire vnto the Lord Northes house in the late Charterhouse of London the Sheriffes of London méeting hir Grace at the farther ende of Barnet Towne within the Shere of Middlesex and so rode before hir till the came to the Charterhouse Gate next Aldersgate where hir Grace remayned On Monday the eyght and twentith of Nouember about The Queene â—emoueth to the Tovver two of the clocke in the after noone Quéene Elizabeth rode from the Lorde Northes house along by the Barbycane in at Creeplegate then along by the wall to Bishopsgate which Gate was richly hanged where the Waytes of the Citie playde and ouer against the Kings head Tauerne a Scholler of Paules Schoole made a short Oration to hir Maiestie in Latin Uerses the company of the Mercers standing in theyr rayles next the Scholler and so all the other Companyes of the Citie in order from thence to Mart Lane ende nexte vnto Barking Church in Tower streete the Lorde Maior of London riding wyth Mayster Garter King at Armes bearing a Scepter before hir Maiestie whiche Lorde Maior mette hir at the Charterhouse Gate nexte Aldersgate where Mayster Recorder saluted hir Grace in the name of the Lorde Maior and the whole Citie and so with Lordes Knightes and Gentlewomen richly apparelled brought hir to the Tower of London but when hir Grace entered at Mart Lane a peale of Gunnes beganne to be shotte off at the Tower whiche continued almost halfe an houre The fifth of December the Quéene remoued by water from the Tower to Somerset place néere to the Strand The xiij of December the corpse of Quéene Mary was honourably conuayed from Saint Iames to the Abbey of Queene Mary buryed Westminster and there placed vnder a rich Hearse decked with penons banners and Schutchions of the Armes of Englande and France where she remayned that nighte and on the morrow after the Masse of Requiem and a Sermon preached by Doctor White Bishop of Winchester was ended she was buryed in the Chappell of King Henry the seauenth on the North side The xxiiij of December was solemne obsequie kept in Obsequie for Charles the Emperour the Abbey of Westminster for Charles the fifth late Emperour which deceassed in Spayne in the moneth of September last past Quéene Maryes herse yet standing altered with the Armes of the Emperour and richly hanged with a rich pall-cloth of gold lying on the hearse the Emperours Embassadour being chiefe mourner with other Péeres and Lords of England assistant with him c. The first of January the Lord Maior and Aldermen gaue in commandement to euery warde in London that the Procession Epistle and Gospell in English Parson or Curate in euery Parish Church in London should reade the Epistle and Gospell of the day in the Englishe tong in the Masse time and the English Procession then vsed in the Quéenes Chappell according to a Proclamation sent from hir Maiestie and priuie Counsell proclaymed in the Citie of London the xxx of December which commandement was that day obserued in most parish Churches of the Citis The ninth of January in the morning the Image of Thomas Becket which stoode ouer the dore of the Mercers Image of Thomas Becket throvvne dovvne Chappell in London toward the stréete was found broken and cast downe and a bill set on the Church dore deprauing the setters vp thereof The xij of January the Quéenes Maiestie remoued from hir place of White hall to the Tower by water the Lorde Maior of London and his bréethren the Aldermen in their Barge and all the Craftes of the Citie in their Barges richly decked with targets and banners of euery mysterie The Batchelers of the Maiors companie in their Barge with a Foyst hauing thrée toppes trimmed and richly decked to wayte on them which shotte off gunnes all the way all these awayted on hir Maiestie who tooke hir Barge about two of the clocke in the after noone the Lord Maior folowing after and euery company in order with great melodie of musicall instruments till hir grace was through London bridge and landed at hir priuie staire of the Tower Wharffe and then the Maior after leaue taken and thankes of the Quéene returned through the Bridge with the floud and landed at the Three Cranes Wharffe in the Uintrie The xiiij of January at which time the Londoners had made sumptuous prouision the Quéenes Maiestie passed through the Citie of London to hir Palace at Westminster Coronation the next day she was Crowned by Doctor Oglethorp Bishop of Carelile The xxv of January began a Parliament at Westminster Parliament before the States whereof Doctour Coxe late come from beyond the Seas and sometime Schoolemayster to King Edward the sixth made a learned Sermon In this Parliament the first fruites and tenthes were granted to the Crowne and also the supreme gouernemeÌ„t ouer the state Ecclesiasticall Likewise the Booke of commoÌ„ Prayer and administration of the Sacraments in our vulgar tongue was restored to be done as in the time of King Edward the sixth In the Easter Holydayes preached at the Spittle Doctour Bill the Quéenes Almoner Doctour Coxe and Doctour Horne the two last came lately from beyond the seas On Lowsonday the seconde of Aprill Mayster Sampson made the rehearsall Sermon at Paules Crosse The iij. of Aprill the Quéenes Maiestie appoynted a coÌ„ference or disputation to be had at Westminster Church betwéene 1559 the olde Bishops and certayne learned men late A conference at VVestminster come
and the Frenche Kyng their Realmes Dominions and Subiectes whyche peace was proclaymed with sounde of Trumpet at hir Castell of Windsore and also at London on the thyrtéenth daye of Aprill The plague thankes be to God being cleane ceased in London both Easter and Midsommer Terme were kepte at Westminster Throughe the earnest suite of the Armourers there was on the vigile of Saint Peter a Watche in the Citie of London VVatche on S. Peters euen whyche did onelye stande in the highest stréetes as Cheape Cornehill and so forth to Aldgate whyche Watche was to the commons of the City as chargeable as when in times past it had béene commendably done The fifth of Auguste the Quéenes Maiestie in hir Progresse Abrah Hartwell The Queenes Progresse thorough Cambridge came to the Uniuersitie of Cambridge and was of all the Students being inuested according to their degrées taken in the Schooles honorably and ioyfully receiued in the Kings Colledge where she did lye during hir continuaunce in Cambridge The dayes of hir abode were passed in Scholasticall exercises of Philosophie Phisicke and Diuinitie the nightes in Comedies and Tragedies sette for the partlye by the whole Uniuersitie and partly by the Studentes of the Kyngs Colledge At the breakyng vp of the Diuinitie acte being on Wednesday the ninth of Auguste on the whyche daye shâ—e rode through the Town and viewed the Colledges those goodly and auncient monuments of Kyngs of Englande hir Noble Predecessours shée made wythin Saint Macies Church a notable Oration in Latine in the presence of the whole learned Uniuersitie to the Studentes greate comforte The â—erte daye she wente forwarde on hir Pregresse to Fihchingbrooke by Huntington The thyrtith daye of August was enacted by a common Out cryer and Bellman for the daye Councell of the Citie of London that all suche Citizens as from thence-forth should be â—instrained 〈…〉 their houshold â—â—uâ—â—e leafes of houses or suche like shoulde firste cause the same to be cried throughe the Citie by a man wyth a Bell and then to be solde by the common out cryer appoynted for that purpose and he to retaine one farthing of the shilling for his paines The xx daye of September arose great floudes in the riner Greate â—â—onds in the Thamis of Thamis where-through the Marshes neare adioyning were ouerflowed and manye Cattell drowned The creation of sir Robert Sutton alias Dudley Knight of Creation of a Baron the Garter and Maister of the Horsse to the Quéenes Maiestie who was created Baron of Denbigh and after Earle of Leicester on Michaelmasse daye at Saint Iames wyth the gifte of the Manour of Killingworth and other things there to hym and hys heires to the yerely valewe of four and twentie pounde and better Firste the saide Lord attended on the Quéenes highnes to the Chappel and from the Chappell to seruice and when he was returned to the Chamber of Presence the saide Lord with other departed to the Lord Chamberlaines Chamber and shifted them the said Lord Robert in his Surcote with the Hoode his mantle borne before hym by the Lorde Hunsdon and ledde by the Lord Clinton Lorde Admiral by the right hand and the Lord Strange on the lefte hande in their Parliament Robes Garter bearing the Patent and before him the Officers of Armes and so procéeded into the Chamber of Presence where the Quéenes Highnesse sate vnder the cloth of Estate with the Noble men on ech side of hir the Embassador of France was also present with another straunger an Italian and when the faiâ—â—â— Lorde with the other came in the Quéenes sight they made theyr oâ—â—ysaunce thrée tymes the saide Lorde knéeled 〈…〉 after the whyche Gatter presented the Letters pattents to the Lord Chamberlaine and he presented the same to the Quéenes Highnesse who gaue it to sir William Cecil Secretary who read the same with a loude voyce and at the wordes of Creduimus the Lord of Hunsdon presented the Mantle to the 〈…〉 Maiestie who putte on the same whereby he was treated Baron of Denbigh for hym and hys heyres then the pattent was read out to the ende after the whyche hée delyuered it to the Quéene agayne hir Highnesse gaue it to the saide Lord who gaue hir Maiestie most humble thankes and he rose vp and departed to the Chamber then came from the Trumpettes sounding before hym Then bée shifted hym of those Robes and put on the Robes Creation of an Earle of Estate of an Earle and béeing ledde by the Earle of Sussex on the righte hande and the Earle of Huntington on hys lefte hande the Earle of Warwike bearing his Sworde the Pomell vpward and the girdle aboute the same al in their Robes of Estate the Lorde Clinton Lorde Admirall in hys Parliament robes bearing his Cap with y e Coronal Garter before him hearing his Patent and the other officers of Armes before him they procéede as afore into the Chamber of Presence where after they hadde made their obeysance the saide Earle â—néeled downe and Garter delyuered hys patent to the Lorde Chamberlaine who gaue the same to the Quéenes Maiestie and hir highnesse gaue the same to sir Wiliam Cecil Secretary to reade who read the same and at the words Cincturam Glady the Earle of Warwike presented the Sworde to the Quéenes Highnesse who gyrte the same aboute the necke of the saide newe Earle puttyng the poynt vnder hys lefte army and after hir Maiestie putte on his Cappe with the Coronall then hys Patent was read out to the ende and then the saide Secretary deliuered it againe to the Quéene and hir Highnesse gaue it to the sayde newe Earle of Leicester who gaue hir humble thankes for the same and then he arose and wente into the Councell Chamber to dynner the Trumpets sounding before and at dinner he sate in hys kyrtle and there accompanyed him the foresayde Embassadour of Fraunce and the saide Italian wyth dyuers other Earles and Lordes and after the second course Garter with the other Officers of Armes proclaymed the Quéenes Maiesties Stile and after the Stile of the sayde Earle for the whyche they had fiftéene pounde to â—éete for hys Baronie fâ—ue pound and for his â—arledoms tenne pounde and Garter had hys Gowne of blacke â—elnet garded wyth thrée gardes of the same layde on wyth Lace fyned throughe wyth blacke Taffata and garded on the inner side with the same and on the sléeues xxxvitj paire of Aglets of Golde Duâ—resnoble puissant seigneur Robert Cante de Leycestâ—e Baron de Denbighe Cheualier du tresnoble Ordre de la Iarretierrè Grand Esquier de la Royne nostre Souuereigne Edwarde Iackeman Leonell Ducket the 28. of September Sheriffes Obsequy for the Emperour The seconde of October in the afternoone and the morrowe in the forenoone a solempne obsequie was holden in Saint Paules Churche at London for Ferdinando late Emperour departed The seauenth of October at eight of the clocke at night Anno
Leicester wyth the saide order of Saint Mâ—chaell The Marâ—uâ—s of Baden and the Ladye Cecilie his wyfe 1566 â—â—â— Maâ—qâ—es of Baden returneth â—â—ster to the King of Swethen who came into this land in the meneth of September laste paste as before is declared béeing then by the Qéenes especiall appointment at theyr arriuall honorably receyued by the Lord Cobham an honorable Baron of this Realme and the Ladye his wife one of the Quéenes Maiesties priâ—ie Chamber nowe in the moneth of Aprill Anno. 1569. departed the same againe the Marques a fewe dayes before hys wife being both cenducted by a lyke personage the Lorde of Aburgaueny to Douer Certaine houses in Cornehill being first purchased by the The Burse in Cornehill Citizens of London were in the moneth of February cryed by the Bell man and afterwarde solde to suche persons as shoulde take them downe and carry them from thence whiche was so done in the moneths of Aprill and May next following And then the grounde beyng made plaine at the charges also of the Cittie poâ—â—ession thereof was by certaine Aldermen in name of the whole Citizens giuen to y e right worshipfull sir Tho. Gresham Knight Agent to the Quéens Highnesse there to buylde a place for Merchantes to assemble in at hys owne proper charges who on the seauenth of June layde the firste stone of the foundation being Bricke and forth-with the work-men followed vpon the same with suche diligence that by the Moneth of Nouember in the yeare of our Lorde â—â—67 the same was couered wyth Slate The commissioners before named appointed for the matters of Flaunders kéepyng their dyet at Bruges agréed to referre the whole matter to the Princes on bothe sides and if they coulde not agrée then the Merchants to haue fortie dayes to repayre home with their merchaundise and in the meane tâ—â—â— all things to stande as they were then Dure Câ—â—â—â—issioners departed froÌ„ Bruges about the xxvj of June The xxxj of August y e Quéenes Maiestie in hir progresse The Queenes progresse to Oxforde came to the Uniuerâ—â—tie of Oxforde and was of all the Studentes whyche had looked for hir commyng thyther two yeares so honorably and ioyfully receyued as eyther theyr lâ—yaâ—nâ—â—â—e towardes the Quéenes Maiestie or the expectation of their â—â—iendes did requyre Concerning orders in disputaâ—â—on and other Academicall exercises they agréede much wyth those which the Uniuersitie of Cambridge had vsed two yeres before Comedies also and Tragedies were played in Christes Churche where the Quéenes Highnesse â—â—dged Among the whych the Comedie entituled Palemon Misfortune at Oxford and Arcet made by Maister Edwards of the Quéenes Chappel had suche tragicall successe as was lamentable For at that time by the fall of a wall and a payre of staires great preâ—sse of the multitude thrée men were slaine The fifth of September after disputations the Quéene at the humble sute of certaine of hir Nobilitie and the King of Spaâ—â—es Embassadour made a briefe Oration in Latine to the Uniuersitie but so wise and pithie as England maye reioice that it hathe so learned a Prince and the Uniuersitie may triâ—â—ph that they haue so noble a Patronesse The vj of September after dinner hir Grace comming from Christs Churche ouer Carfox and so to Saint Maries the Scholers standing in order according to their degrées euen to the East gate certaine Doctors of the Uniuersitie did ride before in their Scarlet gownes and hoodes Maisters of Arte in blackâ—â—â—wnâ— and hoodâ—s The Maior also with certaine of his drethren did ryde before hir in Scarlet to the ende of Magdalene â—â—â—dge where their liberties ended but the Doctors and Maisters went forward still to Shoâ—ouer a myle and more out of Oxforde dicause their Liberties extended so farre and there after Orations made hir Highneâ—â—â— with thankes to the whols Uniuersitie dade them farewel and rode to Rycote Richarde Lambert Ambrose Nicholas the 28. of Septemb. Sherifes Iohn Langley the 4. of Aprill Sir Christopher Draper Iremonger the 28. of October Maior Souldiors transported into Irelande The valiant Captaine Edward Randolfe Esquier lieutenant of the Ordinaunce and Colonell of a thousand footemen in September last paste was wyth his band embarqued at Bristow and within few dayes after landed at Knocfergus in the North parts of Ireland and went thence by water to a place called Derry by which passeth y e riuer of Longfoile there the saide Colonell in shorte space fortified to the greate annoyaunce of Iohn Oneale and by greate foresight and experience guarded hymselfe and hys charge till the said Oneale to hinder and disturbe his abode there thâ—â— of NoueÌ„ber arriued with a great army of Kerne Galawglâ—ssâ—s and horssemen wyth whome the saide Captaine Randolfe encountred and him there so discomfited as after that conflicte he durste neuer approche the Quéenes power and to his perpetuall fame the said Captaine by reason of his bold and hardie onset that daye loste his life Charles Iames the sixth of that name sonne to Henrie Yong Prince of Scots christned Anno reg 9. Stuarte Lord of Darnley and Marie King and Quéene of Scots was borne in Edenberough Castel the ninetéenth of June last past and the eightéenth of December thys yeare solemnly Christned at Striueling whose Godfathers at the Christning were Charles King of Fraunce and Philibert Duke of Sauoy and the Quéenes Maiestie of Englande was the Godmother who gaue a Font of Golde curiously wrought and enameled weighing 333. ounces amounting in value to the summe of 1043. â— 19. s. The tenth of February in the morning Henrie Stuarte King of Scottes murdered Lorde of Darneley before named King of Scots by Scottes in Scotlande was shamefully murdered the reuenge whereof remaineth in the mightie hande of God The xxij of February the Lady Margaret Dowglasse couÌ„tesse of Leunex mother to the saide King of Scottes was discharged out of the Tower of London Within the space of ten moneths laste paste dyed seauen Seauen AldermeÌ„ deceased in LoÌ„don Aldermen of London the firste Edwarde Bankes deceassed the ninth of July Anna 1566. R. Chamberlaine late Sherife sir Martin Bowes sir R Malory sir William Hewet sir Thomas White late Maiors then Richarde Lambart one of the Sheriffes for that yeare the 4. of Aprill Anno 1567. The xxij of Aprill by greate misfortune of fyre in the 1567 The Tovvn of Ossestry brente thrice in thyrtie yeares Towne of Ossestrie in Wales twelue myles from Shrewsburie to the number of 200. houses to saye seauen scores wythin the walles and thrée score without in the Suburbes béesides cloth corne cattel c. were consumed whyche fire began at two of the clocke in the forenoone and ended at fâ—â—â— to the great maruelling of many that so great a spoile in fo short time should happen Two long stréets with great riches of that town were brent in Anno. 1542. And lykewise or worse in Anno. 1544. The xxiiij of Aprill the Sergeants
order of the Garter one of the Quéenes Maiesties priuy Counsell and Lorde high Treasorer of England at his Manour of Basing Thys worthy man was borne in the yeare of our Lorde 148â— the firste yeare of King Richarde the thirde and lyued aboute the age of 87. yeares in sixe Kings and Quéenes dayes He serued fiue Kings and Quéenes Henrie the seauenth Henrie the eight Edwarde the sixth Quéens Marie and Quéene Elizabeth All these he serued faithfully and of them was greately fauoured Hymselfe did sée the chyldrâ—n of hys childrenâ— children growen â—o the â—â—â—ber of â—03 Aâ—â—â—â— blessing gyuen by God to men of hys â—â—â—â—ing The xxv and xxvj of March by the commaundement of the Quéenes Maiestie hir Councel the Citizens of London assembling at their â—â—â—â—â—all Halles the Maisters chose oute â—he moâ—â—e 〈◊〉 â—â—◠〈◊〉 persons of euerye their companies to 〈…〉 eâ— of thrée thousande whom they appoynted to be Pikemen and 〈◊〉 â—hâ— Pikemen were forthwith armed in â—aâ—â—â—â—â—râ—eâ—â— and â—â—â—â—r furniture according there vnto the Gunners had euery of them hys Callyuer with the furniture and 〈◊〉 on theyr heaâ—es To these were appoynted dyuers valiant Capitaines who to â—â—aine them vp in warlike â—eaâ—◠〈◊〉 them â—â—râ—ce euery wéeke sometimes in the Artillery yarde teaching the Gunners to handle their péeces sometime at the Miles end and in Saint Georges fielde teaching them to skyrmishe In the whyche skyrmishe wythe Miles end the tenth of Aprill one of the 〈◊〉 of the Goldsmiths company was shot in the 〈◊〉 wyth a péece of a scowring sticke lefte in one of the Calyuers whereof he dyed and was buryed the twelfth of Aprill in S. Paules Churcheyarde al the Gunners marching from the Miles end in battaile ray shotte off theyr Calyuers at hys graue On May day they mustred at Grenewich before y e Quéens Maiestie where they shewed manye warlike feates but were hindred by the weather whych was all day showring they returned that nighte to London and were discharged on the nexte morrowe The fourth of May Walter Deueroux Lorde Ferrers of Earles of Essex and Lincolne created Chartley and Viscount of Herâ—fonde was created Earle of Essex And Edwarde Fines Lorde Clinton and Say hyghe Admirall of Englande was created Earle of Lincolne The eight of May the Parliament beganne at Westminster Barons made and that same daye in the Parliament by the Quéenes Maiesties Writtes sir Henrie Compton Knight Lorde of Comptâ—n in the Hole sir Henry Cheyney Knight Lorde of Tudington sir William Pawlet Knight of Basing and sir Henrie Norrice Knight Lorde of Rycote were called Barons into the higher house In this Parliament for so muche as the whole Realme of England was excéedingly pestred with Roags Uagabonds and sturdy beggers by meanes wherof dayly hapned diuers horrible murders theftes and other greate outrages it was enacted that all persons aboue the age of fourtéene yeres beyng taken begging vagrant and Roags brente through the â—are wandring misorderly shoulde be apprehended whipped brent through the griâ—â—le of the right eare with a hote yron of one ynch compasse for the firste time so taken The foure and twentith of May Martin Bulloke was hanged on a Gibbet by the Well with two Buckets in Bishoppes gate stréete of London for robbing and most shamefullye murdering of a Merchaunt named Arthure Hall in the Personage of Saint Martine by the saide Well Thys Martin hadde procured the saide Arthure Hall to come to the sayd Personage to buy of hym certaine Plate but after the saide Arthure hadde well viewed the same he saide this is none of your Plate it hathe Doctor Gardeners marke I knowe it to be his that is true said Martin Bullocke but he hath appoynted me to sell it c. After thys talke whyles the said Arthure was weighing the Plate the same Martin fetcht out of the Kitchen a thicke washing Béeâ—le and commyng behinde hym strake the saide Arthure on the head that hée felled him with the firste stroke and then strake hym againe and after tooke the saide Arthures Dagger and sticked hym and wyth hys knyfe cut hys throate and after woulde haue trussed hym in a Danske Cheste but the same was too shorte wherevppon he tumbled him downe a paire of stayres and after thinking to haue buryed hym in the Seller hys legges being broken with the fyrst fal and stiffe he coulde not drawe hym downe the Seller staires béeyng wynding wherefore he cutte off hys legs wyth an Hatchet and in the ende trussed hym with Strawe in a drye fat and saying it was his apparell and Bookes caused the same to be carryed to the water side and so shipped to Rye The sixe and twentith of May the right honorable Earle of Lincolne departed from London towardes Fraunce Embassador being accompanyed with the Lords Dacres the Lord Riche the Lord Talbot the Lord Sandes and the Lord Clinton sir Arthure Chambernowne sir Ierome Bowes and sir Edwarde Hastings Knightes wyth dyuers other Gentlemen who takyng ship at Deuer cutte ouer to Bolongne where they were very honorably receyued from thence conueyed by iorneys to Paris where they were lodged in a house of y e kings named Le Chasteau de Loure being attended on by the Kings Officers Fiue dayes after they wente to the King at a house called Madril where the Kyng wyth his two brethren the Admirall and the moste parte of the Nobles of Fraunce mette them a distance from the place and broughte them into the house where they dyned and remayned till Sondaye followwyng from whence the Kyng and hys nobles with the nobles of Englande came to Paris the Kyng his two brethren and oure Embassador ryding in one Coche togither and the Nobles of England and Fraunce being so placed also in Coches came to the saide Castell of Loure and there dyned After dinner the King our Embassadour with the Nobibilitie of bothe Realmes wente to a Churche named Saint Germaine where the Frenche King his brethren and Nobilitie hearde Euensong the Noble men of Englande withdrawing them into a Chappell til Euensong was done were then fetched thence by the Nobles of Fraunce to the Kyng and hys brethren that awayted their commyng where was League vvith Fraunce confirmed in Fraunce confirmed the league whyche hadde bin concluded at Blois the ninetéenth of April deputies beyng there for the French partie Frauncis Momorencie Reignold Virago Sebastian de Lanbespine and Paul de Foix. And for the Quéene of Englande sir Thomas Smith and Maister Walsingham Embassadors Thys being done they departed without the wals of Paris to a Garden of pleasure where they supped after supper the King departed to his place of Madrill and the nobles of Englande to the Castell of Loure On Monday the Admirall feasted the Nobles of Englande On Tuisday the Duke of Aniow the Kings brother and on Wednesday the Duke of Alanson hys yonger brother and so passed in banquetting and feasting wyth riche giftes on bothe partes On Fridaye the Nobles of
the streame and by the same carryed from the Conduit there towardes the Thamis wyth suche a swiftnesse that no man wyth staues or other wayes coulde staye hym tyll he came againste a Cart whéele that stoode in the water gate afore which time he was drowned and starke dead Thomas Blanke Anthony Gammage the 28. of Septemb. Sherifes Maior Iames Hawes Clothworker the 28. of October This Maior wente by water to Westminster and there tooke his othe as hathe bin accustomed he kepte no feast at No Maiors feaste at Guild hall the Guyld hall althoughe greate prouision hadde béene made for that purpose but dyned at his owne house wyth his brethren the Aldermen the Companies dined at theyr seueral Halles This was done by appointment of the Quéenes Maiesties Councell to auoide infection of the plague like to haue encreased by comming togither of such a multitude This wéeke from the two and twentith to the eighte and twentith of October deceassed in the Citie and Liberties contayning 108. parishes of al disseases 166. of the whiche number 75. were accompted to dye of the plague Michaelmasse Terme whyche hadde béene adiourned Terme adiorned by Proclamation began at Westminster on the sixth of Nouember The same sixth daye in the morning there hapned two greate Tydes at London in the Thamis the first by Tvvo tydes in one houre course the other within one houre after which ouerflowed the Marshes with many vaults sellers neare adioyning The fouretéenth of Nouember being Sundaye aboute midnight following diuers strange impressions of fire and smoke were séene in the ayre to procéede foorth of a blacke Cloude in the North towardes the South whych so continued till the nexte morning that it was day light The next night following the Heauens from all partes did séeme to burne maruellous ragingly and ouer our heads the flames from the Horizon rounde aboute rysing did méete and there double and roll one in an other as if it had béene in a cleare Fornace The eightéenth day at night were very stormy tempestuous Anno reg 17 of windes oute of the South I haue not knowne the like out of that quarter especially after midnight till the nexte morning that it was day light These are to be receyued as tokens of Gods wrath ready bente agaynste the worlde for sinne nowe aboundyng and also of his greate mercie who doeth but onely shewe the rod wherewith wée dayly deserue to be beaten Thys yeare at London after haruest the price of Wheate began by little and little to fall from seauen Shillings to thrée Shillings the bushell at which price it stayed little or nothing rising or falling all the yeare after but bay salte was raysed from thrée shillings to foure shillings fiue shillings Bay salt deare and sixe shillings the bushell the like whereof had neuer bin séene or heard within this Realme The four and twentith of February the feast of Saint Mathie Flyes in February the number strange on whiche day the faire was kepte at Tewkesburie a strange thing hapned there for after a floud which was not great but such as thereby the medowes néere adioyning were couered with water in the afternoone there came downe the Riuer of Seuerne greate numbers of flyes and béetels such as in Sommer euenings vse to strike men in the face in great heapes a foote thicke aboue the water so that to credible mens iudgement there were séene within a paire of butte lengths of those flies aboue a hundred quarters The milles thereaboutes were damned vp with them for the space of foure dayes after and then were cleansed by digging them out with shouels from whence they came is yet vnknowne but the day was cold and a hard frost The xxvj of February betwéene foure and sixe of the Earthquake clocke in the afternoone great Earthquakes happened in the Cities of Yorke Woorcester Glocester Bristow Hereford and in the Countreys about which caused the people to runne out of their houses for feare they should haue fallen on their heads In Tewkesburie Bredon and other places the dishes fell from the cupbords and the Bookes in mens studyes from the shelues In Norton Chappell the people béeing on their knées at euening prayer the ground moouing caused them to runne away in great feare that the dead bodyes woulde haue risen or the Chappell to haue fallen parte of Rythen Castell fell downe with certayne bricke chimneys in Gentlemens houses The bell in the Shiere hall of Denbigh was caused to toll twice by shaking of the hall c. On Easter day which was the third of Aprill about ix of the clocke in the forenoone was disclosed a congregation 1575 of Anabaptistes Dutchmen in a house without the barres of Aldgate at London whereof xxvij were taken and sent to Annabaptistes bare faggots at Paules Crosse prison and four of them bearing faggots recanted at Paules Crosse on the xv day of May in forme as followeth WHereas I. I. T. R. H. being seduced by the Diuell the spirit of errour and by false teachers his Ministers haue fallen into certayne most detestable and damnable heresies namely 1 That Christ tooke not flesh of the substance of the blessed virgin Mary 2 That infants of the faithfull ought not to be baptized 3 That a Christian man maye not be a Magistrate or beare the sword or office of aucthoritie 4 That it is not lawfull for a Christian to take an othe Now by the grace of God and through conference wyth good and learned Ministers of Christ his Church I do vnderstand and acknowledge the same to be most damnable and detestable heresies and do aske God héere before hys Church mercy for my sayd former errours and do forsake them recant and renounce them and abiure them from the bottom of my heart professing that I certaynely beléeue 1 That Christ tooke flesh of the substance of the blessed virgine Mary 2 That infants of the faithfull ought to be baptized 3 That a Christian man may be a Magistrate or beare the sword and office of aucthoritie 4 That it is lawfull for a Christian to take an othe And further I confesse that the whole Doctrine and Religion established and published in this Realme of England as also that which is receyued and preached in the Dutch Church héere in this Citie is sound true according to the word of God wherevnto in all things I submit my selfe and will most gladly be a member of the said Dutch church from henceforth vtterly abandoning and forsaking all and euerye Anabaptisticall errour This is my faith nowe in the whiche I do purpose and trust to stand firme and stedfast vnto the end that I may so doe I beséech you all to pray with me and for me to God the heauenlye father in the name of his sonne our sauiour Jesus Christ The like recantation was made by them afterwardes in the Dutch Church The xvij day of May about midnight folowing y
there were fouÌ„d aboute hym fiue diuelishe Bookes of Coniuration and most abhominable practises with a picture of Tinne of a manne hauyng thrée Dice in hys hande with this writing Chaunce Dice fortunately and dyuers papers of suche like matters as he had dealt in for men such as are mentioned in Leuiticus the twentith Chapter and sixth verse If any soule turne himselfe after suche as worke with spirites and after soothsayers to goe a whoring after them sayth the Lorde I wil put my face againste that soule and will cutte him off from among my people The third of February early in the morning Iohn Nelson Nelson executed for denying the Quéenes Supremacie and such other trayterous wordes againste hir Maiestie was drawen from Newgate to Tyborne and there hanged bowelled and quartred The seauenth of February one named Sherewood was Sherevvood executed drawen from the Tower of London to Tyborne and there haged bowelled and quartered for the like treason The ninth of Marche seauen Pyrates were hanged at Pirats hanged Wapping The fiftéenth of February Iohn de Ley a Frenchman fiue Englishe Gentlemen were conueyed from the Tower of London towarde Norwiche there to be araigned and executed for coyning of money counterfaite The tenth of March deceassed the Lady Margaret Countesse 1578 of Leunex and was buryed at Westminster the thyrde of Aprill The one and thyrtith of Maye Martin Frobisher wyth Frobishers third voyage fiftéene saile of good Shippes manned victualled and other wayes wel appoynted departed from Harwich in Essex on hys thyrde voyage towardes Cataya The one and thyrtith of July after many attempts and sundrye times being putte backe by Ilandes of Ice in hys straights he recouered his long wished Porte and came to Ancker in the Ilandes newly by hir Maiestie named Meta Incognita where as in the yeare before they fraughte theyr shippes with Golde Ore oute of the Mines and then on the laste of Auguste returning thence arriued safely in England about the firste of October George Bond Thomas Starkie the 28. of September Sherifes Maior Anno reg 21 Cassimere receyued Sir Richarde Pipe Draper the 28. of October The two and twentith of Januarie about seauen of the clocke at night Iohn Cassimere Counte Palatine of Rhene Duke of Bauare landing at the Tower of London was there by diuers Noblemen and others honorably receiued and conueyed by Cresset light and Torche lighte to sir Thomas Greshams house in Bishops gate stréete where he was feasted and lodged till Sunday nexte that he was by the Nobilitie fetched to the Courte at Westminster and after lodged in Somerset house On the eight of Februarie he was made Knight of the Garter and on the fouretéenth of Februarie departed from London homewardes with greate rewardes giuen by the Quéenes Maiestie the Nobilitie men of honor the Maior of London and the Citizens The fourth of Februarie and in the night following fel Deepe Snovve such abundance of Snowe that on the fifth in the morning the same was founde at London to lye two foote déepe in the shallowest and otherwise being driuen by the winde very boysterous in the Northeast on Bankes an ell or yard and halfe déepe in the whiche drifts of Snow in the Countries manye cattell and some men and women were ouerwhelmed and loste it snowed till the eight daye and fréezed till the tenth Then followed a thawe wyth continuall raine a long time after whyche caused suche high flouds that the Greate lande vvater floudes Marshes and lowe groundes being drowned for the tyme y â— water rose so high in Westminster hall that after the fall therof some fishes were founde there to remaine The seauentéenth of Februarie a yong man was hanged One hanged at Miles end in chaines on the miles end by London for murdering of a man in a Garden of Spepâ—n heath parishe The twentith of February deceassed sir Nicholas Bacon Lorde Keeper deceassed Lorde kéeper of the greate Seale of Englande who was honorably buried vnder a sumptuous Monument or Tombe by him in his life time erected in Paules Churche of London the ix of March He also in his life time gaue for sixe Scholers to be founde in Benet Colledge at Cambridge to eache of them thrée pounde sixe shillings and eight pence the yeare for euer The foure and twentith of Aprill fell such a snowe betwixt 1579 the houres of foure of the clocke in the morning and nine of the clocke before noone that at London some was fouÌ„d to lye almost one foote déepe The fiue and twentith of Aprill sir Thomas Bromley Knight was made Lorde Chauncelor of Englande Mathew Hamont of Hetherset by his trade a Plough Wright thrée myles from Norwiche was conuented before An Heretike brent at Norvviche the Byshop of Norwiche for that he denyed Christe â—â—t the time of hys appearaunce it was obiected that he had published these Heresies followyng That the newe Testament and Gospell of Christe are but mere foolishnesse a storie of menne or rathera mere fable Item that man is restored to grace by the méere mercy of God wythout the meane of Christs bloud death and passion Item that Christe is not God nor the Sauiour of the world but a méere man a sinfull man and an abhominable Idoll Item that al they that worshippe him are abhominable Idolaters And that Christe didde not rise agayne from death to life by the power of his Godhead neither that hée did ascende into Heauen Item that the holy Ghoste is not God neither that there is any suche holy Ghoste Item that Baptisme is not necessarie in the Churche of God neither the vse of the sacrament of the body bloude of Christ For the whyche heresies he was condemned in the Consistorie and sentence was read againste him by the Bishop of Norwich the fouretéenth of Aprill and therevppon deliuered to the Sheriffes of Norwich and bycause he spake wordes of blasphemie against the Quéenes Maiestie and others of hir Counsell he was by the Recorder Maister Sergeant Windham and the Maior sir Robert Wood of Norwich condemned to lose bothe hys eares whyche were cutte off the thyrtéenth of Maye in the market place of Norwiche And afterwardes the twentith of Maye he was brent in the Castell ditche of Norwiche This yere in the moneth of May Marke Scaliot Blacke A locke kaÌ„y vveyghed but one vvheate corne smith Citizen of London borne in the parish of Saint Clements wythoute Temple Barre for â—yall of Workemanshippe made one hanging Locke of Yron Stéele and Brasse of eleauen seuerall péeces a pipe Kay fyled thrée square wyth a Potte vpon the shotte and the bowe wyth two Esses all cleane wrought whyche weighed but one Graine of Gold or Wheat corne he also at the same time made a Chaine of Golde of 43. Linckes to the whyche Chaine the Locke and Kay being fastened and put aboute a Flyes necke she drew the same with ease all whyche
Christ 1539. And finished by the same K. Henry y e eight in y e yere 1546. Trinitie Colledge was founded in the tyme of Quéene Mary Trinitie Colledge by sir Thomas Pope Knight 1556. Saint Iohn Baptists Colledge was founded in the time of Saint Iohns Colledge Quéene Mary by sir Thomas White Knight late Maior of London in the yeare of Christ 1557. Oxford hath Halles Brodegate hall Harte Hall Magdalen hall Alborne hall Saint Marie hall White hall VValter Stapâ—ton VVilliam VVainflet Newe Inne Edmond hall IN the Uniuersities of Englande saith Erasmus Roterodame there be certaine Colledges in the whych there is so muche Religion so straight discipline in such integritie of life that if you did sée it you woulde neglecte in comparison of them all Monkish rules and orders All the Cities in Englande many Market Townes and some Uillages haue frée Gramer Schooles erected in them for the further encrease of learning and vertue Uertuous men haue to the perpetuall registring of their good names done these good déedes learned men haue not bin al the dooers Some therefore for the supplie in other of that whiche wanted in themselues haue done wisely al to this purpose that vertue and learning vnited and knit togither mighte in this our age make a learned vertuous world haue done godly It were muche they are so many in a small roume to comprehend them but the chiefe and worthy patrones of the rest are Eaton Schoole Henry the the sixth 1443. Westminster Quéene Elizabeth Winchester William Wickham Bish of Win. Paules Schoole in London Iohn Collet 1510. Saint Anthonies in London by Iohn Tat. Merchant Taylors Schoole in London by the Merchant Taylours 1560. FINIS ¶ A Table of the principall matters contayned in this Chronicle ABbot of Westminster putte to his shiftes Pag. 256 Abbot of Glastenburie commitied a filthy act Pag. 165 Abbot of Saint Albons his policie Pag. 152 Abbayes visited Pag. 1005. suppressed Pag. 1013 Aberconway builded Pag. 301 Abingdon spoyled Pag. 464 Acres of land in EnglaÌ„d numbred Pag. 165 Aduoultry punished by death amongst the Infidels Pag. 103 Adrian an Englishman Pope Pag. 207 Adam Tarleton Bishop of Hereford accused of treason and depriued of hys temporalties Pag. 346. his sophisticall letter Pag. 357. made Bysh of Worcester Pag. 359. Bishop of Winchester Pag. 367. dyed Pag. 393 Admiral of FraÌ„ce came to LondoÌ„ Pag. 1034 Albon first Martire Pag. 65 Albertus Emperour Pag. 66 Albons Church founded Pag. 105 Almesburie builded Pag. 134 Alfred King of West Saxons Pag. 122 Albe first King of South Saxons Pag. 94 Aldermen in London Pag. 268 Alice Perce Pag. 467 Ales Hackney being long buried was taken vp againe Pag. 869 Almes houses founded at the Crossed Friers Pag. 930 Alderman of London sent into ScotlaÌ„d taken prisoner Pag. 1031. Alderman of Southwarke first Pag. 2047 Ambassadours sente to Rome Pag. 1096. to Caleis Pag. 1069. from Sweden Pag. 1113. from Muscouie Pag. 1103 Amphabel Martire Pag. 65 Antonius Gordianus Pag. 64 Antonius Emperour Pag. 64 Antonius Philosophus Pag. 54 Androgius King Pag. 30 Andrewes Churche in Rochester founded Pag. 92 Andreds Cester Pag. 94 Andreds walde Pag. 117. in Sussex and Hamshiere Pag. 125 Anger a Castel in Essex founded Pag. 212 Anthonies Church in London builded Pag. 870 Agnes Dayntie on the Pillorie Pag. 745 Anabaptistes bare Faggots Pag. 1015. Anabaptistes brent ibid. Anabaptistes bare faggottes at Paules crosse Pag. 1181. banished Pag. 1184. brent ibi Anne of Cleaue died at Chelsey Pag. 1104 Anne Marchionesse of Pembroke Pag. 980 Answere of a Pope Pag. 395 Anthonies Church in LondoÌ„ built Pag. 870 Anne Sanders Anne Drurie and trustie Roger hanged Pag. 1169 Anth. Broune Knight of the Garter Pag. 1018 Annes Church in London brent Pag. 1039 Anne Askew with others brent Pag. 1033 Apollos Temple at Delphos Pag. 25 Apuldore in Kent Pag. 125 Apostata brent Pag. 255 Apparell appointed to Harlots Pag. 427 Archbishops of London Pag. 56 Archemalus King Pag. 5â— Archegallo King depriued Pag. 29 Archeflamins iij. Pag. 27 Archbishop of London reproueth Vortiger and is by him slaine Pag. 81 Arthur King Pag. 84 Archbishop of Yorke with his Crosse cast out of the Kings Chaple Pag. 184 Archbishop of Yorke plucked from his seate throwne to the ground beaten Pag. 211 Archbishop of Yorke drawne from the Alter to prison Pag. 220 Archbishop of Yorke couetous Pag. 264 Archbishop of Canterburie beateth woundeth the Prior and Chanons of Saint Bartholomew in Smithfielde Page 272 Archebishoppe of Yorke George Neuil emprisoned at Hames and his goods confiscate Pag. 733 An army sent to Landersey Pag. 1027 Archbishoppes Pallaice at Canterburie brent Pag. 1027 Articles of religion deuised by the king Page 1007 Arden murdered Pag. 1048 An Arian brent Pag. 1049 An army sent into Scotlande Pag. 1028 Arthure firste sonne to King Henry the seauenth borne Pag. 861 An army sent into Scotlande Pag. 870 Archbishop of Canterburie deceassed Page 1182. Archbishoppe newly elected of Canterburie Pag. 1185 Arthure of Britaine murdered Pag. 233 Asclepiodatus Pag. 67 Aurelius Probus Pag. 64 Aurelianus Pag. 64 Austine the Monke came into Britaine Page 91 Austins Churche at Canterburie founded Pag. 91 Auntient lawes of Englande remaine in Kent onelye â—52 Austins in Bristowe builded Pag. 213 Augustine Friers Churche in London Page 430 Aubrey de Ver created Earle of Oxford Page 515 Audley made Lorde Chauncellour Pag. 980 Knight of the Garter Pag. 1058 Aide sent into Scotlande against Edemborough Castell Pag. 1169 B. BAse moneys coyned Pag. 1029 Bayliffes of London Pag. 219 Bathe Abbey founded Pag. 105 Bachiler Maior of London Pag. 865 Bath a Bishops sea Pag. 172 Barons created Pag. 1090 Basianus Emperour Pag. 64 Basing Pag. 121 Bastard brother disheriteth the lawfull and after murdereth him Pag. 462 Bamburgh builded Pag. 20 Bangor builded Pag. 23 Bathe builded Pag. 22 Barons of the Britaine 's murdered Pag. 82 Britons state miserable Pag. 83 Banquetting house built in Callais Pag. 927 defaced by tempest Pag. 928 Barnardes Castell builded by Barnard Bayllioll Pag. 209 besieged Pag. 1138 Baynard Lorde of Dunmow builded Baynards Castle in LoÌ„don Pag. 178. throwen downe Pag. 242. newe builded Pag. 874 Barons in armor against King Iohn Pag. 245 excoÌ„municate by the Pope Pag. 246. Pag. 248 they sent for Lodowike Pag. 248 Barons in armor against King Henry the thirde Pag. 278 against King Edwarde the seconde Pag. 341 Bathe burned Pag. 189 Battell of the Danes at Ashendune Pag. 120 Battayle at Hasting Pag. 147. againste the Welche Pag. 188. of the Standard Pag. 190. at Lewes in Sussex Pag. 283. at Eusham Pag. 287. at Fankirke in Scotl. Pag. 306. at Striueling Pag. 333. at Morleys Pag. 390. of Crecie Pag. 396. on the sea Pag. 417. at Poyters Pag. 444. on the sea Pag. 465. at Shresburie Pag. 553. at Bramham Moore Pag. 570. of Agencourt Pag. 593. at Vernole in Perche Pag. 621. at S. Albons Pag. 674. at Northampton Pag. 699 Wakefield Pag.
707. at Mortimers crosse Pag. 708. at Towton Pag. 712. at Barnet Pag. 727. at Thewkesburie Pag. 728. at Stoke Pag. 863. at Blackeheath Pag. 870 Battel Abbey buylded Pag. 166 Battell of Gnats Pag. 509 â—arwike wonne by Edwarde the firste Pag. 306. betrayed Pag. 339. deliuered to the Scots Pag. 712. won by the Earle of Warwicke Pag. 715. wonne by the Scottes and recouered again by the Earle of Northumberland Pag. 477. 497 Barbican of London Pag. 373 Bay salt deare Pag. 1180 Bedford towne Pag. 105. Pag. 114. besieged Pag. 189 Bedforde Castle besieged Pag. 259 Benet a MoÌ„ke brought glasing into this land Pag. 111 Beda famous Pag. 111 Bewly builte Pag. 251 Beaufleete in Essex Pag. 125 Beuerley brent Pag. 215 Beranbridge Pag. 114 Bewmarise Castel builded Pag. 307 Beggers murdered Pag. 310 Biefe and Mutton first sold by weighte Page 999 Berking in Essex founded Pag. 100 Belins gate in London Pag. 27 Belinus and Brennus king Pag. 24 Beston Castel builded Pag. 254 Bermonsey founded Pag. 165 Bensintoâ— Pag. 114 Bishoprickes in England Pag. 2 Bishoprickes in Wales Pag. 11 Bishoppe of Excester drawne out of hys Church Pag. 279 Bishop of Chichester murdered Pag. 651 Bishop of Salisburie murdered Pag. 664 Bishop of Durham murdered Pag. 164 Bishop of Ely put to his shiftes Pag. 222 Bishops gate of London builded Pag. 746 Bishop of Rochester beheaded Pag. 1004 Bishops depriued Pag. 1112 Bishoppe of Winchester sent to the Tower Pag. 1039. depriued Pag. 1048 Bishops restored other displaced Pag. 1067 Bible commaunded to be had in euerye Church in Englishe Pag. 1013 Bilney burned Pag. 978 Bladud king Pag. 22 Blasing starres Pag. 116. Pag. 179. blasing star Pag. 179 285. 297. 636. 550. 3679. 1100. Blacke Heath fielde Pag. 688 870 Blacke Friers in Holborne Pag. 273 in London Pag. 298 Blanke charters burned Pag. 546 Blasing starre Pag. 182 Bledgabredus king Pag. 31 Blewbeard hanged Pag. 651 Bloude rayned Pag. 23. Pag. 117. Pag. 211. sprang out of the Earth Pag. 174. bloud of Hales Pag. 1014 Boniface his Epistle to Ethelbald Pag. 102 Bones of men monstrous Pag. 167 Bones of Arthur found Pag. 221 Bosten spoyled and brent Pag. 302 Bow Church suspended Pag. 302 Bow steeple builded Pag. 897 Booke written against Luther by King Henrie the eight Pag. 930 Booke of Common prayer set forthe Page 1054 Bokeland Pag. 297 Boloigne yeelded to the French Pag. 1046 Bonars heade broken Pag. 271 Bridge at London Pag. 3 Brute arriued in Brytaine Pag. 17 Brutaine so named of Brute Pag. 17 Brutaine deuided into three Pag. 18 Brother slue brother Pag. 24 Brytaine tributarie to the Brutaines Pag. 34 Brytaines barbarous Pag. 34 Brasen Image of Cadwaline cast downe Page 118 Brakenburie Conestable of the Tower Page 826 Bridge of London new made Pag. 204 Bridge of stone begun at London Pag. 211 finished Pag. 238 Bridge at Stratford vpon Auen Pag. 865 Bridges borne downe Pag. 299 Brimsburie with the bridge builded Page 130 Bristow Castel built Pag. 181. besieged Pag. 189 Brytains house in Holland Pag. 37 Brytains bodyes painted Pag. 59 Brentford Pag. 137 Bretan receyued the Faith Pag. 55 Bruite Greneshilde King Pag. 20 Bradford brent Pag. 1097 Bridwel giuen to the Citie of London Page 1057 Browne hanged in Smithfield Pag. 1168 Bursse begun in Cornehill Pag. 1129 Burton vpon Trent Pag. 135 Burgondie inuaded by the Englishe Page 457 Boundwica a woman of Britaine Pag. 40. 41. 42. 43. Britains had all things common Pag. 41 Bury Abbey spoyled and brent Pag. 353 Burial forbidden to W. Conqueror Pag. 167 Buckingham Castel builded Pag. 129 Bul hanged on the Bishops of Londons gate Pag. 1146 Burdet beheaded Pag. 747 Buriall of King Edward the sixth Pag. 1067 P. Burchet wounded Maister Hawkins Pag. 1175. founde an Hereticke ibid. kylleth his keeper Pag. 1176. hanged ibid. C. CArliele builded Pag. 21 Caratacus Pag. 38 Caligula his expedition into Britain Pag. 36 Caius Pag. 65 Canterburie builded Pag. 21. Castell buylded Pag. 34 Canterburie defaced by fire Pag. 270 Canterburie prouince deuided into Parishes Pag. 92 Canterburie brent Pag. 209 Canterburie ouerflowed by breaking out of bornes Pag. 294 Caporus King Pag. 31 Cassibelanus King Pag. 34 Cambridge builded Pag. 29 Cairleon vpon Vske builded Pag. 27 Capenus King Pag. 31 Carausius vsurped Britaine Pag. 65 Careticus King Pag. 88 Cadwalin King Pag. 88 Cadwalader King Pag. 89 Cadwine king Pag. 88 Catellus King hung vp oppressors Pag. 3â— Castels at Notingham Yorke and Lincolne builded Pag. 161 Cardife Castle builded Pag. 181 Carliele repayred and the Castell builded Pag. 172 Carlile a Bishops Sea Pag. 185 Canutus the Dane King of England Pag. 139 King of foure kingdomes Pag. 140 Cardinals robbed Pag. 337 Cambridge sore perished by fire Pag. 306 Cane in Normandy spoiled by E. Pag. 3. 394 Carliele consumed by fire Pag. 303 Caleice besieged by E. Pag. 3. Pag. 398. described and builded Pag. 400. yeelded Pag. 402 Caleice like to haue bene betrayed Pag. 410 Caleice besieged by the Duke of B. Pag. 639 Caleice lost by the Englishmen Pag. 1106 Castle at Ethelingey builded Pag. 123. Monasterie builded Pag. 127 Carcason in FrauÌ„ce burned by the English Pag. 438 Caple Alderman of London Pag. 868 Cardinal Wolsey the storie of his life vprising described Pag. 904 Cardinal Campeius came into Eng. Pag. 923 Cardinal Poole came into EnglaÌ„d Pag. 1093 Castel at Tourney built Pag. 922 Catte hanged in Cheape Pag. 1090 Cecilius King Pag. 28 Caesar Iulius his first voyage into Brytain Pag. 31. his second third voyage Pag. 32. subdued Brytaine Pag. 33. slaine Pag. 34. London yeelded to Caesar Pag. 33 Cerdike first King of the West SaxoÌ„s Pag. 113 Cerdikes Shore Pag. 113 Cerdikes Forde Pag. 113 Chester a Citie Pag. 21 Chesse a game deuised Pag. 23 Chartsey in Surrey founded Pag. 100 Chartley Castle builded Pag. 254 Christians first in Brytaine Pag. 5â— Chester repayred Pag. 129 Churchyardes appointed to Bury Pag. 117 Chastitie before beautie to be preferred Page 121 Charing Crosse Pag. 305 Children were eaten of their parentes Page 336 Chichester brent Pag. 182 Christes Church in London fouÌ„ded Pag. 180 Children of King Henrie drowned Pag. 183 Chester Abbey Pag. 172 Christ was borne Pag. 35 Children of Englishmen solde in common markets Pag. 107 Chipenham Pag. 121 Chichester builded Pag. 34. 94 Chipingham in Wilshire Pag. 123 Chichester brent Pag. 214 Chrisanthus deputie in Brytaine Pag. 77 Chirinus King Pag. 30 Chester repayred Pag. 54 Christ counterfaite Pag. 255 Charterhouse of London founded Pag. 406 Chicheley his testament Pag. 612 Church seruice altered Pag. 587 Chest in the Guild Hal of London Pag. 464 Chappell at Westminster for Henrie the seauenth Pag. 875 Christ Church suppressed Pag. 908 Charterhouse Monkes executed Pag. 1003. 1004. Charitable deeds of sir Iohn Allen. Pag. 1005 Charitie of Thomas Huntlowe Pag. 1016 Churches pulled downe Pag. 1038 Churche of Sainte Iohn by Smithfielde blowne vp Pag. 1040 Charnel house of Paules conuerted to dwellings
firste christned Pag. 115 Ile of Ely besieged Pag. 247 Ipswiche besieged Pag. 198 Iron gunnes first cast Pag. 1026 Irelande inhabited Pag. 28 Issue of William Conquerour Pag. 167 Istleworth by the Thamis Pag. 279 Isabel the Queene sent into France returned and made an army againste the King hir husbande Pag. 348. shee besieged Bristow Pag. 347 Ithancester a Citie in East Sax. Pag. 99 Iuall King Pag. 30 Iulius Frontinus a Romaine Pag. 45 Iulius Agricola a Romaine Pag. 45 Iulius Seuerus a Romaine Pag. 54 Iulius Amilianus Pag. 64 Iulius Maximus Pag. 64 Iulius Philippus Pag. 64 Iulianus Apostata Pag. 71 Iustices punished Pag. 304 Iustes at Lincolne Pag. 405. at Windsore Pag. 408. at Woodstocke Pag. 431. in Smithfielde Pag. 459 Iustes in Smithfielde Pag. 718. at Richmont Pag. 866. in the Tower of London Pag. 874 Iurâ—rs on the Pillerie Pag. 718 Iusting of Chalengers Pag. 1018 Iustes at Greenewich Pag. 1006 Iustes at Westminster Pag. 1151 Iustices condemned Pag. 507 Insurrection in the North. Pag. 864 Ill May day Pag. 923 Iuogo de Can a pastime at Court Pag. 1096 Images brent at Chersie Pag. 1013 Images forbidden Pag. 1036 Image of Thomas Becket defaced c. Pag. 1110 K. KInimacus king Pag. 23 Kymarus king Pag. 28 Kingdome of Northumberland Pag. 87 Kentish Saxons Pag. 89 Kings euill healed Pag. 145 Kensham builded Pag. 181 Kenelworth Priorie Castel built Pag. 181 Kenelworth Castel besieged Pag. 290. yeelded Pag. 291 Knighten guilde Pag. 102 Knarisborow Pag. 251 Kenington or Kingston Castle Pag. 283 King of Man Pag. 387 Kings a Prince and other Pag. 455 King Castle Pag. 465 King and Queene of Denmarke arriued in England Pag. 932 King Henries marriage with Queene Katherine called in question Pag. 959 King Henrie supreme head of the church Page 978 King Henrie the eighte besieged Turwine Pag. 898 Kings stable brent Pag. 1003 King Henrie married Lady Iane. Pag. 1007 King Henrie his gift to the Citie of LoÌ„don Pag. 1034 Sir Edmund Kneuet araigned for striking one in the Court Pag. 1021 King Henrie married Ladye Anne of Cleaue Pag. 1017 King Henrie Pag. 8. went to Boloigne Pag. 1029 Knightes made by the Earle of Sussex Page 1144 L. LAncaster builded Pag. 28 Lanthony founded Pag. 178 Late haruest Pag. 364 Labastie in FraÌ„ce brent by the Eng. Pag. 425 Lambert brent Pag. 1014 Lambeth Ferry drowned Pag. 1010 Leil King Pag. 21 Legion of the Romaines Pag. 21 Lecester built Pag. 22. repayred Pag. 130. Monasterie Pag. 206 Legetoun or Lutone in Hertfordshire Page 129 Leedes Castle in Kent built Pag. 163. besieged Page 342 Lewes in Sussex Pag. 172 Lesnes in Kent founded Pag. 212 Lewes arriued in England Pag. 249. returned into Fraunce Pag. 253 Legat put to his shiftes Pag. 266 Leaden Hall builded Pag. 649 Lewes de Bruges Lord Grantehuse made Earle of Winchester Pag. 738 Legate from Rome Pag. 959 Letanie in English Pag. 1029 Llhanpatren Vaier Castel builded Pag. 298 Licinius Valerianus Pag. 64 Licinius Gallicinus Pag. 64 Lichfielde an Archbish Sea Pag. 105. 110. 130 Lincolne Minster founded Pag. 109. a Bishops Sea Pag. 166. burned Pag. 183. besieged Page 191 Lincolne Colledge in Oxford Pag. 1217 Librarie at Yorke Pag. 112 Liganburge Pag. 114 Limen a Riuer Pag. 124 Lieth taken and spoyled Pag. 1028. besieged Page 1115 Lincolneshire men executed Pag. 1011 Liberties in Southwark purchased Pag. 1046 Liberties of the Stilyarde seased Pag. 1050 Lightning and thunder Pag. 1121 LondoÌ„ builded Pag. 18. tooke name of Lud. Pag. 31. repayred and made habitable Pag. 124 empaired by fire Pag. 134. brent Pag. 166. Pag. 185. Pag. 187. bridge brent Pag. 241 Liberties of London seased Pag. 274. taken and helde by the Earle of Glocester Pag. 292. vncurteous to the King Pag. 512 Liberties seased Pag. 513 London the Kings especiall Chamber Page 814 Locrine King Pag. 18 Lollius Vrbicus a Romane Pag. 54 Lombards goodes confiscate Pag. 376 Lord Cassels slayne Pag. 557 Loue to King Henry the vij Pag. 861. 864 Lord Dacres of the North arraigned Page 1003 Lone of money to the King Pag. 861. 864 Lord of merrie disportes Pag. 1055 Lord of misrule Pag. 1055 Locke and key weyed but one wheate corne Pag. 1195 Lud King repaired London Pag. 31 Ludgate builded Pag. 31 Lucius King Pag. 54. baptised Pag. 55 Ludlow Castell taken Pag. 285. towne spoyled Pag. 691 M. MAdan King deuoured Pag. 19 Marcus Antonius Pag. 64 Macrinus Emperour Pag. 64 Maximius a Romane Pag. 66 Maximus Emperour Pag. 71 Malgo King Pag. 87 Maldune in Estsex Pag. 99. 129 Martins Church at Douer founded Pag. 93. by Ludgate Pag. 88 Malmesbury buylded Pag. 115 Marius King Pag. 58. â—â—ew Roderike King of Pictes Pag. 54 Manchester repaired Pag. 130 Maior of London repaireth to Paules wherefore Pag. 158. Pag. 219. yearely chosen Pag. 237 rowed to Westminster Pag. 674. conseruer of the Thamis and Medway two Riuers Pag. 864. feast kepte at the Guild hall Pag. 874 Mawde the Empresse Pag. 190. obteyned the crowne Pag. 191. fled Pag. 192. beseeged Pag. 194. flyeth Pag. 194. Walingford beseeged Pag. 190. Pag. 195 Marleborough Castell beseeged Pag. 224 Mart at Westminster Pag. 271 Mad Parliament Pag. 276. at the new Temple Pag. 277 Martins Churche in the Vintrey newe builded Pag. 309 Margaret daughter to Edward the fourth marryed to the Duke of Burgoigne Page 719 Martin Swart Pag. 863 Merchants of England receyued with procession Pag. 872 Merchant Taylors Pag. 876 Maltot Pag. 490 Mayd boyled in Smithfield Pag. 102 Margraue and Marquesse of Baden landed at Douer Pag. 1127. returneth out of England Pag. 1129 Memprisius King deuoured Pag. 19 Merianus King Pag. 31 Mercians or middle England Pag. 88 100 Medeshamsted now Peterborough Pag. 101 Medway a Riuer Pag. 124. drie Pag. 181 Measures reformed Pag. 176 Men brought from new found Ilandes Page 875 Men drowned at London bridge Pag. 1059. againe Pag. 1067 Mercers Chappell in London Pag. 292 Midleton or Milton in Kent Pag. 125 Minâ—s or coyning places Pag. 130. in Ireland Page 239 Michelney Pag. 131 Minories without Aldgate founded Pag. 306 Middleton in Dorsetshire brent Pag. 330 Michaels Church in Crooked lane builded Pag. 462 Morgen King Pag. 22 Mortalitie Pag. 23. Pag. 336. more of kine Pag. 340 Mother slew hir sonne Pag. 24 Morindus King deuoured by a moÌ„ster Pag. 28 Morgan King Pag. 30 Mordred the Traytor slayne Pag. 86. hys children slayne Pag. 87 Monkes Pag. 1200. slayne Pag. 108 Monasterie at Winchester founded Pag. 127 Monster Pag. 235. 270 Monsters appeare Pag. 553. Monster Pag. 1053 Monstrous birthes Pag. 1117 Montgomery Castell founded Pag. 258 Monasteries rifled Pag. 162. 307 Monmouth Castell rased Pag. 286 Mortimer escaped out of the tower Pag. 346 Mortimer beheaded Pag. 362 Mayden of God Pag. 633. brent Pag. 634 Mouing of the earth Pag. 1150 Monkes goodes confiscate Pag. 376 Mooregate of London builded Pag. 587 Mercers prentises of London against the Pag. 8â— strangers Pag. 679 â— Monox his almes deedes Pag. 902
Mulmucius King Pag. 24 Muster of horssemen Pag. 1050. agayne Pag. 1052 Muster at Greenewich by Londoners Page 1112 Merchant Taylors freeschoole founded Page 1116 Mary Rose a Shippe drowned Pag. 1032 Men brent in the Hedgehog a Ship Pag. 1031 Mathew Hamont an Heretike brent Pag. 1195 Marmaduke Glouer hanged in Cheape Page 1209 Monstrous child Pag. 1212. 1213 Magdalen colledge in Cambridge Pag. 1220 Merton Colledge in Oxford Pag. 1221 Magdalen Colledge in Oxford Pag. 1217 Magdalen Hall in Oxford Pag. 1223 Mary Hall in Oxford Pag. 1223 Michaell house in Cambridge Pag. 1220 N. NOble men that came with William Conquerour Pag. 153 Names of Chantries taken Pag. 1006 Nero a Romaine Pag. 3â— Newcastell vpon Tine founded Pag. 172. the towne drowned Pag. 378 New Abbey by the Tower of London founded Pag. 407 Newgate of London builded Pag. 619. on fire Pag. 1100 New Testament first printed in english Page 967 Newman priest bare a fagot at Paules Crosse for singing Masse with good Ale Pag. 1010 New Coyne Pag. 1072 againe Pag. 1115. agayne Page 1117 Newhauen by Bolleine wonne by the French Pag. 1042 Nightwalkers in London did murther all they mette Pag. 209 Night as light as the day Pag. 1125 Norwich a Bishops see Pag. 173. brent Pag. 208. Pag. 294. citie walled Pag. 315. steeple brent Pag. 715. brent Pag. 890 Notingham brent Pag. 191. beseeged Pag. 198 Nonne Eaten founded Pag. 206 Northampton beseeged Pag. 282 Noble of gold Pag. 574 Newelme hospitall Pag. 652 Nunnes burnt in their Abbey Pag. 121 Nelson executed Pag. 1192 Newport towne ouerflowed Pag. 1209 New Colledge in Oxford Pag. 1217 New Inne in Oxford Pag. 1223 O. OCT auius Augustus a Romane Pag. 34 Order of the Garter founded at Windsore Pag. 415 Ocation made by the D. of BuckinghaÌ„ Pag. 811. the same Duke of Buckingham beheaded Pag. 845 Otto of Bromswike chalengeth combate with Iohn Duke of Lancaster Pag. 426 Owen Glendouerdew Pag. 551. Pag. 557. his sonne taken Pag. 563 Owen Tewther brake out of Newgate Pag. 640. beheaded Pag. 709 Oxford builded Pag. 20. an Vniuersitie Pag. 127. Castel builded Pag. 163. forsakeÌ„ Pag. 237. Orial Colledge in Oxforde Pag. 1221 Outâ—rier and Bell man for the daye Pag. 1123 Owes bridge borne downe Pag. 1126 P. PArkes Pag. 4 Policletus a Romaine Pag. 43 Pâ—te a riuer in Eastsex Pag. 99 ParliameÌ„t at Winchester Pag. 288. at Marleborow Pag. 293. at Westminster Pag. 297. at Barwicke Pag. 306. at Stepenâ—eth Pag. 309. at Carelile Pag. 319. at Northampton Pag. 326. at Yorke Pag. 343. at Northampton Pag. 358. at Salisburie Pag. 359. at Winchester Pag. 360. at Notingham Pag. 361. at Yorke Pag. 367. at Northampton Pag. 370. at London Pag. 372 Pag. 374. at Westminster Pag. 381. at London Pag. 386. at Westminster Pag. 387. Pag. 420. Pag. 427. Pag. 431. Pag. 458. Pag. 611. at London Pag. 619. Pag. 624. of Battes at Leycester Pag. 629. at Westminster Pag. 631. Pag. 636. at Bury Pag. 650. at Westminster Pag. 664. at London Pag. 679. at Couentrie Pag. 691. at Westminster Pag. 700. Pag. 713. Pag. 718. Pag. 738. Pag. 861. Pag. 86â— â—â—t the Blackefriers Pag. 932. 968 Paules Church in London founded Pag. 92. brent Pag. 166. repaired ibidem newe work Pag. 276. Pag. 335. weathercocke blowne downe Pag. 878. new Schole Pag. 894. steeple brent Pag. 1116. gates blowne open Pag. 1128. Parson of Saint Mildreds brent Pag. 859 Poultery prised Pag. 310 Pageants new made in London Pag. 930 Parishes in England Pag. 932. in London Page 1120 Paginton slayne with a gonne Pag. 1016 Pallace at Westminster brent Pag. 897 Patrike-Brumpton ouerturned Pag. 1188 Penisellus King Pag. 31 Petronius a Romayne Pag. 44 Pertinax Emperour Pag. 58 Peters Church in Cornehill a Bishops see Pag. 56 Pellagius a Britayne Pag. 73. an heretike Pag. 7â— confuted Pag. 78 Peterborow founded Pag. 101 Peterpence payd to Rome Pag. 116 Pestilence great in England Pag. 405 Pestilence Pag. 568 Saint Petroâ—us at Bodmin in Cornewall Pag. 131 Pestilence Pag. 271. Pag. 478. Pag. 510. Pag. 747. Pag. 166. Pag. 172 Peterborow burned Pag. 182 Peter of Pomfret Pag. 241. hanged Pag. 243 Peter Colledge Pag. 1216 Pierce Plowman his visions Pag. 387 Peterpence forbidden to be payd Pag. 461 Penbroke hall Pag. 1217 Pecocke Bishop of Chichester abiured Page 682 Perkin Werbecke Pag. 825. Pag. 868. Pag. 869. Pag. 871. hanged Pag. 873 Philip king of Castile landed in England Pag. 878 Pictes first inhabit the marches Pag. 28 Pickering builded Pag. 30 Pirthus king Pag. 31 Pilton priorie Pag. 131 Piked shoes forbidden Pag. 717 Pirates hanged Pag. 271 Priuiledges vnto Saint Edmondsbury Page 131 Priests married remoued Pag. 163 Priest at Masse slayne with thunder Pag. 208 Priests became theeues Pag. 460 Prisoners in Newgate and Ludgate dyed Page 586 Porchester builded Pag. 28 Porrex king Pag. 30 Portgreues of London Pag. 218 Porter of the Tower headed Pag. 586 Posterne by the Tower of London fell Page 642 Prodigious signes Pag. 31 Portesmouth Pag. 84 Popes authoritie abrogated Pag. 1003 Powled heads commanded Pag. 1004 Prouosts of London Pag. 218 Prouinciall counsell at Oxford Pag. 255 Proclamation againste the family of loue Pag. 1213 Prince of Wales the kings eldest son Pag. 311 Priuiledge to Clothworkers Pag. 373 Priorie and hospitall of Saint Bartholmew in Smithfield founded Pag. 178 Printing first Pag. 687 Preached at Paules Crosse Doctor Goddard Pag. 724 Prisoners of the Marshalsea brake out Pag. 877 Priests saying Masse apprehended Pag. 1177 Priories suppressed by Cardinall Wolsey Pag. 939 Prince Arthur married Pag. 874. deceassed ibidem Prisoner brake froÌ„ the sessioÌ„s house Pag. 959 Prince of Piamont came into England Page 1095 Prince of Orange conducted to the Tower of London Pag. 1095 Publicans whipped Pag. 203 Publicans with their bloudy procession Pag. 409 Plimmouth spoyled Pag. 556 Q. QVatbridge or Catwarbridge in Essex Pag. 126 Quaffing and drunkennes punished Pag. 133 Queeneheth in London Pag. 270 Queenes Attourney slayne Pag. 685 Queeneborough Castell builded Pag. 461 Queene tooke Sanctuary Pag. 724. 767 Queene of England chased Pag. 279 Queenes Colledge in Cambridge Pag. 1217 Queenes Colledge in Oxford Pag. 1221 R. RAmsey founded Pag. 133 Rampire builded at Caleis Pag. 401 Ralph Stafford slayne Pag. 498 Redargius King Pag. 31 Rebellion in Kent and Essex Pag. 480 Recorder of London Fitz William Pag. 817 Register booke in euery Church to bee kept Pag. 113 Religious houses graunted to the king Page 1015 Rimo King Pag. 30 Richborough Pag. 36 Riot and euill life the destruction of the Britaines Pag. 79 Ripendun or Ripon Pag. 122 Richarde the first King Pag. 216. tooke hys voyage to Hierusalem Pag. 220. taken prisoner Pag. 222. builded the walles of Vienna Pag. 223 Riot in London Pag. 292 Risebanke Castell builded Pag. 403 Rye spoyled Pag. 471 Richard Scrope Archbishop of Yorke rebelleth Pag. 563 beheaded Pag. 564 Richard the secoÌ„d made prince of Wales Pag. 468. crowned King Pag. 470. married Pag. 489. Pag. 518. entreth ScotlaÌ„d Pag.