Admirall of the Seas which thing brought to passe be would deliuer the English Nauie into the hands of the sayde King Philippe Herevpon was he set at libertie and ouer hee commeth into Englande And for as muche as he was knowne to bee a manne of syngular and approoued valyauncye King Edwarde receyued hym verye courteously who remembring hys promysed practise to the Frenche King fell in hande by procuring friendes to bee made Admirall of the Seas But King Edwarde as God woulde haue it denied that sute The French king sendeth forth a fleet against englaÌ„d Abingdon The French king in the meane time hauing prepared his nauie coteining three hundred saile what with the Gasleys and other Ships for hee had got diuerse doth fro Merselles Genoa sent the same forth to the seas that vpon such occasion the king of Englande might also sende forth his Fleete But the Frenche name comming neare to the coast of Englande and lying at Ancre certaine dayes looking for sir Thomas Turberuile when hee came not at the day prefixed the Captaynes of the Frenche fleete appoynted one of theyr Vesselles to approche neare to the shore and to sette a lande certaine persons that knewe the Countrey to vnderstande and learne the cause of suche stay They beeing taken of the Englishe men and examined coulde make no direct answere in theyr owne excuse and so were put to death Abingdon Some write that they sent fiue Galleys towards the shore to suruey the coast of the which Galleys one of them aduauncing forth afore hir fellowes arriued at Hide neare to Rumney hauen where the English men espying hir to draw the French men a lande feigned to flie backe into the Countrey but returning sodainly vppon the enimies French men slaine A Gally burnt they slue the whole number of them being about two hundred and fifty persons They set fire on the Galley also and burned hir The Admirall of the French fleete kindled in anger herewith sayled streight vnto Douer and there landing with his people Douer robbed by the French robbed the towne and Priorie The townesmen being striken with feare of the sodaine landing of their enimies fled into the Countrey and raysed people on 〈◊〉 side the which being assembled togither in 〈◊〉 numbers towards euening came to Douer 〈◊〉 inuading such French meÌ„ as were strayed abroâ—â— to seeke prayes slue theÌ„ downe in suâ—… 〈◊〉 places The French Admiral which had bene 〈◊〉 at the day in pâ—…ring the towne The 〈…〉 hearing the noyse of those Frenchmen that came running towardes the sea side streight ways getteth him to his shipâ—… with such pillage as he could take with him The other French men whiche were gâ—…e abrode into the Countrey to fetche prayes and coulde the come to theyr shippes in tyme were statue euery mothers sonne Some of them hid themselues in the corne fieldes and were after slaine of the Country people Frenchâ—… 〈…〉 Douer There was little lesse than .viij. hundred of them thus slaine by one meane and other at that time There were not manye of the men of Douer slain for they escaped by â—…ight at the first entrie made by the Frenchmen But of women and children there dyed a great number for the enimyes spared none There was also an olde Monke slaine named Thomas a man of suche vertue as the opinion went 〈◊〉 after his deceasse many myracles through 〈◊〉 were shewed Sir Thomas Turberuile being troubled in his minde that he could not bring his trayterous purpose to passe beganne to assay another way which was to procure Iohn Ballioll King of Scotlande to ioyne in league with the Frenche K. but ere any of his practises coulde be brought aboute his treason was reuealed Sir 〈…〉 and he coâ—…st thereof was put to execution Nic. Triuet Nich. Tri. saith y t he had promised the French king to cause Wales to reuolt froÌ„ K. Edwarde and that by procurement of the Prouost of Paris he consented to worke such treason And as some write Caxton hee did not onely homage vnto the FreÌ„ch K. but also left two of his sonnes in pledge for assurance to worke that which he had promised His secretarie that wrote the letters vnto the French K. coÌ„teining his imagined treasons Abingâ—… with other aduertisements touching king Edwardes purposes fearing least the matter by some other meanes might come to light as well to his destruction as his maisters for concealing it disclosed the whole to the king He hauing knowledge that he was bewrayed by his seruant fled out of the Court but such diligence was vsed in the pursute of him that he was taken within two dayes after and brought backe agayne to London where he was conuicted of the treason so by â—…yâ—… imagined and therfore finally put to death This yeare the Cleargie gaue to the king the tenth part of their goodes the Citizens a sixt part and the commons a twelfth part or rather â—…s Euersden hath the Burgesses of good towâ—…s gaue the seueÌ„th and the commons abrode the .xj. peny â—…e death of â—…ble men The same yeare died Gilbert de Clary Earle of Gloucester which left issue behinde him be got of his wife the Countesse Ioan the kings daughter beside three daughters one yong sonne named also Gylbert to succeede him as his he yâ—…e The Countesse his wife after hir husbandes decease maried a knight of meanâ—… estate borne in the Byshoprike of Dâ—…resme 〈◊〉 Raule â—…uthermer â—…dded the â—…tesse of â—…ucester named Sir Raâ—…e Monthermer that that 〈…〉 Earle â—…ee fyrst husbande in hys lyfe tyme. The king at the first tooke displeasure herewith but at length thorow the high valiantie of the knight diuerse tymes shewed and apparantly approued the matter was so well taken that he was entituled Erle of Glocester and aduanced to great honor 〈…〉 Iohn Romain Archbishop of Yorke also this yeare died after whom one Henry de Newinarke dâ—…aue of the Colledge there succeded Moreouer the same yeare William de Valence Earle of Pembroke departed this life and lyeth buryed at Westmynster and then Aimer his sonne succeeded him â—…e king of 〈◊〉 concluâ—… a league â—…h the FreÌ„ch 〈…〉 Iohn king of Scotlande â—…anceth his sonne Edwarde Ballioll with the daughter of Charles on Valâ—…ys brother to the French king and conchideth with the sayde Frenche king a league against the king of England Nothing moued the Scottishe king so much hereto as the affection which he bare towards his natiue Countrey for he was a French man borne lord of Harecourt in Normandie which sâ—…gnorie was after made an Earledome by Philip du Valoys King of Fraunce â—…at VVest The Scottishmen had chosen .xij. Peeres that is to say foure Bishops foure Earles and foure Barons by whose aduise and counsayle the King shoulde gouerne the Realme by whom he was induced also to consent vnto such accorde wyth the French men contrarie to his promised fayth giuen to king
white horse another of Eouesham noted to be twelue or thirtéene miles in compasse the third of Aslesbyry y e goeth by Tame the roote of Ehilterne hils so to Donstable Newport panell stony Stratford Buckingham Birstane parke c. And likewise of the fourth of Whithart or Blackemore in Dorsetshire and also the Marshwood vale but forasmuch as I knowe not well their seuerall limites I giue ouer to go any farder in their description at this time In like sort it should not be amysse to speake of our fennes other pleasant bottomes 〈◊〉 which are not onely indued with excellent ryuers great store of fine fodder for neat and horses in time of y e yere whereby they are excéeding benificiall vnto their owners but also of no small compasse quantity in ground For some of our Fennes are well knowen to be eyther 10.12.16.20 or 30. miles in length that of the Gyrwis yet passing al the reast which is ful 60. as I haue often read 〈◊〉 Finally I might discourse in like order of the large commons laide out heretofore by the Lordes of the soyles for y e benefite of such poore as inhabite within y e compasses of their manours but as the tractatioÌ„ of them belongeth rather to the seconde booke so I meane not at thys present to deale wythall reseruing the same wholly vnto the due place whilest I go forwarde with the reast Of the generall constitution of the bodyes of the Brytaines Cap. 14. THose that are bredde in this Islande are men for the most part of a good completion tall of stature strong in body white of coulour and thereto of great boldenesse and courage in y e warres For such hath béene the estimation of english souldiers from time to time since our Isle hath béene knowne vnto the Romaines that wheresoeuer they haue serued in forrein countries the chiefe brunts 〈◊〉 seruice haue béene reserued for them Of their conâ—…uestes and bloudy battailes woâ—…ne in Fraunce Germany and Scotlande our histories are full and where they haue béene ouercome the victors themselues confessed their victories to haue ben so dearely bought that they woulde not gladly couete to ouercome often after such difficult maner In martiall prowesse there is little or no difference betwene Englishmen and Scottes for albeit that the Scottes haue béene often and very grieuously ouercome by the force of our nation it hath not béene for want of manhood on their partes but through y e mercy of God shewed on vs and his iustice vpon them sith they alwaies haue begun the quarels and offred vs méere iniurie with great despite and crueltie Leland noting somewhat of the coÌ„stitution of our bodies sayeth these wordes the Britaines are whyte in coulour strong of body as people inhabiting néere the north and farre from the Equinoctiall line where contrariewyse such as dwell towarde the course of the sunne are lesse of stature weaker of body more fearfull by nature blacker in coulour and some so blacke in déede as anye Crow or Rauen thus sayeth he Howbeit as these men doe come behinde vs in constitution of bodie so in Pregnancie of witte nimblenesse of lymmes and pollitike inuentions they generally excéede vs notwithstaÌ„ding that otherwise these giftes of theirs doe often degenerate into méere subtiltie instabilitie â—…rmis â—…genio â—â—tur vnfaithfulnesse and crueltie We therfore dwelling néere the North are commonly taken by forrein Hystoriographers and others to be men of great strength and little policie much courage and small shift thus doth Comineus burden vs after a sort in hys history But thanked be God that all the wit of his countrymen coulde neuer compasse to doe so much in Britaine as the strength and courage of our Englishmen not without great wisedome and forecast haue brought to passe in Fraunce Certes in accusing our wisedome in this sorte he doth in mine opinion increase our commendation for if it be a vertue to deale vprightly with singlenesse of minde sincerely and plainly without any suspicious fetches in all our dealinges then are our countreymen to be accompted vertuous But if it be a vice to coulour craftinesse subtile practises doublenesse and hollow behauiour with a cloke of pollicie amitie and wisedome then are Comineus and his companie to be reputed vicious How these latter pointes take holde in Italy I meane not to discusse how they are daily practized in many places of the maine and he accompted most wyse and pollitike that can most of all dissemble here is no place iustly to determine neyther woulde I wishe my countrymen to learne any such wisedome but that a king of Fraunce coulde say Qui nescit dissimulare nescit regnare their owne hystories are testimonies sufficient But to procéede with our purpose With vs 〈◊〉 doe liue an hundred yeares very many â—…oure sower score as for thrée score it is taken but for our enteraunce into age so that in Britain no man is sayde to were old til he draw vnto thre score These two are also noted in vs as thinges appartayning to the firme constitutions of our bodies that there hath not béene séene in any Region so many cartasses of the dead to remaine from time to time without corruption as in Britain and that after death by slaughter or otherwyse such as remayne vnburied by foure or fiue dayes togither are easte to be knowen and discerned by their friendes and kinred wheras Tacitus and other complaine of sundry nations saying that their bodies are tam fluidae substantiae that within certaine houres the wife shall hardely knowe hir husbande the mother hir sonne or one friende another after their liues be ended I might here adde somewhat also of the meane stature generally of our women 〈◊〉 beautie commonly excéedeth the faire 〈◊〉 those of the maine their comlynes of person and good proportion of limmes most of theirs y e come ouer vnto vs from beyonde the sea I coulde make report likewyse of the naturall vices vertues of all those y t are borne within thys Islande but as the tractation thereof craueth a better head then mine to set it forth so I will giue place to other men that list to take the same in hand Thus much therfore of the constitutions of our bodies and so much may suffice How Britayne grew at the first to be deuided into three portions Chap. 1. AFter the commyng of Brutus into this Island which was as you haue red in the aforesayd treatize about the yere of y e world 2840 or 1127 before y e incarnation of Christ he made a general suruey of the whole IslaÌ„d from side to side by such meanes to view and search out not onely the limites and boundes of his dominions but also what commodities this new atchieued conquest might yeld vnto hys people Furthermore findyng out at the last also a couenable place wherein to erect a citie he began there euen y e very same which at this day is called London namyng it Trenouanton
king also once in euery yere at certaine principall feastes whereat the king dyd vse to weare his crowne to repaire vnto him into Englande for the making of lawes which in those daies was done by y e noble meÌ„ or peres according to the order of France at this day To thich end he allowed also sundry lodgings in England to him his successours wherat to lye refreshe themselues in their tourneyes and finally a péece of ground lying beside the newe palace of Westminster vppon which this Keneth buylded a house that by him and his posteritie was enioyed vntill the reigne of King Henry the seconde in whose tyme vpon the rebellioÌ„ of William theÌ„ king of Scottes it was resumed into the king of Englands handes The house is decayed but the grounde where it stoode is called Scotlande to this day Moreouer Edgar made this lawe that no man shoulde succéede to his patrimonie or inheritaunce holden by knightes seruice vntill he accomplished the age of one and twentie yeares bycause by intendement vnder that age he shoulde not be able in person to serue hys king and countrey according to the tenour of his déede and the coÌ„dition of his purchase This lawe was receyued by the same Keneth in Scotlande and aswell there as in Englande is obserued to this day which prooueth also that Scotlande was then vnder hys obeysaunce In the yeare of our Lorde 1974. Kinalde king of Scottes Malcolin king of Cumbreland Macon king of Man and the Isles Duuenall bing of southwales Siferth and Howell kings of the rest of wales Iacob or Iames of Galloway and Iukill of westmerlande did homage to king Edgar at Chester And on the morow going by water to y e monastery of s Iohns to seruice and returning home againe y e said Edgar sitting in a barge stiering the same vpon the water of Dée made the sayd kings to rowe y e barge saying that his successors might well be ioyefull to haue the prerogatiue of so great honour and the superiority of so many mightie princes to be subiect vnto their monarchie Edward the sonne of this Edgar was next king of Englande in whose tyme this Keneth kyng of Scots caused Malcolme prince of Scotlande to be poysoned wherupon king Edwarde made warre agaynst him which ceassed not vntill this Keneth submitted himselfe and offered to receyue him for prince of Scotlande whome king Edward woulde appoint herevpon Edwarde proclaymed one Malcolme to be prince of Scotlande who immediately came into Englande and there dyd homage vnto the same King Edwarde Etheldred brother of thys Edwarde succéeded next ouer Englande against whome Swayn kyng of Denmarke conspired with this last Malcolme then king of Scots But shortly after this Malcolme sorowfully submitted himself into the defence of Etheldred who considering how that which coulde 〈◊〉 be amended must only be repented benignelye receyued him by helpe of whose seruice at last Etheldred recouered hys realme againe out of the handes of Swayn and reigned ouer the whole Monarchy eyght thirtie yeares Edmund surnamed Ironside sonne of this Etheldred was next king England in whose tyme Canutus a Dane inuaded the realme with much crueltie but at last he marryed w t Emme sometime wyfe vnto Etheldred and mother of this Edmund which Emme as arbitratrix betwéene hir naturall loue to the one and 〈…〉 procured such 〈…〉 them in the ende that 〈…〉 the realme with Canutus kéeping to himselfe all 〈…〉 all the râ—… 〈…〉 Humber with the seignorie of Scotlande to this Canutus â–ª whervpon Malcolme then king of Scottes after a little customable resistâ—…nce dyd homage to the same Canutus for kingdome of ScotlaÌ„d and thus the sayde Canutus helde the same ouer of this Edmond king of Englande by the lyke seruices This Canutus in memorie of his victorie and glorie of his seignorie ouer the Scottes commaunded this Malcolme their king to buylde a Church in Bâ—…hâ—…haâ—… in Scotland where a fielde betwéene him and them waâ—… fought to be dedicate to Olâ—…uâ—… patrone of Norway and Denmark which Church was by the same Malcolme accordingly perfourmed Edwarde called the confessour sonne of Etheldred and brother to Edmond Ironside was afterward king of england He toke froÌ„ Malcolme king of Scottes his lyfe and hys kingdome and made Malcolme sonne to the king of Cumbrelande and Northumbrelandâ—… king of Scottes who dyd him hâ—â—age and fealtie Thys Edwarde perused the olde lawes of the realme and somewhat added to some of them as to the lawe of Edgar for the wardshippe of the landes vntyll the heirs shoulde accomplishe the age of one twentie yeares he added that the marryage of such heire shoulde also belong to the Lorde of whom the same lande was holden Also that euery woman marrying a frée man shoulde notwithstanding she had no children by that husbande enioye the thirde part of his inheritaunce during hir lyfe with many other lawes which the same Malcolme king of Scottes obeyed And which aswel by them in Scotlande as by vs in Englande be obserued to this day and directly prooueth the whole to be then vnder his obeysaunce By reason of this law Malcolme the sonne of Duncane next inheritour to the crowne of Scotlande being within age was by the nobles of Scotlande deliuered as warde to the custome of this king Edwarde during whose minoritie one Makebeth a Scot trayterously vsurped the crowne of Scotland against whom this king Edward made warre in which the said Makebeth was ouercome and slayne whervpon y e said Malcolme was crowned king of Scottes at Stone in the viij yere of the reigne of this king Edward Thys Malcolme by 〈◊〉 of the sayde nâ—… 〈…〉 of wardship was marryed vnto Margarâ—â— the daughter of Edward sonne of Edmond Ironside and Agatha by the disposition of the same king Edward and at his ful age dyd homage to this king Edward for this kingdome of Scotland Moreouer Edwarde of Englande hauing 〈…〉 of his body and mistrusting that Marelde the sonne of 〈…〉 of the daughter of Harolde Hâ—â—efoote 〈…〉 worlde 〈…〉 the raâ—…ne if he should 〈◊〉 it to his cosin Edgar Edâ—â—â—g being theÌ„ within age and 〈◊〉 by the peticion of his 〈◊〉 â—â—ctes â—…â—…ho before had â—…rne neuer to receiue 〈…〉 writing as all 〈◊〉 clergy writers affirme 〈◊〉 the crowd of great Britaine vnto William their duke of Normandie and to his heires constituting hâ—… his heire testamentarie Also there was proximiteâ—… in bloude betwéene theÌ„ for Emme daughter of Richarde duke of Normandye was wife vnto Etheldred 〈◊〉 whom he begat Aâ—â—red and able Edwardâ—… and this William was sonne of Robert sonne of Richarde brother of the whole bloud to in the same Eâ—â—e whereby appeareth that this William was Heire by tytle and not by 〈◊〉 albeit that partly to extinguish the mistrust of other tytles and partely for the glory of hys 〈◊〉 he chalenged in the ende the name of a 〈◊〉 hath bene so written euer fithâ—…s his aâ—…riâ—…ll This king William called the
the huge proportion of their stature sithens as before is sayd that age brought foorth far greater men than are now liuing as also for that they were the firste or at the least the furthest in remembrance of any that had inhabited this countrey For this word Gigines or rather Gegines from whence our word giant as some take it is deriued is a greek word and signifieth borne or bred of or in the earth for our foreelders specially the Gentiles being ignorant of the true beginning of mankind were perswaded that the first inhabitaunts of any couÌ„trey were bred out of the earth and therfore when they could go no higher reckening the discented of their predecessours Terraefilius vvhat is â—…s â—â—fyeth they wold name him Terraefilius the sonne of the earth and so the Giants which the Poets fain to haue sought to make batayle against heauen are called the sonnes of the earth and the first inhabitantes generally of euery countrey wer of the Grekes called Gigines or Gegines and of the Latines Aborigines Aborigines Indiganâ—… and Indiganae that is people borne of the earth from the beginning and coÌ„ming from no other countrey but bred within the same And these Giaunts and first inhabitauntes of thys Isle continued in their beastly kinde of lyfe vnto the arriuall of the Ladies whiche some of our chronicles ignorantly write to be the daughters of Dioclesian the king of Assiria wheras in dede they haue bene deceiued in taking the worde Danaus to bee short written for Dioclesianus The mystakâ—… of the 〈◊〉 Dioclesianus Danaus and by the same meanes haue dyuers wordes and names bene mistaken bothe in our Chronicles and in diuerse other aunciente written woorkes But this is a faulte that learned men shoulde not so muche trouble themselues about considering the same hath bin alreadie founde by sundry authors long sithence as Hugh the Italiane Iohn Harding and Iohn Rouse of Warwicke Hughe the Italyan Hardyng Iohn Rous out of Dauid Pencair and others speciallye by the healpe of Dauid Pencair a Britishe historicien who recite the Historie vnder the name of Danaus and his daughters and bycause we would not any man to thinke that the historie of these daughters of Danaus is onely of purpose deuised brought in place of Dioclesian to excuse the imperfection of our writers whereas there was eyther no such historie or at the least no such women that arriued in this Isle Nennius the authoritie of Nennius a Briton writer may be auouched who wrote aboue ix C yeares past and maketh mencion of the arriuall of suche ladies Belus Priscus To bee shorte the Historie is thus Belus the sonne of Epaphus or as some wryters haue of Neptune and Libyes Dictionarium poeticum whom Isis after the death of Apis maried hadde issue two sonnes the first Danaus called also Armeus and Egyptus called also Rameses and these two were kings among the Egyptians Danaus Aegyptus Danaus the elder of the two hauyng in his rule the vpper region of Egypt Higinus had by sundry wiues .50 daughters whiche his brother Aegyptus gaping for the dominion of the whole did instantly desire that his sons being also .50 in number might matche with those fifty ladies But Danaus hauing knowledge by some prophecie or oracle that a sonne in law of his shoulde be his death refused so to bestowe his daughters Herevpon grew warre betwixt the brethreÌ„ in the end wherof Danaus being the weaker was inforced to flee his countrey whervpon he prepared a nauie imbarqued himselfe his daughters and with them passed ouer into Greece where he found meanes to dispossesse Gelenor sonne to Stenelas king of Argos of his rightfull inheritance driuing him oute of his countreye and reigned in his place by the assistance of the Argiues themselues that had conceyued an hatred towardes Gelenor and a great likyng towardes Danaus who in very deede did so farre excell the kings that had reigned there before hym that the Greekes in remembraunce of hym were after called Danai But his brother Aegyptus taking greate disdayne for that hee and his sonnes were in suche sorte despised of Danaus sente his sons with a greate armie to make warre on theyr Vncle giuing them in charge not to returne tyll they had eyther slayne Danaus or obteyned his daughters in mariage The yong Gentlemen accordyng to theyr fathers commaundemente beeing arriued in Greece made such warre agaynste Danaus that in the ende he was constrayned to gyue vnto those his fifty nephues his .50 daughters to ioyn with them in mariage so acordingly maried they were but as the prouerb sayth In trust appeared treacherie for the first night of the mariage Danaus deliuered to eche of his daughters a sworde chargyng them that when their husbands after their banquets and pastimes were once brought into a souÌ„d slepe eche of them should slea hir husband menacing them with death vnlesse they fulfilled his commaundement They all therfore obey the will of their father Hypermnestra onely excepted with whom preuayled more the loue of kinred and wedlock than the feare of hir fathers displeasure for shee alone spared the lyfe of hir husbande Lynceus wakening him out of his sleepe and warning hym to departe and flee into Egypt to his father He therfore hauing all the wicked practise reuealed to hym by his wyfe followed hir aduise and so escaped But when Danaus perceiued howe all his daughters had accomplished his coÌ„maundemeÌ„t sauing onely Hypermnestra Pausanias he caused hir to be brought forth into iudgemeÌ„t for disobeying him in a matter wherin both the safetie losse of his life rested but she was acquit by the Argiues and discharged howbeit hir father kept hir in prison and seeking to fynde oute other husbandes for his other daughters that hadde obeyed his pleasure in sleaing their firste husbandes long it was ere he coulde fynde any to matche with them for the heynous offence committed in the slaughter of their late husbandes was yet too freshe in memorie and their bloud not wiped out of mynde But yet neuerthelesse to bring his purpose the better to passe he made proclamation that his daughters should demaunde no ioynters and euery suter shuld take his choyce without respect to the age of the ladie or abilitie of him that came to make his choyce but so as fyrste come beste serued according to their owne phantasies and likings But when this policie also fayled and would not serue his turne he deuised a game of running ordeining therwith that who soeuer got the best price should haue the first choyce among all the sisters and he that got the second shuld choose next to the fyrst and so foorth eche one after an other accordyng to the tryall of theyr swyftenesse of foote How muche this practise auayled I knowe not but certain it is diuers of them were bestowed either by this means or by some other for we finde that Autonomes was maried to Architeles Chrysantas
After this about the .xxj. yeare of his raigne Anno. 708 as is noted by Mat. VVest king Inas and his cosin Nun fought with â—…erent king of the Brytaynes In the beginning of the battaile one Higelbald a noble man of the West Saxons part was slaine H. Hunt but in the ende Gerent with his Brytains was chased In the .xxvi. yeare of his raigne Mat. VVest hath 718. the same Inas fought a mightie battaile against Cheolred King of Mercia at Wâ—â—enesburie with doubtfull victorie for it could not well be iudged whether part susteyned greater losse In the .xxxvi. yeare of his raigne king Inas inuaded the South Saxons with a mightie armie and 〈◊〉 in battaile Ealdbright or 〈◊〉 king of the South Saxons ioyned that kingdome vnto the kingdome of the West Saxons Mat. VVest hath 722. so that from thence forth the kingdome of those South Saxons ceassed after they had raigned in that kingdome by the space of fiue kings successiuely that is to wit â—…lla Cissa Ethelwalke The end of 〈◊〉 kingdome of the South Saxoes Berutius and this last Aldhinius or Ealdbright Finally when Inas had raigned .xxxvij. yeares and .x. or .xj. odde Monethes hee renounced the rule of his kingdome togither with all worldly pompe and went vnto Rome as a poore pylgryme Inas went to Rome and there dyed and there ended his life But before this during the time of his raigne hee shewed himselfe verie deuout and zealous towardes the aduauncement of the Christian Religion He made and ordeyned also good and wholesome lawes for the amendment of maners in the people whiche are yet extant and to bee reâ—â—e written in the Saxon tongue and translated into the Latine in tymes past and nowe lately agayne by maister William Lambert and imprinted by Iohn Day in the yeare .1568 togither wyth the lawes and Statutes of other Kings before the Conquest as to the learned it may appeare Moreouer king Ine or Inas buylded the Church of Welles dedicating it vnto saint Andrew where afterwardes a Bishops Sea was placed which at length was translated vnto Salisburie Ethelburga He had to wife one Ethelburga a woman of noble lynage who had beene earnest in hande with him a long time to perswade him to forsake the worlde but shee could by no meanes bring hir purpose to passe VVil. Malm. till vppon a time the king and she had lodged at a Manor place in the Countrey where all prouision had beene made for the receyuing of them and theyr trayne in most sumptuous manner that might be as well in riche furniture of householde as also in costly viandes and all other things needefull or that might serue for pleasure and when they were departed the Queene the foresayde Ethelburga caused the keeper of that house to remoue all the bedding The deuise of Queene Ethelburga to perswade hir husband to forsake the world hangings and other such things as had beene brought thither and ordeyned for the beautifull setting forth of the house and in place therof to bring ordure strawe and suche lyke fylth as well into the Chambers and Haâ—â— as into all the houses of office and that done to lay a Sowe wyth Pigges in the place where before the kings bed had stoode Herepon when she had knowledge that euerye thing was ordered according to hir appoyntment she perswaded the King to returne thyther agayne feyning occasions great and necessarieâ—… After he was returned to that house whiche before seemed to the eye a Palace of moste pleasure and nowe fynding it in suche a fylthie sâ—â—te as might lothe the stomacke of any man to beholde the same shee tooke occasion thereof to perswade him to the consideration of the 〈◊〉 pleasures of this worlde whiche in a moment turned to naught togyther with the corruption of the fleshe beeing a fylthie lumpe of Claye after it shoulde once be dyssolued by death and in fine where before shee had spente muche labour to moue hym to renounce the Worlde though all in vayne yet nowe the beholding of that chaunge in his pleasant Palayce wherein â—…o late hee had taken so greate delight wrought suche an alteration in hys mynde that hir wordes lastlye tooke effecte so that hee resigned the Kingdome to his cousin Ethelard and went himselfe to Rome as aboue iâ—… mentioned and his wife became a Nunne in the Abbey of Barking where she was made Abbesse and finally there ended hir lyfe This Inas was the fyrst that caused the money called Peter pens Peter pens to bee payde vnto the Bishop of Rome which was for euery houshold within his dominion a pennie In this meane time Edilred or Ethelred hauing gouerned the Kingdome of Mercia by the terme of .xxix. yeares King Ethelred becommeth a Monke became a Monke in the Abbey of Bardeny and after was made Abbot of that house Ostrida He had to wyfe one Ostryda the sister of Ecgfride King of Northumberlande by whome hee had a sonne named Ceolred But he appoynted Kenred the sonne of his Brother Vulfhere to succeed him in the kingdome Beda in Epit. The sayde Ostrida was cruelly slaine by the treason of hir husbandes subiectes about the yeare of our Lorde .697 697 King Kenreds The foresayde Kenred was a Prince of greate vertue deuoute towardes God a furtherer of the common wealth of his Countrey and passed hys lyfe in greate synceritye of maners In the fifth yeare of his raigne he renounced the worlde and went to Rome togither with Offa king of East Saxons where he was made a Monke â–ª and finally dyed there in the yeare of our Lord .711 711 Nauclerus By the ayde and furtherance of this Kenred a Monke of Saint Benetâ—… order cleped Egwin buylded the Abbay of Euâ—…shame Egwin Bishop of Worcester Afterwardes the same Egwine was made Bishoppe of Worcester Wee finde it recorded by wryters that this Egwine had warning giuen to him by visions as hee constantly affyrmed before Pope Constantine to set vp an Image of our Laâ—â—eâ—… in his Churche Herevppon the Pope approuing the testifications of this Byshoppe by hys Bulles wrytte to Bryghtwalde the Archebyshoppe of Canterburie to assemble a Synode and by authoritie thereof to establishe the vse of Images charging the kings of this lande to bee present at the same Synode vpon paine of excommunication This Sinode was holden about the yeare of our Lorde .712 in the dayes of Inas King of West Saxons Bale 710. and of Ceolred king of Mercia successor to the foresayde Kenred After Kenred succeeded Ceolredus the sonne of his vncle Edilred and died in the .viij. yeare of his raigne Harison hath three onely Henric. HuÌ„t and was buried at Lichfielde Then succeeded Ethelbaldus that was discended of Eopa the brother of king Penda as the fourth from hym by lineall succession Thys man gouerned a long time without any notable trouble some warres he had and sped diuersly In the
to ioyn with him against the Englishmen that with coÌ„mon agreement they might sette vpon the englishe nation and vtterly subdue them King Edw. hauing intelligence hereof King Edvvard inuadeth the countrey of the Eastangles purposed to preuent him therevpon entryng with an armie into his countrey cruelly wasted spoyled the same K. Erick hauing alreadie his people in armour through displesure conceiued hereof and desire to be reuenged hasted foorthe to encounter his enimies And so they met in the field fiercely assayled eche other But as the battaile was rashly begon on king Ericks side so was the end very harmeful to him Ericke put to flight for with small a doe after great losse on his side was he vanquished and put to flight And after his comming home bycause of his great ouerthrowe and foule discomfiture he began to gouerne his people with more rigour and sharp dealing thaÌ„ before time he had vsed Wherby he prouoked the malice of the Eastangles so highly against him y t they fell vpon him murthered him yet did they not gain so much hereby as they looked to haue doone for shortely after they being brought lowe The kingdome of the Eastangles subdued by K. Edvvard and not able to defende their countrey were compelled to submit them selues vnto king Edw. And so was that kingdome ioyned vnto the other dominions of the same king Edwarde who shortly after annexed also the kingdome of Mercia vnto other of his dominions immediatly vpon the death of his sister Elfleda whome he permitted to gouern that countrey during hir lyfe And not without good reason for by hir wyfe politike order vsed in all hir doings he was greately furthered and assisted But namely in reparing and buyldyng of Townes and Castelles H. Hunt Mat. VVest Sim. Dunel shee shewed hir noble magnificence in so muche that during the time of hir gouernaunce whiche continued an eyght yeares it is recorded by wryters that she did buylde and repare these Townes whose names heere ensewe 〈…〉 and VVarvvike 91â—… Thamwoorth beside Lichefielde Stafford Warwike Shrewsburye Watersbury or Weddesbury Elilesbury or rather Edbury in the forest of De la mere besides Chester Brimsbery bridge vpon Seuerne Rouncorn at the mouth of the riuer of Mercie with other Chester repared 905. Sim. Dunel Moreouer by hir helpe the citie of Chester whiche by Danes had bin greately defaced was newly repaired fortified with walles and turrets and greatly enlarged So that the castell whiche stoode without the walles before that tyme was now brought within compasse of the new wall Moreouer she boldely assaulted hir enimyes whiche wente aboute to trouble the state of the countrey as the Welchemen and Danes She sent an armie into Wales Queene of the VVelchmen taken Brecanamere Ran. Higd. H. Hunt 918. Derby vvon from the Danes and tooke the towne of Brecknocke with the Queene of the Welchmen at Bricennamere Also she wan from the Danes the towne of Darby and the countrey adioyning In this enterprise she put hir owne person in great adueÌ„ture for a great multitude of Danes y t were withdrawen into Derby valiaÌ„tly defended the gates and entries insomuche that they slew foure of hir chief men of warre which wer named Wardens of hir person euen fast by hir at the very entrie of the gates But his notwithstanding with valiaÌ„t fight hir people entred and so the towne was wonne she gotte diuers other places out of their handes and constrained them of Yorkeshire to agree with hir so that some of them promised to become hir subiectes Some promised to ayde hir and some sware to be at hir coÌ„maundement Finally this martiall Lady and manly Elfleda H. Hunt the supporter of hir couÌ„treymen and terrour of the enimies Anno Christi 919. Mat. VVest St. Dunelm departed this life at Thamworth aboute the .xij. of Iune in the xviij or rather .xix. yeare of hir brother king Edwards reigne as by Math. West it should appeare But Simon Dunelm writeth that she deceassed in the yeare of Christ .915 which should be about the .xiiij. yeare of king Edwards reign Hir bodie was conueyed to Gloucester and there buried within the monasterie of S. Peter which hir husband and she in their life tyme had buylded and translated thither the bones of Sainct Oswyll from Bardona Ranul The same monasterie was after destroyed by Danes But Aldredus the archbishop of Yorke who was also bishop of Worcester repared an other in the same Citie that was after the chiefe Abbey there After the decease of Elfieda king Edwarde toke the dominion of Mercia as before we haue sayde into his owne handes and so disinherited his neece Alfwen or Elswen the daughter of Elfleda This Alfvven vvas sister to Edelfled as H. Hunt hath takyng hir awaye wyth him into the countrey of Westsaxons By thys meanes he so amplifyed the boundes of his kingdome that he had the most parte of all this Ilande of Brâ—…tayne at his commaundement 〈…〉 for the 〈◊〉 of the Welchmen namely the kyng of 〈◊〉 and of the Scots acknowledging hym to be their chiefe soueraigne Lorde and the Danes in Northumberland were kept so short that they durst attempt nothing againste him in his lattâ—…r dayes so that he had tyme to applye the buildyng and reparing of Cities townes King 〈◊〉 a great 〈◊〉 and 〈…〉 Notingham bridge 〈◊〉 and castels wherin he so muche delighted He buylded a newe towne at Notingham on the southsyde of Trent and made a bridge ouer that riuer betwixt the olde towne and the newe Mat. VVest Manchester repared An. 5â—…6 Sim. Dun. He also repared Manchester beyonde the riuer of Mercie in Lancashire accompted as then in the southe ende of Northumberlande he buylt a Towne of auncient writers called Thilwall nere to the same riuer of Mercie and placed therin a garrison of souldiers diuers other townes and castels he buylt as two at Buckingham on eyther side the water of Ouâ—…e as before is shewed and also one at the mouth of the riuer of Auon Hee likewise buylt or new repared the townes of â—…ocetor and Wigmore with diuers other H. Hunt as one at Glademuth about the last yeare of his reigne Some also he destroyed whiche seemed to serue the enimies turne for harbrough as at Temnesforde a Castell whyche the Danes had buylded and fortifyed At lengthe after that this noble Prince king Edward had reigned somewhat aboue the terme of .xxiij. yeares hee was taken out of this lyfe at Faringdon His bodie was conueyed froÌ„ thence vnto Winchester and there buried in the newe Abbey He hadde .iij. wyues or as some haue written but two affirming that Edgiua was not his wife but his concubine of whom he begat his eldest sonne Adelstane Polidâ—…re A 〈◊〉 who succeded him in the kingdome This Edgiua as hathe bene reported dreamed on a tyme that there rose a Moone out of hir belly whiche with the brighte
though shee had not lyued so continently as was to be wished both in hir husbands lyfe tyme and after his decease But yet at the houre of hir deathe whyche chaunced in the dayes of Wylliam Conquerour shee cleared hir selfe in takyng it vpon the charge of hir soule that shee hadde euer lyued in perfecte chastitie For kyng Edwarde as before is mentioned neuer touched hir in any actuall manner By thys straight dealyng with the Queene that was daughter to Earle Goodwyn now in tyme of hir fathers exile it hath seemed to many that Kyng Edwarde forbare to deale with hir in carnall wyse more for hatred of hir kin than for any other respecte But to proceede Griffin kyng of VVales destroyeth Herefordshire In the meane tyme also Griffyn the kyng of Wales destroyed a great parte of Herfordshire agaynste whome the power of that countreye and also manye Normans that laye in garrison wythin the Castell of Hereforde commyng to gyue battayle were ouerthrowne on the same daye in the whyche aboute two and twentie yeares before or as some Copies haue thirteene yeares the Welchemen hadde slayne Edwyn the brother of Earle Leofrike Shortely after Harold landeth the shire of Dorset and Somerset Earle Harrolde and his brother Leofwyn retourning out of Ireland entred into the Seuerne sea landing on the coastes of Somersette and Dorset shires where fallyng to spoyle they were encountred by a power assembled oute of the Counties of Deuonshire and Somersetshire but Harolde putte his aduersaries to flight and slewe thirtie Gentlemen of honoure or Thanes as they called them with a great number of others Earle Harrolde then and his bretherne returning with their pray and bootie to their ships and coasting about the poynte of Cornewalle came and ioyned with their father and their other breethrē as then soiourning in y e Isle of Wight King Edward to withstand their malice had rigged and furnished foorth sixtie Ships of war with the which he himselfe went to the water Sim. Du◅el not sticking to lie abourde at that season although he had appoynted for Captaynes and admirals two Earles that were his cousins Odo and Raufe who had charge of the whole army Raufe was his nephew as sonne to his sister Goda by hir first husband Gualter de Maunte But although they were knowen to bee sufficiente men for the ordering of such businesse yet he thought the necessitie to be suche as his person coulde not be presently spared Therefore he was diligent in foreseeyng of things by good aduice although age woulde not giue him leaue to execute the same by hys owne hand and force of body but as the Nauies on both partes were ready to haue ioyned they were seuered by reason of a thicke mist that then rose whereby theyr furious rage was restrayned for that time and immediately therevpon Goodwin and his complices were forced by a contrary winde to returne to the places from whence they came And shortly after by mediation of friends a peace was made and Earle Goodwine restored home and obteined againe bothe y e kings fauour and al his former liuings for he was such an eloquent wise man that he cleared and purged himselfe of all such crimes and accusations as in any sort had bin layde against him Thus haue some written concerning this agrement betwixt King Edward and Earle Goodwin where other make somwhat larger report therof as thus The same time that the two sonnes of Earle Goodwin Harrold and Leofwine came foorth of Ireland and inuaded the West countrey King Edwarde rigged foorthe fortie Shippes the whyche throughly furnished with men munition vittayles he sente vnto Sandwich commaundyng the Captaynes there to awaite for the comming of Earle Goodwin whome he vnderstood to be in a readinesse to returne into Englande but notwithstanding there wanted no diligence in them to looke to their charge Earle Goodwine secretly with a few Shippes whiche he had got togither arriued in Kent and sending forth his letters and messengers abroade vnto the Citizens of Canterbury to thē of Sussex Southrey and others required them of ayde who with one consente promised to liue and die with him The Captaines of the nauie at Sandwich aduertised hereof made towardes the place where they thoughte to haue found Erle Goodwin but he being warned of their comming escaped by flight and gote him out of their daunger wherevpon they withdrew to Sandwiche and after returned to London Earle Goodwin aduertised thereof sayled to the Isle of Wighte and wafted vp and downe those Seas til his sonnes Harrold and Leofwine came and ioyned their nauie with his and ceassing from spoyle only sought to recouer vittailes to serue their turne And incresing their power by suche ayde as they might any where procure at length they came vnto Sandwiche whereof K. Edward hauing knowledge being then at London It seemeth that Earle Goodwine was well friended her sente abroade to reyse all the power hee mighte make but they that were appoynted to come vnto him lingered time in whiche meane while Earle Goodwin came into the Thames so vp the Riuer arriued in Southwarke on the day of the exaltation of the Crosse in September being Monday and there staying for the ride solicited the Londoners so as hee obteyned of them what hee coulde desire and afterwardes withoute disturbance with the tide passed vp the Riuer through the South arche of the Bridge at y e same instant a mighty army whiche he had by land mustred in the fieldes on that South side the same Riuer and herewith his nauie made towardes the Northe side of the Riuer as if they mont to enclose y e kings nauie for y e K. had also a nauie and an army by land but yet sith ther were few either on the one part or the other that were able to do any great feate except Englishmē they were loth to fight one against another where vppon the wiser fort on both sides sought meanes to make an atonemente so at length by their diligent trauel the matter was taken vp and the armies being dismissed on both partes Erle Goodwin was restored to his former dignitie There were pledges deliuered on his behalfe that is to wit Wimotus one of his sonnes and Hacun the son of Suanus that was the eldest son of Goodwin These two pledges were sent vnto Williā Duke of Normandy to bee kepte with hym for more assurance of Goodwines loyaltie Some write Ran. Higd. Mat. VVest Simon Dun. VVil. Malm that Suanos y e eldest son of Goodwin was not reconciled to y e kings fauour at this time but whether he was or not this is reported of him for a troth y e after he had attēpted sundry rebellions against K. Edward he lastly also rebelled against his father Goodwin his brother Harrow became a Pyrat dishonoring w t such manifold robberies as he made on the Seas y e noble progenie whereof he was discended Finally vpō◅emorse of cōsciēce
they were disceÌ„ded as it were of one nation Whilest these things were thus a doing there came also the long wished ayde from the Dailes and Norwegian to the number of tenne thousande mens vnder the leading of one Gildo Gildo is kepte pepâ—… off from landing by the Romains This Gildo with his naâ—…ie firste arriued in the Frithe betwixt Fyfe and Louthian but for that the Romains kepte him off from landing there hee caste aboute and come into the riuer of Tay Gildo arriueth in Tay water where he landed all his people and prouision whereof he had good store bothe vittayle and armme Cornelius Tacitus maketh no mention of any fortaine ayd to come to the succours of his enimies compreheÌ„ding them all vnder the name of Brytons Garnard the king of the Picts ioyfully receiueth Gildo Garnard king of the Pictes hearing of theyr arriuall there â—…withwith vpon the newes departed from Dundee accompanied with a greate number of his Nobles and coÌ„ming to the place where Gildo with his armie was lodged receyued him in moste ioyfull wise feasted and banquetted him and his people and shewed them all the tokens of moste hartie loue and friendship that coulde be deuised Gildo himself was led by the king vnto Dundee and lodged with him there in the castle his people were prouided for abrode in the countrey in places moste for theyr vast to refreshe themselues the better after their painefull iourney by the seas Shortly after there came vnto Dundee the Sect to the king Galde Galde coÌ„meth vnto Dundee to welcome Gildo who for his parte did all the honour that in him lay vnto Gildo shewing himselfe moste ioyfull and gladde of his coÌ„ming yeelding vnto him and his people suche thankes and congratulations as scâ—â—â— beste to the purpose and receyued no losse at has and their handes againe After they had remayned thus certaine dayes togither at Dundee Gald Garnard and Gildo assembles couÌ„sel at Forfare where they deuise how to proceede in theyr warre bothe the kings Galde and Garnarde togyther with this 〈◊〉 wente into the Castle of Forfare there to consulte with the Captaines and gouernours of theyr menne of warre how to mayntaine themselues in theyr enterprise against the enemie At length they resolued not to goe forth into the first til the winter season were paste for douâ—…te of the inconuienience that might ensue by reason of the extreeme colde intemperancie of ayâ—… to the whiche that countrey is greatly subiect In the meane time they tooke order for the furniture of all things necessarie for the warres They determine to rest al the winter make fronter warre onely to haue the same in a perfite readinesse agaynst the next spring and till then they did appoynt onely to keepe fronter warke that the Romains should not stray abroade to fetche in vittayles and other prouisions to theyr owne gaynes and the vndoing of the poore inhabitants Vpon this determination when the counsell was broake vp Galâ—…e withdrewe into Atholl to defende those parties and Garnarde with the Danishe generall Gildo furnished all the Castels and holdes in Angus ouer agaynst the riuer of Tay to stoppe the passages of the same that the enimies shoulde enter no further on that side Thus passed the winter for that yeare without any griat exployte on either part atchieued In the beginning of the nexte sommer Agricola sendeth forth his nauie of ships to discouer the furthest poynt of Brytaine northwarde Agricols appointed his nauie of ships to sayle aboute the coastes of the furthest partes of Albion making diligent search of euery creeke and hauen alongst by the same The Mariners execuÌ„ting his commaundement â—…ayled rounde aboute the Northe coaste and discoueryng many of the Westerne Isles and likewise those of Drâ—…ney till at length they founde out Picte lande Firth being a streyte of Sea of twentie miles in breadth whiche separateth the Isles of Orkney from the poynt of Cathinesse passing with so swifte a course that without an expert pylote the shippes that shall passe the same are oftentimes in great daunger by reason of the contrery course of the tydes The Romaine mariners therfore finding certaine husband men in the next Isles constreines them to go a shipborde and to guide them thorow that streyte promising them high rewardes for theyr labour but they vpon a malicious intent not passing for their owne liues so they might be reuenged of theyr enimies in casting away suche a notable number of them togither with theyr vessels entred the fireyte at suche an inconuenient time The Romaine ships through want of pylots are losse in PictlaÌ„d Firth that the shippes were borne with violence of the streame against the rockes and shelues in suche wise that a number of the same were drowned and loste without recouerie Agricola making a bridge ouer Tay water passeth by the same with his hoste and encampeth neare to the foote of the mountayne of Granzbene Some of them that were not ouer hastie to follow the firste seeing the present losse of theyr fellowes returned by the same way they came vnto Agricola who in this meane tyme had caused a bridge to be made ouer y e riuer of Tay by the whiche hee passed with his whole armie and encamped on the further side thereof neare to the rootes of the mountayne of Granzbene leauing the bridge garnised with a competent number of souldiers to defende it against the enimies The Pictes being not a little troubled herewith dispatched foorth a messenger with all haste vnto Galde the Scottishe king signifying vnto him the whole matter and therevpon requyred him of ayde Galde hauing mustered his people aswell Scottishe as Irishe essembled them togither to the number of .xl. thousand persons what of one and other and incontinently with al speede marcheth foorth to come vnto the ayde of the Pictes and so within a fewe dayes passing ouer the mountaine of Grambene he arriueth in a valley beyonde the same mountayne Galde king of the Scottish men commeth to the ayde of the Pictes where he findeth the Pictes Danes and Norwegians encamped togither not farre off from the host of the Romains Here taking aduise togither and in the ende determining to giue battayle The Scots and Pictes determine to giue battayle to the Romains king Galde vnto whome as before is expressed the gouernance of the whole was committed assembling togither all the number of the confederates made vnto them a long and pithie oration Galde exhorteth his people to higher manbelly exhorting them in defence of libertie the most 〈◊〉 iewel that maÌ„ might enioy to shew theyr manly stomakes against them that sought onely is depriue them of that so greate a benefite And sithe they were driuen euen to the vttermoste boundes of theyr countrey he perswaded them to make vertue of necessitie and rather choose to die with honour than to liue in perpetuall shame and ignominie whiche must nâ—…eded ensue to theyr whole
Octauius is reconciled with Fincomark Immediatly vpon his returne he reconciled himself with Fincomark the Scottish king and was contented that he should quietly enioy the coūtreys of Westmerland Cumberland with such other territories as Carantius had graūted in former time vnto Crathlynt Octauius entreth into amitie with the Pictish king He likewise sent vnto the king of the Pictes concluded a friendship with him to the intent he might haue ayde frō him also if it chaūced the Romains eftsoones to inuade his countrey as shortly after they did not ◅easing til they had so aweried him with cōtinual warres that in the end to be at rest as his age other necessities then required he deliuered into theyr handes Octauius becommeth tributarie vnto the Romaine Emperour certaine castels fortresses also became tributarie to the Emperour on condition he might vse the office and name of a king all the residue of his dayes These things being thus quieted in Albion y e Romains Brytains Scottish men and Pictes 17. of Constans Constantius Emperours H. B. continued in friendly peace without any notable trouble till the .ix. yeare of the raigne of Valentinian Emperour of Rome first of Damasus the Pope In y e which yeare Fincomark king of Scottes departed this life Fincomark deceassed 358. H. B. after he had gouerned the estate aboue .xlvij. yeares This was in y e yeare of our redēptiō ◅72 This Fincomark left behind him .ij. sonnes the one named Eugenius Eugenius Ethodius sonnes to Fincomark being as then aboute xviij yeares of age the other hight Ethodius was yonger thā his brother by one yeare so that neyther of them might succeede theyr father by reason they were not of yeares sufficient to rule according to the auncient ordinance Romacus Fethelmacus and Angusianus sonnes to three seuerall brethren pretende a right to the estate Herevpon a councell was called in Argile where there was hard holde betwixt the .iij. Nephewes to king Crathlynt that were begotten by .iij. of his brethren which of them should gouerne the lande their names were Romacus Fethelmacus Angusianus Romacus had a Pictish lady of the bloud royall of that nation to his mother for that his father was eldest brother next vnto Crathlynt he looked to be preferred though he himself was yonger in yeares thā eyther Fethelmacus or Angusianus Fethelmacus gaue his consent with suche voyces as he had vnto Angusianus wherwith Romacus being not a little offended sought meanes to haue distroyed them both Romacus seeketh meanes to distroy his cousins but his practise being discouered caused many to withdrawe theyr good willes frō him whereby his aduersaries were the more encouraged therevpon the councell brake vp either parte deuising how to strengthen thēselues against the others practises Angusianus with vpright dealing purchaseth the more friendshippe But for so much as Angusianus vsed plaine meanes without any fraudulēt dealing he got the more frēds so that Romacus was constreyned in the end to require ayd of the king of Picts who being neare of kinne to him might not denie his request Angusianus therefore vnderstanding what daunger he was in if he fell into his aduersaries hands got togither an armie of such as fauoured his cause Romacus vanquisheth Angusianus encountring with him in battel was put to flight forced to flee into the Westerne Isles with his cousin Fethelmacus where remaining for a while at length he was aduertised that the inhabitants had conspired against him for doubt whereof he got him ouer into Ireland Then began banishments confiscations of goodes slaughter of such as were thought to be fauourers of Angusians cause without respecte either of sexe or age The Scottishe Lordes cōspire against Romacus til the nobles of the Realme being not a little moued with such his cruell doings tirannicall gouernment conspired togither by secrete meanes how to deliuer their coūtrey of so pernicious a tyrant And to bring this their purpose the more speedily to passe they wrought so closely that they had assembled a great armie were come with the same within x. miles of the place where he then lay ere he had any vnderstanding of their enterpryse so that whereas he being vnprouided of resistance assayed by flight towardes Pict land to haue escaped their hands Romacus apprehended and put to death it preuayled him nothing for he was taken by the way and receyued such end as his former passed life had very well deserued in the .iiij. yeare of his raigne his head was set vpō the end of a pole caried about to be shewed vnto the people to their great reioysing There were slaine also at the same time besides him diuers Scots Pictes who had bene of councell with him in al his cruel practises Angusianus proclaymed king After which executiō done they sente for Angusianus who returned into Scotland was proclaimed king aswel by consent of the Lordes as fauour of the cōmons Aboute the same time bicause the Brytons had slaine the Romaine lieutenant the Emperour Constantius sent one Maximus thither to chastise the rebels with whom the same Maximus encountring in battell gaue them a great ouerthrow And within three dayes after Octauius king of the Brytons through griefe age long sicknesse being consumed to the last point departed this life He left a sonne behinde him named also Octauius who doubting to fall into y e hāds of the Romains fled into the Isle of Man remayned there certaine yeares vnknowen with Eugenius and Ethodius the sonnes of Fincomark The Brytons also persisting in their rebellion were eftsoones discomfited in battel by Maximus and sore by him persecuted til he had brought them againe to their full subiection Nectanus himselfe neuer rested till he came vnto Camelone where he called a counsell of his nobles to haue theyr aduise by what meanes he might be reuēged of the iniuries receyued by the Scots wherof he was most desirous Nectanus desirous of reuenge not regarding into what daunger he brought his owne realme so he might somewhat ease his rancour and displeasure whiche he had thus conceyued against his enimies the Scottes Neither wāted there diuers great personages in that assemble which to content his minde and to winne fauour of him set foreward the matter in such earnest wise that notwithstanding what other could say to the contrarie it was ordeyned that with al speede an army should be leuied and ledde foorth into the Scottish borders Nectanus hauing thus the consent of his nobles to inuade the Scottes a new caused men of warre to be takē vp through all the parties of his dominion that of the choysest men that might be gotte the whiche being once assembled hee stayed not long but set foreward with them Nectanus inuadeth the Scottish confines and entred into Kalendar wood spoyling destroying all afore him at his owne will and pleasure Angusianus
gentlewomen and a groome from the tumbe of hir husband where she had remayned euer sithe his buriall in continuall mourning forsomuche as she was a Brytayne and discended by lynage from the Princes of Wales Maximus lamenting hir miserable case assigned the Citie of Carricke vnto hir with certaine other reuenues for the maintenance of hir estate But after she had taken leaue of suche as had the cōduction of hir and was come into a village not farre from Carricke aforesayd it chaunced that a sort of Pictishe ryders or as I maye call them robbers met with hir small to hir profite lesse to their own ease for they did not only slea hir groome but also beate hir gentlewomen and stripped both them and hir of all that they had whereof Maximus being enformed caused them that had done so vile a deede to bee apprehended and executed by death according as they had deserued The Queene hirselfe being brought backe vnto Maximus and honourably entreated had all hir substance restored vnto hir againe so neare as it was possible The Pictes offended with Maximus But the Pictes being offended herewith and specially for the putting to death of their men sundrie of their Nobilitie came vnto Maximus and began to make a sore complaint in that behalfe declaring that the desertes of their Nation had not beene suche towarde the Romaine Empyre as to haue their people put to execution for a womans sake being both an enimie and a prisoner therefore they requyred that she might be confined into Brytayne and according to the tenor of the proscription spoyled of all hir goodes Cartandis lamenteth hir infortunate estate Here Cartandis being present hirselfe began to make pitifull lamentation bewayling hir most vnhappie estate in that contrarie to the order of hir wretched case and present miserable fortune she shoulde nowe be forced to returne againe into hir Countrey wishing rather than she should be inforced so to doe that she might offer vp hir life as a sacrifice in the place of hir husbandes burial and therefore holding vp hir handes vnto Maximus in most pitifull wise she besought hym instantly that it might please him either to suffer hir to passe the residue of hir life after such sort as shee thought beste agreed wyth hir widow like estate or else to take the same from hir presently by some violent meanes of execution There was not a man other than the Pictes that same and heard hir at that instant but lamented hir wofull distresse so that in the end the request of the Pictes was disallowed and Cartandis hauing liuing assigned hir for the maintenance of hir degree was licenced to depart into what place shee thought expedient there to liue as shee thought best ▪ withoute lette or disturbaunce The same tyme the Scottishe Bishops and Priests beeing banished as well as the other sort of the Scottish people The Monasterie of Iona buylded by banished Scottish Monkes a number of their Monkes got them into the I le of Iona now called Colm kill where they erected a Monasterie for theyr owne habitation the worthinesse whereof hath beene right famous euen vnto these our dayes as that whiche was afterwarde endowed wyth many fayre reuenues by diuerse of the Scottishe kings who had their burials there after the returne of the Scottes into Albanie as shal be hereafter expressed The yeare in the whiche the Scottishmen were thus vanquished by the Romaines and Pictes The time that the Scottes were thus confined 5547. H.B. 379. H.B. 710. H.B. The second yeare of Iulian the Apostata H.B. Straunge visions and finally confined out of theyr seates was from the creation of the worlde 4319 after the byrth of our Sauiour 352. from the beginning of the Scottishe kingdome 679. and the thirde yeare of Magnentius The same yeare before Eugenius gaue battail vnto Maximus many straunge sights were seene in the furthest partes of Albion stryking a wonderful dread into many mens hearts In the night season in the ayre were seene firie swordes and other weapons moue in a long ranke after comming togither on a heape Swordes and weapons seene in the ayre and being chaunged into an huge flame as it had ben a firebrande it then vanished away The waters of the ryuer of Dune ran with bloud the bankes of the same ryuer flashed oft tymes as they had beene all on a fire It rayneth byrdes There were seene also a number of small byrdes fall out of the ayre so thicke that it seemed it had rayned byrdes and incontinently came a great number of Rauens that deuoured vp the same Certaine Witches and Southsayers declaring that these things betokened the destruction of the Scottishe kingdome were commaunded by the Priestes to holde their peace on payne of death as they that tolde nothing but lyes and fables though afterwardes their tales proued most true But to returne to our historie Ethodius the brother of Eugenius being cured as is sayde by commaundement of Maximus Ethodius confined into Denmarke was yet banished amongst the residue and constrained to take an othe that he shoulde immediately repayre into Denmarke and hereafter not to approch nearer vnto the coastes of Albion for doubt of some newe attempt that might be made by the Scots through his meanes thereby to returne into that Countrey agayne and to recouer theyr former estate But this stayed not them of the westerne Iles Gillo chosen captaine of the banished Scots in the western Iles comming into Argile is vanquished by the Pictes but that assembling themselues togyther and chosing one Gillo to their capitain they passed ouer into Argyle where in the ende they were encountered by such Pictes as were set there to defende that Countrey and slaine eche mothers sonne Their vesselles were also taken and brought into sundrie Hauens of the Countrey to serue for defence of the coastes vppon any newe enterprise which the Scottes shoulde chaunce to make The Scottes repayre into Irelande but the other Scottes perceyuing they were not able to furnishe forth a newe armie in the Iles by any ayde they might purchase there sayled ouer into Irelande where presenting themselues vnto the King of that Region they declared vnto him from poynt to poynt all their infortunate chaunces and lamentable calamities which were happened vnto them of late through the tyrannicall puissance of the Romaines and malicious enuie of the Pictes in suche sort as nothing coulde be more miserable than their present estate considering the ruine of so mightie a kingdome and the final banishment of the inhabitants from their houses and lands which had beene in possession of them and theyr elders by the space almoste of seuen hundred yeares The king of Irelande with his nobles lament the Scottish mens case The Irishe king with his Nobles moued with pitie to heare and vnderstande so dolefull calamities to haue chaunced vnto that Nation whose good or bad happe coulde not but touche them verie neare considering they
Pictish kingdome togither almost with the whole nation caused the marble stone whiche Symon Breke sometime brought out of Spaine into Ireland the firste Ferguse out of Ireland into Albion as before is recited The marble stone is remoued froÌ„ Argile into Goury in the place called Scone to be brought now forth of Argile where till that time it had bene diligently kepte into Goury whiche region before appertayned to the Picts there to remaine from thenceforth as a sacred token for the stablishment of the Scottishe kingdome in that couÌ„trey he placed it at Scone vpoÌ„ a reysed plot of ground there bicause that the last batayle whiche he had with the Pictes was fought neare vnto the same place the victory as before is specified chauÌ„cing to the Scots Vpon this stone as before is rehearsed the Scottishe kings were vsed to sit when they receyued the inuesture of the kingdome Some wryters haue recorded that by commaundement of Kenneth at the same time wheÌ„ this stone was thus by him remoued those latine verses were engrauen vpon it whereof mencion is made before where we spake of the aforesayd Ferguse the first his coÌ„ming ouer foorth of Ireland into Albion â–ª there to reygne Now in the meane time when those fewe of the Picts The residue of the Picts were dispersed which by flight had escaped the Scottishmens hands and were gotteÌ„ into England could by no meanes perswade the Englishmen being troubled with intestine warre to ayde theÌ„ in recouery of theyr countrey some of them passed the seas ouer into Norway and some into Denmarke and diuers other of them remayned still in England where they got theyr liuing eyther by some manuall occupation eyther els by seruice in the warres The Scots from thence foorth liued in quiet The Scottes liue in quiet during the lifetime of king Kenneth who deserued eternal fame by the enlarging of the â—…ouÌ„ds of his kingdome so mightily and in suche wise that where he founde the fronters hee made the same well neare the middest of his kingdome Other things he did also touchyng the politike gouernment of his subiectes in time of peaâ—…e no lesse worthie of prayse than his noble famous conquestes Kenneth maketh lawes and ordinances but specially he ordeyned certayne lawes for the wealth of his people whereby his iudges and other officers should proceede in the administration of iustice of the whiche I haue thought requisite to rehearse parte as yet beyng vsed that aswell the Author as the time of their first establishment may the better appeare to suche as shall peruse this historie The Chapters of those lawes whiche yet remayne to be obserued are these LEt euery shyre haue certayne men skilled in the lawes appoynted to bee resident in the same Lawyers necessarie accordyng as in the beginning it was instituted Let theyr sonnes also in theyr youth bee brought vp in knowledge of the same lawes Let them only keepe in their custodies the tables of the lawes The 〈◊〉 of the law to be kept with the register â—…ookeâ—… of the kings and peeres of the realme If any of them be conuicted of extorte brâ—…bing or other the like vniust dealing Brybers to be hanged let him die vpon the gallowes and his bodie remayne vnburie â—… Such as are condemned for theft PunishmeÌ„t for theft and murther let them be hanged and those that are proued giltie of â—â—â—der lâ—…t them lose theyr heades A woman which is condemned to die ryther let hyr be drowned in some riuer A woman coÌ„dâ—… to be 〈…〉 quick eyther els let hyr be buried quicke â—…ee that blasphemeth the name of God Blasphemeâ—…h haue the â—â—gs cut oâ—â— of the â—…aintes of his Prince or of the Captayne of his trybe lette hâ—â— haue his toungue cut out The punishmeÌ„t for a lier He that is conuicted of a lie to his neighbors hinderance let him haue his swoorde taken from him be banished out of all mens companie A man accused to be coÌ„â—…emned by an oâ—…â—…est of men Suche as be accused of any crimes that deserue death let them passe by the sentence of .vij. honest men eyther els of .ix. xj xiij xv or moe so that the number be odde Robbers to be put to the sworde Robbers by the highe wayes destroyers of corne growyng in the fieldes as is vsed by enimies in time of warre let them die by the sword Vagaboundes to be whipped and burnt in the cheeke The wife shall not suffer for the husbandes offence The coÌ„cubine and hyr mate to haue a lyke punishment Rauishers of maydes shall die Fugetiues vagaboundes and such other idle persons let them be whipped and brenned in the cheeke Let not the wife suffer for the husbandes offences but the husbaÌ„d shal answere for the wifes misdeedes if he be priuie therevnto Any mans lemman or concubine shall suffer the same paynes that he dothe whiche offendeth with hyr Hee that rauisheth a mayde shall die for it onlesse she requyre for sauegarde of his life to haue him to hyr husband Aduoutrers shall die If any man be taken with an other mans wife in adultrie she consenting vnto him therein they shall bothe suffer death for it But if shee consent not but be forced agaynst hyr will then he shall die onely for the same and the woman shall be releassed A childe hurâ—…ing his father shall die If the childe hurt the father either with tung hande or foote let him first be depryued of that member and then hanged his body to remayne without buriall Who are not to enherite A murderer a dumbe person or he that is vnthankefull to his parentes shall not inherite his fathers patrimonie Iugglers and Wisertes c. Iugglers Wysertes Nicromancers and such as call vp sprytes and vse to seeke vpoÌ„ them for helpe let them be brent to death Sowyng of grayne Let no man sow in the earth any grayne before it be purged of all the weedes Euill husbandry Hee that through negligent slouth suffereth his errable grounde to bee choked vp and ouergrowen with weedes for the firste faulte lette him forfeyt an oxe for the second ten oxen and for the third let him forgoe the same grounde Buriall of friends Thy companion in the warres or thy friend beyng slayne see him buried but let the enimie lie vnburied Wayfes and streyfes Any strayfe catayle that commeth into thy groundes eyther restore them to the owner eyther els deliuer theÌ„ to the searcher out of theeues commonly called Tonoderach or to the person or vycar of the towne for if thou retayne them in thy handes by the space of three dayes thou shalt be accompâ—…ed giltie of thefte Things found He that findeth any thing that belongeth to an other man lette him cause it to be â—â—ied in the market or els hee shal be iudged for a fellon He that striketh him with whome he goeth to the lawe aboute
of Englande not wel contented nor pleased in his mind that the Scottes shoulde enioy a great portion of the north partes of England aunciently belonging to his crowne as parcell thereof he raysed a great army and before any denouncing of war by him made inuaded Northumberland The castell of Anwike won by the English men tooke the Castell of Anwike putting all suche to the sworde as were founde in the same King Malcolme to withstande such exploytes attempted by his enimie leuied a great hoste of his subiectes and comming with the same into Northumberlande besieged the sayde Castell of Anwike The castell of Anwike besieged by the Scottes And nowe when the keepers of the hold were at poynt to haue made surrender a certaine English knight conceiuing in his mind an hardie and daungerous enterprise mounted on a swift horse without armor or weapon sauing a speare in his hand vpon the poynt wherof he bare the keyes of the castel so issued forth at y e gates riding directly towardes the Scottish campe They that warded mystrusting no harme brought him with great noyse and claymor vnto the kings tent Who hearing the noyse came forth of his panilion to vnderstande what the matter ment The Englishman herewith touched his staffe as though it had beene to the ende that the king might receyue the keyes whiche he had brought And whilest all mens eyes were earnest in beholding the keyes An hardie enterprice the Englishe man ranne the king through the left eye and sodainly dashing his spurres to his horse escaped to the next wood out of all daunger The poynt of the speare entred so farre into the kings head that immediately falling downe amongst his men he yeelded vp the ghost K. Malcolme is slaine This was the ende of king Malcolme in the middest of his armie It is sayde that king William chaunged the name of this aduenturous knight The name of the Percees had no suche beginning for they came forth of Normandie at the conquest Earles of Northumberland and called him Pers E and for that he stroke king Malcolme so right in the eye and in recompence of his seruice gaue him certaine landes in Northumberlande of whom those Percees are discended whiche in our dayes haue enioyed the honourable tytle of Earles of Northumberlande The Scottes after the slaughter of their king brake vp theyr campe K. Malcolme buryed at Tynmouth and buried his bodie within the Abbay of Tynmouth in England But his sonne Alexander caused it to be afterwardes taken vp and buryed in Dunfermling before the Aulter of the Trinitie The same tyme was Scotlande wounded with an other missehappe Edward prince of Scotlande dyed For Edwarde the Prince of Scotlande eldest sonne to king Malcolme dyed of a burt which be receyued in a skirmish not farre from Anwike and was buryed in Dunfermeling the fyrst of the bloud royall that hadde hys bones layde in that place Queene Margaret being aduertised of the death both of hir husbande and sonne as then lying in Edenbourgh Castell hir disease encreased through griefe thereof so vehemently Queene Margaret died that within three dayes after she departed out of this life vnto an other more ioyfull and blessed King Malcolme was slaine in the yeare of of oure redemption 1092. 1097. H.B. The Ides of October H.B. on the .xiij. day of Nouember and in the .xxxvj. yeare of hys raigne Strange wonders In the same yeare manye vncouth things came to passe and were seene in Albion By the highe spring Tydes whiche chaunced in the Almaine Seas Aâ—… huge tyde many Townes Castels and Wooddes were drowned aswell in Scotland as in England After the ceassing of which tempest the lands that somtime were Earle Goodwines of whom ye haue hearde before lying not farre from the towne of Sandwich by violent force and drift of the Sea were made a sande bed and euer sithence haue beene called Goodwine sandes Goodwin sandes The people haue thought that this vengeance came to that peece of grounde being possessed by his posteritie for the wicked slaughter of Alured which he so trayterously contriued Moreouer sundrie Castelles and Townes in Murry lande were ouerthrowne by the sea Tydes Thunder Such dreadfull thunder happened also at the same time that men and beastes were slaine in the fields and houses ouerturned euen from their foundations Trees corne burnt In Lonthian Fife and Angus trees and corne were burned vp by fire kindled no man knew how nor from whence In the dayes of this Malcolme Cammore liued that famous hystoriographer Marianus a Scottish man borne Marianus but professed a Monke in the Monasterie of Fulda in Germany Also Veremond a Spanish priest Veremonde but dwelling in Scotland florished about the same time and wrote the Scottish historie whome Hector Boetius so much followeth The sonnes of king Malcolm Cammore Malcolme had by his wife Queene Margaret otherwise called for hir holinesse of life S. Margaret vj. sonnes Edward as is said was slain Etheldred which died in his tender age and was buried in Dunfermling and Edmond which renounced the world liued an holy life in England the other three were named Edgar Alexander and Dauid There be that write how Edmond was taken and put to death in prison by his vncle Donalde Bane Donald Bane when he inuaded the kingdome and vsurped the crowne after the deceasse of his brother king Malcolme and so then was Edgar next inheritour to the crowne Donalde Bane fled into the Iles. This Donald Bane who as before is mentioned fled into the Iles to eschue the tyrannical malice of Makbeth after he once heard that his brother king Malcolme was dead Donalde Bane returneth into Scotlande His couenant for the gift of the Iles to the king of Norway returned into Scotland by support of the K. of Norway vnto whom he couenanted to giue the dominion of all the Iles if by his meanes and furtheraunce hee might obteyne the crowne of Scotland Herevpon landing with an armie in the Realme he founde small resistance and so with little a doe receyued the crowne for many of the people abhorring the riotous maners and superfluous gurmandice brought in amongst them by the English men The respect that the people had to receyue Donald Bane for their king were willing inough to receiue this Donalde for their king trusting bycause hee had beene brought vp in the Iles with the olde customes and maners of their auncient Nation without tast of the English lykerous delicacies they shoulde by his seuere order in gouernment recouer againe the former temperancie of theyr olde progenitors As soone as Edgar Adeling brother to Queen Margaret was aduertised that Donalde Bane had thus vsurped the crowne of Scotland K. Malcolmes sonnes sent for into Englande by Edgar their vncle he sent secretly for his thre nephews Edgar Alexander and Dauid with two sisters which they had
was in deede a pleasant yong Ladie beautifull of good fauour louely countenance and comely maners aboue al others within that Realme The mariage contracted betwixt the king of Scottes and the Lady Magdalen Wherevpon the mariage was contracted betwixt them and an hundred thousand crownes of the sunne promised with hir in dower with .xxx. thousande frankes of pencion during the life of king Iames which mony was deliuered vnto him at his returne homewardes besides many rich hangings Cupbordes of plate sumptuous apparell and riche Iuels giuen to him and his wife farre aboue the summe of an other hundred thousand crownes with two great ships the one called the Salamander and greate plentie of Artillerie powder and other munition Moreouer all his charges and expences were borne by the French king during his being within the realme of France The same time also was the auncient league and bande of amitie betwixt the two realmes of Scotland and France renued and the day of the solemnization of the mariage appoynted to bee holden the first of Ianuarie After the solemnization of the Mariage king Iames remayned in Fraunce till the Moneth of May passing the time with all kinde of pleasure and disport that might be deuised for his honourable entertainment Finally the king and his wife Queene Magdalen tooke their leaue of the king of France their father at Paris about the latter ende of Aprill and so roade to Rouen where they were receyued with great triumph and from thence they passed downe the ryuer to Newhauen where they embarked being accompanied by the Admirall of France and many other noble men of the realme appoynted by the French king to attende vpon them into Scotlande and so they sayled forth with pleasaunt winde and prosperous weather through the Seas The king with his Queene returneth into Scotland vntill they came into the Forth and there landed at the peare of Lieth Hauen the .xxix. of May in the yeare .1537 where a great number of Earles Bishoppes Barons and other Noble men and Gentlemen of Scotlande were readie to receyue them with passing ioy and gladnesse and from thence with greate tryumph they were conueyed to the Abbey of Holyroode house This noble Ladie with hir louely countenance and seemely demeanour at hir first arriuall wanne the loues and beartie good willes of all the Nobles and people of the Realme withall contented so highly the minde and fantasie of the king hir husband that there was neuer more hope of wealth and prosperitie to succeede within the realme than at that present but fortune enuying so greate felicitie woulde not suffer them to continue any long tyme togyther for aboute the ende of Iune shee fell sicke of a vehement Feuer Queene Magdalen departeth this Isle whereof shee departed thys lyfe the tenth of Iulye nexte ensuyng and was buryed in the Churche of holye Roode house for whose death the Kyng was ryghte sorrowfull and styrred not abroade of a long time after The Ladye Glames and hir husbande conuict of treason In the Sommer of this yeare the Ladie Glames Syster to the Earle of Angus was apprehended and likewyse hir Husbande Dauid Lion and both of them brought to Edenbourgh where they were accused and conuict by an assise for conspiracie of the kings death the sayd Lady was burned and hir husband hanged hir sonne the Lord Glames was also conuict for misprision and concealement of that crime and therefore forfalted of his landes and condemned to die but bycause he was yong and of tender yeares the king pardoned him of life and commaunded him to perpetuall prison in the whiche he remayned so long as the king liued The master of Forbes beheaded Shortly after Iohn maister of the Forbes and eldest sonne to the Lord Forbes who had maried a sister of the sayd Ladie Glames was at Edenbourgh likewise indyted and conuict by an assise for the like conspiracie of the kings death for the which he was beheaded and quartered and hys heade and quarters set aloft vppon the gates of Edenbourgh His father the Lorde Forbes vpon suspition of the same conspiracie was long after kept in prison within the castell of Edenbourgh but at length when nothing might be proued against him he was released and set at libertie Iustices appoynted to sit in diuerse partes of the realme This yere the king in September caused Iustices to sit in the north partes of the realme and likewise in October and in the winter following he caused the like to bee done in the South and west parts The king himselfe was oftentymes present assysting the Lordes which he had appoynted his Commissioners for the furtheraunce of Iustice and maintenance therof through all partes of his realme The king by the aduice of these noble men of his realme thinking it necessary for him to match againe in mariage with some noble princesse The king is a suter for mariage to the Dutchesse of Longuile sent into France vnto the Erle of Murrey and Dauid Beton Abbot of Arbroth his Ambassadors there resident willing them by the aduice of the French king to treate for a mariage to bee had betwixt him and the Ladie Marie de Lorraine dutchesse of Longuile widdow daughter to the Duke of Guise and being aduertised from his sayde Ambassadors that the King of France the Lady hir selfe and hir friendes were well contented therewith he sent in the beginning of May the Lorde Maxwell and the maister of Glencarne well accompanied into Fraunce to ioyne with hys other Ambassadours for the contracting of that maryage the which according to their Commission treated thereof and concluded vpon resolute articles and so espoused hir by procurators as the vse is among such estates with great triumph in the Citie of Paris whereat the king and many noble men were present After this she was conueyed to Newhauen and there taking the Seas passed through the same till she came to Carell in Fife where shee landed the tenth of Iune and from thence shee was conueyed to the new Palace in the Abbay of Saint Andrewes being honourably prepared for the receyuing of hir And there the King accompanyed wyth manye Noble menne The mariage solemnized openlye solemnized and confyrmed the foresayde mariage with the sayd Ladie in the Abbay Church with great ioy and triumph The King with hys Queene remayned there the moste part of that Sommer And wythin a fewe Monethes after the maryage she conceyued wyth childe to the greate comforte of the King and the whole Realme for the hope of succession thereby and therefore generall Processions and publike prayers were made through all partes of the Realme to 〈◊〉 prosperous successe of the same After that the king had pacified the 〈◊〉 and all other parts of his realme by exercising 〈◊〉 Iustice and trauailing about the same in his â—…wne persone through all places where neede requâ—…yred so that there was as greate quietnesse rest Great quietâ—… in Scotland
adioyned to hir by the estates of Scotland who dayly pressed hir to deuise new alterations of lawes impositions taxations suche things as were not in vse in Scotlande therefore the estates and people of the lande did grudge although not for anye misliking they hadde of hir who surely deceassed to the great griefe and lameÌ„tation of the whole number of the estates and people of the Realme The deathe of that noble Princesse made the Frenchemen within Leith and also the Ambassadours more discouraged than otherwise they woulde haue bin The Ambassadours came 〈◊〉 Edinburgh But neuerthelesse these foure Ambassadours of Englande and Fraunce comming to Edinburgh entred in conference amoÌ„g themselues vppon articles proponed aswell for reliefe of the Scottishemen as for the weale and suertie of the Queene of England and hir Subiectes wherevpon certaine Lordes of Scotland were admitted to talke wyth them also They haue conference Peace is concluded and after long treatie a peace was concluded the tenth of Iulye in the yeare of God .1560 wyth certaine articles touching aswell Scottes and Frenche as Englishemen the effect whereof here ensueth Fyrste it was agreed Articles of thâ—… peace that all the Frenchemen should departe forth of the realme of Scotlande by Sea into Fraunce and to that effect should embarke Frenche souldiers departe the Realme make saile within y e space of xx days next following and bycause y e Frenchmen hadde no ships the Englishemen shoulde lende them ships and certayne of the Frenchemenne remaine as pledges in Englande till the same ships were retourned Item Leith they shoulde render it that they should render the Towne of Leith and the Frenchemen to haue their munition bagges and baggages to conuey away with them at their pleasure and that the walles of the Towne shoulde be throwen downe and demolished Item The forte before Dunâ—… to bee raced they shoulde cause Monsieur Charleboys Capitaine of Dunbarre to demolishe and race the forte whiche they had builte before the Castell there Item that the Englishemenne shoulde raise theyr siege and departe forthe of Scotland The Englishmen should departe also after the departure from thence of the Frenchmenne and rasing of the walles of Leith and Dunbarre Item An acte of oâ—…liuion to be made that there shoulde bee made an acte of obliuion in which the Q. of ScotlaÌ„d wyth coÌ„sent of the french K. hir husbande shoulde forget and burie in obliuion all attemptes made by the Lords of Scotland against their authoritie froÌ„ the tenth daye of March .1558 to the first day of August in the yeare of grace .1560 And for coÌ„firming thereof a Parliament should be holden in Edenburgh in the moneth of August nexte ensuing in which Parliamente the same should bee ratified and allowed by the aduice of the estates of the Realme of Scotland Also it was agreed A Parliament to be kept that there shoulde bee a commission sent from the Frenche King and the Queene of ScotlaÌ„de to hold the same Parliament to the effect aforesaide Item To put away the armes and clayme of Englande that the Queene of Scotlande and King of France should cause to blot out and and put away the bearing of the armes of Englande out of theyr skutchens â—…esion to 〈◊〉 with â—…ours Item it was agreed that there shoulde remayne still in the I le of Inskith threescore Frenchmenne and as manye in the Castell of Dunbar to keepe as it were possession to the Queenes vse The whole number of the Frenchmenne a few except that passed through England went aboorde the English Shippes in Iuly The Frenchemen departe 〈◊〉 Scotâ—…e and sayled into Fraunce and in companye with them went the Bishop of Glasquo and the Lord Seton The Englishmen departed also in their way caused the forte of Dunbar to be rased as by the agreemente of the peace it was appoynted Parliament A Parliamente holden in August and the acte of obliuion ratified by the estates and a coÌ„fession of faith published in the same â—…fession of 〈…〉 it was coÌ„cluded also to send Ambassadors into EnglaÌ„d which was done â—…ed men 〈◊〉 And shortly after the Lordes summoned the Principall learned men of the Realme forthe of the Vniuersities of Saint Andrewes Aberden Glasquo and other partes to giue a reason of their faith â—…putation and amongst other those of Aberden tooke vppon them to dispute with Iohn Knox Iohn Wullock and Maister Goodman â—…gs beâ—…ed In the Winter the Lordes of the Counsell gaue faculties of benefices to dyuers of theyr friends who put forthe the Prelates and receyued the fruites The Erle of Argile disposed Dunkeilde and Dunblan The Earle of Arran had the ordering of the Byshopprickes of Saint Androwes also of the Abbacies of Dunfermlyng and Melros and other small benefices The like was vsed by other noble menne throughe all partes of the Realme Shortely after Frauncis the Frenche King husbande to the Queene of Scotlande departed this life in December and Charles his brother was crowned in his place The Queene beyng then widowe and Dowager of Fraunce departed from Orleaunce where the Courte laye when hir husbande deceassed and wente to the Towne of Reimes in Champaigne The Scottishe â—…ene wente 〈◊〉 Loraine where she remained till the fifteenthe daye of Aprill following then purposing to retourne into Scotlande she tooke hir iourney towardes Ianville and so into Loraine there to take leaue of hir kinsfolke by hir mothers side The Bishoppe of Glasquo the Abbot of Dunfermlyng Scottishemen were still attendaunt on hir in this iourney There were with hir also the Cardinals of Lorayne and Guyse the Duke Daumale and the Marquesse Dalbeuf hir Vncles Before this Ambassadors sent into Englande in the beginning of the Winter this yeare the Lords sent the Earle of Morton and Glencarne and the yong Lard of Ledington Secretarie Ambassadors into England to giue thankes to the Queenes Maiestie of England for the aide whiche they had receyued of hir to expulse the Frenchmen The Earle of Murrey passed through Englande into Fraunce 1561 He departed from Edenburgh the eyghtenth of Marche and in Aprill came to Vitrie where he found the Queene The daye before Maister Litster officiall of Aberdene was come thither who was sent from the Earle of Huntley and other the Lordes spirituall and temporall of the North partes hee tooke shippe in the Rode of Abberdene and landing at Brule in Hollande passed through the lowe Countreys in post till hee came to Paris and from theÌ„ce vnto Vitrie aforesaid where he knew to find the Queene The Earle of Murrey wente with the Q. vnto Iannille and tarried there a fiue or syxe dayes and then taking his leaue returned into Scotland The Duke of Chatellerault The Nobles assemble at Edenburgh the Earles of Huntley Atholl Mershall and all other the noble meÌ„ of the realme aduertised of the Queenes comming assembled at Edinburgh wyth all
79.53 Pictishe Gentlemen steale one of the King of Scots Greyhounds â—…0 12 Picts earnest sute to haue the scots enpulsed Britaine 90.81 Picts quarrell vvith Maximus for executing certayne robbers of their nation 92.38 Picts discomfited by the Scots and Irishmen 92.56 Picts repine to obey the Romaine lavves 93.43 Pictes are forbidden to create a King 93.68 Pictes become tributaries to the Romaines 93.102 Pictes commaunded to dvvell beyond the vvater of Forth 94.11 Picts send into forraine Countries to call home the Scots 95.9 Picts stande in feare of Constantinus King of Britaine 111.96 Picts conspire treason against CoÌ„stantinus King of Britaine 111. line 105 Pictes certaine of them vvinne the Britaines camp 113.15 Picts send to the Scots for ayde against the Saxons 113.104 Pictes vanquished by the Saxons 113. 115 Pictes eftsoones solicitie the Scots for aide 114.15 Picts fail at variance among themselues 173.18 Picts solicitie both Scots and Saxons to make vvarre vppon the Britaines 133.40 Picts infected vvith Pelagius heresie 137.6 Pictes and Saxons enter vvith an armye into the lands of the Britaines 140.30 Pictes and Saxons discomfited and chased by the Britaines and Scots 141 Picts fall togither by the eares for the spoyle of Northumberland 251. 88 Picts take an othe to destroy all the Scottish race 172.89 Pictes vanquished and slayne in a greate battayle by the Scottes 174. 93 Picts sue to the Scottes for peace 175. 16 Picts putte to flight and slayne by the Scots 176.46 Picts vtterly destroyed 177.71 Pictes ouercome the Scottes by vvonderfull policie 172.25 Picts anoy the Scots at the siege of Camelon 178.65 Pictes remainder vvhere they became vvhich escaped froÌ„ theyr Countreis destruction 180.66 Picts flee from the Englishmen into Norvvay and Denmarke 186. 35 Pictland parted among the Conqueroures 177.77 Pictimia 154.99 Pies and baked meates seldome vsed in Scotland 380.102 Pigges vvith heades like dogges 385. 75 Pizoni Gaspar an Italian Captain slaine 478.92 Placidus Lieutenant of Britaine 98. 100 Placidus his army ouerthrovveÌ„ by Scots and Pictes 99.25 Placidus escapeth and fleeth to Yorke 99.16 Placidus concludeth a peace vvith the Scots and Picts 99. â—â— Placidus dyeth 100.36 Planctius looke Aulus Planctius Pledges deliuered betvveene the Gouernour of Scotland and the Earle of Lennox the nobles of his side 460.82 Plinius cited 21.38 Ploughes not able to bee put into the ground for the frost tyll the middle of March 279.116 Policie of Scots to anoy the Saxons 116.35 Policie of the Picts to escape from the Saxons 117.27 Policie of the Pictes to discourage the Britaines in the battell 134. line 33 Policie of the Scottes to daunt the Irishmen 196.45 Policie of King Edvvard to vvin Barvvike 300.97 Policie of VVilliam VVallace to relieue the Scottish peoples laâ—…ke in time of dearth 304. â—â— Policie of the Scottes to entrappe the Englishmen 316.17 Policie of VVilliam Dovvglas to vvinne Edenburgh Castell 347. line 74 Policie of the Scottish heardes to affrighte the Englishmens Horses 397.48 Pomonia chiefest of the Iles of Oâ—…kney 17.12 Pontus in Irelande surrendred to the Scottes 197.34 Poole Richarde a man of greate parentage borne in Englande and banished the Realme 433. line 108 Pope Celestinus sendeth Paladius into Scotland 108.16 Popes Ambassadours not regarded in England 339.34 Portingale a corrupted name of Port Gathele 2.13 Pouertie of Scotland 214.68 Praise of Scottish dogges 80.6 Prelates ordeyned in ReligioÌ„ 21.7 Preston in Anderneis brente by the Scots 324.11 Presumptions demeanoure of the Scottish nobilitie to their king 403. 77 Preaching againste Images and frutelesse Ceremonies in scotland 458.63 Priests liuing appoynted of the sacrifice 13.9 Priestes to attende their vocation only 187.8 Priests fined for not doing theyr thieues 187.14 Priests example from tribute and all manner exactions 192.15 Priestes not to bee constreyned to goe vnto vvarres 192.16 Priestes not to come before anye temporall Iudge but only theyr Bishops and Ordinaries 192.17 Princes of Albion coÌ„spire against Osrike and Eufrede 146 Prisoners sente home out of England into Scotlande and also out of Scotland into Englande 458.5.458 34 Prisoners sette at libertie by the Gouernour of Scotland 461.96 Prisoners Scottes and Frenchmen taken by the Englishmen 464 line 90 Prisoners taken in the Castell of S. Andrevves put into the French Galleis 467.23 Priuiledges graunted to Makduffe and his posteritie 252.58 Priuiledge for the Scottish Kings to be annoynted 260.110 Priuiledges graunted to the Vniuersitie of S. Andrevves 380.25 Prophecie that Scots shoulde destroy the Picts 6.107.8 65 Prophecie of Colman against king Ferquhard the second 148.19 Prophecie of three vvomen vnto Makbeth and Banquho 243.54 Prosperitie the mother of contention 5.23 Prosperitie changeth conditions 63. 42 Protestants in Scotlande espie the craftte iugling of Dauid BeatoÌ„ Cardinall and Archbishoppe of Saint Andrevves 457.50 they set the Earle of Arrane againste the Cardinall 457.58 Prouision for Shippes in euerye Hauen tovvne 409.78 Prouision for good literature 408 line 89 Prouost of Edenburgh sent to the Earle of Hertford to vnderstaÌ„d the cause of comming into scotland 461.43 Ptolomeus Metellus seconde son 5. 9 Q. QVarrell of Iames the fourth for the battayle foughte at Floddon 420.70 Queene Margaret vvife to Malcolme dyeth 259.4 Queenes ferrie 254.13 Queene Spontana slaine in hir bed in sted of hir husband 153.26 Queene mother to Iames the fifth departeth this life 445.59 Queene Dovvager fleeth vvyth hir tvvo sonnes into Irelande 131. 201 Queene Dovvager dyeth in Irelande 132.1 Queene Guaynore vvife to Arthure vvith many moe Britishe Ladyes taken prisoner 134.75 Queene Guaynore deteyned perpetuall prisoner in the Castell of Dunbar in Angus 135.15 Queene Dovvager married to Iames Stevvard 386.80 Queene Dovvager and hir husband imprisoned and releassed 386. 84 Queene Dovvager dyeth 388.61 Quene mother called Dovvager and Mary the yong Queene of Scotland hir daughter restreyned of their libertie by commaundement of the Gouernour and kept in Lithgovv 458.71 Quhitelline or VVhiteline slayne 141. 95 Quhitteme first instituted 94.113 Quâ—…eie Roger Earle of VVenchester made Connestable of Scotland 285 9â—… R. RAineth frogges 56 4â—… Rayneth birds â—…1 â—…03 Rayneth bloud 108 Rayneth bloud 152.26 Raineth adders and snakes 186.77 Raineth stones 222.15 Rainolde Captayne of the Norvvegians 204.79 Raisers of the people to lease life goodes lands and the people raysed to leese the same 246.16 Ramsie Alexander inuadeth England vvith an army 346.17 Ramsie Alexander imprisoned by VVilliam Dovvglas dieth there in great miserie 348.41 Randall Thomas chosen Gouernoure of Scotlande during the minoritie of King Dauid the second 330.53 Randall Thomas poysoned by a Monke 332.11 Randall Thomas Gouernoure dieth 332.77 Rashe bushe keepeth the Covve 305. 77 Rasin generall of all the Danes in England 194.4 Rasin slayne 194.12 Ratcliffe Roger esquier sent Ambassadour into Scotland 436.53 Rauishers of Maidens to dye for the offence 18â—… 20 Redde head a point of land in Angus 224 6â—… Rebellion of Britaines appeased 4â—… 74 Rebellion of the people agaynste Natholocus the King 75.20 Rebellion in Kent 88.57 RebellioÌ„ moued
great warre was reysed betwixt the English of Meth and Offerolle 1373 in the whiche manye vppon both sydes were slaine In May Slaughter the Lorde Iohn Hâ—…lsey Baron of Galtrim Iohn Fitz Richarde Sherife of Meth and William Dalloâ—… were slain in Kynaleigh In the yeare .1375 1375 Thomas Archbishop of Dublyn departed this life and the same yere was Robert de Wikeforde consecrated Archebyshop there ¶ Richard the seconde EDmonde Mortimer Earle of Marche and Vlster was made the Kings Lieutenaunt in Irelande 1381 The Earle of Marche the kings lieutenant In the yeare .1383 a greate mortalitie raigned in that countrey 1383 This was called the fourth pestilence In the yeare .1385 Dublyn bridge fell 1385 Beside Edmond Mortimer Erle of Marâ—…h Campion affyrmeth that in this Richard the seconds dayes there are Iustices and lieutenants of Irelande specially recorded Roger Mortimer sonne to the sayd Edmond Philip Courtney the kings cousin Iames Earle of Ormonde and Robert Vere Erle of Oxford Marques of Dublyn lorde Chamberlaine who was also created Duke of Irelande by Parliament and was credited with the whole Dominion of the Realme by graunt for râ—â—rme of life withoute paying anye thing therefore passing all writtes and placing all officers as Chauncellor Treasurer chiefe Iustice admirall his owne Lieutenant and other inferiour charges vnder his owne tâ—…ste In the yeare .1390 Robert de Wikeforde Archebishoppe of Dublyn departed thys lyfe 1390 and the same yeare was Robert Waldeby translated vnto the Archebyshop of Dublyn an Augustine Frier 1394 King Richard goeth ouer inâ—…o Irelande In the yere .1294 K. Richard sore afflicted and troubled in minde with sorrow for the decease of his wife Queene Anne that departed this life at Whitsuntide last past not able without teares to beholde his Palaces and Chambers of estate that represented vnto him the solace past and doubled his sorrow sought some occasion of businesse and now about Michaelmasse passed ouer into Irelande where dyuerse Lordes and Princes of Vlster renued theyr homages Roger Mortimer lord lieutenant Thom. Wals and placing Roger Mortimer Erle of March his Lieutenant returned about Shrouetide In the yeare .1397 Richarde de Norshalis Archebishop of Dublyn departed this life 1397 that was the same yeare from an other Sea remoued thither He was a Frier of the order of the of the Carmelites The Fryday after his arriuall at Forde in Kenlis within the Countie of Kildare there were slaine two E. Irishmen by Ienicho de Artois a Eascoigne and such Englishmen as he had with him and the morrow after the Citizens of Duâ—…ling brake into the countrey of Obren slue .xxxiij of the enimies tooke .lxxx. men with children The .iiij. Kalends of Iuly The King commeth to Dublyn king Richard came to Dublin and remayned there for a time during the which diuerse Lordes and Princes of the couÌ„trey came in and submitted themselues vnto him by whom they were curteously vsed See more hereof in England and trayned to honourable demeanor and 〈◊〉 as much as the shortnesse of time would permit as in y e English historie you may find set forth more at large Whilest king Richard thus say in Dublin to reduce Ireland vnto due subiection he was aduertised that Henry duke of Lancaster that lately before had bene banished was returned and ment to bereaue him of the crown The sonne of which Duke togyther with the Duke of Gloucesters sonne the King shutte vp wythin the Castell of Trim and then taking the Seas he returned and landed in Wales where he founde hys defence so weake and vnsure that finally he came into his aduersaries handes and was deposed by authoritie of Parliament and then was the sayd Duke of Lancaster admytted to raigne in hys place ¶ Henrie the fourth 1400 AT Whisuntide in the yeare .1400 whiche was the first yeare of the raigne of Henry the fourth the Conestable of Dublin Castell and diuerse other at Stranford in Vlster fought by Sea with Scottes where many English men were slaine and drowned In the second yeare of king Henrie the fourth 1401 Sir Iohn Stanley lord lieutenant sir Iohn Stanley the kings lieutenant in Irelande returned into Englande leauing his vnder lieuetenant there sir William Stanley The same yeare on Bartholmew euen sir Stephen Scrope Sir Stephen Scrope deputie vnto the lord Thomas of Lancaster the kings brother and Lorde lieutenant of Irelande arriued there to supplie the rowmth of Alexander Bishop of Meth that exercised the same office vnder the sayd Lord Thomas of Lancaster before the comming of this sir Stephen Scrope which sir Stephen for his violence and extortion before time vsed in the same office vnder king Richard was sore cried out vpoÌ„ by the voyces of the poore people insomuch that the Ladie his wife hearing of such exclamations would in no wise continue with him there except he would receiue a solemne othe on the Bible that wittingly he shoulde wrong no Christian creature in that lande that truely and duly he shoulde see payment made for all expenses and hereof shee sayd shee had made a vow to Christ so determinately that onlesse it were on his part firmly promised she could not without peril of soul go with him Hir husband assented and accoÌ„plished hir request effectually recouered a good opinion for his vpright dealing reformed his caters purueyers enriched the couÌ„try mainteined a plentiful house remission of great offences remedies for persons endaungered to the prince pardons of landes and liues he graunted so charitably and so discreetly that his name was neuer recited amoÌ„g theÌ„ without many blessings and prayers and so cheerfully they were redy to serue him against the Irish vpoÌ„ all necessarie occasions The Lord Thomas of Lancaster the kings sonne and Lorde lieutenant of Ireland arriued the same yeare at Dublin vpon Saint Brices day The Maior of Dublin Iohn Drake The Irish ouerthrowne 〈◊〉 the Maior of Dublin with a band of his Citizens neare to Bre slue foure M. of the Irish Outlawes as Campion noteth out of the records of Christes Church But Marlb speaketh onely of .493 And these being all men of warre The verie same day that this victorie was atchieued to wit the .xj. day of Iulie the Church of the Friers Preachers in Dublin was dedicate by the Archbishop of that Citie The same yeare in September a Parliament was holden at Dublin during the whiche in Vrgile Sir Bartholmew Verdon Knight Iames White Stephen Gernon and other theyr complices slue the Shirife of Louth Iohn Dowdall In the yeare .1403 in May sir Walter Beterley Stewarde of Vlster a right valiant knight was slaine and to the number of .xxx. other with him The same yeare aboute the feast of Saint Martin the L. Thomas of Lancaster the kings sonne returned into England leauing the Lorde Stephen Scrope his Deputie there Stephen Scrope who also in the beginning of Lent sayled ouer into England and then
it fell out in the ende that a foole had the keeping thereof The aduentures of the yong Fitz Girald sonne to the Lady Gray Counselle of Kildare But to returne to the course of the Hystorie when Thomas and his vncles were taken hys second brother on the father his syde named Girald Fitz Girald who was after in the raigne of Queene Marie restored to the Earledome of Kildare in which honor as yet he liueth beeing at that time somewhat past twelue and not full thirtene yeares of age lay sick of the smal pocks in the Countie of Kildare at a towne named Donoare Donoare then in the occupation of Girald Fitz Giralde Thomas Lenrouse Thomas Lenrouse who was the childe his schoolemaister and after became Bishop of Kildare mistrusting vpon the apprehension of Thomas and his Vncles that all went not currant wrapt the yong pacient as tenderly as he could and had him conueyed in a cleefe with all speede to Ophaly where soiourning for a short space with his sister the Ladie Mary Fitz Giralde vntill he had recouered his perfite health his schoolemaster caryed him to Odoon his Countrey where making his aboade for a quarter of a yeare he trauayled to Obrene hys Countrey in Mounster and hauing there remayned for halfe a yeare bee repayred to hys aunte the Ladie Elenore Fitz Giralde who then kept in Mack Carty Reagh Elenore Fitz Giralde hir late husband his territories This noble woman was at that time a widow alwayes knowne and accounted of eche man that was acquainted with hir conuersation of life for a paragon of liberalitie and kindnesse in all hir actions vertuous and godly and also in a good quarell rather stout than stiffe To hir was Odoneyl an importunate suyter and although at sundrie tymes before she seemed to shake him off yet considering the distresse of hir yong innocent nephew how hee was forced to wander in Pilgrimwise from house to house eschuing the punishment that others deserued smarted in his tender yeares with aduersitie before he was of discretion to enioy any prosperitie ▪ she began to encline to hir wooer his request to the ende hir nephew should haue bene the better by his countenaunce shouldered and in fine indēted to espouse him with this caueat or prouiso that he shoulde safely shield and protect the sayde yong Gentleman in this his calamitie This condition agreed vpon shee road with hir nephew to Odoneyl his countrey and there had him safely kept for the space of a yeare But shortly after the Gentlewoman either by some secrete friend enformed or of wisedome gathering that hir late maryed husbande entended some trecherie had hir nephew disguised scoring him like a liberall and bountifull Aunt The Ladie Elenors liberalitie with seuen score Porteguses not onely in valoure but also in the selfe same coyne incontinently shipped him secretly in a Brytons vessell of Saint Malouse betaking him to God Fitz Giralde sayleth to Fraunce and to their charge that accompanied him to wit maister Lenrouse and Robert Walsh somtime seruant to his father the Earle The Ladie Elenore hauing this to hir contentation bestowed hir nephew she expostulated verie sharpely with Odoneyle as touching hys villanie protesting that the onely cause of hir match with him proceeded of an especiall care to haue hir nephew countenanced and now that he was out of his lashe that mynded to haue betrayed him he should well vnderstande that as the feare of his daunger mooued hir to annere to such a clownish Curmudgen so the assuraunce of his safetie should cause hir to sequester hirselfe from so butcherly a cuttbrote that would be like a pelting mercenarie patche hyred to sell or betray the innocent bloud of his nephew by affinitie and hirs by consanguinitie And in thys wise trussing vp bag and baggage she forsooke Odoneyle and returned to hir countrey The passengers with a prosperous gale arriued at Saint Malouse which notified to the gouernour of Brytayne named Monsieur de Chasteau Brian Chasteau Briā he sent for the yong Fitz Giralde gaue him verie heartie enterteynment during one Monethes space In the meane season the gouernor posted a Messenger to the Court of Fraunce aduertising the King of the arriuall of this Gentleman who presently caused him to be sent for and had him put to the Dolphyn named Henrie who after became king of France Sir Iohn Wallop who was then the English Ambassadour vnderstanding the cause of the Irish fugitiue his repayre to Fraunce Sir Iohn Wallop demaundeth Fitz Giralde demaunded him of the French king ▪ according to the newe made league betwene both the princes which was that none shoulde keepe the other his subiect within his dominion contrarie to eyther of their willes adding further that the boy was brother to one who of late notorious for his rebellion in Ireland was executed at London To this answered the King ▪ first The king denyeth him that the Ambassadour had no Commission from hys Prince to demaunde him and vppon his Maiestie his letter he shoulde knowe more of his mynde secondly that hee did not deteyne him but the Dolphyn stayed him lastly that howe grieuously soeuer his brother offended hee was well assured that the silly boy neither was nor coulde be a traytour and therfore there rested no cause why the Ambassadour shoulde in suche wise craue him not doubting that although hee were deliuered to his king yet he woulde not so farre swarue from the extreeme rigour of Iustice as to embrew his handes in the innocent his bloud for the offence that his brother had perpetrated Maister Wallop herevppon addressed his Letters to Englande specifying to the Counsaile the French kings answere and in the mean tyme the yong Fitz Girald hauing an ynckling of the Ambassadour his motion Fitz Giralde flieth to Flanders fledde secretely to Flaunders scantly reaching to Valencie when Iames Sherelocke one of Maister Wallop his men Iames Sherlocke pursueth Fitz Giralde did not onely pursue him but also did ouertake him as he soiourned in the sayd towne Wherevpon maister Leurouse and such as accompanied the childe stept to the Gouernour of Valencie complayning that one Sherelocke a sneaking spie lyke a pykethanke promoting Varlet did dogge their maister from place to place and presently pursued him to the towne ▪ and therefore they besought the gouernour not to leaue such apparant villaynie vnpunished in that he was willing to betray not onely a guiltlesse child but also his owne Countryman who rather ought for his innocencie to bee pityed than for the deserte of others so eagrely to bee pursued The Gouernour vpon this complaint sore incensed sent in all hast for Sherlocke had him sodainly examined and finding him vnable to colour his lewde practise with any warrantable defence Sherlocke imprisoned he layd him vp by the heeles rewarding his hote pursute with colde interteynment and so remained in gaole vntill the yong Fitz Giralde requiting the
this flelde fought as ye haue heard VV. Paris Geffrey Earle of Aniou husbande to the Empresse receiuing aduertisemeÌ„t of this victorie gotten in England forthwith inuaded Normandye inducyng all the Nobles of the countrey to incline vnto him for by publishing the captiuitie of king StepheÌ„ it was not hard for him to come by the possession of the same Also Dauid king of Scotland entred into Northumberland The king of Scottes taket Northumberland into his possession Polid. The Empresse folovveth the victorie and by commaundement of the Empresse tooke the couÌ„trey into his hands whilest shee like a woman of great wisedome as shee was no lesse in deede iudging that it stood her vpon to vse the victorie that thus was chaunced vnto hir slept not hir businesse but went forward and setting from Gloucester shee came to Winchester where shee was honorably receiued of the Bishop Henry though he was king Stephens brother and inwardly lamented the misfortune of the king Then came shee backe agayne to Wylton and so to Oxford from thence to Reading and then to S. Albones into al the which cities townes shee was receiued with much triumph and honour Thus hauing passed through all the South parties of the Realme on that side Shee commeth to LoÌ„don shee finally came to London where the citizens welcomed hir also in most ioyfull harty maner Being come to London and whâ—â—â— shee consuteâ—…d with those of hir counsaile 〈◊〉 for the quieting of the whole state of the Realme Queene Mondo wife to king Stephen for so shee was also called maketh humble sure vnto hir to haue hir husband 〈◊〉 all fortie promising that he should resigne his whole clayme 〈◊〉 into hir hand is and 〈◊〉 hade some word aÌ„ priuate life The queene â—â—eth to the empresse for the deliuery of her husband But 〈◊〉 would farre of bid being graunted that she was relucted with deprochfull wordes Wherevpon ther coâ—…ienued a most high displeasure and 〈◊〉 nowe will ynough that peace was to be purchased onely by force of armes and not in any other maner Therefore with all diligence shee sent to hir sonne Eustrace as then being in Kent willyng hym to prepare an army which he did most speedily It chaunced at the same tyme also that the citizens of London made great labour to the said Empresse that they might haue the lawes of king Edward the CoÌ„fessor restored againe the strait lawes of hir father king Henry abolished But for somuch as they could get no grauÌ„t of their petition and perceiued the Empresse to be displeased with theÌ„ about that importunat request wherin only she ouershot her self The Londoners conspire to take the empresse they druised how by what meanes they might take hir prisoner knowing that all the Kentishmen would helpe to strengthen theÌ„ in their enterprise But she being therof warned fled by night out of the citie Shee fled in the night tyme out of the citie weÌ„t to Oxford determining to be reuenged vpon hir aduersaries when tyme should serue hir tuene herewith began she to waxe more displeasant both to those nobles whom she had in prison also to other but namely to K. Stephen whoÌ„ she coÌ„maunded to be lodeÌ„ with yrons kept with very slender diet N. Triuet After that she was thus fled out of London which chanced about the feast of the Natiuitie of S. Iohn Baptist the Tower of London was besieged which Geffrey de MauÌ„deuille held valiantly defended Geffrey de Maundeuill The Bishop of London taken The same Geffrey issuing forth one tyme came to Fulham where he tooke the Bishop of LondoÌ„ as theÌ„ lodging there in his own manor place being one of the contrary faction Polid. Henry Bishop of Winchester perceiuing the wrath of the Empresse more more to encrease daily against hir people Castles fortified by the Bishop of VVinchester thinking it wisdome to serue the time manned all the Castles which he had builded within his dioces as at Waltham al Farnham and in other places and withdrew him selfe into the castle of Winchester there to remaine tyl he might see to what end the fury of the womaÌ„ would incline This being knowen the Empresse calleth vnto hir Dauid K. of Scotland that was hir vncle who immedietly came vnto hir and then ioyning these armies together they go to Winchester and besiege the castle In them haue time the 〈◊〉 aâ—â—her sonne Eustace thou with the â—â—ipe of their frends as the K. without the Londoners and offer had assembled a great army and appoynted the gouernment and generall conduct tâ—â— of vnto one Willâ—â— of Ypres a Fremyng VVilliam de Ypres who for as valiancie was by K. Stephen created Earle Kent La Meir He was sonne to Philip of Flaunders but bigot of a Concubine which Philip was sonne to Earle Robert of Flaunders surnamed Foiâ—â— This William was banished out of his countrey by The dâ—…pike of â—…rass earle of Flaunders bicause he attempted to berâ—…ne hym of his Earledome The Queenes army thus committed to his landing came nere vnto Winchester and kept the Empresse and hir people in maner besieged and at length perceiuyng the aduantage aform the roÌ„myng of a great supply of Londoners to their ayde VV. Mal. in nouelta historia N. Trimete S. Dun. Polid. The Empresse army put to flight VV. Mal. Rob. Earle of Gloucester taken prisoner they set vpon hir army as the same was departing with suche violents that straightwayes hir power was put to flight and discomfited The Empresse was glad to slaine hir selfe dead and so to be conueyed in a Coache as a dead corps vnto Gloucester Her brother Robert with many other of the Nobles that stayed behynd tyl shee and other might get out of daunger were taken prisoners And bicause the king was kept at Bristowe vnder the custodye of the said Robert the Queene caused hym to be straitly vsed that he might proue the wordes of the Gospell true With what measure ye meate vnto other with the same by other shall it be measured vnto you againe M. Par. He had deserued very euyll of the king hereto fore and therefore it was nowe remembred He was taken in maner abouesaid on the feast day of the exoltation of the Crosse King Stephen after the spoyling of sundry Churches the robbing and burnyng of many townes and villages by the hands of his hyred men of warre that were for the more part Flemyngs at length with his brother the Bishop of Winchester he came with a strong army of men vnto Wilton The kyng commeth to VVylton where he tooke in hande to fortifie the Nunry in steed of a Castle to resist the incursions and enterprises of them of Salisbury whiche in the behalfe of the Empresse had done many displeasures vnto his frendes but earle Robert vnderstaÌ„ding of his doings got a power together with al speede the first day of Iuly about sunne
vnto hym and to his sonne for those landes and possessions in Irelande in manner and forme as was requisite The Cardinall Viuian hauyng dispatched hys businesse in Irelande came backe into Englande and by the Kyngs safeconducte retourned agayne into Scotlande where in a Councell holden at Edenburgh he suspended the Bishoppe of Whiterne bicause he did refuse to come to that Councell But the Bishoppe made no accompte of that suspension hauyng a defence good ynough by the Bishoppe of Yorke whose Suffragane he was After the King had broken vp his Parliament at Oxenford he came to Marleborrough and there graunted vnto Philippe de Breuse all the kingdome of Limerike for the seruice of fortie knights Philip de Breuse for Hubert and WilliaÌ„ the brethren of Reignald earle of Cornewall and Iohn de la Pumeray their nephue refused the gift therof bycause it was not as yet conquered For the kyng thereof surnamed Monoculus that is wyth the one eye who hadde holden that kyngdome of the Kyng of Englande beyng lately slayne one of hys kynsemenne gotte possession of that kingdome and helde it without the acknowledging any subiection to Kyng Henry nor would obeye his officers bycause of the seathes and domages whyche they dyd practise agaynst the Irishe people withoute occasion as they alleadged by reason whereof the Kyng of Corke also rebelled agaynste the Kyng of Englande and hys people and so that Realme was full of trouble Math. Paris Polidor The same season Queene Margaret the wife of King Henry the sonne was deliuered of a man childe which liued not past three dayes In that time there was also through all England a great multitude of Iewes and bycause they hadde no place appoynted them where to bury those that died but only at London they were constreyned to bring al their dead corpses thither from all parties of the Realme To ease them therefore of that inconuenience they obteyned of K. Henry a grant to haue a place assigned them in euery quarter where they dwelled to bury their dead bodies The same yeare was the body of S. Amphibosus the Martir that was instruster to Saint Albone founde not farre from the Towne of Saint Albones and there in the Monasterie of that Towne burled with great and solemne Ceremonies In the meanetyme King Henry transported ouer into Normandy hearing that the old grudge betwixt him and King Lewes began to be renewed vppon this occasion whereas King Henry had receyued the French Kings daughter Alice promised in marriage vnto his sonne Richard to remayne in England with him till shee were able to company with hir husband King Henry being of a dissolute life and giuen much to the pleasure of the body at the least wise as the French King suspected beganne to fantesie the yong Ladye and by suche wanton talke and company keeping as hee vsed with hir hee was thought to haue brought hir to consente vnto hys fleshly will whiche was the cause wherefore hee woulde not suffer that his sonne shoulde marrie hir being not of ripe yeares fitte therevnto Wherevpon the Frenche King gessing howe the matter wente thoughte iustly that suche reproche wroughte againste him in his bloud Rog. Houâ—… was in no wise to be suffered Herevpon therfore he compleined to y e Pope who for redresse thereof sente one Peter a Priest Cardinall entitled of S. Grisogone as Legate from him into Fraunce with coÌ„mission to put Normandy and all the lands that belonged to King Henry vnder inderdiction if he woulde not suffer the marriage to bee solemnised withoute delay betwixte his sonne Richarde and Ales the French Kings daughter The King aduertised heereof The Kings meete at 〈◊〉 came to a communication with the French King at Yvry vpon the .21 of SepteÌ„ber and there offered to cause the marriage to bee solemnised out of haÌ„d if the French King would giue in marriage with his daughter the Citte of Burges with all the appurtenances as it was accorded and also vnto his sonne King Henry the countrey of Veulgesyne that is to say all the lande betwixt Gisors and Pussy as hee had likewise couenaunted but bycause the French King refused so to do King Henry would not suffer his sonne Richarde to marry his daughter Alice but yet at this enternewe of the two Princes by the helpe of the Cardinal and other noble men of both sides they agreed to be friendes and that if they could not take order betwixt them to the end all matters touching the controuersies depending betwixt them for the laÌ„des in Abuergne and Berry and for the fee of Chateau Raoul then should the matter be putte to twelue persons sixe on the one side and sixe on the other authorising them to compound and finish that controuersie and all other whiche mighte rise betwixt them For the French King these were named the Bishoppes of Claremont Neuers and Troys and three Barons Earle Theobald Earle Roberte and Peter de Courtney the Kings breethren For the Kyng of England were named the Bishops of Mauns Peregort and Nauntes with three Barons also Maurice de Croum William Maigot and Peter de Mount rabell At the same time also both these kings promised and vndertooke to ioyne their powers togither and to goe into the holy land to ayde Guido King of Ierusalem whome the Sarazen Saladine King of Egipte did sore oppresse with continuall and most cruell warre This done the Frenche King returned home and King Henry came to Vernueil where hee made this ordinance â—…og Houe â—…lawe that no man shoulde trouble the vassall or tennant as we may cal them for his Lords debt After this King Henry went into Berry and tooke Chateau Roux or Raoul and marchyng towards Castre the Lorde of that towne came met him on the way surrendring into his handes the daughter of Raufe de Dolis lately before deceassed whome the King gaue vnto Baldwine de Riuers with the honor of Chateau Roux or Raoul Then weÌ„t he vnto Graundemont where Andebert Erle of March came vnto him and sold to him the whole countrey of March for the suÌ„me of fifteene thousande lb Aniouyn â—…he purchase 〈◊〉 the Erleâ—… of march twentie mules and twentie palfreys The Charters of this grant and sale made and giuen vnder the seale of y e sayd Earle of March bare date in the moneth of September Anno Christi .1177 And then did the king receyue the fealtie and homages of all the BaroÌ„s and Knightes of the countrey of March after hee had satisfied â—…n reg 24. contented and payde the money vnto the Earle according to the couenauntes 1178 The King this yeare helde his Christmas at Angiers and meaning shortly after to returne into Englande he sent to the Frenche King for letters of protection which were graunted and sente to him in forme as followeth 〈◊〉 tenour of French 〈◊〉 letters â—â—otection Ludouicus rex Francorum omnibus ad quos presentes literae peruenerint Salutem Nouerit
vnreasonable to be rased or reformed After they had communed togithers dyuers times and remayned there a fifteene dayes they appointed to aduertise the two Kings of theyr whole doyngs and after nine dayes space to meete againe The Frenche Dukes rode to Abbeuile where the Frenche King then laye and the Englishe Dukes returning to Calais wrote to the King of England of all the whole matter The Duke of Gloucester was harder to deale with in eache behalfe concerning the conclusion of peace than was the Duke of Lancaster for he rather desired to haue had warre than any peace excepte such a one as shoulde bee greatly to the aduantage and honor of the Realme of Englande and therefore the commons of Englande vnderstanding hys disposition agreed that hee should be sent rather than any other For where in times past y e Englishmenne hadde greatly gayned by the warres of Fraunce as well the commons The Englishe Gentlemen maynteyned by the French warres as the Knightes and Esquiers who had by the same mainteyned their estate they could not giue their willing consents to haue any peace at all with the Frenchmen in hope by reason of the warres to profyte themselues as in times past they had done The Frenche King and the nobles of Fraunce were greately enclined to peace and so likewise was the King of England the Duke of Lancaster But the Frenchmen were so subtile The subtiltie of the Frenchmen and vsed so many darke and coloured words that the Englishmen had much adoe to vnderstaÌ„d them whiche offended much the Duke of Gloucester But neuerthelesse at the daye prefixed these foure Dukes met againe at Balingham and with the French Lords came the King of Armony newly retorned into France foorth of Grecia for into his owne countey â—…e durst not come The commissioners meete agayne the Turkes hauing conquered it except the strong Towne of Coniche The King of Armony which the Genewayes held The K. of Armonye woulde gladly that peace mighte haue bin established bitwixt Fraunce and Englande in hope to procure the sooner some ayde of the Kings to recouer his kingdome But to coÌ„clude after that the Dukes and other with them associate as assistants had diligently perused and examined the articles of their treatie they would not passe nor seale to anye Obscure and doutfull words to be opened till all darke and obscure words were cleerely declared opened and made perfect so that no generall peace mighte be concluded A truce for .4 yeres betwene Englande and Fraunce Notwithstanding yet as Froyssarte hath a truce for four yeares vppon certayne articles was agreed to be kept as well by sea as by lande It was thought that when they were at poynt to haue growen to agreement concerning many articles if the French King had not newly fallen into his former disease of frensie there had better effect followed of this treatie but by occasion of his sicknesse eache man departed before that anye principall articles coulde be fully ordered and made perfect The same time Sir Thomas Percy the yonger was made Lorde Warden of Burdeaux and Aquitaine An. reg 17. Great tempestes In September muche hurte was done thorough exceeding greate thunder lightning and tempestes whiche chaunced in many partes of Englande but speciallye in Cambridge shire where manye houses were brente with no small quantitie of corne Greate inundations and flouds of water followed shortly after in October Muche hurte done by great flouds in Suffolke whiche did muche hurt at Bury and New-market in Suffolke where it ouerthrew walles of houses and putte men and women in greate daunger of drowning A great plage in Essex In Essex also in September greate mortalitie fell by pestilence amongst the people whereof many died The Towne of Chierburg was restored againe to the King of Nauarre who had engaged it to the King of England for two thousand markes 1394 A Parliamente was holden at Westminster whiche began in the Octaues of Saint Hillarie The King purposing to goe ouer into Ireland required a subsedie the Cleargie graunted to him a whole teÌ„th toward the furnishing forth of that iourney if he wente himselfe if he wente not yet they agreed to giue to him the moâ—… of a tenth In time of this Parliamente there appeares great euill will to remayne betwixt the Duke of Lancaster and the Earle of Arundell for the Duke imposed to the Earle that about the exaltation of the Crosse Varlâ—… 〈…〉 duke of Lancaster and the Erle of â—…â—…ell hee lay wyth a company of armed men in the castell of Holte by Chester the same time that the country there rose against the Duke with their Capitaine Nicholas Clifton and his complices whome he ment as the Duke alledged to haue aided against him but the Erle this flatly denyed and with probable reasons so excused himselfe as the quarrell at length was taken vp and the parties for the time well quieted This yeare on Whitsonday beeing the seauenth of Iune Queene Anne departed this life The death of Queene Anne to the great griefe of hir husband King Richard who loued hir entierly She deceassed at Sheâ—…e and was buried at Westminster vpon y e South side of Saint Edwards Shrine The King tooke suche a conceyte with the house of Shene where she departed this life The K. deficeth the house of Shene bycause the queene dyed there that hee caused the buildings to bee throwen downe and defaced whereas the former Kings of this lande beeing weery of the Citie vsed customarilye thither to resorte as to a place of pleasure and seruing highly to theyr recuâ—…tion Thus the King the Duke of Lancaster and his sonne the Earle of Derby were widdowers all in one season for the Lady Constance Duches of Lancaster daughter to Peter Kyng of Spaine deceassed the last yeare whilest hir husbande the Duke of Lancaster was at the treatie in Fraunce and the same tyme also deceassed the Countesse of Derby wife to the Lorde Henry Earle of Derby Moreouer in this yeare .1394 Isabell Duchesse of Yorke departed this life that was halfe sister to the Duchesse of Lancaster beeing borne of one mother She was buried at Laâ—…gley This yeare in August An. reg 〈◊〉 A proclamation that 〈…〉 reâ—… 〈◊〉 their 〈◊〉 was a proclamation sette foorthe that all Irishmenne shoulde auoyde this lande and returne home into their owne Countrey before the feast of the Natiuitie of our Lady on payne of life The occasion of whiche proclamation was for that such multitudes of Irishmen were come ouer into this region in hope of gaine that the Countreys in Ireland subiect to England The English 〈…〉 almost 〈…〉 were in manner lefte voyde of people so that the enimies spoyled and wasted those Countreys at theyr pleasure finding fewe or none to withstande them And where King Edwarde the third had placed in Ireland his benche and Iudges with his Eschecker for the good administration of Iustice and
Malicorne wherof he made captaine Wil. Glasdale esquier Lisle Soubz Boulton whereof was made captain sir Lancelot Lisle knight Lonpelland wherof was made captain Henry BraÌ„che Montseur of y e which was made captaine sir Wil. Oldehall knight la Suze was assigned to y e keping of Iohn Suffolk esquier And beside this aboue .xl. castels piles were ouerthrowen destroyed The newes herof reported in Englande caused great reioysing among the people not only for the conquest of so many towns fortresses but also for that it had plesed god to giue theÌ„ victory in a pitched field General processions after victorie wherfore general processions were apointed to render vnto god humble thankes for his fauor so bestowed vpon theÌ„ This yere after Easter the king called his highe court of parliament at Westminster by aduise of the peeres and comming to the parliament house himselfe he was conueyd through the citie vpon a great courser with great triumphe the people flocking into y e streetes to beholde the childe whom they iudged to haue the liuely Image purtrature and countenauÌ„ce of his father like to suceede him be his heire in all princely qualities martiall policies and morall vertues aswell as his vndoubted inheritor in his realms signiories and dominions A subsidie In this parliameÌ„t was granted to the K. a subsidy of .xij d. pence the pound towards y e maintenauÌ„ce of his warres of al marchandise coÌ„ming in or going out of the realme aswell of englishmen as straÌ„gers The prince of Portingale coÌ„ming to London During which parliament came to LondoÌ„ Peter duke of Quimbâ—…e sonne to the K. of Portingale cousin germain remoued to the K. which of y e duke of Exceter y e bishop of Winchester his vncles was highly feasted he was also elected into the order of the garter During y e same season EdmuÌ„d Mortimer the laste earle of Marche of that name which long time had bin restreined froÌ„ his libertie finally waxed lame deceassed without issue whose inheritaunce descended to the lorde Richard Plantagenet sonne and heire to Richard erle of Cambridge beheaded as before ye haue hearde at the towne of Southampton In the time of this parliament also was sir Iohn Mortimer cousin to y e same erle either for deserte or malice attainted of treson put to execution of whose deathe no small slaunder arose amongst y e coÌ„mon people After al these things done in England in Fraunce Humfrey duke of Gloucester who had married the Lady Iaquet or Iaqueline of Bauiere couÌ„tesse of Heynault Holland ZelaÌ„d notwithstanding she was coupled in marriage afore to the Duke of BrabaÌ„t as yet liuing and had continued with him a long space passed nowe y e sea with y e said lady went to Mons or Bergen in Heinault where the more part of the people of that country came and submitted themselues vnto him as vnto their soueraine lord in right of his said wife the lady Iaquet or Iaquelin with which doing Iohn duke of Brabant hir former husbaÌ„d was greatly moued and likewise the Duke of Burgoign being great frend to the same duke of Brabant was muche offended but first bycause of olde familiaritie he wrote louingly to the duke of Glocester requiring him to reform himselfe according to reason and to forsake his vngodly life bothe in keping of an other mans wife and also in seeking to vsurpe other mens right and titles Hervpon went letters betwixt them for a time but at length wheÌ„ the Duke of Burgoine perceiued that the duke of Glocester ment to pursue his quarrell to make war against the duke of Brabant he tooke part wyth y e duke of Brabant so ernestly that he consented to fight with the duke of Glocester body to body within listes in defence of the duke of Brabantes quarell further aided the duke of Brabant in his warres against y e duke of Glocester with all his puissance in so muche that in y e end after the duke of Glocesters return into England y e duke of BrabaÌ„t recouered all the towne in Heynault whiche the Lady Iaquet or Iaquelin held against him further the same lady was by composition deliuered by them of the towne of Mons vnto the duke of Burgoigne who caused hir to be conueied vnto Gant from whence she made shift to escape into Hollande where she was obeied as countesse of y e couÌ„try then made warre in hir own defence agaynst the Dukes of Burgoigne Brabant the which sought to spoile hir of al hir townes and landes further procured Pope Martine the .v. before whome the matter was brought to giue senteÌ„ce that the first matrimony with the duke of Brabant was good effectuall and the seconde espousels celebrated with the duke of Gloucester to be vnlawfull But in the meane time the L. Fitz Walter being sent ouer to the aide of the lady Iaquet or Iaquelin with a power of englishemen landed in Zelande neere vnto the town of Zerixe against whome came the duke of Burgoign and encountring with them and other such Hollanders and Zelanders as were ioyned with them nere to a place called Brewers hauen there discomfited them so that of englishmen Holanders and Zelanders that were with the said lorde Fitz Walter there were slaine .vij. or .viij. hundred and the residue chaÌ„sed to the water Anno re 4. At length when the duke of Gloucester vnderstoode the sentence pronounced against hym by the Pope he beganne to waxe weary of hys wife the saide Lady Iaquet by whom he neuer had profit but losse and tooke to his wife by a seconde marriage Eleanor Cobham daughter to the lorde Cobham of Sterberow which before as the fame went was his soueraine Ladye and paramoure to his greate slaunder and reproche A little beefore thys tyme Syr Thomas Rampston sir Phillippe Branthe sir Nicholas Burdet and other englishmen to the number of .v. C. men of war repaired and fortified the towne of saint Iames de Bevvron Aâ—… Bâ—…vvioÌ„ situate on the fronters of Normandie towardes Britaine within half a league of the duke of Britaines grounde 〈◊〉 with whome as then they had open warre and so began to do many displeasures to his people Wherevpon Arthur Earle of Richemont and Ivry brother to the sayde duke lately before created constable of FraÌ„ce assembled an huge power of men to the number of .xl. M. as some haue writteÌ„ XX.M. hathe 〈…〉 Iames de Bevvron besieged with the same came before the sayd towne of saint Iames de Bevvron and planted his siege very stronglye about it enforcing with his greate ordinaunce to ouerthrow the walles And one day amongst other he determined to giue the assault â–ª and so did the whiche continued a long space very hot and earnest The Bretons Bretâ—…nantes were come downe into a lowe bottome where there was a little ponde or fishe poole and they muste nedes passe by a streite way to
communing and therevpon praying them to spare him for a little while departed thence And soone after one houre betweene tenne and eleuen he returned into the Chamber among them al changed with a wonderful soure angrie countenance knitting the browes frowning and fretting and gnawyng on his lyppes and so satte hym downe in his place all the Lordes muche dismayde and sore marueyling of this maner of sodaine chaunge and what thing should him ayle Then when he had sitten still a while thus he beganne What were they worthie to haue that compasse and ymagine the destruction of me being so nere of bloud vnto the king and Protector of his royal person and his realme At this question al the Lordes sat sore astonied musing much by whom this question should be ment of whiche euery man wyst himselfe cleare Then the Lorde Chamberlaine as he that for the loue betwene them thought he might bee boldest with him aunswered and sayde that they were worthie to be punished as heynous traitors whatsoeuer they were And all the other affyrmed the same That is quoth he yonder sorceresse my brothers wife and other with hir meaning the Queene At these wordes manye of the other Lordes were greatly abashed that fauoured hir But the Lord Hastings was in his minde 〈◊〉 content y t it was moued by hir thaÌ„ by any other whoÌ„ he loued better Albeit his heart soâ—…wâ—… grudged that he was not afore made of 〈…〉 in this matter as he was of the taking of hir â—…red and of their putting to death which were by his assent before deuised to be beheaded at Ponâ—…fret this selfe same day in which he was not ware that it was by other deuised that himselfe shâ—… be beheaded the same day at London Then sayd the Protector ye shall all see in what wise tâ—… sorceresse and that other Witche of hir couâ—… Shores wife with their affinitie haue by theyr sorâ—…erse and witchcraft wasted my bodie â—…ad therewith he plucked vp his dubled sleeue to hys elbow vpoÌ„ his left arme where he shewed a â—…rish withered arme and small as it was neuer other And therevpon euery mans minde sore misgaue them well perceyuing that this 〈◊〉 was but a quarell For they well wyâ—… 〈…〉 Queene was too wise to goe aboute anye 〈◊〉 folly And also if shee woulde yet woulde â—…eâ—… of all folke least make Shores wise of â—…oâ—…uâ—… whome of all women shee moste hated 〈◊〉 Concubine whom the king hir husband had 〈◊〉 loued And also no man was there present but well knewe that his arme was euer suche since hys byrth Naythelesse the Lorde Chaâ—… 〈◊〉 whiche fro the death of King Edwarde 〈◊〉 Shores wyfe on whome hee somewhat 〈◊〉 in the Kings lyfe sauing as it is sayd he â—…haâ—… while forbare hir of reuerence Edwarde the 〈◊〉 or else of a certayne kynd of fidelitie to his 〈◊〉 aunswered and sayde certainlye my Lorde if they haue so heynously done they be worthie â—…nous punishment What quoth the Protectour thou seruest me I wene wyth iffes and wyth andes I tell thee they haue so done and that I will make good on thy bodie traytour and therewith as in a greate anger he clapped his fyst vpon the bourd a great rappe At which token giuen one cried treason withoute the Chamber Therewith a doore clapped and in come there rushing men in harnesse as many as the chamber myght holde And anone the Protectour sayd to the Lord Hastings I arrest thee Traytour What mee my Lorde quoth he yea thee traytour quoth the Protector And another let flie at the Lorde Stanley The Lord StaÌ„â—…â—…eded whiche shrunke at the stroke and fell vnder the Table or else his heade had beene cleft to the teeth for as shortly as he shranke yet came the bloud about his eares Then were they all quickly bestowed in diuerse Chambers except the Lorde Chamberlaine whome the Protectour hade speede and shrine him apace for by Saint Paule quoth hee I will not to dinner till I see thy head off It booted him not to aske why but heauily tooke a priest at auenture and made a short shrift for a longer would not be suffered the Protector made so much hast to dinner which hee myghte not goe to till this were done for sauing of hys othe So was hee brought forth into the greene beside the Chappell within the Tower and hys heade layd downe vpon a long logge of tymber and there stryken off and afterwarde his bodie with the heade enterred at Windsore besyde the bodie of king Edwarde whose both soules oure Lorde pardon A marueylous case is it to heare eyther the warnings of that he shoulde haue voyded or the tokens of that hee coulde not voyde for the selfe night next before his death the Lorde Stanley sent a trustie secrete Messenger vnto him at midnight in all the hast requyring him to rise and ryde away with hym for hee was disposed vtterlye no longer to byde hee hadde so fearefull a dreame 〈◊〉 Lorde â—…deyt â—…e in whiche him thought that a Boare with his tuskes so rased them both by the heades that the bloud ranne about both theyr shoulders And forasmuch as the Protector gaue the Boare for his cognisaunce this dreame made so fearefull an impression in his heart y e he was throughly determined no loÌ„ger to tarie but had his horse readie if the Lorde Hastings would go with him to ride yet so farre the same night that they shuld be out of daunger ere day Ha good Lorde quoth y e Lord Hastings to this messenger leaneth my Lorde thy maister so much to such tryfles and hath such fayth in dreames whiche eyther hys owne feare fantasteth or doe ryse in the nyghtes rest by reason of his day thoughtes Tell hym it is plaine witchcraft to beleue in such dreames whiche if they were tokens of things to come why thinketh he not that we might bee as lykely to make them true by our goyng if wee were caughte and brought backe as friends fayle fleers for then had the Boare a cause likely to race vs wyth hys Tuskes as folke that â—…de for some falsehoode wherefore eyther is there no perill nor none there is in deede or if any bee it is rather in going than byding And if wee should needes cost fall in perill one way or other yet hadde I lieffer that manne shoulde see that it were by other mennes falsehoode than thinke it were eyther by our owne faulte or faynt heart And therefore go to thy maister man and commende mee to him and pray him be merie and haue no feare for I ensure him I am as sure of the man that he woteth of as I am of mine own hande God send grace sir quoth the messenger and went his way Certaine is it also that in ryding towardes the Tower the same morning in which he was beheaded hys Horse twise or thrise stumbled wyth him almost to the falling which thing albeit eche man wote wel dayly happeneth to them to whome
Irelande where hee so sette foorth the mater vnto the nobilitie of that countreye Thomas Gerardine Chaâ—…celor of Iâ—… that not onely the Lorde Thomas Gerardine Chauncellour of that lande deceiued through his craftie tale receyued the counterfaite Earle into his Castell with all honour and reuerence but also many other noble men determined to ayde hym with all their powers as one descended of the bloud royall and lyneally come of the house of Yorke whiche the Irishe people euermore hyghly fauored honoured and loued aboue all other By this meanes euery manne throughout all Irelande was willyng and ready to take his parte and to submit themselues to him already reputing and calling him of all hands king So that nowe they of this secte by the aduice of the Prieste sente into England certayn priuie messangers to get friendes here also they sent into Flanders to y e Ladie Margarete Margaret Duâ—…châ—… of Bâ—…â—…gne sister to â—…g Edvvard the fourthe sister to King Edward late wyfe to Charles Duke of Burgogne to purchase ayde and helpe at hir handes Thys Ladie Margarete bare no smal rule in the low countreys and 〈◊〉 verie deede sore geudged in hir heart that Kyng Henrye being descended of the house of Lancaster should reigne and gouerne the realme of Englande and therfore though she well vnderstoode that thys was but a coloured matter â—…t to woorke hir malicious intention against K. Henry she was glad to haue so fitte an occasion and therefore promised the messengers all the ayde that she should bee able to make in furtheraunce of the quarrell and also to procure al the frendes she could in other places to be aiders and partakers of the same conspiracie Kyng Henrye aduertized of al these doings was greately vexed therwith and therefore to haue good aduise in the matter hee called togyther his counsell at the Charterhouse besyde his manour of Richmond and there consulted with theÌ„ by which meanes best this begon conspiracie might be appesed and disappointed without more disturbaunce It was therfore determined that a generall pardon should be published to all offenders that were content to receyue the same This pardon was so freely graunted that no offence was excepted no not so muche as high treason committed agaynste the Kinges royall person It was further agreed in the same Counsell for the tyme then present that the Erle of Warwike should personally be shewed abroade in the citie and other publike places whereby the vntrue reporte falsly spred abroade that he shoulde be in Irelande myght be amongest the comminaltie proued and knowen for a vayne imagined lye In this solemne counsel diuers many things for the wealth of the realme were debated concluded and amongest other it was determyned Lady Elizabeth late vvife to King Edvvarde the fourthe adiudged to forfeit 〈◊〉 hir landes that the Lady Elizabeth wyfe to King Edward the fourth should leese and forfayte all hir lands and possessions bycause she had voluntarily submitted hir selfe and hir daughters wholly to the handes of king Richarde contrarye to hir promise made to the Lordes and nobles of thys realme in the beginnyng of the conspiracie made against king Richard wherby she did inough to haue quayled all the purpose of them that ioyned with hir in that mater But thoughe hir faulte was greeuous yet was it iudged by some men that shee deserued not by equitie of Iustice so greate a losse and punishement But suche was hir chaunce by that hir lightnesse and incoustancie she wanne the displeasure oâ—… many manner and for that causely pâ—… after 〈◊〉 the abbey of Beâ—…ndsey besyde Soâ—…hwarke a wretched and a miserable lyfe where not manye yeeres after she deceassed and is buryed with hir husband at Windsore Though Fortune thus ruleth many thynges at his pleasure yet one woorke that this Queene accomplished can not bee forgotten For in the lyfe tyme of hir husbande Kyng Edwarde the fourth Queenes colledge in Cambridge founded by the Lady Elizabeth Kyng Edvvarde the fourthe hys vvidovve shee founded and erected a notable Colledge in the vniuersitie of Cambridge for the fynding of Scholers and studentes of the same vniuersitie and endowed it with sufficient possessions for the long mayntenaunce of the same whyche at thys daye is called the Queenes Colledge When all thyngs in thys counsell were sagely concluded and agreed to the kings mynde he retourned to London giuing in commaundement that the next Sunday ensuyng Edward the young Earle of Warwike shuld be brought from the Tower thorough the moste publyque streetes in all London to the Cathedrall Churche of Saint Paule where hee wente openlye in Procession that euery man myght see him hauing communication with many noblemen and with them especially that were suspected to bee partakers of the late begonne conspiracye that they myght perceyue howe the Irishmenne vppon a vayne shadowe moued warre againste the Kyng and his realme But this medicine little auayled to euill disposed persons For the Earle of Lincolne sonne to Iohn de la Poole Duke of Suffolk and Elizabeth sister to king Edwarde the fourth thynking it not meete to neglect and omitte so ready an occasion of newe trouble determyned to vpholde the enterprise of the Irishmenne and other complices of this conspiracie Whervppon consultyng wyth Syr Thomas Broughton and certayne other of hys moste trustye friendes purposed to sayle into Flaunders so his Aunte the Lady Margaret duchesse of Burgogne trusting by hir helpe to make a puissant armie and to ioyne with the companions of the newe raised sedition Therefore after the dissolution of the Parliamente whiche then was holden he fledde secretly into Flaunders vnto the sayd Ladie Margarete where Francis Lorde Louell landed certaine dayes before Here after long consultation had howe to proceede in their businesse it was agreed that the Earle of Lyncolne and the Lorde Louell shoulde goe into Irelande and there to attend vpon the duchesse hir counterfaite nephue to honor him as a K. and with the power of the Irishemen to bryng hym into Englande and if their dooyngs hadde good successe then the foresayde Lamberte myâ—â—amed the Erle of Warwike shoulde by the consente of the counsell bee deposed and Edwarde the true Earle of Warwike to bee delyuered out of prison and anoynted king King Henry supposyng that no man woulde haue bin so madde as to haue attempted anye further enterprise in the name of that new found counterfayted Earle hee onely studyed howe to subdue the seditions conspiracie of the Irishmen But hearyng that the Earle of Lincolne was fledde into Flaunders he was somwhat moued therwith and caused Souldiors to bee put in a readynesse out of euery part of his Realme and to bring them into one place assigned that when his aduersaries shoulde appeare hee mighte sodeynely sette vppon them vanquishe and ouercome them The Marques Dorset committed to the Tovver Thus disposing things for his suretie he went towardes Saint Edmundes Burye and beeing certifyed that the Marques
both the Princes â—…age â—…ed And moreouer bycause they vnderstood that the marriage was broken betweene the Prince of Castile and the Lady Mary they desired y t the said Lady might be ioyned in mariage with y e french K. offering a great dower and sureties for y e same So muche was offered that the K. moued by his counsayle namely by the Bishop of Lincolne Wolsey consented vpon condition that if the French K. dyed then she should if it stood with hir pleasure returne into England againe with al hir dower riches 〈◊〉 conâ—…eâ—… After that they were accorded vppon a ful peace that the french K. should marrie thys yong Lady the indentures were drawen engrossed and sealed peace therevpon proclaimed the seuenth day of August the K. in presence of the french Ambassadors was sworne to keepe y e same likewise there was an Ambassade sente out of England to see the french King sweare y e same 〈◊〉 The dower that was assigned vnto the bride to be receiued after hir husbands deceasse if she suruiued him was named to be .32 crownes of yeerely reuennes to be receiued out of certain lands assigned forth therefore during all hir naturall life And moreouer it was further agreed and couenanted that the frenche K. should content pay yerely vnto K. Henry during y e space of fiue yeres the summe of one hundred thousand crownes By conclusion of this peace The Ladie Mary affyed to K. Lewes of Fraunce was the D. of Longuile with the other prisoners delyuered paying their raunsoms and the said D. affyed the Lady Mary in the name of his maister K. Lewes In September following the sayde Lady was conueyd to Douer by the K. hir brother and the Queene and on the seconde day of October she was shipped and suche as were appointed to giue their attendance on hir as the Duke of Norffolke the Marques Dorset the Bishop of Durham the Earle of Surrey the L. de la Ware the L. Berners the Lord Montaigle the four breethren of the said Marques sir Maurice Barkeley sir Iohn Peche sir William Sandes sir Tho. Bulleyne sir Iohn Car and many other knightes Esquiers Gentlemen and Ladyes They had not sailed past a quarter of the Sea but that the wind arose and seuered the shippes driuing some of them to Calais some into Flanders and hir shippe with great difficultie was brought to Bulleyne not without great ieoperdie at the entring of the hauen for the master ranne the ship hard on shore but the boates wer ready receiued y e Lady out of the ship sir Christopher Garnish stood in the water and toke hir in his armes so caried hir to land wher the D. of Vandosme a Cardinall with many other great estates receiued hir with great honor The mariage solemnized betwene the French king and the Lady Mary sister to King Henrye From Bullein with easie iourneys she was coÌ„ueid vnto Abuile and there entred the eyghth of October and the morrow following being MoÌ„day and S. Denise daye the mariage was solemnised betwixte the French King the sayde Lady with all honour ioy and royaltie When the feast was ended the English lords returned with great rewards back into EnglaÌ„d Before their departure from Abuile the Dolphin of France Francis Duke of Valoys caused a solemne Iustes to be proclaymed Solemne iustes proclaymed at Paris whyche should be kept at Paris in the moneth of NoueÌ„ber next ensuing the said Dolphin with his nine aydes to aunswere all commers being Gentlemen of name and armes When this Proclamation was reported in England by the noble men that returned from the marriage the D. of Suffolke the Marques Dorset and his four breethren the Lord ClintoÌ„ Sir Edwarde Neuill Sir Giles Capell Tho. Cheinie and other got licence of the K. to goe ouer to this chalenge and therevpon preparyng themselues for the purpose departed towarde Fraunce and did so much by iourney that they came to Paris about the later ende of October and were hartily welcome to the King Dolphin but most of al to the french Queene which then lay at S. Denise and was not yet crowned nor entred into Paris The Dolphin desired the Duke of Suffolke and the Lord Marques Dorset to be two of his immediate aydes which thereto gladly assented In the meane time whilest all thyngs were a preparing for the Iustes the fifth of Nouember The Coronation of the french Quene being Sonday the Queene was Crowned with greate solemnitie in the Monasterie of S. Denise And on the morrow following the sayde Q. was receyued into the Citie of Paris with all honour that might be deuised On y e seuenth day of October being Tewsday began the Iustes which coÌ„tinued the space of three dayes in the whiche were aunswered three hundred and fiue men of armes and euery man ranne fyue courses with sharp speares The Englishe Lordes and Knightes did as well as the best not only in the iustes but also at the iourney and barriers namely the Duke of Suffolke the Marques Dorset and his brother that worthy yong Gentleman the Lorde Edward Gray When all the greate triumph was done the Lordes of England tooke theyr leaue and were highly thanked of the king the Queene y e Dolphin and all the Lordes and so departed and came into England before Christmas In this meane time that is to saye in Nouember the Queene of Englande was deliuered of a Prince whych lyued not long after Richard Hun hanged in Lollards tower In December one Rychard Hun a merchaÌ„t Taylor of London that was layd in Lollardes Tower by commaundemente of the Byshop of London called Richarde Fitz Iames and hys Chancellor Doctor Horsey was founde dead hanging by the necke in a girdle of silke within the said Tower That ye may vnderstande the cause of his emprisonmente the beginning was this The same Hun had a child that dyed in his house being an infant the curate claymed y e bearing sheete for a mortuarie Hun aunswered y t the infant had no propertie in the sheete Whervpon the priest ascited him in the spiritual court He taking to him counsaile sued the Curate in a premunire and when this was knowen meanes was found that Hun beeing accused of Heresie was attached laid in Lollards tower wher he was founde dead as ye haue heard Muche adoe was made about his death for the Byshop the Chancellor said that he hanged himself but many of the temporalty affirmed that he was murthered greatly lamenting y e case for he was wel beloued namely of y e pore whiche cryed out against theÌ„ that were suspected to haue made him away He was a good almes man and greately relieued the needy The questioÌ„ of his death was so farre put forth that vpoÌ„ the suspitioÌ„ he should be murthered twelue men were charged before y e coroner After they had taken view of the body y e same was
y e brest Then they made cleen the Parlor tooke a cloute and wiped where it was bloudy strewed agayne y e rashes y t were shuffled w t strugling cast the clout with which they wiped y e bloud the knife that was bloudy wherewith she had wounded hir husband into a tubbe by the welles side wher afterward both the same cloute and knife were founde Thus thys wicked woman with hir complices most shamefully murthered hir owne husband who must entierly loued hir al his life time Then she sente for two Londoners to supper y e one named Prune the other Cole y t were Grosers which before the murther was committed were bidden to supper When they came she said I maruell where master Arden is wel we wil not tarie for him come ye and sitte downe for he will not be long Then Mosbyes sister was sente for she came and sate downe and so they were mercie After supper mistres Arden caused hir daughter to play on the virginals they danced â–ª and she with theÌ„ so seemed to protract time as it were til maister Arden shuld come she said I maruel where he is so long wel hee will come anone I am sure I pray you in the meane while let vs play a game at the tables but y e Londoners said they must goe to their hostes house or else they shuld be shut out at dares so taking their leaue departed When they were gone the seruaÌ„ts that were not priuie to the murther were sent abrode into y e towne some to seeke their maister some of other errands all sauing Michael and a maid Mosbyes sister and one of mistresse Ardens own daughters Then they tooke y e dead body caryed it out to lay it in a fielde next to the Churche yard ioyning to his garden wall through the which he went to y e Church In the meane time it began to snow when they came to y e garden gate they remembred that they had forgotteÌ„ the kay and one wente in for it and finding it at length brought it opened the gate and caried the corps into the same field as it were ten paces froÌ„ the garden gate laid him downe on his backe streight in his night gowne with his slippers on betwene one of his slippers and his foote a long rush or two remained When they had thus laid him down they returned y e same way they came through the garden into the house They beeyng returned thus backe again into the house y e dores were opened and the seruaunts returned home y t had bin sent abrode and being now very late she sent forthe hir folkes againe to make enquirie for him in diuers places namely amoÌ„g the best in y e towne where he was wont to be who made answere that they could tel nothing of him Then she began to make an outery and said neuer womaÌ„ had such neighbors as I haue and herewith wepte in so much that hir neighbhrs came in found hir making great lamentation preteÌ„ding to maruell what was become of hir husbande whervpon the Maior and others came to make search for him The faire was wont to bee kepte partly in the towne partly in y e Abbey but Arden for his owne priuate lucre couetous gaine had this preseÌ„t yere procured it to be wholly kept within the Abbey ground whiche he had purchased and so reaping al the gaynes to himselfe and bereauing the towne of that portion which was wont to come to the inhabitants gote manye a bitter curse The Maior going about the faire in this search at length came to the ground where Arden lay and as it happened Prune the grosser getting sight of him first said stay for me thinke I fâ—â— one lye heere and so they looking and beholding the body fouÌ„d that it was master ArdeÌ„ lying there throughly dead onâ—… viâ—…wing diligeÌ„tly the maner of his body and hurtes founde the rushes sticking in his slippers and in marking further espyed certaine footesteppes by reason of the snowe betwixt the place wher he â—…y and y e garden dore Then the Maior coÌ„manded euery maÌ„ to stay herewith appointed some to goe about and to come in at the inner side of the house thorough the gardeÌ„ as the way lay to y e place where maister Ardens dead body did lye who al y e way as they came perceyued footings still before them in the snowe and so it appeared playnely that he was brought aloÌ„g that way from the house thorough the garden so into the field wher he lay Then the Maior and his company y t were with him went into y e house and knowing hir euil demeanor in times past examined hir of the matter but she defyed theÌ„ said I would you should know I am no such womaÌ„ Then they examined hir seruants in the examination by reason of a peece of his heart and bloud founde neere to y e house in the way by the which they caried him forth and likewise by y e knife with whiâ—…h she had thrust him into the brest and the cloute wherew t they wipt the bloud away whiche they found in the tubbe into the which the same were throweÌ„ they al coÌ„fessed the matter hirself beholding hir husbaÌ„ds bloud said oh the bloud of God help for this bloud haue I shed Then were they al attached and committed to prison and the Maior w t others presently went to the flower de lice where they found Mosby in bed and as they came towards him they espyed his hose and purse stayned w t some of maister Ardens bloud and when he asked what they meant by their comming in such sort they said see here ye may vnderstande wherefore by these tokens shewing him y e bloud on his hose and purse Then he confessed y e deed so he al the other that had conspired the murther were apprehended layd in prison excepte Grene black Wil the Painter which Painter and George Shakebag that was also fledde before were neuer heard of Shortly were the Sessions kept at Feuersham where all the prisoners were araigned and condemned And therevpon being examined whither they had any other coÌ„plices mistres Arden accused Bradshaw vppon occasion of the letter sent by Greene froÌ„ Graues end as before ye haue heard which words hadde none other meaning but onely by Bradshawes describing of blacke Willes qualities Greene iudged him a meete instrument for the executioÌ„ of their pretruded murther wherevnto notwithstaÌ„ding as Greene confessed at his death certaine yeares after this Bradshaw was neuer made priuie howbe it he was vppon this accusation of mistres Arden immediately sent for to the Sessions and indited and declaration made against him as a procurÌ„er of blacke Will to kill maister Arden whiche proceeded wholly by misvnderstanding of the wordes conteyned in the letter which he brought from Greene. Then hee desired to talke with the persons condemned and his
flee by the Frenchmen at Albemarle 524.43 Englefield battell fought by the English men agaynst the Danes 210.2 English men ouerthrowen by the Danes at Wilton 212.5 English power ouerthrowen by the Weltchmen 272.63 English men ouerthrowen by the Danes at Yorke 209.46 English Ambassadours not admitted to the Popes presence without a bribe 418.15 English outlawes perpetually pardoned 307.65 Englishmen reteined and setled in Ireland 418.54 England conquered by the Duke of Normandie vppon that day on which afterward Normandie was subdued by the king of England 345.84 English men ouerthrowen by the Welch rebelles 744.68 English men distressed by the Welchmen 638.50 English men compound for peace with the Danes for monie 240.74 and. 246.60 Ende of the Danish Kings in England 268.19 English armye spoyleth Scotland 940.31 a. English men ouerthrowen by the Britaynes at Hatfield 163.57 English Gentlemē maynteined by French warres 1083.48 b. English men agree to submit themselues to the Danes 249.20 English scoole in Rome 212.27 Enromium Emme cited 264.88 English men lost all in France pag 1275. col 2. lin 14. England blessed with learning and puissaunce 178.92 Ercombert King of Kent departeth this life 177.105 English men inuade the confines of Castill 1008.20 a. England deuided into circuites for Iustices itinerantes 443.53 English men ouerthrowen by the Danes in a cruell battell at Ashdon 255.77 English bloode restored to the Crowne of England 259.78 Controuersie betwixt Edward the fourth and the French Kyng pag. 1348. col 2. lin 55. England sore pestred with Flemings 347.38 English men had in ellimation for their good seruice 261.1 English bloud mixed with the Danes and the Britaines 241.91 English men ouerthrowen by the Danes at Scorastā 251 87. English men ouerthrowen and put to flight by the Danes at Wigmere 245.38 Englishmen discouraged by the Welchmen 611.32 Englishmen vanquished and put to flight by the Danes 204.62 English army betrayed to the Danes and chased 243.58 Englishe men almost vtterly ouerthrowen by the Danes 210.82 Englande when first called by that name 204.45 Englande growen to olde and feeble age vnder king Egelredus 237.93 English Nobilitie spoyled pursued imprisoned banished and slayne by king William 306.84 English men giuen to the reading of the holy Scriptures 192.61 England deuided into hūdreds and tithings 217.22 Engistland appoynted the name to the Saxons portion in Britaine 128.24 England verye gainful to the See of Reme 564 90 Encomium Emmae cited 257 50. and. 258.1 and. 259. 87. and. 264.39 English men of whom they learned their excessiue gurmandize 268.12 English nauie lost and drowned by a tempest 322.39 Englande first accursed by the the Pope and why 223.37 Eolwils a Danish knig slayne 220.64 Eopa looke Copa Epte Riuer in Normandy 385 34. Epitaph founde within kyng Williams Sepulchre 316.69 Earle of Penbrooke appeaseth rebellion 616 91 Earle of Albemarle obtayneth peace with the king 618.77 Erlotus the Popes Nuntio departeth home with a flea in his eare 754.54 Erick murdred by his owne people for his sharpe dealing with them 221.97 Erchenwine first king of the east Saxons 152.35 Ernulfus sonne to earle Geffrey Maundeuille taken and banished 380.72 Erick king of east Angles conspireth with others to make warre against king Edward of England 221.73 Erickes army vanquished and put to flight by the English men 221.90 Erocus king of the Almanes 90.81 Earle of Pembrooke vseth diligence to set the realme at libertie from the Frenchmen 615.20 Eric gouernor of Norway returneth to his shippes with great booties 251.89 Eric forbydden to spoyle the countrey 252.2 Erchenwin first king of the east Saxons 131.35 Erchenwyn sonne to king Offa 131.37 Erghom Iohn 1462.7 Earle of Lincolne Caruer at the Coronation 1119. col 2 lin 14. Earle of Northumberland high Constable 1119. col 2. lin 17. Earle of Westmerland earle Marshal of England 1119 col 2. lin 28. Earle of Warwicke Panter at Coronation 1119. col 2. lin 44. Earle of Arundel chiefe Butlar of England 1120. col 2. lin 23. Earle of Warwicke gouernor to king Henry the sixt pag. 1235. col 1. lin 9. Regent of Fraunce pag. 1262. col 1 lin 47. col 2. lin 43. dyed at Roan pag. 1264. col 1. lin 2. Earle of Arūdel slaine in france pag. 1253. col 2. lin 8. Ermenfred bishop of Sion sent into England in commission from the Pope 304.54 Ermenredus brother to kyng Ercombert 180.106 Erming streete where it beginneth and endeth 205.8 Earle of Flaunders feasteth K. Edward the third 912.20 b. Earle of Pearche a French man slaine at Lincolne 613 81. Erkenwald ordeyued bishop of the east Saxons 181.14 Erpwald looke Corpwald Ecguine bishop of Worcester 190.43 Ermengard Lady daughter to Richard vicount Beaumeūt maried to William king of Scots 463.62 Raufe Earle of Ewe taken prisoner at Caen. 930.55 a Esterlings assaulted at home in the Stiliard 1443.20 Espeke Walter bringeth y e order of White Monkes into England 333.94 Eschequer Court remoued frō Westminster to Northampton 567.47 Essex deliuered to the Saxons 118.41 Esketel a kyng of the Danes 212.19 Essington taken and spoyled by the Danes 244.36 Estric sister to king Cnute maryed to Richard the thirde duke of Normandie 289.22 Escuinus or Eleuinus taketh vpon hym the gouernment of the west Saxons 180.84 Escuinus maketh warre vpon Wolfhere and is put to the woorse 180.95 Essex inuaded by the Danes 216.31 Estrild daughter to a certayne king of Scithia 17 Estrilo paramour to Locrinus 17.22 Estrild maried to Locrinus 17 25. Essex rebels scattered slayne 1033.30 a. Eschage graunted to Henry the third 708.39 Esay cited 389.83 Essex waited by Danes 240.73 Eske Riuer 76.50 Estates of the Realme assembled at Norhamtō 542.60 Essex yelded to Adelwold 220.21 Estoutuill Robert taken prisoner 345.28 Esoder looke Elidurus Espeake Walter 369.61 Escuage payed 795.57 a. Essex brought vnder subiection of the West Sa◅ōs 203.64 Ethelbaldus succedeth Ecoired in the kingdome of Mercia 189. ◅0 Ethelbaldus spayleth Northumberland and returneth without battell 189.56 Ethelbuldus ouercome in battell by Cuthred King of West Saxons 189.63 and 193.90 Ethelbaldus slayne at Secandon 189.67 Ethelbaldus reproued for fornication liceciousnes 199. Ethelwitha wife to King Alured 216.106 Ethelfleda sore handled in the birth of a child euer after forbeareth to companie with her husband 216.114 Ethelbert putteth away his wife and marrieth Alfled daughter to King Offa. 201.43 Ethelbert slayne by his owne subiectes 201.50 Ethelfledas noble deedes and valiencie 222 1. Ethelfleda departeth this life 222.36 Ethelbert sonne to Irmenrike succeedeth his father in the kingdome of Kent 142.80 Ethelbert succeedeth his brother Edbert in the kingdome of Kent 191.84 Ethelwolfus or Ethaultus son to Edbert beginneth his reigne ouer the West Saxons 205.101 Ethelwolfus in orders and assoyled by the Pope 205.109 Ethelwolfus maryeth Osburga his Bu◅lers daughter 205.115 Ethelbert restored vnto hys kingdome 201.19 Ethelwolfus kingdome deuided betweene himselfe and his sonne 207.70 Ethelwolfus departeth thys ◅e and is buryed at Winchester 207.92 Ethelwold falleth in
loue with Alfred and discommendeth her beautie to Kyng Edgar 232.67 Ethelwold marryeth Alfred daughter to the Duke of Cornwal 232.83 Ethelwold murdered by Kyng Edgar 232.108 Ethelred renounceth his kyngdome and becommeth a Monke 189.6 Ethelbert procureth Ethelferd to make warre vpon the Britaines 154.54 Ethelreda professed a Nunne 185.71 Ethelfleda daughter to Alured marryed to Duke Eldred 215.68 Ethelbert constrained to get hym out of his countrey 196.43 Ethelbert succeedeth hys father Ethelbert in the Kingdome of East Angles 196.50 Ethelbert trayterously murdered 197.1 Ethelgera daughter to Kyng Alured 217.59 Ethelswida daugther to King Alured marryed to Baldwyne Earle of Flaunders 218.75 Ethelswida wife to King Burchred following hir husband towardes Rome dyeth at Pania in Lūbardie 218.91 Ethelwoulfus aideth Burthred King of Mercia against the Welchmen 206.6 Ethelwolfus aduertised by two Noble Prelates 206.56 Ethelbald shamefully maryeth his fathers wydow 208.43 Ethelbald departeth this lyfe and is buryed at Shirebourne 208.47 Ethelburga sister to Erkeawald 181.22 Ethelbert marryeth Bertha daughter to Cheribert Kyng of Fraunce 145 102. Ethelbert subdueth the Saxons from Kent to Humber 145.98 Ethelbert or Edelred sonne to Molle made king of Northumberlande after Als◅d 196.34 Ethelburga wyfe to Inas perswadeth her husband to renounce the world 188.30 Ethelard cousin to Inas beginneth to raigne ouer the West Saxons 191.33 Ethelard departeth thys lyfe 191.66 Ethelfleda gouerneth y e kyngdome of Mercia during her lyfe 221. Ethelwolfus victories against the Danes 206.107 Ethelbert ouerthrowen in battaile by Cheuling Kyng of West Saxons 142.95 Ethelwolfus goeth to Rome and taketh Alured his sonne with him 207.42 Ethelwolfus maryeth Iudith daughter to Charles y e Bald Kyng of Fraunce 207.60 Ethelbright taketh vpon hym the gouernment of West Ser Sussex Kent Essex 208.50 Ethelbright departeth this life is buryed at Shirebourne 208.70 Ethelreda wyfe to King Ecgfride continueth a Virgin 185.55 Eustace sonne to King Stephan created Duke of Normandie 367.108 Ethelbert conuerted to the Christian fayth 148.31 Ethelburga daughter to Kyng Offa maryed to Bryghtrick Kyng of the West Saxons 195.32 Ethelred succeedeth Beorne in the kingdome of East Angles 194.36 Ethelred and his brother Alured encounter Inarus Kyng of Danes with an armye 210.62 Ethelred or Edilred succeedeth his brother Wolfhere in the kingdome of Mercia 181.55 Ethelred inuadeth Kent wyth an armie and spoyleth it 181.62 Ethelbald sonne to Ethelwolfus beginneth to raigne ouer the South and West Saxons 208.31 Ethelbright sonne to Erm◅nredus murdered 180.105 Ethelmere Earle of the West countries submitteh himself and his people to king Swanus of Denmarke 248.11 Ethilda daughter to King Edward maryed to Hugh son to Robert Earle of Paris 223.13 Ethelburga an euyl conditioned woman 200.46 Ethelburga fleeth into France and is thrust into an Abbey 200.73 Etherius Archbyshop of Arles in Fraunce 148.66 Edhirick or Erick a Dane succeedeth Gurthrun in the kingdome of the East Angles 219 11. Ethelburga dyeth in great miserie 200.77 Ethelburga daughter to Ethelbert maryed to Edwyne 159.28 Ethelreda departeth this lyfe 185.74 Ethelwold made Byshop of Winchester 232.19 Ethelwold Earle sent by king Edgar to suruey the beautie of Alfred daughter to the Duke of Cornwal 232.60 Ethelricus sonne to Ida made Kyng of Northumberlande 145.73 Ethelred brother to Ethelbright succeedeth him in the gouernment of the more part of the Englishe people 208.76 Ethelred vexed with the inuasion of the Danes 208.100 Ethelred fighteth wyth the Danes nyene tymes in one yeere 208.103 Ethelwolf sonne to Kyng Egbert leadeth an armie into Kent 203.55 Ethelfert slaine and his armie vanquished 155.30 Ethelbert king of Kent dyeth at is buryed in S. Augustines Monasterie 157.8 Ethelbright sonne to Ethelwolfus beginneth to raigne ouer Kent and Essex 208.35 Ethelred receyueth a wounde and therof dyeth 210.92 Ethelswida marryed to Burthred Kyng of Mercia 207.111 Ethelred and his brother Alured ayde Burthred Kyng of Mercia against the Danes 209.93 Euers Rafe knight Warden of the middell Marches slaine in a blondie fight 1601.4 is commended eadem 28. Eueshame Abbey builded 189 28. Eubald the second succeedeth Eubald the first in the Archbyshopprick of Yorke 202.81 Eustace Earle of Bologne commeth into Englande to visite his brother in lawe K. Edward 270.77 Eustace maketh great complaynt to King Edward against the citizens of Cantorburie 270.105 Eufled daughter to King Edwine borne 159.77 Eunbert a ruler among the Gi◅uii 185.63 Eurelir in Normandie recouered by the Englishmen 521.2 Euill Princes appoynted to punishe the offences of the people 194.21 Euil vsage caused the Gascoynes to rebel 732.22 Euguexane Chastillone de Trye taken prisoner 431.24 Eustace de Vestye sent into Scotland 542.71 Euery man shal beare his own burthen 351.30 Euesham battayle fought by King Henry the thyrd and his power against the Barons 773.1 Ewer of Pearle sent to Henry the thyrd 739.37 Eustace the Monke taken and beheded by Richard bastard sonne to Kyng Iohn 615.65 Eustace the Monke a notable Pyrate 615.71 Euil mens good deedes alwayes euil thought of 329.30 Eustace sent by King Iohn into Scotland 543.15 Euille Iohn Lord escapeth frō the battayle of Chesterfield 777.20 Eustace Baron of Mawpasse 323.46 Eureur in Normandie taken by the French kyng 545.90 Eudo Earle submitteth himselfe to Duke Geffray of Britaine 411.79 Eustace Duke of Normandie espoused to Constance sister to Lewes the French Kyng 372.63 Eustace Duke of Normandie dyeth 372.65 Eustace son to King Stephan refused of the Byshops to be crowned Kyng of England 385.53 Eustace sonne to King Stephan falleth mad and miserably endeth hys lyfe 387.93 Eustace Earle of Bollongne 319.75 Eustace de Vesey slayn wyth a quarel besydes Castle Baruard 603.33 Eueshame Abbey buylded 277.31 Eutropius cyted 82.70 .89.45 Eustace a Monke prouideth shipping for the conuayance of ayde to kyng Lewes out of Fraunce into Englande 615.8 Eureur towne in Normandie taken by the Frenchmen 515.32 Eustace King Stephans son made knight 383.94 Euerie kingdome deuided in itselfe can not long stand 257.94 Europe alotted vnto Iaphet 1.79 Euil gouernment in England by reason of strangers about the king 746.45 Eureur in Normandy taken by king Henry the first 344.13 Example notable of a Prince pag. 1163. col 1. lin 50. Ermew Monke of the chaterhouse e◅ecuted 1563.50 E◅ceter besieged by humfry Arundel and his adherentes 1649.37 Exhamshire pag. 1314. col 2 lin 12. Excesse in apparel 1117.6 a. Exchang of Muneys ordeyned 924.50 a. Excester besieged by Perkin Werbec 1450.2 Example of a faythfull prisonner 1014.45 a. Richard Extons commendation 1054.15 b. Exceter taken and spoyled by the Danes 243.42 Excommunication 963.1 b. Extreeme frost and snow killing trees birdes foules and fishes 196.3 Exeter Colledge founded 892.20 a. Exceter Citie besieged 166.55 Exceter besieged by Vaspasian 52.27 Execution of king Richard the seconds friends 1072.4 a. Exeter Citie repaired and fortified 226.99 Execution of souldiers taken in Rochester Castle by Kyng Iohn 593.36 Exeter kept against king Stephan and recouered 367.44 Exceter citie rebelleth against King
65. Heuenfield where Oswaldes crosse was erected 165.22 Henry the third Emperor 266 91. Henry the sixt Emperour diswadeth king Richarde the first from making peace with Philip the Frenche king 527.10 Henry Plantagenet proclaimed king of England pag. 1119 col 1. lin 12. crowned pag. 1121. col 1. lin 34. he slewe in one battaile with his own handes .xxxvi. persons pag. 1140. col 1. lin 1. Henry the second his large offers to his sonnes vpon treatise of peace 430.54 Henry the sixt fled to Berwicke and to Scotland pa. 1312 col 1. lin 51. pag. 1314. col col 2. lin 27. taken and imprisoned in the Towre pag. 1315. col 2.20 deliuered pag. 1325. col 1. lin 54. Henry Bourchier Eale of Essex pag. 1313. col 1. lin 38. Henry Duke of Somerset submytteth hym self to Edward the fourth pag. 1313. col 2. lin 8. fled to Henry the sixt pag. 1314. col 1. lin 10. Hewet Andrew burnt 1563 1. Henry the sixt his speach of Henry of Richmont after Henry the seuenth pa. 1326 col 2. lin 30. shewed in London pag. 1332. col 1. lin 28 deliuered to Edwarde the fourth pag. 1332. col 2. lin 28. taken prisoner pa. 1335 col 1. lin 45. murdred pa. 1343. col 2. lin 38. Henry Percy Earle of Northūberland pag. 1119. col 2. li. 16. Henry sonne to Hēry the fourth created Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall and Earle of Chester pag. 1121. col 2. lin 35. Duke of Aquitaine pag. 1125. col 1. lin 37. was accused to his father pag. 1159. col 2. lin 30. came to the Court. lin 57. his apparell pag. 1160. col 1. lin 3. was reconciled Henry Courtney Earle of Deuonshyre cousin germane to the king created Marques of Excetir 1526.10 Henry Earle of Northumberland and the Lord Bardolfe rebel 1153. col 1. lin 44. beheaded eadē col 2. lin 45 Henry Earle of Northumberland slaine at S. Albons pa. 1288. col 1. lin 4. Henry sonne to the Lorde Fitz Hugh pag. 1319. col 2. lin 12. Henry Neuille knight sonne to the Lord Latimer pa. 1319 col 2. lin 13. Henry the thyrd kept out of Douer Castle 764.7 defieth the Barons 768.25 ouerthrowen by the Barons at Lewes 769.3 concludeth a peace with the Barons 769.43 is arayed in the coate armor of the Earle of Leicester at the battaile of Euesham 773.7 ▪ deliuered out of the handes of his enemyes 773 78. dyeth and is buried at Westminster 783.18 Hēry Bewfort Bishop of Winchester made Cardinal pag. 1235. col 1. lin 30. went into Boheme pa. 1244. col 2. lin 17. deceased pa. 1274 col 1. lin 20. Henry the fourth inuadeth Scotland pag. 1131. col 2. lin 35. Henry the fourth entred Wales with an army pag. 1132. col 2. lin 4. pag. 1134. co 2 lin 52. in great danger to haue beene destroyed pag. 1133. col 2 lin 16. Hermite Peter of Yorke a man in great estimation 580.31 hanged together with his sonne by commaundement of king Iohn 580.52 Hey honour confirmed to Mathew earle of Boloigne 427 17. Henry Chicheley Archbishop of Cantorbury deceassed pa. 1271. col 1. lin 17. Henry the first Emperour 224 2. Herrericus nephew to king Edwyn 183.24 Henry Greene knight beheaded 1106.14 b. Helatherne battaile against Ethelbert 196.42 Henry of Hereford murdred thorow treason of the Welchmē 440.8 Herford West pag. 1413. col 2. lin 41. Herbert Bishop of Thetfoord depriued of his Bishopricke and why 325.38 Herflew besieged by the french pag. 8275. col 2. lin 56. yelded pag. 1276. col 1. lin 10. Heraclitus appoynted Lieutenant of Britaine 78.8 Helias de Brantfield sent to Rome by king Iohn 561.80 Henricus de Erphordia cited 75.108 Herculanilla wife to Claudius the Emperour forsaken by diuorcement 51.68 Hector Boetius reproued of errour 55.17 Hector Boetius errour of the Silures and Brigantes 59.9 Herthew Monasterie 175.79 Hengist beginneth to raygne as absolute Lorde in Britayne 118.76 Hexham Abbey spoyled 819.58 a. Herts Hal in Oxford founded 882.20 b. Henalt inuaded by the Duke of Normandie 908.13 b. Hengist departeth this lyfe by course of nature 126.41 Henrie the second negligent in ayding the Christians against the Sarasins 473.17 Henrie the fourth entered Wales pag 1149. col 2. lin 37. Henrie the French king slaine 1802.42 Henrie the fifth made knyght 1104.8 a. imprisoned at Trym 1106.40 b. Hereford battaile fought by Cuthred king of West Sarons against Ethelbaldus king of Mercia 193.84 Hereford castle 371.20 Henrie the sixt described pag. 1272. col 2. lin 6. vanquished by the Duke of Yorke at Saint Albons pag. 1288. col 1. Lin. ◅6 discomfited pag. 1299. col 2. lin 48. taken lin 52. Heron bastard slaine 1532.40 Henrie the thyrde horne 565.91 Hector Boetius cyted 111.74 Henry Lord Bourcher Earle of Eu. pag. 1299. col 1. lin 12 Herene flourisheth 21.67 Herefoord Churche endowed with great reuenewes 195.51 Henricus Huntington cyted 116.52 Henrie the seconde surnamed Claudius Emperour 254.1 Heming a Dane banished the Realme 269.14 Henrie the first taketh example of the Emperour to deale concerning the inuestitures of Byshops 348.36 Hanslap Castle taken 596.28 Hengist taken and beheaded 122.97 Henry Duke of Somerset pag. 1289. col 1. lin 48. Captaine of Calais pa. 1297. co 2. lin 37. fled 1300. co 1. li. 6 Hertfordshire commons sworne to the king 1035.40 b. Hec. Boet cyted 137.40 Henry Pay pag. 1152. col 1. lin 14. Henrie Earle of Northumland pag. 14.13 col 2. lin 2. pag. 1415. col 2. lin 26. Henrie the thyrde feareth the enterditing of the land 716 42. Henry the fourthe dyed pag. 1162. col 2. li. 3. hys stature pag. 1163. col 2. lin 5. Hedgecote fielde pag. 1320. col 1. lin 26. Hereford recouered and fortified 276.48 Hesding castle besieged 1522.53 Henious ordinance of the Pope 747.20 Heron Iohn Banrupt Mercer counseller to Perkin Warbecke 1449.57 Hypermnestra deteined in prison by her father Danaus 7.89 Hypermnestra set at libertie by her husband 8.26 Hirke or Hericus made kyng of the Northumbers 229.56 Hirick desposed frō his kingdōe by y e Northumbers 229.71 Hinke Hugh Archbyshop of Dublin 1525.28 Hirilda and Eweline fal at variance 43.50 Hirilda slayne by Eweline 43.59 Higwald Byshop of Lindesferne 199.2 Hith claymed to belong perticularly to y e Seignorie of the See of Cantorburie 401.102 Hydingham Castle besieged surrendred to kyng Lewes 610.34 Higanius and Petitur looke Vigenius and Peredurus 31. Hypermnestra one of Danaus daughters saueth her husbandes lyfe 7.76 Hilton Raufe knight sent into Britaine 1434.10 Hillarius Bishop of Chichester sent Ambassadour to y e Pope 406.59 Hidingham Castle wonne by king Iohn 598.46 Hillarius Byshop of Poictiers cyted 90.47 Hylarie Byshop of Chichester 382.53 Hyde of land how many acres it containeth 312.100 Hilda Abbesse of Whitby departeth this life 183.21 Hikenelstreete where it beginneth and endeth 25.13 Hilda Abbesse of Herthew Monasterie 175.80 Hypres William regent of Flaunders 361.47 Hildeltha a Nunne 181.25 Higinus cited 5.17 and. 8.73 Higilbald slayne