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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08674	A caveat to the three kingdoms:, or, A summary account of the most miserable and deplorable estate and condition of England in the reign of king John, occasioned by his bringing in infinite multitudes of foreign forces : together with the base treachery of Lewis, the French King's son, and his great men, intended against the barons, who invited him in to their assistance : very well worthy to be seriously considered by all true English-men at this time of day / translated out of Matthew Paris.	Paris, Matthew, 1200-1259.	1696 (1696)	Wing C1616; ESTC R171128	5,839	8

A CAVEAT TO THE Three Kingdoms OR A Summary Account OF THE Most Miserable and Deplorable Estate and Condition of England in the Reign of King John occasioned by his bringing in infinite Multitudes of Foreign Forces TOGETHER With the Base Treachery of Lewis the French King's Son and his Great Men intended against the Barons who invited him in to their Assistance Very well worthy to be seriously considered by all True English-Men at this time of Day Translated out of MATTHEW PARIS One of our most Authentick Historians who lived at that Time LONDON Printed for ● Whitlock near Stationers-Hall 1696. A CAVEAT TO THE Three Kingdoms JOHN King of England Matt. Paris Fol. 268. Line 32. repenting of his granting of Magna Charta in the 17th year of his Reign after three Months stay breaking forth from the Isle of Wight sailed up to Dover whither his Messengers whom he had sent into Parts beyond the Sea resorting to him they brought with them out of divers Countries a multitude of Soldiers and Armed Men which struck all such as beheld them with Fear and Horror For there came from the Parts of Poictou and Gascony Noble Persons and Warriors Savaric of Malcon Geofrey and Oliver of Buteville Brothers accompanied with very Great Forces of Soldiers and Armed Persons who promised faithful Obedience to the King There came likewise from the Countries of Louvain and Brabant very courageous Men Walter Buck Gerard Sotin and Godeschal with Three Legions of Armed Men and Slingers such as thirsted after nothing more than Humane Blood Besides there repaired to the said King out of Flanders and other Foreign Countries all such who were greedy of other Men's Goods Debtors Exiled and Excommunicated Persons Murtherers all such to whom their Country was a Banishment not a Refuge such as these adhering to him gave this desperate King very great hopes of making Resistance against the Barons There likewise came Hugh de Boves a stout Soldier Ibidem 268 269. but proud and wicked to the Port of Calice in Flanders with an Innumerable multitude of Armed Persons to the Assistance of the King of England where having taken Shipping with all his Company he earnestly desired to sail for Dover but a sudden Tempest arising before they could reach their desired Haven they suffered Shipwrack and were all drowned in the Sea insomuch that as not one of 40000 Men escaped alive This great number of Men all came with their Wives and Children for England for this purpose that the Natives being expelled this Kingdom and utterly exterminated they themselves might possess this Land by a perpetual Right For the before-mentioned cruel King to the Leader of them yea this cruel Tyrant had given as it is reported by his Charter to the aforesaid Hugh de Boves that Seducer that Fugitive the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk Matt. Paris 274 l. 20. The King contrived how he might confound his Enemies namely the Barons of England and how he might provide Stipends for those foreign Nations which served under him at length the King got together two Armies that with one of them he might suppress the Eruptions of such Barons as were resident at London and that with the other he might destroy the Northern Provinces of England with Fire and Sword by laying waste whatsoever should come in his way These things were transacted at St. Albans the 13th of the Calends of January The Army which he left behind him was commanded by Warlike Men as W. Earl of Salisbury Falcasius the King's Brother who had no Bowels of Compassion Savaric de Malcon a Warrior and bloudy-minded with his Pictavians William Brievere an expert Warrior with his whole Power Walter Buck a Villain and Blood-thirsty Man with his most impious and ignoble Flemings and Brabantines noted for all kind of Wickedness There were also others with them whom to avoid Prolixity I for a time omit to mention Ibidem King John lays waste the Northern parts of England King John being now of a King become a Tyrant from a Man transforming himself into Brutish Cruelty went from St. Albans taking with him towards the North William Earl of Albemarle Philip of Albin●t John Marshal and of Foreigners Gerard of Sotin Godeschall with the Flemings and Slingers and other desperate People who neither feared God nor Man Who when for that Night he had rested a little at Dunstable rising before Day he took his way towards Northampton wasting all the Houses and burning the Seats of the Barons with his divided Forces in an Hostile manner he plundered taking Spoils and Cattel and thus destroying all things he made a miserable Spectacle to all such as beheld it And to heighten this Desolation and Malice of his the King commanded his Incendiaries to burn the Fences and Villages by casting Fire into them all along as they went that he might take pleasure in the sight of the Losses of his Enemies if they may be called Enemies who endeavoured to bring him to a sense of Clemency and Justice and by Rapine enrich those most outrageous Instruments of Iniquity whom He had under Him All Persons of whatsoever Condition Age or Rank they were were taken whosoever were found without the Church or Church-yard and being tormented after several ways were compelled to pay a most heavy Ransome according that of the Poet Quicquid delirant Reges plectuntur Achivi Kings scruple not what Outrage they commit But 't is their Subjects who must pay for it Such as were in any of the Fortresses of the Barons when they had Intelligence of the King's Approach leaving the Castles destitute and consulting their own Safety fled to secret Places quitting their Provisions with great Spoils and variety of Furniture as a Prey to their Enemies But the King placing his own People in the disfurnished Castles as has been above related with his most wicked Followers hastened to Nottingham In the mean time William Earl of Salisbury and Falcasius The Southern Parts of England depopulated with their Soldiers whom the King had dismiss'd at St. Albans appointed the Garrisons of VVindsor Hartford and Berkhamsted with a strong armed Body to have a watchful Eye upon such as passed to and from the City of London and to take care to cut off the Barons from Provisions Which being done they marching through the Counties of Essex Hartford Cambridge and Huntingdon were intent upon plundering and ravaging like Holofernes Fol. 275. Commander of the Assyrian Army made the Villages Tributary took the Men Captives burn'd the Houses of the Barons destroyed their Parks and Warrens cut down their Orchards and at last even in the Suburbs of London they set Fire and carried away an inestimable Booty And when Messengers from divers Places recounted these things to the Barons they looking upon each other said The Lord hath given The Lord hath taken away These things must be born with Courage And when amongst other Abominable Outrages committed by the